The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, LIVERPOOL, OPEN EVERY EVENING, For a Short and Limited Season, With Mr.'DUCROW, and the whole of his Equestrian and Dramatic London Establishment, and EXTENSIVE STUD OF BEAUTIFUL HORSES, And highly-cerebrated Foreign and Britifit Artistes. THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 27th, and TO MORROW, (Saturday,) the 28th/ instant, will be repeated, Mr. Ducrow's Grand Spectacle f CHARLEMAGN . Hermet r. Ducrow. • DUCROW'S SCENES OF THE CIRCLE, &c. &c. And other Entertainments, produced last Evening at the Opening. Prices.of Admission—Centre and Dress Boxes, 3s. ;. Second Lod Side-Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; Fitst.Gallery, 15..; Second Gallery, 6d. Second.Price'to all parts of the Theatre, (Second Gallery excepted ,1 at a Quarter before Nine. Centre and Dress Boxes, ; Second Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, ls. ; First Gallery, Gd. Places for the Boxes secured from Eleven to Three o'clock, at the Box-office of the Amphitheatre, and no seat kept after Half-past Seven. LIVERPOOL GRAND SUSCRIPTION CONCERTS. THE —c"ilisi ci r s for the ensuing Season will be given at , the THEATRE-ROYAL, on MONDAY next, DEC. 30th, 183 9 ; TUESDAY, January 14th; TUESDAY, January 28th ; and TUESDAY, February Ilth, 1840. / PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS ENGAGED FOR THE FT ROCONCERT MONDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 30Tf , 1839 : . - Miss CLARA NOVELLO, - Miss WOODYATT, - . • . Mr. PARRY, Jun. SOLO INSTRUMENTAL PERFOR, ERS : Mr. BLAGROVE Mr. LINDLEY, Sen Violoncello. Upwards of Forty Performers are enga in the Orchestral Department, of whom the following a the principal : Leader...... Mr. HERRN ANN. Second Violin Viola Violoncell0... ... Double Bass Flute Mr. Fisher. Trumpet Mr. Hanson. Oboe Mr. Scruton. Horn Clarionet .. .. Mr.. Leonard. Trombone . Mr. Edgar. Bassoon .. Mr. Molineux. Patent Drunts Mr. Fileen. - Piano Forte.... Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN. Subscription to . the Four Concerts, ONE GUINEA. The Boxes and . Stalls will be exclusively appropriated to Subscribers. Other particular:: and programme will be published shortly. MISS WIIITN A LL respectfully announces to her Friends 111 and the Public, that she will give a CONCERT, at the TEMPLARS' HALL'S on FRIDAY EVENING next, January 3, 1840, for which she has engaged Mr. TEMPLETON, the eminent Vocalist, also Mr. FELIX • GATAYES, the cele brated Pianist. PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS : Miss WIHTNALL, Mr. TEMPLETON, , Mr. BALLS, Mr. PEMBERTON Mr. E.. BROWN, Flutist, will make ' first appearance in Public since his return fro London. Conductor—Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN. Tickets, for the Body of the Hall, 6s. ; Gallery, 3s. ; which, With Programmes, may be had at the Music Shops, and at Miss WHITNALL'S, 33, Chester-street, Toxteth-park. The Doors will be opened at Half-past Sever ; the Con cert to commence at Eight precisely. THE TIMES, AND THE ENSUIN PARLIA MENTARY SESSION. PARTIES wishing to Subscribe to THE - IMES, during the ensuing interesting Session of arliament, must make application, on or before the Ist of anuary, to L. T. GASKILL, 45, Lord-street, when the ill be ensured of the Latest Editions. The EVENING MAIL, Published at the TIMES OFFICE, Three Days per Week. Advertisements forwarded daily. L. T. GASKILL, Agent. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have not been able to discover, in any number of the Times, any " remarks on the trial of Rawson and others versus Hay." If our respected correspondent will have the goodness to point them out we shall have great pleasure in giving them insertion. The report of the trial appeared in the Standard of Tuesday. We have lately had many complaints from .our subscribers respecting the late, and frequently the non-delivery of the Standard. We assure them that the fault, in no case, .rests with the office of this paper. As an instance of the carelessness of the post-office functionaries we-may men tion .that we yesterday received a copy of the Liverpool Standard, among our other papers, which had been de spatched from - this office on Tuesday morning last, ad dressed to the Leeds Int elligencer office. We cannot ac count for such a blunder. The letter of Mr. Wereery shall appear in our next. It will not spoil by keeping. Ctn. Ziberpoor &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1839 Vile British Queen arrived at Gravesend in 23 (lays zrom New York, on Wednesday last, bringing wit ner about 500,000 dollars in specie. As she left Nem ork on the 2d instant, she has not brought the Pre mdent's Message, as was anticipated. It is• stated that the specie which she has brought is chiefly to the order of the London Agent of the United States Bank. The political news brought by the British Queen is not of any importance. The commercial and monetary inteiligeneeTrom the States generally is of a favourable nature. The general improvement in money affairs is attributed to the firm- tress with which the New York banks have held their way in maintaining specie payments. The banks'of the State of Ohio had resumed payments in specie on the expiration of the 30 days, to which they are limited by law, on pain of the forfeiture of their charters. The banks of Illinois were, it is said, preparing to resume within the 60 days assigned as the latest term, accord ing to the laws of the State. Several of the Providence banks, also, had returned to payments in hard money. It is stated that the Pennysvlvania banks generally were in a condition to follow these examples, but were re strained by the influence of the United States Bank of Philadelphia, which had manifested no intention of resuming. By the New York Morning Herald of December the 2d, we learn that there was a fair businesi dOing on the previous day, especially in sterling exchange for the packets. The supply of Southern bills, however, was equal to the demand. The United States Bank had received from Tampico 450,000 dollars in specie. Large supplies had also been received from the same quarter by several mercantile firms. Money for good mercantile paper could be had at New York at 1 to 1 per cent. per month. Draughts on Philadelphia were sold at 91 to 91 discount. The Morning Herald, in its usual commentary on the state of the money market, remarks that " the general ,state of the money affairs of the United States has undergone but little change since the arrival at New York of the British Queen. The banks which suspended under the in- fluence of the United States Bank are gradually pre paring to resume, and many have done so." With respect to the Pennsylvania banks it remarks—" these banks are so interwoven with cotton operations, and the great State Stock system, both of which are, and have been for the last eight months, losing operations, that a speedy resumption on their part cannot be looked for." The example of the United States Bank in interfering, in 1837, with the cotton market, although successful at, that time, has in its consequences, been One great element of her present disasters. On this subject we quote the folloWing pertinent remarks from the Morning Herald : Most of the banks south-west also engaged in the cotton business in 1838, and the United States Bank having esta blished a cotton house in , Liverpool, and wishing to promote an early and general resumption of specie payments, under took, by making loans to the institutions thus involved, to concentrate their cotton in the hands of the Liverpool house, and at the same time to enable them to resume on the Ist of January last. To do this, it was necessary to hold the cot ton, which was equivalent to a decrease in the amount of our national exports to the same amount, and also caused an absorption of the active capital of the bank for the period that 'it was held. This was supplied by the availability of the State Stocks which accompanied the mania for public improvements, and for the sale of which the United States Bank became the most active agent. The sale of these securities was urged until the foreign market s b ecame glutted, and the sale suddenly stoppe d , leaving the states with a liability : For stocks to the limount of And a yearly interest of To meet which the public works will yield.. Dividends of banks owned by the States ....... Provided for by taxation Dols. 200,000,000 12,000,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000- 4,500,000 Interest unprovided for.. The amount must be raised,,if raised at all, by taxation. The amount derived from bank dividends is now jeopardised by the unfortunate condition of the banks, to which the state stocks have been loaned, and the amount to be raised by taxation will, probably ; be near 9,000,000 doll., as all further sales t o any extent are felt. to be impossible. The question " taxation is one of so great difficulty, that the largeSt hold "' of those stocks have already proposed the consolidation of them in a national debt, the interest to be met by the pro ceeds of the public lands. This measure would be much bette r for the holders of the stock, but the state works would in not be forwarded by it, as at least 100,000,000 dollars more, additionto