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on behalf of her brother, Dorn Miguel, which tt th e Queen's issuing a positive order for her return to the capital from Santora, where she was at the time residing ; the request was immediately complied with. Lord Howard de Walden has come home in the Iberia Advices from Alexandria of the 6th instant state that .an express had arrived in the night from Syria, with de.; snatches announcing the cessation of hostilities in that country. The Druses, after four unsuccessful attacks • against the Egyptian troops, had implored the mercy of ‘Hussein Pasha, who refused to listen to any propositions peace until the insurgents should have first laid down their arms. The plague had manifested itself at Jaffa . ; 'five persons had died of it at the house of the Russian Consul. The British government had obtained the ces sion of Aden from the Sultan of that district for a sum of 30,000 f. (£1200.) That town is considered the key of the' Red Sea ;' and its harbour, one of the best along • , that coast s is spacious enough to contain a large fleet. From Bogota p a p ers h a v e b een rece i ve d to t h e.m i ddle 'auil,;; la m !Lot' March. The province-of New Grenada was at peace .• and in unit v with its neighbours and kireigners, but •to wards Spain no adVancenient had been made in forming .;:y l l - •-•friendly relations. Mr. Turner, the English minister to Trfr i l,c, New Grenada, had his audience cf leave for a temporary absence on the 4th of INlarch. By . ilPe congrtilnla'tiOnis .which pasSed between him and the._ministers. it would appear that the 'goOd understanding between the sttuhs lish and New Grenada governments which had been-in terrupted by the imprisonmer4 of the %ice consul at Pa-, 7 - naina had been entirely restored. • a.-Buenos Avres . papers to the end of February h ave b een. reCeiVed. They contain .no domestic news; for the Ar . . gentine fepublie, except as rfgards its wanton-quarrer s-, with Peru, is undisturbed by agitation of any political kind;. but upon the unmeaning straggle which is still` - Maintained in the neighbouring state of the oriental I.e. • public, they SuPply•some particulars." The warfare still wears an undecided character, but inclines to favour what is called the established . government. 'The chief 'rebel, Rivers, after sitting down before Monte Video, the ca pital, had_withdrawn with 1;500 imen, the whole of his army—. During this•investment the place was kept in a state of great excitement, and it required a small body, of Frenchmen from a vessel of wartoassnre the inhabi tants. General Lavallega had gone in pursuit of the re= bels, and an immediate conflict was regarded by the last • accounts as inevitable. The existing government calcu lated upon drawing the war to a conclusion upon this occasion. There is no other foreign news of any importance. From the relative position of the belligerent parties in Spain we may expect daily to hear of a decisive engage lent. IRISH POLICY.—From .recent manifestations in both HouseS:Of Parliament; as well as (ruin the language of the ministerial organs Of. the - press, the conviction is forced upon us that the political leaders both in • the- Lords and Commons- are calculating upon a coalition. The unaccountable conduct of the Duke of Wellington in reference to the Irish Education system, viewed in • connection with the, numberless instances of his interfer ence on behalf of Lord Melbourne and his associates in .. oflice, is u n d ou bt e dl y c al c Ul ated fo e xc i te a strong suspi cion that the protecting shield which he basso frequently - thrown, -over the weakness of th - a Whig ministry .has some other inscription upon it besides' the mere term '-generosity'."'' We • frankly confess that we look upon. • the movementti of the noble Duke with some degree of alarm. However high may be his personal charadter= however.imperishable the. laurels by which his brow- is encircled—=however disinterested may be his'persOnal motives=a..d hOwever distinguished he may be fo/Poli , Lica'. *foresight - and- sagacity —we cannot -conceal from ourselves that the Dul:e of Wellington was mainly in strunrental, under the advice of a .profligate monarch, in carrying into effect the destructive measure of Catholic emancipation—a measure which, above all others, has had a--tendency to' undermine the Protestant establish ment of the British empire-=a measure which has been ~ f raughtwith- i ncalculible evil to the constiinti on o f : Great Britain—a mea s u re which has given a mischievously .preponderatinginfluence to a reckless band of factious and perjured Irish papists, who are leagued together for , ,the destruction of all our venerated institutions in church And state. - : We repeat „it, that tve look upon the recent extraoydinary conduct of the Duke of Wellington with no small degree of anxiety, when we call to .mind the baneful consequences which have already flowed from • Ills over-conciliating disposition. He is too apt to - yield . to. motives of expediency, and too prone to forget-the grand interests of the country in his anxiety to cbncerfe to the clamour of the Popish faction those- adyantages. to which he conceives them entitled. We would -bv no means pluck a single leaf from that chaplet which he has won by his unrivalled military proweSs—we, would not seek to diminish by one iota. that debt of gratitude which his country owes to him—but we would solemnly and earnestly appeal to our Protestant felloW countri-: men, whether the Duke of Wellington be thefittest man in whom to place the safe custody of. the interests of the Established Church ? Has be not already proved his incompetency for a trust of such paramount importance ? Has he not already sacrificed the interests of the chui'clt at the shrine of political expediency ? We do not, how ever, gr o un d our alarm upon the conduct of the Duke of Wellington exclusively; nor are we singular in en. : tertaining.the apprehensions which we have expressed: The conduct of Sir Robert Peel in the House of. Corn-. • Int ms is quite as much calculated to excite alarm. On this subject we find the following very appropriate ob servations in the Morning Herald of Wednesday " From the conversation on the subject of Irish policy which took place in the House of Commons, last night, between Sir Robert Peel, and Lord John Russell, it will be perc e i ve d t h at the p rospect of a coalition between the parties, of which the noble lord and the .right hon. baronet are, respectively, the heads, becomes stronger every day. The signii:of approaching Change are, at all events, worth noting. &coalition between the conservatives and the whigs may be a very desirable result. ...But,,of this great truth, at all events, we : are assured, that the body of conservatives throughout the.cozmtry, did not at-the last. election send three hundred gentlementd-the House of Commons, in ord er th at t h ese three hundred -gentlemen should there be'conte, parties to a compromise with whiggery, If we bear in mind the statentelit s of the opposing' candidates at the last election, the principles of conservatism were, then, declared to be irreconcil ably hostile to the principles of whiggery. Yet, now, the par liatrientary•leader of the conservatives seems to love diseoveied :that ape irreconcilably.bostile principles will admit of amalga iiiation; by a very easy process. This process of amalgamation, ' 4 ': again state, may be the best of ,all possible:experiments; t , ll ' 'on the other baud, it was not, assuredly, an, experiment. a;til:nMated hi the conservative gentlemen, tradesmen, and gre at il e % of England, who, at the last election, sought out, of a Puto, ; °Bl risk, organs for the exprbissiim in parliament of Cat opinions. 4 ir th e b . Robert Peel r:as, when stating his views, last night, in ee d ,T he s.t degree, temperate and candid.- Nothing could ex- Loe fervour of his expressions of regard for the establish (' v nt ci f Peace in . Ireland—except, perhaps, his expressions of In e C t i i , " to the interests of the Irish estab%shed church ! It e We//, however, tlezzt the great body of the friends of that cn should not, at present moment, relax in vigilance t 4ith"S!r Robert Peel will consent to a commutation of Irish . ,Pto a rent charge , without any stipulation as to the prin 'lite of te(iewptiou; ' and he will also consent to the establish t of municipal corporations in Ireland, to be founded on a itP°6l-11kr basis, providing the qualification of the elector, shall be th e ond fide qualification, to be determined by the assessment to l aw ,"°r•rote, or by s ome ana l ogous principle. As to a poor ab thl)r. Ir eland,— s onie poor law must, hereafter, prevail; and w ith dit"iy -rial bill was, necessarily; an experiment, attended stai neri ''s of all 'Nods, Sir Robert stated, that he had ab ::aqvassi, its imperfections with too critical an " Th i thaf e'en of these voncessions on the 'Cart of Sir Robert "I t If chur c h revenue shall always be derotii to e .:cPv.poses. T o suc h a condition the present officials t Znse a - tti rr* e i ffi . anticipati,ol, when they declared, some time ago, . 