The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS

Mr. Anderson, the Great Wizard of the North, has hrded.
over to Messrs. Pim and Co., to be applied to the relief of
the widows and orphans of the crew of the President, the
handsome sum of £2B, being the produce of an evening's
performance set apart for that purpose.
POSTOFFICE.—The new alterations just made by the Post-
office are as follow :—The packets from Liverpool for North
America will be once only in the month, instead of on ice ;
and, in future, two mails will be despatched in November,
and only one in March. The rates of postage to and from
Panama, or any place on the• western coast of South Ame-
rica, are reduced from 2s. 3d: to Is. 2d. when not exceeding
half an ounce ; 2s. 4d. when not exceeding an ounce, &c.

FORGERY.—At the house of John Fenton, Esq., at Crim-
,°.le, near eywood, on Thursday last, Mr. an Col-
"age, cot to Hn
manufacturer, of Heywood, wasJonath charged with
having forged a bill of £250, upon a cotton broker at Liver-
pool, some time about March last. It appeared, that Col-
'loge went to America in May last, and returned to Hey-
wood about ten days ago. The charge of forgery was made
out in evidence, and he was committed to Kirkdale for trial
at the next assizes.

WATERMEN'S CHURCII AT WESTON POINT.—We under-
stand that the Lord Bishop of the diocese intends to conse-
crate this interesting church on or about the 20th instant.
The watermen of the Weaver Navigation, for whose special
benefit this sacred edifice has been erected, have, we hear,
commenced a subscription among themselves for the pur-
pose of placing a clock i❑ the tower of their church, thus af-
fording a striking testimony of their gratitude for the pro-
vision making to supply their spiritual wants by the divine
ordinances of the church of God.

HEROIC ACT OF A SAILOR Boy.—On Monday last, as
the Brig William Rathboue was haun into th Quen's
Dock, a boy named Huntington, wheling steppinge frome the
vessel to the quay, slipped into the water. The poor lad
would inevitably have been drowned but for the courage of
Peter Teller, a boy, an apprentice on board the Colombia,
tlev, lying in the King's Dock. He immediately plunged into
the water, and with great difficulty succeeded in swimming
to the assistance of the drowning youth, whose head he sup-
Ported above water until a boat was taken to their aid. This
Youth deserves the special notice of the Humane Society.

LIE TOWN COUNCIL.—The first quarterly meeting of the
new Council will be held to-day, at twelve o'clock. The
first business will be the election of Mayor. The Council
Will then proceed to the election of eight aldermen to supply
the places of Messrs. Joseph Hornbv, Robert Roskell,
Thomas Blackburne, Thomas Booth, lii,.;hard Shiel, Robert
Ilerin, George Holt, and C. H. Jones, who go out of office
tinder the Municipal Act. The Council will then proceed to
fix the Mayor's allowance, appoint the three ensuirg quar-
terly meetings and the annual officers, pass tie standing
orders, appoint committees, &c.

A Criun DROWNED IN A BUCKET : CAUTION TO
PARENTS.—On Saturday last an inquest was held before
the Borough Coroner, to inquire into the death of Ellen
Roberts, aged eighteen months. Mrs. Grace Roberts, mother
of the deceased, deposed. that, on Friday last, she left the
deceased alone in her house and went out to hang some
clothes. Having finished her occupation she returned, when
she found the child with its head down and its feet up in a
bucket, which contained about two quarts of suds. She took
it up and sent for a surgeon. The child was quite dead,
having been drowned in the suds. Every endeavour was
Made to restore animation, but without effect. Verdict—
Accidental death.
THE MERCURY AND THE ELECTIONS.--The wonderful
fiddler of Friday, in expressing his astonishment at the re-
•stlts of the recent municipal elections, declares that the
'Choice which the electors have made, " infers so absolute a
ifairgetfulness of the past—so utter a recklessness of the
Future-..(is) so gross an act of suicidal folly—that it seems
Almost incredible, and would have been impossible had the
hectors been left free to exercise their nominal privilege,
" exemption from intimidation on the one hand, and corrup-
tion on the other." With all due deference, however, to so
eminent an authority, we are ready to maintain that the
choice made by the electors "infers" no such thing, but pre-
cisely the contrary ; and that there is nothing at all incredible
about it. The electors have repudiated the claims of a set of
rank impostors—thorough quacks—stale, threadbare and im-
pudent pretenders. There is no forgetfulness of the past in
this, we think, although there may be some little forgetful-
ness of our good Mercury's often repeated diatribes. What
is there in the past to endear one individual of the thirteen
rejected ones to the electors of Liverpool? Why nothing,
"pod Mercury ! We remember well the acts of these men
sand their professions. We have looked them through and
through ; and we like them not. Nor is there anything that
Ve can see of " recklessness of the future ;" on the con-
trary the electors of Liverpool have shown a pretty manifest
determination, that the future shall not resemble the past ;
And taken the piecise means required to carry into effect that
determination. That our contemporary should be wrathful,
'under all the circumstances of this shocking disaster to his
party, is little surprising; but we are, we must confess, a
Tittle amazed at the bitterness with which he falls foul upon
the defaulters of his own party. Has so old a stager as the
Mercury been all this time " coining his wit for drachmas"
is this good town of Liverpool—mixed up in every dirty
Whig intrigue, cognisant of every hollow and fraudulent de-
vice with which their grand imposture, " Liberalism," seeks
to palm itself upon the credulity of mankind ; and can he
still have remained ignorant how " shabby" and pitiful—
how " sneaking" and " cowardly" were many of the party
with which he worked ? We cannot believe it. The suppo-
sition is too preposterous to be entertained for a moment.
It is a fact, which all the world—with the exception perhaps
of the Mercury—has been aware of for half a century, that
Your professing reformers—your consummate purists—your
e, minent hilosophers are not themselves more inconceivably
fallow anpd shallow than a vast majority of the herd who fol-
iLflv them are interested, mean, shabby, and tergiversating.
We have known this long ago ; and were quite prepared to
see shoals of them deserting their former leaders, and fol-
lowing in the wake of conservatism, whenever that cause be-
Fame strong enough to stand by itself. Our contemporary,
flowerer, like all new converts, is a little too indiscrimi-
nating in the fulminations which he deals out. There are
" honest and honourable" men of the whig party, who
(121 Monday last declined to vote for the chosen candidates of
•Pe radical party ; but it is going a little too far to say that
these men are no longer to be accounted " honest and
i°t.lourable," or that they are " pitiful sneaking beings" who
The not say their souls are their own at an election.
"
The real fact we take it to be is, that the reformers, or
nominal reformers," who have hung back in the struggle,
Were not quite so proud of the fellowship into which whig.
fiery has fallen, and would fain drag them at its heels, as the
fe Mercury himself. Men with clean coats, and no itching
Zell beneath them, are not anxious to rub against every post
they meet ; and, although we had rather have seen many of
m evince their disgust at whig uncleanness, by the more
a4°lY course of voting for conservative candidates, yet we
tI
ot discover any strong ground upon which to complain,
ur at all
toimpeach the motives of their neutrality. " When
You Com
prehend a thief let him steal out of our comany"—
a maxim which many prudent men besideys Dogberpry have
'etinselled.

Mfr I'On zez E AVOW/Keg CONeßfmr.-c-This ailearnpliglied
guitarist gave a concert in the portipp Room, last, evening.
The company, though not nuinevopt, was very select and
fashionable. The performances went off with great spirit.

THEATRE ROYAL.—Miss Ellen Tree and Charles Kean
commenced a short engagement last evening at this theatre.
The " Lady of Lyons" was played in a manner that delighted
all who witnessed it. To-night " Romeo and Juliet" will
be acted. Ellen Tree's Juliet is the most finished, chaste,
and beautiful impersonation of the present day.

IRON STEAM-VESSELS FOR THE CHINESE EXPEDITION.
—The following is an extract of a letter from Bombay, dated
Sept. 30th, 1841 :—" The Adriana and Medusa started yes-
terday for China. They went off the harbour beautifully.
Sir Gordon Bremer, late commander in China, went on
board of them, and expressed himself much gratified with
them, declaring they were the very thing wanted in China.
With 90 tons of coal, 6 months stores and provisions ammu-
nition, &c., they drew four feet 4 inches in water."
IRON STEAM-VESSELS.—The iron steamers are of more
use than any other; they draw so little water, and consume
such a small quantity of coal, that their services are incalcu-
lable. The Queen is a fine vessel, but having Hall's con-
densers, she is often out of repair. I wish you could only
whisper to your big wigs to send the iron steamers you have
in Bombay—at least I have read of such things.—Canton
Paper, August.

Cabin passengers by the packet-ship England, Captain
Waite, in nineteen days from New York :—His Excellency
Baron de Marechal, Austrian minister, and servant ; L.
Massi, Esq., Consul-General of Sardinia; Mr. Hore, lady,
and family, of England ; Madame Calabre, of Paris ; Miss
Green, of New York ; Mr. Kirwan, lady, and daughter of
Dublin ; Dr. Van Zandt, of Missouri, United States ; Count
Kruggler, of Switzerland ; J. Whitehead, Esq., and E. Gar-
denillas, of Valparaiso; Edward Marshall, Esq., Sheffield ;
J. Howorth, Esq., of London ; E. Hales, Esq., of Montreal,
Upper Canada ; F. Delmage, Hamilton, Upper Canada.
LECTURES ON THE DRAMA.—Sheridan Knowles gave his
fourth lecture on the drama on Saturday last. The -poet de-
lighted the audience by his clever readings of various au-
thors, and his explanations of portions of different well known
dramas. He cut up the critics of the present day with an
unsparing hand. His recitation of " Wolfe's Monody on
the death of Sir John Moore" was exquisite, and drew forth
loud applause. The fifth lecture takes place to-morrow
evening.

FINE ARTS.—We are glad to learn that Anderson's ex-
hibition of statuary is beginning to attract public attention.
We were sure they would do so as soon it was generally
known. Every one that has seen the figures is highly
astonished. They have been visited by some of the first ar-
tists in Liverpool, and one and all declare they never saw so
animation in stone. The figures are as large as life,
and as natural as life. The face being an index to the mind,
the artist has brought all his powers to bear upon it with
astonishing effect in all the figures.
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS AT THE NORTHERN
MEC ANICS' I N STITUTION.—These concerts are conducted
in a manner at once to please the fancy and elevate the taste,
and, much to the credit of the committee, they have been
" established with the sole object of affording working men
an opportunity of spending their Saturday evenings in a
sober and a rational manner." As these concerts, therefore,
have been. commenced with this laudable object, we strongly
recommend the working classes to embrace the opportunity
here held of profitably spending an hour or two on the
Saturday evening, for if they do not, they may rely upon it
that the middle ranks of society will not be so remiss.—Cor-
respondent.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE STEAM-SHIP FORTH.
—On Thursday last, immediately after the return into the
Coburg Dock of the West India mail steam-ship Forth,
Captain Fayrer, from a short trial trip in the river, a seaman
on board, named Daniel MtMillan, was told by one of the
officers to get a warp on shore, for the purpose of securing
the vessel to the quay. In performing this duty he accidentlly
fell from the top of the paddle-house to the spurred platform
below. Captain Fayrer and others immediately went up to
him, but when raised, it was found that his neck was dislo-
cated. Mr. Cameron, surgeon, was sent for, but he ex-
pired almost immediately.
SURVEY OP THE UNITED KINGDOM, &C.—At the Kirk-
dale Sessions, on Thursday, Captain Tucker, of the Ord-
nance, stated, that an accurate survey of England, Ireland,
and Scotland was at present being made, under a late act of
parliament, and, with the exception of our six northern coun-
ties, was nearly completed. He applied to the bench for the
appointment of one or more persons, in each township of
the Hundred of West Derby, to accompany him in his sur-
vey, precisely to indicate the boundaries of each, and thus
to facilitate the accurate accomplishment of his labours.
The government, and not the county, pays all expenses.—
A petition, signed by Lord Skelmersdale, Rev. J. T. Horton,
and some other magistrates, was presented to the court,
recommending, that the townships of Formby and Simmons-
wood should be transferred from the division of Kirkdale to
Ormskirk ; and the townships of Childwall, Allerton, Gar-
ston, and Wavertree should be transferred from the division
of Prescot to that of Kirkdale. Ordered, that the consider-
ation of this petition be postponed, and that the Clerk of the
Peace, in the meantime, should communicate its contents to
the magistrates in petty sessions in each division, and that
they be requested to ascertain from the various townships,
through the officers thereof, how far such change would con-
duce to their convenience.

