The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

" THE FLEET PAPERS.'

Mr. Oastler continues his labours with unabated energy,
though still, we regret to say, an inmate of the Fleet Prison.
It is a curious ordination of events, that one who has lived
much abroad in the world, and shewn himself animated by an
ardent desire to be serviceable to his fellow men, should al

last find his most extensive means of contributing to that
end when confined within the four walls of a gaol ; but,
though the body may be restrained, the spirit can walk

abroad at liberty. The printing press stands by the side of
the solitary one as his humble minister, and, in fact, resem-
bles him,—for, whilst it changes not its place, no more than
he, it yet sends forth its productions to be scattered by the
four winds of heaven, and cause its soul, as it were, to per-
meate the world. From the number of this day we make a
large extract. It needs nothing from us to recommend it.
We admire at all times the heartiness with which Mr. Oastler
devotes himself to the cause of the labouring classes, and we
think it in itself admirable; but beyond this, of course, we
do not bind ourselves. From some of his remedies in detail
we may possibly dissent; but the spirit of his writings, and
their object generally, we can commend without any reserve.
He thus speaks in the 31st number of the Fleet Pipers,
which will be published to-morrow, in the shape of a letter
addressed to his late master, Mr. Thornhill :
" Nothing is more certain, than that the governors of a
nation should be intimately acquainted with the real feelings,
circumstances, and prejudices of the governed. Nothing is,
I fear, more true, than that the leaders of the two contending
parties, whig and tory, are perfectly ignorant of the condition,
mind, and prejudices of the working classes who form the
masses of English society, and who have, beyond all con-
tradiction. contributed to the result of the general election.
" A change of ministers, without a change of measures,
will only create a state of greater disquietude, and remove
prosperity to a longer distance.

" The great cause of the failure of the whigs to govern the
nation acceptably, is, undeniably, their entire ignorance of
the character of the working classes. That ignorance has
been demonstrated by their failure to produce al Jming com-
motions amongst the masses, by that most exciting of all
cries, " cheap bread." There can be no doubt that the hopes
of the whig cabinet rested upon the efficacy of that cry,
hoping, by it, to excite the people to frenzy, and thus, once
more, to fix themselves in office by the thunders of popular
fury.

"Every effort which deception, fraud, and malignity,
aided by power and wealth, could accomplish, has been re-
sorted to ; but still the masses have resolved to aid the tories,
and, at all hazards, to get rid of the whigs ! Thus the eJec-
tion has proved, that no men were ever so much deceived in
their estimate of the working people of England, so ignorant
of the true condition and feelings of Englishmen, as were the
whig ministers, who so lately advised her Majesty to dissolve
parliament, under the hope that, aided by a cry for " cheap
bread," a large accession of strength to their ranks would be
the result ! if there were no other reason for their dismissal,
the utter ignorance which the wings have thus evinced of the
true character and wishes of the people of England would, of
itself, be sufficient. It must be manifest to every one, that
such ignorance proves incompetence. I well knew that they
would be disappointed ; but when I said-so, they only abused
and traduced me, and exulted in my imprisonment. They
have now paid the penalty of their ignorance, incompetence,
and brutality.

" But, Sir, if it be true—as I greatly fear it is—that the
leader of the tory party is ignorant of the wants, the condi-
tion of the prejudices of the working classes of England, it will
be impossible that he can adopt measures calculated to meet
the national emergency. In that case, he will fail in his
efforts (as the whigs have done in theirs) to set right the
machine of state.

" I am not about to dispute the great talents of Sir Robert
Peel. That he is a scholar, a most able debater, and a man
well versed in all the technicality and machinery of the House
of Commons, I am ready to admit. He may be a good
financier, and an adept at diplomacy—nay, more, if he be,
in addition to all these acquirements, a sincere patriot, still,
if he mistakes the character of the working people—if he be
in ignorance of their condition, their wants, their hopes,
and their prejudices—if he thinks that they are irreligi-
ous, revolutionary, idle, and turbulent, when they are re-
ligious, loyal, industrious, and peaceable—if his opinion be,
that they are the enemies of the institutions of the country,
and dissatisfied with the principles of the constitution, when.
in fact, they are the strongest bulwarks of both—if, I say,
Sir Robert Peel should thus mistake, as the whirrs have done,
the true character of the working people of England. why
then, sir, all is learning, talent, ability, official and parlia-
mentary experience, will be of no use either to him, his
party, or his country. He may, for a few years, blunder on
in Egyptian darkness, as his predecessors have done, but he
will inevitably secure to himself, with them, execration, con-
tempt, and defeat!
" I have studied the working people in their homes
—in their factories ; nay, I have followed them in
their wanderings, to the hospitals, infirmaries, alehouses,
workhouses, and prisons. I have marked their miseries and
their poverty—poverty, neglect, and want, in a christian
country, which is the reward of excessive industry !—and I
have been astonished at their patience and forbearance, un-
der oppression which would even drive some wise men mad !
" I can bear testimony to their affection for their wives
and children—their kind regard, and manly, fearless sacri-
fices for their neighbours, who are in greater want than them-
selves—their devoted attachment to those who rank higher
than they do, and who show them any kindness—their con-
siderate and touching benevolence to such, when reduced to
poverty—their regard and affection to their employers who
are just, and kind, and sympathising—and their forbearance
towards those who most cruelly oppress and shamefully de-
fraud them—their love of their native spot, ' the place where
they drew their first breath, and where they hope to draw
their last'—their attachment to the church round which the
ashes of their fathers slumber—and, where the clergyman is
found at his post a faithful watchman of Israel, their devo-
tion and reverence towards him. In a word, their love of
peace and order—their dislike of confusion and change—
their fondness for old local habits, and their enmity to all in-
novations. Their attachment to the spit and rural pleasures,
are manifest even in their cellars and garrets ; there you
often find birds and plants—nay. even in the factories I have
seen flower pots containing valuable plants and splendid spe-
cimens of cucumbers !

" Such, sir, arc amongst the ruling virtues of the working
classes of England, who are, in fact, as a body, a religious,
affectionate, honest, industrious, patriotic, and loyal race !
But,' say their enemies, they are ignorant ! ' Indeed !
Is Bible knowledge ignorance ? Is the knowledge of the hu-
man heart ignorance ?—Sir, the men who charge the working
classes of England with ignorance, never mixed with them—
never knew them. If they had done so, they would not prove
their own ignorance by asserting such folly.

- -
" I once thought that the working people were ignorant ;
hut, sir, since then, I have sat under their tuition, and I am
the wiser for their lessons. I would have their accusers do
the same, and in the school of the labourers and operatives
of England, to learn wisdom.

" I have told you the true character of the working milli-
ons of England. Now, how have the Whigs legislated for
the virtuous and industrious men ? and what is the result ?
" The records of parliament prove that the laws made for
their government, are laws of coercion and tyranny. The
New Poor Law is a direct attack upon their constitutional
rights. When they are able, the working classes pay into
the Poor Law fund ; when disabled they have as clear a right
to relief therefrom, without any degrading conditions, as you
have to your rents ! When their right is trampled upon by
the aristocracy, you must not complain, if, tit for tat,' be
attempted by the poor. The rural police, and the transmis-
sion of the metropolitan police to the provinces, are direct
attacks upon their liberty. They know that the constitution
never allows strangers to interfere with them, but that their
well-known and respected neighbours are the legal guardians
of their liberty, and the enforcers of order. The result of
such nu-English legislation is, the hatred and disgust of the
people towards the government which was once most popular,
but which has now entirely lost the confidence of the people,
by so grossly outraging the constitutional feelings of the
working classes. That hatred and disgust has also exhibited
itself on the poll, in language which must be understood as
well by her majesty as by her whiff ministers ; which pro-
claims in a voice of thunder, that if there be no sympathy be-
tween the working classes and the leaders of the whips and
tories in parliament, Mere is sympathy between them and the
electors of England ! Yes, sir, there is, after all, a very
large and influential portion of our merchants, monufacturers
and shopkeepers, who feel their interest is bound up with
that of the working classes, and they have now proved that
they are prepared to stand by the rights of their poorer
neighbours.