71,,v,:'4 meant to •ot upon the appropriation clause! `Ford Jo; in llussell was no less conciliatory than Sir Robert; 411,1 their partisans, revectively, responded to the feelings of live; ell iq. The whigs applauded Sir Robert. The Conserva !Mtic'ye cheered chord John. Mr. O'Connell, it is true, did not ipate to fall extent, in the general satisfaction. He 12) naturally, jealous of an alliance, which may take from him 1118 " Ilfte nt mark e t ! 1 .. Let !he friend s of the established chur c h be totop ac pr t, which the el stir themsel ves . Sed, iminaries were, la s t n i g h t, re "Nr if completed, be completed at ber cost. Securi- ecclesict Jukk ,1 4 1,83 S pect to conciliate the wolf. The supposition involves an absurdity too gross to impose upon the most credulous. These remarks have been extorted from us by a re trospect of the proceedings in the HoUSe of Commons on Tuesday evening. Sir Robert Peel has consented; in the name of the conservative oppOsition, to tlie establish ment • of rnunicorporations in el even citi es an d towns Ireland, e a containing a population of 15,000 or more. The, following are the particulars upon which this concession is grounded : First, that the members of the municipality shall be elected by bona fide £lO householders, ascertained by some unerring test of qualification, such as rating to the poor if the poor-law bill should pass; but in any case by some criterion by which fraud shall be absolutely and effectually excluded. SecOndly, these municipalities tooltave no control over the administration of justice by the appointment of either sheriffs or recorders—such appointment to rest with the government. Thirdly, the municipalities to have, no authority over any police force, the . direction of such force to remain with the.governrnent. Fourthly, the municipalities to administer the corpor .ate funds, subject to review by a 'general board of audit, which shall take care that the monies expended shall be expended only for legitimate purposes. Fifthly ) . tolls where not hypothecated for the payment of a debt; to be abolished—and Sixthly, charity trusts to remain as at 'present, until the legislatUre shall otherwise provide, the Lord Chan cellor meanwhile filling up any vacancies as they may occur a . nd" in any future arrangement under this head, provision must be made, that trustees of charities design ed for the use of the Established Churclfshall themselves be members of the church. In addition to these conditions the right hon. bart. proposes, that any of the smaller towns may, if a majority of the inhabitants require it, have municipal corporations upon the same terms. In reference to the fist condition, we would merely remark, that it is useless to think of providing..“ any cri terion by which fraud shall be absolutely and effectually excluded," as long as perjury is considered a virtue when the interests of the Roniish church are concerned. Re 7 specting the other conditions it is scarcely necessary to make any further obs ervat i on, than that they interpose no imaginable-obstacle -t o the ascendancy of the Popish fac tion. But the worst feature in the plan is, that any peddling little town in Ireland may, if a majority of the inhabit ants require -it, obtain a charter of incorporation. Oppor tunities will thus. be afforded in every district for oppres king the Protestants, whose condition in the smaller towns will be found far more degrading than in the larger cities. In the latter; the Protestants frequently compose a numerical majority,. and possess a degree of influence, from their wealth and station in society, which may, in some measure, neutralize the mischief which any bill for reforming the Irish corporations must entail; bin in the smaller towns, the tyranny of the Papists will be found overwhelming. In . shOrt,.we know of no safe way of dealing with the Irish municipalities than to abolish them altogether, or to, leave them as they are. We have * never heard of any mischief that they have done under their present consti- They. have answered the end for which they were established. • They have formed garrisons for .the protection of British influence in Ireland. They have served as means of defence to the Protestants of Ireland; anc.ratlier:than - We should throw these ramparts with munitions into ihe'hands of the enemy of British i n ddellt e !s a,Od'4theProtestantlaitl4 let us rase them t o t li rfo. 7 indaliOn:--let.us. leave no vantage ground to the tOi. turn the means of safety into a weapon of'petfpetnal annoyance. 'fi; . „"ibaieier way the question of Irish policy may be treated -in 'Parliament, we are confident that the cry of the pjiple. of England will be " NO SURRENDER !" r tutioo. - . STE4cit :To NEW Yoaic—The City of Dublin Company. are preparing to share in the c ompetition in transatlantic steam navigation. They propose announcing their plans immediately. We viish.this enterprising company every success; and though last in the field', we do not expect they will be last. in the race for fame and profit. TIAE TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE AssoctmrioN.--The gentleman from Bristol, who spoke at the monthly meeting of this assa - Riation, on .Monday night last, with so much originality and .eloquence, -•is Mr. Henry Bushell, merchant, of Bristol. We were not in 'possession of his name .when our report ap pearcd on Tuesday last. • The grace, belonging to Messrs. ShandS, arrived here on the 23d instant, from Autigua, with a eargd of 600 casks sugar and molasses. she commenced discharging 24th, finished on the 26th, anti went to sea again on the 30th inst., in all. a period of seven days only. NN W MAGtSTRATES.—On Monday last,. being the first day of the , pending Salford sessions, Paul Moou James, Esq., o f Manchester, late of Birmingham, And William. Smith, Esq., of Reddish House, Stockport, came up on the bench, took th e oaths, and qualified as inagist rates of this county. • MR. St.' Armites BALL.—A morning ball was given yester day, • at thi Adelp.bi Hotel, to, Mr. St. Albin's pupils, and a greater treat could not have been afforded to the very numerous and fa'shiithable codipany that assembled. The room was quite full, and presented a brilliant appearance. Some very elegant and graceful dances wereperformed. We remarked particularly a minuette and gavotte by four young ladies, also au allemand by nice; La Cachucha was also danced in a.style to elicit the wannest applause. Mr. St. Albin should be proud indeed of his IIiCRIOCS PIECE OF MECHANISM.-4 very curious as.well as elegant piece of mechanism is now exhibiting for sale at Mr. InsteeS io the Crescent. 'lle, figures consist of a Persian Rope dancer with attendant musicians. It is really a beautiful work of ingenuity and art.. GRANO CORONATION MASQUERADE:—ne understand that the Royal A mpitheatre will be fitted up fora grand masquerade on the evening of the 28th instant, in celebration of the ap proaching coronation. The pit will be boarded .over, and the loWer part surrounded with splenlid paintlngs. A ba.ndoftwenty fw)).; under, the direction Stubby, will he in attendance. We fiave no doubt that the comliany will be both nun:lett:as and aelect: 'ties are, no, doubt, talked shout; but securities have been talked Of before, with no less confidence. "The return of Sir Robert Peel to office may be expected when the Irish church question shall - have been, quietly, thrown overloard. Some superstitious conservatives regard the coming year with considerable apprehension. The nines have been un lucky years for conservatism. In 1829, the emancipation act was passed. In 18.39, the overthrow of the established church of Ireland will, in all probability, be completed. These considerations are entitled to the most serious attention of the people—the Protestant people of England. The time for a temporising policy has long since gone by—the popish and republican factions are as clamorous as ever—concession has only stimulated fresh demands—the very existence of our national church is in imminent danger—our constitutional privileges are at stake—and all that is rendered dear to us by the stamp of antiquity and the impress of Christianity is now vibrating in the balance. It is therefore incumbent upon the people of England to be incessantly on their guard, lest the.grand enemy of (heir liberties should ob tain any advantage from the lukewarmness of their leaders. The grand question at issue, and which must be speed ily resolved, is, whether Ireland shall be thrown into the hands of the Popish faction, or be retained as an pendage to the British crown—whether the Church of • Ireland is to be sustained. in a state of efficiency, or of feted up Its 'a sacrifice to - glut the craving appetites of the rabble-priests of Maynooth—whether the loyalty of the Protestants or the rebellious machinations of the Ribbon :men is to be stigmatised ,as a'crime- 7 ---whether peace, or 'der, and subordination, or misrule, V iolence,andanarchY, . Are to obtain-the ascendancy in that country. This is ' the contingency which depends upon the policy pursued •lowards Ireland—whether she is to belost: or preserved ,as an integral:portion . of. the British empire. —.There is but one way in which Ireland can be g 0..., ..., • • iirnett peaceably, and that is by crushing. the temporal power of the Popish priests. It is perfectly idle to ex pect any geodresult from a conciliatory policy. What ha's concession already done ? As-we have said before, it has only tended to increase the clamour of the pesti: ferouspopiih faction—it has only added fresh fuel to their zeal for the subversion Of the Protestant religion--- ;it has only made them more turbulent and disloyal. It is idle to talk of any " satisfactory adjustment" of the tithe question. Is it not on . record that the grand ob ject of the Pdpists is, not the purgation of the Esta blished Church from any of its abuses—not the removal of any practical grievance connected with the collection of tithes—but the entire overtln ow of the church, and - the alienation of its revenues to Popish objects ? Is it not as notorious as daylight that any thing short of this must prove unsatisfactory.to the Papists? Why, then, talk of conciliating them ? As well might the lamb ex, -- LIVEROOOL STANDAith. POLICE,:IN7'ELLIGENCE. A PITCHED BATT' E PFEVENTED.