The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-01 00:00:00

enshaw, ce to beco t there w ,Mte e Winne th th em, ribes, w hi6 each ether' nts were is Tyne swing money on the dock estates, they had. raised and a half, which they had expended in various build ie town. He asked th e h ouse , was it proper that ions revenue should be under th e a l mos t irresponsib le f any certain number of i n di v id ua l s ? (Hear, hear,' anon Council of Liverpool, wh o con t ro ll e d that eu°''' enue, was a self-elected body, amounting to fort) Is, who elected themselves for life. The dock estate' i naged by a committee of twenty-one, the majority e , re nominated by the Com mon C ounc il. The cont,i as, therefore, that the cor p ora ti on h a d t h e con t r ol ' , ids—they possessed gr e a t in fl uence i n t h e b orou gh the the nomination of all the cl er gy i n th e t own, and the dock estates. They sold l an d as owners of en, td members of their own body, and purchased 1,,, w to the opinions of the majority of a committee. ,`; and influence thus vested in th em th ey h a d a b us e? eveh abused their ecclesiastical patronage, by refuoll ite persons to churches unl ess th e y were conne ct abers of their own body. He appealed to the hoof such abuses were to b e a ll owe d, an d w h et h er s oe ight to be left in the hands of a self-elected cOrpot.f e hoped that the attention of the committee, now 61 quire into the existing corporations, would be pe w , cted to that of Liverpool. Lition was read, and, on the motion of the hon. al l entleman, was ordered to be referred to the COI IY corporations. )N. GENTLEMAN then presented a petition, si g ned bi abers of the Guardian Society f or th e P ro t ect i o n Liverpool, praying for the abolition of the snaa :amp duties. He said those duties operated y e '? -for instance, he had known a large library tea.% thout being subjected to any duty, while the o'. could not transact the smallest piece of busine'' nning under their operations. •N. GENTLEMAN also presented a petition from 81 : named James Hargrave, prayi ng f or th e abelitio rn Laws. Lerman \twin gave notice that on Friday he woul d petition from the perso ns engage d i n t h e soap trad e ropolis, relative to the duties on that article. CONNOR presented a petition from members of tie mrt Political Union against the Grand Jury syste e , and praying for an amendment i n th e sys t em . jury the laws now in contemplati on were a rae' Last year they might have been of use, but ItO e ' e or five young ensigns were to have all the posve t l to their hands, of what - avail would any amendmell ury laws ? The thing was a mo c k er y on th e coul ltr , ' If such an atrocious an d abominable measu'ci ied through that House, of what use was it to awe° iTE presented two petitions from places in Somerse t' -Mg for the abolition of slavery. [NsoN inesented a petition from Richmond, in Surr'' r the better observance of the sabbath. IBETT thought the law as it now s t oo d on thi s subi ct ,5 a dent for all useful purp oses . H e was quite satioet id be passed to interfere between master and servan ld not lead to confusi on w hi c h never wou ld b e a t an law were to be made whereby servants should not b r )11 Sundays, would a cook n o t i mme di a t e l y say to hi t , at she would not cook the dinner for Sunday? that the measure was to prevent masters w orklo,r ats on Sunday, such a sy s t em wou ld b e perfect'); unless it went into . private families. (H ear , hear'' tlemen backward in employing their coachmen; Ms, and th e i r f oo t men on Sundays ? Why, tho ), of workmen who laboured very hard, in Hyde Pa r a :e. (Hear.) They were we ll d resse d up, an d lool' e a but he would be bound t) say that if they 1 1 e they would much r a th er b e a t h ome w i t h t h e mail; ighter.) If the house were t o l eg i s l a t e b e twee their maids, there would soon be such a system introduced in this country as had never been hear d ountrv. • )iON thought the Hon. Member for Oldham ,0 soon upon the nature of the proposed mea,' o l ire was to be introduced fo r th e b e tt er o b servan ce (), th it ought to have gen era l su pp or t. (H ear , heal !fore the house condemned a proposed measure 0 hey ought, in the first place, to know its exact &Ili !ri it should be introduced it should have his he 6 and he thought it might be so framed as not i aole o interfere between mas t er an d servan t, so as to 3 proper recreation of the latter. ELLIOTT presented a petition from the United AL' igregations of Moorbattle, praying for the total au'', hes. . . W . YmEs presented a petition from Auchtermuchti ity of Fife, praying for the abolition of negro slaver); tion from Strathmeghlin, in the same county, t o th sl Also a petition from. Leslie, praying for the to; f the Church establi s h men t in Ireland, and that It g sight be applied towards the removal of the prese o taxation. BETT was much pleased to hear this petition, and 1 1 been much more pl ease d s till, t o h ave f oun d that ' y Le lay-impropriations. It was the lay-impropriati° d abolishing. LON presented five petitions, praying for the aholiti° ll , property , in Ireland, and for its application t o sod' elculated to relieve the burdens of that country fr°, ll) al Union of Leslie, and from the Protestant Disse i l. so. The hon. memb er was conv i nce d t h at trancluto sever exist in either Irel a nd or E ng l an d as 104;j professed a religion contrary to the Establisa c to Ireland were compelled to contribute so largelY nance of doctrines with w hi c h th e y cou ld no t agre.l, that the time was not far distant. when the I rP f uld be done away with, an d th at un h appy co up"' state of tranquillity. r. MEMBER, whose name we could not aseertaitio' enter his protest againSt the doctrine of spoliaticj e petition. He considered the church of Irela v e 1 right to its property as any gen tl eman in E°s to his. (Hear, hear.) There was no individu a l ,. ithes that were entitled to them, so that if they w e d, r to-morrow they would go to the State. H e truste it sat both the churches o?England and Ireland We ,00 firm a basis to b e s h a k en b y every breath tbot generality of Dissenters agree, with the doctril!