The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 2, 1845

It would seem to be an established fact in the
destinies of nations, as in those of individuals, that
when prosperity appears most rife around us—
when our power seems at its height, and the pros-
pect before us is most flattering—the elements of
evil, in that our proudest hour, are silently, yet
actively at work, preparing for us change and mis-
fortune. Such, we fear, is the position of this great
empire at the present moment. Above—around
us—a few weeks ago, all seemed to betoken a per-
manent and boundless prosperity. Wealth flowed
in upon us from every land. Our flag was pre-
eminent in every foreign port, At home the hand
of improvement was stretched out to apply the
mighty powers of science to ameliorate and streng-
then the social fabric ; and political theorists, in-
toxicated with the flattering aspect of the times, are
even now preparing to give new wings to our
commerce, to throw off our defensive armour, and
to embark the industry and the energies of the
nation more unreservedly upon the ocean of compe-
tition against the world, which they challenge to vie
with us in the struggle. Yet already the " little
cloud, no bigger than a man's hand," is rising
above the horizon. There are signs and portents
abroad, which should teach prudent men to reflect
and to pause before they commit themselves irre-
vocably, and rest the security and very existence of
the nation upon what may prove to be only the un-
substantial fabric of a dream.

For what object, let us ask, or under what vague
dread of coming danger, is it that we are at this
moment, with the world around us in profound
peace, preparing assiduously the materials of war?
For what is it that we are strengthening our army,
and preparing defences for our coasts, with as
much anxiety as if hostile fleets already menaced
them ? Why are our dock-yards the scene of eager
industry, and preparations making for putting even
our merchant and mail steam-ships in armed trim
to meet an enemy ? There has risen up of late no
new world to conquer—no new empire lo subject to
the British Crown. China remains allied with us
in the bonds of a mutually beneficial commerce,
and India is our own—even more securely ours
than at any previous period of her history. For

what object, Chen, are we thus sedulously and ac-
tively arming ourselves, since it cannot be for a vain
show ?
We would ask of any observing reader to drive
from his mind for a moment the dream of avarice
and presumption, in which the nation is unhappily
sunk, and to examine carefully the elements of
coming mischief with which we are surrounded.
In the west, the aggressive spirit of Republican

_ .
America threatens us with demands which we can-
not grant, consistently with the national honour.
Nor, could we even stoop to grant them, are we
sent are all that we shall he
r folly to attempt to delude
idea that America will not risk a
__i us for the Oregon Territory : for that
hat would be involved in the issue of a
lat people. It is idle to tell us that the
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ourselves
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entering into a qua

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;ates could no more keep
:lid foragers of the West than dam up
of the Ohio or the Mississippi. The
emigration has set to•ards the
nd there it must be met and
:he British Empire,
from encroaching upon the privileges and the pro-

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stream of America
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by the po

perty of Brats
the present Gc

next to Europe—to France. Has the
entente coru,ale, which is at present regarded as the
policy of both countries, the marks upon it of per-
manence ? Vv-e think not. During the short period
for which Louis Philippe wields the sceptre of
France, it may, perhaps, be preserved ; but the
temper of an entire people must change before it
can be calculated upon as certain to endure from
veek to another. A mere misunderstanding—
an error in judgement on the part of the Govern-
of either nation—a pique, how-
ever slight, may, with an embittered people and a
_city, at any moment fan the slumbering
of Europe into a flame and desolate an
entire continent.

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fly off

And are we strong at home—within our own
borders—should such an emergency arise ? We
point to Ireland for the reply. We point to the
boast and the motto of the arch Agitator, that
" England's danger is Ireland's opportunity."—
What, let us ask, is the condition of England's
manufacturing towns and wealthy seaports, with
their large Irish population, should that country be
induced by its wicked demagogues to draw the
sword for the realization of their visionary scheme
of nationality ? We maintain that it would be one
of awful danger; and that the government that
should neglect to provide against such danger would
be besotted and criminal.
Yet this is the time—with such danger lowering
upon us from every side—that is chosen in which
to invite us to throw down the barriers of protec-
tion to native agriculture, and to make heavy in-
roads upon the national revenue ! During the en-
suing session parliament will be called upon to
grant increased sums for the maintenance and aug-
tion of the army : for an augmentation of the

mental

numbers of our ships of the line, our steam navy,
our marines and our seamen. We may also have
to set about the better fortification of our coasts, our
ur rivers, and to call out our Militia
lear that this is the course of
'3 worst to which the govern-
ition—that they are

directing their

It is c

wise prepara
ment ar

boldly looking the danger in the face, and preparing
to meet its approach. Ilow, then, we ask, if we
proceed any further in carrying out our free trade
policy, is the national revenue to he raised ? Are
we to perpetuate the income tax, doubled in amount,
or to what other resource are we to fly ?
It may he said that, in these remarks, we are
needlessly alarming the public mind. We do not
think that we are so doing. The public mind, we
much suspect, is far too sanguine as to the con-
tinued preservation of the peace of the world ; and
statesmen would do well, in their legislation, more
frequently to consider that such a contingency may
occur, to mar their most crafty plans and upset
their most cherished theories. We of the present
generation have lived in halcyon times. The spade,
the reaping hook, and the shuttle have been our
sole weapons. Our fathers, however, we must re-
member, had more stubborn work to do ; and the
providence which entailed it upon them may,
though we see not its approach, be preparing it for
ourselves. If we mistake not, the signs of the
times warn us not to he over-well assured as to our
freedom from its visitation.