-011 Tuesday, eight men, named Patrick Canning,' Martin Murphy, Edward Connolly, James lluntr, Charles Graham, sea., and Charles Graham, jun., Thomas Richards, and George M'Carthy, were brought before Mr. Hall. Mr. 'Whitty stated, that he had received information that there was to be a pitched battle in the neigh bourhood of Windsor, fie" give orders to the Inspector and officers of the district to prevent the rencontre. At the appointed hour a considerable body' oVnien assembled in a field near Windsor, and, preparations were made for the commencement of the combat. Ott seeing —these demonstrations, the police advanced, and the crowd moved off. Shortly afterwards, how ever, they re-assembled in another field further from the town. The officers again marched towards them, when they again de parted to another field, vreie preparations were.made for alight. I'he officers continued to advance till they came up to the mob, who now no longer retreated. The Inspector of Police com manded the crowd to disperse. "fo the astonishment of the officers, every man in the crowd produced a bludgeon, and one or two of the individuals advanced, and an immediate affray was the consequence. The officers were assaulted with great violence and determination, and several of them, Mr. Whitty sa id, were so severely injuiej, that it would be some days before they would be able to attend to their duties. At length the police gained the victory, the bulk of the crowd dispersed, and some of the ringleaders, with others who were present, were captured. Police-officer No 70, stood forward and said he Could identify all the prisoners as having been in the crowd. Canning and Connolly he saw very actively employed,' and they struck one or two of the officers. Police-officer 126 identified Connolly, as one of the. ringleaders in the affray. He saw him with a bludgeon in his right hand, and a large stone in the other. Ile (Connolly) threw the stone amongst the officers. He also saw Murphy using every endeavour to instigate the crowd to action against the police. ' When the latter arrived, he called out "Stand, boys," seeming to fear that the crowd would again retreat. He (witness) kept his eve upon him, and when the rout became general. he pursued him. He ran swiftly to Wind sor, where witness apprehended him, he having been beaten to a stand-still Police-officer 2:34 identified Dunun, who, he said, had a sort of bludgeon, with which he laid about him most violently. Connolly he also saw with .a large stone, which he threw among the officers, and a stick with which he. struck Several. .Police-officer273identified'Richards, who, it appeared, had been out of castody , on bail. This individual had used much bad language, the officer said, but he did not see him strike any person. He ordered him to go a way, but he refused. Police officer 250, stated that he was pursuing the retreating crowd, he saw Graham, sett., running. He ran after him, and as he made a grasp at. him he threw hint over into a pit. Graham swam over to an eminence in the middle of the pond. While he was there, Graham, jun., came to the side of the ponkand told hint to return. He did so, and he (the officer) took theta both: into custody. The same officer swore also to M'Carthy as ha.ving been in the crowd. It appeared, that Richards was bdoked to the Inspector, who was so much injured that he could not attend the Court. • A gentleman said he was walking in the Parkon the preceding day, when he saw a creVial standing in a field par leying with some pOlice officers. He saw several individuals of the crowd rush upon the police and knock one of them down. The officer lay upon his face, and while prostrate was beaten most brutally will. sticks: A mania a barragan jacket, he be liever it was Canning, struck the prostrate officer most fero ciously. He begged the police office to retreat, or they would get murdered. When he saw how the mob were behaving be called out " Murder," upon which several individuals attacked hini„ took his own stick from him, and beat him with it. Two young gentlemen, (brothers) Dinned Rickerby, identified Can- 1 ning and M'Carthy. Canning, Murphy, Conn o lly, and llunun, said they were present m ere l y by accident, and they denied that they - had used any violence towards the officers. Graham, sett. said he merely went into the field to see what had occasioned the disturbance. Seeing that the police officers were pursuing the crowd, he was running to get away, when he was tumbled : over into the pond by the police-officer. His son, with whom he had been in company, came to the side of the pond and spoke to him. Graham, jun., corroborated this statement. The ex cuse made by Richards was to similar effect. M'Carthy denied that he ever had been in the field at all. Mr. Rickerhy stepped, forward and swore that he saw this prisoner in the crowd pretty actively employed. Mr. 'HALL, after animadverting on the conduct of the pri soners, ordered Canning, Murphy, Connolly, and Dunun, to pay a fine of £5. each, or, in default of payment, to be com mitted to the House of Correction for - two months. M`Carthy, was ordered to pay a fine of El. 10s. in default to be committed for three weeks. The two Grahams and Richards were dis charged. FILCHING FROAI SAILORS.—On Wednesday, at the Police office, an abandoned female, and a man named John Morris; the keeper of two houses of ill-tame in Ben Johnson-street, were placed at the bar, charged with having robbed a sailor of his money, his hat, and his handkerchief. The sailor stated that he had just arrived in the town, and went to a public-house, where he met the male prisoner. He (complainant) said, he wished he knew whereto go to for a bed, as he was much tired. The prisoner Morris said he could ptovide him with a bed, and conducted him to his house, and on the way they were joined by the female prisoner, and in th e h ouse h a d some ruin, at which the female joined, and he suspected her of having picked his pocket. He afterwards went to bed, and i n th e m o rn i ng f ound his hat, neckerchief, and coat gone. The male prisoner gave hint his coat again, but refuSed to let him have his hat and necker chief till he had paid 7s. 6d. for hislodgings. The complainant refused to do this, and went and pawned his coat, and , offered the male prisoner 2s. for 'his hat and neckerchief, which the prisoner Morris, however, refused to give up without7s. 6d.; and the complainant accordingly acquainted the police with the cir eccHwinuiaamaisnirlmsgsitte)aa,:dnntdece:ibeirl, and both the'prisoners were tak en i n t o custo d y. It the policeman ai urtiaotn, findet np Iprisoner more eioi that than etor at Morrish male s e iws e.r6t prisoner dhd.ee nfoidenied d chargei tot;akept f dt h keepin g ._e rd o . ordered complainant h o t Morrisea hl these houses at the sessions: the girl was acquitted. FooLisit coNpucr.—On 'Wednesday, at the Police-office, two piostitutes and three men, bulli es , were c ha rged w i th rob ,, bing the master of a ship, named Walter 'Sparke, of £27. Inspector Cockrane said, that a little after.. twelve o'clock that morning he received information of a man having been robbed in Lace -street of about £3O, and a.description of two girls who had robbed him. He went there, and discovered the two girls in company with the three male prisoners, and he took theta all into custody. On one of the girls he found four sovereigns, and on the other 16s. 3..l.—The complainant stated, that he was a shipmaster, and had the money on bim to pay some bills, and was coming down the street rather in liquor, and got ticed away. He had nothing to do with the girls ; it was not his way of doing. (A laugh.) .He went to a house with them, and one of the girls snatched the money out of his pocket, and the ether ran away with it. He turned round to follow her when he was faced by three bullies, who fought with him till both girls got off. It was a very bad job for him. He had lost four £5 notes and seven sovereigns.—Mr. Hall remanded them till next morning. EMIGRANTS.