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forms and temporalities of the church, are aid-

to their utmost, the realization of the designs
opery, to read the remarks of the same Jesuit

Cardina:

'e must

.eady do, that the s

of flatter ourselves as some persons
ect denominated Anglican is already
ing. It is quite true that it is daily
und, abandoned as it is by innumerable
have already fallen into complete incre-
many others, who, enlightened by the
.e returning to the bosom of their mother,

Dt ceased to love their

at Anglican church is

aired and tott

s of the clergy

ords of that- country shall be

) their brethren, children, and

It revenues of the episcopal manses,
benefices, amounting annually to

32,800,300 Roman scudi;it is in vain to
s that that sect will disappear. But if the
; to bless the zeal and labours of our clergy
e Protestant pastors will soon be aban-
arger portion of their flock. It is not long
Protestant rector of a parish in Ireland had
hiouers but his wife, children, and maid-
all events, that which the Anglicans call
which we call conversion, will force the
reflect seriously. In other times it might

t would but serve to render per

t in the present state of Eu-

rable to the cause of the Ca-

Yes, destroy the t

consolation -amidst

Church in L(

avy blow

none but rest

oralities of the Established
in; heap upon her head
discouragements ;" and

rable to the cause of the

cted from it" Will " libe-
ral" Churchmen—will Protestant Dissenters—who
fondle the serpent thing which is thus preparing
,em in its folds—be warned at length, and
it true position, and their only safe po-
he front ranks of the defenders of that
has so faithfully and perseveringly
t the errors of intolerant and perse.

.holics can I

take t

church wtiti
protested ag

cuting Rome

It is not,

however

upon the destruction of the

Church of England alone—it is not in this country
alone—but throughout Europe and the world, that
Popery is progressing in her dark machinations.

m by the order of Jesuits, she is everywhere

as in this country an(

in this town, her favourite instrumentality is the as-
sumption of a control over the education of the
people. In a neighbouring country, France—semi-
infidel and Popish France even—it will be perceived,
with gratification by all Protestants, that a spirit of
opposition is already being aroused against the in-
sidious encroachments of this body. In a series of
discourses, delivered in Paris during the past sum-
mer, by Messrs. Michelet and Guinet, "on the cha-
racter, the objects, and the practices of Loyala," to
which attention has been drawn by our able con-
temporary, the Dublin University Magazine, the
following impressive warning is addressed to the
people of France and to the people of every country
in which this detestable society has established its
influence :

Jesuits

You have," writes M. :Nichelet, addressing the
pf France, " forty thousand pulpits, which you
~se to speak either willingly or per force. You have
iundred thousand confessionals, whence vou influence

entire families. You hold within your grasp that which
is the influencing spirit of the family (and of the world !)
—you hold the mother ; the child is but an accessory.
What choice is left to the father when she rushes in
distractedly, when she flings herself into his arms, cry-
ing out, lam damned ! ' You are certain that the
following day he will yield up his son to you. Twenty
thousand children in your seminaries ; two hundred
hich you direct ;

thousand just now in the

school

millions of women who act only
" And we, what are we z

,s you will

s opposed to this great

power' A voice, and nothing more—a voice to cry
out to France. She is now warned, let her do as she
will ; she sees and feels the net in which it was thought
to take her while she slumbered. One farewell word to
all loyal hearts—to all, laymen or priests (and may
those latter, from the depths of their bondage, hearken
to a free voice !)—let them aid us with brave words or
silent sympathy ; and let all united bestow a blessing
from their hearts and from their altars on the holy cru-
sade we are beginning for God and for liberty ! "

God speed them, say we, in that crusade; and
may England be warned that the time has come
upon her when her Protestant people can no longer
slumber in a fancied security! There is a warning voice
abroad, and signs and portents in every quarter of
the political horizon, which tell us in language at
once impressive and fearfully intelligible, that the
Protestants of England and of the empire must
from henceforth lay aside their inactivity and rally
to the old watchwords and the old principles, by
the maintenance of which alone the Protestant in-
stitutions of their country and the liberties of Europe
and the world are to be preserved from destruction.
Menaced though we are by the evil influences of
Popery on every side—threatened in one country
by rebellion and massacre, and in another by the
insididious approaches of a power almost omnipotent
for ill—we must remember in the hour of danger
the just and truthful remark of our greatest poet,
that

