The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-30 00:00:00

WILLIAM MINTON SILK MERCER AND LIN BEGS 3 the PubliC for t partnership co nounce that ht (oppos ,te the Palatir. DNESDAY, t. adapted to t CERY, LI: W. M. hi conduct of th maintain and s A ASSIST Wanted APPRI N. 8.- been marled for i prices._ !Ir with an HOSH AN ENTIRELY NI DRAPER, favours rec aken the r Chib Hous. Mr. Robinson„ which he purposes ReoF , and fry u And su address a id respectab Manuf, LYOIS CRIPPS Sold-street SCURFIELD SH and lately occupied b 7th of - APRIL NEXT, 'th instant, as previously an- Improvements in t bsolutely necessarl CK OF GOODS Rich SILK MEP 3,Y, GLOVES, &c purious and ormly charging h good quality, to Id character, is e YOUTH as Stock has at exceedingly lot Top of BOLD-STREI ;1) theabove Premises INEN DRAPERY, 4, which rers, and pport of the Public, \V. flies who have known hint recommend Ith Irish Li fs, Diapers, - Shirting Cali t Covers, &c. & ad every description of FIVI SEASO L CLOTH HALI IVERPOOL 'LOVED to the ex- WOOLLEN GOODS ,he best West of In it will be f land and Yorkshire Market id a choice selection of WEST PATTERNS IN WAISTCOATINGS CHALEE, and other fashionable Material: 'l'H r; 1 OF SI o the present s jut avail himself of this opportunity of us Customers for th thankir support during ess, and trusts to merit CARPETS, DRUGGETS, and OIL CEOTI be'sold a real bargain CAIG A,N ALLTREE, D DRAPERS GET, LIVERPOOL. Mr. PETER CAM), in the patronage extended to bet !gs to inform her Friends that with Mr. JOHN ALLTREE, ,cknowl knowledge of the Trad less will be conducted with in )n, under the Firm of CAIG and opportunity of soliciting a con- A.LLTREE tinuance of their v .lued favour De employed in selecting none. bnt lescription of Goods, of the Newest Style and Fa shion, and the Lowest Price uniformly charged consistent with good quality and workmanship. Mareh 29/h. 1341. _ greatest care w JOHN ALLTREE takes this opportunity of thanking his Friends for the favours received, and to acquaint them that his Business will in future be carried on at No. 18, Basnett street, in Partnership with Mrs. CAIG, and begs respect fully to solicit their continued support. TO THE Patronised by He, TAIL() 18, BA LADIES-HONITON LACE jesty Queen Victoria, the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, B{c. MRS. GATER (from Sidmouth and Cheltenham) in re turning her sincere thanks to the Ladies of Liverpool and its vici• for the very liberal support and patronage e- pd from them, respectfully informs them that c nas 0 . . ____ ___ has returned to Liverpool with a new and splendid assortment of the richest and most fashionable patterns of the above LACE, which, for durability and elegance, cannot be equalled, consisting of Veils, Caps, Collars, Scarfs, Berthas, Ruffles, Mittins. Cuffs, Chemisetts, &c. *** Lace transferred and cleaned. N.B.—Ladies waited on at their oWn Residences 44, Russell-street, Liverpool. HALL'S PATENT ,TARCH PERSONS accustomed to Use the above well-known Article, to prevent being imposed upon, are recommended to purchase it in Packages, as put up at the Patentee's Ma nufactory, which have his (" LAWRENCE HALL") affixed n, and may be had from all respectable Grocers, Dea- HAW, CHIMNEY SWEEPER and SOOT DEALER. No. ELHORNE-STREET, begs to inform the Ladies ien of Liverpool and its Vicinity that he has a kCHINE, from Mr. Glass, of London, for the ut the use of Climbing Chimney e, all orders will be punctually attended y be swept in the most clean manner Idangering the life of any human being JD MIN E I L L, SH AND FOREIGN SPIRITS Old Irisl 16s. and 17s. per gallon and 14s. per gall er gallon. per dozen, Cases and Bot- per gall 6s. per bottl .... 16s. and 17s. per gallon. .... 12s. and 14s. per gallon. rt of any of the above articles can be s per Gallon. E OLD WINES the 1 i• 485., 42 s., and 365. per dozen frprn 1 34s s., and 24s and s., 145., and 12s. per gallon. s., 425., 365., 305., and 245. per dozen, and 18s., 165., 14s and 12s. per gallon. s. per doz. ; 10s. 6d. per gall ; 13s. Od. „ I 17s. and 18s. per dozen ; and Bs. and 9s. per gallon. Wines may be ZYIAN PENS superiority of their manufacture !rfecting them to suit every descriptio❑ of 'era cheaper than the ordinary pens, at a r adoption in the Government and other Banks, with their great and increasing 3t evidence of the high estimation in which Cads, with Medium, Fine, Extra Each Card bears the Signature— Sold on or Broad Points and Co 3. Som n Manufacturers, taking advantage of the 'ens over all others, have been the public, for whose protection, e Patentees, TWENTY PouNns _ non conviction, for information of any sons infringing any of the proprietors' patent ion of t ARD will IMPID INK PERRYIAN ; a flowing prop etallic Pens as of peculiar to itself, and does r Inks In Botti Sold by JAMES PERRY and Co., Patentees and Manu facturers, 37, Red Lion Square, London ; also by all Sta tioners and other Dealers in such articles." SPECIFIC CURE FOR SPASMS. DR. BAYFIELD, R.N., Ph ys i c i an- A ccouc h eur, Mem ber of the University of Edinburgh, Member of the College of Surgeons, &c. has the pleasure to announce to the public and aged invalids especially, that he has discovered a most invaluable Specific for the immediate relief and ultimate cure of Spasms in the stomach and bowels, as well as of the constitution generally, by which many valuable lives have been preserved during an extensive practice for the last 16 He respectfully calls the reader's attention to the ing letter from a lady of rank, which he has selected ' ' she is able to produce. out of nu "Lady R— id will thank " Cheltenham, Ploutsh Hotel. •esents her compliments to Dr. hayfield, to send her another packet of his excel- C TINCTURE. Lady R---- has much wring testimony to the benefit she has de t, according to the i directi9ns, since which lent SPA pleasure ii she has had no return of her former distressing malady ; o previous to a friend informing he r of Dr. Baytield's remedy, r she had been for years a m art y r to the most excruciatin g , pasms. She therefore wishes to know whether D r . B. vishes her to continue taking the Tincture, it is now nearly hree months since she had an attack, but as she is about to e north, she wishes to have a packet m for ti have Chelten to carry with her " March, 1839." The Spasmodic Tincture can only be purchased of Dr Bayfield at his residence, No. 18, Nort.THAsoProN-sQuARE, GOSWELL-ROAD, LONDON, in stopped bottles, price 2s. 2d., Gd., and 95., duty included, which shall be forwarded im mediately on the receipt of a post-office order for the quan tity required, to any part of the three kingdoms. Sole Agent— - STEVENS, Cillllll9t, 122, St. John-street-road, London !dam, di DITTO Dozen e ict (so in Hut calamity RANCS :hat district, hay ,n and ruin y thing new THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL TO BUYERS OF CARPETS, PLOOR.CLOTHS' MOREENS, DAMASKS, &c. GEO. WOODS begs respectfully to announce, that his Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Les s ee. STOCK is now replete with every variety of Carpeting, :ure, Chintz, &e. &c The LAST WEEK of PERFORMING until EASTER. The Last Night_but Four of Mr. WALLACK, of the of Window Muslius, lity, and price, cannot 1 Theatres-I ,1 Drury-Lonc and H market THIS present TUESDAY, March 30, tainnients will commance with the Drama of ELLA ROSENBERG- ADELPHI HOUSE 1841, the Enter- 21, BOLD kILOR The Elector Villa Rc Rosenberg.. Mr. Stuart. Mrs. W. H. Bland. VI rs. Flutterman.. Mine. Simon Christine Mrs. Baker STREET, LIVERPOOL LA DWARD PRICE, late of Postotlieel and DRAT ,rateful cicnovvledg- ) his F ing in iness, and to kind support since commenc that he has REMOVED to 9, IIANOVER-STREET ; more convenient hopes, by punctual and strict attention to business continuance of their favours. WM. FISK and SON bee to it pool and its Vicinity, that th modious House and Shop, 45, CASTLE-STREET, corner of Orange-court, intending to OPEN it on MONDAY nest, the sth April, in the COOKING and CONFECTIONERY BUSINESS, most humbly soliciting their patronage and T of Liver- support. They will have, daily, a variety of su Jellies, Ices, and all kinds of Goods sui for Luncheon! VT. F. begs to inform his numerous Friends that he will continue his Cooking Establishment, No. 3, St. Luke's place, top of Bold-street, as usual. TO PROFE SIONAL GENTLF I IMP ORTAN7 L4,ILJN R. FRASER, of CLIFFORD'S INN, LONDON, SHORT -VI- HAND WRITER, acquaints GENTLEMEN of the interested in important Trials, that his iverpool A )CKLIFF and ELLis's, Book Liverpool, 28th March, 1841 M R. Liverpoc PROFILE LIKENESSES. NEVILLE, the celebrated PROFILIST, is now in t Lord-street Chambers, No. 2, on the First e Striki LIKENESSES can be obtained om One Shilling and upwards FOREIGNER N. is th, 1 Family and Nobility in I n delineating the f that was patronised by the 3righton, for his superior t nd figure oc rhp T ndance from Eleven till Seven. LP'Z" ObServe—Next door to Mr. Guy's Shop NJEUM SNUFF 67, CHURCH.STREET, CORNER OF R. MARCUS an PARKER-S' A CO. have Canisters of OT'S A very c BUCCA hoice St, BOX H ES' WELSH j ;ALIAS, CANONIES, TRA the whole of which have bove Establishment. DAMAS, &c., & 0 B n the Havan . a for tt ER T NE PORTLAND HOTEL S 0 GREAT PORTLAND-STREET, PORTLAND-PLACE, a short distance from the Birmingham and Great Western Railway Stations, in the vicinity of the Parks, Colosseum, Zoological Gardens, the Theatres, Polytechnic Institution, Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, the Bazaars, and other Places )f Public Amusement. Families and Gentlemen visiting the West End of the Town are assured of finding, at this Hotel, the first style of accommodation, combined with comfort and k COFFEE ROOM i ttached to the Hotel REMEMBER 'IIILEF. DOOE THE OLDEST ESTAI WAREHOUS ARY DODD, \Vida 11'1- kind friends and the , 13.0 M THE CLUB HO D-STREET, 3LISEI ED PAPER HANGING IN LIVERPOOL. iw, begs respectfully to inform her Public that she has now ready for ,TOCK of PAPER HANGINGS, hich, for splendour and elegance, far for the ensuing Season, w lurpasses any thing of the sort ever produced in Liverpool. N.B.