„, rch of England; they on ly d i ff ere d fromit in f°' my. s at WYER said the hon. gentl eman w h o h a d just, t stated no reason why h e , as a C a th o li c , w h o did -'0 the Protestant Church, should contribute to t o that Church. Tithes had by act of p ar li ame nt, be b, from the Catholic Church t o th e P ro t es t an t Churf r te i• no reason why an act oi'parliament could not a (Hear, hear.) cha r fAII.RON said that he would pl ea d gu ilty t o th e acestors had enjoyed too peat a portion of CO rd; ut they supported the poor. the . MEMBER, in referen c e t o th e assertion that reland had been transferred by act of p a rlia l , l 6, atholics to the Protestants, sail he beh irv ed n,, h act in existence ; if there were, he should be,,lb t ry tere.to 14)(1 it,. Certain he was that in this cou' a ign to such an act. There were acts passed in the I `l, - ,,ir not for the transfer of tithes, but for tsii i i_ appeared that at that time there w - as as great, t bis illeetin tithes in this country as there was collects'sg them in Ireland. 1415 $ believeg there was no such act; indeed none p a for the Catholic clergy of that day became cou' ,l 4 . llc t i ie tholic errors, the ver y moment t h at t h e hea d 0; e king—becam e conv i nce d. Th e Catholic oerrz sly became Protestants, 0 - 1. and those wh o h a d 0 -,` as Catholics then received them as P ro testaulf !et to the abolition of tith es , many persons , biliP e , rest, believed that they came ma i n l y f r om th e e d he landlord, and th a t a t o t a l a b o li t i on o f them we' he ivour of the poore r c l asses; b ut wou ld go to ; so would then hav e t en t en th s t h e va l ue o f the la n( ' ix or seven tenths, as at present.—(Hear, hear.) fl e BETT - Some hon. gentl emen to th e r i g ht and ,'_ a been m a ki ng some assertions which ;I must hell the o famine the foundations of. It has been stated a if the property o f th e w h o l e ki ng d om re:4 s upn L ation as tithes and oth e r c h urc h pi o p e rty. It 1 t,, ; c1 granted that the, possession o f m uch of the agdom arises from grants from the Crown , ures. Now, the rights of th e p ar ties holding efairweit e very different. The property was conferred P, 1...10 Act of Henry. VIII., but it was confered upon. t 1 certain conditions, v i z ., th a t the new proprieter6 aver discharge the duties consequent upon hold_on_ge ty, and satisfy the demands to which it had betr,, ct. Now, I say, that no part of the tithes wed s .ay without being subject to these commissions, ventual and monastic proertv. The case therefo r e ,, so clear as the hon. member near me s upp(!- , e4 the tithes, are for the most part in the hands here does not appear to be more than 500 Pr ',‘" er men receiving tithes in Ireland, whilst the num! , ,,, priests performing the duty is no less than o, no.) Moly rose to set the house right with respect to, 1 hich many honourable members seemed to thin • I;:filNutroverted. He meant the supposed fourfold appropriation T it t i thes• Now, it appeared by the evidence taken before the tat Committee of this Honourable House last year, that no general ecclesiastical division of the tithes existed, and t here was only one par i sh which could be adduced as a or of th e existence of the practice at all. He perfectly weed with th e h onoura b le member for Oldham that it was the Itearchy and not the hierarchy enjoyed the greater part of 'ee tithe s in Ireland. In order, perhaps, to give gentlemen 16 t sie clue to the cause of the wretchedness of that country more Orectly than that of the oppression of the Protestant clergy, 4 %,....iid mention a fact which was proved before a committee, ~ \,ihich he was a member. A gentleman who was examined, ,:utO them that on his coming of age he had found his estate i;',:srburdened with population, and determined to clear it. This 4, `Pt y B-vo r simple phrase, but what did the gentleman mean by t.i . th 2 he turned forth one thousand one hundred people kei . out a home into the highways to starve and shift for them -414,1".--(Hear, hear.) He stated that he gave them nothing, a , when asked what had become of them, he said . that so . me ,t,'.!.geone into the town, others had gone on to neighbouring ii i it 8 3 and others again had become thieves and vagabonds. — f or e, hear.) No landlord in England could act in this way :tatZltinzat standard goisiod f T e o el v i e n (.t g ; ii_ soame, if nothing else would prevent him.—(Hear, hear.) fi r e n o t mea n to say that the gentlemen of Ireland were de but the occurrence there waasciirncutnhne a, of fee mg in the two countries, an mig how great a difference d ' ht, witout Ichi klN false charges against the clergy, account for the misery tit e( ' existed in Ireland H did not think that even if the I , e e system in Ireland Were a e rrano-ed or abolished, that the tLheerle. Would be appeased; for the house had the authority of 'octiourable member for Dublin, that nothing short of a re `t, Matte Brs f f Peal r the union would satisfy Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) o. ' 4(1 1 made by the noble lord; who did not appear could not agree with some of the statements, as a::,9le evidence of the learned divine (Dr. Doyle) in he toidp tight as he (Mr. Shell). It was not of a parish that the ,abi,v-nance4ha.de lee: g_fv . en but of an arch-diocese. The honour the bletaber for Oldham' was not correct in his calculation of lkitresPective amount of the tithes possessed in Ireland by the ....