The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The late tournament at Eglintoun castle is said to have cost
the noble earl £20,000.
The hair dressers of Bradford have agreed to close their
shops at eight o'clock during the winter evenings.
A large issue of new silver is taking place at the bank with
the dividends of the present quarter.

It is said that the Duke of Leinstcr is to have the Riband
of the Order of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Duke
of Bedford.

The queen has ordered three shawls of Berlin wool to be
manufactured for her by the girls of the Edinburgh Asylum
for the Blind.

Young Howlett, the jockey, who won the cup at Warwick,
on the Duke of Richmond's Confusionee, weighed, with
saddle, bridle, &c. under four stone !

Messrs. Mosley, cotton. spinners, and manufacturers, Bul-
lock Smithy, near Stockport, have stopped payment. Their
liabilities are understood to be £45,000.

LARGE HARE.—On Friday last, the greyhounds belong-
ing to Mr. Leathes, of Egremont, caught a hare which
weighed not less than 101bs 10oz.

LARGE CABBAGE.—Last week, a Scotch cabbage was cut
by Mr. George Holmes, which was grown in his garden, at
Northallerton, the weight of which was 321bs 12oz.—Carlisle
Patriot.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.-Mr. James Craven, of
Richmond, planted this year one potatoe, of the second early
kind, which produced 350 potatoes, measuring five pecks.
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WEIGHT OF STEAM.—Steam is 1,800 times lighter than
water—that is, a given portion of water will, in the form of
steam, occupy 1,800 times the space it did before.
The revising barristers have decided that the mayor is the
,proper returning officer for the borough of Manchester, and
have delivered the revised list of voters to the town-clerk.

One of the mail packets from Dover to Calais, on its way
across, a few days ago, saw an enormous whale, which passed
close to the vessel. It was supposed to be following a shoal
of herrings.
Linen, which is the staple :manufacture of Ireland, was
first made in England in the year 1253, and was only worn
by the luxurious : the generality of persons wore woollen
shirts. •
WARRINGTON.—Henry Alderson, Esq., has been elected
boroughreeve ; and Mr. Thomas Okill, Mr. James Buckley,
and Mr. William Oxley, constables, of this town, for the
year ensuing.

The King and Queen of Hanover have quitted their sum-
mer palace of Montbrillant, and returned to the capital. The
Prince Royal of Hanover has returned from his residence of
Georgenparc.

PENNY POSTAGE.—More than two thousand proposals
from parties competing for the supply of stamps by a supe-
rior method, to be used in the collection of postage, are now
lying before the Lords of the Treasury.—Globe.
Daniel W. Harvey, Esq., has been elected commissioner
of police for the city of London, which vacates his seat for
the borough of Southwark. The writ, however, will not be
issued till parliament meets.

It is rumoured that, in the event of a dissolution of parlia-
ment, the Marquis of Tavistock will be proposed for Cam-
bridgeshire, in the liberal interest, in conjunction with our
present worthy representative, Mr. Greaves Townley.—
Cambridge Pree Press.

The authors of the great robbery of the royal cabinet at
Berlin, committed some time ago, have been discovered. A
whole band of thieves and receivers were concerned, among
whom the principal are a goldsmith, a barber, and several
Jews.

Lord Fortescue, in consequence of advanced age, has re-
signed the Lord Lieutenancy and Vice-Admiralship of the
•ounty of Devon, and Lord Ebrington, the Lord Lieutenant
,Of Ireland, is appointed his successor in both offices.
The expense of sending the Fleece to London, from Aus-
tralia, a distance of 15,000 miles, is not more than 34d. per
lb. including freight, brokerage, commission, dock and land-
ing charges ; while the expense of transmitting German or
Spanish wools to England, is from 4d. to 4id. per lb.—South
Australian Miscellany.
SWIMMING EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now to be seen
at Stourton Lodge, near Leeds, a chicken which has aban-
doned the habins of its kind and formed such a strong attach-
ment to a brood of Duckling, as even to accompany them
into the pond and swim about as if perfectly aquatile.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

MoNEY CLue.—A number of working men at Kendal
have formed a money club, for the purpose of obtaining
butchers' meat and other articles of food cheaper than by
going to the regular market. Sheep are regularly bought,
slaughtered, and divided according to each man's share, the
price per pound varying from 34d to 4d for excellent mutton.
—Preston Pilot.

A GREAT VISITOR.—Last week, a person named Samuel
Hulmes, of Radcliffe, Lancashire, was visiting at Mr. John
Farrall's, Bunbury, Cheshire, the girth of whose body is 6
feet of his thigh and leg 3 ft. 4 in. and 2 ft. 1 in. his arm
(above the elbow) 1 ft. 8 in. his height is 5 ft. 10 in. and his
weight 28 stones. He is abou. 50 years of age.
The government at length, it is asserted, intend next ses-
sion to include the lace factories, where machines are pro-
pelled by steam or water, in the new Factory Bill. There
are about 37 such factories in the counties of Nottingham,
Derby, Leicester, Gloucester, Somerset, and Devon.—Not-
tingham Journal.

" The Empress of Russia," says a letter of the 20th inst.,
from Berlin, in the Augsburgh Gazette, "is so far recovered
as to be able to travel to the south, and intends to go to the
Crimea. At the same time the Grand Duchess Olga, the
Emperor's second daughter, is so seriously indisposed as to
excite great alarm."
PROHIBITION OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN SPAIN BY
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.—Lord Palmerston has sent
instructions to the British Minister at. Madrid, to be com-
municated to the various British Consuls in Spain, informing
them that any British subject preaching or teaching religion,
or distributing books, in that country, will be rendered liable
to a State prosecution.

The total cost of the several prisons of England and
Wales, in the course of last year, amounted to the sum of
£302,902 1 ls. Bd.: the receipts of the prisons, and earnings
of the prisoners, in the course of the year, amounted to the
sum of £30,160 18s. 4d. leaving, as the actual cost du-
ring the year, for the maintenance of prisons, the sum of
£372,741 13s. 4d.
We are happy to learn that the last accounts from Canada
are more favourable as to the prospects of the ensuing winter.
With a force of 15,000 British troops, little apprehension
need be entertained. Mr. Poulett Thomson's appointment
had, however, occasioned great dissatisfaction, which was in-
creased by a report that he intended to fix his head-quarters
at Montreal, instead of Quebec.—Brighton Gazette.
CONSTABLES.-Mr. Pakington has intimated his attention
to move, in the ensuing sessions of parliament, to bring in a
bill for the creation of a general constabulary system through-
out the country, in accordance with the district constables
bill. He also proposes to delegate to the commissioners of
police in London, the nomination of the chief constable, al-
though it is in the gift of the country magistrates.—Stafford-
shire Gazette.

SAVINGS BANKS.-it is a remarkable circumstance that,
of the workmen, the painters, locksmiths, jewellers, tailors,
peruquiers, and butchers are those who put the most in the
savings banks, whilst the men employed by the wine and li-
quer merchants invest the least. Such is the wonderful pro-
gress made by these establishments, which were hardly known
25 years ago, and which are now estimated at nearly
1,000,000,000 of deposits in the 1200 savings banks founded
in Europe.

CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday, a trial of skill in change
ringing, took place on the peal of ten bells, of the Parish
Church of St. Peter, Huddersfield. There were ten com-
panies of ringers in attendance, viz., Mottram, Oldham,
Wakefield, Dewsbury, Halifax, Ashton, Manchester, Elland,
Liversedge, and Birstal. Taking the execution as a whole,
it has perhaps seldom been excelled, and the principal streets
of the town were crowded with attentive listeners. Manches-
ter and Halifax bore away the prizes.—Leeds Intelligencer.
PROLIFIC POTATO ROOT.—A few days ago, a root of early
potatoes was taken up in the garden of Mr. William Doug-
las, Low Moss, near Broughton in Furnace, which contained
not less than one hundred and sixty-one potatoes ! Three
of the largest of the potatoes of this prolific root weighed two
pounds and a-half, and the whole weighed Silbs.—Carlisle
Patriot.

Lord Brougham, accompanied by J. Leader, Esq., M. P.,
for Westminster, arrived in this town, from the north, on
Thursday evening last, and remained all night at the Victoria
Hotel. The following morning they left town for London,
by the train at a quarter before ten o'clock.' His lordship
looked exceedingly well, and did not appear any worse for the
accident he sustained last week.--Preston Chronicle.

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Before the late changea-
ble and wintry weather set in, the harvest operations in this
neighbourhood were nearly completed. Except in a few so-
litary instances, the ground is now cleared—the excepted in-
stances being scarcely worth mentioning as to extent. Our
market every week is glutted by supplies of wheat, a great
portion of which, however, is of impaired quality.—Preston
Chronicle.

Her majesty, through the lord chamberlain, Lord Ux-
bridge, has taken private boxes for the season at Drury-lane
and Covent-garden. The sum paid by the sovereign to each
lessee of the winter houses for her box is £4OO, which is ex-
clusive of the amount given by her majesty when she visits
the theatres iu state, which it is expected this season will be
soon after Christmas.

IRISH DESPERADOES OUTDONE.—The whole of Ireland
(says Captain Marryat) would offer nothing equal in atrocity
to what I can prove relative to one small town in America ;
that of Augusta, in Georgia, containing only a population of
300, in which in one year there were 59 assassinations com-
mitted in open day, without any notice being taken of them
by the authorities.

NICE, OCTOBER 21.—Piedmont continues to be infested
by numerous bands of robbers. The gendarmerie, ca-
valry, and troops of the line, make frequent patrols
on the high way, but hitherto to no effect. The audacity of
the banditti is such, that they lately stopped a carriage be-
tween Nice and Turin under the very walls of the Royal
park of Racconis, in spite of the large body of troops
stationed near that château. This state of things has now
lasted three month.—Gazette du Midi.

