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and to the " fainous" Irish rebellion. The drift of
these allusions is but too obvious. But let the wily
Jesuit take heed. His inuendoes, his artful sugges-
tions, his broken periods, may yet prove insufficient to
screen him from the consequences of his treasonable
designs: 'He may yet have to undergo, in his own
person, the penalty of the law. The preservation of
the safety and integrity of the empire may render it
necessary that he should he arrested in his mad career.

The anti-corn law agitation has been resumed with
as much energy as was manifested at the commence 7
ment of the year. The itinerant and stipendiary lec-
turers of the " League" are perambulating the king-
dom in every direction, mingling in their incendiary
harangues the most ridiculous nonsense with the most
awful blasphemies, and stimulating the evil passions of
the mob by ribald abuse of both houses of legislature,
and by denunciations of vengeance against the aristo-
cracy of the country.l One of these paid orators, a
member of the numerous family of Smiths, has been
endeavouring, during the past month, to gull the inha-
bitants of Liverpool with his trashy verbiage and shal-
low sophisms in favour of a repeal of the corn laws.
We are glad to say that he seems to have made but a

very slight impression on the minds of the operative
classes in Liverpool, who are, generally speaking, too
well informed to be led astray by such superficial rea-
sonelA as Mr. Orator Smith.
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We trust that the recent exposures, made by Mr.
Handley and others, of the gross and fraudulent trick-
ery practised in the corn trade, by the speculators for a
repeal of the corn laws, will convince the people of
Great Britain of the folly of trusting to the tender
mercies.of the free trade gentry. Even under the pre-
sent system of restrictive duties these very conscien-
tious individuals are able, by means of fictitious sales,
to raise the price of corn almost to starvation point,
and that in spite of the powerful competition of the
whole ttgrieultural interest of Great Britain and Ire-
land. flow much more terrible NI) u1(I be their tyranny.
if they had an almost unlimited command over the sup-
ply of the staff of life I) We should soon find the
locks anti bolts upon the granaries and the storehouses

of these monopolists a far more fearful practical sy

goat acts of par-

It is a singular and rather anomalous circumstance,
that the two classes who arc most conspicuously active

In carrying on the anti-corn law agitation, are actuated
by different and opposite motives. One of those classes
IS composed of the corn dealers. They are anxious to

obtain a repeal of the corn laws for the sake of securing

a more co:nplete control of the market, awl, of course

Thus, the cry of this'section

of the clamourers for a free trade in grain resolves itself
into a cry for " dear bread." It would be preposter-
ous to suppose that the corn merchant would he other-
wise benefited by a repeal of the corn laws, than as it
would enable him to secure larger profits. Those who

Imagine that such men as Sir Joshua \Valmsley are
disinterested in their exertions to procure a free trade

In corn are fools of the first magnitude, upon whom
argument would be utterly thrown away. The other
Class of agitators for a repeal of the corn laws corn-

Irises the manufacturing interests generally
Object is to procure a supply of cheap bread for their
factory slaves. Without cheap bread they know that
they cannot have cheap labour. Their uniform •corn-
Plaint is, that they cannot possibly comps/.e with the

Their

foreign manufacturer, because labour is dearer in Eng-
land than it is on the Continent. Repeal the corn
laws, say they, and we shall be enabled to procure a
flunly of cheaper labour, and, consequently, to ester
into competition with the manufacturers abroad.
Granting for a moment that this would follow, how
Would the poor operative be benefited by such a
change? With diminished wages—and that, we ern-

phatically repeat, is what the manufacturers are la-
bouring to bring about—of what benefit would be
cheaper bread to the poor artisan ? it is a consum-
mate frauda mean and rascally trick—a cruel and
Satanic delusion—to say that the condition of the la-

bouring classes, in the manufacturing districts, would
be in the slightest degree improved by the repeal of
the corn laws. To them " cheap bread" would be but
another name for " low wages" and a more limited
supply of the mere luxuries of life.

