The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-12 00:00:00

EXCURSION TO POkTUGAL

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We beg to *nail-The-attention:Of our readers to an advertise-2.
(pent, au &Jouncing the .despatch'_4f upt•Cureaseien steamer for
'Oilman and Lisbon: The Peninsular Steam Company's. notate
ply regularly froth London at-Srl Fainterstit ;(t Post ugat.carbealtar
and. the Meclitertanehu ; but it iS.ext reiliedr 4:atrium indeed; that
an oppostuotte is uifrded of preceeding stearn duet tly fiutu
iverpoel to fhose mreiesting portions of the globe. The Cirs
casstan has been puich,sreriu this country' for the purposeqf
being placed permanent.v on tire station between Lisbon and
Oporto, and's-held nit about-tit procaeo- to her (destination for
that purpose. The intercourse between these two ports is Dove
almost entirely conducted by steam: . Tne difficulties of a laud
journev.s,nwing to the badness of the road's, the want of regu-
lar conveyances;-and-the annost totaFillYtiwiiibiliFY•ef obtaining
anything like tolerable-accommodation. on :the way—are 'so
great, that it is very seldom undertaken except by some hardy
and enterprising traveller,-to whtrin the economy of time is no
object, and 'who is willing to eneotinter the fatignenfidisarda
ships of five or six days' journey on mule-back—exposed to
privation andincouvenience, and at no slight degree, perhaps,
of tiers mai hazard—for the sake of -seeing the interior of the
-country, and nt observing the customs-Sad manners of the Pris
motive inhabitants among whom he will pass: As the Convey-
canceby steamers is now regular and certain, and the voyage
is performed in from eighteen Yo twenty-four hours according
to the weather, it is net surprising that these should almost
entirely supersede the old mode of travellingevet) to Portugal;
where every species of improvetnerit is luTilted- upon with pre-
judice, and is only slowly adopted fly the nativars There is at
present only one steamer-which confines itself to' the passage
between Lisbon and Oporto. She is a tine vessel named the
Porto, and was purchased at Liver-pool about two years ago, by
-a Portuguese company, since which time she..has been plying
.regularly between these two ports. She, sails once every eight
or ten days from °perm, returning, of course, from Lisbon, its
the intermediate time. Though the distance is notvery great—
only from 150 to 180 miles—the fares in the best cabin are abotit
£3 O. of our Money, and in the- second cabin about 14e. or
15s. less. These sums include provisions, with wines and spirits.
but not the steward's fee. The only other steam conveyance
between Lisbon and Oporto, is by the, English mail packets,
which pass off Oporto, once a week, off-aiseir• way from Lon-
don and Falmouth. to and from Lisbon, Gilbraitar, &c. As
these vessels dot not enter the Douro, they can -only be boarded
when the weather is moderate. and the unfortunate passen-
ger bound for Oporto is not unTreq-aently carried forward, to
Lisbon on the one hand, or to Viggo on the other. The
fares by these packets, notwithstanding the expense and -in-
convenience of boarding.•are still 'higher that' by the Porto.
Tne charge in the best cabin front Lisbon to Oporto, including
previsions, &c.. is 20 tniireati, equal-to-about and in
the fore-cabin 13 iniireas, irr £3 The deck-passengers pay
moreas (its, • 6,-1,) and find themselves. Tinsintereaurse be-
tween the two cities retest ed to is•already eonsiderable, is rapidly
increasing, and is capable, with improved management, of being
very greatly extended. Is is with this view that- the Cireassiatt
.has been purchased by the present- spirited and enterprising
proprietors. She will tie ertinmanded bs Uateain 'taxis-in( a
gentleman with wham we have the pleasure of a slight acquaint-
ance, and of whom, therefore, we call speak with confidence,
when we state that be is considered, by competent judges whom
we have heard speak of him. as one of the ablest seamen who
ever commanded a vessel. From the prominent part which he
took in tbe.Portuatteee war, his name inust be-familiar to many
of our reader's: ire:Comutacided ttie Villa Florbrig. under Ad-
miral Napier, at the- memorable hattle.off Cape St; Vincent, in
which Don Miguers entire fleet was captuted, and distinguish-.
ed himself throughont the action', -as well es on many other
critical occasions, is ish the most admirable ceeleess and intre-
pidits. He has for several years held the rank. of poet-captain.
in the Portuguese service, and will thus be entitled, we believe,
to hoist the pendaiii of Her Most Faithful Majesty on the hand-
some vessel which has now been confided to his vale.
We have gossipped Lather more lengthily than we intended
about Portuguese affairs, but having just returned front a short
trip to that country. we have bad the opportunity of ascertain-
ing With accuracy the few particulars which he have now com-
municated, and cc trust
.we shall be excused for feeling some
little temporary interest at least about a cottony where e e have
recently enjoyed a few Weeks of pleasant recreation, and a Bich
is so seldom visited except by-anent& bustuess, or by invalids.
\Ve can assure our leaders that they . could nut undertskea
More delightful pleasure excursion titan that which the de-
pathem artpre of the-Circassian now affords the opportunity of
enjoying, The space, of two or three weeks would be amply
sufficient for the whole trip, and it might he accomplished at a
moderate expense. We have not left ourselves room to allude
to the various objects of interest to be seen at Oporto and Lis-
bon. We may, however,' remind our readers, that the lines,
drawn up fur the defence of these cities during the late warare
in a state of almost perfect preservation, and ate an object of
great interest. After what we have already stated, it. is hardly
necessary to. add that the passengers who may go out by the
Circassian can return by the Peninsular Steam Navigation
Company's vessels, which leave Lisbon and Oporto with great
regularity once a week, for Falmouth and London; or if they
contemplate amore extended tour they.can proceed to Cadiz;
Gieraltar, or the Mediterranean; by the saute line of steamers.
—Liverpool Chronicle. •

STEA M-SIIIP CITY OF Gtasdow.—This favourite veseel de,
servedly ranks as one of the finest steamers I bat enters thni.port.
She arrived here on Wednesday, making the passage in less
thau seventeen hours.and a hail.

