The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

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Mr. Wood. Pll-•.111: * 'G. ' ijOr . tic;astle. ' Alessio.. Mr. Baker. ?o toliei Liza.. ...... Mi ss Grant. tidelvith Mr. Knowles's popular Drama of 1.4 WILLIAM - TELL : 14, ~ I,,YIERO OP SWITZERLAND. ell , luompreQed into three acts.) let' f • Mr. St uart.. - lbert.... Master Edwards. 1 '.. k l. ' Cra y ' ' Michael.... Mr. W. Howard. IhrJ•lio,•-,.-rritaa.. ........ Miss Cleaver. 0p.% rit/AP (Wed sd -), Auber's celebrated . Opera S4311:1:.01.40. Z n er e lin a a 3 ' Mrs. Wood ; Fra Diavolo, 4.oreazo, Mr. Barker ; Lord Allcash, Mr. G. Il e 41413' Allcash Mrs. P. Crowe.—To conclude 11;•,.te 0-Dratna of the YEOMAN'S DAUGHTER. 11 1. ki k ,' 1 14 .,.• Gray • Arthur Morris Mr. W. Howard ; r i4 'Ns - 'l, Mr.' Baker ; Humphrey,: Mr. Slaiter ; i44/Ittitsliss Cleaver ; Mary Miss Faucit. 'J AE bAY CINDERELLA, and the LADY `jutillliVll:. DA YAN, , LA. SONNAMBULA, and P. P., OR 41 L tl eiro' ll itl TtiE TIGER. 4 ring P t t r es of I'IDELIO and AMILIE will be pro- Engagement Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Wood. • l *I 4 Z Tift PI,V RX"IBITICiirg'. STREET, -.5.S pieTtir__ROoOF l':. M ' s r , H ß E CORONATION, 0 Al e: 11 ' 18 1t OF IS ELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.) t bk 1 sPe,n from Ten till Five o'Clock. \•,!_i4itio„SlON, ONE SHILLING. ''''', when he Roo: 0 en every Evening from Se\ en to ~; --, tae will be lighted up with Gas. 'lit qt------ EAT PROTESTANT MEETING AT IP MANC HESTER. Sh --______ i,:f4tite very .1 "4/ -ez t lve shall furnish our readers with a full interesting and important proceed- Qt ,e Great Protestant Meeting, which is to be 414.'lanchester, on Thursday next. Some of the P Nly 4 1 41 Linguished s beakers of the age, as we have al --"4Qtecl, wi address the meeting. To -- --...miniumemi nomminmemor k ll n CO RRESPONDENTS. Er o ll res i e ea l io ns ‘?• lt atn as original articles are omit ,ake, Publication for want of space. "er, 1 _ s ul Z 3 lll trouble to obtain the information re 4. it "'lye b e scriber" but as the claims of the rival soisfeatictocornstantly brought before the public, e re ,. y o f „ e . y result, and as both parties . asset t Ply. their respective vessels, we cannot give any ---,„-___—______________ _ tile 7f ii, '-, , —iurrpool &tanbarb. i t 1)417 ORIVING, SEPT. 24, 1339. koth l h er co i% a Innin we h ave f urn i s h e d our rea d ers p .sflia -ictr acts from th e C anton papers o f t h e 4 111 0 }% ' Iva rile intelli gence is extremely important, ~ . tliat , im. trade, as f ar as the British merchants ~,, it appt ; has been completely suspended at Can ;4l k it . I's that Captain Elliot, with all the pro ii;,' l'ile,alll subjects, left Canton on the 24th of Oct e a 7. 11 r of 11 o'clock in the morning had been PlitileotP.alli ElEot for his departure, but the local ci, for, order to evince every possible mark of 1 ,..th, ', a nd to cause every kind of petty annoy ' 'lli - iriti i i c , rit , te . 1 114 _ s .0 uperintendent, and the expel fi le v d e k k litth e ' Ytn en, delayed the departure until viei reti( ftern ooo. ik. Pil teti 0 ,, er 01. 20,283 chests of opium had been '4l , ttlie - 'e hi t n t 21st of May. The report current -wtketi hive 21st was, that these opima spolia would ki: ho w t° Peking. The Register very shrewdly I; '' Illa nY full chests will arrive at their desti- I N _' Nlea• 4latet tiit t lit ititi " 4 after Captain Elliot and his party had ‘1,,,.. tatrao of Coolies in front of the factories and 11 1 t .41 4 . I ,4 c e e I. C hina -street was withdrawn, and any alk t . liked : .i._ nugot walk in the back streets. : 41 la te °f carious Chinese, so long shut out limn , ' "18 considerable. , Tit , k tr t ' l it e °f the hurricane in England had been re '4g I azno u ~, k,: a.,A. trilleertria.tw; residents. 'NI excited considerable interest Ng lv -11 814, Which had arrived at Whampoa, tit:l4%,„ loan 14rto the eastward, and the local authori kten,g_ that she had opium on board, had given i 6 . 41 N it t ° look after her. i / tlt a n P r ess Price Current of May 25, states ; Ilt the 41 e's of British goods had been made 'relit:4.ls Week, full prices having been t ik 'illotl , t:. N., %ithstanding the large quantities thrown I .‘ e. ,ltet h t iti a "lan increasing belief on the part of the 'C i f' l t fore' ' ' af ter foreigners were really preparing to quit . 1 ItlNLltkliiii.toi_tniilet:ng the loading of the few ships il t.l 7 it)i tire 6 t, I t port. The recent heavy rains had it, 4.. te eciiia l the rice -crops. The stock of fine silk 'l: tik i.. itY s tn . all, and the prices remained without kil l e , ai , go es ..„ e s hllis in port having nearly completed b, l er , . there ‘ras but little business doing in tea, ;a wet begining ~iiltiletil frPoullibrieent to give way. There were a 'k t 's th e of British vessels outside the port. Of notic e of Captain Elliot would pre under existing circumAtances. t lt tt th i ," * " . " - -""&".........,...... 614i:bore was written we have received the t it) ~ of the °f Yesterday, which contain a copious tl t t i N I L'e recent transactions at Canton. The 12t/t E i t (4. the Times N . ' lap Oiviietn th e Chinese authorities at 20,291 chests, N at 3 ' lo o CO r, 1, 1 ri v ... , 0 . , 0 sterling. The Chinese had 't k C e : t li t t r oen ': t incoming vessels on the 22nd of tr ki. tta on the 30th, had applied for a pilot. S qtle ih e ' .tllat it is feared that the Americans will t iii o T e a o n i t°ll and try to monopolize the China iNi_r"ld only waY to obviate this, it is suggested, h t ., in t th - t " Canton river—the easiest river to NI '%ll (••,! ° whole world. It is added that "if tr ke t . "nver n 7t,,_lsY, t w , tnent act in this crisis with wisdom I\qtpaive're months will see the trade upon a i bp. ki l d : II and better foundation." To expect from th . e , present imbecile and in ...gti. louder the is, we confess, somewhat :iti tl : k .tti.s : 1 411 te .er n_ g t Y il ti NiliNt ,• , , e fostering care of the Melbourne e c ommercial interests of Great 14 0 ,. 'ly . 4 . one after another; relentlessly and 'c.-r ete .h erifi b i. g lt , ent ~,,, c ed ; and we see no chance of any q11 4 .4)1 4 o% l ' ee Pt in the speedy ejection of the I N by cc.... l i %, ever,. ,-.consumation most devoutly to be t, t tlV etepe-Jw..,isritish merchant. It remains to . be ti N °I th e . . 111 be taken by " the shabbier" in yin- Zeh ati tlli at : t .ghts of the British residents in China. tia i ll ef 4 at w ill be remembered, has given the 014 - L 4II Y h id allt ° ll a distinct guarantee that they 4,, it Z th -etnt lified for any loss which they might 6(), ) , 1 4 e del ivery vi i i h i l tli t it : Are O,, 'Y ~,,,o f their opium to the Chinese VI tkf a qin etts -r Whig rulers prepared to make ' 4 4 1.1 "1e opi um e stun of three millions, the estimated tN' 4 thi th t (1 44 ' An event of such great impor ed 114 lye Pension of our commercial relations Nl'llliwt4,llittohlticl, Under former administrations, have 't t4 -91 ete . - "ii ate summoning 44 4 1, 4116 of Parliament, espe 7 qillittil a ' a fearful responsibility had been in ow ccredi t d , Nit ever, 44 n e . agent of the Government. This t4 t ) %c % our. 9t likely to disturb the equanimity tkci'‘Ntl. !le an d his .associates It would be a lii t • 4 1 . 1 - th in f . . " 4,ti a „- g or his Lordship to meet Perna ' ier tl'' Prea°lltexasperated state of feeling in ‘if -4 World . 1` tL. Ik ee kt k44 ' a f -:- a --------- , Ill y „, VOUyed with a copy of the Bombay t . . tit,tlr. AttH R) : 4 1 : , It gives an account of the death of I t t p. 411 : 1 : t4llP:r.t.he conclusion of his funeral obse -10 h gee, ~,'''.°ll of his ashes in the sacred stream o t e, 413 A i raise took place on the 27th of Iktl.i44lllll°.ag'l3tehaeceilinh!Y succeeded- by his son Kurruk cidents connected with his death, N% . 11 1. t . ° Worth k, . i qi t Iv Yof notice than the fact of four IC 'to i iv 1 4 „ t 1 ,, )111.4 theme seven slave girls, having been is ,"Itea kniaslves on his funeral pile. The NI - ozoei ouB tit s that the sacrifice of the slaves l,ZittlFsell,.. rilehy, enacted apparently for no i t , t,s, tin th at 0 , ... . . kl4l`• t It 4 3 . ' 4uning dignity to the fune -114.7101:1;ili tlet f..... t0 be hoped that the British Go . 02 ..., e e of ti : ia ll to convey a strong intimation of )',4.41ttt03r4 the foil n:lost barbarous proceeding. The il 411 'Nt w ing c • 4. i llti . !e,......, curious speculation on the t l tj ti : e t tl ev i tlite o . We are convinced that Suttee l A, 4,, 0ti 04, itigio tlating in a principle of the most 4 : 2 1 . *l ;7 te lt, ._. 