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, Mr. Jones, of the emigration office, applied fora summons against Patrick O'Neil, emigration agent, for refusing to pay a number of emigrants a shilling a day fur detention, according to con tract. - - The sumnions was granted. PDST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—A boy, aged about thirteen years, was on Wednesday, placed before Mr. Hall, charged with hav ing defrauded his master. A that the .prisoiter had - been in hiss service_ gentleman an vice as an I h otlicoi-bbbosy% statedOn l t e he ttors preceding .iie brought morning rotig he iithim o s i e i n e t le h tt i e u to r i ,f?or tlie llthil:hosht-eosfficai,es he e or his ha ~ paid Is. Bd., which sum was marked on the back. As this was an extraordinary charge, he suspected that all was not right. He went to the post-ollice to make inquiry, and there he discovered that the real postage had been eightpeuce, and that the prisoner had put the figure indicating the extra shilling himself. A clerk from the post•office corroborated this evidence. The boy was very much distressed. Mr. Hall remanded the prisoner, at the same time intimating that he should like to see his father. INGENIOUS DEvicE.•—Yesterday, at the police-office, a young lad, whose name we suppress for the sake of his friends,• was brought before the magistrates, charged. with defrauding a number of persons of the pretended carriage of parcels.. A number of individuals appeared who stated that the prisoner had left a parcel with each of them stating that it had come from Manchester and was- to' be paid sixpence carriage. In each instance the carriage was paid, and all the parcels contained. notes purporting to be written by Messrs. Geo. Dean awl Co., carriers, of St. Anne's square, Manchester, cud stating that they had received a Varcel, carriage paid, for the individual, and that as .they were not in the habit of forwarding such parcels without advice, and wishing to know what was to be done with it. On the parties duped writing to Manchester, to Messrs. Dean and Co., it appeared that no such parcels were there. A great number of individuals were in attendance at the court who . produced their parcels for which each of them had paid 6d. Mr. Hall ordered the informations for his commitment to be taken.. A gentleman stood up and said the lad had very res pectable connections, and that it must have been sheer neces sity which had compelled him to do this, and hoped Mr. Hall would acquaint his father, and not proceed against-him. - Air. Hall said it was a very serious charge; the - law must take its course. • Futtious DRl VlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a groom ' named Henry Jones, in the service of Mr. Samuel Holme, was placed before Mr. nail, charged by officer, 192 with being drunk in the street, and furiou s ly driving. and upsetting ag. officer Stated, that at seven o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the prisoner was given into his charge for being drunk and up setturg whinse anal gig in Fleet-street into a cellar. On taking .him into custody he had been very violent and abused hitn.— Mr. Holmes said he had ordered the man, who was his groom., to put.one• of the horses in the gig and bring it downto•the office.. Soon after Le was told that the horse and gig bid been upset, and that the groom was drunk. The horse was a very fine one, for which he had given I:50 but three weeks •before, and the man had broken his knees and completely ruined him. fle had taken the man into his 'Service not very iong ago, in a very distressed state. He could forgive the injury to the horse, but the conduct of the man afterwards, at his place of business had been so riotous and disorderly, he could not-look over that. The man was put back till a second magistrate arrived, to be • punished for the assault. He was then ordered to•pay 30s. and costs, or he committed for three weeks to the Borough gaol.— Mr. Hall said he had behaved as bad as man could do, both to his master and to the officer; for it appeared he had been in the police force formerly, and cloak to have known better than assault an officer. STABBlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police.offlze, a young boy, named John Higgins, was placed before the magistrates, charged with having that morning stabbed another boy in the breast. A person named Leathom, stated that he was crossing Hatton-garden that morning, and saw the prisoner strike another boy in the breast. He proceeded a few yards and saw blood gushing out of the breast of the bov that was struck, and then he immediately seized the prisoner by the collar, and took a large pair of newly-grotind scissors out of his hand, with which it appeared lie had struck the other boy. A surgeon ap peared, o ho stated that the boy stabbed was pierced above the fifth rib on the left side into the lung, and he could not as yet tell whether inflammation would ensue or not. The prisoner was remanded to this day. LIVERPOOL. CORONATION REGATTA.—We understand that the arrangements relating to this regatta (to take place on the Mersey on the 28th June, in honor of her Majesty's corona tion) are progressing rapidly. Two tents are to be erected in the neighbourhood of Rock Ferry, for the purpose of providing refreshments for the visitors. The esplanade, extending, from the.. Rock to the New Ferry, and about three quarters of a mile in length, capable of accommodating several thousand per sons, is admirably adapted for the purpose of viewing a scene of this. kind. Several yachts and boats are expected from Ches ter, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and other places, and we are assured that a vast concourse of strangers will he present should the weather prove favoniable. As this is the only public demon stration yet announced in honour of her Majesty in the im mediate. vicinity of Liverpool, it cannot fail to be attended with unusual attractions. ROCHDALE FLANNEL., MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 28.—We have bad another brisk market to-day; the demand for pieces still continues good, and somewhat better prices have been oh tained.for the finer sorts• of goods. There has also been a, fair quantity of business done in Wool to-day, and the price may be gboted a shade hither. CORRESPOYDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.,INDiIRD. Stn. —l observed in f e Mail of . esterday another letter from the individual who signs himself Z. I was glad to see that letter, because it states the dimensions of the Sirius and Tiger in detail. Z's " figures are satisfactory," as they enable me to draw correct comparisons between the vessels whose characters he advocates and the " Royal William." I will give figures also, and thus enable the public to decide. SIRIUS, Length Beam Depth Tonnage Cylinders. Stroke Horses 181 feet 10 inches, 28 3 18 0 .696 tons. 60 inches. 6 feet 3 inches. 288. TIGER. Length 166 feet 6 inches. Beaus . 28 0 Depth Tonnage t.J 624 tons. Cylinders 57 inches. Stroke 6 feet. Horses 256. ROYAL WILLIAM. Length Beam.... . •• 27 0 Depth .. 16 9 Tonnage .617 tons. Cylinders 6O inches. Stroke Horses .276. By the above it is clear the Royal William has more power in proportion to her tonnage than either of the other two; and how it can be asserted that the Sirius is 320 horses' power I am at a loss to understand. If Zbe ignorant of the mode olcalculating the power of engines, he should have hesitated ere he attempted to raise the characters of certain steamers to the prejudice of others. If he be not, he wilfully tries to deceive the public. He snag say that almost every engineer has his own method for cal culating power; perhaps it is so; but, in drawing the above comparison, I' .have calculated on one and the same principle fair all, giving the Sirius and Tiger a speed for their pistons of 2.10 feet per Miiinfe, and the Royal William of 231 feet. As regards the detached boilers of the Royal William, the ~ ob servations Zarb really unique, I will ask, is it not desirable that; in the event of one boiler receiving injury, others should be available for working the machinery, if , not to theirfai/ power, certainly very near it, as has been already proved ? Look at the advantages which three separate boilers ofi'er. Suppose in crossing the Atlantic a steamer has a fair wind, she can economize fuel to a great extent by putting out the fire of two, as the steam generated by one will be quite sufficient to turn the wheels round so as to preven,eir floats retarding the velocity of the hull. Z does not seem to understand the principles of working steam economically, or lie would not say that a boiler larger than necessary to generate for a given power is a waste of fuel. Steam can be economised to almost any extent on board the Royal William, by the aid of her expansive valves; conse quently, fuel can be economised equally by other means than that of reducing the furnace surface. Z's comparison between a house on fire and a vessel divided into compartments by iron water-tight bulkheads is equally argumentative with the other portions of his observations. He does not seem to know that lire will cease to burn if deprived of air. Suppose any section of a vessel so divided to be on fire; all that would be necessary to extinguish it would be to close the hatches of that section, and preventthe admission of air. In reply to Z's inquiry as to where and when water-tight bulkheads have been proved to prevent the foundering of vessels, I .beg to inform him that, during the meeting of the British Association;in Liverpool, last year, a steamer belonging to the City of Dublin Company, having water-tight bulkheads, similar to the Royal William's, had holes bored through the sides, on the wake of the lower fore-hold, and that section thus filled to the level of the water outside only depressed the vessel twelve inches. I will tell Z that the bulkheads remained immovable and water-tight.