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11.1IEATRE-ROYA.L, LIVERPOOL. ‘Glid N• co, I ght of MR. POWER, who is 4 ent•Garden, Drury -Lane, and Haymarket, T of the i e iped at this Theatre, for TEN NIGHT TI S. Ieatr meets jre,nt TUESDAY, July 23, es-Royal, the Entertain will commence with the Musical Drama of c aPtai ll g e li_ E LAUGH Ho LOCKStIk: . m r . Baker. 4ft. 7:l:(i.Mr. G. ncastle: it Grant. • b I;loic_he,r. then tae.vv-.. Romantic ..** Musical Miss Dtersatro Theatrewk,iyaav&rodutceBvth theoe.Ferr lt, A ;7):PLANNIGekIN AA'THE FAIRIES s a o , ce w e r s t s tt a e t n th y e ot ks ; peare's. oi„,*. -11susimtnNs DREAM--U 5,,,,ka power, A so •".' 0 Flannigan s , ru gainst liquor).. oir• riginally perfo r medl a y him a at the Theatre-Royal, Co ./ Xed pinch vent-Garden.) .• Mr. Gray. Whit e• :. (Phelim s rival) Barker. kk the L ir e. • On love with Kate)... liar id ow l u e !!t• • (a wholesale dealer in s Mrs. Clarke. .... .mernan.. (Mother of Mary).. Miss Grant. kai...;•.• ((il:eettrroottillieeccil t 0 00 4.hheiltt3.). . . Mrs. Mr. Barker. .. Mr. Baker. e Tellet. l 'i l ) n „ . „` Goon PEOP LE E '' OR FAIRIES. Ridgway. ' ''.l.-".' Ns• P. Crowe. ' ' Titania. • Mrs. J. To conclude with the Farce of p %ilt :i t 0 THE OMNIBUS, Magazine, e , n , ti tl.d , n an article in the New Monthly Pa' t illohe inconvenience of a Convenient_rD.is Power. ance. To.l °ll eY• • (his original character). • M ,Itt,c3lollßOW (W d da ) will be produce , d„ o f r or_th r e . rkkt ee ltn e here, 'e eDnes y' written expressly t I" ,' t .! and „ w '..a.ma' 11,, fa er ormed with the successgreatest rHE IQR . :CY I, Covent-Garden, called - . ,-,___er, Mr. 1,114? Op THE PEPPERS. General Pepper —With 1 n. at the 16) °riginaDy nerformed by him in Power WHITE ill, ' ENTERtA6/mENTS, in which Mr. '''' at Lon( 14:114 600 LOGICAL GARDENS. will r t ---- ti t orrruutt RAND GALA of the Season i take place ii k i Ith r ate , S ICI Ay next, the 23rd instant . on splendid t' 4 'i of pTlirtist D'ERNST will introduce is.. n_ (' Ileiti It:WORKS, containing entire new on which . occasion Pieces, ' 4 4 4 g el'err variety of beautiful Coloured Fires. , 'will b*, AOletidi d , irost brilliantly Illuminated with many new 1451;,14 of tuevtees, with thousands of variegated , L rik th e . AIONTGOLFIER BALLOONS will ascend tlt"le SC,e4ing, with different-coloured Fires. the t 4. it : , l l;: t n is ,; a : io l l G , lIT will a l so take place, with rtral, -'IIOIN oft he FIRE -SHIP which has given such t!ti r Al' vt,,,, ; To conclude with.the Effect PTlONrano.f k it tl ' ,, ll4 clert. , „ e ''' - ' \ LUS, with all possible ,DtN a s n o d N g , the ti t - Rdesi, Personal arrangement of Ar, , - Akt D btler and Painter of the splendid scene. A Ms ...kxa .. Is ill be in attendance. .....LVtitaittance, 25.; Children, ls. „.. ll i ,, TO CORRESPONDENTS. t qti 'll4 s - , L ti lk of th ''s I,‘ ESTPORT.—We have to acknowledge the _ aki s h i ,„ e following contributions towards the relief . f P,, 'g Poor in the parish of Westport, Ireland tli w . c. s. d. 1 1 0 Joh n 4 • . • • • . 0 , The cow ddison, Esq.,_l(nrkshire . th e Positors and others in the office of lO 6 1 3 0 A prietterpoo/ Standard 0 5 ° I ' • ' ' ' ' • .......... ' tbt Zititrpoot &talalarb+ UN ) - ----- ------==--- . 4F MORNING, JULY 23, 1339. 1 1VI, Ler itil4llt Rill 114, broad ar e the waverers now ? Is there a man in writ e .9 tl l . real the from the Land's End to Cape Wrath, himself down a Waverer ? Within i r k donfew weeks we have been living !ast, and days ~..I ' l k ttl tr ,, e t he work of ages. Damning facts have ik l Of ejillliet-t°ngUed, and have aroused the sleeping ltt e / ' „ el l °lan in whom the blood of a Briton is not t. la y e l Ccingealed and dead. C l°4 tl l ln t lll i , er leed, and brought with it the tardy con i,,, t rite ra,; her Majesty's imbecile and abject Ministry, 'la nfide in • tt i , 1 110 0 ,.. r rice either House of Parliament, '°ll 6ll 6 1 VerY class of all the Queen's subjects krthe . r wide dominions, had 't ‘ oli ti li l le . thrown up in 446, ...gotten reins of power. We are now ap- Ifl ed, gi, July : and wehave 'rlikitmcg the end " still the self , I. e th e vie self-abandoned Cabinet. But mark, 44 titt. I .,,' 4e n are the same, how is the history of the h t.id y (tatlged ! 11 .4t Mier e e ,• 1114 °hY is still at the right hand of power. t liiee,'S Cana da ? peB dr is Lord Durham's report, or ony, to f alight bill, or Lord John's batch of re- Nl a , °l'm after all the Whig manifesto against ll a tlike Mrs. Malaprop, the Whigs are in love 'gee 'lt they el,tls, "three gentlemen at once, '— ~l't contra e annot carry out any one of them,—they ', tl th ar,,ted enmities and exasperated differences Skh er - ." every one of the three. it elB J amaic a ? 'I t, in I, ca • The majority of five, is . tanta "oili4 1 -.ord , t , J ohn Russell's mind, to saying the ,r klltiatr shall not be governed by the Whigs. W e jil,tlle rain .in office, said he, without . serious hazard ON of ' failure of our Colonial Empire. This tiL lt4 of Lordsfiv was against the very bill, which' the kiNtNl(h.._ have sent them down . for their adop en- eating, Iv ii !'e prox`,2,ngr) dogs are not nice in th • • a z a ,. 7rD has related) they have adopted. The l t. ‘ e i `gti In Power, witness and Lord John Russel ki nine I:°lts hazard of all our Colonial possessions." ' e 'e° I'o , 1 / 2 hl,• l4 Pir, r Canada, Jamaica, and the Colonies : le et - °it w hich kli) it ar e , the sun never sets, and whose i, ,th nore numerous in every quarter of the t,,,,. ban /)' to are the few ' Europe,—is e i ~,, IN 11 ,,_ , in ,p , . tr : , , ial 4 to qzard , , —_s exposed to because Lady Normanby is indi.s -' '' 1, 0 the Personal comfort of her youthful inis '; rd a , he ~......./..0 `'"u Russell has said it in lii solemn 'l. ' th e : d John Russell, the historian, the philoso iN astnan on, —the light of the 19th century, en leader ' e ' 5 11, of the united and liberal reformers! ! 'rho uc h for ih, e : the Colonies ! How are we getting on k v e IA , . What it , ii igg new mine of happiness and greatness 'if 4411 IslaserY and Lady Normanby discovered for the I n her 4, to compensate for the serious hazard t t . ii ll %)I te 'lt Possessions ? `lit„ 4 gel ) of a Inajority of two : composed . of the i rit ".t4t F3 , " 134 3 WhO did not speak the voice of his con lirilflierk. a i r, who at the prompting of the Radical l i ef 1 - ; i i, el aYed his resignation till he had done the if t , 44 ce of with his base and treacherous vote :—in open tr , t he 44 , toe hierarchy and nobility, and in contempt .1 4 I tver gan , lli } expressed voice of the middle classes, illie4,. g l'elitici l itth I °O, 01 an s ,— destitute by their own . solemn th t ' of lad a ny public confidence,—and reigning by ti(lttlatvellY Normanbv and the Qucen,—have had t 'l)i el . tioa board nils effrontery to elect themselves into an trtikio ,to hold the safety valve of public , i "..... t, , h tll ' i t le 1 , t ' i let out at their will and pleasure, the light khteq century to thegaping eyes and ears of a 11 14 Publi c Pt ot all thi • 11, 1 1 , N are • ' A- et °f Parliament and Privy Council t is „_. til f , \ l'it ti. „ "ut the whole of what these few weeks S' -4°h4 - ' e(l. The shallow politicians of 1831 1 ) 4°olle Co' k id . lit t h e . culd Play the game of public protli d - N k i l fa eti lr °wn trained guerilla of the Whig an 4. 1 4De eu in". Idle dreamers ! They were babies,. - ki tt • at°rs, useless builders of castles in the air. I la hi l N L e t ti o l bli e 4 t and merit of the 19th century . has ii (htti 4 9ht into Play. On the arena of Binning- NI t • l IK seenPled. ~e) the principles of Liberal union have th e St ones 44 1 ff figu re ' and spikes, and broken shutters i h it red ) ,... 4 '3 Of Liberal logic :—and houses gutted It t i t 4 rial m 0 1 :, the trophies of their prowess, and the . /it tol i nielit ' their handy -work. Nottingham and 1 1 (14 Yil of t h e funeral piles of the old constitution. tii kt il lliti g h ar e new charter are ushered in by the fires h . lk al e ''hold t il l . V erily we shall have light, when the • 41.. -e e eini,i e tt'reh 'qiiilla -r '' S 11 8 to draw our remarks to a close. IR e of th e • , (l i(l t, '''''sht . poet hirnseh— ilt t c(it 4 , 11 that breathe, and words that barn," 'li t (41 1'4 eter fi) ree to naked facts that have written I ‘ sl) Z e of H of . W higgery in characters indelible upon ql;r g en .18t°rY• Where are the Waverers now ? il ti ,..N to tllne Liberal we urge no arguments, we (ii'l4el)B.sllasion. I, t ' atil (1 14 the tri Steeled in his own obdurate it Ri k , .P e lf, h e „ ple armour of pride, and preju 4)tir it. thrs nuld not bend from his pernicious t le e , ' world were to be ruined. Lord Mel t° eo, ti I.l eer at . • • h tit 11(1 64 . the burning of Birmingham, as ( Jar,,. the w le In the burning of Rome. ic tL icl e , no. . averers are decided. 'Whoever is not on -, , k, w e thi ei . lutn "ever hope to rank with us. Let him 1) , sof . il l : r ad „teal whato h e is (as Do ben says of the 114 tvi,3l ould h i t ~e le c ., 11 li t °I 011 T company." \ lu til .,'r it, P eel e t hing in which we especially rejoice. 1.4 1 : 1 , i o Iv h a ,, ' grasped at power as a Whig av t td i . , 1.1. Instead 0 meet this newmanifestation of klit,,,e.`4fight has of urgin g him, as the Hero of a N4i, i ' l a the late'l4 in vain urged Lord Melbourne, to 'a ' i'Qt and to the Whigs , 4 kh a e 4 siel, d .. preserve the peace, . '.l ' • • , 41 1%111, 14 th the Rebels. The Mayor of Bir- I vtli 1 I ttk ° Probably have said, " DAMN THEM' 4 1 , 40 Pl,, t , r , k,_ ° Ne 'aid 4 ' r ou'r," as we of Liverpool know h and,,N L i , , 1 " tcheit.: and Lord Melbourne in one qll, 1,„ -r " John It u , .ii in the would have 114 1 . in 1 ,., •ett awl , sse i e at f 161 9, 4 ' M.l.llltZ in 1839 as they stood by N te; l4 d) ratt ild have been found (where Whigs are IV ' and s,ed with the sworn foes of peace, of ord er. i,„ t . t ii ' tt aall y t rtieth 01 .771 - -----_________........ c eid d °II is the Registry is W t e ni 41 de d . I . „past,—a n d . _. ~,, 41't bon et o , tle next question is, Will the . MI- N. vut their • . . ) e, 144 f 44 , ext. frail existence to the issue . (k bid ti, . a y t he rumours which have reached ..5- StiPpOsiti9n, ancl. incline to a " 16 ' . ~. .. ;'RIDAY . uneasY ;eoi tb e ~w t i sO the cbToelf n ha ve .00 1 e. The Pe 1 1 ,0 wor-l i i r t ber; !nr3 7 „ el:1 60 9, 0 0f . on T hu iPI" he.) Pri9crtiore islet ratiocl feehe c of ho is e° s 0 at ter) ne rl s ;the oo nn „led just P r joriv •-toou' soe. r l ;, lit. (lo st, 11, 01 t it v co'fi a w e ► - 10' vbeP trr p le o e a 80 be tr ii. g aol, a l e 7, ° The'for Tshir e 0 4 4 t° .to‘" it Se° . )110"e t ere o bp cas t tle.' c ite 4 the ediatel) to a l e rt red' 11 0 e iSe r bit bO O frOP - k , L. et; be s the duri fig jtko aped by he o boolmt o to :e, one s t ee# irtr, d er 3 01 1 e rO ll3 0 14 v ec pl h bY 0 1 1 1: 11C1' Idea di e s el at h ett r ie clo o e ° I) t Lb o" t he seeP lee n ,ref ; Pt Y) DI -4 he 1 „dd j e cew , u r , „ter)* o c t i i e If toy clo' o o, 01 3 , o st 11011- pie is ill ,•er; vs' ft , P.' • t dip w . tit . e f 1 t ' ba t 'lie r. r" ; ' ll ' Is n ot •co"• • : 00 (11t dent belief that they will take quarter-day as easily as they can, and not peril their wretched Government until the inevitable hour of necessity arrives. We do not wholly subscribe to this opinion. We have repeatedly urged upon our Conservative friends the very rapid decline of the Whig-Radical Confe deracy in public favour, as the strongest possible reason why they should take some bold and desperate resolve. With the present House of Commons, nothing can save them for a week of the coming Session; but that week, which, since it is proverbial for bunglers, and a person who shall be nameless, the Whigs may reasonably count as their own. But this they have traded on so long, that even in this last re serve of the destitute their bank is broken up. Some escape must be found out, or the wretched affair must be adandoned. There is a choice and a chance. Like the choice in the proverb, it may be only between drowning and hanging—but still their is a chance, there is a choice. The prospects on the old Registry have long been tabled at the Reform Club—and we dare say, since Mr. Parkes' grievous miscalculation in the never-to be-forgotten matter of Ipswich, some elder and abler brethren of the craft have gone over the old scores afresh—and have been cautious in avoiding the un pardonable sin of counting unhatched chickens. The present Registry, then, is well known at the Reform Club. 4 The coming Registry will soon be tabled on Mr. Parkes' observant tablets—and the Commander-in- Chief—our ancient enemy " the Bear s " will soon have a very shrewd guess how the two parties stand in every county and town in England, and Scotland, and Ire land. It will thus he apparent at once, hod the chances lie, upon the present House, a new House within the old Registry, or a new House upon the new Registry. We hope and trust it will be apparent to that experienced tactician, that on every leg of the Whig tripod there is rottenness and sheer despair. Defeat, choose which alternative they will, stares them }broadly in the face. What then will a 'despairing faction do in this their sad perplexity? Beaten in the present House, we think they will scarcely decide for that. Desperate men have recourse to desperate remedies. "In for a penny, • in . for a pound," they will chance a more ignominous failure rather than put up with the cer tainty of a present defeat. They will denounce Chart ism in one place, they will abet it in another : forswear Ballot in the Whig counties, pro Claim it in the Radical towns : " work the corn-laws" with the men of Man chester—and call the agitation " wild insanity", before the gates of Brockett :—with a lie upon their lips, and secret service money and Treasury missions in their pockets, they will try every constituency with its own supposed specific—they will practise all their well tried arts—they will fight as men who know that if they fall, " they fall like Lucifer, never to rise again." Now unfavourable as we know the expiring Registry to be, we believe the coming one to be still more so. We believe, therefore, that the desperadoes -of the hostile craft will hail their colours to the piratical mast, and fight a bold fight—as doomed and despairing traitors. It is hazardous to speculate upon the conduct of these uncertain and most fluctuating Whigs : but we flatter ourselves we know them well. Whatever seems calculated to promote their sordid interests, we may rest assured they will never omit to do. They often overshoot the mark, and like all the tricksters of all times, learn by sad experience to their sore dismay, that the straight line is after all the shortest possible way between the extremities. They will not ; ;sacrifice the power which place confers, and leave it to Sir R. Peel to dissolve this devoted Parliament. Better to sound alarms when all is quiet, than to slumber when the walls are scaled. Once again, whenever the blow shall be struck, let us in Liverpool be ready. We would recommend to particular attention the resolutions passed at the meeting of the Manchester Wesleyan Education Committee on Monday the 15th of July. It is refreshing to read such a memorial in these times, emanating from so large and influential a body of Dissenters. It is too often our painful duty t( assume the attitude of hostility towards those who dis sent from the Establishment, and to use harsher lan guage in speaking of them than is at all congenial to our feelings! But we are compelled to do this. When we find sectarian hatred of the Church in close alliance with Popery, and proceeding to overt acts which threa ten her destruction—when we see the sacred name of Religion prostituted to the cause of Infidelity, and all that we hold most dear vilified and brought into con tempt by men who have no part nor lot in the Chrisian and Apostolic Church—we have no option as to the course we must pursue, and we must stigmatise such conduct with the loud and stern voice of condemna- During the last few years there has been perhaps more general and disgusting hypocrisy displayed by large bodies of religionists in this country than at any former period of our history. When the rebellion broke out in 1642, the Puritans, however lamentably wrong in their principles, were unquestionably sincere. Deluded by their own overheated and fanatic imagina tions, they verily believed that in dethroning their law ful Sovereign they were wielding the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and it was this deep feeling of enthu siastic zeal for which they considered the cause of God that enabled them to withstand and overcome the fiery courage of the cavaliers in so many desperate encouu ters. But in the outcry that has been raised against the Church and the decent maintenance of her minis ters and fabrics during the last ten years, we recognise nothing but a spirit of rancorous and envious hate. Religious scruples and conscientious objections have been forced into the service of political agitation, and a pretended zeal for the cause of Christianity has been made use of by scamping demagogues as a cloak for their nefarious design of sapping the foundations of religious faith in the country altogether. From behind the masked battery of Liberalism a fierce and ceaseless fire has been directed against all our institutions, but against none with such concen trated violeffce as the Church ; and she has been ex posed to the full fury of that destroying spirit which is abroad in the land, and seeks to prostrate our national existence at the foot of an unbridled and ungovernable democracy. In this unholy warfare' we are bound to charge the dissenting bodies with having lent them selves the willing and obedient allies of our most pro fligate assailants. As a general rule it will be found that those constituencies, in which schism from the Church has obtained the most numerous followers, have returned to Parliament the most radical members. It seems as though disaffection to the Establishment and discontent with the Constitution were synonymous and convertible terms ; and we deeply deplore this, be cause it tends to extinguish all feelings of charity to wards those who make scruples of conscience the os tensible reason for deserting the Church for the con- venticle. But we rejoice to think that such is not universall) the case. We are very far indeed from calling fin Scottish Presbyterians dissenters ; but, opposed as the) are in all their forms of Church government and ritua' of worship to ourselves, we should have hardly ven tured to predict, ten years ago, that they would give such unequivocal proofs as they have done that the) are the warm friends of the Established Church it. England. The conduct of the Wesleyan Methodist:, deserves the warmest praise. That they have done n( more than their duty if they wished to remain true to the principles of their Founder, and to give proof that their professions of religion were sincere, we admit ; but in these times this is to do a great deal, and we will not be niggardly in our acknowledgments. They have exposed themselves to a torrent of obloquy from quar ters whence praise ought to be felt as the heaviest cen sure, because they have refused to compromise their character and confound themselves with the noisy herd of revolutionists in whose camp the greatest number ot their dissenting brethren is to be found. The mode in which they have treated that officious beggarman O'Connell is just what we could have wished. In terms of cold contempt they decline to have any intercourse with a controversialist who has, by his coarse and ruffian-like attacks upon individuals, put himself out of the pale of society, and rendered treatment by the rules of ordinary courtesy impossi ble. We shall see by and by the filthy torrent of in vective which this " chartered libertine" will pour out upon them when he gets back from St. Stephen's to the congenial atmosphere of the Corn Exchange in • PubliTl, .Put w 11W .4.9 wish to waste a word upon what this man says or does. It would have been far better if our contemporaries had some years ago acted upon the principle of the Manchester Wesleyan Me thodists, and had passed by, with the silence of cont tempt, the speeches and actions of one so bankrupt in character, and Billingsgate in mind as Daniel O'Con nell. He would then possess as little influence with his own countrymen