" Nought can make us rue,
" If England to herself do prove but true '"

When we look back upon the series of victories
by which, within the past eight or nine years, so
total a change has been wrought in the composition
of the Municipal Council of Liverpool,—and indeed
in those of the great majority of the corporate towns
of England,—it is impossible to repress the convic-
tion that there must be something in the nature and
the projects of " liberalism" which is alien to the
hearts and the tastes of the British people. In the
management of the affairs of the empire, we have
always been in the habit of seeing the confidence of
the community given alternately to Tory and to
Whig. As the activity and zeal of one party has
flagged, after the achievement of power, its compe-
titor has struggled gradually upwards to seize the
reward which awaits success. But no such alterna-
tion of power appears likely to attend the two par-
ties in local matters. Liberalism, once ejected from
the possession of local authority, gathers no favour
in its day of adversity; but, on the contrary, ap-
pears year by year to be spurned more con-
temptuously, and kept down in its abject position
with less of effort. Its struggles for renewed su-
premacy become year by year more ridiculously
abortive; and we almost look forward to the time
when pure shame will deter it from the folly of sub-
mitting its claims to public notice.

There is something in this apparently unaccount-
able. It is strange that to men, whom we acknow-
ledge to be honest and estimable in private life, we
cannot entrust the conducting of the mere business

questions of a corporation. But the reason becomes
perceptible when we approach to a closer survey of
their general policy and character. The Whig-
Radical, or—to use the more comprehensive term—
the " Liberal," never permits himself to act from the
impulses of his nature ; but is, from the first hour
of his attainment of power, intent alone upon ad-
vancing the interests of his party, and furthering
the objects, however irreconcileable with honesty,
which that party has at heart. He becomes at once,
his individual character laid aside, a portion merely
of a soured and unrelenting faction, which pursues,
with a virulence of hate almost unparalleled, the de-

etruction of those institutions, religion, customs,
and manners, which are looked up to with reverence
and affection by the majority of Englishmen. Nor
is he content with inflicting injury only upon these,
but where the power is wanting to effect injury, he

contents himself with insulting.
That this is no more than the truth, the career of

" Liberalism" in our own borough will sufficiently
illustrate. Its followers came into the possession of
office with an overwhelming majority. And what
were their first acts ? They swept the public offices
of every employe, who differed from them in politi-
cal opinions, however well qualified otherwise for
the due discharge of his duties ; and they filled those
offices with the sycophantic hangers-on of their
own party. Their next step was to enter the lists
against the Established Church. They attacked the
Schools of the Corporation, and exchanging a
Scriptural for a Popish and semi-infidel system of
Education, alienated the minds of the great mass of
the Protestant community. And here one might
have thought they would have rested—that it would
have been sufficient for them to revel in the enjoy-
ment of the vast patronage and authority which the
possession of almost unchecked influence in the
corporate body afforded them; but no—such was
not the course of Liberalism. It was discovered that
the property, as well as the influence of that body,
could be wielded for the destruction of their political
opponents ; and forthwith was dragged to light " the
warehouse question." The Corporation and the
Dock Committee would become warehouse owners,
and compete, with the public money, against a body
of men by whom a large amount of capital had
been embarked in the erection of buildings neces-
sary to the trade of the port ; and in addition to this
object, it was not lost sight of that " Liberalism"
would thus, by becoming an employer, erect for it-
self a vast influence over the acts and opinions of a
great portion of the tradesmen of the town.
Throughout all its public proceedings, the same
shameless spirit was displayed, until at length an
indignant public succeeded in paring the nails and

Igagging the unruly tongue of so palpable a nui-

Nor has it learnt humility by its fall. Reduced
now to a mere handful in the Council, its followers
still lose not an opportunity of directing insult
month after month, meeting after meeting, against
the great mass of that community by whom they are
distrustcd and spurned. They will not allow us to
t their intolerance when in power, or to over-

ook for a moment the certainty that their restora-

tion would be the commencement of a new course of
insult and injury, dishonest perversion of their trust,
and reckless dilapidation of the public estate. They

will not allow us to mistake their character and ob-
jects ; and small wonder it is therefore that Eng-
..

lishmen reject their serpentlike approaches, and re-
fuse to place weapons in hands which are so certain

to use them for dishonest and injurious purposes.