that already created, would require to be raised, hi order to render the works commenced profitable. In the meantime the immediate availability of these stocks is the question- which affects the solvency of the United States Bank. The recent returns of that institution throw no light on the amount which she holds, nor upon the nature of the securities which she holds from the cotton banks. Enough, however, can be gathered from the returns of those banks, :o show that the great mass of her assets of that nature are worthless. The various loans to the Mississipi banks are stated to amount to upwards of fourteen millions and a half of dollars. The Planters' Bank is said to be indebted nearly a million. The other Mississipi debts of the bank are estimated at fifteen millions of dollars. The average loss on these assets is about forty per cent, or 6,800,000 dollars.' That is independently of the losses on cotton, protested bills, bad debts in New Orleans and elsewhere, which form an aggregate of 15,000,000 dollars. The Morning Herald then proceeds : The greater proportion of the assets of the corporations which the United States Bank has bolstered by loans, are the bills and notes of the insolvent speculators who entered land with borrowed money. The United States Bank is therefore the grand heed of this mass of valueless paper, which she has hitherto supported by the great state stock bubble. This has now exploded, and the wreck hangs round the commercial world, and retards the movements of business. The struggle, both here and in Europe, to get clear of it, causes the inac tion in trade. This inaction must soon give way to the wants of the people and the energy of commercialenterprise. The elements of trade were never greater than now. For the past year or two the consumption of manufactured articles has been largely increased. This has produced a glut through ; Out the world, and a fall in prices. This year the productions of the soil far exceed those of any former years, and the in creased supply has reduced the prices, notwithstanding which the aggregate value is greater. ' Let us recur to facts. After a laborious research, we have, from the most correct data, formed the following eeimate of the crops this year, as compared with last year : VALUE OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE LNITED STATES FOR Cotton Breadstuffs 'obacco Other produce 1839. 1840. Dols. 70,000,000 Dols. 72,000,000 235,000,000 294,000,000 11,003,000 13,000,000 3,000,000 3,500,000 50,000,000 75,000,000 Increase 369,000,000 457,500,000 369,000,000 88,000,000 Here is a large excess of, productions, even at greatly re duced prices, while the actual commercial indebtedness abroad is much less than last year. The greater proportion of this immense production is consumed in this country ; only the surplus is exported, and may be estimated for the coming year as follows : EXPORTS OF PRODUCE FROM THE UNITED STATES FOR 1840. Cotton.. Breadstuffs.. 10,000,000 Other produce.. 25,000,000 Tobacco .... 9,000,000 Surplus D. 101,500,000 To this may be added, for profits, freight, &c., at least 25 per cent., which will give an export of near 125,000,000 dol. The question here arises " Who are the producers of this great wealth ? Are they persons who are in debted to a greater amount, and who must pay it away for that which is already consumed ?" The Morning Herald answers this question in the negative, alleging , that the great proportion of this wealth is produced by persons who went into the country during the revulsion of 1837, and purchased tracts of land, creating this wealth by their hard industry, in return for which they stand in need of manufactured goods. The Herald says that " this exchange of commodities will not be prevented or retarded, because the old speculators in water lots and railroads cannot pay the banks the paper lent them to encourage their wild proceedings." — With respect to these speculators, the Herald remarks — This class of persons are variously struggling to restore things to their former artificial state, and to hold up the tot tering mass of credit, while, at the same time, there is as it were a strong " under current" of healthy business based on the actual wants of the productive classes, which is daily growing and gaining strength, supported by the specie-pay ing banks headed by the New York institutions. This is sp . - parent in every section of the country. The farmers and planters will not sell their produce unless for bills on specie paying banks. In the different cities, notwithstanding the se ;ason of the year, there is a steady and gradual increase of cash business. The banks discount readily the short busi ness paper of regular tradesmen, and the cry of distress is becoming daily more confined to circles of stock-jobbers, broken banks, and those interested in the great state stock bubble. There is very little general news in the New York papers. There had been another fire at Mobile, but it was fortunately got under after consuming ten houses only,. besides outbuildings, etc, The topic which chiefly occupies the papers is, the preparations made by different parties for the opening of the Congress. Fresh troubles had been experienced from the Indians iu Florida. Thela.skadvices from Texas and Mexico gave earnest of a conflict likely to take place, which would be the beginning of new assaults on the integrity of the Mexican states, and which might, it is conjectured, end in the overthrow of the Mexican Republic. The New Orleans Bulletin says that the next news from Metamoras was looked for with much interest, from the expectation that the result of the expedition pre paring against it by the Mexican federalists would then be ascertained. A large body of Texians had joined the attacking party. The yellow fever had abated at Galveston, but net without producing very great mortality. Out of a population of only 2,000 there had been 200 deaths in the space of two months. At Houston also there had been 400 deathsout of a population of 4,000. Not withstanding this, emigrants were not deterred from going to Texas. We have received a file of the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 14th of August, inclusive. The prices of provisions still remained very high. The first qua lity of flour was selling at 755. per 1001bs., and inferior qualities at 70i. and flos. It was expected that these prices would be sustained for some time unless grain was shortly imported. Salt butter was selling at Is. 9d. to 2s. Gd. per lb.; fresh butter, at 3s. to 3s. 6d.; cheese, Is. 6d. ; lard, Is. 3d. ; bacon, is. 4d.; hams, is. to Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, 2s. 3d. per dozen. The prices of vegetables were as follows :- 7 -Potatoes (colo nial) 20s. ; ditto (Dtrwent) 255. to 30s. per cwt. ; cab bages, 2d. to ls. ; cauliflowers, 4d. to ls. ; brocoli, 4d. to 6d.; red cabbages, 6d. to Is.; lettuce, 2d. to 3d. each ; carrots, 6d., and turnips 2d. to 3d. per bunch. Intelligence from Port Phillip to a recent date had been received at Sydney. A report had reached Mel bourne that the natives of the Mount Macedon district had made a descent upon the station of S. J. Brown, Esq., and driven off a flock of sheep. The great influx of capitalists, within a few weeks before the date of the last advices from Port Phillip, had raised the price of stock, particularly horses, to an unprecedented degree, Sheep had been sold at £1 15s. and £2 per head; horned cattle from £lO to £l2 ; and the commonest hacks realised from £5O to £7O; while brood mares fetched as much as £lOO to £124. The news from Van Dieman's Land is to the 3d of August, inclusive. Great distress was there felt owing to the scarcity of provisions. A proclamation had been issued by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir John Frank lin, directing that all vessels arriving in the river Der went, subject to quarantine, shall perform the same be tween Sandy Bay point and the eastern side of the ri ver Derwent ; and those arriving at Launceston, with in the inlet on the west side of the river Tamar; called Middle Arm. The news from Sydney is comparatively unimpor tant. There were nearly fifty vessels, many of them of very large tonnage, loading or discharging in the port, _ _ _ Most of these vessels were from Liverpool and Lon don, and had taken out a great number of passengers. Trade appears to have been tolerably brisk at Sydney, and the prices of most articles of general consumption were well sustained. We have received a file of the Guiana Chronicle to the 6th of November, inclusive. An adjourned public meeting on the subject of immigration had been held, at Georgetown, on the 11th of October, at which some unpleasant disputes arose on the subject of certain pro ceedings of the Combined Court in that colony. It seems that some expressions relating to this court had been proposed for introduction into a petition brought forward at the meeting of which we gave an account some time ago. These expressions having been ex punged by the vote of the committee, Mr. Rose and. Mr. Croal sought to have them re-inserted, but did not succeed in their object. On the 24th of October ano ther meeting was held, by adjournment, when an amended petition on the subject of immigration was introduced, which