The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE FOR 1838. (Concluded from our last.) JULY 2 Mr. Ward's motion to introduce into the Irish Tithe Bill the principle of appropriation of the surplus revenues of the church is rejected, by the House of Commons, and the house goes into committee on the bill. 3 A new treaty of commerce is concluded between Great Britain and Austria. 4 The southern part of Yorkshire and part of the county of Lancaster is visited by a terrific storm of thunder and hail, in the course of which much property is destroyed and many lives lost. 6 The official table of the revenue for the quarter shows an increase of £364.352, as compared with the last quarter, and a decrease of £1,102,627 in the year. During a thunderstorm the electric fluid strikes a house at Kensington and two persons are killed. The House of Commons negatives a motion for increa sing the income of the Duke of Sussex. 8 The Great Western steam-ship arrives at Bristol, hav ing accomplished the voyage from New York in the short space of 121 days. 9 The Irish Poor Law Bill passes the House of Lords. Her majesty, accompanied by most of the foreign am bassadors who came over for the coronation, reviews the house hold troops and other regiments in Hyde Park. 10 The Irish Tithe Bill goes through a committee of the House of Commons. Lord Brougham moves, in the House of Lords, for the production of any Admiralty orders issued to the commanders of British ships, to prevent the entry of Sardinian vessels into the ports of Spain. The number on a division being equal, the motion was consequently lost. 12 Johu Rickey, convicted of the wilful murder of Serjeant James Hamilton, of the 12th Lancers, is sentenced to death, but subsequently respited, and the sentence commuted to transportation for life. 13 A grand banquet is given by the corperation of the city of London to all the foreign ambassadors, and other distin guished personages present in London on the occasion of her Majesty's coronation. 14 The Rev. Michael Augustus Gathercole is found guilty at York of having published a scandalous libel respecting a society of nuns at Scorton, in Yorkshire. 17 Destruction, by tire, of the Theatre du Vaudeville, at Paris. David Patterson, a schoolmaster at Lanark, is found guilty, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for having occasioned the death of a school boy by ill treatment. 19 A Bill for Preventing the Holding of Vestries and other Parochial Meetings in Churches, is thrown out by the House of Commons. 20 Death of Sir l'ulteney Malcolm. 25 An Act for the Abolition of Arrest for Debt on Mesne Process passes the House of Commons. 26 The Irish Tithe Bill is read a third time in the House of Commons, and passed. 27 Honora M'Carthy is found guilty at Cork of having offered for sale, to an apothecary, a boy aged eight years, for the purpose of dissection. Mirza Hydur Shekoh, a prince of the house of Timour, is executed at Delhi for the murder of his wife. 28 A revolution takes place in the northern departments of Peru, which declare against the confederation. Remechido, the Miguelite guerilla chief, is taken pri soner, and his force, consisting of 248 men, defeated. 30 The House of Lords reject the Custody of Infants Bill. Lords Brougham and Ellenborough denounce, in the House of Lords, the ordinances of the Earl of Durham, sub jecting to death any of the pardoned recoiled Canadians who should return from transportation. Birth of the Duchess of Wirtemberg's son, who receives the name of Philip Alexander Mary Ernest. 31 The Marquis of Waterford, Sir Frederick Johnstone, and others, are found guilty of an assault at Melton Mow bray, and sentenced each to pay a fine of £2OO. AUGUST 1 Abolition of slavery in the British colonies. The event is celebrated in the republic of Hayti with great rejoicings. The French government, by means of its ambassador tothe Helvetic confederation, formally demands the expulsion of Louis Bonaparte from the state of Thurgovia, in Switzer land. 2 The House of Commons takes into consideration the lords' amendments in the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill. Lord J. Russell proposes an £B. qualification. The house divides: when the numbers are, for the motion 169, against it 154—majority for the motion 15. The Portuguese guerilla chief, Remechido, is shot at Faro. 3 The Tithes (Ireland) Bill goes through committee in the House of Lords. 6 Great meeting of the working classes at Holloway Head, near Birmingham. Serious affray at Dewsbury, at the adjourned meeting of the board of guardians at that place. 7 Lord Brougham brings under the notice of the House of Lords the question of the illegality of the ordinances of the Earl of Durham. The Lords reject the Commons' amendments as to the qualification in the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, there being for the Commons' amendments 67, for the Lords' amendments 141—majority 77. 9 Lord Brougham moves the second reading of the bill to indemnify those who have issued or dated under the Canada ordinances. The motion is opposed by ministers, and the house divides, when the numbers are, for the second reading 54, against it 36—majorit y in favour of the bill 18. The Tithes (Ireland) Bill is read a third time in the House of Lords, and passed. The lords having delivered their reasons for disagreeing to the commons' amendments in the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, and the commons persisting in their amend ments, Lord J. Russell moves that the lords' reasons be taken into consideration " this day three months." The motion is agreed to, and the bill is consequently deferred for the present session. William Price and Thomas Mears, alias Tyler, com panions of Courtenay, are found guilty of the murder of Nicholas Mears, at the vide of Dunkirk. 10 The other prisoners, companions of Courtenay, plead guilty to the indictment charging them with the murder of Lieut. Bennett, and are subsequently sentenced to trans portation or imprisonment. 11 Mr. Justice Lilly, whilst on the bench, at Newfound land, is arrested by warrant from the speaker of the House of Assembly. in consequence of deciding against the privi leges assumed by the house. 13 The Canada Indemnity Bill is read a third time to the House of Lords, and passed. 14 The Dublin Gazette announces three new murders, for which rewards are offered by government. Lord J. Russell introduces the Canada Indemnity Bill in the House of Commons, and states his views on the sub ject. The bill passes through one stage. The coroner's jury on the body of Andrew Brown, who was killed by the explosion of the boiler of the Victoria, Hull steam-vessel, returns a verdict of accidental death, de claring the boilers to have been unsafe, and levies a deodand of £1,500 upon the boiler. Lord Lyndhurst presents a petition to the House of Lords, from the merchants of Glasgow, complaining of the depressions of commerce. 15 The Canada Indemnity Bill is read a third time in the House of Commons, and passed. Information arrives of Mr. M'Neil, British envoy to the court of Persia, having broken off all communication with the Schah, in consequence of the Schah's perseverance in the siege of Herat. At a meeting at the Corn Exchange, in Dublin, Mr. O'Connell gives notice of his intention to propose a new plan to obtain justice for Ireland, or a repeal of the union. 16 Her Majesty goes in state to the House of Lords, and, after giving her assent to all the remaining public an d pri vate bills, prorogues Parliament till October. 18 Mr. O'Connell proposes his new plan of agitation, which consists in the formation of a society, to be called the " Precursors' Society." General Oraa raises the siege of Morrella, " the ene my having shown a decided resolution to defend the place." . 22 Charles Flower Mirfin is shot in a duel on Wimbledon common, by a person named Elliot. 13 Birth of Louis Philip Albert, Count of Paris, son of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. The Municipal Council of Paris vote the young prince a sword. 24 Execution of Devey, at Birmingham, for the murder of Mr. Davenport. 26 Died, aged 79, Sir John Nicholl, who had been for many years judge, successively of the Arches', Prerogative, and Aumiralty Courts of England. 28 Angelina Prow, indicted with Henry Myers, for the murder of her husband, is tried at the Old Bailey and ac quitted. A grand Te DEust, at which the King and royal family of France is present, is celebrated at the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Paris, on the occasion of the birth of the son of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. 22 Dinah Jones and Ann Byrom, who had been sentenced to death at Chester for infanticide, are respited by her Ma• jesty's commands. SEPTEMBER 2 The Christino troops, under General Coba, are sur prised and made prisoners by the Carlist Cencral Balmaseda, at Quintana de la Sierra. 4 Arrival at Ramsgate of the King and Queen of the Belgians, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor. 6 The Emperor of Austria, on the occasion of his coro nation in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, publishes a ge neral amnesty in favour of all persons accused of political offences. 7 The coroner's jury returns a verdict of " wilful mur der" against Elliot, the opponent of Mirtin, in the duel at Wimbledon-common, together with a verdict against five other persons as accessories. The Forfarshire (a steamer), from Hull to Dundee, is wrecked in a fog upon the Long Stone, Outer Fern Island. Of the passengers and crew 37 are lost, and 9 saved by the intrepidity - of the keeper of the light house and his daughter, Grace Darling. Two persons are suffocated in Aldgate Churchyard, by the foul air arising from one of the graves. Coronation of the Emperor of Austria, at Milan, as Emperor of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom. 9 Espartero abandons the siege of Estella. Schah Mahommed raises the siege of Herat. 11 Revolutionary riots take place at Stockholm. 17 A meeting of "the Working Men's Association" is held in Palace-yard, for the purpose of obtaining, by petition to parliament, an act, called by its authors, " the People's Charter." 18 Her Majesty reviews the household troops in Windsor Park. Gen. Fuen Mayor,aCarlist officer, and a national guard, named Alvarez, are executed at Madrid, for conspiracy. 19 Dreadful lire and loss of life in Tottenham-court-road. The Christinos under Gen. A laix are defeated by the Carlist General Garcia. 20 Henry Myers, an apothecary, charged with the murder of Thos. Davidson Pow, by administering to him large quan tities of gin whilst the patient was in a state oi delirium tremens, is tried at the Old Bailey and acquitted. 21 John Young and Henry 'Webber. parties in the duel on Wimbledon Common, are Henry guilty of Murder. 22 Luis Napoleon Bonaparte announces to the president of the council of Thurgau his intention of retiring from the soil of Switzerland, thus putting an end to the protracted negotiations on the subject. 24 A large meeting is held at Manchester, for the purpose of obtaining " the Peopl e ' s Ch ar t er ." Lord Francis Egerton is installed Lord Rector of the university of Aberdeen. 28 Death of Barnes, the pantomimist. 29 Lord Brougham is burnt in effigy at Qoebec. OCTOBER _ 1 The Christino division, commanded by Pardinas, is defeated, with a loss of 2500 men, by the Carlist General Cabrera, at Maella. General Oraa retires from the command of the army of the centre. 3 Public dinner to Lord John Russell, at the Town-hall, Liverpool. Lords Brougham, Melbourne, and Glenelg, are burnt in effigy at Montreal. 4 The Queen Dowager embarks at Portsmouth, for Malta. 8 Grand entertainments at Venice, on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor of Austria. 9 Death of Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay. • The Earl of Durham issues a proclamation, notifying to the people of Canada the disallowance by the imperial parliament of his ordinances relative to " the banishment of certain persons to Bermuda," and " to provide for the secu rity of the province of Lower Canada." Tip> noble earl at the same time takes the opportunity of justifying the course he has pursued, and blaming her Majesty's government for their disapprobation of hip measures, stating that, under these circumstances, he is unable satisfactorily to carry out his plans, and shall resign his powers into her Majesty's hands. The Queen of P or t uga l opens th e sess i on o f t he cortex. Disturbances in Saragossa, consequent on the defeat of Pardinas. 