The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

LATEST FROM DAVIS'S STRAITS WHALE FISHERY

The following is an extract of a letter which was received in
the City on Saturday afternoon from North Shields, dated
Friday, Oct. 22 :—" A seaman has just been landed from
the whale ship Lord Gambier, Captain Warham, from Ilavis's
Straits, now off our bar. She has only one fish and seven
bottlenoses, in all about 13 tons ; and the Lady Jane is also
reported to he near at hand and clean. This is the third year
similar disastrous success has attended the whalers from this
port."
MR. STANDISH, OF DUXBURY, AND Louis PHILIPPE.—
Mt. and Mrs. Standish have left their seat, Duxbury-park,
Lancashire, for a short sojourn in the French capital. We
are informed, upon good authority. that his majesty Louis
Philippe graciously intends honouring Mr. Standish with a
munificent present, to the amount of 160,000 francs ; and
that the object of Mr. Standish's visit to Paris is to receive
this splendid gift.—Preston Chronicle.
DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—On Saturday a public meeting
was held in London, for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion the alarming distress at present existing among the
operatives of Paisley and other manufacturing districts of
Renfrewshiae. At the close of the meeting a very handsome
list of subscribers was presented, and amongst the names
is Sir Robert Peel for £5O,
WHOIXSAI,E LYNCHING IN TEXAS.—A week or two ago,
says the Natchitoches Herald, we gave an account of the
trial of one Jackson in Harrison county, Texas, for murder;
of the manner in which he was tried; how he was acquitted;
and how he and some of his friends then seized the county
judge, M'Henry, and brought him into Natchitoches, where
he is now in gaol, awaiting his trial, under an indictment for
carrying off negroes from that parish. It now appears that
when Jackson returned to Texas, the was attacked and killed
by four or five friends of M'Henry ; and they, in their turn,
have been captured and hung, without any ceremony; by the
friends of Jackson.
Major-General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., is to return
home from Jamaica, and to assume the command of the
northern district of South Britain, in succession to Major-
General Sir Charles James Napier, removed to the staff of
India. Major General Sir H. Berkeley, formerly deputy
adjutant-general in the West Indies, is appointed to succeed
Sir William Gornin in the command of the troops at Ja-
maica. Brevet Major Grattan, of the lath royal Irish regi-
ment, replaces the late Captain Ker, of the 4th foot, as major
of brigade to the troops at Madras.—United Serrice Gazette.
INCENDIARY FIRES.--We regret to perceive by the pro-
vincial papers notices of fires caused by incendiaries in seve-
ral places. In the journals last received no less than four
wilful burnings of farm property are mentioned. The West-
ern Times notices the destruction of the farm buildings the
property of C. Cross, Esq., of Cowley Bridge ; the Begford
iifercury has an account of the burning of two ricks of bar-
ley, near Ampthill, the property of Mr. Joseph Berrill ; and
the Leeds Intelligencer states that the farmstead of Mr.
John Wilson, of Grimston Smithy, near York, and a hay-
stack at Manningham, the property of a working man, have
been consumed by fire, lighted, there is no doubt, by incen-
diaries. In the fire near York 18 stacks of wheat, barley,
and oats, were destroyed. A man is in custody suspected of
setting fire to them ; in the other cases the villains remain
undiscovered.

THE ADDITIONAL EQUITY JUDGES.—The new equity
judges commence their functions next term, which puts a
period to the Exchequer Equity Court ; but the act con-
tamed clauses prescribing the course to be pursued regarding
Exchequer Equity suits undisposed of. The Lord Chancel:-
lor is empowered to appoint one of these new vice-chancel-
lors to preside for him in the Court of Chancery whenever
he may require such relief ; thus the Lord Chancellor will
have increased opportunities to attend to the appellate juris-
diction of the House of Lords.

CORRESPONDENCE

THE COMING MUNICIPAL STRUGGLE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The authentic records of it, represent this town as
containing twenty-eight houses, twelve vessels, the total ton-
nage of which was two hundred and ninety-three, and one
hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants, in the year fifteen hun-
dred and fifty-five ; so that, although our great local prede-
cessor, Roger of Poictiers, laid the foundation of Liverpool
with the walls of the castle he built seven hundred and fifty
years ago, yet its modern history begins properly with the
era of the glorious reformation, inasmuch as, till then, the
sickly infant did not begin to thrive.
A municipal body has existed in the place almost from the
time of Roger of Poictiers, and exists in it at present. What
the earlier municipal bodies were, as regarded the extent of
their funds, the position they occupied compared with other
contemporary municipal bodies, or to what extent they were
influential in promoting a prosperous and increasing com-
merce in it, we may conjecture from the foregoing data; and
the inference such conjectures will suggest will be that, how-
ever wealthy or useful the existing municipal body may be,
its titles to such wealth and such usefulness were acquired
during the last three centuries.
Towards the close of the year ]836. the nett value of the
municipal estate was said to be three millions sterling: dur-
ing. the preceding half century it had doubled itself in value.