4 Most heroic age; that it was t iLI at t h e t lnder a Perverted view of human vc th, equally suicidal custom of duel t,G- ilt-, Preße. l 11: 91 .e, o , - "erk, " day to the other, under mil t 'ar e -11-- -tl le the Fill th at , guardian of their honour." N k ik % Nit er not feel the advocates of the practice of I 11 ;4 , 41) cif th e ° rider v ery p tht el' \ l3 ° ' nba r articular obligations A, \ e i P runes, for supplying so ,h at .4. .., °tlti a tti rid " the day is not far distant revolting practice of Suttee will be exploded in every part of India. If Great Britain possessed as much moral influence as she does political influence over the Indian nations in alliance with her, the practice would not be so prevalent. But, unfortunately for the interests of humanity, and for the honour and credit of Great Britain itself, the admi nistration of our East Indian affairs has been charac terised by so great a laxity of moral principle, as to render of no avail all the efforts which have hitherto been made for the suppression of the barbarities incul cated by the Brahmins. We sincerely hope, however, that a higher tone of morality will be soon infused into the administration of eastern affairs, and tliat the " sanctified evils " of Brahmin superstitions will be for ever banished from the whole of the Indian territories. The accounts given of the movements of the army of the Indus are vague and unsatisfactory. There is no doubt that the army was at Candahar on the 16th of June. They were in much distress on account of the scarcity of provisions. The privates had suffered much, and most of the British officers were nearly ru ined by their expenses for forage, &c. It appears that they had taktn the wrong route, having to pass through a very barren country. Lord Auckland had ordered the army to move on to Cabool. It was expected that Dost Mahomed, incited by the jealous Ameers of Sinde, would give a good deal of trouble. The Bengal Hurkaru states that an army of 40,000 Persians was on the march from Teheran to Herat. The army at Candahar did not amount to more than 10,000 strong, including the Shah's troops. We may shortly expect to hear some very important news from the Indian frontier. The breaking up of the opium trade with China had thrown a confirmed damp upon the trade of Bengal. Several sales of cotton piece goods were reported, but not at satisfactory prices. Shipments of cotton to Canton to some extent were still going on, and China produce was on the advance. Freights to Liverpool remained at £3, but to London higher rates were given. Commercial advices from Calcutta represent trade generally to be in a dull state. The indigo purchases were suspended. A fair average crop of indigo was expected. In raw silks prices had receded. Nothing was doing in cotton. In cotton yarns some consider able sales had been effected, but at low prices. The same may be said of cotton price goods. In woollens the prices offered had been so ]ow as to prevent sales. For iron and other metals the demand was slack. The rates of freight had rather given way : for cotton to London and Liverpool they were from £3 15s. to £4. for indigo £5 10s. The money market was easy. The remittances to England were not to any large amount. There can be no longer any doubt as to the disgrace ful part enacted by the British Government in reference to the betrayal of Don Carlos. The government jour nals have themselves let out the secret of the interfer ence of Lord Palmerston in this infamous affair. The Morning Chronicle, in a tone of exultation in perfect accordance with the recklessness of its principles, boasts that " Lord John Hay and Colonel Wylde (two officers holding her Majesty's commission) have done themselves immense honour" by bringing this " inter esting pacification" to a conclusion. To speak plain English, these officers have " done themselves immense honour" by tempting the traitor Maroto, first to mur der his comrades, and then to betray his master ! Such is the opinion of the leading organ of the Whig-radi cals on the subject of " honourable" conduct ! The whole proceeding redounds to the everlasting disgrace of all who have been concerned in it. The French pa pers inform us that no less a sum than £150,000 has been or is to be paid out of the secret service fund of the British government as a bribe to Maroto. Lord Palmerston took care to postpone this scandalous trans action until Parliament had been prorogued, or else his conduct, and that of his colleagues, might have been subjected to a scrutiny far from pleasant. But the matter will not be forpitten. The Melbourne ca binet will yet have to answer for appropriating British money in carrying into execution such an unblushing piece of scoundrelism as the treaty with Maroto. " The battle of the Constitution must be fought in the Registration Courts." Such was the memorable saying and advice of Sir Robert Peel, addressed to the Constituencies of the Empire, at the dinner given to him some four years ago in Merchant Tailors' Hall. The profound wisdom of this short sentence cannot be too deeply pondered at the present moment. The events of the last few years have demonstrated the momentous importance of acting upon these words of the great Conservative Leader. Neglect of the Regis tration Courts has been the besetting sin of the party of which he is the acknowledged head. Public din ners and public speeches, Conservative associations, and clubs, and societies, have abounded in all parts of the kingdom, and have doubtless been not only the effect, but the cause in a great measure, of that re markable Reaction which has taken place throughout the empire. But we are taunted by our opponents with the question, " What good results from all these gatherings, and all this expenditure of good dinners and speeches ? For nine long years, with the excep tion of one brief interval, we have baffled all your attempts to snatch from us the reins of power. With little public demonstration in our favour,—with few convivial assemblages—no matter from what cause— to kindle, by the contagious influence of numbers meeting together in furtherance of a common object, a spirit of enthusiasm in the cause of Reform,—we have contrived to keep you at bay, and control the destinies of the empire, despite all your clamours and noisy demonstrations." This, we say, is the language of the Liberals, and it is little palatable to a Conserva tive mind that they can thus adopt it. No doubt the sneers with which they affect to speak of those outward manifestations of the extent to which a Conservative spirit has spread through the country, are the forced contortions of envy rather than the natural expression of their real feelings. They would be only too happy if they were able to point to evidence so satisfactory in their own favour. But still hitherto the reality of victory has been on their side ; and, unless we wish to dishearten the spirit of those who have fought so long and vainly in the ranks of the opposition, and encou rage the feeling so fatal to success, that resistance is all but hopeless, we must, with the least possible delay, compel the wretched Cabinet which misgoverns the country to surrender their places, and allow the Royal ear to be approached with better counsels than those to which unhappily it has so long been accustomed. Now the simple and effectual mode of attaining this result is by straining every nerve during the next few weeks in the Registration Courts. It is the training and discipline previous to action which secures to armies victory in war. If a general derived his confi dence in his troops merely from their gay appearance on parade, before they had been tried in active service, and been inured to patient endurance of hardship and fatigue, he would expose himself to almost certain de feat ; and if the Conservatives think the holiday dis plays which have taken place at public meetings suffi cient to guarantee success in the approaching struggle, they will find themselves miserably deceived. The real contest will be fought and determined before the end of October. Let not the Conservatives be like the children of Ephraim, who, " being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the day of battle." And yet they will deserve this reproach, if they do not exert themselves to the utmost at the pre sent juncture. If any man is so dead to all sense of duty as to let this opportunity pass by, and care little whether the enemy take advantage of it or not, he does not deserve the name of Englishman. We cannot conceive him to be so stupidly, desperately ignorant, as to consider it a matter of indifference which party triumphs in the approaching struggle. The different results which will follow in either case stand out in broad relief; and these results are so opposite—the line cf demarcation between them is so broad, that no man can feel any difficulty in determining which line of policy he prefers. If he wishes to rescue the Court from the hands of a faction which has done much to tarnish its lustre, and which has put• to the severest trial the feeling and principle of Loyalty towards the Sovereign herself—which has placed minions and sa tellites round the Throne, whose conduct has given rise to one of the most disgusting incidents that could pollute the pages of our public journals, and produced amongst foreign nations a most humiliating opinion of the morals of our aristocracy ;—if he is competent to appreciate the blessings which flow from our Church Establishment—if he values social order, and regards personal security—if he desires to see the helm of Government guided by men of intellect and character, who can challenge in the face of . Europe the name of wise and experienced Statesmen—if he wishes to pre vent the dismemberment of our empire by the loss of our most valuable colonies, and to secure for the voice of England some weight in the councils of foreign States,—then he must, so far as in him lies, advance the cause of the Conservatives by attending diligently to the Registration Courts, and disputing the ground there inch by inch with the enemy during the next month. Did we want any argument to add force to our re marks, we would say, look at Ireland. Why has that crafty old demagogue, who exercises such an unhappy influence over the most easily deluded peasantry in the world, softened down his howl for Repeal into a whining exhortation to his creatures to devote them selves solely to Registration. The history of this change is doubtless as follows. When O'Connell came to Ireland a few weeks ago, it was