`"-It is a pleasing fact, and one which must have great
weight with all right-minded Conservatives in the two Houses
of Parliament, that those merchants, manufacturers, and
shopkeepers, who have thus evinced their attachment to the
rights of the working people, are that respectable and influ-
ential portion of our trading community, who have set their
faces against the destruction of the agricultural interest—
they are those who pay the best wages, and who protest
against the monopoly of the free-traders. These good men
do not make so much noise as the leaguers, but their influ-
ence is much greater. Let the aristocracy join these power-
ful and excellent men in ameliorating the condition of the
working-classes, and the din, end fume, and fury of O'Con-
nell and his Manchester tyrant-league will be powerless in
England. The anti-corn-law-leaguers are notoriously the
hardest task-masters ; they are always foremost in lowering
wages, and in making and selling deceptive goods. If, after
the national feeling which has just been exhibited, Sir Robert
Peel should determine to continue the New Poor Law, and
the Police Laws, he will give the lie to the hustings profes-
sions of the majority of his friends, he will disappoint the
hopes of their most influential supporters, and he will, in the
end, find that the constitutional prejudices of the people are
too strong for him.
" Our forefathers were tenacious of the rights of the
labourers ; but our modern philosophers' (oh, how that
word is now prostituted) are everlastingly brawling about
the landed interest—the monied interest—the commercial in-
terest—the manufacturing interest, and the shipping interest;
but not one word is ever uttered in parliament about the
the labouring interest.
" The safety of the Church, the Throne, the Lords, and
of private property, rests, not hi swords and bayonets, in
spies and police, but in the hearts of the people ! A con-
stitutional government may lead the people with a silken
thread, whilst a government bent upon upholding the un-
christian and unconstitutional measures of a liberal and
enlightened philosophy,' will not be able to keeps it place ;
no, sir, not even if it could make and maintain every other
man as a police-officer ! What England requires is a paternal
government, which sympathises with the people, and is re-
solved to govern free men by free men's laws ! I heartily
pray to Almighty God that He would now give this nation
rest, by granting us such a government.
" Oh how I shall rejoice if this letter is received by the
conservative leaders in the spirit in which it is written. How
thankful shall I be, if its perusal should lead Sir Robert Peel
to appreciate the character of the working men of England !
It' it should constrain him to seek for guidance from the
Spirit of the Living God.
" It England is to be saved; if her institutions are to be
preserved, that happy consumation of my hopes, will, under
the blessing of God, be brought about by a hearty union for
mutual protection between the aristocracy and the working
people. The olive branch has now been offered by the latter,
may it be accepted in right good will by the nobles of our
land, and may they adopt such measures as will establish
their own rights and privileges by ensuring competence and
comfort to skill and industry, and thus destroy the power of
the tyrants' factory-league, and of that Irish traitor, who
may still, for what I know or care, style himself the
member for all Ireland '—except Dublin ! ! Then, sir I
shall be happy, although, for life, I am, your prisoner,
" RICHARD OASTLE'II."

VACCINATION FOR THE COW-POX-----SOMe doubts hav-
ing arisen whether persons availing themselves of the provi-
sions of the Vaccination Extension Act, either for them-
selves or families, became thereby liable to the disabilities
attached to a person in the receipt of parochial relief, and
disqualified from voting at parliamentary or municipal elec-
tions, an act was passed in the last session of parliament
which removes such doubts by enacting, " That the vaccina-
tion, or surgical or medical assistance incident to the vaccin-
ation of any person resident in any union or parish, or of
any of his family under the said act, shall not be considered
to be parochial relief, alms, or charitable allowance to such
person, and that no such person shall, by reason of such
vaccination or assistance, be deprived of any right
.arprivi-
lege, or be subject to any disability or disqualified:ati what-
soever,"

TO THE ,EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—If I recollect right, your radical cotemp^rary, Mer-
curius, made it matter of boasting, in days of yore, of the
extraordinary purity of his broad sheet ; and, lest the minds
or morals of his juvenile readers might be contaminated, he
excluded from his unsullied pages all advertisements of a
certain description, to wit, what are vulgarly denominated
quack advertisements. But I only noticed, the other day,
one column of the journal aforesaid nearly occupied by some
of the most objectionable of this sort. Tempora mutantar,
et nos mutamer ab illis. Pray, Mr. Editor, can you account
for this extraordinary change? In my humble opinion, it
either arises from the love of mammon, or else to fill his
vapid slop-pail, for lack of something better ; or most pro-
babably to the above reasons uuited, to cause such an unusual
effect or innovation upon the system of our ancient friend.
Liverpool, 28th July, 1841. QUIZ.

The floating island in Dement Lake, Keswick, was, on
Monday week, discovered above the placid surface of that
far-famed sheet of water. The last appearance of this
phenomenon, we believe, was in the months of Jaly and
August, 1837.

Sir Ralph Howard has declared in his address of thanks to
his constituents, and more particularly to the "conservative
electors, his determination to maintain the institutions of the
country and the integrity of the empire." No one can be
mistaken as to what inference is to be drawn from the ex-
pression of such a determination as this.—Dublin Evening
Mail. ' [The hon. gentleman was last session a supporter of
ministers, though towards the close he showed symptoms of
disaffection. He is, however, now evidently likely to become
a supporter of Sir Robert Peel's administration'
.]
DUMB ELOQUENCE OF A DYING BABOON.—I remem-
ber a touching incident which happened at the Cape of Good
Hope, when I was there. A party bad gone out to shoot
baboons. The gentleman who related the anecdote, wounded
one rather severely. Great was his surprise, on seeing the
animal thus wounded leave the rest of the troop, approach
him and lie down at his feet. Looking him full in the face,
the fainting dying creature pointed at its bleeding side, as
much as to say—" This is your cruel work, and how have I
deserved it !" No language could surpass this in truth of
appeal, or the moral lesson which it taught.—Rev. Dr.
Jones's Lecture on Oratory.

AWFUL ACCIDENT AND WONDERFUL ESCAPE. —On
Tuesday afternoon a most calamitous and fatal accident, yet
marked by the almost miraculous escape of one of the men
who had nearly fallen a victim to it, occurred at the Hately
Heath colliery, belonging to Messrs. Bagnall, near West
Bromhich. Three men, named Thomas Ward, Thomas
Gibbons, and Richard Knight were employed in bricking
the shaft of a pit, upon a scaffold, about nine feet from the
bottom, when a man, named John Holden, who had:just
come out of the pit, hearing a great noise, turned round,
and saw the banksman, James Lewis, and a quantity of
bricks falling down the shaft. lie immediately ran to the
shaft, and found the banksman hanging in it by his shoe,
which had providentially caught some projection at the
mouth of the pit. Holden instantly seized him by the legs,
and dragged him up out of the shaft without his having sus-
tained any injury! Strenuous exertions were then made to
rescue the three unfortunate men below, and Holden imme-
diately went down the pit, but unhappily only to discover
that the accident had proved fatal to them all ; they were all
three found lying at the bottom of the pit, and quite dead ;
" knocked all to pieces," Holden said, " there being ecarcrly
a bone about them but what was broken." An inquest was
held on the bodies of the three unfortunate sufferers on
Thursday last, when a verdict of " Accidental Death" was
returned, with a deodand of 10s. on the bricks.— Wolter-
hamplon Chronicle.