In proof of the correlative advantages of " cheap
bread" and " cheap prodnction," ive may refer to the

condition of the operatives on the Continent—not as
described in the lying, ex parte, and well-paid-for re-
ports of Dr. Bowring and other political empirics, who
have been sent abroad on purpose to get up a case in
favour of the manufacturers—but as we find it de-
scribed in the voluntary, matter-of-course statements
of intelligent and impartial tourists. We could fill our

Paper with extracts from the works of trustworthy tra-
vellers, descriptive of the misery and want, the phy-
sical sufferings and moral degradation, of the opera-
tive classes in various countries on the Continent.
We feel convinced that no British artisan would ex-
change his lot for that of most of these wretched vic-
tims of the " cheap labour" system. Operatives•of
England ! your worse than Egyptian taskmasters want
to reduce you to the same level with the serfs of the
cheap-production lords of the Continent. If you have
any spirit left in you=if your energies are not annihi-
lated by the grinding tyranny of those who are coining
the sweat of your brows and the strength of your si-
news into gold,—tell the vagabond orators of the Anti-
Corn Law League that you will not listen to their
lYing declamations. Tell these bloated scamps to.go
and labour for their bread, instead of prostituting their
abilities to so unhallowed a purpose as that of seeking
to grind the faces of the poor.
But we deny that " cheap labour" would be, in the
long run, of any advantage to the manufacturing inte-
rests of this county}•. Indeed, so convinced are most

of the respectable and conservative manufacturers of
this fact, that they have systematically kept aloof from
the whip tyrants of the Anti-Corn Law League. It is
obviously the interest of the Continental powers to
Protect their own manufactures. If they cannot do
this in any other way, they will do it by depriving this
country of the benefit of a free trade in corn. Let us

remove our restrictions on the importation of corn,
and we shall soon find foreign governments imposing

restrictions on its exportation. It would be an infatu-
•tition to expect any other result : and let it be remem-
bered that this result would only be rendered the more
certain and inevitable by previously making this coun-
try dependent upon the countries of the Continent fur
its supplies of corn.

We believe that the conservatives of Liverpool will
stand well upon the municipal registry for the present
year. The preparatory struggle has been well sus-
tained, and nothing now remains, in order to secure
such a victory, on the first of November, P s shall for
ever extinguish the hopes of the Whig-radical faction,
but an energetic and persevering canvass throughout
all the wards in the borough. There is very little time
left for exertion. We are,-therefore, anxious that that
time should be well employed. Candidates ought to be
forthwith chosen in each ward, and those candidates,
when once definitively fixed upon, ought to have re-
course to a personal canvass. Much will depend upon
this point. Our opponents have all along been fully
aware of the importance of a personal intercourse be-
tween the candidates and the electors; and wherever
the conservatives have, on former occasions, acted upon
this policy, they have been generally successful.
We may, perhaps, be, told that we are too sanguine
in our expectations with reference to the approaching
municipal election. We may be reminded of the gi-
gantic efforts made by the Reform Association and the
Protector. Society to swamp the registry. We are fully
aware of the desperate expedients to which our oppo-
nents have resorted, in order to secure, if possible,
their lost ascendancy. We need not be reminded of
the extent of their preparations. We are in possession
of ample information on the subject. With a full cog-
nizance of their trickery and of their lavish expendi-
ture of money, we still maintain that the strength of
the conservative party in this town is comparatively
greater than at any period subsequent to the passing of
the Reform Act. We wish that we could say that the
zeal and confidence of the conservatives had kept pace

tire part

The principal source from which the augmented
at re
ugth of the conservative party of this town is de-
rived, is, the gradual reaction which has taken place in
favour of constitutional principles. The universal
disgust excited by the reckless and unprincipled pro-
ceedings of the whip-radical faction has done far more
t° swell the ranks of the conservatives than all the ex-

ertions that have been made to add to the number of
voters on the registers. We venture to say that there
is not an individual, under whose notice these remarks

may happen to fall, who cannot, without a moment's
hesitation,. point to some of his friends or acquaintances
who have deserted the ranks of their former destrnc-.
tive allies, and joined themselves to the conserva-

But we challenge' nine out of ten of our

memories for a single instance in
which a conservative has joined the ranks of the ra-
dicals. Such a thing would be a prodigy worth re-

readers to tax th

cording.
Such being our own convictions, we wish to inspire
our conservative friends with a corresponding degree
of confidence, in contemplation, of the approaching
struggle. Let them fight like men determined to win
the battle. " A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull al-
together," during the present year, will secure the final
ascendancy of conservative principles in our municipal
councils. Let us not rest satified with anything less
than a clean " sweep out" of the Augean stable.

