The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Sunday Times.)
CITY, SATURDAY.—It is not yet in our power to notice any
general improvement in mercantile transactions. During the
whole of the week advices from the United States have been
very anxiously awaited fur, three packets from New York
being now due. It is considered extremely probable among the
merchants connected with America and the Canadian trades,
that the most recent advices will be obtained by the Sirius or
the Great Western Ships, which were to sail from New York
on the Ist instant The proprietors of these vessels fully cal-
culate on their making their passage home in twelve or thirteen
days at the utmost. Should this tuna out to be the fact, a very
material saving in the time heretofore taken in the communi-
cation between the two countries will occur; thus facilitating,
most materially the commercial intercourse with the Transat-
lantic markets. There are not very sanguine expectations en-
tertained in the city that the mercantile intercourse with Ame-
rica will improve for a considerable time. The symptoms of a
return to a more animated state of things, which we noticed a
few weeks since have diminished. Tneexportations of the pre-
cious metals have also slackened, as it is thought that, as the
Banks of the Union will not resume specie payments in the
present month, the demand for it will materially diminish.
The accounts received from the West Indies hold out the
prospect of mote abundant supplies of Sugar, Coffee, and Rum
in the present than in the past year. This has tended to resi-
der the markets for these articles rather heavy. The stock of
Sugar has very considerably increased, being now about 11,000
hhds and 1,600 tres, against 6,000 hhds and 1,000 tres at this
period last year. The stocks of Rum are now below those at
the same period of 1837, amounting to about 8,000 puncheons
and 1.3(X) hhds. Of Coffee there are but small stocks in first
hands. The stocks in the port of London of British Plantation
Coffee are under 1,200 hhds and 1,000 bags, being but little
more than one half the quantities which were held at the same
period of last year.
The unprecedented abundance of money in the city has led
to a further improvement in the prices of the British Securities,
which are now of a higher value than they have been for many
years past. '1 his state of things has been induced by the ex-
pectation that the directors of the Bank of England will con-
tinue to increase their issues of notes, with the view of assisting
trade and commerce as much as possible in the provinces, as it
is not believed that, as far as the discount business of the Bank
in London is concerned, that any augmentation has been made
to the amount of accommodation rendered to the mercantile in-
terest. It is understood that the Branches of the Bank in the
large manufacturing towns a more extended amount of business
is doing, and the increase which has been made in the circu-
lation of the Bank is principally to be attributed to this circum-
stance. The effect of such a liberal policy will be sensibly felt
as soon as there is any resumption of activity in the trade and
commerce of the country.
The price for Consols reached 93i on Thursday, being fully
per cent. higher than they reached last week. Several of the
Bulls turned their accounts at the advance, which produced a
reaction of about 1 to a per cent., the last quotation yesterday
having been 9-Ik. Very nearly an equal rise has taken place in
the Reduced Three per Cents, which have been sold at 931, and
in the Three and a Half per Cents reduced, which were pur-
chased yesterday at 102 g. The premium upon Exchequer Bills
remained at from 71 to 73 premium during the week, while In-
dia Bonds have been sold at an improvement to 81 13. East
India Stock has sustained the high value of 271. Bank of
England Stock, after having fallen, has since rallied to 205.
For the Foreign Securities the demand is still very limited.
As it is not by any means certain that the proposal for the re-
duction of the interest upon the French Five per Cents will be
adopted by the Chamber of Peers, the prices of the Stock here
have advanced—the Five per Cents to 108-50, and the Four per
Cants to 102.50, Exchange 25f. 50c. The quotations both of
Spanish and Portuguese Stock have advanced also—the former
in consequence of the successes of the Constitutionalists over
Carlists, and the improvement in the latter is to be ascribed to
the teuour of the last letters from Lisbon, which represented that
the new ministry was gaining strength. Spanish Stock has
risen this week from 20.1 to 21. Portuguese Five per Cents
front 33 to 351, ancl the Three per Cents from 224 to 2-1. An
improvement of from 54i to 542 has taken place in the Dutch
Two and a Half per Cents, and in the Five per Cents from
99a to 100 ee,. Russian, Danish, Austrian, and the Republican
States, remain at nearly the same prices as last week.
The speculation in Asphalte, Railway, and other Shares has
very materially diminished this week, and prices are, in much
instances, much lower. The Shares of the United States Com-
pany, under the patent of Mr. Claridge, have been issued this
week. They were sold first at 5 premium, but have since been
quoted at 11 only. The Shares of Claridge's patent have sus-
tained their value pretty well, having fluctuated only between
14 or 15, or 12 and 13 premium. For the Liverpool Company's
Shares there has been no money demanded since the first day
they were issued; they have fallen front 4').‘ to 21, or 1 prem.
only. The Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen Shares have been
pretty firm at from 31 to 31, or 11 1 premium per share. The
other shares of this description have t•een all sold lower. The
London and Birmingham Railway Shares have fluctuated be-
tween 170 and 175, or 80 and 85 premium. The Great Western
were offered yesterday afternoon at (j 5, or 30 premium; the
Brighton at a fall to 81, or ;.‘ premium; the North Midland at
38, or 3 premium; the Greenwich at 16, or 4 discount; the
Southampton 411 or 41 discount; the Blackwell at 53, or II
premium ; the Manchester and Leeds at 351, or 151 premium.
The quotations of the other Railway Shares have been also
dull. A very brisk demand has prevailed for the British North
American Bank Shares, and they have reached 2-11, or 41
The other Bank Shares have not been much in request.
HALF-PAST TwetvE.—The Oxford packet ship which left
New York on the leith ult., is announced as having arrived off
the coast of Wexford. The letters and papers by her cannot be
delivered till Monday. There are no colonial arrivals in the
city to-day.
In the nelish Market, Consols for Money and Account re-
alise 9-4. Exchequer Bills are worth 73, and India Bonds 83 ,
prem. Bank Stock is at 2051.
Spanish Stock has been again sold at 21, Portuguese New at
35, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents at 5-11. In the other
Foreign Bonds there has been no change worthy of comment.
Shares (Railway) are not in much demand. Asphalte are
rather brisk, at about yesterday's value.

