The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

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Can there be a moment's doubt or hesita of ;as to the p ropr i ety o f g i v i ng t h e s t arv i ng m illions esi- toinntrclijeas permission and opportunity to emigrate to where they m ay meet with profitable em ssbie blessed and they may be brought under the and humanising influences of Christianity— f er e they may spend their lives in the midst Peace an d p l enty ? Th e W est I n di a co l on i es Possess a clim a t e s i m il ar t o , if n ot far more salu bri to rs than, th at o f t h e i r na ti ve coun t r y ? Have rich t hese colonies a soil almost inexhaustible in its of ri es; and capable of maintaining, without the fear th. famine, millions upon millions of inhabitants, and c,o at Without imposing upon any the necessity of under :llg a deg ree o f l a b our i ncom p a tibl e w ith th e m ost under the alacrity ? Again, may we not look to the to igration of na ti ve Af r ican s and Indian Coolies in to `lie West I n di es as an ex p er i men t, no t only impor tant in ref erence to t h e commerc i a l an d agr i cu lt ura l pr os Perity of th ose co l on ie s —not only as calculated to P r omote the temporal welfare of the immigrants—but fa an experiment affording the highest degree of satis faction to th ose w h o are i ntereste d i n m i ss i onar y enter ju se ? In every part of our West India possessions, as fa r cultivation has extended, we find Churches, C hapels, and Schools rearing their heads, and Bishops, Cle rgymen, and teachers, waiting to instruct the igno rant and to rec l a i m th e su p ers titi ous . These, there fore' are fit and proper places to receive the Indian s ad African outcasts. :la India a n d Af r i ca are not the only places from le h emigrants may be supplied for the West Indies. r eat Britain is, at the present moment, suffering from a surplus population, for whom it is now impossibls.,to Provide adequate employment. We have been, of late ! ea rs, making extraordinary efforts to discover suitable settlements in our colonies for our starving poor, to P r event them from perishing in our streets and through °tit the country. We do not blame the government for affording facilities for emigration from Great Britain 10 our Australasian colonies. But we do blame the G° vermnent for not affording similar facilities for emi gration to the West Indies, where congenial employ- Ineri t may be found for thousands of our starving arti lans• Still more do we blame government, who thus P r ovide outlets for the superabundant population of Great Britain, and, at the same time, pass laws pro hibiting emigration into our Western Colonies from countries where the population is still snore superabun dant than in our our own, and where the consequent amount of Suffering is incalculably greater. We are told that in Great Britain and Ireland, with " 1) 914 thirty millions of inhabitants, the population is increasing at the rate of one thousand per day, and t hat a vent must be found for this increase to some Part of our colonial possessions. What then must be th e increase in the population of India and Africa, i t ti e i e l m iston inasthey do with their tens and hundreds of What must be the sufferings of the in habitants of those countries when visited by famine ? It i s , frightful to contemplate the mass of suffering to Which they must be subject. And yet no provision is Made for giving the unfortunate inhabitants of India a nd Africa an opportunity of seeking employment in countries which are exempt from those direful visita tions to which both India and Africa are periodically su bject. Is this consistent with British humanity ? Are we justified in condemning these poor creatures to remain on a soil which cannot support them, and Where they are left without a chance of bettering their Condition ? Is it humanity to prevent a labourer from resorting to the best market for disposing of his labour ? A re we not acting with the greatest inconsistency while eve accord such a privilege to our own population and deny it to the inhabitants of India, who are even more W illing and anxious to avail themselves of it than are t he destitute poor of Great Britain and Ireland ? What would Englishmen, Irishmen, or Scotchmen say, if any nation on earth were to prohibit them from leavin g their native shores, and to prevent them from going to seek employment in the sickly Prairies in the far West of America? What would they say if they W ere debarred from going to the more genial climes of Canada, Australia, or New Zealand ? Would they not exclaim against the injustice of such a prohibition? And yet this is precisely what the government of this country has been doing in reference to those who are anxious to emigrate to the fine, healthy climate, and -..Productive soil, of the West Indies, where poverty is c omparatively - unknown, and pauperism is " a tale Of Other lands." But it wi'l be said that it is really too bad to remove the poor Indian outcast to such a distant country as British Guiana—a country of which they absolutely k now nothing. What do the poor people of this Country know about those distant colonies to which so many of them are constantly emigrating? And Yet they are urged and encouraged to quit their native l ands for those distant and unknown shores. The Poor Irishman knows just as much about the far `West of America, New South Wales, or New Zealand, a s an Indian Cooly does of the Mauritius, Guiana, Tri nidad, or Jamaica. In place of discouraging the re moval of those poor people, we ought to supply them with the means of emigrating to a free county, where t hey may earn more than sufficient for a livelihood — becom e useful members of society—be placed under t he influences of Christianity—and exempted from the horrors of famine and pestilence. It is repugnant to e very principle of humanity to prevent the poor African or Indian from thus bettering his condition. Much has been said of the insalubrity of the West India climate, and especially of the fatality of the climate of British Guiana. 'We have consulted several works On the subject of the West India climate, and we have conversed with many individuals who have spent twenty, thi rty, and even forty years in our different western colonies.' From all that we can learn on the subject we have no hesitation in stating it as our conviction that there is scarcely a climate on the face of the earth more salubrious than that of the West Indies, not only as r espects the inhabitants of tropical regions, but even in re ference to European constitutions. The average du ration of human existence, even in British Guiana, is Mitch greater than it is in Great Britain. Instances of lon gevity are quite as frequent among the white population of the West Indies as they are among the people of this country, and among the black population they are much More frequent. In Jamaica, in particular, instances of longevity bear a far greater ratio to the whole popula tion than they do in the most favoured districts of Great Britain. It is by no means unusual to meet with Negroe s in that Island who have attained the age of 31.1 e hundred and ten years and upwards. It is not ' , Ong since we recorded the death of one who had ar l'wed at the extraordinary age of one hundred and nine teen The West Indies are happily, almost entirely, e xempt from that fatal scourge, consumption, which numbers among its victims annually, in this country, so many hundreds of thousands. That numerous trai n of diseases which arise from exposure to in clement weather, and from want of food and proper shelter, are scarcely ever experienced in the West In (ties. The bountiful hand of Providence has blessed t hose colonies with such a teeming soil, exuberant in Pro ducing every necessary of life, that there is en ough of food spontaneously supplied to keep a Population thrice as numerous as they possess at present f rom any f ear o f wan t. With su ch a fertile soil, waiting for labourers to cultivate it, t a n, d promi s i ng suc h an a b un d an t r eturn, can we be 'Mined for urging the necessity of immigration into the t he - West Indies ? If, with the knowledge which we Possess of its vast, boundless, but imperfectly deve- JUPed resources, we neglected to urge this question upon the attention of our countrymen, we should con ceive oursel ves gu il ty o f a mos t cu lp a bl e d ere li c ti on o f duty, and liable to the imputation of being enemies to the welfare of our country and to the best interests of humanity. Of what curious ingredients is Whig-Radical loyalty com posed ! So alien is the principle to the feelings of 'r e rals, and so irksome is the hypocrisy with which t hey endeavour to pass off their spurious and counter feit devotion to the Queen—because they believe that s he, like themselves, is a partisan in politics—as attach- Meta to the Monarchy itself, that they are, even in spite of themselves, compelled to make compensation to their outraged principles by attacking Royalty on another side, and, as it were, adjust the balance by Pouring out unmeasured abuse upon other members of the Royal Family of England. There hardly appears an article in the Ministerial prints where the name of her Majesty is introduced with fulsome panegyric, in which this kind of political Compromise does not appear. The writers, all unused :o find their principles countenanced at Court, cannot venture on so suicidal an act as to indulge their innate hatred of Royalty at the expense of the Mistress whose. savour has hitherto been sufficient to counterbalance and neutralise the hostility of an indignant nation. But still democratic prejudice must have vent : the daily aliment of such creatures is detraction, and their natural appetites must be somehow or other gratified, or they are miserable. " Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret ;" which line we will translate, for the benefit of that accomplished member of the Town Council, Mr. Al derman Earle, whom does not even understand French when it is spoken to him :—" You may turn out Na ture with a pitchfork, but she will always come back again;'' or perhaps it will be more intelligible to him if we render. it, by a homely English proverb, nearly equivalent in meaning You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Hence they take care always to introduce a set-off against the praise which it suits their policy just now to lavish upon our