The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

Difference against Conservatives

And how do we account for this disparity ?
Why, the last year the list was composed of bona fide rate-
payers—this year it had 160 pauper Irish votes from the
neighbourhoods of Lace, Orange, North, Bachelor, and
other similar streets, added to it. In Lace-street alone
about 35 were added.
Take, therefore, the Irish faggot votes .... 160
Deduct the Conservative loss as above .... 51

And we find the Conservatives must have advanced 109 during
this contest above what they did last year.
Or thus,—ln 1810, when Mr. Sands was elected by a ma-
jority of 30, the Conservatives polled only .. 199
This year, although beaten, thzy have polled .. 304

Showing nearly the same result lO5
This addition to the Conservative ranks was overborne,
as before observed, by the wholesale manufacture of Protector
votes. The fact is, that the chance of success was nearly as
hopeless as in Vauxhall Ward, which was at once abandoned,
and it required no small courage in determining to contest
the Ward at all.

This explanation will satisfy those persons who were unac-
quainted with the peculiar circumstances of the ward that
here the Conservatives were not behind their fellow-men in
endeavouring to rid the Town Council of its Radical occu-
pants, although unsuccessful, through the frauds upon the
franchise made use of by their opponents.—
"'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
ONE OF THE COMMITTEE.
Liverpool, 2d Nov., 1841.

SEMI-THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

STANDARD

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL

SIR,—An advertisement appeared in your Tuesday's pub-
lication, headed " Clerical Domestic Association," being a
prospectus issued by our respected, active townsman, Mr.
Joseph Crisp. I hail under that covering the embryo of a
valuable institution, and have suggested above a better de-
signation, which in part explains its own objects. It will
perhaps be found more useful and acceptable to relinquish
the leading features of a club-house, and approximate more
towards the character of a library of reference, public library,
and newsroom. Suitable domestic accommodation can al-
ways be found ; but it must be confessed that there is not a
public library in our good old town—notwithstanding its
growing importance, its high moral tone, and its excellent
political complexion—worthy of being so styled, which is
accessible to the public, either rich or poor, unless they be-
come bona fide proprietors, and which also require annual
subscriptions to maintain or keep them a-going. It perhaps
will be found, notwithstanding a few disclaimers, that the
principle of a joint-stock company is decidedly the best for
establishing even an institution of this kind, as it forms a
species of contribution of the many towards one object, and
in case of failure the loss is not felt.

The following is intended as an amendment to Mr. Crisp's
intended institution, and it is only an outline, to be expanded
or compressed at pleasure. Then let our institution consist
of a valuable library, chiefly of a theological character, but
not exclusively so : for instance, let it contain all the books
enumerated by Bickersteth, in his " Christian Student," as
the " Minister's Library"--all the old standard divines, and
also the best writers on history, ancient and modern—the
best moral and political economists—together with other
works of a more miscellaneous character, both curious and
useful, not omitting any of the periodicals deemed standard.
A spacious room to adjoin the library, for the sole use of the
readers of the library, which also must be a circulating one.
This room would be the resort of young men, eminent for
that peculiar characteristic " salt "—i.e., genuine Christi-
anity. " Iron sharpeneth iron." Kindred spirits coming
in contact, who can tell what benevolent efforts, concentra-
ted and united, would be made to regenerate the world ! At
all events, it would be useful with growing numbers, would
cause many to serve their generation, to say nothing of the
refreshment and relaxation it would at all times afford. Ad-
joining this room there might be one of smaller dimensions,
to be exclusively devoted to clergymen and others ; and un-
derneath, the general newsroom.

