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man was shot dead by them, and another and now lies at the county Infirmary. urday, the sth instant, as the Rev. H. Bevan ;mith, Esq. were proceedi n g with a party of ro Kanturk and Newmarket, in the county of Cott Le persons who had assaulted them and rescued r listrained for rent, some days before, they were ambers of peasants, armed with guns and pitchi iriffe, at nightfall, and a serious affray ensued. Crossly and all his party of police were sec and three of the peasantry were killed ere they ack. _ _ CORRESPONDENCE. THE REFORM BILL. l'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4NDARD. Stu,—The time is not far distant, when the country suffering from the inconvenience and evils of the Reform Bill, will ask, what questions are there that can constitutionally be entertained by the reformed House, that could not have been entertained by the unreformed House of Commons ? The most momentous questions of late years, entertained and sanctioned by Parlia ment, were Catholic Emancipation and the repeal of the Cor poration and Test Acts, notwithstanding which, the parties re lieved are the most clamorous in the call for " equal rights" and " equal laws." These measures, although the former was carried in opposition to the wishes of the majority of the people of England, were carried in a constitutional manner, with the concurrence of King, Lords and Commons. Judge Black stone says, " these are the constituent parts of a Parliament; the King, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, parts of which, each is so necessary, that the consent of all three is required to make any new law that shall bind the sub ject:" admitting by this rule, that the above measures were carried in a constitutional manner, we must conclude that the Reform Bid was carried by violence, and that too, of such a nature, that the precedent is fraught with the most serious con sequences to the British Constitution. If the House of Lords be a necessary check on the House of Commons ; if the House of Commons be a necessary check on the House of Lords and the King; if the King be a necessary cheek on both Lords and Commons, why overcome any of these by brute force; by call ing into being a power unknown before to the constitution, the political unions of the people, I presume, of Irish extraction, and excelled only by the method of the great founder of whiggism, Cromwell himself, who made use of a body of the people armed. Why did the Ministers call forth this power? why, but to make out a case of necessity, under covert of which they might con strain the Lords and King to pander to their will. "It was said by the great Lord Burteigh, that England never could be ruined but by a Parliament!" From the possibility of such an event ever taking place, how necessary was it, and is it, that the three estates should act in unison; and, as in private life, it is considered an act of common politeness to pay some re spect to the opinions and scruples of others, how much more so was deference due to the second branch of the legislature, when called upon in its legislative capacity to deliberate and decide on a matter of such vast importance to the well-being of the country ;—but the deference which was paid by the Sovereign, it A NEWCASTLE CORRESPONDENT DATED SUNDAY. was withheld by the Commons, who, backed by a whipped-in tapel of Newcastle was closed this day, (Sunda,' and deluded multitude, were.prepared, from appearances, to !nce of the interdiction of the Bishop, Dr. By sacrifice the constitution. The King was threatened, and e, against the Rev. Mr. Coll, officiating for one me .apet. The censure or curse which the Rev. Mr. the aristocracy abused for doing, what conscientiously, before sinated against seine of his parishioners, had God and their country, they conceived to be their duty. Had cted by the Bishop, and ordered also to be recoil the aristocracy of the laud been a body which had been always ev. Mr. Coll, in the Bishop's letter to him on the , opposed to the liberty of the people, of which they form a part, before the congregation on Sunday, which order, ided to, Mr. Coll still persevering in his own opino there would have been some justice in the conduct of the Com e o'clock, he gave Mass at the Courtenay Arms, Nr inons and the "people" towards them. But in tracing the rise here few attended.—Limerick Herald. and progress of British freedom, we shall find that the nobility, " To the Editor of the Limerick Chronicle. w el from the reign of John and his successor, from the former of —I waive all commentary on the bad feeling very sentence of the above communication from Ire whom they obtained the great charter of our liberties, and pre antenting myself with a full exposure of its falsehot' served it in the reign of the latter, up to the time of Charles sinuates that I have incurred - the displeasure of the second, when they were found fighting side by side with the d prelate, and that the interdict issued by him s a censure on me; but the document itself, whit; Commons, up to the reign of James the second, when the Lords very clearly proves that it was intended solely spiritual and temporal, made such a stand for the preservation ent of the tumult which occurred at the chapel, and of civil and religious liberty—that liberty, for which they so itionary. mandate against the recurrence of such nobly fought and resignedly suffered, has by its light thrown a (cope) e Roman Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Parish brilliant halo around the house of Peers. Never, I believe, Newcastle. h are they collectively been