The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

at, bet."...
leiet .`a ttere a
aey raoo nd followed them. She said she had
ey.
the usual caution, that she never saw
Boughtle gave the half-penny piece to MF.
sit „.,, if a very great gift. She further said
07 virualleed more money in Waiterford, and
)Irhose v tiote that did not belong to him (Mr.
.444 kr triZney he had not seen. They were both
N45,Ga TREF-,
o.f, es, a - FROM A MASTER.
ktsyr'laantity of ouch, was charged with robbing his mas-
kt''f4id,„. af. boots, shoes, &c.—Mr. Thomas Vernon,
44
bl.s. "isegryTeeGreat Horner-street,said the prisoner.
on the 2d instant, as a stable-boy, and
411004-4raiY morning last. He then left the house.
e same day, witness searched his house,
fo4rarcaoiarts, a vest, one air of breeches, one pair of
44tii7e.11 to eef_b(?9ts, and two pairs of shoes. Inform.a-
kidentifierilee• Some boots and shoes were pi o
'"qkr as Mr. Vernon's property. Bernard
n clothe. in t'
S'lon,ne to him ...,ontenoy-street, said that the
e`s for sale on Saturday afternoon, and offered a
1/4received which he bought for two shillings. He
7 :the a bill describing the robbery. In about an
kir oribllner
..41 three Pair,
Came again with another person, and.
wfwid,.it shoes for sale The other person had pre-
lry
c'toz efrale-street
TlPPrehendea boots. e
of detained them, and
• Ann Jackson, another e o t'hes-
y, ered her: , said that, on Saturday morning, the
Jo
Pair of shoes for sale, and she bought
i..1ikt441 he log,il-J°hn M`Daniel, a shoemaker, in Dale-
Priloner'. ",,Tight a pair of boots and a pair of shoes
‘,r4i, 41d that L.ltie prisoner said he was a gentleman's
*J•44.41d to b,
,ufa Master had given him leave to sell the
SWhen I} a pair of over-alls with the money.—The
tthethe boeaPPrael,ended, gave his name as Brown, and
41 from ,put shoes were his own, and that he had
were Birmingham. A coat, vest, and a pair of
r't• ts and a
Notes afterwards produced, and were sworn to as
etheboola'aPerty....__Al
r.Vernon's son also
identified a
'ranted for Pair of the shoes.—The prisoner was
rrn
trial at the Sessions.
'1
4.1 • tarn I,4'°OKET PICKING.
`Gilty and Brown, were charged with
; as Sen Call 8 pocket. The former being an old of-
'4 elle. eaced to three nionth's imPrisonment ; the
parti:'.AOLTING POLICE-OFFICERS.
vyere fined in various penalties for assault-
pllrs fa the exercise of their duty. On the other
`4Jsse•leeisf.e-°T,ce.rs were
.reprimanded for an over-
. affitto-reail men. authority, and warned to be more
Tittvra
E ROYAL, LIVERPOOL;
fli6elri.sqLesPeetfully t the celebrated
ttt,cEtr 'PALBERG, is agedengg to give a SECOND
q, sin Liverpool, which will take place THIS
It,T,e,,hereePterqler 10th, being positively his Last A.p-
-rlALiite,„vfous to his final retirement from Public.
j•l'VVANtitto", will be assisted by Miss BIRCH,
."r this -rP, and Mr. BALFE, who are also en-
11:etic ccasion.
af Mr. LiW
, ,
,trt R OTON and Mr. F: VINING, of
4al Weo, tqal, Covent Garden, and Drury Lane.—
liba's alto, • of Mt. MACKAY, of the Theatre Royal,
tertal) .seat TUESDAY14trient
ito,? Rill commence with'the Drama of a
kelerk c,'-'II•ND FOR AN OLIVER.
1141,,ae .......... Mr. Dowton.
'elho"Yer, ........ . Mr. F. Vining.
satare rite. ................ Mr. W. H. Bland.
whiehl)arlingtori... • ...
otitis
.............
Mr. Slaiter.
Irk' Interlude,from St. Ronan's Well, called the
an Miss Faucit.
3Iargere,LEIKUM INN.
.I).odds (the Landlady).. Mr. Mackay,
('sere rhich Character he will siny,-,
'n a Young man to my daddies door."
b t
ith T, To conclude with
Ith kit AND CONCERT,
HAL w perform
V,8111(.1PIPOSIT/ONSBE onRG theill Piano-Forte.his .
LATEST
SioNoa IVANHOFF, AND MR. BALFE,
flratiefY of favoufite 'Airsi Duets, and Trios,
ilEr to
n.(lla the most popular Oras:
644trt‘alberehle,eufpplete 'greet to the wonderful. powers of
11'4Italtiz,,: Will perform on an entirely new SEVEN•
by ir"TAL. GRAND PIANO-FORTE, expressly ma-
i, Messrs. Collard and Collard, and forwarded
s• Rime and Son, Church-street.
kkk theill!lesda
-411 q( life SCHOOL for SCANDAL, and the
ttada-: ine GLEN.
S), tdaY, tp ',!.IAMLEti and other Entertainments.
it "lfur °7 THE BENEFIT OF MR. DowTON, and his
Aq-14he D
I .0011, GENTLEMAN, CHAOS
ih
and MARY QUEEN of SCOTS.