DEATH BY BURNING,—An inquisition was taken, on Sa-
turday last, before P. F. Curry, Esq., for the purpose of
investigating the circumstances which led to the death of
Mary Davies, aged 18 years. The deceased, it appears, was
housemaid in the service of Mr. Hobert Healey, accountant.
On Thursday week she was warned by the cook that she was
sitting too near the fire in the kitchen. Presently afterwards
she uttered a loud scream. The cook looked round and saw
her in flames. The cook endeavoured, by rolling her on the
floor to extinguish the fire, but could not succeed. The cries
alarmed Mr. Healey, who ran down to the kitchen, and, by
wrapping a hearth rug round the poor girl, contrived to put
out the tire. A surgeon was immediately sent for, and every
attention paid to her. She was subsequently removed to the
Infirmary. She lingered on until Wednesday last when she
died. She attributed the accident to a spark or a cinder
having alighted on her dress. Verdict, Accidental death.
GALVANIC PLANT PROTECTOR.—We saw, yesterday, at
Mr. Cuthbert's, Clayton-square, a curious invention, in
which the galvanic principle is applied to the purpose of
preserving plants from the attacks of worms, slugs, &c.
This ingenious invention, which perfectly secures dahlias and
other delicate plants from the attacks of those VW-I:via..
pests of the flower garden—the mollusca, must be highly ac-
ceptable to all engaged in their culture. After a trial of 12
months by the original inventor, not a plant was injured that
had the protection of these galvanic circles, although during
the same period, plants on all sides suffered severely that
were not so protected. The protector consists of a conical
ring of zinc about four inches in height, the top end flanked
off about a quarter of an inch, and cut into'nurnerous van-
dyked points ; immediately under is a ring of copper neatly
fitted. It is thus used :—thr bottom of the zinc ring is
pressed into the soil until the lower edge of the copper ring
is about one inch and a half above the surface, care being
taken to inclose within the ring the rods of such plants as
may require them, otherwise the mollusca find a road to the
plant by the rods. The mollusca may crawl up the zinc
with impunity, but on coming in contact with the copper will
receive a galvanic shock, and immediately turn away, or fall
to the ground. If the larger of this tribe attempt to stretch
across and above the copper belt, avoiding contact, they would
be incapable of holding by the points. The protector acts
in wet or dry weather, and is always in action. Its appear-
ance in use is like a flower pot, and its cheapness, utility,
and durability must insure its general adoption. For the
protection of fruit trees, the same principle is applicable.
Strips of zinc and copper are prepared, which being judiciously
placed along the wall, and round the stems of each tree,
effectually preserve them.
THE IRON STEAMER NEMESIS.—This vessel, which was
constructed by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, seems to
have been, according to the last advices from China, par-
ticularly efficient. We find her and her gallant commander,
Captain Hall, busy on all occasions. The following extracts
from the Bombay Times will show how she behaved during
the typhoons, and how well she was employed subsequently :
"The Nemesis, owing to the precautions of Captain Hall,
rode out the typhoon on Thursday in Hongkong Bay in per-
fect safety ; and the second typhoon on Monday in the Typa.
The left on Tuesday to tow the Sulphur off shore. After the
first typhoon the Nemesis was actively employed. On Thurs-
day she towed the schooner Starling, Lieutenant Kellett, in
from Tongkoo Bay, every thing standing. On the same day,
Captain Hall found, on Kowchow Island, Captain Prichard
and ten seamen, who had saved themselves from the wreck
of the James Laing. Mrs. Pritchard, the captain's wife,
and nine seamen were drowned. He took on board the
Nemesis five of the James Laing's crew, also Mr. Jones,
conductor of ordnance, and nine Siaphis, who had escaped to
the shore from the wreck of one of the prize Chinese war-
junks. Captain Pritchard remained on shore with five of his
men, in the hope of finding his wife's body. They were all
afterwards taken on board the Atalanta. The James Laing
and the transport Prince George went all to pieces. The
Prince George's crew were taken on board the Queen. The
schooner Black Joke was also wrecked. Captain Hall took
her crew out of a Chinese boat.

GEORGE CONDY, ESQ.—Died, on the 4th instant, aged
54 years, George Condy, Esq., barrister-at-law, and a com-
missioner of bankrupts in Manchester. Mr. Condy was
also one of the proprietors of the Manchester and Sal-
ford Advertiser, which he conducted with consummate
ability for a considerable number of years. His literary
attainments were at once extensive and profound ; he had also
a thorough practical knowledge of music, and was no mean
linguist. The vigour of his pen will long be remembered in
Manchester. The Manchester Courier thus notices his
death :—" As honest a heart as ever beat—as brilliant a
genius as ever shed lustre on the dull and dreary atmosphere
of the community in which we live—is stilled for ever. We
never wrote with less affectation—seldom with a heavier
heart, than we do at this moment in attempting to pay a hur-
ried and passing tribute to the memory of poor Condy.
Though rival journalists, and opposed to his political creed,
we were united to him by a sincere friendship in the ordi-
nary relations of social life ; and we refer to that part of our
present number in which his death is recorded with that
sorrow which deceased worth can alone excite. Whether
regard be had to his lofty talents, or to his social virtues, we
can say, with perfect truth, we could have better spared a
better man.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER,--On Saturday even-
ing, about seven o'clock, a fire was observed in a cotton-mill
in Jersey-street, Ancoats, Manchester, occupied by Messrs.
Copley, Barrow, and Co., and Messrs, Williams, Pooley,
and Co. The fire raged with the greatest violence for an
hour and a half, at the expiration of which the whole build-
ing, machinery, and stock, were totally destroyed. The
premises are valued at £20,000, and we understand are in-
sured for the full amount. The mill was closed at half after
four on Saturday afternoon, when all was left in order, and
the first appearance of any fire was observed in the third
story at seven, when the fire police were immediately sum-
moned, but, notwithstanding their exertions, there is nothing
now to be seen but a heap of ruins. We are sorry to hear
that 250 workmen will be thrown out of employment by this
calamity. The night was extremely calm, or had there been
the slightest breeze, the destruction of property in the neigh-
bourhood must have been immense.. Up to yesterday af-
ternoon the origin of the calamity was involved in mystery.
It is rather a singular circumstance that the fire which oc-
curred to-night took place within a few yards of the manu-
factory at which eight workmen lost their lives by the explo-
sion of a steam-boiler.
LECTURES ON THE ANCIENT MINSTRELSY AND NA.
TIONAL MUSIC OF ENGLAND.—Mr. Thomas Venables will
commence a course of lectures on this highly interesting
subject, at the Literary and Scientific Institution, St. Anne-
street, on Friday evening next, the 12th instant. Mr. V.'s
object is the patriotic one of proving that the people of this
country have a distinct style of their own in music, of a
date as early as that of the national music of other countries.
In proof of this, he brings forward specimens of well-authen-
ticated English airs, contrasts them by the performance of
Welsh, Irish, Scotch, Italian, &c. national music, and di-
lates on their distinguishing features. Many of the speci-
mens are of great rarity and beauty, and will doubtless be
exceedingly well sung by
Miss S. Venables, his talented
daughter; others are arranged as duets, trios, &c., and will
be sung by gentlemen amateurs. Amongst the ancient airs
most admired in Mr. Venables' lectures, we may notice
" Chevy Chace," and " Shall I go walk," from the virginal
book of Queen Elizabeth, both of which will be sung by
Miss S. Venables ; as also her Italian polacca, " Son Ver-
gin," from I Puritanz, introduced as a specimen of the mo-
dern school. Mr. Venables has delivered his lectures with
great success to many public institutions, and under the im-
mediate patronage of several of the clergy. The members
and visitors to the institution may anticipate a highly enter-
taining and intellectual treat.

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORZSiTERS.::::: Tha NEWS and
brathren of the Lord Wortley Lodge, No, 725, of the Ancient
Order of Foresters, met on Wednesday last, at the house of
hest Belshaw, Greyhound Inn, Great George-place, when
they presented to brother George Corlett, P. C. R., a silver
medal, as a testimonial of the esteem in which his seivices
are held by the order.

CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—As the winter season ap-
proaches, housekeepers cannot be too cautious in attending
to the fastening of their doors and windows, as the light-
fingered and footed gentry have commenced their avocations
for the season. On Saturday night some adroit thief con-
trived to secrete himself in a house in Islington, through the
negligence of the servant in not closing the door whilst she
was out for a few seconds upon an errand. He remained in
the house till the family had retired, and then he commenced
preparing to carry off whatever struck his fancy ; but he was
obliged to decamp rather hastily by the back door, being
alarmed by a party unexpectedly going down stairs. Similar
cases have occurred in different parts of the town.

PRESERVED MEATS.—In another column we insert Mr.
Gamble's advertisement offering his preserved meats to pub-
lic notice. Mr. Gamble's mode of preserving, whilst differ-
ing materially from all of those hitherto known, is superior
to them in manner in which the natural flavour of the article
is retained, and in the comparatively inex pensive ease of the
process. We understand that he is enabled to make packa-
ges of preserved meats varying from one pound to live hun-
dred; and that he is at this moment engaged upon a govern-
ment order for a considerable number of packages of the
largest class. Several of the leading steam packet compa-
nies, we understand, are about contracting with him to sup-
ply their vessels.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Yesterday, an old acquaintance
of the police, named John Howell, was examined before Mr.
Maxwell, on a charge of having stolen a parcel containing
14 lbs. of coffee, and 2 lbs. of tea, under the following cir-
cumstances. On Saturday, Mr. Bentham, of Tythebarn-
street, delivered the parcel in question to James Wilson, a
carrier between Liverpool and Ormskirk, to be conveyed to
Mr. James Campbell, grocer, in Ormskirk. Wilson pro-
ceeded afterwards into Ranelagh-street, where he stopped
and put the parcel upon the ground for the purpose of re-
placing the packages in the cart. The prisoner coming up,
took the liberty of appropriating it to himself, but being ob-
served by Mrs. Williams, who gave an alarm, he was fol-
lowed by Wilson, who apprehended him with the property in
his hands. The defence of the prisoner was, that a man
whom he did not know had given him the parcel to carry.
He was committed for trial at the next sessions.
WOODSIDE FERRY. —A parliamentary committee has
been formed by the Birkenhead Police Commissioners,
for the purpose of framing a bill and making applica-
tion to parliament for power to enable the inhabitants
of Birkenhead to purchase the Woodside Ferry from the
Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company. Joseph Mal-
laby, Esq., the commissioners' law clerk, is instructed to
draw up the bill, and the following gentlemen are appointed
the committee to consider the clauses :—J. D. Case, Esq.,
Mr. Wm. Cole, Mr. Laird, Mr. D. Appleton, Mr. Stans-
field, Mr. J. S. Jackson, Mr. Laycock, Mr. Pim, and Mr.
J. H. Greene. At a meeting of the Birkenhead oommis-
sioners on Tuesday, the following resolution was adopted :
" That the law clerk take such proceedings as he thinks ne-
cessary for the purpose of bringing to a conclusion the
contract of Mr. F. R. Price (lord of the manor) and the
railway company, and that he employ such assistance as may
forward the object ;—that a committee be appointed to con-
sider for what objects application should be made to parlia-
ment in the ensuing session, and to report thereon, with such
notices to be prepared by the law clerk as may be necessary
to forward all the purposes for which such application should
be made."

LICENSING SESSION s.—The magistrates for the borough
held a special sessions at eleven o'clock on Friday, for the
purpose of granting and transferring publicans' licenses.
There were present Mr. John Holmes, Mr. Booth, Mr.
Houghton, Mr. Earle, and Mr. Rathbone. Only one case
of interest occurred. It was one in which Mr. Martin
Bromley applied to have a license transferred from Mr.
Moore. The premises are situated in Suffolk-street. The
application was opposed by Mr. William Percival, on his own
and on the part of a great number of the owners and occu-
piers of property in Duke-street. Several.grounds of objec-
tion were urged, the principal of which was, that the door of
the place opened into Duke-street, and that a nuisance would
consequently be created there. A very long discussion took
place, which ended in Mr. Bromley undertaking to remove
the door from Duke-street into Suffolk-street before Decem-
ber, and the transfer to be kept in the hands of the magis-
trates' cleric till that condition be fulfilled.
THE 'WOODSIDE FERRY CASE : WALKER V. JACKSON.
--On Thursday, in the Court of Common Pleas, Mr.
Knowles moved for a new trial in this case, on the ground
of misdirection, or for leave to enter a nonsuit. The action
was brought against the defendants as owners of the ferry
from Woodside to Liverpool, across the Mersey, and the
declaration alleged, that a phaeton, containing watches
and jewellery, had been delivered to the defendants to
carry and land safely, for hire and reward, and that the
defendants had failed to discharge their duty, by which
reason the watches had been partially injured. After de-
tailing the circumstances of the case, which were pub-
lished in our paper immediately after the trial, Mr.
Knowles contended, that the plaintiff had secretly put on
board the ferry-boat a quantity of valuable goods, under
the pretence of there being only a carriage, for which a
small freight was demanded by the defendants. If, how-
ever, as there was no proof of any carrier's notice to the
plaintiff, the court should think that the defendants were
liable for whatever the contents of the phaeton might be,
then it was submitted that they were not delivered to be
carried and landed, but only carried across the ferry. The
acts of landing and embarking were, by the practice of the
defendants as ferry owners, in which capacity they were sued,
discharged at the expense of the passengers, who generally
employed the defendants' servants for that purpose, at their
own costs and charges. That being so, the defendants could
not he said to have undertaken to carry and land the phaeton
and its contents, and were not, therefore, liable for any in-
jury sustained in the act of landing. They could not be held
responsible for act of negligence or carelessness, moreover, if
they were bound to land, inasmuch as the injury was caused
by the concealment from them of the actual weight of the
carriage by the plaintiff. So that, looking at the whole case,
in no point of view could the verdict for the plaintiff be sus-
tained. Rule nisi granted.

