The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-20 00:00:00

DECEMBER 20, 1833 the Whigs know this well—but they support LEOPOLD, because LEOPOLD is the son-in-law of their ,new ally— who is to fight. all the battles of England in the M•'ditei ranean, and who was permitted to hoist his detested tri coloured flag -. along-side the union-jack of England in the late buccaneering cruise against Holland France is our ally, is she ? So much the worse for us, --the greater the shame to Eng'♦ ►d. To be on terms of amity with Yrance we have no objection ; but to be on the terms which his MajestY!s.ininisters avow, and which their conduct has evinced, reflcts the deepest disgrace upon this country. England and France are the avowed champions of revolution ; and while we are pillaged and fleeced on all sides ; while our diplomacy is the subject of universal derision ; while we are overreached by one Power and insulted by another; England and France only threaten to make reprisals ! The alliance would be had enough if the two parties were in a state of equality ; but so far from this Lord PA6IEasToN is a mere puppet in the hands of old TALLEYRAND,- and England looks up to France for protection. •" Support Louis PHILIPPE," cries Lord HOLLAND, ‘‘ and Louis PHILIPPE will support You." Upon this principle these shabby people act, and While they bluster and crow on their own respective and respectable dunghills, Russia cuts up Poland piece tleal, takes possession of European Turkey, puts an ex ciseman's lock on the Dardanelles, and turns the English out of the Black Sea ! • Oh for: a single month of the clys of Par, and a week of the times of NELSON I Turned out of the Black Sea, are we ? Yes, kicked out, the door slapped in our face, the guns of M.uimEr pointed at Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM by Russian bombardiers, and the men of an hundred vic tories told in the sauciest terms to go about their busi-. neaa 1 Flesh and blood can hardly stand this, and yet we fear it must be endared so long as England plays se eand fiddle to revolutionary France. Fight ! the people who compose the cabinets a Paris and. London have no notion of fighting in downright earnest. They can make war upon herring-boats, and floating tubs carrying sugar and butter instea . d.of guns; they can capture canal craft carrying manure and managed by women; but as to anything else it is out of the question. They can talk, and what more would you have ? They can charm the long ears of emasculated sumphs about reform ; they can job most gallantly in places and patronage ; they can blunder most felicitously, making three holes in the ket tle for every one they mend; they can open letters and parcels most courageously, and huckster as adroitly as a Jew pedlar at Greenwich fair; but as to fighting in the defence of a country insulted in every sea, bumbled wherever her time-worn flag waves, they would prefer Shooting London-bridge any day in the week, " provid ed," as Sir JOHN MILLET DOYLE would express it, " the old bridge were alive for that purpose._ Such it will ever be while France and England, TALLEYRAND and PAL MERSTON, Lord GREY and Marshal SOULT, are united. — These parties are at present sworn friends; and consider ing the present state of the finances, it would not surprise Us to see Lord ALTHORP .borrowing money from Louis PIIILIPPE. The Russian business, however, is a serious matter. — England has been most expertly and inextricably juggled in that affair. The RusSians have made themselves twisters of Turkey without firing a gun. A treaty was signed between.the SULTAN and the CZAR, the first no tice of which was given to Lord PALMERSTON by the active correspondent of the Morning Herald. By this tr eaty, Constantinople and the passage of the Dardanelles were quietly conveyed to the Emperor of all the Missies. TALLEYRAND, we have no doubt, knew of this treaty be fore any man in England; but the sly old diplomatis t only laughed in his sleeve. It was a good practical joke, Worth a month's pay, particularly as it was done at our expense. And when the treaty was signed and ratified, the Russians were not tardy •in . acting upon it. From that moment they considered the Black Sea their own. They held the key, and they would not allow any foreigner to enter it without their permis • sion. Sir PULTNEY MALCOLM, as we have said before, was ordered off, and off he went in search of fresh in structions, and these, we presume, cannot be given unti the new war of protocols between Lord PALMERSTON and the Russian Ambassador has terminated. The Times, however, shouts war—but what will Mr. JOSEPH PEASE say ? The Whigs at war would be a burlesque upon Iludibras. We crave the attention of our readers to a subject of considerable importance, at the present moment, and which, we presume, will not be deemed 'less worthy their Consideration because we here bring it under review for the first time. It is known to all that a momentous change has taken' place in the condition of the labouring population of our West India colonies. We may not any longer call them slaves.' That term, hitherto applied to men of sable aspect and of African blood, can nu longer have a place in our lexicons. The negroes are virtually, if not literally and lastingly, free. They may for many years continue the slaves of their own gross passions--the slaves of their idle habits—the slaves of Pagan superstition; but is every other point of view, appertaining to their political condition, their chains are broken, and they are freemen. This, which we admit to be the most important change cf all, is, nevertheless, only one of the many changes Which have taken place in the West Indies. The indi- rect representation which these colonies bad in the Im Aerial Parliament was annulled by the late Reform Bill. As nomination boroughs were rooted out, and the places of easy access which a patron could command, or at least could influence, were reserved to the Whigs alone, the Wealthy planters and proprietors of the West Indies were left no avenue to the great council of the nation. The door was closed against them most effectually. In short, they were first excluded and then robbed. The Reform Bill inflicted upon them undeserved wrong, and the reformed Parliament completed the work of spoliation and injustice. The mother country, under the trammels of a Whig administration, first expelled them from the Imperial Parliament ; secondly, deprived them of their slaves ; and, thirdly, overawed their local assemblies, violated their .chartered privileges, and left them without the shadow of power, influence, or authority. Had the inha bitants of these dependencies been in the condition of ' the American states when they were first assailed by the insolence and injustice of England, they would have rebelled, and established their own independence by force of arms. They were, however, - enfeebled`by sla very. The degraded race formed the majority. The slavery of America was confined to the southern states : its moral as well as its physical strength lay in New England and the north. Not so with the West Indies. The trail of the serpent and the curse of Cain were over the whole of those beautiful islands; and being weak they were easily intimidated, easily betrayed, and too easily induced to sue for mercy. The gentle Portia says,— " The quality of mercy is not strained." Neither, say we, the honour of should the quality of justice. Wha, England concedes to power should not be denied to weakness. A brave nation should not have two measures or two balances one for the rich and another for the poor —one for the strong and another for the 11444 We may be, as we believe we are, fast sinking towards the lawlessness of democracy; which is the approved name of the worst of despotisms ; but, ink heaven, we have not yet sunk so far as to recog nize the horrible tyranny of making war only upon the unproteetede—of cringing before a foreign dictator, and expending our spleen and our resentment upon our dependent kinsme n and countrymen. We assume this for the honour of the country to which we belong ; and I . f . it be admitt e d, then are we content ; for we s h a ll 41 or ereby b e enabled to plead with greater effect the cause the oppre sse d an d victimized proprietors of the West India oppressed What we a re a b out to state must be fam i l i ar to all those lo pass a silent hour in examining the stores