The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-21 00:00:00

O THIS EVENIN G EATRE-R ESDA Y, YAL. TU June 21st, THE PLAY OF THE STRANGER. The Stranger Mr. G. Vandenhoff. Mrs. Haller To conclude with the favourite Drama of MAXIMUMS AND SPECIMENTS. Massa Saunders Mr. C. Selby. MAXIMUMS AND SPECIMENTS continuing to be received with the greatest applause, will be repeated on Thursday and Saturday. TO CORRESPONDENTS. the writer of a letter signed " Honestos" in the Chronicle of Saturday last, is on the wrong scent respecting ou r correspondent " Amiens." Amiens is not, nor ever ha s been connected directly or indirectly with any publication. Ebr Zibrrpoot &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1842. Another anniversary of that eventful day which li berated Europe from the iron yoke of Gallic tyranny and shed imperishable glory over the-arms of Great Bri tain has passed away ;—another year has been added to the life of that distinguished chieftain whose genius and valour contributed so largely to that crowning triumph ;—and we seize upon the opportunity which the present time affords us of suggesting to.our fel low-townsmen the propriety, before he himself is re moved from amongst us, of determining upon some substantial commemoration of the name and form of one whose life has contributed so greatly to the honour of his country and to the peace of the world. We have already the statue of a kindred spirit, the hero of the Nile and Trafalgar, ornamenting the area of our Exchange; and our town would do honour to itself, and, -at the same time, convey a tribute of respect, which would be well appreciated, by the erection of some similar work of art in a central public po sition. The day will come when the loss of the opportunity which now exists will be regretted; when the form, bent as it is nou with years, yet still a noble one, will no longer remain amongst us, for the sculptor to mo del or the painter to delineate, If we are not, there fore, to omit altogether the erection of such a monu ment, the time for its adoption should be now; and by whatever mode the funds required may be raised— whether by the corporate body or by public:subscrip tion—we are confident that the proposition would be received with grateful satisfaction by all classes of our fellow-townsmen. The overwhelming majority by which the second reading of the New Poor Law Bill has been carried in a Conservative House of Commons, renders hopeless for the present any attempt to put down the system which it aims at perpetuating. Ultimately, however, we have no doubt that the force of public opinion will get the better of the utilitarian spirit in which that system is conceived ; and we still indulge the hope that, in committee, many of the obnoxious features of the present measure will be wiped away. Above all, we trust that a strenuous and effective effort will be made to exempt from its operation the larger towns of England, in most of which the admi nistration of the law has been one of exemplary pru dence and justice. It is an acknowledged fact that the system of Somerset House can never be worked in such a community, for instance, as our own, or indeed in any town of large population liable to be affected by the ebb and flow of commercial prosperity. In such places, so far as the experiment has yet been tried, a modification of the regulations of the commissioners has been found imperative. The whole system, in fact, has never yet been even attempted ; and the only ef fect produced in such towns by the imposition of a part of it, has been to introduce difficulty and distract ing annoyance into a hitherto well-conducted admini stration of the parochial funds. In Liverpool, we know that this has been the case, and that the guar dians have been compelled on many occasions to act in violation of the controlling authority of the central board, and thus incur heavy responsibilities, or to leave undone that - which humanity itself required should be done. The town of Liverpool is one peculiarly unfitted for the working of any fixed and undeviating principle in the administration of relief to the poor, as, in fact, is every maritime town. The position, moreover, of this port, with respect to the manufacturing districts and Ireland, renders the exercise of a large discretion by the board of guardians unavoidable. Undoubtedly this discretion will be allowed ultimately by the com missioners ; and any disbursements made in the exer cise of it, although in strictness irregular, will be duly passed. But, if this be the case, of what use is the New Poor Law ? If it can only be tolerated here when its provisions are evaded, why attempt its introduction ? It has worked well, they say, in large towns. When Where ? Precisely when and where the attempt has not been made to enforce it at all ! And in Liverpool we venture to prophecy that it never can and never will be worked. _ We call then, and we call earnestly, upon parliament to confine the operation of the law to those localities where the abuses which it was designed to correct have existed. U n questionably such was the original' inten tion of the legislatnre, for it is only by an unworthy quibbling sidewind that towns, having local acts for the management of their poor, have been brought under the authority of the commissioners. It has been only by the incorporation of such towns into unions with suburban districts that the commissioners have been able to oust the jurisdiction of the legally constituted authorities; and if, as it is confessedly the case, they have not, in practice, been able to improve upon the existing system in such towns,—if, as we believe it to be the case, their interference is only the source of dif ficulty and annoyance,—we do maintain that it would only be honest and just, as well as politic, to waive that power, - which they have only acquired by fraud, (until this bill legalizes their enjoyment of it,)and which they cannot exercise with advantage. So far as Liverpool is concerned, we have no doubt that an able and determined stand will he made by our excellent representatives, and that we shall at length be relieved from the pressure of a system whose intro auction here is alike uncalled for and injurious. The poor of this town have ever been well cared for, and the interests of the ratepayers have also been honestly protected.' Why saddle us, then, with this obnoxious system, when-the moral certainty is before the eyes of the legislature that it cannot add one jot to the well being of any class in our community ? In another place we have inserted some remarks from a valued contemporary, the Morning Herald, upon the sentence passed upon the unhappy criminal, John Francis. We dc; not yield, even to our contem porary, in our aversion to the sanguinary punishment prescribed for offences of the highest dye by the crimi nal law of Great Britain. Conducted, as it has re cently been, the punishment of death, with the accom panying theatrical exhibition of the condemned sermon, and the mawkish sentimentalities which are excited by it, is more an incentive to crime, in some peculiarly constructed minds, than a• preventive ; and upon no occasion has a public execution operated as a warning to any class of offenders. With our contemporary, however, we would not willingly incur the risk of ex ercising a weak lenity in the case of the individual in question. The crime 'of which he has been found guilty by a jury of his country is one which the executive cannot and ought not took upon lightly. It is not only one of blood-guiltiness in intention ; it is not only the attempted death of an amiable and unoffe.nding fe male ; but it is a crime which, if suffered to he com mitted with comparative impunity, strikes at the very root of the mnnarchical system under which we live, and the possible consequences of which to an entixe nation it is almost appalling to contemplate. It is not to be borne that any miscreant, such as this Francis, may put in peril the life of the Sovereign, and possibly change the line of succession to the throne, and yet receive no more serious punishment than the man who robs dwelling-house or steals from his neigh bour's pocket a five pound note. It is not to be thought of that every penniless scamp who chooses to earn a life of ease and comparative lnxury, although in Bed lam, should be permitted to single out majesty as the instrument with which he works. Confer the same immunity which has attended the attempt of Oxford upon this man —put him in the way of becoming the object of sympathy to sentimental ladies and s illy men — shut him up in a lunati c asy l um —( an d h e is, perhaps, quite as fit for it as the other worthy)—supply him with tracts and novels ; give hi m t h e same .never-ending notoriety—and it might as well be proclaimed that the Sovereign of Great Britain may be shot at for a shill ing a time, and a peerage and a pension to the man who hits his mark. The class to which these fellows belong must be taught that the Soverign is not a mere abstract idea—that her life is not a mere worthless thing to be perilled at their plea Sure ; that the crime of murder, because committed upon har person, is not to be put upon a par with that committed by a starv ing wretch who breaks a window to find admission to the precincts of a county gaol ; and the only way to con vey this lesson effectually is to let the law take its course upon the first offender. Whilst expressing this opinion, however, we are far from tolerating the carrying out of the entire sentence, as pronounced upon this unhappy man. Let him die a felon's and a traitor's death ; but spare us the enor mity of the mutilation which forMs a portion of his punishment. To be drawn to the place of execution and there hung, is sufficient ; and the public will rea dily dispense with the subsequent disposal of his body, as prescribed by the strict letter of his sentence. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c. Our Cotton Market, during the past week, has been of an uninteresting character, and prices, although tending down wards, have sustained little alteration. The sales have amounted to 20,890 bales, fully one-fourth of which have been taken on speculation. On Saturday 3500 hales were sold, and yesterday the same amount, in a market completely spiritless, vet firm as to prices. From the Manufacturing Districts the accounts are not improved. The tariff, however, being out of danger, will, it is thought, tend to give a stimulus to business. There is a prdspect, too, that, from the improvement taking place in the American markets, the proposed increase of the duties levied upon British imports by the government of America, will not take place. If this be so, and the duty of 20 per cent., ad valorem, be permitted to come into operation, there is no dOubt that a good business will shortly be done to that country. We cannot, however, look for any imme diate stimulus to trade from any foreign quarter. LOCAL NEJVS. The crew of the Ann Hall, of Liverpool, were tried at the Central Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, for mutiny and piracy on the high seas, and were found guilty of a coin- mon assault on the captain. LANCASHIRE MIDSUMMER SESSIONS.—We perceive that these sessions are fixed for the 27th of June, at Lancaster ; at Preston, on the 29th ; at Salford, on the 4th of July ; and at Kirkdale, on the 14th of July, at ten o'clock. The an nual general session of the peace for the county palatine will be held in Preston on Thursday, the 30th instant. PARISH APPOINTMENTS.—At the meeting of the Liver pool Board of Guardians, held on Tuesday last, the following gentlemen were appointed district surgeons under the new poor law act : No. 1, or St. Martin's District, Mr. Ellison. 2, or Great Howard-street District, Mr. Cripps. 3, or Dale-street District, Mr. Chalmer, jun. 4, or St. Thomas's District, Mr. John Ashcroft. 5, or Mount Pleasant District, Mr. Garthside. 