This estate consists of landed and other property, in which
the former kind of property has a vast preponde%nce. Out
of such an estate there has sprung, from the commencement,
many reciprocal interests and relationships, which have aug-
mented from time to time, and are now in exercise. Land-
lerds and tenants, proprietors and builders, licensing magis-
trates and publicans, creditors and debtors, buyers and sell-
ers, form a few items in the catalogue of such relationships,
which exist to such a degree that the interests, the prosperity,
and, it may be added, the maintenance of thousands of indi-
vidual inhabitants, exist with them.

Yet, on the aggivgate, the prosperity in its prosperity, and
the poverty in its poverty, of the municipal estate has always
been subservient to, and influenced by, the mercantile and
commercial transactions of the town, to which all its pros-
pects, for good or for evil, are, and have always been limited.
Had not an augmentation of such transactions taken place
on the spot, requiring, as they augmented, additional build-
ings, in the erection of warehouses and dwelling-houses, be-
sides other erections, landed or other property would not
have advanced in value upon it. Now, augmentation has
been the chief feature in the modern history of it—reciprocal
augmentation. Should diminution he the chief feature in its
subsequent history, can it be anything else than reciprocal
diminution?

I will endeavour to be more explicit. If twice the business
was done on the Exchange to-morrow than was done to-day;

if twice the number of vessels, requiring twice the number of
docks came to discharge and enter for loading, such increase
would cause the corporated estate to double itself in value :

from three millions would, as soon as the full effects of the

increase become known, result six

—or. to-reverse the sup-

position, were there in the docks half the cargoes, bought or
sold, discharged or taken on board, half the business trans-
.

acted that is now transacted, then the natural consequences
would be a decrease of one-half in value of the corporate es-
tate. Land at two guineas a yard would scarcely find pur-
chasers at one-half the sum ;—from three millions would
soon result one and a half.

The interests of the body corporate are demonstrably in-
terwoven with the mercantile and commercial transactions
of the port. But is it in the power of the body corporate to
promote commercial intercourse? can they command mer-
cantile prosperity ? can they absolutely augment both ?
Doubtless it is to their own interests to promote the one,
and endeavour, as far as human nature can reach, to aug-
ment the other. This they have always done; this other
bodies corporate have always been doing. Serious as these
questions are, and deserving of the deepest consideration, a
painful negative must characterise the reply to one and all
of them from any intelligent mind.

Supposing the utmost willingness to be shewn, on the part
of the body corporate, to swell the commercial tides as far
and as high as human ability could do. Well, what do the
past histories. of Bristol, or Hull, or a dozen other towns,
say of the willingness of their bodies corporate to swell them,
—of their hopes and their anxieties to make every wave of
them a billow, and every billow a sea? The maps of Great
Britain will spew us many such towns : the history of Great
Britain will inform us of many such bodies corporate. Alas !
many of them were too impotent to keep what commerce
they had, and what riches which were once iu their possession.

"Trade," says a great writer (Bishop Newton), " is a
fluctuating thing. It passed from Tyre to Alexandria, from
Alexandria to Venice, from Venice to Antwerp, from Ant-
werp to Amsterdam and London, the English rivalling the
Dutch, as the French are now rivalling both. All nations
almost are wisely applying themselves to trade, and it be-
hoves those who are in possession of it to take the greatest
care they do not lose it.''

And the same writer adds, on the same subject—
" It is a plant. of tender growth, and requires sun, arid
soil, and fine seasons, to make it thrive and flourish. It will
not grow like the palm tree, which with the more weight and
pressure rises the more. Liberty is a great friend to that,
as that is to liberty ; but the greatest enemy to both is licen-
tiousness, which tramples upon all law and lawful authority,
encourages riots and tumults, promo!es diseases and debi-
lity, sticks at nothing to supply its extravagance, practises
every act of illicit gain, ruins credit, ruins trade, and will in
the end ruin liberty itself. Neither kingdoms nor common-
wealths, neither public companies nor private persons, can
carry on a beneficial trade without virtue, and what virtue
teacher,h—sobriety, industry, frugality, modesty, honesty,
punctuality, humility, charity, the love of our country, and
the fear of God."

