The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-28 00:00:00

IJ boat ;13e b ed ._ she re been The ;acie d i Ler bee' I ..he AB ter tchecer to a t woo be es i s s T y e to ill • °De ,• tiff ' t heir ;31 , _`: e d ar' ctrab r Ntte r 44 8 q has been ed successor to the la r te_ ' as Chairman of the elec t Liverpool Agricultual 41 4 ,,,, t\ Nye " THE WEST' DERFIY UNION.—The Rev. aard• ~ %as on Tuesday last - appointed by . the l os g c ,, , , r'la r , lr s A to the chaplaincy of West Derby Union. %till t4e,xAanExs,The first of the galas for the t heilk eli Pisee on Monday next. The fireworks as p e w, an ia d t ,' w ill, we understand, be on a most N erstand ol a magnificent description. at .!stand that tbe Rev. F. Ould intends to preach a 4,Bte-.oat Hospitalull ch n Sunday morning next, in behalf of 111 4 6,-: We trust for the sake of this Ile a - --- “tY, that a liberal collection will be the PPeal. L THEATRE •C ttx -E ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. List•t i pT of Illr. 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LAD Es (1, I - °P LIVERPOOL AND ITS A , VICINITY. k$ r ,II, c , 4 EIN C E HOUSE, I,ol74„rence-street, Rodney -street. If.Nnj th at 4 has the honour to inform the Ladies of 1 & 41 0 - L i Z She is appointed to the AGENCY A ot ra ticol i i _PEARY'S celebrated ANATOMIC L Ik?get N t se .o by her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Ila :4iJeSty the Dowager Queen Adelaide, and onl y 1,6 4igi ;711,1d begs leave to lay before . the Public "qtly4l3, iestitnonials of the superiority ofMrs. i,. te nted St ays va lith , TESTIMONIALS. invented ' ) eary ,i4leasure in stating that the stays i / ekpinul obviate all the' inconveniences of those 1% • , 4 •Yed. "•--C. J. B. Aldis, M.D., Old Bur- Lek , ta to4tell 6th, 1837 It() th o , Yoe that 11 Irs..Gearv's Stays are infinitely liet,7.,,ia ordinary use."-13. C. Brodie. ,b(e7l,,!ied the Stays invented by Mrs. Geary, and v,h,,,tth",911' adapted to give salutary support to the it ~,tr '..lnin,.• • ders ordinary ely -710;us pressure which ren i 4 ,11 1,, the ~PreJudicial."—J. T. Conquest, M.D.MD 'Pk akl fuiraPlete Corset that the genius of Mrs. rt th e hill swil w Th p blem to be solved was ` ' t x tl4 t oco - h gli re, ' Yet no e t s t r o o diminish freedom of I c i htratur7Ceale_ f the abdomen when too i; gevie; ' t om , Dr. Ja o mes Johnson's " Medico tk)ll:4Nrei,," '. for January, 1837. p b ,ltAti,,l , Mrs. Geary's improved Stays, and I 'tap'Po ,; 11 s qing, I think them infinitely superior . C e nte4 - I , Bll PPort to any in use. I consider the ' ' t i '1 1 : 4 11 a '1 the same ldv for pregnant females, 143`11... 144.Dexee,..edingly goo a d'Princle."—Francis H. ki Gen D'' ti.lew Broad -street,. March .te 2, 1837. itl ig e , e eile:,.`-: orst for grown girls, the pressure on V t tliet.?` I . light, and by exerting . no pressure V) di,„„'!'l? it does not (by forcing those , edges to ii .at4rd ruisb, during youth, the cavity of the _ 1;0,1 1 , 1 r e ,„.11(e suffering which must attend that ma! s 4tN Met -4.lers„,, --Extracted from Mr. Coulson 's of the Chest and Spine," 2nd Edition. q . i ' r le t _li ti leh: t T,ta_ 3 e 's, of all kinds, present i a m ne o w rta a n n t d por: ~.):_o :rhuee,:nstruction of the mos " annelii rtuation of the bosom,. and p of all parts ti, ', ll eaut (''' 'a a matter of great ingenuity, and of /ar y talker, --Extracted from " Female Beauty," t d - by kd e i . 4b " The Exercise Corset, invented of e the tN trt: t'ec tall B3l •" e lY nesessary in all exercises hthey 1k,41,0N) in the Indian Exercises v,ln k, aike:"-Extracted from " for L c adies," N e , r, 2d Edition. ° , l l ;Pr e the superiority of Mrs. Geary's . Stays . t,l t i ,,ilg th ""t Ladies and - I shall make a 1 3 91nt,, of f1,V4),..)1.1)e.4157...heneve'r I have .. an opportunity. 7. - c)4l4'llreatet i ( ) ) 7.g r ß s ro i k-d. e tr a e r e y t ; March, 22, 183, . from the ingenu - (44.th,t"eY are c onstructed, are eminently adapted o .0114 heal e and freedom of motion so essential ; ; 1 14 to th e ', They appear, therefore, likely to h provetto '• DI ut , a o f „:_Lys in common use, which contribute to , trqivar,s, `,l,,c.h.deformity and manyliseerrioeuys kl sq l u e are. Isgto:),/e'cilealli Geln,fiHemille-ostarereet of ()Pinion, that Mr t s s . k:lt,l•Nht consequence of the great improveymareienty kl!it e lr re caPability of adaptation to ever) .0 (11• N III 'val of all unequal pressure by the ire- gussets—and the proper employment of I k 44 , are deserving of the strongest recommen lt t, A nders° . ChN:t 4 M.D!Sir James Eyre, M.D. V,iith e b liti ttor , .ba r t . iDr. G. F. D. Evans P, t , t iDr. Ferguson r; N Dr. Holland , i 3 O ~ ,Dr. James Johnson ittl' %bi ll R. Keate, Esq. ilg tit : t 'Y (; - roll Dr. Litchfield kilti le r ' , le Dr. Locock ittoakelark, 13t. Dr. - Merriman t 1 C I. .‘'tt ° °P r Dr. Paris ~,,, , tart. Dr. Wilson Philip Dr. i P. H. Ramsbotham (Itl Y l tt i llt tl' 141 . 'f !N ti IDr. Hamilton Roc .if IDr. Si gmon d .h_t:;to bav•iljer Sir M a th ew J. Tierney, Bt. Donald W a lk er , E sq . ktNa k D i e" G. Pe arson , E sq . Vh klies T. J. P e tti grew , E sq . I*\NVr,-4 Cgivin, High-street, Guernsey ; Mrs t . .441..: -street Liverpool ; Miss Eglon, High-stree , 5 4.1 CORRE SPONDENTS. i tnSq7, er }arms." f last Tuesday, for i t _ terpool Aliinba .lo 4v. MORN ae i 4 ING, JUNE 28 3 1339. * sh rt , i 4l °re " di sagreeable ani ma l i n ex i s t ence 4111,i4i u nderli ng who, by some accident, has '„, r44 tit I, °ll i nto good society; and there is no whi, h ay • he may be known, than the „k 111 whi rth xei t ee of . he speaks of men who, by the Nit, intellect, have raised themselves to an WhilSt th ose who are by birth and O w e tre gen tle gladly welc ome " Nature's noble • ti 41 ' receive them with the honour kt-'' I t o v. tieir : rl or genius, t h e creeping parasite calls ta4,, gin' and, by mean inuendo and 1A.11 4 4 thi ef ee l's to disparage their reception. e kh characteristic of the silver-fork and bki tt 'e a ro nol of , b eorri th lets. In them we find affected I ,t 4 ttj el e an,, e rown upon the real ornaments of ,„, slang are ignorant of the conventional of 0 4 , 11 g of fashionable life. It is Mr. Of th e gdu Place, the hanger-on of the :41 . 4 b e it Krest, w h o is so morbidly anxious that tit . t iat h it ge Be a rl r ° :;n h that his wife is acquainted with a th. In harr 1 e naen w h o worship a coronet, and °r at th e t h ought of contact with , ta m O n the are the most contemptible beings &.4,f2tilloil.R'roorns..llrfiace of Life. B ut i t i s not on l y t, Irian ("Kt a t dinner -t a bl es t h at t h ey are to hht t , Possesses P k! , et .at You r e more of this degraded OR i ll la nuine Radical. At heart he is an th e fare worst sense of the term. Like Mr. °% e et '' he ' 1;,, On i s . on . deli._ts in having a kick at any IS lower than his own. With Equa tht his 1 1 , P% h e i 8 , tl lt t ap tti ' th e 0,, toe slave of rank and title when h! f kt e , l ll4 ls I ;` ) rtlinity of meeting them. Hence Ste tt of alight with which the Democrats hail °ltl e a Wea k 1 0 dr edul at; r ing to their ranks. Hence vre r 4)11 they heap I th ve t , t , • Wh o _ upon the shrine of a '40 14 ae hiss affecting to despise and vilify ahe~iheideht of high birth, as though in he leatible with mental and moral I t t 'Yer ; eY fa w „ . p t 4t , 11 1: 1 0n and toady and flatter it 'hi gl eir " se ssor agar Incense lOWers himself so far as to arid 1 . v1 • It the favourite distich of 1 1 T he r th at r ank is b It e , but the guinea's stamp 9.4111 y s th e , gowd for a' that t ° PP° (1() th • it IL fo 'lent betheir conduct belie their motto. Ai the ree of co mes illustrious not by courtesy, 11 1)11e "Mniand. ot ti t of r . nig abilities,—if he soars t /1 4 Pir' -gi°ll s borne aloft upon the strong t th genuisand 1 ,, t , Of at i n , demonstrates the truth 11 1 4 ‘lil lo pe 1111 bilit y, this C ountry mind offers the best 1 )y 41.t'b'l fo rth ' and the en the sluices of detraction are I tt lt 11 13 oh v _ 111 slime of their low abuse is NI) th the men Whose origin is forgotten 'vkh e 'eci Rple ce rri onl y t itiour of their achievements, or nr ,„,"° enh, ill - gee the respect felt for thei r 11 Peri es e ere exe ttires, stung by envy at the • enerl ee, fall back upon the dung hill, and would rejoice to see in such a case mediocrity of birth made a matter of reproach. They literally-feel what the witty Moore has ironically expressed, and would rejoice to hear the aristocracy saying— " Low fellow, you've surely forgotten The distance between you and me ! " To expect that we peers of high birth Should waste our illustrious acres, For no other purpose on earth Than to fatten curst calico-makers ! " That Bishops to bobbins should bend, Should stoop from their bench's sublimity, Great dealers in lawn, to befriend Your contemptible dealers in dimity !" We have been led into the foregoing remarks by reading, in last Sunday's Examiner, the coarse and low-minded attack upon Sir Robert Peel, which, at the risk of altogether disgusting our readers, we sub join. The pages of that paper are exactly the place where we should have expected to find such an article. Systematic abuse of the Church—elaborate detraction from the merits of illustrious men—wilful misrepre sentation of motives—and frothy and false sympathy for the lower classes, are admirably in keeping with the meanness which reviles England's greatest living Statesman for being the Son of a Cotton-Spinner. The wit of the paragraph is as poor as the motive of the writer is base. It is headed " SLY HIT AT SIR ROBERT." . In the Times of Thursday appeared a paragraph headed " The Man who never had a Grandfather," which pre pared us, of course, for the slap at Sir Robert Peel which will be found conveyed in the following para graph : Vide Examiner, Sunday, June 23. " THE MAN WHO NEVER HAD A GRANDFATHER. - It was a common saying with a friend of mine, an octogenarian divine, one of the most highly polished, and consequently one of the most agreeable, gentlemen to be met with in the hunting field [observe that the gentleman was a divine !] or elsewhere, whenever he had occasion to animadvert upon misconduct in any one holding the rank and station of a gentleman,—" Rely upon it that man never had a grand father." There is a fund of truth and meaning in these few words ; for although it has but too frequently happened that some scions of the aristocracy have proved degenerate (as if determined to maintain the existence of black sheep in every flock), it will be found in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred where the harmony of any society is disturbed by an indivi dual, that he is a cocktail—a low, underbred fellow —one, in short, who never could have had a grandfather.