MADAME .LAFFARGE. —A letter from Tulle, in the
Gazette des Tribunaux, says,—" M. and Mine. Leotaud
have applied to the tribunal of this place for a special cura-
tor to be named for Marie Cappelle, and M. Lacombe,
notary of this place, has been appointed accordingly. He is
summoned to appear on the sth of August, the day of the
proceedings beginning. It is still uncertain whether the
prisoner will appear or not. She is often subject to attacks
of illness, but they are of short duration. The statement
made in sonic Paris papers that she had poisoned herself,
when it came to her knowledge, caused her a violent nervous
attack. It is not true that she is often visited by the ladies
of Tulle. She has now only a few partisans in this place. It
is certain that immediately after the trial she will be removed
to the central house of detention for females at Clermont, in
the Oise.

AFFRAY BETWEEN THE SPANISH COAST GUARD AND
BRITISH SAlLORS.—Algesiras, July 9.—On the night of the
ith two vessels from Gibraltar were about to land contraband
goods on our coast, when the Spanish coast guard, cruising
in these seas, perceived them, and were about to seize them.
The smuglers signalised, and an English man-of-war lying at
anchor in Gibraltar Bay immediately sent out a sloop armed
with fifty or sixty men, who gave chase to one of our coast
guarders, which, to get away from the English Royal Ma-
rines, made for Cape St. Felix, where there exists a line of
Spanish customs' officers and a few troops. These assumed
a threatening attitude in order to obtain respect for the
Spanish territory ; but the English landed and attacked
them severely, wounding an officer of the Carbineers, the
head of the detachment. Not contented, they seized one of
the customs' boats, and made off. Yesterday the Command..
ant-General had a long consultation with the Governor of
Gibraltar. It is said, even as positive news, by order of the
Governor, there has been fitted out in London a brig, which
will soon arrive here, and under the colours of a trader, al-
though an armed brig; but it is for the special protection of
the smugglers on leaving Gibraltar. What is certain,
smugglers are more numerous now than ever, that they do
not dissimilate their object, and that they look upon this as
a conquered country. The commander of the line (Don Ig-
nacio Pingt) was at his post at eleven at night to see whether
all the men were at their duty. At midnight a sloop was
seen off the coast, which it neared, and landed twenty men
or more. The carbineers advanced to reconnoitre, and,
having cried out, " Who goes there," they were answered
by a discharge of musketry, which wounded the commandant
in the hand and lower part of the arm; the soldiers in tarn
fired upon the aggressors, and, although only three in num-
bar, sustained courageously the shock of the assailants, who
were so superior in numbers to theirs, until the firing was
heard by the cavalry of the carbineers in the environs, who
galloped down to their aid. The English, hearing the noise
of the horses' feet in the sand, retreated precipitately.—
Correo Nacional, July 15.

THE WETLEY MOOR MURDER.—The Staffordshire Mer-
cury says :—Wm. Simpson, a man shabbily dressed, and
with a sinister expression in his eyes, though not having a
countenance decidedly bad, was put to the bar, charged with
the wilful murder of William Hewitt, on the 19th of June
last, at Wetley Moor. Mr. Greves and Mr. Kynnersley
were engaged for the prosecution. The prisoner was unde-
fended by counsel. From the statement of Mr. Greaves it
appeared that on Sunday, the 20th of June, a person of the
name of Holland went to a pit in the parish of Stoke-upon-
Trent, for the purpose of fetching sand, and in the pit dis-
covered the body of the deceased, William Hewitt, dead and
stiff, his bead apparently beaten in with a stone, one of his
pockets cut of and taken away, and a pool of coagulated
blood under his head. The case rested solely upon a chain
of circumstantial evidence, the several links of which would
be far too weak to connect him with the charge, hut which
together appear to unite them in a very strong degree. When
the Jury came in to deliver their verdict, the Court was
hushed into a state of perfect silence, to receive the decision.
To the astonishment of the Court, the foreman pronounced
the verdict of " Not guilty." His lordship appeared con-
founded, and averted his face from the jury box, looking down
upon his paper, with a flushed countenance. A pause ensued
for a few seconds, arising from the feeling of universal sur-
prise at the announcement. Simpson, the prisoner, seemed
struck dumb with the verdict, and for a second or two,ap-
peared incapable of understanding it ; but at length, when
informed of it, he very hastily exclaimed, " I suppose I may
have my notes and money back again ?" [This from a man
who had just escaped the gallows!] The Judge : Certainly
you must. His lordship immediately dismissed the Jury
without any comment, but the fact was strongly indicative of
the learned Judge's opinion. The trial lasted from nine in
the morning until between three and four o'clock in the
afternoon. The prisoner was immediately released from
custody, and during the evening visited several public houses
in Stafford, in a state of intoxication, and, we are informed,
made such admissions relative to the murder and robbery,
that he was apprehended on a charge of felony, and the next
morning was brought to this town, for examination before
Mr. Rose, next Monday. Should he be committed, he will
be tried at the next assizes for the robbery, and probably for
assault with intent to murder.

SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The following eulogy is from the
Birmingham Journal of the 17th instant, a Radical paper,
and is creditable to the good feeling and talent of the writer :
—" Sir Robert Peel ought to be, and no doubt is, a very
happy man. Indeed, the sources of pleasure that open upon
him are so great and so many, that if there were any truth is
the proverb, we might almost anticipate some fearful down-
fall from such a summit of good fortune. Every hour he is
receiving intelligence of the fresh successes of that party
which has chosen him for its leader, and which looks upon
him as the support of its principles and its power—a party,
of whose approbation the greatest man might be reasonably
proud ; for, opposed as we are to all its political doctrines,
it would be the very folly of presumption to deny that
amongst its multiplied members it contains much honour,
much wisdom, and much virtue. Sir Robert's family dis-
tinctions are not less eminent than are his political. In
the course of the present week he has bestowed the hsnd
of his daughter on a Lord, the son of a. Eadi amidst
the approving smiles of the Royal, and the noble, and the
honourable of the land, congregated not less to felicitate the
blOoming bride than the gratified father. But thegr-atest,
perhaps, of Sir Robert's pleasure has been to. witness the
prize for that classical learning, on which be justly prides
himself, and which is one of his accomplishments, which
friend does not more willingly acknowledge than enemy, be-
stowed upon his youthful son—a prize that, by one of those
strange coincidences which are so pleasant to encounter,
happened to be founded by the right honourable baronet
himself. We cannot help believing that this last kind tura
of fortune was felt by Sir Robert more intimately than either
of the others. The applauses of party, even when most sin-
cere and fervent, hardly come home to the heart, unless of
the unexperienced ; marriages of the great, even the most
happy seeming, are not always matches ; but the exulting
bound of a fond father's pulse at the success of a high-
spirited and intelligent boy—a success, too, gathered in a
walk with which his own old cherished recollections are so
strongly associated—is qualified by no alloy of cold expe-
rience or anxious anticipation. Enjoyment and hope, in
such a case, go hand in hand. We should hardly be tempted
to envy Sir Robert because of his approaching ministry or of
his noble alliances ; but we could envy him his feelings when,
in the venerable shades of Harrow, be listened to the elo-
quent eulogium of the nephew of Wordsworth, and watched
the glowing and gratified expression of its object—his own
ingenious and cherished child."

CHILDHOOD AND OLD AGE.—Gaily around dances the
child on its crutch ; playfully along creeps the old man on
his. Children alike—what distinguishes them ? The one
remembers—the other hopes.
CH ILDHEN.—Children are like mile-stones, set along the
road, reminding us of the distance we have gone on the
journey of life.—Miss Sedgwiek.
BAHI3(E)ROUS WIT.—A barber in Dublin has lately pasted
on his window—" Conservatives shaved for a penny ; radi.
call twopence—because they have such long faces." The
worthy chin-scraper might, We think, have let the poor radi-
cals off rather cheaper, considering that they were already
well lathered.

