The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

reply that vision they • each day, zs as might tldren reli wording of escape of t incurring the words devoted to parents do Lnmodating , d children Ina parents emeut had g but little s for which :itations of ceding that extent the eventually to say, but he kind, or came they rather, sir, r, and then ,y;" And *yes during t you were a system of ;ion during Is, was too e Christian me so loud gave way ,clefistiC of riginal plan he systems itors of the us instruc day. This you left to !ligion they ng and di making ne nd doctrine r, which re a Christian , Id :—no dis rer and the papist an d nen uses' he religious d more that' hint;, more arily intro ring school its the tole ligions, the for this, in trustees of a .e bound to )nscieutious e used. and sir, .1 pet ition of the, Is t ru ction 0 . 1 111 y . the reit' he real Ow let us pa; ad you, ale st by the d thousands as the poles n idolaters , Ve may not ng in Liver nts we have s in a shoot e offered by he most dis tance hypo ibis will jects of her Liverpool. one of your e instructed Hindostan, ons, the re rv, and Tht r m , among st which are. words, there tier and bpi" rabic forms. entative, or niticent Pa' to vicegeren t of Buddha , valid Lama spirit jut° the poor body," &c. Of course, air, you wou ld t a k e care th a t e poor innocent Hindoo children should be taught to be lieve these absurdities no matter to what abominations and idolatrous practices they eventually would lead them. " Be '. g trustees of a fund to be managed for the benefit of all, ).1.311 would be bound to respect equally the religious peculiari ties o f 0 u . ,, Nen co be rnes a poor Turk or Arab, a mussulman. Suppose _broughto his children requesting that, during the hour of r o e f "g: us instructron, they should be initiated in the doctrines reti,i e IC OR Ar , , you would, of course, " respect equally his ti,!ous peculiarities," and give orders that his request o ' t l , ° _ , !(l be carried into effect, and some master or monitor t 2log orders would take the children in hand and teach th e",?„ravely t o b e li eve that " Mahomet was the prophet of st High, that he was inspired to instruct and reform hi ' " l " r ", , "d, and pl ace d a b ove all the prophets, and even Jesus , God and v having made him the great restorer of truth that virtue— the sword i s th e k e y o f h eaven an d hell— vsena dry p of blood shed i te cause of God, or a night t jo arms is of more a n vai h l than two months of fasting yiU epray er _ that whosoever f a lls i n b a ttl e , hi s s i ns ate for "in the day of judgment, his wounds shall be resplendent Wuv,!rniillion, and o d or if erous as musk; the loss of his limbs 4:4 6 be supplied by the wings of anels and cherubim." b tUetanisna in many things hears t g estimony to the truth, lie ling founded on imposture, " it is intended to propagate town-• But that could not make any difference wih toysou and Iliae council ; for, " being trustees of a fund e ma n Red for the benefit of all, you would be bound to respect earlot the religious peculiarities of all"—of Buddhists and s al fiahe Jew presents himself next. We have many Jewish a J ill " in Liverpool; and one of these days you may have ew bringing his children, and expressing his wi•sh that 1 1 0 should be instructed in the creed of the synagogue, the that, article of which That Messiah is yet to come," and consequently, Jesus of Nazareth must be looked upon to readceceiver. I n t h ese cases you would author i se some one h these descendants of Abraham to reject Him, " who ns declared to be the Son of God with power by the resur retion from the dead," though it should be to the eternal , r ,'_uo of their souls : for it is written—" He that believeth not loe 4on, shall not see life ' but the wrath of God abideth on him. : „ euts l 41) 36. But what would that be to you? Let the — ook to that. Y ou , "being trustees of a fund to be lualusged for the b ene fit o f all, would he bound to respect equally the re li g i ous • peculiarities of all " —be they pagans, 124olicten, or unbelieving ngJews. he p ap i sts come next under consideration. And in this instance we shall see w h at you rea ll y h ave d one i n carry i ng Jrt Y o ur principle. P opery i s th e wes t ern f orm o f apostacy Orn 'purity and truthof the,,Christian faith, just as Mo mis th e eastern . And th ere i s very li tt l e t o c h oose • "'eon the t wo systems. T h e former is as much an engine Psthe hand of the devil to•destroy souls as the latter. There 1 5 In the religion of the papist the idolatry of the pagan; the lurk of hu man actions and the self - righteousness of the mus %%Luau, the virtual displacement of Christ from his office of oa viour by the creation of angelic and human mediators, ° pre-spot:Wing to the a c tual rejection o f th e M ess i a h by th e • °yrs : acconapartied by a multitude of other absurdities which cuounon sense ought never to admit, and impieties which cons cienee ou g ht a l ways to re j ect. B ut no matter with you ft ud the liberal town council how absurd and impious. The ex periment h as b een made, and not in vain. The Roman atholi cs h ave brought their children to your schools, request 'ug that they should be instructed in the religious peculiarities the.ir creed. You have aceeded to their iequest. The .. °°2l sh catechism' is taught daily to the children in the alb of the priests by the authorities of the schools. This is 'ape under your sanction, in conformity to your regulations, and positive and practical proof to the public that you are quite sincere in saying, that, " being trustees of a fund ° managed for the benefit of all, you are hound to respect e t r a llY the religious pcculiarities of all." It is therefore clear a t , so far as "you and - your liberal friends are concerned, ane do not care whether the children be taught to worship the l iving and true God, or to worship an idol—to believe in •hrist or to belieVe in Mahomet—to seek salvation by the , ', tt "ling death of Immanuel, or by the merits of penances posed by an apostate priest. So far as you are concerned, Fi e bas given a law to distinguish between right and rn fig between virtue and vice, between the religion that arsessay rig and a religion which destroys, in vain. Your schools converted into nurseries of idolatry and superstition, and madeseminaries of "blasphemous fables and damnabl e here iitoes." T his, of course, you cannot avoid, proceeding as you °ou c ubes iti theesof principles of "respecting equally the religi o us pe- In analysing this principle, I find in it the following in- Rredients :—firstly, a determination not to interfere with any manes religion, be it what it may, good or bad, moral or im -1,--you resolve to let it remain as you find it. Secondly, ?k, toleration of all forms of religion; however barbarous and "grading to the human mind: the good shall not take pre cedence of the bad. The code of truth shall not be preferred to the popish catechism. Thirdly, an d thi s i s t h e climax of a c i r t i oe; a provision is made for tea c hing the b a d, the imm ora l, e barbarous and the heretical, as well as the " pure and un siefited.,. Now, sir, let us pr o c ee d t o t es t thi s p r i nc i p l e b y th e wor d or God. The instances I shall a dduc e w ill go t o s h ow th a t the just and holy God admits of no religion but that which is scriptural, and approves of kings and magistrates employing the power and influence with which they are invested to root up, l destroy, an d b an i sh a l l fa l se re li g i ons, that the only true scriptural one may take their place. ln , e " And Asa did th a t which was good and right in the eyes of Lord his God: for he took away the alters of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the !groves : an d comman d e d J u d a h to see k t h e Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the com- M audrnents." 2 Chron. xiv. 2-4. This was an act of un ceremonious interferance on the dart of the king and chief magistrate w i t h t h e re li g i on of the land, set up and patron i sed 2y previous monarchs; nevertheless, it was approved of tied. If, therefore, the principle on which Asa proceeded was right, that on which you proceed is unquestionably serong—" you respect equally the religious peculiarities of "And Jebu, the son of Hanani the seer, said to Johosa- Phat, King of Judah, sbouldst thou help the ungodly, and lore them that hate the Lord Y Therefore is wrath upon thee 'rout before the Lord. Nevertheless there are good things -band in thee, in that thou host taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."-2 Caron. xix. 2, 3. Jehosanhat was so liberal as to help the . fdolators of the kingdom of Israel; for this, wrath from be fore the Lord was upon him—he was so illiberal, as you Would say, as to interfere with the religion of his own land, and remove the groves in which its idolatrous rites were per formed. For this he was comintailed....." Ana the_Lurl was *ith - Jeho sap i s . a , and ...ttibliiitied his kingdom in his hand," According to your principle of nut interfering with any ,Man's religion, but "respecting equally the religious pecu liarities of all," Hezekiah did wr on g when h e m a d e a g rea t t e .formation, not only in Judah, but also in Ephraim and Manasseh, provinces belonging to another king, and he a 'confirmed idolater. " For Hezekiah removed the high places, 'and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake An Pieces the brazen serpent that Moses hau made, to which 'the chilmen of Israel did burn incense." But what is the 'testimony borne to him by the Spirit of God for this unex- Ans pled interference with oth er men ' s re li g i on , b e in g n o t the Icriptural one? "He did that which was right it the sight of Lord; and the Lord was with him, and he prospered whi t ersoever be went forth."-2 Kings xviii. if your principle of non-interference with, and equal tole tatil° of, all religious peculiarities be right, then our blessed he eTeenser was au intolerant bigot, and acted most unchari- Y, when h e comm i ss i one d hi s apost l es to go f orth "i nto n lf i . the w or ld , and preach the gospel to every creature; "king discipl es o f a ll nat i ons; b ap ti z inethem, and teach lf them all things whatsoever he hau commanded." In carrying out this commission, the religious peculiarities of „_ waole world were to be interfered with and overthrown, that . woe' place. the alone scriptural religion, might take % j'r place. Had Christ acted on your principle, Christianity ._ u uld have expired in Judea; and the whole heathen world would have been left to perish in ignorance, idolatry, and B,,uPerstition. Paul would have never gone forth into Asia su perstition. Europe preaching Christ crucified as the only Saviour, u declaring against every form of worship that was not in a„..ereOrdance with the Word of God. In most of the towns to r " o n a t r ch he and his companions went there was a stir, an up hes s a tumult. Christianity was not palatable—it was op pl to the religious peculiarities of the people—it tolerated • Wheorrnof religion except its own. The people, sir, every th_ re thought, just as you and your liberal associates do in th ° Present day, that these servants of Christ, as they styled tte7oselves had no business to interfere with their religion an religious prejudices; they were satisfied with their own, y r ' wanted no other. And was it not very unkind and an ' Zious in tbe apostles not to let them alone? ia st ruoliag the truth of your principle, all the religious hay tu tions and missionary societies of o ur c o untry, which aei ° for their object the dissemination of the word of God, 1 4 1,., t he sending forth of Christian ministers to proclaim ,st:i',tion through the blood of Christ iu all lands, have been th es ,, li shed and are supported in vain. What a contrast to h ar - noble and beneficent institutions is presented in the th e •• u a Fter of your schools! The former labour to destroy