The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The damp and unsettled state of the weather to-day has prevented her Majesty taking her accustomed airing. Lord Duncannon, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Dun fermline took their departure this morning. The following personages will be included in the royal din ner party this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchessof Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Barham, Earl of Albe marle, Lady Gardiner, Earl of Erroll, Hon. Misses Cocks and/ Murray, Marquis of Headfort, Lord Alfred Paget, Baroness Lehzen, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir William Lumley, Earl of Surrey, the Ladies Elenora and Constance Paget, and the Marquis of Anglesey. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left the residence of the Earl Howe, Gopsall Hall, Lei cestershire , morning, attended yesterday attended by her suite, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat Belvoir Castle. _ _ Prince George of Cambridge came to Cambridge House, yesterday morning, from Kew. The Princess Augusta took an airing, yesterday, in a car riage and four. A deputation, consisting of J. Bagsbaw, Esq. (late M.P. for Sudbury), Abraham Borrodaile, Esq., chairman of the South African Land and Emigration Association, Mr. An derson, Captain Barber, Mr. Beecroft, Mr. Banister, Mr. Busk, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Redman, Mr. Thomson, and Mr. M. D. Wakefield, had an interview with Lord J. Russell, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, respecting a colonial settle ment at Natal, in South eastern Africa. Viscount Melbourne returtiedi; - town, yesterday after noon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. The Spanish Minister transacted business, yesterday, at Vie Foreign office. A meeting was held, yesterday afternoon, at the Colonial office, which was attended by Lord John Russell, Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Normanby, Lord Holland, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Macauley, and Sir George Grey. Mr. Horsley Palmer and Mr. Crawford had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday, in Downing-street. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left town, yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, Leices tershire. WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—This afternoonher Ma jesty, accompanied by Lady Barham, promenaded for a short time on the New Terrace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent remained within the castle during the day. The Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget drove out in a carriage and four, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Murray. Sir W. Lumley, who took his departure from the Castle this morning, was succeeded, as Groom in Waiting, by Col. Armstrong. The Marquis of Hendfort left the Castle this afternoon. The royal dinner party was the same as yesterday, with the exception of the departures, and with the addition of Colonel Armstrong. WEDNESDAY.—The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, took an airing, yesterday, in a carriage and four to Kew. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. His royal Highness re turned to his residence at Kew in the afternoon. Captain Pelly, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, on Monday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Attorney-General, Sir H. Macleod, and Mr. Rivers had interviews with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. _ _ The Marquis of Bute, the Attorney-General, and Mr. Warburton, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, in Downing street. Mr. Alston had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday, in Downing-street. Despatches from the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Governor of the Canadas, and from the Lieut.-Governor of Gibraltar, were received, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty has not left the castle to-day in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather. The Earl of Errol and the Hon. C. A. Murray rode to Cumberland Lodge. Lord Lilford has succeeded the Marquis of Headfort as the lord in waiting. The royal dinner party this evening will include the fol lowing personages :—Her. Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Misses Cocks and Murray, Lady Gardiner, Earls of Errol, Surrey, and Albemarle, Lord Lilford, Earl and Countess of Ux bridge, Ladies Eleanore and Constance Paget, Colonel Arm strong, Lord Alfred . Paget, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Baroness Lehxen. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty is la bouring under the effects of a slight cold, occasioned, it is supposed, by the late sudden change in the weather. Yes terday evening a severe frost set in, which continued through out the night, and until noon to-day, when snow made its " first appearance this season," and has continued with us without intermission during the remainder of the afternoon. Although Mr. Sergeant Wilde is now at Newark, feeling the pulses of the " worthy" and, I trust, " independent elec tors," he has not, I am credibly informed, not accepted the Solicitor-Generalship. The usual formalities consequent upon his acceptance of that office not having yet been gone through, I am led to rely upon the correctness of my infor mant. The report is that, in the event of the learned ser geant, in the course of his canvass, discovering symptoms of defection on the part of his former supporters, he will "give up" the Solicitor-Generalship, because the Premier cannot a 'ford to give up the chance of only one solitary vote in the Commons. Amongst " numerous others," the Earl of Essex is now spoken of as having been offered the still vacant appointment of Master of the Buckhounds. The mother of his lordship is, I believe, the sister of the present Marquis of Anglesey ; hence it would create no surprise if another of " the Pagets" were thus planted about the immediate person of the Sove reign. The late earl was a staunch conservative. The pre sent earl, I believe, has not yet taken his seat in the Upper House. Under any circumstance, should his lordship accept the appointment, the cabinet, as long as it holds together, might fairly reckon upon the noble lord's support. A change in the Ministry involves the vacation of the office, whoever may chance to be at the time " the fortunate (?) holder of the prize." Certain expenses must be incurred, and some rather heavy ones, by the new master, such as the purchase of a new stud, fitting, in point of " quality as well as quantity," to follow the royal pack, which will be hunted, during the season, three times a week. The very unstable position of her Majesty's present advisers—the chance of their being beaten upon the first important division in the legislature after the assembling of Parliament in February next—therefore renders the acceptance of the buckhounds, just at this period, deserving of some consideration. Poor Lord Melbourne ! THURSDAY.—Yesterday was the birthday of the Princess Mary of Cambridge, when her highness completed her sixth year. The Duchess of Gloucester gave a d 661 ner and ball at Gloucester House, in honour of the day, to a large party of the juvenile nobility and gentry. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Col. Jones, arrived at half past two o'clock at Gloucester House, from their residence at Kew. The juveniles arrived about the same time. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta also joined the party. The Duchess of Gloucester was at tended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst and Sir Samuel G. Higgins. When the company had assembled, the Duchess of Glou cester, accompanied by the whole of the visiters, entered the large drawing-room, where a dejefiner was served. The party afterwards descended to the dining room, which was prepared for dancing. The walls were tastefully hung with draperies, ornamented with wreaths and festoons of laurel and flowers, enclosing the initial letters P. M., and the words " Many happy returns of the 27th November." A quadrille band attended. The party broke up shortly before seven o'clock, when the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, left for Kew. Among the nobility and gentry present were the following, with their respective families :—The Danish minister and Baroness Biome, the Netherlands minister and Madame Dedel, the Duchess of Buccleuch, Countess of Bathurst and Miss Ponsonby, Countess of Chesterfield, Lady Burghersh, Lady Augusta Gordon, Lady Louisa Cornwallis, Sir George and Lady Seymour, Lady Stratheclen, Sir E. and Lady H. Paget, Lady Barbara Newdigate, Sir E. and Lady Currey, Sir Charles Thornton, Count Esterhazy, Baron Lebzeltern, Mr. and Lady T. Lister, Colonel Keate, 14Iadlle. D'Este, Mrs. Bathurst, Mr. and Mrs. Warrender, Mrs. Montagu', and Mr. Culling Smith. • A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yes terday afternoon, at the Foreign office. It was attended by all the Ministers, except Lord Morpeth.—The Council sat three hours. NEWARK ELECTION. NZWARK, Nov. 25.—At ten o'clock this morning Mr. Thesiger made his entry into Newark. and was received with the greatest enthusiasm by a numerot... and influential body of conservatives. Atter being introduced by Mr. Godfrey, the chairman of his committee, he addressed a large assem blage of the electors in front of the Clinton A rms I nn , an d expressed in glowing terms his firm attachment to our vene rable institutions in church and state, and condemned in the strongest terms the vacillating policy of the present infidel government. After briefly expressing his political senti ments, which were loudly cheered, he immediately proceeded on his canvass, with a numerous attendance of his friends; and with full confidence of being elected. Sergeant Wilde, with his party, were canvassing when Mr. Thesiger arrived in the market-place, in a carriage and four, with pink favours. Mr. H. Handley, member for agricultural South Lincoln shire, joined the sergeant on his canvass in the course of the morning, a pretty plain hint to the electors of Lincolnshire what they may expect when their member unites himself to Mr. Sergeant Wilde and party, who are determined foes to the agricultural interest. A gentleman resident in the neighbourhood of Newark, and an elector of the borough, states that, from the local sources of information to which he has access, there is every reason to believe that the new Solicitor-General will not again represent that borough in parliament. Many reasons might be assigned for the present and daily increasing unpo pularity of the learned gentleman ; some being of a merely local character, and arising from causes interesting only to the people of Newark ; but the greatest being the extreme falling off in all parts of the kingdom in the Whig-radical ranks, and the consequent increase of strength to the con servatives ; and such falling off and increase being nowhere greater in proportion than in the little borough of Newark. On Friday last the Nottingham Journal, a newspaper very zealous in the good cause, and of great influence in its imme diate neighbourhood, contained the following paragraph, which, be it remarked, was written on the spot by one able to command the best intelligence :—__ _ " The bestowal of the Ace of Solicitor-General seems only to puzzle our blessed rulers. Not even yet have they ventured officially to announce the man, though rumour still confidently points to Sergeant Wilde. We think it right to call attention to the current report, for