The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. C.H. will find his sogzei-ti ,, iis attended to. Th • for ,er part of his letter we it publish u okillyrnous autriorAy. XZ. V% ill our r. rr Sp Went faviini us with a c4ll We have no fear of '; rangerne, t .satisfactoi y to him. We have received s •veral comoniic.4tious on the , uject at present ir. agthtl ri :,erween the , ia.;istratcs and the 14ate.i cuinrnittee a e of);iged tor the hints. THE IRISH SFATE TRIALS. The Attorney-Geaeral having on Saturday concluded his reply to the argumt-nts of the 'iraversers' Counsel . fu a new trial, the judgement qf the court, which it was expected would be pronounced yester day, is of course looked for with grea: anxiety. We have made arrangements . for publishing an early Second Edition, which we expect will be ready by 'qock, giving the whoee proceedings in co erday. amt itibtrpool klaizst'sarti. TUESDAY 11101ThiNG, MAY 7, 1844. We have the painful duty of aanouncing the sudden and unexpected death of the Hon. R. Bootle Wilbraham, \l I.'. for the southern division of this county, some particulars of which will be found in another column. An able and an estimable man, a sound Conservative and Churchman, and a zealous and faithful representative, has gone from amongst us; and we may go far, perhaps, before we find one worthy, in private life or in public, to fill his place. In Parliament Mr. Wilbrahatn never was distin guished, or sought to be distinguished, as a speaker; but his usefulness was perhaps not the less on that account. His parliamentary attendance was con stant ; and his vote, in support of the great inte rests of Conservatism, always to be depended upon. It was in furthering the private business of his constituents, however, that his value as a represen tative of this important district was most conspi- From his place in private committees he was rarelfabsent, and always unwearied in his devo tion of time, and talent of no common order, to the interests of this county. To those uho have ever had to wait upon him as members of deputations, or who have watched his career, no words of ours are necessary to exalt his merits or to extol his un varying affability and kindness, which will be ac knowledged equally by men of every political party. cuous. By this lamented event, a vacancy will occur in the representation of South Lancashire; and so short may be the interval allowed between the present time and an election, that we are compelled, against our feelings, to take this opportunity of urging upon our Conservative friends the necessity of prompt arid vigorous steps to prevent even the possibility of a radical being foisted into the seat. The League, they may depend upon it, will fight hard for victory in this central seat of their agitation. There will be no lethargy on their side—no hesita tion to dip deeply into the stock purse, or, if neces sary, into the long pockets of its influential mem bers. Conservatives must, therefore, be up and doing. A VIGOROUS PULL; and, despite offaction and League gold, there is loyalty and intelligence in South Lancashire sufficient b defeat their efforts, and seat as its representative A SOUND CONSRR- VATIVE. We are informed that a candidate will be promptly before the constituency, whose eminent knowledge of commercial and agricultural affairs will invite all Conservatives in the effort to secure his return. Let the electors KEEP THEMSELVES UNPLEDGED, BE ACTIVE AND VIGILANT, AND LANCASHIRE'S CONSERVATIVE REPRESENTA TION IS STILL UNBROKEN We refrained at first from entering our protest against the principle of the bill now before Parlia ment, entitled " the Dissenters' Chapels' Bill," be cause we never conceived it possible that such a measure, so repugnant to churchmen and to the mass of protestant dissenters throughout the king dom, could have been seriously entertained by a Conservative government, or had the slightest chance of receiving the sanction of the House in which it bas originated. That bill has, however, been broaght forward, with the whole weight of government in fluence to support it, and the eloquence and talent of the Lord Chancellor to urge it forward; and having already been committed without a division, there exists now no moral doubt of its passing the upper house, and scarcely any, we fear, of its pass ing into a law. Against such a consummation, late though it may be, and hopeless its results, we feel bound to enter our protest and that of every Pro testant, of whatever denomination, and however differing in non-essential forms. We protest against it, as a sop thrown to appease the cravings of infidelity, and as a measure alike unjust and impolitic. What is it that this bill proposes to effect ? Pious trinitarian dissenters, in times past, have devised money, and in times to come will doubtless continue so to devise, for the endowment of chapels, meeting houses, schools, &c., in which religious instruction is to be imparted in the tenets of the various founders, such tenets being recognized and toler ated by law. A large number of these endowments have, in process of time, passed into the hands of parties holding other opinions than those of the founders—opinions which those founders held in abhorrence. Some hundreds of such endowments are at this moment held by unitarians—the property of pious believers in the Trinity perverted to the use of a sect which denies the divinity of the Saviour l— and upon an appeal to the law, as in the case raised respecting the disposal of Lady liewley's property, it has been decided that such disposal must be in accordance with the intention, so far as it is discoverable, of the parties endowing. Against the carrying into execution of the salutary principle contained in such decision, the provisions of Lord Lyndhurst's bill oppose themselves. To prevent litigation, forsooth, we are not to ask whether wrong has been committed—whether property, left for the maintainance of places of worship in which the religion of the Bible shall be taught, has been per verted from its original uses to provide for the teaching of Socinian or Infidel doctrines—but to ask only "is such wrongful perversion of thirty years standing ? " And, if so, we are to give the sanction of the law to that perversion We are to legalize robbery, if the authors of such robbery have been for thirty years in possession of its fruits ! We are to go entirely upon prescription; to leave out of view the most material consideration, viz :—whether a charitable request is being used in consonance with,the intention of the party bequeathing, or for the furtherance of religion and morality, and consider only whether the perversion of such be quest to purposes beyond, and perhaps totally op posed and repugnant to his principles and wishes, has been sanctioned by thirty years of blind tolera tion on the part of those for whose use it was origi nally designed, or of fraud on the part of those seeking its wrongful enjoyment. We will not go at any length into a consideration of the clever anti plausible, although we regret that we must add Jesuitical, arguments by which this monstrous principle is defended by Lord Lyndhurst. There are some three hundred cases, in which be quests, for the use of Trinitarian dissenters, have been appropriated by Unitarians, and in which ac tions are threatened; and to prevent expensive liti gation, by which the amount of these various be quests may possibly he eaten up, Lord Lyndhurst would confirm such amount in the hands