The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A PROSTITUTE

A respectaiie;;lniinitn, nirned Robert Knott Carter,
charged a woman of the town, named Ann Fegan, with hav-
ing robbed him of £B5. Mr. Carter stated that he was a
clerk in the service of Messrs. James Judson arid Co., of
Hargreave's-buildings, and lodged at No. 23, Stafford-street.
On Monday night, he was at a public-house in Great Char-
lotte-street, where he remained until between nine and ten
o'clock. When he left he was a little in liquor. lie had
one £2O Bank of England note, four £lO Bank of England
notes, and 25 sovereigns in a leather purse. The name "J.
Judson," was on the face of each of the notes. When he
left the public-house in Great Charlotte-street, he went along
the New Haymarket, and at the corner of Lord Nelson-street
he met the prisoner and two other women, who seized him by
each arm, and said, " Won't you treat us ?" He accompa-
nied the women to a public-house at the corner of Mill-lane,
kept by a person named John Saughman. Complainant and
the females were together in a back room. The prisoner sat
on his right hand. The females " pulled him about." The
third woman was, sent out of the room, and the others fol-
lowed to look for her. In a short time the woman who had
first gone out returned, and after remaining in the room a
little time, exhibited much uneasiness, in consequence of
which the suspicions of complainant were aroused, and on
examining his pocket, he found that his money was gone.
The woman who remained was given into custody, and the
number of the notes given to the police. Two £lO notes
were shown to complainant, which he stated were two of those
stolen from him.

John Saughman, a publican, in Mill-lane, corroborated
the statement of Mr. Carter, as to being at his house with
the females, and stated positively that the prisoner was one
of the women who was with him.
Inspector Savage stated that, in consequence of informa-
tion given him this morning by a female, be went to a cellar
occupied by a Mrs. Dalton, in Skelhorne-street. He found
the prisoner there upon a bed. He requested her to get up,
but she pretended to be very drunk. He searched her, and
found something bulky in one of her stockings. Constable
Morgan, who was assisting him, untied the stocking, and
took from it two £lO Bank of England notes, which prisorier
said she iiad earned honestly.

The prisoner was committed to take her trial at the ses
aims.

Mr. Rushton (addres6ing Sauzliman) : You Fee how neces-
sary it is to observe what sort of women you allow to frequent
your house. If you had read your license, and acted upon
the tenor of it, this robbery would have been avoided.

OFFENCES BY PUBLICANS.
The following publicans were mulcted in the several sums
affixed to their names, for offences against the tenor of their
licences :

,Charles Augustus Hammock, Queen's Dock Hotel, Cha-
loner-street, allowing drunkenness, (second offence,) £4 and
costs. It was for permitting drunkenness in the tap of- Mr.
Hammock for which he was fined, and which is let oft' to an
under-tenant.

David, Barry, North-street, a like offence, £5. It was
stated in this case that there were twenty men and twelve
prostitutes in defendant's house on Friday night, the majority
of whom were drunk. In adjudicating in the case, Mr.
Rushton expressed his determination to put down all night
cellars and houses where disorderly characters were allowed
to assemble. Such places were the nurseries for crime, and
the keepers of them made extravagant profits, by encouraging
the vicious and depraved, to the great injury of the morals
of society.

Matthew King, Crosby-street, for permitting drunkenness
40s.

Stephen Fletcher, Brick-street, refusing admittance to the
police, 50s.

APPLICATION FOR WAGES.
James Ellis summoned Captain Wilson, of the City of
Poonah, for a balance of wages said to be due. The com-
plainant stated that he shipped as steward with Capt. Wilson;
and performed a voyage to Bombay, for which there was a
balance due to him for his services as steward.
Captain Wilson produced evidence to show that the com-
plainant was incompetent to discharge the duties of steward,
and that he had wilfully wasted the ship's stores.
The complainant was disrated, which left him in debt to
Captain Wilson.
FRACAS BETWEEN MR. FORSIIAW AND DR. BRICE.
Mr . Henry Forshaw, attorney, was brought before the
court, having assaulted Dr. Charles Brice.
Mr. Wright, attorney, appeared for Mr. Forshaw.
Dr. Brice stated that this morning he had occasion to visit
the Apothecaries' Hall, and, whilst there, a message was
brought to him to say that he was wanted. He attended to
the message, and, in the body of the shop connected with the
establishment, he saw Mr. Forshaw, who said, " the period
for which you were hound over to keep the peace towards me
is, I believe, expired, and I am come to horsewhip von," and
proceeded to put his threat into execution. His (Dr. Brice's)
object was not to have the defendant summarily punished, he
did not wish him to escape with a whitewashing of this sort;
his wish was to have an opportunity of bringing the matter
before a jury.

Mr. Wright to Dr. Brice.—Dr. Brice, you recollect what
took place about this time last year relative to your being
bound over to keep the peace towards Mr. Forshaw? Will
you oblige me by saying how it was ?
Dr. Brice.—With pleasure. I
Mr. Rushton interposed, by saying the matter was irrele-
vant to the present charge.
Mr. Wright.—Dr. Brice made use of the word " white-
washed" in reference to Mr. Forshaw, I wish to know what
he means by it.

Mr. Wright was again about to allude to some prior dill,
ferences between the plaintiff and the defendant, when he was
interrupted by Mr. Rushton, who said all they had then to do
with was the breach of the peace complained of.
Mr. Wright said he was not desirous to introduce any
thing relative to past transactions. Mr. Forshaw•admitted
the charge made by Dr. Brice. He wished to know what
Dr. Brice meant by the term " whitewashed."
Mr. Rushton said he supposed Dr. Brice meant that he
was not desirous the affair should he disposed of summarily,
but that it should be taken before a jury.
Dr. Brice assented to this.
Mr. Wright.—lt is equally Mr. Forshaw's wish to meet
Mr. Brice.

