The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

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The petition against the return of the Hon. E. M. Lloyd
Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire, was presented a few days since,
and will come on in March next. It is certainly a long
period to look forward to, but there is little doubt of the
present members being unseated, and making way for Sir
Stephen Glynne, Bart., to the infinite satisfaction of the
electors of the county of Flint. Conservatism is spreading
now so fast in all parts, that the election of the real repre-
sentative, Sir S. Glynne, Bart., will be hailed as a most
fortunate event for Flintshire.
HEARTS OF FLINT.-A poor woman having been convicted
of some infraction of the forest laws, in the counts y near
Rouen, she was fined 25f. Being unable to pay the money,
she, though herself enceinte, and having already five small
children to support, was sent on Tuesday last, with all her
progeny at her heels, to expiate her offence in person, by a
month's durance in the prison of Bicetre, at Rouen. Her
deplorable appearance, as she passed through the streets, in
charge of two gendarmes, with their numerous train, excited
general pity, but no one thought of assisting her, until, on
her arrival at the prison, the gaolors were so struck with her
distress that they immediately made a collection, paid her
fine, and sent her and her children home rejoicing.
A lad of only twelve or thirteen years of age was return-
ing, a few evenings ago, from Rheims to Nieux, with a cart,
and carrying a good sum of money in a belt round his per-
son ; he was stopped by' three robbers, who demanded his
money, and, on his refusing to give it, threatened to put him
under the wheel of his cart. " Do," said the boy, "but you

shall not have my money." They proceeded to carry their
threat into execution, the boy in the meantime calling in vain
upon his dog to assist him. The robbers, alarmed least
whilst the boy resisted they should be discovered, at length
left. On his return home with his money the boy gave it
to his father, and then taking his gun shot the dog, which
had returned before him, observing to his father that the
animal was a coward and a traitor.

HER MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD.—The ladies most con-
spicuously attached to her majesty's court by the late
ministry have been succeeded by the Duchess of Buccleugh
and the Marchioness of Camden; a few other ladies of her
majesty's household being continued in their former situa-
tions, and particularly three of them, Lady Barham, Lady
Portman, and Lady Littleton ; we believe we may say all of
them personally in great favour with her majesty. The
Duchess of Sutherland, in a domestic point of view, was un-
doubtedly a great loss ;—a woman of the greatest personal
beauty and elegance in the kingdom, and against whom even
party itself has never breathed a word. With royal person-
ages, the mere circumstance of the rank of their attendants
is perhaps of the least possible weight ; whether the queen's
mistress of the robes were a duchess or a marchioness, must
be to her majesty a point of utter indifference ; but it was
certainly a thing to be desired that the new appointment
should be such as to replace, if possible, the same grace and
female accomplishments which were withdrawn in the person
of the Duchess of Sutherland. We believe that this was the
motive of Sir Robert Peel in so anxiously soliciting the
Duchess of Buccleugh to accept the honour which was
offered to her. She is nearly the youngest of our duchesses,
and has, without contradiction, all those graces and accom-
plishments which belong to her high rank. The same may
be said of the Marchioness of Camden, a young woman of
great personal beauty as well as high rank, being the niece of
the Duke of Athol, and married only about three or four
years since. Both of these appointments, therefore, are
probably such as will fully satisfy her majesty's feelings, and
preserve unimpaired the elegance, splendour, and dignity of
her court.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PICCADILLY, LONDON, AND Loss
OF LIFE.—On Sunday evening, shortly before nine o'clock,
a destructive fire broke out in the house of Messrs. Levi and
Salmon; the well known fruiterers, opposite the Green-park,
iu Piccadilly. The house will be recollected by most persons
familiar with that part of the metropolis from its unique ap-
pearance, each floor being fitted up with an ornamental
wooden balcony of peculiar construction, and from the fact
of its being next door to the noble mansion of the Duke of
Grafton, at the corner of Clarges-street. The rapid progress
of the flames from the inflammable nature of the building
prevented from the first all hope of saving any portion of it
from destruction, and considerable delay having arisen in the
arrival of the fire engines, the greatest fears were for some
time entertained that the ravages of the devouring element
would extend to the noble duke's mansion, next door. Be-
fore ten o'clock the flames had attained their greatest height.
Several engines were by this time in full play, and lengths of
hose having been hauled up to the roof of the next house, an
immense volume of water was poured on the burning ruins.
By half-past ten the house of Messrs. Levi and Salmon was
completely gutted, but all fears for the surrounding property
were fortunately at the end. The family inhabiting the
house were absent, having been spending the day at Graves-
end. The greatest consternation prevailed at the western
end of the metropolis, and the fire originating at so early an
hour brought immense crowds to the immediate neighbour-
hood. The upper part of the Duke of Grafton'e house is
vary much injured. The family were absent from town.
The great delay in the arrival of a good supply of engines
was attributable to the fact of another fire having broke out
shortly previous in Kennington-lane, opposite the Licenced
Victualler? School, which was fortunately soon got under.
We are sorry to add, that the above fire proved, in its conse-
quences, more disastrous than was at first anticipated. After