was supported by every individual of every party present on the occasion. This petition directly repudiated the proceedings of the Combined Court. The Guiana Chronicle states that much good may be anticipated from this petition, and that it must command the attention of her Majesty's. Government. Of this we have no doubt. The Guiana Chronicle has a great number of articles Rum--1838 1839 Coffee-1838 1839 Deficit PimentolB3B 1839 Excess .. Ginger-1838 1839 Deficit .. From this statement it appears that there is a large deficit on the exports of all the staple products of the island, excepting in the article of pimento, in which there is a very considerable excess. The preceding account is extremely discouraging, especially when it is taken into consideration that the crops on the ground were very large, and that the defi ciency arose entirely from want of labour, to take off the crops. The want of continuous labour has pre vented the agriculturist from taking advantage of the bountiful resources placed by Providence within his reach. The Governor and the House of Assembly were working together with the greatest cordiality and assi duity. From the time that the House had assembled, to the date of the last advices, no less than 2ct bills, relating to different subjects, had been passed, and 12 of these had received the Governor's assent. This is a striking proof of the good feeling which subsists between the Governor and the House. Respecting the new Governor, the Royal Gazette remarks that " Sir Charles is fast gaining the confidence of every party and, as predicted, will earn for himself a reputation which will make his name honoured and respected by every soul who has an interest in the prosperity of Jamaica." The conduct of Sir Charles Metcalfe, in reference to the " Prisons Bill," is mentioned with very great satis: faction. At former seasons, when this bill was sent down to the House of Assembly, it was done in the most insulting and offensive manner, as if in defiance of the House. In the present instance, Sir Charles, in the true spirit of forbearance and reconciliation, de tained the message, and afforded the House every opportunity of proceeding to business, and sent down the act of the Imperial Parliament when it became, in effect, a dead letter. A motion had been introduced into the House of Assembly, for assimilating the currency of the island to that of Great Britain. It was proposed that an English shilling should be called a shilling, instead o Is 8d; and that the pound should be 2Q instead o of those shillings : mother words, that the money o account should be sterling instead of currency. The island, we are happy to add, was in the enjoy. ment of perfect 'tranquillity. The crops, especially of corn and coffee, are likely to prove very abundant. The readers of the Standard will bear us testimony that we have never advocated a rash and precipitate policy in the conduct of the -Conservative cause. w e have insisted over and over again—to a degree perhaps little congenial to the feelings of some of our impetuous but warm-hearted friends—upon the ultimate advan tages which would be gained by acting upon that cautious system which has been characteristic of the Conservative party during the last four years. W e are well content that the tactics of Sir Robert Peel should be likened to those of the Roman General Fabius, provided that hereafter it can be said of the former with the same truth as it was by Ennius of the latter, Unus homo nobis CUNCTANDO restituit rem." But, although we have thus deprecated anything like eager haste to snatch the reins of power from even a Melbourne Government, and transfer them to hands in which they may be trusted without trifling with the destinies of this great empire, we never imagined that no time was to come in which promptitude and action were to take the place of procrastination and delay. The greatobject of the Fabian policy was to allow the Whigs time to work out their own destruction—to let the inherent principle of rottenness, which deprives them'aS a party of anything like strength either in the country or in the House of Commons, eat like a canker-worm until they fell, root, stem, branches,,and Onintigration, many of which are of a very interest ` ing character. We have inserted several of them in another column, and recommend them to the especial attention of our readers. The introduction of German immigrants into the colony is very strongly recom mended by the Chronicle of October 25. A correspondent of the Chronicle announces the fol lowing as the principl.es on which he is willing to con tract for a supply of from three to seven thousand ef fective field labourers :—They are not to be bound to enter into any term of service—they will not be allowed to go to any estate that is not provided with lodges and land—they are to receive the same wages as other labourers for seven and a half hours' labour— they are to have medical attendance, medicine, house room, and a suit of clothes each per annum, provided they remain twelve months on the property—and they are to be conveyed to the colony without any charge for passage money. Another correspondent suggests the propriety of pro curing emigrants from Lower Egypt, the population of which country - are said to be extremely well adapted for the climate of British Guiana. There are many difficulties to be overcome before this plan could be put into execution. We perfectly agree with the editor of the Chronicle in the opinion that the Hill Coolies are the best qualified for discharing the duties of field la bourers in the colony. On this subject we have the following testimony from the Rev. Mr. Lugar, Rector of Georgetown, who, from his long residence in India, is entitled«to give his opinions with confidence. He says—" I have had 'an oppOrtunity of - Observing during my professional avocations. the condition of health of each of the races of labourers imported into this coun try. The people of the Azores, Madeira, Malta, Ire land, Germany, 'West and East Indies, have all come under my observation ; and although I consider an in flux of labourers from - either of These countries condu cive to the well being of. British Guiana, I know of no population so happily constituted for our field work, as the Hill Coolies. While all others require some time to acclimatize before becoming effective labourers, the Hindoo, born and bred in a climate even more trying than this, seems ready formed and modelled for our peculiar wants. The unfortunate Belle Vue affair, has at least done this much for the colony : it has demon strated that constitutionally the pl indoo is better adapted for the climate and soil of British Guiana,.than any race that has yet made it a home, with the exception per haps of the Aboriginal Indian. The experiment by which this was known took place in the Colonial Hospital, the whole progress of which I have witnessed." With this incontrovertible evidence before us we hope that the people of this country will perceive the wisdom cf transferring the famine-struck inhabitants of India to the fertile colony of British Guiana. We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and Standard to the 21st ultimo, inclusive. Neither the Dispatch nor the Jamaica Gazette have reached our office. Our own paper is duly forwarded to the office of these papers at Kingston ; we cannot, therefore, account for the frequent disappointments which we experience in the non-receipt of the above papers. We are exceedingly rejoiced to find that the new Governor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, continues to be popu lar; but we regret to find that the accounts from this important co!ony are not, generally, of so favourable a character. The deficiency in the produce, during the last year, is truly alarming. A return of the exports, made up to the loth day of October, in the years 1838 and 1839, had been sent down to the House of Assembly, in a message from his Excellency the Go vernor, from which it appears that the deficiency in the staples of the island had been, the last year, equal to one third of the total exports of the preceding year. This return, against which there can be no cavil, inasmuch as it is drawn exclusively from official sources, proves the utter absurdity of the confident assertions indulged in by those who have persisted in denying that there has been any deficiency in the pro ducts of the island. We subjoin a summary of the particulars contained in this return : Sugar—lB3B 1839 63,028 hhds. 9245 trs. 44,893 6113 3376 bls. 1866 Deficit .... • 3070 24,674 puns. 1070 hhds. 684 casks 15,548 905 288 13,551,795 lbs. 8,897,421 4,654,974 148 casks. 