The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

Manufactory at Litherland

NATIONAL SOCIETY.
THE COMMITTEE of the NATIONAL SOCIETY/
met at the Sanctuary, 'Westminster, on the Ist No-
vember.

A Letter was read from His Grace the resident, ap-
pointing the Rev. W. J. Kennedy, of St. ohn's College,
Cambridge, Secretary of the Society.
The Treasurer reported that Her ajesty had been
graciously pleased to grant a Letter, thorising Collec-
tions to be made throughout Englan nd Wales, in aid
of the Society's Funds. The object f this Letter is to
extend and improve popular Education, not only in the
Manufacturing and Mining Districts, but in Agricultural
Parishes, in Commercial and Seaport Towns, and gene-
rally throughout the country.

The Treasurer reported that the Special Fund amounted
to upwards of £115,000, (now £125,000,) and was in-
creasing at the rate of £3OO a day.

The Sub-Committee, for the distribution of the Special
Fund, reported that they had voted Grants to the follow-
ing Places :

DIOCESE OF ST. ASAPll.—Denbigh and Flint.—Trend-
dyn, in Mold ; and Wrexham.
DIOCESE OF CARLlSLE.—Cumberland.—Crosby-upon-
Eden ; and Stanwix.
DIOCESE OF CllESTER.—Cheshire.—Acton ; Antrobus,
in Great Budworth ; West-street, in conyleton ;
Lawton Church ; Broadbottom, Newton, Tintwistle
Christ Church, and Hollingworth, in Mottram ;
Northwich ; Bollington, Hurdsfield, Rainow, and
Sutton, in Prestbury ; Christ Church, in Maccles-
field ; Sandbach, Hazel Grove, and St. Thomas, in
Stockport.

Cumberland.—Whitehaven.
Lancashire.—Blackburn, and Darwen Over, in
Blackburn ; Huntley Brook, and Moor Side, in Bury;
Eccleston, in St. Helen's; Astley, and Leigh, in
Leigh ; Wheelton, White Coppiece, and Leyland, in
Leyland; St. Barnabas, in Liverpool ; Cheethant
St. Mark, in Manchester ; Out Rawcliffe, in
St. Michael on Wye ; Preston, Trinity Dis-
-7 trict ; Hollinwood, Manchester-street, Mumps,
Primrose Bank, Royton, and St. Peter, in Oldham ;
"Milnrow, Rochdale, and Todmorden, in Rochdale ;
Wardle, in Small Bridge; Accrington, Baxenden,
Chathurn, Church Kirk, Clitheroe, Colne Christ-
Church, Oswaldtwistle, Foxhill Bank, and Whalley,
in Whalley.
DIOCESE OF DURllAM.—Durham.—Gateshead.
DIOCESE OF EXETER.—COriIWaII.—St. Ire.

DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL
shire.—Cainscross, in Stonehouse.
DIOCESE OF LICH FI ELD.—Derbyskire.—Brimington, in
Chesterfield ; Risley, in Sawley.
Shropshire.—Dawley.
Staffordshire.—Burslem, St. Paul; Cannock ;
Brockmoor and Quarry Bank, in Kingswiqford ;
Christ Church, Hall Green, Old Coseley, and Prince's
End, in Sedgley; Skelton, in Stoke-upon-Trent ;
Kidsgrove, and Tunstall, in 7'unstall.
DIOCESE OF LLANDAFF.—Glamorganshire.—Tiilybe-
byll ; Llangynwydd.
DIOCESE OF LONDON.—Middlesex.—Kensington (Pot-
teries).

Gloucester

DIOCESE 'or OXFORD.—Oxfordshire.—Wigginton.
DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH.—LeiCeSterShire.—SiVeep-
stone.

DIOCESE OF RlPON.—Lancashire.--Hurst Green, in
Milton.

YOrkshire.—Holmebridge, Meltham Mills, Ne-
therthong, and Newsome, in Almondbury ; Salter-
forth, in Barnolaswick ; Gomersall Little, in Bir-
stall ; Haworth, in Bradf7rd ; Lothersdale, in
Carleton; Dewsbury, and Hanging Heaton, in Dews-
bury ; Luddenden, Ripponden, and St. James, in
Ilalifax ; Lindley, Paddock, and Trinity, in
_dud-
dersfield ; Keighley ; Christ Church, Holbech,
Hunslet; and St. Peter, in Leeds; Lake Lock, in
Wakefield.
DIOCESE OF SALlSBURY.—Wiltshire.---Trowbridge.
DIOCESE OF WORCESTER.— Warwickshire.—Duddes-
ton St. Matthew, in Aston ; All Saints, St. Luke,
and St. Mark, in Birmingham.
Worcestershire. —Cradley, in Hales Owen; St.
Peter, in Worcester.

SUMMARY OF GRANTS :
For Building, Enlarging, and Fitting up School
Rooms

£8,03G

Teachers' Residences. . •• .
Books, School Requisites, &c.
Allowances for Teachers
Allowances for Pupil Teachers, or Monitors