I,,, ni l ,ngdoin of darkness—your schools, to uphold it. The st rc e : Persuade the nations to forsake image -worship as de the to the soul—in your schools the great majority of crut`:7,ilclren are taught " that it is allowable to honour reties, ca,i,),,es. and h o ly pi c tu re s as mem or i a l s o f Ch r i s t an d hi s th,, t The former endeavo . ur . to convince the gentiles l est n , e . r e is no merit in the religious acts of men, that I t ~:dlotte did or could satisfy for sin—the Romish children „, Urc schools, on the contrary, are taught to believe, that . ( 1, 4,,,",' L 5 t-tng they may satisfy God for their sins; and that th at 6 "0 Penance imposed by the priest is satisfaction, and 111 sins are forgivers through the sacrament titrai „'ce•" The former point out to the pagans in every thildr"ie absurdity of praying to their deified heroes—the Arab inn in y our sc h oo l s, on t h e contrary, are instru c t e d to 4 . , the Virgin, to angels and to canonized saints. I -at,aopr‘9ceed no fu i !h er . tatiit i e4o nian catholics themselves never expected that men Of k themselv es protestants — protest i ng against the errors Owe religion would b e so i ncons i s t en t an d t reac h ero us to their Itw ea e'lgion as to b ecome the patrons and teachers of. the te eteht u is catholi c cathechistn. There is no picture of pro °so 11 fo which the eye of a foreigner inquiring after truth ehrimaiduirected, so unfavourable and scandalizing to the or Live faith, as that presented by the liberal town-council A 'Pool. Nut only you avoid interfering with idolatry, ha t iworship, worship - ping of angel and Christian heroes— teach You tolerate, but von actually make provision to I 'l ll 4 tolahrie.se abominations y .. to - the childre . ri of the poor Irish in have in o a u de ha s v h e i , p w u r t e a c vs k a , y , conscience, and concerning „ 45 Plea f • • ti, Q -r strait having all parties to please means nothing. strait Course should have been to ascertain which was migt and pure, and simple form of Christianity, and make e basis and theprincipal part of the system, come who Liiii: e t t %t a lr schools, stay away who would. The Bible, eitotrhecirirri7e.nt, was at hand : this ought to have have Your av e standard by which to stand or fall. You ought to til e 4- 44 Princi I incipal class-b:mk, and the sole judge of tr w orld pes and practices. The moral Governor of tie to.erates no religion, or form of religion, except the scripturalht4"4lBt one, neither should you, either as parents ra o W hek rt tes, as trustees, or in any character whatsoever: 4 , 1 , 1 d p e , >e 7 . less teach a false religion! For as protestanttsm Ale d .a!e diametrically opposed to each other in prowl 'st ad r 3 r a(-tice, and you teach both in your schools, you t t, ea t c h h at , :f h t e h r e et o i n , e , be true, the other must be errone • 8 ° tin i a , ° th at, if the one be true, the other must be erroneous; rith th retie y ou e one case you teach "sound doctrine," in the ~ teat 4nd retrace It is not too late, sir, for you to tot he the e our . stepsdown in a hod . ' y to the . schools I oe w i e ,,_noe of popish heresies and Christianized idolatry 9tt th ` . s.-- , replace it with the Holy Bible, and take an oath PI Ab p eti ;'' n or will never depart from the Christ ain faith and h a Ito the "roan again. ging of a fund for the benefit of all," which tioci 4ve e , u _ s ed . , n a 4n nd do use as an argument in defence of the right.uo_a_h h ich you act, a very few words will serve to put nt of di.. , l l V e atever funds are employed for the propoga aßed f " troth and religious knowledge, are necessarily he benefit of all • but such as are used for the c °tit rar name are heretieal doctrines or error under any name or T e noaed for. the the ben e fit o f none; b u t, on t h e t : il e i r nisapplied t o t h e present and eternal injury of arld s Neseet :or necessarily leads away from God, and en ahPrtete future misery on the soul that believes it ?On t it. Of course I am speaking of fundamental te%reveruitt pithier and religious truth—does good L e _ t.f a ~,_'?) t ads admission. Your duty, therefore as trus malajait „ r and general fund, " to y be managed for the 4 %1 i 2*ls is very plain and easy ; not to einploy a single ri ` ,i !•hingerror of any kind. but to lay out as lar , ely . 1 0.! g,„ " e ! . plst in the tinu purely scriptural eduction of the he.,s4ou have he ase I , era., 4 de a very serious mistake in suppositig, that th e al N 4 ,1 of a., religious creeds contribute to the cor eape s . Y•at nits bound to satisfy the conciences of all in Lo r eli g i on int:lnure, and sell your own into the hargain. Where fi acr '" nv 'rned there • te , ri acecor , is but one course betere you, viz., 'vi ,ance via the word and will or God. You are e hara for t use ytru make of the funds, BONE. ur of last 'or some out none mule. I my own a further into the s subjvct it was in haracter, became ologisiog d to my .ame my s which ie public the least .wise the •In this hlic have ict ; and ftvish, irritating o allude, it of eclu laud, but peration Fected by .n of the p rivilege :iog reli ling it as satisfy troduced as in the i was ex nation of solutions religious t object; he school clv-eati at summer. it ions bi practical corpora g up and le schools ler be the s instruc ig "after and sup a of each town as teer their and re on which n of our ted forms , and seek ional edu le credit ut others Ito effect, in olden r the use arpose for mnponent ag School ) consider "wisdom loin here, Proverbs, 'the Lord religion; sdom, the rn an heir !ck in the hereafter. only pro } to a very source of complete in endless Solomon, nding."-- and afterwards to men. You should therefore labour to have,. first, " a conscience void of offence towards God," and never sacrifice this for the sake of pleasing men. Contributors to the fund can have no lawful ground of complaint against you, so long as you confine the application of that fund to the teaching of truth and pure religion; and if they should. find fault; your answer is ready—" We ought to obey God rather than men." Let me also add, in conclusion, that parents are strictly enjoined in the Bible to " bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." When they, there fore, through ignorance, or otherwise, attempt to educate them in a creed or form of religious worship that is unscrip tural and antichristian, it becomes your immediate and seri ous duty to remonstrate with them, and certainly in nowise to assist them to ruin their offspring for ever. On every ground, sir, your conduct in this affair is indefen sible. You have " erred, not knowing the scriptures." That God of his goodness may convince you all of your error, and bring you into the way of truth, is fervent prayer of my heart. 1 am, sir, Your most obedient servant, D. JAMES. Kirkdale, Jan. 4, 1839, SPURIOUS BARK. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—ln a letter addressed to the editor of the Liverpool Standard of the 25th ult., by a writer under the signature of " Oh !" it is stated that " several serons of bark, of some thousands of pounds weight, were lately offered for sale in the Liverpool market, but were rejected by the respectable houses in the trade as a spurious article. It nevertheless found purchasers; but as a great law authority has decided the greater the truth the greater the libel,' perhaps those sturdy champions for uenuine drugs —the doctors—will save me the risk of an adios, by informing the public who it was that made the purchase, and where this identical spurious stuff is dispensed, at the moderate profit of full two hundred per cent." The letter from which the above is quoted, is headed " The Liverpool Apothecaries' Company," and as the whole of the arguments contained in it :end to establish the injurious effect of monopolies upon the honest efforts of individual competition, the above fart appears to have been introduced to show that the public are less secured from im position by joint-stock trading companies, however plausible their pretensions, than by a system of trade wherein integrity of dealing and the sale of a good article can alone insure a good reputation. Cinchona bark is a drug of such impor tance in the materia medico, that the public have a right to call upon the "Apothecaries' Company" to clear themselves, if in their power, from t,he insinuation.apparently iiii.cted against them in the letter of .':Oh • For myself I must acknowledge, that, until ttis is cleared up, I shall be mote than usually scrupulous, not only of whom I purchase bark, but every other description of drugs and medicine. " Some thousands of pounds weight" of one spurious article only, in a place like Liverpool, is a serious thing. The health of the public is not to bo trifled with, and they ought to know who were the purchasers of the "spurious stuff," and where it " is dispensed at the moderate profit of full two hun dred . per cent." JUS'IITIA. THE SCIENCE OF ARCHITECTURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—lt has become a practice lately, with the gentlemen of the public press of this town, to insert notices in the form of critiques on buildings that have recently been erected here for public purposes. Of course Ido not mean to find fault with the medium through which these critiques come, but it is the matter contained in them that 1 object to. These, in many instances, have evidently been written by persons not conversant with the true science of architecture, either as regards the distinguishing characters of the styles, or the laws of composition peculiar to each; but whose pseudo-pretensions are sufficient to obtain for their lucutira lions a place in the columns of the public papers. These critics should, before obtruding their opinions on the public, study . the elements of composition in those parts which characterise the different styles of architecture, and .at the same time acquire (where Nature has not precluded the possibility) a correct taste for the beautiful, with a true knowledge of the complete adaptation of these to the pur poses for which they are intended;—then we may expect the science to be benefited, and the public taste improved, by their criticisms : but, in the present imperfect state of their knowledge, the science itself is degraded and demoralised almost as much by these criticisms as by the buildings criti cised; and the tastes of the uninitiated corrupted by the libe ral but ignorant application of cant terms, such as " ele gance of design," " chastity and purity of taste," "magni ficent effect of touts ensemble," &c. &c., which they bestow indiscriminately on buildings of fictitious character and me retricious taste, as well as on those of pure character and classical elegance. That these effusions, from the pens of men incompetent to judge correctly of the merits of such productions, should be allowed to pass current as true coin, through the news paper columns, without being checked, or at all events ex posed, is much to be regretted by those who take an interest in the advancement of that noble and useful science in our town ' • and I consider the gentlemen at the head of the press here have a heave responsibility on their shoulders, by the indulgence thus granted, for the consequences that are likely to arise, not only to the public, but also to the truly profes sional men, who have probably spent half their lives and much money in the acquirement of a competent knowledge of their profession, to enable them properly to discharge their duty to their employers,—and, above all, the conse quences which are certain to arise to the town itself. I have been induced to say this much, on account of the fulsome and ignorant panegyrics that have appeared from time to time in the papers, on some of these buildings lately erected and recently opened in Liverpool, which, in my opt nion, are as complete failures in true architectural compo sition as ever came from the hands of men professing a knowledge of that dignified science. At a future time, perhaps in a series of letters. if you will have the kindness to grant them a place in your columns, 1 shall point out the incongruity that so much abounds in these "magnificent structures,"_ and also trace the misapplication of spurious imitations of parts that have been taken from the works of more skilful masters: and in doing so, I pledge myself to praise or censure the works, without any reference or personal feeling whatever to the authors of them, who I do verily believe are most exemplary members of society, although not quite so much so of the architectural profes sion.