The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS,

We have had another week of very hot dry weather ; we
hear, indeed, of showers having fallen in the W.st of Eng-
land, but they appear to have been of an extremely partial
character ; and there can be no doubt that all Lent corn, as
well as spring-sown wheat, must already have suffered from
want of sufficient moisture; and fears are entertained, that,
if the rain holds off much longer. serious injury will be done.
The autumn-sown wheat has been pushed forward by the
high temperature, and is in many districts now in ear : the
reports respecting the appearance of this grain continue ex-
tremely various ; from the northern and eastern counties we
received, on the whole, more satisfactory accounts than from
Essex, Kent, and other of the home counties ; but generally
the plant is admitted to be thin on the ground, and the straw
short and weak. We have also within the last day or two
heard complaints of red-rust having manifested itself in
some parts of Sussex ; the reports cannot therefore, on the
whole, be considered as favourable, still the trade has be-
come dull, and though no actual abatement of importance has
been submitted to, prices have rather tended downwards.
That our stocks of home-grown wheat are very short in
all parts of England, no longer admits of a doubt; and
so completely are the granaries exhausted in Ireland
that the utmost distress prevails there, and shipments
are now in progress from most of the ports along our
western coast to the sister island. In this state of things,
any material decline from the present prices can scarcely be
expected, particularly as the importers of foreign still refrain
from paying duty, except in retail quantities. All descrip-
tions of spring corn seem likely to advance considerably in
value, unless we have a speedy change of weather ; already
prices have crept up at most of the leading provincial mar-
kets held during the week. Whilst drought is so much com-
plained of in England, it appears from our Scotch and Irish
advices that partial showers had fallen lately in both those
countries, and the rain having been accompanied by a high
temperature, the growing grain crops had, we are informed,
made rapid progress. From Scotland the reports are almost
universally good, and from Ireland there are fewer complaints
than usual, as far as regards the prospects for the future ; but,
whilst the fields hold out a promise of abundance, the barns
and granaries have been nearly emptied of their contents, and
thea
owing to the scarcity of provi-
sions t utmosteriin ai
manyn misery
softhe'island. In quotations of grain no
appears to have occurred—as well in the
material
change
t• prevails,
Scotch as in the Irish markets, wheat has maintained its
former value, and oats, barley, beans, and peas have slightly
advanced.—Mark Lane Express.

In almost
the la everysnewspaper that has come into our hands
during
we find exhilerating accounts of the
few
clays,
beneficial results that have attended the recent abundant and
seasonable rains. Throughout England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, the fields are clothed with beauty and richness, and
give promise of a prolific harvest. In some instances, how-
ever, the clover grass has suffered from the long drought,
but looking
anyother
t
a t the cropsi
m e
withg
generally,
sralll', the rain could not have
fallen at o
good effect. It has given
vigour to the young grain plants, encouraged the vegetable
through the most critical part of its growth, covered the
meadows with herbage, clothed the orchard with richness,
and the garden with beauty ; in short, it has imparted to the
whole face of nature a smile that must excite in all breasts
feelings of animation and joy, and call forth thanksgiving
from all hearts. In our own favoured county the hay har-
vestwould be the greatest boon that could be
has commenced, and the crop promises to be one of un-
exampled abundance. A good harvest of wheat and corn,
conferrecr uopfonliftel;e" country in the pdrecrit distressed condi-
ttiuosnwohich it cannot be expected to derive from any other
its labouring population, an give to trade an impe-
" the
fsta
source.— Western Luminary.

A father seeing his son doing mischief, cried out, " Sirrah,
did you ever see me do so when I was a boy ?"
LORD lloNvicx.—Our readers will have, been as much sur-
prised as we ourselves were, on hearing of the petition against
the return of Lord Howick having been withdrawn. From
the knowledge we have of the cases which would have come
before the committee, we are quite certain the investigation
would have ended in Lord Howick being declared not duly
elected ; and, with this conviction, we exceedingly regret that
any arrangement, however beneficial, should have been en-
tered into to abandon this petition ; and we do not think any
consideration, however cogent, can justify what we must con-
sider, at best, a hasty and
ill-advised determination.—
Northern Times.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Monday next, the 20th inst., is the anniversary of the ac-
cession of queen Victoria.

Charles Matthews passed his examination under the In-
solvent Debtors' Act last Thursday, and was discharged.
A proclamation was ordered to be issued on Monday re-
specting a new coinage of half-farthings.

General Pollock, who so gallantly forced the Khyber Pass,
is a younger brother of Sir Frederick Pollock, Attorney-
General.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—We understand that
tis intended to open the railway to Taunton on Monday,
:he 27th instant.

Mr. Ferrand has postponed, until the 18th instant, his mo-
tion for an address to her Majesty, praying that £1,000,000
should be employed in the temporary relief of the distress ex-
isting in the manufacturing districts.
DISTRESS IN CORR.—The Cork Reporter states, that
there is more distress prevailing amongst the tradesmen and
labourers of that city at the present period than at any for-
mer time—large crowds of unemployed mechanics daily
perambulating the principal streets. It is said to be quite
impossible to devise any adequate local remedy for the ex-
isting destitution.

We have often heard that an onion being placed in a store
room where tea was kept imparted its flavour to that delicate
article, but we never heard until the present moment that an
orange or a lemon possessed a similar affecting property as
the onion, for it appears that a great portion of teas at pre-
sent stored in our Custom-house has acquired the flavour of
a cargo of oranges which had been accidentally placed in the
depository underneath them. The circumstance is likely to
lead to litigation between the bonding merchants and the
persons connected with that department of the stores. The
flavour is not disagreeable though it may be objectionable
from its novelty.—Saunders' Newsletter.
PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MAN-
CHESTER.—The following is a list, from " B. Love's Hand-
book of Manchester," of the principal towns in the neigh-
bourhood, with their distances from Manchester, and their
respective populations :
Stockport
Ashton 9 „ (parish).... 46,296 number
Stalybridge 7 „ .. about 20,000 lof inhabi-
Bolton .. 12 tt •• •
Bury 8 „ .. ab0ut...... 26,500 from
Rochdale..
Hyde
Oldham

