The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

TUE CURRENCY,

A. pamphlet has been just issued from the press, containing
the following suggestions for the improvement of the cur-
rency :
" I. That one uniform description of paper money be le-
galised in the united empire, consisting of Imperial Treasury
Notes or Bills.
"2. That a permanent office be established, which shall
be authorised to advance these notes or bills to all banks of
discount. and deposit. whether chartered joint stock corpora-
tions or licensed private companies, according to the option
of the borrowers, as to number and quality, on depositing in
the Exchequer an equal amount of bullion or Government
Securities taken at the average market price for the previous
year.
"3. That the Treasury be empowered to exchange new
notes or bills for old ones cancelled.
" 4. That the dividends on the stock lodged at the Trea-
sury be paid to the respective porties making the deposit sub=
ject to a deduction of one per cent. per annum interest on the
amount of Treasury notes or bills received in lieu of stock,
and one fourth per cent. in lieu of bullion.

" 5. That the whole amount oiTaliOn„ or government
securities, or any portion thereof, may at any time be drawn
from the Exchequer, or transferred by the parties depositing
the same, or their assignees, on presentation of an equal
amount of Treasury notes issued to such parties respectively,
payment of interest being made on said notes to the day of
returning the same ; and in case any such establishment
shall at any time determine to discontinue transacting bank-
ing business, that the residue of bullion and of stock remain-
ing to cover outstanding liabilities, be returned after an in-
terval of three years from the period of notification.
" G. That the imperial notes be signed by the proper offi-
cer of the Treasury ; that the. name of the banking establish-
ment to whom they are supplied be engrossed on the same ;
and that they be endorsed before issue by the responsible
agent of the firm.
" 7. That the notes of each banking establishment be made
payable at their respective offices in specie, on fourteen clays'
notice, in writing, of the demand ; but that an exception be
made with respect to London banks, when the notice be
limited to seven days.

" That an annual report be presented to parliament of the
Treasury notes in circulation, specifying the monthly and
yearly averages, together with the amount of bullion, and
sum total and description of stock lodged by each establish-
ment, and a return of their other assets; and that these ac-
counts be published periodically in the Gazette."

ADMIRAL SIR ROBERT STOPFORD, G.C.B. -Intelligence
of the indisposition of this distinguished officer, on board the
Princess Charlotte, has been received at the Admiralty.
NEW SERGEANTS-AT-LAW AND QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—
On Wednesday last, in the Court of Common Pleas, the
following counsel were called within the bar as Serjeants-at-
Law :—Mr. Channel, Nlr. Wrangham, Mr. Shea, and Mr.
If olcombs. And Messrs. Turner and Bethel were also ad-
mitted as " her Majesty's Counsel Learned in the Law."

TURN-OUT OF STONE MASONS.—We are sorry to have to
state that the stone masons engaged on the railway, near
Lancaster, have, during the week,- turned out for an advance
of wages. It is much to be lamented that men of this class
of artizans, in the receipt of four shillings per day, should be
induced, from any motive whatever, to turn out, more par-
ticularly when the work in which they are engaged is con-
tracted for. It is greatly to be desired that these men will
see, before it is too late, the folly of their present conduct.
Other hands we hear are engaged, and thus the men who
have been induced to leave their work, may he the very means
of introducing strangers, to their own injury.—Preston
Chronicle.