CRUELTY OF A FATHER TO HIS CHlLDREN.—Yesterday,
tt the police-court, a miserable-looking.elderlyman, named

Thorns Ball, was brought before Mr. liusbtori; by warrant,
at the instance of the overseers of the poor, to answer a charge
of shameful neglect and maltreatment of his children. Mr.

Evans, of the poor's office, stated that two children of the
prisoner's, whom he had neglected and treated in a manner
which would be detailed by Mr. Rowland, were now in the
workhouse. Mr. Rowland, relieving officer, said that on
Friday last, while he was in Chisenhale-street, his attention
was called by the female witnesses present to the condition
of the children alluded to. He found them in a cold damp
cellar, in which there was a very small tire apparently but
recently lighted. There was no furniture in the place,—
the only articles being a cellar-lid, and a box in which a
young child was lying. There was a small quantity of
straw in a corner. The prisoner's wife had died a short time

ago ; and he was now employed at his trade as a shoemaker,
by a Mr. Jones, and earned considerable wages. The
children were in a miserable state of filth and destitution.
and he had them removed to the workhouse. The female
witnesses, who were neighbours of the prisoner, said that his
wife died in May last, and that he then sold every thing he
had fora trifling amount—including the little bedding of the
poor children, and drank all the money. One of them said

that she found the children huddled together one cold and
rainy night without food or fire. and only a few rags pinned
round them. He never came home till eleven or twelve at
night, leaving the children to go to sleep when they liked,
and if they did not let him in the moment he knocked, he
beat them without mercy. He had three children. One of them
could earn her living. The other two who had been taken to
the workhouse were of the respective ages of nine and five
years. He was always drunk, and played cards at the public-
house. Air. Rowland said the person for whom the prisoner
worked was a shoemaker as well as publican, and was very
shy of giving his evidence, owing, as he (Mr. R.) believed,
to the fact, that the prisoner spent most of his earnings at
his house, At the time the prisoner's wife died, he was
receiving relief from the parish, and he believed he had be-
haved shamefully to the poor woman. The prisoner said he
did ❑ot earn as much as was stated. Mr. Maxwell, the
sitting magistrate of the day, said that the prisoner's conduct
had been most disgraceful and inhuman, and ordered that he
should he imprisoned for a month. We are informed that
Mr. Rowland, the moment he saw the condition of the
children, had them relieved with food and other necessaries,
until they could be sent to the workhouse.

A SAILOR'S FUNERAL—As recorded in another column,
Daniel M`Millan, a fine promising young man, aged 24, an
able seaman of the West India mail steam-ship " Forth,"
Captain Fayrer, was accidentally killed on Wednesday, by
falling from one of the paddle-boxes. The body of the de-
ceased, who died almost instantly from injury of the
vertrebrre, was taken on board the vessel, and there remained
for the holding of the coroner's inquest on Saturday. it being
determined by Captain Fayrer, as a mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased, who was a favourite with all on
board, that he should be buried from the ship, and followed
to the grave by his shipmates. A neat coffin, with a plate
on which his name, age, and day of his death were inscribed
had been provided ; and shortly after the coroner and jury
had viewed the body, and the order for interment was given,
the incoffining took place on the main deck, a temporary
screen being made from the gaze of intruders by a large
British ensign. This office of humanity done in a most
feeling manner by a few of those to whom he was
best known, the tars of the "Forth," and all the youths.
were mustered in a line on the quarter deck by their officers.
They were all in plain but handsome uniform ;—blue
jackets and trousers, and, (in lieu of vests,) blue Gurnsey
frocks, with the name " Forth " in white needle-work
across the breast; and glazed hats with black silk bands,
lettered also with the name of the ship in gilt. We
do not remember to have seen a body of finer or hardier
looking men, and the quarter-masters and youngsters, also
in blue uniform, but without vests attracted equal attention.
Captain Fayrer and his officers were dressed in blue naval
suits, with gold lace at the cuffs. The body was deposited
on tressels on the quay, and shortly afterwards was mounted
on the shoulders of six of the tallest seamen—four others,
who afterwards released them, acting as pall bearers. The
remainder of the ship's crew followed two and two, inclu-
ding the boys, and behind them Captain Fayrer, and his
officers, also two and two, and several gentlemen connected
with the ship—in all, 33 or 34 in number. The place of in-
terment being at Stanhope-street chapel. the course was di-
rectly eastward from the ship, and past St. James's Church
to the gate. The coffin was covered by a large British nag,
and the procession moved onward at a slow and solemn pace.
The spectacle being unusual, and the occasion one that called
forth the deepest sympathy for the untimely fate of the de-
ceased, the street, though in a comparatively remote part of
the town, was crowded from side to side by spectators, prin-
cipally females, most of whom had heard of the manner of
the deceased's death, and gave vent to their feelings—asso-
ciated with all thier predilections for a sailor, by the frequent
exclamation of " Poor fellow !" It was stated that the de-
ceased was to have been married on the following day, and
a homely-clad young woman, in tears, and apparently
deeply afflicted, who, with some female companions,
closely followed the procession, was pointed out as
the object of his affections. The body was carried
into the chapel, in which a considerable number of
persons besides those in the procession took their seats.
The clergyman—owing, we presume, to some mistake—did
not, however, arrive for a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes
afterwards. The burial service being read, the body was
carried into the adjoining cemetery, and, with the usual ce-
remony, deposited in the grave, which was closely surround-
ed by all who had formed the procession, and many others.
The female before noticed and several of her friends wept
bitterly as the earth was thrown on the coffin ; and the pro-
cession immediately returned to the ship, but in inverted
order, Captain Fayrer and his officers taking the lead. The
funeral—strictly silent and unobtrusive—was marked by
great solemnity and decorum, and appeared to convey to a
no inconsiderable multitude a lesson of morality not soon be
be forgotten, in the affectionate respect shewn by British
seamen to the memory of a departed shipmate. The deceased
was, we learn, a remarkably good-iooking, active, and well-
disposed young man. He was a native of Glasgow ; has
long been employed in the steamers between that port and
this, and more recently in the line of Halifax and Boston
steam mail-ships. '

BLAKESLEY THE MURDERER.-011 Tuesday last Sheriff
Magney and the ordinary of Newgate communicated to
Blakesley that his execution was fixed for Monday, the 15th
instant. He received the communication as if he expected
it, and seemed in no degree agitated. He has been in gOod
health since his trial, and has been constantly engaged in
conversation with the ordinary.

THE SCHOOL QUESTION

We-slue been favoured with a written communication in
.which the author objects to the suggestion thrown out by us
for the improvement of the Educational System of the Cor-
poration Schools, taken from the plan not long since adopted
by the Presbyterians in Ireland. The writer declares that
he would have scriptural education or none. " I ask no
man," he says, " to take my views of scripture ; but I will
sanction none in excluding God's word from general study."
The question arises on the latter clause of this sentence;
what is the sanction which he speaks of? A Roman Catholic
parent comes to a school in which the Bible is taught, and
says that if his child may have the benefit of the school
without its scriptural instruction, he would be glad to avail
himself of it, but that otherwise he could not do so. He is
told that act iptural instruction will not be insisted upon in
his particular, and the child is sent to the school; the writer
referred to, calls this sanctioning the parent in withholding
that which he has no right to withhold. We must say, that
if this be so, it is a very remote sort of sanction, and that,
in our mind, it is not a culpable or sinful one. But what,
if the terms required by the parent are not agreed to, and
the child is consequently sent adrift without any education at
all ; will not the representative of the school, in that case, be
guilty of sanctioning the parent in denying to his child
not only a plenary but a partial education ? Will he
not be in some degree a party to the child's abandonment to
the education of the streets—a sanctioner of his being
brought up in total ignorance of all useful instruction? Our
correspondent refers us to the injunctions of Scripture with
regard to the publication of the divine commandments, and
the teaching of the law by parents to their children. Very
true ; but with the parents would rest the responsibility of
neglecting or disobeying them. Surely, offering to parents
the opportunity and facilities for fulfilling these commands
would be increasing, rather than lessening, their responsi-
bilities, whilst affording them a free choice either to do or
forbear at their own peril would be lending no excuse, or
supplying any sanction to their error, if they took the way
of it? We do not desire to enter upon a' controversy on this
point. We are quite aware that it has been already much.
discussed, and that there would be a reasonable apprehension
of the discussion running out to an interminable length,
were we once to embark in it ; but thus much we would
throw out for the consideration of our correspondent and
those who entertain like scruples. We would say, that the
parent who denies to his child the benefit of a Scriptural
education, is only tolerated, not sanctioned, in his fault
when the choice is given him. Our correspondent's prin-
ciple would involve coercion in order to escape the guilt of
what he conceives to be sanction ; but coercion is now out
of the question ; it is not the order of the day, and we are
glad of it. What we have • suggested, then, is Scriptural
education— Church of England education, with clerical
superintendence—Church of England masters and mistresses,
and none other ; but this, with toleration—with an allowance
of that liberty to parents which the law allows in other
respects with an exception granted to such parents as
peremptorily demand it. In this we cannot perceive the
smallest compromise nor guilty sanction of any sort.
Our correspondent says, " I believe unsanctified know-
ledge to be as great a curse as total ignorance, and that we
should he provoking the penalty of that curse if we became
instrumental in admitting that any knowledge (?) could be
desirable from which the word of God was excluded." This
is a proposition which it would be needless to discuss at any
length : it does not, in fact, immediately concern us, for we
are contending, primarily, not for unsanctified, but for sanc-
tified knowledge. We would offer the latter, but cannot
force men to receive it. If they will not have it, on their
own heads be the sin ; it is no fault of ours. We would not
refuse the former when the latter would not be accepted, be-
cause we do not agree with our correspondent that complete
ignorance is better. We do not think that such secular
instruction as would be attainable in scriptural schools, such
as we speak of, would he hurtful, but the contrary. If a
" little learning" be correct so far as it goes, we do not con-
ceive that it is at all a " dangerous thing." It will not go
any way, indeed, to satisfy the demands of the divine law,
nor is it to be regarded as a substitute for it ; but of its secu-
lar uses and importance, and, we may add, of its advantage
to society generally, there cannot, we think, be a question,

SERIOUS CHARGE OF ASSAULT WITH INTENT
TO MURDER,
AGAINST THE CAPTAIN OF THE " NUN" STEAM-BOAT

BELONGING TO THE WOODSIDE FERRY CO

(From our Birkenhead correspondent)
On Saturday last and, by adjournment, yesterday, at the
Police-office, Birkenhead, W. Duff was charged, before Jno.
Deane Case, Esq., with violently assaulting Thomas Shaw,
one of the watchmen employed on the Woodside Ferry, with
an intent to do him some bodily harm. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Wardle, solicitor, Liverpool.—For the pro-
secution, the following evidence was called :
Robert Ellish, one of the night patrol, said that a little be-
fore five o'clock on Friday morning he was on duty near the
Woodside Ferry, when he was attracted by very heavy groans
Proceeding from some person inside the ferry gate. He ran
down stairs and called out " What's the matter?" Shaw an-
swered, " Come down here fast; Wm. Duff has murdered
me." He instantly ran round the corner to the place from
which the voice seemed to come. When he got to Shaw he
found him on his hands and knees, about three yards from
the slip, on the north side of the Woodside Ferry, and about
fourteen yards from the top of the slip. He assisted him to
get up. He found his right side covered with slutch and
blood. His face was bloody and disfigured. He asked
Shaw how he tumbled in. Shaw then detailed the facts,
which are given below in his deposition.
Boughey, constable of the night, said, about half-past five
on Friday morning Elliot reported the case, and in conse-
quence of such information, I went to Woodside Ferry. Saw
Shaw on the quay ; he was bleeding profusely from the mouth,
and appeared to have several of his teeth knocked out ; he was
covered with mud on the right side. In consequence of
what Shaw stated, I waited until the packet he belongs to
came from her moorings at six o'clock to take her passengers
from Woodside Ferry. I went on board with Mr. Haselden,
but did not find him there. I then, in company with Royd
and Elliot, proceeded to the house of the prisoner, and I di-
rected Elliot to knock at the door, and say it was time to
get up, as the packets would be leaving. His wife made
answer. I waited three or four minutes, thinking he would
get up ; as he did not come I knocked again very loud ; Duff
came to the door in his shirt; I told him I was going to take
him into custody for having thrown Thomas Shaw over the
slip., and nearly killed him- He (the prisoner)--denied-
saying he had been in bed since seven o'clock the night be-
fore. I took him into custody, and examined his shoes.
Could form no opinion whether he had been out or not.

Two other constables then stated the comparison which
they had made between the shoes and the marks on the sand,
but the latter were too nearly obliterated to lead to any iden-
tification.

