The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

ASON. L instant. tart [r: Lynn ° 31and 55 Fat Wit Barker gwBY loward a of Mr. ndsomest ices, and RD , in a LBUR the eei e ; italics of h i s n of th at el -formed don, and in A ribifil r Comic Perforal by Mt' D. Mr. 11°- nd, Mrs. Cleaver, rker an d ILE. nacre', , ug htorr s Music :sox, at b e taken . ,' • ' ' '- lent, the that "3 _______________. 1839• 4 CaP t ' chester' L pers t ° iled 011 on the 5, n•N'' of the I bo►lrs or k 011 _ de' on ,nveY 3 In the poro" e news s there - Mar ket ,vas tintle ti of Win ter i1331 t- company of men had recently been despatched from Galveston to Austin, to be stationed on some remote ° atPosts on ; the Indian border; and measures were in Progress to secure an adequate defence for all the exposed points on the frontier. Advices from Tampico and Metamoras had been re ceived at New Orleans to the last of October. The tghteatest tranquillity prevailed throughout Mexico, and tae Was every probability that trade generally during ae season, which had just commenced, would he brisk er th an had been known of late years. The Tampico toarket was bare of foreign goods, and the demand for t heili . was expected to be good there, as well as at Me !aistit Half a million of dollars had been lately "I'Ped at Tampico for New York. A conducts of 'l ) ecie arrived at Tampico on the 24th of October, from , tla adlaxata, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, and San arba ra . Th e amount was 7 35,499 d o ll ars . O n th e i iii 44 of September 260,000 dollars were received at Vera Cruz from the interior. The nuinbeToiCritninalS who received sentence in ° lle month, in the capital of Mexico, was set down at 19 -15 of whom bad been guilty of homicide. he visit of Admiral Baudin to Texas had attracted the attention and excited the indignation of the •Mexi ca►is• The last instalment (200,000 dollars) of the Indemnity to France had been paid over to the French consul at Vera. Cruz. A conspiracy was detected at Tampico about the . niddle',of October, and several persons arrested. A b attalion of troops had been ordered to leave Vera C ruz for Yucatan. On the 11th of October, the Mexi can Congress passed a law authorising the President t ° borrow 800,000 dollars to meet the deficit in the revenue. The Houston Telegraph states that Canales, the com mander of . the Mexican fideralists, had concentrated 1300 of his followers, about the 26th of October, and 1118 to move the next day for the Rio Grande. These federalists "were the same who had, a short time before, b een driven from the other side of the Rio Grande by Canaliza, the commandant 'of the" central forces in that Part of Me x i co. . A.dvices from Monte Video had been received at Posto n to the 16th of September. They state that the country remained in the same unsettled state as before. 'lle troops of Entre Rios, sent forward by Rosas, the (lovernor of Buenos Ayres, to countenance any move inetit in favour of the deposed President, Oribe, to the number of 5000 or 6000, were within about three days March of Monte Video ; but no immediate attack was - a nticipated. Frutes Riviera, the President of Banda Oriental, was in the interior with about 2000 troops, encamped at a short distance from the Entre Rios tr oops, and watching their movements. Several small Parties had collected to Riviera, but had been dispersed b y the troopS of the government. The French squad ron were taking in three months' provision, in antici- Pation of Monte Video being beseiged ; and it was stated that they intended to land 1000 to garrison that city. The New York Daily Express states that " letters f rom Hayti spoke of new tyrannical acts on the part of President Boyer." After alluding to the difficulties which .had arisen from a dispute between Boyer and t be House as to the formation of the Senate, the •%.r,press proceeds to say that " Boyer insisted upon , 11 °Iently and unconstitutionally putting into the Senate 4 4 own creatures, while the Republican members of the House persisted in maintaining the constitutional ki rms. Boyer called out his troops, abused the Na tional Guard, roamed over the whole town like a mad -I,l'a; and placed .a force at the door of the House of 4 ePresentatives, forbidding the entrance of such as would not yield to him. The orders were.to let in but One more than half the members, and to be careful not to let the leading men get in. This violence had its effect, and the House yielded, and five of the leading opposing members were expelled. A proclamation was issued forbidding people to talk about what was P a ssing. AttemPts of assassination were made on the Persons of _two of the members that had been so un constitutionally expelled." This statement must evi dently be received-min grano salis. The news- from Canada extends to the 19th ultimo. . • • On the 18th, the Governor-General and suite left Mon treal for Torontoi , and his Excellency the Commander of the Forces took the oaths of, and was installed as, A dministrator. of the Goveenrnent of Lower Canada during the absence of the Governor-General. It is stated that the object of the latter, in proceeding to Toronto, was to get the Legislative Council and As 7"trtbly• to_agraerto•-the Generally, the business of both Upper and Lower Canada- had been thriving the last fall. The army e xpenditure in the country, derived from the British tr easury, had prevented any considerable mercantile Pressure. It Would appear, from the correspondence of the Quebec Gazette, that there was no ground to e l)ect any fresh disturbance this winter in Lower Canada : but. it was anticipated that there might be Predatory incursions of refugees and vagabonds from t he opposite side of the river in Upper Canada. At all ereilts, while questions are pending with the United States,,it is not likely that the British army and expen dituie in the North American provinces can be dimi . niched : nor in the present, and probably continued, likely of th e ag it a tors in both provinces, is it I kelY that e ven t s may not a rise which may cause the e l an adas to be over-run by a foreign or insurrec tionary force. T he Quebec Mercury states that it was intended to r aise a corps of volunteer infantry in that city, for ser lice during the winter. It was to consist of between ' lOO and 500 men, formed into six companies, with the usual proportion of officers and serjeants, and to be un der the command of Lieutenant Col. the lIOn. James , 11° Pe , of the Coldstream. Guards, who rendered the ‘ 4lle ell's Volunteers such essential service laSt winter. The Nova Scctla Royal Gazette contains a proclaina :ll by his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, convoking •=le legislature of thatprovince, for the despatch of busi . n es.% on the 31st of December. ,oid John Russell has been sending circulars to member s of Parliament requesting them to attend at th e °Pening of next Session, and stating that business Of the utmost importance will be laid before them very -6hortly after its commencement. We certainly are not in the secrets of Government, glut we believe there is little doubt that the urgent husi es3 to which the attention - of members is to be called 18 connected with the late proceedings in the case of Stockdale v. Hansard. The facts shortly are these. Stockdale, a short time ago, brought a fresh action of libel against Hansard, who, believing himself sheltered from all consequences by the stringent resolution passed at the close of last but by the House of Commons, put in no plea, u ut suffered judgment to go by default. The plaintiff accordingly issued a writ of enquiry, and the result W as, that damages were awarded by the jury summoned for, the purpose to the amount of f6OO. The largeness (r this sum h as, we b e li eve, surpr i se d every b o d y; b ut )that i 8 a matter entirely for the consciences of the jury fien who gave Stockdale such heavy damages, and is 11 ° 11 Y besid e t h e mer i ts o f t h e quest i on as b etween the Court of Queen's Bench and the House of Corn -111,.°11- The Sh er iff o f Middl esex h a d t h ere f ore a wr it d irected to him, commanding him to levy of the goods and chatt e l s of MesSrs. Hansard and Son a sum equal to th e d amages awarded and the costs which the plain tiff had in curred. He was then in this dilemma : on t he One hand was the resolution of the House of Corn rns, breathing summary vengeance upon all who should be gu il ty of such a glaring contempt as that of li lulcti ng their printer in damages for publishing de f'nat°rY floor the matter, according to their orders—on the fr other :was th e well-known writ of feri facias issuing Queen' s B enc h, w hi c h, if n e g lected, w ou ld T al liblY be f o ll owed by an attachment. Th e Sh er i f f , or rather th e S heriffs, for it happens that the tv:o Sheriffs of 0 lLondon constitute the Sheriff of Middlesex, had the sa nt alternati ve o f two pr i sons - e i t h er N ewg ate, in t he eetntaittal of the Speaker of the House of Corn ffr'ns, or the Marshalsea, by virtue' of an attachment r om the Queen's Bench. so happened that the Sheriffs approved of neither °°,grnent so kindly provided by the two clashing juris dictions,terawl accordingly they applied by counsel last ‘ , 0 41 to Mr. Justice Littledale, who sat in the Bail e urt, t o enlarge the time within which the return to th e writ of fieri facias was to he made until after the i f N eti ng of Pa r li ament, i n or d er t h at the two courts, tw ve may so speak, might then fight the battle out be eerl them, and not severally make the innocent f c utors of a p eremptory wr i t t h e v i ct i ms of their of :led dignity, This application, however, was refused ; and how ever much we may feel for the situation of the Sheriffs, we think was properly refused. For after the solemn adjudication by the Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of the first trial between Stockdale and Hansard, and their deliberate decision that the privileges of the House of Commons should not stand in the way of re dress sought by a man who declared himself to be aggrieved by the conduct of its servants, it would have been indecorous and cowardly to have stayed the exe cution of a common law writ, for fear of some possible offence which may be taken by the the House of Com mons, when it assembles in January. The consequence was, that the Sheriffs proceeded to act upon the order which they had received ; and, as Messrs. Hansard and Son are determined in no way to facilitate the matter by paying the money, they have been obliged to proceed as in invitos, and have adver tised a public sale upon the premises for to-day, when two hydraulic presses will be put up to auction, and disposed of to the highest bidder, in order to satisfy the damages and costs which Stockdale has obtained. Such is a short outline of this unpleasant business; and it now remains to be seen what course the irate and offended House of Parliament, under the guidance of Serjeant Wilde (who has hitherto been their Magnus Apollo throughout the affair), will adopt. We suppose the following events will happen. The