The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-31 00:00:00

thcastrint SI, 1833. woIi.PARIIPPOIVIROPWw. , OI ,3 . OI more ample ones presented bhe Secretary of the Treasury, that the chang,e in the dep osits which has been ordered 'has been deemed to be called tor by con s id era ti ons w hi c h are not affected by the proceedings referred to, and which if correctly viewed by that Department render e d it s ac t a ma tt er o f imperious duty. Coining as you d o f ur t h e most part, immediatel from the peopl e an d the States, by election, and possessing the fullest op portunity t o k now their sentiments the present Congress will be sin cere l y solicitous-to carry into 'full and fair effect the will of their constituents in regard to this institution. It will be to those In whose behalf we all act, to. decide whether the Execu tive department of the government, in the steps which it has taken on the subject, has been found in the line of its ditty. The accompanying retain of the Secretary at War, with the documents annexed to it, exhibit the operations of the War Department for the past year, and the condition of the various subjects entrusted to its administration. It will be seen from them that the Army maintains the cha racter it has hitherto acquired for efficiency and military know ledge. Nothing has occurred since your last session to require its services beyond the ordinary routine of duties, which upon the sea-board and the inland frontier devolve upon it in time of peace.—The gstem, so wisely adopted and so long pursued, of constructing fortifications at exposed points, and of preparing and collecti ng t h e supplies necessary for the military defence of the country p and thusprovidently fur n i s hing in p e ace the means of defence in war, has been continued with the usual results. I recommend to your consid era ti on th e var i ous su bj ec t s sug gested i n the Report of the Secretary of War. Their adoption would p romote the public service and meliorate the condition of the Army. Our relations with the various Indian Tribes have been un disturbed since the termination of the difficulties growing out of the hostile aggressions of the Sacs and Fox Indians. Several treaties have been, formed for the relinquishment of territory to the Unit e d States, and for the migration of the occupants to the region assigned .for their residence west of the Mississippi. Should these treaties be ratified by the Senate, provision will have be en ma d e for the removal of almost all the tribes re- Maiuing east of that river, and for the termination of many difficult and embarrassing questions arising out of their ano malous political condition. It is to be hoped that those por tions of two of the southern tribes, which in that event will present the only remaining difficulties, will realise the neces sity of emigration, and will speedily resort to it. My original convictions upon this subject have been confirmed by the course of events for several years, and experience is every day adding to their strength. That those tribes cannot exist, surrounded by our settlenaeills, and in rontinual contact With our citizens, is cer tain. Thei have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor- the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition. Established in the midst of ano ther and a superior race, and without appreciating the causes of their inferiority, or seeking to control them, they must necessarily yield to the force of circumstances and ere long disappear. &WI has been their fate heretofore, and if it Is to be averted, and it is, it can only be done by a general removal beyond our boundary, and by the re-orga nization of their politiCal system upon principles adapted to the new relations In which they will be placed. The experiment which has been recently uraAle7has so far proved successful. The emigrants generally are represented to be. prosperous and contented, the country suitable to their wants and habits, and the essential articles of sub aistence easily procured. When the report of the Commissioners now engaged in investigating the condition and prospects of these Indians, and in devising a plan for their intercourse and Government is received, I trust ample means of information will be in possession of the Govern- Mein for adjusting all the unsettled questions connected with the in teresting subject. The operations of the Navy daring the year, and its present con dition, are fully exhibited in the annual report from the Navy Department. S uggestions are made by the Secretary, of various, improvements which deserve careful consideration, and most of which, if adopted, bird fair to promote the efficiency of this important branch of the pub lic service. Among these are the new organization of the Navy B oard, the revision of the pay. to officers, and a change in the period f ° fie, or in .the manner of making the annual appropriations, to Which I beg leave to call your particular attention. The views which are presented on almost every portion of our naval concerns, and especially on the amount of force, and the number of ° Meer's, and the general course of policy appropriate in the spresent state of our country, fOr securing the great and useful purposes of na valarprotection in peace, and due preparation for the contingencies of . meet with my entire approbation. It will be perceived from - the 'report referred to, that the fiscal con cerns of the establishment are in an excellent condition, and it is slieped that Congress may feel disposed to make promptly every suitable provision desired, either for preserving or improving the Syste m , The General Post Office Department , has continued upon the strength of its own resources to facilitate the means of communica tion between the various portions of the Union with increased acti- Tay. The m e th o d , however, in which the accounts of the transport ation of the mail has always been kept, appears to have presented an imperfect view of its expences. It has recently been discovered that from the earliest records of the Department, the annual state tnents have been calculated to exhibit an amount considerably short of the actual-expenses incurred for that service. These illusory state ments, together with the expense of carrying into effect the law of the last session of Congress, establishing new mail routes, and a dis position on the part of the Head of the Department to gratify the Wishes of the public in the extension of mail facilities, have induced Lim to ineur responsibilities for their improvement beyond what the current resources of the Department would sustain. As soon as he had discovered the imperfection of the method, he caused an inves tigation to be made of its results, and applied the proper remedy of correct the evil. It became necessary for him to withdraw some to .t,lje i mprovements which he had made, to bring •the expenses of the Liepartment within its own resources. These expenses were incur- Led for the public good, and the public have enjoyed their benefit.— They are now but partially suspended, and that-where they may be • atinued w ith t h e least inconvenience to the country. Vrogressive increase in the income from postages has equalled the "%nest expectations, and it affords demonstrative evidence of the growing importance and.great utility of this deartment. The details are exhibited in the accompanying report - from the Postmaster General. A The many distressing accidents which have of late occurred in that _portion of our nav i gat i on carr i ed on by the use of steam power, deserve the immediate and unremitted attention of the constituted authorities of the country. The fact that the number of these fatal disasters is constantly increasing, notwithstanding the great improvements which are everywhere made in the machinery employed, and the rapid ad- . 'ranee* which have been made in that branch of science, shbw very clearly that they are in a great degree the result of criminal negligence ran the part of those by Whom the vesaels are naeigated. and to whose care and attention the lives and, roperty of our citizens are so exten sively entrusted- • That these evils may he greatly lessened, if not substantially re nered, by means of precautionary and penal legislation, seems to be highly probable: so far, therefore, as the subject can be regarded as within the constitutional purview of Congress, I earnestly reeom- Mend it to your prompt and serious consideration. I would also call your attention to the views I have heretofore ex pressed of the propriety of amending the Constitution in relation to the mode of electelg the President and the Vice President of the United States. Regarding it as all important to the future quiet and h mony of the people, th a t ever y i n t erme di a t e ageneyin the elec tion of the se o ff icers should be removed, and that their- eligibility should be limited to one.term of either four or six years, I cannot too earnestly invite your consideration of the subject: Trusting that your deliberations on all the topics of general interest to which .1 .have adverted, and such others as your more extensive knowledge of the w an t s o f our b e l ove d country may suggest, may b e Which it may be in my power to.afford them. Plitahington, 3d Dec 1833. ANDREW JACKSON. CORONER'S INQUESTS. . . MAsrseatmweta.