The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET, &e.—Nov. 22.

(From the New York Inquirer of Nov. 22)
with-
A moderate business was transacted in Stocks to-day,
out any material alteration in yesterday's prices. IJ"'„le,
States Bank sold at 1203; Delaware and Hudson,
Notch American Trust and Backina Company 921; Haden'
48, and Stoningtou Railroad Company, at 37. Sales were
made of 18.000 dollars in Six per Cent. Treasury Nat" at
par, and 1500 dols. in Five per Cent, at 90.1
The sales of Exchange to-day for the Great Western, base
been at the previous rates obtained, say It) to 10 p" ce:j'e:
pm. on England, and sf. 171 on France, with a moderate en
roand. Bank of the United States have not as Yet be 1,.•
sellers for this vessel, but anticipate the arrival of a "rrajt
of bills on England to-morrow morning, whiCh will be tills
10 per cent. The Bank also offers to receive orders for lar,
to transmit by the Roscius, sailing for Liverpool on.Mh'i to
at 91 per cent. pm. On France, the business is confine
private houses. • (lc to
The People's Bank of Montreal has been authorised
suspend specie payments, by an Order in Council.
Arrival
Letters front ante
Richmond, Va , state that since the
of the Great Western, tobacco had been held at an adv
of 50 to 81 per 10016.

LATEST FROM MEXICO.
(From the Morning Herald of Nov. 23) the
Our correspondent at New Orleans writes word that
United States sldop of war, Vandalia, arrived at the ,5,,(11,,,!
\Vest Pass from Tampico, on the 6th instant, vr'n'';,"
96,000 dole. in specie. A gentleman who came Pas,sengTh
says he could obtain no papers, but that it was unuerstopt
that the French commander had sent dispatches to the Y
of Mexico, demanding the payment of the indemnity, anii o-
tifying the authorities, that in case of refusal, an immediate
attack ou Vera Cruz would be made.
The blockading squadron had been reinforced by tw°

frigates; on board one of them was the new commanding offi-
cer, said to be a most daring fellow.
The extraordinary powers demanded by Eustamen being
still refused by the senate, he had placed Gen. Arista at
the head of 1500 men, and intimated an intention, in case
the refusal was persisted in, of dissolving that body by force,
and usurping the coveted powers.

FURTHER NEWS FROM CANADA.
( From the London Standard of Saturday.)

British government messenger arrived yesie-rday with
dispatches to go by the Great Western. He left Montreal
on Monday. The dispatches announce the capture of Sd
patriots at the surrender of the mill, and 32 previously,
snaking 112 in all, and that they had been sent to Montreal,
with Sir G. Arthur's order that they should all be tried and
hanged. _ .

The following dispatch from the Hon. Col. Cathcart, of
the King's Dragoon Guards, stationed at Chambly, gives
details of the miserable attempt made by the rebels to main-
tain a position on the Boucherville mountain.
Chambly, Nov. 15, 1838.

Sir,—l have the honour to acquaint you, that, on my ar-
rival here yesterday evening, I learned that the camp in
the Boucherville mountain had broken up, and that Malhiot
had crossed over at the ferry to Pointe Olivier. I also heard
of some threatened disturbances at St. Mary's' on the oppo-
site side of the river. I ordered an officer and thirty men
of the 15th, accompanied by some loyal persons, acquainted
with the inhabitants, to leave this at five o'clock this morn-
ing, and go there to search for arms—not without hopes of
taking Malhiot. Some arms were taken, and two leading
agitators were brought in, who remain for examination to-
morrow. I also learn front the cute of this place (who has
been most praiseworthy in his exertions to restrain his flock
from participating in the rebellion, and in bringing to justice
the agitators and those who had coerced the peaceably dis-
posed), that he had learned that three guns and a consider-
able quantity of arms and ammunition were in the mill near
the lake in the centre of the Boucherville mountain, that he
had sent a young ecclesiastic of the name of Le Fevre, to
recommend to his parishioners, for their own interest, the
voluntary surrender of all those warlike stores immediately
to him, to be by him delivered to me, and I hourly expect
them.

As they did not arrive last night, I patroled this morning
to the mountain with 20 Dragoons, and on arriving at the
wood, about eleven o'clock. met Major Johnson, with the 666,
and two guns, proceeding to make the seizure. After making
seine visits for arms, and sending home the patrol, I joined
Major Johnson, at the mill, and found him in possession of
three guns, ten or twelve dozen casks of powder, some 30
muskets and a great many pikes—also, a good deal of ammu-
nition made up, particularly artillery cartridges; with bags
containing some dozen of musket balls attached to each.
Major Johnson was to return from Beloiel, for the night,
with his capture, the particulars of which he will, no doubt,
himself detail; but I write this, as I have a more direct
means of communication.

I have the honour to be, Sir, _
i'ee pass
Your most obedient bumble seruani,• •- • •
GEO. CATIICART, Lieut. K.D.G.
To the Military Secretary, &c., &c.

CAPTURE GF "BILL JOHNSON," THE BUCCA-

NEER OF THE LAKE.

(From a letter to his Excellency Governor Marcy, dated
Ogdensburgh, Nov. 18.)
"William Johnson was yesterday arrested by Charles T.
Burwell and A. B. James, about three miles above Ogdens-
burgh. He was traced and found in the woods by Mr. Bur-
well, and driven from his covert towards a bay in the river St.
Lawrence, where his son lay in waiting for him with a row-
boat, ready to convey him away. Mr. James, however, had
got young Johnson ashore, taken possession of his boat, and
secreted his oars, so as not to allow a chance of escape. Old
' Bill' rushed down to the river, closely pursued by Burwell,
where he was met by James. He called aloud. My boat,
lay boat!' He was ordered by Mr. J. to surrender, but he
declared he would never do so white alive. He had a pistol
in each hand, and swore that he would sooner die than be
taken, and threatened to shoot the first man that approached
him. James and Burwell attempted to seize him, and took
hold of him several times; but he broke from them, and re-
treated.

"His son advised him to flee to the woods, that he would
help him away if in his power, but that his boat and oars had
been taken from him, and that he had no means of giving
him assistance. Johnson then attempted to escape to the
woods, but was prevented, and when he saw there was no
chance of escape, he came to a halt, and offered to surrender,
if his pursuers would allow his sun to have his arms. They
replied they did not seek his arms but his person. After a
Parley, considerable delay, and a vast deal of threatening,
he gave his son a Cochran rifle, (12 discharges,) and two.
large rifle pistols, and then started with B. and J. for Ogdens-
burgh, still however retaining four small pistols and a large
Bowie knife, but which, in the course of a few minutes, he
also gave to his son. hey had proceeded about one-third
of a mile, when they were met by a file of U. S. soldiers, a
deputy sheriff from Jefferson, and a deputy U. S. marshal,
to whom Johnson was delivered, and conveyed on board the
steam-boat hr the employ of government, under Col. Worth."
Ullence, as will be seen by accounts from Oswego, Sachett's
Harbour, &c., he was conveyed to prison in Jefferson county.]

JAMAICA.—We have received files of the Jamaica
-Royal Gazette, Dispatch, Mercury, and Gazelle, up
to the 4th ultimo. We learn from the Royal Gazette,
that the House of Assembly met on the 30th of Octo-
ber, for the dispatch of business. The following is
the address delivered by the Governor on the occasion :
" Gentlemen of the Council, •
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly.
" The most important event in the annals of Colonial nis•
tory has taken place since I last had the pleasure of meeting
the legislature of this island; and I am happy in being able
to declare, that the conduct of the labouring population, who
Were then the objects of your liberal and enlightened policy,
entitles them to the highest praise, and amply proves how
well they have deserved the boon of freedom.
" It was not to be expected that the total extinction of the
Apprenticeship Law would be followed by an instantaneous
return to active labour, but, feeling as I do, the deepest in-
terest in the successful result of the great measure now in
progress, I sincerely congratulate you and the country at
large on the improvement which is daily taking place in the
resumption of industrious habits, and I trust there is every
prospect of agricultural prosperity.
" Many important subjects, consequent upon the altered
`condition - v our. _wad
serious .consideratioril,
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of AssemUy.
" I shall lose no time in hiving before you various dis-
patches from her Majesty's government.
" I beg to assure you of my cordial co-operation in all
measures which may tend to improve the laws; to give se-
curity to property ; to protect the just rights of the peasantry,
and ensure peace and happiness to all classes of her Majesty's
subjects.

The speech was subsequently referred, by a large
Majority, to a committee of the whole house on the
state of the island. Very protracted discussions were
likely to arise in committee, as there seemed to be a
very strong determination to make a stand upon the
Privileges of the House of Assembly, and its right to
legislate for the island.
We are sorry to say that the reports as to the state
of Jamaica continue to be unfavourable. The negroes
still manifested the greatest indisposition to settle
down to work. Great complaints are still made re-
specting the ruinous interference of the missionaries,
whose policy it
,seerns to be to encourage the negroes
hi the unprofitable system of "squatting." On this
subject the Gazelle of the 20th of October has the
following remarks :—" If it were not for the mischief
which the man has the power to inflict, we certainly
should indulge in a hearty laugl► at the notion of that
notorious libeller Knibb, bringing a criminal informa-
tion for libel against one of the reporters of his gross
calumnies, the editor of the Cornwall Courier. Upon
the plea of the greater the truth the greater the libel,
lie may probably gain his ends, and the truth•report-
►ng editor may run a chance of being punished for the
Crime of exposing the atrocious falsehoods propagated
by this wholesale dealer in slander against the propri-
etary body of Jamaica I

"'Phis same Knibb, who has realised a fortune by
the preaching and printing of libels against the colo-
nial inhabitants, and who boasts he can lay down
410,000 to assist the negroes in squatting, in order
that he may hasten desolation, and drive the proprie-
tors of property from the land, reams now busy in
Promoting by passive resistance what he formerly
executed by means of the firebrand and the sword!
-And as he seems bent upon the ruin of St. James and
Trelawny, we trust Sir Lionel Smith will be prepared
to give a satisfactory reply to his government, when
he is called upon to account for his communication
With, and amiable courtesy towards, this furious agi-
tatur. Knibb, indeed, appears to be an especial pet
of the Queen's House party, and we could not but
admire the official report in yesterday's Morning
Journal respecting the opening of a new -Baptist
chapel!"

Respecting the conduct of the labourers we have
the following information in a letter addressed to the
editor of the Dispatch, from the parish of Manches
ter It is not my intention to enter upon a lengthy
detail in informing you how matters really stand in
this parish, with respect to the general working of'
the labourers ; and having taken considerable pains
to inform myself upon the subject, I think very few,
If any, exceptions can be opposed to my statement.
",Where the people are working, (for it is not on

. .
every property they are doing so,) the Monday is a
broken day, in consequence of the reluctance they
feel to commence work until the day is far advanced.
Seldom is it on Fridays, and I may always say never
°II Saturdays, do they work at all for the proprietor.
If they do labour on that day, it is in their grounds;
but many, it is feared, waste their time in idleness and
wandering about. I may further state, that on the days
t)o which they do labour, there is not upon an average,
(the half of the. negro population above ten years of
age who turn out then, rarely beginning work before
ir9,lt a.m., or continuing it after three pan ; therefore,
deducting one hour at least, for breakfast, you can
Judge by this to what a scale the cultivation of pro-
perties will ultimately be reduced, unless some change
sil°rriy. take place, and a more general and willing dis-
PoBition be evinced on the part of our peasantry to
carry it on. It was considered by a few, and hoped
by l'lany, that a " stecm power" had been discovered,
frolll the circumstance of one or two gangs having
taken Piece work; and, at a high rate of wages, per-
-I°"l'ed an extraordinary quantity of labour; but this
("'IY appears to have been done by fits and starts, a
olere flash in the pan, not in the continuous manner
necessary for the proper cultivation of a plantation;
and even if it were, certainly not at a rate of wages

which would leave a remuneration for the planter.
They (the labourers) are also somewhat capricious in
their selection of work, preferring only such as billing
pastures and building stone walls—to that most essen-
tial required by the planters, of cleaning and picking
their coffee. They are unwilling to engage in either,
until the former is so heavy as to endanger the pro-
ductiveness of the trees, and the latter until it is in a
state not only injurious to their future yielding, but at
the risk of a great portion of their present fruit falling
to the ground, placing the planter in the dilenirna of
either cultivating his estate at a price ruinous to his
interest, or compelling him altogether to abandon its
cultivation.

" This, Mr. Editor, is an unhappy state of things—
one which cannot long exist without its baneful effects
being felt by both the employer and the employed;
and, in my humble opinion, it owes its origin to two
main causes : the one, to those liberal gentlemen who
have taken upon themselves the self-assumed character
(but with very little pretension to it) of being the
friends and advisers of the negroes, but who. in reality,
have only occasioned distrust and dissatisfaction in
,their minds ; the other, to the privilege that has been
given them in the temporary occupation of their
houses and grounds, for the latter of which, I believe,
almost by general and tacit consent in this parish, no
charge has • been made, from the most humane and
conciliatory motives."

On the state of public credit in the island of Ja-
maica we have the following remarks in the Dispatch
of Nov. 1. :—" When an evil is foreseen, it is wisdom
to apply ourselves to meet it ; to check, or at all events
to mitigate or alleviate its horrors. The state of the
public credit of the island calls for the most serious
attention ; it was never more jeopardized titan at the
present moment. We are assailed from without by
an adversary powerful and strong, without any previ-
ous intimation of the hostile act, to throw us on our
guard; and the blow is about to fall on us unprepared.
Otir adversary is our unnatural parent—Great Brita;n,
who, ds-4e giaTheTheiiiliefd ghow, 11-as asst coed a stretch
of power in relation to the internal legislation of the
Island never previously attempted. It is a blow aimed
at the destruction of the freedom and usefulness of our
Local Parliament. It is, perhaps, the mere courier or
forerunner of what a Whig Ministry, pretended friends
of freedom, are preparing to attempt. That a deter-
mined constitutional stand is necessary to be taken by
the popular branch of the Parliament of Jamaica, to
assist and protect her independence, is now apparent
to all reflecting persons; and the utmost coolness
should be displayed, while the greatest talent of the
House should be exercised to guard us against the im-

pending dangers that surround us. .Senators of Ja-
maica! arouse your energies; but, in doing so, take
care you run not from one extreme to the other. It
is constitutional to withhold the supplies. Our ances-
tors did so successfully, when their privileges were
merely threatened; and they declined, in some ex-
treme cases, to transact business AT ALL with the Go-
vernment, until full redress was given for wrongs
committed on their undoubted and sole rights. We
are now somewhat differently situated.

"If the present Parliament of Great Britain is more
gifted than those of former times, and. undertakes to
superlegislate for your country, let them have all the
honour to themselves; and as the bright page of his-
tory sill hand down to posterity this wise assumption
of power, let the same page also contain the informa-
tion, that the wealth of Britain kept pace with the
wisdom of its Parliament; and that it paid the whole
expenses of the government of its colony of Jamaica
out of the general revenues of the empire.
"The principle of representation and taxation is
universally admitted as an axiom in legislation, and

you need not dread that the Parliament of Britain will
attempt to tax your constituents. Uphold the public
credit, and you will return. the confidence of all classes.
of the united community of Jamaica; trifle with it,
and you will lose your privileges, and seal the ruin of
your country."

PROTESTANT AscENDANCY.—It is quite obvious to

the most superficial observer of passing events, that
the political aspect of this great nation, at the present
moment, istig with circumstances of the most por.
tentous importance; and that the drowsy " Palinu-
rus," who sits nodding at the helm of affairs, must
speedily relax his grasp of a post which, procured on
such base, unprincipled, and unconstitutional terms,

he has with so much treachery, treason, arid turpitude,
adhered to and degraded.

Every loyal subject and sincere lover of his country
must observe, with apprehension and alarm, the fear-
ful blows which England, the once proud arbitress of
the world, is every clay submitting to from every blus-
tering bully, Larbarian, savage, or supercilious priest-
ly bigot who may think fit to display his courage by a
kick at the head of our national Lion, sick, alas ! and
no wonder, with the unsavoury and nauseous garbage
which " liberalism" has, with bestial cruelty, been
thrusting down his throat. But are such occurrences
only to be looked at to be patiently endured ? Are
not you, and we, and every'honest individual Protestant
in the British empire members component of this ma-
jestickion, which cowardice, insolence, and Popish
priestly intolerance are so unceremoniously and cruelly
buffeting ?—and how long are we to endure all this?
An opportunity will, at no very distant period, be
afforded the Protestants of this country to free them-selves from the incubus that paralyzes their energies.
When Popery was rampant in the land, the high and
holy cause of Protestantism triumphed over that dam-
nable heresy, and introduced blessings 'unknown to
any nation yielding obedience to the despotism eman-
ating from Rowe. Our rulers, in latter years, appear
to have forgotten this fact, and act as though a victo-
rious foe were, with forced marches, bearing down
upon us as a retreating, and disheartened, and insig-
nificant band. Position after position has been y ielded
by them, and Popery, with characteristic penetration
and alacrity, has resolutely seized on them as they,
have been vacated, and converted theni into so many
points from whence to hurl ruin and disgrace upon our
retiring columns. In proof of thik, we need only di •
rect the attention of our readers 'to the cession of
what was termed " Catholic-Emancipation," which, so
far from satisfying Popery, has only excited her thirst
and strengthened her hands more fiercely and more

forcibly, and with more implacable hate, to war against
the settled and time-approved institutions of our Pro-
testant realm. Look, we say again, at the national

system of education, which, in this land in which Pro-
testantism is, happily, the established religion, liberal-
ism has planted in Ireland. The Bible is excluded
from them, so as not to olTend. the prejudices of the
Popish superstition ; but. Protestantism is compelled
to endure the introduction into them of the Ronaish
Mass-book, with all, its attendant coadjutors, or—to
quit them. The fable of the hedgehog and the snakes
is lucidly borne out in the case in point : after admit-
ting the half starved and •fatnishirigwretch under the
same cover with our Protestant children (to whom this

prickly beast very. soon, fearing any annoyance and
inconvenience,) coolly and insolently tells them that
if they are not comfortable in their present situation
they are at liberty to quit it, but he is perfectly at ease
where he is. Thus these schools, nicknamed " na-
tional," instead of being the means of affinding sound
scriptural knowledge
,indiscriminately to all sects, have
been monopolised by Popery, and converted into so
many hotbeds for the propagation'of her fearful, here-
tical, and idolatrous superstition. For the fact is no-
torious (and the experiment made in this town by the
Corporation is corroborative of it) that no 'scripturally
minded Protestant parent will allow his children to
breathe on atmosphere so polluted—monks, and friars,
and jesuits principally (in Ireland) being the esta-
blished dispensers of the national humbug. Here
then we have the children of parents who profess the
national religion of the country virtually excluded
from the benefit of a 'national system of education,
which ought to be in consonance' with the established
religion of the country. The Protestant population
in Ireland and in this town pay for such a system, but
they are cajoled and swindled out of it, and are neces-
sitated to build other schools rather than allow their
children to come in contact with " the unclean thing"
cherished in liberal, national, and corporation schools:
And what is the lesson that such dear-bought expe-
rience ought to teach Protestants ? We will tell them.
First,—it ought to teach them to watch closely the
measures of government, be that gov-ernment consi-
dered (as was the Duke of Wellington's) friendly,or
(as is the present) hostile to the Protestant institutions
of the country, and speak out, so that they must Se
heard and attended to, should those measures be such
as to endanger any Protestant right or institution.

Had Protestants done this in 1829, Wellington—the

too confiding Wellington—would have been spared
many a bitter pang that his breast has since felt, and
the British empire many a disgrace that she has since
been impotent to ward off or wipe out. Had they
done this when the infamous national education bill
was broached, to-day it would not be required of them
to found new schools into which to transplant the
good, old, national, scriptural mode-of education pur-
sued in the old seminaries from which the thorny hide
of Popery hasdriven them. Secondly,—itshould teach
them to seek out men discreet and wise, whose passport
into Pat liament at The next election must be "Pro-
testant ascendancy in church and state," and ". no
Popery !" We shall. not then find the sacrifice of Pro-
testant life and property palliated or passed over with-
out active and searching inquiry, nor the sources of
law and justice overawed and trampled upon without

having the demons of anarchy, superstition, and ty-
ranny visited with merited retributive punishment.
To effect this great and devoutly to be desired good,

how small is the effort required ! Apathy, however,
will never effect it. The strong man must exert his
strength if he wish to be victorious. He must not be
dormant while his enemy is vigilant and active. When
Samson slept, by the simple cutting off a lock of his

hair, he was robbed of his strength. " Principiis
obsta"—thus s;-.37 we.

The Protestant clergy have • a great weight of re-
sponsibility resting on them at the present juncture.
It is ridiculous trash and nonsense to say that the
clergy have no right to interfere in politics. They
are men, and, as men, must fight the battle of their
great Captain against all his enemies, come they in a
spiritual or bodily shape. Popery is His enemy, and
it is insidiously rooting itself at the base of our con-
stitution, of which the Established Church is at once

the brightest ornament and support. Faiithfulness,
therefore, compels the clergy to protest against the un-
holy connexion, and to warn unceasingly their flocks,
that they be not allured by any specious sophistry or
worldly cant to tolerate what is diametrically opposed
to every principle from which Protestantism derives
it; splendour and usefulness.

England expects, therefore, that the clergy will do
duty;heir and they will do it we have no doubt.

THE " LIVERPOOL."—We are glad to find that this
splendid vessel reached New York on the 23d ult. She
passed the narrows at eight o'clock A.M., in gallant
style, fired a gun, and passed swiftly up to the city with
colours frying, and in the finest condition. She ac-
complished the passage from Cork in 161- days. The
excitement produced by her arrival at New York is
described by the editor of the Morning Herald (who
has politely favoured us with a slip of his extra edition
for the 23d) as " overwhelming." The informant of
the Daily Express says that " the Liverpool performed
to a charm, although they had very rough weather,
with head seas and wind. She worked to perfection—
nothing gave way—the vessel tight, strong, and
staunch-7—and the passengers are all delighted. The
ship had an abundance of fuel." It is unnecessary
for us to add any thing to this unqualified eulogium.
The Liverpool has fully realised the most sanguine
expectations of the spirited company to whom she be-
longs. Her passage out may be reckoned,a much bet-
ter one than that of the Great -Westere, considering
the state of the weather, and that her machinery was
new. The Liverpool was not expected to leave New
York until the sth instant, when she would bring a
copy of the President's message. She may, therefore,
be looked for at Liverpool from the 18th to the 20th
instant.

The Lord Bishop of Chester will hold his next ordination
on Sunday the 16th of December.

There are six candidates for the tot‘n-clerkship of the
newly incorporated borough of Manchester.
A deputation, including Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Joseph
Ilornbv, and Mr. W. Smith, had an interview with Viscount
Melbourne on Weinesday, in Downing-street.

We understand that the parties in this town who lost their
money on Harkaway, for the Mostyn mile, have honourably
met all their engagements. It is said that a celebrated York-
shire jockey and trainer is minus upwards of £BOO inconse-
quence of the owner of Harkaway not obtaining a nomina-
tion for his horse.

NEWTON.—COALPIT ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, an
inquest was held at Haydock, before Mr. Neves, on view of
the body of Peter Greenhough, a collier. On Wednesday,
the-overlooker and others of Messrs. Turner and Evans's men
were raising the head-geer at one of the pits, when, as the de-
ceased and several other colliers were watching its progress,
one of the shear legs gave way, and fell on the head of the
deceased, who was killed on the spot. Verdict—" Accidenta
death."

HOUSE ROBBER y.—The house of Miss Cooper, Hart-street;
was entered between the hours of three and eight on Wed-
nesday morning. The thieves took away a gold watch, a gold
chain and seal, and £l2 in gold and silver. Entrance was
effected by getting over the yard wall, and breaking a pane
of glass in the back parlour window. Two-thirds of the house
robberies which take place its Liverpool are effected in this
manner. It wotlld most certainly contribute materially to
the safety of houses if the occupiers were to have shutters on
their back windows.

FATAL. ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, an inquest was held
on the body of Thomas Briscoe, an errand boy in the iron
foundry of Mr. Maw, Wood-street. On the 23d or 2-4th Oc-
tober, the deceased was standing near to the shaft attached
to the engine, along with the warehouseman. The latter, on
looking up, saw the boy going round with the shaft, which he
did several times, and five minutes elapsed before he could be
extricated. He was very much hurt. There was a compound
fracture of the left arm and the right thigh; the left thigh
was also smashed. He was taken to the Northern Hospital,
and died on Monday.—Verdict—accidental death.

BUNCORN.—COIAT BARON.—A court baron for the manor
of Runcorn was held at the Boat-house Tavern on Tuesday.

The following gentlemen were appointed constables for the
ensuing year :—Mr. Dennis Brendritt, Belvidere, merchant;
Joseph" Hartley, Duke's, architect; James Bennett, boot-
maker, Chinch-street; Edward Jackson, Higher liuncorn ;
Samuel Worrall, HiOi•street ; John Anderton, Church-
street ; Thomas Threlfal Rigby, High-street; Ricbd. Phil-
lips, Old Quay; Thomas Ward, Old Quay; Joseph Middle-
brooke, Duke's; James Rigby, Pic-I:low-lane; Robert Ca-
rodyce, Old Soapery ; William Hazlehurst, Camden Soap
Works; and William Harding, of the Town-hall, deputy-
constable.

NoVal. GraousisTasics.—On Wednesday last, a female,
lately residing in Scotland-road, did penance in public at
Walton church, by order of the Ecclesiastical Court, for de-
faming the character of her neighbour. It is many years
since such au occurrence took place; the white sheet, how. •
ever, was not enforced. This should be a warning to the fair
sex who are troubled with an evil tongue. This singular
seene'excited considerable interest in those who witnessed it.
PICTURE OF THE DIKE OF WELLINGTON.—We under-
stand that it is the wish of several gentlemen, of different
shades of politics, to have a very beautiful sketch of the Duke
of Wellington visiting the field of Waterloo, from the pencil
of Mr. Haydon, worked up into a painting, as an ornament
of the new St. George's Hall, or souse other public building.
The splendid reputation of the Duke, and the great services
which he has rendered to Europe and his own country, will,
we doubt not, cause many to concur in the object who differ
from his grace as a politician. Amongst others, we under-
stand his worship the Mayor has subscribed very liberally to
this object.— Times.
DEATH BY Fran.—On Friday an inquisition was taken
before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the body of a little girl
named Ann Jones, aged 10 years. The deceased, it ap-
peared, lived with her parents, in a cellar in Hardman-
street, and on Wednesday evening last was in the act of
lifting her brother from within the fender when her clothes
,caught fire. The aunt of the deceased, who lived in the
house above, hearing her cries, ran to her assistance, butbe-
fere the flames could be extinguished, the sufferer was so
dreadfully burned all over the body, that though she was
dressed at the Dispensary. she expired at three o'clock on
the following morning. 'Verdict accordingly.
DANGEROUS PRACTICE.—During the present week persons
have been engaged in proving cannon on the north shore.
Out of fifteen pieces, six burst under the test, fragments of a
large size having been thrown on and near the public road.
One alighted close to a policeman on duty in the district,
another in a field behind Bank Hall, and a third, of appa-
rently 56 lbs. in weight, within a few feet of the road. Com-
plakts have been made that human life should thus be placed
in jeopardy. It is certainly imperative upon the conductors
of such experiments to exercise every possible caution, a
necessity which we have no doubt they feel as strongly as we
do. Cannon must be proved somewhere: if the necessary
risk attending the process can, by any practical means, be
diminished, it is the dnty or the conservators of the public
safety to see that those means are adopted The Mayor, we
understand, has interfered in the matter, and received an
assurance from Messrs. Fawcett and Prestonthat the practice
shalt be discontinued within the borough.
THEATRICA Kean, we understand, commences
an engagement at the Manchester Theatre on the 21,th in-
stant, when the house opens for the season.—Brown, so long
the favourite of the Liverpool public, took his first benefit at
New York on the 7th ult., and we arc happy to say it proved
a bumper.—M r. Bates, proprietor of the Royal Amphithea-
tre, &c., in this town, has erected a splendid theatre in Man-
chester,—Nicholas Nickleby has been adapted to the stage
by Mr. Stirling, and is drawing crowded houses nightly at
the Adelphi Theatre.—W. J. Hammond took his benefit at
the Victoria Theatre on Monday week. Ducrow and T. P.
Cooke gave Mr. Hammond their valuable services.—Mr. and
Mrs. Wood have prolonged their stay in Dublin for a few
clays longer.—Mr. Ranger has just concluded a very success-
ful engagement at Edinburgh.

IRON STEAM-SHIP.—The British and American Steam
Navigation Company have this week contracted with Mr.
John Laird, of Liverpool, (the builder of the iron steam ves-
sel Rainbow, belonging to the General Steam Navigation
Company,) for an iron steam-ship, of 1,200 tons, to be called
the Atalanta, and intended to run between this country and

the United States, in conjunction with the British Queen
and the President. Front the experience Mr. Laird has had
in this description of naval architecture, and the speed he
has already attained in the vessels he has built, those well
able to form an opinion on the subject confidently predict
that this vessel will !educe to ten days the average passage
between Liverpool and New York. —Athenceurn. the en-
gines will be made by Messrs. Fawcett, Preston and Co.
FlRE.—About qua o'clock on Saturday morning, a fire
broke out in the drying-stove of Messrs. S. and J. Hohne,
the extensive builders, in Seel-street. The drying-stove, a
building four stories high, is situated at the extreme end of
the yard, in the direction of Parr. street, and is heated by a
large furnace, from which flues run through the entire build-
ing. . The origin of the fire is at present a mystery; it com-
menced in the front story, to which the exertions of the fire-
Jiptilice confined it. Messrs. Whitty, Dowling, and Hewitt,
"Re superintendent of the fire-police, were early on the spot.
The great quantity of timber lying in the yard, together with
the inflammable nature of the materials, would have rendered
an extensive fire in the premises of the Messrs. Holme a
matter of frightfUl speculation. Such a disaster, however,
was fortunately prevented.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE "GREAT SLANDERER."

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL STaINDSRD.
SIR,—It is not very common for ladies to address commu-
nications to editors of newspapers, but I fear. the spirit of
chivalry in good old England is gone, and I have waited
with much anxiety to see our cause taken up by some one
more accustomed to these matters than myself. I have read
in some of the papers which I am in the habit of looking
into, the vile slanders of that great curse to Ireland, Dan►el
O'Connell, who, in one of his speeches, vilified the mothers,
wives, and daughters of England! Surely some of our spi-
rited men in parliament will bring him to account for his
words. But I fear the spirit of our country is gone, for he
has even called the House of Commons a band of rzylions!
Oh ! were I a member of that house, I would horsewh►p him
from one end of London to tee other, or I would make bins
retract his words. And to add to the aggravation, I find, in
reading the discussion in Dublin, that one of this abominable
fellow's filthy priests repeats, the vile slander on the-ladies of
England, and it has fallen to the lot of a spirited young
Irishman to vindicate our character.

Oh, England, England ! how art thou. fallen ! Popery
and infidelity have now almost got the mastery of our once.,
happy country, and no good will be done till our maiden
Queen shall be requested, by the united voices of our fe-
males, to discharge from her presence all who would poison
her mind by the baneful influences of Popery, and chiefly
her vile intriguing ministers. Oh, for another good Queen
Bess!

I am, Mr. Editor, your obliged servant,
Everton. ELIZA THOMPSON.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

TO TEE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stn.—ln your paper of Tuesday last, I perceive a letter
signed A Shareholder, containing an extract from the Rail-

way Times, respecting the Eastern Counties Railway. Now,
as any account in that periodical of the progress made on
the line in question is invariably favourable, I would advise
every person who wishes to embark his money in this pm-
perty to consider well the statements constantly being brought
forward about it. The said extract is connected with re-

marks of the Railway Magazine, to which publication the
permanent shareholders are indebted; for whatever the mo-
tives of the editor may be, he certainly expresses what is
wrong in the undertaking, and makes the distant proprietors
fully acquainted with their interest. Is it not annoying that
the capital of the formation of this line is so soon increased
to £2,100,000 (00,000 more) although not 1-12th part is yet
complete, and this too, in the face of the nominal capital of
£1,600,000, which still stands iu all the share lists.
Liverpool, Dec. 18.38. B. H.

THE BROUGHAM INSTITUTE.

TO 711 E EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.,INDARD.

SIR.-It is much to be regretted that our conservative
friends do
,not attempt to get up something similar to the
"Brougham Instittite," which is bepoming decidedly popular.
It has cheapness to recommend it, and economy is the order
of the day : but what detracts from its usefulness and calls for
a rival establishment, is the very many questionable subjects
brought forward. Of the characters who figure there I can
say nothing, my knowledge of them being so very limited.
The conservative young men who resort there, must, how-
ever, eventually be injured by it, though occasionally it may
administer to amusement ; the gratification or the informa-
tion to be derived from such a source (under its present
management) must of necessity be very small.
My present object is to throw nut a hint to the conservatives
that they immediately set on foot a similar establishment.
A more suitable name for it cannot be hit upon than the
PEEL'S INSTITUTE," which might be conducted on
the same model but in a superior manner;—its lectures more
useful and select; its library more extensive and judiciously
selected, and allowed to circulate; and above all, its manage-
ment to be, placed in the hands of men of known moral
worth and character. There are many young men attached
to the party who would, with a little study and exercise, be-
come excellent lecturers, and herein the advantage to be de-
rived,would be inure than repaid by the exercise of such (by
no means arduous) office; in their acquiring a fluency of
speech, and what is nut least, their being obliged to study
useful subjects themselves; wherein they would become more
useful and valuable members of society, and would accom-
plish, in no small degree, the extirpation of false notions and
strange opinions springing up among us.
Your very obedient servant,
Lieerpool, Dec. 7, 1838. BETA.

THE LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY

TO .THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stit,—lt was a source of- high gratification to me to read
in your paper the account of the meeting i❑ behalf of the
" Liverpool Church Building Society ;" and my earnest wish
and- prayer is, that it may succeed, so as to realise the most
sanguine wishes of its promoters. I cannot, however, but
regret the slow progress that is making in the subscriptions
towards this work of love—this doing of service to God; and
the more so, as the day, the Ist of January, is fast ap-
proaching, on,which, a general meeting of the contributors
is to take place, for the purpose of forming the society, and
of furthering its views. Will it tell well far the professors of
Christianity—will it tell well for Christians of the established
church in Liverpool, if the new year is allowed to be ushered
in with such lukewarmness on their part? And would it not
be well that, to avoid such an appearance, and to insure sue-
cess in so beneficent an undertaking•, that you, in your edi-
torial capacity, urged the clergy themselves to interest their
various flocks in aiding the great work that is now in hand.
It is strictly in their province so to do; and it is their ex-
hortation and importunity, that must awaken the feelings of
many; there are congregations from which very large contri-
butions might be collected; and from every church some-
thing;—so that an agregate Might fairly be obtained which
should be at least equivalent to £looo a church.
Yours, obediently,
• T. P. H.
Liverpool, Dec. Bth. 1838.

TRYING CANNON ON THE SHORE,

70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Siu,—Our recent proving. of cannon upon the North
Shore having been publicly alluded to, we beg to •observe,
that we have hitherto considered the proof a mere ceremony,
our cannon having, until the_last trial, uniformly stood proof,
as, from the process of Manufacturing them. is almost ren-
dered certain, being cast solid, and the calibre afterwards
bored. We have, accordingly, availed ourselves of the con•
tiguity of the northern beach for the purpose of their proof
for a number of years, without before experiencing the ex-
plosion of a single gun, or, otherwise, we should not. of course,
on any consideration, have felt ourselves justified in the
practice.

However, on the result of the late proof, (arising entirely
from the cannon having been made of iron obtained from
new works, and falsely represented,) we immediately, on the
day preceding receiving any intimation from our most worthy
Chief Magistrate, despatched some confidential servants to
select another situation, upon an extended beach, greatly
beyond the limits of the borough, %%here all future proofs
will exclusively be made.—We are, Sir, yours, &c.,
FAWCETT, PRESTON, and CO.
York-street, Dec. 4, 1838.

THE RAILWAY INTERESTS OF LANCASIRE

No. IV.

TO THE EDITOR OP 711 i LIVERPOOL STANDJIRD.
SlR,—Since I last addressd the holders of railway property-
here, through the medium of your excellent journal, it will •
be obvious to any one acquainted with the amount of business
tran'acted in these markets, that no dispositirm has existed to
submit to be sgeozen out of the good things, of which we hold so
large a share, at the low rates which "the money changers"
have still endeavoured to keep them; and that interests in
those lines, which have only been freely sold, have been parted
with, at all freely, rather, because they bore a comparatively
higher price than others which from the position of the mar-
•kets, were of necessity by the lapse of time, bargains or other-
wise, brought to sale, than that they had attained to anything
like their real worth. A strong and wise disposition to hold
firmly for the day of fair prices has been Manifested ; and for
the encouragement of this feeling, I again venture to address
my brother shareholders ; and to urge them to disregard any
temporary pretences for depression, of which speculators
may seek to avail themselves: and rather to keep their at-
tention fixed upon the progressive and successful develope-
ments, day by day, of their most sanguine anticipations of
the value of their railways. Let every man look beyond the
November fog we are just clearing from, to the early months
of the coining year, big with such momentous results to the
railway world. Let me remind you that this same spring,
which we know must effect so great a change, is little snore
than a month in advance of us; and that the time for even
these very speculators to store in their shares at low prices,
for the ensuing campaign, is so short, that every effort must
be strained to keep down the barometer, so as to cloud and
protract "the dull time before Christmas," which all these
wise ones, these Ralph Nicklebys, these old spiders in their
holes, are looking for—Query, to conic at all? Not if you
are true to yourselves. Look at the share lists—in our news-
papers, and although you see the "last price" nominally low, '
at which these buyers in perspective, may hug themselves in
fancied security of their prey, yet refer to the daily column,
often in low times a very virginity, unmarked by a single
quotation—except it be terand Junctions at 150 premium.
Should not this open the eves of these gentry, as well as keep
ours so ; and tell them, if they mean to buy, and share in
the mines of wealth these things contain, to come up to the
mark, and pay us for them like men. We see the immense
returns the Grand Junction is yielding, and the noble di-
vidend secured fur January ; and we know moreover,
that the parties now buying them at their present price,
(aware, as they are, of the value of other things under de-
pression,) would not buy them, unless thoroughly assured,
that the shares would be £5O higher before June hext. We
are aware also, that the London and Birmingham will pay
£4 per old share, and £1 per quarter for the current half-
year, although the line was only opened throughout, late in
September. •"fhis Splendid blunder," which was to yield
no dividend at all, according to the Jeremiad in Frazer, and
other antiquated croakers from the ditches of the old turn-
pikes. Bear in mind too, that the same increase which we
have seen on the Liverpool and Manchester, will quadruple
this return in three or four years, besides the offshoots of new
shares. Coining next to the Southampton—and I would now
speak to the Manchester (as the largest body of) holders, to
bring me to whom, 1 would beg of the editors of the Railway
Times, and of the Manchester Guardian, to insert this com-
munication in their respective columns. What on mall, fel-
low-shareholders, is there to justify the present depreciation
of our property in this line? Here is a railway, with the
largest passenger traffic out of London, as officially proved—
made in the best manner, under one of our ablest and most
successful engineers, at one half the cost per mile of most
others; the whole length, excepting nine miles out of eighty,
verging upon completion, forty miler already in work, with
1 the traffic of ten coaches upon it, and that of thirty others
gradually joining, a traffic more than double that of the Li-
verpool portion of the Grand Junction, which portion has
mainly contributed to produce the large returns of the latter
line—a railway, calculated by experienced persons, on data
incontestibly established and given, to yield a revenue of 23,1
per cent. from its receipts, in the same ratio as the Liverpool
and Manchester company now pay 10 per cent. upon theirs.
Of all this you are most of you morally certain, and yet in
the face of such knowledge, you are gulled into yielding to,
and (to your own ultimate heavy loss, well deserved, as you
will find) aiding in the working of a series of stock-jobbing
manceuvering, and trickery, by which the shares' are held
down at less than one half of their legitimate value. The de-
pression is accounted for by the assertion that large time-bar-
gains have fallen due weekly front September to the first of
this month, involving several thousand shares; in addition to
which, one of the largest proprietors, to meet some family ar-
rangements, has, within the last six weeks, sold four huudred
new shares: However the right to do as we like with our
own may be claimed in such cases, yet, with all deference,
such an operation does serious injustice to the joint interests
of the proprietary, is not well done, and may be rightly
punished by after cause of regret, and retaliation in kind.
But, this over, you may expect those who have sold for a de-
pression, will be seeking to recover their shares, and it is our
fault if they have not to pay for them. It rejoices me to see
the blank columns of our share list, now that a sort of "hobble
bubble" panic is attempted to beset a-work—to hear the bear
"roar me so rarely" in his muzzle. Only you laugh at him,
and remember the worth of your rails, and he will not only
furnish you with food for your laughter, but something more
substantial, for his. tricks often cost him dear enough when
they fail to frighten. And what tricks they do play before
high heaven! It is amusing to hear these gents talk of the
busiuess-like views of the long-headed men of the north—
while they think to pipe us to any tune they please,—at one
time giving us the eyes of eagles, regular sun-starers; losing
sight of all sub-affairs,—asphalte sky-mounters, too keen-

sighted for common sense : then driving us in a gale of panic,
till, like the ostrich before the bunter, we plunge our sane
long heads in the sand: or, more like a flock of those res-
pectable birds we see rnminating on Maghull course or Ker-
sal-moor—long heads or long necks, a-mud, a-mud, and "do
ups" erect, crying "come pluck me." Are we to be so plucked ?
What have the thousand-and-one rumours, "cauldron boil and
cauldron bubble," purposely afloat, to do with the sort of pro-
perty question ?—property, ceiainly the most secure and,
exempt from being affected. Brother shareholders, be firm;
sell nothing—hold to your rails—see them well laid—well
worked; and discourage jobbing; especially time bargains.
Two of the petty cockney lines are about opening throughout
on Tuesday next ; the Greenwich and the Croydon soon; and
they will make good prices for them; which cannot be with
other things down.—The tide must soon turn.
Liverpool, Dec. Bth, 1838

W. M.

The men, charged with throwing vitriol in Shannon-street,
the details of which have already been fully reported in our
paper, were found guilty at the sessions, and sentenced to 15
years' transportation.

THE POLICE CONlT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office
there were no fewer than 46 charges of felony, and 94 disor-
dekly cases, to be heard;--in all 140 prisoners !
THE NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE.—We are glad to hear that
some movement is at length to take place respecting the com-
pletion of the splendid Long Room of the New Custom-house
here, as we understand contracts are made with Price and
Co., of Bristol, for the heating and ventilating it on an im-
proved principle. It is rumoured that the design of flooring
it with asphaltum is already abandoned, from apprehen-
sion of the effluvium, and slates are mentioned as a substitute.
But would not oak oards be worthy of consideration for the
purpose ?

LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—
Last evening a meeting of this association was held in the
Welsh School House, the Rev. Robert Davies in chair.—The
meeting was addressed by Mr. Connor, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Rad-
cliffe, and others. The meeting was very numerously at-
tended by operatives. The necessity of rallying round the
church to prevent the spread of Popery, and the dangerous
deceits and blasphenious and unscriptural doctrines inculca-
ted by the Roinish church, were strongly pointed out and
commented on. This society bids fair to be of great use in
opening the eyes of the lower classes to the insidious attacks
of Popery under the garb of liberalism; and to prevent them
from shipwrecking their present mental independence, and
their everlasting happiness, on this modern Scylla.
THE STEAM SHIP LIVERPOOL.—A splendid lithographic
engraving of this magnifkent vessel has just been com-
pleted, and will be published in a few days. Its execution
is, in every respect, highly creditable to the talents of the
artist, Mr. Isaac. We feel assured that most of our readers
will consider it incumbent upon them to obtain possession of
a copy of this engraving, to hand down as a heir-loom in their
families, especially after finding that the Liverpool has so well
sustained the high character bestowed upou her. We shall
give a more detailed description of the engraving in our next.
LAWS OF HEALTH.—The fourth of Dr. Thorburn's po-
pular course of lectures on this subject was delivered on the
evening of Friday last. The theatre of the Medical Institu-
tion was crowded on this occasion by even a greater number
of ladies than formerly : we observed several families from
the adjoining districts occupying the benches. The subject
of digestion was continued by the lecturer: his remarks,
which occupied an hour and a quarter, were listened to with
marked attention. Dr. Thorburn's graphic description of
stomach complaints, (a subject on which he is evidently quite
at home, and on which he expatiates with something like
fellow-feeling,) gave great satisfaction. He concluded by
stating, that diet, physical education, and the laws of sleep,
with reference to health and happiness, should be the topics
of his fifth lecture on Friday.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.-7011 Wednesday last, between
the hours of one and two in the afternoon, a young boy, pro-
ceeding to school, mounted on a horse that had been left
standing at a door in Warren-street, which intersects Hawke-
street. The horse went off at considerable speed down the
street, and not being able to stop itself when it came to the
double flight of steps (twenty-four in number) leading to
the-back of the Adelphi Hotel, it partly leaped, partly elided,
to the bottom, where it fell, and the youth was thrown off.
Providentially, however, neither the urchin nor the animal
was injured: the former jumped up as if nothing had hap-
pened, and sneaked off to school, (but warned, we hope, from
playing such another prank) and the horse was led away to
its owner.

ARRIVAL OF THE MARQUIS AND MARCHIONESS OF
NORMANBY IN LIVERPOOL.—The Viceroy of Ireland and
his lady arrived at this port, from Dublin, on Saturday, at
twelve o'clock, in the steamer Urgent, Capt. Emerson.- As
the tide was too low to allow the vessel to lie alongside the
pier, his lordship and suite remained on deck, where they
were accommodated with seats, till the water arose to a suffi-
cient height to allow them to land with facility. As the day
was tine, a large concourse of persons assembled to greet the
noble Marquis on his disembarkation. On Sunday morning
the Marquis, Marchioness, and suite, left this town by rail-
way, on their way to the mansion of Earl Fitzvrilliam, in
Yorkshire.
ARRIVALS AT THE RAINBOW HOTEL, BASNETT-STREET.—
Mr. and Mrs. Britter, Mr. and Mrs George, S. Haddock,
Esq., H. Blundell, Esq.,
Loughton, Stephenson, Esq., Buchan, Esq., and
two friends, Signor Cavalle, Signor Fanchetti, Mr. and Mrs.
Ingram, and family, Monsr. Carrolli, and son, Capt. Scott,
J. Heatly, Esq., E. Glover, Esq., and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Calvert, H. J. Langley, Esq., H. Green, Esq., William
Bebbington, Esq., J. Gibbon, Esq., 'l'. Parker, Esq., Mrs.
and Miss Charleton, W. Ward, Esq., M. Watson. Esq., H.
Ledbetter, Esq., G. Harden, Esq., and H. Williams, Esq.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION HO-
TEL.—The Marquis of Downshire, Lieut. Col. the Hon. H.
Molineaux, Lieut. H. Price, Sir Thomas UsSher, and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Macarty, and family, T. H. Woodhouse,
Esq., and family, A. Swinton, Esq., J. King, Esq., G.
Gibbs, Esq., T. H. Shenard, Esq., H. Springthorp, Esq.,
H. Flemming, Esq., M.P., H. C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Eg-
linton, Esq., Mr. and, Mrs. Marlow, Miss Cowan, Mrs.
ki‘Pherson, W. H. Henshaw, Esq., J, Daly, Esq., John
Lyons, Esq., H. Whyturns, Esq., Mrs. Hughes, and family,
W. Thorpe, Esq., Lord Manvers, Co!. Mackenzie, General
Elphinstone, Count le Preste, Baron Lopez, Captain Stanley,
Captain Vernon, W. H. Po►ter, Esq., G. Bromley, Esq.,
John Mainwaring, Esq., C. Brittan, Esq., and H. Brown-
low, Esq.

We have perused with much pleasure the 31st edition of
an interesting pamphlet, entaed "A •Fractical Treatise on
the Human Hair," by Mr. Alexander Rowland, Pupil of the
late Joshua Brooks, Esq. This little work consists of a
series of observations thrown together on the subject of the
Culture of the Human Hair; the result of much study and
experience. The frequent causes of the decay of this impor-
tant integument of the head are clearly pointed out, together
with the means of prevention and cure. We earnestly re-
commend its perusal by all classes, and understand it is
given (gratuitously) to every purchaser of Rowland's Ma-
cassar Oil.—See Advertigenient.
Mils. GEARY'S STAYS.—It is with infinite pleasure that
we learn, there is an invention by Mrs. Geary, of St. James's-
street, London, which promises great advantage to- the
ladies, especially the rising generation, and when we refer to
the royal and distinguished patronage this stay and corset has
received, and the high testimonials of their merits from the
most eminent medical gentlemen in the metropolis, we feel
ourselves justified in congratulating the inventress, Mrs.
Geary, upon the
.success of her invention, which we feel
satisfied, from its construction, cannot fail to benefit the
female community at large . and we are happy to know that
our fair townswomen have the advantage of this lady's in-
vention ; as per advertisement in our columns, she has ap-
pointed Mrs. Cutler, of Clarence-street, the sole agent for
Liverpool.
ENLISTING MEN FOR THE NAVY.—,A rendezvous, under
the care of Lieutenant Menz, has been opened at the corner
of Strand-street and Canning-place. The walls of the town
tire covered with placards, printed in blue ink, inviting sea-
men to enter the Queen's service, and pointing nut to them
the numerous advantages which they will enjoy by entering
therein. We know not what success has attended the gallant
lieutenant's appeal to the gallantry and the patriotism of his
brother tars. The arrival of vessels from abroad has been
numerous of late, and there must be some thousands of sea-
man now in port. Still, Jack prefers shaking a loose leg,
and, so long as the demand for the merchant service conti-
nues brisk, the Queen will, we suspect, not easily get so
many men as her service may require. A number of boys,
dazzled with the prospect of naval glory, have, we hear, ac-
cepted the bounty, and gone to qualify for naval heroes. A
friend of ours, who had two boys in his service, missed both
the other day. On inquiring, he found, from their parents,
that they had, much against their (the parents') wish, entered
the navy. Who knows but that thoge youngsters may, some
years hence, if they should survive the effects of the battle
and the breeze, become admirals and lords!

SHIPWRECK.—On the 3rd ult., in let. 49 30 N., and long.
21 W., the brig 'William and Robert, Jas. Turner, master,
from St. Andrew's, bound to Galway, experienced a very
heavy gale of wind, during which she sprung a leak, and in
eight hours' time was completely full of water, and unma-
nageable. She was capsized, and lost her bowsprit, fore-
mast, and maintopwast—the sea making a c!ean sweep of
everything on deck, leaving nothing standing but the main-
mast. She then righted. For five days the crew remained
in that situation, having nothing to eat or drink. During
that time two of them died of starvation. On the sixth day
the survivors were rescued from a similar fate by the brig
Persian, of Sunderland, Capt. Scott, from Bathurst, who
received them from the wreck, and treated them with every
kindness. The latter vessel, being also short of provisions,
with sails all split, was obliged to put into Cork, yihere she
arrived on the 30th ult., after a passage of 52 Bays from
Bathurst.

THE CASE OF VITRIOL THROWING, AND CONSEQUENT
DISTRESS OF THE FAMILIES OF THE SUFFERERS.—In ex-
pressing our abhorrence of the crime of throwing vitriol, we
but speak the feeling of all well-regulated minds, and we
hope and trust that the punishment to which the recent delin-
quents in this town have been this week consigned at the ses-
sions will operate as a warning to others, and arrest the fur-
ther resort to a species of offence so unmanly and atrocious.
We should not, however, be doing justice to our own feelings
on the occasion, nor giving scope to the sympathies of the
humane, did we not call the attention of the public to the de-
plorable condition of the two men (sawyers,) who have been
so dreadfully mutilated by the burning liquid thrown upon
them, and the destitute condition into which their poor fami-
lies have consequently been thrown. The life of Donnelly
is almost despaired of; and that of Felon is nearly as preca-
rious, his exposure to the cold on the day of trial having pro-
duced a threatening relapse. Meanwhile their families (as
may be learned at the Police-office) are reduced to the verge
of starvation. 'We shall be glad under the circumstances, to
be the recepients of any donations that may be left at our
office for their relief; and we trust that, both with reference
to the distress of the sufferers, and the atrocious outrage of
which they have been the victims, the humane and well-dis-
posed will protnply step to their aid with effectual relief.

Recruiting, on a most extensive scale, is now going for-
ward in no less than twenty-one Regiments of the Line.
" Hannay and Dietriehsen's Alinanack, Asptonomical
Ephemeris, and Book of General Information fo/18.39. —We
are positively at a loss for words to express ourAstouishment
at the unparelleled comprehensiveness of the Almanack just
published by Messrs. Hannay and Dietrichin, for the ensu-
ing year. There is scarcely a subject in tlin usual routine of
events to which we do not find reference in this book of 100
pages, at the insignificant cost of 6d.; a sum which positively
can little more than cover the price of the paper. The bio-
graphical and chronological tables are exceedingly interest-
ing, particularly those for the present year. The tides,
eclipses, &c. are duly noticed, and the progress of Encke's
comet during the remainder of the *sent year, and Gam-
bart's in 1839, are traced by diagranple of the heavens. We
have the list of the royal households; the House of Lords,
givint, the titles of the Peers, the fa lily name, the motto of
the Peers, and date of creation; the House of Commons is
given twice, first alphabetically, secondly arranged by the
places the members represent; the whole of the army list,
giving the officers' names aphabetically arranged, (a desidera-
tum long wanted) with the dates of commission, and the ap-
pointment the officer holds; the navy list is given in like man-
ner; the bankers, the provincial and metropolitan; the cor-
poration dignities; ambassadors and consuls; universities;
the list of fairs through Out the kingdom is by far the best
ever printed ; and in short, as we have before observed; in-
formation upon every possible topic of interest is afforded to
the public in this most useful pamphlet. Messrs. Hannay
and Dietrichsen have certainly put all competition out of the
field, for, we should say, it would be impossible for any other
firm to produce a similar compilation at five times the cost."
—Morning Chronicle, Oct. 28.
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