The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY

• (Prom Saturday's Morning Herald.)
esterday, at Claremont, saw the principal officers of her
Majesty's government installed in the respective posts to
which the royal pleasure had called them. This ceremonial
followed immediately after her Majesty's reception of the
seals of office and the resignations of her late ministers.
The members of the conservative cabinet and government
appear to have been received with every demonstration which
could bespeak the cordiality and confidence of their royal
mistress, or could confer honour on the servants of a gra-
cious Sovereign. Sir Robert Peel, on his appointment as
First Lord of the Treasury,—the Earl of Liverpool, on re-
ceiving his wand as Lord Steward of her Majesty's House-
hold,—and the Earl of Jersey and Lord Ernest Bruce on
their respective appointments, had the honour of kissing
hands. The commission for executing' the office of Lord
High Treasurer not being yet complete, was, we apprehend,
the cause of the appointments of the Premier, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, arid other of the leading members of the,
new government, not being published in the London Gazette
of last night. The only zetted appointments appear to be.
these :

Lord Wharncliffe, to be Lord President of the Council.
Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal.
Earl of Aberdeen, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Principal Secretary for the Colo

nies.
Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Principal Home Secretary
The Earl De Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Earl of Ripon, President of the Board Of Trade.
Mr. W. Ewart Gladstone, Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. (Ile will also hold the office of Master of the
Mint, but without salary.)
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster.

And thus the vessel of conservative government, after a
long " laying up" of many years, is launched once more
upon the waters. She carries a noble crew ; she is steered
by an experienced pilot. She has veteran commanders and
rising officers, all animated by the same spirit of devotion to
the honour of the flag they carry, the glory of the crown they
serve, and the prosperous completion of that political voyage
on which they have embarked with the " God speed " of
millions of their countrymen.

(From the Times of Saturday.)
CLAREMONT, FRIDAY.—This being the day appointed by
her majesty for the holding of the Privy Council, at which
Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues were to b,; formally in-
ducted into office, the members of her majesty's most hon.
council repaired in great numbers to Claremont for the pur-
pose of witnessing or participating in this high act of state.
The public having been made pretty generally acquainted
with the circumstance by the daily newspapers, the railway
trains in the forenoon felt, like the whigs, the " pressure
from without," and several.groups of pleasuring, yet ap•
parently most anxious, spectators were to be met on various
points of the road which passes from Kingston-upon-Rail-
way through the romantic village of Eshr to Claremont.
The pretty lane (for it is little else) which leads from Esher
to Oxshott, passing theentrance to Claremont-park, was the
principal resort of the non-official 'metropolitan quidnuncs,
and as the dashing equipages of the outgoing and incoming
ministers of the crown whirled up the narrow defile—for the
whigs upon this occasion plucked up a spirit, resolved to die
game, and put their best horses' best legs foremost—many a
neck was strtched to the imminent risk of entailing upon it-
self a crick for life, and not a few smartly trimmed bonnets
were festooned with an extra wreath of mud as the tax for
their fair wearers' overweening curiosity.
One o'clock being the hour announced for the holding of
the council, her Majesty's well-known punctuality induced a
corresponding degree of exactitude in point of time on the
part of noble lords and hon. gentleman. Accordingly, by
one o'clock the last of the numerous official visitants' car-
riages had driven through the park gates. The late whig
ministers were those who first arrived, with the exception of
Lord Palmerston, who was the last of all the privy coun-
cillors, whig or Tory, who made their appearance at this grand
denouement. His lordship was universally remarked to hold
down his head, and to wear an air so observably sombre and
doleful, as could rot fill to suggest to the most casual ob-
server the reflection, that it was with mortal reluctance he
repaired to the trysting-place to give back the seals and other
tokens so long and signally abused. Perhaps his lordship
was of opinion that, like Fabius, he might, cunctando, be in
some shape enabled restituer, rem, or possibly to tack him-
self to the fag-end of the new adMinistration. However this
he, it was somewhat strange that one who has so long been
accustomed to the rapidity of the movements of foreign mes-
sengers should, in this instance, have been so much more
like a messenger of death.
Shortly after twelve o'clock the carriages of Lord Mel-
bourne, Lord John Russell, the Marquises of Lansdowne
and Normanby, the Earl of Minto, and the rest of the late
cabinet ministers reached Claremont, whereupon a court of
privy council was immediately held, at which Lord John
Russell and the other Secretaries of State, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Privy Seal, &c. delivered up their seals of office
into the hands of their Royal Mistress.

At the conclusion of this painful ceremony, the ex-minis-
ters and members .of the now defunct Melbourne cabinet,
thus summarily and satisfactorily broken up, took their leave
and their departure for London with all possible expedition
and despatch.

The whig noblemen and gentlemen having made their exit,
which they did not only without any flourish of trumpets, but
without even a single cheer from one solitary adherent, all
the cheering (as far as we could observe) having been reserved
for Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, her majesty
was graciously pleased to declare the right hon. Lord W harn-
cliffe lord president of her majesty's most hon. Privy Coun-
cil, and his lordship took his place at the council-board ac-
cordingly. The council chamber was now occupied solely
by the several lords and gentlemen connected with the new
administration : Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl de Grey,
the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Lyndhurst,
Lord Stanley, Lord Eliot, Lord Lincoln, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr.
Goulburn, Mr. Gladstone, &c. The Duke of Buckingham,
the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Eliot, Lord
E. Bruce, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone were sworn in Privy
Councillors, and took their seats at the board. The great
seal was then handed over' by her Majesty to Lord Lynd-
hurst, and the oath of Chancellor administered to his Lord-
ship. The Privy seal was with the same forms delivered to
his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and the seals of the
three principal Secretaries of State to the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham. The proceedings of
the Council were wound up by her Majesty declaring Earl, de
Grey Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Ripon Presi-
dent, and Mr. Gladstone Vice-President of the Board of
Trade ; and handing to Lord Granville Somerset the seals of
the Duchy of Lancaster.

