The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

_~. • LIVERPOOL. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, Established for the Diffi:vion cf . Protestant Informat;on, and the Maintenance or Protesta7it Principles. THE FIRST ANNIVERSkRY of the above ASSOCI ATION will be held in the A.NIPIIITHEATRE, Great Charlotte-street, on TUESDAY next, the Bth November instant. The Doors will be opened at Ten o'clock, and the Chair will be taken at Eleven. The Rev. R. J. Nl;Gime andT•tlil Rev. Mowrimua O'Sut.Lt- VAN are expected to attend. Admission by Ticket, application to be made at Mr. Davila- Poufs, Raneladi-street, on Saturday next, the sth, and Mon day, the 7th November instant. N.B.—A Collection will be made at the doors, in aid of the Funds of the Church of England School Siciety. ILegal 14Totirt. THE commissioners in a fiat in bankruptcy, bearing date the 7th day of J ulv, 1834, awarded and issued forth against THOMAS BUCKLEY and ROBBUT KENNAN, of Li verpool, in the county of Lancaster/merchants, dealers, chap men, ;Ind copartners, intend to meet i on theBth day of November instant, at One of the clock in the Afternoon, at the Clarendon rooms, South John-street, in Liverpool aforesaid, to audit the accounts of the assignees of the joint estate and effects of the said bankrupts under the said fiat, pursuant to an Act of Parlia ment made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George the Fourth, infitided " An Act to Amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts:" and the said com missioners also intend to meet on the following day, at One o'clock in the Afternoon, and at the same place, in order to make a final dividend of the joint estate and effects of the said bankrupts; when and where the creditors who have not already proved their debts are to come preplred to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of the said dividend. And all claims not then proved will be disallowed. MAWDSLEY, Solicitor. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. ( From the Private Correspondence of the Morning Herald.) SIEGE OF BILBOA. MACAYE, Ocr. 26.—Once more we are in movement; the ealin has passed by, and warm work is going on in Biscay. In my last I noticed the intention of Don Carlos to cross the Ebro, out ere so important a step could be taken it was thought pru dent to assemble a council of Generals. At this meeting the greatest deference was shown to the opinion of General Eguia, who advised that. Bilboa should be besieged, and compelled to surrender, before any decisive movement should be undertaken. The proposition was adopted, and the following plan of opera tions instantly agreed to. Eguia, wuh Simon Latorre, under took to command the siege, while Villareal occupied the high road to Balmaceda; Gorn, Arlahan; Garcia, the Ribera, and Giubelalde the line of St. Sebastian The 23d the greater part of the artillery bad reached Gabs cane, and preparations were made for establishing the batteries. The same day l. 01) peasants were set to work in throwing up parapets, covered ways, and trenches. The 21th the Carlists made themselves masters of the river, from Portugalete to Bilboa, and brought down a sufficient torce on the banks to proveut the steam-boats from approaching the city. At four o'clock on the afternoon of this day the whole of the Carlist force occupied in the siege consisted of 23 battalions of infantry, 3 squadrons of cavalry, and 51 pieces of artillery, of which 2.1 pieces are 21 and 35 pounders. Should Espartoro present himself, the Carlists will accept the battle without raising the siege; indeed Eguia, in conversation with a General Odicer this morning, observed, "It is my most earnest desire that the Christinos should come to the relief of Bilboa; it would facilitate the passage of his Majesty across the Ebro." This morning (25th,) at four o'clock, the Carlisle opened their fire on the town, from a battery erected on the Church of Begone. Four immense bombs, filled with inflammable mat ter were thrown into the heart of the city, and did much mis chief. The cries of the people and the consternation of the soldiers were truly distressing, and it is to be hoped, that the Go vernor will, without delay, capitulate ; furl of this be assured not a single house will remain should he continue obstinate. It is possible that three of the Christine forts—very strong, and which command the town—may resist, but the city once taken, it will be easy to cut off their supplies, and they must surrender. Much is to be expected from the discord which exists between the Urbanos and the troops of the line. Yesterday the Carlists captured three Trincaduros on the river; in one of them wet e fouud despatches for General Evans, imploring him to come to the relief of Bilboa, the garrison, from indiscipline, nut being in a condition to hold out against the Carlisle. I have reason for believing that General Evans will not risk weakening his lines, the Carlists being prepared to take advantage of the ab sence of any considerable force. The only succor that can be given will be in ammunition, and this mmning, the Phoenix sailed for that purpose for Portugalete. I much doubt whether it will attempt to force the river. The presence of theCarlists before Bilboa has greatly increas ed the desertion from the Queen's army, and yesterday, nine idlicers and twenty-one privates, belonging to the garrison of Portugalete, presented themselves to Eguia. It is a strange fact that amongst the Carlist troops before Bilboa there is a bat talion of WO men, composed solely of deserters from the French Foreign Legion. I have made my arrangements for forwarding you daily the progress of this most important siege. Yesterday evening the Bishop of Mondonedo and two of his Vicars presented themselves to Don Carlos. The Christina General Peon, who commanded the division sent in pursuit of Don Pablo Sanz, has been compelled to fly from the Fury of his men : he has been replaced by General Al vares. General Sanz is in the kingdom of Leon. The 20th Guinea quitted Fuencaliente, after having disarmed the Urbanos. At the same date Rodil Was at Santa Cruz de Medula, and Alaix at Ilavlen. The division commanded by General Narvaez entered Madrid On the VAL The last accounts from Argon are dated Saragossa, the 22d; a strong division of Carlists after advancing within gun-shot of Fort Alcaniz, took the direction of Gaspe, and from thence marched towards the banks of the Ebro. (laving here collect ed a great number of horned cattle, they returned to the mediate vicinity of Alcaniz, and front thence to Macau. Th e Christine force, commanded by Sanl Miguel, although fre quently in sight of the Carlists, offered them not the slightest molestation. FIRE AT SEA AN!) LOSS OF LIFE. The following information was yesterday received at Lloyds : —"Sir, information was received here this evening, or the loss of the schooner, Water Lily, of Limerick, bound to Limerick, by which it appears that after sivi had entered the river yester day morning, and had been boarded by a pilot, owing to sonic combustibles in the hold (it is supposed vitriol) having ignited, the vessel suddenly blew up, and all on board, with the excep tion of one man, perished. "J. PATERSON. "Vrebrust, October 25, 1836. "I enclose a note just received from the commander of the Hatniltou revenue cruizer " ' The only particulars relative to the loss of the Water that on Sund a y even i ng , a b ou t s i x o ' c l oc k, Lily that I know are, when abreast of Il'irse Island, the crew perceived some smoke coming out from the fore-hatchway, which they opened, and found that the vessel was entirely on tire. The captain and crew then went below to try and save their clothes, and when they came on deck the vessel was so completely in flames that theywi,when nut wholet in time f t get hm. out nl e t ir m hz u t i , v atnodrejluattrei perished, r o is y h e e r- d b , o: i r t d h , the exception o f one of the seamen who clung to 0 piece o o n f n, the i wreck and was picked up at two o'clock on -Monday morning by a schooner which was passing up to Limerick. " 'The Water Lily was laden with a general cargo from London to Limerick, of oils, vitriol, turpentine, and other com bustibles. —They smelt lire a few days before, but took no par ticular notice of it, which leads me to suppose she was completely burnt before they were aware of it. Ider destruction was so instantaneous, that the circumstance was not known along the coast, even by the boat which put a pilot on board. I could find uo trace of the wreck to-slay, with the exception of a burnt plank, though some of it was seen last night bv , a brig. • R. S. 1 e t tnooes.' •• It appears that tho name of the seaman stayed is Rogors„ of Lyme, who was picked up by the Eliza, of Itothsay , from a plank, to which he had clung for eight hours. It was understood that the sufferers amounted t o nine in num. ber, including the river pilot. The latter had hold of the same plank to which Rogers clung, but was obliged to let it go. Captain Ruby, the master, was seen floating on a bundle of hoops by Rogers, who lost sight of' him soon after. For nearly two days before, it is said that some smoke was observed ascending from the chinks of the hatchway, but not so as to excite any alarm on deck, until Sunday, when the batch was' cautiously opened, and then the flames, so ]hind nearly smothered for want of air, sprung up from the closely packed hold, and blazed about the vessel with such destructive fury as to baffle all human efforts to repress it. The value of the vessel and the goods is estimated at £lO,OOO at the lowest. — Times. SILIPWRGCK AND Loss oe LIVE.