The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The address on the "Observance of the Sabbath" could not
be postponed till Friday, without interfering with our ar-
rangements fur the despatch of the Standard by the early
mails. It was in type when the request was made.
The remainder of our Literary Notices shall appear in our
next, in which we shall endeavour to find room for an ex-
tract from the interesting volume of tales and sketches by
Mrs. Clark•.
An accident, (the falling out of four columns of type,) pre-
vented us from going to press on Friday at twelve, agree-
ably to our promise on Tuesday last.

Mit 3Liberpool ,Frltantfarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 20, 1838.

SPAIN.—THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF
THE CORTES.—OH the Bth instant the Queen of Spain
went through the ceremony of opening the Cortes.
The speech was, in consequence of late occ*rrences in
the capital, invested with an unusual degree of inte-
rest. The crowd was very, considerable in the streets
leading from the Palace to the Chamber of Deputies,
and the interior of the legislative hall was thronged
with men of all classes, and ladies elegantly dressed.
The Queen Regent having ascended the throne, de-
livered in a faint voice the following speech, which
was listened to in religious silence by the assembly:
" I am rejoiced to find myself among you, at the
moment when you are about resuming your legislative
labours, and trust that you will give me the same
proofs of that enlightened zeal for the public welfare
which.yo❑ afforded me during the last session.
" The treaty of the 22d of April, 1834, concluded
between the Queen (King) of Great Britain, the King
of the French, the Queen of Portugal, and myself,
remains still in force, and the relations of amity which
unite the throne of the Queen of Spain with the other
powers, by whom it has been acknowledged, continue
on the must satisfactory footing.
" I feel the greatest pleasure in announcing to the
Cortes that the Sublime Porte has recognised the
rights of my august daughter, and my heart is peculi-
arly gratified by the part which my powerful ally, the
Queen of Great Britain, took in the success of that
negociat ion.

"Knowing that our enemies receive succours, fur-
nished by powers who have not recognised my august
daughter as Queen of Spain, 1 have instructed my re-
presentatives at the allied Courts to claim their formal
mediation to prevent hereafter those viAations of the
law of nations.

"Since the unfortunate issue of the siege of Morella,
fortune has shown itself less propitious to our arms;
but I confidently trust that the valour, constancy, and
good discipline of our army will lead us again to vic-
tory,. I indulge the hope that you will approve the
levy of 40,000 men and the requisition of horses, lately
decreed without your participation, on account of the
urgency of circumstances.
"It will be necessary to complete various important
laws, which could not be voted last session, and which
are intended to adapt the interior administration of the
state to the existing constitution. Among those on
which you will be called again to decide, I recommend
to you the bill for regulating the powers and attributes
of the municipal councils and of the provincial deputa-
tions, as also those relative to public instruction and
charitable institutions.

"The difficulty of calculating the effects likely to be
produced by the writings which are dail►• published is
a reason why such constant effbrts are made to revise
the laws for regulating the press. If such laws be ne-
cessary at all times, this want of them must necessa-
rily be more keenly felt in times of civil contentions.
For this powerful motive I recommend to your mature
examination a bill that will be submitted to you on
that important subject.
"The brave National Guard discharges throughout
the kingdom, with perseverance and discipline, the or-
dinary service fur which it has been instituted, and en-
gages with eagerness and courage in the pursuit of the
rebels. Nevertheless, its organisation requires to be
improved, and a bill to that effect will be presented to
you this session.

"'file events of the war have shown the necessity
for attending, even at the price of the greatest sacri-
fices, to the preservation and the increase of the navy,
which vies with the land forces in endeavours to up-
hold the constitutional throne.
" I have directed that the vessels of war now in the
arsenals be immediately fitted out for service. A bill
for the organisation of the navy shall be presented to
you, in order that you may provide for present, as well
as future contingencies.
" Trade experiences evils, which are the conse-
quences of the situation of the country. It is ex-
tremely urgent to introduce into the code now in force
the changes for which experience has shown the ne
cessitv. My government will lay before you a bill to
that effect, and, at a later period, submit to your deli-
beration a new commercial code.