the flames were got under, two firemen, named West and
Weaver, were examining the back of the premises, when the
roof fell in, carrying with it the floorings, and they were
buried in the smouldering ruins. West expired almost in-
stantly. Weaver was extricated alive, after five hours' ex-
ertion.—London Paper.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A very melancholy acci-
dent occurred in the neighbourhood of Inverness on Monday,
which has carried distress into a wide circle of friends and
relatives, and caused a deep and mournful feeling among all
classes of the community. About six o'clock in the after-
noon, Dr. Basil Tytler, son of the late Alexander Fraser
Tytler, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Service
(who had been on a visit to his uncle, the sheriff of this
county), was in a boat in the river Ness, in company with a
young gentleman, Mr. William Fraser, son of Mr. Fraser of
Culduthel. They were opposite Lady Saltoun's cottage
where the river is deep and strong, besides being at present
much swollen by the late rains. The boat had got into a
strong current, and the younger of the party, feeling that lie
could not hold on, called on Dr. Tytler to come to his assist-
ance. On the latter repairing to the same part of the boat,
his additional weight brought it to the level of the water, and
when they began to pull it immediately filled. Mr. William
Fraser contrived to swim or scramble ashore, but Dr. Tytler,
struggled to regain his place in the boat, being encumbered
with a large and heavy pair of water boots, used in angling.
On making a third attempt the boat upset, and the unfortu-
nate gentleman lost his hold, whilst the frail vessel floated
with great rapidity down the stream. An alarm was given,
and the boat was 'found, keel uppermost, a little lower down
the river. At the Woollen mill the body of Dr. Tytler was
seen in the midst of the water, turning round near the sur-
face, and a man put out in a boat to recover it, but the
strength and rapidity of the stream frustrated every effort.
Intelligence of the fatal accident soon reached Inverness, and
hundreds of the people repaired to the old bridge, while seve-
ral expert swimmers entered the river in various directions
in their anxiety to recover the body. All attempts proved
unavailing, and there is every reason to suppose that the body
was carried out to the sea. The scene on the banks of the
liver was strikingly impressive. Crowds of anxious specta-
tors watched the progress of the stream, while the swimmers
braved its deep and rapid current, and several men in a boat
dragged the waters in fruitless expectation. The deceased
was about twenty-six years of age, of accomplished talents
and amiable disposition. He had studied medicine under Sir
Charles Bell, and was distinguished for his knowledge and
proficiency. He was the last of his family, the hope of his
widowed mother, and many anxious eyes were turned towards
his future career, which had opened under such bright and
favourable auspices, and promised a long life of honour and
usefulness. The sad reality has quenched those anticipations,
and is well calculated to remind us of the uncertain tenure by
which all human hopes and happiness must ever be possessed.
—lnverness Courier.