The termination of the municipal year, and the
approaching election of a gentleman to fill the
office of mayor for the ensuing year, remind us of
a duty—on this oc, asion a gratifying one—which
we owe to him whose term of office is now about to
expire. We hailed with pleasure, in common with
a great majority of this community, the elevation of
Mr. Robertson Gladstone to the mayoralty of his
native town. We felt that, to a member of a family
whose name is so intimately associated with the

growth of the commerce and the port of Liverpool,

--to the brother of one who now worthily occupies
- -

a seat in the councils of his sovereign, and the son
of one whose advice and warning are never withheld

from that sovereign in the hour of difficulty—such

a tribute was due from his fellow townsmen. And

it was due also to the private worth of Mr. Glad-

stone himself—to the zeal and ability with which he
had ever stood forward, in public and in private, as
the unflinching and unswerving advocate of the in-

terests of the borough. We were certain that in his

hands the office and dignity of chief magistrate would
be firmly and faithfully upheld, and that the charac-
ter of the "good old town" would in his keeping
sustain no tarnish or injury.

attributable. They had ample notice of the inten de
sale ; and full opportunity of purchasing any por-
tion of the land which they might require.

We give, in our second page, a summary of the
news from India and China, which reached us last
night, by the arrival of the Overland mail. It will
be seen that, nothwithstanding our recent successes
in this quarter of the world, the vastly increased
prestige of the British name, and our immense ac-
quisition of territory and influence in the East, we
are still apparently destined to be drawn into further
extension of our Empire—perhaps not to stay un-
til the whole of the fertile possessions of the turbu-
lent despots of India are subject to British rule, and
brought within immediate contact with European
civilization and the light of christianity. At this
late hour, and in the present crowded state of our
coloums we shall not attempt to enter upon any ex-
amination of our position, and the probable policy
of the British government in that country; but,
referring our readers to the summary of events with
which we have furnished them shall resume the sub-
ject on a future occasion, when we shall doubtless
have more ample information before us.

FREE TRADE.—A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
STATE OF lOWA.—The gobemouches of the Anti-
Monopoly Association were delighted, last week, by
an address from some Yankee gentleman upon the
resources, fertility of soil, &c., of
,the State of lowa.
We are not aware whether the State in question has
entitled itself, by repudiation of its just debts, to the
notice of the Rev. Sidney Smith ; but if is this
pleasing predicament I-OWE-A has, at all events,
the merit of confessing its obligations. It is a nice
name for a portion of the repudiating republic.