10 The Governor-general of India declares war againsi Peals. 10 The abstract of the revenue for the quarter ending this day shows an increase of £655,910 on the quarter, and £741,045 on the year. 12 The Northern Yacht (steamer), with 24 persons on board, is wrecked near Berwick, and all hands lost. A numerous meeting of merchants and others takes place in London, for the purpose of adopting measures to carry out the plan of steam navigation to India. 13 Queen Adelaide arrives at Gibraltar. 14 The English consul is ill-treated at Alexandretta, in Syria, by a number of Egyptian sailors. 15 The King of Holland opens the session of the states general. 16 Entry into the northern provinces of Spain of the Prin cess de Beira and the eldest son of Don Carlos. 20 Marriage of Don Carlos with the Princess de Beira, at Arcolis. 22 An extensive fire breaks out at Harrow, which destroys the house of the heal master, and other premises. 23 The Carlist General Merino crosses the head of the Ebro at the head of his brigade. A serious insurrection takes place in Valencia, which terminates in the assassination of the governor, and the ap pointment of a junta by the liberals. 24 Forty persons are killed by an explosion of fire damp in a coal pit at Harrington. General Lopez is elected governor of Valencia by the revolutionists. 25 Grand conservative demonstration at Brill, in Buck inghamshire. 26 The linendrapers' assistants of the metropolis meet. in Exeter Hall, and pass resolutions for the purpose of obtain ing the closing of the shops at an earlier hour. The Queen Regent of Spain, by a decree of this day, banishes from the capital the wives and children of all per sons in the service of Don Carlos. 27 A party of marines seated in a public-house at Chatham, are attacked by some soldiers of the 67th regiment, and se verely beaten. Two of the marines subsequently die of the injuries they received. Baron Verteul, responsible editor of La France, a legi timate print, is found guilty of libelling the King of the French, and sentenced to pay a fine of 3,000 francs; having asserted that the King had discovered and appropriated to himself the buried treasures of Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette. 29 The metropolis and neighbourhood is visited by one of the most severe storms of wind which had occurred for many years. 30 The officers of the brigade of guards, at Quebec, give a grand farewell dinner to the Earl of Durham. 31 Birth of the Prince of Portugal, on which occasion the usual rejoicings take place at Lisbon. The Queen Dowager of Great Britain arrives at Naples, on her way to Malta, and is entertained by their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Two Sicilies. NOVEMBER 2 The Castle-Hotel, Tamworth, is destroyed by fire, and six female servants burnt to death. 3 In consequence of the excited state of feeling of the population of Madrid, General Quiroga declares the city to be in a state of siege. Fifty-five Carlist prisoners are shot at Valencia, by order of file governor, Lopez, in retaliation for the reported shooting of 55 Christinos by Cabrera. 4 Intelligence having reached Montreal that the French Canadians had again risen in open rebellion, martial law is proclaimed in the province. A party of 400 rebels attacks the house of Mr. L. Brown, at Beauharnois, and takes that gentleman, with Mr. Ellice, jun., M.P., prisioner. A party of Indians defeats a body of armed French Canadians, near Caughnawaga, and takes 75 prisoners. 8 The Queen Regent of Spain opens the session of the comes. 9 Odell Town, in Lower Canada, is attacked by 900 Ca nadian rebels, who are compelled, by the volunteers, to re tire with loss. 11 Various collisions take place between the people and the military at Cologne. 12 A republican insurrection takes place at Seville, and General Cordova is installed president of the supreme pro vincial junta. The Canadian rebels land at Windmill Point, two miles from Prescott, and take up a position. 13 An engagement takes place at Prescott between the Queen's troops and the rebels, who were entirely defeated. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews having been unfavour ably received by the American public, make their last ap pearance on the American boards at New York, and Mr. Charles Mathews explains at full length to the audience the causes of his failure. 14 The orange lodges again re-assemble in Dublin. A workman is shot by the sentinel at the palace of the Tuilleries, having ignorantly stationed himself on a spot to which the sentinel had orders to allow no one to approach. 16 Two bailiffs, whilst levying a distress for poor rates on the goods of the overseer of the parish of Laugfield, near Todmorden, are assaulted and severely ill treated by a mob. Attempted assassination of Charles Luuis de Bourbon, reputed Duke of Normandy. Death of Mr. Cutler - Ferguson, judge advocate-gene ral. and M.P. for Kirkcudbright, at Paris, in his 70th year. 18 Narvaez accepts the office of Vice-President of the Junta of Seville, and great rejoicings consequently take place. _ _ 20 Grand public dinner to Mr. Urquhart by the Chamber of Commerce at Newcastle. The cavalry and artillery at Seville, under the com mand of Colonel Ortega, refuseto acknowledge the authority of Cordova, and leave that place. Death of the Earl of Sefton, in his 67th year. The President of the United mates issues a proclama tion, discouutenancing all efforts on the part of the Ameri cans to give aid to the Canadian rebels. Further riots at Tormorden, occasioned by proceedings under the new poor law. 22 The rule calling on the proprietor of the Satirist to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him, for a libel on the Marquis of Blandfurd, is made abso lute by the Court of Queen's Bench. 23 Conservative public dinner at Bedford. 27 Death of Marshal Lobau, commander-in-chief of the national guard of Paris, aged 68. 28 Murder of Susannah Hayle, a widow, by Hilliard, at Mountnessing. The St. Patrick steamer is lost near Church Town, on her voyage from Liverpool to Waterford, and six persons drowned. Forty-four prisoners are shot at Saragossa, by the junta of reprisals. 29 Violent storm of thunder and lightning, which occa sions much damage amongst the shipping along the coast. The Austrian troops commence the evacuation of Italy. Celebration in London of the anniversary of the Polish revolution. The freedom of the city of London, in a gold box, is voted by the common council to Thomas Clarkson, the first advocate of negro emancipation, and his bust ordered to be placed in the 30 The arrival of her Majesty the Queen Dowager at Malta. 31 The Earl of Durham lands at Devonport from Canada. DECEMBER 2 Harris, the pedestrian, completes his task of walking 1750 miles in 1000 successive hours, being one mile and three quarters each hour. 3 The French garrison evacuates Ancona, which is occu pied by a body of Papal troops. 4 Prorogation of parliament till the sth of next February. Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, is sentenced by the 6th chamber of correctional police at Paris to two years' impri sonment, and a fine of 500 francs, for having assaulted Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, in the gardens of the Tuilleries. Two gamekeepers of Harvey Coombe, Esq., are at tacked in Cobha►n Park by poachers, and one of them killed. The proceedings of the American senate are interrupted by a mob, which takes possession of the Senate House, and threatens several of the members, who make their exit by the windows. 5 Sir Lionel Smith dissolves the House of Assembly of Jamaica. Renewal of the disgraceful scenes in the American senate. 6 John Millie, clerk in the savings bank at Newcastle upon-Tyne. is found murdered in the bank, which, it appeared, had been set tire to. 8 Death of Sir James Allan Park, one of the judges of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, in his 73d year. The cotton mill of Mr. Jowett, Ashton-under-Lyne, is partially destroyed by fire, by which nearly 400 people were thrown out of employment. 9 The army of reserve of Spain, consisting of 40,000 men, which had been formed by General Narvaez, is dissolved by a royal decree. Disturbance at Fuenza, shortly after the departure of the Austrian troops. The Queen of Portugal opens the session of the Cortes. 1U Fungal of Marshal Lobau, which is attended by all the notional guards and garrison of Paris. 12 Meetings take place about this period, to oppose the proposed plan of opening the Post-office in London on Sun days. The Dean of the Arches' Court, decides that it is not contrary to the rules of the protestant church to place an inscription on a tomb-stone in a protestant church yard re. questing prayers for the dead, and adding questions from the Roman catholic version of the Bible. A proclamation is issued by her Majesty against noctur nal and tumultuous assemblages of persons by torch-light. 14 A meeting takes place at the Horns Tavern, Kenning ton, to petition parliament against the grant to the College at Maynooth. 15 Two hundred Carlist prisoners, taken near Cheste, are shot by order of the Christina general, Van Halen. 16 Espartero attacks Poblacion, commanded by the Cu rate of Dello, and is compelled to retreat with the loss of 800 men. 17 The King of France opens the session of the chambers. The Bank of Belgium suspends cash payments. 18 Mr. O'Connell dissolves, and re-organises on a more extensive scale, the Precursor Society. Grand dinner of the Loyal and Constitutional Associ ation at the Town.hall, Birmingham. 19 The Times newspaper is found guilty of a libel on Sir John Conroy, equerry to the Duchess of Kent. Explosion of fire damp at Wallsend collery, by which 11 persons are killed. 20 Destructive fire at Whitechapel. The Hon. and Rev. George Spencer is entertained at a public dinner at West Bromwich, at which one of the toasts is " His Holiness the Pope, and the reconversion of our country, the isle of saints." 21 Sir James Graham is installed Lord Rector of the uni versity of Glasgow. Public dinner to the Marquis of Chandos, by the Nor folk and Suffolk Agricultural Association, at Eye. 22 An address is presented to Sir James Graham, at the Trades' Hall, from the merchants, bankers, manufacturers, and other inhabitants of Glasgow. , Death of the Earl of Clarendon, at Walmer-terrace, Deal. 24 Opening of the whole line of the London and Green wich railway. 27 The Rev. J. R. Stephens, of Ashton-under-Lyne, is arrested at Manchester for sedition, by a warrant from the secretary of state. 28 Meeting, of the Protestant Association at Exeter Hall, on the subject of the prosecution of the Protestants in Ireland. 29 A writ of habeas corpus is granted by Mr. Justice Lit tledale, to bring up the Canadian rebels, who had arrived in this country on their way to Botany Bay. The Wesley an Centenary Fund leached the noble amoun t of upwards of £lll,OOO before the close of the year jus ended. The tide of contributions is still flowing freely.— Watchman. MRS. SWOONS AND THE POT OF PORTER.—During the engagement of this great actress at Leeds, one evening was excessively hot, and Mrs. Siddons was tempted by a torturing thirst to consent to avail herself of the only obtainable relief proposed to her at the moment. Her dresser, therefore, de spatched a boy in great haste to "fetch a pint of beer for Mrs. Siddons," at the same time charging him to be quick, as Mrs. Siddons was in a hurry for it, Meanwhile the play proceeded, and, on the boy's return with the frothed pitcher, he looked about fur the person who ha I sent him on his errand, and, not seeing her, inquired " Where is M rs. Siddons ?" The scene shifter whom he questioned, pointing his finger to the stage, where she was performing the sleeping scene of Lady Mac beth, replied, "There she is." To the surprise and horror of all the performers, the boy promptly walked on the stage close up to Mrs. Siddons, and, with a total unconsciousness of the impropriety he was committing, presented the porter. Her distress may be imagined; she waved the boy away in her grand manner several times, without effect; at last the peo ple behind the scenes, by dint of beckoning, stamping, and calling in half-audible whispers, succeeded in getting him off with the beer, part of which, in his exit, he spilled on the stage; while the audience were in an uproar of laughter, which the dignity of the actress was unable to quell for several minutes.