Wool) SA t.k.— We perteive that a very extensive wood sale
is advertised to take place on Wednesday, at noon, on Ibis
Harrington D,ick Quay. It will be the first auction held there.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The second gala at these Gardens,'
(postponed front last evening in consequence of the rain,) takes
place this evening. Should the weather prove favourable a
very great-attendance may be anticipated, as those who had
not the pleasure 'ol seeing the Vesuvius On Wednesday
have had their curiosity raised, no doubt, the nattering
reports which have been current respecting it: IL is truly a most
.extraordinary.exhibition.
The Apollo, frigate, whiiih sailed from, Quebec ou the 10th
ult., arrived at. Falmouth on Saturday.. .
The packet4hips Etigluhtl, captain White,
.and Garrick,
-Capt. Palmer, which sailed from this port on the 20th of Art!,
reached New York. on the 11th of May, after ii:rtuarkably
short passage, to she westward, of twenty-one
No less than 2.500 passengers were conveyed along the-Liver-
pool anti Mancaester Railway, on Friday, .
The Liverpool and Matichoter.ltailw-iy.Pinipany have con-
, veyefi.since Sunday week, from:Manchester tO Liverpool, 10,177
passengers; audit' five days, 913 trom -Bolton:
Cu ICKET.—A match at cricket will be played to.tnorrow, be-
tween the Cambridge and liverton Chins, on the ground of Pie
latter, Shaw•street, Evertou. Wickets to be, pitched at half-
past two o'clock.
Jones and Nlainwaring. the two men found guilty of than.-
slaughter., in causing the death of a' young woman on- board'the
Birkenhead .steamer, have..ueen liberated • on-bail. - They wail
take their trial at the next. Chester assizes. .
PA SSEAGEIiS BY IRa 13L I) AN.--1 he following is a list of the
passengers by the Bland, Callan, •which arrived iu this port on
Wednesday evening, from Calcutta :—Mrs Captain Abbott,
Mrs. -Captain Ward, Mrs: 'Captain Parker, Mrs. Robinson,
two ,Misies Atkinson.; Bev: Mr. Proby. H.C.S; Bev. Mr.
Chadwick ;' Capt. Abbott, Bengal Eogineers; Capt. Parker,
58th 8.N.1. ; Liebt.• Walker, *.Gtith 8.N.1.; Dr.• Clarkson,
B. Med. Serv. ; Alesssrs. Douglas, I'. Atkinson and I'. Ostell,.
five children. and tour Servants.

We understand, that the London mail will arrive at teu
o'clock on and after Tuesday next. - '
Bets to a considerab:e amount have been made, that the
Royal William trill make a snot ter passage across ibe Atlantic,
during the present year, than any other vessel by twenty-four
hours; and two to one have been takeh, that sue does not make
a passage shorter than ally otberby two days •
SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH ate gratified on
being shie to state, that the council, at its meeting on Wednes-
day, granted a piece of land at the foot of Lower Parliament-
street, for the purpose of erectUg a building suitable for this
hospital.

likspaTets.—A gentleman left Licetpool on. Ftiday after-
noon the two o'clock tiaiu to Miinehester, from thence pro-
ceeded to Ketsal Moor, witnessed two races. and returned to
Liverpool by the seven h'ell,ek train, where he arrived a few
minutes ,ifter eight o'clock, The distance performed is upwards
of 78 wiles.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Thursday last, as a gentlenien, named
Marsh, whose resici,lice is in Scotland-piece, was passing along
near the end of Soho-street, he suddenly fell to the ground. He
was immediately taken up•and carried to the shop of Me. Swift,
druggist, at the bottom of the Crescent, when it was discoVered
that he was dead. A medical gentleman, who was called in,
gave it •as his opinion, that toe unfortunate gentleman had died
of apoplexy. • ' • •
IlioN oho W IrEHOUSES, 1? NCORN.-1 tis the intention or the
inhaboants of Itoucorii to petition parlizment to 4.xteud to this
town the privilege of lowiliog goods. It this be gianted. it Atli
be the Med ns of -bringiou Many tot eign vessels to this port, con-
signed direct 'froniabroad, p.triictil:iilv `front the Mediterranean.
l'here is already dock ace.toinuitatio;, and water over the dock
,ails, durine quint.; tides, for vessels drawing 17 orAtrieet, or of
,burden of Sat tons.— Chester pap,.,., • • • - -
it AUG tiTS.—A gentle:tan, from Nogrinl:.harn, celebrated
throughout Enpl,n,l for his superior skill as the game, of
draughts, ancl.mhe„ had beet' expected in Live, pool for severitt
months hack, a, rived t. et Tuesday, and, after a oiti•ii of nine-
teen games, with a ge,itienlan long resident heir.: the contest
ended in ten getups Ira. our townsman and tour for Nottingham.
It was considered doubtful whether the Nottingham payer could
have maintained equality isid..one or two mots ottt.rgeutieioen
who have liver toined themselves in a club. We question,
indeed, wheihet the met.oin,in• itselt sours produer a player able
to beat our townsman.—.4ibian.

