The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. For the Benefit of • 111 - WDE'MOLSELLE CELESTE, . And positively her last appearance. Fifth nijit , of the Engagement of th e popular Vocalist s , MISS SMITH AND MISS JULIA SMITII, Of Mr. Braham's Theatre, the St. James', London, Who - are engaged for a limited period. Arrangements hive been made with the following eminent Performers!—=Mademoiselle TAG LION I, of her Majesty's Theatre, tendon, who is engaged positively for Two Nights only; pi-eel - Otis to her departure for the Continent, and who wilt make' iter appearance here on MONDAY and TUESDAY next, lely 9th and .10th. The Box Plan for Mademoiselle Taglioni's Two Nights, will be open on S a turday, July th e 7th, previous to whi c h (to afford equal facilities in securing seats) no places can be taken. The highly celebrated Vocalist, Madame CINTI DAMO REAU, and the first Pianistof the day, Mons. DOEHLER, of her Majesty's Theatre, and of the Nobility's Concerts, London, are engaged for Four Nights, and will make their first - appearance here on TUESDAY. the 17th of July. Their other blights of Performance will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,the 18th, 19th, and 20th of July. Signor ,CDRIONI and Signor. F. LABLACHE, of her Majesty's theatte,.are also engaged for Four Nights; as like wise Mr. BOCHSA, who will direct the Operatic Enter taiernentrivand perform on the Harp some of his most favour ite pieces. The .Box Plan for these Four Nights will be open on ML XDA Y, Jtily 16 ; and, notwithstanding the very heavy expense attending the above Engagements, no advance will he made in the prices of admission. rill! I jireletit FRIDAY . , .luly 6, 1838, will be produced, firsf here, the celebrated American Indian ,Tradi acts; entitled THEINDIAN GIRL; 'On, A STDRi. Or Nair ENGLAND. Narratiittlih, (the Indian girl,) Mademoiselle Celeste. After which, for the second time here, a new Drama, in two acts, called • OPEN HOUSE; OK. MK TWIN SISTEItx. Fanny;.hliss Smith; Smith—the twin • - - sisters. At the end of the' first 'act of Open House, Mademoiselle ; iCeffelesewill dine* " -La 'Bevailere." Pu:eo%e , b'witii•the~oopntarDrama of the TM/CNC - ft - SPY; VC' THE 'CONSTANT/NA. flitmet, (eirild,Artib bby),;.'.Mtidohnoiselle 'Celeste ! Heari, OVettliels tititttl/2,)oo.lltifereinOiselleC Victorie, (a-French, ladr , )'4 , .britidenioiseile Celeste! ! On MON DAY,: the 'Petite' Ctirnedy of't'he YOUTHFUL QUEEN, -After iv - hick; Taglieni. To which will be added the new Farce of OPEN HOUSE. Dancing by. :Mademoiselle Taglioni. To conclude with the Barletta of Milo- Smith; Daphne, Miss Julia Smith. *tantiat•l3. FRIPAt ui, 6, 1838. ' The .P.Alig&tion therSTANDAnD commenced this naorning at 5 o'clock. TO THE PUBLIC. (From the Standard of Tuesday,) In preseritiiii,ip nui readers the first number of the en . larged . series of the'LIVERPODIL STANDARD, we feel it to he; incumbent upon us to glance at a few of those impreverne - nts which the additional space of six co lumns in-tack publicatiori gill enable us to intro duce. It ia unnecessary that we should dilate upon the prin ciplea4e 41ft advocacy of which we have been so long ike . - crim. 'Attachment to the constitution of Great Britain . in Church and State—a firm adhe rence to the monarchy of these realms—devotion to that Protiitint Establishment which we believe to be bothihe glory andsafeguard of our country—the 'in,uniMpaired integrity of our mixed and - baleneedlerm of government--and the preser vation ;"Ort.hose timue-honoured institutions which are - intimattly••interwoven with our national pro speritytheae ,are the objects for which ire have ever contended, and which we shall continue to ad vocate. In the political department of the STAND- Ann there:Will, therefore, be no alteration; but we trust that the larger space at present at our com mand, will afford us a better opportunity for the dis cassioniof those important national questions in which are involved the interests of the church or the stabilitylof our constitution. The enlargement which. has taken place in this jour . nal will enable us to incorporate in each publication a much itelier amount of general information than it has been hitherto in our power to present to our readers,.': Owing to the large space frequently oc enpied by, advertisements, we have been compelled . to eichiikrivisili of that miscellaneous intelligence which is always looked for in a newspaper This will not be the case in future, as the twelve addi tional columns, which are now placed weekly at our command, will afford ample room for a greater va riety of , articles. It •be :our endeavour to render the LIVERPOOL * S ainvoisassrpaimaidnis possible'a family newspaper. WithAblitirit*weshall exercise the most scrutini gcsaiiiii4gainii ilieadmissioninto our columns cr any. article. of an objectionable character. We shall algo,deiote some space in each number to amttsinr - extracts from modern publications, and aneetkitaliVet' s h- e * characters. The general head* under which will be arranged the varied idfOrivkatfon, - *hich will be hereafter con tained in . the STANDARD, may be. thus briefly' enu • 7 PsawatE;44trt4 ANTRL-LICIENCE.—Under this head we shell:A4o' o m' , during the sitting of Parlia m e nt, to prepare a. careful digest of all -the proceed.. Jags and?feliat!ii , in 'both Houses, and thus afford to those whe.bare no leisure to lead the daily papers, an ar-cinittr knowledge of 'what is passing in the great eouneiis t oi.dre. nation. We shall also furnish our readelts Walfabstotetis of all the more important acts of parliaMent, and other documents, returns, &c. ordered to be printed by both Houses. / r biErrix liiTELLta.iNCe.7—All events of historical. jawortaneee _which may occur in other countries, "ill be IsithfillY,and impartially recorded. COLtiNIAL I:ICTZL LIGENCE.—In this department we shaltbe enabled, front the peculiar sources of in . f ormation te hare access, to give the earliest neowirtni the colonial posseisions and ether depoiderieies of-Greet Britain. CAL NEwe'. - --Arriticy this head triir be furnished e Vions and securate..reports-of public meetings ; Preeeedinrcitt!'th aOfl e• cortriaW; . p'6liCe-offce; and in t he teiro l 'e:intiCif; .a.tHeidents. and -inquests; cri tign on Onblievitusetnenti, exhipitions, &c: ; and, i 4 short, iii4ei r jsp i€l,lrof. :intelligence , :which is eh iefly of itihttest tt kcal reader in its reports Th e s vAns4ir'llWri 'Weedy Obtained sui established h ehit rileter-- , tfieir. 0°1)i - bowlegs - and accuracy having bti,~.":"" T - eiriarked upon in the council ECcL - .Amb er. . • • • lis lAsttcat. INTELIJOENCE.—The STANDARD will her ° • the 'liter contain a weekly - list of preferments in _ ttotli t hereb, a clerical obituary, and an epitome of th s 'lnformation as may be most interesting to Gli km : l rite are connected with the - church. Nttit4.- 1 -"-trder this head we shall give a e :P i °fts 'selection - of interesting articles fr ont our t i ; el "Prilitin and provincial contemporaries.- • devote a 'column in e'aclr r‘4 l lication ho„,, t fr e t .o xtr a ka from modern publi %ettiorts. h e ri na INTty,ink,NcE.—,7 ;eater attention shall cif ltd in intuit -to-this department than we have C 0 ; 411 55 to bestow. itet.ttr. In'Tet.unartce. , —.The greatest care will env taken in our shipping new s , prices rent, markets, &c. r e the, prin c ip a l head s u n d er w hi c h we s h a ll dassiti t h - if! , contents of the STANDARD in its en larged forrif; eeldo From this arrangement we shall n , tease any cause to depart, excepting when °"r r eports are o f such paramount importance as to irequiN W e cannot t the exclusion of less interesting matter. "4 - dude the present address without reit erating our expression of gratitude for the support Whi t t % the LAVRRPOOL STANDARD has hitherto re department.--Feeiatly in its advertisi ng department. snail ai rraYl be our endeavour to merit a conti noance o f tkat .patronage which w e h ave so l ong e njoyed. .* onr thanks kie. 'also due to those friends who have riteered u`.; " with their corres p on d ence on var i ous tli a n ions. We stiall . feel happy in allottin g a larg • we er 81)11 " 'futere to such o r i g i na l commun i cat i ons as . .rty deem to be stitite.d for insertion, especially if they possess the , recommendation of brevity. MR. TURTON'S APPOINTIetENT.—Onr readers will ! member that in. April last there was a rumour that this very notorious individual had obtained an appoint ment under Lord Durham, and, that he was to go out to Canada in some official capacity. Considering the character of the man, such a rumour could not escape the notice of the conservative members of both houses of Parliament. Accordingly we find that the Earl of Winchelsea inquired of Lord Melbourne whether there was any truth in the.report. The answer of the Premier was most explicit. It was to the following e ffect :----That the infamous person in question had "gone out to Canada Without any appointment— without any prospect of an appointment—and without any intention on the part of Government, or of his noble friend the Earl of Durham, to appoint Mr: Turton to any public situation whatever." Nothing could be more satisfactory than this reply, if any con fidence could be reposed in the solemn aSPipItICCS of twigs and radicals. But, unfortunately, these . ' puri tanical politicians cannot be taken at tlieir .word: Their habitual bad faith is matter of public . iMtbrity. The case under notice affords a striking illustration of the truth of this remark. No sooner had Lord Barham reached Canada, and entered upon his vice- regal fune tions, that this flagrant offender against public mora lity was gazetted as one of the joint secretaries of the high commission! Such a discreditable appointment, of course, once more attracted the attention of the high-minded op position peers; and on Monday night last Lord Wham cliffe, in the absence of Lord WTinchelsea, proceeded - . to ask Lord Melbourne whether lie was cognisant of a fact so completely at variance with his for Mer solemn asseverations. The answer is highly instructive. He candidly admitted that " it was with the greatest sur. prise and concern that he saw the appointment of Mr. Turton announced," and that, " at the time he made his former statement to the house, he felt confident no slick appointment would take place." It is really dif ficult to give Lord Melbourne any credit for sincerity in making the. former declaration of his ignorance on the subject, especially when he knew that Mr. Turton was about to sail in the same ship with Lord Durham —that the chaplain of the vessel had been deprived of his berth, in:order to accommodate this chosen com panion of " His . Highness"----and that there was a si tuation not yet filled up in connection with the Ca nada commission. It is, indeed, possible that