not a w

he tune.

ktil 441VequeriZe°0LOGICAL GARDENS.
iki,,,oridAe ef the unfavourable state
LA Sept.e WcatsTher
.
lli
tole
_lnltil
.-vr, FRI, TONORIIOW, WE ESDAr,
SSpt•
°and the
q6,--, PTION of MOUNT VESUVIU
\,........:12N of the FIRE-SHIP will take place.
AbNtisstoti—ONt SHILLING.

t TO CORRESPONDENTS. -
le
64
klitrcYkur ress our acknowledgments to. Mr. Christie,
Pcaltely favouring us with a file of American
h`Qt o-g Particulars respecting the Newfoundland
irtht!Ottsteoll shall api ea • in our next, in accordance with
6,4, 6, our esteemed corresi eadent.
hit7l, „I,nres
whir the " infamous hole " in White-
tqlist:c4rwhicli the disgusting publications of the
e ,3°PertiY sold is allowed to be kept open on
'le had better apply to the radical authorities
°II the •
subject.

'4)41 MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1339.
tha
%Itilhaen
ges in the personnel of the Administration,
given rise to some speculation as to the
•rieigns of Ministers, and which we noticed
▪ s°4 last number, appear to us to admit of a
, toet solution,
ueca 0,1.
use it is That Lord Howick leaves the
too Liberal for him is a sugges-
'lA we cannot give one moment's credence.
N 4 r kailew, so long ago as last Easter, and we
44:tance , eial that :ere veryHowick's early acqainted with the cir-
Pe• r h Lordarrogant and aspiring
10gyp of ▪ ad Ci Rae him an object of extreme jealousy to
wr aon 8 tom-rogues. Now, when Mr. Poul ett
4s.ti k was thought worthy of a transatlantic Dicta-
.i
pr," `rage„.,d Mr. Rice of a soaring elevation to the
'ax• le. Was
.not likely that the proud son of the
tlth 'hrat„ hig England would be satisfied with his
°lll ce in the Cabinet ; and it was notorious
exi▪
sting circumstances, he could not be pro-
nif; reason assigned then of his having had a
lt- erence with the Premier is no doubt the
'telA The p •world; and, as
goo), Premier is a man of the
'l4l quarrels with any body in earnest, so he has,
etig h
'Re • difficulty in drawing a bad-tempered per-
tot° _
'No; 4 disagreement whenever it happens to be
‘'t,,,iLortjt
-‘ll --,,nwick left the Government on principle
11 ZI(11-11:e' 11°,11 Will we, for one moment, believe. It
his 014: insult to his common sense, an outrage
11:e -4raeter for understanding and force of mind,
ti:lnaoPe„eted -him of such childish inconsistency.
'llte o.'"° voted for the notorious Appropriation
riciPie, and regretted that he should have
that' in gilled, by principle, to enter, at Lichfield-
' mapl the compact alliance then patched up with
\vile h
eking ad so foully insulted his father,—the
mmoho out-bid his colleagues in the House of
letto, fo
14,L-mcia' tionrs Papist popularity by his over-vehement
the of the Irish Church,—the man who
h ell
Rho` clot, an open question, and said he did so
11,41(141 fished to defeat the Ballot,—that this man
leE4 the left the Cabinet on principle is neither more
teiorian rank absurdity. Temper, my Lord Ho-
aodvr : the spirit of Lord Grey and Lord Dur-
-7e 'e Pride of the Father of Whiggery,—these
*ith
iti se°
.o lir undoing. The imperturbable Premier,
11rti
1% - your er-ways,
-ways, is too much for you. He can
' and, r• ide or goad your wrath just as it pleases
h 4 either
to El to way, he is more than your match.
Le ea.h''')e out the last link that bound Earl Grey
tAT4 Plav The same downward game is still be-
", kw"
si e same losing of supporters from the
akiti7g, them
ue Po ; on at the bottom,—the same sop-
toe. oaths P.sh Cerberus—a sop for each, of his
°44 a, s' Wo F
Yse and Sheil and More errall-
44ant ao.l'peasing with men of the party whom they
Thehints 4 dare notpacify with measures.
vary
l•
'" "e all bue, mysterious hints, of a more liberal
tht.iaoierit mere moonshine. It is very natural, now
the 'enntrviB;tever, and the steam is to be got up in
tiZs,,hoidd
curry
autumn,—it is very natural that
t` • laetio .rry a little favour with the zealots of
iitlt oo
ma
n, the soul-sick and disheartened Radicals.
heol;ves then with with an atom of sense in his brains be-
4bly he °r an instant. Look at the acute Spectator,
