The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

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EttOt Inbito.

To tail early in January next.
For I3OMBAY,
7tiel The fine Liverpool-built Ship JOHNSTONE,
J. J. SPENCE, Commander ;
A 1 ; 436 tons register; coppered and copper-fastened; sails
remarkably fast; and having a large portion of her cargo
engaged, will meet with quick despatch.—For terms of freight
or passage (having capital accommodations) apply to Messrs.
SANDBACH, TINNE, and Co., or

BOLD and STARKEY.

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For PARIS, t'ia HAVRE and ROUEN.
The City of Dublin Steam-packet Company
. .
having completed their arrangements for
despatching a first-class Steamer regularly t
Ado
figko
09".4;-,tAk. HAVRE from BELFAST, calling at DUBLIN
''• for Passengers,
The LEEDS,
Lieutenant PARSONS R.N., Commander,
Is appointed to sail for HAVRE, (calling at PLYMOUTH,)
from BELFAST, on Friday, the 25th January, 22d February,
and 22d March, and from DUBLIN, (say KINGSTOWN,) on
Saturday, the 26th January, 23d February, and 23d March.
Fares from Belfast or Dublin to Havre £3 3 0
Ditto to Rouen, by the River Seine 3 10 0
Ditto to Paris, ditto 4 0 0
Fares from Plymouth to Havre
Steward's Fee, ss.
Passengers from Liverpool will be taken free by the Com-
pany's vessels to join the LEEDS at Belfast or Dublin.
Freight of measurement Goods from Liverpool to Havre,
via Belfast, 40s. per ton.
For freight or passage apply at the City of Dublin Steam-
packet Company's Offices, 15, Eden-quay, Dublin; to HILL
CHARLEY, Belfast; WILLIAM SA UN DERS, ; or to
SAMUEL PERRY, 24, Water-street.

71 For DUBLIN AND BELFAST.
THE CITY OP DUBLIN
1:11/LA\ STEAM-PACKET COMPANY,
Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
The above Company sail their Vessels, ( with or withou,
Pilot:,) taking Goods and Passengers to the following ports
namely,From LIVERPOOL to DUBLIN, Daily.
From DITTO to BELFAST, every Wednesday.
The Steamer ATHLONE, for BELFAST, on WIDNES.
DAY next, the 2d January, at Ten o'clock in the Evening,
from Clarence Dock.

The principle of this Company is that of attaching all
Importers and Exporters by *Division of the Profits among
them, after pa 3 went of the Dividends—thus creatin g a com-
munity of interests between the Shippers and Shareholders—
a principle which will best guarantee to its Proprietors
acertainty of their Dividen4s, and to Shippers of all descrip-
tions of Goods and Live Stuck the having a well supported
Establishment of first-class Steamers, and the lowest rate of
freight compatible with due attention to their maintenance.
Apply to SAMUEL PERRY, 24, Water-street.

VoL. Xl.---No. 637.]

..4"atto in) auction.

—HEARTS RESOLVED, AND HANDS PREPARED, THE BLESSINGS THEY ENJOY TO GUARD !—Smot.LETT

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1838.

inourance NoticrO.

TO THE FACULTY.
rl-10 be DISPOSED OF, under most favourable circum•
stances, a LONG-ESTABLISHED and LUCRA.
ME PRACTICE, near Liverpool. The terms, £3OO.
Satisfactory reasons will be stated for its being thus offered,
and personal introductions would be afforded to the successor.
The highest and most satisfactory references will be given.
Address, M. Y. C., (post paid,) Box H

YORKSHIRE
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
ESTABLISHED 1824.
PARTIES having Annual Polices falling due on the
25th December, are respectfully informed that they
should renew the same within fifteen days from that date.

AGENTS.
LATHAM HANMER, Jun. 1, Dale-street.
FREDERIC LA PAGE,
JOHN ATKINSON, Fenwick-buildiugs, Fenwiek-street.

COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS-TWENTY

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY

CONTRACT FOR WORKS.