MATRICIDE BY A MADMAN.—Sunday evening, the 29th
of May, a most awful occurrence took place on the Island of
Cape Clear. A person named Michael Cadigan put an end
to his mother's existence by beating out her brains with
large stones, and mutilating her body in a most shocking
manner. An inquest was held on the body of the deceased
on the 2nd instant, at Cape Clear, before Mr. H. Lawton,
and Mr. S. Townsend, two of her Majesty's justices of
peace, and Sub-Inspector R. G. Brew. The following par-
ticulars were ascertained, viz.:—That the unfortunate man
(being a lunatic) was followed by his aged mother out of his
house, and took the opportunity of putting an end to her
existence as stated, and threw her body over a precipice, at
least 200 feet perpendicular, into the sea, where it was fouqd
next day. The jury brought in a verdict of " Murder against
Michael Cadigan, son to the deceased, he being in a state of
insanity." It appeared that this unfortunate matricide had
been twice in confinement, once in the Lunatic Asylum,
whence he was discharged as cured.—lrish paper.
CAUTION TO ENGLISH WORKMEN GOING TO HAMBURG.
--Extract of a letter from Hamburg, June 11 :—" There is
a very general impression on your side the water that car-
penters and workmen, in consequence of the late conflagra-
tion here, are very much needed. Such is really the case.
We have only about 1,700 or 1,800 employed, and yet the
laws are so constituted in consequence of the guilds of the
different trades not having been done away with, that no
foreigner who has not served his apprenticeship in Germany
can be employed. About thirty carpenters and joiners, who
came over by the Hull boat, have been obliged to return, not
being able to obtain employment ; and the Senate yesterday
published a decree, compelling the captains of vessels to keep
and take back with them all workmen that they have in this
manner, and for the purpose above-mentioned, brought over.
This should be known in England generally, in order to pre-
vent further vexation and disappointment.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Monday last two workmen
were engaged to repair the pump of the Stroud Union Work-
house. It was found necessary that a man should descend
to the bottom of the well, a depth of 63 yards, and also that,
in order to keep up a verbal communication, a boy should
be placed on a sort of platform, fixed for the purpose in the
centre. When descending (the boy being in the man's lap)
the rope broke at about 90 feet from the bottom. The man
had presence of mind to try to save himself by putting his
foot against one side of the wall and his shoulders against
the opposite wall, and this he accomplished after falling a few
yards, with the weight of a boy 15 years old in his lap. The
other workman, instead of applying to the governor, ran a
couple of miles in search of a rope, and, before the man and
boy could be rescued, they had continued two hours in their
perilous situation. When rescued the boy was found to be
without the least injury, and the man only slightly injured.—
Bristol Mercury.
HYDROPHOBIA.—Our readers will recollect that, some
time ago, a mad dog was killed in the neighbourhood of the
town of Kircudbright, which had scoured the country for
miles round, biting every thing within its reach. So late as
Monday last, a heifer belonging to Lord Selkirk, which was
grazing on his lordship's farm of Banks, in a field which the
dog entered on the day he was killed, was observed to be
affected by a disease bearing every appearance of hydrophobia.
The poor animal ran wildly about the field, tearing up the
grass, and foaming at the mouth. Several times it was seized
with convulsive fits and fell down prostrated with agony.
The person who had charge of the cattle entered the field for
the purpose of driving the others into a separate enclosure
to prevent any dangerous consequences ensuing, but no
sooner was he observed by the infuriated animal than it
rushed upon him with the utmost speed. Luckily, however,
it was seized with another convulsive fit before it could reach
him, fell down, and very soon after expired. As it is im-
possible to say how many animals were bitten by the dog in
its progress throegh the country, this occurrence has naturally
excited a considerable degree of alarm.—Dumfries Courier.

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—Last week four prisoners
effected their escape from the prison of Dinan, in the follow-
ing daring manner :—After having forced two enormous
locks with blades of knives which they had concealed, and
some old nails which they had formed into picklocks, they
got into the gallery which surrounds the upper part of the
building, and thence, by means of a rope formed of their
blankets and sheets, and fixed above with large stones, they
boldly let themselves down on the parapet of the inner
bridge, a height of more than 40 feet, at the risk of falling
into the ditch which surrounds the building 45 feet lower
down. From the parapet they got to the bridge, and thence
into the yard. Here they climbed over a high wall separating
the court from the porter's garden, and by means of a simi-
lar rope to that by which they had descended from the tower,
they got down the foot of the curtain which joins the main
building to the tower of Coetquen, and thus found themselves
at liberty. One of these adventurers has since, after a few
days' liberty, given himself up to custody, declaring that he
was tired of living
.a vagabond life. The other three are
still at large, and it is supposed that they can tell something
of a robbery of money which took place a few days back in
a neighbouring commune.—Galignani's Messenger.

CAUTION TO AMATEUR ARTISTS.—A young man who
had received from an amateur phrenologist a very encourag-
ing account of his development, resolved to have a cast
taken of his face and those parts of his head where the in-
tellectual faculties are said to lodge. This is a rather delicate
operation, requiring great skill and dexterity on the part of
the practitioner. The plaster-of-Paris is applied to the
parts in a state of solution ; and as it dries with the great-
est rapidity, the artist requires to adopt precautions to
prevent the plaster from adhering so firmly to the skin
as to render the separation difficult. As to the per-
son operated upon, he can do nothing to aid himself;
his only anxiety is to escape suffocation. Well,
the youth in question placed himself in a recumbent
position, demanding and receiving an assurance that
nothing would be done to deprive his lungs of the necessary
supply of atmospheric air. Quills were placed in his nostrils
to secure the means of breathing, and his features having
been placed in a state of repose, the artist proceeded to apply
his solution. On it went in a stream ; but most unfortu-
nately, when the time came to separate the face from its
covering, the substance refused to part. Here was a busi-
ness ! The artist lost his self-command—the young man got
alarmed and ran home. His friends of course were duly
frightened, for they had no means of recognising their child
hut by his clothes ; the neighbours were called in, and hot
water and many other things were applied to the stucco, but
yield it would not. At last a mason suggested that a chisel
and hammer should be tried. This was accordingly done,
and after much labour the face was hewn out.—Gloucester
Chronicle.

We have furnished an original and ample report of the cir-
cumstances attending the late affray in Ennis ; and we this
day resume with an authentic detail of the subsequent pro-
ceedings at the inquisition upon the body of Catherine Shee-
han, and conclude with the finding of the Coroner's Jury,
which has sent thirty-eight policemen to prison ; not one of
them being identified by a single witness as having killed,
wounded, or even fired a shot at the deceased woman !
There is not a syllable of evidence to substantiate this one
material fact, but the general presumption of course is, that
she fell by one of the shots, fired under the most provoking
excitement, in the darkness and confusion of night, when by
the testimony it appears a violent mob of persons had attacked
a merchant's store, broken one of the gates, and as the police
in the discharge of their duty had thrown themselves between
the reckless assailants, and a wholesale plunder of private pro-
perty, the outrageous mob turned their combined fury against
those men, pelted them with deadly missiles, hurled stones
against their devoted heads ; struck and knocked down their
two officers, not sparing even a magistrate of the town, who
was also struck in the forehead, and after breaking the eye
in a policeman's head ! is it we ask, surprising when a mer-
ciless mob had then closed up the party in a narrow space,
and but a yard and half between those passive sufferers and
their comparatively multitudinous assailants, when the offi-
cer, Mr. Fitzsimon, swore that a charge of bayonets would
not disperse the infuriated crowd ; when he, himself, was
afraid of his life to stir out of the ranks, that some of the
police party, in the noise and excitement of that critical mo-
ment, smarting under the blows and wounds, should, every
instant apprehending to be trampled down and crushed, fire
straggling shots in the last extremity, to avert impending and
indiscriminate slaughter ? Is it, we repeat, cause of astonish-
ment that such an issue should follow ?—Limerick Chronicle
of Saturday.