ROBBERY.—On Thursday, at the I.o'ice office, Mrs. Leonard,
of the Derby Hotel,. Zoological Gaidetis, charged a female,
named Elizabeth Brodie, with having robbed her ot"£l.9s. The
.prisoner was formerly in the service of Mr. Leonard, and on
Monday evening last she has requested to fetch some article
from a room in which a box, errulaining the reieipti of the ,
Zoological Gardens, (£6,ls) was lying, and the key' given to
her for that purpose. Subsequently, on the box being examined,
it was found that El 9s had been taken, and no one, except the
prisoner, having been in the.room, the present charge was pre-
ferred. The prisoner was committed 'neural.
. • . •
Passengers by the packet-ship Europe, Captain Marshall
which :arrived from New York on ,Satiirday
Robert. Livoirgsten, and lady, of New: York ; Mr. Joseph Sill-
lady, three eliiiitren, and servant, of Pniladelphia; Mr. James
Ames and lady. of Liverpool ; tl r. J. G. Gamines and lady, of
New Orleans: Miss Burstard, Mrs. -Steele, Miss Lynch, Miss
Eddews, Mrs. Blood, Mr. E. G. Marshall; Capt. Von Shantz,
Russian Navy, bearer of despatches. fr orn Washington to the
hussian Ambassador in London ; Sweeney, British
Army. bearer of despatches from Sir John Colborne to Lord
Glenelg Don Domingo de Gericmmnria. of Cuba ; Rev. F. S.
Mines, of New York; Hon. 0. S. Smith and servant, of New
York; Professor B. Morse, N.Y. Unitiirslty ; H. C. •
Morse, Mr. Robert Goodhue, of New York': Mr. Cerestine and
servant, of Italy;' Mr. Papanli and Servant, of Italy ; Dr.
Holmes, D. Miller, • Mr:Todd, Mr.,Borstard, Mr. M'l.arlane,
'• Mr. Beckwith. Mr. nerve, Mr. Ptgg. Mr.Wilsoncot Canada ;
Mr. P. Paters,:n. Mr. Kerr, Mr. Lloyd, Thomas Askew. Esq.,,
R. T. Kennedy,
.Esq.. • .
THE NLIY. STEA.MKR TIGER.--This steamer. belonging to the
St. George Coinpanyonadeher first exi.er inieutai trip on I'hurs-
day ; and seldom have wei witnessed a' Snore gratifying proof of
the ingermity•of Anon than this gallent.Yessei preserited., r Her
form is- perfect symmetry, and utility. does she walk the water.
Slit' is of the largest :class, her size preventing her admission-
into env Of the:Liverpool.docks. She is propelled by engines
•of 300 horse Omer; With.expansive valves, and a fitted up 'with
Mr. Sensual condensors : they are irons the manu-
factory
,of.. Mr. Edward Bury of this town, and, in beauty o
structure,. combined. with strength and durability, challengef .
competition; and we recommend any person desirous to see
first-rate.'niactliiery to visit. the 'riger. The hed-pates and
condensors, east in one piece, are a curiosity, aid- tie al"
formed..are he•enot mous weitibt of 16 tons end ;13 vv. t.•aui.1.16
tons 6 ewt., respectively. *Her. speed 'is very. great; Qud, 'front
her performance on thefirsrtrial, it is belieelishe will surpass;
in this respect, any vessel out of the pert. We ectnglai tsitsre hers
spirited company on the acquisition of such a boat ; and if, as'
we have heard, they intend despatcbrug her to New York, we
have that her passage will be Perfmmed' in fess-lime.
than it his yet-been accomplished in. Go where 'she 'mesa ehvi
will reflect yr eoit- (al .all parties concertteQ, and bugivesistheimit
Ler, say we.—ellCion,

THE FACTORY • ACT—WHITE SLAVERY.
( Front Me Timetj
The predicament in which the Melbourne cabinet is
-now placed by the slave apprenticeship question would
'call forth some sympathy from the unprejudiced part of
the community, if the ordinary procedure and policy of
the. men who compose that cabinet were manly and
,straightforward. But, as matters are, the embarrass-
.Ment into which they have been thrown excites no cor-
responding feeling in the public mind. The bystanders
are only amused to witness the rough handling, the piti-
less pelting, which the ministers experience at the hands
of their friends, the moment they- venture to resist the
pressure from without, and to differ in opinion with any
.particular section of their supporters. To adopt a de-
.oitlecl course of their own is so contrary' to their usual
habits, that the stand•they have now made will be attri-
bated, by- nrany to-wounded pride rather than to higher
'Motives: They 'are aware that he of the " tomahawk,"
`once. their ally, but flow their implacable foe, directs the
*."gathering," and that if they were to yield, it would be
said they yielded to him. But, leaving these considera-
tions, it is clear a storm-is rising which will not speedily
,be quelled: The "Central Negro Emancipation Com-
.auttee," a formidable title •of itself, and " the delegates
now-in-London, have recorded-their most solemn and de-
liberate protest against the•attentpt which has now been
'successfully made to supersede and annul a deliberate
'decisio'n of the Commis of England." When these
agitators have settled the- weighty affairs they have. in
Assad, the •"Short Time. Committee of Factory Opera-
-4i toesmi Manchester and the surrounding district" will
lie ready thankfully to avail theinselves of their services,
`and Will no doubt he happy to merge their own modek
-Aitle,'and become an auxiliary to a " Central White
~Slavery Emancipation Society •patron 'and prompter,
4iotrd :Brougham. and Vault.' •
. The factory act came into 'Operation'On'the 'first' Ofja-
iidarli, 1834. We are now in the Month of June, 1838,
:and we•have been living during the whole of -that time
Under a despotism. The rulers—meaning by-that term
-sheAnlndutive—zore above constitutional control. They
have set the example 'of taking the law into their own
The, people have only to be actuated by an equal
'contempt for legislative enactments, and the social sys-
-sernis•at'oace dissolved. Continue to deal thus with
''lttegreatatasses of the population, 'and anarchy may
'anon overtake as. ' There 'is no need to go back to the
" old atmanacks," as Lord Planket once with thoughtless
levity eXpressed himself, when speaking of the chrorri-
:alesof remote times: events have occurred within the
last seven years in 'France 'which ought to have taught
'Whig 'statesmen a lesson; but they are slow, it seems, to
learn.