Whatever opposing arguments may be advanced against
these statements, the severe truth contained in them will be,
to every right-minded person, manifest at a glance. Com-
merce of whatever description, like the motions of states and
armies, is under the control of that Infinite Intelligence, of
whom it is truly said,
"He reigns supreme,.and He directs-it all."

The great Sovereign of sovereigns governs the commerce of
nations, or companies, or individuals, for their prosperity or
adversity, for their evil or for their good, according to their
inclinations and their acts. A flourishing trade is as much
a gift of his bestowing, as is a plentiful harvest. A depres-
sion of commerce is as much a punishment of his infliction,
as is a plague. or a pestilence; so Scripture announces it,
and so the experience of every nation that sees the light
confirms the accuracy of the announcement, while they slim
us how true are the histories of such nations as those He
himself has written for our perusal.
Let the mind ask itself, May the people belonging to a
town reasonably hope for a flourishing state of trade, with a
body corporate composed of liberal bones and limbs, such as
those who have appeared some time ago in our own hemi-
sphere? By liberal bones and limbs I would hieroglyphic
men of various religious opinions, acting in concert with
each other. Unitarians, Roman Catholics, and others, form
the strongest lines in the picture ; and these, with additional
others, form one painting. With those who denominate
themselves conscientious dissenters—who fear God, love the
Bible, and honour the Queen—l will have no quarrel as re-
gards the sincerity of their professions ; but, with motives
the sincerity of which has been demonstrated by acts, as to
their fitness for securing God's blessing and a city's welfare,
I must have a controversy.

What is the question for discussion? Among our present
municipal statesmen are men of various religious views, act-
ing in singular concord for the public good. They agree.
that immorality, and vice, and theft, and murder, and crime
of every sort, is obnoxious and intolerable, and must be sup-
pressed wherever and whenever seen. To suppress it by
applying the corporate funds to the dissemination of religious
instruction, and (subject to the will of the Almighty) to re-
ligious influences, they can never do, inasmuch as religion is
a thing in which they are opposed one to another. Well,
what do they do? Seventeen odd thousand pounds per an-
num are paid by them for supporting numerous peripatetic
philooophers in blue uniforms, the head of whose school is a
stipendiary magistrate ; and every year crime is suppressed
by imprisonment, transportation, and sometimes the gallows!
This state of things would not obtain, I venture to affirm,
under a corporate government, professing a holy, a christian,
and a national religion. Even moral men know right well,
that transportation, imprisonment, or any other kind of
punishment, will not alter a wicked disposition ; nay further,
they know from seeing old offenders repunished, that such
often aggravates evil in an unregenerate mind, till it reaches
the highest degree of malignity. Shall not Christian men
know it much more? And if two thirds of seventeen odd
thousand pounds were paid for the service of pious active
clergymen, who, would every day visit every abode of wretch-
edness, teaching people to be virtuous, honest, and religious,
by infusions of Christian feeling, called down from their
heavenly sources, it would avial to suppress every vice, every
theft, and every murder, in its due season ; a greater propor-
tion of happiness would flow through the town ; commerce
would increase a hundred fold ; peace and plenty be seen in
all its borders, and in all its streets ; God would be honoured,
and trade would florish.

Religious influence will always avail to cure every moral
disorder, and God has commanded religious influence to be
disseminated every where ; none but religious influence will
command His blessing, the absence of them will bring His
curse. The highest usefulness a municipal body can ever
know, is the disseminating of religious influence : still no
liberal municipal body can ever disseminate them and act
consistently. How, then, are we to have God's blessing with
a liberal municipal body.
A liberal municipal body may suppress crime, by making
more prominent, the badges of the world's lost innocence,
in increasing the number of hulks, or adding more frightful
escutcheons of its present disgrace to those already on the
walls of the prisonhouse or the dungeon ; but this is all it
can do ; and this is one reason why our town can never expect
wealth, peace, and godliness, under a liberal municipal body.
It is impossible for any professed liberal, being a member
of a body corporate, formed of such materials as those already
named, to act in concert with his colleagues without first con-
ceding what he may not believe, namely, that all religions
are alike, and all entitled to equal respect; as such, there
_