of its pre sent wrongful owners ! We care not, however, for this expediency view of the question. We ask what must be the result of such a measure as this, not only with respect to existing rights but to the deter mination of future bequests of a similar character. How are we to be assured that property left for religious purposes may not, under such a state of the law, come to he applied for the spread of Social ism and other forms of infidelity ? You have only to go throu , h the successive stages, from 'l'rinitari anism to Arianism, and from Socinianism to utter infidelity, with sufficient caution to excite no un timely alarm on behalf of the parties who might claim as the representatives of the parties originally meant to be benefitted, or whose principles were to be inculcated at the expense of the foundation, to gain for any set of theorists, or enthusiasts, or worse, a legitimate and well-established title to such pro perty. And how does this bill provide against excessive litigation ? Why, in fact it offers a daily stimulus ' to such litigation. Under such a measure there ' must be, , amongst those enjoying such bequests, as the Bishop of London assumed with great justice, a continual watchfulness of every expression dropped by preachers, which might be construed into erro neous doctrine —a continual jealousy lest forbear ance might lead to the ultimate establishment of such error. And hence continual litigation, and that of the most perplexing and expensive kind ; viz., litigation to decide doctrinal points. There could he no peace under such a measure, which was ' not accompanied by utter insecurity of justice. ' But the most painful feature connected with this ' measure remains to be considered. What are we to consider of a government which, for a mere purpose of expediency, is thus willing to barter, not only justice —not only equity—but PRINCIPLE; which is content to hand over some hundreds of religious foundations, established for the propaga tion of the pure faith of the Gospel, to the hands of men hostile to Christianity, and denying the God head of the Redeemer ? What security can there be for the Church itself—what security can there be for Protestantism, or for a Protestant Monarchy—. under such a government? Alas—alas! We are fallen upon strange tunes ! Now, what is the duty of English Protestants— of English Churchmen—with respect to this bill? It is true the question involved affects only, or most materially, the Protestant Dissenters of the empire, a portion of whom, the Calvanistic Independents, a correspondent of the London limes declared the other day were a less estimable religious body than the Unitarians themselves! But is there no prin ciple at stake here, in defence of which Churchmen ought to rally side by side with their Protestant, though dissenting, brethren ? There is, and a great principle, too. We have to decide whether the law is to give its direct sanction, in this case of the dissenters, to the appropriation of funds, devised for religious uses, to the diffusion of irreligion and in fidelity ; and, the first step permitted to be taken, who can say whore it may stop—whether it may not in time violate the sanctity of the Established Church itself? We have given elsewhere our opinions upon the subject, which is just now causing such a ferment amongst the magistrates and the members of the Watch Committee; and should certainly not have noticed it in these columns had we not deemed it necessary to correct the statements in some remarks which appeared in a Conservative contemporary of Wednesday last, and which misrepresent the ques tion now before the public and the authorities. In performing this duty we of course acquit the Courier of any wilful perversion of facts. The following are the remarks to which we allude, and which occur in an article defensive of the conduct of the magistrates, and especially of the Mayor and the Stipendiary, in the case of the recent movement upon the subject of Orangeism in the police force : " A question which is likely tl excite some attention ha 4 just ar'..en out of the full wing einuin-uances. The Rev. Mr. Parker, one of the Raman Catholic priests in this town, complmiited. it ai pats, to the municipal authorities that on the occasion of the last Orange pro cession certain members of tie tome, who are also hers of Or..nge ocii-tie, stopped bofore his h,,ur. and gave vent to their feelings in opprobrious and t,ffensice language." Now had anything of the nature, here said to have been complained of by Priest Parker, in reality occurred, we should have at once acknow ledged that the prompt expulsion of the offending parties from the police force was loudly called for . But no such thing ever did occur. No such thing has ever been said to have occurred. There has been no " last" or first "Orange procession" in this town ; antl no procession in which " certain members of THE FORCE, 'who are also members of Orange societies, stopped before Mr. Parker's house and gave vent to their feelings in opprobrious and offensive language." It has never been attempted by any other journal, however rabidly opposed to Orangeism, to impute such outrageous conduct to the persecuted Orange members of the police force; and it is rather an ukkind rut that the first utterance of such a charge should come from a Conservative and friendly organ. In his anxiety to defend she purity of motive which has actuated the Mayor in this business — and which has never been impugned—our contem porary goes on to argue the whole question; and although we commenced with an intention only to deal with the Courier's facts, we cannot resist no ticing such puerilities as the following : • " Now, apart from the animal' wAi.h may hare led to these . proceedings—and in that aninstp, we are sure our excellent Chief Magistrate fins nor part , iiiated—we do not see mu .h t:f fit d fault with in it. Connexion with an Orange society ou the ine side, or with a Ribbon society on the other, is 'mitt r , rlly recopised Hs a mark of strong religious and plrc d opinion. And the character of a partisan is ohylott-h inco .soot rit with the duties of a policeman. The .o-r , pie-ence of a,l Orange policeman among a body of Irish Roman Catholics would be calculated to excite distui !lance rather to t ► prts •rye the peace, as would the pr -once of a R bboo, voreeman among a body of ('rats. men. To r. quire tat they should belong to n-it holy therefore o, ly to exact from them th it der e of neutra , ity which is necessary to the efficient dischaige of their duties. It is tot, as we judge, any interference with either political or religious liberty." We must protest, in the first instance, against the parallelism assumed throughout these proceedings between an Orange society and a Ribbon society. The fortneemay be, as the Courier style s ;t, a so. ciety of men holding " strong religious and political opinions;" the latter is a society br►nded together for the purposes of murder and midnight outrage. Orangemen contain amongst their body men of rank and property, and are more than tolerated by those who are not members Of their body ; but who ever heard of a respectable Ribbonnian ? who ever heard of a man that dared to confess himself a Ribbonman ? Why so atrocious is the character and practices of this society that it is denounced, and sought to he put down, by the most futious of the agitators and the most Ingotted of the priesthood of the land in which it holds its secret and blood thirsty