as happily he does on this side of the Channel. We direct attention to these resolutions for the sake of the admirable spirit which pervades them—a spirit breathing peace and charity to all, but firmly opposed to any attempts made to tamper with the foundations of Christian faith. After denouncing the impertinent letter of O'Con nell as "false and calumnious," and declaring his cha racter to be such as compels the committee, " for the sake of their own reputation, to refuse the usual cour tesy of a reply," they go on to state their conviction, " that, under the existing circumstances of the country, it is inexpedient to adopt any new system of national education ;" and they declare their willingness to sub mit, for the present, to the disadvantage of entire ex clusion from all national educational provisions, rather than to the evils which any immediate alteration of the 'former system appeared to this committee to involve. But the most important part is that where the distinc tion—the plain and intelligible distinction—is pointed out between compulsory payment towards the support of a national and christian church and a state endow ment of every sect and creed which the perverse in genuity of any fanatic or knave could palm upon ignorant and deluded followers. The passage is so true, and at the present juncture so important, that we shall give it entire :—" The committee equally denies any sympathy with those sentiments of opposition to the principle of national religious establishments which, in utter disregard of the clear and cautious terms of the recent memorial, have been imputed to the Wes leyans of Manchester. That memorial placed the opposition to the then project of her Majesty's govern ment, " on the strong grounds of conscience, and of our right to full religious liberty." It then proceeded to show how that project violated the principles of religious liberty by its seeking to tax the Wesleyans "for the teaching and maintenance of systems of religion which they, in common with a vast majority of their fellow countrymen, believe to be false and injurious." This committee still maintains its protest against an exaction so unrighteous. But the Wesleyans of Manchester never expressed any objection to be taxed for the teaching and maintenance of any system of religion which can present to them the two characteristics : first, of concurring and propagating those great views of christian truth which all orthodox Protestants unite to hold—and, secondly, of commanding the general support and sympathy of the majority of their fellow- countrymen. This is as it should be. John Wesley would not be ashamed of his followers in Manchester. That pious and exemplary man never dreamt of an opposition to the Church of England emanating from his laborious exertions. He went forth into the nooks and corners of the land to preach the Gospel where the Church had neither ministers nor places of worship, and he always avowed that his efforts were only supplementary to those of the venerable Establishment, from whoge communion h.; did 'not withdraw himself. Very dif- ferent conduct this from the rabid virulence of modern Dissent. Of the Wesleyans we can make only ho nourable mention, and say of them, with all the since rity of truth, " cum tales sunt utinam nostri essent." We look forward with much curiosity to Lord Brougham's motion on the administration of justice in Ireland, which stands for next Monday week. He says that he intends to make no criminatory Fharge, but the facts will speak for themselves; and, judging from the manner in which Lord Normanby and his friends wince from the approaching castigation, and try to cajole the noble lord into a postponement of his remarks until the Greek calends, i. e., the next session, we expect to see a flagellation administered which will be anything but agreeable to the ex -Lord Lieutenant. The steamship 'Liverpool, Lieut. Fayrer, R.N., ar rived here on Saturday afternoon, at five o'clock, after a fine passage of fourteen days from New York. She had on board upwards of seventy passengers, a list of whose names will be found in another part of our pa per. They all speak in terms of the highest admiration of the bravery, skill, and polite attention of Lieutenant Fayrer. The Liverpool brought home the news of her own arrival at New York, as did the Great Western on the occasion of her last voyage. The Liverpool made her passage out in fifteen days and a half, having ar rived at New York on the 29th ultimo. The Liverpool has brought New York papers to the 6th instant, inclusive, and Montreal papers to the 4th instant, also inclusive. We have to express our grate ful acknowledgments to Lieutenant Fayrer for his kind ness in forwarding to our office copies of the latest journals. The New York papers are chiefly occupied with the visit of the President to the city, which appears to have created a great sensation. The Weekly Despatch of July 6th gives the following description of the reception which Mr. Van Buren met with. " The whole city seemed to have turned out on Tuesday on the occasion of the arrival of the President. Thousands joined in the procession, and tens of thousands, impelled .by mere curiosity, thronged the streets and covered the house tops to witness the splendid military and civic pageant. The shipping were splendidly arrayed with flags of their respective nations, and the aquatic pro cession in the harbour had a gorgeous effect, being composed of a fleet of steam-boats, decorated with co lours and streamlets of various hues, and accompanied besides by hundreds of boats, and other descriptions of water craft." Several addresses were presented to the President, to which suitable replies were made. We extract the following passages from one of his ad dresses : " The views which you have taken of particular points in our foreign relation, which recently presented a very unfa vourable aspect, are conceived in the same just and enlight ened spirit. The :long-contested question between Great Britain i and ourselves, in relation to the northeastern bound ary, there is reason to hope, is in a fair way for a speedy and amicable settlement, and the troubles on the Canadian bor der have, I am persuaded, passed their most dangerous crisis. " To cultivate a spirit of liberal concession in our public re lations, and, at the same time, to mantain, with every power, our national honour unimpaired, are properly regarded by you as trusts of the highest nature. Experience has shown, that these can be best discharged by invariably demanding justice ourselves, and as invariably pursuing the same line of conduct towards others. A momentary forgetfulness of the latter and great duty by a small number of our citizens on the northern frontier had well nigh broken up the peace ful relations of two great nations, and exposed to irreparable injury the dearest interests of.millions of people impelled to the most amicable intercourse by the strong ties of reciprocal interests, a common origin, and a common language. The njurious consequences of a war between them, not only to the particular interests of each, but to those also of mankind, could not well be exaggerated. It may, indeed, be safely af irmed, that there are not two nations in the world, a war be tween whom would sever so many ties, or who are capable of inflicting upon each other such complicated and diversified evils. Although these considerations have no weight, and would probably receive from neither more than a passing re p-et, in respect to the prosecution of a war rendered indis pensable byt due regard to the national character, they could ;got be cont7mplated without the deepest sorrow as the result of a contest brought upon the two countries without neces sity. " That the steps that were taken to preserve the public faith, and to suppress disorder in that quarter, produced in the then state of public feeling on the frontier, dissatisfaction even with those persons entertaining, in other respects, the most correct views, did not disappoint me. Trusting, how ever, to the good sense and ultimate just feeling of my coun trymen, I was persuaded that those unfavourable impressions would be of short duration ; and even if I had thought other wise, I could not, I humbly hope, have been deterred from the performance of an obvious duty by personal considera tions. All well-disposed persons now see the matter in its true light ; all feel that the obligations which public law im poses on civilized nations, and of which republican govern ments should be most rigidly observant, were for a moment lost sight of, and that to an extent which, if persisted in, would have rendered war inevitable. It affords me pleasure to learn, that the course taken was, in your opinion, the best that couli, under the circumstances of the moment, have been pursued, and that the country has been saved from a great calamity by its adoption. The danger of a hostile col lision arising from this source having, as I hope, passed away, the asperities of the moment in a great degree been allayed, and an opportunity for cool reflection afforded, we may, I am sure, count with confidence upon a vigilant support, by our citizens, of those great principles of international justice, the maintenance of which is alike indispensable to the preserva tion of social order and the peace of the world. In doing so it does not follow, that we are either to surrender the right of opinion. to suppress a solicitude for the spread of free goTeru- went, or to withhold our best wishes for the success of all who are, in good faith, labouring for their establishment." The celebration of the 4th of July at New York was attended by n, merous accidents of an appalling cha racter. Among the most melancholy was the follow ing, which is thu , narrated in the Weekly Despatch : "On Thursday afternoon,at three o'clock, as tie steam boat Samson was returning to the city from Stoten Island, with an immense number of passengers on board, while opposite Itibbins' Reef, the stanchions supporting the upper or promenade deck gave way, when the whole mass fell upon the main deck, burying beneath it several hundred human being , . Fortunately for the most of those underneath, in falling, it lurched .towards the stern of the boat, one end