youthful Queen, and this set-off is composed of the most malignant libels against her nearest relatives and connections. Strange must be their notion of the tastes of, that deity to whom they offer up the incense of their adoration, when they ven ture to place the foulest offerings on her altar ! Like the Hottentots of South. Africa, they parade themselves before the being to whom they wish to do honour, arrayed in garbage. We never remember to have seen a more wanton and profligate attack than that which appeared a short time ago in a leading Ministerial journal upon Queen Adelaide... A lady whose whole life has been one of exemplary propriety, and who has endeared herself to the nation by her conduct, both in the highest earthly station and afterwards when she descended from that lofty rank,—whose actions, one would have thought, might have challenged the respect, if not the praise, of even a political enemy,—has been singled out as a victim on whose head is to be poured the noisome stream of Whig-Radical calumny and detraction. A system of espionage is to be set on foot, and every expression that falls from her lips noted down, in eager hope that something may at last be found on which the envenomed fang of party malice may fasten ; and if she can answer her accusers—and no individual in England can do so with more sincerity and truth—in the words of Brutus, There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not,"---- what matters it ? Lies must be coined and circulated, and charges brought against her deliberately, which have not the faintest shadows of truth for their support. If, indeed, the calm and blessed virtues of domestic life can be considered an offence, because they are contrasted with the glare and glitter of fashionable frivolity, the fault lies not in her who practises the former, and to assail her on that ground is the severest libel which her base-minded opponents can write upon themselves. But there is yet another mark set up, against which it seems to be thought there is a plenary indulgence given to discharge every shaft which hatred and ma lice can suggest. This is one of her Majesty's Royal Uncles—the King of Hanover—heir presumptive to the British Crown. With regard to him, abuse has absolutely no bounds ; and "wretch," and " tyrant," and " monster," are appellations which are thought too weak to express the detestation in which he is held by the fawning parasites of Queen Victoria. They think themselves entitled to give full play to their imaginations, and conjure up a hobgoblin in King Ernest, which may terrify silly women and children, but which is only ridiculous in the eyes of men who look at things and facts as they really are, and in their true proportions. Far more than half of the calumnies uttered against her Majesty's Uncle are altogether un true, and in what remains much is exaggerated, dis torted, and discoloured. His conduct in the govern ment of the kingdom of Hanover is likened to that of a Moorish despot—and this by writers who know nothing of the constitution, habits, and wishes of the Hanoverians, but who test every act of State policy by its applicability to the peculiar character and con stitution of the British nation. The same kind of language is used towards George IV., and most contemptuous expressions are freely ap plied to the " patriot king"—" Good King William." In fact, the Whig-Radicals seek to recommend them selves at Court by vilifying all her Majesty's nearest relatives, and do all that lies in their power to make the royal family of Brunswick hateful in the eyes of the people. Such is Whig-Radical loyalty ! And when Queen Victoria, in after years, discovers the true na ture of these hypocrites, and consents no longer to al low her name to be used as the watchword of the Li berals, they will fling aside every restraint of common decency, and, by base libels upon herself, make them selves amends for the constraint they now put upon their natural tastes and inclinations. * Vide the report of the Town Council proceedings in our ast impression. The cause of the Conservatives is in as healthy a condition as we can possibly desire. Ipswich, Man chester, Cambridge, and Newark all tell the same tale, and everywhere the Whig-Radicals look wretched and chop-fallen. We can state that it is confidently as serted in the Carlton that Sir Robert Peel will have a majority of five in the present House of Commons, when it meets for business in the next session ; for the changes which have taken place in seats, and the va cancies which have been occasioned by the acceptance of office on the part of members, have so reduced that majority of ministers, which was becoming " small by degrees," not only to " beautifully less," but to abso lute zero —or, rather, a negative quantity less than no thing. If, under these circumstances, ministers dis solve, the state of the Registrations tells them that they will be hopelessly and irretrievably beaten—lost be yond the possibility of redemption ; and if they do not dissolve, they will be unable any longer to command even those " hap-hazard," " chance," " dust-in• the balance" majorities of last Session immortalized by Lord Brougham. If this be the case will they go out ? Nobody believes in the possibility of this without a last desperate struggle, and therefore the people of Eng land may look for a dissolution ere long. It may come at any moment, and we may be quite sure that the moment will be chosen in which there is the best chance of finding the Conservatives off their post. Of one thing we are certain, that the Melbourne Ministry will move heaven and earth to remain in office until the Queen's marriage is celebrated. This would be a trump card in their hands which they would take care to play to their own advantage. But the game goes against them : they hold too many knaves. At a late hour last night we received the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 14th of July. We have no room to make any extracts in our present publication. There is no news of political importance from the colony. There was a great scarcity of the necessaries of life at Sydney. The price of bread was enormously high. The 41b. loaf was selling at 2s. 6d., and it was fully expected to become much dearer ! Several vessels had been dispatched for India and the adjacent islands to import wheat and rice. The Government seems to have been greatly to blame for allowing matters to come to such an extremity. On the principle of audi alteram partem we have given insertion to the second letter of " A Father" on the subject of the Collegiate School about to be esta blished in this town. We have done this the more readily because " A Father" has assumed a more mo derate and courteous tone while writing of those gen tlemen from whom he so widely differs. Before, how ever, we offer any remarks in reply to our correspond ent, we must distinctly inform him that we cannot ad mit any further communications on the subject of his letter. The matter has been amply discussed, and would be impolitic as well as unnecessary to distur the minds of our readers with any further controversy When there is so much need of union on the part co: Churchmen, it is the very height of folly to perpetuate this childish quarrel. The point at issue, notwith standing all the importance attached to it by " A Fa ther," is of the most trifling and insignificant charac ter. It ought never to have been magnified into the occasion of so great a quarrel. When we say this we beg to be understood as only expressing our own sen timents on the subject. We have had no communica- tion whatever with any gentleman, lay or clerical, connected with the projected institution, since the re ceipt of " A Father's" letter. The language which we employ must not be considered as embodying the opinions of the parties whose decision is impugned by our correspondent. We think it necessary to state this limine, lest any misconception should arise on the subject, and especially as a caveat to each of our Ra dical contemporaries, lest they should attach a degree of official importance to the remarks which we feel , called upon to offer. - We cannot perceive the force of " A Father's" ap peal ad misericor•diam when he complains of " the practical disadvantage" of his position. Surely, the fact that he is an anonymous correspondent is fully as great an advantage as that which he conceives us to possess. We cordially assure him that we have no wish whatever to "lord it" over him in any respect; and we as cordially agree with him that " truth must ultimately prevail" in every controversy. Our correspondent is labouring under a very serious mistake when he says that we laboured to convince ourselves in the article to which he replies. We may have expressed ourselves cautiously; but this we en deavoured to do in order to avoid the possibility of giving offence to any party. Our own convictions on the subject would have justified much stronger language than that which we employed. We never had the slightest doubt of the wisdom and propriety of the course pursued by the great majority of the friends of the Collegiate Institution. If we had entertained any such doubts the letters of " A Father" would have materially contributed to dissipate them. We confess that we'do not understand "A Father" when he says that "the vital principle is sacrificed." He does not condescend to inform us what that " vital principle" is. The projectors of the institution have laid down the principle that all the children of Church men who may be admitted into the Collegiate Institu tion shall be instructed in the doctrines and rituals of the Established Church. This principle, the sound ness of which is unimpeachable, has not been sacrificed. They have also laid down the principle that all the members of the committee, under whose controul the affairs of the College will be placed, shall be members of the Established Church. From this principle, ad mirably calculated as it is to secure the good govern ment of the institution, there has been no departure. They have, furthermore, adopted the same stringent regulation in reference to all the teachers who are to be appointed in connection with the proposed college, with the sole exception of certain professors of foreign lan guages. From this principle they have not swerved in the slightest degree. Again, they have laid down the principle that Dissenters may be admitted into the College, on condition that they conform to