the purpose of re minding our Newark friends of the duty which may be pos sibly required of them. We know perfectly well that a just appreciation of their own strength, and a hearty unanimity in its exercise, will enable Newark to add another leaf to the laurels of conservative Nottinghamshire, and to give another great discouragement to the waning reign of misrule in these kingdoms. Then be the conservatives of Newark well prepared." Mr. Sergeant Wilde possesses, it is true, many advantages over his opponent, Mr. Thesiger. He has been long con nected with the borough of Newark, and on the present occasioci has had some days' start in his canvass. He has, moreover, the patronage of the treasury men, and the support of treasury gold. But, nevertheless, if Mr. Thesiger be true to himself and to his cause, and if the worthy men of Newark come forward boldly and zealously, and manfully do their duty, the conservatives will have nothing to fear. Mr. Thesiger is one of her Majesty's counsel, and one of the most able lawyers at the bar. He has distinguished himself highly on many important occasions, particularly before election committees of the House of Commons in support of the conservative candidate. Every influence that can he legitimately used in his behalf by the noblemen and gentlemen of Nottingham, Newark, and their neighbour hoods will be afforded. If the worthy electors of Newark will cut off at once and for ever the shackles of whiggism, now is the time, another opportunity may not soon present itself. It rests with themselves to gain a high name among the constituencies of England, and it would be insulting to them to doubt that they will avail themselves of it. J~)~~ ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald) CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE. An Election will be held in the above College on Friday, the 24th of January, 1840, of Two Scholars, one for the county of Southampton, and one for the county of Lancas ter. Candidates must be under 19 years of age on the day of election ; and they will be required to present in person, to the Presdent, certificates of the marriage of their parents, and of their own baptism, an affidavit of their parents, or some other competent person, stating the day and place of their birth, and testimonials from their College or School; together with Latin Epistles, at eleven o'clock on Saturday, the 18th of January. In a Convocation holden on Thursday, the Rev. John Peat, M.A. of St. Peter's College, was admitted ad modern. At the same time the following Degrees were conferred : BACHELOR IN CIVIL_LAW, BY COMMUTATION. Francis Nicholas, Esq. Wadham College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Markham Mills, Christ Church. William Cope, Trinity College. Charles Mitchell, Wadham College. Rev. John Sutton Utterton, Oriel College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Richard Dawson, Wadham College, grand compounder. Stafford Henry Northcote, Scholar of Balliol College. Reginald Hobhouse, Balliol College. George William Hutchins, Magdalen Hall. Edward Bradley, Magdalen Hall. Kay,:Scholar of Lincoln College. Matthew Anstis, Exeter College. William Henry Anderson, Scholar of University College. George Ord Hughes, Worcester College. William John Bennett, St. Edmund Hall (incorporated front-Trinity College, Dublin). PROMOTIONS. Rev. Rowland Ingram,. M.A., late of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Giggleswick, Yorkshire, va cant by the death of the Rev. John Clapham ; patron, John Nicholas Coulthurst, Esq. Rev. J. L. F. Russell, M.A., to be Chaplain of the Ware ham and Isle of Purbeck Union. Rev. Arthur Rigg, 8.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, to be Principal of the Chester Diocesan Training School. Rev. W. Worth Hoare, M.A., late Curate of Christ Church,:Cork, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul's, Staley bridge, Lancashire. Rev. Jackson Delmar, 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Swalcliffe, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Boake. Rev. James Whitley Deans Dundas, M.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Ramsbury, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Edward, Graves Meyrick, D.D., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. (From the:Cambridge Chronicle.) On Thursday last, Alexander Blackal Simonds, and Ed ward Balston, Esqrs., Scholars of King's College, were elected Fellows of that Society. On Tuesday last, William Robert Sharpe, Esq., 8.A., of Catharine Hall, in this University, was elected a Fellow of that Society on the Skirne foundation. The office of Christian Advocate in this University will become vacant at Christmas next. The Trustees have given notice that the election will take place at the latter end of December next. Candidates must be of the degree of Mas ter of Arts, or of Bachelor or Doctor of Divinity, of the age of 30 years or upwards, and resident in the university. The Rev. Francis Gregory Le Mann, M.A., of King's College, in this University, to the Rectory of Merton, Nor folk, vacant by the death of the late Lord Walsingham. The Rev. W. M. Brook Kempson, M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, in this University, to the Rectory of Stoke Lacey, Herefordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Beetham. Patron, John Kempson, Esq. On Friday week, the Rev. Henry Hardinge, B.A. was licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the nomination of the Rev. Thomas Salmon, of Woodbridge. The Rev. John Thomas Maine, M.A., has been presented to the Rectory of Harrington, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Trollope. On Wednesday week, the Rev. Lewis Francis Bagot, M.A., was instituted to the Rectory of Castle-rising, with Roydon, Norfolk, on the presentation of the Hon. Fulk Greville Howard and the Hon. Mary Howard, his wife. An election to a Scholarship on the foundation of John Lord Craven, will take place on Tuesday next, the 26th inst. The Rev. Philip Henry Haughton, 8.A., of Brazenose College, has been appointed by the Duke of Richmond, one of his Grace's Domestic Chaplains. The Rev. John Sherren Brewer, M.A., of Queen's Coll., has been appointed Classical Tutor and Librarian of King's College, London. The Rev. Samuel Rundle, M.A. of Trinity College, has been appointed Perpetual Curate of St. Aubyn's Chapel, Devonport, void by the resignation of the Rev. J. Jacob, D.C.L., who has accepted a Curacy in Wiltshire. The Rev. Henry Martyn Sherwood, B.A. of Queen's College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Worces ter, the Vicarage of White Ladies' Aston, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Wm. H. J. Beauchamp ; patron, R. Berkeley, Esq. . The Rev. Henry William Johnson Beauchamp, M.A., of Worcester College, has been collated, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Rectory of Monk's Risborough, with the Chapelry of Owlswick, in the County of Buckingham, void by the death of the Rev. Henry Dimock, M.A., of Corpus Christi College. The Rev. James Garbett, M.A. of Christ Church, Custos of Hereford College, has been presented, by the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral, to the Vicarage of Upton Bishop, Herefordshire, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Canon Underwood. The Rev. Canon Hobart has been presented, by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, to the Mastership of St. Catherine's Hospital, Ledbury, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Underwood, one of the Canons of Hereford Cathedral. The Rev. Canon Morgan, B.D. of Christ's Church, has been appointed to the Mastership of the Hospital of St. Etheihert, founded in Hereford Cathedral, on the resignation of Canon Hobart. On the 16th instant, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Amyand Harris, M.A. and late Fellow of All Souls' College, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Shafton, alias Shaston Saint Trinity, with St. Peter and St. Lawrence destroyed, and St. Martin destroyed, in the County of Dorset, void by the resignation of William Patte son clerk, on the presentation of the Earl of Shaftesbury. -- - STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA. (From the City Article of the Morning Herald.) The very important subject of a comprehensive system of steam communication with our East Indian possessions has been already so freely discusied in this journal, and re sponded to by all independent parties connected with those valuable possessions, that we may introduce the following letter upon the subject, which has been addressed by the Bishop of CalcUtta to a gentleman of this city on that sub ject, without further comment. " Bishop's Palace, Calcutta, Aug. 22. " Dear Sir,—l should never forgive myself if I conveyed to you the accompanying resolution, without at the same time assuring you of the sincere gratitude I feel from the bottom of my heart to a gentleman who has laboured so assiduously, diligently, and successfully in one of the greatest causes that ever interested humanity. I can truly say that the consequences, immediate and remote, of an efficient plan of steam communication betwen India and Europe, defy calculation ; such a wonderful adaption of science is full of " the seeds of things," as was said of Lord Bacon's philosophical writings and principles two centuries since. The invention of printing and the discovery of the mariner's compass did not more immediately bear upon the happiness of mankind. The human family is now indeed approximating, and, by an inter-communication of knowledge, the times may be expected to draw on when the illumination and elevation of the more prostrate nations will be borrowed from the most remote and exalted. _ _ _ " Allow me, sir, to conclude with saying that not only as a chairman, but as a man and a Christian, I have sincere pleasure in transmitting to you the following resolution.—l am, your most obedient, (Signed) " D. CALCUTTA. " Resolution I.—That the report be received ; that the thanks of this meeting be conveyed by the right rev. the chairman to Messrs. Curtis, Larkins, Bagshaw, and Mackillop, and to Captain Barber, for their zealous and well-directed efforts to obtain the immediate establishment of a perfect comprehensive steam communication between Eng land and India, and that they be assured no exertion shall be wanting in Bengal in aid of their endeavours. 4" True copy, (Signed) * "D. CALCUTTA, Chairman.' " BRITISH INDIA. There are 100 millions of British subjects in India. Of these hay' a million died last year of famine, although India may be called (fro►n its fertility} the granary of the world. There is at present a famine raging in some parts of India. The chief cause of those dreadful calamities appears to be the oppressive nature of the land tax, which, in the first in stance exorbitantly high, is made ruinously oppressive by the mode of collection, which obliges the solvent inhabitants of a district to pay all defalcations which may occur amongst them. Out of 34 millions of tropical produce annually imported by Britain, with the whole or nenr:y the whole of which our own India could supply us, we take but 41 millions from her. We receive but 1-13th of our cotton from India, though it grows there indigenously ; while we take 800,000 out of 1,000,000 bales from North America annually, at the expense, too, of upholding their detestable system of slavery, and send ing them to Cuba, &c. where slavery reigns in all its most dreadful horrors, for a large portion of their sugars. Cotton is not indigenous to North America. Fifty years ago the first, eight bales were brought into Eng land from one of her ports and seized as contraband, it not being believed possible she could grow it. The salt monopoly still continues. Salt is peculiarly a ne cessary of life in India, as rice, which is the main food of the population, is unwholesome without it, nevertheless, a native is liable to be fined 500 rupees (X 50.) or three months' im prisonment, or both, for stooping to pick up even a single grain of it from the sea shore !