Charles Horn, the vocalist, has married Miss Horton.

Blue is the colour to be worn at her Majesty's coronation.
The Wellington statue in the city of Loudon is to be ten feet
high; the sum in hand for the work is about £BOOO. Sir F.
Chantrey will commence the work in a few days, as the illus-
trious duke is about to give him the necessary sittings.
We understand that as soon as the railroad from Ghent to
Ostend is finished, there will be a daily post established between
England and Belgium, through Ostend, the packets sailing be-
tween that port and Dover.

Mr. Macready has already received and read four acts of Mr.
Sheridan Knowle's new comedy, and has spoken of its merits
in the highest terms : it is, he says, transcendently beautiful.
It will be put in rehearsal immediately.
Miss Holliday, formerly of Bridlington, in Yorkshire, but
latterly an agent Of the Ladies' Association for Promoting Edu-
cation in China, India, and the East, has been raised to the
important and responsible situation of teacher royal in the fa-
mily of the Pacha of Egypt.— Watchman.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange will visit this coun-
try in the course of this month, apartments having been taken
one of the principal hotels for his reception. His royal high-
ness will represent his royal father at her majesty's coronation,
but is not expected to leave fur Holland until the latter end of
July.
Count Strogonoff is expi_scted the latter end of this month from
St. Petersburgh, as ambassador extraordinary to the court of
St. James', to represent the emperor at the coronation. Count
Woronzow will not come to England, as was reported. A
mansion is in treaty for the Grand Duke Alexander, who will
be accompanied by Prince Lieven and a numerous suite, and
will sojourn in this country for two months.
It is confidently stated at the military club-houses that a grand
review of th'e household troop's, by her Majesty in person. will
take place in Hyde-park, on the 18th of next month, the anni-
versary of the batile of Waterloo. Ail the envoys extraordinary
from the European courts will be present, and it will be, it is
expected, the most imposing military spectacle seen in this
country since the visit of the allied sovereigns in 1814.
General Count Montholon, the companion in exile of Napo-
leon, who from reverse of fortune, was obliged, during the
restoration, to become bankrupt, has made a formal application
for being reinstated in his civil rights.
GItEA WliStMtN RA ILWA Y.—This company, after calling
up £65 per share, has easily taken up on loan the 1:83.3,33,3 6s. 81.,
as empowered by the act, and is now borrowing, at cent.,
the remaining £35 per share, precluding the possibility of further
calls being made on the shareholders till after the expiration of
the five, seven, and ten years' terms of the loan debentures have
expired. This is the only case of a company having been able
to borrow so early; and, although they' do not want the money
just yet, the directors are quite wise to availing themselves of
the present facilities in the money market.
GIIEENACRE OUTDONE.—Accounts from Bagneres (Nantes
Pyrenees), the 25th of March, state, that the arroudisement of
Bagneres de Bigoire has just been the theatre of an atrocious
crime. A man has been murdered, first, by means of a heavy
mallet for splitting wood ; their, bled from the throat; and,
finally, despatched by repeated blows of a hatchet. The limbs
were then separated from the trunk, the trunk enclosed in a
charcoal sack, and the whole, after being carried across preci-
pies to the highest part of the mountain, thrown into a sleep
hole, to the depth of 150 feet. The unhappy victim lived with
his wife, a young woman of 22, and his mother-in-law, in a
dilapidated cottage. situated in the wildest part of the common,
called the liantee Nortez. lie had for some time, lived on bad
terms with these two women, on the subject of souse disputes
about property, intermixed with some jealously of another fe-
male; and they appeared to have determined, with the must
determined premeditation, to get rid of him, by violence. Both
assert their claims to the largest share in the murder. Both,
with unprecedented sang front, Have detailed all the frightful
minutia) of the event, which sure sses, in horror, all that has
been recorded of similar deeds of blood. These two women
are at present under the hands of justice, in the prison of Bag
neres. The unhappy victim of the revengeful atrocity was a Spaniard.—Constitu

TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 15, 1838.

(0.-- The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn
ing at 5 o'clock.

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF OUR PRESENT MINISTRY.—
We invite the attention of our readers to an important
address, signed by upwards of 300 of the first commercial
houses at Glasgow, representing the public alarm in
Scotland, at the prospect of internal convulsion with
which the country is threatened by the anti .national policy
of our present foreign minister, in the treacherous sur-
render of our commercial rights to hostile and aggressive
powers.

The spirit which breathes in this address, and in the
answer of Mr. Urquhart to the invitation which it con-
tains, affords a hope, that, through the combined exertions
of the mercantile community, a means may yet be devis-
ed of arresting the destructive course whereby our pre-
sent rulers are daily and hourly sacrificing our material
interests and our moral influence, in the maintenance of
which are alike involved our own internal tranquillity
and political independence, together with the peace,
prosperity, and civilization of mankind.