And we have not been deceived;—nay, our anti-
cipations have been more than realised. The ability, A RESPECTABLE (!) CORPORATION.—Our
firmness, and dignified urbanity which have dis- good neighbours in Manchester are happy folks.
tinguished the conduct of the present mayor, during They have a corporation, amongst the members of
which, as respectable men decline to mingle, they
his term of office—in his capacity alike of chief are fast drafting that class of persons whom nature
magistrate, and as the dispenser of the hospitalities and fortune destined to be ornamental portions of
of the corporation—are universally acknowledged, other audiences. Amongst the gentlemen elected
and have called forth the tribute of approbation even
on the first of November, we observe an itinerant
spouter of the Anti-corn Law League ; a vendor
from political opponents •;—from some indeed, in of chartist publications; a publican (who on a con-
days past his persevering and relentless revilers. In test has had the honour of beating a tailor !) ; a
the council chamber, as its chairman, Mr. Gladstone pawnbroker, and sundry other persons of similar
has repressed with a firm hand those unseemly per-
rank and standing in the world. Our own Town-
council, it is said by the Radical portion of the coin-
sonal ebullitions, which must at times occur, in ail
munity (with little consistency by the bye) is he-
popularly elected assemblies. In that chamber, too, coming not altogether so select and aristocratic as
he has displayed an unwearying devotion to the it ought to be; but as yet, it can scarcely afford to
elbows with the very. en mobocrac public business, and an attention to the legitimately
who
compose the Corporation of lightene
—(saved y the mark (!)
expressed wants of the community out of doors,
—the port of Manchester !
which are most praiseworthy. And upon the bench,
as a magistrate, he has upon every occasion shewn poßp:lyarlititlelvhßeaTtrHeEhtT,Re,
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and political opponents alike, of impartial even- standard dramas have been presented with an efficiency, so
handed justice, far as regards scenery, dresses, &c., which could scarcely
have been looked for within so short a period as has been
We are proud therefore of the duty of recording allowed for preparation ; and, so far as the merit displayed
these things of Mr. Gladstone, and of assuring isr
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chair. To those who reflect upon the arduous na- Hime possesses a sweet voice, and much taste and manage-
ment ; and will, with more experience, be an acquisition
ture of the duties and obligations attached to the to the stage.
possession of that chair—upon the importunities THE. FUNDS,t. SATURDAY EVENING.—The
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closed with a favourable appearance; Dutch Two-and-a-
deserved dislike of not one additional enemy. Half per Cents, left of 544 to s ; the Five per Cents., 994
to 4; Peruvian, 221 to 23; Portuguese Converted, 431 to
44 ; Colombian, ex Venexula, 114 to 12 ; Chilian, 100 to
101 ; Braxilian, 721 to 731; and Belgian, 1021 to 1031,
THE LIVERPOOL ORANGEMEN.-On Sunday last, being
anniversary of the sth of November, the Rev. H. M'Nelie
delivered two excellent sermons in St. Judes Church,
which was attended upon the occasion by several hun-
dreds of the Loyal Orangemen of our Town. The text in
the morning was the Ist verse of the 44th Psalm—"We have
heard with our ears, 0 God, our fathers have told us what
work thou didst in their days, in the times of old." That in
the evening was a portion of the 21st verse of the 2nd
chapter of Daniel— He removeth kings, and setteth up
Kings." The sermon of the morning had special reference
to the deliverance of the country from the consequences
of the Gunpowder Plot ; that in the evening comprised a
luminous explanation to his congregation of the duties of
loyal protestant subjects in such a crisis as that which
presented itself before and upon the accession of the pre-
sent Hanoverian Dynasty to the throne of these
realms. A portion of the Orange body attended St. Bar-
nabas Church at which sermons suitable to the occasion
were preached by the Rev. T. Nolan.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—We are requested to insert
the following extract from a letter received from an office-
bearer of the Established Church of Scotland, who had
been applied to for authority to contradict a statement
made by a correspondent of the Liverpool Journal, that
the late minister of the Scotch congregation in Rodney-
street would not be allowed by his own church to preach
there, provided a minister of the free church is appointed.
It will be observed this allegation is quite unfounded.
Our contemporary will, we hope, have the goodness to
correct the error to which his columns gave publicity.—
" Edinburgh, Nov. 4, 1843.—1 can say from undoubted
authority, it is quite a mistake that any minister of the
Church of Scotland is prohibited from preaching in any
other church. We know that every year a Scotch minis-
ter goes up to London to preach for the Wesleyans—last
year it was the Rev. James Smith, of Greenock, (before
the disruption ;) the year before, I believe, the Rev. James
Bennie. My informant says there would be no objec-
tion, and he would have none, to preach in a Catholic
church!!!"

An argument was offered by Mr. Alderman
Evans,, during the discussion in the Council, on
Monday week, upon the subject of the proposed
'sale of a portion of the Cheshire property, so obvi-
ously absurd and irrational that we should have
thought it unworthy of a moment's notice had it not
been referred to in other quarters as one character-
ised by the extreme of wisdom. " They" (the Fi-
nance Committee) " had been in a great hurry,"
urged the Alderman, " to put the land" (Wallasey
Pool) " out of their hands, for fear it might be
made amenable for any good purpose. Mr. Isaac
Holmes had very properly said, that they might
have made the pool very useful—that they could
have had it as a receptacle for a certain description
of vessels. It would have been a lumber room for
Liverpool—the very thing that Liverpool wanted."