--On Saturday last, an inquest was held, by adjournment from Friday, before James Crosbie, Esq., one of the coroners for the borough, on view of the body of the Irishman n ame d Gandy, who was killed in the affray in Kitchen street, as a ll a d e d to in our paper of Friday last. The following. d are the particulars of the sh oc ki ng occurence , as d eta il e d i n evi ence : Andrew. APA. - nally, an Irish labourer, stated that on Sunday e vening, abo u t' se V en o ' c l ock, he was going across Blundell street teem Crosbie-street along with lais.wile, when he saw the d eceased, Joh n Gandy; he was neithe r .d run k nor so b e r, and said he w as going home. At the corner of the street there were five men standiug, among whom were James Harris and his brother, and James Shanuon. When the deceased got up to them, he was knocked down ; but the wit ness cou ld not say by whi c h of them, and he was too far off to hear whether any words h a d previously. passed. Witness ran up to them, and was knocked down also, but could not tell by whom, and Harris ran off with his bat. Witness then got up and made his escape. had known the deceased eight years. Had heard ther e - *eas a quarrel between Harris and the - deceased about three years ago. Michael Halloran, another labourer, deposed that he was in his own house, in Reynold's-court, and heard an alarm that Gandy was killed in Si mpson -street. H e ran to t h e spot, and found a great crowd and h noise. Gandy was standing in the channel, and his wi m fe uc holding him up. He had his right hand on hi s belly, and complained of being hurt there. !le wanted to lie down where he was. Witness assisted his wife to take him home, and said he would dress , his head. He said he did not care for his head, he was stabbed in the belly. When laid on his bed, witness opened hi s b reast, and saw two h o l es in his belly, about as far asunder as the pron gs o f a carving fork., His head was cut on the right side, and bled much. Witness asked what had happened, and he said it was a man named James Kelly who had done it. Saw the deceased on Monday evening, when he was dying. He made no observe tions then. Thomas Paddon went to see the deceased on Monday last at four o'clock. He was very ill, and seemed afraid he was goin to die. Wi tness asked if he knew who hurt him, and he said it was the Kellys and James Shannon. Ho said another man named Patrick Sh er id an was partly in fault, and when he found they were slaughtering lint, Element away and left him. Witness went again to see him, between eight aud ninie.o'clock in the evening. Ile was worse, but sensible. Fifteen leeches were put upon him, and he died soon after. . Paul Gilding, a watchman, heard on Monday night that Kelly was at M'Conochie's, in Simpson-street, and went to apprehend him. FoUnd Shannon there, who said he was asleep at the time of the affray, in M'Conochie's house. While he was proceeding alongZiorfolk-street with Robert Campbell, another watchma n , Kelly (Har r i s ) came up, and said he was one of th e men they were looking for. Had known-liarris for a year and a halt ; and he always went b y t h e name of James- Kelly. James Murphy, h a i r d resser, C ros bi e-street, heard the de ceased say that K e ll y h a d sta bb e d hi m. Knew Harris by that name. Mr. Alfred Higinson, surgeon at the South Dispensary, Was called in to the deceased, at fo ur o ' c l oc k on Monday morn ing. Found a wound two inches in length on his head, but the hone was not broken. Examined the wounds in his belly, N ti l;ich might have been made by a fork. The pains extended e " v over his belly, which was slightly swelled. He vomited w s 6al tomes While witness- stayed. He said he was . not sober Jo. : cit happened. Said he had been injured by reeaCl Kelly and another man, whose name witness does not titre s i n‘er. Witness prescribed for him, and saw him three and 44. e" Visited him with Mr. Cooper at halepast four, hope saw ,lira finally at eight in the evening, when there was no d °` "is recovary. Witness opened the body on Wednes loYdreadorriling. The brain was healthy, but the vessels were t , rth dark coloured blood. The punctures extended into ti ne cavity ot the belly, and extended an inch and a half higher tt p than the maternal marks. Marks of intense inflammation, of vizeent crlial„ter, through the whole cavity of the belly, were Wounds I ' • is of Opinion that the inflammation producedby the in the belle caused his death. pr tfr. Crewe, the altorney., attended th e inquiry on behalf of the tti aners 2 and cros s-examined th e witnesses with a view to shake eir testimony but ' den ee . • /without effect, and the whole of the evi °mug aaduced, (of which the above is the substance,) tule_ i.ter,y,_without hesitation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter _el loe n ,t James Harris tstid James Shannon, and the coroner 4-,,,T itted both the nr, prisoners to Lancaster to take their trials ' n uke next assizes. ‘4lll n BußNED.—Yeaterdav another inquisition was taken lainefuireefihe same coronr touching the death of William Burns, It ep ant of five on e s,y f ag e - ho met his death by burning. 11,..„Peered from the evide n • ' ;" ataatn g ar - • in L e that the deceased was the son of .n . g d ay, at us, residing hereon -street, and that the follow with anoth_noon, the mother left the deceased in the house, Are, in which child, about seven years of age, playing near the one of thebb.urning Are, took chips were burping. In her absence the aeetally set fire to embers from the grate, and acci- that it died a few h mieelf: The child was so inuch burned preseri.ptions of 14 1 *N3t.irs afterwards, notwithstanding the able N hitley, the sun eon . e Verdul of Acciden t The jury returned ntal death. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH,STREET. HIS 'present TUESDAY EVENING, the 31st instant, will be presented the popular Nautical Romance,called THE PILOT; • On, A STORM AT SEA. Long Tom Coffin (as - 'originally acted by him) Mr. T. P. Cooke, in which character -be will ° sing his descriptive songs -of "Long Tom Coffin's Courtship," -and " A Sailor's Consolation in. a Storm," and dance the celebrated llornpi e To which will be added an entirely new rand let of Action, THE PRINCE AND THE: 'S E. To conclude with BLACK-EYED SUS ; OR, ALL IN TIM DO . • With the original Music selected -fr Dibdin's songs, by Mr. Blewitt. William Mr. T. P. Cooke. In which character he will introduce the song "Bound 'Prentice to a Coasting Ship," and dance his celebrated Hornpipe. Tickets and Places for the Boxes may be had of Mr. Carman, feona Eleven. till Three o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Several letters, and various local notices, are unavoidably postponed. riJc Eiberpool TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1833. The speech of Mr. President JACKSON will be found elsewhere. There is little irr it to interest the people of this country ; for, singularly enough, they are only once alluded to in relation to the erection of a light-house on some one of the Bahama islands. The. PRESIDENT is extremely dolorous throughout the whole of his oration. He accuses the United States Bank of bribery and corruption, of causing panics, of influencing the press, and thwarting the measures of the government. He charges the masters of steam-boats with wilful neglect in navigating these vessels, and drowning the citizens. He complains that the VICE PRESIDENT and other officers of the government are improperly elected. He complains that Portugal has not paid her it4talt4gOts,i,,and he accus_ea..LQum PHILIPPE and the French government of dishonouring his drafts, and committing an act of bankruptcy. It appears that the French had stipulated to pay a certain sum of money, (how many dollars is not stated,) on the 2d February, 1833; and although he, General . .fAcKsoN, to prove his liberality, and show his regard for the new government of France, did not. draw