—M. D. also wishes the Public to take notice that HENR, ,erinter Ler House in Tow ANTIBILIOUS PILLS ISED BY THE Bishop of Bath and Wells Bishop of Norwich Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of Peterborough Bishop of Ely Bishop of Gloucester Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Worcester Bishop of Hereford Bishop of St. Asaph Bishop of Bangor Bishop of Llandaff Bishop of Calcutta . Right Hon. J. A Murray, Lord Advocate of Scotland - Rt. Hon. R. C. Fergusson, M.P, Rt.Hon.PoulettThoinpson,M.P Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H _ _ Hon. Fox Maule, M.P. Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C.H. Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. M.P Sir Gerard Noel, Bart. M.P. Sir Robert Grant, Bart. Sir Henry Blake, Bart. Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. no connection with any c COCKLE'S M Duke of Grafton Duke of Manchester Duke of Bedford Duke of Argyll Duke of Beaufort Duke of Rutland Duke of Marlborough Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Sutherland Duke of Devonshire Marquis of Lansdown Marquis of Ailesbury Marquis of Winchester Marquis of Abercorn Marquis of Normanby Earl of Eldon Earl of Harrowby Earl of Minto )f Carnarvon Earl of Errcl Earl of Mountcashel Earl of Darlington Earl of Kinnoul Earl of Guildford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Oxford Earl of Thanet Earl of Athlone Earl of Roscommon Earl Cowper Earl Amherst Earl of Leicester Viscount Melbourne Viscount Palrnerston Viscount Howick Viscount Fordwieh Viscount Torrington Viscount Canning Viscount Alford Viscount Act Lord Arundel Lord Bruce Lord Redesdale Lord Hill Lord Plunket Lord Murray Lord Bentinck Lord Fitzroy Lord Middleton Lord Barham Lord Hay Lord Frederick Gordon Lord Willoughby de Eresb Lord Kinnaird Lord Seymour Lord Hartland Lord Western Lord Archbishop ofArmagt Bishop of Durham Bishop of Chester Sir Robert Bolton, Bart Sir John Forbes, Bart Sir Philip B. V. Broke, K.C.B. Sir John de Beauvoir, Bart. Sir John Tyrell, Bart. M.P. Sir Henry Smyth, Bart. M.P. Sir Matthew Wood, M.P. Bart. Sir Thos. Wilde, M.P. Sol.-Gen. Sir Frederick Pollock, M.P. Sir John Macdonald, K.C.B. Adj.-General. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thos. Dyer, Bart. Sir Thomas B. Mash, K.B. J. B. Wildman, Esq., Chilham Castle Colone IDelap,StokePark,Surrey olonel Cowell Colonel Tynte, Colonel Sibthorp, Captain Pechell, M. P. Matthias Attwood, Esq. M.P Alderman Thompson, M.P. Charles Walker, Esq. M.P. Mr. Serjeant Tlfouhl, M.P. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow Ven. Archdeacon of Colchester Reverend Dr. French, Cambridge Reverend Dr. Benson Ven. Archdeacon of St. Alban's Reverend Dr. Birch b Reverend Dr. Marsh Robert Renwick, Esq. M.D. C. Waddy,Eso. late M.P. Dublin. And numerous Families of the highest respectability. Mr. COCKLE, SURGEON, has much pleasure in laying be fore his Friends and the Public, Mr. A BERNETHY'S ESTI MATION of his Antibilious Pills, extracted from a Letter which that gentleman addressed to him in the year 1824 *— " I have ordered the use of your Antibilious Pills in affec tions of the stomach, attended with considerable derangemen, of the functions of that important organ, and connected with a torpid state of the liver and bowels, (for to this cause, chiefly, may be attributed the various diseases of the body, both local and constitutional.) and I have thus had frequent opportu nities of witnessing their beneficial effects. They greatly influence the secretion of bile, and act with certainty and in the most effectual manner on the alimentary organs, without occasioning pain or irritation. I consider them a most ex cellent family aperient medicine, which may be taken at all times with perfect safety." They are prepared by Mr. JAMES COCKLE, Surgeon Extraordinary to her Serene Highness the late Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, and may be had of all respectable Medi cine Venders, in xes at Is. 11d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. 18, New Ormond-street, Bedford-row, London. THE LEVANT MAIL (From the Morning Herald of yesterday.) We have .received a mass of intelligence from Constanti nople, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Malta, which we subjoin in full, as the contents of our letters and papers possess more than usual interest. The affairs of the east are still unsettled. Mehemet Ali has refused to accept the conditions offered by the Porte, and the Porte has not yet thought proper to grant the de sired modifications. It would appear, therefore, that this state of things occasions some anxiety at Alexandria, parti cularly as Mehemet Ali is making military preparations at Cairo, and pursuing his system of armament with more than usual activity. The excesses of the Albanian troops in Syria have created a great prejudice against the new order of things in that country ; but it is understood that the Sultan has determined on recalling those marauders, and taking measures for a better administration of Syria in future. Among our eastern intelligence will be found the report of a I by Lord Ponsonby to the other ambassa specting the terms to be offered dors in the late dis, to Mehemet Ali. :port be germ respond sends it rider that belief,) it will be ieen that his lordship possesses the quality of a good hater, and that Mehemet Ali has no friend in him at Constantinople. EXTENSIVE ROBBER\ OF PLATE, AND DE STRUCTION OF VALUABLE PROPERTY AT WINDSOR CASTLE. SUNDAY EVENING.—A robbery of silver plate and other property, to a very large amount, the whole extent of which has not yet been ascertained, has just been committed at the castle • but the secrecy which has hitherto prevailed throughout the establishment on the subject, and the great difficulty of procuring information relative to that portion of the property which is known to be missing or destroyed, and other particulars connected with the depre dation, must be the excuse for any trifling inaccuracies which may be found in the annexed statement. _ VINDSOR 3st whom strong suspicions are enter ..", . __sequence of his having absconded as soon as ..e discovery has been made, is a porter in the Stores' De partment, which is under the superintendence of Mr. Saunders, the general inspector under the Lord Chamber lain. He is a man in the receipt of not more than a guinea a week, but one in whom great reliance had been placed. The property stolen is stated to consist of upwards or 1 cwt. of silver articles, and portions of silver furniture of va rious descriptions. Among the latter is a splendid solid silver table, highly chased, which, it appears, had been pla ced, with other stores of a similar character, in a closet near the state-apartments, secured in a case, under lock and key, for some time past. The four solid silver legs, lam informed, have been wrenched off, and likewise tl.e top, by means of a chisel (the marks of which are clearly perceptible), from the wood to which it was secured. I am informed that a room in the castle, which has not been used for some time, was shortly to be fitted up, and that this table, amongst other articles of furniture and orna ment, would have been required for that purpose. Upon opening the case in which it had been kept the robbery was person discovered, and the necessary inquiries were immediately in- stituted. It is likewise stated that some massive silver looking-glass frames have been partially stripped, and a por tion of the silver of which they were composed forcibly dragged off. Com..—Mr. George Stephenson has proposed to purchase the whole of the coal in the township of Tapton, Brimington, and Newbold, Derbyshire; and on the 12th instant a meet ing was held in Chesterfield, to take the proposal into con sideration. "As some gentlemen (says the Sheffield Iris) wished for a little more time for considering Mr. Stephenson's proposal, that gentleman agreed to let it stand good a few weeks longer ; but a sufficient number of owners having agreed to accept his terms, we have great pleasure in stating that proceedings will be commenced forthwith. We may, therefore, expect soon to see operations commenced in opening collieries and lime-works on an extensive scale. — Preston Pilot. A_THI and and at mption Ir. Chaplin After which, the Melo-Drama of the BRIGAND, was received on Thursday Eveni'ng, with enthusiastic plaudits. klessandro Massaroni.. (the Brigand, As originally performed by him in London Mr. Wallad Mr. Baker Maria Gr liss Cleaver. Ottavia .. Mrs. Baker. hich will be added, the Musical Entertainment, called THE ADOPTED CHILD. Michael.. (the Fisherman).. Mr. Wallack. lara.. Mrs. Barton. • Lucy.. Miss E. Honner. Maclaine Simon The whol to conclude with the petit Comedy of HIDE AND SEEK. .. Mr. Chaplin. Moses.... Mr. Baker . Alordaunt .. Mrs. W. H. Bland. ordaunt On WEDNESDAY, by Desire, and under the PA TRONAGE of the GENTLEMEN of the NORTHERN BAR, the popular Drama of the RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wallack, as originally performed by him in ; Toby Heywood, Mr. H. Holl; Bullfrog, Mr. Silver Jack, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Rachel Heywood, London 131 H: Bland Polly Briggs, Miss H. Honner:L-After IY AUNT.. Dick Dashall, (his ori ginal character) Mr. Wallack; Rattle, Mr. Baker; Mrs. Corbett, Madame Simon.—To conclude with the Musical Farce of NO, SONG NO SUPPER. On THURSDAY, bp Desire, and under the PATRON AGE of SIR THOS. BERNARD BIRCH, Bart., High Sheriff of the County, Mrs. Centlivre's Comedy of -THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. Wallack; Violante, Mrs. W. H. Bland ; Fiera, Mrs. Clarke.—After which, the Farce of AND MRS. PRINGLE. Mr. Pringle, Mr. Baker ; Pringle, Mrs. Clarke.