The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-23 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF "THE DUKE OF NORMANDY." From the Morning Herald of Monday.) Between the hours of eight and nine o'clock on Friday night the inhabitants of the village of Camberwell were alavasal by ereport that a deliberate murder had been at :tempted at one of the houses in Clarence-terrace, Camber well, iiid it was discovered that the intended victim was no bate 'persOnage than, as be himself alleged, Charles Louis de BaritiOn; Duke of Normandy, a native of France, who claims to be. the son of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie .Antoli3ette,:and"legitimate heir to the crown of France. For some months past" the duke," who is advanced in years, has been residing in the above village. Amongst those in dividuals who hive partaken of the hospitality of the sup posed duke was a person of the name of Desires Rouselle, abbot Vie feet six inches in height, dark complexion, dark eyes; aquiline nose, and short dark whiskers; he spoke but little English. This individual introduced himself into the •fantily, and was to a certain extent intrusted with the secrets of its master, whom he pretended to consider to be his lawful prinCe. A few days since he returned to England. On the present occasion . he had called on "the duke," and in the course of his conversation stated that he had left his passport at the Custom-house. Although this was rather a singular occurrence, it attracted no particular attention amongst the party residing in the house, for there was nothing in his ac tions or Manners to excite suspicion. At the rear of the house is a large garden, which is separated from a back tho roughfare, called St. George-street, by a small ditch. At the end of the garden is a water-closet, and about half-past eight o'clock on Friday night the duke went to this part with a light in his hand, and on leaving it he was surprised at find ing Ranselle standing in the path immediately before the door. with a brace of pistols, one in each hand. Before he could retreat his assailant fired the two pistols, when two balls entered the fleshy part under the left arm, and a third lodged in the breast. I. ortunately the thickness of the clothes which he wore prevented the ball from penetrating. The in stant the assassin had fired he fled, and his victim ran into the house calling fur assistance. On entering the house he fell: Mr. Brown, a surgeon, residing only a few doors off, was instantly sent for, and on his arrival he found the wounds under the arm to be of a very dangerous description. In ferosation was 'forwarded to the station-house at Camberwell of what had occurred, when the inspector and some of the constables went and minutely examined the premises. From the'report of the police it appears that the attempted murder was prearranged, for a plank had been laid across the ditch, by which the intended murderer had gained access to the warden, and made his escape. Footsteps were traced into an adjoining piece of ground, and from the numerous marks it wasevident 'that there had been more than one person. Ahnut‘the time the pistols were fired, several persons, and the police, saw two rockets fired off, which came from the direction -of Gehrge-street, but at the time no suspicion was entertained as to the real cause of their being discharged. A.bont - an hour after the attempt had been made, a foreigner, coartpletely muffled up, called at Mr. Brown's, and, with a great deal of evident anxiety and perturbation of mind, in quired if the duke were dead. He was answered in the negative, and went away evidently disappointed. During the.. night the wounded man remained in a very alarming 0.,.A. Mr. 11..." n that soem or tentless lied entered the body, he considered it to be unsafe to attempt to extract the balls until the inflammation had abated. , Yesterday morning Mr. Brown succeeded in ex tracting two balls; he, however, is of opinion that there is a third still remaining, and until that is removed he considers the p_ atient cannot be pronounced out of danger. It will be ree.9llected that in the month of July, 1837, a packet of let ters was delivered by mistake to a party in the city from Dresden, which, on being opened, were found to refer to the French government, and a supposed plot for the purpose of assassinating Louis Philip. These were transmitted by the lord mayor to Lord John Russell, who returned them to the Maititon-house; and on August Bth they were delivered to Mr. Gratin, who described himself as the charge d'affaires to the Duke of Normandy, the son of Louis XVI. The wound ed man is in his 52d year, and has been residing at Cam berwell for the last six months with some branches of his faMily.. As soon as the attempt was known to the police, information was sent to the commissioners, and they imme diately communicated with the Home-office, who adopted every, precaution to prevent the assassin leaving the country. Large hand=bills were printed at the expense of the commis answers, and distributed to the various station-houses, coffee boom. and the inns. Information was also sent off to the variaussea-port towns. Since Friday night the whole of the policebave been unremitting in their exertions, and, from inquitieit which, they instituted, a strong suspicion existed that, the assassin, on finding that he had not killed his man, would make a second attempt. A strict look-out was there fore'kept over the premises, particularly the back way, by which the assassin had effected his escape. About 7 o'clock last night the attention el those who were placed on the watch was directed to a person dressed in dark clothes, who was lurk ing about, aiid this being communicated to Inspectors Walters anclCroome, who happened to be on duty at the station-house, they proceeded to the spot, and took the fellow into custody. Orkbeing 011ared • he said something in French, and when conveyed to the station-house he appeared to be in a state of great excitement. On being searched, a shilling, a sixpence, auk!' penny,: . were found on his person, a large clasp knife, several'documents, said to be of an important nature, a pass poitluade out for Cork, and a few other things of minor im poitance.. His appearance was that of a person who had b 44101 the fields 'all night, his shoes, the lower part of his troisereand'edat, being covered with mud. By the time he Isit4giten his - name he had recovered some degree of self possession, and - in broken English inquired what he was talrea:;into custody for. On being told for attempting to tatf4et the'DUke of Normandy, he muttered something in Preach and 'smiled. He objected to having his knife taken from ter, 'and he intimated that there were other means to kilOsimaelf - if he wanted. On the door of the cell being opt-Peck he objected to go in, and said he had done nothing tohi kept ' From his manner it was considered necessary to gage a,constable with him, so as to prevent his making any attempt upon - Isis own life. After the prisoner had been se mired a_pair of old slippers were procured, and his shoes taken off, which, when compared with the impressions on the ground, exactly corresponded. When taken, it was supposed that be had the pistols about his person, but not being found, itjs suspected that he threw them into the ditch, which is to be dragged to-day;' at the same time a watch is to be kept to prevent any 9f the prisoner's companions from looking for them, as there is no doubt that he had associates. The wounded man, on being informed of his apprehension, ex- Eressed his satisfaction, and his determination to prosecute. rtom the nature of the wounds the' e is not the slightes pro bability of hii being able to attend for some days before the magistrates. The third ball is not yet extracted. At present the immediate danger is not great. The prisoner is 35 years of:age i and was formerly in the French army, from which he detected, and on the 17th January last arrived from Ostend in c the_Barl of. Liverpool steam-packet. • ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS (SUNDAY NIGHT), The circumstances which led to the apprehension of the Frenchman, Desires Roussell, charged wiih an attempt to assassinate Louis de Bourbon, the assumed Duke of Nor mandy, and Dauphin of France, on Friday evening last, at the duke's residence, No. 21, Clarence-place, Camberwell, have, upon inquiry, been found to be as follow :—After the escape of the assassin, immediate information of the daring attack was given at the police-station near Camberwell -Breen, when Inspector Walters, of the P division, attended by se veral of the force, repaired to the residence of the duke, where they continued until the evening of the following day (Saturday), between six and seven o'clock. Roussel' came to the house, when he was immediately identified by the ser vant., who, apprising the inspector of it, the assassin was instantly captured. It appears that the prisoner is a French exile, and has been known to the duke for a number of years, and wile bag repeatedly relieved him with pecuniary assist ance since his (the duke's) residence in this country. It is bat very recently that the prisoner's application for money was attended to by the duke; and upon no one occasion was he (Roussell) refused assistance. It is evident that the prisoner had no idea that he was identified by the duke at the firma the diabolical attempt, otherwise he would not have caln4-on the Saturday evening, clearly for the purpose of lulllng suspicion against him. The prisoner is still at the stattmlphouse, where he will remain until his examination at which is expected to take place this morning (114111411 . ) After being taken into custody, he was searched in t he presence of the superintendent, but no fire-arms, pa rts*, 0t cash, were found upon him. He solemnly protests hi. innocence of the charge against him. He maintains a very calm collected demeanour, and is reserved to those wiaulleditty jt is to be near him. During his confinement he has been strictly watched, to prevent the possibility of his laying violent hands upon himself. He is a fine-looking mak but very indifferently attired. It has been ascertained that he escaped over the garden wall, and, after crossing a ditch and some fields, got into George-street, at the back of the duke's residence. The duke is going on favourably; the ball hatbeen extracted by Messrs. John and Tobias Brown, very eminent surgeons, of Camberwell, who are in constant attendance upon him. The occurrence has excited an ex traordinary sensation at Camberwell and the surrounding parts: [Wwlearu from the papers of Tuesday that the assassin has Wen `apprehended; but we have nu room to-day for the particulars of his examination. He hds been remanded =tit Ant week.] THE ROYAL FAMILY. Hannay and Dietrichsen's Almanack for 1839 contains the following statement, from which it will he seen that there are-oulpfiee grandchildren of George theThild in existence, altheulth' he had fifteen sons and daughters. George the ThiFdlima Queen Charlotte (says the Almanack) were the parents of fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters; in theefotlowing order of birth, viz.:— Born. Died. 1 George, Prince of Wales (George IV.) 1762 1830 2 Frederick, Duke of York . 1763 1827 3 William, Duke of Clarence (William I V.) 1765 1837 4 Charlotte, 'Princess Royal (Queen of Wir iemberg) 5 Eldirard. Duke of Kent . 1767 1820 6 Augusta Sophia 7 Elizabeth, Princess of Hesse-Homburg 8 Erne!, Duke of Cumberland 9 Augustus, Duke of Sussex 10 Kdotplins, Duke of Cambridge 11 Mary, Duchess of Gloucester 12 Sophia 1777 13 Octavius 14 Alfred 15 Amelia 1783 1810 From the above it will be seen that the five eldest and three youngest offspring of George the Third are dead. Again, of the seven survivors it may be remarked, that three are unmarried, and two are widows without issue; leaving only the Duke of Cumberland with one child, and the Duke of Cambridge with three children. Thus there are, at this time, only five grand-children of George the Third living, viz.:— Aged now, 19, Queen Victoria. 19, Prince George of Cumberland. 19, Prince George of Cambridge. 15, Princess Augusta Caroline of Cambridge. 4, Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. The seven surviving children of George the Third, according to seniority of birth, are— Aged now, 69, Princess Augusta Sophia. 68, Princess Elizabeth (of Hesse-Homburg). 67, Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover). 65, Duke of Sussex. 64, Duke of Cambridge. 61, Princess Mary (Duchess of Gloucester). 60, Princess Sophia. ANOTHER GRISI.—A new star in the musical firmament has appeared in the perso❑ of Ernesta Grisi, a cousin of la diva Guilietta. Th►s young person made her debut the other day at Paris, in the character of Adalyisa, in the opera of Nornia, and met with a most flattering reception, which must partly however, be set down to the desire of the audi ence to gratify their favourite by applauding her youthful relative_ Ernesta Grisi is a very pretty girl, rather short in stature, but round and firmly formed, with a sweet counten ance, fine eyes, and a beautiful mouth. Her voice is good, though its lower tones are apparently deficient in fullness; and she sang out with a degree of simplicity and feeling which made a strong impressio❑ on the audience. She pro mises, on the whole, to be a great acquisition to the musical stage. At the end of the opera, the Grisi was called for as usual; and she wishing to give her cousin a share of her triumph, brought her upon the stage, seemingly almost by force, half undressed, wrapped in a brown dressing-gown, and with her hair about her ears. The same little bit of stage trick was played by Grisi when Mademoiselle Assandri made her dibut in Paris two years ago; but the inanceuvre, though palpable enough, was well received, in consideration of ttrgood-natared motive. MISCELLANEOUS. MAJOR GENERAL J. R. SMYTH, Lieutenant-Governor of the Scilly Islands, died at St. Mary's, Scilly, on the 2nd inst. He was in his 65th year. There is no truth in the statement that Mr. Baron Bolland is about to retire in consequence of ill-health, or from any other cause.—Ministerial Paper. It was announced last Thursday evening, at the Meeting of the Royal Society, that her Majesty had been pleased to confer upon Sir John Herschell the rank of a baronet. AN EVENT.—The last advices from Suez state the ar rival of an English carriage at that place, being the first which had ever crossed the desert. THE Si:ASON.-Mr. Walter Beattie, silk dyer, Middleton, has now in his garden several gooseberry trees; some of them are in full bloom, and others have small gooseberries on. There is now residing at Green Meadow, Glamorganshire, a cottager named Thomas Matthew, in perfect health, who is known to be in his 107th year. A gentleman at Marseilles has succeeded in taming a wolf, which he reared from a cub. The animal is so gentle that it feeds from his hand, and at dinner goes round to his guests, and solicits their attention, like a favourite dog. Lord and Lady Gardner have arrived, on a visit to Lord Dinorben, at Kimmel). lark, St. Asaph. His Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex will, as usual, be a guest at the Park shortly. There is not the slightest foundation for the paragraph that appeared in a morning contemporay, which stated instructions to have been forwarded to Brighton from the Lord Chamber lain's office, to prepare the pavilion for her Majesty's re ception on the 30th inst.—Examiner. We regret to announce the death, which took place on Friday afternoon, at three o'clock, of the Right Honourable Robert Cutlar Fergusson, her Majesty's Judge Advocate- General, and M.P. for the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, N.B. —Ministeral Paper. The tolls of the Birmingham and Bromsgrove turnpike roads were let on Friday week, at an advance of £761 on on their previous rental of £1,851, showing a considerable diversion of traffic from other routes to meet the London and Liverpool Railway. FIVE-POUND CONVERTS. — The John Bull says—" We are informed, upon authority which we have no reason to ques tion, that at Stoke-by-Nayland, in Suffolk, converts to popery receive a premium of £5 each." We learn thatproceedings havebeen taken in the University Court at Oxford against the Regius Professor of Divinity there for a libel on his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, contained in a recently-published correspondence.-31orning Chronicle. [Dr. Hampden is the professor in question ] ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Nov. 19. There is no abatement in the demand for coarse flannels to day, and the prices have been quite equal to those of last week. Fine goods have, for some weeks back, been very little ihquired after. There has been a fair business doing in wool, at steady prices. The Vienna Gazette announces the death, at Ernstbrunn, in Lower Austria, of a day labourer, named Damberaer, at ago Ur 12.0 it,. was born in 1708, at Zierotitz, in Moravia. He served in the time of Charles VI. under Prince Eugene of Savoy. He never married till he was 100 years old, and from July, 1829, was a pensioner on the emperor's privy purse. A WORD OF ADVICE TO HUSBANDS.—Love so, that you may be feared ; rule so, that you may be honourod; be not too diffident, lest you teach her to deceive you; nor too sus picious, lest you teach her to abuse you ; if you see a fault, let your love hide it; if she continue in it, let your wisdom reprove it ; reprove her not openly, lest she grow bold; re buke her not tauntingly, lest she grow spiteful; proclaim not her beauty, lest she grow proud; boast not of her wisdom, lest you be thought foolish; let her not see your imperfec tions, lest she disdain you; profane not her ears with loose ' communications, lest you defile the sanctuary of her mo desty. An understanding husband makes a discreet wife, and she a happy husband. ABSURDITIES OF HUMAN LIFE.—To call a lout with an ass's bead and horse-hair wig, your " learned brother."— To go to law for five pounds, when you may get off by pay ing ten.—Not to understand that might is right.—To expect that a subscription list will ever produce the money set down. —To assemble ten thousand fools to see you ascend in a balloon, and to expect any thing but regret if you don't break your neck.—To study any thing but humbug when it makes an income of £4O per annum only fifteen hu-ndred !—To buy cream in the neighbourhood of a lime-kiln.—To eat pigeon pie in the rook season.—To go out shooting with a cockney, and feel astonished if you discover the charge in the small of your back.—To expect a principal singer not to have a cold immediately after reading a bad part.—To ask a hackney coachman his fare, and leave it to his " honour."—To quar rel with a turnpike man within ten minutes to twelve, as he is sure to wrangle over the time.—To ask the painter of your portrait " is it a likeness."—To go into an Irish regiment unless you wish to become a substitute for the target in the shooting gallery.—To expect an American in Franceto deny he is an Englishman, if asked the question.—To imagine, for a moment, that a man with large collars and no wristbands has a clean shirt on.—To meet a man with a crack in his boot and believe it has taken place " since he came out." — Not to deduct a clear half from angler's weight and number. —To snuff wax candles at a Christmas party, and fancy people will believe you when you say "you always make the mistake."—To expect a Frenchman to confess that the English won the battle of Waterloo.—To endeavour to outlie a Yankee.—Cheltenham Free Press. About three o'clock on Tuesday morning, the inmates of the Griffin Inn, Dudley, were much alarmed by a loud ex plosion, which shook that and the adjoining houses to their foundations. The noise appearing to have come from the cellar, the people ran there, when they found it to have been caused by the pressure of the carbonic acid gas in a barrel of old ale, which, not finding any vent, had exploded, and the whole of the contents were lost on the floor.—Hereford Journal. At a meeting of the Radical Political Union of the Potter ies, on Wednesday, the hustings gave way in the middle of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's speech, and about fifty persons fell to the ground; but nobody was seriously hurt. Mr. O'Con nor went to a heap of coals near the spot, and continued his speech to the close. The females of the Potteries have formed a political union.—StaPrdshire Examiner. DIABOLICAL AcTs.--Some miscreants have been placing planks and logs across the trams on the Sheffield and Rother ham Railroad, in order to cause accidents to the trains in passing. Fortunately the guards discovered two of these in famous attempts, and the engine which came upon the third threw it off the road without doing any injury to the train.— Sheffield Iris. INGLEWHITE TRAGEDY.—We regret to learn tha Edward Sanderson, whose wife a short time ago destroyed herself and her five children by poison, is in a state of pecu niary distress. The extravagance and thoughtlessness of his late wife, together with the expenses which the premature fate of his family necessarily subjeeted him to, have thrown him considerably in arrear.—Preston Chronicle. THE CHEVET TUNNEL ON THE NORTH MIDLAND RAIL WAY, NEAR WAKEFIELD.—This stupendous undertaking,,the work of many months, is at length opened, we understand, at both ends. It is about three quarters of a mile in length, and in some places nearly thirty yards under ground. The line in the neighbourhood is fast progressing, as well as the via duct over the Barnsley Canal, which will be a gigantic spe cimen of art.—Leeds Mercury. COACH ACCIDENT AND SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Saturday last, about six o'clock, as the Peveril, Manchester coach, was on its way to Leicester, the axletree broke about a quarter of a mile before it reached Oadby, about four miles trom Lei cester, which caused the vehicle to upset; but fortunately the passengers were only slightly bruised. One of the coach doors was forced off with such violence, that it was hurled through the coach, carrying the other door with it; and yet a lady and three children, who were inside, escaped unhurt. —Leicestershire Mercury. Two children, belonging to a poor man of the parish of Denham, have been taken out of their graves in that church. yard, on the confession of a girl of twelve years of age, an elder sister, of having been the cause of both their deaths. The youngest, about two monts old, she killed by smothering it with a pillow about five months ago; the eldest she con fessed having caused its death about three weeks back; this child was more than two years old, A jury then sat on the body, under Mr. Grose, the county coroner; a verdict was recorded—died from apoplexy. No suspicion otherwise was then entertained.—Norwich Mercury. SUSPECTED MURDER.—A tew days back, the body of a man, in a dreadful state of decomposition, was discovered in a wood near Lindfield, in Sussex. Since then, fruits the put - licity given to !he circumstance, the body has been identi fied; and little doubt remains but that the deceased was bru tally murdered. The brother of the unfortunate deceased, who has identified the clothes of his relative, states that he was a travelling jeweller, in partnership with him ; and that, at the time when he disappeared, he could not have been in the possession of property to a less amount than £3OO. The last time he was seen was at Lindfield fair, in October last, when he had been drinking, and was gambling with some parties who are known, and whose characters are suspicious. Steps have been taken which, it is expected, will throw some light on this mysterious affair. The deceased was an Italian. A sheep, the property of Mr. Simon, of Kirkhead, in Loweswater, had got itself fixed, or what the shepherd's call " crag-fast," in the rock at the head of the great chasm at Scale Force, where it was thought it must ultimately perish ; but Mr. Simon, through humane feelings at seeing it hunger to death, sent his son with his shepherd, Thomas Robinson, with ropes and proper instruments to try to extricate it from its miserable situation ; but all their efforts were in vain, and it was given up for lost. Soon after, however, hunger inspired the poor animal to leap or rather tumble into the water at the head of the great cataract, where it was carried right down into the basin below. The Force being very high at the time, the sheep was thrown on the shallow water, where it was taken out alive, when it travelled home with the rest of the flock, seemingly not much worse. A more won derful escape was never' known in Loweswater; but as the place in question is well known to lake tourists and others, a description of it is unnecessary here.