—We have experienced some uncommonly boisterous weather since this day week, and are sorry to add that it has been attended with melancholy con sequences at sea. On Thursday last it blew fresh front the northward during the whole day, and was excessively cold. On Frisky the gale increased, and during the whole of Friday ni , ht it blew tremendously, the wind making the entire circuit of the cstripass, with unabated furs. On Friday noon, the Active ) Dalrymple, and Plywell, Gibson, Dumfries tradete, left that port for Whitehaven. and were overtaken by the storm of the seine night After contending with the gale for some ti me, -th e A c ti ve run far this port, which the reached in safety, and laid limier the Jhelter o f tha new west pier until the tide made to allow of her entering the inner harbour, which the ac complished in stood aisle. The Plywell was less fortunate. 'l'llo last time Cistain Dalrymple ssw her was at sunset; also was then standing to the a indward, evidently with a view of keeping off until the tide would permit of her entering the /sarbour, and nothing more wits heard Or Seel) of her until next morning, when parts of her wreck ani cargo wet e seen floating tiff the mouth of this port. It was soon ascer tained that the ill-fated trader hail been driven on shore between Parton and Harrington, abreast of Micklehant Pit, one of the most rugged places along the whole coast ; that the captain and crew had perished, and the vessel become a complete wreck. Two of her crew, a man and a boy, were found near the place where she had s huck, the former named John I‘l'Quinn, and the name of the youth, who appeared to have been about 17 years of age, is supposed to be John or James Holliday. Their re mains were removed to Harrington, on view of which an in quest Was held before W. B;agg, Esq., coroner, yesterday morning, when the jury returned a verdict of "founddrowned." The body of Captain Gibson has not yet been cast up, nor can it be correctly ascertained whether there were any more than three persons on board or not, hut it is supposed that her com plement consisted of only the captain and the two seamen whose bodies have been found. Her cargo consisted of undressed spade shafts, which were found cast up on various parts of the coast between Saltom Bay and llarrington, and have nearly all been recovered.—Cumberland I'acquet, Tuesday. BUM OCT. '29.—The Progress, of Beaumaris, Humphrey, master, bound to Bristol, was stranded at this place on Thurs day last, with a cargo of wheat. She struck about one, p.m. the hands took to the rigging, where they remained seven tors, when they were taken off by the pilot boat, which had been manned the whole time with the hope of being able to into th:lic")" me toc the a vessel, but the surf was so heavy that it was itnpossi been washaerdbrr's h her until after high water. when she had drifted vessel has be mouth. About one-third of the cargo had beep of her; the remainder has been landed. The to have sustaineruped into the harbour, and does not appear driven over the % a ll: raoterial injury in the hull, having been rock. The men o we f rom low to high tide without touching a There is no life-boat here, nor any ap paratus which these poor fellows might have been rescued situation. Had the Should this come under masts gone, they must have peristeert";bt: take it into conesiTePreadtiothney will, the notice of the Humane Society, it is with their usual philanthropy, TO THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE, LIVERPOOL, SIR, —We, of the wild Western Island, owe you obligations incalculable for your grand discovery, recently, that the viper was not St. Paul; and that Damascus is not Melita. For this transcendent effort of biographical and geographical genius you are entitled to the immortality of Ditton and \Merton, with which they were crowned by Dean Swift, for their equally brilliant discovery of the longitude; and truly, sir, I must, henceforth, endeavour to persuade myself that I have been born under the influence of some auspicious constellation; when a man of your superhuman Scriptural research has mo destly declined a viva rocs discussion with an ignorance so shallow as myself. It is but right to inform your Piety, that in my letter, as published in the Liverpool Mercury, Journal, Dub lin Evening l'ost, and Dublin Pilot, there is no " lapsus pentue" to be found—the locus in quo not being so much as syllable(' ; and thus—" pity 'tis 'tis true"—the little triumph of a little mind has had little time for exultation. My amanuensis, in all the copies, substituted the word " perjury" for the original word " forgery;" and of this oversight I wonder that your can dour did not take a similar advantage. But, sir, since you have led me reluctantly into the unprofitable vein of criticism, permit me to inquire whether by" LA PSCI PENNtE" you mean a slip of the pen ? If so, the information I received from a Protestant gentleman, who occasionally attends your fanatical outpourings, is un7uestionably true; that sou know as much classical Latin as Greek, and as much Greek as Sanscrit. This ho told me without reserve, in presence of several gentlemen in Liverpool, and he is a linguist of no common pretensions. But, perchance, vuu will say that "pennce" is good rhetorical Latin for a pen—because the winq may be put for the quill, and the quill is a good representative of the pen—and why not the goose for the wing ? and, then, by a logical induction, the slip of a goose and the slip of a pen will be quite quid unum et idem. And this is the creature who thinks, by one sneering note of ad miration, to smile away Dr. Brown's solid claims to a know ledge of scripture and 'Hebrew. But, penile majora, instead of retracting, like a Christian and a gentleman, your wanton and scandalous accusation of forgery, you have the unblushing as surance to set public patience and Christian morality at de thrice by daring to repeat it. This charge was at first your only excuse for not meeting me in oral controversy. The whole substance of the charge is this : that I wrote, or caused to be written, letters, in the names of Protestants, containing objec tions against my own creed, for the purpose of answering them from the pulpit during my lent sermons in Dublin. Now, air, I solemnly declare on the word of a man, and the faith of a Christian, that the charge is a malignant, prepense, concocted falsehood ; and I believe, in my conscience, originally fabri cated by Nolan and his now allies to cover your retreat. The calumny was first circulated by Nolan, or by some one in his name. Nolan has given no proof; he only refers to anynymous au thority. Nolan, oven if willing, is incapable of wounding my cha racter. But you, self-sanctified sir, have made the charge your own—you have given it currency by giving it importance—you .have made yourself attorney-general in the case, and filed an ex 4icio information against use; I call upon you. therefore, pub licly and solemnly, as you value your own character, as you value the ministry to which you belong, to come into open court and cancel the indictment. or to sustain it by evidence, written, oral, or circumstantial. By the laws of your own coun try and of your own church you arc bound to presume my inno cence till my guilt be fairly established. Either, then, you have proof of my guilt, or you have not. If you have, produce it—l court, I challenge, I dare you to produce it. "Jubeo, cogo, impero." If not, then you are a hawker of scandal, and a re tailer of calumny; and the retailer in this instance is as bad as the coiner himself. You refuse to meet me on the platform, because I am suspected of forgery; and yet you require me to meet Mr. M‘Ghee, who is convicted of forgery. You refuse to meet me on the platform, because you suspect me of jitrgery; but you are willing to meet me on paper, although you suspect. me of forgery —you are fond of fighting, fund of hearing your cannon roar, if nut at a foolish, certainly et a very sale, distance. You tell me " Mr. MAllhee is ready." Beady to do what ? Speak out, man—be explicit—for 1 ens ready also—ready to meet you both, fur you have both sinned against truth; you, by misstat ing our doctrine and misrepresenting our church, heedless of St. Augustine's admonitory maxim, "Contra rationem nemo Sol,ciris—contra Scripturam nemo Christianus, contra Eccle senn nemo paciticue Sanscrit;" he, by wilfully suppressing the explanatory portion of Peter Dens' Chapter on Heresy, which would have neutralized the virus of his poisonous declamation, and have unmasked the knavery and hypocrisy of the great political plot. These are tangible charges—they are serious charges, and free to face I offer to maintain them. Is Mr. M‘Gbee ready ?