—To conclude with' KATHE AND . PETRUCHIO. Petruchio, Mr. Wallack; Grutnio, Mr. Baker; Katherine, Mrs. W. H. Bland. On FRIDAY—MR. WALLACK'S BENEFIT, and the last night but one of his engagement, the Drama of the WIFE, with a favourite Farce, in which Mr. Wallack will appear. On SATURDAY—Favourite Entertainments; in which Mr. Wallack will appear, being the last night of Orforraing until Easter Monday. ich, the Farce of jiß. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL • REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the etisuing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. _ _ _ _ - . References permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re spectability. Letters, addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive immediate attention. TO CORRESPONDENTS We postpone very reluctantiy the last letter to the Protestant constituencies of England, but we expect—with the aid of a SUPPLEMENT — to present it to our readers on Tuesday next or the following Friday. Ebt Ltbcrpool stanbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1841 It is understood, by most of our readers, that our local contemporary the Mercury is a journal principally occupied, in its original editorial department, (a de partment in which, by the by, it is exceedingly origi nal) with inquiries and speculations much out of the course of every-day journalism, and that its ingenious editor has, by his well-directed labo rs, frequently re duced to a matter of science and demonstration almost mathematical, trifles of common occurrence, and which people in pneral pass by as unworthy of a moment's thought. We are not sure on which of these he is most engaged at this moment, nor are we concerned on the subject just now. Our attention is at present engaged by a certain exhibition of extreme views put forward by him on a politico-religious topic, which we scarcely expected at his hands. In his last number he has been led aside, we know not by what accident, from his favourite pursuits and speculations, and launches a bolt which shows by its aim some desperate and deadly aim on his part. His topic is the affair of Mr. Baines, the Dissenting mar tyr of Leicester, and the debate on Mr. Easthope's mo tion on the 18th instant ; and such is his impatience at the result, that, in his haste, he seems ready to quarrel with all the world. He denounces Sir R. H. Inglis, and his own particular friend, Lord John Russell — Tory and Whig alike; snaps his fingers at lawyers, judges, common law, and, we were going to add, com mon sense alike; and concludes by warning THE CHURCH of certain downfal, it she . do not speedily attend to his advice and amend her ways. "For Doc tor Nichols' legal dictum," he says, " and the decision of the judges in the Braintree case, that, by the com mon law of the land, the parishioners are bound to support the fabric of the Church, we feel as great re spect—(viz. contempt)—as for Sir Robert Inglis's lo gic or Lord John Russell's historical references; and he concludes in these words : " A few more cases like these of Messrs. Baines and Tho rogood, and the feeling will be general through the land that such cases do involve a punishment for acting conscientious ly, and are a violation of the principles of religious freedom, whatever the House of Commons may say to the contrary." We have examined some of the reasoning by which our contemporary has been unfortunately led thus to stand out, as it were, against the world, and have found it to be singularly inconclmive. He says, for instance, that " for every other tax the payer receives something in the nature of a quid pro quo ; but for the tax levied in support of a church to which he does not belong, he not only receives nothing, but is absolutely compelled to contribute towards the maintenance of that which he believes to be erroneous." Here our contemporary is under a complete mistake of FACT; but his' fault is ignorance. He does not know how much a man may owe to the Church through indirect channels—how much the safety of his own person and property is derived from that orderly and moral state of society which the Church is mainly the instrument of creating and maintaining. A man's ig norance, however, does not alter the actual relation of things, and has only the effect of making him act un gratefully and appear ridiculous, when, had he been better informed, he might have escaped notice. A man is bound to contribute to the repair or making of a road, whether he travel that road or not, and it would he no excuse for non-payment to say that he did not consider it the best road, or that he did not himself use it : he must tell down his quota to the common good, and the world has long since agreed, that he suffers no hardship whatever in being made to pay. The same rule holds good with regard to the Church, but is much stronger than in the case supposed, be cause here there is no question whatever as to their being a real quid pro quo. In the case of the road it might be otherwise; here it is not possible. His next argument is not so easily understood. Lord John Russell quoted CHRIST'S command, "render unto Cxsar the things that are Caesar's, and to GOD the things that are Gon's" ; and defied, as we think he might justly do, any scripturally guided Dissenter to get over that authority. But what says our brilliant contemporary, the Mercury : " The mere mandate to pay to Cmsar what is due to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God, is so far from serving his lordship's argument, that it constitutes the reason and autho rity of the conscientious dissenter for not paying for the sup port of a religion which he believes to be erroneous and offensive to God." Now, we ask, was there ever exhibited mere wretched and contemptible sophistication, or rather sheer non sense, than that ? The command is broad and gene ral, and admits of no exception—harmonising with that of the apostle Peter, " submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the LORD'S sake." Caesar is " the state ;" and whatever tax or tribute the state or ders to be paid, it is the duty of every subject to pay. Such is the command, and it is open to no exception. It does not signify for what purpose the tax may be levied; and Lord John Russell correctly stated, that the early Christians did, in paying Caesar's tribute mo ney, necessarily contribute to the support of the hea then temple and idolatrous worship, and that they must have been quite aware of it. This . was another lunge at the " sufferers for conscience sake" in our time; but our adventurous old friend the Mercury makes an attempt to parry the thrust. He says,— " The tribute which the Jews were commanded to pay was not levied for the support of the Ileathen fanes, as the church rate is for the maintenance of Christian temples,—but for the general purposes of the empire. If Lord John Russell could have shown that a direct tax was levied for the support of the temple of Jupiter, at Rome, or for the expenses at -tendant on the worship of Venus, at Rhodes, and that our Saviour directed the Jews to pay that tax, this direct sanction of the payment of a compulsory tax for the support of a reli gion which the Jews held , in abhorrence, would have been something to the purpose Now granting, for argument sake, that there was no specific tax for the heathen temple, it is certain that the support of idolatrous worship was one of the " ge neral purposes of the empire" to which its revenues were applied ; and then, we ask, what difference could it possibly make to conscience whether the tax were di rect or indirect, specific or general ? What consciences our contemporary must suppose Dissenters to po, sess. They would have a conscience against eating raisins, forsooth, if you offered them to their accept- ante in a plain state; but serve them up in a plum pudding, and they will swallow them without making a wry face Conscientious fellows ! A few more such martyrs as Baines and Thorog says the Mercury, and—c'est fait de nous—the game is up with church rates at least And this is surely • a great encouragement.to the martyrdom speculation. It has been very gainful to Thorogood, and Baines has had immense sympathy and great honours thrust upon him in consequence. But the practice, like a two edged sword, cuts at both sides. Dr. Nichols' exposure of Baines's trickery, chica nery, and dishonesty in his legal defences, has settled and his "Dissenting conscience" along with him, in the opinion of .every Conservative and reasonable Whig; and a few more such cases, so far from having the effect contemplated by the Mercury, will, we think, be very likely to save us a great deal of trouble in dealing with the party hereafter It is not surprising that the Radicals shrunk from a contest in the election of the'Board of Guardians; for, k of the hopelessness of such an attempt, a victory, were it even attainable, must have been at tended by some disagreeable consequences. " Willing to wound but yet afraid to strike," they had no objec tion to see a local and independent administration of poor relief put an end to . because in the hands of Con servatives, and a foreign power let- in because in the hands of the 'Whigs ; but when it came to be a ques tion as to the• administration of the obnoxious law, their courage cooled amazingly, and they have pru dently left it altogether in the hands of Conservatives. not to sped Their journals boast that the Conservatives have fallen into a trap :—" Now," say they, ." whatever odium may attach to the operation of the law, upon you it will fall exclusively; we have washed our hands of it." But this is mere trifling. The introduction of the law into Liverpool is the act not of Conservatives but of Radi cals, and they, and not its mere ministers and ser vants, are accountable for the consequences. But have the Conservatives really fallen into a trap ? For our parts we cannot perceive it. Mr. Aspinal's ma nagement of the matter appears,to us to have been most judicious, and he has won by it, we have