The Council having thus terminated, about half-past two
o'clock the new Ministry took their departure for town. The
Duke of Wellington was the first to quit Claremont. His
Grace was in an open barouche and pair, and was accompanied
by Sir George Murray. The air being a little sharp, the
illustrious Duke threw a white Mackintosh over the Windsor
uniform, in which, like the rest of his Ministerial colleagues,
he was arrayed. The instant his Grace's remarkable profile
was caught, as his barouche drove through the gates, by an
eager group of spectators which crowded the centre of the
road fronting the entrance to Claremont, his approach was
saluted by loud and enthusiastic cheers. His Grace's carriage
was followed in rapid succession by those of the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earls of Aberdeen, Ripon, and De Grey,
Lords Lyndhurst, Hill, and Stanley, Sir James Graham, &c. ;
Sir Robert Peel's carriage was the last but one which left the
Royal residence. The same tribute of heartfelt applause
which had previously saluted the avatar of " the Duke" was
now sent forth by the same crowd to bail the adyent of the
new Premier ; and as Sir Robert Peel responded to these
salutations with a dignified courtesy, his countenance was
radiant with the triumph of an honourable ambition.
We never saw Sir Robert look to greater advantage. He
was slightly flushed with the necessary elevation of his new
position, and the evident sympathy of the crowd, and looked
extremely well in the Windsor uniform. The outgoing Whig
officials all wore plain clothes, and looked very plain in them,
if we are to credit the testimony of numerous fair spectators
of the scene. Undoubtedly, in ladies' eyes at least, the Con-
servative leaders had greatly the advantage of their competi-
tors, not alone in point of elegance of attire (as wearing the
official costume), but still more by the superiority which good
temper and triumphant success gave them over sour looks
and sadly disappointed ambition.

At precisely a quarter before 3 o'clock the gates of Clare-
mont closed upon the carriage of Lord Granville Somerset,
which was the last in the new Ministerial procession.

(From the Times of Saturday.)
THE CABINET.
First Lord of the Treasury, 1 Sir Robert Peel.
(Premier) .
Leader of the House of Lords,
}The Duke of Wellington.
without office
Lord Chancellor
President of the Council Lord Wharncliffe.
Lord Privy Seal The Duke of Buckingham
First Lord of the Admiralty.
Principal Secretary of State for
Sir James Graham.
the Home Department
Principal Secretary, of State for 1
The Earl of Aberdeen.
Foreign Affairs ..
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
President of the Board of Trade The Earl of Ripon.
President of the Board of Con-
}Lord Ellenborough. trol for the Affairs of India
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Secretary at War
Treasurer of the Navy and Pay-1 Sir Edward Knatchbull.
master of the Forces

NOT OF THE CABINET.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland..- The Earl de Grey.
Irish Secretary . w Lord Eliot.
Master General of the Ordnance Sir. George Murray.
Chief Secretary of the Treasury Sir Thomas Fremantle.
Vice-President of the Board of
11l W. E. Gladstone, Esq.
Trade and Master of the Mint
Secretary of the Admiralty.... The Hon. Sidney Herbert.
Joint Secretaries of the Trea- 1 Sir T. Fremantle, Bart.,
sure .
An Under-secretary of State for} Viscount Canning.
the Foreign Department ....
Under-secretary of State for the } The Hon. Bingham Baring.
Home Department...
Secretary of the Board of Con- The Hon. John Stuart
trol
{ Sir G. Cockburn and the
Lords of the Amiralty
Corby.
First Commissioner of Land }
and Revenue. The Earl of Lincoln.
Chancellor ofthe Duchy of Lan- 1
caster
Postmaster-General Lord Lowther.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Master of the Horse....
Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Rutland.
Lord Steward

Vice-Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce.
Viscount Powerscourt, the
Lords in Waiting Earl of Moreton, and
Lord Sidney.
f Captain Maynell and Mr.
Grooms in Waiting

COURT CIRCULAR—MONDAY.—The Bishop of Norwich,
clerk of the closet, performed divine service before the Queen
and his royal highness Prince Albert, yesterday at twelve
o'clock ; the service was attended by the officers of the royal
household. The rev. prelate had the honour of dining with
her majesty in the evening.
On Saturday afternoon her majesty and Prince Albert took
an airing in a carriage, followed by the royal suite in ano-
ther carriage. The royal party returned from their drive a
little before seven o'clock to Claremont.
At the Privy Council held at Claremont on Friday after-
noon, the right hon. Henry Goulburn received from the
Queen his seal of office, and the honour of kissing hands on
being appointed chancellor of the exchequer.
The first cabinet council of the new ministry was held at
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the foreign office.
The following were the ministers present :—Sir R. Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe,
the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stan-
ley, Sir James Graham, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of
Ripon, Lord Ellenborough, the right hon. H. Goulburn, anti
Sir Henry Hardinge.
The Council broke up soon after five o'clock.
The Earl of Ripon and the right hon. W. E. Gladstone at-
tended on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Stanley attended on Saturday at the Colonial-office

Downing-street. Lord Clifford and the right rev. Dr. Pohl-
ing had an interview with his lordship-in the afternoon. Mr.
George William Hope, Under Secretary of State for the
Colonies, in the room of the right hon. R. Vernon Smith
also attended on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
Sir Edward Knatchbull and Lord Eliot visited Sir Robert
Peel on Saturday.

Sir George Cockburn had also an interview with the right
honourable baronet.

The Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Villiers, Sir William Rae,
and Mr. Leman, had interviews with Sir James Graham at
the Home office on S-turday.

The right hon. H. Goulburn attended on Saturday at the
office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street.
Viscount Melbourne had a dinner party on Saturday at his
residence in South-street.

The right hon. Henry Labouchere has left town for
Germany.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

TWELFTH GENERAL HALF-YEARLY MEETING

The general half-yearly meeting of this company took place
on Thursday, in the large room of the newly-erected station,
Temple Meads, Bristol. Considerable interest was excited
on the occasion from a report that the directors intended to
ask for the loan of half a million on this undertaking, which
has already cost nearly 0,000,000 of money, and also from
the circumstance that the dividend about to be declared was
the first since the opening of the line throughout.
At one o'clock the chairman, Charles Russell, Esq., opened
the business of the day, and called on the secretary to read
the report, which was rather long. The principal matters
referred to were as follow :

The total amount of receipts for the half year ending the
30th of June last was £187,780 16s 2d, and the expenses
were for the same period £84,380 Os 7d, being nearly 45 per
cent. on the receipts. The number of passengers conveyed
was 659,537 for an aggregate number of 15.587,798 miles.
The result is a net income on the half year of £103,400 15s 7d,
and £1,177 14s 8d from the coaching department, arising out
of the agreement with the coach proprietors, and this, added
to the undivided profits of the last year, gives a total profit
of £110,330 14s 6d, £63,590 16s ld of which had to be applied
to the payment of interest, and the remainder to be applied
as a dividend. The directors had therefore declared a divi-
dend of £3 per cent. per annum. The receipts since the
opening of the line throughout (on the Ist of July) showed
an average on four successive weeks of £14,844 lls per week.
The total amount of capital required i's 6,150,600, indepen-
dent of a plant to work the lines (Great Western Union and
Bristol and Exeter), which was estimated at £150,000 more.
After expressing their regret that their expenditure should
have exceeded their estimates, the directors recommend an
issue of loan notes to the amount of £550,000. It is then
announced that, in compliance with the provisions of the act
of parliament, the board had determined to reduce their num-
ber from 24 to 18, and the report concludes by stating that
the usual accounts are furnished. Then followed a report
from the engineer, in which there was nothing of sufficient
public interest to extract ; and lastly followed the accounts
themselves, the principal items of which are given above.
After reading the reports a very extended and desultory
conversation took place, but the principal point was the de-
sire of a large number of shareholders to get some pledge
from the directors that no further sums, or at all events not
more than say £50,000 would be required, and the meeting
was eventually satisfied on this head. Another matter was to
know the proportion contributed to the revenue by the two
branch lines of Cirencester and Bridgewater. The directors
at first declined to furnish this information, but, on being
pressed, the chairman said the average receipts of the branch
lines, for the first two months, was £1,601 9s 2d per week,
and the average for the last four weeks was £1,839 16s 2d.
The several resolutions adopting the report authorising the
issue of loan notes, and sanctioning the reduction of the board
of directors, ere subsequently passed, and the meeting,
which was very fully attended, separated.

MISCELLANEOUS

In the village of Whaplode, near Spalding, the vicar is
ninety-three years of age, the curate eighty-six, arid the
verger seventy. The curate has resided in the parish for
upwards of fifty years, and still discharges the duties of his
office.

Considerable curiosity was excited by seeing a lady of dis-
tinction walking through the markets, dressed with an old
quilt for a tnantelet. On inquiry, we learned she had made
the extraordinary exhibition to win a wager of one pound.—
Tuam Herald.