" Our transatlantic provinces continue to enjoy the
most perf'ct tranquillity, and 1 receive every fresh
pledge of loyalty from their inhabitants. The com-
mittees appointed in those provinces for the purpose
of drawing up the special laws by which they are
hereafter to be governed, agreeably to the constitu-
tion, are prosecuting their labours with a praiseworthy
assiduity.

" My government, having been authorised to effect
several important ameliorations in the administration
of justice, directs and accelerates with that view the
execution of the works already commenced, and al-
though those works could not, from their nature, be
as ) et completed, the measures most urgently required
by the state ofaffairs in the transition from one system
of legislation to another have been adopted after
mature consideration. My government will take care
to communicate in due time to the Cortes the result
of its deliberations on the reforms to be introduced
into this branch of the administration, which has been
of late the object of its constant attention.
" The public revenues become daily more inade-
quate to the expenditure; and the extraordinary re-
sources which the last legislature so generously grant-
ed my government to cover the existing deficit it has
been found impossible yet to realise. My govern-
ment has been incessantly occupied i❑ devising means
to surmount those difficulties.

" In addition to the general budget of the state, those
of our American 'provinces will be subinitted to von
for the first time, and my government, in its solicitude,
will propose to you the extraordinary means it will
consider practicable to provide for the public expendi-
ture, which the former revenues were insufficient to
cover.

"Immediately after the different works in progress
for improving as much as possible the condition of the
national and foreign holders of our securities shall have
been terminated they will be submitted to your exa-
mination. It is only by restoring public credit that
we can find the means that are absolutely necessary
for the expenditure of the state, and epecially to ad-
minister to the wants of that valiant army which con-
tends with so much glory for that noble cause defended
by the nation, and I trust this will be the principal ob-
ject
jof your solicitude in the present session. It is
under the standard of me august daughter Isabella IL
that is to be found the safety of the constitutional
throne. Let us save it, and with the assistance of
Divine Providence let us hasten to place under her
banner the olive-branch of peace, the only symbol of
our future prosperity."
This speech being read, the session of the Cortes
for 1838 was declared open, and her Majesty, giving
her hand to her august daughter, quitted the hall, and
returned to the palace with the same ceremonies.
The purport of the preceding document is lament-
able in the highest degree. The only cheerful an-
nouncement which it contains, from beginning to end,
is, the intimation that the Grand Turk has acknow-
ledged the title of Isabella to the throne of Spain.
Respecting the issue and prospects of the sanguinary
warfare with the Carlists not one word of encourage-
ment is uttered. The financial affairs of Spai❑ seem
also to be in an equally deplorable condition. Its
commerce is also suffering. Altogether the picture
of Spain, exhibited in this speech, is of the most
gloomy and hopeless character. Such is the result of
a liberalised system of policy.

THE CORPORATION POPERY SCHOOLS.—The more
we reflect on this subject, the greater is our astonish-
ment and indignation at the foul affront the "
corporation of this town has put upon its Protestant
population by the introduction of an experimental sys-
tem of education, possessing the damning recommen-
dation of being sanctioned by a Rornish priesthood.
But why, let us ask, do Protestants tolerate the

pudent indignity, when they have in their own hands
the power of resenting and redressing it, and that too
in a manner the most summary ?

If the corporation, tindet false pretences, have pos-
sessed itself of a trust which it has traitorously be.
frayed, an obvious and facile course presents itself for
remedying the abuse, viz., by hurling the corporate
conspirators from the position that has given them the
power to be msschievous. This we say is an obvious
and easy remedy ;—obvious, inasmuch as madmen,
fools, and knaves ought not to be permitted the use of
weapons with which they might injure themselves or
others;—and easy, because Protestants are stroiwer
than "the strong man armed," and need but to exer-
cise their power to bring disgrace and discomfiture on
the nest of traitors that are unscrupulously plotting
their ruin.