The accompanying tabular statement will show the re-
markable progress which the church is making in the United
States. In 1814 the clergy amounted in number to 240 :-
1829. 1832. 1835. 1841.
Maine .
New Hampshire ... 8.. 7• • 6. • 9
Massachusetts
Rhode Island ..... 7 . 9.. 20 .. 18
Vermont
••• 15 .. 18 .. 26
Connecticut . .
New Yk
Western New York} 129 ' • 163 .. 192 .. 293
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia.
North Carolina
South Carolina 35 .. 34 • • 44 • • 45
Georgia
Ohio
Kentucky . 3 9 .. 16 .. 20
Tenesee 3 7 13 • • 11
Alabama
Illinois - —.. 7.. ~),j
Michigan
Missouri
. .
--.. 1 ~ 10
—•
Indiana — .. 1 .. 15
Wisconsin — ..
Jowa
Arkansas
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana

Total 502 584 762 1107
And 21 bishops, in all 1128 ordained clergymen at present,
not including two clergymen in Texas. It thus appears that
while the population of the union doubles in about twenty.
five years, the church quadruples in less than the same pe-
riod.

A matrimonial alliance is about to take place between the
Earl of Desart and one of the fair daughters of the Earl of
Cawdor.—Morning Post.

A sumptuous entertainment is to be given to the Right
Hon. Sir Robt. Peel, Bart., and the rest of her Majesty s
ministers, at the Goldsmiths' Hall, on the 29th instant.
The only officer in the service not a general officer, having
the colonelcy of a regiment, is Prince George of Cambridge,
now of the lith Lancers.
Hay-making has already commenced in the meadows near
Salisbury, and the crop promises to be one of extraordinary
luxuriance.

POPERY.—A new college for traininr, Popish priests for
foreign countries is about to be established in Dublin, under
the patronage of Dr. Murray, ,pretended Archbishop of Dub-
lin, Cardinal Franso, of the Propoganda, and the Right Rev.
Ganganelli, Bishop of Rome.
Overseers are hereby reminded that on or before the 20th
of the present month they are to affix on church doors
notices to persons, qualified to vote for counties, to make
claims. Persons on the register need not make a new claim
unless they have changed their qualification or place of abode.
THE MURDERER JOHN CUMMING.—The seaman of the
Hastings who murdered the second-class boy at Malta, and
who was under sentence of death by a court-martial, has
been taken away from her Majesty's brig Weazle, by a
warrant from the Marshalsea. The murderer was con-
veyed in a post-chaise, by two marshalmen, to London.
A male and female nylghau, one of the most powerful of
the swift and graceful antelope tribe, bred by the Earl of
Derby, have been presented to her Majesty, and have arrived
in Windsor-park. Unlike most of their species, which is of
a changeful and vicious temper, these creatures are so tame
that they will be allowed to range the royal domains at will.
The Francfort Journal announces a dreadful accident hav-
ing occurred at Coburg. The riding-school of that town had
been converted into a temporary theatre ; and on the night
of the representation of " Peter and the Carpenter," the
edifice, but indifferently constructed, fell in with a tremen-
dous crash, just at the rising of the curtain. Thirty lives
have been lost, and many persons wounded. The scene was
most distressing and appalling.
The Journal of Bruges relates that lately a young girl of
Theighem, having fallen into a fit of epilepsy during vespers,
some persons cried out that a mad dog had entered the
chapel. This was the signal for a dreadful rush to the door.
Every one seemed seized with terror, and several persons
were thrown down and trampled on. Seven females were
killed.

HOOKING A MAGPIE.—A. sporting gentleman, while par-
taking of some refreshment a few days since on a fishing
excursion on the Dart, fixed his rod in the ground, and re-
paired to a shady bower at a short distance to take a glass
of sherry. On his return, to his astonishment, a magpie was
fastened by its bill to the fish-hook, which, no doubt, the
magpie attempted to swallow with the ily.—Worcestershire
Chronicle.

THE CORN AVERAGES.—The present duties of the corn
inspectors will devolve upon the officers of excise on the
24th of this month. The inspectors have been receiving
salaries, amounting to £5O and £6O a-year. The inspector
who furnishes returns of the London markets has £3OO
a-year. The latter is the only person who will be allowed a
compensation for the loss of his office through the new
arrangements.

