The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, OCT. 27.—There was no change whatever
in the feeling of the market yesterday, as compared with
that of the preceding week. For yarn, suitable to the Ger-
man market, and ready for immediate delivery, there was a
fair demand, and holders had no difficulty in making sales at
previous rates ; but the buyers showed very little inclination
to make contracts for future delivery. For manufactured
goods the market continued exceedingly heavy and discou-
raging, and few sales could be effected, except at prices a
shade lower than those of last week. Two failures have
been announced within the last few days—one of a manufac-
turing house in Mozley-street, the engagements of which
are stated to be £21,000 ; the other of a bleacher at Bolton,
which, we believe, is of smaller importance. There have
been also some failures at Hamburg; bute do not learn
that they are likely to have an immediate effect on this mar-
ket to any serious extent.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCTOBER
25th.—There has been a very fair demand for flannels to-day,
though the market has been but thinly attended. Prices
remain the same : indeed, there has been no change for some
weeks back. The wool market has been more than usually
dull; and, on account of the prices giving way, the manu-
facturers buy very sparingly.
NOTTINGIIAM.—We are sorry to state, that the plat net
trade, which seemed at one time to offer peculiar advantages
to the patentees and machine owners, has met with a great
reverse. Still the evil is not without remedy, provided the
patentees would adopt a liberal system of licensing to use
their invention. It is lamentable to state, that the hosiery
trade is worse th.,n ever, as employment is still scarcer. We
have heard of many hands being discharged. Full fashioned
cotton hose, though extremely dull, are the most in demand.
Was the trade to France open, there would be a great demand
for fine hose above 42 guage. The Saxons are so pinched by
the Sutton drop-offs in the American and German markets,
that the Saxon hosiers have for once abandoned their system
of compelling the master stockingers to find their own frames,
and they are trying the speculation of procuring English iron
frames. Two frames have been purchased of a framesmith
last week, for the purpose of being sent to Chemontry. Ones
is a 30-inch two-needle frame ; the other, a 20-inch two-
needle. The English iron frames have half as much speed
again as the Saxon wooden frames. The hosiers ought to
apply to the comptroller of the customs at Hull, to stop this
traffic in its infancy.—Nottingham Review.

AUGMENTATION OF BENEFICES

(From the Blackburn Standard.)