— Memoirs-of the late .Chatlea..tlicatitows, by his widow, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER—FRIDAY EVENING. THE DERBY. 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton (tk) 1 „ Lord Jersey's Ilderim (tk) 1 „ Duke of Rutland's Flambeau (lk) 1 „ Lord Albemarle's Tros (tk) 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus (tk) 1 „ Mr. \Vreford's Weslonian (tk) 1 „ Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury (1k) The field against any ten taken freely. THE, OAKS. 6 to 1 on the field offered. THE CHESTER CUP. 12 to 15 to 16 to 22 to 25 to 30 to 35 to The entry is particularly good, it reaches 43; some twenty more than one if not more of our sporting gentlemen ima gined.—No offers have been made on the field. TAUFERSALL'S—TitunsDAY. The subjoined quotations include so small a number of horses, and present so little in the way of change, as to render any introductory remarks altogether unnecessary ; it will suffice to give the prices, at the close of a dull afternoon : THE DEI:BY. 12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton (tl3) 16 to 1 „ Lord Jersey's Ilderim 16 to 1 „ Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 22 to 1 „ Colonel Peel's Dev of Algiers (tk) 25 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Accelerator 25 to 1 „ Lord Albemarle's 'lros 35 to 1 „ Mr. Batson's Brother to Plenipo (tk) 50 to 1 „ 111 i. Greatrex's Tontine colt (t k) 50 to 1 „ Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt (tk) 50 to 1 „ Duke of Grafton's Pastille colt (1k) 1000 to 15 „ Lord Jersey's Cain colt (tk) 2000 to 25 „ Sir G. Ileatheote's Chimborazo (tk) 500 to 400 on Cain colt against Dulcimer (tk;) 300 evrm between Flambeau and Ilderim (tk ;) 25 to 1 against Sir G. Heatbcote's lot, and 1000 to 15 against each of the three (taken.) THE CHASE. The Cheshire Hounds will meet to-morrow, (Wednesday,) the 9th, at Manor House; Thursday, the 10th, at Booth lane Smithy; Saturday, the 12th, at Tattoo Park; Monday, the 14th, at Sandiway Head; Wednesday, the 16th, at Choi mondeley Castle; Thursday, the 17th, at Wilkesley Village; Saturday, the 19th, at Windmill on liayensmoor, each morning at half-past ten o'clock. DEATH OF MRS. MACLEAN (L.E.L.) (From the Courier.) With a feeling of sorrow which thousands will in some mea sure share, though few can perfectly estimate its depth or sa credness, we this day announce the death of Mrs. Maclean, the wife of George Maclean Esq., Governor of Cape Coas Castle. She died suddenly on the 15th of October last, soon after her arrival on that fatal shore, which is the grave of so many valuable lives, but of none more va - luable than her's. The qualities which gave to "L.E.L. ' so proud and permanent a claim upon public admira - tion, were not those which constituted the chief charm o f her character in the estimation of her more intimate and deeply attached friends. Brilliant as her genius was, her heart was, after all, the noblest and truest gift that nature i❑ its la vishness had bestowed upon her—upon her, who paid back the debt which she owed for these glorious endowments of heart and mind, by an indefatigable exercise of her powers for the delight of the public, and by sympathies the most ge nerous and sincere with human virtue and human suffering. More perfect kindness and exquisite susceptibility than her's was, never supplied a graceful and fitting accompaniment to genius, or elevated the character of woman. We cannot, however, write her eulogy now—we can only lament her loss, and treasure the recollection which a long and faithful friend ship renders sacred. The feeling with which we record this mournful intelligence at the commencement of a new year, will be respected, when we state that only yesterday morning we received from Mrs. Maclean a most interesting and affecting letter, which sets forth at once with the animating assertion, '• I am very well, and very happy." " The only regret," she proceeds to say, " the only regret (the emerald ring that I fling into the dark sea of life to propitiate fate) is the constant sorrow I feel when ever I think of those whose kindness is so deeply treasured." She says that her residence at the Castle of Cape Coast is "like living in the Arabian Nights—looking out upon palm and cocoanut trees." And she then enters into a light hearted and pleasant review of her housekeeping troubles, touching yams and plaintains—and a not less interesting ac count of her literary labours and prospects—intimating that the ship which brought the letter we quote, brought also the first volume of a novel, and the manuscript of another work to he published periodically. To the last her friendly gossip is full of life, cheerfulness, and hope. The next ship that sailed—how very soon afterwards—brought to us the tidings of the sudden sacrifice of that life, the memory of which should be dear to all who can appreciate poetry, and wit, and generosity; the refinements of taste and the kindly impulses of the heart, that make human nature—and woman's nature especially—most worthy to be regarded with admiration and affection. (From the Watchman.) We have been furnished with the following, extract from a letter of the Rev. 'Thomas Freeman, Wesleyan missionary at Cape Coast, containing the announcement of this cala mitous event. The sympathy of a large portion of the pub lic, as well of her immediate friends, will be awakened by :he circumstances of the death of this talented and estimable lady :—" Cape Coast Town, Oct. 16, 1838.—Here I would gladly close my letter, but, alas ! alas ! I feel it my painful duty to record the awfully sudden death of poor Mrs. Maclean—not occasioned by any sickness peculiar to this climate (her general health having been very good from the day she landed until yesterday morning,) when she was found dead in her room, lying close to the door, having in her hand a bottle which had contained prussic acid, a portion of which she had taken (as proved by the surgeon,) the remainder being spilt on the floor. She had been, a short time before, in apparent good health and spirits. A letter was found, which she had written to a friend in Scotland, dated the same morning, in which she expresses herself as satisfied and pleased with Cape Coast and its inhabitants, and as finding every thing here much better than she had expected. (She told me the same eight or ten days ago, or thereabouts.) On the body being thus found, a - jury was immediately sum moned, composed of the European merchants of the town, (I was not among them,) and the nature of the evidence given was such as they considered would authorise them to give a verdict to the following effect :—' It is thought that she was seized with spasms in n the stomach (with which she was often troubled, being subject to them), and took an over dose of prussic acid, as she was found dead on the floor of her bed-room, close to the door, with the small bottle in her hand. It is suppose that she took an over-dose, which killed her.'—Mr. Maclean had been very ill with the same complaint (the spasms,*) while she only felt them for a short time at once, not enough to make her ill. Indeed, whenever I have seen her, (which was often) she always appeared in high health and spirits. We all deeply deplore the event. She was a person of an amiable disposition. To me she was very kind, especially during my late illness, in sending me any little thing (such as dried fruit, &c.) which I stood in need of. I fondly hoped she would have been spared ; for. though her literary pursuits would most probably hace hindered from paying much attention to our poor degraded Fantee females, yet even the mere presence of an European lady is of vast importance in this place. I have dwelt longer than I ought, perhaps, on this melancholy catastrophe, because I feared lest it should operate injuriously on the mind of any mis sionaries. or their wives, whom the committee may intend to send to this station. * The spasms are by no means peculiar to this climate; the only complaints which are peculiar and dangerous here are the fever and dysentery. Epidemics are scarcely known at Cape Coast, STEAM NAVIGATION TO THE BRAZILS. There has been an important memorial ly►ng for signature for some time past, at the North and South American Coffee house, on the subject of steam navigation between England, Brazil, and the River de la Plata. The packet establish ment existing between Falmouth and Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Ayres, is so irregular, that there is a communication with the important putts of Pernam buco and Bahia only six times in the year; the trade winds and currents of the ocean preventing any sailing packet from touching at these places excepting during one half of the year. To Buenos Ayres there cannot be said to be any regular post-office packet establishment, the mails being f or warded from Rio de .faneiro by means of any of the sm aller vessels of war, which may happen to be on the South American station, and disengaged from more active duties at the time. So much is the voyage usually lengthened by these irregularities, that very few letters and passengers are understood to be conveyed by her Majesty's packets; and there is undoubtedly an extensive loss to the revenue from the present obstruction of the business by the merchant vessels, which arrive in so much shorter time from the ports of Brazil; and, accordingly, the memorial to the treasury sets forth these inconveniences to the merchants, and loss to the government, and prays that a monthly line of steam packets should be established from Falmouth to Madeira, the Canaries, the Cape de Verd Islands, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, thus shortening the voyage about one-half in respect to time. The present average passage outwards to Rio de Janeiro is fifty six days, and homewards seventy-four ; whereas the steam-packets, it is estimated i❑ the memorial, could very easily accomplish the same passage in thirty days outwards and thirty-six days home; although this, it may be ob served, is about double the time corresponding to the per formances of the Great Western steam-ship across the much less favourable seas between England and New York. The probability is, therefore, that the improvements in steam na vigation will render the passage two-thirds shorter between Falmouth and the various ports of Brazil; and yet it would appear that there would be no difficulty in obtaining con tractors for the voyage of twelve monthly mails outwards and homewards, by first-rate steam-ships, for the allowance of £40,000 per annum, which is now expended on the sailing , packets on the same line. The post-office revenue, it is rea soned, would be very largely increased; for a change in the system, which would cause the whole of the correspondence to be conveyed in steam-packets, that would be only one third or one-half of the time upon the sea, and as the ex pense to the government would be the same as for the present unsatisfactory line of sailing vessels, and as the commercial and political advantages are evidently so extensive and valuable, from thus bringing, as it were, so many of the finest of the South American countries within one-third of the present distance of England, it is to be hoped that this important memorial may meet with proper consideration from the treasury and board of trade. Amongst the signa tures are the names of Baring, Gladstone, Rothschilds, and other eminent mercantile, banking, and manufacturing firms.—Morning Chronic'e. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' CIRCUITS, 1839. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT (H. R. Reynolds, Esq. chief COM missioner).—Berks, Feb. 19; Oxford, 21; Worcester, 23; Radnor, 26; Hereford, 27; Monmouth, March 1; Breck nock, 4; Cardigan, 6; Pembroke, 8; Carmarthen, 11 ; Gla morgan, at Cardiff; 15; Gloucester, at Gloucester, 18, at Bristol, 21; Somerset, at Bath, 21, at Wells, 23; Devon, at Exeter, 28, at Plymouth, April 1; Cornwall, 3; Dorset, 6; Wilts, at Salisbury, 8, at Southampton, 9; Hampshire, 10. NORTHERN CIRCUIT (J. G. Harris, Esq. commissioner), —Rutland, Feb. 21 ; York, at Sheffield, 22, at Wakefield. 