the rules and regulations of the institution. This we conceive to be a principle as sound and unobjectionable as any of the preceding. But " A Father" here joins issue with us, and asserts that Dissenters ought not to be admitted, on any terms, to share in the benefits of the projected institution. We cannot recognise the neces sity of adopting such a principle, and we think that the friends of the intended college have done well in discarding it. Having done so, they had no alternative left but that of exempting the children of Dissenters from answering the first five and the last but six (we write from memory) of the questions in the Church Catechism. The answers to these questions would, in the case of Dissenters, involve a series of direct untruths, as it is well known that they have no sponsors in bap- While we are thus alluding to the only portion of the Catechism to which Dissenters object, we may as well inform " A Father" of the principal grounds of that objection. Our correspondent must be aware that there is a certain school of theologians in the Church of England who maintain that the Catechism, in the introductory questions alluded to, inculcates the doc trine of baptismal regeneration. We believe that the great majority of Dissenters, misled by this erroneous interpretation, attach the same meaning to the language of the Catechism. Hence their decided objection to the introductory portion of that excellent formulary. But who is to blame for this ? Must not the blame attach to those semi-Popish divines in the Church of England who maintain the soul-destroying doctrine to which we have alluded? We must speak plainly on this subject, because we feel strongly. Believing as we do that there is not a more pernicious dogma in the creeds of Popery itself, than the heretical doctrine of baptismal regeneration, we are not surprised that the Dissenters should have strong objections to a formulary, in which they are confidently told by the Laudite or Puseyite clergy the doctrine in question is inculcated. Nor are we surprised that the projectors of the Col legiate Institution have agreed to remove so serious a stumbling block out of the way of their dissenting brethren. We might here ask "A Father" whether he would wish that such a doctrine as that which we have al- luded to should be inculcated in the Liverpool Colle giate Institution ? We have no right to assume that he would : but, if a Puseyite, he would, of course, answer in the affirmative. If " A Father" had fur nished us with such an answer in his letter, we should not have wasted another word on the subject. We should have recommended him to send his communi cation to a more suitable vehicle than the Standard. " A Father" is* utterly in error when he speaks of " conciliation" and " concession" as if in compliance with any demands made by the Dissenters. The. Dis senters never made any demand upon the projectors of the Collegiate Institution. It is, therefore, quite irrelevant to talk of concession. We repeat our assertion that the proposed institu Lion will be a powerful " auxiliary to the Church o England." " A Father" rejoins that "it must be identified with, and be the Church of England." This is absurd. What scripture warrant has our corres pondent for such an assertion ? We recognise the orders of bishop, priest, and deacon, as scriptural and apostolical ; but we never heard of the order of school masters in the Church. In truth, we do not know what " A Father" means when he says that the Liver pool College should be the Church. A note which appears in another column will satisfy " A Father" that Dissenters are admitted at least into one of our Universities, on precisely the same terms as those which have been imposed by the Committee of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. We never as serted that Dissenters could matriculate at either of the Universities without a specific recognition of the authority of the Thirty-nine Articles. We merely stated that they were admitted to the benefits of those seats of learning. We might also point out another institution into which Dissenters are admitted on the same terms. We allude to King's College, London. We might also allude to the numberless other institu tions throughout the country, such as the public schools of Shrewsbury, Rugby, Harrow, Westminster, the Charter House, &c., into which Dissenters have, practically at least, no difficulty whatever in obtaining admission. Have the conductors of these schools " sacrificed the vital principle of the Establishment ?" Have they incurred the charge of having entered into a guilty compromise ? We have noticed a few of the more prominent points in " A Father's" letter. Much of the letter is occu pied with vague generalities, which are as difficult to answer as they are to be understood. He has advanced nothing to shake our confidence in the stability of the Collegiate Institution. That institution will, we have not the most momentary doubt, prove a blessing to the town of Liverpool for ages yet to come. To Church men it will guarantee the instruction of their children in the sound and scriptural doctrines of the Church of England. To the Dissenter it will offer an education in exact accordance with those doctrines without of fending his conscientious scruples. But it will teach nothing—it will suffer nothing to be taught, in opposi tion to those doctrines. The grand maxim which its projectors seem to have most conscientiously kept in view is that of " Unity in essentials; in circumstan tials, charity." ANOTHER TROTTING MATCH. — The backers of the Glas gow mare, at the termination of the great trotting match last Friday, having expressed an opinion that she could beat the American prodigy (Bob Logic) in another trial, the owner of the American horse immediately accepted the challenge, and a match was made instanter for £7O, to trot ten miles on a common road. This match came off on Saturday last on the road to the Old Swan, the starting point being Gilead house, the horses to run five miles in and out. From the first the Glasgow mare had not the slighest chance, and she was ingloriously defeated by a considerable distance. It was the opinion of many who witnessed the race, that Bob Logic could have trotted eleven miles to the other's ten. A good number of persons assembled to witness the sport.— Chronicle. THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The notice you have taken of my last communica tion will prepare you to expect from me a rejoinder. In lifting up my voice in this important matter, I am quite aware of the practical disadvantage of my position. The leading article from the editorial chair, freely usinr , the em phatic we, and presented w ith a ll the assistance of conspi cuous type and handsome paragraphs, must possess a mani fest superiority over the humble letter of an unknown cor- respondent. but, however lorded over, or for a time out shone, the truth ultimately prevails ; and if I had entertained any doubts as to the soundness of the views I have adopto, the perusal of your notice would have dissipated them, and confirmed me in the course lam pursuing. The article in question is the elaborate compositioh of a well-intentioned writer, labouring to convince not only his readers, but him self —proving nothing but the badness of his cause, and ex hibiting the very poverty of defence. lam not surprised that the pen which I have so often admired when advocating the cause of truth and right, should only be weak when wielded in the cause of error. If I have used harsh terms, I trust they were proportionate to the importance of the subject I was dilating on ; and if a painful conviction of their truth has inflicted a pang upon any heart, it has been done on my part " morein sorrow than in anger." The vital principle is sacrificed, and all the special pleading that can be brought to bear will not alter the startling fact, or weaken the force of my position. The mere withholding of the Catechism in certain cases is not alone the question. The point is given up. Conciliation has taken place. Amidst the many arrows so long thrown in vain, one at last has struck—the barb has entered. And though all the teachers must be churchmen, and no forms used excepting those. of the Established Church, they will be able to do little more than prevent the spreading of the laceration. Instead of attacking the fortresses of error , they will be wholly occupied in repairing and guarding the breaches in their own. Look to the practical working of the scheme. The child of a dis senter comes into the school; and while the principal scho lars are learning what they are taught to believe concerns no thing less than their eternal welfare, that child is excepted. Will not the simplest m i n d i nqu ire the reason ? What must be the answer ? That his father tells him it is wrong to learn it. Nay, further, that he is so convinced of its falsehood, that he will not permit the master to teach it him. Will not this in the first place beget strange doubts as to the general truth of what they are taught? and next a sense of injustice done them, in being made to learn that which Master So-and-so is excused from doing. This is supposing the ob jectors to be few in number. But has it never occurred to the projectors of this institution the probability of the ob jectors being a majority ? How then? lam not aware that the youthful mind is - ever over anxious in the pursuit of knowledge beyond what it is competent to acquire. Some parents " are unwilling to orerburthen their poor boy's brains ;" and " therefore, gentlemen, and heads of the in stitution, though I respect you all as members of the Esta blished Church, and ani glad you use nothing but the reli gious exercises of that church : I think it quite useless in you to persevere in teaching that at all, which the majority are not only indifferent to, but positively resist. Where are the words for a reply ? 