The extract we have given from our northern contem-
porary, sufficiently indicates the grave nature of the ques-
tions now at issue, to render any further comment of our
ow❑ unnecessary for the moment.
(From the Scottish Guardian, of May 10.)
" The general and increasing distress in the manufacturing
districts, at a period when the manufactures of France, Russia,
the German Customs League, and the United States, are sup-
planting us in foreign markets, and the determination of foreign
States even to increase their restrictions on our own produce,
are evils which too deeply concern the welfare of a great com-
mercial city, not to claim the serious attention of the community
at large.

" Unfortunately, in the present instance, the pressure of com-
mercial distress diverts the public mind from our political posi-
tion, which is without parallel in the history of the world.
" The foreign policy invariably pursued by this country, of
maintaining the balance of power as the only foundation of the
peace, welfare, and improvement of mankind, has yielded, with-
in the last eight years, to a system which, in the times of our
ancestors, would have branded our ministers with infamy, if it
did not consign them to the scaffold.
" Looking to the means of aggression which can instantane-
ously be directed against us by the powers whose commercial
rivalry is at once the pledge of their hostility and the bond of
their union against us, what do we find ?
" Russia has been allowed to form a fleet in the Baltic, com-
posed of fifty pennants. manned by thirty thousand men, trained
both as soldiers and sailors—comprising twenty-six line of battle
ships, seventeen heavy frigates, schooners, and armed steamers;
and this armada, supported by ten thousand regular troops, may
land a force of twenty thousand men along the shores of Britain
within ten days.

" We have absolutely no physical force to prevent the destruc-

tion of every one of our navy yards—the plunder of our mari-
time towns, the burning of London itself, the disappearance
down the channel of the Russian fleet, and its junction with the
eleven sail of the line, now blockading the shores of the Cauca-
sus; before the public of this country can be aroused from the
slumber of ignorance, apathy, and degradation, in which we
liaVe allowed ourselves to sink.

If we look to our ancient rival France, we find her bound up
with the policy of the Czar, undermining the Ottoman empire
by the conquest of its African dependencies, and by interposing
two French squadrons between the forces of the Sultan and his
rebellious vassals in Tunis and Egypt ; whilst the navy of France
at this moment in commission exceeds that which Great Britain
employs to defend her distant colonies; and protect her trade
with all the world.
" Our Own commerce, excluded by Russia and France from
the eastern shores of the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean
coast from Tunis to Morocco, is threatened with destruction
along the whole line of Central Asia, by the advance of the
Persian arm') against Herat, under the guidance of Russian
officers ; whilst Russian emissaries, disseminated through Cen-
tral Asia, are sowing treason and disaffection amongst our sub-
sidiary and tributary dependencies, and rolling back our com-
merce on our Indian frontier.

" In the midst of these Complication;, without a single ally
in Europe, and having incurred the contempt and hatred of
eve, y people by the treacherous sacrifice of our commercial and
maritime rights, our colonial empire presents one scene of dis-
sension, disaffection, and mismanagement.

Ivl,-ky I*, Is3B.

" The United States, which during the last war with England
had not a single line-of-battle ship, has at this moment four 120
gun ships in commission; and her army, which last year
amounted oily to 6,000 men, has since the outbreak in Canada
bee❑ increased to 15,000.

"Thus have the three great maritime rivals of Great Britain
been allowed, in time of peace, and when peace has bee❑ the
declared object of British policy, to form the means of aggression
against us. Whilst our dock-yards ate at this moment empty,
the admiralty has not top-masts to equip five sail of the liner
and when even for the purpose of manning the line-of-battle
ship, which transferred the Czar of Canada to Quebec, it was
necessary to draft fifty men from the Admiral's flag-ship at
Portsmouth.

" Whilst domestic treason and foreign intrigue are thus un-
dermining the foundations of our power, the House of Com-
mons, absorbed in petty details of party politics, appears to be
unconscious of the storm which must shortly overtake this de-
voted country, and convulse every portion of the world.
" If we look to the state of our finances, we find a deficiency
in our exports of last year to the amount of twelve millions
and a half sterling, a sixth part of our whole foreign trade, tu
decreasing revenue, an increase of expenditure, augmented`
taxation, and the unavoidable preparation for war, combined,
with the entire absence of talent on the part of our ministers, or
a system of treasonable collusion with foreign powers—present-
ing difficulties sufficiently grave to deter any party from accept-
ing office in the present aspect of affairs, nor do we see any
prospect of a change in our present alarming position, unless
it be to be found in the combined exertions of the mercantile
and manufacturing community. planted,

" Since penning the above remarks, we have learned that a
requisition, signed by upwards of three hundred of the most
respectable merchants, manufacturers, bankers, and others of
this city, has been addressed to Mr. David Urquhart, inviting
him to Glasgow, with the view of hearing an elucidation of tha
commercial principles which he had for so many years pressed
on the attention of his late Majesty's ministers, and which had
become the basis of our foreign policy, on the appointment by
William the Fourth of Mr. Urquhart to the charge of his Ma-
jesty's embassy at Constantinople.
"We cannot but rejoice at this manifestation of public feel-
ing, which separating the affairs of commerce from party poli-
tics, may lead to the most important results, and direct the na-
tional mind at this critical moment to the prompt defence of
our dearest rights as Britons, if not of our very existeuce as a
nation."