requisite for the sake of the " rint" to get the steam up, and con vince the poor fools who have been in the habit of paying the mendicant, that they were still to have their money's worth in the active services of Daniel for the future. There was no very exciting topic just then wherewith to agitate the public mind. The defeat of Mr. Spring Rice on the Bank of Ireland Bill would have been neither understood nor cared for amongst the bogs of Tipperary or the rocks of Galway. So the slogan of Repeal was raised. We care not at present to determine whether O'Connell in this was in earnest ; but, at all events, such a war-cry was likely to be exceedingly inconvenient to the halcyon reign of Lord Ebrington. He therefore sent for the Agitator to the Castle—had a private interview with him—re presented the absolute necessity that Lord Melbourne should secure a decided majority in the Registration Courts, in order that he might no longer depend " upon hap-hazard chance majorities" in the Commons for official existence ; and that if this did not happen he and his party must go out, and then "farewell, a long farewell to all his greatness" as Viceroy of Ire land, and to the pay and patronage of O'Connell; adding, doubtless, some convincing arguments ad dressed to the pocket of the latter, the nature of which may hereafter transpire. " Upon this hint he spake," and, deliberately eating his own words scarce three days old, turned adrift the whole rabble of subordinate agitators to watch and superintend the Registration Courts. Let us not be behindhand with our enemy in these wise tactics. If it is of importance to the Liberals to concentrate their whole strength now in one simulta neous effort, it is still more so to the Conservatives. Let them remember that their opponents are sleeplessly vigilant, and will spare no expense nor trouble to se cure a favourable result to themselves. Above all, let them remember that TEN additional Conservative votes in the House of Commons will be sufficient to seal the doom of the Melbourne Ministry for ever. Liverpool has much reason to be proud of the noble place she holds in the army of the Church and Gospel Truth; and while the sister city of this great and po pulous district laid claim, through her eloquent repre sentative at the Cheltenham Meeting, the Rev. H. Stowell, to the praise of having sent the most numer ously signed petition to Parliament against the Jesuits' Scheme of Government Education, we must not allow any town or any district in the Empire to rob us of that credit in the great question of Scriptural Education to which we are fairly entitled. The suspicious craft first came over from Ireland to this port, and (as our gifted townsman, Mr. M‘Neile, once expressed it amidst the enthusiastic cheering of a most numerous and respect able audience in London) "we of Liverpool put that plague-ship into quarantine." The same gifted and uncompromising champion of the sacred cause, and the noble Lord, the honoured member of this church-loving and loyal town of Liver pool, were among the most distinguished leaders of that most important Meeting, which was held in the course of the last Session in the Freemason's-hall. That was a glorious era for the Church of England,— the Morning Star of a new dawn that is gradually shining more and more unto the perfect day. It was the commencement of an universal call for Church Extension, begun by the ever-forward and zealous ad vocates, but begun to meet with a responsive echo from every corner of the Queen's dominions; and we have no doubt whatever that the cause so auspiciously com menced will go on and prosper. The cry of the Eng lish Church has never yet been unheeded long in any age of Engl s and's history. It is a cry " that strikes the heart's responsive strings Touched by the breath of nature's whispering," that comes home to every parent, and to every reflect ing and serious person in the country, and needs no advocacy, since it bears along with it its own commen dation. The meeting at Cheltenham will be followed by the Great Meeting at Manchester on Thursday next ; and as that great and energetic town wil doubtless verify the anticipatory eulogium of Mr. E Stowell, " that, like a mighty body, if it were slow in moving, it was more mighty when it was put in mo tion"—so auxiliaries will pour in from every district of Cheshire and Lancashire, and will speak the united voice of the largest community in the world. The associated enemies of Truth may rest assured that this question will not be allowed to sleep. The Schoolmaster, the Church Schoolmaster, is really abroad, and actively at work. While one section of the rising generation inhales the foul atmosphere of In fidelity at the hands of Liberalism and Rationalism, and Socia'ism, the more favoured children of our Church are imbibing principles which will one day stand themselves and their country in good stead. Trained up from their youth in the way they should go, we may trust implicitly (since we have a sure war rant for our trust) that when they are old they will not depart from it. We noticed at some length, in former numbers of this Journal, the very strange inconsistency of our Liberal contemporaries in Liverpool, who fastened, with an avi dity worthy the professed disciples of Rome, upon any supposed differences of opinion between ministers of the Established Church, as between Dr. Hook, for example, and Mr. M`Neile. We showed, as plainly as we could, the necessity that such differences must ex ist, except in some system either of spiritual despotism or of the rankest and grossest indifference. When men think for themselves, they must in some matters differ in opinion. This is the first law of human thought. But we asserted, at the same time, that upon all those cardinal points of the Christian faith, which, since they are necessary to man's salvation, it has pleased Almighty God to reveal with as much clearness as the first principles of morality themselves, the keenest-witted Dissenter would not find among the champions of the Church the shadow of a shade of difference. We have now the satisfaction of pointing out to these very candid and most tolerent gentlemen (who think an unimportant difference of opinion must needs be a grave cause of quarrel) that the call which origi nated with Mr. M`Neile and Mr. Stowell, Lord Ash ley and Lord Sandon, has been taken up in Parliament by Sir Robert Inglis, and out of Parliament by Mr. Baptist Noel. And little credit as we can give to our dissenting contemporaries for acquaintance even with the mere position and balance of theological parties, we fancy they know, at all events, quite enough to be well aware, that neither High Church nor Low Church, nor any other arbitrary designation they maybe pleased to bestow, will enrol all these distinguished names within itself. This party (if it be a party) is the party of the country and the Church. Thai Manchester is in motion, and will be very powerfully excited upon such a question as this, recent events bear very ample testimony. Sir George Murray spoke very plainly and properly upon the great ques tion of Education, with which that of Church Exten sion is so immediately and closely connected. And it is natural enough that a very keen interest should be felt in Manchester, when it is borne in mind that one of the peculiar absurdities of Lord Brougham on the subject of Education is a design to entrust its conduct and regulation in every town to their sapiences the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors,—and when it is re membered, in conjunction with this fact, that some of the chief functionaries under the new Charter in that town are most grievously injured by public fame, un less it be true that they are absolutely unable even to write and spell correctly their own names or the very titles of the offices to which they have been so absurdly raised Dr. Arnold, the Whig Divine, one of the Council of the new University of London, wrote a pamphlet some five years ago, entitled "Principles of Church Re form," in which he very earnestly advocated the open ing of the Church door a little wider for the ingress of our Dissenting brethren. Persons equally well dis posed with the reverend and learned Doctor, and ra ther calmer in judgment and more accustomed to trust to experience and less to theory, saw several practical objections to the scheme propounded; and indeed so universal was this impression of its impracticability that the plan excited but very little attention. But even the liberal Pamphleteer resolved upon the neces sary exclusion both of Romanists and So cinians from any such scheme of comprehension. With these ene mies of Gospel Truth he saw that all accordance was impossible. Now there are many hopeful circumstances in the present time which lead sanguine persons (and among this number we confess ourselves to rank) to cherish an earnest hope that something of this nature may take place, without incurring any of those risks to which the crude conceptions of Dr. Arnold must ne cessarily have led. The cordial spirit of co-operation displayed by the Wesleyans is one, and the greatest one, of these auspicious omens. Believing the Church of England to be the firmest bulwark of God's Truth against the inroads of error from without, as well as the most efficient instrument for its propagation and diffusion throughout the country, they appear far more disposed than was formerly the case, to give us their active and timely support. We cannot expect them at once to merge their ranks in ours, but we are confi dently assured that, side by side