—Christian Patriot. CLOGS FOR THE QUEEN.—Among other desirable things which fall to the lot of a virgin her presents are not to be forgotten. The Parmard cheese will serve to grace her Ma jesty's table, and stand the knife even' of Melbourne for many months. The very small shoes which were sent to her, as well as the riding habit from L ee d s , are a ll use f u l, and though the guinea pigs were rejected, it seems that her Majesty does not object to a pair of clogs. Mr. Richard Baxter, of Think, has had the ingenuity to make great im provements in spring clogs, and as a testimony of his loyalty forwarded a pair each, to Victoria and her august Mother. The following is said to be the reply, and it will be Seen that the spring clogs are termed " Boots" by the attendants of Royalty. " From her Majesty to Mr. R. Baxter, in return for a pair of boots which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept." " The Lady in Waiting upon the Duchess of Kent is commanded by her Royal Highness to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Baxter's letter of the Ist instant, accom panied by two pair of walking boots. Her Royal Highness is exceedingly obliged for Mr. Baxter's attention, in sending one pair for her, and had the pleasure of delivering to the Queen the pair intended for her Majesty.—Windsor Castle, Bth of November, 1839." DEEPER AND DEEPER STILL.—The Marquis of Lans downe has written a reply to the Bishop of Exeter's letter — a piece of folly quite equal to that of a burnt child a second time putting its finger in the fire. It would be best, perhaps, to let the bishop deal with his lordship in the first instance ; but there is one passage in his reply which concerns every one—lookinc , at his lordship as the chief director of the con templated s c heme of public instruction, and which it is not, therefore, froward to notice. His lordship gives, as his rea son for saying, "we have no supernatural being upon whom we can rely,' that "we could not expect God to work a miracle for us ;" so that, because God will not condescend to work miraces for us, no reliance is to be placed in Him ! What sort of religion a man entertains who "insists" upon that, it is impossible to say, for the doctrine is perfectly new. His lordship is a new sect in himself, and his belief should be called Lansdownism. The truth is, his lordship is com pletely bewildered, and says he knows not. This, at least, is the most charitable construction, and, as is quite natural, the more he struggles to flounder out of the foul expression he originally used, the deeper and deeper he engulphs him self the raire.—Morning Herald. SOCIALISM AT BRADFORD. THE VICAR'S PROTEST. (From the Leeds Intelligencer.) Since our last we have received a fuller and more particu lar account of the protest of the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, Vicar of Bradford, at a recent meeting of the Socialists in that town. It appears that the Socialists had been holding a festival and establishing a Social Institution at Bradford, and for their furtherance in the infidel object they had obtained the assist ance of a Mr. F. Hollick, a young man of considerable talent, who styles himserf " Social Missionary," to give lectures on the question—" The Popular Religion—true or false." Au invitation to these lectures was received by the Vicar from the Socialist Secretary, couched in respectful terms, and stat ing that any objection cbnscientiousty offered on this subject deeply affecting the interests of mankind would be seriously and candidly attended to—" Truth," it was added, " being the sole object sought for by the Rational Religionists." Thus invited, the Vicar intimated to the Secretary his inten tion of attending the lecture of Thursday evening, the 14th, stipulating that admission should be provided for two or three friends, and that the lecture should not exceed one hour ; or if it did, he, at the end of an hour, if he thought fit, might have an opportunity o f s p ea ki ng , andi then retiring. This circumstance having been announced at the lecture of Wednesday,, there was a crowded attendance on Thursday— probably near 1000 men, and 40 or 50 women. The Vicar, accompanied by Messrs. G. Pollard, J. and W. Rand, A. Harris, Rev. G. S. Bull, and a gentleman from Scotland, entered the room five minures before eight, and, declining ascending the platform, were accommodated with chairs in a vacant space at the upper end of the room. There were some other gentlemen there, but none of the Vicar's party. Tho lecture lasted just about an hour, when the lec turer sat down, as the presiding personage, in a centre chair on the platform, and after a short pause, the Vicar, followed by a part of his friends, ascended and addressed the crowded and expectant assembly to the following effect : " Men of Bradford,—l have attended the lecture which you have just heard on the invitation of your secretary. The subject to be discussed, he informed me, was one deeply af fecting the interests of mankind—that is, whether the Popu lar Religion be true or false ? I also believing it to be a sub ject of solemn consideration, and deeply affecting your hap piness both here and hereafter, have felt it my duty, as Vicar of this parish, and, as such, placed in the providence of God, and by the law of the land, in the care of your souls, to accept the invitation. But in so doing, it is not my intention to debate the subject of the lecture, which I do not think fitting in this place; though in my own place, in the Parish Church, on Thursday next, I will, please. God, give a lecture upon the question of which one side has now been considered,—but I come here as the Vicar of this parish, and caring for your souls, to make nay solemn protest, as i n the p resenc e of God, and before these gentlemen as witnesses, against that fearful, delusive, and ruinous system which has just been recom mended to you. In declining to debate the matter here, Ido so, as those who know my public life will, I think, believe, not from any fear of man, or difficulty in the task ; but be cause I think another course more fitting. At the same time, I will take occasion to remind you that the controversy is not betwixt me and the person who has just addressed you, but betwixt him and the Word of the living God. If the Bible be true! (Here there was an interruption, by a strong and audible expression of contempt and derision from a number of men seated on the benches near the platform, on which the reverend speaker paused and remarked)—Men of Brad ford,—l do not think it courteous, much less generous, that, after having been invited to attend this meeting, and encou raged to address you, any mention of the Bible should be treated by you with scorn and derision. You may now be brave against God, and may reject that Saviour which His Revelation declares to us ; but I am free to confess that, though I would not fear man who may kill the body, 1 do fear that Great Being who, when he bath killed, is able to cast both soul and body into hell ; and I am free also to con fess my belief of the truth of the Bible, in which is revealed my hopes of happiness hereafter, and in that Saviour, whom you despise, through whom I humbly trust to obtain access to a future state of unspeakable blessedness !" The assem bly being now quiet, and for the most part a serious attention being observable throughout the room, the Vicar proceeded. " If the Bible be true, let me now remind you, and to this point I would request your serious attention,—then all the conclusions that you have heard from your lecturer must be false; but if the Bible be not true, then some of the greatest of philosophers, Newton, Bacon, and many others, whom the world has received as ranking high among rational men, must have been fools ; for they were firm believers in the Bible as a Divine Revelation. " And let me tell you of one province of the Bible. The lecture you have now heard has professedly been about matters of fact and experience ; and your lecturer disclaims the mak ing use of or receiving anything else. He only, therefore, can tell you of what now is, or of things that are past ; but the Bible, which we believe, tells us of the doctrines of man, and what shall be hereafter : it tells us this—may God grant that the declaration may impress some deluded ones among you !—` That the dead, small and great, shall stand before God, and that every man shall then be judged according to his works : that the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.' Let me solemnly beseech you, ye men of Bradford, and [turning to the lecturer, the rev. speaker impressively added] and the man who has been en gaged in the misleading and deluding, by the false and ruin ous principles of Socialism, this numerous people, to consider now how the matter will stand with you in that day ? If the Bible be true—Oh! what a tremendous disappointment and woe will then be revealed to you ; and to you, Sir, [turning to the lecturer) for the abuse and profanation of those su perior talents which would have been so estimable in a better cause !" " Let me, hefore I conclude, also warn you, ye men and women of Bradford, against the destructive influence, tem porarily, of the sensual system which has been advocated, but the abomination of which has been studiously kept out of sight. If lam rightly informed, the system of Socialism denounces the ordinance of marriage, appointed of God, that one man should be joined to one woman. Is this [address ing the lecturer] the fact, or no? [The lecturer was silent] —I ask, Sir, is this a part of your system ' or no ?" The lec turer said —" I will answer when yo u have done." The Vicar proceeded. " I presume then, the thing is so. But I appeal to you, ye women of Bradford, is your support of such a sys tem rational Is it rational to go back to the ages of hea thenism, and the condition of savage, uninstructed nations, where their women are degraded as slaves, and beasts of bur den ! To Christianity our women owe their rank, their con sideration, and all their dearest privileges. Is it rational to reject these ? I address you, women of Bradford—is it well, is it rational, to sanction a system which makes your children bastards? Or, ye men and women, which mak es y ou adul terers and adulteresses, whom God will judge ?" The reverend Vicar having repeated the announcement of his intended lecture at the Parish Church, and invited the attendance of the people there, concluded with a few words of solemn exhortation, warning those who came from curiosity against attending such meetings, and, then, evidently much to the disappointment of the Socialist party, retired from the room, together with all the gentlemen who had accompanied him. _,' 4 We are happy to have it in our power to contradict a ru mour very prevalent in town, respecting the serious illness of the Earl of Eglinton. His lordship was slightly indisposed, but not so much as to excite alarm, and he is now conva lescent.—Ayr Observer. We understand that Mr. Ruthven has obtained patents for " Economising Fuel," by condensing the waste steam of engines with cold air, and discharging the air highly heated into the furnace, producing a very important saving in fuel, besides other advantages.