orgies ; and our contemniirat), who is quickwitted enough in ordinary, might surely have seen that, in the ban sought to be directed against Orangeism, he name of Rihbonism was only asso ciated to draw down upon loyal men, holding, mayhap, " strong religious and political opinions," a portion of the execration which is due to men combined together, as are Ribbonmen, for purposes of treason and outrage. But the Courier goes on to inform us that " the mere presence of an ()range policeman among a body of Irish Roman Catholics would be calculated to ex cite disturbance, rather than to preserve the peace, as would the presence of a Ribbon policeman among a body of Orangemen" —a discovery which of course goes upon the assumption that neither can go amongst a body of friends or opponents without proclaiming his Orange or Ribbon membership; and he deduces from such premises the conclusion that " to require that they (policemen in general) should belong to neither body is therefore only to exact from them that degree of neutrality which is necessary to the efficient discharge of their duties." Really, really, this is sad twaddle; and we hope, for the credit of the magistracy, that they have some better ground for their proceedings than any that the Courier suggests. The presence of a Connaught member of the force in a Connaught and Munster faction fight, would be calculated to increase the row rather than q -ell it, as the Connaughtman's trunchion might possibly, by a kind of instinct, dis charge itself exclusively against Munster craniums, Vice versa" of a Munster member of the same force. Again, the men of the " black north," it is well known, are not in very good odour with the " ille gant" peasantry of the south; Repealers, and even Roman Catholics, are not upon very excellent terms with loyal Protestants—(by the bye, we have not heard a word in this matter upon the eligibility or non-eligibility of men who have been art and part in the offences for which Daniel O'Connell and his co-conspirators have been convicted by a jury•of their countrymen !) Any of these opponent classes coming in collision, the one armed with authority and the other riotous and disorderly, might not lead to very pacific results; and we must therefore come to the conclusion, inevitable upon the Courier's pre mises, that Irishmen, of whatever creed or shade of politics, should be declared incapacited for the "efficient discharge" of police duties ! It is singular that we never heard a word of this pace philosophy until now. It is more singular still to find a Conservative organ first broaching the doctrine of religious or political disability. Bye and bye, and to be consistent, we must go the whole length of maintaining that policemen ought to he men of no religion and no principles; and some philosopher may in time solve all our difficulties by the construction of a steam automaton police—pro bably cast-iron ones, to save the wear and tear of clothing, as they could he kept clean and tidy with the aid of a coat of paint once a year. Why not cast-iron policemen as easily as cast-iron clergymen. (of whom we have heard) in an age so fertile in in vention as the present ? THE FUNDS: SATURDAY NIGHT.—The English se curities continue flat, and the business of the market was n.-cessatily limited in consequence of the early hour of closing the market on Saturdays. Consols for money and the amount left off 994 to Three per Cents. Re duced, 984 to 4; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1014 tog; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1024 ; Long Annuities. 12 7-16th ; Bank Stuck, 194 to .196 ; India Stock. 286 to 288 ; and Exchequer-bills, 75 to 77 premium. In the foreign market there was no great change, as the general state of quotations will show. Spanish Three per Cents. left off 35 to ; the Five per Cents.. 244 to 4 ; Danish, 88 to 83; Dutch Two-avid-a- Half per Cents., 61 to 4; the Five per Cents., 1004 to 4 ; Mexican, 354 to ; the Deferred, 154 to 4; Peruvian. 29 to 30; Portucu se Convert. d, 444 to 454 ; Buenos Acres, 35 to 37; Chitati, 102 to 104 ; Colombian. 144 to 15 ; Brazilian, 80 to 81; and Belgian, 1014 to 1024. THE ORANGEMEN.—The following letter, dated 26th ult., from the District Master of the Loyal Orangemen to James Arpinill, Esq., was read at the last meeting of the Council :—" In answer to your further inquiry of yester day, I beg to state, the procession on Easter Monday Was not an Orange procession, as such ar, diametrically op rased to our rules, and would not be c .iuntenanced by the authorities of our body. I find there was one Orange man in that procession, who has since then been suspended by the order for taking any part th,r,in." Our readers may have seen or heard of a paragrai,h, which appeared in smie Trac , ariars publication, stating that the Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel had written a litter to the students of St. David's College, with a view to induce them to withdraw from the Established Church. AlthouAll we differ from this estimable clergyunait on some points, we could scarcely bring ourselves to bell ve that this statement, though put forth with so much cotaletice, was correct. On enqu.ry we are hippy to announce, that the whole story is a fabricati n front beginning to end. .lad such a project ever been enterraned by any one, Mr. Noel, we a e authorized to Awe, would have given the weight of his influence to cp,;ose it. - - THE WEATH RR, during the past week, has again been clear, sunny, and del ghtful ; and the I ountry is rapidly assuming her verdant summer gar•. The field rops in this neigitbourtiood generally, iiidred almost universallY, appear to be most heal by and p►oinis'ng. but the long droui.ht has retarded the " bu'k " of toliage that woad otherwise have appeared. The grass and wh at are never theless becoming thick on the around, and a day or two's mild rain w►►uld do wonders both on farina and gardens— in which last there is a fine show of fruit bliis,oin, which it is not likely will now be injured by night frosts. The barometer has frequently fatten a little, now aiol then, durng the last ten days, but has almost as rapidly risen to about "set fair." There is, however, at the time of our writing (yesterday evening) a gathering of mutts that portend a seasonable and desirable downfall. -• THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.