-1 am, &c., AN ENGINEER. P.S.—Z will observe that I have altered his figures as re gards the tonnage of the Tiger. According to the dimensions he has put down, she is 624 tons, and no snore. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.4RD. Sin, —I perceive that some of your respected contemporaries are not ashatneil to reiterate the false boast of the enemies of truth, that the Rev. Hugh M'Neile of this town refused a dis cussion with the Rev. M. Maguire. The contrary is the fact. I have before me the third edition of a correspondence between the rev. gentlemen. At page 7 Mr. M'lsleile says— " I have, within the last few months, published a sermon on the character of the church of Rome. Between 2,000 and 3,000 copies of it have been circulated in this town. Write and pub lish a refutation of its statements and arguments. I pledge my self to write and publish an answer to you. Do not object to the press. The statements made in an oral discussion must, after all, be committed to the press to be of any extended benefit. " I challenge you, then, to a controversy in the press, and throw down my sermon on the character of the church of Rome as the first blow. You will there find your church proved to be anti-scriptural, tyrannical, blasphemous, and persecuting. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, " HUGH APNEILE." " Liverpool, 16th Sept., 1838." Again at pages 8 and 9, he says— " 1. First, I call your attention to my letter of the 17th ult. accepting your chailenge. " As the challenged party, I have an undoubted right to choose my weapons, without assigning any cause; but I am willing that you and the public should be in possession of my reasons for preferring the press as a vehicle of theological con troversy. if my object were to display my own talents as a dis putant; to excite party contention; to louse angry feelings of opposition against my Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen ; wilfully to darken the subject in hand by quotations from human authorities, public or private; and thus at the expense of truth, and peace; and honesty, to gain an apparent triumph in dispu tation : if these, or any of these, were my actuating motive, then I should probaby prefer the platform; but none of these form any part of my object. My object is to shoW that the au thorised formularies of the church of Rome, and the superstiti ous practices founded thereon, will not bear the light of the sacred word of God; that what the church of Ronne inculcates as the gospel of Christ was never inculcated by Christ . himself, or by his inspired apostles; and that, consequently, both priests and people should flee out of the anti-scriptural apostacy, read and believe the word of God, and be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ with a free, full, present, and everlasting salvation. Now, what is your object ? Is it to display your talents as a disputant? Is it to excite party contention ? Is it to rouse an gry feelings of opposition against yourprotestant fellow-country men ? Is it wilfully to darken the subject in hand b y quotations from fathers, and councils, and bulls which contradict one an other as freely and flippantly as fretfu l or angry women ? Is it thus, at the expense of truth, and peace, and honesty, to gain an apparent triumph in disputation? f these, or any of these, be your actuating motive, I do not wonder that you should prefer the platform. But if none of these be ',our object—but, if your object be to show that the authorised formularies of the church of Rome are in accordance with the word of God; that what the church of Rome inculcates as the gospel was inculcat ed by Christ and his apostles; and that, consequently, all here tics should see that they are guilty of the fatal sin of schism, and thereupon return for salvation into the bosoui of the mother and mistress of all the churches; then, assuredly, both your object and none will be best attained by a painstaking serip of writ ings. " I prefer the press, then, because, first, bravado and bluster, and sophistry will go for nothing when on paper, and no perma nent impression will be made except by sound interpretation, attested facts, and consecutive reasoning. And, because, se condly, such interpretations, facts and reasonings, will then be submitted, not to the impromptu suffrages of an excited and im patient assembly, (small at the largest possible amount of audi tori,) but to the calm, deliberate inspection of the United King dom and the educated world." And at page 13, in reply to Mr. Maguire's evasion, he says— " My challenge to you also remains unanswered. Your letter erodes it wholly. Here, then, again, I call upon you to w r it e what you can upon interpretation, argument, fact, or eviden ce , in defence of what Popery is, and I will answer you. My reasons for preferring the press are already before the public; and if you, the.first aggressor in this matter, decline a controversy in the press, the confusion to be drawn from it will also b e b e f ore the public, and w a plainness which no man capable of reflec tion can tail to appreciate. You say, that "in a face to face discussion more can be settled in a day than could be performed through the press in a month." I answer, there is no hurry. No matter of real consequence can be settled in a hurry. A gladiator for ephemeral victory may be in a hurry: a lover of eternal truth need never be so. It is written in the prophets, " he that believeth need not make haste." _ " I shall direct my publisher to send you a copy of the second edition of my sermon, in which your church, as exhibited in her own accredited Prmularies, is shown to be anti-scriptural, tyran nical, blasphemous, persecuting, and perfidious. Again I-call upon you to answer this if you can. " You say I have mis-stafrd the tenets of your church. I ask 4here and how? And I beg to remind y - ouNf the facility of as sertion, without proof Mr.' AVNeite's sermon on the character of the Church of Rome remains unanswered. Who theu.kas refused the discus. suns? _ - All assertion upon 'this subject, in notorious opposition to facts and evidence,, appears to be the only retort by which Mr. enemies can assail him, Why - they assail him so often is best known to themselves : though, indeed it can be no mystery to thoSe who witness his effective labours. Will your contemporaries, who have so frequently printed the false cliarge, - htive candour sufficient to print this letter, and with it, if they please, Mr. Maguire's letters on the occasion: ur will they be prudently silent? I am, Sir, yours, SCRUTATUR. Liverpool, May 30, 1838. SHARE.BROKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—You will be doing me, and, if I mistake not, the pub lic generally, no inconsiderable favour by allowing your juurnal to become the public medium of my complaints against the man ner in which the business of share-broking is conducted in this town. When the great rage for speculation arose, in 1836, and schemes of all sorts sprung up daily like mushrooms' a host of share brokers arose with them,--1 was going to add, like mush rooms too,—and the number is now almost as great as that of all the joint-stock companies whose shares they are commissioned to sell or purchase. Previously to this era of madness, when every one seemed, more or less affected by the prevailing mania, stock and share brokers were comparatively few in number; but most, if nut all of these, were then, as they still are, highly respectable, prompt in their dealings, a wor thy o f p i lk Alic confid ence . H enc e, I believe, there wa s 'e or no inconvenience, an d s till l ess a ny loss experienced by ose who had to employ brokers in the pur chase and sale of shares • and although delay s m i g h t an d doubt less did occur occasionally, 1 never heard of complaints so loud and general as aie now prevailing against the delays, and even the difficulties, experienced in getting either scrip or money from the hands of brokers- It is with a wish to remedy this state of things, by drawing public attention to the fact, and making certain suggestions, that I have taken the liberty of addressing von ; and when ik is considered how immense the amount of money is which indst necessarily pass through the bands of brokers, in this of all others, the ruling market of shares, I think you and your read ers will agree with me, that promptitude and .despatch iti the . transfer both of shares and .value should be the leading princi- pies—the very motto of a broker's business. In one respect, and in one only, is promptitude shown; and that is, when you become the purchaser of shares—in which case there is no delay —nay, a very extraordinary degree of prompti tude is exhibited in demanding and obtaining payment of your purchase. But, sell those. shares again, and you must dance attendance at certain offices for weeks and months, and often have. recourse to, legal proceedings: before you can obtain the value of them. ThiS is no idle or empty assertion, as some of Liverpool, .11Psy 30111, 1838. MEETING AT WARRINGTON OF THE BRITISI SOCIETY FOR THE PRONIOTION OF THE REL GIOUS PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORMATION. Last evening, a meeting of the friends of the above society was held at the Lion Hotel, Warrington, at half-past six o'clock. The society was formed for the purpose of checking the progress of