25, at the City of York. March 2, at York Castle, 4, at Kings, ton-upon-Hull. 6, at Richmond, 8; Durham, 9; Northum berland, 12; Cumberland, 15; Westmorland, at Appleby -16, at Kendal same day; Lancaster, at Lancaster, 18, a, Preston, 25, at Liverpool, T . ; ; Cheshire, 28 ; Angleseyt April 1; Carnarvon, 2 ; Merioneth, 4; Montgomery, 6; Denbigh, 9; Flint, 10. AN IRISH ArronNEy.—On the trial of an action brought by an attorney for the recovery of his bill of costs, which was heard in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin, last week, the de fendant's counsel read from the plaintiff's bill the following items :—" To anxiety of min.;, and want of sleep occasioned thereby, for 14 days, at 10s. per diem, £7. As I was walking through town about your business, I was run over by a car, and 1 did not know what became of me until 1 found myself in an apothecary's shop, very sore and uneasy; in fact, I escaped by the skin of my teeth from death—for all this lost time (I was a fortnight sick,) and for anxiety of mind, not talking of great bodily pain, I charge the moderate sum of £l2. To time lost in endeavouring to borrow money for you, which 1 could not get, £lO. To great inconvenience in setting your house, and loss of time in drawing up deeds and leases, £100." (Roars of laughter, i❑ which the court heartily joined.) The Chief Baron charged the jury, that as the action was brought on a judgment obtained, by the plaintiff, they must find a verdict for him, but recommended the defendent to bring.the case into a court of ognlfy.—Freeman's Journal. ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE OLDHAM _OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. On Friday evening the Fourth Anniversary Dinner of the Oldham Operative Conservative Association was held at the Assembly Rooms Oldham. On the last occasion the dinner was most numerously attended, but this time the large room in which the meeting was held was most uncomfortably crowded. If we may draw conclusions from this, it omens well for the conservative cause, and is one of the best proofs of the increase of conservatism. Upwards of 450 tickets were sold, and the committee were compelled to .stop the sale, as the room would not accommodate more. The room was ornamented with a number of handsome flags bearing various inscriptions, and union jacks. Over the end of the bottom of the room a spacious gallery was erected for the accommodation of about 150 of the ladies of Oldham; the few back seats were allotted to the operative's wives. Over the chairman's head was a large blue flag, with the inscrip tion, "Egerton and Wilbraham." In the centre of the room was hung an exceedingly handsome flag, presented by the conservative ladies of Oldham, to the Oldham Operative Conservative Association. One side was decorated with several of Lyall's portraits, the royal standard of England, the union jack; the bible and crown, encircled with the star of Brunswick, and the inscription. " For God, the sovereign, and the people." On the other side was represented the Oldham arms, with the star of Brunswick, and the inscrip tion, "head facile captu."—Mr. ltobt. Wright occupied the chair, and Messrs H. Bulkeley, Cornelius Backhouse, and G. Ormrod, were vice-presidents. To the right of the chair man sat Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Josh. Jones, Esq. senior, and Josh. Jones, Esq. jun. Capt. Clarke, the Rev. Thomas Blackburn, rector of Prestwich, Capt. Taylor, Rev. Mr. Bentley, of Ashton-under-line, and Henry Turner, Esq. of Stockport. To the chairman's left sat the Hon. Bootle Wilbraham, M.P. the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, Rev. John Holme, John Roby, Esq. of Rochdale, Nicholas Earle, Esq. Jonah Harrap, Esq. and H. H. Blorton, Esq. and other gentlemen. Dinner was on the table soon after four o'clock; after a most substantial dinner, the cloth was removed, and "non nobis domine" having been sung, The CHAIRMAN then proposed, with very able introduc tions, the usual loyal toasts— " The Queen."—The toast was given with three times three cheers. Anthem —" God save the Qneen." "The Queen Dowager, and the rest of the Royal Family." Glee—" Hail smiling morn." Charles Wilkins, Esq. here arrived, and was greeted with loud cheering. Mr. Ogden, of Oak, and Mr. Worthington here presented the very costly and magnificent flag before alluded to, from the ladies of Oldham to the association, and Mr. Worthing ton read an appropriate address which was loudly applauded. The CHAIRMAN nest proposed the" Church and Constitu tion." 111 r. EARLE, solicitor, of Ashton. responded to the toast. 'The Duke of Wellington and the ai-my." (Great cheer ing.) Song.—" Fill high the cup." Mr. ROSY, of Rochdale, acknowledged the toast. "Our wooden walls, the right arm for the defence of this nation." Captain CLARKE acknowledged the toast in a speech Of considerable ability. The CHAIRMAN said be should be wanting in respect to the noble lord and his noble colleague, if he did not acknow ledge the great honour they had conferred on that meeting by their presence on that occasion. (Cheers.) It was cal culated to produce the most beneficial results in that district —(hear)—to the cause which they advocated. In proposinc , the next toast, his remarks, however, must necessarily be brief; for where the objects were so generally known, they required no repetition or republication from him. 'rh ere was not a Conservative in the kingdom, he believed, but in that county be was sure, that had not heard the names of Lord Francis Egerton and the Hon. R. Bootle Wilbraham. (Loud cheers.) And having heard them, who had not been made acquainted with their virtues, and their sincere devotion to the constitution, and support of the conservative cause There was not a conservative present whose heart had not bounded with joy at their triumphant return. It was for that meeting to declare its conviction of the truth of that, and its gratitude for their services. (Much cheering.) He con cluded with proposing Our worthy County Representatives, Lord Francis Eger ton and the Hon. Bootle Wilbraham." Enthusiastic and long-continued cheering.) Lord FRANCIS EGERTON then rose, amidst the most en thusiastic cheering, to acknowledge the toast. He said, when first gentlemen, I received the invitation from your respected chairman to attend this meeting, I was obliged, most reluctantly, to express some doubts as to my physical ability to attend on this occasion. I have reason indeed, gentlemen, to congratulate myself that those doubts were not prophetic; for gentlemen, I could not have felt upon any occasion, or with reference to any society of those whom I am proud to call my supporters in this county—l could not have felt regret so deep, as in being unable to do what I am always anxious to do, to attend on such an occasion as the present. (Cheers.) It has been a satisfaction to me to meet here, not only those whom I have to thank for support in this town, but to meet unexpectedly to myself, and there fore the satisfaction is the greater, with many of those from whom I have derived, and the cause of the constitution, has derived sympathy, in another and neighbouring town sim larly situated, that of Ashton;—(hear)—and it has - been a satisfaction to me to find that the toast of the navy should be responded to by one so able to do it justice—by your friend and neighbour Captain Clarke, of Ashton. (Cheers.) It is a pleasure to see those who have performed duty to their country in their youth in that arduous profession, ornaments to their country on their return. " It is a pleasure to see reflection's genial ray, Gild the calm close of valour's various day." (Cheers.) But with reference to this town I will say that its peculiar circumstances are such as to have imposed on me a deeper obligation, to attend, if possible, this present festival, or any one met together for a similar purpose here; for, gentlemen, I suppose I shall be considered as paying a very bad compli ment to this town by many who dwell in it, if I were to call it a Conservative town. I certainly have it not in my power to call it a Whig town; I very much doubt whether such a phenomenon as Whig town exists in this county. (Cheers.) At the same time, this town is one of those sudden creations of commercial and manufacturing prosperity, which have grown up and reared themselves, to the astonishment of the traveller who visits this country, and like all those places it is peculiarly exposed to all vicissitudes of distress, which no form of government from Algiers to New York could possibly altogether prevent from assailing a town of that description ; and therefore I presume it is, that in this town, as in others, similarly situated, many have been led to hold extreme opinions in favour of organic changes in the constitution, those changes which you are met here, as I presume you are, to oppose yourselves to, and to protect this country from.— (Loud cheering.) And therefore it is that I say, it might be supposed by many of the inhabitants present, that if I were to call it anything than that which it bears the reputation of being, in other parts of the country, of being a Radical town, I should be paying a very poor compliment to it. (Cheers.) At the same time, speaking from my own expe rience, slight, indeed, I should say, if it be Radical town, it has more reasoning in its Radicalism, more good humour in its discontent, and is more cordial and zealoui in its conser vatism, than any town that I know of between St. George's Channel and the Yorkshire coast. (Loud cheering.) But if it be a Radical town, I say it is on that very account that it gives me greater gratification to meet you here on this occasion, to find you stemming, the stream rather than sailing with the torrent. (Cheers.) I appeal to my worthy friend's experience in the navy, whether it may be agreeable to sail with the breeze—to have it behind you, and to feel the com parative tranquillity which all sailors experience under those circumstances; but whether there be not something exhilara ting and exciting iu bearing up against that breeze— " That breeze which fills the sails and bends the gallant mast, my boys," " While, like an eagle, free She leaves old England's lee, Oh, fora fair and gentle gale— . I heard some fair one cry ; But give to me a roaring breeze, And white waves foaming high; And white waves foaming high, my boys, he ‘good ship light and free; While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea." (Enthusiastic cheers.) So sings the bard, describing the pro gress. of his vessel; and 1 do think that under those circuni. stances of toil and conflict and commotion, we are met this day; and we shall find more cordiality in such a meeting, than if we were met to praise the measures of official powers in this country.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, as I repeat again, from my own experience I deny the fact that this town de , serves the reputation that I tell you it has. In other parts of the country, with which I am not acquainted, they tell me it is one of the places returning members under the reform bill, a result which has been produced by former agitation. But this society, which I see before me, proves to me thetruth of the old adage, "the devil is nut always so black as he is painted."—( Laughter and cheers.) Gentlemen, I have taken the liberty of speaking my opinion, that hardly such a phe nomenon as a Whig town, meaning a town which supports the views of ministers, and has confidence in their professions —that there hardly exists such a phenomenon in this county, or in the rest of England; and if such a one were discovered, people would take a pilgrimage to go to see it. I say not this on my own authority ; I ask you to judge if the present situation of the Whig party is such, not from the comments made on it by those who profess Conservative principles, but from the comments of their former adherents; and if it be in that situation, we may well ask, what is the reason why it should be fallen so low in the estimation of this country, and, I believe, of the world. That party possesses great wealth, great influence, considerable talent, and private worth, amongst the individual members who compose it; it has per formed great—services I will not call them, for I think them none ; but it has performed considerable deeds, in the way of change, in this great country, it has consoled the feelings of those who look with enmity on the church, toa great extent, its pretensions have been lofty, and its alterations extensive, and yet was it deprived not only of the confidence of those who have been its habitual opponents, but the approbation of those, who, for seasons best known to themselves, have hitherto given it their support. Gentlemen, the reason, I believe, to be this; I believe that that party, as a party, rests under the imputation of rank insincerity; that being in its associations, and in its composition as aristocratic as any party that ever existed, it has used the language, and courted the support of the most abandoned levelism in this,country.