—At the la , t monthly meeting of this society, Mr. D. %Odle read the first part of a most We paper on " Flame, and its practical telati in to held, heat, and smoke, with especial rekrenee to the ccnnbustion of coal," which he illustrat-d by diagrams and tables, to the great satisfaction his audience. The sec nd and concluding part of his suhj,- , ct ail be d to the members and visitors on Tnes.lay next, and io our publication of that day we , - , k we shall endeavour to supply an abstract or condensation of the whole. Our scient fic readers aho have not yet atteoci , d the-e meet ings vi °slid, we feel asitired, be match gist :fled by a visit, and ail member has the pritikge if in , rot:ieing a stranger. Th obja ct of the society is t a proint,te the advanc , m .nt of n , w inventions, diseuveoies, and improvement:, 10 every hrtnch of practical scient.e, and esp..cially to elicit native talent. DRATH OF THE HON. 8.. B. W ILBRATIAM. it i. with re2r,t we have to announc , t,e deal It of he -t , ove 11 , 111. gentlemen. whoexpired on Sunday of (-mm, that ti•itlhee's,de;in. a ifi t o s rt i i n a i n i dm: Undo'. z' i c d l o o r (l ,. k , l e l t e L un or d d en S t k a e n i !rased had been unwell for s one dabs previous ; but, 'is illness was considered merely attack of influenza. nl, consequently, not the least danger was appre iended either by his medical attendants or relatives. ['he decease(' was the eldest eon of Lord Skelmersdalel ind bother o' Lady Stanley: Ile wits horn the 27th' if than er, 1801, and mat tied the 22d of May, 1832. i Jessey Brooke, th . rd daughter of Sir Richard B• Hoke, Bart., by whom he leavts several.thildren. Lord Skelitiersdale, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord anley, Mr. T. and Lady Charlotte Egerton, and other fomilies of rank are placed in mourning hi" the demisel if the hnn. gelid, man. In 1835 he was returned to the' House of Commons for South Lancaeh re. which county to has ruccessively represented ill Parliament, in con junction wi , h Lord Francis Egerton, to toe time ot his ;mewed decease. THE STATE PROSECUTIONS. — What is follow the judg , oent of the Court in the n w pending ap t liestion for a new trial, remains a prufound mystery, save to tie cim spirators and their agents. And it n ust go v.•ty hard indeed with these enterprisiog gentlemen, supposing that the present motion g agarist them—an event not very imp ottable—if in the chapter of accidents something do not turn up th it may help to vvarl off null next term at last the 1 nig•protraeted sentence of the court. The Evening Mrq a tys, in reference to proceedings in ittfuro— " As it is understood that the Court M.B not been in the least shaken in its original deriso y the speeches (for thy c.se was not arguable) delivered by ct uns.l, and as. therefore, no time for deldleratims would be necessary, judgment might be p:ottounced on Monday, and fillet sett truce pass d '1 uesday. Anti so they would, were this an ordinary case, and any per, on other than Mr. O'Connell the convicted Drab/. But there is now a threat of a motion in arrest of judgment—one that will doubt less, be carried itt. effect —at.d a boast--chit of course wtll e attempted to be re aliz-d—of the argumet.t upon that point oecuoying the entire of next term, as tha.' ," the ew trial nonsTheleil 'lie whole of ih's. The' poet's of the Queen's Bench ate ron , wrvators . ()ft ep.iblii' They are 111:0 tits era of the pub is time; and it is their duty to prevent the whole bosiness of the whole c..tnitty oe , i , ainii g at a s and-t 11. and the interests of suitors b rug disttoy .1. while lawyers are Patti. and not by Ur. validity, but by the let gth o 1 their argu • meat.—the rent-chest of tile Corn-exchange being the ext hetpier whence their fe.s are drawn. One of cu•iar too• ince. of their lordships is to prey ot the from he t:notylit rotiostr• t fhe law an d ma di apen „ti n justice NV.. be!. ea I att , ntion t the a‘lvertise nen; • f ' ridicule or contempt.' 'he Chinch NltsSl , iiiary Society.— We are happy to I. aro 100 the iv e tow,- o r , t h e occas i on of the attormteiong attni.er sary will be held in th e C o ll eg i ate lostoutio t. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE MAGISTRATES, THE TOWN COUNCIL AND THE ORANGEMEN. The meeting of the To am-Council on Wednesday last throws a little more light than we had pretioosly upon the proceedings of the author tit s with respect to the seven members of Orange beiiefit societies, who have been dis covered to belong to the Liverpool Police Fiore; and, vy , must say, the disclosur, made do not very materially prove the Lit sition o' he L•agisti ay. What is it taw, is urged in defence or the proceedings ef that body, a id in mitigation of the charge ht•ought against them of having slighted, by the c:mrse with they ad 'pied, the Watch Committee oF the Gan.. I? It was explained by the Mayor t a Vie whol • affair, so tar as regards the qu-s- Lion of ()rang -Ism to the police-force, originated out of a procession, " said to he at Oran'te procession ;" an I which has proved, to use the la iguage of Mr. Henry Lawrence, to have been " a pat. y pracession of a few lads, with yellow ribbons and a cracked drum." With the fact of such a procession having taken place, as his cue, the Stipendiary M igistrate bustled to the Mayor. w th a face fall of horror doubtteas, and teade to him "certain representations;" ho what were these we know not. We van only gu sa that they were representations which had beer , conveyed to biniself by the late Head Constable, Mr. Whitty, to the eff.•ct that there were a large number of Orangemen connected with the police-foree. The Mayor sent for the Tawn-Clerk to share and advise -.hit him upon the important representations t:f the Stipen diary ; and, haying so consulted w'th the Law Officer of the Council, suggested, very pr •perly, that they should communicate with the Watch Committee. So tar, then affairs were conducted quite regularly ; and had the May or's suggesti on b een a d opted, t h e i n j ur i ous collision which has since arisen between the Watch Committee and the Magistracy w .old hate been avoided. But su:•h straightforward course was not that advised by Mr. Rhshron and the Town-Clerk. " The objection they had "—we quote the Mayor's words as rep"rt d —" was s;nl3) , tips: they thought the matter might be kept perfectly quiet, and do a- in a qaiet way (I) They did not think it wool.' be necessary even to consult the bench of Magistrates" (I I) So far then, by his worship's own showing. :io question had arisen as to conflicting jurisdictions, between the Watch Committee and the Bench. That body was not to be asked to lend the sanc tion ~f their authority to any cows which na•got b.• adopted; but, in a quiet way, Mr. Edward Roshion, was to assume the powers of a Fouche, the Mayor's room w s to be converted into a bureau of secret police, and the community was to he astounded by some sub master stroke of policy as was wont, in the days of the Empire, to startle France and the world ! But it will be aslted—what, during al) this time and all this awful secrecy, had the questi , :n of Orangeism in th. police force, to do with the •' paltry proce.sion of lath, . . with yellow ribbons and a cracked drum "—the fl'S'lmeti origin of the moveni,nts of the Mavor, the Stioentl - arv. and the Town-Clerk ? Ila l a..y one of the seven Orange policemen neg.ected t t enf ire • order on the occasion of the procession in question ? We have never heard that such was the tact ; and had it been, we should have heard of it soon enongh. We assume, then-f . ..r0, that no sacti neglect had occurred, and proceed with the doings of our secret tribunal. Mr Whitey, Mr. Miler, and Mr. Dowling were sum moned to its nreseoce. ant directed to make such ingoirif-s as should en .ble the stipendiary and the Mayor —nat the magistrates. mi .d—to detect the turfor 'rode parries who were to b quietly done for. Bur, ! be , re such con summation c ,u1:1 he eff-rterl, the wi.ol.i affair got out ! The Mayor would have us infer tl,a this unfortunate eon r temps oc-nr red owing to the ins , rucii nis given to Mr. Whitty and Mr. Mill r being laid before the Watch Com mittee; and a contempor.iry declares that the proceedings in the Mayor a room, which shoul I have been kept as "A POLICE SECRET"(!)—from whom?—would never have been divulged bat her -he c'rcanis‘ance of Mr. Harhorki, a member of the Ora rge orde-, being also a member of the 1.