TO DAVID URQUHART, ESQ.
GLASGOW, 30th APRIL, 1838.
We, the undersigned Merchants, ManufactUrers, Bankers.
and others, connected with the commercial interests of Glasgow,
viewing with anxiety the present distressed condition of the
commercial and manufacturing interests of Great Britain and
Ireland—the diminution of our Foreign and internal trade--
the increasing deficiency in the public revenue—the exclusion
of our commerce from countries open from time immemorial to
British industry—and the still unredressed injuries, inflicted by
Foreign States on our merchants and capitalists, (evils which
more or less affect the interests of all classes of her Majesty's
subjects,) and appreciating the profound commercial knowledge
and enlightened views, advocated and illustrated in your various
Works on the East, and especially those principles of com-
merce developed in " Turkey and its Resources;"—Understand-
ing that you are about to visit Scotland, respectfully solicit the
favour of your affording to the mercantile community of Glas-
gow, an opportunity of hearing from yourself a more detailed
elucidation of those commercial principles, a knowledge and
diffusion of which, we conceive, will be highly beneficial to the
interests of this community, and of the empire at large.
(Signed by the Lord Provost, Messrs. Henry Monteith & Ce,
and 330 Mercantile Houses, including Bankers.)

TO THE MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, AND OTHERS, op THS

CITY uF GLASGOW.

LANARK, MAY 10, 1838.
Gentlemen,-1 hasten to acknowledge the receipt of the flat-
tering invitation with which you have honoured me.
I have devoted my life to the study of our commercial and
manufacturing interests in their bearing on our internal pros-
perity, as well as on our external character, policy, and position.
I had at one period the satisfaction of thinking that my la-
bour had not been misapplied, when the government of this
country adopted my views in regard to perhaps the most impor-
tant interest of Great Britain beyond the shores of this island.
I now feel that a higher reward was to be attained and amore
useful result to be secured, namely, the approbation and con-
currence of my fellow-countrymen, which I now receive at your
hands.

The prolonged neglect of our national interests—a neglect in
which all parties and every class have equally participated, has-
produced the evils you lament, and the danger you foresee;
but Britain's power and strength, her energy and resources are
unimpaired; her supineness alone is the cause of injury and of
danger. The expression, however, of those views which 'your
invitation contains, and the common convictions pervading an
intelligent and powerful a body of British merchants, offer the
assurance
u
otr om
that henceforward
igurarhdts and to disregarduoadministratio ournwill nabeatna
able to
neglectl
honour.

It is with mingled feelings of pride and humility that I per
ceive that you have associated my name with so auspicious a
return of public opinion to its ancient and its national course.
With every sentiment of gratitude and respect,
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
DAVID URQUHART
SLAVE T.

THE 'BADE.—On Thursday eveni g Sir R.
H. Inglis moved an address to the Queen on the subject
of the foreign slave trade. The horrors of this inhuman
traffic have been, of late years, aggravated to such a
degree that some interference of an active character on
the part of our government is loudly called for. Portu-
gal, after entering into a solemn engagement to act ill
concert with Great Britain to procure the suppression of
this abominable trade, has been guilty of participating
in it to a very great extent. There can be very little
doubt that the abolition of the slave trade by this coun-
try, and the subsequent emancipation of the West In-
dian negroes, have contributed very materially to increase
the numbers and to augment the sufferings of the kid-
napped natives of Africa. The trade is now in the hands
of the most brutalised of the European nations, and, bad
as it was when engaged in by Englishmen, it is now infi-
nitely worse in its character. Previously to the aboli-
tion of the slave trade by Great Britain it is calculated
that the greatest number of slaves transported from
Africa in one year was from 80,000 to 85,000. For the
last few years the number has averaged 34,000, and in•
three years and a half as many as 150,000 have been
carried away.

Sir R. H. Inglis pointed out one very striking differ-
ence between the present mode of carrying on the slave
trade and that which formerly prevailed. It was formerly
a legalised traffic, and as such was placed under certain,
restrictions which mitigated many of its horrors. For
instance, by Sir William Dolben's act a certain and le-
gal proportion of tonnage was allotted to each slave.
Now it is, to all intents and purposes, a contraband
traffic, and those who are engaged in it are only anxious
to stow as many of the poor sufferers into their vessels as
they can possibly hold. The trade is under no sort of
control. The inevitable consequence of this is, that the:
cruelty practised in carrying on the trade is infinitely,.
greater than formerly. Within the last few years a ship'
of 150 tons had a cargo of 723 slaves on board, making,'
with the crew, 760 persons—a number sufficient to stock
a firit,rate man-of-war. The mortality on board these
vessels is now much greater than under the old system..
In 1791 the average mortality on the passage was 62
per cent. Subsequently to that date it had been reduced.'
to about 20 per cent. But at present the mortality is,
even greater than at the very worst period before the
abolition. In one instance 56 negroes had died out Of
500 in ten days. The mate of one of the vessels which
had been seized had been asked what proportion he ex-
pected to convey alive across the Atlantic ? His answer
was, " One half." In another instance 335 slaves had
been conveyed from Calabar in a vessel of 177 Spanish
tons, (equal to about 120 English tons,) 27 of whom died
in the night before she left the river, 77 before she was
_
taken to Sierra Leone, and 18 before she was condemned.'