MORPETH ELECTION.—In consequence of Lord Leveson
having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, there is a vacancy
in the representation for Morpeth. Major Cadogan, of
Brenckbourne Priory, Northumberland, an active and able
Conservative, arrived there trom London on Monday morn-
ing, accompanied by Richard Hodgson, Esq., member for
Berwick, in order to lose no time in canvassing the borough.
The gallant major, who is well known to the electors, has
issued a spirited address, suitable to the present crisis, and
the probability is that he will be Lord Leveson's successor,
if the Morpeth burgesses understand what is most fitting to
be done on their part to further the interests of the country.
It is said that Captain Howard, a brother of Lord Morpeth,
will he the Whig candidate.
TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—The ltev. J. Wood, A.B.
curate of Church Kirk, has been presented by some members
of his congregation with a pUrse containing the munificent
gift of £123 10s, as a mark of their esteem for his zealous and
faithful labours in the work of the ministry. The rev. gent.
has likewise been presented by the male teachers of Church
Kirk Sunday-school, with a valuable edition of the Polyglott
Bible, accompanied by the book of Common Prayer, superbly
bound in one volume, ornamented with a chaste silver clasp,
and hearing the following inscription :—" Presented to the
Rev. Joseph Wood, A.B. by the male teachers of Church
Kirk Sunday School, as a token of their respect for his un-
wearied exertions amongst them, and with ferventwishes for
his future welfare. 1840."---Preston Pilot.
LORD CHATHAM'S PARTIALITY FOR TITS YOUNGER SON
WILLIAM " THE PILOT THAT WEATHERED THE STORM!'
—Lord Chatham's partiality to his younger son William, in
preference to the very inferior personage that inherited his
title and estates, is displayed -very frequently in the corre-
spondence just published. Walter Scott, in his " Diary,"
mentions, under date of the 24th of May, 1828, that he had
dined, at Richmond Park, with Lord Sidmouth ; and that,
before dinner, his lordship showed him some letters which
had passed between his father, Dr. Addington, and the doc-
tor's patient, the great Lord Chatham. Scott, who never
forgot any thing that had point and character, says that Chat-
ham talks of William's imitating hitn in all he did, and calling
for ale because his father was recommended to drink it. " If

I should smoke," he says, " William woultilnitantlY call for
a pipe." At page 154 of the fourth volume, now before us,
we find the identical letter alluded to by Scott, and a truly
pleasant and amiable one it is.
" The Earl of Chatham to Dr. Addington.
"Burton Pynsent, Nov. 23, 1771.
" Dear Sir,—l embrace, with particular pleasure, Lady
Chatham's deputation, in acknowledging the favour of your
very obliging letter to her. A small cold occasions her com-
mitting the pen to my hand, which, at present, seconds well
my inclination to take it up, on such an occasion as writing
to 1,,0n. All your friends here, the flock of your care, are
truly sensible of the kind attention of the good shepherd.
Our dear William has held out well on the whole. Pitt lives
much abroad, and grows strong : the hounds and the gun are
great delights, without prejudice to literary pursuits. I some-
times follow him after a hare, longo serf proximo intervallo.
My last fit of the gout left me, as it had visited me, very
kindly. lam many hours, every day, in the field ; and, as I
live like a farmer abroad, I return home and eat as one. I
rejoice that parliament meets so late ; for, if I go thither, I
shall be reduced. _ .. .

' diseedere triitern
Quandocunque trahunt negotia Romain.'
Your obliging inquiries justify all details about health and
regimen. Ale, then, goes on admirably, and agrees perfectly.
My reverence for it, too, is increased, having just read. in
the manners of our remotest Celtic neighbours, much of its
antiquity and invigorating qualities. ' The boys all long for
ale, seeing papa drink it ; but we do not try the experiment.
Such is the force of example, that I find 1 must watch my-
self in all I do, for fearof misleading.: if your friend William
saw. me smoke, he would certainly call for a pipe. After so
much of me and mine, it is more than time to express how
truly we interest ourselves for you. I hope the returning
labours of the winter will not rob you of a little of your sum-
mer health. Paper fails, and leaves only room to add, that
I am, dear sir, very faithfully yours, " CHATHAM."

MISCELLANEOUS.

The University of Bonn has conferred the degree of doctor
on Prince Albert.

It is proposed in Edinburgh to erect a monument to
Napier, the inventor of logarithims.
A Michigan editor threatens to make his subscribers as
intimate with the sheriff as he is himself, if they don't pay up.
On the 6th inst. Sir Robert Peel entered his 54th year,
having been born on the Gth February, 17SG.
Why is her Majesty the most popular composer of the
day ?—Because hrr overture to Prince Albert is known all
over Europe !
Question : Can you give me change ? Answer : Yes.
How will you have it? all silver, or. will you have an Albert?
i. e. half-a-sovereign.
An Ohio editor saysthat,the river,i,at Piplbnrh is so dry

that the inhabitantS on its banks split It up for kin mg. wood.
An association , " for the refutation of Infidelity and the
Suppression of Blasphemy" has been formed in Halifax.