and with us in a firm and blessed alliance, they will wage the defensive war fare of sound and scriptural teaching. The diocesan system of Education too will work actively in the good cause, and will knit the hearts of the peasantry to the mother church. The rising gene ration will have been deeply imbued with sound religi- One principles at the parochial schools, and will remem ber with gratitude the source from which their learning has been derived. In short, the only real cause why the Church of England sustained in past years any apparent depres sion is to be found in one circumstance, most remark able in itself, and most extensive in this as in all its consequences—viz., the very extraordinary increase of the population in particular districts, so rapid that the institutions of the country have been wholly inadequate to meet the new demand. An active generosity among all classes of the Church has been called to exertion, and puts the professing Voluntaries to an utter and open shame ; and already the seeds of a happier growth are sown throughout the empire. One thing alone is wanting, the discharge by govern ment of a paramount duty,—the providing adequate means for Church Extension. Our rulers may rest assured that this great and righteous claim will be pressed upon them with an eagerness they cannot re sist ; and it cannot now be long before our Holy Church is again extended to the just and legitimate di mensions of a National Establishment. The Monks' Ferry Case has been made, during th last fortnight, the subject of a rather curious and in structive controversy between our contemporaries the Chester Chronicle and the Liverpool Journal. The dispute originated in some remarks in which the Journal indulged respecting the presentation of the memorial of the Monks' Ferry Company at the last meeting of the Common Council. In those remarks the Journal strongly condemned Mr. Price for setting up an exclusive claim to the right of ferry from Bir kenhead ; and urged upon the Corporation of Liver pool the necessity of opposing that claim, on the ground of " public convenience." The Chronicle very properly retorted that Mr. Price's title has been confirmed by two separate decisions in a court of law; and that the attempt to array the Corporation of Liverpool against Mr. Price can have no other object in view than that of seeking to annoy him by further litigation, as an act of retaliation on him because he will not suffer a joint-stock company to usurp his rights. As the sub ject is one of considerable local interest, we need not apologise for offering a few remarks upon it. The main ground on which the Monks' Ferry Com pany have preferred their appeal ad misericordiam to the Corporation is, that Mr. Price, by setting up what they term " a monopoly," has made their ferry profit less, and deprived the,public of the benefit of compe tition. That the ferry should be profitless is surely no fault of Mr. Price's, as it has been legally decided that the Monks' Ferry Company had no right whatever to open the ferry at all. With equal right might any person complain of having sustained a loss by erecting a house on another person's freehold without having previously secured a lease. This plea, then, is per fectly futile. The assertion that Mr. Price has deprived the public of the benefit of competition, by resisting the encroachment of the Monks' Ferry Company on his right, is equally groundless. It has been proved that Mr. Price has done all that was requisite for the " public convenience," by providing two places of embarkation for the tenants on his manor, the shore scarcely extending one mile, and which, as the Chester Chronicle remarks, " is a greater accommodation than the Corporation of Liverpool, with all its regard for public rights and public convenience, has provided for the more extended shore on which, by a contempora neous grant with that to Mr. Price, it possesses the exclusive franchise." It cannot be denied that the Woodside and Birkenhead Ferries possess sufficient accommodation for all the inhabitants in the neigh bourhood. That they are and have been sufficient may be confidently inferred from the very notorious fact that Tranmere Ferry has never succeeded in com petition with Birkenhead and Woodside, notwithstand ing its proximity to Chester -street, Tranmere, and Holt-hill. The " public convenience," then, has been amply consulted by Mr. Price ; and we venture to assert, that the idea of the " public convenience" of having a ferry at the spot selected by the Monks' Ferry Company was never entertained, on either side of the Mersey, until certain parties, during the joint stock mania, fancied that it might prove a profitable speculation. Those parties certainly made a parade of the " public convenience" of the undertaking in their prospectus, but with what motive we leave the public to judge. The Journal, echoing the language of the memorial laid before the Common Council, lays considerable stress on the unreasonableness of " depriving the pub lic of the benefit of competition." This is all fudge. Mr. Price has done no such thing, as the Editor of the Journal might have readily ascertained. There is nothing to prevent the proprietors of the Birkenhead Ferry from carrying passengers to Liverpool at one farthing per head, or even for nothing, if they thought proper to do so. That ferry is as independent of Mr. Price as the Monks' Ferry Company wish to make theirs. It is, therefore, perfectly idle to contend that the public are not in possession of the benefit of com petition. Under the existing competition the fares are as low as can be afforded, consistently with keeping in employ a sufficient number of safe and efficient boats for the accommodation of the public. We have never heard that these fares were not cheerfully submitted to by passengers of all grades, and we have yet to learn that the Monk's Ferry Company could, even if they established their title to a right of ferry, afford to re duce them. We are confident that such a reduction would be followed by a corresponding reduction in the amount of the half-yearly dividends of the company. The Chester Chronicle of Friday last very signifi cantly remarks that it is " in possession of some curi ous information why this (the Monk's Ferry case,) is attempted to be made a corporation question, and not very creditable to certain liberal members of that coun cil." The Journal replies that it is eager to participate in this information. Perhaps we can throw a little light on the subject. Our readers will remember that Mr. Platt and Mr. Segar introduced the Monk's Ferry memorial to the notice of the Common Council. It will also be remembered that Mr. Harvey con ducted the case on behalf of the Monk's Ferry Company at both trials. Does the Chronicle mean to insinuate that these gentlemen have an interest in the Monks' Ferry, while they are labouring to enlist the corporation in their favour ? Are Messrs. Platt and Segar shareholders or directors in the same company ? We shall probably hear something further on the subject before long, and we shall take care to lay before our readers any information which we may receive respecting the connexion of any members of the Common Council with the Monks' Ferry company. We have already dropped a hint which may serve to put certain persona on their guard. If the matter should be mooted at the next council meeting we shall carefully note down the " sayings and doings" of these " liberal members of the council." Our liberal contemporary of the Chester Chronicle concludes his last article by saying that if the corpo ration does what it is recommended to do by the. Jou rnal, "it will lend itself to one of the grossest acts of public oppression for personal purposes, in which indi vidual members of its body are imp'icated, that ever characterised corporations in their most corrupt days, and which will render 'the title of reformed corporations a reproach and a bye-word." Our contemporary evi dently knows very little of the liberals in our Common Council. If he did, he would agree with us that no job can he too rank, foul, and barefaced for them to perpetrate without a blush. Every friend of sound and beneficial education will rejoice to learn that Liverpool will soon possess an in stitution worthy of its character, where the youth of all classes will receive an education of the most valuable kind, and where religious and secular instruction will be blended together. Independently of the local necessity for such an in stitution, the situation of Liverpool, in the centre of the empire, having such facilities of transit to and from all quarters, points it out as the most suitable part of the kingdom for the erection of a College on the most magnificent and extensive scale. A number of gentlemen, including the Rectors and many of the Clergy, have formed themselves into a provisional committee for carrying forward this most noble work; and a considerable sum has already been subscribed, which will, we have no doubt, be vastly increased, when the subject is fairly brought before the public, which will be done in a short time. Mr. Potter and Mr. Robertson Gladstone are the treasurers pro tem. The necessity for such an institu tion is obvious, and it will prove an unspeakable benefit to all classes, but especially to the tradesmen and me chanics of the town, for whom it is in an especial manner intended. Lord Francis Egerton, Lord San don, and several other distinguished persons have contributed most handsomely to the funds; and our townsman, Mr. Gladstone, has subscribed £5OO. We hope his example will be extensively followed, and that an institution may be founded worthy of the character and the spirit of the town. Lady Noel Byron has been staying at the Adelphi during :he last month. The government emigrant ship Crusader, of Liverpool, P. Inglis, master, now lying in Kingstown Harbour, and under charge of Surgeon Superintendent Birtwhistle, has received on board two hundred and ninety-six emigrants, for New South Wales, and only waits a fair wind to proceed to that colony. Mr. Thompson, writing-master, Clayton-square, continues, we perceive, to tender his assistance to bad or indifferent writers. Those who labour under the misfortune of writing a scrawling hand cannot apply to an abler instructor for im provement. CAUTION TO STEAM-BOAT OWNERS.