NOTICE IS H EREBY GIVEN, that the Directors of
the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company,
will MEET at their Offices, No. 23, Bond-street, Manchester,
on Wednesday •the 16th January, 1839, at Twelve o'clock at
noon, to RECEIVE TENDN.:RS fur Contract No. 6, or
Congleton Viaduct Contract.

To make and maintain the Bridge or Viaduct over the river
Dane, the northerly end of which is to be eituate in a field,
marked on the parliamentary plan as No. 81, in the township
of Dunne Walltield, in the county of Chester; and the
southerly end of which is to be situate about two chains
distant from the south side of the toad leading from Congle-
ton to Westfields, being in the field, marked on the said plan
Ni. 53, in. the township of Congleton, in the said county.
The length of the viaduct will be about 3,078 feet, and its
greatest height about 98 feet 6 inches from the river to the

Drafts of the contract, with plans and specifications, will
be ready for inspection on and after the 28th instant, at the
offices of the engineers in chief, Store-street, Manchester.
Printed forms of tender may be had at the engineers'
office; and all tenuers must be lodged previously to the hour
of meeting, at the company's office, in Bond-street, Man-
chester, endorsed " Tender for Works ;" and no tender, ex-
cept the printed form furnished by the company, will be
attended to.

The party whose tender is accepted will be required to
enter into a bond, with two sureties, for the due performance
of the contract, to the extent of 10 per cent. o❑ the gross
amount of such contract; and the names and descriptions of
the proposed sureties must be set forth in the tender.
The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept
the lowest tender ; and they expect the several parties ten-
dering., or persons duly authorised by them, to be in attend-
ance at the offices, in Bond-street, Manchester, at the time
of meeting.

(Signed) THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Office,
23, Bond-street, Manchester.

PER CENT.
XTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the above Return
111 will be allowed to such Persons as have completed
Seven Years' Insurance during the last year, in their next
payments to us of Premium and Duty.
WILLIAM FORS HAW, Agent at Liverpool.
Thomas Bolton, „ Blackburn.
Igdaliah Seddon, Bolton.
27
Thom.es Rawsthorne,
12 Lancaster.
George Woollam, „ Manchester.
E. Bamford, Oldham.
11. Benson, jun.,
27 Preston.
11.1-1. Fishwick, ~ Rochdale.
Woodcock and Part, „ Wigan.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE
PUBLIC.

IFE ANNUITY RATES, calculated on Euitable
ILA Principles !!! For Example—for every £lOO depo-
sited, this Association will grant the Annuity placed oppo-
site the Age of the party depositing.—From £5O and upwards,
in proportion.

• . Age.
30 to 40 to 45 to 50 to 55 to 60 to 65 to 70 to 75 to 80

£8 0I £8 10 £9 0 £9 10 I I
£lO 10 £l2 10 I £l5 10 £2O I £25
Pr Ct pr Ct IprCt I pr Cl per Cl per Ct per Ct pet pCt

LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE RATES
REDUCED 31 PER CENT. PER ANNUM.
LIFE ASSURANCE RATES.

Age. 20 to 25 to 30 to 33

38 to 45 to 50

Premium. I£l HI £1 151 £2 01£2 611:2 1011:2 15 I£3 5
This Company make no Charges for intermediate Ages under
50 Years.
FIRE INSURANCE RATES.
Common Insurance. s. (1.
Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous) 1 0 per Cent.
Hazardous
Double Hazardous
Farming Stock 1 6