And we call upon our Protestant fellow-townsmen
to use their power, for "is there not a cause ?" What
shall it be said that, in this Christian land, Popery
established her first firm footing in the good old town
of Liverpool, by the expulsion of the Bible from her
schools, and by substituting in its stead the Roman
Breviary, with all its mummery and idolatry ? Shall
the buds that were swelling and germinating un-
der the genial warmth and light of the Gospel, be
suffered to dwindle and decay under the blasting
and pestilential influence of the expounders of
Den's Theology, the upholders of the mass, and
the suppressors of the Bible ? Let every Protestant
who has children make the case his own, and
then let him say, would he feel satisfied to have
his offspring educated in a seminary in which the
standard of Christianity is lowered and degraded to
the same level with books that teach idolatry, which
repudiate and reject the plainest and most essential
points of Christian faith, and which thus make null
and void that testament which has the seal of the Sa-
viour's blood as its warrant ? No, assuredly he would
not; and, therefore, an awful responsibility imposes
itself on him, to exert himself to dispel infection and
contagion from the atmosphete in which his poorer
brethren's children are taught.

While the brilliant and steady light emitted by the
Bible, shone from the beacon of protestantism, and
cast its beams in all directions over the dark, delusive,
and turbid systems that dashed against, and foamed at
its base—many were the errant, and shattered and al-
most sinking vessels, that, bearing up for its friendly
guidance, found a harbour of refuge in which to
repair their injuries, to correct their reckonings, and
to receive on board that compass wnich, with faithful-
ness and accuracy, has pointed them to their destined
and desired port. But that sacred light has been re-
moved, in the instance of Liverpool, b) the sacra•
legious hand of its corporation. The clergy, with one
solitary exception, have honestly protested against the
infamous and diabolical theft ; an 1 with a fortitude
which nothing but a holy cause could inspire, have re-
jected every overture and threat that has been held
out to induce them to yield to a base, and grovelling,
and mongrel species of liberality, that would compro-
mise the word of life by allowing it to be hashed and
minced, so as to suit the depraved palates of those,
who dread its potency to dissipate the errors which,
as a thick cloud, envelope their systems of human
device.

Need we direct the attention of our readers to the
dispute that has been now for some time going on be-
tween the two popish bishops, Mac Hale and Murray,
to show them that the corporation schools in this
town are amply sufficient for every popish pur-
pose ? Mac Hale, with a consistency worthy of a
better cause, and from which we would do well to take
a lesson, insists, that in the national schools Popery
shall be propagated with all its trumpery:—Murray,
with a magnanimity second only to that of our Rev.
James Aspinall, but with better reason, maintains he
has footing enough to enable him to neutralise Pro.
testantistn, and work out signal advantages fur the
furtherance and spread of his darling Den's Theology.

Let Protestants take a lesson from Mac Hale. You
believe that the Bible is the gift of the Giver of all
Good; suffer, therefore, no mutilation or adulteration
of it in your schools ; insist on its being an unsealed
book, to captivate the hearts and understandings of
the young,—for the Giver has said, " Suffer little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not."

The clergy have done much, and they have still
much to do. This question is a vital one, and should
claim their unceasing attention in addressing their
several congregations. Let this be the case, and we
opine the day is not far distant when the machinations
of Popery will meet with a signal overthrow, by the
triumph of a Bible-loving people.

We earnestly hope that the Council will to-morrow
negative the unnecessary and uncalled for measure of
building warehouses, and hope that it is needless for
us to exhort every conservative to be at his post. Al.
ready do certain parties connected with warehouses
threaten, should this measure ever pass, to lay the
parish rate on all stock in trade and merchant ship
ping, without which, as all our readers are aware, no
rate is legal. This scheme being unjust, will set the
different interests in prime strife with one another;
instead of working well together, as heretofore, for

the prosperity of our noble port and their own mutual
advantage. No man can see his way through the M.
ficulties which at this stage on every side surround
this measure, but by its immediate and unconditional
rejection.