—Edinburgh Courant. ECONOMY OF THE NEW Pool:. LAW. —lt is stated that not less than £2,500,000 in exchequer bills have been ad vanced, towards the erection of the various Union Work houses, formed under the New Poor Law in different parts of the country. A fire-ball fell on Thursday se'nnight, in a field adjoining the city of Peterborough, belonging to Mr. Taverner, and passing completely through a stack of hay, entered the earth under it, leaving a hole nearly a foot wide, and the hay much scorched. The Leipsic Universal Gazette, of the 20th, has a letter from Paris ' stating that the Duchess of O r l eans i s aga i n en ciente, and that she has become a Papist. The public pro fession of her new faith, adds this correspondence, will take place at the christening of the Count de Paris. On Monday, a dead body was cast ashore near Helens burgh, exactly answering the,description we gave of John Falconer, who was supposed to have perished when the Royal Tar and one of the Liverpool steam pjickets came in contact. Intimation having been sent to his friends, the body has since been identified as that of the person alluded to.—Greenock Advertiser. BIBLE PRINTING.—We understand that Mr. Alexander Gardner, printer, of this town, h as thi s wee k b een d u l y au thorised by the Lord Advocate to print the Scriptures, the Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. So far as we have heard, this is the first appointment, under the new regulation, for printing the Bibie.—Paisley Advertiser. We hear that Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India, is to be advanced in the peerage to the dignity of an earl, by the title of Earl of Auckland and Viscount Eden ; and that Sir John Keane, the brave commander of the army of the Indus, is to be created a peer. Suitabl :lonorary dis tinctiong will be conferred also on other officers who were engaged in that important and brilliant service.—Govern ment Evening Print. Hors.—The accounts received from all districts where hops are cultivated state, that the picking had terminated. In East Kent the produce, it is expected, will be e qua l t o that of last year—the quality probably not so good. The whole of Kent will exceed last years' produce. The duty, it is thought by the buyers, may be from £10,000"to £12,000 more than was last year realised in these parts of the king dom. The planters think the present estimated duty over rated. They calculate it at £205,000 to £2lo,ooo.—Kent Herald. The report is again prevalent of her Majesty's intention to have a marine residence at Ramsgate. Indeed, it has been said that a plan and design of a royal edifice has actually been submitted for approval, but that her Majesty prefers the site of the West Cliff.(whence she can have a view of the shipping in the Royal Harbour) to that of the East Cliff, where the marine panorama is not seen. Cliff House and grounds, with the contiguous property, are pointed out as an eligible spot for the erection, being sheltered from the cold wind ; and they might, with little cost or trouble, be seclud ed from the public gaze.—Kentish Observer. AN ATHEISTICAL PREACHER.—On Sunday last Mr. Owen, we understand, delivered two sermons in the - Freemasons' Hall, Niddry-street--the one in the morning, the other in the evening. The subject on both occasions was charity, his text being taken from the 13th chap. of Ist Corinthians.— Scotsman.—[The devil, they say, can quote scripture, and here is an avowed atheist lecturing from the gospel on cha rity. With regard to the audience, only Socinians and infi dels are degraded enough, morally and intellectually, to listen to the beastly doctrines of this hoary apostle of undisguised atheism and universal prostitution.—Edinburgh Evening Post. Statements having appeared in the Morning Chronicle re specting her Majesty Queen Adelaide, and referring to her conduct, as well as to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, we are authorised by a gentleman who accompanied the Queen Dowager to Lisbon, and who has ample means of k now i ng the falsehood of all these statements, to give the most pe remptory and unequivocal contradiction, both in the general and in the particular, to the whole statement, which, as it has its foundation in falsehood, could only be dictated by a mali cious disposition to create mischief.—Morning Paper. SIGNS OF THE WEATHER.—Two wayfaring men lately took up their lodging in a country public-house in this quar ter, and being anxious to take the road early, one of them rose in the course of the night to ascertain how the world wagged. " Weel, what kind. o' weather are we to get ?" inquired the cautious traveller who kept his bed. " I canna tell ye," answered the other, who had shoved his head into a press, or " autnry," instead of shoving it out of the window' —" I canna tell ye : the night's as black as pick—there's nae a breath o' wind stirrin',--and there's just a dreadfu' smell o' pease-meal.—Aberdeen Constitutional. A young man in Perth was last week committed to jail, and afterwards held to bail, for imposing on the Perth Co nstitutional, by causing it to announce the death of a well kno'wn gentleman in Edinburgh. The fraud was accom plished by forging the signature of an official gentleman in Perth. The culprit admits the writing of the letters, but de nies the forgery of the subscription. He further confesses that the hoax was an act of revenge for the rejection of some sentimental verses he sent for insertion in the .Constitutional. This sort of practical joking upon newspaper conductors has now become sufficiently common to warrant the laW in ma king a severe example.—Glasgow Mail. EXTRAORINARY MORTALITY.—The following almost un heard-of instance of mortality occurred in a family of the name of Law, resident at Doddington, in this county. On the 19th of August last, Andrew, the youngest son, aged 23, paid the debt of nature. On the 11th of September, Matilda, the eldest daughter, aged 21. On the 13th of September, Ambrose, the eldest son, aged 33. On the 30th of Septem ber, George, the second son, aged 25. On the 14th of Octo ber, William, the father, aged 59 ; and, on the 12th of No vember, Harriet, the second daughter, aged 19. The mother and one daughter are the only surviving members of a family in which the hand of death has been at work with such fearful rapidity.—iVorthampton Herald. NATURAL CURIOSITY. — We have been favoured with a sight of a beautiful antediluvian specimen of the fir tribe, just dug from the Stevenson freestone quarry, on the estate of Mr. Warner, of Ardeer. ,The trunk, stems, and leaves, are as perfectly formed and pourtrayed in this piece of rock as those now growing in the neighbourhood of the quarry. This geological curiosity, along with a cluster of nuts, five in num ber, which composed part of the stone, was thirty feet from the surface, being twenty feet below the present level of the sea. The nuts and the leaves, stern and trunk of the fir, are of a dark brown colour ; while the surrounding body of the stone is a blueish white, which gives these fragments the ap pearance of the finest fresco painting. Many interesting curiosities of the like description have been found during the working of this extensive quarry. The antiquarian geologist would certainly be highly gratified by repeated visits to this excavation.—Correspondent of Ayr Observer. A LOVE MARRIAGE.—Love marriages, even among princes, are happily not altogether out of date, as is very satisfactorily proved by the following extract of a letter from Frankfort, of the 27th ult., published by the Courrier Francais :—" We learn from au undoubted source, that the young Count Neipperg, son, by the first wife, of the late count, who was formerly Governor of Parma and Placentia, and afterwards married the widow of the Emperor Napoleon, is affianced to the Princess Mary, daughter of the King of Wurtemberg and the Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia, his wife, sister of the Emperor Nicholas. The young princess was so deeply enamoured of the handsome young hussar officer, that her health suffered severely from the opposition made to her union with a personage below her own rank. The king, her father, who loves his children with the most tender affection, soon yielded his consent ; but that of the Emperor Nicholas was not obtained without great difficulty, and was at last granted only at the entreaty of the Archduchess Maria Louisa. The count will be raised by the Emperor of Austria to the rank of prince, and, after his marriage, will reside at Louisburg; near Stuttgard. The princess will have a dower of 60,000 florins a year, coming chiefly from• the property .of her mother." THE YEAR 1810.—The Gazette de France contains the foilowing remarks on the various prophecies which are said to have been made relative to the year 1840:—" For a length of time the year 1840 has been looked upon, without any positive reason being assigned, as a critical period in modern history. This opinion haS prevailed for the last 50 years years from one end of Franc e t o th e o th er . W e have been told that the brother of Count Capo d'lstrias, the Governor of Greece, read an inscription on a tomb in the mosque of St. Sophia, in 1819, that the Turks would be driven from Constantinople in 1840. A person of eminence wrote recently from America, stating that the opinion of the im portance of the year 1810 was generally entertained, not only in America, but also in Asia. Ancient and modern history have furnished us with very singular facts, which may really be called popular presentiments, and we have ourselves seen a book, which was printed at the commence nient of the 17th century, in which the writer, Pavillon, amuses himself at th e expense o f t h ose w h o sought to attach importance to the year 1789. These rumours, however, respecting 1840 prove one remarkable fact, that people's minds are almost universally engaged in speculating upon it." EARTHQUAKES.—The lateit arrivals from the Mediterra nean state that Vesuvius is inwardly convulsed, and thick clouds of smoke cover the mountain top, the vapour of which is so very prejudicial to the vines in the immediate neigh bourhood, that the government has remitted the taxes of the growers. It is a remarkable fact that the eruptions of Ve suvius have, almost in every case, been preceded by alarming indications of the volcanic action in Perthshire. About a month ago, it will be recollected that some smart shocks were felt at Crieff and Cowrie. It now turns out that, al most immediately afterwards, Vesuvius became convulsed. It thus appears that there must be a chain of strata, of uni form sympathy, stretching from the Grampian and Ochil Hills to Italy. There is nothing in the history . of Scotland to show that earthq ua k es were pecul i ar to Perthshire previ ons to , the great earthquake at Lisbon ; but, since that time, they have been more or less common • and on the assump tion that a chain of electrical strata does exist in this direc tion, the conclusion might be drawn that " the foundations of ie earth," so to speak, were " rent," and thus, accord ing to Daubeny's hyp o th es i s, " water and atmospheric air" would thereafter find comparatively easy access " through the channels in the rocks," and, reaching the heat which is believed to " exist below a given point of the earth's surface," produce the volcanic action. From the borings which have been made in Perthshire, in search of coal, the strata have been proved to be highly charged with electricity, more es pecially in the valley of Struthearn ; and it has also been demonstrated that the heat there is not far from the earth's surface. Loch Earne; too, never freezes—a phenomenon exclusively applicable to that lake, as compared with others of equal dimensions in Scotland. Taking all these circum stances into account, we think they open up a very interest ing and inviting field for the farther investigation of physical science in connexion with volcanic phenomena, and we hope the attention of scientific gentlemen will be early directed to the subject.