found sacrificing the liberty of the have heard with deep regret and affliction of the se people to the prerogative of the Crown • and if they have been cedes and riotous-..onauct, that took - place on Suue . he chapel of Newcastle; we also have beau inform found individually fighting on the side Of the Sovereign, many e are just grounds to apprehend a repetition of th have done it with an eye to the permanent liberty of tne sub excesses —now, in order to mark our abhorrence a ject, as secured by the Constitution, they consider the King an of such scenes; to vindicate the injury offered 1 the chief corner stone—nor have they shrunk from the scaffold ring instance to church discipline, and even to of religion itself; and also to prevent by every me' when they have thought their lives of service to the hearing of wer the recurrence of similar outrages, we do here the bleeding wounds of their country. And because they did, our interdict, thereby . prohibiting the celebration lately, with a patriotism worthy of their former glory tanner, throw ne My of Div ste ries,ine worship in the parish chapel of N the administration of the Sacrame. e 0 themselves between the king and the "popular torrent" for r the four ensuing weeks, commencing with Sena, the preservation of constitutional liberty, they were held up to .uary the 6th, and ending, with Sunday, January Pop u l ar o dium f or th e p ur p ose o f p o p u l ar d egra d a tion. It i Sundays included. W e trust in God, that this cc would be a libel on the house of Peers, to say, that on the late infuse such just alarm into the minds of all concern 1 ice them by a thorough change of conduct and sig question of Reform, they were opposed to the liberty 91 the 'ntance to make due atonement for the impious o' people. The Lords were convinced that a measure of Reform t have been committed. , was necessary, as was Mr. Huskisson, when he voted on the nick, Jan. 3rd, 1833. " 'l' J. RYAN." P. Past Retford question, and : they were prepared to co-operate paragraph proceeds to _state, that I have beau order shop to recall certain curses which I am said to ha c i With the Government in giving a constitutional and safe mea -1 from my altar, and that I have disregarded th sure of Reform. Mr. Stanley himself; is evidently impressed the Bishop's communication to me on that subje and the expressions which I now lay before the pa. With the idea that Ministers have overstepped the bounds of t he did not give- full credit to the reporters on tl ti Prudence, and admits that Reform to be safe, should have ply as they were spoken at the altar, will, I hope, coli' been gradual only; he says it should have commenced y candid mind, that if I ref . ed 0 recall a curse, twenty years ago ; of course, as an excuse for the Minis- Ise I never uttered one. On this subject the Rig'' t ry, for their imprudent precipitancy, and who were snore Ryan sent me, through Mr. Griffin and Mr. Leahy; obstinate the following document:— , and rash in the passing of this sweeping mea (cons) hire of Reform than was the Duke of - Wellington in his e been informed that the very Rev. Mr: Coll has, fro' uncalled-for declaration. Could the sensitive ambition of wade use of curses and imprecations directed again ~ ;rs. Leahy, of Newcastle, and also against Mr. an the Duke of Wellington have brooked the presence of Mr. ,n, her sister, and family. I cannot approve of silt ituskisson, and have adhered to his counsel, the present state nd if Dr. Coil have acted in the manner imputed 4 f things would most certainly have been averted, and a gradual st deplore it, and do hereby express my wish that I Wan of reform, and not a revolution, would have commenced, ill it. i , or my part disapproving as Ido of such pr !Itich, while it would have satisfied one party, would not have nd willing to restore peace and charity between t' his flock, I to hereby, by virtue of my superie l alarm e d the other; and the country would not have been ee 1, recall and rescind such curses, if made use of/ ;angered by the contention of adverse parties. The Ilouse of er my hand at Limerick, this 3d d 4 of Jauuarfr b ards would nut, by the present ministry and its myrmidons, l 'Ave been degraded; its voice would not have been smothered, 'Uld its constitutional functions abased. If the overweening t lUrit of the unreformed House of Commons was capable of such an act of violence, of what may not the spirit of the House to i bieh it has given birth be capable ? Hume and O'Connell, , * bo raved the most against their sovereign and the peers, will 4 seated with their satellites around them, and may be prepared w t% measures the very mooting of which will create a sense -4511 in the Parliament, and a shock throughout the country , Zr l h as is only felt at the commencement of troublesome times. L ore are many gentlemen, too, whp have pledged themselves, iide what may, to party measures; and will take their seats, t :t as the deliberative guarcdaus of the people's rights and in ,L r ests, but as the agents of their will. Besides these, there are 7 thorough-going Whigs, and a few Tories. With a House Commons composed of such discordant materials, we shall I ,r'e a high-pitched " Dutch concert;" and the leaders, the lnister s themselves, if we can form any opinion of their e eehes, individually made in different parts of the country, r so little in unison, that they will r ende r the w h o le thi ng in 'resting and effective. Is it that the Ministers are so fold of (is eity that they will strike up for themselves a new lice of 4ll eY, by allowing the popular feeling to rise by octaves through re House of Commons, give ear to all opinions, however dis a, l it, and with which one or other of them will be prepared C hime i n : if so , we ma y e xp ec t some ver y p opu l ar measures g Yed off in double quick time, and which will be sent up to, ` d rejected by, the House of Lords, as not being in concord 'th their taste. Then will the House of Commons follow the '. 