The Gazette of Friday evening last contains an Order in
Council, under the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Act,
including a list of grants for the augmentation of nearly 10u
benefices, being those which combine the largest population
with the smallest endowment, the whole amount granted
being equivalent to a present gross sum in 3 per cent stock
of £126,800. The funds thus appropriated have been realised
by the suspension of certain canonries and prebends, in seve-
ral cathedral and collegiate churches. under the operation of
the above-named act. The sums of money thus accruing
have been paid over to the Commissioners under the act, and
by them carrird over to a common fund, out of which the
grants to which we allude have been made. They are, in
fact, the first fruits of the scheme which was approved of in
the Fourth Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Other and similar lists may be expected to appear with rnore
or less frequency hereafter. The amount of good which may
thus eventually !result from the re-distribution of a large
portion of the revenues of the Church is incalculable. The
object of the Commissioners, as stated in the report which
they have just published, is, to grant out of the common
fund under their care (in the first instance) such augmenta-
tions only as may be requisite to secure, as nearly as may be,
an average annual net income of £l5O to the incumbent of
every benefice or church, with cure of souls, being either a
parish church or chapel with a district legally assigned thereto,
and having a population amounting to two thousand, and
being in the patronage of the Queen, some archbishop or
bishop, dean and chapter, dean, archdeacon, prebendary, or
of some rector or vicar. The Commissioners reserve to them-
selves the right of abstaining from recommending such aug-
mentation in cases where special circumstances render it in-
expedient. The grants now made become payable on the Ist
day of May, and the Ist day of November in each year, the
first payment to take place on the Ist of next month. The
sums already allotted to the benefices enumerated in the Ga-
zette of last Friday range from £6, (the smallest,) to £126,
(the largest amount.) The following is a list of the benefices
in this county, which have been thus augmented :—Brad-
shaw (Perpetual Curacy) £39 ; Dalton, (Vicarage) £33 ;
Ellell, (Perpetual Curacy) £5l ; Emmanuel, Bolton, (Dis-
trict Church) £81; Goodshaw, (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ;
Gorton (Perpetual Curacy) £24; Great Harwood, (Per-
petual Curacy) £2l ; llawkshead (Perpetual Curacy) £24 ;
Heapey (Perpetual Curacy) £42 • Marsden (Perpetual
Curacy) £54; Milnrow (Perpetual Curacy) £6; Moss-
ley (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ; Pemberton (Perpetual Cu-
racy) £ll4 ; Itoyton (Perpetual Curacy) £24 ; St. James,
Oldham (Perpetual Curacy) £7B; St. Paul, Warring-
ton (Perpetual Curacy) £27 ; St. Thomas, Friarmer-
(Perpetual Curacy) £2l • Samlesbury (Perpetual Curacy)
£42; Stretford (Perpetual Curacy) £39 ; Tockholes (Per-
petual Curacy) £l2 ; and Whalley (Vicarage) £lB. The
number of benefices augmented in this county is twenty-one.
The number augmented in the adjoining county of York is
eighteen. From the large proportion of grants made to these
two counties we may naturally infer that the necessities of
the Church in these large manufacturing districts are greater
than in any other part of the kingdom. We cannot more ap-
propriately conclude these statements than by quoting the
following admirable remarks from the Times :—" Unques-
tionably it is an object of the very highest importance to
promote the efficiency of the church in such parishes as those
to which these grants have been made. Spoliation formerly
fell with peculiar weight upon the town population of Eng-
land, and the consequence has been that our towns in modern
days have been the hotbeds and strongholds of dissent, while,
at the same time, they have been constantly advancing in
political importance. It is, therefore, both just and necessary
(if the secular establishment of the Church of England is to
be maintained) to make something like restitution to these
localities. Gm eat good must inevitably flow from the improved
pastoral superintendence and increased means of usefulness
which such apportionments of the funds at the disposal of
the Church Commissioners will create. It would be idle,
however, to hope that the resources of these commissioners
will ever be such as to meet the spiritual necessities of the
British people. There is need of a far greater and more ge-
neral exertion on the part of all the members of the English
Church. None but levellers would wish to see the incomes
of the clergy equalised ; and there is more room for doubting
whether too great a sacrifice has not been already imposed
upon the higher and more dignified portions of the ecclesias-
tical fabric than for entertaining the idea that by further I
alienations of present endowments the laity can be relieved
from the duty of contribution. Baron Munchauvn tells us
that he descended from the moon to the earth on a compara-
tively short rope, by cutting off the long, and now useless
uPPer end, and lying it to the lower,' till, ' by repeated
BPilcings,' he succeeded in reaching the ground. The satire
atda, take
and is keen. This must not be our mode of church extension ;
the church has already done as much in this way as she can
affnor
theirit share a re° owf thehi burden" g timeh
f.or her children to come in
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We understand that a prize of £2O was awarded on Tues-
day, at the Stewponey agricultural meeting, to a gentleman
who has a disc engine and boiler, on four wheels, for farming
purposes "as being the most useful application of steam-
power to agricultural purposes, combining practical utility
with small cost, portability, simplicity of management, saving
of manual labour, small liability to accident, and economy in
fuel."

A poor man named Lewis Roberts last week fell from an
American ship, the Rob Roy, into the Bute Docks at Car-
diff, and was drowned. His shipmates limited their exer-
tions to picking up his hat, and then rowed away, leaving
him calling for help.

CHURCH EXTENSION.—The Bishop of Worcester will
consecrate three churches, recently erected in the neighbour-
hood of Birminghatn, during the present week. Two are
very nearly ready for consecration in the neighbouring diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry.

A SHREWD HINT.—A Boston paper, in noticing the new
books recently published at New York, adds, " Most of the
newspaper editors in the United States have spoken of them
as of great merit. We do not believe a word of the praise
bestowed on these works, and will not, till we shall have seen
them."