— Whitehaven Herald. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday, about three o'clock in the afternoon, as David Rees, an elderly man in the employ of the Earl of Cawdor, was returning from New castle with the rents of the Tivyside estates (amounting to several thousands), within little more than one mile of Car marthen, he was waylaid by a person of the name of John Owen, of the Swan, Newcastle, who attacked the old man, and pulled him off his horse, and threw him into the ditch. lie then mounted his horse, and drove off at full gallop. Soon leaving the turnpike, he took the road leading to Moel cwan farm, and passed through the farm yard into the adjoin ing fields, which happened to be enclosed. There being no thoroughfare, and the horse refusing to take the hedge, he immediately dismounted, taking the portmanteau which con tained the money from behind the saddle, and made the best of his way across the fields towards the Plough and Harrow public-house, where he had left his own horse. In the mean time, Rees recoved from his fall, and made' all haste in pur suit of his horse and the thief, calling out " Stop thief," &c., which attracted the attention of John Thomas, a servant at Moelewan, and several others, who joined in the pursuit. John Thomas soon came up with Owen, who immediately took a pistol from his pocket, and threatened to shoot Tho mas if he did not immediately retire, which threat first alarmed him; but he still followed, bawling out " Stop thief," and calling for assistance to every person he saw. A large crowd soon joined in the chase; and Owen was observed to drop the portmanteau in a hedge, which was immediately recovered. He was very soon afterwards surrounded and captured, and brought into this town. He was examined yes terday and to-day, and is committed for further examination. Welshman. MISS DARLING.—Last week Mr. Batty gave a benefit to Miss Darling, when £2O, deducting expenses, was realised. This sum was paid to her by Mr. Silvester, a member of Mr. Batty's establishment, on Saturday ; and we were much sur prised to learn, notwithstanding all that has been said about presents sent to this heroic young lady, that, except the medal by the Humane Society of Glasgow, and a cup, the present of Lord Fitzclarence, the above was the first money she received. The statements that L 5 had been sent by this and that person, fora lock of her hair, and so forth, are so many pieces of figurative writing • and whatever she may yet receive, up to Saturday nothing beyond what we have stated bad reached her or her venerable father. We thought from what we saw in the newspapers, that Miss Darling must have received some thousand pounds—now we, and many others, have been misled. Three different artists, and a brother of the broad sheet, have visited the Ferns since the wreck of the Forfarshire; but they, of course, went to turn the shipwreck into account, not to reward the Darlings. We trust that this notice will have the effect of calling attention to the facts; and that those who have taken an interest in promoting subscriptions, will take means to make certain that the amount they receive shall reach the parties'for whom it is really intended.—Edinburgh Observer. The Liverpool preliminary meetings of the members and friends of the Wesleyan methodist connexion, in furtherance of the celebration of the centenary in 1839, according to a plan proposed by a committee of ministers and gentlemen at a meeting held in Bristol in July last, and which was adopted by resolutions of the late conference, were held on Wednesday as announced. The first took place at ten o'clock in the morning in the Brunswick Chapel, Moss-street, but as it aas intended to bear more the character of a . private than a public assembly, and had not been so extensively announced as is usual when a full attendance is desired, the congregation was not nume rous, though it was highly respectable. After worship, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, superintendent of the district, James Wood, Esq., of Man chester, was requested to take the chair. The CFIAIHNIAN, addressing the meeting, said it was not the first time he had found out that the post of honour, if not that of danger, was not uufrequently the post of difficulty. He was, indeed, little aware when he was appointed, at Man chester, treasurer to the centenary fund, that be should be called upon, ex officio, to occupy the chair upon this interest ing occasion, and undoubtedly that honour would not• have been bestowed upon him but for the unavoidable absence of the venerable and much-esteemed president. His friends had, however, told him that it did devolve upon him, and he had only therefore to regret that he had not the power to discharge the duties to their satisfaction and his own honour. He begged to be allowed to say that he stood before them a living monument of the grace of God—(hear, hear, hear) — there was nut a greater in the assembly, or within the pre cincts of this important borough. He should have been lost, not only here but hereafter, if he had not been corrected by the economy of the connexion, and he now declared plainly, and fully, and unreservedly, that no person was more in debted to Wesleyan methodism. All which he had in this world, and all the hopes which he possessed of another and a better world, he owed, under God, to Wesleyan methodism; and therefore he should be highly criminal if he did not re spect and cordially love the connexion, and use every exer tion which the power of his Maker had bestowed upon him to advance its interests. No individual could rejoice more than himself at the glorious object before them being so likely to be accomplished. He was delighted that the, resolution adopted by the previous committee had been allowed by the conference assembled in Bristol in the past year. Every thing that was there done met with his entire approval, and he rejoiced exceedingly, as a Manchester man, that the first meeting in furtherance of their projects bad been held in that important town. As most of the persons present had, no doubt, heard of the results of the several meetings there, he would take leave to say that he hardly knew which most to admire, the extent of the Christian benevolence or the unanimity which hart been displayed. (Hear.) When they met, they found at first that one man had one hobby, another man had . also a hobby, and a third bad another,—various in dividuals had different projects. and each thought his own the most important; but they were all actuated by and under such delightful feelings, that all their hobbies were soon made into one—they were all important, and it was considered that all of them ought to be carried. They were approaching what they termed a centenary. Nearly a hundred years had rolled over since Joan vv estey commenters ros societies in London, and it would have been a shame to them had they allowed such a period to pass by without some signal notice. It was natural, in some sort it was agreeable to the order of things, that an important event should be marked in an important way. If they were to consult the Old Testament, they would find that Noah, when he came out of the ark—when the waters had subsided, and as soon as he had placed his foot, as it were, on terra firma—did not look for a place on which to build a house for himself, but for a spot on which to rear an altar to the glory of God who had preserved him, and who had rescued his soul from death. Let them also look at Jacob—let them look at the passing over Jordan; and they would see that each of those important and interesting events was marked in a 'signal way. They were probably aware what were the objects now proposed by which they might testify their gratitude to God and render the connexion more important. 'These objects were chiefly monumental. First, the committee thought that there ought to be erected a new Theological Institution, in which a rising ministry might be more extensively instructed. He would appeal to persons present, did they not think this an important object ? he con sidered it to be a most essential object. Had it not been in some sort a disgrace to them that so many years had been suffered to roll over without some effectual steps having been taken to secure an object so important to the well-being of the body? Let them give him an enlightened, a scriptural, a plain, a faithful, and a heart-searching ministry, and he should have no difficulty in finding a Christian church, happy, intelligent, and united, and, whilst walking in the Holy Spirit, increasing in numbers. He might be met with the questions, " Have we not had such a ministry ? Have we not such a ministry now ? What necessity is there for alter ation ?" He hoped he should give no offence in speaking his mind, whilst replying to these questions. That there was something peculiar in the economy of Wesleyan methodism no one acquainted with its history would dispute. God had sent out the venerable Wesley in a peculiar way. He was a man endowed with taste, with profound learning, and with sound judgment; few equalled him—he was excelled by ncne—in these requisites for the success of his mission ; but what could be and his brother do when darkness covered the land? Their worthy president, who was about to publish a book which would do honour to himself and service to the world, stated recently to him that at no time was there so much darkness, so much infidelity in the world, as at the time the Wesleys were sent forth. 'raking that for granted, then he would ask, what could John and Charles Wesley and Whit field have done had not their missions been of a peculiar character ? They conceived their opinion, and then called to their assistance men who were also called of God—plain men, but men who knew what Ch istianity was, and who, under the influence of the Holy t, were made instru mental in turning darkness into ight. Many would say, "Why could this not go on ?" He would ask, " Was not the state of the country different to what it was at that time ?" Some would observe, that "the schoolmaster was abroad." Yes, but not such a schoolmaster as he wished to see—the knowledge that prevailed was combined with a great deal of infidelity. What would have done in former days would not do now. God had put means into their hands, and could they expect extraordinary assistance from Him if they would not use those means? It was a disgrace to them as a body that they had not a Theological institution long before the present period. Let them have a ministry properly informed. He did not mean that they should make their preachers polished classic; nor profound mathematicians; but he did say, that though they might not want these acquirements, nor greater piety and Christian experience, they did want some training, and they ought to have it; they ought to have at least the rudiments of learning, and be acquainted with the economy of the connexion. Ought the minister not to be able to head the people over whom be was called to preside? Ought he not to have an enlightened and culti vated mind, that should free him from the use of expres sions that might give offence to many persons in his con gregation ? He would put it to those present, had they not given to their children a better education than they them selves possessed ? He had done so, and had endeavoured to make them attached to his religion, by instructing them tho roughly in Wesleyan economy. 