% etch Conitoiitr,e! That bosh these conclusions are erroneous, we know; and in fact that they are so, is self evident. Mr. Whitt had inform-d the seven men them s-Ive., and. we bel eve, the whole torre, of the resolution to which the Mayor and st uendiary had corne—(that Oraruemen were ineligible tor the situation of police constah'es) —some days before the Watch Committee knew that anything of the kind was in agitation. Why should the Watch Committee fly tin in indignation, if, whist quietly, the proceedings of the Mayor and stipen diiry had been regularly conducted, and Mr. Whitty's instructions recorded at the time in the proceedings of that committee? Upon this part of the defence—f.r as such it appears to he given—we feel assured thrt we need say no more; and with respect to the disclosure of the great " police secret" by Mr. Harbord or any member of the Watch Committee, it was kri ,, wn to our elves. and, we venture to say, to the Mercury as well, (who appears to have been well primed as to what was goitigon.) before either Mr. Harbord or any other member of the civil mittee knew a word about the matter! The doings in . the Mayor.'s .room, and the " Police Secret" of Mr. Whiity, having transpired we need not descrihe the alacrity with whicii the m.tjoiity of the ma gistrates (who were themselves, in the first instance not to have been consulted) ruseed to aid with thetrauthin sty the Mayor and Mr. Rushton, and thus brought to a full head the very pretty quarrel in which they bad got them selves involved with the Wtech Committee. Knowing as we do the materials of which that bench is in a great part composed, we are not surprised at finding that Mr. Rishton's conduct received their sanction ; but it does strike us with some little si,rpr's- to see the names of one or two cooservaiive gentlemen recorded, as the unenqui ring regiair rs of Mr. Rushton's or any body's decrees. If Mr. Ru-bton's secret police bureau had thought it po 1-tic and prudent to act, without the concurrence or knowledge of the Watch Committee, there was no earthly reason. secrecy being no longer necessary, for persisting in the course of slight towards that holy which ha-I been oriiinally and unfortunately adopted ; and we cannot but think that, on reflection, the gentlemen in question will be dissatisfied with their silent acquiescence in the pro ceedinls of th- Radical msjority. We are quite disposed to acquit the Mayor of any desire to outstretch the authority of his office, sir to shew any want of attention to tee Watch Committee, throughout this affair. He wished to have communicatr d with that body. But it is not at all clear that Mr. Rushton and the T.iwn•clerk can be excused so eas - ly. Both these offic al parties appear to have set themselves above, not only the Watch Committee but the bench as *el; and this c ticlusion is not at all weakened by the explanation of the Town-clerk, that the Watch Committee were to be communicated with "at the proper tune." Their pur pose was—and would have beets carried eut if the " police secret" could have beets well kept,—fi•st, quietly to pro nounce the law, and then quietly to weed tie force; and then, po-s b!y, the empty compliment would have been paid of informing the Watch Committee of their proceedings. Tnat such project was nit su •cess'ul, and the cottimitt-e retidered merely the recording holy of the presiding genius of the police-con t, we have to thank the able stand mode against the encroachment meditated upon their powers by Messrs. Aspinall, Harbord, Turner, and other of its members, which we are happy to see adequately appre ciated by the major ty of the Couticil. Whatever may he the opinion of the authorities to he consulted, with respect to the legality or illegality of the Orange oiler, and the el gibility of memb: rs of that body to situations of public trust. we are confident that the expression of public opinion which has already be- n elicited, will pre vent any fur her attempts of the bench, or a sin Ale, but eminent, memb -r of it, to arrog ite an auttio&y wh'ch, if they do possess, which we donor, might be wielded with out the very injurious result of weakenme, by outward ant delibe ale sl.ght, the moral influence and ti.iisequent, usefulness of a body, to whose labours the public of Li. verimol are sn deeply indebted. A few words, with res. ,ect to the outcry which has been raised against Mr. Hari - ion!. as a member of the Vatch as ,ain improper m em. n C o o t m t m h e i Committee 1 1 1 54 , sits. t t r h r e . I t lf e time is er erroneously o i u n b fl i u y elt3lTireldo—ffiocfe ther— Let r v'' d as t to highlye t; Orange Order. It .as urged by Mr. Itatlilione, at the mem ber eo e rru e . ; :f n csi g tui hc o ech f )11rnm t hte,eaetrbnc.,,ho.alngdcil:v,ot Committee. a ttqm t , r e mwi s t , ,r, e: t dehH.a and i dh t t pr a o n p y os m e en tt tb e er o o p f in t io h n e wh'ch Mr Rathhone thus volunteers d, in his capacity of magistrate, as a resolution in the Council ; and, if he succeed in the effort to carry it, he sill earn the adulation of the Mercury, and—the indignation of the Council. With this challenge we take leave of the subject. MERCURIAL Ef.EGANCIES & AMIABILITIES. Our very excellent contemporary, the Mercury, is just now in anything but a sweet temper, which we are com pelled, in candour, to attribute to the rapid decline taking place in the number of his advertisements and in his circulation, and the increase of those of two or three of his contemporaries,—our own paper in especial. We are the more irresistibly driven to this conclusion from the tact that all, or at least the principal proportion , of his ire is dirt•cred against those contemporaries. We give a few specimens of the tlegancies with which he bespatters us. in chit he tacttioosly st)les his notes " To Corres pondents," hut what the world might sppropriatay call " Grunts from the Mercurial stye." We quote verbatim, and in older. • 3 he Crescent tiny tory asks—" Our half brother of Liter Court"— The conductor of a shameful paper"— Tne veracious Mail"— " The Crescent tory"— • " Our fiend of the Courier"—(Our friend is not ma terially damaging the Mercurial property, and hence, per• hap. his being let down so easily and with so sweet a name.) Th sz are but the titular insolencies of which the spleen of a failing organ vents itself. The insolence of remark is infinitely ',tore disgusting and indecent. The conduc tors of a pint acknowledged to be the 1 , apt talented in Liverpool, ,•r in Lancashire,—whose influence is solely in Ho.ops to let", " Situation. , uaoted," and " Wanted a maid of all work," &c.,—ought to be more modest. EARLY CLOSING —We are glad to 'perePive that the boot-makers are about to adopt the now almost general system of arty r losing. GRAND CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AMPIITTHEATRE. —A grand concert is antiouixed for to-morrow evening at the Royal Amphitheatre, under the patronage of the Worship:til the Mayor. It is fo the benefit of Miss HamiLon, of the Ph•lharmonic Concerts, a highly ta -1440 and deservirg young is y, who has for this occa sion, engagiged. at a great expense, a coostellation ot talent. instrument 1. as meil as vocd. Am , ngst the •' stars" viii a-pear the ! . ar famed Herr Ernst, tile greatest t-f the day; Sign Palt..ni, of ihe Lahti') Opera Hon. . London; Mr J R eves, from the Theatr. IL Y 4l . D u. y • 14ne ; Mts. pianiste; Mr. S. Per fiats!, t.nd many tavourite 've,-e• torm Mr. ‘4 , rge will I reeide vt toe want), Hun i. is lull) a i, , a•ekt that the entertainment will be a rich treat tt. he irflisical world. LOCAL LITERATURE. We gite the f•llowing selectim s from Punch in Liver pool, No. 3. PuNcH's FASHIONS FOR LIVFRPOOL.