Speaker will issue his warrant to commit the Sheriff of Middlesex to Newgate or the Tdwer for contempt. He will apply for a writ of habeas corpus, and this the Judges of the Queen's Bench will instantly grant. They are bound to protect their own officer, who has acted in a minis terial capacity in obedience to them. The House of Commons seems obstinately determined to abate none of its lofty pretensions; and thus we. shall have, in this nineteenth century, these two high and mighty powers in the State, which ought never to interfere with one another except in the way of harmonious co-operation, brought into direct collision. The result, we think, no man can doubt. Astute lawyers like the new Solicitor-General may rake toge ther as many Musty precedents as they please, to prove that the House of Commons has a right to what Mr. Justice Coleridge so happily styled A MONOPOLY OF SLAND.EIt ; but public opinion sets the other way, and in the contest the Lord Chief Justice and his colleagues cannot but eventually triumph. What are the powers of the House of Commons ? What force can it_ set in motion to compel obedience to its warrants, if they are disobeyed ? It may doubt less commit for contempt of its privileges, but the only persons who are bound to see that its warrants are executed are its own servants. Far • different is the authority of the Queen's Bench. The Sheriff of every county is its officer, and, if its process is neglected or disobeyed, " he may," in the words of Blackstone, " command all the people of his county to attend him, which is called the posse cornitatus, or power of the county; and this summons every person above fifteen years old, and under the degree of a Peer, is bound to attend upon warning, under pain of fine and imprison ment." But before the House of Commons ventures to break a lance with this all-powerful Court in a most perilous encounter, we do hope it will pause and con sider. It is confidently asserted that more than one eminent lawyer, who agreed in the first Report drawn up by Serjeant Wilde, has seen reason to repent his opinion. - If so, we trust they will have boldness and manliness enough to avow it. Nothing would have a greater effect in arresting the arm of the House, stretched out in an impotent attempt to avenge itself upon the innocent ; anti Members might then be better disposed to listen to the counsels of moderation. Of one thing we are sure—and it well behoves the House of Commons to ponder the fact—namely, that in this arrogant assumption of irresponsible privilege, they are pursuing a course most alien to the wishes and feelings of the people of Britain. We trust that we are as tender of human life, con sistently with our duty as citizens, as any of our fellow-countrymen; but we are not on that account prepared to abolish totally the capital punishment of death, and least of all are we disposed to do so in a crime of such heinous magnitude as High Treason. We confess, therefore, that we are somewhat surprised at the tone adopted by our contemporary the London Standard on the present occasion, with reference to the approaching trials at Monmouth. That justice will be tempered with mercy, we make no doubt; but it seems to us to be most unwise, at this stage of the inquiry, to creprecate the idea of any capital punish ment following the conviction of any of the South Wales traitors. Disgust at the conduct of the Ministry in encou raging Chartism, has, we fear, caused a slight confu sion of ideas in our excellent and clear-sighted con temporary. So far as it is an argumentum ad hominem to Lord John Russell, it may he very well to say that he cannot suffer the execution of Frost and his com plotters of treason, without feeling that his conduct has had no slight influence in bringing them to the scaffold. But what have the public to do with that ? It may be a good reason for subpoenaing his Lordship upon the trial of the unfortunate men in lvlontnouth Gaol, or impeaching him at the bar of the House of Lords; but does not make the crime of High Treason a whit less dark in dye, or render a public example less imperatively necessary for the sake of tranquillity and social order. The law has been outraged in the most flagrant manner ; war has been openly levied against the reigning Sovereign ; and if those who are caught, fagrante delicto, with arms in their hands, are to be assured of pardon before their trial, the forms of civil justice become a mockery, and the 25th of Edward 111. had better be expunged from the Statute book. There is some talk of Ministers taking advan•• tage of the Queen's marriage to publish an amnesty, and thns save the lives of their friends in prison; but we hardly think they will venture on such a dangerous expedient. As the lawyers say, it would be a prece dent pessimi exempli. In another column we have given insertion to a letter from the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, addressed to Mr. Rathbone, in which the Rev. Gentleman explains the slight mistake which he committed in his speech de livered at Sheffield, and of which such greedy advan tage was taken by Mr. Rathbone on Wednesday last. The logical deduction which Mr. Rathbone drew from the trifling inaccuracy alluded to, is admirably exposed by Mr. M‘Neile. The allusion to the altered tone of the Liberals, while speaking of the working classes, is also very happily introduced. Formerly, the working classes were the objects of unbounded compliment and adulation ; now they are superciliously designated as " unfortunate ignorant parties." Such is the consis tency of Liberalism ! We have long suspected Mr. Surgeon Blackburn to belong to the Jesuit order of politicians, and his con duct at the last meeting of the Council, with reference to the Clergy and the Collegiate Institution, has fully confirmed our previous impressions. Occupying such a prominent position as a member of the Council Edu cation Committee, Mr. Blackburn must be well in formed upon every important matter connected with the Corporation Schools. How could he, then, under such circumstances, insinuate that the Clergy are now making a concession with respect to the Collegiate Institution which they were previously unwilling to make with respect to the Corporation Schools, when he knew full well, at the time that he uttered it, that the Rev. Rector Campbell had, on several occasions, and several years ago, publicly declared that he was willing to return to the Corporation Schools upon similar terms ? Holding, as we do, that he who sits quietly by whilst insinuations or statements are made which he knows to be unfounded, is equally guilty, in a moral point of view, with the person who breathes them, we charge Mr. William Rathhone with the same offence against the laws of morality and honour, of which we have proved Mr. Blackburn to be guilty. Unless, therefore, these gentlemen cone forward at the first convenient opportunity, and make the amende honorable to the Clergy whom they have been attempt ing to degrade in the public estimation, we call upon their constituents to use every effort to eject them from the honourable offices which they will then so unwor thily fill, so as to qualify them for Aldermanic distinc tions, or, in other words, for admission into the Re fuge for the Destitute. On Monday, the 11th ult. R. S. Sowler, Esq. of Man chester, was duly admitted a member of the honorable society of Middle TeloPle• PASTORAL AID SOCIETY. A numerous meeting of the members and friends of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the Pastoral Aid Society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, on the evening of Friday last. On the platform we observed the Rev. A. CaMphe (one of the rectors of Liverpool), the Res'. H.'M•Neilc, the Rev. H. Carpenter, the Rev. J. Jones, the Rev. Mr. SaunderS, the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, the Rev. Mr. Smith, the Rev. B. Marshall, the Rev. Mr. Coles, the Rev. Mr,Dibdin t the Rev. Mr. M`Gill, Sir J. S. P. Sainsbury, J. Rigby, Esq., T. 0. Cooper, Esq., Mr. Pollen (one of the agents or the society), and a number of other gentlemen. The Rev. A. CAmiiiiLL was called to the chair: The Rev. H. CARPENTER having implored the divine blessing on the proceedings of the evening, The CHAIRMAN, in commencing the proceedings, said - he thought it his duty, upon an occasion like the present, to detain the meeting as little as possible from. that exposition of the principles and objects of the society which would be made by those speakers who had.undertaken-to advocate its cause. 'He should simply take for his test the synopsis of the society, as it was presented to us .in the book which- he held in 'his hand ('.laving read a short extract from a publication of the society, he proceeded.) With regard_ to that part of the synopsis which related to the duty of. Christian governors to provide the means of bringing Chris tianity to _all, it was impossible to read it without being convinced it was the duty of the civil power to consecrate the state to a public acknowledgMent of God, and of his revealed religion—that it was the duty 'of the state to pay homage to the majesty of God, by providing for the ceremonial worship of God—and, moreover, that it was the duty of the civil go vernment to provide for the religious instruction of the people. (Hear, hear.) For these purposes it was absolutely necessary there should be an established church. ([Tear.) The legislature must not only provide for the establi s Shmeni of revealed , religion, but provide for it according to some specific form. (Hear.) Much ridicule had been cast upon an expression; which nevertheless had within it a great deal of truth, namely, that the state should have a conscience. Now, it was the duty of the state to take care not only that religion, but that true religion, should he preached ; the civil , . governor was bound to make his choice of the true religion, and, having made it, to inculcate it to the best of his power. But then, as the civil governor had a conscience himself, so he must acknowledge and his people had consciences also ; therefore, whilst he provided for the inculcation of true re-. ligion, he must take care that he does not interfere too much with the sacred right of liberty of conscience. (Hear, hear.) That was a right which the ministers•of the• Church of Eng land would maintain with as much firmness anti consistency as any men in the kingdom; and, permit him to say,,it,wa.s because they advocated liberty of conscienca that they advo cated the maintenance of the Protestant Church as by law . established. (Hear.) They wished to maintain that church which maintained the sacred principle of liberty of conscience, in order to prevent the interfeKenc.e_ of. a church which would not allow any liberty of conscience . at all. (Hear, hear.) But whilst an established church was maintained, he_ con _ _ , tended it was the duty ef the civil government to provide for it in such a way as to comprehend as large a portion. of the people as could possibly be admitted consistently with the maintenance of its fundamental doctrines-'-with the mainte wince of those