115
1,906
116

FOREIGN zy COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. ThTiiias (the Snow) which was capturrd at that time, and
taken into Paramaribo, Surinam, for adjudication before
the mixed British and Dutch commission at that place.
The, Guiana Times says—" The slaves, then, some 49 in
The Britannia arrived at this port on Thdrsday morn
, - .,
P number, were of course•de4lared, for decency's sake free.
.'
ing, about six o'clock. She left Boston at three, p.m., In spite of which, through the rapacity of the Dutch
on Thursday, the 16th ultimo, and Halifax, where she Government, and the criminality of the British Commis-
was detained several hours by a dense fog, at one, a.m., sinner, they remained 20 long years in bondage, subject to
on 4he 18th. On the 18th she passed the steam-ship Ca- the lash, the Spanish buck, and all the other tender mer-
ledonia, bound to Boston, and on the 26th, at nine, a.m., ties of the code of Surinam, until their numbers dimin-
in lat. 50 50, lon. 20 40 west, the steam-ship Acadia, ished down to 26, inclusive of the children born during
this sore and iniquitous servitude. Will it be believed
from Liverpool to Halifax. By this conveyance we have
Boston papers to the 16th, and New York to the 15th
that the British Commissioner, who connived at this in-
ultimo, both inclusive. famy, received the thanks of the British Government for
The money article of the New York Herald of the 15tb his services? From all the horrors of such a slavery these
states that on that day there were very large sales in the poor wretches have been redeemed, partly through the
stock market, at falling rates. For bills by the packet awakened activity of the Foreign Secretary of State, but
mostly, we have reason to think, through the homesty and
there was a considerable demand, and the best advanced
zeal of the present British Commissioner, Mr. Schenley,
to 81 per cent. The following were the rates :—London,
8 to 81; Paris, 5.30 to 5 35; Amsterdam, 39k to 39 whs, however, living in the camp of the selfish and insid-
-1 ;
Ilamburgh, 341 to 35, and Bremen, 77i to 77k. Money ions enemy, is daily threatened with personal violence.
continues abundant in New York, and in most of the and, unless he is supported by the Home Government,
principal cities. must necessarily give up his commendable undertaking,
THE COTTON NIAAKET.—The time is near at hand although there are several hundred of bond fide free Ne-
when the true extent of the new crop will be settled be- groes exposed to the torments from which the 26 have so
yond dispute. Every interest is at work in estimating happily escaped."
the yield, but the difference in their calculations is so tri- FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC Dts- '
fling that prices will not be very sensibly affected should COVERIES.—Some of the philosophers across the Atlan-
the most unfavourable reports prove authentic. There is tic have been applying the daguerrotype and the electro-
no doubt but that some parts of the south have suffered, type to the purposes of forgery and coining, The notes
still on the other hand many sections have been particu- of the Cincinnati Bank have been daguerrotyped and en-
la:ly fortunate in the growth and harvest. graved with such accuracy that the forged notes and the
"We have taken especial interest in the conflicting genuine notes cannot be distinguished. The dollars have
accounts that have reached us from all parts of the south, been electrotyped, and the voltaic castings filled with a
and have come to the conclusion that the yield cannot go metal that is said to "ring " even more like silver than
over 1,800.000 or 1,930,000 bales." the genuine coin. .
Table of Receipts and Exports to 15th November, 1813. ROYAL MARRIAGE.—We have reason to believe that
Exported from the United States }, negotiations are now going on, which are likely to come
to Great Britain since..

AMERICAN,

1842.. 65,399 I Neapolitan Prince and Queen Isabella of -Spain. We
1841.. 33,157 learn at the same time that the Court of the two Sicilies,
Total exports from the U. S. since Sept. 1, 1843.. 49,682 as a prelude to the marriage, has agreed to recognise the
1842.. 97,982 government of the young Queen, and that the Prince
1841.. 85,276 Carini, late charg6 d'affaires in Spain, and first secretary
Receipts at all the principal ports 1 at Paris, has been despatched on a special mission from
of the cnited States since 1 Sept. 1, 1843.. 192,792 Naples to Madrid, with the recognition and prepared
1842 . 255,706 matrimonial basis.—Morning Herald of yesterday.
1841.. 173,734 TREMENDOUS HURRICANE.—We have been favoured
The packet-ship Sheffield, Capt. Popham, which sailed with the following extract from a letter received by Mr.
from this port on the sth of October, with about twenty E. Turner, M.P. for Truro, from his son, Mr. Charles
cabin and ninety steerage passengers, went ashore on the Walsingham Turner, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at
Romer shoals, off New York, on Sunday afternoon, the Carthagena, dated October 23 :—" On the morning of
12th ultimo, during a thick fog and a gale of wind. The the 21st instant a most awful catastrophe occurred here,
crew and passengers were all saved by steamers. The within 200 yards of my balcony, and in sight of my house.
vessel herself was afterwards got off, by means of steam- About four o'clock in the morning most vivid lightning
pumps and tug-boats, and carried into harbour. came on, with tremendous thunder—such lightning as
The transport Premier, with troops, &c., has been lost was never seen at Carthagena within the memory of man.
off Cape Chat, St. Lawrence River, on her passage from I left my bed, and proceeded to the window, where I had
Quebec to the West Indies. There were upwards of 300 not been five minutes before I heard a great rushing of
souls on board, all of whom were saved. wind proceeding from the east, and I observed also a
The elections for the city of New York have gone in favour water-spout, which Ino sooner saw than it burst, carry-
of Messrs. Clay, Webster, and the Whigs, but those in ing with it into the air five large felucca boats, of 40 to
the state generally are described as being fatal to the Clay 50 tons each, which fell into the water again, upside down,
and Webster coalition, and favourable to Mr. Van Buren and of course sank, with the poor sailors on board, 15 of
and the democratic party. Sixteen counties in Michigan whom were drowned. It then proceeded in a north-west
had been heard from, and of these only one was in favour direction, unroofing houses, carrying off timber trees,
of the Whigs. and even rocks of great weight. This morning, two poor
The yellow fever was still raging at Mobile and other fellows, sailors, who belonged to one of the vessels, were
southern cities. found dead about a league from Carthagena, having been
The New York Morning Herald thus speculates on the carried off and dropped by the whirlwind. On the mole
tone of the forthcoming annual Message of the President were thrown huge stones, houses were demolished, and
of the United States towards Great Britain :—" It is now the roof of the Prisichi, where the convicts are confined,
known and admitted that he will take strong, if not belli- was completely carried away. You may well imagine the
gerent, ground against England, on the Texas and Oregon heart-rending cries of the poor mariners-0 Dios mio.
questions. On both these subjects the intrigues of the Strange, however, as it may seem, an English brig was at
English government have been detected, particularly in anchor within fifty yards of the spot where the waterspout
regard to Texas; and the President will recommend a burst, and sustained no damage whatever. I have just
new and intimate relation with Texas—certainly annexa- been informed that two of the feluchas had the day before
Pon, and also the taking possession of the American por- brought 800 prisoners for political offences from Barce-
tion of the Oregon territory. The refusal of the English lona. Had I not been an eye-witness of the awful visi-
government to open negociations for a new commercial tation, I could not have believed it."— West Briton
treaty, coupled with these intrigues in Texas and Oregon,
have offended the United States government, and a posi-
tion will be assumed that will astonish moderate men of
all nations. On the question of Texas and Oregon, we
have no doubt there will be a great excitement in Con- So it appears at length that the Portuguese Tariff ques-
gress, and perchance a new division of parties throughout tion is " settled"—that is, that all hope of a settlement
the country. No one can predict the result." on a new and more satisfactory basis than now exists is
given up, and authoritatively denounced by the English
government.
The wine merchants in London memorialized the