the premier may have been perfectly convinced of the truth of his very positive denial. If so, it then fol.: lows inevitably that he was most grossly . deceived and impo.ver,Vupon. By whom ? Either by- my Lord Durham, or by the other membrs of the cabinet, acting in concert ‘vith that very honourable personage. In whatever light this appointment is looked upon, . - it reflects the deepest dishonour upon the parties con cerned, and affords a damning proof of the utter reck lessness of principle and profligacy of character of our present ministry----a ministry assuming to themselves the character of political purists of the first water ! It is a sound maxim, that men who pay little regard, in private life, to morality of conduct, are capable of perpetrating, as public officers, the vilest enormities. Is the choice of Mr. Turton an illustration of the truth of this remark ? B 3 the bye, the remarks of Lord Brougham in the House of Lords afford another proof of the fact, that Mr.Tutton's appointment was quite a matter of coune That eccentric individual is reported to have said, in his apology for the incestuous adulterer, that "in order to accompany Lord Durham on his mission, he had sacrificed a professional income secured to him, as the advocate of certain claimants from Bengal, of £2,000 per annum." Why did he make thiS sacri fice ? Was it not with the certainty of obtaining an equivalent ? If Lord Melbourne was aware that this " foul offender" had made such a sacrifice, it is really impossible to exonerate him from the charge of dupli- city. The only satisfactory proof of his integrity in this matter will be the recall and disgrace of Lord Durham, for having been guilty of practising so grossly upon the premier's credulity. What must her Majesty now think of the character of her ►epresentative in the Canadas ? Will she per- mit such a vile proceeding on his part to sully the Istre of that crown will) which she has been so re. cently invested ? THE IRISH EDUCATION BOARD.—On Tuesday even ing last, the Bishop of Exeter, who deserves every praise for his unflinching opposition to the friSh edu-' cation system, gave another exposure of the abomina tions. practised under the authority of the commis sioners. A person of the name of James O'Donnell, who had, it' seems, been dismissed from the coast guard for seditious and inflammatory proceedings, was actually appointed master of one of the national schools, and afterwards removed,, in consequence of a complaint made to the commissioners, to the very parishin which he had been guilty ofßsing treasonable language. The school to which he was thus removed was under the patronage of Father Hughesi—a priestly agitator of great notoriety, and the herald of John of Tuam in his crusade against the Protestants of Acid!. This Priest Hughes is proved to have advised people froth the altar " to use pitchforks, and put into bog-holes any of the persons who approached their houses, upon the. subject of Scripture or Scriptural education." We say nothing about the propriety of 'placing . any of the money voted for the purposes of education; in Ireland at the disposal of this truculent persectitor :- but we must denounce the appointment of the man O'Donnell to such a situation in the very parish •in which he had indulged in his treasonable harangues. It was a gross and premeditated insult to the Protestants of the place. The Bishop of Exeter astic therefore justified in making a strong representa tion on the subject. His remarks, however, called forth Lord Plunkett, who defended the board, and asserted that O'Donnell had been improperly dis charged-that his discharge took place on hearsay evidence—Mid that his appointment reflected no dis grace upon the commissioners. The following short extract from his speech will show how Lord Plunkett aboured to exonerate this man from the serious charge laid against him : There could be no doubt that the language asserted to be used was most unjust and unwarrantable ; but on what evi dence was it supported? A person named M 'Canby said that he had been told by a man of the name of Routledge that O'Donnell had used this language; but the latter declared that he had never heard any expressions of the kind. The language said to have been used by O'Donnell was, that there would be no more tithes paid to the clergy; that the Irish Would he free and flourish once more; and that he also spoke in praise of Mr. O'Connell, who, he added, would become King of Ireland. Now, M'Carthv did • not pretend to have heard this himself, but he said that Itoutledge had told him that he had heard these expressions; the latter, however, de nied having any knowledge' of the subject. Now, in contradiction of this statement of his lord ship, and to show its gross falsity, we shall -adduce an extract from the evidence of Lieutenant Irwin, M'Car thy, and Routledge, given before the select committee of the House of Lords:— Lieut..Toseph Irwin, R.N., is called in and examined as Had you at any time, in the month of October, 1831, the command of the coastguard district of Westport ?—Yes. * Did Juhn Routledge make, any reports to yriu at any time respecting the coridtictof the persons under him had occasion frequently to make reports of that kind. Respecting Jame); o:Dotinell?—Yes. • ' What report did.hermake to you ?-11Iaearthv first reported the circumstance to me respecting James . O'D'onnell. What was that Z-111 4 Carthy.came into Westport, where I ,resided, by order of Routledge, who was his chief boatman, to report the conduct of James O'Donnell. for making use of improper language at the "Stationl-:, disaffected language, as be called it; and - When - 111'eartki' came to me to make the report, I told - hint 'll would'lake . the, first opportunity .of inquiring into it. , • t M'Carthy here Was this a report made lo' ofl;etally was What was the nature of the reporOfriaS Made officially to you by Ill'earthy ?---That this Janies.O'DOnnell, an extra boatman, had made use of seditioas lanoage at the station. He mentioned the language that he made use of; I do not exactly recollect the terms. Do you recollect the effect Oro ?—The effect was that the Protestant church would soon be put down ; that the country would soon be their own; that O'Connell w ou ld soon be their and all th a t so rt o f language. • Is fl.l•Cart by a Roman Catholic or a Protestant ?-111'Car thy..is a Roman Catholic. • Then, 'their own,' did you understand M'Carthy as meaning that O'Donnell had said to him that the country- would soon be the country of Nl‘Carthy, and his ow•n, and his fellow Roman Catholics?—Yes, I understood it so. At that time there was a great deal of the Steelboy system going on; it is similar to what is called the Whi:efeet in other parts of the country, or Ribbonism; and I was afraid that this O'Donnell might bare been a sworn Steelhoy, and front his language I feared that he was deeply concerned with them ; and I thought he was not a fit person to trust in that situation : as he was a man I employed myself, I was solely responsible for his conduct, and therefore 1 thought he was an ►mproper person to con tinue in the coastguard, and I ordered Routledge to discharge him oil' the books. . * Timothy 111`Carthy is called in and exa►uined as follows: —Were you at any ►ime a coastguard man at Itossniore Point under Lieutenant Irwin ?—I ras. Did you know a coast-guardman named James O'Donnell at that time ?—I [lad you ever occasion to report the conduct of James O'Donnell ?—I had. To whom did you report it ?—To the chief boatman under Mr. Irwin ? Who was that?—John rioulledge. What did you report of hint? Rebellious speeches, and saying that the tithes should be done away with. that no tithes should be paid, and that Ireland should be free and flourish once more; and himself and a man of the name of David Kelly made a great noise. He came out of his house into mine; there was only a thin wall between his house and mine, and we had one roof for both houses. I told him it was a great shame of him to make the noise he was making, to make the speech he was making, and he told me he would hare no thanks to me, and called me an informer; 1 went to the chief boatman and reported him. He was standing on the road, and told me to go in 0, Mr. Irwin and report it. Did he tell yon anything about the name of O'Connell ? I hardly. remember what he said now, it is so long ago, it is mole than five ycais; 1 know he said a good deal more than I recollect now. To what effect was it?—Whenever one of them would make a speech, it was in regard of O'Connell, and, they would have loud cheering. They used to be at it as if two gentlemen were against each other. lie mentioned that Ire land would be free, and that it would flourish once more. * John rioutledge is called in, and examined as follows: , Are you a coast-guard man at Achill?--Yes. Have you long been so employed ?—Eighteen years in the service. In the.. month of October, 1831, had you charge of the coAstguard station of Rossmore Point?—Yes. Do you know. Timothy 111`Carthy ?—Yes. Did he report ti) you anything respecting the conduct of JaMes O'Donnell ?—Yes, he did. Is that James O'Donnell the James O'Donnell who is the schoolmaster at the national school at Dugort ?—I do not know whether he is there at present or not; he was there. He is the man that was schoolmaster there ? Yes, he was. Whatdid INl'Carthy report to you as having been said or done by O'Donnell ?—As near as I can recollect, the report was that Ireland would soon be their own, and O'Connell would be their king; I can recollect no more than that of the speech, it is so long since. Did you report this to your superior officer?—Yes, I re ported it to Lieutenant Irwin, the inspecting commander.— Before this, had you ever heard O'Donnell say anything else ?—Previous to that I heard him make a kind of a speech : I heard him say that he thanked his God that he would soon see the day that they would trample down the protestant. church, and that their own church would flourish again, which had been persecuted. Now, my Lord Plunkett, we would venture to ask, where is your candour—where is your honesty, in thus mutilating and misquoting the above evidence ? Was it obliquity of intellect or defective vision which caused you to make such mistakes in your reply ? We trust that the Protestant clergy of Ireland Mill continue to expose the infamous system pursued by the board of commissioners. Many similar cases to that of James O'Donnell will no doubt be soon brought to light, which will serve to convince Eng lishmen that the large amount . of - money annually voted, for the purposes of education in Ireland, is in reality neither more nor less than a bounty upon the growth of Popery. THE BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.—On Tuesday night the HouSe 'of Commons did not sit at all. The busi ness of the nation is thus condUcted by a reformed Par liament and under a Whig government. The same thing occurred on Friday last ; and that at a season when the leader of the House of Commons has the har dihood to complain that it is impossible to get through the public business. How does it happen that so many measures of importance are cushioned for the present session, which commenced so far back as October last? How does it happen that so many measures are crowded upon the attention of the House of Lord; at this late period in the session, when so many fatuilies connected with the peerage are making their arrangements for going into the country ? The answer is obvious. The present ministry cannot carry on the government of the country with any degree of efficiency. 'they can not control the business of the House of Commons. They are forced to yield to the whims and fancies of their motley supporters. They are under the necessity of indulging Hume, Molesworth, Grote, Leader, et hoc genus wane, in all their ridiculous speculations. The consequence is, that the precious time of the House is occupied by a set of coxcomical twaddlers, called, by way of irony, " philosophical radicals," to the utter neglect of all those momentous questions to which the attention of Parliament ought to be directed. At present, owing to the general postponement of the important bills before the Commons, the business of legislation devolves almost exclusively upon the House of Lords. And "thank God that we have a House of Lords," to rectify the blunders, and to neu tralise the absurdities, perpetrated by a reformed House of Commons. To the Upper House the hopes—the excited hopes of the Protestants of Great Britain, and especially of Ireland, are at present directed. May the Lords continue, as they have hitherto done so nobl►•, to defend the true interests of the country, by main taining inviolate the rights of the Protestant church, upon which are based the liberties of the Protestant peoPle of these realms. THE ATUEN/EUM.—We understand that certain par es connected with the Athena urn library have given notice that they will, on Tuesday next, move that the resolution for closing the room, on the Sabbath day, until five o'clock in the afternoon, be rescinded. We do not know who these parties are ; they may possibly be Infidels, or Unitarians, or perhaps they are Papists: but we cannot help remarking that in this Christian community such a notice must excite the gyeatest'sur prise in every quarter. Is it possible that such an in sult to the religious feelings of the people Of LiverpoOl is set iously contemplated? If it, did not appear to be . _ intimated in the shape of an advertisement we word be inclined to treat the matter as a joke—a wretchedly wicked joke nevertheless. We shall, however . , , , - wait with patience until the day specified,; and see any of the frequenters of the library will have the colt : rage to act upon so preposterous a notice. We shalt very narrowly inquire into the division, which cannot but take place, should such a profane motion be at all mooted. If 'we should find that any of the ministers of religion in this town are guilty of thus promoting the open profanation of the Lord's day, they may rely upon it, whether they be Whigs or Tories, Churchmen or Schismatics, that we shall visit them withsuch a cas tigation as they will not soon forget. We shall not hesitate, from any motives of false delicacy, to exhibit them in their true light, as the enemies of Christianity, and, if Churchmen, as the foes of our Established Church. But we hope that at least no clergyman of the Church of England, who may happen to be a sub scriber, will be found to give his support to 'so mon strous a proposition. It' such should be found they will not escape the sneers of the Radical press of the town, to whose tender mercies we shall willingly con sign them, as an adequate punishment for so gross a dereliction of duty. We beg pardon, there is at least one Radical newspaper in town that will take up the cudgels on their behalf, as an indirect mode of justifying its own habitual infraction of the commandment which prescribes the "keeping holy the Sabbath day." Who eve , among the " Christian" pastors of Liverpool, desires such an apologist, is perfectly welcome to the distinction. THE ENDOWMENT QUESTION.—We have given this day a full and accurate report of the proceedings at the vestry meeting yesterday, in reference to the Endowment Question. At the very late hour that we received the report of the meeting we found it im possible to do anything like justice to the important matters at issue. On Tuesday next we shall revert to the subject. In the mean time we may be allowed to express a hope that nothing has occurred to preclude the possibility 'of a final 'adjustment of this vexatious question. We would particularly direct the attention of our readers ,to the- tery apposite speech of Mr. Gladwin. His sentiments, we feel convinced, wilt meet with a ready response from all parties whO are in terested in- the .maintenance of the Established • Church in this town. if • INSOLVENT DEBToits oouitt , • On Mi(inday and . Tuesday last, Mr ,t7oronaissioner Bowen held courts in this town for the hearing of the petitions and schedules of insolvent debtors. The following insolvents were declared entitled to the be nefit of the act, and ordered to be discharged forthwith : Charles Denman, Robert White, James Haythornthwaite, George Halliday, James Sweeney, John Bird, William Okell, Richard M‘Kittritk, William Coole, Ann Dickens, Henry Lowthian, jun., Thomas Tattersall, jun., Jonathan Yondale, William Fothergill. Joseph Fell, William Austin, George Brown, Richard Owen Thomas Smith, William Threlfall, • Richard Edgar, and Simon Hatch. The petition of Charles Marth was dismissed. Job Socket was committed for three months, for fraudulently contracting a debt with Edward Clough ; and Thomas Philip Peck and Joseph Peck for eight months. The cases generally possessed very little interest. Mes srs . Joseph and Th o ma s Phillip Peck, grocers and provision dealers, in London-road, were opposed by several creditors, and underwent a long examination. Their debts amounted to £-10(X). They attributed their insolvency to their creditors having taken forcible possession of their stock in trade and money, and to their detaining credifors having arrested and issued a fiat in bankruptcy against them. The stock in trade above mentioned, which was seized by the messenger under a fiat in bankruptcy, they valued at £l6OO. The sum of £5OO they alleged had been seized iu a drawer by the same officer. And the good-will, lease, possession, and fixtures of their shops, they valued at £7OO, making £2BOO. After a very lengthened examination tending to invalidate the testimony of the insolvents, the learned Commissioner went through the facts as they had been elicited in evidence, and then declared the insolvents entitled to the benefit of the act with respect to all their creditors except as to the two debts of £202 14s 3d. and £35 8s Id of the opp:ising creditors Mr. Buckley and Mr. hillock and for having fraudulently contracted debts with those parties, he adjudged them to be imprisone4 , eight calendar months from the filing of their petition. LIGHTHOUSE EXTRAORDINARY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD. Stu,-1 notice in the Liverpool Times of Tuesday a para graph stating that a new lighthouse has bren erected in the neighbourhood of Holyhead, (if I recollect properly,) and that " the light is visible from sunrise till sunset".!!! This must certainly be a very dangerous navigation to require a light in the day time !—Yours, &c., PHAROS. VESTRY MEETING. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a meeting of the parishioners was held.at St. Nicholas's Church, convened by the church wardens, Win. Huson and Wm. Gladstone ; Esgrs., "to take into consideration the proposals of Thomas James Hall, Esq. on his mediation for the settlement of the Church Endowment Question betiveen the Corporation of Liverpool-and the Trustees under the Endowment Deed, and which have been approved and adopted by the Council and Trusteearas to their parts in the arrangement. At which vestry a motion will he submitted to the inhabitants, approving of the proposed arrangement, and sanctioning an application to parliament for a bill to carry the same into effect:" About one hundred persons were present. Mr. Huson was called' to the chair; and after Mr. Lowndcs, the vestry clerk, had read the notice convening the meeting, The CirAIRMAN said, they were met together in accordance with the notice, to take into consideration the proposal of the Town-council, and of the Trustees of the Endowmeht Ques tion, for the settlement of this vexatious question. Mr. Lloyd, the solicitor to the tru.dees, was in attendance, and would explain the circumstances under which the arrange ment was made. Mr. LroyD then said, as this was the first opportunity he had had of:addressing the parties on behalf of those who had accepted the trust, he only thought it his duty, on theirbehalf, to give some little account of the question since its commence ment. The endowment was first thought of in )827, but owing to the town-due question it was postponed till 1833, and then, when the question was brought forward, the corpo ration was tied,: An arrahgernent was then entered into for the corporation to pay-4-3d of the police rate, and that they should take on themselves the paying ofthe parish clergy. The muni cipal reform bill was then brought forward, and although the bill for the payment of the clergy and police was brought in and carried ; nevertheless, it was made necessary by the go- Vernment to withdraw that portion which related to the police and clergy, inasmuch as the general municipal act fixed all that. On that part of the hill being withdrawn, a separate bill for the payment of the clergy was brought in, under the approval of the government, and that was the basis of the endowment question. Under the provision of the 97th sec. of the municipal bill, it was considered that the corporation should provide this, support for the clergy themselves, and a ;trust deed was -executed. Upon which; an injunction was applied for by Messrs.. Bolton and Jevons, and which was dissolved by time present, Lord Chancellor, and h e directed 'the appropriation to take place as the council might direct hereafter. On -the present Town-clerk being elected, the relators filed their supplemental bill; making • the trustees parties to it. Upon that taking place, the trustees demurred tothe course which the relators- had adopted, and said under the 97th section is your remedy ; a new rate having been created. The trustees demurred simply on a point of law. That demurrer was argued before the Master of the Hulls, who.allowed it. It had been appealed against to the Lord Chancellor, who had Overruled the demurrer, and the ques tion of variance of decision between the two high law autho rities: was now taken before the House of Lords for final settlement, where it rested. This taking place at the begin ning 0f,1837, circumstances had arisen to induce them income to a settlement of the question. Other decisions had taken place in courts of equity confirming in a certain extent, the judgment of the Lord Chancellor. The judgment tease most elaborate one, and one in which every lawyer would concur. Some communications then came to him through the Town clerk, friendly at first, to see if the question could be settled, and some questions were sent to non for simply giving tne present incumbents their stipends for life, and to return the endowment money, and there the question to end. The trustees had come to a resolution on this, " that though they were desirous that an amicable arrangement could be made, yet they could not but regret, that the proposal of the church endowment committee did not embrace the most important point of the question, which was to secure a permanent pro vision for the clergy, (hear, hear), but merely tended to secure the stipends of the present incumbents. The 67th section of the corporation act was intended to protect them in that, and they therefore hoped the committee would re consider the proposal, so that the trustees could treat with them." This was au the 10th of January last. In answer to this resolutiOn on the 6th of Feb. he had read copies of other resolutions, but as they only went to state the hornier proposal to continue the stipends of the present ministers for their lives, he did not think it necessary to summon a meeting of the trustees, and there the thing ended. (Hear.) A short time ago it was thought the question had better come to an amicable settlement, and Mr. Hall kindly came for ward and .offered to become the mediator. Mr. Hall stated distinctly that he was opposed to the introduction of the vo luntary system into our church establishment, and did not contemplate that it would form part of the basement of the present settlement. Upon these considerations, that the question should be settled on the principles of a permanent endowment, taking into consideration that they could not control the parish, the trustees acceded to the arrangement, to be either legally , fixed with, or legally relieved from the trust. Mr. Hall asked him to negotiate with the Town-clerk, and afterwards to send in his scheme for the settlement of the question. His (Mr. Lloyd's) answer was, that he could only look to the endowment deed on behalf of his clients, and be could only say—take off one rector in future. As all the advowsons were to be sold they might have one rector, which would be ample hereafter, because the patronage was entirely gone from the corporation, and it might conduce tea friendly arrangement. His scheme was having one rector, with £6OO a-year perpetually to him secured, because he thought the fees would be much reduced from the public cemeteries; four curates,. secured with £ , lOO a• year; a senior minister at St. Thomas's, with £220, and a second minister with £170; and the St. Paul's, St. John's, St. Ann's, and St. David's t o h e pla ce d on th e same footing. He supposed Mr. Hall, ou the other hand, was receiving a similar scheme on the part of the church endowment committee, and the result was what they had seen in, the newspapers, as agreed upon. He thought M r . H a ll would have liked to have had some thing more, but, he knew_ this- from, what had occurred, that it was the extent of what would be conceded by the church endowment committee. He had -.placed confidence in Mr. Hall as conscientiously endeavouring to do wnat was right. He (Mr. Lloyd) had nothing to do with St. Martin's, which was part of Mr. Hall's proposal, and which church was governed:bran aCt 'of:parliament. If 111 r. Hall could in clude it le his scheme, he (Mr. Lloyd) had no objection. Taking the question all in all, he thought it a fair settlement of it, if it, terminated the sttit. It was founded anti based on the endoWment •deetl,• and it was only now a question whether there . should be an additional minister to that church, and he thought the parishioners would think it right to take the burden of the other rector upon them, as therntinicipal bill had relieved them front tiwburden of the police : force. • The ArEsTltv-cListiic -then-read over the 'propositions of • Mr. Hall, which are the same a's brought before the council, and printed-in :our'last council report, Eir...LiS'irislied 16' know in what Worse situation the present inhabitants would be if the present endowment was done away altogeth'er, 'irould the reform bill give them as much 'as the present, arrangement? Mr. Church-warden 'cita t ysToNE;-01), no. Ain " it "' s- -8 4.Pse the truStees.lost their snit, what would the incuitilie*i.6l? Mr. Li , oin.----They- - Wetild lose i:650, which is not given them within the, sevep years required by law. Mr.Giti.tes.: s L-Then the present incumbents gain nothing? MI. LLUTD.—Yes, they gain £650. Mr; Etris said his object was not to go into any arrange ment to give- way.stcp by step. 'The men at present in power, they might depend upon it, would lake away everything step by step. (Hear, hear.) He would not sell his birthright for a tress of pottage, and if, by refusing to give way, „Cl.OO or I:200 was deficient, let them subscribe and make it up. He would not put faith in the present men in power Ile wished no arrangement to be-entered into for the present, Mr. Limy]) wished to know if the town would indemnify the trustees ? Mr. Eer.is—What would fall on them? Mr, LLOY 9—The probability of paying the costs of a suit or the next 20 years. Mr. Churchwarden GLA DSTONE would move "that in the opinion of this meeting it. is highly desirable that the long pending question of the church endowment should be ami cably adjusted, that to promote that adjustment, the proposi tton of 'l'. J. Hall, Esq. to sanction a bill for that purpose, be adopted." Mr. WA LTHEW seconded the motion. The Rev. W. GLA DWIN begged to be permitted, on the part of one who had been lugged into this question, to ask them to prevent people putting. their hands into his pocket; and depriving his people of the advantage they had hitherto possessed.—(Hear.) The pariihioners were called together there that day to confirm an arrangement. for the endovvinVift of some of the churches of the town, as projected by the trus - tees of the endowment question on one hand, and the town council on the other, with which he had nothing to do as a minister of a church, not all connected with the qii6titinat issue, but marked out for spoilation. lie was'dragged here neck and heels into the matter. He would not mince matters, With the parties with whom they had to deal, an act of parliament was as a piece of brown paper; it was neither a pledge of truth nor honesty, (hear!) and this he would presently show them. Time had been when any one getting an act of parlianient securing him property, held himself to be in the secure possession of it; but in these hippy days of Reform - and liberalism, a man was not to lay that flattering unction to his soul. They were called on to decide that day between the trustees and the church endowment committee, who were endeavour ing to take from the stipend of the clergy of St. Martin's-in the-Fields, who had no more to do with the (originll than what was going on at Pekin. He would read the act relating to St. Martin's Church, and then show them what faith had been. kept by those gentlemen - with him. The act under which St. Martin's Church was built, was for promoting the building of churches. The 'corporation . of Liverpool made proposals for taking the church into their patronage, on the ground of providing two ministers to the church. The preamble set forth—" Whereas, the difficulty of procuring provision for the repairs of - the church, and the payment of the ministers of the same from the. poverty of the inhabitants is such, that the mayor and town council proposed to provide for the support of two ministers out of the corporate funds upon having the church vested in them. Be it further enacted, that the yearly salary of the minister of the church shall not be less than 1:300, and of the assist ant minister not less than £2OO, and that the salaries shall be payable by the mayor and burgesses, and shall be recoverable by the 'enlister and assistant -minister by an action at •law, as any, other debt or demand whatever. (Hear, bear.) Now he would ask if an act of parliament was not a security for atrium who entered on a charge, what was to be? (Hear.) In this arrangement, which was proposed to them, these good people pretended to tell them that two ministers were nut necessary. They did not care if there were a hundred of them, so long as they did not pay for them out of their pockets. They attempted then to take £5O out of his pocket by making him pay it towards the £7O they paid for his .curate. Was ever such base pickpocketry as that? What right had any man to put his band into his pocket, and take away what had been confirmed to him by the law of the land? Was it because they belonged to the established church ? (Cries of "Yes.") Yes, and he would tell them they were wrestling with them foot by foot and inch by inch, and when they gotthem medic hip they would throw them over. (Loud cheers.) Their object was to reduce the ministers till they should not have in their pockets wherewith to supply the wants of the poor, and thereby disengage them from them. If he had £5O taken from him it, it. was not to be supposed he could do the same good to the poor as if he had it, and would any man attempt to call in question his conduct in its distribution, as a minister of the gospel. They had stepped out of their way to meddle with him. He was glad he was so dragged into it, as it would open the eves of the parish ioners to see whom they had to deal with. (Hear.) He had spoken of it simply as a question affecting himself, but he would speak of it as a question more deeply affecting others, who stood in greater nee d th an h e did o f £5O - a -year, blessed be God, he spoke on behalf of the poor and the destitute (hear, hear)—for whom that church had been built. He felt he should soon be laid in the ground, but he should feel ashamed of' himself if while be bad life, he could compromise the rights of the poor. tie had no idea of such au attempt as this, with out raising his voice and showing the people who were the friends of the poor. It was stated that this measure was for endowing, and especially for the benefit of the poor. How were they to be benefitted i—Hear, hear.) The whole of the galleries of St. Martin's were aeppropriated to them, and they paid nothing for it. He would venture to say that there were many who sneered at a minister being better paid, who would be ashamed to offer their ware housemen less. (Hear, hear.) His motion was, that the Council had, without any right whatever, interfered with St. Martin's Church, and that their attempt to introduce into the act of parliament the clause there related was a violation of a previous act of parliament, giving to the ministers a fixed salary. The VESTRY CLERK said the motion would neither be a negative nor an affirmative of the previous resolution, whether the proposition of Mr. Hall should or not be acceded to Mr. GLA USTONE.--Would it do to move that St. Martin's be exempt? The VESTRY CLERK.—If - von withdraw any part of the proposition, then you set all afloat. (" Oh, no.") Mr. HARDISTY begged to move that the proposition of Mr flail be taken into consideration that day six months. Mr. ElLts seconded the athendment, Mr. LLOYD thought the parish would do wrong if they should throw back the proposal. and not embrace the amica ble settlement of the suit. All his anxiety was that they should not lose bight of an arrangement of the question. The details relating to St: Martin's the trustees had nothing to do with. Mr. GLADIVN said he had communicated with Mr. Lloyd, supposing the trustees to be parties to this arrangement, and he bad a distinct negative that they had nothing to do with the proposal of it. He wished to state this, as the town council had gone on determined to have a part of the en dowment of Bt. Martin's. Mr. nottEirts, one of the churchwardens of St. Paul's, said he was surprised to see the account of the arrangeme, in the Liverpool journals by which St. Paul's was to be de. prived of one of its ministers, whose appointment to that church had been secured in perpetuity by virtue of an act of parliament, (especially for the spiritual welfare of the poor,) and to attempt to legalize such deprivation by another act of parliament, which was now anxiously sought for, was, at once, in his humble opinion, to attempt to legalize sacri lege, by robbing that church of its authorised minister, whose ministrations that church had already enjoyed for nearly three quarters of a century. Should Providence therefore permit hint to live to have ft hoary head, he would never have to reflect, 'that at a time when imminent danger threatened the future welfare of this church, he had slumbered at his post, and this' at a time when he was one of its legally ap pointed guardians. if such conduct as this was sanctioned, they might almost expect that application will be made for an act to rob a parent of his child, that the inheritance which a parent has bequeathed could be no Langer secured to his child. On entering on the subject he would merely state the act of parliament on which St, Paul's and St. John's had been erected, " 2 (leo. 3.; cap. 68, sec. 1. And whereas, the buildings, and inhabitants of the said town of Liverpool have for somelime-past•continued to increase, and great numbers of workmen, labourers, and •ither persons living in the said town, are not of ability to hire or provide pews, seats, and places in some of the said churcheS, &e., as well for pro moting, and • encouraging piety and- true religion, &c."— Afterwards it had been determined that St. Paul's and St. John's `should be bUilt by a tax levied on the parish of Liver pool. In the 13th section it stated, that the " rates were to be paid to,commiSsionersyby• the 'several tenants, or occu piers of houses, •warehouses,. &c. •&c., so as the same do not exceed one shilling , in the pound in any one year."— In the next section- it said, " Rates were to be levied by dis tress and sale." Now, mark, the very Protestant chuiches which the piety and'benevolence of their 'Pretestant ances tors had built by a- tax i 'the present Town Council, . now hav ing the sale of the advowsons of these churches, Mined round and said, " We will deprive the 'poor of one of the ministers of these churches for the sake olexpediency." He was a Protestant, and he was" not ashathed to say, that he protested against any • sacrifice of the interests of the church fur expediency. - Section 25 of the act stated, that except pews for the ministers and churchwardens of such churches respectively, open benches or seats shall be fixed to the floor of the same churches, fur the ease, conveni ence, and benefit of the poorer sort of people, who shall attend divine service therein; and no rent, or other con sideration shall be paid or demanded of any person whatso ever, for the use, &c. of the said pews or benches respectively." It was therefore provided, that the ground floor of these two churches should be free for ever, and they were, strictly speaking, therefore, churches of the poor. He contended that they ought to have such churches provided throughout the land for the religious instruction of the poor, (hear, hear,) and he would much rather subscribe his mite to such a purpose than to the building of a prison. (Hear.) He would merely remark that the two churches of St. Paul's and St: John's were parish churches. It was provided that they should be kept in good order by the parish, and that the necessary outlay should be paid out of the parish rates. A 'PARISHIONER.—How many free sittings has St. Paul's? Mr. ROBERTS.—! believe about 1200. The PARISHIONER.—Where is there a dissenting chapel in Liverpool with so many free seats? Mi. ROBERTS continued.—To show the intention of the parties building these churches, he need only quote the act: " 7 Geo. 111. cap. 80.—And whereas the said church of St. Paul is built on a spacious and large plan or design, capable and very likely to have and contain a very numerous con gregation of hearers of divine service, and communicants of the most holy and blessed sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and they apprehend the duty would be too much fur one minister to undertake it ; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor, &c. and their successors, &c. shall and may, and they are hereby authorised and re quired, &c. to.nominate and present under the common seal of the said borough and corporation, Two proper persons duly qualified to be the ministers of the said church of St. Paul, and also in like manner to appoint another minister or ministers of the same church upon every death, vacancy, or avoidance of such minister and ministers, Btc.' He had given the subject some attention from having been churchwarden before and from the size of the church, and the dome drawing the voiee of the minister, he gave it as his decided opinion, that it would not be in the power of any one minister to perform the whole duty in a satisfactory manner, without destroying his health, and sinking into a premature grave. There we r e a ls o ex t ens i ve visiting duties attached to the in inistry—visiting of the sick or the congregation, and of the ecclesiastical district of the schools, &c., and though he did not advocate the paying of an idle clergyman, this would not be the case with either of two ministers of St. Paul's. He protested against theelliciency of the ministry of St. Paul's church being diminished for the reasons he had given —that it was contrary 'to an act of Parliament. Ile called upon the inhabitants of Liverpool not to shrink from the question on the ground- of political expediency, but to come forward and strenuously support the church like men who were placed in the breach, and to whom the defence of the church as a fortress was committed. He concluded,.ifter some further remarks, with movinag— " That ill, asinuch as the church of St. P au l s i s s i tuate d in a popultais part of the totvn, and is much resorted to by the poor inhabitants, the whole of the body being appro priated to their 'use; it is inexpedient to reduce the number of ministers officiating at that church, and he • begged leave, 'therefore, to move " that the church wardens be instructed to communicate - to ►he council the .wishes of this vestry, that no change take place in the act of parliament under which the church was built. Further, that the stipends do not exceed a reasonable provision, and that as the patronage is in the Corporation, the Town-council be requested to re-consider the question, so as to secure to two ministers the same stipend as before the en doworeor question arose; and further that the parishioners will take on themselves the difference in the compensation provided the Town-council will not allow/it, provided the ministers do their duty." He hoped to secure to the ministers of the church the stipends fixed to them as hitherto paid. He felt also equally interested in' St. John's Church as it, St. Paul's. 'The ground floor of that church was equally free. He had been advised not to press that, there should be two ministers for St. John's, and therefore did not press it ; but he thOught if the duties of the church were performed they ought to give a reasonable exchange of their temporal wealth for the spiritual wealth they received. (Hear.) Air. jouN But SCOE, Churchwarden of St. Paul's seconded the amendment. Mr. ELLis pressed his amendment. He said the question must go back for consideration. A I(7ngthened discussion, or rather altercation then ensued as to which motion was to be put, and which was in order; Mr. Gladwin contending that the orikinal motion could not he put as it affected his interest, which was protected by act of parliament. He had nothing whatever to do with the question. Several irrelevant topics were introduced, and the altercation was protracted till half-past three o'clock. Mr. BOLTON strenuously advised the parishioners to accept the proposed arrangement, otherwise they would in all pro bability have to take up with one not nearly so beneficial to themselves, as the pending suit on the endowment question would in.all probability go against the trustees. It was ho matter to him whether the arrangement which had been Made to give a part of the stipend of St. Martin's ministry to the ministry of St. George's, which was only £5O a- y ear, was carried . out or not. The corporation had t o g i ve £405 between them, and he cared not how it was appropriated. Mr. GLanwlN designated the taking away his stipend, which was protected to him by act of parliament, to make ,up the stipend of the ministers of St. George's, as " robbing Peter to pay Paul." Mr. BotroN intimated that no further concession would be made 14 the council; and after a long desultory discus sion, Mr. H A iin't - s:ry agreed to alter his amendment to an ad jouiturient!till Monday, to allow time for making a differen nrratigement with regard to the protestin g c h urc h es o f S t Martin's in the Fields. • - The amendment was then put, and was carried by a great majOiitv. an a tfis.original motion being put, only three hands were held'OP' in its favour.' The question of adjournment was' therefore carried A - resolution was brought forward by. Mr. ROBERTS, im pressing the necessity for two ministers for St. John's. The amendment for an adjournment being carried this proposal was set'aSide.' After a. vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meting br o k e up at a little beforelour, being adjourned to Monday at one o'clock. Cattx ET.—A match will be played between the Liverpool . and Manchester'Clubs, on the ground of the latter, on Wed nesday next, the 11th instant. Wickets to be pitched at ten o!clock precisely. MAritriuns' CHURCH SOCTLTY.—On Wednesday last a sermon was preached on behalf of the Mariners' Church Society', ut St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. H. M`Neile. After u most eloquent appeal on behalf of this truly excellent society by the rev. gentleman, a collection- was made, and upwards of £4O received in aid of the funds of the society. Captain Philip Partridge, who was recently committed from the Liverpool Police Court to take his trial at the Cen tral Criminal Court for the manslaughter of a boy, who was one of the hands on board an African trader which the ac cused commanded, pleaded guilty on being► indicted for the offence, and has been sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment: 7-- We understand that the foundation stone ofa new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, about to be erected in Great Homer-street, is intended to be laid on Monday next, the 9th instant. GIN INFATUATION.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a wretched-looking man. named John Ash, who it appeared had immigrated from Wolverhampton to this place, in search of employment, and who appeared at the bar without hat, shoes, stockings, shirt, or neckerchief, and with nothing to cover his nakedness but a tattered pair of trousers, and a jacket whi c h had once be en w h o l e , b u t through which his naked skin peeped in all directions, was placed before Mr. Hall, charged with being chunk. A policeman stated, that about half-past six o'clock the night before the prisoner. was very drunk, in Marybone, without a shirt, and his breeches dropping down about his legs, and they could not be kept up, so he took him into custody to prevent him further exposing himself. Mr. Hall—" He does not wear braces?" Officer— " No, sir." In answer to questions from Mr. Hall, the pri soner said he had come from Wolverhampton to mend um brellas, and that he had been in the towii a fortnight. Mr. Parkinson said he understood the prisoner had been drinking the whole of his time, and had pawned everything he had in the world but his trousers for drink ; the jacket be had on did not belong to him. Mr. Hall—" I wish you would go back to Wolverhampton,. you would be very much wanted there I dare say. I think you have punished yourself enough, and I shall discharge you ; but if you are brought here again I will send you to the House of Correction. Go back home." The wretched man then left the court, an object of derision rather ttran pity. Sr TE uF Tll.l DE.---There was no change in the Manches ter market yesterday. The demand both for goods and yarn was very moderate,and previous prices were barely supported. —Manchester Guardian, Wednesday. ROCRI)ALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY. —There has beeen but little business doing in the market to-day, and that chiefly in the middle qualities. The manufacturers demand _ ..-.... higher prices, which the buyers do not feel disposed — to give at present. The wool market is very dull. The dealers are asking higher prices, and the manufacturers purchase very sparingly.—Manchester Guardian, Wednesday. TI 113 New COMMISSION FOR THIS COUNTY.—In the new commission 'for this county, there are in all 268 gentlemen, and they are divided in five hundreds, as follows; in Lons dale Ifundred, 44 ; in Amounderness Hundred, 15 ; in Blackburn Hundred, 48; in West Derby Hundred, 87; and in Salford Hundred, 83. NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—The most strenuous efforts are making by the spirited contractors at both ends of this line of railway, to effect its completion before the expiration of the summer months. A number of workmen are at present employed in laying the permanent rails. The Ribble bridge is in a forward state : it is a noble structure, and presents a very attractive appearance. SAILING OF THE ROYAL WILLIAM STEAM SHIP FOR NEW YORK. Last evening this splendid vessel, the property of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, set sail on her first voyage for New York. This being the first steam-vessel from Li verpool to the United Slates, it was but to be expected that thousands would flock to the pier to witness her starting. The impetus lately given by the experimental voyages of the Great Western, and the Sirius are the prologues to mighty changes in navigation. The possibility of a voyage of aOUO miles, by steam, having been proved, no boundary can be placed to the extent to which steam navigation will be carried, and the present achievements of steam vessels, though great in themselves, are but as the first startings of railway car riages down an inclined plane, slow in progression as corn pared to the lightning velocity of the end of the descent. We anticipate, ere long, to heat of steam-vessels voyaging to all parts of the world, the most distant as well as those close a t hand, approximating to us all nations and their produce, and opening fresh fields for the sowing of the seed of British capital, enterprise, and industry. The Royal William was announced to sal for New York at half past six o'clock. Rumour with her hundred tongues had for sometime bruited about many particulars concerning the vessel and when she would start, and the piers presented such a sight as we have rarely seen except on occasions similar to the coronation, being densely crowded to the extent of a mile with parties gone there to witness the sail ing of the vessel. Prince's Pier was lined towards the river wilts a dense crowd from top to bottom, and the rigging of the shipping in the Prince's Dock was densely manned with sailors. Evers , conceivable standing place on George's Pier was crowded to excess, and one of the Rock Ferry boats taking advantage of the anxiety to witness the vessel sail made a profitable speculation with taking a crowded deck load of passengers down to the Rock.alongside. at ls. a head. This example was also followed by one of the Woodside boats. On reaching the boat which was to take us on board, our ears were saluted with the unusual cry, .‘ Now for New York; we're off," which Caine as trippingly from the boat man's tongue, as "Now for Dublin ; we're off." On ap proaching the' Royal William, she appeared to be sunk ex ceedingly deep in the water, her paddle-boxes almost touch ing it. This, however, was a f au lt o f whi c h she will im prove every Lur. The deck of the vessel was crowded with passengers and their. friends, and those whom curiosity had taken there. Exactly at half-past six o'clock the anchor was weighed, and immediately as the noble vessel began to move she was greeted with the enthusiastic cheering of thousands of spec tators, which were responded to by those ou board, whilst from Woodside, Birkenhead, Rock 'Ferry, the Pier, and the steam-boats in the river on all sides, scores of cannon thun dered forth the rejoicings of their possessors. The gallant and topgallant sails were hoisted . , the paddles revolved, and the' splendid steam-ship slowly wended• her war down the Mersey to the broad Atlantic. Again she was cheered by thousands of voices from hundreds of boats that were sailing around, from steamers, and from the shore. On passing the Floating Bath; the vessel was crowded to excess with specta tors, who cheered and waived their hats as we passed. On arriving opposite the Waterloo Pier, thousands of spectators were there congregated also, and she passed in gallant style, amidstthe cheering of the assembled multitude, and the roaring of cannon from the Pier-head. On arriving op posite to the building.yard of Messrs. Wilson, the builders of the steamer, a royal salute of 21 guns was fired as she passed, which were answered by salutes from Seacombe, E , rernont, and the private residence of Mr. Wilson in New Brighton, and also from the bow of the Royal William. Re freshments were provided on board, by the liberality of the City of Dublin Company, for the entertainment of the ladies and gentlemen invited, who chose to partake of them. When arrived opposite to the Leasowe Lighthouse, the Liffey steamer came alongside for the purpose of taking oil' the visitors, and after many a long shake of the_hand,and many an adieu, and not a few sorrowful partings of relatives, the noble erection of man's skill and ingenuity, and enterprise, and daring, majestically stood on her way through the trackless waste of waters. If many a fervent wish breathed for her success can waft her speedily and safely across the Atlantic, the Royal William will make a splendid passage. As the Liffey turned to return to Liverpool, enthusiastic and conti nuous cheers, waiving of hats, and clapping of hands, from the crowd on board, was the parting farewell. Through the polite attention of Mr. Shaw, the superinten dent of the engineering department of the company, who has gone out with her, and of Captain Swainson, the com mander, we were furnished with the following particulars relating to the vessel. She is built by Messrs. Wilson, and her engines are from the manufactory of Messrs. Fawcett and Preston, and are, without exception, a pair of the most beautiful engines we ever saw. The vessel is 617 tons burthen, and her engines are 276 horse power, and work expansively at a five feet six inch stroke. The consumption of coal is 14 cwt. 2lbs. per hour. She has bridges on Mr. J. C. Shaw's principle, which completely ig nite the smoke, and are a saving of 33 per cent. in the con sumption. The smoke from the chimney top is scarcely per ceptible. She has fuel on board for 4,500 miles, almost suf ficient to take her out and bring her back again. Her length is 175 feet; breadth of beam 27 feet; and depth of hold 17 feet 6 inches. She is also fitted with four water-tight wrought iron bulk heads, for safety from foundering and hre. She is fitted up with floats, which neutralize the vibration. We were struck with her steady and almost imperceptiblemotion through the water, and complete freedom from vibration. The coals are packed in sacks, so as to enable 'be hourly con: sumption to be ascertained; each sack containing two cwt This plan also prevents any annoyance during the removal' of coals out of the hold. Her paddle wheels are 24 feet in diameter, and owing to the great depth of the vessel in the water from the large quantity of coal o❑ board, the paddles are six feet in the water. in smooth water the vessel sails 111 knots an hour. There are four separate boilers detached in all their fittings, with one of which the engines can be worked, and completely at full speed with two, leaving the others to be cleared out without stopping the vessel. Her stroke, after she had got her way on her, was 112 times per minute, but when in trim, and her paddles less deeply in the water, she makes 19 strokes per minute. Her cabins, which are exceedingly neatly fitted up, contain accommoda tion for 80 passengers. There are two principal cabins, and several private cabins. .'Thirty-two passengers went out iii her It was stated, that Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Matthews were going out in her—such, however, was not the ease. In conclusion, we can only wish success to the Roral William, and Godspeed her'! Tutu THEATRE-ROYAL—Those very sweet and unobtrusive songstresses, the Misses Smith. have been delighting very excellent houses during the week. We have only heard of them during their present visit, not having had leisure to attend the Theatre. Mademoiselle Celeste this evening takes her benefit, when she will perform in several favourite inelo-dramatic pieces. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Last evening Mr. Atkins was again favoured by the weather, and gave another grand gala. The concourse of spectators was great as ever. It is treat like a standing toast; it will bear giving every night. The splendid tire works connected with tbe•exhibitiun of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius again excited much admiration. A military band was in attendance, and the whole appeared to give great satisfaction. CORONATION FESTIVITIES.—OR Saturday evening last, Messrs. Lewis & Gorsage, coal merchants, plentifully regaled about forty of their men, in honour of the coronation of our beloved Queen. The loyalty and enthusiasm displayed on the occasion was intense, and the toasts, prefaced as they were by apposite and in many instances eloquent remarks, were responded to in a style that made the welkin ring. —In celebration of this illustrious event, a large number of gen tlemen sat down on Thursday week to a dinner prepared in the usual excellent style of the Misses Halliday, at Everton. John Formby, Esq. presided, under whose auspices the evening was spent in the most convivial and delightful man ner. Friend Halliday's " Bucellas" was splendid. ROYAL WILLIAM, STEAMER.—An experimental trial was on Tuesday made in the river, of this fine vessel, with a view of testing her consumption of fuel, and the result was suffi cient to satisfy all on board, that she carries a supply ade quate to above 1,000 miles further than her destined port of New York. One feature in the construction of this vessel's boilers, merits attention. For two hours she was steamed with one of her three boilers lying idle, thus proving her ca pability for all that can be requisite in the way of cleaning out, &c.; and during the time she was thus working, the en gines had abundance of steam, without any of that black volume of smoke, which _usually accompanies the firing of large engines. Another feature merits attentio❑ : by a new process, above twenty gallons of fresh water were distilled, thus causing a supply of that necessary article. The ap pearance of this fine vessel on the water excited much ad miration. We are happy to learn from general report that the Mar quis of Queensberry, a nobleman personally much respected, has worthily illustrated the independence of his station and character by resigning the Lord Li e ut e n anc y o f Dumfries shire, from feeling it incompatible with his sense of honour to continue to the Melbourne ministry the benefit of his lord ship's support.— Tinges. On Saturday last the venerable Earl of Clarendon, in ho nour of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria's corona tion, regaled his poor labourers, with their wives and chil dren, at the Grove, Watford, with an excellent dinner of old English fare, roast beef and plum pudding. Nearly 200 sat down to dinner; Mr. Hepburn, his lordship's steward, presided. Monmouth Wool Fair was held on Monday se'nnight, or which occasion an average quantity of wool was pitched, Long fine wool averaged 19s. per stone; Welsh and shoo wool 16s. to 17s. per stone. The Duke of Wellington, in adlition to former pecu liarities, occupies at this moment a position upon one subject probably unexampled in the world His grace , 'the greatest hero and the first man of the age, lip es to see statues erected to his glorious achievements, and to be himself consulted about them; while he attends in his own person, and is actively employed in commemorating in the same way the deeds of Nelson, next to himself the most eminent of that galaxy who have so honoured our name and nation. 79TH HIGHLANDERS.—The united services of nine men of the 79th Highlanders, about to be discharged at Chatham, amount. to 263 years—they are all Waterloo men—some of them were present at the battle of Copenhagen, and shared in the glories of the Peninsular war. There are only two officers and five men remaining in the regiment who were at Waterloo. JUPITEIL—This planet, which has occupied such a con spicuous place in the starry firmament during this season, is approaching to its conjunction with the sun, and will, in no long space of time, be lost in the effulgence of that lu minary. It is at present seen in the western part of the hea vens after sunset, and may easily be distinguished from the fixed stars by its superior lustre. It is the only one of the planets which in this respect can at all vie with Venus. MELANCHOLY CATASTROPHE.—Saturday morning, as Mr. Thomas Redshaw and a boy were crossing the Derwcnt, at the Allestree-ford, with a waggon-load of co a ls a n d a t eam of • five horses, the fore wheel was locked in the root of a tree, which has been washed down by the floods Mr. Redshaw was riding on the leader, and finding their progress was stopped he went to the shaft horse to release it from the waggon, but did not completely succeed. He then endea voured to retain, but as the water was high and the stream rapid he was washed away and drowned. The boy gave the alarm, and assistance was procured from the village. Mr. Samuel Milhvard and Mr. Joshua Thompson went into the river and set four horses at liberty, but they were two hours and a half betore they could extricate the shalt horse. They are entitled to great praise for their humane and perseve,ring exertiont. Mr. Thomas Redshaw was the sun of Mr. Wm. Redshaw, of Longford Wood House, to whom the team be longs, the body of the young man has not yet been found.— Derby Reporter. Li7SUS ' NATUR/E.—The government evening papers have just now got hold of a strange story—showing how one Thomas Withers, of Bowling, keeps a cat; and how the said cat last week produced a kitten which instead of having a head at one end and a tail at the other, had a head at each end, and no tail at all !—besides which it had but one leg, and that one was of no use whatever; for instead of growing under its body so that it might either stand or hop upon it as inclination or necessity might require, it grew out of its back,—sticking upright between its shoulders in the most useless and absurd manner imaginable !—This is certainly very strange and seems to have bothered Thomas Withers and the government papers not a little. They have made up their minds however to pronounce it " one of those freaks in which Nature sometitnes delights to disport herself;" but it is nothing to a freak of this sort which recently came to pass in New Jersey—videlicet-L-a cat whose head grew where its tail should he, so that instead of following its nose it fol lowed its tail—running about-continually in the most sprightly manner, the wrong end foremost, until at last to the great grief of the whole neighbourhood the poor thing ran into a pond—where its exertionsito get out of course only got it fur ther in, and then "death put an end to its sufferings."— Morning Herald. . 1 .71 1 P, wit Ws '„,....".17--"'"is C:: .., -Z - 1' .r.• isr ~.. ; 44:.-.?_,, Y.-' ... ..... .......,,, 7....... DEFEAT OF THE REV. MR. MAGUTRe. ' t ::: - .,.. - 't t e" ''. , A TO ROBERT N. FYNN, ESQ. ,:„?.,_.,,,:_--„,,,,,,,. ti Achill Island, June 27, 18. X* " .. 5 . - os. Sts, —The newspapers have put me in possession of a cr . ' N I -lIV cular letter addressed by you to the Roman Catholic Priests of Ireland, beseeching them, with intense earnestness of language, to lend their aid in raising a sum of money for the Rev. Mr. Maguire, who is represented by you as the success- . ful champion of the cause isith which their interests are identified. In this letter I find the following :---`• Your friend and brother, the Rev. Mr. Maguire, has astounded and confounded your enemies; your religion is exalted, and your liberty is secured. THE PRESENT GENERATION WILL NEVER WITNESS ANOTHER PUBLIC VIVA VOCE DISCUSSION IN IRELAND." Omitting any notice of the ad captandum nonsense contained in the sentence "your liberty is se em ed," I think I shall not be accused of misrepresentation, in assertin that the paragraph which I have q uo t e d contains, First—a claim on behalf of Mr. Maguire to vic tory in the late controversy; and, Secondly—a statement designed to establish the validity of the claim, as set forth in the words—"the present generation will never witness an other public viva race discussion." In a word, the manifest drift of your letter is, that-the Protestant clergy have been so astounded and confounded, that they will never again dare to Meet a Roman Catholic priest in public discussion. You S I have thus, Sir, established a test by which the defeated party may be surely di scovere d. I now ta k e your own test, and I apply it. Ido hereby challenge the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland to a public controversy. Let me have but one month's notice and I pledge myself' to provide six Protestant ministers to meet an equal number of their body, to investi gate IN PUBLIC VIVA VOCE DISCUSSION, the poinis in con troversy between us. Until this challenge is taken up, the defeat of the champion of popery is demonstrated by a test which has been supplied by his own partizan. I am, Sir, Your faithful servant in Christ, EDWARD NANGLE, GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR JULY ‘l - 2 In this month prepare all unoccupied plots of ground for autumn and winter crops. Sow turnips, French beans, let tuces, and black Spanish radishes. Plant out brocoli, cauli flower, savoys, leeks, and winter cabbages, and earth up celery. Lift full, grown winter onions, and prepare mush room spawn. In tine weather, gather medicinal flowers and sweet herbs, when in bloom, dressing them in the shade for winter use, Divest wall•trees, espaliers, and standards, of all superfluous shoots. Continue to water in dry weather, and