a a e'
I:\vi a bt:
lh4 tears away
the flimsy veil, and shows how
nothing, the " earnest reformer"
crew 3 ou
has
ko to. expect from this pelf-seek-
rive re Liberal
revoi„,. measures !—more downward, destruc-
iteet:lhtleoltif e:.,."LuirearraYis.measures. Mighty fine talking,
Much cry but little wool. In the
th'ted etir:-°llse of Commons, that has already re-
tit b 'el. Your liberalism—of a House of Lords,
No °rile
cl,_ll`e tit I?3' the plainly spoken voice of the
‘."Avarting and defeating your nefarious
(414 mes with
f try . a grown and growing majority in the
re, -16411'1st
from
leve with worse after worse reports
)Itla 4.lilt;tYli"ceeeYd°illll; Registration—with an absolute
Your at
an appeal to the Constituencies would
•ty—
ji talk of
rlgioule combination in a hopeless minori
:no:tilers are re active measures ! The philosophical
are' and always have been, the greatest and
tradi e fools in En land ; but we suspect you
" upon, their g
simplicitylittle
Dl/4e real a too far.
140 t e„sling 5 ealllng of all this is quite obvious. Every
''teir —light the best terms for himself. The tail
pay' rhe English Radicals deserved little,

and" they have got less. The Whigs think they may
cheat them and laugh at them just as they like. Every
one makes himself snug in his own berth, and cares
or his neighbour. And so the confederacy
goes along for the present.
But as these changes are not at all calculated to
raise them in the good opinion of the public, and most
assuredly not to facilitate the internal movements of
the crazy machine, we think the speculations upon
them are rather to be regarded as a harmless pastime
for a natural curiosity, or an enlivening interlude in
this dull period of the' Recess, than as any serious
inquiry into the prospects of our Church and country.
They will serve as a toast at Liberal meetings, wherever
such assemblages can still be scraped together ; and
probably their better health and better manners will,
even in these choice gatherings, be oftenest toasted to

Here 's to them all, great ones and small,
Who promise so much, but do nothing at all.

The contest which has just terminated at Manches-
ter is full of the most auspicious interest. Day after
day some new instance of Ministerial audacity and
turpitude is made known to the world. Week after
week, and year by year, new schemes develop them-
selves, imagined at Derrynane, and carried into prac-
tice in Downing-street. Infidelity, and the unblushing
advocacy of the grossest sensualism and the vilest pro-
fligacy, are selected for marks of what used to be con-
sidered " honour." The Apostle of things that we do
not choose to mention in the pages of this Journal, is
presented by the Prime Minister to the notice of a
Maiden Queen. All things are overturned. Religion,
and loyalty, and decorum are disregarded and de-
pressed. Nameless abominations (for such are the
doctrines to which we have alluded) are promoted and
distinguished. Not that even the Premier can pretend
to honour them, but he has a pleasure in exhibiting to
the world how entirely and completely "he cares for

none of these things."
And there are short-sighted persons who believe that
such things can pass and leave no mark behind them !
But it is not so. There is a bar of public Justice to
which the criminals are sooner or later brought up for
trial. Public opinion sits in judgment. Ever since
the accession of our present Sovereign, in whom and
for whose welfare the liveliest interest is felt from one
end to the other of the Empire, the register of public
opinion has marked down in its blackest characters
the evil doings of the wretched Whigs. Many and
many an honest individual who formerly had little
regard for politics—the father of a family, a husband,
a brother, or a son—has read and heard of the Mel-
bourne influence, and the Normanby intrigues, and
has not heard in vain. The growth of sound opinion
is silent, but sure and steady. It grows in secret,

" Like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen, but crescive in its faculty."