even of mod .ern history, This, we admit, is a study to which the Whigs have n o t recently been much addicted; or if they vhve, perchance, turned their attention that way, it must e been after the manner of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to • e ad incident for a play, or after the manner of Lord IblillMiiimin _~-- GREY, to find a precedent fur some act of ministerial usurpation. The Inquisition of Spain, and the Star Chamber of England, have been favourite studies with these statesmen of late years. Lord BROUGHAM, some years ago, wrote an article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating the public sale by auction, to the highest bidder,. of the representationship of all the boroughs, at every returning election. The plan was ingenious, and would have been hicrative in a national point of view. But the Tories,'stupid old fools, long since voted to be extinct! could not .endure such liberal notions, and the project, unfortunately, fell to the ground. The noble and learned lord also wrote a book in favour of the West Indies, every dogma, every principle, every sentiment in which he has, with true Whig consistency, trampled upon with contempt since he became a patriot : —but this by the way. What we have to propose will be found in the parlia mentary papers and registers of the period; In the year 1778, certain commissioners were appointed to proceed to America authorised : to offer terms tabulated, as the minister of that day thought, to put- an end to the san guinary and unnatural war which was desolating those provinces, and in which the brunt of devastation had to be borne, as well as the costs of success, by British sub jects. This commission consisted of Lord CARLISLE, (the late earl,) Governor JOHNSTONE, and Mr. EDEN. They arrived at Philadelphia in June of that year, and they were empowered to make concessions to "Con gress" which were considered much more liberal than any which the Americans contended for at the commence ment of the dispute: The most impokant were to this effect :---,They were. empowered to concede "that no mi litary force should be kept up in the different states of America without the consent of the General Congress or of the several Assemblies ; to concur in measures calcu ldted to discharge, the debts:of America, and to raise the credit and value of .the paper circulation, and /a, admit of representatives. from the several states, WHO-SHOULD HAVE A SEAT -AND -VOICE IN THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN !" Our dream is Out ! These were, among others, all fa vourable, the precise terms offered to t!e revolted sub jects of the King,—the planters, proprietors, and other inhabitants of the North American colonies. The red flag of war was then hoisted at the mast-head ; the " striped bunting," laughed at by Mr. CANNANG, waved over the, arms of General WASHINGTON ; the scoundrels of the French revolUtion were joined with the rebels fighting against us on our own soil ; France was at war with us ; Spain was at war with us ; Prussia and Russia had adapted an " armed neutrality" against us ; and al though three-fourths of the members of the House of Commons, and nine-tenths of the people, were in favour of war; although we had the means of engaging, single handed, in mortal conflict with all the nations of the world, and beating them singly and unitedly, as we afterwards proved that we could do, still the commissioners of peace, the representatives of the Crown; were empowered to offer to the rebels of America a fair participation in the representation of the Imperial Parliament. The difference - between the two cases is this :—the co lonists of the Westlndies are not rebels. They have not resisted the usnrpation which has been committed. They have not opposed the speculative and hazardous free dom which has been decreed. They have not armed themselves to resist the spoliation and the ruin of which they are the victims. Why ? Need we chronicle the humiliating confession ? No, we take higher ground ; be the motive what it may, we stand upon our articles—we rest our defence upon the unchallenged facts—they have not resisted ! • Do we lose, by this admission? If so, we withdraw it. But, we contend, they stand higher, and have more equi table claims on the very ground of non resistance; and if it be said they have yielded from feebleness, then do we contend that their very feebleness is a more legitimate draft upon our clemency and our justice. A great and a yet unconquered nation can never. yield to obstinacy what it denies to loyalty and obedience. The terms that were offered to the American rebels must, if there be any justice extant,'be offered to the injured and loyal, sub jects of the King.. This is all we contend for. The colonial a4embiijs being menaced, their powers and privileges being invaded and usurped, and their char tered rights being violated by the reformed Parliament, they are no longer of any force or utility. A colonial parliament is now an empty farce. The royal charters are mere collections of waste paper or musty parchment, consecrated to bonfires and mob rejoicings. Our colo nial.countrymen have no authority at home, no influence in the mother country. Even the magistrates of these colonies are to be superseded by stipendiary hacks,-se lected from the seventh seat of briefless and incapable barristers by Lord BROUGUAM. All power and authority is to emanate from London. Westminster Hall is to be, to the extremities of the empire, what Paris is to de graded and demoralized France. The mainspring of all agency is to be.located in Downing-street. The Whigs have determined to be despots, and where they sit, there is to be the court of universal power and exclusive appeal. We throw out these hints for the benefit of all those interested by, property or connexion in the fate of the West Indies. These observations will reach the colonies. The gist of them will be understood by all who are ca pable of calm - reflection ; and the spirit they breathe, and the acts to which they point, are so clear and so constitutional, that the real friends of the colonies will be at noloss to conjecture that they emanate from one who has been their counsel in better times, and whose advice, had it been acted . upon, would have preserved them from the degrading and ruinous fate to which they are now unfortunately exposed. Upon the whole, now that the brand of sla: - cry is ob literated, why should the people of Jamaica, Demerara, Barbadoes, and the other colonies, be treated differently from, the people of Ireland ? The Irish Parliament, at the commencement of the present century, was purchased, as the timbers of an - old hulk are purchased, in order to be burnt. It was bought up and flung into the fire ; but in order to compensate the people for this measure of state policy, some of its worthy members were made eligible to sit in the British Parliament. The Assembly of .Ja maica has not been treated more respectfully. The twenty millions may be taken to be a bribe; at any rate the authority of the Assembly and the rights of the colo nists generally, are despised. Under these circumstances have the coloniessziot obtained as good a right to return members to the Imperial Parliament as the Irish people did wheif their useless and corrupt assembly was sup pressed? . We assert that they have, and not a moment should be lOst in submitting their just claims in memo rials to the KristG, and in petitions to both Houses of the Legislature. Perhaps it will be:said that the great mass of the colo nial population is not in so advanced a state of civiliza tion as the mass of the people of Ireland. We deny that there is a . shade of difference between the two classes; or, •if there be, it is in favour of the blacks. The liberated 'slaves of the West Indies may not have had the advantage or the misfortune of a Maynooth education ; neither haVe five millions of the yet hardly liberated slaves, who form the " beautiful peasantry " of the sister island. The coloured population of the colo nies is a much finer race, in point of intellect, intelli gence, and Moral's, than the natives of the southern and western co*nties of Ireland. Their rights being equal, all that is required to be known, before they are placed on an equal footing, has respect only to their fitness or eligibility. On this we have already pronounced an opinion ; and if their moral and mental qualifications, when compared with those of the Irish peasantry, be the only question at issue, we rest their claims upon the result of the inquiry. There is no comparison between the civilization of the inhabitants of the colonies and the inhabitants of the greater part of Ireland. The supe riority is on the side of the West •Indies. On this ground, and for many other re sons which we have nei ther space nor leisure to enum rate at present, we con tend that the other western - ctclonies must, sooner or later, be permitted to send representatives to the British Parliament on the same . terms, • and under the • same reformed regulations, as 'lle people of Ireland. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD A pamphlet, printed 'in Liverpool, and entitled, Ile marks on the Established Churches of England and Scotland, ,subnzitted to the. consideration of Scotsmen resident in England—by a Layman," • haS . just been placed in our hands. It is Well written, and if generally circulated, is calculated to injure the very cause which the writer professes to espouse. He complains that Scotsmen resident in England generally attach them selves to the Established Church, in preference to those branch chapels whiCh are in connection with the Church of Scotland, and located here. We cannot perceive how this should be deemed a grievance. If they prefer the Church of England, in England, the cause may be, per haps, ascribed more to the pauciiy of attraction or ability on the part of the ministers of the Kirk than to anything else. AS to any depot ture from their former principles or profesSions, we see no ground for such a charge, in asmuch -as the doctrines of the Church of Ebrgland are as nearly allied to thcsr of Scotland as it is possible to render them. It is true that there is a departure from the primitive and external forms of divine worship ; hut what are outward forms in:an appeal to the foun tain of truth and charity—where men meet to humble themselves at the footstool of mercy, and express the sorrows of an united penitence ? At any rate, what right has a "Layman" to complain, if his church be silent? .. Of the other parts of the work we cannot help - speak ing in terms of the strongest reprehension. The writer Makes a most invidious, ill-natured, unjustifiable, and ill-timed attack upon the Church of England. He evi- [ently knows little of its history, less of its forms, and nothing at all of its practice. He is a professed admirer of the Church of SCotland, but does he not see that any successful attempt to pull down the Church of England must also prove fatal to the sister Establishment in Scot land ? But we have no leisure for further notice ; we .are only sorry to see such a publication sent forth to the public. If the author have any regard for the creed he professes, or the-institutions he loves, he cannot-do better thing than commit his pamphlet to the flames, .as the lawyers say, "forthwith." LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. The boisterous weather, of which we have accounts from all parts of the coast, has entirely prevented the arrival of our usual continental advices, and we are, consequently, without foreign . intelligence of the least moment to-day. It is reported that the Superb, steamer, from Lisbon, has arrived at Cork, but nothing has been received here from her. Great interest has been excited here to-day by the meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's, to appoint scrutineers for the ballot upon the question of whether Mr. Alderman Thompson should be requested to withdraw his letter of resignation of the chair or not. As it was known the alderman intended being present, the attendance of subscribers was exceedingly numer ous, and great curiosity was evinced. After some prelimina ries, Mr. Alderman-Thompson entered into an explanation of his connexion with the Marine Assurance Company at Sunder land, and went at great length into the matter put forth by Mr. Carruthers, at the last meeting. He stated that he came in perfect good feeling to the meeting; asserted his appointment of vice-president -to the Sunderland association was a mere matter of form; that it could not interfere with the interests of Lloyd's in any shape, but that, when informed that it had given umbrage to the subscribers, and that he was called upon to resign either the presidentship or the chair, he had sent in his resignation of the latter, rather than be compelled to give up the principle upon which he always acted. The alderman said that humanity was mixed up with the association at Sunder land, which only insured freight and cargo, and thus enabled the captain of a collier, who, hitherto, when his vessel was lost, lost his all, to save himself from utter penury. He concluded a speech of great length by stating that, if the general feeling of the subscribers supported him, he should not object to re sume the chair. Mr. Carruthers, in a most able, manly, and eloquent speech, showed the impossibility-of any individual connected with any other marine assurance filling►, with justice, the high post of chairman of Lloyd's. He had been a subscriber at Lloyd's for thirty years, during which he had always set his face against joint stock assurance companies, and had opposed them in every possible way. It was painful, then, on this occasion, to be charged with motives and inuendos foreign to his heart. lie felt the difficulty of replying, at a moment's notice, to argu ments resulting from a week's reflection ; but he had one straight forward line of conduct to pursue, and he trusted the meeting would come to an honest decision on the question. Mr. Carruthers then explained, with great clearness, the Tath his sense of duty had induced him to take when a paper,tcon taining Mr. Alderman Thompson's name, as vice-president of the Sunderland association, had been put into his hand. He appealed to all whether he could adopt any other step than that of placing it in the hands of the committee of Lloyd's. He did it with regret; but there was no alternatiie. With respect to the association at Sunderland being instituted upon a voint of humanity, he could see nothing of this in the prospectus. Here Mr. Carruthers read the prospectus, which certainly displayed no other humanity than that innate feeling of humanity to get as much of the siller as can be earned. He said none could go farther than himself in love of benevolence; but every thing about this company showed it was purely a commercial specula tion. After a lengthened speech, to the merits of which our brief space can do but little justice, Mr. Carruthers concluded by expressing his firm determination to oppose, with every power he possessed, the appointment of any officer of any other marine assurance to the post of commissioner at Lloyd's. He then gave notice of a motion to the effect that no person holding office in any joint stock company in Great Britain should be eligible to sit ou the committee of Lloyd's; and that any member of Lloyd's, who should accept any such appoint ment, should be, by so doing, disqualified from any longer being a member of the committee. He concluded amidst loud and repeated cheers. Mr. Sleap thought the question was confined to a very narrow compass; it was, whether the committee were right in admit- ting Mr. Alderman Thompson to be ineligible by accepting the vice-presidentship of another marine assurance company, or whether he was not. He was clearly of opinion that the alder man could not hold any office under any other assurance com- pang. The precedent was bad; others of the committee might do the same; and he was anxious to put it out of their power. The alderman said this assurance company could not injure Lloyd's, because they only insured freight and cargo ; but other companies there insured ships; so that, among them, they had facilities for doing all the business. After remarks from Alderman Copeland, Mr. Marryatt, Mr. Ilarford, Mr. Sadler, and others, scrutineers were appointed for. the ballot, which commenced at half-past one, and closed at five o'clock, when the numbers were,— For the committee conferring with Mr. Alderman Thompson for the withdrawal of his resignation.... 