—(Cheers.) I believe it started with the profession of governing without those aids, the use of which was mentioned in its opposition, as a reproach to the party that preceded it in power;—with out patronage, and piling up cominissionerships, and raising up corps of barristers of six years standing, without influence, and making use at times of elections, and at every other time of arts and influence, which Walpole would have repudiated; of preserving peace, and of losing every friend we have in Europe and making was with almost every power in Europe, and having the crtdit of authorising what indeed cannot be called war, in Spain, but of engaging British arms, and un furling British banners to the breezes of a country which never before saw them unfurled, but to lead on to victory, in a cause unjustified by necessity, unjustified by the result, and in which with even British valour and British discipline it was all they could do to preserve those sacred emblems from ruin and die graca. They lie under the accusation of pretending to fling themselves on the country,and condescending to exist and drag on their existence by the influence of the crown, and by the practices imputed to Bute by his political enemies of that day. They are accused of transposing the method of trans portation, not for offenders against the law or the country, but in reference to those that may prove inconvenient rivals for power and court favour at home—(cheers) —of making, use of the Atlantic, not as the means of transport and con veyance for talent, prurience, and wisdom to a colony which God knows, needs all for its guidance, hut of making use of that ocean as a barrier to the avenues of Buckingham House. (Cheers.) It is, I believe, for reasons such as these, which might be multiplied 10 fold in number—it is for reasons such as these that they have lost the confidence of the nation. It is for that reason that they have seen the real integrity and by far the greatest talents of their ranks, drop from them in two instances, at least that I may name—but it is unnecessary to mention to you the names of Lord Stan ley and of Graham. (Cheers.) It is for such reasons as these, that they are threatened and opposed, not merely by those who on every principle of consistency, have been their firtn and habitual opponents, but by those very radicals who use them for a season, and whoi will, when a fair oppor unity offers, fling them away disgraced, ruined, and no longer useful. (Immense cheers.) Gentlemen,—l have taken the liberty to allude to some of the leading topics of accusation, which I think may be brought against her Majesty's present advisers—topics at all events, of suspicion under which they lie in the opinion of the country. There are circumstances at the present moment, more peculiarly affecting this loca lity, of great interest to all of us. Upon that I do not equally intend to dwell; for I think, gentlemen, though, as they might be brought to bear in direct reference upon the pre tensions of tb,,e present govermnent to power, and of their peculiar fitness for wielding that power, it might by some be expected that I should in this respect dwell on them hbrt, at this moment; but, gentlemen. at a time of peculiar local ex citement, and when I, who have the honour to address you, shall shortly have the opportunity of appearing in that !Louse where this question, and all affecting the country, can be ap proached with greater facility, and more thoroughly sifted and discussed. Ido not think that perhaps occasions like this are most fitted for approaching them, and investigating them. (Hear.) And I am the more inclined to take this course, because to you I could have no advice or exhortation to offer. Is it for me to preach to you exhortations, to perform obedience to the laws and submission to constituted authority? Am Ito repeat to you advice that has already been alluded to, the advice of a great lord who laid his head on the scaf fold at Bolton-le-Moors for the crown, and insisted on " respect fOr the crown, though it hung on a bush ?" Lan guage like this would be an insult. But I have not here to rally reluctant friends around the banner of our laws and constitution, I have not here to use language of that descrip tion; you came here to support the principles of order, of law, and of propriety; that is the very purpose of your meeting, and it would be idle for me to dwell on that subject. (Cheets.) There is but one circumstance on which, in fair ness to that party whom I have come here deliberately to assail, and whom I propose to the best of my ability to assail elesewhere. (Cheers.' it is but fair to name one topic, which I do not drag on the file of charges as the measure of the present government; I do not drag on that file the New Poor Law, he its merits what it may Ido not consider that as a party measure, or as a measure for which exclusively the government are responsible. (Hear, hear.) There is ano ther topic also, which, though a very fertile and a very attrac tive one, I shall not dwell on at any length. It is the case of Lord Durham,—the subject of Canada. It is one of deep and prevailing interest. It is no slight matter whether we shall see one of the jewel's of the crown and one of the brightest, filched by the hands of the rebel, or the hands of pirates from the United States; it is a matter of no light moment whether the government have done their duty to the colonies or not; but that is a question which concerns the character of an individual in this country, who is, I consi der—however he may consider it himself, he considers it as one of triumph—but, in my opinion at least, he stands upon his trial before the country, and I shall not anticipate the verdict which I, as a member of parliament, may be called upon to give, by any observations that at least may prejudice him (cheers); and I beg to be understood in any allusion that 1 have made to it at all, as not alluding in the slightest degree to the conduct of the noble lord, but purely to his conduct that has been before the country. Of him and of them, all I can say, and all I have a right to say, is this, that if report speaks trite as to the language of ministers and their adherents, with regard to Lord Durham, and to the language and expressions which Lord Durham himself has uttered in the country to corporations,—if these be correctly rcportod, It phOUld be in any good period of English history, that both the government and Lord Dur ham most unquestionably ought to be impeached. But ob serve, I say this on the evidence, the cross-firing, and the cross indictments of the parties themselves, and not on any evidence or any opinion brought forward against them by those who are the political opponents of both; that is, the Conservative party. For myself, I preserve my judgment clear as to that noble lord, in any points which have come under observation, as it is possible for a man to do who is about to enter, perhaps, in some respects, as a judge on that trial. But great as is the importance of that colony to us, there are topics of greater import, which may well arrest our attention from such a subject as Canada. The time is come, when upholding all laws consistently passed, we may be called on at no distant period to defend the provisions of the reform bill, in whole or in part. I have here, gentlemen, a pamphlet, called " A Letter to the Queen." Tbat pam phlet has been falsely attributed to a very eminent nobleman, Lord Brougham. 'that put me somewhat in mind of an acci dent that betel to myself. It does not fall to every one's lot to hear an Irish bull—to hear it and catch it warm in the fact. (A laugh.) It did happen to me that when walking in the courts in Dublin, two students walked before me, and one was very loudly conversing with the other, and said to him, " What do you think the villain did ? he wrote an anonymous letter, an' put another man's name to it. (Laugh.. ter.) Somebody or other has written an anonymous letter, and put Lord Brougham's name to it; and here it is, called "A letter to the Queen." And, gentlemen, it is perfectly inpossible, and I believe sincerely it is not the fact that Lord Brougham ever penned such a composition ; for it contains mixed up with the vituperation against her Majesty's go vernment, in which it most cordially acquiesces and con demns, but it contains a condemnation of that measure of reform fur which we were called on to illuminate our windows, and for the non-illumination of which, mine I know were broken. (A laugh.) It contains a bitter denunciation o that measure. And Lord Brougham, who defended the £lO franchise as a pure creation of purity and intelligence—it is perfectly impossible that Lord Brougham can now come for ward and treat the £lO householder as a reptile and a slave, submissive to the commands of his superiors. But when such professions are put forth to the public, and when the number who listen to those who write such pamphlets as this, are called on to support the total repeal of the reform bill; though they may resist provisions in the enactment, they are not al together useless or uncalled for; and I trust, by the ex amples of other nations. you will scout this attempt to obtain popular favour by a rapid degeneration to the repub lican form of government of which we have so brilliant an ex ample at this present speaking on the other side the Atlantic. I know not what may be the sentiments of. our government, but I have always considered government to be in the nature of a family. What should you say of a family, the master of which was unable to keep his childre❑ in the house? I should say that was a bad system of family government, but if we found those children also making incursions into their neigh hom's garden, breaking the windows of the opposite house, and destroying the frame, I should take this as an additional and intolerable proof that that system of domestic govern ment was not the model for imitation, which it had frequently been supposed and suggested to be. Why, gentlemen, the example is really too bitter for jesting at this period. 