FAILURES IN MANCHESTER.—Mere have been two ex-
tensivdfailures in Manchester, Mr. Fort and MI. Lavino.
THEATRE ROYAL.—Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Mackay
commenced their engagement last evening, and as may be
expected from their high reputation, they gave the highest
satisfaction. The " bill of fare" for the week is very rich.
Mr. Paul Bedford will appear this evening.—See advt.
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MODEL OF WATERLOO.—We understand that this unique
and elaborate production, which has been visited and ad-
mired by thousands of our townsmen, and which has been
pronounced, by competent military authorities, the most
perfect thing of the kind ever exhibited, will be very shortly
removed from Liverpool. We recommend our readers to
avail themselves of the brief interval which will elapse before
the exhibition closes for the purpose of inspecting this
splendid model.
Mu. HASSARD'S TABLES.—We understand that these
singular and beautiful specimens of workmanship have been
inspected by multitudes during the past.week, and it will be
seen from an advertisement that they will be on view for one
day only. Mr. Hassard deserves well from those gentlemen
to whom he specially appeals for the disposal of his ingenious
works of art, as he has been compelled to make many sacri-
fices in defence of those principles he holds dear. As some
misapprehension was caused by the wording of the advertise-
ment in ocr last, we may as well state, that Mr. Hassan, will
feel proud to exhibit his rare productions to all who may
honour him with a visit, whether with the intention of pur-
chasing or otherwise. It will be melancholy, if Mr. Hassard
be compelled to leave our wealthy town without disposing of
his unique designs.
NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual

ineetin.4 of the members and friends of the Liverpool Aux-
iliary Naval and Military Bible Society was held last evening
in the Music-hall, Bold-street, and was most numerously
attended. Thomas Porter, Esq. was called to the chair, and
the proceedings were commenced by the supplication of the
divine blessing. The Rev. W. Maynard then read the report
of the committee's proceedings during the past year; from
which it appeared that, since the formation of the Parent So-
ciety, in 1780, it had distributed no less than 356,000 copies
of the Holy Scriptures amongst the me❑ belonging to the
navy and the army. The Liverpool Auxiliary had been pe-
culiary successful during the past year; the subscriptions
had increased from £37 to £lBB ISs. 6d. ; but still it entailed
a loss of £509 upon the Parent Society. An association had
been formed at Birkenhead; and since the last annual meet-
ing, 907 copies of the Scriptures had been distributed, mak-
ing a total of 7,112 copies since the formation of the Aux-
iliary in the year 1832. The meeting was afterwards ad-
dressed by the Rev. W. Maynard, the Rev. J. H.. Stewart,
Rev. J. Baylee, Mr. Howard, Lieutenant Symonds, and the
Bev. J. C. Richards; and the Doxology having been sang,
it dispersed, all being highly gratified with the proceedings.

' THE MANCHESTICR NEW POST-OFFICE.—This office was
yesterday week openei for business. It is said that there is
nothing superior in point of accommodation out of London.
The principal room covers a space of upwards of two hun-
dred yards, and is most profusely lit from the roof. The
number of private boxes are 1,320.
DESTRUCTION 01, A COTTON MILL AT STOCKPORT BY
FlRa.—On Thursday afternoon, about half-past four, an
alarm of fire was given, which was found to be at the
Churchgate Mills, the property of Mr. Elkanah Cheetham,
but occupied by a number of tenants who manufactured
weft from the lowest qualities of cotton waste, and which
made a catastrophe like the present exceedingly imminent.
It is said that none of them are insured. The building,
however, is undersood to be so. Scarcely anything was
saved.

CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—The show of cattle on Thurs-
day was tolerably good for the Se"ptember fair. Milcbers
and barren beasts were in tolerable demand ; the former
averaged from £l5 to £lB. and the latter from .£lO to £l3
each : fat cattle, of which the show was only moderate, sold
well, from 51t1 to Gid per lb. and sink. There was a fair
supply of sheep : fat weathers were worth 6id and 7d, and
ewes 6:1 to bid. Lambs had only a dull sale. Pigs were in
tolerable demand, at about the same prices as last fair.
Serviceable horses were i❑ good demand. The city was not
very thronged, as the favourable harvest day kept many of

MR. WINTERBOTTOM, OF STOCKPORT.—We understand
that information has been received in this town that an
individual has been residing at Newmarket, in Monmouth-
shire, for the last three weeks, answering in every respect the
description of Mr. Winterbottom, with the simple exception
that he has no whiskers, which were rather a conspicuous
feature in Mr. Winterbottom's countenance. This individual
was consequently suspected to be Mr. Winterbottom himself ;
but the parties entertaining that suspicion, not venturing
to take him into custody without further evidence, sent to
this town for some person to go over and identify him. We
believe that a police officer who knew Mr. Winterbottom

personally, went to Newmarket on Wednesday or Thursday
last ; but we are not aware that any information has been re-

ceived from him.—Manchester Guardian,

ACCIDENT.—On Friday last, as a boy in the employ of
Mr. Jones, Castle-street, was'cleaning the office windows,
he lost his hold, and was precipitated from a height of forty
feet, through the skylight of Messrs. Swainson and Son's
counting-house, and fractured his skull. Mr. Swainson,
jun., who was standing under the skylight at the time, nar-
rowly escaped being killed, the boy in his descent striking
him on the back. Assistance was immediately procured,
and he was conveyed to the Infirmary, where, we believe,
small hopes arc entertained of his recovery.

SUPERB CHIN.I.—We have inspected the truly elegant
stock of china, Bisque figures, &c., at Mr. Hodgson's rooms,
Church-street. The selection of ornaments (some of great
size) for drawing-rooms, boudoir, &c., are most unique. We
understand the sale will continue the whole of this week.—
See advt.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—One of those accidents which, for-
tunately, are of rare occurrence in our town, happened in
Tithebarn-street on Friday afternoon, about five o'clock. A
gig, driven by a young man, was passing, at an ordinary
speed, through the street, a boy ran across from the opposite
side at the time, and, it is supposed, came in contact with
the feet of the horse, and fell. The gig passed over the neck
of the child, and when taken up he was found to be quite
dead. We are not aware that any blame can be attached to
the person who was in the gig when the accident occurred.
The child belonged to some poor people in Pall Mall.

THE CHARGE AGAINST L. J. HART.—We stated, last
Tuesday, that the legal advisers of Lewis J. Hart had ex-
pressed their intention of making an application to Baron
Rolfe to enlarge the prisoner on bail. On Saturday night
Mr. Crompton intimated to his lordship, that he was about
to apply to that effect, his lordship having had the deposi-
tions and certain affidavits laid before him on the preceding
evening. Mr. Watson said, he had instructions to resist the
application for bail, but certain essential affidavits which he
had to present were not quite ready, and others were only
just sworn. lie wished his lordship to postpone the case till
Monday morning. Mr. Crompton said, there had been am-
ple time to have had an opportunity of seeing them. Mr.
Watson said, they had been got ready as soon as practicable ;
but there was one important affidavit, the affidavit of the
woman herself, which was not completed. Mr. Crompton :
" The woman herself !—That is a reply !" Mr. Watson :
"To be sure—and a most important one." His lordship
fixed a quarter past eight for hearing the affidavits on both
sides. His lordship could not say, that he would hear the
application in open court, but it should be somewhere within
the building.—Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past eight
o'clock, Lewis Joseph Hart was brought before Baron Rolfe,
in his private chamber, in the Session's-house, for the pur-
pose of receiving formally tha application of the p'risoner's
legal advisers to let him go at large on bail. The witnesses
for the,prosecution were in attendance in the ante-room;
but, saving the official persons concerned, no one was allowed
to be present, the application being strictly private. Mr.
Crompton, on the part of the prisoner, produced the affidavits
of certain parties who formerly lived at the White Bear, and,
of a person who was formerly a servant with Mr. Fadeuilhe,
and of the prisoner himself. Mr. Watson, in resistance of
the application, produced counter affidavits from parties who
were enabled to contradict the allegations of the deponent
on the prisoner's behalf. . His lordship, having heard the
argument of counsel on both sides, said he saw nothing in the
statements produced to justify his interference. His lordship
refused to allow the prisoner to be bailed.