resting on a box above the taffrail, and the other upon the wheel guards forward, being several inches above the heads of the passengers. The lodgment, however, caused the falling deck to separate in the centre, underneath which part it came in contact with the dense mass of passengers, killing instantly Mr: Joseph Chambers, and a Scotch lady, supposed to be a Mrs. Johnson, both of this city. The brother of Mr. Chambers was at his side at the time of the crash, and sprang for ward a few feet, escaping thereby the awful fate of Mr. C. Mrs. Johnson was standing up with a child in her arms, near the centre of the quarter deck—the child escaped unhurt. Nearly every one who was standing in that part of the boat was more or less injured Among those dangerously wounded by this accident was Mr. Jacob M. Henriques, broker, of Wall -street, who had his breast and collar bones broken, and his ribs nearly all dislocated or broken—he has since died. David A. Paton, a Wall-street broker, was also seriousl, hurt. Two or three persons either fell or jumped overboard during the confusion, and were picked up by the steamer Sun, which came along side at the moment. Captain Clark, of Brooklyn, agent ot one of the In surance Companies in this city, was al-o severely wounded, as was his lady. Both are now in a pre carious situation. One old man had his leg cut off entirely below the knee. " It is due to Captain Daval, who had charge of the boat, to state that after the accident, he took the best possible measures for relieving the sufferers; we are equally bound on the part of the community to say, that a great many more passengers were admitted upon this boat, than she could safely accommodate. " The verdict of the jury was simply that the de ceased came to their death by the falling of the pro menade deck on board the steam-boat Samson.' " Mrs. Johnson, one of the killed, had engaged her passage for Liverpool by the packet of to-morrow." In the same paper we find an account of the ex plosion of the boiler of a locomotive engine upon the Harlem railroad, by which the engineer and a pas senger were killed on the spot, and several other per sons were dreadfully injured. Several minor accidents, arising from the use of fire-arms had also taken place. Mr. Webster. who is at present in England, has ad dressed a letter to his friends at Boston in which he de clines becoming a candidate for the Presidency. The news from Canada is unimportant. A party ot refugees from Troy, Vermont, •joined a party fron. Holland, and on the first of June entered Canada, a . Barnston, armed with muskets, pistols, and• bowit knives. They set the house and, barn of Cart. But - rought on fire ; but, on demanding from him his arm:, he and his sons attacked the marauders, whom the) beat off, capturing one of them, a fellow names Sweetzer. The entire border is described as being it a very unquiet condition. It appears that the nototious bucanneer Bill John son, is still at large. The Weekly Dispatch furnishe us with the following particulars :—" Affidavit wa made before the U. S. Court, late in session at Canan daigua, that Bill Johnson is now upon one of tht Thousand Islands, or in some part of Jefferson county. and threatens death to any one who attempts to arres him. The affidavit was made to procure the release o his first hail, and takes the ground that his subsequen imprisonment at Albany, releases those who were bound for him. It seems he was again released, of other bail, which, proving insufficient, the District At• torney wished to hold the thrmz-t bail. "I he court ex pressed an opinion that the first bail were released, bu postponed a decision until the next term of the Court in November. " This Johnson matter appears to be a pretty piec. of business. That he should find bail in the first place was singular enough ; and after it was found that it was necessary to imprison him again, his procuring hail a second time would seem more singular still, but for the fact that the bail proved to be insufficient—a circumstance they were probably aware of, when sign ing the bond. Now, it seems, like a regular bandit, he bids defiance to the laws, and threatens death to who ever attempts to arrest him—a threat he will be fat enough from executing, if we judge of the fu ure by the past. The disposition however is the same.; ana those who can make a deity out of an old reprobate who thus deceives his friends, are welcome to their divinity. We cannot worst: ip in the same temple. Where - the obligation of a bond is the payment of money, for feiture may be made, and bail implicated, from neces sity on the part of the personal bail, and without moral dishonesty. Where the condition is the simple surrender of the carcass, the case is different, and no thing excuses the treachery that leaves a friend to suffer for his kindness." The following are the only other extracts of im portance TEXAS. Houston dates are to the 15th of May, and Galveston to the 14th. There appear to be some manifestations of hostile intentions among the Indians. A battle had taken place at Red River, in which the Indians lost 40, killed. News of the hostile intentions of the Cherokees against the Texans had been received, and troops were ordered at once to repair to Nacogdoches to meet the warlike demonstrations. Not hav ing Indian work enough on hand, it was said that the Texans talked of a hostile invasion of Mexico, in advance of the threatened Mexican movements against Texas. For the pre sent, we imagine the young republic will have business enough, if she attends entirely to defensive operations. MEXICO. Tampico had capitulated to the government troops under the command of General Arista. The capitulation was signed on the 4th and ratified on the sth of June, on which day Arista took possession of the town. The troops ex pressed the utmost indignation at the terms of surrender, exclaiming against their chiefs, whom they accused of having sold the blood of the federalists to their enemies. The soldiers remained firm and resolute at their posts for twenty four hours, with their arms and ammunition, menacing the government party with death, and declaring that they woula pillage the town in case they were attacked. They were, at length, brought to reason, and convinced that resistance was useless. With respect. to the Mexican debt, the New Orleans Louisianian has the following statement:—" We learn from good authority, that the conversion of the Mexican debt, amounting to upwards of 50,000,000 dollars; effected about two years ago, by F. de Lizardi and Co., of London, has been at length, ratified by the Mexican government, and for warded to England by the English packet from Vera Cruz. This among other advantages, secures to the bondholders one-sixth of the whole duties collected in the ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico, i❑ payment of the interest on the new bonds." BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO. The dates faom Buenos Ayres are to the 13th, and from Monte Video to the 14th of May. From Buenos Ayres it is stated, that nothing had occurred to inuuce the people to look for a speedy relief from their commercial difficulties. It was now expected, that Governor Itosas, whose power is 110V4 more firmly established than it was a few months agoi woulu incline to yield anything of what he conceives to be the rights of the country to the pretensions advanced by France. Doubloons 2 dollars 50 cents ; Exchange on England, .4d. per dollar. At Monte Video produce had risen in price, and was likely to rise higher, as there was not the slightest prospect of the blockade being raised by the negotiations which had been going on, but which, it was understood, had failed, at Buenos Ayres. RIO DE JAIIEIRO, NEW BRAZILIA;i'ARIFF. — By the William Price, from Rio de Janeiro, the editors of the Baltimore Patriot have a letter from their correspondent of the 15th of May, which advises us of an important alteration in the tariff of Brazil. We make the following extract from his letter : Rio DE JANEIRO, MAY 15, 1839.—We have to notice a Decree materially altering the duties on some of our princi pal articles of import. These alterations are -Ist. On Wines and all spirituous liquors, the duties on which will be raised to 50 per cent, except on such as may be the production of countries with which Brazil has at present treaties in force. 2d. The duties on Liquids in general and on Flour, will be levied on weekly valuation, fixed by commission specially nominated. These alterations to be enforced from the Ist of July next, and to continue for the following financial year. We beg to call your attention particularly to this law, as it will for the present at least, very materially increase the duties on Flour, which article at present bears a Custom house valuation of only 1211000 per int ; or much below what it will be undoubtedly valued at in future. At Rio Grande affairs are rather more favourable for the Imperial cause, although the change of min stry here has given a check to active movements in that quarter for the present. - - The mercantile intelligence from New Ygric r will be found in another column' • - LIVERPOOL MIDSUMMER QUARTER SESSIONS. Yestertlay; the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this Borough siomsnenceit at the Court-house, before James Clarke, E . 