The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS

To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the
following is the necessary qualffication, namely :
" The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and
during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse,
counting-house, or shop, within the borough, for which
the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon,
except those becoming due within six months before the
31st, have been paid before that date."

The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe-
riod, (say two years and nine months) have been an in-
habitant householder within seven miles of the borough.
The day on which claimants' qualifications must be
completed, and the last day for payment of rates, is the
31st of August. The sth of September is the day on
which the overseers are required to make out the burgess
lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to
fix a copy of them on the Town-hall, during the week
preceding the 15th of September.
A person succeeding to the occupation of a house, 4-c.,
by descent, marriage, demise, 4.c., is entetied to reckon
Qs his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or
through whom he succeeds.

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

The letter of " A•Reformer" shall appear on Tuesday

Crbe Kiimpooi g9tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1840

We have received a copy of the Sydney Commercial
Journal of the 25th of March. It adds very little to
the news already received from New South Wales.
There was little alteration noted in the markets. The
supplies of. wheat were rather limited—settlers sending
only such quantities to market as could be turned to
cash, to meet their immediate wants. The first quality
of flour was selling at 355. to 40s. per 100Ibs. The
four pound loaf of bread was selling for one shilling
and sixpence. Itice was in great demand, and large
parcels had been purchased on speculation, in antici-
pation of a dearth and scarcity of wheat.

The mischievous career of the Irish mendicant is
still winked at by a degraded and anti-national minis-
try, and becomes daily more undisguisedly treasonable.
The cry of "Justice to Ireland or Repeal" has given
place to the more insolent demand of " Repeal or Se-
paration"—a parliament in College-green, or a French
alliance and an independent sovereignty for Ireland.
And yet we are coolly told by every Whig oracle
throughout Great Britain of the " unexampled tran-
quillity" of that portion of the empire, and assured
by the Lord Lieutenant himself, in an address to the
citizens of Cork, that parliament and her Majesty's
government are endeavouring by their measures to
" cement the bonds of legislative union, and render
Ireland at once the brightest gem in the imperial
crown, and the strongest bulwark of the united em-
pire !"

But let us look more in detail at the superlative
impudence of the actors in this conspiracy to effect
the dismemberment of the empire,—from Father
Hughes to the Popish Bishop of Galway—from Daniel
O'Connell to her Majesty's representative, the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.

And first we may inquire what are the relative po-
sitions of the demagogue and the Lord Lieutenant—
of Daniel and Viscount Ebrington. The former is
the ruler of her Majesty's government : in him that
despicable crew " live and move and have their being."
The latter is the puppet set up by these imbeciles to
be worked by the great impostor for the gratification
of his breechless satellites. O'Connell is, de facto, the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Lord Ebrington only the
Lord Lieutenant travestie—" a tool a knave doth work
with." The former, after starring it in London since
February, has returned to the Irish capital, to perform
a little serious drama upon his own proper dunghill ;
and, " bearing no brother near his throne," has or-
dered his meaner prototype forthwith to quit the scene
of his usurped dignity, and content himself with en-
acting farce, in the provinces. Accordingly we find
O'Connell busily sowing the seeds of rebellion in
Dublin—attending repeal breakfasts in Mayo, Caitle-
bar, &c.—scraping together the repeal rent—organi-
sing repeal corporations—and preparing the hordes of
traitors and ruffians, who dance or shed blood at his
bidding, with weapons to strike at the throat of Great
Britain, so soon as a foreign enemy or a dissolute
ministry shall have succeeded in tying up her hands,
and presenting her powerless to the assassin's blow;
whilst the Lord Lieutenant is spouting his maudlin
praise of teetotalism to the patriots of Cork, and exhi-
biting the readiness with which a whig nobleman can
shut his eyes and ears in broad daylight, amidst the
agitation of incipient rebellion, so long as he is allowed
to nestle amid the downy cushions and the gingerbread
paraphernalia of a mock throne.

Such being the relative positions of these twin lumi-
naries, let us see how their joint treason is working.
The demagogue, it is well known to every man, wo-
man, and child throughout her Majesty's dominions,
has declared that he will never allow agitation to cease
in Ireland until repeal of the Union is carried. Lord
Ebrington, so long ago as 1833, has declared that he
considered " a repeal of the Union to be A VIRTUAL
DISMEMBERMENT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, which
would involve Ireland in ruin in the first instance, and
would afterwards involve England in the same ruin
too." A more candid speaker on the subject, Father
Hughes, informs us that " O'Connell's continuous
doctrine of non-separation is now becoming both ludi-
crous and mischievous ! " and that were the Irish
priesthood to cease to hold out to the people the hope
of their being an independent nation, " at that moment
they forfeit their influence, lose the confidence of their
flocks, and, in case of a national eruption, that their
anathemas, as well as their pastoral admonitions, will
descend on the Irish people—to use the language of
the late Doctor Doyle—' as a spent thunderbolt.' "