Thomas Shaw, who is very ill, and in such a state of health
that the magistrate and Mr. Mallaby had to attend at his
house to take his statement, said—l am a watchman at the
Woodside Ferry, in Birkenhead. Have been in that capacity
for five years. The prisoner, William Duff, is a seaman be-
longing to one of the Woodside ferry boats, called the Nun.
On Thursday evening, the 4th November last, about half-
past six o'clock, I went on duty. It is my duty to watch
the ferry till the half-past seven o'clock boat comes from Li-
verpool in the morning. Between the hours of opening the
ferry and closing it there is no other watchman but myself.
On Friday morning, about a quarter-past four o'clock, I
hailed the steamer Cleveland, and they answered me. I
came up the slip and walked about, and looked at the clock.
It was a fine moonlight morning. I walked about till it was
time to hail the second boat. As I was going past the end
of the wooden stage, from the coal yard, towards the bottom
of the slip, a man came running down the stage out of the
coal yard, and I said, " Halloa, William, is that you? you're
up soon this morning." He said nothing, but seized hold
of me by the body and put his foot before me, and then threw
me head foremost off the slip to the bank below. I considered
it to be William Duff, the prisoner, but I would not like to
swear it. There was the light from the clock lamp, which
shone about the stage, but the moon was not very bright.
The man came so quick down the slip that there is a possi-
bility of my being mistaken. I addressed the man as William
because he had the size, dress, and appearance of the prisoner.
At the time the man got hold of me I had no other reason to
think but the man was Duff. Since the occurrence my
mind has been very much troubled with dizziness, which
makes me hesitate about swearing positively to him now.
I cannot swear that it was the prisoner Duff, for fear
I might be mistaken. I told Robert Elliott, another
watchman belonging to the Birkenhead police, when he came
to help me, that William Duff had nearly murdered me. I
have told Mr. Dent and Mr. Jackson that, to the best of my
judgment, I considered it was William Duff. On Friday af-
ternoon I heard that William Duff was in custody, and since
then 1 have told Mr. Case, the magistrate, that I thought it
was Duff. I cannot at the present time say it was Duff: I
only consider it was him. On Thursday, the day previous
to the accident, I had made complaints to Mr. Hasleden, the
manager of the Woodside Ferry boats, about the lights not
being clean on board the Nun and the other steamers. I had
no quarrelling with the prisoner about it. The prisoner as-
saulted me about twelve months ago, but since then I have
had no quarrelling with him.
Mr. Wardle, the
prisoner's solicitor, observed that it
would be very material in the prisoner's favour if the con-
stable Royle was called, and state what the prisoner, Duff,
said when Boughey asked him how long he had been at home,
as he (Mr. Wardle) imagined he made a mistake in saying
that the prisoner had been in bed instead of in the house.
Mr. Mallaby, as clerk to the magistrates, objected to it.
Mr. Case then intimated, that as soon as another magis-
trate could be obtained, he would be committed on the charge
of assault, with an intent to do some grievous bodily harm ;
but intimated that he would be admitted to bail on two sure-
ties of £5O each.

Mr. Wardle very ably commented on the evidence, with
an intention of showing that there was not sufficient ground
to commit the prisoner ; but the magistrates thought other-
wise. The case excited considerable interest.

A Shrewsbury manager who lately " got up " the tragedy
of Virginius, introduced the " ashes'' of Virginia, not in
urn, but in a large coffee-pot with a long spout ! The audi-
ence burst into a roar of laughter, and the tragedy became a
farce ! .

A COLOURED JUDGE.—Mr. Athill, a gentleman of Afri-
can descent, has been appointed Chief Baron of the Ex-
chequer, in the island of Antigua. On pccasion of this
appointment the Antigua Herald expresses itself as follows :
—" We are too well pleased with the appointment announced
in last Tuesday's Register to allow it to pass without giving
it our unqualified assent. Whether we view it as a valuable
precedent, or as the means of admission to one of the highest
colonial titles of a highly respected member of the class to
which we belong, we unhesitatingly pronounce it to be the
most important appointment that has yet been made by the
Lieutenant-Governor during his administration of the general
government."

SPECIMEN OF A Tonv Jos.—The whig papers, particu-
larly the Globe and the Scotsman, have lately been making a
great outcry against the conservative government, because it
authorised the appointment of Lord Heytesbury as Gover-
nor of the Isle of Wight, in the room of the late Earl of
Malmesbury. It appears that the latter nobleman received
£1,500 a year while he held the office, and accordingly the
whig papers aforesaid have fallen tooth and nail upon the
conservatives, on the presumption that this salary is conti-
nued to Lord Heytesbury, in the face of a recommendation
of its discontinuance by the House of Commons. Now,
what is the fact? Although the government had the power
to continue the salary, still Lord Heytesbury is riot to receive
one farthing of money—the office in his hands being entirely
gratuitous. So much for this whig charge of jobbing and cor-
ruption. We wish it could be said with truth, that the whigs
had always acted with equal purity and disinterestedness.
THE EXCHEQUER BILL AFFAIR.-Mr. B. Smith, who
has earned such an unenviable notoriety, and who has been
in custody for some time past, was brought up from Tothill-
street prison to Bow-street police-office. After the night
charges had been disposed of, Mr. Smith was placed at the
' bar, and the examination of witnesses, into the mysterious
frauds and forgeries of exchequer bills, was proceeded with.
An unsworn broker, named liapallo, to whose possession six-
teen £lOOO forged exchequer bills have been traced, has also
been examined at the Mansion-house. Smith has been com-
mitted for trial, but the affair as regards Rapallo is still under
investigation. It is said that other suspected parties will
soon be in custody. At present, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer declines giving up the fraudulent bills: This has
called forth complaints on the Stock Exchange and in the
lower city circles ; but, surely, the surrender of the forged
instruments, that the market may be tainted with them, or
individuals annoyed, would be to play into the hands of the
wrong-doers. The examination of bills at the Bill-office is
carried on with all possible despatch ; but in consequence of
the large number to be examined, it is thought the examina-
tion will occupy the whole of this month.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL STEAM-SHIP " FORTH.'

This splendid vessel—one of the fourteen destined to run
between this country and our West India colonies, convey-
ing letters and passengers—is now nearly ready for sea ; and
after making a trial trip, towards the end of the present
week, will proceed to 'Southampton, the British station
chosen (in the meantime) for the whole of the line. And as
the public cannot fail to be interested in an establishment of
a steam fleet which will secure to Great Britain a more inti-
mate, extensive, and, we may add, profitable and protective
intercourse with her most valuable western dependencies,
some account of the build of the vessel, her equipments and
accommodations, will, we trust, be acceptable,—more parti-
cularly as from the similarity in the construction and the
size of the whole line, it will equally apply respectively to
the other thirteen ships, all now ready for service, or
approaching completion, at different British ports.
The namegrvigiven to the respective vessels forming this
gallant fleet of fourteen sail, and of which the country may
be justly proud, are the " Thames." " Medway," " Trent,"
" Isis," " Severn," " Medina," " Clyde," " Tweed,"
" Solway," " Tay," " Dec," " Tiviot, " Forth, " and
another, the name of which we have not obtained.

"The FORTH" was built at Leith, by Mr. Menzies, and
came round to this port, under sail, to receive her engines.
She encountered some stormy weather on her coasting voy-
age, and proved herself an excellent sea-boat. She is built
of the choicest materials ; is put together in the most faithful
manner, and diagonally fastened throughont with wood and
iron, on the most improved principles of naval architecture,
no pains or expense being spared to render her, in every re-
speot, a first-rate vessel. She is of a fine model, combining
sharpness of the extremities with rotundity, which at once
gives assurance of speed and safety under any anticipated
contingencies in ocean navigation. She has a spacious
spar deck, and stands well and comfortably out of the water
without being top heavy, her bearings being such as to ren-
der her peculiarly stiff. The following are her dimensions :
Length of keel
Length of spar deck 229 „
From taffrail to figure bead, about.24s „
Breadth (or beam) 36 „
Depth of hold 3O „
Burthen (new measurement).... 1940 tons.
_

Like all the other ships belonging to the same line, she
has a round stern, on the plan now adopted in the navy, and
which, though not so pleasing to the general eye, from the
habit of seeing square sterns exclusively, is, nevertheless,
handsome—the roundness being considerably relieved by
quarter galleries—and is undoubtedly conducive to greater
strength. She has a bold figure-head, and the carving, both
forward and aft, is ample and appropriate without profusion,
and being gilded on the black ground of the entire hull has a
chaste and pleasing effect. Her.-entrance and run show
that sharp and graceful sweep below. and lifting swell above,
which attracts the admiration-of sailors. She is rigged in
the usual style, as a three-masted schooner, with stout and
tauntish sticks, an ample fore-topsail, top-gallantsail, &c.,
and in running down the `• trades," or with a fair wind, will
spread a large breadth of canvas, which, together with her
steam, will doubtless send her spanking along at the rate of
12 to 13 knots. As a whole, indeed the " Forth" may be
said to be one of the handsomest and noblest steamers afloat ;
and in the event of war she is adapted, from her strength and
bearings, to carry one large pivot gun forward, another aft, and
four others of thundering calibre amidships, rendering her,
generally, we should think, with the advantage of her steam,
quite equal in action, and in cases of calms perhaps superior
in capacity for "mischief," to a first-clrss sailing frigate.
The spar deck is protected all round by a light, but suffici-
ently strong, rail, filled in with handsome net-work. This ,
by admitting the passage of the breeze, will offer little or no
obstruction requiring displacement, and is peculiarly adapted
for coolness in the sultry clime to which she will be exposed
during three-fourths, at least, of her respective trips out and
home, and her stay in the West Indies.

The " Forth" is fitted with two of the patent safety boats,
invented by Captain Smith, P.N., of which we made favour-
able notice before they were adopted on board the iron go-
vernment ships now in the African exploring expedition,
and which has also been most successfully employed in other
steamers. They are flat bottomed, and planked diagonally
for greater strength and lightness. One is placed. bottom
up, on each paddle-house, forming the top. They may
readily be righted and lowered over the sides by means of
ingenious davits; and are each capable of containing eighty
soldiers, or marines, fully equipped for hostile assault or de-
barkation, besides the requisite rowers. They make an ap-
propriate finish to the paddle boxes, and save, at the same
time, their own room o❑ the deck or over the quarters, as
they merely occupy the place of planking which would be
otherwise indispensible. The thefts or seats being moveable,
the tops of the paddle wheels revolve within the boats.
The ENGINES, a beautiful and stupendous piece of me-
chanism, are train the manufactory of our talented towns-
man Mr. Edward Berry, who has been highly successful for
many years in producing both land and marine steam-en-
gines of practical excellence. They are of 420 horse-power.
The castings and polished work are of superior finish ; and
in proof of the mathematical accuracy of their construction,
we may adduce the fact that the moment the steam was first
got up, (on Wednesday last,) the vessel proceeded out of the
dock into the river, where she made instant way at the rate
of 111 miles an hour ! Generally, engines of this size require
to be worked a priori for some hours in the dock, for ad-
justment, before an outward trial is ventured upon. In this
case such a precaution was considered, and proved to be,