Mr. James Anderson has announced his intention of be-

coming a candidate at the next election for Falkirk, upon
conservative principles.
Sam Slick said he would rather break a yoke of steers any

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Lay, than try to make up a quarrel between women, when

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they once got their dander up.
The Russian government hac authorised the establishment
of a steam-packet communication between St. Petersburgh
and Dunkirk.

Mr. Dawson, of Middleham, has purchased Charles XII.
for three thousand guineas, for Mr. Johnstone, a north
country gentleman.
The 29th inst. is fixed for the approaching grand conser-
vative dinner at Merchant Tailor's Hall. Alderman Thomp-
son, M.P., takes the chair.
The Romanist Radical Irish newspapers boast that Lord
Palmerston has at a stroke created one hundred faggot votes
in the small county of Sligo.

Admiral Elliott, the brother of Lord Minto, is appointed
to the naval command in the East Indies, vacant by the
death of Admiral Maitland.

In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday, a verdict for
£2,500 was given against a person for having maliciously
sued out Commission of Bankruptcy against another.
The Queen has agreed to pay £l5OO per annum, for six
years, for the residence of Lord Ingestre, taken for the
Duchess of Kent.—Morning Post.

Dr. de Vitre, physician to the Lancaster dispensary, has
left that institution ; and the two former surgeons, Messrs.
Bateson and T. Howett, have been reinstated as visiting
surgeons.

The Board of Stamps has advertised for contracts for
twenty-four thousand reams of paper for the proposed letter
covers. •

Mr. Thomas Cartwright, silversmith, of Halifax, has
suddenly disappeared from that town, carrying with him
property to the amount of £2OOO. Hitherto he has evaded
pursuit.

A southern orator is represented as having begun a recent
speech in congress with—" I was born, .cir, insensible to
fear." Theie would of course be no mistake in such a little

low.

The " reverend wag," as Mr. Sidney Smith is called, has
just given the pedant Babington Macauley a nickname that
will never be forgotten. He calls him the " Book in
Breeches."

Mr. Turton has been appointed by the governor-general
in council to succeed to the appointment of advocate-
general, upon the contemplated retirement of Mr. Pearson.
—lndia Gazette, Dec. 9.
A gentleman, upon being asked whether he was seriously
injured when a steam-boat boiler exploded, is said to have
replied, that he was so used to being blown up by his wife,
that mere steam had no effect on him !

• My son, hold up your head and tell, me who was the
strongest man." " Jonah." " Why so ?" "'Cause the
whale couldn't hold him after he got him down." " That's
a man-you needn't study the catechism any more at present."
During the bustle in London consequent upon the Royal
nuptials, some wag muffled the knocker on Sheriff Evans's
door, in Westminster, and hung a card thereto, with the
words " CONFINED," printed in large characters.
The pay of masters in the navy will be immediately raised :
the younger officers will have-Xl5O per annum, rising up to
£2BO. We trust this improved remuneration will retain many
valuable officers in the service.—Hampshire Telegraph.

A discovery is said to have been recently made in Ruasia,
of a method whereby the softeststones may be hardened, and
have communicated to them the beauty, solidity, and even
colours, of the rarest marble.
A most terrific hurricane occurred at • Madras in the-mid-
dle of November, from the effects of which it was calculated
that 20,000 persons had perished. Sixty vessels which were
in the roads had also disappeared.

A poor woman, residing in Northampton-street, Leicester,
was frightened into convulsions, the other day, by a fellow
wrapped in a white sheet pretending to be a ghost. She re-
covered, but has lost her reason !
Them Delaware Indian chaps beat all I ever came near in
_ _

the running line ; I lcnow'd one on 'em as run so howdaci-
ously fast round a big cirmis-like place, that he just caught a
glimpse of his own back !—Up and Down County Gazette,
U.S.