Humanity shudders at the continuance of such atroci-
ties. It is high time that England should take some de-
cisive course for the purpose of suppressing a traffic so
revolting in its nature; and it would be much better If
the anti-apprenticeship agitators would direct their at-
tention to this crying evil, instead of fomenting distur-
bances and producing confusion in the West India
colonies.

With respect to the most effective mode for suppress-
ing this trade in human flesh, we would suggest the em-
ployment of armed steam vessels, manned by crew's of
free coloured persons, whose constitutions could with-
stand the climate, instead of entrusting this task to Eng-
lish sailors on board sailing vessels. It is well known
that the vessels at present engaged in the trade are re-
markably fast sailers. This is evident from the very few
captures made in proportion to the number employed il'`

this contraband traffic. Steam vessels afford, therefore,
the best means for putting an effectual stop to the trade.
Coercive measures of some sort or other must be resorted
to, in order to abolish a system so disgraceful to human
nature. Let this subject be urged upon the notice of
government by petitions from all parts of the country.
It is surely a subject of far greater moment than the im-
mediate enfranchisement of the negro apprentices. If
the emancipationists are sincere, let them take up this
question with energy.

majority- in the House of CoMthonS stand by Lord John
Russell if the peers are to be selected from Without the
walls of that house ? This resource .is manifestly an
absurdity.

The advice of the Albion to fill up all the vacancies in
the magistracy, the church, and in every branch of the
public service with liberals, is perfectly supererogatory.
The Whigs have uniformly acted upon this policy. " A
reciprocity .on one side" has ever been their ruling
maxim. But has it at all aided their cause ? Let the pre-
sent constitution of the House of Commons afford an
answer. Thank God, there is patriotism enough in the
country to overrule all the corrupt influence which the
Whigs can bring to bear upon the elections, and there
is firmness enough in the House of Lords to stand by
the country—to sustain its true interests—to maintain a
wholesome course of legislation—and to resist the secret
machinations of those who would plunge the nation into
all the horrors of civil anarchy.