—Aberdeen Journal. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro left last week the seat of the MarqUis of Tweedale, for the Continent. CRIME IN YORKSHir.E.—The calendar for the next York shire assizes presents an unusual and melancholy aspect —a fa ther killed by his son, a wife by her husband, and a sister by a brother. There are now, with those out on bail, between seventy and eighty prisoners for trial, a' greater number, we believe, than was ever'known at this Season of the year. It is a fact worthy of particular remark, that Vincent, the chartist prisoner at Monmouth, was till Saturday last in utter ignorance of the fatal events at Newport, and was not even aware of Frost being in the same prison with him, until he saw the would-be-dictator on Sunday morning, in the chapel of theprison. Their exchange of glances was a study worthy of Lavater.—Monmouthshire Merlin. SPECTACLES OF No USE.—A. remarkable case occurred at Ruthin a few evenings back which clearly proves how man I may and does become the creature of habit. Two very re spectable gentlemen were, after the toils of the day, enjoying a glass together, when the subject turned on the mode of signing names, and one party bet the other glasses round that he could not sign his name legibly with his eyes closed. The bet was accepted, when the gentleman who was to place his autograph on paper (with closed eyes) very formally drew from his pocket a pair of silver spectacles, and having polished his pebbles with a silk handkerchief, placed them formally upon his nose, closed his eyes, and wrote his name, to the no small amusement of those who participated in the joke.— Chester Gazette. ST. LOUIS, OCT. 19.—There was a crowd of some hun dreds to witness the sacrifice of the gambling tables at the Court-house ; and all—excepting a few of the owners who were looking on and meanwhile' " grinning horribly with a . ghastly smile,"—seemed to be quite satisfied. The funeral pile was about six feet high—quite a monument of iniquity. One of the banks had six dollars in specie left in its vaults ; showing that, without drawing hard upon their customers arid producing a pressure in the money market, it could not have held out long at any rate. We hope the gamblers will not fire the town, in revenge for the fiery ordeal which their property has passed through. At any rate, our officers and the, city watch cannot be too vigilant. —American paper. SANDWICH ISLANDS.—We have received from a friend a copy of the Sandwich Islands Gazette, of April 6. It is dressed in mourning for the death on the 4th of the Princess Kinau, Governess of Oahu, in the 23d year of her age. She was the sister of the King, and daughter of the late King-Tamaha maha, and was married in 1827 to Kekunaoa. She succeeded 'to the authority of the late Queen Regent, Kaahumaner, on her death in 1832. She was three weeks previous to her death seized with the prevailingepidemic, the mumps, which terminated in a fever, which proved fatal. She has left a husband, three sons, and' a daughter, the latter only five months old. She was a woman of talents and spirit, and ap pears to have taken an important part in the administration of the government of the,lslands, besides having entire con troul of that of the Island of Oithu.—,-Boston Daily Adv. FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.--Serious apprehensions are enter tained by several persons here for the safety of her Majesty's ship Swift, Lieutenant Welsh, R.N., commander, which conveyed hence the Mexican mails of June 17, and was due October 21. It is to be hoped that, although she is a consi derable time behind the destined period for the completion of her voyage, she may still be safe, • and will soon be forth coming. To meet any exigency she might be put to by short ness of provisions, &c., on arrival in the channel, the Star packet was despatched yesterday, on the wind becoming northerly. THE MARYLEBONE DEBT.—The worthy radicals, domi nant in this borough, seem to be in a sad quandary regarding their present liabilities. What with jobbing and squabbling, and experimentalising about the eternal repayment of Ox ford-street, unseemly litigatiOn with the clergy, and dissent among thy parochial doctors—not to speak of the creation of new offices under the very clever registration anomalies of the whig administration, the parish will be in debt about Christmas to the amount of nearly £30,000 ! Of course, this includes the county and the police rates, and also the yearly payMent of - Xl2OO on money borrowed at five per cent. interest from the bankers, Messrs. Claude, Scott, and Co. ! It will be curious to observe how so serious a matter will be managed. The radical executive must " get money, honestly if they can," but they must get money.—Morning Herald. We have late accounts from Ceylon. The repair of the immense Bawaly tank, near Pomarrippo, was matter of much conversation. This tank—the Herculean labour of former ages—is one of the very curious remains scattered through Ceylon, which prove that a numerous population, whose energies were directed by considerable skill, once in habited parts of the island, and cultivated fruitful fields, where nothing is now to be seen but impenetrable jungles, infested by wild beasts. Some idea of the immense extent of this tank may be formed, when it is stated that it would require about 2000 labourers e to cultivate the land which this tank, if repaired, would irrigate. There were many other tanks through the island, of greater extent than this, all of which, equally with the ruins of cities, attest the former greatness of the place. " THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE."— On Monday last one of the modern specimens of the people's choice, a Town Councillor, was creating a shameful disturbance in our streets, by a too liberal indulgence in some of those elegan cies of mind for which he rs more celebrated, than for the courteousness of his manners, without any notice being taken of his conduct by the police, who were within 50 yards of him. Being one of the body . corporate, and a pet of the gentleman who is the imperium in imperio of that most august body, he was, of course, allowed that enjoyment of ruffianism ; but had he not been a radical councillor and a publican, we will stake our existence he would have been billeted for the night in Saddler's Wells, and next morning been called upon to show cause, if any he could, why he should not contribute towards that panacea for all local grievances —the Borough Fund.—" Verily this is the age of the Pharisees."—Stockport Advertiser. EXPLORING EXPEDITION.—We understand that the ex ploring expedition. went as far south as, lat. 70 and some minutes. Large masses of ice were seen in every direction ; and as the winter was coming on, it was not deemed prudent. to proceed further at that time. A plenty of right whales were seen in the high latitudes. Returning to Valparaiso and Callao, the expedition refitted, and then proceeded to th e Sandwich Islands, and were to spend the (southern) w i n t er in exploring among th e Pacific islands and shoals. On the return of spring, say about this time, they Were expecting to go south again, intending to gain as hi g h a s o u th l a tit u d e as the state of the ice would permit. Returning from this cruise, in the autumn (next spring they would visit the Columbia river, Oregon Territory, and th e ne i g hb our i ng coast and islands, after which they would return to the United States by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. They cannot be expected home much sooner than two years from the present date.—N. I. Journal of Commerce. A FAIR EXCHANGE.—It is, we believe, a settled thing amongst the whigs in this quarter, that Mr. Gibson-Craig, who will of course be turned out of the county at the first election, is to be put up in the place of Sir John Campbell, as a candidate for the representation of this city, in the event of the Attorney-General's going to Ireland or the House of Lords. Mr. Duncan M`Laren has been throwing " sheep's eyes" at the representation of this metropolis ; but we doubt whether he will be able to overtake Boots junior, un less he can contrive to assume a pair of seven-leagued trotters for the occasion ! The rallying cry amongst the supporters of the voluntary volunteer—the phrase is not tautological— is the homely assertion that he is " one of ourselves." We remember when that expression was scouted with derision ; but times have changed, and the whig-radicalshave changed with them.—Edinburgh Evening Post. GLASGOW AND AYRSHIRE RAILWAY.—It is truly grati fying to find that .the highest anticipations formed of the success of this railway, promise to he fully realized, as a traffic on the limited portiOn of the line already opened is being created, far more extensive than the most sanguine could have expected. Indeed, this undertaking affords a more than ordinary illustration of the fact, that facility of -communication secures trafic for itself. Before the line was opened to Irvine, the intercourse between these places was so very limited, that public accommodation did not demand more than a one horse coach, thrice a week. Now, how ever, that railway coaches run to and from Irvine thrice a • day, and there is a coach stationed at Irvine to carry for ward passengers to Glasgow, this route has become quite a thoroughfare. And well do the shareholders of the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway merit so flattering a prospect of the success of a- speculation fraught with such unspeakable ad vantages to the west of Scotland. The recent return of the number of passengers that have travelled from Ayr to Ir vine, during the three months ending the sth current, (36,832) must . give thent great confid e n ce , th a t w h en t h e entire line to Glasgow is opened, the traffic upon it will greatly exceed the estimate laid before parliament. Indeed, we believe that the parliamentary proof went no farther than to warrant the annual traffic in passengers of 32,000, 4,832 less than have already traveled in three months ! The line from Irvine to Kilwinning being, now on the eve of comple tion, will be opened in January next, when a large increase of traffic must necessarily follow, from the surrounding po pulous districts, including the towns of Dairy, Kilbirnie, Beith, Stevenston,, Saltcoats, Ardrossan, &c. The entire line to Glasgow, as Ts - now pretty well known, is expected to be opened in June, 1810.—Ayr Advertiser. MORE EXPLANATIONS.