doctrines which were essential to salvation, and not to cause divisions by needless restrictions upon points not essential to Salvation. :(1-lear.) With regard to things not essential to' salvation tram should not separate neediessly from the church. ..ThiS fact he Was anxious to impress upon their minds. But he was prepared also to maintain that the'cliureti should not provoke separation needleSs and oppressive impositions. St. Paul told us to mark those who caused diviSions ; he did not tell ,us •to mark those only who divided, which was a fault upon one side, but to mark those who occasioned divisionS, which was a fault upon the other. (Hear, hear.) . The unity of the Catholic Church—and he wished to impress upon their minds that ours was the Catholic Church (hear), that ours was a purer branch of the Church of Christ than that which called itself " the only Catholic Church" (hear) — was best promoted by love and charity, and forbearance and goodwill; by observing kindness and gentleness, and goodwill and charity, towards our brethren, notwithstanding some differences upon minor matters of opinion, and on some smaller points of discipline ; by taking care not toimposC, as necessary, things which the word of God had not plainly de clared to be necessary. He was not one of those who would endeavour to force unanimity in things not essential to sal vation, nor, on the other hand, would he give up things ne cessary to salvation. He believed that if rulers in the church would not endeavour to force the conscience in matters not ordained by God, and if the people in the Church would comply willingly with laws and customs and discipline not. plainly forbidden in the word of God, then unity in the Church would be much more common than it is ; and that, as we were the subjects of one government, so we should be brought anew to be members of the one visible church. The early practice in all these matters was unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, and charity in all things (applause.) But by now maintaining., as he strongly did—and he had not expressed himself half so strongly as he felt—the obligation which lay upon the legislature to provide for the worship of God and the religious instruction of the people, still he did not wish to see the legislature provide for them in such a way as absolutely to dispense with voluntary efforts upon the part of the people (hear, hear.) Religion was a matter in which we ought to feel ourselves deeply interested. We ought to be concerned, not only for the salvation of our own souls, but for the salvation of the souls of our brethren ; therefore it was wisely said, rather than souls should perish for lack of assistance upon the nart of the legislature, Christian men must join to make the Church as effective as it was in their power (hear.) Now.. the Church Pastoral Aid Society strictly regarded the wants of the Church upon the one hand, and the order of the Church upon the other. He said, there fore, the Church Pastoral Aid Society was one which de manded and required the assistance of every Christian who had any assistance to give, and more especially the assistance of members of the Church, because the. Society regarded the wants of the Church upon the one band, and the order of the Church upon the other. It did not interfere—and he spoke strongly upon this point, because some thought it did in terfere—with the strict has of regular duty ; and it had no disposition to intrude its ministry into any parish contrary to the will of the incumbent of that parish. Nothing, in fact, could be more erroneous than that impression. The Society never intruded its aid ; the incumbent must apply for it, and until that had been done .the SoCiety could not move (hear.) That being the case, it was his duty, as a minister of the Es tablished Church, to promote the objects of the Society by every means in hiS rower. He quoted a sermon of the Lord Bishop of 'Winchester, to chew what that right reverend prelate had said in support of the Society. He was sure the meeting would agree with him, that these were cases in which the Society ought to interfere (hear.) In the vast parish in which he was an unworthy minister, tin=es additional ministers - had been employed ; therefore his appeal to them was not so much upon the score of any local wants. The reverend gentleman then introduced Mr. Pullen, the agent of the Society. Mr. POLLEN, the agent-of the parent society, then came forward and 'moved the first resolution, as follows— " That this meeting, deeply concerned for the spiritual necessities of our increasing population, and sincerely sym pathising with those ministers of the church who are over burthened -with the anxieties and difficulties of their charges,- rejoices in the progress of a society which, by enabling such ministers to engage • well-qualified assistants, must, under the hlesSing of TGod, be largely instrumental to the pro motion of His glory, in the present and eternal welfare of their feliowscouiitryin . en." Before he asked their co-operation in the sentiments of this resolutions he would tell them of the increasing spiritual necessities of our population. This he should do as briefly as possible, and as much of his information must be statistical he should read it from docuMents which he should be happy to lay before the meeting. The first point to which he wished to address himself was the increase of our population. Few were aware of the extent of it. Above 200,000 were added every year to the already vast mass, and about 100,000 out of that number were left without spiritual instruction. In 31 years the population of the country had increased 135 per cent., in the mining and manufacturing districts 295 per cent., and in this county, including the vast town or city of Man chester, it had increased to the alarming extent of 800 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Connected w:t'i this increase, it ap peared from the calculations of one well able to afford the information, that in 108 districts, containing a population of 2i millions, there were half a million left without spiritual instruction according to the Church of England. The town of Birmingham at the beginning of the present century, had 70,000 souls ; there were now between 170,000 and 200,000 ; and he had been told by a clergyman there that there was a deficiency of church room for at least 150,000 souls ! (Hear.) These facts were arguments for church extension which need receive no colouring from any reasoning he could lay before them. But the absence of church accommodation was not the only evil upon our land. It was not only the fact that the people had been left without church accommodation, to. which he desired to excite attention, but that whilst we had slept, the enemy had been sowing tares. Popery had in creased to a vast extent, and infidelity was now stalking abroad, shewing all the malignity of its hellish purposes. In England alone there were now six hundred popish chapels, three jesuit colleges, and seventeen nunneries.—Haying read a passage from a Work showing the increasing numbers of popish chapels, which evidently produced a great impression upon the meeting, Mr. Pullen mentioned the fact that it was now proposed to build a popish cathedral in London, to cost £lOO,OOO. These facts were sufficient to excite the qin pathy of all true protestants to the objects of this society: He would next speak of the efforts making by' infidelity. Mr. Pullen then read an extract from a work published by the persons who call themselves socialists, shewiug the progress they were making; and observed + hat when we had seen papists introduced into high situations in the state, and the Arch leader of the socialists presented to the throne of the monarch, and allowed to kiss her hand, we must be blind indeed if we did not see that popery and infidelity had combined to effect what unitedly they were described as effecting in the holy word of God. It had been his painful lot to see much of the progress made by this dreadful system—indeed he could scarcely go into any town but he saw notices of lectures in favour of the system posted on the walls. In Reading he had seen an announcement of lectures upon the system, to be delivered by a Miss Reynolds ; and a friend of his, who thought it his duty to go. to the meeting, told him he saw a female well dressed, and bearing all ie marks of a person of education and respectability, address the people upon the absurdity and silliness of the marriage state, and calling upon her country women to throw off their allegiance to God ! He had lately received a letter from Manchester from an incumbent cler gyman there, who said, referring to a second grant whichhe solicited, that the socialists had purchased a large plot of land near his church, and had built upon it one of their meeting places. It was supposed that no less than fifty of these places were open every Lord's day for the purpose of preaching infidelity. (Hear, hear.) Then, if this were the case, and if church extension was to be the means of meet ing these growing evils, why did not the incumbents of pa rishes supply themselves with additional curates, in order to give additional administration to the word of God? Why? Because out of 11,000 livings in England, there were marls 000 which did not produce £3OO per annum, and very many did not average £l6O. (Hear.) Out of that many of them had to provide a parsonage house, for themselves and family. Without entering more largely into this topic, he thought a case had been made out from the progress of the population for this society to enable incumbents to supply the deficiency —that there was much reason for the interference of this ssociety, seeing that the legislature had not taken up the cause of the church as its merits demanded. (Hear.) The Pastoral Aid Society, then, made graufs for these two objects, namely, for church extension, and for religious instruction. These objects it accomplished by making grants to those clergy who were surrounded by the greatest pop ulation. The second class was to provide for those who were- at a distance from the parish church. Under the immediate inspection of the parochial clergy, the society had made such grants. The third class was for chaplains appointed under the license of the bis!iop upon the different lines of canals and railways, in order that the workmen might have the benefit of spiritual instruction. It appeared that these men were for the most part, of abandoned habits : applica tion had therefore been made to the society by sonic clergy men, through whose parishes the lines ran for curates, and the plan had been attended with excellent results. The fourth class was for clergymen with large families and small incomes, who were consequently. compelled to take pupils or else move into some sphere presenting larger means of maintenance—to increase their incomes. The fifth class was where the incumbent wished to have assistance. In all of these points the society had come forward.