The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

MARRIED.

On the 4th instant, at St. Paul's Church, by license, Mr.
JOHN MILLER, builder, Nash-grove, to Mrs. ALICE LEDSON,
widow of the late Mr. George Ledson, cooper, of this town.
On the 15th instant, THOMAS BANKS, Esq., of this town,
to MARY, the only daughter of the late HENRY LEWIS, Esq.
of Newport.
Same day, at St. Nicholas's Church, Mr. OLIVER MASON
PLATO, of the Packut•ship Oxford, to SARAH ANN, second
daughter of the late BENJAMIN MAXWELL, of this town.
On the 19th instant, at Walton, Mr. WILLIAM PARKER to
MARY, the second daughter of Mr. WATKINS, plumber and
glazier.
Same day, at St. Paul's Church, Mr. FRANCIS PRATT to
Mrs. MARGARET HAWDEN, of this town.
Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. JOHN MILBURN to
Miss ANNE DIX.

Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Hardman-street, Mr. JOHN
ATHERTON, watch case maker, to Miss MARGARET PIER-
POINT.,

Same day, at St. Michael's Church, Mr. CHARLES SMALL,
of Lower Spar ing.street, Wapping, hairdresser, to Miss ANN
NEAL, daughter of Mr. Edward Neal, of Ipswich, veterinary
surgeon.

(In the 26th instant, at St. Nicholas's Church, Capt. JAMES
BURRELL, of the Clown, of Glasgow, to Mrs. ELIZABETH
HARDEN.

Same day, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Mr. VVM.
HAYLAND SLOANE, to ELIZA MARGARET, daughter of
the late Mr. JOHN GILCHRIST, of that town.

Same day, at Lee, Kent, by the Rev. George Lock, WILLIAM
BOVILL, Esq., of the Middle Temple to MARIA, eldest
daughter of J. H. BOLTON, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, London,
and of Lee.

Same day, at Hauxwell-hall, by the Rev. J. Monson, M.A.
Chaplain to the Queen, FREDERICK GORDON CHRISTIE,
Esq. 13th Prince Albert's Light Infantry, only son of Sir Archi-
bald Christie, K.C.H, Deputy-Governor of Sterling Castle, to
AUGUSTA, second daughter of the late Colonel COORE, of
Scruton-hall, and Firby, Yorkshire.

Same day, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, London,
Mr. J. WELSBY, surgeon, of Prescot, Lancashire, to Miss
MARY BIRCH ALL, of Knowsley, in the same county.
Same day, at St. John the Baptist's Church, Toxteth park,
by the Rev. J. Hastall, M.A., ROBERT HALL, Esq., Lieutenant
R yal Navy, to TERESA BRIDGET, second daughter of the
late THOMAS TUNSTALL, Esq., formerly of Preston-le-
Skerne, county of Durham.
Same day, at St. John's Church, Chester, TANAT WYNNE
DENTON, Esq., M.D., of Denbigh, to MARGARET ALICE,
only surviving daughter of the late JOHN COLLEY, Esq., of
this town.

Onthe2lst instant, at the Asylum Episcopal Church, Dublin.
by the Rev. John O'Grady, Captain CHARLES C. DEACON,
61st Regiment, to MARY ELIZA, daughter of the late Capt
ALEXANDER ROSE, Limerick.

Same day, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, London,
WILLI kM WARD, Esq. of Bowhill-terrace, Brixton-road, to
HELEN ROSANNA, youngest daughter of the late CHARLES
COATES, Esq , of Slough, Bucks.
Same day, at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. J. Cordeaux,
Captain HENRY MOUNSEY, of the brig Maypo, to ADAH,
second daughter of THOMAS CURWEN, Esq., of Beckerment,
Cumberland. _

On the 22nd instant, at St. John the Baptist's Church, Tox-
teth-park, by the Rev. T. Nolan, M.A., Mr. LOT FOULKES,
to MARY, eldest daughter of the late Mr. EDWARD CORNEY,
of Whitby.