An accident of a distressing nature occurred on the 28th
ult., in Sturminster Marshall, by which two respectable
families have been plunged into great distress. It appears
that Frederick Joseph Belcher, Esq., a tine young man 20
years of age, an ensign of her Majesty's 60th regiment of

foot, who was staying for a short time on a visit at the house
of his uncle, Charles Parke, Esq., of Lower Henbury, was
induced by the fineness of the weather, on the day above-
mentioned, to bathe, in company with Frederick Fane, Esq.,
a relative of the late General Fane, in the river Stonr. After
being in the water some time he was observed to sink, No
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assistance could be immediately rendered him, and a consi-
derable time elapsed before the body was taken out of the
water, when notwithstanding every exertion was made by
the medical gentlemen of Wimborne, who were quickly on
the spot, life was found to be quite extinct. An inquest was
held on the following Monday before Henry Castleman,
Esq., coroner, when a verdict of " Accidental death" was
returned.—Sherborne Journal..

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Our recent letters
from Malta mention an affair of honour which had just taken
place in that island, and which appears to have excited a
great sensation in Valetta. The brother of a noble Duke
(Lord Sussex Lennox) arrived in the Great Liverpool, under
an assumed name, at Malta, and having immediately waited
on Major S. IL, of the 19th Regiment, and all preliminaries
having been arranged, proceeded to fight a duel with another
military gentlemen, holding a situation in the staff of that
garrison, (Captain Norcote, of the Rifle Brigade, Military
Secretary.) Lord Sussex Lennox fired without effect, and
his adversary having discharged his pistol in the air, his
lordship was, with difficulty, induced to listen to an accom-
modation, the terms of which are said to be of a somewhat
singular description. This done, Lord Sussex Lennox left
the next day for England. During the time the parties were
on the ground they did not exchange a syllable. The cir-
cumstances in which the dispute originated, together with
the correspondence, will, it is further affirmed, in all proba-
bility, be published. The affair was the one topic of con-
versation at Malta when the mail came away.—United Ser-
vice Gazette.

SUSPENSION OF PAYMENT BY A JOINT-STOCK BANK.—
Intelligence of an unsatisfactory character transpired yester-
day, (Monday,) regarding the position of the Nottingham
and Nottinghamshire Joint Stock Banking Company, whose
drafts on Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co., their London
agents, were refused on Saturday. The head quarters of this
establishment are in the town of Nottingham, and their
branches and places of issue are at Newark, Mansfield,
Worksop, East Redford, Tuxford, and Loughborough. The
nominal capital is £500,000, and the paid-up capital some-
thing about one fifth of the amount. The shareholders are
about 350 in number ; several of them said to be wealthy. A
committee of the directors and managers, however, have ar-
rived in town, with the view of making arrangements to carry
on the business 01 the concern.—Chronicle.
TIT FOR TAT.—A gentleman of Stockton, on Wednesday
night last, was roused from sleep by a thundering knock at
the door, and on
window, to Popping his night-capped head out of the
business
waleizuire the nature of his untimely visitor's
" Indeed!"
He found that it wae
saianzed thet Mr. R. had sent an "objection."
gentleman, and looked at his watch.
,rtirtiend a few minutes to twelve o'clock ;
and, therefore, prep
he despatched a messenger to " objection" to Mr. R.'s vote,
his house, and had it served
before the expiration of the t allowed by the act of par-
liament. Mr. R., when arousedtme
sin his turn, and rewarded
in his own cOin, was not nearly gratefulr as might have
in havingivi acted upon the good
. P. will have the
been anticipated. But his friend
deserves another."—
approbation of his own‘gnheeaoroto, d
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old principle that o 0
Gateshead Observer.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-
STREET, LIVERPOOL.
THE PUBLIC are respectfully informed, that this splen-
did Establishment will be OPENED the Race Week,
and for a short Season,

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
MR. EGERTON, LESSEE.
Duriucr the Season a succession of the most splendid Specta-
cles, Serious and Comic Pantomimes, Ballets, and brilliant
Equestrian Performances, will be produced, represented by
the first London Talent, aided by that accomplished Artist,
Mr. BEVERLY.