SIR GEORGE ARTHUR.—Iu another column will be
found a letter from an intelligent and respectable cor-
respondent, resident in Canada, containing a refu-
tation of the malignant calumnies of the Whig
Radical press against the excellent Lieutenant-
Governor of Upper Canada. The same corre-
spondent, in a private note accompanying his com-
munication, dwells with much force upon the de-
structive interference of Hume and his party in the
affairs of Canada, attributing all the atrocities which

have been perpetrated in the colony to their influence.
The day is, perhaps, not far diStant, when this arch.
traitor and his confederates will be caught in their own
snares, and be made to expiate the offences which they
have committed against the monarchy and the consti-
tution of Great Britain. - They, together with O'Con-
nell, we are convinced, will yet find the law too strong
for them.

CIRCULATION OF THE LIVERPOOL NEWSPAPERS.—
Several of our contemporaries have already published
extracts from the last returns 'of the number of stamps
issued to the metropolitan and provincial newspapers.
We subjoin a comparative statement of the circulation
of the Liverpool journals for the two periods embraced
in the return.

The following is a statement of the number of
stamps issued to each of the Liverpool papers from
the Ist of April to the 30th of June inclusive, together
with the weekly average of each :

Average of
Name of Paper. April. May. June. Publication.
Mercury 26,000....24,000....32,000....6,308
Albion 11,000....12,000....14,000....2,846
Mail 12,000.-20,000.-20,000.-4,000
Standard 8,000.... 8,000.... 5,000.-1,770
Courier 9,000.-12,000.— 3,000—.1,846
Chronicle 8,000.... 8,000.... 8,000.-1,846
Journal 6,000.... —....12,000.-1,384
Gore's
Times
Myers' Advtr 5,000.... 4,000.... 4,000.-1,000
This statement, supposing that each journal was
supplied with the number of stamps required for its
bona fide consumption, will show the amount of circu-
lation possessed by each during the above quarter.
We now proceed to state the number of stamps issued
to each during the three months ending on the 30th
of September, together with the average weekly
circulation of each newspaper :

Average of
Name of Paper. July. Aug. Sept. Circulation.
Mercury 28,000....24,000....32,000....6,461
Albion 13,000....
Mail ...... 4,000.-12,000.-12,000.-2,154
Standard 7,000—.11,000._ 8,000....2,000
Courier 6,000.... 9,000.... 9,000.-1,846
Chronicle 8,000.... 8,000.... 8,000.-1,846
Journal .... 9,000.... 9,000....1,384
Gore's 5,500.... 6,500 ... 5,500....1,346
Times
Myers' Adv tr 4,000.... 4,000.... 4,000.... 923
According to these comparative statements, and pro-
ceeding on our former supposition, that each newspa-
per has, during each of these periods of three months,.
only ordered as many stamps as were requisite for its
consumption, We find that

The Mercury has increaud 153 in weekly circulation,
The Mail has decreased 1,846 Ditto.

The Standard has increased 230 Ditto.
Gore's Advertiser decreased 38 Ditto.

Tile Times has decreased 154 Ditto.
Myers' Ad vertiserdecreased 77 Ditto.

The Courier, Chronicle, and Journal present no
variation in the weekly average for the above periods.
With respect to the Albion (*) it is but fair to state,
that the proprietor has charged the teturn with inaccu-
racy, no credit having been given for 13,000 stamps
supplied ►n August. Adding I hese to the above
amounts the average circulation of the -4/bion for the
latter three months would be 2,538, showing a de
crease of 30S.

We do not include the Lancashire Herald in our
calculations, as the return only includes the first two
months of its existence. This would scarcely afford a
fair criterion to judge of the amount of its circulation.

We have no reason to feel dissatisfied with the posi-
tion occupied by the Liverpool Standard. The in-
crease in out circulation since the enlargement of our
journal, though slow, has been steady and progressive.
At present it exceeds ti►e average which we have
given above.

We are happy to hear, that Captain Townley, of the
Avon, who is so well known and restrtcted on this station, is
nominated to the command of the Merlin, the first of the
large Admiralty steamers built fur this station.
ISLE OF MAN STEAM•PACKET COMPANY.—We under-
stand that the directors of this company have declared another
dividend of 10 per cent., which, we doubt not, will prove
highly satisfaclory to the shareholders, and operate as an
inducement to renewed exertions.