— The Noble Science, by Delme Radcliffe—an amusing book, exhibiting a somewhat whimsical enthusiasm for fox-hunting. Squire Western, if he could have read, would have been delighted with it.' " The disturbance of the harmony of a society is ob viously an allusion to Sir Robert Peel's stipulation for the breaking-up of the Queen's Household ; and it is in this way that the Tories always take vengeance on their chief for his miscarriages. As we have before remarked, Sir Robert Peel's descent is looked upon by the aristocrats as a kind of grammatical solecism, hav ing had in his father a relative without an antecedent. But how equitably things are distributed! Sir Robert has wanted a line of ancestors ; but, to make up for that line, what a line of cotton has been drawn out in his family ! Quid stemmata faciunt indeed ? Sir Ro bert Peel hangs to a line of cotton, whose value is to be measured in a million sterling ;—rolled up in a ball, it would make a new world. On his maternal side he numbers ten thousand spinning jennies, and forests of cotton have fed them in their breeding. Why then gird so incessantly at his deficiency in the article of a Grandfather, and attribute all his failings to the want of it ? Men cannot have everything ; and the for tune which Sir Robert Peel has in lieu of so unservice able an article as a Grandfather, makes a noble pedestal of consequence for mediocrity speciously varnished." Such is the ribaldry of the liberal Examiner. Can lick-spittle vulgarity go beyond this ? " Small by degrees, and beautifully less." Such is the epitaph and history of Ministerial majorities, while the country continues to be disgraced by Whig-Radi cal Government. Lord John Russell has carried his motion for a grant of £30,000, to be applied to his mongrel and infidel scheme of education, by a majority of TWO. Would that we could select the TWO who gave him this measuring -cast, and hold them up as they deserve to the contempt and indignation of the people of England ! Two Papists have been able thus far to give success to the most audacious attempt which has yet been made for subverting the faith of the Protestant youth of Britain. But the attempt will not—cannot be ultimately successful. Will Ministers, in the face of a frowning nation—an unparalleled mi nority in Parliament—petitions which have already crowded the table of the House of Commons in the proportion of 30 to 1 as compared with those in favour of the scheme—a hostile House of Lords,—dare to force down the throats of their fellow-countrymen this wretched plan of a Treasury Committee ? We think not. They may say with the conqueror of old, " Ano ther such victory and we are undone." No set of men but themselves would retain office gibbetted as they are with their majority of two. Such a result is indeed a triumph to Conservatives, and should teach them the duty and advantage of persevering hostility to the iniquitous measures which the desperate condi tion of Lord Melbourne and his colleagues impels them to bring forward. But let them plunge and struggle as they like—the death-throes are palpable. The rope is round their necks, and they know it. We are bound to acknowledge the efficacious aid brought to the good cause on Monday night by our able repre sentative Mr. Cresswell. But we have no space for comment. We reserve this for next Tuesday. We are in a fair way of living to see the Usury Laws repealed altogether. The time has gone by when a Member of Parliament declared in his place that the natural interest of money was 5 per cent. We think it must have been the same profound personage who thanked Providence for its goodness in causing great rivers to run near large towns. The bill brought in on Monday night by the Marquis of Lansdowne was in effect nearly equivalent to an abolition of the laws against usury, for by freeing Bills of Exchange and other negotiable securities from this operation it enables the lender in all cases to get what interest he can from the necessities of the borrower. 'We are by no means prepared to say that such a bill is inexpe dient. Just now, when so much commercial distress is everywhere felt, we think the operation of this mea sure will be highly beneficial ; but as this is eminently a question in which experience is the best guide, for it is extremely difficult to prophecy beforehand the effect of any change in our monetary system, we agree with the Duke of 'Wellington that it is better to limit the bill to the year 1842. We intend shortly to discuss the expediency and operation of the Usury Laws. Most of our readers will agree with us in opinion that it is high time that a little light should be let in upon the secret doings of our Dock Committee. Sitting in close conclave, without it being possible for the public to know anything of their proceedings, they may be almost considered an irresponsible body, as they are a local oligarchy, shrouded in the mystery of impenetrable dignity, and forbidding those who sent them there to know anything of their proceedings be yond what oozes out by chance, just as a man can de tect the contents of a tar barrel by its leakage or its smell. Strange, indeed, that after all the fine writing of the Whig journals during the days of the old Cor poration, they are nearly all silent on the question of publicity, now that a tyrant majority of their own prin ciples are snugly seated at the Dock Board. In for mer days, we had fine bursts of patriotism on our hustings and at our public meetings, because reporters were excluded from the Council Chamber. Column after column was written to show that it was tyrannical and arbitrary to sit in secret deliberation—that it had a most suspicious appearance—was the incipient cause of numberless jobs—that the Council were the public servants, and that the public had a right to know what those servants were about. But now, bless us how the tune is changed ! The Whig thunder has died away — its reverberations are no longer heard—and a number of gentlemen are permitted to legislate for the accomo dation of the mighty commercial interests of this second Tyre, and to do what they list, but no stickler for pub licity, no flaming patriot who toasts the liberty of the press in pine-apple rum, or half and half, over his pipe and tobacco and his broad unstamped, now rends his stentorian lungs by demanding that the proceedings and deliberations of the Dock Committee should be laid open to plebeian gaze. But to those who know the men, it is no cause of surprise. They who look one way and row another, they who talked so loudly about letting the public see and know everything, at once skulked into the deep recesses of the Angel—settled all their proceedings by gas-light in a private room, and then came with cut and dried resolutions into the Council Chamber, with all their bickerings smothered, and their waspishness concealed—these men most fitly appointed representatives from amongst themselves to carry out their own views in the Dock Committee, and to throw the veil of secresy around those movements and proceedings which are not intended for the public eye. It is true that it would be no gratification to the public to read the dull inanities of Mr. Benn, the un seemly and uncourteous epithets of Mr. Evans, so inconsistent with his acknowledged ability, or the wretched twaddle of Mr. Higgins, who seems as if he had been suckled out of a vinegar cruet : but if the arguments of the Whigs a few years ago were worth anything they are valid now ; and it is not because the speeches of the Dock Committee might be worth read ing that we demand their publication, but it is be cause that body has the power of legislating for the business of the town—that they have the disburse ment of £150,000 a year of public money, and that all classes have an interest in the welfare and good management of our Docks and Harbour, from the princely merchant, whose argosies return from every clime freighted with the rich productions of other lands, to the humblest porter who earns his scanty and precarious pittance on our Quays, and to the weather-beaten tar who braves the tempest before the mast, and whose life may be sacrificed after ploughing the ocean, almost at his own door, by the neglect of the Dock Committee in taking proper pre cautions for his safety. We hold as an infallible axiom, that every public body, acting only as trustees for the public benefit, should legislate openly—their reasons for adopting certain measures should be known and scanned—should be brought to the test of public opinion ; so that the interested parties who have dele gated the trust should be enabled, through the press or otherwise, to canvass their proceedings, and express their dissent or approval of measures which may prove detrimexital to the public interest or insufficient for public security, before those measures have become local laws. It is notorious that at present those mem bers of the Dock Committee who have been elected by the rate-payers, are utterly powerless, for they are in a minority; and the selection made by the Council is completely a political selection, destined to carry out political objects. It is begging the question to say that the old Council excluded men who differed from them in political opinion. We are not their apologists if they did so : but we assert that if they were wrong in this matter, so are their successors ; and it speaks ill for the wisdom or consistency of the present men, to adopt the course for their own conduct which they so vociferously condemned in their predecessors. One thing is clear, viz., that the old Council proved them selves men of business, and knew what they were about. Improvements went on steadily. The town felt the benefit of their legislation. Our Harbour was not neglected. Business, and not speech-making, was their forte. The interests of the Port, and not the spirit of petty and, at the last, extravagant economy, was attended to by them ; and the magnificent Docks, which now attract the attention and excite the wonder of strangers, are a lasting memorial of their spirit and intelligence. But those Docks are now confided to the management of a knot of political economists, who adjourn from the Mechanics' Institution to drive a hard bargain for cheap cables, which set the Light ship adrift when she is most needed, or to propose Bills to Parliament for increasing patronage, and swelling the fees of their solicitor, when any goose knows that there is no chance of the bills being ever carried. Publicity we must have, or the Docks must be sold. Let our merchants rest assured that, unless the latter alternative be adopted, and the Docks be come the private property of joint stock companies, managed as they would then be, they must be con tented with things as they are : for the Whigs will never submit to publicity if they can help it, nor yield up their seats at the Dock Board, until they are com pelled by an Act of Parliament, which shall summarily eject them, and alter the whole constitution of the Committee. We repeat, the Docks must be sold ; the bond-ho!ders and rate-payers must become the pur chasers ; they must be managed by Committees hav ing a pecuniary interest in their welfare ; a tonnage duty must be levied for the maintenance of the Har bour and Lights, which must be confided to the ma nagement of a Committee chosen from amongst the rate-payers, and by them; and as competition sharpens men's intellects, facilities will soon be afforded for the despatch of business, which will obviate all the diffi culties of which our merchants now so justly complain. Our pragmatical little ex-representative, Mr. Ewart, seems to possess a most inordinate appetite for noto riety. Not satisfied with the enviable degree of fame which he has acquired by his electioneering effusions — by his incomparable and incomprehensible epistles — and by the numberless mortifying rejections which it has been his fortune to encounter during his chequered political career—not satisfied with this portion of fame, he seizes, with a kind of morbid avidity, every oppor tunity which presents itself for playing the mountebank on the floor of the House of Commons. We do not deny that he generally enacts the character of Harlequin creditably ; nor do we mean to say that there may not be a slight tincture of kindness and generosity mixed up with the motives which impel Mr. Ewart so fre quently to invest himself with the cap and bells. It must be confessed that most of the debates in that au gust assembly " which calls itself the House of Com mons," (to use the language of Earl Stanhope,) are ex cessively dull and stupid, excepting when relieved by some sparkling and vivacious sally from the Conser vative side of the House. The general tone of the ora tory, it must be confessed, is dull and stupid. What, for instance, can be more insufferably dull than the monotonous drawl of Joseph Hume ; the verbose in anities of Lord John Russell ; the bubble-and-squeak ebullitions of Mr. Sheil, rivalling the discordant music of a cracked penny trumpet ; the mock pomposity of the Chancellor of the Exchequer; the ineffable ab surdities of the ballot-monomaniac Grote ; the mincing affectation of that would-be-orator Mr. (we beg his par don) Sir Litton Bulwer ; or the bull-frog turgidity of Daniel O'Connell's eloquence ? We really must give Mr. Ewart some credit for benevolence of feeling, when we see him so anxious, on all occasions, to relieve the dulness which ordinarily pervades the debates in the House of Commons. It is, indeed, " very kind of him, very," to step into the circle, and to operate upon the risibility of the honourable members around him by his comical jokes and his laughable gesticulations. Long may he continue to be the " Momus of his day !" though we cannot avoid expressing a wish that he may find some other arena than the House of Commons for the exhibition of his peculiar talents. The last occasion on which Mr• Ewart edified the House of Commons by his singular pleasantries was on Tuesday evening last, when he brought before the notice of the House a motion for a select committee to inquire into the allegations of the Wigan election pe tition—a petition complaining of the abduction and vio lence practised towards the voters at the last election. In the course of his observations, Mr. Ewart had the effrontery to remark, that " he thought it was the duty of the House to interfere in this case, and recognise the ' constitutional right of voters to the free exercise of the franchise, without being either corrupted or intimidated." The people of Liverpool may well afford to smile at the consummate impudence which could have dic tated such an expression. Of all men in the world Mr. Ewart should have been the last to prate about " cor ruption" or " intimidation." Not to say anything a bout Mr. Ewart's last election (and there are some queer reports in circulation at Wigan), was there ever " cor ruption" practised on a more gigantic scale than when Mr. Ewart first contested this borough ? Again, was there ever witnessed a grosser instance of "intimidation" than that which was practised in this town on the last occasion on which Mr. Ewart made his appearance on the hustings in front of our Town Hall ? And yet, in the face of the most sweeping and shameful bribery, and of the most scandalous, base, and bloody intimi dation that ever characterised an election in England, Mr. Evart has the unparalleled audacity to stand up in his place in the House of Commons in the self assumed character of a political purist of the first water, who professes to loathe " corruption," and to shrink with instinctive aversion from the cowardly and un- English practice of " intimidation." Risum teneatis, amici ? How amusing it must have been to the mem bers of the House of Commons to have beard Mr. Ewart, 1 of all others, deprecating every undue influence over the free exercise of the franchise—a man who, but for the unscrupulous exercise of such influences, would never have entered the House of Commons as the re presentative of an English constituency ! Mr. Ewart characterises the means resorted to at Wigan, to prevent his return, as " disgraceful and in jurious," and as " entirely and totally" destructive of the free agency of the electors. Does he forget the " disgraceful and injurious" means resorted to by the infuriated Popish mob at the last election in this town? Does he forget the " injuries" inflicted upon the peace able inhabitants of the town by the murderous assaults of his partisans ? Does he forget that it was neces sary for the police force to surround the polling-booths with drawn sabres, in order to protect the free agency of the electors of Liverpool ? "Oh ! Shame, where is thy blush ?" If Mr. Ewart forgets these things, there are thousands in Liverpool who have cause to remember them, and who can never call them to mind without associating them with Mr. Ewart's name. It is a saying no less common than true, that those who are found dilating the loudest and longest on the necessity of preserving a strict honesty in all their transactions, are, of all others, the most to be sus pected. This is the case with a certain class of self styled purists in the House of Commons, among whom Mr. Ewart stands conspicuous as the facile princeps of the corruptionists. Of course Mr. Ewart took nothing by his motion. The absurdity of his propositions only elicited the laughter of the House, as they must contribute to the merriment of the good people of Liverpool. " When Ewart next gets up to speak, May we be there to hear." We have been favoured with files of Sydney papers from February 16 to March 13, inclusive. We beg to express our acknowledgments to the two respectable firms that have kindly forwarded them to our office. We shall always endeavour to show our sense of such an obligation, by availing ourselves of the information thus brought under our notice. Extending as these papers do over so large a space of time, they contain a large share of most interesting news. We shall