1f they really and sincerely wished to keep their children in the connexion, they should take care that the ministry were free from those little objec tions, and little they certainly were, which were often urged against them. (Hear.) This was his hobby; it had long been so; and no one rejoiced more than he did that it was in a fair way of being accomplisheil—when £lOO,OOO should have been raised, and he must not talk of less, or he should be rapped on the knuckles by his friends, Messrs. Sands and Chappell. Upwards of £44,000 had been raised in a few days, and they had net yet touched their yeomanry, but only their leading men, who certainly had bled most delightfully. Though he would admit that it would take many pounds to make up the difference, yet when he looked at the great num ber of congregations they had, and the extent of the con nexion, he did not doubt that it would be raised. He should like to see the stone of the institution laid. Pls. Chappell: —lnstitutions, sir, if you please.] Well, if the committee should place one in the north, he should be thankful. It would be an honour to them, and to the name of the man by whom the connexion had been founded. (Hear, hear.) He hoped that he should be spared to see it. (Hear, hear.) He would next tell them another thing, which he wanted, and which had not so much as been mentioned in Manchester. Whatever they had in the interior, they must have a statue of Wesley, to show to passers by the object for which the money had been contributed. Then, as regarded the Mis sion Institution, he mentioned that they wanted better pre mises than they had at present, and said if Dr. Bunting were there, he could throw some light on the subject, and prove that they would save a great deal of money, and the business would be better transacted, if they had more room. In rs ference to the proposed missionary ship to visit the Polyne sian islands, Mr. Wood described the great relief which the conveyance of stores in that way would afford to the suffering missionaries. He stated also, that the fund would enable them to pay off a debt of £5OOO on the Kingswood schools, and thus to liberate £lOOO per annum, which he was sorry had ever been taken from the institution to which it belonged, and apply it to the relief of decayed ministers, their widows, and orphans. As regarded the Chapel Loan Fund, which he described as Mr. Chappell's hobby, and his own as well, he stated that at many meetings which had been held, much distress had been represented, and they had heard of many good men being in danger of going to prison for debts incur red in building chapels ; but all this would hereafter be ob viated. These were the grand objects which they hail in view. He was standing in what Providence had destined to be the most important maritime town in the world, and was addressing men who possessed more public spirit than any in the Queen's dominions. He was delighted that some sstoujotnc' pt should e d di e n d e b fitn e some thing had been done for the cause in Manchester, and he e hudda: g ton i t ad to see that town as much exceeded in point of benevolence by Liverpool, as it was surpassed by Liverpool in beauty. j e l ih ' eete h ,yh e ehsy,i,he,roloolutu.ioelvlkdldetes haveas u (lt) p f is eht f e i xi : vi ripemegrGrrehio.eeeedatn'tifsenee experience t i r l iea e taan s ti s syn i ( N,tnnhiLgait„inonvgatet, of Liverpool, ,ret aD they inthnide. it that it would here he even much more abundant. (Applause.) The Rev. F. A. W issr, one of the secretaries, then came forward, at the request of the chairman, to report progress— this being an adjourned meeting from Manchester. He said the great objects contemplated were, first to make a religi ous and devotional improvement of th e centenary, by solemn public services in all the chapels both a t home and in the va rious stations occupied by the foreign missions—the whole arrangements for which would be left to the coming confer ence. The next was to make a general pecuniary contribu tion, by means both of individual and family donations and of public collections through all our societies and , congrega tions at home and abroad; such contributions being intended as a practical thank-offering to Almighty God for the per sonal, domestic, and public benefits derived by His blessing, from the labours of Mr. Wesley, and of his coadjutors and successors during the last hundred years, and from the direct and indirect influences of the various ministrations and agen cies of Wesleyan methodism, nut merely on our own religi ous community, but on the Christian church at large, and also on the spiritual interests of the world. The fund to be raised on the occasion of the centenary is to be applied, in the first place, to the erection and preparation of suitable pre mises for the accommodation of those students who, after sa tisfactory evidence obtained by the conference, as heretofore, of their sound co nversion to God, their solid pi e ty, an d their Divine call to the Christian ministry, shall be received into the Wesleyan Theological Institution, whether such students be designed for home or for missionary service. In the se cond place, to the provision of commodious premises in Lon don for the use of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, adequate to the greatly augmented and augmenting extent of its mul tifarious and important business. 'Use sum of-£BO,OOO is con sidered at the very lowest which must be raised, by the uni versal effort now contemplated for the centenary fund. At Manchester it was believed that they might get a gr ea t d ea l more. It was contemplated that, after - a liberal reserve for the purposes of the Theological Institution, and for the new mission-house, &c., as before stated , the remainder of the said sum of £BO,OOO should be applied as follows :—First,—ln pro viding a Wesleyan missionary ship, for the purpose of for warding missionaries and missionary stores, as may, from time to time, be found necessary and expedient, from New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land to our mission-sta tions in New Zealand, in the Friendly Islands, in the Feejee Islands, and in other Polynesian groups;--such a ship being exceedingly wanted, both for the comfort of the missionaries labouring in those islands, and for the general advantage and security of the missions themselves. Secondly,—ln finally liquidating a building-debt of £5,000 yet remaining, on the Premises of our two connexional schools at Kingsvvood and Woodhouse Grove;—thus liberating, for the use of the Me thodist Preachers' Annuity Society, a considerable sum now annually payable for interest on that debt, and for its gradual reduction, and restoring such sum at Once to its original and proper use, as part of the income applicable to the support of preachers compelled through age or infirmity to retire from their regular labours in the ministry, and of the widows of de ceased ministers and pastors. Thirdly,—ln placing at the disposal of the Chapel Loan Fund Committee a considerable s um, sufficient to enable it to continue, without material in- terruption, its most beneficial and important operations; (which must be otherwise for a while wholly suspended, owing to the entire exhaustion of its present resources ;)and thus to re lieve many cases of distressed trustees and over-burthened cha pels from the pressure of debt and difficulty ; and also to enable that committee to accelerate by judicious arrangements the pe riod at which the interest, and eventually the principal, of the loans already so usefully expended. will be fully discharged; so that the annual income of the regular Chapel Fund may be come more speedily available. The desire was to make a con nexional and monumental institution. The cost of the erection of the institution would be £35,000; for specialties, £15,000; the ship to the Polynesian Islands, £3,000; to wipe off the debt of the schools, £5,000, by which £l,OOO per annum would be re lieved for the Preachers Annuity Society; and there would be wanted £20,000 for the Chapel Loan Committee. £l5OOO, within a small sum, had already by the exertions of the Loan Fund Committee been wiped off from the chapel debts. One resolution was passed at Manchester, to which the Centenary Committee were particularly desirous to give prominence; that was relating to the principle of instalments, the first of which, as regarded some classes of subscribers, might be paid in the week immediately preceding the conference of July, in the year !839; the second, in the week preceding the conference of July, in the year 1840; and the third, is the week immediately preceding the conference of July,lB4l. It was also intended to apply this principle more generally throughout the circuits, and monthly and quarterly instal ments could be allowed with this limitation, that they were all to be paid within the centenary year—viz., from 1839 to 1840. The General Central Committee had published in structions for the circuit committees; they had been submit ted to the president of the conference, and had met with his decided and emphatic approval. It Was intended also to ap point district associations, differing from the general use of the term; the whole kingdom would be divided into ten dis tricts. The Liverpool district would include the Maccles field, the North Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Liverpool districts. A number of preachers had undeitaken to go to various places as deputations, and it was hoped that the lay men would give their assistance. Many of these circuits will have large meetings, to which the deputations, perhaps, can not travel; but little difficulty would arise from this, as the persons who conduct them will only have to give expression to the ordinary topics of Methodism. it was to be hoped that there would be no discouragement on account of the an ticipated smallness of the subscriptions ; in some instances a small amount may be a very noble donation. Public collec tions would also be made next October. The committee wished that the subscriptions should be perfectlyspontaneous. The leaders were the fittest persons to make the canvass; and the co-operation of ladies' committees was desirable. The members of congregations who were not connected with the society would thus have the opportunity of contributing; and the members of other Christian denominations, who wish to show their healthful feeling towards evangelical religion, can subscribe through their friends or relatives who may be Methodists. It was suggested at Manchester that, on the 25th October, there should be a general prayer meeting, morning and evening. With reference to a plan suggested for the regular and permanent provision for the better sup port of ministers when placed, through age Or infirmity, on the superannuation list, and also for the relief of widows and orphans of deceased preacher g. it had been determined that an annual collection should e made; and it was supposed that fourpence per member per annum would meet all exigen cies. A committee had been appointed to report at the May meeting, and the plan would come into operation in the cen tenary year. Mr. West concluded by reading a list of the contributions already received, and stated that up to the pre vious day they amounted to £44,522155. He subsequently announced that there had been subscribed in the course of the morning £1350. (Applause.) A letter was read from Dr. Bunting to the treasurer, trans mitting the spontaneous and unsolicited resolutions and sub criptions of the students at the Theological Institution. They had passed four resolutions in favour of the fund unani mously; every one had contributed something; and after they hail subscribed £534 19s. they made up a purse of £l2 12s. The contribution of £lO 10s. from the teachers and scholars at Ancoats Sunday School, Manchester, was also announced, and £4 10s. from the children of the Oxford-road Sunday School, Manchester. Mr. Chappell intimated that if the teachers had been included they could have raised fifty guineas—one of the teachers had already given ten gui neas, and there was to be a separate list for them. A great number of contributions were announced during the morning, chiefly from individuals and families resident in this district. The Rev. Mr. DIXON having been called upon by the chairman, rose and said that if be had been aware of his in tention to exercise such an act of kindness towards him, he should have assuredly stayed at home, but