Ma. BLUNDELL'S WILL—The questions raised as to the
validity of the bequests to the Vicars Apostolic of the Lon.
don and Midland districts have been settled to the mutual
satisfaction of all patties concerned; so that those gentlemen
of the long robe will be disappointed in their expectations
of a rich harvest of fees. The sum to be received by the
bishops is about £70,000. Under the same arrangements
the other clerical legacies have been recognised.—Catholic
Magazine.
THE CHASF.—The Cheshire Hounds will meet on Wed
nesday, the 21st, at Cholmoudelev•castle; on Thursday, the
22d, at Wrenhury; on Saturday, the 24th, at Windmill on
Ravensmoor. At half-past ten o'clock.—Mr. Leghe's Fox-
hounds will meet this day, (Tuesday,) the 20th, at Handlf•y ;
on Friday, the 23.1, at Chorhon-hall ; on Saturday, the 24th,
at Sarn-bridge; on Tuesday, the 27th, at Overton-bridge ;
on Thursday, the 29th, at Allan Sadler's; on Saturday, Dec..
Ist, at. Churton; on Tuesday, the 4th, at Worthenbury; on
Thursday, the 6th, at Pen y lan ; on Saturday, the Stb, at
Hampton-heath. At half-past ten.

THIC EXCHANGE NEWSROOM —This room. spacious as it is,
having become too small for the accommodation of the nu-
merous subscribers who frequent it, the Committee have re-
solved to enlarge it, by taking in the vacant space at the
north end. The bar and the master's room are to be thrown
to the extreme back, by which a space equal to one-third of
the present extent of the room will be gained, and devoted
to the use of the subscribers. The alterations will, we hear,
he completed early in the ensuing year. The staircase lead-
ing to the Underwriters' Room will, when the alterations are
made, lie front the north end, in the passage leading from
Exchange-street East.
AR RIVA LS AT Tilt GRAN JUNCTION HOTEL.—Miss Fitz-
mayer, Archdeacon of Kildare, J. Farquerson, Esq., J.
Chamberline, Esq., Captain Sparkes, Mrs. M`lver and
Family, Mr. Hamilton Law, Edward Johnston, Esq., J.
Richardson, Esq., W. 11 B ',marl. Esq., W. Moutajoy,
Esq., Captain Dundass, C. Owens, Esq., Mr. and Mrs.
Thompson and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Henshaw and Family.
Mr. and Mrs. Briskham, C. H. Barr, Esq., W. Campbell,
Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and Family, Captain Stanley, H.
Cox, Esq., Sir Charles Smith, Major Bourne, C. H. Saudi-
land, the Lady of Mr. Palmer, Sir John Cope, Bart., lion.
Captain Poulett, R.N., W. H. Beswick, Esq., the Rev. H,
Watling, W. H. Lumley, Esq., C. Holt, Esq.

Tne MuuDER.-10 the Court of Queen's
Bench, on Tuesday last, Mr. Wightman, in the case the
King r. Caicrof, applied to their lordships to fix a day on
which the defendant might come up to receive the judgment
of the Court. lie had been convicted at the last Liverpool
Assizes, of abstracting a witness in a case of murder, and
judgment had been passed without the defendant appearing.
lie was extremely poor, and could not remain in London
for any time without very great inconvenience. Lord Den-
man thought it better that they should adhere to the rule laid
down. The application must come on in the form of a mo-
tion at the end of the term'

THE WIDOW op THOMAS PASS —lt will be recollected,
that, at the late disastrous fire, an unfortunate man, named
Thomas Pass, was killed by one of the explosions. We are
glad to find, that a subscription has been (11mfled for the
widow, to which we take the liberty of calling the atten-
tion of the benevolent. About thirty-six individuals, exclu-
sive of the master butchers, have already contributed. The
latter have, collectively, subscribed £l4 Ills. Amongst the
names we see that of our Chief Magistrate. The total
amount received is £24 4s. The poor woman is, of course,
exceedingly grateful to those who have stepped forward to aid
her in her distress. We hope the sum will be so far augmented
as to be of permanent advantage.