A new town is in the course of fOrmition between the ohf
incorporated town of Kingston upon Thames (Surrey) an
the South Western Raivay, and already nearly 200 beautifu
houses and snug villas are finished, or in the course of finish.
ing.

There is said to be a species of snake so venomous in some
of the swamps of the Mississippi, that it is told of a negro
who struck one with a hoe handle, that the handle swelled
so as to burst the eye open!
THEATRES IN LENT.—Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe,
the representative of the Finsbury dissenters, has at length
succeeded in getting- her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain to
abolish the restrictions on-theatrical performances during
the season of Lent.
Aberdeen has had the honout to supply the whisky for the
royal wedding. Bailie Lumsden, a fortnight ago, shipped
to order a cask containing GO gallons of whisky for her Ma-
jesty's " occasion," and permitted to the keeper of the royal
cellar at Windsor, " George Christie."
Louis Philippe has announced to the Queen of England

the promotion of her consort to the rank of Grand Office,
of the Legion of Honour, the insignia of which are, it is
stated, to be presented to him by M. Guizot, the new Am-
bassador of Prance at our court. • •
A petition has actually been sent to the legislature of Ohio,
setting forth that the people of the Zanesville bank were in
the habit of using a wet sponge in counting their bills, and
praying the passage of a law requiring them to spit on their
fingers
We like to see a pretty ankle. We don't like to see a
woman pull up her clothes in crossing the street, on purpose
to show it.—New York paper.—We do, especially it the
streets be a little muddy, and she have no holes in her stock-
ings.—Texas Telegraph.
We are happy to hear on good authority that the report of
the death of Sir Henry Pane is entirely without foundation ;
and we hope that the rumour of the death of the gallant Lord
Keane, the hero of Ghuznee, is equally destitute of truth.—
Ministerial paper.
The other day a gentleman came to a post-office not a
hundred miles from Huddersfield, to prepay a letter, and
presented a sovereign for that purpose. The post-master
immediately offered 19s. 11d. in change in a hag, all in cop-
per. when the gentleman smiled, " cut off," and then
brought a penny.
We learn from Vienna that upwards of sixty houses in the
village of Baronowitz, .four leagues from Brunn, have been
recently destcyed by a tire, said to have been occasioned by
sparks from a locomotive engine on the north railroad, which
were driven by the wind on to the thatch of some cottages.
One of the most magnificent fetes which has taken place in
Paris for a length of time was given last night in honour of
the marriage of her Britannic Majesty by his excellency the
Earl and the Countess of Granville, to which upwards of
2,500 persons were ihiyited, and at which at least 2,000 per-
sons were present.

REPRESENTATION Of PERTHSHIRE.—The death of the
Earl of Mansfield, which took place at Leamington, on
Tuesday last, will occasion a vacancy in the representation
of Perthshire, as his lordship's eldest son, the Lord Viscount
Stormont, was returned for the county at. the last election,
in opposition to the Hon. Fox Maule.
We regret that Mr. Cayley, M.P., for the north riding of
Yorkshire, has been for some months labouring under severe
indisposition. He came to town at great hazard to record
his vote in favour of ministers, but he has remained ever
since in a state of very great suffering, and totally unable to
attend to business of any kind..-11forning Chronicle.
The Reverend John Reynolds, a dissenting minister, of
Romsey, Hants, has been appointed one of the Inspectors of
the Government Educational Schools, by the Committee of
Council; a palpable slight to the Church, and a tolerable
proof of the estimation in which the Established Clergy are
held by that Committee.
Prince Albert's progress in the English language under the
care of her Majesty, was very rapid indeed. At first sight (if
we may believe rumour) he conquered the difficulty of " 1
love—thou lovest." He will soon be over the first conjuga-
tion. We wonder whether he ever will reach the imperative
mood !