245 Against it Majority for 5 This is considered as tantamount to a defeat, as the alderman, beyond doubt will not re-accept the . chair, as far more of the " fors" than the five, are those who pay us angel visits, " few and far between." VOTE OF FORTY-FIVE GUINEAS TO ➢IR. SUMNER, OF FORMBY. After the debate on the above had closed, it was proposed to take into consideration a proposed grant of £3J to Mr. Sutnne, a surgeon at Formby, near Liverpool, for swimming off to a pilot boat at the imminent risk of his life, and a further grant of ten guineas to the Rev. Mr. Formby, to be distributed among other persons who rendered important service on this occasion. It was sugg,ested, as an amendment, that Mr. Sumner's grant should be £5O; but, it being explained that, for £5O and upwards, a ballot in confirmation would be necessary, forty-five guineas was substituted, which vote, with that of ten guineas, was carried unanimously. . . . 'Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Five o'clock, p.?fl., If :erinestlay. There has, in point of fact, been scarce an arrival here to day, and the only portion of our Marine intelligence connected with Liverpool is, the arrival of the London, Pickering, from Liverpool, at Bombay, and the Alary Susan, Parrott, from Liverpool, spoken 7th instant, lat. 48 long. 21. ANOTHER LOT OF COMMISSIONERS.—Captain Upps, R.E., and Mr. Aldridge, two of the commissioners appointed by go vernment to make inquiries as to the suitable division of towns min° districts, and other matters connected with the granting of charters of incorporation to the new boroughs, were last week in this town pursuing the objects of their appointment. The persons to whom they applied, viz., the high and low bai liffs, several niemb', , rs of the bodies of overseers, guardians, and town commissioners, and Mr. Kempson, the surveyor, answered their inquiries with great readiness, and furnished them with the required information. The commissioners expressed them selves gratified with the attention which was paid to their appli cations; and we understand that it is likely, as one result of their visit, that the borough will be divided for the purposes of the proposed act into twelve districts, nine for Birmingham, and three for the adjoining parishes, one alderman to be chosen for each district. 1 e other subjects of inquiry related to the police, to the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate or re corder, the holding of quarter sessions in Birmingham, and the consequent erection of a gaol. To what conclusion they came upon these heads: we are, of course, uninformed, as well as the means devised for defraying the expenses attendant upon the contemplated changes. The commissioners were to leave town for Sheffield on Saturday.--Birmingham Gazette. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, The Theatre-royal has been engaged for a short season by Signor de Begnis, for the purpose of introducing the Italian Opera. We do not know when he means to commence opera tions, but, we believe, shortly after Christmas. Mr. Henry Beverly, who has been very successful at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, opens the Old Circus on Mon day next, to which, following the fashion of the day, he has given the name of "The Queen's Theatre." " What's there in a name ?" We an,wer, a great deal; and we applaLd the tact he has displayed in the choice of a title for his house. We hope that he will find "The Queen's name a tower of strength." The Sanspareil will also be opened on Thursday next by Mr. Holloway. CHING Lao LAURO is nightly exhibiting his extraordinary powers at the King's Arms Hotel, Castle-street, and his per formances, like his cognomen, are so perfectly magical, that we almost expected to see the cloven foot appear, or the familiar spirit of the ancient wizard seated at his elbow. The enter tainment is divided into three parts ;—the first consisting of legerdemain mid slight of hand tricks, which he performs with wonderful dexterity. In the second part he exhibits his ven triloquial powers, together with imitations of the thrush, black bird, Luck,•pig, horse, and other animals, all of which he does "as naturally as . young pigs squeak." The third part is de voted to gymnastics and feats of strength. The entertainment, on the whole, is one of the cleverest things of the kind that we have ever witnessed; but we think that it would be much im proved Were he to intersperse these amusements with a few co mic songs, or glees. The necessary assistance, we imagine, he could easily procure. LOCAL NEWS. MR. SUMNER.-It will be seen by the letter of our London correspondent that the Committee of Lloyd's have, in the most handsume manner, voted the suns of forty-five guineas to Mr. Sumner for his intrepid exertions in saving the pilots in the late storm. They have also voted ten guineas io the Rev. Mr. Formby, to be distributed b y that gentleman among other per sons who rendered important aid on that melancholy occasion. A LEGAL COMMISSION.—On Wednesday last the Commis sioners arrived i❑ Wavertree, and proceeded to examine, not the Corporation, but to try the scales, weights, and measures of the honest shopkeepers and dealers. Of 22 'members visited seizures were made from 19; and so general Was the clearance, that a total cessation of business was the consequence, until new scales, weights, &c., were obtained from this town. Ten scales, 62 weights,. and 11 measures were seized ! The only • righteous persons in.the village Were the landlord of the coffee house and the keepers of two beer-houses. We understand that the parties guilty will be brought before the magistrates at Ptescot ; it is to be hoped that the bench of justices will then fseethe absolute necessity of ordering a general survey of all plaCes under 41144 jurisdiction. ACCIDENT IN THE NEW .RAILWAY TUNNEL.— OD Tuesday evening last a shocking accident, by which a poor man, named Robert Jones, lost his life, occurred in the new tunnel making from the town to the railway station at Edge hill. It appears that Jones, who was working in the tunnel, had made a hole in the rock, in which he had placed a quantity of gunpowder for the purpose of excavating the rock by blast ing it. . After depositing the gunpowder in the hole, he covered it over with a quantity of rubbish, and was in the act of pressing the rubbish down. with a staff, when a piece of the rock from the roof of the tunnel fell upon him. He was immediately released from his shocking, situatio❑ by his fellow workmen, and con veyed to the Infirmary, but was so much injured that he died on Wednesday night. No other persons were injured by the falling of the piece of rock. .I\4ORE COMMISSIONERS !—The gentlemen of the legal pro fession, we find, are active in canvassing for appointments as commissioners under the new act of Parliament, for the aboli tion of fines and recoveries. We hear that many candidates are in the field in our own town. It is supposed, however, that either Messrs. Lowndes and Robinson, Mr. W. Thompson, Or Mr, Littledale, are most likely to succeed to the appointment for Liverpool: others mention Mr. Charles Lowe; but we understand several junior candidates have started. The ap pointments will take place in the present month, as the act comes into operation after the 31st instant. - - LORD BLAYNEY STEAM PACKET.—It, appears by the ac counts received since our last publication, that the correction we were enabled to make of the exaggerated statements of the loss of life by this lamentable event, is confirmed. Those who have met a watery grave, it is a melancholy gratification to find, are about half those originally stated. The number of individuals on board, including those who belong to the vessel, was 47; the names and descriptions are as follows : Captain Stewart. 