23,350 bags 184 31;497 11, into a state of hopeless and incurable decay, and made manifest to the world, that it is as impassible to construct out of them a Government in which the people shall place confidence, as to build a line-of battle ship of wooden shavings. It was a matter of the greatest moment to the Conservatives that a period of misrule should be granted to their political oppo nents, in order that their unfitness for the high office of Ministers of the Crown might be fully demonstrated. They have had rope enough given them, and they have hanged themselves. Had the party who opposed, the particular Reform Bill' brought in by Lord Grey succeeded in establish ing themselves in power soon after the passing of that measure, and retained it until the present moment, — although much evil would doubtless have been pre vented, and the state of the country just now have been very different from what it is, with rebellion at home and in our colonies, and a general feeling of distrust pervading and paralysing the whole world of commerce, with seditious libels at a premium, and the antagonist forces of Popery and Dissent united to over- throw the Established Church,—yet we yiestion if such lasting benefit would have been conferred upon the nation as has been by an exhibition of the career which those must run who clothe themselves in the tattered garments of Whiggery. Truly may they say with Jaques, " Motley 's the only wear ;" so patched and piebald is the drapery with which they vainly strive to hide their nakedness from the eyes of their fellow-countrymen. Had the Whigs 'during the last few years been in opposition, their cuckoo-cries would have deceived y. 'They would have declaimed against Patronage ey would have eulogised Economy—have de nounced Jobbing—and, so far as noisy clamour may be taken as the test of sincerity, have proved them selves incorruptible Patriots. They would have spoken of the people with as much melting tenderness as Robespierre did of his future victims, when he talked at the Tribune of le paurre peuple ; and men might have fancied still, that power in the hands of the Whigs would be the advent of a political millennium. Such might have been the case with these impostors so long as they were untried : now for the reality, after ten years' experience of their sway. The men who condemned Patronage in a Tory Government have rested upon Patronage, of the most flagrant kind, as the great support and mainstay of their power. Every office in every department has been given away to political partizans, relations, creatures, dependants, whose sole claim, in many instances, has been a willing subservience to any commands the dispensers of these favours have laid upon them. Even the Bench has been made the reward of services in the House of Commons, although the gravest reasons existed why the choice should have fallen anywhere rather than where it did. As to Jobbing, let any man for a mo ment task his memory and recollect a few of the mul- titudinous Commissions issued during the last few years by the Whigs, in which their hungry satellites have been placed, to sponge out of the public the money which they ought to have earned by honest industry in some reputable profession. To the lower orders of the community, whom they flattered with fulsome adulation, and of whom they spoke as intelli gent, enlightened, self-denying philosophers, they have given London constables and the halter, and have withdrawn whole regiments from Ireland to overawe and chastise the fellow-labourers of those " men of Birmingham who carried the Reform Bill." Their Economy consists in spending thousands in remedying an abuse which costs only hundreds, and in crippling the right arm of Britain—her glorious Navy, in order that their official in the House of Commons may boast of the retrenchment which has been effected when the Estimates are discussed. They have revealed, by acts as unequivocal as the blows of an assassin, their dislike and fear of the Establishment, and have thoroughly disgusted the Protestant portion of the empire, which still forms the overwhelming majority of the nation. They have promulgated the most unconstitutional doctrines as to the right of the Crown to retain a back-stairs influence, and have sheltered themselves in the drawing-room of a Queen from the indignation of a people of whose representatives, they themselves openly declared, they no longer possessed the .confi dence. We think, therefore, that the time has now come when..the lneasure ,of their iniquity is, full. an 4 • there remains no chance of their being allowed again to cajole and betray any section of their fellow-country men. They never can be trusted with power again, and men of liberal views and moderate opinions will look to the Conservatives as the only party in the State which can bring this country out of the crisis in valich she has been struggling. No sooner is Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister, than such a force will rally round the Conservative standard, as will secure to him and his colleagues such a period of power, as will enable them to work out those real reforms of which he has been always the steady and consistent advocate ; but above all, which will give time for pub lic opinion to assume a more healthy tone, and allow the feverish effervescence of party strife to subside into a state in which something like comprehensive plans of public policy' may be brought forward and carried. With such a force as Sir Robert Peel can depend on for support, and such growing impatience to cast off for ever the incubus of a Whig-Radical Ministry, he need no longer hesitate or pause. We would wish in everything to shew deference to the private feelings of her Majesty; but this is a case in which the imperious call of public duty ought to, and must, supersede every other consideration. It will no doubt be very painful to her to change those Ministers who have so com pletely possessed themselves of the Royal ear, and made themselves as it were part and parcel of her domestic, household ; but how long are we to endure this state of things ? If the individual wishes of one person— even though that person be the most exalted in the realm—are to countervail and outweigh those of a vast majority in the nation, on a matter of such vital import as great questions of State policy, then the monarchy of England is a despotism, and we need no longer go through the farce of sending Members to Parliament, who are powerless if in opposition to the Court. We firmly believe that the period of action has ar rived, and that the country loudly calls upon Sir Robt. Peel and the Duke of Wellington to assume the Go vernment into their own hands. It will be a fatal error too long to disappoint expectations, and dissatisfy the thousands who are already exclaiming, in disgust at the policy pursued by the Melbourne Cabinet, " Quousque tandem abutere patientid nostril ?" When the Conservatives are once in power, her Majesty will soon be undeceived. She will find how false have been the calumnies of the Whigs, and will ere long discover, as both her Royal predecessors did before they died, that their doctrines are mischievous to the people, and, in their scope and tendency, subversive of the monarchy itself. , 2 • • If the propriety of the old adage, that when rogues quarrel honest men get their own, were a matter of dispute, the present state of the dominant party in our Town Council would set the matter at rest for ever. The disgraceful behaviour of Mr. Councillor Rathbone to the Town-clerk, on Saturday, was only wanting to complete the measure of Whig iniquity in that Coun cil, and to seal the doom of the Radical party in this town (as we fervently hope) for ever. The farce is now over, and the people of Liverpool have an excellent opportunity, which we are confident they will not over look, of appreciating the motives and principles of a body of individuals, who delight to style themselves, lucus a non lucendo, Reformers. So long as the ad vice and decisions of their own Town-clerk were in accordance with their wishes, no honour was too great, no praises too loud, for him ; but no sooner did that legal functionary, in the honest performance of his duty, regardless of winks, hints, and every other de scription of artifice, venture to cross their path, than they are at no pains to conceal the vexation which such upright and evidently unexpected conduct has occa sioned them, but take, as our last publication's report can amply testify, every opportunity which offers itself to heap up insult upon insult upon a man, who, though immeasurably their superior in talent, worth, and every attribute of a gentleman, they know to be prevented, by the position in which he is placed, from retaliating upon them. It is thus that the party invariably act : whilst an individual is content to participate in their dirty tricks, he is everything that is good and virtu ous ;; but the moment he dares to leave their pale and think for himself, he at once ceases to possess such noble attributes, and becomes a degraded and dishonest member of society. The Rev. Mr. M'Neile has, how ever, given such an apt illustration of this principle, as exemplified in the case of the Town-clerk, that there is no necessity for further proof. It is now plain that when Mr. Rathbone appointed the Town-clerk to his present office, (and we speak ad visedly in saying appointed, for there has not been a single appointment connected with the Town Council, from a mayor or borough magistrate to a scullion, in the patronage of which Mr. Rathbone has not, directly or indirectly, shared,) that he did so under the expec tation that he would become his creature of all work, and twist or untwist the law of the land as might best serve the interests of his party. Mr. Rathbone has, however, been mistaken ; and all who marked the altered