INDEPENDENT AND WEST MIDDLESEX AS.
SURANCE COMPANY,
Opposite the Bazaar,
RAKER-STREET, POR.TMAN-SQUARE, LONDON.
St. David's-street, and High-street, Edinliurvh ; Ingram.
street, Glasgow; and Sackville-street, Dublin.
Established and empowered under the several Arts of Parlia•
ment of 14th Geo. 111.. c. 48;-22d Geo. 111. ;-53d Geo.
c. 141,-3d Gen. IV. r 92, and 1 rot c. 10.
CAPITAL, ONE MILLION.
IN 20,000 SHARES OF 00 EACII.
MANAGERS.
Thomas K nowles, Esq.
H. R. Perkins, Esq.
Thomas Price, Esq.
William Reid, Esq.
Edward W. Taylor, Esq.
John Wilson. Esq.
I Wm. Whittaker, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Saml. Eyre, Esq. i J. Wilson, Esq. I G. E. Williams, Esq.
Resident Secretary—Mr. William Hole.
Bankers—The Bank of England, Bank of Ireland, and
Western Bank of Scotland.
Physician—Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S., Manchester-sq.
Surgeon—James Devereux Hustler, Esq.. Park-street.
Surveyor—Simon Thurston, Esq., 9, Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury-square.
Solicitors—Messrs. Williams and Son, 2, Hart-street,
Bloomshury-square.
AGENTS:
Lancaster Mr..l. Taylor, Surveyor.
CMr. C. HUISH, Company's Office,
-)Messrs. OKILL and COKE, 177,
Water-street.
LIVERPOOL..
Dale-street.
Chorley Messrs. Morce and Clayton.
Oldham Mr. T. Kershaw, Hatter, High-street.

.Tames'Alexander, Esq.
George Anderson. Esq.
James Drummond, Esq,
Samuel Eyre, Esq.
Robert Ferguson, Esq.
Thomas Pope, Esq.
J. D. Hustler, Esq.

CLASSICAL AND COMMERCIAL SCHOOL,
UPPER NORTHGATE-STREET, CHESTER.
11/TESSRS. MARTINDALE and SUART beg to
1111 announce, that the duties of their SCHOOL will be
RESUMED on MONDAY. January' 28th, 1839.
References are permitted t,) the Rev. Dr. Pulford (with
whom Mr. M. was several years Assistant) and the Rev. J.
Hodgkinson, 13 D., Chrisleton; the Rev. Wm. Harrison,
M.A., Lieutenant,Col. Fuller, and Captain French, Chester;
John Roberts, Esq., New-hall, near Rhuabon; and Wm.
Potter, EFg., Chirk.
N.l3.—Terms may be had on application to Messrs. M. and
S., or to the Editor of this Paper.

ALADY, who has been for many years accustomed to
the business of Tuition, wishes to engage herself as
GOVERNESS or TEACHER, in a pious Family or School.
In addition to the usual branches of English Education, she
is competent to give Instruction in the French Language,
and also in Music and Drawing, if required. Respectable
references will be given.
Address, A. A., at the Standard-office.

PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
y IVERPOOL possesses a commemoration of the greatest
1 4 Naval Commander of the Nation, but has no Memo-
rial of her greatest Military Chieftain.
To supply this deficiency, a few Gentlemen of Liverpool
have associated themselves together, and are now in personal
communication with HAYDON, for a PORTRAIT of the
DUKE OF WELLINGTON, in connexion with some one
of his splendid victories; being satisfied that the Historical
Painter who could depict Napoleon in Exile, so as to kindle
the admiration and muse of Wordsworth, would not fail to
produce an equally enduring Memorial of Napo:eon's an-
tagonist-genius—the Hero of Waterloo.
It is proposed to place the Picture permanently in some
suitable Building in Liverpool, easy of access to the Public,
such as the contemplated St. George's-hall.
Books fur the Names of Subscribers are placed at the dif-
ferent News-rooms and Newspaper-offices, and Subscriptions
will be received at all the Banks, by the Members of the
Committee, or by Mr. THOMAS WINSTANLEY, Church-
st reet, the Treasurer; and to give all classes an opportunity
of contributing to this public object, the smallest Subscrip-
tions will be received.