—Mr. Pullen then at considerable length, related a number of cases in which the society's operations in these various de partments had been attended with the mostpromising success, The society was yet in its infancy. It had had 1500 clergys men subscribing to it, and no wonder, that wherever we went we found its operations creating a church feeling among the people. it wati.astonishing. to see the effect produced upon the Ivor by the details of what wag going on id the church—several instances of which he narrated. He also re lated several facts to prove the excellent results which had followed from the engagement of lay assistance in York shire, and other places ; and having added some further statistical information he concluded. amidSt loud applause, by moving the resolution. The Rev. HUGH AI`NEILE seconded the . resolution. He had hoped to be excused on this occasion, not 'because of any lack of zeal in behalf of this excellent society, but because of yet unrecovered fatigue from the effects of the speaking and preaching and long journeyings of the last ten days. . Since his return he had found an additional reason for wishing not to appear, or take any part in the public meeting of this even in,'b,because he thought f rom w h a t had occurred within the last day or two some of his friends among the working classes might expect to hear something from him upon a matter in teresting to them ' • especially to such of them as knew they could write and had written their names. (Hear.) Upon that subject, however, it would not he suitable to dwell at this meeting, therefore he must take upon himself the airs of other great men and bide his time. But in the meantime he would take upon himself to say to his poorer friends that as long as it pleased God to give him the power he should never be found wanting to them nor should they ever want an ad vocate whatever might be said- by town-council terriers. (Cheers.) He would just add concerning 'those terriers that they seemed to have lost their sharp teeth, if ever they had any. He had been requested to second the resolution they had just heard so very ably moved. It called our attention to a case of deep concern, to wit, the spiritual ,necessities of our increasing population; and secondly, an object of sin cere sympathy, namely, the condition of those ministers of the - church who were overburdened with the. dangers and difficulties of their charge. The spiritual necessities of our increasing population had been set before the meeting under two heads: they had heard then' sPoken of first directly as consisting of _ignorance of what is right, and then spoken of indirectly as exposure to what is wrong. Under each head they had heard an enumeration of the evils to which our poorer population were exposed under the various forms of popery and infidelity, and of that specific form of infidelity which Was known by the name of socialism. They had heard the statements of the vast increase of popery, and it was peculiar, that whilst this was among the most valuable themes in a meeting like the present, it was equally important in a meeting of Roman Catholics. They boasted of the statements made at our meetings, and in our publications, concerning their vast increase.; and he confessed the public mind.was.not yet fully in the right order to recoil front those statements of the nature of popery. ,We wanted more in struction as to the increase of popery, for he affirmed that,. by means of delusions and misrepresentations, there existed amongst our edneated dukes, our manufacturers and philo.- •Sophers, the most lamentable ignorance of the true nature of those, damnable tenets, and of those false doctrines, which had been substituted for essential and immutable truth, by that apostate form of the Christian religion (hear.) There existed the most lamentable ignorance upon this essential subject—that the popish system undermined every valuable doctrine of the Gospel, and that - She either mangled its truths or really superseded and destroyed them all. For example, by presuming to repeat the sacrifipeof Christ, it destroyed the efficacy of that sacrifice. It was a truth which would bear every examination, that a sacrifice for sin, to be sufficient at all, must be all-sufficient. If it were sufficient at all, it reached the majesty of the divine character, and possessed meritoriousness, •so that God might be just while he justified the ungodly. If it reached the divine character, if it touched the turning point of divine justice, it was infinite—if infinite, all-sufficieid; and, therefore, if sufficient at all, it was all sufficient. If it Headed repetition it was insufficient, and if insufi - ici►ent at all it was totally and for ever insufficient. The line . of argument adopted by the Apostle Paul, to prove the inefficacy, of the sacrifice of the Jewish ritual, was a rich mine of argument, resting upon the fact that this sacrifice was repeated ; for he. said, " they could not take away sin, else would they have ceased to be offered, because the wor shipper once purged would have had no more conscience of.sin." if the sacrifice could have taken away sin, it would have ceased to be offered. So said we. According to the Scriptures, the sacrifice which took away sin had been once and for ever offered for sin ; but according to the apostacy of the Church of Rome, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ was continually offered, both for the quick and the dead ; and according to the council of Trent, " if any man denies that in the mass there is a true and proper and propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead let him be damned." Such was the language of popery, and there was nothing in the fearful and revolting statements of Owen more opposed to the truth of Christ. (Hear.) Since he had entered the room, a friend had put into his hand a little tract, in which he found a passage extremely suitable to the subject on which he was speaking :—" But how can Protestant senators vote public money to Roman Catholics ? How endow the priests of an anti-Christian superstition ? Their hands have, in other days, been stained with the best blood of Europe. They rolled the Vaudois down their rocks, spiked their young chil dren, and devastated their mountain homes. They massa cred Coligny, with thousands of the noblest and bravest men that France has ever nurtured. They were guilty of the blood of Huss and Jerome. They murdered Cobham, and rifled the grave of Wickliffe, They filled the low countries with slaughter. By their inquisition, they expelled the gos pel from Spain and Italy, to plant ungodliness and scepticism in its room. Proscribing all independent thought, they in carcerated the intellect of Europe, made war with literature, forbade science, discountenanced education, and reduced the faculties of men to dwarfish insignificance. They have de prived the common people of the word of God, and profiting by the spiritual blindness which their tyranny inflicts on their slaves, have substituted other mediators for Christ, deified the wafer, and taught men to fall down before dolls and pic tures. Their bells and candles, their incense and Latin re citations, their mutterings and genuflexions, their legendary tales of saints, their impracticable bigotry and enormous pre tensions, their compelled celibacy and their demoralising confessional, have disgusted all men of sense ; and have driven more than half the educated portion of Roman Catho lic communities into avowal or secret irreligion. Scarcely less than the Court and the Jacobins, were they guilty of the excesses of the French revolution. For if the Court main- tained intolerable abuses till it was too late to repeat, they were supported by the great body of the priests. If the peo • pie were ferocious, it was because the priests had kept them in ignorance. And if the Jacobins were the furious enemies of all religion, it was because priestly irreligion and hypocrisy had made them so. All this, my lord, it is impossible for us to forget. And as the lima)! Cstholic religion remains essentially what it ever was, raid, therefore, to a great extent, inspires its priesthood from age to age with the same dispositions • the love of our country, the spirit of liberty, and the sense of religion, compel us to protest against their encouragement." A.s the meet ing had heard from that extract they had murdered Lord Cobham, whose history was one of peculiar interest. From being -u thoughtless and profligate young man. he took to searching the Scriptures then first translated by Wick liffe; and for circulating religious tracts he was tried by a conclave of Romish bishops, and sentenced to be put to death. When sentence had been passed upon him, he turned round to the bishops, and reminded some of them that he and they had been acquainted for years before.. "My lords," he said, " you knew me extravagant, you knew me occasionally intoxicated, you knew me guilty of profaneness, And guilty of debauchery, and not one of you ever expostulated with me, or asked me why I committed such acts ; you en couraged me in my course whilst I profaned the command ments of God ; and now, when by his mercy I have read his word, you have turned on me like tigera, and I now go to the stake at your command." Here was a sample of the Way in which Operas had 'treated the people of God all along •, and in exactly the same manner would popery always act. If the Church of England had still been supine—if she had still been indifferent to the spiritual - welfare of the people—if she had been careless about the -promulgation of Gospel truth—popery would have sweetly and softly bonded to her ; it would have flattered and smoothed her down ; but it would in the mean time have carried on its machinations, safe in the knowledge that it had nothing to fear from such a church exerting her energies against it. Popery wanted nothing but the power to treat every evangelical mi nister as it had treated Cobham, Cranmcr, Latimer, and Ridley. (Hear, hear.)