-- /1U- iBIN ESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. To th e 1.1 f ac i l i tate the progress of public business through eo ns ha of Comm ons 'several very valuable sugges ofch are been made to Lord Althorp, in his character In ivi aneellor of the Exchequer and leader of the house. tltagng a more extended circulation to the rumours mt e h e ld afloat on this subject, we protest against dagezhel.d responsible for their accuracy. ft si , r Itnguished Irish member, who has the happy art pith e :',.`ting conviction among his countrymen, complains, that part truth and justice, that the representatives of 4tttird.rt of the empire are not heard, and never will be Rlishr to as long as they are incorporated with an En- Wit) Ho of Commons. •,41 a ,; View to supersede the necessity of introducing the h 0 Measures" into Ireland, we have heard that 4 totn-,ll,°urable and learned gentleman means to move for rlati lr 'ittee of the *hole house to inquire into the origin, r int L a 'ld consequences of " The Union" between. tres s -, agitation, and, in order to expedite public busi kitie'dtlq to insure the redress of Irish wrongs, is deter to b r i: when it suits his convenience to be in his place, l loti e g forward a resolution, "That it is expedient that 4 -v , L t Irish memb e rs be permitted to speak on A; „'uuject during this present session of Parliament." IS 40tProlixity of phrase, ' and the passion for talking o. a n ,,T l fined to the Irish part of the house, we have 4 1.4 1 eniC ut Whether this proposition can be carried until e r r s are selected by " vote by ballot ;" and as al 4 att l a e l e i tors belonging to great constituent bodies are are to Y as anxious to read, as their representatives by s" Inake s p eec h es , we think the object attainable Itie s iPlY healing six speakers on each side of every 1 41:0 11 at one and the same time, and were each hon. crt le t er attended by a reporter, all the benefits that ac -44d the nation from speech-making would be secured, ' ll ,ell valuable time would be saved. . ,deli v e ~4 0 not mean to insinuate that an M. P. was ever is &T i ed of a speech that was not intended to convince kirabl e l p v labourers for the public good. Far, irnmea ie.ve;:tiahra,sbe the thought from us, that a petition has lay i .,:een used' as a weapon to attack any body, whether i ecclesiastic, civil or military, corporate or cr, that an - member of our " Heaven-born" Pa-- 'ra w rieal ever shown the least anxiety to display his Powers, except on proper occasions. !ore : r egret that our limits will not admit of laying be be p i : ur reader s the other alterations which are about to the g u ° b P j ° e S e e t d: but it is not our intention to lose sight of The F r TURKEY. 119 lat e k ench Papers of Friday and Saturday, which reached 1/ 1 6 ace —st night, are quite destitute of local news, but they sup ; ?lat . , °lints from Constantinople to the Ist instant: The nego ,oili:ll,B for peace had not yet been regularly entered into at k t brahZ , as the powers to that effect had not been received by 'brai i ''; but according to the latest intellip;ence from Koiah 4 5 d o llll , Was in daily expectation of hearing from his father l and 1 1,1ti, i l lut was entertained at Constantinople that peace would be b at elY signed. The time for which the suspension of arms 4 tict e ett agreed to was about to expire. No application had hi t ll lade for a new armistice, as there seemed to - be every was on the part of Ibrahim to treat for peace, and he 'l`taYed to have no actual intention, to move from Komah. The I li k ilLsh fleet had returned to Constantinople. It was observed c fe etterly the P ers i an am b assa d or i n th a t c i ty h a d f reque nt ''ll t l'ences with th e R e i s Eff en di ( m i n i s t er o f f ore i gn a ff ai rs.) n ew Austrian ambassador, Baron Stammer, had arrived there Austrian frigate from Trieste,— Times. Fp THE COLONIES. ‘ l OO. the su bj o i ne d official communication from the Colonial 110 „ Nt ' _to a g . enfleman who conducts the agency for one of the `,h India islands, may be collected some additional informa- N; 4 the nature of that relief which it is proposed by the mi , to extend to those colonies generally :- 1 01 ” Downing-street, Feb. 18. t • k 1 - --I am directed by Viscount Goderich to acquaint you, N A Wit 4g.`.sot e .k view to afford the utmost possible relief to the reve „,r,,,,,le e alonies of St. Vincent, Grenada, and Tobago, thier t ;' Li t ,l l l b r e placed under the more immediate superintendence ?, 11 trC o Nunt-Governors, who will act in subordination to a ' clv t. beusually resident at Barbadoes. The Lieutenant f er ti o us '4,1 tk e t's will receive salaries very much reduced in amount th ‘, : i o ; entirely lttowa. , b til e k o 7se which were enjoyed by the officers hitherto holding ~,- i llG ' ernments of these colonies, and as the reduced salaries NI west India mithteeresustpli provided out of money voted by parliament, the trib,.?.l(al Assemblies will no longer be required to make any con sorstuffofetrihnegoffices. At a period when to B es, it is matter of satisfaction to Lord G se cid e e r r e iCl t f o m b ra e enabled b qs " 4l ,4ounce to you the removal of any charge which can be surl ily N to have been burdensome to the colony of Grenida.