RYE.-It is reported, upon good authority, that the
Goverment commissioners appointed to survey the south-
eastern coast have reported in favour of a new harbour of
refuge being made close under Winchelsea, a mile or two to
the west of the place where Rye New Harbour used to run
out of the sea, as marked in maps, which some years ago
was the most excellent harbour, but does not exist now,
having been entirely destroyed through neglect. No place
could be better adapted for a new harbour than the flats im-
mediately under Winchelsea.—Brighton Gazette.
THE WOMAN AND PHEASANT.-OD Monday last a
beautiful cock pheasant alighted upon the Independent
Chapel, Stourbridge : from thence it flew into the house of
a woman named Bate, by whom the bird was caught , but it
soon afterwards died, it having been previously wounded by
some sportsman. Several persons who had been in pursuit
of this bird, made a claim to it, but the old lady would not
be duped out of her feathered prize ; she being determined
to eat the bird herself as she never thought in her 63d year,
to partake of such a dainty.—Ten Town's Messenger.
INDICATOR OF THE LEVEL OF WATER IN BOILERS.—
M. Passot has invented an instrument, something on the
principle of Leslie's differential thermometer, to inform one
of water in boilers. It consists of a recurved tube, and con-
taining a liquid, open at both ends, of which one end is in
communication with the upper interior part of the boiler,
and the other with the lower. The difference. of pressure at
the two ends is obviously due to the height of water in the
boiler, and therefore measured by the height of the liquid in
the tube.—Railway Magazine.

A STUPID PASSENGER.—An amusing scene was witnessed
on Tuesday morning at the Rotherham Railway station. A
person who had paid his fare from Doncaster to Sheffield by
Gibson's coach, on arriving at the station, refused to remove
from his seat on the coach in order to enter one of the car-
riages. The other passengers having taken their places, and
the train being ready to start, he still remained true to his
seat, and declared that he " would not be done" by any of
them; and there he sat for some minutes alone on the coach
after the train had disappeared on its way to Sheffield, amidst
the laughter and jeers of the lookers-on, who were highly
amused at the passenger's pertinacity. We understand he
was afterwards induced by the strong persuasions of some of
the persons connected with the railway to take his departure
by the to 4 o'clock train,—She%field IriB.

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BRUTAL COI•TDUCZiortr-A naitgators f?om the t\ilway
took possession of lic-house at Galgate, on Monday,
and threatened to murder any one v;ho should attempt to
molest them, and on the constables going to the spot, they
were fiercely attacked with pokers, tongs, &c., and anything,
in fact, the brutes could lay their hands on. After a good
battle, four of them were secured and brought to Lancaster,
and taken before a county magistrate, after which they were
committed to the Castle, to be imprisoned to hard labour for
two months. A warrant is issued against the other, but he
has not since been heard of.—Preston Pilot.

THE SEA AAVIC—A specimen of this rare bird in this part
was caught on Monday last, in the Lune, a little before the
ford, by Captain Cubin, of the Surprise. He first observed
it swimming about the Old Bridge, and having got his boat,
he, after chasing it for about an hour, succeeded in capturing
it. They are very expert divers, but their wings are so short
as not to be available to them for flying. It is about a foot
long, black plumage on the back and grey on the belly ; the
legs, like the diver species, are placed so far behind as to
enable it to stand quite upright when on the land.—Preston
Pilot.

THE WEATHER.-We have during the past week had most
delightful weather for the completion of harvest operations,
and the gathering in of a most important esculent vegetable
in this district, the potatoe. Some complaints are made
about injured potato crops, but we believe they are not to
any considerable extent. Grain is much cheaper in our mar-
ket than a few months ago, and we sincerely trust the result
of the harvest will eventually prove that it has produced
" seed for the sower, and bread for the eater," thus offering
ample reason for gratitude to that Being whose " benevolent
hand has indeed been in love extended. "—Lancaster Gazette.

LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTAN CE.—A very respectable per-
son, of the name of Creighton, who resided at Dudley, has
been lost for the last fortnight. Every search has been made
after him, but without success. It appears he left his home
a fortnight ago, and in the course of a few days wrote to his
family, stating, by the time they received that letter he should
be in eternity, and he was seen by several people near the
Fox yard (the day he left home) a place where there are many
pits. Last week a number of the inhabitants of Dudley
searched these pits, but in vain. The family is in a most de-
plorable state.—Ten Town's Messenger.
The ministerial organs are leaving no stone unturned to
put down the " No Popery "! cry ; to silence the conserva-
tive press on this sore subject. By the jade wincing so, we
see how she is galled. So long as popery identifies herself
with perjury and perfidy, the tria juncta in uno of ill-fated
Erin, so long shall protestant Britain re-echo with the cry of
"No Popery " 1 Repealers may render their idolatrous ho-
mage to these three Roman Graces ; but the sentiment shall
circulate round the land, with three times three,—" No Per-
fidy ! No Perjury ! No Popery ! "
ADVANTAGES OF RAILWA Y S.—Along the line of the
Whitby and Pickering Railway, six miles from the town ter-
minus, commences a rich field of iron-stone, which is work-
ing to a considerable extent, and after yielding some hundreds
of pounds; per acre to the landholder, paying twice as much
in railway dues and handage, with nearly £2,000 per acre for
mining, and a fair remuneration for capital, is now delivered
in the River Tynd,, after a sea voyage of 85 miles, at less cost
than the transit 'alone would be by the turnpike-road to
Whitby, the place of shipping.
POWER OF STE AM.—A train of coaches, weighing about
80 tons, and transporting 240 passengers, with their luggage,
has been taken from Liverpool to Birmingham, and back
from Birmingham to Liverpool, the trip each way taking
about 42 hours, stoppages included. The distance between
these places by the railway is 95 miles. This double journey
of 190 miles is effected by the mechanical force produced in
the combustion of a quarter of a ton of coke, the value of
which is 6s. To carry the same number of passengers daily
between the same places by stage coaches, on a common road,
would require 20 coaches, and an establishment of 3800 horses.

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A correspondent of the St. James's Chronicle recommends
a more distinctive dress for the Established Clergy as indis-
pensible, " for, (says he) it is almost impossible to recognise
a clergyman in general society by his apparel, and hence I am
convinced, a vast influence over the tone of conversation and
the pursuits of society, which the Clergy would otherwise
have, is lost." He goes on to advise the adoption of " cleri-
cal hats," as recommended by the Bishop of London to his
Clergy ; " since,( says the writer) the use of it would tend to
banish the black neckcloth and light coloured trousers now
so generally worn by the Clergy, and which confound them
with military men, and even with shopmen."

COLLEGE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS.—The new school for
instruction in civil engineering, now so important a profession,
and becoming almost daily more so from the great and exten-
sive national and public undertakings now in progress, is go-
ing on very favourably. The directors have taken Gordon
House, near Hamstead, a large establishment, which is fitting
up for the reception of the college, which it is expected will
be in active operation early in the spring. The Duke of
Buccleuch. the president, has given a donation of £l,OOO to-
wards its objects, and many presents have already been made
to the library, and also models of machinery and specimens
for the museum. The candidates for the appointments of
professorships are numerous, including many of first-rate
talent, although few have yet been decided upon.
Lanci BRocoLl.—There is at present growing in the
garden of Mr. Thomas Hartley, of Croftend, near Broughton
in Furness, a brocoli of the following most extraordinary di-
mensions, namely, six feet two inches in height, and seven-
teen feet and a half in circumference ! The seed which pro-
duced this giant of its growth," was sown in the month of
September, 1838, and transplanted in the month of March,
in the present year ; it is in every part both strong and heal-
thy, and as finely curled as any of the smaller plants in the
same garden, in which there is also another plant from the
same seed that likewise stands fully six feet two inches high.
Carlisle Patriot.

The bobbin net machine exporters were extremely busy
-during the last week, both in sending away the best workmen
and the best machines. Several orders are in town for ma-
chine insides for France, though scarcely any machines have
been building in Nottingham since 1836, except those for
Burton's new steam factory at Mapperley. The number of
bobbin net machines since that year has decreased nearly one-
half in England. A branch establishment of the jingler
stocking frames are now making new frames in Ostend. This
description of stocking frames was invented in London, by
Mr. Holland, the fleecy patentee, in 1836 his frame now
stands in the room of the Society of Arts, in the Adelphi,
-Strand.—Nottingham Journal.

MURDER BY A LUNATIC.—On Monday week an inquest
was held at the Lunatic Asylum, Anlaby-road, near Hull,
on the body of Charles Donally, a lunatic, who had been in
the institution about a week, and was lodged in a room con-
taining two other insane persons, one of whom, named Rich-
ard Hilton, was received on the 25th ultimo: the name of
the other was Wilson. These were all considered harmless
persons, and were accommodated with one of the rooms ap-
propriated to patients of a quiet disposition. Nothing unu-
sual occurred up to bed-time on Saturday week, when they
were, as usual, locked up ; but next morning Donally was
found dead on the floor, between his crib and Hilton's, with
many marks of violence upon him. Hilton's hands were
bloody. Wilson was closely covered up in bed. Verdict,
" Found dead."—Halifax Guardian;.
THE LATE EARTHQUARE.—The most remarkable effect
of the shock in Edinburgh, and which was not at the mo-
ment observed, is the detaching of some blocks of freestone
from a stratum, which was laid bare by the formation of the
Castle-road, on the south of the esplanade, and which now
lie across the footpath. Two of these blocks are of consider-
able size, and will weigh at least ten tons. To the effects of
this phenomenon may also most probably be ascribed the
extraordinary and anomalous state of the barometer for the
last four or five days. That generally faithful indicator of
the weather has, during that period, been fixed at " set fair ;"
while, as almost every one has experienced, the weather has
alternated from frost to fresh in the night, and from sun-
shine to rain throughout the day.—Caledonian Mercury.

HULL DAVIS' STRAITS WHALERS.—We are happy to an-
nounce the arrival of the Swan, Capt. Dring, with 3 fish,
which made her appearance in the Humber on Monday last ;
she has on board a fine polar, or white, bear, taken in the
water with a running noose, by means of which the monster
was hoisted on board and comfortably lowered into a large
cask, one end of which had been previously fortified with a
strong iron grating—the other end being closed with the same
material when his bearship was conveniently lodged. He has
been purchased by a gentleman of this town, and is intended
to enrich the Liverpool Zoological Gardens.—On Tuesday
the Comet, Captain Ward, with 5 fish ; and Duncombe, Cap-
tain Dean, 2 fish, were safely riding at anchor off this port.
The Ellison is now the only absent ship ; and that she may
speedily return, and all the endeavous of her crew he crowned
with success, is our sincere wish.—Hull Times.