he had been led to hope from what had passed last night between 'him and a gentleman whom he supposed spoke from authority, that he should have been excused. He felt himself quite unable to address himself to the question without great agitation; and he could only assure the meeting that his heart was cordially with them; and that if it were in his power be would speak to them at some length on the interesting and important sub ject. He had not the pleasure of attending the Manchester meeting; he could only pick up its cue, or catch its spirit. He perceived, however, two points on which he might ad dress them —one, that of thankfulness for the past—the other, to stimulate their exertion for the future. He should like to expatiate on the past—both for the benefit of his own spirit and to show the gratitude due from the meeting. He begged permission to remark that Methodism created more than was seen, and they had to be thankful for much that was not visi ble. It had pleased his friend the chairman to rejoice that a number of happy spirits now around the throne had been brought there by its instrumentality ; but he dared nut ven ture upon that topic. He presumed there were some present who would thank God that they had departed friends in hea ven as the fruit of Methodism. The chairman had in - his ap peal commended its valuable founder. He (Mr. D.) should like to add something if lie could. He believed that in skill, taste, judgment, but especially in his evangelical labours, God had given them such a head as he had given to no other body of Christians. There was a time when he (Mr. D.) had been young and foolish, and then he did not entertain the same feelings towards the writings of Wesley as he did at present; but every day that he read, every fact that he me ditated upon in his writings for sixty years, convinced him that that great man was the elect of God. He used the term in a scriptural sense when he said that it had pleased God to place the venerable Wesley at the head of a dispensation that was never to end—a spirit had been given to him which was calculated to lead to the conversion and happiness of the world. His own impression was, that Wesley's coadju tors had never yet in the annals of their day had justice dune to them. It was impossible for Wesley, however he might have heed adapted for the great work, to have completed it without the assistance of men like himself. He believed that those by whom he was assisted were the most extraordinary men ever raised up of God. The historian of Methodism would have great pleasure in narrating that they were men of great massiveness of mind and solidity of character. The great work that now exists on earth was produced by the in strumentality of those venerable men. He spoke in the ut most catholicity of spirit, and those who heard him were well aware that be was no bigot, when lie said that Wesley and his coadjutois and his followers had erected the finest, the most practical, arid the most influential system of Chris tianity now existing. The meeting had something now, by the blessing of God to commemorate. The monuments already raised, unless we exceed a deal more than £lOO,OOO, showed what they could do. He looked round and saw chapels erected in the midst of poverty and affliction, and circuits com pleted at a sacrifice of labour, pains, and pecuniary cost, which the meeting, unless they exerted themselves very greatly, could not reach. Wesley and his coadjutors had sowed the seed; it was the delightful task of their successors to reap the harvest. He (Mr. D.) was delighted that it had pleased God to take up, and sanctify, and bring forward the wealth that methodism had created. It literally created wealth. That wealth did not exist when Wesley came for ward. He had nothing but his Bible, the glorious truth in ' his heart, and his Christian experience ; but from that time the wealth of methodism had been increasing, and they now saw themselves in possession of considerable means. God blessed those means when rightly used; and he (Mr. D.) was glad to see friends in the possession of wealth come for ward to consecrate it by devoting a portiAl to God's service. Let them get wealth : let them act oirTsliat was Wesley's principle: " Get all you can ; keep all you can ; give all you can." They were not indebted to the principleof Matum on ; but the principle of charity entertained by their venerable founder. Mr. Dixon added that he cordially approved of the plans proposed for the centenary commemoration. He had stood up for some time in the town in defence of atheological institution. They had been opposed, but had weathered that storm, and at the present time the institution, as now ap proved by the meeting, must be approved by every rational man in the connexion. (Hear, hear.) He perceived, in his intercourse with the world, that it was much easier to get a fortune than to keep it. A great many persons had the sense to get money, but not to use it properly when they ,had got it. What was tree of individuals was true of congrega tions. The Wesleyan connexion wanted institutions; they must now have institutions to conserve methodism, or it would fade and come to nothing. They must consolidate a plan on which to work methodism, and he hoped that they would ere long, not only have a college for the preachers, but one also for the education of the children of the connexion. The chairman had been talking of hobbies—that, said Mr. Dixon, is mine. (Hear.) The connexion would not do jus tice to themselves as a body, to religion, to each other as in dividuals, nor to the nation, without it. They were not to consider themselves now as a little insignificant sect, but as a great catholic body, and unless they framed education on the scale of their existence, they would not meet their own wants. (Hear, hear.) Another century he hoped would not pass without their having what be conceived was necessary to them—a college that should give to the talent of the con nexion as good an education as could be provided at Oxford and Cambridge. (Applause.) The great world was still be fore them, and it struck hint that with this Theological In stitution was connected the great primary work never to be lost sight of—the evangelization of that world. It entiusted the ministry to the care of professors to be instructed in the right discharge of duties which many of them had heretofore to fumble out as well as they could. Two or three (lays ago, at Sheffield, he received a letter from one of the stud en t s, which spoke of the spirit alluded to in Dr. Bunting's letter; and it appeared to him that God had touched the hearts of the rich and these youths at the same time, to show that the work had his approbation. The young man told hint that. no fewer than fifteen had obtained the blessing of the spiritual influence, and, like all young men, he said that he hoped and trusted that this effusion of the spirit, by their instrumentality would lead to the revival of religion in London. Whether it would in London or not, be (Mr. D.) could not say, but he believed that it would lead to the re vival of religion in the whole world. He was sure that he spoke the sentiments of a great many in the assembly, when he said he owed everything to methodism. He was of the third generation. His grandfather had been converted by old John Wesley; he thanked him on earth—he thanked him in heaven ; gold and silver he had next to none—but his life ever had been and ever should be, by God's blessing, devo ted to the lute rests of methodism. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN observed that he was glad that Mr. Dixon had touched on the point of a college for the education of the rising youth of the connexion. He could tell his reverend friend and all present, that if it had not yet been accom plished, it was not his fault. Dr. Bunting, had he been pre sent, would have borne him out in saying that twenty years ago they had a consultation for the purpose of laying down a plan, and a sum of money was offered, at a low rate of in terest, for the purpose. He was quite sure that the time was not far distant when it would be done to Mr. Dixon's heart's content; and if they did not do it, they would not do justice to their friends in the connexion. A subscription of two hundred and fifty-guineas having been announced from the family of Thomas Oliver, of Bol lington, near Macclesfield, that gentleman was called upon by the chairman, and addressed a few words of encourage ment and gratulation to the meeting. Mr. G. R. CHAPPELL, from Manchester, congratulated the meeting on the introduction of the spirit that prevailed at Manchester, acknowledged his obligations, spiritual and tem poral, to methodism, and said he would never give up the idea of raising the contemplated £lOO,OOO till Mr. Wood and Mr. Sands should say it could not be done. He spoke at some length of the necessity of the institution, the mission houses, the ship, the assistance to the chapel funds, the discharge of the debt on the schools, and the permanent provision for the superanuated preachers, their widows, and orphans.. In re ference to the raising of the money he requested the meeting to take a hint from the conclusion of a paragraph in a late Liverpool paper, in noticing their proceedings, and to Laugh at impossibilities And say—it shall be done. The Rev. Mr. MA RSDEN spoke of his personal acquaint ance with, and attachment to, the Rev. John Wesley, and of the Divine influence on his heart, produced on hearing the funeral sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Benson, appointed to that duty by conference. He contrasted the state of me thodism in the north in 1795, with its appearance at the pre sent period. Mr. Richard Barlow, of Manchester, and a few others, had thought it advisable to have a meeting of stewards of circuits, in the county round, at Bucklow-hill. lie took the whole amount of the Manchester subscription, which was ... At half-past two o'clock, immediately on the termination of the foregoing proceedings, upwards of a hundred an d twenty of the ministers and laymen of the connexion, sat down to an excellent dinner at the Adelphi Hotel. The de molition of the viands having been completed, thanksgiving was returned by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, the cloth was drawn, and a sumptuous dessert was placed upon the table. THOMAS SANDS, Esq., was in the chair, and near him and about the tables we noticed the following laymen of influence : —Messrs. James Wood, G. R. Chappell, Thos. Percival Bunting, John Fenneley, John Westhead, J. D. Barton, Robert Hinson, A. Bealev, and John Chubb, of Manchester; Mr. T. G. C. Gibson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mr. Thos. Bowes, of Chester • Mr. Thomas Oliver and Mr. Brook, of Bollington, near glacclesfield ; !Sir. Fishwick, of Scruton ; Mr. A. G. Suter, of Halifax; and Messrs. Ashton, Wade, Spence, Dean, Sinclair, P. Bancroft, Banning, Pennell, Churchill, Grindrod, Frost,l-Tuley, Bond, Leigh, and Cotner, of Liverpool. The CHAIRMAN, in rising, was much applauded. He said he was not much in the habit of proposing toasts, either at his own table or that of others, but he thought that if there was an occasion when he might deviate from his usual practice this was one. The toast which he had to propose he was quite sure would be drunk with very sincere pleasure, or, he should say with delight. It could not, indeed, be otherwise. It would be an insult to suppose that all present were not loyal —(applause)—that they were not all good men and true. (Applause.) With such an atmosphere as they—the mem bers of the Westleyan Society—breathed, any other than a loyal man could not exist in the connexion. (Applause.) By this time they would have discovered his toast, and he would therefore give them— " The Queen—God bless her!" (Great applause.) The CH AIRMAN, with a preparatory eulogiuui, next gave— " The President, and the Conference." (Applause ) The Rev. G. NIA RSDEN replied, and bore testimon3 to the zeal, the ability, and the sound methodist principle of the Rev. Thomas Jackson whilst he conducted the connextonal Magazine. and expressed his conviction that now he had been elected to the presidency of the conference he would continue to be worthy of the honour they had done him.