endeavour to select those particulars which may be most interesting to the general reader. There are few topics on which we dwell with greater pleasure, than the progress in commerce, civilisation, and religion, of the numerous colonial dependencies of Great Britain. It may be remarked with perfect truth, that our colonies constitute the right arm of our com mercial strength. In what a humiliating position would Great Britain be placed, if she were deprived of her North American, her West Indian, her African, her East Indian, and her Australian possessions ! And yet there are to be found among the free-trade philosophers those who would wish to deprive this country of the vast and increasing resources of our colonies. In such a feeling we are confident the enlightened inhabitants of Liverpool do not participate. It is unnessary there fore, on our parts, to offer any apology for the promi nence which we deem it our duty, on all occasions, to give to our colonial intelligence. The news from Hobart Town, which is given in the Sydney Herald of March 13, extends to the Ist March. It is stated that in the principal corn districts, on the southern side of Van Dieman's Land, the grain crops generally were more than equal to an average of seasons, taking into consideration that a much greater extent of ground had been appropriated to the growth of hay, this year, than at any former period. Potatoes, tur nips, and other esculent roots, and what are commonly termed vegetables, as distinguishing them from the gramineous crops, were a general failure. The pastures were totally burnt up, and in most parts of the colony the stock were suffering greviously for want of water, as well as nutritious food. On the whole, however, the farmers had the prospect of a profitable crop. All the wheat that had been brought to Hobart Town had been readily bought at from nine to ten shillings per bushel, and extensive contracts had been made for future de- liveries at the same rates. Hay, pressed and trussed, was readily bought at £7 10 to ship to Sydney. Lady Franklin, the Governor's wife, who is described as a traveller of some note and romance, purposed pay ing a visit to New Zealand. This is an additional proof of the increasing civilization of the Antipodes. We have no doubt that New Zealand will become, at no distant period, a most thriving colony. We per ceive that Mr. Labouchere has announced in the House of Commons that the government has come to the determination to take such steps as may probably lead to the establishment of British authority in New Zea land. If this be done without perpetrating any act of robbery or cruelty towards the aborigines we shall heartily rejoice. The revenue abstract for the December quarter for Van Dieman's Land had just been published. The revenue amounted to £29,552, and the expenditure to £34,452, exhibiting an excess of expenditure over re venue of £4,900, or nearly £20,000 per annum. Two new churches were about to be erected on the island. The price of bread was very high at Launceston. Bush fires had been very prevalent in the interior, and great damage was thereby done to the standing crops. There had been a combination of seamen at the port of Laun ceston, which had proved highly injurious to trade. __ . - - The Sydney papers contain much information on the subject of transportation. They offer many valuable suggestions on this important topic. Among the most striking we notice the following :—" Use means to pre vent the convicted criminal from offending again ; en deavour to reform him, and make him fit to re-enter society ; at the same time, make him labour for the community—partly to pay the expense of his support ; partly to compensate for the evil that he has done ; and, above all, because idleness is the root of all evil." The papers concur in recommending the strictest dis cipline, while they deprecate needless and vindictive severity. It is urged with much justice that reforma tion ought to be the paramount object and aim of all secondary punishments. With reference to the introduction of Coolies into Australia the Sydney Herald of March 6th remarks— " We are almost tired of combatting the senseless ravings of those who object to the importation of Coo lies into New South Wales. Dying, as these people are by thousands, of famine, in the East Indies, there are people to be found so tender-hearted as to let them die sooner than permit them to emigrate to a country where, by moderate labour, they may acquire every necessary of life. Let those sympathetic individuals who snivel over the hardships to which Coolies are (as they say) to be subjected in New South Wales—who rave of incipient slavery and slave trade, and who ex press themselves .doubtful as to the capabilities of Coo lies as field labourers—let such persons inquire at, or go over, the farm of John Lord, Esq., at Williams' River. Mr. Lord has had seventeen Coolies in his employment for a considerable length of time on his farm, and it is from such a man that inquiries as to the capability of these men, and the contentment they manifest, should be made, instead of inquiry being made of a pack of drivellers who know nothing what ever of the subject, and, in proportion to their igno rance, are wise in their own conceit. What philan thropy it is which consigns men to starvation sooner than permit them to emigrate !" Mutatis mutandis, the preceding language is strictly applicable to the editor of the Liverpool Chronicle and his Radical contempo raries. The Chronicle has been crammed with " sense less ravings" on the subject of the Hill Coolies. The " tender-hearted " editor of that truly elegant and clas sical journal would sooner let the Coolies " die than permit them to emigrate to a country where, by mode-, rate labour, they may acquire every necessary of life." The Chronicle and his radical brethren must be included among " those sympathetic individuals who snivel over the hardships to which (as they say) the Coolies are to be subjected" in British Colonies. The Chronicle and its worthy comrogues "rave of incipient slavery and slave trade, and express themselves doubtful as to the capabilities of Coolies as field labourers." Shall we add that our radical contemporaries are " a pack of drivellers who know nothing whatever of the subject, and, in proportion to their ignorance, are wise in their own conceit ?" However, we have no wish to send the editor of the Chronicle to Botany Bay " to make inquiries as to the capabilities" of the Hill Coolies ; but we would venture to recommend to his notice the testimony of so unexceptionable a witness as the editor of the Sydney Herald, whom we have to thank for sup plying us with so appropriate a commentary on the "senseless ravings" of the radical press of Liverpool. The Sydney papers convey intelligence from South .Australia to the 9th of -February. The Orleana, which sailed from Liverpool on the sth of October, with pas sengers and a general cargo, was the latest arrival in that colony. A number of emigrants from Germany had lately arrived. It was officially announced, that in consequence of the very great demand for land, the resident Commissioner felt it to be of general advan tage to the colonists, that the period of notice for the selection and purchase of lands should be reduced to a a shorter interval than the customary return of one month. The prices of bread and butcher's meat were unusually high at Adelaide. It was a subject of com plaint, that many persons sent out to South Australia, at the expense of the emigration fund, had proceeded almost immediately after their arrival to Sydney. The principle acted upon in the colony of South Australia is, that unless an emigrant finds it to his advantage to remain, he may go elsewhere if he pleases. Wages had been high there hitherto, but were lately some what lower; and should they continue to decrease, it is said that a question may arise as to the propriety of insisting that a free emigrant refunded his passage money previously to his leaving the province. Two arrivals of pure Saxon sheep had taken place in South Australia. It was anticipated that the effects of the introduction of this invaluable stock would, in a few years, be felt by the whole South Australian flock masters, in the prices which their wool must com mand in the English market. We have further extracts to make from these papers which we must reserve till our next publication. We have been favoured with the Texas Civilian and Galveston Gazette to the 12th of April. They do not contain any political news of importance. A great num ber of emigrants continued to arrive from the United States, among whom were to be found an immense number of negroes. The prospects of Texas are de scribed as most flattering. The emigrants who had arrived were not the vicious and idle, or foreign spe culators, but mostly men who wished to settle perma nently in the country, and, while they consulted their own, to add to the general prosperity. Galveston was rapidly rising into a city : public buildings, hotels, and private dwellings being erected by hundreds. The Great Western arrived at Bristol on "Wednesday, having accomplished the voyage from New York in thirteen days. We are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Wilmer and Smith for a file of New York papers brought by her, and forwarded by their agent at Bristol, which reach to the 13th instant. The late hour at which we received these papers precludes us from giving any extended extracts. The New York Morning Courier and Enquirer of the 13th instant, contains the following important intelligence from Lima : (From the Washingtou Globe.) The Peru-Bolivian Confederation Dissolved, and General Andres Santa Cruz, Supreme Protector, abdicated. From the Peruvian papers lately received, we copy the proclamation of Santa Cruz, made at Arequipa, in South Peru, after his defeat by the Chilian expedition in January. " Recent events in Bolivia and at Puno demand of me every sacrifice, to avoid the evils of civil war : I therefore decree— " 1. I abdicate from this moment the Protectoral autho rity, which I legally exercised, over the States of the Confe deration. " 2. The State Government of South Peru, and the local authorities, will continue to preserve order and enforce the existing laws, until a National Convention shall decide upon the future state of the country." By another decree, General Santa Cruz resigns his Presi dency at Boliva ; and in an address to the people of the Re public, he says . "Do not scandalize the world, Bolovians ! by excesses, which must bring odium upon our country. Anarchy will destroy you if you be divided among yourselves, and yield to the council of evil passions. Wherever Divine Providence may conduct myself, and as long as my absence from my native country may be rendered necessary for the general good, I shall not cease to hope ardently for your prosperity, which has been my only object for the last ten years." Whilst Gen. Santa Cruz still remained at Arequipa, his troops mutinied, and he returned to Islay,' a port on the Pacific. He was there lodged with the English Consul, Mr. Crompton. An attack was apprehended from the popu lace, and 70 men were landed from her Britannic Majesty's ship Samarang, to protect Santa Cruz. Oh the 13th of March he embarked, taking with him Generals Miller, Cerdena, Riva, Aguero, Senor Garcia del Rio, Senor Iris arri, late Chilian Plenipotentiary, and other persons of distinction. The above intelligence will excite some surprise in this country after the very confident expectations held out that Santa Cruz would have been able to retrieve his previous losses. The Morning Courier and Enquirer of the Bth instant, speaking of the circular which we published on Tuesday, says that " it proceeds from a source. intitled from its stand ing, to hold the commanding language which it does on the subject to which it relates." It then proceeds to remark— " Considered as an attempt to obtain consignments to a particular house, or to carry out its particular views in re gard to the future state of the cotton market, we should not consider it within our province to animadvert upon it, yet if it be regarded as a systematic plan to regulate the price of our great staple—and its tenor warrants the conclusion that it does—it becomes a question of high public interest, and as such, one we are called upon to discuss. Taking this view of it, therefore, we do not hesitate to express the opinion, that its tendency is injurious, for it aims by a combination of " powerful interests" to counteract the natural influence of actual demand or consumption upon prices ; and though this may be successful, once or twice, it must at last prove detrimental to the planter, by inducing production to an ex tent which actual consumption does not warrant, and ruinous to all who embark their capital in the visionary attempt." We trust that this extract will satisfy the Manchester Guardian of the authenticity of the document, which turns out to be anything but " a clumsy forgery." With respect to the above document, the Courier and En quirer of the 12th instant expressly states, on the authority of the agent of Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, that the United States' Bank " had no part or lot whatever in issu ing it while, at the same time, it maintains that certain details recently furnished respecting the cotton crop " form an absolute justification of the circular." There is no news of the slightest importance from Canada. We subjoin the only additional extracts of consequence : (From the Courier and Enquirer of June 12.) NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 3.—We have been shown a letter from Col. Bee, the Texian Minister to Mexico, dated May 16, directed to the Texian Consul in this city, from which we make the following extracts :—" I have been passing se veral days very pleasantly on board the La Gloiree, a beau tiful 52 gun ship, commanded by M. Le Compt Laine. I landed to-day, as Gen. Victoria expected an an answer from Mexico by Express, and I have not been disappointed ; he is desired to allow me to remain In Vera Cruz, until they can consult upon the propriety of receiving me. The very fact of my having been permitted to land, and of being treated courteously by Gen. Victoria, Governor of Vera Cruz, is highly favourable to Texas."—Bulletin. (From the Courier and Enquirer of June 13.) WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12TH.—Business of every kind continues to present the inactive and quiet appearance incidental to the season, and which nothing has occurred to, day to vary. The steam ship Great Western leaves to-mor row on her return passage, taking out the intelligence of a decline of fully 2 to 24 cents per lb. in Cotton on the prices obtained at the period of the steam ship Liyerpool's depar ture on the IBth ultimo, and also of a declining market for Stocks and Securities of every description, as the effect pro duced, on this side of the water by the advice received by the same vessel a fortnight since. That our Cotton market, and commercial affairs generally, will be in a great measure or almost wholly influenced by the nature of the coming accounts from England is certain, and until such may have reached us, but little prospect of improvement appears to exist. The Liverpool also leaves that city for New York to-morrow, and may be looked for no doubt by Sunday the 30th instant. It is to be hoped she will prove the bearer of more satisfactory commercial intelligence than we are at present in possession of. Stocks have again evinced a tendency to further decline to-day, and it will be observed by the quotations that most descriptions closed lower. The business in Sterling Ex change for the Great Western has been chiefly transacted by the United States Bank, which draws freely at 21 per cent. premium ; on France sf. 15 is obtained, and some few sales have been made at 40/ a 41c. on Holland, 361 c. on Hamburg, and 811 c. on Bremen, THE APOTHECARIES' H ALL.—We understand that Mr. J 11. Edwards, who was for many years secretary to the Liver pool Dispensaries, has been appointed book-keeper and accountant to the Apothecaries' Company, in this town. BOARD OF HIGHWAYS.—The accounts of the Commis sioners under the paving and sewerage act, show that the receipts on account of paving and old sewers, including a balance of £2465 17s. 2d. standing to the credit of the account at the close of last year, amount to £29,667 2s. 10d., and the expenditure to £28,053 ss. 6d., leaving a balance in hand of £1614 17s. 4d. ; the receipts on account of the new sewers, including a balance of £4558 7s. 9d. to the credit of the account at the close of last year, amount to £15,767 19s. 2d., and the expenditure to £16,116 3s. Id., being an excess of expenditure over the receipts of £348 3s. Ild. Dr. M`Kenzie was unanimously elected Physician to the North Dispensary on Tuesday last. FORCE OF FOLLY.—UNION EXTRAORDINARY !—At the village of Cotherstone, in the North Riding of the county of York, may be seen the novel spectacle of a tem perance and intemperance hotel under the same roof. The whole of the building is occupied, and both branches of the business are carried on, by the same person, who, after hav ing gratified to their hearts' content those who choose to partake of the " poison of alcohol," is equally ready to ad minister to the same individuals, at the other end of the dwelling, refreshing draughts of tea and coffee. Persons have been seen, at a very early hour, to stagger into " th e t e mperance end," after having, during the whole of the previous night, indulged to the utmost their habits of in temperance. A DEAF AND DUMB RAILWAY PASSENGER.—A respect able tradesman of this city, on visiting the Metropolis for the summer fashions, purchased a DOLL for one of his cus tomers, who had given him a commission to do so, which in size was as large as a full grown person. On his return home by the Railway, he placed his silent companion (the doll) in ;sitting posture in the same carriage as himself, and to pass a joke upon the guard, threw his great coat over its shoulders and put his travelling cap on its head and then made it ap pear in every respect like a fellow passenger. Just as they arrived at the station, the guard popped his head into the carriage and cried out most lustily—tickets--tickets ; there being three beside the doll, three tickets were immediately handed to him, but the guard finding one more wantiug, (supposing of course, the doll to be a passenger) he cried. again,—tickets. The doll making no reply, made him sup pose that he was enjoying a nap, and in order as he thought to awake him, he stepped into the carriage, and gave it a good shake, when immediately the doll fell down —and to the surprise and disappointment of the guard, disclosed the joke.—Cheater Gazette, CHURCH EXTENSION. On Wednesday, a meeting of members and friends of the Established Church took place at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, to adopt resolu tions, and a petition to Parliament in behalf of immediate measures for church extension. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount SANDON, M.P., occupied the chair. The Rev. R. BURGESS having read prayers, The Noble CHAIRMAN entered into an elaborate argument to prove that it was a duty incumbent upon the state to ex tend, by every means in its power, the influence and useful ness of the established church ; and, after having alluded to several places where the want of church accommodation was severely felt, said there was a want still more imperious than that of funds for the building of churches : there was a fund requisite for the endowments. (Hear, hear.) If they wished to have in established churches efficient ministers, they must have clergy not dependent on their congregations—(loud cheers) ; not dependent on the humour, nor subject to the capricious fancies, of the day—(cheers) ; not dependent, as was unfortunately the case in many dissenting congregations, upon the humour and fancies not only of the whole congre gation, but of two or three of the richer members. (Loud cheers.) They must not have the clergy of their church placed in a position, he would not say exactly of personal degradation and humility, for he firmly believed that if the cause of God demanded such a sacrifice, the clergy of the established church would willingly submit to it—(cheers) ; but they must not be placed in such a position as would tend to impair their usefulness, and destroy that sacred character which peculiarly belonged to them. (Renewed cheers.) The question of endowment was one of great difficulty. (Hear.) But it was nevertheless for endowment that the Church of England was more anxious to ask the assistance of the State. (Cheers.) The insufficiency of the voluntary system was not confined to the dissenters of this country : the evil had been, and was still, felt in the United States, where that principle had had a fair and full trial. (Hear.) He would take an opportunity of directing the attention of the meeting to some facts not in reference to the particular point as respected the improper condition in which a minister was placed by means of being dependent on the contributions of his congregation, but as regarded the difficulty which ac crued in suplying such congregations with m i n i s t ers a t a ll. (Hear, hear.' A minister from the United States, in writing from New York, said, that not one in twenty of the pastors could support themselves on their stipends, and then went on—" And then what is the state of the vacancies among the various sects, according to the showing of the tables ? Why, the Protestant Episcopal have considerably more than a third of their churches unsupplied with ministers ; Lutherans have five-sixths vacant ; the Universalists, one-half ; the Christian Society, three-fourths ; the Presbyterian Church, a fifth ; the Congregationalists, more than a third ; the Free will Baptists, a fourth ; the Associate Presbyterians, one-half; the Dutch reformed, nearly two-thirds; the Cumberland Presbyterians, one-third ; and the Seventh-day Baptists, one fourth. (Loud cries of .` hear, hear.") He (Lord Sandon) hoped they would take this statement with them when they read of the flourishing state of religion in the United States under the voluntary system—(hear, hear;) and that they would take the liberty of inquiring whether the congre gations had ministers to officiate for them. (Hear, hear.) He would, before he sat down, allude to another circum stance of some importance relative to the subject upon which they had met. He had been much struck with an observation in a speech of a minister of the crown (Lord John Russell,) who took a deep interest in the question of education. The observation was respecting the condition of the convict part of the population, which the noble lord pressed upon the at tention of the House of Commons. Lord J. Russell re marked that, from a return of the chaplain of the gaol of Lancaster, it appeared that out of a large number of the lower classes of persons in that district, only 995 could say the Lord's Prayer ; only 37 were occasionally readers of the Bible, only one was conversant with the principles of reli gion ; and out of 1,129, there were not more than 20 or 30 who attended any places of Divine worship. He was glad that a minister of the crown had pointed to these facts. It was in vain to promote education, they must go beyond it. (Hear.) What was the value of educating a child up to the age of 10 or 11 years, if it was then turned loose into the world without guidance? (Cheers.) Out of these 1,129 but 20 or 30 attended a place of worship. (Hear.) Did not this point out to the nation that the real want which now existed was not so much that of schools (though schools were much wanted), as an adequate provision for the religious worship and guidance of the adult population? (Cheers.) When they found that the persons who had transgressed the laws of the country were those who had in all probability fallen into the paths of vice through the want of religious guidance, they might entertain good hopes that if the state would fur nish the church with means, the result would be that our gaols would be stripped of their inmates who now crowded them, to the shame and scandal of our age. (Loud cheers.) Lord ASHLEY moved the first resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. T. DALE, Vicar of St. Bride's. JOHN HARDY, Esq. moved the second resolution. The Rev. H. 114'NEILE, of Liverpool, then came forward to second the resolution :—he said—Having been invited to take part in the proceedings of this meeting, I do not, as a clergyman, feel myself at all called upon to decline, upon the ground so frequently urged, that clergymen should not be found mixed up with politics. Modern politicians in this country have introduced into their discussions and measures many of those subjects which stand inseparably connected with the most elementary and undeniable duties of clergymen It is owing to the assaults of politicians against our national religion, and not to any encroachments of clergymen upon the region of politics, that it has come to pass that no cler gyman of the church of England can fulfil his ordination vows without having the appearance, and incurring the charge, of political partisanship. If he preach or speak against Popery, which it is a part of his sworn duty to do—if he declare, though it be in the well-considered language of our church articles, that " the sacrifices of masses are blas phemous fables, and dangerous deceits," that " the Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping, and adoration as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God " that the adoration of the sacramental elements (the host) is " idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians," immediately he is accused of politics and bigotry. (Hear, hear.) If he preach or speak against the Socinianism of that sceptical philosophy which imagines a Deity all benevolence satisfied for sin with the passing sigh of self-reproach in the offender, mingled though it be with self-eomplacency—if he use, in opposition to this, the faithful decision of our church, that " they are to be had accursed who presume to say that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature, for Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved," again he is charged with poli tics and uncharitableness. (Hear, hear.) If he demand, in the education of youth, the whole Scripture (cheers) without the mutilation of any thing that is inspired, or the addition of any thing that is apocryphal, still he is accused of politics. Nay, if he say or do any thing beyond the namby-pamby milk-and-water, which means nothing and effects nothing, instantly the cry of politics is raised. And if I were briefly to assign a reason for this, I would say, it is because our op ponents find it easier to prejudice our advocacy than to an swer our arguments. (Cheers.) I am fully aware that our reference to the formularies of our chin ch will be met by the retort that they too are intolerant, that they breathe the bigotry of the times in which they were compiled, and that only bigotry and intolerance would now have recourse to them for defence or authority. In reply to this I would re spectfully, but boldly, challenge noble lords and right lion. gentlemen who think so, to come honestly to the point at once in the face of the nation. Instead of proposing measure after measure, involving a charge against our church formu laries as no longer tenable, let them announce a bill, bold, clear, comprehensive, for the alteration of those formularies. Instead of calling themselves friends of our church as she is, and acting day by day in concert with her avowed enemies, so that we are compelled to say of them, as the aged patriarch said of his hypocritical son, " the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau," let them frankly confess, that in order to deserve their support, our church must di vest herself of her harsh articles and exclusive creeds. In stead of leaving the clergy to subscribe the formularies as they are, and then calling us bigoted because we are sincere, let them supply us with some more liberal and gentlemanlike formularies for subscription in the place of those old-fashioned faithful scriptural broadsides against Deism in all its plausible sophistries, and popery in all its superstititious abominations. I repeat, let us have fair play. Let the mind of the nation be tried. Let a bill for the liberalizing of our church formularies, re jecting some, and altering some—a bill for applying an Index prohibitorius to the Athanasian Creed, and an Index expur gatorius to the 39 Articles—let such a bill be presented to Parliament, and if, after due time for expression of public opinion, such a bill shall pass into a law, then I frankly con fess that the clergy of such a church as the Church of Eng land would be, might most reasonably be expected to be Unitarian or Trinitarian, or anything-arian, good for nothing gentlemen. (Hear, hear.) Will this challenge be accepted ? Are our opponents ready for a fair open field-day in the face of the United Kingdom, or are they afraid ? Are they con strained to continue their ambuscade and bush-fighting, knowing full well that if they raised an undisguised hand against the ark of old England, all the misconceptions under cover of which they now meet with forbearance and receive support would vanish, and an indignant people in over whelming majorities rush to the rescue against the detected Philistines? (Cheers.) Will this challenge be accepted ? Let not the obscurity, the insignificance of the proposer of it, be pleaded as an excuse for honourable gentlemen to treat it with disdain. It ill becomes the boasted attention to the rights of the people which characterizes the class of politi cians to whom appeal is made to turn with disdain from the expression of his sentiments by any even of the lowest of her Majesty's subjects, though he should chance to be of that prescribed class, the national clergy who are faith ful to their vows. Let the fairness, the boldness, the honesty, the straightforwardness of the proposal be looked at without prejudice, and without partiality. Let the attempt tacitly to suppress be compared with the pro posal openly to rescind. Let the policy which undermines the city, while it professes attachment to the foundations, be compared with the frankness which would avow to the citi zens that their foundations mnst be altered. Which is the most honest, which the most English, which the most Chris tian course? (Immense cheering.) But should it be deter mined that such a bill as I have ventured to sketch would not be proposed, that the formularies of the established church cannot be fundamentally altered ; and should we hear, inconnexion with this, the bland assurance that there exists no wish to alter them—then, my Lord, in the name of all that is fair, consistent, true, upright, and honourable, let not us who subscribe them ex animo be condemned for main taining them con amore. Why are we driven to the subscrip tion of bigots, and then invited to the quiescence of hypo crites ? If we be asked, will we subscribe altered articles and formularies, our answer i s , l e t us see t h em and compare them with Holy Scriptures ; dare to follow out your owu convic tions, and I trust we will steadf as tl y b e cons i stent w i th ours. Under such convictions, I must repeat without fear of rea sonable refutation, though in the full foresight of vehement contradiction, perhaps abuse, that it is most proper and suit able for a clergyman of the established church to take part in a meeting like the present, whose object is to urge upon the legislature and the government of the country the Christian duty of extending the framework of the national church that it may continue proportioned to the necessities of the in creased and increasing population of the kingdom, and to re tain its national character. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) It is in evidence painfully convincing, that the spiritual and moral interests of vast multitudes of our population are ut terly, and at present inevitably, neglected. (Hear.) No man who is impressed with anything approaching to an adequate sense of immortality, and who knows anything of what human nature is when left without spiritual and moral culture, can contemplate such a state of things without the most lively and penetrating anxiety, both for the salvation of his fellow-creatures, and the peace and even safety of his na tive land. The neglected water accumulating outside of our national bulwarks, threatens to burst its bounds, and not only to rush itself into the deep, but to carry with it indiscrimi nating ruin into those fences which have served for a season to embank, but which not having been enlarged to con tain, are now no longer able to resist the growing, gathering, swelling, resistless pressure. (Great cheering.) No man who has experienced the penetrating, melting, subduing, invigorating energy of the gospel can doubt its efficacy. It preserves the kingdom by blessing the people. It annihilates rebellion by communicating salvation. It dissipates the gloom of discontent on earth by revealing and pointing to the bright star of hope in the heavens. (Tremendous cheering.) Referring as we do to apostolical language for the authority of the mode of propagating the gospel, there are persons who refer us to the apostolical model for the support of the mi nisters of the gospel. The apostolical model thus pleaded is gathered chiefly, if not exclusively, from the history of St. Paul. Let that history be fairly examined. True, he had no state endowment, but it is also true that his personal income was not derived exclusively, or chiefly, from the volun tary contributions of those among whom he ministered. We who see no one special mode exclusively prescribed in Scripture, while we do see various modes prac-ised and sanc tioned under various circumstances, do and may with perfect consistency plead the altered circumstances of the church in justification of an altered system of support for her ministers. And more still, we plead the Christian duty of rulers who profess to belong to the Christian church as demanding their sincere and strenuous efforts to extend her influence and en dow her cl ergy. Th e rulers of all nations have ever considered the prosperity of their kingdoms as dependent upon the favour of their god s . Wh a t ever ma y ha ve b een their varying peculiarities in their notions concerning their gods, in this they all agreed, that the favour of those gods was indispensable towards the victories of their armies, and the well-being of their states. It be came, therefore, one of the most obvious and imperative duties of such riders to seek to please their gods—in other words, to propagate what they believe to be true religion. And they did so. They built temples to their deities, and maintained a national priesthood for conducting the worship in those temples. (Cheers.) They maintained the national worship, and made all the nations without exception pay tri bute for the purpose. (Hear, hear.) They seem to have been sincere, whatever else they were. Is it too much to ex pect the same sincerity in ruler s now ?— t h e same practical sincerity ? Is it too much to ask them to use in the pro pagation and maintenance of what they themselves be lieve to be the truth of God all the influence, whe ther of personal character or of official station, which it has pleased God to give them? (Cheers.) The responsi bilities of rulers to God in the use they make of their oppor tunities to ascertain what is his truth is another question. They ought to investigate their own souls like other men, and they ought to investigate with peculiar reference to their peculiar station, that they may be qualified to fill it. This investigation is indeed a most solemn duty. There are many important statements which may not at first seem entitled to belief, and which it may not then be criminal not to believe, because belief, strictly speaking, is not an action of the will ; yet those statements may be well worthy of attention and in vestigation, and it may be highly criminal not to attend to them, because attention is an action of the will. Bat suppos ing the governors of a nation to have given their best attention —to have made the best use of their opportunities—to have fully investigated and to be sincerely convinced ; then, what ever they really believe to be God's truth, they are bound to propagate with all their influence—i.e. to make national, if they can. If they cannot —i. e., if the nation will not allow them, but demands, on the contrary, that they should propagate what they do not themselves believe to be true, nor pleasing to God, nor consequently beneficial to the nation, then what should they do ? Should they, in order to please men, consent to propagate what they themselves believe to be offensive to God, and therefore really injurious to men? (Loud cheering.) Should they, in deference to the opinions and feelings of men, give up a conscientious duty, and cease from the propagation of what they do indeed themselves be lieve ? Supposing the nation to be determined against what the rulers are conscientiously for, or to be determined for what the rulers are conscientiously against, then those rulers have a choice ; they must either cease to be the rulers of that nation, or they must begin to be hypocrites in their language and practice. (Immense cheering.) They must either abdicate (renewed cheers) to obtain a good conscience, or they must dissemble to retain place and power. (Conti nued cheering.) If they be conscientiously Mahometans, and the nation insist on having the Christian religion, they must either boldly subdue the nation to Mahometanism, or they must cajole the nation by pretending to be Christians, or they must give up the nation as impractiable to honest men of their sentiments. (Cheers.) If they be conscienti ously Papists, and the nation insist upon having Christianity purified from the falsehood and filth of the middle ages, as condensed in the Creed of Pius IV, or if they be conscienti ously Trinitarians, and the nation insist upon having Soci