6, or Lime-street District, Mr. G. Gill. INQUESTS.—Tvvo inquests were held before the borough coroner on Friday. The first was on view of the body of a male child which, at the early hour of half-past four o'clock on Wednesday morning , was discovered, by the police-offi cer on duty, tied up in a handkerchief, and lying inside a ditch on Netherfield-road, South Everton. It was quite dead at the time. There were no marks of violence exter- nally. It was subsequently examined by a surgeon, who gave it as his opinion that it had breathed for a short time after it was born, and that it had died from debility. Ver dict accordingly.—The second inquest was held on the body of a than, sixty years of age, named Thomas Kearns. It appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday eveninc , last the deceased was working on board a vessel called the Sir Charles Napier, at present lying in the Waterloo Dock. He was engaged in laying down planks on the lower deck beams, and in the act of making a line, called a chalk line, when his foot slipped, and he was precipitated down a height of twelve feet into the hold. He died shortly after. A verdict of ac cidental death was returned. PASSENGERS BY THE STEPHEN WHITNEY PACKET- - --- - SHIP FROM NEW YORK.—Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury, Miss Salisbury, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Ogden Hagarty, daughter and servant; Mrs. W. J. Hyslop and ser vant; Mr. and Mrs. M‘Neile, Mrs. Cooper, Miss Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Springer, Mr. Maxwell, Secretary of Legation to Russia ; Mr. R. Collgate, Mr. Wilson Mr. Walker, of New York ; Mr. and Mrs. Tyson, Mr. R. Tyson, Miss Ty son, and servant ; Bishop Soule and Rev. J. Sergeant, Bal timore ; Rev. J. Ogilby, New York ; Mr. Ross and Miss Ross, Ireland ; Miss Kennedy and servant, Dublin ; Mr. Martin, London ; Mr. Reid, Scotland ; Mr. Ballard, Mr. Steele, Mr. Johnston, Boston ; Mr. Rooke, England ; Rev. J. M`Donagh, Canada ; Rev. J. Leyburn, Virgiana ; Dr. Shotwell, Dr. Strader, Cincinnati ; Captain Sydney. COMMISSIONERS OF BIRKENHEAD.—A speclal meeting of this body was held on Wednesday, to settle certain ques tions as to the purchase of Woodside Ferry. J. H. Greene, Esq. presided, and the following commissioners were pre sent:—Mr. Wm. Jackson, Mr. J. Laird, Mr. Cole, Mr. Pim, Mr. M. N. Raynes, Mr. R. W. Pritchard, and Mr. J. Parker. The undermentioned qualified as commissioners, and took the oaths accordingly :—Mr. A. Kerr, Mr. W. Hor ner, Mr. Charles A. Watson, Mr. D. M`Nichol, Mr. Rich ard Fry, and Mr. Charles Gilbertson. Mr. Mallahy, clerk to the commissioners, produced the contract with the railway company, for the purchase of Woodside Ferry, also the four mortgages to the company for consideration money named in the contract. The following gentlemen were appointed the trustees, to whom the shares are to be transferred for the commissioners :—J. D. Case, Esq., Mr. Wm. Jackson, Mr. J. H. Greene, Mr. D. Appleton, Mr. Horner , Mr. C. Ben tham, Mr. Alexander Kerr, Mr. D. M`Nichol, and Mr. J. Laird. REGISTRY OF SHIPPING.—On Friday the first annual meeting of the Liverpool Society for the Registry of Ship ping was held in the Board-room, No. 21, Exchange-build ings. Henry C. Chapman, Esq., in the chair. The chairman briefly stated the nature of the business to be transacted, and congratulated the members on the successful result of the past year's operations of the society, notwithstanding the de pressed state of the shipping interest. The report was read by the secretary, and received with universal satisfaction. The society is now fully and successfully established, and in its operation must prove beneficial, not only in a local, but a national point of view, to the merchant, underwriter, ship owner, shipbuilder, and emigrant. Six members were elected upon the committee, in lieu of those vacating by ro tation. The following is a list of the Committee of Manage ment for the ensuing year:—Robertson Gladstone, Samuel Martin, William Mann, William Tapley, Thomas Chilton, J. Nelson Wood, Charles Cotesworth, W. A. Coulborn, George Loch, William Potter, William Jones, John Lockett, George Kendall, Thomas Bold, John Clint, Wm. Ashley, Joseph Wilson Brooke, and Henry Cleaver Chapman, Esqrs. The following are members ex-officio :—The Chairman of the Underwriters' Association, the Chairman of the Ship owners' Association, and the Chairman of the Shipbuilders' Association. FACTION FIGHT IN THE PARK.—Last night, about six o'clock, a fight took place, originally, it is supposed, between two men only, in one of the fields between Upper Parlia ment-street, Toxteth-park, and the tanneries, near Lodge lane, by which a large crowd was very shortly collected, some of whom, of opposite political oPiiiions, showed some disposition to cause a general breach of the peace. The police-officers stationed in the immediate neighbourhood were soon on the spot, and word was passed down to Mr. Whitty, our active chief constable, that (as was then sup posed) the Irish and the ship-carpenters—of both of whom there were many on the ground—were apparently preparing for hostile conflict. Police Inspector Clough was soon on the spot, and succeeded in quelling, to a certain extent, what turned out to be a " faction fight," (that had sprung out of the first,) between " Leinster" and " Munster,' or, in other words, between parties who classed themselves as belonging to these Irish provnces, and became belligerent. The crowd, when the police arrived, was about 600 strong, and the consequences, had they been allowed to proceed unmo lested, might have been most serious. Mr. Whitty, learn ing the urgency of the case, took up about 100 men in coaches, and, with the assistance of those before collected, and arriving from other quarters in rapid succession, very soon cleared the ground, the parties flying off in every direc tion, until all was quiet. The number on the ground at one time appeared, we are informed, to be from two to three thousand. A smart shower of rain set in immediately after wards, and nothing more was heard of the " fighters." Man y of them, it appears, were from New Bird -street, Crosbie street, and the same neighbourhood—one long noted for the pugnacious propensities of the inhabitants. At one time an unfounded alarm of imminent danger had spread, and the streets southward, leading to the scene of action, were crowded with young and old. Happily, however, through the vigilance of the police, the whole went off smoothly, and we have heard of no accident to life or limb. ZootonicAL GARDENS.—These beautiful gardens have been fashionably attended every night since the commence ment of the season. The Roman Festa goes off with great eclat,—the fireworks and illuminations are splendid. The gardens are now lighted up with gas lamps, which produce a novel and fine effect. The band playing during the pyro technic display adds greatly to the effect of the scene. The Centrifugal Railway is in progress of erection, and we believe some novel amusements will be brought forward during the season. We recommend a visit to these charming gardens. The animals appear to ba in excellent condition. THE EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION This exhibition opened yesterday. It is very far superior to the last, both in the quality and number of the various arti cles exhibited. The rooms are all well filled with specimens of vertu, taste, and science. Mr. Catlin, who has been at ti acting crowds of persons in the metropolis to his Indian Museum, occupies a large shed erected in the yard of the in stitution. It is quite impossible for us to-day to do justice either to the exhibition or the curious and remarkable Indian collection, we shall therefore defer our description of them till Friday ; in the mean time recommending a visit, which will amply repay any one for the time bestowed in the inspec tion. Mr. Catlin's collection is a most extraordinary one. CASE OF THE BARON DE BODE.-011 Wednesday a commission was held in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, before Esq., John Forquhar Fraser, Esq., Edward Vaughan Richards, Esq., and Edward Smirke,s q ., with a special jury, to inquire into the claims of the Baron Clement de Bode, as a French claimant. Mr. M. D. Hill in opening the case, said, it was a preceeding so rare, that there was no instance since the time of James 1., but his Learned Friends and himself had, by the books, been able to proceed thus far, though not without delay. It was surmised by our law writers, that in former years, subjects had a right to bring an action against the Crown, but this course involved a practical contradiction. To get rid of this practical contradiction custom was allowed; the subject now presented to the Crown a Petition of right, and the crown having endorsed it, " Let right be done," the Petition was taken to the Court of Chancery, Thi s was the case here, and the gentlemen sitting here as commis sioners were to inquire into the truth of the allegations in d th t e he jury the Baron's Petition, and to return the truth to the Lord Chancellor. o On Saturday the claim of the Baron Clement a d n Bode was brought to a close before the commissioners appointed to inquire intothe claim. The whole petition ofeven ing __ evidence was got through on Friday, and on the even- F °I that day Mr. Commissioner Fraser commenced sum court, and resumed flung up ; but • o o w f in t g ho to the num erousallegat t io o n o s d c jo on or ta n in th ed e in the • • hour r the concluded baron, lie was obliged _ ferdancs or -£ his summing up on Saturday morning. t three o'clock in the afternoon, at which jury.reatired, and, having found the baron's title to baronbe g o 0 9 1 1 , o r G e , returned ~ 364,260, being into court at six o'clock, awarding the to which theythe sum, with in terest,Th,,thought lie was entitled, for the loss of amount claimed, with interest, by his estate in Alsace. the baron, was X1,600,000e EISENSTEIN'S COFFEE-lIOUSE.--Those who are fond of a delicious cup of coffee or chocolate should visit Eisenstein's Coffee-house, in Hackin's-hey. The method adopted in making it is the foreign. It is excellent. BOOK COLLECTORS.—Book collectors are recommended to look over Mr. Rees new catalogue, which he has just published.. It contains the names of a great many rare works well worthy the notice of the bibliopolist. DESTRUCTION OF FLOWERS.—Two girls, Jane Burdett and Maria Holt, and two young men, William Hoit and James Nelson, were yesterday charged with taking, at four o'clock the same morning, a quantity of flowers and plants from a gentleman's garden in the vicinity, and hiding them in a hedge, with a view to carry them away. They were, however, detected before they accomplished their final in tention. Mr. Rushton remarked strongly on the wanton destruction thus committed, and after reading the clause of the act affecting the offence, fined each of the prisoners 205., and ss. for the value of the flowers, in default, to be impri soned. THEFT FROM PREMISES THAT IIAD BEEN ON FIRE. — John M'Avoy was yesterday charged at the police court with stealing a pant et of needle cases and other articles on the premises of Mr. Eastee, next door to the Standard Office, at whien kthe former) there had been a fire on Saturday. Mr. Maxwell, superintendent for the insurance offices stated in mitigation that the articles were the property of an insurance office and were not worth more than 18d. The prisoner, he added, had been employed as a temporary fire man, but had in consequence of the theft been discharged. He was committed to the House of Correction for seven days. RATTIER SHARP PRACTICE TO RECOVER WAGES.