can be no agreement between himself and the other liberal
members upon any subject associated with religion, because
he is bound to respect all kinds of religion • this his position
forces upon him. Any religious system which prohibits the
indiscriminate use of the Bible, in the education of a child,
he must respect as much as any religious system which en-
forces its indiscriminate use in the education of children.
Any religious system which denies the existence of a Trinity
in the Godhead, he must respect the same as any religious
system which affirms as much. By the same rule, any
rational religious system that denies the existence of a God
altogether, is as much to be respected as the one which claims
God for its author. • In fact, a carrying out of liberal prin-
ciplles, so far as they are openly professed, leads to a con-
clusion that there is no such thing as a false religion repugnant
to the great Giver of Revelation, and this is a conclusion to
which all liberal professions must arrive, uuless they profess
to throw religion overboard altogether.
But this conclusion is so repugnant to Scripture, and so
opposed to the views of those who profess our national re-
ligion and orthodox dissenters, that any man, or any set of
men, who act in concert together with strict reference to it,
in any nation, kingdom, or city, must be considered by such
in the sincerity of their hearts, as the chief sources of troubles
to that nation, kingdom, or city. The tender plant of com-
merce can never thrive or florish long in the atmosphere they
breathe, for commerce is a gift of the Almighty ; it will never
bud, and blossom, and bear fruit, amidst a soil from which
arises so mach contagion. The ancient and modern histories
of all nations, cities, and kingdoms, offer irrefragable testi-
mony on this subject. Does not the same Providence that
ruled in the times of ancient Egypt, Tyre, and Sidon, Persia,
Soria, Greece, and Rome, in all their cities and kingdoms,
rule throughout the cities and kingdom of modern England ?
Does not the modern histories of such cities as Antwerp,
and Amsterdam, and hundreds of others mourn in their de-
creased commerce, the absence of His past favours ?
Under the great christian principles of the 'reformation,
are laid the commercial foundations of Liverpotil ; commerce
has flourished above those foundations in proportion as they
spread forth amongst the inhabitants for the past three cen-
turies. Under a conservative corporation, whose disposi-
tions were to give them a wide spread, fresh velocities were
added to the motion of every wheel, to one dock were in a
short period added nine; to one church were added a dozen;
Bluecoat Hospital boys became merchant princes ; mayors
rose to be knights ; how many were the schools that dissemi-
nated a Church of England education at their expense ! How
many were the spires that pointed to the skies through their
munificence! How many were the institutions that experi-
enced their charity,! How the magisterial bench exhibited
their merciful inclinations ! How the poor experienced their
humanity ! Yet they had their frailties—frailties peculiar to
the best of human kind—still charity acted often in union
with their transgression, and their professed principles, while
they conduced to a flourishing commerce were based on
foundations, as firm as those of the everlasting bills. I do
not advocate for their faults, though no one cau brand them