—From this topic the Reverend Gentleman proceeded strongly to urge the claims of the Pastoral Aid Society upon all classes of Protestants, more particularly upon the poor, for whose spiritual welfare it had been formed. This was one of the evils to which the people were exposed in large parishes, where they lay beyond the reach of pastoral superintendence, and where Popish priests were known to swarm, that the Romish clergy were perpetually on the watch. They insinuated themselves wherever they could ; they took every opportu nity of ingratiating themselves with the people. A clergy man in Yorkshire, lately told him an instance of this. The priest entered the house of a parishioner, whose wife had recently been confined, just at the time the poor people were in difficulties as to how they should get the infant to church to be baptised, from want of clothing and sponsors. The priest insinuated himself by first . stating that he was a cler gyman, which was, in his mind, no lie, but in its effect upon the poor woman it was a gross lie. He then prevailed upon the mother to allow him to baptize the infant privately ; and when the ceremony was over, he avowed himself to be a priest of the Roman Catholic church, and claimed the child as a member of it, thus making a lodgement in the affections of the parents by means of going to their assistance in a mo ment of difficulty. There were other cases, in which the spiritual necessities of the people should cause deep concern. They were exposed not only to the evils already mentioned, but to the contaminating influence of their superiors ; they were exposed to such a licentiousness of language in the public press, which ought to be their instructor ; they were exposed to such a contaminating influence in higher quarters, as rendered it almost impossible to hope for any real regeneration of the national character whilst the very leaders of the society of the nation so disregarded the first principles of morals. There was such a laxity about the truth, such carelessness about what people said, such levity in the detection of error, that the people of this country were taught to laugh at falsehood as a joke, and to sport with calumny and wilful misrepresentation. This was a mischief which it required the careful instruction, and the constant superintendence of a wise and learned clergy, to re sist and restrain ; and he knew of no one thing which called more loudly for an increase of pastoral superintendence than this. Mr. M`Neile concluded his eloquent speech by stating that the Pastoral Aid Society supported four curates in Liverpool, at a salary of £lOO per annum each, and three lay assistants, at a cost of £l9O, making an expenditure, in this town, of £590 a year. Having seconded the motion, it was put and carried unanimously. The Rev. It. P. BUDDICOM moved the secomiresolution-s-- " That this meeting, regarding it as a primary duty of a Christian state to provide for the religious instruction of the people, and lamenting that at the present time no such pro vision is adequately made, would earnestly press upon the members of the Church the importance of soliciting from the Legislature the performance of its duty, and of supplying, in the meanwhile, as far as possible, by self-denying contribu tions, the existing deficiency, till, through the favour of Almighty God, the benefits of our parochial system shall so appear as to awaken in the minds of both the people and the rulers of this laud an anxiety to extend the blessings of the Church of England, to the full measure of the wants of the population." 'Mr. Buddicom stated that the Rev, Dr. Tat tershall, who had undertaken to move the resolution, was unavoidably detained from the • meeting, and said, that it was as well settled as any truism could be, that it was the bounden duty of every christian legislature to provide for the religious instruction of the state. It had been said again and again, and no railing could rail the seal from off that bond, that, it' a father were responsible for the moral and spiritual, no less than for the physical prosperity of his child, then were governments—which were the parents of the people in the highest sense of the term, expressly called upon by that relationship to do their utmost for the moral and spiritual, as well as for the physical welfare, of the people. Having expatiated on this truism, Mr. 3uddicorn said it .vas a favourite position, and one that had been repeated usque ad nauseam, that voluntaryism would supply all the spiritual wants of the people. Let him take a case and see. There were 6,680 parishes in each of which he believed the population were under 300 individuals. What had voluntaryism done for those 6,680 parishes ? According to the statements made by the advocates of voluntaryism, there had been introduced into those parishes, by the voluntary act of the people, and by the operation of the voluntary system—and be it re membered voluntaryism would merely introduce chapels ac cording to the demand of the people for them—by one deno mination of dissenters sixteen chapels, and if that number were multiplied by five, so as to include the exertions of the other denominations, the result would only be eighty p ar i s hes supplied, leaving 6600 un su p p li e d. (Hear.) Did not this prove strongly the necessity of something being. done by the state, as well as the people ? In London, where the population within the bills of mortality amounted to upwards of 900,000 individuals, - voluntaryism provided for 75,000 only (hear.) He was willing to grant that the Church of England had been by no means faithful to her holy trust ; he spoke it with shame, that her ministers had not been so active and zealous, so intrepid and watchful, and so constant at their posts, in season and out of season, in carrying out l the great principle of the church establishment for the benefit of the people, by advancing them in the knowledge, of the eternal truths embodied in her articles, and liturgy, and homilies ; but he would ask, what advantage had been taken of this circumstance by the supporters of voluntarism' (Hear, hear.) Whilst the Church of England unhappily re mained in a comparative state of lethargy, the various deno minations of sectarians were equally inactive, and indeed, they in a great degree received their impulse from the awakened t nergies of the establishment. (Hear.) He would further contend, that in those places in which vital religion was almost unknown, and in which scriptural instruction and pastoral superintendence we' e necessary, the voluntary sys tem was yot to he found in activity. On the other hand, when a zealous clergyman had succeeded in restoring the people to a knowledge of divine truth, the advocates of voluntarism endeavoured to reap, for themselves, the fruits of his labour. It could not be denied that a great portion of the present spiritual destitution might have been prevented, if ministers—not merely the present, hut preceding ministers —had considered what was the true spring of our prosperity, namely, the moral and religious character of the nation. Instead of spending vast sums on wars, until a debt had been accumulated of nearly £900,000,000, they had spent the in terest of the interest of that enormous amount, a very dif ferent moral and scriptural aspect would have been visible throughout the country. (Hear.) But we had been so busy with the arm of flesh, that we could not spare a few hundred thousands of pounds to advance onr own eternal interests, and the consequence had been, that.-there was indifference — and perhaps alienation from the Protestant church in high places. Mr. Buddicom then pointed out the utility of the Pastoral Aid Society, and concluded by moving the re solution. Mr. liowAnn seconded the resolution in a brief appro priate speech. The Rev. ROBERT DAVIES moved the appointment of the committee for the ensuing year, which was seconded by Jonm RIGBY, Esq. A vote of thanks was then presented to Mr. Campbell, for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated. CORRESPONDENCE. TO 'WILLIAM. RATIiIIONE, ESQ. Roscommon-street, 16th Dec. 1839. Szn,—My attention has- - been called to what you arere ported to have said in the Town Council on Wednesday last, upon the subject of a speech of mine 'delivered at a public Meeting Sheffield, and I hasten to address to yOu4he few following lines. I knew from the unquestionable authority of eye-witnesses of the highest respectability, that you had taken Mr. O'Con nell into the news-room, and that the circumstances which I described had then and there taken, place. This indeed is not denied. I thought that you were Mayor at the time, otherwise it would have been as easy for me to have said " Mr. Rathbone, afterwards Mayor," or simply, " Mr. Rath bone," as to have said " the Mayor." But as you seem to attach au importance, which did not occur to me, to the fact that you did not, and would not do, as Mayor, what you undeniably did do as Mr. Rathbone, I can of course have no hesitation in giving you the benefit of this acknowledgement,—l should have said " Mr.Rathbone, afterwards the Mayor." If in calling you the:Mayor a few weeks previous to your election to that honourable office, I hare given you offence, I beg to assure you that it was wholly undesigned, and to plead in extenuation of it, that your name and history as connected with the town council, are habitually associated in my mind with the most distinguished portion of that history, the year of your mayoralty. You call my statement a gross calumny which it is my duty to retract, and you allege that because I have not hitherto done so, " therefore it is no wonder if two thousand poor un fortunate ignorant parties have been misled into signin--the Education Petition." That Ais allegation against my operative friends is wholly unfounded, will be manifest, by a simple reference to dates. The petition was signed in October (and would have been presented at the next meeting of the council, but for the municipal election) and my speech was not delivered until the 13th of November, therefore it is no wonder if that speech was not the cause of those signatures. Permit me to add, for the benefit of all whom it may concern, an expression of unfeigned astonishment at the change which has taken place in the mode of speaking concerning the working classes, by those who de light to call themselves reformers. A very few years ago, while such reformers were ai►ning at power by the voice of the people to whom they promised great things, the working classes were called intelligent friends offreedom, the strength of the nation, a most thinking people, no longer to be hood winked by priestcraft, or oppressed by arbitrary abuses. This sounded well, because it was quite true. But now that the real seats of craft and abuse have been discovered, and the public voice is raised accordingly, behold and admire ! the most thinking mass of intelligence is retrogarded into " thousands of poor unfortunate ignorant parties." I gladly avail myself of the opportunity of mentioning this in a letter to you, because your name will carry it through the nation, and it is of national importance. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, II UGH AVNEILE. SPECIAL FUND.-CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. .Strt,-4 took the liberty a short time back, in answering the letter of your correspondent " A Friend to the Church Missionary Society," to suggest a simple mode of raising a considerable sum towards making up the deficiency in the funds of the Church Missionary Society, without a single in dividual feeling a jot the poorer. My plan was, to have a collecting box and a subscription list at my office, 3S, Church strect, and to request every individual passing my door, fa vourable to missionary exertions, to step up and drop in their mite, however small. Some response has been made, but the sum raised is, - yet very small. Surely a few thousand persons, who pass the door daily, will avail themselves of this very easy mode of helping the funds of the society.