Nnti-C

portan t than

Dr n Law 1

aguehas received, during

an accession of strength more irn-
'ould be a hundred victories in the
Mere Whiggery, long ago
wed by the side of

Registration Courts
reduced to a shadow

when vi

its more energetic c

.ipetitor for the " most sweet
voices of the masses," has at length gone over to
Repeal. Lord John Russell has read his recanta-
tion to the electors of London, and is to sit hence-
forth under the wing of Mr. Cobden. Lord Mot.-
peth has since delivered in his adhesion to "my
dear Mr. Baines" of Leeds. Of course, the rest of
the party will follow their adroit leader; and the
next session will see the Whig fixed duty proposi-
tion thrown overboard altogether, and the moderate
and the ultra free traders proceeding lovingly toge-
ther, with " fin'tlity" left behind them, and the
Treasury Benches in the foreground, inviting their

occupation.
With this combination of forces, it is not difficult
to foretel that the total abandonment of the existing
system of protection to tlr3 soil is not far distant,
even although no inclination existed on the part of
the present ministry to pursue such a course, or
there were no peculiar and temporary circumstances
to prompt a call from a party for such a conces-
sion at the present moment. We shall no longer
see the Opposition distracted by petty differences, as
to the length to which its various sections are dis-
posed to carry their measures. The Premier will

no longer be able to shew his admirable dexterity in
playing off one party against another—the advo-
cate of a fixed duty against the advocate of total
and unconditional Repeal ;—and the opportunity of
snatching from both the credit of a settlement of
the question at issue, by a dexterous medium policy,
or a flank demonstration, has gone by for ever.
Lord John has proved more than a match in party
tactics to Sir Robert Peel.

What may be the numerical strength of the com-
bined forces, it is, of course, impossible at present
to predict. Presuming that the Premier is resolute
in his determination to protect the native agricultu-
rist, he has at his back a phalanx of county mem-
bers amply sufficient to enable him to do so. But
that the new parliament, which must shortly be
summoned, will supply him with an equal amount
of strength is, we fear, extremely problematical,
unless the agricultural body infuse into their policy
a far greater amount of energy and organization, in
preparing for the struggle with which they are
threatened, than they have recently displayed. That
body, it must be borne in mind, have thrown from
them the support and sympathy of important classes
of the constituencies, whose votes at the last gene-
ral election placed a Conservative administration in
power. They have bartered the support of the
Protestant voice of the country in exchange for the
temporary retention of their protective laws. They
have lost the respect of the lower classes by their
retention of an oppressive and heartless poor law,
which they pledged themselves on every hustings to
abolish or to ameliorate. Nay, there is scarcely any
great question agitating the public mind and inter-
esting to the nation, to which the mere protectionist
can point and say with truth—" here is the lever
with which I can move the constituencies, and by
which I can again win my way to the hearts and the
confidence of my fellow-countrymen."
Such is, indisputably, the unpromising position
in which the great mass of the Conservative party
are placed in the struggle, which recent events have
shewn to be drawing to a crisis. Whilst the enemy
is active, well organized, full of confidence and
growing in influence, the landowners of the country
are a rope of sand—dispirited, lethargic, and we
had almost said, without ability to understand the
extent of the danger with which they are menaced.
They have followed blindly the leadership of Sir
Robert Peel, and not regarded the fact that he was
dragging them through paths and to measures which
led, step by step, to the loss of the affection and the
respect of their fellow-countrymen.
Who, with the events of the past session of
parliament before them, will now say that the cause
of Conservatism and the maintenance of native
agriculture is the cause of the Protestantism and
the Established Church of the land ? What Con-
servative candidate who has followed Sir Robert
Peel through the measures of the past session—
who has sanctioned Nlaynooth Bills and Godless
Education Bills—can now dare to inscribe upon his
banners the motto " Church and Queen" ? Where
are now to be found the devoted canvasser, the ac-
tive committee men, who, a few years ago, were
ready to toil early and late to promote the return of
men faithful to the principles of our glorious con-
stitution,—pledged to stand between the "heavy
blows and great discouragements" with which our
venerable mother church was menaced by an un-
principled faction ? Echo answers—" where ?"
The lamentable truth stares us in the face that they
are not to be found. . _ _

The conviction must force itself now upon our
minds that the fall of the Conservative party is ra-
pidly approaching. It has not conic upon ourselves,
however, unprepared. Conservatism was weak ab
initio, and contained within itself the seeds of its
ow destruction. It took no large distinctive views
of national policy. It sought no extensive amelio-
ration of the social condition of the people. It was,
in fact, a mere temporary breakwater, erected for
the purpose of checking, for a time, whilst it never
ventured to hurl hack the flood of innovation let in
by the Reform Bill. A session or two, we feel con-
vinced, will witness its removal altogether. and
hurry the country into an emergency which, after a
time, will impel the nation to seek for protection
and aid from a different set of men, and the asser-
tion of different and uncompromising and definite

principles

A contemporary, of Saturday, in his notices to
correspondents, thus accounts for the accidental
obscurity in one of his previous week's leading

draw upon his head, as the result of a refusal to
give the sanction of his office of Chief Magistrate to
an anti-ministerial movement, the resentment of a
portion of his fellow-townsmen. We will not our-
selves be so uncharitable as to suppose that these
gentlemen bad any such unworthy objects in view.
We must, however, caution them to distrust the
councils of those, less honest than themselves,
whose insidious practices will otherwise lead them
into a position which no honourable men would
seek to occupy. No good cause was ever advanced
by other than straight-forward policy. A party
movement can never be made to assume any other
than its natural aspect by all the plausible profes-
sions of ultra philanthropy with which it may he
attempted to be disguised. The world sees through
the imposture, and despises its perpetrators.
Of the meeting itself, or the speeches of the
various orators, we do not propose to say a wore.
They were of the ordinary anti-corn-law staple,
containing only a more than usual amount of that
hypocrisy and professed consideration for the poor
which hide the selfishness of the actuating motive
of their utterance; and will neither set the Thames
or the Mersey on fire, nor upset Sir Robert Peel's
administration.