with hypocrisy among the number ; but, I do advoeate for a
return of men educated as they were, with all the additional
advantages of recent experience ; --experience acquired during
a time a liberal municipal body has tried and failed in the
trials of every panacea it offered for the medication of diffe-
rent disorders. Alen who would not punish a drunkard's
family because he was a drunkard,—men who would even
prefer a parish-office as an " Augean stable," to a parish-
office adorned with all the horrors of a surgery or a sham-
bles ; men who would multiply the institutions, in which the
maimed, the halt, and the blind might find the skill of sci-
ence, and the sympathies of charity exercised in their relief,—
men who would multiply schools where the Bible should be
freely taught, accompanied with all the blessings of a chris-
tian tuition,—men who would cause the chimes that would
be reverberated, on every undulation on the surface, of our
local Euphrates, to carry on the wings of every receding
breeze a more melodious welcome home to the foreigner,—
men who will not tolerate any system of old-fashioned Ara-
bian justice in a police court, or dream of reforming national
evils by policemen,—men who would beautify our beloved
city with temples of the Most High, displaying what might
seem to be knit together with the fingers of angels rather
than the architecture of man,—where God might be wor-
shipped and honoured,—where the poor might come and
welcome to hear the everlasting gospel of the grace of God,—
and where the aspirations of holiness calling for peace and
plenty in our land, should bring increased commerce to our
shores, even to overflowing, with every wind and tide.
It is time I should advert to the coming municipal struggle.
My fellow-townsmen ! my brother Englishmen ! prepare
yourselves for it as the representatives of British ancestors
should prepare themselves. It is your country that ranks
highest in the scale of nations ; It is your church whose altars
were reared by the hands of pious reformers,—whose walls
and battlements are cemented with the mingled blood and
ashes of a noble army of martyrs! Never forget that the
corporate estate cannot flourish without commerce. Never
forget that commerce is a gift of God. Never forget that
God will not bestow his gifts without religion. Stifle not
conscience for men or princes. Look upon your poor suffer-
ing brothers and sisters in adversity, suffering from an
alarming depression of trade. Reflect on the only system of
education a liberal council can consistently give their children.
Banish all the quackeries, the nostrums, the panaceas of
liberalism, and carry into the council chamber an honest,
christian, corporate body, whose chief charter shall be the
bible, and whose
.chief officers shall be a pious, active, and
willing clergy.
Cairo is in ruins,—Aleiandria is silent,—Venice wears the
garb of departed glory,—Tyre is a place for fishers to spread
their nets on,—Chester, which was first built in the days
when the sceptres of Israel and Judah were swayed by Ahab
and Jehosbaphat, has scarcely emerged from its ancient
walls,—and Bristol no longer rivals Liverpool! And who
divested Egypt of its commerce ? Who took away the trade
of Tyre? Truly the same Sovereign of the world, who in
spite of men's opposition reigneth a King for ever. Still, He
has promised every blessing to them who keep His covenant,
and observe His law : For brass He can still bring gold—for
iron He can still bring silver—for wood He can yet bring
brass—and for stones iron,—officers He can still make to be
peace, and exactors He can still make to be righteousness :
Yea, He can still make of a little one a thousand, of a small
a one strong nation ;—He that could divest Egypt of its com-
merce could have caused the multitude of camels to cover her
laden with gold and incense: He that could take away the
trade of Tyre and Sidon, could have caused the abundance
of the sea to be convegred unto them, and He who has
already invested men with energies under the discharge of
which a flourishing trade found employment for almost every
man in Liverpool, can again bring them into action in the
persons of their successors, or let them sleep with Liver-
pool's late fathers.

I rest from my imperfect task ;—Men and Brethren !
settle these things in your hearts and let them be remembered
in your acts in the coming and all future contests.—l remain,
A. CONSERVATIVE.

sir, yours, &c

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF SAINT
PETER'S WARD.

GENTLEMEN,—The period has again arrived when you are
called upon to elect a fit and proper person to represent you
in the Town-council. It is for you to decide whether your
present representative, Mr. John SVoollright, is that person
or not. The question at issue is, does he maintain and sup-
port Protestant principles ? I answer he does not, and I call
upon every Protestant, that is worthy the name, to come for-
ward and not only vote against but protest against his return.
It cannot be denied that one party must be in the ascen-
dancy. Be not decived because Mr. Woollright is a nominal
churchman. By referring to his proceedings in the council,
you will find that he has voted with him who caused the Bible
to be excluded from our schools—with him whose name is
utterly unworthy of insertion in any respectable publication,
(yea, " only fit for the Mercury itself.") Le me, then, en-
treat of you all who love and esteem your country for its in-
tegrity and honour, to profess and uphold those principles
which were handed down to you by your forefathers, and
which placed it in the position it now occupies, viz., that of
Protestant England, by sending to the council our esteemed
and very worthy townsman, Mr. Ebenezer Rae.

Your obedient servant,

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TO THE
ELECTORS OF GREAT GEORGE'S WARD

Twice, gentlemen, has merit been discarded,
But now I trust by you 'twill be rewarded :
Twice trampled in the dust, unjustly too,
Electors of Great George, I turn to you,
And tho' by others shamefully neglected,
I hope you won't reject the "twice rejected."
My views political, I'm sure are known
To every woman, man, and child in town :
All who have ever heard old It—bone named,
Must know that I'm a radical untam'd
Such principles were mine from early youth,
And age has but convinced me of their truth.
As to religion, these are my opinions,
(Although I'm of the few who're called Socinians,)
Heaven's paths are countless, and I do suppose
lie can't be lost who walks behind his nose :
But still, I think, (however you may flout it,)
A thorough-going Rad should be without it.
Those mighty Radicals, Voltaire and Paine,
Did not of faith possess a single grain ;
Atheists they liv'd—and if not much
These " Sons of Reason" Atheists also died.
Now, gentlemen, you know me—and I trust
(Although corruption may attempt its worst,)
My claims on you will not be disregarded.
But "public virtue" be in me rewarded.
Electors, friends, adieu! my task is done,
And I remain, your faithful Will It—bone.
Roscommon-street.