4 - 1 1.) 1 e of its predecessor, compel its sovereign to make a ma htY in the House of Peers, or call up the political chorusses 'town the voice of lords and king, to abuse authority, and to P r ess, if possible, the patriotic disposition of the nation. 't us speak fairly out," said Mr. Canning, in 1822, " Is unreformed House of Lords to continue in full vigour, to hteract the will of the reformed House of Commons ? where i is the use of reform ? or is the reformed House of Com a to act upon the House of Lords by intimidation and com- OF THE COUNTY OF KILKENNY.—This tinfo still in a very distracted state : the last reports of ount to, viz.-22 houses attacked at night by on various accounts, but principally to disp ' land which they had taken in defiance of the re he blazing Whitefeet. The majority of these ntered, and their inhabitants sworn to leave the Lin a given time ; seven of their owners were sev addition to the general warning to prepare for xt visit which their obstinacy might. occasion. ses, eatables, ammunition, and 12 guns and pig n ; in one instance £49 in notes was also carried adjoining fields and yards 4 cows and horses coughed, beside a yet unascertained number in the onahee on Saturday night last. In addition, a I to church at Odagh was handed a Whitefeet ne id, with orders to obey it " on pain of being dropp s Le last month 30 persons were committed to the cool rged with various crimes. The above summary ered the half-weekly report of the constublary ut Land of Sir John Harvey in the county of Ka& shed in the Kilkenny Moderator.--Correspondent uJ )üblin, Jan. 9. night of Saturday, chief constable Crossly proce erty of police to arrest some individuals charged and rescue, against the Rev. Henry Beyan, - Ric :sq., and others, while endeavouring to collect in the parish of Cullen. The parties having had e approach of the police, while proceeding to Dro between Kanturk and Newmarket, concealed tb rid the search of the police for Linehan, who object of their inquiry, as well as the others, was Chief constable Crossly then prepared to re ad while this design was carrying into execute() el' persons, assembled by the sounding of horns,. mg of fires upon the hills , posted themselves bele( A - waited in ambush for the police. They were a arms, pitchforks, and various rustic weapons, and ,edly upon the party the moment they arrived, with fury An obstinate combat was maintained, the po npelled to fire, which took effect, and three of the were killed on the spot. The chief constable and the party under him were severely wounded. that district is in a state of insurrection, and sod re the country-people to carry their objects wit' end, and to set at defiance the laws, that an active , ef the neighbourhood, William Alien, Esq., ha s fo l eut to make a requisition for an additional number . , ""JOHN RYAN.'" egard to the very few parishioners, who I grieve 0 , v a long time opposed to me, and have done all th ai power to make my life unhattpy, I applied to theta gayer in which the Catholic church appeats 0 must perseentors and evil doers,' paraphrasing it 0 g words :-L--- , ! unhappy men will at any time regret the unhap 11 are now a long time pursuing, and retrace thei r thought of that death which seems just at their if the awful judgments of 'thine who his declare d ewers that are, are ordained of God, that those wb the ordinance of God, and purchase to themsel If the desire of true repentance shall ever rise ir s I earnestly implore God to look down upon tbe o ad strengthen that good feeling, and give them eve terey to render them true penitents and exemplarl lf, on the, other hand, they are resolved' to contr . iwn the power of the Priesthood of Christ, to spec tsly of the holy tenets of our faith, to plot against laracter of their lawful Pastor, to divide the flocb, !pherd, and banish peace and charity from the toa d ) e.—lf this be their resolution, then I beseech the ? , of our Holy Religion, the Almighty Ruler °` am I have served nearly eighteen years, to stretch ighty arm and stop them,—may . He strike thef t mble it, may he confound them in all their plot' all their means of doing mischief, and by sortie isement save them from damnation, and deter ollowing in their footsteps. rayer be not a curse, and no,well-informed Chrii v intain that it is, then I distinctly and solernnit never gave a cnrse to a human being.-4 have tba Sir, your obliged and obedient servant, , Jan. 9. " THOMAS COLL: i:NHOFF.—Last night, Mr. Sheridan Know',esti' of William Tell was represented to a very respec t '„ Mr. Vandenhoff performed the very difficil,; no of Switzerland with great vigour, pathos, a n " nore we see of this admirable actor, the more w e t and the less to condemn. His range of charae :tensive—in some he is without a rival—in all el' le scene where he shoots at the apple on his soil!, above himself, and was indeed "the father." 1 ,,"' t, scenes, and indeed throughout, he fully 0' utatiou as a first-rate actor. Miss. Huddart so * • is, judicious, powerful, and effective.