And now, bear witness, Manchester !—once impreg-
nable stronghold of the triumphant Whigs—favoured
focus of Dissent—enemy of agriculture—one-eyed
advocate of blind commercial theory :—bear witness,
regenerate and rescued Manchester, to the certain
progress of sound religious sentiment. The Constitu-
tion of England shall yet be saved from the hands of
those that hate her. " Nothing," said Bolingbroke,
" can destroy the Constitution of Britain but the peo-
ple of Britain."

We have repeatedly had occasion to contradict the
many lying statements put forth by our radical con-
temporaries, on the subject of the treatment of the
Hill Coolies, in British Guiana. WTe have now the
means of rebutting, in the most unqualified manner,
the false and infamous charges brought against the
proprietors of those estates on which the Coolies have
been located. The Times of Saturday and yesterday
has published a long correspondence relative to the
condition of these emigrants. This correspondence
is official, and may, therefore, be appealed to with
some degree of confidence. It consists chiefly of dis-
patches from Governor Light to Loid Glenelg, and the
Marquis of Normanby ; and as Governor Light is
an acknowledged Liberal, we trust that our contem-
porary of the Chronicle, and his radical friends, will
consider his evidence as conclusive on the subject.
In the first of these dispatches, the Governor says that
" the Hill Coolies were accustomed to a marshy soil,
to very low wages, and precarious scanty food ;" and
he then adds—" here they are supplied well, lodged
well, and though on limited wages, in comparison
with the free labourer, yet are as carefully protected
from oppression, and their complaints redressed as
speedily, as those of other labourers." He says that
each gang has a leader, from whom they receive the
work to be done, and interpreters to explain their
wants. He significantly states, that " hitherto they
have been very lightly worked." He had not heard
of a single case of punishment for breach of contract.
It must be borne in mind, that the stipendiary magi-
...

strates are exclusively liberals, and therefore not likely
to show any partiality towards the planters. On the
present occasion we shall only extract one additional
remark from Governor Light's dispatch. He says
that " the Coolies on Mr. Gladstone's property are a
fine healthy body of men, and that he firmly believes
that they possess more means of enjoyment than in their
own country."

The Radicals of Liverpool are straining every nerve
in order to prevent the election of Mr. Peachey to the
office of assistant-overseer. For this purpose they are
resorting to the meanest and most corrupt expedients—
intimidating • those over whom they can exercise any
influence, and lavishing their " secret service money"
in qualifying the besotted and ignorant Papists of the
town to vote. They well know that these Papist
householders are completely under the controul of the
Priests, and that they may be depended upon to "go
the whole hog" with their liberal tax-payers. The
Conservatives of Liverpool Must seriously begin to
bestir themselves, or else these mushroom Popish
voters will completely swamp the constituency, and
neutralize the influence of the respectable classes of
the town. Many of •the voters who presented them-
selves at the Sessions House yesterday, and who went
up to poll for Mr. Eastwood, were of the very lowest
class of Irish Papists, and evidently had their taxes
paid by proxy. Mr. Tinsel Atkinson or Mr. Walmsley
could explain the matter.

Every fresh election affords demonstrative proof of
the steady progress of Conservative re-action through-
out the country. At Manchester the influence of
Liberalism has been almost annihilated. At Cam-
bridge the Conservatives have gloriously triumphed
over their factious opponents. The turncoat Gibson
must now be classed under the category of " rejected
candidates." His only alternative now is, to creep
into Parliament under the wing of O'Connell. At the
last general election, the borough of Cambridge was
contested by a Whig and a Conservative, with the fol-
lowing result
For Mr. Spring Rice
685
Mr. Manners Sutton
595

Whig Majority . . .... 90
At the election which closed on Thursday last, these
numbers were reversed. The final close of the poll
was as follows :
For Mr. Manners Sutton 717
Mr. Milner Gibson

Conservative Majority .. 100

The electors of Cambridge have thus afforded
another proof of the sort of popularity enjoyed by the
petticoat administration. We do not wonder that
Lord Melbourne is reluctant to have recourse to the
expedient of a dissolution of Parliament.