good reason to know, increased confidence and esteem from all Conservatives. ,They consider that the offers he made were most liberal, and such as he did well to make with a view to save the town the expense and annoyance of a contest; whilst, on the other hand, in refusing the demand made by the " Reform Association," he took a course which avoided any compromise of those inte rests which he may be considered as representing. The Reform Association, forsooth, aspired to a perfect equality of Whigs with Tories in the new board, whilst in the old—viz., the Select Vestry, they constituted but a small minority. This was a claim which they had no right to make, and which even their own plenipos con demned as unwarrantable. And here we may admire the sweet harmony and union that exists in the Radical camp. They appointed Mr. Tate and Mr. Paton to conduct the negotiation on their part, and those gentlemen obtained terms for them such as they were themselves quite satisfied with ; but on reporting the result to the Reform Association, this modest and discreet body disavowed their acts, and re fused to ratify the treaty. Such treatment naturally excited strong disgust in the minds of Messrs. Tate and Paton ; and they declared, as mentioned by Mr. Aspinal, that " they would have nothing more to do with the Reform Association—that the Conservatives had acted honourably and fairly, and that they, Messrs. T. and P., would support them." This fact speaks for itself, and needs no comment from us. On the whole, so far from having fallen into a trap, we think those roancevring gentry have themselves fal len into the pit they had digged for others. The Con servatives of Liverpool have shown by their memorial, signed by upwards of twenty-one t'housand persons, how much they deprecate the New Poor Law and its introdnction here. The Radical party would not lift so much as a finger against it. But the fiat of the commissioners went forth, and the law must be obeyed. Under those circumstances the Conservatives had no choice but to take and administer it themselves, or abandon it altogether to the Radicals; and we say we rejoice in the wise decision taken by Mr. Aspinal act ing in their behalf. The law is a bad one, but it is a great matter that it will be administered not by those who approve, but by those who condemn it, and who will not fail to deprive it, so far as may be possible, of its harshness, and apply its provisions with due ten derness and compassion to the miserable. LOCAL NEWS We are happy to find that the very satisfactory report of the Liverpool Friendly Loan Society, for 1840, has already produced considerable effect in increasing the funds of the society. Since the commencement of the present year the treasurer has received the following contributions, viz.:— from Charles Tayleur, Esq., £IOO ; Mrs. Bright, £5O ; W. Rathbone, Esq., £25 ; J. Huddleston, Esq., £3O; Mr. Kains, £3O ; Miss E. Colquitt, £lO ; Miss Reynell, £lO ; Rev. J. Johns, £lO ; Mr. Jos. Soulton, £lO ; Mrs. Yates, £5 ; J. B. Barclay, Esq., £5 ; Wellwood Maxwell, Esq., £5; A. Maxwell, Esq., £5; H. R. Sandbach, Esq., £5; Miss Yates, £33s. ; and smaller deposits. £l2 Bs. 7d. ; besides subscriptions from W. R. Coulborn, Esq., £1 ls. J. L. Aspland, Esq.. £l. This timely assistance has enabled the society largely to increase the amount of their weekly loans, but the applications are so much more numerous than can be granted, that it is very desirable that the funds should be still further augmented, especially as with the same machinery and expense, double the capital now employed could be well and usefully managed. We strongly recommend to the at tention of our readers the claims of this very excellent so ciety, and beg to inform them that any contributions (whe ther donations, or loans to receive 31 per cent. interest,) will be received by Benjamin H. Jones, Esq., Treasurer, Bruns wick-street, or by any of the committee. THE REV. CHAS. DUNK.—On Sunday evening last, this much-respected clergyman (who is appointed to the curacy of Whitchurch, Salop) preached his farewell sermon at St. Helens, to a crowded and respectable congregation, whom he has faithfully watched over for the space of six months, in the absence of the minister, the Rev. J. Furnival. Mr. Duun's chief object has been, to preach Christ crucified, the love of God to fallen man, and the conversion of sinners ; indeed, to proclaim the whole truth, " as it is in Jesus" — not fearing the frown, nor courting the applause, of men. Mr. Dunn will be followed by the prayers of an affectionate people for a beloved pastor.—From a Correspondent. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—These entertainments at the Northern Mechanic's Institution, interspersed as they are with literary and scientific recreations, attract very large audiences, upwards of 500 being present last Saturday. The evening is spent generally by the vocalists singing glees, songs, &c. An essay on the advantages of knowledge is read, some chemical, or other experiments are displayed, a recitation delivered, and last Saturday the laughing gas was administered at the conclusion. The object of these amuse ments is to wean the working man from scenes of drunken ness and vice, and as such it is to be hoped they will realize the praiseworthy intentions of the promoters.—From a Cor respondent. THE BAR.—SILK GOWNS AT LIVERPOOL.--There is at the present assizes a full complement of barristers ordinarily on the circuit, within the bar. They are Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, attorney-general of the county palatine; Mr. Cresswell, M.P., Mr. Alexander, Mr. Starkie, Mr. Dundas, M.P., Mr. Armstrong (recorder of Manchester), Sir Francis Knowles, and Mr. Mathews. The two latter gentlemen, we believe, have been very recently called within the bar, as queen's counsel, and honoured with the dignity of a silk MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK.—BY Boz. Part 12. Ware ing Webb, Liverpool.—We have received from Mr. Wareing Webb the twelfth part of the. Clock, containing a continua tion of " Barnaby Rudge". The story,rivets attention, and excites much interest. Mr. Dickens sets his contemporaries at an immeasurable distance. There is a charm thrown around all his characters—from the most insignificant to the hero or heroine of his tale—the highest honor is due to him, and long may he live to amuse and interest us with the ema nations of his fancy. In the present number we find Tapper tit in all his glory, and the mode Miggs took of getting into his confidence. The worst of these instalmentical produc tions is, that at the very point where the interest is most ex cited, and the mind engaged, thee. our patience is put to the " test, and is bidden to wait till next month. Barnaby Rudge " is full of quaint conceits and amusing passages —we recommend it earnestly to the attention of our readers. THE PENNY MEMORIAL. —It may be in the recollection of our readers, that some months ago Mr. Egerton Smith, who is famous for his philanthropic views, and exhibiting of public gratitude upon a large scale, started the idea of sbew ing Mr. Rowland Hill that the inhabitants of Liverpool were eminently grateful for his endeavours in working out the great principle of borrowing of Peter to pay Paul ; that is to say, by causing a great deficiency in the postage tax, to al ford an excuse for a liberal go vernment to put 10 per cent. upon all exciseable articles, and thereby benefit the middle classes most materially, and seriously inconvenience the poorer portion of the population. Mr. Egerton Smith, un willing to put down his ten pounds to head a liberal subscrip tion, hit upon the pauper plan of begging pennies from every body, until enough was duly collected to purchase something which should mark the feeling of this town in favour of Mr. Hill's plan. Cards were distributed, with pins to prick them ; patterns were published in the Mercury ; and an astonishing deal of fuss was made upon the issuing of these " beggarly accounts." Time went on, but the cards did not come back, and the holders, after having been remonstrated frequently upon the enormity of their apathy in treating the matter so coolly, were peremptorily desired to bring their collections in, whatever might be the sums, "the produce thereof. What that sum was we cannot exactly say; but in Messrs. Wordley and Mayer's shop window may be seen the mode in which the subscription has been laid out, viz., a very handsome silver salver, bearing the following inscription : —" Presented to Rowland Hill, Esq., by the subscribers to the Liverpool penny tribute, in token of their gratitude for the active, persevering, and successful exertions, to which the country is indebted for that inestimable boon, the penny postage. 1841."—The salver is valued at £47. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT. (From our London Correspondent.) The discussion of the various clauses of the Poor Law Bill in committee has occupied a leading sha tention drir On Wednesday evening adoption or rejection of the various amendments with which the bill had been threatened As an instance of the tricky pol on the part of the nobl the second read not intended that the commissioners should be allowed to interfere with those parishes possessing local acts for the government of their poor. On Wednesday night, in reply to a question from Sir Robert Peel, his lordship repeated this knd yet on Friday night, when the third clause assurance (which purports to exempt from the control of the commis sioners the parishes in question) was brought forward, it was found to leave matters precisely in stain quo—his lordship arguing that the commissioners, by the existing law, have no power over those p sties, and that it Is only necessary for the clause to leave their disability the same under the sent bill. Now what are the facts ( the case, as they came out in discussion? Why that the commissioners are in reality incapacitated from meddling with the administration of the law in parishes having local acts ; but that they can incorporate any of those parishes in a union, and thus bring them effectually under their control—thus set aside their local act, and render the clause in the general - act entirely Had Liverpool, for instance, possessed a local inoperative act, th could not have legally brought its poor under their control; but they could attach to it Walton or Wavertree, and by forming them into a union, effectually set aside the local privileges of Liverpool, and elude the provisions of the very act which gives them existence Lord John battled out this disingenuous attempt to impose upon the house and the public as far as he could ; but he was obliged to yield. Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Robert Peel, and, I may add, Lord Sandon, stood manfully in the breach, and the clause was sent back to the workshop to be re modelled. • • OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.—No. H WILLIAM EARLE, ESQ Step forth illustrious William, and occupy most worthily niche No. 2in our gallery ! An Earle art thou without an earldom—without a peer amongst the peerage. " The Queen may make an Oxford knight, His dignities and a', that ;" but to make such a man and such an alderman as William Earle it would be utterly hopeless for her to attempt. The blandishments of a court could never draw the stoic mind aside " from its propriety." Diogenes could be more easily drawn from his tub, or Dan O'Connell from his mendicancy, than thee from thy stubborn virtue. Thy knee was not made to bend, even to receive the honour of knighthood ; thy manly form, like that described by our immortal bard, was not made " to caper nimbly in a lady's chamber" ; and although some might illnaturedly pursue the quotation, and say that thou was't born rather to " snarl and bite and play the dog," yet we appeal boldly to thy contemporaries to assure the world that they have always found in thee " the meekest and most modest of mankind." CHURCH PASTOR,.kI, AID SOCIETY occasion. Amongst tneL Revs. the Chancellor, ter, W. Rawson, F. Odd Monc . rieff, Dr. Byrth, N. Connoi, Long, J. Ingram, Birkett, Carr, • Brasher, R. P. Jones, and Marsden ; W. Jones, Esq.,,.C. Inman, Esq., --Jawl T. Bibby, R. Davie: P. Pemberton, Esq., &c., &c. The Very Reverend Chancellor RAIKEs took the chair. The proceedings haying been opened with prayer, by the BARKER, Cradled though thou wert in corruption ; thrown " sur reptitiously" in thy guileless youth into the midst of that chamber of iniquity—our unreformed corporation—(a piece of cruelty for which we shall ever blame thy friends !)—few would have wondered if thy mind had grown " awry," had become " tetchy and wayward," or had contracted an incur able " squint" by watching constantly the devious doings of thy associates. Few would have wondered if the milk of human nature within thy sensitive breast had curdled or turned to gall, and thy lips had been taught to give utterance only to " distempered" and bitter speech. But how little is the world acquainted with thy noble nature ! The tortuous ways of the politician are untrodden by thee. Thy spirit is of too volatile a nature to be taught to wind and twist in pursuit of its objects, " like Monsieur Corkskrew worming through a cork ;" but flies off at once in a tangent, nobody knows whither or wherefore. The cunning plausibilities of an Evans, the heavy dogmatism of a Bolton, the feelosophy of an Aikin—nay the united efforts of all the talents of that illustrious body, of which thou art an ornamental portiori strive in vain to hind down to any determinate cause thy restless and eccentric nature. Thy " winged words" burst forth when nobody expects them, like the fizzing contents of a bottle of ginger beer, before we have got the wire untwisted ; and then mingled froth and acid shower, as caprice or chance may direct, upon friend or foe. Nobody was ever knocked down by the random shots; and although on great occasions we have known thee to enact a whole battery of pop bottles, yet the noise and smoke of their explosion have been the only ffects of an awful nature which we have ever observed to follow the performance But let us turn thy countenance to the wall for a moment, whilst we attempt to convey to posterity an idea of its im posing " developements." We have an uncontrollable dis like to the task of flattering a man to his face ; and there is an expression about that of the subject of our sketch which is not to be trifled with. Mr. Alderman Earle, as we have before hinted at, is not, either in features or in person, an Adonis. It is true that his cheek is of " celestial rosy red, love's proper hue ;" and yet we have never heard that he sacrificed deeply to the " rosy god,"—as an alderman ought to do—or that, on the other hand, like Captain Wattle, he was " all for love and a little for the bottle." No vermillion tint upon the cheek of William Earle is the pure emanation of modesty; and as his blue frock and beaver, his cane and eve-glass come " sidling" upon our view, on " the flags" or in the council-room, we are insensibly led to asso ciate them with the person of one who has " done good by stealth,- and blushed to find it fame." His forehead is nei ther Phidian nor Roman, but only a very ordinary feature, which seems to have been made expressly to take up little room inside his grey hat. His eyes are not " deeply, darkly, beautifully blue :" and yet the alderman can see as far through a deal board, or a job of his brother Alderman Evans, as the possessor of more poetical optics. The prevailing expression of his physiognomy is one of " restless mischief; and if we could be allowed to manipulate his cranium, we would stake our phrenological judgment upon the fact that " combative ' and " destructiveness" are very large, and " venera- Mr. Earle, although undoubtedly a shrewd and an able man, is not an orator. He never talks for an hour by " Shrewsbury" or any other " clock." No,—speechmaking is not his forte. He does not belong to the regulars—heavy brigade or light infantry—for this especial reason, that he never would stand training. But he is a very effective man, nevertheless, in a skirmish—good in a flank movement, and superb in " pinking an officer." His great fault is his rest lessness. If he has no enemy to fire upon, the moment he is loaded, he pops his gun in the breach of a comrade, and goes off in a shriek of laughter; or he jumps like the old man of the sea, upon the shoulders of some unlucky Sinbad of his party, and kicks his heels into his sides until he is weary of the amusement. Our worthy friend James Aiken vows that he is " uncannie," and Francis Jordan is ready to asseverate that his relationship to the " good people" is undoubted. It has been seriously maintained, that from his standing and talent William Earle possesses equally as good a claim to represent Liverpool in parliament as Sir Joshua Walmsley —a fact which we should be the last to deny. It is unfor tunate, however, that the rules of the house would not allow him to shine to perfection in St. Stephen's. He would make a good debater if he could be allowed to speak 40 or 50 times in the course of one debate, to interrupt his anta gonist every sentence—to chatter like a magpie, or grin like a marmoset—to let off squibs at the speaker's head, or creep under the table to play with the mace, or tickle Sir Robert Peel's feet,—to twirl Tom Duncombe's mustaches, or clip a hundred weight of Whisker jrom the face of Mr. Muntz, the Brummagem tea-tray man. Such antics would not, however, comport with the dignity (!) of the reformed House of Com mons; and William Earle must therefore for the present confine the sphere of his vagaries to that august assembly of which he is the proper " decus et tutainen." THE CONVICT MISTER (From the Shropshire Conservative) Since his conviction this wretched man has continually protested his innocence of the crime for which he is con demned to die. Mr. Dawson, the governor of the gaol, a most humane and excellent man, has been very attentive to the prisoner as far as his sense of duty warrants his attention, —and the Rev. D. Winstone unceasing in his endeavours to prepare.his soul for the awful change he is about to un dergo. We hear that this day week is appointed for the exe cution, and have no hope that Baron Gurney will recommend a commutation of punishment, although the prosecutor, Mr. Mackreth, has endeavoured to obtain an interview with the Judge, and failing, has addressed him a letter which we sub join. A. petition for a commutation of the extreme penalty was forwarded to the Marquis of Normanby, on Thursday night—but without it is powerfully backed, must prove un availing. The - following is a copy of the letter addressed to Baron Gurney by Mr. Mackreth on Wednesday morning:— ." Talbot Hotel, Shrewsbury, 24th March, 1841. "MY LORD,-I hope your Lordship will pardon the li berty I have taken by addressing you in regard to the un happy man (Josiah Mister) who now lies under sentence of death, in the gaol of this town. And although lam satisfied that the verdict of the Jury was a just and true one, yet, my Lord, I am prompted by my feelings, and a Christian charity, which teaches us " to love all men, and to do good to those that persecute us," most humbly to supplicate your Lord ship to incline mercifully to my prayer; and, if it please you, to mitigate the sentence of the unfortunate prisoner, by sparing his life. lam much inclined to beg your clemency for the following reasons : viz.