---Dabl itt January S. pulsion ? Aye, that to be sure is what must be meant, if there be truth in the argument; but that no man will say." How little did Mr. Canning think; when he made this speech, so worthy of perusal, that an unreformed House of Commons would do that which he has foretold a reformed House of Com mons will do. May Ibe permitted to ask, sir, whether there are any measures that can be brought forward by the reformed House which will meet with the concurrence of the three estates of the realm, that could not have been entertained and carried by the unreformed House of Commons ? What a poor, though probably a correct opinion, the Ministers must have had of their own frailty and corruption, when they thought it so ne cessary to create a power to check and control themselves. They have, indeed, raised a power which even now, by its over hanging weight, threatens to crush the " order," and break the head of poor Lord Grey.—Yours, &c. J. M. THE CHUR CH ESTABLISHMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—The next objections against the Church of England to which it may be expedient to advert, are the inequality of its benefices; the over-payment of some, the under-payment of others; pluralities and non-residence: and with respect to these I will not so much obtrude my own opinions as adduce those of another, without pledging myself, however, to the approval of them. " The poverty of the curates," says the Edinburgh lie view, " has long been a favourite theme with novellists, senti mental tourists, and elegiac poets. But we suspect that there is a good deal of misconception in the popular estimate of the amount of the evil. A very great proportion of English cura cies are tilled with men to whom emolument is a matter of sub ordinate importance : by young gentlemen who have recently left college, who are able to subsist as they have subsisted seven years before, and who are glad to have an opportunity, on any terms, of acquiring a practical familiarity with their duties. They move to higher situations as vacancies occur, and make way for a new race of ecclesiastical apprentices. To these the smallness of the emolument is a grievance of no great magni tude." " With regard, again, to those who take curacies merely as a means of subsistence, by far the greater part of them are of humble rank, and accustomed to no greater opulence than that of an ordinary curate. The son of a small Welsh farmer, who works hard every day for £4O a year, has no great reason to complain of degradation if he gets from £5O to £lOO for a mo derate portion of labour. The situation, accordingly, is looked upon by these people as extremely eligible. The late regula tions about residence, too, by diminishing the number of curates, will throw that office into the hands of well educated and compa ratively independent young men, who seek for the situation rather for practice than profit, and do not complain of the want of emolument." This latter part is very true : it is to be hoped that the churth will continue to be filled with well educated young men, will 4 a small independence, led into it by inclination, and not merely for profit: the more it has of such the better. Inequalities of income must exist iu the church, as they do in every other profession and rank of men, and it would be great impolicy to level them. I do not say that they are not too great, or that it would not be desirable, if feasible, to diminish the contrast. Lord Henley proposes that the chapter property should be vested in commissioners, and applied to the augmen tation of small benefices. But Dr. Burton proves, arithmeti cally, that the commissioners would be bankrupt at the end of the first year. He prefers a graduated tax, calculated, he thinks, to produce £lOO,OOO a year. But this tax should be voluntary. It would hardly be consistent with the settlement of property to take forcibly . from Lord Derby's living of' Win wick £2OO a year, to augment the perpetual curacies of Bidstoii'. and Birkenhead. If, however, this tax were a voluntary: one,' and employed, not to augment poor benefices, for this would only increase their value to the patron, but as a fund to relieve poor incumbents and provide for their families, it might, per haps, be good policy as well as good feeling. But the lay im propriators, who cause the poverty, ought in common conscience to contribute their share. With respect to pluralities and non-residence the reviewer says, " Residence is a very proper and necessary measure, but it requires great moderation and temper to carry it into effect, without doing more mischief than good, At present the torrent sets the other way: ever✓ lay plunderer, and every fanutical cos , comb, is forging fresh chains fur the English clergy." " The practical question of enforcing evidence seems to resolve itself into two branches. Ist. What is just ? 2nd. What is expedient? It is expedient no doubt, that the income drawn by clergymen from country parishes should be expended in the country. The residence of a rich rector is likely to be snore useful than that of a poor curate. But if the non-resi dent on his own living perform elsewhere the duties of the clerical office, the convenience of individuals is consulted; and though the income is not spent precisely . on the spot from whence it is drawn, still it is expended elsewhere, in a similar manner, varying in the individuals to whom it is paid, but as a national object not varying at all. The original intent of the endowment, (to use hospitality,) is in no degree the ques tion; when provision was first settled on the clergy for this purpose, there were no inns ; but to require of the clergy of the nineteenth century the hospitality of the eighth, would be to annihilate their parlours and libraries, and to degrade their intelligence and manners. Their parsonages might be like Spanish monasteries, the