nianism, the alternative for honest men remains still the same. (Loud cheers.) If, as in our own present position, the nation be divided in opinion, and the members of the legislature, I may perhaps say and of the government, be also divided—(great cheering)—is it too much to expect and ask that each individual shall be sincere, and that no man shall lend his influence to propagate among his fellow-men what he himself believes to be falsehood against God? Is it too much to ask that every man shall consider his conscience towards God as possessing a higherclaim upon him than even his kindliness towards man ? And that when they come in collision, he will abide by the honest as well as Christian determination of serving God rather than man ? (Much cheering.) If this were universally done, many of th e most important questions which agitate this kingdom would speedily be decided. If Sir Robert Peel, for example, boldly declared his own religious sentiments to the nation, and said that whether they were right or wrong in themselves, they were right in his mind and conscience, and consequently he would use all the influence he has, or may have, t o maintain and propagate them—that he would force no man to subscribe to his creed, or to conform to his worship, but that he could not conscientiously, and therefore would not be induced by any consideration to lend his influence in any degree to the propagation of what he believed to be false and injurious ; that, if a member of the government of this nation, he would hold out no false colours, but plainly and honestly tell the nation that he would vote public money for the ex tension of what he himself approved, say the Established Church : if Lord John Russell in like manner declared his own sentiments, and his determination conscientiously to abide by them in every act, public and private—if my Lord Lansdowne ldid the same, and Mr. Daniel O'Con nell the same, frankly telling the nation their sentiments, and avowing their honest determination to use all the influence they have, or may have, to propagate those senti timents, and make them national, if possible, then the people of England would know their men, and the mat ter would he adjusted. What we ask for is sincerity, plain practical sincerity, in public men. (Cheers.) The nation has decided by an overwhelming majority in favour of our established church. If the population of the United King dom could be polled to-morrow, it would repeat that decision in a way not to be misunderstood. No men avowing them selves the enemies of the established church could continue to constitute the government of this country. If such sin cerity therefore as I have described were universally the order of the day, we should have no difficulty left in the way of church extension. The rev. gentleman then referred to the relative numbers of the Dissenting congregations and those of the established church, showing that in 1829 the number of Independents was 1,289 ; of Baptists, 888 ; and of Presbyterians, 25S ; and went on to remark that it had been asserted that number had since increased to 175,330. On the other hand, one of the religious papers stated the number of " the orthodox Dissenting congregations of the three denominations to exceed 2,200 in England alone, and the aggregate of attendants as estimated at nearly 1,000,000. Well, if they were to allow that number to be trebled, even then it would fall wonderfully short as compared with that of Churchmen." (Hear.) After some further remarks, the rev. gentleman concluded a speech of much power and force by seconding the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried. Several other resolutions were moved and seconded, and the meeting separated after a discussion of five hours. THE GREAT WESTERN. We have much pleasure in subjoining the following letter to Captain Hosken, of the Great 14restern steam-ship, which arrived at Bristol on Wednesday, with 114 passengers. We have not been able to ascertain the precise hour when she left New York. On board the steam-ship Great Western-, Wednesday, June 26, 1839. To Captain Hosken. DEAR SIR, —We the undersigned, a committee appointed by the passengers on board your ship, having just completed a voyage in thirteen days, cannot consent to separate without conveying to you our sincere acknowledgments for the gen tlemanly deportment extended by you to each and all of us; nor should we do justice to our own feelings did we not express our warmest approbation of the admirable arrange ments made by yourself and your enterprising owners, for the comfort and the convenien ce o f every person on b oard. With every good wish for yourself, and for the continued success of your noble ship, we beg to subscribe ourselves, with sincere regard, your most obedient servants, S. D. Ingham, H. Booth, Lieut. Col. B. A., George Eustis, John Hardy, Francis Hall, J. Leampte, Ch. Pervier, John Shachan, Herman Watjau, Joseph Walker, and J. Wallack,— Committee in behalf of 114 passengers. OPENING OF THE MONKS' FERRY HOTEL. Yesterday, the splendid hotel, between Woodside and Birkenhead, known as Monks' Ferry, was a scene of much festivity and enjoyment, the company of proprietors having given a superb entertainment to a number of gentlemen in terested in the success of this establishment. Upwards of 100 gentlemen were present, in the large dining-room on the west side. The dinner was most sumptuous, comprising every dish, substantial and delicate, which the season could afford. It was, indeed, the universal remark, that a better English dinner was never provided ; that the dessert was ad mirable, and that (above all), the wines were of such fine quality and flavour, that some " judges" expressed their astonishment as to whence they were produced. The desse:t consisted of a variety of fruit and confectionary of tt e choicest kind. The greatest unanimity prevailed through out, and many excellent glees and songs were sung by pro fessional and amateur gentlemen. Amongst those present ' were the following : John Platt, Esq., Chairman ; Mr. Langton, and Mr. D. Powell, Vice-presidents ; Messrs. Harvey, J. B. Blackburne, Penny, George Horne, E. Humble, Willoughby, Greene, Towers, Cole, Welch, (the architect of the building, ) !Ay cock, Solomon, Pattisson, Harrison; Jones, ough, Rayner, Hepworth, Radley, Wilson, and Tucker. 'the toast of " Queen Victoria and God bless her," was warmly received, and w a s followed by " God save the Queen," by the glee singers. " The Queen Dowager and Royal Family " followed, and was drank with much enthusiasm. The toast was followed by the beautiful glee, " Oh Albion, on thy fertile plains," very beautifully sung. The Members for the Southern Division of Cheshire was next drank with considerable applause. !' The Agri cultural Interests of the County," was warmly received. Mr. Radley replied in a very neat and appropriate address. The next toast was, " The Lord of the Manor, and the other Landowners of the townships of Birkenhead and Tranmere ; and may their united influence be conducive to the benefit and growing prosperity of this neighbourhood." Mr. Lay cock responded to this toast in a feeling and patriotic address, in which he was much applauded. Mr. Edward Willoughby, of Birkenhead Hotel, in a very forcible and feeling address, expressed himself favourable to a kind reciprocity of in terest between the respective ferries, taking his position on the ground that one terry could thus benefit the other, and that a reciprocity, without any invidious feeling, would be for the advantage of all. Mr. Willoughby's address was en thusiastically received. Mr. E. Harvey, being called upon, described in forcible terms the rapid progress of Birkenhead and its neighbourhood in wealth, importance, and population. He concluded by a high and deserved encomium on the cha racter of the worthy chairman, whose health he proposed. The toast was warmly received, and the Chairman responded in appropriate terms. Being on the eve of our publication we can but give the toasts,—all of which were eloquently re sponded to. " The Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and success to Steam Power."—" The triumph of the Steam Engine all over the world." Mr. Welsh, the architect of the building, on his health being drunk, made a very elo quent address. The health of Mr. Hilliar, the worthy and polite landlord of the inn, was drunk with enthusiastic cheer ing ; and Mr. H. returned thanks in a feeling and appropri ate manner. Many other toasts and sentiments succeeded, and the company separated soon after ten o'clock, all highly delighted with the sumptuous entertainment, and the kind ness and attention of the worthy host and hostess of " The Monks' Ferry." Her Majesty's Packet Merlin, Captain To wn l ey , arr i vep on Tuesday from Kingstown i n 9 hours and 55 minutes from pier to pier, which was performed by fair steaming without the assistance of sails. This is the shortest passage on record. and the Merlin has consequently won all the " heavy bets" pending on this performance. Doca RATES.—The receipts of dock -rates on goods and vessels, on Monday last, amounted to the large sum of £3444 15s. 10d., namely, on goods, £1367 13s. 7d., and on the tonnage of 145 vessels, £2077 2s. 3d. The return ;of arrivals and receipts for the last twelve months is very fa vourable ; the total arrivals amounting to 15,445, and the total receipts to £174,222 16s. Id. The arrivals of the pre vious year were 14,820, and the receipts £161,843 18s. 11d., so that there is an increase in the former of 625 vessels, and in the latter of £12,378175. 2d.