THE MAYOR AND THE FREE-TRADE MEETING

The Albion of yesterday reiterates its statement that
" the Mayor was closeted for two hours with the Rev.
Hugh M'Neile" on Friday week. As the assertion, be-
cause so obstinately persisted in, may impose upon some
persons, we are induced to give what are the facts of the
case, as our cotemporary can ascertain if he chooses to
make enquiry. The Rev. gentleman, we believe, called
casually on his Worship, on Friday afternoon; but, so far
from the interview lasting two hours, it did not, (as ordi-
nary visits of a similar character) exceed twenty minutes;
and as we have been compelled to allude further to the
subject, we may assure our cotemporary that the reply of
the Mayor to the requisition was written before his Wor-
ship saw Mr. M'Neile. We have, moreover, rea-
son to believe that Mr. M'Neile was in favour of the
meeting, and had the Mayor called it, he would, in all
probability, have taken part in the proceedings. It is bad
enough for an assertor of an unfounded aspersion, to bully
it out by reiteration in the face of unequivocal contradic-
tion, so as to maintain his ground : but what will the
sensible portion of the community think of the animus of
our contemporary in descending to an unworthy system
of espionage, for the purpose of endeavouring to damage
the good name of one whom he cannot however injure.
Henceforth, let the friends of the Mayor beware how they
pay even a casual visit to his worship, lest our contem-
porary's scouts may be hanging about the door of the
audience chamber, or perchance listening at the key hole.
In this instance, however, our contemporary only discov-
ered a Mare's nest !

MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 74; Boston, New-
ark, and Sheffield, 2g ; Caledonian, 13 ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 2/ pm. ; Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, 425. ;
Huddersfield and Manchester R. and C., 41; Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, 15 ; Leicester and Birming-
ham, 19s. 6d.; London and Manchester (Rastrick's),
44; Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 775. ; Man-
chester and Leeds (Fish's), 10; North Staffordshire,
£5 4s. 6d., £5 2s. Od., £4 17s. lid., .€5 23. Od. ; Not-
tingham and 'Mansfield, 21 ; Nottingam, Erewash, Am-
bergate, and Manchester, 2i; heffield and Lincoln-
shire. 2}; Sheffield and Manchester. Quartera No. 3,
: South Mi land, 87s. ; West Lancastire Coast, 225. ;
West Riding Union, £5 2s. ; Whitehaven and Furness,

COURSE OF LECTURES.—A course of twelve lectures,
by different clergymen, to be preached at St. Andrew's
church, on successive Tuesday evenings, will be com-
menced to-night. 'the striect of this evenings lecture is
" the inspiration and authority of Holy Scripture."

We understand that the Coinrnerciai Bank and the new
branch of the Bank of England, in Castle-street, are both
to be built of stone brought from the Darley Dale Quar-
ries, Derbyshire, from which the stone used in the erec-
tion of the Assize Courts hai been procured.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.—In St. Paul's Church,
on Sunday morning, the sum of £ll was collected, after a
sermon by the Rev. J. Cordeaux, for the funds of the
schools in connection with the chiL ch, and in the even-
ing, the sum of £l2, after a sermon by the Rev. T. Nolan.
The attendance was yei y numerous, chiefly of the poor,
who seemed deeply interested in obtaining scriptural
teaching both for themselves and their families.

Lord Devon, in a letter to the Times, dated November
26th, on the disease amongst the potatoes, made the
following very pertinent observation, which some parties
in this neighbourhood would do well to give heed to :
—" I see no advantage in county or public meetings,
in resolu'ions or in speeches. It is riot necessary to
proclaim the evil. This will make itself felt soon enough.
Our business is to act, not to talk; and THE MORE
QUIETLY WE ACT THE BETTER."
ATROCIOUS MURDER.—On Tuesday, as Mr. Wilson,
employed on one of the Northern railways, near Carrick-
marcross, county of Monaghan, was in the discharge of
his duty, with two attendants as chainmeii, he was
accosted by seven ruffians, who smashed his instrument,
and threw the chains into the river, and then attacked
Mr. Wilson, whom they so frightfully injured, that he
died soon afrer. The two chainmen were a'so severely
beat. Mr. Wilson has left a widow and seven children.
ST. SIMON'S DISTRICT.—It will be seen from an adver-
tisement that on Sunday next a sermon will be preached
in Christ Church, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, and a col-
lection made in behalf of St. Simon's Church. We ere
extremely glad to find this object so warmly taken up by
the clergy, which pi-dyes that the claims of the district are
of no common kind. We have frequently pressed those
claims on the liberality of our readers, many of whom gill,
we doubt not, be glad that another opportunity is afforded
of proving that they are appreciated.
ROBBERY AT THE HARRINGTON DOCK —On Satur-
day night some thief or thieves effected an entrance into
the cabin of the brig Tom Banks, Captain Jones, master,
at present lying in the Harrington Dock, and stole there-
out a quantity of wearing apparel, a silver watch, and a
tin case containing the ships' register and a bank of Eng-
land note for £lOO. On Monday morning the tin case
and its contents were found concealed behind some ware-
houses, a short distance from where the robbery had been
committed. The other property has not been discovered.
_ _

A CONSERVATIVE TAKEN IN. A Mr. Benjamin
Wood, in a letter to the Halifax Guardian, says, " Find-
ing that a report is afloat inimical to my character as a
consistent politician, in consequence of my having signed
the requisition for a public meeting on the " Famine
question," I beg leave to state that I did not do so from
a conviction that it is necessary to open the ports at pre-
sent, as is affirmed by some pseudo liberals." llow
many Conservatives signed the requisition to our own
Mayor with a similar feeling, of course we cannot pre-
tend to say•
DR. HOOK AND DR. PUSEY.—The friends of the
first named divine are industriously circulating a report
that Dr. Pusey's visit to Leeds, after his recent avowals
in favour of Tract 90, and Romish doctrine, was ex-
tremely unpalatable to the ♦icar. The refusal of Dr.
Posey to sign the proposed declaration of the subscribers
being averse to the doctrines of the Church of Rome,
must have added to the embarrassment, and accounts
sufficiently to our minds for some not obscure in,imations
which appeared in the English Churchman, a fortnight
since, that it was high time for the Professor of Hebrew
to advance or recede. We think so too.—Church and
Slate Gazelle.