BRITANNIA LIFE A&
1, PRINCE'S-ST[IILE'
CAPITAL. ONI
DIRSC

THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN HAVE BEEN APPOINTED

Mr. James Aikin
James Aspinall
T. P. Barclay
Charles Barber
I. Barned
Thos. Baines
H. Banner
Charles Birch
John Bent
Sir Thomas Braneker
Mr. James Brancker

THE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Ambrose Lace
Joseph Langton
Charles Lawrence
Henry Lawrence
G. H. Lawrence
Thos. Leathom
John Shaw Leigh
John Lightbody
Crawford Logan
James Lister
M. D. Lowndes
a. r. ma►ner
James Metier
Edw. Molyneaux
James Moon
L Mozley
E. I. Mozley
Thos. Morecroft
Jas. Mullineaux
James Muspratt
John Miller
John Myers
Jacques Myers
Wm. Nevett
Stanley Perceval
Joseph Parton
Wm. Potter
Edw. Pitcher
James Pownall
Richd. Radcliffe
George Robinson
Vim. F. Robinson
Nicholas Roskell
Wm. Rotheram
Samuel Sandbach
H. R. Sandbach
W. R. Sandhach
Thomas Sands
Francis Shand
William Shand
Sir John Salisbury
Mr. A. F. Swainson
Charles Tayleur
Richard Tetley
Thos. Thornely
J. D. Thornely
Sir John Tobin
Mr. Samuel Turner
J. N. Walker
Joshua Walmsley
John Wright
Thomas Winstanley
R. Zwilchenbart.

William Bardgett, Esq.
Samuel Bevingtnn, Esq.
Wm. Fechney Black, Esq.
John Brichttnan, Esq.
George Cohen, Esq.
Millis Coventry, Esq.
John Drewett, Esq.

SURANCE COMPANY,
:T, BANK, LONDON.
E MILLION.
CTORS.
Robert Eglinton, Esq.
Erasmus Robt. Foster, Esq.
Alex. Robert Irvine, Esq.
Peter Alorrson, Esq.
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq.
William Shand, jun., Esq.
Thomas Teed, Esq.

n‘c-letnit

Rev. Jonathan Brooks
Major Brooks
Mr. Christopher Bullen
Christopher Bushel
Rev. Augustus Campbell
Mr. David Cannon
William Cator
Samuel Jos. Clegg
John Clow
William Claxton
John Davies
Edward G. Deane
W. H. Dobie
William Earle
Hardman Earle
Richard Edwards
Pattison Ellames
Joseph Ewart
James Foster
John Foster
Robe►tson Gladstone
Duncan Gibb
Joseph Hornhv
Charles Horsrall
T. B. tiorstall
Samuel Holme
William Huson
George Irlam
Hugh Jones
Francis Jordan
Thomas H. Illedge
B. Haigh
Francis Haywood
J. Higginson
Mei!. Houghton
R. W. Houghton
Thomai Headlam
John Holmes
Henry Holmes
Jos. King
Thomas Kaye
John Knowles, Jun.
SAMUF
JOHN

MEDICAL OFFICERS.
W. Stroud, M.D., and Ebenezer Smith, Esq. Surgeon.

SOLICITOR.
NVIIII4M Devi'll, Esq., Old Jewry.
MEDICAL OFFICER FOR LIVERPOOL.
Robert Hector, Esq , Great Newton-street.

AGENTS FOR LIVERPOOL.
()KILL AND COOKE,
Top of Dale-street, corner of Castle-street.

ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
A most economical set of Tables—computed expressly for
he use of this institution, from authentic and complete data.
Increasing Rates of Premium, of a new and remarkable
plan, for securing loans or debts; a los immediate payment
being required on a Policy for a whole term of life than in
any other office.

A Board of Directors in attendance daily, at Two o'clock.
Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
A liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
Medical Attendants remunerated in all cases for their re-
ports.

First Fitt
Years.

,Ram per Cent. per Annum, payable di

4econd Five
Years.

Third Five !Fourth Fivel
Years. I Years.

20
30
40
50

'Remainder
of Life.

L HOLNIE)..
Secretaries.
CLOSE,S

£ s. d
1 1 4
1 6 4
1 16 1
2 16 7

£ s. d.
1 5 10
1 12 2
2 4 4
3 9 4

£ s. d.
110 11
119 1
2 14 6
4 5 5

£ s. d.
1 16 9
2 7 4
3 7 3
5 6 3

£ s. p.
2 3 8
2 17 6
4 3 4
6 13 7

Officers in the Army and Navy. engaged in active service
or residing abroad, and persons afflicted with chronic disor-
ders, not attended. with immediate danger, Assured at the
least possible addition to the ordinary Rates, regulated in
each case by the Increased nature of the risk. Prospectuses
and every requisite information as to the mode of effecting
Assurances, may be obtained by application to
K11..1.4 and COOKE, Agents for Liverpool.
Office top of Dale-street, at the corn,r of Castle-street.