—l ''e th e honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, -,,N...„,,____ " HOWICK.', ...................... --=----- tC4tIoUS ACCIDENT—Two COLLIERS KILLED.-011 Mon -11,,Y afternoon, an affecting occurrence took place at Mr. Abra -4q-"L„ Lee's coal-pit, Oldham Edge, by which two lives were lost. with''' as one of the coal-wtubswhearde arseeaecnhdeidogthferomtopthoefmt.hoerkp,ita, %ithree of the .miners, 4 ov v „ e n gust of wind threw it . atide and an three were flung I(i'W-t,the shaft by the concussion and two of them instanqy th,1, , 1. The bodies of the victims were frightfully mangled in 44 l all, which was very great. The third person saving hi m _ t t ii:l e i e n e g as ; o ldie ar e e s . e G ap e e o d r 'lr q °Y clinging to a sounding-rod and cross bar, as he w as f s e a w n s d li E gh d t w b a ru rd ise Tailor sr h : e t h n e a f m o former e o r f man, who had only evaded in Union-ound, Oldham, and has left a wife and five ,4th" children. The latter was a g l e vi ß th at a e somewhat similar, hap lit,"eattAtispl.oy e d o l a d t h t a h m e pitAt Oldham.—An o accident, weeks i ! d h e r n e y t e: ung 14,„ ,in v at the same place fa few months ago. An inquest was I'laelidental death, and a deodand of 4 ° 4 the bodies on Wednesday, when oi. asvemrdaisetlwai'ads upon n rn th ed e tope ecident was, in part, owing ► t hQ aglh.ery attached to the pit, the jury being . of opinion that b and pulley.—Halfax Guardian. let the insecure state of the Government hoe NttiIITILLATION FROM MANGEL WURZEL.— . . . ts from spirits I 'lah, lt ted a patent to be taken out for . distilling I , Itii tel. wurzel, which was powerfully resisted by corng sc o ai N e 'e a rs t 4ialtticulturists. The establishment is upon a large 11, ill Essex. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. Yesterday a deputation of the West India body waited upon the Minister according to appointment, to be informed of the new scheme of Ministers with respect to the slaves. In con sequence, however, of the pledges given by the deputation, that they would not make the plan public, we have, with all our industry, been unable to glean anything we can rely on upon the subject. We have heard that the plan is very much like that already put forth in the Liverpool Standard, but we have heard in addition, that all persons having mortgages on West Indian estates, will be offered ten shillings in the pound by the government, they_ paying 3 per cent. interest for such advance or payment. We confess, as stated to us, we cannot under stand, what is here meant, but, we have no doubt, some Utopian project has been propounded, which the attempt at secrecy has caused to be shadowed forth thus obscurely. The immediate emancipation of the slaves and compulsory labour, under the superintendence of an armed police, have likewise been put forth as part of the intended plan. We hope by our next to be able to give the full particulars. Since our last communication, the books at Lloyds have exhibited a fearful record of wreck and damage sustained by the shipping during the late tremendous gales. On Friday we had twenty-nine casualties then posted, on Saturday thirty, on Monday about the same number, and yesterday twenty-six. This day the accounts are rather better, not more than five or six caualties being reported. Very great fears are entertained for the safety of the Erin steam-boat, which sailed for Dublin with about seventy persons on board, which was seen in distress, but from the roughness of the sea, no relief could be afforded, and she has not been since heard of. A premium of seventy guineas cent. has been offered on her at Lloyds to-day and refused. What causes additional alarm is, that several maho gany doors and various portions of a steam-boat have been thrown ashore on the coast of Cornwall. We have a file of Barbadoes papers to the 10th of January, to-day. Considerable excitement had been caused throughout the island, by the respite of a slave, named Robert James, con demned at the previous Grand Sessions to die for a rape. A deputation of gentlemen, at the request of their constituents, waited upon the Executive, and it is asserted, very insufficient reasons were assigned for the extension of this mercy to one designated in their accounts, as an " atrocious criminal'" The matter was considered of such importance, that a public meet ing of the inhabitants of the island had been called for the 10th of January, to take the matter into consideration. This day the settlement of our Consol Account took place, and it proved a bull account. The fluctuations during the account has not exceeded 2 per cent., the highest price having been 88 9A, and the lowest 86 N. The price for the April Ac count during the chief part of the day was 87 '4, and the closing quotation was 87 %. We had no defaulters today. Little business has been doing in our Foreign Market, nor has the variation been of moment. Russia Bonds left off at 104 4 105, Dutch at 45 % 34, Brazilian at 58 34 9,f , Danish at 731 74, Greek 34 to 35, and Spanish at 17 % 34, Belgian Stock left off at 85 Z. We have a Lisbon Mail this day, but the letters we have seen convey nothing beyond the intelligence communicated in the STOP PRESS of the Morning Herald. (From the Standard of IVednesday) SECRET MARRIAGE AND PREGNANCY OF THE DUCHESS OF BERRI. We have received by special express the whole of the French papers of yesterday. The Moniteur of yesterday (Tuesday) contains, in the official part, the following most important article. We extract it with out further comment:— " PARIS, Feb. 25.