SANATORIUM IN THE METROPOLIS.—An institution is
projected to provide for those of the upper and middle classes
who may require it, the amplest means for restoration or al-
leviation in sickness ; including not only the best medical and
other attendance, but baths, suites of rooms kept at a uni-
form temperature, and other appliances beyond the reach even
of the comparatively opulent in private dwelling houses. The
advantages of such an institution to professional and com-
mercial men, and all whose avocations lead them to live
chiefly in chambers or lodgings, are very obvious. It appears
that they are capable of being realised at a very reasonable
rate. By this institution it is probable that many valuable
lives may be prolonged, and much suffering avoided. A meet-
ing on the subject was held yesterday, at which it was stated
that the establishment could be put into operation with about
a hundred beds, at an expense of about £3,000.
HYDROPHOBIA IN A Cow.--In the beginning of the pre-
sent month a fine young cow, the property of Joseph Reid,
Esq., a magistrate of the county of Surrey, residing at Thorn-
ton-heath, near Croyden, while grazing in a field near that
gentleman's residence, was attacked by a dog apparently in a
rabbid state and bitten in the throat. The wound healed up
shortly afterwards, and the cow seemed as well as usual until
Thursday last, when she was turned out to graze, and soon
afterwards she was attacked with all the symptoms of that
dreadful disorder hydrophobia. She foamed at the mouth,
tore up the ground, and roared in the most frightful manner.
Several labouring men were sent for, and after considerable
difficulty they succeeded in getting her into a shed. She was
so violent, however, that it was impossible to go near her,
and it was at length found absolutely necessary to shoot her.
The carcass was buried immediately afterwards.

THE CHARTISTS IN WARWICK GAOL.--John Collins and
his fellow-prisoner Lovett having made an unsuccessful at-
tempt to induce the magistrates to alter their diet, and to al-
low them the society of their wives, we understand that Mr.
Edmonds made a formal application to the chairman of the
quarter sessions to overrule their determination. Sir Eard-
ley Wilmot refused to interfere, stating, first, that he had no
power over the visiting magistrates ; and next, that, if they
were dissatisfied, the prisoners might apply to Lord Nor-
manby, who could make-what order he should think fit. We
do not know whether the learned clerk of the peace will take
the advice of the worthy baronet, nor do we know whether
the worthy novelist's answer will be yes or no; but we hope
his lordship's official conduct in England will be a strong
" contrast' to that which has given such satisfaction to
O'Connell in Ireland.—Birmingham Advertiser.
THE ANTI-CORN LAW AGITATORS OF MANCHESTER.—
The only idea that looks like any thing English, which these
clever personages ever yet conceived, is that of giving a cheap
dinner to everybody in the universe who is of the same opi-
nion as themselves ; and the Anti-Corn Law Circular " ex-
pects that it will be by far the largest banquet in the world."
All the members of the House of Commons who voted for
Mr. Villiers' motion are to attend, so that it will not only be
seen, by the speechifications, whether Colonel Thompson is
as good a man as James Ackland (the Hull gentry are divid-
ed on the point), or whether Master Paulton, who got pelted
out of Worksop for talking nonsense, is not a better man
than both of them put together ; but it will also be tested,
whether those gentlemen who at present cut such a conspi-
cuous figure as anti-corn law advocates in parliament, and
who will be disengaged after the next election, would be worth
their travelling expenses as delegates for the league. It is
said that, in order to mark their sense of the corn-laws, the
league will allow no bread at the " banquet." What will
come on with the cheese?—Morning Herald.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The following are the
Foreign Orders of Knighthood wilich have been conferred on
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by Sovereign Potentates.
His Grace is Knight Grand Cross of the (Anstrian) Order of
Maria Theresa, Knight of the (Danish) Order of the Ele-
phant, Knight of the (French) Order of the Holy Ghost,
Knight Grand Cross of the (Portuguese) Order of the Tower
and Sword, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Prussian
Eagle, Knight of the first class of the (Russian) Order of St.
George, Knight Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of the
Annunciation, Knight of the Order of the Rue Crown of
Saxony, Knight of the (Sicilian) Order of St. Januarius,
Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand
and of Merit, Knight Grand Cross of the (Spanish branch)
Order of the Golden Fleece, and Knight Grand Cross of the
(Swedish) Order of the Sword,

CAUTION TO TAVERN KEEPERS.—The following informa-
tion has been received of a robbery committed at Dee's Hotel,
Birmingham, by a foreigner, believed to be a native of Hol-
land or Belgium, who will probably pay a similar visit to
tavern-keepers in the metropolis or elsewhere. He arrived
at Dee's Hotel on Tuesday se'nnight, with luggage consisting
of a box in a black oilskin cover, and a large carpet bag, and
remained until Sunday, when he disappeared, and with him
half-a-dozen each of silver table spoons and forks, marked
" D." His box and carpet bag being opened, were found
stuffed with hay and turnips. He is described as about fifty
years of age, and five feet eight inches high, stout, of dark
complexion, hollow visage, and light eyes ; speaks with a
foreign accent, has lost most of his front teeth, and has a
very gruff voice. His dress was a dark frock coat, with large
blue trousers, and broad brimmed hat.—Staffordshire Gaz.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last, Mrs. Nixon,
a woman in the 88th year of her age, living at Fevershain, fell
down a well fifteen feet deep, with seven feet water, and es-
caped with only a few bruises. It appears that the well is
situated in the kitchen, and has been enclosed some years
with slabs, and then paved over with bricks ; and it is sup-
posed that Mrs. Nixon, stepping rather heavily on the spot,
in coming out of an adjoining room, the pavement gave way,
and went down with the bricks and rotten timber. She sus-
tained a complete ducking, but floated aferwards, and caught
hold of a lead pipe which supplied a pump, and thus held on
until rescued from her perilous situation, where she remained
full twenty minutes.—Canterbury Journal;
THE IRON TRADE—A statement of the iron-trade of
Great Britain (up to June, 1839) is published in the Railway
Magazine. The following are extracts :—ln Great Britain
there are 239 furnaces in blast ; 14 out of blast ; 31 building.
and 83 contemplated. The annual produce of iron is 1,008,280
tons. The weekly produce, 19,390 tons of iron, and 90(10
tons of bar iron. To produce this quantity, 3,000,000 tons
of coal are required, and the labour of 40,000 persons. The
most extensive manufacturing firms are Messrs. J. and C.
Bailey, Messrs. Guest, Lewis, and Co. These four esta-
blishments produce above one quarter of the whole amount
of iron manufactured in the empire, and nearly one half of
the whole amount of bar iron. Messrs. J. and C. Bailey
alone manufactured 82,000 tons of iron, and 40,000 of bar,
being one-twelfth of the whole quantity of the former, and
one-tenth of the latter.

Some geologists at Chalons-sur-Saone have recently dis-
covered a fossil elephant in a quarry at Pretez, near Tournus,
in the Saone-et-Loire. The two tusks were nearly entire ;
they are of a large size, and the ivory is white, but brittle.
One of them has been uncovered to the extent of three or
four feet ; but on the least exertion being used to raise it
from its bed, it breaks into pieces. These are not the first
bones of this species of animal found at or near the same
spot. A gentleman in that neighbourhood has two large
teeth found in digging a well, one of which is that of an ele-
phant, and the other of a mastodon. The site of this coin•
mune, the calcareous strata of which run under the left bank
of the Saone, was formerly, according to the opinions of geo-
logists, an island in a great lake, which covered the plains of
La Bresse.—Galignani's Messenger.
EKTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—The ' Breton,' of Nantes,
gives an account of the extraordinary escape from destruction
of a gentleman of Poulinguen. It appears that a few days ago
this gentleman, who is both a sportsman arid naturalist, wish-
ing to pass the day on a little island, or rather rock, which is
at a distance of two leagues from the main shore, was landed
there by some boatmen, who were to return for him before
the evening. The wind, however, having got up suddenly
with much violence, the boatmen were unable to return, and
he was compelled to pass the night upon the rock. For some
time his situation, although highly disagreeable, as it was
very cold, and he was without a cloak, was not one of real
danger, but as the night advanced the sea became more and
more agitated, and the waves dashed over the rock with such
force, that to prevent his being washed off he was obliged to
lie down, and grasp any little projecting parts with his hands.
He had remained in the situation for some time, when he un-
fortunately let go his hold, and fell a depth of 20 feet into a
sort of basin, at the base of the rock, full of water, and the
waves dashing into it. Here he must inevitably have been
drowned if a wave had not thrown him on the edge of the
basin, where he was fortunately retained by his coat becom-
ing entangled with an angle of the rock. On his recovery
from the effects of his fall, he was enabled by great energy, to
regain the summit, where he passed the remainder of the
night. In the morning the weather was still so bad that he
could entertain no hope of succour, and his little store of
provisions, consisting of a bottle of wine and a piece of bread,
which he hail placed in a crevice, having been carried away
by the sea, he would have been destined to experience the
pangs of hunger in aggravation of the other horrors of his
situation, if he had not shot a cormorant on the preceding
day, which was still in his pouch, He succeeded, notwith •
standing the unsavoriness of the meal, in eating a portion of
this bird, and his hunger was appeased. Towards the middle
of the day he was perceived by the crew of a fishing vessel
which was running to port ; but the sea was too violent, and
the wind too high, for them to render assistance, and he was
compelled to pass another dreadful night, in which the cold
was so intense, that he has since said he felt relief in the kind
of warmth imparted by the waves as they broke over him.
At the break of the third day, the weather• having moderated,
a pilot vessel appeared. As soon as the pilots had cast an-
chor, they sent their little boat to the rock ; but the sea still
ran so high, that two attempts to take him on hoard failed.
On the third, the gentleman, in the energy of despair,leapcd
into the boat, which, but for a rapid manoeuvre of the rowers,
he would have upset, and in a short time was landed at Pou-
linguen in a dreadful state of exhaustion, but truly grateful
to Providence for his escape.

" LIBERALITY" OF THE MAYOR OF KIDDERMINSTER.—
On auditing the accounts of the Town Council, at a finance
committee meeting of this body, on Wednesday last, Richd.
Law, the mayor's servant or constable, made the exorbitant
demand of twelve shillings for his expenses in going to Wit-
ley, a distance of twelve miles from the town, and conveying
(of course he must have a vehicle) a haunch of venison for
the dinner of his masters at their annual jollification. The
mayor, Charles Talbot, Esq., who has received his own sa-
lary of twenty-jive pounds a-year, without any scruples of
conscience, loudly demurred at having to pay his subordi-
nate the twelve shillings, and by the part his worshipful took
the sum was disallowed, and " poor Richard" has had his
journey to Witley and back for the venison, for naught save
the pleasure of seeing his " liberal" masters eat it. We
opine, after this, the burgesses will send his worship to the
right about by recording their votes against him at the elec-
tion which takes place this day. The burgesses of Kidder-
minster must get rid of " the Shabbies."—Ten Towns Mes-
senger.