THE WOOD-PAVING IN OXFORD-STREET.---011 Satur-
day, at the meeting of the Marylebone vestry, Mr. Gomm in
the chair, the vestry entered upon the discussion of the mi-
nute
for confirmation, agreeing to accept the proposal of
Messrs. Margrove and Esdale, the proprietors of Rankins'
patent wood pavement, to lay down six hundred yards of
their specimen in Oxford-street, between Southampton-
street and Duke-street, without subjecting the vestry to any
outlay, but at an annual charge of three shillings per square
yard per annum. After a short discussion the minute was
confirmed by a majority of twenty-five to fifteen.
CONVERSION OF FOUR ROMAN CATHOLICS TO THE PRO-
TESTANT FAITH.—On Sunday last, the 17th instant, the
church of Colebrook presented a remarkable scene. It hav-
ing been reported through the country that three Roman Ca-
tholics would present themselves for the purpose of formally
renouncing Popery, the church was filled to excess at an early
hour. After the Nicene Creed, the Rector, the Rev. Sidney
Smith, requested those persons Rho had given notice of their
intention of conforming to the church of England to come
forward to the chancel. Accordingly three men and one
woman arose and advanced to the rails, and there repeated
distinctly and audibly a declaration renouncing the errors
of Popery. The bearing of the converts was firm and
cheerful; they were, however, at times deeply and solemnly
affected. The most profound attention and sympathy per-
vaded the dense mess who listened with breathless interest.
The Rev. Dr. Smith preached from Ezekiel viii. 12. We
heard with anxious attention and deep feeling, and the inte-
rest displayed by some Roman Catholics present could not
be mistaken. if there were less carelessness and ignorance
among Protestants, there would be more conversions from
Rome. We pray that the good work may go on and pros-
per.—Fermanaqh Reporter.
THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL'S PAMPHLET.—The Quarterly
Review says of this trashy affair—" Hail it been anony-
mous, we should have thought it to be the work of some
crazy canter, who, without a single original idea on that—
or, we should have suspected, any other—subject, had, with
the crooked cunning so remarkable in those twilight intel-
lects, culled all the false facts and garbled statements of the
ministerial advocates into one incoherent, but—for the
thoughtless classes to whom it is addressed—very mischiev-
ous rhapsody. Mr. Noel may be, and we hope is, a very
different man from what his pamphlet would have led us to
suppose ; but the character of that work is what we have de-
scribed. We are, of course, not now going into the corn-
law controversy, nor, above all, with such an antagonist as
Mr. Noel ; compared with whose inflamed and inflammatory
.exaggerations Lord John's two processional loaves are com-
mon sense and sound logic. We only notice his pamphlet
on account of the astonishing and deplorable fact which im-
mediately followed its publication—in the very height and
fever of the elections—Kt. NOEL WAS GAZETTED AS ONE
,OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAAUA s—an outrage on decency,
on the church, on the consti ti, and on the Queen's Ma-
jesty, only to be equalled by t 4 e f*rmal presentation at court
of the Socialist, Owen."
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday even-
ing last Gainsburgh was the scence of a very serious domestic
tragedy. A girl of the name of Louisa Middleton, servant
to Mr. Thornhill, butcher, had been for some time very
intimate with the deceased, Thomas Wilson, and they were
shortly to be married; but, on Sunday morning last, after
leaving chapel together, they had a slight quarrel, and the
girl told Wilson to go about his business, she would have no
more to do with him, and on the evening of that day she
left off her old lover, and took a walk with a mason who has
lately come to Gainsburgh to work. While on their walk
they were met by her lover Wilson, who, just as they were
passing him, struck her on the breast violently, and made off
directly. Wilson had struck her with some sharp instrument
which entered her breast and caused a considerable loss of
blood, but unattended with danger. The girl took no fur-
ther steps in the business that evening; but the family of
Wilson became alarmed at his non-appearance, and on Mon-
day morning his body was discovered suspended from a tree
in a garden near the house where the girl resided. No doubt
he had intended to murder the girl ; and, under the idea that
he had inflicted a mortal injury upon her, committed suicide.
An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday, when it was
found that Wilson bad stabbed himself with his own pocket-
knife, which he had then put in his pocket, where it was
found with the blade covered with blood. From some other
singular circumstances attending the affair, the jury returned
a verdict of "temporary insanity."—Doncaster Chronicle.

