The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S APPROACHING NUPTIALS. (From the Morning Herald.) We give the following precisely as we received it, last night, from an occasional correspondent : WINDSOR S UNDAY EVENlNG.—Notwithstanding the strong assertions which have been made to the coutrary, it is not only currently rumoured here, but positively stated in those circles which ought to be well-informed on the subject, that at the privy council, which will be held at the castle to morrow, parliament will be prorogued to an early day before Christmas, " then to sit for the despatch of business, when the intended alliance of her Majesty with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg will be officially announced to the legislature. It would be idle to speculate upon the probable time when this event will take place ; although we may state it is ru moured that it will occur in the month of March, or early in April next. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (Prom the Oxford Herald.) On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred : BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Thomas Byrth, Magdalen Hall. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Marcus Richard Southwell, Exeter College, grand compounder. Horace Lewis Knight-Bruce, Christi Church. Robert Alexander, Christ Church. John Robert Cornish, Student of Christ Church. William Charles Fynes Webber, Student of Christ Church. William Goodenough Penny, Student of Christ Church. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Jacob Youde William Hinde, Wadham College. George Townsend Driffield, B.A. of Brasenose College, has been appointed one of Hulme's Exhibitioners. On the Bth instant, the Rev. George John Majendie, B.D. Fellow of Magdalen College, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Heddington, Wilts, void by the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Money ; patrons, Thomas Duboulay, Esq. and others. The Rev. Robinson Elsdale, D.D. of Corpus Christi Col lege, High Master of the Manchester Free Grammar School, has resigned that office on account of indisposition. The Rev. Richard 4,wome Pinniger, M.A. of Pembroke College, has been instiMd by the Lord Bishop of Worces ter to the Rectory of Whichford, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Turberville, M.A. of Trinity College; patron, Earl Beauchamp. The Rev. Edward Acton Davies, M.A. of St. John's College, has been appointed,,to the Curacy of Martley, Wor cestershire, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. G. L. Fox ton to the Vicarage of St. Peter, Worcester. I The Lord Bishop of Hereford has presented the Rev. Peter Gramer Blencowe, M.A. formerly Fellow of Wadham Col lege, to the RecOry of Putley, Herefordshire, vacant by the , k cession of the Rev. dward Bulmer. The Rev. Charl Atmore Ogilvie, M.A. late Fellow of Balliol College, and o e of the Chaplains to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been presented to the Rectory of Ross, Herefordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Underwood. PROMOTIONS. Rev. James Hooper, M.A., Rector of King Weston, So merset, and Chaplain to Lord Wynford, to the Rectory of East Lydford, in the said county : patroness, Mrs. Rhoda Harbin. Rev. Mr. Gibson, son-in-law of the Lord Bishop of Win chester, to the Rectory of Fawley with Exbury, Hants, va cant by the death of the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Wal singham : patron, the Bishop of Winchester. Rev. Thomas Moulden Sherwood, 8.A., of Downing Col lege, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Oxenhall, Gloucester shire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. John Morse : patron the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. On the Ist instant, by a Dispensation from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of St. David's was pleased to license the Rev. William Thomas, Rector of Kilybebyll, Glamorganshire, to the Incumbency of the ad joining parish of Llanguick : patrons, Henry and Francis Edwardes Leach, Esqrs. Rev. Mr. Garton, of Milbrook, to the Chaplaincy of the Stirling Castle Convict Ship. Rev. Mr. Otter to the Vicarage of Cowfold, Sussex, va cant by the death of the Rev. Richard Constable : patron, the Bishop of Chichester. Rev. J. Ruse to the Rectory of Monk, Okchampton, va cant by the death of the Rev. H. Northcote : patron, Sir S. Northcote, Bart. Rev. R. A. Roberts to the Rectory of Kentisbeare, Devon, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Dr. Tripp : patron, the Earl of Egremont, Rev. G. Crompton to the Perpetual Curacy of Carlton-in- Snaith, Yorkshire. Rev. Josiah James, M.A., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of Dore Abbey, Herefordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Duncumb. Rev. Mr. Lister, M.A., to the Vicarage of Bushbury, Staf fordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Clare. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Robert M`Neil to the church and parish of Stonykirk, in the pres bytery of Stranraer and shire of Wigton, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Anderson. Rev. James O'Hara, Perpetual Curate of Daviecrick, An trim, to the Ministry of the District of Carrowdore. Rev. James M`Farlane, of Paisley, to be the Minister of the first Scottish Colony in New Zealand. ANOTHER SUICIDE AT THE MONUMENT. (From the Times of Saturday) Yesterday afternoon, at a quarter past five o'clock, the in habitants of Fish-street-hill were again thrown into great consternation in consequence of another suicide of a youth from the top of the monument. About the above hour, a boy ran to police constable Dogherty, 52, who was on duty in Gracechurch-street, and informed him that a lad had thrown himself off the monument. The officer instantly ran to the spot, and found the body of the lad about twelve feet outside the railing directly opposite the door at which visitors ,n4•n. Ar. a ;in invanvirina,,Sb nt ter. flts. Mill .be subsequent inquiries of Jenkins, (the door keeper) it was as certained that the deceased went up about half past four o'clock. Although the back patt of the head was completely beaten in, and both legs broken, the one at the socket of the thigh, and the other about the middle, not a single feature of the face was the least distorted. Clarke, the officer of the London-bridge Wharf, states that he has seen the deceased about the wharf for several months past, that be seemed a very quiet and peaceable lad, and that he (Clarke) had often conversed with him, but did not know either his name or address. The deceased was dressed in a snuff-coloured round jacket with gilt buttons, brown checked Valentia vest, and black trowsers, with course linen shirt, black silk stock with long ends, and Blucher boots. He is supposed to be about 18 or 19 years of age. The news of this melancholy occurrence quickly spread, and in the course of a few minutes several hundred persons had assembled round the spot, where the greatest exertions were required on the part of the police to preserve order. Up to half past 7 o'clock the name of the deceased had not been discovered. FURTIIF.R PARTICULARS. . - - It was at length found however, that the name of the de ceased was Richard Donaldson Hawes, and that he is the son of a widow, who is a laundress, residing near Chelsea. At the time of his committing the melancholy deed, there were two females on the monument with him, and a Bible was found with the leaves turned down at various passages refer ring to the rash and foolish act of self-destruction. It has also been discovered, that the father of the unfortunate youth destroyed himself by casting himself fro m an e l eva ti on . The body of the deceased was identified by a schoolfellow, and the Secretary of the St. Anne's School, at Brixton, to which school the deceased belonged. Mr. Croft, surgeon, of Monument yard, has inspected the body, and has discovered, that in addition to the in juries before stated the spine of the back was broken in two places. The policeman, who arrived first on the spot, states, that there was not the least sign of life, not even a muscle moving. The stones seemed to have indented the skull without causing any effusion of blood ; but upon lifting him the blood flowed copiously from his head. Information of the circumstance having been conveyed to Mr: Payne, the city coroner, he has issued a warrant, and will hold an inquest on the body at 4 o'clock this day (Saturday.) Up to a late hour last night the crowd of persons round the Monument was very great, and the greatest excitement pre vailed in the neighbourhood. THE INQUEST. (From the Morning Herald of Yesterday) It being known that the inquest would be held on Saturday afternoon on the body of the deceased, long before the hour appointed the room at the Swan Tavern, in Fish-street-hill, in which the inquiry took place, was most densely and incon veniently crowded. At four o'clock Mr. Payne, the city co roner, entered the room, when 19 of the p r i nc i pal inhabitants of the ward having been empanelled and sworn, the coroner and jury proceeded to the dead house to take a view of the remains of the unfortunate deceased, and on their return the following evidence was adduced. — Thomas Jenkins was the first witness examined. lie de posed as follows :—I am keeper of the Monument. On the afternoon of Friday last, about ten minutes after five o'clock, the deceased came in at the Monument at the same time as a respectably-dressed man and woman, whom he accompanied up to the top. A few minutes afterwards two young females, apparently from the country, came in and went up, and almost directly after them two other females, who also went up. The two latter soon came down, and when the man and woman did so I asked them how many persons were still up stairs, wishing to ascertain, it being near locking up time. They answered there were only two females and a young lad. About ten minutes afterwards I heard a noise as of something fall ing, and on going out I saw it was the deceased, who had fallen from the top. At that moment the two females came down, and without my asking said, " We have left only a lad up stairs ;" to which I replied, " Poor fellow, he is already down." The body was subsequently removed in a shell to the dead house, where the jury have this day viewed it. The Coroner —Has any steps been taken by the authori ties relative to the better security of the railings, with a view to the prevention of such cases, since the last melan choly occasion ? Witness—No, there has not been anything done as yet. Is that iron bar at the base of the monument on which Miss Moyes fell, and which was bent by the force of her fall, still in the same state as when the last inquest was held ?—Yes, it is. . . . And it has not yet been straightened ?—No, it has not. And itis not now shown as the iron on which that unfortu nate female fell, for the purpose of exciting curiosity ?