'What the weapon of resistance ? Where the ground for a defence ? The mouths of all the professors of the Established Church have been shut up. The weapon has been wrested from their grasp. The ground of their defence has passed from under their feet. Concilia tion .has been admitted. A compromise has taken place. The vital principle has been sacrificed. Nor is the probability of a majority of objectors a mere groundless apprehension ; for I cannot do so great an injus tice to the understanding of a numerous meeting of the so- ciety, as to suppose that, after " grave and dispassionate con sideration," they should decide that one of the most impor tent lessons of the church was to be, in certain cases, dispen sed with, if they in their own consciences believed in th , necessity, truth, and everlasting importance of the lesson they rejected. If, on the other hand, they insist on the truth of the lesson, and yet in any case withhold the teaching in their own school, I again repeat they have, to use a mild phrase, allowed a crotchet to seat itself in their minds, which it behoves them instantly to displace by the sound exercise of their better judgment. But you inform me, sir, that the institution will be also " auxiliary to the Church of England." This is, indeed, a new view of the subject, and one on which I at once confess my "ignorance." Only an " auxiliary ?" Why, to answer the end we have in view, it must be identified with, and be the Church of England. So completely and entirely must they be merged in one, that a dissenter should be as little justified in requiring the smallest of her precepts to be given up on his account, as he should be in entering the church during the performance of divine service, and desiring the officiating minister to withhold, out of respect to his peculiar prejudice, the second lesson for the day. " Such men as the bishop of the diocese and the worthy rectors of Liver pool" have sanctioned this important step. "Et to Brute?" Then, in the most respectful language a deep and firm con viction can assume, I must tell that learned prelate, and those reverend divines, that they bade done that they have no right to do. In their hands has been placed, by the will of God and the laws of man, a trust the most sacred that can be hel3,—the guardianship of our religious liberty, ne cessarily involving a portion of our civil rights. The laws, doctrines, and principles for their guidance have been trans mitted to us by our Saviour Jesus Christ himself. They are to administer those laws, doctrines, and principles : but on no account, or for any " plausible pretence," are they em powered, on their own mere motion, to pervert, withhold, or alter. The society have no right to make the strange de mand, because the concession is far beyond the power of the clergy. The treasure is not theirs to barter. It is mine ;an inalienable inheritance for me and my posterity. With as much shbw of right could the bench of judges give up any portion of the trial by jury, as the bishops and clergy direct that the ritual lessons, or any part or parcel thereof, ' belonging to the established church should, in our schools, be under any circumstances dispensed with. And for what pur pose are we about to tamper with that which is most clear to us as christians and as freemen ? For the purpose of con verting our enemies into friends. Away with the delusion. The entire history of conciliation proves that it never :did anything but mischief. In matters of truth it is not possible there can be conciliation. Those dissenters who are inclined to enter the school, will not, and ought not, to do so, from the conciliation made, but from the overflowing conviction of the truth upon their minds. Concil: 0 - ion will not con vince, it will induce contempt. And those who are now inclined to meet us in the noble field of mental conflict, will the only hp aptitioil tolnuph nt It is not, fact that students are admitted as dissenters into t universities o Oxford and Cambridge. The test act is repealed, but in every other particular, the children of dissenters who go to the universities are educated in the strictest forms of the Church of England, and nothing is withheld on their account. How, by this course of reasoning do I bar the doors of the church against the return of dissenters to the sanctuary ? The reverse is the fact ; for, if a dissenter comes and receives our lessons, he enters into the sanctuary ; but if the lessons are withheld he cannot possibly become a churchman, but remains a dissenter still. Let no man entertain the notion that this compromise will be the only one that will be made. The principle once ad mitted, the main point of our opponents will be gained ; they will return each time with increased demands, and addi ticnal strength to insist on their concession, until at last, we shall have the melancholy satisfaction of knowing they can ask no more, because, we shall have nothing left for them to covet. I fervently pray that my humble voice of warning to my townsmen will not be raised in vain. Let not the people of Liverpool be the first to permit the smallest breach in that holy fortress, which they have always been the foremost to defend. It can benefit none; it must injure all. Pause, then, while there is ti me . A n d if the prospectuses have been issued, embodying this most mischievous principle, and money been received thereon ; let the projectors have the moral courage, instantly to return the money, and scatter the prospectuses to the four winds of heaven, simply assigning as their reason, what is indeed the fact, that the congrega tions of the Church of England will not permit the sacrifice of their catechism. On the ruins of the present disastrous scheme, an institution will rise, consistent, and unalloyed in all its integrity ; possessing the unshaken confidence of every member of the church, and exacting, at least, the respect of our opponents. The funds will not be wanting, for those who, under present circumstances, have been pre vailed on to contribute will, under the wiser system, willingly give more than double. To those faithful few, who have signed a protest, bearing conviction in every line, a boundless debt of g ratitude is due from us and from our children. Certainly God will comfort them in their own hearts, and let the consoling approval of their countrymen urge them on to renewed exertions, until they shall have the satisfaction of seeing the enemy effectu ally repulsed from whatever quarter he may make the attack, and-the banner of their church floating in proud triumph— the blessed guardian of our English liberties.—l am, sir, obediently, A FAT ER. LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—l write for the purpose of correcting an error into which you and some of your contemporaries appear to have fallen from misinformation. In an Editorial article of last Friday you say, in reference to a Correspondent—" Is he aware that dissenters are admitted into the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge," &c. Now, sir, in neither of our universities can dissenters graduate. At Cambridge it is true they can matriculate and reside without professing church membership, but before taking a degree, they are required to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles. In the mean time they are not excused attendance at chapel, &c. At Oxford no one can even matriculate without assenting to the Thirty nine Articles on oath, which course, with an additional security, must be repeated before a degree is conferred. So that dissenters are not admitted at Oxford as dissenters at all. Besides all this, Ido not know a more compendious method of getting " plucked," than a betrayal of ignorance of the Church Catechism ; and an answer to a theological question given in the precise terms of the Catechism, is well known to be particularly acceptable to the examiners. You may remember that the admission of dissenters to our universities, formed a prominent topic of debate in parlia ment, a year or two ago, when it received such a quietus as will serve for some time to come.—Yours, &c., OXONIENSIS. I believe that very few dissenters avail themselves of an university education, even at Cambridge ; at Oxford, nor.•e. INQUESTS. (Before Philip Finch Curry, Esq.) CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. On Saturday last, on view of the body of John Morley. Edward Murrow, a police officer, stated, that on the - fore noon of the 29th ult. the deceased walked past him, and ap peared to 'be almost starved with cold. He appeared to be an idiot. The witness went up to him, and spoke to him, and he made some sort of muttering in Irish, which was not intelligible. Seeing him in such a condition, witness took him to the general bridewell. He was so overcome with cold, that he was scarcely able to walk. An order was pro cured for him to be received into the Workhouse, and he was taken there in a coach. He was then in a state of stu pefaction, his pulse being scarcely perceptible. Every atten tion was paid to him, but he never rallied, and died on Wed nesday last. On a post mortem examination of the body, a patch of ecchymosis was found on the frontal bone, on turn ing back the scalp. On removing the skull cap, similar ap pearances were found underneath and near the same spot, and evident traces of concussion of the brain, from the ef fects of which, in the opinion of the surgeon, he no doubt died. These injuries could not be the effects of extreme cold, but of internal violence.—Verdict, " Died from con cussion of the brain." DEATH BY BURNING. On the same day an inquisition was held touching the death of Mary Rimmer, a girl of 17 years of age. On Fri day, the Ist of last month, the deceased was left by her mo ther in the cellar where they lived, in Bispham-street, when, being subject to fits, she fell upon the fire during an attack, and was much burnt from her hips downwards. Her screams brought some neighbours to her assistance, and every atten tion was afterwards paid to her at the Infirmary ; but she was so dreadfully burned that she died on Saturday morning. —Verdict, " Accidental death." DEATH FROM A BROKEN LIMB. Same.day an inquest was held on view of the body of Sa rah Langley, a female of 80 years of age. The deceased, who had become feeble, had fallen on the floor at her house, in Comus-street, and received a fracture of the left thigh bone. She was taken to the Infirmary, but died in conse quence of the injury she had received.—Verdict accordingly. A man in Bangor, U.S., has a telescope of such power that he can see . a wart on the nose o f th e man in the moon, and a hole in h i s trousers. LOCAL NEWS. DISCUSSION ON SOCIALISM AT HUDDERSFIELD. - It ap pears, from the Halifax Guardian Extraordinary, that Mr. Brindley, the powerful opponent of Owenism, has held, du ring the past week, a public discussion on that extraordinary compound of immorality, blasphemy, and atheism, misnamed " Socialism." The potent arguments of Mr. Brindley pro duced a powerful effect upon the audience, who agreed almost unanimously to the following resolutions :—" That Mr. Brindley has satisfactorily proved to this - meeting- that the fundamental principles of Socialism are unsound."—" That Mr. Brindley has made good the charge of immorality, blas phemy, and atheism, as previously preferred against the prin ciples and practices of Socialism. f '—" That Socialism having been shewn to be so absurd and wicked a system, it is the bounden duty of the people of Huddersfield to use all scrip tural means to root out from amongst them a system so de structive of the best interests of society for time and for eternity."—A vote of thanks to Mr. Brindley was then moved by William Brook, Esq., the magistrate, and seconded by Mr. Hollick, the Social advocate, and carried with acclama tion. ISLAND OF ACH ILL MISSION.—A very interesting public meeting was held last night, in the large school-room in Oakes -street, Daulby-street, in connection with St. Jude's Church, for the purpose of enabling the indefatigable head of the Island of Achill mission, the Rev. Edward Nangle, to make some statements to the inhabitants of Liverpool of the origin, the present state, and the future prospects of this important work. The spacious room was well filled by at tentive listeners. After a very appropriate introduction, the rev, gentleman detailed the circumstances of Popish degra dation and spiritual ignorance in which the inhabitants of the island were found in the year 1831, and the efforts made by a worthy minister of the Church of England to remove them. A grant of land was obtained on which a missionary settlement was erected, and, notwithstanding innumerable obstructions, even to violence, bloodshed, an loss of life, it had gone on in its good work with eminent success. The difficulties, however, might in some measure be inferred from the fact, that on the origination of the mission there was not a single Protestant upon the island. As to its pre sent state, he was happy to say that one of the churches at tached to the mission was attended every Sabbath by 150 persons, the other by 40, and that the desire of the people to hear and receive Protestant truth was rapidly spreading. But in opposition to it was arrayed the whole of the super stitions and the malice of the Church of Rome, most appal ling instances of which he recited. On this account, as well as on, account of the physical circumstances of the place, it was necessary for the Protestants of England to aid in sup porting the mission, in order to plant in one of the most sterile and desolate parts of the kingdom, aknowledge of the true means of Salvation.—The candid, yet striking statements of Mr. Nangle, as well as his incidental exhortations, made a deep impression npon the auditory ; and eventually the meeting separated with an increased conviction of the evil effects of the doctrines and system of Popery in the Sister Isle. THE ROYAL LANCASHIRE OBSERVATORY. —: We have great pleasure in stating that that long admitted desideratum, the establishment' of - an Observatory, in this county, may now be considered as certain, the subject having been taken up by a number of scientific gentlemen of Manchester, who have put forth an ably-written prospectus of the intended building, with a list of required instruments, on a scale com mensurate with the objects in view. Astronomy is justly considered to be one of the most sublime sciences to which the human mind can be directed, whether as developing the wonderful works of creation, and thereby illustrating the power and wisdom of the Creator, or, as furnishing the means of national intercourse over " the waste of waters," with re- mote regions of the earth, and carrying to less favoured lands than our own the blessings of religion, civilization, and com merce. In the Observatory, to be constructed on a suitable site on Kersal Moor, (Higher Broughton)—it is proposed to unite the kindred pursuits of astronomy and meteorology : magnetism Will also be an adjunct. It is stated that it was in Broughton that an obscure person named Crabtree, made the observations that enabled Newton to arrive at some of his most valuable discoveries. So much for the immediate locality of the intended site; but as the institution is for " Lancashire," and patronage solicited for it from every quarter of the county, we may remind our Liverpool friends, in urging its claim to their support, that Jeremiah Horrocks, of Toxteth Park, also an humble individual, ill supplied with books and instruments, was the first to discover the transit of Venus over the Sun's disc,—a discovery from which Newton derived some of the sublimest facts in his solar system. The amount required for the building and instruments is comparatively small, and the subscription, constituting a member, is comparatively moderate.—See Advt. CHESTER DIOCESAN TRAINING COLLEGE. — This College, we perceive, will be opened on, or as soon as possible after, the 13th of January, .1840. We are glad to learn that ar rangements for the accommodation of applicants for instruc tion are in a state of considerable forwardness. As the number of pupils admitted at the first examination will be more than can possibly be received in the temporary Institu tion at any one period hereafter, it is desirable that the opportunity should not be neglected by those whom the clergy may deem qualified in character and attainments to become candidates for admission. The general scheme of instruction in the Training School includes English Gram mar and Reading, Geography and History, Writing and Arithmetic, the Elements of Geometry and Algebra ; Book-keeping, the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Music, together with instruction in the Holy Scriptures, the Evidences of Christianity, the Church Catechism, the Daily and Occasional Services of the Liturgy, the Thirty nine Articles, in Church History, and the History of the Reformation. We understand that instruction may also be given, at the discretion of the Principal, with reference to the capacity of the pupil, and the situation for which he is de signed, in the Latin and Greek Languages, Natural Philo sophy, Trigonometry, Navigation, Linear Drawing, Mapping, and the French Language. For further particulars we must refer our readers to the prospectus of the Training School Committee. This College is destined to confer a lasting benefit upon this diocese. It has been long wanted, and will be generally appreciated. We cannot avoid expressing our cordial wishes for its prosperity,—See Advt. IMPUDENT ATTEMPT AT IMPOSITION.—A few nights ago a man, who had the appearance of being -an engineer, knocked at the door of the residence of the commander of a steam-packet, and stated that the gentleman had sent him for 16s. Bd., and that the vessel could not put to sea until he (the man) returned with the money t The gentleman's son, fraud was attempted, but the scoundrel made his escape be fore an officer could be procured. The packet-ship Oxford, Captain RL.thbone, which sailed from this port on the 21st of October, arrived off Neu York on the evening of the 12th November, thus making the pas sage in the short space of 22 days. CONCERT.—" At the request of many admirers of musical talent in Glasgow, Miss M'Farlane, on Fridry evening, gave a concert in the Trades'-hall, previous to her departure for London to prosecute her studies at the Royal Academy of Music. The first part of the excellent entertainment con sisted of a grand overture to " Zampa," and several grand waltzes by the beautiful hand of the Queen's Bays, led by Mr. TUCKWELL, recently from London, music-master of the 2d or Queen's Dragoon Guards ; glees by Messrs. Turnbull, Johnston, and D. M`Farlane; a cavatina and a Scotch ballad by Miss M'Farlane, in which she was greatly applauded; a Scotch song, by Mr. Turnbull ; a concerto on the clarionette by Mr. Tuckwell, and a fantasia on the trumpet by Mr. G. M'Farlane. The second part opened with a rand overture to " Semirami& ' " by the band of the Queen's Bays, which was played with great precision and effect. Mr. Tuckwell fully sustained the character for ability which he acquired from his performances at the Eglinton Tournament. Several songs and glees were sung by the other assistants, and upon the whole, the performances were such as to gratify the nu merous and highly-respectable audience assembled on the oc casion.',—[The able. leader of the Queen's Dragoon Gurrds is sustaining_ his reputation. As Mr. Tuckwell has " troops of friends" in the North of England and the colonies, the ap preciation implied in the above extract from the Glasgow Courier, will be gratifying to their kind recollection of an efficient musician and worthy man.] AN ATTORNEY CONVICTED OF FELONY.—At the Salford sessions on Thursday last, Charles Harwar, attorney, of Ashton, was tried on an indictment charging him with felo niously receiving goods, the property of Mrs. Ann Broad bent, of Ashton, knowing them to be stolen. The case arose out of an unlawful seizure of furniture. at Ashton, by two bailiffs, named Joseph Buckley and. John Holt, who were prosecuted at the New Bailey sessions in May last, and found guilty. It was then found that the seizure was made at the instance of the prisoner, Charles Harwar, and indictments having been preferred against him at a subsequent sessions, charging him first with inciting the bailiffs to the act, and secondly with receiving the goods, knowing them to have been feloniously stolen. The prisoner was . tried on the in nictment for receiving, and the jury found him guilty. The sentence of the court was, that he be committed to her Ma jesty's Castle of Lancaster, there to be kept to hard labour for three calendar months. HEBREW PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.—A numerous body of the subscribers of this institution met to celebrate their twenty-ninth anniversary, on Wednesday eveninglast, at the Angel Hotel, Dale-street. The chair was most ably filled by the president, Mr. Henry Hiams, supported by many of the oldest and staunchest members of the society. The several loyal and customary toasts having been drunk with due ho nours, the cause of "Jewish Emancipation" was advocated with great fervour and eloquence by the honorary secretary, Mr. D. W. Marks, and produced a strong and marked im pression. The speaker was loudly cheered during the whole of his powerful address, and resumed his seat amidst the en thusiastic plaudits of his co-religionists. The treasurer, Mr. John Daniel, made a highly flattering report of the state of the society's funds, and announced several liberal donations. The best possible feeling, called forth by the humane pur poses of the charity, characterised the whole of the pro ceedings of the evening. Prior to the chair being vacated, Mr. Towers, the spirited proprietor, received the well merited thanks of the company for the excellent dinner provided. THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.—We have been desired to state, for the information of those engaged in the wine and spirit trade, and innkeepers in general, that it has been a rule, for the last eighteen months, at the Customhouse here, to charge the duty on the increase in bulk upon all rums and brandies whilst in bond, making the allowance for loss in strength ; the loss in spirits being according to the length of tithe they may have been in bond, and being in a damp or dry cellar. Owing .to the vapour which constantly arises in a damp cellar, slid, penetrating through the wood, the damp increases the bulk and diminishes the strength, so much so that a puncheon of rnm has been known to lose as much as forty gallons, and increase eight gallons in bulk.—Chro nicle. LIFE INSURANCE.— Our attention has been directed to two new features of the CALEDONIAN LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, especially adapted to old corporation leaseholders and master mariners. Our surprise is, that we should be indebted to a Scotch office for a plan of security, meeting the conditions of such a vast portion of the inhabi tants of Liverpool. Our readers must be aware that the old corporation leases are held upon three lives ; this company effects insurance upon the three lives, payable at the death of the longest liver ; thus, by paying a small portion of the rent, the leaseholders secure their interest in value when their leases expire. This company insures the lives of ma riners, who are exposed to the vicissitudes of the sea, the tempest, and the influence of foreign climates ; so that cap tains of vessels and others, by paying a small portion of their income, will have a " shot in the locker" for their wives and families, when the tempest or other influence may have taken them from " whence no traveller returns." While we lay the above before the public, we are struck with another point which we recommend to the fair portion of our readers, because it shows those ladies whose property must be settled on them at their marriage, how their husbands may have the command of two-thirds of their fortune, whilst the original is secure : thus—Suppose a young gentleman, 33 years of age, be engaged to a lady whose fortune is £3OOO, and the whole be required to be settled on her at their marriage ; let £lOOO be vested in trustees, and with the annual interest in sure £2OOO on the life of the husband. The gentleman will thus obtain the command of £2OOO, and the original fortune of £3OOO will be secured to the lady. In short, this com pany seems, by their still modes of insurance, to meet the circumstances of every class of human society, from the man of fortune to the artisan., We recommend the plans of the company to the consideration of the prudent and care taking sons and daughters of men, especially to those who are living up to their means, having families depending on them. Parliament will assemble, for the despatch of business, on Tuesday, the 16th of January. Lieutenant Gray, who distinguishel himself in repressing the disturbances at Newport, •has been " promoted to a company unattached." CHINA. The following is a copy of a letter from Captain Elliott, the British Superintendent at Canton, relative to the Trade with China : Macao, I4th June, 1839. SIA M I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date. The meeting will permit me respectfully to remark, that I understand an embargo to be an act of the Government of a country prohibiting the departure of the ship and goods of another from its ports. Founding my replies to the first question proposed to me on that impression, it will be obvious that the several public notices issued by me, cannot place an embargo on British ships and goods. Their purposes and effects remain to be noticed. . _ . A crisis of a nature unparalleled in point of importance has recently supervened, in which I have found it my duty for the general safety of the public interests under my super intendence, to issue certain prohibitory injunctions to Her Majesty's subjects, and careful reflection upon the Act of Parliament—the order in council, and all previous analagous practice pending my intercourse with China, has carried me to the conclusion that I have not transcended my lawful powers in the notice in question. I am of opinion, therefore, that the ordering of Rritish ships and goods within the Bocca Tigris, under present cir cumstances, may and most probably will involve persons, upon whom such a responsibility can be fixed, in consequences of the most serious description. The stringency, however, of these notices—the construction of their language, and the liabilities of every kind to be in curred by the departure from their terms, must be left to the attentive considerations of parties (if such there be.) propos ing to postpone public authority and general considerations to their own views and particular interests. At all events, it is my duty again to warn all Her Majesty's subjects, in the most emphatic manner, that the entrance of British ships and goods within the Bocca Tigris, in the present state of affairs, appears to me. to be perilous in the highest degree. Beyond this consideration of danger, too, such a measure would be intensely humiliating and mischievous, because it practically establishes the principle that British subjects entertain a con fidence in the justice and moderation of this government, notwithstanding all that has passed—consenting for them selves and their countrymen to trial and condemnation by Chinese officers, and forms of Chinese judicature, for capital, and in future, all lesser offences. trust I shall never be placed in the painful situation of addressing a special injunc tion to any of Her Majesty's subjects requiring them to de sist from a cruise so unworthy of their country, and so dan gerous to innocent men, whose lives may fall a sacrifice to their reckless cupidity, before the certain and powerful inter vention of the Queen can reach these shores, and disabuse the Chinese government of the imagination that such a state of things will ever be tolerated. I am conveying the plain sense of the instructions under the sign -manual, and I declare that it is impossible of ad mission, at least, till our relations with this empire are ex tensively modified. After this exposition, it is to be concluded, that we shall hear no more of the entrance of British ships within the Bocca Tigris under actual circumstances. In reply to the second question submitted to me, I beg to say, that I see no present reason to believe that Her Ma jesty's subjects may expect such an arrangement of existing circumstances, as to admit of British ships and goods being sent within the Bocca Tigris under the sanction of my au thority, before the pleasure of Her British Majesty's Govern ment be made known. I have the honour to be, &c. &e. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOTT. To Braine, Esq. PROSPECTS OF CANADA. (From the Morning Herald.) From the prospects of our loyal fellow-subjects in Canada appear to be as dreary as ever. The presence of Mr. Thomson, as Governor, is, of course, in- itself a stimulent to the machinations of the traitors who infest these noble provinces—for Mr. Thomson is notoriously linked up with that party in this country which is directly chargeable with the guilt of the recent Canadian tebellions. Mr. Tomson's politics are scarcely distinguishable from those of Mr. Joseph Hume—the friend of Mackenzie—and in those questions of political economy which most ►directly affect the well-being of the royal Canadians, Mr. Thomson's opinions are absblutely identical with those of Kilkenny Joseph. The present Governor-General of Canada is, therefore, from the very nature of all his political opinions, an instrument for the furtherance of the interests of the democratic party in the United States ; while his favourite theory on the subject of the timber trade marks him out as l'tr natural enemy of the loyal British party in our No the American dominions. What a successor for Sir John Colborne ! The" sympathisers" of the United States would appear to appreciate fully the character of the whig representative of the Queen of England. They are likely, if not checked by men very different from Mr. Thomson, to realize that ingenious gentleman's views, and " open the timber trade," effectually, by taking that trade, and the Canadas along with it, in their own hands. The following announcement is, at all events, suspicious : " The United States author►ties are taking measures, in concert with Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington, for immediately suppressing any fresh outbreak that may possibly take place on the Canadian frontier, of which there would. appear to be again some apprehensions as the winter advances. Gen. Scott has received orders to proceed Im mediately to the Canadian frontier, and to examine the whole line. The troops which were to have marched to Florida have been ordered to change their route to the Canadian lines. This course has been adopted from in formation received, both by our government and by Mr. Fox, the British minister." These demonstrations on the the Yankee " sympathisers" prove that these benevolent gentlemen fully understand the difference between Mr. Thomson and Sir John Colborne THE CURRENCY. (From the Midland Counties' Herald. Mr. T. Joplin, who is well known to the commercial world as the author of a number of works on banking and on the currency quetion, has opportunely isved another essay—(published ny hidgway, Loudon)—in wnien he ex plains his views of the causes by which the pressures in the money market are produced, and proposes a plan for their removal. Mr. Joplin's argumen's are intended to show that the great fluctuations in the price of corn which we have at different times experienced have been chiefly pro duced by monetary causes, arising out of the defective state of our currency ; that banks ought never to have been per mitted to issue notes at pleasure, and that if our currency had been metallic, or constructed on the principles of a metallic currency, these fluctuations never would have oc curred. The last remark, he contends, may be equally applied to the pressures in the money market : the foreign exchanges and the money market have no natural connection with each other, and that with a metallic currency, or a paper currency constructed on the principles of a metallic currency, these pressures would never occur. Hamhurgh is to the north of Europe what London is to the United Kingdom, and yet the importation and exportation of the precious metals into and out of that city produce no em barrassing effect upon the value of capital or the operations of its trade • the same with Amsterdam—Holland possess ing a metallic currency ; • and that it is only in countries possessing paper currency similar to ours that these pressures are ever produced. To remedy these evils, Mr. Joplin offers the following suggestions : " I.