The next question hid, only remains to be answered, is,
wherewithal, are the means ? 'The answer is, a joint-stock
company to be formed—say 500 shares, to be disposed of at
£lO per share, making £5,000; and should this sum he in-
sufficient, say more. Proprietors to have a free ticket, and
also a nomination. Say open to the public at £1 ls. per
annum ; nominees, half subscription price. From these two
sources sufficient funds would be derived to maintain the
institution in wear and tear, &c., and perhaps some small
overplus, to be divided among the proprietors.
This is only a random sketch, thrown together in haste.
As it is a matter of great usefulness, it perhaps only requires
bringing it prominently before the public, or those that " sit
in the gate," or those " whose lips keep knowledge," in
order to its establishment. The writer cannot help thinking
that the public are entitled to the establishment of a public
library, of a general character, out of the public local funds ;
and this is a fit subject of consideration in the " Improve-
ment Committee," involving more usefulness than the pull-
ing down of walls and building others, or even parks, or
washhouses, or matters of that character.
The insertion of this will not perhaps be without its use,
and will oblige your very obedient servant,_

AMATO R DOCTRINAL

Liverpool, Nor. 4, 1841

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday night last,
at Crewe Station, Mr. Lowe, a highly respectable solicitor of
Nantwich, in stepping from the railway carriage within some
four or five yards of the stopping place, unhappily missed his
footing and fell with his back across the rails. A female in
the next carriage heard him cry " 0, Lord God," and in
another instant the wheel passed over his shoulder, and across
his bead, crushing it, according to the description of a by-
stander, just as if it had been a basket. The train was stop-
ped without difficulty, and the unfortunate man was found
lying between the carriages : it is not supposed that more
than one wheel passed over him. His head was smashed to
atoms, and one shoulder nearly severed from his body. His
death must have been instantaneous.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening
last, as the train from London was leaving the Hartford sta-
tion for Liverpool, Mr. Phillips, the celebrated professor of
music, who had got out of the carriage for sonic purpose was
making the best of his way back to the carriage he had left,
when the signal for starting was given, and Mr. Phillips,
evidently in confusion, made a sudden spring at the carriage,
but his feet slipped, and he had only time to save himself
from falling, by grasping the middle step of the carriage.
The passengers inside the coach caught hold of him, and
Rickards, the guard, came to his assistance instantly. Rickards
would have succeeded in pulling him away without serious
injury ; hut Mr. Phillips kept his hold of the step, and, his
legs slipping across the rails, one wheel of the carriage went
over them. Rickards then dragged him away ; but such was
the injury he received, and the shock together, that he never
spoke afterwards. This is the first fatal accident that has
occurred since the opening of the Grand Junction line in
1837.

FORTUNE AMASSED BY A MENDICANT.—An old woman,
who has withstood the cold ❑orthern blasts of more than 70
winters, named Mary Horner, emigrated from this town
(Knaresborough) to America, last Spring, on account of the
depressed state of the times. This circumstance created
much surprise amongst those who knew her, she to all ap-
pearance having to combat against hard fortune in all its
hideous forms, invariably living on what she gained by ask-
ing charity, and had from time almost immemorial received
a small weekly allowance from the neighbouring township of
Plimpton, where she belonged, and on her departure she was
presented with £5 to assist her in her Atlantic expedition.
From intelligence lately received, this trip across the vast
ocean seems to have acted powerfully on the system of the
old lady, who is now no longer a beggar, for immediately on
her arrival in the new world, she shook off the hapless mask
of misfortune, purchased a small estate, whereon she erected
a comfortable dwelling, where she now leads a happy life in
the midst of plenty, her means drained as charity from a
generous and feeling public at Knaresborough.—Hali fax