unnecessary,
The accommodations for passengers, and also for the
officers and crew of the ship, are of the first order, both as
regards space and convenience. Comfort, combined with
neatness, has been especially and almost solely studied ; and
by judicious arrangements this has been fully attained, apart
from the introduction of gaudy or snperfluous decoration in
costly gilding or device. There are in all, 73 detached state
or sleeping rooms, besides those for the chief officers, en-
gineers, steward and stewardess, and others connected with
the ship, and exclusively also of 25 excellent berths that
may be appropriated for passengers when required. Each
of these rooms is for the reception of a single passenger,
there being but one roomy and lofty bed place—a decided
improvement on the usual sleeping rooms—with two beds,
one over the other, and into the upper one of which the
wight to whom it is assigned must mount up and " shelve"
himself in the best way he can. In several parts of the
vessel one of the rooms communicates with the next by an
interior door in the partition, for the convenience of families
or others who may require a larger dormitory for their pri-
vate and exclusive use. A number of these rooms are
immediately under the quarter-deck terminating abaft in the -
ladies' cabin; others are on the lower deck, on which also is
the saloon or dining-room ; and others forward under the
main deck. They are ranged on each side of two passages
or corridors, running longitudinally with the ship. Those
running on each side the ship, are lighted by port-windows;
those amidships, scarcely less cheerfully, from the deck.
They are all handsomely painted, and are each furnished
with a marble-topped basin-stand and a mahogany dressing-
table, forming a neat chest of drawers, with a drawing-out
writing table or desk. The bedding, hangings, oil-cloths,
&c. are of the best quality ; and great care has been taken
to secure throughout constant and effectual ventillation. A
number of excellent rooms, in addition to those of the
officers, &c., are also on the main deck, (under the spar deck,)
neatly panelled, and with venetian-blind doors. These, with
the spar deck, through which a strong volume of light is
admitted, form a delightful and spacious arcade.
The SALOON is a large handsome square apartment on the
lower deck, well lighted by a central oblong square deck-Ight,
and also by six side-port windows, three on each side. It is
33 feet 7 inches fore and aft, and 36 feet athwart ships. The
corners are taken off by the steward's pantries at one end, and
two state rooms at the ether. The beams of the roof are
ornamented with water leaf carving in alto relievo ; and the
whole is neatly painted In plain delicate tints. The sides are
fitted with fixture sofas, upolstered in red Spanish Morocco,
with scroll arms of polished mahogany. There are four
ranges of massy telescope framed mahogany tables, the two
in the center connected at the top by a crossing table for the
chairman and principal guests. The entire length of the
tables is 90 feet—calculated to accommodate upwards of 100
guests. Besides central seats, also cushioned in morocco,
there are thirty-six handsome mahogany chairs. At either
end there is a handsome sideboard, each fitted up for the
reception of a large assortment of silver plate, decanters,
wines in bottle, &c. A handsome stove grate, on a new
double principle, by which the heat is evenly diffused, forms
the centre-piece of one of these sideboards, which are each
covered with a thick slab of veined marble. Over each of
these is fixed a handsome mirror in a guilt frame, carved in
laurel leaf to correspond with the roof. The floor is covered
with an oil cloth, and over it a Brussels carpet. The walls
are altogether devoid of gilding or meretricious ornament;
yet the apartment has a most comfortable and even elegant
appearance, and we can well conceive will be the scene of
many a joyous banquet.
The LADIES' CABIN, or retiring room, is on the main
deck, close to the stern, from six large windows in which,
and two oblong side ports, it is cheerfully lighted. From the
shape of the stern its form approaches to semicircular, and it
is fitted round with wide fixture sofas, with scroll arms, four
in number, handsomely upholstered. Here, too, there are
two fine pier glasses, and between them a handsome patent
stove grate. The whole of the furniture and upholstery is
from the manufactory of Mr. W. Turner, of Islington, and
is highly creditable to him as a tradesman.
The FORECASTLE under the spar deck is exceedingly
roomy and well aired. It is divided into two compartments,
fore and aft, and commodiously fitted up for the accommo-
dation of the blue jackets who will sleep in hammocks. Each
will have a convenient locker, to supersede the necessity of
lug brows sea-chests. Immediately below, on the lower deck,
are two other large rooms, for the servants of passengers,
fitted up with eighteen berths or sleeping places. We may
here add, that there are in the whole ship 104 sleeping berths,
exclusive of sofas, that may be so appropriated, and cots
and hammocks.
Ample provisions has been made in accommodations, as
regards the live-stock, culinary, and other departments. The
cook-house is very large, and admirably fitted up for the at-
tainment of perfection in the preparing of the viands, pastry,
&c. The cow-house is 9 feet 6 inches in length by 8 feet
wide, and 6 feet 8 inches high, being the height between the
main and spar decks. There are also sheep-pens, coops for
a vast number of fowls, (70 dozen on the spar deck alone,)
pigeons, &c., and a large ice-house. The subsidiary arrange-
ments are all on the same scale of neatness and convenience
that characterize the larger apartments; the pumps are of
the newest and most approved patent, and in the mode of
lighting, by night, great care has been taken to guard against
accidents by fire.
Forward, amongst the sleeping-rooms, is the Dispensary,
handsomely and elaborately fitted up, and with ample store
of medicines and every surgical requisite for apparently a
town of no inconsiderable size. Next to it is the surgeon's
apartment.
The " Forth" is commanded by Capt. R. J. Fayrer,
R. N., a gentleman whose long experience as a seaman, and
particularly (of late years) in ocean steam navigation, while
commander of the " Liverpool," and more recently of the
" President,"—and whose well-known urbanity of manners,
and powers of conversation, cannot fail to secure him that
popularity which has hitherto been the grateful award of all
who have embarked under his " flag." His officers--Mr.
Strong, Mr. Armitage, and others—are all of the navy, and
his crew are " picked men," well trained and disciplined.
The " Forth" will, it is understood, leave this port in
about a fortnight, and sail from Southampton, on her first
West India voyage, in the beginning of January,—one or
two others of the fleet taking precedence of her from that
port. It is fully expected, however, that Liverpool will, ere
long, be the home station of the whole, which it decidedly
ought to be from its central position, and for other reasons
to which we shall hereafter refer.

FIRE AT GUILDHALL.—Last night at half-past ten, an
extraordinary sensation was created in the city by the report
of a fire having broken out at Guildhall. The recent dreadful
calamity gave an additional and fearful interest to the report.
Hundreds were quickly on the spot, and King-street and its
neighbourhood were crowded to excess to learn the truth of
the report. On inquiry it was discovered that an explosion
of gas had taken place, which had communicated to the roof,
a portion of which was speedily in a blaze. The rumour
spread with great rapidity throughout the city, and soon
reached the West end. An express was despatched to the
different engine stations in the metropolis, several of which
were speedily on the spot, and the flames were in a short
space of time extinguished. The roof is somewhat damaged,
but the fire was got under before any serious injury occurred.
A number of workmen having been for some days employed
in making preparations for the Lord Mayor's festival, it is
supposed that on trying the gas pipes fitted up for the occa-
sion, that the flames had communicated to the roof by that
means. The alarm created on the occasion was intense, and
up to half-past twelve o'clock persons were arriving from
different directions anticipating a dreadful result.—Mortrinft
Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAIdDARD.

SlR,—Allow me, through the medium of your valuable
paper, to call public attention to the extraordinary manner in
in which the vote of thanks to the mayor was received, at
the last meeting of the council; and to offer a few remarks
in exculpation of that excellent, liberal, and never-to-be-
too-much-lauded individual.

In the first place, then, the liberality of Thomas Bolton,
Esq., has been displayed on divers occasions since his election,
in a manner never even thought of by any former mayor of
the good old town. The number and excellence of the Town-
ball dinners have completely astonished the natives, and the
bare mention of the number of plates of fourpenny veal pies,
exhibited and consumed on various high civic festivals, dur-
ing the last twelve months, is truly astonishing; indeed so
notorious has been the liberality of our worthy chief
magistrate that no tory dare lift up his voice to assail him
on that point.
I observe, however, with great pain, from the reports of
the last council meeting given by your highly respectable
truth-loving, and scandal-hating contemporaries, the Mercury
and Chronicle, that some of the tories had the audacity to
accuse our worthy mayor of partiality, and one of them even
gave a case of it which he asserted had occurred in the re-
vision court. Now, sir, I was a close observer of his wor-
ship's conduct while revising the lists, and I must say that
I much admired it. The approving smiles with which he
greeted the Irish protectors, as they came up in crowds from
the classical purlieus of Orange-street, Lace-stret, &c., to
establish the votes purchased for them by the subscriptions
of the patriotic Rathbones, Walmsleys, and others ; and the
appalling frowns with which he met the rascally tories, whose
only claim to the franchise was, that they were natives of the
town, and had paid their taxes out of their own hard earn-
ings, was, indeed, worthy of all praise. They called forth
the rapturous plaudits of every true liberal who witnessed
the proceedings, and made them declare that Thomas Bolton
was worthy to be Lord Mayor of Dublin, and treasurer to
the Grand-national-repale-of-the-Union Association. But
as facts are better than assertions, I will descend from
generals to particulars, and give you an instance of his wor-
ship's impartiality which will set the question at rest for ever.
Amongst the parties claiming to be placed on the register
were two, whose notices of claim were verbatim as follows :
Taylor, William, house Pleasant-street, in succession to a
house in Claremont-grove, Kirkdale. Rated in the parish
of Liverpool for the house in Pleasant-street twelve months,
and for the house in Claremont-grove, Kirkdale, upwards of
three years. And

keveringan, Edward, house 51, Mulberry-street, rated
in the parish of Liverpool and township of Toxteth-park in
the last three years.

Now, to a casual observer there seems to be but little
difference between the notices ; it is true, that a man of
ordinary comprehension might think the first more complete
and definite of the two; but the mayor, with a sagacity
worthy of himself, discovered that the first notice was bad,
insomuch as it did not specify the exact time for which the
claimant was rated for each house, and the claim was there-
fore disallowed without the claimant being asked a single
question respecting his qualification.
This instance will surely satisfy the most sceptical on the
subject of the mayor's impartiality, and of the injustice of
the charge brought against him by the tory members of the
council, especially when they are told that Mr. W . Taylor
was a conservative, and Mr. E. M`Keverigan a radical.
I may perhaps be allowed to mention one more instance of
the mayor's impartiality, coupled with a most aimable display
of mildness of temper, and of forbearance sad firmness under
peculiarly trying circumstances.

It has always been the practice at municipal elections for
the Mayor to go round to the different poll-booths, about
mid-day, for the purpose of conveying the voting papers of
the aldermen and other officials, to any other wards in which
they may be qualified, and wish to vote. On his arrival at
St. Anne's ward for that purpose, Mr. Thomas Lodge, who
was the official poll clerk, and who had a vote in Aber-
cromby ward, placed his voting paper in the Mayor's hand,
and respectfully requested him to convey it to the Aber-
cromby polling-booth for him. His worship accordingly
took the paper, and having opened and looked, either at the
voting name, or the candidate Robertson Gladstone's, or
perhaps on both, threw it down, and declared with the
sweetest tone and manner imaginable, he would have nothing
to do with it. What must Ido then ? inquired the voter, I
cannot leave my station, and if you refuse to take it I shall
be deprived of my vote. What must Ido with the paper?
You may do what you like with it, replied his worship.
I have been assured, sir, by several persons who witnessed
the scene, that his worship's conduct and demeanour were
worthy of William Rathbone, and this, as I before said, un-
der the most trifling circumstances. For you will recollect,
sir, that by this time it had been discovered, that in every
contested ward a great many of the respectable whigs had
taken a most unaccountable fancy to vote for a tory candi-
date, while the virtuous protectors had wisely determined to
study their own individual interests, and not to vote unless
persuaded thereto by divers solid and weighty arguments.
It was therefore evident that the radical candidates had no
chance, and that even their fortress, their strong-hold, their
rock of Gibraltar was in danger of being taken by the enemy.
Yet still we find that Thomas Bolton is not cast down, he
does no t lose his temper, but acting with a truly liberal
spirit, he very properly resolves, that as Mr. Thomas Lodge
is inclined to vote for a tory, but cannot possibly leave his
post to vote, he will allow him to vote as he thinks proper,
and tells him so; a bright instance of radical liberality. I
trust I have now said sufficient to rescue our worthy Mayor
from the imputations which the tories endeavour to fix upon
him, and I shall be happy in being the humble instrument
(during the short time he has to remain in the council) of
occasionally setting forth his virtues and merits to the view
of an admiring public.
I am, dear sir, your obedient servant,
DICKY SAM.

CLERICAL DOMESTIC ASSOCIATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Will you allow me space for a few remarks upon the
letter of Amator Doctrinm?" The plan of your correspon-
dent is excellent, and the desirability of such an institution
cannot be doubted, but it is, I think, rather too much to
aim at all at once. I shall, however, be exceedingly happy
if my proposed establishment should turn out to be the em-
bryo of such an institution, and should use every endeavour
to render it as perfectas possible, although my library in the
first instance must necessarily be of a more humble charac-
ter. If friends possessing duplicates of any theological works
would kindly favour me with them, they would greatly facili-
tate my designs. I have taken care to ensure the works of
the Parker Society as they come out.

I do not think it would be desirable to relinquish the lead-
ing features of a club-house, i. e., " the hoarding and sleeping
accommodation," for although such may be found, it is not
very agreeable for clergymen and others passing through Li-
verpool to have to seek it ; and the neighbouring clergy within
miles round the town will find it an accommodation, when
visiting Liverpool for a day or two, to have a real comfortable
house to which, as subscribers, they can at once resort. My
plan was, in fact, suggested to me by many gentlemen com-
plaining of this want, and urging me to accommodate them ;
and the present result skews me, that in that point of view
it will be a desideratum, as I have already subscribers in the
neighbourhood who intimate that they shall gladly avail
themselves of the establishment. If well supported by the
clergy, who have such excellent and extensive means of re-
commending it, I doubt not being able to render it a most
useful, comfortable, and important institution. 1 shall at all
times be most happy to attend to the wishes and hints of my
subscribers, and in this respect trust I shall have some
valuable suggestions from " Amator Doctrinw."

I beg to remain, Sir, yours very obediently,
JOSEPH CRISP

38, Church-strect, Bth Nor., 1811

IM.r. Crisp here seems to invite a correspondence with
" Amator Doctrinte," for which we cannot find room, and
any further communications on this subject must therefore
be paid for as advertisements.l

TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE
TOWN COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL.

GENTLENtEN,--Without preface or apology, I take the
liberty in all friendship to address to you a few lines of sea-
sonable exhortation. Be united.

On the great principles of conservative government, based
on Scriptural truth, you are united. Why, then, exhort you
to be united? Because you have now reached a point at
which general union on great general principles is not enough.
It was enough while you were in a minority in the council,
because you appeared before the town and the country as
a principle protesting against error, and struggling to give
weight to, and eventually to procure ascendancy for, truth ; but
now you appear as a body of men—living, acting men, in-
vested with power to carry practical measures into execution.
Now, therefore, general union on general principles is not
enough. You require special union in the application of
those principles to specific measures.

Such union cannot be had without a large and willing
sacrifice of individual preferences, perhaps I might add, of
private interests. A great practical man, in his observations
on reading history, has remarked,—first, " That while a
party is carrying on a general design, each man has his
particular private interest in view ;" and, secondly, " That
as soon as a party has gained its general point, each member
becomes intent upon his particular interest ; which, thwart-
ing others, breaks that party into divisions, and occasions
more confusion."