4.q , Reorder. The calendar was, we regret to tk et say, unusually betivy. *therepei g ninety-five prisoners for trial on charges oz'.l.lony l lO ome them of an aggravated nature; atm twel%e prisoner's oh • rges of misdemeanour. The following gen !mien wberc born of the grand jury : George Grant, EL-q., fore nan., Charles Alexander, Esq., Thomas Dobbs Butier, 1:: q., Richard Ashton, Esq., James Bateson, Esq , Edward Bury, Esq., Jonathan Cook, Esq., William BuL crield Colton, Esq., John Fox, Esq., Richard Haynes. Esq., Isaac Hath en, Jun. Esq., John Bore, Esq., Josiah Jones, Esq., Join' Auuleyjee, Es q ., F ranc i s ordan, Jun. Esq., Henry Laffer, Esq., Robert Ledson, Esq., Chas. Lotin,er, 141:q , James Lister, Esq., Thomas M'Gill, Esq., Elias Josepn Mozley, Esq , Charles M'Murdo, Esq., Wm. Oxley, Esq., a d George Robinson, Esq. The usual proclamation against vice and immorality having • been read, The RECORDER, in addressing the grand jury, said that from his knowledge of the experience which most of them had of the business of the court that would fall within their consideration, he did not deem it requisite to delay them with any lengthened remarks. He was sorry to say that the calendar was a heavy one, and that it comprised almost every description of crime as affecting property. He would parti cularly direct their attention to the number of cases of dis honesty on the part of confidential servants. This was a crime of a most serious nature, for a master could seldom discover to what extent he was robbed. He was blinded by the confidence reposed in his servant; and the latter might frequently go on to abstract large quantities of property, oefore he could be detected. Other crimes were of a less -------- insidious character, and were less to be dreaded, because obvious and tangible. If a man were knocked down openly in the street and robbed, the apprehension of the offender was a matter of strong probability : if a house were robbed, the detection of the parties generally followed. A robbery by a confidential servant was of a different nature. Hewould call their attention to tue case of the prisoner No. 47 in the calendar—Joseph Fallows, who stood charged with having embezzled various sums from his masters, amounting in all to an amount little short of £lO3. He had been employed to collect debts, and had appropriated various sums to his :wrii use. This man was a person of good mercantile edu eat on ; hat the case afforded evident proof that education, without the inculcation of religious principles, was not only not beneficial, but that it was rather the contrary, inasmuch as it afforded greater facilities for the commission of crime. It was better that the peopleshouldnot be educated at all, than that they should be educated without religion. There were two other cases of confidential servants robbing their mas ters,—one in tne employment of Mr. Joseph Sanders, and mother (a female) in the employment of Mr. James Joule. Fhey woull pay particular attention to these cases, and sa tisfy themselves that they were such as should be laid before a jury ; for if the charges were brought home to the prison ers, he would feel it s to be his duty to visit them with a severe punishment. It was of the first consequence that this of fence, which *as unhappily on the increase, should be checked, in order to protect the commercial and general community. The next case to which he should allude was that of Mary Ann Roberts and James Riley, the first charged with having stolen a £5O bank note from a Mr. Hyde ' • the latter with having received the same, knowing it to have been stolen. The evidence appeared to be pretty clear on the face of the informations ; but there was one point to which he would draw their attention. The female prisoner had stated to whom the note was given, and where it was. She said it was given, for a consideration, to the male pri soner ; but what she said was not evidence against the other unless otherwise corroborated. There were, however, other circumstances that went to show that Riley had received the note as charged. When asked by the police-officer if he had received such a note from the woman, he replied, " No, I never did." If they found, therefore, that after this denial the note was traced to him, and that he had paid it to ano ther party, such would be evidence, against him. He was sorry to be under the necessity of remaring, that there were many cases of persons going in the streets, with large sums Jf money in their pockets, rendering them liable to be robbed, in situations not unfiequently in which the police could not protect them. He would not go so far as to say chat such parties were accessaries before the fact; but he would say that, by their indiscreet conduct, they invited the crime of which they complained. If parties became intoxi cated, and were in a state of insensibility and helpleSsness, they could scarcely expect but to be robbed and maltreated. In several of such cases, and when parties were assaulted in he street, he was glad to say that the guilty persons had been ippreliended by private individuals, when the police were ,ot at hand. - Stich conduct could not be too much corn. nended ; and he might here state, that when any one saw a elony being committed, or an assault in the street, the law lot only vested hiir with full power to apprehend, or assist ,o apprehend, the offender, but it became the bounden duty if every one to do so. If a man were knocked down in the •treet, it was not necessary to go to a mug strate to procure t warrant. The magistrate mi g ht live some miles distant, ind before such an authority could be procured from such a juarter, all that the offender contemplated might be fully ,minmitted, and he himself escape. This was not content plated by the law, and Mr. Justice Tyndat and other autho :ides had laid it distinctly down, that, in a breach of the deuce, every man was not only authorised to quell it to the itmost of his power, without a warrant, but that it was his _my to do so. 11e was glad to Le enabled to remark, that he town of Liverpool was so well protected by a well-0r,,,,a -hsed police, that there was seldom occasion for the interfe mice of private individuals ; and he hoped the inhabitants souk' lo,ig continue to en) iy that advantage. We observed present the 101 l )wiltg gentlemen of the bar : Vit.. Wilkinson, Mr. Etlice, Mr. Murphy, Mr Ramshay, vlr. Dewling, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Venal)les, Mr. Raincock, Ar. Cottinguani, Mr. Carr, Mr. Preston, and Mr. Hen .erson. _ _ _ The grand jury having returned several true bills, the trial oroceeded:— ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. Edward Arm.s.trong, aged 18, was placed at the bar, ,;harged with having, On the 12th June last, in company with jertam persons, to the jury unknown, assaulted Neil Turley, and stolen from hi. person a £2O hink note, a £5 note, and .velity-two pounds ten shillings in gold. The prisoner ~leaued not guilty. - - . Mr. MURPHY conducted the prosecution, and Mr. VEN kIiLES the defence: Neil Turley stated that his residence was near Newry, in Ireland. He was a dealer in horses. On the 12th of June ,ie left Middlewich to come to Liverpool. He had sold all nis cattle, and had about his person a £2O note, and about t:22 in sovereigns. He put the sovereigns in a checked purse. The purse had two divisions, and he placed the gold in one division and the notes in the other, and placed them in his breast pocket, inside his waistcoat. He arrived at Dale-stteet a little before 11 o'clock at night, with a calf which-he had purchased. He was on his way to the vessel, which was to sail at 11 o'clock, when the prisoner, accom panied by a man and a lad, came up. They questioned him is to his purposes, and he informed them that he was going to the vessel with his calf. They told him that if he would treat them, they would assist him to drive his calf. He Assented, and they accompanied him a short distance. Pre sently they stood a little behini, and he pressed on. He sad got but a short distance when they rushed upon him, the prisoner foremost. They knocked him down, and the prisoner (he believed) jerked open his vest, and pulled out its purse. He heard tne sovereigns 'rattle on the ground. t-1 (witness) called out murder and robbery, upon which the prisoner said, " You b— rogue, I'll stop your shouting !" Upon this he kicked him several times in the mouth. Wit ness held him by the leg ; but at length he broke away, and ran down the street. He was stopped by two individuals before he got out of sight. . . . . Mr. Vii4ABLES cro;s-examined the witness minutely as to the property he had brought from Newry, and as to his move ments after he arrived in England ; but nothing particular was elicited. Arthur Trumshaw said that he resided in Dalton-street:" On the night of the 12th June, he heard a cry of murder and robbery in that street. He went to his front door and saw the last witness on the ground. He had hold of the prisoner by the leg. Witness went towards them, and the prisoner broke from Turley wlikn he was within about five yards of them. 'Witness ran after the prisoner, and did not lose sight of him till be overtook him and seized him, after a chase of about 100 yards. The prisoner was stopped by another per son. The mouth of the prosecutor was bleeding. A police officer came up, and the prisoner was delivered into his custody. John Chesworth, police-officer, stated, that he was on duty on the east side of the Prince's Dock on the 12th June lust. He heard cries of murder and robbery, and saw several peo ple running, and saw the prisoner seized by the leg by the last witness. He was searched, but nothing was found upon him. Mr. VENABLES addressed the jury for the defence. He admitted that the prosecutor might have all the money which he had stated, and that he had been robbed by some person ; but submitted that the proof of identity was not sufficient. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The RECORDER said that there could be no doubt but the verdict was a proper one, and in passing sentence it became necessary to look at the past conduct of the prisoner. That conduct was exceedingly bad : he had been in and out of goal for some years, for a series of offences of a very aggravated nature, and he could not be allowed to be at large longer in this country. The sentence of the court was that he should be transported for fifteen years. ROBBERY IN THE STREET. Thomas Dawson, 29, and Thomas Hunt. 28, were indicted for stealing a half-crown, a sixpence, and four half-pence, the property of James Smith, from his person. James Smith said, I had had some drink in Fazakerly street, and was going home on the night of the 30th ultimo. I went into Dean-street, Ranelagh-street. I there saw Oawson standing. He asked me where I was going. I said 1 was going home, and he joined ne. When going along he struck me over the mouth and knocked me down. He put nis hand in my lett-hand trowser's pocket.' I had in it 2s. 6d., id., and sonic coppers. I had seen the money a short time nefore. My wile came up, and the prisoner ran. I then saw the prisoner Hunt. They ran towards St. John's Market. 