—At the police -court yesterday ; two men, James Cummings and another, were charged by a man, in whose employ and that of his partner it appeared they had been, with stealing from him a sum of money. The complainant said that he had gone into a public-house where the prisoners were, and hav ing produced some money there, they had snatched up three half-crowns, which they kept, and scattered the rest about. The prisoners said that the complainant and his partner owed them 13s. 3d. of wages, which they had long lain out of and could not get. The partner was sent for but did not appear, and as the complainant had varied in his story as to the amount taken, the prisoners were discharged, with an ad monition that they must proceed for the recovery of what was due to them through the Court of Requests, and not seize upon money by force. SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS. —TWO youths, Baker and M'lntyre, the latter of whom was well known to the police as a bad character, were yesterday placed before Mr. Rush ton, on a charge of being found with a well-known thief in the streets, ho had a cloak over his arm, which it was strongly suspected was not honestly come by, but with which he made his escape from the officers. On the person of one of the prisoners, who, it appears, keeps a brothel, were found two small brass boxes, in the form of round-topped trunks, both outwardly alike, but the one solid and the other made to open. These, it appears, are for the purpose of practising a trick or juggle on the unwary, by wagering. As nothing positive could be brought forward against them they were discharged with a strong caution. One of them had been discharged eighteen months, and- the other had been let - loose from gaol only on Saturday last. ALARMING FIRE IN THE CRESCENT. — On Saturday last, a little after one o'clock, a fire, which for some time threat ened very serious consequences, broke out on the premises of Mr. Everard Eastee, dealer in toys and fancy articles, North Crescent. How the fire originated is not known. It broke out in the back part of the building in the upper store room or warehouse, adjoining a back entry leading from Harrington-street, and where the buildings are lofty and contiguous—the office of this newspaper being only separated from it by a party wall. The smell of burning reached our rooms, and smoke being observeJ, our porter went to Mr. Eastee's to give the alarm, and having found his way to the site of the conflagration, offered to assist in its extinguish ment, and is of opinion that he might have perhaps succeeded in arresting its progress ; but whether from the confusion of the moment or otherwise, he was rather unceremoniously pushed away. He purposed to throw the ignited articles out of the window at once into the yard below, and to have thus, by taking it at the commencement, saved any further de struction. Being thwarted in this, intelligence was imme diately conveyed from this office to the fire-engine station house, and two engines were soon on the spot. The articles exposed to the flames in the first instance were of a most combustible nature, being wholly wooden toys and other light articles, and opposite to them was a large stock of lucifer Matches, which were, we learn, soon observed to be also in flames. The fire, indeed, we have little doubt, ori ginated in the ignition of the latter. The whole of the upper room behind was in a blaze before the engines arrived, and the warehouse door was entirely burnt. Mr. Hewitt, of the fire police, and his men exerted themselves to the utmost, and eventually saved the building, -and those contiguous which were long in great jeopardy from tne flames. A window immediately contiguous to the compositors' room in our premises (not above three yards distant) was completely burnt out, and the upper part of our premises was filled wit lr smoke. The flames had also found their way through the rafters into the jigger loft, in which there was a quantity of fire works, and the roof of the loft with the tcagle, &c., were burnt through. The fire eventually got into the room be low, in which there was also an extensive stock, and serious apprehensions were for a time entertained that this office, and, indeed, the whole range might be come ignited 7-- in which case the force of the conflagration would have defied all efforts to' subdue it. Happily, however, by the exertions of the fire-police, under Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewett, the fire was subdued in about an hour and a half after its com mencement. Care was taken not to injure Mr. Eastee's stock more than was absolutely necessary. He is, we learn, insured in the Licensed Victuallers' Fire Office. For ourselves we have happily sustained no loss, though we were put to great hazard and inconvenience. The quantity of halt' consumed toys, &c., that have thrown into the entry -be hind the premises, at our own back door, has been great ; and amongst the heterogenous collection was an immense quantity of lucifer matches, the smell of which is still strong and offensive. We cannot conclude without remarking that we consider it exceedingly reprehensible that matters so com bustible should, under any premium of insurance, be suffered to be stored and compacted in premises in the heart of the town, placing the property as well as possibly the lives of those in the adjoining buildings in the utmost danger. EXCISE INFORMATIONS, ILLICIT SPIRITS. — An information was yesterday laid, at the police-court, against Mary O'Brien, alias Pownie, by two excise officers, for having in her possession a quantity of illicit spirits. An inspector of police said, that on Friday night, the 4th of March, he observed the prisoner coming from the direction of the docks with a basket which appeared to be heavy, and on going up and examining it, be found it to contain a jar with five quarts of whiskey. She then refused to tell her name or residence. She, however, told him next morning that it was O'Brien, and also named her residence. On going to the place pointed out by her he found it was a cellar, half-filled with water ! The delinquent had not since been seen. An officer testified to the contents of he bottle, and Mr. Rushton imposed the legal fine of £lOO. SMUGGLING TOBACCO.---Patrick Sweeny, and Ann Sweeny, his wife, were next called, but neither of them ap peared. Mr. Davenport was employed for the defence. Mr. Sherriff, excise offier, stated that from information he had received he, on the 10th of February last, went to the small shop kept by Sweeney in Key-street, and found Mrs. Sweeny there. She seemed to be fluttered when he entered. There was a basket behind the counter, which she endea voured to conceal by covering it with her apron. He en deavoured to obtain possession of it, and she obstructed him. He, however, at last succeeded in getting it into his hands, and saw distinctly that it contained three or four pounds of negro-head and Cavendish tobacco. Mrs. Sweeny then called out, as if some one were robbing her, and her husband came and forcibly took the basket. Some other parties were by, and he could not again find it. Sweeny, he said, used the most violent language towards him, and flourished a stick over his head, defying him to find anything wrong. Three police-officers were . soon afterwards called in. In cross-examination , it was admitted by the witness that lie had gone in and asked fora pound of negro-head tobacco ; that Mrs. Sweeny had said she had none, nor did she know where any such article could be got ; and it was also ad mitted that on witness producing his commission showing that he was an excise officer, Mr. Sweeny admitted him willingly, to search the premises. Witness asked for the to , bacco he had seen, but nothing was found. The defence was somewhat ingenious. Several witnesses were brought for ward, with a view to show that Sweeny was not the man who took away the basket with the tobacco, and that he did not arrive until some time afterwards, but this defence failed. A question also arose as to the identity of Sweeny, as being the man who carried off the box, and as Mr. Davenport showed no reluctance to produce him, that he might be sworn to by the excise-officers, he was sent for, but was not to be found. There were two informations against him ;—one for obstructing the officer in theperformance of his duty, and the other for " harbouring" the tabacco. The full penalty in each case was £2oo—in all £4OO. Mr. Rushton imposed in each ease the mitigated penalty of £so—in all £lOO. The collector stated in his behalf that he had learned that he was a poor man with four children. RAILROAD MORTGAGES.—The Bank of England has lent £400,000 on railroad mortgages.—Globe. A number of stone coffins, recently opened at the Cathe dral of Lincoln, contained bodies all enveloped in the coarse hair cloth shirts of the Catholic times. The Postoihce receipts for the month ending January sth, 1840, under the fourpenny rate was £103,623, and for the month ending January sth, 1842, they amounted to the sum of £103,383 3s. 4d. A first dividend of five shillings in the pound has been de clared payable out of the estate of the Berwick Bank of Batson, Berry, and Co. The total amount of debts proved up to t his period is £246,000. The united vicarages of North Newnton,and West Knoyle, Wilts, 22 miles distant from each other, have, for the inter ests of religion, been disunited by an order of her Majesty in Council. The livings will therefore henceforth be distinct benefices. The labours of the committee are concluded—the Tariff is finished, aud, so glad were the members to get rid of its dry details that some of them, we are told, actually danced down the house with joy ! It is a new scene in the Commons, and must have been amusing enough to those who witnessed it. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—A deputation from the committee of the Church Missionary Society, consisting of the Earl of Chichester, Sir T. D. Acland, Mr. W. Evans, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. J. P. Plumptre, Sir G. H. Rose, the Rev. R. Davies, and Mr. D. Coates, had an interview with Lord Stanley on Friday, at the Colonial-office. `Ting WAR IN CHINA.—A return has been issued of all moneys repaid by her Majesty's government to the East India Company on account of the war in China, since the commencement of the war until the present time. The total amount is £573,442. GREENLAND WHALE FlSHERY.—Captain Blain, of the Perseverance, arrived at North Shields from Stettin, reports having passed in the voyage a whale ship from Greenland to liamburgh, with a full cargo. This is the first intelligence from the Greenland whale fishery this season ; and it is to be hoped that the other vessels prosecuting the fishingat Green. land, of late years very unsuccessful, have been equally for tunate. - - There is at present residing at Seaville a young girl who can boast of having four mothers living, viz., her own mother, her grandmother, her great grandmother, and her great great grandmother. Even the eldest of these mammas is in good health, and they all reside in the parish of Home Cultram.