THE CHURCH QUESTION.—Various rumours have been
in circulation, ever since the rising of the Assembly, to the
effect that the leaders of the non-intrusion party, with a
single exception (Dr. Gordon), have agreed to restore the
Strathbogie ministers to their former status, on making a
nominal submission. We have made some inquiries on the
subject; and we believe that the Marquis of Bute has
earnestly urged on both parties the necessity of effecting a
compromise, and has offered to mediate between them ; but
so far as we can learn, there has been no indication given by
the non-intrusionists of retiring from the position they have
always maintained, that previous to any application for resto-
ration being entertained, the Strathbogie ministers must
submit themselves to the sentence of the church, and express
penitence for their past conduct.—Edinburgh Courant.
NOVEL DELINQUENCY.—BOAT-BUILDING ON A NEW
SCALE.—On Saturday three boys, two of them apprentice
shipwrights, were placed at the Leith police bar, before
Bailie Muir, upon the charge of constructing a pleasure-boat
with materials abstracted from their employers. It came out
in evidence that a Juvenile Nautical Club of five little fellows
had been formed to get a pleasure-boat for aquatic amuse-
ment during the summer evenings. The keel was laid—wood
was procured, and in an obscure yard in North Leith the
little barque grew into dimensions from their labours at after
hours of the Cinque Club ; and no doubt in a week or two
the launch of the tiny bark would have been chronicled, not
in our columns, but over half a dozen of Walker's best pies
and two bottles of Barclay's " entire." Alas! " the best
laid schemes"—(we need not finish the quotation.) The
missing of the materials led to the discovery of the infant
barque, and three of the band of brotherhood were found
guilty ; but in respect of their previous good character, and
this being their first offence, their punishment was limited to
three days' solitary confinement.
RESCUE OF A BOAT'S CREW DRIVEN OUT TO SEA.—A
letter has been received at Lloyd's from her Majesty's acting
consul for the Azores, dated St. Michael's, 25th May last,
stating that Captain Walter, of the Samuel, had on the 2nd
May, in lat. 37, N. and ion. 17 30, W., about 400 miles from
land, saved a boat's crew, consisting of ten men, natives of
St. Michael's, who had been driven out to sea in their at-
tempts to pass from one port to another, and who had not
tasted food or fresh water for the space of six days. Captain
Walter landed them at St. Michael's, and his humane and
considerate conduct towards these poor fellows, who proba-
bly, but for his timely assistance, would have perished under
circumstances peculiarly agonising, had created a great sen-
sation amongst all classes at St. Michael's, so much so as to
call forth a proclamation from the governor to the inhabi-
tants, calling on them to raise a subscription to testify the
high regard they entertained of his conduct, in pursuance of
which a subscription was afloat at the date of the letter, 25th
May, which amounted to 150 dollars, and it was intended by
the authorities to present Captain Walter with a piece of
plate, through the Portuguese ambassador in London.
STATE OF THE FINE ARTS.—EMBARRASSMENTS OF
MESSRS, FINDEN THE CELEBRATLD ENGRAVERS.—In
the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday last, before Mr. Com-
missioner Evans, in Re Finden and Finden, this was the day
fixed for the choice of assignees in the matter of the bank-
rupts, who were the well-known and eminent engravers,
carrying on business at Southampton-place, New-road.—
They had brought out several numbers of the " Gallery of
Art," which were executed in the most finished manner, and
intended to have continued making engravings from the
highest works of the best masters in ancient and modern
painting, but unfortunately so large was the expense that,
not having sufficient capital to follow up their design, several
valuable plates fell into the hands of the more pressing of
their creditors, and the result was their appearance in this
court. Their debts were estimated at £25,000, and their
available assets little or nothing, inasmuch as a forced sale of
their valuable stock, in the present state of the trade, would
bring it down to nothing which could benefit their creditors.
A number of proofs were admitted without any opposition;
and Mr. George Frederick Bachelor, of High-street, New-
ington, chemist; Mr. H. Wilkinson, of the Old Bailey,
printer; and Mr. Findon, of Southwark, chemist, were
appointed assignees.

ACCIDENT TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—On Mon-
day last his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York left London
for Sheffield, on his way to Ardsley, near Barnsley, to conse-
crate the new church recently erected there. On Tuesday
the venerable prelate consecrated the church and churchyard,
and afterwards held a confirmation at Ardsley, from whence
his lordship proceeded, shortly after two o'clock, by railway,
to the palace of Bishopthorpe, accompanied by the Rev. W.
H. Dixon, one of his grace's chaplains. Before dinner the
archbishop took a walk into the fields in the victnity of the
palace, accompanied by Mr. Dixon, and as they were crossing
an ancient drain, arm in arm, the united weight of the two
gentlemen caused the arch of the drain to give way, and they
were instantly plunged into the puddle. up to their chests.
Fortunately, Mr. Egerton Harcourt, one of his grace's sons,
who was walking at a short distance in the rear of the two
reverend personages, witnessed the occurrence, and immedi-
ately hastened to their assistance. Owing to the perpendi-
cular construction of the drain their release was a matter of
some difficulty ; but we are happy to say that it was effected
without any other injury, either to the venerable prelate or
to his chaplain, than what may arise from their sudden and
involuntary immersion. After undergoing the requisite lus-
tration and changing his apparel, his grace partook of din-
ner as usual, and was, we understand, not a little jocose
upon the consternation which their sudden intrusion into the
domains of the frogs, porwigles, and tadpoles, must have
occasioned to the reptiles in the vicinity of the accident.
Two SHIPS DESTROYED BY FIRE AT SEA.—Accounts
were received at Lloyd's, on Monday, from Penzance, re-
specting the burning and total loss of the brig Harmony,
Captain Tesselin, belonging to Dunkirk, on the 30th of last
month, on the coast of Portugal. The vessel was homeward
bound, and had a valuable cargo of wine and brandy on
board. From the report made by the master, Captain Tes-
selin, it appears that the fire commenced in the fore part of
the vessel, and front the fact of the ship having been struck
by lightning on the previous day, there is every reason to
suppose that that was the cause. Upon the discovery hav-
ing taken place, every soul on board exerted themselves to
prevent it extending, but it was found impossible ; for in
a short time the flames reached the spirits in the hold,
which compelled them to take to the boats immediately
and quit the vessel. They had scarcely succeeded be-
fore the decks blew up, and she was instantaneously en-
veloped in a burst of flame. Within two hours after
she sunk head foremost into deep water. Captain Tesselin
and his crew were the following day picked up by the ship
Urania, Captain Wheeghill, on her passage from Calcipali
to St. Petersburgh, which arrived off Penzance, in Corn-
wall, on Friday last, where the unfortunate crew of the
Harmony were safely landed. The vessel is reported to be
insured to a large amount.—On the same day (Monday),
the following particulars respecting the loss of a large
American ship by fire, was received in the city from Havre.
The master of the packet Louis XIV., Captain Paul, which
arrived at this port this morning, June 10, reports that on
the morning of the 30th of May they passed, in lat. 48 N.,
long 18 47 W., the wreck of a large vessel (an American
apparently), about 800 tons burthen, having been destroyed
by fire. The remains consisted of the keel and about four-
teen of her timbers. The fire appeared have been recent.
THE CAMBRIDGE INSTALLATION.—The arrangements for

the approaching installation of the Duke of Northumberland
as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge are proceeding
rapidly. Lodgings are letting from £3 10s. to £25 per week,
according to the extent of accommodation offered, and daily
applications are being made for others. One of the most
brilliant festivals ever witnessed in the noble halls of Granta

may be confidently anticipated. The Cambridge people are
looking forward to it as a source of endless profit and amuse-
ment. The performances commence with a sermon by the
Bishop of Winchester, and terminate with a ball at the Fitz-