demeanour of the Town-clerk after the query so ungentlemanly put by Mr. Rathbone, whether the Town-clerk was a sixty-fifth councillor—as it had been a matter of remark to a number of councillors, be sides himself, that he had, for some time past, been ta king upon himself the duties of a councillor—must have been convinced that it augured no particular good feeling to the radical portion of the Council. The Mayor took the part of the Town-clerk in the most handsome manner, and completely exculpated him from the imputation of unnecessary officiousness in giving his opinion. There are many worse men in the Council than the present Mayor. He has been, it is true, more lax, as a church-man, of late, than we could have wished ; but this has been, most probably, occasioned by the only real defect which we are aware of in his character—to. wit, an ill-concealed vanity, which led him, prior to the period of his mayoralty, into the committal of acts of which we are confident that he was ashamed in private. Be this as it may, there is no love lost between Mr. Joshua Wahusley and the Unitarians. Of this we have many proofs to offer should they be required. A few must suffice for the present. The Mayor knows full well that it was owing to the influence of Mr. Rathbone that he was not made a borough magistrate, and he is equally aware that the Rathbone interest excluded him from the Mayoralty last year. Of the personal feelings which must exist between these individuals, the fol- lowing well authenticated but unreported anecdote will best speak. At the close of one of the Council meet ings, during Mr. Rathbone's Mayoralty, Mr. Walm sley, whose seat was close to the Mayor's chair, and who had been unable to attract the attention of the Mayor during an important debate, although it was evident to all that the Mayor perceived him, privately complained of the treatment which he had received. " Do you mean to bring any charge against me," said Mr. Rathbone, in is usual crabbed manner. " No," said Mr. Walmsley. "'Then, sir," replied Mr. Rath bone, with an imperious air, " you are behaving in a very improper manner; and that is all I have to say to you, sir." "Oh, oh !" said Mr. Walmsley, and turned upon his heel. This fact speaks volumes, and, it may be depended upon, as we have it from an eye-witness. This year Mr. Walmsley, as Mayor, has withdrawn himself from the ranks of the Reform Association. The munificent sums which he has hitherto supplied in aid of its funds will, therefore, be wanting,- unless " Snarleyow, the Dog-fiend," alias " The celebrated dog Billy," will, as there is but little hope, consent to un-button his pockets upon the occasion ; and the consequence will he, (the reign of corruption being over,) that the Conservative cause wilt triumph in every ward in the town. The Unitarian clique, which mus ters, we believe, seventeen members, finding themselves deprived of the aid of the Mayor, could hardly regard him with any sort of friendly feeling prior to his re cent defence of the Town-clerk in the affair of Mr. Jones, and the very dirty manner in which they con trived to get him excluded from the committee ap pointed to investigate the merits of that case, plainly indicates the estimation in which they now hold him. We cannot conceive on what principle Mr. Rathbone continues to show such animosity towards Mr. Jones, after the latter gentleman was unanimously acquitted by the committee. We well recollect the indignation with which Mr. Rathbone rebutted the charge made against him of having spat in the face of the aged Ge neral Gascoyne through the windows of his carriage, (and which, let us add, was never explained in a man ner satisfactory to our minds) : how, then, can he be so extremely uncharitable to others ? Mr. Rathbone has been guilty of a number of ugly sayings and do- Inge in hic day, and thrice are •nnt dead whn can sub stantiate them. Let him, therefore, be careful how he arraigns the conduct of others ; for, whatever may be Mr. Rathbone's character in private, (and with that we have nothing to do,) in public, we can assure him, it has been by no means faultless. The subscription towards the Liverpool Collegiate Institution is rapidly augmenting, and now amounts to £9,000. Our respected townsmen, Jas. Lawrence, Esq., and Josias Booker, Esq., have generously added their names to the list for the extremely handsome sums of £250 each ; and several donations of _a like amount are speedily expected. With a view to en courage their presentation, the Committee have re solved to recommend to the Subscribers, at their meeting on Monday week, that the privilege of nomi nating, free of expense, a certain number of students, shall be enjoyed by donors, according to the following scale, viz. :—That £250 shall entitle the donor to one nomination in the first school, for life; £5OO, to two nominations in the first school, and one nomination in the second school, for life; £750, to three nominations in the first school, of which two shall be for life, and one in perpetuity; and £l,OOO, to four nominations in the first school, of which two shall be for life, and two in perpetuity. These nominations will likewise entitle the students who may hold them to every -privilege which may be possessed by a life member, and the perpetual scholarships will be called by the names of their founders ; and, with a view of enabling the donors to nominate to the second school should they prefer doing so, two nominations to the second school will be deemed equivalent to one to the first school. By this arrangement an opportunity is afforded to the gene rous of doing much good during their lifetime, and of transmitting their names to posterity in association with an institution which must annually extend the sphere of its usefulness amongst all ranks and classes, and become the mightiest engine of moral and social good which this community ever has possessed, or, in all probability, ever will possess. For ourselves, when we glance at the large sums which have been contri ' buted to the Mechanics' Institute, and learn that three ' of them are about to be increased to £l,OOO, we feel • confident that the liberality of the projectors of the l• Liverpool Collegiate Institution will be shewn in an equally munificent manner. ACCIDENTS. — We are sorry to learn that a great many serious accidents occurred on Christmas-eve. One man fell and broke his arm ; another fell from a car, and dislocated his shoulder; a third was run over by a east, and had his leg shockingly broken ; while a fourth fell into the hold of a flat in the Duke's Dock, and fractured his skull so dread fully, as to cause his death within a few hours. All these accidents were received into the Northern Hospital within an hour or two. WARRINGTON DISPENSARY.—The annual ball in aid of the funds of this truly useful and excellent institution, took place in the Assembly Room of the Lion Hotel, i❑ Warring,- ton, on Friday last ; and, as on many previous occasions, was attended by a large portion of the rank, fashion, and beauty of the town and neighbourhood. NEW BARRACKS.—The old Lunatic Asylum is about to be vacated by the military, the council baying given notice to government of their intention to take down the building. Alterations are now making in the extensive premises for merly occupied by the Herculaneum Pottery Company, at the bottom of Duke-street, for the purpose of converting them into barracks. - - - ----- Our esteemed favourite Miss Whitnall has announced her concert, for January 3, 1840, at the Templars' Hall. From the great attraction announced, we anticipate a rich treat. Mr. Templeton, who is now completing his second engage ment this season at Dublin, comes over here from thence for this occasion. His delicious tenor voice, and peculiarly de licate and finished style of execution, will be heard to great advantage at the Templars' hall. Mr. Gatayes is the pianist whose rapid, yet forcible manner of executing the most intri cate passages, astonished even the musical world, upon his first and only appearance in England. Mr. E. Brown, the well-known flute player, Mr. Pemberton, and Mr. Balls, give their valuable assistance. HOUSEBREAKING. —Early on Saturday morning last, some malicious villain or villains made a daring attempt to break into and rob the house of Archibald Sinclair, Esq., Hillside house, Wavertree. The robbers, by some means, had got into the yard, and, having some instrument by them with which they 'eight force open the doors, by placing it near the lock or bolt, they entered the outhouses, and also by break ing a pane or two in each window to undo the snap. Many of the outbuildings were forced open by this means, the edges of the doors being much injured and defaced. For tunately, however, they were descried before they had effected an entrance into the dwelling-house, otherwise the robbery might have been extensive. After they had entered the dif ferent places in the yard, and found nothing that they could take conveniently away, they barbarously murdered two birds which were in one of the houses, took away a cover for the coach, a jacket belonging to the coachman, and another belonging to a boy who'll Mr. Sinclair had kindly taken under his protection. The coach-cover and the boy's jacket were found at day-break in the morning, in an adjoining field. THEATRE ROYAL. One of the most successful seasons on record at tti's sol vent and established place of legitimate amusement termi nated on Monday, the entertainments being for the benefit of Mrs. Clarke. This lady met with a reception akin to the off-handed warmth and hearty frankness of her own nature and manner of acting. The house was densely crowded in every part. The boxes were brilliant ; and from the number of their handsomely-dressed occupants—ladies being in the majority—the effect of the audience-part of the house was elegant and imposing. Mrs. Wood's reception, and that of her husband, in " Love in a Village," fell short only of the electrifying welcome vociferated in their ear on Friday. All went merry as a marriage bed. In the afterpiece, Ducrow's intellectual school of pantomime was as perfect a display in that peculiar department of art as genius and experience could make it. We must not forget Mr. Rice —or, rather, how could we. As the " representative" of Jumbo Jum, he made—in his place—a succession of " natural speeches : in deed, it was the unanimous opinion of the gallery that his addresses to the House were consistent, and generally above le parliamentary average. The honourable member moved " Jim Crow," not only like a tried man in full receipt of past, and in confident expectation of his forthcoming salary, but, though in the dead of winter, he sprung it in character, racy and juicy as the Spring himself—no allusion to our friend, Lord MoUnteagle. By the way, speaking of Spring Rice, why should not the Hon. Jim C. Rice get a title? At present he is a " peerless kinsman," But as ready to be deprived of that distinction, and, though perhaps less deserving in the eyes of the opposition, he may be nevertheless as willing as any man in office. And as to his claim upon the public and his comparative efficiency ! why, where is the Tory, or Radical, or Constitutional Whig, so bigoted and eaten up with spleen and party rancour, as to deny that he has natural ability to take the jump, short only of the most docile and supple of Lord Melbourne's unique trdop of Volliyeurs. Who would not sign a national requisition in the consistent artist's favour. ROYAL AMPIIITITBATRE. This establishment opened last night, under the immediate superintendance of Mr. Ducrow. The performances, &c., are on a scale of magnificence that demands a more minute notice than is in our power to give at the late (or, rather, early) hour at which we write... THE BRITISH QUEEN. We subjoin a copy of a letter which has been received in this town from Mr. M`Gregor Laird, respecting the arrival of the above vessel : " London, 25th December, 1839, Blackwall, 3 p.m. " Dear Sir,—The " British Queen " is now safely anchored at her moorings, having sailed on the 2nd, and encountered the most severe hurricane, which has done great damage, carrying away deck-houses forward, and some of the boats. Particulars you shall have afterwards. I am happy to say her engine and machinery behaved well, and the captain can not speak too highly in praise of his vessel. She brings about 40 passengers, all of whom are loud in her praise.— I remain in haste, yours truly. M'GREGOR LAIRD." J. R. Pim, Esq. GRAND SERS.'CRIPTION CoNCERTs. — WC perceive from the advertisement that the first of the Grand Subscription Concerts for the season is to take place on Monday evening next, at the Theatre Royal. A host of musical talent has been engaged for the occasion. From the programme we have no doubt that this concert will pass off with echit. The com mittee have provided a rich and varied entertainment for the musical public, and we trust their spirited exertions will not pass unrewarded. The names of the various performers enu merated in the advertisement will prove a powerful attraction. THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—The President may be expected round from the Thames early in the ensuing year. She will take in her machinery in the Trafalgar Dock, which she will be enabled to enter with a high tide. ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH.—The advowson or perpetual pre sentation to the living of St. George's Church, has been purchased from the corporation by John Fletcher, Esq. of St. Michael's, in the Park. WHITEHALL, DEC. 17.—The Lord Chancellor has ap pOinted Henry Bell, of Liverpool, Gent., and Robert R. Derbishire, of Liverpool, Gent., to be Masters Extraordi nary in the High Court of Chancery. The United States, intended as a companion to the Liver pool, the property of the Transatlantic Steam-ship Company, is nearly ready fir launching. She will, it is expected, take her place in the line to New York on the 20th April. We understand that Mr. Cunard's line of steam-ships. be tween Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston, will commence plying in the month of May. These steamers will keep up a com munication, once a fortnight, between Europe and America. ClinisTm as DAY.—Wednesday being Christmas day, was observed in this town with the usual solemnities. Nearly all the shops were closed, and business in general was sus pended. The Mayor, Joshua Wahnsley, Esq., presented to each debtor confined in the Borough prison, a donation of gibs. of beef, 21bs. of bread, 2lbs. of potatoes, and one quart of ale. The prisoners on the criminal side of the gaol, amounting to 557 in number, also received a portion of the Mayor's bounty, in a plentiful supply of bread, beef, and po tatoes.—The inmates of the Workhouse sat down to a plen tiful supply of old English fare, beef, plum pudding, &c. A considerable number of visitors were present on the occasion, and expressed themselves much pleased with the good order and general appearance of comfort which prevailed. PMSENTATION OF A GOLD SNUFF Box.—On Saturday evening last, at the Brunswick Hotel, upwards of forty highly respectable inhabitants of this town presented to Mr. Gas kill, the agent for the nmes, a magnificent gold snuff-box, as a tribute to fits exertions fivr having been the means of bringing the Times. to Liverpool by four o'clock in the after noon. John Threlfall, Esq., of Manchester, occupied the chair. Among the company present were Mr. Councillor Jones, Mr. M. J. \Vhitty, the high constable, Mr. W. Craig, of Manchester, Mr. Thomas Watson, Mr. Odell, Mr. Hindle, Dr. Thorburn, Dr. Donlevey, and the Rev. Mr. Thorp. A letter was read from Mr. Charles Wilkins, the eminent barrister, stating that he had been suddenly taken ill by an attack, which, for half an hour, had placed his life in jeopardy, otherwise he should have had great pleasure in attending. It was stated, that, in consequence of Mr. Gas kill's exertions having put himself and the Manchester news agents to a great expense by receiving the papers in parcels, instead of by post, that the Grand Junction Railway Com pany liberally intended to reduce the impost on the Ist of January. The company was a very influential one, and the occasion must have been exceedingly gratifying to Mr. Gaskill. TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM.-011 Tuesday last a deputa tion from the committee of the Everton and Kirkdale Floral and Horticultural Society, waited upon Mr. Skirving, of the Walton Nursery, at his residence, and presented him w th a very elegant silver snuff-box, as a testimonial of their high estimation of his skill and talent as a botanist, arboricultu rist, and horticulturist, and as a token of their gratitude to him for the very efficient aid which he has conferred on the above-mentioned society since its commencement. Amongst the individuals comprising the deputation were Messrs. M. Ashcroft, Robert Jones, jun., H. Leatherbarrow, and Heys Pyke. The box is of exceedingly chaste and elegant design, but it will, of course, be more highly prized by Mr. Skirving for the feeling of which it is an indication, than for either its mere bullion value, or the beauty of its workmanship. Mr. Pyke presented the box with a brief speech, conveying the sentiments of the society. Mr. Ashcroft added a few ob servations expressive of the high esteem in which all con nected with agriculture held the gentleman to whom this gift was presented. Mr. Skirving replied in an exceedingly ne It and pointed address, in the course of which he assured the deputation of the great satisfaction which it had given him to mark the rising prosperity of their society, and of his o..vn determination to continue his aid to it in every way in his power. Owen, the socialist, it is said, has been a visitor at Lupse- Hall, near Wakefield, the hospitable mansion of Daniel Has kell, Esq., for some time past, where (as we hear) he has been giving lectures to private dinner parties. No doubt the fellow will find some hearers, if a good dinner is the " bait" for his " fry." EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The operations at the west end of this railway, though seemingly to the eye going on but slowly, are in reality proceeding with great spirit. The immense labour attendant on cutting the tunnel, a great part of which goes through the solid rock, renders the progress of the workmen necessarily slow ; but when the obstructions to be overcome are taken into consideration, it is greater than might have been expected. At