—Carlisle Patriot. From the return to the House of Commons, the number of officers and men constituting the effective yeomanry of Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1810 and 1841 ' it appears that they amounted in the former 8 35 officers and 13,450 men ; for the support of whom parliament granted a sum of £92,993, which was exceeded by an expenditure of £233 14s. 7d. In the following year the officers numbered 840 and the men 13,034 ; for whose support a vote of £82,266 was granted, over which an excess of expenditure has taken place of £lO3 6s. ld. Numerous meetings of chartists have of late taken place in Lancashire ; on Sunday week between 2000 and 3000 i n di. viduals congregated at Pendle - hil l, a wild and mountainous spot, and the highest point in th e county. Every Sunday also, for the last few weeks, encampments of chartists have been held on the hills and other parts of the manufacturing districts. One speaker stated, " that if they were resolved to have recourse to physical force, he would undertake to lead them on, if he could only see one hundred men, twenty one years of age, ready and united.". REVOLTING MUTILATION OF THE BODY OF A STILL-BORN INFANT. Yesterday, Charlotte Babbington (on view of the muti lated'body of whose infant child an inquest was held yester day week at the Workhous e when a verdict of " still-born" was returned) was brou g ht before Mr. Rushton, at the Police court, she having been detained on the charge of concealment of pregnancy, until her health was sufficiently restored to enable her to undergo a second harrowing investigation. The prisoner still looked pale and feeble, and she was ac commodated with a chair within the bar. - An extraordinary degree of painful interest was excited amongst the crowded auditory, from whose marked observation the prisoner ap peared to shrink, holding her head down, so that her coun tenance, which betrayed much anxiety, could be but rarely and partially seen. The evidence was nearly the same as that adduced at the inquest, reported in our paper of Tuesday last ; and as it is altogether of a revolting nature, we shall repeat only the heads, supplying also som e f ew a dditional facts elicited by the magistrates, and bearing more exclusively on the charge of concealment. Nancy Friel, the wife of Stephen Friel, said the prisoner had lodged with them twice in Crooked-lane. On the first occasion she remained two days. She was afterwards absent a fortnight, and returned on Saturday week. She (prisoner) had a bulky appearance, but witness imputed it at the time to her dress. The prisoner never told her that she was in the family way. On Thursday week, prisoner, on coming down stairs in the morning, complained that she had been poorly in the night, and that, being in the dark, she had soiled the floor. Witness went up into the bedroom, and found the bed (which had been turned) and the clothes and floor stained with blood. She told the prisoner she had done a bad job for her. The prisoner continued sitting up all that day. In the afternoon witness found two pieces of flannel cloth in the petty, both stained with blood, and washed them, thinking they might be of some use. She in formed her husband what she had discovered. She after wards saw the little hand and arm of a baby, which her husband had lifted out of the petty with a pair of tongs; she subsequently saw the remaining arm, the legs, body, and head of a child. There was no other female lodger sleeping in the room or the house, and none of the rooms were let off to other parties. Betsey Hall, a woman occasionally employed by Mrs. Friel in charring, said that she saw the prisoner at the house on Monday week, and she appeared to be bulky for a person of her appearance. She thought her in the family way, and so expressed herself to Mrs. F. There was now a great al teration in the prisoner's appearance. She was not so broad in the waist. Stephen Friel corroborated the first witness in the former part of his testimony. He did not take particular notice of the prisoner's appearance when she came back after being a fortnight absent. On Saturday night week he found some clothes in the soil in the necessary, lie searched again on Sunday morning, and found a piece of black cloth, and drew from under it the hand and arm of an infant. Ile went for a police-officer. Police Inspector Appleton said he went and searched the petty ; he found a dark. coloured cloth, and a piece of a white one, and found under them the other arm and hand of the child, and, subsequently, the two legs, then the body, and, finally, the head--all of which had been dissevered. He searched the room where the prisoner slept, and found a white bedgown [produced] stained with blood, which the prisoner afterwards owned. A phial was also found in the room, labelled " black hellebore." He also found a pair of scissors in the room stained with blood. _ _ _ Mr. Id' Clellan, house surgeon of the South Dispensary, repeated his evidence, with some few additions as to the state of the remains. It was the dissevered body of a full-grown female child, and could not have been many days born. There was slight decomposition of the chest, head, and ab domen. He examined the person of the prisoner, and found that she had recently been delivered. He particularly exa mined the several parts of the child, and opened the chest. He found the lungs were high up, and on trying them they sunk in water. He was of opinion that the child had never breathed. Children might breathe, and afterwards die in the birth, in which case the lungs might partly float, or might not ; hut he considered the test in the present instance quite conclusive that the child was still-born. Mrs. Friel, being recalled, said the prisoner never men tioned anything to her about her peculiar situation ; and no baby clothes were found, nor any preparation made for the expected birth of a child. A female, who had acted as nurse to the prisoner since she had been in the workhouse, (after her apprehension,) said, that on the Sunday afternoon after she came there she ad mitted that she had borne a child. The prisoner declined throughout to put any questions to the witnesses ; and on being asked, at the conclusion of the inquiry, if She wished to say anything, replied that she had nothing to say. Mr. Rushton said that she must stand com mitted for concealment of pregnancy to take her trial at the nest assizes. She was then taken down. Mir. M'Clelland, at the request of Mr. Rushton, afterwards examined the pri soner as to her health, with a view to ascertain whether she were in a fit state to be removed to Kirkdale Gaol. On his return from the Bridewell, he reported that she was suffi ciently recovered to be received into the hospital of that place. The prisoner, we learn, was the wife of a Mr. Babbington, formerly a shopkeeper in Whitechapel, in this town, and now deceased. We have further heard that she has two children by her late husband, both now at school in Stafford shire ; that subsequently she was in the service of Mr. Bibby, at Linacre Marsh, as housekeeper, but had left his employ in consequence of his giving up housekeeping ; that she thence went into the service of Lord Walscourt, (or Waliott,) in 'lreland ; left that place in April last, owing to incapacity arising from weakness, and then came to lodge at Mr. Friel's for the first time. During the fortnight she was absent (as stated) from her lodgings, it appears that she, was residing at Wigan. She has been, it is added, respectably brought up, and writes a good hand. She had no legal ad viser in the court, or at the previous inquest at the work house. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Silt,—l am sorry to see a person of your acknowledged penetration deceive'd by the specious arguments and mis statements of Mr. Earle in his articles in the Liverpool Mer cury,, which, from your article in your Tuesday's publica tion, would appear to be the case ; and ask yka.i, as an im partial journalist, to insert this letter, and hape 1 do not de ceive myself in assuming that you will do so. • Yon do not appear to be aware of the tact that 7,1 r. Earle has been aware from the first that the author of " 1 u Silentio et Spe," the plan which he patronises, is Mr. limes, and that he has used, and is using, his influence to obtain for it the first prize. You are also perhaps not aware that Mr. Earle has not hesitated to conceal and misrepresent facts to carry his own interested views, and that he has calumniated the author of the successful prize in every way,—that, when baffled on one point he has turned to another, the present position being the fourth he has taken up,—that he has de clared that Mr. Elmes shall have the prize,—and you surely cannot know that the parties " toe independent to be biassed" to whom Mr. Earle has sent the plans to be referred have already made two different statements each, as the Building Committee can prove,—the last one un f av ourable to the suc cessful plan,—or you surely would not call this an act of fairness to the successful competitor, who may ask you why were Mr. Dowdall and Mr. Forster, who gave their opinions in favour of his plan, excluded from the number of the new judges. Was it because they were " too independent to be biassed ?" You do not mention in the article that the suc cessful plan was referred back a week in consequence of Mr. Earle's misrepresentations, and which he was forced to recall, and that it was then decided by the board to be entitled to the first prize, but condemn the vascillating conduct of the board in reversing the unjust decision which Mr. Earle in sidiously obtained in the absence of some of those who had previously voted, and who were not then or now aware that the board possesses the power of reversing a decision once fixed. It appears, however there are several additions to the Poor Law Act which are not generally known. lam sur prised that, knowhig as you must the domineering character of Mr. Earle, you should lend your powerful aid to further his selfish and unjust object. You must be aware of the paltry and low-minded persecution indulged in by Mr. Earle against any person (not Mr. Scott in particular—witness Mr. Stone, the schoolmaster) who may be unfortunate enough to be upheld by any one but himself. I am sick of the hypocrisy and humbug of Mr. Earle, who is continually stating his belief that the successful architect's design was seen by some of the guardians before it was sent in, and that they knew it to be his when they saw it in the room. Why, Me. Earle and all the board knew Mr. Elmes' plan from the particular manner he has of colourinz his plans; and I have no hesitation whatever in asserting, and all his acts tend to prove it, that it is solely because it is Mr. Elmes' that Mr. Earle backs it by his vote and leading arti cles, his misrepresentations, insinuations, in short, by all the bad methods which are generally divided amongst com mittees, but which Mr. Earle seems to have a monop o ly o f here. It is the only plan he ever voted for ! When the di vision was taken for the first prize, six were for the success ful one—Mr. Earle and another for Mr. Elmes! When the vote was for the second prize, four were for Coat of Arms, and four, including Mr. Earle, for Mr. Elmes ! ! The chairman, Mr. Earle, (how came he to be chairman that day ?) then gave the casting vote for Mr. Elmes ! ! In short, it was, and is, Elmes, Elmes, limes. Why, then, all this mocking and talk about prejudging? You say, "To canvass a gentleman for his vote under such circumstances is to offer him a gross insult ;" of this I accuse Mr. Earle. Probably Mr. It. E. Harvey, Mr. Dover, and Mr. Rimmer can prove the truth of this ; and I ask Mr. Dover how he knew that (as he boasted) he would have had the majority last Tuesday if the guardians had not been can vassed? When Mr. R. E. Harvey came to the meeting he came for a certain purpose : —to do the bidding of Mr. Earle, who brought him. Mr. Rimmer never attended any meet ing till Tuesday, when he attended to vote against the suc cessful plan without knowing anything of the merits of the question, and for that purpose only. You may not be aware that when the motion was brought forward to refer the plans to professional gentlemen, (Vier the prize had Leen awarded and the sealed letters opened, the chairman, the Rev. A. Campbell, expressed " his sur prise at Mr. Earle's motion," saying that he had never known any Parallel to it, and condemned it in the strongest terms. In conclusion, may I as k would it not have been b e tt er f or you to have studied both sides of the question before writing an article on the, subject, as it may tend seriously to injure the successful architect in the opinion of your readers, who may not previously have heard an ything of the subject in question. The plans are on view at the Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice Place, to take an impartial view of