—so am I. Is Mr. M`Neile ready ?—so aria I. I shall encounter you doubly or singly; not upon paper alone, but where we can, sir, hear, correct, argue, and explain. And to satisfy my English friends that in this offer there is no eva sion intended by me, I am ready, should you or ho assent, to submit all the conditions and preliminaries of our meeting to any one of three protestant rectors whom I shall name, they being of the Church of England, and men of honour, integrity, and rank. On the other hand, you or Mr. l'al‘Ghee shall have the option of choosing three catholic gentlemen, to whose can dour and impartiality lam equally willing to submit. Further, unless you retract the charge of forgery in the meautime, you shall then and there be called upon to prove, and I to disprove, the discreditable artifice. Forgery is a word which you and yours should for ever blush to repeat. Prudence would prompt you to shun it as a fetter fir your feet, a rope for your neck, and a servile ring for your nose. This is a letter of gentle remonstrance; my next shall he one of scathing retaliation. When christian patience ceases to be a virtue, the lex 'alio/a:cannot be a crime; in us it has evidently ceased to be a virtue, since its observance towards you and your political crusading accomplices has only served to multiply ag gression and encourage the most insulting calumnies. Nolan may be hired to slander, the Liverpool Mail to bully and revile; but public opinion is not to be shaken by insinuation, nor ens 1 to be silenced by menace or abuse. T. MAGUIRE. Ballinamore, October 28, 1836. REV. J. L. NOLAN.-REV. T. MAGUIRE. (FROM TOR DURI.IN EVENING MAIL.) The letter of the Rev. J. L. Nolan is addressed to the Rev. Thomas Maguire. It denies, in indignant language, the asser tion of the latter, that Mr. Nolan had been a degraded or dis graced priest. The fact is notoriously otherwise, as Mr. Nolan, when he first entertained conscientious doubts as to the doc trines of the Church of Rome, communicated his scruples to his bishop; and in presence of a third person, discussed the points upon which such doubts had arisen ; and no satisfactory an swers being given to the questions put, Mr. Nolan had the moral courage to avow his conviction of the errors of that creed in which he had been educated; and relinquishing great worldly prospects—a valuable parish, and future and certain promotion in his church, he abandoned all for conscience sake, and down to the present moment, after a probationary term of some years is contented with the moderate income accruing from au hum ble curacy. I he writer having ably and unanswerably defended himself from the unfounded and calumnious charge made against him, proceeds in his turn to accuse Mr. Maguire of the most foul and disreputable course adopted by him in the progress of his dis cussion with Mr. Pope—natnely, of having read and relied upon forged and fictitious documents from German and other authors, which he produced and prevailed upon Mr. Pope to admit as authorities. This is an accusation of so grave an.l serious a character, so pregnant with important results, that we refrain from publishing Al r. Nolan's letter fur the present, recommend ing that gentleman to lay his charge, and the evidence by which he is prepared to sustain it, before some clerical friends, who will doubtless bring the matter before the public in a more so lemn form than it is capable of assuming in the shape of alnere letter, written by an aggrieved and much-injured individual. TO THE REV. THOMAS MAGUIRE. Sta,—Allow me to recal your attention to the following challenge, which emanated from a respectable Baptist minister in Dublin, and to which, as yet, you have deigned no reply. I trust it may serve to exhibit you in your proper character—that of a blustering coward, who shrinks from that encounter which his own violent declamations have provoked. I leave you to those reflections which this document is calculated to produce iu your mind, merely adding that I du not envy those reflections. —1 am, Ste., CYMRU. " TO TO6 NEV. TOONIAS MAGUIRR. " Gortuasheelah, March, 30, 1636. 8111 ,—From the terms of your proposal to the Rev. - Mr. 111‘Ghee inserted in the Evening I'ust of Saturday, it is plain that you have no intention to meet that gentleman for discus -s'o" 'l l the Points he has submitted. As, however, you appear now to to think that, without any danger to your system, gnu may venture your personal responsibility in discussion with one who has not the qualifying letter' of the protestant archbishop of Dublin, perhaps second thoughts may lead you to acquies cence in an invitation from myself. " I beg leave, therefore, to offer myself to meet you, wherever and whenever (within the city of Dublin) You may choose, to discuss any or all of the full,;wing propositions, which I under• t a ke, in the strength of God, to establish, viz : First.—That Popish fitt'../iibitity i s a delusive lie. " Secondly.—That Popish Transubstantiation is an absurd j tigizie• 1 1: ( 1 , 1 1 i i i r . d t i l l y ly . — . l l :lat at Po l i o d p t h Pr 7 . e r n g e a , tzr on is o r f ,mo ne y- m aking fable. perstit Relics is a beastly su .. Firtfile.—That Popish Extreme Unction is both body and soul murder. " At the instant of your acceptance of this invitation, I will he ready to enter into de t t o a . il arrangements onlyngienments as sr ttehiemzs.tinpenblluiac discussion of the above n c Arun, that itdisiisi aid on i shall be tree , and the platform occup ie d onlyolyyourself " Your faithful servant, " J. B. M`CaRA." PERFIDIOUS CONDUCT or THE O'CONNELL GANG. ( room the Dublin Standard.) A communication has been made to the Editor of the Stand ard, to the following effect 7 That Daniel O'Connell, of Derrynane, John O'Connell, of Grena, James O'Connell, of Lakeview, Charles O'Connell, of Kerry, Richard Shed, of Tipperary, Peter Pur cell, of Halvers town, and David Lynch. of Dublin, one of the T rustees to the O'Connell Beggary Fund, have paid their Tithes respectively to the di:yerent Protestant Rectors entitled to receive their Tithes ! ! ! If this communication be correct, is it possible to conceive any turpitude more infamous than the turpitude of those who, from time to time have encouraged the poor Irish to resist the law, end run the risk of either being unhoused and sent on the world begging with their wives and - children, by attorneys and lawyers, or shot by the police or soldiers in the execution of their duty. Wretchtd, wretched people. tempted by the basest of your kind to risk your all in the pursuit of an' imaginary good, while those tempters will not so much as risk the loss of one hair of their heads, in vindication of what they call the "volun tary principle" or the right that every man has to pay his own pastor. ( From the Constitutional—Radical Paper.) . - THE O'CoNtinu.s.—He re is the fatal record; we wish we could prove it untitie. It Insist he wished, at least by every Reformer, English, Scotch, and Irish, that Mr. O'Connell would explain the grounds on which he gave it. It would be in vain for him to say, " I have done only what your trusty friend, Mr. Hume, did—l voted with Hume." 'Prue; but Mr. Hume violated no pledge--he broke no solemn engagement. Did Mr. O'Connell? If so, why? The votes of the O'Connells turned the scale; and the point appear s to have been thought very pressing; for Mr. Morgan O'Connell, who had been absent from three successive divisions, on the Pension List, the Fran chise-nibbling clauses, and the Bishops' seats, hurried in to give the adverse vote to the Factory Question. RAILROAD SHARES. — In reference to that part of en article on this subject which appeared in this paper a few days since, which alluded to the probabiltty of shares falling into the hands of persons unable to make good the instalments, we are informed that the liability of the original subscribers never ceases; but that in the event alluded to occurring, the original subscriber to the shares in question is liable to be called upon to make good the payments, notwithstanding hie having parted with all his interest in them.