tl.e " eye," on this side the Lunatic Asylum, the tunnel has now advanced upwards of three hundred feet northwards, and the workmen have begun to carry it southwards, to meet those employed at the entrance in Bell's Park, where a considerable bore has now been made. At the spot first mentioned, visitors will find an inspection of the work highly interesting. The tun nel, so far as cut, has a most spacious appearance, and not unpicturesque, the darkness throughout being partially relieved by the lights of the miners, who are at work at its farthest extremity. The operation of " blasting" is going on with little intermission ; and there is something really grand in listening to the report of each successive explosion, as it thunders along the huge subterranean vault—the visitor being safely guarded from the projected fragments by en sconcing behind a wooden erection raised for the safety of the workmen. It is understood that a very little north of the point where the miners have already penetrated, the rock dips so much, that this obstruction will be no longer felt, and an arching of stone, as in the other parts of the tunnel, will then commence. About one hundred tons of stuff are at present taken daily out of the tunnel at this part of the works. At the " eye" to the northward of the Lunatic Asylum the tunnel has been arched for about ninety feet towards the canal, and an opening, to facilitate still farther the operations, is now making immediately on this side of the canal, while another will shortly be made at the termi nus of the tunnel beyond it. Six months have already been employed upon this tunnel, and we believe other six months will be required for its entire completion.--Seuttish Guar dian. EXTRAORDINARY SHEEP.—On Saturday last was killed by Mr. Hayward, a two year old Kent.wether sheep. It weighed on the day it was killed 28 stone, and four days after 27 stone 51b, and was allowed by competent judges to be of the most perfect symmetry, and the heaviest two year old wether sheep killed in the county of Kent in the memory of man. This sheep was shown at the last Canterbury cattle show (as extra stock), but not one who saw it rightly judged its weight. It may be satisfactory to the intelligent grazier to know the precise manner this sheep was treated, with four others, from the time it was weaned at fourteen weeks old, to the day it was killed. When weaned it fed on grass only, with the lambs of the owner, and in no way noticed from the rest, till July in the following year, when it was fifteen months old ; it was then put with the aforementioned four sheep upon five acres of the best grass the owner had, and fed till Mi chaelmas with oats and cut sanfoin ; their food was then changed for hog pease, cut hay, and good grass through the winter, but never sheltered night nor day from any weather that might fall, from the time they were lambed down till they were slaughtered ; and for the last three months the five sheep had every day, one and a half oil cake, in addition to the above. The four averaged in weight 22 score 51b.—Ken tisk Gazette. KING OF HOLLAND'S MARRIAGE.—The report of the in . tended marriage between the King of Holland and Mdle. d'Oultremont is revived by the Commerce, which says that persons well informed assert positively that it is to take place by proxy, the Count de Leidekerke, Dutch minister at the court of Rome, being his Majesty's representative. Mdle. d'Oultremont is not to have the title of Queen, but is to re ceive an appanage suited to her position. LORD SEATON AND THE WESLEYANS.— Lieutenant General Lord Seaton was recently waited upon by a deputa tion of Wesleyans, consisting of eminent ministers and lay members, who thanked his lordship for the valuable assis tance which he furnished to the ' society's missionaries in Canada, and congratulated him on his elevation to the peerage. imrePooL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. Last evening a very numerous meeting of the members and friends of the All Saints division of the Liverpool Operative Protestant Association was held in All Saints' Church School Room, Grosvenor-street. The room was crowded by intel ligent and attentive operatives. The Rev. ANDREW WCONKIE, incumbent of All Saints Church, took the chair, and opened the proceedings by the offer ing of prayer. He explained that the objects of the Association were, to rouse the dormant spirit of protestantism, to resist the encroachments of popery upon the constitution, and to shew our Roman Catholic brethren the errors of their church. The necessity of each of these objects being accomplished was pointed out at considerablelength by the rev.gent. He quot ed from Mr. Crisp's excellent Protestant Almanac, spewing that because we had found the throne between us and popery we had neglected to strengthen and defend our Protestant institutions. He trusted we had still the throne between us and Popery—indeed, he was sure we had ; but we must nevertheless endeavour to get rid of the indolence which had darkened our eyes and those of our teachers. We must sup port those Protestant principles which were and had been the glory of the nation. From Mr. Crisp's publication the rev. gentleman proceeded to prove that the Roman Catho lics had been guilty of perjury. Every year from 1808, they had petitioned parliament for emancipation. and swore that they had no desire to weaken or overturn the Protestant re ligion ; but this oath was contrary to their oath to the Pope and their bishops, and it had been violated. We could not indeed admit them to an equal enjoyment of civil rights with ourselves, because their principles were subversive of them, He quoted Lord Bacon's admirable remark, that the Roman Catholics, whilst they thought it necessary to have a dispen sation for every other sin, seemed to have a dormant dis pensation to lie tor the church. (Cheers.) He also alluded to the celebrated Protestant Remonstrance to James the First—" If you once give connivance to Popery it will press for toleration ; if it obtains that it must have equality : from thence it will aspire to superiority ; and will never rest till it has subverted the true religion." (Cheers.) He further showed, from the notes to the Bible, published in Ireland in 181 G, that the principles of Popery were such that its pro fessors, even in the present day, could not rest satisfied merely with the extermination of heretical principles, but only with the extermination of individuals professing them. One of these notes was " the translators of the English Protestant Bible ought to be abhorred to the depths of hell. Roman Catholics must avoid them." Another, " The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger or disturbance of the whole church ; otherwise where ill men, be they heretics or other malefac tors, may be punished or suppressed without disturbance and hazard they may by public authority be chastised or execu ted." (Hear.) And this was the spirit of popery. In ano ther note the Protestant clergy were described as thieves and murderers. Popery had declared the clergy guilty, without trial, and no doubt, when she had the power she would exe cute the sentence of the church. (Hear, hear.) The college of Maynooth, he regretted to say, had been established and endowed whilst we had been asleep. The parliament believed that that institution would have the effect of preventing the spread of infidelity which then over ran the continent, but in the attempt to guard against one evil another had arisen. Popery had its bishops and priests over the colonies ; it had its members in the parliament, and in the privy council, legislating for the interests of a Protes tant church!—(hear)—and the ministry actually dared not allow our Protestant Queen to tell this Protestant nation that she was about to take a Protestant consort to her bosom. Why ?—(hear)—Because popery was their stay ; because po pery was among them ; because, in them, Protestantism was afraid of offending the sleek faced lady ! (Hear.) But he was happy to find that the people had determined to have it out of the country—(hear, hear) ;—they would willingly pay its passage to Rome, and give it their blessing by presenting to it the word of God ! (Cheers.) The reverend gentle man concluded his address by calling upon the meeting as Christians and Protestants to resist the encroachments of popery and to endeavour to bring its followers to a knowledge of the truth. Mr. MYERS, who attended as a deputation from the Com mittee of the Association, next addressed the meeting. One object of the association was to lay open the errors of the Church of Rome, and therefore it was considered desirable that this object should be constantly kept in view. The subject he had chosen was the doctrine of purgatory—the great principle of popish strength and supremacy. The de sire of the papacy had been to have the keys of heaven and hell, and hence the doctrine of purgatory became necessary. The gospel offered free salvation to all men through Jesus Christ, and consequently it was difficult for the papacy to establish its point. The whole of Christendom was the ob ject, but there seemed to be a flaw in the title deeds : the gospel promised salvation from all sin through Jesus Christ, but thea there were mortal sins