PRESERVATION OF A CHILD.—A boy, named Gr ice
between three and four years old, has been in the habit,
for some time, of attending St. Michael's school, in the
Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury ; and, on Monday evening, was
dismissed at the usual hour, and went off homewards. The
poor child missed the way to his residence at Cotton Hill ;
and, in the darkness and severe storm, wandered through
Frankwell, onwards to the fields near the Monk's Eye Prill,
where he appears to have taken shelter under a hedge, and
then cried himself to sleep. The son of Mr. Hugh Parry,
of Frankwell, (who occupies the adjoining field,) was aroused
by his father, between three and four on the ensuing morn-
ing, to fetch a horse from the field, to go a distant journey.
The lad went off; and, having brought the horse to the top
of the Prill Lane, discovered, by the light of his lantern, the
infant lying coiled up, stiff and apparently lifeless, close to
the fence and the footway. He ran off to his father ; and,
telling him what he had seen, Mr. Parry held the horse till
he returned, and brought the boy in his arms, drenched in
rain, which had fallen on him unremittingly during the whole
night, and utterly unconscious, although he still breathed.
With the utmost care he was undressed, and put into warm
blankets, where he soon recovered a degree of consciousness,
but immediately fell asleep ; on awaking from which, he was
fully restored to his senses, and able to give such information
as enabled his preservers to put him into the arms of his
heart-broken parents, who had spent the night in traversing
the streets and fields adjacent to the school, in search of the
boy who was so miraculously preserved.
EXTENSIVE CATTLE SALE.—Yesterday week, the valua-
ble stock of Cattle belonging to Mr. Price, of the Pool
House, near Upton-upon-Severn, were sold in the presence
of a great assemblage of farmers, graziers, and others. Se-
veral noblemen were present, The cattle, including a num-
ber of calves, amounted to 103, and realized the extraordinary
sum of £5,236, being upwards of £5O a head !
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather,• though
still unsettled, has been more favourable during the past
week than had been the case for some time previous ; and we
doubt not that farmers have been enabled to carry a portion
of the long outstanding grain. The drying winds and sunny
days must also have been of immense service in freeing the
land of some of the superabundant moisture ; and should the
rain keep off (of which, however, there seems little probability,
having had several showers to-day,) ploughing and autumn
sowing would soon be actively commenced, and occupy a large
portion of the time and attention of the agriculturist. Al-
ready the supplies of corn from the growers have decreased,
and at most of the provincial markets held since our last the
trade has maintained a very firm tone. We are sorry to per-
ceive from our Scotch letters, that the weather has been very
inclement there, even on those days when we had it fair.
Our advices state, that scarcely any further progress had yet
been made with the ingatheiing of the crops, and that much
corn had been completely destroyed. These sad accounts
had caused holders of grain of all kinds to become unwilling
to dispose of what they still had on hand, excepting at ad-
vanced rates ; and good qualities of wheat, barley, and oats,
were held at enhanced prices. From Ireland the reports also
continue very disheartening ; frequent heavy showers having,
we are informed, fallen in different parts of the island, doing
great injury to that portion of the crops still abroad, inun-
dating the low lands, and threatening to render the produce
of potatoes bad in quality, and deficient in quantity.—Mark
Lane Express.
Mr. Knight Bruce, having returned from the continent,
has accepted the appointment of one of the Vice-Chancellor-
ships, under the act of last session, and will take his seat in
conjunction with Vice-Chancellor Wigram on Tuesday next,
the first day of term. The new courts will, in all probability,
sit in two of the committee-rooms of the House of Commons
until the Commissioners of Woods and Forests make some
more permanent arrangement.
A DANIEL GOING INTO THE LION'S DEN.—At a recent
anti-slavery meeting in Vermont, a very zealous young man
introduced a resolution that a person be appointed to go to
the south, and remonstrate with the people there against the
sin of slavery. The resolution was adopted, and the young
man who introduced the resolution was appointed to do the
honours of the office, which he had been the means of creating.
We regret 'to be obliged to say that we do not think that he
will proceed far on his pilgrimage of love.—Boston Mail,
Oct. 2.

DREADFUL PRIVATIONS.—Lord Charles Spencer, then a
youth about 18 years of age, suffered dreadfully from the
hunger and fatigue of this retreat ; trembling with cold and
weakness, he stood perched upon some branches that had
been cut down for fuel, the tears silently starting from his
eyes through the pain he experienced, while thus sharing in
the common lot, anxiously watching a few acorns, which to
stay the pangs of hunger he had placed in the embers to
roast. I dare say his Lordship had never known till then
the joys of poverty—a good appetite! Nor will he I expect,
forget how willingly the rough soldiers flew to offer him bis-
cuits which their own sufferings conld not withhold from one
so tenderly and delicately reared; but his Lordship was very
much liked among us, and no doubt it did many a heart good
to hear his thanks, and see the eagerness with which he de-
voured the offering.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier.
THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—It is reported, and the
quarter whence the information reaches us is a pretty good
guarantee for the accuracy that three of the leaders of the
non-intrusion party (Rev. Messrs. Candlish and Cunning-
ham, and Mr. Dunlop) recently met in Edinburgh three of
the leaders of the Moderates (the late Dean of Faculty Hope,
now Lord Justice Clerk, D. r. Cook, and Dr. Muir), and, in
presence of Sir. George Sinclair, who acted as moderator or
umpire on the occasion, took upon themselves to arrange the
disputes of the Scottish church on the following basis—viz.,
that patronage should remain in full force, but that the pat-
ron should present to the parish a leet of six condidates, the
people's choice of one of whom to be absolute. Our infor-
mant states, moreover, and the whole question may now be
considered as at rest, as there is good reason to believe that
Sir Robert Peel, if allowed, is prepared to carry this religious
treaty into effect. —Ayr Advertiser.
TURKISH MiesipAt. GUSTO.—A modern traveller informs
us that the band of an English ambassador at Constantinople
once performed a concert for the entertainment of the sultan
and his court.—At the conclusion he was asked which of the
pieces he preferred. He replied the first, which was accord-
ingly recommenced, but stopped, as not being the right one.
Others were tried with as little success, until at length the
band, almost in despair of discovering the. favourite air, be-
gan tuning their instruments, when his highness instantly
exclaimed, " Inshallah heaven be praised, that is it.
PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE.—It has been decided in
the last revision, both at Birmingham and at Gloucester,
that trustees of dissenting. chapels have not, as was formerly
supposed, the right of voting for county !Timbers. At the
revision in Gloucester, the revising barristers rejected the
claims, or struck off the
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six trustees of the Wesleyan chNoel—a decision which corre-
sponds with that given at Birmingham.