—No, sir, decidedly not by me. The Coroner—l think something ought to have been done before this by the proper authorities, to prevent the recur rence of such cases as the present. Had the iron bar being immediately straightened, it would in .my opinion, have tended considerably to have allayed the curiosity which pre vails on the subject. Other evidence was then entered into. which went to prove that the deceased was of a very melancholy turn of mind — that he was very fond of reading accounts olk murders and suicides—and that he had on a previous occasion attempted to destroy himself by throwing himself through a window. It further appeared that his father had committed suicide in a fit of insanity. The Coroner, in addressing the jury strongly urged the necessity of taking effectual precautions against the recur rence of such accidents. The Jury eventually returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." It is to be hoped that the Corporate authorities of London will instantly act upon the recommendation of the Coroner, and guard the monument in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of such catastrophes in future. G' I -MEAT IMPORTANCE OE ANSWERING LETTERS EARLY. —The value of an early answe r t o any letter, where distress of mind or person is involved, cannot be too strongly insisted ern. A case has lately o ccurre d within my own ob servat i on. A person, in a dreadful pecuniary distress and strait, wrote to another of high rank, on whose kindness he had some claim. The latter had no hesitation as t o answering it favourably, but he delayed doing so for a week. When it arrived the intended recipient was dead. In utter depair at, as he supposed, his last earthly chance having failed, not having the strength of mind to endure conscientiously and relirriously, or the prudence to take for his mott o " nil deeperandum," h e h a d committed suicide! It cannot be doubted that the other must have felt much pain and self condemnation. P. ‘ -,N., MISCELLANEOUS. It is computed that there are now about 100,000 pledged tee-totallers in Scotland. The Legislature of Jamaica have voted £50,000 for the purpose of promoting the establishing of mulberry planta tions and the culture of silk in that island. The Bengal branch of the Assam Tea Association declares its confident belief that in a very few years England may be independant of China in the article tea. Sir E. Lytton Bulwer's play, about to be produced at the Haymarket Theatre under the superintendence of Mr. Mac ready, is called Norman, or the Birthright. W. Morgan, Esq., of Ackhill House, near Presteign, has sold his wheat to his work-people regularly at 9s. per bushel, and promises to continue the same till next harvest.— Wor cester Journal. We understand, from an indisputable source, that it is not the intention of the Marquess of Waterford to have a tour nament at Ford Castle in the ensuing year.—Limerick Standard. The vintage has been got in throughout the Moselle district. The weather has not been favourable, and the grapes, though rather abundant, are not expected to produce wine of as good a quality as usual. An address to the Queen is now in course of signature here, remonstrating against the late Roman Catholic appointments. We hope, and doubt not, that it will be very numerously signed.—Briyhton Gazette. The Duke of Somerset has served notices to quit upon all his tenants who voted for Mr Baldwin at the late Totnes elec tion. Many of these notices have been signed by the duke's own hand.—Exeter Gazette. It is said that the staff of the militia are about to be in spected, with a view to the discharge of such men as may be found inefficient; it being intended to re-organise this force in the early part of next year. It is said that the treasury have received from fifty to one hundred plans daily for carrying into effect Mr. Hill's project for an universal penny postage ; and that more than one thousand designs had been transmitted for inspection. • A coffee drinking match, as a Belgian paper states, took place among some females a few days ago for a wager, and it was decided in favour of one who beat her competitors by finishing the 17th cup of the strongest Mocha that could be made. WONDERFUL !—Mr. Hume, M. P., has desired his name to be put down for £2O towards any subscription that may be raised with the view of relieving the wants of the poor of Kilkenny during the winter. COINCIDENCE.—On a night that the elder Kean was to make his first appearance at the Park (America,) the theatre was burnt down. On a night that the younger Kean was to make his first appearance, after an illness, the National Theatre was burnt down. Early on Tuesday, a shepherd, in the employ of Mrs. Hoddinott, of Sherborne, allowed some of his flock to stray into a piece of standing barley, where they nipped the ears of the standing grain, which immediately produced such an ob struction of the vital organs, that 12 ewes were obliged to be killed. THE ROYAL GEORGE.—There is now residing at Morden College, Blackheath, the only surviving officer of the Royal George, which is now exciting so much attention from the efforts which are being made for the destruction of the vessel. Mr. Webb, the gentleman alluded to, is upwards of 80 years of age, but still in the enjoyment of perfect health and faculties.—Bristol Standard. HINTS ON HYACINTHS.—Those who would have healthy winter-flowering bulbs) of which the principal sorts are hyacinths, narcissus, crocus, the early dwarf tulip, and the jonquil), must place the glasses which contain them, for some time in darkness, either in a warm cellar, or, if in a room, by covering the glass with dark paper.—Magazine of Science. ORNAMENTAL BRICKS.—It is not generally known that all kinds of ornamental bricks may now be made without their being subject to more than double duty. This infor mation may conduce to the re-introduction of the ancient style of brick-work which contributed so much to the beauty of the architecture of Henry and Elizabeth. RAILROAD SPEED ON THE WATER.—A nautical gentle man is about to come forward with a new application of steam to purposes of navigation, by means of which, without paddles, or an external apparatus, he undertakes to carry vessels through the water as swiftly as carriages pass along railways on land. He calculates that his discovery will enable the voyagers to pass with ease from Dover to Calais in one hour. Lord Lyttleton, has, as we anticipated, been appointed Lord Lieutenant of this county, in the room of Lord Foley, and on terms most honourable to the well known high and independent principles of this young Whig nobleman, viz., that he remains unshackled in his votes not only upon parliamentary questions relative to our Church Establish ment, but upon political questions also.—Worcester Journal. It is contemplated in Switzerland to lower the level of the lakes of Neutchatel, Bienne, and Morat, by improvements in therivers Thielie and Aar. Should this project be realized, more than 50,000 acres of land will be gained, and the pe riodical innovations which desolate the cantons will be at an end. The project has existed for some years, but it has been resumed only within a short period. HOOKING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mr. Fi!gate, a shoemaker, at Egham, has upon three several occasions, while fishing in the Thames near the Weir, hooked a fine trout ; but each time the fish broke his tackle, carrying away his set of hooks. A short time since he was again angling in the same spot, when he a fourth time hooked the identical trout ; but more fortunately succeeded in landing it, when he found his three sets of hooks fixed to its jaws. The fish weighed upwards of seven pounds. POTATO CROP IN SCOTLAND.—WhiIe we hear from many quarters complaints regarding both the quantity and quality of the grain crops this season, it is gratifying to learn that the potato crop is everywhere abundant. During the last week many large fields of potatoes have been sold by coup in this neighbourhood, bringing from £l5 to £2O per acre ; and such.,,we.are.cxetliblv infointed, is the general produce, that, throughout the bygone year.—Caledonian Mercury. FREE EMIGRATION TO NEW SOUTH WALES.—A public notice has been issued front the Government Emigration office, stating that a vessel will be despatched at the end of the present month, in which a free passage will be given to labourers, mechanics, and domestic servants, who are desir ous of emigrating to New South Wales. The following re strictions are imposed :—That all persons must be married, but there will be no objection to children ; young married couples without children will be the first selected ; persons up to the age of 40 and 50 will not be objected to if they have a family of grown-up sons and daughters. " The union between the Greek schismatics (united Greeks) and the Greek church of the East," says the Fran conian Mercury, " has not been voluntary. Free will in Russia, particularly in matters of religion, is totally unknown. Two ukasses were issued as long ago as 1831, one dated the sth of July, and the other the 19th of October, interdicting the construction of new Catholic churches, while another de cree, dated the 19th day of July, 1832, appropriates one half of the Catholic churches in Poland to the Greek worship, and there is every reasoa to believe that this mea sure will now be greatly extended. It is expected that the Court of Rome will protest against this, and that Russian diplomacy will hardly be able to get over the difficulty." ANOTHER HARD-HEARTED TORY.—A few months ago it came to the knowledge of the Marquis of Bute that, from de pression of trade, a considerable number of the working classes and small tradesmen of Cardiff were in distress. A list of the persons suffering was promptly and silently ob tained by Lord Bute; after which, every Monday morning during the pressure, each of the individuals affect e d by it re ceived front an unknown quarter an envelope enclosing a half-sovereign. Such is the veneration in which his private virtues are held, that, at the late Celebration at Cardiff, num bers of the Merthyr radicals, who had bitterly de nounce d his lordship in the frenzy of 1832, attended to do him honour. On a gentleman expressing t o one of them his surprise at this change, he was answered, " Lord Bute is so good a man that our party can have no hostility to him : we admire him as an honour to our country."—Bristol Journal. DISAPPEARANCE OF Two YOUNG GENTLEMEN.—The family of the Rev. Mr. Machell, of Etton, near Beverley, has been thrown into the deepest distress by the sudden dis appearance of two of the reverend gentleman's sons, aged about nine and twelve years. They went out, as usual, on the morning of Friday week, to take recreation in the neigh bourhood of the house, but not returning, search was made for them that night, but without effect. In the morning the search was renewed through the country sixty miles round, pursuit being particularly directed towards a company of gipsies, who had left Etton about the sa me ti me as t h e young Machells were missed, but without effect. We have not yet heard of the return of the young gentlemen.--Hull Packet. THE REVIVALS AND THE PHESS.—We do not deny that there may have been improper or injudicious conduct in some instances, nc r do we wish to excuse night sermons, at least every night, and continued over until morning : but we have as little sympathy with those who would merely look at the blemishes, and shut their eyes to the benefits. We think that there have now considerably above fifty clergymen, of different persuasions, taken part in the services 'at Kilsyth ; and of these, three, or at most four, have been accused of indiscreet expressions of conduct in gesture, or some matter of that character. Let us take fifty editors, and, although zealous for the honour of the craft, we guarantee that three or four will be found guilty of indiscreet expressions in ad vocating their views of politics, even in writing—and when perfectly cool and collected—each one by himself in his own office. Well, by this mode of trying the matter, we should find that they clergymen who hare taken part in these revival meetings are not as a body more enthusiastic than other men ; and ministers are but men, fully as liable to error as their fel lows.—Montrose Review. THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLY'S FAILURE.-With refer ence to a paragraph in the Arbroath Herald, regarding the failure of the Marquis of Huntly, we have pleasure in stating on the information of a gentleman who attended a meeting of his creditors in Edinburgh, on the 10th instant, that the creditors of the unfortunate nobleman will receive a much larger dividend than is mentioned by our contemporary. The following is the statement of his lordship's assetts and liabi lities made to the meeting : — Liabilities.—Preferable debts — Amount heritably secured, £115,000 ; due for servants' wages, taxes, &c. £2,000 ; amount of personal debts, £400,500 ; total, £517,500. Assets.