The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-26 00:00:00

4atttl) Rintrita.

LINE of PACKETS to RIO DE JANEIRO,
a, Sailing on the Ist, 11th, and 21st of every Month.
44% To sail on the Ist September,
zvidivoy, The fine A 1 British-built Barque DERBY,
Captain LEE ;
347 tons, coppered and copper-fastened, and in all respects a
very eligible conveyance for goods or passengers: loading in
the Queen's Dock.—Apply to

ISIRIE and TOMLINSON. or
COTESWORTH and WYNNE.

garant gab tgation.

STEAM TO NEW YORK.

f4l-
,01),
The GREAT WESTERN,
Utt = Lieutenant HOSKEN, R.N., Commander,
Is intended to sail from

LIVERPOOL
On Saturday, the 3d September.
Passage, Thirty-eight Guineas—Steward's Fee, One Guinea.
As she has only room fora limited quantity of freight, no
goods can be taken unless previously engaged and alongside,
at the Coburg Dock, on or before the 31st instant.
For further information apply, in Bristol, to
CHRISTOPHER CLAXTON, Managing Director ;
London THOMAS M. WARD, Great Western Rail-
way Office, Bank ' •
13irroingham JOHN PONCIA and SoN, Pershore-street ;
Hull W R. GODDARD, Hull and East Riding
Leeds Times Office;
HA.IGH and WOMACK, Accountants, Ben-
son's-buildings ;
Glasgow
Paris ANDELLE and SOULAS, Rue de l'Echiquier,
o. 20
Havre de Grace WILLIAM DAVIDSON.
LIVERPOOL
street.
N.B.—The WESTERN will sail fro New York on
her homewardgoyage on the 29th Septembem r ; and will be
despatched from Bristol, for New York, on the 22d October.

he Steamer ACADIA will take a few tons of light goods
BRITIS on
.freight.
H AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL
STEAM-SHIPS,
Of 1200 Tons and 440 Horses' Power each.
APPOINTED BY THE ADMIRALTY TO SAIL BETWEEN
LIVERPOOL and BOSTON,
CALLING AT HALIFAX TO LAND AND RECEIVE PAS-
SENGERS AND HER MAJESTY'S MAILS.
mr, 4 ACADIA, Captain ALEXANDER RYRIE.
t‘ COLUMBIA, CaptainChns.H.E.JunroNs.
1 = BRITANNIA, Captain JOHN HEWITT.
CALEDONIA, Captain EDWARD G. LOTT.
The North American Mails will be made up in London on
the 3d and 18th of every Month, except when either of these
dates
fall on the Sunday, and then on the succeeding day.
The Steam Packets will depart from Liverpool the next
laorning, immediately after the arrival of the London Mail.
In the Winter Months, however, viz., December, January,
February, and March, but one Mail in the Month, that of
the 3d, will be despatched.
The Vessels appointed to sail from LIVERPOOL are as
under, viz. :
ACADIA on the 4th September.
COLUMBIA on the 20th September.
to sang
Passengers' Luggage must be on board the day previous
Passage, including Provisions, but without Wines or Li-
quors, which can be obtained on board, to Boston or Halifax,
Thirty-eight Guineas. Steward's Fee, One Guinea.
Do ched £5 each.
„, STAGE COACHES arear nogw established betvreen HALI-
FAX and PICTOU, and the Steam-ship UNICORN plies
between PICTOU and QUEBEC, in connexion with the
above Vessels, carrying the Mails and Passengers for
Canada, except during the winter months when the St. Law-
rence is closed.
Apply, in Halifax, to the Hon. S. CUNARD ; in London, to
J. B. Foohn, 52, Old Broad-street •, and in Glasgow, to
G. and J. BURNS ; or, in Liverpool, to
D. and C. MACIVER, 14. Water-street.
NOTE.—AII LETTERS and NEWSPAPERS intended to be
sent by these Vessels must pass through the POSTOFFICE,
and none will be received at the Agents' Offices.
Passengers by the Royal Mail Steamers to HALIFAX and
BOSTON are respectfully informed that the Custom-house
Authorities, at either of these Ports, will not allow anything
to be landed under the Name of LUGGAGE, except the Per-
Ronal Wearing Apparel of such Passengers. Any Merchan-
dise taken to Halifax or Boston, under the name of Luggage,
Will be dealt with according to Law.
Passengers will be charged freight on their personal Lug-
gage when it exceeds half-a-ton measurement.

THE SHORTEST & CHEAPEST WAY
..77
„-,thOlt& i TO THE LAKES
The Steamer WINDERMERE,
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—— - • HENRY POOLE, Master,
Is •
intended to sail from George's Pier, for BARDSBA, near
Illverston, (weather permitting,) TO-MORROW (Saturday) MORNING, at Six o'clock, returning from thence the follow-
ing Afternoon, at Three o'clock.
Cabin Fare. is. 6d. 1 Steerage ss.
Refreshments may be had on board.
For further particulars appfy to
ELIZABETH WINDER,
LCp
1 per Pownall-street, Park-lane, Liverpool.
-

For GREENOCK and GLASGOW,
With Goods and Passengers.
Tut,eabin•.Steward's Fee ..2s.—Steerage.. ss.
GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL STEAM SHIP-
PING COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS
ACHILLES,
Captain HUGH MAIN, and
FIRE KING, Captain M`KELLAR,
Sail regularly from the Clarence Dock,
The is LIVERPOOL, to GLASGOW.
to auove or other first-class Steam-Ships is intended
sail as follows, from LIVERPOOL :
...ACHILLES
Monday, the 29th, at 3, Afternoon.
""ING• • •
SEPTEMBER.
4"ILLES• •.
'AIcRREI EsKING Wednesday, the 7th, at 11, Forenoon.
Thursday, the Bth, at 12, Noon.
PT. ff'ES •• • • ••• • Monday, the 12th, at 4, Afternoon.
KINGAcn, Wednesday, the 14th, at 7, Evening.
p
Alliz KING Wednesday, the 21st, at 12, Noon.
eattLEsThursday, the 22d, at 10, Evening.
elilLLEs
IRE ACHI LLES KING Wednesday, the 28th, at 3, Afternoon.
•
For
further particulars apply to
THOMAS MARTIN and BURNS and Co.,
7, Water-street, Liverpool.
GEORGE and JAMES BURNS,
Buchanan-street, Glasgow ;
ARCHIBALD BLACK,
Custom-house-place, Greenock ;
WILLIAM ANDREW,
__

26, Fountain. Street, Manchester.
411 d at
chew. the Railway Stations, London, Birmingham, Man-
,2Ler. scc.

For DUBLIN and BELFAST.
010 TRF CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY,
The ab
i Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Company sail their Vessels, (with or without
n'tratesfY taking Goods and Passengers to the following Ports,

THIS For DUBLIN,
DAY, August 26, at 1 o'clock P.M.
xBA.TDRDAy
~ 27, 1 ~ P.M.
'I°NIDA.T ' 29, 3 ~ P.M.
f f t
TUESDAY 30, 4 ~ P.M.
They
NV . ' f f
LDNESDAY r, 31, 5 .1 P.M.
also
de '
their and splendid Vessels,
the giTpt,,,, despatch one of new
600 ---"" VICTORIA, PRINCE, and PRINCESS, of
at t°ns burthen a d 260 horses ower, EVERY EVENING,
Seven o'Clock, fnrom George s P
to ' p • I d LIVERPOOL,
ter lea ,
KINGSTOWN HARBOUR, tcith her Majesty's Mail
and Cabin Passengers only.

For BELFAST, the ATHLONE.
TUESDAY, August 30, at 3 o'clock P.M.

The principle of this Company is that of attaching all
I
and Exporters, by a Division of the Profits among
them, after payment of the Dividends, thus creating a corn-
inunity of Interests between the Shippers and Shareholders,
a principle which will best guarantee to its Proprietors a
certainty of their Dividends, and to Shippers of all descrip-
tions of Goods and Live Stock the having a well-supported
Establishment of first-class Steamers, and the lowest rate of
freight compatible with due attention to their maintenance.
_Further information given at the Company's Office, 24,
Water-street. SAM UEL PERRY. Agent.

STEAM SHIP GREAT NA
THE PUBLIC will be adautted. to view the Steam-01'p
GREAT WESTERN (lying in the Coburg Dock), oin
F,.°Ntlikr and TUESDAY next, the 29th and 30th Auust,
-°t'a Ten till Four o'clock each day.

ADMISSION :
On Monday—One Shilling each Person.
Th On Tuesday—Sixpence each Person.
Pen...eyroceeds to be given to the North and South Dis_
.—No admission previously except on business.
Captain C. Claxton, R.N., Managing Director.
Lit GIBBS, BRIGHT and Co. Agents.
24th August, 1842.

THE GREAT WESTERN
I.° THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ALBION.
Liverpool, 24th Awugesutsemit,lBw4h2
ch
appe aue Paragraph respecting the Great
er
Ltee ared in Your paper of Monday last, and also the imp c-
t account onth meeting of Proprietors, in Bristol, whi
dad a,PPeared her papers being likely to effect Passengers
l'reight, in the yet unperformed voyages of the searn,
beg to inform you that the abandonment of the advertised
flegagenaents of the Great Western has never for one moment
tot. en thought of by the Directors, and that it is intended to
dispatch her from Liverpool,
temb r, and from Bristol, on the 22nd of October.
as advertised, on the 3rd Sep
Yours, &c.

C. CLAXTON,
Managing Director.

No. 1009.]

&aim bp Ruction.

THIS DAY.