On TUESDAY, the 21st instant, and during the Week,
The Entertainments will commence with a grand nautical
Spectacle, with entirely new Scenery , Machinery, Dresses,
Properties, and Decorations ; the Scenery by Messrs. Lenox,
from the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, and Mathews, and As-
sistants ; the Machinery by Mr. Atkins and Assistants ; the
Dresses by Mr. Job Taylor and Assistants ; the Properties
by Mr. Lightfoot and Assistants, entitled
BLACK BEARD;

OR THE

PIRATE OF THE SPANISH MAIN 1 1
Black Beard Mr. Howell,

from the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane.
Black Caesar Mr. T. Mathews,

from the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden.
Black Beard's Wife Miss Gilbert,

from the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden

SCENES IN THE ARENg. AND ON-THE STAGE

Amongst the numerous Artistes that are engaged, the
following will appear the first night :
Mr. Pablo Fanque, Equestrian, Rope Vaulter, and Leaper,
Master Pablo Fanque, Monsieur Nicholi, the Young Hiber-
nian, and the Brothers Le Sage, Le Trois Acrebats, and the
unrivalled Clown in the Ring, Mr. WALLET.
An exact representation of the
CARNIVAL OF VENICE,

embracing the whole extent of the stage, painted expressly
for the occasion, by the celebrated Artist, Mr. W. BEVERLY.
The realization of this magnificent scene will be accomplished
by Posturing, Singing, Rope Dancing, Masquing, &c., by
Artists of the first celebrity.
The whole to conclude with
A COMIC PANTOMIME,

In which will appear Mr. Mathews, Mr. Howell, and Miss

Gilbert

Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. H. BEVERLEY, from the
Theatre-Royal, Adelphi, London.
Doors to be opened at Seven, and the curtain to rise pre-
cisely at Half-past. The Box Office open daily from Eleven
till Three, when places may be secured on application to
Mr. F. CARMAN.
Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ;
Gallery, Gd. Second price at Nine o'clock, Centre Dress
Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. Gd. ; Pit, ls. ; no second price
to the Gallery. Private Boxes for Families may be obtained
nightly. A limited number of Season Tickets.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

POSITIVELY THE LAST TWO FETES THIS

SEASON.

THIS DAY, (Friday,) the 17th, and MONDAY next, the
20th instant, at Five o'clock.

ON THE LAKE,
Colonel Pasley's celebrated Experiment of the
BLOWING UP of the WRECK of the ROYAL GEORGE
by Voltaic Electricity, will be performed.

The Professor, during the Evening, will give several Ex-
hibitions of the BISCENASCOPE, or DISSOLVING
SHADOWS, Illuminated by the KOUIOPHASTIC LIGHT,
giving a complete change of Splendid Views.

Each Exhibition to conclude with
THE STORMING OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE,

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF THE MAGAZINE,
AND

GRAND TABLEAU OF VICTORY.
The excellent BRASS BAND will perform during the
Evening several Select Pieces.
ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING.

The DISSOLVING BISCENASCOPE commences at Six o'clock
FIRING at Halt-past Seven.

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We are compelled to defer our notice of the Postoffice
Gallery till Tuesday next.
In reply to " Justus's" last very silly and impertinent letter
we beg to state, that two gentlemen of our establishment
were present on the occasion of the " Legend of Florence"
being played. We prefer relying on their opinion and evi-
dence to the assertions of an anonymous scribbler, who
does not advance the cause of those he tries to battle for,
by wishing to keep the matter before the public.

Ettirrpool klanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1841

From a private letter, received yesterday by one of
the principal firms in this town, from Valparaiso, we
learn that, on the 3d June last, the Chili steamer,
which belongs to the Pacific Steam Navigation Com-
pany, of London, and runs between Callao and Valpa-
raiso, with passengers only, ran on a reef of rocks,
about 30 miles south of Valparaiso, and, during the
confusion that took place in consequence, three of the
passengers (natives) lowered a boat, without the know-
ledge of the captain, and were drowned by its upset-
ting. The Chili was afterwards got off, and arrived at
Valparaiso, where a survey took place, and she would
have to be hove down and repaired.
Every thing was quiet. The revolution in Peru,
under Viranco, had been put down, and that chief had
fled.