LIBERALISM AT A DISCOUNT.—The Albion of yester-
day has a very lugubrious: article on the present prospects
of what is called the reform party. Our melancholy
contemporary exclaims -that "at last the dead lock',
' liberallegislation i‘
in . has arrived." We are glad .of
it. The country has ample cause to rejoice that such a
"tlling. is confessed on, all hands." Great.Britairi will
resound with shouts of gratulation on receiving the glo-
rious news. The liberal ministry and their radical allies
'have no longer the power of doing any mischief. Their
can no longer oppress the poor or insult the rich—plun-
,
tisk the merchant or ruinn the farmer—spoil the church or
trample on the rightsof free-born Eoglishinen. No ion-
. ~.. •
ger can they aid the cause of :Popery and republicanism
by their. mischievous enactments. - The.days of- fat coin -
missionerships are at an end: Whig jobbery .is out of
.fashion,•• and-acts of parliament for the encouragement of
• nepotism. are as obSolete as a thrice mended pair of shoes.
' "The thing is confesied on all hands." So saith the
'Adbion=arid*the Albion speaks like an oracle. -
--But how has this &dons consummation been brought
to pass ? How- has this cause of national joy.sprung up?
The Albion say's—" The oligarchy have contributed, for •
a season, to place therielves in the dangerous position
of a drag upon the wheels of reform, and to.arrest the
progress of all improvements in.the- institutions of the
country." By the: oligarchy we presume the Albion-
means to describe the members of the House of Lords;
, Lf so, we deny that theirs is at all a dangerous position.
Their enlightened patriotism—their acknowledged wis-
doni—their prudence—their moderation—their zeal for
~_ the Protestant ChUrch of• England.—and their energetic
defence of the invaded liberties of British subjccts; have
Procured for them - the love and admiration L-the confi-
dence and support or all who acknowledge loyalty as a
duty and value freedUm as a 1-.. lessing. The position of
the "Lords is a .proudand enviable one, and one which,
in spite of the Oracular dictum-of- -the Albion, will not be
"for a season" only. The defensive post which they oc-
cupy they will assuredly never quit, while there remain
revolutionary projects to be frustrated—attacks upon the
rhumb to be resisted—or. rebellious Popish plots to-be FlRE.—Early -on Thursday morning, the coals in the bun-
counteracted. We also deny that the Lords are acting kers of the-Queen Victoria steamer, lying in the Clarence-dock,
.1 1 t -
as "a drag upon the wheels of reform." Far from it ; twoerreivtibaussnedvtowbeentoonnfirbeollmilme
immediately,
iaet
ecin - ritmthmers.s Inspec-
they •act as a drag only upon the wheels of revolution— rigged to the pump, and by pouring into the
g° b tic kee vres sae copious
:uses
of treason-s--of infidel legislation—of Popish ascendancy supply of water, and causing men to turn over the coals as it
',
on Thursday'
Hence arises all the bitter ra e a ainst them. Hencey
was discharged, he soon succeeded in the flames.
g 11.1' DROWNING.'' At one o'clock extinguishing
C
g gn
come all the abusive and filthy tirades against them with mottling, a police inspector heard a rattle, and a cry that a per-
which the re üblican ress of this country is filled isnoithe
nhaslfeatlen into the
P p Priuce's.dock. He proceeded thither
Hence.
diat ly and getting out a boat in the slip, forthwith com-
also, springs-their popularity with the great mass menced a search. A sloop was hauling out from the slip at the
;
time, and. from a person who 'was standing on the deck the in-
of the loyal, industrious, intelliaent and virtuous popu-
,, , spector inquired whether any person had been observed to fall
lation of Great Britain.- ----- in by him. The answer was in the negative. The inspector
_ im. - •,- ,
.- and a police-officer grappled round the slip until half past four
' It" is right that our readers should k " at the Albion when they succeeded in drag6ina up the body of a man, who'
it was then discovered, belonged"'
to the very sloop which was
.is not singular in Confessing the utteliWtration of the
hauling out when the alarm was given. The sloop was from
liberal faction: . Our contemporary remarks— Portsmouth.
"The Lonthin Courier, of last Monday, -hOnestly confesses NEW CATHOLIC TfISHOP.—ACCOI'diIIg to the "on dits" in
the Catholic world, the Rev. D. Youens, of Copperas-hill
-that such is the case: that the Lords, hardened in their anti-
lapel, -.Liverpool, is to be coadjutor Bishop to the Right Rev.
national feelings by the very small majority which the liberal Briggs,' Catholic Bishop in the North of England.—
Party possess in the House of- Comtnorii,' will now boldly put Journal.
their veto upon every measure sent up to - them for the good of FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE Ge aND JUNCTION MAILWAr.—An
.the country; and that nothing, therefore, remains
for
accident, attended with loss of life, occurred on the Grand the
June-
People to do but to stand quietly looking on at the passive state Lion Railway, in the neighbourhood of Preston Brook, on Wed-
of the government, emit° bide their time until Soine fresh sub_ nsveary.ezetnizi
wlaasst.us.stis thae
.ht alf-,patst fir. Birmingham and
i vaelimprocoeli Litrindh
icslnen
et?
Jest starts up te brace their energies, fire their zeal, and rouse the tunnel, the guarcrl'stocufo% illisewbdo-Yx witho
them to exertions." whichth he hadl to deliverat Preston Brook. Prom some cause or
We deny that the Lords are " hardened in their anti- two(h'ime,rCuhte:oitplipterils're.dsfecloit;npalnedtet
0 oft'. The
tliilete carriages,
unfortunate
man was
treettlndoevdetil),vaLd, medicala4l;tanice promptly procured. He was at-
national
.feehngs." The!r feelings are Confessedly in
a.aitrte,rbtrewaacsctednrteadLtoltleyei injured
unison with those of the British people. If they were that-he died a.boitntnwoanhourrs.
not so, how could it happen that the constituencies of carriages were thrown off the rails, but no material injury was
.
..Great-Britain have actually returned a majority of con- Q HELEN'S.-NEW..,T. TOWN-HALL.—The inhabitants of St,
servatives into the House of Commons—a majority only Helen's have 'with their usual spiritshad a public meeting, for
hesntte,rteing into. arrangements for the erection of a
, neutralised by the influx- of the Irish tail—die nominees 'ttle
'i.„wpriu..ir,lo
,),ir &,fs t shall, Bridewell, &r,, on rather an exten
of tale Popish :
e priests, and returned. into parliaMent,by - sive scabs, aftorswhich a subseriptilnhalpitstlietwitisslii`otteutoedi,iea nt.0d
i.
forthwith
wleitsh;
thanadve
advertised for,
idoary sa,.nE,d3,i001/st
expected
flie practice of the vilest ietimidation. Iris true thatthe
self-styled fiherals have ostensibly a "small majority" in the building will be ready for Use.. The'aitanialviotnn ijsaonnuat a south
e of the new market-place, which has lately been laid out and
the House of Commons. But it should be borne in mind
flagged .in the centre, and where it is intended to hold the inar-
that it is essentially a Popish. and anti English- majority ket. 'his square is already nearly built round with handsome
—a factious and a perjured Majority. It is a'cooi piece shops and lofty houses, all of which are uniform, beautifully
squares
i,
tiacands,hwirheen finished one of the handsomest
iiBull'a,
of effrontery in the Albion to assert that the LordsWyan Gazette.
boldly pUt their veto opon every measure sent up to them On Thursday, being the rent-day of Peter Greenall, Esq.,
St. Helen's, upwards of 200 tenants that gentleman partook
for the good of the country." What measures which are of an excellent dinner, provided by s
really calculated to benefit the country have the Lords Fleece Inn. After the loptrhovwtas reniroVeltr4."lllliigeg (-,t)itreenn','°'fatuhde
refused to assent to ? We can point out numberless
several other loyal and humorous toasts were proposed, and
measures of an opposite tendency which they have ver responded to in the most enthusiastic manner.—Wigan Gazette.
y ACCIDENT.—CACTION.-01:1 Alontlay evening last, as some
Properly rejected. . ' very easy to rate against the men were employed in hoisting a pipe of-wine into one of the
Lords for resisting` e r'es Which are said to be ~,i,c,..
tuhpeperropreoohlskoe,f MAr.ndltigmaisten's warehouse, in Dale-street
the cask fell to the ground breaking'
the
to good of the country." It is a far more difficult thing. through the cellar lid, which it dashed to pieces. The accident
miraculously,inses ocfotoh ete tackle.
0 the Providentially,v
b prove—to demonstrate that such measures are really iandindeedsii u attributed
almostte eneficial. There is no form of sophistry with which the thoroughfare, and the hour at whch it occurrged, noerpyeresonwwas
liberals are more familiar than the petill;Principii—th e iom
hurt,
f r but - that it might have been otherwise is sufficiently obvi-
the -fact that some few years ago, Mrs. Kearsley and
begging of the question. her daughter lost their lives whilst passing this very warehouse,