Earl Grosvenor arrived at Lisbon on the lith instant, in
his yacht from the Mediterranean.

BURYING THE DEAD.—On leaving the hospital with
other convalescents, I was sent to the bomb-proof barracks,
where it frequently became our duty to see the dead interred.
This was a most horrible office, and obliged us to attend at
the hospital to receive the bodies, which were conveyed away
in cartloads at a time to the ground appropriated for their
burial. This lay outside the town beneath the ramparts, and
was so very small for the purpose required, that we were
obliged to get large oblong and deep holes excavated, in
which two stout Portuguese were obliged to tack the bodies,
heads and heels together, to save room. It was singularly
revolting to witness how the pair went to work when hand-
ing the bodies from the hospital to the cart ; each carried a
skin of vinegar, with which they first soused themselves
over the neck and face; this done, with one jerk they jilted
a single corpse at a time across their shoulders, naked as it
was born, and bolted off to the cart, into which it was pitched
as if it had been a log of wood. The women, however, who
fell victims to the epidemic, were generally sewed in a
wrapper of calico or some such thing, but they partook of
the same hole as the opposite sex, and otherwise were as
little privileged.—Costello's Adventures of a Soldier.

LORD ASHLEY'S APPOINTMENT AS AN ECCLESIASTICAL
CONMISSIONER.—A strange idea has got abroad in many
quarters that Lord Ashley has departed from his declara-
tion not to join any administration which is not prepared
to accept and carry out a Ten Hours' Factory Bill. The
misunderstanding has arisen in consequence of that noble-
man's having been gazetted as one of her Majesty's eccle-
siastical commissioners. The matter can be satisfactorily
explained in a few words. The case is this : the situation is.
in no sense a political or ministerial one, and has no emolu-
ment whatever attached to it. Its business and objects are
simply and solely ecclesiastical, relating to church lands and
church revenues. The appointment is a highly honourable
and useful one. The commissioners have to distribute
certain surplus revenues, as they arise from time to time, and
devote them to the increase of small livings. They have also
many other important duties to perform. To this commis-
sion the bishops, without a single exception, belong, as well
as some of the members of the late Cabinet, and other whigs.
The late ministerial changes have occasioned no removals ;
but a vacancy by death happening to arise, the offer of a seat
at the Ecclesiastical Board was made to Lord Ashley by the
Premier in the name of his Sovereign, and on behalf of the
church ; and it would, under all the circumstances, have
been a most ungracious act on the part of his lordship to have
declined the offer, in a case where neither politics, nor emolu
ment, but gratuitous service alone, was concerned.— Oastler
' Fleet Papers.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND.-11h
Grace the Duke of Richmond and the Bristol committee
having, on their recent visit to that city, selected sites for
the exhibitions and meetings of the society, the council have
issued their official announcement, with the list of premiums
to be competed for, and the regulations to be observed by the
several competitors. It is intended to hold the smaller
meetings in the Victoria Rooms, and for the accommodation
of the members in general a spacious pavilion, capable of
dining about 2,500 persons, will be erected on a piece of
ground adjoining the northern side of Tyndal's Park. There
are several new premiums included in the list, and the total
amount will be more considerable than that offered at the
meeting at Liverpool. Among the prizes offered for essays
are £2O for the best report of experiments on the drill hus-
bandry of turnips; £2O for the best account of the natural
history, anatomy, habits, and economy of the wire worm,
and the best means of protection against its rava; £2O for
the best essay on the mechanical properties of the plough ;
the society's gold medal for the best account or ;record of
the prognostics or natural signs of changes in the weather ;
£lO for the best account of making cheese • £2O each for
ditto of the rotation of' crops suited for light and heavy
tse sonsfgai yan wheat
lands; £lO for an account of the best mode of curing butter;
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paid, at the option of the winner, either in plate or money.