-Guardian.
ABUSE OF THE CHURCH CLERGY.—No reader can be
ignorant that for many years past the bete: noires of the
Whigs and Radicals were what they delighted to call political
parsons. If the clergyman was a magistrate, he was libelled
as a political parson, if he voted at an election, he was hooted
as a political parson ; if he presided at a vestry that levied a
church rate, he was persecuted as a political parson. The
" character of a Christian minister" was, we are told, incon-
sistent with the exercise of any political opinion •, nay, Chtian charity was alleged to be so peculiarly obligatory; ornisa-
ooreraatliulosr;
clergyman, that lie ought not to censunoriesnheern,isthefneeirtioiF
ob
ne
ec
ua because si en thatthe repressionwas t o condemn
or p
punishment
crime, be-
cause the c
gospel ought to have taught hinl
benevo-
lence, But, observe, this deaf and du
imposed on the clergy of the establishedhc 1: a r
Sectarian
s
ministers were honoured and applauded for the very opposite
qualities and conduct—the Irish priest, who pronounced po-
litical anathemas from the altar, and led ferocious mobs to
trueth
faith—the
dissenting a n
beral apostle of the
in-
trigues of political agitation,astor, who made his pulpit a tri-
bunal of political libel and mixed
was a
rhimselfevered inan adl 1p theatr i lowe tie
di_
vine ; and " Christiancharity and forbearance" was, in their
cases, interpreted to mean the meddling in every political
feud or parochial squabble—the calumniating everybody and
everything connected with the Established church—the or-
ganising oppositions to legal rights and invasions of legal
property—and in short committing wholesale and in the
gross, a thousand times more of every kind of political task-
work than the worst libellers had ever imputed to the most
intemperate "political parson." All this is notorious in
every corner of the country •, but well prepared as we there-
fore were to hear of the individual interference of this class
of persons in the late agitation, we were not so for the effron-
tery of the Manchester Conference, composed, we are told,
of some 650 dissenting ministers, who, forgetful of that
" Christian charity" and "those sacred functions" of which
they were so fond of reminding the clergy of the Established
Church, erected themselves into a POLITICAL convocation,
whence they promulgated in behalf of their friends, the late
Ministry, the grossest dogmas of nonsense and falsehood
with, indeed, the most rancorous spirit—but with such
igno-
rance, vulgarity, inconsistency, and stupidity, that
fortu-
nately, their interference did more good to the conservative
cause than their most sanguine malevolence could have hoped
to do mischief. At this formidable assemblage of the elite
of dissenting churches was, after three ridiculous sittings,
dissolved by its own internal dissensions, amidst the derision
soufravlilvethde: rN‘eset
hope, fora
efowr.oarltdime,Otoneheaanrd orantrleronlleyss abuse o
effect has
' political parsons ?"—Quarterly Review.

cat 24

.es of Grain, for the week ending Oct. 29, 1841.
I Barley 31s. 7d. Oats..22s. Oct. I Rye.. 398. Od
Beans.. 40s. 4d. I Pease.. 38s. Bd.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
d. Barley 335. 2d. I Oats.. 215.11 d. I Rye.. 378. 6d
Beans.. 40. i. 11d. I Pease.. 39,.. 10d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, Sze. this week.
Barley 12s. 4th Oats . 15s. 3a. I Rye.. 14s. Oa
I . Pease.. 1 Is.od. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour 14s. 10

to from British Colonies out of Europe.
id. I Barley.. 2s. tid. I Oats .. 2s. ud. I ktye.... 3s. od
Pease.. 3s. I Indian Corn.. us. Od. I Flour.. 3s. Od .

Liverpool Averages, week ending Nov. 2. 1841.
I Wheat. Br 1 Oats. Beans. Pease.
545 34 43
. 565. 11d. 2Ss. 3d. 225. 4d. Os. 9(1. Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON

MARKET, 3 P.M.

Flat and tame as our market has been throughout the
•eek, to-day it is, if possible, much more so ; very few buy-
own, and the business does not exceed 1500 to 2000 bales.
The weekly sales are 18,590 bales, of which 200 bales are
n speculation, and 1000 to export.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER s.—Wind South.
ED.—Henrietta, Luchies, from Rotterdam—Virginia, from
Euphemia, Jamieson. from Newfouedland—Mermaid,
•

erell, from Cephalonia—Nancy, Milier, from Bordeaux—Stadt
1, Shin, from Danzic—Kate & Jane, Jacobs, and Petrus Lu-
is, Kagsis, from Rotterdam—Ambassador, from Odessa-
-I.w, from Denia—Pet, Shotten, from Bordeaux—Fortuna,
*dt—and Virginia. from Lisbon.
-,ravEn.—Yarmouth, from Plymouth—Helen, Sheil, from
'antilus, Johnson. and Jasper, Davies, from Newcastle
Gowan ; Edith, Wells ; Fawn, Cutts ; Knight,
-es, Frell, from Portsmouth—Glendower, Ed-
lpe ; Boadicea Evans; Susan, Jones; John
Ellis ; Newport, Dawson ; Mary ; Truant ;
Sampson, from London—Reindeer, Head,
is. Williams, from Dublin.