—Herald. VIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE CHURCH. At a public ordination held in Lhe cathedral on Sunday last, .he Lord Bishop of Exeter admitted the following candidates to he sacred order of Deacons—William Gilbard, A.B. Worcester Collage, Ox ford; Richard William Needham; Edward Tippett, A.B. St. Peter's College. Cambridge; George Lowe, A.B. Merton Col lege, Oxford; Joseph Duncan Cook, A.M. Exeter College, Oxford ; William Jones Thomas, A.B. St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Richard William Barnes, A.B. Queen's College, Oxford; John Callandar Meadows, A.M. Pembroke College, (bv letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Wiuchester.) Priests—William Keates Sweetland, A.B. Worcester Col lege, Oxford; George Buckmaster Gibbons, A.B, St. John's College, Cambridge; Sidney Henry Weddrington, A.B. Mag dalen College, Cambridge; John Smart, A.B. St. Peter's College, Cambridge; William Fulford Good, A.B. Trinity College, Cambridge; John Houghton Hogg, A.B. Christ's College,Cambridge; Arthur Dens, A.B. Exeter College, Ox ford; Robert Henry Fortescue, A.B. Exeter College, Oxford; Edward Bendel], A.B. St. John's College, Cambridge; Nicho las Tindal, A.M. 'l'rinity College, Cambridge. On Monday the Lord Bisfep licensed the Rev. John Smart to the Perpetual Curacy of Kingswear, Devonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Philip Gillard, on the nomination of the Rev. Robert Holdsworth, vicar of Brixham, in the same county, the true patron. OXFORD, OCT. 25.—1 n a convocation holden yesterday, the nomination of William Falconer, M.A., and Fellow of Exeter College, to he a public examiner Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physicis, was approved. At the same time the Rev. the Presi dent of St. John's was nominated and approved as a delegate of accounts, and the Rev, the Principal of New-lnuhall as a delegate of estates, both vacant by the death of the late Vice- Chancellor. This day the Rev. Frederick Charles Plumtre, M.A., fellow and tutor of University College, was unanimously elected master of that society, in the room of the late Dr. How ley, who had held that office since the year 1821. Castealnce.—The King's professor of the civil law will com mence his course of lectures on Tuesday. the Bth of November. The course occupies a portion of three Terms, and is usually completed about the division of the Easter Term. On Wednesday last the following students were elected scho lars of Caius and Gonville Coi:ege:—Crowfoot, Baggallav, Paget, Croker, Jackson, Loy. Abercrombie, Marshall. Exhi bitions were also given to Prosier, Chevallier, F. Green, and F. 1). Wright. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has appointed the Rev. George Butler, P.D., of Gayton, to the Chancellorship of that diocese. vacant by the death of Dr. Madan. The Rev. Daniel Jones, 8.D., has been instituted to the vi carage of Wymondhatn, Norlulk, on the presentation of the Bishop of Ely. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—The market for goods was again depressed yosterday—more. so than i❑ the preceding week. Yarns for ex port were, however, still in fair demand, though they cannot be called brisk. There seems in most parts of the country to be a very unsettled and uneasy feeling amongst the hands employed in cotton factories. We hope, however, that an understanding may be come to between them and their employers without any serious or long-continued turn-out, which particularly at a time when provisions are and are likely to be, so much higher than they have been of late, would be attended with very disastrous results to a large class of the labouring population.—Manchester• Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCT. 31.—T0-day has been an extrcinely•dull market; few pieces have been sold, and those at reduced prices. Wool of the finest and the coarsest quality is still lower than the previous week, while that of the middling kind keeps up its price better. Turton OF LEEDS.—About the same quantity of goods was sold at the cloth halls this week as last, at much the same prices. The stocks on hand with the manufacturers are rather on the increase, snore particularly in low qualities ; they are, however, taking the prudent course of reducing the quantity snaking. In the warehouses, business has been dull during the week; the stocks in the hands of the merchants are, however, light for the season, and as they are purchasing very sparingly, there is lit tle probability that there will be any large accumulation of goods in their bands for some time.—Leeds Mercury. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, OCT. 27.—There have been more buyers in the piece market to-day, and, compared with the last three weeks, more business has been done; this is partly owing to the necessity merchants are under to purchase in order to supply their customers. Should the present weather continue, we may safely anticipate greater activity. Prices do not retro grade. The demand for yarns to-day is very limited, and lower prices are submitted to by the spinners. Theme is nothing doing in the wool trade. Prices nominal, and country dealers rather more inclined to HALIFAX MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—We have had rather more buyers in this market to-day, but not quite so much busi ness done as last week, yet there have been more goods sold than for two or three weeks previous, but at reduced prices. Yarns are a little lower, but nut so as to warrant the deduction that has taken place in tho manufactured article.—lbid. EAST NORFOLK CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. The conservatives of the eastern division, of the county of Norfolk, embracing the rank, wealth, intelligence, respecta bility, and independence of the neighbourhood, assembled to gether on Friday last, in St. Andrew's-hall, Norwich, in cele bration of the anniversary of this association, when upwards of 800 gentlemen sat down to a substantial dinner. The hall, one of the largest and most magnificent in the kingdom, the same that was used for the late musical festival, was tastefully deco rated for the occasion with festoons, flags, and banners with appropriate inscriptions, and, being lighted up with gas, pre sented altogether a brilliant and imposing spectacle. Iu strik ing and imposing blazonry were exhibited the names of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lords Lyndhurst, Eldon, Abinger, and the other leading members of the conservative body. The following, among other mottoes, were also promi nently displayed:—" Fear God, honour the King," " The prerogative of the Crown, the independence of the Peers, the rights of the People," " Stormont and Scarlett," " Walpole and Wodehouse," " Orford and the Conservatives of Norfolk," •` Bignold and the Conservatives of Norwich," " The Majo rities at the last County Election," " West Norfolk, no close borough," &c, The Earl of Orford took the chair, supported by the Lord- Lieutenant of the County (Lord Wudehouse,) Lord Sondes, Lord Bayniug, lion. W. Itous, lion. R. Campbell Scarlett, 111.1 3 ., Hon. W. Wodehouse, Hon. A. Wodehouse, lion. E. Wodehouse, Hon. A. Wodehouse, Sir H. Berey, Rev. Sir W. Kemp, Sir T. S. Gooch, Bart., Sir H. Durrant, Bart. ' Sir J. H. Preston, Bart., Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., Sir E. Stracey, Bart., Mr. E. Wodehouse, M.P., Mr. John Stracey, Mr. Jos. Stracey, Rev. R. Gooch, Mr. Serjeant Firth, &c., &c. The spacious orchestra was filled with hundreds of ladies, who continued during the evening to testify by the waving of handkerchiefs their entire sympathy with the whole proceedings. EARTIIQUAKE. On Monday night week, at eleven o'clock, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Paisley and the neighbourhood. The most general impression excited was, that a heavy body had fallen to the floor or to the ground. Many compared it to a person falling from a bed, others to a sack of meal falling from a man's shoulder to the floor, or to the falling of a heavy bale of merchandise. Great numbers were awakened by it from their sleep, sprung from their beds, and searched the Louse, in the belief that they had been attacked by robbers. Some fe males were so much terrified that they would not again venture to bed. Several people connected with public works ran out to see whether their stalk vents had nut fallen to the ground. At the Canal Office it was felt with great force, not by the clerk only, who was at his desk, but by the watch dog, who sprang to his - feet, and began to bark, as if the workhouse had been at tacked. The bells in several houses were put in motion, and the windows, doors, and earthenware were shaken with consi derable noise. A letter from one of the persons in charge of the dredge-boat lying off Elderslie House, describes it as feel ing like is smart heavy blow struck on the mooring chains.— Earthquakes being so seldom felt here, the noise and motion were ascribed to almost every cause but the true one; and it was not until next day, when the conversation relating to it be came general, and when the effects of it were so widely spread, that an earthquake was deemed the cause—several, however, who in distant lands kid witnessed such a phenomenon, at once recognised it. One young lady in town, born in the East Indies, the moment she felt it, exclaimed, "An earthquake!" sprung from her bed, and fled. for shelter to the apartment of the ser vants. We have not learned that the shock was felt at Neils ton, or in any other place to the southward or S.W. of Paisley, our does it appeal to have been felt at Glasgow. We have heard of the shock being felt in Houston, Kilbarchan, and Johnstone, to the west, and as far as Stonehouse, in Lanark shire, to the south-east. In the parishes of Renfrew, Inchinuan, Erskine, and Old Kilpatrick, the shock was felt its a still higher degree than in Paisley. One gentleman near Bishopton, was wakened out of his sleep by the noise, which he compared to the firing of heavy artillery, and his first impression was that the house was tumbling about his ears. A lady near the saute place was so much alarmed that she nearly fainted, and another who was lying ill trembled from head to foot, in the belief that the last day was at hand. At Freeland House, Erskine, the inhabitants were much alarmed, and state that the cattle around the house were seen in a state of agitation. The tolhnan ott Greenock road was awakened by the noise, and believing► that the lead had been stripped from the roof and thrown to the ground. he seized the tongs, and ran out, exclaiming, " catch them. they cannot be far away." On both sides of the Clyde the shuck was pretty severe.—the bells of Blythswood House were set a ringing. With the exception of the break ing of a little crockery ware, we - have heard of no damage be ing done.---Paisley Adrister. THE REGISTRIES IN IRELAND. " We are requested," says the Standard, " by an Irish cot , . respondent, to state that the account of the registries given in the Rom an C at h ol i c newspapers, i s universally incorrect." The Register of this morning attempts to rebut this assertion, — but, of our experience, we can maintain the correctness of the statement put forward by our admirable British cotemporary. The Irish Roman Catholic newspapers state their successes, — such as they may be,—but they carefully repress their defeats. The few votes they succeed. iu registering they make the most of; but the many in which they fail, they cushion altogether. 'I heir notices of registration are a kind of tentative process : if they succeed in enrolling one vote of a hundred, they clap their wings and triumph : but they say nothing at all about the ninety and nine fraudulent candidates whom the vigilance of Couserva tive agents deprives of a fraudulent franchise. Thus, at the late registration in Galway, four hundred and forty-nine Radi cal notices were served,—six only Wels registered; and two of these belong not to the triumphant party, fur which they ale too independent. In seine late observations of ours on this subject, we pointed out two methods by whi c h the Conservatives could aid the con stitutional cause: the first, positive, by the direct registration of Conservative votes,—and the second, negative, by the defeat of fictitious claims to the franchise. We are happy to say, that in both ways our recommendation has been attended to,—and been likewise productive of the best effects. Wherever the landed gents}' an d their agents have w a t c h e d t h e course of reg i strat i o n, treanutdryhas been detected and imposture prevented. To this may be attributed the result of the Galway registry, and many such other cases which have recently occurred. There has also been a spirit of animation a n d cons t i t ut i ona l energ y has a considerable st ir in servin g notices for the ensuing sessions; and such been excited, that our recent tone of alarm must be exchanged for that of congratulation. Let the Protestants of Ireland but do their duty, and it will matter little whether "the accounts given of the registries by the Roman Catholic Journals," be true or false.—Dublin Ecening Mail. THE VAUXHALL BALLOON.—This splendid balloon will ascend, from Vauxhall the first mornin& the wind may be fa vourable for crossing the Channel, and it is the determ►nation of Mr. Green and his adventurous companions to reach the the French capital, or as near it as possible, should the wind enable them, in which event the Parisians will, in all probe blility, be gratified by an ascent from the Champ de Mars. HALIFAX CONSERVATIVE DINNER TO THE HON. JAMES S. WORTLEY, M.P. On Monday last this town displayed a manifestation of loyal and constitutional feeling which reflects high honour on the in habitants. It was on the occasion of a public dinner given to the hon. member for the borough, James Stuart Wortley, Esq., by his constituents, the great body of whom are members of the Halifax Constitutional Conservative Association. The dinner was held in the Assembly-room, which was handsomely fitted up and decorated. Tables were laid the whole length of the spacious apartments capable of dining between four and five hundred versons, and about that number of " staunch blues" sat down. 'I he suite of rooms was brilliantly lighted by five richly cut chandeliers, ead the walls and orchestra were elegantly or natnented with blue and red drapery formed into rosettes and otherwise tastefully arranged. The orchestra contained the glee-singers, and at each end was a flag, the union-jack, and another, bearing the inscription " Wortley and Independence." At the cross table in the centre of the room, elevated above the rest of the company, were the distinguished guests of the asso ciation supporting the chairman, W. Norris, Esq., above whose head proudly waved the loyal ensign of the society, on which was inscribed "The Halifax Conservative Association." Among the company we noticed Lord Wharncliffe, the Hon. James Stuart Wortley, the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, Lord Sandon, the member for Liverpool, the Hon. W. S. Lascelles, Sir Chas. Ibetson, the Hon. Capt, Wortley, Colonel Ramsden, J. Lees, Esq., M.P. Henry Hall, Esq., of Leeds, James Roby, Esq.. of ochdale, John Entwistle, Esq., of Foxholes, Thomas G. Dyson, Esq., Samuel Rawson Esq., J. E. Norris, Esq., and Mr. Baldrey. The company having partaken of a luxuriant 'banquet, pre pared by the worthy host nt the Swan, the glee singers gave— " Mo n nobis Domino" in an effective style, and at the conclu sion— The Chairman rose and wished that a bumper should be filled to the first loyal toast, which being dune, he gave" His Majesty the King," with four times four, the company standing and chee ring. The national anthem was then sung by the glee singers, the assembly joining in the chorus. The lines'' Confound their politics," "Frustrate their knavish tricks," were rapturously applauded. The next toast was "The Queen." The company rose and greeted it with four times four loud huzzas and one more cheer. Glee—" Here's a health to the King and the Queen." Toast—" The Princess Victoria and the rest of the Branches of the Royal Vamily."—(Cheers.) Glee—" Hail Star of Brunswick." The meeting was then addressed in succession by the chair man, the Hon. Capt. Wortley, the Hon. James Stuart Wortley, Lord Wharncliffe, J. Waterhouse, Esq., Lord Sandon, the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, W. F. Holroyde, Esq., Robv, Esq., Stavelev, Esq., J. E. Norris, Es.q., the Hon. W. Lascelles, J. E. Dyson, Esq., J. Entwisle, Esq., 111. P., &c. &c. We have only space for the speech of our noble representative. LORD SANDON on rising was loudly cheered. He said that the manner in which his name, as a total stranger amidst so large and distinguished an assembly, had been received, was hithly gratifying to him, as such a compliment must be to every Englishman. It was particularly so to him as the repre sentative of a great commercial town with which they were so intimately connected. (Cheers.) There was no circumstance in his life, connected as he was with the aristocracy of the country, on which he more prided himself, than on being en trusted by his constituents as the representative of their com mercial interests. He held it to be a wonder that excited the astonishment of foreigners, that the commercial interests of such towns as Liverpool and Halifax should be confided to the hands of one more connected with the landed than the commercial interests. The fact was an earnest that one branch of the interests of the two counties was not acting in collision with the other. (Hear, hear.) In the situation that he stood as their guest he felt peculiar satisfaction at the manner in which he had been received by so large and influential an assembly, and as it would ill become him to