—Value of unentailed property, viz. —Estate of Fushmoor, £BO,OOO ; Lochabers, £56,000 ; Glengarry, £86,000 ; Aboyne, £30,000 ; personal property, £57,000; estimated value of life-rent of entailed rental, viz. £9,100 per annum, and annuities, viz. £3,400 at four years and a half purchase, £56,000 ; total, £365,000. Aberdeen Herald. MR. Ex-SHERIFF PARKINS. —The following is the notice taken in a late New York paper of the last (as yet) rumpus in which that memorable personage Mr. Ex-Sheriff Parkins has been engaged :—" The Marino Court was yesterday the arena of a fight between that eccentric being J. W. Parkins (known formerly as double X-Sheriff of London) and two sheriff's officers. The double X, it seems, had a suit in the Marine Court, in which he was defendant. During its pro gress the officers, who had the Recorder's warrant against Parkins, entered and attempted to make him their prisoner. This was resisted, and the friends of Parkins, and the friends of his opponent at law, not knowing what to think of the matter, joined in the affray, and a very pretty row they m a d e of it. The Judge called to order, the combatant cried ' Give it him !" That's the ticket !" You've torn my coat !" I'm an officer!' Huzza for Parkins!' Down with the Bums!' After a ten minutes' skirmish quiet was restored, and Mr. Parkins was taken to the police, where one of the officers swore an assault and battery against him, for which he w as held to bail in the sum of 200 d o ll ars . dr. Parkins gave the required security, and was discharged." - - A MAN RESCUED FROM A TIGER BY A LION—BIRR, FRIDAY EVENING.—Since I came here I have heard an anecdote of one of Batty's lions, which shows the sagacity of that noble animal in a very remarkable point of view. Those who visited Batty's menagerie in Dublin will remem ber that he had two lions and a tiger tamed together in the same cage, and while exhibiting at Roscrea, a few days ago, the keeper of these animals, whilst in the cage with them, missed his foot and fell upon the tiger, which was asleep at the moment. The animal became enraged, and jumping up, caught the unfortunate man by the thigh. A thrill of horror pervaded the hundreds of spectators who were visiting the exhibition at the time, and the man's destruction was deemed inevitable, when, to the inexpressible joy, as well as amaze ment of all who was present, the lion seized the tiger by the neck, and caused it at once to relinquish its hold whilst the man was dragged out of the cage, bleeding in a dreadful manner. He was immediately placed under medical treat ment in this town, and is now quite recovered.—. Dublin E. Mail. An English professor of the university of Malta was ex pelled by that body on the 12th ult. BAIL.—The act to enable persons to give bail in the coun try when arrested, came into operation on the Ist of October. Sir John Beauvoir has contradicted the report of his inten tion to come forward on the Liberal interest for East Nor folk. A CORRECT ANSWER.—" Madam, do you think frock coats are becoming garments ? " No, Sir, they are garments already." —American Paper. A report that Sir John Campbell will soon succeed Lord Plunket in the Irish Chancellorship, has been revived in the city of Dublin. A fellow, the other day, eat a candle at the Queen's Head, near Oswestry, for some trifle, and after, as a dessert, swal lowed the wick ! RATHER EXTRAORDINARY.—The notes of a cuckoo have been, for the last fortnight, heard in various parts of the country.—Clonnzel Herald. EITHER WAY WILL Do.—" Will y.ou have me, Sarah ?" said a young man to a modest girl. No, John," said she, " but you may have me if you will." ADVICE TO PARENTS.—Rear up your lads hard and sharp as nails, and they'll only go through the world, but you may clinch them on t other side. On Sunday morning the lioness at Wombwell's menagerie, now at Nottingham, gave birth to four fine cubs, two male and two female.—Nottingham Journal. The Rev. Hugh Stowell is going up to London to preach a sermon on the approaching sth of November, on behalf of the Protestant Association. The late Peter Bacon, Esq. stockbroker, has left a legacy of the value of £24,000 to the University College, London, payable at the death of his widow. MARCH OF INTELLIGENCE.—" Jim, how does the ther mometer stand to-day ?"—" Ours stands on the mantel piece, right agin the plasterin."—New York Paper COUNTY MAGISTRATE.—Thomas Eastwood, Esq., of Lancaster, qualified as a magistrate for this county, at the sessions held on Wednesday last.—Prestcn Pilot. QUITE HANDY.—There's a gentleman in New York whose face has become so wrinkled by his constant exposure, that his wife uses it to grind nutmegs on. The number of prisoners under 17 years of age confined in the prisons of England and Wales, in the course of the last year, was 11,444 males and 2,156 females. A speculator of the West, lately said to a friend, " When I first came to Chicago, I had not a rag to my back, and now I am covered with rags.—American Paper. There is a singer at present in Kentucky who goes so high in alt, that when he gives a concert the audience have to ascend a neighbouring mountain to hear him. Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, it is said, will be the officer selected to succeed the Hon. Admiral Fleming in the command of this port.—Hants Telegraph. Accounts from Odessa state that the price of corn has risen there considerably, and that the accounts from some provinces of the interior are by no means favourable. A barrister observed to a learned brother in court, that he thought his whiskers very unprofessional. " You are right," replied his friend, " a lawyer cannot be too barefaced.' THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her Majesty, on leaving Newnham Paddox, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, will honour the Earl Howe with a visit at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. HALLUCINATION OF BEN JONSON.—Ben Jonson would keep awake an entire night gazing at armies of Turks and Tartars, Carthagenians and Romans, contending around his great toe. A tee-totaller haranguing in a fair from a stage of a booth the other day, declared that if he had his choice, as to whe ther he would be a publican or common hangman, he would prefer the latter ! Mr. Broughton, one of the principals in the unfortunate duel with Mr. Mirfin on Wimbledon Common, was liberated from Guildhall gaol on Thursday last, after an incarceration of eight months. NEW CnESHIRE MAGISTRATE.-At Knutsford quarter sessions on Tuesday, William Stubbs, Esq. of the Elms, near Warrington, took the necessary oaths, and qualified as a magistrate for the county of Chester. THE PORT OF PERTH.—The customs levied for the year made up to Monday last amount to twenty thousand two hundred pounds, having been at least quintupled within the last six or seven' years ?—Constitutional. MONMOUTH.—A Conservative Association is about to be formed in this spirited town, and from what we hear there is every probability that the ,Monmouthshire boroughs will be rescued from the clutches of the Liberals at the next election. —Glocestershire Chronicle. LITERARY LABOURS OF TILE HOME SECRETARY AT A DISCOUNT.-At a sale of books which lately took place, " The Contrast," a novel, by the Marquis of Normanby in three volumes perfectly new and uncut, was mirabile diclu, knocked down for the sum of three shillings. POSTAGE•—It appears that the present average cost of transit, per letter, is 28,100dths of a penny : the number of letters and newspapers passing through the general postoffice, annually, is about 126,000'000 ; and the net annual revenue,- or profit, derived therefrom, averages-X1,500,000. SHOCKING SUICIDE AT COLNE.—On Monday evening week, Mr. William Robertshaw, a respectable linen draper at Colne, after taking his tea, went down into a cellar under his shop, and cut his throat nearly from ear to ear. When found, a few minutes afterwards, he was quite dead. We have heard no cause assigned as probably leading to the rash and fatal act.—Preston Chronicle. " MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY. —lt has just been brought to us from a shareholder in this company, than an arrangement for a coalition has been set tled between it and the Grand Junction Railway. If this be a fact, we cordially congratulate both companies thereon. —Railway Magazine. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET. Our market continues ex tremely quiet in all descriptions of colonial produce, and the speaking, however, tlieq are rat ieTlower.-Bristol l Standard. In the Museum, at Oxford, there is a man's skull with five horns on it ; also two horns taken from a man's fore head; and a horn five inches and a half long, taken from the head of Mr. Davies, of Cheshire. What will Barclay and Perkins say when they hear that at Rhode Island the beer is brewed so strong that it requires three men to blow the head off a pot of porter, and they must be tolerably long-winded. We hear that a fossil serpent, 13 feet 6 inches long, sup posed to be a boa constrictor, was found a few days ago, near Belper, in a rock excavation, and has been forwarded to Lon don.—Derby Reporter. " You are an excellent. packer," said Theodore Hook to a a waiter at the Athenmuna. 4 • How so, sir ?" returned the other. " Why," responded the wit, " you have contrived to pack a quart bottle of wine into a pint decanter." Mr. Lane, in a note to The Arabian Nights," giving an account of a feast at Grand Cairo, says, " There are also two great edifices of sweetmeats, each weighing 17 cwt., and car ried thither by porters, on shoulder poles." FEMALE COMPOSITORS.—The New York Evening Post states, that the practice of employing women at the compo sitor's case, is gradually making its way in America, in spite of the opposition which it has experienced. ROUGE.—A lady consulted St. Francis, of Sales, on the lawfulness of using rouge. " Why," says he, some pious men object to it; others see no harm in it. 1 will hold a middle course, and allow you to use it on one cheek." The Count Mailly Latour Landry, a French nobleman, lately deceased, has left to trustees the sum of 30,000 francs, to be distributed annually to poor young artists of talent, who have not the means of prosecuting their studies. It is asserted (says the France) that the government of Texas is ready to pay 1,000,000 sterling of the Mexican debt, on condition of England recognising the new state; and that negociations on this subject have been already commenced. Vesuvius is still 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 neighbourhood that the Government has remitted the taxes of the growers. NOVEL ORGAN-BLOWER.--A novel organ has lately been erected by the Prince • Brancaforte, upon a hill in his park near Messina. It is supplied with wind by a windmill, and can be distinctly heard two or three miles distant. —Musical World. " I meant to have tould you of that hole," said an Irish man to his friend, who was walking with him in his garden, and stumbled into a pit-ful of water. "No matter," says Pat, blowing the mud and water out of his mouth, " I've, found it. RICHES MARE THEMSELVES WlNGS. — Moralists have said that no man :ought to be congratulated till he is in the coffin. The Mechanics' Magazine states, in the biography of Mr. James, the projector of the railway system, that he was in 1812 worth £150,000, and lived to lose it all. Mr. Joseph Strutt, of Derby, has entrusted to Mr. Lou don, the celebrated author on gardening, the planting and arrangement of 11 acres of ground, which, when complete, are to be given to the public for the increasing population of that industrious town. The visiting justices of Warwick gaol have granted leaie to Lovett and Collins to rent a room in the prison and to furnish it with a table and two chairs, and to have a tire. In other respects they are to be treated like other prisoners, both► as to dietary and the general discipline of the prison. It is currently reported, upon good authority, that Sir G. Chetwynd has withdrawn his opposition to the Manchester Extension Railway. Great indignation is expressed by some of his former colleagues in opposition, on account of what is said to have been the cause of the change.