, We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal
Gazette, Despatch, and Standard, to the 2d of August,
inclusive. The news from the island continues to be
of the most gloomy character. The Despatch of Au-
gust 2d furnishes us with some-particulars from vari-
ous parts of the island which are extremely discoura-
ging. A correspondent from Manchester writes—" The
negroes struck work on the 25th ultimo, declaring that
they intend to take several weeks' holidays. This pro-
tracted desertion from labour shows at once that the
negroes are too rich and independent. It is a state of
society which cannot last. Unless we resort to immi-
gration of sonic sort, the cultivation of sugar must be
abandoned in 1841. The export will be quite trifling.
I verily believe the negroes themselves wish that the
cultivation of sugar should be thrown up. Our situa-

tion is dreadful—heartbreaking ; nothing but ruin star-
ing us in the face; the half of the crop allowed to rot
on the ground ; nothing done for next year, and the
pastures in a bush fearful to behold." The accounts
from Clarendon are equally unfavourable. A corre-
spondent from that parish writes—" From what I have
experienced for the last four or five weeks, in conduct-
ing considerable waggonage upon a large pen between
the Mountains and Salt River, suffering from the
breakage and upsetting of carriages, tumbling pro-
duce, Szc., into the gully, &c., I can safely report that
the cattle are allowed to range at large. The first inti-
mation of which we get, is by discovering in the morn-
ing's ride round the estate 100 or 200 head of cattle,
browsing on fine young sprouts, to the total destruc-
tion of next year's crop. Such, I have just heard, is
the case in our neighbouring parish of Vere; but this
is poor consolation. I have just returned from a scene
of this kind, and hastily mention this by post. I an-
ticipate that this August will witness more depreda-
tions than last, in the destruction of property from ne-
glect !" Another correspondent from the same part of
the island states that it is much in favour of the ne-
groes that they have done so well. "We owe every-
thing," he says, "to the natural principles by which
they are influenced, and not to their false teachers."
A petition was in course of signature in the parish of
St. Elizabeth, praying the Assembly to remove the
Stipendiary Magistrates, and for a reduction in the du-
ties on sugar.
Respecting the present condition of the island the
Despatch indulges in the following remarks :—" The
sable population, at the moment we write, are revelling
in the full enjoyment of that licentious liberty which
their misleaders have taught them to prize. They are
celebrating the anniversary of entire emancipation in a
luxurious display of feasting, junketting, and gaudy
dress, and expressing their satisfaction, without a
thought of the future, that they are now free to be as
idle or improvident as they please. For, as ease and
sensual indulgence constitute their happiness, as long
as they have sufficient to feed upon, why should they
trouble themselves to work ? The proprietors, in the
meantime, are looking on with despair at their blighted
hopes of cultivation. They see ruin spreading around
without the power to avert it. They may expend their
capital in vain : they get no remunerative labour !
and whilst they groan under the system of pernicious
prejudice and partiality by which they are oppressed,
they find their characters calumniated, and their proper-
ties and privileges invaded by the sanctified sinners
who prompt the misrule."
The Despatch, while animadverting on the fatuitous
policy of the Home Government, remarks—" Nothing
can be more clear to every rational and thinking mind
than that the policy pursued by the present reckless
ministry is not only injurious to Jamaica and other
British colonies, but to the interests of the nation at
large, and the apathy displayed by our trans-atlantic
fellow-subjects on the dismembering projects in agita-
tion, proves that they are too short-sighted to view
correctly the inevitable consequences which must be
the fatal result. - For, whilst they are coolly contem-
plating the ruin and oppression of the West India
proprietors, they do not calculate that that cruel catas-
trophe will be the forerunner of their own decay, and
that foreign powers, profiting by the insane policy of
fanatic-statesmen and factionists, will build their com-
merce and prosperity upon the wreck of Great Britain's
colonial trade ! By a strange perversity and intellectual
blindness to their own welfare, they are adopting the
same course towards the valuable sugar colonies of the
West Indies which separated the vast continent of
America from the trammels of Britain, and at a moment
when the British colonists by a ruinous concession—
the abandonment of one-third the apprenticeship—en-
deavoured to conciliate their sympathy and regard,
they are actually coercing them into the abandonment
of their estates, and to the investment of their capital
in some other country where they may be secured from
fanatical tyranny and misrule." These remarks on
the ruinous policy of the Melbourne administration are
equally applicable to any other portion of the British
dominions. Under the tutelage of the " Cabinet of
incapables" the whole of the great interests of this once
mighty empire are fast sinking into ruin. It seems to
be the settled maxim of the " Shabbies" to exalt other
nations as much as possible, and to depress and hum-