NEW SOUTH WALES

THE WINE TRADE

Board of Trade, on the disadvantages they laboured under
Papers from Sydney, with very interesting intelligence,
came to hand late on Thursday ; and are about one from the existing uncertainty ; and the official reply,
gether with the subsequent correspondence, which we
to-
month later in date than those previously received, being
subjoin, will explain the determination which has been
to the 30th of July. The attention of the colonists had
come to :
been turned to some recent experiments to the manufac-
" tore of tallow, and the excess of stock would, it is stated, Office of Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, Whitehall, 24th Nor., 1843.
be in future applied to this purpose. The export of this ir Gentlemen,—With reference to the memorial from
:., to the home-market, with provisions suitable for
the wine trade of the 3d instant, I am directed by the
our shipping trade, is alluded to, as a branch of industry
which may revive the depressed condition of the country. Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to
you, for the information of the memorialists,
In Port Philip and South Australia the trial had been
made with equal success, and high hopes are entertained that the negotiations with Portugal, which were interrupted
in April last, have, strictly speaking, not been revived.
of the profits of these new branches of business.
That since the arrival of the Duke of Palmella in this
The return of the quarter's revenue was discouraging,
country, his excellency has tendered to her Majesty s '
a considerable falling off having occurred in the principal
vernment statements intended to show that the British
go-
items of receipt. It was strongly suspected that the de-
propositions had been previously to the interruption or
dine of revenue from spirits and tobacco was in no small breaking off of the communications in April last, accepted
fund showed a melanchol
degree owing to the increase of smuggling. The land in their substance by the Portuguese government. That
y appearance. The whole her Majesty's government are clearly of opinion, upon an
amount received in the quarter for country lands and examination of these statements, that the Duke of Pal-
town allotments sold was the beggarly amount of £666, mella is in error in that supposition, and that this convic-
or nearly 30 per cent. below the proceeds of the corres- tion has been officially communicated to the Duke of
ponding quarter of last year. The decrease in the fees Palmella.on title deeds was 30. f per cent., whilst the demand for
licenses to occupy crown lands had so rapidly fallen of
that their produce was less than last year by the very
large proportion of 714 per cent. Local politics were not
very interesting. A contest was expected for the speaker-
ship of the Council.

The state of the Sydney markets is thus described in
the paper of the 29th, the latest date by this arrival :
" The market continues in a dull and uninteresting state,
with the exception of wheat and flour, in which articles
sales have been effected to some extent. Invoices of
manufactured goods by late arrivals suitable to the market
have been taken at 25 per cent. advance."

A great theatre is about to be erected at Brussels, in
which the machinery of the scenes and decorations is to be
moved by steam, with little or no aid from manual labour.

The application of the Duke d'Aumaule, son to the
King of the French, for the hand of the Princess Marie
Therese, sister of the King of the Two Sicilies, had been
acceded to by his Neapolitan Majesty.

The appointment of the Chief Judgeship of Wellington,
New Zealand, has been conferred upon Mr. H. S. Chap-
man, of the Inner Temple, who has sailed in company
with the new Gcvernor, Captain Fitzroy, late member for
Durham.—Standard.

Loss OF THE TRANSPORT PREMIER.—An express
arrived at Boston with letters to Mr. S. S. Lewis, agent
of the mail steamers, and to Captain Hewitt, of the Bri-
tannia, advising of the loss, in the river St. Lawrence, of
the transport Premier, off Cape Chat. She had on board
a regiment of British troops, numbering, with their wives
and children, 360, all of whom were saved.—Neto York
paper.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE SABBATH.--
f The Minister of Marine has addressed a circular to all the maritime prefects, desiring that no workman may in
uture be employed on Sundays in the government dock
yards, except in cases of absolute necessity. The motives
assigned by the minister are—first, that men who do not
repose on the Sunday do not work with energy on the
other days of the week, and, consequently, that it is not
profitable to the state to have labour performed on the
Sabbath ; and, secondly, that it is necessary for the state
to promote the religious observance of Sunday among the
labouring classes.

GERMAN LEAGUE DUTY ON IRON.—Extract of a
letter from Germany, dated 21st November, 1843 :—"The
duty question on iron will not be regulated before Decem-
ber, as the meeting at Berlin has separated, and will not
meet again until the middle of December, when their de-
liberations will be finally closed. It appears that prior to
their separation they agreed to place a duty on pig iron,
metal, &c„ of £1 sterling per ton, and upon bar iron an
increase of duty of 305., making £4 10s. per ton ; and
this will of a certainty come into effect, unless strong
representations are made by the English and Belgian
governments, and steps taken to prevent this imprudent
resolve. In no case will the duty be enforced as early as
the lit of January, 1844, but it will be February or March,
or even April, as our people require time for settling
their affairs.

THE NESTORIAN MASSACRE.—In consequence of the
great anxiety felt by the friends of missions to learn more
definitely the state of things among the Nestorians, we
have made application to the Missionary Rooms at Bos-
ton for the very latest intelligence received from the east.
In answer to this inquiry, we learn that the facts already
published in our paper, so far as they describe the
slaughter and overthrow of the mountain Nestorians, are
substantially confirmed by the letters of Dr. Grant.
Under the date of July 28, he says that " a blow has
been struck, from which it is impossible that the Nes-
torians can recover ; and to all appearance this is but the
beginning of greater calamities." The work of destruc-
tion was going forward, and Dr. Grant had ns hope of
its ceasing till this people are finally crushed, and their
independence is gone. Dr. Grant reached Mosul on the
14th of July. He left Asbeta (the mission station) just
in season to escape the storm which burst upon that part
of the Nestorian country. He had not even time to bid
the patriarch farewell. Some of the publications in this
country represent the patriarch as among the slain ; we
are happy to say that this is not true. At the latest dates
he was at Mosul under the protection of the British con-
sul. In the midst of perils by sword and perils from
false brethren, the Nestorian Christians and our mis-
sionaries should be made the subject of special prayer in
the churches. We trust that they will be thus remem-
bered.—New York Olserver.