THE FANATIC COURTENAY.
(From the Church of Eng/awl Gazette.)
Mr. Hume, following in the wake of the prints in the
iyay and service of government, on Wednesday evening
night made the melancholy occurrence in Kent the
ground of a most malignant and virulent attack on the
•-great body of the English clergy, and asked with an air
• of triumph whether such an occurrence did not prove
that although the established church was called the peo-
ple's church, its directors paid very little attention to the
instruction of the people. How the lamentable catastro-
ishe to which he alluded could warrant or establish a
•!etvirge of gross neglect and inattention to the duties of
Ltheir sacred calling against the English clergy, it will be
lor such logician.s as the ex-member for Middlesex to
:show, but we are pedants enough not to acknowledge
..the soundness of any argument which draws general
'Nieonclusions from particular premises, although it may he
in other respects unobjectionable. But, in this case, the
-circumstances attending that " out-burst of fanatical
- fury which led to such deplorable results, afford not even
stile slightest colour for so sweeping and wanton a charge
;,,iigainot the clergy of the district in which it occurred,
Inuch less against the whole parochial clergy of Eng-
• land-. It has been ascertained that the deluded followers
or that compound of madness and fanaticism, Courtenay,
- Illd not exceed forty, and we think the fact that such a
number could be found weak-minded and ignorant enough
to attach themselves to him, however much it is to be
'lamented,
no very severe imputation on the county of
Kent, containing, as it does, a population of half a nil-
- lion, and especially as the wretched impostor was a dis-
tenting preacher, and a most violent opponent of a na-
.?-,tional church establishment. In what way the extrava-
Vant fanaticism of a few misguided ignorant peasants,
"who had withdrawn themselves from the wholesome
-guidance and religious control of their pastors, and had
.been led away by the mad enthusiasm and enticing doc-
trines of their new teacher, can tell against the charac-
ter and conduct of the English clergy, we are at a loss
to discover.

Indeed, so groundless an imputation of neglect of duty
sought to be fastened on the English clergy only betrays
the anxious eagerness with which their enemies (and
:thev' have many) seize upon every opportunity for the
-.ltbdulgence of their malice' and spitefulness, and shows
—islrat: little just cause of complaint against them exists,
-z:when their most inveterate and watchful foes can find no
,stronger or . more substantial grounds of accusation
.4itgainst them than those afforded by the recent occur-
rences in Kent.

- " DRICA.DPUL SUPERFFITION.—The Rev. Richard Knit!, the
zealous agent of the Loudon Missionary Society, at a meeting
at Leeds last week, gave a thrilling and dreadful account of a
. superstition which has lately been discovered to prevail in a
part of the Madras presidency, India, where the farmers are in
the habit of fattening and killing boys, and cutting their flesh
from their baqes whilst they are yet alive, and sending a piece
of their flestrAo,, each of their fields or plantations, that the
blood may be akneezed- out of it on the soil before the child
dies—this being done with the view of making the soil more
fertile ! Twenty-five boys, amongst the finest that could be
found, were discovered by the Dritish soldiery in one place,
tinder the care of the priests, fattening for slaughter; and in
'another place fifteen were found ! They were, of course, res-
cued, and put under the Care of the collector: and it was be-
lieved that the missionaries will take charge of the poor infants,
and. bring them up in the Christian religion.

A. ScaNe ♦T SEA..—The velocity of the water, urged as it is
before a tempest: is often as great as that of the ship, and at such
-moments the rudder is useless, its wholeforce beitig.derived from
'its,aiction" as a moving tovrtv against the eletrint in comparative
repose: When ship and water move toge, her, at an equal rate,
in, the same direction, this power of the helm is neutralised, and
• then the hull is driven much at the mercy of wind and waves.
Nor is this all; the rapidity of the billows often excee.ls that of
the ship, and then the action of the rudder becomes momentarily
' reversed, producing an effect exactly opposite to that which is
desited. It is true that this last difficulty is never of more than
a few moments' continuance, else indeed would the condition of
the mariner be hopeless ; but it is of constant occurrence, and
so irregular as to defy calculations and defeat caution. In the

present instance the Montauk would seem to fly through lite
water. so swift was her progress, and' then, as a furious surge
Overtook her in the chase, she settled heavily in the element,
like *wounded itnivrml, that, despairing of success, sinks help-'
trt4rin tbe'grtvs, resigned to fate. At such times the crests -of
the waverrseseen pasther like vapour in the atmosphere, and
one uninilictiied would be apt to think the ship stationary,
• thetigh:tit•trnth whirling along in company with a triuhttul airy-
atelltUrn.liontetuird &tend, by the author of the Pilot.