—It is impossible to tell what com plexion thV'Marrittis of Lansdowne's speech on national edu cation will come to at last—except, perhaps, that of the Ga berlunzie's coat, which was mended and patched until not a shred of the original was left. That he will himself attempt to botch it up any more, after the rap of the knuckles which Dr. Philpotts has (riven him in his last letter, is not very probable ; but he has a - smart apprentice in the person of Mr. Babington Macaulay, who has evidently taken the job in hand, and will turn it out " fit to be seen" if possible. There is no more mistaking his classical handywork than there is the unique cut of Hay's boots Voila ! There is rto supernatural-:being," said the -marquis (and printed it too), on whom your lords-hips can rely to allay the coming dangers To Ik. Philpotts' reproof of . the infidel tendency (he does not say intention) of this passage, the Chronicle is prompted to answer thus Lord Lansdowne never could have dreamt that by such language he was questioning the omnipotence of a God. -Every one who is versant with the poets and the - older Roman writers, knows that in - all diffi culties it is the constant , practice to introduce supernatural beings: Lord Lansdowne's expression had reference merely to the use of. the supernatural in works of the imaginaiion. It was only another way of saying, a certain cause must pro duce its natural effects." If these be not the words of Tho mas Babington, then be there two suns in one hemisphere— two Macaulays in London. And so, in saying that there was no supernatural being to whom a Christian state should look for help against coming danger, his lordship was merely giving his imagination the reins, and, in the ardour of a my thological reverie, galloping towards downright blasphemy without knowing it ! Meaning nothing more all the while than to express, in the language of " the poets and the older Roman writers," that " a certain cause must produce its na tural effects !" Very like a whale, by all that's palpable ! His lordship is certainly the GREAT OBSCURE, and deserves to have a Macaulay ever, by way of a " running commenta ry," at his heels.—Morning Herald. SIMPLICITY AND UNIFORM!TY.7One way to teach a stranger the English language is, first to teach him Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Saxon, and the fifty other languages from which it is derived ; for when once accomplished in all these the acquisition of plain English will be child's play to him. Mr. Rowland Hill, or those in authority over him, seem to have adopted some such plan in preparin g th e Post office clerks for the ease and uniformity of a un iversa l penny postage. Under the existing system there are about a dozen races of postage as regards distance, and which, as regards weight, are (after the first ounce) merely to be multiplied by the number of quarters of an ounce a letter w ill d raw d own. But this does not afford practice sufficiently severe to render the Post-office clerks ready enough reckoners for the penny scheme,- which was to save so much trouble, as well as ex pense ; and accordingly it will be seen, from the London Ga zette of Friday last, that they are to be put into a course of training under an intermediate system, a hundred times more complex than the old one, to p repare t h em f or the simplicity of the new one ! The " intermediate" exhibits no less than two hundred and seventy-two different charges for postage, (besides the original fourpence,) weight and distance being ingeniously combined in so many several ways ! This may seem so incredible (corning from the simplicity and uniformity school) that the reader is requested to take the London Ga zette, and, as an arithmetical diversion, make the computa tion for himself. Luckily this is not to last long, (at least they say so, for otherwise it would be necessary for Lord Lichfield to get• Mr. Babbage to make a calculating machine for the Post-office, as no mortal head could bear the burden above a year. As the means of testing the mental powers of the clerks, the intermediate system is certainly most efficient ; for the deuce is in it if a man who can work that cleverly will not be well qualified for a system, the business of which is as plain as selling bits of tobacco by the half-ounce.—M. Herald. The Princes Ernest and Albert of Saxe-Coburg have joined the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the King of the Bel gians, at Wiesbaden. According to a Vienna correspondent of the Temps, Prince Metternich designs Prince Esterhazy to be his successor. This would seem to confirm a paragraph to the effect of his excellency not returning to England, given a few days ago. Very early symptoms of winter have shown themselves in several parts of Europe. In Warsaw the streets and roofs of the houses had, on the 29th ult. been completely covered with snow for two days previously. In Dresden, on the 30th, the snow lay a foot deep. A correspondent of the Courier says—" Some idea may be formed of the unusual activity that has lately prevailed in the Woolwich Arsenal, from the fact, that a greater number of pieces of ordnance, chiefly brass, have been cast within the space of the l as t four months than during the whole period of the seven years previous to that time." The New York line-of-packet ship Philadelphia, Captain E. E. Morgan, arrived yesterday, at Portsmouth, from New York, having on board Joseph Bonaparte and suite. This is the third time that distinguished individual has crossed the Atlantic in the same ship, on each occasion making the worthy captain a handsome present for his good conduct : in the present instance a gold dessert service of 54 pieces.— Morning Herald of Monday. The lambs, we are happy to find, are looking (generally speaking) well, and should we have a drying wind from the eastward it will assist them much. In consequence of the keep being so good in the Marsh this year, the lambs went up in better order. Much depends on the weather between this and Christmas as to their fate.—Kentish Gazette. CRATSWORTH.—The workmen are now glazing the im mense conservatory at Chatsworth with a new description of glass, called patent flattened crown glass by means of which, in the ridge and furrow mode of roofing invented by Mr. Paxton, a great improvement may be made in the construc tion of hot-houses. This glass is so much thicker than the common crown glass, that it is in no danger of being broken by hail-stones, and the panes may be made 40 inches long at the same cost per foot as ordinary sized panes. • DISASTROUS FIRE IN LONDON.—On Tuesday morning, about half-past one o'clock, or a quarter to two, a destructive and calamitous fire occurred in Lombard-street, Fleet-street, on the premises of Mr. Slee, cabinet-maker. Several en gines were speedily on the spot, but great delay occurred in getting a supply of water. The firemen were standing un able to offer the least opposition to the flames, which were spreading with awful rapidity, and blazing on to the frontage of the printing establishment opposite. The firemen, under the direction of Mr. Braidwood, their superintendent, hoisted the hose of two engines through the premises. and by the energy used, after some anxiety, succeeded in preserving the building, after some trifling damage ; but in the premises where the fire commenced, damage was done to the extent of at least £l5OO. The escape of the inmates was truly mi raculous. One woman, who was but the week before con fined of twins, was awoke by the crackling of the flames, and the ceiling of the apartment, which was all on fire, falling on her bed. She had not time to dress herself, and every thing she had was destroyed, and, moreover, she, in consequence, is left wholly destitute. THAMES RIVER.—A HINT TO WATERWORKS COMPA NIES.—There is understood to be a plan in progress, devised by Mr. John Martin, the celebrated painter, for materially improving and beautifying the banks of the Thames from Vauxhall-bridge to some distance below the Tower, on the north side, and to Rotherhithe, or thereabouts, on the south side ; and this plan, if carried into effect, will give an oppor tunity for the construction of those public walks which are justly held to be so necessary to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the metropolis. The main purposes of the plan are to preserve the river from being polluted by the con tents of the sewers which are now discharged into it, and collect those contents for manure—a manure of the most valuable kind, but at present lost, and at the same time pro ductive of positive mischief. To effect this object, it has been recommended to construct two large sewers, one on each bank, which shall receive all the matters now emptied into the Thames, and convey them to receptacles below the city, whence they may be taken into boats, properly contriv ed to prevent the escape of offensive effluvia, and conveyed by canal or river to the country. This certainly, appears a better manner of getting rid of the subject matter than drink ing it. SURPRISING, IF PRACTICABLE.—If rumour be correct, the great steamers are to have rivals in big balloons, which are to be constructed for the express purpose of crossing the Atlantic. _The idea is magnificent ; we wish it may turn out practicable. In what manner the said balloons are said to be guided, seeing that it is a point which has never yet been achieved, is not stated. We presume that Mr. Green, to whom the execution of the scheme is to be entrusted, has had a " new light" on the subject, and now sees his way clearly to the solution of the aeronautic problem. It is tolerably certain that if the thing is practicable the balloons would beat the steamers and their boilers hollow ; by going straight, " as the crow flies," they must come to their journey's end very speedily. Brother Jonathan would be astonished at the descent of a covey of balloons on his shores. It would, after all, only be a contest between coal and gas ; and, barring the bursting of a balloon or a boiler, the notion seems flattering as well as feasible. Balloons would, of course, be more liable to be affected by the high winds. By all means let Mr. Green first make his balloons, and then let him seek for passengers, and if he find them they will be well worthy to belong to the Green family likewise.—Sunday Times. Tun MONMOUTH 0 UTDREA K.—lf an unfortunate Welsh man, an Irishman, or a Scot gets into a scrape, the English papers are seldom remiss in giving full credit to whatever country the unlucky wight happens to belong—a neglect of which observance may he taken as denoting that the offender is native horn, although this is never stated in the case of an Englishman. This sort of tact has been followed up in re gard to the late chartist outbreak in Monmouthshire, the credit of which is most generously handed over to old Cam bria, albeit Monmouthshire is an English country, as may be seen by a look into any Gazetteer, viz., " Monmouthshire, a count✓ of England, 24 miles long and 20 broad, containing 317,720 acres, divided into six hundreds and 120 parishes. Monmouthshire was formerly reckoned one 'of the counties of Wales. The borough of Monmouth is the capital, seated on the Minnow, which here joins the Wye. Over the former is a very ancient bridge and gateway, once a baCrier against the Welsh. The warlike Henry V., called Henry of Mon mouth, was born here." We do not go the length of saying that Welshmen were not concerned in the outrages, the fact of their participation in the same being notorious enough, but these were borderers, who, from their proximity to the Eng lish pale, became an easy prey to the factious demagogues and traitorous Russell magistracy. Welshmen, properly so called, abhor the chartist treason, being sound to the core ; and they are now, as in times past, ready to vindicate their loyalty, and also to maintain order against all disturbers.—North Wales Chronicle. TEETOTAL MIRACLE.--Last week an acquaintance meet ing another accidentatly, asked him how he was. "Very well," was the reply. " I heard," said the other, " you were nearly blind." "So I was," he replied, " and deaf too." "And how did you get cured?" " Why," replied the teetotaller, " I drank so much that I could not see anybody except mine host ; and particularly, I never could see my creditors, nor could I hear what they said • but since I turned teetotaller, I have paid the greater part of them, and 1 can now see and hear very well! " TRIBUTE SUNDAY.