The agitatbr himself, startled at this bold language,
affects, in his speech at Galway, to repudiate the idea
of " separation"; but, in the very next sentence of
that speech, he proceeds to prove that Ireland is, from
her insular position, peculiarly able to assert and
Maintain her independence as a separate nation. But
let us give the impostor's own words :

I am for the continuance of the connexion, even to the
death, if necessary—(cheers) ; but I declare that while I
shall never be an advocate for separation, I shall never relax
for one moment in my efforts for repeal. (Loud cheering.)
I have many instances to show, where those nations are only
separated from powerful neighbours by an imaginary line,
drawn, as if with a piece of chalk, upon a map—there is no
hour of the twenty-four in which those nations might not be
attacked upon every point of their frontiers, by troops poured
from the dominions of their powerful neighbours ; but here
we have a compact and sea-girt isle, assailable, it may be
on two or three points at once, not more—while its own
compactness renders the movements of its forces so easy,
that in a few hours troops could be marched from Galway to
Dublin, or thence to Galway, if either were attacked, which
would be sufficient to drive the enemy into the sea, if they
dared to make a descent upon our shores. (Hear, hear, and
loud cheering.) ! !

Whilst treason is thus rife around the seat of his
vice-regal government, does the representative of the
Sovereign hurry to repress the rising spirit of insubor-
dination, and to put down the agitation of a measure
the success of which he knows and has declared would
bring ruin upon the empire ? No; his excellency has
a different part to play in the drama. England must
be kept amused whilst Ireland is being revolutionised.
A demonstration of peace and healthy feeling must be
made, to conceal the convulsed and angry spirit which
is working in the background. The ministry of Lord
Melbourne is on the brink of destruction, and clings
for support to the skirts of the traitor whom in its
better days it has denounced from the lips of the So-
vereign ; and the representative of royalty in Ireland,
although placed there to administer thelaws and de-
fend the integrity of the constitution, is reduced, by
hard necessity and the tyranny of Daniel, to the mise-
rable •-•-
condition of a political Shaiirman—doorned to
perambulate from fair to fair, from city to city, utter-
ing whatever stilted trash he pleases in behalf of his
precious collection of incapables, and in praise of his
own incapable self, provided he does not by any un-
fortunate chance stumble upon a true description of
the said incapables, or of the country upon which they
are an infliction.

Listen reader, and be amazed at the consummate
impudence which could prompt even such a confirmed
noodle as Lord Ebrington to utter the following stuff
to an assembly of rational beings at such a crisis as
the present!

" Proud, indeed," he says, " is the spectacle which Ire-
land at this moment presents, in the tranquillity of the coun-
try, and the great diminution of crime, amidst much, I fear,
of privation and distress; but prouder still may be the boast
of your great and populous city, that within her walls, and
by one of her citizens, was sown the first seeds of that great
social and moral improvement which has spread such incal-
culable blessings throughout every corner of this island."

Yes—this trashy mixture of rank falsehood and
sheer drivelling was actually uttered from the lips of
Lord Ebrington in reply to an address from the
patriots of Cork—nine-tenths of them repealers, and
one-half, sworn ribbonmen—no later than eight days
ago; and we might admire the power of stolid gravity
which could listen to it without fits of laughter, were
we not convinced that the hearers were prepared to
view the whole business of address and reply as an or-
dinary piece of acting on the part of his Excellency,
as it was undoubtedly on their own.

But Lord Ebrington was not sent to Cork for the
simple purpose of uttering rhodomontade himself, or
of enabling his admirers in that enlightened city to
proclaim to the world that the " great moral phenome-
non" which is called tranquillity in Ireland is exhibited
"from an anxious desire not to embarrass the action of
his Excellency's administration!" The Lord Lieute-
nant was required to throw his contribution of mischief
into the cauldron of agitation, in the shape of misre-
presentation, conveyed from vice-regal lips, of the
principles and objects of Lord Stanley's bill. 'We
quote the precious effusion ; and we ask how a noble-
man can possibly be degraded lower than to be the
utterer of such a paltry tissue of insolence, hypocrisy,
and abject crawling servility? Here it is reader for
your edification.

" Greatly, therefore, do I regret that, under such circum-
stances, you should find cause to complain of any attempt
having been made to curtail your liberties and impair your
franchise. Nothing of the kind, however, has been effected;
and I earnestly hope, that your continued good conduct, and
loyal attachment to our beloved Sovereign, will strengthen
the hands of her Majesty's government, and enable them suc-
cessfully to show how just are the claims of your virtuous and
warm-hearted country to the confidence and affection of the
imperial parliament—to the fullest enjoyment of constitutional
equality with all other portions of the British realms, and to
every assimilation of laws and institutions which, by elevat-
ing the charatter and promoting the happiness of the people,
may cement the bonds of legislative union, and render Ire-
land at once the brightest gem in the imperial crown and the
strongest bulwark of.the united empire."