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psaparticularar word was uttered, when things were reversed, and
the lady saluted a gentleman, and the same ceremony was
performed. This was continued till the bridegroom selected
the bride.

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OUR GOOD OLD CHURCH

ADDRESSED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ROCK FERRY

CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
Our holy church! our good old church'
We 'ye loved her long and well
Her pastors are our truest friends
Her rights we 'll never sell
Tin

. ....IL not pull our old church down,
The church we 'ye loved so long ;
We 'll rally round her altars dear,
Where weak we 'll make her strong.

The wh
With

igs have tried to throw her down,
ral friends to aid ;
1 man our Zion's walls,
breach they 've made.

But now w(
And heal the
What were our state without our church?
A dark and starless night—
A ship at sea, her rudder gone,
Far seen no beacon light.

Our good old church ! her graceful spires,
How beautiful they stand!

As guides to weary pilgrims' eyes,
They bless our happy land.
Our holy church ! she nourished us,
With doctrine true and pure;
And now, like good and loyal sons,
We 'll keep her rights secure.

Our good old church! we thought of her
Amid the strife last week ;-
And EGERTON and TOLLEMACHE both
Are pledged her weal to seek.

Then bless you all, true-hearted men
Who bore the battla shock ;
Ye men, who fought for church and right,
Who dwell about the Rock

Rock Ferry, July 21, 1841

A. CHURCHMAN

OUR BRAVE OLD BRITISH TARS

A NATIONAL SONG

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
Loud, loud let every rafter ring !
Fill up, ye sons of Mars!
Fill up the glass, and let us sing
Our brave old British tars;,

Foremost and first in battle'
Their faces seamed with scars,
Where are warriors true and stanch
As bluff old British tars?

Those flags that fluttered high aloft,

Embla;on'd o'er with stars—
Who bearded death and hauled them down ?
Our gallant British tars !

What flag that proudly courts the breeze,
But quails at three huzzas ?
They all have struck, and shall again.
To brave old British tars!

When foes were struggling in the deep,
And clung to mast and spars,
Who saved them from a watery grave?—
Our brave old British tars !

When comrades groaned in heavy chains,
And peeped through prison bars,
Who struck those fetters from their hands ?
Our gallant British tars !
What though their manly beauty is
Disfigured in the wars,—
One eye, one arm, and wooden leg,
Become Old England's tars !

Then loud let every rafter ring !
Fill up, ye sons of Mars!
For where are your warriors true and stanch
As our brave—our brave old British tars ?

July 28th, 1841

C. B. G

LITERARY NOTICE.

Grammar of the German Language. Part 1. By H. G
Migault. Liverpool: Marples.

Although the difficulties that impede the progress when
studying the German language surpass those we have to con-
tend with in any other European tongue, yet, at no time with-
in our recollection was its acquisition a matter of more desire
than at the present moment. Fashion and commerce are
the principal causes to which this fact may be attributed,
for we really fear that regard for a magnificent and unrivalled
literature has had very little share in inspiring the motive for
the pursuit. But whatever may be the cause of the favour in
which the study of German is at present held, we are glad of
it. We are glad of it because the acquisition of languages
is no inconsiderable mark of the progression of society; and
because civilization itself can hardly be said to produce all
its intended benefits unless nations, which have no common
tongue, are enabled to hold converse together.
The publication before us is the first part of a new German
Grammar, and the subject of it is " the substantive, with
reference to declension, gender, and number." We have
read the work through with some degree of attention, and
we are not ashamed to say, not without that pleasure which
proceeds from the consciousness of improvement. If there
be any defect in it, it is that the author having to convey his
meaning in a language foreign to him, has not sufficiently
caught the peculiarities of our idiom, and that, in his most
ingenious explanations, there is an unnecessary erudition.
Nevertheless, for originality and order, in displaying these
treasures of the language which must be known, we know of
no production superior to this.
The author is Mr. H. G. Migahlt, Professor of German
in the Royal, in the Mechanics', and the Literary Institution,
of this town. Our good opinion, however, of his production
has not been attracted by the accident of his being a towns-
man, but is altogether based upon a conviction of its merits.

THE RECENT MYSTERIOUS GHOST AFFAIR

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)

We give the following additional particulars, which we
have permission to publish, relative to the very singular and
mysterious story about supernatural noises, and the sup-
posed apparition of a dead man to his sister, the principal
circumstances of which we mentioned last week. We must,
however, premise that we do not find ourselves at liberty to
publish the names of the lady and gentleman in whose house
the mysterious proceedings took place, nor, for obvious
reasons, the number of the house in which the circumstances
occurred ; but we may repeat that the gentleman himself,
as well as those who watched with him on the night of the
alleged apparition, are persons of high respectability and
unquestionable veracity—one of them being, as we have al-
ready stated, a surgeon residing in Eccles-street. In the
first place, the name of the deceased man, who is thus said
to have come from
" That bourne from which no traveller returns,"
to revisit this nether world, was John Fortune ; he was, as
we have already stated, a porter, employed at the Dublin and
Kingstown railway, and lost his life about ten months since,
in consequence of injuries received several months previously
by being violently pressed between two of the railway car-
riages. The deceased was a catholic. An enumeration of the
debts of which his spirit is said to have required the settlement
must, from their insignificance, seem a very inadequate cause
to disturb a soul in the other world, and throw an air of ad-
ditional improbability over the whole story. The following,
as well as we could collect, were the various sums, viz, ls. to
a Mr. Smith, a clothes broker, in Mary's lane, being the ba-
lance of a sum of 30s. for which the deceased had purchased
a coat. Mr. Smith had quite overlooked the debt, and
knowing Fortune to have been dead, never expected to re-
ceived the trifling sum that remained due. Next, there were
sevenpence due to Mr. Murphy, a vintner, of Townsend-
street ; but as there are two persons of the same name in the
same business in that street, and the sister of the deceased
did not know to which the money was owing, her mistress
and she went to both, and the real creditor had no knowledge
of the debt until he sent for his clerk and got his books exa-
mined, when the statement of the ghost was found to be cor-
rect. Then there was a sum of 3d. to be paid to a woman
who sold cherries at the railway station in Westland-rOw, and
who, we believe, had also forgotten the debt ; and 3s. to
another creditor for drink got on sundry occasions. Finally,
there was a sum of 2s. ordered by the ghost to be paid to a
Mrs. Marshall, of Sir J. Rogerson's Quay, being a balance
due for lodging money; and, connected with this debt is one
of the most extraordinary and unaccountable circumstances
of the whole affair. It appears, that when Mrs. and the
servant-woman went on Tuesday last, the morning after the
fearful scence between the invisible visitant and his sister, to
discharge the debt, Mrs. Marshall, labouring, as it subse-
quently appeared, under a mistake, demanded 9s. as the
balance which, according to her recollection, remained due
to her by the (he-eased. Mrs. refused to pay so much,
and, on the following day, had a conversation on the sub-
ject with her husband. This took place at the new lodg-
ing to which they had removed that morning, (having, by
the by, been obliged to sacrifice about a year's rent for
the house they had given up on account of thus abruptly
breaking off the contract which they had made to keep it
for a stated time,) and the servant-woman was absent on
a message. Mr. was pacing the room, and said, it
was at all events better to pay Mrs. Marshall's demand,
and have done with the matter, when immediately the
same hollow and mysterious knocks, to which they were now
so familiarized, was heard loudly at the room door. Mrs.
stood aghast, and Mr. —, according to his own account,
said solemnly, " Here it is again !" and, seizing the handle of
the door as the third knock was given, threw it suddenly open,
with the firm expectation that he was about to see his mys-
terious visiter himself. There was, however, no one visible
on the lobby, or the stairs, or in fact anywhere about, who
could have given the knocks ; and a lady residing up stairs,
and hearing the noise, inquired what it meant, and of course
knew of no one who could have caused it. In a very short
time Mrs. Marshall called at the house, and saying that she
had since found out the account of 2s. only being due to be
correct, the debt was of course forthwith cancelled. Such
are the facts of the case, as they are firmly believed by the
parties themselves to exist. We believe that no other cir-
cumstance connected with the affair has occurred since
Wednesday last ; but the poor servant still continues in very
depressed spirits, and the most firm and incredulous among
the persons who have actual cognizance of the facts we have
stated remain under the strong conviction that the whole
matter is not unconnected with supernatural agency. To
assume that such is really the case would, of course, expose
us to the sneer of many, but as we cannot: pretend to give
any very natural or probable explanation of the story, we
leave our readers to judge of it as they may think fit.