—l beg to remain, Sir your obedient servant, JOSEPH CRISP. Should any other mode suggest itself to any of your read ers, I shall be niost happy to avail myself of it. CHARITY SERMONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. am anxious to make a few short remarks upon the subject of our clergy,making more frequent calls upon their congregations for the various religious and charitable socie ties connected with the town. In my humblc! judgment, ' many of our clergy are too scrupulous as to the frequency of their calls, and too tender of the pockets of their congrega tions. It is a well-known fact, that those congregations who are most repeatedly called upon are invariably the most free to give. And putting the subject in a practical light, what does it really amount to ? Supposing there were a charity sermon every mouth, we know from experience that Is. per head would be a high average ; and is it so hard a thing to subscribe 12s. per annum thus ? I am prepared to contend, sir, that it would be a whole some practice for each church to have not less than twelve. collections in the year, and thus to keep that smallest part of charity, the giving of our substance, in more constant exer cise ; and this would give an opportunity for the claims of each of our societies being brought before the people every year, or, at farthest, every eighteen months. I know it is argued, or rather made an excuse, by many, that they al ready subscribe to so many societies ; and I also know, that if asked for annual subscriptions, it is replied, as an excuse, that they give at the sermons. But I think the sermons should in no way interfere with the annual subscriptions, but be looked upon as an extra shower. lam a man of very moderate means myself, but I have never yet found charity sermons come too heavy upon me, although I have been in the thick of them. A pious lawyer once observed, in making up a bankrupt's accounts, that he never yet found a client ruined by the money ha had given to charities. Should these remarks be acceptable, I shall feel obliged by their insertion ; and beg to remain, sir, your obedient servant, 4 A ONE-SHILLING GIVER AT COLLECTIONS. ANOTHER PROTESTANT ASSOClATlON.—Notwithstanding the open and concealed attacks of popery and infidelity, it is ,refreshing to observe that associations for the support and defence of the .Protestant establishment, are rising up on all sides. One will be formed next Thursday, at Market Drayton, and we have no doubt it will be found a powerful ooadjutorin the maintenance of the great cause. We understand that the Right Hon. H, Labouchere, Pre. sident of the Board of Trade, will dine with his worship the Mayor on Friday next. Upwards of ninety cards of invita, tion have been issued for the occasion. FATAL ACCIDENT : DEATH ON SUPERINTENDENT TYRRELL.—We regret to announce the death of a highly meritorious public servant, Mr. Charles Tyrrell, one of the Superintendents of the Police Force in this town, through an accident, .the result of carelessness, which, we hope, will obviate - an evil that has previously been productive, in some instances, of fatal consequences, and, in others, of broken limbs. On Monday evening Mr. Tyrrell was passing along Berry-street, in company with two friends, when he fell into a hole over'a coal.vault, the plate of which had been taken off for the admission of coals and not afterwards fastened. The injuries he received appeared at first slight, but they produced deliriuth, Which terminated fatally. Mr. Tyrrell died on Thursday morning, much respected and deservedly regretted by all who knew him. Mn. SPENCER'S VALUABLE DlSCOVERY.—Considerable interest has been excited in the scientific world by Mr. Spen cer's [who is a tradesman of Liverpool] new process of copy ing medals and other works of art, in copper, by the agency of voltaic electricity. It is with great pleasure we hear, that this process is already beginning to be employed in certain of our manufactures, and that thus electricity will soon be num bered amongst the agents employed for practical and useful purposes. In our former account of Mr. Spencer's inven tion, we spoke highly of the merit of the discovery and the probable uses to which it might be applied : the result has borne out our anticipations. In the manufacture of plated articles and ornaments, it is often desirable to copy orna mental work, such as leaves, flowers, and arabesque mould ings ; this is both difficult and expensive, and from these causes often impossible. Mr. Spencer's invention, however, affords a cheap and easy method of performing what is re quired, and thus, ornaments on rich ancient plate are copied with the greatest perfection and case, without injury to the original; the great advantage consisting in the means of obtaining, at very small expense, a fac-simile in copper, of the ornaments required to be copied, which may then be sil vered or gilt. In another art, the voltaic process is, we are informed, being successfully introduced. The makers of buttons often require to have two or three of a peculiar pat tern to complete a set of which they have not the die. To take a cast from the. button is, for many reasons, inconveni ent and objectionable; and the voltaic process, at the cost of a few hours and very little labour and expense, furnishes a perfect fac-simile of the button, which then only requires to be gilt. It has been said, that there is a difficulty in obtain ing perfect copies, and that the deposited copper is brittle, porous, and full of holes, but whoever will read attentively the processpf Mr. Spencer, and follow it, must succeed. The casts of medals transmitted to us\ by Mr. Spenc e and also those made by Mr. E. Solly and Mr. J. Newman, and ex hibited lately at the meeting of the Society of Arts, were very pure and compact copper, and the surface was as brilliant and perfect as could be desired. The process, indeed, is simple, and, so far from its requiring, as i s generally sup. posed, either expensive and complicated apparatus, or deep scientific knowledge, nothing can be inure easy, as the ob servance of a few rules renders the success of the process quite eertain ; and, as regards the expense of the apparatus, the whole of it may. easily be procured for a few pence.- 4th enceitin. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRIDAY. SMOKING IN ST. JOHN'S MARKET. Two or three persons were fined for smoking in St. John's Market, and for allowing their dogs to follow them into it. TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE - POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF A CAT. A young man named William Pendleton, and his wife, hav ing been placed at the bar, before Messrs. Rushton and Benn, Betsy Hyam mounted the witness box, and, with a Welsh accent, addressed the magistrates thus •—" If you please, sir, that young man and woman came to my house on Saturday night, and insulted me most odious. He threw a dead cat at me, and she struck me several times on the check, till the tears ran down from my eyes." Two witnesses (females) corroborated this statement, and added that the male prisoner accused the complainant of hav ing poisoned his cat, the dead body of which he brought with him, and with it struck Betsy several times in the face. William Pendleton—May I be allowed to speak ? Mr. Rushton—Yes. Fendleton—Well, then, sir, when I got home on Friday night, the poor cat was taken very ill—it was a favourite cat, and on Saturday morning it died. We opened it, and it had been poisoned by some drug or other. Mr. Rushton—How do you know that? Pendleton—lt was discoloured in its gizzard, sir. (Great laughter.) We live in the same court, sir, and I took it to the lady there, and asked her what she poisoned it for, and she said that she would poison me too, and serve me out worse than that, and she spit in my face. On Saturday she fetched up three men, three stout men, and they challenged me out to fight. On Sunday night she came again, and I have lived in the court three years, and have never made a word of noise. Evidence to substantiate these facts having been called by ;he defendant, _ Mr. Rushton' asked the complainant whether she did poi son the eat? She replied in the negative. The prisoners were each fined 2s. Gd. and costs. nr.vuslNG A 1311.1.:ET. Mr. Whiteman, of the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-street, appeared before the magistrates to answer an information charring him with having refused a billet served upon him, in the regular manner, by the billet master, Mr. Highton. It appeared that Maurice Fitzgerald, a corporal of the 11th Regiment, received on the 7th instant a billet upon Mr. Whiteman, which that gentleman'refused;- on the ground that he had had two billets on the preceding day. Mr. Whiteman retained the billet given to him by Fitzgerald, wherelipon the corporal returned to the billet master's office, and - stated the circumstances. On reference to the book, Mr. Highton found that no billet had been granted upon Mr. Whiteman on the preceding day, and Mr. Walsall was despatched with the soldier to the house of Mr. Whiteman, to learn the particulars of the case. Mr. Whiteman then delivered up the billet of Fitzgerald, and one for two soldiers of the 57th Regiment, the 6th December, and for three nights. With these they returned to the office of Mr. Highton, and it was then found that the billet of the 6th had originally been served upon a licensed victualler of the name of Smith, (who, however, was exempt,) in Hanover-street, but that name had been erased and the name of Mr. White man substituted. The clerk of Mr. Highton was positive that the alteration in the billet had not been made at the office. If it had been, a similar alteration would have ap peared in the book ; but such was not the case ; and besides, it was not their practice to alter a billet when incorrectly granted, but to write out a fresh one. Mr. Whiteman stated that his reason for refusing the bil let, and for detaining it when handed to him by the corporal, was that he might have the case explained on the following day at the Billet Office. The two men who brought the billet on the 6th, were paid out by him. One of them was In uniform, the other seemed to be a recruit. Mr. Rushton acquitted Mr. Whiteman ; bat he thought that the cage was one which required further examination, and he took the evidence of Mr. Whiteman upon it. Mr. Highton was then ordered to write to the Recruiting Office, stating the particulars, and requesting the'attehdance of the proper parties at the Police-court on the next day, in order that the case might be,fullyinKesligated. Mr. Highton stated iliatiiveral cases of a similar nature had occurred The investigation was adjourned till Saturday. On Saturday the examination was resumed. Lieutenant Ralph, one of the officers_ on the recruiting service at this town, and two corporals one of the 56th and one of the 11th regiment, attended. The order under which the billet was procured had been given by Lieutenant. Ralph. The object of the present investigation was to discover by whom the al teration had been made. An order for a billet had been granted, on the 6th of December, to John Adams, John Cop back, and Robert Morgan, recruits, who had since been sent to Chatham. It was found that the names of these parties were not exhibited in the return on the 6th, but on the 7th of December, on which day billets had been granted to them, —to one for the house of Mr. Thomas Robertson, Highfield street ; to the other two, for William Jagers, Henderson street, Park, for two nights. The order on which this billet was procured was signed by Serjeant-Major Duffy. As the latter was not in attendance, the case was further adjourned till yesterday (Monday.) SATURDAY. OFFENCES AGAINST TIIE REVENUE LAWS. Peter Anjou, for having carried on shore a quantity of to bacco from the American ship Virginian, and Peter Wilson, for having concealed twenty-eight pounds of tobacco on board the same ship, both remanded on Tuesday last, to abide the decision of the Board of Customs, were on Saturday fined in the penalties of £lOO each. They will both he recommended by the Magistrates to the favourable consideration of the Board. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CAR-DRIVER. William Keenan, a car-driver, was placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Saturday, charged with having appropriated to his own nee certain money, which he received on account of his master, Mr. James Bibby, car-proprietor, Greenland street. Mr. Bibby stated, that, on Monday night last, an order was left at his house to send a car to the house of Mr. Myers, in Parliament-street. The prisoner took the car and returned about half-past one o'clock on Tuesday morning. Mr. Bibby asked him what distance he had been, and why he had remained out so late. He replied, that he had been to a lane opposite the Zoological Gardens. That fare would have been three shillings and ninepence. The prisoner, on being asked for the money, said the parties did not pay him, but would call on Mr. Bibby and settle. It was discovered, next day, that Mr. Samuel Holmes, biscuit-baker, of St. Ann street, had been conveyed in the car to his house, where he had arrived a few minutes before twelve o'clock and paid the prisoner two shillings. Police-officer Cameron stated, that the person who gave the prisoner into his custody, asked him what he had done with the fares which he received on Mon day night. He replied, that he hid kept them, but he never did the like before. The prisoner said, he met some car drivers, and they enticed him to stop the money. He had not received any wages for three weeks. He was committed for trial. Yesterday, Sergeant Major Duffy, and two sergeants on the recruiting service appeared before Mr. Rushton, and the investigation was proceeded with. The Sergeant Major ex plained that the second sergeant for duty always took down the names of the recruits wanting billets, and that he, on their representation gave the orders. He and the other sergeant stated that they were frequently imposed upon by unprincipled recruits, who obtained. more billets than they required. Several rough looking documents were produced, but no satisfactory explanation could be given as to the erasure of the name of Mr. Smith, and the substitution of that of Mr. Whiteman. It also appeared that several double billets had been granted, to which the recruits were not entitled. Mr. Rushton, after an investigation of some length said, that it appeared that the recruiting sergeants, from the sys tem pursued, had no effectual check on the recruits, who might thus receive addit•onal billets, to which they were not entitled. Now it appeared that the same man had received a double billet. An erasure had also been made in the billet paper of the names of three men, and Mr. Whiteman's name had been substituted for that of Smith. The system did not, it appeared, afford any protection to publicans, on whom the billeting was onerous. He considered that they were entitled to protection from such irregularities. Under the present plan recruits might receive several billets for the same night, and. draw the money, for no proper record or book was kept by the sergeant as a check. He concluded by intimating that he should see that the circumstance should be represented to the Secretary at War, with a view to a remedy. The parties then left the court. YESTERDAY. EXPOSURE OF A CHILD DV ITS MOTHER. Bridget Jones, a good looking young woman, stood charg ed with having exposed her child in the street. Williams, a la bourer, residing in St. Paul's-square, said, that between six and seven o'clock on Friday morning last, while he was walk ing through Regent-street, he saw a child sitting in an entry, with its face towards the street. He brought :a Mr. Tindall and his female servant, and they took up the child. Mr. Tindall, a publican, of Regent-street, corroborated this state ment, and added, that the child was taken to his house, where it was washed and clothed. He 'afterwards made in quiry, and heard that a female had come in the steam-packet Nottingham, from Dublin, with a child very much like that found. Mr. Inspector Massey took a description of the child, which was sent to the Workhouse. Witness after wards went with the inspector to a house in Stanhope-place, where they found the prisoner. She admitted that she had come with the steamer Nottingham. She denied having brought a child with her, and was apprehended. John Humphreys, a sailor in the Nottingham, said the vessel ar rived on Friday morning about five o'clock. The prisoner was a deck passenger, and had a child with her. The wea ther being severe on Thursday night, he allowed her to take his bed. He assisted her ashore, and left her at the corner of Regent-street. He afterwards saw the child at Mr. Tin dall's, and knew it to he the same. Inspector Massey sad, that when he asked the prisoner if she had a child with her, she said she had, but it was not her own. On asking her again whose child it was, she said, " I will not deny my own ; it was mine." She stated that it was sixteen months old. On being asked why she deserted it, she said, " I had no means of supporting it." , The prisoner said, " I am the wife of William Jones, and all I have to say is that lam guilty." She signed her name to this admission. Mr. Rushton stated that the prisoner was entitled to be set at liberty on finding bail to answer the charge on her own recognizance, and two sureties in £25 each. In default she was put into custody. THEFT FROM A PUBLIC HOUSE. A man, named David Graham, was placed at the bar, on a charge of stealing a shawl. William Thompson said he kept a retail beer house in Banastre-s reet, and that on Saturday night last, at nine o'clock, he saw the prisoner go up to a cloths-maiden in the lobby, and take from it the shawl pro duced. The prisoner had entered the house by the back door. Witness pursued him into a court in Banastre-street, when he dropped the shawl. With some assistance he was secured. A person named Hawke who assisted, had his head cut by the prisoner, who had an open clasp knife in his hand. A police-officer who came up got hold of him and secured his arms. He was committed for trial at the Sessions. OBTAINING GAME, ETC. UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. A man named John Mellor was placed at the bar, charged with having written several notes, in the name of Mr. Radley, of the Adelphi, to several individuals, ordering in one " brace of turkeys," in another, two hares, &c., to be delivered to that gentleman. Two of them were addressed to Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, but would not be proceeded with, as the prisoner had not received the articles named. Mr. Lynn stated, that Mr. Radley could prove a case against the prisoner, but he was then ill in bed. He would probably, however, be enabled to attend the court in a day or two. — Mr. Rushton remanded the prisoner until Wednesday, when it was expected Mr. Radley would appear in court. STEALING FROM A SHOP. Two girls, Sarah Cripps and Mary Ann Milligan, were charged, on suspicion, with having stolen several silk and other handkerchiefs, from the shop of Mr. Williams, in Scotland-road. As the evidence was not quite complete, they were remanded until further inquiry were made. A THIEF AND IMPOSTOR. James Cook, stood charged with stealing a pair of gloves from a dwelling-house. He had gone to the house of a Mr. Duncan, with a begging petition; and on being shown out purloined a pair of gloves from the hat of a gentleman in the passage. The petition was to the effect that the bearer had been in most respectable circumstances, but having un fortunately become security for a brother-in-law, to the amount of £1,840, for which he was made liable, he was re duced to great poverty, and therefore implored the assistance of the benevolent. He represented himself to Mr. Duncan, as having been an officer in the army. The petition was produced in court and retained. It purported to be signed by the Earl of Derby, Mr. S. Holme, one of the Rectors, and many other respectable gentlemen ; but the signatures were evidently forged. Mr. Rushton consigned the delinquent to gaol for three months. ST.EALTNG A €4IVIJ . A wall ni46l hunts Ftynti, optartd at the Val. chtirg'ed with basing stolen a cow, 'front a place six miles beyond Ormskirk. The cow was traced to Cable-street, in this town ; but as the offence was not committed within the borough, the prisoner was sent in custcdy before a county magistrate. COMMITMENT. A man named William Mulligan, who had been some years in the employ of Messrs. Lund and Unsworth, chandlers and soap-boilers, was charged with having stolen a quantity of tallow, two candles, some soap, and some lead, which were found concealed in his cap and in his pockets. lie was com mitted for trial at the sessions. CHINA. We have advices from Macao to the 19th of July, ten days later, than the Lccounts previously received. They were brought by the Crown, arrived at Liverpool, in 97 days from Calcutta. The Crown sailed from St. Helena on the 28th of October. The Morrison, for London, had arrived at that island from China, and the news brought by her has thus reached England. The trade continued sus pended, without the slightest prospect of its early resump tion. It will be seen by the subjoined extract of a letter, dated Macao, July 19,, that there had been an affray be tween a Chinese war junk and an opium smuggling-beat : " Extract of a letter dated Macao, the 19th of July, 1839 :—A clipper brig, with opium in, was lying outside at anchor beaalmed, when a junk and several heavily armed boats bore down upyn her. She weighed and made sail to catch what airs were stirring. The junk and boats fired, and the brig then commenced a heavy cannonade with grape and canister. One of her guns broke and killed two of her crew ; she sustained no other damage, but it is supposed that much blood was shed on the part of the Chinese. A letter of the 20th states, that 50 of the Chinese are said to have been killed." " Captain Charles Elliot, Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects in China. " Stn,---With reference to the interview of the committee appointed at the public meeting held at Messrs. Dent and Co.'s office, on the 12th and 17th of June, with you, on the Bth inst., I am now directed to hand you the enclosed copy of the notes of a meeting of that committee, with a proposed scale of demurrage fur