travel over the same ground with tho gentlemen who had preceded him, he should not detain them with any lengthened observations of his own. He would, however, take leave to say that he fully agreed with the sentiments expressed by the gentlemen who had previously addressed them. (Cheers.) He joined with them in particular that each man should consider it his paramount duty to support the House of Lords under existing circumstances. He felt assured that there would be no tyranny so bad as an elective assembly of that house. (Hear, hear.) The House of Peers was found fault with because they differed in opinion with the Commons, and in the opinion of that part of the legislature they ought not to be au uncontrolled power. ( fear, hear.) He would ask, would they submit to yield up those advantages which they had gained from that house, and those institutions which characterized this country as its most firm and enlighten ed bulwarks ? Would they run headlong into the principles of republicanism, of which they saw so many melancholy in stances in the United Stales? (Hear.) The least observer of his country would see that by abolishing the house of Lords it would crush all independence of opinion. (Hear, hear.) He did not intend to intrude on their assembly, as he had said be fore, but he wished to testify the high esteem in which he held the talents of their worthy representative, who, as well as the noble lord his father, had given to a commercial town at his (Lord Sandon's) request, so much assistance, both in relation to its commerce and conservative cause. (Hear, hear, hear.) It was not the cause of the House of Lords that they wore called upon to support alone, for that cause was identified with their own. (Hear, hear.) Hit was only a partial interest it could not stand at all. They had, however, been told that if they gave every man a £2O vote, and the peers were elective, they would have a more aristocratic house than an hereditary suc cession could make it (Hear, hear.) The Whigs and the ra dicals appeared determined on destructive measures. The at tack on the House of Peers was not exclusively intended for that body, but a blow intended to be aimed at the best interests of others. He was happy to find that their opponents were in a minority in that county, and ho hoped they would long, very long remain se. (Cheers.) From his long acquaintance with the export trade he had heard a good deal of the manufactures of Halifax ? and before ho left them he hoped to have the plea sure of seeing some of those goods, the source of their wealth, that he had so frequently seen exported from the port of Liver pool; and he hoped that would not he the last opportunity. (The noble lord concluded amid loud cheers.) NEW CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. The first meeting of the incorporated society for promoting the enlargement, building, and repairing of churches and chapels of the session for 1835-6, was held on Monday. at the Society's rooms, in St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, Newell Connop, Esq., the treasurer, in the chair. The at tendance of persons of distinction, ecclesiastical and lay, was numerous, considering the period of the year. The re port of the society exhibited matter for much congratula tion, as regarded the past, present, and future. Since its institution, in 1818, the society had expended £199.405, and been thus instrumental in building, enlarging, or increasing the accommodation iu 1,260 churches or chapels, and in pro viding 313,550 sittings, of which 233,925 were free and un appropriated. As the society advanced in years the demands upon its funds multiplied, being, during the two last years, each ending in March, £38,588, a sum which then left their means almost exhausted; but during the recess they had received £2,300 in donations, £2,000 of which was the mu nificent gift of Mr. George Davenport. They were now be gining to find encouragement and co-operation in the provin ces, though they could not but regret that it had not been more general. A district committee of the society had been formed at Cambridge, from which £470 had already been received in subscriptions and donations. The Durham diocesan society had for six years transmitted to the parent society one-forth of its receipts. A diocesan society had also been established at Worcester; and also an association for the district compre hending Boroughbridge and Ripon. His Majesty had been graciously pleased to issue a King's letter, under the autho rity of which collections were now beitaig made throughout England and Wales, which, it was hoped, would be successful. The report concluded by expressing the earnest hope of the committee that, under the blessing of God, the society would be enabled to carry on, and extend its beneficial operations, and thus afford to their Christian brethren continually in creasing opportunities of worshipping their God and Sa viour according to the apostolical ritual of the Church of England. Grants of various amounts were then or dered, as follow :--'Towards rebuilding the chnrch at Kil garron, county of Pembroke; e nl arg i ng a c h ape l a t L o wer Gomel!, Staffordshire; repairing and increasing accommoda tion at Bradford, Yorkshire; enlarging the church at Kettering, Norfolk ; enlarging the church at Calbourne, Isle of Wight; enlarging the chnrch at Havering-atte-Bower. Essex; rebuild ing the tower and re-seating the church at Kimpton, South hampton ; building a gallery at the church of West Halton, Lincolnshire ; rebuilding a church at Cheadle, Staffordshire ; building a chapel at Borrow-bridge, Somersetshire ; building a chapel at Barton, near Gloucester; enlarging the church at Mandesley, Norh?lk; building a chapel at Cavlev-bridge, Yorkshire; and building a church, parish of Mottraiii, Cheshire. The works and repairs at various ch urc h es.an d c h a p e ls having been completed according to the specifications and plans, and, having been approved of, the gr an t s vo t e d , amount i ng to £2,500, were ordered to be paid to the contractors. The ordinary busi ness was then transacted, and, thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting adjourned. PRICES OP SHARES, LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3, 1836. Per Share, M a nchester,Bolton,R;Bury Canal and Railway £l5 paid 6 . 7 0 If Li ve rpool 3t Ilanchester Railway (Ex. i Shares) 100 .... 220 0 0 Q u arter Shares 25 .... 68 0 0 New Half Shares — .... 49 0 0 Bolton and Leigh ditto London and Birmingham Railway 7,1 .... 130 10 0 Grand Junction ditto .... 6O .... 132 0 0 Warrington and Newton ditto Kenyon and Leigh Junction ditto Wigan Branch ditto. North Union,late Preston and Wigan Railway St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto lOO .... 33 0 0 Leicester and Swannington ditt o F 0 .... 73 0 I) Manchester and Leed s dit to London and Brighton Ditto (Steidienson's) ...... 5 ..,.... 710 0 Ditto - Ditto (Rennie's) 2 .... 110 0 Eastern Counties Midland Counties ditto North Midland ditto Birmingham and Gloucester ditto Great Western ditto Leeds and Selby Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto London and Gravesend ditto 1 .... 0 0 0 Dublin and Drogheda 2 10s.. 2 5 0 Ulster BANES. Bank of Manchester Bank of Liverpool Liverpool Union Bank lO .... 16 0 0 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 .... 29 10 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool . lO .... 20 5 0 Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 6 2 6 Northern and Central Bank° f England lO .... 12 10 0 Borough South Lancashire ' J:5 Os.. 415 0 North and South Wales Bank £s Os.. 415 6 Ulster United Trades' Bank Tradesrnens' Bank £s Os.. 5 2 6 GAS AND WATER WORKS. Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks £lo ... •. 00 0 0 • SI. Helen's G as W or k s Liverpool Coal Gas £lBs 0 0 Liverpool New (;as and Coke Company ....£100 New Shares, premium £7o i,iverponi and Harrington Water Works Bootle ditto Exchange Buildings ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance Company £25 .... 13 5 0 Ocean Assurance Company FERRIES. Woodside, Birkenhead, and Liverpool Steam Ferry Company Royal 'Rock Ferry l5 0 .. ;4 15 0 Monk's (Woodside) Ferry 5 0.. 512 6 Egremont t l2 10 .. 12 10 0 MINES. Kellewerris Consolidated Mines £l .... 2 0 0 West Tresavean Tin and Copper ditto British Silver, Lead, and Copper ditto ..... Liverpool and Manchester Coal NEW COMPANIES Liverpool St, am Towing Liverpool Fish Liverpool Timber.. C 3 .... 215 0 2 .... 1 7 6 1 ... nominal ST. ANNE'S WARD. riviE Committee for conducting the Elec on for J. WRIGHT, ESq., beg to acknowledge their than - o the 189 Burgesses who came forward to support the Prim. pies of our glorious Constitution. JAM ES PARKER, Chairman. AN ALMANAC AND COMIC ALBUM, ILLUSTRATED WITH TWELVE HUMOROUS ENGRAVINGS, WILL BE PRESENTED TO tiiX PUBLIC GRATIS! 