william Museum. Sermons and screaming, preaching and
pirouetting, dinners and devotions, will follow each other in
quick succession. The Chancellor, and the Duchess of
Northumberland and suite, will, of course, take up their
residence at St. John's, of which college his grace is a mem-
ber. The High Steward of the University and Lady
Lyndhurst and suite are expected to occupy the Lodge
of Sidney Sussex College. The " warrior Duke of
Wellington and suite will be at Catharine Hall Lodge. Sir
Robert and Lady Peel, Lord and Lady Monteagle, and
several other distinguished personages, are expected at
Trinity College. Jesus College, we understand, is to be
honoured by Lord and Lady Mahon, Sir Edward and Lady
Kerrison, &c. &c. The musical performance will be on a
grand scale. The principal vocalists already engaged are,
Miss Birch, Miss M. B. Hawes, Miss Bruce Wyatt, Mr.
Phillips, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. Machin. Engagements have
also been offered to Madame Persiani and Signor Lablache,
but their answers have not yet been received. Mr. F.
Cramer will lead the band, which will contain the most
eminent performers. Mr. Turle, organist of the West-
minster Abbey, will preside at the organ. The band and
chorus will consist of upwards of 140 performers.
The performance will be under the sole management and
direction of Professor Walmisley, who will conduct at the
grand piano-forte. It is highly probable that the distin-
guished composer and performer, Dr. Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy will be present, and will play a piano-forte con-
certo at the concert on Monday evening. The Vice-Chan-
cellor will give a grand dinner to a select party of about 150
in the hall of his college ; and at Trinity, a sumptuous enter-
tainment for 500 has already been ordered. Amidst the
splendid hospitality for which this University has been long
renowned, St. John's College will maintain its accustomed
celebrity, as we understood, in addition to the magnificent
entertainment to be given in their ball to the Chancellor, a
public breakfast, on the most liberal and. elegant scale, as
been ordered (for the Thursday) for 1500 guests.

The tribunal of Boulogne, in the case of " Barry v, the
French Post-office," wherein the agent of several London
papers sought compensation for damage arising out of the
delay in the delivery of a letter ordering a steam-boat to be
engaged for an express with the India mail, has been decided
against the plaintiff, and he is to pay all the costs.
THE LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.--It is not true that the very
hot weather has led to the Queen's proclamation on the
subject of " sweating sovereigns." We understand, how-
ever, that Sir Peter Laurie has placed all his ready cash in
an icehouse, in order to keep the gold from getting into a
violent perspiration from the intense heat thathas been lately
prevalent. After the allusion to " sweating sovereigns," we
can perfectly understand the meaning of parties betting
" a cool thousand," which of course means a thousand
pounds that have not been sweated.—Punek.
ORIGIN OF FAIRS.—When Bishops and Abbots observed
that crowds of people assembled to celebrate the festivals of
their patron saints, they applied to the crown for charters to
hold fairs at those times, for the accommodation of strangers,
and with a view to increase their own resources by the tolls
which their charters authorised them to levy at these fairs.
Hence the multitude of attendants increased, some of whom
were actuated by religious and others by commercial views.
When a fair was held within the precincts of a cathedral or
monastery, it was not uncommon to oblige avery man to
take an oath at the gate, before he was admitted, that lie
would neither lie, steal, nor cheat, while he continued at the
fair. How useful such a restriction would be in the present
day !

A paper from Maine contains an account written at Au-
gusta, the capital of that state, of the proceedings of the
legislation respecting the boundary question, on the 19th of
May. The first of the series of resolutions which follow
the preamble of the report, was read from the chair, when
an amendment was proposed to the effect, that the commis-
sioners should be appointed to cede only such portion of the
territory as should be in the vicinity of a boundary line to be
run in conformity with the conditions of the treaty of 1783.
This amendment differed from the first resolution in the
report, as that authorised the commissioners to conclude
a conventional line without restraint. The debate that
followed was very animated, and it is stated that the promi-
nent feature throughout was the undoubted character of
the American claim, the correctness of which not to be
disputed by any individual in Maine. The amendment was
thrown out by a majority of 123 to 68, and therefore the first
resolution was carried. This seems to be the point to which
the debate had arrived at the latest date, and it is observed
by the writer of the account, that when the members were
called over by counties, he had an opportunity of observing,
that in the votes there was nothing that indicated political
feeling of any kind, members of the party frequently oppos-
ing each other.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ERNE.—His lordship expired
at his residence in the neighbourhood of London on the af-
ternoon of Friday, and is succeeded in his title and estates by
Colonel Crichton, of Crum•castle, in the county of Fer-
managh, Lord-Lieutenant of that county, and one of the
best and most improving resident landlords in Ireland.

LIVING COLOURS.—Curious as the following may appear,
it is no less so than true. A gentleman from Barnsley,
named Brown, called the other day at the Bridge Inn, at
Worsbro'. Shortly afterwards he was followed by Mr. Black.
By the time the last-named had got seated, in came in Mr.
White, and, singular to say, a moment after in popped Mr.
Gray. To crown all, who should pop in but Mr. George
Green, the chief constable of the township of Worsbro'.
This occurrence caused a hearty laugh by the whole com-
pany.—Doncaster Chronicie. [Our friend Rose should have
been present and then there would have been a nice lot of
coloured gentlemen.—E U. L. S.]
A new application of the principle of steam power to the
use of navigation appears in the fact, that a sailing vessel
called the Maria, fitted with Melville's patent propellers,
has been despatched from Calcutta with a detachment of
Bengal Volunteers, to join the China expedition. It is
asserted that such are the facilities gained by this improve-
ment, that much benefit may be expected to arise from this
vessel having joined the expedition.
Private letters from Philadelphia speak in favourable terms
of the prospects of the country, but less favourably as to the
prospects of British commerce in America, as it is stated
that no merchandize will be wanted during the autumn
season. The merchants in Philadelphia have been obliged
to give great accommodation to the debtors, allowing them
to renew their bills for eight, and in some instances for
twenty-four months. Wheat is so very abundant, that it is
expected there will be about 25,000,000 bushels beyond the
quantity required for consumption. As for the western
states, it is observed, that an Improvement in the condition
of individuals must precede all improvement in the condition
of the states, and that it is impossible for the states to take
the lead in discharging their liabilities.

The disastrous accounts from St. Domingo have naturally
created the greatest excitement among the merchants con-
nected with that island. One great source of consolation is,
however, that the intelligence from the Cape to Port-au-
Prince (whence the news has arrived), is only verbal, and
therefore it is hoped that the amount of calamity may have
been stated at a rough guess, and may not prove so great as
is now reported. At the same time the private letters that
have been received from Port-au-Prince express great alarm
at the fact that no person had been there from the Cape since
a period of four days, whereas the journey does not occupy
more than three days. and there is a constant intercourse be-
tween the places. Limbe, the governor of which sent his
son to the Cape to ascertain the state of affairs, is about six
leagues distant, and it seems that the intelligence verbally
brought by that gentleman first to his father at Limbe, and
afterwards to Port-au-Prince, comprises all that is known to
the present moment.