ships now lying in the outer anchorages. " I am particularly to call your attention that the commit tee do not profess, in the absence of legal decisions on any entirely analogous cases, to determine on what parties any claim for demurrage may eventually fall, the point being one. which it may be necessary to determine in the English courts of law, unless the British Government should, by admitting in the first instance the validity of the claim on them, render any such reference unnecessary. " In regard to such ships as may be partially loaded, and be desirous of transshipping their good►s to other vessels, it appears to the committee that such transshipment could only be made on the Government, or you, as their representative, taking the responsibility of insurance, inasmuch as the owners and consignees of goods hold the underwriters liable under the original policies of insurance, and cannot be ex pected to perform any act which would release them from that liability, without some other equally effectual security. "The committee are clearly of opinion, that as the ulti mate incidence of the payment for demurrage must be left for adjustment by the British Government or courts of law, the consigneea of goods here cannot be expected to make any payment on that account, and, as goods cannot be detained except for freight, the captain or consignees of the ship should sue for their demurrage in England, under protests to be made and recorded here. " In cases of transshipment, the consignees of goods, the committee apprehend, will hold the ships liable for eventual due delivery of the cargo under the original bills of lading ; and transshipment would, therefore, be most properly made the subject of arrangement between the captain or consignees of the ship bringing the goods and those of the vessel to which they may be transferred. "And with this view the committee consider that, should, under epccial circumstances, such transshipment. become ne cessary, the hiring of the requisite storeships would rest with Her Majesty's superintendent, who could best decide on the necessity of that measure, with reference to the particular merits of each individual case. " Should you have any suggestions or observations to make with reference to the enclosed paper, or the remarks con nected with it, I shall be happy to receive and communicate them to the committee. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, " GEORGE T. BRAINE, Chairman. "MACAO, July 10, 1839. " Notes of an adjourned meeting of the committee ap pointed at the public meeting held at Dent and Co.'s office, on the 17th of June. Present Dent, A. C. Maclean, D. Rustomjee, C. Kerr, A. Jardine, G. Smith, and G. T. Braine, Chairman. " 1. In accordance with a suggestion made by Captain Elliot, in a personal interview, the committee consider it de sirable to frame a scale of demurrage for goods on board ships now lying at the outer anchorages. " 2. At the same time the committee deem it proper to re card their opinion, that in the absence of any decided cases of strictly analogous character to the present position of mat ters in China, they are not competent to form any conclu sion as to whether the ships have a valid claim for demurrage ; and if demurrage be actually due, on whom such claim may equitably fall ; the object in forming the proposed scale being merely to establish uniformity of practice in respect to one rate of charge. " 1. The committee consider it desirable to divide the ves sels for Vhampoa into three classes : " Ist class, above 600 tons register. " 2d class, from 350 to 609 tons register. " 3d class, under 350 tons register.. " 2. The committee are of opinion that demurrage, if due, might fairly, under the circumstances, commence one mouth after arrival in Macao roads, or Hongkong, but in no case to begin until one month after the date of Captain Elliott's public notice of the 23d of March, 1839. " The committee thought it desiraLle to propose the fol lowing scale, as a reasonable claim for demurrage on the part of the owners of the ships : 1. SHIPS FROM INDIA. Per menscm. " On cotton, Ist class ships, 50 cents. per bale of 3001 b. 2d ditto 60 ditto. 3d ditto 75 ditto. " Sandalwood and fishumws, 20 per picul on all ships. " Saltpetre, rice, lietelnut, pepper, tin, and any other pro duce not enumerated, 10 per pied on all ships. " 2. SHIPS FROM ENGLAND. " Measurement goods, 2t doll. per ton of 50 cubic feet. metals and other dead weigat at 1 dol. per ton of 23 cwt. " GEORGE T. BRAINE, Cl:airman." " MACAO, JULY 15, 1839. " Sir—l have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 10th inst., and I beg you to convey to the committee my thanks for the assistance they have afforded me on this occasion. " My own opinion is concurrent with theirs—that the de termination of the parties upon whom any charge for demur rage should eventually fall must be left to the dcis - on of the courts in England. " Respecting ships partially unloaded, and which it may be desired to discharge, I am ready, for convenience sake, to undertake the public responsibility of insurAvie cn ary goods or produce (not contraband in the count. y) transship ped for safe deposit into British bottoms. Upon an Under standing, however, that the charge shoald devolve upon the shippers, if it should hereafter be le. ; :ally determined that the master, under all the circumstances of the case, would have been justified in making such deposit at the risk of the merchant. " I agree with the committee, that as the ultimate incidence of the payment for demurrage must he detern.i.led io Eng land, it is not reasonable that any payment should i e made here on that account. it is likewise my imrres;•ion that the terms of transshipment should most properly be left for . ar rangement between the masters and eonsignees of the carry ing ships, and those of the vessel to which they may be trans ferred. " The opinion of the committee, concerning trar.t . s'.ipment at all, expressed in the last paragraph of your letter, is coin cident with my own. " I hare the honour to remain your most übediont humble servant, "CHARLES ELLIOT, Chief Supoilltendent " To G. T. Braine, Esq., Macao." THEATRE ROYAL—Miss Grant, who took her benefit on Friday night, had a full house, and she acquitted herself, as she invariably does, to the satisfaction of the auditor . Next season we hope to find this popular vocalist come amongst us with an increased reputation. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bland (late Miss Faucitt) had their, benefit lart nitja, hot what success they met with we have not ascertained, as other avo cations prevented our attendance. Mr. Barker, the princi pal singer in the company, has engaged Mrs. Wood to assist him, and we have little doubt that the celebrity of that lady, and his own acknowledged talent will secure him a bumper. To-morrow night (Wednesday), Mr. Lynne, a new but re spectable actor in his line, takes his benefit; -the pieces he has selected are, The Lady of Lyons : and The Field of Forty Footsteps. Next Monday, which is the closing night of the season, Mrs. Clarke appeals to the public of Liverpool. This lady's reputation is so well established, that it is quite supererogatory even to allude to it. Suffice it therefore to mention that the strength of the company will appear, and that Mr. Ducrow and the American, Mr. Rice, give their valuable aid. For the pieces to be performed we beg to refer the reader to the advertisement. ST. ANNE'S WARD.—We understand that the coMmittee appointed to investigate the charge brought against Mr. Jones have terminated their inquiry, and come to a decision favourable to Mr. Jones—thus confirming the opinion pro nounced upon the case in the Town-clerk's report. THE LATE MR. CHARLES TYRRELL—The funeral of this lamented individual, who was not less respected for his activity and zeal in his capacity as Inspector of Police, that he was esteemed in all the relations of private life, took place yesterday, and was attended by all the disposable constabu lary of the town, to the number of about four hundred, pre ceded by a great number of mourning coaches, containing his private friends. The procession l: ft the South Dock Station at two o'clock, and proceeded to the Necropolis, at Low-hill, where the remains of the deceased were consigned to their final resting place. The deepest respect for his memory was manifested by the whole force, to whom, from his kind, gentlemanly, and considerate bearing, he had be come much and deservedly endeared. lie has left a widow to lament his premature death. Palsoat DISCIPLINE.--We have jest received a copy of a " Letter on Prison Discipline," which has been addressed to the Mayor and Magistrates of Liverpool, by the Rev. Dr. Buck, Chaplain of the Borough Gaol. We have not yet had time for perusing it, and are, therefore, under the necessity of deferring until our next publication any extended notice of its contents. It appears to be very candidly and ably written, and contains many very valuable suggestions on the impor tant subject to which it refers _ PE.IIZi. BEEF.—We understand the very fat ox, weighing upwards of 20001bs. which was fed by the Earl of Darby,*and won the first prize at the Liverpool showin October last, has been purchased by our townsmen, Messrs. Derbyshire and Clough, butchers, in St. John's Market, and it is their in tention to slaughter it at the new slaughterhouse, St. Andrew street, on Wednesday neat. LAUNCH OF A NEW PACKET-SHIP.---The ship Stephen Whitney, of 1000 tons burthen, built by Messrs. Bergh and Co. for it. Kermit's line of Liverpool packets, (in place of the St. Andrew, wrecked in the storm of the ith of January,) and to be commanded by Captain Will.am C. Thompson, was launched on Sa.urday morning, the 23d ult., from the toot of Sammel-street, New York. She would sail for Liverpool on the 13th inst. TilE LIVERPOOL FIRE POLICE.--PVC understand that, at the last meeting of _the directors of the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company, they passed a vote of thanks to the fire police for their efficiency in extinguishing the tires in Messrs. Birt's shop in Lord-street, and Messrs. Mulleneux's distillery, Dale-street, and that the suns of .£2O was placed at the disposal of the Watch Corn mittce fur distribution amongst that body. List of cabin passengers by the packet-ship Roscius, Capt. Collins, from New York :—Mr. Thomas Woodhead and lady, London ; Dr. Madden, lady, and child, Cuba ; Mr. G. W. Lee, London ; Mr. George Catten, New York ; Mr. C. Sherman, Connecticut ; Mr. Joseph Frost, Liverpool ; Mr. John E. Doyle, Virginia ; Mr. W, Bradbury, lady, and two children, Montreal; Miss Ludlam, do. Mr. J. H. Short. lady, and two children, New York ; Mr. P. Main., of Kentucky. It is stated that Lord Dinorben is to settle 05,000 a year on Miss Smith, the sister of the Princess of (*Mar whom he is about to marry. Miss Smith is a Roman Ciabolic, anal is I'Vc4rtvd.(ci .61 1 3 s fOttune of between C.!0, 0110 aThl 43-OMO,---Zeeter wat °f k, fct ce ritf area s e(I ° a cto" :otilli ;a ole ' 10,1. : sy sg litt le piteg al e int° 3110 6 of I ", 00