popery, and the meeting was called to " communicate in teresting information as to the progress of popery in this country, and the efforts of this society to check its progress." The meeting was numerously and respectably attended, the large room of the Red Lion being quite fa. We observed on the platform, beside the speakers, the Rev. T. Lowe, Rev. James Todd, Rev. J. Jones, Rev. R. Parkinson, Rev. Thomas Whittington, Rev. C. T. Quirk, Rev. P. S. Dale, Rev. D. Slvman, Rev. W. C. Clarke, and the Rev. J. Cunningham and the Rev. It. Parkinson, from the patent society, &c. On the motion-of Joust CLARKE, Esq., Thomas Greenhall, Esq., was called to the chair. • The'CHAIRmAN then called upon the Rev. James Wright to open . the proceedings with prayer. After which, The CHAIRMAN said he had been requested to take the chair that evening, and under a sense of duty he complied with th a t request. •He thought, in thes e eventful times, Christians ought not to remain still, It was his opinion that the time was not tar distant when they should :be - called on to give a reason for the faith that was ire therm,' There were two gentlemen present who had visited them for the purpose of laying before them the pro gress of Popery in the land. He trusted from the statements to be made to them they would see the necessity of uniting as one man in opposing its progress, and in support of the truth. WILLIAM HALL, Esq., then rose to move the first resolu tion. " That this meeting considers the distinctive dogmas of the Church of Rometo be directly opposed in their nature, and practical effects to the words of God, ruinous to the soul, an d subversive of real godliness and 'morality. If that meeting had been convened for any party or political purpose—if it had been convened on matters unconnected with the present and future wellbeing of men—if it had been for any purpose of hostility towards his Roman Catholic brethren, (he spoke the sentiments of many around him, as well as of 'him self), lie would not have countenanced such a proceeding. It was not against Roman Catholics they protested, it was against Popery, and the spirit of Popery, conceiving that it was detrimental not only to the present but the eter nal interests of their fellow creatures. Man, from his na ture, was inclined rather to trust to his own merits than in the atonement of a Saviour, and therewith to be reconciled to God ; and Popery was sustained on the fallen nature of man ; for it said " by baptism a man was converted, an d by p enance his sins were blotted out" and when he came to the hour of death, extreme unction was open to him to cleanse him from sin. Such were the doctrines of Popery; and such they were called upon as Protestants to protest against, as contrary to the word of God, for St. Paul said " being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." The Rev. Mr. PARKINSON, one of the deputation from the s ociety, rose to second the resolution, which he did at consider able length. Ile desired to treat the subject with all that so lemnity it so eminently deserved. They were met not for the discussion of a political subject, for the society which they came forward there to advocate, by its very title excluded from its consideration, the politics of this world. It was termed "The British Society for the promotion of the Religious Principles of the Reformation." These principles concerned their immortal souls, and when they considered the importance of the salvation of the immortal soul—when they considered that when this world with all its fleeting pomps and vanities should have passed away for ever—when the time should arrive when the angel should stead with one foot oil the sea and One on the land, declaring that time should be no more, and that the everlasting happiness or tnisery of the souls of men should then be determined, they might calculate in some measure the worth of an immortal soul. For the smallest transgression we were liable to condemnation, and unless we found a r e f uge f rom God's wrath we must perish for ever. That refuge was in the revealed Word of God, and they came there to declare that the Church of Rome, so far from providing this remedy, had substituted the inventions of men, or to make use of the language of the articles of the Church of England, had substituted "blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." They meant to bring before the meeting some of the dangerous doctrines of the Church of Rome; and first of all, the Word of God declared one Mediator between God and man—the Saviour Jesus Christ. The Word of God declared that he was "God over alt blessed for ever;" and at the same time it declared to us " when the fulness of time was come, G o d sent f ort h h i s Son, made of a woman, under the law, that we might Through him receive the adoption of sons." By reason of his divine and human nature he was fitted for his mediatorial work between God and the sinner. The Church of Rome came forward and substituted many media tors—the Virgin Mary, and a long catalogue of saints, and they found the Virgin Mary in the Popish doctrines often asked for those blessings which could only be asked of God himself. Therefore, popery destroyed the word of God by substituting many mediators for the one he had provident in his mercy and in his love. The church of Rome inculcated the doctrine of transubstantiation —that in the sacrament of the eucharist the bread and wine was changed into the actual body and blood of Christ, a doctrine founded on a literal reading of a figurative expression in the Bible, and which he contended the church of Rome had in no other instance followed. This doctrine had first been preached by a man named Radburt, in the ninth century, and was at first universally scouted by the heads of the Roman Catholic Church, by Scobus, and Bertram, and others, and yet this doctrine had gradually crept into the church of Rome, and at length at the council of Florence it w a s de clared to he a doctrine of the church; and in the 16th century. in 1564, it was hi-might into Pope Pius' creed. The practical workings of this doctrine were, that the Roman Catholics were brought to believe that the sacramental bread and wine after the consecration were changed into the actual body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and poor people were intliced to fall down and stupidly worship the bread and wine; and the Coun cil of Trent had ordered that-- the same aderstion should be given to the consecrated host ad to Almighty God himself. Thus the Church of Rome involved her followers in the most awful idolatry. In order -to prove that this was the true doctrine, the Church of Rome said our Saviour said, " This is my body, and this is my blood," so also our Saviour had said, " I am the true vine;" and again he had said to his disciples, " You are the branches." And did the Church of Rome believe that he was a vine, and that his disciples mere transubstantiated into branches ? No such thing. 'She there adopted the figurative language. They were entitled by this figurative language, adopted throughout the New Testament, to believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, when he said, "'Phis is my body, and this is my blooe,i , s p o k e figuratively, and so only. Just as a person would say, who had a map of Europe spread out before him, "'This is Ireland, this is England, this is France," and so on, meaning that this represents Ireland, this represents England, and this France; but who would ever ima gine fora moment that he meant that the paper map was transub stautiated into the countries it represented. (Applause.) But this very text, on which the Church of Rome founded this doc trine, taken from the 6th chapter of John, was spoken two years before our Lord's supper. The Church of Rome quoted the 53d and 54th verses to prove this extravagant doctrine. " Then Jesus said unto them Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat t h e fl esh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in ye." The Church of Rome said the Lord Jesus Christ in that text pointed to the supper of the Eucharist; but what was the natural result, if this were the meaning of that text, th a t un l ess we were partakers of the Lord's supper, we could not by possibility enter into the kingdom of Hea ven. According to this view all infants must go to hell. And what did the Church of Rome do ? She absolutely took away the consecrated cup from the laity, and, according to her own version of the text, sent all her followers to everlasting perdition. The Rev. gentleman then went at considerable length through many of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, proving their unsoundness; but the lateness of the hour com pels us to omit them. Pi otestants were taunted with their creed being a new one, and originating in Martin Luther. Such was not the case, for it was founded on the word of God. But it might be asked where was the religion of the Church of Rome before Luther? Where was it to be found? Not in the bible, unless it be described in the spirit of prophesy as the awful apostacy from the living God; but it was to, be found in the canons of the council of Trent, and in the de crees of Pope Pius the IV. The council of Trent , did not sit until the sixteenth century in 1545, so that Roman Catholicism was not yet three hundred years old, and, in