The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

STEAM NAVIGATION.

(From yesterday's Times.)
Allusion was made, a very short time back, under this
head, to the discouraging situation of the various projects
connected with steam navigation across the Atlantic, since
they appear to be hastening at an accelerated pace towards
final abandonment and ruin. The refitting of the ominous
" ten-gun" brigs by the admiralty is talked of, to supply the
place of the steam-vessels of the West India Mail Packet
Company ; the Great Western Steam-ship Company, trad-
ing between Bristol and New York, are stated publicly to be
in such pecuniary difficulty as to be compelled to bring the
whole concern to an early close ; and the North American
Mail Company, the only party now left to prosecute the enter-
prise of steam communication with: America, are appealing
to Government and to the trading interest to afford them a
more efficient support, without which they also must throw
up their contract, and that rapid and safe mode of intercourse
be finally relinquished.
It will be quite apparent from the previous history of the
last named company, that they must form the chief depend-
ence of the two countries in this respect, and that if they
cannot succeed none can. It is stated to be composed of
about 30 proprietors only, and to differ from joint stock con-
cerns generally in confiding the whole management to two
individuals, Mr. G. Burns, of Glasgow, and Mr. David
Maciver, of Liverpool, who are the individuals recognized by
Government as the contractors. Though usually termed
" Cunard's line," after Mr. Cunard, of Halifax, that gentle-
man is only one of the general proprietors. On the 4th of
July, 1840, they commenced the first voyage of the contract
service of carrying the American mails, for which the Go-
vernment was under agreement to pay £60,000 per annum,
but-within nine months the managing partners made the
mortifying discovery that the undertaking was a losing one,
and that the whole capital they had embarked in it must
be sacrificed unless they could obtain some further
assistance from Government. On the representation they
made, a rehearing of the case was permitted, and after a most
rigid investigation into their affairs, in the course of which it
was proved, though they carried a great number of pa ssengers
and light cargo besides, that their receipts could not cover
the expenditure, an addition of £20,000 a year was conse-
quently made to their allowance from the Government.
With this advantage, they were encouraged to struggle on
since that period with this undertaking, but still find, with
their large capital of £300,000, and the intelligence and indus-
try brought to bear its employments, and returns no profit.
These statements are denied, it should be observed. from a
publication at Liverpool, apparently under the influence of
the parties enraged in this undertaking, but there is no reason
for believing that it has given an untrue or an exaggerated
account of their situation, which, if they did, would be easly
exposed and re-act upon themselves, and- hence it may be
admitted that the manner in which their appeals is to be dis-
posed of has become a public question.
After making this admission, however, the mode of dealing
with it is by no means rendered so clear by the parties them-
selves as it ought to be in such a case. They advert vaguely
to possible attemps at competition with them, based upon the
wreck of other undertakings, and seek, perhaps too eagerly,
to establish what ought to be self-evident, after the ex-
perience acquired under their own contract, that no under-
taking for steam conveyance across the Atlantic can suc-
ceed, unless united with the service of the Government
in the transport of the mails. Any department of the
Government, to which in regular course their appeal
ougth to be made in a direct manner, would require
some better guide, and demand of the complainants
not only an exposition of the grievances under which they la-
boured, but some specific suggestions of such a remedy as they
themselves feel to be applicable to their situation. If the terms
of their contract are still too low, let them state what ought
to be a matter of no difficulty after the long experience they
have gained, what terms they do require to work the con-
tract with that advantage to themselves to which they are
honourably entitled, and the question would then speedily
be brought to some issue. The government cannot, and the
public will not, through indolence and inattention to such
matters generally, do anything to keep off that rivalry which
the North American Mail Company seem to dread, and
which, if their position is a sound one, they ought as little
to apprehend as the Bank of England or the East India
Company the puny attempts of any petty trading corpora-
tion.

The contract with this company has been impugned on the
ground that it is a monopoly, and bad in principle, and
that the management of such an undertaking should devolve
upon the government itself, at whatever loss, as one
means, among others, of gradually creating an efficient
steam naval force ; but we should prefer leaving this in pri-
vate hands to those of the Admiralty or any other public de-
partment. The dangerous and laborious service in which
they are to be employed secures a supply of vessels of the
best class and upon the best principles ; and, therefore, leav-
ing all other advantages out of the question, we should be
glad, not only to see the North American Company secured
in permanence to the public service, but an attempt made
to re-organise on better principles, and under more prudent
management, that West India Company of which the ruin is
pronounced to be all but certain. To return to the old
vicious system of the West India packets and ten-gun brigs
is a misfortune : to recede from the great project for a com-
munication by steam with America, so long successfully
worked, and to the future success of which the want of
money is the only impediment, is a national disgrace. Fu-
ture improvements in this navigation may render that pro-
fitable hereafter which is not so at present; but if the chain
is once broken, any attempts of that kind will be without a
motive.

THE POTTERY RIOTS.—Tne Staffordshire Advertiser
has the following estimate of the loss occasioned by the des-
truction of property during the riots in the Potteries :
" We have made some inquiry as to the estimated amount of
damage, but find that accurate estimates have not been pre-
pared. The following are rough calculations, but will be
very far from the exact amounts when computed. At Mr.
Parker's (Albion House), where the destruction of property
was complete, and where very little property was got away
before the rioters began, and not even the plate was saved,
the loss is estimated at from £4,000 to £5,000. At the Rev.
E. Aitkens's, the loss is estimated at £2,000. Mr. Aitkens
was more fortunate than his neighbour Mr. Parker, as he
was able to secure his own plate, and also the communion
plate, which was in the house at the time. The worthy
clergyman also managed to send away several manuscripts, a
few of his books, and part of his clothes ; and since the des-
truction, some of his books and a few other articles have
been restored. At Mr. Rose's, Penkhull, the loss cannot be
less than from £7OO to £500; and at Mr. Allin's, Great
Fenton, we learn it is something less than £4OO. At Dr.
Vale's, of Longton, where a fine library was partly destroyed
and partly stolen, and where the spoliation of property was
carried as far as possible, and the house greatly injured by
fire and the merciless hands of the mob, the damage cannot,
we should think, be much short of £1,500. Putting these
sums together, and making a proportionate addition for the
damage done at Mr. Mason's, Mr. Forrester s, and at the
various other places described in our last, the total damage
done appears to be about £1 0,000. The loss will have to be
made good by the hundred.
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At the meeting of the Irish Repeal Association, on Mon-
day, Mr. Burke, a working-man, moved the adoption of an
address from the Repeal Board of Trade to the Teetotallers
of lieland, calling upon them to pledge themselves to use
nothing but Irish manufactures ; and supported the motion
with some statistics. He contended that there were Irish
absentees resident in Ireland ; for what difference was there
between a man in Dublin purchasing foreign manufactured
articles and
Theya son residing in London doing the same
room with Englishirliaant
persons frothing out ofylt
thing ? pretended patriots
mouth, paantdriostasycinogmitnhgeytowotuhladt
die for Ireland, whonos
millionseoeng
longer
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during the year ; which, i of hats imported into Ireland
There were three
employ 18,000 workmen,n-yteerarw.
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anTanufactured in Ireland, would
givelc wages to the amount of
Smilepanseeotfhdraining Ireland of her
per's till and every mer-
chant
; and while the produce a
sscoua
by steamers, these vessels come back freighted
was carried away,
manufac-
tured articles, which served to complete the
with
depriving the people of work. Was it note national ruin by
a shame to men-
tion, that even to supply the Irish Teetollars with medals,
X 200,000 had been expended in Birmingham,
not to have gone out of the country. The motionhich ought
was car-
ried. Mr. O'Connell read a communication from Mr tu
of the Complete Suffrage Association, approving of theorfgfe'r
of the Repeal Association to unite with that body in ordere
to effect their common object—an extension of the suffrage,

A CHINESE STORY.

" THE LEARNED TAILOR."
(Translated from the Chinese by M. Stanislas Julien, Mem-
Ler of the lustitute.)

[The following narrative, extracted from the judicial
records of China, is interesting, inasmuch as it gives some
curious particulars and details relative to the manners
and character of the people of the " Celestial Empire."]
There formerly resided in the province of Chan-Tong a
worthy Bachelor of Arts, whose family name was Pong, and
his surname Ing-Fong. He went some time ago in the capi-
tal, for the purpose of taking his degree as licentiate, in com-
pany with his wife Hiu-Chi. On arriving at the gate called
, Si-lloa-Men," (the gate of the " Flower of the West,")
they proceeded to the Hotel of Madame Wang. Here he
found, to his great regret, that the examination would not
take place for six months to come ; he was, therefore, de-
sirous of returning home to his family,—but the journey was
a long one, and his funds were exhausted. He was conse-
quently compelled to remain at Pekin until the examination
should take place. His wife (Hiu-Chi) remained all day
long in a room in the first floor, where she occupied her time
in embroidering pillow cases and shoes adorned with flowers ;
she then went out and sold her handicraft, in order thereby
to earn a subsistence for herself and husband.

At this period there lodged in the house of a M. Tchou,
situate opposite the hotel of Madame Wang, a certain licen-
tiate possessing the not very euphonous patronymic of Yao-
hong-In. Having repeatedly gazed upon the face of Madame
Hiu (the wife of the candidate for university honours,) the
bloom upon which far eclipsed that of the peach-blossom, he
inquired a few particulars concerning her of Madame Wang,
and asked her to what province she belonged. " She is,"
replied the lady, " the wife of M. Pong, Bachelor of Arts."
" I should like uncommonly," replied Yao, " to have a few
moments' conversation with her ; could you by any means
procure me an interview with her ?" Madame Wang per-
ceived the secret intentions of Yao, and immediately devised
a stratagem. " I can do much better," she exclaimed,
" than merely procuring you an interview. The worthy
Bachelor of Arts is now rather hard up for cash, and he will
not be sorry to obtain a little by selling his wife !"—" If that
be the case," answered Yao, " I leave this affair altogether
in your hands, and I agree beforehand to all the arrange-
ments which you may think proper to make."
Madame Wang, being aware that M. Pong was really in
want of money, and that moreover he was in debt for the
rent of his apartments, immediately went up stairs in order
to see Madame Hiu. She found her seated near her hus
band. "M. Pong !" exclaimed the landlady, " you had
better go to the outside of the southern gate of the palace, as
you may there obtain some profitable employment in writing
placards, &c." " Madame Wang is right," replied his
wife, " pray go there immediately."
Inz-Fong yielded to their entreaties, took a little brush,
and proceeded without delay to the southern gate of the pa-
lace to obtain employment in copying bills and placards.
Soon after his arrival, an officer attaced to the Imperial
Observatory stopped Ing-Fong, and asked him whether he
was a calligraphist. Upon his answering in the affirmative,
the officer conducted him to the Imperial Observatory, and
presented him to his excellency Li, by whom he was ordered
to go to the eastern gallery and eopy some reports addressed
to the Emperor.
In the evening he returned to his hotel, and exclaimed to
Madame Wang and his wife, " Thanks to your good advice.
I have succeeded in gaining admittance to the Imperial Ob-
servatory, where I am employed in the office of his Excel-
lency Li, as a copier of official documents." " Our affairs
are looking up wonderfully," replied Madame Hin to her
husband, " it is now your turn to give some proofs of your
zeal and application." At these words Madame Wang was
transported with joy. "M. Pong," cried she, " his Excel-
lency Li is extremely partial to persons who are assiduous
and hardworking ; if, when you go back to-morrow to your
office. you remain there one whole month without returning
home (!) his Excellency will be filled with esteem for you,
and if, at a future period, you should solicit any employment
you will perhaps obtain it through his extensive influence.
As for your wife, do not be at all uneasy on her account, she
shall continue to reside with me !"

Ing-Fong yielded to these arguments without making the
least opposition. He went away, taking with him his little
boy, and, did not re-appear at the hotel of Madame Wang
for several days.
The last-mentioned lady ran without a moment's delay to
the licentiate Yao, and informed him that M. Pong was dis-
posed to sell his wife. Yao could hardly contain himself for
joy, and eagerly inquired what price he demanded. Madame
Wang replied that he only asked 100 ounces of silver (equal
to 750 f., or about £3O sterling !) Yao immediately counted
out the 100 ounces, adding 10 ounces more (equal to 75f.) as
commission money for Madame Wang.
Madame Wang then asked Yao to what country he was
about to proceed, in order to fulfil the duties of his new ap-
pointment. He replied, that he had been appointed to the
prefecture of Tchin-Lieou. "M. Pong promises," added
Madame Wang, " that just as you are on the point of embark-
ing, he will send his wife to the boat in a sedan-chair." " I
set out immediately," replied Yao ; " I will therefore wait
for her in the boat, which is now lying in the bay of Tchang."
Madame Wang hereupon summoned some porters, and re-
turned to seek Madame Hin. " Madame,' she exclaimed,
" your husband is employed in the office of his Excellency
Li, who gives him board and lodging, and makes him ex-
ceedingly comfortable. He has just sent some porters to
carry you thither, in order that you may live with him."
Madame Hiu instantly packed up her clothes, and got into
the sedan-chair; which was conducted by Madame Wang
to a boat lying in the bay of Tchang, already mentioned.
Madame Hiu, having got out of the chair, perceived that it
was a Mandarin's boat. She accordingly turned to Madame
Wang, and asked her why she was brought to this place,
when her husband had sent for her to come and live with
him at the Observatory. " Madame," answered the land-
lady, " I must tell you the plain truth. M. Pong, finding
himself in a state of extreme distress, is fearful lest your life
should be made unhappy. He has therefore given you up,
in order that you might become the wife of M. Yao, who is
now prefect of Tchin-Lieou, As that gentleman is not yet
married, he will treat you as a lady of the highest rank.
Could you possibly meet with better luck ? Here is the deed
by virtue of which M. Pong transfers you to another husband
for the ` consideration' of 100 ounces of silver. Look at it,
and you will see that I speak the truth !" Madame Hiu had
not even the courage to glance at this pretended contract, but
lowered her head without uttering a syllable. She was, in
short, compelled to accompany the Prefect Yao to the town
to which he was appointed.

At the expiration of one month the worthy Bachelor of
Arts, M. Pong, returned ; and not finding his wife he called
up Madame Wang, and asked her where his beloved Hiu-Chi
was gone. The latter, after first coniplaining of his unjust
suspicions, replied, "A short time ago you sent hither some
porters with orders to take your wife away, and conduct her
to your new place of residence. You now come and declare
that you have seen nothing of her, for the base purpose of
cheating me out of my rent. But I am not to be robbed in
this way. No! I will go immediately in quest of the soldiers
belonging to the tribunal (of justice); I shall then, at all
events, make sure of your person, and stand some chance of
being paid." Poor Ing-Fong, being unfortunately without
a farthing of money in his pocket, entreated Madame Wang
not to prosecute him, and retired, vainly attempting to stifle
his tears and sobs.
Ing-Fong, six months after this event, being still in a state
of the most abject poverty, applied himself to the study of
the " craft and mystery" of tailoring, and ultimately set up
shop as a " knight of the shears." One day Teng, the secre-
tary to the Tribunal of the Magistracy, was in want of a
tailor. He happened to meet Ing-Fong and took him home
to his house. Ing-Fong had already been employed a fort-
night in making for the secretary a new suit of clothes, when
Tsin-Tsai, a young domestic attached to the office of Teng,
happened by chance to bring the tailor two cakes for his
luncheon. Ing-Fong, perceiving that his son was wrapt in
a profound sleep, kept the two cakes with the intention of
giving him his share when he awoke. Upon Tsin-Tsai en-
quiring why he did not eat the cakes, Ing-Fong related to
him from beginning to end the dire misfortune which had
befallen him. " Sir," exclaimed Tsin-Tsai, sobbing, " I will
henceforth eat no more cakes, but will keep all that are given
me to appease the hunger of your son." When Tsin-Tsai
returned to the house of his master, he related to Madame
Teng all that he had just heard. Now, it happened curiously
enough that M. Teng was a native of the province of Chan-
Tong. His wife was struck with the account given by Tain-
Tsai ; she ordered him to call in the tailor,
elate the whole
of his story from beginning to end. Ing-Fong related, with
many tears, all the circumstances attending the abduction of
his wife. When he had eon,eluded, she said to him, " Mr.
Bachelor of Arts, you have no occasion to make any more
clothes. Remain in my house until the return of my hus-
band, to whom I will explain your situation, and whom I
will also entreat to procure you a situation." A short time
afterwards, M. Teng re-entered his house. " Sir," said
Madame Teng to him, " This tailor of yours is no common
working man, but a Bachelor of Arts, of the province of
Cban-Tong, who is waiting to take his degrees as licentiate.
His wife having been stolen away from him, he found him-
self in utter destitution, and learned the trade of a tailor, in
order to earn a scanty subsistence ; pray, Sir, use your inter-
est in favour of this poor man, who, I would add, is a fellow-
countryman of yours."
M. Teng then called Pong-Ing-Fong, and said to him,
" As you say you are a Bachelor of Arts, have the goodness
to show me your diploma." Ing-Fong drew from his bosom
a little silken bag, from which he took his diploma and pre-
sented it. Teng, seengethat the tailor's story was true,
said to him, " Ml. Bachelor of Arts, your examination
will not take place untill the 4th moon of next year.
Draw up, to-morrow morning, a petition, stating that you
belong to a distant province, and that it is impossible for
you to wait until the examination takes place. I will sup-
port the prayer of your petition, and will afterwards endea-
vour to procure you a situation." Ing-Fong followed the
instructions of M. Teng—drew up his petition, and presented
it to the Minister of the Magistracy. Teng immediately got
him appointed assistant prefect of Tchin-Lieon. As soon as
Ing-Fong had received the official intimation of his appoint-
ment, he went to take leave of- Madame Wang, his former
hostess. That lady, having poured forth a volley of con-
gratulations, asked him to what province he was appointed.
Ing-Fong replied, that he was nominated assistant prefect of
Tchin-Leion. On hearing this, Madame Wang was terribly ,
frightened, and knew not what in the world to do ! "Your
Excellency," exclaimed she to Pong, " has resided in my
house for several years, and I fear I have been wanting in
respect to your Excellency ! Permit me to present your Ex-
cellency with a robe of blue cloth, and to tie up your Excel-
lency's hair with satin ribands of five different colours. Pray
when does your Excellency set out?" " To-morrow morn-
ing," replied Ing-Fong, who forthwith took his leave and
departed. Madame Wang immediately summoned her little
brother, Wang-Ming-I, and said "Pong, who was a short
time ago merely a Bachelor of Arts, has just ob-
tained a high appointment. Teng, the Secretary to
the Minister of the Majestry, has intrusted him to carry
500 ounces of silver to his family. Run after him—kill him,
and bring me back his head ! We will then divide the
moneyfinto three portions, of which you shall take two, and
myself one!" Wang-Ming-I foilowed her advice, and suc-
ceeded, by travelling day and night, in overtaking Pong at
Lin.Tsing. " Halt !" cried he to Pong, at the name time
stopping him, and drawing out his knife. He was about to
cut off his Excellency's head, when the knife providentially
slipped out of his hand, and fell upon the ground. Wang-
Ming-I hereupon abandoned his murderous intention, and
asked Pong whether,
h tears of the conduct of Madame
duringhisor
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child's head. Ing-Pong also gave Ming-I the robe
with
presented him some days
p had presented
things and carried them
back to Madame Wang. " I have killed M. Pong, the
"hasiaridanhd his robe !" he;
;
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At these words she
was filled with joy, and exclairned,—" Thanks to your exer-
tions ! the root of the misfortune is extracted !"
Ing-Fong, m
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of r
hist,s ,
meanwhile, proceeded to Tchin-Lieou ; he had
resided there some months in his new capacity, when his
sons happened by chance to enter the house of Prefect Yao!
His wife, on beholding the child, instantly recognised him as
her long-lost son, but she was utterly at a loss to imagine
what had brought him to that part of the country. Yao-
Hong-lu in the meantime having prepared a splendid ban-
quet, invited his adjunct and his wife to come and partake of
it. Madame Hiu was placed behind a screen, but having
recognised in the person of the Assistant-Prefect her former
husband Fong, she hastily rushed from her place of conceal.
ment, and Ing-Fong having also at the same
moment recog.
nized his beloved wife HUI-Chi, the long divided pairrushed
After
into each other's arms, shedding oceans of tears. the

first emotions of joy had subsided, they related by turns all
the incidents that had happened to them since their unfor-
tunate separation. The Prefect Yao was so terrified, that he
remained motionless as a statute, without been able to utter
a single ejaculation. The happy pair returned together to
their house, where the mother was once more re-united to
her beloved child. Ing-Fong immediately addressed a com-
plaint to the tribunal of Khai-Fong-Fou. The judge, Pao-
Kong, was highly indignant at the conduct of the Prefect,
and reported the case to the Emperor. Ile condemned Yao
to work as a slave in the garrison of Wou-lin. Not content
with this, he also despatched two of his myrmidons (rejoic-
ing in the names of Tchang-Long-E and Tchao-Hou) to the
capital, with orders to repair to the gate of the " Flower of
the West." These trusty emissaries seized Madame Wang
and brought her before the tribunal of the angry judge, who,
having examined her, inflicted upon her a condign and sum-
mary punishment, well worthy of the days of Caliph Haroun
Al.Raschid. The judge first caused her to receive 100 stripes
with a bamboo rod, after which he sentenced the wretched
woman to immediate decapitation in the market-place, to the
intense satisfaction of all the inhabitants.

THE MAYOR'S DEFENCE OF THE MANCHESTER
BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. -

At a late hour we have received a report of the speech of
Mr. Nield, the mayor of Manchester, at a meeting of the
council of that town, on Wednesday last, in exculpation of
the conduct of the borough magistrates during the recent
disturbances. We should have liked to give this document
entire. We are compelled, however, by the demands upon
our space to restrict ourselves to a few passages.

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Mr. Maude was called upon to deal with that case in one
moment ; and he had no information to justify him, as a
magistrate, in taking any other course than the one he did
take. It is said that Mr. Maude was so stupid that he
allowed the procession to pass through the town without
doing any thing to arrest its progress. What is the fact?
The procession was in the town. Mr. Maude asked what
was their object ? "We wish," said they, "to go to Ste-
venson's-square, to excite a feeling of compassion on our
behalf." " Where are you from ?" " From Ashton."
"You have no business to go to Stevenson's-square, and I
shall not allow you to do so : you must return home by a
certain direction." Now at that very moment the turn-
out at the mills had commenced. The people went home ;
the town was cleared of them. There was no evidence to
show that these were the people who had turned out the
individuals from the mills ; and there was no evidence to
show Mr. Maude that this was not a procession of the very
same character of which he had seen a great many others.
Had Mr. Maude known, what was the fact, that the mills
in Ashton, Dukinfield, Hyde, Stalybridge, and Oldham, had
all been turned,out,.it would have made a wide difference in
his proceedings. He knew nothing of the kind. Mr. Maude,
or we, as magistrates, may be told that it was our business
to go to Ashton, Hyde, and all these places. I submit that
if it is in the province of the magistrate to be a police-officer,
that may be so; but I have yet to learn for one that that is
my duty, and I beg to decline it. (Applause.) We were,
as we have stated, in perfect ignorance of all these circum-
stances ; therefore we are not answerable for that which has
occurred at all. (Hear, hear.) It is known to mdst members
of the council—perhaps not to every one—that on the Tues-
day when this occurred I was in London on business relative
to bills before parliament connected with corporation affairs.
The business which took me to London was concluded on
the Tuesday ; and I arrived in Manchester on the following
morning, by the first railway train from Birmingham.
When I arrived at my own house, the first sight which
struck me as unusual was the demolition of the lodge win-
dows at our works. This filled me with astonishment;
came to inquire the cause, and heard what it was. There-
fore, instead of being allowed an hour's rest, I instantly
ordered a cab, and directed my horse to follow•me to the
Town-hall. When I arrived there I found my friend Mr.
Maude was there, with Colonel Wemyss, and Sir Charles
Shaw. We immediately mounted our horses, and put our-
selves at the head of the military. The magistrates
were immediately assembled, and we immediately began to
consider the measures that it was necessary for us to adopt.
The borough magistrates never lost their post : on the Wed-
nesday night I don't recollect any magistrate sleeping at the
York Hotel • but from Wednesday night to the present time
they have always been sleeping there; and I am not aware
that up to yesterday this post has been left for one hour,
night or day, Sunday or week-day, since the occurrence of
these circumstances. (Applause.) Mr. Beswick's services
have been extremely valuable to the magistrates on this oc-
casion. (Hear, hear.) This local knowledge, not only of
the localities of the town, but of the people with whom he
had to deal, has been of very great advantage to us—(hear,
hear) ;—and I am happy to say that I don't recollect one
single instance in which his information has at all misled us.
(Applause.) But, gentlemen, I will say that although a
force was thus organised of 400 to 500, with their periods of
service varying according to circumstances and relieving
each other, yet these were wholly inadequate to meet what
occurred ; for, in the out-districts of the borough, bands of
persons were prowling about, partly begging and partly in-
timidating; and we had the most strenuous complaints,
which the force then at our disposal rendered it impossible
for us adequately to meet. The mayor then noticed the
reasons for calling the council together, and spoke highly of
the zeal of the councillors. -

FASHIONABLE LADY SWIMMERS IN FRANCE

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.)

The lingering lionesses (of fashion) occupy public atten-
tion by the display of a new accomplishment, in which they
promise to surpass the greatest masters of the art—this art
being that of swimming ! If you pass betwixt four and six
o'clock before the establishment of cold baths on the Quai
d'Orsay, you behold there the most brilliant equipages of
the fairest leaders of fashion—equipages awaiting the Pari-
sian Naids, whose gambols in the (doubtfully) pure stream
of Father Seine their shouts and laughter do not allow you
to doubt of. Amongst the most celebrated and the most in-
trepid of these fair swimmers are found the pretty blue-
stocking Comtesse d'Hausse—and the Comtesse de S—,
chief favourites of the river god ; and in right of this protec-
tion, boldly venturing out in the open tide of the river. But
a short time back they had a rival, who outshone them all.
The brilliant Marchioness de C—, who has deserted the
flowery banks of.the Seine for the shores of the ocean, where
she dictates the laws of fashion and gives the ton, and is im-
plicitly obeyed by the fair English as well as the browner
French voyageuses. During the whole summer natation
had become the ruling passion of this lovely and eccentric
Marchioness, and had supplanted the love of field sports and
Havannah cigars. Fortunately at Dieppe she is able to in-
dulge in this new all surpassing fancy, and to execute her
exquisite feats and dimly-discerned attitudes on a bolder
scale. At Dieppe, the rendezvous of the most distinguished
society in Europe, instead of bathing machines, little tents
are set up on the beach—the ladies put on, besides close-
fitting jackets, those wash leather unmentionables considered
in England as the insignia of domestic domination, and at-
tended each by a professor of the art, boldly venture out to
sea. Nothing so startling, when you are out rowing, than to
encounter all at once a lovely Nereid, with the attendant
Triton, breasting the wave ! The author of this revolution
of fashion amongst Parisian ladiesis becoming daily more
and more popular. His name is Ouarnier. The illustridus
Ouarnier, proprietor of the rendezvous of all young and
pretty women in Paris—professor of natation to venturesome
beauties. This man is decidedly a demi-god on earth—he
enjoys the privilege of beholding exclusively the sports of
the fairest nymphs of the globe,

" When unadorned, adorned the most."
They all seek his approbation, of which the least glance is
the greatest of favours. As I listened on the quay I heard
one lady crying out, " 0 M. Ouarnier, tenez moi !" Others,
M. Ouarnier, je mejette ! M. Ouarnier, je fais la Planche !
M. Ouarnier, je fais la Perche !" Such are the piquantes,
'exclamations and adjurations that burst out simultaneously
from the voices of 200 syrens, and to which he must answer
as fast as he can—the most obese, black, and stunted mortal
imaginable, but at the same time the most clever, virtuous,
and valiant of master swimmers.

CRICKET.—The match between Sussex (with Fuller Pilch:
and All England, terminated on Wednesday in favour of
Sussex by six runs.

• BIGAMY.—The Rev. Stephen Aldhouse, late lecturer at
Allhallows, London, was sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation, at the London Central Criminal Court, for the
crime of bigamy.

CHOLEu.A.—Several cases of this malignant disease have
just occurred, both in Shields and Newcastle, in not a few
instances they have terminated fatally. The disease, ofcourse, is traceable to the immense quantities of unripe fruit
everywhere exposed, and the warm weather conjoined.
During the sitting of the sWesleyan Conference in Lon-
don, 53 young ministers were ordained. The Rev. J. Jack-
son retires from the editorship of the Magazine, and is to be
succeeded by the Rev. G. Cubitt, with the Rev. J. S. Stamp,
as assistant. The Centenary Fund has realised £210,000;
£BO,OOO of borrowed money on chapels had been paid off,
and the debt of the Missionary Society (£30,000) has been
reduced two-thirds.

BONE-BARGAINS.—A living ass is said to be better than
a dead lion ; but old Cobbett once fancied he could make a
something out of the bones of Tom Paine, which (or some
other person's?) he brought over from America, and offered
for sale in London. Last week a still more extraordinary
bargain was proposed, by advertisement in the Times news-
paper, viz., the skeleton of Jonathan Wild, for so small a
sum as £5. Surely the author of "Jack Sheppard" would
give twice as much for it by private contract.

The following delicate mode of conveying a hint, which
we copy from one of the Jamaica papers, shows, that in the
way of " politeness," the West Indians may even set an
example to ourselves :—A CARD.—A huge dead dog, whose
body is at present lying on the Parade, near to the Poor-
house, presents. his respectful compliments to the Police-
officers, and requests that his remains may be removed as
speedily as possible, to supersede the necessity of an inquest
being held on him, by the worshipful John Crows.
Tuesday night's Gazette announces that the Queen has
conferred the honour of Knighthood upon Charles George
Young, Esq., Garter Principal King at Arms. It also notifies
that in consideration of the distinguished gallantry displayed
by the 13th Light Infantry during the campaigns in the Bur-
mese empire and Affghanistan, her Majesty has approved of
that Regiment's assuming the title of the 13th or Prince
Albert's Regiment of Light Infantry, and of its facings being
changed from yellow to blue.
MARRIAGE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF HANOVER.—
The Hanover Gazette of the 22d ultimo, contains a royal
proclamation, signed " Ernest Augustus, invoking the
blessings of Providence upon the nuptials of the Crown
Prince. "The amiable and elevated qualities of the bride,"
says the proclamation," and the reciprocal cordial attachment
of the affianced couple, allow us confidently to hope that the
happiness of our beloved son, which we have so much at
heart, is fully secured by this union. May divine Providence
bestow upon this union its choicest blessings. We are
assured that our faithful subjects will unite with us in these
our fervent wishes and prayers."
FOREIGN MEAT.—The season is now at hand when the
preserved meats of Hamburg will be in perfection, and we
may then hope for a good supply of them, being prepared
ourselves, from personal experience, to assert their excellence,
and the probability of their becoming a favourite article here.
Some excellently flavoured meat, received from South
America, has recently been shown here on 'Change, and the
the merchants generally
numerous tasters among expressed
their approval of it. Of this we can procure an abundant
quantity, if the preservation of it succeeds so as to bear a
long voyage; for even lightly-salted meats for the continent
are apt to suffer before they reach the dealers here.—
Observer.

The Liverpool steamer has brought advices from Lisbon of
the 22d instant. Prince Frederick of Austria had arrived in
that city in the Bellona frigate, and had set out to visit their
Majesties at Cintra. The address had been carried in the
Chamber of Deputies by the Government, by a majority of
62 votes to 19. The new President had tendered his resig-
nation in consequence of insults he had received from cer-
tain of the opposition deputies, but had been appeased by a
vote of censure upon them by the Ministerial party. The
Spanish slaver lately brought into the Tagus continued to
remain there; and the Government had informed the
Chamber of Deputies., in answer to an inquiry from one of
the members, that it would not be allowed to sail. The
tariff question remained in stain quo. The treasury was in
great difficulty, and it was reported that an application had
been made to the British Gover,nm6nt for permission to
postpone the payment of the instaiment on account of the
expenses of General Clinton's division.