—Ci.a's for ge,thanen a. e tilts season worn ov•-r the waistcoats, and give an extraordin,, y elongation to the baek. They are ut'oti , d hetme, i•xci-pt when confined by studs. As a sunst . tot• for gloves the back puckers are e)censively d, which has the advai tare of conc,aling tue naked digits, and at the same ti ott of allowing a glance at the deer-al formation, which is worn a little protruded for toe I , mpo.e. Slops, Chest-rfields, and Down-the•ft.ads are se:noted—the prrre.•'s devil suggests spouted—far this season, except where the tine quality and preservation itt the under glt meeits are modestly sought to be concealed. From fr.-bugs of phiomthrn y, no do iht, to encourage the distressed artisans of Brummagrui—tPunch adop's here the pronunciation of Lord Brougham)—jewellery is ex'ensively worn in the cravats and on t fingers; and where the latter is the c se, one hand only is worn in the hark coat pocket, which mode has th- disadvantage of disclosing only one-half of the dorsal extremity. Punch may remark that the riding whip, carrie I in the hand adorned with jewilery, is very grace'u! ; and appropriate especially for gentlemen who ride only in °nimbuses or the packets, LADIES FASHIONS are out of Pu irh's line, and will be expounded by Mrs. Judy, frolic. her Mercurial establish ment 'n Lord-strt-et. MARKKTS.—Ships have been very slow of sail during the p rsr seek, steamers having been ihe only kind amongst which there I -a been any great movement, owing to the calm prevailinz in the market. Lead is heavy. particu. 1-.rly pigs, cf which gre-it numbers are anivi .g front Ireland. Cot Its are buoyitit, and Guinness's toi 'er corks owing io ti e warn weather, are pit tie lirly lively. Cork •ole+ may be sail to he shelved 'or the season. Paper Is statioaary, except some Standard sorts, which go off readily Brimstone is just now a drug, and treacle dull. II h.iugh we ha% e had a hole demand for both this seas fr. m the Yorksh're schools. Yi how ochre ai.d cinder, have been taken if extensively for agricultur 1 purposes, in lieu of guano, which is vet y sea , ce 'n the market. Soot has fall n elnsiilera ly within the last few days; but although clouds have presented a lowering aspect, Punch has to rei o d no tall in rain.—lii shares we have bad little doing. Birkenhead Dock+ have been mentioned, but nothing done in them. All kinds of rails are steady, ;Ind maintain their position of list week, .vith the excep tion of Chester and B rkenheiid, which were much gone upon on Wednesday and Thursday, at increased prices. stat,d-tips being s 11 at the rate of first-class. In banks there is no change—Burbo and West Hoyle remain as b-fire. DtsTtiEsslNG CAst.—Punch feels it his painful duty :0 infrn - i his friends, that the Old Church cluck is still rawell, bring as yet unable to strike. Itt complains of ;rea panes in hi, tact.; arid from the cireum-tance of two . „ or three I irge red spots appearing upon it every evening, which move about in a circular direction, Punch suspects the presence of St. Anthony's fire, although he is unable t o state precisely the com► Tint Of the sufferer, notwi►h s'anrding he has studied Clockology ever since he knew what time it was. Friday, 3d M , y.—The clock is somewhat better, having recoverA his voi, e. Saturday, 4th Ilay.—The patient seems perfectly re covered, and is b-gioning a dispute with his brother on the pier -head upon the su'ljeer of time. The old clock maintanis, that, in respect of his seniori.v, although not going so fast as his youbhful opponent on the parade, the rublic cught .0 look up to him as the most enlightened authority. He of the parade retorts that the old 'tin, because one of the light-fi,gered g-ntry, is not regular in his hahits, and should nit be trusted after dark. Punch r-greys that he cannot himself decide the question Iwt wee r' toem ; and still more regrets that two suet' great authori ties as to time should direr. THE" CROPS " IN THE NEIGHBoURHOOD.—Since the ac , •ession of warm weather, a good drat of hAr has heel cut, although there is st 11 a great quantity of pro duce of this class which req Ores the shears. Carrots especially shouli be operated upon at once; and when grown upon etrosed localities night be rooted up with advantage. Punch deprecates the use of guano as a fertilizer upon tho-e facial localities which nature has d mmed to be unproductive of a full crop; and would advise the sprouts which have appeared to be clean shorn daily. A PATRIOTIC (!) LOCAL JOURNAL. We never wonder to see s , herpes, however absurd, ad vocated in such organ; as the Manchester Guardian, pro vided their c , irryinz cut ► e I;kely to be injurious to the prosperity of Liverpool ; but it has, we confess, a I.ttle surpri•ed us to find tie foll..wing paragraph occurring in a journal publ shed iu this town. Let our readers glalice it tb ou4h. " THE BRIDGEWATER AND THE OLD QUAY CANALS. There has been mut h specu'ation of late respecting these totals, and many surmises afloat. as to what Lord Francis Fgett 'n it,tentls doing. One statement, which has gone the round of the public press, is, th it the Bridgewater Canal is to be drained dry. and then to be e: nvette't into a railway between Rutieorn and Man c hester. and another. that it is to remain in its present state, and that the Old Q . •ay C nat is to tie made navigable for -hips drawin't not more than t. n beet water, so that vessels might proceed fr , m sea direct to Manchester to dischage their cargoes. Titis we het eve to be itenossible, as the Grand Junction Railway passes over th, Irwell at an insuffi lent elevation fur vessels of any considerable size to pars oiler. B,sides, M.;nehester c moot be made a free port, though s'oe might have the advantaze of bonding warehouses. Toe no st feasible and most I kety project that we have heard of, and ;t has come from a source eupp.tsed to know, is, that the tustees of the Btidgewater Canal are wait lig to see the issue of the bill bef-'re Parliament for the consttuction of docks at Wallasey P should that be granted, and on the tern's expecte by the Birkenly ad commissioners, the trustees will themselves go to Parliament the next session for power to ext-nd the docks at Runcorn, along the &Hire, and to j' in the Weaver Trust Canal at Weston Ruin', so as to afford every accommothitien for that im mense traffic no , carried on in connexion with these two canals, and which is expected to be mu h greater, as the salt brought down the Weaver, and at present c'etveyed to Liverpool for foreign shipment, w 11, it is affirmed, ere long proceed to 1-1 by railway after tiavigetiog the Bridgewater Canal to Manchester. . A pid cation will also b e made to make Runcorn an independent port, as by far the great-st pm Von of toreign and coast wise merchan dise is brought direct to Runcorn, without the least c'ssity of calling a Liverpool. tvoi the' ebv the desire pre vails of saving the present charge of town du s, a grievence much telt and justly complained of. We hope, before long. to state something more positive on this great and use ul undertaking. The dis• ance from the entrance of the trustees' docks at Runc or n t o W e ston Point is la' her hei ter than half a mile, and, with the exception of sortie hundred yards, the land belongs to the trustees, by whom a large sum has been offered frequently for this small parcel, but without success • hence ar ses the necessity of applying to parliament; otherwise, we believe, all other matters are available for the completion of the works. It is also expected that when the river wall is carried out to its proper bi uatiary, it will assist materially in clearer' the channel, so that, with the assistance of dredging fora time, a communication may be kept up between Liver pool and Runcorn by steam-blats, at ally time (Attie tide. thus bringing the two places within little snore than an hour's trip of each other." And, now, whst does the reader imagine is the paper which can publish such wretched trash—which thus gloats upon the prospect of any event which can damage the interests of Liverpool T It !s th t paper woic Liverpool feeds to repletion, and witch repays the out gatimi with slander and scurrilite s egubst. th.t is dem es to the majority of its inhabitants. It i 3 THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY 1 1 O r t i y ile l 4 ,, f — or promotingneof the the latest res ora l t .. i n o n n dr f toe btib Jewsto ps.oiceif Liverpool Mercury.