—We understand that the Excise have received orders to enforce payment of the one guinea, due annually on the sth of July, from own ers of steam-boats, for licenses. Hitherto the payment has been very irregular; but the Excise are determined that it shall be strictly enforced in future. Passengers per the packet-ship Orpheus, Captain Bursley, which sailed on Saturday morning for New York :—Mr. Reynolds, of New York • Mr. W. B. Redman, of Ne w Or leans ; Mr. Brusland, of Baltimore; Mr. Thomas Gilbert Carven ; Mr. Alexander Stoddart ; Madame Cavalier and Son, of Paris ; Miss Gilphin, of Philadelphia ; Mr. J. Mechi and Lady ; Rev Mr. Gallowny, of Edinburgh ; Mr. Wade ; Mr. Sprague, of Boston ; Mr. Galloway ; Mr. Zwilchenbart, of Switzerland; Mr. Davies, Lady, and child, of New York; Mr. M`Naughten Lftdy, and cnild, of Scotland ; M r . Har rison ; Mr. Had; Mr. Broadbent ; Mr. Alley, of New York, &c. - - , LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual meet ing of this valuable society will be held on Thursday, the 3d of next month. Lord Stanley, the president, will preside at the dinner. which will take place after the business of the day, at Mr. Lucas's Repository, in Great Charlotte-street. . • Our ingenious townsman, Mr. Dancer, of Pleasant-street, has, we understand, (after frequent attempts) succeeded in producing a beautiful view by means of the daguerreotype. It consists of some buildings in the neighbourhood of his house, showing all the minutiae of the houses, with the most microscopic exactness.—Chronicle. CAPTAIN QUAYLE.—We are glad to perceive that the subscribers to Lloyd's, at their half-yearly meeting on 'Wed nesday, voted the honorary medal in silver to Mr. Edward Quayle, commanding the Mona's Isle steamer, for his prompt, humane, and praiseworthy exertions in saving the crew of the Nancy, from Liverpool to Dundalk, wrecked in Douglas Bay, in July last. SALE OF VALUABLE PICTURES.—We observe by an ad vertisement in another column, that Mr. Winstanley will offer for public competition this day a collection of pictures said to be of the first class, and latterly the property of a gentleman who expended a large sum in the purchase. Among the most valuable will be found many by the old masters, and some extremely rare. The packet-ship Europe, which sailed from New York on the Ist instant, may now be expected every tide. As she will bring intelligence seven days later than the Liverpool (the last arrival,) should she appear in the course of the morn ing we will give the news in a second edition. THE RACE BALL.—The race ball at the Wellington Rooms on Wednesday night promises to be fashionably and fully attended. The list of stewards embraces names of the highest note in the county • and that aristocratic place of meeting, which has been hitherto shut against all but a small clique of fashionable exclusives, will on this occasion open its doors to the respectable members of our community, who could not otherwise, probably, have ever entered its walls. Judging from the number of strangers in the town, and the eclat which is likely to attend the forthcoming meeting, we anticipate that this peculiar feature of the races will be one of its most popular attractions. The committee are entitled to the thanks of the Liverpool public, in thus literally throw ing open the rooms.—Chronicle. LORD STANLEY.—His lordship has the character of a good and kind landlord ; some years ago he remitted the rent of several of his tenants, and gave them money to enable them to go to America. He also endeavours to compensate for his unavoidable absence during the sitting of parliament by re siding in Ireland during a considerable part of the recess. This residence he devotes to the improvement of the country, by attending to the agricultural meeting which he has esta blished—by promoting, in every practical way, an improved system of agriculture—and by encouraging cleanliness, mo rality, and good feeling amongst the people. If all absen tees were like Lord Stanley, Ireland would soon be restored to prosperity and peace.—Binn's Miseries and Beauties of Ireland. THE HYPEROODON, OR BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE.—On Tuesday last, the attention of some fishermen at Hoylake was attracted by the struggles of a large fish left by the rece ding tide on East Hoyle Bank ; they succeeded in capturing it, towed it to Monks' Ferry, Woodside, where it has been exhibited, and upon examination is strongly supposed to be the rare species, Hyperoodon Honfloriensis, figured in vol. vi. plate xiii. of the Naturalist's Library. Its length is 24 feet; is girth round the centre of the body, 13 feet. It has hitherto been doubted whether this species possesses teeth in either jaws ; the specimen now alluded to, appears to have a hard surface along the sides and roof of the mouth, but no teeth could be discovered nor any appearances of the false ta berculous teeth which are sometimes mentioned as a peculiar characteristic of the genus. The situation and size of the fins, together with the striking prominence of the forehead, seem however, decidedly to fix it as a specimen of the above whale. CHESS.—Our townsmen, amateurs of this noble game, had a grand field-day, or rather field-evening on Thursday, at the chess-room of the Lyceum. Mr. George Walker, the cele brated London chess-player, favoured the club with a visit, and played an interesting match with its president and stout est champion, Mr. Mongrediew. Mr. G. Walker gave the odds of the pawn and move in each game. Five games were played, of which Mr. Mongrediew won the odd one, and thus well sustained the reputation of Lancashire. The well known French chess player, M. Alexandre, is stopping in Liverpool for a few days, and our young players, desirous to excel, should hasten to avail themselves of this opportunity to get good practice. M. Alexandre played some games even, on Thursday evening, with Mr. Samuels, who, before Mr. Mon grediew joined the club, was considered the best player in Liverpool. M. Alexandre won every game thus played with the greatest ease. M. Alexandre is the author of the famous Chess Cyclopvedia one of the most valuable vol umes on c h ess extant. This work took thirty years to compile, and pre sents in one volume nearly the whole writings of fifty chess authors. It should be in the library of every chess amateur ; and forms, indeed, a library in itself. We regret to see the down-hill course, the match-playing by correspondence, be tween our townsmen and the Leeds club continues to hold. No favourable change comes over " the spirit of the dream ;" we are beaten horse and foot. Some of our imprisoned pieces appear to he sighing in durance vile like Mrs. Hemans' " Captive. Knight" (she must have been a chess player to write of captive knights) ; and the echoes of their plaint re sound over the Yorkshire hills as they look in vain for suc cour from their friends who " are gone and all passsed by*" We advise the Liverpool club to knock the thing up at once, and challenge the bold Yorkists to another trial ; which could hardly be refused—thus chivalrously courted. With the increased members and talent of our club, the laurel might thus be redeemed and "Flodden become Bannockburn." —Chronicle. DEPARTURE OF THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL.—This fine vessel left her moorings, at the Sloyne, on Saturday morning, a few minutes before 10 o'clock. on her voyage to New York. She passed the town in gallant style, and at ten minutes past ten, rounded the Rock. The seawall was, as is usual on the departure of an ocean steamer, crowded with spectators. The Liverpool carries out her full compliment of passengers, 90, besides children and servants, a valuable cargo, a great number of parcels, and from 80 to 12,000 let ters and papers. She is expected to reach New York about the beginning of the second week in October, and Liverpool, on her return, about the second of November. The follow ing is a list of the passengers on board the Liverpool : Mrs. Fitzwilliam of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, ser vant, and child; General Hamilton ; Major Platt, Secretary to the Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, Governor of Canada; Mr. Singleton, Attache United States Legation, and servant ; Col. Heth ; Mr. Nolte; Mr. Wildes • Professor Tucker; Rev. John Ratcliffe ; Miss Wade • Mrs. Warn ; Miss Mackenzie ; Mrs. Macdougal; Mrs. datcliffe ; Misses Ratcliffe; Miss Mackenzie; Mrs. Imer and child ; Mr. Stephen Watson ; Mrs. Watson and servant ; Mr. Robert Watson ; Mr. Chas. Steffelen •, Mr. H. M'Cullough ; Mr. Barnsiey ; Mr. W. Cundall, New Jersey ; Mr. John Michel ; Mr. Jones ; Mr. Greedin ; Mr. J. H. Eimer; Mr. Macdougall •, Mr. G. Schimdt ; Mr. J. Bowrcard; Mr. Hopkirk ; Mr. Place ; Mr. Prehn ; Mr. and Mrs. Hertas ; Mr. and Mrs. Loshe ; Mr. and Mrs. Warren; Mr. Sager, Mr. W. Mills; Mr. Hut chinson ; Mr. Hagedorin ; Mr. Macmoran ; Captain Von Chantz, of theßussian Navy ; Mr. Warren and servant ; Mr. Mrs. and two Misses King; Mr. Arnie ; Mr. James Kerr; Mr. T. C. Magoffin ; Mr. G. S. Saunderson ; Mr. W. G. Ewing; Mr. W. L. Clarke; Mr. King; Mr. Heth ; Mr. C. G. Dalgreen ; Mr. Darnell; Mr. and Mrs. J. Ripkas ; Mr. Kolligs ; Mr. Jones ; Capt. Stirling ; Mr. Adams ; Mr. E. Menlove ; Mr. C. Birkle ; Mr. W. S. Alley ; Mr. W. N. Haren ; Mr. Heth ; Mr. Malcolmson ; Mr. Buxton Layton; Mr. Reid; Mr. King; Mr. Roger; Mr. M'Kenzie •, Mr. C. Robertson ; Mr. W. Urquhart ; Mr. C. Jones ; Mr. Gon die ; Mr. John D. C. Wall; Mr. Charles Arenfields ; and Mr. Hamilton. DETERMINED AND EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. VERDICT OF FELO DE SE. On Saturday evening last, soon after seven o'clock, a sen sation of alarm was created in Preeson's-row, by a report that an individual who had gone into an eating-house in that street, had shot himself with a pistol in one of the upper rooms. The report proved to be but too true. A surgeon was immediately called in, but life was extinct before he arrived. Mr. Whitty and several police-officers soon after reached the room, and recognised the deceased to be Mr. Hiram Simpton, who had formerly been an Inspector of the police here, and who had left in December last, he having been elected superintendent of police in Bolton. The circumstances of the case are fully detailed in the following evidence adduced at the inquest, which was held yesterday, by P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury. Eliza Evans being sworn, said : I am a single woman, and keep an eating-house in Preeson's-row, in partnership with Miss Leader. I know the deceased, and have known him for about three years. He was the head constable of Bolton. He was often in the habit of coming to our house. He came there on Saturday last between seven and eight o'clock in the evening. I was busy at the moment he came in, and he passed through without saying a word to any one, and went up stairs to the front dining-room. Soon afterwards he rang the bell. I gave a candle to a neice of the deceased, and told her to go up and answer the bell. She came down directly and told me her uncle (meaning the deceased) wanted me directly. I went up stairs to him, and lie asked me if I was well. I asked him the same question, but he made me no reply. He looked very pale and frowned a good deal. I left him and went down stairs, and as I was de scending the first flight of stairs, he passed me and went up the second flight which leads to the bed-room, and before I got to the bottom of the stairs, or just at the moment, I heard the report of a pistol, and a kind of stifled groan. I screamed out in a moment, and exclaimed to a Mrs. Leader, who was in the house, that I was sure the deceased had shot himself. A strange man came in, in a moment, and I sent him and our girl up stairs to see what was the matter. The man came down soon afterwards, and ran off to fetch a doctor. A doctor came directly, and I afterwards heard the deceased had shot himself, but I did not go up into the room to see him. He was a very sober man, and during the time I have known him I never observed any thing desponding in his manner, but he was a very hasty man. He was a married man. He had formed an attachment to a young female, a Miss Leader, but I never heard that it led to any unpleasant ness between him and his wife. Jane Carr said :—I am a servant in Miss Evans's eating house. I was sitting in the kitchen on Saturday evening last, when the deceased came in. I had only seen him once before. He passed up stairs without speaking to any one. Soon afterwards he rang the bell, and his niece took him up a candle. I went on with the work I was doing in the kitchen, and in a few minutes Miss Evans came into the kitchen, and her face was quite black, and she said she was sure the deceased had shot himself, and asked if any one would go up and see. Just at this moment, a man came in to get something, and my mistress asked him if he would go up stairs and see what vc as the matter, and I procured him a candle. The man opened the door, and he exclaimed in a moment—" the man has shot himself !" I did not see the body of the deceased, but I was so frightened, that I ran down stairs immediately, and the same man that went up with me came down with me, and fetched a police-officer, and I then went out of the room, where the deceased was lying dead on the floor, and a surgeon was with him. I thought the deceased was not a very decent man by the way he went on with me. Edward Halse being sworn, said :—I am a surgeon. About half-past seven o'clock on Saturday evening last, I was called to the deceased. I was informed that a man had shot himself. I took my assistant with me, and went into one of the bed-rooms, in Miss Evans's eating•house, and I there found the deceased, whom I had known previously, lying on the floor, on his back quite dead. I observed some haemor rhage through his shirt, and on making an examination, I observed an orifice on the chest, which had evidently been made by a pistol ball, and within a yard of the body I found the pistol now produced. I was enabled to pass my little finger into the wound, which was of considerable depth. The ball had passed through between the ribs, on the lower part of the stronum. The wound was decidedly the: cause of depth. - Thomas Ainsworth said, I am a police-officer. On Satur day evening last, in consequence of hearing that a man had shot himself, I went to Miss Evans's eating-house, and in one of the upper bed-rooms I saw the decased lying dead. In the presence of Mr. Whitty and Mr. Dowling, t examined his pockets, where I discovered a pocket pistol, which I now produce. It is a percussion one, and was capped and loaded, and as I afterwards found with powder and ball. He had a pocket-book containing divers memorandums; a silver watch with a silver guard ; thirteen shillings and sixpence in silver, three pence half-penny in copper, a gold seal and a brass ring. In his waistcoat pocket, I discovered five letters, which I now produce, and which I have marked expressly with my initials. I was intimately acquainted with the deceased, who was formerly an inspector of police in Liverpool. lam per fectly acquainted with his hand-writing, and have no doubt but that all the above five named letters are in his hand-writ ing. Frederick Morton Baker said,—l am InspectDr of Police in Bolton. The deceased was Superintendent. Both the pistols now produced are my property. He borrowed one, the percussion one, during the riots at Bolton, and which was loaded with powder and ball, and the other one which was flint and steel, he borrowed about a week ago in discharge of some duty, and which he loaded in my presence with powder and ball. The last time I saw the deceased alive was on Sa turday afternoon last about a quarter past one. He had some prisoners to conduct to Manchester, but he sent some con stables along with them, and said he had some business which would take him to Liverpool. On the same morning I had a conversation with him at the office. He had a'o: sented himself the night before from duty, and I asked him where he had been, and he said he had been going to shoot himself. I thought at the time it was said more jocularly than serious. I ridiculed the idea, and he said he had writ ten to all his friends, and showed me a packet of letters, and I observed one directed to myself, and which is the same now produced. He then put the letters in his desk, and I observed my percussion pistol, and asked him to let me have it, and he said I should have it in the course of the day. He was a very passionate man, but I never saw anything like in sanity about him. I always considered that he lived very happy with his wife, setting aside what I knew privately, that he was very much attached to a girl in Liverpool. He stated to me that he was going over to Liverpool to see a young girl of the name of Chrissy, and that be was heart-broken because she had refused to see him, and he requested me not to say anything about it. John Simpton being sworn, said—" I was formerly in the army, but at present I am not in any business. The deceased was my son. He was 29 years old. When he wcs about twelve years old he had the small-pox very badly, and after that I always observed he was different from the rest. When he used to play with his brothers, they used to call him " mad Harry." His employment of late years has been such that I have not seen much of him. The last time I saw him was at the assizes. Christiana Leaders sworn :—I am a single woman and am in partnership with Miss Evans, who keeps an eating-house. I have been intimate with the deceased for about four years. On Friday last, I received a letter from the wife of the deceased requesting me to meet her at the railway station. I was proceeding then along with a niece of the deceased when 1 met him in Lord-street. I told him I was going to meet his wife when he observed that she was not coming ; he sent his wife home. He took hold of my arm, fast in his, and walked at a rapid rate down to the George's pier head. I went on board one of the Woodside boats with him. From his manner altogether I was alarmed that he in tended something wrong, so I got up from where I was sit ting, and told a gentleman that I was afraid he was going to do me some injury, and that he was taking me over the water against my will. The gentleman had him sent on shore, and I proceeded to Woodside without