—Norfolk Dass

and Cc
Wasp,

Aurora, from Siorra. Leone—Duchess of Port-
-Octorara, from Puiladelphia—Mearns, from
m St. Petersburg—Village Girl, from Monte
rndalk—and Friends' Increase, from Ipswich.

dlet, hence at Scilly, leaky, and sailed

h Oct. for New.

Mary, Olgcr, and Alexander, Bergeson, hence at Scilly,

ina, Henderson, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool 27th Oct
ilda. Turner, hence at Genoa, lost bulwarks
n German, Cumming, hence at Laguira
a Killick, Davies, hence at Laguira
:and Bell, hence at Antigua
e, Collins; Queen Victoria, Phillips, and Spinster, Coign-

in. hence at Barbadoes

from Oporto to Newfoundland, was spoken 26th Oct.

Vincent,henee to St. Vincent, was spoken let instant; in lat

leer, Losh, and Voludteer, Robinson, hence at Berbice
ir of Bray, Seymour, and Wm. Carey, Glenday, hence at Rio

Neptune, M'Donald, hence and Rio Janeiro, at Valparaiso
PLYMOUTH, 3D Nov.—The Gannett, from Malta to this port, was
oken 11th ult , off Cape Trafalgar, with cargo heated.
H. M. S. Orestes, (18,) from Valparaiso. at Portsmouth, with
i:35,000 dollars, on freight ; sailed 2;th July, and from Rio Janeiro
th Sept. 30th Sept., in let. 7 N.. long. 28 W., spoke the John
Impbell, from Africa to this port, On 7th Oct., in lat. 21, long.
spoke the Lauriston, from this port to Trinidad.

Charles O'Malley. Webb, Liverpool

This charming and amusing publication continues as
attractive as ever. We have several old acquaintances brought
under our notice again, and our gallant dragoon we find en-
gaging once more in the hazardous game of war. A laugh-
able mistake is narrated in capital style. The period at which
the number most provokingly breaks off is during the Duchess
of Richmond's ball at Brussels, where the gay, the chivalrous
and the beautiful were assembled, previous to the battle of

ORRID MURDER NEAR ESCRICK.—It is Our painful duty

record one of the most brutal and atrocious murders that
AS ever disgraced humanity, which was committed near
scrick, Yorkshire. The person by whom the bloody deed
as perpetrated is a farmer named Taylor, and the victim
ho has fallen a sacrifice to his brutality is his wife. The

following are particulars of this transaction :—Some time ago
Taylor separated from his wife and came to York, where he
resided for some time with a woman named Garbutt. He
vent to Hull with the woman, and took with him £6OO. He
pt a beer-shop at that place, where he was soon involved
difficulties. Taylor afterwards took refuge in the house
iere his wife and family resided, and his wife conducted
rself most affectionately towards him ; his demeanour
tried to be changed, which continued up to the time when
e bloody deed was committed. On Tuesday morning last
iylor's sons and servants went out as usual to work in the
Ids, leaving the father and mother at home ; the sons and
rvants returned home to dinner, and on opening the door
most awful spectacle presented itself. Mrs. Taylor was
:rosy the hearth, the blood oozing from her mouth and
, and the lower part of her dress, as far as her waist,
ff. On examining her it was thought that some sign
emained. A surgeon was immediately sent for. On
rival he said that the woman was dead, and that she
een. strangled. On examining the house, it was dis-
ed that a quantity of silver had been taken from a
xer by the murderer. Taylor shortly afterwards made
appearance, and from his confused manner he was taken
custody. On searching him, a quantity of silver, agree-
with that lost, was found upon him.
CURIOUS OCCURRENCE.—A few days since M. de Maur-
a rich stranger sojourning for a short period in the
ipital, i❑ passing through the Champs Elysees,
)r some time in front of a booth to watch the move-
sarimbanque, when an individual standing within
distance

lying ac

_f him cried out, "Au voleur." The next
moment he pointed out to some police agents standing near
him two young men stationed by his side, whom he accused
of relieving him of a purse of 22 gold pieces. The accused
parties were immediately searched, but nothing was found
moon them. Their appearance was, besides, extremely un-
like that of professional thieves, and the person robbed
immediately caused them to be released, with every apology