—[A beter plan by far than this— and, by the way, n., hub:de—would be, to send all the priests to their herd and master, the Pape of Rome.] A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.—The buildings formerly occupied as a flannel y at Coxside, Plymouth, are about to be conve led into a soap inanuftctory.— Meroury.—[The only difference appears to be this, that a building which is considered inefficient for making red necks, may be fouud quite effecau .1 for makicg white faces.] THEATRE-ROYAL.—During the past week that clever actress, Mrs. Yarn a, and Mr. O. Smith, have appeared in a suecess:ott of t peculiar pieces, for the getting up of which they are celebrated, and which hay- here been put upon the sta4e with great efficiet.ey. On TotaNday and Friday the attractions welt- increased by the appear ance of Madame Celeste and Mr. Wens et- ' t to Po. ka," of which we have heard so much, and in which Madame appeared to great advantage ;—we sac octldag of her partner. We cannot s e any thing at all uogracefol in this dance, as we have been tofu we should. On the contrary, it is ver, pleasing, well danced. and would be a favourite. This week ;by perfertnances Nil be aided by Madame Celeste, who will appt-ar in sty. ral favourite pieces. THE IRON DUKE —We have previously noticed the extraordinary speed of this splendid teamer, and we have tow to record the result or her first Kingstown voyage, which we should hope will satisfy the most sceptical and prejudiced that she is unr.vailed. Tue most curious cir cumstance connected a i:h her pa:sages to and from Ire land is the fact, ihat brat, occupied precisely tie same time, proaitz, as her voyage to Douglas had preciously done, that her velocity is unitorm under different circuit, stances. We give some details, who have ht en kind!, handed to us by Mr. J. C. Shaw, who accompanied ii r, and we doubt not but that :mut cal 113 , 11 will appreclite them as affording data for compar sons with other easel-. To tilt se who are not nat.tcal, we tteg to state, that the distance from Clarence Pier, Livetpool, to Kingstown outer pier, is 114 nau Lica!, or 130 to rule utiles : To K 4 ngstown. Return trip. May 2. M a y 3. h. ni. h. in. Clarence Pier to Rock Light 0 10 0 Rock Light. to N.W. Li g ht-ship 0 42 45 N.W. Light-ship to a eat Ora ahead 1 26 1 35 Great o:uishead to P. let Lynis 1 5 1 1 Point Lynas to Skerri. s Skerries to the Ki-h Light 3 5 6.. 354 Kish Light to Kingstown Total passage She derived no aid f orn witid, noisome, as site made a " bead wind" both going, and r,u oing. Toe aLove :ages are considerably the olio, t rt eve, m-ite be w en hie two places; and We ooght so oe prou,l or a vessel wok!) etoircly ind , bted i.ivt 41001 tple.it lor Lei scene-s; mei we doatit :f the. Limb e r and Holsh,a t Radio dwi t •ver do much injury ro our to.,n bl) IJlig a$ ac i•il , C suer Sett steamers as the both Luke. May 7, 1841. THE MERCURY AND THE ORANGE OATH. For the information of the editor of the Mercury, we give here a copy of the qualification and oaths of Orange wen ; and, that he may not again twit us with the insi nuation that Orangemen dare not print and publish their principles, we have procured and forwarded to him a copy of their " Laws and Ordinances," yratis:— QUALIFICATIONS OF AN ORANGEMAN. An Orangeman should have a sincere love and venera ti in for his Almighty Maker ; a firm and steadfast fa thin the Saviour of the World. convinced that he is the only Mediator bet Yeen an offended Creator and a sinful crea ture. El is d , sposition should be humane and compassionate , and his behaviour kind and benevolent; an eoemy to savage brutality and unchristian cr nefty. He should lot e rational and improving s iciety ; regard with affection the protestant established religion, and sincerely desire to propagate it g precepts. He should have an hatred of cursing and swearing, and taking the name of God in vain; and he should use all opportunities of discouraging these profan e practices, especially among hi s b ret h ren . Wi s dom an d prudence should guide his actions ; temperance and so briety. honesty and integrity, direct his conduct ; and the honor and glory of his Queen and Country be the motives of his exertions. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. Ist William and Mary, cap. 1 sec. 8. bE I. A. 8., do sincerely pr ormse an d swear , t h at I wth faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queea Victoria. So HELP ME GOD. OATH OF SUPREMACY. Ist Anne. slat. 1. cap. 22. 1, A. 8., do swear that I do from my heart a bhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damn able doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated; or &priced by the Pope, or any authority of the See a Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever; and I do declare, that no foicign prince, person, prelate, state or pot , ntate bath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. SO HELP ME GOD. OATH OF ABJURATION. 6th Geo. 111. cap. 53. I, A. 8., do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profit's, testify, and declare in my conscience. before God and the world, that our Sovere;gn Lady Queen Victoria the First, is lawful and rightful Queen of these realm, and all other her Majesty's domini ons an d countries !hereunto belong ing. And Ido solemnly and sincerely declare, that Ido believe in my conscience that not any of the descendants of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James the Second, and since his decease pretended to be, and took upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James the Third, ur of Scotland, by the name of James the Eighth, or the style and title of King of Great Britain, hath any right or title whatsoever to the Crown of this realm, or any oth r the dominions thereunto belonging: and I do renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of them. And Ido swear that I will bear fai'hful and true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria the First, and Her will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against her person, crown or dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty and her suc cessors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against her or any of them. And Ido faithfully promise, t.t the utmost of my power, to support , maintain and defend the succession of the crown against the descendents of the said James, and against all other Persons whatsoever; which succession, by an Art, ea tit'ed, " An Act for the further limitation of the Cron and better securing the rights and liberties of th e su bj e ct. is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electreee an I Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body. being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly' and sincerely acknowledge and swear, at cording to these express words by me spoken, and according to the phis common sense arid und, rstanding of the same words, wiih out any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reserva tion whatsoever. And Ido make this recognition, AC' knowledgment, abjuration, renunciation and promise , heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the 'true faith of Christian. SO HELP ME Gov. The Queen Dowazer continues to improve, and it is not intended to issue any more bulletins. Lord Sandon, M.P., and Sir Howard Douglas, MX' , bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Excheque r on Friday. TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.