So the assizes commenced. They closed, as from such a corn-
menceinent might reasonably have been expected, in a county
where jurors, if they did their sworn duty, would have more to
fear than now have murderers; and where most of them are
'glad, some through fear, more througn favour, to avail them-
selves of any salvt; of conscience'and character which will jus-
tify them to themselves and to the public in clearing the guilty
—they closed without a single capital conviction! Justice, at
what impulse I know not, or how paralysed, has dropped the
balance and the sword. The manes, unappeased, of many mur-
'tiered victims of anarchy and party, hover over the affrighted
land—seem to moan in every hollow gust, anti send a thrill of
shivering horror through the frame, as they meet us, each in
the fatal spot of his bloody death struggle, at every lonely turn
in the highways of this Aceldama." The blood of many mur-
dered victims, unheard by the "dull, cold ear or justice, which
stilled voice crieth unto heaven from the ground, for vengeance
ou this guilty land. A murmur—loud or low, as fear permits—
sounds through this outraged county, in every quarter, from
every decent individual. Inc more orderly Roman Catholics,
even of the humblest class, shudder and express their alarm
when they hear of various murders and no murderer—as
though the destr-oying angel had passed, with a promiscuous
slaughter, through our sleeping host; or sometimes, as of old
in Egypt, with nice discrimination selected the srst-born—the
chief of all our strength; when they hear of 80 prejudiced in-
nocents, most of whom they know to be murders—for about the
perpetrator there ieno secret among the people, and those who
have heard the evidence, say, there could, in many instances,
be little in the court—turned loose upon society, many of them
upon the county, to itinerate as walking placards of a govern-
ment proeldmatian that rewards offered for the conviction of
murderers Are merely old-fashioned and unmeaning forms ;
that. in Tipperary, killing is no murder, or at !east untirdei is
no crime; and as it is inculcated and believed by many, that
" the Queen has given her hand and word to Sheil and Cave
that there shall be no more hanging is Tipperary." Consider-
ing all these things, I wrote the preceding pages with a strong
sympathy in the general apprehension, that our SpLing assizes
had sown the serpent's teeth, which would speedily mature into
ta bristling, array of armed men, and that the scythe of death
would reap among us a bloody harvest.
My worst fears have already commenced to be realised. On
.the morning of Thursday, the sth of April, between the hours
of seven and eight, within a mile of his own house; and not, I
believe, three miles from the most distant of the scenes tendered
memorable by the murders of Mr. Bake, Mr Long, Mr. Going,
Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Whiny, and many others of lesser note;
on the high road, and from behind the fence, Austin Cooper,
Esq. Kilmore, was barbarously murdered by four (as is sup-
posed) hired assassins: Mr. Wayland, a gentleman who, with
Mr. Cooper's brother, accompanied him, dangerously wounded,
and his horse shot under him: and these fatal shots responded
to by the fire of a party posted on a parallel road which Mr.
Cooper sometimes travelled to Tipperary. But murder is so
common in this "refugium peccatorum," as, in despite of Judge
Moore's judicial decision within the last three weeks, we most
style this '• peciiiiar county," drunk with blood, that to make a
case which will justify our exclamation of horror, we must tell
of this murder, what the cause, and who the victim.
Mr. Cooper was agent to the Board of Erasmus Smith's en-
dowment, and to the See of Cashel. After unexampled for-
bearance and indulgence, he felt compelled, by a sense of duty
to his employers, to dispossess some tenants—not. as he himself
told me, unable, but unwilling, to fulfil their obligations; and
who, emboldened by the anarchy of the county, and the recent
murder in the neighbourhood of an agent who had dared to
eject, refused every offer at compromise. They found to their
surprise, that in honest hands the law could be vindicated; that
Mr. Cooper, though a lamb in gentleness and feeling, was a
hero in principle, and would, at whatever personal risk, dare to
do his duty. 'l'he refractory tenants, to their amazement, were
actually ejected. A price—and it was a poor one ; but murder
is cheap in the training-school of the assassins—was set.upon
his forfeit life. He received several of those private warnings
of which the public knows nothing, and the authorities of the
present day care nothing; but which render this county, we
must again say, notwithstanding Judge Moore's late judicial
decision, an alarmed world." One of his hired assassins had
been some time ago transported for another crime; and, pre-
vious to the last assizes, he had reason to believe that the spirit
of the conspiracy was broken. In the open simplicity of an
honest and generous heart, which would not believe that the
Irish peasant is forgetful only of favours, anti that the affection-
ate gentleness, past and present, of a whole life could nut atone
for one transgression of that mob-rule which is the de facto law
of this demoralised land,—himself too forgetful of that stimulant
.to crime which, however unintentional, had but lately emanated
from the seataif justice, he confided in those whom superstition
had-unlearned, if I may adopt a needful phrase, even the vir-
tues of nature, and paid the penalty of this error—death. This
was the head andfrout of his offending. But who was the victim ?

Austin Cooper was—and I use both terms emphatically—the
most amiable ofChristians. I have known amiable men without
the leaven of holiness. I have known Christian men in whom
one wished to see more, not only of the meekness and gentle-
ness of Christ, but of those bland, unselfish, softer characters,
which even nature can sometimes produce But Austin Cooper
was Cast in nature's finer mould, and of her better clay ; and-.
graCe adopted this tine subject as its own, and stamped it with
the image of God. His was not a religion of mere forms, or
florid professions, but rich in various, ripe, and precious fruit.
Not merely exemplary, but tenderly affectionate in all the do-
mestic relations, as father, husband, son, and hi-other; a steady
friend , in the midst of accumulated and toilsome business, ever
read!, to step aside, at the call of friendship or the cry of want,
and, without bustle or parade, to become the servant of all men
to whom his services could he really beneficial. Generous and
unselfish towards his dependents; munificent in his direct cha-
rities; upright, liberal, and considerate, in his manifold trans-
actions of business; there was in his whole intercourse and
demeanour a meekness and humility, and in his very counte-
nance ar:d address—as in those of his late murdered pastor,
Irwine Whitty—a placid calm, and a winning sweetness, which
facts alone could prove must not have disarmed even the hired
assassin. An active promoter of every charitable and pious
work, his house had been for many years a station of the
Home Nlission.l- Of a temperament eminently domestic and
retiring, he yet felt as a privilege, what all must view as a
serious derangement of domestic economy, the throwing open
his house as an hotel, his offices as public stables, and his dining
room as a chapel, that on every alternative Thursday a mi-
nister of his own church, to which he was devoutly attached,
might there proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ, and
preach to a large, a most respectable and attentive, and, I
trust, a seriously benefitted congregation, that gospel which was
designed to bring " glory to Gud in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men."
I cannot forbear adducing it as a striking proof of the ex-

Aware of the degree to which any vagueness in a statement
weakens its impressions, I detained the above till the 18th of
April, in the hope that I might be enabled to 611, with figures,
blanks, which are now occupied with the words " many,'
" several," •' various.' But 1 found it impossible to ascer-
tain, front any source on which I could rely with confidence,
the precise number of homicides in the county of Tipperary be-
tween the summer assizes of 1837 and the spring assizes of
1838. The secret of Irish crime, and especially of Tipperary
crime, is so faithfully kept by the " tranquillisers of Ireland,"
its safe depositories ( I must not say effective instigators and
aeccsmplices), that unless when parliament interposes, no
authentic information can be obtained. Since the 18th of
April, when 1 forwarded the abOve to the Christian Observer, a
return of thecoinmittals for crime in Ireland during the year
1807 has been published by order of the House of Commons,
pursuant to the act of 56 George 111.. c. 120. But as it is con-
sidered that in Ireland, generally, committals bear to crimes the
ratio of one to six, and in lawless Tipperary a far lesser pro-
portion, this document can furnish but a faint conception of the
meaning which should be attached to the vague terms " many',"
several," " various," which I have been reluctantly com-
pelled to use.
From this parliamentary document it appears, that in the
vear 1837 the comtnittals for murder in all Ireland, exclusive of
Tipperary, were 415; for manslaughter, 130; that in Tippe-
rary alone the cotnmittiils .for homicide—for the Tipperary re:
turn afford no means of distinguishing between murders and
manslaughters; these are, in the Tipperary returns, huddled
together—shall we say with the benevolent view that by mysti-
fying the returns of " the murder county." as it is styled by
some—" the popish county," by others—" a peculiar county,"
by a third high authorttv—public feeling may not be shocked
with the awful preponderance of the higher crime?—ln Tip-
perary alone, the committals for homicide, in 1837, amount to
124—that is, to more than one-sixth of the committals for
homicide in all Ireland. and exceeding, by 13, the number hit-
the 10 ❑orthern Protestant counties!