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, CUT GLASS, AND
MISCELLANEOUS EFFECTS, CLAYTON-
SQUARE ROOMS.
By Mr. BYFORD,
On MONDAY next, the 28th instant, at Eleven o'clock pre-
cisely, at his Rooms, Clayton-square,
A VARIETY of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and
11 Miscellaneous Effects removed for sale, comprising a
Set of Eight Mahogany Chairs, antique shape ; Sofas in
Hair Cloth, Peedestal Sideboard, Dining and Loo Tables,
Hall Chairs, Chests Drawers, pair Rosewood Card Tables,
Camp Bedsteads with Printed Cotton Hangings, Feather
Beds; Painted Chamber Articles, in Chests Drawers, Toilet
Tables, and Washstands, Commode, Chairs, Dressing
Glasses, Brussels, Kidderminster and Venetian Stair Car-
pets, variety Cut Glass, Stained Rosewood Chairs, Paintings,
Prints, Nests Drawers, Hand Cart, a few Kitchen Requi-
sites, and other Effects.

MMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

AHIGHLY-RESFECTABLE DAY SCHOOL for
YOUNG LADIES, realizing £l5O per Annum, will be
Transferred upon the payment of a moderate Premium.
Rent moderate.

Apply to Mr. JOSEPH CRISP, Clerical. Medical, and
School Agency Office, 20, Slater street, Liverpool.

TO BUILDERS, CAPITALISTS, AND OTHERS.
rr OThe SOLD, on liberal terms, several eligible Lots of
'BUILDING LAND, in Seacombe, in very desirable
situations.

For particulars apply to H. WINCH, Esq., Seacombe ; or
ROWLAND and HoccsoN, North John-street, Liverpool.
Few places offer such inducements for Building in as Sea-
combe, it being so very contiguous to Liverpool, Land being
moderate in price, and full of Gay for making Bricks on the
spot, and there being a considerable demand for moderate-
sized Houses.

TO be LET or SOLD, eider One or Two HOUSES,
recently erected in a mos; substantial manner, replete
with conveniences, and well supplied with both Soft and
Pump Water, situate in a most desirable part of Seacombe,
within a few minutes' walk of the Ferry, and suitable for the
immediate reception of a genteel Family. Rents moderate.
For particulars apply to Mr. HOLLINGWORTII, on the
Premises, or at No. 9, North John-street, Liverpool.

NEW TARIFF.
WESTPHALIA HAMS, Sid. per lb.
RUSSIAN OX TONGUES, 16s, per Dozen.
REINDEER DITTO, 14s. per Dozen.
IHLER and Co., Back Goree.

EXTENSIVE
CARPET AND FURNITURE WAREHOUSE,
HANOVER-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

THOMAS BRANCH
Respectfully announces, that he has CONSTANTLY ON SALE,
At the HANOVER ROOMS,
A particularly extensive and valuable Stock of Elegant and
Fashionable
CABINET FURNITURE,
Of every description, manufactured in the first style of ex-
cellence, from the best Materials,
INCLUDING
DRAWING-ROOM SUITES, of Real and Incitation

Rosewoo'cl,
IN CIRCULAR AND OBLONG LOO,
Work, Flower, Card, Occasional, Writing, Sofa, and Fancy
Tables, What Nots, Chairs, Couches, Sofas, Tea Poys,
Cheffoniers, Canterburies, Fire Screens, &c.
MAHOGANY FURNITURE,
In Sliding-frame and other forms of Dining Tables, Pedestal
and Cellaret Sideboards, Single and Winged Bookcases,
Secretaires, Cheval and other Screens, Single and Double
Wardrobes, Ladies' Wardrobes, with brass rods and arms,
for Dresses, Trafalgar and Balloon-formed Chairs, Card,
Library, Loo, Invalid, Sofa, Snap, Pembroke, Ladies' Work
and Screen Tables, Running Side-tables, Couches, Sofas,
Children's Chairs, Cots, and Cribs, Chests of Drawers,
Night Commodes, Bedsteps, Bidets, Hat Stands, Boot Racks,
Music Stands and Stools, Canterburies, Hall Chairs, Butler's
Trays, with Stands, Foot Stools, Cheffoniers, Quartetto-
tables, Dressing-tables and Basin-stands, Rising Sideboard
Tables, Gentlemen's Library or Office Tables, Double and
Single Knife Boxes, &c.
RECUMBENT INVALID CHAIRS.

May be viewed on the morning of sale, when Catalogues
may be had at the Rooms, Clayton-square.

EXTENSIVE MALTING PREMISES, ELLESMERE.
TO be SOLD or LET, the MESSUAGE, Two MALT-
HOUSES, (wetting, bgether, 180 Bushels,) Store
Rooms, Stable, Yard, &c., lately occupied by Mr. John
Sutton, Maltster and Corn Dealer. The Buildings are of
Brick and Slate, and the whole Premises lock up together,
and are replete with every convenience.
Apply to Mr. C. R. `VALE, Solicitor, Ellesmere.

Elegant Lounging, Library, and Devotional CHAIRS,

EXTENSIVE SALE OF A CABINET MAKER'S
AND UPHOLSTERER'S STOCK,
COLQUITT-STREET.
BYFORD begs respectfully to intimate to the No-
JAL bility and Public that he is instructed to SELL by
AUCTION, upon the Premises, Colquitt-street, on WED-
NESDAY, the 7th September, and following days, at Eleven
o'clock precisely each day,
The whole of the extensive and superior Manufactured
and Unmanufactured STOCK and other ARTICLES in
TRADE, including a Black MARE, Spring CAST, Set HAR-
NESS, &c., by order of the Executors of the late Mr.
Edward Powell, deceased.

FOLDING SOFA AND CHAIR BEDS,
JAPANNED. STAINED. AND FANCY CHAIRS,
In the greatest variety ;
Four-post, Cottage, Conopy, French, Dome, Camp, Nursery,
and Press BEDSTEADS, of every form,
In Mahogany, Birch. and Painted Woods ;
Feather BEDS, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES,
PAINTED CHAMBER REQUISITES,
Of all descriptions,
In Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Tables, Basin-

TO BREWERS, OR ANY PERSON WISHING TO

The MAHOGANY FURNITURE includes several superior
Pedestal Sideboards, Telescope Dining Tables, Loo, Pem-
broke, Hall, Card, and Snap Ditto, Sets Chairs, Sofas, Re-
clining, Easy, Devotional, and other Chairs, Hat and Um-
brella Stands, Music Stools, Canterburys, Ladies' Winged
Wardrobes, Secretaire and Bookcase, Lofty Four-post,
Tent, and French Bedsteads, Toilet Tables and Washstands,
with Marble Tops, Bidets, Night Commodes, Chests Drawers,
Cupboards, Cheval, Box, Platform, and Swing Dressing
Glasses, Mirrors, a fine-toned Six-and-a-Half Octave Semi-
grand Piano-forte, in handsome Horizontal Case, (by
Broadwoods.)
The superb ROSEWOOD FURNITURE embraces several
elegant Pier Tables, with Plate Glass Backs and Marble
Tops, Cabinets, Centre and Card Tables, on massive Carved
Pillars, Ladies' Work Tables, Book Stands, Teapoys, Easy,
Reclining, Elizabethian, and Devotional Chairs, Settees,
Fire Screens, Flower Stands, Canterburys, Music Stools,
Tablets, Work Boxes, Footstools, &c.
The MISCELLANEOUS STOCK.—TWO brilliant Plate Pier
Glasses, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets, Figured
Druggets, excellent bordered Feather beds, Hair Mattresses,
Blankets, Counterpanes, White Marseilles Quilts, Linen
Ticks, Painted Baizes, Silk Tabirets, 160 Pieces Chintz and
Glazed Cambric, Figured Damasks, Merinos, Imitation
Rosewood and Seg Chairs, a variety of Painted Articles in
Wardrobes, Chests Drawers, Chairs, Toilet Tables, Wash-
stands, Towel Horses, Cupboards, Wool Rugs, Foot Bares,
quantity of Lace and Trimmings, Brass Work, Ironmongery,
&c.

A useful Black Mare, Spring Cart, Set Harness, and a
few Out-Door Effects.
The whole may be viewed on Tuesday preceding the sale,
when Catalogues may be had on the Premises, or of Mr.
BYFORD, at his Office, Clayton-square.

EMBARK IN THAT
rp co be DISPOSED OF, an old-established BREWERY,
in a healthy country situation, the party retiring from
business, containing three Copper Pans, of 12, 16, and 25
barrels each, with all other utensils and fixtures ; also a
Steam Engine and Malt Kins, in full work ; with a first-rate
connection, a number of Public-houses belonging to the
Brewery, with a good Famly House and Garden adjoining.
None need apply but parts who can command a capital of
£3OOO to £5OOO. Part of the purchase money may remain
on security.

stands, Towel Airers, &c.
Elegant CHIAINILY and DRESSING GLASSES,
A VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL

VALUABLE BUILDING LAND, IN UPPER
TRANMERE.
By Mr. EVAN S.
On MONDAY next, the 29th instant, at Six o'clock in the
Evening, at the House of Mr. Quigley, the Queen's Arms,
in Lower Tranmere, (unless previously disposed of by
Private Contract, of which due notice will be given,)
ALL that Piece' or Parcel of LAND, situate in Upper
Tranmere, and on the east side of the road leading from
Tranmere to Holt-hill, called the Town-lane, bounded on
the north, south, and east, by Fields belonging to George
Orred, Esq., and in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Light
bound; and on the west by the Town-lane aforesaid; to-
gether with the Two Co3tages thereon, now occupied by Mr.
Almond and Mr. Henshaw.

This Land possesses a frontage to the road of 162 feet, or
thereabouts, and contains in the whole 1890 square yards.
It js situate on the east or river side of the road leading from
Tranmere to Holt-hill ; and, from its elevated situation, it
commands a fine view of the Mersey, which cannot be ob-
structed, and altogether forms a most desirable Lot for the
erection of Villas.

The Tenure is Freehold of Inheritance.
For further particulars apply to Mr. HORE, Solicitor, 27,
Lower Castle-street, Liverpool.

eontrarts.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.

THE Directors of this Undertaking will receive Proposals
for LOANS OF MONEY ON DEBENTURES, to
be issued under the provisions of the acts of Parliament, in
the month of OCTOBER next, in sums of not less than
£2OO, for terms of three, five, seven, or ten years, on Interest
at the rate of £5 per Cent. per Annum, payable Half-yearly,
at the Banks of Messrs. MILES, HARFORD, and Ca, Corn-
street, Bristol, and Messrs. BARNETT, HOARE, and Co.,
Lombard-street, London.
For Moneys immediately advanced the security of Loan
Notes under the Seal of the Company will be given, which
may be exchanged for Debentures in the said month of Oc-
tober.

Tendcrs, expressing the Sums and Terms of Years, to be
addressed to the undersigned, at the Company's Office,
Exchange Buildings, Bristol.
By order of the Committee of Management,
ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary.
Office, Exchange Buildings, Bristol,
30th May, 1842.

Apply to PHILIP HARUNG, Jun., No. 13, Bittern-street;
or at 38, Ormond-street, Liverpool.

Fromthe Second Edition e Grimstone's Weather Almanack
for tie Year 1842.
SIGHT RESTORED !

NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE Sr DEAFNESS CURED !

UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF
Their late MAJESTIES,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT,
And authorised by Her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury.
Mat. vi. 22.—The light of the body is the eye.—Luke ii. 34.
fAPTHALMIA, CATARACT, GUTTA SERENA, IN-
V/ FLAMMATION, and all Diseases of the Eye and
Head Cured by the most simple, delightful, and fragrant
Compound. Its mode of application is fraught with plea-
sure ; many thousand Cures have been accomplished by its
use, at a trifling experse, yet certain in its operation. If
Testimonials be neceary to induce the sufferer to make
trial—Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it. The
Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late
Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists,
Medical Practitioners, with that gigantic balance—the press
—have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated herbacious com-
pound, known as Grimstone's Eye Snuff, for its efficacy in
removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Head. G. J.
Guthrie, Esq., F.A.S., (See Dr. Thomas of Hatfield,)
having witnessed maw cases of cure both of headache and
ophthalmia has kitdly given given his testimony to the
truth thereof—Dr. Andrews calls it a National blessing
—see his Reports touching its utility. The late Mr.
Abernethy, with rrany others, recommended Grimstone's
Eye Snuff, and called it " Man's best Friend," and the
" Student's Vade 31ecum."—See the many thousand Letters
of Testimonials, of undoubted Medical authority, with others
of the first respectability. This Snuff will cure Cataract,
Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Inflammations of the Eyes, and
completely eradicate Nervous Headaches. The only genuine
is sold in Canistzrs of Bd., is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., Bs.,
15s. 6d., with the Inventor's Signature and the Royal Pa-
tronage attached to each Canister. This Snuff is manufac-
tured from Herbs only.

A Liberal Allcwance made to all Vendors, by PIERCE and
CROSFIELD, Cigar and Foreign Snuff Merchants, Castle-
street, Liverpool, WHOLESALE and RETAIL AGENTS; also
by J. Forrester, Druggist, 59, Byrom-street; Welch, Snuff
Maker, Church-street; Ross and Nightingale, Chronicle-
office, Lord-street ; Atherton, Lord-street ; Denby, 4, Great
Charlotte-street ; Hignett. Oldhall-street ; Messrs. Hignett
and Bullen, Tobacconists, Moor-fields ; Mr. Proctor, To-
bacconist, London-road ; Mr. Roberts, Druggist, Ranelagh-
street ; Mr. G. H. Howell, Druggist, Dale-street; Mr. J.
Shepherd, Tobacconist, 3, Scotland-place ; Mr. Hignett,
Tobacconist, corner of Dale-street; Mrs. Moreland, Tobac-
conist, Church-street: Mr. Plummer, North
Crescent, Lord-street; Mr. Thomas Hignett, Tobacconist,
I,llTithebarn-street ; Mr. W. King, Druggist, Soho-street ;
Mrs. Miller; Tobacconist, Elliott-street ; and Mrs. Moore,
Tobacconist, Pitt-street; and in MANCHESTER, by W.
Grindon, 4, Old Church Gate, Market-street, and 119, Picca
dilly ; Mr. Rayner, Tobacconist, 25, Mk place ; Mr. G.
Bevins, 23, Market-street ; Mr. J. R. Lynch, Market-
street ; Watson and Co., 45, Matket-stet;
Abrams, 4,
King-street; Biggar, Deansgate ; Lovett, High-street • ' W.
Smith, Market-street ; Mr. Brown,
Ancoats-street ; and every principal Market-street; Gee,
Town and City in the
Globe.
All Letters direct to W. GRIMSTONE, Merchant, Fo-
reign Snuff and Cigar Importer. The :only House for real'
Cuba Cigars and Grand Cairo Snuff. Tobacco and Snuff
Manufactory, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, 24, King-street,
Long Acre. The Manufactory for Grimstone's Eye Snuff,
Bowl Yard, London.
Manufacturers of Tobacco and Snuff in their genuine state.
CAUTION.—This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of
Herbs, sold in canisters, is 3d, 2s 4d, 4s 4d, 8s and 15s 6d
each, with copies of original testimonials, gratis, with each
canister, by all Agents, both Foreign and British. It can be
obtained in all the principal towns and cities. A liberal
allowance to shippers, owners, captains, and all vendors of
Grimstone's Eye Snuff. This celebrated snuff is shipped
to all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign quality,
in every climate. All snuffs and cigars skipped on the
shortest notice.
A FEW OF THE MANY THOUSAND TESTIMONIALS OF SIGHT
RESTORED AND DEAFNESS CURED.
Nottingham, 28th August, 1841.
This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. Jas. Wilcockson,
Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham.
To Mr. W. Grimstone, 39, Broad- street,Bloomsbury,London.
Sir, —1 feel great pleasure in sending you the particulars of
my case, and the miraculous cure performed on myself by
your valuable Eye Snuff. Sir, lam now in my ninety-third
year, and a native of Holland, have been in this country 26
years ; whether from change of climate, or my advanced age,
I cannot say, but for six years I have been deprived of sight,
therefore unable to follow my business. Ido most sincerely
believe I should have remained in darkness and pain, but for
the kind recommendation of a friend to use your invention.
1 purchased a 2s. 4d. canister of your Agent, Mr. Wilcock-
son, Tobacconist, who knows the above to be facts, and will
bear witness to my extraordinary recovery of that most esti-
mable blessing of our life—" perfect sight"—l declare has
proceeded from the use of your Eye Snuff. For the sake of
those suffering, you may make what use you please of this
letter ; Mr. Wilcockson and many others will vouch for its
truth. I refer the sufferers to this gentleman, being your
Agent, and so well known in Nottingham.
I am, sir, your obliged servant,
August 28th, 1841. ANNIS ZENIA MASSENIA.

ITALIAN SCULPTURED ORNAMENTAL FIGURES
VASES, URNS, EWERS, &c.,
Also, a very diversified Stock of
BRUSSELS, DAMASK, VENETIAN, KIDDERMINSTER, and
JUTE CARPETING,
Embracing the most Modern Patterns, of excellent
Manufacture ;
TURKEY AND BRITISH HEARTH RUGS,
A great variety of beautiful PRINTED DRUGGETS,
In the newest and most admired taste ;
Crimson, Drab, Green, and Mixture DRUGGETS,
BLANKETS,
Figured FLOOR and LOBBY CLOTHS,
Of all dimensions, for cutting to fit Rooms, Halls, Lobbies,
Shops, and Ships' Cabins,
INDIA AND ENGLISH MATTING,
Black Hair Seatings, of all Widths, ea-c.
INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS;
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, &C.

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.
JAMES CLARKE, ESQ., RECORDER.

THE COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE
for the BOROUGH will be held, in the CROWN
COURT, in the SESSIONS-HOUSE, in Chapel-street. on MON-
DAY, the sth day of September next, at Ten o'clock in the
Forenoon. . . . . .

No Traverse will be Tried unless entered for Trial on the
first day of the Sessions, at my Office in the Sessions-
house, or, previously, at my Office in the Town-hall.

And all Indictments for Misdemeanours found at these
Sessions against Persons admitted to Bail, must be entered
for trial at my Office in the Sessions House, at or before
Twelve o'Clock on the day after the discharge of the Grand
Jury, otherwise the Trial will stand over.
RD. RADCLIFFE Clerk of the Peace.
T'own-hall, 24th August, 1842.

IMPORTANT TO BUYERS OF
WOOLLEN GOODS.

W. AND T. MORRIS
RESPECTFULLY invite the attention of the Public to
their present Immense Stock of WOOLLEN GOODS
suitable for the fall trade, probably the larte;t ever seen in
this town, and which are now selling at unusually low prices.
From the extent of the Stock, the great variety of articles
kept—from the low Yorkshire to the finest West of Eng-
land—and from the frequency the Stock is replenished,
Wholesale Buyers, Shippers, &c., will find a decided advan-
tage in making their purchases at this Warehouse.
W. and T. M. have been particularly careful in the selec-
tion of their Pilot Cloths, Beavers, &c., and warrant all
their Goods made of Pure IlToo/, and free from waste or
shoddy.

The present Stock of the following articles is well worthy
the attention of buyers :
BEAVERS, Waterproofed in all Colours.
PILOT CLOTHS, ditto, ditto.
TWEEDS, ditto, ditto.
MILLED SUPERFINE BROADS, ditto, ditto.
.FANCY CLOAKINGS, at Reduced Prices.
LADIES' HABIT CLOTHS, in very superior qualities.
DRAB CASSIMERES and FANCY DOESKINS, about
200 Pieces, part of a Bankrupt Stock, full 30 per cent.
under the regular prices.
SATIN, SILK, VELVET. and PLUSH VESTINGS, an
elegant and superior aasortment, and at very low prices.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER.LYNE, AND MAN-

CHESTER RAILWAY.
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.

THE Directors are now ready to receive TENDERS for
the following WORKS :
CONTRACT No. 6, OR DINTING VALE VIADUCT CON-
TRACT.—To commence at the termination of the Gamesley
Contract, in a field No. 226 on the plan, in the parish of
Glossop, and to terminate in the field No. 209 on the plan,
in the said parish ; the length of the viaduct being 484 yards
or thereabouts.

CONTRACT No. 7, OR LONGENDALE CONTRACT.—To
commence at the termination of the Dinting Vale Viaduct
Contract, and to terminate in a field No. 2 on the Plan in
the Parish of Glossop, near to the entrance of the Summit
Tunnel ; the length being six miles and 73 chains or there-
abouts.

These Contracts to comprise the whole of the Works
necessary for the completion of the lengths of the Railway
herein mentioned, including the ballasting and laying of the
permanent road, except the rails and chairs, which will be
found by the company. The contract is also to include the
maintenance of the works for twelve months after their
entire completion.—Plans, sections, specifications, and draft
forms of contract may be seen on application to the Secretary,
at the Railway Office, 15, Piccadilly, Manchester, on and
after Monday, the 29th instant.

Sealed tenders, addressed to the Secretary, and endorsed
" Tenders for Works," to be sent in on or before Monday,
the 19th September next, after which day no tender will be
received.

Printed forms of tender may be obtained at the office,
and no others will be attended to.—The Directors will not
consider themselves bound to accept the lowest offer.—By
order of the Board,
JOHN PLATFORD, Secretary.
Manchester, 15. Picadilly, 25th August. 1842.

MORRIS'S WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE,

No. 80, LORD-STREET.

Abstract of a Letter from Mrs. L. S. Brewer, Dressmaker.
3, Edge-terrace, Kensington Gravel Pits.
" To Mr. Grimstone, Inventor of Eye Snuff.
" sth December, 1840.
" Sir,—l have been a sufferer for seven years, both eyes
being so swollen as to cause blindness. Among the many
medical gentlemen who attended me was the famous oculist,
Dr. Alexander : indeed, I do believe my case was beyond all
their skill. Physic, bleeding, blistering, with a seaton, and
all kinds of lotions, but no relief,' till chancing one day being
led by your house, in 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, my
guide inquired if I kad tried your Eye Snuff, on which I
purchased a Is. 3d. canister, opened it in the shop, took
some, and was greatly relieved before I reached my home.
I can with truth assert, and make oath if required to do so,
that it was your Eye Snuff cured me. Shall be happy to
answer any inquiry.—I am, sir, yours gratefully,
" L. S. BREWER."

To Wtn. Grimstone, Esq.

November 6, 1841.
s;,,—T-Tos,;na .Pc.n vnur advert;..ment., I Jr—p.a.—a of ,orrso
of those gentlemen who have derived so much relief from
using " your Eye Snuff." I purchased a 2s. 4d. canister for
my son, who was suffering so much from the Head-ache and
Deafness ; before he had used half of it, he was cured,which
nabled him to follow his profession.—l am, yours gratefully,
M. HACKETT.
Mr. Banister, Surgeon, 2, Cross-court, Broad-street.

To W. Grimstone, Esq., 39, Broad-street.
" 10th December, 1840.
" have been afflicted for many years with a severe
pain in my head, attended with a dimness of sight and dart-
ing pains in my eyes, for which I have had the first medical
advice ; indeed, I have taken large quantities of medicine,
without receiving any relief; but I am now delighted to say,
with truth, that ever since using your valuable eye snuff, which
I have taken copiously, that is, a 2s. 4d. canister weekly, I
am quite free from those excruciating pains, and can read the
smallest print, although I am in the 67th year of my age.
This is my third testimony, and I shall be most happy to give
it to you or to any respectable inquirer at my residence as
under.—l remain, with gratitude, sir, your obedient humble
servant, " E. ROBSON.
" 19, Bell-street, Edgewarc-road, Marylebone."
P.S.—Sir I should not do justice without stating my relief
was almostinstantaneous. My Eyes became clear and free
from humour, and by persevering in its use very frequently I
am enabled to read small print without the aid of glasses, and
continue to enjoy God's greatest blessing—Sight ! free from
pain. I have reason to be grateful, and do recommend your
Eye Snuff to all I know. A. Z• M., Nottingham.

Don G. Lobe's letters :
The following is one of
Havannah, 14th August, 1841.
Dear Sir,--I had the pleasure to receive in due time your
friendly correspondence and supply of Eye Snuff on the 15th
of August, also the 13th October last
- Year ; however, from
my extraordinary increased consumption of your delightful
compound of herbs known as
Grimstone's Eye Snuff, 1 take
-
the liberty of asking you to forward by first ship 1500 more
cases same as last. Sir,-1 have enclosed you a bill, sixty
days' sight, Messrs. Pinto Perize and Co., Crutched.friars,
London. I further thank you for the appointment received
through the Spanish Consul, Don Pedro Ortiz de Zugasti,
at the court of Grcat Britain. Please to send the above
Snuff with all possible speed, with a large quantity of Spanish
testimonials. This article has become a favourite amongst
the first circles of nobility and gentry, both for its medicinal
and benign qualities. Indeed it appears to keep off diseases,
as well as cure them, if taken as other snuffs.—I remain, sir,
your most obedient servant, DON G. LOBE.
Cabaliero de la Orden del Leon, Consul General de S
M el Rey de los Paises Bajos et Isle de Cuba, Agente
de la Sociendad de Commercio Nederlands, Chiandel,
Mootscbappy, &C.
London.
To William Grimstone, Esq.,

MORISON'S WRITING INKS.
ATORISON'S OFFICE and COPYING INKS, well
1. U. known for the last Thirty years, continue to maintain
their superiority, and increase in public estimation.
MORISON'S COPYING INK is particularly recom-
mended for its great strength and copying properties ; this
Ink will give off a perfect, copy after it has been written
twenty-four hours.

MORISON'S OFFICE INK is of great strength, and
unequalled for its fluidity and permanence.
Manufaclory, 31, Duke-streel, Liverpool.

THE commissioners in a fiat in bankruptcy, bearing date
the 22d day of April last, issued against JAMES BAN-
NISTER and DINAH SIMPSON, of Liverpool, in the
county of Lancaster, shipwrights and copartners, trading
ender the firm of " Bannister and Simpson," intend to meet
TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 27th instant, at One o'clock in
the Afternoon, at the Clarendon Rooms, in South John-
street, Liverpool, in order to audit the accounts of the
assignees of the estate and effects of the said bankrupts,
under the said fiat.
JOHN PEACOCK,
Solicitor to the Assignees.

CAUSES OF DEAFNESS IN CIIILDREN.—Chronic enlarge-
ment of the tonsils, by pressing on the eustachian tube, fre-
quently (particularly in children) causes deafness, In such
cases deafness comes on gradually—at first hardly perceived ;
but, has it advances, it is observed the patient becomes ap-
parently inattentive, in truth from not hearing what is said.
The cause of the deafness, in such cases. is never (in general)
understood, the disease being attributed to some scrofulous
affection, extending from the general system to the ear, the
scrofulous appearance of children so affected leading the prac-
titioner to this erroneous conclusion.—Cronin on deafness.
THE USE OF SNUFF.—With that he thrust his hand into
one of the large flaps of his waistcoat, drew out a ponderous
gold box, extracted enough from it of a black-looking powder
to have charged a musket, and crammed the dust up his left
nostril. " May I ask what that stuff is ?" said the Che-
valier; " I have seen a great number of persons stopping
their noses with something of the same kind, as if this
country were famous for bad smells, and they wanted to
keep them out." " I will tell you what it is, Chevalier,"
said Mr. Longshanks ; " it is what we call snuff, the powder
of a poisonous weed, which by this process is rendered very
serviceable to our frailties. I have heard that you think us
all mad, but that is a mistake ; we are only foolish. This
snuff gives a man something to do when he has nothing ;
spares many an empty head the trouble of making an answer ;
gives politicians, hypocrites, and knaves, time to compound
a lie when they have not one ready ; furnishes a wise look
for a fool's face; enables men by a grimace to cover an emo-
tion, and prevents people leading you by the nose, for fear of
dirtying their fingers.— The Commissioner.

Sorxrum3.—" Go to a desert and clap your back against
a cliff. Do you think yourself alone? What a ninny! Your
great clumsy splay feet are bruising to death a batch of bee-
tles. See that spider whom you have widowed, running up
and down your elegant leg, in distraction and dispair, be-
wailing the loss of a husband who, however savage to the
ephemerals, had always smiled sweetly upon her. Mean-
while, your shoulders have crushed a colony of small red
ants settled in a moss city beautifully roofed with lichens—
and that accounts for the sharp tickling behind your ear,
which you keep scratching, no Solomon, in ignorance of the
cause of that effect. Should you sit down—we must beg to
draw a veil over your hurdies, which at the moment extin-
guish a fearful amount of animal life—creation may be said
to groan under them ; and, insect as you are yourself, you
are defrauding millions of insects of their little day. All the
while you are supposing yourself alone ! Now, are you not,
as we hinted, a prodigious ninny ? But the whole wilderness
—as you choose to call it—is crawling with various life.
London, with its million and a half of inhabitants—including
of course the suburbs—is, compared with it, an empty joke.
Die—and you will be soon picked to the bones. 2';
he air
swarms with sharpers—and an insurrection of radicals will
attack your corpse from the worm holes of the earth. Cor-
bies, ravens, hawks, eagles, all the feathered furies of beak
and bill, will come flying ere sunset to anticipate the mug.
gots, and carry your remains—if you will allow us to call
Them so—over the whole of Argyleshire in many living se-
pulchres. We confess ourselves unable to see the solitude
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4ESDA NIES SAMBROOK and WEARY respectfully
inform the Ladies of Liverpool and the Neighbour-
hood, they have now ready for inspection an elegant variety
of MILLINERY, DRESSES, &c., &c., suitable for the
approaching PRESTON GUILD.
122, DUKE-STREET.

This day is publiShed, price 3d.,
OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE
AND PRAC-
TICE OF THE PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX
ACT, with EXAMPLES.
By THOS. TRAVERSE, Assessor, Prescot.
Sold by T. TRAVERSE, Prescot ; Mr. GEORGE PHILIP,
South Castle-street, and other Booksellers in Liverpool ;
Mr. SHARP, St. Helens; and Mr. HunsT, Warrington.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ST JAMES'S, MOUNT GARDENS.
THE Proprietors, confident of the Beauty and Faithfulness
of their LIKENESSES, respectfully invite the Nobi-
lity and Gentry to examine the numerous Specimens at their
Establishment as above, some of the best of which have been
taken during wet or cloudy weather.
J. GIBSON, Secretary.
Open from Ten to Four.

THE MISSOURIUNI THERISTROCAULODON,
WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE 2D SEPTEMBER.
THIS unoarallelled gigantic SKELETON of an ANTE-
DILUVIAN BEAST, between whose legs the Mam-
moth and the mighty Iguanodon might easily have crept, is
NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION in the LYCEUM,
BOLD-STREET. This most gigantic Skeleton is 30 feet in
length, and near 15 feet high ; tusks, from point to point,
21 feet.
There will also be exhibited Specimens of Three Speciesof
GENUS TETRACAULODON,
with Microscopical Section of their Tusks, also, Three
Species of the GENUS MASTODON.
Admission, from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., One Shilling ; and from
7 to 10 P.M., Sixpence.

LIVER-THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY AT7'RACTION AND COMM-

NATION OF 7ALINT.
THE CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY, which has been
attracting Thousands of Visitors for some time past, is
still Exhibiting, with the additional attraction of the ORI-
GINAL SEVEN LANCASHIRE BELL-RINGERS, who
with Mr. ANDERSON, the GREAT WIZARD OF THE
NORTH, caused such a great sensation in London and in
the above Theatre, last Winter; together with Mr. H.
JOHNSON, the celebrated VIOLIN SOLO PLAYER,
are Performing and Delighting Crowded Audiences ; also
the BEAUTIFUL DRUMMOND LIGHT and the BUDE
LIGHT, now used for Lighting the two Houses of Parlia-
ment; the NITROUS OXIDE, or LAUGHING GAS, a
Splendid PHANTASMAGORIA, &c. &c.

Exhibition and Performance to commence at Half-past
Two every Afternoon, and in the Evening at Half-past Seven
and Nine o'clock precisely.
BOXES, 1 ; PIT, 6d. ; GAL. 3d.
For the convenience of Parties who are prevented attending
at the specified times of the Exhibition, the Railway alone
will be exhibited through the day.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

The Rev. Faancis Falgencio, late a priest of
Catholic Church, has addressed a letter to the
Christian Intelligencer, announcing his intentie
the faith in which he was educated (Popery). The following
are the reasons for this important step. The letter is dated
Chinsurah (India), April ith, 1842.—" It is now about three
years since I first began to read the Catholic Expositor, a
periodical published in Calcutta, and after reading a few num-
bers I was prompted (more by curiosity than any thing else)
to know what the Protestants had to say to the statements
put forth by the _Expositor, and as I knew that there was a
journal in Calcutta which took the Protestant side of the
question (the Calcutta Christian Advocate,) I agreed with
a friend that if he would send me the Expositor, I would
take the Advocate, and that we would exchange papers and
see what both parties had to say. This was agreed to by
my friend, and I read both papers for several months
with considerable attention, chiefly with a view to ascer-
tain whether our church could bring home to the Pro-
testants any errors of doctrines which justified her in calling
them Heretics, for I had always heard it said, and by those,
too, who ought to set an example of Christian charity,
that they were such, and that it was only by the teaching of
the Roman Catholic Church that the pure Gospel of Christ
could he known. I had not read long upon these sub-
jects before I perceived the spirit of the Catholic Expositor
to be very bad, very uncharitable, and much opposed to what I
thought, so far as I then understood the Gospel of Christ re-
quired. Instead, therefore, of deriving any information
from this publication, such as was calculated to confirm me
in the Roman Catholic faith, my confidence wes shaken—
shaken first and principally by the Catholic Expositor,
whose spirit and temper created serious doubts in my mind
as to whether a church, which needed to be so defended,
could possibly be the true Church of Christ. In this state
of mind I began to read with more seriousness and candour
than I had heretofore done, the papers in the Christian Ad-
vocate, both the editorial and the letters of its correspon-
dents. My state of mind was then far from co:nfortable.
Curiosity prompted me to read in the first instance, but now
conviction had seized me, and I could not shake it off. I
made known my state of mind to a Protestant friend, and re-
ceived from him such counsel and advice as suited the oc-
casion. I also borrowed from a friend a Protestant Bible ;
and as I found on perusing it that several very important
texts differed materially from the Rhemish version of the
Roman Catholic divines which I possessed, I wished to
know which was correct; and also wishing to avoid any ex-
parte statement, I prefered, instead of going to a Protestant
for information, to consult an Armenian friend. I asked to
see two (Ex. v. 20 v. ; 1 Cor. xi. 27 v.) texts in his version
of the Scriptures, and having carefully examined these, and
had them explained to me in English, I found them uniformly
to agree with the Protestant version; which circumstances
convinced me that the statements made by Protestants,
that Catholic divines had altered many texts of strip-
ture to suit their own purposes, were (mitt correct. My
mind at this stage of the inquiry became much troubled
about the mass, especially as I was bound to perform it every
Sunday. I seriously suspected that I had been deceived on
this subject, and that I was labouring under a delusion on
this point, and also on the doctrine of transubstantiation,
which might in the end prove ruinous to my own soul.
Great was my perplexity upon these points. On the one
hand, I felt that I could no longer believe these doctrines of
the Roman Catholic Church ; yet, on the other hand, I saw
that many men—great men—learned men—clever men of
the Roman Catholic Church, and men whom I had every
reason to believe were honest and had no design to deceive
the people—fully and implicitly believed them. How to
account for this I did not know, and it therefore perplexed
me exceedingly, as 1 could scarcely believe that so many
learned, sincere, and virtuous men could possibly be wrong.
I have, however, since learned that [men, whatever their
mind, their character, or their mental attainments may
be, are frequently deluded and led astray on the subjects
of religious truths, by the early imbibed and deeply rooted
prejudices of their education. It was at this period that
I obtained from an intimate friend the lectures of the
Reverend M. Young, and subsequently the works of that
devoted man of God the late Rev. Isaac Newton. The
reading of those books, combined with other circum-
stances, gradually convinced me that I had been in error,
and that there was not, as taught by the Roman Catholic
Church, any real sacrifice in the mass; but that it was re-
ceived as commemorative of the one great sacrifice offered
by our Blessed Lord on Mount Calvary, for the sins of the
world. I saw moreover that the doctrine of the mass, and
its efficacy as taught by the Roman Catholics to deliver souls
from purgatory, was a delusion, and that it was imposed
upon the people with a view to obtain money from them.
From this period, therefore, although I sustained some pe-
cuniary loss by it, I ceased to perform daily mass at my
church, so far as I could do it without exciting the suspicions
of certain portions of my flock, who occasionally attended
on the week-day services. I have now in my possession
some money, which was sent me for the performance
of private masses, and which I could not refuse without
being suspected. This money I shall now return to the
persons to whom I received it, as the masses for which
it was sent have never been performed. Some masses,
however, required of me on more public occasions, such
as last Lent, and one or two periods before, I could
not avoid, without laying myself open to suspicion. Since
my faith in the doctrine of the mass and transubstantiation
was shaken, I have, when there was a necessity laid upon me
to perform the former—that is when it was unavoidable,
uniformly omitted what I consider the most objectionable
parts of the service; and when on the elevation of the host,
I was obliged to kneel down, it was my constant practice to
address a mental prayer to God that he would, if it were
idolatry, forgive this and whatever other sins might be con-
nected with it. The difficulties which have beset my path I
have , in a letter dated March 31, 1842, laid before the vicar
apostolic, requesting from him an early reply; but no reply
has as yet reached me, and I am disposed to think that it is
not his intention to notice them. There is therefore only
one path left open for me to pursue. The Apostle Paul has
said, " If any man, or even an angel from Heaven, teach
any other Gospel than that which Christ taught, he
ought to be accursed," (verse 9, chapter Ist, of Galatians,)
but that which the Roman Catholic Church teachss,
I am now fully convinced is not Christ's Gospel, but
another Gospel, consequently, the full weight of that
curse must fall upon her and upon me also as long as
continued in her pale. Having arrived at this conclusion,
I very naturally, as you reverend sir, will suppose, have
for some months past seriously wished to secede from her
communion, but how to accomplish this was the diffi-
culty, as the most serious obstacles appeared to stand in
the way. Acting under the influence of this impression, I
first began to consult with my friends as to whether there was
any hope that I could be received as a minister into the Pro-
testant Church. A clear conscience, and food and raiment,
with sphere of usefulness, was all that I desired. Being a
duly ordained priest, and understanding that I could as such
be received into the communion of the Church of England
without further ordination, I first, through the medium of
friends, and afterwards myself in person, laid the whole of
my circumstances before the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, re-
questing to be received as a member and minister of the
Church of England. After waiting more than six months,
during which period I have suffered no little mental anxiety—
my request, I am happy to say, has at length been complied
with, and I am now about to escape, I trust for ever, from
those trammels in which I have been so long tied and bound.
I am quite aware of what I lay myself open to by the step
which lam about to take. My character will probably be
calumniated, and my motives certainly suspected. The
former I must leave in the hands of the Mastet whom I
desire to serve, but as to the latter I think it is my duty to
say that I am not influenced by any secular motives what-
ever. Indeed the change so far as it relates to my outward
circumstances, is one which involves considerable sacrifices
and self-denial. I leave an attached and friendly people to
go among strangers, and I leave a Church where I had easy
duty to perform, and much leisure time on my hands, for a
sphere which to me, at my time of life, will be extremely
arduous, particularly as the acquisition of a new language
the Hindoostanee, is required of me; whilst my emolument
will be rather under than over what I have been in the habit
of receiving at Chinsurah. The latter has been so arranged
at my particular request, in order that the world might not
suspect my motives on this point. Still whatever self-denial
may be involved in the step lam taking, I feel it-a duty thus
publicly to declare to the world at large, and to my own
congreption in particular, that I do not and that I cannot
believe the Roman Catholic Church, and that, whilst as a
member of that church, I was bound not only to believe
myself, but also to teach others, though I now see they arc
contrary to the Scriptures. I affectionately desire the well-
fare of my congregation, and as it is from no worldly motives
that I have left them, my parting request and prayer for
them is, that they would examine the Gospel of Christ for
themselves. My only desire for them is that they may be
saved, I leave them with deep regret, and whilst I would
request them to pray for me, that God may strengthen me for
all that lies before me, I hope I shall unceasingly and affec-
tionately remember them, and pray that God may bless
them and make them all wise unto salvation through faith
in His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be glory for
ever—Amen.

POSITIVELY THE TWO LAST GRAND GALAS

THE Hops.—We have scarcely ever Peen a greater dis-
tinction in the quality of hops grown on good lands than we
have this year. From the excessive drought the flea has
made very extensive ravages, and it is impossible to form an
idea of the extent of growth. The duty is under our former
quotation, 150,0001. We have heard of odds being taken
against 135,0001. Twenty-four hours' rain at this crisis
would wonderfully increase the quotation.—Kentish Gazette.

~.
that her Majesty would leave
at one time contemplated
Buckingham Palace on Saturday neat,
HER MAJESTY'S DEPARTURE FOR SCOTLAND.---lt was
Windsor Castle for
the North. It is, however,
leave
not to W indsor until the
and proceed thence to Woolwichf on Monday, there to em-
bark on the Royal George for
now arranged for the Queen
morning of Monday, whence her Majesty will travel direct
to Woolwich, under a military escort, at an early hour that
morning. It is expected that ber Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert will leave the Castle between 7 and
8 o'clock (so as to reach Woolwich before 11), whence the
illustrious party will proceed immediately on board the Royal
yacht, and sail for Scotland. This early hour has been ar-
ranged for her Majesty's departure, in consequence of the
favourable state of the tide at that time from Woolwich to
the Nore.
VISIT OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE TO THE NORTH.—
On Monday the Duke of Cambridge and suite arrived at
Stockton about one o'clock, having been brought from York
by a special train. His royal highness was met at the
Mar terminus
of of the Stockton and Darlington Railway by the
Marquis Londonderry, Lord Seaham, Baron Brunow,
(the Russian ambassador,) Capt. Fitzroy, M. P., Mr. Donald
a cnln
and a great number of other visitors at
v M.
upwardsP. of 200 of the yeomanry and farmers of
the‘ countryy ye
na
rd ,
on horseback, and a long procession of gentlemen
e
belonging to the town and neighbourhood on foot.
party proceeded to the Town H all, where his royal highness
and
and the nobility and gentry were received by
t ba
mayorfrom the
corporation in their robes; and two addresses,
civic body and the other from the country gentry,teray, referring
ing his royal highness on hisfirstvisit to this c
• country,
coming of
with pleasure to the occasion of that visit— onengratulat-
age of Lord Seaham, and expressing
the
private conduct,
tion of his royal highness's public
ands
duke returned brief
were presented, to which the illustrious ,
„f ion gentlemen then sat
evwiza.rmest approba-
and suitable replies. Upwards -"
d,sellner a la fourchette
down to an elegant and sumptuous
--tb the Marchioness of Lon-
Tile mayor of Stockton
Blandford, Ladies Vane, the
in
presided the l oantg
threooomnteorftatihnernobefuniel,diwt
donderry, the Marquis
Seaham, Captain Fitzroy,
Leonard Raisbeck, Esq., was
le •
M.P. &c., right and
amongst the company werel.the leading
Marquis of LondonderrYit
and
vice-chairman ;
and clergy of the comity. " The
gentry, magistrat
Albert, ales," the " Prince of Wales," and
Queen," "Prince ,' preceded the toast of the day,
er
Doweg ,
The Queen
with great enthusiasm. Whilst drink-
Lord
and were drunk f
the Prince of Wales, the royal duke
health o finer boy -- an extremely fine ing the 11,
He
was a ne boy ;"
observed '
observations were rapturously applauded.--
and these
Health of the Duke of Cambridge" was next
" The -,. was loudly cheered. Ili• -
and 1- - s royal highness
given,
onded to the toast, and apologised for the
brietlY resPPrince George who was d '
, .detained by his military
bsence of
a t Leeds. His royal highness said, lhe deeply
duties a although
.....retted the cause of his detention there, yet it was some
--.-- to him to know that '
satisfaction . his son was at the head of
his regiment when their services were required ; and he
trusted he would follow in the footsteps of his revered grand-
father. The healths of the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Sealiam,
the Bishop of Durham, Mr. Farrel-, late candidate for the
southern division of the county,Mr.Joseph Pease, *an
late M.P.,* and other gentle ri o Led:
About four o'clock his royal I]a
highness p reseannt d were r
eprconsiderablen
number of the party left for Vv rd. The illustrious
duke was frequentlycheered by .11Y
the populace, both on his
entrance into and his progress out of the town.

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4 T',w •

HISTORY AND
U ANALYCESIB ,
OP TUX
DISTRBANS

•••••••••
The crisis of the disorders in the north seems to have
passed ; and, considering the wide spread of the disturbance,
with less of mischief than might have been anticipated. The
progress of the insurrection—for such, from its extent, it
may be called—has proved one of the most instructive chap-
ters in the contemporary history of the country ; like a fall
of land it has laid bare the state of the social foundation. It
began, as our readers are aware, some weeks back, among
the colliers and miners of Staffordshire ; the proximate cause
being an attempt by an extensive ironmaster to reduce the
wages of his workpeople at the rate of sevenpence a week each.
There can be no doubt that with that gentleman the proceed-
ing was a mere matter of accounts ; adopted, it may be very
safely assumed, with great reltictance. The colliers enter-
tained the ordinary feeling of discontent at a money loss ;
the obstinately refused the new bargain ; being more deeply
conscious that they could ill spare sevenpence a week, than
that their employer could not afford to loose some hundreds
of pounds. They struck work. Others determined to stand
by them ; and other masters to stand by their class-fellow;
it became a class contest ; and old grievances, including the
truck system, were revived. The men became exasperated ;
and they sought to extend their vindictive combination,
sending delegates to other coal districts, Similar causes of
contention already existed in the adjoining mining districts,
in Wales,in Scotland ; and similar disputes spread, or burst
out successively, in all those quarters. The Staffordshire
miners had put themselves into communication with the
Cheshire miners, and disorders occurred; bet still without
producing any effect among the cotton population—it was a
miners' question.
The manufacturers have long complained of bad trade, and
reduction of wages have been frequent. At Staleybridge
three firms threatened their men with a reduction ; but only
a single house carried out the threat. One firm, perhaps one
only of that firm, a Mr. Bayley was determined ; the men
this time would not yield ; one among them, a person named
Pilling, was equally obstinate, and it seems expected more
from the cessation of work than the obdurate master. Mr.
Bayley and Mr. Pilling would make no concession, and thus
the cotton population were drawn into the strike. The dis-
tress had thrown multitudes out of employ ; Mr. Pilling
found at his command thousands of reckless idlers, the raw
material of armies, " having nothing to do and nothing to
lose ;” and he had no difficulty in marching away with them
to Manchester. They executed various manoeuvres in dodg-
ing the police and soldiers, whose presence gave eclat to the
tumult; and they left Manchester to spread the turn-out in
other quarters. But they had communicated the spark to
the great magazine of discontent. In Manchester there
were the same influences in operation—bad trade, reduced
wages, thousands of idlers made desperate by hopeless po-
verty, and Manchester joined tumultuously in the turn-out.
As the word to cease work was carried from Stalybridge to
all parts of Lancashire and Cheshire, it derived strength
from the adhesion of Great Manchester. The progress of
disorder acquired a momentum of its own, and it rapidly ad-
vanced into Yorkshire; while Derby, placed between the
two fires, scarcely needed the new impulse from the north.
At Manchester, however, a change was seen. Hitherto
we have observed the movement of only one class, the turn-
out workmen ; but Manchester, the metropolis of the manu-
facturing districts, and therefore the metropolis of the dis-
tress, was also the metropolis of Chartism—the progeny
begotten by disappointed hope of the reform bill on popular
discomfort. Chartism has its permanent staff of officers, its
organisation more or less complete, and has been ever ready
to seize the occasion of any outbreak. The population, ren-
dered idle by bad trade and congregated by the turn-out, was
seized by Chartists as the engine for a new movement ; and
strenuous efforts were made to convert the economical com-
bination into a political insurrection. It does not appear
that the movement had any other organisation—any in fact,
of its own. The turn-out workmen were obliged to crave
support from place after place successively, with no simulta-
neous prearrangement of any duration or extent. The
councils vary—now they ask for the prices of 1840, now of
]839, now according to some special rules; here they ask for
a ten hours' bill, there for the charter, and elsewhere they
positively repudiate the charter. In the mining districts,
where the people are rudest, their demands rest most upon
small particulars for the personal benefit of the claimants ;
in Manchester, where the people are more inquiring, intelli-
gent, and accustomed to regard abstract questions, the de-
mands assume at once a more general and a more definite
shape, and the charter is more commonly, though not univer-
sally, the crowning claim. Here, therefore, the insurrection
assumed the most organised and political aspect ; and daily
riots for five days, increasing in violence, alarmed the country
with fears of some ulterior visitation.
At this point, the executive government stepped in with
authority and power. On Sunday, a Queen's proclamation
called the people to order ; and reinforcements of troops
es inced the determination to compel. From that time there
was a remarkable accession of discretion to the councils of

the leading disturbers ; they themselves made arrangements
for saving to the troops the trouble of dispersing them ; and
when the authorities forbade the public procesion on the an-
niversary of what is popularly termed the " Peterloo mas-
sacre of 1819," the managing committee themselves relin-
quished the project, as if of their own motion. In the
smaller towns, indeed, where there is less political intelli-
gence, and less judgment respecting a critical turn of events,
the adoption of strong measures did not so immediately
result in a more acquiescent demeanor on the part of the
populace; and in the least intelligent quarters the violence
increased, even to the loss of lives ; but in the large towns
the virtue of moderation was recognised.
Through the gloom and confusion, the inferences to be
drawn are cheering. Although the country has been sub-
jected to some of the greatest difficulties and trials, the spi-
rit of disorder can obtain no real hold of it. The whole of
manufacturing England has lain in unguarded riot at the
mercy of Chartism, and Chartism has been unable—perhaps
unwilling—to convert the tumult to revolution. The party
has been exhibited in utter destitution of leaders to direct it
in time of crisis; the leaders of 1819 would either have ar-
rested the follies of the last few weeks, or have turned them
to more account ; the titular leaders of 1842 are really mere
followers of the times and of the common herd. _

Twenty-three years have elapsed since the day of " Peter-
loo." The Tories are again in power ; there are riots in
Manchester, and troops are there to quell the riots ; yet
there is no new Peterloo. If the Chartists have not such
leaders as the followers of Hunt and Cobbett, they are
themselves, perhaps, less dependent on leaders ; they have
certainly more judgment of their own—more moderation and
acuteness. If the same party is in power, it has not the same
view as in 1819 of " vigorous measures" against the "com-
mon people"—the most " vigorous measures," charged
against the chief of the party, especially exempts the com-
mon people. Above all, by good fortune, a plentiful harvest
will intervene between these tumults and the winter—there
lay the worse danger.—Spectator.

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THE IN'COMIC TAX,
coltauT MET/10D OP MAKING RUTURNS,

The following useful hints are from one of the many little
works which the above-mentioned ad has called into ex-
istence.

There are four papers usually left by the assessor to be
filled up and returned.
1. A list of lodgers and inmates. This return is required
to be made by all householders. This return must include
all lodgers and inmates and persons chiefly employed in their
service, whether resident in their service or not, but no
penalty is incurred by omitting to return the name of any
person chiefly employed in their service but not resident in
their houses, if the person so omitted has an income of £l5O
a-year. It is not very clear what is meant by chiefly-em-
ployed; we presume it means those persons whose time is
principally devoted to their employers ; and not such as are
only occasionally employed by them, but whose time is prin-
cipally devoted to other pursuits. It Would save lodgers and
persons so employed, (whose income is under £l5O a year,)
as well as the assessors a great deal of unnecessary trouble,
if they would make a return in this form, or to the like ef-
fect, viz. ;—" My income arises from my trade of
and does not amount to £l5O a-year." This might be signed
by the party and annexed to the householder's return, and
would in most cases save any further trouble.
2. The second paper is a return to be made by the occu-
pier of a house and premises, not including land, except
gardens. If the occupier be not the owner, he is required
to state the name of his landlord, the rent which he pays to
his landlord, and if he is not at a rack-rent, he must state
the value of the premises to be let at a rack-rent, whether
subject to a land-tax, &c., and by whom the taxes are paid.
The tax, in respect of this assessment, must be paid by the
tenant, who may deduct it from the rent payable to his land-
lord, if he is rated at no higher sum than he pays to his land-
lord for rent, but if he is assessed at a greater sum he is en-
titled to deduct, 7d. in the pound upon the rent which he
pays to his landlord, and must bear the difference himself,—
such tax being a tax in respect of his improved rent. No
deduction can be allowed for repairs, but the assessment is
not to be levied for such time as the house remains unoccu-
pied ; no deduction will be allowed for insurance. We think
that the omission of repairs, as a deduction from the rent, in
case of private houses, must have been an oversight ; we
cannot see why the repairs, if done by the landlord, should
not be deducted from private houses, as well as from a house
occupied for the purpose of trade. Repairs which recur
from time to time are surely a diminution of the profits, but
we must take the act as we find it, and it is enacted, that no
deduction shall be made but such as are enumerated in the
, act. _ _ _ _ _
_ .

3. The third paper relates to income arising from lands and
tenements and heriditaments, and is divided into eight num-
bers. No. lis the return to be made by the owner, who oc-
cupies his own land--he will be charged 7d. in the pound on
the full value to let, and 31d. on the income as occupier. No.
2 is the return to be made by a tenant who is not the owner.
No. 3. This return relates to tithes, and must be made by
the person receiving the tithes ; the occupiers of land who pay
tithes or rent-charge, are not required to make any return
respecting tithes. No. 4 relates to mines, quarries,4docks,
railways, &c. No. 5 is the return to be made by the lord
or lady of a manor. No. 6 is a return to be made by any
person who receives a consideration for granting a lease of
lands or tenement (except customary lands, that is copyhold
lands.) No. 7is a sort of sweeping clause to catch any other
profits of land which have not been before enumerated. No.
8 is the form to be signed by every one who claims to be ex-
empt. The particulars required under each head are so
clearly stated, that with a little attention any person may
make his return; the only difficulty we have endeavoured to
remove, namely, that of pointing out what form is applicable
to each person's case. This form he has only to fill up, and
either to negative, or leave unnoticed, the others which do
not concern him.

4. The fourth paper relates to the duties under schedule
D. ; that is to say, an income derived from professions,
trades, &c. The return of income must be made in the first
page. In the schedule of particulars of income they are ar-
ranged under nine different heads. Ist, income from trade ;
2d, from a profession; 3d, income derived from property out
of Great Britain, or from sources not otherwise chargeable;
4th, from dividends in the funds, if less than £5 a-year ; sth,
from securities in Ireland, or in other of her Majesty's do-
minions; 6th, from possessions in Ireland, or in other of her
Majesty's dominions ; 7th, from foreign securities ; Bth,
from foreign possessions ; 9th, is another sweeping clause to
catch income from any source that may have been omitted.
No. 1 directs the return of income from trade which must
include the net income after deducting all expenses incurred
in the course of business, estimated according to the instruc-
tions in the third page. The same observations apply to No.
2, the income derived from professions—which is to be cal-
culated in the same way—the particulars are not required to
be stated in the first instance, but merely the amount ; if the
return is not satisfactory, another notice will be given, re-
quiring the particulars. No. 3, interest from property out of
Great Britain, and not in her Majesty's dominions, and also from
securities in England, not otherwise chargeable such as Exche-
quer-bills, discounts, and as it were, casual profits, the particu-
lars of which are not required ; but not to include dividends on
Bank, South Sea, or other stocks, nor India Bonds, shares
of railways, &c., of which no return will be required by the
owner, inasmuch as the duty will be stopped out of the
dividends ; nor of income from mortgages or other securities
paid annually, the duty on which will also be deducted by
the parties paying them. The remaining heads require no
observations, except that the income from securities or pos-
sessions in the British colonies, or foreign countries, if
remitted in produce, need not be returned in the first page,
but in form No. 2 in the ,next page—according to which, it
must be stated at what port the produce is imported, and the
return of income must be made to the commissioners of the
port, without waiting for any notice.
A person in partnership, not having £l5O a year, should
require to be separately assessed in order to obtain a discharge
of the assessment on him ; he must fill up the forms No. 4
and No. 6. Persons having two residences need only make
a return of income in one of them, and in the other be must
fill up the form No. 2, or if a partner in trade, Nor 3. Per-
sons to be assessed under schedule D., desirous of being
charged by the special commissioners, must give notice to
the assessor, and deliver their returns sealed to him, and the
assessor will thereupon transmit the returns to the special
commissioners ; they may also require to be charged by a
letter or number, and to pay the tax to the proper officer for
receipt—we presume the receiver-general—instead of paying
it to the collector.

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Nx\No.

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CONSECUTION OP THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.

The ceremony of the consecration of the five colonial bishops
who are about to proceed to their respective dioceses, took
place on Wednesday in Westminster Abbey. Since this vener-
able pile has been dedicated to divine worship under the aus-
pices of the Reformation, no occasion has been presented in
which the Protestant Chorch has had such reason to rejoice.
It is true that an equal number of bishops has been conse-
crated since the Reformation, in some of the cathedrals of
England, at the same time, but then they have been conse-
crated to fill up vacancies incurred by death or resignation,
or translation, and not to fill'up bishopricks created at the
time. But, on the present occasion, the consecration of the
five bishops has led to the extension of the episcopal church
of England by the addition of four pew sees to its constitu-
ency, (the diocese of Barbadoes being divided into three sees,
and two new sees being created,) viz., the sees of Antigua,
Guiana, Gibraltar, and Tasmania, (Van Diemen's Land;).
the see of Barbadoes, in its present state, being the fifth see.
The consecration was concluded with all the solemnity which
was requisite. The public were admitted to the cathedral by
cards, and the choir was set apart for the clergy, who attended
in great numbers. In consequence of the indisposition of His
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the consecration of the
five colonial prelates was by commission entrusted to the
Bishops of London, Winchester, and Rochester, by whom
the ceremony was performed. The service was commenced
by the morning prayer for the day, according to the rubric.
The prayers were chanted by the Rev. Mr. Lupton. The
lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Waters, and the litany
and communion service by the Bishop of London. The
sermon was preached by Dr. Coleridge, the late Bishop of
Barbadoes, who chose for his text the very appropriate fifth
and sixth verses of the 43d chapter of Isaiah :
" Fear not, I am with thee, I will bring thy seed from the
east, and gather thee from the west.
" I will say to the north give up, and to the south keep
not back. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from
the end of the earth."
After the sermon the ceremony of the consecration was
performed, the bishops being presented by the Bishop of
Chichester and the late Bishop of Barbadoes in the following
order :

Dr. Parry, bishop of Barbadoes.
Dr. Tomlinson, bishop of Gibraltar.
Dr. Nixon, bishop of Van Diemen's Land.
Dr. Davis, bishop of Antigua.
Dr. Austin, bishop of Guiana.
The ceremony having been concluded, the Sacrament was
administered to a great number of communicants, the con-
tributions at the offertory amounting to 1131. Mr. Tune
presided at the organ. The introductory voluntary was from
the overture to Esther, the voluntary after the sermon from
Sphor, and the concluding voluntary from Haydn. The
Te Deum Jubilate from Narss, and the Veni Creator
Attwood. Nothing could surpass the devotional and digni-
fied effect of this very sacred ceremony, and it is a matter of
congratulation to the Church of England particularly, and
to the whole Christian community generally, that so efficient
a step has been made for the propagation of that faith in
which all who profess and call themselves Christians repose
their hopes of salvation and happiness.

TOUR IN THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS
OF 'LANCASHIRE.

(From the Times.)

We resume our notice of Dr. Cooke Taylor's letters with
an extract from his description of the mills of Mr. Henry
Ashworth, of Anti-Corn Law League notoriety. Having
never had the pleasure ourselves of visiting this gentleman's
establishment, we are of course prepared to take for granted
our author's eulogium, though our own personal observation
in similar places leads us to entertain doubts, both as to the
salubrity of the atmosphere and the lightness of the labour
which is said to prevail in well-regulated mills. We shall
never forget the oppressive feeling in the lungs produced by
the minute particles of cotton, which float like the " atoms in
a sunbeam" in the atmosphere even of the best ventilated
cotton-mills, nor the languid air of the operatives, the nature
of whose employment corowls them to stand for many hours
in tte same wearisome, if not actually larborious position.
However, let Mr. Henry Ashworth have the full benefit of
the following description of his mill.
" The interior of Mr. Ashworth's mill does not differ ma-
terially from that of many other well-regulated mills which
I have visited, such as Ashton's of Hyde, Taylor's of Pres-
ton, and a host of others. I was, however, pleased to find
that great care had been bestowed upon the boxing-up' of
dangerous machinery. I learned that accidents were very
rare, and that when they did occur, they were, as my own
senses convinced me that they must have been, the result of
the grossest negligence, or of absolute wilfulness. I men-
tion this circumstance because the burst of sentimental
sympathy for the condition of the factory operatives which,
a few years ago, frightened the isle from its propriety, appealed
largely to the number of accidents which happened from
machinery, and I was myself for a time fool enough to
believe that mills were places in which young children were,
by some inexplicable process, ground—bones, flesh, and
blood together—into yarn and printed calicoes. I remember
very well when first 1 visited a cotton-mill feeling something
like disappointment at not discovering the hoppers into
which the infants were thrown. I have since found that such
absurdity is only credited by those who, like myself at that
period, could not tell the difference between a cotton-mill
and a tread-mill. But a very little consideration should have
taught me better; derangements of machinery are very ex-
pensive accidents to remedy ; and if the millowners of
Lancashire were as reckless of human life as the worst of
their assailants have chosen to describe them, they are cer-
tainly not men likely to disregard their own pockets. I have
had some opportunities of estimating the cost of accidents,
and I know that the engineer's bill is considerably heavier
than the surgeon's. Without at all giving millowners credit
for more than the average philanthropy of their countrymen,
I am quite ready to repose confidence in their anxiety to
prevent accidents, because their own obvious interests are a
tolerably safe security for their humanity.
" The conditions of health in the mills of Turton and
Egerton, and I may add generally in all that I have exa-
mined, are exceedingly favourable. The working rooms are
lofty, spacious, and well ventilated, kept at an equable tem-
perature, and scrupulously clean. There is nothing in sight,
sound, or smell to offend the most fastidious sense. So
much space is occupied by the machinery that crowding is
physically impossible. I should be very well contented to
have as large a proportion of room and air in my own study
as a cotton-spinner in any of the mills in Lancashire. With
respect to the length of time during which the work is con-
tinued, I must remark that the toil is not very great, nor is
it incessant. The heaviest part of the labour is executed by
the steam-engine or the water-wheel; and there are so many
intervals of rest, that I am under the mark when I assert
that an operative in a cotton-factory is at rest one minute out
of every three during the period of his nominal employment.
On the other hand, these intervals of rest are brief and quick
in their recurrence; they cannot therefore be turned to any
useful account. Hence I should not be indisposed to give
favourable consideration to a time bill, if its advocates could
show me bow the time of labour could be shortened without
the amount of wages being reduced. Some of them no
doubt will say, compel the employers to pay still the same
amount of wages, because in all ages of the world that
philanthropy has been fashionable which consists in being
exceedingly generous at the expense of other people; but I
should like to know by what process employers could be
forced to pay a rate of wages disproportionate to their pro-
fits. I trust that those who use such arguments will acquit
me of the heinous sin of political economy when I tell them
that acts of parliament could no more control the rate of
wages by direct agency than they could regulate the course
of the winds or the flow of the tide. Indirectly, indeed,
they can effect a great deal; they can close a market against
the products of British industry by refusing to take the only
payment which those who are eager to be purchasers have it
in their power to offer, and having thus turned off the cus-
tomers. the authors of the mischief may turn to the piles of
goods left in the warehouse, and console the disappointed
proprietors with a schoolboy oration on over-production.

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" It happened that Messrs. Ashworth had made a reduc-
tion of wages some short time before I visited their facto-
ries. I was anxious to know how this measure had been re-
ceived by the persons in their employment ; and I took the
opportunity, which I found easy enough, of inquiring their
opinions in the absence of their employer and the overseers.
They uniformly stated that Messrs. Ashworth had delayed
making the reduction for weeks after it had been made by
their neighbours, that they were conscious of their being
forced into the measure by the decay of trade, and this decay
they universally attributed to the refusal of the Governmen't
to admit the materials of payment proffered by those who
were anxious to become our customers. On one occasion,
the group with which I was conversing on the road was
joined by a man who was stated to have belonged to a large
factory which bad just been closed. He described the in-
creasing misery which this event bad produced in the district
from which he came—l think the neighbourhood of Ac-
crington—and then quite astounded me by declaring that
abundant means of furnishing food to the starving, and em-
ployment ro the idle, so as immediately to relieve all the dis-
tress of the manufacturing districts, were in the country,
and were perversely withheld. Not a little surprised and
perplexed, I asked him for an explanation. The corn in
bond,' he instantly replied ; it would pay for my former
employer's yarn—it would give food to my starving family—
it would set those wheels going which are now likely to turn
another spindle.' Here was a lesson in political economy
from a vagrant cotton-spinner which I had not learned from
my university education or private study. I felt and con-
fessed my obligation. He coolly replied, I hope you will
never have such a teacher as I have had—it has been starved
into me !' I shall feel obliged to any one who gives me the
credit of inventing this anecdote; for the mind that minted
the concluding phrase must have been richly endowed with
the highest attributes of genius."

The next extract we shall make will probably cool the glow
of benevolent sympathy in which our readers may have in-
dulged when reading tho Ithure eloqueut descripthm of what
has been done externally to promote the comfort of the
operative. Dr. Cooke Taylor, as our readers will find, loses
no opportunity of thrusting forward his free-trade opinions,
wherever he can find a peg to hang them on, and that not
always to the workman's advantage. For instance, he gives
as a reason for cheapening sugar—what will our readers
imagine? That it would be an additional boon to the la-
bouring classes, an additional source of nutriment when in
health, and of comfort in sickness ? No : but that, when
mixed with a due proportion of rhubarb pies and puddings,
it would he a cheap and wholesome substitute for meat. Oh,
Mr. Political Economist! so this is what your cheap sugar
is to come to? Will you be so good as to recommend this
" cheap and wholesome substitute for meat" to the Poor
But lettphrteehflenart publicterm visitinga seey
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oi lnnegntgostoht
something
Law Commissioners ? They will thank you for the hint.
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fail to be attracted by the substantial neatness of the cottages
in the village, and hence the families of the operatives, being
ufosreditt.o iThspisecitsionno,t mthaeyobaesesuapt in someiii cases to prepare
main lines of road, and is a secluded n'owokiwe
reached without some trouble. Theprincipal
sptiae
nd
obe by thefi
toperativessbeiog
situated
ois t
enamed
the B as no kolt
nopi ,t
urfa i which
liesh i
village os ut
not of
ot
coc thebuo.
nithethsiedeci
ravine remote from Mr. Ashworth's dwelling. The situurafetuitornhne,
though open and airy, is not unsheltered ;the cottages are
built of stone, and contain from four to M roomsx each
(;
pack premises with suitable conveniences are attached
)
them all. I did not observe any traces of that taste for title
cultivation of flowers which I found rife among the occupants
of Mr. Ashton 's cottages at Hyde, in Cheshire, nor did I
find that any of the operatives raised in their gardens a sup
plyof vegetables sufficient for the consumption of their fami-
lies, as I have found in other places. I saw, however, some
fine plants of rhubarb, and learned that they often furnished
materials for dinner in the shape of puddings. Let me here
observe that the domestic economy of the working popula-
tion would be vastly benefitted by a larger and cheaper sup-
ply of sugar than they can at present obtain. It is obvious
that fruit and rhubarb pies and puddings would be a cheap
and wholesome substitute for meat, if the high price of sugar
did not more than counterbalance the cheapness of the other
materials. I need not apologise to you for introducing this
o
subject,lwhsioeuhs I learnedmanyw from
will regard as
lordship
trifling,
forwa ctonec
ofp 0 r t .
n
a
earliest es
of the text, " Despise not the day of small things ;' and
for my own part, I regard nothing as trifling which hhe import.
tend
in any way to promote the health, the happiness and the
comfort of the working population."
We think Dr. Cooke Taylor might have learned soma
more important texts from the Archbishop of Dublin than
one which could lead him to recommend to the poor factory
people fruit and rhubarb pies and puddings as a cheap and
wholesome substitute for meat.