—Birmingham Advertiser. A young thief, named John Bradshaw, was foolish enough the other day to go to see one of his friends in Bridewell, at Preston, with a stolen waistcoat on his person. The article was recognised by Marquis, the officer, and the visit turned out to be one of longer duration than was anticipated. LORD SPENCER AND MR. SELMES;—The match proposed by Mr. Selmes to show one hundred Sussex beasts of his own breed against one hundred of any other breed in Eng land bred by the same person, and which was accepted by Earl Spencer with one hundred short horns, has been decided in favour of the Earl. By the new police law, if the guard of a coach sounds a horn within fifteen miles of London, he is liable to a fine of 40s. In winter the sleeping drivers on the London road will not be aided by their horses as heretofore ; the animals had become so accustomed to the sound of the horn that they gave way whenever they heard it. The Dublin Evening Post, on the authority of a gentle man, lately arrived from Cadiz, states that the quantity of sherry wines exported from Cadiz:by a few of the most re spectable houses, from the Ist of January to the 31st of Au gust in the present year, amounts to nearly 10,000 butts, independently of an inferior tribe who ship large quantities of wine under the name of " sh err y w i ne ." The public will do well to guard against taking counterfeit sovereigns, a large number of which are now in circulation. They are so well executed, and correspond so exactly in size and 'weight with the true coin, that they can be only distinguished by the " ring." It has been ascertained, by an examination at the Mint, that each contains about four teen shillings-worth of gold. Very great caution is required to ensure detection. ROCHDALE.—EVILS OF RAILWAYS.—The shopkeepers, but more especially the linen-drapers of Rochdale, complain bitterly of the falling-off of their business since the opening of the Manchester and Leeds Railway. Some of them assert, that their receipts have been £3O or £36 a week less since that event took place. The publicans also complain of their business being affected by the same cause, as all the spare money of the working classes, which formerly found its way into the pockets of the publicans, now goes to the railway-office.—Manchester Paper. THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.—In our last we inserted a verbatim notice, as placed on a toll-gate near the borough of East Retford, which fortunately came under the notice of the writer, and who, on reading it, remarked that a great deal more fuss and nonsense were made about spelling and inditing now a days than when he went to school 50 or 60 years ago. " There might be," he observed. " one or two words not exactly right, which he thought no person could misunderstand ; if however, there was any so dull, he would write another, which no man cou ld b y any poss ibi l i ty mis take,' and accordingly he has put the following in the place of the former announcement :—" Hall parsons hare re quested to pa the towl hat the first gat tha comat or tha will bee prosacuted and nott to carey to aney other.—Doncaster Gazette. A premium of 36,000 francs has been proposed by the French government for the discovery of means to prevent forgery of stamps, water marks in paper, and engine-turned engraving, and also for an indelible mk, so that colours once written with it on any writing material cannot be obliterated. The decision is to be under the direction of the Academie des Sciences. The Capitole announces that M. Dumont, an agriculturist in the neighbourhood of Abbeville, had obtained, from com mon flaxseed, flax of an extraordinary length. The stalks, in the whole field, are now 12 feet high, and it was calculated that they would reach the height of 15 feet. This extraordi nary growth is ascribed to the use of a manure known in France by the. name of poudrette des Noyers. No JONATIIAN.-A school-boy, 14 years of age, at a pub lic seminary not one hundred miles from liminster, being _ . lectured by his tutor for not retaining until the morning the lesson he had learnt over night, and being asked the reason, replied, " I don't know, sir, unless it is because I sleep with out a nightcap, and it evaporates before the morning."—Dor set Chronicle. RAILWAY EXPEDITION.—The London morning papers, which, two years ago, were not received in Birmingham until seven in the evening, now arrive at eleven in the forenoon. On Monday last the Morning Herald was on the tables of our news-room soon after that hour. The expeditious tran sit of the morning journals must necessarily have the effect, in this part of the country, of materially reducing the circu lation of London evening papers.—Birmingham Advertiser. IMPORTANT TO MARINERS ON THE. LANCASHIRE COAST. —We hear, with sincere gratification, that it is contemplated to have another bazaar at Lytham, for the humane and praise worthy purpose of raising funds wherewith to purchase a life boat, for the purposes of the adjoining coast. A project so immediately and emphatically backed by the highest claims of humanity and Christian benevolence, cannot, we trust, fail to obtain commensurate support. We hail the project, and wish it God speed.—Preston Chronicle. We understand that the present crop of potatoes in this Island is most abundant, and the annual rage has already commenced for exporting that valuable esculent, which one of our contemporaries says is much dearer in Liverpool than Douglas. To this statement we demur; the price at Liver pool being so little above that in our own market, as by no means to offer any encouragement to exporters. Besides, the Manx potatoes, in point of quality, can never be compared with those raised in Lancashire and Cheshire.—Mcrix Liberal. Few of our readers are, perhaps. ignorant of the lines in which the ribbond warning was conveyed to the ill-fated Mr. lloskins, in Tipperary. A gentleman, of the name of Going, had been murdered a short time before. The following notice was posted on Mr. Hoskin's gate:— " Hoskins and Going are nearly one; Hoskins is going, and Going is gone." The savage facetiousness of this distich made many believe was not really a riband warning. Alas ! it was too, fatall3 verified by the fulfilment of its mysterious prediction. THE LARGEST FOWLING PIECE IN ENGLAND.—A few days ago, Mr. Bates, the gun-maker, of Crodramgate, in this city , finished new stocking, and otherwise repaired, one of the largest fowling pieces in this country ; it is denomi nated " a punting gun," and is used on rivers and lakes for the purpose of shooting water-fowl. Its great size may be judged of, when. we mention that the barrel weighed 8641 b., and measured eight feet in length ; its calibre was-II- inches, and diameter 33 inches, and circumference 101. This pon derous gun required two men to convey it to the carrier ! orkshirernan. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY HANGING AND ROASTING.— On Saturday evening week the keeper of a beer-shop in the South Ward, Leeds, attempted to put a period to his exist ence by the double process of hanging and roasting himself before the fire. It is believed that at the time the man was labouring under a temporary depression of spirits, occasioned by the loss of a sum of money which he had lent to a friend. The attempt was made during the absence of his family, and when he was discovered, he was found suspended before the fire on the crane usually employed to roast meat, his clothes on fire, himself horribly scorched, and nearly dead. He was, of course, instantly cut down, and, though he still sur vives, lies in a most lamentable state. TRAVELLING BEFORE BREAKFAST.—A journey, Com mencing with a drive under Primrote-hill, would have been something to astonish our progenitors ; but what would they have thought of it, coupled with a stage, before breakfast, of rather more than a hundred and eighty miles ? Such was the chance of all who used the early morning train, on the Bir mingham line, as their mode of transit to Doncaster. That train leaves the Euston-square station at six a.m.. Taking Piccadilly as the average distance each man would have to come, say 44 a.m. would have seen him astir, and, with all ordinary expedition, he would barely be in time for the start. Now, from Euston-square, as aforesaid, not a single minute, nor a single place, is appropriated for a meal of any kind, till you reach Sheffield, a distance of upwards of 180 miles. — Sporting Review. JOSEPH ADY AGAN.—It seems that notwithstanding.the various exposures and imprisonments that the celebrated Ady has been subjected to, that he still continues to practice his old tricks ; for a few days ago a friend of ours in town recei ved the following note which cost him elevenpence postage : " 2s. 10d. due to Arthur Bolton, Please to pay to Joseph Ady one pound two shillings and ten pence due - to me. Mr. Arthur S—, on receipt of ss. I will put you into possession of £1 2s. 10d. long overlooked. If you will em power me to receive it by signing the above order, I will de posit the balance as you may direct. Respectfully, J. ADY, 7, York-street, near Whitechapel Church, London ; Oct. 4th 1839. No-letters received unless post paid." The pub lic cannot be too cautious against impositioni of the above nature.—Bolton Chronicle. THE RIVALS.—A most ludicrous case is reported in the last Cork Southern Reporter, ' which occurred at Youghal sessions. It was an action brought by Mr. Christopher Domville Savage against Mr. Richard Henry Rogers. The facts are these :—Two rival beauties, the Hon. Mrs. Smith. and Lady Parker, were present at a public ball ; and the ste wards, knowing that some jealousy existed between them, thought it right to provide two supper tables and two danc dancing commenced ; and, notwithStanding the arrangements of the stewards, Lady Parker and her partner took possession of the room, thus taking the place which Mrs. Smith and her partner had previously secured. The word of command was given—" Stand at ease"—and all stood still : no one turned Lady Parker in the contre dance : she retired with her part ner, and returned with another ' - but no one danced with her but her partner. Mr. Savage happened to make some ob servation, to the effect that he would not dance with Lady Parker, in the hearing of Mr. Rogers. That gentleman call ed him " a scoundrel and a blackguard." He (Mr. Savage) gave him a blow. Mr. Rogers sent a message. Mr. Savage would not be shot at. Mr. Rogers posted hinvas a coward, and lie thought proper to bring his action against Mr. Rogers for having sent him a hostile message and posted him:—T.he jury found the defendant guilty ; but the prosecutor declined 'to call him up for judgment. A REAL SPECTRE.—At the petty sessions, on Thursday last, Isaac 'Walker, a young man, lately in the service of Mr. Buckley, of the Red Lion, Deansgate, was brought up, charged with attempting to commit a robbery. Jas. Norris, a sort of amanuensis, being landlord of the penky departinent, stated that it was their usual custom to leave some silVer in the bar (sixpences), in order that change might be afforded to their morning customers ; and having of late missed the money, they determined to keep watch, for the PurpOse of detecting the thief. Accordingly, on Monday last, he, with John Norris (no doubt a relation), provided themselves with " comfortable lodgings" in the lobby, and awaited the arrival of the robber. About four o'clock in the morning, when all was " still as death," 'a noise was heard, and immediately the bright beams of a candle gleamed forth. John, who had been provided with gin to relieve (as h e s t a t e d) a cough, felt that all his courage was about to ooze out at his fingers' ends, and exclaimed with a loud voice, " Eh, there's a leet." And that moment Isaac, who had only his shirt upon his body, and had made his appearance through a trap door, retreated by the same passage, and thus he was not detected. Mr. Taylor, who appeared for the defence, created a great deal of merriment in cross-examining the witnesses. He wished to know whether, when the spectre appeared, a smell of brim stone was not perceived, and whether John Norris, in his love of gin, to cure his cough, had not partaken too freely, and been afflicted with the blue devils? John could not ex plain himself, and the prisoner was discharged.