—The Rev. Robert Me. Neill, M.A., late schtlar of this College, has been licensed, by the Archbishop of York, to the cutacy of Bolton Percy, Yorkshire. A deputation on the subject of sugar, including Lord M. Sandon, M.P.; Sir Howard Douglas, P. ; anti Wiliam IL Sandhach, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Ex, ht-quer on Saturday. The Morning Herald of yesterday s t a tes confiden tl y that Sir Henry H ardinge wit succee d Lord Ellenbor=lt as Governor-General of India, and that the Lill e : 4 t , Di has been made at the solicitation of the Eas t ' rec'ors. bury News A LIBERAL PAPER DEFUNCT.—The &AJews on the expired, after a protracted illness of seven years, 2ith ult. It was the organ of the Radical faction of Shropshire. and has been driven from the field by the Shropshire Conservative, a sound Protestant and Toni journal. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP.—The efforts of Mr. J. M. Hyde, mathematical instrument maker, of .his city, who descended by means of his diving apparatus to the Inttom of the dock to remove the obstructions from the keel. on M trid ty last resulted in success, and this la v:athan was libera ed •, she now lies moored in the float ing harbour, near the Clifton Gas Works, where she is on viewat a moderate charge. —Bristol Journal. ELECIIONELEING MOVEMENT AT ABINGDON.—Mr• Du:fr - 11- who has represented the borough of Abtogdoa during four successive parliaments, has retired in coiese qtkenee. as he states in his address, "of the object of bill .political life having been attained in the estabbshment of a ministry possessing the confidence of the c untry." Mf• Thesiger, the new :Sohcitor.Geneial, has i,sueel an ad dress io the electors, and canvassed the town with the greatest success. THE COURT.—Arrangements have been made for the deAarture of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the infant royal family, fro Buckingham l'alice for the Isle of Wight in the course of the ensuing week. Her Majesty will reside in cots partitive retirement during the brief visit of the court, which is not expected to extend beyowt ten days or * foitilight. Osborne-house has been engaged for the WC of the Sovereign for a period of only twelve montlitt commencing from the Ist of this month. The court will return to Buckingham Palace from Claremont this (luesday) afternoon. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Upon refer'; (mite .o Sir Robert Peel's speech in the House of GIL" mons, on Thuisday night, as reported in the Timts, it would appear that Government would not only 'write* nea bridge across the' Menai Straits, but also a more di rect, perfect, and expensive lin- than the projectors of this railway have hitherto contemplated ; and with all the re quirements now proposed by Government, and the d!ifi" citifies to be contended with in firming w • -at Sir 11,13crt Peel calls the most direct line, it is now strongly aeP ll 2; hendei this rai;way bill cannot be sufficiently matured pass the Coalitions this session.— Correspon&nt. • thrown a considerable clan p on the tea mark The budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer ha s At the public s3le, which cursed on Thursday, only 5,94 0 packages fund purchasers, out of 36,840, at some reduc tion in price. The deliveries for consumption have also fallen off in a slight degree, compared with last year. UP to the 30th of Apr+l, the total deliveries from London, in cluding shipments coastwise and for exports tun, was 11,062,000 lbs., against 11,738.000 lbs. at the co:r spond log period last year. It is not supposed, however, that any da edriemncneiuhtiaosn ariseni n th e fro ac m tua t l he c:rns t tli t' at ie th is e upon stock in :he expectation that prices will be yet lower. and that, at all events, there will be no advance. dealers n 'ePt ratailwbi nnagt. e vi a 7 t h e i t t l: h it a m v,n ot: WHITE HAVEN.—In con sequence o f th e con t emp l a ted f t h h e e o C ld a - r e li s A abl a is ri h d ed W s ° t r e k am ing c t e n m l o f the p l a t i a iy livay to latter town have given orders for a firs -rate iron steam' vessel, to be imilt under the direct on of Mr. Grantham: by which it is contemplated that the journey ny sea oil' be accomi lished ir, 1:tle more trial) spa hours, aid 131 railway to Carlisle in two hours mire. Such increased fscilites of communication w th these rat-usive mining and agricultural &strict:, mu,t prove of the utmost ad' yawn.. to the poputati.m. Me ,us of easy ace-as will thall be aff ,riled to the western portion of the lake di-triot . Mi 8 , 18. Fawcett. Preston, and Co. are to cost engines of the new vessel, and they are to be male on to: direct acting principle, now generally advted to the mos t improved vessels. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET. MAY 6. There Was a very small supp.y of both Beef and Mutt chiefly Scotch, at our market io-d,q, add there being a r 9,,, attendance of purchasers, good Beet brought from 6cl to 6 f mutton 6id to ;d. HAY AND POTATO MARKET. Hay, 7d to 10d Clover did to 9.; Grass Sd ; Straw. Wb e i s :i to 4d, Oat, :lid to bid : Potatoes, Short 'fops, is sd 11d, Cups, s I lid to 2s. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1844. PRINTED AND PTIBLIMIED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING' a v JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53. Grove-street. and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, (ireat Ortord-street. At V 0.4, ST. GICORIOX'S (111N%CliNT.LIVKI:F... " ' Orders and Adertisements are received by Messrs. New t s r eet ) Co , Warwick-square ; Barker and bite. ee t ,l o rker. Pea on. Waibtook ; lieynell Chancery lane; CharleA ".un- Birchin-lane ; Joseph Thomas. 1. Fitichlai , e.Cornh ill i den H mmond, 7. Lombard-street; Mitchell. 8. heaGors court, Fleet-sleet ; Lewis. 3. Castle.court. Cornhill way's ; at the London Commercial ( offee-house. l 7,, ,ter lane: at the Jerusalem Cr ffee twine. Cornhill ;, nie ricso Offee-house.-e. Paternoster row; lorih and sou th CAtee house. T:;readtieedle.stieet ; Parsons. 9. A v ` nu nlin; lane. Lomion : Johnston and Co. Eden QnBY , t.s treet. eler. Ex ha ge-street. and C H. Lewis. bitru:,kseller2 manchestcr ; Ilaii‘.ock, and .1 and W. [tooth. v wrig at . 0 Warrington ; C arke, P lot office. Preston; a nd lain, Herald.t.ffite. Birmingham, (Et, Cr l'lllll of 5111.1 4 e - ipt..svi , or this 'Japer r"T t ui , la yPar. 1 3 h 1 -vilr i t s. 6 advance—one year Lit is. half-Year , toy' ra —N