him. I did not land at Woodside, but returned with the same boat, the captain of which placed me in a car, and I went to my bro ther John in London-road, and I never afterwards saw the deceased alive. The same night, about nine o'clock, I was informed that he had shot himself. He has more than once threatened to _we that he would shoot himself, and once threatened that he would shoot me. About five weeks ago he had a pistol in his pocket, and he then said he would shoot himself, as he said he was very unhappy. He never, by his manner or conduct, led me to think he was out of his mind, but he was very passionate. On Saturday evening I did not think he was out of his mind, but he was very much excited. The following letters found on the deceased were then put in and read. We ,give them verbatim, and may add that they were all written in a bold business-like hand. TO C. J. DARBYSHIRE, MAYOR OF BOLTON, &C., BOLTON. Sept. 20th, 1839. SIR,—You will be surprised to hear of my fate, but when I assure you that for some weeks past a most horrible pre sentiment has possessed me, and I at times been driven to madness. Private matters are not to be published, there fore pardon me explaining circumstances. I have, however, one request to make. Having left a wife and child in Bol ton, pray assist them by signing my receipts for prisoners, some of which I have added up ; others I have left for the decision of the magistrates. In conclusion, I have to return you my most sincere, humble, and heartfelt thanks for your urbanity of manners at all times towards me, since I have been superintendent of police in Bolton. Trusting you will forgive me for so much boldness, (but reliance on your known goodness has incited the motive,) I beg to remain, Your most obedient, thankful, humble servant, HIRAM SIMPTON. Ta MR. BAKER, SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, BOLTON. Sept. 20th, 1839. DEAR BAKER,—Private circumstances has driven me to commit an act I have often thought of doing, and told you, of half-jesting, half-earnest like. I leave you Major Domo. Be pleased to arrange my papers and things. You will re ceive my keys with this. Assist my wife in getting the mo ney for the prisoners' conveyance. I have written to the Mayor about it. I have nothing to say—only think of your unfortunate friend Hiram, and do all you can to see my family receive what is coming to them. I have nothing more to add, only that you may never know the misery I endure. Good bye ! Your sincere friend, HIRAM SIMPTON. Tell Mr. Richards to think of me as " a victim of unright eousness," and remember me kindly to him. September 20. MY DEAR WIFE AND CHILD,-011r miseries have been so manifold through my iniquities ; our wretchedness has been so much on the increase of late, that I can no longer endure myself, my misery is so great, and yet 1 can blame no one but myself for it all. Oh ! my dear wife, when I think how happy we may have been, but for one circumstance, (going to Liverpool) ; when I think how very, very happy we may have been in each others love—but why do I dwell on this subject ? Things are done, and they cannot be un done. When you receive this I shall be no more; but recol lect, my dear wife, and my dear child, it is not for the sake of her alone that you accuse me of, that I commit so rash an act. No! no ! it is that I have taken all things into con sideration, and I find that my life is a drawback upon you, and upon that individual we have so often quarrelled about, by removing which, I shall, in sacrificing my life, render you all happier than you are at present. You, my dear Harriet, will, by and bye, when my person is somewhat for gotten, do much better in the world without than with me, for you know how peevish, spiteful, cross, and wicked I am, and you know how much worse I get every day. Oh ! Harriet, you must forget that even such a one as me ever lived. You must, you must, and you must endeavour your self to improve in cleanliness, &c., and do learn to write, &c. Oh ! Harriet, forgive me telling you all this, but I do, even now, think if you had have tried, you may have altered me ; but it cannot be done now, therefore I shall say no more on that head, but confine myself to what I ought to inform you of—that I loved Chrissy, I have toldyourepeatedly andoften, and I have begged you to proceed in a certain line of conduct towards me, and 1 would be as kind to you as I possibly could. You did not proceed as I desired you, but quite con trary, and thereby added fuel to an already blazing fire. Oh ! Harriet, why did you persevere in such a line of con duct ? But 'tis done, and all is passed now. When Chrissy and me were friends, I could tn lure all with a growl now and then ; but when she too, quarrelled with me, and all things rushed across my mind, thinking how many years we may have to live together, I drew these conclusions, that unless I could forget Chrissy, we should be miserable; that as long as you thought I loved her, you would be jealous, and we should be wretched. Now, you would always think so, and I cannot say I should ever cease to love her ; but, Harriet, I do love you, and my dear camp, and also Chrissy. For- Tho , .... • .4 5 . • -7- T '" .., ,-. -1 .... .....- lir .....- •7- ~. .. ...• - , . -7.-. /711 • • .0 , -••• ...1 . , 1 ,j ' , 44 , ... i 'i .. t •,..., de: 1.4....:-.• N.,* -- .....• , I _ ) -.... -,.. 1 " . i.e'`.:- . :4 - ,(1.-. •"' ." "„ re give me ; I am too free, but I am writing MS to you.. - - - ...,. • Bring up Polly as a good dear bale, and let her be Laugh; cleanliness, and carefulness. Pay some little attention to my last request, in looking to yourself, and save all you can, even to a pin's worth. God bless you, my dear dear wife and child. Yours, HIRAM. TO MRS. C. RENY, &C., LONDON. Sept. 20. Dear Sister,—Dear Mary,—l have loved and loved till I have driven myself mad ; and forgive me for what I have done. lam now out of all, all the misery of this infernallife. Oh ! what a world of sin. Oh! how very unhappy does sin render one, and yet how ready we are to rush again to the iniquity of the flesh. Adieu! Farewell! I have been mad ever since I came from London. Your mad brother, HIRAM. TO MR. GEORGE OR JOHN SIMPTON, PILOT, GALVENSTON DAY, TEXAS. Sept. *3oth, 1839. BROTHERS,--I have committed an act that has rid me of all worldly miseries: - Oh, what I have endured these last six months ! I can never think of again going through so much horrible misery, and all through-- 'I will tell no one but one individual of my real motive for committing so rash an act. Farewell ! May God bless you all ! Your mad brother, HIRAM: * Evidently a mistake for 20. . ~:-! The jury then retired to consider the evidence, which the Coroner had perspicuously summed up. After a coniulta tion of about 23 minutes, they returned a verdict to the, ef fect that the deceased had committed " The Coroner issued his warrrant accordingly, requiring Mr. Balfour, the Beadle, to see the body of the deceased in terred privately, in a common shell, in the parish burying ground, between the hours of nine and twelve the same night. The jury very humanely relinquished the amount paid to them, (X 1 12s. 6d.,) on behalf of the widow of the deceased. The Coroner stated that the mom) and property found on the deceased became forfeited to the crown, and all property which he might possess, as might be due to him. It was un derstood however, that an application would be made in be half of the widow, some money for removing prisoners being, it appeared, due to the deceased. The inquest was nume rously attended, and excited great interest. THEATRE-ROYAL. yLi t., . This evening the Queen of British Song appears with her husband as Amina and Elvino in the affecting opera of the Sonnambula. Their reception last night was that which is ever paid to established favourites of repute. Mrs. *Wood is in more than what is called fine voice. She sang the music and played the part of Cinderella with power and vivacity, and with a precision surpassed only by richness and delicacy. Cinderella is one of the most naturally constructed operas 'which adorns the English stage. Its music is joyous, de scriptive, and in every sense characteristic. Its repetition will please and ought to be supported by every appreciat9r of operatic excellence. The orchestra was most efficient. The overture was finely played. The applause was noL boisterous : it came from and was but confined to the occupants of the dress-circle ; and this is worthy of notice, as no box audience in the prin cipal theatres of the United Kingdom is wore reserved or chary in its active manifestation of applause, than that of Liverpool —as it is. Nothing but decided merit in Genteel Comedy and Music seems to elicit its plaudits. The Man chester audience is proverbially warmer ; and though pro fessedly a musical town, yet excellence and deSert " get a hand" in tragedy, bioad farce, and the range of everything scenic. So much for the statistics of applause.' Mr. Wood played and sang with his usual spirit and judg ment. To our ear and taste he is the best 1 , 3-a DiavOlo on the stage. With him the character haS an association of aids : its music is artistically sung, ; its stage business is ex cellent, and all its points are additionally 'enhanced by a manly deportment and melo-dramatic figure, in pictorial keeping with the Brigand Chief. _ _ Mr. Baker's PedrW was as successful as any of his friends could wish it to have been. The Baron Pompolino was ad mirably developed by Mr. G. Horncastle, who took more than usual pains with the . part : applause was never more