and venial sins ; it was ne cessary, therefore, to establish an apprenticeship to salvation by means of purgatory. Mark the opposition thereby set up to Christ by Anti-Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ, said the gospel, made a sinner fit for the enjoyment of the happi ness of heaven ; said the Pope, that is true, but there is before that, purgatory and absolution. The Pope could not send souls into heaven, but he did profess to have the power of releasing them from hell by means of absolution. (Hear.) Here he would remark the absurdity of the Roman Catho lics defending.the doctrine of purgatory, by referring to the belief of the Jews in it. The fact was, the Jews believed in purgatory because they had no atonement—(hear, hear), — but all Christians had the atonement of Christ which was sufficient to cleanse from all iniquity. (hear.) To say that a Christian who believed ia the gospel and in the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses from all iniquity believed in purgatory, was blasphemous ! Purgatory being once esta blished, indulgence followed as its fruit—(hear) ;—and it was remarkable that the intrepid spirit of Luther was first rcu..ed by the practice of granting indulgences. The Italian priest immediately trembled on his seat ; Luther had laid fire to the building. It was not purgatory which popery wanted, but the profit from indulgences. (Rear.) He should now take a scriptural view of the question, and confine himself to two questions ; the Ist, whether there be a purgatory ; and the 2nd, whether purgatory be necessary to a Christian ? As to the first question, the speaker referred to the 57th Isaiah, Ist and 2nd verses ; 16th Lukt', erses 25th and 26th •,• 23rd Luke, 43rd verse ; Bth Romans, verse 18th ; and Ist Reve lation, 13th verse. On the other question he referred to 53rd Isaiah; 9th Daniel, 24th verse; 3rd Galatians, 13th verse ; Ist Peter, 2nd chap. 24th verse ; Ist John, Ist chap. 7th verse; Ist Revelation, sth verse. How, in the face of these and other scriptural evidence «hic:h might be adduced, was the papacy able to establish the doctrine of purgatory ? .Why, because she alepriveAl the people of access to the scrip tures. (Hear, hear.) In connection with this remark, be begged to call for a cheer for the first of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile's protestant watchworde—" scriptural education!" (Loud cheers.) The Rev. J. M'CLINooN, in a very interesting address, reminded the meeting of Dr. Milale's usurpation of the title of Archbishop of Tuam, in which title he had been re cognized by the Irish executive. (Hear.) Dr. M` Hale's ob:ect was to annihilate Protestantism from the west of Ire land. lie returned six members to parliament, hence the government wished to conciliate him. At the last meeting of the corporation of Tuam, in the business of which he fre quently took part, he desired that . .£5OO a year should be al located to the purpose of building of his cathedral, and it was granted. Now this corporation was the model on which Mr. O'Connell wished all the corporations of Ireland to be formed. (Hear.) He was happy to say, instead of Dr. M'Hale driving Protestantism away from the west of Ireland, it had rapidly increased. Some time ago he was consecrating a burial ground, on which he desired the people not to suffer a Pro testant to be interred there, because if they did it would de stroy the holiness of the land, as surely as a bit of poison would destroy a can of buttermilk. He (Mr. WC.) supposed this classical illustration must have occurred to the Doctor, from the fact of his father having been a dairyman. (Laughter.) Mr. NV Clindon then related the circumstance of a body having been brought to his church at Tuam, to be in terred, on which it was seized by a mob, and he was knocked into the grave, with the expression, " bury the heretic." The impression upon his mind at that moment was that he should lose his life, for he was carried away insensible, and even to the present time he felt the effects of the treatment he had received. Lord Normanby sent down two stipendiary ma gistrates to investigate the case ; bills were sent before the grand jury against the popish priest, " for riot, in stead of " causing to riot," and the consequence was that he was acquitted. In that country you might do as you pleased if you were a Roman Catholic, but if you we: e a Protestant you would be sure to receive the displeasure of the government. In the county next to his a priest one night had his dog shot, and Lord Normanby offered a re ward of £lOO for the discovery of the offender; three weeks after a Protestant man was brutally murdered, and Lord Normanby offered a reward of £3O fur the apprehension of the murderer ! (Hear.) The rev. gentleman narrated a number of other facts which had come under his own know -1 edge, and contended that the cause of this dreadful state of t kings was the want of education amongst the people. (Rear, hear.) They knew all about indulgences, and pur gatory, and the other Popish doctrines, but nothing of Co and of the merits of his dear Son. (Hear.) Mr. M'Clindon milted several other facts, anal concluded his eloquent speech by declaring his deep conviction that the present case, vile, and rn ercenary Gov.ernment were in league with the popish pri,:sts, for the pur os..e of maint Lining themselves in office and destr ging the P:otesta re igioa. (Cheers.) Mr. HAvasaN next add vssed he meting. Sh.)rtly after wards Mr. M'Coakey pron arrived the blessing, and the as sembly dispersed. A GALLANT MASTER.—A respectable elderly farmer in the parish of Chirk, was recently fined in the sum of f►ve shillings and expenses, for beating one of his female servants with a stick. It appears, that in consequence of the girl not going ab.►ut some part of her duties with that alacrity her gallant mister expected she would, the ashen plant was called in and applied to her shoulders, and the result was as given above.—Salopian Journal. Tue NEW BIATIOP.—M mill speculation is afloat as to the appointment to the vacant see of Lichfield and Coventry. Dr. Bowstead, Bishop of Sodor and Man; the Rev. Mr. Waddington, the Rev. Mr. Anson, Dean of Exeter; theßev. R. D. Hampden, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, have been spoken of by the government prints : but, we be lieve, without the slightest foundation. It is generally be lieved amongst the well-informed circles, that the Rev. Jelin Russell, D.D., Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and cousin to Lord John Russell, will have the appointment. — Morning Herald. GREAT PRODUCE.—Last Season, Mr. Roots, jun. of Box ley, dibbled in four pints and a half of wheat, on 50 rods of ground,with two or three clevels in a hole at six inches apart in the row, and a foot wide. The produce was the amazing quantity of 13 bushels ! Surely the dibbling system is worthy the attention of farmers, as there is great saving in the quan tity of seed, the crop being so much more abundant, and also giving additional employment to the labourer.-21faidstone - Gaz;ite. We give the most unqualified contradiction to the confi dent announcements of the proposed extent of the brevet and naval promotions on the marriage of the Queen. Up to the present moment nothing on the subject is known, either at the Horse-Guards or the Admiralty. In fact, we believe the promotion will not be under consideration till the report of the military commission has been presented, anti parliament has discussed and decided on the steps to-be adopted in con sequence of the resolutions of that commission.—lVaval . , and Military Gazette. t o The Glasgow Herald of Monday has published a return of the number of letters passing through the Post-office of that city, for the week ending December 22, in conformity with an order issued by Colonel 111 aberly. From this retura it appears that the total of the new weekly average exceeds that of the old system by about 10,000 letters ; but even with this addition, the loss to the revenue is very severe—a deficit existing in the Glasgow Post-office alone of nearly £4OO per week. LintEs' CHARITY BALL — The annual ball in aid of the funds of that valuable institution, the Ladies' Charity, was held last evening, in the splendid suite of rooms in the Town-hall. The weather during the whole day had been cold and threatening, and in the afternoon rain commenced, and lasted the entire evening. This circumstance caused the attendance on the present occasion to be somewhat smaller than that last year; but we are glad to say, that, as the interest felt in the welfare of the Charity has not abatei, so the spirits of those who were present were as buoyant as ever. The number of persons present was about 620, amongst whom were the Mayor and his family. Joliffe's band was stationed in the hall, and " the light fantastic toe" tripped in the ball-room above to the delightful measures of liorabin's. The company began to arrive about nine o'clock ; dancing commenced shortly afterwards, and was continued with uninterrupted spirit till shortly before eleven, when the gay party entered the supper room, where a splendid repast was prepared. Dancing was afterwards resumed with re, newed vivacity until a late, or rather an early, hour this morning.