Now it is quite possible that Wallasey, or any
other Pool, might be turned to very convenient and
useful account, as a receptacle for vessels on sale—
for " a lumber room" in fact ; and had the property
now proposed to be sold belonged to the Dock
Committee, we might have thought that they were
"in a great hurry" in their disposal of it. But
really Mr. Evans might remember that such pro-
perty belongs to the burgesses of Liverpool ; that it
has cost them some hundreds of thousands, the in-
terest of which hangs like a dead weight upon their
revenue; and that before it can be converted into a
" lumber room," for the especial use of the Dock

Committee, its fair market value will be expected
from that body. If Mr. Alderman Evans had been
prepared to recommend its purchase from the Cor-
poration, well and good. It might then have been
made into a lumber room, or any other kind of re-
ceptacle which the Committee fancied ; but the no-
tion of appropriating it witho-At any payment at all,
is perfectly outrageous, and juite inadmissible.

We are very ready to ant that there may be
objections to the course taken by the Finance Com-
mittee, with respect to the disposal of this land. It
may at some day, less remote, perhaps, than is ge-
nerally supposed, be found necessary to look out for
a site upon the Cheshire side of the Mersey, not
only for a lumber room, but even for one or more
wet docks or graving docks. The growing disposi-
tion of the Dock Committee to swallow up every
available yard of land on this side of the water for
dock purposes, warehouses, &c., may shortly corn.
pel us to turn our eyes to the opposite shore, in
search of accommodation for some of the dispo-
sessed branches of our shipping and ship-building
trades. But it is scarcely reasonable that the Cor-
poration, with its revenue already burthened suffi-
ciently, and unable to do more than barely escape
the necessity of a borough rate, should be asked to
hold this property in a state of entire unproductive..
ness until the Dock Committee, a richer' body, re-
quire its occupation. Let that body purchase it, if
they either require it now, or see its growing value.
But do not tell us that the Finance Committee of
the Council are justified in continuing upon the
shoulders of the burgesses, for untold years to come,
a pressure of £12,000 per annum, the present inte-
rest payable upon the debt contracted for its pur-
chase.

By the sales already made £7300 of this annual
pressure will be taken off, and the surplus revenue

of the Corporation increased to this amount. A
great boon, we submit, has thus been conferred
upon the burgesses of Liverpool. The Council has
now the prospect of being able to go on with those
measures of local improvement, the necessity of
which is becoming daily more apparent; and if, by
the mode in which this advantage has been gained,
a possible future benefit to the Dock Estate has