PROFOSED ALTERATION OF 'CHANGE Houtts.—We men-
tioned some time ago, that the merchants were desirous of
abridging the hours of business, the arrival of the London
mail in the morning removing all necessity for the long houti
which previously obtained. The mercantile associations have
had the subject under consideration, and, with a view of en-
forcing an alteration iu 'Change hours, they have suggested,
through Mr. Nicol, as then chairman, to the Committee of
the Exchange Newsroom the propriety of closing the room,
every day, between the hours of four and five o'clock. The
Committee have, very properly, declined to give any opinion
on the subject, the decision of which they intend to leave to
the subscribers at large. To obtain that decision, each sub-
scriber will, in the course of the next month, be requested to
sign a voting paper for or against, the proposal, and by the
decision of the majority the Committee will, of course, be
guided.—Albion.
A SEAT. KILLED NEAR SOUTHPORT.—There is now at the
house of Mr. Alcock, Upper Dawson-street, in this town, a
seal that was killed, a few days ago, on the shore between
Southport and Formby, by three brothers, who are fisher-
men. This atnphibinus creature, (with the habits and econo-
my of which most of our readers are no doubt acquainted,)
was discovered in the night, by one of the men, to a gut or
hollow of the sand, left by the retiring tide; and as it flew at
him, anti made its peculiar balking noise, he at first, seeing
it but imperfectly, supposed it to be a large white dog, and,
in self-defence, struck it with a pole in his hand. His com-
panions observing the conflict came up to his assistance, iind
all of them being somewhat alarmed at the formidable ap-
pearance of so unusual an assailant,' hey despatched it by blows
on the head with their sticks, continued for a time commen-
surate with its extraordinary tenacity of life. It is stated
that it directed its hostility almost exclusively against the in-
dividual who first struck it The animal is about four feet in
length from the snout to the extemity of the hinder fins
or membranes, with which it is provided in lieu of legs, and
which are extended backward in the direction of the tail, and
are each terminated by five bi-cleft claws, having the appear-
ance of hands. The head, the nose being whiskered with
strong black hair.—resembles that of a bull dog, but with
very small ears. The body is round and plump, tapering,—
somewhat fish-shaped,—to the tail; and it is covered with a
short hard hair, partly bristled up, and of the colour of raw
silk. Its weight is between 50 and 6011,5. Mr. Alcock, we
understand, purposes having it stuffed, and added to his
small collection of curiosities in natural history. The seal
is, we believe, very rarely seen on the shores of Lancashire.

ANGLKSEY HUNT.—PRESERVATIoN OF LlFE.—This hunt,
during the preceding week, was kept up with unprecedented
glee and spirit, and Beaumaris gathered, on the occasion, R
large assemblage of the beauty and chivalry of the island.
Miss Williams, Fryars, lady- patroness, in the absence of
Miss Jones, Llvnon ; J. G. Johnston, Esq., z!omptroller; H.
Beaver, Esq,, deputy. H. Beaver, Esq., was nominated
comptroller for the next hunt; Yorke, Esq., deputy;
and Miss M. S. Williams. lady patroness. After dinner on
Wednesday, the 7th instant, a very interesting incident oc-
curred :—Sir Richard Bulkely took occasion to present to
Owen Roberts, of Pennon, a beautiful silver medal, awarded
to him by the " institution for the preservation of Ele from
Shipwreck," for his gallant services, on many occasions, in
the Pentnon life-boat; but more particularly in saving the
crew and passengers of a sloop on her beam ends, five miles
N.E. of Puffin Island, when the life-boat was eight hours
before it reached the shore, buffeting the billows of a dread-
ful night, in total darkness.—The hon. baronet stated that it
was not known so generally as it ought to he, that a society,
supported by subscription, had been established in this
county, for providing the best boats, and other means of
saving life, and for rewarding those who signalized themselves
in saving their fellow-creatures. It first came into operation
in 1829, and up to the present there had been saved, on the
shores of this county alone, by the boats 'or other means of
the institution, 148 human beings from the terrors of instant
death by shipwreck. The Penmon life-boat was placed on
that station in 1831, and that one boat had saved 42 lives;
and of these, Owen Roberts had been concerned in saving
twenty-six.