Now what, we ask, must be the conclusion drawn
from the whole case between the government of Ire-
land and the present movements of Daniel O'Connell ?
That truculent agitator is now confessedly engaged in
an endeavour to subvert the Protestant constitution of
Ireland, and to effect the dismemberment of the em-
rpire—to do that very act which a few years ago drew
from the present Lord Lieutenant, in his place in the
House of Commons, the following declaration :—" I
am therefore quite ready to join with my noble
friend (Lord .Altkorp) in saying, that, if driven
to the dtvaaful alternative of a civil war, or
the dismemberment of the empire, I SHOULD PREFER
THE FORMER AS THE LESS EVIL;" arid yet the
noble lord is seen not only winking at the overt trea-
son—not only fondling and caressing the traitors—
but actually prostituting the name and the character
of the Sovereign, in whose attributes he is clothed, by
becoming in his own person an itinerant agitator, and
throwing fresh fuel upon the smouldering embers of
rebellion. It is no longer possible to doubt the fact,
that Lord Ebrington and her Majesty's government are
irrevocably committed to repeal ! They dare not, for
their mercenary souls, take one step to arrest its pro-
gress; but, on the contrary, they are base enough to
endeavour, by flimsy artifice, by fraud and palpable
falsehood, to throw dust into the eyes of our Sove-
reign, and to hold back, so far as in them lies, from
her knowledge and the knowledge of the British peo-
ple, the existence and growth of a conspiracy, whose
full development
.will snatch a jewel from the crown,
and wrest a powerful limb from the body of the em-
pire. That they will long be allowed to continue in
their career of destruction we cannot believe; but, in
the meantime, we know and feel that their dishonest
and traitorous puficy le preparing the way for a crisis
of, fearful and desolating Strife, from the bare contem-
plation of which every sincere lover of Ireland's wel-
fare must turn with a shudder of mingled compassion
and trembling.

The session of 1840 has at length drawn to a " most
lame and impotent conclusion." Her Majesty's inca-
pables, having been badgered and hunted from cover
to cover for six weary months, are at length released
from the daily and hourly fears of being run into and
worried; and are doubtless at this present moment
licking their sore bones in their various burrows, whilst
their conservative tormentors are relaxing themselves
upon the moors, and gathering amongst their wild
heaths an accession of strength and healthy spirits for
another, and, it *is to be hoped, a final contest. We
shall not at present aggravate the lacerated feelings of
the defeated and almost frantic whigs, by alluding to
the various discomfitures and bitter mortifications which
they have had to, endure; but we must enter our pro-
test against the miserably drawn up document in which
they have recorded their victories. It would be unrea-
sonable, perhaps, to expect much enlightenment upon
the subject of public affairs from a Queen's speech,
either at the commencement or the termination of a
session; hut we do think that in the present very satis-
factory state of things, both at borne and abroad, a
little more detailed information upon two or three im-
portant questions might safely have been ventured
upon.

With respect to our foreign embroilments especially
this information ought to have been furnished, when it
is considered that, in all probability, six whole months
will elapse before the.CoUntry can be gratified with one
of thoSe'luCid: and convincing statements which the
Foreign Secretary is so frequently in the habit of lay-
ing before the . House of Commons and .the public.
We 'love, however; one roneolation for these omissions

in the fact, that there is little foreign information of
any importance which is not seen in the columns of
our own journal

, and communicated to every corn

of the United King,

..,...-
dified official has found time to break the seals of his

dispatches

We should have been glad, but we should at the
same time have been infinitely surprised, if the little
which ministers have found time to say for themselves,
from the lips of her Majesty, had been strictly the
truth. Her Majesty, we apprehend, does not, as
heretofore, " continue to receive from" (all) " foreign
powers assurances of their friendly disposition." The
omission of that little word " all" may, to be sure,
protect her Majesty's advisers from the imputation of
putting a deliberate falsehood into the royal mouth;
but that omission is, after all, but a paltry evasion of
the fact, that, with a powerful nation, whose alliance
has of late been a great matter of boasting to the Whig
faction, we are not in that relation of friendly feeling
which is to be desired; and it would have been more
manly at once, and more politic as well, to have no-
ticed the circumstance.