Forewarned forearmed, is a homely but useful proverb.
Gentlemen, let the facts of your history, now about to tran-
spire, prove a happy exception to these shrewd, severe, and
too generally well-deserved observations of Dr. Franklin.
Let us have the happiness of witnessing in your case such an
elevation above the personal littleness of private interests as
will maintain among you the general greatness of public
unity. Such a course will greatly redound to your own
reputation, as well as to the best interests of the town and
the lawful and very desirable disappointment of your politi-
cal enemies; who are even now watching for your mistakes,
or, in the elegant and characteristic phraseology of one of
their organs of last week, waiting to see " how the cat
jumps" at the Town-hall.
You will perhaps be disposed to say, such general exhorta-
tions are easily given, and it is easy on all sides to assent to
their propriety, but they do not touch the point, you must
come to particulars.

Well'. Three points press :—The Mayor, the Aldermen,
and the Schools.

1. Report says that you are actually agreed upon the
individual to be placed in the chair. I hope it is so, and that
not the slightest symptom of disagreement among you will
appear in the council or elsewhere. Manifest unanimity
among yourselves is of more consequence in this matter than
the individual selected ; and if you entertained different
views and preferences as to who the individual should be, the
application of the general principle inculcated in this letter
would be accomplished by a friendly conference, at which
each might frankly express his preference, and on hearing
the rest, sacrifice, if necessary, that preference for the at-
tainment of unanimity. If necessary! what does that mean,
and how is that to be determined? Why, after reasons
heard and answered in friendly discussion, doubtless the
majority should have it, and the minority should coalesce
without one lingering murmur of disagreement. Then you
come before the public as one man. Be persuaded, gentle-
men, in all such matters let each say there is a good and a
greater good. To have the Mayor whom I would prefer
would be good, but if I happen to be in a minority, so that
unanimity in choosing him is impracticable, then, as I have
consented to the general principle of unanimity being the
greater good, let me now gracefully give up my
good prefer-
ence, and cordially coalesce in the greater good of avoiding
division and public debate among ourselves. We may still
have debate enough with our common enemy.
2. The aldermen—
Distinguish between the sentence pronounced by any par-
ticular ward, and the sentence pronounced by the town as a
whole. Wards are divisions made for convenience, and not
independent and insulated constituencies ; therefore, though
you have many wards, you have but one council. When the
town, as a whole, declared in favour of Whig-radicals, it was
perfectly in accordance with the spirit and the letter of the
law that Whig-radicals should be made aldermen, even al-
though the individuals selected for the honour had been re-
jected by some particular ward, which happened at the time
to have a prevailing conservative constituency ; and now that
the town has declared clearly and decisively in favour of con-
servatives, it is equally in accordance with both the spirit
and letter of the law that conservatives should be made al-
dermen, even although the individuals selected for the honour
may have been rejected by some particular ward, which hap-
pens still to have a prevailing whit-radical constituency.
Some of you may perhaps think otherwise. Some of you
may have hastily condemned the practice in this particular of
your political opponents, and may now have your attention
drawn away from the teal merits of the question by an ho.

'mumble anxiety to set in acccrianee with your own hasty
speeches. This is a snare into which the moat generous and
ardent spirits are the most likely to fall.
All the aldermen now chosen should be decided conserva-
tives, selected with an enlarged and enlightened view to the
general good of the town, and without reference, pro or con,
to the circumstance of previous rejection. Regard should be
had to the present peace of the town, and we ought not to
be kept in the prolonged commotion of elections, consequent
upon the advancement of councillors into the seats of alder-
men.

Gentlemen, there may be, report whispers that there are,
differences among you upon this point, and our common
enemy is on the watch. Disappoint him. Confer together
kindly. Scrupulously avoid any approach to irritation, either
by impatient interruption or contradiction, or by ascribing
unworthy motives for preferences frankly expressed. Culti-
vate a disposition to agree. Ascertain where your majority
is, and permit me, as a lover of good government, a patriot, and
a Christian, to implore the minority not only to give in, which
they must, but also cordially to coalesce and co-operate, so
that, when you come into the council, and appear before the
town, we may know nothing of differences among you. Let
no man, in such a minority, imagine that by coalescing and
co-operating against his personal preference, he is losing re-
spectability, or influence, or consistency. On the contrary,
he is gaining all these for his party immediately, and even-
tually for himself also.
3. The schools.

But I have said enough, perhaps as much as the Editor of
the STANDARD can make room for to-morrow morning. I
am anxious to send it through that channel, as a peaceful
prelude to your council meeting to-morrow.

It is possible you may heai7further, in good time, from
your FIDUS ACHATES.
_ _

Liverpool, Bth November; 1841

ALLEGED DISTRESS OF LETTER-PRESS

PRINTERS

One of our metropolitan contemporaries on Tuesday last
appealed to the public in behalf of the London compositors
and pressmen, who, it is asserted, ale suffering under greater
distress than has occurred " during the lengthened period of
the art of printing," that is, " about four centuries." The
letter in which the appeal is made states, that out of 2,500
compositors, upwards of 1,000 are out of employ, and 500
are not earning more than 10s. a-week. In extracting the
following article from the London Time:, perhaps it may be
as well to give our reasons for doing sd. About two months
since, at a meeting of the Liverpool " union " of this body,
a resolution was come to for the purpose of determining what
number of men were from that time to be employed in each
of the local newspaper-offices, in order to " get out " the
various papers. We received notice that this rule was to be
put in operation at the STANDARD-OffiCe, and that three
more men were to be employed upon what is termed the
" establishment." This was a species of dictation to which
we were not disposed to yield ; and this unreasonable
resolution was rescinded at a subsequent meeting of the
compositors, by a majority barely exceeding half-a-dozen.
All the other rules of the body have been yielded to with
perhaps a questionable discretion by the master printers—
such as the rate of wages, which are subject to a periodical
increase—extra money—number of apprentices—hours of
labour—with a multitude of minor regulations, which would
be scarcely intelligible to the general reader. We are glad,
however, to see that there is every prospect of this "union"
being speedily disjointed. If the demands of the men were
reasonable, we believe there would be abundant employment
for every printer in the kingdom. We now give the follow-
ing from the Times in noticing this distress:—
Doubtless, if the distress exists as there described, and we
have no reason to doubt it, it has a powerful claim on our
charity; and we are not unwilling to hope that its mention
in our columns may attract towards it the notice of those
who are able and willing to assist the sufferers.
But. on the other hand, it is our duty, not lessened but
increased by circumstances to which we shall immediately
allude, to caution those charitable persons against the par-
ticular channel through which the letter in question proposes
that the relief should flow; which is a committee of " the
trade," i. e., the body of compositors and pressmen, organ-
ized at a " general meeting" held at the Mechanics' Insti-
tution, Southampton-buildings.
Now, of these " general meetings of the trade at South-
ampton-buildings," we have had some little experience. We
have before us a paper issued by one of them a few years
back, containing 22 articles, drawn up to serve as a basis for
a general union of the trade.

This union, which had long existed under another form,
was organized as far as London was concerned, and proceeded
to claim absolute jurisdiction in all matters between em-
ployers and employed, dictating to the one what terms they
should give, denouncing the others if they acceded to any
others, and establishing itself (as we have seen) as leader and
protector of such " strikes," partial or general, as it might
deem advisable should take place. Before it had been esta-
blished two years: we were favoured with some little speci-
men of its working, which we suppose may be taken as a
sample of the rest. Some 25 years previous The Times had
been disobedient to some regulations or other of " the trade."
On this had followed, first a defeated strike, then a general
anathema of the office, the consequence of which was, and is,
that any who, after having worked on our paper, return to
the " book trade," are, as the trade's own report words it,
the subjects of reproach and persecution. We ourselves, in-
deed, did not experience any great embarrassment or discom-
fort from this state of hostility ; but it must have operated
rather severely upon that class for whose protection it was
enforced, by excluding them from any share in an establish-
ment considerably larger than any of the kind in London,
and, as the " trade council" did not pretend to deny, noto-
riously liberal in its payments.
Now, the said trade council, taking all these circumstances
into its consideration, that the sacrifice was so great to its
own protgeis, and the offence so long past, thought it dis-
creet, " in order that ignorance of the state and practices of
The Times newspaper should not be pleaded in extenuation
by those who hereafter may work'upon 'that journal, and in
order to guide the trade in their decisions upon the subject,
believing that a knowledge of the evil will go far to effect a
cure, and trusting that the trade will believe that the efforts
of the trade council in this particular result from a sense of
duty and love of justice," to place before the trade the origi-
nal cause of quarrel, and pass resolutions denunciatory of
those who continued to work with us after an " attempt at
adjustment," to the following tune :

" RESOLUTIONS RESPECTING THE MODE OF
WORKING ON THE TIMES NEWSPAPER,
AGREED TO ON THE 15TH OF NOVEMBER, 1835.
" 1. That the division of labour on the Times newspaper
into day and night work is contrary to the long-established
practice of the business, and cannot be recognized by the
London Union of Compositors.
" 2. That the booknien having, in 1793, joined with the
newsmen in ejecting apprentices from newspapers, the pre-
sent employment of them on the Times newspaper cannot be
recognized by the London Union of Compositors.
[The third article of impeachment we omit, as unintelligi-
ble to ordinary readers.]
" 4. That if the irregularities of different prices for night
and day work be corrected, and no snore apprentices be in-
troduced, the establishment shall henceforth be considered
fair.

" 5. That in the event of the above alterations not being
made on the Times newspaper, such compositors as quit that
establishment on the announcement of such refusal of the
proprietors, shall be received into the London Union as fair
members.

" 6. That individuals who previous to this meeting have
quited the Times newspaper, shall receive their union cards
upon such terms as the council shall deem fit ; but individuals
working on that paper after this examination and attempt at
adjustment, shall be deemed unworthy members of the trade,
and forfeit all claim to the consideration and protection of
the compositors of London."
Finally, they "begged to be allowed" (as Mr. Chucks
says) " in the delicatest way in world to insinuate" to us, that
they hoped we would change our system of payment to suit
" their long-established scale of prices," which they had be-
fore observed " put out of view the question of adequate re-
muneration."

Our own mode of dealing with such dictation need scarce
be told, and we totally rejected such uncalled for and unjusti-
fiable interposition between ourselves and those employed in
our establishment. Over and above the plain necessity of
putting down such assumption of authority, the demands or
charges themselves were manifestly unreasonable, as shown
by the following extract from their own pages ;
" The Trade Council at the same time feel that as the fol-
lowing statement his been placed in their hands, it is but
performing a simple act of justice to put the meeting in pos-
session of the arguments in extenuation of the existing
system adopted on The Times newspaper :
" First, that the compositors employed on The Times are,
upon the whole, remunerated for their labour (those on the
day part receiving on an average 50s. per week).
" Secondly, the apprentices, which \form one of the
grounds of complaint, cannot be received as a just one, as
they are not, nor ever were, a principle of the house, and
not at all connected with the closing of it, but were forced
upon it in its own defence, by a species of dictation which no
men (whether masters or journeymen) have a right to use
against others. Had it been a principle of the firm in ques-
tion to carry on its journal by apprentices, time enough has
elapsed since its quarrel with the journeymen to have reared
three companionships—one for the night, one for the day,
and one as a corps de reserve. This has not been done.
There have been but few apprentices taken, and the small
number now on the establishment are employed in the day
department, and on the same principle as the book houses.
The night work is performed entirely by journeymen procured
from the trade at large.
" Thirdly, the division of the work into day and night
ought not to be condemned as unfair, for it should not be
forgotten that persons employed on the day establishment
have not to make those sacrifices of comfort which are inci-
dental to an evening paper, and much less those which are
inseparable from a morning one."
All which " sacrifices of repose and comfort," it is after-
wards added, " on the premises of that journal are amply
paid for."
The warfare then continued; and we find now, that while
the trade is in a state of depression, which " hundreds of
persons" can testify has no parallel in the last 400 years.
every compositor who has been employed on The Times for
the last 30 years, unless he has voluntarily left his situation,
or forfeited it by very gross misconduct, is still in the re-
ceipt of steady and ample remuneration ; to which we nay
add, that those still in our employ are among them holders
of several thousand pounds in a savings'-bank.
From all this, we leav our readers to judge—not whether
individuals it is wise to relieve actually suffering from severe
distress—which is not a question of wisdom but of plain
duty and charity—but whether they will do well to commit
the credit and responsibility of dispensing their alms to a
committee so very. nearly related to, probably in a great
measure identical with, one Which aims expressly at giving
organization and efficiency to that " strike" system of which
the masons at the houses of parliement and Woolwich have
given us a specimen rather too recent to be very popular.