A STRANGE STORY.—The New York Courier and
Inquirer says, that from recent dates of the Royal Ga-
zelle and Guiana Times we have obtained some informa-
tion beautifully illustrative of the boasted magnanimity
of British forces in protecting the poor African from his
oppressors. We give the statement of the facts from
English authority, and leave our readers to judge how
appropriate is the boast. that all men, once under the
shadow of the English flag, are free. With facts like
these staring them in the face, how England has the as-
surance to prate to us about our slaves, evinces a degree
aulence utterly beyond our powers tl conceive. It
1 that the Dutch Government schooner Henrietta
,7- nrrived in the river Demerara, bring-
' W. R. Inglis,
from Surinam.

rival produ

ood people of Der

ry it turned

es taken in 1823 from a slaver named the fas

" I am, Gentlemen,
" Your obedient Servant,
(Signed)) "JOHN GEORGE SHAW LEFEVRE
" Mews. Sandman, Forster and Co.,
20, St. Switbin's•lane."

" St. Swithin's-lane. November 28, 18-13.
"My Lord.—We crave your Lordship's reference to
the memorial we had the honour of transmitting on the Ist
inst., since which date we have received a communication
from the Board of Trade, stating that the Duke of Pal-
mella was in error in supposing that the statements sub-
mitted by him showed that the British propositions had
been virtually accepted by the Portuguese government.
We presume we may infer from this communication that
her Majesty's government have given up all intention of
carrying out the treaty with Portugal, in which case a
Public announcement by her Majesty's government to
that effect would be of the greatest benefit to the
trade between the two countries, by satisfying the public
mind that no reduction of duties on either side is to he
looked for, and thus putting an end to the uncertainty
which has so long paralysed that trade. We, therefore,
respectfully beg the favour of your Lordship to make such
an announcement through any channel most convenient;
an answer to this effect to the present application would,
no doubt, perfectly answer the purpose intended.
" We trust that the cruel position in which we have
been so long placed, and the conviction that nothing short
of what we have taken the liberty to request from your
Lordship can restore the trade to its usual channel, and
tend to repair the injury we have suffered, will plead our
excuse for being so urgent upon this point.

" We have the honour to 'be my Lord, your Lordship's
most obedient and very humble servants,

" SANDEMAN, FORSTER, AND CO., and
" QUARLES HARRIS AND SON.
" To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, &e."

" Foreign-office, November 29, 1843.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's
date, in which you refer to a recent communication made
to you by the Board of Trade, relative to the discussions
which have lately taken place between her Majesty's go-
vernment and the Duke of Palmella, on the subject of the
mutual regulation of duties between Great Britain and
Portagal, and you express your conviction that if her
Majesty's government have given up all hope of coming
to an understanding on these points with Portugal, a public
announcement to that effect would be highly beneficial to
the trade between the two countries.

" I am accordingly directed to state to you that in con-
sequence of the communications which have recently
passed on these matters between the Board of Trade and
this office, Lord Aberdeen sees no hope of coming to an
understanding with the Portuguese government, and that
his Lordship, therefore, considers the discussions on the
snblect of a mutual reduction of duties to be finally ter-
minated.

" I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble
Servant, " 11. U. ADDINGTON.
" To Messrs. Sandeman, Forster, and Co.,
20, St. Swithin's-lane."

TRH ABORIGINAL AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE
MAYOR OF MANCHESTER.--011 Wednesday morning the
Indians attended in the Treasurer's-room, Town-hall, to
wait on the Mayor, who received them with great cordi-
ality, and presented each of the chiefs with a bronze
medal of Dr. Dalton, which they immediately suspended
round their necks by a bright red riband. The Mayor,
after a few words of welcome, and shaking hands with all
the party, said he had pleasure in presenting the two
chiefs with these medals, representing one of our great
men of science. This was conveyed to the Indians in the
nearest approximation which their limited information
and language afford ; and we believe it was explained to
them, that "the great peace-chief of Manchester gave
them, as a mark of friendship, the medals representing
one of our greatest medicines, or mystery-men, whose re-
semblance would be recognised by any of the pale-faces
who might come among their distant wigwams years
hence." They appeared much pleased, especially with
the information that Dr. Dalton was a great mystery
man, as they have a high veneration for whatever is
greatly wise and intelligent, and mystery is with them a
synonyme for science. The Indians were then conducted
into the large room of the Town-hall, which seemed by
its large dimensions to surprise them ; but their attention
was at once attracted to Signor Aglio's fresco of the land-
ing of Sebastian Cabot on the shores of America; wherein
that voyager is represented as commencing a traffic for
territory with the Indians, some bales of cloth being un-
rolled to tempt the red men. The indignation of the
party was strongly excited, nut at the foreign intruders,
but at the chief of the Indians, who, they said, sold their
hunting grounds, and cheated them out of their territory.
They ridiculed the representation by the aritst of the In-
dians as almost naked ; and several other improprieties
they detected with keen glances. Subsequently the In-
dians entered the council-room during the deliberations
of the council, am? took a seat at the lower end. After
looking awhile at he council of the pale-faces, and doubt-
less wondering how they could deliberate without a coun-
cil fire in the centre, and without the calumet, which
forms so important a part of their own grave councils,
both amongst themselves and with the Americans, they
retired with the same they ---- quiet, self-respectful
-

, preserve under all the circumstances of the many
strange scenes they witness.. Manehester Guardian.

IRELAND.

THE COURT.

COUNTY OF KILKENNY ELECTION.—On Tuesday
last, the election for this county, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Major Bryan, was held. Mr. P. Somer-
set Butler was returned without opposition.
BELFAST.—A rumour has been in circulation in town,
for some days past, that Mr. Emerson Tennent is about
to obtain a lucrative appointment in India, and that he
will, in consequence, resign his seat for Belfast.—Northern
Whig.

(ROYAL PROGRESS TO DRAYTON

MANOR.