deserved. Miss Grant was favourably received in a little, but pleasing part. This truly clever lady is nightly rising in the estimation of the audience. Her careful dressing merits notice, as much as her indisputable efficiency. MEETING OF THE OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. Yesterday evening, a meeting of this Association took place in the School-roorn, in leackin's Hey, and was most numerously attended. Mr. Gladwin, it was expected would preside, but it appears that circumstances had arisen to pie vent this, and that that gentleman will preside at the next meeting, to be held in Bond-Street. Mr. CRISP, Secretary of the Association was unanimously called to the chair, and in opening the meeting, (after "ex plaining the cause of Mr. Gladwin s abience,) said that the assembly would be addressed by several talented friends of the cause to which they were attached. They would, doubt less, be glad to learn that proteStant associaticns were in every direction working for the good of the cause, and all they had to do was to give a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, in order to achieve all that they desired. (Cheers.) The Rev. JOHN M'CREA then stood forward, arid was received with enthusiastic cheers, which he acknowledged in suitable and feeling terms. He then, in a speech of great length, (of which, we regret to say, the approach of our hour of publication, precludes us from giving more than the heads,) exposed the growing evils of Popery, and the neces sity for all good Protestants to bestir themselves for its sup pression. He apologize I for his absence on a former occa sion, when he was expected to attend a meeting of the asset . - ciation, and proceeded'to grapple with his subject: He was known to be a non-conformist, and he assured them ,he should not have attended the meeting if he thought they had assembled to promote party politics or sectarian principles of any, kind, or for the purpose of subverting any of the wholesome institu tions of the country ; but because it 'went upon scriptural principles to maintain the protestaat.position of the country. • (Cheers.) The Rev, gentleman, who was evidently labo ur in g -• under illness, said that frOrn 'recent' fatiktie *and' cold, he had had leeches applied to his- ttlisoat, and elairifed the in-' dulgence of the rneetiftg,. / (Clierys ; ) lleirasinot the lid-- mirer of bigoted sectarians, whether churehmen or dissenters ; for he conceived bigotry to,he ,effectual ffectual pioneer to the allied forces of popishlntoleraiice and superstition, which were now aiming at the subversion of ourinstitutions, and above all at that of our holy and beautiful church. He considered efforts founded upon niere'worldly considerations to,constitute but a secondary duty of Christians. The grand object was to take Scripture as their groundwork, and tu,pnoceed on the principle of Christian fellowshiP. ~(Cheers.) Ile dis claimed all adherence to party faction-44 party feeling or faction, was, after all, only the madness of the many, for the gain of a few. They ought not to foal( to partydlitinctions, or to such worldy objects, and Le regretted to find that even in vestries and new coraoratioas, the aMbition of self aggrandisement was a passi.at tae frequently indulged in, -to the abandonment of the good. What they had to do was to range themselves i tue suppprt of scriptural truth. He regarded this Llsti'ilt,on as. ptirelY and specifi cally a Protestant Association,—ai u.ie which would support the Bible and the whole Bible, and proceed sclely on Bible notions, and Bible principles. Ile considertd that it met the necessities of the age, and that AN here bad had been com bined, through it, good men must unite.—(Cheers.] - The Protestant Association was better than the Brunswick or Conservative Associations, and was, he assured, the only one to preserve the blessings they enjoyed in Church and State. —Cheers.) There was a necessity for suci."-in association, and that man must be blind indeed, and ta i dly ignorant of the events of the last forty years, who would deny the fact. The abominations of the Church of Rome hal, been spread ing far and wide, and he would recapitulate a few of them. So early as 1791, the Cisalpine Club was instituted, the'ob ject of which was the revival of the Power of the Roman See —as was shown by the ulterior proceedings of its members— amongst whom was Cardinal Weld. In 1805 the priests of distracted Ireland took a similar course. The rev. gentleman then noticed the progress of popery in 1814 • the conduct of George IV. (ruled by Mrs. Fitzherbert) in favouring the ca tholics, and signing the emancipation act; tile education. bill of Lord Althorpe ; the introduction of the monks of, La Trappe into Ireland in 1835; the grants in 1837 from govern ment to build popish churches ; and other acts of favour to popery, up to the passing of the emancipation act. He enu merated the various places of emolument and honour given to catholics, and next noticed that since the pissing of the act no fewer than twelve protestant clergymen had been shot dead by papists, and thirty-two had yet thebullits in their bodies. He then alluded to the conduct and false assertions of Mr. Nolan, now of Manchester; and then reNted an in stance of disgraceful proceedings on the part of tliegovern ment, with reference to two young men of the Evangelical Society of Ireland, who narrowly 'escaped from murder by a popish mob, 'and were threatened, ,by the nivern ment to be left to their tender mercies, by - tlie with drawing of the police. After noticing a . variety of other harrowing instances of injustice to Protestants and favour to - Papists in Irelands, he appealed to the meeing;'whether they could stand by quietly and not raise their voice -against the attempts to establish Popery in all its hideousness. They must throw aside their differences and jealonsies, and unite together to preserve the ancient landmarks, and stein the tide of licentiousness and popery that had set on our land. They must not look to the highest class of-society, but trust s to God and their own exertions: All depended upon scrip. tural fellowship ; this was the standard" which' they mus.t raise, and under which the good battle was to be fought. (Loud cheers.) • Mr. J. E. GLADSTONE addressed the meeting in a long and argumentative address. He alluded to the last speaker making light of conservatism, which he oir., G.) contended was intimately connected with Pretestantistn. He considered that the government had broken the law in encouraging Po pery abroad, and instanced the greater support in grants given by the government to the Papists -in the several - 61o= flies than to the Protestants. These statistics he derived from parliamentary returni. - He noticed the disgfieeful conduct of the authorities in the island of Trinidad, who, with the whole of the soldiery, had attended the celebration of high mass, and had saluted host". The country had-gone down ever since the Emancipation Act., It was said that that - act could not be repealed without bloodshed; but if'so, it was better, since it must be aCconiplislied, to do it soon, and with little blood, rather than With Much. After ably commenting on an article in the Morning Chronicle against their association, he concluded by implori n g them to stand by the cause and never to rest Satisfied until the 'emancipation act was repealed. He moved a resolution to the following effect : " That this meeting—looking upon the encouragement gi ven to Popery in the colonies, and believing it to bo highly dangerous and destructive to the colonies themselves, and to hold out a warning to us signifying that the same spirit which has prompted our GoVernment to encourage it abroad will lead them to do so at home whenever the country will suffer it—desires to express its strong disapprobation, and to call upon all true Protestants to resist, by every legal means, all further grants, and to endeavour to recall those which have been already given." Mr. NEWTON Very ably seconded the resolution, introduc ing a variety of arguments and anecdotes, which, we regret, we have not room to insert. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was unani mously carried. He then announced that the • First AnnUal Meeting of the Association would take place on the sth of November, also a Grand Protestant Meeting, On the 4th of- October, probably at the -Amphitheatre, to which all the members would be admitted by ticket. • A psalm was then sung, and thanks were voted . to the chairman. A niunber of new members enrolled their names, and the meeting separated. MARTIN'S GRAND 'PICTURE OF THE CORONATION. --i - This splendid production continues to attract nunierou-s ' itors, all of whom express their high admiration ()fits magnifi , cence. We understand that the exhibition will'henoetbrth remain open in the evening; when the pictureiliaY'be viewed by gas-light. This will prove a great accommodation to many whose avocations preclude the possibility of . a visit during the day time. , . We have repeatedly called the attention of our readers to Mr. Colles's amusing and novel Afeas•antris, that we should , not now revert to them, but for the factthat strangers are d ity arriving in the town, v4h i tune not have had an:Q.l4,oi , thn ty of hearing reports cones.- , 1 nemn ;'"all such, we feel certain will thank us for direct., their notice to his adver-• tisement, which will be found in another column ; of tLii vye can assure them, that if-they visit Mr. C. with the expecta, I Lion of being pleased, they will not come away disappointed.