The railway department of the Board of Trade have issued
two sets of questions to railway companies, calculated to elicit
information as to the precautions taken to insure safety on
roads crossed by any line, and the safety of the engines em-
ployed on the line.

A particularly bright look out is kept by the customs' de-
partment at Limerick, and the toast guard on the Lower
Shannon, within the last month or two, the smuggling of
tobacco, it being ascertained, having been carried on to a
great extent from time to time.
RAILROADS IN FRANCR.—The system to be adopted for
railroads, as proposed by the minister of public works, is as
follows :—" That the districts through which the lines are to
pass arc to provide the land required, the state undertaking
all the works of embankment and excavation. The compa-
nies are to find the rails, the materiel, and the buildings, and
are to have the benefit of the lines which may be adjudged to
them, the duration of the grants of privilege and the rates
of charges being fixed by the government.

How TO STIMULATE COURAGE.—A gentleman passing
through a certain street, spied a little fellow busily employed
inflicting rather heavy blows on his pate, just behind the ear,
with a brickbat. Being desirous of knowing what sin so
young a child hgd committed, which required so extraordi-
nary a penance, he asked the boy why he was pounding his
head so violently ? Oh, sir,', said the lad earnestly,
" that great Bill Smith called me a liar yesterday, and I am
tryin' to raise the bump of combativeness„ so as to give him
a good licking to-morrow."—Scotch paper.

The determination of the French Cabinet to decrease its
naval armaments in the Mediterranean by the extent of six
ships of the line, which are to be withdrawn into port and
laid up in ordinary, was communicated to our government in
the most friendly and Unreserved spirit. There was not the
slightest requirement intimated of the propriety of a cor-
responding decrease on our side in our Mediterranean force,
nor was such mutual decrease a subject of negociation at
all, on either side. But we learn it is the intention of our
government to respond to this friendly manifestation, by re-
tiring a certain portion of our naval forces now in the Medi-
terranean. The ships so withdrawn will probably be ordered
to replace others on the American or West Indian stations,
whose time of service is up, but without ulterior views to any
presumed contingency of affairs there.
THE MARKET OVERSTOCKED.—A letter from Philadel-
phia, in the Morning Chronicle of Thursday, supplies the
following information :—" The British barque Queen, ar-
rived at this port, from Londonderry, on Sunday, Sept. 26,
with nearly 100 females on board, who, it seems, came to
the United States in consequence of having heard that fe-
males were very scarce ! I assure you that the ladies of the
republic are both numerous and agreeable, and the fair
daughters of Ireland left home under an erroneous impres-
sion. Their only chance is in the far-off west, but the jour-
ney is long and expensive.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Late on Friday night, a
porter. named William Grieve lost his life under the following
circumstances :—On the arrival of the Monarch steam-ship,
a rope was thrown from the stern of the vessel, preparatory
to her being moored alongside the quay ; and deceased in en-
deavouring to catch hold of it, lost his balance, and fell into
the water. Every exertion was made to save him, but he was
never seen to rise ; one of the seamen on board even leapt
into the water, and swam round the steamer, but he could
find no trace of the unfortunate man. The body was not re-
covered till nine o'clock in the morning, when it was found
that Grieve bad received a serious injury on the head, which
in all probability bad rendered him insensible, thereby ac-
counting for his not rising to the surface of the water. A
wife and three children are left to lament his loss ; and what
renders this event one of truly melancholy interest, is the
fact, that the former, when this sad bereavement befel her,
was hourly expected to give birth to a fourth.—Edinburgh
paper.

THE COURSE OE TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
—A " tiller of the soil" and a blythe young widow, residing
in Driffield, lately agreed to join their fates " for better for
worse." The banns of matrimony were published for the
third and last time—the guests were bidden—the ring was
bought—the wedding cheer provided—the happy day ap-
pointed—and the bride had taken up her abode in the house
of her parents elect. So far all seemed to bid fair for the
auspicious event ; but there is many a slip between the cup
and the lip. On the day previously to that appointed for the
nuptials, as the "happy pair" were busy putting the cake
through the ring for " nice young maidens" to dream on, a
dispute arose respecting the possession of the ring, which ul-
timately ended in the bitterest enmity, and the affianced
couple determined finally to separate. In the same house
there also abided a gallant son of St. Crispin, who had been
fixed on to give the blooming bride away ; his affections im-
mediately waxed warm towards the forsaken widow ; she re-
turned his glowing passion, and the very next day, on which
she was to have been the bride of another, saw them bound
in Hymen's bonds as close as sole and upper lealker.—Scot-
Ugh Guardian.