—0 n Friday, the 22nd February, at half past five, Madame the Duchess of Berri delivered to the Gene ral Bugeaud, governor of the citadel of Blaye, the following declaration Pressed by my circumstances, and by the measures ordained by the government, although I had the gravest possible motives for keeping my marriage secret, I think I owe it to myself, as well as to my children, to declare that I was secretly married during my sojourn in Italy. (Signed) MARIE CAROLINE.' From the citadel of Blaye, this 22nd Feb. 1833.' " This declaration, transmitted by the General Bugeaud to the President of the Council, the Minister of War, was imme diately deposited in the depot of the archives of the chancellerie of France. CORRESPONDENCE. THE DISFRANCHISEMENT PETITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—" A word in your ear," as the redoubtable Dicky Sam says. Verily the liberal disfranchising heroes have met their deserts, and, I suppose, will now be convinced that there is a party in this town (and a highly respectable one, too) who are determined not to be ridden roughshod over, and especially by those who, under the garb of liberality, are in fact the most self willed of all tyrants. The recent petition against the attempt to rob the ancient burgesses of Liverpool of their rights and privileges, and which received in so short a space, say two days, the signatures of above 7400 individuals, (of whom about 1350 are men of the first standing' in the town,) must show to the Radicals that, let them rant and rave as they will, they are op ponents by no menus so formidable as in their own conceits they imagine; and I think all parties will allow that the peti tion alluded to will lose nothing by a comparison with theirs, which received in about a fortnight not one-half as many names as that just sent to'London. That the House of Commons will see through the venom of these insulters of the town's honour, I doubt not; and I feel fully assured that they will get a quietus from that body which they little expect at their hands. I can not for a moment bring myself to believe, when our truly ex cellent representative, Lord Sandon, (assisted or not by Mr. Ewart,) gets up in his place and exposes the disfranchising gentry, that even a select committee will be granted for the purpose of annoying both the representative and the repre sented. It is somewhat surprising that Mr. R— should be thus endeavouring to stigmatise the freemen, by branding them corruptionists, when it is a matter of notoriety that he was, one of Mr. Ewart's active supporters at the election in Novem ber, 1830, when (though, I believe, never since) resort was had to the purses of that party, without which Mr: Ewart never would have represented (?) this borough. This same Mr. R—, too, it should be borne in mind, when admitted a burgess, took a solemn affirmation (which even he will, I suppose, think equi valent to an oath)' that he would protect all the rights and pri vileges of the burgesses, which oath or affirmation (call it which you please) it is not too much to say he has scandalously vio lated. Of course I dare not call this perjury, dare I ? The Common Council have the power to disfranchise him, and they ought to exercise it, in justice to those who have been so grossly insulted and libelled by him. I could not help being amused at the two long columns of laboured abuse an the last Liverpool Times, at one moment asserting the greatest bribery, at another, that Mr. Thornely's party might have secured him a large majority if they would have given away a " glass of ale, a few shillings, or even a ribbon." Verilythis goes to prove that if there was any bribery, it was exceedingly trifling,—merely a glass of ale. One word more. I see a petition in the Exchange Room against Lord Grey's Bill for the pacification of Ireland. It progresses slowly, and it is already whispered a counter one is in preparation. I doubt not it would far outnumber the first, although all parties are not equally lavish of their praise, or forward in condeMning the Premier. He is, certainly, not the man I admire, though I cordially wish this Bill success.— Yours, &c. • ANTI-RADICAL. Liverpool, 27 ill Feb. 1833. DOMESTIC. THE QUEEN'S BIRTH-DAY.—Monday, being"the anniversary of the celebration of Her Majesty's birth-day, it was observed at court with every . demonstration of rejoicing. At one o'clock Her Majesty received a deputation of the dignitaries of the church, among whom were the Archbishops of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Llandaff, Bath and Wells, Durham, Ox ford, Hereford, Lichfield and Coventry, Exeter and Salisbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury read a congratulary address, to which Her Majesty returned a most gracious answer. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and the Duke of Gloucester attended in their state carriages. The drawing-room was attended by . the Turkish Ambassador Namick Pacha, and the other foreign ministers, accredited to the court of St. James's, together with His Majesty's principal Officers of state, and of the Royal House holders. A. considerable number of the nobility, officers of the army and navy, and private gentry paid their respects to Her Majesty; and in the evening full dress dinner parties were given in honour of the day by Earl Grey, Viscount Goderich, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Melbourne, the Earl of Errol, the Earl of Denbigh, the Marquess of Lans downe, and Viscount Althorp. The Duke of Orleans has gone to Brussels, and his visit there naturally enough excites much attention. It is generally sup posed that it is connected with the measures about to be taken by France and England against the Dutch. The warlike specu lations occasioned by the visit produced a fall of the Funds at Brussels of nearly one per cent. The schism in the Cabinet, to which we alluded some days since, and which is again mentioned in a morning contempo rary of this day, is far from being healed. • It is now rumoured that some of its most distinguished members, among whom is the chief himself, have threatened to retire if such unseemly discordance is continued. The Cabinet Councils held on Sa turday and yesterday, will be immediately followed by others, at which it is said this knotty point will in one way or the other be settled.