and from precisely a similar cause, Mr. Rigmaiden being then
We can very confidently assure our lachrymose con- as now, in the, occupation of the warehouse. '
temporary that "the people will stand quietly looking DaATII FROM INTOXICATION.—On Thursday, an inquest was ,
"ont.at the progress of legislation, as long as the Lords bodypheenldteornonthbeoir( eof Duncan Bain. was
,ih
ea
vceasr:
I the barque '
Part nue to act the fearless, independent, and patriotic eel, on the Monday preceding, went into the river, where h
. , vt Well they are acting. •at present. The people will jdriiinnzliti her.
r o Shortly
m w i t
with
aftersolne
coopers;
and
dn
fihvoea redi
them, h e
commencerincluding
- b well contented to " bide their time" until a conserva- the deceased,-emptied four bottles.. He soon after ,ecame se-
-I,tli.v.te administration can assume the reins of government hria7bLini;'elannndlo";e3,l troeuitoolvveoduot on board
vessel.ar d
the
stiel.aeTe phaicskil, ewsshiicn.h-
_r: hoot running the risk of being again overcome by creased; and in less than half an hour after being put on board,
he expired from the effects of the liquor in which he had so un-
a Y factious conibinatiOnby any Litchfield House. tom he
sparingly indulged; An inquest was subsequently held upon
the body, and a verdict in conformity with the evidence re-
We are glad to find t. . .
• ,
nat an organ so much in the con- turned. ,
fidense of NEW MAGISTRATES FOR LANCASHIRE.—We understandr
the government as the Courier, hints at the
pros that John Slack, Esq., of Heaton Norris, Jonathan Thornhill
Peet of another election;" should another, dissolution Esq., of Stockport, and Williatn Smith, Esq., of Reddish, have
been placed in the Lancashire commission of the, peace.
of parliament be deemed necessary as an experiment to ,
CHEATRa ROYAL.—Last evening was brought out here ag' in
ngl.eve. a real preponderance to one or the other of the con- Sheridan Knowles's new comedy of "The Love Chase." 'On
ncol
tnti.ngs
the first bringing out
.of this comedy we expressed our opinion
parties in the country." The hint is significant,
regarding it, which it is unnecessary to repeat. Its Principal
ing as it does from such a quarter. .We sincerelythis occasion was its introducing Mrs. Nisbett-to the
hope it will be acted upon—no matter how soon. The Liverpool public in the part of Constance, Mrs. Nisbett is
possessed of most of the attributes to constitute a successful
.a°nServatives lost nothing by the, last election, opposed
and an admired actress—good looks, a commanding and ele-
ayset.nhey were by the whole power and patronage of go- ant figur.ehetvasntdltiadhlslihkei . manners, and in her acting is
0 f
nature,e r , b uatitadb
tohveei. all actinghceiti.nsi
sts i
tiss
cahna
ri
nini :
tFer rnt ent. They lost nothing by contending against •
l triscru ul
aile ~, p ous use which the Whig-radicals made of prigeshslYortohlel very type
Nothing could be more easy, unaffected, and (though studied
Istieeti's'inglet in the scene with Wildrake, the sportsman, her lover, when
' eatitinoar • - •
eie , Y admonition. to our contemporary, another he comes to roose. to her, in the dress of a town fop, under
cttss, will
andthe impressionhis that
~ it would please her.. Her raillery of hint
ei not take place under a Whig adininistra-dancing, how he cut," was rich in the extreme; and
i . 94. -Ti • • '
ley will not again be permitted to abuse their her after conduct; when he comes with a mock proposal to make
lnauce .
ehxecrejeedaLoguiii .ctlheavtesr.he bridesmaid
hersu aidtohis
personationh t.
bride,
b`ovans
and 14, ce in promoting theelectienuf suchmen.aiLeader should act
de 'wart. They will not have it in their power, to. stance, has already established herself a favourite in Liverpool:
deny all ' We must notice, also, the very clever acting of Mr. Baker
sise protection to the Irish Protestants in the exer- .
and of Mrs. Clarke, as' Sir William Foridlove and the.Wido
hold eir franchise. They -will not be- permitted to Green. We never saw a piece of better acting than Sir Wm.
, the warrants
Fondlovers description to Widow Green, to make her jealous
noasch6,(, of
.the comptroller of her Majesty's
of who gave hiriallis brilliant ring, " which could tell a tale."
fon-lento's_ I in suspension for the, purpose of sending a Mrs. ClarkeAlitilation of Widow Green, too, as an expectant .
of cortinr of rebellien.against that Queen into the,,House• .bride
—reppvieAtion at ItiSerilthhollaoMil thought melting tenderness, ng d g
her "pretty
s, and
iliavitedrc,ofmo
re
"(ler aill°lls* No ! the next election will take place the. second time, whilst she.' gives_ instructions. to her, maid to
carry the smelling salts to be ready for every interesting scene
most administration consolidated on the firmest and
that may arise, was a most admirable piece of acting. In
endtiri basis—the. .
Ple; 1,1. _ ng affectionsof the .British peg - fact, the piece was well.played generally, and as a consequence
went off:well. Mrs. Nisbett afterwards appeared as Mrs.
d
oin
1e next election will afford an opportunity .of
Trictrac in the " Married Rake. ' Ihe house was a good one,
theg"justi6 ' ' .' " '
tho „. , e O
.Ireland,. :by emancipating.. her from and so we have no doubt it will continue during Mrs. N- b ~
rs. is ett s
oanefill d • •. " stay.
omination" of the Popish faction.
It is r
WAITING FOR A MAGITRATE.—REFORM OF THE POLICE-
Whicheally amu • • • i etl d
!mg to witness tae straoge m io
the -4/bic; • conarrss-Much stir has lately been. made in the town by the
n ado—
kits, to account for the unpopularity rots y advocates of "reform" about the recent election of ma-
of the - • -
. . present ministry V 'but very fool-- gistrates. -Judging frimn-the scarcity at the Police-court, we
so-) quaintly, should.imagine that the town-council will shortly have an op-.
tared our '
of;., . contemporary. exclaim o are the -people portunity afforded.thein of am,ending their manners, and show-
. good government, and have they transferred ing their obedient behaviour in a new election of additional
'ell. affections magistrates; for it is quite clear that 24 are not sufficient to
is.. to its
.enemies ?" The answer is obvious. assist the stipendiary. Yesterday, the Police-court, with its
:
merit" people are tired, heartily tired,ustial number of occupants, complainants, defendants, witnesses,
,
of
. prisoners, accusers, policemen, attorneys, &c, were kept waiting
4, the bungling l • ' •
egisiation, of the stupid and in- upwards of an hour'
for "the second magistrate," First Mr.
Sane polie talel
transferred al. • bench, was sent for; but he was non eat inventus as the lawyers
their affections" to the friends of goodThe
say; he had gone out of town. useless search after Air.
g""ntnent--to tlAiken wasted one quarter of an hour. Next, Mr: Houghton
neutralised
lose who have averted tine evils and
_ ; was sent for, and in about 10 minute's, to the comfort of those
7ral the mischief of the worst
government with who were kept waiting in thecourt d bad
an otherbusiness to
w( lcli the country attend to, the message returned was, "gone to New Brighton
Tile se, sY was ever cursed.
with his family." "Mr. Ewart, or anybody," was then sent for,
the ileme suggested by the Albion for recruiting ton but the constable brought word back, " Mr. Evart, or anybody,"
oi strength of the liberal was out of town- The constable was again sent out on a voyage
party, is far from -being a
"vel one. Ti of discovery, with the message "go over for Mr Brown, create a
IThe editor strongly advises the Whigs to • '
or. anybody you can find." Out went the constable, and in ten
the peers, ,arge number of peers • i • e rfot), 0,
~ . ~ with a view to overawe minutes returned with the answer " Mr. Brown is gone to Chet-
ten am. He had called- on the way on Mr. Heywood and
010n.,c ~ ' Lords--or in his oivn classical phrase- Mr. Bens, with similar success. All means having failed so
, N •‘' to force them to i,orns..), „ draw in their -aristocratic far to find a:magistrate, the half broken-winded constable was '
ne forgets sent out again as a derider resort, "then go for Mr. Earle." On
_ ur.tar
~ that sound instruction; "first Catch
Y_'-' I e, &c. Where these his way, however, he happened luckily to meet with Mr. Jones,
thus saved the court from further indefinite delay. Now;
Car, r _ ~.,e, are peers to be found ? and
are , '.;4.,-.ll,itAll Ilion rile afford_ to draucd't •here is a substantial grievance, which wants reforming; and as
, i ninety or a gun-
totnessibers of the Irons . . the brawlers for reform are sadly at a loss just now for something
the n - e Of Commons for eletation , to find fault with and grumble at, having pretty much their Own
reesarra ? t •
way, we recommend them to turn their band to this, and drOte
Pe
sled- Fiii vff,:til • wouldi be .the result of so many •
ic elections t W so .Se -•
b • . rviue y putting on end In this ine•xcusable neglect
sareplace replacer ? : Will the present' oo n. mi
.
f duty, which is not of unfrequent occurrence. .