fact, had uot, existed until after Luther was dead. Again, they might ask when Was the creed of Pope Pins IV. founded ? Not until the year 1564: but at What time was the creed of the Church or England founded? It• was written so long back as the year 325. (Hear.) Hco.riben would the Church Of Rome make it appear to the world that the creed which she held, that of Pope Pius IV., was older.than that of the Church of England? The iev. gentleman then alluded to the rapid strides of popery, in different parts of the country, and to pie establishment of a society recently in London , for the purpose .of obtaining sub scriptions for the buntline of chapels throughout the country, the distributing of Roman catholic tracts, &c.; and the deliver- A vote of thanks bras moved tivthe RPv. Mr. Parkinson, ant the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, by JouiV CLARKS, Esq., seconded by Mr. HALL, and after a d9xologv had been sung, t h e meeting concluded at half-past nine o'clock. BLOCKADE OF THE 'MEXICAN 'PORTS. The following letter Iva posted on Wednesday in the Under writers'-rooms, being a' reply to one from'•that association tq Lord Palmerston, on the subject of the blockade of the Mexicali Ports : • • " Foteign Office, May 29, 1838. " SIR,--I am directed by Vistonnt Palmerston to acknow. ledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to ac quaint you in answer thereto, that the only information of the blockade of the ports of Mexico by the French, which ber Majesty's government have as yet received, is derived front official papers publishOd at Washington on' the 4th instant, announcing that an effective blockade of the Mexican ports was declared on the 16th of April by the admiral command ing the French squadron in the Gulf of Mexico:—l am, Sir, your obedi nt humble servant, • • " J. BACItHOUSE. ' Thos. Cort, Esq., Secretary to the Lirerpod! Underwriters' Association." A CONSERYATIVH SONG.' The following spirited song, cornpoSed by,Mr. W. H. WoakeS, M.R.A.P., was sung with rapturous • applause at the Peel Banquet, by Mr. .1. G. Collins.—See advertisement.] Like a plain dealing soldier has Wellington spoke, Ere the Crown shall go down there are crowns to be broke, Ere we gise up the tattle we must have a nevi deal, So stand fast with me round the banner orPeel. Then till up your cup and I'll fill up my Can,' A fig for the Whigs and their Master King. Dan ! We shall soon see them both to the right-about wheel, If we only are true to brave Arthur and Peel. Who does not remember—who e'er can forget The field where the star of Napoleon set, And say, shall it now be remembered in Vain ? Or that long track of glory, the triumphs of Spain ? No! fill up your cup and I'll fill up my can, The Wbigs like the Drench have mistaken their man : The name of the Duke is a phalant of steel, And the mantle of l'itt is the banner of Peel! It is useless to murmur for what is now past, The conservative flag intist be nailed to the mast! The ship is still sound from the deck to the keel, And will weather all stoims when she's guided by Peel. So fill up your cup and I'll fill up Env can; A fig for th e Whi gs an d t h e b ig beggarman i For, trust me, they both in dile season shall feel That they've not seen the last of brave Ailhur and Peel ! ..41ki t One of the late' r , Wilberforce's plans Of church reform, air we learn from his h, was ; that " one-sixth of the income of all. benefices exceeding'L4lso per annum, were the incumbent was not resident, should be added to the curate's stipend." Mr: Hyett, the late member for Stroud, came down from London, to the election for this city, expressly to vote in taYour of Mr. Hope! Mr. Hyett, and his late colleague, Mr. Ricardo; , both resigned their seats for that radicril borough, and both now entertain decidedly conservative principles. What a tale does ' this tell !—Glouce6rerxhire Chrabiele. Mr. Grant, son o f Colonel Franeis W. Grant, M.P. for the county of Elgin, has started for Inverness-shire in the tory in terest, in the room of Mr: A. W. Chisholm, who has accepted. the Chiltern Hundreds. It ih said that Mr. Murray Grant, of Gleumoriston, who contested the county on•two former occa sions, will again take the field in the whig interest. A Goon MARKSMAN.-- Our old friend; Captain Richard son, of this city, went oOt on ToeSday for a bit of sport, and, with a new rook rifle, at a distance .ef 'nearly seventy yards, shot a yellow hammer in the head With a'ball. Before we would venture a Yankee dtfet With the captain, we Would imitate the celebrated Bob Acres, and walk quietly away from the scene of combat, to prevent us getting a bullet through cur " small gut." —Chester Gazette. - • : • • THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER.—By the arrival of the, Sirius and Great Western steam-vessels, it is said that a large sum has changed owners, many high bets have been laid on their resnectiYe speed, and the power of their boilers; it is like wise more than whispered that several great capitalists, some of whom are largely interested•in Ainerica, have betted a large sum that they *ill shortly produce a vessel, which, fitted up with the boiler advertised for sale by Mr. George Robins, early in June, will easily ,pass either of the above vessels, or any other which may compete with her; they are also determined, as far as in their power, to introduce this into general use—viz., the patent &wide tubular iron boiler, which will ef f ectually put 4 stop to the ahful loss of life occurring froM thebursting of the dangerous ones now in use. Certainly our own :enterprising capitalists will not let slip the opportunity now offered, by the formation of a company to apply this patent to vessels, ro s ads; railway carriages, Sze. STEAM FROM THE 'NNE TO iHE CONTINENT.—We have much pleasnie ifi , @ongratulating our readers and the public ge-' nerally, on the fair prospect we now have of the speedy esta blishment of a weekly communication, by means of swain-ships,' from this pert to the' continent of Europe, via the• Elbe and the Rhine. This means of communication has been long much wanted, not only , hy the mercantile interests of 'this great port, but by thegebtrY,; of the surrounding populous and wealthy neighbourhood:- DUring the past week several of the most in fluential gentlernenlit this town have determined on the forma tion of a etircniranv fin. that purpose, the prospectus of which, we are infortnet.l4:lll be submitted to the public in a few days. Newcastle his' 1%):,g been acknowledged the greatest manufac turing and commercial town in the North of England; its situ ation on the limes and on the termination of several of the greatest railroads in the kingdom; its' chise connection Ly means of that magnificent undertaking, the Newcastle and Car, lisle Railway; with•fhe west coasts of England and Scotland, and the east. toast.of Ireland; its situation opposite to the ports of Haniburgh and Rotterdam, the great depots of the merchan- disn of the Uontinent,-1 he great highway Co the several capitals , of Europe,—natuially point out our good old town as the half-, way house for, all travellers to and frono the northern parts of• this ki Otto:* gad the Edrop edrr 6olititrent. Ne zetafile Joii)tiii: ing of leetures - by. their einisoiries, and called on Themretiog to come forward with counter effurtb to do aWay with the poisonous the upstart fraternity may attempt in reply to make it, for, like effects of such a 'society. He entitled to the gtegt 0112111)er of many others possessed of some spare capital, I shave lately Roman catholic chapel's that have been built in England re; had occasion t o emp l o y brokers in the purchase and s a l e of teently. He had seen a very hands ome o n e erec t e d at Hudders shares ; and whil e every facility was afforded me to pay for those field, in Yorkshire, towards which he had heard that protestant bought, I have had to wait for kriouttis„ and even to employ* Manufacture, s had subscribed underthreaisfronathe priests there legal means helm e I got the price o f those sold. • Nor dig that ifthey did not their trade with Ireland shouldbe put an end to. I require to ask any commercial friends if this was frequentll or , He mentioned the instance of a Mr. Stables, an extensive ma.