them yourself. Sir, your's, &v., June 17th, 1842. FIIIDIAS. [Our correspondent may rest assured that we have not been " deceived by the s p ecious arguments and misstate ments of Mr. Earle;" and we think he. has left untouched that point for which we contended --namely, perfect justice being done to every competitor. With the decision of the Board of Guardians we have no desire to quarrel; but we , hold ourselves at liberty to remark on the vacillating con duct which has characterised their proceedings during the last few weeks. W e have understood that Mr. Earle pledged ' his honour as a gentleman that, until the seal of the letter was broken, he did n ot know that silentio in spa was the production of Mr. Elmes and although we disapprove of much of Mr. Earle's political cond uct , upon which w e have fully and freely commented, we are not inclined to question his honour or veracity as a gentlema n . T he remarks wh i c h we made on Tuesday- were to the effect, that if any member to of the Board of Guardian s had be en personally canvassed su ort a it was insulting to the person so p a rticular design , canvassed unjust to oth er archit ects who had spent much time, labour, and money on designs, expecting an impartial selection—and very likely to deprive the town in future of the valuable competition of architects of high character and ability. We still hold to this opinion, which is that of every man who is not biassed by prejudice or blinded by partiality. The truth is, that certain members of the board were re. solved at all hazards to carry a particular design. The com petitors themselves expected justice ; the public e4.,ected that the best plan would be chosen, no matter who might be ' its author. A difference of opinion arose, more especially when it became known that Mr. Scott's plan had been pre. viously seen by some of those who had afterwards to sit in judgment upon it. It was then resolved that it should he left to the decision of certain professional gentlemen to choose ' the best design, it having been previously ascertained that none of them or their connexions were competitors ; and we are of opinion that none of the gentlemen who have sent in plans will demur to this arrangewient. It appears that the opinion of Mr. Stewart and Mr. Weightman had been asked, not in reference to the whole of the designs, but only as re garded the plans selected by the members of the board; and although we do not underrate the opinion of Mr. Forster and Mr. Dowdall, these gentlemen could hardly be expected to be judges of architectural designs, or of the mode of their execution. If we are correctly informed, Messrs. Cunning ham, Picton, Mime, Stewart, and Weightman, are now en gaged, not in selecting from the three plans which have been brought so prominently forward, but in going through the whole of the thirtg-nine designs; and from the well-known character of these gentlemen, justice will be done to all par ties. We hope when they have made a selection that the public will be admitted to view the whole of the plans. We do not know Mr. Scott, and can only repeat, that should his design prove to be the most suitable, we hope he may hate the first prize ; but we think Phidias is neither the wisest nor the best of his friends. The whole question turns upon something more than hostility to Mr. Earle ; .and we fear that our correspondent is so carried away by this im proper feeling, that he has lost sight of the principle for which we have contended,—namely, the selection of the best plan, and impartial justice to every competitor.] MONTGOMERY'S " LUTHER." OPINION OF THU REV. HUGH WHITE, OF DUBLIN. May 18th, 1812. Mr DEAR SIR,—I beg now to offer you my best thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of " LUTHER," from whose perusal I have derived a high degree of pleasure. I cannot more suitably or satisfactorily express my opinion of this valuable poem, than by saying that it appears to me worthy of its subject. The character of the great reformer is delineated with much fidelity ; and while its loftier qualities are brought into full exhibition, its softer features; as displayed in the tender ness of domestic life, and the breathings of poetical inspira tion which pervades his letters, are most attractively pre sented to our view. lam also much delighted with the pre eminence given in the poem, as in scripture, to our adorable Redeemer, in the work of creation, providence, and grace, and the sentiments of grateful love to him, and cheerful cow fidinguess in him, which are in many parts of the poem ex pressed with peculiar power and beauty of language. The true spirit of Popery is also faithfully and forcibly exhibited, and I cannot but indulge a hope that this unveiling of the antichristian errors and enormities of the great mystery of iniquity may be of important service in our day, in warning those members of our scriptural church who are, apparently, on the high road to Popery. The peculiar glory of the doc trines of the reformation is displayed, throughout the poem, in a very attractive aspect, by the exhibition of their entire harmony with the oracles of Divine truth, in setting forth the Saviour's infinitely meritorious sacrifice and righteous ness as the exclusive ground of the sinner's trust, and sheav ing the important influence which the cordial reception of this most comfortable doctrine exercises over the believer's growth in :trace, and progress in that " holiness without which no man shall see the Lord." And while the theology of the poem is so sound and scriptural, its poetical merits, as far as I am competent to judge, entitle it to a high degree of praise, abounding, as it does, in passages of great beauty of sentiment and expression. Nor can I omit to return you my sincere thanks for the pleasure whiCh I received from the introductory preface, which forms a very suitable' opening for such a work, and the notes, which contain a mass of most' valuable information. I remain, my dear sir, your's faith fully and obliged, HUGH WHITE. CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND. The anniversary meeting of the Liverpool members and friends of the Church Education Society for Ireland was held yesterday, in the Music-hall, Bold-street. There was a highly respectable, but not a very numerous auditory. The Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan and the Rev. Thomas Walker at tended as a deputation, to promote the interests of the soci ety. In addition to the deputation, we observed the follow ing clergymen and gentlemen in the meeting :—Rev. Rector Campbell, Rev. H. WlNeile, Rev. F. Ould, Rev. J. Jones, Rev. A. M`Conkey, Rev. C. J. Hamilton, Rev. F. Parry, Rev. J. H. Stewart, Rev. J. Cordeaux, Rev. A. Townsend, Rev. S. Cragg, Rev. T. Dover, Rev. F. Barker, Rev. W. Archer, Rev. J. - Walter, Rev. Maginnes, Rev. Gore, Rev. Hill, A. Hodgson, Esq., J. Rigby, Esq., C. Inman, Esq., C. Bouttlower, Esq., T. B. llorsfall, Esq., E. Jones, Esq., W. Jones, Esq. The Rev. Rector CAMPBRI.L took the chair, and the proceedings commenced by the Rev. Thomas Walker im ploring the divine blessing upon them. The CHAIRMAN then said, It being the wish of the com mittee that the proceedings of the Church Education Sqcie.ty for Ireland should be conducted in strict conformity with parochial order, and consequently that at the anniversary meetings in this parish one of the rectors should take the chair, I have great pleasure in complying with that wish, although conscious of my inability to perform my duties pro perly, from the feebleness of my health, which, I believe, perhaps unfortunately, has prevented this meeting being held at a time when it perhaps might have been more fully at tended. I conceive that with the exception of our local charities, which ought to have the foremost claim, not one is more entitled to our support than that whose interests will be advocated before you to-day. (Hear.) Ireland is avow edly the weak point of the British empire. Ido not now wish to make any political allusions, neither do I refer to the religious condition of Ireland with any party views ; but it is - impossible, I think, for arty friend of pure and undefiled religion —nay, more, it is impossible for any riend of common humanity or religious peace to con template the present condition of the Irish people without the deepest feelings of sorrow and alarm. (Hear, hear.) No one who is at all acquainted with their character can fail to admire the generous qualities by which that character is adorned ; no one who is at all interested in their welfare can fail to deplore the purposes to which those generous qualities are perverted by men who sway their affections at the pre sent time. (Hear.) We hear a great deal about the slavery of the Irish people, and 1 am prepared to admit that they are very deeply, but let us trnst not hopelessly enslaved ; and essential as it is that they should be eman cipated from slavery, I am willing to admit that the best way of doing so is to enable them to emancipate themselves. Their moral end religious condition must be elevated before they can become morally and religiously free—(cheers) ;—and I know no surer way of effecting this emancipation than by Scriptural education—an education in which the Scriptural instruction of the people is recognised as an essential prin ciple. (Cheers.) When, therefore, I see a society professing to accomplish this great work—a society proceeding in strict accordance with Scriptural order and discipline, under the sanction and authority of the bishops of that primitive but reformed branch of Christ's holy Catholic church, which is established in Ireland—and when I cull it a primitive brarmh of Christ's church I wish to observe, by way of parenthesis, I do so deliberately and advisedly, because I think it is a great misrepresentation to assert, and a great mistake to be lieve, that the branch of the Romish church which isiirevail ing in Ireland is the primitive church. (Hear.) The primi tive church is the reformed church, professing the same doc trines, and maintaining the same discipline which were taught and prescribed by the apostles, and by St. Patrick too, if the truth were known. (Hear, and cheers.) Its bishops are the successors of the primitive bishops of Ireland, and in so far as apostolical succession has any claims to spiritual allegiance, its bishops have a claim to the spiritual allegiance of the people of Ireland. (Cheers.) When, then, I see a society so sanctioned, and professing such an object, I think I see a means for the emancipation of Ireland, which, to use a common phtaseology, deserves and de mands the support of every friend to the cause of civil and religious liberty throughout the world. (Hear.) The cause of this society is the cause of religious liberty, claiming and asserting to the people the free use of the word of God, in opposition to those who would deny them that free use. (Cheers.) Its object is the same as that which the Great Head of the Church declared to be his object in his sermon to the people of Nazareth, when he took the following pas sage from the book of the prophet Isaiah :—" The Spi the Lord is upon me, because he bath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; to heal the broken hearted; to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind ; to set at liberty them that are bruised ; and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." (Hear.) The object of this society is to preach deliverance to the captives, the re covery of sight to the blind ; to set at liberty them that are bruised; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord—(hear); and I trust that the Spirit of the Lord will be upon it ; that it will go forth through the length and breadth of the land, armed with the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, achieving the peaceful triumphs of the cross, and setting the captives free. (Loud cheers.) I trust that by this