There are several subjects too which hitherto have
furnished prominent features of such documents, and
which are entirely omitted from the present. In what
state, we ask, is the American boundary question ?
Her Majesty sayeth not. In what' condition is Ire-
land ? Can Irish tranquillity furnish no theme for
exultation ; or have " Repeal, or Separation," and the
late exposures of Ribbonism, rendered this a sore sub-
ject for Lord Melbourne and his colleagues to venture
upon ? We fear they have. The most important
omission, however, which we have to point out, is that
of parliament having succeeded in solving the knot
which tied up in his cell, in Chelmsford Gaol, the im-
mortal, and never to be too much lauded, five and
sixpenny martyr John Thorogood. With what pride
and grace would have fallen from the lips of her Ma-
jesty the gracious announcement that her fair hand had
signed the statute which restored to liberty and to his
lapstone this most obstinate of all cobblers ! But,
perhaps, it was wise to shield the tender feelings of the
two houses of parliament from such a call upon their
delicate sensibilities ; and the announcement might
have excited unreasonable hopes of similar acts of par-
liamentary favour in the minds of less interesting,
though equally stubborn, opponents of the established
laws and authorities of the realm.

We understand that a severe struggle is likely to
take place on Monday next in the election of Dock
Committee-men. Mr. Alderman Evans, for the pur-
pose of securing the passing of his favourite scheme
for investing the Dock Committee with the immense
patronage that must inevitably result from the erection
of dock warehouses managed by the Dock Committee,
finding that there is no hope of success if five Whig
candidates are presented to the rate-payers, has skill-

fully changed his tactics, and it is intended that five
conservative gentlemen shall be brought forward as the
protoges of the corporation of Liverpool, who have
suffered themselves to fall into Mr. Evans's net, and
who are willing that the warehousing, coopering, por-
terage, &c., connected with the new scheme, shall be
exclusively placed in the hands of the Dock Commit-
tee,—not seeing, or not choosing to see, that this enor-
mous patronage will be wielded for political purposes,
and will consolidate that power which, but for swamp-
ing the registry with fictitious Popish votes, was fast
passing out of their hands.

We are glad to find that five gentlemen will be
put in nomination, each representing important mer-
cantile interests, they not being opposed to the abstract
question of quay warehouses, but decidedly opposed to
their being managed by the Dock Committee in their
legislative and executive capacity.
The names of these gentlemen are—Mr. W. Potter,
Mr. John Crosthwaite, Mr. Robert Henderson, Mr.
Charles Challinor, and Mr. Thomas Bold. We hope
the merchants will not be gulled by the trick of Mr.
Evans; for although this gentleman is permitted to
ride roughshod over our obsequious Town Council, it
is no longer to be allowed that he shall also be first
consul of the Dock Committee, with the appendage of
an obsequious tail !

EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPF.ARANCE OF A TRADESMAN.
—On Monday last, Mr. Roberts, of the firm of Chalkley
and Roberts, Vine-street, left his place of business with a
cart load of bread, which be expected to dispose of in Waver-
tree and the neighbourhood. Having finished his business.

he was seen to pass through the gate at the railway, on the
Wavertree-road, on his retun home, about half-past nine the
same evening, but has not since been heard of. The cart
and horse were discovered in the road, and.the remainder of
the bread was undisturbed, and about 10s. were found in the
cart-box. Mr. Roberts is supposed to have had four or five
pounds, and a silver watch on his person, but no reason can
be assigned for his absence—he was prospering in business,
and has never been known to remain from home longer than
might reasonably be expected. The police have been in-
formed of these facts, and we hope that some satisfactory
information may soon be obtained of this (at present) inex-
plicable circumstance. As may be supposed, the family of
Mr. Roberts are in the greatest distress ; and we need
scarcely add that any intelligence which may be conveyed to
them respecting their relative will be most gratefully received.
By the packet-ship North America we have accounts of
the arrival out of the Britannia, royal mail steam-ship, at
Halifax and Boston. She left the Mersey on the 4th of July,
and arrived at Halifax in 12 days, and at Boston in 14 days.
She may be expected to arrive here in the course of to-day
or to-morrow.

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF CANDLES.—It has been de-
termined by_the principal chandlers to advance the

candles a halfpenny per lb., in consequence of the present
high price of tallow.—[See advertisement.]—Housekeepers
and others would do well to see that their candles are weight,
as many as are sold at a low price, in consequence of the
weight being deficient.