REPRESENTATION OF CLITIIEROE.—Mr. Fort, the me

ber for Clitheroe, has, during the past week, issued an ad-
dress to the electors of that borough, in contradiction of a
rumour which has been circulated, alleging that it was not
his intention again to offer himself as a candidate, in the
event of a general election.—Preston Chronicle.
A correspondent of the New York Commercial quotes the
following passage from Scripture, in support of Mr. Red-
field's theory, that the wind during a storm blows in a circle
or a whirl :—" The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth
about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and
the wind returneth again, according to his circuits.— Reek-
siasteB, i. 5.
Among the state papers recently stolen from Dublin
Castle, was a canvass bag of correspondence between Lord
Castlereagh and Grattan, at the period of the Union, and
letters of Robert Emmett, including that to Curran's daugh-
ter the night before his execution—all most interesting
documents. The gentleman to whom the packet was en-
trusted is held to bail in £5OO, to answer the prosecution of
the crown.

INCREASE OF TAXATION.—An increase in the taxation
of the United Kingdom it is currently reported will he pro-
posed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to
augment the public revenue. One rumour is, but on what
foundation we are unable to say, that the imposts upon coals
and salt are to be renewed ; while other parties mention with
confidence that the duty payable upon gin will be increased,
while that on brandy imported will be diminished. Much
anxiety is expressed among the mercantile interests of the
city to obtain information on the subject.
REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—The leaders of the
movement party in the borough have selected another man
to bring forward at the next general election.—Mr. T. Gis-
borne, one of the tail, and at present member for Carlow.
There is a good deal of, speculation abroad on the matter,
particularly as " tin" sufficient for the contest is promised
to be forthcoming when wanted, on an assurance given that
he shall be returned. We are told that the worthy gentle-
man has had an assurance aLso that he cannot again be the
" fortunate object of the choice of the electors" of Carlow.
—Stockport Advertiser.
EXTENSIVE FRAUD.—On Wednesday last, after an atten-
tive investigation of three days,, Mr. James Pringle, a clerk
in the office of the collector of excise, at Sheffield, has been
committed to York Castle for trial, charged with having
fraudulently obtained various sums of money by means of
forged declarations purporting to he from pensioners of Chel-
sea Hospital long since dead. Application was made to ad-
mit him to bail, and the magistrates postponed their decision
till yesterday. Mr. Pringle has been many years in the col-
lector's office.—Leeds Intelligencer.
DENDROBIUM NOBILE. —This rare and truly splendid
epiphyte has just unfolded its lovely flowers at Broughton
Hall. A few words on its introduction to this country may
not be uninteresting. Six or eight years ago, the original
plant, now in the possession of Messrs. Loddige's, of the
Hackney Nursery, was purchased in the market at Macao,
in China. The plant bloomed in the establisnment of those
gentlemen two or three years ago, and, until the present
notice, has not flowered elsewhere. It is a curious fact, that
the identical locality. of this Chinese plant is altogether a
mystery to the botanists of Europe.—Manchester Guardian.

STOPPAGE. OF THE BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH BANK.--'
We understand that the borough bank of Birmingham (nn
establishment of very limited business, founded upon the
wreck of the Northern and Central Bank in that town) stop-
ped payment on Thursday, when the following notice was
posted on the doors of the bank.—`` The directors of the

Borough Bank find themselves under the painful necessity of
suspending the payments of the bank."
DISTRESSED STATE OF THE POOR AT BOLTON.—A
meeting of the town council of Bolton was held on Wednes-
day last, at which it was agreed that the mayor be requested
to convene a meeting of gentlemen, for the purpose of rais-
ing a fund by subscriptions, for the relief of the distressed
poor. Accordingly, a meeting was held yesterday forenoon,
at the Sessions Room ; the Rev. J. Slade, vicar, in the chair.
A committee was appointed, consisting' of the clergy and

others; and a subscription was entered into in the—room,
Which, although there were not more than fifty persouS pre-
sent, amounted to upwards Of -X750.