Mr. Rushton.—l shall require Mr. Forshaw.to find bail.
Mr. Wright asked Mr. Rushton if his officers had any
right to take a person into custody for an assault, without
having witnessed it, or the charge being made on oath:
Mr. Rushton declined to answer.

Mr. Wright said he thought it was not right that his client
should have been brought into court in custody of an officer.
Mr. Rushton said he thought those who took the law into
their own hands ought not to he very ceremonious.
It was stated, relative to a question whether the term of
Dr. Brice's bail had expired, that the Doctor was, by some
means or other bound over, in consequence of having sent
Mr. Forshaw a challenge.
Mr. Rushton ordered Mr. Forshaw to find bail to keep the
peace, himself in £250, and two sure ies in £lOO each.
Mr. Wright, and Mr. Richard Blundell, solicitor, became
sureties.

It was intimated by Mr. 'Wright, that Mr. Forshaw had
taken the proceedings complained of, not with the view of
inflicting violence upon Dr. Brice, krut in order that transac-
tions between them might lie gone further into. No reflec-
tion was attempted to be thrown upon the conduct of the
officer.

Mr. Forshaw said the officer had behaved in a very kind
and proper manner.

YESTERDAY.
ATTEMPTED STREET ROBBERY.
A lad named Henry Marshall was placed at the bar on a
charge of attempting to pick pockets. Policeman No. 172
stated that he was on duty in Church-street between seven
and eight o'clock on Saturday night, whet► he saw the pri-
soner lift up a gentleman's coat and attempt to take his
pocket handkerchief. He took him into custody. The pri-
soner denied the charge, and said all he had done was to look
through a shop-window. It appeared that he was well
known to the police, having previously been three times com-
mitted and once discharged. He was committed to hard
labour for three months.

Harris Birched' was also committed for three months for
a similar offence.

Two well-known thieves named John Gregg and Manassus
Coyle were committed for three months, having been found
loitering late on Saturday night, near the end of Gloucester-
street, with other bad characters, with the intention of com-
mitting a felony.

ROBBERY OP A PIG JOBBER.
Edward Kirwan, an Irish pig- jobber, charged two men
named Michael M'Dermott and Jas. Bowman with having
robbed him of a sum of money amounting to about £7O.
The complainant was in a state of intoxication when he ap-
peared in court; but from his statement it seemed that on
Saturday night, instead of going to his own lodgings, he went
to the house of the prisoner Bowman, who keeps a beer-
house in Lacey-street. He there played at cards with the
two prisoners, and fell asleep through the effect of some drug
in the liquor, as he supposed. When he awoke he found all
his money and the prisoners gone. The money consisted of
£2O in notes of .£5, and the remainder in gold and silver.
He informed policeman No. 37; who went to Bowman's
house. His wife said he had been gone to the harvest for
five weeks, a statement which the officer knew to be false, as
he had seen the man that day. The officer therefore conti-
nued his search, and ultimately he found the two prisoners
in bed together in a house in Bence-street. Mr. Rushton
ordered the prisoners to be remanded until the prosecutor
was sober.

Two prostitutes named Ann Cross and Alice Crowley were
charged by Thomas Carruthers, a sailor, with having stolen a
a silver watch, and a pocket-book containing a small
sum of money, from his person. The prisoners were ordered
to be discharged, as it appeared that the prosecutor had been
in other company besides theirs, and he had no recollection
of the place of the alleged robbery.
STEALING FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.
Amelia Leigh, John Riley and Timothy Callaghan were
brought up on a charge of having stolen a clock, the pro-
perty of Mr. James Lee, of No. 13, Williamson-street. Mrs.
Lee stated that about half-past ten o'clock on Saturday
night she saw the the two prisoners pass the door and walk
towards Church-street. She left the door a-jar whilst she
went into the cellar kitchen for a few minutes ; she returned
immediately and saw Riley leave the house with a clock
which had stood upon a pianoforte in the front parlour, un-
der his arm. The prisoner Callaghan was about two doors
off, evidently keeping watch. Riley ran towards Richmond-
street followed by Mrs. Lee, who cried " Stop thief!" Mr.
Pulman, a coffee-house keeper in Sir Thomas's-buildings,
happened to be in a shop in Richmond-street, and he gave
chase to the thief till he was caught by Policeman No. 308.
On the way to Bridewell Callaghan made his appearance, and
attempted to whisper something into the ear of his com-
panion, whereupon he was also placed in custody. The
woman was apprehended at the same time, but there was no
evidence to implicate her in the robbery. She was therefore
discharged ; the two male prisoners, who both protested
their innocence, were committed for trial at the next sessions.

A SWINDLER

Elizabeth Fields, a young woman, who this moving term
was liberated from the Borough gaol, where she had been
imprisoned for three months for an offence similar to that
which she was now charged, was again placed at the bar. It
appeared from the evidence, that on the 29th of May last
the prisoner called upon a poor woman named Mary Owen,
who lived in Lee-street. and said her " mamma" would re-
lieve her by presenting her with some blankets and clothing.
Mrs. Owen expressed her thankfulness for the offer, where-
upon the prisoner desired her to go out for some little milk
for her to drink. During her absence the prisoner took a
silver watch worth £3, belonging to Richard Edwards, a
lodger, from the mantel-piece. She then desired Mrs.
Owen to walk with her for the purpose of buying the flan-
nel ; they went near the Exchange, when the prisoner de-
sired her to wait whilst she went to see her " mamma."
Mrs. Owen waited, as she was desired, for several hours,
and on going home she discovered that the watch had been
stolen. The prisoner pledged the watch the same day for
205., with a pawnbroker in Pitt-street. She denied the
charge. Committed to the sessions.