On the ?sth inst , Mr. JOHN DRAPER to Miss ELIZABETH
BATES CULLER, daughter of George Bates Cutler, Esq.,
printer, New York.

DIED.

Lately, at Cramra, county Galway, in her 69th year, the Hon.
Mrs. A. NUGENT. She was daughter of Andrew, first Viscount
De Vesci, and married Andrew Savage Nugent, Esq.
At Tannochrae, parish of Glenluce, aged 98 years, Mr. FER-
GUS M'MASTER.

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At Northampton, in her 95th year, ELIZABETH WATSON.
On the sth May, at sea, aged 18, THOMAS, son of Mr.
JOHN GRIFFITHS, plasterer, of Brovvnlow-hill. He fell from
the rigging of the ship Mary Lloyd, on her passage from Syd-
ney to this port, and was drowned.
On the 23rd ultimo, aged 3g, Mr. JOHN GIBE, millwright
and engineer, Cable street.
On the 31st ultimo, at Kilmore, Ireland, the Very Reverend
RICHARD CUROE, P.P. at the advanced aged of 102, being
the 72nd of his ordination and the 65th of his ministry in the
same parish.
On the 6th instant, in this town, WILLIAM, eldest son of
the late Mr. JOSEPH WRIGHT, East Glen, Newabbey.
On the 10th instant, in William Henry-street, JAMES, fourth
son of the late Mr. JOHN COLLIER, merchant, formerly of
Kingston, Jamaica.

Same day, aged 82 years, Mr. GEORGE SHATWELL, Mac.
clesfield.

Same day, aged 78, Mrs. MARY CROSS, Ricbmond.row.
On the 11th instant, aged 47, Mr. JOHN HUGHES, Prince
of Wales Tavern. Copperas hill.

On the 14th instant, aged 67, Mrs. ELIZABETH JONES,
Knigh'-street.

Same day, at Maryport, after a short but severe illness, aged
50, Mr. JOHN REED, formerly of this town.
Same day, aged 80, Mr. JAMES WOOD, paper maker, Ship-
ley.
On the 15th instant, in his oth year, HENRY HORDEN,
Esq., of Dunstall Hall, in the county of Stafford.
Same day, at Lewens, Wimborne Minister, Dorset, ELIZA-
BETH. the wife of the Rev. JOHN BASKETT.

On the 16th instant, at Stamford-grove East, Upper Clapton,
in the 72d year of his age, JAMES CHAMBERS HUNTER, Esq.,
late of the Tax•oflice, London.

Same day, at Morn'ington-erescent, aged 63 years, JACKSON
WALTON, Esq., of Warnford-court, London.
Same day, at Hexgrave Park, Notts, aged 6u years,RICHARD
MILWARD, Esq

Same day, at Maida-hill, London, aged 41, R. WILLIAM
CURRIE, Esq., late 3d Dragoon Guards.
Same day, ALFRED REID, youngest son of Mr. WILLIAM
TAYLOR. Tenterden-street.

Same day, at Ambleside, SARAH, second daughter of W.
BRIGGS, M.D., of that place, formerly of this town.
Same day, aged 3d, Mr. JOHN SOUTHELL, Tith,barn-street.
On the 17th instant, at his brother's residence, Cowley-house,
near Uxbridge, NASH CROZIER HILLIARD, Esq., of Gray's-
inn, and Southampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, ondon.
Same day, at Rosamond-place, Chorlton-upon-Medlock,
aged two years and six months, BENJAMIN EDWARD, son of
BENJAMIN BLINKHORN, late of St. Jude's-terrace, in this
town.

Same day, at Bury St. Edmund's, in the 76th year of his
age, Captain GOATE, C.B.
Same day, aged 52 years, Mrs. ESTHER KENWORTHY, of
Grosvenor-street, Staleybridge.
Same day, in her 84th year, ELIZABETH, relict of the late
JOHN SALE, Esq., of Haslingden.
Same day, aged IS years, MARGARET, wife of Mr. T.
CAPRON, of Essex, late of this town, and daughter of Mr. T.
Rawland, Christian-street.