RE WILLIAM NORRIS, A BANKRUPT.
r E creditors who have proved their debts, under a fiat
I in bankruptcy against WILLIAM NORRIS, of Li-
verpool, in the county of Lancaster, merchant, dealer and
chaptuan, may receive a Dividend of Eight Shillings in the
Pound, by applying at the Office of Messrs. THOMAS CROOK
and SON,. Accountants, 19, Exchange-street East, any day
after Saturday, the 29th instant.

TOULNIIN, Joint Solicitors to
CARSON, the Fiat.
December 26th, 1938.

[PRICE FIVEPENCE

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.

HARE ON SPINAL DISEASE.
This Day is published, in Royal Bvo., Price 10s.,
IRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the CAUSES and
TREATMENT of CURVATURES of the SPINE,
with Hygyenic directions for the physical culture of Youth
as a means of preventing the disease;—an Etching and de-
scription of an Apparatus tor the correction of the deformity;
—and Engravings illustrative of the cases.
By SAMUEL HARE, Surgeon, Leeds.
London ;SINIFKIN & CO.: Edinburgh; OLIVER &BOYD:
Dublin; WM. CURRY, JUN. & Co.: Leeds; \Vat. BEAN &
SON : and all Booksellers.

THE MERCHANTS' rEA COMPANY,
Si, LATE 44, GREAT GEORGE-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

EDWARD GILBERT & CO. respectfully solicit the
attention of the public to their present well-selected
stock of Teas, Coffees, &c. which they can with confidence
recommend as being of a quality combining the strictest
economy in price, with the greatest utility in strength,
and unexceptionable delicacy of flavour. They request a
trial of their justly estimated and highly approved " HONG
MIXTURE," composed of several sorts of the finest Black
Tea, and prepared solely at the Merchants' Tea Company's
Warehouse as above, which is pronounced by competent
judges to be an article particularly deserving of the notice of
consumers generally.
This Tea is sold in pound and half-pound, (Leaden
packages), at 6s. per pound.
E. Gilbert & Co. have always on hand the best Jamaica
Coffee fresh roasted, which for strength and richness of
flavour cannot be excelled.
EDWARD GILBERT & CO.
PROPRIETORS,
WAREHOUSE 87, LATE 4.1, GREAT GEORGE-STREET,
Near St. James's Mai ket, Liverpool.

ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY, and PATENT
GROATS, recommended by the Faculty, patronized
by the Queen and Royal Family.
The attention of Mothers, (especially during the period of
nursing,) Invalids, and Families, is particularly called to the
above Patent Articles, being the purest Farina of the Oat
and Barley ever produced, deprived of their fermentative
properties by a steam process.
ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY cannot be equalled
by any article for making pure Barley Water in a few
minutes; all impurities being rejected, it is rendered more
palatable than Barley Water made with Pearl Barley. It is
an excellent adjunct with milk for the breakfast table, highly
useful for culinary purposes, light suppers, making delicious
puddings, thickening soups, also with the addition of lemon
juice and sweetened, forms a most grateful beverage.
ROBINSON'S PATENT GROATS, are universally
esteemed for making a delicate Gruel ; and both the Groats
and Barley are a nutritious food for Children, and those
suffering under difficult digestion.
CaurtoN.—The Patentees, having received a Special
Warrant of Appointment as Purveyors to her Majesty, con-
sider it a duty they owe to themselves and the Public, to put
them on their guard against imitation, and respectfully to
point out, that on each Genuine Packet are placed, in addition
to the Royal Arms, the words " By Royal Letters Patent,"
and the Signature of " MAT I'S. ROBINSON."
Manufactured by ROBINSON and BELIVILLE, 64, Red
Lion-street, Holborn, London; and sold retail by all re-
spectable Druggists, Grocers, Oilmen, &c. in town and
country.