Van Amburgh, the celebrated lion tamer, exhibited his
royal collection of trained animals beneathur a splendid pavi-
lion, in the Surlgate Meadows, Tewksb
took place
most memorable part of the exhibition
clock in the
during the night which succeeded. About tv'w.le,oevrel.
,otrrhniances of
oun.
morning, when those who had witnessed the
the elephent were quietly reposing in their beds
perambulated ich
tain of living flesh broke open the coach house in vishn-'
had been confined, and privately and steadilyhe
the streets and lanes of the town, unmindful alike of tlle
affrighted policemen, whom he occasionally encountered, ,and
the screams of the females whom he awakened from their
slumbers. After nearly demolishing one of the walls of his
prison, and making his exit through two strongly barred
doors, he strode from his quarters et the Plough, up High-
street, and thence into Smith's-lane, where he tore up a large
vine-tree growing against the house of a respectable widow
lady, whose family he greatly alarmed, and a respectable cot-
tage, at which he devoured a cask of wash and grains, which
had been set aside for the pigs. After this, he was attracted
by the pleasant smell of a large brewery. and squeezed him-
self between the walls of a narrow passage which led near it ;
he was unsuccessful in his attempt to taste the inviting beve-
rage, but tore up some fruit trees, and frightened the inmates
e
!the houses around. The police had by this time aroused
his keepers, who led him back to his
Chronicle.

SKETCHES OF THE RIVER SHANNON,
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF A TRIP BY STEAM FROM
LIVERPOOL TO LIMERICK,

BY A STRANGER IN IRELAND,

(FOR THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.)

The run to Cape Clear—The Southern Coast of Ireland—
' The Skellig's Rocks—A trying Storm—The Blaskett
Rocks—Storm increases—lmminent danger at length
overcome—Forging westward from the land—Another
gale—Return eastward—The Skelligs—Strange and pic-
turesque Rocks and Islands—Magnificent Estuary of the
Shannon—Arrival at Tarbert.
No. I.

(Continued from the Standard of the 16th instant.)
After a refreshing sleep I rose at daybreak (on Friday
morning), an earlier hour than I care to be astir, when
within the smoky precincts of the town ; but, independently
of the marine scenery of the channel, the known proximity
of the interesting southern coast of Ireland, which I had
visited in the ill-fated steam-ship President on her trial trip
to Cork and Dublin, determined me to shake off the unpro-
fitable indulgence of the sluggard. We had left far astern
the Tuskar Light-house, which stands on a rock off the
south-east corner or point of the island, which forms an ob-
tuse angle. The Saltees (isolated rocks) were still in sight,
and a portion of the county of Waterford rose indistinctly in
the distance. The sea was smooth, with a slight swell, but
as dark clouds began to rise in the south-west, with light
airs, indicating a probable breeze from that unfavourable
quarter, we lowered topmasts and yards, and relied solely on
our steam. Shortly after day-light we passed several sail
outward bound, including some of the large ships of the mer-
chant fleet that had left Liverpool the day before we started.
Just before sunrise the eastern sky presented a glowing and
beautiful appearance, being streaked horizontally, on an
azure ground, with the most brilliant lines of red and purple,
which the painter would in vain essay to depict. Small sea-
birds, called " divers," common in these seas, disported
themselves round the ship, now making playful evolutions
over head, and now resting on the water, or disappearing in
quest of an early breakfast of the smaller finny inhabitants of
the deep. This passing remark reminds me of the good fare
provided for those on board the Erin, a point of considerable
importance to those who like myself, when at sea, and in
buoyant spirits,—all cares of the land and its turmoils being
thrown to the winds—can enjoy a hearty meal. The early
risers, who were inclined, had a cup of coffee and a biscuit
at six o'clock ; at eight we had breakfast ; at twelve, lunch ;
at three, dinner; at seven, tea, and at ten, supper—all excel-
lent and substantial, served with great neatness on the centre
table of the saloon, and seasoned with agreeable chat, the
captain officiating as host. This, it must be admitted, was
pretty ample provision of animal comforts ; yet such was the
appetizing influence of the sea air, that I was not the only one
who occasionally munched a biscuit with great gout between
meals, by way of exercise in the useful science of mastica-
tion. All whd were not affected by the motion of the ship
seemed to be impressed with the conviction of the old poet,
who says—

"The strength of every other member,
Is founded on your belly timber ;
And if you would improve your thought,
You must be fed as well as taught."
Nor was there any lack of '• grog," though the beverage in
more,general requisition was porter.
Early in the forenoon we were abreast of Cork, and could
plainly sere Camden and Carlisle forts, which, placed, on op-
posite eminences, guard the entrance of that splendid and
picturesque harbour. Ballycotton island was also in view.
At eleven, the atmosphere to the northward being clear, the
coast was distinctly visible from the high land of Dungarvon
to the Old Head of Kinsale,—an extent of twenty leagues.
Roche's Tower formed a conspicuous object, and the in-
dented steep shore, and variegated back-ground -presented
new and interesting prospects as we proceeded. At one, a
dark mass of clouds, franulit with squalls and rain, gathered
over the mountains on the north-west, but passed to the
southward without reaching us. We passed the town of
Kinsale, prettily situated at the mouth of the Bandon in a
sheltered bottom ; and its " decent church that tops the
neighbouring hill," with the sloping road that leads to it,
lent interest to the landscape. The Old Head, which we
neared in passing, is a rocky promontory faced with sloping
strata of gray limestone, cut into numerous fissures running
from the base to the top, which is covered with a scanty wig
of rough grass of a brownish tinge. Here there are three old
castles and a lighthouse. Beyond it, to the westward, are
several bays, or creeks, and portions of the hill sides sloping
to the north, are mapped out in enclosed cultivated patches,
of various shades of verdure, with a few scattered farm-houses
and huts. The country here is, however, generally of a naked
and somewhat sterile aspect, probably arising in a great mea-
sure from its exposure to the saline breeze. At Seven Heads
Point, the next promontory westward, are the ruins of a once
stately castle, now frowning in dark broken masses over the
restless waters below.