Same day, aged 26 years, Mr. JAMES SCRAWL Richmond.
row.

Same day, at Birkenhead, aged 35, Mrs. SMITE'.
Same day, at Pontefract, in his Beth year, Mr. EDWARD
WARRINGTON.

On the leth instant, at Hereford, in the 80th year of his age
W. SYMONDS, Esq., M D.
Same day, at Cheltenham, the Rev. GFORGE LAWRENCE.
Same day, at DogmersSeld Park, LETITIA, the youngest
daughter of the late Sir HENRY ST. JOHN MILDMAY,
Bart.

Same day, at Croydon, Surrey, in his 70th year, the Rev.
RICHARD HUNTER, Rector of Newham-cum-Maple Durwell,
Hants.

. Same day, at No. 1,, York-terrace, Everton, Mrs. WYLIE,
of Glasgow, widow of the late John Wylie, Esq., formerly of
Everton.

On the 19th instant, aged two years, GEORGE HENRY,
eldest sou of Mr. HENRY STAFFORD, Church-street.
Same day, at Birkenhead, in her 7th year, SARAH, eldest
danghter of Mr. EDWARD WILLOUGHBY.
Same day, aged 20, JOHN, eldest son of Mr. JAS. SWINTON,
-farmer. Lower Walton, Cheshire.
On the 21th instant, at the Grove, Bungay, Suffolk, aged 80
years, ROBERT BUTCHER, E-q.
Same day, at London, aged 43 years, EDWARD TROWARD,
Esq., youngest son of the late Richard Troward. Esq.
Same day, at London, in his 76th year, RICHARD MAUN-
SELL PHILLIPS, Esq., of Coelgian, Carmarthenshire.
Same day, at his residence, St. Mary's-house, Whitchurch,
Shropshire. in the 67th year of his age, Mr. CHURTON, uni-
versally respected and sincerely lamented.
Same day, at the house of Mr. Joseph Wickstead, RY leY -
gar 'ens, aged II years, Mr. JOHN WILKINSON, late of
Kirkham, Lancashire.

Same day, at the house of her son, Mr. William D. Stevenson,
of Great George-street, aged 50 years, Mrs. RUTH STE-
VENSON.
Same day, at her daughter's residence, Green-bank, Rock-
ferry, aged 76, Mrs. MARTHA MAJOR.
Same day, at Farsley, Yorkshire, in her 81st year, Mrs. JANE
DEAN.

Same day, at Crewe, aged 5 months, HENRY ROBINSON,
son of Mr. OWEN OWENS, Grand Junction Railway Com-
pany.

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Same day, at Otley, Suffolk, aged 83, the Rev. JOHN YOUNG.
Same day, at the house of Mr. Joseph Wickstead, Ryley's-
gardens, aged 51 years, Mr. JOHN WILKINSON, late of
Kirkham, in this county.