upon them for the cash until the 23d day of March, yet even then, when the draft was presented, it " was not paid." This is a shocking affair, and the PRESIDENT feels very uncomfortable in consequence. But the French have sinned in other respects. He complains that they have not forwarded to him certain lists of burnt ships and other plunder, which they had solemnly pledged themselves to do on a given day, and which .he cannot understand their rea sons for not doing, seeing that it is' not an affair of money. Upon the whole, the speech is a melancholy one. The PRESIDENT evidently anticipates some warm work in Congress. His withdrawal of the deposits from the Bank was done upon his personal responsibility, and in the teeth of a resolution of the representatives, and he is compelled to publish six mortal columns in the news papers in defence of that transaction. The Bank have also their defence in reply ready ; in fact, it was pub lished on the 10th instant, the day the Silas Richards sailed; but unfortunately it. has not reached us. Not a word is said about the Alabama question, or the great work of nullification. This last is expected to be re vived; and, by all accounts, the session of Congress, now commenced, will be an unusually stormy. one. We have received a file of Jamaica papers to the 25th November. On that day the House of Assembly was to enter upon the final discussiOn of the Slavery Bill; but the packet did not wait the result At a previous sitting the house had inserted some of the original clauses of the bill, which were omitted in its subsequent stages in Parliament. There had been some excite ment among the negroes, who have recently been in the habit of submitting their frivolous complaints to 'the governor in person ; but the island generally was tran quil. IA. Spanish army, 6,000 strong, has entered Portugal, In open defiance of thela - ws of nations, and the stipula tions of solemn treaties. These laws are now treated by the liberals of Europe as the priests of Ireland treat the bible,—they are toped into the fire. The pretext for this invasion of Portugal is the apprehension of Don Carmos, whom they have not yet caught; but it is a fact that they have liberated the Portugese prisoners at Por talagre. When FERDINAND was alive he was prevented from interfering in the affairs of Portugal by the threat of the British government, that if a single Spanish soldier passed the frontier a British armament would be sent forthwith. What will Lord GREY or Lord PALMERSTON say or do now ? It is hinted somewhere that they also will inter fere. Let them do it in the name of all that is mis chievous—the more snares the better. They may con quer Portugal, but they could not keep it for a single hour without a standing army sent from England, and supported by English money. Mr. CANNING tried this and failed, but he had the good fortune to obtain some thing like a pecuniary recompense for the costs. At present there is not a single milrea to be screwed out of miserable Portugal, and, if we do send an armament, the ways and means will have to be provided by the unhappy Lord ALTIIORP, a task which is enough to drive that ho nest man mad. It is true that England may be compelled to take pos session of Portugal in her own defence. Louts PHI LIPPE, we understand, threatens to send a fleet to the Tagus, and, if we allow him the honour of settling the question, the vexatious part of the probability is, that he would keep the country to himself. It would delight that royal badaud to cut off the supply of Portugal wines. It would, raise the price of his own claret, and procure a market for his wretched tin ordinaire, the very smell of which would give JOHN BULL something analagous to the cholera. The French must be kept out of Portugal at all hazards, but the necessity of an armament at the present moment is a serious affair. We may put the cost clown at a million to begin with, and that, we take it, is being moderate. Portugal one million ; Irish clergy one million; Otho, of Greece, two millions and a half; (now certain ;) Irish tobacco one million ; West Indies twenty millions; additional ships in the Mediterranean one million ; aqd the different- commissions half a mil lion. These small items form a tolerably round sum, in all TWENTY-SEVEN MILLIONS, to be raised by Lord AL TIIORP on or before the month of March ! We wish him joy, and the compliments of the season. The Huddersfield election is expected to commence to-morrow. The candidates, as our readers already know, are Mr. SADLER and Mr. Commissioner BLACKBURNE.--- The Tatter is the . Whig candidate, and the nominee of Sir Somebody RamslYEN, who is also a Whig, and the prin cipal owner 'of property in the borough. • Hudder s fi e ld obtained the franchise under the reform bill, and is allowed to return one member to Parliament. At its formation the borough was sliced out and divided according to the Whig practice. This RamsDEN being a Whig, the town was moulded to suit his convenience, and the representation to a certain extent was placed in his hands. The people who inhabit the suburbs of Hud dersfield were excluded from the franchise, for no other reason that can be assigned than the simple fact that they did not happen to be RAMSDEN'S tenants. The present, therefore, is an attempt on the part of Mr. SADLER to try the extent of the patron's influence, and establish, if pos sible, the independence of Huddersfield. He has, how ever, fearful odds to contend against, and we shall not be surprised if he be defeated. He has the government in fluence opposed to the Whigs opposed to him — and the RAMSDENS That the latter will leave no stone unturned to defeat the independent .candidate we may take for granted.— Honest RICHARD OASTLER, though a radical, is support ing Mr.,SADLEa, and he knoWs how the RAMSDF.N influ ence was exerted at the last elec4ion. He supported Captain WooD on that occasion, mill in alluding to it he says:— " Now it happened that in doing so;" (supporting Captain Wood) " I got into an awkard dilemma with my master; fo r Mr. Ramsden, who was exceedingly angry with me for supporting TII E LIVERPOOL STiU\''.DA Captain Wood, got hig father to write to Mr.Thornhill to info rm hint that I was,-supporting Captain Wool. Mr.Thorphill wrote to me, telling me that 'he would not alloW - me to support a Radical and continue in his service; and I wrote to Mr. Thurn hill that I supported Captain Wood, because he was a hearty supporter of the factory child's cause, and that whatever a Radical might be, he was better than a Whig who would go and endeavour to take an honest man's living from himbecause he was acting according to his judgment. I continued to sup port-Captain Wood." The Halifax Guardian states that the same intimida tion is going on now, which, considering what the Whigs are,' and the intense regard they have for the liberty of the subject, we can easily believe. The decision of the VICE CHANCRLLOR, which we briefly noticed in our last, with respect to trust-property held by Unitarians, involves considerations of the highest importance to all who have - any regard for the preserva tion, without the pale of the Church, of pure and unadul terated Christianity in England. -But for that decision public opinion on this vital question might have remained dormant for the next, as it has dune for the last, fifty years. The spoiler has slowly stolen in—he has almost imper ceptibly laid his sacrilegious hands upon one endowment after another—he has pilfered the holy relics of the pious and the benevolent—he has marred and mangled the sacred volume, and he has turned the clearest precepts and doctrines of the scriptures against the humble and sincere worshipper, not only profaning the divine oracles, but making a fanciful infidelity a cover for fraud and ag grandizement. The fraud, however, has at length been ,discovered—the decision of the learned judge has un masked the jugglers-'-the light is no longer hid under a bushel—the imposition is made as clear as day, and the hour of justice and retribution is all but come. These, we admit, are serious charges to make against the Unitarians, or any other sect of professing Christians, especially that sect whose ambition is so lofty—who have, pompously led the van in the march of reform—who cla mour so vehemently against exclusive privileges, and who make war alike upon the church and all the venerable institutions of the country. Yes! They are serious charges, but not more grave than true ; which we shall prove them to be, to the satisfaction of every honest and intelligent man, before we have done with them. It shall be our concern to prove that, whilst