—Yours, &c. VIGNOLA. ON THE ADULTERATION OF MALT AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.AND..4RD. Sta,—Among the various subjects which su loudly call for reform, it surprises me that no one exerts himself to obtain a reform in one which intimately concerns a very large pro portion of her Majesty's lieges, and which stands in greater need of reform than any other which can be mentioned: 1 allude to the frightful extent to which the adulteration of malt and spirituous liquors is carried on. Ido not suppose any law could be enacted which would altogether prevent it, but still it is very evident that the existing laws are very in adequate to the purpose. I would, therefore, earnestly re commend to the people of England to petition the legislature to pass a new act, to be intituled,. "An Act for the better preventing the Adulteration of Ale, Porter, and Spirits." I think there can be but one opinion in the country, that such an act is rendered highly necessary. The only question that remains is, in what manner it should be framed. The first thing, then, I would advise, is, that the fines which the law now inflicts on conviction of a brewer using deleterious arti cles in the brewing of ale, be altogether abolished. A fine is a very inadequate punishment. A brewer carries on a system of adulteration by which he realises some thousands: he must be indeed an unlucky dog if he be found out before he clears a few hundreds. He therefore plays a sure game. If convicted, (an event which may never occur, and which will seldom occur but once in a man's life; for whatever cir cumstances may have led to it, he will take care to steer clear of them in future,) he pays a sum which, compared to the sum he has ;rained by it, is as nothing. If a man meets you on the highway, and robs you of a few pounds, he is on conviction transported. Now only reflect for a moment on the consequences of the brewer's conduct. He in the first place cheats you, inasmuch as he sells you a spurious article, and charges as much as be ought to charge had it contained its due proportion of malt and hops. But, what is still worse, he secretly undermines your constitution—robs you of that first of blessings, your - health—and lays the foundation of those diseases which render life a burthen, and consign you to an early tomb. And will any one say that the man who, for the vile and selfish consideration of private emolument, thus deals out misery and death to hundreds and thousands, should not at least be as severely dealt with as the midnight thief, or the highwayman who robs you in the open face of day? But as prevention of crime is always better than punishment, allow me to suggest a few hints, which may tend, if adopted, to lessen the evil. I would then, in the first place, enact,—chat sixpenny and eightpenny ale should con tain respectively a certain quantity of malt and hops, and that no brewer should sell them under a certain sum per barrel. Every brewer, on taking out his license, should be solemnly sworn to adhere to this rule, and should also be made to take a solemn oath that he will not put, or cause to be put, any deleterious drug in his ale or porter. We will charitably suppose that many would be prevented by this alone from adulterating their ale. The punishment, how ever. which I would inflict for a violation of this last oath, should be, on a clear conviction, transportation fur life. If convicted of substituting sugar, molasses, or any other inno cent article in lieu of malt, 1 would then punish him by a fine at the discretion of the excise. By compelling him to put the due proportion of malt into the number of barrels he brews each time, he would lose the advantage to be derived from the coculus indicus, and the many et ceteras with which the brewer's druggist furnishes him. There is also anther circumstance which requires to be amended. The publican receives a vast deal more than an equitable share of the pro fits arising from the sale of his ale. A barrel of ale ought to run 32 gallons, which, at 6d. a quart, makes 64e. Now it is a well-known fact, that many brewers sell their ale as low as 40s. a barrel, and allow 2s. discount out of that, which leaves the publican a profit of 265. Now if the publican receives a profit of 13s. from the sale of one half barrel, what profit must the brewer have who sells it for 195., and what profit can he have if he brews it solely from malt and hops ? It is easy, then, to see how the public are abused, in order that the publican may grow rich at their expense. The publican who gives 19s. and the publican who gives 245. for the half barrel, both sell it for 6d. a quart. Now this is a monstrous imposition. The original price of all ale, and the quantity of malt and hops used in the brewing of it, ought to be regu lated by a fixed standard, and the publican ought to be re strained in the exorbitance of his profit. By this means the public would be protected, and they would stand a fair chance of obtaining an unadulterated article for their money ; and the honest brewer would be protected from the unprincipled conduct of those mercenary wretches who care nut what poison they vend, so that they can tempt the still more mer cenary publican to purchase from them their cheap but per nicious mixture. It is to that mighty engine, the press, which, when rightly conducted, and guided by the energies of intelligent and honest men, may be indeed truly called the palladium of our liberties, that we can alone look for the redress of those grievances hich, like a noisome pestilence, hover over and corrupt our land. Let me, then, entreat you to take up this matter as it deserves, and being once con vincer! of the alarming extent to which the adulteration of malt liquors in particular is carried on, endeavour to rouse the public mind to a sense of their wrongs, and to the misery which is entailed on them in the dreadful shapes of paralysis, insanity, &c. &c., through their daily consumption of that spurious article which is too often vended under the name of a wholesome and salutary beverage. Allow me now to mention one more circumstance which loudly calls for reformation. We are a nation of nominal Christians. Would we were such in reality! Our rulers, therefore, ought to be Christians; and though it would be too much to expect that they should have arrived to the " fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ," yet it is not too much to expect that the doctrines of our holy religion should form the basis of their deliberations, and that nothing should be sanctioned by the laws of our land which brings a discredit on our holy religion. Now, while the sale of every other arti , 'le is prohibited on the Sabbath day, why should that of ale and spirits be allowed? If it be a disgrace to a pious Christian to be seen in a public-house on the Sabbath, it must he a disgrace to a Christian government to allow that public-house to be. open on that holy day. " But," say the advocates of the system, •` Sunday is the day on which the publican derives his greatest profit; and if vou close his house on that day, you would do hiut a serious injury. Sun day is also the only day which the nuechithic and the labourer have for recreation, and it would be hard to deprive them of it." It would indeed be hard to deprive any man of any gain or of any recreation which he can enjoy consistently with his hapes of heaven; hit, inasmuch as the soul is of in finitely mare value than the body, it cannot but he considered . charitable and humane in any government—and more espe. cially a Christian government—to consult in its enactments the good of the soul in preference to that of the body: and that the soul cannot but be endangered by a Sabbath spent in a total neglect of all religious duties, and polluted more over by the drunken revels of a puthouse, is a truth which few will h hardy enough to deny. Picture to yourself for a moment the pure, the holy, the heavenly joys which arise in 'the soul of the pious Christian, when he unites his voice with that of an assembly of the faithful, in singing the praises of his great CI eater, and celebrating the wonders of His re deeming mercy and love-in humbly confessing his manifold sins and transgressions—and in receiving the blissful testi mony of God's Holy Spirit, that his prayers are accepted at the throne of grace; —and then carry yourself, in imagina tion, on the morning of the Sabbath, within the walls of the tavern—oh! what a difference wi►l you find there! Instead of bending before the throne of Almighty Power, for grace to enable him to -go through the duties of the Sabbath in a manner acceptable to God and profitable to himself, behold the wretched votary of luxury and sensuality hastening with the early dawn to pour down his throat the soul-destroying cup, which, taken at such an early hour, must have a still greater effect in clouding his faculties, and unfitting his soul for those holy and heavenly exercises which constitute the truest happiness of. the sincere and pious Christian, and the performance of which he ever cons►ders an inestimable pri vilege; instead of a painful duty. Now will any prince, prime minister, or magistrate say that the man who thus commences the Sabbath is likely to reverence it during the remainder of the day?—and if he be not, is not the inference to be drawn unavoidable ? Let every dram-shop, beer-house, and public-house be closed during the whole of the Sab bath ;—let none be allowed to be open on that holy day except what come strictly under the denomination of inns, and afford nightly accommodation for travellers, and let them be prevented from drawing ale or spirits on the Sab bath till after morning service. If men are determined to spend the Sabbath in drunkenness they still will have the means, they may purchase the enticing fluid on the Saturday and consume it in their own houses. I would even allow the public-houses to sell ale during one hour on Sunday, say from twelve to one—not to be consumed on the premises. But it is the bounden outy of every christian government strictly to prohibit those disgraceful scenes which are exhibited every Sabbath in the public-houses of this country. lam ready to schnit that the exchequer would stiffer a little from such regulations; but surely some means might be adopted to sup ply the deficiency ;. and what a system of finance must that be which depends for its success on the encouragement of drunkenness, immorality, and the profanation of God's holy Sabbath. In the remarks which I have now offered to your notice, I have confined myself entirety to the awful desecra tion of the Sabbath which is now permitted by law, and pu nishable by the same law when committed, though scarcely ever nunished. But surely it would be by much the most rational and christian mode of conduct to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors altogether on the Sabbath, except to those who are sojourners in the houses, where nightly accom modations are provided. In very many instances, I firmly believe that they who now waste the Sabbath in idleness and drunkenness would bless the friendly hand which rescued them from the seducing temptation. Indeed, I have myself often heard a confirmed drunkard declare that he wished there were no public-houses; and it is not difficult to con ceive his feelings—his conscience tells him that drunkenness is not the road to Heaven, and he would fain emerge from the dreadful thraldom in which he has hitherto been held captive. But, alas, the temptation to sin is too great for him to withstand. By a long indulgence in the vice, it. has become as it were a second nature. His companions, in whose company he has been in the habit of indulging in it, entice him away, and the Sabbath scarce dawns upon him ere he finds himself seated with them in one of those haunts of wickedness which, to the shame and disgrace of our country, are allowed to open their doors to him on that holy day, and retain him there, busily engaged in the service of sin and Satan, till tha bells of the christian temple announce that the hour is arrived for the commencement of that holy and heavenly service in which he has now rendered himself to tally unfit to be a partaker. Surely a moment's reflection must show our rulers that the barbarous, Gothic, and un christian practice ought to be abolished • that laws framed by Christians should allow no customs which it is unbecoming the christian character to indulge in, and that there can be no better means of consulting the peace and prosperity of the realm than by withholding froM the labouring classes every temptation to waste in drunkenness and idleness that holy Sabbath which was ordained fur a very different purpose, even the fitting and preparing our souls for the enjoyment of those pure and heavenly delights, of which we hope to become partakers during the endless ages of a happy eternity, when the scene of the present life shall be closed.