On Wednesday morning the Queen and Prince Albert
left Windsor on a visit to Sir Robert Peel at Drayton
Manor. It was about five minutes past nine o'clock when
her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, stepped into
her carriage, and by this time a considerable number of

the inhabitants of Windsor bad collected in the precincts
of the castle, and in the streets of Windsor, to witness
the departure of the Royal party. The cortege consisted
of three travelling carriages, with outriders in the royal
livery. The first carriage was drawn by four horses, and
was occupied by the Queen and Prince Albert, who were
escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. The
royal suite in attendance on her Majesty and her illus-
trious consort followed in two carriages and four. Her
Majesty reached Uxbridge about 10 minutes to 10 o'clock.
The horses being changed and the escort relieved, the
Royal cortege drove off amidst the acclamations of the
multitude.
It was near eleven o'clock when the Queen the
Prince reached the Watford station, the distarom
Windsor (about 22 miles) having been gone over in some
minutes less than two hours. At the station the arrange-
ments made to receive her Majesty were on a very splen-
did scale, considering the shortness of the notice, and the
few facilities offered by the place itself.

The son of Judge Perrin is engaged as one of the Coun-
sel for Mr. O'Connell and his associates. This young
gentleman was overlooked in the first instance, but the
day after his father differed from the other Judges on the
caption point he received a retaining fee of £5O.
There has been an awful backsliding amongst the mem-
bers of the temperance society in Clonrnel, and since the
denunciation and prohibition of monster repeal meetings
by the crown, at least three hundred persons have broken
the pledge.
MR. O'CONNELL : THE IRISH PRIESTS.—The follow-
ing is Mr. O'Connell's description of the Romish priests
of Ireland. as given in his evidence before the House of
Lords :—" Irish priests were the sons of poor low Catho-
lics, whose first rise in the world or advance in the first
scale of society was to get their sons, generally the eldest,
into the priesthood ; that they were wealthy men of low
habits and vulgar manners, and, from the character of
the society in which they moved, it was the duty, as well
as the interest of the state to secure their loyalty by the
golden link from the crown."—Achill Missionary Herald.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. REES, THE COMEDIAN.—
This celebrated actor was found dead in his bed this morn-
ing, at his lodgings, in Old George's-street. He dined
with a friend yesterday evening, and returned to his lodg.
ings at one o'clock this morning, in company with Mr.
Clement White, a brother actor, who saw him safe in bed,
and heard no more of him till this morning at about nine
o'clock, when the servant announced that she found him
with his head on the floor and his legs in the bed. His
head and face are swelled to an enormous size, and are
quite black. The coroner has been sent for in order to
hold an inquest.—Cork paper of Thursday.

THE MASSACRE IN TIPPERARY—DEATH OF MR.
WALLEa.—Whilst the public was thankfully enjoying the
prospect that Mr. Waller's restoration to health might
frustrate the accursed design of the assassins—the unex-
pected intelligence of his death arrived. It was sudden,
and, at the period of its occurrence. unforeseen; but,
from the injuries he had sustained, it was almost inevitable.
He died at two o'clock on the morning of the 29th ult.
His decease was preceded by sickness of the stomach,
which closed existence. It is said that his scalp could be
lifted like a nightcap. Several accounts have reached
town that the wounds of the faithful butler (Larkin) begin
to assume an unfavourable appearance.—Dublin Mail.
THE REPEAL AGITATION.—The usual weekly meet-
ing of the Repeal Association was held on Monday, in
the Conciliation-hall, Mr. Patrick Curtis, of Waterford,
in the chair. There was a tolerably large attendance,
perhaps about 2,500, more than half of whom were women.
Mr. O'Connell, who took his seat under his own portrait,
which now decorates the walls of the Conciliation-hall,
looked in better health than of late. The principal busi-
ness of the day was a debate on the relative merits of
federalism and repeal, the former being advocated by the
Rev. Mr. O'Malley, and the latter by the untried Dan.
Various sums of money were handed in by Mr. O'Connell,
including £1 from the Rev. J. E. Giles, Baptist minister.
The rent appears to be falling rapidly. It was announced
at £636 for the past week.
MONEY VALUE OF AN ATTORNEY.—Mr. Pierce Ma-
hony, attorney for one of the defendants in the Irish state
prosecutions, being offended at some slight put upon him
—and through him, upon the profession—by Mr. Brews-
ter, the barrister, appeals to the law association, where,
however, he gets no further redress than a sly hint from
one of the members about an appeal to powder. The
Times thus speculates upon the possible contingencies of
Mr. Mahony falling by the barrister's fire :—" As a mat-

ter of scientific search, and of personal interest, we
should be almost equally interested to see what his exe-
cutors would charge for him in their bill of costs. ' Item.
—To senior partner shot by Mr. Brewster, 13s. 4d.' The
idea is painful; but if the money value of an.lrish solici-
tor is to be so determined, the profession could, we think,
spare few of its members with less mischief than this
Mr. Pierce Mahony."

FRENCIIMEN IN IRELAND.—A paragraph under the
above head, which appears in the last number of the Far-
managh Reporter, announces a piece of intelligence bor-
dering rather more on romance than reality. It runs as
follows " The persons who attended the late repeal
meetings throughout Ireland, in the character of French
emissaries, who created no little fear amongst the revolu-
lutionists, were neither more nor less than officers of the
London police, sent over to Ireland for the purpose of
watching the proceedings, and noting the seditious ex-
pressions of the leaders of the movement. They were all
(40 in number) men of first-rate abilities, well acquainted
with the continental languages and countries, and in every
way q ialified to pass for what they seemed to be—the de-
legates from the discontented part of the French nation,
which yet looks forward to the restoration of Henry V.
It is said that those gentlemen can prove certain offer
from the Repealers, which will substantiate the assertion
of the Attorney-General, that he would prove the exis-
tence of a wicked and dangerous conspiracy. If all this
be true, it is a master stroke of the Government, worthy
of the days of Fouche or Savary."