It was reported that Santa Cruz had entered Peru,
at the head of 200 men.

Freight 3 dollars 10 cents to 3 dollars 15 cents

Your free-trade manufacturer is a personage of
amazing ingenuity, and has usually a method for effect-
ing any given object totally different from that which
would be practised by ordinary individuals. Just now
it is notorious that the stocks of manufactured goods
in the cotton districts are ruinously heavy; and for
some time past, in order to prevent further accumula-
tion, the large spinners and power-loom manufactu-
rers have resorted to the common-sense step of work-
ing their machinery only three or four days in the
week. Such a process, however, it is well known to
all who are practically conversant with these matters,
whilst it limits production, at the same time enhances
a little the cost of the product. 11he iron machine, un-
like the human machine, eats whilst it sleeps. mill_
machinery, when not working, is still deteriorating.
Interest of capital is accruing although wages have not
to be paid. The spinning-mule or the power-loom
cannot be turned off, in slack times, with the same fa-
cility as the bread-eating spinner or weaver; and hence
it is that the millowner is so fidgetty when he cannot
get full work out of his iron men.

It is a (set, we believe, that working " short time"

does inert

in some degree the cost of the article ma.

nufactured ; and it is not, therefore, surprising that we
find Lancashire cotton-spinners any:iously looking about

for some means of remedying, in their eyes, so vast an
evil. The public, however, may be a little surprised,
considering the profession of regard for the condition
of the working clasFes which have of late emnnated

from the cottonocracy of the manufacturing districts,
that the remedy is to be effected at the expense of the
working man. " Reduction of wages !" the reader ex-
claims ; " can such a thing be possible ?" No. A re-
duction of wages would be a clumsy expedient, and one
which it would be peculiarly unadvisable for the " li-
beral" manufacturer at the present moment to be de-
tected practising. But if one operative spinner could
be made to do the work of two, and by this plan the
same quantity of work could be procured at half the
cost in wages, the reader will at once perceive that a
great portion of the difficulty will be got over. " Work-
ing short hotirs",.will, by this ingenious process, be-
come a profitable operation, and the spinner who adopts
it will be able to give our languid markets another im-
pulse downwards by the production of goods "cheaper
than ever."

Such a scheme, we find, has, during the past week,
been in active progress in the neighbourhood of Bol-
ton. The spinners of that enlightened locality, we
learn, have discovered that one operative can manage
two mules at once; that instead of attending to twelve
hundred spindles, he can attend to twice twelve hundred
at one tune; that, in short, he can do two men's work
for one man's wages ! and, as a matter of course, one
half of the operative cotton-spinners of Bolton are to
be forthwith unemployed. This is no mere supposi-
tion, reader, as to what manufacturerS will do under
certain circumstances, but it is what they actually are
doing at this moment. The adult cotton-spinner is
leaving his mule, not because it is unworked—not be-
cause its twelve hundred spindles have ceased to re-
volve—but because the reckless cupidity of his em-
ployer insists that one epe and not a pair shall in future
be paid for watching its revolutions !
And these are the men who clamour for cheap food—
for the poor man's sake ! Out upon the hypocrites !