4 1' w I T uf THE SUNDAY TIMES, Of Sunday neat, Nov. 6. Agent for Liverpool, ARNOLD, Postoffice-place. THEATRE ROYAL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. BAKER. ON MONDAY EVENING next, the 7th instant, will be performed the Comedy of LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN. Gossamer Mr. W. toward. Bonus.. Mr Baker. _ _ _ Mrs. Mortimer Mrs. Baker. I Emily Miss Chaplin. i After which, by particular desire, the Farce of MR. AND MRS. PRINGLE. Mr. Peter Pringle ' Mr. Baker. Mrs. Pringle.. .Mrs. l 7 B iarke To conclude with the langhab Farce of the TURNPIKE GA E. Henry Blunt Mr. G. Horncastle. Crack Mr. Baker. Robeit Mavthorn Mr. Slaiter. Mary Mrs. W. H. Bland (late Miss Somerville,) Peggy Miss Chaplin. Tickets to be had from Mr. BAKER, 26, Norton-street, and from Mr. PA 1tf:17.12, at the Box-office of the Theatre, where places may be taken from ten till three o'clock. THEATRE-ROYAL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF J. C./PARKER. 130 X BOOK-KEEPER. (IN TUESDAY next, the Bth NoveMber instant, when will Nj be performed a favourite Play, and other Entertainments. Tickets to be had of Mr. PARKER, at the 13ox-office of the Theatre, from Ten until Three. THEATRE ROYAL. Adr lt. G. HORNCASTLE most respectfully announces his ITIL BENEFIT on WEDNESDAY EVENING next, the 9th instant, when will he performed the Comedy of THE WONDER ! / A WOMAN KEEPS A SECIIET. Don Felix.... Mr. Stuart I Colonel Britoti ....Mr. W. Howard Lissardo Mr. (Iv Horucastle, who will introduce an Aria Bufl'a, by Rossini, adapted by himself, called THE LIFE OF A VALET. Violante Miss Faucit Isabeth Miss Stanley Flora Mrs. Claike 1 leis Miss Chaplin After which, the Musical Farce of LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS. Written by the late Geo. Colman, Esq. Vigil.... Mr. Andrews 1 Totter. ton.... Mr. Granby Risk Mr. Baker I Solomon Lob Mr. Slaiter Captain Beldare Mr. G. Herneastle Lydia. Miss Stanley. To conclude with the favourite Mehi-Drama of ROBINSON CRUSOE ; OR, THE 801.0 BUCCANEERS. Robinson Crusoe.... Mr. Chaplin I Friday.... Mr. T. Ridgway Block....(with a Song)....Mr. G. Horncastle. N ipcheese Mr. Baker. Tickets to be had, of Mr. G. HORNCASTLE, 15, Williamson square. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter on the subject of " Whig Radical Impartiality and Love of Justice" shall be inserted in our next. We have not had time to examine the communication under the title of "Splendid Picture." The letter signed " Aufidius" has been received; but we must make material alterations in it before we can venture to pub lish it. " A True Conservative must excuse the non-appearance of his letter to-day. Matters of very pressing interest compel us to omit several ar ticles which are deserving of notice. A great number of let ters relating to the recent municipal election stand over until Tuesday. "A Ludicrous Scene at the Lyceum" requires a voucher. "A Ladies' Man" suggests that facilities should be afforded for the admission of ladies into the Amphitheatre on Tuesday next. We believe that the " Index Expurgatorius" may be seen at the Athenaeum. The vet ses of "A Young Conservative" will not suit us. Eibtrpool eStanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 4, 1836. When evidence of any fact comes from different and independent sources, it furnishes that kind of cumulative proof which brings the most satisfactory conviction to the mind. It is but a few days ago that we had the delightful task of recording the revival of conservative principles in the town of Liverpool, as evinced by two of the most numerous, most respectable, intelligent. and influential meetings ever assembled here ; and when it is again told, that, on that occasion, the sentiments of nearly 2,000 persons burst forth as with one voice in favour of those ancient and venerable institutions which have con ferred on England its political greatness, and on its peo ple personal liberty, protecting laws, a daily extending commerce, with all the concomitants of social comfort, and the intellectual elegancies of life, is it not a theme for exultation ? But we are still answered (for infatua tion has a tongue though no reason) that there is no re action. To demonstration therefore we again appeal. An opportunity has just occurred for the free expression of public feeling, and a scale, accurately graduated, has been applied to mark the rise or fall of conservative and destructive principles among us. On the election of 17 councillors, required by the provisions of the municipal reform bill, we are gratified by the following result :-8 are returned, firm pillars of the constitution, and 9 pio neers who are sapping its foundations. Had the same ratio obtained which existed at the previous election in 1835, conservatism would have found little more than one supporter, whilst radicalism would have rioted in nearly 16. How the municipal spirit falls! From little more than one, on this election, conservatism has risen to B—from 16, radicalism has fallen to 9 I and we may add, with the surface still depressed, as indicating further de clension. If we apply the scale to the number of voters not polled, as declared by the radical press, we find a still more exhilarating evidence of change. In the election of 1835, under the first chilling influence of the munici pal reform bill, the conservatives were 950 below freez ing point ; they are now 50 above it. The radicals were then at the point where " spirit boils." Where are they now ? At zero. Where will they be another veer ? Fixed like the ice-bound coast of Greenland, which no rays of the sun of radicalism will be able to melt again. Will it be said that this is no proof of reaction ? What other proof do they demand ? If they had such evidence of the increase of their ranks, they would trumpet it forth with intimidation loud enough to shake the land— and it is not less evidence because Conservatism, like Truth, rests quietly on the arm of her own righteousness. But the radicals, under the secret mortification of de feat, always endeavour to buoy themselves up with future hopes, and tell their deluded followers, as Don Quixote told Sancho Penn, when lie was almost beaten to mummy, of better things to come. One of those better things is the return of another radical member to parliament at the next election. Why, this is the desperation of mad ness, and resembles the expiring hope of the fallen an gels, who sought " courage in despair." The same prin ciples that have wrought this happy change in the municipal aspect of Liverpool, are the same principles that will prevail at a parliamentary election. Be the time distant or near, the character of Liverpool will, whenever that period arrives, be purged of that opprobrium, under which she now suffers, for sending a conservative mem ber, with giace upon his lips, to bless his country, and a radical member, with a withering blast, to curse the hap piness of the land. We cannot stoop to comment upon the disingenuous charges which rankling defeat has provokingly put forth in the columns of radicalism. Like the irritated scor pion they carry their own death in their tail. But one point may deserve a little notice. It appears from the representations of the radical journals, that almost half the number of voters for the town council of Liverpool have not polled! What an addition is this to the triumph of conservatism ! They who are not against ns are for way that common sense does not us. Explain it in any instantly repel, and what do es this silent language (this non-voting) proclaim ? What ! has the charm of muni cipal reform lost its fascination ? Is the spirit of radical ism " laid," as other troublesome spirits are said to be, quietly in the Red Sea !