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—A parliamentary re-
turn just pr:nted shows the amount of assistance which has
been rendered by the Irish National Board of Education to
the instruction of the people, since its establishment in 1831.
It has aided in the building of no less than five hundred and
fifty-five schools in seven years, at an expense of £41,819
for building, £5,835 for fitting up, £12,484 for salaries, and
£3,771 for requisites. It has given assistance to 1,019 schools
previously in operation, to the amount of £2,270 for build-
ing, £6,803 fitting up, £l,Oll salaries, and £11,253 for re-
quisites. The number of children on the roll in the schools
up to September, 1838, was 103,026 males and 78,239 fe-
males—total 181,264. The sum disbursed in seven years in
the promotion of education is £239,255. The schools built
are pretty equally distributed throughout the different pro-
vinces-183 being in Ulster, 100 in Munster, 145 in Leinster,
and 125 in Connaught—total 555. Of the schools before in
existence, and aided by the Board, 368 were in Ulster, 226
in Munster, 326 in Leinster, and 99 in Connaught—total
1,019. Of these, 308 have ceased, from one cause or other,
to be connected with the Commissioners of Education.

A curious mystification has recently taken place in the
Rue de la Cerisaie, near the arsenal. A young employe of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, residing in a house in that
street, fell in love with a young lady of the Maison Royale
of St. Denis, who was passing the vacation with her aunt,
who lived in the same house on the floor just above, but with
whom he had but few opportunities of direct communication.
In order to excite the imagination of the young lady, who
was of a romantic turn, he lent her novels of the most amo-
rous character to read, which he attached nightly to a string
let down from her bedchamber, taking by the same convey-
ance those which she had read during the day. The aunt,
having discovered this mode of correspondence, secretly sent
back her niece to St. Denis, but let the string down every
evening for a fortnight as usual. Our employe was asto-
nished at receiving no billet-doux with the returned parcels
of books, but, finding the string regularly drawn up, and
being ignorant of the absence of the object of his love, con-
tinued his nightly supplies until chance informed him of the'
trick which had been played. He became furious at the
discovery, and has threatened to proceed against the aunt
for the amount of a month's subscription paid by him at the
circulating library for the use of the books !—Galignani's
Messenger.
FORGERY.—We understand that Messrs. Attwoods,
Spooner, and Co., of New-street, Birmingham, have disco-
vered that a forgery has been committed on their banking es-
tablishment, by the imitation of their £5 notes. The fol-
lowing particulars have been handed to us, which we pub-
lish in order that the public, by examining the notes offered
to them, may detect the imposition. We believe that up to
Wednesday last, only two of the forged notes had been pre-
sented to the bank. These were both dated 27th October,
1837, and numbered consecutively 21,836 and 24,837 ; and
purported to be signed by " Rd. Spooner." The plate from
which the notes were printed was badly executed ; and there
is only one "1" in the name of " Marshall," to whom they
are made payable. The narrow black border which surrounds
the £5 notes of the bank has upon the two forged ones been
thickened with writing ink, as the plate seems to have been
deficient in that part. Upon one of the forged notes there is
little or no trace of an imitation of a stamp on the black, and
on the other only a very imperfect one.—Staffordshire
Gazette.

"THREE ENGLISII WOMEN FORA PARTHING."—A droll
scene took place here, says a Paris letter of Sunday, yester-
day, in the middle of the Rue Rivoli. We have a species of
pear, which is, I suppose, imported from England originally,
and hence it is so called ; but, as the generic term of the
pear is feminine, it, to an untaught ear, describes one of the
milder and better portion of the creation ; hence, when an
unfortunate vender of pears was yesterday roaring, in the
most fashionable part of Paris, " Trois Anylaizes pour deux
liards," one of our countrymen, who happened to be passing
at the moment with his wife and two daughters, ignorant of
the momenclature of the pears, imagined that the cry was
intended for his family, and immediately knocked the poor
vender down, to the latter's great surprise. When, however,
the matter was explained to our compatriot, he, rather than
be had up for an assault before the Police Correctionelle,
satisfied the man in a way which probably induces him to
regret that he so seldom has the chance of meeting a regular
John Bull with three ladies, when he is crying out three
English women for a farthing, six for a sous.—Paris Paper.
RIOT AT WIGAN—THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.—About
twelve o'clock last evening, we were considerably surprised
by information that the military were called out to suppress
a riot, alleged to have taken place in one of the Wards.
From the best information we have obtained on the subject,
it appears in Queen-street Ward rather a close contest is
likely is likely to take place, the candidates being Mr.
Eckersley, one of the oldest and most respectable muanufac-
turers in the town, and Mr. Burland, on the conservative
side, and Mr. John Dobb, and Mr. John Acton, on the
Radical side. During the week a good deal of excitement
has prevailed in the Ward ; and for the last few evenings
parties of men, armed with bludgeons, have paraded the
streets, and the most wanton and diabolical assaults have
been committed on the peaceable inhabitants of the town. The
other evening a most respectable individual was knocked
down and beat at his own door, and on Wednesday night
another person who, with two or three friends, was on his
way home, was attacked by some armed party, and kicked
and assaulted in a most shameful manner. This was no
longer to be borne, and, in consequence, a great number of
hardy fellows armed themselves, and last evening peram-
bulated the streets, in order to prevent the declared intention
of the " Dobbites" from stealing and " botteling" (to use
Mr. Ewart's elegant phrase) Conservative Voters. About
midnight, the parties met in Queen-street, words passed, and
blows were soon had recourse to. One man, a conservative,
named Crook, who resides in Bretherton's row, had his head
very much cut, was dreadfully kicked on his body, and con-
veyed to Mr. Pennington's surgery in a very dangerous state.
They in return made a sally on the armed party said to
be in the employ of Mr. Dobb—a regular fight was the con-
sequence, which ended in the discomfiture of time radicals,
who, finding matters were assuming a serious aspect, fled in
all directions. In consequence of this, information was given
to the mayor, who immediately called out the military, pro-
ceeded with them to the spot, arid read the riot act. The
crowd who were then assembled in the street either dispersed
or entered the public-houses in the neighbourhood, and the
military paraded the streets for nearly two hours ; after whicl.
they visited, headed by the mayor, most of the public-hou-
ses, which they cleared of the company in them, and then
marched to the barracks,—Wigan Gazette of Friday.

NAVIGATION OF THE DANtinu.---Mention has often been
made of making a canal, which would join the Danube to the
Black Sea, from Rassova to' Kustendji. While awaiting the
execution of this project of canal, which offers considerable
difficulties, the Danube Steam Boat Company has constructed
a road from Rassova to Kustendji, with the authorisation of
the Turkish government. The distance, which formerly re-
quired three days in order to go from one of these points to
the other, by following windings of the river so far as its
mouth, and then proceeding along the coast as far as Kus-
tendji, will only take six hours. A steam-boat between
Knstendji and -Constantinople will be attached to the ser-
vice. The new road will be open to• circulation in a few
weeks. The Augsburg Gazette, which gives this news, adds,
that with a few ameliorations, five days could easily be gained
on the distance- between Pesth and Rassova; so that there
will be an economy of six days ; and the journey from Vienna
to Constanttnople, which now takes 14 days, will only take
eight days. ,
A STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—The following curious cir-
cumstance we give from an eye-witness, on whose veracity
we can rely: it can also be attested by several persons of re.
spectability. The following are the words of our correspond.
ent :—" A few days ago I had occasion to visit a workman
whom I had employed digging potatoes near Mountrath ; in
the same field there was a man similarly employed, who had
with him a young greyhound. Considering it a favourable
opportunity, if I could procure a hare, to have some fun, I
proceeded in search of one, and had not gone many perches
when I saw one lying in the same field. I cautiously called
for theman to bring over the dog, who immediately complied.
Advancing towards her he took up a stone, and when within
two or three paces of her he struck her, and apparently killed
her. After a few minutes, when not a symptom of life ap-
peared, I made a large aperture with my penknife, and ex-
tracted the whole intestines, with two young leverets, and,
singular to say, she revived as if only stunned from a blow,
and in a few minutes recovered so as to be nearly able to beat
an excellent greyhound, and would have done so, only she
came in contact with the bushes at one of the field gates, af-
ter long running. The two young leverets are alive, and in
my possession, in perfect health, and likely to live."—Lein-
seer, .14-press.
A POINT IN SHOPKEEPING.—Except in London, and in
few of the larger provincial towns in England, the best modes
of constructing and laying out shops attractively are little un-
derstood. To the London shop there must be perfect faci-
lity of access. A very small obstacle would be considered in-
jurious., A shop approachable by steps would be placed at a
serious disadvantage in comparison with one level with the
street ; and, in point of fact, few London shops have steps at
the door. The entrance ought to be so convenient that the
passenger should slide in almost imperceptibly, as if drawn
insensibly into a whirlpool. One instant he is in the street ;
and the next, before he knows rightly what he is about, he
should be alongside the counter. Thus, his half-formed
notion that he wishes to buy something, must not be im-
peded by steps. His purpose is not sufficiently strong to en-
counter the trouble of mounting an elevation ; and, besides,
steps tend very much to cut off his retreat, should he not find
what he is in quest of. There is a feeling about him, that,
by mounting steps, he would show his determination to buy,
and that he should have some difficulty in coming out again
with any degree of decency, if he did not make a purchase—
all of which is most injurious to the interests of the shop-
keeper who has heedlessly two or three steps at his door.
Reader, if you are about to set up a shop, take care to have
no steps !—Chainbers's Journal.