11. N., commander; Stephen Roberts, chief mate; James Smith, second mate; William Darlington, first en gineer, (body found;) Matthew Stanton, second engineer; Mark Quilleash, steward; T. Tobin., cook. The remainder of the hands are not given, as their names are uncertain. The only cabin passenger known to have been on board was Mrs. R. Purdon, of Newry; only one deck ticket was issued—to Mr. Polio, (body found) There was a person, named J. Gordon, with a man-servant on board, and a race-horse called Mount eagle, valued at i',300, which was lost. The names of the other passengers are as follows :—O. O'llear, P. M‘Coy, P. Hanlon, P. O'llear and another, D. Gorman, Henry Dunne, James Cassidy, 0. Kenny, P. Trainor, 0. Rice, J. Duffey, M. Larkin, P. Rice, 'Henry Hughes, F. Connisky, P. Clarke, J. Quigley, and P. Fyers, pig-dealers ; M'Anulty, P. Dunn, Feenan, William Summerville, John Mills, and M'Ardle (uncertain), fowl-dealers; B. Cottony, oyster-dealer; Han lon, quill s eater ; John Sloane, and James 'Murphy. Cargo —519 firkins 20 crocks butter, 106 bao - s flour, 26 bags oatmeal, 2 bales linens, 12 boxes 1 bag quills, 6 boxes eggs, 8 bags wheat, 4 bags potatoes, 1 crate 1 cask 2 hams 2 skips 3 kishes 1 box and 1. hamper fowls, 2 hhds oysters, 37 bags oats, 603 pigs. We are happy to find that a subscription has been com menced for the relief of the widows and families of the crew, engineers, and firemen, and we hope that the numerous claims lately made on the charitable feelings of our fellow townsmen will not permit this additional demand upon them to be coldly received. Books lie at the STANDARD Office, in furtherance of this object; to which we invite the signatures of our charit ably disposed friends; and at the Exchange Newsroom. HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.-011 Wednesday last, a numerous and respectable body of the Hebrew community of th'is ttnli Met at the George Inn, Dale-streret, to - eelebrate the 22d anniversary of their Philanthropic Society, founded by Moses Samuel, Esq., for the . purpose of affording additional re!ief to their resident poor during the inclemency of the winter season. The president, Ellis S. Yates, Esq., gave a very satisfactory account of the progressive increase in the number of subscribers to the institution, and of - the very prosperous state of the funds. The King, Queen, Mayor and Corporation, and many other loyal and appropriate toasts, were drunk, and several handsome donations were received in aid of the funds of the institution, the object of which is meritorious, and cha racteristic•of the charitable disposition of the Hebrew nation, not only to their own, but to every other description of poor. The hilarity of the evening was kept up to a late hour, when the company separated, highly gratified with the entertain ment they had received, and the excellency of Miss Hampson's dinner and wines. BURGLARY.—The premises of Mr. Miller, 6, Boundary-place, were entered on Tuesday night last, or early the following morning, by some thieves who packed up a considerable quan tity of valuable dresses, &c., which were ready to carry away , but being disturbed they eft the' bundles behind them; they, however, contrived to conceal soca° silver plate with which they got clear off. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday an inquisition was taken before JaMeS Crosbie, Esq., one of the coroner's for the borough, on view of the body of John Halliday, a prisoner confined for j debt in the borough ail. From the evidence of Mr. Neighbour, the governor of the jail, it appeared that the prisoner was placed in his custody on the 16th of last August, on two execu tions from the borough court: he became ill shortly afterwards, and every attention was paid him by the medical men of the gaol, and Mr. Roberts, the surgeon. Mr. Forshaw, the sur geon of the prison, in his evidence, stated that he believed the deceased died of consumption, brought on by intemperance. Ver dict—Natural death. PICKPOCKETS--The number of those juvenile delinquents who live by picking pockets is much on the increase, especially in the neighbourhood of Tithebarn-street and Dale-street, where these locusts swarm. Few persons with pocket handkerchiefs can carry them safely through those streets.' The principal hives"'for the young pickpockets are the penny shows, or theatres, of which there are several in Dale-street and Tithe barn-street, and from which the thieves pounce upon all the moving bandannoes. It is high time that the police put a stop to these exhibitions, which are as great a nuisance as the houses in Williamson-square. • RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—In July last, a man named Martin was robbed of his watch, which was pawned at the shop of Mrs. Shewell, in Pool-lane. The thief was appre hended but not convicted, notwithstanding which, it was disco vered -to be iu the hands of Mrs. Shewell, who immediately restored it to the owner, although not compelled to do so by law. Mrs. Shewell, we understand, acts in a very praiseworthy manner when suspicious property comes into her hands, by always giving information to the police before the money is lent. ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Yesterday, being_" the breaking up," or the commencement of the vacation at the school of thi s insti tution, the scholars, amounting in number to between si x ty and seventy, assembled to recite thir annual Christmas pieces, and exhibit their themes, &c. There was a numerous attendance of the parents of the children, the parents of the Institution, and its friends on the occasion. The scene, altogether, we under stand, was highly gratifying, and the acuteness and ability dis played by the scholars during the examination, elicited the general `applause 'of . those present, '(amounting in number ,to upwards of five hundred,) which regected much honour and Credit upon. their talented instructor, Mr. Peil. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—As the Harbour-master has been to Formby, t. omitted into the conduct of the crew of the Life-boat, al told expressed his conviction that they had done their di as it would appear that other individuals, besides Mr. Stu. had rendered great service on the late melanCholy occasion, would it nut be well that there should be a meeting of the sub scribers, the sense of the meeting taken as to the merits of each, and to be rewarded in proportion to their exertions ? The public are evidently not satisfied that all should be given to one individual, and others, equally deserving, overlooked:— Yours &c Liverpool, Dec. 18,k1833. A. B. ORDERS IN COUNCIL FOR THE REGULATION OF THE TRADE TO CHINA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. SIR,-I beg leave to call the attention of merchants who, like myself, may intend to avail themselves of the opening of the China Trade, to the orders in council which have just been passed for the regulation of it. One of those orders imposes a duty of 2s. a ton upon all vessels entering the port of Canton ; and a further duty, in respect of goods imported and exported, except bullion, after the rate of 7s. for every £lOO of the value of the same. Now, on the average of the three, last years, of; which there is any official account, the tonnage of vessels engaged in the trade to China amounted to 59,535. We have been told to ex pect a great increase of this tonnage, in consequence of the opening of the trade; but if it should be only maintained at the average amount above stated, the duty of 2s. a ton will produce £5,953 10s. The value of the imports and exports of British subjects at the port of Canton amounted, on the average of the same three years, to 7,405,637, upon which the duty of 7s. upon imports, and the same sum upon exports, would pro duce 51,835, so that the total new charge upon the trade with China will, by this order in council, amount to £57,788. I find, on referring to the East India Magazine of September last, that Lord Auckland is represented to have stated, on the 12th of August, that the expense of the Superintendents of the China Trade would amount to £27,000 or £30,000 a-year. Here, then, we have a duty imposed amounting to twice the charge to be provided for, according to the estimate of the Pre sident of the Board of Trade. I thought, Sir, this had been a Government which abhorred patronage, and repudiated jobs. Even it •on this score, the ministers had not revolted against the imposition of so heavy a tax, of which the proceeds lace to be employed id the remuner ation of officers to be appointed by themselves—even if they had not seen objections to transferring from Leadenhall-street to Downing-street the China patronage of the East India Com pany, one might have expected that men who proclaim so loudly their regard for the interests of trade, would have been unwilling to impose upon a trade, commenced under circum stances of such peculiar difficulty, a new charge of so consider able an amount. Sir, you know well the perilous nature of the enterprise-of those who now engage in the trade with China, with the cer tainty of meeting in the market from 60 to 9J millions of pounds of tea already in the possession of the East ;India CoMpany. Can a trade so commenced bear any new charge? The charge now imposed is one which was never borne •by the East India Company. The commission they paid to their servants in China covered all the charges of regulation and police which this new duty is to meet; but we are to pay this' new duty, and le charges of commission too. Sir, I forbear from touching upon the other provisions of the orders in council, objectionable as they are,. and founded in ignorance of the real circumstances under which the power of the Supra Cargoes at Canton has hitherto been exercised, while they, at the same time, display a contemptuous disregard for the personal liberty of British subjects. I only now call the attention of my brother merchants to the new and heavy charge about to be impesed upon them, and I venture to suggest the expediency of memorialising his Majesty in council upon the subject.