for the false arrest. Upon returning to his hotel M. de
Maurviecourt, when he undressed, felt soniethir, heavy in

s, and, feeling- with his hand, drew forth from.one

of his

sirt-pockets of-his coat a purse containing the iden-
tical 22 napoleons. of which one of the two robbers had thus
ingeniously disembarrassed himself at the critical moment of
liscovery. In addition to the money, M. de Maurviecourt
ortunately found in the purse a small note addressed to its
wrier, and repaired immediately to that person's domicile,
property, storing the abstracted and frankly avowing how
uch he would have felt
'
barrassed if, at the moment
lenrobbery was effected,the
t
transpired that he had
-some the receiver ntalgrelui lam's.
?.XPOSITION OF CRIMINALS.— REVOLTING SCENE.—A
ntpelier paper has the following
n ELccount of the exposition
so criminals named Tozolli andßruzi at the Place de la
of burglary. Bruzi,
)rgue in that city, for the crime
iptryession, and presented
e face was utterly devoid of expression,
,cnoever ceased laugh-
e characteristics of brutal stupid
nitahion misfortune.
id gibing his companion upon their
e utmost exas-
ociferatioos.
'i, on the contrary, was in a state of
n, which manifested itself by threateni
ids, canailles de Montpelier!" he :IN
throaatimed,
k one day to cut all your rascally "I'll
-elping hounds ? If 1 had only a sabre D;
you
,ow I would massacre them!" Bruzi laughing my
,tale, he exclaimed, You laugh, ru:t
_ne republic come—and its reign approaches. i.
wernment of brigands that got me condemned wont
; let the republic come, and then you will know
..r I am a man to keep my word, and see myself re-
ed !" All these vociferations were accompanied by the
.ost horrible oaths, in a mixed jargon of French and Italian.
rozolli's imprecations were especially vented against a for.
trier accomplice of his, named Nunn Raymond, who declined
to give his evidence according to Tozolli wishes. Raymond
having turned king' s•s
evidence, and being pardoned accord-
ingly, Tozolli protested that he had been made the victim of
the other's perjury, and vomited forth upon this text a thou-
sand blasphemies.

ast long

You have heard of the " eight millions," reader. " There
are eight millions of us" exclaims O'Connell upon every
opportunity. Eight millions of Itomanists, bound down in
chains of iron, &c., &c. The census of the three kingdoms
has just been taken, and it appears,by the official return,
that of men, women, and children in Ireland, there are alto-
gether just eight millions, three hundred and Jive thousand,
three hundred and eighty-two !

vatives

Radical candidates—Raine 100, Holmes 98, Thexton 88,
Hudson 80, Busher 68, Braithwaite 67.

This is the first time the conservatives have made a con-
test.

BEDFORD

Seven conservatives returned in the place of seven radicals
going out ; so completely destroyed is radicalism in Bedford.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS

Six conservatives elected without opposition in the room of
six retiring radicals. The retiring whig aldermen will not
be re-elected. This will give the conservatives their first
majority in the council.

Six conservatives have been elected to the Town Council;
thus, in a borough which was disgraced by a council exclu-
sively taken from the radical list, not one radical can now
obtain a seat in the council.
SOUTHAMPTON.

Liberal politics in this region have fallen below zero.
Thirteen Conservatives have been elected and not one Li-
beral