AGRICULTURAL STATE OF IRELAND.—It is in evidence,
that the extensive arable territory of Ireland is not half cul-
tivated. There are five millions of acres waste, capable of
cultivation, and unemployed labour is imploring for per-
mission to render them productive. It is not an exaggerated
calculation, that the reclaimable wastes of Ireland would yield
a rental of four millions, if brought into cultivation ; and if,
in addition to this, a proper system of agriculture were
adopted, and the means of internal communication extended,
the present rental would be more than doubled. Ireland
would be thus fully enabled to supply the agricultural wants
of England, whilst the augmented employment afforded to
the people would greatly enhance the revenue, and con-
siderably increase the demand for English manufactures.
That Scotland is inferior in soil and climate to Ireland is
known to every one ; yet the revenue collected in the former,
in 1834, on articles also taxed in Ireland with precisely simi-
lar rates, amounted to £2,377,386 per annum ; while the re-
venue collected in Ireland on these articles in that year
amounted to £1,975,331 per annum. Were trade and the
consumption in proportion to the population, and the coun-
try on an equality of condition with Scotlond, the Irish
revenue would have been nearly £8,000,000. By raising,
therefore, the condition of Ireland to an equality with Scot-
land, six millions a year might be added to the revenue.—
British and Foreign Review.
GREAT MEETING OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.—
In answer to the numerous ltiquiries of our friends, from all
parts of the country, we are happy to announce that the
council, has resolved to call a general meeting of the anti-
corn-law league, to be held in Manchester, to report the past
proceedings, and to concert measures for the future manage-
ment of the qampaign. We are not able at present to name
the precise day when the meeting is to be held ' • but our
friends will have due notice of it in the circular. It is also
intended to invite to a great banquet all the members of par-
liament who voted in favour of Mr. Villiers's motion, and
other distinguished advocates of the repeal of the-corn-laws,
'to meet the deputies assembling at the general convention of
the league. We:have to request, that not only those Anti-
corn-law Associations, which have already joined the league,
but all others, will immediately forward to the secretary at
Manchester, the name of the chairman and secretary of their
respective associations, that we may be able, at all times, to
communicate with them, and that, at the same time, they
will give us intimation whether they intend to send a deputa-
tion to the meeting, and to the dinner, which are both to take
place on the same day. We request our friends to commu-
nicate with us as early as possible, for they will perceive that
great preparations will be required for a banquet, which is
expected to be by far the largest ever held in this country.—
Anti-corn-law Circular.

LORD BROUGHAM.—We have been favoured with the pe-
rusal of a letter, which arrived by this morning's post from
the north, addressed by Lord Brougham to an intimate friend,
contradicting in the most indignant terms the rumour that
he had in any way either originated or countenanced the late
heartless hoax concerning him. " Nothing (says his lord-
ship) can possibly be more false. It is not only not true, but
it is the very reverse of the truth. For knowing that I had
more than once been killed by the newspapers, when there
was little, if any foundation, for saying 1 had been in any
risk,•l thought it extremely likely that exaggerated reports
would get about of an accident so serious as that which had
now really happened, and I took the precaution of writing
that none of us had been hurt, both to my family at Brighton,
to a friend at Edinburgh (where I thought the coaches might
carry the rumour,) and to two persons in London, Mr. Eden,
my brother-in-law, and Mr. Miller, of the bankruptcy-office,
both of whom I believed to be in town. These letters must
have been delivered in London on Monday, for they were
sent to the post here on Saturday night. If either Mr. Mil-
ler or Mr. Eden had been in *London, as all here believed
them to be, the stupid joke never could have succeeded. But
unfortunately, it happened that Mr. Eden was not in town
that day, and Mr. Miller was most unexpectedly on his way
down here, having left town unknown to me. Indeed, the
report, to those who know me, must appear most ridiculous.
Judging by past experience, I must have had every reason to
believe that the announcement of my death would have been
the signal for an attack upon my life by a considerable por-
tion of the public press. But it is unnecessary to reason on
the matter. The rumour is absolutely and entirely false, and
I can give it no stronger contradiction. I feel a kind of de-
gradation in even noticing such a story."—Courier of Thurs-
day,

THE DIME OF WELLINCTON.—The following anecdote,
connected with the exploits of his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, as a fox-hunter, is not generally known, though cha-
racteristic in more than one point of view :—lt is well
known that his grace's noble estate, Strathfieldsaye, is in the
immediate neighbourhood of the hunting establishment of the
Bramshill fox-hounds, and that his grace is a liberal subscri-
ber to the maintenance of the pack, and when in Hampshire
a constant attendant in the field" with Sir John Cope.
His grace, though a good military horseman, and a good
rider in the riding-school sense of the word, is anything but
a good horseman across a country, and has no idea of a
steeple-chase heat. Nevertheless, he is a bold rider, and
never hesitates to go straightforward after the hounds. The
consequence is, that the noble duke generally gets three or
four tumbles every time he takes the field, though fortunately,
from his activity and lightness of figure, he has never yet
received any injury. A certain French gentleman of some
rank, and formerly an officer in the imperial army, heard of
these mishaps of the great military hero, and shortly after
took a small house in the neighbourhood of the Bramshill
hunt. The Frenchman used regularly to attend the muster
of sportsmen on the hunting mornings, and when the Duke
of Wellington was absent, was accustomed to exhibit signs
of disappointment, and forthwith ride home without joining
in the sports. But when the duke made his appearance, the
countenance of the Frenchman would brighten up, and
though he took no part in the business of the chase, he was
invariably observed to keep as near his grace as possible dur-
ing the whole time he continued in the field, and to evince
an earnestness of interest in his career during the run quite
marvellous. At the conclusion of a hard day, in which the
duke bad received two or three tumbles, one of the gentlemen
of the hunt, in returning home, fall in with monsieur, and
perceiving him more than usually excited, ventured to ask
what were his motives for following the hounds, and what
was the cause of his app'arent delight ? "It is," replied the
Frenchman, " my delight to behold the ' overthrow of Old
Waterloo,' and I find I can only obtain that great gratifica-
tion when he is with the hounds, so I daily attend, in hopes
to see him rolled in the dust and mud, and, fortunately, I
am very seldom disappointed."
MATRIMONIAL TENDER AND RATIFICATION OF THE
TREATY.—The Hampshire Telegraph, for the present week,
has the following statement, transmitted by a correspondent,
and the public will no doubt be considerably excited in this
city, to discover who was the swain from whose lips the cup
of connubial bliss was so cruelly dashed:-" We have this
week to record a most amusing adventure, which has much
enlivened the dullness of our quiet neighbourhood. It will
be in the recollection of our readers that, a few weeks since,
a votary of Hymen (who was at the same time a lover of
precious metals) inserted an advertisement in the county pa-
pers, announcing his wish to form a matrimonial engagement
with a lady possessing certain mental and bodily graces, as
well as the trifling additional attraction of £lOOO sterliil,
and'"stating that, if the fair one were wholly unencumbered
with relatives (who are occasionally troublesome) it would be
a further recommendation. It appears that some of our
brave sons of Neptune belonging to the ships at Portsmouth,
and who are alike waggish and warlike, determined to hoax
the gentleman in search of a wife and fortune, and having
artfully replied to the advertisement in a very lady-like man-
ner, ultimately appointed a meeting with a Miss Isabella
to take place at the India Arms Inn, Gosport, on Tuesday
evening last, at which time and place, Miss Jones (one of the
Portsmouth cyprians) and a gentleman calling himself her
brother, attended accordingly, and who were shown by a
waiter into a private room, giving directions that if a certain
gentleman (the advertiser, of course, but whose name we have
been unable to learn) inquired for them, he was to be shown
up stairs. Punctual to the hour, the fortunate advertiser ap-
peared, after travelling all the way from Bath, and was at
once formally introduced to the blushing and beauteous spe-
cimen of innocence and virtue before alluded to. The kind-
hearted brother then generously retired, leaving our friend
from Bath to discuss his future happiness with the lady whose
prepossessing manners and appearance had evidently made
an impression upon the heart of our swain. Shortly after-
wards, Miss Isabella Jones rang the bell, and announced to
her brother that preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged,
and the 'affianced one, delighted with his future prospects
of domestic bliss, was invited to take a glass of wine with his
intended brother-in-law in the room below. Imagine his
consternation, when, on entering, he encountered his affec-
tionate brother-in-law, surrounded by about a dozen of his
friends and relatives (whom the Bath gentleman so much
abhorred,) and who simultaneously greeted him with such a
shout of laughter as at once dispelled all his visions of con-
nubial felicity, and which we should think would tingle in his
ears until he departs towards that bourne from whence no
traveller returns. We wish the joke had ended here, but the
jolly tars, anxious to wind up the affair in a manner likely to
teach the fortune-hunter a lasting lesson, saluted him with a
shower of port-wine, negus, brandy and water, and other
agreeable libations, with which they had been regaling them-
selves, and the man, who came so far in search of happiness
and a wife, was compelled to sound a retreat, and to implore
the protection of the landlord from his merciless tormentors ;
and being quickly deposited in a closet, he was under the
necessity of remaining perdue in this situation until the sons
of the ocean departed, when the deluded individual decamped,
looking very like the ghost in Hamlet, and muttering ' curses
not loud but deep,' upon the heads of his persecut ors."—
Bath paper,

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♦,

Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, of Woodhall, near Haydon-
bridge, exhibited in Hexham market, on Tuesday last, two
white globe turnips, each weighing 301b5., and 3 feet 6 inches
in circumference.—Newcastle Journal.

AN ENORMQUS CABBAGE.—Mr. Wilkinson, of the Four
Horse Shoes Inn, had, yesterday, a present of a cabbage,
grown in a field at Rufford. It measures nine feet in cir-
cumference, and weighs 39ilbs; It is what is commonly
known here as a Scotch Cabbage, but is described as the
Brassica Campestris by holticulturists.—Bolton Chronicle.
The Railway works near Chippenham are in a state of ra-
pid advance, and the line in progress now extends from the
mouth of the Box tunnel at Pocketidge nearly to Christian
Malford. The changes in the height and level of the country
cause in this distance every possible change in the form of the
line, from embankments of 60 feet to cuttings of so great a
depth.—Bristol Journal.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We had occasion to ad-
vert a short time ago to the' delay which appeared to have
taken place on that part of the line of this undertaking, si-
tuated close to Bathwik Terrace. We are happy to state
now that the Tunnel at the spot is commenced, under the
management of Mr. Vaughan, the contractor—Bath Herald.

CAUTION TO NEWSVENDEDS AND OTHERS, We are glad
to observe that vigorous measures are being taken for the
suppression of those infamous publications which manage
not only to exist but to realise a considerable sum, by min-
istering to the bad passions and vicious taste of the depravtd
or silly portion of the community. At Brighton, we are in-
formed, the sale of such papers is wholly stopped ; and the
magistrates of Bristol, Bath, and some other places, infested
with similar infamous publications, would be only doing their
duty in exercising the powers given them, for the like bene-
cial purpese.—Bristol Journal.