The French society of assassins would seem to have
changed their object of attack ; having tried their wea-
pons so often in vain against the father, they now turn
them against the sons; but the charm, or rather that
Providence which has hitherto protected the one, ex-
tends to the others, and they escape unhurt. Such
crimes evince a deplorable state of things. Arrest and
punishment appear to produce no effect in restraining
them. Fresh victims are ready to offer themselves the
next moment, as if they felt that dying by the hands of
the executioner for such an offence were a glorious sa-
crifice for the good of their.country. Well mu Louis
Philippe commit himself and his descendants to the
care of a merciful Providence; for when so perverted
a state of opinion prevails—when men think that their
destruction would be virtue, and only long for an op-
portunity of performing the act—and when rivals for
the distinction are so numerous, it must be manifestly
vain for him to suppose that by any prudence or cir-
cumspection on their own part, they can preserve their
lives. What compensation can the honours of a throne
offer for such a threatened and worried existence as the
royal family of France at present enjoy, or rather suf-
fer ? There is but one solid consolation for them, and
that is, that they are in the path of duty, and living
rather for others than for their own sakes. If Louis
Philippe be what we would willingly suppose, he may
derive much satisfaction from this reflection ; for, we
would ask, if he cannot govern the French, who can ?
—or if the system on which he acts fail to keep the
state machinery together, what will be able to do so ?
The attempted assassination of last Monday we at-
tribute to the social disorganization of the country.
All the attempts of this nature have sprung, directly or
indirectly, from the same cause, and they are doubly
alarming as the indices of a deep-rooted political dis-
ease. It is very unlikely that the crime originated in
any mere feeling of jealousy towards the 17th regiment
of Light Infantry, of which the Duke d'Aumale is
colonel, as conjectured by the correspondent of a Lon-
don journal; it is unlikely, we say, that Nicholas Pa-
pard, the sawyer, of Paris, would have devoted himself
as a national victim merely for the sake of gratifying a
jealous or revengeful feeling of this sort; it is much
more probable that he was the member of some secret
political society—of which there are many at the pre-
sent moment, and all in a high state of excitement and
activity—and that like others who have gone before
him, he was possessed with the enthusiasm or mono-
mania of serving his country by destroying the off-
spring, as they had attempted to destroy the person, of
him who is esteemed a tyrant by all the rebellious.
France is described as ripe for movement in all her de-
partments, and as prevented from breaking forth into
open rebellion and anarchy solely by that effective
military despotism which her prudent Sovereign has
established in the country. Eineutes are of frequent
occurrence, and usually attended with serious loss of
life; her present dynasty has little root in the affections
of the people—and, as a popular commotion created,
a popular commotion would very quickly, and without
the least remorse, overturn it.

We ought to wish for the stability of the Orleans
branch of the Bourbons on the throne of France, for
we can hope for nothing better to succeed them ; they
ought to have the sympathy of the other royal families
of Europe. Meanwhile, with what lively feeling of
satisfaction and gratitude may we not compare our
own beloved country in every conceivable relation with
that of our restless and ambitious neighbours. With
the cry of liberty, liberty, ever on thei r lips, and, after
having sought it through bloody revolutions and
changes without number, they have never found it; it
has ever eluded their grasp—vanishing from before
them like a phantom—whilst we have been long familiar
with the practical perception of its blessings—the most
ample and universal enjoyment of its fruits. On the
throne we have a Sovereign who needs no army to
protect her; she has a willing soldiery for that purpose
in all her subjects. Nor is devotion to her hereditary
rights less strongly implanted in the mind of all her
people, than a tender and sympathising regard for her
personal happiness. We enjoy the blessing of a settled
monarchy, and of a Sovereign worthy of our attach-
ment, and now surrounded by advisers chosen from
the wisest, gravest, most experienced, and best among
her people. Nor is this all ; the nation is sensible of
these great blessings, and, consequently, tranquil,
peaceable, contented. We are not without our diffi-
culties, true; but how light, how trifling, how insigni-
ficant are they compared with those which- agitate the
French, and shake their country to its very centre ?
Under any other government, under an administration
of a different order, we might feel even alarm ; but
under a ministry composed as the present is, we can
look forward to nothing but the removal of difficulties,
the disentanglement of embarrassing circumstances,
and the increase of the nation in every incident and
accompaniment, as well as essential of prosperity and
good. Nor do we forget what the foundation of this
happiness is ; if we were disposed to forget it, we are
happy to perceive that there are other and more influ-

... _
ential journals ready to remind the nation of it ;—it
IS CHRlSTlANlTY—Christianity nationally received,

adopted, taught, promulgated. This is the foundation
of all our liberty, happiness, and prosperity. It is the
want of it—a want for which nothing of human in-
vention can compensate—that renders France what she
is ; possessed, as it were, with a troubled spirit, vexed,
tossed, tormented; seeking rest perpetually, and find-
ing none.