been lost sight of, to the want of forecast on the

e D.,

ODD-FELLOW'S HALL.—We learn from an advertise-
ment in another column that a meeting wlil be held on
Wednesday, the 29th instant, for the purpose of further-
ing the purchasing some suitable premises to be converted
into an Oddfellow's Hall. The building in view is the
Lord Nelson Assembly Rooms, in Lord Nelson-street,
which, at present, belongs to a company of share-holders,
who are desirous of selling it. The premises which are
very commodious, are every way suitable for the purposes
of the Order, and eligible for letting off to other bodies
for public meetings, lectures, &c. The situation is also
a good one, being near the centre of the town, and in a
respectable and improving neighbourhood. The purchase
money is to be raised in shares of 30s. each, payable in
three enstalments. We have no doubt that the under-
taking will be a successful one, as the very means so in-
fluential a body possess of letting such an establishment,
in addition to the utility it will be to themselves, will be
sufficient to secure a lucrative remuneration for the outlay.
EARLIER HOURS OF CLOSING DRUGGISTS' SHOPS.—
EXCELLENT EXAMPLE.—We cannot resist the oppor-
tunity afforded us, by an advertisement in another column,
—announcing the intention of our neighbour, Mr. Lath-
bury, of Castle-street, to close his shop in future, during
the winter months, at least, at eight in the evening,—of
calling the attention of the public, and the trade, to the
unreasonably long hours during which the apprentices and
assistants of the druggists of this town are at present
confined to business. We can see abundant reasons to
induce some avaricious tradesmen to keep open their
shops, and confine their young men to a late period of the
night. The puffing shopkeeper may do it, to shew off his
well lighted shop, and push off, in the glare of the light,
the trashy fabrics which will not stand daylight inspection.
A dealer in the necessaries of life may sometimes be com-
pelled to afford additional facilities for ourchasing to the
poor family, whose members have not the opportunity of
expending their money in the day. But that the druggists,
except on extraordinary occasions, when applied to for
medicines in cases of extreme sickness, have any neces-
sity for pursuing their business till nine and ten o'clock,
and even later, in the evening, is what we cannot believe,
and what the public—if the trade will not—ought to pro-
test against. There is no class more requiring, more
deserving of relaxation, and more likely to turn it to
valuable use, than the apprentices and assistants of drug-
gists. They have a branch of science to make themselves
masters of, most important to the interests of humanity,
and in which the experience and research of every day is
disclosing new features. They sae under the present
state of things, the medical advisers of a great portion of
our working poor; and it is of the utmost importance
that they should be placed in the possession of some:little
leisure for the pursuit of those studies, without which
they can only become machines, as ignorant as the pestle
and mortar, the gallipot, or the unguents which they use
or sell. We hope earnestly, therefore, that we shall see
the good example of Mr. Lathbury followed, as it
deserves to be, by at least the respectable portion of
the trade. Whilst on this subject of early hours we may
express our opiniat that the practice of druggists, keeping
open their shops during the Sabbath is, in nine cases out
of ten entirely unnecessary. It may be consistent enough
for the lazy housekeeper, who has forgotten to provide her
spices, her vinegar, or any other similar article during the
week, to have the druggist to resort to on the Sunday ;
but it is unreasonable and improper that some hundreds
of youne men should be deprived of the opportunity of
attending divine service or enjoying a day of rest, upon a
pretence so flimsy as is usually assigned for the prevailing
practice.

^lc Committee the, evil is alone fairly

IMPROVED STEAM COMMUNICATION BE-
TWEEN INDIA AND SUEZ.-THE STEAM-
SHIP HINDOSTAN.

The attention of the mercantile community connected
with the East India and China trade, as well as of others
more remotely, yet seriously, interested in the regularity
of our communication with our vast oriental possessions,
has recently, in consequence of the non-arrival of the ex-
pected mail some time ago, been earnestly directed to the
importance of adopting measures to secure a more speedy
and certain means of intercourse between those distant
countries. The delay of the mail-ship Memnon, and her
subsequent loss, (since ascertained,) together with all the
letters and despatches, created much inconvenience and
loss ; and a meeting was held a short time ago, in the Hall
of Commerce, in London, at which Mr. Abel Smith pre-
sided, with a view to urge the government and the East
India Company to adopt means to prevent the recurrence
of such a disaster. A committee wag then appointed to
carry out the views expressed ; but it does not appear that
the matter has again been brought forward, and the trade
(for aught that we can learn to the contrary) may still
continue to be jeopardized by the occasional employment,
on the part of the East India Company, of small steam-
ships, inadequate successfully to encounter the monsoons
prevailing for many months of the year on the Indian ocean
between Bombay and Aden, several of them having already
failed. The Morning Chronicle, in a recent article, states
that he has received several letters on the subject, one of
which, signed " An East India Merchant," and also pub-
lished in the Morning Post, dwells on the importance of
having steamers of large tonnage and powers for the con-
veyance of the mails from Calcutta to Suez, and illus-
trates the advantages of such vessels over the small boats
—such as the Atalanta, the Victoria, and the Cleopatra,
employed by the East India Company—by furnishing
some details of the voyage of the fine steam-ship Hindos•
tan in August last, showing her great superiority in navi-
gating that stormy sea, and making extraordinary way
even against the adverse winds. The statement is exceed-
ingly gratifying, inasmuch as it establishes the fact that
all that can be desired may be effected by the exclusive
use of large and strong vessels, propelled by adequately
powerful engines ; and we feel not a little proud that the
first ship that has fully overcome the difficulties of a
passage by many deemed almost insurmountable, was built
at, and " hails" frorri, our own port. Before, however,
furnishing a few extracts from the letter alluded to, and
which is evidently the production of a practical man, and
a quick observer, we submit the following documents with
which we have been favoured from a quarter that stamps
them with authority :

Abstract of the Hindostan's Second Voyage Homeward,
from Suez to Calcutta, in May, 1843.