Same day, at the Grove, Bungay, Suffolk, aged 80, ROBERT
BUTCHER, Esq.
On the 21st instant, aged 82 years, Mr. THOMAS CHAP-
MAN, of Virgil-street.
Same day, aged 31, ager a short illness, at his residence, 82,
Leeds-street, Mr. OWEN WILLIAMS, eldest and beloved son
of Mr. Richard Williams, Great Mersey-street, Kirkdale. His
loss will bt much regretted by a large circle of friends and
acquaintance.
On the 22nd instant, aged 83, Mr. JOSH. DAWSON, formerly
a drysalter, of Yeadon, near Leeds.
Same day, at Barwood-house, near Bury, the residence of
the Rev. Andrew M`Lean, JESSIE MARSHALL, infant
daughter of Mr. CHARLES CLARK, Birkenhead.
Same day, aged 13 months, STEPHEN, son of Mr. THOS.
ALDERSON, gas-colector, 22, Upper Hill-street.
Same day, at St. Paul's Church, Captain J. W. FOY to JANE,
eldest daughter of JAMES WARREN, Esq., of Dublin, nephew
of the late Sir W. Stamer, Bart.
Same day, at Edinburgh, by the Right Bev. Bishop Terrat,
JACKSON TOWNSEND, Esq., of this town, to PAULINE
FRANCES, youngest daughter of FELIX YANIEWICZ, Esq.,
of Edinburgh.
On the 23rd instant, aged 40, Mr. JAMES CLOUGH, of this
town.
On the 24th instant, at Walton-on-the-Hill, aged 20 years,
ANNE LOUISA. second daughter of the late WALKER
SKERRETT MORSON, Esq. M D., of Antigua.
Same day, at Woodside, Mr. JOHN FLETCHER, late of
Alfred-place, Toxteth-park.
Same day, ELIZABETH, relict of Mr. JOHN BLEASE.
Same day, aged 64, JAMES HAGARTY, Esq. Consul for the
United States at this port.
Same day, at his residence, Renshaw-street, aged 66 years,
Mrs. ROBINSON, formerly of Lancaster.
On the 25th instant, at Elm-cottage, Tranmere, aged 8 years.
ELIZA MARGARET, youngest daughter of Mr. ROBERT
ROBERTSON.
Same day, at her residence, Halton, near Runcorn. in her 89th
year, ANN. relict of the Rev. RICHARD BLYTHE. Highly
respected and much regretted, this aged widow has descended
to the tomb, leaving her sorrowing relatives to deplore the
removal of one whom through life they affectionately revered.

A CORIOVS VERDICT.—So much has been said in par-
liament, and in the newspapers lately, of gentlemen of the
turf, and the very dubious nature of that appellation, that
the following ,^ase comes curiously in point. A question
arose as to the winner of the stakes in a race, there having
been a condition that the horses should be ridden by gen-
tlemen ; and it was disputed whether the winning horse
had been ridden by a gentleman or not. The judge
finally addressed the jury in these words: " Gentlemen
of the jury, when I see you in that box, I call you gentle-
men, for I know you are such. Custom has authorised
me, and, from your office there, you are entitled to be
called gentlemen ; but, out of that box, Ido not know
what may be deemed the requisites that constitute a gen-
tleman ; therefore I can give you no direction." The jury
returned a verdict, that he was not a gentleman. The
next morning, he challenged the two counsel, Law and
Scott. They answered, they could not possibly fight one
who had been pronounced by the verdict of a jury to be
no gentleman —Blackwood's Magazine.
SOMNAMBU usm.—A Smyrna journal gives the follow-
ing extraordinary account of a somnambulist .—" In:the ca-
pital of the island of Syria, there is a young man from a
town on the border of the Black Sea, aged about eighteen
years, tall in stature, and of robust constitution, who
went to Syria to follow his studies at the Gymnasium.
It frequently happens, that, almost immediately after
falling asleep, be gets up and makes most remarkable de-
clamations Sometimes he recites very long speeches
from Xenophon with perfect correctness, although when
awake he cannot remember more than a few lines. One
night he wrote the theme he had to deliver the next day.
In the morning, having overslept himself, be was vexed at
not having time to prepare himself for bis tutor: but
great was his astonishment at finding on his table his sti-
pulated composition, written in his own hand, folded, and
ready to be given in. The professor was surprised at
finding it so Pell done, and still more so when the young
scholar became embarrassed, and unable to answer certain
questions put to him on the subject. Doubts were enter-
tained as to its being his own work ; but a companion who
slept in the same room with him came voluntarily forward
and declared, that in the night he saw his fellow-student
sitting at the table, writing, and calling upon his father to
assist him ir. composing his theme. When in a state of
somnambulism, he plays at cards, and uniformly wins.
This is attributed to his having his faculty at that time of
knowing what cards were in the hands of the rest of the
party. When in this state, also he has been taken by his
companions to a tavern ; and when, after eating and
drinking with them, he awoke, and was greatly astonished
at finding himself where he was. It appears, that, in his
somnolescent state, his sense of feeling is entirely sus-
pended, while all the other senses are alive and active.
At first, the slightest touch would wake him ; but now he
is totally insensible to any violence, even that which
would in others, or in himself, when awake, produce acute
pain. In general, on coming out of his state of somnambu-
lism, he is so weak and languid as to faint away. One
fact is more extraordinary than the rest, One day, when
in his dormant state, he announced that three persons,
whom he named, were coming to see him. In an hour
after, these three persons entered his room."