—The Standard. A most interesting meeting was held on Saturday last, for the _purpose of petitioning in favour of the Factory Bill, about to be introduced into the House of Commons by Lord Ashley. A picture of horrors which one would have thought impossible in a civilised and Christian country, was laid before the meet ing, and it is to be hoped that although the tyrant mill-owners have succeeded in excluding Mr. Sadler from parliament, they will not be able to succeed in destroying his bill. Mr. Sadler was received as he deserved, with immense cheering from all parts of the assembly. Not one of the philanthropists by pro fession attended--there was no . ,ajectation of humanity, and, therefore, they were absent. THE TIMBER TRADE.—Ministers have an extraordinary facility in unsettling all, departments of trade. It is generally understood that they intend during the present session of Par liament to tamper with the timber duties, and the consequence is that there is no business whatever doing in this trade. We have seen several letters stating that raft-merchants will make no purchases until they know what measures ministers intend to propose upon the subject. There is some activity in the woollen and cotton manufactures, but in every other bianch of industry there is unusual depression for the season of the year, now so nearly approaching the spring. BOROUGH OF MARY-LA-BONNE.— We hear there is little doubt of the elevation of the Attorney General to the bench; and that, acting upon this supposition, a requisition is getting ui) by a numerous and influential body of electors, calling upon Mr. Young, of Portland. place, to become a candidate to fill the vacant seat.—Guardian. - - Owing to the boisterous state of the weather, the Liverpool Mail, which usually . arrives about half -past nine at night from Bristol, did not get into Monmouth till eight o'clock on Thurs day morning week. It made several ineffectual attempts to cross the Severn at the Old Passsge.—Merthyr Guardian. We understand that the radical, reforming, and very liberal Lo - rd Radnor has dismissed several of his tradesmen, in con sequence of their having voted for the Conservative candidate, MorrashipWy,s brother.ndham,a Hampshirelthou although A ygadvserertier. their s second votes to his l The German papers contain a curious account of the honour conferred by the Sultan Mahmoud upon the FrenCh editor of the Ploniteur Ottoman. It is a pity this prince is so extremely pressed on all sides, as it can scarcely be doubted that his wishes for the improvement of his people are in the right social direc tion. Without allowing ourselves to be carried away by the esprit de corps, we may remark, as one of the signs of the times, and with some complacency, the fact of the editor of a news, pa _per receiving something like the honour of knighthood from a Turkish sovereign in the capital of Constantinople.—Globe, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta,—ls it true, that with one only exception the whole of the members of our. Common Council have signed the petition in favour of the unjustly and meanly traduced freemen of Liver pool ? Is it true, that that single exception is Mr. John Ewart ? Is it true, that, with this as a plea in his favour, he intends taking entirely upon himself, at 'a future election, the pleasur able employment of soliciting in favour of his brother the votes of , US OLD FREEMEN ? 25th February, 1833. THE DISPENSARIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4ND2IRD. SIR,—It has occurred to me that 1 have heard that one wing of that extensive building, the Borough Goal, in Great Howard street, is at present, and has been for a long period of no use, and unoccupied. Should this be the case, and it be considered desirable by a great number of the Governors and Subscribers to the Dis pensary, to form a junior Infirmary, for the reception of dan gerous cases of accident arising at the New Docks, and the extreme North end of the Town, such a situation would be a much more desirable one, from the salubrity of its air and proximity to the neighbourhood alluded to, than the North Dispensary. In fact, such an Institution is called for on a limited schle, upon the score of humanity, as accidents do arise where the Patient would expire from exhaustion if obliged to be conveyed the distance to the New Infirmary,`for relief. If the parties favourable to the advancement of these calls 'upon their humanity feel inclined to follow up their good in tentions, let them apply to the Proper Authorities, for the temporary use of part of this spacious building, and aid the addititional expense incurred by it,. by their voluntary and distinct contrihutions, in addition to their present subscriptions to the existing Institutions. Thus the Dispensary would remain the Institution it was originally intended to be, and all parties would again cordially join in promoting its interest and the cause of true charity.