The Duke of Portland, the Duke of Richmond, the Mar-
quess Wellesley, the Marquess of Hastings, Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby, and other " liberal" Peers, who have hitherto sup-
ported Lord Melbourne, abandoned their co-operation with
the Whigs last week, and voted for the amendment upon the
address to the throne.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night, the 26th
ult., a child belonging to a man named Hetherington, having
died in the Port of this town, the neighbours gathered to the
wake. In the upper part of the house, where the corpse lay,
the rooms were crowded by persons who were amusing them-
selves with the usual games practised on such occasions,
when the lofts fell, carrying with it the corpse and sorrowing
visitors; a large beam which supported the loft came down
on the mother of the corpse, who sat in the room on the
ground floor, and fractured her skull ; a young man was so
severely injured that he died on the following day ; and 15
other persons were seriously injured, who still remain in a
very precarious state.—Balluskannon Herald.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Some very remarkable or-
ganic remains of those gigantic Saurian reptiles, which cha-
racterise the Wealden formation; have recently been dis-
covered in the cutting forming the entrance to the Bletching,-
ley Tunnel, on the South Eastern Railway. They are chiefly
vertebrae of Megalosauri and Iguanodods, with some of
smaller reptiles of the same class. They are in the possession
of Mr. Simms, the resident engineer of the company, at
Bletchingley. The cutting from which these relics of a for-
mer world were taken, discloses a magnificent section of the
Weald strata. The huge primeval lizards, whose skeletons
are thus brought to light, must have sported in the waters,
or roamed all along the bank of the great lake or estuary,
formerly covering the districts of the Wealds of Kent and
Surrey ; the bottom of which lake now forms the extensive
level through which the Dover Railway is carried. The
cuttings on this line, near its junction with the Brighton
Railway, at Reigate, are also highly interesting to the geolo-
gical inquirer. At this point, the green sand passes into the
Weald clay, and the alternations of the two are strongly de-
veloped. The work here must, however, have been conside-
rably less amusing to the contractor than it is to the naturalist ;
for, however curious the alternations of green sand and clay
may he to those who look on theta as time-marks in the his-
tory of our globe, it must be confessed that they make but a
sorry compound for a railroad embankment. The excavation
through this material extends only for a few yards, and is
not ,deep ; and its contents have been thrown aside by the
rude hands to whom geological phenomena are of little im_
portance, if the '• dirt" will not stand at a slope of two to one.
STEAM TRAVELLING ON THE COMMON ROADS.—One of
the General Steam Coach Company's coaches started from
the York and Albany Hotel, near the Regent's-park, at 25
minutes past four, on Thursday afternoon, and performed
the journey to the Manor-house at Tottenham, and back
again, in 25 or 26 minutes, a distance of from seven to nine
miles, as estimated by two several parties. This would give
on a rough calculation about fifteen miles in the hour. But
from the obstructions which were encountered on the road,
in the shape of flocks of sheep, carts, horses, and vehicles of
every description, we are convinced this is not a fair estimate,
and that twenty miles an hour would be the more correct
computation. One fact, however, seemed to be established,
namely—that the new steam-coach is capable of running on
ordinary roads with speed, economy, and safety. The noise
of the engines is scarcely perceptible ; there is neither smoke
nor a visible escape of steam, and the boiler is constructed
of numerous pipes, so that if one or even two should burst,
the boiler is relieved, and all danger avoided. To enter into
any description of the carriage would be foreign to our pur-
pose, but we cannot avoid noticing the extremely ingenious
contrivance which blows and keeps the fire alive. The facility,
too, with which the engine is managed is truly remarkable,
an instance of which appeared in the descent from the Cam-
den Villas. A cow suddenly rushed across the road when
the coach was at full speed, and had the vehicle been drawn
by horses, a collision must have taken place, and no doubt
serious consequences would have resulted ; whereas the
engineer, with a precision which must be seen to be duly ap-
preciated, steered, we cannot say drove, the coach clear of
the animal. We may also mention, that though several flocks
of sheep were met or passed, yet without signally checking
the speed, the engineer drove through them. To describe the
carriage we have only to say that the wheels are very broad,
and that in the portion allotted to passengers it resembles the
open carriages on the railroads. The stokers sit behind, and
the whole complement of passengers was sixteen. Several
members of parliament were passengers, and one lady. The
coach is shortly to make a trip to Windsor for the inspection
of her Majesty and Prince Albert.

RELEASE OF FEARGUS O'CONNOR.--It was stated that
Mr. Feargus O'Connor would be liberated from York Castle
on Monday, and that there would be a public demonstration
of the chartists on the occasion. Owing, however, to a
second peremptory application on the part of the visiting
magistrates that he should leave the castle before. that time,
he consented to do so, and was taken in a cab to Etridge's
Hotel, on Thursday evening, he having previously entered
into Ws own recognizance of £3OO to keep the peace for
three years. On Sunday last, a number of chartists from
Leeds, &c., with banners, arrived by the railways, and a few
also arrived in York on Monday morning, and at one o'clock
a procession was formed near the castle gates. A car was
brought up, which was drawn by six horses, with three pos-
tilions dressed in green jackets and caps, and on which was
a very handsome chair, formed like a shell, and covered on
the outside with green velvet. After Mr. O'Connor had
taken hi 4 seat in the chair, he addressed some observations
to the assembled chartists on the necessity of their preserv-
ing peace and conducting themselves in an orderly manner.
The procession, in which were a great number of flags and
banners. and a band of music, and about 400 chartists, pro-
ceeded through the principal streets to the grand stand on
Knavesmire, in front of which between 1,000 and 2,000 per-
sons had assembled, many of whom were females, who had
been prompted by curiosity and the fineness of the day to
witness the proceedings. Mr. O'Connor proceeded to the
balcony in front of the grand stand, and he was received
with loud applause by his friends. About three o'clock Mr.
Cordukes, a joiner, was called to the chair. Some resolu-
tions, expressive of the delight of the chartists at the release
of Mr. O'Connor, were passed, after which Mr. O'Connor
addressed the audience at considerable length, and was fol-
lowed by several others of the chartist leaders, the business
concluding with three cheers for Frost, Williams, and Jones,
Feargus O'Connor, and the charter. At six o'clock a tea
meeting was held in the large room of the grand stand, when
addresses of congratulation were presented to Mr. O'Connor
by a great number of chartist delegates. Several toasts were
drunk, and the whole of the proceedings terminated about
mid nigh t.—Doncaster Gazette.

SIR ROBERT PEEL.-With respect to his abilities for
action, as much is saicras need be, when his career as a minis-
ter, and as thr leader of the opposition in the midst of the
greatest disadvantages, is indicated. But the great and per-
vading misapprehension is, that we expect Sir Robert to be-
come a Liberal. We expect no such thing. He is not a
Liberal but a Conservative. Men of his age, when prudent
and honest, do not change their principles with their seats.
Men of average understanding settle their principles by which
they will be guided early in life, and that question is then
closed. The question of maturer years is action according
to the principles thus settled. Bad or good, the principles
by which Sir Robert is guided are Conservative ; and their
is neither hope of a change, nor could there be advantage in
it. The consideration that remains therefore for those whom
he is to serve must be, what can a Conservative possessing
the qualities ascribed to this man do ? We have seen that
out of office he has been enabled to swell the party with which
he entered an adverse Parliament from 150 to 360 ; while his
opponents have sunk their 500 to 290. This is not an age of
greatness ,• but among a smaller race it is well to find a man
that can do something. If we have aided in ejecting the
Whig Ministers, who have shown that they are come to that
pass when they can do nothing, we have only performed what
many of our friend's party now say they desired to see done ;
though they did not dare openly to avow the wish or to do the
work. If our sincere endeavours have had any influence, we
have aided in stopping the progress of a plague—in putting
an end to a course of corruption and pretence, with all their
immoral incidents, which for a time had all but ruined the
Liberal cause. In assuming that Sir Robert Peel had a task
before him, we only assumed an obvious fact. In showing
what a Conservative might do, we only carried out the philo-
sophy of extracting good out of everything. Our reprover
says that Sir Robert brings prudence, patience, and honesty
to his task.—Spectator.

