The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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American gold was
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court will be composed of all the judges of the Queen's
Bench, and great public inconvenience would be caused
by the entire court being occupied durine term with the

at a par a guar'

dollars 85, and Spanish dollars 6 per cent. premium.
Sterling Exchange had been in active demand, and the
market closed firm. Continental bills were not quite so
active. The following are the quotations ;
London, lon to 1091 ; Paris, 5.25 to 5.230 ; Amster-
dam, 394 to 40; Hamburg, 35+ to 354 ; Bremen, 78+ to

state prosecutions to the exclusion of all other business.
A charge of wilful and corrupt perjury has been made
against Mr. Hughes, the government reporter, upon
whose informations, chiefly, the conspirators were held
to bail, because Mr. Richard Barrett was sworn by him
to have been, on the 9th of October, at the meeting at
Calvert's Theatre and at the dinner on the same evening,
which Mr. Barrett offered to refute by the informations
of thirteen persons; and this attempt is followed up by a
fierce article in the Freeman's Journal, raking up allusions
to a hired informer of that name who figured about the
period of the rebellion of 1798, evidently for the purpose
of exciting a prejudice in the minds of those who will be
upon the jury. The motive, however, is too clear, as, if
Mr. Hughes had really committed wilful perjury, or, as
probably will turn out to be the case, made a simple mis-
take, it would have been just as easy, and rather more
startling to the prosecution, for Mr. Barrett, when on his
trial, to disprove Hughes's testimony by the witnesses
whose informations he tendered, and then the jury would
be able to form an adequate opinion as to his general
accuracy or the contrary from the evidence; but the ob-
ject appears have been to excite, previous to the trial, a
prejudice against Mr. Hughes, and an impression that he
is a hired informer, who is ready to swear up to the re-
quired mark, or else to deter him from coming forward
at all.

We extract the following, on the state of the cotton
trade and the incoming crop,_from the New York Herald.

steady, and sales are to a fair amount

Prices continue
Transactions at full prices
There was but little doing in the New Orleans market
on the 19th instant; prices were too high to meet the
views of buyers. The stock on hand was light. There
bad been 1800 bales of new received ; sales since then
amount to about 500 bales. The old was out of market;
a crop of 1200 bales, which has been held for some time,
was shipping for Liverpool.
Extract of a letter from Mobile, by which it appears
the chance for a large crop in that section is still consi-
dered favouroble. It is dated 19th Sept. 1843 z"
" About 600 bales of the new crop have arrived, and the
greater part is now on the market. The difficulty of ne-
gotiation, and the want of vessels, have prevented any ac-
tivity in our market. Fair cotton is sold readily at eight
cents, specie; other qualities in proportion."
The prospects of the country were daily improving.
On the 15th ult. the coast of West Florida was swept
by a hurricane, which overturned dwellings, uprooted
trees, and caused a frightful destruction of human life.
The yellow fever was still prevalent at New Orleans and
Mobile on the 20th ult., but the cases were not numer-
ous.

After the magistrate had heard several counsel in sup-
port of the application against Mr. Hughes, they decided
not to take the informations.

An address from Mr. O'Connell appeared to-day, which
is full of exhortations to peace and order.

The papers contain but little intelligence from Canada.
Mr. Chabot had been elected representative for Quebec,
in the assembly. Great devastation has been caused by
fires in the woods of Canada.

In the corporation, yesterday, Mr. O'Connell, instead
of the original notice of motion which he had given,
" `To submit to the considers ion of the council
the insult offered to the Lord Mayor and to the
corporation, and the danger arising to the citizens at large
by means of the issuing of an illegal proclamation, and
by a total disregard of the Lord Mayor's undoubted
power and willingness to keep the peace within the city.' "
moved the following milk and water resolution :
" ` That we deem the transmission of the proclamation
to the Lord Mayor about the hour of four o'clock on
Saturday, the 7th of October instant, to prevent a meet-
ing to be held on the next day, too late for -the purposes
of due caution, and especially too late for him to warn the
citizens of Dublin of the impending peril.'"
which was carried by a majority of 38 to 9, despite of a
most able and sarcastic speech by Alderman Butt; the
discussion, however, shews that after all, the charges of
insult and illegality which the learned gentleman was to
have established, have deviated down to this; not that
what the Government did was illegal, and was an insult,
but that it ought to have been done long before, which is
just what almost every conservative journal in the king-
dom has been dinning into their ears for the last six
months ; in the meantime, in proportion as the agitators
find their hold upon the affections of the people vitally as.
sailed, so they redouble their efforts to excite. Notwith-
standing the tranquil aspect of affairs, the military pre-
cautions which have been taken in order to prevent any
sudden, outbreak, are not in the slightest degree relaxed.
In Limerick preparations are making for the reception
of 1000 additional men. Mr. Keith's stores at Mount
Kennett have been taken for their accommodation, and
one of the workhouses is about to be applied to a similar
purpose, and a considerable naval force will be assembled
in the Shannon, under the command of Captain Austin,
C.B.