THE CORONATION.—'Phis interesting event, unless the
blundering ministry find reasons for further postpone.
ment, is to take place next:month. In many, if not most,
of the large towns throughout the kingdom, measures
have been adopted for giving .ecliit to the event. We
have not as yet heard of any steps being taken in Liver-
pool to celebrate the day when Victoria shall be crowned,
but we earnestly 'hope that no farther delay will takd
place.. Liverpool has always been conspicuous for the
unflinching 'loyalty of its inhabitants, and we trust that
its character in that respect will not suffer any deteriara..
tion on the 28th of June.. We expect to hear that the
conservatives of the town, -at all events, will
_make an
early stir in the matter, and concert some arrangements
for a splendid manifestation of their attachment to our
virgin Queen.

,ELECTION PETITIONS.—During the past week there
ha%;e been 'two election committees ballotted for. The
former of these, theGloticester committee, consisted of
eight conservatives and three liberals. The petitioners
were liberals against the return' of Mr. Hope. The other
committee was that for Norwich, which was composed of
iseven liberals and fOur conseratives. The petitioners
were liberal electors against the return of Mr. Scarlett and
the Marquis of Douro. In the former case, Mr. Berkeley
gave up his objection to the return of Mr. Hope. In the
lattercaSe, a compromise %as entered into, which places
'the Marquis of Douro and Mr. Smith as the sitting
members. No decision has yet been come to in reference
to the Bedford petition. Several votes have been struck
off from- the conservative list.