Ebt Etherpool

TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 2, 1344.

The detailed information, which we now have
from the scene of operations on the coast of Mo-
rocco, has tended very materially to relieve the na-
tional mind. France, we know now, is not that
great naval power which we were taught to believe
she had become—which British senators and even
British sailors had mistakingly described her ; and
her pet admiral, the Prince de Joinville, has shewn
in this affair, that there is more of the jackanapes
than the hero is his composition—that he is more at
home when blustering in a pamphlet than when
blowing up a fortress. The whole history of French
incapacity at sea—the whole series of her past de-
feats upon that element—does not present an in-
stance of failure so ridiculous and conduct so con-
temptible as is to he seen in this effort against Tan-
gier, which, in all its features, more strongly re-
minds u:; of that great exploit of a former king of
France, who,

" with fifty thousand men,
Marched up the hill and then—marched down again,"

than any achievement on record.
France has never been, in her hest days, a naval
power. She has striver. to become so, ardently and
earnestly, for years past; and perhaps never were
her hopes more sanguine, that she had at length ,
obtained a prominent position upon the seas, than
at the present moment. If this, therefore, is a fair
specimen of her improved powers upon that ele-
ment; if the Prince de Joinville be a fair specimen
of a French commander, and his fleet a fair speci-
men of the efficiency of the French navy at the pre-
sent day ; Great Britain need be under no appre-
hension of being reduced into the position prophe-
sied for her by The National, of " a third-rate mari-
time power," or of seeing her proud rival progress
very far in the course of aggrandisement abroad,
which she has marked out for herself, and has o'
late been pursuing. We need fear the influence of
no colonial empire which she can found; but on
the contrary, we may almost rejoice, in the name of
the human race, and for the sake of the peace of the '
world, to see her, by vain efforts in pursuit of ob-
jects which she can never secure, and which, if at-
tained, are unsuited to her genius and position,
draining that strength and those resources, which
might otherwise be directed, as in past times they
have been directed, so fatally for the liberties of
mankind. We may rejoice, whilst we laugh, to see
the antics which she makes with her toy, upon the '
same principle that we should be gladdened to see
any dangerous and subtle beast of the forest play-
ing with his shadow, by the reflection that he was
thus detained from more dangerous and destructive '
pursuits.
We make these remarks in no insulting spirit to-
wards the French nation. Naturally there is not,
and for the welfare of both there ought not to be
created, any great interests in the two countries to
induce them materially to clash with each other.
The true position of France—that by which, as a
nation, she may be rendered more unassailable and
powerful,—is one of strict and harmonious alliance
with Great Britain, for the preservation of the peace
of Europe and for the advancement of the civilisa-
tion of mankind. Each is interested in the other's
greatness. But let each aim to advance that great-
ness upon its natural element. Let France content
herself with being the first military power of Eu-
rope ; but England, with her vast colonies and corn-
merce, must maintain her position as the first naval
power in the world—as the unchallenged mistress
of the seas. If we rejoice, therefore, at the exhibi-
tion which we have just seen of the vanity of the
efforts of France to rival us upon that element, it is
because we trust it may at length teach her the
folly of that course of petty aggression which she
has of late been making upon our commerce in va-
rious quarters of the globe, and convince her that,
if the insolence of her naval officers towards British
authority in Africa, in Tahiti, and elsewhere, has
not been so promptly repressed as perhaps it ought
to have been, and the injury done to British com-
merce would have warranted its being, it has been
no want of power, no want of confidence in the
strength of England's right arm of offence and de-
fence, which have withheld her from the effort.
Eventually, if France he not taught wisdom in time
—if she refuse to see what is her own true position,
and to acknowledge ours,—that effort must be
made ; and, with the vast power at the disposal of
England, the lesson which must be taught by its
result must be one of desolating and tremendous
effect. We have no wish to enter upon it ; but
forbearance, under continued insult and aggression,
becomes cowardice; and that word must never be
used in association with the British name.
In another part of our paper we have entered
into an examination of the amount of the steam
force which England can, at any moment, detach
from her merchant and government service, and add
to her already powerful fleet. The calculation made
is, we are aware, imperfect, from the want of any
official source of information. It may serve to show,
however, to France, who, through the mouth of the
Prince de Joinville, has vaunted so loudly of the
superiority of the steam department of her navy, and
to a few grumblers and tremblers at home, how vast
are the resources which, on an emergency, our
country possesses. With such an armament as we
could fit up from the materials there pointed out—
from the conversion of the almost countless steam-
ers which navigate our shores, and carry on the
communication with our various colonies, into ships
of war—what power in Europe, or what combina-
tion of powers, could resist us for a month ? None
most assuredly : and let it be borne in mind, and
it must be a satisfactory reflection to all lovers of
peace, that this new and ready source of our coun-
try's strength is growing yearly, imperceptibly, with-
out pressing upon its resources, but rather serving
to develope them, by the stimulus which rapid com-
munication between countries gives to commercial
enterprise ; and that it can have no limit to its
growth, until the whole family of man are brought
within its action and its advantages. A nation,
with such an engine in its hand, cannot surely be
knocked down with a pamphlet, or terrified by a
fleet which has had enough to do to hatter down a
few rotten walls at Tangier.