The county of Beauharnois, throughout its whole ex-
tent, had been for days the scene of most destructive con-
flagrations, which, owing to the long-continued drought
of the season, had swept off not the underbrush only, but
also the heavier timber, leaving nothing but ashes where
tbi-v had stood. Other districts of the province had also
.suffered to a great extent. In many instances the fire had
traversed the upper soil of the cleared land, consuming
the new stacked hay and grain and the standing oats, and
destroying even the potatoe and turnip crops. Some
barns and dwelling• houses, too, were consumed.

LIST OP PASSENGERS.
From Boston.—Captain Mills, Mr. and Mrs. notch,
Miss Rotch, Messrs. Francis Rotch, G. B. Blake, E. J.
Coates, F. A. Whitwell, J. W., CoNiro, E G. Roberts,
Jas. Blake, H. Milner, J. Copeland, J. H. March and
servant, C. H. Todd, W. M. Richards, Thos. Sergeant,
D. G. Scott, W. Spinks and servant, P. L. Smat, J. Lo-
timer, Thos. Motley, jun., Thatcher, John Kelly, John
Bradbury, A. W. Jaffray, L. B. C. Fournot, Thomas
Ward, John Hartley, J. B. English, M. C. Delorme,
Brabe, J. L. Peirin, and D. Stewart.

Front Halffax.—Mr. and Mrs. Grieve, Miss Joplin,
Mks Mince, Captain Shairp, Messrs. Egan, Adam and
Y. Bekenna.

PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

The Lady Mary Wood steamer brings advices from
Gibralter to the 9th, from Cadiz to the 10th, and from
Lisbon to the 12th instant. At Lisbon the absence of the
Queen and her leading ministers had been seized by the
Septembrists to set on foot a new revolution. Attempts
have been made to corrupt the army, and some officers
detected in tampering with the soldiers had been placed
under arrest in the Castle. The merchants of Lisbon
were hopeless of a favoura le result to the tariff negocia-
tions, and the clearine of goods at the Custom-house,
which had been in a great degree suspended for a month,
was now resumed. At Cadiz and Seville the gteatest
agitation and excitement continued.. Both places were
unner the operation of martial law, fresh arrests continued
to be made daily, all the troops were constantly under
arms, day and night, and numerous patrols went through
the principal streets, dispersing the smallest groups. The
hostile feelings of the Andalusians to the provisional go-
vernment were apparent, from the fact that there is not
an important point throughout the entire province in
which there have not been strenuous effeorts made to pro-
claim the Central Junta. There have been attempts of
this discription in some instances for a time successfui at
Seville, at Cadiz, at Cordova, in Granada, Malaga, and
Carthagena.

Aldborough house, a spacious residence near the out-
skirts of Dublin, on the Clontarf road, is undergoing the
necessary alterations to enable it to accommodate troops,
and a large building on Usher's Quay, nearly opposite to
the Four Courts, called Horne's Hotel, is, it is said, to
be converted to the same use. Large placards are posted
through the town, calling on all the outpensioners of Chel-
sea hospital in Dublin to attend on certain days next week
to be examined for the purpose of being embodied in local
companies, and all who shall not attend are warned that
if they do not satisfactorily account for their ab,ence their
pensions will be stopped. Three half-pay officers have
been struck off the list for joining the repeal movement.
SUNDAY EVENING, OCT. 22.

Nothing of moment has transpired in the city during
the day. Two meetings were held to express confidence
in the liberator; one of the post office ward, and the other
of St. Patrick's, at which resolutions we►e adopted to ad-
dress the legislature on the rights of petition for the re-
dress of grievances, and' also of Implicit reliance on the
dicta►es of the liberator. To-morrow the new grand Con-
ciliation Hall is to he opened; the chair to be taken by
Augustus John O'Neill, Esq. of Bomowen Castle, re-
cently a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, and for-
merly Tory M.P. for Hull. If the proceedings should
prove interesting you may expect to hear front me by the
late snail to-morrow night, and at all events I shall send
you a *Acacia by the early mail.