Country Dealers are requested to be particular in ordering
" Robinson's Patent."

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Clir.” NORTH DISPENSARY.
/VWO SERMONS will be Preached, and Collections
1 made, in KIRKDALE CHURCH, on SUNDAY
next, the 30th instant, tor the Beneiit of this Charity.
REMOVING TO 48, BOLD-STREET. t
(-(2 AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.
MHE TRUSTEES for the NOMINATION of the
1. CLERGY to officiate in the New Churches, are to be
appointed by the Subscribers of £25.
Each person to have one vote for every £25 subscribed.
All Donations which amount to or exceed £SOmay be paid
by four yearly instalments, and £25 by two equal yearly
instalments.

DONATIONS.
Amount advertised in the Albion and Lancashire
Herald, on Monday, December 24th, 1838 E13,000
R. B. B. H. Blundell, Esq 1(X)
Mrs. Thornton
Thomas lrven, Esq.
James Davies, Esq l(./0
James Heyworth, Esq lOO
The Misses Rigbys
Samuel Rowlands, Esq 5O
Thomas Stuart Gladstone, Esq 5O
Richard Walker, Esq.
Miss Gildart
Jonathan Rouse, Esq.
James Gaskell, Esq. 25
Rev. I'. Gardner, A.B. 25
W. Hadfield, Esq 25
W. Stewart, Esq.
Rev. T. Halton
Rev. Rd. Appleton
R. W. Appleton 25
Rev. Henry Carpenter 25
C. R., per Rev. H. McNeiie
Rev. T. L. Pain 25
Thomas Wilson, Esq
Thomas Mellor, Esq 2O
Miss Molvneux
William Lassall, Esq.
James Byrn, Esq lO
Thomas Stavert. Esq
A Friend, per Rev. 'l'. Bibby 5
Misses noose • 5
Miss Bramwell
Mr. Bailey
Thomas Amos 2

Total £14,142 7

THE splendid STOCK of SHAWLS and CLOAKS
SELLING OFF
AT THE SHAWL COMPANY'S ESTABLISHMENT,
110, BOLD-STREET,
PREPARATORY TO THE REMOVAL.
The whole has undergone a thorough REDUCTION,
And is at the present moment ready for Sale at the altered price .
Upwards of Oue Thousand Cloaks, conmencing at a Guinea.

J. CRIPPS AND CO.,
110, BOLD-STREET.

B. ROGERS AND SONS,
MUSICIANS,
(Violins, Harp, French Flageolet, Violoncello, &c.,)
No. 40, RUPERT-STREET, BROWNLOW-HILL, LIVERPOOL.
Balls, Quadrille Parties, Dinners, kc. attended.
Extra Musicians engaged.—Herald Trumpeters.
THE HARP STRUNG, TUNED, AND HIRED.
Strauss's and other New and Fashionable Waltzes, Qua-
drilles, Mazourkas, Gallopades, &c.

CAUTION.
HALL'S PATENT STARCH.

THIS Article has so raised the jealousy of Common
Starch-Makers, that they are actually putting up the
common Article in imitation of the above, by calling it
"Patent White Starch," &c. &c.
The Patertee begs to request his Friends and the Public
to purchase it in complete Packages, as put up at his works,
with his label affixed thereon ; and none is genuine without
his signature.
_ _ _

Rev. R. Cardwell £s 0
John North, jun., Esq 5 0
R. C. Dawson, Esq.
Richard Shaw, Esq.
W. W. Willink, E 9. I 2 2
Jeremiah Chaffers, Esq.
Samuel Perry, Esq.
John Robin, Esq.
Richard Radcliffe, Esq.
John North, Esq.
Thomas Browne, Esq.
John Atkinson, Esq • 2 2
James H. Warry
John Tarlton, Esj.
R. W. Dickson, Esq.
Donations will be received at all the Banks ; by any of the
Clergy ; at the Exchange and Athenmum Newsrooms ; the
STAN DA RV-OFFICE, the Mail-office, Courier-office, and Lan-
cashire Herald-office; Messrs. MAW DSLEY'S, Castle-street ;
and at Mr. H ()GEMS' Depository of the Society for Promo-
ting Christian Knowledge, Ranelagh-street.