AMOUNT OF CORRESPONDENCE. IN PUIILIC OFFICES.—
The following are accounts, from the second part of the re-
port of the committee of the House of Commons on postage.
of the five public departments which sent the largest number

of letters in the year 1837 :—Poor-law Commission, 138,525;
Ordnance. 95,018 ; Registrar of Births, 92,876 ; War-office,

'8,462 ;

Admiralty, 6§,322.

The following are accounts,

from the same report, of the five public departments which
received the greatest number of letters :—Paymaster-Gene-
ral, 85,801 ; Ordnance, 82,923 ; Home-office, 72,882 ; Poor-
law Commission, 70,983 ; War-office, 70,945.
IMPORTANT TO TEETOTALLERS.—On Thursday in last
week, an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, coroner of
Surrey, at the Bell Inn, Lambeth, on the body of Joseph
Hawkins, an old man aged 84, who had formerly been a very
hard drinker, but had lately become a teetotaller. For years
before he joined the society he used to take a glass of rum
the first thing in the morning, rum and ale in the forenoon,
ale and a glass of rum after dinner, .a glass of rum in his tea,
ale for supper, and afterwards a glass of rum and water !
The surgeon gave it as his opinion that the death of the de-
ceased was accelerated by suddenly leaving off the use of
spirits. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God."—Leeds
Intelliyencer.
PoPISII ELECTIONEERING.—A pretty plot was discovered
last week in the Post-office Ward of the city of Dublin, to
secure the election of a Popish publican as a poor-law guar-
dian. The police were sent out, as ordered by the act, to
deliver the voting papers, and receive them when the voter
had marked for whom he voted. It was proved that the
police carried papers to a radical committee-room, where the
original votes were erased, and this publican substituted.
The matter was brought before the commissioners of police,
who ordered the dismissal of the police. This is one of the
nefarious modes by which the Popish party try to get the
ascendancy.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells having long contemplated
the foundation of a Diocesan Collegiate Institution, in order
to the training of candidates for holy orders, in conformity
with the cherished desire of our reformers, that, between the
academic degree and entrance into the ministry, there should
be a course of preparatory instruction, has decided on imme-
diately commencing the execution of such a plan, in connec-
tion with his cathedral city, and has appointed the Rev. J.
H. Pinder, A. "M., late Principal of Codrington College,
Barbadoes, to be Professor of Theology at Wells. To meet
the cost oithis excellent appointment (£4OO per annum) the
Lord Bishop, and two gentlemen of the diocese, have muni-
ficently subscribed £lOO each for ten years. A portion of
the remaining £lOO per annum is yet to be provided.—Bath
Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE NIGER EXPEDI-

TION.—In a letter from Lord John Russell to the Lords of
the Treasury, dated Dec. 26, 1839, the proposal for the pre-
vention of the slave trade in the west of Africa is stated.

The Queen has directed her ministers to negotiate agree-
ments with those African chiefs within whose dominions the
internal trade is carried on, the basis of such agreements to
be the abandonment of the trade ; and, secondly, the admis-
sion into this country of the goods of the territories on fa-
vourable terms, so as to lessen the temptation now offered
to the slave-seller. As the most considerable of the chiefs

rule near the Niger, an expedition up the river by steam-
boats is proposed, and an establishment of British factories
at favourable stations. The first cost of three iron vessels.
which would be required, including provisions and stores,
for six months, would be 4:35400; the annual charge for
victualling officers and men, £T0,546 ; and the salaries of
conductors, chaplain, and surgeon about .£4,000, besides
presents for chiefs and sundries. The answer from the
Treasury, dated. the 30th of December, states a willingness
to sanction such estimates as may be required.