THE MILITARY ORDERED OUT OF THE CHAPEL.--On
Sunday last an occurrence took place in this town (Castle-
corner), which has created a great sensation among all
classes, and is likely to be followed up by a judicial in-
quiry. It appears that a small party of the 90 regiment,
stationed there, attended chapel as usual, but after some
portion of the service had been performed, the officiat-
ing priest (the Rev. Mr. Hayden) introduced the name of
Mr. O'Connell in a prayer for his escape from his enemies !
The observations of the priest were of so marked a nature
during the service, and the allusions to the executive so
clear as not to be misunderstood. Ensign Wyvill, in
command of the party, instantly and properly ordered the
men out of the chapel, and marched them direct to their
barracks. The movement of the priest was followed up
after mass by the delivery of a speech in the chapel yard.
After reading Mr. 0' Connell's address from a news-
paper, he commented in strong language on the conduct
of the officer, which, being of so abusive a nature, cannot
fail to reach the proper quarter, as Captain Roberts R.M.,
it is said, was a witness of the conduct of this meek dis-
ciple of the apostles !—Kilkenny Moderator.—Several oc-
currences similar to this have taken place in various parts
of Ireland.

AN IRISH SPECIAL CoatMlssloN.—O'Connell, at once
bowing to the Judges, and saluting Baron Pennefather
with the most marked and respectful courtesy (which he
cordially returned), apologised for not having appeared in
a more professional costume, and craved permission to
refresh himself in court. A bowl of milk and some bread
and meat were sent in to him, and while at either side of
him a young barrister filled each ear with all that had
been done, and how the case of the accused stood, O'Con-
nell gratified his appetite for breakfast with evident relish
after his long morning drive. 'Twas rather a contrast—
the big, massive agitator slabbering his meal in a Court-
house, and the graceful aristocratic Mr. Doherty talking
in the most refined manner to the jury. What led to the
enmity betwen O'Connell and Mr. Doherty is not pub-
licly known, but they on that day appeared to be enemies
with no ordinary hatred and anim )sity. As the Solicitor-
General laid down a doctrine of law, O'Connell, with a
marked contempt, cried out in the middle of his break-
fast, " That's not law." The Bench was appealed to,
and the point ruled with o,Connell, who, as the pugilists
say, " drew first blood." The Solicitor. General resumed
his statement, but he had not gone much further, when
O'Connell jumped up—" The crown cannot make such a
statement as that—it has no right to put in such evidence
to the jury"—and again the Bench decided with O'Con-
nell—lreland and its Rulers since 1829.

I SEIZURE OF A QUANTITY OF ARMS.—Mr. O'Connor,
superintendent of the detective force, having received in-
formation that there was a cask on board the Duchess of
Kent steamer, which was returned in the manifest as
"empty," and only 2s. charged on its frieght, and that
the cask was, in reality, very weighty, proceeded to the
vessel, and very soon after his arrival there a man named
David Wilson came to demand the cask for Mr. Bounds,
paper-stainer, of Mary-street, to whom the cask was
directed. He paid the freight, and was proceeding to re-
move it, when Mr. O'Connor asked him did he know Mr.
Rounds, and he said he did not, but that a gentleman had
sent him for the cask. tie said he did not know the
gentleman. Mr. O'Connor then had him arrested, and
ordered the cask to be removed to the Metropolitan
Police-office, Lower Castle-yard, where it was broken
open, and an extraordinary discovery was made, for there
was found in it the following arms :—Twelve pike-heads,
upwards of 14 inches long ; twelve muskets, twelve cut-
lasses, six horse pistols, and six pair of handcuffs. Wilson
is detained in custody.—[The foregoing paragraph. which
appeared in the Saunders of this morning, created (as it
was well calculated to do) a considerable deal of alarm in
the city. The matter was, however, this day investigated '
at the Henry-street police-office, and, after a full and
careful inquiry, it appeared to the satisfaction of the
magistrates that the transaction was perfectly innocent
and harmless. It was clearly proved that the imported
arms were for the use of a vessel about to sail for the
coast of Africa, and that the pikes particularly were more
calculated for the sea than the land service. being nothing
more nor less than the usual boarding-pikes.]—Dublin
Mail of Friday.

THE GREAT NATIONAL CHESS MATCH.—It is OUT
pleasing office to announce, that in this match for 21
games for 200 sovereigns, our countryman, Mr. Howard
Staunton, has gained the first five, and one drawn. The
contest is taking place in the Paris Chess Club, in an
arena of 14 feet square, admitting only the players and
their umpires, Lieutenant Harry Wilson on the. side of
Mr. Staunton, and Monsieur L'crivain on the part of St.
Amant. The spectators are all amateurs, and the silence
they maintain is quite beyond praise; and when under the
feelings of defeat propriety is still more complimentary to
the French nation.

IMPORTANT MEETING.—On Monday a meeting was
held at Sunderland of the shipowners of that port and of
the neighbouring towns of Newcastle, Shields, Stockton,
&c. The more immediate subject of consideration was a
plan to be devised of delivering colliers by their own crews
in the port of London, and to consider the depressed state
of shipping. This meeting, it appeared, was merely a pre.
lirninary one, to which deputations from the neighbouring
ports had been invited, and its object was not so much to
settle anything definitely, as to consult and arrange on the
best measures to be adopted, which afterwards could be
submitted to general meetings of the shipowners of the
different ports, which might be afterwards called, and by
whom these measures might be rejected or adopted.

Her Majesty wore a black velvet pelisse, and an open-
work straw bonnet with black trimmings. Both her Ma-
jesty and the Prince looked remarkably well.
The special train which was to convey the Royal visi-
tors to Tamworth had previously arrived from London,
bringing the directors and their friends. As soon as the
whole of the suite had alighted, the Royal carriages were
wheeled round to the back of the station, where they
were placed upon trucks and attached to the train. This
occupied some time, so that her Majesty and suite had to
wait in the room provided for the purpose for some time.
By twenty minutes.past eleven these arrangements were
completed, and the state carriage was drawn up opposite
the door of the waiting-room.