—The pay day is at hand—the tribute is ail but due, and on Sunday, the Bth December, the box is to be sent round. Woe be to the man who on that day enters a chapel without his penny. The most pitifulappeals are made in some of the Dublin papers, and no excuse will be received. The collection it seems; turned out indifferently last year; the people were unwilling, and the mendicant was unpaid. Be sides, conservatives were vigilant ; boroughs were at a dis count, and there were few Raphaels to be plucked.—Cork Constitution. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, while a man named Rice, who held some employment in the Zoological Gardens, Dublin, was tying up two large bears for the night in their dens, a little dog ran in, and was immediately seized by one of the animals. The unfortunate man in attempting to rescue the dog, was laid hold of by the two bears, and be fore assistance could be procured, he was almost torn in pieces, —when he was rescued, he was immediately conveyed to Ma dame Stevens's Hospital, where every assistance was promptly rendered to the sufferer.—We have heard that the unfortunate man has since died ; but we cannot vouch for the truth of this statement.—Dublin Pilot. The Rev. J. Campbell, M. A. has been appointed, under the sanction of the bishop, a missionary chaplain among the navigators employed on the Bristol and Exeter railway. The directors of the railway company, and the Pastoral Aid So ciety have contributed very liberally towards his support. It is hoped that much good will be thus effected amongst this ig norant class of men, and that the same well-judged efforts to reclaim them from their present heathen state will be made in other parts of the kingdom. The men have received the reverend gentleman in the most cordial manner, and have listened to his instructions with the greatest attention. DREADFUL SUICIDE.—An extraordinary instance of self destruction by a female occurred on Monday at Little Stret ton, in this county. Miss Mary Arm Bridgman, a remarka bly beautiful young woipan, twenty-two years of age, the daughter of a highly respectable widow residing in that vil lage, had been for some time in rather a delicate state of health, but not so much so as to cause any alarm ; she had been attended by a most respectable medical man residing at Stretton, who had prescribed for her, and she was much bet ter. On the morning of that day the young lady's mother was superintending a brewing at her house, when she observed Miss Bridgman writing on the back of a letter and tearing it up and throwing it in the fire ; this did not excite any sus picion, but about nine o'clock in the morning she came into the house, and not seeing her daughter there, her attention was drawn to a scrap of paper, on which was written—" Fare well for ever." She immediately went to look for her in the garden, where she was horror struck at finding her daughter in a reclining position, with a gun, which had been. dis charged, in her hand, and a pool of blood near her : she was quite dead. It appeared she had taken off her right boot for the greater facility of discharging the gun, the muzzle of which she had placed just above her right ear, and the charge of shot had passed quite through her head, making an orifice of the size of the muzzle of the gun on each aide of the head. No cause can be assigned for the dreadful act, other than that which the coroner's jury, after patiently investigating the case, found by their verdict of " temporary insanity."— Salopian Journal. FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—We are truly happy in having it in our power to announce the arrival here this morning of her Majesty's packet Swift, Lieut. Welch, from Mexico, as most parties, particularly those connected with her, had begun to have serious apprehensions for her safety, she hav ing been due upwards of a month; her chief detention oc curred between Tampico and the Havannah, from a preva lence of easterly winds at the time prevailing. She left Vera Cruz on the 17th September, Tampico 23d, and the Havan nah on the 20th October, bringing on freight £138,340 in dollars and other specie, and left at Vera Cruz her Majesty's ships Cleopatra and Rover. The packet lost one man at the Havannah from fever, where, from its continuance, with but slight abatement, it was still causing considerable alarm. No political news has reached by this conveyance, her dates being antecedent to those which have already arrived. Her Majesty's packet Express, Lieut. Croke, had passed the Havannah for Vera Cruz prior to the 20th October. CHESTER DIOCESAN TRAINING COLLEGE.--We would direct•the attention of our readers to an advertisement in our columns which announces the opening of the Chester Diocesan Training College, and intimates the terms on which young men may be admitted to the benefits of the institution, and be formed for the important duties of school masters. Whether we regard the welfare of society in general, or the interests of our own city, we cannot but rejoice in the above announcement. An improvement in the stindard of our school teachers, is the surest way of raising the standard, both moral and intellectual, of the people at large ; and an institution which is raised for this purpose is calculated to convey a very large measure of advantage to every part of the diocese. The city where the establishment is situated must, of course, derive great advantage from it. An easy access will be offered to any young men among us who may be desirous of devoting themselves to the good of their fellow creatures. Intelligence will be communicated most im mediately to those who in position are the nearest ; and whether a school affording instruction in those branches of science, which are of most easy and generalappepolipclaeticoann,- becoming part of the plan or not, our young hardly fail of drawing improvement from the opportunities • which will be thus brought within their reach. The introduc tion of a large family of consumers is a matter of less con sideration, though -it is not to be overlooked ; but the attachment that may be formed to the place, the feelings that may bind many useful individuals to the city, where they received that education which led them into situations of usefulness and distincion, may be more extensively beneficial than we are at first disposed to think. —Cheater Gazette. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The active demand for goods and yarn which prevailed here last week has died away, with the excitement at the time existing in the cotton-market at Liverpool ; and both markets have returned to the state of apathy and sluggishness which preceded the late specula tions. The business done in yarn was very limited ; but the advance obtained, at that time, on certain counts and de scriptions suitable to the East India and Mediterranean markets, has been pretty generally supported. Of manufac tured goods generally, and especially of printing cloths, we cannot report quite so favourably : the limited business done has been at lower rates—indeed, in many cases, at the lowest rates previously paid. Two failures have been announced of spinning and manufacturing firms in the country ; but they are not to any serious extent. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY.—The flannel market has been dull and heavy to-day, and the business done has been limited. The manufacturers complain, and not without cause, of the low prices offered for their goods. In the wool market there is little change to report ; the prices are about the same as last week's. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.--The Fame dulness and inactivity prevailed to-day as for many weeks past. Buyers were rather more numerous, but the prices given were ruinously low. Plain woollens were niost in request. The demand for fancy goods was trifling. Wools remained pretty firm ; in fact, prices are so low that there is no room for abatement. Scarcely anything is doing in the ware houses; and the retail trade is miserable. SHREWSBURY, TUESDAY.—The quantity of flannels was not large, but we have to report that all, save one lot, were sold ; and when we refer to the state of the money market— the great consequent depression in all descriptions of trade— and particularly to the miserable state of the markets held at Newtown and Llanidloes for the sale of flannels (at the latter place, not a piece, we believe, was sold at their last market), we think it affords good grounds for believing that this will prove a central situation, and will ultimately com mand the attention of all extensive purchasers. Coarse goods (of which any quantity might have been sold) were scarce ; and we understand the Llanidloes manufacturers have determined not to take their goods to Newtown. BLACKBURN.—We have no variation to notice in the state of trade since our last, except that it has lost a little of the buoyancy which marked its movements in the early part of last week; and neither seller nor buyer are in high spirits as to the remainder of the year. FEARGUS O'CONNOR AT DARRYNANE. Will any of our Kerry friends inform us what Feargus, the great chartist leader, has been doing at Darrynane Abbey, where, we are confidently assured, he has been located for the last three weeks, on terms of the strictest intimacy with his old traducer, O'Connell ? It is no ordinary affair, surely, that could, have brought together two such noted and " war to-the-knife" antagonists as the above-mentioned brace of public impostors, at a moment like the present. Mr. O'Con nell, it is very well known, has been long denouncing the British chartists as actual rebels—fellows who ought to have been long since consigned to the tender mercies of the jailor or executioner, for their manifest treason against the Queen's government ; Feargus, on the other hand, has been reprobat ing with no less vehemence the scheme and rogueries of Daniel ; yet now we find them, if report speaks truly, in secret conclave, and like the two kings of Brentford, smel ling at the same rose, and, what is stranger still, supping at the same table ! There are but two modes of solving this mystery. Either the repealer has made up his mind to avail himself of O'Connor's physical service in promoting his scheme for dismembering the empire, or the chartist hero, with equally honourable views, has secured O'Connell's moral influence with ministers to stave off the consequences of a criminal prosecution for sedition. On either hypothe sis, the morale of the transaction is perfectly and truly Irish. Two facts following on each other's heels may, perhaps, serve to throw some light on this as yet inexplicable mystery. Mr. Feargus O'Connor, though convicted on a charge of libel some three months since, has not yet been brought up to receive judgment before her Majesty's justices in West minster-hall, while Mr. O'Connell's recent announcement of his intention to raise an army of 500,000 men (all of the fighting age) would lead one to suspect that a second in command, of Feargus's known intrepidity, would be an inva luable auxiliary in the cause of Irish loyalty ! Let but the 500,000 fighting men be once marshalled under the actual leadership of Feargus and our lives for it, Repeal of the Union will'no longer be necessary ; certain it ►s, that the imperial parliament will be spared the trouble of giving itself any trouble in the business. Feargus and the Irish pikes will accomplish all. Meanwhile, we are not disposed to overlook the calculation of chances implied in the other con jecture. That the chartist leader would sacrifice a whole hecatomb of human victims to save his own neck, we are thoroughly persuaded ; and it is no less our conviction that the repeal mendicant would immolate the Queen, with all her family, if he were only tempted by an adequate consi deration in ready money. At all events, Feargus O'Connor, at Darrynane Abbey, at this particular crisis, is certainly no joke. This, surely, is evidence of a " compact alliance" extraordinary ; but, doubtless, her Majesty's English Attor ney-General will be at no loss to account for his forbearance towards Feargus at the opening of the next session. We sincerely hope that some conservative member will afford the right hon. functionary an early opportunity of ex plaining his conduct before the assembled representatives of the nation.