- generally as to their transactions ; for, during my many hours i ft ofacturer, of Huddersfield, who had been Compelled by the of attendante at their offices, I was as much astonished as they Priest there to subscribe £5O. I.OWards the neWcatholic Chapel, (the brokers) ought to have been ashamed at the numbers and though a Protestant and agoinst his conscience, and he was importunitiesof du niters like myself. But, roused and annoyed told if t he did tint dos(); his trade with Should be put an by such practices, I took pains to inquire pretty extensively how end to: The same thing had ti4fi attempted to be 'practised in others bad been treated; and I found that—with some few ex- Manchester on Mr. Win. Townstiend, but he, mush to his ceptions—their treatment had been similar tomy own. I found credit, had said it was contrary to his principles, and sooner many, too, who having been kept out of their money for several than his pisinciples should be comprornited, be would sacrifice months after a sale of shares, had at last to enforce payineut by his principles. (Applause.) Forty years ago there were only the strong arm of the law. Nay, more, there are many living 30 mass-houses in England ; now there were between 500 and witnesses now on 'Change who are cognizant not only of this 600. He called upon the meeting to aid that society in rooting fact, but also of another equally easy of proof, viz., that it is no out that plague spot from tbe land, and conclnded with second uncommon thing to see one of those transfer-men transferred to ins the resolution. the care and keeping of a sheriff's officer! The Rev. Mr. PowELL rose to move t 6 next resolution, Why, then, should thi s di sgraceful and dangerous system be " th a t th e p resent s t ate of Popery in Ireland; and the exertions permitted to exist any longer, and what means should be adopted of the Church of Rome to extend the systeni.its England and to put a stop t o i t ? Scotland, are swill as ought to awaken in:the Minds of those To the public, or rather to that portion of it who deal in who feel the blessings of the Retorrnatiorr, Most intense shares, I w ou ld say, "P art not w i th your scrip till you get value desire to counteract nit& evil,- 1310 imperatively Call for the received ; or, if that is not always practicable, make the signing immediate adoption, on their .Part, of all those Means which of the transfer at once the condition and the term of payment. the Word of God supplies and, iectilearis . fur ;that purpose." This is invariably the casein London, and ought to be obtained He would not trestlass on their time by arty lengthened obseri here; for, as the commissi o n of brokers is an ample and lucrativ vations, knowing by whom he was to Ire followed but as a equivalent for their trouble ; without the reaping the interest of friend. to freedom he must be an enemy to Popery, .bicausa your money —you, who require and pay for that trouble, have a where Popery existed freedom eoitld not find a.being. (Hear.) right not mer e ly t o expect, b ut to i ns i st upon the prompt and He described at some length the social evils which PlatieiT safe- transaction o f your business; and richly will you deserve flitted, in dissevering friends and prodricing diicord in families, the worst of consequences if you do not unite with me in de- a part of whom were Protestants and the rest Catholics- Such; nouncing and ex p os i ng th e rottenness o f the present system. " however, were the insinuating and snake-like lures of Roman To the Association of Brokers I would say—not, however, Catholicism, that in nine cases out of ten the Protestant of a before premising that I entertain the strongest objections to the family of mixed faith was converted to Catholicism. working, and even the existence of such a society—" Take the The Rev. M r . CiesitNo, one of the emissaries of the society, remedy into you r own h an d s , b y instituting certain stringent rose tn. second the resolution. He spoke at great length, with rules on the conduct of the members, insisting on the strict surpassing eloquence, and we regret that ant time and space observance of those rules, and punishing or expelling all those compel up to give but a very brief outline. It appeared to hint who are complained against for their infringement. Failing in delightful to see the ministers of the Church of England and this—l would add—let some of your leading members announce of Scotland assisting together in a cause so holy; Scotland and to the public that they bad ceased to have any connexion with England had shed their blood, and laid themselves together on an association ; th a t they were determined, and would pledge the same field, but now their efforts were, that their throne themselves individually, to transact the business of sharebroking might be secure, their altars holy, and their people h a ppy. on those pri nc ipl es w hi c h a l one can merit and obtain public The institution he advocated was not associated in any s hape confidence." with the affairs of the present world, he left these subjects to po-. So strongly am I impressed with the necessity of some change liticians and statesmen. His call was a sacred call, and be or check being effected in the present mode of transacting the came forward as an ambassador of God, and would endeavour important business of share-broking, that I apprehend more to stand forward as he of old, between the living and the dead mischief or injury will accrue to the public by continuing to be —the living proteStantism and the dead popery. Some would, subject to its consequences, than by any depreciation of stock say this was a gratuitous insult to the respectable body of that can possibly ar i se i n t h e mar k et — o f w hi c h b y the bye this Roman catholics for them thus to insult their religion and roger association is now b ecome t h e a ll- ru li ng power. faith; but it he saw an individual in that room ready to drink While—as in justi ce , 1 sa id b e f ore —l exempt most if not all off a delicious draft, which was a deadly paison, and were to dash of the older brokers from the causes of complaint which I have the cup from his lips, would that not be the height of humanity to now preferred, I must also in justice add that there are som e the individual ? So said they all to the members of the Church of amongst the younger ones most honourable, prompt, and trust- Rome; they did not dash the poison from them which was de thy men of business. It is for the public to decide whether struction t o th e body, hut which dealt death to the soul. The these constitute the majority or the minority—the rule or the Church of Rome hail once proceeded honestly, holding out the exception.-1 am, sir, yours, &c., Council of 'lrent iu her left hand and pointing to the martyr's A SHARE-DEALER. " stake and to the faggot with the other; but now, in a land where Protestantism was still triumphant, she knew she dared not " play such fantastic tricks before high heaven," and therefore assumed another attitude; she was now a .deceiver; she dared / not roar as a lion, but tried to sting like a serpent. They were told that the Church of Rollie professed to be infallible. This was just wat they (the Protestants) wanted—an ble church; but where were they to find the proofs of its, infallibility? (Hear, hear; heir.) He went to one priest and he told him the Pope was infailible •' he went to a second priest and h e t o ld h im mat the General Ctiinicil was infallible; he went to a third and he told him that ,vas quite a mistake, ;it was the Pope at the head of the ccrtincil that'was • infallible ;, he went to a fourth, and he told him the other was all quite wrong, that it was only the Pope when he sat in a certain chair—the chair of St. Peter—that was infallible. (howl laughter .) He had tried in vain to find this philosopher's stone of infallibility. When he went to one it was here; then there;" and like the airy ghost they read of, they no sooner got a hold of it, than it sprung from their grasp and got somewhere else. What mattered it to the sick that there was a panacea for the plague if it could no where be found. Suit w.as with the Church of Rome; infallibility was a delightful thing, but it could no where be found. The great boast of Roman Catholics was that they were united, but that Protestants were divided among themselves. He (Mr. Cunningham) deplored that there were sectarians—that there were divisions among them, but take them all, with the exception of the doctrine of , Siitinius, which he called a religion robbed of all that wa divine, end they would find that Protestants all held one Common hope in Christ as a Me diator with the Fat her in the hour of danger, and in-theday ofjudg= men[. It was contended by the Romish church, that intention was essential to every act done. Therefore, tinleii it was the intens• tion of the priest to baptise or to marry, or to administer the saw crament, a person might go through those rights to no avail, and be in effect neither baptised nor married. nor .receive the sit= crament. After adverting at great length to the doctrines and precepts of Catholicism, and their unscriptural foundation, he proceeded to notice the tesults if it Wheiv it was pro fessed. He compared degraded Catholic Ireland with Pro-' testant Scotland and England, and compared Ireland with her- , self, showing the peaceable and orderly demeanour of Ulster with the unsettled and criminal state of the other three provinces. Catholicism had ever been found degrading in its effects, whe; ther in peace or in war. On the battle field, what troops so brave as those of Protestant England and Scotland; nay, the 'fish. regiment of Enniskillen dragoons, which was a Protestant regiment, had proved itself brave in battle, and conducted itself with heroisin; whilst the other Catholic Irish regiments had been prove to be poltroons. He concluded, amidst rapturous applause, with seconding the resolution. • The Rev. JOHN M'KENZIE, of Wigan, moved the next re solution—" That it appears to this meeting that the British Society for promoting the religious principles of the Reforma mation, is calculated under G o d to catty its object int o eff ec t, and is therefore wdrthv 'of our cordial support " He spoke at considerable length, and With much power in favour of the - re solution. The Rev. Mr. WRlGHT;olWarrington, seconded the reso lution, which was unanimously adopted, as were all the resolu ions. e:; . t 541 i_ '-~ le • • 1..,