NEWCASTLE ELECTION.—At the close of the poll on
Tuesday, the number stood as follows :
Harris (R)
Colquhoun (C)

Majority 2O
Mr. Harris is, however, disqualified to sit in the present
parliament, having been convicted of bribery.
LORD GLENGALL.—This nobleman, on the 10th instant,
addressed the following letter to the Morning Chronicle:—
" Observing in the Morning Chronicle of yesterday a para-
graph copied from the Dublin Monitor, stating, that in 1828
I authorised the priest of Cahir to collect subscriptions from
my tenantry in aid of the Roman Catholic Association,—l
beg to reply that I have no recollection of having written such
letter ; but supposing I did so in 1828, it would merely prove
that I was an enthusiast in favour of Roman Catholic Eman-
cipation, and that I, like very many other credulous individu-
als, placed confidence in, and believed 'the declarations,
promises, and protestations of the Roman Catholic hierar-
chy, and those also of the leaders of the Roman Catholic
Association, solemnly delivered before the committee of the
House of Commons, &c., &c. As to what I did in 1828, I
rather suspect that older and far wiser people than me would
not act in 1842 as they did in 1829."
YOUTHFUL INTREPIDITY.—On Tuesday evening one of
the most extraordinary instances of youthful intrepidity and
perseverance upon record, and which resulted in saving hu-
man life, took place in the Regent's Canal, near Camden-
town, under the following circumstances:—About six o'clock
a boy named Lodgett, residing with his parents at No. 1,
Pear-tree-court, Clerkenwell-close, had been bathing in the
canal near the bridge, at the back of St. Pancras workhouse,
when suddenly he got out of his depth into six feet water,
and sunk. The screams of his companions brought a little
boy but eleven years of age, named Joseph Lague, living with
his mother, a poor widow, at No. 4, Oxford-terrace, King's-
road, to the spot. On hearing what had happened, the gal-
lant-little fellow, who could swim but tolerably, regardless of
consequences, threw off his jacket and cap, and at once dived
into the water. In half a minute he made his appearance
with the boy Lodgett above the surface ; but the latter being
nearly double his size, the strength of the poor little fellow
was unable to sustain him, and he again sunk. Lague
again went down after him, and was equally successful in
bringing him to the surface, but his strength again failed him,
and he was forced to let the elder boy go. After recovering
himself for about a minute, the poor little fellow, who is
scarcely three and a half feet high, dived down for the third
time, and, making a desperate effort, brought the body of
Lodgett again up with his head under his arm, and managed
to reach the wood-work passing along the canal at this part,
against which he rested the body till some of the boys caught
hold of it, and they were with the greatest difficulty then
got out, and conveyed to the St. Pancras workhonso.
Lague being very exhausted, was placed in the infirmary,
and stimulants were administered, but the boy Lodgett be-
ing to all appearance perfectly lifeless, was placed in the
dead house, and was about to be left, when Grist, the gate
porter, seeing, as he thought, the body move, instantly ran
for Dr. Estcott, the parish surgeon, who promptly at-
tended, and for two hours used every endeavour to restore
suspended animation, which, at the end of that period,
proved entirely successful, and Lodgett, as well as his
youthful preserver Lague, are now in a fit state to leave
the infirmary. The intrepidity of the boy has excited the
greatest admiration, and it is understood to be the inten-
tion of the directors and guardians to apply to the Royal
Humane Society, claiming at their hands such reward as
they may think the merits of the case deserve.

DEATH OF A MISER.—SINGULAR AFFAIR.—A few days
since a Mr. H. Laurie, who is supposed to have been an
officer in the army, died in the back room, on the second
floor of the house, No. 21, High-stseet, St. Giles's, London,
in a state of apparent destitution, so much so, that it was
deemed advisable to hold an inquest on his remains. He
had been missed some days by the people living in the house,
and his room door being found fastened it was broken open,
and he was found a corpse. At the inquest, held before Mr.
Wakley, M.P., his death being found to arise from natural
causes, a verdict accordingly was returned ; but at the same
time the witnesses who were examined said they had no
doubt, from his penurious habits, he was possessed of con-
siderable property, as they had often seen bank notes in his
possession. They further stated that he was averse to all
society, and had been frequently heard to say that he had
done with man, woman, and child, and that he neither wished
to visit any one, or be visited. He had occupied the room,
for which he paid 2s. 6d. per week, two years, during which
time no person had called upon him. He would never allow
any person to enter his apartment. The parochial authorities
used all their endavours to find out his relations, if he had
any, and yesterday, no one hauing made any inquiry after
him, Cole and Harvey, two of the beadles of the parish,
attended by another person, examined the room, and found
bonds and documedts relating to money in the funds to
nearly £l,OOO. The room was in a most filthy state, their
being neither bed or bedding in the room. Who is entitled
to the property is at present unknown.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.-By the
British and North American Royal mail steamer Acadia,
Captain Ryrie, which arrived at Liverpool from Boston on
Tuesday morning last, accounts were brought over respect-
ing his Belgian Majesty's steam ship British Queen, which
was nearly lost on her last voyage from Southampton to
New York. This magnificent vessel, will be recollected left
Southampton about the sth ult., having on board upwards
of 50 passengers, and a cargo of merchandise and specie to
a large amount. She appears to have progressed favourably
on her voyage until the seventh day, the 12th of May, when
the ship encountered a heavy gale of wind from the N.N.W.,
when it became necessary to ease the steam to three-quarters
of its speed. According to the
.log of the chief mate this
happened late in the afternoon, in lat. 49 deg. 10 D.R., long
in deg. 15 D,R., and course S. 31. As the night came on
the gale so increased that it was deemed prudent to alter her
course, and bear down with the wind. In this condition she
continued till the following day, when at about half-past 12
she shipped a tremendous sea, and so terrific was its force,
that every timber apparently trembled again under its violence:
The sea made a complete breach over her, carrying with it
part of the bulwarks, fore-yard arm, part of one of the
paddle boxes, and several coal bunkers, that were on deck
The commander, Captain Keane, chief officer, and seve-.
ral of the crew, had a most narrow escape of being
washed overboard. They were standing upon the fore part
of the vessel when the sea struck her, and were swept a con-
siderable distance along the deck. The captain was thrown
nearly into the engine-room, while the rest of the crew were
dashed against the hatchways and other obstacles on the
deck, and they one and all
.were more or less injured, one
seaman in particular had his skull fractured. During' the
remainder of the day the vessel pitched heavily,
there being a dead weight of 3000 tons of coals in' owing to
the fore
and aft holds, but the stowage could not be altered until the
weather abated ; as it was a vast quantity of water got down
the engine-room. On the 14th, the following day, the gale
ceased, and she was
brought back into her proper course, in
which she continued tillthe 21st, when it it was again altered
in consequence of the ice and icebergs, some of which were
of immense height and thickness. Fortunately she got clear
of them, and arrived in New York in safety,the 25th
on
of her passage. The conduct of the commander and officers
during the dangerous portion of the voyage is stated to have
been most praiseworthy.