PERKINS'S PATENT STEAM GUN.—We had on Wednes-
day night an opportunity, with some other gentlemen, of see-
ing this extraordinary and ingenious engine of destruction in
operation, at the Shooting Gallery, in Tarlton-street ; and
could not, in common with " all who were present, withhold
. . • .

our astonishment and admiration of its wonderful effects.
The principle may be applied to artillery. Our first impres-
sion was that such an " infernal machine," which appears
suited to riddle the bodies of a whole regiment of men with
balls in a few minutes, should, by general consent of all ci-
vilized nations, be excluded from the field or the fleet, as
being altogether too murderous to be tolerated. As, how-
ever, nations cannot be brought to court mutual annihilation,
(the better part of courage, after all, being discretion,) on
second thoughts, we regarded it as an invention which, if
brought even partially into practice, might keep belligerents
at so respectable a distance from each other, that it would
eventually reduce rather than increase the fatalities of modern
warfare, in the same manner as " the villainous saltpetre, dug
from the bowels of the harmless earth," supersede the more
deadly conflict in which foe met individual foe, with deadly
steel, and the arrow left more carcases in the field than the
bullet. Be this as it may, Mr. Perkins's steam gun cannot
be regarded as other than► an important discovery in the ap-
plication of steam to projectiles, inasmuch as, independent of
war, it may possibly be applied to useful mechanical purposes.
The steam apparatus consists of a furnace, on which is placed
a coil of tubing 80 feet in length, and containing circulating
hot water. In a long horizontal elevated iron case above
there are four tubes of larger diameter, through the centre of
which the hot-water tube passes, and joins both ends of the
coil of tubing. The steam thus generated passes into a cham-
ber above, from the topof which it is conducted to the breach
of the gun. The gun is almost 6 feet long, and of small rifle
bore. Just over the breach, and screwed into it, is an up-
right pipe or hopper, from which, by turning a tap below, the
balls drop one by one into the breach, and a valve being in-
stantly opened by a handle close by, the steam rushes in with
great force, and " fires" it off with a loud report. One indi-
vidual turns the tap and opens the valve, and if this be done
with dexterity GOO balls may he discharged in a minute. By
keeping the tap entirely open a whole volley of 60 balls may
be discharged as fast as the drop into the breach. The force
with which these are projected is such that, after passing
through a thick board at a considerable distance, and striking
a plate iron behind it, they fall to the floor flattened to a sub-
stance even thinner than a sixpence. The principle of which
Mr. Perkins has availed himself is the elastic power of steam.
The explosive power of gunpowder is much greater, but is
sooner expended, being more instantaneous. In other words,
the explosive force of a charge in a fowling-piece is over at
a distance of say three feet from the breach. But the elastic
power of steam is so great, that it follOws and propels the
ball until it leaves the gun,—thus making up for the sudden
and explosive power of powder, by continuity and rapidity of
pressure. The steam gun is exhibited in aid of the funds of
the Salford Mechanics' Institution, by the directors of which
it was purchased from Mr. Perkins. It is well worthy of a
visit, and its operation is fully explained by a gentleman who
superintends its working.

KNOWSLEY.—Lord Derby, so far from being in a danger-
ous state, is in better health than he has experienced for some
months past, and is now able to conduct his own correspon-
dence, and transact official business as lord lieutenant of the
county. The Hon. Captain Charles Stanley, of the Grena-
dier Guards, has arrived with his lady from town, on a visit
to the noble earl; and Lord and Lady Stanley are expected
from Lathom House, the scat of Lord Skelmersdale. Lord
Stanley will not visit his estate, Ballykisleen, in Tipperary,
this year.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Monday week a commercial
gentleman from the old and respectable house of Messrs.
Bromfield and Overton, of Liverpool, accompanied by the
son of a resident tradesman, started in a gig from the Oak
Inn, Welshpool, on an excursion to enjoy the beautiful
scenery of the picturesque vale of Myfod. The horse had
not been in harness for two years, and was probably too
tightly curbed. They had not progressed more than twenty
yards from the Inn ere the animal betrayed considerable
symptoms of uneasiness in this novel employ, began
plunging, and eventually started off at a fearful pace, to the
serious alarm of the inhabitants and' others. It being
market day the danger was considerably increased, and
serious apprehensions were entertained that the horse might
run among the earthenware standings, which, of course,
would have added to his' excitement. Fortunately, young
Bromfield, (of the house of Bromfield and C 0.,) the driver,
was possessed of admirable presence of mind and great
firmness, which enabled him to keep the now infuriated
animal " well in hand," yet affording sufficient freedom for
his course. They cleared all obstacles, however, and got
from the town towards the upper turnpike, where as a means
'of staying the animal's career, young Bromfield run him up
towards the ditch bank, which finally stopped him, but
pitched the two occupants of the gig into the hedge, which
:was *err high and thick, luckily without any other injury than
a few slight stratehes.—Salapion Barna/. •