1 read in the last evening's paper of incursions which the glorious patterns in the United States are unable to repress; that war has been renewed, and that fresh slaughter of an innocent and unoffending population is reddening the field, which population ought to receive protection from the British crown; that the United States are unable to restrain this monstrous outrage upon peace and property, and yet this is in the United States, the best form of confederation, and which they boast themselves is an example of good government to the civilized world. I say this then is a bad time, and these are bail ex amples to induce us to transform our constitution after that model, But it may be said why should we assemble now ? We should be prepared to defend the constitution, and to maintain our opinions. It might be asked, ‘. Are not minis ters our friends ? Ate they not afraid of destroying, the constitution ? Has not Lord John Russell opposed the ballot ? Elas not government passed the Irish tithe hill, which maintains the sacred principle of the connection which the Protestant church has with the constitution of the country ? Has not Lord Duncanuon's son, the son of a cabinet min ister, given a sharp rebut to the Precursors ? Yes. Lord John Russell has opposed the ballot, manfully, and with considerable - ability, certainly with less ability than Lord Brougham opposed ►t upon a former occasion, and it is some satisfaction to learn from this pamphlet that there is dissection in the camp upon this subject. The ten pound householder is a reptile and a slave, says this pamphlet, but still we will have nothing to do with the ballot. I think then, gentlemen, with regard to the ballot, the change he contemplated being carried into execution is less likely to be first in the list, than the change to the ballot, which I know government are called upon from very influential quarters to change their opinions upon. And lam not without a persuasion that the time may come when a change of opinion upon the part of Lord . John Russell upon the ballot, or a surrender ofopinion, will be a part of the bargain for a continuation of himself and his party to power. I for one think the change would be a measure disgraceful, ineffi cacious for its own purpose, talculated to ruin character and independence, and honourable feeling in this country. have constantly voted against it, and I hold to be so danger ous that I will do all in my power to ward it off. It is true Lord Duncannon's son, a young man of high character and considerable attainment, has read that short lecture to Mr. O'Connell, and the precursors, but the precursors are all pow erful at the Castle of Dublin, let Lord Duncannon's son say what be may. It is true, government have passed the Irish tithe bill; but it is true there are those who trample it on the ground, scatter its provisions to the wind, and deprive the Protestant Church of the support secured to it by the act and treaty of union; it is true there are persons with the white stick about the person of the Queen, and in Buckingham house, and that at the court the minister of the day is all powerful, for the appointment or the dismissal of those men. It is in contemplation of such facts as these, that I see and meet you. I say . you do well to express your honest *- Mons. and maintain those principles, and do not leave the constitution to those who profess to be its defenders, but who may be preparing for retreat and surrender. After a few further observations, the noble lord sat down amidst loud cheers. The Right Hon. B. Wunitatram rose amidst loud cheer ing, and also responded to the toast. He could not plead the physical disability of his noble colleague, and should feel it his duty, whenever called on to be present at their meetings, to give them encouragement by his presence. (Cheers.) He had first suggested the establishment of the association at Newton, and was happy to see it go on and prosper. He had, whenever called upon by any of his constituents, done his utmost to forward their interests, and he hoped e that his conduct had been such as to give satisfaction, and that it would ensure for him their respect, if not their support on future occasions. (Cheers.) He, for his part, looked on the member for the borough (Mr. Fielden) as responsible for what had happened recently in that neighbourhood; the mischief had been brought about by his doings, he would not say by his intentions. He concluded amidst very loud ap plause. The CHAIRMAN next proposed, in an appropriate intro duction, The health of the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, and the Conservatives of the West Riding of Yorkshire. (Much cheering.) The Hon. STUART WORTLEY, in a speech of considerable ability and some length, acknowledged the toast. Ile spoke with confidence of future success for the West Hitting. Ile had only, at the last election, been 409 behind his opponent, in a constituency of 25,000, and since then " the battle had been fought in the registration courts," and he had 1200 a& ditional votes. (Cheers.) CHARLES WILKINS, Esq., rose to propose the next toast and was received with loud cheering. He said, Mr. Chair man, and brother operatives, and in that operative term I include even the noble lord himself, and the two noble scions of a noble house that are sitting at my right hand; and I am sure when 1 call them operative conservatives I need only appeal to the exertions which they have used for the promo tion of the interests of the country at large, in order to prove that I have used an appropriate, and a proper terra. (Hear, hear.) I cannot help thinking, sir, that the toast which I am about to propose comes in its proper order, and, perhaps, without objection, I may be allowed to explain myself, that it has been put into proper hands. It comes in its proper order sir, to propose Lord Lyndhurst and the House of Peers, because we have had three most excellent specimens of the materials of which the House is composed. (Cheers.) Lord Lyndhurst, it seems to me, is wisely placed at the commence ment of that. toast, because, at the same time that it presents to the examination of this meeting, one of the most noble men of our day, it exhibits proof euough to our opponents, that there is virtue enough in our constitution to raise to the proudest position some of the humblest individuals in the country. (Hear.) I say, it seems to have been wisely con fined to my keeping, in as much as he is one of my own pro fession, and in as much as he once stood up to address assem blies like the present, as plain Mr. Copley, though now Lord Lyndhurst, and one of the most distinguished members of the House of Peers. We have been told by the opposers of the constitution, that the peerage is an useless appendage; we have been told that the peers themselves ale inimical to the genuine interests of the country, and in the way of na tional improvement. It reminds me of a story I once heard. Dr. Johnson was met by a mutual acquaintance of his, and Oliver Goldsmith. Johnson had not met Goldsmith for some time, and asked what he was doing ? Pour Noll, said his friend, laughing, has been obliged, by necessity, to write a treatise an natural history, though he does not know a turkey cock from a gander. (Laughter.) A friend of mine, Mr. Dunn, a barrister, once met me in the Strand, in Lon don. convulsed with laughter. What is the matter, what tickles your fancy so much, I inquired. Why, said he, I have just parted with a friend and countryman of mine, born in t`ie same village as myself; though his father is but a decent cobler, he got a smattering of the classics at May nooth, and came to this country, and got on the press, and I left him just now writing, as he said, a slapping article against the aristocracy. (Loud laughter.) This you will find in nineteen instances out of twenty to be the case, that those who revile the aristocracy the most, know them the least. ( Hear.) I recollect its being once said, by that un principled man Daniel O'Connell, to his assembled dupes in Dublin, that " there was one Wilkins, in England, in the pay of Lord Skelinersdale, going about reviling Ireland." It so happens, that I have nu. my right, if he will allow me, my friend, Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, who will bear ine out, that except addressing Lord Skemertdale as chair- man of quarter sessions, I never had the honour of a mo ment's conversation with him; and I here unhesitatingly as sert, that during the whole of my career, I have never curried favour of one living soul, and the only payment that I have received has been, first of all, the approval of my own consci ence, and the sanction of wise and good men.—(Cheers.) It may never have struck you before, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the House of Peers is now the only place in this country in which 'he wants of England are attended to with patience, and in which the wrongs of England are likely to have re dress. It is true we have conservatives in the House of Com mons, but owing to the whig-radical majorities—the precursor majorities, so far as England is concerned, she is tied to Ire land and her agitators.—(Cheers.) You are asked to sacri fice the peerage, and for what? for no other reason than this, because the peers have been honest enough to stand in the breach and to protect our most valuable and best institutions against the approach .and encroachments of those who have given ample proof to the world at large, that with patriotism on their tongue, they have their own interests at heart— (hear;) we find self the centre of all their actions, and they give the world the most unquestionable proof that they are dishonest, mercenary, and cruel.—(Great cheering.) If I consulted my own inclination, I should have contented my self in mentioning the toast which I have to propose; and, 1 believe, I should have best consulted the interest of the con servative cause, if I had left your minds undisturbed to think on the many important truths you have been listening to to night; but, I presume, you (lid not send .for me from Man chester to do what the toast-master-general might have (lone for me, but that you sent for me to add a few remarks on pass ing events: and as the noble lord told you, I should, to a cer tain extent, be stultifying myself, if 1 eulogized that which is self-evidently good, and satisfied myself in endeavouring to enlist your sympathies around that which you do sincerely honour; and, therefore, if you please, I will first take a glance at a few of the comments which first appear to my mind. I may address myself to some remarks which emanated from the noble lord; he said, he should feel himself censurable if he gave you anything like advice in the discharge of your du ties. I perfectly coincided with him so far as he went, that it would be idle in me or any other man to eulogize that to you which has been already held up in most glowing colours. And here I may be allowed to say, if I do exult in the opposition and in the anarchy in which this country has been engaged, it is on this fact, it has compelled the well affected, who feared God and honoured the king,.to see on what foundation they stand, to see what shelter they afforded, and having made themselves acquainted with the proportion, the beauty, the vir tue, and the stability of our constitution, that has produced an active examination of it in their minds, which has ensured in theta a strength of support of it, from principle, which nothing in this world can shake. In the first place, then, allow me to address your attention to what appears to lie the local require • merits on your attention and your zeal. You may meet in masses like this, and have speeches delivered to you • you may meet in your thousands if you please; but after all, as was said to you just now by a gentleman on my right hand, and as was before said by Sir Robert Peel, " this is not the scene of action, but the scene of action is in the registration courts; and in order to fight your battle there take care to discipline your troops well." A general goes into cattle with a faint heart who is not acquainted with the courage and nutn bers and discipline of his men; and I would say to you, if you expect on a future occasion to return two honest men, conservatives, to represent you in the House of Commons, as I hope in God you may—if you expect to do so, there is not a man amongst you but must feel himself called on to exert himself for the common good : and in order to do this, have your districts and committees, have your monthly re• ports, entrust the most important situations to the most effi cient and the most judicious men; contrive all things. Let me recommend to you, my friends, to avoid that schism which too frequently ends in difficulty and distress. Many men's vanity will frequently be wounded, but the man who has in view the end of his great object—that which every good conservative should have in view constantly - before his eyes, although he may g o home wounded in his 'feelings, as a man sometimes has his vanity wounded, he should place in the one scale his wounded feelings, and in the other his country's good, and sure I am before the morning his de termination will be to lose sight of his petty grievances and attend to the interests of society at large. (Cheers.) I live in a borough (Manchester) where we are discomfited com pletely by our own grievances. lam ascertain as I am of my existence that with good discipline, order, and method, we have the elements of success in the town of Manchester. It is because we have not been diligent while the other party was active, it is because when the hour of battle comes on we go into the field undisciplined and unprepared that we do not succeed; and I say again, that in Manchester, a borough 'of greater interest than any other in the kingdom—a borough on which the eyes of all are more directed than to any other, I am certain in that borough, that with proper exertion vic tory is within our reach. And you must allow me to tell you that you owe your defeat at the last election in a great mea sure to yourselves; you must allow me to tell you, that be fore the last election—l ern not saying you had not zeal, I am not saying you bad not energy in the cause, but I fear that there was not sufficient method, that there was not sufficient organization amongst you, that sufficient pains were not taken to enable you to meet the cunning, the contriv ance, and the meanness of the party that invariably profess opposite qualities, and to whom you were opposed. (Great cheering.) Gentlemen, there are various means by which, it seems to me, you are called on to promote conservatism; and here I may be permitted to say a few words to those ladies who have honoured us with their presence. It was once said by Sheridan, that " after all, woman is the legis lator of the world." (Cheers.) We may call our parlia- Ment together; we may engage in the noise and fervour of contest; we tnav fancy that we protect our institutions, and obtain the victory; but, after all, there is a power to which we all more or less yield.