— (Applause.) The CHA IRMA N, after a suitable preface, gave " Dr. Bunting and the Theological Institution." (Great applause.) Mr. 'l'. P. BUNTING responded in a very neat address. The CHAIRMAN again addressed the company and proposed "The Rev. Mr. ANDERSON, and continued prosperity to the Centenary Celebration Funds." (Much applause.) The Rev. Mr. ANDERSON responded in a speech of great eloquence. Mr. 'l'. P. BUNTING wished to propose a toast. They were all much obliged to Mr. Sands for the munificent contribution to the funds, and for the noble and edifying example which he had set the people of Liverpool in his conduct this day. After eulogizing the Chairman for the delicate yet decided manner in which he had given his asssistance, he gave "The healthof Mr. Sands, our chairman." (Applause.) The fiev. Robert Newton, whose absence had been much deplored by some of the speakers, but who was nevertheless confidently expected here entered the room about five o'c lock, and was enthusiastically received. Mr. SANDS briefly, but appropriately, returned thanks for the compliment paid to him by the company, in drinking his health with such marks of rare esteem. He concluded by suggesting " The health of the Treasurer to the Centenary Fund, James Wood, Esq., with his family." (Great applause.) Mr. Wood acknowledged the toast in an efocinent and power ful speech, and proposed "The health of the Secretary to the Conference—the Rev. Robert Newton." (Much applause.) The Rev. R. NEWTON returned thanks in a very feeling manner, and was greatly applauded. Mr. T. P. BUNTING then proposed, with many compli mentary allusions. " The Ladies of Liverpool." (Applause.) Mr. BRAKE suggested that, before separating , they should drink _ _ _ . " Thanks to our Liverpool friends for their kind hospi tality." (Applause.) The company separated at six o'clock to attend the evening meeting at Brunswick Chapel, having passed the afternoon most delightfully. , EVENING MEETING AT BRUNSWICK CHAPEL. Another meeting took place at the Brunswick Chapel on Wednesday night, at half•past six o'clock. Mr. JAMES, of Manchester, presided on this occasion. The proceedings were commenced by singing a hymn, after which a chapter from the Old Testament was read, and one of the clergymen offered up a prayer. The Rev ROBERT NEWTON was then called upon by the chairman. He said that he had not had the slightest int►ma- tion that he should have been called upon to address the as sembly, and much less that he should have been the first Any remarks, therefore, that he should offer must be cum pletely unmeditated. In a cause, however, in which their common Christianity was concerned, he did not feel itneces sary that he should offer any apology ; and, indeed, wherever that form of Christianity generally known by the name of Wesleyan methodism was known, it would be felt that apolo gies were out of place. lie could not heat the sound of his voice in that place without the law of association coming into operation, and reminding him of many years gone by, and of many things which had therein occurred. Twenty years had elapsed since be had had the privilege of bearing his tes timony to their Divine and common Master beneath that roof. Many individuals have passed away since then, and he could not look round him without seeing many places empty which had once been occupied by familiar and beloved persons. Yet their children were now occupying the places of the parents who had departed from amongst them, and he could nut but rejoice to see the children treading hi the steps of parents who had walked in the right course. The speaker then re ferred to Wesley, whose character he highly eulogised, and then went on to say that not only the followers of that great and pious man. but the members of many other sects, and many who called themselves members of no sect whatever, admired his character and that of the great body of Wesleyans, and in general approved of what they were doing. He him self heard these expressions of approval and admiration very frequently, as he went travelling about, for there were very few places in her majesty's dominions in which there was not some one who knew ban. He was in the habit, he said, of hearing many things said admiringly of their conduct with respect to the centenary; and very often, too, these things were said by persons who little imagined that a Wes leyan minister was within hearing. He thought that it would be very ungracious, indeed, if they allowed this centenary to pass unobserved. What had Wesleyanisin done for them ? Ah ! what had it not done? They were wantlerj,ng from the truth, and straying like lost sheep. But, while thus straying about front the right path, Wesleyanistn came and led them to discover their guilt and their danger, and they sighed from the bottom of their hearts, like the poor publican, "God be merciful to me a sinner." He recollected that when he re sided at his father's house, many persons used to come there, and the conclusions of the addresses which they delivered used invariably to be, "Up and be doing." Could they for get the rock whence they were hewn, or the hole whence they were drawn ? For his own part, he could not; and he should say, in the language of a gentleman who had addressed them on a previous occasion, "No ; sooner than do so, let my right hand forget its cunning." Every day of every year that he lived he felt more deeply, and the impression became more vivid, of what he owed to Wesleyan methodism. They were resolved, be said, to try to celebrate the centenary of methodists in a proper way. Methodism was pre-eminently the work of God, and he hoped that it would always be looked upon in that light. The question remained, seeing that they were determined to celebrate the centenary, how they were to do it. Well, in the first place, they were resolved to have something monu mental, and at the same time useful. He did not refer to a mere statue, or something of that kind, though he should certainly be extremely delighted to see a statue of their great founder raised,.that generations vet to come, gazing upon it, might bless the name of that extraordinary man. The first thing they had resolved upon was to have a theological insti tution; and respecting this he had been told an odd sort of thing the other day.. •‘ Don't you know," said an individual to him, "that if you found this theological institution, all your young men will be brought up in such a manner that you will be thrown into the shade ?" Now, he should be ashamed of himself as a minister, if he had not a sincere de sire that he himself and his contemporaries might be thrown into the shade by the rising generation of Wesleyan ministers. He hoped that the institution would so prepare the young men as to enable them to go on in a manner which they bad never yet been enabled to do. And why in a manner which they had never yet been able to do? Because they had not had the advantages which it was their object to confer upon the young men. Envy them, indeed! Why the old minis ters should feel envy of those that were to succeed or to co operate with them, was yet to be found out by him. He saw not the slightest cause for envious or jealous feelings, and God forbid that he or any other should entertain such im proper thoughts or feelings. The elder brethren should rejoice and thank God that he is raising up men who will do his work better than their predecessors have done; and thus, when going down the vale of years, they will have the re flection that methodism will live when they are dead—that it will uphold its doctrines pure and unimpaired, maintain its spirit and discipline, and live while the sun and moon con tinue to shine. Those who knew the affairs of the associa tion best would say that the institution was decidedly neces sary—that it was pressingly, urgently, called for. He could also tell them another thing, that, much as the idea was boggled at in the first instance, it now seemed very likely that not some young men, but that all the young men who present themselves before the association for trial, should pass through the college for training. He could tell them another thing too, and one that would surprise nobody. He knew an instance in which a young man came from that in stitution, and when some of the persons in the district to which he was sent became acquainted with the fact, there were many searchings of hearts, and some talked of shutting their doors against the man. But he had not gone two rounds of the circuit, when they began to return thanks to God for having sent the young minister among them, and they prayed to God that he would bless the institution, and not only that. but he would send many of the old men there, — (laughter,)—such, perhaps as his friend Mr. Marsden, along . side of him, or his brother Mr. Slug. (Laughter, and a re mark of "He is no slug at any rate." No; he did not mean that any such idea should be conveyed; neither had he intended to pun upon the name. As to the second object which they proposed to carry into effect, he said that all who were acquainted with the missionary concerns of the associ ation were aware that a larger place had become necessary for the transaction of the business. A few days ago he had been in the committee room, and had never been so over whelmed with astonishment as when he beheld the wonder ful extent, the mightiness of their missionary labours, and the extraordinary magnitude of the work that was there carried on. It therefore, as he had stated, had become necessary that they should have larger places. And he thought that both of these erections—the missionary premises and the theo logical institution—should he monumental works. He hoped also that something would be done towards supplying; the want which is now experienced of Christian missionaries— there were at least fifty inure wanted. Mr. Archibald, that excellent man, who had spent twenty years in Africa as a missionary, and who, besides a number of other works, had rendered the four evangelists into the language of the natives amongst whom he had so long been located, had returned, on domestic business, to England, bringing with him his wife and some of his children, the remainder or his family having been left in Africa. Though Mr. Archibald had come to England, he had no thought, however, of remaining here. " Africa," said he, " is my country." When he went there , he found the inhabitants were poor, wretched savages, and now, through his labours, many had been humanised, civi lised, and Christianised; and Mr. Archibald had pledged himself that he would do his utmost to take out with him, when he returned, live additional missionaries. Now, this one addition was proposed for that section only; and if the wants in every other part were to be supplied, there must be more doing, more liberality, or the wants must remain un supplied. As much, he thought, ought now to be endea voured to be accomplished for the proposed objects as possi ble, while the general objects of the association were not ne glected. The speaker then went on to observe that the third specific object which was in contemplation was to have a small vessel of their own for missionary purposes. The ves sel might, perhaps, be from 100 to 120 tons burthen. Many persons were of opinion that it would have been a great saving to their funds if they had had such a ves sel many years ago; at all events it was absolutely cer tain that it would be the means of increasing additional expense, and the convenience and comfort of the mission aries in far distant parts would undoubtedly be greatly in creased by it. The subject, however, was left to the manage ment of men more acquainted with nautical affairs than him self, and he had no doubt that a suitable vessel would be pro vided, and that great benefits would result from it. The next, and a very important point also, was the proposed schools. And when upon this subject, he would ask who could mention or reflect upon the Kingswood School with out deep emotion ? That school had been reared by the venerable Wesley himself, and it had been a favourite with him