At twenty-two minutes past eleven her Majesty, ac-
companied by the Prince, entered the carriage, amidst
the most lively demonstrations of affection and loyalty
from the multitudes assembled on the bridge above and
around the station below, as well as from an assemblage
of ladies who were accommodated with an advantageous
position on the opposite side.
At twenty-five minutes past eleven the train started,
and the cheering was most enthusiastic, being prolonged
until after her Majesty had proceeded some distance.
At Hampton, the place of junction with the Birming-
ham and Derby line, multitudes had collected. The
Royal Standard floated from the height of the station,
and also waved from the top of an engine, which was
there in waiting to take the train on to Tamworth. At
this point the directors of the Derby and Birmingham
Railway, Sir 0. Mosley, Mr. Lestom, and other gentle-
men, joned the train, to accompany her Majesty on their
line as far as Tamworth. As this was the point at which
the train left the Birmingham line, it may be as well to
observe that her Majesty expressed herself highly grati-
fied with all the preparations that bad been made for her
accommodation by the directors of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway company.
The distance from Hampton to Tamworth is as nearly
as possible 15 miles; that distance was accomplished in
21 minutes, the train arriving at Tamworth station at 14
minutes to 3 o'clock.

At the Tamworth station Sir Robert Peel was in readi-
ness to receive her Majesty and her Royal Consort, who
immediately proceeded, followed by their suite, down the
steps of the station to the carriages which were in readi-
ness. They did not wait to have the royal carriages de-
tached from the trucks, the distance being so short to
Drayton Manor. Here an escort of the Staffordshire
Yeomanry were in waiting to escort her Majesty on to
Drayton. Sir Robert Peel accompanied the Royal party
on horseback.

From Tamworth to Drayton Manor the scene was ex-
tremely splendid. The new line of road from the station
to the town, commonly called the Clarence-terrace, was
beautifully decorated with galleries and festoons of flow-
ers.

On the approach to the town the scene was exceedingly
beautiful. At a splendid arch at the end of the Clarence..
road, the corporation, through the mayor, according to
ancient custom, presented the mace and other insignia of
office. They also delivered, in the name of the corpora-
tion, addresses, which her Majesty and Prince Albert
were graciously pleased to receive.
The route to 'Drayton Manor, distant about three miles
from the station, was performed in less than half an hour.
The road through Bonehill and along to Drayton was
thronged with people of all classes, who gave her Majesty
a most enthusiastic reception. The Royal party arrived
at Drayton Manor at a quarter to four o'clock.
It is a remarkable fact, that although her Majesty's pro-
gresses have usually been at a season of the year when
bad weather may be expected, she has always been either
so fortunate, or so favoured, as to have fine days of sun-
shine and balmy breezes in place of lowering clouds or
cutting winds, or, worse than all, November rain. On
the present occasion the weather was most auspicious
throughout the journey.
On her Majesty's arrival at Drayton Manor she was re-
ceived at the entrance of the mansion by Lady Peel, and
was immediately attended to her private apartments, where
her Majesty and the Prince partook at lunch.
Dinner was served precisely at eight o'clock, and covers
were laid for 21.

Her Majesty, in proceeding to the dining-room, took
the arm of Sir Robert Peel. Prince Albert escorted Lady
Peel. The Duke of Rutland escorted the Duchess of
Bu•cleuch.

Her Majesty and the Prince sat at the side of the dinner
table next the fireplace, Prince Albert on the right of her
Majesty, Sir Robert Peel on her Majesty's left, and Lady
Peel on the right of the Prince. Earl Talbot sat next to
Lady Peel, and the Duchess of Buccleuch next Sir Robert
Peel. The Duke of Rutland sat on the left of the Duchess
of Raceleach, and Mr. Robert Peel, and eldest son of the
Prime Minister, fat next to the Duke of Rutland.

On the other side of the table, immediately opposite the
Queen, sat the Duke of Buccleuch, and on his right sat
Lady Portman. The Duke of Wellington was on the left
of the Duke of Buccleuch, and on his left sat the Earl of
Jersey.

The other guests at the Royal table were Archdeacon
Lonsdale, the Bishop of Lichfield elect (who said grace),
the Hon. Miss Paget, General \Vemyss, Colonel Boo-
verie, Mr. Anson, the Mayor of Tamworth (Mr. Bramall),
Lieutenant-Colonel Moncl:ton, and John Shaw Manly,
Esq., the High Sheriff of the county.

Her Majesty wore at the dinner a rich broche pink silk
and satin dress with rich lace, adorned with a profusion of
diamonds and emeralds. Her Majesty also wore the in-
signia of the Order of the Garter in diamonds and eme-
ralds. Her head-dress was also of diamonds and eme-
ralds.

Lady Peel wore a dress of pale blue satin, with white
lace. Her ornaments were of diamonds and pearls.
After dinner her Majesty retired to the Library, in
which room, as well as in the adjoining rooms, are many
of the chefs-d'ceurres of modern art in painting and
sculpture, which her Majesty spent some time in admir-
ing.

Her Majesty retired to rest shortly after eleven o'clock

The Duke of Wellington was to have arrived early in
the afternoon, so as to be present at the reception of Her
Mejesty at Drayton, but his Grace did not arrive at the
Tamworth station until long after the Queen, having been
detained in town at the marriage of the Earl of March to
Miss Greuille, at Lord Francis Egerton's, in Belgrave-
square. A delay at the station, owing to some misunder-
standing about the Duke's horses, prevented his arriving
at Drayton until nearly the dinner hour. His Grace was
walking in the grounds at Drayton as early as half-past
seven the next morning.

Wednesday morning her Majesty breakfasted at eight
precisely in her own private apartment.

At half-past nine Prince Albert, attended by General
Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Anson, started
from Drayton Manor for the Tamworth station, in
order to proceed to Birmingham, for the purpose of
inspecting some of the most remarkable features of
that great manufacturing town. He went in Sir Robert
Peel's own open carriage to the station, without an escort,
and accompanied by Sir Robert Peel as far as the station
at Tamworth. On the way his Royal Highness passed
through the Church at Tamworth, where he was attended
by the Vicar of Tamworth.

At 11 o'clock her Majesty went out to walk, accompa-
nied by Lady Peel, the Duchess of Buccleuch, and Miss
Paget. Her Majesty walked on the terrace, and after-
wards visited Lady Peel's flower garden, and the farmyard
and dairy. Her Majesty remained, apparently much en-
joying the fine weather, until nearly 12 o'clock.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager arrived on Wednes-
day at the Tomworth station at three o'clock, by a special
train, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
Earl Howe, and the Countess of Brown low. Sir Robert
Peel left Drayton soon after two o'clock, and proceeded
to the Tamworth station, where he received Her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, who proceeded. accompanied
by the Premier and her suite, and escorted by the Staf-
fordshire Yeomanry immediately to Drayton Manor.
In the afternoon a dinner took place in the Town-hall,
Tamworth, to commemorate the occasion of her majesty's
visit. The mayor, corporation, and principal inhabitants
were present.