We have never joined in the note of triumph
which has been raised, by some of our conservative
contemporaries, at the imagined downfall of the
Anti-Corn Law League. Little as we respect the
motives, or fear the power of that incendiary body,
and little as we care for the doings and sayings, the
fussiness and impertinences, of the small clique of
boys and old women, who represent it in this loca-
lity., we have never gone the length of congratulat-
ing ourselves upon the fact of their total incapacity
for mischief. On the contrary, we view the retire-
ment of the League and the Anti-Monopoly Asso-
ciation of Liverpool from active agitation, as any
thing but matter for satisfaction. Whilst members
of such bodies protrude themselves upon the public
—set their small wits against the force of public
opinion—the chances are great that they make
noodles of themselves ; but even such members,
however individually silly, when operating in secret,
with ample funds and industry at their disposal, are
capable of inflicting serious injury upon their oppo-
nents ; and their proceedings should be sedulously
watched, and actively opposed.
We are impelled to offer these remarks for the
consideration of the Conservatives of Liverpool, by
a conviction—a knowledge we may almost say—that
at this moment these parties are about inflicting a
serious blow upon the Conservative cause, through-
out the country, and especially in our own town.
A reference to the letter of our Manchester corres-
pondent will abundantly prove this fact so far as
that town is concerned. Whilst we are sleeping
upon the imagined security of our position, they
are industriously mining beneath us. Whilst
gentlemen in Liverpool are debating amongst
themselves the important issues, who shall be
Mayor and who Aldermen of the Borough after
next November, the Anti-Monopoly Association
are carefully strengthening the register for their
own party, and preparing to snatch from them
the very prizes for which they are contending.
Already we are assured that, in some wards, a most
triumphant result may be, and is, confidently anti-
cipated from their labours. Our very " Gibraltars"
are crumbling beneath our feet, sappedanti-
monoply
oby the ear-
nestness and energy of influence.
We could point to half a dozen of these, which no-.
thing but a prompt counter effort of Conservatism
can save ;—will that effort be made ? In the present
temper of our party, we fear it will not. There will
be affected wailing enough,. after the evil has been
precipitated ; but there will be no endeavour to stay
its approach.
Why do we say this, and from whence do we an-
ticipate such a betrayal of duty ? From many of