Hours of Miles of Average Delay
Steam. distance. per lir. Coaling.
128 1325 10.3 Aden. 42 hrs
216 2131 9.7 Ceylon 44 „
544 571 10.4 Nladrasl64„
681 691 10.0

Suez to Aden ....
Aden to Ceylon ..
Ceylon to Madras .
Madras to Calcutta
Sandheads

4671 4718 10.1

Total
Total days of steaming

1021. hrs

detention,

19 days 111 hours
4 „ 61

Total length of passage .... 23 days I7i hours.
Rom MORESBY. Commander.

Abstract of the Hindostan's Third Voyage Outward,
from Calcutta to Suez, in August, 1843.

Hours of Miles of Average
Steam. distance. per hr.
Calcutta Sandheads

Delay
Coaling,

to Madras .....
Madras to Ceylon
Ceylon to Men .
Aden to Suez ...

791 695 8.6 Madras 20 'ars
69 550 8.0 Ceylon 47 „
2851 2215 7.6 Aden . 524 „
169 1327 7.7

603 4787

119 k hrs

Total days of steaming ..
„ detention of coaling

25 days 3 hours
5 ~ 0 p,

Total length of voyage 3O days 3 hours,
against fresh head-winds and contrary currents.
ROBT. MORESBY, Captain

Suez, Sept. 16th, 1843

It will be observed, from the first of this abstract, that
the Hindostan is a remarkably fast vessel under the
ordinary circumstances attending a voyage not beset with
continued contrary winds ; and from the second that she
is but little inferior in speed, even when going head to
wind in what is invariably acknowledged by nautical men,
who have traversed one of the most boisterous and agi-
tated tracts of ocean that are known. The writer of the
letter alluded to, states with reference to the last passage,
of which he had, it appears, obtained accurate informa-
tion.

" In making this passage against the monsoon it is evi-
dent the Hindostan must have traversed nearly as straight
a course as she would have done had the fine season pre-
vailed, for the difference of distance run between this and
her former voyage is under 100 miles.
" I have seen several of the passengers, and they declare
the wind was blowing hard, and almost dead an end the
whole way, and what is rather singular at that season, that
the wind was also blowing stronc, right down the Red
Sea; but, notwithstanding this, the Hindostan's average
speed was over seven knots and three-quarters per hour,
having steamed 4,787 miles in 600 hours, or 25 days.
" It therefore follows that had a boat, equally efficient
in tonnage and poser, left Bombay on the 26th of August,
she would have reached Suez, allowing twenty. four hours
for coaling at Aden, in seventeen days, or on the 11th of
September : or, supposing her to have left Bombay on the
7th of September, she would have arrived at Suez on the
23d of the same month ; whereas the Victoria was out five
days, and having steamed 550 miles, gave it up ; and the
Cleopatra, which left Bombay on the 7th of September,
did not reach Suez till the 2d of October, having occupied
within two days as much time to traverse 3,000 miles as
the Hindostan did 4,787 miles.

" Perhaps the most conclusive proof of the superiority
of boats with large tonnage and power over smaller ones
in heavy weather has been manifested by the steamer
Hindostan, as compared with the East India Company's
steamer Atalanta. The► left Suez together in March,
with a strong head wind and rough sea. The Hindostan
beat the Atalanta 51 hours to Aden, in a run of 1,350
miles !"