resort of vagabonds, and the nest of beggars, but the nobility and gentry would still drive, we believe, to the George or the Thistle.", The reviewer adduces as a case in which non-residence is morally excusable, or j usti fiable, that of a man attached to his native country by,lo.ng• habit and connexion, who retains his curacy in that country, and provides for the duty of a distant living to which he may have been preferred, by a resident curate. Such, "he says, " is the fair picture of English non-residence." Stilt, however, he admits residence should be encouraged by promoting the building of residence houies, and by every indirect induce ment which can be afforded by public or priVate patronage. " Further than this," he says " it might be injudicious to ad- vance." Thus far from a publication not considered very hos tile •to Reform,—and to this it may be added, that non-residence and pluralities are, (perhaps,) something like negro-slavery ; not justifiable in theory, but less evil in prac tice than might be expected. They exist, and the object is to remove them without creating a greater evil. If every bene fice were competent to maintain a minister, and every minister competent to fill a benefice, it might be good policy to extin guish them; but at present their restriction alone is practicable or expedient. The parochial ministry, as things are, is better performed by a succession of young 'active curates, than it would by the fixed ministration of poor stationary incumbents. The circulation produced by itinerancy, to this extent, is more healthy, perhaps, than the stagnant calm that would mantle over the surface of the church, by the fixed incumbency of the poor clergy, wlio would then press into the ministry, looking to it merely as an eligible mode of getting a scanty livelihood, adequate to the ambition of men who have no other depen dence, but for which the better conditioned classes would seldom or ever educate their children. The extent, however, to which pluralities are carried now, can hardly be defended, and it might be expedient to restrict them to contiguous livings, and to livings whose united incomes do not exceed a certain sum per year.—Yours, &c. PRESBYTER. • LONDON LATEST NEWS. (From our Corropondent.) LONDON, Saturday Evening, half-past ro'clock. At the meeting of the West India Dock Company, yesterday, a dividend of 2 per cent., instead of 21, was declared, which has created very great alarm among the shareholders, and caused a depreciation in the shares of - per share, the quo tations falling frgni,ll6„tomr6. One of the reasons ascribed for the falling o l l„lif-the;West India 13.0 k business has been the existence of 'e -Cholera, and a second, to the formation of alv new docks at St. Kathbrine's. In our Oonsols' Market there has been no very important feature, either yesterday or to-day, and this afternoon the quo tation cloSed fbt the Account at tin. ; Eichequer Bills left off at 41 , 12,..and India Bonds at 3032. We have had intelligence from Portugal, to-day, to the sth instant, from (Apollo. They are, as usual, very contradictory ; but the most important fact is the arrival of General Solignac, to take the command of the army of Don Pedro, a pd h is ad vancement to the rank of field-marshal and major -general of the army. Neither the Scrip nor the Bonds have been mate rially intiueneed by the advices; the Scrip closed at 49 50, and the Bonds at 44 3 dis. The attempted loan on behalf:of Donna Maria, of £300,000, ou the security of 5000 pipes of Port wine, has been abandoned, not one-half of the amount haying been subscribed. 'ln the northern bonds there is little to notice. Russian Stock has closed this afternoon at 1001 li; Dutch at ; Danish at 712; and Belgian at 764 74 The last price of Spanish Stock was l&4 a; and Brazilian left off at 47; 4.1. We learn, by the accounts from Ancona, that a notice had been affixed on the Exchange there, recognising, in all the Papal States, vessels under the Belgian flag ; and another re ducing the term of quarantine for vessels from the south of France. An edict had also been posted at Ancona, as well as in other parts of the Papal States, giving notice of the augmen tation of the duty on salt, which bad caused great discontent: It was also said, 'that, iu consequence.of the pressing wants of the Pontifical government, other imposts would be increased. It was generally current at Ancona, that the brigade of French was about to be augmented by the arrival of troops from Greece, and that thfee vessels had been despatched' o convey them. We find, by the commercial accounts from New York to the 16th ult., that the arrivals during the month'of November, at that port, were 539 vessels, of which number 33 were from Great Britain or her Colonies,. The steerage passengers amounted to 1035, of whom 902 were English or Irish, and 133 French. The advices from New Orleans, to the 27th November state, that business was brisk at that date. '!'he whole of the inter ments during the preceding week.was 25. We learn by accounts from St. Übes, this morning, that the Spanish government had issued orders that no vessel should be allowed to enter any Spanish port under a flas , not• officially recognised. This is said to have been caused by the impru dence of Don Pedro's naval officers, who, when in Vito and other Spanish Ports, openly denounced absolute governments, and conducted themselies otherwise with great indiscretion. We learn by the advices from Paraquay, that Dr- Francia had declared war against the State of Corrientes, and that the latter state had called out all its troops of the line and militia to repel the threatened aggression. The army, of Dr. Francia is said to amount to 8000 men, and he had commenced hostili• ties by seizing all the people of Corrientes at work on the Island of Tapa.- We have some further advices from Vera Cruz ' Generals Montezuma and Cuesto were near Q uere t aro on th e Ist Novem ber with 2000 men, and on the 2nd, with the same force, had advanced near San Juen del Rio, about thirty leagues from the capital. An express fro m Orizaba, had brought intelligence of a capitulation of Besingas, the commander of a government di vision, and Torrens, in virtue of which the former had declared in favour of General Pedraza. The government force in the 'capital is estimated at not more than 3000 men. _ • 711, , 4 7 . 11 ti„ itbii %use A. to Nh TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Srit,-Your,"liberal," and consequently radical contemporaries are evidently very much chagrined, that the loyalty, wealth and intelligence of the town have, although late in the day, found one willing and able to advocate their sentiments with firmness and decision. The effect is already evident, and must be productive of good. It will either be, to relieve us altogether from such productions, or to weed them of all the malicious falsehoods and slanderous accusations which they are now too ready to promulgate. _ . The returning good sense of the town will effect this salutary reform, and you are selected as the happy instrument. Your able veracious and disinterested Contemporaries have told us that the . old Freemen were taken to the Booths on the second day of the election, in a state of intoxication, and that the Bandon and the Douglas parties were the cause of it. This has been denied and retorted upon their opponents, how truly your readers may determine by a reference to the poll-book, just published. The publicans (or "victuallers" as they are there denomi nated) are not generally considered as being peculiarly disin terested, and it is, therefore, very extraordinary, that so very great a majority of them should have given their votes in favour of Ewart and Thornely, when the opposite party were so liberal and profuse (as we are told) in emptying their barrels and filling their pockets. This was exceedingly dinterested and ought to be proclaimed. I cannot but admire the extraordinary inde pendence displayed by the publicans, and I have only to express a hope that they will give me credit for being equally indenpen dent, although, I did not, from want of opportunity, aibrd so strong and unanswerable a proof of it. In conclusion, if Messrs. Ewart and Thornely are disposed to carry on the farce, they will doubtless be ably supported by the " Comedians," and I would humbly suggest to them that in re turn for favours conferred, a certain Theatre not twb miles from Church-street, has proved itself not undeserving _their united patronage. A TOWNSMAN. LOCAL. The Earl of Lincoln and his youthful bride, passed through Prebton on Thursday, on their way to the south. They have been on a visit at Ashton-hall, near Lancaster, the seat of Lady Lincoln's father. INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT,—Mr. Commissior Harris goes the Northern Circuit this spring. The following are the arrangements respecting this and the adjoining comities : Pres ton, April 1; " Lancaster, March 25 ; Appleby or Kendal, March 2.3; Carlisle, March 22; Chester, April 4. At the Annual Board of the Liverpolnfirmary, a resolution was passed, to erect and fit up lock wards, containing 70 beds, with a separate establishmerit of one physician, two surgeons, and resident apothecary. The fifth ball of the season took place at the Wellington Rooms, on Thursday last, Mrs. Joseph Langton, Lady Pa troness. There were about 230 of the fashion and beauty of the town present, and amongst the number were noticed Mr. J. Milnes Gaskell, M. P. and his Lady. SILK WEAVING.—The silk weaving at Middleton, Fails worth, and other places round Manchester, was never known to be so brisk at Christmas. Wages are low, but an advance in the spring is expected. In the year 1824, Ild. per yard was paid for weaving silk sarsnet; for the same sort of work 4d is now paid. MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD.—M. Barruel, director of che mical experiments to the Faculty of Medicine, having made researches on the existence of iron. in the blood, is of opinion that he could extract from the blood of a corpse iron enough to strike a medal as large as a 40fr. piece. This would be a curi ous and substantial means of prfserving the remains and per petuating the memory of an illustrious person or friend. QUICK VOYAGE.—The Frederick, which arrived on Friday, from Sierra Leone, completed the voyage out and home in the remarkably short period of two months and thirteen days. She wag detained there three days owing to some revenue regula tions. And, on Sunday, vie Patriot King ari4ved from Cal cutta, having completed the voyage, out and home, in eight nunitits and Aar days. MELXNCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A most respectable lady from Gorton, named'Alice Tatton, was walking along George-street, about eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, and as she was passing the warehouse of Messrs. Samuel Stocks, juu. and Co. a packs eof calicoes, weight about a hundred weight and a half, slipped from the teagle-rope by which the workmen were lowering it into a cart in the street, and fell upon her head. The unfortunate woman was immediately conveyed to the In firmary, where she lingered until two o'clock on Thursday afternoon, when death put an end to her sufferings.—iiati chester Courier. N usmatous FAMILY.—We understand that in a dwelling at Nightingall Bridge ; in Heath Chatnock, which consists or fit . - teen feet by nine, there resides a man, his wife and eight chil dren; four asses, one calf, seven pigs, two dogs, forty hens, one cock, one cat, and one linnet; making a motley total of sixty six living creatures in the above small'compass.—Preston Pilot. FATAL EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Thursday, an in quest was held before the Mayor, on the body of Ann ftyle, the wife of Thomas Ryle, who was taken out of the Ribble the same morning. It seems that the day previous the deceased had been idling and drinking at a beer shop, and in the even ing weut as far as the bridge in company with a man named Hardie and a woman called I‘l.‘Kie, in order to see the luter part of the way home to Penwortham. Subsequently; the de ceased and Ilardie had some additional drink at the Bridge Inn, and finally they left the public-house to return to Preston; but on getting over the bridge, the woman, who was very drunk, left Hardie and wandered to the river side. Hardie went to look after her, but it was quite dark, and she appears to have fallen into the river before he could find out where she was. Verdict, Found drowned.—Pre,ton Pilot. SERIOUS COACH ACCIDENT.—About half-past five o'clock on Monday evening, the Union coach from Preston was over turned nearly opposite Leaf-square, Pendleton, and several of the passengers seriously hurt. The night was very foggy, which prevented the coachman from seeing a heap of stones that were lying at the side of the road, and not being aware that he was so far from the centre of the road which is here a consider able width, he drove upon them and overturned the coach. There were only three passengers on the coach at the time, all of whom were thrown off, and more or less hurt. A gentleman, named Middleton, from Newark, fell under the coach and re ceived a severe contusion of the brain, from the effects of which he is not likely to recover. Ile was taken up in a state of in sensibility and conveyed to the Rose and Crown public-house, where he now remains, not having yet shown any signs of re turning sensibility.. Another gentleman, who was severely bruised; was' conveyed to the Bridgewater Hotel, and is in a fair - War of recovery. The third outside passenger was a fe male, from Cross-street, Cheshire, who had her jaw-bone bro ken and her eye very much cut; she also is recovering. The coachman was also bruised, but not severely. The inside of the coach was full of passengers, all of whom escaped unhurt. From all the information that we can obtain, we are inclined to believe that the coachman was not to blame, but that this unfortunate affair was purely accidental. EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—Manv of the parties who were dis appointed at the result of the late election at. Bolton, and par ticularly the Unitarians, have vented their spleen, by with— drawing their support from those shopkeepers who voted for Mr. Boiling or Colonel Torrens, or both, as the case might be, and have declared their determination to abstain film visiting those public houses, the landlords of which voted for either or both of the above gentlemen; different sick and other clubs! have also been withdrawn from such public-houses, and taken to those landlords who supported Mr. Yates. This is exceedingly impolitic, if not insane, to say nothing of the malignant and tyrannical disposition it manifests—for the friends of IVIr. Bolling and Colonel Torrens are giving the most active and efficient support to those who may have sustained any damage or who may leave been threatened with any injury, by the Unitarian faction. Several parties have been formed at the houses de serted by Mr. Yates's supporters, and more valuable jobs than those taken away from tradesmen, have been given to them, by the leading houses in the town and neighbourhood. The mas ters are determined to discharge all workmen who enter into such detestable conspiracies against persons who have voted according to their consciences ; but we are happy to say, that the majority . of the work people themselves feel indignant at the threatenings of the exclusive dealers, and will co-operate with their employers. We are sorry, for their own sakes, that the defeated party should have commenced hostilities, as they may be assured that the lee talianis will be rigidly carried into effect; and we could prognosticate, with tolerable accuracy which party will be the first to withdraw from the contest. This, is one of the numerous instances perpetually occurring, in which the pseudo friends of liberty of conscience, liberality of sentiment, and rectitude of principle, have proved that when they had been permitted to obtain a distant glimpse of approach ing power and ascendency, they become heartless tyrailts, or reckless demagogues.—Manchoster Courier. AWFUL AND DESTRHCTIVE FlRE.—About a quarter befire eleven o'clock last night, a fire broke out in New Quay, which, in the extant of its ravages, threatens to exceed any sin:date calamity with which Liverpool has been visited since the memo rable burning of the Goree. It commenced, we understand, in the paint -store of Messrs. Croston, where, but for the diilay ie the supply of water, of which, so far as we .can recollect, com plaint has been made in every instance of lire that has oc curred in the .town within the last eight years, it might, ac cording to what we have heard, have been speedily arrested. But no such means being in readiness for checking its pro.. gress, the nature of the materials amidst which it originated —oil, turpentine, resin, pitch, tar and naval stored,—was pre cisely the best adapted for adding to its fury, and .accordingly in a short space of time it extended itself to the large warehouses adjoining, both on the south and east, which were filled with merchandise of various descriptions, principally cotton, grain, oil and naval stores. Here it found ample room and verge enough, and long before one o'clock, it was evident to every beholder that all attemps to restrain it within the limits of those premises must be in vain. By half-past twelve it pene trated backwardi to the eastward—into Lancelot's hey, in the centre of a continuous unbroken frontage of • warehouses of about seventy yards, which seemed likely to be all involved in the quick-spreading ruin. Fed, as it was here, with im mense masses of the most combustible materials could , what the two or three m i sera bl e eng i ne s, p os t e d i n that narrow pas sage, effect towards staying its career ? It sotin became evident that their utmost efforts could not afford a hope of preserving the bonded warehouses on the opposite side of Lancelot's-hey, which were said to be filled with spirits. At half-past one o'clock, the wood work in the fronts of the upper stories of these was caught by the flames. The miscbiet then spread quickly to the right and left, and backwards towards Oidhlli-street, de stro_ying a range of warehouses in 'th a t direction, and by half-past three had extended into Union-street, Mr. Web sees house at the corner being completely destroyed. About four o'clock, the front of the warehouies in 'Lancelot's hey, fell forward into Union-street, with a tremendous crash, burying, as we were informed, - several persons in the ruins. We understand that two persons tit least, have lost their lives, and Colonel Jordan, the inspecting . field officer ollthe district, had his leg broken by the falling -ruins. At the moment of our paper going to presS, the flames were .still raging- with awful vehemence, but they were likely to be confined to the premises which were already within their grasp. Nine warehouses in all, we understand, have been consumed. In the immediate neighbourhood of these warehouSes were a number of small houses, inhabited principally liy• very pour people, .whose con sternation and dismay were of the most pliable description; and it is much to be feared that, in addition to the ineonveni. ence they must necessarily sustain from being thus hastily expelled from their dwellings, they will suffer severely in the loss and destruction among their humble stocks of .moveables, consequent upon their compulsory and hurried removal. It must, we think, be manifest to every one who had an oppor tunity of closely observing the movements of those who were called into activity on this occasion, that there is a lamentable want of arrangement and organisation in our . police, &c., for effective operations in cases of this descriptions. To the parties, however, who were on duty, every praise is due for their activity, zeal , and industry, and to the system only, or rather the want of system, do we attribute any thing of blame. Mr. Shipp, the supermiendant of the night watch; was early, on the ground, with a considerable portion of his forca, and was neither sparing of exertions nor wanting in promptitude, in effecting the best arrangements under the circumstances which the means .at his disposal would allow. His worship, the Mayor was no sooner informed of the calamity than:he hasten ed to the scene, and was prompt in his personal attendance— at every point where it seemed his presence might be service able and in giving such directions as the circumstances iequir ed. The police constables were also soon collected in the vicinity, attending as occasion arose; and the most essential service was rendered in keeping back the crowd, bY a detach ment of the 18th, or Royal Irish regiment of Foot, under the command of Capt. Moore. . . . GEMS OF ENGLAND.—About seven or eight days ago, as a countrymen was walking along the beach Detweell Falmouth and Lowestoft, he picked up a stone, which appeared tiat, and of glossy substance on one side. Having . occasion to go to Bury, he took, it to a jeweller, who gave him £25 for it. The man says he has freqnently before picked up similar stones on the beach, but never knew they *ere at all valuable.—Nurtricii East Anglian. [Wtiat was the stone ?] PART 11. OF THeGA LI ERY OF COMICALITIRS.---78 Comic Wood Engravings;.. which have appeared from time to time during the past 18 iitinths In that popular Sporting Weekly Newspaper, Bell's Life in London.—Just Pubushed, Part IL, price 3d., 78 Comic Prints, illustrated by prose or poetry, taken from Bell's Life in• London, comprising 36 portraits after the manner of Lavater, and 42 miscellaneous, political, quizzi cal, and humorous. These 78 prints cost, engraving alone, 400 guineas, and can now he had on one folio newspaper sheet for &I.—Published by G. Goodger, 169, Strand, London, and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers and Newspaper-dealers; of whom may be' had, also price three pence, a newt'edition of Part the First of the Gallery of 130 Comicallities, of which 128,000 have been sold.—The Trade supplied at 25. - for 12, and copies of Part I. and Part 11. mill be taken back at the office of Bell's Life in London, 109, Strand, at the cost price, any time before the 24th December, 1833. Placards for glop windows. Good for the Serail Book, Portfolio, Coffee and Hair-dressers' Shops, News Rooms, and all Sport:iig Houses. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.