APOTHECARIES' all..—We may now congratulate the
public on the completion of this most useful establishment,
the retail shop having been opened on Monday last, It is,
decidedly, one of the handsomest buildings in the town; and
we scarcely know which to admire most, the splendid design
of the architects, Messrs. Cunningham and Holme, or the
manner in which they have been executed by the different
tradesmen. Mr. Unsworth, the principal contractor, in his
choice of woods and excellent workmanship, deserves the
highest credit, as does, also, Mr. Tapley for the masonry,
(splendidly executed,) Mr. Perry for the brickwork, Messrs.
Crellin and Holt for the plumbing, &c. The most attractive
part of the building is the front retail shop, which, we venture
to say, i❑ point of splendour and style, has never been sur-
passed, if equalled, in this part of the country. The plaster-
ing, plain and ornamental, has been executed by Mr. Burns,
in his usual excellent manner. The painting and gilding,
particularly the ceiling, enrichments on the cornice, pillars,
caps, &c., as, also, the labeling of the bottles and drawers, by
Mr. H K. Willacy, gives a beautiful finish, and completes
the effect of the whole. We trust the effort of the promoters
of this undertaking will not be overlooked. It is an institu-
tion which has long been wanted; and, whether we view it as
useful or ornamental, it is one of which the town may justly
boast.

Arrivals at the Rainbow Hotel, Basnett-street, within the
last fortnight :—Count De Horroville and suite ; Baron De-
lapere and ; Signor Ricariiini and family ; P. Green-
all, Esq. ; Major Pilkiuton and family ; Captain Lovel ; V.
Love), Esq. and family ; W. M. Jones, Esq., J. Berri, Esq.,
W. B. Davit, Esq., W. E. Davis, Esq., florsweli, Esq. ;
Mrs. Chariaton and family; Mr. and Mrs. Robinson and
family; Captain Walker, W. Lathom, Esq., Captain Rutter,
J. Smith, Esq., M. Lewis, Esti.. J. T. Knowles, Esq., It. J.
Forber, Esq., L. W. Bell, Esq.; Mrs. Jackson and son ;
Mrs. B. Ackers and two sons; Morley, Esq., H. Rocliff,
Esq., B. Rocliff, Esq., J. Steward, Esq., H. Brimlow, Esq ;
Mons. La Fell and Son.
IRON Vassals.—Mr. John Laird, the builder of the Rain-
bow steamer, which makes the most rapid passages ever made
between London and Antwerp, and vice versa, has now laid
down, at his yard, North Birkenhead, half-a-dozen vessels,
which will be wholly constructed of iron. Among- them IS a
steamer of nearly WO tons. The lronside, mentioned in cos
last, the first iron ship Witt in this port, sailed on Wednes-
day, for Pernambuco. She looked extremely well as she
proceeded down the river. Next day she was seen off the
Kish Bank, all taell. We have heard that the President,
intended as the companion of the British Queen, in the New
York trade, will be constructed of iron. Her tonnaze will,
it is said, exceed 2500 tons, and she is expected to carry 1500
tons of fine goods!
THE COTTON MARKET.—The market, es will be seen on
refeiring to the Commercial Intelligence head, has been un-
usually active during the week. The sales reached the very
large quantity of nearly 47,000 bales. Tha computed stock
of cotton is now 352,300 hales, against 178,2110 at the corres-
ponding period last year: difference, 174,10 j bales. The
import has nearly ceased; and, before the produce of the new
crop can he brought into the market, in any considerable
quantity, the demands of the trade, for consumption, may be
expected very sensibly to reduce the stock in the port. The
next four or five weeks will be extremely interesting to the
sellers and the buyers of cotton.