John Wilson and JamesASSAULTS Power were each fined 403., and
in default of payment ordered to be imprisoned 21 days, for
violently assaulting the police on Saturday night, in Rose-
place.

James Hunt was ordered to pay a penalty of -£5, and find
bail for his good behaviour, for a violent assault upon his
mother. Not being provided with the money, Mr. Rushton
adjudged him to be imprisoned for two months.

STEALING AN UMBRELLA.
A respectable looking young man, named Bentley, was
charged by Mr. Samuel Humbleton, draper, of Great
George's-place, with having stolen an umbrella, his pro-
perty. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's service
for about two months, as a shopman, at a salary of £4O and
his maintenance. He left on Wednesday last, and soon
afterwards a new silk umbrella worth 21s. was missed.—
Yesterday (Sunday), the prisoner called at the prose t ' cu or s,

for the purpose of seeing a round man, and as he had the
missing umbrella with lino he was detained. The prisoner
told the magistrate this was the first offence of the kind he
had committed, and that he would never again commit an
act like it. Mr. Rushton ordered him to be remanded till
1 to-day (Tuesday.)
ASSAULT UPON A CLERGYMAN.
Mr. Thorn, a shipowner, was charged with having assaulted
the Rev. Thomas Dismore on Saturday afternoon. Mr.
1 Dismore is a clergyman of the Established Church. He re.
ceutly resided at Cork, but is stow in Liverpool with his fa-
-1 mily, consisting of his wife, sister, and seven children, wait-
ing for the sailing of the ship Georgianx for South Australia,
where he intends to settle as an agent of the Society for the
I Promotion a Christian Knowledge. The defendant is the
owner of the Georgians, and the difference arose in conse-
quence of some luggage of Mr. Dismore's being pieced in the
mess cabin. This luggage, Mr. Thom contended, created in-
! convenience, and he represented it in strong language to the
ladies. Mr. Dismore was told of it • 'and on meeting with
Mr. Thom an altercation ensued, and the assault complained
of was committed. Mr. Thorn did not deny the charge, but
pleaded that he had been irritated into it. Mr. Rushton said
there was no excuse for the defendant; he ought not to hare
lifted his hand against a person who could net retaliate. It
was a very unfortunate affair, but the magistrates had only
one course to take. He must pay a penalty of £5. A blow
was at all times degrading, but when inflicted on a clergyman
it was unpardonable.

SERIOUS ASSAULT

James Bryce was ordered to put in bail to answer an in-
dictment at the Sessions for a most brutal assault upon a
man named Andrew Curran. The complainant was a waiter
at Carver's tavern, .in Derby-street, and the prisoner was a
singer there. On Tuesday they had a quarrel, and the pri-
soner broke all the jugs and glass he could meet with upon
the head of the complainant. To such an extent were the
blows carried that the poor man became insensible, and in
this state was conveyed to the Dispensary. The surgeon
who attended him said he had an " innumerable number"
of lacerated wounds upon his person, and that he would not
be able to work for ten or twelve days to come.

DOCK COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS

. On Thursday the Dock Committee met at the usual hour.
Besides the chairman, (Mr. Alderman Keathom,) the follow-
ing members were present :—Messrs. Benn, Barclay, Thos.
Holt, Holt, H. Hohnes, Middleton, Mellor, Builley, George
Holt, Evans, Tobin, Chapman, Moon, and Martin. The
proceedings of the former committee were read, after which
several financial accounts were read and passed. The sur-
veyors and the Harbour Masters submitted their reports, on
the plan of Mr. Alexander Gage, respecting some alterations
in the construction of the docks. The writers of the reports
gave various reasons for opposing Mr. Gage's plan, and con-
sidered that it would not be practicable to carry it into effect.
Mr. Hodgson, deputy harbour-master, was favourable to the
principle of Mr. Gage's plan, but did not approve of that sug-
gested by the committee. After some desultory discussion,
the matter was left over another week. Tenders were sub-
mitted for the supply of 3000 gallons of sperm oil, from se-
veral establishments in London. The first was from Messrs.
Bromenge and Co., offering the requisite quantity at Bs. sd.
per gallon; from Messrs. Jeremiah Pilcher & Son, at Bs. 3d.
per gallon ; from Messrs. Wolvert & Co., at Bs. ld. per gal-
lon :—another house offered to supply the quantity at Bs. 2d.
per gallon. A tender was also read from Messrs. Charles
Price and Co., also of London, offering a superior quality of
oil, which, it was stated, would answer the purpose fully as
well as sperm, at is. 4d. per gallon. After a copy of the cir-
cular had been read, requesting parties to send in tenders,
and the report thereon, it was agreed, after considerable dis-
cussion, that the surveyors should make experiments as to
the quality and strength of the various oils which had been
sent as samples, and the order to be given to that house
which furnished the best article. An application was made
by the surveyers, requesting the gridiron, on the north side of
the Clarence Basin, to be removed to the south. Granted.
—Another application was made through the same parties,
from one of the Glasgow Companies, to have one of the sheds
of the Clarence Dock boarded, so as to protect their goods
from the weather. Application postponed.—The South Har-
hour Master's Report on a passage leading from the Union
to the Cobourg Dock, was read. This gave' rise to a long
and desultory discussion, in the course of which Mr. Chap-
man animadverted upon the discrepancies of Mr. Hartley's
statements respecting the state of the Cobourg Dock. Mr.
Hartley said he was not aware that he had neglected his duty
on any point, and Mr. Alderman Evans contended that Mr.
Hartley could not fairly be charged with neglect of duty on
account of the state of the Cobourg Dock. From various
statements laid before the committee it appeared that the
erection of a wall between the Cobourg and Union would add
considerably to the convenience of the passage between the
two docks. It was ultimately agreed to refer the subject for
further consideration, in order to give the committee an op-
portunity of inspecting the works going on at the Cobourg
Dock.—A motion, submitted by Mr. Chapman at a former
meeting, that sheers be erected in lieu of a crane at the Co-
bourg Dock, was then taken into consideration. It was
agreed, after some discussion, to refer the subject to the
Harbour Master, with directions that he report thereon. Mr.
Alderman Evans gave notice that at the next meeting of the
committee he should move for a sub-committee, to. a
be in-
structed, with the instance of the solicitor, to frame bill to
be sought for in parliament, having for its object the con-
struction of a new dock or docks, and warehouses upon the
clock quays, with such other additional regulations and im-
provements as may appear to them conducive to the efficient
working of the docks, and the good management of the dock
estate. The committee then broke up.