The King of Holland delivered the opening speech to
the States General on Monday.
The young Queen of Spain attained her thirteenth year
on Tuesday last,

The Born pay Gentlemen's Gazette, announces that
$1 r@ is a rumour that Lord Granville Somerset is likely
to succeed Et:;!4. Ellsubvivusii ss Governor-General of

It is stated in the New York Herald, that the Britan-
nia -tearner, for her late voyage home, took on board at
New York thirty-two passengers, 15,000 letters, and
seventy-five bushels of newspapers.

DANIEL O'CONNELL AND THE REPEAL
ASSOCIATION.

The following intelligence was communicated to us

An English magazine, puhliabed every two racn!!!!,!.=
made its appearance in Prank fort. It is principally made
tip of the aerial works of Ainsworth, Dickens, L;;ver, and
Mrs. Trollope.

by express, from our own correspondent, at an early hour
on Tuesday morning last, and published before eight
o'clock in our Second Edition :

DUBLIN, Monday. 16th Oct. 1843
_ Two o'clock. p.m. _

Tim CHtivasx PRIZE-MONEY.—We have beard on 1
authority that the batta money (or prize-money) arising
from the ransom of Canton wilt be paid in the course of
the ensuing month, orders having been already issued to
the treasury to make the necessary arrangements for its
distribution. This gratuity has al eady been paid to the
forces in India who were employed in the expedition.
Disappointment is naturally fat at the limited amount
which falls to the share of the gallant captors, as it hardly
exceeds a tithe of that which has been received by the ci-
tizens of Canton, who, headed by Howqna, came forward
voluntarily and offered 6,000,000 dollars for the preserva-
tion of their city. The course taken by Capt. Elliott, the
late Plenipotentiary, in converting the ransom into a con-
vention, has diverted the money from the channel lan
which, according to all precedent in such matters, it
would otherwise have flowed.—Slandard.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE POPE.—A letter from
Rome, of the 27th ult., in the Gazelle de France, says—
" A report has probably reached you of an attempt to
assassinate the Pope. The fact is, that a physician, who

Mr. O'CONNELL returned to town this morning from
Glencullun, about nine miles from Dublin, the seat of
his son-in-law, C. Fitzsimon, Esq., whither he pro-
ceeded on Saturday evening to enjoy the mountain breezes
yesterday.
This morning's Freeman's Journal announces the
usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association,
to be held at the Corn Exchanze, at one o'clock, and
that the Liberator will attend. It set forth the nature of
the informations which have been sworn, and which are
so voluminous that they have not yet been furnished to
Mr. O'Connell, though copies have been ordered to be
given to him with the utmost despatch.
Among other charges set forth in the informations
against the Liberator, and upon which special counts
will, it is presumed, be framed, are the following :—Levy-
ing money off the Queen's subjects—levying money off
persons the subjects of foreign governments, for the pur-
poses of intimidation, and for the better advancement of
)tion of prerogative in instituting