—l remain, sir, your most obedient servant, PHILANTHROPOS. SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS. ADDRESS TO ALL DIRECTORS AND PROPRIETORS OF RAILWAYS. GENTLEMEN,—ImpeIIed by a solemn sense of duty, the committee of the North Staffordshire Lord's Day Observance Society again respectfully address y . ou concerning your tra velling trade on that day. The Decatogue being that moral and unrepealed law, which God has promulgated for the obedience of man; and " remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," being one of its commands ; the Diviue Saviour, moreover, having de clared, " the Sabbath was made for man," and by his own example, and by. that of his apostles, and the primitive church, having authorized this religious rest to be observed on the first day of ever y week ; therefore the most eminently pious men, of every Christian age, have concluded the Lord's day to be of Divine appointment, and of perpetual obliga tion. The Sabbath resting upon this Divine basis, and its ob servance being confessedly subservient to the purposes of God's moral government, and promoting the best interests of mankind, we cannot wonder that the wrath of God fol lowed fearfully upon its gross pollution by . the Jewish na tion;* nor that immorality the most debasing, and calami ties the most severe, have distinguished every Christian country remarkable for its desecration.—Can, then, Great Britain, pre-eminently blessed as she is from on high, rea sonably expect to escape similar judgments if she contract similar guilt ? Now it is not to be denied that to a great extent she has already thus sinned against her God, nor that in very influ ential quarters there is a disposition to it,volve our beloved country in the most flagrant and systematic violation of the Sabbath; and especially, in justification of the present ad dress, we believe it can tie proved, that our greatest Sabbath desecration is now being perpetrated by the Sunday Railway Travelling Traue,—tne realest, Decalitre or the vast extent of its operations, which ramify, or soon will do so, into most districts of the kingdom,—the greatest, also, because it has the effect of perpetuating guilt like to its own, in other im portant companies—coach and omnibus masters being vir tually obliged to run their conveyances on Sundays, as those of the railways run; and canal proprietors and carriers con tinuing the yoke of Sabbath slavery upon thousands of boat and wharf-men, not a little influenced, we fear, in doing so, by the evil example of their rivals of the railway trade,—the greatest, lastly, because the Sabbath desecration on railways is, in some respects, more national than any other, supported as they are by an unprecedented portion of our mercantile and monied influence; and their vast concerns being, more perhaps than those of any other trade, the subject of legis lative, and, therefore, of national sanction. However gross then and manifold may be our other Sab bath sins, a fearful aggravation of them is chargeable upon the railways of the land, for your directories have, as it were, overspread our country with a practical perversion of the words of our Lord, that t" the Sabbath was made fur man;" and every where, in awful opposition to Jehovah, you are preventing the people from " Remembering the Sabbath to keep it holy." It seems, therefore, imperative that, in all affectionate plainness of speech, e e charge home upon you this enormous guilt, even as openly as you are perpetrating it throughout the kingdom—the sight and sound of your Sabbath-Trains in viting simple villager?, iis well as more sophisticated towns men, to rebel against their God :—it seems imperative that, since the heaviest judgments have invariably followed upon national Sabbath violations ' and that your system involves you add the country in such violations to an alarming extent, we should contend with you, as Nehemiah the civil ruler of Israel did with God's ancient people, saying, " What evil thing is-this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath ? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city ? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath.l Motives of expediency have been often urged upon you : —it has been unanswerably argued that, as operatives in Sunday trades must be less conscientious, and more demoral .ized than observers of the Sabbath, so there is reason to fear that your .Sunday servants are placed in such a cruel posi tion, that they must deteriorate in moral worth, and conse quently become less trustworthy. But we would influence your minds by what ought to be a vastly more effective lever than mere commercial expediency; and that is, the principle of Christian patriotism ; and the fulcrum upon which we would rest that lever is the word of God. God hath commanded us to "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," the substance of which command is ever obligatory :—God bath sooner or later fearfully punished all nations, it privileged as our own, which have ventured to violate the Sabbath :—We are now grievously and growingly doing so; and as companies, comprising. or about to coin prise the greatest influeuce—Government itself only excepted —you the railway companies are committing, sanctioning, and perpetuating a perilous amount of Sabbath desecration. —As plainly then as we have felt it our duty to declare to you your sin, and its certain ruinous consequences, so ear nestly would we implore you to re-consider the course you are now pursuing. * Ezekiel, 20th chapter, 13, 16, 23 to 27 verses. t " The Sabbath was made fur man, and not man for the Sabbath."—Mark, - c. ii, v. 27. It was made for man at all limes—in his innocency even— (Gen.' c. ii, v. 2, 3)—and, therefore, more particularly for hint, because most needed, since his fall into sin.—lt was made for the whole of man, as a being formed of soul and body; most especialiy for his soul, as a religious rest, to pre pare him fur eternity; but also us a rest for his body, to pre serve it in time. Hence it is plain that, while works of necessity, piety, and mercy are allowed, nay required. by the Sabbath law—for " man was not made for the Sabbath,"—all other works on the Lord's day are transgressions of that law, not only because opposed to the Divine will, but because endangering the well-being of both soul and body, for " the Sabbath was made for man." A multitude of facts prove that Sabbath-breakers are less prepared for the next world, and far less useful and happy in this, than Sabbath observers; and the most eminent profes sional men testify that this periodical relatation of the Sabbath is necessary to the mental and physical, as well as to the moral constitution qf man. See, for instance, extracts from Dr. Farre's evidence before a committee of the House of Com mons.—" 'The Sabbath was made for man' as a necessary appointment."—" 'Om, day in seven,' by the bounty of Provi dence, is thrown in as a day of compensation, to perfect by its repose the animal system."—" A human being then is so constituted that he needs a day of rest, both from mental and bodily labour?—Certainly." 1: Read Jeremiah, 17th chapter, from 17th verse.—" And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the. Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, hut hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein ; then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes, sitting upon the throne ot David, rid ing in chariotsand on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever." " And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and br►nging sacrifices of praise into the house of the Lord. But if ye will not hearken unto me, to hallow the Sabbath day, and not bear a burden, even en tering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will 1 kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—The Directors of the Great Western Steam Navigation Company have issued a notice, that, in causequence of the state of the tide, the Great Western cannot be hauled into Pembroke Dock, to refit, at present, which will cause her to be detained beyond the time appointed far her sailing twelve days, and that she will sail on the 31st, instead of the 19th, of this month. The sailing of the Liverpool was, we believe; purposely fixed so far off as the 6th of February, that there should lot be an improper interference with the Great Western. The postponement of the day of the sailing of the latter steamer will, however, bring her into almost direct competition with the farmer, and de. prive each company, but particularly, the Transatlantic Steamship Company, of the lair chance of return for their enterprise,,.-Albion. LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS. /11HE SECOND CONCERT will : take place THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Bth of January instant, at the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Great Charlotte-street. VOCA LISTS Miss BRUCE, Miss FANNY WYNDHAM, And Mr. H. PHILLIPS. PIANO-FouTE,--MADAME DULCKEN, Pianiste to the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent; and Music Instructress to Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge. LEADER,—Mr. HERMANN. The Orchestra will be numerous, including the most emi• nent professional talent of Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Chester, &c., every department being complete Mr. EYTON will preside at the Piano-forte. The Doors to be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Concert will commence at Half-past Seven precisely. Subscribers' Tickets admit to the Boxes and Circle. Non-Subscribers' Tickets for the Boxes and Circle are is. each; and for the Gallery, 35.; to be had of Mr. Warss, Church-street; Messrs. Hisia and SoN, Church-street and Bold-street ; Mr. TuomsoN, Great George-street ; Mr. PALMER, Bold-street ; Mr. SMITH, Lord-street; Mr. C. H. THOMPSON, London-road; and Mr. Woo DWA RD, Dale-street. Books of Words may be had at Mr. Waiss's, and at the Amphitheatre, on the evening of the Concert. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communications of "W.:11." and " 5.W.8." arrived too late fur our present publication. They shall have our best attention; but we are afraid that the latter is too long. Several other contributions are postponed for want of space. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birnzingham, Manchester, 4.c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. Zbe Eiberpool ,f,tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 8, 1839. CANADA.