We passed a Kinsale pilot-boat, a small cutter with her
name or rather designation painted on her mainsail. Here
the swell from the western ocean, which seldom wholly sub-
sides, began to be felt, but so slightly as not to retard the
speed of the ship, which dashed on at the rate of about eight
and a half to nine knots, with abundance of steam to spare.
At five o'clock, having crossed another bay, we were abreast
of Galley Head, and in sight of Cape Clear. A vast number
of puffins hovered round the vessel, and not a few stormy
peterels. These last, I was informed, are common at almost
all seasons on the coast, and are not, therefore, considered
so portentous of a storm as when seen further from the land ;
but, for my own part, I am always thankful when Mother
Carey keeps her chickens at home, having, from some little
experience at sea, imbibed a portion at least of the belief at-
tached to their appearance by the bard, who sings—
The seamen, from the billows dark,
The hag's wild birds could faintly hear ;
Those birds that ne'er approach the bark,

provoked a laugh from the more fortunate. Even Captain
Kennedy, a tall athletic gentleman, was fain, from the effects
of the motion, superadded to a previous bilious attack, to
betake himself to his berth during the continuance of the
gale. The poor steward was also deadly ill. For myself, I
have reason to be thankful that I neither lost my appetite
nor my repose, and was thus enabled to be more on deck, to
satisfy a hankering curiosity to know all that was going on.
Captain Christie was almost constantly aboveboard, and,
though he frequently changed his upper dress, was scarcely
aimoment without being wet through. •

The steward of the-vessel, (whom I shall simply call
" William,") a native of Ireland, had long sailed with Cap-
tain Kennedy, in his first steamer on the Shannon. He was a
good-natured and obliging creature; butbeing, unaccustomed,
in his aquatic trips, to any motion more ungracious than
that produced by the comparative undulation of his native
river, his interior man was altogether taken by surprise in
the Atlantic tumble which we now experienced ; and when
he was not officially in requisition, (at which times he did his
very best to shake off the Neptunean demon that bad taken
him into his relentless keeping,) he coiled himself away in a
corner of the cabin, where he had the least chance of being
launched or rolled to the opposite side, or amongst the tables.
The poor fellow was often, moreover, thrown into extreme
trepidation by the buffetting of the sea, the roaring of the
gusts of wind, and the frequent noisy operations of those on
deck ; and, on one occasion, when our expert commander
dime below, dripping wet, to warm himself for a moment,
William, addressing him very pathetically, exclaimed " Oh,
sir, you're kilt ! you're kilt entirely ! Can't you take us into
some port, sir, and get out o' this bother ? sure you will !"

' To keep the ship as steady as possible, she was put under
the close-reefed main-sail and reefed fore-stay-sail, with her
head to the NAV., but made considerable lee-way. The
hatchways and engine gratings on the main deck were secu-
red, as well as circumstances would allow, with tarpaulins
and sails, to keep the water from getting below. About six
o'clock, while, with the increasing gale and the frequent
smothering of the paddle-wheels, she was doing little more
than lying to, the was struck on the weather bow by a tre-
Mendous sea that carried away great part of the larboard
bulwarks forward, filled the main deck with water to the
Uight of the cranks, and did some damage to her figure
bead and rails, as well as her paddle houses. She " sighed "
under it ; but some of her wash boards on the lee side
being, by aid of the carpenter, smashed away to facilitate
its egress, before another sea could repeat the compliment, she
again bounded up indignantly, in the triumph of her buoy-
ancy,—afterwards shipping, however, at times, a good deal
ot water, particularly forward.
About this time, while Mr. Allionby, the mate, was
assisting some of the crew to put a preventer sheet on the
fore-stay-sail, he was struck by the sheet block on the right
arm, a little above the wrist, and had both bones broken by
the blow. He was consequently entirely disabled at a time
when his services were most wanted. Two others of the crew
were also thrown violently from one side of the deck to the
other, and were also incapacitated from duty, and another
was ill, so that our " able seamen" on board were reduced to
the number of four, upon whom a heavy duty devolved at
the wheel, and the general management of the ship. Shortly
afterwards the tore-stay-sail was torn in pieces by the gale,
and becoming entangled by the haulyard block, hung in
shreds from the mast head.

The sea now became terrifically high and cross, one steep
wave frequently taking the vessel on the weather bow, and
another simultaneously on the lee quarter. Two men were
necessary to steer her, both " lashed to the helm." The
boat cloths were placed against the weather main rigging to
aid in keeping her to. The wind kept up a continued howl ;
and the sea, breaking and foaming, joined in the elementary
commotion. The sky was cloudy and portentous, and so
thick was the spin-drift, dashing horizontally in snowy
wreaths along the troubled deep, that we frequently could
not see the ridges of waves to leeward beyond a few lengths
of the ship. During the night and this morning, a con-
siderable quantity of water found its way down to the engine
room by the hatches, and into the cabin by the companion
way, and through the dead-lights of the stern and side-port
windows, when the sea broke upon her. The furniture in
the saloon that happened to be unlashed was upset by a heavy
lurch, but it was soon secured.

Shortly after eight o'clock, the two men at the wheel gave
Captain Christie the alarm that they saw breakers over a
low chain of rocks on the lee,—in which case, unless, by
some for.uitous circumstance not then apparent, we could
work out clear of them, inevitable and speedy destruction
to the vessel and all on board of her must have been the
result. The captain looked eagerly to leeward, and fancied
he could see the fatal ridge, stretching out in an apparent
straight line, as far as the eye could now and then distinguish
amidst the heavy surge, and the continued spin-drift. The
sight was a fearful one, and might well have excited consi-
derable consternation, even in the breasts of the most manly.
He was standing near the companion-way when I went up
the cabin stairs to see how the storm proceeded. The mo-
ment he saw me he said, " It is all over with us, Mr. —;
there are breakers on the lee !" " If so," said I, " it cannot
be helped, we have done our best, and must even submit."
I then at his request looked steadily to leeward, and fancied
too I could discern a long chain of black rocks, parallel with
the vessel, sometimes seen, and anon covered by the waves
and the snow-white spray, that rose many feet over them.
Our commander (as well as the few men of the crew who
were on deck) was naturally alarmed, and I sympathised
with him the more, as he had on board his young wife, who
had joined him in anticipation of a pleasure. trip ! The lady
was, however, in her private cabin dreadfully sick, and
with a proper regard to her feelings he did not inform her of
the imminent dangers that beset us. He immediately set
himself to do the best to the last moment, to prevent us
from drifting amongst the rocks. The steam was kept well
up, and the vessel's head kept as close as possible to the
wind,—for no apparent benefit could arise from putting
about on the other tack, and to bear away would certainly
have precipitated the catastrophe. Most of the crew had
previously taken shelter below, and but few of them were
aware of the danger. The captain being immediately en-
gaged in giving directions to the steersmen, my first impulse
was to communicate to my fellow-passengers the perilous
situation we were in. I, however, expressed a hope (though
I scarcely then entertained it) that all would yet be well.
The announcement at first excited some consternation, but
though a few faces were for a short time blanched, to do
justice to all, the labouring of the vessel, and the unmitigated
fury of the tempest, had, in some degree, previously pre-
pared them for a possible fatality, and the more nervous
resumed their self-possession, and appeared to join the others
in a quiet resignation to their fate. The disabled mate
showed some slight alarm for an instant, but immediately
resumed his reclining position at the end of one of the sofas
close to the rudder case, and laying his broken limb on his
breast calmly awaited the event. There was no running or
rushing, no expression of unavailing regret, though doubt-
less some painful thoughts of home, some aspirations for
those who were dearest to them, flashed across the general
mind. The steward, poor fellow ! was the only one partially
unnerved, and even he soon made up his mind for the worst,
and declared, in the vernacular accent of his country, with a
gravity even at that trying moment almost ludicrous, that he
would shut himself up in his pantry so that the fish might
not eat him, forgetting that if the ship once struck the rocks
in such a sea, she would be doubled up (pantry and all), and
smashed like a tin cannister operated upon by a sledge
hammer!