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. a great. revolutionist, out ariven TO uesperation oy tansii.a o, ....,• -
want of money, went one day to the palace ; and, although spiring to and with each other to emleavour to seduce her
be has a wooden leg, entered as nimbly as if it was his Majesty's subjects in the Army and Navy from their
own house. Being met, and asked whom he wanted, he allegiance to the throne, with conspiring ;o establish
replied that he wished to speak his Holiness on very courts in order to supercede the courts of justice as esta-
urgent affairs. With muchtffictuoltyfirhee was induced to bushed by law, and with an attempt to overturn
withdraw. On reaching the court he pistol, with- toe constitution as established, under the pretext of
Out its being perceived that it was he whod causeda the ex- seeking for a repeal of the legislntive union,
plosion. The next day he returned agaih, and wz-,,i on A.
until he met Cagetanino. the Pontiff'host of other allegations were made, "licl sl)rolry so-
until ;stet, to whom he called seditious speeches set forth, but the only precise
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insisted on hems immediately allowed to see the Pope on Wort-Wien we have Se yet been able to- obtain regarding
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matters of high interest. His entrance was, however, this ertriotditiarY and Sep
document, is contained
again refused, and he went away, but he was arrested on in the above.
leaving the palace. A loaded pistol was found upon It is presumed that the informations against the other
gentlemen are nearly similar to those against Mr. O'Con-
him.' nell—the speeches alone excepted.
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FOX-lIUNTING AT GIBRALTAR.—This noble sport, it
appears. will be followed with great spirit by the officers
of the garrison at the " Rock" during the ensuing sea-
son. The. Gibraltar Chronicle publishes an account of a
Hagan.
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and
James Sir Coleman
meeting of the Calpe hunt, held at the quarters of M sky
O'Logblen, T. 0'
Lacy Walter Yea, for the purpose of taking into consi-
for Mr. O'Connell.—Solicitor, Mr. William Ford.' Esq.,
deration the most efficient measures to be adopted for
For Mr. John O'Connell—Jonathan Henn, Esq., Q C.•
maintaining the hunt in all the style and spirit which has
distinguished it for the last 26 years. The meeting was Gerald Fitzgibbon, Esq„ Q.C.; James Whiteside, Es '
Esq., Q. C. ; Solicitor,g"
numerously attended by officers, who represented the se- Q. C. ; and Francis M'Donagh,
Mr. Pierce Mahony.
veral corps of the garrison (with the exception of the
However, it is indispensable that a license from the
Royals,) includine the Artillery and Engineers. the 7th,
38th, 48th, and 79th Regiments. Major Yea was called Crown should be obtained by the Queen's Counsel, in
to the chair. A lengthened discnssion ensued, from which all cases in which the crown is a party, which has hitherto
, after inspecting the books, been always granted in such cases, whether the Govern-
it appeared that the meeting,
ment may exercise their right in the present instance I
&c., were of opinion that the average expenditure for sup-
porting the hunt might b:• taken at 1,400 dollars per cannot say.
annum. A resolution was passed, "That as the garri- The meeting of the wards I alluded to in my letter of
son contained five regiments of the line, Engineers, Artil- last night passed several resolutions expressive of their un-
lery. Staff, &c., the expense of maintai..ing the hounds bounded confidence in the Liberator—condemnatory of
should be fairly divided into seven different divisions, one the government proceedings, and urging the necessity
for each regiment, another for the Ordnance, and the re- of all who had already contributed to the Repeal, contri-
twining one for
'she garrison Staff, civilians, and all hating a fresh subsidy under the head of Proclamation
casual subscribers's (the Governor's donation included). money, but none of the proceedings were of such impor-
tance as to be worth transmitting in detail.
Another resolution was also adopted, urging the propriety
Co-day, Dr. Gray, Messrs. C. G. Duffy, Thos. M.
of every regiment and all the members supporting Colo-
Ray, Thos. Steele, Rev. James Tyrrell, Rev. Thos. Tier-
ney Maude the master of the hunt,
ney, and Mr. Richard Barrett, attended at Judge Burton's,
CIRCUMSTANCE.—Lastand
A MELANCHOLY week, at the entered into bail, themselves in £5OO, and two sure-
Blockley Almshouse, a young woman committed suicide ties in £250 each. The following are the names of the
by taking arsenic. The following note, found upon the sureties for Dr. Gray—Alderman Gardiner, and Robert
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table in her room, explains the cause of her unfortunate M'Clelland, T. C. ; for C. G. Duffy, Esq.—Alderman
end :---" Let no one attempt to use any cup, tumbler, or Richard Grace, and Patrick O'Brien, T.C. ; for the Rev.
spoon on this table. This is to inform all who may see Mr. Tyrrell—Thomas Carrall and Simon It chard Fraser ;
it, that no one is chargeable with my death—that is, with for Thos. M. Ray (Secretary to the Assoclation)--
having in any form murdered me—l die by my own hand. Patrick O'Brien, T.C. and John Ketch ; for Ri-
I have been the victim of a cruel deceiver, who, after chard Barrett (who is the editor of the Pilot)—
, leading me into the greatest dis ress, has left me des- T. O'Brien, Lord Mayor elect, and James Rooney ;
theta of money, friends, and clothes. I know not for Thoinas Steel—James Rooney and Alderman M'Ken-
whichnit.; for the Rev. T. Tierney—Alderman M'Kenna and
way to turn. Tnis has caused me to commit the
rash act. May God have mercy on my soul ! It is my Wm. M`Gennis.
last request that Dr. E—may be made to come and gaze
on the cold clay of her he so ruined and cruelly deserted.
My name is —. I am the adopted daughter of Mr.
--• South Twelfth-street. I had, whenhe I lay very low,
the promise of Mr. D—, brewer, at
in the Magdalent n of ---
and =streets, to lie Warr i aelr-eronnd M

REPEAL ASSOCIATION

Four o'clock.
legs at the Cora Exchange,

O'Connell is

It h.s been my earnest wish in life—ir is in death
think• if some one would call upon Lim (he is a
henevolent man,) that he would let me lie there.—R-

(John O'Neill, Esq., of
the peace, in the chair
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will, it is confidently
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