ble their own: Such is modern patriotism !
The Jamaica Bill continued to be the source of great
excitement in the island, and great dissatisfaction was
expressed in reference to its provisions. The Jamaica
Standard explicitly states that it was considered even
more objectionable than the Suspension Bill. We quote
the following remarks on the new bill from that
spirited journal :—" In its principle, in the first place,
it is radically bad ; for it goes to invest one individual—
a governor, with the advice and consent of his own
elected council, with the whole power and privilege of
legislation, over free subjects of the British constitution,
which has declared emphatically, and upon a principle—
the first grand point and ingredient in its own composi-
tion,—that without representation there can be no
government : and without such self-elected government
there shall he no taxation This as regards the principle
of the bill, let the conduct of the parties affected by it,
or the eventful operation of the measure, be what it
may. But when we come to view it in all its possible
effects, in the latitude which it opens to any one man,
of exercising authority which only constitutionally
belongs to the three different branches of the state ;
in the incentive to discord and disagreement between
the executive and representative body, as the only
necessary step towards the unlimited sway of the
former : and the too great likelihood, judging of the
future from the past—of such very conduct being
pursued for such unworthy purposes,—we are indeed
lost in that somewhat indescribable feeling which won-
der, detestation, and alarm may be imagined to
produce." These remarks are very just and sensible,
and we believe that they express the opinions of nine-
tenths of the white population of the island.
Whilst speculating upon the celebration of the first of
August, the Royal Gazette exclaims—" While we raise
our voice in gratitude for the liberation of the slave, we
must not forget the thousands who from that morning
were doomed to suffer privation and want. Unfortunate
people, whose all depended upon the labour of a few
domestics, annuitants, widows, orphans, all reduced
from a state of comfort and independence to that of
beggary. This is no fanciful picture—the privations
and wants of many in this city alone afford too melan-
choly proof of the exactness of our statement—and
thousands are ready to come forward and say, we are
ruined !!" It then proceeds to inquire whether the
peasantry are more happy than formerly, and thus
answers the question—" We doubt it much—for while
they are freed from the authority of men, heartburnings
and troubles have been springing up to embitter those
moments which heretofore were devoted to pleasure.
The intoxication of the moment has not yet subsided.
They feel the independence of their present state, and
continuous labour is, therefore, not to be had. The
labourer at the present period conceives that he is con-
ferring a favour on his master to work. In fact it is
so; for, from the prolific nature of our soil, and the
genial showers with which we are blessed, it is notori-
ous, that one day's work in a fortnight will supply an
individual with more provisions than he can consume.
Then where is the incentive to labour ? Again, we
state as a fact which is undeniable, that the negro at
the present time can live on 3s. 4d. currency (2s. ster-
ling) per week ; if then they can make this sum by
labouring one day or one day and a half, what induce-
ment have they to work more ? That the labourer is
over-paid, and that he receives much more than pos-
sibly supply his wants, is too apparent from the
numbers that have visited the town these two last weeks
to purchase good things for this day, and to purchase
fire arms, which are still to be seen, being carried in
numbers into the country."
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt in Kingston
on the 29th of July. Scarcely any damage was done

Mobile,

by it.
There had been a riot at Spring-hill parish, which
was put down by the military. Six of the rioters were
captured.
Several Baptist missionaries had been sued and con-
victed for slander. connected with the slave question.
They were severally fined from £lOOO to £2500.

By the steam-ship Liverpool, Lieutenant Fayrer com-
mander, which arrived on Sunday, we have received
papers from New York to the 24th of August inclusive.
This noble vessel made her outward passage in seven-
teen days and a few hours. She steamed the whole
voyage out nearly, the weather having been too bois-

terous to permit her to make any use of her sails. She
was telegraphed off Holyhead on Saturday afternoon,
at four o'clock, but did Not reach port till the following
morning, in consequence of the heavy gale which blew
during the night. The Liverpool has brought home
between sixty and seventy passengers. We are in-
debted to the kindness of Lieutenant Fayrer for a flip
of New York and other papers.
The news brought by the Liverpool is of very little
importance. The New York papers are chiefly occu-
pied with accounts of the dinners, fetes, and proces-
sions with which Mr. Clay was honoured in his
progress through " the imperial state and city."
A great sensation has been created at Baltimore by
the escape of a nun from the Carmelite Convent. She
is insane, it is said, and has been removed by the mayor
to Washington. The• populace were with difficulty
prevented from demolishing the convent.