The captain came below and examined the chart of the
coast. He was of opinion that if they were rocks at all that
we had seen, they must be the low range of the " Blasketts,"
which run seaward from the main land a distance of a mile
and a half from Dunmore Head, on the north side of Dingle
Bay. But it appeared highly improbable, and, indeed, unac-
countable, that the vessel could have drifted so far to the
northward and eastward, as her head had been well out to
the westward all night, with the engine, though frequently
moving but slowly from the heaviness of the sea, still ap-
parently giving her considerable way.
The contemplation of what occurred during some few hours
of suspense has convinced me that the human mind can
sometimes accommodate itself calmly, even to death itself,
when that dread finality appears inevitable, and is unat-
tended by ignominy or self-repaoach. A rapid thought of
domestic endearments, and a brief prayer, was, with myself,
succeeded by a firm, if not, indeed, a sort of reckless in-
difference. I took off my cloak and laid it on the cabin
table, remarking that it might possibly wash on shore with
the wooden upper-works of the ship, and be of use to some
poor Irishman who might pick it up. I returned to the
deck, urged by a lurking curiosity, (which yet surprises me,)
to watch and witness the manner in which the vessel would
break up. When I reached it, the prospect on the lee was
still similar, though I sometimes entertained the momentary
supposition that what we saw, resembling rocks, were the
dark unbroken portions of waves succeeding those that
showed a continued crest. The captain was now of the same
opinion, from our bearings at the commencement of the gale
and the subsequent course we had shaped. Happily, after a
painful suspense of some two hours, during which death
seemed to stare us in the face, the result showed either that
the helmsmen (and ourselves for a time) were mistaken by
the appearances described, or, if otherwise, that the rocks
were weathered by good management,—for we never saw them
again, and the alarm, on that score, subsided, though the
vessel was still in great danger from the violence of the
hurricane.

The engines were frequently brought almost to a pause by
the paddle-wheels being smothered in the sea ; but on every
temporary lull, or partial falling of the waves, they clawed
on a little ; and to this, added to the liveliness of the vessel,
was our escape to be attributed. Indeed, it was the opinion
of the captain and others that a wooden vessel, under sail
alone, if so taken on a lee shore, must have perished. At
this time, though the ship pitched and rolled violently, Mr.
Chadwick and myself did what we could for poor Allionby,
who was in the cabin, in great pain from the fracture of his
arm, which had been but slightly bandaged in the hurry. He
was in constant danger of falling from the sofa on which he
sat, and receiving further injury. I made two rude, hollow
splints, with a table knife, in the best way I could, to fit his
arm and keep it straight, and Mr. C. bandaged it up. We
were not sufficiently surgical to set the bones; but our pre-
liminary operation (with a lotion of vinegar) tended to pre-
vent inflammation, and the poor fellow was thankful for the
trifling service. He could not obtain professional assistance
until two_days after the accident, _ _

Towards eleven o'clock in the forenoon the gale moderated
a little, but we still apprehended a lee shore, and held out
westward. Friends Chadwick and Tall resumed the thread
of the narrative they had been reading of " Two Years before
the Mast," at the cabin fire, and I posted up this my little
log-book. The sun looked out for a moment from a broken
cloud ; but this was only a momentary and deceptive glimpse.
Shortly after, while I was. looking out at the companion-way
to leeward, the ship took a heavy lurch, and being thrown
from my I,alance, I tumbled down stairs " by the run," and
picked myself up in the steward's room below. This was an
incident of no moment, saving as a relief to the general mo-
notony. I had been more on deck than any of my fellow-
passengers, and got frequently well drenched for this indul-
gence in my nautical propensities. The weather throughout
the day was boisterous, and between seven and eight in the
evening we experienced a violent hail storm. The direction
of the wind varied at times, and we made some stretches on
the other tack, in expectation of reaching the Shannon early
next day. _ _

-On Sunday morning another gale of scarcely less violence
set in from the same quarter as the first, and at nearly the
same hour—two o'clock.=We again stood from the land.
About six it rather moderated. We saw a few " blue jackets"
in the sky, and bore again to the eastward, with a view, if
the weather continued stormy, to make some intermediate
port in order to refit. The vessel scudded admirably, though
we at first apprehended that she would be pooped. About
11 o'clock, after a run of about 50 miles, (which showed that
we had made a good otfing,) the captain went aloft to look
out for land, but could see nothing, the haze over it being so
thick. A few minutes afterwards I was the first who saw a
e to the
than w
expected.
Skelligs Rock. We had
high rocky island on the larboard bow, which was immedi-
ately
drifted recognised a
the weather was now improving, Captain Christie (whose
caution and anxiety night and day were unceasing) deter-
mined to make at once for the Shannon,
li t t le
further o be
theo lrg
northward
the mouth of which
was about 20 leagues distant.. We stood N.N.E., the sea
still running high.
We passed on the west side of the great Skelligs Rock, at
a short distance from it. It is of an irregular form, high,
precipitous, and picturesque, terminating in two points or
peaks. The base is almost perpendicular, and being far from
the main land, it is continually buffetted on all sides by the
waves of the Atlantic. In the general outline it reminded
me of the Rock of Gibraltar, and two white lighthouses, with
an irregular white wall protecting the steep and winding road
between them, favour the resemblance by representing the
towers and batteries of that celebrated fortress. It appears
to be without vegetation, and the keepers of the lighthouses,
who see but the ocean around them, and hear but the scream
of the sea-fowl, must lead a lonely and cheerless life. There
appears to be no bay or shallow shore at any part, and such
is here the general swell of the Atlantic, that weeks some-
times elapse, even in summer, during which no boat with

provisions can effect a landing. Leman's Rock—the smaller
Skellig, is also picturesque, and there are minuter rocks,
resembling castles, with towers and turrets. The whole
asume a variety of appearances, as seen from different points
in passing them. They are about 56 miles from the mouth
of the Shannon.

The Erin, with a fresh breeze from the W. N. W., by
cbmpass, and an atmosphere gradually becoming clear and
sonny, dashed along in fine style; and we soon crossed the
mouth of Dingle Bay and came up to the Blaikett Rocks,
which had been our dread on the previous morning. 'We
steered, with full steam and sail, through the sound between
the great Blaskett and Dunmore Head, on the main land.
The outer Blasketts are chiefly steap multiform rocks, on
which, in stormy weather, the sea bird could scarcely obtain
a footing. The vessel rolled rapidly past them, as if, like a
young colt, she smelt the green land of her destination. The
whole coast of the peninsular portion of Kerry along which
we were running is peculiarly interesting, but I must be brief,,
as this, my first sketch, has unwittingl3 exceeded my intended
bounds. The Great Blasket is a most interesting spot. East
it are many curious indented and perpendicular rocks
near the land, one of which presented the appearance of a
brig under sail. The shores are here iron bound, and
the tops of the acclivities are covered with herbage ap-
propriated as sheep walks. As we proceeded, the shores
and the rocks by which they were guarded, presented
the most romantic and extraordinary appearances, of ruined
towns and villages, castles, towers, church spires, &c., which
the vivid imagination of the poet might readily associate with
historical reminiscences of towns, strongholds, and fanes in
various countries, now fallen into decay ; or peopled with
fairy sprites.
Brandon Head, a fine bill on a point, formed a conspi-
cuous landmark, and while passing it we retired below to en-
joy the good things of this lite, in the shape of a sumptuous
dinner, and after our perils and fatigues, exemplified the
truth of the expression of the bard, that " sweet is pleasure
after pain." Passing the Bay of Tralee we soon found our-
selves between Loop Head and Kerry Point, the two outward
boundaries of the wide estuary of the Shannon. The country
is interesting, particularly on the Kerry side, where its surface
is variegated by undulated low grounds, backed by mountains.
Towards nightfall we reached Kilrush, (county Clare,) one
of the ports of the vessels destination, where we were received
with a hearty welcome. We had been expected a day or two
before, and serious apprehensions were entertained for our
safety, much damage having been done ou shore by the dread-
ful gale we had experienced. We were here saluted by the
firing of guns, and we returned the compliment. We pro-
ceeded on after dusk, to Tarbert, in Kerry, (passing the
interesting island of Scattery,) and there having cast anchor
for the night. enjoyed oursels es for a short time, and thcn
retired to repose.
Sketch II.—" The Snannon, Bre.," in our next.)