EIGHT/I GRAND ROMAN FESTA
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

rrHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 17th instant,
1. and to be repeated every MONDAY and FRIDAY during
the Season,
THE PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME.

At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the
aspect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele-
bration of Il Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast
Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the
glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of .resplendent
light. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated
Girandola, or great FIREWORKS ,of ST. ANGELO,
are displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge.
beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic
Art ever invented. A fat simile of this
GORGEOUS FESTIVAL
will be represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS of
ROCKETS, and CASCADES of FIRE, FOUNTAINS, and STARS,
the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by
the broad light of day
Pyrotechnic

Artist, SIGNOR SEMONI

A first-rate MILITARY BAND, under the able superin-
tendence of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season.
ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING.

ag' Eibtrpoot gsstanliattr.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1842

This evening the New Poor Law Bill will be brought
before the House of Commons by Sir James Graham;
and, although we have little hope that any opposition
which can be brought against it, within the walls of
parliament, will be effectual in inducing its author to
submit willingly to any material modification of its
stringency, yet we trust that the strong feeling which
has been evinced, and will continue to be evinced,
against many of its propositions, out of doors, will
convince some other members of the government of
the serious danger of drawing down upon their heads
that storm of indignation which a persistance in car-
rying out the measure in its unmitigated harshness
must inevitably excite throughout the land. The Mal-
thusian features of the system, which this bill has per-
petuated, must be swept away. The grasping hand of
authority, which is stretched out to measure the Ho-
meeopathic diet of the suffering poor of England, must
be lopped of its fingers. The centralizing power must
be arrested at its source, and the whole system itself
humanized and christianized. That all this shall be
done we trust sincerely that the people of England will
take care ; and it is only for them to will, and parlia-
ment—howeVer ready may be some of its members,
Conservative as well as Whig, to prostrate themselves
before the shrine of utilitarian expediency, to give
added bitterness to poverty, to " grind the faces " of
the widow and the orphan, and to offer up the aged
and the helpless to the Molock, Selfishness, which they
worship—must register what they decree !
To one feature of the bill, as originally announced,
we would direct the especial attention of the British
public. Incorporated with the union system of the
new poor law, and regulated by the central authority
of Somerset-house, it is now more than hinted is to be
incorporated a system of education for the people. The
workhouse school is to become the place of education
for the children of the labouring classes generally ;
and the Maithusian philosophy is thus to be put in
possession of the minds as well as of the bodies and
the liberties of England's poor. To some men there
may be nothing very startling in this. We shall no
doubt be told of the excellent system of the commis-
sioners ; of their excellently trained teachers ; and these
may be compared with the inefficiency of our present
parochial schools and the humble pretensions to learn-
ing of the teachers of our village youth. We must,
however, confess that we cannot contemplate the pos-
sible consequences of the change of system proposed
without some misgivings, with respect to the descrip-
tion of education likely to be furnished, under the aus-
pices and authority of such a body as the poor law
commissioners. From the lips of Sir Robert Peel
himself an intimation fell, a few weeks ago, that the
children in the contemplated schools were to be visited
by the clergy of whatever religious opinions were pro-
fessed by their parents ; and it is scarcely to be
doubted from this intimation that, with respect to the
religious instruction provided, the system will be one
of the same universal nature which we have at length
got rid of in the schools of our own corporation.
We should rejoice sincerely to see the child of every
working man throughout England receiving the bene-
fit of a sound andsuseful education; but, more than
this, we should rejoice to see that education one based
upon the truths of the Bible. That Sir Robert Peel
would sanction any other than such a one We can
scarcely believe; but we distrust these Maithusian phi-
losophers ; and the public will do well to watch and
weigh the powers given into their grasp by this union
education scheme.

We expressed, on the first introduction of the new
tariff, our opinion as to the impolicy of the proposed
duty of 4s. per ton upon coals exported ; and we are
scarcely satisfied that the modified duties, which have
been agreed to, are defensible, although those duties
have received the sanction of a considerable portion of
the trade. It is now decided that 2s. per ton shall be
paid upon the export of large coal and is. upon small,
by which it is estimated that a revenue of £140,000 per
annum will be derived ; and, for an amount so incon-
siderable, we cannot see the good policy of inflicting
" a heavy discouragement," if it be not even worse,
upon a trade of such peculiar value to the country.
Putting out of view entirely the effect of such duties
upon the prosperity of the great coal interests, and that
effect it is not denied must be seriously prejudicial;—
putting out of view the injury which must be inflicted
upon 732,000 tons of British shipping at present em.
ployed in the transport of coals;—we cannot but look
upon this impost as the most ill-advised and rash
which is contained in the whole tariff; and we are al-
most inclined to think that the government itself has
some doubt with respect to its propriety. It is ad-
mitted now that the plea at first advanced in behalf of
it, that it would be in effect a tax upon foreign manu-
facures, cannot be sustained. The great bulk of the
coal exported is for domestic consumption, for gas
works and steam-boats, a very inconsiderable portion
only having been wanted for the sugar refineries of
Hamburgh and the cotton manufactories in the North
of France; and the only arguments in its favour now
are that of revenue, in the first instance, and the fact
that the foreign consumer can still procure a supply at
a reasonable rate by reducing the duties imposed upon
the article in foreign ports.

The latter argument would be certainly one of some
force if we were now acting upon the principle of re-
taliatory legislation. By a statement, laid before the
house by Sir R. Peel, it was shown that the duty
upon coals imported into

France—Mediterranean ports and to Oleron, was
French vessels
Foreign .
From Oleron to Dunkirk,
French vessels .

Foreign

Holland
Belgium—From France ..
Other countries
United States
Brazil
Denmark....
Sweden
Prussia

Hamburgh

Russia

s. d.
2 6
6 5

4 0
8 0
6 10
2 9
11 8
6 8
8 0
3 0
2 0

............... 3 0
11 per cent. ad valorem
Free

and it was argued that if other countries derive a re-
venue from the article this country had a perfect right
to do so too. Unquestionably we have a right to de-
rive revenue from the export of any commodity; but
the question is not one of right but of propriety and
policy. If we tax the exporter of coals, why not the
exporter of salt or of iron ? If we throw this impedi-
ment in the way of the cotton manufacturer of France
or of America, why not throw another by taxing his
exported machinery, or the iron itself of which it is
made ? Why not tax the salt of the foreign fisheries
which compete so injuriously with our own industrious
fellow countrymen ? As a question of right we might
do all this, and with propriety we might do a portion
of it ; but as a question of policy we are convinced that
these duties upon the export of coal are entirely inde-
fensible. They tre duties imposed, directly, upon in-
dustry at home; they are duties imposed not so much
upon the coal-owner as upon the ship-owner ; their
effect will be to deprive every British ship, loading for
a foreign port, of valuable freight ; to tax heavily our
steam navigation—(for no drawback is to be allowed
upon coals forwarded to the various depots of our sea-
going steamers) ;—and for what is this heavy amount
of injury to be inflicted ? Why, fora paltry revenue of
£140,000.