extract from the Standard newspaper the following re-
marks on the returns to Parliament:—" In order to observe the
progress of Irish crime, it is necessary to take a term : we shail
therefore begin with the year 1823, as giving a repetition of the
convenient and customary cycle of seven years:—

COMMITTALS FOR CHIMES.
1813—Tory a:Ms-government 14.623
1830—Ditto ditu
1837-11ulgrave Tranquillity
An increase upon the first period of ..
An increase upon the second period of
Au aggravation tenfold of the rate of progress in the respective
cvcies.
"But the horrible rapidity of advance will be most clearly
seen by comparing the last two years:—
Crimes. Horn.
• 1836
11.37
An increase in one year of 3,505 .. 102

"This increase of homicides too is all in the murder class—
for the committals for murders in 1836 were stated at 310; and
i-n. 1837 they are, exclusive of Tipperary, 353; and in that
county—the return from which artfully confounds homicides—
there were ten murderers convicted, making certainly 463 com-
mittals for that crime."
I ought not,- perhaps, to have used, even figuratively, so
heathenish a frame as "as appeasing the manes" of these vic-
tims; but assuredly, in the language of Holy' Writ itself, bloom
crieth from the ground ; earth canliot cover it. or darkness.bide
it; and the retributive vent ante' of the Most HirgilVill 4-;:t]
finally sleep, either as respects the agents, the abettors, or those
whose criminal supineness facilitated, if not encouratled, itts
effusion. '4
t Fur the information of some of our rcaders, our correspon-
dent should have explained that the Horne I\llSSiotl Society in
Ireland is not like that which nears the same Dante in I,„ri„,
—a Dissenting institioiou;—but is cat tied on by members of
the Episcopal communion, through clerical azeucv, under the
sanction of some of the prelates of the frisks Church. The late'
A rchliishop Mag.,e was a warn, friend of the society, and is
-said to have remarked to the following effect :—" Gland preach
to the I)e"ple in churches; and if you cannot get churches. in
school-houses and barns; and if vuu cannot get these, beside
hedges and ditches."

The post-office is' lavishing upon theu►intsterial papers a great
deal of money in advet tising throughout the kingdom the ille-
gality of sending letters otherwise than through the post. No
feats of penalties will frighten the smuggler, most simple Cu!.
Moberly ! partly because he has no ability to pay any if you
catch trun,•and that he can laugh at your threats. The habit
has become too settled and necessary to trade to be scared out
of existence by £5O penalties. No, no; instead of throwing
away any part of your decreasing revenue, listen to the advice
of your intelligent solicitor, Mr. Peacock, and Fairly beat the
smuggler out of the field, by performing the work cheaper and
better than he can do it. Employ all your clerks to examine
newspapers, and tell us, good colonel, bow vim will detect the
telegraphic system exposed in the last London and Westmi►sier
Review, which the Post Circular prints for your instruction and
the benefit of the people.

EVASION BY NEWSPAPERS.

Newspapers are an obvious means of evasion. They arewrit-
ten on, pricked, dotted, invisible inks are used, systems of Cyphers
employed, marks are agreed upon, and since the reduction of
of the duty on them, the number sent by post has been nearly
doubled, that is, the risk of detection have been lessened one
half, and the means of evasion made twice as numerous. Au
estimate, or rather a guess, may be made on. the extent of this
evasion from the extent of detection, which, of course, is not a
tithe of it.

The amount of postage charged in Dublin alone, from 6th
July, 1836, to sth January. 1835, containing writing or enclosures,
amounted to a total of £2828 15s and in tie Irish country offices
the amount charred ou newspapers in 1836 amounted t0X2122
9s 11d, and in 1837, to £3196 16- lid
Most of our readers will remember advertisements in the news-
papers, which are really letters; advertisements in which all
letters of the alphabet appear animated by the passions of wan.
Factors address their correspoodent be means of circulars iu
newspapers. " No. [7. You have a remittance this post;"
N. 20. 8I sacks at 18s are sold ;" " No. 27. Yours not vet
received;" "No. 60. Nothing as yet done in you,;." But
the most ingenious of those evasions is the telegraphic system
of addressing newspapers, of which we have been favoured with
a key, which shows how, having once agreed ou a system of sig-
nals' Mr. Brown, of London, may correspond with Mr. Smith,
of Edinburgh.
Mr. John Smith,
• Grocer, Tea-dealer,
1, High-street,
Edinburgh.
Six changes in the mode of the personal address indicate the
dates of the news to be transmitted— ey.
Mr. Smith ....
Mr. John Smith — Tuesday.
r. J. Smit h ..........
J. Smith, Esq .. ThurkdAy. •
John Smith, Esq Friday.
Smith, Esq
The dispatch of goods is intimated by taking the full address
as above —ey. Goods sent on Wednesday.—the newspaper is
addressed, Mr J. Smith, Grocer, &c.
The receipt of goods is understood by the omission of the
trade—ey. Goods received on Friday—the address is John
Smith, Esq., I, High-street, Edinburgh.