—That power, ladies, rests with you. . (Loud applause.) It was from you we received our first impressions ;—(a laugh and cheers)— it was from you we received our fostering care ;—it was you who first dropped upon our cheek the tear of sympathy;—it was you who first lit up our cheek with smiles ;—it is you who fashioned our boyhood;—it is you who are the pride of our manhood;—it is you who give zest to our enjoyments;—it is you we look to for consolation in affliction,—and it is to you we look for the last sad consolations which humanity can afford, when it shall please Him who is the great disposer of events to call us to another state of being. (An enthusiastic burst of cheer ing.) I say it not for affectation—for the sake of compli ment—but because I believe that, as conservatives, it is to you we look for the preservation of our holy religion;—to von we look for the promotion of the conservative cause ; to you we look for that mild influence which you alone can shed around you. And I beseech you, in the name of our brother conservatives, persevere in the exertions you are making, and let the enemies of Christ, if they will, (and the enemies of Christ are the enemies of the constitution); let them, if they will, snatch the Bible front the infant's hands, and give the untaught mind knowledge, which knowledge is but advantage to the cause of darkness;—be you but true to us,—be you our Christian instructors,—let your lips give to our children fair ministry,—let your hands mould, and fa shion, and frame their minds,—and we will set the exertions of our opponents at defiance; and to you, who are called the fairest of God's creatures, we will look, in the hour of need, for that aid whiCh shall be a bulwark in the hour of danger. (Great cheering.) I see around me, in the town in which you live, exertions made on every hand. For what purpose? As I said just now, to oppose the interests of God and the interests of moan; and I call on you to adopt every means that ingenuity can suggest in order to render perma neut the antidote to these exertions,—ineans which shall write conservatism steeply in the heart,—which shall show the poor man that conservatism is his friend, because it leads hint to his God. This shall show hint that they are the greatest tyrants who lead him from his friends. (Cheers and enthusiastic applause.) If this is to be done, my friends don't neglect the great subject of education. The cry in another part of the world is "agitate, agitate, agitate." 'lbis is the cry of those who are the messengers of destruc tion—of those who are the cause of everything that is calcu lated to endanger man's peace, and rob him of his happiness with constant creations of fresh sources of discontent; and like him who first found his way into Eden's garden—like hitn who first crept into Paradise, who first planted the seeds of poison in our first father's mind, and from that led him into rebellion,—so are the agitators teaching our population ; teaching them to be discontented, to spurn where God has commanded to honour. (Hear.) If you wish to counteract such exertions as these; if you wish to make conservatism pre-eminent, do what you can to appeal to the undestandings of the people—educate them in the principles of conserva tism. (Great cheering.) Begin with them from their in fancy.; let the first lesson of conservatism be imparted into the mind as soon as it is capable of receiving the impression; ailyou t and be assured, if you follow this course, not only shall exult in the overturning of your enemies—not only shall you exult in the possession of the best and noblest institu tions, but you shall exult in the end in that Conservatism which shall be approved by angels, and be approved by your Maker. (Great cheering.) I have been led into these re marks—not with any premeditation, for I have been the whole of this day engaged in very arduous duties; however I hope (in the phrase of the gallant Captain,) that I shall never be found without my "jawing tackle on board." (Cheers.) I must revert to the toast which I have to g i ve . 1 don't profess to be acquainted with the peerage; I should be a Jack Brag if I did ; hut in the course of my life-time I have had a few opportunities of making myself acquainted with their characters; and I don't he sitate to declare, without any flattery on earth, that 1 have always found them to be the best men on earth; — (cheers) —and I can only say, look at the three gentlemen — (for a nobleman can be but a gentleman) at the board. (Con tinued cheering.) You have seen them in the bravest flights, with fixed gaze, like the eagle with their bosoms braving the blast and the storm when their country required it,—(great cheering,)—but, if you wish to be acquainted with their character, you must follow them to the warm precincts of their mountain nest, and you will find them there a bright example of the tenderest affection s • you will find that that bosom which now exposed itself' fearlessly to the mountain's blast gives the kindest protection to its progeny. There it is that you must look for the best attributes of the human cha racter. Without further comment I will give you " Lord Lyndhurst and the Hou se of Peers." The - learned gentle matt sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. The lion. STUART WORTLEY proposed the healths of " F. Lees and Joseph Jones, Esqrs , the highly respected con servative candidates for the Borough at the last election.". • Several other toasts were proposed, and the meeting was continued to a late hour. The City of London Tavern has been purchased by the \Vesleyans for connectional and other purposes. The pur chase money is said to have been £15,000. _ • MARRIAGE OF THE QUERN.—The following remarkable paragraph appears in a recent number of the Leipzig Gazette: —" From the Principality of Reuss, Dec. 12.—1 t is here po sitively affirmed, by eyewitnesses, that an august personage has formerlyjaccepted the congratulations offered on the con tract of tnarriage concluded between Queen Victoria, of England, and Duke Albrecht, the second son of the Duke of Saxe Cobourg." Several paragraphs, to the same effect, have lately been going the round of the Gelman papers, and so much does the belief prevail on the continent, that Duke Albrecht, or Albert, (for we find the name sometimes written in one way, and sometimes in the other,) i lestmed to the high honour here alluded to, that during his late stay at Mu nich, he is said to have been courted in every im a g inabl e way 'by th , .! Royal Family and the diplomatic body. Duke Albert is the second son of the reigning Duke of Saxe Co bourg Gotha, and now in his twenty-first year, having been born on the 26th of August, 1819. In case of the death of his elder brother, Duke Albert would become heir-apparent to his father's dukedom, a contingency which, we trust, will he carefully guarded against, if our gracious Sovereign is really disposed to bestow her hand upon the young Duke. Duke Albert is first cousin to Queen Victoria, and to King Ferdinand of Portugal ; nephew to the King of the Belgi ans and to the Duchess of Kent. THE ELECTRICAL EEL AT THE ADELAIDE GALLERY. — This curious fish is forty inches in length ; it was caught in March last, brought to the Gallery of Practical Science in August, and first was seen to eat in October; previous to this, some blood was placed daily in its tub among the water, and which it is supposed supplied the means of life. After it was experimented upon by Mr. Faraday, it appeared to be in better health, and commenced eating, making its first meal off four small fish ; at present it eats one daily; it pro duces all the qualities of common electricity—chemical de composition, evolution of heat, the spark, &c. A fish, between four and five inches in length, half a minute after it was caught, was placed in the tub with the eel, who appeared to be prowling about for food; the eel, forming itsel into a helix, or coil, struck the fish, which instantly turned lifeless on its side; the eel then swallowed it. with evident pout. A gudgeon, six inches in length, subsequently placed in the tub, had better luck, apparently owing to a quality, which of ail others, one would not have expected in such a fish, whose name proverbially indicates dulness and stupidity. The shocks of the eel, Piofessor Faraday found, are strongest from the tail; the gudgeon, evidently aware of this, kept his bead constantly opplised to that of the eel, and thus escaped; there they were, gudgeon and eel, nez-a-nez, regarding each other with profound attention.--Lit. Gat.. CORRESPONDENCE. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS. THE REV. D. JAMES AND MR. WILLIAM RATHBONE TO MR. W. RATHBONE. SIR,—It is now three weeks since I had the honour of last addressing you; during that interval 1 have looked for some thing in the shape of a reply from your own pen ; but none having appeared, I presume none is intended to be made. I hasten, therefore, to close the correspondence on my own part. I cannot, however, do so without entering ou a further exposure of the new system of education introduced into the corporation schools. My right to address you on this subject cannot be questioned, when it is remembered that it was in consequence of my attempts to investigate the real character, and expose the dangerous tendency of that system, I became the object of your ungenerous attack. I gave you, by my first letter, an opportunity of apologising for what you had, in an evil hour, so unjustly laid to my charge, but no apology was offered. it then became my duty to seek redress in one or other of the various ways which were open to me. I chose to make an appeal to the public through the medium of the press, as being, not only the least vindictive mode of effecting my purpose, but likewise the most likely to serve the interests of Divine truth. •In this conjecture I was not mistaken. The Christian public have expressed their opinion freely, and given their verdict ; and with that verdict I have every season to be satisfied. I wish, therefore, to dismiss from my mind at present those irritating topics to which I bad occasion in my former letters to allude, and to confine myself exclusively to the Irish system of edu cation, not as it is enforced and carried out in Ireland, but as it was introduced into Liverpool, and is now in operation in the corporation schools. The great and principal object proposed to be effected by this system, seems to be this—to give to the children of the poor of all denominations within the borough, the privilege of a general and intellectual education, without making reli gion the basis of that education, but merely appending it as a thing of minor or secondary importance, more to satisfy the conscience of others than your own. I am aware that the scheme as it was at the first introduced differed very materially from the form it now has in the schools. By the original plan, religious instruction was ex ' eluded altogether during school hours. In confirmation of this, 1 beg to transcribe portions of the original resolutions adopted by the liberal majority of the town-council. Resolved, "2.