—Thursday afternoon
nTilnlgEuGeslitlv,',A.aTs
held\N'r
FATAL Ace •
at S
S. George's Hospital, upon the body of E. Greening, aged
shrerflO rNe ARIA:. I.
Ll-W1 i gAgls' ,
-9, who was killed by a luggage-waggon passing over his
body, under the following circumstances. William Riddle,
a workman in the employ of the Great Western Railway
Company, deposed that at eleven o'clock on Wednesday
morning, a luggage-waggon, weighing five tons, was by the
impetus given to it, running slowly into one of the sheds„
when the deceased, who was crossing the line, laid hold of
the buffer in order to steady himself; his foot slipped and he
fell across the line, the wheels of the waggon going over his
body. The impetus on the waggon was so slight that tins
wheels scarcely forced themselves over the deceased ; they
almost rested upon the body. The deceased was immediately
placed in a coach, but he died on his way to the hospital_
Mr. Henry Lee, the house surgeon, detailed to the jury the
injuries received by the wheels passing over the body, and
the jury immediately returned a verdict of accidental death.
' Ma. JUSTICE BOSANQUET.—It was currently reported on
Thursday morning, in Westminster-hall, that in consequence
of continued indisposition, Mr. Justice Bosanquet will resign
his seat in the Court of Common Pleas before the expiration
of the present term. Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, the recorderl
(the lion. Mr. Law), and Mr. Sergeant Mereweather, are
mentioned as likely to be elevated to the bench when a
vacancy occurs:

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XA i

Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales. By Thomas
Roscoe. Wareing Webb, Liverpool.
Roscoe's Wanderings in the North of Wales have in the
,resent part come to a conclusion. We may congratulate
talented author upon the graceful manner in which his
'ul, useful, and highly interesting work has been brought
Its cheapness is remarkable, whe❑ we consider the
)ers of beautiful engravings that have been presented to
ibscribers, and the excellence and copiousness of the
" Roscoe's Wanderings " will always main-
tain its position as a standard work. An interest in it can
ated. It is not one of the ephemeral books of
lay, which, when taken out of the distributor's hands,
s read, laid aside, and forgotten : on the contrary, it must
retain its value so long as the mountains of North Wales
1 tower in their majesty, and the valleys smile in the
We may change—friends may drop around us ;
oung will spring up, and they " will fill our vacant
and read, with the same avidity and pleasure as we
done, " the Wanderings of Roscoe."

never be a

unlight

This concluding part contains two sweet engravings, a

handsome and comprehensive map of North Wales, indices,
a glossary, and more than the usual quantity of readable

Mr. Roscoe's tour through the Southern portion of the
principality will shortly make its appearance in a style cor-
responding with the present work. It is announced also
publisher has prepared an appropriate binding for
it publication, which can be procured from him.

ASCENT OF MOUNT OLYMPUS

PERILOUS POSITION.
(From the Churchman.)

Mount Olympus, which we made in
i, our Turkish guide, anxious, if possible, to curtail the

nd tediuti, of the way, ventured_ from the track

usually followed, and, just as we had gained the first elbow
of the mountain, turned his small Tartar horse on to a ridge
of rock of about a couple of feet in width, which was bounded
on one side by the mountain, rising almost perpendicularly
thousands of feet above our heads, and on the other by a
sheer precipice descending to the depth of the valley, from
which we had been toiling upwards for two wears hours ;
while, as if to render the gloomy prospect still more appal-
ing, the hoarse echoes of a torrent, which was roaring and
tumbling among the masses of rock which had been storm-
riven from the mighty masses above and hurled into the
plain during countless centuries, came to the ear with a
sound that seemed almost supernatural. I followed next
after the guide, also mounted upon a Tartar * horse, which I
rode for the first time; and thus, in " Indian file," each after
each, our party (which consisted only of four individuals)
slowly, but confiding too entirely in the local knowledge of
the guide to feel any very painful alarm, trusted themselves
to the steep and narrow way. Surely the fabled bridge El-

Sirat, over which the Moslem is to pass to his paradise, must
be to the full as ample and convenient a pathway to a spirit,
As the road which we were so blindly following proved to tra-
vellers of flesh and blood. Not a word was spoken, for each
Itad enough to do in looking to his own safety, with the ad-
ditional conviction that, even when he had done so, it was

still contingent on the safety of his companions, as the slight-
est false step of either of the animals would necessarily so
startle the rest, as at once to put all in the same position.
_

Asw
rnek

dvaneed, the crutch- of my saddle was towards the

and the wary animal I rode, with extraordinary in-
stinct, made it a point d'appuie, and leant towards the wall
of stone so closely, that, at each step he took, my knee came
in contact with the mountain. Thus we proceeded for about
two hundred yards, when suddenly the guide stopped his
horse, uttered an Inshallah ! which sounded rather like a yell
than an ejaculation of piety, and in the next instant informed
as that the ridge upon which we stood, or rather hung, was
it that point absorbed in the outline of the mountain, and
could pass no further. It was a frightful moment,

that we

COURT OF CIiEQUEI

bilAtik% AND OTIII:ItS V. TIIE GREAT WESTLRN

COMPANY

This action was tried before Mr: Justice Wightman, at the
late. Liverpool Assizes, when a verdict was found for the
plaintiffs, with £662 damages.
Mr. Wortley now moved for a rule to show cause why that
verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had on the
ground of misdirection. Ile said the plaintiff's were eminent
machine-makers at Manchester, and had entered into a con-
tract with the Directors of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, to make for them ten engines, with their tenders, of the
best materials and workmanship, at the respective prices of
X 1,850 and £450. By the contract, the plaintiffs were to be
held liable for the engines during a month's trial, and while
they ran 1,000 miles. The engines were all delivered, were
tested according to the contract, and settled for with the ex-
ception of the above balance. Subsequent to the engines
having been accepted, the tire-box of the engine, called the
Panther, burst. According to the specification, that part of
the engine was to be 7-l7ths of an inch thick, but this one
was found to be no more than 3-piths. He did not impute
any fraud or carelessness to the plaintiffs, but he was prepared
to show at the trial that they had got some copper, which was
so impregnated with some foreign matter, that by some che-
mical process, it had worn away by the oxygen of the water.
He contended at the time that be was at liberty to enter into
these particulars, but the counsel for the plaintiff objected
that by the terms of the contract the makers were released
from all liability the moment the engines were tested by run-
ning 1,000 miles, and the expiration of a month ; and his
lordship, upon being pressed, acceded to this view of the
matter. He contended that the meaning of the contract was
that the engines should be tested as to their working condition
and strength, and the defendants could not be concluded by
their acceptance of them, when, as in this case, they found
there had been a departure from the terms of the contract
and specification. When the engine burst it was found that
the boiler had iron fastenings, or rivets, in place of copper
ones. His lordship would have allowed him to go into that,
but he (Mr. W.) refused to enter upon any single part of his
case. He submitted that he was entitled to a rule.

The Court was of opinion that, according to the true
meaning of the contract, after the engines had been on trial
for one month, and had performed 1,000 miles, if they were
then perfect and accepted by the company, they were con-
cluded from all challenge afterwards. The contract was ful-
filled and the plaintiffs released. They were of opinion that
the learned judge was right, and therefore refused the rule.

BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS—Nov. 1

SWINDLING BY GHOST RAISING

George Bradley was indicted for obtaining money from
Mary Coburn, of Belfast, under false pretences. The facts
of the case have already been fully before our readers. They
are briefly these :—The prisoner's sister (Millikin), already
convicted and transported for her 'share in the offence, so
wrought upon the credulity of the prosecutrix, through the
agency of a servant girl, her relatior, that she made her be-
lieve her house was haunted by the ghosts of her two deceased
brothers—one of whom she pretended to conjure up. She
promised to have the spirits " laid," for a certain sum ; but
postponed the business, from time to time, till she obtained
upwards of £2OO from the victim of her schemes. After her
feigned death, the prisoner took up the remainder of the plot,
and, by pretending that he was entrusted to deliver to Mrs.
Coburn a quantity of plate, and other valuables, bequeathed
by another brother in New Orleans, also swindled her out
of a considerable sum. The facts were fully proved and the
prisoner convicted.
The barrister, in passing sentence, commented on the enor-
mity of the offence of which the prisoner had been guilty.
One of the justices on the bench had informed him that the
prisoner was brother to a woman named Milliken, who had
been convicted of a part of the same offence, and who had
been sentenced to seven years' transportation. He was dis-
posed to believe that the prisoner was the more guilty party,
and that he had received his full share of the plunder. The
other prisoner's sentence was a just one ; but the late lord
lieutenant, for reasons which were to him (the learned bar-
rister) altogether inexplicable—(for he had given his excel-
lency a report of the case, and represented it as one in which
mercy should not be extended)—had, in the exercise of his
prerogative, commuted that sentence to eighteen months'
imprisonment. However, under the circumstances of the
present case, he did not think that a more lenient punish-
ment would be advisable than that originally passed upon the
former culprit. The sentence of the court, therefore, was,
that he be transported for seven years.

EXTRAORDINARY FORGERIES

(From the American Journals received by the Acadia,

4ISCELLANF,OUS

The lire at the Tower was not (lulu.; out on Friday moiliing,
but no further danger is anticipated. The engines remain on
the spot.

There is now in Merrimac, Massachusetts, a boy of ten
years old so short that he is obliged to get upon a stool to
kick the kitten.—American paper.
M. Gaudin, by using the bromure instead of the chlorure
of iodine, has succeeded in taking photographic drawings in
a quarter of a second !

Such have been the improvements at Newcastle since
1833, that the new property already created is calculated to
equal one million sterling.
It is reported that Mr. Gladstone, M.P., is about to pro-
ceed to Spain, with the view of opening negociations for a
commercial treaty with that country.
LATE HAYMAKING.—The novelty of haymaking in No-
vember is now going forward in a field belonging to Mr. Jos.
Page, opposite the' Basin, Gloucester.
The Tyne llferenry tells a very likely story of a child at
Barnardcastle, being christened " Richard" soon after it was
born, and of its being discovered in about a week after to be
a girl.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and his late distinguished
visitors recently subscribed £4BO to alleviate the distresses
of the unemployed miners in Ruabon and Wrexham.
The Duke of Northumberland has recently given the libe-
ral donation of £2OO to the Metropolis Church Fund. It is
the second donation that the noble Duke has made to that
fund.

On Friday last George Gifford, Esq„ of Ballysopp, in the
county of Wexford, dropped almost instantaneously dead
while locking at a pack of hounds drawing a cover in the
neighbourhood of his residence.— Waterfbrd Mail.

Mrs. Thom, the widow of the unfortunate maniac who
called, himself Sir William Courtenay, and who was shot in
the mad affray near Canterbury a few years since, died lately
at Guernsey.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—On Thursday next, the
day to which the meeting of Parliament was prorogued by
the Queen's Commissioners, the two Houses will meet for
the purpose of further prorogation until Tuesday the 21st of
December.

The slaughter-house system of immense returns, and the
smallest calculated profits, is now paralysing and destroying
the merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdom,
and. pauperising and starving the labouring population.—
Oastler's Fleet Papers.
HERRING FISHERY ON THE FRENCH COAST.—A large
French lugger entered Dieppe harbour on Wedncsdry, that
had been engaged in the herring fishery. In addition to her
hold being filled, the fish were piled up to the top of her bul-
warks. The cargo was said to fetch nearly 5,000 francs.
DrrnuN UNIVERSITY.—SeveraI candidates are already
spoken of as likely to succeed Dr. Lefrov in the representa-
tion of Dublin University. Serjeant Jackson, G. A. Hamil-
ton, Esq., and the Hon. James King, are all named. In
the event of Serjeant Jackson being elected, Lord Bernard
will probably be the new member for Bandon.

The Rev. Mr. Marshall, who lately retired from the mi-
nistry of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, will, it is re-
ported, present himself, at the approaching ordination of the
Bishop of Durham, as a candidate for the Holy Order of
Deacon ; the Rev. Gentleman receiving his title from the
Rev. Dr. Gilly, as one of the curates of Norham.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY.—There has been
no contradiction published, or any denial of, the statement
put forth by a protestant Galway paper to the effect that Dr.
Caen, titular Bishop of Elphin, had given in his adhesion
the present government. The Limerick Chronicle states
that there is another Roman Catholic prelate in the south of
Ireland who has declared himself as decidedly favourable to
the new order of things.

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN SADDLEWORTH WORKHOUSE.—
At an early hour on Thursday morning, Oct. 24, one of the
inmates of Saddleworth workhouse, named James Buckle, a
man from 40 to 50 years of age, was discovered with his
throat cut almost from ear to ear. He was found in the
privy with a razor near him ; he died almost immediately
after the discovery. The unfortunate man had been placed
in the workhouse only on the previous evening.—Leeds In-
telligencer.

AN EX-JOINT OF THE TAlL.—Edward Ruthven, ex M.P.
for the county of Kirkdale, was on Saturday last discharged
as an insolvent. He admitted in the course of his examina-
tion that he qualified to sit as a member of parliament
through the aid of friends, who would do the same for him
again. The commissioner remarked that it was well known
thet persons, without having any property themselves, were
able to obtain qualifications to entitle them to sit in parlia-
ment.

REv. DANIEL M'AFEE.—Many of our readers will be
glad to learn that the eldest son of Mr. M'Afee has been
appointed by Sir Robert Peel to a clerkship in the depart-
ment of the stamps and taxes. The appointment is the
more complimentary as it was not made at random, but after
those inquiries which indicate a determination that, in ad-
vancing the interests of the individual, the interests of the
public are not overlooked. The letter conveying the infor-
mation to Mr. M'Afee was in Sir Robert's hand.—Cork
Constitution.