—Yours, &c. Feb. 27, 1833. J. H. IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Siu,—Of late we have really had by far too much of Ireland and Irish affairs. They seem in the estimation of the dema gogues of that country and their few partisans in this, to be the only topics at all worthy of consideration. And O'Connell has lately had the daring impudence to hold up for the imitation of the Protestants of this country the ignorant Papists of Ireland, in regard to the observance of the Sabbath. He said in the House of Comnions that Papists thought they kept the Sabbath sufficiently holy by going to mass in the morning, and afterwards enjoying themselves in their games and riotous sports. I have no time at present, but it would be no difficult matter to shew that all the 'ills and misery of Ireland have their origin in the degradation consequent on the prevalence of Popery. If allowed a corner in your columns, I may take this subject on a future occasion.—l am, Sir, yours, W. R. E. CONCESSIONS TO IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-Our state Solomons, the leading speculative theorists of the day, arc men of such sound political sentiments that those measures of great importance which they have advocated through life, have, when passed, so run Counter to their predictions, that in mortification of spirit, and with humbled pride, they have, in a state of mental anguish, declared that in their hopes arising from concession they have been "most grievously disappointed;" but, notwithstanding which, they still are prepared to concede, and, if they do concede, they will again, most assuredly, be as grievously disappointed. As British statesmen, presiding over the destinies of a Protestant empire, they appear to be regard less of Protestant interests; and, indeed, have been accused, in the minds of many, of having been regardless of the shedding of Protestant blood in the sister country. The Protestant clergy of Ireland have, by Catholic persecution, been driven from their country residences into the towns for shelter, and many of them, though of most exemplary character, and of most tole rant spirit, have been shot. The plaintive cries of these victims of O'Connelism have been but faintly heard by those ministers• whose hearts have been elated and corrupted by the popnlar praise, and whose ears have been more pleasingly accustomed to the words—agitate ! agitate ! agitate ! And what, sir, has agitation done for Ireland ?—lt has gained Catholic emancipa tion; and what has emancipation done for Ireland? It has pro duced a fresh and greater agitation,—an agitation bordering on rebellion—an agitation which has dyed the Catholic hand with Protestant blood ; and it has done more, it has gained or is about to have granted to it, restless vil lainy fresh concessions, at the expence of the Protestant church and of the future peace of the Protestant people of Ireland. And what has Catholic emancipation 'done fcr England ! it has contaminated the British senate. If to ap pease the alarm with which the conduct of Ministers hare been regarded by one party in this and the sister country, they bring forward measures of coercion, they are not backward. in their offer of bribes in the shape of concession to the other; while in placing themselves between the two, instead of being admired they will most likely be .rejected in disgust by both, as utterly unworthy of the confidence of either, and will at last be scouted as political jugglers, who have practised their sleights merely for the maintaining of themselves in office. Is it that Catholic Ireland deserves punishment for her turbulence and her mur ders ? if so, why not punish her, rather than snake concessions when such unlawful means are used to get them. Unreasona ble concessions—for unreasonable they become under'such cir cumstances, are sure to be followed by more unreasonable de mands. What are the grievances of Ireland ? The tithes alone,—no. What then ? The existence of a Protestant church, (as it would appear by the measure of Ministers,) and the presence of a Protestant clergy. What is the proof o f such grievance? -The murder of those clergy. Admirable judges who make such a Sancho Panza deduction. And what punishment is inflicted on those murderers ? A con cession to or agreement with their demands,—incomparable legislators, into whose hands the property, life, and religion of his Majesty's Protestant subjects were entrusted. This is in deed a sacrifice to Moloch, and a pandering to midnight crime. Well indeed might o'Connell, with his Irish myrmidons, yell forth their approbation of the conciliatory measure brought for ward by his Majesty's government, so ably seconding his views on Ireland. Well indeed might his enthusiasm spread conta giously through the ranks of the radical members of a reformed House of Commons, when plunder becomes the basis of conces sion, and when an act of grace is passed to relieve and encourage the Catholic murderer, and to redress or rathei obliterate the wrongs suffered by the Protestant clergy of Ireland. Unprincipled concession will begetunprincipled demands, when an opportune time arrives to enforce them; and the Catholics of Irelarkd will not stop short, (the principle being once admitted as being laid down by government, and to be acted upon at a future time by O'Connell and the priests,) nor until not only the Protestant established church is destroyed in Ireland, but in England also; for the foundation of the compact entered into between Irish agi tation and English radicalism is, that they assist each other . Still, notwithstanding the strongly marked signs of the times, not a petition has been got up, praying against such a measure of redress of Catholic grievances, by the Protestants of England . So much have the O'Connell's succeeded in charming them by their eloquence, or frightening them by their yells.