1 called " Police—Stop thief!" I and my wife ran after them. When I got to the end of Dean-street and Elliot-street, 1 round the prisonersin custody. 1 found a penny at the place where I was knocked down. Mr. VENABLES cross-questioned the witness, but elicited flowing of importance. Ann Smitu, the crifeof last witness, wentinto Dean-street, and saw her husband down, and the prisoners were leaning over him. She saw Hunt pull his hand from her husband's pocket. She called out for the police, and the prisoners ran off'. When htr husband got up his waistcoat was open. Robert Campbell,. Inspector of Porice, was on duty that night in Elliot-street, and heard a cry. At the end of Dean street wet Hunt running and apprehended him Tne prose cutor came up, and charged both wit!' robbing him. On searching Daimon he (witness) found Is. and some copper. On Hunt he found 2s. and some copper. At the spot where the scuffle .took place he found 6d., and 24d. in copper. The jury consulted together for some time, and returned a verdict of guilty 'of the assault only against both prisoners. Mr. VENABLES said that this amounted to an acquittal. Mr. MURPHY begged to correct his learned friend, and called time attention of the Recorder to a clause in the Act of Ist of 'Victoria, to the effect that in case of a prisoner lay in dicted for any of the offences named in that ac;, or for any felony whatever, if tile offence included an assault, and the evidence proved that an assault had been committed, the jury had the power to acquit the prisoner of the major offence, and find him guilty of the assault, for which the court might sentence him to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three sears. Tne RECORDER said that the sentence of the court was, that they should each be imprisoned to hard labour for 12 c dand ir months. ROBBERY OF BRASS FROM THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. John Inman, 35, stood charged with having st3len forty five pounds weight of brass, and forty pounds weight of copper, the property of the Grand Junction Railway. , Mr. Henderson conducted the prosecution , Mr. Murphy , the defence. John Fenton said he was a boiler-maker, and worked under Mr. Melling, of the works of the Grand Junction Railway, at Edge-hill. h e nau seen the pri.oner working there, working as a tizter-up of eng . nes. On Friday week, w itness marked sonic small pins or copper, ratted stays. He was afterwards in the fire-box about two ards from the copper. He went there to watch. About a quarter before eight, he saw the prisoner take some of the codper stays. Five of them were gone. Next 'running other stays were missed. He watched again, and saw the prisoner on Saturday week, about one o'clock, came and take some more of the copper. Coss- exarnined.—M r. Melting tol4 the prisoner to go a"mat his n.,siness on the Saturday. Witness informed Mr. Melling, of the property taken, Mr. Melling said, if he did not speak th trate, he would send for a policeman. t.400r0 lAyon, a .bpiler-maker, was also welching the • prisoner in a fire-box, and on Saturday week saw the prisoner take some copper stays. Mr. Melling said he was superintendent at the works. The copper was his. Cross-examined.—The stays or reoves had been in use. He told the prisoner to get off the premises. John Edwards, a pOl.ce-officer.—Was on duty in St. James's-street, on the 13th July, and went in to a marine store shop, and saw the copper. The prisoner was then selling it. He asked the prisoner who he was, and where he had got the copper. He said he belonged to the Athlone steamer, and had brought the copper from Belfast. Cross-questioned.—He said he was not then in the service of the Railway Company, but had been. Henry Crankshaw, nephew of Crankshaw, who kept the marine store, said the prisoner came with the copper, and he questioned him about it. He said his name was James Scott, and that he had brought it from Dublin. He (witness) paid him 18s Ild for one lot of it. He came again in the evening with some copper in a basket. Witness ased him about it, and he said his wife had brought it. Fenton (the witness from the works) identified the pieces of copper. Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury in behalf of the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. M URPHY said that the prisoner had hitherto borne, he believed, a good character, but as his witnesses were not present, he hoped the recorder would postpone passing sen tence until they were heard. TheRECORDER agreed to defer passing sentence accordingly until the following (this) morning. ROBBERY OF A - X5O NOTE, Mary Ann Roberts, 21, and James Riley, 23. were placed at the bar—the first (Roberts) charged with having stolen a purse, a bank note the value of fifty pounds, thirty so vereigns, and four guineas, the property of Thomas Hyde from his person, and the later (Riley) stood charged with having received the said fifty pound bank note, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. MURPHY (with whom was Mr. EfaAs) conducted the prosocution.—Mr. VENABLES defended the prisoner Riley. The case was recently tried at our Police Court, and we supplied a pretty copious statement of the evidence. As that adduced yesterday was to the same effect, though more in detail, we shall merely remind our readers of the heads : A Mr. Hyde, a confectioner of York, was in Liverpool on the 13th of March last, and on his way from the Wel lington Inn to the Mitre, where he slept, by some means lost his purse, containing the money stated. A few days afterwards the female prisoner went up to a Police-officer in Scotland-road—confessed that she and another had taken a £5O note from a gentleman, and that she had given it (sold it) to the prisoner Riley, who kept the Globe public-house in Milton-street. The note was afterwards traced to the bank at Macclesfield, by which it had been issued, and it was found that it had passed through Riley's hands, and had been paid by him to Mr. Marsh, draper, of Scotland-place. The evidence as to these facts, and.the dentity of the note was quite clear, and the jury found both prisoners Guilty. Mr. VENABLES addressed the jury at considerable length in behalf of Riley, contending that he might have received the note honestly, without knowing from whom, in the course of business. He called witnesses to character. Mr. Gallaghar, manager of a brewery, said the prisoner had always behaved honestly to thrir concern. Mr. Timms had known Riley for five years ; he had been been in his employment 15 months, and he had never heard anything against his character till now. The RECORDER summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. There was a pre vious conviction for felony against the prisoner Roberts in 1837, for stealing a watch from the person of the prosecutor. The RECORDER in passing sentence on Roberts, said she had been found guilty of the serious offence of robbing a gentleman to a large amount, and she had also pleaded guilty to a former indictment, charging her with felony. The sen tence of the court was, that she be transported beyond the seas for the term of ten years. On addressing Riley, he said the prisoner had criminally taken the note from the woman, with a full knowledge that it was stolen. No one of common honesty would have taken so large an amount from a person of character, without at once going to the police, in order to discover the owner. In place of this he had bargained with the woman for it, had many subsequent inter views with her, and he paid her sums of money from time to time on account. The sentence of the court was that he should be transported for seven years. It appears that the prosecutor, though a part of the money has been received, is still a later to the amount of about £45. ROBBERY FROM A STEAM VESSEL. Mary Johnson, a young married woman, who had been employed as stewardess on board a steam vessel belonging to Workington, was charged with stealing three counterpanes and other articles from the vessel. She pleaded guilty, and several persons having spoken in her behalf, she was sen tenced to three months' imprisonment. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT. Joseph Fallows, 25, pleaded guilty to three distinct charges of embezzlement. The prisoner was clerk to Messrs. 'Well stood and Co., and had abstracted or retained the respective sums of £2B, £75, and £163 from his employers—finally absconding. He was sentenced to be transported for four teen years. ROUSE ROBBERY. James Heney, 18, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing eight waistcoats, the property of Jas. Lewin. We furnished a report of this case a few days ago, from the evidence at the police court. The prosecutor's house was broken into, and had he not been detected in it be would have ransacked it — the family being from home. He had already been committed to Lancaster Castle for felony for 12 months. He was sentenced to be transported for 15 years. CORRESPONDENCE. THE PROPOSED LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I rejoice to observe in your last paper, that a public establishment is about being formed in this town on a com prehensive plan, for the accommodation of the highest and middle orders of Pi otestants, who feel reluctant to send their children to the existing instiutions. So urgent do I, and many other heads of large families, feel the necessity that now exists for such an undertaking, that I would beg to suggest to the gentlemen interesting themselves, how desirable It would be at present, and during the building of the proposed establishment to rent premises for the purpose of forming (aa it were) the nucleus of the future, I hope, great and use ful institution. Many places in town might be found to an swer the purpose : one strikes me as exceedingly well calcu lated, situated in Pembroke-place, the house formerly oc• cupied by Mr. Muspratt. A SUBSCRIBER. Liverpool, 15th. July. ' ENORMOUS LYING" OF THE RADICAL PRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sra,—l know not whether most excites the indignation of an honest mind—wilful tergiveasation, or palpable falsehood ; both are alike disreputable, and by whomsoever possessed, reflect great discredit on their unhappy possessor. That these two evils of a perverse