THE SUABBY GOVERNMENT.—When Mr. Spring Rice,
now Lord Monteagle, first paid his addresses to the elector)
of- Cambridge, he was, as he always had been, very liberal
of his promises. He would do a great deal to promote the
prosperity of the town. It was suggested by some persons
who knew his man, that he might give one proof of the sin-
cerity of his intentions by procuring a small annual grant in
aid of the funds of the Cambridge Philosophical Society—an
institution of much merit, but whose funds were scarcely
adequate to the publication of its transactions. The idea ap-
peared a capital one to Mr. Rice ; he had much interest at
the Treasury ; the grant would cost him nothing, and it had
the still stronger recommendation, that it would very proba-
bly help him to a few additional votes. The Treasury ac-
cordingly was applied to, and in a short time the Cambridge
people were much gratified to find that a grant of £lOO
a-year was made to aid the funds of the Philosophical Society.
The grant was regularly paid up to last year inclusive; but
now things had changed. Mr. Rice was pitchforked into
the House of Peers, and did not want a seat for Cambridge;
and the gentleman (Mr. Gibson) for whom the government
did want it was pitchforked out of the borough. The Cam-
bridge electors did not want him. These were offences not
to be forgotten or forgiven. The government patronage was
withdrawn from the town, and the paltry grant of the £lOO
a-year to the Philosophical Society has this year been
stopped! This shabby act of the shabby government needs
no comment. —Times.
DRINKING PRINCE ALBERT'S HEALTII.—Some difficulty
has been felt in the provinces as to the proper etiquette to be
observed in drinking Prince Albert's health at public dinners
and on other public occasions. We understand that the
course observed at the dinner of the West Ward Conserva-
tives, reported in another part of this paper, was according
to the etiquette observed at the dinner of the Carlton Club
on the day of the Queen's marriage, an authority sufficient
to settle any question on the subject. First was drank the
health of her Most Excellent Majesty the Queen ; next,
the Queen and Prince Albert ; and then the Queen Dowager
and the rest of the Royal Family. By coupling the name of
his Royal Highness with that of her Majesty in the second
toast, the difficulty as to precedency is obviated or got over.
Leeds Intelligenerr.
DISTRESSING CASE OF DESTITUTION.—The inhabitants
of Sanday, in Orkney, get their supply of peas fuel from the
neighbouring island of Eday. A boat, in crossing at this in-
clement season, was upset, and floated keel up into the creek
she had left the night before. By this melancholy accident
two families have been bereaved of their only support, and
left in the most destitute circumstances. One of the suffer-
ers, Robert Mure, has left a widow and eight children be-
tween the age of fourteen years and nine months. Their
mother has been confined to bed for six months. This seems
a case calling loudly for the aid of such patriotic societies as
that which has just been instituted for Scotland, for the re-
lief of shipwrecked mariners and fishermen, at the head of
which is our gallant countryman, S. D. Milne.—Aberdeen
Constitutional.