—l am, &c., Liverpool, De c . 16th, 1833. MERCATOR. JUSTICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I took up a paper to-day, called the Liverpool Journal, of the 30th Nov. last. This paper, our people, Mr. Editor, I should tell you, always resort to for every convenient purpose, suiting their designs, and I mostly read it on that account, of course; and as I was running over the columns, my eye was arrested by an article therein, signed a " Parishioner," and headed " Parish doings at Sefton." Now, Mr. Editor, I should also tell you that I am a parishioner of Sefton, and a Catholic, and was present at the identical vestry meeting in question, and that I. am as anxious to promote the welfare of my own church as any man can be with justice to all; but when I read the article in the Journal alluded to, I really was stagger ed, feeling and knowing, as I do, the mischievous objects it meant to convey to the public and some of our ignorant and superstitious people; the latter, I auk sort' to add, as a Catholic, are at all times too much addicted to vindictive feeling, and ready to issue it forth on all occasions against any thing con nected with the Established Church and its venerable officers and ministers, and this, too, very often, with not more than about a tithe of the truth for their foundation as with our " Pa rishioner." I will give you, Mr. Editor, the article verbatim from the Journal:— THE FLOATING LIGHT. We are authorised to insert the following resolutions of the Dock Committee, passed at. their meeting on Tuesday. The Harbour-master having reported that the Floating-light vessel parted from her moorings on the 11th instant, and was replaced on the 13th, the weather having prevented her earlier return, and the committee having investigated, as far as circum- Stances will at present. ermit, the cause of the accident, " Resolved unanimously, .That the preeise cause cannot be ascertained until the weather permits the moorings to be lifted and examined; but that every means were taken to replace the vessel in her station, and e‘7ery exertion made to give intelligence to the masters of vessels inward-bound of their being deprived of the use of the vessel, as early as the tempestuous state of the weather would admit. ‘. " That the thanks of this committee be presented to Charles Wye Williams, Esq., and Mr. John Richardson, for their assist ance on the occasion of the Floating-light getting adrift. and to the officer comniatiding his Majesty's Postoffice packet, the Dolphin, for taking \the Light-vessel. in tow, and bringing her into port." Two hundred and fifiv insolvents were discharged in Ire land this year, whose assets and dividends did not amount to sixpence in the pound. THE MODERN ATDENIANS.\—,,The denizens of the modern. Athens seem determined to outshine the ancients in the quan tity, if not in the quality, of their oratory. To look at the Edin burgh Journals, one would imagine that - there is a rich crop of ..........-- ___ orators in the field, compared with who Demosthenes is a I HOUSE OF COMMON? PRINTING.—From NZ to 1830 there mere joke; for we have column after column tiii the eye tires have been 105,045 volumes of journals printed for the House of in gazing on the effusions of their eloquence. This izzny,be all Commons, at an ex pense of £5,000 per volume; of these only very well for the orators themselves, but it is a great fur;- tot 52,040 have been delivered to members an d-others, and there the- public, particularly in the provinces. Who cares a straw i - reilain in store x 3,021. It is a singular fact that t he manuscri p t (except the orators) for the gabble of Mr. A. B. and C. at the i journal: preserved in the House of Commons for reference into Police Board, or the Improvements Board, or the Leith Dock as legal authority, are copies made by the clerks, during the Commission, or this ward and t'other, about the parish business recess, from Jiose already printed in the course of the preceding of Edinburgh? Even the Town Council proceedings should session. The printed journals now amount to 120 folio volumes, be paragraphed , and the substance of what is proposed objected and each member is entitled to a p erfect set after be has taken to, andadone,.given, instead of the twaddle speeches .of the his seat for fourteen days without petition against his return. — talkers. This is all that the public care about—and we know The printing of the reports of the various comm ittee s of East that these reports are reckoned a nuisance b y ni ne - tenths of India inquiry, during the session of 1832. amounted to £lO,OOO. the readers in town and country. For ourselves, we cry gra- The average profits of the King's printer are stated at £lO per mercy ! to our beloved brethren of Edinburgh, and beseech day ducing, the sitting of Parliament, and his workmen arc paid them to tell us in ten lines what is passing among them, with- three guineas per week, being £5O per cent. inure than the out this never-ending parade of speechifying. They can cure common average payment which is made to those employed on an evil which " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be , newspapers, The total expenses for printing alone, paid to diminished."—Kelso Chronicle. . i Messrs. Hansard and Co., during three years, was £125,772. MR. SUMNER. 31- We have great pleasure in giving circulation to the following er from Mr. Sumner, of Formby; a letter containing ex- .essions as honourable to the mind and character of the writer, as they must be agreeable to those whose acts have called it forth. " To the Worshipful the Mayor, the Common Council, and the Gentlemen who ha's, contributed to the subscription, Licerpool. GENTLESIeN, — The testimonials which I have received approbation of uy endeavours to rescue a portion of the crew of the Pilot Boat, No. 1, lost on, the 29Ln utt„ on . the Formby coast, are most e'ratifving, but 1 feel that they greatly surpass my deserts. Actuatedi alone by feelings of humanity and duty, I used my humble exertions in a case of distress, nor would they (such as thcy were) have been brought before thu eye of the public, had not my friends, without my knowledge, in terested themselves in my behaif. Permit me, through the medium of the press; to return my must sincere thanks for the very liberal subscription which you have raised for me, and were a stimulus wanting, the atnouqt would be sufficent, to compel use in future, as a debt of gratitude and duty, to succour and befriend the pour sufferers who may be driven on our shore. " I am. Gentlemen, " Your most obedient and grateful servant " RICHARD SUMNER." " Formby, Dec. 19, 1833." NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVA TION OF LIVES FROM SHIPWRECK. London, Dec. 12, 1833, No, 20, Austin Friar:. . , SlR,—The letter you a . ldressed to Richard Percival, Esq., treasurer of the " Shipwreck In‘titutiou," on the 6th instant, with its inclosure, have been laid before the committee of the Shipwreck Institution, and I am directed to acquaint you, that, in consideration of the highly praiseworthy conduct of Ain Sunitier, in swimming off to tne pilot-boat, and administering succour to the distressed pilots, as therein stated, by which it appears their lives were preserved, the committee have voted the Gold Medallion of the Institution to be presented to him ; and I have to request the favour of you to inform me his Chris tian name, in order that it may be engraved thereon. The committee have also awarded one sovereign each to William Formby and Robert Kershaw, for the assistance they rendered on the occasion, a draught for which is perlixed to this letter.