character, prevail to a deplore ble extent in this our day, no one, 1 am persuaded, will venture to deny ; for not only do we meet them united in individual persons, but especially so in the pages of the ultra-radical press. which are now become the convenient vendors of vituperative abuse, both of public bodies, and and private and individual worth. A palpable instance of what I am here affirming now lies before me, in what may be termed the leading article of the Mercury paper for Friday, the 12th instant, wherein the veracious writer, be lie who he may, it matters not to me, has evidently fallen sadly deep into that mire of a disrepu table notoriety which so much characzerizes a scribbling eon• temporary of congenial sentiments wth himself. In the outset of the very wordy remarks made by the sapient writer, relative to a sermon recently preached at St. Jutte'a Church, by its highly gifted incumbent, the Ray. H. IVl`Neile, he has the honesty to confess that what he affirms is from hearsay, and so of course second-hand, but, by the way. admits all to be true, and something more. As an ear-witness, however, to what was advanced by the reverend gentleman, on the occasion referred to, I must beg distinctly to deny much of what the writer affirms, as altogether false; for not only was there not anything like vaunting on the part of the rev. preacher and his numerous coadjutors, but no such assertion as that imputed, conveying any, even the most remote idea of any actual change in the system of education pursued in the corporation schools of this town. • That the original motion of the common council, touching scripture reading after school hours, was one of the many preposterously concocted schemes of that body, of solonsis too notorious to meet denial, and the fact of the r dicule, it sub sequently met from all pa: ties acquainted with it (not in our town only), led to its final rejection, is equally notorious ; the subject indeed was of too grave a character, reflecting as it did, discredit on the wisdom of the council-room, to allow of its continuance, and yet it is to be believed, that had the public remained silent thereupon, it would have still dis graced the minute-book of their proceedings, and borne testimony to the contemptible ignorance of a busy loquacity which has so often displayed itself among that goodly civic body. It is further alleged of the rev. gentleman that he denied the existence of means whereby to ascertain whether or not any actual change had taken place in the schools in question ; this, I altogether deny, no such assertion was even intimated, much less said by him •, the language used on that occasion was to the effect, and I use them verbatim, that " a change, he understood, had taken place, but that neither he nor any of his brethren, the clergy of the church, had been at the trouble to learn the fact. And do we wonder at the apparent indifference thus exhibited by them ? By no means so : it was a thing likely in men, loudly protesting as they did against the introduction of a pro-popish and infidel sy.stem of education, whereby the children of the poor, no matter of what religious creed, or no creed at all, should be taught in the principles of mere secular learning, without any special or direct reference to their future and eternal destiny. But what is the fact? why, that the rev. gentle man, in his extraordinary zeal and attachment for the < hurch . has roused the ire, and excited to indignatiOn the bitter spirit of a factious liberality ; active in every instance of attack by his adversaries, with a fearless boldness charac• teristic only of true courage, he has more than triumphed over every foe ; and, finding themselves foiled in their speci. ous attempts to render him, if it were possible, odious in the eyes of the public, they are now endeavouring by eve artifice, how they can best reduce his character to a level with their own, which is one of bitter disappointMent and reckless desperation. Never before has Liverpool had to boast so bold and able a defender of qur national religious principles ; and never before did the hydra-headed monster of a spurious liberalism, meet so much of just rebuke, as from the sarcastic lash of that truly noble and intelligent-minded man. Would that England could boast more of such like characters; and it is gratifying to know that many, yea hundreds, have already caught hold of the mantle of his bold and honest Protestant principles, which shrink not from a loud and continuous protest against every species of a spurious Christianity, be it popish, sectarian, or semi-infidel. July, 20, 1839. DESTITUTION OF THE POOR IRISH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In the present heartrending condition of the poorer classes in the South-west part of Ireland, it occurs to me that the Irish Precursor Fund might be made available, if the individuals under whose controul it is placed, could be brought to compassionate the state of the wretched peasantry, and consider the applicability of the means ; for how could it be better or more patriotically employed, than in allevia. ting the sufferings of those poor people, many of whom, in better days, contributed to swell its amount ; or shall Protes tant sympathy for the hundredth time step foricard to rescue them from wholesale starvation . .? In every similar visitation of agreat local evil, the spontaneous benevolence of a Pro testant public has promptly interposed, and, though I feel there will be no lack of the same generous spirit upon the .present occation, it is but reasonable to expect, that where positive and disposable means exist, they may be ceded as an auxiliary to the charitable design. I hope the matter may be considered, and that the Pre cursor Committeee will mark its sympathy for the people's necessities, and a sense of its own gratitude, by speedy ex ertion. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, Liverpool, 22d July. J. IL SHOWING OF FASHIONS. IMPORTANT TO MILLINERS' ASSISTANTS. On Thursday last a case was heard at the Court of Re. quests, in which the plaintiff, a milliner's assistant, sought to recover an amount due for wages, fro:n a , nitlinet in humble • circumstances, and in a small way of business, in Berry.. street, in this town. It seemed, the defendant advertised • rather largely, for two assistants, and three improvers, in the_ month of. May last ; and the plaintiff, a Les etable looking . young person, applied for, and obtained all the situations, . which she filled, according, to the delendent's own testimony in court, " to his entire satisfaction" during the time of mak ing-up and showing the fashions. Ile found no necessity for another assistant, nor indeed, any " improvers" or appren tices. At the expiration of the gay season, it is supposed, like Othello, he found His occupation gone," or nearly so ; hence, it became very inconvenient to keep . on this one assistant. With Shakspeare he could say, . . " My poverty, and not my will consents" to part with her, notwithstanding my puffing advertisement, kindlier capabilities to assist me in my business. It appeared there was no proper agreement between the parties, as to the nature of work required ; and in order to effect a riddance of this assistant, her usual sort of work being scarce, he re quired her to engage in other duties incompatible and unusual for such individuals to perform, and upon being expostulated with as to the impropriety of such request, he assumed " his little brief authority' by ordering her " to quit his house immediately," without offering to pay her any Wages for the time she had been in his service. The assistant left, and • sought to recover her claim through the Court of Request, which was ordered accordingly. Thus ended this " shoWing of fashings," which proved nothing more nor less than " a flash in. the pan." Milliners' assistants would do well to be cautious, how they engage in such service, as there. ire many employers who only require additional hands at certain periods of the year ; consequently, if they can obtain assist- - . anee to serve their own purpose for the time, they care not - how much inconvenience or loss they afterwards inflict upon. such a class of people as milliners' assistants. ABERNETIM—The late Mr. Abernethy would never per mit his patient to talk too much. He could not succeed in 'silencing a loquacious lady but by the following expedient : " Put your tongue out, madam." (The lady complied.) Now keep it there until I have done talking." The Thames Conservation Society is turning out a great humbug. It was formed professedly for the benefit of in dustrious fishermen, and the amusement of genuine sports men. It now appears that one subscriber to the society, a noble lord, netted, in one morning, 27' trout. Timothy Higgins, secretary to the Ashton-under-Lyne ChartiSt Association, charged with the possession of two boxes of tire arms for illegal purposes, has been held to bail to appear at the next Liverpool Assizes, himself .£lOO, and two sureties in £5O each. CABBAGE.—In one week, the enormous quantity of up wards of seven thousand dozens of cabbages have been cut in the immediate vicinity of Wakefield, for.warious surrounding markets ! The cabbage in the hands of the tailors has not been taken into the calculation. REPRESENTATION OF AYLESBURY.—Captair! Hamilton, who is intimately connected with many of the leading con servatives of • the neighbourhood, is a candidate in that interest for the • representation of Aylesbury in parliananat, which is vacent by the premiture death of M r. l'raed. ACCURATE DESCRIP HON.—Orator Duncan, it may here membered, received a severe injury from something in the shape of cowskin, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Cin cinnatti. " Where were you hurt, doctor," said a friend, " was it•near the vertebra?" " No, no," said the disciple . of Galen, "it was near the Race-course."