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The Yellow Fever was on the increase at Charlestown
and New Orleans. It had also made its appearance at

The boiler of a steam-boat had exploded at New
York and scalded a number of respectable individuals.

An extensive seizure of Yorkshire woollens had
taken place at Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer
gives the following account of the transaction :—" We
learn that itl consequence of information which
transpired a few days since, at New York, a Custom-
house officer came on from that city, yesterday morn-
ing, and seized large consignments of woollen cloths
at a respectable commission-merchant's, in Front-street.
It is but justice to say, that the firm to whom the
goods are consigned are not inculpated in= any fraud
upon the United States revenue, they being merely the
reputed agents and receivers for the purposes of sale.
Rumour gives various amounts as to the value of the
goods seized—from 60,000 to 100,000 dollars. It is,
at any rate, the most extensive seizure ever made in
Philadelphia. The grounds for proceeding on the part
of the Custom-house are said to be, chiefly, making
entries at less than the true value. On dit, that an

importer, for many years a resident of New York, is
among the missing. It is further stated, that two or
three merchants from Yorkshire, who arrived by the
Liverpool, have been arrested in New York on a charge
of being connected with the alleged smuggling." The
same journal, in a subsequent number, adds the follow-
ing particulars :—" The day before yesterday we men-
tioned the seizure by a Custom-house officer from New
York of a large quantity of woollen cloths that had been
consigned to a commisEion house in Front-street. We
regret to be called upon to state that another seizure
of cloths, and to a very considerable amount, which
rumour varies from 60,000 to 90,000 dollars, took
place yesterday at one of the ware-rooms of a Philadel-
importing house—a house that has heretofore done a
very extensive business. We withhold all names for
the present, and trust that the matter will, in the end,
turn out less culpable to the parties implicated than the
first statement would seem to infer. The story is, that
a New York Custom-house officer communicated his
suspicions to the Philadelphia Custom-house—that an
affidavit was made before one of our aldermen, and
warrants granted to search certain premises. On
reaching the principal warehouse of the firm in question,
the suspected goods could not be discovered. A further
inquiry led to the examination of an apartment in
another building, where the cloths were found, seized,
and taken in drays to the Custom-house. It is the
belief of some of our merchants, that a speculation to
the extent of £500,000 sterling in woollen cloths has
been entered into in Yorkshire, for the purpose of
introducing them at reduced duties and under false
invoices into this country—chiefly at New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston. The goods seized here, and
now libelled, are said to form a portion of that great
speculation ; while those lately seized at New York and
Boston constitute other portions."
Advices had been received at New York from Tam-
pico to the first of August. The city of Tampico was
at that time unhealthy. Bustamente entered the city of
Mexico on the 17th of July, and was received, accord-
ing to some accounts, with demonstrations of joy. Every
thing was quiet at Tampico, and business good. Meta-
moras was still considered in a state of siege. News had
been received that General Lemus, with 2006 federal
troops well armed, was at Mondova, on the 24th of
July, and contemplated marching on Monterey, to
attack the Centralists under Canaliz. A letter from
Tampico, dated July 28, says—" After some delay, the
conquering party commenced their system of exactions,
and they are trying to collect new duties on goods im-
ported during the revolt. All the merchants have
protested against this attempt, and the government,
perceiving its injustice, are ready to abandon it. The
merchants are burying their goods. Two conductas
have arrived with two and a half millions of dollars,
and trade seems to resume its former activity. The
sickly season approaches, and purchasers are fearful of
coming to Tampico. If peace continues we may count
on better times."
The Tuscaloosa Flag, of August 8, says that a daring
attempt had been made to burn the capital of Indiana.
From Canada there is very little news. The Morning
Herald of August 28, says—" We understand that the
British commissioners for exploring the boundary are
preparing, and almost ready to begin, their recon-
noisance. We have every reason to believe that this
difficulty will be soon settled amicably."
Bill Johnston, the Canadian " patriot," who had
been arrested at New York a short time since, on his
arrival at Watertown, requested permission to look
after bail, which was granted. He gave the authorities
" leg bail," and has not been seen since.
The Canada papers give a very favourable account of
the crops in both provinces.
On the 17th of August a fire occurred at St. John's.
N. 8., which destroyed one hundred houses ; the total
[oss being estimated at from 500,000 to 800,000 dollars.
The commercial intelligence from New York will be
round in another column. It is, on the whole, of a
favourable nature.