Wholesale Agents, J. & R. RA IMES, Leith Walk, Edin-
burgh.
Sandiacre, Nottingham, 10th Nor. 1835.

RIOTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

(From the New Fork Daily Express.)
HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY, DEC. s.—This morning the
locofocos commenced operations by a meeting in the court-
house, at which sundry threats were made that the arms in
the state arsenal should be taken by force, to drive the
tyrants, as they styled the governor, the senate, and the ca-
binet, from power. About ten o'clock an order was sent
from the governor to the keeper of the arsenal to raise a
force to defend it; whereupon he enrolled a posse of twenty-
five men, and stationed them in the building. By this time
the locofoco branch of the House of Representatives had
met to go on with their movements and soon adjourned, when
a considerable mob collected in front of the arsenal. A com-
mittee was then appointed by the locof ,cos to confer with the
friends of law and order, and induce them to withdraw, and
the keeper of the arsenal would pledge himself that no arms
should be taken out for any purpose. The mob then with-
drew, and soon after the garrison was dismissed, as the best
mode of obtaining quiet under the circumstances. This was
about one o'clock. p.m.
After the garrison of the arsenal had adjourned, a consi-
derable number of the voters assembled in Locus-street, in
front of Gleim's Hotel, where their orators delivered several
inflammatory addresses ; but as a heavy rain was descending
at the time, they soon dispersed.

(From the Harrisburg Intelligencer.)
AWFUL STATE OF AFFAIES.

The mob have actual possession of the capital of Pennsyl-
vania, and it is impossible for the legislature to meet, or the
uusiness in the departments of government to proceed.
As the hour of half-past two this afternoon is appointed for
the meeting of the house, the Speaker deputed Mr. Speak-
man to adjourn the house till to-morrow. l'he hall was filled
with the rioters, who seized Mr. S. and forced him to retire,
when they all rushed out, and he was barely enabled to es-
cape without injury. In the scuffle the doors were broken,
and the hall otherwise mutilated.
The mob have now possession of the town, and mob-law
reigns supreme. The officers of the law make no attempt to
put down the disgraceful scene. No life is safe; but the
state authorities, we understand, have taken all the measures
possible under the circumstances, for the preservrtion of life
and property.
We appeal to the people cf Pennsylvania to defend their
laws. The reign of anarchy has continued long enough. If
liberty be worth an effort, let that effort be promptly made.
The garrison, we understand, has issued a proclamation,
calling the citizens from abroad to hold themselves in readi-
ness to aid in preserving civil government, in case the rioters
persisted in their revolutionary measures.
The locofoco papers, we see, are pursuing their deceptive
course in the accounts they give of the scenes here, and are
endeavouring to throw the blame on our party. But we ap-
peal to the representatives of the people, who will shortly,
no doubt, be obliged by the mob to adjourn the sessions busi-
ness and go home to their constituents, if our account be not
correct, or if anything so highly coloured as the actual truth.
Indeed, we have feared to represent the locofocos as bad as
they are, lest we might be subject to the charge of exaggera-
tion. It is awful to contemplate their doings.

LATER.—A meeting of the Whigs was called in Philadel-
phia, to be held yesterday, if Dec. 7,) to consider the state of
affairs at Harrisburg. Great excitement prevailed in Phila-
delphia. The locofocos also called a meeting for yesterday
afternoon. The United States Gazette of yesterday states
that passengers who left Harrisburg late on Thursday morn-
ing bring information that a requisition had been made by
the governor for some military aid from the adjoining coun-
try, and that a few companies of volunteers were expected
in the course of the morning.

BY THIS MORNING'S MAIL.

Harrisburg Dec. 6. 10 A. M.