—That one hour of each day be devoted to the religious instruction of those children whose parents do not object; And that such an hour be in .the afternoon, after the school has clo s ed_ That th.....h00l shell 6.- 5 5 three o'clock in the winter, and four o'clock in the summer. "3.—That the clergy of the different denominations be solicited to attend for this purpose, and that every practical accommodation be afforded them." Now, sir, it appears as clear as noon-day that the corpora- • tion had two distinct objects in view in drawing op and adopting these resolutions :—firstly, to establish in th schools a system of education of which religion should neither lie the basis nor even form a component part—for religious instruc tion was to come on as a distinct and separate thing "after the schools had closed," and was to be undertaken and sup plied, even then, not by the masters and monitors of each school respectively, but by such ministers of the town as might think fit, and find it convenient, to volunteer their services for that purpose; secondly, to break down and re move the high, and nobe, and legitimate distinction which at present exists between the established religion of our country and those schismatic, heretical, and adulterated forms of Christianity which are arrayed in opposition to it, and seek its overthrow. This was to be the afterpiece of national edu cation and the masterpiece of modern liberality. The credit of the arrangement was due to the town-council, but others were to be called in to carry that arrangement into effect, and the corporation, with a degree of liberality in olden times, came forward, to do what, forsooth? To offer the use of the corporation school-rooms for that sinister purpose for one hour each day. But as this was to be the after-piece, and not a component part of the system to be pursued in the schools during school hours, I am anxious to dismiss this, and return to consider the system itself. It is observed by Solomon that "wisdom is the principal thing," and what he meant by wisdom here, as well as in most other places in the book of the Proverbs, is explained by himself when he says, "the fear of the Lord is the beginning if wisdom." He evidently meant religion; and the reason for calling religion, or religious wisdom, the principal thing, is sufficiently obvious. Man is born an heir of immortality. His existence here is a mere speck in the ocean compared with the duration of his existence hereafter. Physical training and intellectual knowledge can only pro mote the welfare of man in this world, and that only to a very limited extent; but religion—while it forms the source of man's happiness here, lays the foundation for his complete emancipation from sin at death, and secures for him endless bliss in the world to come. " Therefore," adds Solomon, " yet wisdom ; and with all thy getting get understanding."— Prov. iv. 7. But the system of education introduced by you and your liberal associates into the corporation scbouls excluded the "principal thing" altogether at the onset. For, front the time at which the schools opened in the morning, to the hours at which it was fixed they should close in the afternoon, winter and summer respectively, no kind of religious instruction was to be given either by the masters or by any other person. And even when that important branch of education came on for an hour "after the schools had closed," it formed no part of the masters' work ; it was left to whomsoever it might suit to attend to it : so that all you proposed to - do was the training of the children for time, leaving it to others to train them fur eternity. Oh, the littleness of your liberal minds! Where was Reason, that ennobling power of the human mind, so highls exalted as to be deiliied and adored among men of your creed? Did you cultivate Reason, having before her eyesdaily• the fact that man's tenure of the present life is at the best but short and precarious, combined with the testimony of divine revelation, that man only dies in this world that he may live and exist for ever in another—did she dictate that it was be coming an enlightened and a highly civilized body of men to direct their attention exclusively to the dubious welfare of the children in this life, and expend their corporate funds on that paltry object, leaving the great and most important part of education—the formation of the character for heaven and eter nal glory, to volunteers? No. Reason had no voice or in fluence in the decision of the council. It was infidelity, dis guised under the garb of liberality, that drew up, proposed, se conded, and passed the resolutions, which went to exclude re ligion from the schools during school hours. Entire exclu sion of religion belongs to no other principle: lam anxious you should not misapprehend my meaning in this nlase. am now speaking exclusiv e ly o f th e system you prodtWen I am bound to treat the system as I find it, and to drag to light the real parent principle which gave it birth. However loudly and indignantly you and your liberal associates may disavow being infidels at heart, or in any degree favourable to infidel ' it y, that will in no wise affect the system under consideration• The system must be tried by its own merits, and viewed irre spectively of its authors and patrons. I repeat, therefore, that I know of no principle which would exclude religion from a course of education during school hours but infidelity. In fidelity declares against the necessity of religion, because in some instances it denies the existence of God, and certainly, if there be no God, there needs be no religion. In other in stances, admitting the existence of a Divine Being, it still persists to deny his moral government of the world, the truth of his revelation, and the immortality of the soul; these are the premises ott which human responsibility is founded, and consequently religion ; but where t.bese are repudiated, reli gion becomes unnecessary. Infidelity alone declares against the necessity of religion; the scheme of education proposed and adopted originally by the town-council excluded religion during school hours: therefore the principle of that scheme was infidelity. As a qualification of this, you will probably reply that some credit is due to the corporation for the provision they made to lend the use of the schools, for one hour each day, to such of the clergy of the different denominations as might think fit to attend for the purpose of giving the children rajc gious instruction. True; but I observe in the wording of the resolution, a provision also for the legitimate escape of the children from their religious teachers, without incurring any penalty, or being amenable to any law. Mark the words of the resolution—" That one hour of each day be devoted to the religious instruction of those children whore parents do not object." Here is a loophole sufficiently accommodating and expansive in its nature to let the poor fagged children go and play with their fellows out of doors. Some parents would probably have objected from the commencement had nothing been said on the subject; others, knowing but little of the value of religion, would have found reasons for which to do so in the course of time, yielding to the solicitations of the children in some instances, sod in others pleading that the children were wanted at home, &c. To what extent the classes remaining for religious instruction would eventually have been seduced by this means it is impossible to say, but that the corporation contemplated something of the kind, or rather wished it, is clear; else how in the world came they to make provision for such a contingency? Or rather, sir, was not this a sly way of half opening the door, and then whispering in a low tone, " Come lads, run away ?" And what then ? No religious instruction to the fugitives during school hours —none after. You know, sir, what you were about, there was no mistake. But this bold and daring attempt to introduce a system of national education which studiously excluded religion during school hours, and made it only optional afterwards, was too much for the town to bear. The indignation of the Christian public was roused, and their remonstrance became so loud and fearful that you felt its force, and at length gave way a and with a degree of silence and secrecy characteristic or men engaged in mischief, you so far altered the original plan as to admit religion to be part and parcel of the system, making it imperative on the masters and monitors of the school, in the absence of ministers, to give religious instruc tion to the children during the last hour in each day. This was an evident change for the better; but then, you left to the parents to say its what creed orfiirm of religion they wished their children to be instructed, authorizing and di recting the masters to teach them accordingly, making no distinction between truth and error—between sound doctrine and false doctrine—between the creed of a Jew, which re jects Jesus as an impostor, and the creed of a Christian , which admits him to be the Saviour of the world:—no dis tinction between the creed of an orthodox believer and the creed of an open heretic—b e t ween t h e cree d o f a papist and the creed of a protestant, though they are in a dozen essen tial points diametrically opposite to each other. he admission of this as a principle on which the religiou s department of the system should be conducted, did more than mat the whole, and rendered the system, if anything, more objectionable than before. The plan, as primarily intro: duced, admitted of no religious instruction during scho ol hours; but as it is a t p resen t constituted, it admits the toles ration and actual teaching of any, and of all religions, the last hour of each day. You assign as a reason for this, in one of your published documents, " That being trustees of a fund to be managed fur the benefit of all, you are bound to respect equally the religious peculiarities and conscientiou s scruples of all." And this, you say, " you have used. and do use as an argument in your defence." Now, sir, I per' ceive in this statement a brief but lucid definition of the, principle on which you conduct the ieligieus instruction or the children in your schools—" You respect equally the reli gious peculiarities of all." In order to ascertain the real cba' racter, and explain the nature of this principle, let us pa; tiently consider to what it might eventually lead you, an° to what it has led you. We shall a fterwards test it •by th e word of God. There are in the British dominions hundreds and thousand s of families, differing front each other as widely as the poles in their religious peculiarities, such as heathen idolaters , Mahomedans, Jews, papists, and protestants. We may no t have many pagan idolaters and mussulinen residing in Liver pool at present; hut Jews, papists, and protestants we have in large numbers; and the others we may have in a short time, in consequence of the facilities about to be offered bY steam-packets for the removal of families from the most di`" tint regions. But I will put the case in each instance hylin" thetically, until I come to that which is a fact. This will answer all the purpose, Suppose a poor Hindoo family, already subjects of her Majesty Queen Victoria in the East, removed to Liverpool. and the father or mother brought the children to one of you!', schools, requesting that f or r e li g ion they should be instructed in the doctrines of Buddhism, the old religion of Hindostani and which is at present, under different appellations, the re ligion of Burmah, Ceylon, China, Japan, Tartary, and Thi bet ; you would be obliged to procure a code or catechismt containing- the peculiar doctrines of that religion, among' which you would find the following absurdities, which are , notwithstanding, the choice articles of the creed : "'There is one Spirit, who is himself ALL BEINGS, individu ated only by matter in its various forms. In other words, ther e are two grand principles existing eternally, matter and spy lit —matter is wrought by the spirit in innumerable forms._ Buddhu is worshipped as God. His chief representative , ° r priest, is the Delai Lama, who resides in a magnificent Pa: lace near Lassa, the capital of Thibet. He is the vicegerent, if' Deity on Earth. Eminent devotees, followers of Buddh a ,' may be worshipped at pleasure. Death in the grand Lam.,t_ is nothing more than the transmigration of tho spirit jut° ~•.,.,