to the latest hour of his life. That school might be con sidered as belonging to the whole connexion. There the boys of many of their ministers had been educated, and they needed net to go out of their own chapel to find young men who had been educated there—who had turned out men of gifts and piety, and who would be owned and appreciated any where. He was glad, too, to find that they were deter mined to put what he might call the centenary extinguisher on the whole debt, under which they had laboured for some time ; and by so doing a larger amount would then be left for other purposes in future years. There was another thing on which he might also remark. It was not to the honour of the body of Wesleyans that many of their aid set , vants had been left in poverty and want after the days of their energy, though not of their usefulness, had passed; for, though old, many were still ready to stop a gap upon an occasion of necessity. And then the widows of ministers had also been too much overlooked; but he re joiced that it was now in the heart of the members of the as sociation generally to supply the wants of the two classes to which he had alluded. The subject had not been mooted by the ministers themselves; for, however desirable it might have been thought by them, they had too much delicacy ever to _have originated any proposition themselves; but it had come from the people in their connexion, and he was happy to see that the widow and the aged minister were now to be more comfortably provided for in future. The extinguishing of the debt 'on the chapels would allow them to devote a larger sum to the objects he had mentioned, and the heart of the widow would no doubt be gladdened at the prospect. He thought it was a very desirable thing that the various trustees should be relieved from the debts which pressed upon the chapels, and that the work of God might go on without let or hindrance. He sincerely hoped that a large sum would be forthcoming to relieve their heavily burthened and em barrassed chapels, for the grievances and the hindrances which were caused by an ever-pressing debt were very nu merous, and must be known to many persons. That they would now be effectually relieved, he trusted, and then the Christian work of Wesleyan methodism would go on extend ing wider and wider still. Let them not forget what the blessed Saviour bad pronounced respecting the widow who had thrown into the treasury, not her one mite, but her two mites. The Almighty Being, who knew the hearts of all, had pronounced that she was the greatest giver. Many rich had given, but they had given from their abundance, whereas the poor woman gave her two mites only, but they were all she had. He hoped that those who had a desire to contribute on this occasion, would not be discouraged on account of the large sums which had been given by many individuals; but recollect that if they contributed, like the widow, in propor tion to their capability, their offerings would be equally as acceptable, and show the same spirit of benevolence—the same wish to do good. Mr. SANDS then stated, for the information of those who might wish to contribute, that be had been appointed the local treasurer. He said, that'it was unnecessary for him to state that he entirely approved of the proceedings which had taken place, so far, both in Liverpool and Manchester. Several gentlemen who had made contributions then briefly addressed the meeting. Mr. CALLOW sr, who subscribed £lOO, entered into a short statement of the benefits which he had experienced from Wesleyan methodism, and hoped that the association would go on prospering. Mr. Wet, WILKINSON said, that he had been twenty years a Wesleyan methodist; he had never been any thing else, and he hoped that he should live and die among them. He also hoped that the good work might go on and prosper. None of them could say that they had more occasion for the mite than he had. He had eleven children; yet the Lord had given the power to make the offering which he had sent in, and what he had given he gave freely. Mr. THOMPSON said that all he possessed he owed to Wes leyan methodism. He had a father in heaven, a wife in heaven, and children in heaven, and he owed all to God. It was his ardent desire to devote the remainder of his days to God. He could say, with the psalmist, " Create me a new heart, 0 God, and put a right spirit within me." The Rev. Mr. DixoN said that the sum which they had originally calculated on obtaining was £BO,OOO at the utmost; but he now thought that they might raise from £lOO,OOO to £120,000, if they went on as they had begun. The rev. gentleman then went on to say that he would throw out a hint or two which they might turn over in their minds. He had been to Ireland, for the first time in his life, during the last summer, and while there he had received infor mation which he had not previously received, and impres sions that never would, never could, and never should, be obliterated from his memory. His impression was that they did not adequately sympathize with their Wesleyan brethren in Ireland. If any class of men stood in need of their assist ance or support, it was their Christian brethren in Ireland; for there was not a body of ministers under heaven that were subjected to severer hardships and privations than the Wesleyan ministers in Ireland. The parishes there were divided into three classes, one of which was called the travel ling circle. The ministers left their home, if they had one, on Monday morning, and they spent every day in the week in the midst of the huts and poverty of the lush peasantry. He met one young man in the north of.lreland who was evidently a gentleman, as was indicated by his information, his manner, and carriage, and he was moreover a good and excellent preacher. He informed the rev. speaker that though he was a reader, as might have been expected, he had not had time to read a single volume. (Hear, hear.) He spent his time in going about from cabin to cabin, lodging at night in the midst of the family, and necessarily, as all ac quainted with the state of the Irish peasantry knew, in the midst of pigs and cattle, in a broken and shattered hovel. The inhabitants, in consequence of their poverty, were un able to build either schools or chapels. In fact, whenever they managed to obtain a little money, the most of them emigrated, and the consequence sometimes was that the so ciety was broken up. They ought to endeavour to bring into exercise a new and moral feeling with respect to Ireland. When they wanted to deal with slavery, what did they do? They created a moral influence which abolished it. Now, What he wanted them to do was, to create a mural feeling on the occasion, equivalent to the removal of the evils which he had spoken of as existing in Irelasid. '!'heir little societies there existed at the side of popery—that is, the little kid dwelt in the presence of a lion ready to stretch out his paw to crush it. There was amongst them a fear which very much, paralysed them. Ile therefore desired that the English me thodists should support the Irish—that some means should be adopted by which the latter might be taught to feel that they had to retire back upon the whole of English methodism. He thought that it would not be amiss if they turned this sub ject over in their minds. He should most certainly like to see some practical proof of their sympathy with their Irish brethren given on this present centenary occasion. Ile did not mean to point out any way in which pecuniary help might be distributed ; but he thought that a very excellent plan would be to establish schools in the sister island, which shOuld have creditable teachers, who might teach the chil dren protestanism—that is, the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible. The schools might also be made preaching places as well, and then they would have perma nent places in which their ministers might preach the word of God, whereas now the places were being changed continually, from, as he had stated, the fact of the persons who had lent them their habitations emigrating. The grandest contest which was to take place between truth and falsehood was to take place in Ireland. He did not speak as a politician, but as a Christian minister; and his impression was that that coun try presented to them a platform for operation which it pre sented to no other body. He might mention that he had been urged to,this statement by some ladies to whom he had been speaking upon the subject, and lie had their authority to say that if something was done for Ireland, they would, although they had already contributed, make an addition to their subscriptions. If they would give hint a roving com mission, he might, he thought, safely pledge himself to col lect as touch auditional money as he proposed to give to Ire land. The rev. gentleman then referred to other persons who had been visiting that country, and stated that they had, like him, come back with a deep impression of the ability and goodness of the Irish character. Ile hoped that the hints which he had thrown out would not be lost sight of, for the population of the sister isle needed scriptural instruction as much as any part of the habitable globe. If they entertained his humble petition, he should return them his most hearty thanks. The Rev. Mr. BUNTING said that he could corroborate most fully what the last speaker had said respecting the cha racter of the Irish people. He considered them the most noble race of men and ministers on the face of God's earth. He then went on to enumerate what (he association already did for Ireland, what it was their intention to do, and con cluded by saying that it was intended that that country should have an equal benefit with themselves in all their arrange ments. lie thought that the interests of the Irish had not been neglected, and he hoped that Mr. Dixon would see that there did exist in England a sympathy with the condition of their Wesleyan brethren in Ireland. Mr. WA DE said that he had respected, and had had cause to respect and venerate Methodism for nearly fifty years: he had sat under a Wesleyan ministry for the last forty-five years: He owed much to the providence of God ; —he did not say to Methodism, though he might owe smethiug to that. He loved and admired his own brethren; but he was ready to give the right hand of fellowship to all classes and sects. The Rev. ROBERT Woon, from Huddersfield, then ad dressed the audience. He entered at some length into the history of his personal obligations to Methodism—obligations which, be might say, commenced fifteen years before his birth, because at that period it pleased God to call to that belief both of his parents. That was before they were mar ried; but after their union they lived together for upwards of 56 years; and he thought he might take upon himself to say that, in all things, they were entitled to be called a peer less pair. Parents like his, of course s gave hitn a religious education; but still he must say that ha lived for many years without a knowledge of God. Anti here he might mention a circumstance to which he must attribute the attachment which he first formed for this town. His father preached a sermon in this town, which first had the effect of convincing him that he had been living in a state of wickedness, and without rendering unto God that service of heart which be longed to him. But notwithstanding the impression upon him of this conviction, he had yet to tie farther indebted to the same excellent father and minister ; for in another sermon which he preached shortly after, and in the same town of Liverpool, he (the reverend speaker) was taught to know and feel what Christ truly was. 