—Bolton Chronicle. ALLOWANCE TO INSOLVENT DEBTORS.--iii the 118th clause of the new Act, it is enacted, after stating that the ex penses of an insolvent applying to be discharged under the Act may be paid out of his estate and effects, " that if the same shall not he sufficient for that purpose, then that such expenses, or any part thereof, may and shall, where the said Court shall be satisfied that the prisoner has not the means of paying the same, be paid and advanced out of the interest and profit arising from any Government securities upon which any unclaimed money produced by the estate and ef fects of insolvent debtors may. be invested, and in every such last-mentioned case the estate and effects of such prisoner, which may then or may thereafter come to the hands and be vested in the provisional or other assignee or assignees, shall be liable in the first place to repay the money so advanced and paid." It is understood that a considerable sum, about £lO,OOO, has accumulated, but the Court have held that the section has a prospective construction. An application was made a few days since by an. inmate of Whitecross-street prison, named John Payne, to obtain an allowance. He set forth in his affidavit a case of great distress, and stated that his attorney would not fil e hi s shedule unless he was paid £3 10s. The Court requested corroborative proof : and Mr. Barrett, the Governor, gave a certificate, whereupon the Court ordered the s um of <65 to be paid out of the " interest arising from unclaimed money." The Court will be enabled under this provision, to assist destitute insolvents, es no in considerable sum will be available arising from the large sum now invested of unclaimed money and dividends.—Striz of Friday. LLANELLY AND LLANDILO RAILWAY.—THE ANTHRA CITE CoAL.—We are inforthed by a correspondent that the Llanelly and Llandilo Railway is fast progressing under the able management of John Biddulph, Esq., the acting part ner. A line is already finished from Llanelly Dock to Pon tardulais, through an extensive district of bituminous and free burning coal, and will in a short time be completed through a large tract of country abounding in anthracite or stone coal, and iron ore, where several iron furnaces will be commenced next spring ; and as Mr. Crane's plan of making iron of stone coal and hot blast has been attended with com plete success, it is expected that the vale of Amnion, through which this railway passes, will shortly become the rival of Merthyr Tydvil in the extent of its works. Our correspon dent continues ;—" There is one circumstance respecting this railway which I must not neglect to mention ; that is, it is expected to be completed for about £40,000 less than the original estimate. An association has been formed at Llanelly, and liberally supported, for the purpose of trying experiments with stone coal, and bringing it into general use for almost every purpose for which bituminous coal has been used. It has been tried with success on board a steamer with a peculiarly constructed fire place ; and there can be now little doubt of its ultimately being adopted on board steam-packets going long voyages, as the saving in stowage must be an important consideration. Mr. Player, manager of extensive works in this neighbourhood for 'flaking iron with stone coal, has taken out a patent for peculiarly con structed fire-places for burning this coal, and also for a steam boiler. These I have seen at work, and they answer admi rably. At the works above alluded to stone coal is used in blacksmiths' shops, and is found to answer every purpose. A cupola is now being put up at these works, which will he tried in a few day s w ith stone coal. "—Midland Counties' Herald. APPALLING SUICIDE.--On Wednesday morning last, soon after eight o'clock, the inhabitants of North-road, near St. Ignatius' Church, were t h rown i nto a state o f considerable consternation and alarm, by the report that a person residing in Meadow-street had committed suicide. On enquiry being made, the report turned out to be too true, for it was dis covered that A person, named William Rigby, had cut his throat in a most dreadful manner, and so as to cause his death instantaneously. In fact a more frightful gash was scarcely ever seen, the unfortunate man's throat being cut completely from ear to ear, arid his windpipe entirely severed. 'He had been a clerk at the gas works, and was respectably connected, but his habits, of late, had been exceedingly irregular, and he had given himself u p to excess i ve d r i n ki ng . Hi s mi nd is supposed to have been, for some time.past, in a very uneven state, and frequently much affected ; and having, in conse quence of his misconduct, be en di sc h arge d f r o m his situation, last week, it is supposed to have preyed still further upon his spirits, so that there is little doubt that he was decidedly in a state of lunacy when he committed the appalling deed. We are further informed that he had recently joined the Socialist body and imbibed, to some extent, their baneful te nets.--Preston Chronicle. CORRESPONDENCE. PREDESTINATION, A DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sir,-1 am again constrained to take up my feeble pen to address you. The immediate cause of my doing so is, to notice a few of the arguments (if so they may be called) contained in " Ridley's" last letter which appeared in the Liverpool Mail of Thursday last. This I hope to do in a Christian spirit, as " Ridley" has reminded me that the Apostle Peter exhorts us to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every, man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meek ness and fear." It appears that I was mistaken in supposing " Ridley" to be an Arminian. I came to this conclusion, from perceiving in him a great aversion to " vulgar Calvinism," and as politeness is the reverse of vulgarity, and Arminianism the reverse of Calvinism, I concluded that he must be a polite Arminian. But I perceive that I was wrong in my conclusion, for he tells us that he does not agree with either Calvin or Arminius—he " considers that they have both de parted fron catholic doctrine, which is the true sense of scripture." " Ridley" has not defined what Catholic doctrine is, but it appears that it is synonymous with " the true sense of scripture," and as he has given us what appears to him to be the true sense of scripture,'' we may conclude that he has given us a specimen of " Catholic doctrine." Let us then see what Catholic doctrine is. " I hold" says Ridley " the doctrine of election firmly and fully—but not an irrespective election to a certainty of obtaining heaven , — with Calvin &c.—but an arbitrary election by God, of in dividuals to the means of grace, with scripture, with antiquity, and with the Church of England." Bat where are " Ridley's" proofs that his views of election are con sistent with either " scripture," " antiquity," or " the Church of England?" He tells us, indeed, that it is not his intention to go into full proofs of his position, because they would not suit the pages of a newspaper. Why then, I would ask, does he defend his position in the newspaper at all ? Surely, if it is proper to give a lame argument in a newspaper, it Cannot be improper to enter fully into the ques tion, and defend it ably. For my own part, I have no such scruples ; I cannot see that the pages of a newspaper can be made better use of for a better purpose than defending God's 'truth, therefore, I shall enter fully upon the subject, and endeavour to prove to Ridley that his views of election are opposed both to scripture, antiquity, and the Church of England. I shall begin with scripture. Ridley alludes first to the Jewish nation in proof of his position. That the Jewish people were chosen of God to the " means of grace." I fully admit, but that a remnant out of the nation were chosen to` everlasting life, I as !fully maintain. St. Paul says, " They are not all Israel, which are of Israel, neither because they are the seed of Araham are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed.be called." The whole context will show that there was an election within an election, that " God hath mercy upon whom- he will have mercy, and whom he will he pardoneth," ,even amongst those whom he calls to the means of grace. Again, we know that at length the Jewish nation, as such, were cast off ; having filled up the measure of their iniquity in rejecting the Lord of Life and glory, but although the nation,' as a nation, were cast off, .there was an election within the nation who were not. St. Paul asks, " Hath God cast away his people God forbid. For I also am an Israelite &c. God hotly not cast away his people which he foreknew: and further, he. says, " Even so then, at this present tuna also, there is a remnant according to the electiott of grace." Again, in proof of my argument, I would refer " Ridley" to the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Ist chapter, 4th verse. St. Paul there says, " Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God." How did St. Paul know their election ? He tells us in the next verse, " For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy G host, and in much assurance." The gospel came to the whole city of Thessalonica in word, therefore, they were all elected to " the means of grace)" and if the Apostle intendvd nothing indre than an election to the means of grace, the very fact that he had preached the gospel to them would have been the evidence, but he says that he knew their election, because the gospel came not to them in word only, but also in power &e. This exactly harmonises with the parable of the marriage feast to which " Ridley" refers. All were invited-the gospel came to all in word—bitt only " few were ehosen," and to the few chosen, the gospel came not in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost &c. My next reference is to the 13th chapter of the Acts to the Apostles. There we have an account of St. Paul preaching in the city of Antioch ; and at the 44th we read that " almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God." St. Paul told the Jews that it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to them, but seeing that they had put it from them, and judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life, that thenceforth they (the Apostles) would go the Gentiles," &c. And then we read at the 48th verse, that "when the Gentiles heard this they glorified the Lord Jesus," and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." So we see; that nearly the whole city were called, " but few were Chosen : " the Gospel came to the whole " word," but it came in "power and in the Holy Ghost," only to them who " were ordained to eternal life." One passage more shall conclude my proofs from the word of God. In the 2nd chapter of the 2nd Epistle to the Thessa lonians, the Apostle is showing that there shall be a departure from the faith •, and at the 10th verse we read of some who " received not the love of the truth that they might be saved." And the Apostle says that God shall send them strong de lusions that they should believe a lie ; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in un righteousness. " But," he adds, "we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved) because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." Here then we read of some who received not the truth, that they might be saved, consequently they must have had the truth : but they rejected it, having pleasure in unrighteonsness " and for this cause God shall send thein strong delusions that they might believe a lie ;" but others received the love of .the.,.trittb thA d they might be saved," " because God bad think it is quitetral , thati not only are eonatitinitiefi elected to the means of grace, bat individuals chosen to everlasting life. I shall now endeavour to piove that ." Ridley's" views of election are at variance with "antiquity." This is ground that I should not have ventured upon, ;had not " Ridley" led me to it, for I perfectlY