CASE OF STABBING.—At the police-court, yesterday,
a' woman, named Bridget aillengen, (who had an in-
fant in her arms,) was charged with having cut and
stabbed, in the neck, her husband, Michael Ballengen,
who appeared with his head bandaged up. The com-
plainant, a coarse-looking man, who keeps an oyster
stall in Roe-street, stated that on Saturday some words
arose between him and the prisoner about some money

which the latter, who had got possession of it, did not

wish him to spend in drink, end on his giving her a blow,
she inflicted the wounds. The prisoner was committed
for trial at the assizes. The man asked the court to
restore him the money, but Mr. Rushton refused, stating
that his conduct lied no doubt been brutal.
ST. JOHN'S CHUUCH SCHOOLS.—On Sunday last, two
sermons were preached in S,. John's Church, on behalf
of the Schools about to be opened in connect,on with that
church.—That in the morning by the Rev. W. Falloon,
minister, and that in the afternoon by the Rev. John
Jones, the respected incumbent of St. Andrews. Both
sermons were listened to with marked attention by
crowded congregations; and the united collections amount-
ed to the handsome sum of £63 4s 4d. ' The Rev. Mr.
Jones, after showing in the most satisfactory way, that
education, in order to be a blessing, must be based on the
unmutilated Word of God, read and expounded to the
pupil,—and after proving in the mo-t powerful and touch-
ing manner the deep responsibilities of parents and
guardians of youth,—pressed upon the attention of his
hearers the. destiturt condition of that populous district
without a single Church of England School within its
limits, and the consequent depravity of the rising genera-
tion ; and concluded by expressing a hope, (which we
cordially desire to see speedily realized,) that the present
rented rooms might soon be supplanted by a building per-
manently attached to the church of this hitherto neglected
district. We have little doubt that our generous mer-
chants will sympathise with the wants of their poor
brethren who worship in such numbers and with such
decency and order in St. John's, and who, according to
their power, are so willing to help the good cause them-
selves, as the collections on this occasion abundantly
testify. With all our hearts we wish the object God
speed."
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—It is stated that the
dividend for the next half year will be 41 per cent., or
after the rate of 9 per cent. per annum. The increase of
receipts from the week ending July 6 to the 23d Novem-
ber is nearly £40,000 over the corresponding period of
last year. The estimated increase for the next five weeks
over the corresponding period of the last half-year is put
down at £lO,OOO. The gross increase, therefore, will be
£50,000 upon the half-year. The dividend required to be
paid on the additional call of £5 on the old shares, and
£2 10s. on the new quarter shares (for it is understood a
dividend will be declared upon the latter at the next half-
yearly meeting) will absorb £14,625, leaving £35,375 un-
appropriated, and therefore applicable to the increased di-
vidend alluded to. It should be observed that there has
to be deducted from the increased receipts the increased
expense consequent upon the opening of the line to Glou-
cester. The extent of this new portion of the Great Wes-
tern Railway is, however, 12 miles only, and the work-
ing expenses incurred upon it can take but little from the
increased receipts of £50,000 upon the half-year.

HEALTH OF THE TOWN.-EXCELLENT
ARRANGEMENTS.

The bold and really wise course resolved upon
on Monday by the Cleansing Sub-Committee of the
Highway Board is one which justly merits the thanks of
the community at large. By the existing law, the powers
of that body have been restricted to cleansing the public
thoroughfares; and the courts and alleys of the town
being private property, have been left in their native
filthiness to engender disease and emit malaria disgusting
to the sense and destructive of the health of all classes of
the population. In the resolutions in question, however,
this committee have declared their determination, in the
first place, to take upon themselves at once the duty of
cleansing all courts and alleys, whether private property
or not; and, in the second place, the emptying of all
privies and cesspools within the parish periodically. The
former duty will, of course, be performed whenever found
necessary, in the same way as the s'reet cleansing is
performed at present. Previously, however, to the per-
formance of tie latter, each householder will receive a
circular, informing him of the time when his premises
will be visited, and thus allowing him to make ar-
rangements for the work of cleansing, being per-
formed without endangering or unecessarily disturb-
ing the rest of his household. This, we consi-
der, as beginning at the right end. It is wise and
judicious, as it is humane and considerate towards
our bumble fellow townspeople, not so well pro-
vided as the affluent with the means, if even they possessed
the inclination, to make their homes healthy and whole-
some, thus to extend to them the hand of assistance and
protection from the evils of their own enforced position
and habits. The working out of the resolutions may at
first be attended with difficulties and annoyance to those
who have determined upon it. There are people in the
world so obstinately wedded to self-created discomfort,
that they regard with displeasure the very interference
which would bestow upon them an amelioration of their
condition. A judicious perseverance, however, by the
Committee in their present course, will, we feel convinced,
be ultimately successful, and result in an increased amount
of enjoyment, by our working classes, of the blessings of
health, and connected with it their social and moral
amelioration.

NARROW ESCAPE.—Yesterday afternoon, as a car was
passing down Lord-street, and just crossing between North
and South John-streets, the horse slipped on the large
flat stones placed for the convenience of passengers, and
fell to the ground breaking both the shafts. The driver,
aided by the jerk, succeeded in clearing the horse's head
and alighting in the street unhurt. The horse was got
up, apparently uninjured. A gentleman who was in the
machine got out, and was also unhurt. If we be not mis-
taken, the broad hard stones forming the crossing foot-
paths in our streets are liable to wear very smooth and
slippery, and it would be well to have them occasionally
picked, or grooved in a rough way, so as to prevent
horses from losing their footing, which they now fre-
frequently do.
CELEBRATION OF ST. ANDREW'S DAY.—The " day"
of the Patron Saint of Scotland having this year fallen
on Sunday last, the anniversary was celebrated by a num-
ber of Scottish gentlemen at Mr. MlCenzie's, the Cale-
donian Hotel, Duke-street, yesterday evening. The par-
ty, about forty in number, sat down to an excellent din-
ner in the large room, which was tastefully and appro-
priately adorned. Mr. Sinclair was president, and the
post of croupier was occupied by Mr. Richmond—both
most able sustained. The loyal toasts were succeeded by
those appertaining to the sister land ; and all were given
and received with the greatest enthusiasm. Scottish
songs and sentiments, interspersed with eloquent and
feeling addresses followed, and amongst the instrumental
music, the bag-pipe "lent its spirit-stirring aid." The
conviviality was kept up until a late hour when the guests
took mutual leave of each other, highly gratified by the
entertainment—which combined the substantial, the na-
tional, and the intellectual.
Mr. Orred has given 600 yards of land in Higher Tran-
mere for the site of a free day and Sunday school. Mr.
John S. Jackson has contributed £5O, and Mr. Watson
£2O, towards its erection.