The Duke of Newcastle has sold the Dolclettur estat
near Aberystwith, to Mr. Hughes.

Lord Riversdale is about to dispose of his estates in the
aunty of Cork. They comprise nearly 8,000 acres.
The Hon. Sir Win. Lumley intends disposing of Wink
Ad Lodge, Berks.

In the course of the week arrived at the Bedford Peniten-
iary Joseph Pedder, committed from Luton on the 15th
tustant, convicted under the game laws, and sentenced to
be kept to hard labour for two calendar months. This yciung
iman is in his 23d year, and has paid no less than nineteen
visits to this house of correction, and, we believe, has occa-
sionally visited others.—Hertford Reformer.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday last, at St.
,James's Church, Westminster, the Hon. Edward Kenyon,
youngest
.son of Lord Kenyon, to the Hon. Miss Caroline
Susan Catherine Beresford, third daughter of the late Lieut.
Gen. Lord George Beresford. The fair bride was given away
by Field Marshal Viscount BerestOrd. There were present
at the solemnisation his Grace the Archbishop of Armagh,
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord John Beresford,
Ladies Catherine and Anne Beresford, Lord Kenyon, and a
select family circle. Lady Anne Beresford gave an elegant
chgune to the wedding party.
DEATH FROM GRIEF. Mr. Burt, councillor for St.
David's, died on Monday. He was in embarrassed circum-
stances, and an execution being put into his house by a friend
embittered his last moments, and agonized his relatives.
The poor gentleman never closed his eyes after the execution
came upon him, till his last sleep bore him beyond the reach
of friendship.—Exeter Times.

The old and highly respectable banking-house of Lambton
and Co. in this town, have just made arrangements to with-
draw their own notes from circulation, and to issue no paper
but that of the Bank of England.—Newcastle Journal.

Quick WORK.—We have now in our office a slice of
bread made from wheat grown at Glenville, the residence of
Mr. Nicklin, formerly of Tipton, which was cut on Wednesday
the 9th September instant,—housed last Wednesday, the
15th—thrashed in the evening—ground on the 16th—and
baked on the 17th.—Manz Liberal.

AN EXCELLENT HINT.—We find the following in the
Cheltenham Chronicle, and copy it for the benefit of all
concerned:—" FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.—We are fearful our
sporting friends have not met with much success ; at least,
we conclude so, if we may judge from the non-appearance of
hares and partridges which are usually sent to us at the
commencement of the season."

The Royal Agricultural Society of England have published
their list of prizes for 1841, by which it appears that nearly
X. 500 are set apart for the encouragement of stock breeding ;
.1.:200 for the exhibition and trial of machinery, with an
unlimited sum for a new invention ; twenty sovereigns for
the best gorse-crushing machine; twenty sovereigns each
for the best report on the 'comparative merits of different
varieties of wheat and barley ; and ten sovereigns for tur-
nips ; twenty sovereigns for tha best account of the effects
of subsequent crops of wheat ; ten sovereigns for the best
directions to procure economical and nutritious food for
labourers ; and the same sum on the application of lime as
a manure.

Lord Stanley has given prizes to the amount of 30 guineas,
to be contended for at his annual cattle show, at Ballykisteen,
on Saturday, the 26th instant.
The new Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Shuttleworth, will be
consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday
next.

Red ink for marking linen is made with half an ounce o
vermillion and one drachm of salts of steel, finely ground
with linseed oil to the consistency required for marking with
a pen or hair pencil.

MAKE WAY FOR ROYALTY.—On one of the Emperor
Alexander's visits to Warsaw, there not having been time to
clear the streets of a.quantity of mud which had been scraped
into heaps, the Russian authorities ordered the windows on
the ground-floor of the houses to be opened and the mud
thrown into the rooms.

THE LAW or Lova IN AMERICA.—InI647, the general
court of Massachusetts enacted, that if any young man
attempted to address any young woman without the con spt
of her parents, or, in case of their absence, of a neiglibouring
magistrate of the county court, he should be fined 4a for the
first offence, £lO for the second, and imprisonment for the
third. In 1660, Captain DI Blake was fined the first-named
sum, but let off 'for £4 conditionally, " for making love to
Edmund Bridge's daughter, without her parent's consent.
IMPROVEMENT IN CALICO. PRINTING.—Mr. Beard, of
Newton, has obtained a patent for an improvement in calico
printing, the invention of Mr. Chapier, a French gentleman,
by the adoption of which a considerable saving of expense
and labour may be effected. It has recently been introduced
in Mr. lloutson's machine works, Exeter, with the very best
results. One of the modes in work is applicable to cyiinder
and surface printing only. The great merit of the invention
is, that an almost unlimited number of calicoes may be
printed by one operation of those colours in position exten-
sively variable.

EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF MECHANISM.---Sir Clifford
Constable, of Constable, county of York, has lately received
from Paris a new and most ornamental piece of furniture.
viz., a mechanical orange tree, in full size, as you see them
on the continent. The leaves are of bronze, the flowers of
sevre china, the oranges are yellow glass lamps, and there
are seven birds of the finest plumage, which sing, move their
wings and bodies, and hop all over the tree from branch to
branch. There is also a nest with three young ones in it,
which open their mouths, and the old ones appear to feed
them.

NOVEL RAT-TRAP.—Take a barrel, and stretch a skin of
parchment over it with a string; cut it across and athwart,
nearly to the outside. Take some dripping, and mix it with
meal ; smear it on the middle of the parchment. The rats
will smell it, and treading on the parchment it will give way,
and they will fall into the water in the barrel. Put a plank
for them to creep up to the barrel's brink, outside, and strew
some oatmeal on it. You must not let the water be too deep,
but set a brick endways in and the first rat that is caught
will make a noise, which will entice more, so that they will
fight for possession of the brick, and the noise will drei
others. Thus, in one night, the house may be cleared of
rats, be they never so many. Mice and other vermin may
be caught in a similar manner.

GRIT.AT ADVERTISEMENT.—We believe the greatest act,
vertisement ever given out to any printers in this country is
that lately given by the corporation to the Evening Post and
the New Era, of property to be sold for assessments. That
advertisement was published once a week for thirteen weeks,
and comes to over thirteen thousand dollars, or six thousand
five hundred dollars each. This is truly what is technically
called a " fat " advertisement, and tbe beauty of it is, that
it was promptly paid—no running a second time—the comp-
troller gives his warrant on the treasurer, which is paid, if
required, in hard cash. We did not complain of this • on
the contrary, we are gratified that it falls to the lot of the
profession occasionally to receive a reward. Almost always
political favours fall in every direction except into the hands
of printers.—New York Express.
There is an opera singer newly arrived amongst us, who
warbles so sweetly, that the sugar-dealers have petitioned
congress,to give him notice to ablocate. Their trade,aint of
no manner of use, they say, while he's there.-- Vermont
Journal.

On the efficacy of the sword in adjusting the liti-
gated claims of the Sultan and Mehemet Ali do the
"pacificators" of the East rely. So greatly do they
rely upon it, that Palmerston sent the Pedroite naval
hero, Commodore Napier, to Bey rout, to instigate an
insurrection in Syria, while the representatives of the
" high contracting parties" to the quadruple treaty were
waiting the result of the amicable and peaceful offers
made to Mehemet Ali. But we turn with disgust from
proceedings calculated to brand indelible disgrace upon
the name of England.
The consular agents of the four powers prattled in
high strains of pompous rhetoric touching the " solid
guarantee of treaties" by which European policy was
iguished, while Palmerston's commodore was ac-
y taking active steps to prove that in as far as the
quadruple treaty solemnly guaranteed peace with the
Viceroy of Egypt until the period allowed for his ac-
ceptance or rejection of certain proposals should have
expired. it was intended to be a mere elaborate piece of

treachery and deception.
A "blockade of Alexandria, commenced before the
expiration of the time allowed by the quadruple treaty
for Mehemet Ali to accept or reject the ULTIMATUM
of the high contracting parties to that treaty," is quite
in character with the proceedings previously adopted
by Napier upon the coast of Syria. This is what the
Globe calls " important news from the East." Very
important, no doubt—but very discretitable also to the
pacificatory of the East, who seem to be in most inor-
dinate haste to rush upon hostilities.
This is an age of discovery ; but the greatest of all
the many great discoveries of the nineteenth century,
is that made by Lord Palmerston, who has discovered
that Russia is the protectress of Turkey
The praise of such a discovery ought to form a part
of the epitaph of the immortal secretary when the time
comes for a grateful country to erect statues to his
memory. Russia had to cross the Balkan some years

ago to " protect" Turkey—her campaigns were not
quite as brilliant as they were bloody—but since that
she has found a shorter and easier way to Constantino-
ple—at one time a " secret treaty," extorted from the
late vain and silly Sultan behind the back of England,
served her purpose very well. " But," quoth Palmer-
ston, to on over-complaisant House of Commons, in
the last session, " the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi is
abandoned." If it be abandoned, it is only to make
room for a more pernicious treaty—a treaty which does

what that of Unkiar-Skelessi did not—binds England,
hand and foot, to the footstool of the most powerful
and most indefatigable enemy of the Ottoman empire,
now dubbed by Palmerston, " Protectress of Turkey."

MINISTRY

AND REPEAL

(From the Leeds Intelligencer.)

The ministerial journals affect- to be very much
alarmed at the progress of " Repeal." It is probable
that they have received their cue from the Home-office,
the presiding genius there being just the man to play
off a false light. O'Connell, however, must needs
laugh in his sleeve; for he and the ministers perfectly
understand each other.