—Dublin Packet. Amongst the few English of note in Paris is the Marchion ess of Westmeath. This lady, who has figured more in the newspapers perhaps than any female of the present• century, is now living in the most retired way in the Champs Elysecs, with no other establishment than a lady's maid. \~' ~~ MISCELLANEOUS. April is said to be the month fixed on for the Queen's mar riage. The Ayrshire Examiner, a coarse radical print published in Kilmarnock, has been discontinued for want of support. Troops have been finally withdrawn this month from the following places : Sligo, New Ross, Belturbet, Omagh, Portumna, Newtownbarry, and Castlecomer. Limerick Chronicle. We have advices from Si. Petersburgh to the 9th instant. The Neva was covered with ice, the communications with Cronstadt were interrupted, and the navigation was consi dered as finished for the season. A very superb bracelet is being prepared by Messrs. Storr and Mortimer, jewellers to her Majesty, as a setting for the miniature, painted by Mr. W. C. Ross, A. R. A., of his Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg. CURIOUS FACT.—Americans are known in the Turkish language by the name of Yanki Doonaih, which means " The New World." This certainly is as near to Yankee Doodle as could have been executed.—New York Signal. THE VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE.-A prisoner came to the House of Correction at Battle, Sussex, a short time ago, not in the custody of any constable, but with his own commit ment in his hand, like a certificate of admission to a hos pital. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS ROMER , ni s, And the last night of the engagement of MR. TV' TON, Mr. G. STANSBURY and Miss ROMER. 1 ., THIS present FRIDAY, November 29, 1839, will b e P e g formed, with all the original Music, Bellini's Opera LA SONNAMBULA. • Amina Miss Romer. - Elvina. • (As originally performed by him in London.) ~ Count Rodolph Mr. G. Horncastle. Alessio Liza To conclude with the Opera of THE LOVE SPELL. is Being the English version of Donizetti's celebrated Com Opera of L'ELIsIR D'AMORE. Adina Nemorino Mr. Templeton Doctor Dulcamara Mr. G. Stansbury As originally performed by them in London. Sergeant Belcore.... Gianetta Miss Grant. da/ ERRATUM.—In one of our leading articles of last Til"" o for " under the care of the English clergyman' i n, Drung," read " under the care of the English clergYi n Mr. Drury." kitirrpool ct,tanbarD. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1839• We believe our readers ma y re ly u p on the autu u e city of the following little narrative respecting t i , Queen's demeanour at the Privy Council on Satu r t' We have been infor m ed th a t, i n r ea di ng to her a sse- : bled Councillors the important an d d e li c ate annut ill . ce e j ment of her intended alliance, her Majesty exb ibit as h as so or nearly all, that perfect self-c om posure whic h a , so remarkably distinguished her on every public oc , c es sion. Her Majesty then received the congratul ai ' ° i , of the Privy Council, and we are told that the ob 'sance of the Duke of Wellington was particular; marked and cordial. The Marquis of Lansdow ne 4i President of the Council, congratulated her MaJe-tea upon the auspicious tidings, and formally requ es her Royal permission to communicate the joyful Deb to her people. Felices ter et amplius • Quos irrupts tenet copula,— and there cannot be one misgiving thought inte ril ' i 'p with the heartfelt good wishes of Queen Vic t ° r.i s s loyal and sympathizing subjects. May the baPl' in l y bestowed on her be commensurate with the dig n i l er conferred on him ! May length of days be in right hand, and in her left hand riches and hen °ll „ f i e r may all her ways be ways of pleasantness, and a il paths be peace ! fo g Our readers will have observed that the mo lie- 01 assemblage who crowded the gates of Buoki n g ,„ s, Palace did not allow their honest feelings towardsed in Queen's sordid and selfish Ministers to be merg their natural interest for herself. Go where theY these hated men, the universal voice of public le i . , nation follows them. No, not even the Royal I\4 tials will postpone for them the fatal day. h t re Thank God in the midst of much to disquiet' there Thank God! in the midst of much to disqUlet e is much also to comfort and inspire with hop e ' +he at emissaries of Rome are active, and some among st ' o f fancy that they descry auxiliaries in the very bosoolh); our Establishment (let Oxford answer this rePr o3 , l but who, that looks round and sees the Pr °digi o or efforts which have been made and are making I)) iiti " Scriptural Church, and considers the intense - bet s which now animates and invigorates all the In eln en t of her vast and increasing body, can for a r0° 113 0 ,.' doubt the issue of the contest ? Compare the ° a g ile . tion and torpor of the Church of England at the a nd ginning of this century with her present attitu de f o r i c position, and say if there be not abundant ca use re. exultation and hope in the fact of so glorious a Cil ' t re' The strong man risen from sleep, and the g iav or, freshed with wine, are but faint images of her P ° o l now that she has put on her armour for the figh't's.bile shaken off that Dalilah of sloth which' or_ 3 seemed to have paralysed her energies. tv earr But it would he a gross misconception of Or ~ i or e ing if we for one moment were supposed to ce,"atch. jealousy of Papal usurpation, or an attitude o f 1/ Al e fulness in defence of the Church of Engla nd a' should be unworthy of the blessings of the R e a s d' tion if, through supineness and neglect, "' e 1 , 13 1; fered the enemy to get possession of our c itaec r di we have no words strong enough to e xpress 00 w ile' gust at the conduct of those who, by their aCt 9 ' to t he ther of omission or commission, show palpahlYe t her world that they either encour ag e Popery hec ans till prefer the doctrines of that faith, while they al and main nominally Protestant, or truckle to it ' al it o° they hope thereby to further their own teuiP°r miserably selfish ends. It is in this latter light that we regard the ° t or of any allusion to the Protestant cause in the ° ric o 0 0 nication made by her Majesty to the Privy Cn u ce je ot Saturday. Mi n i sters cop i e d serv il e ly the r re ut set them by G eorge 111. i n every particularb which just now would have given the liveliest;ahot tion to this Protestant Empire. The Queen, a 0011 to ally herself in marria g e to the scion 01 t t ole eminently Protestant in lineage and descent lake tt when the Melbourne Ministry assent an d . _ re is as matter of reproach against the nation that theivbether undue horror of Popery abroad, and w hich, o v eil founded on error or not, they admit to e xist i tito irab le remarkable degree. Here there was a n a le e%ll . opportunity for quieting these fears — a s i S, )i e ; dient for allaying that apprehension wh ich et hati' v w p bourne Cabinet thinks so unjustifiable , and 3 ' etv to be so wide-spread.. Copy the precedent "1.0600 and fairly to the end and the Protestant 1 4 41 tile r e will . hail the announcement with joy. But are the Roman Catholics, and O'Connellthere AY , het' twenty votes in the House of Commons. " etc he ' Yr for the rub !" So rather, than give umbrage tot Feu d on which these despicable Ministe rs de the esPeto pay and office, they choose to disappoint I:ogi3n • tions and brave the disgust of the people of is -2- - - - - Ministers have, at last, found a Solicitor-Gen ~iir'• the person of Serjeant Wilde. Before the lateotioe tor-General was appointed, and Sir Robert :\I ri lei , Rolfe rose into sudden notice from a mongs t ti e lle pr °' of the unknown, the office was' hawked about t l oos e fession, and refused by more than one barriste.f a 0 0 0 position by no means justified the offer, uotllvitii was found willing to connect himself o fficiallY 1 a sor e discreditable a set. Things must have been 3 \Viee pinch H before the Cabinet pitched on Sedenivio" itherto—from what cause we shall not dete r , 3 par titularly that learned gentleman has not been conshlerea s w e' not of that opinion themselves once, it eligible person for office. If Minister , ie' t fer ,, 't is I l ho t hel Solicitor-General before this. conceivable s that they should not have mad e , ~,ali6 ; 'or to i 0 cations are beyond all comparison s uperi ceu .Olos • Sir Robert Rolfe, and we may therefore be ..• stood 1° suspect that something* of a different natiir e 0 ,12 t ° ~ ri 0 I t i , the way of his advancement. But we eat ~ tv 1) 0 ( or , ~, be more explicit. Hungry dogs will ich p hieq e dings ; and what can a Ministry do upon w i L ijit y of t il nine hUndredths of the talent and respeeta"? - We r ir Bar turn their backs ? But is Newark saf e ' ~t t 'el . ,: His intellectuat,hiose 0, rted ty 4 10 , ther think not ; and it is currently re rl' tO O jeant Wilde has, as the price of this atteTePthe Pi'. part to strengthen (?) the Government ira_ a t sa warl' . ' lowing bargain with Ministers :—lf heatell _ ,. ' t, be is : I, and, consequently, thrown out of parlianleu,...ch 15 t P . . be recoinpenced with a Peerage forthwith. 1.1,0,1,--f's t he P ha il on dit at present. But Mr. Thessiger is in the 0' stout Conservative and most able lawyer'. da y POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK !! ! rs i t to .1., {R. COLLES respectfully announces that his 1 ! the 1 Liverpool will positively terminate on S a turdal t v 7th of December next, until which day he will o} ',' o f FOR EXHIBITION and SALE, his r emaining St°c' MAGICAL DANCING FIGURES ! CHANGEABLE CARDS, MAGICAL DISSOLVING BALLS/ MAGIC CIGAR CASES, ted With 250 other curious and amusing NOVELTIES, e.- 817 for affording Amusement during the HolydaYs• t he ADMISSION.—HaIf-a-crown, which will be allowed io p. purchase of any article amounting to Five Shillings O f wards.—Children, ls. Hours of Business from Eleven Four each Day. dig C - 1 - Mr. C. being about to resign his business into ow- i hands, peculiar advantages will be held out to those vvh° lll6 wish to make purchases during the remainder of his 01 03 , OBSERVE that Mr. COLLES has removed to l e DAWES', Carver and Gilder, 126, Bold-street, (taithinth' doors of Berry.street.) 4'o " LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION: v 4y THE EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL A.CARY6P, of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS :4 1 OPEN, at the GALLERY, Church-street, from It o'clock in the Morning, till dusk. Admission, One hIL I P,;' Catalogues, One Shilling. Season Tickets, Five Shillifr It is also open in the Evenings, from Seven o'cloelcc-, Ten, brilliantly illuminated with Gas. Admission , -" Shilling. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Medal'