—By the packet-ship Oxford, which ar- lived here on Sunday, we have received intelligence from New York to the 19th ult., and a copy of the Hamilton Gazette to the 10,h ult. From the latter we can collect no later intelligence than that which we have already published. Tlie New York papers furnish us with some additional news. The last in vading expedition to Canada has met with the same fate as all the former attempts of the same kind. The Canadian militia was chiefly instrumental in repelling the attack in the neighbourhood of Detroit. The In dians had also taken a number of prisoners, whom they had captured in the woods. General Brady is described as having been actively employed in making arrests of such of the invaders as found their way back to the American shore. General Theller (as he has been dubbed by the rebels) was captured on the sth ultimo, and placed in confinement. The charge brought against him was, that he had fomented an insurrec tionaty movement against the authority of the British crown. He will be tried, with several others, by Judge Wilkins, at the next sitting of the United States District Court. Bill Johnson has been once more captured. Abbey and George, the former a colonel, and the latter a paymaster in the rebel forces, were executed, in pursuance of their sentence, at Kingston, on the 14th ult. Twelve others have been found guilty, and seven have pleaded guilty. No hopes of pardon were held out to them. Von Shoultz, who was executed at Kingston on the Bth, is said to have expressed himself in the following terms, in a letter to a friend in New York—" Let no further blood be shed. Believe me, from what I have seen, that all the stories that were told about the sufferings of the Canadian people were untrue." MEXICO.—The news brought by the Oxford respect ing the affairs of Mexico is of first-rate importance. We subjoin the news of the capitulation of the fort of San Juan de Ulboa, which is situated at the entrance to the harbour of Vera Cruz : BOMBARDMENT AND CAPITULATION OF THE CASTLE OF ST. JUAN DE ULLOA. (From the New York Courier and Enquirer, cf .Dec.l7.). . _ The New Orleans papers, received yesterday, bring us the important news, that the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, which commands the entrance of the port of Vera Cruz, had been captured by the French squadron. The details of this event will be found in the extracts we give below. We do not see —if the Mexican Government remains firm, of which, by the by, we entertain strong doubts—that this success will neces sarily bring about an immediate termination of the difficul ties between France and Mexico. The French squadron is, evidently, not . provided with sufficient troops to make any impression on the interior of the country, and. unless this takc tile possession or the castle will prove but a bar ren conquest. There is a statement in the following extracts which we cannot give without remark. It is this: that the Mexican Government acceded to all the demands of France, before the attack on the castle, save that of allowing Frenchmen to carry on a retail trade in the Mexican Republic. This is clearly a question of domestic policy, with which no foreign nation has a right to interfere. Tu us, as Americans, how ever, this is a secondary consideration; but, we ask, ought we to allow ourselves to be interdicted from trading with Mexico because she refuses to permit Frenchmen to carry on a retail trade in her territories? (From the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, of Dec. 2.) IMPORTANT Fttotti MEXICO. VERA CRUZ TAKEN. By the French steam-ship Meteor, which arrived last night, in sixty hours from Vera Cruz, intelligence is received that the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa, was taken by the French fleet, after a b om ba r d men t o f three hours, with the loss of only four men by the blockading squadron, while from four to five hupdred . Mexicans were killed. In the same ship came a messenzer, who was hurried on to Washington; being the bearer of important dispatches. From the Courier we take the following, particulars of the bombardment: — On the 27th of November, the French Admiral, Bandit), sent word to the Mexican General, Rincon, that he was about to attack the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. About two o'clock the same day, three French frigates, a sloop-of war, and two bomb-ketches moored between the reef, within gunshot of the castle; and so well directed where their bombs and heavy artillery, that in less than four hours they had silenced the fire of 160 pieces of Mexican artillery, demo lished all the outworks, including the famous redoubt called, El Caballero, and killed and wounded 600 men of the Mexi can garrison. About six o'clock in the afternoon of the 27th, the Mexi can commander in the castle hung out a signal for the cessa ;ion of hostilities, and begged to be allowed time to withdraw his wounded men from the ruins of the fortifications. Ad miral Baudin replied, that he could consent to no truce, but would allow the - Mexicans to retire from the fort, if they capi tulated. To this the Mexican General agreed, and withdrew his troops from the castle, which was immediately occupied by the French soldiers and marines. The Mexican army, near Vera Cruz, was 5,000 strong►, but their officers did not consider themselves able to hold the town, commanded, as it was, by the guns of the castle, until the French Admiral consented that 1.00) of the Mexican troops should remain in the city to preserve order. It was believed that negotiations had been commenced between the Mexican Government and the French Admiral for the re-establishment of peace, but some time may eapse before the result is known. The French Admiral, it was thought, would no longer hin der the vessels of all nations from trading to Vera Cruz. We have here given all the particulars which have reached us. Of the ulterior designs of either the French or Mexi cans we are ignorant. At a late hour last night we were put in possession of the following highly interesting particulars of the attack and capture of the castle of Sail Juan de 011oa, for which, we were all indebted to the polite attention of an officer of the U.S. Revenue Cuter Woodbury : "U.S. Revenue Cutter Woodbury, December 7,1&38. " Having been an eye-witness of the engagement between the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa and the French blockading squadron under the command of Rear Admiral C. Baudin, at Vera Cruz, I have penned the following account of the same, and which I have directed to you, for whatever purpose you may think proper to snake of it. The 27th day of Nov., wal fixed upon as the final issue of the message to the Mexi can Government from the French Admiral. According to reports, in the morning a courier had arrived, bringing their answer, which was, War to the blade, and front the blade to the hilt.' During the morning the French squadron pro ' ceeded, with three double-banked frigates, four sloops of war, as many brigs and bomb-vessels, and took their position abreast of the castle, without any interruption, at about one mile distant ; the weather being very fine, and perfeCtly calm. "At half-past two, p.m , the bombardment from the French fleet commenced; at that instant the Mexican colours were hoisted on the castle, and the fire promptly returned. " The fire was continned, by both sides, without cessation, till between the hours of four and five, p.m., when, the bombs from the French fleet having taken effect, two severe explo. sions took place in the castle, which, for sonic time, com pletely enveloped it in smoke. Upon clearing away, we per ceived, that the observatory, which was situated on the high est battery, from which the warmest tire was kept up, was entirely demolished. The other explosion took place in the low battery, burying in their ruins upwards of 200 men, and dismounting upwards of 170 pieces of artillery, according to the accounts I received from town. The thing from both sides continued until eight o'clock, at which time that from the castle ceased. " The next morning, by a despatch from town, we were in formed, that the loss in the castle was 400 men killed and wounded, among whom were a) Officers, the second in com mand of the castle, Col. Cele, of the battalion Aldama, being among the number killed. " From the Frent h squadron, no authentic information has been received of their loss; yet, you may form an opinion, when I assure you, that the frigate Ephiginie alone received upwards of 100 round shot, according to the report of an officer of the U. S. sloop of war Erle, who visited the French Admiral on the morning after the action. During the night a flag ,vas sent from the castle to the French Admiral, de manding a cessation of hostilities, for the purpose of extri cating the bodies of those killed and wounded from the ruins caused by the explosion. The saute morning, between the hours of ten and twelve, a number of boats left the squadron. and proceeded to the castle. The Ft ench having possession of the castle, the town must either capitulate or be destroyed ; nevertheless, it is well fortified in all its passages, every street being barricadoed. The troops are numerous, and ap pear to be in gout spirits. " An officer, of a French vessel of war, informed us, that the Castle had capitulated, and that, at twelve o'clock, the French flag would be hoisted, which was accordingly done, at two o'clock, under a general salute from the whole squa dron, consisting of 27 vessels, of all classes, including two steam-ships. The capitulation says that the French are to remain in possession of the castle: the Mexican authorities retain full pip:session of the city, exercising their functions as before; 1000 troops only to remain; the balance to go into the inte rior. I was given to understand that the French admiral had issued circulars to all the consuls, opening the port to all flags. . • " The interior of the Castle, and almost all the lower bat teries, are destroyed by the explosion and the effect of the bombs. The bursting of a single bomb of 821 b, destroyed the Observatory, as before mentioned, burying a number of troops in its ruins. _ _ " The Prince de Joinville, in command of the sloop of war Creole, behaved in a most gallant manner, which came under my immediate observation, as I was within pistol-shot of the French fleet when the bombardment commenced. " Thus has this celebrated castle, heretofore deemed im pregnable, yielded to a petty force, after five and a half hours' bombardment. The number of shot fired from the French squadron is said to be upwards of 5000, and from the Castle about 1700. "I am unable to give any further details, as we sailed the same afternoon, at four o'clock, from this place." TERMS OF THE CAPITULATION. [TRANSI.ATION.I Treaty between his Excellency Vice-Admiral Charles Baudin and his Excellency General Don Manuel Rincon. Article Ist. The city of Vera Cruz will retain but a garri son of one thousand men: all above that number will leave within two days, and not approach within ten leagues. Gen. ltincon will retain his authority in the city and binds himself, i❑ honour, that the garrison will not exceed the limited num ber of one thOusand men, until the differences between France and Mexico have been completely adjusted. 2d. As soon as the present treaty is signed by both parties, the port of Vera Cruz will be open to all flags, and the block ade will be suspended for. eight months, expecting that an amicable arrangement will take place between France and Mexico. 