agree with one who says, respect ing the works of the Fathers, that "some excellent things are indeed interspersed in their writings ; but the golden grains are almost lost amidst an infinity of rubbish." ' One of the excellent things to be found in their writings is scrip tural views respecting the doctrine under discussion. I shall endeavour to show this by a few quotations from the works of a clergyman, to whom I am indebted for the quotations from the Reformers, which appeared in my last letter. Speak ing of Barnabus, Who is frequently mentioned in the new Testament, he says—". That he held the absolute freeness of divine grace, appears from this remarkable assertion : ' where Christ,' . shysßarnabus, ' chose his own apostles who were to preach his gospel, he chose them when they were wickeder than all wickedness itself, to demonstrate that he came not to call the righteous but sinnersto repentance." Again, "speak ing of regeneration and conversion, he ascribes thcpower by which those supernatural effects are accomplished entirely to God. ' When God bath renewed us by the remission of sins he bath formed us into quite a different likeness, so that we have a child-like mind, forasmuch as he himself fashions us anew.' Again, behold we have been formed afresh as he speaketh by another Prophet. So, said the Lord, I will take away feom them, that is, from those whom the Spi r it o f t h e L or d /bre viewed ; I will take away from them their stony hearts, and 1 will send fleshly hearts into them. This shall suffice as it re gards Barnabas—Take the following from Clemens Romances, who is said to be that Clement whom St. Paul remembered among his fellow-labourers and whose name he affirmed to be in the book of life. It appears that he wrote an epistle to the churches of Rome and Corinth which " opens thus:" `The Church of God, which dwelleth at Rome, the church of God dwelling at Corinth, called and set apart, by the will if God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.'—Reminding them of the exemplary care with which they had formerly attended to the performance of every good work, he observes, `your con test, day and night, was for the whole brotherhood, that the number of the elect might be saved with mercy and a good conscience. Nor did Clement consider the salvation of the elect, as precarious, or their perseverance as uncertain. It being the will of God,' says ' that all his beloved ones should be made partakers of repentance, he halls established them, firmly by his own Almighty purpose.' The next quotation I shall give is from-, Ignatius. " His epistle to the Ephesians opens thus—lgnatius who is called Theopho rus, re the church which is at Ephesus in Asia, -blessed by the fullness of God the Father, predestinated ever, before time, unto the glory, which is perpetual and unchan?eable, united and chosen, i. e. f . fixed upon to be the everlasting re sidence of the saints, by the will of God &c." One short extract more to show the soundness of Poly carp's creed, and I shall have done with the Fathers. "He terms the chains with which many persecuted christians were bound for their attachment to the gospel, the ornamental bracelets of them who have been really elected by God and our Lord. These then; I think, are sufficient to prove that the Fathers whose works haVe been cited were evangelical in their doctrine. " Ridley" may say they are " extracts called for a purpose"—but I have no doubt that they are faithfully given and that they will satisfy every candid mind as to the Calvinism of the Fathers, who shall read them without Ar minian " spectacles." It now re ma i ns th a t I prove t h at " Ridley's" views of election are at variance with the Church of England. ,•He has brought forward a few passages from the liturgy which he thinks coincides with his views. But I shall endeavour to prove that he is much mistaken—l think he would find it rathir a difficult task to prove the Church of England favourable to his views.' Abler hands have attempted it, but have' miserably failed in doing so. " The Church of England" he says speaks on this wise : in her baptismal service she prays that the child now to be baptised in the sanctified water, ! may ever remain in the number of God's faithful and elect children.' After baptism she says seeing now that this Child is regenerate and grafted into the body of Christ's church' let'us give thanks for these benefits and pray that this child:may lead the rest of its life according to the beginning." Pre quotation from the Collect for Christ mas is to the sanie' effect. But I would ask Mr. Ridley, what there is in all this to prove that the Church of England is at variance with Calvin on the doctrine of election. Calvinists hold that God, who has appointed certain ends, bath also appointed means, by which those ends shall be ac complished, and having ordained his elect people to everlast ing life, he hath ordained prayer, and all the other means of grace, as instruments whereby his people shall " grow in grace," and go on, " from strength to strength, until ev ' ery one of them in Zion appeareth before God." I was quite surprised to' meet with such a foolish, lame argument from any person assuming the honoured name of " Ridley." It was the purpose of Jehovah to bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt, and place them in the promised land ; and having purposed the end, he also appointed the means. He told Moses to " strike the waters," and commanded the children of Israel "to march fbrward." But will any one conclude that, because God commanded them to use the means, that he had not purposed the end ? and will an y one conclude that, because the Church of England teaches the necessity of prayer, that she throws overboard the doctrine of election ? Well m ay " Ridley" talk about " Calvinistic spectacles." If some kind of " spectacles" had not di:ll'd the eyes of his understanding, he never could have advanced so silly an ar gument. Now, the best way to get at the meaning of the church on any subject, is to compare one part of her formu laries with another. I shall, therefore, refer " Ridley" to what she says on the subject in the 17th article. It is as follows :—" Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby, before the foundations of the world were laid, he bath constantly decreed by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and-dam na ti on t h ose whom he has cho sen in Christ, out of mankind, and to bring them, by Christ, to everlasting life, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore they-which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God" (namely, with the excelle n t b ene fit o f G od ' s election) " be called, according to God's purpose, by his Spirit working in them. They, through grace, obey the. calling ; they be jus titled freely ; they be made the sons of God by adoption ; they walk religiously in good works ; and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity." Thus speaks the Church of England. How does it agree with "Ridley's" views of " election by God of individuals to the means of grace." The article declares that he hath decreed to " deli ver them from curse and damnation," and not merely to bring them to " the means of grace,"•but "to everlasting life, as vessels made to honour." • I shall now show that our Homilies. do not run counter to our articles. Many passages might be brought forward : one, however, shall suffice. It is from the 2nd part of the Homily on alms-deeds, and is as follows :—" God of his mercy and special favour towards them whom he bath appointed to everlasting salvation, bath so offered his grace especially, and they had so received it faithfully, that although, by reason of their sinful living outwardly, they seemed before to have been the children of wrath and perdition ; • yet now the spirit of God mightily working in them, unto obedience of God's will and commandments, they declare by their outward life, in the shewing of mercy and charity, which cannot come but , of the spirit of God, and his especial grace, that they are the undoubted childreri of God, appointed to everlasting life. And so, as by their wickedness and ungodly living, they shewed themselves, according to the judgment of men, which follow the outward appearance, to be reprobates and castaways ; so now, by their obedience unto God's holy will, and by their mercifulness and tender pity—wherein they shew themselves to be like God, who is the fountain and spring of all mercy, — they declare openly and manifestly unto the sight of men, that they are the sons of God, and elect of him unto salva tion." I shall now, in drawing to a close, prove the same great truth from our liturgy, Many passages might he brought forward, but the following shall suffice. In the collect for " All Saints' Day" we are taught to address God thus—" () Almighty God, who hast knit together their elect in one com munion and fellowship in the 9nystical body of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord." Again, in one of the beautiful and affect ing prayers in the burial service we are thus taught to pray— " That it may please thee of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of their elect, and to hasten thy kingdom, &c." It is quite clear from this, that the Church of England believes that there are a limited number to be saved, or why teach us to pray for that number to be accom plished. I conceive that the same truth is taught in .our Ca techism, where the child is taught that the Holy Ghost " sanctifieth all the elect people of God." Thus, I think, I have proved that " Ridley's" views of election are at variance with Scripture, with some of the fathers, and with the Church of England. I shall only say, in conclusion, I wish it had been the privilege of " Ridley," as it was my privilege, to hear a most masterly sermon on this subject, which was preached by our beloved mid highly-gifted Pastor on Sunday last. It might, with the Divine blessing, have been useful to him, and have convinced him that he was wrong in asserting, that'" the evangelical clergy do not preach the gospel."--I am, Sir, yours, &c., A MEMBER OF ST. JUDE'S CHURCH. Oct. 21st, 1839. ATKINSON AND SCOTLAND wATw. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIR,-1 know of no local circumstance at any period during my whole life at which my indignation was more excited than it is at this moment, in finding on my return from the country that Henry Tindall Atkinson has had the audacity to place himself before the public as a candidate for council honours, in a town too that was wont to be considered an example of propriety, as well in the observance as in the exaction of con ventional respect to the different grades of society of which it is composed. What on earth can those fire-brands, Eyre, Evans, Shiel, and Walmsley be aiming at in introducing such a nonentity as a fit and proper person to represent us in the Town Hall? Is it so scion then come to this, that the town must be bearded by a set of aliens and papists, a tagzrag-and bob-tail crew, whose only pretension to notoriety is the head long reckleisness with which they pursue a course of open insult to all that is respectable, all that is calculated to chal lenge the esteem of the honest and the worthy. Why is it _that those worthies, with their protegt; are tole rated in such an impudent attempt to foist themselves upon us as dictators. Have they so far astonished the Ward as to paralyse its .indignation by the boldness of the stroke ; if so, (and it is the only ground that can be assumed to account for apathy sq marvellous) [much mistake if it do not resume its upright position before the day arrives for reading the trium virate a lesson not to be forgotten. I have just had put into my hands a printed anaylsis of this Henry Tiny Atkinson's qualification and fitness, and if any regard has been paid to truth by the writer of it; it must he confessed on all hands that a deeper disgrace could no Ward be called on to endure, than to be represented by this Henry Tiny Atkinson. But these things must not be • the affront must be resented