those who may be termed the aristocracy of our
party, in whom we cannot but observe a coldness
towards those whose exertions and local patriotism
have contributed to the building up of the present
Conservative strength in our local legislature, which is
not likely to induce a continuance of such ill-rewarded
exertions. The men, who stood in front of the battle
when the fight was an up-hill one, are being dis-
countenanced. The " workers" of our public body
are to be quietly dropped into that private station
from which, it would seem, they were only drawn
temporarily, to be sacrifice I at leisure. This course,
however, may at length, and when too late, be
found to be one which will not he tolerated by the
Conservative community so quietly as may at pre-
sent be imagined.
We throw out these observations at present as
hints, and in the hope that a more honest course
may he determined upon by the parties interested,
within the few days that now remain for remedying
past neglect, or worse. On a future occasion, if
they are not attended to, we may be tempted to
speak out more plainly.

In another column we have given a series of ex-
tracts (all that our confined space would admit of) from
some letters recently published in the London Times,
addressed to that journal from the scene of opera-
tions before Tangier. The publication of these let-
ters has brought down upon the head of our con-
temporary a perfect storm of frantic reprehension
from the French press. That was to be expected.
They describe the bungling of the Prince de Join-
ville and his fleet with a truthfulness too evident to
render them very acceptable to either the war party
in that country or to the Court itself. Their graphic
and racy descriptions utterly dissipate the senseless
swagger of the former and the self-satisfied serenity
of the latter ; and, accordingly, they are denounced
as forgeries, as mere inventions ; and their writers
are asserted to bear any character but that which
they assume, viz. the character of British officers.
This we say was to be expected ; but really we
were not prepared for the same tone of reprehension
and abuse, on such a ground, from British journal-
ists. We were not prepared to see the conservative
Standard fume, or the ministerial Herald whine,
because a brother journal had made public the sen-
timents and statements of British officers writing
upon a subject so important as the bearing of an
admiral and a fleet of France before the enemy.
The Palmerstonian oracle might consistently take
such a course—might treat these letters as forgeries
and then publish another addressed to himself corro-
borative of the truth of every detail which they convey!
But the Herald and the Standard—

" Tantcene animis celestibus irm ?"

This is too bad !

We are happy in being enabled to state, for the
information of our cont9mporaries, that the letters
in question, by whomsoever written, convey a correct
account of the operations against Tangier. We
have the assurance of their truth from a letter, ad-
dressed to a highly influential merchant of Liverpool,
by a friend, who also witnessed these operations, and
of whose respectability and capacity for forming a
judgment we are well acquainted, (from p .st corres-
pondence from him on similar subjects, addressed
from the Chinese seas during the recent operations
there, and which appeared at the time in our own
columns,) and who gives a precisely similar state-
ment of the whole affair, and expresses nearly simi-
lar sentiments to those of the Times' correspond-
ents. We had not permission to publish, or we
should have felt no squeamishness, on public
grounds, in doing so.

Among-t the business wnich will come before the
Council to-morrow, is an announcement, by the
Chairman of the Dock Committee, of an amended
plan of construction of the New North Docks, by
which, we believe, a water space of 58 acres will be
gained, in lieu of the 34 acres provided by the par-
liamentary plan ; thus giving a clear increase of 24
acres over the original plan. The mode by which
this great boon to the commerce of our port is pro-
posed to he secured, is, we understand, by the for-
mation of docks, upon the site laid out in the origi-
nal plan for the great Steam and other Docks, on
the North Shore, running from east to west, instead
of from north to south. By this change, not only is
a greater portion of the ground made conveniently
available for dock space, but the lineal quay space
is much increased;—so much so that, when the
works are completed, it is calculated that the entire
quays of the port of Liverpool will reach little short
of the amazing length of fourteen miles. With such
a noble addition to the facilities afforded by our
spirited public bodies for the commerce of the Mer-
sey, Liverpool may well cease to pride herself upon
the title of the second port of the empire, and boldly
and consistently assume for herself the proud posi-
tion of the first port of Great Britain and of the
I world.

That we are so progressing, we feel that we are
indebted to the energy and talent displayed by the
gentlemen at present wielding the resources of the
Dock Estate, who have shown, from their first exer-
cise upon the important duties of their trust, that
foresight and reach of mind, that determination not
to be satisfied with patching and peddling for the
supply of present wants alone, but to provide for
the future as well—which is so requisite in men
occupying a station such as theirs. For this they
have already earned the thanks of a grateful public,
and we doubt not they will continue to deserve them.

In another part of our publication, we have given
an article from the Dublin Evening Mail, stating,
upon the' authority of an influential correspondent
in London, the fact of her Majesty's intention to
visit Ireland during the autumn, and hinting that a
portion of the object of that visit was to exercise, on
the spot, the RON al clemency towards the imprisoned
conspirators, O'Connell and his confederates. We
must confess that we doubted from the first the
correctness of this piece of intelligence. Of course
it is not in the power of man to conceive how far, or
in what direction, Sir Robert Peel's government
may choose to carry their favourite expediency and
conciliatory policy, however bitter and however un-
deserving the opponent in whose favour it is exer-
cised. We are inclined, nevertheless, to give some
degree of credit to the repudiation of such a step by
the quasi-ministerial Morning Herald. It is too
preposterous a notion to be readily believed, that
even Sir Robert Peel could so far abuse the credu-
lous ear of his Sovereign, as to advise such a policy
towards men, whose recognized organs obtrusively
declare that its only effect would be to send back the
pardoned offenders to their seditious agitation, and
who insolently proclaim, through the Dublin Nation
of Saturday last, that "if she does" so exercise cle-
mency towards them, "they are ready to march,
from Richmond prison to Burgh Quay, and fall back
to their accustomed places, like rested men, to do
double work" (double sedition). " She will curtail
their leisure, and anticipate by some months the
time of their renewed labour—that is all." Truly,
very proper subjects for.royal clemency !
In this belief we are borne in countenance by
nearly all the journals of Ireland, of all shades of
politics. The Repeal organs are too full of the
prospect of impending war with France—are gloat-
ing with too much truculent joy upon the prospect
of embarrassment and confusion in England, during
which a blow may be struck by internal traitors at
her social peace—to welcome such a step on the
part of Government, or to hold out the shadow of
' a hope that it can eflect the object for which alone
it can be adopted—the restoration of good feeling
towards British connexion in Ireland. And Con-
servatives, however little disposed to place faith in
the firmness and good faith of an Administration
which they feel has betrayel them, are loth to be-
lieve that even that Administration can so far com-
promise the honour of their Royal Mistress, as to
advise her to such a step.

STRIKE AT BERLIN.—The workmen in the extensive
calico-printing works of Berlin, comprising a body of
from 2,500 to 3,000 men, have struck for an advance of
wages. The men have been accustomed to earn from 13s.
to 18s. per week.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The Courrier Charentais
states that a few days back two little girls, of six and
eight years of age, having in playing got into a kind of
chest, the cover fell over them, and shut with a spring
lock. They were alone in the house, and when their
mother returned home, not finding fir m, it occurred. to
her that they might have got into the chest, and on lift-
ing the lid she found them both dead.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Friday a singular accident
occurred at 2, West-street, Smithfield, one of the houses
which are to be demolished for the improvements. An
ox from Smithfield, putting his head inside the doorway,
and, seeing no obstruction, walked leisurely into the
house, when, the flooring giving way, he was precipitated
into the cellar beneath. Three sheep which followed met
the same fate, as did also the driver and his dog, who
ropes attached were unaware of the sudden exit of their charge. By
the united force of several of the labourers in pulling
_ to the hoofs of the ox, he made a spring
by which he extricated himself, and the sheep were
rescued with much difficulty.