AND MunortemrThe otiobrated
chasm in the range of the Mendip Hills, known as the Ched-
dar Cliffs, which are situated about four miles east of the
great turnpike-road leading from Bristol to Bridgwater, and
about sixteen miles from the former, was on Monday week
the scene of a brutal murder and robbery, committed on a
farmer named Baker, who occupied Highnet Farm, near
Cheddar. It olipears that in the afternoon of that day he
left his house, with some corn to be ground at a neighbouring
mill, the way to which was through the cliffs. He took a
sovereign with him, from which the miller gave him change,
on the corn being ground. Before dusk Mr. Baker was dis-
covered lying in the road in an insensible state, his body and
head dreadfully bruised, and robbed of his money. The
road through the cliffs, which at some places rise to the gigan-
tic height of 400 feet, is comparatively but seldom passed by
carriages ; and this loneliness, as well as the winding nature
of the road, which prevents the view of objects approaching
until they are very near, points out this spot as too favour-
able for the commission of such a crime; while it is well
known that the road is principally used by persons having
money transactions at places in the vicinity. It appears
from a comparison of the period when the deceased left the
mill, with the time when he was found, (by a person who
was returning from Paulton coalpits,) that the crime was
perpetrated in broad daylight, about three o'clock in the
afternoon ! Mr. Baker was conveyed home, and surgical
aid procured, but he died after a few hours of acute suffering.
The murderers are suspected to be two persons in the dress
of navigators or railway men, for whom search is being made.
—Hereford Journal.

V ROMIFAN

THE PORT OF MANCHESTER !—There was another arrival
of merchandise at Victoria Bridge, on Tuesday, which is thus
graphically and minutely described by a contemporary
print :—One of the Old Quay Company's flats, the Lingard,
Captain Thomas Darwell, of 60 tons' burthen, lying at Run-
corn, commenced on Tuesday morning, at an early hour, to
take in a cargo of oats from the Francis, Captain Powell,
which had arrived here the night before from Dublin, with
864 barrels of oats, the bill of lading dated the 27th October.
The Lingard having taken in about 30 tons of oats, started
from Runcorn at twenty minutes past two o'clock, a.m., for
this port, reaching Hollins Green about seven o'clock, and
Throstle Nest about a quarter past eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon. There she remained till the little steamer Jack Sharp
arrived from her own voyage, to tow her up to Manchester.
The steamer arrived about two o'clock in the afternoon, and
immediately proceeded to tow the Lingard towards this town,
passing in succession beneath the Regent-road and Liverpool
Railway Bridges ; the New Bailey Bridge, which was crowded
with spectators; the Blackfriars Bridge, through the centre
arch of which she proceeded steadily and slowly, and piloted
her charge in safety to the Victoria Bridge, amidst the loud
cheers of the crowds of people on the bridges and upon the
intended wharf of the Old Quay Company, and the firing of
salutes from six small carronnades on board the Lingard.
The view of this water procession was a little obscured by the
dense fog which .overhung the river during the whole day ;
but when the crowds assembled on the wharf and the Victoria
Bridge first caught sight of the line of boats just beyond the
Blackfriars Bridge, it was seen that there were three vessels,
the steamer towing the other two ; and, when these vessels
arrived below the Victoria Bridge; it was found that the first
of the two sailing vessels was the Lingard, Old Quay Com-
pany's fiat, with her cargo of corn ; and that the second was
a vessel of the New Quay Company, the Mary, which, haviug
just arrived at the time the Jack Sharp was towing the
Lingard above the New Bailey Bridge, was connected by a
towing line, and so brought up the rear. The Mary had a
cargo of cotton, in bales, piled upon deck as well as under
hatches, probably about thirty tons altogether.—Manchester
courier.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—We understand
that Sir Frederick Smith, the government inspector, was
recently here, and examined minutely the state of the works
along the line from end to end. We have not as yet seen any
official report published, but we understand he was highly
pleased with the substantial manner in which the finished
portions of the works were constructed. With regard to the
time of completing and opening the railway to the public, it
is understood that Sir Frederick considered it likely that the
whole works, including the great weinstone cutting at the
Croyridge, might be ready for traffic by the middle of Novem-
ber. From the energy with which the unfinished parts are
pushed forward, we have little doubt that this might be the
case with average weather; but, taking into account the un-
favourable season which we have had from the begining of
August down to the present time—certainly the most rainy
season that has been experienced in this part of the world
for many years—our wonder is rather that so much has been
accomplished, than that something yet remains to do. Should
November, however, prove more auspicious, it is expected
that by the beginning of December the wishes of the public
will be realised. One advantage, at least—and that not a
small one—has resulted from the wetness of the season.
Much of the subsiding and slipping of the embankments,
which might otherwise have happened at a future period, has
already taken place, and the consolidation of the works has
thus greatly matured before the line is opened for traffic.
Upon the whole, therefore, considering the increased security
to the public, the delay is not so much to be regretted ; be-
cause whatever tends to inspire greater confidence in the com-
munity in the safety of the line, will ultimately be for the
true interest and benefit of the railway.—Glasgow Courier.

&biliptitg lincelligenrc

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FRIDAY, NovEmuEu s,—Wind South

A 4. it WE I).- Henrietta, Luchies, from Rotterdam—Virginia, from
Lisbou—Eupliernia, Jamieson, from Newfoundland—Mermaid,
Pepperell, from Cephalonia—Nancy, Miller, from Bordeaux—Stadt
Barth, Shin, from Danzic—Kate & Jane, Jacobs, and Petrus Lu-
dovicus, Kagsis, from Rotterdam—Ambassador, from Odessa—
Peri, Daw, from Denia—Pet, Shotten, from Bordeaux—Fortuna,
from Dordt—and Virginia, from Lisbon.

A t.s o A R I VII D —Yarmouth, from Plymouth—Helen, Sheil. from
Wexford—Nautilus. .1 ohnson. and Jasper, Davies, from Newcastle
—Norfolk Dass. Gowan; Edith, Wells; Fawn, Cutts; Knight,
Johnson, and Ceres, Frell, from Portsmouth—Glendower, Ed-
wards: Wasp, Rolpe ; Boadicea, Evans; Susan, Jones; John
Royal. Jones—Glynn, Ellis; Newport, Dawson • Mary; Truant;
Princess Royal, and Sampson, from London—Re ndeer, Head,
front Belfast—and Leeds, Williams, from Dublin.
OFF THE PORT.—Aurora, from Sierra Leone—Duchess of Port.
land, from Demerara—Octorara, from Philadelphia—Mearns, from
Quebec—lndian, from St. Petersburg—Village Girl, from Monte
Video—lda, from Dundalk—and Friends' Increase, from Ipswich.
SAILED.—ItaIy, Snow, for New York—Ceylon, Evans, for Rouen
—Jersey Tar, De Caen, for Syra—Thomas Hunter, Ward, for Africa
—Wm. Gilles, Clark, for Bombay—Resolution, Eskdale, for Maran-
ham—Lady Colebrook, M'Lean, for Savannah—and Euphemia,
Dearness, for Leghorn.

Village Girl, Woof, from Buenos Ayres, at this port ; sailed 25th
August and from Monte Video 30th August. On Bth Oct. in lat. 22
N, long. 38 W, spoke the Caledonia, from Liverpool to Vera Cruz.
Eliza, Follet, hence at Scilly, leaky, and sailed 26th Oct. for New-
foundland

John & Mary, Olger, and Alexander, Borgeson, hence at Scilly,
both for Havre

Robina, Henderson, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool 27th Oct
Matilda. Turner, hence at Genoa, lost bulwarks
Ellen German, Cumming, hence at Laguira
Eliza Killick, Davies, hence at Laguira
Brigand Bell, hence at Antigua
Dove, Collins; Queen Victoria, Phillips, and Spinster, Colqu-
houn. hence at Barbadoes

Christina, from Oporto to Newfoundland, was spoken 26th Oct
in lat. 43, locg. 33

. ...
St. Vincent, henee to St. Vincent, was spoken lst instant; in let
48, long. 10 ,

Spencer, Losh, and Volunteer, Robinson, hence at Berbice
Vicar of Bray, Seymour, and Wm. Carey, Glenday, hence at Rio
Janeiro

Neptune, M'Donald, hence and Rio Janeiro, at Valparaiso
Eleanor Lancaster, Cowley; Otterspool, Little; Gleneira, New-
by, and Enchantress, Cormick, hence at Calcutta
Superb ; Patriot King; Santou, and Leonard Dobbin, sailed from
Calcutta, all for Liverpool
MACA o, July 26.—A dreadful typhoon was experienced here 21st
July, and another to-day. The City of Derry, from the ricer to
Macao Roads, lost her fore and maintop masts, and cut away her
mizenmast, in the Lantao passage.
PhysiocTu. an Nov.—The Gannett, from Malta to this port, was
spoken 11th ult . off Cape Trafalgar, with cargo heated.
H. M. S. Orestes, (ls.) from Valparaiso. at Portsmouth, with
2,335,000 dollars, on freight ; sailed 2;th July, and from Rio Janeiro
12th Sept. 30th Sept., in lat. 7 N., long. 25 W., spoke the John
Campbell, from Africa to this port, On 7th Oct., in lat. 21, long.
22, spoke the Lauriston; froni.this port to Trinidad.

ATURDAY, NOVESIBKR 6.—Wind S.S.E. moderate

A RRlVED.—Eugenia, Robello, from Genoa—Black Bog, Brint,
from Malaga—Adeline. —, from Bourdeaux—Sir C. Campbell,
trona Lucon—Sultana, from the Mediterranean—and Eliza Bell,
Bell, from Hamburgh.

SAlLED.—Martha Ridgway, Bisselt, for New Zealand—and Sir
Charles Napier, Huxtable, for Sydney, N.S.W.

Cornhill, Cumming; Archimedes, Hatt, and Albion, Nichols,
hence at Newfoundland •
Pacha, , hence at Monte Video
Betsey, Allen. hence at Constantinople
Esperance, Michaud, hence at Loire
Wild Irish Girl; Graham, hence at Calcutta
Jenny Jones, Wakeham, from Taganrog, at Constantinople, and
sailed 11th Oct. for London
I 0, Thompson, from Odessa. at Falmouth
Waterville, Mills, from Leghorn, at ditto. On 27th Oct. in lat.
44, long. 12, spoke the Pandora, hence for Ceylon
Active, -, hence for Buenos Ayres, was spoken 30th Oct. in
lat. 47, long. g _ _ _ . .

_
Betsey, -, hence for Savannah, was spoken 29th Oct. in lat.
47, long, g

Caledonia, (steamer) hence for Halifax, was spoken sth Nov. at
11 30 a.m. twenty miles West of Tuskar

DANZIC, Oct. 27 . —The March, Hudson, hence for Liverpool, put
hack to this port 24th October, with a list, and four feet water in
her hold. Cargo discharging in a damaged state.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7.—Wind West, light

, .
ARRIVED.—Meg of Meldon,
, from Calcutta—Australia,
from Maceio—Joseph Yeoward, Jones, from Cephalonia—Edward,
Papellon, and Ellen, from Marseilles—Bess, Martin, from Salon—
Sultana, from the Mediterranean—Wm. Russell, from Pernambuco
—Nouis Bugialia, from St. Übes—Water Witch, from Bilboa—Bel-
videre, from Bombay. _ _ .

Royal Sovereign, Walker, from Bombay, at this port; sailed 11th
July, and from St. Helena 21st September. On 24th August. in
lat. 28 50 S, long. 44 E, spoke the Ivanhoe, from China for Liver-
pool. ont 89 days. On 14th October, in lat. 51 50 N. long. 34 51
W, spoke the Lady Monteith, from London for St. Kitt; out 30
days. On 19th Oct. in lat. 31 50 N, spoke the Rockliffe, from Ma.
dras for Liverpool, out 104 days. On 27th Oct. off Floras, spoke
the Margaret, Mainland ,from Bombay, for London. sailed 7th July.
Left at St. Helena, the Inglis, Isaacson. to sail same day, for Lon-
don, and the Ganges, loading for -.
Mary Jones, Fishley, from Lima, at Liverpool ; sailed 15th July.
The Henry Worrall, and Heroine were loading for Liverpool. The
Judith sailed for Iquique, and Douro, for Pisco.
Athol, Hossack ; Thalia, Murray ; Ann, Salkeld ; Margaret,
Roach; Hannah Kerr, Potter; Majestic, Cornforth ; and Madona,
Milton, hence at Bombay.
Dicky Sam, Coaker. from Liverpool, and Monte Video, hence
at Buenos Ayres.

BRISTOL SUGAR. MARKET, NOVEMBEP

We have had very little business doing in our sugar-market this
week, Owing in some measure to lire poor. assortment of samples
en the market; prices however remain without alteration.
The average price of drown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from
the returns made in-the week ending the and day of Nov., 1841, is
:15s sid per cwt., exclusive of the Import Duties.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, Nov

We have for this day's market a good supply of all grain except
Barley, which is but moderate, particularly of fine malting qualities.
The trade for the best new and old Wheat was slow and dull, at last
week's prices, whilst inferior parcels were offering at is decline.
without finding purchasers. Good malting Barley sold readily at
an advance of Is per quarter, and grinding fully supported late
prices. Oats met a better demand at the same rates, but Beans
were dull and somewhat lower. Shelling unaltered.