—Picayune. The following remarkable providence, tending to show that God is a God of providence, preserving his people in times of danger from the hands of the wicked, as well as a God of grace, saving their souls and bringing them to glory, is ap pended to the original life of Browne, the first Protestant Archbishop of Ireland :—" Queen Mary having dealt severely with the Protestants in England, about the latter end of her reign, signed a commission for to take the same course with them in Ireland ; and, to execute the same with .greater force, she nominates Dr. Cole, one of the commissioners, sending the commission by this doctor, who, in his journey, coming to Chester, the mayor of that city, hearing that her Majesty . was sending a messenger into Ireland, and he being a church man, waited on the doctor, who, in discourse with the mayor, taking out of a cloth bag a leather box, saying unto Min, Here is a commission that shall lash the heretics of Ireland', calling the Protestants by that title. The good woman of the house, being well affected to the Protestant religion, and also having a brother named John Edmonds of the same, then a citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at his words; but watching her covenient time, whilst the mayor took his leave,' and the doctor complimenting him down the stairs, she opens the box and takes the commission out, placing in lieu of it a sheet of paper with a pack of cards, the knave of clubs faced uppermost, wrapped up. The doctor coming up to his chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done, put up the box as formerly. The next day, going to the water-side, wind and weather serving him, he sailed towards Ireland, and landed on the seventh of October, 1558, at Dub. lin ; then coming to the Castle, the Lord Fitz-Walters, being lord deputy, sent for him to come before him and the privy council ; Dr. Cole, atter he had made a speech relating upon what account he came over, presented the box to the bold deputy, who causing it to be opened, that the secretary might read the commission, there was nothing, save a pack of cards with the knave of clubs uppermost, which not only startled the lord deputy and council, but the do. tor, who assured them he had a commission, but knew not Low it was gone ; then the lord depty made answer, Let ns Lave another commission, and we will shuttle the cards in the mean while.' The doctor being troubled in his mind went away, and re. turned into England and coming to the court obtained another commission ; but, staying for a wind ut the water side, news came up to him. that the Que en was &ad; Pi thus God preserve the ProtesPaute in Ireland.' FURTHER SENTENCES. Peter Hegan, for stealing the luggage of a female passenger from Dublin; twelve month's imprisonment, and hard la bour. John M`Lean, for stealing a cheese, second offence, a similar punishment. Samuel Whitley. for stealing two cloaks, at the Potteries ; six months. Michael Sweeny, stealing a great coat, and obtaining several glass-es frcin a glass-warehouse, on false pretences; six nim.th's imprison ment, and hard labour. The packet-ship England, Captain Waite, which arrived on Sunday afternoon from New York; in twenty days, had twenty-one cabin passengers. A RATHER UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE.—NeWS from Liver pool one day later than by the Cambridge had been received in New York via Quebec, the ship Erin-go-bragh, Captain Sumpton, having made the passage from this port in thirty days. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.—Among the pre miums awarded by the council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, during the session just closed, are the following, the subjects of which are locally interesting to this town : A Telford medal, in silver, to Mr. Chas. Hood, for his paper on warming and ventilating buildings. A Telford medal, in silver, to Mr. Charles Wye Williams, for his paper on the properties and application of turf and turf coke. A Telford medal, in silver, to Mr. Edward Woods, for his paper on the forms of locomotive engines. MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER FISH COMPANY.—On Friday, at the Clarendon-rooms, a meeting of such of the shareholders as were dissatisfied with the management and proceedings of this company was held, with a view to arrive at a correct knowledge of the affairs of the concern, a call having been made upon them without any satisfactory statement of the accounts being given to the shareholders generally. It was resolved, that a deputation should be sent to the solicitors of the company, to require from them that a statement should he laid before them and the company generally, and that the meeting should be adjourned to Friday next, at the same place, for the purpose of receiving the report of the deputation. STEAM r. WIND.—The packet-ship Independence, which sailed from Liverpool on the 25th of May, arrived at New York on the 29th of June : the s'eani-ship Liverpool, Which sai.'al from this port on the 13th of June, reached that city on the 29th of the same month, having perforMed the pas sage in nineteen days less than the Independence. The Li verpool left New York on the 6th instant, and anchored in the Mersey on the 20th, in the afternoon : the packet-ship England, which sailed from that city on the Ist instant, reached this port on the 21st, in the afternoon also, having been six days longer on the passage than the steamer. There is little doubt that, had it not been for the strong southeast erly gales of Thursday and Friday, the England would have reached port as soon as the Liverpool. But such steamers as the Liverpool triumph over the most adverse winds. BIRMINGHAM — SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The town to out ward appearance, is in perfect tranquillity, and the inhabitants are very anxiously looking for the promised inquiry into the alleged supineness of the magistracy. Rumour, with a thou sand tongues, is busy about secret chartist meetings, the ma nufacture of pike-heads, rifles, and daggers, approaching con flagrations, anarchy and ruin, and if the public mind were not already overloaded with the recollection of similar de tails, and your columns could not be b e tt er fill e d, I m i g ht be inclined to indulge in the voluminous imaginary historical records of the last few days. It would be a lengthy narra tive, almost as " Alexandrine" us that of Sir Charles Gran , dison.—Correspondent of Morning Herald. PASSENGERS IN THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL, FROM NEW YORK. — Miss Holbrook ; Mrs. Wm. Rowe, West Indies ; Mrs. Jared Adee, New York ; Miss Van Schaick, do. ; Mrs. Rowe, West Indies ; Charles Steffelm, New Or leans ; Edward Mallard, do. ; E. C. March, St. Louis, Mo.; J. A. Reimenschnieder, Germany ; W. Y. Rooker, Mary land ; Master Reimenschnieder, Gerniany ; James Swan, Baltimore ; Mariano Pola, Spain ; Joht.ritcher, jun., Vir ginia University ; Samuel Charlesworth, Huddersfield ; Ag natius Robled, Mexico'; Wm. Rowe, West Indies; Alfred. Cruger, Mr. Cruger, Havana; Andrew M'Dowall, Charles ton; Mr. Smith, New York ; Hon. Myndert Van Schaick, do. ; Mr. Kerr, Virginia ; Mr. Kerr, Kentucky ; James Lawrie, Glasgow ; Mr. Holbrook, Mrs. Holbrook, and ser vant, Missouri ; Albert Furniss, Montreal: Jose Valdor, Cuba ; R. W. Lloyd, do. ; Wm. Augustine Gott, John B. Hillyer, England ; Antoinet Gaudell, Porto Rico ; Emilie Cartero, do. ; Don Jaqu. De Arietta, Havana ; Richard Hasluck, New York ; J. H. Mackinnell, Manchester ; J. E. Beylle, Havana; Don Louis Mariateque, do. ; William Prehn, New Orleans ; J. Labranche, do. ; H. Williams, do.; L. Brierworth, New York ; H. A. Rose, do. ; Mr. Strict land, Philadelphia ; Chas. Alex. Pope, do. ; Wentworth W. Pierce, Portsmouth, Va. ; John Morrison, jun., St.Thoinas; A. H. Armour, Montreal ; Wm. Stafford, New York ; Pro fessor George Tucker, Virginia; Mr. Stewart, Richmond; James M'Farlan and servant, Virginia ; Major Walter Gwynn, North Carolina ; James B. Higginson, Boston ; Mr. and Mrs. Oiley, London ; Henry Neville, British Army ; P. Lawrie Sloan, New Orleans ; . Julius Calebert and servant, Mr. Calebert, Havana ; William Caudell, Pa terson ; A. Kirkland, Hamilton, U. C. ; G. H. Mass, Phi ladelphia. We understand that a private letter received in town, that a slaver got on shore near Cape St. Agostini, 20 miles south of Pernambuco, and about 150 negroes perished. CRICKET.—A match at cricket will be played on the ground of the Liverpool Cricket Club, on Monday the 29th instant, between " the Phoenix" Club of Dublin, and " the Liver pool." This will be an interesting match, being the first trial of skill between England and Ireland ; and from the manner in which some of the Liverpool gentlemen have batted this year, there are some hopes of their succeeding in vanquishing their distinguished opponents. The betting at present is two to one on the Phoenix, and in some instances, five to two has been laid and in large amount. GRAND GALA AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. — The gala last night was most brilliant and successful. 'We do not remember to have seen on these delightful grounds so nu merous and fashionable a company, or an assemblage more pleased by the splendour, and beauty of the fire-works. The burning mountain was shown with improved effect, and the subsequent fire-works were peculiarly brilliant. The gardens were beautifully illuminated throughout in various devices. We shall notice the exhibition, which will be repeated on Thursday, more fully in our next. - CHARTISTS AT BRADFORD.—Two or three meetings of the chartists have been held in various parts of Bradford during the past week, at which the usual violent language has been uttered, and a fierce dete •mination evinced to obtain by force that which they cannot acquire by gentler means. On one occasion, Mr. Bronterre O'Brien said, that if the military attacked they were to set fire to the houses, and the devils (meaning the inhabitants of those houses) would awake with their throats cut ! Resolutions were then passed, for forming associations for the purchase of fire-arms, and canvassing the shopkeepers for subscriptions to the defence fund ; and in accordance with the last resolution, most of the shopkeepers have had a visit from a gentleman from Ireland; named Martin, on this errand. As far as we can learn, they have not met with much success, though an indirect, and some times u directthreat of exclusive dealing has been made, and the name and residence of every person refusing his or her pecuniary aid pot down in a booir-.Brafford Observer. r- --