INTENDED CORPORATION.-It iS daily more probable
that almost all parties of the ratepayers of the borough of
Oldham will apply for a charter, to be incorporated accord-
ing to the municipal corporations act, entirely owing to the
certainty of the town being governed, in two years, by the
rural or county police. The principal as well as the hum-
ble inhabitants, dread the introduction of a police in whose
election they will not have the least participation, and over
whose proceedings they cannot exercise any restraint. Un-
der these circumstances men of quite different shades of
opinion in politics think that a corporation would be a lesser
evil than a rural police.—Bolton Chronicle.

LECTURES or SoclALism.—Mr. Brindley, the powerful
enemy of national infidelity, commenced a fresh series of
lectures in the Corn Exchange, on Wednesday evening, and
managed his subject with consummate ability. We intended
to notice these admirable lectures more prominently, but our
other engagementss would not admit of it this week. We
perceive that another lecture is announced for Monday night.
—Manchester Courier.

Some wags practised a wicked hoax on Mr. Vigors, M.P.
last week, by circulating a placard calling on the poor people
of Carlow to attend at his lodgings, when he would distribute
among them the sum of £lOOO. which it was alleged he had
for that purpose. Accordingly, very much to the astonish-
ment of the hon. member, he was surrounded by crowds
clamouring for cash, and it was with difficulty they could be
convinced that the announcement was a hoax.—Carlow Sen-
tinel.. •

CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT BRIDGEWATER.—One of the
most important, respectable, and influential meetings ever
held in this part of the country, took place at the Clarence
Hotel, Bridgewater, on Monday, the 28th of October, to
present to Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole a piece of plate, sub-
scribed for by some Conservatives of West Somerset, as a
tribute of esteem and gratitude for his eminent gratuitous
services in aid of the Conservative cause in the division.
About 150 of the leading gentry, yeomanry, &c., in the divi-
sion, sat down to a sumptuous dinner, admirably served up
by Sutton.—Dorset County Chron.
ARCHIBALD BOLA M.—This individual has taken his de-
parture from this country. He left Sheerness on Sunday the
13th instant, on board the Woodbridge, bound for Sydney,
with a cargo of convicts. He is said to have appeared in ex-
cellent spirits, and to have addressed several letters to his
friends and representations from various quarters, consider-
able indulgence has been extended towards him during his
stay on board the Hulks, and that the same will be continued
to him during the voyage, and subsequently on his arriving
at his destination. Transportation has in his case been
stripped of half its horrors and severities.

SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.--The interest excited in the pub-
lic mind by the progress of these works is very great ; num-
bers, both of the inhabitants and strangers, are continually
visiting the beach to view the active and bustling scene ; the
work is carried on with spirit, and during every moment the
tides permit, and at the low water of the night tide, there may
now be seen nearly 200 men working by the light of between
20 and 30 fires, which has a singular and interesting effect.
We understand that in embanking, pile driving, quarrying,
&c., the contractorsare.paying upwards of 250 men, and are
willing to employ many more. able hands if they should offer ;
in fact, they seem determined to spare neither money nor
personal exertions in expediting the work, and endeavouring
to realize the anticipations of the supporters and friends of
this great undertaking.—Hampshire paper. ,
MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.—OH the afternoon of
Wednesday last, blowing at the time S.E., enough to make
the " stoutest heart to quail," a tiny craft was observed in
the offing, running for the harbour, which it fortunately
reached in safety. It proved to be a small open sail-boat
called the Alice, of this port, with only a solitary individual
on board, named Dan Stewart (well known for his daring
exploits and hair-breadth escapes,) who had left Whitehaven
that morning under the most auspicious appearances, anti-
cipating a favourable run to Douglas ; but he had scarcely
cleared St. Bee's Heads when the breeze freshened, and
from a still and glassy surface the billows began to heave in
violent commotion as the gale increased. To return was
impossible, he therefore prepared for the emergency by reef-
ing his canvass, and under skilful management and a heart
undaunted, his " trim and tight-built wherry" bore him
over the agitated and angry ocean in perfect safety, in less
than seven hours—a distance of upwards of 40 miles. Cer-
tainly a most providential deliverance from impending, and
as may be conceived, almost inevitable destruction. Manx
Liberal.

EXPIRATION OF CHARTISM.—On Tuesday evening last,
John Hilton, alias Slatty, the ultra-radical operative, whip-
per-in, or bellman of Middleton, went through the streets of
the town and neighbourhood of Middleton, making known,
that on that night a public meeting of chartists, of consider-
able importance, was to be held in the chapel ,elonging to the
radicals, to hear harangues from three of their forlorn dele-
gates. One of them was named Butterworth, from Man-
chester; the second was Curren ; and the third a Yorkshire-
man, whose name we forget. The audience was meagre and
contemptible, and the whole affair was obviously a complete
failure, there being only about thirty lads present. The more
rational and respectable of the radical party were absent; as
they are thoroughly disgusted with the late doings of the des-
picable faction, and suspect Butterworth to be a whig spy,
and faithless to the cause he professes so much zeal for. It
is quite evident that chartism has expired in Middleton, for
the partizans and worshippers of O'Connor and Co. cannot,
without much difficulty, raise funds for holding the smallest
demonstration, even if it be only a beer-shop discussion.—
Manchester Courier.

QUEEN ADELAIDE.—WARWICK, THURSDAY.—The good
folk of this town are in an extraordinary state of bustle, in
consequence of the expected arrival of the Queen Dowager
to-morrow afternoon on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Warwick, at Warwick Castle. The mayor and council
received a letter yesterday from the Earl of Warwick, appris-
ing them of the intended visit of the Queen Dowager to
Warwick. Immediately a meeting was held, when it was
determined that the mayor, with the clergy and inhabitants,
should receive her Majesty on the entrance of the royal suite
into the town. A brigade of the Warwickshire yeomanry is
to escort the Queen Dowager from the border of the county,
and another troop, headed by their colonel commandant, the
Earl of Aylesford, is to assemble in the court-yard of the
castle, to receive her Majesty. At Leamington Spa a
highly respectable meeting, in compliance with a requisition
numerously signed by the principal inhabitants, was held at
the Town-hall, when it was determined that every mark of
respect should be paid the illustrious visiter at Warwick
Castle, should her Majesty be pleased to honour the Spa by
her presence, which it was fully anticipated her Majesty
would do.—Herald.

TOTNESS.—What does the Duke of Somerset think of his
tricks at Totness now ? The voters have risen en masse
against his unhandsome revenge towards those who opposed
his popish nominee Mr. Blount, and Lord Seymour may
moult his feathers at his earliest convenience. It is—no it
is not—singular that the whig press have whopped their
hands over their mouths, after the fashion of old Captain
Copp, about this most disgraceful transaction. A whig duke
endeavours to thrust down the threats of his tenantry a
popish relation as their representative ; and, because they
make wry faces, he takes them by the nose, and shows them
and their families the way into the street. And yet, because
the duke happens to be a whig, the whig press know no more
about it than if the man in the moon had kicked his wife out
to eat porridge at Norwich ! What a convenient thing it is
to be deaf, for the deaf are always dumb ! 0 ! for the quick
indignation of the Chronicle, and for the epigrammatic silli-
ness of the Globe, on such an occasion ! To hear the Chron-
icle waste its wrath, and the Globe squib its small crackers,
upon such an invasion of personal conscience and constitu-
tional freedom ! But the mischief of it is, they have such
hungry ears, and rabid eyes for tory faults, that 'they can
neither hear nor see aught amiss in the practices of their
own most delectable patrons. Excellent and best of all pub-
lic instructors !—lbid.

CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT MACCLESFIELD.-
The conservative inhabitants of this borough, on Monday
evening, made a demonstration of protestant and constitu-
tional feeling, unequalled on any previous occasion of a simi-
lar kind. It was the anniversary dinner in celebration of the
formation of a conservative association. Two years ago, the
members of the society mustered in the room of an hotel for
this purpose ; but, as consarvative principles progressed with
time, no hotel apartment in the town could be found capable
of holding them, and this year the spacious building used as
a national school was had recourse to for their accommoda-
tion. The interior was elegantly fitted up, and decorated
with flags, banners, evergreens, dahlias, and other emblems
of joy. The banners. &c., bore appropriately loyal inscrip-
tions, such as " Protestant ascendancy," " May our princi-
pal men be men of principle," " Fear God and honour the
Queen," " Queen, Lords, and Commons," &c. Between
four and five hundred respectable individuals sat _town to
dinner, a more influential number never having before con-
gregated in Macclesfield. Sir F. Burdett, pursuant to an
invitation forwarded to him, had intimated his intention of
being present at the meeting, but owing to some misunder-
standing in reference to the day on which it was to take place,
he did not arrive, much to the disappointment of the mem-
bers of the association. From a letter which was read by
Mr. Ryle, the banker, at whose house Sir Francis was to so-
journ, it appeared that the secretary of the society had made
some blunder as to the time fixed for the dinner. The chair
was occupied by Mr. H. Wardle, and near him, at the cross
table, were Mr. Egerton, M.P ; Mr. T. Grimsditch, M.P. ;
T. Trafford (chairman of the quarter sessions).; Mr. W. C.
Townsend (recorder of Macclesfield) ; Captain Hill; Mr. J.
Y; S. Daintry ; Mr. T. R. Daintr Mr. R. Wood ; Mr. W.
B. Dickinson ; Mr. E. Hall ; Mr. E. Legh ; Mr. J. C•
Ryle ; Mr. G. C. Legh ; and Mr. J. Ryle. The toasts and
speeches were of a truly loyal character, and the evening
passed with the greatest enthusiasm. Manchester Courier.
ANSWERS TO A MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.--
Shall I open and perusei anymore of the mountain of epis-
tles lying before me n beautiful chaos? I asked myself this
question. I hesitated a moment as to whether or not I ought
to open' more of the matrimonial letters. It is certain,
thought I, that though I had an infinitude of love epistles
before me, I could not by possibility have one in the vast
mass, better than that before
me. And if there be one or
two of 'the number pretty similar in their contents, I may—
how seasonable I then deemed the discovery !—find myself
in the same predicament as the ass between the two bundles
of hay ; that is, remain undecided until I have lost both, or
all three, as the case may be. My determination therefore
was, after a few moments' consideration, to read no more
letters. What thenwas to be done with the remaining,huge
archipelago of epistles ? Thrust them into the tire ? I felt
reluctant to do that ; their beautiful paper, lovely seals, ad-
mirable penmanship, all rose up and eloquently, though
silently, pleaded for their preservation. But what is the use
of preserving a congregation of unopened, unread letters?
I concluded the thing to be very foolish ; more especially as
they might fall at some future time into some unhallowed
hands, and reveal matters, both as regarded myself and
others, which ought to be sacredly kept an everlasting secret.
Into the grate, therefore, I flung the whole lot ; and what a
bright and brilliant blaze they made !. " There," said I to
myself, " there go two flames ; the one physical, the other
moral ; the one caused by paper, the other made of lady-
love." And I could have wept while I thus moralised.—
Walks and Wanderings in the. World of Literature, bj/ the
duthw of " The Great MetropoliB," •