The income of the English railway lines now average!
£lOO,OOO a-week.

The harvest in France is proceeding most favourably, and
prices are declining.

It is stated by the Staffordshire Exa;niner that the iron
masters in that county have reduced the price of iron Ms.

per toti

The new openly avowed conservative Duke of Richmond is
honoured with the proxy vote of Earl Grey in the House of
Lords. Is not this a significant hint for those who, profess-
ing the opinions of the noble lord, give their support to the
Viscount Howick ?

BRITISH IRON COMPANY.-At a recent meeting of the
shareholders of this company the motion for a dissolution of
the company was rejected by a considerable majority, when
it was intimated that a dissolution would be sought for by
proceedings in Chancery.

BRADFORD ELECTION.--The cause of Mr. Wilberforce is
progressing gloriously. The probability is that the writ will
be moved for on Wednesday next. . The nomination is ex-
pected to take place on Monday or Tuesday week. Conser-
vatives to your posts ! All the arrangements are complete,
and Mr. Wilberforce has issued a second address, in 'which
he announces his " determination to poll to the last minute
and to the last man." •

TUE Hox. Mits. NORTON.—WhiIe giving currency to
these gossiping rumours, it is only echoing report to allude
to the whispers that are afloat respecting the intention of the
Honourable Mrs. Norton to adopt the stage as a profession,
and make her debut at Covent Garden ; the talent of her
family, dramatic by descent, is favourable to the supposition,
coupled with other and more powerful causes ; and we have
heard'that the lady has qualifications for success of a higher
kind than personal beauty. Now that acting is raised to so
high a rank in public estimation as an intellectual profession,
there can be nothing derogatory in such a step, whatever the
pride of station may deem to the contrary.—Spectator.

Those enemies of the church, who are accustomed to speak
of " the workin4 clergy," as if the curates who receive a
small pittance of £7O per annum were the only persons wile
really laboured in' their vocation, would do well to notice
what is really going on around them. In the diocese of St.
David's, for example, the bishop, during his late confirma-
tion tour, has held separate services in Welsh and English,
wherever the candidates were not familiar with the latter
language ; and his lordship's charges to each party in their
native tongue have been delivered in the most affectionate
and truly Christian manner. Last Sunday, moreover, he
preached at thrce places Carew, Lamphey, and Pembroke-
dock, in behalf of the schools for the poor, and the weight of
his arguments, made more impressive by his unassuming
yet earnest manner, had a very strong effect on the crowded
congregations that assembled to hear him.

AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A gentleman who resides in a
village near Ulverston, having been away from home fora few
weeks, upon returning late one evening, in his joy to see all
his family, ran Up stairs, and, with more loudness than pru-
dence, took up a little girl, four years old, in his arms, that
was fast asleep, and spoke to it. The child opened its eyes,
and not recognising its over-joyed parent, it uttered a shrill
cry and seemed dreadfully agitated; and, truly awful to say,
the little creature became bereft of reason, and now appears
little less than a confirmed idiot.

ANTICIPATED TURN-OUT OF FACTORY HANDS AT STOCK-
PORT.—We regret to learn that, in consequence of a contem-
plated reduction in prices, on the part of two or three large
manufacturing establishments in this town, a very extensive
turn-out of factory hands, principally spinners, is anticipated.
Judging from the representations which have been made to
us, the reduction will amount to nearly one-half the earnings
of many spinners, and, if they should be, compelled to cease
woi king, the misery of their present condition will, of course,
be greatly aggravated.—Stockport Chronicle.
NEW STEAM-BOAT PROPELLER.—We had ap opportunity
yesterday of going from Blackfriars-bridge to Putney, in the
Fire Fly, a model steam-boat, propelled on the principle first
introduced by Captain Ericsson. The inventor and engineer,
who is also the proprietor, Mr. Warriner, a pupil of Messrs.
Braithwaite and Milner, of the New-road, was on board, and
afforded us the following information :—The engine, boiler,
&c., have been made entirely with his own hands. The boat
is 22 feet long, and 4 feet 9 inches broad; the propeller is
placed in the stern of the boat, and is horizontal. It is 22
inches in diameter, consists of 6 floats s inches broad, form-
ing a section of a six-threaded screw, and makes 200 revo-
lutions in a minute. Beyond it is a false stern-post to which
the rudder is attached. There are two engines of nearly
two-horse power. The cylinders are oscillating, 3 inches
each in diameter, and 6 inches long. The contrivance for
forcing the steam into the cylinders and the slide motion are
new and ingenious. The boiler sustains a pressure of 601 b.
lbs. to the square inch. The weight of the engine and boiler,
filled with 21 gallons of water, are about 964 lbs., and the
tonnage of the boat nearly 200 cwt. It has been running ex-
perimental trips on an average of four times a week since
March last, and has travelled during that period over a space
of 2,000 miles without requiring repairs. The advantages
which this description of propeller possesses over the coin-
mon steam-boat paddles are—first, its being under water,
and therefore, in case of vessels of war fitted up with it, and
going into action, the enemy's shot cannot affect it. It is
cheaper and less cumbersome than the common paddle, anti
does not spoil the symmetry of a vessel. Captain Ericsson,
who, as we understand, invented this propeller, offered his
invention to,the late government, but it was refused. The
consequence was that he went to America, where be is now
superintending the building of a frigate of 1,000 horse-power,
to be fitted up with this propeller. We omitted to say that
the speed of the Fire Fly was from eight to nine miles the
hour.—London
A BRIDAL BLUNDER.—At Walcot, last week,"a dashing
carriage drove up to the church from Box, and a bride, at-
tended by her bridesmaid, was handed out by her papa. The
parson and the whole party were soon in readiness for the
important ceremony, with the exception that a chief per-
former in the drama was unaccountably absent. The bride
trembled as the minutes moved away, and " He cometh not,
she said, she said; he cometh not, she said." Her father
waxed wroth at the bridegroom's unpardonable non-appear-
ance, and, taking horse, galloped in search of his intended
son-in-law. On arriving at the sinner's house, hs found him
quietly pursuing his wonted avocations, unconscious of the
presence of his Dulcinea at Hymen's altar. An ,explanation
ensued. He had let;; the lady and her bridesmaid to fix the
day—the important day—and they had sent him a note—a
sort of warrant—announcing to him his loss .of bachelor-life
on the 10th of August, 1841 ; but, unfortunately, they com-
mitted the blunder of neglecting to ascertain if the intimation
was received as well as sent. The fact was, it was not re-
ceived—and hence the disappointment. The bride thanked
her tars it was no worse, and the wedding took place on the
following day.
CONVERSIONS FROM HINDOOISM. The Circulator of
Wednesday contained the annexed account of two young
Hindoos, recently educated at the General Assembly's Mis-
sion School, having announced their determination to em-
brace Christianity :—" We have just heard of an occurrence
that took place at the police-office on Monday, and which we
fear, owing to the grossness of native superstition, will have
some influence in the educational prospect of the Hindoo
youths of this presidency, unless some of their more respect-
able members will disabuse the minds of their ignorant coun-
trymen on the subject. The case appears to be the following :
Two young men, aged 19 and 20 respectively, have been for
some time pursuing their studies in English literature and
science under the auspices of the society with which the Rey.
Mr. Anderson and other Scotch missionaries are connected.
Their minds being thus cultivated and enlightened by the ex-
cellent course of instruction pursued at that establishment,
it became apparent to them at once, when they bad brought
themselves to reflect on the subject, that Pagan worship was
an abomination ; and accordingly expressed their determina-
tion to Mr. Anderson to embrace Christianity. Having made
up their minds to renounce idolatry, and aware of the op-
position and treatment which awaited them in the bosom of
their family, they would not return home, but for several
days past took up their domicile in the school premises.
Their parents being made acquainted with the circumstance,
applied for and obtained a warrant to bring up the youths to
the police-office, where the matter was investigated. As the
young men stated that their absence was not compulsory, but
in fact what they had themselves resolved on, and that they
had no desire to return to their parents, and were of that age
as to be free to act for themselves, the case was dismissed.
The young men, on leaving the police-office to return with
Mr. Anderson to the institution, were forcibly seized on by
their parents arid friends, and a regular row took place in the
compound under the nose of the magistrates, who were obliged
to interfere to prevent more serious consequences. The
young men and Mr. Anderson, with some difficulty, got'
away from the infuriated concourse of the friends of the two
families."—United Service Gazette, Calcutta, June 25.

INGENIOUS FORGERY.—A few days ago a man, dressed
as a waggoner, having a whip 41 his hand, applied to a
money-changer in the Cloitre St. Honored, for change of a
500 f. note of the Bank of France. The money-changer, per-
ceiving that although the note was genuine the vignettes had
been removed and repasted on other paper, requested the
man to go with him to the bank to have the note examined,
to which he consented with apparent cheerfulness. At the
bank he was interrogated by Count d'Argout, the governor,
and stated that he had received the note from a person ho
had it from a discounter in the Rue Godot Mauroy. As this
was found to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot,
the man being in custody all the time, and it was soon as-
certained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a bookbinder in
Paris, who had lately disappeared from Arpajon and
Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors. With some
difficulty his lodging was discovered to be in the
Rue des Cannes, and and here were found convincing
proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been carry-
ing on. It appears that, after long study as to the mecha-
nism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had conceived the
idea of splitting them in two, and transferring by means of
ink, essences, acids, a press, &c., the impression of the vig-
nettes from the front of the note to the divided paper, thus
making two notes out of one. Although Adelaine, when de-
tected, wore the dress of a waggoner, as we said above, a
rich and elegant wardrobe was found at his lodging, as also
many articles of jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a
curious correspondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden,
with a drawing, on large paper, of gaming-tables, and the
cylinder of the roulette, on which he was apparently study-
ing some combinations, as was done by M. de Labourdon-
naye, in his games of chess with England, Germany, and
India. After these discoveries, Adelaine was handed over
to the Procureur du Roi.—Galignani's Messenger.
SINGULAR CASE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—Be-
tween the hours of eight and nine on Wednesday evening last,
a fire, which, at first, assumed an alarming character, was
discovered in the basement of the premises belonging to Mr.
Archbutt, pawnbroker and silversmith, No. 110, Blackfriars-
road, near the Magdalen Hospital. The fire commenced in
the cellars, which., were fitted up as store-rooms for the re-
ception of beds, carpets, &c. An alarm was raised by the
inmates, who, on opening the doors leading to the store-
rooms in question, were met by a body of smoke and flames,
which almost deprived them of their senses. The police on
duty in the street lost no time in sending for the engines, and
in about a quarter of an hour two arrived on the spot, from
the station in 'Waterloo-road, and soon afterwards those be-
longing to the Southwark Bridge-road, arrived, followed by
Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the brigade force, and
a posse of other engines. By great exertion, the ravages of
the fire were confined to the cellars, and in half an hour it was
wholly subdued; but the loss of property is stated to be very
considerable, nearly the whole of the beds, carpets, &c. that
the cellars contained, being all but consumed. There is every
reason to believe that the fire is the effect of spontaneous
combustion, from the circumstance of their having been no
light admitted into the cellars for some days before, and on
that occasion they were enclosed in glass lanterns, and it was
impossible for a spark to tall into any of the bedding. It is
supposed that one of the beds contained rags mixed with
flock, which, by some means, became damp, and berhg closely
piled became heated, and ultimately burst into flames. Un-
fortunately, Mr. Archbutt was severely burned about the
hands and face in extinguishing the flames, and, according to
the statement of the fireman, had it not been for his intre-
pidity at the commencement, the premises would have been
destroyed.

JUVENILE WIT.—" Oh dear!" blubbered an urchin, who
had just been suffering from an application of the birch, :` Oh
my ! they tell me about forty rods make a furlong, but I can
tell a bigger story than that. Let 'em get such a plaguey
licken as I've had, and they'll find that one rod make an
acher.

REAL SPORTING.—The country round Berlaimont, in the
Nord, having been much infested by wolves, the inhabitants
had a grand batlue on the 29th ult., at which there were one
hundred sportsmen, and twice as many scouts to beat up the
game. Five wolves were roused, but only two killed. These
were declared to be larger and more ferocious than any be-
fore seen in that country. The ravageS these animals bad
committed were extensive, and within a few days they had
devoured eighteen calves.—Galignani's Messenger.

TH EATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

'rider the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Leleee

rim PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON
WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO

BE OPENED AT SEVEN.
Miss ELLEN TREE, of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane
and Covent Garden, and the Haymarket, who is engaged
for Ten Nights. le
Mr. ANDERSON, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.
who is also engaged for a 'united period, rill appear This
Evening in the characters of ROSALIND and JACQU ES, in
Shakspear's Comedy of As You LINE T.
rrIIIS present TUESDAY. Septem r 7, 1841, will he
performed Shakspeare's Play of

A•S YOU LIK IT.
Jaques. . Mr. demon.
Rosalind. isa Ellen Tree,
In which charactel she will sing " e Cuckoo Song,
speak the Original 2pilogue.
Orlandp
llr. Baker.

Touchston

Celia s Cleaver.
Audrey Mrs. Clarke.
At the end of the Play, DANMNG, by Master and Miss C
WEBSTER.

To conclude with the Romantic Drama of the
FORTY THIEVES.
Alibaba.. Mr. Slaiter, Ganem.. Mr. G. Horncastle.
Mustapha, the Cohler.. Mr. Baker.
Morgiuna.. Miss E. loaner.
On WEDNESDAY, the new Play, written by Leigh Hunt,
Esq., called A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Genevra,
Miss Ellen Tree; and Antonio Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson,
as originally perforiked by them in London ; Agolanti, Mr.
Stuart; Colonna, Mr. H. loll; Da Riva, Mr. Chaplin ;
Olimpia, Miss Cleaver ; Diana, Mrs. Baker.—DANCING,
by Master and Miss C. Webster.—To conclude with the
Comedy, in Two Acts, called CHARLES THE SECOND.
King Chailes, Mr. Anderson ; RoChester, Mr. Chaplin ;
Captain Copp, Mr. Baker ; Edward, Mrs. Barton ; Lady
Clara, Mrs. Baker; Mary Copp, Miss E. Homier.
Mr. Knowles' new Play of THE BRIDALS OF MES-
SINA, or JOHN OF PROCIDA, will he performed durimr
the engagement of Miss Ellen Tree and M. Anderson, in
which they will sustain their original Charactera. of Isoline
and Fernando.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

No. 2 of the " Analysis ofour Exports

on Friday

The lines of " C. B. G." were received too late.

We cannot find that the "suicide" referred to by our Lon-
don correspondent was ever inserted in the- Standard.
Our attention is again called to the illuminated clock of St.
George's Church. When last we noticed it, the defect
was remedied for a night or two ; but the light. might as
well be taken away altogether unless some effectual means
be devised to render it of some use. No complaint is
ever made of St. Peter's ; and it is evidently a sheer piece
of neglect that the former is allowed to remain as it is.
It is a complete eyesore. and worse than useless.

We anticipate the radicals will " gain a loss" by the con-
tinued agitation of Mr. Quayle's unnecessary litigation.
A summary of the facts connected with the case appeared
in the Standard of the 31st ult., which could not fail to
impress the public mind with the strong conviction that
the opposition, on the part of Mr. Quayle, to the just
demands of Mr. Shand has been, from the commencement,
trivial and vexatious. A letter from Mr. Hodgson, one
of the members for Everton Ward, appears in another
column, and will, we doubt not, be read with interest. It
treats the whole affair in a common-sense, business-like
way; and if the Council to-morrow agree to Mr. Aikin's
proposal, they will add another proof of their incapacity
for their offices.