THE ORIENTAL.—The splendid steamer Oriental arrived
at Falmouth on Wednesday morning, at 6 a.m., from South-
ampton, to receive the mails for Alexandria and India. At
a very early period after she put in, the Mayor, S. Blight,
Esq., and the corporation, were accompanied on board by
Captain Flumridge, in his barge ; and she was likewise visited
by a large concouse of the gentry of the town and neighbour-
hood, admitted at is each ; amongst them were Sir Charles
Lemon, M.P., and family, J. Ennis, Esq., W. Vice, Esq.,
Captain Pengilly, R.N., Lieutenants Herrick, Leslie, Crook,
Coghlan, and Smith, R.N. We learn that so large a sum
as £94 was collected, by the admission fee, towards the funds
of the Fishermen's Charity, whilst she lay at Southampton.
The extreme civility of her commander and officers, and her
magnificent but chaste fittings, with the cleanliness and order
prevailing, excited the admiration of every one. There were
103 soldiers of the 77th regiment, Captain Egerton, in com-
mand, and ensigns Rook and Duff. She had passengers for
Alexandria—Captains Reed and Ewart ; Messrs. 'Sutton,
Ford, Weller, Stockham, Palmer, Daly, Powell, Rich, Black,
Fletche, Strath, Dr. Fletcher, and Hassan Gammiel. For
Malta—Colonel Gordon and family, Captain Rawlinson and
lady, Captain Gardner, Lientenant Middleton, Lieutenant
Munro. Mr. and Mrs. Dick; Messrs. Harvey, Duniell, Wil-
liams, Reynolds, Langhorne, Hanson, Privilege, Miss Terry,
Mrs. Lancaster. For Gibraltar—Captain and Mrs. Custance
and servant, Mrs. Custance, Dr. Stewart, and Messrs. Em-
mett and Savage. She left Falmouth at half-past 1 p.m,
Lieutenant Turncock in charge of the mails. Lieutenant
Green goes out to take charge of a mail steamer between
Malta and the lonian Islands. There appeared an uncertainy
whether the Oriental would return to Falmouth or go up to

Liverpool direct.
Blackpool. Southport, Waterloo, Crosby, and otherbathing
places, have for a few weeks past been quite overflowing.
THE ISLAND or LUNDY.—This island, situate in the
mouth of the Bristol Channel, and forming part of the hun-
dred, of Braanton, in Devon, was last week sold for 9,400 gui-
neas. It is three miles long by one mile wide, arid contains
nearly 2000 acres of land. It possesses a mansion, with
offices and outbuildings, including a smith's shop and forge,
and there are several labourers' cottages. It is said that a
small harbour might easily be formed near the present land-
ing-place. Lundy is famous for its butter.
SHAKSPERE'S DEER STEALING.—MEIOIIC,•it is known,
threw doubts on the fact of Shakapere's deer stealing in his
early days, thereby offending the poet's admirers, inasmuch
as otherwise the bard's attack upon Lucy of Woodcote
seemed unaccountable ; and the reason he gave was that the
offence could not have been committed, inasmuch as Sir
Thomas Lucy, so Malone averred, had no deer walk to be
poached upon ; but time, the great settler of all things, has
set the matter, as well as the commentator, right; for it.ap-
pears, from a record of those who sent presents to Chancellor
Ellesmere, when he entertained Queen Elizabeth, at his seat
at Harefield, that among the givers of bucks on the occasion
was the aforesaid Sir Thomas. This corroboration of the
poet's deer stealing is now on veritable record among the
the Camden Society in their last volume,
fpraopme r publishedestheEger byton papers, furnished by Lord Francis, the
owner of these curious and hitherto unknown documents.