Lieut. Phillpotts, who fell at New Zealand, in en-
deavouring to force the stockade, was a son of the:present
Bishop of Exeter.
JOSEPH ADY.-At the Mansion-house, on Wednes-
day, Sir Peter Laurie appeared before the Lord Mayor
for the purpose of stating that the notorious Joseph Ady
had resumed all his former activity, and had lately written
a host of letters offering his " advantageous intelligence"
upon the reeeipt of 205., and not only claiming personal
acquaintance with each of the aldermen, but actually re-
ferring to Sir Peter in the following manner:—" Volun-
tary referee, the Right Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, deputy
Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, every day before
eleven o'clock, who will see justice done you, free of
expense, except postage, which you must pay both ways."
The Lord Mayor said he had received numerous letters
from gentlemen enclosing Ady's offers of intelligence.
He had no doubt that the law could reach Mr. Ady, and
the proper persons should be consulted ; but in the mean-
time he relied on exposure by the press to place the
public cn their guard. _

IRISH .NPTITCnr. IN IRISH NECESSITIES.—The most
remarkable feature which strikes any traveller through
Ireland is the uniformily of neglect of natural advan-
tages, and of misery areon4s: the people, which areeve,-y-
-where to be seen. Will draining improve and enrich the
country—draining is neglected, and the people exist in
poverty. Will liming and green-cropping turn bogs into
fertile fields and give plenty to the inhabitants—liming
mid green-cropping are unpractised, and the people starve,
Will fishinit on the coats. or any persevering nnri
ble plan, insure comfort and wealth—the people so
manage it that they barely live by it, while their neigh-
bnus from the opposite coast come arid take fish before
their eyes and make money by it. Does the country ex-
hibit mineral wealth eashy to be won, and insuring em-
ployment and comfort to the whole community and
wealth to the proprietors—the mineral wealth is left
where it has ever been—in the bowels of its native moun-
tains—the people pine for the want of employment, and
the proprietors remain inactive, surrounded by a mesh
work of financial difficulties.—Times.

POTATOES AND THE CORN LAWS.—The potato dietary
in England, as in Ireland, is the resource of extreme
misery. Dearer it is than the wheaten bread dietary—as
all the resources of misery are prodigally expensive—but
it requires no capital, no command of money, even for a
week, as a better and cheaper dietary does. And this is
the whole secret. Let the corn laws be repealed, and the
whole agricultural population of Great Britain, and after-
wards the whole manufacturing population, will be thrown
upon the potato dietary, as the Irish people were thrown
upon it by the ruin of their tillage agriculture a century
ago. Poverty is the mother of the potato plague every
where ; and if we want to know the genealogy of
the poverty of a peasantry, we have only to look to
landlords who exact more from land than land will
fairly produce, and millowners who make three men do
the work of five, by compelling their labourers to work
thirteen or fourteen hours instead of nine or ten. Here
is the true root of the potato plague. Under the influence
of the corn laws that plague was rapidly disappearing in
England, when the new poor law gave it a respite, and
even now it i= receding, though not so rapidly as could he
wished ; and in Ireland, as we lately had the gratification
to announce, oatmeal has within the last few years, to a
great extent, become a substi,ute for "the lazy root,"
with every proepect that in a few years, more than change
will be universal. Repeal the corn laws, however, and
all will be reversed.—Herald.

Hun. RicANE.--During the last eight days a storm has
raged around our island to which the oldest inhabitants
cannot remember a parallel. From Saturday night last
till now the most intense commotion has agitated the
ocean, and no craft, great or small, has ventured to face
the billows. The hurricane; which now rages in the

English Channel gave no peculiar warning of approach.
The sea, on the evening of Saturday last, was warm and
placid. Before morning, however, a strong wind had
arisen, which, for the space of six days, his scarcely known

the slightest abatement. The mail steamer Southwestern,
which usually arrives at an early hour in the morning, did
not reach the island till considerably after mid-day on Sun-
day, and even then it was unable to make the harbour, the
captain being obliged to land her passengers at Bouley
Bay, the only place where his craft could escape the risk
of being dashed to pieces. On the sane morning the
Wonder was detained an hour or two after her usual hour
of departure from Jersey, eight o'clock. It was feared
that she would be unable to weather the tempest, and
suspicions were entertained that she would be obliged to
remain till the storm abated. The ' mail bags,' however,
demanded that she should proceed, and she accordingly
set off at ten o'clock. Far as the eye could reach s' e.
appeared to combat with the waves, and she did not reach
Guernsey until rather late in the afternoon. At what
time she reached Southampton we are not aware ; for
since the day of her departure no tidings have reached
Jersey from the shores of England. The re-arrival of
the Wonder was due on Wednesday morning; but we
now write at one o'clock on Friday morning, and
there are no signs of her approach. The storm still
rages as fiercely as ever, and the wave; are dashing
their spray many yards upwards from toe beach.—Jersey

___. ACCOUNT OF THE CHIEF HEKl.—This chief at
one time professed adherence to the missionaries, but
since Lien has broken off all connection with them, and
become very troublesome both to them and to the Go-
vernmeht. He is reckoned a great warrior, and a person
strongly possessed of a love of power, with a desire to
exercise influence over his own countrymen and he felt
annoyed at the submission of his country to a foreign
power, he himself having taken such an active pact in
persuading the northern chiefs to declare their indepen-
dence on a former occasion. He was also naturally zea-
lous and suspicious of the flritish Government, who had
so soon deprived him of the power which he then pos-
sessed. To add to his annoyance, the very flagstaff
which he had with his own hands cut in his own forest
and planted before the house of the British consul, and on
which he delighted to see the New Zealand flag waving.
was, by Mr. Shortland and Captain Hobson, removed
without his consent from that place, and planted on the
other side of the harbour, near Kororarika, on his own
land too, and used for the purpose of hoisting signals for
the arrival of ships. As a matter of course, he felt this
as an insult; but he also found that, since his own flag-
staff had been removed, nearly all the vessels had ceased
to frequent the bay, and trade and European goods were,
in consequence, becoming daily scarcer, dearer, and more
difficult to be obtained. He was told by the Europeans
that so long as that flagstaff ramained where it was, in
the service of the customs, so long would goods continue
to be scarce and dear. The customs and the flagstaff
were, to his mind, the mysterious misrepresentations of
his country, and believing that the existence of the one
depended upon that of the other, he determined that the
offensive flagstaff should be cut down and removed. It
is reported that some Americans urged upon him the
propriety of thus acting, giving the removal of the un-
fortunate flagstaff and the imposition of customs as s
reason why their whalers cease to visit the country.