—That the joint-stock banks should he established throughout the kingdom, which, in conjunction with the Bank of England, should be the agents in issuing the currency. " 2.—That the circulation should be lent to the Bank of England and the other banks throughout the country in given *portions, at a fixed rate of interest. " 3.—That a board of commissioners should be established in London. " 4.—That when the bullion came into the country, the commissioners should take it at the Mint price, and give a receipt for it, which might be called, for the sake of dis tinction, a bullion receipt ; and which receipt should be an order upon the Bank of England, or any other bank in the United Kingdom, to which it might be presented for pay ment, to be paid by a fresh creation of Dotes. " s.—That any person wanting to send money out of the counelty, might obtain a bill on the commissioners, from the bank where he resided ; the bank cancelling and withdraw ing the notes from the circulation, with which the bill was purchased ; such bill, for the sake of distinction, to be called a bullion bill. " 6.—That a bullion bill should not only be an order up on the commissioners for bullion, but upon any other hank in any other part of the kingdom for payment, by a fresh issue of notes ; and that a certain per tentage should be charged for such bullion bill. " 7.—That the commissioners should possess powers re quisite for carrying the measure into effect, but that they should have no power either to increase or diminish the cir culation on any other principles." "This plan, it is obvious, would work precisely the same a s _ _ . , if the currency were metallic. A party, with a metallic currency, having a hundred pounds in his pocket, might travel to any part of the kingdom, and add it to the circula tion there by spending it The possessor of a bullion bill, which is not only an order for bullion, but for notes, in any part of the kingdom, would be in the same situation. And the possessor of a bullion receipt would also be in the same situation as a man who got his specie or foreign coin coined into English money at the Mint, which he might add to the circulation wherever he wished to spend it." Miss.Romer, Mr. Templeton, Mr. Horncastle, and Mr. Balfe, are re-engaged at the Dublin Theatre. The English opera is said to be better got up in that city than in any place out of London. Artaxerxes was some time ago produced there in fine style. The manager has consequently crowded and fashionable houses every night. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL AND MAN CHESTER RAILWAY.—On Friday morning an unfortunate accident occurred on this line, at the Ordsal-lane gate, within 200 yards of the Manchester station. About twenty-five minutes before seven o'clock, a luggage-train arrived from Liverpool, on the north line of rails ; and Joseph Shepherd, the policeman on duty at Ordsal-lane gate, crossed from that line of rails to the south line to keep out of the way of the train. He stayed on the south line of rails ; his duty being to prevent any persons incautiously coming upon the line at that point, Ordsal-lane crossing the railway on the level. The morning was very dark and foggy, and the luggage train, as usual, gave notice of its approach by the steam whistle. It is supposed that these circumstances, and the noise of the train, prevented Shepherd from hearing the approach of an unattached engine along the rails upon which he stood. The engine Scorpion, belonging to the Grand, Junction Company, had shortly before come from the engine shed to the water-tank to take in water, preparatory to pro ceeding with the train hence to Birmingham, which leaves Manchester at a quarter past eight o'clock. Having taken in water, this engine was returning to the shed, and the darkness and fog prevented the engineer from seeing any obstacle on the line. Thus the unfortunate man was struck down, and falling with his left leg across one of the rails, the wheels of the engine passed over it, completely severed the limb, a little above the ancle. The poor man was instantly conveyed to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and it was found that the injury was of such a nature that amputation was necessary. This was accordingly performed, below the knee, about eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, and on inquiry at the infirmary last night, we learned that the poor man was doing quite as well as could be expected under the circumstances. He had also received a severe contusion on the head, and his right leg was bruised, but, we believe, not very seriously injured. Shepherd was formerly in the army, and is now a pensioner, having fought at Water loo. He is a tall man, .46 years of age, and well known to those frequenting the line, from his having been police man at the Ordsal-lane gate ever since the opening of the railway. He is a steady, careful man, and is married, but without cliii*lcn. Would it not be desirable that every en gine should be provided with a bell, the constant ringing of which in foggy weather, might intimate its approach, when it could not be seen ? The steam-whistle has a more loud and shrill sound, but it depends upon the will of the en gineer, whether it is used or not. The bell might be made so as to be rung constantly in foggy weather, by the mere motion of the engine. Manchester Guardian. 0.--......, 0 o'N '' • .1. tvr 2 (_,... 0 4, - , !•-.- 1 4, 4 §?:.. . • fel 0. 1 . - . i • 4 VFr::: .. -, ~111' —FP- oh 7 . i 1 ." 0".• ' ier:7; ' ...... • • f . •I • f , i.;',' a Mr POLICE INTELLIGENCE.:.-yz MO 4. - IN . .,tsk -', THEFT FROM A SHOP. A married woman, named Ann Doran, was charged with stealing some silk handkerchiefs from a hop. Mr. Edward Cooper, silk mercer and draper, Whitechapel, stated that on Saturday last, about four o'clock in the evening, the prisoner, in company with a man, not in custody, came into his shop, and asked to be shown some expensive silk handkerchiefs, which were shown to them by his son. Witness having some suspicion of his customers, took it upon himself to serve them. While doing so, he had a strong suspicion that the prisoner had taken something from the counter, and con cealed it under her shawl. Not, however, being certain of the fact, he followed the prisoner and her companion into the street, and finally seeing her endeavouring to cover some thing under her shawl, he stopped her. A police officer came up at the time, and witness then E %IV a handkerchief piece drop from her, which was picked up. It consisted of four silk handkerchiefs, which, on being produced, he iden tified as his property. The prisoner was defended, but nothing was elicited to shake the case against her. Mr. Cooper's son (the case being put off in order txt he might appear as a witness) stated that he had not sold any thing to the prisoner or her companion. The prisoner strongly implored the mercy of the court ; but having been before three times tried and convicted. she was committed to take her trial at the sessions. Before be ing taken down, she said that one of her children, out of three, then in Bridewell, was on the point of death, and re quested that she might be allowed to take it with her to the Borough Gaol. The fact of the child's illness being ascertained, Mr. Rush ton immediately complied, staling that it should be attend ed to. AN UNRULY SON. A young man, named Kennedy, was charged by his Own mother, a respectable woman, with violently assaulting her in the dead of the night, throwing stones at and breaking the windows, threatening to take her life, and behaving other wise in a most disgraceful manner, so that his parents were in constant terror of their lives. _ Ihe complainant said that she had provided her son with clothes and everything comfortable, but that he had been in the habit of pawning and making away with them. Mr. Parkinson, keeper of the general bridewell, said that the prisoner was a most outrageous character, and had often been brought into court for striking his father and mother. On the last occasion he was held to heavy bail, which his father, hoping for his amendment, bad himself procured. Mr. Rushton said that the conduct of the prisoner was so shameful, that he should take care it should not be repeated, at least for some time to come ; and if he again ap,eared in that court, he should be dealt with with the utmost severity. He then required that the prisoner should pay a,fine of or, in default, be imprisoned two months ; and, further, that he should find bail to keep the peacc—himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each. The prisoner was then put down. A HUMANE MASTER. A good:looking young woman, named Ann Warrington, was placed at the bar under the following circumstances. Mr. Elsby, of No. 6, Hunter-street, stated that the prisoner had been in his service for about five or six weeks, and so far as he or his wife were aware, had conducted herself with great propriety, up to the period of her leaving them. Yes. terday (Sunday) morning, she left the house about an hour and a half before the family rose, taking with her (as she afterwards admitted to the police officer) a small quantity of sugar. She went to a cellar in Marble-street, where she was found in the company of abandoned characters ; and all he could learn in' explanation of her conduct, was that she had been induced to leave her place by the seductive representa tions of a female, an inmate of the cellar, who had persuaded her that she might be very comfortable without working. Mr. Elsby added that his object in bringing her there was that her father might be made aware of what had taken place, and that she might be redeemed, if possible, from ruin. Mr. Rushton signified his commendation of Mr. Elsby's object, and she was remanded until her father could be produced. • The Earl of Ealcarras and Lord Lindsay, since their re turn from Scotland, have been passing the autumn at Haigh Hall, near Wigan, where they intend to remain during the whole of the Winter. Mr. Colles, as will be perceived, has acceded to the wishes expressed by many of his visitors, that he would remain in. Liverpool another week. The numbers who have been dis appointed of obtaining admittance, during the past few days, will thus have another opportunity of witnessing what Mr. Colles truly calls his " Magical Novelties."