CELESTIAL PHENOMENON.—Saturday evening last, our
northern visitors, the aurora borealis, made their first ap-
pearance for the season. About a quarter to nine, the sky to
the north and north-west assumed that peculiar, soft, yellow,
and luscious light which always indicates the presence of the
" merry dancers." Two minutes afterwards, a splendid arch
shot away from a dense mass of cloud until it nearly reached
the opposite horizon ; it seemed to form imperceptibly, with-
out any flickering or coruscation, until it lay at length like
the scorched path of some mighty comet that had gone a
visiting Pleiades. The stars were dimly discernable through
the arch at the highest part, a circumstance not observable
with a similar phenomenon which took place in November
last. At five minutes to nine, a movement commenced at
the eastern limb, where it split into innumerable filaments,
diverging and contracting with great rapidity. The black
cloud in the north seemed to receive it like an Italian eating
macaroni, and in less then four seconds it had vanished into
thin air. A few beautiful fan-shaped rays were afterwards
thrown out from the extreme north, nearly parallel with the
great arch, but they soon subsided, and left the sky clear,
frosty, and ominous of foul weather.—Wick Paper.
DUBLIN MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The quasi Conserva-
tives who cried out—" touch not the unclean thing"—who
first dissuaded Protestants from taking any part in the elec-
tion for Town-councillors, and then discouraged those who
acted contrary to their advice, have triumphed for the pre-
sent, and Mr. O'Connell has obtained eleven out of fourteen
of the wards into which the city has been divided—the
fifteenth being neutralised. Nothing discouraged by what
has occurred, we still maintain our original opinion, that un-
der the excitement of proper feelings and with the applica-
tion of commensurate energy, the Conservative rate-payers
possess within themselves the power of becoming a majority,
on the burgess-roll, and of returning a considerable majority
in the Town-council. But we must bide our time, and ad-
vance to our proper position, by a process which if slow, is
steady, and eventually certain. In what state stood the
Protestant electors of Dublin after the first registration un-
der the reform bill ? Beaten to the very earth. In what
state stand they now ? Triumphant and victorious. The
process by which that alteration of the balance was obtained,
was tardy in its completion—but was it not sure? Yes—
and so will that in which we shall henceforth be annually
engaged, with the aid of an honest and independent press,
and the assistance of a fearless and uncompromising Conser-
vative Government.—Dublin Evening Mail.

AN HONEST MAN !—The other day a Highlandman went
into the shop of a haberdasher in the High-street, Perth, and
requested a sight of some yellow buttons. A drawer filled
with packages was placed before him, and after much trouble
he was induced to fix upon a particular kind, of which he
bought the requisite number for a coat. On paying for
them, Donald cast a wistful look into the glittering drawer,
and he felt an exceeding inclination to become the possessor
of a whole package, without value. Accordingly he com-
menced a second bargain with the merchant for a vast quan-
tity, and by dint of manoeuvring got his back turned, when
in a twinkling he had a package safely deposited in his breast
pocket. •` The tail o' the merchant's e'e," however, noticed
the act, but paying no attention to it, the bargain was con-
cluded, and Donald paid for the buttons for his waistcoat.
A's paid noo," he said, as he laid down the money. " Na,
no yet," replied the merchant "that package i' your breast-
pocket's no paid." " Od, I had nae mind o' t, said Do-
nald, taking it out and laying it on the counter. " What's
the price o't ?" " Twelve shillings," was the reply.
" That's ower dear," said Donald, " I'll hae naething to do
wi't. Deil tak the man's conscience, wad he rob an honest
man ?" And so saying, he hurried out of the shop amidst
roars of laughter from the shopmen, who had been listening
to the colloquy.—Dundee Courier.

UNOSTENTATIOUS BENEVOLENCE.--The following inci-
dent, connected with the meeting on Saturday for the relief
of the distressed operatives of Paisley, is deserving of honour-
able mention :—When Dr. Baird had concluded his touching
appeal in behalf of his snfferi"g countrymen, a gentleman,
who had hitherto remained a passive, though not an uninter-
ested auditor, advanced to the table, and placed in the hands
of one of the reporters for the press a roll of bank notes,
saying tremulously, and in a tone indicative of deep emotion,
" Have the goodness to hand this over to the committee, as
my subscription to the fund." The reporter said, " In what
name ?" The benevolent donor did not seem to think reve-
lation essential, but ultimately said " Fisk," and hastily left
the room. The notes were handed over to the chairman,
Mr. Sheriff Rogers, who discovered that the subscription
amounted to £5O. Dr. Baird expressed some anxiety to
make his personal acknowledgement for such a liberal acces-
sign to the fund, but the generous donor had immediately
quitted the house, owing to which the circumstance was-
known to very few of the persons present. From subse-
quent inquiries, the committee have ascertained that the poor
operatives' kind benefactor is Mr. J. P. Fisk, against whose
name the donation stands in the published list of subscrip-
tions. He is evidently one of those who " seek to do good
by stealth, and blush to find it fame."--Standard.