'L'he attachment which he then conceived for this town was afterwards still further increased when , in IS2O, he became himself a minister of the gospel, and was appointed :o this district. The reverend gentleman, after a few other remarks, went on to say that he rejoiced exceedingly at the proposed public acknowledgment of what God bad done for them : he alluded to the proposed celebration in the next year of the centenary of methodism. Ile himself should prefer a jubilee to the centenary, not only on account of the associations which were connected with the former, but for various other reasons. By adopting the jubilee, a person might then hope to witness two in the course of his life, but no one could expect to see two centenaries. Besides, if there had been a jubilee fifty years ago, some of the deficiencies under which they were now labouring, and some of the incumbrances which were pressing heavily upon them, might not have ne - errin - operarron. The fact was, that they had now to pay for two jubilees instead of one. It had been at first thought that they . could raise about £50,000, and then the probable sum was increased to £BO.OOO. The latter, however, which was then the maximum, he now looked upon as beneath the minimum, which might be fixed at £150,000, and he did nut think it at all improbable that £200,000 could be raised by the munifi:ence of the great body of methodists. When £50,000 was spoken of, it was proposed that £lO,OOO should be appropriated to chapel pur poses and when £BO,OOO, he was rejoiced to hear that £20,000 was proposed to be laid aside for that purpose. Now, however, that it seemed probable that double the maximum sum then spoken of would be contributed, a question might arise as to how the surplus should be disposed of. The sur plus, if such there should prove to be, was, he believed, to be disposed of by a committee, and he hoped that a larger sum FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. HENRY BETTY, Son of William Henry West Betty, Esq., celebrated as the young Roscius, and the last Night of his Engagement. /THIS present FRIDAY, November 22d, will be revived 1 the Tragedy of the EARL OF WARWICK. Earl of Warwick Mr. Henry Betty King Edward ....(on this occasion)....Mr. Stuart Earlof Suffolk Mr. Gray Margaret of Aujou Miss Cleaver Lady Elizabeth Gray.... Miss Faucit. To conclude with the; , brama of THE EX LE. Daran .Mr. Stuart Baron Altradorff ...Mr. W. Howard Count Ulrick Mr. Gray Servitz Mr. Baker Alexina Miss Faucit Sedon a Miss Cleaver. The Public is respectfully informed that the celebrated DISTIN I AM ILY are engaged for the last Five Nights of the Season, previous to the commencement of the Benefits, and will make their appearance here on MONDAY Next, November 26th, and perform with their BRASS BAND several of their most Popular Pieces. To give Variety to the Entertainments, an arrangement has been made for Five Nights, with the popular Vocalist, MISS FANNY RUSSELL, From the Nobility's Concerts, Bath, who will make her first appearance on the above Evening. On MONDAY next, November 26, the performances will commence with Mr. Knowles' popular Tragedy of VIR GIN lUS. Viginius, Mr. Stuart; Icilius, Mr. W. Howard; Dentatus, Mr. Baker; Appius Claudius, Mr. Gray; Vir ginia, Miss Faucit; Servia, Miss Cleaver. After , 11 Well, a CONCERT, of Vocal and Instrumental Music, in which the DISTIN FAMILY will perform, and Miss F. Russell, Miss Land, and Miss Grant, will sing several favourite Airs. To conclude with the Farce of RENDEZVOUS, TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Nemo" had better consult a medical man. The question is entirely out of our province. We must beg to decline the insertion of Mr.Carlisle's letter, which amply corroborates the assertions of our corres pondent. It lies at our office. We are sorry that we are under the necessity of deferring Mr. Oxley's letter. The favour of our esteemed correspondent " W. A. H." is unavoidably postponed. It will not spoil by keeping. The length of our reports obliges us to omit several other ar ticles marked for insertion. Our " Literary Notices," for the same reason, are again deferred. Eiberpool F....tanbatt. FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 23, 1838 . CANADA.—The news from Canada, brought by the passengers by the Garrick, is of first•rate importance. Lord Durham is on his way home, and may be ex pected in a few days. He has given to his successor, the Commander-in-Chief, the fullest power and autho rity to call into service the military forces. The rebels were congregating on the frontiers, contemplating another descent. Several of the banished traitors bad returned, and were allowed to move about with impu nity. Another rebellion seems inevitable. Under these alarming circumstances, it is highly probable that Parliament will be immediately assem bled. Will Lord Melbourne and his associates conti nue in of until that period ? It is scarcely possible. TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.—The length of our reports precludes us from offering any extended obser vations on the Council proceedings of Wednesday. The discussions will be perused with interest. It will be seen that they afford a strong corroboration of our oft-repeated assertion that "the school question is not set at rest for ever." In fact, the whole question has been re-opened. On Tuesday we shall devote two or three columns to this subject, in connection with the other matters brought before the Council. It will be seen that Mr. Rathbone " is himself again," and that he is as capable as ever of abusing the Protestant clergy of the town. POSTOFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—Since the 9th instant the departure of the mail to the north has been post poned till eight o'clock in the evening, which prevents letters being delivered in business hours next day at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Paisley. A memorial, signed by the most influential bankers and merchants here, has been sent to the Treasury, praying that it may bP put upon its former footing, with a letter to the Earl of Lichfield on the subject, to which letter the following answer has been received :-- General Postoffice, 21st November, 1838. Siu,—l am commanded by the Postmaster-General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, and to assure yon that the subject to which you refer steal have his best and early attention. I am, sir, Your obedient humble servant, THO. LAWRENCE, Asst.-Secretary J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool. MR. HOPES AND THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- - Many of our readers are, no doubt, aware, that at the adjourned meeting of shareholders interested in the Great Western Railway a -stormy discussion arose, during which Mr. Alexander Hoyes, of this town , (amongst others,) made himself conspicuous for the violence with which he attacked Mr. Brunel and the Directors. The proceedirigs were fully reported i° most of the Bristol and West of England newspapers, as well as in the Railway Times. The Bristol and neighbouring journals commented with much freedom and considerable severity upon the conduct of Mr' Hoyes and those who acted with him. The Railway Times, on the other hond, applauding the opposition of this gentleman and his friends, published a series ° f violent and libellous attacks upon the Engineer and the Directors of the Great Western Railway Corn' pany, accusing them of extravagant expenditure, o'l' pable neglect of the interests of the shareholders , a nd gross incapacity to complete an undertaking Of seal magnitude on sound and economical principles' In reply to the intemperate strictures of the 1?aille 0 Times, and the no less violent and intemperate attacks of Mr. Hoyes and his party, we published several communications in the Standard;which were furnished to us by a correspondent who assumed the signature of of " Wm. Watch." In these letters our corr es P olu ent indulged in some strong retaliatory language, bet not stronger, in our opinion, than the occasion justi fied. We felt, and still feel, perfectly convinced that the animadversions of " Wm. Watch" contained no thing that could by possibility be tortured into a libel- The letters of our correspondent were rathe r of a s e t fensive than of an aggressive character. His ohiee seemed to be rather to vindicate the plans a nd pru' ceedings of the Engineer and Directors of the Great Western Company, than to pour contumely upon the ir t assailants. We do not believe that our correspond° wished to disparage, much less to injure, the character of Mr. Hoyes and his coadjutors. Of course, as INIII.. Hoyes was an utter stranger to us, we could hav e 13° motive whatever for insulting his feeling s, or 161 : pugning his conduct. We merely admitted the letters of " Wm. Watch" into our columns underthe ca d viction that we were doing an act of public justice, a ri . _ that in a matter which affected the pecuniary of a large body of shareholders. • Entertaining these convictions, and influenced _a these motives, we were, certainly, nota little surprlsen, to find that Mr, Hoyes, during our absence from t f o tile interests had called at the office to demand the name 0 ,... , 01. writer who had assumed the signature of /v o _ 3. Watch," and that he threatened, in case of non°; ,. chance with this demand, to proceed against the p u As s oon fisher of the Standard in an action for libel. referred as the circumstance was mentioned to us we re i t . : „ e el. to the letter of " Wm. Watch," to ascertain yr I .l.l l r e _ e into our columns. A careful perusal of the letitecounia we had inadvertently admitted any /ibellous clr,cog_, winced us that there was nothing in it which "ere bear such a construction. In this conviction w r to fortified by the o pinion of a professiona l g entlem whom we submitted the question for decision. _ c the If we felt surpri sed that Mr. Hoyes should mak ur n'l wo nderful disco ver y that the letter was libello . r; , ° OO as t o nishment was still further augmented wi looking over the columns of the Courier ° recourseday last, we disc overed that Mr. Hoyes ha fd the following advertisement: — GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. _ ----- T O THE EDITOR OF THE COURIF,R• S lR ,—Tlie enemies of g ood managon tbe, ement u p Great Western line of railway having, in default of theirO.! b etter ar guments, resorte d to personal abas o e .'_' opponents, I feel mysel f in the situation of having t. request you w ill do me the fa vour to insert the ol°"'" ing statement and c orrespondenc e. In the Liverpool Standard, of the 30:h of appeared a long letter upon the above object, TO I am the anonymous signature of the y W a tch,' as in which my character is malignantly an d rallielY persed. I was in a distant. part of the country upon the appearance of the publication, but inunediately on Octobc::; WESLEYAN CENTENARY COMMEMORATION. S`•-4 "•1 one guinea, Mr. Bennet, of Chester, took there the Chester contributions, which amounted to half-a-guinea; Mr. Hes keth, of Bolton, carried the Bolton contributions, which were half,a-guinea ; and his (Mr. M.'s) uncle took the whole of the Derbyshire subscriptions, which reached the enormous sum of five shillings. Liverpool at that time had ne name in methodism, and no representative there. They were, how ever, so pleased with the meeting, that they resolved to have another; and this was the origin of quarterly meetings He alluded to 'Wesley's great talents, his deep learning, his ac complished mind, and his remarkable eloquence, and said, had he, when at Oxford, set his eye on church dignities, he might have become the head of a college, a bishop or an archbishop, but he left the cloister, the academic walks, and the classic groves, and went to the colliers of Kingswood and miners of Cornwall. Mr. Marsden also described the poor state of the Wesleyan missions in 181.9, and compared it with their present prosperity. They had then no mission house, and when he went to London in that year as one of the secretaries, got well scolded for taking a room at the ex travagant price of £l2 per year. Mr. Spence was also called upon and spoke a considerable time, after which another hymn was sung, the Rev. R. Bell offered up a prayer, and the meeting was adjourned till six o'clock in the evening. THE DINNER AT THE ADELPHI: than even £20,000 would, if possible, be devoted to th liquidation of the debts upon the chapels. The Rev. Mr. BELL then briefly addressed the meeting. A number of subscriptions, ranging from small sums up to £lOO, were announced to have been received during the evening. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.