—Albion. CAPTAIN STACK, OF THE4STH REGIMENT.—This gallant officer, who, with a few more of his regiment, so bravely re pulsed and defeated a multitude of chartist rebels in their late attack on the civil authorities and military at Newport, North Wales, is a Tralec man, the son of Mr. Edward Stack, for many years a very respectable inhabitant of this town, who, having a very large family of sons and daughters—one of his younger sons, Richard, (the subject of this article,) went out a volunteer to join the British army on the continent in the year 1808, 31 years ago, and has ever since beep en gaged in the active service of his king and country. In the first action in which he was engaged on the continent, Ri chard had the good fortune to save the life of his command ing officer, at the imminent risk of his own, and Lor his gal lant and exemplary conduct on that occasion was immediately appointed to an ensigncy in the 14th Regiment, with which corps he went out to India, where he has since served with distinguished merit in all the arduous campaigns of that tor rid climate, until, by length of faithful service, he won his present rank in the army. We are not aware of the exact time at which he exchanged into the 45th, but with that regi ment he returned to England. The families of Stack were, centuries ago, possessed of large property in Kerry, honour able mention being made of one of them (Maurice Stack) as a brave soldier in Sir George Carew's history of the Irish wars, commencing so early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth. A respectable portion of the property (Ballycunry) still re mains with the elder branch of the family of Kerry, who are now connected with the noble family of Massey, Lord Cla rina, &c.—Limerick Standard. CURIOUS Biun.—A curious and very interesting bird was shot by Lord llowick,. in Chevington Wood, a large cover, belonging to Earl Grey, a few miles to the east of Felton, on Monday last. It is a mule, or cross between the black-cock and pheasant, and partakes in nearly an equal degree of the characters of both. The bill, in size and shape. is .1.,.t ••,•.; feathered full half way down in front. The tail is conside rably rounded, and about eight inches in length. It pos sesses the fine superciliary scarlet comb of the black-cock, and the region of the eyes is surrounded with a red papillose skin, but not to the same extent as in the cock pheasant. The head and neck are of a rich purplish black, with a me taltic lustre ;:the breast and under.p3rts arc black, some of the feathers exhibiting the full characteristic of the pheasant. The wing coverts are marked like those of the pheasant, but of a duller colour ; the lower back is of a rich purplish black. Crosses of this kind are rarely met with in the wild or natu ral state, and what renders the present more remarkable is, that the intercourse has not been between birds belonging to the tame genus, or species closely related to each other, but between individuals belonging to groups more widely separa ted, and whose affinity is consequently more distant, than it is between species belonging to the same, or some closely allied genus, as in the case of the pheasant and domestic fowl. An old black-cock, it may be remembered, has haunted the wood for two or three seasons past, but no females have been sewn for some years. This curious mule (which proved a male), measured in length two feet one inch and a halt', and in extent of wing two feet six inches and a half. It is now placed in the collection of Mr. Selby, at Twizell House. — Newcastle Journal. TUE ANTI-CORN-LAW DOCTORS.—WC have just now good deal of manufacturing distress ; yet we are, we believe, quite secure in saying that the manufactured goods exported during the last two years have exceeded the exports of any former period of the same duration. Why ? The anti-corn law doctors will say, because you have been compelled by deficient harvests to import foreign corn, and thus create new markets for goods. No, good economists ! If this alone were the cause of the increase of exports, there would be no manufacturing distress. The home market must have de clined in a greater degree than the foreign market could by possibility have increased, or there would be no distress. The truth is, that the home market has declined by reason of deficient harvests, and as the home market is about ten to one of the foreign, any increase in the latter affords no sen sible relief to the manufacturer. The abundance of British gold on the foreign exchanges has lately been a subject of ob servation, and, strange as it may seem, a subject of complaint —but of complaint it would not long be a subject. Our neighbours on the Continent have learned to sink canals and to construct railways : they can bring to the sea, and, what is more to their purpose, all through the land the product of their work-shops, and the coal and other materials necessary to set these work-shops in motion, and with the water power which their local circumstances afford, they can set the work shops in motion at one-fifth of the cost of our manufactories. All that they want is the gold now said to be lumbering their exchanges. A repeal of the corn law would giye them this gold in a full and constant stream. These are truths which no man gifted with even the lowest degree of common sense can conceal from himself. Nevertheless, we find all the mi nisterial journals, without any exception clamouring for a repeal of the corn law. The clamour has failed, and will fail ; even the misguided chartists have been able to see through the fraud that would point their vengeance at the agricultural body. But though- their writing is unsuccessful, the ministerial writers' purpose is not on that account the less manifest. They wish to raise a rebellion against the laws by which the agricultural body are protected, and in the success of that rebellion to extinguish the aristocracy, with this additional prospect of gain, that the ministers may, in the confusion, escape the just punishment of their et Standard. A TURE KEY TO ImposTertg.—Last week, a fellow tum bled down to all appearance in a fit, about the middle of As sembly-street, not very far from the door of a gentleman who has a hand in the distribution of our Kirk Session funds. No doubt the fellow thought the Elder's bowels of compassion " s q ueezable ;" and having, like a worthy dramatist , observed all the " unities of time and place" he executed his faint there and then. Plenty of good Samaritans were about him in a moment, holding up his head, and doing all the other offices of simple kindness to an afflicted brother.. It happened that a medical gentleman at present residing in Duinfries, ob served from a window what was going on, and sallied forth to render assistance. His well-practised and skilful eye saw iu a moment what was the matter with our poor patient, and he said he would soon cure him. Forthwith he brought front his room a tooth key, and pushing the pitying people aside, he laid hold of the patient's head, saying the only way to cure him was to draw a tooth. Taking thefellow's head below Ilia arm, he had the key in his jaw in the twinkling of a bed-post. Behold a miracle The patient opened his eyes like an ogre —seized the operator's hand with the most determined celf denial not to be cured—tore the key out of his mouth—sprung to his feet—and was off like a hatter, before the compassion , ate Elder got notice of his distress and helped him from the bag. Our medical friend; with a smile which seemed to say, " Knowledge is power," left the people in amazement at hie wonder-working skill, and walked in to breakfast. A man who has lived as long as he in Lothian-street, Edinburgh, is up to that sort of trap.—Dumfries Courier. DESTRUCTION OF A TURNPIKE ROAD.—The excessive rains by which this and the neighbouring counties have been inundated for many weeks past are at length effecting the calamitous results anticipated. The new line of read lead ing from Church Stretton to Bishop's Castle was formed at vast expense by the late Earl of Powis and the neighbouring landowners, and, in that portion between the Marsh Brook . and Horderley, is carried, for many hundred yards, along tha face of a steep rocky eminence called the Broken t..'tones. For some days previous to Saturday last stones and earth were perceived to trickle from the sides of the rock, which considerably interrupted the passage, but no danger was ap prehended. Even so late as ten o'clock on Saturday night a team, with the help of a lantern, passel along the road, providentially without injury. On the appearance of day light, however, an awful scene presented itself : the gpaund above, for about 901) feet, had slipped and taken with it, into a valley, the road for the space of 336 feet, by which it hail stopped the channel of a small brook, and covered the land of an adjoining tenement, converting the meadows into a large piece of water, and threatening with destruction the habitation. A number of persons, however, soon assembled, and by their united efforts removed part of the hay, and cut a trench to take off some of the water ; but all idea of re placing the road in its former position is already abandoned. From every appearancelhere will be more avalanches; and if the large body of wa t er co ll ecte d s h ou ld no t, through any chasm, discharge it se lf, there are very 'serious fears enter tained for the safety of several houses Idtuated on, the mar gin of' the stream. The neighbourhood is in great conster nation, and numerous visitors are attracted by curiosity's the spot.—Shrewstnery cAeoniele.