THE BRAZILIAN TRADE AND SIR ROBERT PEEL

(From the Morning Herald.)

The Ministerial journals chuckle with delight over the
anticipated difficulty that Sir Robert Peel will have in negocia-
ting a renewal of our commercial treaty with Brazil. How,
they exclaim with rapture, will the right hon. baronet pre-
serve the Brazilian market to our manufactures, if he refuses
to admit slave-grown sugar? It is difficult to say whether
there be greater ignorance or impudence in this question.
But the reply to it is as easy as it is satisfactory.
The reduction of our duties on foreign sugar is, we fear-
lessly assert, not necessary to the preservation of the Brazi-
lian market, and for a very simple reason. Sugar is rapidly
ceasing to be the chief article of Brazilian export. The culti-
vation of the sugar cane has hitherto been the cause of the
continuance of Brazil in the brutal slave trade ; it has pre-
vented the increase of the slave population of that empire,
and has thereby created an irresistible premium for the rob-
bery of human beings from the shores of Africa for the sugar
fields of Brazil. Nither the cultivation of the coffee nor the
cotton plants is fatal to slave life. The negroes engaged in
the lighter and healthier occupation of working in the
coffee plantations do not decrease in numbers, and they
are the parents of a vigorous offspring. It is not, therefore,
surprising that coffee has become the staple export of the
Brazilian empire. In 1830 there were exported from Rio de
Janeiro 391,785 bags of coffee ; in 1841, there were exported
1,051,190 bags. In 1838, there were exported from the same
port 16,417 cases of sugar; in 1840, only 9,253. The in-
creased exportation of coffee, and the diminished exportation
of sugar from Pernambuco and Bahia, are also as remarkable
as from Rio, and incontestibly establish the fact we have
stated. _ _ _

, Brazilian coffee has for some years been entered for home
consumption on payment of the duty on that article when
imported from within the limits of the East India Company's
charter, by being previously sent round to the Cape of Good
Hope, and there trans-shipped for England as East Indian
coffee. A reduction of the duty on Brazilian coffee would
then neither seriously injure our own colonies, nor expose
them to new rivals, nor would it give an impetus to the
Brazilian slave-trade, while it would preserve to our manu-
factures the benefit of the Brazilian markets, and give our
population the benefit of cheapness in a most nutritious
beverage ; and in this way Sir Robert Peel may easily escape
from the difficulties hailed by his factious opponents.
Whether he will adopt this mode it is not our business to
inquire ; we notice only to expose the frivolous obstacles
which are conjured up to alarm the country by the organs of
a defeated faction.

CONSERVATISM

(From the Times of Yesterday.)

It is a happy omen of the prospects of the British nation
under Sir Robert Peel's government, that the definition of
conservatism given by the • right hon. baronet in his Tam-
worth speech is one which every true conservative will ac-
knowledge to be oomplete and accurate. The conservatives
are " determined to maintain on their ancient foundations
" the institutions of the country in church and state."
They are determined; their resolution upon this point is
one which cannot be shaken ; it is with them a first princi-
ple ; and they must abandon office rather than recede from
it in the least degree. But it is not to the outward forms or
the existing modifications of the institutions that they are
attached, but to the intrinsic fundamental principles. So
far as the institutions are consistent with these, they will
uphold them ; if in any thing they have departed from these,
they will bring back. Moving or standing still, this will be
their rule ; it will be the magnet which attracts them to a
state of quiescence, or the compass which directs them over
their course of necessary reforms.
The ancient foundation of the institutions of the state of
Great Britain, and the original source of all those wonderful
effects which we use the expression civil liberty to describe,
is the principle of self-government under salutary laws,
grounded upon the basis of religion, and secured by the nicely
balanced distribution of political power. Most persons
perceive the broad outlines under which this principle is
developed in the separation of the judicial, executive, and
legislative powers from each other—a separation complete
enough for a salutary independence of action, yet not so ab-
solute as to permit their mutual collision, or impede the
harmonious co-operation of the whole. Again, in the consti-
tution of the legislative body, it is easy to see how the vari-
ableness and impetuosity of popular will in the House of
Commons are tempered to consistency and soberness by the
weight of permanent interests and traditional authority in
the House of Lords. And in the constitution of the House
of Commons itself it requires no minute analysis to disco-
ver the very same most admirable composition of opposite
forcee. The proportions in which representation is assigned
to the different constituent parts of the people, modified as
they have been by the Reform Bill, are such as to give, upon
the whole, a body indispoted to violent or revolutionary
action, yet unequivocally, and to the satisfaction of the
whole nation, discharging the functions of a popular as-
sembly. The electoral body, which is the basis of the House
of Commons itself, consists not of the entire population,
but of all who, upon a liberal estimate, grounded upon their
circumstances in life, can be presumed to possess the ne-
cessary degree of intelligence and independence for the
franchise. Yet these are not placed in a position which
would enable them to exercise the power given to them for
public purposes without responsibility to the rest of the
community ; what they do must be done openly, and the
right of influencing and judging them by the free expression
of opinion, and of visiting them with those rewards and
penalties which opinion can bestow or inflict, is reserved to
every individual citizen.

At timing Intelligente.

TUESDAY, JULY 27.—Wind N.W. Fair

•
SAtmcn.--Benin, Smith, for Africa—Tiber, Ramsey, for Bahia—
Corinthian, Casely, for Vera Cruz—Seagull, Grayson, for Monte
Video—Martha, Martin, for Montreal—Queen of the Ocean, Tilley,
for Quebec—Pennsylvania, Drummond, for New York—Benjamin
Morgan, Johnston, for Charleston—Minstrel, Jenkins, for St.
Andrew's, N.B.—Hebe Thompgon, for Leghorn—Samson, Butcher,
for Trieste—Henrich, Kraft, for Stettin—Jacobine, for Groningen--
Olivia, Jenson, for Norway—Oteen, Lange, for Iceland—Jupiter,
for Wyberg—Betty, Elberfield, for Bremen—Marys, Fletcher, for
Rlga. _ _

Gratitude, Harvey, from Cape Good Hope at Mauritius
Tapley, Mallory, sailed from Mauritius for Tamataive 10th April
Colonist, Henderson, hence at Demerara
Shakspeare, Henderson, sailed from St Helena for this port 27th

May
Blorenge, Banks, hence at Madeira, and sailed July 3 for Calcutta
Triumph, Mann, hence at Ancona
Matilda, Medcalf, sailed from Leghorn for this port 14th July
John Horton, sailed from Valparaiso April, Europe April,
Chilian 27th April, and Secret 29th April, all for this Port
Falcon, hence for Demerara, was spoken 22d inst., lat ag. long 8
ELSINEUR, July 20.—The Tennant, Irvine, from Liverpool to St.
Petersburgh, grounded on tie Saitholins 17th instant, but got off
and proceeded
Rachel, Scott, from Calcutta, at St. Helena 31st May
Amwell, Hesse, sailed from the Mauritius for Calcutta 18th April
John Bagshaw, Reddington, sailed from St. Helena for London
27th May
Rookery, Bourne, from Sydney, N.S.W. at Deal
Thomas Tattersall, M'Guire, and Wm. Turcan, Turcan, from
Genoa, at Leghorn
Eugenia, Tomacao, hence at Lisbon
Vestal, Meikle, hence at Oporto
Christina, From, hence at Copenhagen
Lockinvar, Allan, from Laguna, at St: Petersburg
Quiz, for Guernsey, has put back with loss of bowsprit and head,
having been in contact with the Ellen, for Troon, which proceeded
with loss of quarter-boat, &c.