EVENTS OF THE MAHKETs—
Ted-dealer alone Prices of Teas rising.
Grocer

Grocer and Tea-dealer .... Sugars rising.
Grocer, Tea-dealer, &c.... falling.
Grocer, &c Markets dull and stationary.
Other information is conveyed by Tea-dealer, &c., Tea-
dealer and Grocer, Tea-dealer, Grocer, &c. —eg Suppose
sugars rise on Monday—the address is Mr. Smith, Grocer and
Tea-dealer, I, High-street, Edinburgh.
Events in money matters indicated by the change in the
mode of writing the locality.
1, High-street Remittances received safely.
H igh-street Bills sent for acceptance.
1, High-5t..... Acceptances received.
—High-St...
'l'his is a system which, though it may not baffle ingenuity to
discover, defies all legal penalties.
But these changes are nut all—red ink, and blue, and black
may all have separate meanings; the seals are often made sig-
nals, and instances occur iu which the same character extends
even to the dashes and ornaments of penmanship.

LINCOLNSHIRE JONATHANISM.—We copy from a local jour-
nal the following morteau :—•` Died, at Batton-upon-Humber,
lately, James Buyers, well known for many years in the north
of Lincolnshire as a horsebreaker. No man living, perhaps,
ever experienced so many fractures from different accidents
with horses; from which causes, probably, he was latterly so
reduced as to be a peifect living skeleton, wearing an iron prop
to keep his head in position above his shoulders. It is a re-
markable fact that about three weeks ago Mr. Money, the
surgeon, was called in to open an abscess iu his mouth, alien a
brood of the common house clock had seated themselves in a
hollow cavity of his jaw where an old tooth had been extracted.
He was latterly very helpless, and his house being infested with
these insects, it is supposed they took possession of their hiding
place when he was asleep."—Stamfod Mercury.

11ops.—MALT.—BnEwErts.—By a return just made to par-
liament, it appears that the total number of acres of land in
Great Britain under the cultivation of hops, in the year 1837,
was £310,794 45.; and that the quantity of hops exported tu
that year was 444,2651 b. That in the year 1837 there were made,
in the United Kingdom, 5,068,842 quarters of malt; 4u0,415
were consumed by retail brewers, the rest by brewers and
victuallers. And, lastly, it appears that in Great Britain, Le-
land, and Scotland, there ate 2743 brewers, 72,822 victuallers.
40,102 persons licensed to seel beer on the premises, and 5292
who are licensed to sell beer not drunk on the premises; and
17,192 who brew' their own beet to be drunk on the premises;
and 16,610 who are licensed to brew beer nut to be drunk on
the premises.

THE FINE PrsAwrity.—We are sorry to say, that after the
police and military had left the fair of Molahiffe, on the evening
of Monday, the fine pisantry amused themselves, to their hearts'
content, with mainiing and slaughtering each other, in the most
Christian catholic and neighbourly manner, without, very proba--
bly, knowing or caring why or wherefirre. In fact, there was a
most desperate riot, or riots, between barbarous hostile factions,
in which numbers of people were severely injured. which will
give the coroners and their attendant doctors f or the dead some
pecuniary claims on this county for holding inquests; and will
also leave some destit me widows and orphans to people the new
poor houses now in contemplation.—Kerry l'ust.

•
cll?Elt.—There has been a very general failure of apple blos-
*nlAti some. of the best cider parishes in this neighbourhood.
The or,charits have been infested. by a caterpillar about half an
;Inch in length, light green sides, dark greet! back, and of a
most plolifit'ljed destructive character. riads of these insects
have heeir ttri itd on,every tree in the districts whet e they base
tirade their appearance, and snipped them not only or their
blossona, but every leaf. The appearance of the trees is truly
distressing, and unless one saw them it would be diffit on to be-
lieve the devastation they have crowd '7ll!e ei:!..es ate without
a loaf, and have these des•ruCtive insects swinging from them
by a sort of web in numberless festoons, awl the 1111,1:hitt is,
that where they have nitrite their appearance, they have not
only destioed the prospect or a crop h,t• the present year, but the
year fotlow:ng. Leaf, blossom, and bud, have all disappeared
beture theiti.—Weiitern 7imes.

LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL.
From Direct. Indirect. From Direct. Indirct.
Calcutta... April .. 1 Pernam... April ..24 ......
Bombay April ..27 Maranham April .. b ...... ,
China N. Orleans
Mauritius .. March. 20 Mobile ..
St. Helena.. Savannah.
Rio Janeiro. . April... 4 Charleston
Bahia -
-April. —ll New •York,May. ••-
PACKET BOATS.—FALMOUTH STATION,
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—June o, ./001. ,
Illuas made' Last Packets .IVext Packets
DESTINATION. ilp ,n Sailed. Due.
.lAm.m.
------ _
--- -
'rues. it Fri. Mon. & Thurs
Holland
Hamburg Si Sweo. Tu,s. & Fria . Tues. & Satur.
..
Regal Tar, Liverpool,
14,5 ,10,T.I'ut Saturda ..
....... ys
J June 4. June 10.
i, 2, !bralt.
in'' (• recce.. 2lielSaturday Tag,t1.5..,
MayM ..,?8.
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~Spey,
tv:., & iIB. A 3 ICS. cacti Itii.th NI ,iy 4. J
America ...... .. lit .W t.(1.,, S. Sheldralse.,Apla,3a.s. S'ilr.a‘li.eu,Jnirti•:.: 17
, J,,ni..i Ipl ..,*(1 Ist t'i'y or 1i.:5!.1. EN r , BNI •
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Carthagena

LIVERPOOL COLIN EXCHANGE, June 9.
During the last seven days the imports of free Grain, Flour, and
Oatmeal have been light, but from,foreign ports the arrivals amount to
upwards of 11,000 quarters of Wheat, 1 680 quarters of Oats, and 6,400
barrels of Flour.—Since Tut•slay,when there was noted a dull market,
with a decline of 2d per bushel on Wheat; Id per bushel on Oats; is
per sack on Flour; and 6 per load on Oatmeal; there has not been
much actual business in the trade' but there is more firmness again as
respects Wheat, and, during the last day or two, there have been
buyers of bonded at ;s 9d to is per 701hs, at which some parcels of good
quality have been sold : 9s 6d to 9s 8d are the quotations for the best
runs of Irish re:l, Os 8(.1 to Ills for English and foreign red, and 10s 3d
to .Its 9,1 per 701hs for white.—Oats have been in very limited request
at 3s id to 3s 3d per 45Ibs, the latter an extreme price.—Flour arid Oat-
meal have met a moderate retail demand at previous rates ; 'Cs to rs 6d
•per 2401bs for the latter, and 49s to 54s per sack for Flour, as in quality.
—Barley continuing scarce, and in request for grinding, choice sam-
ples have brought 5s 6d per 60Ibs.—Beans and Peas as last noted.