The writer concludes by expressing his surprise that the
responsible parties should start such a boat as the Victoria
on a forlorn hope, when they had comparatively better
vessels at command; and justly complains that the com-
mercial correspondence between the two countries should
be perilled, with all the evils concomitant on such a state
of things, by the delay in taking measures to secure a more
efficient means of transit, by (as we understand him to
imply) the exclusive employment of fine steamers as the
Hindostan. It must be gratifying to the commercial
community connected with the east to find that that ves-
sel has proved herself so efficient; and when the Ben-
tinck, her sister ship, is fairly on the station, both running
alternately between Calcutta and Suez, we shall entertain
little apprehension of another disappointment similar to
the last.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The lectures upon astro-
nomy by Mr. Wallis continue to attract increasing audi-
ences, and prior to their close we hope to find the spacious
Lecture-ball overflowing. The attendance at these lec-
tures is a deserved tribute to a deserving man, for never
were the truths of science more clearly elucidated, nor
snore practically and cleverly illustrated, than they have
been in this course. The sixth will be given this evening,
in which the able lecturer will continue his dissertations
upon planetary motion. Nothing can be more beautiful
than the apparatus used by Mr. Wallis, and in this lec-
ture, we are told, it will be more strikingly so than even
in the preceding ones.
REPEAL PENSIONERS.—We have been informed that
James Lennon, whose pension was suspended for attend-
ing the repeal meeting, is to be rewarded by his friends
and admirers by the purchase of an annuity in the place of
the pension. It has been said that he had a pension of
ls. 10d. per day, but we learn that it did not amount to
more than 6d., so that if the annuity is of any amount it
will amply repay him for his politics, and be an induce-
ment for others to follow so profitable a course of politics.
It is due to the government to state that he was offered
the restoration of his pension on promise of abstaining
from attending these meetings.

MUSICAL MEMORY.-A remarkable instance of pow-
ers of memory in music was exhibited by our gifted young
pianiste, Miss Christiana Weller, at a concert lately given
at Beaumaris. There being no conductor to be found in
the town, the duties of that office were undertaken by
Miss Weller, in addition to the piano-forte solos she had
engaged to perform ; and, although the vocal pieces were
only submitted to her two or three days before the con-
cert, she accompanied the whole of them in the most
beautiful style, took part in a vocal trio, and executed,
with her characteristic power and brilliancy, three grand
pieces for the piano and a capriccio, composed by herself
for the occasion, all without the aid of a single bar of
printed music.

KING'S PATENT REGISTE STovEs.—The Calorific
Register Stove Grate, patented by Mr. King, and now on
sale at Mr. T. G. Maddox, grate manufacturer, Bold-
street, is one of the most elegant and useful we have yet
seen. By means of polished reflectors, and the pro-
jection of the fire bars, it emits abundance of heat, with
a small expenditure of fuel, and can be regulated in draft to
a nicety ; and is entirely free from the nuisance of smoke.
Could our forefathers " revisit the glimpses of the
moon," they would be truly astonished to see such an
improvement in an article for the effectual heating and
enlivening of apartments,—of the practicability of which,
in those earlier days of science, they had formed no con-
ception. We strongly recommend housekeepers, builders,
and others, to an inspection.—See Advt.
THE BIRKENHEAD PARK.—Whilst the sound of the
hammer, the trowel, and the chisel, is daily to be heard
in the numerous streets of Birkenheo, busily engaged in
filling up vacant spots to complete hiindsome streets, the
spirited commissioners are actively pushing forward the
operations of the new park in the vicinity of Claughton.
About half a mile from Birkenhead, in this direction,
numerous divisions of men are busily engaged in forming
the new road on the northern extremity of the park, on
the way to Claughton village. The road, which a few
weeks ago was a mere muddy lane, is now assuming a
tangible and handsome appearance. It is twenty yards
wide, and will cross the southern end of Bidston Hill,
where it will join the road to Upton. The rocky ascent
to Claughton is now being reduced by workmen, and the
shelly part of the stone is used to form the foundation of
the new road. When this road is completed, it will de-
cidedly be the finest in the neighbourhood of Birkenhead,
and will not be surpassed by many in England. It will
be lit up with gas. At the foot of Claughton village, a
handsome gas obelisk will be erected, furnished with a
light sufficiently powerful to illuminate the whole neigh-
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