IMPORTANT MOVEMENT AMONG THE JEWS.—In a
lengthened chapter on the opinions, habits, and religious ob-
servances of the Jews of the metropolis, which appears in
the new work, " Light and Shadows of London Life," there
is the following account of a very important movement now
taking place among that body :—" After the last sentence of
this work had been put in type, and just at the very moment
the concluding sheet was going to press, I received informa-
tion of a most important fact, which has not been brought
before the public. I allude to the circumstance of a great
number of Jews having seceded from the general body, in
consequence of the latter placing the rabbinical writings on
the same footing as the five books of Moses—just as the
Roman Catholics and Pusevites regard the traditions of the
Fathers as of equal authority with the Scriptures. These
seceders, at the head of whom is Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,
one of the most influential individuals in the Jewish com-
munity, denounce the Talmud' as a mass of outrageous
absurdities, and are to adhere exclusively to the authority of
Moses in all religious matters. It is impossible to over-esti-
mate the importance of this event. It cannot fail to shake
the Jewish system to its very centre ; for the recognition of
the rabbinical writings as of equal authority with the Penta-
teuch, has been the great source of all the superstition which
exists arming the body. There is a remarkable resemblance
between this movement and that made by Luther and the
other reformers in the sixteenth century, to emancipate the
nations of Europe from the thraldom in which they were
held by the Romish priesthood. The movement is the more
important, inasmuch as it is the first division which has ever
taken place among the Jews on any of the essentials of their
religion. It cannot fail to produce speedy as well as most
momentous results. It has already inspired the body gene-
rally with the deepest alarm ; but on that point I forbear to
dwell. These Jewish dissenters have taken the place in Bur-
ton-street, formerly occupied by the Owenites, which they
have converted into a synagogue, where they now worship
Jehovah in accordance with their newly-acquired lights,
under the designation of ' The Reformed Jews. The desig-
nation they have chosen is of itself of very significant import.
Who knows but this may be the first step which Providence
means to take for paving the way for the conversion of the
Jews ?"

Margaret Craig, Alexander, at Gibraltar, and sailed 14th October
fur this port.
H. M. S. Britannia, 120, from Malta, off Gibraltar, and sailed for
England.
Brothers, Currie, hence at Monte Video, for Buenos Ayres
Selmar, Dotloff, hence at Dantzic.
Navigator, Scholer, hence at Swinemund.
Maria Agnetha, Townsgard ; Augusta, -
haren

hence at Copen

Aurora, Meppelder, hence at Helveot.
John Horrocks, Bleasdale, from Singapore, off Margate,

Julius Caesar, Mitchell, from Canton, at Deal. -
Albion, Hicks, sailed from Milford for Havana 22d instant.
Herald Warren, sailed from Teignmouth for Newfoundland 19th
October.
Monkton, Armon, from Frederickshaven, at Goole.
Ebenezer, Adams, from Malaga, at this port. _

ELsiNaus, Oct. 16.—The'Cilium, from Liverpool to
Pillau, was run foul of these roads, by an English brig this morn-
ing, and lost bowsprit, part of bulwarks, catheads, &c. and has
been towed in to repair.
BROWERSHAVEN, Oct. 17.—The Gezina, Wykmeyer, from Liver.
pool to Dordrecht, on entering our harbour, got aground on the
beach, and will probably have to aischarge to be got off

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28.—Wind N.N.E. light

ARRlVHD.—Resultatet, Arenius, from Pernau.
SAIESD.—Thomas Lee, Woof. for Sineapore—Breeze, Astwood,
for Demerara—Lady Falkland, Le Gros, for Ariebut—Bee, Wilson,
for Arica, Islay and Lima—Frederick Carl, Beck, for Hamburg.

Lady Flora Hastings, (steamer) Dickson. hence at Demerara
Falcon, Brown, hence at ditto 27th August
Gazelle, Mulhall, from Liverpool, N.S. at ditto 28th August
Petrel, Simpson, hence and Jamaica, at Honduras

Tamerlane, Morris; Erin-go-Bragh, Sumpton ; Aberdeen,
Duthie; Mersey, Hamilton, and Scotland, Buchanan, hence at
Quebec
Redwing, Esson, from Holyhead, at ditto
Emerald, Irons, from Port Fleetwood, at ditto
Shenandoah, West, hence at Philadelphia nth Oct.'
Swatara, Stewart, hence at ditto
Law Ogilby, Morris, from Constantinople, at Carthagena, with
rudder pintles broken
Amelia, Menzies, hence at St. Michael's
Mary Algie, Dele, hence at Arendahl
Aurora, Moeller, and Estafette, Wessels, hence at Brake
Enigheten, Brandt, hence off Frederickshaven, and sailed for
Nyborg
Charlotte, Ongter, hence for Riga, at Stromness
Mathilde, -, has put back to Flushing, after being out 17
days
Nancy, Miller, sailed from Bordeaux for this port 20th October
Boconnoc, Burger, sailed from Malaga for this port 2nd Sept.
Doctor, from Smyrna for this port, was spoken ath Oct. off Car-
thagena