—Yours, 27th Feb., 1833. J. M. LOCAL. THE DISTRESSED CLERGY OF IRELAND.—We have the plea sure to acknowledge the receipt of the following donations, in addition to those advertised befoie Messrs. Byrne Brothers..., Gilbert her, Esq., Brook Lodge The St. George Steam Packet Company's vessel, St. David, which left Liverpool on Tuesday week, at nine o'clock, a.m., arrived in perfect safety at Exeter, (her destined p6rt,) on the 23d instant. This passage may be noticed as remarkably short, and such as to confirm the high repute in which the St. David is held, as being a first-rate sea boat, when we take into consi deration that she had to encounter the gales of the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday week. We have prepared an analysis of the " Irish Disturbance Suppression Bill," by way of shewing the points in which it is likely to fail of accomplishing what, in the view of persons well versed in Irish affairs, and the more immediate causes and course of the outrages which distract that country, are the desiderata in such a law. Want of space compels us to omit its insertion to-day •or perhaps altogether ;as b e f ore our ne xt publication it may ke rendered -uninteresting, if not useless, from the superior developements likely topresent themselves in the pending discussion. We copy the following paragraph from the Liverpool Times of Tuesday last :—" When we heard the story of the Deputation having authorized Mr. Wason to neyociate with Lord Sandon, we disbelieved it altogether ; and we now learn from undoubted autho rity that it is untrue." We care not one straw whether the de putation did, or did not, authorise Mr. Wason to go the whole length which that gentleman went, i n his interview with Lord Sandon : but, that the overture was made, we boldly and fear lessly re-assert—and we challenge either the Times or any other journal to prove to the contrary. If the editor of that paper is anxious to ascertain what actually occurred, we would 'suggest to him the propriety of getting some member of Parliament to put the question to Lord Sandon, in the House of Commons, as to whether such a disgraceful overture was or was not made to him, and he will very soon arrive at the real truth of' the case. Until this is done, we place no credence whatever in this " undoubted authority." STREET ROBBERY.—Peter Johnson, was on Monday last, committed for trial, ou charge of robbing George Gill of his watch on the highway. The prosecutor, who lives at Earle and Carter's oilmill, on the North Shore, went on Saturday night to see a friend, with whom he staid very late. Between four and five -o'clock on Sunday morning, on his way home, he was met in Pool-lane by the prisoner, who asked him what o'clock' it was, and on his taking out his watch to look at the time, the prisoner seized hold of the watch chain and attempted to get it from him. He asked the prisoner if he intended to rob him, and the latter said he did not, and immediately let go the chain. But no sooner had the prosecutor replaced the watch in his fob, than the prisoner made a snatch at the chain, drew out the watch, and ran off with it down Cable-street. The prosecutor pursued him, calling . out "watch!" and a watchman seeing the parties running, joined in the chase, overtook the prisoner in Paradise-street, and conveyed him to Bridewell. He then returned, and tracing the route which the prisoner had taken in his flight, found the watch (identified by the prosecu tor) in CableLstreet. The prisoner denied that he ever saw the watch. MYSTERIOUS CAsE.—On Saturday last, a person of the name of John Parker, was brought before the justices assem bled in Petty Sessions, at Stafford, and charged on suspicion of having murdered or unlawfully disposed of a young woman named Eliza Parr. It appeared by the evidence of Thomas Parr, her father, that in the month of January, 1832, Parker came to his house in Stafford (his daughter being then on a visit. with him), and said a person at Milwich wanted mourning made, mentioning the name of the person. The young woman in consequence went away front her father's house, with Parker, at whose house she had lodged for some time, and carried on the dre.s-making, business. Suspicious circumstances arising, an inquiry was instituted, when it appeared that no person of the name mentioned by Parker was then or ever had been re siding in Milwich, and it transpired that Miss Parr and Parker left the house of the latter on the day after they went from Stafford, and had taken with them about £l3O of Miss Parr's money, which she had just received from the banks at Rugeley and Litchfield. They were traced to Liverpool, at which place they lived together as man and wife. Parker has been before in custody on this charge, and on that occasion he told Robert Jones, the constable of Stafford, that Miss Parr and himself went on board a vessel called the Henry Tooke, and that the name of the captain was Bliss, in the month of April last, to go to Boston, in America, and that Miss Farr died of the measles on the sth day of May, and was cast board. On the other hand, Mrs. Green, of Liverpool, who is a native of Stafford, and who has known Miss Parr many years, says she met her in Liverpool ,in July last. She is quite cer tain it was Miss Parr; and wocild have spoken to her, but she avoided her, and turned her head another way. Parker made no defence, and the justices committed him for further exaroi, nation.—Worcester herald,