I THE LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM

and decorated. As it is the constant daily resort of our

merchants; as it constitutes a general "mart" for commercial,
political, and general information ; and is, moreover, an
object of considerable interest to strangers visiting the town
(who may be introduced by subscribers),—the following
brief account of its architecture and dimensions will not be

out of place, at a time when the town is pretty full of visitors.
The room occupies the whole of the basement story of the
east side of the Exchange-buildings—a pile perhaps une-
qualled by any commercial structure, in magnitude, excel-
lence of materials, or superiority of workmanship.* From
the piazzas in front, it is entered by two wide folding-doors,
so adjusted on springs as to admit of easy ingress and egress.
The style of the room corresponds with the exterior of the
stonework,—being Grecian ; and to the visitor, on his first
entrance, fi

tom its great magnitude and chastity of ornament,
the effect is most imposing. It is 130 ft. 9 in. in length, and
51 ft. 81 in. in width ; thus presenting an area of about 6,209
superficial feet. The height is 31 ft. 4 in. in the naiddl
The most

striking feature is a double row of lonic columns,
ten on each side, running longitudinally along the room, and
supporting the roof, which rises, between them, in a see-

ment of a circ

tween them and the walls on each side. Each of these noble
columns has a handsome capital, and each shaft consists of a
single polished stone : opposite to them on the sides and
at the ends of the room there are corresponding pilasters.
The curved or central part of the roof is divided into panelled
compartments between the pillars, with central floriated orna-
ments, in stucco, serving as ventilators. The roof at each side is
also divided into larger moulded compartments. The mid-
dle of the room, between the columns, is left open as a spa-
cious commercial promenade, or place of conference : the sides,
or aisles, which are each of about the same area as the middle,
are appropriated for reading-desks and tables, where, seated or
standing, subscribers and visitors may peruse the news of the
day,—nearly all the journals in the kingdom, and many of fo-
reign lands, being here " served up" with great regularity

There are seven semicircular-topped windows on each side
the room, and two at the south end.. Between these are
alternate square-topped windows, except in the spaces on
the east side and south end occupied by three fire-places,
and the two spaces on the west side where are the doors.
' Oiling to thelihadow produced by the piazza on the west, a
subdued rather than a bright light is admitted, but it is suf-
ficient for all practical purposes. At the north end is the bar,
in a recess facing the centre of the room. The outer counter,
or " bar," is gefitly curved outwards. Behind it are hand-
some cupboards for the newspaper files, &c., in the form
of a bureau, and surmounted by a weather-clock ; which,
moved by a vane on the top of the building, gives immediate
indication of the changes in the wind. This is decorated
with etchings in gold. At the opposite end of the room
there is a large clock to correspond. The cupboards, coun-
ters, and drawers are admirably grained in oak, and after-
wards varnished. We never saw a more masterly imitation
of that timber. The sides of the room are painted of a light
veined stone colour, harmonising with the stone columns
forming the central colonnade. The roof is of a still lighter
hue, and of varied tints, the object being to render the room
as light as possible. The whole of the painting was under-
taken by Mr. Porter, and is admitted to be executed in a
very superior manner. There are five bronze chandeliers
appended from the centre of the room, each with five gas-
lights, subdued by large globular or " melon" glasses, which
have a good effect.

Mr. Jones, the master, from his being connected with the
room for nearly thirteen years, is quite au fail at his duties,
and is to be found at his post early and late : we
need scarcely add that his civility and obliging man-
ners, and promptitude in obtaining early and correct
information, are well known. The maritime and commer-
cial news, including arrivals of vessels, telegraphic infor-
mation from Holyhead, &c., is posted on " the slate," and
in books, the moment it is received ; and the state of the
barometer is registered twice a day. The ventilation is ex-
cellent, and the room is consequently never too warm in
summer, nor too cold in winter. In fine, the whole institu-
tion is an honour to the town and we may add, that though
we have heard of public rooms of a more decorative and
showy descriptiOn, none exceed our Exchange News-room
in simple and classical grandeur, and in accommodation ; and
none, we may assume, can boast of being frequented and
patronised by a body of men more honourable, more liberal,
or more enterprising in the several departments of commerce
to which they, are attached. In proof of the increase of our
mercantile population, it may be added that there are upwards
of 1700 subscribers to the room, and the annual increase for
the last ten years has been about 60 per annum.

* These noble buildings, the first stone of which was laid
on the 30th June, 1803, were finished on the Ist January,
1809, (when the room was opened,) from the designs of the
late John Foster, Esq., architect to the Corporation, at an
expense of upwards of £lOO,OOO. The stone, which is of very
fine quality, was obtained from the quarries of the Earl of
Sefton, near the Mount Cemetery.

DESIGNS FOR THE LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTION.

It will be in the recollection of our readers that designs
for this intended structure were some time ago advertised
for,—two prizes (a first and second) to be awarded to the
parties whose productions were the most highly approved by
the committee. The result was that about thirty architec-
tural drawings, each with accompanying elevations, plans,
and estimates, were sent in from various parts of the king-
dom ; and the committee of the institution having made
their award, with a view to gratify public curiosity they have
placed the whole in the exhibition room of the Lyceum,
where they may be gratuitously inspected. We have been
highly gratified by a cursory visit to the collection. Many
of the drawings are beautiful, both as regards their execution
and the designs of the structures they represent. The com-
petitors, we should premise, were restricted by the prospec-
tus to the Tudor style of Gothic, and also, we believe, to a
stated amount of expenditure,—the latter not admitting of a
very highly-elaborate pile of building. The object in choos-
ing this style was doubtless to blend in the building, as a
public institution for the general purposes of education, a
portion of the ecclesiastical character, which is appropriate
to the religious principles which it is the object of the foun-
ders to promulgate, and which this kind of architecture is so
• well calculated to impart. Though this style admits of great
f diversity of combination, as well as of considerable variety

in details, there is a vein of similarity running through seve-
ral of these designs, and more particulary in those of them
which, as we think, evince superior taste and mind. The
grand original with the architects generally has doubtless
been King's College Chapel, Cambridge. We shall briefly
notice a few of those promiscuously which we consider the
best, exclusively of the two prizes, with some details of which
we shall conclude :

No. 28. This is in our estimation themost " magnificent
thing in the room. It respresents a noble pile, in which tE

bold and the florid are happily A fine square tower,
with which the whole mass harmonises, rises in the centre. It
remind us of Eaton-hall. The plan of the interior does not,
however, comprise that convenience which might be expected
within so superb a pile ; and the cost of the wholt (probably
upwards of £4,000), precluded all chance of the success of
the artist, to whom it does much honour, to the gaining of
the prize. It is surmised to be from Glasgow.
29. A very beautiful frontage.

Mended

M. A fine massy specimen. There is a central projec-
tion enriched by oriel windows, and two handsome square
wings, with corresponding windows. The top (like the greater
number of the designs) is embattled. This, we should think,
would look well in execution.

17. A good and neat design, but rather better suited for
a gentleman's mansion, than a Collegiate Institution. We
speak of the style, and particularly of the peaked roofing.
There is a central tower. On examining the plans the practi-
cal visitor will perhaps admit that the interior arrangements
are second only, if not equal to those of the "grand prize."
The drawing is very good. We think we can recognize in
this design the work of a respectable firm of our own town,
who produced a very splendid design for the Courts of Assize.
8. Very pretty in its several parts, but too much cut up
into projections, indentures, and other details,—so that it
wants imposing effect in the tout-ensemble.

21. A fine building. The buttresses or gothic pillars and
risiug shafts are well introduced.

16. This is evidently by a gentleman who knows what he
is about. He has depicted a very handsome pile, with a
square tower rising in the centre of the main front. The
gothic shafts are good. The Caine artist has placed in juxta-
position with it a beautiful and highly classical Grecian de-
sign for the Institution ; and has given, in manuscript, on
the plan below it, his reasons for preferring that style to the
gothic, in a modern structure, to be devoted to the purposes
of general education. His remarks are not without their co-
gency. The upper story of the proposed building is enriched
by most appropriate alto-relievos, depicting the most promi-
nent events and characters in 'the page of history.
Nos. 6,8, and 3 are all neat productions.
No. 2. The Second Prize. This' is a very beautiful de-
sign of a pile in the castellated style, with a projecting centre,
and wings, in the Middle of which last, at either end, rises a
handsome square tower. The windows are of the Tudor
form ; but those in the sunk story, which would have risen
in the plinth, are omitted,—as they would detract from the
appearance of the building. This is more discreet than can-
did in the artist. The interior arrangements, in particular
as regards the admission of light to some of the rooms, are,
rather defective.

No. 1. The First Prize. This is a remarkably fine speci-
men, but we defer until our next publication a detailed ac-
count. Suffice it here to say, that it is a beautiful specimen
of the Tudor Gothic, enlivened by large pointed windows,
covering two stories, with wings, octagonal shafts, embattled
cornice, &c. It resembles much King Edward's School at
Birmingham, and one or two of our finest old English edifices.
The architect proposes that the wings may be omitted until
the building requires enlargement. We are glad to find that
the committee have decided to construct the wings a priori,—
so much are they pleased with the design as a whole. We
concur with them ; the design is excellent ; and the interior
designs, arrangements simple and admirable—admitting ample light
to every room. Without the wings, however, the outward
building would appear bald and unsatisfactory. it is by
H. D. Lonsdale Elmes, Esq.. the successful competitor for
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the plans of our St. George's Hall, and, latterly, of our New
Assize Courts. This gentleman is happy in his d •
gns, and
in the appreciation in which they are held.

STABBING.—We regret to state that the un-English :-
dee of stabbing, notwithstanding the severe visitations of the
magistrates upon it, is becoming very general in the brawls
that frequently take place amongst the lower classes of the
population. On Wednesday a man, named Daniel Atkins,
was examined at the Police-court on a charge of this nature.
His victim was a rigger, with whom he had had some dispute in a public-house, and a struggle taking place between them,
the prisoner used the knife. Several wounds were inflicted
by him upon the rigger, one of which, on the neck; was of a
serious complexion. The rigger was conveyed to the Infir-
mary, where he now lies in considerable danger, and in the
meantime the prisoner was remanded. The instrument with
which the injuries were inflicted was a shoemaker's knife,i
which appeared to have been broken in the conflict.

MAD DOGS.--The public are cautioned to be on their
guard with respect to dogs, and keep them muzzled, giving
them a plentiful supply of water; severalidogs, showing de-
cided symptoms of hydrophobia, having been destroyed with-
in a fetw days.

EVERTON AND KIRKDALE FLORAL AND HOR
TICULTURAL MEETING.

vai xrults,
vegetables, Flowers, &c., and which is under the most dis-
tinguished patronage, was held yesterday in a large marquee,
in the grounds of the Derby Acme, Kirkdale, and was most
numerously and fashionably attended. All the gentry of the
neighbourhood, and numerous parties from the town, crowded
the tent during the whole of the show, and took a most lively
interest in the beautiful productions that were exhibited. The
marquee resembled a combination of the hot-house, the
green-house, the flower garden, and the parterre. The day
was beautiful and sunny, with a breeze from the westward,
and all present enjoyed themselves in a more than ordinary
degree. There was a musical band in attendanie. The
prizes at this annual exhibition are of no great pecuniary
amount: the honour of successful competition, is sufficient to
induce a rivalry in which " Greek meets Greek," in the tug
of production, which is far better than the tug of destruction.
Amongst the rare plants shown as an honorary specimen,
was the Cereus Senilus, a native of Mexico, the sole " fo-
liage" (if we may so call it) resembling the white wig of an
old man on a barber's block, with the hair nnri-pd

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are, we have heard, specimens of this plant which bearnere the
semblance of human hair, from the straight flaxen of some
European nations to the frizzle of the African. The plant
was sent by Mr. Skirving, of Walton nursery.
A beautiful specimen, as a tall plant, was shown of the

Auraucaria Excelsa, a species of the fir tree, which in its
own southern clime attains a height of 300 to 370 feet.
It is a native of NQrfolk Island, is of a fine solid grain, and
and is. we learn, coming in use as valuable spar timber in
the navy. Sent by Mr. Skirving.

0-
Of Carnations the display was very splendid, and included
many beautiful varieties. A large collection of Dahlias,
Fuchsias, Stocks, &c., was also sent from the Walton nursery,
which, had they been entered for competition, would doubt-
less have absorbed many of the prizes. Mr. Skirving, in-
deed, sent a general collection of plants and flowers, with his
usual desire to give variety to the exhibition, and encourage
cultivation.

In " Agricultural" produce, a most extraordinary speci-
men or bunch of Oats was exhibited. It was the Hopetown
kind, grown on the farm of Mr. Archibald Sinclair, from
seed of last year's growth on the same farm. The stalks
measured from 7 feet 3 inches, to 7 feet 10 inches in height.
The show of garden stuff, particularly turnips and cauli-
flowers, was splendid. The Scarisbrick turnips were very
fine.
Of Cucumbers, the show was such as to demonstrate a de-
cided improvement in size and quality.
The FRUIT f+'Pnprall.• _ . .. ~.

... .... . .. uz x 6 cuurany- was of great growth, and fine qua-
lity. The grapes might have rivalled, or rather excelled, the
finest of those produced in Southern Europe. The goose-
berries and currants were also large and excellent, the for-
mer presenting tempting and very large mouthfuls.
The whole show went off with the greatest ecicit, and the
competitors, with additions to their numbers, will doubtless
come forward with still greater enthusiasm at the next meet-
ing..which will take place before the close of the season.
The following were the principal prizes awarded:—The
best pan of Carnations,—Mr. Wm. Lodge, of Manchester ;
for the second best, Mr. Evans, of Chester.
For the best " Maiden Growers,"—No fewer than seven
prizes in the various kinds, to Mr. Thomas O'Grady.
Scarlet Bizarre,—First prize, Thomas Roby, of Prescot;
second, Mr. Wm. Lodge.
_...

Crimson Bizarre,—First prize, Mr. Lodge ; second, Mr.
Ewing, of Chester.
We have not time further to enumerate ; but may state
that the remainder of the prizes for flowers were won re-
spectively by Mr. Roby, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Evans, Mr. Har-
rison, C. S. Parker, Esq., Mr. William Skirving, the Rev.
Rector Brooks, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Moss, Mr. Jones,
Mrs. Woodhouse, Mr. Davies, and others.
We shall probably revert to this noble competition of Flo-
ral and Horticultural competitors.