A SCENE MORE TII AN ANNOUNCED.—Carter is at Bins-
sels. One of his recent exhibitions was marked by an inci-
dent which produced a great sensation among the audience.
Towards the latter part of the performance Mr. Carter issues
from the cage in which his animals are confined, and
comes
forward with the tiger. A basket of raw meat is placed in
the middle of the stage, within a yard or two of the promp-
ter's box. Mr. Carter leads the tiger to the basket, andc the
animal naturally makes a rush at its contents ; bat Mr.
_IF:
Car-
ter holds him back ; the tiger still presses forward, and IVI:c
Carter gradually relaxes his hold, till at last the tigedriastel-
ceeds in seizing a piece of meat, when he is,
lifted upon Mr. Carter's shoulders, who in this way
off smoothly,
immediately
At the first representation this little scene went
time.when
but such was not the case on Wednesday. This
piece of meat, and
the tiger had possessed himself of
sth
heedin the direction of
was making his escape with it,
Jr.itrter seized him again,
the Stalls ; Mr. Carter ran afterhigir,rae
him back ; the tiger got away. and endeavoured to bring-
an and beast fell on the but, missing his footing,
of the orchestra ; shrieks of
foot-
lamps, the glasses of w
tiger was now within onf,s
_tt.
0.
which were broken into shivers. The
h whole audience was on the
made their escape, when sud-
denly resounded on aliliirareadaely
alert, and several had
returned on his steps away from the
polo the midst of a group of dancers,
lamps,den ly t haentigerd ,
d i rose
iuri
-, legs and disappeared at the wings,
passed between
"brought back by Mr. Carter, who did not
where his unexpected presence struck all with terror ; but
whence be
towasesca e again. It will easily be imagined how
confusionp and alarm caused by this little inci-
dent,did not last more than a f
dent, which, however, few seconds.
The ladies of the corps de ballet especially uttered the most
jahlentable screams. The audience revenged themselves for
great was him
the
the fright which had been caused them by a vehement shower
of hisses; but nevertheless called back Mr. Carter, who re-
turned, with his tiger mounted on his left shoulder, to re-
ceive his tribute of applause, more or less mingled with mur-
murings.—Journal des Debats.

EN A PEDESTRIAN AND A
HUNTER.

,in the Bury Herald.

• some time past the sporting circles of Ipswich have
in a state of " pretty considerable agitation," in antici-
a of a match coming off between Cootes, the noted
on pedestrian, and Towit, a hunter, the property of
un Lloyd, of the 13th Light Dragoons. Cootes has
within the last three months making exhibitions of his
)rdinary powers of walking and running against time,
taving •stated in certain sporting coteries that he had
a some of the best horses in the north in hurdle races,
in Lloyd agreed to match his fine bay hunter Towit,
ng 10 stone, against Cootes, the distance stipulated
ran being six miles, and both making 100 leaps in the
of the race. This was looked upon by the " knowing
as tough work for both man and horse. and in order
)rd the townspeople an opportunity of witnessing the
it was agreed that the match should come off in the
t-ground next the Royal William Gardens, on Tuesday
)on, at four o'clock. Captain Lloyd had no pecuniary
It whatever in the match, he merely permitting his
:o run from a wish to confer a benefit upon the pedes-
who looked to be remunerated by the admission money
t the gate, and in which he was not disappointed, for
eople were present who would not have sanctioned a
mbling transaction ; and all were highly gratified by
t made on the part of the gallant captain to exhibit
ordinary powers of Cootes, by matching against the
n this very extraordinary horse. Cootes put himself
of training, stating that he would " do the thing"
ates, and, from his well-known prowess in running
g, and besides having that very essential qualifica-
)d wind," he had many backers. The horse, in
-as well trained in the riding-school at
And from the fact that, on Monday, he
L fifty hurdles in twelve minutes, he was
F • some parties as the favourite, though
r opinion that it was doubtful whether he
' the hurdles amidst so large a concourse of
as were expected to assemble when the match
run. The weather on Tuesday afternoon could not
.1 more unfavourable, the rain falling in torrents,
ndered the ground exceedingly heavy ; but the eager
ere determined not to be disappointed. The course
d by blue flats forming a circle, Cootes and the
'n times round, making a distance of rather
whilst four hurdles, nearly four feet in
-1 with furze, placed at equi-
' • "saucily," and ap-