society, in unison with that which I believe has recently been established for the preaching and explana tion of the word of God to the native Irish in their own native tongue, Ireland may at length be emancipated, and become really free. (Hear.) For myself I can honestly say, in application of the words of St. Paul, that " my heart's desire and prayer to God for my brethren is, that they may be saved," because I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but, 'as 1 think, not according to knowledge. (Hear.) lam anxious that this knowledge should be com municated to them ; and I believe it can only be communi cated to them through the word of God, that they may know the truth, and that the truth may set them free. (Hear.) And now, as I think it more than probable, from the pre sence of a highly gifted and highly valued friend and bro ther minister whom I see here to-day, that you may hem. something of Popery, in reference to the proceedings of the day,—l wish, in conclusion, to say a very few words upon it myself—words to which I request your particular atten tion, though perhaps they may not be exactly in the terms to which you have been accustomed upon occasions like this. (Hear, hear, hear.) You must not suppose front this I am going to speak lightly of the errors and cor ruptions of Rome, neither that I am going to sanction them. (Cheers.) If that is done I will leave it to others who will do it, and who have much more spirit of belief than I. This, however, I wish to say, as I Sai;., before, and this I wish to repeat publicly,—my deep and solemn conviction is—in this, moreover, I believe I shall have the concurrence of all my clerical brethren who hear me,—that if Popery is to be re stored in this country, its restoration will not be owing to its own intrinsic strength, hut to the weakness consequent upon the divisions of Protestantism. (Hear.) It is impos sible to view the Protestant countries abroad backsliding into the lowest depths of heresy; it is impossible to view the whole Protestant world torn to pieces by intestine divisions; it is impossible to view men of pious, and amiable, and cul tivated, and, perhaps you will say, of weak minds. seeking refuge in what you will consider to be the stagnant waters of Popery, because they are seeking peace in true religion! and like the dove, when first sent forth from the ark, they find no rest for the sole of the feet amidst trouble, and wars, he resies, and schisms ; it is impossible, I say, to witness all these things without feeling deep apprehension. (Hear.) The principle of Popery is unity; the principle of Protest antism seems to be division, as if its n: >ml vnte leain n . (Hear.) And we must take care lest the I tIO of unity prevails, as it very frequently d oe s, o ver th e in i nc ipl e o f di vision. (Hear.) Now I, in my ignorance anu bill plicity, can find no cure for these divisions but this, that every one who loves the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth should unite upon the platform of the primitive church, as exemplified in the doctrines and discipline of that branch of it which is, by God's providence, established in England and Ireland—(hear) —a church which, as a human establishment has, no doubt, and must have, its imperfections, because what human establishment has not, but which in doctrine and discipline is built I believe upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, and out of which, therefore, I think men need not seek an imaginary perfection, which cannot be found. The principle of religious unity may, I believe, be found in obedience to episcopal government as limited by the word of God, and with the Bible as its code of laws. In the same way, by way of illustration. I may observe that the principle of civil unity may be found in obedience to the monarchial' government limited by the laws of the land. If the clergy will make it a sacred principle to obey their bishops, those ruling over them spiritually, the storms that now threaten our beloved church will pass away like a summer cloud. If the laity in the exercise of that faith and humility which is so salutary to the human mind, will consent to be guided and instructed by a clergy thus scripturally governed, the Church of Christ in this country will be like a city at unity in itself, and it may bid defiance to the gates of hell. (Hear.) But I know that in this lam expressing a vision ary wish, and therefore I need not trespass any longer upon your time. I know, in this respect, my words will seem to the generality like the sounding brass and the tinkling cym bal, or the voice of the charmer to the deaf man'sear ; but still, though they may be destitute o f p ow er , I do hop e th a t I may not hesitate to lift up the voice of charity ; and when I appeal to. you in behalf of a charitable society for the scrip tural education of the Irish poor, 1 trust I shall not appeal moving th e first in vain. I shall now c onclude m y obser vations by calling on the Rev. Thos. Walker to move the first resoluti on . (H ear ) . resolu tion, said e h do thee Irish NsoVhnaocru.hrcruEtroue Church Education Society, theob h e g appear before th e meet i ng as ts of which had been alreadyjec so ably stated by their ex cellent chairman. Its design, simply, was , to a ff or d an op portunity to the people of Ireland of rece i v i ng an e d ucat i on f oun ded upon the word of God, wh ere b y t h ey m i g h t b e ma d e aeßnetv. fore T had the wise unto salvation in faith through Christ Jesus.. It had: however, this very much in view, that that education should be guided and directed by the clergy of the established church. The society was a church society, inasmuch as it sought to place the parochial clergy of Ireland in their pro per position. (hear.) The meeting were aware. for the matter had acquired too much notoriety to have escaped their notice, that the Government of England had done a deed in Ireland lamentable in its results ; and that one, not the least, of the evils connected with that deed was, that the clergy had been displaced; so far as Government could effect it,. from their position as teachers of the young. This society, headed by the Primate of Ireland, and supported by the generality of the bishops and the laity cf Ireland, sought to replace the clergy where they ought to be—(hear)—and so to give to all in Ireland an opportunity of acquiring sound reli gious instruction. (Hear.) An institution Lad been founded in Ireland, supported by Government, and which was based upon a principle diametrically opposed to that upon. which the Church of Christ bad been, and ever would be, built ; and the scriptures, though given for the instruction of all, had been muti l ated as if there Were not to be found in them those truths by which it pleased God, through the holy spirit, to make men wise unto salvation. (Hear.) It had been stated by the chairman that there were two partiei, two great bodies in Ireland—the one the primitive reformed church; and the other claiming (but most falsely) to be the catholic church. Now if they wished to have a ready test whereby to ascertain the claims of these two great bodies, to see which was the Church of Christ and the church of the primitive ages, they should enquire which it was that held forth the Scriptures, which opened , the Scriptures for the in struction of all, and which refused them, alleging that they would do more harm than good. Which, he asked, was the church of Christ ? Which was the primitive, catholic, and apostolical church ? Surely it was that wh i ch publishedl the Word of God—that which sought to make men acquainted with His Holy Word, and to bring all, both young and old, to know Him whom that Word set forth as the Saviour of sinners. (Cheers.) The church of Ireland, which the chairman had so properly described as a primitive church, had, from the beginning of this century down to the year 1829 or 1830, extended the blessings of scriptural education throughout Ireland, so that in the schools connected with the various religious societies there were to be found 560,000 children, 400,000 of whom were children of Roman Catholic parents, 33,003 out of those 400,000 being wholly under Ro man Catholic teaching, the rest being under the teaching of persons belonging to the church. Just when the various in stitutions in Ireland were acquiring strength, when they were extending largely through the land the blessing of reli gious instruction, when success was following in their steps, when the people of Ireland were anxious for religious instruc tion—both Romanists and others—then government listen ed, not to the demands of the Roman Catholic population, for they were satisfied, but to the demands of their ecclesiastical rulers, and suddenly withdrew all the aid that had previously been afforded for the purpose of support ing the religious societies which supplied the people with scriptural educatiOn, and substituted in their place "the Na tional Board of Education." In a letter to the Duke of Leinster, government distinctly stated, that the principle of the Roman Catholic Church being so much at variance with the principle of the societies affording scriptural education, that the Bible was not to be used in instruction at all. See what a painful position they were placed in in Ireland; — aid suddenly withdrawn just at the time when success was attending their efforts, and at a time when the Church in Ireland was grievously harrassed by what had been well termed " the anti-tithe war," when clergy were robbed of their incomes. Just when everything was dark and lowering upon the church, that moment was seized upon to afford countenance to a principle, as regarded education, directly at variance with what had been previously acted upon—to which, indeed, the Church of Christ must always adhere—namely, that the Scriptures are the birthright of all, and should be used in the education of all, if they are to be brought to the knowledge of that truth which, when blessed of God, teaches the way of salvation. (Hear.) In this position things stood for a short time; but after the lapse of two or three years, all the various Diocesan Societies combined into one, out of which had arisen the Church Education Society for Ireland, the cause of which he was pleading. It was under the guidance of his grace the primate of Ireland, most of the bishops were patrons of it, and the clergy of the church of Ireland were actively co-operating in carrying into effect the various designs which the institution had before it. One great object had been to improve the character of the in struction given. They were not opposed to secular educa tion, as some faltely reported of them ; they were not op posed to the best general instructions that could be given, on the contrary, they approved of it ; but they believed that there should be a sanctity given to that education by con necting it with God's most holy word. (Hear.) Knowledge in itself was neither good nor evil; it was the application of knowledge, the direction which it took, which made it either evil or good. It must, therefore, be directed into right chan nels, in order to prove a blessing, and this could only be done by associating with it the truths of the gospel. This proposition was expanded to considerable length by the rev. gentlemen, who, in support of it, quoted from Mr. Wyse, the historians of the Catholic association, and Mr. Donovan. Reverting to the society for which he appeared, he stated that the first object of it was to give religious instruction to the children of the members of the church, but at the same time its doors were open to admit all upon the simple condition that they would receive education in God's most holy word. Out of seventy thousand that were re turned in Decemer last as receiving instruction in them, no less than 22,000 were the children of Roman Ca tholic parents. There were 1219 schools in connection with the society, and they