THE EXCHEQUER-BILL AFFAIR,

EXAMINATION AT THE MANSION-HOUSE OF ONE OF THE
PARTIES CHARGED WITH HAVING BEEN CONCERNED

IN ISSUING TILE FORGED EXCIIEQUER-DILLS.
On Wednesday, an Italian of the name of Ernest Ra-
pallo, who is described as a stock-broker, was brought up
before Alderman Wilson, at the mansion-house, charged with
having been a confederate with Mr. Beaumont Smith in is-
suing false and fabricated bills, purporting to be exchequer-
bills, to a heavy amount.
The chief clerk in the office of Mr. Maule, the secretary of
the treasury, appeared for the prosecution ; and the following
deposition, taken before Mr. Hall, the magistrate, at the
treasury, was produced in evidence against the accused.
Ernest Rapallo being cautioned as to what be might say,
stated as follows :-1 became acquainted with Mr. Beaumont
Smith a great many years ago. I introduced a gentleman to
him, with whom he became very intimate. His name was
Salari. He was a kind of broker. Mr. Salari died about a
year ago, and about that time I came direct in contact with
Mr. Smith about the exchequer-bills, at which time I took
the management of a certain speculation which I had been
on, but was left with all the heavy part of the business after
Mr. Salari's death.
I received from Mr. Smith Wiese exchequer-bills to
carry on the speculation. The last time I received any is
about a fortnight ago. He called at my office in the city.
To the best of my recollection there were 81 bills at £l,OOO
each. I cannot speak positively to the number, but I think
about that number. They were placed in my hands for the
purpose of raising money on them. I asked him if he could
do anything for me in the regular way, and he came to me
and brought them.
The only particularity with him was his request to have
the same number returned to him.
1 knew what situation Smith held.
I knew the bills were not his his property.
I did not consider it was my business to ask him whether
it was a regular thing. It never occurred to me that it was
an irregular thing. Smith was so far concerned in the spe-
culation that he furnished me with the means of carrying it
2 , on. He was to have a portion of the profits in the event of
I success.

Smith has lodged exchequer bills from time to time with
Mr. Salari, which I knew, and after his death I considered
it an established thing.
I applied to Smith and asked him if he could assist me to
pay for Spanish bonds. He came to my office with a parcel,
and asked me how I was going on. I told him I was going
on well, and then it was he gave me the exchequer bills which
I last received ; after which I raised money upon them, with
which I paid for the Spanish stock.
Several of the bills are now in the hands of Mr. Mariner.
I never paid him money upon the bills.
I knew Smith had nothing but exchequer bills to give
me. Any transactions that took place previous to the one I
have mentioned were of a similar nature.
Several such transactions have taken place, and all within
a year. _

1 should at all hazards have sold stock to redeem the
exchequer bills.
Smith demurred sometimes on lending me as many bills as
I have asked him for.
Smith was particular in having the bills returned at a
given time.
I can't say how many bills are now in Mariner's hands.
I know he must have a good many.
Mr. Morgan, another broker, knew what was going on.
I knew when the bills must be paid, which was when the
advertisement appeared.
The most transactions of this sort I have had with Smith
can only be three, and the last was the greatest in amount.
I have returned all the bills I have received from Smith. I
should say he never transacted such business with any one
but myself.
I had deposits made in my hands before Salari's death.
The last return was between £lOO,OOO and £200,000, which
was in June last; and the one in March was about the same
amount.

I should think the two exchanges amounted to upwards of
£200,000. Since the June exchange there would be about
£131,000.
I always wrote to Smith, when I wanted the bills, to the
Exchequer-office.
I was always of opinion that the bills furnished to me by
Smith were bond fide good ones.
(Signed)
Taken before me, T. J. Hall,
Justice of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex, Oct., 1841.
A long discussion subsequently took place as to the power
of the magistrate to commit upon this evidence, or even to
detain the prisoner in custody ; but it was ultimately decided
that the evidence was sufficient to warrant his detention,
and he was therefore remanded until twelve o'clock yester-
day, when the government solicitor undertook to be prepared
to prove the fact of the forgeries.
The London Tins, s of yesterday has the following remarks
on the influence which this disgraceful affair has upon the
money market
It is rather singular that amidst all the discussion to
which this affair of the spurious Exchequer-bills has given
rise, no notice has been taken of the influence which, beyond
all doubt, they must have had upon the current transactions
of the money-market, and upon the value of money itself.
Yet this is a very important and curious feature of the ques-
tion. It is a known fact amongst the higher monetary cir-
cles, that the excessive rates of interest not only paid, but
voluntarily offered, by the persons who wished to borrow
money on Exchequer-bills, gave a fictitious value to
money, which caused a very great deal of misunder-
standing and ill-feeling amongst capitalists, especially
those residing in the country, and who therefore were less
able to ascertain the real state of the case. These, hearing
that money had been advanced on such an unexceptionable
security as Exchequer-bills—a security which has generally
obtained the lowest rate of interest—and that as much as 6
or 7 per cent. had been paid for it, were naturally dissatisfied
when they were offered only 3 or 4 per cent., and were less
disposed to give accommodation on mercantile paper. A
city discount-house, of the highest eminence, received no
less than 50 letters within the last six weeks, containing
complaints that the money of the writers was not put out at
a higher rate, though there is no doubt that it was employed
to its full legitimate value. Thus has this unfortunate
affair not only caused the greatest embarrassment to govern-
ment, and the greatest confusion among all parties con-
nected with the Exchequer-bill market, but the general
money-market, and the value of commercial paper, has had
its share of the influence, and is mixed up in the embarrass-
ment."