—That as it bath pleased God to spare my life, and to restore me to a state of health equally as good as though no accident had ever befallen me ;—for the sake of the prisoner's youth, his respectable connections, and. the hope that his present afflictions, may be the means of re forming his conduct, and induce him to spend the remaining portion of his life as a Christian in the sight of God, with a grateful feeling to his Maker, and the country whose laws he has offended. For these reasons I. humbly supplicate your Lordship, that you would be pleased to prolong the life of the prisoner, by allowing him to live until such time as God may, in the order of nature, summon him to appear at the Judgment Throne of Christ. "'Most respectfully I subscribe myself, your Lordship's very obedient and humble servant, W. M. MACKRETH. tention, and which, as I heard it, I thought I would make it the subject matter of the address, however brief, that I should speak to you this evening. (Cheers.) It was the security The annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the which this society has supplied for the true Protestant evan- Church Pastoral Aid Society was held last evening, in the gelical princi . ples of those whom it will sanction as its agents. Music Hall, Bold-street. A very numerous and highly re- It was one e ot e t n h t e t a h c a c t u i s t a N t v i a o s n i s u b te r n o? c t i a against the society at its e par t t o y b v e i a ew pa s rt y l to s c f l u e r t society—that spectable body of the friends of the society assembled on the objecten e wasm to , propagate certain F. Barker, H. M`Neile, H. Carpen- was so. They sak , Long, W. Falloon, Brown, J. we wished to diffus i rejoice that it .t was the " Simemitish heresy" that and very true ; we do wish to diffuse long the people the knowledge of the " truth as it is in " and not to aid ii, reviving popery under a mitigated "*-srm, as if we thought it to be possible that a -4—nding to be a Protestant minister at T, I Jesus, p. I man mi ght, though pre 1,311111111 y AL • • Rushton, T. B. the same time, act as if he were a popish priest. (Hear.) A. Hodgson, Esq., It would be impossible, it appears to me, that any one really es, Esq., J. Rigby, having at heart the interest, of the Church of England should J. Eden. Esa.. T. I givehis money to a society which did not watch most dili- whom it sanctioned and !t forth at of th, admirably as it is stated in the report, it is th, very principle of patron age connected with the churca from the beginning sanctions the proceec the men, it might be asked again, who founded churches, who gave their property in order to employ ministers perma- nently, give it without having an object in view ? No ; the men whom they employ, and the objects for which their pro tion of that which they be- perty W was the lieved to be the truth. 4 tVe ask no more than this. We come forward here as a society ; here are men to be em- ployed for the propagation of what? Surely not of that which we do not believe, but of that which we do. It may be that others believe something which is different. It is indeed a mournful spectacle exhibited in the present day, that there is a divided church. The fact cannot be concealed—there are two parties in , the church (hear); and he is the person who is the enemy of the church that would forget that fact, and act as if differences did not exist. Why should we not have the power to sanction such persons as we believe to preach the truth, allowing to others that they, if they choose, should sanction, and authorise persons who should preach what they believe to be the truth ? Can it be, I would ask any one who hears me, desirable that there should be a miniater employed who, to the congregation of the parish to which he was sent, should be one of whom it might be supposed that he did not preach that which was the real doctrine of the Church of England? The Pastoral Aid Society places itself upon this foundation, that it will sanction no one who does not come forward iu order to preach that which itself believes to be the true doctrine of the Church of England. I have pleasure in moving that this report be printed and circulated. I should have more pleasure in moving this resolution, if I felt that I carried ith inc the suffrages of the audience to which I am address ing myself. (Cheers, and one hiss.) Oh, for shame ! We are met fora Christian - purpose. (A cry of " Protestant that I do. One solitary serpentine voice, amidst a large audience, only gives assent (cheers) to the Christian sentiments uttered in this place. (A hiss.) Oh the time shall be when the very voice that now utters that disgraceful sound, will change and applaud. That is a tran sitory sound, contemptible as it is; and the man who utters it will feel he is the most contemptible being here. (Hear.) But he that as it may, I say again, that to me it is a pleasure to stand here and bear even the pelting of that which is con sidered to be a pitiless storm. (Cheers, hisses, and some laughter, drowned the conclusion of the sentence—.) The CHAIRMAN—Go on Dr. Byrth. I feel su Dr BYItTH.—I will. I move %fiat this report be printed, and because it is a faithful Protestant document. I move that it be circulated under the discretion of the committee, because I believe it will work most powerfully for the great cause which is dearest to my heart, and that cause is the prosperity of the Church of England. (Cheers.) I can bear to he misrepresented ; I can bear to have men mistake me ; but they must bear with me when I tell them that there is not a heart in this place that beats more fervently in its wish for the prosperity of true protestantism, than the heart that is within the frame that stands before you. (Cheers and and a hiss.) Give me credit for that, and hiss me if you like for anything else, but do believe me when I say I would believe you. The miserable persons who have used such means to ;put me down, I would believe them, if they told me that they thought they were conscientiously doing good ser vice. I ask of them, then, to believe me when 1 say that there is not a stronger Protestant in this place than myself, (hear,) no man who hates popery with a more complete hatred, no one who would make greater sacrifices in order to demolish it. (Hear, hear.) With these remarks I re sume my seat e humbly apologising, not for the expressions of sentiments which I shall ever retain, namely, hatred to all bigotry—though it expose me to the direst charge of spurious liberality, I will cherish it as a christain senti ment—but apologising for having had to tell any one who has come here professessing to advocate a christian cause, that he has not exhibited christian spirit. The reverend doctor then sat down, amidst mingled cheers and hisses. ADAM HODGSON, Esq.-1 rise, sir, to second the resolu tion which has just been read to you, and am quite conscious that after the excellent observations which you, Mr. Chair man, have made, there remains little for me to say, as to the leading objects or operations of this society.' I should, if time allowed, or my health permitted, be glad to make a few observations on the secondary or indirect effects which result from the labours of this society, but I must confine myself to a single point. Amongst the indirect effects to which I allude. there is one of peculiar magnitude, and it is—as has been remarked by our beloved diocesan—a name which it is im possible to mention without exciting the most enthusiastic feelings--that in adding ministers to the church, you are increasing the number of civil magistrates in the country ; for every minister of the gospel is, in truth, a most effective civil magistrate. In this observation, I entirely concur. The established church is a most effective security for the civil constitution of this country, and the surest bulwark against revolutionary sentiment, and at such a time as this we are es pecially called upon to strengthen its defences and promote its efficiency. And in this good work, sonic of us have been already engaged this day in another place in forwarding dip interests of the Church Building Society ; and it is a work to which we shall always contribute in the best way when we endeavour to make the church a blessing in every part of the land. It is not by arrogant assumption, by supercilious con duct, by unkind, or uncharitable. feelings towards those who dissent from the church, that her services will be best com mended to the people ; no, sir, but it is by making her ser vices acceptable to, and valued by, the people, (Cheers.) This is the true way to defend her and promote b o th I!" Welfare and that of the country. In a time like this of a restless appetite for change, the church and her ministers are sure to constitute the first objects of attack. This is no new event in history, and has given rise to an emphatic remark from one whose opinion comes' with peculiar weight at this time. I will read to you the remark in the author's own words, and I must premise that he is neither tory, nor high churchman—neither a Bishop of Exeter, nor a Sir Robert Inglis, nor a Mr. William Gladstone, of Liverpool, but one who considers himself as peculiarly the friend of civil and re ligious liberty—one whose feelings are all on what is called by a sad mis-nomer the liberal side. The remark, sir, comes from the pen of one who has contributed much to form the character of many of our statesmen of the present day, and some of the members of her Majesty's government; it is from the pen of Professor Smyth—the Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge—and is as follows : '• Our church, as • I have said, is to be dealt with—and that afte no ceremonious.or measured manner, but in a way totally alien to the spirit and meaning of our constitution—in a way perfectly re volutionary. Now, it ., is not for me to step out of my province, and to speak upon the subject of the church, but as a reader of history, and a lecturer on history, I will leave a few observations with you, which I hope, when you are in the world, and listening to the sweeping and irreverant observation that you may hear in it, you will pot entirely forget. I must then in the first place emark, that when ever the times become critical, the clergy are the first to be attached ; when revolutionary altars are dressed, they are the first victims ; they