3d. The Commander of the city of Vera Cruz will strictly observe that no difficulty is placed in the wav of the French troops occupying the Fort of St. Juan de Alloa, providing themselves with fresh provisions from that city. 4. Vice-Admiral Baudin binds himself to cause the evacu ation of the Fort St. Juan de Ulloa by the French troops, and return it to the Government of the Republic, together with the utensils of war received with their corresponding inventories, as soon as the actual differences with France are settled. sth. The French citizens who, in consequence of hostilities, had been obliged to leave Vera Cruz, will have full liberty to return there: their persons and property shall be respected, and any damage their property may have sustained during their absence shall be repaired by a competent indemnifica tion on the part of the population and the Mexican authori ties. The indemnities due the French citizens wilt be ar ranged according to the decisions of the tribunals of the Re public. • The present treaty is made by duplicate, one in French, for Admiral Baudin, the other in Spanish, for General Don Manuel Rincon ; and, after having been read by the con tracting parties, was signed on board his Majesty's frigate Nereide. (Signed) C. BAUDIN. M. RINCON. Vera Cruz, Nov. 28, 1838. (From the New Orleans Bee. of Dec. 8.) FURTH UR PARTICULARS. We are indebted to the captain of the Meteor for the fol lowing ample and highly interesting details respecting the expedition, and the attack upon the fortress of San Juan de Ulloa. After the arrival of Admiral Baudin off the coast of Mexico, Mr. Leroy, one of the commanders, was despatched to the City of Mexico: to make known to the Government the ul timatum of France. A few days after he returned, without bringing any satisfactory reply. .The next morning a letter was received, in which M. Baudin was requested to repair to Jalapa, in order to treat with the envoys of the Government, and to send away part of his forces, that Mexico might not appear to be compelled to yield to violence. The admiral assented to the first conditions, but refused positively to lis ten to the second. lie, therefore, took his departure, and was saluted with a salvo of nineteen guns on his entrance into Vera Cruz. On his return he stated, that the envoys had accepted all the conditions imposed by France, with a single exception, viz., that by virtue of which Mexico was to authorize sales by retail to be made by the French; and that the envoys had wished to consult the Government respecting this point. M. Baudin added, that he had granted them a few days more, but as, at the expiration of that period, the replies still con tinued unsatisfactory, hostilities would immediately com mence. We are told, that the English consul had requested Admi ral Baudin to spare his house, if he attacked the city. The admiral promised to observe his request. By a curious fa tality, the only bomb that reached the town, fell and explo ded near the dwelling of this functionary, carrying away a por tion of the roof. The French squadron now consists of 23. The consignee of a Mexican vessel, which arrived at New Orleans on the 6th inst., from Campeachv, has communica ted to the editor of the Courier the following items of Mexi can news: "Gen. Piedras, with 300 Mexican troops, bad re-taken the fort which commands the bar at Tampico. Gen. Cos was in Puebla Viego, with 800 men.—Gen. Canoliis was in Almiras, at the head of 1,300 Mexican soldiers. It was thought that all the troops in the interior, who had pronounced for the Fe deral system, would give up, and join the Government patty. A great scarcity of provisions existed at Tampico." THE REVENUE.—The official statement of the re venue for the year and quarter ending the sth of Ja nuary has just been published. It shows an increase on both periods. The increase on the year is £1,075,203, and that on the quarter is £547,331. The principal branches of the revenue—the customs, excise and stamps—have contributed most materially to this increase, that on the customs for the whole year being £328,445, excise £69,776, and stamp duties £180,774. The last quarter gives the large increase of £331,110 in the customs, of £36,326 on the excise, but shows a deficiency of £23,277 on the stamps. The assessed taxes present a decrease of £22,930 on the year, but have increased £7,661 on the last quarter. The improvement in the Post-office on the year is trifling, amounting only to £7,257, while the decrease for the last quarter exceeds the whole year snore than one-half. The crown lands, which formed no feature in the revenue of 1838, have added this year the sum of £170,000; and the miscellaneous taxes present an increase of £16,011 on the year, and £6,166 on the last quarter. The most prominent feature of increase next to the customs, which it nearly equals, is that included under the head of " Repayments, &c.," amounting to £325,870 for the whole year, and to £160,345, for the last quarter. The amount of Exchequer Bills required for the ser vice of the current quarter is estimated at £5,680,673. The increase on the customs, as specified above, may be very easily accounted for. The large amount of corn on which duty has been paid must be considered as the principal cause of the augmentation. THE CORN LAWS.—The radical, or rather, we should say the liberal press, has fairly taken up the question of the abolition of the corn laws, and appeals are being made day after day to the public on the subject. Respecting the operation of these laws, we cannot do better than lay before our readers the following ex tracts,—the former of which is taken from " The Operative, and the latter from "Baker on the Corn Laws:"— "The corn laws is another subject upon which the most monstrous delusions exist. Thousands of per sons imagine that by simply repealing the corn laws, we should make bread cheap, pour new life into our export trade—gain a monopoly of all the foreign mar kets—cause an indefinite demand for manufacturing labour, and, as a consequence, be able to maintain a high rate of wages in the manufacturing districts. All this is their delusion. The authors of it never tell us that before we can drive the foreign manufac turer out of the foreign .markets, we must first be able to manufacture as cheap as he does. . But to do this we must adopt his standard, or something like his standard of wages. And what is that standard ? Hear it, men of Yorkshire, and Lancashire, and Leicester, and Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire I—hear it, ve toil-worn, care-worn citizens of the north I—hear it, fri m the lips of Mr. R. Gregg, who was some time since examined before a committee of the House of Commons, on manufactures, commerce, and shipping. According to Mr. R. Gregg, then, the standard of wa ces in the cotton mills of the continent is as follows : In France the average, per week, is ss. Bd. ; in Swit zerland, 4s. sd. ; in Austria, 45.; in the Tyrol, 3s. 9d.; in Saxony, 3s. 6d. ; at Bonne, in Prussia, 25.6 d. " At Naples," says Mr. G., " the spinners are paid 65., whilst ours get 215.; the rovers 2s. 2d., whilst ours are paid 75." What say you to that, my friends ! there's cheap labour for you ! But you will ask, per haps, " what hours do they work in those outlandish parts ?" Hear Mr. Gregg again on this part of the subject. " The hours of work," says Mr. G., " are— in the north of France, 72; in Alsace, 84; in Prussia, from 72 to 90; in Switzerland, from 78 to 84; in Aus tria, from 72 to 80; in the Tyrol, 89; in Saxony, 72; in Baden, 84; and rn the Rhenish provinces of Prus sia, sometimes as high as 94 1" There's Mammon at work for you 1 You see, England is not the only country in which the demon has established his em pire. Compare those hours of labour with the 48 hours allotted to the unemancipated negro slave ; just Compare them, and think a little over the matter, and, my lif e against a baubee ! you will discover why the blacks were "emancipated,"—that is to say, released from the ownership of cottage, garden, and poultry ! —released from the ownership of bedding, furniture, and the like appurtenances so unnecessary and un suitable to the condition of working people I —in short, released or set free from every decent comfort they enjoyed before, and made to know the want of a cer tain dinner every day into the bargain. Talk of re pealing the corn laws, indeed!—without other accom panying measures to give the work people the benefit— it is librulatig ! Were the corn laws to be repealed now—that is to say, by the present parliament—and without any other accompanying measures to make the repeal operate in favour of labour, the manufac turers, and the men of fixed incomes, would reap the entire advantage. Not a particle of it would you, the producers, reap; and not a particle will you ever reap, either from that or any other measure, unless von are first armed with the elective franchise, so as to be able to protect your own interests through your representatives in parliament." " From the year 1795 to 1815, the corn laws were almost always inoperative; not entirely, but generally for the whole of these twenty years our ports were open for the admission of foreign grain. From this you will naturally suppose that bread was much cheaper then, than of late years, but what was the fact ? The price of wheat on an average of the first ten years, viz. from 1795 to 1805, was 81s. 2d., and from the lat ter year to 1815, it was 975. 6d. per qr. Now let us compare these prices with the prices of wheat from 1823 to 1833, the period during which the present law, so much abused, has been in force. During the first five years the average price was 63s 21., and in the last five 48s. 7d. Here then, the cheap bread anti . corn law advocates are at fault, for the facts just stated prove most satisfactorily that the price of wheat during he time the present corn Jaw has been in existence, has, on an average, been 335. sd. per qr. cheaper than during the twenty years from 1795 to 1815, when the ports we►e almost always open for the admission of fo reign corn. It may, perhaps, be said by some that this was a period of war. True, but that does not in the slightest degree affect the question ; the question under discussion is not whether we shall have peace or war, but simply whether we shall provide ourselves with food from our own soil, or be dependent on fo reign nations for a supply." AWFUL STORM. Our town and coast have been visited during Sunday night with one of the most awful hurricanes we ever remember At eleven o'clock, the wind, which had been a slight breeze from the S.E., suddenly changed to S.W., and afterwards to W., and began blowing a perfect hurricane, which continued through the whole of the night and the greater part of yesterday. At this moment, while endeavouring to give somewhat of a detail of the facts which have come to our know ledge of the destruction and melancholy effec:s of the storm, we feel almost at a loss where to begin. The second and third editions of the Albion contain the following particulars : SECOND EDITION.) AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE. ALBION-OFFICE, MONDAY, NINE, A. 51 Last night, about eleven o'clock, the wind, which had been blowing strong all day, from the S.E., N hich induced a number of vessels that had been windbound to put to sea, suddenly veered round to the S.W. About one o'clock the wind blew a complete hurricane, having, in the meantime, veered round to due W. The effects of this dreadful storm, have, as might have been expected, from its extreme vio lence, been truly awful in the destruction both of life and property. Innumerable buildings, in the town and the vici nity, have been seriously damaged, while, at the moment we write, not less than six persons have been ascertained to have lost their lives by the fall of ruins. The house, corner of Great George-square. in Nelson street, fell with a tremendous crash soon after four o'clock. Two females and two gentlemen were buried in the ruins. Fortunately, through the exertions of the Police, these were extricated, after an hour's labour, very little hurt. While the Police were at work in Great Nelson-street, word was passed, that the house of Mrs. Lawrence, the mother of Mr. J. Lawrence, in Cornwallis-street, had fallen in, burying in the ruins fire persons, amongst