me, w

1- upon t

isbet
, looked rat

d to be "awkward" customers. Shortly before four
ek, notwithstanding the pitiless pelting of the elements,
es and his horse were upon the ground, both appearing
pilaf condition. They were accompanied by their re-
ive backers, and a large concourse of people. Cootes
tressed in the regular pedestrian apparel, consisting of
el jacket and drawers, prepared to do his work in first-
style. On the other hand every means had been em-
d to give Towitt fair play, and Vincent, a Newmarket
.y, who wore blue and white jacket and can, was retained
;aptain Lloyd to ride the match. Lieutenant Dixon
1 as umpire for Towit, and Mr. H. Lamb for Cootes,
John Head consenting to act as referee. The usual
minaries having been settled, Cootes. and Towit ap-
:d at the post, and the word having been given, the for-
et off at a moderate pace, whilst Towit, after making a
detour, followed at a gentle gallop, but made a slight
y touching the first hurdle. Both kept up for several
in capital style, gallantly clearing the hurdles, Towitt
rate flying leaps, and, although Cootes ap-
I to be gaining ground, Towit, in the opinion of some
from his mettle, began to be regarded as the fa-
e, but the betting was, nevertheless, very slack. 2to 1
fered upon Cootes, but there was-no one to " take," all
ntly being deterred by the fear that Towit would
' at the hurdles, and the opinion that the work would
much for the horse was strengthed by the soddened
ivy appearance of the ground. Towit, about the sixth
made another slight fault, but he cleverly kept his
1 Coates, who appeared not at all distressed, inquired,
‘ed the starting-post, whether Towitt " took to the
the expectation of it being not at all iniproba-
7arne wonld soon be up with the horse. Cootes
'e stoppage throughout, and only once rinsed
ssing, whilst Towitt was pulled up twice or
'Aim to regain his wind, appearing to be
In the course of the 13th round Towitt,

many first

;aking the third hurdle, fell, making a complete summer-
, throwing his jockey over his head. Fortunately no ac-
mt occurred, though the horse rolled upon his rider.
Ls mishap, as a matter of course, gave Cootes great ad-
tage, who gained ground considerably before Towitt
Id make another start, and it then became evident that it
all up with the latter, though he kept well to his work,
was ridden in first-rate style by Vincent, whose jockey-
p was greatly admired. The result of the whole was,

Towitt had enough of it by the time he made his 17th
id, and he was accordingly pulled up, leaving Cootes the
, who completed 25 rounds (a distance of six miles and
arter), in 41 minutes and 57 seconds, having made
leaps, in no bungling manner, but clean over the hur-
:htinr, on his feet like a cat—a feat, upon the whole,
ds almost unparalleled in the sporting world. He
amidst the loud shouts of the spectators, apparently
distressed, and just as lie passed the winning-post
:t cleverly, which excited hearty and pro-
We understand that Cootes has offered to
or any other similar ground. again, with
Pm for £lOO.

Prussia

CORN•LAWS

ved from New York a pamphlet upon the
n trade, written by Mr. Buchanan, her Ma-

in the city named

zot prepared to enter intoa particular

uchanan's arguments and views, bu

ccount presents matter so important, and
eople of this country will find so
its publication :--

suspect, Llit
will not del;

.nd other gr

a has been repeatedly im-

e United State's' from Europe, is not generally
land ; in the year 1837 the following quantities

46,922
279,347
10,291

d Norway

43,377
453,036

75,576
984,334

) North America
)f Good fit
Towns a

317,170

orts of Germany . 1,405,783
68,231
6,149
228,113
1,961

rranean ports

antic ports

and other Adriatic ports .... 212,457
3,921,293 bushels, valued at 4,154,825 dollars."
-I, valuable references from this account will at
• First, that a free corn trade does not
'apply of corn from domestic sources.
in
United States, almost constantly engaged
and possessing an extent of land altogether in-
actually importing from Europe and the British
ur millions of bush, is of corn, at a cost of nearly a
may be said thatthis wasina particular year. Very
the importation was thus accidental, how can it be
that a free corn trade prevents fluctuations ? Either
s that we hear that the usual price of bread in the
rates is low, must be falsehoods, or the difference
hat price in other years and the Price of 1837, which
uropean
price and the cost of freight across the
Ist be indeed prodigious. We are satisfied with
nt• the alternative, and one or other must be

.fir, inference is the proof that
under the protection
of
adequate the home. demandottioik(a:iti in
,is Great Britain can he a corn p
sat under this continued protection, Great
g.eland must become regularly a largely export!
,we have never had a doubt. The proof is now
in 1837 manufacturing Great Britain exported to
d States 984,341 bushels of wheat ; all Germany,
aof Prussia, not fifty per cent more. Prussia. ex-
.ty agricultural, but 272,347, and the great extent of
ltural France but about 75,000, or less than a twelfth
export of Great Britain ; and yet we are told that on
,fie of years Great Britain cannot nearly support her-
. "ould be a waste of words to say any more upon
;cr. ,rences, but we cannot pass, without congratu-
our fellow-subjects upon it, the proof of the growing
l.
terjitly of our North American colonies afforded by the
po
of 317,000 bushels to the neighbouring country.—
Standard of Thursday.

and and

reat Britain is