Now if we are right in our position—and we are
quite satisfied on that head—we may see with what
manner of men the country has to deal.
The Dublin Review is a Roman Catholic organ, con-
ducted by Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Wiseman, and a com-
mittee. In that work we have a strong expression of
confidence in Lord Normanby and her Majesty's mi-
nisters generally. "In Lord Ebrington, Lord Mor-
peth, and Mr. Norman M`Donald, (say the reviewers,)
- have still everything which the circumstances of the
• their fidelity to the good cause cannot be
Now what is this good cause? The re-
viewers shall themselves answer to the interrogation.
They say—" We have, by our own fearless, well-di-
rected energies, won emancipation—we have chained
down to earth the old Orange oppressor—we have
swept away half the spurious prelacy by which our sa-
cred soil was contaminated—we have shut up many of
the stone and mortar things they called ' churches by
law established.' " This is the
_" good cause"! This

case requar

suspect

is the end which, according to O'Connell and Co., her
Majesty's ministers aim at, and their "fidelity," it
seems, " cannot be suspected." The Protestant Church
is a mere thing of stone and mortar, and contaminates
the soil; our bishops are a spurious prelacy; and the
whole are of course to he swept away when the Pro-
testants are foolish enough to concede to their oppo-
nents the power of doing it! Her Majesty's ministers
are doing all they can to bring about the consumma-
tion ; " their fidelity cannot be suspected "

POLITICAL CHARACTERS

From the Oxford Herald.)
SIR E. L. BULWER.

" Ay, this is he who wears the wreath of bays,
Wove by Apollo and the sisters nine,
Which Jove's dread li; htning scathes not. He hath doft

The cumbrous helm of steel, and flung aside
Ailing diadem of gold;

['he yet more g

The period which he spent at Hinckley, during the inter-
val which elapsed between his retirement from office after
the duel with Lord Castlereagh, and his entrance upon the
Lisbon embassy, was a remarkable epoch in his life. It was
with him undoubtedly a season of comparative seclusion, but
it was one also of great and successful preparation. He lived
at Burbach, a little village distant about a mile from town,
which he had sought mainly for the benefit of his eldest son,
whose health was in a most precarious condition, and whom
he had placed under the care of the well-known Mr. Ches-
shyre.
This son—he died at the age of nineteen, and Mr. Can-
ning's tribute to his memory is the most touching of all his
writings—was a youth of remarkable promise, and indescri-
bably dear to his father. He was indisputably his favourite
child. In all his plans for the future, in all his visions of
ambition, this son occupied a foremost place. He was an
embryo statesman. His genius, discernment, quickness,
and judgment were topics on which Canning delighted to
dwell. The opinion and expectations which his father had
formed of him may be gathered from this single fact, that
whenever he had spoken at any length in parliament, the
best and fullest report of the speech was sent down forthwith
to George, who was required to write his father an elaborate
and lengthened criticism upon it, pointing out where it was
forcible and where it was defective, where the language was
happy, and where it was common-place. and distinguishing
between what was mere declamation and what solid argu-
ment.

" Can I think too highly of that child ?" was the remark
addressed by Canning on one occasion to his son's tutor,
Mr. Hay.

" Yoti not only can, but do," was the honest and unhesi-
tating reply. " Your second son is but little inferior to him
in point of capacity ? and after all it may be that this infant"
—pointing to Charles, who was born at Burbach—" may be
the child destined to carry down to the succeeding genera-
tion your name and honours. . . .

" 1 am persuaded he will not," was Canning's quick re-
joinder. He was wrong. The random remark has proved
prophetic. Captain Canning's career closed early ; and upon
Charles, the infant referred to and scarcely noticed, have
devolved the honour of his name and the association it recals.

With the exceptions of his struggles iu early life, Can-
ning's residence at Hinckley extended over one of the most
gloomy periods of his life. Retirement from office, under
circumstances of painful notoriety, had been the result of
his duel with Lord Castlereagh. Early in May, 1812, Mr.
Percival was shot by Bellingham. The Prince Regent then
laid his commands on Lord Wellesley and Mr. Canning to
form an administration. The project failed. The task was
then entrusted to Lord Liverpool, who strongly urged
Canning to join him ; and such was the anxiety of the existing
administration to secure his services, that the foreign office was
offered to him—Lord Castlereagh being a consenting party to
an arrangement which would leave it open to Mr. Canning's
acceptance. This tempting proposal was firmly negatived,
solely upon conscientious grounds. It was understood that
the administration was pledged, as such, to oppose catholic
emancipation. To this compact Canning declined being a
party—and thus, while he preserved his consistency, and
showed by the costly sacrifice which it entailed, the sincerity
of his desire to carry the catholic question, he lost the oppor-
tunity of presiding over the foreign relations of the country,
at a period when " events crowded into a few years the
changes and revolutions of an age."
But this interval, though spent in retirement, was fraught
with preparation. There is a walk as beautiful as it it se-
cluded. stretching from Burbach towards the village of Stoke
Golding, known as Canning's walk. Along this he was seen,
morning after morning, wending his way, always alone, ab-
sorbed in thought, and not unfrequently thinking aloud. He
invariably declined having a companion for his walk, disliked
amazingly being interrupted in the progress of it, and to any
chance salutation by the way, his invariable reply was a silent
bow.

It was his hour of study. He was then forging weapons
for the coming fight, inspecting his stores, and polishing his
armoury. No weather deterred him. Through shower and
sunshine he paced rapidly on. What subjects might not these
long silent walks embrace ! In them how many a topic, ar-
gument, simile, invective, rebuke, was deliberately sought out
and carefully laid up. Of the exquisite and elaborate finish
bestowed on many of his lengthened speeches, who shall
show how much may be traced to the severe scrutiny and re-
peated revision of his solitary rambles The music of his
periods, the easy flowing language with which he rounded the
the most unmanageable details, the remark of caustic irony,
and the flash of cutting sarcasm, the epigrammatic point of
a crushing reply, when a word more or less would have mar-
red its force,—these are excellencies which could not have
been attained in the perfection which he possessed them,
without long and severe study. Was this his workshop ?
About a mile and a half from Burbach stands an old hall,
to which some interest attaches, as being the residence which
peculiarly attracted Canning's attention, and which he was
most desirous to purchase, as " an asylum for his old age."
Alas !