—or is radicalism that satisfying luxury that " a little more than a little is much too much." Have 2,497 voters exclaimed jam satis est u Oh, we would say to our friend s, and appeal to pasing events for verification, see how marked a contrast there is be tween yourselves and your opponents ! They have fed (though it was a hasty meal) to repletion; but ye " tem perate.in all things, " are like those, in whom it seems " as if increase of appetite had grown by _what it fed on." Nov. 4, 1836. The wholesome pabulum of sound constitutional princi ples never produces satiety. It is the very condition of error to find an end, though it may wander far—of pas sion to exhaust itself—but truth end virtue have a per durable existence; and though their course is never marked by violence, yet it is always seen to be progres sive. We would apply these reflections to the latent voters on this occasion—they have seen their error, and with prudence stop—excitement has expended ite fuel, and reason is restored. But let it be supposed, as, it seems to be by the radical press, that these 2,497 voters voluntarily dropped from their hands the exercise of their municipal privileges, because they felt reluctant to take a part in the heart-burning rivalry of their neighbours-- because they saw they could not vote without wounding the peace of one friend—sullying the fair character of ano ther—or breaking through many of those ties that hold close in harmony the social compact. Is this not an ho nourable feeling ? Would there were more of it ! But what does it speak of the municipal reform itself? Does it not place upon its head all these curses ? Is not this passive conduct the severest reprobation that bill could receive ? Is it not a practical denunciation of its prin ciples ? Yes, we say, let it be published throughout the land, that 2,497 voters in the town of Liverpool, from conscientious motives, relinquished all right and interest conveyed to them by the municipal corporation reform bill, and thus have virtually blotted it from the statute book. But is this remarkable reaction without any assignable motive ? Oh no. As clearly as any physical effect can be traced back to its efficient cause, this restoration of healthy principles in the public mind of Liverpool, ad mits of an easy and satisfactory explanation. Poisonous drugs are sometimes active remedies of corporeal dis ease, and the poison of infidelity, and of political insu bordination, sometimes work out, by their virulence, a moral depravity. " Who hath hardened his heart against God and prospered," even in temporal things ? Shall his " word" be under a human ban, and Providence n ot vindicate it ? Shall it be withheld from the tender minds of children, whom we are commanded to nurture' in its pure precepts, and no mark of Divine displeasure follow ? Shall it be mutilated at the caprice of man with impu nity ? " Cursed," says the inspired writer, "be he that addeth or taketh away from the words of this book ;" and shall we shut our eyes to the result because we cannot exactly follow the inscrutable hand of Him who causes it ? We call upon all who profess the name of' Chris tian, and who in truth and sincerity place their eternal hopes upon the promises of God as revealed in his word, to turn his eyes to our national schoolrooms. Where are those promising aspirants who once filled those half vacant forms ? What has so signally lowered the tone of that busy hum of studious childhood ? Where ate the thousands that were daily feeding upon spiritual truth, and qualifying themselves, under a correct discipline, for the future duties and destinies of life ? Where are they ? Has a plague visited our streets, or a pestilence carried away our offspring ? No ;—at least not the plague that assails the body—not " the pestilence that walketh at noon day," but that plague of unitarian or catholic in fidelity, which starves the soul—narrows the noblest principles of the heart, and takes away from man his re fuge and his consolation in the trying moment of distress, and in the awful hour of death. Ask the parents of those hundreds of protestant children which are now withdrawn from our national schools, why they forego the oppor tunity of providing them with education ? Oh, they will tell you, with tears in their eyes, that the fault is not theirs. They have the same solicitude for their children's welfare that they ever had, but they cannot consent to receive education at the expense of the religion of the bible ;—and, but let it not be told in Gath, that the pro testant bible is excluded, or rather extruded from the na tional schools of Liverpool ! ! Perhaps we shall not be believed when we acid, the melancholy truth, that with this rejection of the protestant bible, that first fruit of its' holy influence is also departed —prayer. Departed! nor' it is banished. This first leading of the infant mind to God is forbidden. But for the honour or the disgrace of our town let this sealing or this redeeming testimony be added. These things were not always so. Before the spirit of popery and unitarianism was infused into our councils, the pure, the entire bible was the fountain of religious instruction, and thousands drank of the refresh ing waters of inspiration. The spiritual spring has been since contracted, and the applicants fur admisaion (though this is called a national institution, and exists in a protest ant country) are not protestants, but eatholies. In one school, out of 835 pupils, there are but . 95 protestant children, whilst all the rest, amounting to 740, are the children of papists !! Is there any wonder why the pro testant bible is forbidden ? Would it not rather be a wonder if it were admitted ? Whilst we lament over this loss to the protestant rising generation, (to many irreparable,) and deplore' the un hallowed cause of it, we cannot help admiring and com mending the firm and conscientious principle of those parents who have determined, though with eh great a sacrifice, "to choose the good and refuse the evil." One cheering indication still points. to happier days. In the four wards most proximate to the national schools• viz., Scotland, Vauxhall, Pitt-street, and Great George street, conservative influence, that a year ago ,was at a low ebb, is now swelling with a full tide. In every one of these wards the late election has to record decided ma jorities in favour of conservative principles. In 1835 every one of these turned the scale in favour of radical ism. Has this corruption of school government not ef fected something ? But every ward is implicated in the question—" He who allows oppression shares the crime.' It is our duty to place the subject before you—it is your duty to act with decision, and if you be remiss in your endeavours to restore the protestant character to the na tional schools, it will not be easy to exonerate yourselves from guilt. We have but little space, and less inclination, to render " railing for railing," or we should have no dllll culty in replying to the vituperation of Mr. Hope. We had received documentary evidence of facts—we publish ed those facts, with such comments as they. naturally elicited ; but, assuredly, without any of that malignant feeling so uncharitably ascribed to us. We v a l ue the purity of our character, and hope never to soil it by personal slander. Where we see injustice, we shall fearlessly expose it ; but it will ever be with that candour which marks rectitude of intention. By an advertisement in our last paper it will be seen that Liverpool is about to be gratified withi 'protestan t meeting. We shall never forget the eloquence. of one of those meetings at Exeter-hall, London. Its thrills have scarcely subsided, though more than a year ha s passed over the first impression. They originated in the asceo'lant aspect, of PapacY' Political concessions had removed the weight which pressed down the spring of Papal revenge, arid that nt" changing spirit has given abundant proof that it bad los t nothing of its energy. To the shame of protestant' Britain, let it be proclaimed that almost every ne` l : moon for the last two years has shone upon a ye' s ' Catholic chapel. Schools and colleges are springing up in every direction, and the " powers of darkness." we re never more successfully, though insidiously, at w°l . ' than at present. If we love the altars at which our for e• fathers worshipped—if we love " the good news , of joy" which was to be " to all people," let us attest au zeal by giving our countenance to the .approaching meeting. KIRKDALE MICHAELMAS SESSIONS.—These sessions were held yesterday by adjournment at the Court-house, in Kirkdale, before the Rev. J. Brooks, chairman, Win. Edw ards, Esqi, of Lee, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq., Thomas Lyon, Esq. , f Formby, Esq., and several other magistrates. A number 0, gentlemen summoned on the grand jury were fined £5 for no n ' attendance, and considerable delay was occasioned by th e ,, l e tardy appearance, which was severely commented on by . tu chairman. In the delivering of his charge to the grand JurY: the chairman gave it as his opinion that the practice of ernploY log counsel to plead for prisoners under the p r isoners' cou nse g bill would soon fall into disuse, as be though t t h e wa tching au the court over a trial as it proc eeded, to sew that no unfair' , vantage was taken, was equally efficient. He also hl.ol;fr approved of the new law for the commut ation of tithes, as like!, in its results to do away with the continual ,disputes between the people and their spiritual teacher s, which were now con tinually occurring. The calendar contains upwards of foytY_ charges of felony and six of mis demeanour. No cases of portance came on during the day. Towards the close of 0 6 , day the grand jury found a true bill fo . r misdemeanorir against u n reeaarn Sutton,s Mr. James Muspiatt, of Liverpool,.,tor creating, a nuisance. 1 0 . 3 1 ofhis evxithriaollinwg-onrkos;iosiutsuagtaesdseisn the parish of Winwicit.