are naturally the representatives of peace and order; their habits, their studies, indispose them to innovation and experiment; they are necessarily in the way of those who are desirous of change, still more of those who are ready to risk confusion ; and being profession it is, by their expostulations, examples and e, to desseminate piety, and check licentiousness, they are naturally disagreeable, troublesome and hateful to those who are the leaders in civil commotions. The possessions too of the chureh are an insulted species of property, very tempting to re volutionists, and those who want it for political purposes. Men of the ecclesiastical order, are themselves, also, an insulated descrip tion of men, neither from their numbers nor their characters qualified to defend themselves. On all these accounts, they are the first to be vituperated and insulted, assaulted and plundered by revolutionists who mean ill, and by revolutionists who know not what they mean. And as these things are the preludes to civil calamities, and the ordinary prognostics and harbingers of all sorts of atrocities, men of this' sacred character are the ljrst whose rights the thoughtful and the good will set themselves to defend. and whose political consequences they will endeavour to uphold; the first whom they will step forward to support on every principle not only of justice, generosity and humanity, but even on the principle of common security." These are very remarkable words, wrung from a man of candid and honest mind—forced from him by the facts of history, and the times, against all the opinions he had che rished from early youth. I will not attempt to follow the train of thought which this extract suggests—l will not sum mon up those turbulent scenes which it calls to mind, so little in accordance with the primary object of this meeting. That object is to supply the religious destitution of the coun try, by enabling the Church of England to perform her duty to every part of the community ; and I consider it a matter of legitimate congratulation, that while supplying the spiri tual destitution of the country , we are at the sam e ti me con tributing to the strength and solidity of her civil institutionp. This is that important, indirect effect necessarily pi - minced by the ministration of the church and the operations of this society; and when taking part in such a good work, merely as a member of this society, I feel that, along with the faithful minister, I am conferring a most important be nefit on my fellow men—a benefit valuable to them not only for time hut for eternity. I have only now to say, that the time is short, and that we are bound to work while it is called to-day. When I look around me, and miss so many from this platform to whose faces I have been accustomed — some taken away by death, some removed by Providence in those mutations which take place in a transitory world — some by domestic affliction—some by ill health and other causes. I feel strongly impressed with the importance of labouring in every holy and righteous pause with all our strength and ability, whilst the power so to do is spared us by a merciful Providence. (Cheers.) The Rev. Was. W. EWBANK, incumb en t o f St. G eorge ' s , Everton, then came forward amid s t l ou d c h eers, an d sa id that the resolution entrusted to his care was— " That the spiritual destitution of our country must awaken the sympathies of a christian community, and calls for their energetic and powerful exertions for its removal." He would fain hope that the mere simple announcement of such a resolution as that would be quite sufficient to call back those christian feelings to our hearts, which, be thought, some of them had nearly been in danger just now of losing. He was comparatively a stranger among them, and therefore perfectly ignorant of the cause of this little ex , citement ; but he did feel that the great object of such meet , longs as this was not to manifest any unchristian feeling d that nature, but in order, by the blessing of God and under the impression of his Holy Spirit, to meet together, in order to do everything in their power to further the great and christian objects now brought before them. He would not enter into any details connected with the society, his sole ob• jest being to insist upon one or two of the most striking points in the resolution. The first was the use of the most emphatic word " must." The spiritual desecration of our country, it was asserted, must awaken the sympathies o f a christian country. They were aware of the great differences in the reception into the heart of spiritual blessings from those, equally the gift of God, whi c h re l a t e d on l y to tempo ral mercies. We knew that every good g ift comes f rom th e Al mighty ; but we had continual and striking proofs before us that of ni were apt to f orge t i n t h e g if t the gre at Giver that men cou ld t h ere f ore acc ept theen gift ; these good things and yet feel that they had not the slightest inclination to impart them to others. They often found that the richer a man became, the more God poured down the tide of prosperity upon him, and harder his heart became, and the less inclined he was to be touched by the misery of his neighbours. But how different it was with re spect to these spiritual blessings. He that had received the largest portion of them had always the most anxiety to ill . ' past them to those who were deficient. In short, our hob' religion was in complete opposition to the natural selfishness of our hearts. No sooner had we received those preciou s blessings ourselves, than we were immediately led to desire the imparting of them to others; and therefore he thongh t there was great force in the expression—" that the spiritual destitution of our country must awaken the sympathies of a Christian community." It was utterly impossible that a man could be a Christian without having in his heart a desire to impart the blessings of christianity to others. But this re quired sometimes an awakening ; the Christian sometilvas, appeared as if lie h a d gone to s l eep, as if h e was not awake to his privileges and to his duty. He resembled scale; times a man in a trance. lie had within him all the vital principle in his nature, but that vital principle was not brought forth into a c ti on ; and, therefore, it was necesserY, meu whc Rev. I The CHAIRMAN said—Ladies and Gentlemen,—l believe it is almost unnecessary for me to trespass for a moment upon your attention by any explanation of the character of th'e society which you are met this evening to support, hut I still would wish to be permitted to say, that of all societies which have a claim upon our support as clergymen, 1 know of no society which can be put in competition with this. This society came to the aid of the church just at the moment of the church's extremity—just at the moment when the expan sion of the church was leading to the exhaustion of its powers, at the moment when the field was opened which the church seemed bound to occupy but had not the power. This so ciety seems to me to have been raised up by the hand of Pro eidence to supply that particular degree of strength which the church does not possess in itself, and by increasing the num ber of its laborious servants to enable it to occupy that field which the providence of God seems to place at its disposal. The more we consider the purpose of this society, the more we consider its object and operations, the more we are con vinced it must approve itself to the conscience and the reason of every individual present; for unless a society like this had been instituted, all other institutions to which we are at tached must comparatively have dwindled down fcr the want of support, and the very circumstance that the failure of the Church is shown in one part, must have spread languor and quietness throughout the remotest portions of it. The society with which I had the .honour of being connected this morning, the Church Building Society, without this would have been but a poor and inefficient boon to society at large ; for what would have been the benefit of supplying fabrics made of stones and mortar, if the individuals who arc to form the living church within had not been supplied through the instrumentality of this society? I always have regarded this society as a special act of providence towards the church ; and while I desire to recognise_in it that provi- deuce which is at once man's extremity and God's opportu nity, I also regard it as that special sort of help of which the church at this time especially stands in need. lam unwill ing to trespass on your attention for a moment further, and therefore I will call upon our secretary at once to read the report. The Rev. R. BAIMEIt (in the unavoidable absence of the Rev. C. Lawrence from indisposition) read the report as follows : " The committee of the Liverpool Auxiliary Church Pas toral Aid Association address the subscribers again after a shorter interval than usual, in consequence of the London committee having requested that its annual meeting might take place in the spring, and not in the autumn. In com plying with this request, the committee have had some diffi culties to contend with ; the clergy who kindly permitted collections in its behalf in the last November preferring to repeat their appeals later on in the year.