the others the old lady herself. Mr. Jas. Lawrence was soon on the spot, and his men and the Police were, after two hours' exertions, successful in extricating all alive but Mrs. Lawrence: she merely breathed and expired. While she was being carried to the house of a friend, the house of Mrs. Marsh, nearly opposite Dr. Ilaffies's Chapel, fell in. Two young gentlemen and a servant maid were, in the fall, crushed to death, being taken out of the ruins life less. In the earlier part of the night, the roof of a house in Clayton-square fell in, injurint , a gentleman asleep in an upper story most seriously. About the same time, a house in Shannon-street, fell in, killing a man in the fall. A house in Rodney-street, fell in, and seriously injured a gentleman. A house in the Park, also, we have heard, fell in, killing a female. Mr. Quolter, of Sydney-street, was killed. The disasters in the river, the ducks, and the adjacent coast have, we lament to say, been numerous and awful. At daylight not less than fifteen vessels, several of theta large ships and brigs, were on shore, in Bootle Bay, within the short space of a mile. At eight o'clock most of them were high and dry, but, at the time we write, we have not been able to ascertain their names or the extent of the loss of life, which, we fear, must have been serious. Several vessels, which were at achor iu the bay, rode out the gale till about eight o'clock, when one or two of them dragged their anchors, and could with difficulty be kept from running on a lee shore. We greatly fear, that the list of disasters by this terrible storm will be increased by the intelligence which will be received in the course of the day. At Darlington's Public-house, top of Leander-street, a chimney has blown down, and a lodger, who was in bed in the room underneath, killed. The large Cotton-will, on the Canal-bank, is one-half un roofed. The cotton, which was in the upper rooms, has whitened all the space betwixt the Canal and Everton, as if there had been a heavy fall of snow: even the trees are covered with ii. Part of the spire of St. John the Baptist's Chnrch, Toxteth park, has been blown down. The wall of St James's Church has been completely levelled, and the trees uprooted so as to expose the coffins. _ ONE O'CLOCK, P.M. The accounts received during the forenoon describe the most wide-spread destruction caused by the sweep of the hurricane. The majority of the buildings in the town and the vicinity have sustained more or less damage: hundreds of them are, so far as the roofs and chimneys are concerned, mere wrecks. The Coroner is said to have received notices to bold in quests on not less than fifteen bodies of persons killed and drowned during the storm. The greatest anxiety prevails to ascertain the fate of the vessels which sailed yesterday. Up to this hour, no tidings have been received respecting them. The Northwest Light ship has been driven from her moorings, and her absence from her station will expose the inward-bound to imminent peril. The storm, though a little abated, still rages with great fury. (THIRD EDITION.) HALF-PAST THRZE, P.M. We learn, by a gentleman from Staffordshire, that the storm was severely felt in that county, buildings and trees having been destroyed to a great extent. A boat proceedtug to a ship in the river has just been upset, and six men have, it is feared, been drowned. In addition to these particulars, we may state that in the upper parts of the town the effects of the storm were most disastrous. In West Derby-street, the chimney over Mr. Pickup's house, the car-keeper, was observed, by an opposite neigh bour, about five o'clock in the morning, to be in a most dan gerous state, and he sent his servant over to warn the in mates. Mrs. Pickup, who had lain-in only three days before, was got out of bed, and had scarcely left the room before the stack of chimneys fell through the roof, with a tremendous crash, into the room sbe had just lett. Down the whole of Islington, Pembroke-place, London road, and in all the adjacent streets, every third or fourth house has either the chimney blown down, or the roof un stated. Early in the morning the wind was blowing a per fect hurricane, and bricks, chimney-pots, and slates were flying in all directions. An enormous quantity of glass has been broken, nearly every house having suffered more or less. In Lord Nelsen-street the chimney of a house, inhabited by a gentleman named Chapman, fell through the roof du r►ng the night, and killed two women servants. Edging the river the damage has been most serious. The windows and window frames of one side of the New Custom house have been completely smashed in. In every dock the damage has been enormous, from the vessels pitching violently against one another; staving in. their bows and sterns. At George's Pierhead, at two o'clock, the sight was most melancholy. At least twenty masts and yards apparently be longing to flats with torn sails affixed to them were floating close to the Pier, whilst hundreds of passive and awe struck spectators thronged every part. The Runcorn packet was sunk off the Pierhead, with her chimney and mast sticking out of the water. Near her was a sloop sunk, her mast also sticking out of the water. . _ The 'Camera Obscura at the Pierhead was blown com pletely away, leaving not a wreck behind, and parts of it were seen floating about in the Cattle-slip Basin. The George's Pier Cattle slip Basin, which has always afforded moorings for about 30 or 40 boats, presented a most melancholy spectacle. The violence with which the boats had been jolted against each other by the wind and the waves, had broken every one up into mere planks, which comp.etely covered the surface of the water. The same melancholy spectacle was presented in the George's Basin. Four flats, in different parts of it, were sunk, their masts only above water. Four small brigs, 'floored on the south side, had been jolted with such violence against the wall of the dock basin, as to chip off the edge large pieces of stone a foot. thick, and damaging the whole length of the south edge of the basin. The stern of one brig moored there was completely knocked to pieces against the bow of her neighbouring vessel, exposing the whole of her after-cabin. The landing bridge, usually moored off the George's Pier, is sunk at the mouth of the basin. At the Egremont Slip, in the basin, two sloops are sunk and several small craft almost knocked to pieces. At the Princes Pier, some vessel has been driven stem on the wall, and shattered several yards of it. About half way down, thirty yards from the pier, a schooner has sunk with part of her sails set, and just appearing above water. The crew on board this must inevitably have perished, as they could have no chance of saving themselves at night, with a hurricane blowing them against a perpendicular wall, half.a mile in extent. A little lower down the masts of another vessel are just peeping above water. The whole of the line down to Bootle Bay presents evi dence of the disastrous effects of the hurricane in unroofed houses, prostrate chimneys, and broken windows. The north wing of the cotton mill on the North Shore, has had the two upper stories completely blown into ruins, and the roof has fallen in over them. On the shore there are stranded her Majesty's steamer the Redwing, the Packet-ship Oxford, three brigs, seven schooners, and four sloops. Some are so high on the beach as to be safe from any further damage from the storm; others can just float, and are thutnpino dreadfully with the swell. The Packet-ship Oxford, with a valuable inward cargo, has been scuttled, in order if possible to prevent her thumping herself to pieces when the tide returns. When we saw her at near high water, the sea was making a com plete breach over her. • The bodies of two men and a boy were washed ashore at Bootle during the early part of the day. We were informed by Lieut. Reed, of the Redwing, that so overpowering was the hurricane, that with three anchors out and his full power of steam on one of his cables snapped, and his vessel dragged before the wind, till at last he was obliged to let them slip to avoid running foul of the Oxford. The wind then drove his vessel on her beam ends, and being unable to get her head to windward, with all the power he could put on, she was driven sideways on shore. About four o'clock in the morning, upwards of one hundred yards of the wall of Kirkdale Gaol was blown down level with the ground. The wall fell against the weaving shops of the prison, knocking many of them down, breaking the looms, and leaving the pieces to blow about. The slating and lead work of the tread mill blew off. The chimneys of the gatekeeper's room shortly afterwards fell in, breaking through the roof; but fortunately the keepers had removed into a room looking into the gaol yard, or in all pro bability they would have perished. The chimneys in the governor's house also fell, but did not go through the roof, merely stripping the slates and leads. 'I he chimneys of the workshop fell, going through the roof. About five o'clock, a stack of chimneys on the West side of the Sessions House fell, and went through the roof into the Magistrates' Com mittee-room, carrying the flooring through into the Grand Jury room. Oue of the Court-House windows, lookina into the gaol yard, was completely. blown into the Court !ouse. The wind, at four o'clock was terrific, and the falling of the Western wall shook the different houses around as though there was an earthquake. A great quantity of glass was broken in the Governor's House, and also in the Court House, and other parts of the gaol. The governor, Mr. Amos, early acquainted the Chairman of the Quarter Ses sion, Rev. J. Brooks, of the accidents, who prou►Qtly attend ed; and also Mr. 'John Formby. magistrate. Mr. Any is also sent to Mr. Whitty, who immediately sent a detachment of police to guard the breach, and by their presence prevent accident by persons approaching parts of the wall still liable to fall. We hear from all quarters that the promptitude and conduct of Mr. Whitty is beyond al praise. Mr. Autos al-o immediately sent for the different tradesmen whose assistance would be required. The different workmen were on the ground by ten o'clock, and were immediately set to work clearing the foundations. Owing to the vigilance of the governor and keepers, the prisoners were kept quite seeure. , Between three and four o'clock, the. ppliee were relieved by a guard of the 98th regiment, which arrived from Ireland the previous night: We have received the following particulars of the storm at the North Shore Mills, on the banks of the Canal:—One of the keepers was awoke at a quarter before twelve o'clock by the noise of the hurricane. At that time the wind was blow ing a very heavy gale, which shook every room in the mill. At one o'clock the storm began to increase, mixed with rain. At twenty minutes before three he went through the factory to examine it. The wind was blowing very heavily. The first room he entered was No. 3. The west windows of the north wing were breaking rapidly with the force of the wind. Proceeded to No. 4. The wind entered this room with such force, and the glass flew with such violence, that they were obliged to retreat. Dared not take the lights into NC). 