PRICES OF SHARES. LIVERPOOI,,,JuNE 11. •
Last Prices This day's
•-•- • , RAILWAYS, Ste. ' 'PeiSliate. Prices.
Birmingham lend Gloucester 2O paid 14.12 . 6 ....
Ditto - and Derby ''M .' . ' 0 0 ti ...
Birkenhead and Chester ... .
10 paid 13 15 0
....
Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 64 0 0..
Chester and Crewe
Eastern Counties . . ••`: .•. .. - 4 5' 0 .... •' •
Edinburgh and Glasgow (old)
• Ditto ditto (new)
Ditto Leith and Newhaven 5 paid 0 0. 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock 4 .... 40 0 ....
Glasgo
and w,
Ayr Paisley, Kilmarnock, 1
5 paid 0 0 0
••••
.
Grand Junction :100 .... '9lBl 0 0 ...:•N .
Great Wektern
(lull and Selby - • lO paid 00 0 ...
Lancaster and Preston
Liverpool and Manchester ..100 .... 206 0 0 ... 206 0 0
Ditto quarter shares • 25 .... 50 00 ..
Ditto half shares 25 .... 70 C 0 ...,
London and Birmingham_, 9O. ... 174 - 0 '0 ...,
' Ditto new quarter shares 5 .... 29 5 0 ...
Ditto 'and .Southampton 50 ..: . 44 15 (1 .....
Ditto, new shares
' -Ditto& Bright.iri fUnited) ll .... 11 ' 7 6 .... 11 7 e
1,1•118 and Manchester .30 .... 48. 0 P .....
Leicester and Swannington 50'.... 74 10 0 ....
Leicester and Swannington, (new) 5 paid .25. 0 0 ....
Manchester. Bolton. & Bury 7B .... 72 10 0 ...
Manchester and Birmingham, 7 .... '8 12 6.. .
Midland Counties ...... ............ 30 "•. 000'• • • •
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... '92 10 0 ....
Ditto quarter 5hare5.......... 25 .... • 23' 5 (3 ....
.•
South Eastern and Dover- •
North Midland3s .... 40 5 0 .... 39 10 7
7 .... • 4 17 6 ....
North Union, (new) 4G . . 65 10 0 ....
Ditto, (old) •. lOO . .
. 75 10 0 ....
St. Helen's and Runcorn Gax 100 paid 00 0 ....
Bank of Liverpool..,.. . .... ZI2 lOs paid .23. 17 ' 6 ....
-- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 19 17 0 .... 19 17 6
-- Liverpool Uni0n........- 10 .... 13:10 0 ...
-- Northern and Central 10 .. • 3 2 6 ..., .
—.--- Albion . • • •' 25 paid '24 10' 0 ....
North and South Wales 10 .... 910.0 ..
Of Manchester • 'lo .... o'o '• 0 ....
Archester & L'pool. Dsct 15 .. . 0. 0 0 ....
; . South Lancashire 7 10; 617 6 ....
Liverpool Banking Company .... 10..... - 0' 0 0..... 10 0 0
Borough Bank
Commercial Bank of England ' 5 .... ' u 0 0 ....
East of England
Phoenix Batik... :::. . -..........: lO ....' 0 0` 0 ....
Royal Bank of Liverpool. 500 ..... 697 10- 0 .....
Wilts and Dorset
. . GAS; WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Buildings.
' L'ponlBc Harrington Water W ork a 200 .... 452 10 0 ....
Bootle Ditto • .. Stock,— . 320 0 0 ....
Liverpool Coat Gas Company Stock ... • 350 0 0 •• • -
Ditto New Shares are now paid up.,
1:0001 New Gas Sc Coke C0:...,6100 .... 196 0 0 ....
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
' Liverpool Marine Assurance C0.£2.5 paid In 2 6 ....
....
Ocean Assurance Company lO 7 2 6 ....
Liverpool Fire and Life - 2 10s. • 9 1 6 ....
DOCKS, -FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &v.
Anderton Carrying Company l2 10s. 12 15 0 ....
‘Woonside Ferry .25 ..'.. 0 0 0 ....
, Egremont Ferry .12 lOs
Rock.' Ferry-
Monk's Ferry l3 ... 70. 0 ....
Steam Tug Company
Barrington Docks... .• ............80 ...... 0 o'. '0 .....
Apothecaries' Company 3 .... 00 0 ....
Asphalte ..( Li verpool).
---- (Poloncenu) . . . . 2
...... 210 0.,,....;

NORTHERN HOSPITAL WEEKLY RLPORI

For the week ending JUNE 9, 1838.

PATIENTS ADMITTED. I
Cured PATIENTS DISCHARGED:
21
Accidents without recommen-
lotion •
Medical and Surgicalcases with Incurable
,
recommendation ......... 7 Died
Relieve & made Out-patientsl 205
'
Remaining in the Hospital.
68

• • -
House Visitors, Jacques MN ers, Esq. and John Rigby, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. H. S. Joseph.—Treasurer, R. W. Bateson,
House Surgeon—Mr. Benjamin Blower.

Donations and Subscriptions received by Messrs. Arthur Heywood
Sous. and Co., and at all the Livereinol Banks.