MORE OF TILE TENDER CONSCIENCE FOLK.—A short
time since a meeting was called by Mr. Aaron Peace, War-
den of the Chapeiry of Cuinberworth, for the purpose of
laying a rate to defray the yearly expense of an organist,
clerk, singers, chapel-keepers, &C. The Rev. C. B. Dunn,
curate, was called to the chair. Mr. A. Peace then proposed
that a rate of three-halfpence in the pound be collected for
the above purposes, which, when collected, would realise the
sum of nine pounds! ! So enormous a demand shocked
many lender consciences ; among the rest a well-known dis-
senter,.one Charles Fitton, who stands, when in his shoes,
about five feet arid an inch in altitude, but who always most
nobly makes up for his shortness of stature by the extraor-
dinary length of his tongue. This worthy mounted a table
to render himself more conspicuous, and proposed, as An
amendment, that the meeting be adjourned to that day twelve
months ! One Hezehiah Tinker, whose altitude is about four
feet nine, and who had taken a great deal of pains for a few
days previous to collect all the cock-fighters, donkey-racers,
and others of similar respectability to attend the meeting,
then mounted the table, and pulled out a speech from his
pocket, ready cut and dry, which having read, he begged
leave to second the amendment, which was carried by a
small majority The worthy curate note performs the offices
of minister and clerk himself ! ! and allows the organist part
of the christening fees as a salary. The bell which was wont
to announce the hour of twelve o'elock every day, to remind
the good housewives of the village and adjoining neighbour-
hood (many of whom are without a clock) that it was time
to prepare dinner, is now silent, and the minister's own
servant performs the office of chapel-sweeper. It should be
noticed that the chapel is the only place of worship in the
neighbourhood, that all the sittings are free, and that it is
chiefly attended by the operative classes, and that a large
Sunday school is also attached to the chapel. We wish the
respectable couple, the would-be great men, all the pleasure
their tender consciences will allow them, for having partly
deprived the poor villagers of the only means which the neigh-
bourhood affords them of keeping the Sabbath-day holy, in
a place of worship where there are neither collections nor
seat rents !—Leeds Intelligeneer.
IMPUDENCE.—It has been often remarked, that those agi-
tators who first put it into the heads of the chartists to pro-
cure arms, and to have torch-light meetings, were tories ;
and the tory journals did not conceal their joy at the spread
of chartism. Socialism has, it would appear. taken the place
of ehartism in their favour. The Bishop of Exeter could not
have acted in any other manner than he has acted, had his
object been to increase the number of socialists. That the
tories would view with satisfaction the progress of socialism,
or any other ism which might serve them in their distress,
as means of embarrassing the government, may he inferred
from various circumstances, but more particularly from the
pains taken by the tory papers to misrepresent the condition
and importance in society of the disciples of Owen.-310-n-
Chroniele. [The impudence of this paragraph is only
exceeded by its falsehood. It contains as many lies as lines.]
PORTSMOUTH, FEn. 19.—Frost, Williams, and Jones are
confined.in a cell on board the York convict ship, apart from
the other prisoners. Frost complains bitterly of the food
supplied him, stating he cannot possibly eat the oatmeal and
water which is supplied for breakfast, with a proportion of
salt mixed. They have requested to be allowed more sub-
stantial diet, which has been refused. A wooden bowl and
spoons are given for their use ; they are clothed in convict
apparel, each with an iron ring round the leg, and are on no
account permitted to leave their cell. A Prayer Book and
Bible are the only books allowed them. They are in bad
spirits, particularly Frost, who is evidently sadly dejected.
Williams has been heard to say he would sooner have been
hanged, than to linger under his present torture of mind and
treatment. It is expected that an order will arrive to-mor-
row to transfer them to the Mandarin convict ship, which
arrived last night, bound to New South Wales.—Standard.
WEALTH.—The house of Esterhazy is probably the most
magnificent of the non-regnant houses in the world. That
jacket of jackets, which is said to have cost the prince £lOO
in wear and tear eve's, time it is put on, has already im-
pressed the English public with the extent of his possessions ;
but the impression falls short of the reality. His estates
contain 130 villages, 40 towns, and 34 castles. He has four
country houses as big as Chatsworth, within an hour's ride
of one another ; one of them, Esterhazy, contains 360
rooms for visitors, and a theatre. The well known story of
time prince's reply to the Lord of Holkham, who, after ex-
hibiting a flock of two thousand sheep, inquired if he could
shoW as many--" My shepherds are more numerous than
your sheep"—turns out to be literally true ; there are 2,500
shepherds on his estates. They have a regular grenadier
guard in their pay, and the right of life and death on their
estates.

The old-fashioned town of Wetherby, in Yorkshire, has
undergone strange vicissitudes within a few years as well as
some of the large properties in its immediate vicinity. It
was only the other day the Duke of Devonshire alienated the
whole town, at one fell swoop, the sale exceeding £250,000.
In 1836, the Ribston estate, so long in the Holvoake
and close by the town, was sold by George Robins. The
price, from recollection, was £lBO,OOO, without timber. By
reference to our columns, we perceive Beilby Grange, conti-
guous to the town, the property of -Lord Wenlock, is nave
announced for sale ; it is said to be contemporaneous in fame
with Ribston. Thus, within this little circle, a sum exceed-
ing X 600,000, atleast, will he in a very short period realized.
It is said that in no other part of England are the same high
prices obtained for land. The tenant of Beilby Grange man-
sion and park is the venerable Chriitopher Wilion, the father
of the turf, who has located for half a century.—Post.. • '