Times.
AN

DEPOSIT OF PLANS OF THE LANCASHIRE
ANDTHESHIRE RAILWAYS.

Considering it a matter which would greatly interest
our subscribers and the public to know what Railway
Companies in cur own district had been able to deposit
their plans with the Clerks of the Peace, in compliance
with the standing orders, we bad parties in attendance
yesterday, at Preston and Chester, for the purpose of ob-
taining a correct list. The result of our exertions we give
below ; and we cannot do so without returning our thanks
to the gentlemen (Messrs. Gorst and Birchall) of Pres-
ton, and Mr. Johnson, and Messrs. Potts and Brown, of
Chester, for their kindness in forwarding our views, at a
considerable sacrifice of their own time and that of their
clerks, already fatigued with their late onerous duties.
With respect to the Lancashire list, we ought to ex-
plain that Messrs, Gorst and Birchall did not consider
themselves bound by the government notice to keep their
office open for the reception of plans, &c. after Saturday
night at 12 p.m. conceiving it to apply only to the office
of the Board of Trade in London. Anticipating, how-
ever, that efforts would be made to lodge such plans
on their premises on Sunday, they placed a watch upon
them ; and we are sorry to record the fact, that very
serious outrages were committed on the private residence
of Mr. Gorst in consequence, several bullets having been
thrown (not shot) through the windows, doubtless in the
expectation that the doors would be opened, and the ne-
cessary documents be thus enabled to be thrust in. The
►use, however, did not succeed ; and as the result of
Messrs. Gorst and Birchall's refusal to receive them on
the Sabbath, several were deposited yesterday, under
protest. At Chester the Offiee of the Clerk of the
Peace was opened on Sunday, and a large portion of ..be
plans were deposited on that day. Here, however,
several were late and were only deposited yesterday,
which, of course, we omit from our List. Those de-
posited too late in Preston we give, stating the fact and
time of their delivery.
LANCASHIRE RAILWAYS, &C.
Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct Railway—a railway
connecting the same with the intended West Riding
Union Railway, near North Devon, in the parish of
Halifax.

Bury Water Work.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction—from
Birkenhead to Stockport, with branches to Chester, &c.
Manchester, District of Oldham, and Rochdale Dis-
trict Railways.
Manchester and Bury Atmospheric.
Manchester and Hyde Railway.
Fleetwood, Wyre, and Clitheroe Railway.

Liverpool "DoAF."

Lytham Branch Hallway.

St. Helens Water Works

Basin forming at the South side of Woodside Pier.
1-lereulaleu n Poets at Liverpool. _ _

Blackburn and Preston Railway—near Bamber Bridge,
to the North Union at Preston.

Extension of the Harrington Water Works, and Du-
plicates of the same.
East Lancashire Extension Railway from Caine to
H addirgton.
Direct London and Manchester.

Middleton and Kenyon Water Works
, Haywood Rochdale, and Manchester.

Eat Division

East Lancashire Extension Railway Branches

Haywood Water Works.

Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston and Branches
nether() J unctionßailway.

Liv, rE o )1, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon .Tyne
Junction.

ton Railway.
The Horbury and Crigglestone Branch in the West
Riding of the County of York.
Stockport Improvement Bill.
Fleetwood and Lancaster Railway.
Fleetwood and West Riding Junction Railway.
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton,—Bury Branch, Bol-
t( n Deviation.
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junction
Railway.
Chester and Manchester Direct Railway.
Oldham Branch of the Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway.
Oldham Branch of the Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway.
.-.Oldham Branch of the Huddersfield aad Manchester
Railway.
Preston and Wyre Extension and Darwen Junction.
Morecambe Bay and Harbour.
Whitehaven and Furness Railway.
Extension of Branch Railway from Manchester and
Bolton Railway, in Salford, to the south end of Black-
friars Bridge, in Manchester, and Branches from Clifton.
Manchester and Leeds Railway, and extending their
Station at Newton.
Furness and Windermere Railway.
Across Morecambe Bay.
West Lancashire Railway and Branches.
Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Rail-
way.
Intended Railway between Lancaster and Preston Rail-
way and Fleetwood and Lancaster Railway.
Preston, Wyre, end Longridge Junction Railway.
Cockerham and Pilling Sands Embankment.
Liverpool and Bury Railway Branches.
Horbury Bridge and Whitley Branches of the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway.
Bacup Branch of Manchester and Leeds Railway.
Darwen Water Works.
Chorlev Water Works.
Lancss'i'r Water-works.
Burnley Water-works.
Briercliffe, Ivorstborn, Burnley and Habergham Eaves
Water-works.
North Western Railway, with branches therefrom.
Leeds, Fleetwood and Liverpool Railway.
Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool and Birkenhead Junc-
tion Railway.
Dock and Railway at Knot-end, near Fleetwood.
Railway from Garston to St. Helen's, with branches to
join the Grand Junction at Winwick.
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, with branches.
Grand Junction—Branch from Huyton, through Pres-
cot, to St. Helen's.
Grand Junction—Edgehill and Huyton Extension.
Warrington Water Works.
Branch Railway from Huyton, on the late Liverpool
and Manchester Railway, to Warrington on the Grand
Jut e ion Railway.
Branca Railway from Junction Railway near Warring-
ton to Kenyon, on late Liverpool and Manchester Rail-
way.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction
Railway, with Branches.
Grand Junction—Parkside Branch.
Branch Railway from Hui, ton, on the late Liverpool
and Manchester, to the Grand Junction Railway at Pres-
ton Brook.
Railway from Parkide Station to the Macclesfield
Branch of Manchester and Birmingham Railway at
Presthury, with a Branch to Warrington.
Barton Bridge and Moss Gate Turnpike Roads and
Branches.
Ulverstone and Farness and Lancaster and Carlisle
Railway.
Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, and Stockport
Direct Railway i.
Liverpool, P eston, and Manchester, and Southport
Railway.
Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway.
Branch Railway from the North Union Railway to
Norwich and Wildewood.
Plan for Imorovng St. Helens.
Lytham Branch Railway.
The following were deposited yesterday, but tendered
before twelve o'clock at night on Sunday the 30th, and
refused.
West Lancashire Railway—Branch from Southport to