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
WI
The Public is respectfully informed, that the ce.e
FAMI
RUSSIAN NATIONAL SINGERS, THE lest
MATWEITSCH, who obtained so much celebrity.ti?
season in London, and who performed before her I%Nethe
• or
the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and at manY
Nobility's Concerts, are engaged for FIVE N, GO'S
will make their second appearance This Evening. be
rrHIS present TUESDAY, November 5, 1839,
1 performed the popular Tragedy of
B R U T U S.
Lucius Junius Brutus ..... 'Mr. Stuart.
Titus Mr. Vs/Howard.
Tullia.... Miss ' e er.
Tarquinia Mi Faucit.
After the Trage 3-, a
CONCERT
By the Celebrated Russian National Singers, ips9,
THE FAMILY MATWEITSCH-
At the end of the first act of the Afterpiecet
COSSACK NATIONAL DANCE,'
By Messrs. ALEXANDER and NiclioLa.,
To conclude with the favourite Melo-Drama 0' the
MAGPIE OR THE MAID. p TKE
On WEDNESDAY, the Tragedy of RICHAT flow:
THIRD. Glo'ster, Mr. Stuart; Richmond, Mr. ,cer,
ard ; King Henry, Mr. Gray ; The Queen, Miss
Lady Anne, Miss Faucit. After which, a CONCP
the Family MATWEITSCH. To conclude with the
letta of MIDAS.

DAYS . 0105
MARTIN'S PIFOURCTURE OFMORE THE, coitoN 05,
IVA. will remain for Exhibition, at tik LYCEI9I goo
BOLD-STREET, FOUR DAYS MORE. r rce'
Admission, ls. ; Children and Strhools, Hall) Nine'
Open from Ten o'clock till Four ; and from Six t°
when the Room is Lighted-up with Gas.
___----

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MBE EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACALi„,OI
of the WORKS of MODERNORTISTS IS '';ipe
OPEN, at the GALLERY, CHUB -STREET, °gag'
o'Clock in the Morning till dusk. A mission, One ~'!ngs.
Catalogues, One Shilling. Season Tickets, Fire Shwa';ierv)"'
SAML. EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Ac
It is also open in the Evenings, from Seven 'clnekorS
U
Ten, BRILLIANTLY ILL[ WITH
Admittance, ls.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

" Stanzas by C." have been received. hich
We hope to be able to furnish the information Nl'
Elector" desires in time for our next publication.

Ebts Ltb'rpoot &tanDarti•

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 15

tP
If there is one fact in the theory of our constitti
more essential to its very existence than another, l'i°
hO,
that which separates the personal character of `he 'tbe
vereign from the conduct of the Ministers, Who view
responsible servants of the Crown. There is °Tletig
of Monarchy which would make it appear to be ll° that
better than a monstrous and unbearable anom2lr de'
which represents the destinies of the EmPire as
bet
pending upon the humours and caprices of him

who happens to be seated on the 'throne.
r paleY
Who ever read the startling illustration 0' vige'
which he compares the community to a flock 0. 'or'
ons in a field of corn : ninety-nine of then' gsg for
ing all they got into a heap ; reserving 10th,1.14e3P
themselves but the chaff and refuse; keeping tij et,' 01
for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst Pig..ateri
the flock ; sitting round and looking on all the 701
whilst this one was devouring, throwing abrit•lightb°
wasting it," without feeling how strongly it ahi 5°
made to tell against the principle of a monarchl'es 01
convinced was one King of England of the clang to
such comparisons, that George 111., when solicited of
bestow a vacant bishopric upon the Archtlearsiell
Carlisle, hastily answered, " What ! on Pige°ll,m,posel
No, never !" A little consideration, however, ". La;
a. nos
of the difficulty of reconciling this apparent —fire ellr
and experience reads a lesson on the subject le.°l-tereits
phatic, perhaps, than any other in which e
of large masses of men are concerned. 1, its °°'r
In the mixed monarchy of England, wit— 'row
plicated system of checks, balances, and Inute:diviill
trol—with its inherent jealousy of prerogative' aof Or
the fact of a dynasty overthrown on accooltiothiPg
lated rights before the eyes of the penPic „othiPg,
can be more hazardous, nothing more foolish,ooTh
more to be deprecated, than the mixing dale neittice
the Sovereign with the invectives which Public
an' tbeit
launches at the Ministers of the Crown• leht
acts, whether of evil or of good report, they °-oatio
stand forth as the shield interposed between tbe,ditioo.
and the Throne. They take office upon this c7c, r 045
and know the terms on which they occuPY be a°
of high honour and influence. The Crown' lleYeept i°
the head of a driveller or a profligate; but, e,,,t tbe)',
cases of the extremest nature, so desperate t'eptioo'
sup
al ersede all reasoning, and from necessary 0c ' e
r,
014
to the almost univers rule, the doctrine that _tnetoit
can do no wrong ought to be cherished as the bsiror
guard of the Monarchy, and, consequent, Prefervenll)t
the blessings which have flowed, and, we
orntl°
trust, will for generations continue to flow, t
of form of civil polity in this country.
t;hertY
And in this there is no danger tooth e ffirbiu
subject. We do not thereby sacrifie (G 49,0",,, do°
should !) the substance for the shadow, and fer ter,
in ignorant idol-worship to an empty oat°. oti
sons good and manifold, but too numernue pre‘,
to be recapitulated here, the people of 13r,it': 00;0
monarchy to any other form of Governole°"f6eoeif
have provided, in the responsibility of its °0 eftlio
effectual security against a permanent invasi° otry
rights. No servants of the Crown in this etn,liotl.'.o
aid and abet their master in an unconstitn' oaa,
, the leo
tempt, without being brought to the bar 01 jeveJ
it'd oiPti
to answer the impeachment which would eer. oo
at their heads ; and in this conviction-4°l retil:lo
of punishment—we are as safe as hurnallio% oa,i,.
can make us against any violent usurPat tas .)111
part of the Throne. It is powerless Nvithotlen.
cutive ; and an Executive cannot lend :t ,ithoot
instrument of unconstitutional ambition,
cioert'
be
kening the thunders of a national imPea vereie,eo
is, therefore, unnecessary to make the S,°•toslieciDlV
object of attack, and altogether unsafe an
with to or
No more certain mine can be laid, where oblic vie
the fabric of the monarchy to atoms, than Pfor the
ment directed against the individual n'"°.
J' ate
hrol'.v
being wears the diadem of. Britain upon htlise
Wt
Hence, then, until the Whigs, under ilti° fag'
to Pro j
1'
tration of Earl Grey, were base enong; s 0; de
Doe p
the name of " patriot King" to the lir- istrp
°rot
tion—and still worse, the Melbourne Pe cows
the S
Ott
paroxysm of their madness at finding poiv
King William favourable to their tenure °o'llaiopli) t
as
the dangerous example of making the PerS raft)' (P.
of a youthful Queen the watchword of ewhicil°9„J,
exposing them to all the misconstructinnsa thetet
I'i ,re':
and deniagogues were sure to put up° • and •io•'
• ' 11 1O
above all, of allowing her private filen (104 he I
dilections to he proclaimed by them
cause of important changes in State
ever the custom to abstain from all 15
Throne, and allow measures to be decide (hobl,lo
merits, without reference to the likings or
the highest personage in the realm- „„ all P,n"
These are considerations which aPP'7 rvat'
copse DA'
the
alike. All of them—Whig, Tory, y
Radical—can appreciate their force/ If Great tjtoe,
slightest wish that the constitution 0' coo`
should continue composed of its tbree_._. I.llv :/1/A
elements—King, Lords, and Cornill°lll/0 are
reasons addressed to the understanding' iree P
and palpable. But with the Conserv,' his b
higher and nobler principle : it resides 1111,,itil l'lsciooriLY
well as in his head, and is interwoven seri 01)e,
tions. With him, monarchy is like the
he rerile,l°l;
and mists may obscure his face, hut froVi°°,ll bt
that beyond and above them shines t11:07.0 ie office
nary, and that ere long he will burst P
splendour, however dark and lowering

may appear.
TlBnhe hemni
n.tdrhdtiDiscomfortableeehrvesegsalnao dnb
deci
:oruaoonsbui
dbat
outrage
know'st thou litiiiti
That when the searching eye of heave° 1,5 och
But
He fires the proud tops of the eastern Pilbc;e,
And darts his light through every guilt) oci°l
Then murders, treasons, and detested tine, 1;
,1
The cloak of night being' plucked at n,
°lisp' reP
Stand bare and naked, trembling at the° 5 pot tioeiiicli
Loyalty with him is a principle which drool.°
for its continuance upon the degree °
he may personally experience-- ti„,l
True as the dial to the s°ll' ,i. I Or,
Although it be not shone uP°.'t
eve fee'cepOe
It is, therefore, with pain and regret ~3,,tiag,l:, ilice
upon to protest loudly against the 13-iirachw-i:freli,l
employed at a public dinner by 10 with refforri
Conservative Member for CanterhurP ehe, pIA
„ awe his
to the Sovereign of these realms. l'e .orY t 1).
himself, and
so far as in him lax did in)

orb."
o=ee

rw. ,
Ft r Docof
rho
4ot plc
,s • ,r
fav°.