these people who call themselves Unitarians, have been officiously, and for mere selfish purposes, prying into the affairs of corporations, detecting abuses in the Church, advocating a spurious and unchristian system of education, and attempting to re model the laws, they have at the same time been worming theinselves into the property of others—misappropriating the pious bequests of the honoured dead—paying away the widow's mite contrary to her expyess and dying com mands—and by an ingenious and systematic course of fraud perverting from their objects and uses those funds left by our pious and benevolent ancestors for the propa gation of their and our fundamental truths of Christianity. It is not a little singular that . the decision of the VICE 61ANCELLOR, and the full blush of this important disco very, should have come upon us at a juncture when these very Unitarians were making so conspicuous a figure in investigating the alleged abuses of corporations. Imma culate patriots ! they were honestly engaged in pulling out the mote from their neighbour's eye, apparently quite unconscious of the beam that was in their own. They were assisting in the world's regeneration, unmindful of the monstrous abuses, and the accumulated rottenness, and the ill-gotten wealth of their own once holy but now desecrated temples. They were sounding the high note of reform in the church, in the law, and in the corpora= tions; but most of them, it is charitable to suppose, little dreamt of the corruptions and abuses which they as a body have to answer for—or that the dreaded day had come when the levelling voice of a just reform, proceeding, as it were, like an awful sound from the tomb, and calling upon them to account for their malversations, their perfidies, their usurpations, and the frauds of the last fifty years ! That clay, however, has come; and we will take care, as far as our humble means will admit, that it shall be a day of strict and unsparing reckoning. The circumstances which first led to the inquiry into the pious bequests of Lady HEWLEY, and the conduct of the Unitarians who have, for many years held possession of the property, and have, contrary to the express objects Of the trust, been applying it to their own antichristian purposes, occurred at Manchester, about nine years ago. A dinner was given in that town by the leading Unita rians, to a certain" teacher and preacher" . of their order, of the very odd name of ,GRUNDY, who was on the eve of emigrating to Liverpool, for the very worthy purpose of extending, if possible, the denying doctrines of his sect in this town. His admirers in Manchester gave this man a silver tea-service, and over their joy and wine they indulged in oratory, proclaimed their mental and moral superiority over every other class of Christians, and went so far as to make a most insolent and indecent attack upon the principles of the Church of England, and of those sects who, dissenting from her, still revere her pure and scriptural doctrines. The individual selected for this attack was a Mr. HAR RIS, (whether now dead or alive we know not; but we wish some of our Manchester friends would favour us with a few notes upon the persons who figured in the " Socinian controversy,")—a Mr. HARRIS of Bolton, who had received a call at a rather late period of life, and who had given up the drudgery of some comparatively useful profession in London, in order to become a shining light among the Unitarians. In order that our readers may have some idea of the sentiments of these persons, and the declamation of this HARRIS, which gave offence to the rest of the Dissenters, we shall here print his own words : "I am confident that I am addressing men of liberality and intelligence ;—men who arc anxious for the improvement, the freedom, and the happiness of the race of which they form a part; and, therefore, I am the more desirous of impressing on your minds the vast and unspeakable importance of Unita rianism, as a means of human civilization and instruction. This is a point of view in which, I think, it has not yet-been sufficiently considered, even by its friends; but it is one of which I think it is admirably deserving, and which will appear the more clearly, if we contrast for alnoment the spirit which the two opposing systems are calculated to generate. For what is the spirit of Ortholoxy? Is .it not a slavish spirit ? but the spirit of Unitarianism is one of rational and enlightened liberty. The spirit of Orthodoxy is a mean spirit, for it bends before the dictation of a worm of the earth, and its essence consists, as its own advocates aver, in the. prostration of the human under standing;! but .the spirit:of Unitarianism is open, generous, liberal. The'one is pardal and capricious, viewing the favour ites of Heaven only in a .selected few, whilst Unitarianism sees in every man a brother, training up for the glorious importance which awaits all the family of the Eternal; The spirit of Or thodoxy is a cruel and vindictive spirit : witness its excommuni cations and its inquisitions ;—the spirit of Unitarianism is merciful and. benevolent; anxious for man's rights, and detest ing revenge. The spirit of Orthodoxy is one of persecution:— look at the Athanasian Creeds, and Test and Corporation Acts; see the unbeliever—oh ! shams . and scandal!—even in the nineteenth century, dragged before 'the tribunal of man, to answer for his supposed want of faith, and behold judges acting under the abused name of that Christianity, which, they say, is part and parcel of the law of the land, inflicting sentences, which even the worst of crimes would scarcely sanction; but Unitarian ism is free as the winds of Heaven, and desires that every human creature may be so too. Orthodoxy says it encourages inquiry; it may do so to a certain point; but when a human being ar rives at that, it is the language of its deeds, hitherto shalt thou go, but no further. Unitarianism, however, has no laud-marks on the shores of knowledge—like the swelling waves of the ocean, it is spirit and it is life. Orthodoxy would strip a man of the name of Christian, and would shut him out from all the rewards of Heaven, unless he can pronounce the shibboleth of an intolerant party; whilst Unitarianism affirms, that in every nation, aye, in every sect, he who feareth God, and worketh righteousness, shall be accepted of him. Orthodoxy is bound up in creeds and confessions, and articles of faith with int-y blots, and rotten parchment bonds ;—but Unitarianism, like the word of the ever-living Jehovah, is not, and cannot be bound. Ortho doxy is gloom, and darkness, and desolation. Unitarianism is light, and liberty and joy. The influence of this system on human civilization, human liberty, and , human happiness, has already been tried; it has been tried for ages; and its direful and demoralizing effects may be read in the history of every nation under the sun. It has been weighed, sir, and has it not been found most miserably wanting ? Let the state-craft, and the priest-craft, and the war and the slavery, by which mankind have been cursed for ages, answer the question. What then remains; but that every friend of his species should unite iu trying the effects of the other system." This is Unitarianism ! This is what Unitarians think of the Orthodox principles of the churches of England and gcotland, and of hose of nine-tenths of the Christian iiissenters ! This speech, and theSe sentiments, were I -loudly cheered by the phalanx of Manchester Socinians, rand, as might be expected, it Was the crowning - triumph of the . night. The marrow of the speech lies in a nut shell. It is this. Those'who believe in the divinity of our Saviour are the worshippers of worms, a race of bigots and persecutors, mean, vindictive, and illiberal wretches; whereas those who deny the divinity of the SAVIOUR are the noblest of human beings, the most gifted of the sons of men, the only lights sent to illuinine the - earth. This, we say, is the marrow of this man's (HAartis) speech, and we dismiss it without saying another word. This, however, we must say, for it is necessary to our case, that the sentiments which Mr. HARRIS expressed have never, to the present hour, been repudiated by any of the per sons presentat its delivery, or by any one leading Unita rian ! There it stands against us. The slander has gone forth; the insult has never been atoried for; and the paltriest, most heartless, most aspiring, most grasp ing, and most contemptible sect in Europe have been permitted to misrepresent, and libel every other order of sincere, exemplary, and conscientious Christians. But we leave these points to be settled by