Wigan

Grand Junction Railway—Branch commencing Rush-
bury and terminating in Willenhall, county of Stafford.
Furness Extension Railway.
Bolton and Salford New Waterworks and Improve-
ment.

Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway, with extension
to Garston.
Waterworks proposed to be constructed by the Com-
mittee for the better paving and sewerage of the town of
Liverpool.
York and Lancaster R iilway.
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway.
Parkside Extension of do.
The following was deposited at half-past six o'clock
last night.
Supplemental plan of the Liverpool, Preston Man-
chester and Southport Railway, from Wigan to Pendleton.
CHESHIRE RAILWAYS, &C.
Derby and Urrwe Junction—Wolverhampton, Chester,
and Birkenhead Junction—Macclesfield Branch Railway
to Bollington (Manchester and Birmingham)
Macclesfield Branch Railway to the Manchester and
Birmingham hallway at or near Wilmslow Station.
Branch railway from the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway, at or near Winslow Station, to Hartford Sta-
tion.

Intended alteration of the Macclesfield Branch of the
Grand Junction Railway.
Intended branch of the Grand Junction Railway corn-
mencing at Bresbury. and terminating at Willenball.
Branch from Runcorn to the Grand Junction Railway
to Preston Brook.
Proposed Railway from Warrington to Kenyon.
Warrington to North Union by Parkside. ,
Lancashire,kheshire, and Staffordshire Railway.
Warrington Waterworks.
Chester and Manchester direct.
Buxton, Matlock, Congleton and Crewe.
Buxton, Macclesfield, and Congleton.
Congleton and Crewe.
Shrops ire Union Railway and Canal.
Calverley to Wolverhampton.
Chester to do.
Newtown to Crewe
Wallasey Improvement Act.
Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester Railway, with
branches--Hayfield Branch ; Duckinfield, Glossop,
Woreboro', and Chapeltown Branches.
Macclesfield and Lichfield or Churnet and Blythe
Junction Railway.
Line from Parkside Station to the Macclesfield Branch
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at Prestbury,
with a Branch to Warrington.
Proposed dock and basin at Tranmere and Bir-
kenhead.
Slip docks, and other works, proposed to be built on
the site of the old company's basin, on the Mersey, in
Liverpool.
North Staffordshire Railway—Liverpool extension.
Mold Junction Railway.
Liverpool, Birkenhead, Parkgate, and Holyhead Junc-
tion.

Birkenhead, Cheiter, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of
Langollen Railway.

Dec. 2, 1846•

vatacycaltestsoltickvi.a. Pottery
Manchester and Rugby Direct via Macclesfield. .
with branches.
North Staffordshire Railway. Cburnet Valley.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junctioar
Manchester and Hyde Railway.
Sheffield and Macclesfield Junction Railway.
Cambrian and Grand Junction.
Valley, to join- the Trot
Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction. .
Extended Basin on the south side of the Woasla.
Ferry Pier at Birkenhead.
tV
CoPmrompiossseiodnDerose.k to be made by the Birkenhead Dock
Chester and Birkenhead Railway, with Branches
King's Ferry, Neston, Hoylake, and New Brighton.
...

Stockport Improvement Bill.
tenßsiiroknenithae
jahvdaya,nwditHh oblryahneeandesJ.unction, and Mold &-
Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway.
Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction RailwaYs:,
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, and Wel"
Junction.
Grand Junction.
Edge Hill to Huyton.
Branch from Huyton through Prescot, to St. Helens.
Huy ton to Ashton, near Prest m Brook.
Direct London and Manchester.
Tean and Dove Valley.
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries and Crewe.
North Cheshire Raiiway, with Branches.

The accounts received by the Brazil mail are upon t!
the whole more favourable as respects the state of basl
ness. Special commissioners had been appointed to en-
deavour to negotiate such a treaty with Mr. Hamilton'
as would effectually put an end to the slave trade ft:ou!
the coast of Africa, without impeding commerce. I°7.
British merchants consider the government sincere in the
matter, but they apprehend great difficulties in carryan4
any such treaty into practice short of making the tr as
piracy, and punishing the delinquents according's"-
MONTE VlDEO.—Advices have been received from
Monte Video to September 16. The last advices from
Buenos Ayres state that that town was losing daily its
activity, its commerce, and its population. On Seat. 2
a conference was held between 'the Minister of Finance
and some of the principal merchants and capitalists. The
object of the meeting was declared by his excellency to be
to ascertain if any pressure existed in the money market,
and if it did exist the cause of such pressure, and the bst
means to remedy it. In the course of the discussion it
was made apparent that the principal cause of the tight-
ness which existed was the large amount of floating debt,
and the consequent wants of the Treasury. The meeting
may be said to have produced no absolute result.
hurl.—The government contract for 100,000 gallon"
of rum for the navy was again taken on Saturday by
Messrs. Lemon Hart and Son, of 59, Fenchurch-street.
The chaplains of the Cork workhouse have recd of 200 strong pauper girls to be sent to the Cape uf
Good Hope, for which colony they haae a free passage'
the guardians have appointed a committee with this vievi•
The will of the late Earl Grey was proved in the Coo-
sistory Court of Durham on the 18th instant, by the
present earl, the sole executor. The personal effects
is
the diocese of Durham were sworn under £30,000.
There are at present thirteen less resident members at
Cambridge than at this period last year. The matricu-
lations th's term were 398 ; in 1844, at the same term,
they were 442
The London limes of yesterday gives the particulars of
the loss of the barque Mary, of London, and seventeen
lives. We gave an outline of the distressing event on the
21st October.
The election of a member to serve in parliament for
the borough of Woodstock, in the room of Lord Loftus',
who recently succeeded to the peerage, as Marquis of
Ely, on the death of his father, may be expected to take
place about the second week in December.
On Thursday morning, a horse with a car attached, got
on the Dublin and Kingstown Hallway. near Sandy-
mount gate, and turned down the line. The train owe
along at the same moment, and passed over them. The
horse was killed, and the car was broken into pieces.
INFIDEL COLLEGES Acr.—Fourteen dioceses have
now entered their protest against the measure, and the
state of the poll as regards the clergy is as follows :—For
the colleges, 4; against the colleges, 1,199; majority
against the colleges, 1,195. KilkennyJournal.
It is stated that a spi cial commission is to issue for the
trial of the persons charged with the attempt to murder
Sir Francis Hopkins, in the county of Westmeath, which
has been for several months past in a state little short of
open, insurrection.