Herald, hence for Miramichi, was spoken 10th Oct. in lat. 47 0
long. 37 0 _

. _
Sarah Maria, Aldrien, sailed from Marseilles for this port 20th
October

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,—Wind North

AR aIvED.--Latona, Walker, from Leith.
SAILED.—RivaI, Vernon, and Renard, Le Grand, for Constanti-
nople—Rutdcorn, Anderson, for Naples—Queen Mab, Ainley, for
China—Leviathan, Veale, for Cuba—City of Durham. Smith, for
Genoa—Messenger, Balliane, for Messina—Coeur de Lion, Ken-
dall, for Rio Janeiro—Antoinette. Roset, for Senegal—Enterprise,
Robertson, for Calcutta—Trinity Yacht, Maxwell, for Denia—
Thomas Battersby, Leitch, for Demerara—Reis Effendi, Pringle,
for Monte Video—Courtenay, Brown, for New Orleans—Leander,
Phelan, and Ocean Queen, Wilson, for Savannah—Champion,
Cochran, for Sydney—lsabella, Gibbons, for Almeira—/Eolus,
Grace, for Rouen—and Carl Wilhelm, Jass, for Elsinore.

Blair, Oldham, from Batavia, at the Cove; sailed Ist July

Matchless, Montague, from Laguna, at the Cove in 54 days ;
from 2nd to sth instant, in lat. 40, long 60, encountered very heavy
gales, and lost sails, spars, &c.
Wellington, (iron steamer) hence at Honduras
Fifteen, Dangerfield, from Alexandria, at Malta, and sailed Bth
Oct. for Liverpool
Favourite, Williamston, hence at Malta, and sailed 12th Oct. for
Syra

Princess Royal, Newby, sailed from ditto for Liverpool 10th Oct.
Pendarvis, Cocker, hence at Messina
George, Toby. hence at Hambro'
Eagle, Lang, hence at St. Petersburg
Horatio, Irvine, hence at Riga
Atalanta, Danner; Express, -, and Maria, Pickert, hence
at Swinemunde

Kate & Jane, Proven, from Rotterdam for Liverpool, at Harwich,
cargo shifted
Win. Jardine, Crosbie, from London to New South Wales, was
spoken 25th Sept. in lat. 11 N, long. 24 W. On the 22nd. spoke
the Ward Chipman, from Bristol to New South Wales.
KiNsALY:, Oct. 25.—The Ayrshire Lass, from St. Domingo to
Liverpool, was spoken off the Old Head of Kinsale this afternoon,
with loss of captain, mate, and one seaman, who died during the
passage.

KLNGSTOWN, Oct. 9.7.—A large vessel has been wrecked off
Sloyne Head, with the name " Earl of Errol" painted on her stern.

AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED
Into Liverpool, from the 19th to the 25th instant, inclusive.
FROM IRELAND.
Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs
3337 2851 4254 39 40
Prey.. 634;3 119226 115401 1637

250 2510'2

COASTWISE

242 2290
2202 42781

19 1275

BOROUGH HOP MARKET, OCT. 25

in the Hop market there is not much activity at present ; the fairs
at Weyhill, Maidstone, and other parts not having gone oft' briskly,
or in a manner to encourage speculation. The crop, some think,
will fall below the estimate, and this induces the holders to keep
very firm, in spite of the limited demand, in anticipation of a
future improvement. The duty has but few backers at £140,000 to
.4'145,000. The official statement will be out in about a mouth.
Prices much the same.

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, OCT

The price of Butter continue to have an upward tendency, and
but little disposition is evinced on the part of holders to realise for
the present. On the other side the water the merchants are very
sanguine ;—we call the currency fully 2s per cwt. higher than on
this day se'nnight. Without being able to notice an active de.
mand for Beef and Pork, we may remark, that prices are very
steady ; and the belief is general, that a considerable advance will
occur shortly after Christmas. Bacon is speculatively enquired
after, and the supply at market very limited Fine long sides we
quote 60s per cwt.

HULL CORN MARKET, OCT. 26.
The farmer's supply of Wheat to this day's market is more
abundant than last week, and for all dry conditioned qualities Is
per qr. advance has been paid ; a great proportion of the samples
showing are much out of condition, and such do not make any
more money than last week and are difficult to quit. In old foreign
there is a fair business passing but at no advance on the prices of
last week. Very few Oats offering, and late prices supported.
Beans of good quality is per quarter dearer, second sorts without
alteration. The malting season has scarcely commenced ; there
is, however, not much Barley offering, the best malting parcels
command full prices, grinding qualities sell at is per stone. With
the exceptions of Thursday and Friday, we have had continued wet
weather which still continues.