—l have the honour to be, Sit, your most ooedient servant, THOMAS EDWARDS, Secretary. To WILLIAM ROTIIERAM, Esq., Chairman of the linderwiitsrs' Association, Liverpool. THURSDAY. MURDEROUS ASSAULT. —Captain Alexander Atkin, George Turner, end Amos Priny, three men in the garb of sailors, the former called captain,- were placed before the Mayor, charged with committing a most violent and outrageous assault upon a young man of respectable appearance, also in a sailor's dress, uanied - Miehael Murphy: The complainant (or rather the ob ject of the prisoners' sodence, for he was unable to complain,) appeared against the prisoners, in a most deplorable state. One arm was in a sling, and his head was so much disfigured by congealed blood and bandages, that his features were scarcely discernible. He endeavoured to speak, but could not be heard distinctly; consequently, his evidence was dispensed with for the present, and the following evidence against the prisoners was adduced :—A young woman in the employment of Mrs. Taylor, who keeps a public-house in Redcross-street, stated that the three prisoners were drinking in the bar of her mistress's house, on the night previous, when they commenced quarrelling - amongst themselves. Mrs. Taylor interfered, when she was knocked .down by one of the prisoners. The complainant, a young man who is a ledger in the house, hearing the scuffle, and seeing Mrs. Taylor knocked down, went up to the pri soners and asked why they had behaved in that way to the landlady, when the captain asked what he had to do - with it, and the three immediately set upon the complainant fiercely, as • if they intended to murder hint. Captain Atkin laid hold of the poker and beat the co ...piainant with it. With much difficulty the prisoners were secured and taken to Bridewell. A man who went in to•the assistance of the poor fellow stated, that he was compelled to make his escape, or he might have been used in the sante way. He saw the prisoner with the white hat (Atkin) beating complainant with the poker. The poker, which bore the marks of blood, was produced. • The Mayor inquired of the prisoners what they had to say for committing so wanton and o utrageous an assault ? The Captain said in his defence that he was not present at the commencement of the fray, but found them auarreding and took his friends' part. The other prisoners said nothing more in their defence, but that they were drunk, and did not recollect the affair. The Mayor informed the prisoners that the Young man ap peared in so precarious a state, that he felt it his duty to remand therm From their outrageous conduct they had placed them selves in a serious situation Remanded accordingly. John Jones, " a disorderly," was brought up , charged with annoying Mr. Alden:war P. Bourne, in St. John's !gasket, ou Wednesday. Mr. B o urne stated that the priSoner, in a state of intoxication, continued to follow him about and annoy him as was walking in the market, and in order to rid himself of the isance he gave hint sorryustody. John Jones, for the t he ..:nee, was exceedingly lle would not have done so, he said, had he been sober. The Mayot, to the prisoner.—When were you sober, John Jones ? John Jones.—Can't exactly say, sir. The Mayor.—Never, I think, when von can get drink. • John Jones.—Why, seldom, sir; limit I am very sorry. The Mayor.—John Jones, I am afraid you are an irreclaim able drunkard. You have been forgiven byall the magistrates at different times, and I think it a mercy to yourself to send you to prison.—To the jailor. Let him go to gaol, as 1 have to give all the prisoners a Christmas dinner, which he may not chance to obtain out of gimls-Cousigned to the Keeper of the Borough gaol until after Christmas Day. John Collins an old sailor, with a wooden leg and a venera ble wig, was c harged by a constable named habeas, with an noying passengers in the streets by begging on the footpaths. It appeared that the prisoner, in order to attract sympathy and alms, was in the habit of disgustiug,ly exhibiting hts naked wounds. —The Mayor stated that he recollected the prisoner, as a beggar and ballad-singer, ever since he was a boy. The prisoner said that he had many years ago practised his profes sion in Liverpool, but had resided since in Manchester, where • he had sous and daughters living. On promising to leave the town he was discharged. Acton Vox, a hawker of brushes, on Wednesday night, took the liberty of walking off with a pair of new boots from the door of a shoemaker iu Shaw's-brow. Ile was caught in the act and apprehended. Time prisoner, a cockney. in his defence said, " Yer honour, I'm as innoceut a tradesman as ere came afore ler vorship. 1 titoie none o' tlatu era boots. I vauted none o' the boots. I've got a pair o' we'd boots o' my own. I vas a valking as leisurely as a honest man could - along Shaw's brow, vhen up comes a gentlemen to ine, an:l says, says he, you are the gentleman Oat boned the bout , ,' You are a liar how somedever, says I, howsomedcver he apprehended me for the same." Notwithstanding the prisoner's e'oquent defence he was committed for trial. Lawienee O'Hara, an urchin about twelve years of age, who was discharged about a fortnight ago on the charge of stealing cotton from carts as they passed along the streets, was again brought up for a similar offence. He was committed for three mouths. •Andrew M'Clean was charged with being found drunk in the streets. The watchman stated that he found the prisoner the night previous lying in the gutter dead drunk, and he put him into Bridewell fur safety. On searching him, eighteen coves reigns, a goal watch, and a silver snuff,iiox were found in hie possession. The Mayor remarked, that the prisoner had been exceedingly fortunate in meeting with the watchman, other wise his property might have been stolen. The prisoner said that he should have gone away that day in the J o h n w oo d, steamer- but bail unrortiniateiy been drinking with the mate the night before. Fined ss. and Oischarged. RonBERY AT THE BItt,NSW ICE L.-- rollrrlierloitn the charged with stealing a quantity of silver s poons f Brunswick Hotel. Hanover-street. It appeared from the evi dence of Mrs-Trevor, the landlady-, that the prisoners were drinking in the house at the time she misssd the spoons, and that no other persons could have stolen - theni to . th l e s h i i i , o t t i e ri l so: i r t e h rs a , in their defence, stated, that they had gone friend, who was about taking the Brupsw:ck Tap, attached to the hotel, which was not denied, and as the spoons were not found upon them, they were discharged. Lone DURHAM AG AIN is rumoured that the DM , ti am is likely to proceed on a special mission to Vjettials, to re -sent this country at Prince Metternii h's meeting of the GerC• m anic Confederacy. As we have, however, already a diplomatic minister of the first class (Sir Frederick Lamb) accredited at the Austrian court, it is not probable that a special envoy would be despatched there.---Moroilw lierald.—{ls this a pleasure ex cursion, or preparatory to au introduction of the nohie lord to office? Or does his health require improving, or his temper sweetening, at the expense of the English nation ?1 " PARISH DOINGS AT SEFTON. "To the Editorof the Liverpoollow-nal. - " SlR,—Your last two papers have contained each a mos; excellent article on the Established Church; but we country folks wonder why you go so far from home for examples which your own neighbourhood would supply. We have, for instance, here, in our own parish of Sefton, a rector whose conduct is equally worthy of being recorded. We are told that this worthy rector, a very rich man, without a family, and receiving eomethousands a-year for tithes, has actually summon e d one of his parishioners to the Ecclesiastical Court, at Chester, for the enormous sum of six pennies! All future proceedings on this subject, we promise you, shall be duly-.noticed and coin muuicated to you, for the instruction of the public. We are, however, glad to state, that he is now receiving the benefit he ought for such praiseworthy conduct. At a public meeting held at the parish cht.reh on Monday, the 25th instant, (the. same rector in the chair,) held for the purpose of laying a rate to corer expenses already incurred, he and his churchwardens were left in a minority, which really excited pity, every attempt to lay a rate being frustrated, and the meetiug was finally ad journed for six months ! This is truly -the old English plan of revenge against unpopular rulers,—refuse the suppVes. Why does not every parish in Englan , l do the Came? They,' have the power in their own hands. Why wait to see . what the mi nisters will do for them ? Nobody deserves that another should do for him what he can do for himself and wil i l y not do.—You t s, Sce., A AaISIIIONER." You must know, Mr. Editor, that I did not like to send this letter to our paper, the Liverpool Journal,. being satisfied it would never appear therein, knowing the bias it takes with the people. And as comnion truth and common justice, impar tially to all parties, is my only object in addressing you, I hope you will not withhold the publicity of this in your next paper. In the first place, I find that the rector of"Seftou is certainly a gentleman in easy circumstances, by his private property, in dependent of the living of the parish of Sefton; that it is not true that the living of the parish amounts t o some thousands a-year; that it is true that the rector did sue a person for " six pennies !" But why was this done ? I answer, that the person he sued was one M. our violent people, who likes to stir up the rest of us in the way before described, and who told the rector's collector he would never pay any such tithes, Pray, sir, let use ask, then, in justice, if, under such cirialoe , tan- - — l 4 not any man, or any one of us, try to est, menaced thus ?—which right he did acco' costs. And, as to the public meeting or: embei that statement is like the rest: there wer,..-about, as near as 1 can guess, sixty of our people, who were none et' them rate payers, who totally refuse to pay the rates of the (- 4 .l ‘, , ireli at all, and who, as you may be assured, voted as stated in i tl , ! , -leurnat; but, sir, there were about twenty present who were -ae.Val ride payers, and who do not for a moment refuse to pay their.church rates, and haVe paid them; they voted the reverse way; I pre sume, therefore, our people had nothing to do with the meeting at all, until they had paid up their rates, so that the meetint , cou ld not be " frustrated;" b es ides, why should our people think in their violence that they are levelling at the rector, as to-these rates? The church-rates have nothing to do with him,in a pecuniary point of view; that is the business of the people 'of the parish, and has nothing to do with the -tithes or with the rector, directly or indirectly' (save his .wish, to see it collected and raised amicably and peaceably ;)• his tithes are his income only. The " Parishioner," states, that to do what was done at the vestry meeting was the'" old English plan - of revenge against unpopular rulers—refuse the-supplies." .. Really , Mr. Editor, I am truly sorry to see such factieus.bitternesa of soul our parishioners, or our people, against - the foundation of the Established.Cnurch. There must be an iStifhliShment to a good state, such as Ours in England, (for an eStablisitient is our tole- rator and protector,) and, as a conscientious man and attached to my King and country, I am perfectly content, and pity the dissatisfied - race of some of our people, working, as they con ceive, behind the curtain, and slyly avoiding -to be seen, and also to do things fairly and above-cioard'in truth and charity, to their fellow men, because they happen to be attached to the Established Church, and, consequently n - ot' - 01=our community. And, Sir, I was very sorry to see with what unprovoked violence and rudeness some - of our people, at the vestry meeting in ques tion, conducted themselves towards the chairman, who, I must say, conducted himself most respectfully to all,. notwithstand ing. I remember our late much-to -be lamented Catholic friend, Dr. l‘PCartney, viewed things as I do, and always, when called to the chair, when we met in Copperas-hill Ch - apel, begged of our people (before business commenced) to. be moderate, and avoid any thing like violence, ou any subject; and, let out people's views b e w h a t they may, I should therefore hope, for the sacred love and r espeetabifity of our church itself, that, on future meetings or occasions of time kind, they will not them selves, nor allow others to treat respectable aaracters with similar rude, uncultivated, and coarse behaviour,' which must redound upon themselves and to the disparagement of our pro fession ; besides, I feel convinced whoever knows the rector, must say that, although he (as most bachelors may perhaps be) is a little eccentric, (and who is not so, snore or less ?) a better disposed person does not exist, nor any one more conciliating, or has more the welfare, prosperity, and happiuess of his pa rishioners at heart, (Sr more willing to oblige. A CONSCIENTIOUS CATROLIC AND Sefton, Dec. 18, 1833. APA RIS NER. LIVERPOOL PO LICE.—TuEsDay. THE ROBBERY AT MR. TATTERSALL'S WAREHOUSE.—The men concerned in the robbery of Mr. Tattersall's warehouse, in Sparling-street, the particulars of. which have previously ap peared in our paper, were brought before the Mayor. and the•-; case fully proved against them, and they were committed for trial at the ensuing sessions. -4 ' WEDNESDAY. Thomas Beed, Jo i n Hannah, Thomas Owens, Mary Anne Evans, Betsey Ellis, a.d Henry Owens ; as disorderly characters as ever constable or watchman were troubled with, were brought up by Davidson the officer, charged with committing a robbery in the dwelling-house of Mr. David Todd, at Everton, under the following circumstances:—Mary Kinsley, housekeeper to Mr. Todd, stated that on Monday night last, between six and seven o'clock, she was sitting in the kitchen of her master's house, when she fancied that she heard the back door open, and went out to see if such was the case, but finding it was not she return ed to the kitchen. Presently the front door opened, and witness felt convinced that some person was in the house, and she went into the lobby and found both the front and the back door open. Becoming alarmed, she looked into the parlour but missed no thing, but on going up stairs two valuable looking-glasses were missing from the bed-rooms. Witness went out of the front door, and perceived two men, one of whom she conceives to be . the prisoner, Thomas Owens. Witness asked them if they had seen any person come out of the house with the looking-glasses? ,They replied that they had not seen any person, but they had heard the door bang, and they thought the persons who came out were gone towards St. Vincent-street. Witness sent the servant towards St. Vincent-street, and went herself to the Lon don-road, Owens following her, who inquired, after they had got some distance, whether she had found the thieves ? The other man had gone away. Witness told Owens that she had not found the thieves, and he went away also. The two looking glasses produced by the officer are the two that were stolen. Abigail Pierce, who was apprehended by the constable on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery, but subsequently discharged, said that Betsey Ellis came into her house on Mon day night at half-vast seven, and asked her to buy one of the glasses produced : Ellis stated that it belonged to a girl of her acquaintance who was giving up housekeeping. Witness de clined to buvit, but took the prisoner to Mrs. Woods, who pur chased it fur 10s. 6d. Margaret Woods, a dealer in old furniture, living in Free mason's-row, deposed to purchasing the glass for the above suns, and on hearing it was stolen, sho gave it up to Davidson, the officer. Mary Parker, another buyer of " unconsidered trifles," spoke to purchasing the other glass on Monday night, from Ellis and Mary Anne Evans, for ltis. James Davidson, the officer, apprehended the prisoner at a house, in a court, in Freemason's-row. Ellis and Margaret Owens said they get the glasses from Reed and Hannah, who were then present, and they said that a woman in the street gave them. the grasses, and that Thomas Owens had nothing to do with it. Mary Anne Owens, who was also charged as an accessary bu t discharged, said that Hannah and Reed gave the glasses to the female prisoners about seven o'cbck on Monday night. The prisoners had nothing to say in their defence, and Thomas Reed, John Hannah, Betsey Ellis, and Mary Anne Evans were committed to Kirkdtle for trial. The .other was dis charged.