We should have been glad to have inserted the report of the

Protestant meeting had we received it earlier.
The,Albion of yesterday has the following :—" It becomes
our melancholy duty, as the penny-a-liners say, this week
to inform our readers, that Lord Sandon is not President
of the Board of Trade." His lordship, we have reason to
know, was strongly solicited to render his valuable services
as a member of the present efficient administration, but
the interests of his constituents are dearer to him than
place and pay, and induced him to abandon the offers
which were made to him. Had Sir Joshua Walinsley,
whom our contemporary is so fond of extolling, been
similarly situated, no doubt his worship would have turned
his back upon those whose sweet voices he is now so de-
sirous of winning.

i~rathriticol

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1841

Whilst engaged in examining our latest files of
West India and Demerara papers, we perceive that,
in addition to the common topics of Immigration and
the Sugar Duties, in which all are alike interested,
those of the latter country frequently recur, in a tone
of dissatisfaction and complaint, to the state of the
law in the colony—a mixed code, half Dutch, half
English—which they describe as extremely perplexing
to every one who is forced to consult its provisions ;
and also to the very constitution of their local govern-
ment itself. In these complaints we find two very
ably conducted journals concurring—the Guiana
Chronicle and the Guiana 'Tines; and if we take them
to be, as they unquestion'ably must be, the organs of
the more prevalent opinion in the colony, it cannot be
disputed that there Must exist some serious grievance
which calls for redress.

" Look to tlie manner in which things are done at present,"
says the Chronicle, " both in the Combined Court and in
the Court of Policy. One-sided taxes, one-sided laws, one-
sided feeling—contracted ,-views, and contempt of .public
opinion. Say, could such things exist were all classes of the
community properly represented ? No, they could not; en-
lightened legislators would rise and expose the hollowhearted-
ness of such measures; would explain the views of the mo-
ther country with regard to the colonies ; chew that the great
object was to raise up a free intelligent producing people,
able to look after their own affairs, and to influence those of
the state towards the general good. This can never be effected
so long as a few men are allowed to have everything their own
way. In this country things are by hocus pocus reversed,
and one hundred thousand people are made to believe that
the opinionS of two or three individuals are the only opinions
worth attending to. This state of affairs is the offspring of
legion—alias slavery, and must
.hide its diminished head
along with the rest of the brood—in Erebus."

At a time like the present, when the prosperity of
the colonies is to us a matter of the deepest interest,
it is a reproach to the home government, that reitera-
ted complaints of this nature, on whatever foundation
they may rest, should not have been inquired into,
We cannot expect our colonies to flourish, and to sup-
ply us with such markets as we require for our manu-
factures, unless the laws by which they are governed,
and the executive authority within them, be such as
are calculated to call forth the energies of the people,
and afford them contentment.

Two circumstances of recent occurrence have caused
much excitement in the colony. One was the selection
by the Governor of a Mr. Arrindell, a barrister, as a
Colonial Legislator, who was most reluctant to accept
the appointment, and his selection in preference to
Mr. ROSE, who had given the utmost satisfaction in
that capacity, and whose appointment was eagerly
desired by the people. On this contingency the
Chronicle of the 9th July observes :---

" If there is any one circumstance wanting to place in a
more conspicuous point of view, the utter rottenness of our
present legislative government, it is that which occurred yes-
terday in the Court of Policy. Our readers will perceive by
our proceedings of the Court of Policy, that Mr. Arrindell
has been elected in the room of Mr. Rose, and that the
learned gentleman is not wishful of serving the colony in the
capacity of legislator. By thus declining, he subjects himself
to a fine of 1,1)00 dollars ; so that in this country, instead of
a candidate offering himself to the constituency, and craving
the honour of representing them, we have a college of elec-
tors, lugging two gentlemen into .the legislative hall, one of
whom is struggling and kicking to getaway. Then we have
the court making choice of this unwilling gentleman; and
mark you, legislators selecting a
i legislator! and that against
his will ! These are effects arising from the dreadfully in-
verted order of affairs existing n this colony, and on which,
we shall take every opportunity to bring the public mind to
bear."

It is unnecessary to dwell upon this subject ; suffi-
cient appears to justify the remark, that causts of dis-
satisfaction do exist, and that they are deeply felt by
the inhabitants.

The other topic which we find affording much dis-
cussion, is the conduct of Mr. Justice Norton, whose
extravagancies, however they might seem to us, who
are far removed from the theatre of his exploits, ridi-
culous and amusing, afford occas!on for anything but
matter of pleasurable contemplation in George Town,
Demerara, and Guiana. This functionary, it seems,
conceiving himself to have been libelled by an inhabi-
tant, issued a citation against the individual of his own
motion, and upon his own authority, for a large amount
of
,damage. returnable before himself as judge. The
defendant's counsel, the two most eminent members of
the bar, advised the defendant to petition the Queen in
council to interdict the judge from proceeding in this
manner. " Thereupon," says the Guiana Times (20th
July), " with a hundred circumstances of gross aggra-
vation, the Plaintiff-JuncE, acting in concert with his
brethren on the bench, who, however, were not per-
sonally implicated (the suit being his not theirs), sus-
pended each of the barristers from practice at the bar
for the space of six months." The same paper proceeds
to say :

" The public were thunderstruck at the boldness of the bad;
act. The barristers, of course, appealed to the judicial com-
mittee' in England. The judges took care to interpose as.
possible, and, at last, sent home such an an...
sTeny delays as
rtothe appeal as their own counsel in London were fain:
'to ask leave to amend. Meanwhile
the judge chiefly impli-
cated, (Norton is the name doomed by a succession of reck-
less and indecent acts to a painful and lasting notoriety,)
shows symptom of a chastened temper, or a sobered judg-
ment. "
The bar, almost to a man, complain of his ill-hu-
moured and unmannerly interruptions, and a certain piece
of private history, just evolved by a published correspondence
with the„ Secretary of State, exhibits as peculiarly unbe-
coming.

If we are not mistaken, we know something ourselves
of this Mr. Justice Norton, who owes hiS appointment
to the patronage of Lord Normanby, and to services
performed in Dublin—not in the way of his profession
—during his lordship's mal-administration and mal-
versation of the affairs of Ireland. But anything was
good enough to send out to the colonies, and a man
whose knowledge of law was as profound a secret in