Oa's last week fell down to a duty of three shillings
per quarter, and barley and Indian corn will, of course,
follow this week. Talking of the closing or opening of
the ports as a grievance, or means of relief, under such
circumstances, is cheer nonsense.

Her Majesty's Government have issued orders for
42,000 sets of accoutrements for the militia of ti-e Eng-
lish counties, the whole to be ready on the Ist of March
next. The various clerks of the sub-divisions throughout
England have likewise received orders to certify to go-
vernment the dates of their respective appointments.
The statement that Lord Devon had purchased £2OO
worth of rice for his Irish tenants has been denied be his
Lordship, who says that he considers the best way to,
relieve the Irish poor in the present emergency is to find
employment for them, and his Lordship calls upon all
landlords to employ their capital in protecting the people
from want by improving their estates, and thus Ira"
proving permanently the sources of their wealth.
EmIGRATIoN TO CALIFORNIA.—D. G. W. Leavit`,
the chairman of the Cummittee of Arrangements of the
Einigration Expedition to California, which has been or-
ganizing in Arkansas for some time past, gives notice,
through the columns of the Little Rock Gazette of the
27th ult., that in accordance with a resolution passed at a
called meeting held at Napoleon, on the Gth ult., the ex-
pedition will rendezvous at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the
first Monday in April next, preparatory to taking up tbeir
line of march for the Pacific coast. Every person start-
ing is expected to be well armed with a rifle, or heavy
shot gun, 16lb. of shot or lead, 41b. of powder, caps, Sce.,
two horses or mules for each person, or a waggon and
eight cattle for every five persons, tents, &c.
THE LATE FLOODS.—The Tay has been longer flooded
since the month of August than ever before remembered
at that or any other period of the year. What the conse-
quences would have been to the town had the propose"
railway bridge been erected in the very gorge of the river
—the bead of Moncreiffe Island—it is impossible to say
and we hope a record of the daily height has been kept
for the information of the Admiralty, whose sanction to
the proposed erection has yet to be obtained. Among
the various articles which the flood often brings down 011
its surface, indicate of its sudden risings, some boys last
week drew ashore a bee-hive ; and presuming that_ its
delicate inmates had been drowned, proceeded to examine
its contents, when the swarm proved sufficiently alive to
sting them severely. The urchitas managed, however, to
get the prize conveyed home, and after being smoked a
large quantity of fine honeycomb rewarded the exertions
and sufferings of the captors.—Perthshire Courier.
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. On Monday night
last, as a woman named Martha Ellis, who lives at Nor-
wood Green, was returning from a house near there
where she had been a charing, she was met by two men
who tore her pocket from her. She, however, got foal
them, and returned to the place where she had been wash-
ing during the day. She remained there until near eleven
o'clock, and returned homewards in company with one of
the family, who left her when she had got part of the waY•
She was afterwards seen about twenty yards from an old
pit-mouth, but never reached home. Diligent search has
since been made, and on Thursday afternoon, by a veil:
singular accident, the body was found at the bottom 01
the pin, which is fifteen yards deep, and unpro'reted. A
pannier had got blown into the pit either on WedoesdaY
or Thursday, by the strong wind; and on the latter day
a drag was put down to recover the pannier. Instead ?,
bringing it up, however, the hook caught the woman s
cloak, and the body was thus discovered. How it c..03e
there is, of course, a matter of doubt, subject, hovvever.
to some suspicion.—Halifax Guardian.
THE BITER BlT.—During the late Boston mart, a
sharper having met a man at Tattershall, who bad more
money than he knew how to take care of, persuaded hi°3
to go shares with him in the purchase of a horse. The
trick-ter, having a confederate, had a horse of his own
introduced, and which he urged upon the simpleton as
the animal they ought to obtain. The rogue having oh:
tained the consent of the " rook," he pretended to
r
purchase the horse for £7, and the " sleeping" paw n.ep,
accordingly paid his share of the purchase-money, ll.;
the " first in the firm" appeared to do his share
ol'a
this respect. The result was the eyes of the gudgeon
ultimately became open to the trick played nP
dpr
consentedofit s.
him, as there was no re-sale of the !wise by which L;
bmaarigea i tnh, e
thean anticipated
paatt' tTool lose make
e 2
be relieved from his connection ; the sharper then paid
the poor fellow £1 55., and made himself scarce. The
coin was found to be like the conduct of the utterer,
" base," and information having been given to the con-
stable, he was apprehended at the house of Mr. Boned
the best einst
order
of Billinghay, when, in order to repay his victim a';_"'
give the constable his expenses, amounting to about Pf."
he was necessitated to pawn his watch.—Lincolnshire
Chronicle.
waiton-
DlEM—Yesterday, at his residence, Anficld-lane,
breck, Mr. Thomas Nixon, sen., in the 79th year of his age.„,
rfdaeir3alcniu