The offers which he made to induce the infatuated posses-
sor to part with it were beyond its value, and can be justified
only by the extraordinary predilection which Mr. Canning
had conceived for it. The more you examine Wyken Hall,
the greater difficulty you experience in discovering its attrac-
tions for the statesman. It is a quaint old building, in the
Elizabethan style, with huge and somewhat unshapely wings,
much dilapidated by time, and, when I saw it, rapidly sink-
ing to decay from continued and undeserved neglect. It
stands close upon the horse-road leading to Stoke Golding,
in an exposed and rather bleak situation. On each side of
the principal entrance are two yew trees of prodigious growth
and great age, which throw a sombre air over the building,
and materially darken the lower rooms. A plantation rises
on one side, and some unsightly farm-buildings on the other.
In the back-ground is the straggling, filthy, poaching village
of Stoke Golding, perched on the summit of a high hill, top-
ped with its handsome church and splendid spire. In the
foreground is a home view of pasture land, skirted to the left
by Burbach Wood, and embracing to the right the town of
Hinckley, its parish church and tapering spire.
Wyken Hall is now a farm-house; the little lawn before
the principal entrance is converted into a fold yard. Poultry
ravage the pleasure garden—weeds flourish ad libitut:n in
the plantation—the litter of a large farm is scattered thickly
around the premises—and not one feature does it present,
within or without, to corroborate the fact that it was once
the coveted residence of one of the most accomplished of
British statesmen.—Metropolitan.

CAPABILITIES AND RESOURCES OF BRITISH

GUIANA

(From Schonaburgk's Description, 5,.c.)

Among the British possessions in South America, Hon-
duras takes a great share in the export of timbers ; and
though British Guiana neither possesses the log-wood nor
the mahogany, it possesses other timber-trees and dyes
equally useful; while Guiana has the advantage, that it may
be approached with less danger to the navigator than Hon-
duras, and is never subjected to hurricanes.
In the foregoing remarks I have endeavoured to make the
reader acquainted with some of the trees which, with refer-
ence to their timber, are of importance to commerce. Of
equal, if not greater value, are the trees and planks from
which medical substances may be obtained, and which, at
present unheeded and unsought for by the colonists, do not
profit mankind, and may be considered buried riches. It
would be in vain to attempt a description of all the medical
plants with which the dense forest of the interior abounds.
I shall therefore satisfy myself with enumerating the most
remarkable.

Trees which belong to the Laurel tribe are very numerous
in Guiana, and are not only important for their aromatic
and stomachic qualities, but likewise for the volatile oil
which is obtained merely by making incisions in the bark ;
this oil is used in rheumatic complaints, or in general exter-
nally as a discutient, and internally as a diuretic and diapho-
retic. It commands in the colony a price of ten guilders
(145.) per quart : several quarts may be obtained by a single
incision.
The bark of Laurns Cinnamomides is warm and aromatic.
The Mabaima or Amabaima of the natives, or Casca preci-
osa of the Brazilians, is a sweet, aromatic bark which comes
from a tree that belongs likewise to the Laurel family. I
have no doubt that the tree which furnishes the Sassafras
nuts of the London shops (Laurus Pucheri) will be found in-
digenous in Guiana.
The forests of Guiana produce plants which possess power-
ful febrifugal properties. On the. banks which border the
river Berbice in the fourth and fifth parallel the 9,uassua
amara, or bitter ash, and further south, the Portlandia hex-
andra, are to be obtained in abundance. Several of the
Anonacere, as Uvaria febrifuge (Frutta de Burro of the Co-
lombians), are used as a febrifuge. The Indians of the Ru-
pununi set a great value on the bark of a tree which they call
Allissau; in the absence of its flowers I considered it to be-
long to the Bucku tribe (Diosnue.) The Simaruba, Tuchia
guianeilsia. Malphighia febrifuge, and numerous others, would
prove useful for their febrifugal properties.
The violet tribe comprises a • plant which furnishes the
Ipecacuanha, namely lonidiurn parvifloruna. The root of
the Cephaelis Ipecacuanha, found in the damp and shaded
forests of the interior, furnishes' the best Ipecacuanha. A
small creeping plant, a species of Vandellia, is used as an
emetic by the Indians with great success.
The diuretic and demulcent powers of the Sarsaparilla are
well known ; and the Sarsa de Rio Negro is most esteemed
for that purpose. Guiana possesses several kinds, and the
Duroquaro„ one of the indigenous species, is used with great
effect by the Indians. If the Similar si'philitica which is
considered to furnish the best sarsaparilla, should' not be
found, it might be cultivated with success in British Guiana.
The root of the Phiolakca decandra, Helicteris Sacarotha,
Waltheria Douradinha, are used in siphilitic diseases.
That valuable substance Caoutchouc is yielded by divers
trees and plants, viz., a species of fig-tree, several of the fa-
mily of Euphorbiacetet and the hya-hga or milk-tree, which
affords a milky secretion, possessing a small quantity of
caoutchouc, and has been used as a substitute for milk.
Many trees of the forests of Guiana are famed for their
fragrant resinous juice and healing qualities. The balsam
eopaiva is yielded by the genus Copai era, of which there are
slivers species in Guiana. I have met frequently in the Ca.

* It will scarcely be believed, that the Arnatto, which is
so extensively used for colouring, is at present imported from
France via New York, to avoid, like the slave-grown coffees,
the foreign duty. It is an indigenous plant in Guiana; the
banks of the Upper Corentyn are covered with it, but there
are not sufficient people to render the natural productions of
the colony of use.