had hundreds of applications to become so which they could not listen to, because their friends would not permit it. There were thousands and thousands of chil dren who were asking fora Scriptural education, but they had not the means of receiving them. Durin ,, the three years the. society had been in existence, they had raised funds to the amount of £19,000 from their own resources, and they now came to ask the aid of England, to enable them to open schools to receive those children who were craving at their hands the food they required. The rev. gentleman then made an eloquent appeal to the meeting, and he thankfully acknow iedged, on behalf of the society, the contributions of Liver pool last year, which amounted to upwards of £7O. He con cluded by moving the first resolution as follows : " That the circumstances in which the great body of the members of the Church of Christ in Ireland are placed, by _ _ _ the withholding of public aid from any system of education in which they can conscientiously concur, are such as to re quire the for.ostiow And vi.7orous support of a Church Edu cation Society, which shall provide religious instruction for the Irish poor." The REV. Dn. O'SULLIVAN seconded the resolution in a speech of nearly two hours length, which it is of course im possible for us to give anything but a meagre outline of. He said that the advocate of the Irish Church Education Society in Liverpool appeared under very peculiar circumstances. In a cause which seemed pre-eminently a cause of principle, he was, he might almost say, prohibited from applying himself to the consideration of principle, because he appeared in a place where the principle of the cause had been already indicated. He stood in the place where the principle of scriptural education was put-upon its trial, and had had judgment pronounced in its favour; he stood in the place where an attempt was made to introduce Romanism under the mask of liberality in scriptural education, and where that attempt was met in a spirit worthy of the nation against which it was meditated. It was not in such a place, with recollections of ' that great struggle pressing themselves upon the speaker's mind, with the victors in that great strug gle at his side, that a man would come forward and attempt to bring up again the question of principle, on which already they had spoken their judgment so decidedly. There was a day, which the annals of our country must commemorate, when Romanistn, in a form more undisguised, attempted to introduce superstition and intolerance into this good land — a day when Spain, which at that time was elevated into the rank of defender of the Church of Rome, covered the sea with its flotilla, and sought to disturb the land with its trea sons, in coming down against the land which Almighty God seemed to have designed as the defender of the faith. (Hear.) In that day, when our Queen rode through the ranks of Bri tish soldiery, and, with her words and bearing, struck fresh fire into every heart, she said, " I know I have the body of a weak woman but I have the heart of a king ; aye, of a king of England, too, and think it foul scorn that a prince of Parma, or Spain, or any other country, should dare to in vade the borders of my realm." (Cheers.) These were the words of a queen ; and let him say to them—" you met the attempt that was made in more recent days in a spirit worthy of the land to which God has given such a line of sovereigns ; you met that attempt as it ought to be met, and you vindi cated the land, you vindicated the cause of Scriptural educa tion; and here in England you have provided by exertions which God has blessed that there shall be no fetters upon your Scriptures, that in your schools of national instruction the voice of the Word of God sounds still." (Loud cheers.) In a place like this, then, it became not him to speak of the principle engaged in this cause ; but what had he done this for ? To shew that we had done our duty but iii part—that we should not be satisfied with merely protecting our own people and rescuing our own land from the foul scorn, but that we should, as far as we had •the power, make the principle not to be contravened that wherever the British language was spoken the same principle that gave freedom to the human captive, should make that free dom blessed to him by leaving the Bible free. (Cheers.) This was the work which we had to do, and it divided itself into two parts. To show that it was right we should do it — that there is nothing in the circumstances of Ireland which can justify an abandonment of the Bible, and to show that there was hope we could do it. There were men who told us it was hopeless, and that because the powers that have been, and the powers that be, arc alike opposed to the scrip tural instruction of the people, so it was useless to contend for it—it was useless to promote agitation in the hope of establishing scriptural education. Dr. O'Sullivan then ad dressed himself to this point, which he successfully contro verted by showing, that there was in reality a desire for scriptural education, among the people of Ireland. though it was opposed by the Roman Catholic priesthood, and he urged that when this desire was known to the administra tion, they must feel it incumbent upon them to meet it. The resolution was then carried. The Rev: J. H. STEWART moved the second resolution, which expressed the approbation of the meeting at the efforts of the society, and pledged all present to support it in its efforts to spread true scriptural knowledge among the people. The Rev. HUGH M'NEILE seconded the resolution. 1 think (he said) that the proper business, as well as the con venient time, of this day is spent, and that a, very few words may suffice from me in seconding this resolution. Though the society upon whose behalf we are assembled bears an Irish name, and though Ireland be especially the direct field for its operations, yet it is a British cause, affecting England as well as Ireland. (Hear.) In saying this, I do not wish to detract from the Christian character of English sympathy in aiding us in this cause ; neither is it to detract from that Christian character and sympathy to have a reflection upon 1 one's self. We are called upon in Holy Scripture to remem ber them that are in abundance, as abounding with them ; and we are to consider them that are tempted, Its being our selves also in the body and liable. Upon the same principle I venture to ground an appeal to you, to consider the neces sities of the Irish poor, as being yourselves exposed to dan ger still. (Hear.) You have been highly flattered to-day by the encomiums passed upon what has taken place in this town. I am thankful to see that much for which we have reason to be thankful to Almighty God did take place in this town; but the cause requires-watchfulness still, and if we relax the system of efforts by which the good cause has been won, we have no reason to suppose that good results can be maintained. (Hear.) The principle will be strengthened in us by the exercise of it towards others ; and in the day of our own prosperity we are invited to aid the cause of the poor Irish ; who have inflicted upon them still a system with which you were threatened, from which your children were at once delivered, and from which now your town has been delivered. You have heard to-day a condensed history of the education of the poor in Ireland. You have heard that, for twenty years from 1806, it made prodigious progress— scriptural education made prodigious progress —such pro gress that the priests of the Romish schism were alarmed ; but how could they stay its _progress ? The direct and pro per mode of attempting it was by influencing their own peo ple, but that they could not do. It is in evidence before you that the Roman Catholic people of Ireland were determined to have scriptural education for their children. How, then, could the priests stop it ? They attempted it by influencing the British government. You have heard how they suc ceeded. They succeeded, not by avowing an intention o stopping it, but by propounding a mode which serieoclnTore it fair, considering the condition of the whole p there commends itself as more fair • concession, l ik e fore the national hoard-was conceded . This but, as in . ree resp- c ° t P s, u an d other concessions, was attended with. e other cases, the concession has been This,Lusllcy carried mat, but I say, you have the security has been all forgotten. and now, what is to had laid before you in evidence to -day ; many are hopeless of be done? You have been told that any national support for seripttgaleducation in Ireland, be r cause the members of the present government, as well as of the late government, are individually opposed to the princi ple of scriptural education. You have heard that this is one argument urged. In vain you expect anything to be done by the state, because the Duke of Wellington, and others that might be named, are opposed to it. Now, I confess I do not believe that the Duke of Wellington, or any other member of the present government, is opposed to the prin ciple of scriptural education. I believe that they doubt its policy under the present circumstances s I believe they fear that to enforce it with authority would raise such opposition among the liberals in both countries, as would peril their Places, and the good of the country, which is connected with beth ec e o irp ul ol , ia if they lost their places, those places must men more opposed to the good of the coun try. They do fear, therefore, that scriptural instruction is not one of those benefits which ought to be forced by a go vernment upon an unwilling people. They wholly approve • of our voluntary efforts, is members of the church, to give scriptural instruction to the people, and of our appeals to your voluntary benevolence to assist us in so doing ; but when they come to legislate upon the point, and to appropriate funds collected front persons of all denominations, they hesitate about the propriety of applying those funds in a matter where conscience is in volved in a way that men of those denominations disapprove of. If I do not greatly mistake, this is the reason that they do not assist us ; not that they are opposed to Scriptural education: this is the reason that they hesitate to give funds for what we wish to have in Ireland. If it can be shown that the people are not unwilling, if it can be shown to them that the Roman Catholic population are willing to have religious instruction, Scriptural instruction—this ground of objection would vanish from their minds. They would then see that an educational grant is for a williug not for an unwilling peo ple ; and I think, therefore, that the evidence adduced to-day by Dr. 