gather all kinds of seeds as they advance to maturity. Propagate evergreens, roses, and other shrubs, by laying the young wood. Innoculate flowering and other shrubs, bud roses in cloudy weather, and divide the roots of double primroses, polyanthuses, and auriculus. Lay or pipe carnations and pinks, take up anemones and ranunculuses, and put in cuttings of pansies, caleeolarias, dahlias. Chinese chrysan themumus, geraniums, &c. FARMERS' CALENDAR FOR JULY, Rape and cole-seed way be sown in the last of this month„ All meadows, not mown in June, should De cut this month if possible; hay-making being in many seasons such uncer tain work, and so extremely expensive, the farmer should take care to manage it with as good contrivance as he can. The ground-work of all good hay-making is careful tedding, by hand, immediately from the scythe, and getting it into small cocks within the day. To have plenty of hands is a material point; fur if good use be not made of favourable days, the work will certainly be unprofitable : in order to this, the farmer should have some other work always in readiness for his people; such as turning manure, carting, &c. Plough your follows as the grass and weeds grow. THE CORONATION. (From the Cork Coratitution.) Harp_ of the land of p oetr y and son g , Let Bards of Erin breathe upon thy strings, And sing the anthem of a nation's lore, A nation's joy —fur England's Queen is crown'd Crown'd is the daughter of our ancient kings. England's bright diadem with faithful clasp Circles the brow of innocenceand youth. Bright are its gems, but brighter shall surround The loyal hearts rejoicing in their Queen. May each unsullied be the pledge of Truth, True to the King of Sovereigns. Lord of Crowns. True to his Word—his cause—his people's shield Theti, Harp of Erin, sing VICTORIA'S praise. And lay thy Emerald splendor at her feet; But not the Diamond, howe'er pure it be, Not for the ermined vest, however rich, Not for the night illumin'd into day, The poet's numbers wake. Oh, no Oh, no ! The chariots and the horse-men may surround, And all of pleasure may the scene adorn. A LARGE Loan.—The city of Quebec, Lower Canada, has not a house large enough to hold Lord Durham,. th e new Governor of the Canadas, and the liou!e of Assembly is to he converted into a shelter for his lordship, which it is sup posed will be large enough to afford !Mil sufficient room to turn round in.—New York Evening Post, Hy DE PAt U FAIR.—We understand that the fair has been altogether a failure, scarcely any of the speculators having realised more than their expenses.—.. Times. The Marquis of Bristol has again evinced the generous interest which he takes in the welfare of the Suffolk General Hospital, by Presenting it with the liberal donation of £2OO. This munificent sum has been presented in commemoration of the coronation of our gracious Queeu.—Sufiblk Herald. A Young man married a wife, whose only claim upon his regard was her personal beauty. She said to him, at the end of one of their quarrels, "You don't love me: you cannot look me in the face and say that, you love me." " You mistake me, my dear." cried he, "for it is only when I look you in the face, that 1 can say that 1 love you." The anniversary meeting of the East Lancashire Branch of the London Missionary Society was held in Manchester. last week, When the different collections produced £2,937 13s. 2d. HOT AND COLD.—Lord Ashburton, with a singular in felicity peculiar to himself, whsle be upholds the corn laws as th'e best that ever was adopted, deprecates the opposition given by the landed interests to the plan for grinding c orn i n bond, which vocating is its violatio neither more nor less than praisinz the law, and adn. A remarkable celestial phenomenon was observed at Tou louse, about half-past nine in the evening of the 25th ult. The heat had been oppressive throughout the day ; en d th e atmosphere had become opaque, but without any appearance of a storm. In the midst, however, of the obscurit a streak of tire of a pale a s hy co l our rose from the horizon and was lost in the zenith. This continued at regular intervals for about a minute and a half, alternately weak and strong; moving in a southerly direction and parallel to the magnetic meridian. AMERICAN LEGISLATION.—The legislature of one of the south-western states of America passed a law having pro visions somewhat like those of the Irish insurrection act. Among other things, it was ordered that no man of colour should go out after dark,-except in cases of urgency, and then to be alway s p rov id e d with a lantern, or be liable to arrest and punishm en t. Th e order was literally obey e d , f or each black carried a good and sufficient empty lantern. Hereupon the angry legislators passed " an act to amend an act," &c. That too was obeyed, but with unlighted candles. Then came a third act, with a preamble commencing " whereas the plain intentions, &c., having been frustrated by certain wicked evasions, &c," and by this it was at last effected that the lanterns should carry a light! STEAM NAVIGATION.—BV enlarging the mod e l of the Great Western to a ship of 3,200 t ons , w i th engines of 1 - horse-power, the voyage from Bri s t o l to N ew York, made' in fifteen days five hours, by the Great Western, consuming 450 tons of coals, would be performed by thi s l arger ship , under the same circumstances of wind and weather, in aboutten days, with a consumption of about 530 tons of coa l s. If we allow 1,100 tons for the weight of her engines, boil ers, and water, and 1,100 tons for fuel out and home, we sh a ll h ave 1,100 tons to spare for cargo and passengers; showing that speed, economy, and capacity, increase in proportion to the size of the ship. Three tons to the horse-power seem to be a fair estimate; but as ships are increased in magnitude, the propelling power, perhaps, may be decreased.—Raj/way Magazine. STRANGE STORY.—We find the following extraordinary story in a letter from Berlin, of the 19th ult., quoted by the Hanover Gazette:—" A country , patrol lately going his rounds between Konigslautg and Schoentlies, in the New March, found an elegant carriage an d h orses standing in the middl e of a field of corn, an d inside the dead bod y o f a young man who was an inspector of t he forests, and w ho had been shot through the head. The patrol t ook the carriage and th e corpse to suspiciont o h f e hna‘ex.itnvgilolaogmei,olvithed where he hie‘vas himself detain e d on murder. On the follow ing day a young woman, lately married to a man of fort une, came voluntarily forward and declar ed th at she was the per. petrator of the crime. She stated that the deceased, who had long courted her, on learning that she was married to another, wrote a letter threatening to destroy her h us b and and all her relations. Convinced that he would carry- his menaces into execution, she made an assignment with him, but went armed with a pistol, and taking an opportunity, fired when his head was turned from her, and instantly killed him." The journal from which this is taken does not inform us what the result of this affair has been. LEFT-HAND GLOVES.—A contraband speculator bought some time ago, in Paris, 10,0001. worth of gloves for the English market. It is well known that in the English cus tom-house certain goods are taxed according to the value sworn to by the owners, and that to prevent fraud the cus tom-house sometimes takes nossessiowof goods at the p rice so determined. In this case the speculator having stated the value of the gloves at 50001. the amount was paid to him, and the gloves retained. The speculator determined to have his revenge, procured an accomplice on his return to Paris, and purchased 40.000 f. worth of gloves. These were adjusted and made up into two packers, with - which the two friends started, the one to Dover and the other to Bristol. At Dover the packet was opened, and the owner stated the value of t he gloves at 15,000 f. which were paid to him, and the gloves re tained. The same occurred at Bristol. The speculator at Dover started for Bristol, and met his friend halt way on hi s road to Dover, and each of them with 15,0001. in his pocket, waited at his post till the day of the custom-house sale. The gloves were exposed, when our speculator at Bristol, bidding among other people, observed, alter pretending to exami n e them minutely, that they were all for the left band! and s o in fact, they turned out to be : pnrchasersof course could not be found, and he bought the whole lot for 60001. The s ame thing took place at Dover with the right-hand g l oves, and the friends proceeded to Lonnen, where, it ie presumed, th e gloves were a third time profitably disposed of.—French paper. THE SILENT Lovults.—An ancient clergyman one even ing because the subject of conversation, and a wonder w as expressed that he had never married. " That wonder." sai d • Miss Porter, " was once expressed to the rev. gentleman himself in my hearing, and he told a story in answer, which I will tell you; and perhaps, slight as it may seem, it is the history of other hearts as sensitive and delicate as his own. Soon after his ordination, he preached, once every Sabbath, for a clergyman i❑ a village not twenty miles from London. Among his auditors, from Sunday to Sunday, he observed a young lady, who always occupied a certain seat, and whose close attention began insensi bly to grow to him an object of thought and pleasure.— She left the chuich as soon as service was over, and it so chanced that he went on fur a year without knowing her name, but his sermon was never written without many a thought how she would approve of it, nor preached with satisfaction unless lie read approbation in her face. Gradually he came to think of her at other times than when writing , sermons, and to wish to see her on other days than on sundays—but itie weeks slipped on, and though he fancied that she grew paler and thinner, he never brought himself either to ask 'her name or to seek to speak with her. By these silent steps, however, love had worked into his heart, and he made up his mind to seek her acquaintance and marry her if possible, when one day he was sent for to minister at a funeral. The face of the corpse was the same that had looked up to him Sunday alter Sunday, till he had learned to make it a part of his religion and his life. He was unable to perform the service, and another clergyman present officiated; and after she was buried, her father took him aside, and begged his pardon for giving him pain —but he could not resist the impulse to tell him, that his daughter had mentioned his 'name with her last breath, and be was afraid that a concealed affection for him had hurried her to the grave. Since that, said the clergyman in question, my heart has been dead within me, and I look forward only. -I shall speak to her in heaven.—N. P. Willis.