* " They are happy in being able to state an increase in the funds of 1840 upon the receipts of 1839. In 1839 the associ ation remitted £143, this year £2OO, exclusive of incidental expenses. In the same sear the St. Michael's branch re mitted £3B, this year £57 16s. 6d. Yet the disproportion of such a remittance to the wealth of our town must be still obvious. Men are not yet awake to the, claims which the spiritual destitution of their country has upon them : we do not feel the claims this society peculiarly has upon ourselves•, we do not, as a community, acknowledge the authority of Him who has given us power to get wealth. " Willing to attribute in part this languid support to some deficiency in themselves, your committee have added to their numbers, and made arrangements for more systematic ef forts ; and now again commend the plan of the society to a Christian public. Adapting herself to the existing ecelesi astical,institutions, intruding upon no spiritual office, re specting every parochial division, she multiplies the labourers in the Lord's vineyard, by providing stipends for curates ; she renews the energies, by dividing the burthens, of mi nisters pressed above measure, above strength; and renders the excellent machinery of the church capable either of of fensive or defensive warfare. If it be asked, What has she done ?' it is answered, ` 275 incumbents are assisted by her funds, whose average income amounts to £163, and whose cure of souls includes upon an average 7,000 persons ; and half of these incumbents, it must be added, have no parson age houses. Thus she ministers to the necessities of more than two millions of souls.' " But the peculiar claims which this society has upon the town must be urged. Grants to the amount of £5OO have been made to a community capable not merely of supplying her own but of ministering largely to the destitution of other districtS. Reports have been kindly furnished to us of the operation of some of these grants. The Rev. A. M'Conkey states, that in his district there are about 7000 souls, exclu sive of about 1000 Roman Catholics. How feeble would be the labours of a solitary individual in such a district ! But through the liberality of this society he has a faithful fellow labourer : and thence in All Saints Church, besides the Sunday services, there are two week-day evening services. The Rev. J. Connor, whose clerical income is for the most part drawn from a grant of this society, thus describes St. Simon's district The population I estimate at 5000; the exact amount, however, cannot be told. The following is the return of one street, one of the best in the district-379 adult residents, 250 children; of the 379 adults 29 attend a place of worship ' • 31 profess to go occasionally, leaving 319 who never attend a place of worship at all.' " Your committee very briefly allude to the attack which has been made within the . last year upon the plan of acting which the society has laid down. They have readily re-ex amined her foundations, while hearing such apparently grave assertions of their unsoundness. But they thank God that she has not been permitted, as they humbly conceive, to lay down foundations at variance either with gospel truth or ecclesiastical order, and the regard which her eminent use fulness lead them to feel for her, is strengthened by the un called for censure with which she has been assailed. They cannot but observe with satisfaction that the venerated diocesan continues his distinguished support to the society. And they must suspect that the asserted irregularity of the society's demand for satisfaction, as to the qualifications of those whose stipends she supplies, which had escaped the eyes of these prelates who are among her vice-presidents, is no irregularity at all. " Your committee will venture to ask for a preference for this society, because of this very feature in her operations. The greatest curse which can befall a church or a country is an unsanetified clergy. Then the salt has lost its savour, and wherewith shall it be salted.' And every precaution against such an evil, which is consistent with great princi ples, is not only permitted but imperative Upon people to adopt. Such a precaution is found in the plan of this society. Intrust me with your funds, she says, for the noblest objects, the maintenance of ministers of God.' By what means,' it will be answered, shall 1 know that lam aiding men deserving so high a name, and true to their ordination vows ?' It is replied, so far as a modestly-pressed scrutiny and a human judgment can accomplish, none but such men will we be the means of introducing into the ministry or supporting in it.' Is it not obvious that, however sacred the office of a minister, there is nothing in itself to insure the holiness of him who may exercise it? Is there anything so mysterious in his office as to furbid the laity's pronouncing upon its degradation ? Are they forbidden to mark their ap probation of those who bear with them the signs of apostles ? Our forefathers bestowed their wealth on those religious houses which were marked by the sanctity of their members. Were they to be blamed ? A lay patron, who shall most carefully examine the character of him whom he purpose to present to a benefice. Is he trenching upon episcopal func tions ? Why, then, should the 20,000 persons who constitute this society be exempt from responsibility, or relinquish the right of such discrimination ? " But, if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. " One and all, your committee would desire to answer those who would provoke them to argument, with the words of Nehemiah, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down : why should the work cease, and I leave it and come down to you.' Thousands of our countrymen are perishing for lack of knowledge ; the love of christianity con straining us, we would go forth to their rescue. The popula . tion annually increases by many thousands. If that increase be met by a provision, owing to the awakening of exertion amongst us, we fear the mass is yet unassailed which has accumulated through centuries of lethargy. With thankful ness we therefore read, in the last publication of the society, as some of the results of her exertions, that 401 additional full services on the Lord's Day, 172 on week days, 161 cot tage' lectures have been set on. foot within the four years of her existence. And would animate ourselves, and all who have tasted that the Lord is gracious, to so contribute to her funds that she may continue, like some fertilising river, to diffuse, in an increasing ratio, similar blessings through the length and breadth of the land. " * Independent of the churches which, being indebted to the society, will naturally suffer her cause to be pleaded, four clergy men have promised to introduce the subject to their congregations this year." The Rev. Dr. BYRTH rose to move the first resolution. He was assailed with considerable hissing, which lasted for some moments, ant prevented him from proceeding. He commenced as follows :—I wait, sir. (Renewed hisses.) There is no argument, continued the rev. doctor, more con clusive than the sound which I have heard, with which my appearance has been paid. It proves to a demonstration what each of the individuals who use it had no notion of its proving. It proves, sir, that if they were to meet one upon the fair ground of discussion, they would be unable to utter one syllable—that they could only have recourse to that reptile eloquence which proves them to be unfit to be members of any meeting assembled together for a Christian purpose. (Hisses.) Whatever may be the differences of opinion between me and the persons who have so degraded themselves as to meet me with such a sound—(Renewed hisses.) Oh, I can bear it. (Applause.) I rejoice in it. (Hear.) I believe that it bears testimony to a truth that will be told even with the voice of thunder through this large community, That they hear only the voice of serpents. (Hisses.) Go on, I say. Let it be even more. But when you have done I will speak to the subject. I will not speak to the subject before. (Hear, hear, and some hisses.) If it be the wish of the meeting that I should sit down, I am prepared to sit down. I have done nothing to deserve the disapprobation of this meeting. (Cries of "Oh !" and some hisses.) lam sure, sir, that there is not a man here who entertains the sentiments which the persons who utter those disgraceful sounds think and approve, who entertains them more firmly than I do myself ; but what I ask is to be heard upon the subj.!et upon which I speak ? Let men meet me in fair argument. Let not men deal with me like cowards. (Hisses.) What have I done ? (Hear.) I know if I were to say " no popery —and no man can say it more strongly and more from the heart than myself—l should have great approbation. I hate popery with as cor dial a hatred as you—(hear)—and there is no man who has done more or suffered more than myself to demonstrate that faithfully. (Hear.) Let me not be attacked in this mise rable, unchristian way of assault, oh! altogether unfit for such a place as this ! (Hear.) I should not have appeared here it 1 had anticipated that there would have been a large portion of persons who so far forget th e di gn i ty of Christians as to hiss one because he comes forward t o a d vocate a Chris tian cause, ta ki n g adantage—a begga r ly a d vantage — o f hi s appear i n g upon an occasion like this. Why did they not f a i r ly meet me? (Hear.) For all anonymous, scurrilous abuse, be it for once and all said, I hold it in contempt; but upon this occasion let me be heard —or, if there be another hiss, I will sit down. (Applause.) I now proceed to the question. I stand before you in order to move that " the report which has been read be printed and circulated at the discretion of the committee." I have no question that the discretion of that committee is very sound. I shall suggest, however, that the report be so circulated that it should find its way into every parish, should make its appeal to every family. (Hear, hear.) And without referring for one mo ment to that which will pass from my mind even as the idle cloud, rwould ask those persons whose zeal seems to be so exhuberant, and I rejoice at it, in the favour of the great cause of Protestantism, to show they are indeed Protestants, by helping us to send more ministers of the true Protestant religion into every part of the country. (Cheers.) There was one portion of the report which' especially struck my at- W. Ew - It Y. p for WR: