The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

THE CURRENCY.

A pamphlet has been just issued from the press, containing
the following suggestions for the improvement of the cur-
rency :

" i. That one uniform description. of paper money be le-
galised in the united empire, consisting of Imperial Treasury
Notes or Bills.

"2. That a permanent office be established, which shall
be authorised to advance these notes or bills to all banks of
discount and deposit, whether chartered joint stock corpora-
tions or licensed private companies, according to the option
of the borrowers, as to number and quality, on depositing in
the Exchequer an equal amount of bullion or Government
Securities taken at the average market, price for the previous
year. , .
" 3. That the Treasury be empowered to exchange new
notes or bills for old ones eancelltd:: '

" 4. That the dividends on the stock lodged at the Trea-
sury be paid to the respective porties making the deposit sub-
ject to a deduction.of one per cent. per annum interest on the
amount of Treasury notes or bills received in lieu of stock,
and one fourth per cent.. in lien of bullion.

5. That the whole amount of 'bullion, or government
securities,. or any portion thereof, may at any time be drawn
from tha Exchequer, or transferred by the parties depositing
the same,. cur their assignees, on presentation of an equal
amount of Treasury notes issued to such parties respectively,
payment of interest being made on said notes to the day of
returning the same ; and in case any such establishment
shall at any time determine to discontinue transacting bank-
ing business, that the residue of bullion and of stock remain-
ing to cover outstanding liabilities, be returned after an in-
terval of three years from the period of notification.
" 6. That the imperial notes be signed by the proper offi-
cer of the Treasury ; that the name of the banking esta'olish-
ment to whom they are supplied be engrossed on the same;
and that they he endorsed before issue by the responsible
agent of the firni.
" 7. That the notes of each banking establishment be made
payable at their respective offices in specie, on fourtepn days'
notice, in writing, of the demand ; but that an exception be
made with respect to London banks, when the notice be
limited to seven days.

" That an annual report he presented to parliament of the
Treasury notes in circulation, specifying the monthly and
yearly averages. together with the amount of bullion, and
sum total and description of stock lodged by each establish-
ment, and a return of their other assets; and that these ac-
counts be published periodically in the Gazette."

ADMIRAL- SIR ROBERT STOPFORD,
of the indisposition of this distinguished officer, on board the
Princess Charlotte, has been received at the Admiralty.'

NEW SERGEANTS-AT-LAW AND QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—
On Wednesday last, in the Court of . Common Pleas, the
following counsel were called within the bar as Serjeants-at-
Law :—Mr. Channel, Al r. Wraughain, Mr. Shea, and Mr.
Holcombs. And Messrs. Turner and Bethel were also ad-
mitted as " her Majesty's Counsel Learned in the Law."
TURN-OUT OF STONE MASONS.—We are sorry to have to
state that the stone masons engaged :on the railway, near
Lancaster, have, during the week,'turned out for an advance
of wages. It is much to he lamented that men of this class
of artizans, in the receipt of four shillings per day, should be
induced, from any motive whatever, to turn out, more par-
ticularly when the work in which they are engaged is con-
tracted for. It is greatly to be` desired that these men will
see, before it is too late, the folly of their present conduct.
Other hands we hear: are engaged, and thus the men who
hua hen induced to leave their work, may be the very means
of introducing strangers, to their own injury.—Preston
Chronicle.

, .
MORPETIVELEcTioN.- -In consequence of Lord Leveson
having accepted the Chittern Hundreds, there is a vacancy
in the representation
.-for Morpeth. Major Cadogan, of
Brenckbourne Priory, 'Northumberland, an active' and able
Conservative, arrived -there from London on Monday morn-
ing, accompanied by Richard Hodgson, Esq., member for
Berwick, in order to lose no time in canvassing the borough.
The gallant major, -who is well known to the electors, has
issued a spirited ad dress, suitable to the present crisis, and
the probability is feat he will ))e Lord Leveson's successor,
if the Morpeth Int.:gesses understand what is most fitting to
be done on their part to further the interests of the country.
It is said that C.aptain Howard, a brother of Lord Mo rpeth,
will be the whig candidate.
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—Thes Rev. J. Wood., A.B.
curate of Church. Kirk, has been presented by some m- ,tubers
of his congregation with a purse containing the mu nificent
gift of £123 10s, as a mark of their esteem for his zea lons and
faithful labours in the work of the ministry. The re v. gent.
has likewise been presented by the male teachers of Church
Kirk Sunday-school, with a valuable edition of the Polyglott
Bible, accompanied by the book of Common Prayer,,su,perbly
bound in one volume, ornamented with a chaste sil.ver clasp,
and bearing the following inscription Presented to the
Rev. Joseph 'Wood, A.B. by the male teachers of Church
Kirk Sunday . School, as a token of their respect for ids un-
wearied exertions amongst them, and with fervent wisi les for
his future welfare. 18402!—Preston Pilot.

Loan CHATHAM'S PARTIALITY FOR HIS YOUNGER SON
WH,LIAbIv." THE PILOT THAT WEATHERED THE SToras."
—Lord Chatham's partiality to his younger son William, in
preference to the very inferior personage that inherited. his
title and estates, is displayed very frequently in the corre-
spondence just published. Walter Scott, in his " Diary,"
mentions, under date of the 24th of May, 1828; that he had
dined, ;it Richmond -Park, with ,Lord Sichnou-t11; and that,
before dinner, his lordship.showed him some, letters which.
had passed between his father, Dr. Addingtc.n, and the doc-
tor's patient, the great Lord Chatham. :licott, who never
forgot any thing that had point and characte :r, says that Chat-
ham talks of William's imitating him in all he did, and calling
for ale because his father was recommends d to drink it. " if
I should smoke," he says, "William wouttd instantly call for
a pipe." At 'page 154 of the fourth vole me, now before us,
we find the identical letter alluded' to'by Scott, and a truly
pleasant and amiable one it is.

" The Earl of Chatham to Dr. Addington.
" Burton Pynse nt, Nov. 23, 1771.
" Dear Sir,—l embrace, with panic .ular pleasure, Lady
Chatham's deputation, in acknowledgii the favour of your
very obliging letter to her. A small co ki occasions her com-
mitting the pen to my hand, which, at . present, seconds well
my inclination to take it up, on such' an occasion as writing
to 3, on. All your friends here, the !' flock of your care, are
truly sensible of the kind attention: of the good shepherd.
Our dear William has held out well o a the whole. Pitt lives
much abroad, and grows strong : the' hounds and the gun are
great delights, without prejudice tali terary pursuits. I some-
times follow him after a hare, lon,go sed proximo intervallo..
igy last fit of the gout left me, a! :it had visited me, very
hindly. lam many hours, every di ty, in the field ; and, as I
live like a farmer abroad, I return home and cat as one.
rejoice that parliament meets so Late ; for, if I go thither;. I
shall be reduced.

ciiq ledere tristem

Quandocunque troll-cult inV.sa negotia Romam.'
Your obliging inquiries justify fall details about health and
regimen. Ale, then, gor ;s on adr airably, and agrees perfectly.
My reverence for it, tr so, is inc;reased, having just read, in
the manners of our rer ootest Celtic neighbours, much of its
antiquity and invigora. ing qualities. The boys all long for
ale, seeing papa drink it; but we do not try the experiment.
Such is the force of r sxample, that' find I must watch my-
self in all I do, for fe; lrof ntisleading: if your friend William
saw me smoke, he w ould certainly call far a pipe,' After so
much of me and mi iie, it is more than time to express how
truly we interest or irselves fdr you. I .hope the returning
labours of the winter wiil not rob you of a little of your sum-
mer health. Pap( ;r fails, and leaves onkirroom. to add, that
1 am, dear sir, ver y faithfully yours, " CHATtIAI4."

MISCELLANEOUS.

ri he University of Bonn has conferred the degree of doctor
on 1 rin :e Albert.

It as proposed in Edinburgh to erect a monument to
Napier, the inventor of logarithims.
A Michigan editor threatens to make his subscribers as
intimate with the sheriff as he is himself, if they don't pay up.
On the 6th inst. Sir Robert Peel entered his 54th year,
having beenborn on the 6th February, 1756.
Why is her Majesty the most popular composer of the
day ?—Because her overture to Prince Albert is known ail
over Europe !
Question : Can you give inc. change ? Answer : Yes.
How will yon have it? MI silver, or will you have an Albert?
i. e. half-a-sovereign.
An Ohio editor says that the river ,at Pittsburgh is so dry
that the inhabitants on its banks split it up for kindling wood.
An association "for the refntation of Infidelity and the
Suppression of Blasphemy" has been formed in Halifax.

Mr. James Anderson has announced his intention of be-
coming a candidate at the next election for Falkirk, upon
conservative principles.

Sam Slick said he would rather break a yoke of steers any
Ay, than try to make up a quarrel between women, when
hey once got their dander up.

The Russian government has authorised the establishment
of a steam-packet communication between St. Peter burgh
and Dunkirk.

Mr. Dawson, of Middleham, has purchased Charles XII.
for three thousand guineas, for Mr. Johnstone, a north
country gentleman.
The 29th inst. is fixed for the approaching grand conser-
vative dinner at Merchant Tailor's Hall. Alderman Thomp-
son, M.P., takes the chair.

The Romanist Radical Irish newspapers boast that Lord
Palmerston has at a stroke created one hundred faggot votes
in the small county of Sligo.
Admiral Elliott, the brother of Lord Llinto, is appointed
to the naval command in the East Indies, vacant by the
death of Admiral Maitland.

In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday, a verdict for
£2,500 was given against a person for having maliciously
sued out Commission of Bankruptcy against another.
The Queen has agreed to pay £1509
.per annum, for six
years. for the residence of Lord Ingestre, taken tbr the
Duchess of Kent. Morning Post.

Dr. de Vitro, physician to the Lancaster dispensary, has
left that institution; and the .two former surgeons, Messrs.
Bateson and T. Howell, have been reinstated as visiting
surgeons. •

The Board of Stamps has advertised for contracts for
twenty-four thousand reams of paper for the proposed letter
covers.

Mr. Thomas Cartwright, silversmith, of Halifax, has
suddenly disappeared from that town, carrying with him
property to the amount of £2OOO. Hitherto he has evaded
pursuit.

. A southern orator is represented as bav;ng, begun a recent
speech in congress was born, sir, insensible to
fear." There would of course be no mistake in such a little
fellow.

The " reverend wag," as Mr. Sidney Smith is called, has
just given the pedant Babington MacaWey a nickname that
will never be forgotten. He calls nim the " Book in
Breeches."

Mr. Turton has been appc.inted by the governor-general
in council to succeed to the appointment of advocate-
general, upon the contemplated retirement of Mr. Pearson.
—lndia Gazette, Dec. 9...
A gent:eman, upon being asked whether he was seriously
injuredwhen a steam-boat boilei exploded, is said to have
replied, that he was so used, to being blown up by his wife,
that mere steam had no effect on him !
• . My son, hold up your head and tell me who was the
strongest man." " Jonah." " Why so ?" "'Cause the
whale couldn't hold him after he got shim down." " That's
a man—you needn't study the eatechis In any more at present."

During the bustle in London cons .cluent upon the Royal
nuptials, some wag muffled the knocker on Sheriff Evans's
door, in Westminster, and hung a card thereto, with the
words " CONFINED," printed in large 'characters.
The pay of masters in the navy will 1)e immediately raised :
the yountzei' officers will have £l5O pca annum, rising up to
£2BO. We trust this improved remuneration will retain many
valuable officers in the service :—Ramp shire Telegraph.
•
diScOvery is said to have beenrecently made in Russia,
of a method whereby the softest stones a my be hardened, and
have communicated to them the beauty., solidity, and even
colours, of the rarest marble.
A most terrific hurricane occurred at 'oladras in the mid-
dle of November, from the effects of whi ell it was calculated
that 20,000 persons had perished. Sixty vessels which were
in the roads had also disappeared.
A poor woman, residing in Northampton-rtreet, Leicester,
was frightened into convulsions, the other .day, by a fellow
wrapped in a white sheet pretending to be a
_ghost. She re-
covered, but has lost her reason !
Them Delaware Indian chaps beat all I ever came near in
the running line ; T know'd one on 'em :LS 07111 so howdaci-
ously fast round a big circus-like place, that. ixe just caught a
glimpse of his own back !—Up and Down: Crinnly
lI.S.

A new town is in the course of formation between the ok
incorporated town of Kingston upon Thanes (Surrey) an(
the South Western Rai way, and already nearly 200 beautifii
houses and snug villas are finished, or in the coarse of finish•
ing.

There is said to be a species of snake so venomous in sonic
of the swamps of the Mississippi, that it is told of a negrc
who struck one with a hoe handle, that the handle swelled
so as to burst the eye open!
THEATRES IN Thomas Slingsby Duncombe,
the representative of the Finsbury- dissenters, has at length
succeeded in getting her -Majesty's Lord Chamberlain tc
aboliSh 'the restrictions • o►► theatrical performances during
the season of Lent.

Aberdeen has had the. honout to supply the whiSky for: the
royal wedding. Bailie Lumsden, a fortnight ago, shipped
to order a cask containing. 60 gallons of whisky. for her Ma-
jesty's " occasion," and permitted_ to the keeper ofthe royal
cellar at Windsor, " 'GcorgnChri,tic."
Louis 'Philippe has announced to the Queen of England
the promotion of her. consort to the rank of Grand Officer
of the Legion of honour, the insignia of which are, it is
stated, to be presented to him by M. Guizot, the new Am-
bassador of France at our court.

A petition has actually been sent to the legislature of Ohio,
setting forth that the people of the Zanesville bank were in
the habit of using a-wet sponge in counting their bills, and
praying. the passage of a law requiring them to spit on their
fingers !
We like 'to see a pretty ankle. We don't like to see a
woman pull up her clothes in crossing the street, on purpose
to show it.—New Ywk paper.—We do, especially if the
streets be a little muddy, and she have no holes in her stock-
ings.— Texas Telegraph.
We are happy to hear on good authority that the report of
the death of Sir Henry Vane is entirely without foundation ;
and we hope that the rumour of the death of the gallant Lord
Keane, the hero of Ghaznee, is equally destitute of truth.—
Ministerial paper.
The other day a gentleman came to a post-office not a
hundred miles .from Huddersfield, to. prepay a letter, and
presented a sovereign for that purpose. The post-master
immediately offered 19s. 11d. in change in a bag, all in cop-
per, when the gentleman smiled, " cut off, ' and then
brought a penny. . .
We learn from Vienna that upwards of sixty houses in the-
village of Baronowitz, four leagues from Braun, have been
recently destroyed •by a fire, said to have been occasioned by
sparks from a locomotive engine on the north railroad, which
were driven by the wind on to the thatch of some cottages.
One of the most magnificent fkes which has taken place in
Paris for a length of time was given last night in honour of
the marriage of her Britannic Majesty by his excellency the
Earl and the Countess of Granville, to which upwards of
2,500 persons were imvited, and at which at least 2,000 per-
sons were present.
REPRESENTATION Of PERTIISIIIRE.—The death of the
Earl of Mansfield, which took place at Leamington, on
Tuesday last, will occasion a vacancy in the representation
of Perthshire, as his-lordship's eldest son, the Lord Viscount
Stormont, was returned for the county at the last election,
in opposition to the Hon. Fox Maule.
We regret that 11Ir.Cayley, M.P., for the north riding of
Yorkshire, has been for some months labouring under severe
indisposition., He came to. town at great hazard to record
his vote .in , favour of ministers, but he ha'S remained ever
since in a state of very great suffering, and totally unable to
attend to business of any kind.—Morning Chronicle.
The Reverend John Reynolds, a dissenting minister, of
Romsey, Hants, has been appointed one of the Inspectors of
the Government Educational Schools, by the Committee of
Council a palpable slight to the Church, and a tolerable
proof of the estimation in which the Established Clergy are
held by that Committee.

Prince Albert's progress in the English language under the
care of her Majesty, was very rapid indeed. At first sight (if
we may believe rumour). he conquered the difficulty of 1
love—thou lowest. " He will soon be over the•first conjuga-
tion. We wonder whether he ever will reach the imperative
mood!

REPRESENTATION OF CLITHEROE.-Mr. Fort, the mem-
ber for Clitheroe, has, during the past week, issued an ad-
dress to the electors of that borough, in contradiction of a
rumour which has been circulated, alleging that it was not
his intention again to
.offer himself as a candidates in the
event of a general election.—Preston Chronicle.
A correspondent of the New York Coinnzercial quotes the
following passage from Scripture, in support of Mr. Red-
field's theory, thafthe wind during a storm blows in a circle
or a whirl :—" The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth
about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and
the wind returneth again, according to his circuits. —Eccle-
siastes,

Among the state papers recently stolen from Dublin
Castle, was a canvass bag of correspondence between Lord
Castlereagh and Grattan, at the _period of the Union, and
letters of Robert Emmett,
his
that to Curran's daugh-
ter the night before his 'execution—all most interesting
documents. The gentleman to whom the packet was en-
trusted is held to bail in £5OO, to answer the prosecution of
the crown.

INCREASE or TAXATION.—An increase in the taxation
of the United Kingdom it is currently reported will be pro-
posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to
augment the public revenue. One rumour is, but on what
foundation we are unable to say, that the imposts upon coals
and salt are. to be renewed ; while other parties mention with
confidence that the duty payable upon gin will be increased,
while that on brandy imported will be diminished. Much
anxiety is expressed among the mercantile interests of the
city to obtain information on the subject.
ItEPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—The leaders of the
movement party in the borough have selected another man
to bring forward at the next general election.—Mr. T. Cis-
borne, one of the tail, and at present member for Carlow.
There is a good deal of speculation abroad on the matter,
particularly as " tin" sufficient for the contest is promised
to be forthcoming when wanted, on an assurance given that
he shall be returned. _ We are told that the worthy gentle-
man has had an assurance also that he cannot again he the
" fortunate object of the choice of the electors " of Carlow.
—Stockport Advertiser.
EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—.On Wednesday last, after an atten-
tive investigation of three days, Mr. James Pringle, a cleric
in the office of the collector of excise, at Sheffield. has been
committed to York Castle for trial, charged with having
fraudulently obtained varionS sums of money by means of
forged declarations purporting to be from pensioners of Chel-
sea Hospital long since dead. Application was made to ad-
mit him to bail, and the magistrates postponed their decision
till yesterday. Mr. Pringle has been many years in the col-
lector's office.—Leeds Intelligencer..
DENDnonium NonlLE.—This rare and truly splendid
epiphyte has just unfolded its lovely flowers at Broughton
Hall. A few words. on its introduction to this country may
not be uninteresting. Six or eight years ago, the original
plant; now in the possession of Messrs. Loddige's,. of the
Hackney Nursery, was purchased • in the market at Macao,
in China. The plant bloomed in the establishment of those
gentlemen two or three years ago, and, until the present
notice, his not flowered elsewhere. It is a curious fact, that
the identical locality of this Chinese plant is altogether a
mystery to the botanists of Europe.—/Iftblehester Guardian,

STOPPAGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH
We understand that the borough bank of Birmingham (an
establishment of very limited business, founded upon :the
wreck of the Northern and Central Bank in that town) stop-
ped payment on Thursday, when the following notice Was
posted on the doors of the bank,:—" The directors of the
Borough Bank find themselves under the painful necessity of
suspending the payments of the bank."
DISTRESSED STATE OF TIM POOR AT BOLTON.—A.
muting of the town council of Bolton was held on Wednes-
day last, at which it was agreed that the mayor be requested
to convene a meeting of gentlemen, fur the purpose of rais-
ing a fund by subscriptions, for the relief of the distressed
poor. Accordingly, a meeting was held yesterday forenoon,
at the Sessions Room ; the Rev. J. Slade, vicar, in the chair.
A committee was appointed, consisting of the clergy and
others ; and a subscription was entered into in the room,
which, although there were not more than fifty persons pre-
sent, amounted to upwards of £750.

AMOUNT OF CORRESPONDENCE IN PUBLIC OFFICES.—
The following are accounts, from the second part of the re-
port of the committee of the House of Commons on postage,
of the live public departments which sent the largest number
of letters,in the year 1837 :—Poor-law Commission, 138,525;
Ordnance. 95,018 ; Registrar of Births, 92,870 ; War-office,
78,462 ; Admiralty, 69,322 The following are accounts,
from the same report, ot the five public departments which
received the greatest number of letters :—Paymaster-Gene-
ral, 85,801; Ordnance, 82,9231 Home-office, 72,882 ; Poor-
law Commission, 70,983 ; War-office, 70,945.

IMPORTANT TO TEETOTALLERS.—On Thursday in last
week, an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, coroner of
Surrey, at the Bell Inn, Lambeth, on the body of Joseph
Hawkins, an old man aged 84, Who had formerly been a very
hard drinker, but had lately become a teetotaller. For years
before he joined the society he used to take a glass of runt
the first thing in the morning, rum and ale in the forenoon,
ale and a glass of rum after dinner,. a glass of rum in his tea,
ale for supper, and afterwards 'a glass of rum and water !
The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the death of the de-
ceased was accelerated by suddenly leaving oil' -the use of
spirits. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God."—Leeds
Intelligencer.

POPISH ELECTIONEERING.—A pretty plot was discovered
last week in the Post-office Ward of the city of Dublin, to
secure the election of a Popish publican as a poor-lkw•guar-
dian. The police were sent out, as ordered by the• act, to
deliver the voting papers, and receive them when the voter
had marked for whom he voted. It was proved that the
police carried papers to a radical committee-room, where the
original votes were erased, and this publican substituted.
The matter was brought before the commissioners of police,
who ordered the dismissal-of the police. This is one of the
nefarious modes by which ,the Popish party try to get the
ascendancy.

The Bishop
,of .Bath and Wells having long contemplated
the foundation of a Diocesan Collegiate Institution, in order
to the training of candidates for holy orders, in conformity
with the cherished desire of our reformers, that, between the
academic degree and entrance into the ministry, there should
be a course of preparatory instruction, has decided on imme-
diately commencing the execution of such a plan, in connec-
tion with his cathedral city, and has appointed the Rev. J.
H. Pinder, A. M., late Principal -of -Codrington College,
Barbadoes, to be Professor of Theology at Wells. To meet
the cost of this excellent appointment (X4OO per annum) the
Lord Bishop, and two gentlemen of the diocese, have muni-
ficently subscribed £lOO each for ten years. A portion of
the remaining £lOO per annum is yet to be provided.—Balk
Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE NIGER EXPEDI-
TION.-111 a letter from Lord .101111 Russell to the' Liras of
the Treasury, dated Dec. 26,..1.39, the proposal for the pre-
vention of the slavc, trade in the nest' of Africa is 'stated.
The Queen has directed her ministers to negotiate agree-
ments with those African chiefs within whose dominions the
internal trade is carried on, the basis of such agreements to
be the abandonment of the trade ; and, secondly, the admis-
sion into this country of the goods of the territories on fa-
vourable terms, so as to lessen the temptation now offered
to the slave-seller. As the most considerable of the Chiefs
rule near the Niger, an expedition up the river by'steam-
boats is proposed, and an establishment of British factories
at favourable stations. The first cost of three iron vessels,
which would be required, including provisions and stores,
for six months, would be £35,000; the annual charge for
victualling officers and men, £10,546; and the salaries of
conductorS, chaplain, and surgeon about £4,000, besides
presents foe chiefs and sundries.. The answer from the
Treasury, dated •the 30th of December, states a willingness
to sanction such estimates as may be required.

. THE SHA BBY GOVERNMENT.—When Mr. Spring Rice,
now Lord Muatezigle, 'hist paid his addresses to the electors
of Cambridge, he was, as he always had been, very liberal
of his promises.. He would do a great- deal to promote the
prosperity of the town. It was suggested by some persons
who knew his man, that he might give one proof of the sin-
cerity of his intentions by procuring a small annual grant in
aid of the funds of the Cambridge Philosophical Society-0
institution of much merit, but whose funds were scarcely
adequate to the publication of its transactions. The idea ap-
peared a capital one to Mr. Rice ; he had much interest at
the Treasury; the grant would cost him nothing, and it hail
the still stronger recommendation, that it would very proba-
bly help him to a few additional votes. The Treasury a'"
cordingly was applied to, and in a short time the Cambridge
people were much gratified to find that a grant of £lO
a-year was made to aid the funds of the Philosophical Society
The grant .was regularly paid up to last year inclusive; but
now things had changed. Mr. Rice was pitchforked into
the House of Peers, and did not want a seat for Cambridge;
and the gentleman (Mr. Gibson) for whom the government
did want it was pitchforked out of the borough. 'L'he Care
bridge electors did not want him, These were offences not
to be forgotten or forgiven. The government patronage 'ea'
withdrawn from the town, and the paltry grant of the £l"'
a-year to the Philosophical Society has this year been
stopped! This shabby act of the shabby government needs
no comment. -

DRINKING PRINCE ALBERT'S HEALTH.—SOMe difficunr
has keen felt in the provinces as to the proper etiquette to pc
observed in di ini.ing Prince Albert's health utpublie•dinool
and on other, public occasions. We understand that the
course observed at the dinner of the 'West Ward Cohserva"
tive, reported in another part of this paper, was aceordiot
to the etiquette observed at the dinner of the Carlton Clo.
on the day of the Queen's marriage, an' anthority sufficien'
to settle any duration ou the subieet. Fii•st was iliank tr
health of her A!ost Excelletit Majesty thf,
the Queen and Prince Albert ; and then the Queen-Dowag'i
and the rest of the Local Family. By coupling the naive 0;
his Royal Iligliness with that of her Majesty in the serail('
toast, the difficulty as to precedency is obviated. or got over'
Leeds. Intelligencer.

DISTRESSING CASE of DESTITUTION..—The inhabit:lloe
of Sanday, in Orkney, get their supply of peat fuel from th
neighbouring island of Eday. A boat, in crossing at this
element season, was upset, and floated keel up into the creel
she had left the night before. By thisJnelancholy
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two families have been bereaved of their' only support, all'
left in the most destitute circumstances. One of the suffer'
ers, Robert More. has left a widow and eight children be.;
tween the age of fourteen years and nine months. Tbeli
mother has been confined to bed for six mcnths.• This seen
a case calling loudly for..the:aid of :,such patriotic societito 5'
that which has just been instituted for Scotland, for the Ili
lief of shipwrecked mariners and fishermen, at the head (),
which is our gallant countryman, S. D. Milne.—Aberde'
Constitutional.

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MORE OF "HE TENDER CONSCIENCE FOLX.—.A. s-
time since a-meeting was called by Mr. Aaron Peace, else
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den of the Chapelry of Cumherworth, for the purpose
laying a rate to defray the yearly expense -cf ran organist,
clerk, singers, chapel-keepers, &c. The Rev. C. B. Dula
curate, was called to the chair: Mr. A. Peace then propoSor
that a rate of three-halfpence in the pound he collected
the above purposes, which, when collected, would realise t 1
Firm of ni;te pounds! So enormous- a demand shock;
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many feeder consciences; among the rest a well-known 'll5,
center. one Charles Fitton, who stands, when in his sheco
about live feet and an inch in altitude,- but who always Or.
nobly makes up for his shortness of stature by the extra 4
dinary length of his tongue. This worthy -mounted r-1
to render himself more conspicuous, and proposed, as ,",,f
amendment, that the meeting be adjourned to that day inept
! One Hezehiah Tinker, whose altitude is about I fee
feet nine, and who had taken a great deal of pains for a '
days previous to collect all the cock-fighters, donkey-raaer;,
`and otherS • of similar respectability to attend the meeting
then mounted the table, and pulled out a speech from "„4
pocket, ready cut and dry, which having read, he beg Vi
leave., to second the amendment, which was carried bfao
small majority ! The worthy curate non, performs toe olfi'oir
of minister and clerk himself ! ! and allows the organist Pot
of the christening fees .as a sahrtY. • The hell *hich•Was °lot
to announce the hour of twelve o'clock every day, to rent,
the good housewives of the villasro and, adjoining,neighba.f
hood (many of whom are without a clock) that it was no
to prepare dinner, is now silent, and the .minister's,°,
servant performs the office of c;iaael-sweeper. It shorn,
noticed that the chapel is the. only place of worship i0.,r1
neighbourhood, that all the sittings are free, and that I;ge
chiefly attended by the operative classes, and that a Moe
Sunday school is also attached to the chapel. We wish e
respectable couple, the would-be great men, all the p1ea5,411
their tender consciences will allow them,. for having P''. h'
deprived tl:e poor villagers of the only means which the Poo,'
bourhood affords them of keeping the Sabbath-day liolY'of
a place of worship where there are neither collections
seat rents !—Leeds htelligencer.
liter; DEN CE.—lt has been often remarked, that those'
tators who first put it into the heads of the chartists ton;;
cure arms, and to have torch-light meetings, were tor'e
and the tory journals did not conceal their joy at the sProci
of Chartism. Socialism has, it would appear, taken the Pet
of clrartisrn in their favour. The Bikhop of Exeter could 1,0
have acted in any other manner than he has acted, had the
object been to increase the number of socialists. That .$
tories would view with satisfaction the progress of sccial';'o,
or any other hat which might, serve them in their distraol
as means of embarrassing the government, may he itor6(ll'
from Vatiour cireArrinstatlCead. hilt more particularly
pains taken by the tory papers to misrepresent the cono;ori
and importance in society of the disciples of Owen.-1601,(
jag Chronicle. [The impudence of this paragraph is cp)
exceeded by its falsehood. It contains as many lies as lie r(
• PorrTsmotrn, FEB. 10.--Frost, Williams, and Jonelapi
confined in a cell on hoard the York convict ship, apart
the .other prisoners. , Frost complains bitterly of the, 01!
supplied him, stating Inc cannot possibly cat the camel,'
water which is supplied for breakfast, with a proportio!ob.
salt mixed. They have requested to he allowed, more'sd
' stantial diet, which has been refused. A wedden boo"' ICI
spoons are given for their•use ; they-are clothed in COl'
apparel, each with an iron ring round the leg, iuid are O'',llo
account permitted to leave their cell. A Prayer Book 40/
Bible are the only hooks allowed them. They are
spirits, particularly Frost, who is evidently sadly deje`beel
Williams has been beard to say he Would sooner have AO
hanged, than to linger under his present torture of mit'
treatment. It is expected that an order will arrive
row to transfer them to the Mandarin convict ship, ,`"„qH
arrived last night, hound to New South Wales.--Stario',
Wr.aurn.—The house Esterhazy is probably the rfh
magnificent of the non-regnant houses in the world.
jacket of jackets, which is said to have cost the prinee,,are,l
in wear and tear every time it is put on, has alrea"icsf';
pressed the English public with the extent of his possess'orei
but the impression falls short of the reality. His e'iarir
contain 130 villages, 40 towns, and ?A castles. He 1115011
country houses as big as Chatsworth, within an hour,
of one another ; one of them, Esterhazy, containsd
rooms for visitors, and a theatre. The well known s!Ferei,j
the prince's reply to the Lord of Holkham, who, al'
hibiting a flock of two thousand sheep, inquired it he ill)
show as many--" My' shepherds are more numeroaT
your sheep"—turns out to braliterally true; there isdtet
shepherds on his estates. They have a regular
guard in their loay, and the right of life and death 00
estates. 104.

The.old-fashioned town of etherhy, iu
undergone strange vicissitudes within a few years as
some of the large-properties in its immediate vicin'tie'n„
was only the other day•the Duke of Devonshire aliena.„o-,00,,,
whole town, at one, fell swoop, the sale exceeding .90,„.i";
in 1836, the Ribston estate, so lang-in the Bolyoake 5P
and close -by the • town,. was ;sold bv.Georgo,Robifis.
price, from recollection, was £180,600, without tiraber',.oo,l;
reference to our columns, We:percelVe Graoge,4 floe
guous to the .town, the property of Lord Wer-duck9.loj,
announced for sale ;it is said tp conteworaneolis
with ltibston• within this little circle, a fedilet
ing £iioo,ooo, atleast,, will be ina m •yery,shopelo" e
It is said that in no other part of Englandare the 51.": e fan
prices obtained for land. The tenant hf-13eilbY' Grat,6
aeon and park is the venerable Christopher Wilson, th
of the turf, who haS located for half a century.---F°s`•