E. RAPALLO

LOSS OF THE BARQUE AMANDA OF LIMERICK

(From the Limerick Standard.)
It is with deep regret that we record to-day the wreck of
this fine vessel, the property of our fellow-citizen, George
Williams, Esq., attended with the loss of forty-one lives.
She left this port on the 22d of August last with emigrants,
and was driven ashore off Metis, on the 26th September, and
totally lost. The greater portion of the crew and passengers
took to the boats, which soon swamped, and all were lost ;
the captain, some of the crew and passengers, who were left
on the wreck, were saved. The following we take from the
Quebec Mercury of October 5 :-
4' SHIPWRECK OF THE BARQUE AMANDA.—FORTY-
ONE LIVES LOST.—In the Gazette of Friday last we in-
formed our readers that Captain Buchanan of the ship Scot-
land, had seen off Metis a ship on shore, which, to all .
Price and Co., of this city, from
ap-
pearance was a total wreck. Yesterday morning the sub-
joined melancholy confirmation of that report was received
havey been favoured with the following extract :
winhaicil
we,
" METIS, 29T11 SEPTEMBER, 1841.-4 have to inform
you of the loss of the barque Amanda, Captain Davis, from
Limerick, which came on shore at Little Metis Point, at five
b Messrs. W
o'clock, on the 26th instant. She had forty passengers, and
a crew of eighteen. The captain, two seamen, and two ap-
prentices were amongst those saved. Male adults lost eleven
—female adults lost twelve,otal adults twenty-three.
Children lost six.—Total passengers lost twenty-nine. Total
crew lost 12."

The demise of the Bishop of Kilmore creates no vacancy
on the episcopal bench at the see, but merges into that of
Elphin.
On Tuesday week last, two horses, which had escaped from
a field through a gate which had beenmost improperly left
open, strayed on to the North Union Railway, and while
there, the mail train came up, and they were killed upon the
spot. One of them was absolutely eut in two.

Mr. O'Connell having subscribed the requisite declaration,
took his seat in the chair, and was received with loud and
prolonged cheering. He rose and said that lie feared he was
violating his pledge of impartiality by permitting that ebulli-
tion. It was his first fault, and he hoped it would be the last,
for he should endeavour by his conduct as Lord Mayor to
palliate, if he could not justify, the elogium of his friends,
and would endeavour to show that voting against him was a
mistake. (Loud cries of hear, hear.) He thanked Alderman
Butt for the inoffensive mailer in which he had conducted
his opposition, and he assured him it would be his pride to
imitate his conduct while in that chair. He then proceeded
to call the attention cf the Corporation to the duties they have
to perform, and to state the principles by which he meant to
guide his conduct as Lord Mayor. He said he intended to
abolish the practice of " private hearings" of cases at the
Mansion-house, and in future to conduct every judicial pro-
ceeding openly and publicly. (Hear, hear.) He meant to
admit to freedom of the city as heretofore by the right of

birth and servitude, and he would also sanction the claim in

consequence of marriage. He pledged himself to preserve
the strictest impartiallity in the discharge of the functions of
the office entrusted to him, and impressed on the various mem-
bers of the corporation the necessity of ascertaining the nature
of the duties they had undertaken, and of paying strict at-
tention to their discharge.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-MONDAY

(Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)