And with what a large amount of individual annoy-
ance and of cost to the goverment the collection of
this insignificant sum must be attended ! To prevent
the innumerable frauds which would otherwise occur
the custom-house must supervise the loading of every

4on of coals sent abroad ; and how can that be clone
without a large increase of officers ? In some ports,
vessels can only load coals at high water, and shippers
are compelled to take advantage of the tides whether
they occur in the day time or at night. Will they now
be permitted to load except during custom-house hours?
Then how will the quantity shipped be ascertained ?
In the northern coal ports we find that a regulation has
just been issued that the waggons, in which the coal is
conveyed to the ships, must be of a fixed size, and must
be branded with the custom-house mark. In these
particular ports such a regulation may be practicable,
although individually oppressive ; but where the article
is brought from any distance inland we do no see how
it can apply. In Liverpool, the bulk of the exported
coal is shipped from on board of flats, and such a mode
of ascertaining the quantity to pay duty cannot be
adopted at all.

Upon the whole, we feel confident that the cost of
collection and the vexation which must attend it, will
be a heavy drawback against this duty; and at no dis-
tant period the government which now imposes it will
regret that it has ever taken such a course.

Assuredly nobody can say of the gentlemen who
compose the Anti-Corn-Law League that they mono-
polize the modesty of the community in which they
live. On the contrary, it must be admitted that they
are in possession of as large a stock of assurance as has
ever fallen to the lot of any public body. We re-
marked freely at the time upon the audacity with
which, to raise money, they outraged public feeling by
their Manchester bazaar exhibition; and we have now
to notice as bold an attack upon the pockets of the
gullible, as has ever been attempted by the Irish men-
dicant himself.

During the last two days the walls of our town have
been placarded with a demand upon the people, to
REGISTER—what? it may be asked. To register as
voters ? Not so; but to register their names as mem-
bers of the League, for which they will be pleased to
pay any sum from a penny to a shilling, but no more.
The morality of the League mendicancy would be of-
fended if any rash enthusiast were to touch its " itch-
ing palm" with a half-crown. As some trifling return
for their charitable contributions, every individual yull
is to have presented to him a card,—a prettily orna-
mented affair no doubt,—upon the possession of which
he will be able to boast of the very questionable honor
of being a member of this seditious association. Mi-
nisters of the Gospel (!) are invited to agitate from the
pulpits—to tell starving people that it is the corn-law
which starves them; and the ladies are urged to exer-
cise their influence—to read philippics, we presume, to
their liege lords at home, or to borrow their femoral
attire, and set out to agitate abroad.
We do not certainly anticipate that these Anti-Corn-
Law millowners will gather many pence in Liverpool by
their mendicant appeal. The party here have been pretty
well sweated by " protector" and other similar schemes
for years past ; and Daniel of Derrynane still twirls his
hat in their faces with an irresistible grace, and will
not much relish this poaching upon his manor. Per-
haps there may be noodles and silly women amongst
us sufficent to muster up a five shilling paper of cop-
per, with which, we trust, the League will bless its
stars and be thankful.

A crotchet has got into the head of that sapient per-
sonage, Lord Howick, which, by his constant iteration
of it in the House of Commons, we almost fear is com-
municating itself insensibly to the minds of wiser men.
Of themselves the opinions of his lordship are of mar-
vellously small importance, and the party (composed of
Mr. Charles Wood) which looks up to him as the
fountain of wisdom, is not of much greater weight. A
parrot, however, or any other senseless thing, may re-
peat some piece of stupidity until the world takes it for
the language of an oracle ; and we are led, therefore,
to bestow a timely notice upon this Howick absurdity,
lest it should be taken unwarily some of these days for
the dictum of a sage.
We ought not, argues, or rather dogmatizes, Lord
Hawick, by the imposition of discriminating duties, to
foster the growth of any new product or trade in our
colonial possessions, lest hereafter we should be com-
pelled to afford it protection (!) We may allow dis-

criminating duties upon any articles, the production of
which has been long established. We may thus foster
our Colonial Timber Trade, or our West India Sugar
Cultivation ; but we must not, by the adoption of dis-
criminating duties, foster the growth of any new trade;
we must not, for instance, encourage the growth of
tobacco or any other new article of production in our
colonial dependencies. Now, with all due deference
for so eminent an authority, and for that portion of the
members of the House of Commons, and for the go-
vernment itself by whom the principle contended for
by Lord Howick was tacitly assented to, we utterly re-
pudiate as unsound and unstatesmanlike the dictum
here laid down.

We possess dependencies in every quarter of the
globe—in every climate—calculated for the growth of
every product of the globe. We are yearly pouring
into those dependencies thousands of our industrious
population, vast capital and consummate skill. Essen-
tially those colonies are a portion of the kingdom of
Great Britain ; and have we not a right—ought we not
in good policy, and even in justice, to do all that legis-
lation can do to aid in developing the resources of those
countries. Have we not a right to say to our expa-
triated brethren, you are of us, and yoit shall have an
advantage in our markets over the foreign producer,
not only in those articles NI hich you now raise for our
consumption, but in those, too, which y our added skill
and capital will enable you to produce ? Undoubtedly
we have a perfect right to do so ; and it is miserable
truckling between the principle upon which the colo-
nies of Great Britain have grown and thriven, and the
dogmas of the ultra free traders who would fain sweep
away that principle—who are ready to cry out with
Mr. Roebuck, " Jamaica to the bottom of the sea, and
the Antilles after it !"—it is weak and dishonest to
deny that right, or to hesitate in asserting it openly.

We must not be misunderstood as advocating an ad-
vance of the duties levied upon foreign products, to
give a stimulus to our colonies to raise those products.
We would do nothing so absurd and unjust. But when
imposing duties for the purposes of revenue—when, as
at this moment, framing an entirely modified commer-
cial system—where can be the irnpolicy of leaving open
a door by which every production which our colonies
may hereafter succeed in raising, may be admitted into
the market of Great Britain upon the same terms, as
compared with the foreigner, which are provided for in
the case of productions which they raise at present. If
colonies are a benfit to the mother country— and who
will deny that they are ?—undoubtedly that benefit is
greater when such colonies are prosperous and weal-
thy. Lord Howick, however, in effect, says—" do
nothing which is calculated to confer any additional
prosperity to any colony ; " and it ought to be a sub-
ject of congratulation to every Englishman and every
colonial subject, that Lord Howick's opinion is worth
nothing in any person's estimation except his own and
that of his shadow, the member for Halifax.