5, in consequence of the great quantity of cotton contained in the room. H eard the windows smashing. Proceeded to No. 7, experienced a tremendous rush of wind, as though the roof was blowing off. Proceeded to No. 6, a few panes of glass broken. At ten minutes past five, heard an awful report, appearing like something falling into the building, which proved to be portion of the roof. The machinery in that and room No. 6 is greatly damaged. The falling of the roof burst the Hue of the large chimney. No 4is materially da maged in the windows, but not in the machinery. Other portions of the roof are damaged. The chimney of Mr. Brough's house, at the corner of St' Anne-street and Springfield-street, fell in, early in the morn ing, carrying with it the roof into the top room. Mrs. Brough had about five minutes previous got out of bed, and gone down stairs, thus escaping serious injury, if not destruc tion. A considerable portion of the stone front of the Methodist Chapel erecting in Great Homer-street, was thrown down. Many houses in Kirkdale have been partially or wholly unroofed, and garden walls, gates, &c., thrown down. A portion of the sheds of Mr. Scott, skinner, near Kirk dale House of Correction, fell about five o'clock, burying be neath the ruins a quantity of wool. The loss is estimated at about £7O. Great fears were entertained fur the safety of the large chimney on the premises of Mr. Scott, situated a little nearer the gaol, owing to the manner in which it rocked with the wind. To recount; however, the almost innumerable accidents of chimneys tumbling in and houses roofless would be an end less task; every part of the town exhibits such disasters. Yesterday afternoon the packet-ship Cambridge, anchored off George's Pier, began to trail her anchors, and drive to wards the Pier-head. When within a few yards of it, the captain put up a chalked board, offering EMU to any steamer that would tow him out of his dangerous position ; but none would venture. A most melancholy accident, which resulted in the loss of five valuable lives, shortly after ensued. A small boat, with eight sailors and riggers on board, left the Pier-head to en deavour to get on board the ship, and after failing once, made a second attempt, when, melancholy to relate, the boat was capsized, and five out of the eight perished, in the sight of hundreds of persons, who could render no assistance, within a few yards of the pier. The Telegraph is almost knocked to pieces, and the com municating telegraph on Bidstone-bill is blown down. 'Lieut. Watson is afraid that the telegraphs on the whole of the line to Holyhead are more or less rendered unfit for service. We have however to be thankful to Providence, that the gale about nine o'clock last night had considerably abated, and with the exception of occasional heavy gusts of wind, it was, comparatively speaking, calm. STORM AT PRESTON. The storm of wind, which commenced here between two and three o'clock on Monday morning, has done considera ble damage to property. When daylight came, the streets presented a most dreadful appearance i iining literally covered with broken slates, tiles, chimney-pots, bricks, and portions of lead. The large chimney belonging to Mr. Threlfall's factory was blown down, and, falling upon the roof, has greatly damaged the building and machinery. The seven and quarter-to-nine o'clock rail Way trains were unable to preceed to their destination, it being thought dangerous to attempt to pass over the Ribble Bridge in its present unfi nished state. We are sorry t. have to record loss of life as well as destruction of property. One young lady, resident in Charles-street, was killed by the falling of a stack of chimneys; and rumour states that four other individuals have lost their lives. CANADIAN PRISONERS. Mr. Roebuck arrived here on Saturday, with a judge's order to see the prisoners from Canada, confined in the Borough Gaol. The result of his visit, and the success of his exertions in their favour, may be inferred from the fact that twelve of the prisoners are to leave Liverpool on Tuesday next, by the railway, for the purpose of having tested in the Court of Queen's Bench the validity of their sentence of transportation. The writs of habeas corpus under which they are brought up, have been issued upon the affidavits of Messrs. Hume and Roebuck, that the twelve prisoners alluded to have been sent to this country under sentence of transporta tion without trial. The question of the legality of the pro ceedings will, of course excite much interest, and an opinion prevails that they will be acquitted. Their names are— Finley Malcolm, Leonard Watson, John Grant; William Reynolds, John G. Parker, Lyons Wilson Robert Walker, James Brown, Paul Bedford, Ira Anderson, Randall Wiyon, William Alves. Yesterday, a government steamer, the Meteor, arrived in the Mersey for the purpose of receiving on board the re mainder Of the prisoners, who are divided into two classes— the state prisoners, who had been tried and convicted, and the convicted felons. The following are the names of each class : Alexander M‘Leod, J. J. M'Nulty, Benjamin Waite, Norman Mallet}', James Waggoner, Samuel Ca ndler,• ISONERS. John Vernon, James Gatnrnel, George Cooly, Jacob Beemer, Garrett Van Camp. I) FELONS. Angus Provost,. Isadore Pare, Charles APLeod, Thomas Oliver, Baptiste Cardiue. CONVICTE Francis Parnell, James Lynn, Bernard O'Hare, Joseph Langlois, Joseph Hamil, James Thompson, They were delivered yesterday into the charge of Captain Pritchard, the c.ourntindei of the -N triptir_ the Meteor proceeds to Portsmouth, where the transports will be placed on board of a vessel bound to a penal settlement. In the above list there are eleven of each class, making, with the twelve about to be removed to London, thirty-four—the number received by the Captain Ross, from Quebec. — Chronicle. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—The train Which left Preston at five o'clock on Sunday afternoon, whilst putting down and taking up passengers at Leyland, was run into by the mail train which left about a quarter past five. The fireman of the mail train had his leg-dread fully crushed, but fortunately no other individual itv the train was hurt. _ THE SESSlONS.—Yesterday the Court of Quarter Sessions opened before James Clarke, Esq., Recorder. The calendar presents rather a large number of prisoners. Nearly every case of interest to be tried has appeared in full detail in our police reports, and there is, therefore, little necessity to repeat them. Dom( COMMITTEE—The election of a member of the Dock Crtmtnittee, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resigna tion of Mr. Potter, took place yesterday, at the Court Room, Chapel-street when Mr. Thomas Martin, of the Glasgow and Liverpool Steam Shipping Company was chosen. -The votes tendered were, for Mr. Martin 160, for Mr. N :col 155. THE LIVERPOOL EISTEDDFOD FOR 1839.—We beg to refer our Welsh friends to an advertisement, which appears in our paper this day, announcing the second Bardic Congress to take place on the let of March—the anniversary of the patron saint of Wales. In our next we shall explain more at large the objects of this national celebration. The result of cold winds, dense fogs, damp atmosphere, &c. are frequently subversive of female comfort and attiac tion, by generating cracks, chaps, and a harsh rough skin, and signalising a prominent feature of an otherwise beautiful countenance with unseemly coarseness. To successfully oppose those innovations, the Ladies have a powerful friend in ROWLANDS' KALYDOR—and where the resul mentioned have attained progress or completion, this infallible specific excludes and resists with an effective and rapid energy truly astonishing, rendering the skin delightfully smooth and pleasant; and, as increasing the fairness and transparency of the skin, exceeds all competition.—See Advertisement. LECTUNES ON SACRED POETRY.—We hail with much pleasure, the announcement, as conveyed through Our Co lumns, tbat a course of lectures on the poetry of the sacred scriptures, is about to be delivered by a Hebrew gentleman, from London, favorably known in the literary circle as the editor of the only Jewish periodical that has ever appeared in this country. Considering that " the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,, ' and as.steam and gas, railroads and machinery, have long usurped and maintained exclusive possession of the lecturer's chair, and though the trembling visits, "few and far between," of their humbler sisters, Music and Belles Letires, may occasionally have been tolerated, biblical criticism, and a better acquaintance with the holy Bible, are sternly excluded from that portion of useful know ledge, which utilitarian sages dispense to their followers. The subject is therefore altogether new to the lecturing rooms of Liverpool, and as the lecturer will doubtlessly do justice to the noblest poetry known to man, we feel that his labours will be productive of great good, and deserving of every encouragement. We intend to hear him; and such of our readers as feel interested in the diffusion of the, most useful of all knowledge, will assuredly avail themselves of the opportunity so unexpectedly offered to them. ALTERATION IN THE NAMES OF STREETS.—WiIhiII the last few months several alterations have been made in the names of various streets in the town, of which it may be ac ceptable to supply a list : Present Name. roriner Name. Canning -street. (Vauxhall-road) Blackstock-street. Duncan-street East Hotham-street. Great Nelson-street, (Lime-street) Lord Nelson-street. Grenville -street, (Kent-street) Levison , street. King-street, (Soho) Wilton-street. King-street, (Bedford-street) Cypress-street. Oxford-street, (Vauxhall-road) Oriel-street. Sydney-street, (St. George-street) affles'-st ree t . St. Vincent-street, (St. James-street) Hardy -street. or impro yre required We are t n h o e t s e prepared o b u q t u ‘ e v s e t i t o h n i n t k h e chantiesjiropri e t a priety of in other parts of the town. What, for instance, can be more preposterous than continuing the name of " Mount-,pleasant," which leads up hill towards Abercrombv-square, to aStreet that rounds the Workhouse wall at aboui a right angle flora the n "Mount-ple a s an t," an d runs i nto Brow ma •nlo in w-t p ii " tr i i i an str o ee f t parallel to the latter and•at consider able distance front it? The top of " Mount-pleasant,' as the public understand it, is at the end of Hope-street; but the top of it, according to the present nomenclature, is at as a b r upt angle from that point, in a different neighbourhood, and terminating opposite the far corner of the Lunatic Asy • lum wall in Brow nlow-bill!—Journal. WHIG RADIC AL LOYALTY.—A t the late "Reform Dinner" in Bradford, the following incident occurred at the Albion Hotel, (one of the houses engaged for the dinner.) A beau tiful transparent figure of the Queen Conveniently at ranged at one end of the room, it was considered, would add much to the dignity of the scene, and be et the same time a significant emblem of loyal feeling. The company arrived, and at the sight of the representation of our fair Queen was equally surprised and indignant. A certain "gentleman." got on his "logs," and protested the occasion should not be desecrated by the presence of the figure, and peremptorily ordered its removal; but no one being very prompt to execute the order, the "gentleman" alluded to set to work, and with the assistance of a few Caledonian brethren, succeeded in pulling the figure down, and in "groaning" the Queen fairly out of the room.— Leeds Intelligencer. llt ISH COMPLlMENTS.—Complintents are running so high between Messrs. O'Connell and O'Connor, that we really feel that a sense of decency will prevent our giving any more of either should they continue. The following is the last description of the liberator by his faithful ally:—"The go- vernment had Mr. O'Connell at their beck, who had been ferreting out cases of high treason, and who had denounced him (Mr. O'Connor,) as a firebrand. He, the bully, the beg ga Elnan, the ruffian, the vagabond, had actually enlisted him (Mr. U'C.) for a guinea, as an Irish volunteer in 1831, while he pledged his honour that the money was to purchase arms to fight for the repeal of the union, if the Whigs refused to accede it (bard groans and hisses.) There was a cowardly blackguard for them!—there was the man who had sold Eng land and pawned Ireland, and redeye(' £lOOO from Potter; r Wigan, to purchase the last drop or the liberty of the poor which was blister+d with their blood factory children, (tre mendous 2raan ing.) 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