those who feel more interested than we do, or it would become us to acknow ledge in an article devoted to more secular objects. This speech from the " teacher" of Bolton-le• Moors initiated the controversy which was carried on with almost matchless talent in the pages of a Manchester paper. We have waded through the whole of ,it with great delight; and we must render justice to whom it is due, by saying, that we have never seen a controversy conducted with greater forbearance, terseness of language, aptness of in duction, conciseness of reasoning, judgment in the selec tion of facts, or conclusiveness in the argument, than that used in defence of orthodox sentiments by the corre spondents of the journal in question. We say this in justice to Manchester; and no man can take up the boa with6ut admitting, that in that town and its vicinity mechanics are not the only study. There is a letter written by a Mr. TURNER, and two, we think, by a Mr, HADFIELD, of the very first order as literary compositions. As might be expected, the Unitarians were most severely punished. They were driven from every position; ex posed in every assumed fallacy ; convicted of imposture and usurpation by their own admissions; charged with fraud under circumstances which carried with them a strong moral, if not legal conviction, and so harassed and home pushed that, like all frantic liberals, they threatened a prosecution againSt, what they were pleased to term, the "personal and invidious liberties of the press." This is the invariable refuge of all pretended patriots. The advocates of orthodox opinions contended that the Unitarians had no legal right to most of the chapels in which their teachers presided; that they derived their consequence and influence from usurpation; that the funds by which a majority of their ministers were support • • ed had been given in trust for objects and uses inversely connected with their professed sentiments ; and that the alms and bequests of nonconformists of the Presbyterian and Independent persuasion had been diverted from the original intention of the donors, and Applied to the pro pagation of doctrines which they personally abhorred. Lady HEWLEY'S charity was brought in the foreground, as a prominent Charge of defection and malappropriation. This exemplary lad?, who had lived in the times of the two CHARLES'S, was a nonconformist, or in other words a Presbyterian. She left certain funds for the maintenance of widows, poor clergymen, and others, of her pal ti tular faith. These funds were devoted to religious and strictly orthodox purposes. She was, during her life and at her death, a rigid Calvinist, and her tenets were as much opposed to Socinianism and Unitarianism as light is from darkness. By the Toleration Act of WILLIAM TILE THIRD it was decreed, that no person could take any benefit or privilege under that act who denied the divinity of CHRIST. Therefore, by this act, independent of the express limitations of Lady HEWLEY'S will, the Uni tarians had no pretext whatever for applying her bequests to their purposes. They did, however, so apply them. Socinianism, about the middle of the last century, took root amongst certain parties ; philosophy in its leading strings invaded Christianity ; the sons and daughters of pious divines aspired to a new system of teleology; and the divinity which was lovely in a cottage, with a sanded floor, and a twelve o'clock dinner, was soon found to be irreconcileable with the sentiments of a new deism which spurned the orthodoxy of a divine sacrifice. The "teach ers" of this new doctrine were of the higher middle classes. Their self-sufficiency gave them an arrogance which they may have derived from money and limited education, but which they did not receive from birth or any intercourse with their superiors. It was with them something like a fashion to carp at old institutions—to contest established doctrines—to deny the maxims of orthodoxy—to laugh at the dogmas of the Church—to sneer at the recognized in terpretations of the Bible—to contemn and disbelieve what in their shallow minds they could not comprehend—and, in the exercise of their vanity, to rear a new system on what they called the ruins of the old. Had they done this by legitimate means therezvould have been no grounds of grievance. But they did not hesitate to apply their secular influence as trustees to their heretical and degrad ing purposes. They seized upon the property which they held in trust! Money left for orthodox was applied to heterodoxical purposes. The alms of the dead, bequeath ed to pious persons, believers in the vital truths of Chris tianity, for their sole use and benefit, were perverted to objects contrary to the will and abhorrent to the senti ments of the devisors. The trustees acted as if they had been heirs of entail. They forgot that they were mere executors, having onerous and responsible but prescribed duties to perform; and in defiance of their obligations, deeming theniselves safe in possession, with no human eye to see them, and no human hand to correct them, they expelled the righteous and lawful owners fl orn their houses of prayer—they robbed the poor and simple—they intimidated the weak—they defrauded the pious—they plundered the dead—they profaned the temples set apart for true Christian observances, and they introduced as ministers the superficial sophists of their own caste to sully, what they could not honour, and make a wretched deism a substitute for the truths of the Gospel. It has already been proved that such acts of flagitious malversation, and malappropriation have been commit ted by the Unitarian trustees under Lady HEWLEY'9 will. Property, estimated at more than two hundred thousand pounds, and yielding a revenue of between four and five thousand pounds per annum, has, in the manner above described, fallen into the hands of Unitarians, and has been appropriated by them to Unitarian purposes, con• trary to the express injunctions of the benevolentfounder. This point, indeed, has been settled by the VICE-CHAN CELLOR, and, therefore, any further notice . of it here would be superfluous. But are there not other trusts, other endowinents, other chapels, • other almshouseS, nearer home, in this county, in.the very vicinity of Li verpool, at present in the possession of Unitarians which do not belong to them, and from . which they should be ejected in due course-of law ? Most unquestionably there are, and it shall not be our fault if the subject be not pro perly and rigidly investigated.. It is a melancholy fact, that there are upwards of two hundred Unitarian chapels in England, one hundred and seventy of which were built, and most of them endowed, and dedicated to the true worship of GOD by orthodox Christians. If we can spare the room we shall publish a list of these chapels in Lan cashire and Yorkshire on Friday. The exemplary and pious 'congregations which once filled these chapels now sleep with their humble fathers outside of those walls now profaned. We cannot call them from their graves to bear witness against their usurpers. Peace to their ashes ! they will be avenged. We have living witnesses and tangible documents, able advocates and upright judges, to sustain the cause of truth and justice. There must be an ample restitution of the property. The trus tees will have to render a strict account, and those funds devoted to religious purposes must be wrested from the possession of men who make a mockery of the intentions of the donors. These chapels must be reclaimed; the fraudulent translation of the scriptures must be ejected from the venerable place in Chester where MATTHEW HENRY preached ; the withering pestilence of infidelity must be checked; the old forms of worship must be re vived ; new 'congregations must be collected, and the money-changers, the jobbers, and the demagogues must be driven from the temple. But more of this hereafter. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. There has beenssome fluctuation in our Consol market since we last wrote. Tile price this morning has been as high as 90 for the Account, but the market became very much agitate towards the afternoon, and the price closed at 89i 90. Exche quer Bills are 45 to 46, and India Bonds 22 to 21. In our Foreign market the Northern Bonds became flat at the decline of Consols. Russian closed at 1035 104; Dutch 25 per Cents. at 504 ; Danish at 735 ; and Belgian at 965. Portu guese Stock _has also become very fiat; Old Bonds are 565 5, and the Regency 565 5. Brazilian Bonds closed at Gil„,--trad Spanish at X 3 15. The advices from Washington furnish the following niatifica tion from the Treasury Department on the subject of blankets, which is of some interest to the importers of that article 'sr " The expression in the act of 14th July, 1832, in relation to blankets, being general, and _although on that account the act may be considered defective, still I have my doubts whether any 'rreasury regulation, defining a rule defining what sizes this particular kind of goods shall be of to 'constitute a blanket within the meaning and intention of the law, could be sustained, I therefore deem it the most desirable course to authorize the admission or such goods to entry as blankets, provided their sizes be such as that t hey can fairly, and according to mercan tile usage and custom, fie considered blankets suitable for the general purposes of blankets. " In carrying this instruction into effect, it is desirable that the different importers of the article be placed, as nearly as possible, upon au equality. (Signed) " JOSEPH ANDERSON, Comptroller." Mr. Alderman Thompson, as we predicted, has finally retired from the chair at Lloyd's; and his lace in the committee, and in point of fact in the chair, will be balloted for on the 22d proximo. We have two candidates; Mr. Robinson, M.P. for Worcester, and Mr. Maxwell, M.P. The former gentleman seems to be the favourite. THE TOWN-CLERK AND MR. JAMES LOWE. We have been requested to republish the following letter, with additional quotations:— TO MU. JAMES LOWE. Toivn-clerk's Office, 271 h Dec., 1833. SIR,—I have received your letter of the 2.ith instant, in which you furnish me with the following 'particulars of the all eg ed "various stat e ments" and "false facts," as those which you state that you "most pointedly alluded to," in your letter in the Mercury, of the kilt instant. I have numbered them as follows, and referred to the numbers in my answers:— Nu. I.—That you " made assertions which, if uncontradicted, would leave an impression ou the minds of the commissioners and the public." 2.—That you " misstated the objects of the merchants in re sisting the payment of town dues." 3. — ' That you "wantonly aspersed the character and memory of the late Mr. Statham." 4.—That you "resorted to proceedingi oppressive, unneces sary, and unprofessional, and that the costs which Messrs. Bol ton had incurred in such proceedings would have to be paid by the Corporation." s.—That "the great expense to which the Corporation had been put has arisen from your proceedings." 6.—" That the fifty or sixty actions which were brought were indebted for their oriin to those proceedings." 7.—That you "had gone to London iu -consequence of the costs of the Corporation. being in the course of taxation." B.—" That the delay in settling the question is with you." 9.—That you " had not done What." you " promised to do." 10.—That, "in fact, all the-evils resulting from the non-settle ment of the town dues question are attributable to" your "pro ceedings." In answer, I beg to make the following statements : As to Nos. 1 and 2.—1 refer you to-the report of what I stated before the Municipal Commissioners, as detailed in Mr. Eger ton Smith's publication, in pages 62 and 63; and I now dis tinctly avow the assertions therein reported to have been made by me, so far as relates to the "statements and inferences" on these two of your charges against me. 'The length of these statements alone prevents me from here setting them forth. As to No. 3.—1 deny having given any character to your ex pressions regarding the late - Mr. Statham ; which were, (see page 29 of Mr. Smith's publicatiou,) "that these town dues 'were indebted for their origin to corporate usurpation, and that the title which was set up in London, the other day, by the Corporation, was a mere invention of the late Town-clerk, Mr. Statham, and his counsel, in the year 1831." That you would "have occasion to produca the oath of the late Town-clerk, and an assertion, under the Corporation seal, that, until the year 1831, they never knew what their title was." On this matter I will only refer to the observations of your own client, Mr. Bol ton, (which, though not inserted in Mr. Smith's hook, Mr. Bolton will perfectly remember,) viz. on the 29th November, in reply to my . remarks on this part of your statement, Mr. Bolton said, " i believe Mr. Lowe made use of an expression, perhaps inadvertently, and I think I may sail unfortunately, which was, that the legal claim set up to these town dues was an 'in vention.' " As to No. 4.—1 deny that I asserted the chancery proceedings to be "unprofessional." I repeat that I consider them oppres sive and unnecessary, inasmuch as the Corporation must have shown and estaf.lished their title to the town dues, in order to have obtained a verdict to recover them in a court of law. And, with regard to the costs and expenses alluded to in this, and in No. 5, I repeat, that the - expenses attending the chancery pro ceedings have greatly tended to augment the amount of costs incurred by the Corporation, and further, that Messrs. Bolton and Co. have had costs awarded by the Court of Chancery, to be paid by the Corporation to them, in many of these proceed ings. As to No. 6.-I refer to my explanations given before the Municipal Commissioners, as reported by Mr. Egerton Smith, in page 64, for the reasons why the fifty or sixty additional ac tions were commenced. These reasons I stated as follows " It had been imputed to the Common Council, as a matter of blame, that so many actions had been commenced, and it was, therefore, due to the Common Council that I should state how -the matter really stood. After the bill of discovery was filed by Messrs. Bolton and Co. for the purpose of compelling the Com mon Council to set out every particular respecting their claim and title to these dues, it would be recollected that the Com mon Council, acting under the advice of counsel, and conceiv ing that the demand was oppressive, and contrary to the law of the land, resisted that unlimited bill of` iscoveiy ; and when they did so. about fifty . or sixty other merchants, instead of waiting till the matter in issue was settled by the decision of the cause then pending, immediately refused payment of the dues on the ground that the Common Council were not fairly resisting the application made by this bill of discovery. What other course was then left for the Common Council to pursue, but that which they adopted? Finding that these" parties were not disposed to wait the issue of the cause already pending, but refused to pay town-dues on their own goods, the Common Council commenced actions against each of them, and in doing that they did no, more than became necessary to obtain payment of such town-. dues as were then due, or might afterwards become due." As to No. 7.—1 did not state that you went to London solely on account of the taxation of the costs ; but that I might assume you knew that such taxation was to take place, in the very week in which you went to London. As to Nos. 8,9, and 10.—I repeat that the delay in settling this question, one way or other, by argument of the bill of ex ceptions, (as I can prove by your men letters,) has, rested for some months with, and is now imputable to you, or to your counsel. — That you have not fulfilled . your written engagements to me to have this bill of exceptions in a course to be argued last No vember; on the contrary, although you were informed, in reply to your request to me, on the 26th October last, that upon ap plication by your agent to mine in Loudon, you should have the book from which you might obtain the copies and particu lars of the documents, which you THEN said were wanted for the purpose of completing this bill of exce ptions; you never ap plied for the information until Tuesday' last, the 2 lth December instant,—on this account I do not consider that I should have been wrong, even had I, as you erroneously state, attributed all the evils resulting from the non-settlement of the town dues question to your proceedings, or rather to your delay in not forwardinc , the preparations of the bill of exceptions. Having thus discharged my duty to those whom I represent in giving a public answer to the " statements and inferences" you have thought proper to particularise, I shall abstain h6C after from any further comment in the newspapers; upon mat ters connected with this important quesAorochich still remains undecided beforethe legal tribunals- the country.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., '-' THOMAS FOSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LivERPnOL STANDARI): Sits,—Can you inform me if M . It. ..,00rtimuse—who is at present endeavouring to establish himself as a teacher of young gentlemen—be the same _notable personage who made such an unwarrantable attack upon the free schools connected with the Established Church before the Municipal UummisSioners ? If this be the same sapient gentleman, his case will furnish another instance of the corrupt and self-inteiested motives which in duced some obscure individuals to put themselves su officiously forward on that memorable occasion. I should feel.obbe,Ted if you would give this a place in your paper of Tuesday next, and -, - a ppend to it such observations as the merits of the case de serve.—Yours, &c. Liverpool, Dec. 28th, 1833. VINDEX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4ND./IRD. Sir.,—Humbug appears in such various forms, and even keeps pace with the growing intelligence of the times, that a few columns of your paper might be beneficially occupied in show ing up the various tricks and system of chicanery through dif ferent shades of respectability. In touching upon the lower grades of humbug I shall com mence with the tavern-keeper, who, in order to work his system with success, watches the different propensities of the gentlemen at the bar. One of these gentlemen may have a plenitude of self sufficiency. This person is easily duped. The publican, whi!st serving him with „"lass after.glass, pays him some fudging com pliments, by which, like the crow that dropped the cheese from its beak when flattered by the fox, he is completely taken off his guard, and begins to chatter and treat all those around him with " glasses round." This the publican declares promotes good fellowship. Good fellowship, indeed ! It 'promotes more "glasses round ;" and thus do many men of limited income not only unfit themselves for business, but spend more.money in an evening than would maintain a family of six persons with comfort the most part of a week. Another part of _the system is for the old foxes (the publican. and his wife) to sta tion their daughters, or their nieces, or the wife's second or third cousins, with fair faces, large bustles, and dressed heads, in the bar, to flatter and humbug these stupid crows. There are some men, whose wives and families movein a highly respectable sphere, who have contracted the habit a! walking in the night, like Sir John Falstaff and Bardolph, from tavern to tavern, under the pretext of seeing "what's going on," which is merely a self-satisfying excuse for taking at each house "a glass or two ; " unless their motive be, as I have heard it averred, they don't wish any one landlord or other person to know what quantity of drink, of various sorts, they consume in an evening. To these persons ; l shall just hint that such habits soon reduce them belOw that, grade of society which their wives and children continue to move in, as they frequently meet with persons of inferior, if not disreputable, characters in these hours when reason has lost her bias. They form acquaintances which in their sober: hours they are ashamed of; but, as in the course of time they become more besotted, they become less nice in their distinctions of society, until at length they are reduced to the level of a set of ale-swiping felllows with diseased intellects, not fit to compete in reasoning with an African black just im ported from the land of Hottentots, and thus become a burden and disgrace to a discreet and affectionate wife, who has, pro bably, educated her children and set them such a good exam ple that they are an ornament to society, until, perhaps, a sudden or violent death closes the scene. Only behold the stupid, vacant stare, with the glazeff eye and imperfect power of speech of the habitual drunkard! - Listen to his unmeaning observations, and his childish conversation with his fellows "well met,'" his neglected dress, his wasted, and, perhaps, in many cases, his fat, bloated form, in his pre mature sixth age, with the limb of the lean and slippered pan taloon, or the swollen limb indicating dropsy, and then say whether you ought to admit in your columns a.picture like this, which I cannot think too highly drawn. If you favour this letter, I shall address you, in a week or so, on other species of humbugs, such as auctioneer political hum bugs, cork-collar humbugs, et cum multis aliis.—Yours, &c. SUTOR. L( 4L NEWS. THE LIVERPO9_I4'6;AF-STEAK CLUB.—" laugh when we can," is, we suspect, one of maxims of this loyal, convivial, and consul they hfe announced their intention of givi pounds for the best original convivialglee for f and another of live pounds for the best origina. that may be offered them on or before the 19. Of all the provocatives to mirth and good fellows charity into the bargain,—the jocund song or the most potential; we therefore hope that cumin,.,. , thy of the prizes offered, will be the result. THE LADIES CHARITY ,BALL.—This ball, .we understand, took place at the Town-hall last night; but as no ticket was sent to this otike we arc unable to give any_ account of it. FlHE.—Last week a fire was fortunately discovered, about five o'cloele in the evening, in a cellar, in Fenwick-street, about half an hour after the porters had left it, and there is no doubt: of it having originated from the imprudent use of candles with out lanthurns, which is a very common practice in the ware houses in this town. The entire building must have been destroyed if the discovery hid happened many minutes after, as the cellar was filled with brimstone rind other combustibles; liut the Sun engine was very quickly got to work, followed by the Royal Exchange, and the flames were soon quenched. A SWINDLING FOOTMAN.—On Saturday evellin'' last a per son,- in the dress ofu servant-man, caleed at a butcher's shop in London-road, and chase a piece of roasting beef; when weighed he was told it came to six shillings, on which he ordered it to be sent-to.his master's house, in Pembroke-place, with change of a sovereign. A buy took it to the pl ace name d, and at the door he was _met by the sauce person, who asked, " Have you the change ?" Ou being answered in the affirmative lie said, " Give it me, and here is the Sovereign ; now, .knock, and cooky will take the meat from you." lie then ran off, and cooky refused to receive the beef, - for none bad been ordered for her master. It is needless to add that the sovereign was coun terfeit. CAUTlON.—Latterly, breaking into dwelling-houses during divine service on the Sabbath, has teen of &event occurrence, and housekeepers should hot leave their donawiles unprotected either by a servant or a careful watch dog.. On Sunday last, whilst the family were at church, some practised villains entered the house of Mrs. Johnson, situate in Ashton-street, and suc ceeded in packing up a quantity of silver plate, a writing desk, and other articles, with which they managed to get clear off.— The writing desk has since been discovered in an entry adjoining the premises of Mrs. Johnson, being, it is supposed, of too little value to carry away. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from Mr. Henry Bainbridge, a young midshipman on board U.M.S. Vo/age, Captain Martin, dated Vourla, Nov. 4, 1833, addressed to a member of his family, resident in this place, from which we feel great pleasure in making the following extract, -highly characteristic of the yciuthfur 'British 'sailor;—'` For the first time in my life I have saved a messmate from drowning. He was a nice little boy, about twelve years old, who had slipped overboard, and could not recover himself. By shouting he manago49 make me hear him; but I thought it was_a Greek in b oa t, (all day long these boatmen had been making a noise,) an d by the merest chance in the world I said to my messraate, 4 l e t us go and look at the race between the Greek boats,' (wlios(crews bad been squalling,) and then I saw the peer boy just sinkiu Without and, at the same time, calling me by name to save him. Without a moment's delay, overboard went; all clothes on, boots, two small books in my pocket, and watch round my neck; I did not think of any of these. I just caught him in time to keep him from going down, when he grappled with me most strenhously—but tusk—l kept him up, and swam to the ship with him—so he was saved, and there's an end of it." THE LORD BLAYNEY STEAMER.—A subscription is now making for the relief of the widows and families of the crew. engineers, and firemen of this ill-fated vessel, which was lost. with all hands on board, on the morning of the 12th instant The following is a list of the sums already subscribed : £ s, (I. £ s. d. The Mayor.. 2 0 0 I Harold Littledalo.... 0 10 0 "- Sir John Tobin John Noss . 0. Heyworth and Co 2 0 0 Langtrys and Co 2 0 0 Thomas Bolton 1 0. 0 John Cropper, jun Joseph Ewart. 1 0 ' 0 Thos. Littledale 1 .0 0 C. Horsfall. Joseph Fry. —o - IQO C. W. Williams.. 2 0 ~ () James Irving 0 10 AP Foreigner C. G. Hadfield 0 10 0 T. ArTear 1 0 0 Wm. Latham 2 0 -0 John Jacksmi. ._. . . . ___ l 0 0 Richal. Dawson .. • . f E. Molyneux. 1 0 0 James Foster. 1 0 0 A. Castellain. 1 0 0 Capt. M. Joynson..... 1 I j5l J. B 13..'010 0 C. Bullin. 1 0 0 - - E. Cearns, jun 1 0 0 I. Burned and Co 2 0 0 George Gibson 1 0 0 Wm. Brew. Rev. O. Ormerod 0 10 0 Rev. A. Campbell 1 U A. Swainson 1 0 0 R. W. Ashley 1 0 0 R. Al Subscriptions are received a all the Newspaper Offices, and the Exchn: ;c-rooms. LIVERPOOL POLICE'.-FRIDAY. (Before Sir THOMAS BRANcKER.) ROBBING CIIILDREN.—Anne Francis, a dirty, depraved look ing female, was.placed at the bar, charged with robbing a little girl, named Anno Tittle, of a quantity of wearing apparel. It appeared from the. evidence of the complainant, a child about seven yews of age, that, on the preceding, day, she was taking a bundle of clothes belonging to her mother to the mangle, when she was met by the prisoner, who entered into conversation with her, and ultimately induced her to go into a public-house and partake of some peppermint. From that place the pri soner took her to two other public-houses, where they had some more peppermint, and the prisoner then took the clothes from the witness, and said she would carry them. ,Witness gave-tlie - - - prisoner the clothes, but had no sooner done so tlian she let them fall in the mud, and witness began to cry, upon whithi the prisoner said she would take them - home and wash them, and off she bolted, leaving the witness crying. Prisoner dial not return, but was subsequently apprehended by a constable. The publicans into whose houses the prisoner took the child identified her, and, the case being fully made out, she was com mitted fur trial. Peter Pennington was charged with stealing twenty-five bread tins, the property of Mr. Makin, baker, in Circus-street. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor left his bake house, on the 24th, in which were deposited the bread-tins in question, and during his absence the prisoner entered and stole them. The prisoner subsequently sold the tins to James Chand ler, an ironmonger, .residing in Whitechapel. He was fully committed. SATURDAY.' (Before the MAYOR and Alderman Sir THOMAS BR A NCRER.) Pat Foy, a disorderly Emeralder, with a broken head, the consequent effect of the previous night's skinful of whiskey, ,who for a considerable time has been the source of much trouble and annoyance to the watchmen, from his partiality to the '" crater," was charged by a watchman with having on the previous night been found very drunk in the streets, and kick ing up "a row. The Alderman asked -Patrick when he was out of prison? Pat.—Sure it was yesterday that I turned my back of ye, and if Yells-ina me over the wather, I'll niver see yer honour's A face again. • lderman.—Ho w came you to get drunk the day you were liberated, and make such a disturbance? Pat.—ls it drunk ve mane? Faith I doubt whither I was drunk at all, or kicked up the laste row; I'm not a rhiotous karacter, divil a bit; and if ye sends me out now they'll brine me in again directly and swear black's white that I'm drunk. Sure Dan O'Counell wouldn't stand that in Ireland, and if 'e'll only s i n d me b ac k mer the wather I'll bliss yer honour's life as long as a dhrop o' blood remains in it. A constable here intimated that it would be a mercy to the watchmen to send the prisoner to Ireland, 2S he was a most troublesome customer to them. . - Alderman.—Well, then, send him over the water. Pat.—Good luck to your honour till it ceases,—and I'll peay for ye afther that. - Pat was taken down to be passed to toee overseers. _ • John Lane, a blacksmith, end Mary-his wife, were brought up ona peace-warrant, charged with molesting and assaulting Larry Byrne, an Irish labourer, Mrs. Byrne, and divers visi tors of the Byrnes, on Friday last. It appeared, from the evidence of the complainant, that himself and lady occupied the first floor of a house in Crooked Lane, in which the prisoners were also lodgers. They had invited a few Irish ladies and gentlemen to spend the evening on Friday, and the prisoners not being of the party were disposed to annoy them, and enure up stairs, threatening to thrash' the whole kit. Complainant told the prisoners that he did not get his living by fighting, but if they did not make their escape •he should take the liberty of kicking them down stairs, upon which the prisoner and his wife set-to right and left, beating all before them. The male prisoner in his defence, in a very-vehement manner said that he was the most peaceable man - upon earth, but if he was hanged he would tellthe truth. The fact was, he (the prisoner) . had had better bringings up than the • complainant, and so bad his wife, and they could not choose to be looked upon. by the Irish, who were nothing better•than papists, and .wanted to sacrifice his life. They had provoked him by coining to his door, and saying that tii6y wouldnt mind washing their hands in a Protestant's blood, and in consequence be went up stairs - to them, and they commenced fighting with knives, and he 'might. have been Th`dv . rtsener was proceeding in a yeey violent strain, when the Mayo‘r..euid that, from his manner in 6,ofirt, it ,appeared he was a disotattvman, and he should; remand him until his temper cooled.--Remiiiiiitel aecordintilv. • MONDAY. (Before Mr. Alderman LiTreerisen.) Mary Johnson lone of the witnesses against Peter Taylor, the black man committed to Lancaster Castle - last week, on the charge of murder) - was brought up from the house. of ill fame_ in Atherton-street, (where thcz7"7 - edful deed was perpetrated,) charged-with robbin g a seaman of a bundle of cloth es . It appeared.that the seaman had been inveigled-into the house by, the piisouer, who had Stolen his bundle, containing a suit of clothes, which she pawned, and then offered him the ticket, but he refused to accept it without the money which she had pro cured upon them. I'he prisoner was remanded until to-day. - James Leary, an Irish pig jobber, appeared against Dennis eg •Flannegan, another P a ddy in - the saute line of busines s , to co mplain that he, J ames E car y, had paid , D enn i s .' Il ann an Nice for one pig, and th a t D e nnis Flaune ga n h a d refused to return the money. -The complainant state:l that he purchased a pig of the pri soner on Saturday last, in the market, and, in the confusion arising from seine other business he had in hand, he paid the prisoner twice over for the pig, which was £4 4s. instead of £2 2s. The prisoner, in his defence, said,.plase yer honours, I came to the market on Saturday, and brought two pigs wid me, as all the market knows very well what pigs I brought and what pigs I reared, and every body knows - that I sell none but good d' ys ax forthe f a t pig?" fat.pigs; yer hon ou r s , up comes Jem Leary and s a y s , ‘4 What says he. • "Two pounds f o u r ," says I." That's too much," says lie, " and I'll be after givin' you £2 2s.'' " The pig's yours," says I, " and luck to tilt bargain," and I niver received a penny more fur the pig than £2 25., barring the , halfpenny fur arnest. The constable who apprchended the prisoner said that oh the complainant telling his story, he. asked the prisoner hocr much money he had about him, and he replied £2 2s. only ; but, on searching him, he found £4 'is., and the prisoner then said that he received the other £2 2s. from his wife, but, On sending to his wife, she said that she had g iven him no money. The prisone r d en i e d h av i ng sa id h e h a d • only £2 2s. in his pocket, and persisted that his wife had given bins the other £2 2s. to buy two larger pigs, when he had sold his own. The Alderman said the case was a very suspicious one, and he should remand the prisoner, to see if his recollection of hav ing been paid twice would return.—Remanded accordingly. WHIGGERY.—What has given Constantinople to Russia— made her mistress of the Mediterranean aLd Archipellago— and rendered an attack on the East Indies practicable? Lord Pabnerston will answer—" The assistance we rendered towards the spoliation of Holland." We answer—Whiggery. PAUSE BEFORE YOU FOLLOW EXAMPLE.—A mule, laden with salt, and an ass, laden with wool, went over a brook together. By chance the mule's pack became wetted; the salt melted, and his burden became lighter. After they had passed, the mule told his good fortune to the ass, who, thinking to speed as well, wetted his pack at the next water; but his load became heavier, and he broke down under it.