It was currently stated at New York that large
purchases of grain and flour were being made by
speculators, in consequence of the unfavourble
accounts of the harvest in England.

ELECTION OF COLLECTOR OF PARISH-RATES.—On Fri-
day and Saturday, the polling for the election of a Collector
of Parish-rates, in the room of Mr. Glover, resigned, and
which is contested between Mr. Peachey, and Mr. East-
wood, was carried out with much ardour on both sides.
At the close of the poll, on the latter day, Mr. Peachey was
61 persons, and precisely 100 votes a-head of his antagonist.
The contest was resumed yesterday morning, and the exer-
tions made by the Popish priests, and their radical coadjutors,
in bringing up voters for Mr. Eastwood were so great, that
his minority was, at the close, reduced to one person, and
twenty-two votes. Notwithstanding this comparative gain
on the day, no doubt can be entertained, but that Mr.
Peachey will be triumphantly returned, particularly, as we
understand, that his friends intend on this day to rally to the
poll. Though we deprecate the introduction of party in-
terests in a matter of this nature, as the liberals have done
so, the conservatives must do their duty.

EXTRAORDINARY SUN-FLOWER, &C.—Mr. Crawford
surgeon of the Steam-ship Liverpool, has brought home a
dried sun-flower, without, however, the leaves of the flower
itself, of gigantic size. It is of a somewhat pyramidal or
conical form, as large as a min's hat, and broader at the base
or cup, which is nearly flat, and which measures two feet
eleven inches in circumference. The stamen, or stem is pf
proportionate thickness, and is parallel with the base or cup,
the weight of which had probably given it a vertical position.
The whole of this enormous husk is thickly covered with the
seeds of the plant,—many thousands in number. The whole
is of course shrunk from its original bulk in the process of
drying. The plant on which it grew was twenty feet in
height, and such a one would form a noble object in the
pasture, more resembling a tree than a flower. It was, we
learn, procured from an Indian in the interior of the country.
Mr. Crawford has also brought over many beautiful and
curious specimens of several varieties of the gourd. Two of
them are of enormous size, of a smooth yellow surface, and
swelling to a large bulb at one end, and a smaller at the other.
The others are of various forms of fine variegated colours,
notfunlike the speckled hues of the most remarkable species
of the snake.
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATIONS.—We are glad to learn and
we hasten to announce the fact that those two bold champions
of our Protestant faith—the Revs. Hugh M`Neile, and Hugh
Stowell—are about to exchange pulpits for the purpose of ad-
vocating the strong claims which these associations possess,
upon the cordial co-operation of every well wisher to the
community. The period fixed upon for these discourses will
be immediately made known, and we have no doubt they will
produce a beneficial effect.
LICENSING SESSlONS.—Yesterday was the day appointed
for the Magistrates to consider and declare to what appli-
cants licenses for new public-houses should be granted ' - but,
in consequence of the Court-room being occupied by the
rate payers polling for the yet-pending election of Collector
of Parish-rates, contested by Mr. Peachey and Mr. Eastwood,
the Sessions were postponed until Wednesday.
MARTIN'S GRAND PICTURE OF THE CORONATION.—WC
have not yet been able to pay another visit to the Lyceum, and
must therefore defer our promised criticism on this magnifi-
cent painting. We feel assured that the public of Liverpool
will not fail to avail themselves of the opportunity thus offered
for examining and admiring this splendid production, which
far eclipses any thing of the kind that we have ever seen.
DANDY'S PICTURE—THE OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAL.
—Exhibitions are now quite the order of the day in Liver-
pool. Among the most promising and attractive of these we
class the Grand Painting by Danby, which remains on view
at No. 25, Bold-street, for a few days longer. Those who
have not yet seen this sublime production have a treat in
store, such as can be rarely enjoyed. We recommend an
early visit lest the opportunity should pass away.