Mr. Acland, the anti-corn law agitator, has not been
elected for Tai riworth. This will be a serious disap-
pointment to the Manchestrians, and Tart.worth will,
of course, be entered in their books as a stupid,
bigoted, intolerant, and intolerable monopolist rotten
borough. But; Tamworth does not stand alone in this
re-electing pro cess. There have been nearly thirty
seats vacated by• members both in and out of the cabi•
net, and Mr. Acland is likely to stand alone in his
glory as the o pponent of ministers at the hustings;
prodigious hon our is this Mr. Ac— or Lack-land
likely to acquire for himself. The Tories will all be
re-elected without any further opposition. Thus far
fortune favours them out of doors ; but what shall we
say if the Irish demagogue's story be true, that there
will be no on losition within—none at least, save that
exclusively Irish'. Repeal party, of which lie has consti-
tuted himself th e head ? As to the Chartists he de-

flounces them; and, as to Lord John Rosati!, he will
not recognise him ttkl leader of the opposition in Par.
liament—unless he declare himself a Repealer, so that
the late ministerial party, held together by nothing but
a common attachment to place, is now shivered to
atoms, and will present no mark to the enemy.
But there is another circumstance favourable to the
longevity of Sir Robert Peel's administration ; the dif-
ficulty of governing Ireland, which appeared so terri-
ble, when seen only through the joist of Repeal agi-
tation, begins to look much less formidable on a nearer
approach ;. it is now thought not only that Ireland may
be governed without the Repealer's assistance, but
that it may be much better, and more effectually
governed independently of it. Sir Robert Peel seems
determined to give to that country an honest, in:par-
tial, constitutional government—such. as it has long
wanted—and with such a government what may we
not hope for that splendid country, and its lively,
sensitive people ? There are thousands, and tens of
thousands of Roman Catholics who long to see the
tyranny of O'Connellism, of Priestism, and Ribbon-
ism completely put down; and the Protestants ask for
nothing more than a government that will really give
the people the benefit of British law—promote those
only who are entitled to reward, and bear not the
sword in vain towards the seditious, the turbulent, and
evil-doers; We are persuaded that the Conservative
cabinet of Sir Robert Peel will act strictly and
thoroughly on these views; their legal appointments
give an especial earnest to this effect. Sir Edward
Sugden is already most favourably known in Ireland,
and his appointment as Lord Chancellor affords the
utmost satisfaction. The new Attorney and Solicitor-
General—Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Pennefather—have
both also given proofs of their ability in their previous
discharge of the duties of their respective important
offices—especially important in such a country as
Ireland.

With such a market as England for all her agricul-
tural produce, or so much, at least, as she chooses to
sell, and a splendid navy of steamers ready at all times
to transport it speedily, Ireland has nothing to com-
plain of, if she is not rich and flourishing, but the
faults of her own children. We should not be drawing
on the continent so largely as we are at this moment
for our supplies of corn if Ireland had but done com-
mon justice to herself. Her resources are not half
developed. Why will she free us from our sliding
scale and give a triumph to the league, when she
might, with a common. spade, " her own quietus
make" ? Let her remember that she has a Conserva-
tive government now, and that there will be no more
excuse for her.

It may answer the purpose of the Manchester Guar-
dian to evade a reply to our arguments, by asserting
that there is no novelty in the facts which we adduced
on Tuesday, relative to the enormous increase of the
consumption of raw cotton since 1831 ; but such a
sneer only tells against himself. We have established,
by the most irrefragable statements, that Lord Sandon
was fully borne out in the declaration that the con-
sumption of cotton has sustained the enormous in-
crease of 82 per cent. within the last ten years. If our
contemporary thinks he can disprove this, let him
make the attempt. The London Times of yesterday
reiterates what we have repeatedly brought forward,
and says, " Lord Sandon recently sheaved in the House
of Commons, that the quantity of raw cotton wrought
up in our factories in 1831 was nearly doubled in the
year 1840."
If the Guardian consider the Liverpool Standard an
opponent of too insignificant a calibre, we recommend
him to measure weapons with our metropolitan con-
temporary.