feel coo
rec
tra
oge,,do
Aelv.
ce
ra" fer
th re
herfore
t 1001
to

',taw
whol' . occasion. He overstepped the limits within
• tins •
kith, Paring censure may be dealt against a
igki4Bt nhe levelled the shafts of his invective
ittavtile Throne itself. We deplore as deeply as
tlo4° that infatuation which binds the Queen so
1 q
114 ll'etr° such a man as Lord Melbourne, and entan-
-111,0 in the machinations of such a party as that
NG. ltoyal countenance alone saves from politi-
-411,4:
''''°n; but we will not for one moment allow
e 8 te be di •
verted from the guilty and profligate
‘4l,Ater to the deceived and mistaken Mistress. We
ikdl shbelieve that her eyes will ere long be opened,
Nth ;lA% start back from the abyss yawning be-
ittt h
°(nv, ne Throne ; an then will be seen the value of
'izie,, hypocritd ical, lip-service loyalty, which
tkrzio-a gracefully from Whig-Radicals as pearls and
14, ntis did from the wrinkled witch in the fairy
`then "ill be opened the flood-gates of abuse ;
erY act in which the private will of the Sovereign
iitittteeon suPposed to have influence, and which, as
14 favourable to the Liberals, they have lauded
!10et fulsome adulation, will be quoted as a
IN:, Proof of the weakness and absurdity of al-
cl6 °ne individual to possess such a power, Some
ISZ° all Aberdeen Radical paper had a song, which
4411 expressed the nature and extent of Whig-Ra-
listieclaii tY• At the end of every verse, full of bom-
gtieelh°gY and flattery, came these words applied
d en Victoria:—" But if she turn a Tory, may
otkeet'il take her then !" So much for the hollow
4,11,1. Y °f friendship which the present Ministry and
Plierters profess at present for the Throne.
t the Conservatives exhibit a very different con-
and, While they
respect the name of their Sove-
tly; 411 d love it too well to drag it before the public
Ith c°"einn, let them pour forth the full measure
.igtehire indignation upon the men who are now strain-
.4.412ab1es of the monarchy to the utmost, and visit
kr"4ll the punishment they deserve. The language
r a
13radshaw will, we are sure, find neither imita-
provers.
l'he •

114,4 Itnieipal Elections throughout the kingdom,
N , Most irrefragable proof of the gradual pro-
SZConservative reaction. We rejoice that the
of this constitutional reaction is gradual; and
etteas°ll
and for thus expressing ourselves is, that the
' At4rn almost imperceptible growth of Conserva-
el this County, affords us stronger grounds for
ating upon its permanency, than we could derive
anY sudden revulsion of popular opinion. Rapid
4ilkgcleB of political prejudices or opinions are seldom
Ohio ePended upon as lasting in their results. The
its 'flail(' foaming mountain fresh is not as durable
°w, as the deep though silently progressing
n iwh kb irrigates and fertilizes the valley. The
ag which rears its towering branches into the
kaje:n
t. a few brief years, is not as perdurable as the
tqe le
‘c
king of the forest," though the latter may
kill centuries to attain its full maturity. These, and
'Ptratt.)ther instances which nature furnishes in her
kihkiinnalls, find a striking analogy in the opinions of
torial We owe all that is permanent in our na-
;4lblie and social institutions, to the gradual growth of
r'j,iee sentiment in their favour. On this account we
t°Wye find that the change which is now taking
Pliiaiinn Public opinion, among the electors of Great
ilB of a progressive character. " Slow and
'try u`B the motto on the Conservative banner. A
ttqat.Befill lesson has been read to the friends of the
th:f,,lni°ll in Church and State, by the great leader
ke Conservative party in the House of Commons.
fr bee
:It the ti frequently blamed for his cautious policy,
delay which he has manifested—for not sooner
il4 gliP the heels of an anti-national administration.
l'eritt°llcluet has, however, been amply justified by
`llt,o In avoiding the evil consequences of incon-
kreaCeaPrecipitation, he has set an example which we
tie t° find more and more appreciated throughout
fitetie:lltrY• Sir Robert Peel's maxim has always
4doptecis,llr4' and sure." Let this maxim be generally
aUdY the great Conservative party in this empire,
n" shall have no fear whatever as to the re-

IVv~ke,h
"2tve alluded to the Municipal Elections of last
ItTl,:tiki indicative of the existence of a sound Con-
k) reaction in the country. We have only to
.11/41 re
to the various accounts which have reached us
,roor
Di,; °I our position. To the result of the election
40,5,„ °IN, we have alluded in a separate article. It
41%4 :nor Pleasant task to adduce corroborative testi-
-11.4 favour of the alleged reaction from other guar-
t.4-111 almost every direction the Conservatives have
"flinithant. This has, indeed, been the case in
'''uce in which they have entered with zeal and
l'fpe' into the contest. The conjoined forces of
Llitit:l3 Radicalism, and Political Dissent, never sus-
lid 0 a more signal, and humilating defeat than they
A
tiefo Friday last.
'ictorie, . Ave proceed to enumerate the Conservative
• .
this obtained on Friday, we may as well state that
Nte county there are two large towns in which, no
t 4 (471,1-laving taken place, no criterion has been affOrd-
la '"e State of public opinion. Those places are
tc!thester and Bolton, where, owing to the Conser-
"Tem
nig disputed the validity of the charters, no
%bee' lun (at least on the part of the Conservatives)
tillort ceered to the election of liberal Town Coun-
,
%Pio 'neaster the Conservatives have been signally
repha
'44 ikit 'lt. They have won four elections out of six,
,f°r gross intimidation in one of the wards they
Nicaigave returned five. Until the last year the
had it all their own way in Lancaster. They
kte4ilyat flength, been taught a lesson that they will not
"Nu-, :orget- The good old town has done itself
ite I:l2line " expurgating " the Council Chamber
At p "'al inmates.
41ect88tf,,,e8t°n the Conservatives have been still more
ngkleed They were victorious in every ward.
Lgtei war most almost walked over the course, as only
`q favo "rnB were contested, and in those the majority
thelnlint of the six Conservative candidates was over-
rtbelttozillg' There is not now in the Town Council of
:lAN a Single member who dares to avow Whig or
Will Pbrinciples ! We confidently anticipate that
„At ,t the case in Liverpool in less than five years.
c 0 ..11ntle there was no contest worth speaking of,
Itadiecliti!rvatives have prudently resolved to allow the
At N! In the Council " a little more rope."
'll4ain
eeweastle-upon-Tyne the Radicals have also
rainedti a signal defeat, the Conservatives having
e:1 eo lriday, a clear gain of five votes in the
tha 141eil, which upon a division will count no
11
ten
.
e eon
aty h, serVative Electors of Leeds have done their
tlia -40 st n
retui °q, and we heartily congratulate them on
tetarani tof their exertions. They have succeeded in
twelve out of sixteen which were elected.
itetlior 71?-fallen must the great dissenting leader, the
torlterri ditor
of the Leeds Mercury appear, when he Let
f the result. How miserably fallen is the
akp faCtion
to out
of in Leeds I. They could only return
tePr sixteen ! The return of two Conservatives
111),4 went Leeds in Parliament may now be looked
may certain, come the next general election when
The
trilkikentest at Stockport has also terminated most
the to the Conservative cause in that borough,
the cop, 'lB only succeeding in returning six, while
tillore."B7vatives returned eight, out of fourteen Coun-
t)
PPotiti ° the election of four of the six Radicals no
114 h p °ll was offered, or the Conservative gain might
Vatetti_ve etlZetocir_niolLie:ll more considerable. The Conser-
qlt true Stockport will, no doubt, profit by their
At Staire"B' and contest every ward in future.
4416,1 . Stator
a • •
in the Aimed contest took place, which. re
l-
e not
su return of six Conservatives. The Radice s
The creed in a single
instance
__P their atives of Kingston-on- Thames have kept
the li. character by returning five Conservatives out of
4t 0 c
"thlid_ther Radicals
th e Conservatives have returned seven,
st: eoNer,,. three only out of the ten Councillors.
votes,
co* ati -
yes have thus gained a clear addition of
unting ten on a division, which gives them
L'arkterl. in
the Council on all questions of a political
At e
were , -inhrici,,
retor„. ts five Conservatives and five Liberals
teZt town:l.UL. Here again the good cause has gained.
'glued wineh heretofore returned one posse of w deT- (1 - gad
o_elfae now rejoices in having its interests
At (.;oune'il.aintained by twelve Conservatives in the
ttittolllristoi the
by
`° Conservative cause has heen gloriously
rotAt; ' Out of sixteen
,Councillortired
11, thirteen s, who re
ha been returned by the Con.-

servatives, while the Liberals could only carry three of
their candidates. The accession of strength to the
Conservative majority in the Town Council of Bristol
may be inferred from the following statement :—Of the
retiring Councillors ten were Liberals, and only six
Conservatives. Our contemporary, Felix Farley, says
that the list of Radicals elected has become " fine by
degrees, and beautifully less." In 1835 there were 23
chosen. In 1836 they succeeded in electing eleven.
In 1837 they carried nine. In 1838 they were forced
to be content with six. This year they have only been
able to return three ! Bristol will return two Conser-
vative representatives to the House of Commons at
the next general election.
The only place besides, from which we have seen
any return of the polling on Friday last is Gloucester,
and there the Liberals succeeded, by means of bribery
the most flagrant, in carrying five out of six of their
candidates. We give them the benefit of this excep-
tion to the general list. On Friday we hope to have it
in our power to adduce further proofs of reaction in
the boroughs of England and Wales. We have every
reason to be satisfied with the results which we have-
already given. They prove as strongly as possible
that the reign of Whiggery, Radicalism, and Chartism
is nearly at an end. What will our Liberal contempo-
raries now say of the " voice of the people ?"

As we confidently anticipated, and ventured to pre-
dict, the Conservatives of Liverpool have been tri-
umphant at the Municipal Election. The Radical
interest in this borough has sustained a blow—a "hea-
vy blow," and " a great discouragement," from which
it will not quickly recover. In spite of the magnilo-
quent boasts of the Liberal press—in spite of the stre-
nuous preparation made by the Radicals—in spite of
the lavish outlay of money, through the medium of
the Protector Society, for the purpose of placing future
paupers onsthe registry—in spite of the influence of the
liberal majority in the Town Council, recklessly and
tyrannically exercised as that influence was—in spite

of all these difficulties and obstacles, the Conservatives
have triumphed. The faction against whom they have
so long and, at length, so successfully struggled, has
been baffled, foiled, and disappointed most completely.
That the triumph of Friday last is one which is worth
boasting of will be evident from a comparison of the
results of the last and the two preceding municipal
elections in this town. In the year 1837, the following
was the number qualified to vote in each ward, to
which we have added the numbers which were actually
polled in each ward

Voters.
. 683

Polled for.

C. R.
273 258