BortastlA.N PEARLS,--A letter from Vienna says, that the
pearl fishery in Bohemia and Moravia has been very produc-
tive this year. These pearls, known by the name of Bohemian
pearls, are found in the Moldawa, from Krumon to below
Furenberg. This river furnishes every year from 300 to 400
pearls, of the purest water, and very well shaped, besides
several hundred imperfect pearls. The house of Schwartzen-
burg is proprietor of the greater parts of the banks. The
The shells which produce the pearls are of a peculiar species,
which it would be advantageous to increase. Besides the
Moldawa is another small river, called the Wattawa, which'
produces a few pearls. They are not fished up, as in the
Moldawa, from the bed of the river, but taken from the shells
thrown upon the banks by the overflowing of the Watlawa.

TRIUMVIRATE 01, BOOKSELLERS.—Three individuals at
this moment hare almost monopolised the bookselling trade
in Germany. The most powerful of these is Baron Cotta,
the proprietor of the .Allgemeine Zeitung. The baron is
likewise proprietor of six literary periodicals, of a high stand-
ing, and is said to have from 300 to 400 editors in his pay.
He is proprietor of the copyright of all the works of Goethe,
Schiller, Herden, and Uhland. The second of these literary
grandees is Reimer, of Berlin, who owns the copyright of
all the works of Jean Paul, Tiek, Kleist, Johannes von Mul-
ler, Novalis, anti Schlegel. The third is Brockhause, of
Leipsic, the proprietor of the " Conversations Lexicon,"
which alone employs the time and talents of 100 literary men.
Brockhause is likewise the publisher of a most colossal en-
eyclopcedia, which, when finished, will consist, at least, of
.200 volumes; and a few months since he commenced a new
daily paper, and is about to publish, at this moment, a pe-
riodical work, upon a most extensive and peculiar scale.

Atipping

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBF:Ii IS. Wind N.N.E.
Aartivitn.—Juno, Splion, from Danzig—Earl, Clewall, front
Sicily—and Verina, Milhnrn, from Glasgow.
SAlLED.—Gemini, Rawson, for Calcutta

Sa I LED.—Vicksburg, Bunker, for New York—Faisca Rebello
Segundo, Rebello, for Lisbon—Lncina, Albrecht, for Monte Video
—British Oak, Taylor, for Croustadt—Hartlepool, Hubbard, for
Constantinople—Resultatet, Armonis, for Revel—Anna Sophia,
Reeve. for Lubeck, &c.—Freundschaft. Kopper, for Stettin—Eugen,
_Schroder, for Flensburg—Concordia, Ball. for Gibraltar—Gemini,
Macdon, for Calcutta—Ambassador, Kelly, for New Orleans—Gip-
sev, Cresswell, for Maranharn—Trinculo, Hnllin, for Valparaiso—
Industry, Fleming, for St. Petersburg—Queen Victoria, Thompson,
for New York—Gazelle, Lakey, for Naples—Tarujo Segundo, Paiha,
for Lisbou—Ayrshire, Pitt, for Halifax, N.S.—Acastus. Hayes, for
Genoa, &c.—Zulima, Gronland, for Borgo—Rival, Sutherland, for
Barbadoes, &c.—Wolff, Wossoran, for Stettin—Euxine, Nicol, for
Miraniichi—Columbia, Croman, for Demerara—St. Milan, Camp-
bell ; Jane, Roberts, and Lady Ann, Pym, for Newfoundland—
Commerce,Wyse, for Charleston—Claudius, Scoble, and Herculean,
Cook, for Boston—Landsdowne, Turnbull, for Bilboa—William,
Mackwood, for Trieste—Kincardineshire, Dunn. for Riga—Loyalist,
Skinner, for Pictou—North America, Baker, for New York—Mar-
chioness of Bute, Joblin, for Constantinople—Harbinger, Candlish,
for Sincapore —and Highlander, Bottomley, for Arica, &c.
Lady Rowena, Clayton, from Bombay, at this port. On the 4th
ult., in lat 11, lon 21, spoke the Swiftsure, hence to Africa ; on the
2ith ult., in lat 34, lon 32, spoke the Ontario, hence to N. Orleans.
Hudson, Hamilton, from linancho, at Callao, and was to sail
for Liverpool 16th June
Maypo, Mann, and Minstrel Boy, Boyne, hence at Callao
Asia, Bloomfield, sailed from Callao for Liverpool 21st May

Daniel Grant, Mintz, sailed from Callao for Iquique 24th May

Countess, Garroll ; Zeldenrust, Konig, and Jonge Wilhelm,
Haringa, hence at Zwolle

Georgio, Cherico, hence to Messina, was spoken Bth instant, in
lat. 40, long. 10

Argyra, Reed, hence to the Cape of Good Hope, was spoken 10th
instant, Scilly E.N.E. 40 miles

Hermes, Oliphant. from Lima for London, off New Romney ;
sailed 6th June, in company with the Narcassus for London, and
Hebe for Liverpool

Thomas Mellor, hence at Pernambuco

BEAUMARI3, Sept. 17.—The Mary, Hewitt, and James, Roberts,
flats) are sunk at Pelltll3.lll/laWr.

STROMNESS, Sept. 11.—The Greenock, from St. Petersburg to
Liverpool, in entering this harbour yesterday during a very heavy
gale at W.N-W. was driven on the Holmes, and it is expected must
be lightened to be got off.
Off Voel Nant, at 10 a.m. No. 91, Alexander, Ship, supposed
from Mobile.