It may not be uninteresting to the general reader to
state that this is the first visit of a reigning sovereign to
Tamworth and its neighbourhood since the days of Queen
Elizabeth. In fact, Queen Victoria, with the exception
of Elizabeth, is the first reigning Queen who has honoured
Tatoworth with her presence since the days of Ethelfleda,
the daughter of Alfred. It is said, however, that James
11. once visited Tamworth, and it is known that Henry of
Richmond passed through Tamworth to the battle of
Bosworth, where he was victorious against the Duke of
Gloucester. Tamworth was, in fact, during the early
ages of English history, the residence of our most pow-
erful and warlike kings. It is not a little singular that
the last visit of a Monarch Queen of these realms paid to
Tamworth was when Elizabeth visited the Earl of Essex
(then her High Steward) at the ancient manor of Dray-
ton Bassett, where Sir R. Peel has now the distinguished
honour of receiving and entertaining Queen Victoria.
Tamworth is encircled by an extensive and fertile tract of
meadow and upland. The two rivers, the Tame and the
Anker, winding through its valleys—the venerable church
and its ancient castle, all combine to render the spot (in-
dependent of its present associations) extremely interest-
ing to the visitor.

VISIT OF PRINCE

ALBERT TO BIRMING-

The visit of Prince Albert to Birmingham on 'Wednes-
day, occasioned, as was anticipated, a general holiday.
His Royal Highness arrived at the Birmingham terminus
of the Derby railway, by special train, at half-past ten
o'clock.

The Mayor having been introduced to his Royal High-
ness, his worship presented to the Prince a loyal address.

His Royal Highness, in reply, expressed the deep in-
terest he took in the trade, manufactures, and general
welfare of the town of Birmingham. He had not the
slightest doubt but be should experience the great gra-
tification in visiting the various manufactures of the
borough.

The scene on leaving the railway station in Lawley-
street was extremely gay and animated. A detachment
of the lith Lancers, under the command of Colonel St.
Quintin, preceded the royal cavalcade, there were two
royal carriages, in the first of which, drawn by four of the
Queen's horses, were his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the Mayor of Birmingham, the Earl of Warwick, and
Mr. George Anson. The second of the royal carriages,
drawn by four grays, contained a number of the Prince's
attendants. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm with
which his Royal Highness was received at all points of
his progress.

The first place visited was the glass-house of Messrs.
Bacchus and Sons, in Dartmouth-street. Here he in-
spected, and with great minuteness examined, the various
processes adopted in the manufacture of glass. tie ap-
peared to be highly interested in the exhibition. From
the works of the Messrs. Bacchus, the royal cavalcade
proceeded along Prospect-row, Coleshill-street, Dale-end,
Bull-street, and Snow-hill to Water-street, where the
Prince and his attendants visited the rolling •mills of
Messrs. G. F. and P. H. Muntz. His Royal Highness
was conducted over the whole establishment by Mr. P.
Muntz, the late Mayor of the borough. A most novel,
but for the manufactory, a very appropriate, sight was
here exhibited. Instead of laying down carpets upon
which his Royal Highness was to walk, Mr. Muntz laid
down a quantity of beaten yellow metal, the same copper
metal used for the sheething of ship-bottoms, which has
for some time past occupied so much of the attention of
the Court of Chancery and other courts of law.

The royal party next proceeded to the splendid show
rooms of Messrs. Jennens and Betteridge, papier mache
manufacturers, Constitution Hill. His Royal Highness
inspected the gun-manufactory of Messrs. Sargent, Bro-
thers, in Charlotte-street. There the process of barrel
welding and rolling by machinery was seen by his Royal
Highness to perfection.
The Prince reached the works of Messrs. Elkington
and Co. at half-past one o'clock, and was there occupied
about an hour in minutely inspecting the various proces-
ses connected with the electric deposition of metals as ap-
plied to gilding, plating, zincing, coppering, &c.
The button manufactory of Mr. Edward Arrofield, in
Newhall-street, was the next object of interest to the
Royal party. There his Royal Highness witnessed the
manufacture of buttons, from the earliest and crudest
state of the manufacture to its completion.
The next object of attraction was the Town-hall. The
Prince arrived at the hall about three o'clock, and with
his distinguished attendants took up a position in the
centre gallery. Mr. Stempson played upon the organ
the National Anthem. The effect was admirable, and it
was most cordially responded to by the audience. Mr.
Stempson afterwards played a voluntary, and in conclu-
sion " Martin Luther's hymn."

From the Town-hall his Royal Highness proceeded to
King Edward's School, one of Mr. Baring's splendid
buildings, in New-street.

The Royal cavalcade next proceeded to the Proof-
house, where they were received by the wardens, and
after a volley of a proof of 126 barrels, left, highly grati-
fied, for the terminus of the Derby railway.
On Thursday morning Prince Albert went out shooting.
At noon, the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and a distinguished company,
paid a visit to the cathedral at Lichfield. Their reception
by the inhabitants of Lichfield was a loyal one, and the
streets and houses were gaily decorated.

On Friday her Majesty and the Prince, with their suite,
left Tamworth for Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of
Devonshire.

The royal cortege left Drayton at half-past ten, reached
Tamworth station at eleven, Derby a little after half-past
eleven, and Chesterfield shortly before one. At two her
Majesty reached Chatsworth, the rQasle,by which the royal
cortege passed being thronged with spectators from almost
all parts of Derbyshire and the southernmost portion of
Yorkshire.

Yesterday (Monday) her Majesty would leave Chats-
worth for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rut-
land, and the following is understood amongst the officials
to be the

TIMES OF HER MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE
The following are the times to be observed by the trains
MONDAY, DEC. 4.
Chatsworth, 9 A.M. Nottingham, 11 30.
Chesterfield, 10. I Belvoir Castle, 1 30.
THURSDAY, DEC. 7.
Belvoir Castle, 8 30 A.M. 1 Watford, 2 45 P.M.
Syston, 11 39. 1 Windsor, 5.