integelty Of the Ward vindicated—and the insulted re spectability of the town at large prove to these dictators, that though it has patiently borne with these hitherto, and without rebuke has tolerated the fantastic tricks which they have played before high heaven, yet, that there is a line of demar cation drawn, beyond which even these charlatans shall not be permitted to step. Shall Mr. Paintpot Atkinson then be rejected by a second ary association, into membership with which he recently wished to insinuate himself, but by which he was rebuked; shall lie be deemed a fitting member of a board of gentlemen which sits by virtue of its high office as a tribunal in judg ment on all the important affairs of this all-important town? Can mockery further go? Is the common sense of the place to be insulted thus ? _ _ I do hope that not only will the candidate be rejected, but that a righteous burst of indignation will be visited on the heads of those who have bad the temerity to put such an affront upon the judgment of our Ward, which, though it may number among its inhabitants, many of what the can didate would call- the lower orders, still, I hope it possesses consistency sufficient to save itself from the condemnation of every right thinking mind in the community, HOMO. Scotland Ward, 11th Oct. 1839. THE LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS, AND DR. HERSCHEL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sut,—Dr. Herschel, Chief Rabbi of the English Jews, of the German Jewish Synagogue, London., has handed me your paper of the 17th ultimo, and a letter, of which the accompanying is a copy : " Sir,—When last year you requested my permission to publish a letter I had addressed to you—as an individual declaring yourself unconnected with, and disapproving of, any society or body of men whose avowed object is to seduce Israelites from their faith—it was with reluctance I yielded to your urgent and repeated request : not because that letter contains anything I ought not to have written, or any one m o pe I 7 .4 disown because ` thf . munt i ls most no means scrupulous in the 'fi - ;aslltVe - 5; employ. in it Liverpool Standard of the 17th'ultimo, I find an account of a meeting held by the Liverpool Audliary Society for pro moting Christianity among the Jews; which account states that the Rev. J. H. Stewart ` read an interesting letter from Mr. Herschel, the chief rabbi of London, expressive of the satisfaction which he felt in witnessing the interest shewn by THE JEWISH SOCIETY in the restoration of the children of Israel to the land of Judah. The letter strongly asserted that the Jews were now looking with earnest expectation for the appearance of the Messiah to rule over his chosen people. A day had RECENTLY been appointed as a day of especial intercession for the RETURN of the Messiah : that day would be on Wednesday next,' &c. " To the best of my recollection I have not for many years written to any Christian on the subject of the hopes of Israel, except to yourself; and as it cannot be a matter of indiffer ence to me that my name should be publicly used as the authority for a series of misstatements calculated to do great mischief, I call upon ,you publicly to contradict this fabri cated abreqd of the letter I wrote to you. " I never expressed satisfaction at anything done by the ` Jewish Society' (i.e., the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews). Many years ago, on the 10th January, 5567, I publicly declared in the Synagogue, ` that the whole purpose of this seeming kindness on the part of the society is an inviting snare, a decoying experiment to undermine the props of our religion.' 'ln the thirty years and inore which have since then elapsed, nothing has oc curred to induce me to alter that opinion; but much to con firm it : nor could I express satisfaction at anythinr , con nected with that society, except indeed at its dissolution. Accordingly my letter to you does not contain the slightest allusion to the Jewish Society.' " The assertion that the Jews are now looking with earnest expectation for the appearance of the Messiah,. only states what ever since their dispersion has been a well-known fact ; nor does my letter to you state that their confidence in the promises of their Heavenly Father is now in particular greater or less'than it always has been. But to quote me as authority for the invention, ` that a day of special interces sion for the return of the Messiah has been recently appoint ed,' is really too bad. I will not offer any remark on the degree of biblical knowledge which could proclaim the day of atonement as one ` recently appointed' ; nor will I notice the expression ' RETURN' of the Messiah further than by saying, had I used it I should be unworthy the name of a Jew. But, as the whole paragraph is absolutely the reverse of what I wrote to you, I have a right to expect that you, as an honest and candid man, will, in the same journal in which it was published, contradict this unfair and untrue use of my name and authority. " I am, Sir, your sincere wellwisher, " S. HERSCHEL, Chief Rabbi. " 5, Bury-court, 2nd October, 5600, A.M. " Hy. Innes, Esq." Twelve months ago, on the occasion of the Church of Scotland taking up the subject of a mission to the Jews, I published a pamphlet, entitled, "A Letter to the Friends in Scotland of God's Ancient People," in which the communi cation alluded to by Dr. Herschel occurs. Satisfaction is certainly therein expressed at the interest which Christians manifest for the cause of Israel, but no allusion is made to the London Society, whose operations, it is well known, have been obnoxious to the heads of the Jewish people from the commencement of its existence. I beg leave to subjoin the letter in question, which cannot but be interesting to those of your readers who have given the scriptural hopes of Israel any attention. Copy of a Letter from Dr. Herschel. " Sir,—The letter vou addressed to me, and the call you and your friend Mr. 'Simpson favoured me with, afford me the agreeable satisfaction of knowing, that, . among your people, the friends of truth and of universal happiness are anxious for the restoration of Israel, and address their sup plications to the Most High, beseeching him to hasten the day when ` the whole earth shall be•filled with the knowledge of the Lord.' To us, the scattered remnant of Israel, the certainty of our hope, the conviction that ` God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent,' the perfect reliance which, therefore, it behoves us 'to place in his sacred promise, has, during centuries of suf fering, such as no other nation ever experienced, afforded constancy unyielding, and resignation unrepining. Without a murmur we receive the chastisement his paternal hand in flicts, and though our fervent prayers implore his pardon, and supplicate his mercy, we know and feel, that unqualified resignation to his will is our first duty. For the prophet in his holy name declares, 'As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you," (Ezek. xx. 33.) Our present abject state among the nations of the earth, is a proof, which no one can gainsay, that the penalty here denounced against us has been literally fulfilled and in flicted. But he who dictated this denunciation we know to be the ` God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.' In the midst of the fury poured out upon us, he still rules us, jie is still our king,.and we are still his people, for he, our heavenly Father, has vouchsafed to declare,—' Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my first-born,' (Exod. iv. 22,) and has thus established a relation, which no cir cumstances can alter; a bond of affinity, which no miscon duct on our part can sever. Accordingly, throughout the long period of our exile and degradation, his paternal regard has never been withdrawn from us, ` For I the Lord am not altered, therefore, ye sons of Jacob, are ye not consumed,' (Mal. iii. 6.) Never does he, blessed be his name, forget us. For though, Zion saith, the Lord lath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me, can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? /Yea, they may forget, vet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord, (Isa. xlix. 14, 15.) " With his promises ever present to our minds, the trust of Israel in our Father remains unshaken. It is natural to us, as is the trust of the infant in its parent, derived from the dearest and most powerful feeling that his beneficence has bestowed on man, and upheld by the unfailing promise of his sacred word. Moreover, the supreme will of the Lord— blessed be he !—has intrusted to us a duty which we must perform, and an office important to others, as it is most ho nourable to Israel. At Mount Sinai, lie was ple as ed t o de clare, ` If ye will obey my voice, indeed, and keep my cove nant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me : for then all the earth will be mine, and ye shall be u n t o me a ki ng d om of priests, and an holy nation,' (Exod. xix. 5,6.) The func tion of teacher and instructor among the nations of earth, which is here conferred on Israel, is confir me d a t a l ater period, by the prophet's declari ng , 'Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. Therefore, the happiness of the whole hu man race, the felicity destined to all men, that they may know and worship God in truth, and become h.s from their own free will and conviction, depends upon Israel's obeying his voice, and keeping his covenant. Wherever he is driven, the Israelite is still the witness,' whose bare presence attests the unity and omnipotence of God, until the day when He will restore to the nations a pure language, that they may call upon the name of the Lord, with one consent, to ser f : , him, (Zeph. iii. 9.) When that blessed P"rPose i l atta , the Lord will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in his P e i r nta I w e l t; bring thy seed from the east, up, and gather thcc the I will say to the north, give and to the son• keep not back." I will hasten it in its time,' sai th the keel' " Till then, all that. we can do is, to obey his v oice, his covenant, and approach the throne of his mercy j jv the heartfelt ardour to repeat the prayers prescribed to 1 , inspired authors of our liturgy, the men of the Great Atli, bly, of which Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, I‘ l o 3l `, lc . o f Daniel, were members ; what they composed, no r" ours ean improve. i n to " Averse as I have always been, and still am, to re''g a nd controversy, your earnest and well-meaning my reply. I inclose, for your perusal, the opinion 0 .. to great Maimonides on the kingdom of Messiah that l' at o come ; and, with sincere wishes for your happiness bere hereafter, remarks di the " I am, very truly, " S. HERSCHEL, Cbief Rabbi. " Henry Innes, Esq." _ _ _ A few weeks ago I addressed a letter to British uniteChriftiaalls interested in the cause of Israel, soliciting them to ,le e v at the Jewish Day of Atonement in remembering this Pct Po wer a throne of grace, that the blood of the Lamb mig t , o w. them, and that it might prevail for Ancient Israci 3 . 1 , c t Some misconception on the part of the speaker, ex.r,si.Pey) (as I am more inclined to believe, in all the poin ts at 1 . I ts some hurry and confusion on the part of the reporteel,l,3l given the construction, refuted in Dr. Herschel's letteri‘"o,4 the Jewish people had set apart a day for the ret ell ' coming of their Messiah. As the cause of our Divine Master can only be s e , r ifi et e l f with the weapons of truth, and as the authority of the L . u onr Rabbi extends over the West India Islands, w here / 1 I paper, I am given to understand, is extensively circullato feel assured it will meet the approbation of the respect%tage excellent minister of St. Bride's, that no undue ae1v`..,4,40. should be taken of Dr. Herschel's name or authoritYlc.'`lo latcd to mislead the humblest son of Abraham wit e i at itl. ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in this or in any othe r „Oa Therefore I will feel exceedingly obliged by your • of this communication in your next paper. • , is01 )- As Dr. Herschel, in his letter, has alluded to 111 'thei r proval of those whose object is to seduce Israelites from e 3 faith, the following extract from an article written by hill the "Settlement of the Jews ix Palestine," which Yceroote perceive in the London journals of this week, expro s Zdell exactly my opinion of the character of the London for promoting Christianity among the Jews, for w b ,°,;. oh° nisters and missionaries I have the deepest respec t, ": in the particular alluded to, proceed the surest wayt G i rt' nationalise" that people, a course which the Rev. 3 \ h ' a t lb ° wright, in the report of his speech in your With Auxiliary Meeting, strongly deprecates. With this Ira is the matter in your hands, apologising for the length,i t communication, the deeply interesting nature of n ig relates to the peculiar people who are the subject of l" compensate for the intrusion. " During the last thirty years, much labour of ,_- 1 1P 9 , been put forth on behalf of the Jews, especially by te e e .e copal Society in London, which commands a re s ' e ;. ( lt £20,000 a-vear, to do what its hand finds it with resl;,,n to Israel. Of their operations, it becomes every Ch ri4 ; , o lBl speak with gratitude and respect; but troth and tbe i ;.: e cir interests bound up in the stupendous subject of rol e ; We t. version, compel the careful student of Scripture , wi''d ence to this peculiar people, to declare, that the Kay ,;f 00' proaching them has been mistaken, or, if knovo,Al'in the been pursued. In the primitive church, as record e 'r.tb ° Acts of the Apostles, the Jew, converted to the i r t i,,the, Jesus as the snaring Messiah, still continued to N • ve, a '''," laws and ordinances of his people as a rule t"'" whilst, in the mystical body of Christ, we are expecticali'' there is ' neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor th e cision,' in the outward and visible church, to the .17, t 'g!i ° Apostles became or continued Jews, that they n l , lg , t ialatf r the Jews. When, by their national rejection of air: oha A E . the Apostles' turned to the Gentiles,' doubtless t`r, c olf,t; nistration of the affairs of the Churc of Christ ;jetl" upon these. -The law, too, as a covenant, was super E; Astil the Gospel. But, it is to be remembered, that tb e n d HAMIC COVENANT, was 'unterior to the Sinnict bra r respect to the natural seed of that patriarch, and the zi ers l°s tion of the latter affected it not. The covenant coLle;tsll the land given by God to the descendants of Abraba'' IV/ in full force to this day, and its seal is circumcisioTiond ° , those who draw aside the Jewish people from that At, union which subsists under this seal, fulfil not the l a tions of the Apostle who writes, ' is any man Ig e n is ° l :: f t circumcised ? let him not become uncircumcised. , t'' t duty to remove every stumbling block out of the we ) i d ba people—and this is one. Enquiring Israelites sh e ell ,bers an opportunity of worshipping the God of their 10 `, ( 10 1 ' faith in a suffering Messiah, as the primitive conelhot t ll O B l Jerusalem, whose bishop was the Apostle James. l ore le Jewish people deprecate, is the proselytising Christians, drawing the converts into sections of churches, separating whom God has joined tog e,"" i s It' Church of Hebrew Christians, where the Sabbeit il „,"lti #. lr Geo ti lt noured, and the bond of circumcision preserved, ttn",,lid the most powerful witness and testimony whic h J ew Of t " lifted up to the nation of the Jews scattered abroad' truth and power of the cross of Christ." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 4S. (I. HENRY Is sr Layman of the Church of „do North Brixton, London, October, 1839. rev . ' [We have omitted two or three extracts in the P letter, conceiving that, .however interesting in their • :4: they were not necessary to the explanation:]—E•l' TO THE BURGESSES OF LIVERF °(* . -OP° You are Just about electing your municipal repro' 0 1 ., t o and on the choice you make much may hereafter der s a oa bs , They whose business it is to defend the Pri vi l e t e a ot ' advance the prosperity of a town like yours, oug," t hserl mere trading politicians, making the general goo n sl agile, to the purposes of faction, and to their own perso analliaresriiti disement. They ought to be men of standing .j, bility ; their views should be large and liber al *her to o' 6 e . capable of being turned to the benefit of the town, •tlice, to scorn to do any thing, in endeavouring to realise:ll;3ov fit, which was calculated to injure or oppress a sins , ... a io" dual, however humble he might be, or however the loss with which he might be threatened. dings l On this occasion, fellow.townsmen, the pro your reformed town council come before you as befolrthatit of appeal ; and, in fact, the burgesses are the onlY h a th e and constitute the only court of appeal, by whi ch c. • and perverseness of an ignorant and factious corp ora at any time be effectually controlled and remedied•_t Examine, therefore electors of Liverpool, the PP olre'e s i of your town council; scrutinize all that they Itav ccat ch.; done, and whatever they may be meditating, with a "Olt and jealous eye. Admit no excuses ; accept of no PI vo u• you have a right to bare the account fairly rendereo is only the unjust steward that fears a strict iov es o f the honest servant courts inquiry. f the o tb s . Consider then, what the real character is e j which has been steadily and systematically lars_ e ,iftbe e `ot party in your town council which arrogates to th'-` to oo t „i• pellation of liberal. How have several of the most I of the branches of commercial enterprise which ar e ',iv t rd amongst us been treated by the new corpora. , " f the Pie-` derives a princely revenue from the Collection drill" Dues, and the Management of the Docks ;—a bodY t ' the'` to it is not too much to say, that it is the chief, if 0° re late s . ruler and director of every thing in this Port that cif the facility of transacting hlercantli Business ? t o al res „rde The Movement party in the Town Council ' l d tot, e 'de• made manifest the spirit with which it is a ctuat e the 1 4 41 our Merchants and Shipowners. By suppressioNa sP ;0 1. graph it did all that it could do to prevent t oast s 'io conveyance of intelligence which is often of the a . ro be,a t he view to the parties interested. What aCO o' t hei view the authors of such a measure must have W a ite, ler duties of their situation, when to gratify a pe ttY r re 10 thus endeavour to sacrifice the interests of 010 0 o f the pretence of a wretched economy ! Aptieji , . Next, out of those funds, by which even'. de tiv or oti°11•0 religionists, who contribute towards them threes educe the rectly, has a right to profit, a system of gratuitord, tha' be rs has been established ;—but a system so devi se , attal e ,". Members of the Established Church,—vrho s lt ,hsr;` and wealth, intelligence and respectability, on ` , froai - o os' are altogether precluded, by conscientious feeling:tiee to g. ing in its advantages ! What a nice sense d de fee" there not be in the minds of men who persist In rl pri, such a glaring iniquity of But the Corporation is meditating a further aL t s e t c rtiet i ro° vate capital. It is, even now, threatening the u- 'che e p's another important branch of productive industrY•the eteto'ito of the warehouse owners is all but sealed. 1 3 ) . f the the of warehouses at the docks, those in other F arts, n e. will, at one stroke, be deprived of half their val a .„ a py• l a gs , Corporation monopolizing this branch of trade , ' - e d s•a s jo or' dustrious man will be robbed of his hard Wa d to a many a widow and fatherless child will be reduc e t ore sel of bread. to he • A heY f You are told that all that the Corporation de sir es t- e t • d that tlO the public property to the best advantage, and c oca 40 come speculators in building, only because the w ol i o! the project could not be confided with satetY o sta b f ift ° capitalists. You are assured, moreover, that fo oters o monopoly is the very last thing that the P bob d se n 5 ti' scheme intend or desire. e • Now attend a moment, fellow townsmen, a o lo t shallow these pretences are. They are, andtrub. tater to cloak an attempt to raise up an enormous lteafte tutional power, to be unscrupulously wielded e „ c t political purposes. w ith rora Suppose it granted that the Corporation 113: 1 Y bu io d” • propriety employ a part of its ample resources, tha t vi s t!.; warehouses and occupying them ; now might n° l ' e ttiag• e h', • with quite as much propriety, take measures fo r r re g sp et its own hands the shops in the great thorough.'4to t he ito d t has leased to private individuals, and entering 1 0 101i: ter n t ha trade on its own account ? The retail trade, i t i ;-al th 3 ti gr ce ; is a much more profitable employment of or. t ocit„, which the Corporation is about to adopt ; ana 1 ,,,, e , J ment might quite as easily be- broken with the l e " - ear as with the lessee of a warehouse. been s°l grey t 4, The employment of private capital, it has _r so 0 0 not be permitted with safety in a concern u o . for re s, magnitude and of such a nature as this ; hef a h i s the ee off i private individuals could never be brought, (se. e ah the 5 Me' given,) to submit to those strict regulations W ware of the valuable property lodged in our docks an d n oti e f would imperatively demand. A mere idle and frivolous excuse, scarcely woorothey just as if those persons who invested their be regacetl, houses would care one farthing how strict 0 1'0, 1 . the' might be made, or how vexatiously they we r t oo tu d long as they were sure of receiving a . gOO ~ capital! int on .iti, a pO.- 40 1 P• Then comes the question of MONOPOLY; the promoters of this scheme are most partic who i 5 r et . t p „lob' ht And well they may ! for how can any rne m re 7t,a e i r t i c i de l o te i rr of senses, doubt that a monopoly, vast in extonitile e a to e fraught with the greatest danger to must speedily result from an arrangement whic a lt r ho oses. 4 tf ! 1 0 easy for a vessel to place its cargo in the 'F 141‘ 0 1 .40 1 4 Corporation rather than in those helongturitansgersicau.iii dividuals ? Can any one imagine that the I ;. ty for t y) :ill public warehouses will not afford every f ael I That, d i d A O and unloading to those who patronise the?' ?? gui r f ig not provide them with the next quay bertiis s • _ t wh ricy b not, by taking away from them the berths , pe ed t al o vi i - . 0 are now landed for the private warehouses, those warehouses into comparative disuse r , set i t er „ T eo a er' Now ask yourselves, brother electors, lv .) ,_Li sed of ' OO O . - 0 0 ment party in the Town Council is c0.n.1 . V. sa e!) I. , ie h, it •P are likely to use discreetly the power o' n_lc a p r i, ! ICS 00 monopoly would confer ; a monopoly, r e l cs es, , re' ultimate results, would affect deeply all c T hc), all occupations. and 000 Trade and commerce would languish 1.-tn.l,,,,itlier quire the free air of liberty to flourish ; ° V. V . . 0 07 the close and tainted atmosphere of r o a o c ri t U tv P ae ° l: The Merchants of Liverpool—the the high-spirited Merchants—will be thw u ble occi on every hand in the exercise of their lionowriled of t l The Owners of Warehouses will be d es ' life il t P tft e propert y. hone' iiivpta" The Carters, who are now earning' an elled " oti ler ov under the existing system, will be co m p sole t he. 4 e o proceeds of their depreciated property „ r frO •wlll be tal" . it het' suits ;—their present occupation , it i o er a The Porters, the Coopers, —every ore ` oa cle. ployment in the Docks, and all who earn ,_jo g til o V will perceive, and suffer from, the change,•__ p erlsa sc ho,.ip And when Trade and Commerce nandtuif et iou , r opi.stor L fr the greed and the gripe of Cupidity be e ,,t ° man among us, Fellow Townsmen , who.. ` l 2. and apt the general mischief which want of wisdonicoapi ciple in its rulers never fail to bring on a k ' y . 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