'O'Sullivan in this meeting is quite to the put pose, and highly calculated to remove the honest though mistaken objection in the minds of those who hold it, that is entertained by men in power against a grant for Scriptual education in Ireland. I think it is highly calculated to touch the very turning point in their minds, and calculated to show them that instead of fairly and candidly meeting an unwilling po pulation,would unwillingly and il r ig e l fr y aining, from forcing upon them what they receive, that population is riot unwilling, but only the priests are unwilling; the government will have to decide, not between two large bodies of the population, one desirous of and the other rejecting Scriptural education, but between the mass of the population of all denominations desiring the Bible and the hierarchy of Rome. If this be the ground of their objection, I cannot but anticipate a different decision from that which they would come to if the evidence presented to them a still reluctant population. For, sir, surely I am right when I say that government, while they profess personally, and entertain personally a high regard for Scriptural education, hestitate publicly, hesitate as a govern ment to enforce what might seem to be an interference with the religious scruples and the conscience of any section of the people, they entertain a notion that it is not lawful for them as governors to carry out those sentiment s which they enter tain as individuals, because, although they may properly en tertain them as individuals. and act upon them in their indi vidual capacity, they do not thereby injure anybody else, but if they act upon them in a public capacity they are interfering with the conscientious scruples of other men. It is this that causes the difficulty, and not that they are opposed to the principle of scriptural education. (Hear.) If they were op prised to - the principle, we would argue the principle with them ; but if they are, then the evidence is exactly in point and in season, and I hope it will be exceedingly useful. There was one point to which allusion was made at the con clusion of my reverend brother's (Dr. o:Sullivan's) speech which induces serious reflection indeed—it is the threatened division among ourselves with regard to what ought now to be done, and the intimation he gave you, that there are some men from whom better things might be expected who are willing now to compromise the matter, and to accept monies from the state for secular education only, leaving all parties to fill up at their pleasure the religious part of the instruction to be given. There is one argument by which this has been Supported, which 1 think it very desirable to examine for a few moments, for it is very plausible, and addresses itself with considerable power to certain classes of minds only fond of - general instruction, and fond of what is called natural re ligimr. It is argued that we have two books from God, na ture and the scriptures, and, coming from the same source. they must substantially teach the same lessons. This is laid down as a principle. It is greatly enlarged upon by writers on natural religion, endeavouring to demonstrate from nature the glorious truths we have stated in the bible— the goodness, kindness, and love of God. When they have satisfied their people that these two books are parallel, and, coming from the same source, teach the same lessons, they then advance a step. If, then, these two books teach the same lessons, and we find persons of all denominations can join in reading the book of nature without difficulty, but as soon as they turn to the Scriptures they split off with a thousand parts, is it not better to confine their attention • to that book which they can read with harmony, and with draw that other book which causes so much disunion among them? This is the ground of the argument taken up in de fence of the secular general instruction without the Bible. What is the answer to it? I think the answer to it is that these books are not parallel—that nature is a fallen blotted book with a curse upon it for man's sits, bringing forth briars and thorns, not a part of the original creation, which was very good, but a part of the curse incurred by man's trans gressions, exhibiting also stones, and tempests, and ho ricanes, and volcanoes—all declaring that a great disaster has befallen it, and if honestly and adequately examined to the con clusions which these philosophers appear to deduce, they know before hand the conclusion they want; they select for their examination the points which suit them as premises ; they wilfully omit those points equally in the book of nature which would not suit them, and by a partial selection of premises they arrive at conclusions identical with Scriptural truths. But if they look at the book of nature fairly ; if they take in all its objects, not a selection ; if they take in the tempest as well as the serenity of the summer evening ; if they take in not only the design of benevolence as exhibited in love throughout creation, but the apparent design of evil exhibited in death throughout creation ; it they take in not only the proof of goodness in giving life and in giving enjoyment of life, but the apparent proof of malice in inflicting pain, sickness, soirow, and, in every instance, death; if they ex patiate not only upon that form of God's workmanship. so exquisite in form and figure, so beautiful, so admirable, abounding in health and strength, beaming with life and beauty ; but if they also take the fact, that in every single instance these forms become a mass of disgusting corruption. If they read nature honestly and adequately, it will not teach what the Bible teaches. It will not teach that God loved this fallen world. The book of nature is a fallen book ; the Scripture is an unfallen book, given for the instruction of natural man—given for the rectifying of the disorder that has come both upon him and upon the world he inhabits. We cannot do without this unfallen communication ; there fore the principle upon which this argument rests is a false one from the outset : the books are not parallel—the books do not teach the same lesson. (Cheers.) We are invited then, sir, after hearing the history of Irish education, to the sad, should I say, disgraceful failure of the Irish board, and the still more disgraceful perversions in the mal-adtninistre tion of the funds contrary to the rules and conditions upon which those funds were voted,—we are invited to assist another society, which has arisen from the energies of the Irish church in Ireland, a voluntary association of church men endeavouring to supply the lack of service of the state to give to the children of the poor instructions in God's holy word. They have succeeded largely, and is it not very ex traordinary? Does it not supply, in connection with the evidence already brought before us, that, after all this his tory, and under these peculiar circumstances, that in the schools so got up by the members of the established church there should be at this moment twenty-one thousand children of Roman Catholic parents? (Hear, and cheers.) This is a fact to be stated in evidence to the government. (Cheers.) I suppose, Mr. Chairman, it would be wrong in me to disappoint the expectations you raised in your opening speech. I consider it a very great compliment to be so identified with opposition to Popery that my presence is hailed by our respected rector as a certain pledge that you would hear something against the Church of Rome. (Cheers.) I said I consider this a compliment and not a reproach, be cause I belong to a most respected body, and a most respect able body, too,—a body that deserves to be respected. and I hope it will continue to do so, and increase more and more. I belong to the body who are pledged in the most solemn manner that they will continue to be careful to give all dili gence to banish and drive away all erroneous doctrine con trary to God's word, and to a body who have subscribed a declaration that the Popish doctrines as being erroneous and contrary to God's word. If then,• Sir, I have been too faith ful in redeeming my pledge, if I have been too zealous in performing my vows, if I have been too sedulous in doing what I solemnly swore I would do, if I have been too careful, too constant, too fervent, too bold in fulfilling my vows and keeping my oath, I hope I shall be forgiven this wrong. (Cheers.) Dr. O'Sullivan held out a hope that we are only filling up a gap, pro tempore,—that by and bye government will come to a determination that Scriptural education should be supported in Ireland. (Cheers.) 1 hope so ; and 1 think the evidence he has adduced highly calculated to attain this happy result. In the mean time, it is well that we should look at this matter not only in its controversial point of view but as a matter of Christian benevolence — as a matter of positive good to the children. The rev. gentlemanthte society hesnpro ceeded to enlarge upon the necessity of su pp ortin g on this ground ; and he concluded by calling upon them to continue their attachment and to give their renewed support to the cause of Scriptural educa ti o n. (Loud cheers.) The resolution was then carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. IsnuAre, seconded by Mr. R IGBY, the thanks of the meeting wer e presented to the Rev. R ector Campbell, for his able and courteous conduct in th e c h a i r. A blessing was then pronou nced, and the proceedings ter minated. Several sermons have been preached in aid of sofhtletalnideaxsyolcm7iewotreynr'..se funds. One was preached in St. Judes on Thu rsday even ing, when the sum of ~C2l was collected, On ing Dr. O'Sullivan preached at Aigburth, w collected ; and in the evening at St. Barnabas's, wh en £l7 10s. 6. terday we amounted to about re contributed. Th £ e collections at th e meeting yes- The newly-appointed Bishop of Gibraltar is the Rev. Gfo. Tomlinson, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge. Mr. Tomlinson took his B.A. degree i n 1 823, and soon after his ordination was appointed Chaplin to the Bishop of London. H e was subsequently tutor in the family of Sir Robert Peel, and recently one of the sec re t ar i es to the Society for Pr omoting Christian Knowledge. The new bishop is a sincere and consistent churchman. —Cambridge Chronicle. EMIGRATION FROM TUE UNITED " STATES ' CANAaDit A on . —lt will be gratifying for the friends of British eingrom is to the North American colonies to know, that a° state left for Mr. Joseph Hume, or others, this year Ll ' , i nten ding Live-sixths of those persons who leave this cona,tr.i Dr- T':° I PIL to settle in Canada, proceed to the United Stat:! ino , h i m that has received a letter by the last mail, int, l , l t r a i tes 7„ the 6,000 persons have come from the United pre sent year to settle in Canada. n'h rsday last a man of FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On a . roved for that day . as that 'le ciPP - d K rkintillocb. driver on the Gla g Sherrieare that of his horse, the name of James M`Kellar, win ow a , c • a supernumerary at a point of the railway near to ii ,,,; , 5, ,.. nn u s . , and dr' :Hied on a d i"' Railway, lost his life in attemPtjin o g t Iron Works. It poor u p with his restive Inrse, were required f r a u st eu d u a ‘ y e , his anxiety to keep h trains, and war eevxcprmaltedatnyy time M'Kellar, in e of t e fell under the wheels of on spot.—Glasgow paper. f . cv _ ° o 7,g - along the line EXPORTATION re _ _ h oe' . y e ffe a tnr the last mout Wars from the lace — m achines of the kingdom l o e f ss th th is a d n i : 34 strictiv p i a th n i d n b t o h b a - t Cutts,s n inc greater t 1 tel bobbin quantities tii'it we car' Fel t h a n . i best informati°n v: n e 'e c e x a c l i ' s ° e bt t l d n e o ustoins, bin-machines have „aviog t a ken, we are assured, no less than period, one person r io - • 13 , been taken out la has this trade been carried on, that e i g ht to Lille openly packed at a neighbouring village, and machines werewharf in open day. I`i the and . practice of the English taken to a . some other af fairs,l ld to be • carrier is held i rresponsible for all goods he a • • • this has been taken ample advantage of, of as one carries , 1 ,rs had the machines our carriers has had . brought to the wharf, and t h ere . Yet, by,.a decision of the Court of Exchequer, packed courts ofjustice, although these machines may be seen thus packed, and the parties should declare they were going to France or Germany, they may be taken by river or canal to London, and declared not wate4-borne, according to the statute, until they are put on board.a vessel or boat on the Thames, with the intent to be shipped. Thus, if the Ex c i se or Customs se i ze t h em on the canal o r on a London wharf, th ey are too soon , and if they watch t o see them the ship is soon under on board, • sail, and ti,en they are too late, the packages being entered as other goods. Such is the manner in which the manufactur ing interest, or rather the productive interest, has been tat ; telly p r aecta—Nottingham Journal. MM.