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After I wrote of the morning session yesterday, nothing of
moment occured until the hour appointed for meeting of the
House of Representatives—half-past two o'clock, p. m. The
mob had resolved that the body should not be permitted to as-
semble. For this purpose they as usual took possession of the
hall, and when Mr. Speakman, who had been deputed by
Mr. Cunningham to take the chair, advanced to the speaker's
chair tor the purpose of adjourning the house from that place,
he was met by Thomas B. 111`Elwee, and some of the Phila-
delphia county gentry, and peremptorily ordered to desist
from his purpose as he valued his life. The mob, at tbeeaesre
time, made a rush upon him, but by active exertions of some
of the ringleaders, who I suppose, thought that the time for
slaughter had not yet come, as there were but few democrat
members in the halt, he was dragged from the stand and
through the chamber to the door, where the rush being great,
the inner doors were broken down, and other injuries done to
the hall. The court-house was taken possession of in the
evening, and the customary round of inflammatory and
sanguinary addresses made, but the meeting did not come off
with much eclat.
There was an evident diminution of feeling and of num-
bers. The democratic members of the legislature met in a
room at Wilson's Hotel, at seven o'clock last evening. Dr.
Fans was elected clerk, and A. P. Hughes, sergeant-at-arms.
A petition was then presented from Bedford county, contest-
ing the right of T. B. M'Ela'ee to a seat in the House of
Representatives, when they adjourned to meet again this
evening, at seven o'clock. The locofocos met at ten this
morning, but adjourned again without transacting any
business.

The Philadelphia papers of yesterday morning contain the
proclamation of Governor Ritner, giving a condensed detail
of the lawless proceedings of the mob at Harrisburg, which
had suspended the action of the legislature, and stating that
there still remained at Harrisburg a force, encouraged by an
officer of the general government from Philadelphia, who
are setting the law at open defiance, and rendering it unsafe
for the legislature to assemble in the capital.
He therefore called upon the civic authorities to exert
themselves to maintain order, and the military to hold them-
selves in readiness to repair to the seat of government to
assist in reinstating the supremacy of the law.
We also find an address tothe people of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, from the speaker and eighteen members of
the senate, and an address from T. S. Cunningham, speaker
of the House of Representatives, giving a detail of the pro-
ceedings, and stating that the senate and house have been
dispersed and prevented from sitting by tumultuous and
riotus multitudes. The lives of the members have been threat-
ened and put in jeopardy, and officers of the state govern-
ment have been designated as the objects of attack. Offici-
als of the general government were there instigating these il-
legal and dangerous proceedings.
'e learn from Washington that several of the administra-
tion, members of the Pensylvanuia delegation, had left Wash-
ington for Harrisburg. Among others, the Hon. George
APKeim, of Berks, who have gone on to join Ingersoll, to
contend for the supremacy of the locofocos, in contradistinc-
tion to the supremacy of the laws. Nothing had been ef-
fected in the way of compromise, and it was supposed the
locofocos were hollow and insincere in their profesaions, and
had no wish to allay the violent proceedings at Harrisburg,
as they hoped to effect that by violence which they are cot
entitled to by right, and are anxious to prevent an "expose"
of their fraucls it the elections.

The Whigs remained firm, and refused to listen to any terms
until the mob was withdrawn, and the legislature left to act
untrammelled by violence. A great deal of excitement pi e-
vaiied at Philadelphia, and the tory Ingersoll has certainly
obtained a most unenviable notoriety.
The military were to leave Philadelphia at eight o'clock
yesterday morning, in the railroad cars, to proceed to Harris-
burg. in sufficient force to put down the mob.
LATEST FROM PHILADELPHIA.—The steam-boat arrived
at. about two o'clock this morning, bringing us the Philadel-
phia papers of last evening. A military detachment, under
General Patterson, left yesterday morning for Harrisburg,
and it was presumed that the mob would immediately disperse,
the legislature resume their functions, and order be restored.
The conference had been broken off by the locofoco com-
mittee on the departure of the troops for Harrisburg, it ap-
pearing to have been their object to prevent the moving of
the military more than the interference of the mob.
Several volunteer companies, amounting to 1000 men, left
Philadelphia for Harrisburg at nine o'clock.