The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

On Friday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, judg ment was given in the presbyter-law marriage case. The judges did not agree in opinion, and the question will, there fore, have to be decided by a higher tribunal. CONSUMPTION.—We draw attention to Mr. Conin's lec ture on consumpti on which he will deliver at the Portico on Wednesd a y. Th e le cture will be gratis, and all interested in the subject are invited to attend. Mr. Cronin's mode of cure and theory is, we believe, novel. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Mr. Selby's new drama of " Maxi mums and Speciments of William Mnggins " was produced on Thursday, and has run since with increasing success. All the parts are good ones. It is full of life, bustle, and smart ness, and throughout keeps the audience in a roar. Mrs. Warner and Mr. George Vandenhoff are starring it at pre sent. To-night " The Stranger " will be performed. Mrs. Warner is the finest Mrs. Haller on the stage. THE WEATHER. —During the whole of last week, and es pecially on Saturday and Sunday, the heat was most intense. On Sunday the thermometer stood as high as 85 9 in the shade, and 100° in the sun. Early on Monday morning, however the rain began to fall very heavily, accompanied with a storm of thunder and lightning. fell in the course of yesterday, w Several showers of rain also deli will, no doubt, tend to forward vegetation ye as the ground in this neighbourhcid was until then very parched conditior The weather is still excessively hot JUVENILE TRIEVES.—On Saturday last, two ragged lads who had been loitering about the house of Mr. John Con - nor, in Crown-street, were placed before Mr. Rushton yes terday, at the police-court, on suspicion of having committee' a felony. It appeared that while the inmates were up stairs, some person or persons effected an entrance into the house from the back, and purloined six silver tea-spoons, marked with the letters R.W.8., a silver fork and silver table-spoon, bearing a French standard mark and the initials N.B. None of the property was, however, found on their persons ; and, as there was no evidence of their being in the house, they were discharged. THE GOLD CURRENCY.—We are informed, that the Branch Bank of England, in this town, will receive any number of light sovereigns not less than twenty, allowing the full bullion value for them, which• will, in most cases, be but a slight loss on the currency value. Some of our principal tradesmen complain, that the new arrangement will affect them very seriously; and, no doubt, it will be felt as a • great inconvenience, not less by those whose transactions are extensive than by the bulk of our small dealers. We have heard that some parties have, since the proclamation was made, purchased sovereigns at what they have declared to be their bullion value, and have afterwards passed them as regular currency. EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Friday last. as Bryan Malley deas passing intoxicated out of the public-house of Mr. Linden, in Hurst -street, he fell heavily and struck his head against the steps. He was taken up and conveyed into the house, when it was discovered that he was dead.—On. Friday James Murphy, aged 40, went home to his lodgings tipsy. He was a man of very intemperate habits. He fell asleep in a chair, and was shortly afterwards found in a fit of apoplexy. Mr. Surgeon Cripps was called in, and he made every effort to restore the patient without effect. The unfor tunate man died in about half an hour. An inquest was held on the case on Saturday, when Mr. Cripps gave it as his opinion, that the deceased died of apoplexy caused by exces stve drinking. Verdict accordingly. DRAINING OF THE NEW COURT-SOUSES.--A consider able quantity of water having been found in the excavation for the foundation walls and cellaring of the new Assize Courts, workmen are now busily engaged in commencing the formation of a tunnel down Shaw's-brow, for the effectual drainage of the site in question. Several eyes are already sunk in the freestone rock which forms the substratum of the locality—as of most of the elevated parts of the town. Those at the top of the street appear to be from 10 to 12 feet in depth ; those towards the bottom, 6to 7 feet. This depth for the tunnel will, of course, be gradually decreased at the bottom, where the brow terminates at its junction with the bottom of Dale-street, where both are crossed by the Old Haymarket and Byrom-street, —a situation so low, that, in " the olden time," the tide frequently rose from the " pool" below, on the site of Paradise-street and Whitechapel, which formed (before the construction of the old dock) the harbour for the then small marine of the port. The lower part of the tunnel into the main sewer will, of course, be excavated and arched with bricks. THE WILHEM SYSTEM OF TEACHING MUSIC APPLIED TO THE ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGES.—MOOS, De Balli court, a French gentleman who has taken up his abode in Liverpool, as a teacher of music, is now engaged in an attempt to apply the Wilhem system of teaching music to the acquisition of the French language. Last evening he delivered a lecture upon the subject before a large and re spectable auditory in the theatre of the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street, by whom he was listened to with most favourable attention. Behind the lecturer there was a musical scale of one octave from C to C, and large printed diagrams (if we may apply that term in such a case) of every variation of the cases of the definite and indefinite article. These were intended to illustrate the system after the lecture. In expounding the principles of this new application, M. De Ballicourt had to contend against the very formidable difficulties of conveying his meaning in an idiom foreign to his own, and against some degree of incredulity. He suc ceeded, however, in making himself perfectly intelligible, and after a few oral explanations he induced several gentle men to attempt to pronounce the definite articles by apply ing them with a noun of both genders to the gamut as in learning singing one would apply solfa to the musical notes. The pronunciation of the words was, as may be expected, rapidly acquired ; and we have no doubt that as M. De Ballicourt says, all the sounds in the language may be permanently acquired by it. The lecture and the illustra tions occupied about an hour. BAIL FOR COPELAND AGAIN REJECTED.—At the Police court on Monday, a respectable looking man, named Albert Joseph Winter, tendered himself as the remaining surety for Copeland, now imprisoned for the part he took in Miss Crel lin's case. He stated that he was a baker and grocer in Thomas's-street, where he had resided for four years. He paid £2O 10s. of rent, and had stock and furniture worth upwards of £lOO. He had also five houses in Dublin, on which he had owed £5OO, but the amount was now nearly paid off. He said he had received no promise of indemnity. Thos. Ainsworth, senr., police officer, said that he had ex amined the premises and stock in Thdmas'-street, and did not consider the whole, if sold, would bring anything like £loo.—Mr. Rushton said he had no means of ascertaining the value of the property of the witness in Dublin, and from what was stated of his premises and stock there, he should not accept him. He must have sureties of whose validity and means no doubt existed. The witness bad very little knowledge of Copeland, and had been called on by Mr. Lee and another.—Mr. Snowball, who appeared for Miss Crellin, and cross-examined the witness, informed the court that he believed he could prove that Harper, who it had been agreed to receive as bail, had since had £lOO lodged as indemnity, and had received £2O for his trouble.—Mr. Rushton said he should have the matter sifted, and if it were so, he would also reject Harper. The prisoner is, therefore, as far distant from liberation on bail as he was at first; and as the assizes are not very far distant, the probability is that he will have to remain in goal until he is brought up for trial. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, FRIDAY. - .EXPARTE BARRY v. ARNAULD.--Mr. Erle moved for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding Mr. Arnauld, the collector of the customs at Liverpool, to deliver to the applicant, free of duty, a quantity of foreign wheat which he claimed under the following circumstances :—The legis lature had agreed to a bill to regulate the importation of foreign corn, and to impose a new scale of duties upon such corn. That act (5 Vic. secs. 2, v. 14), received the royal assent on Friday, the 29th of April, and under its provisions former corn laws were repealed and new directions made as to the taking of averages. These were to be certified on the Thursdays in each week. Between the date of Friday, the 29th of April, and the following Thursday, no certificates showing the amount of duty to be levied upon the importa tion of foreign corn could be made out. A cargo of foreign wheat arrived at Liverpool for the applicant in the interval between these two days ; and as the new statute had repealed all the old acts on the very day of its passing. and as no authorised certificate could be issued till the following Thurs day, he claimed to have his wheat delivered to him duty-free. The collector of customs, however, refused to deliver it, on the general ground that the legislature never intended corn to enter duty-free in this manner, and this application had, therefore, become necessary to decide the question. This particular course of applying for a mandamus would not have been resorted to, but that it appeared that the decision of this court on a former occasion, that an action would lie against a collector of customs for a breach of the revenue laws, was now about to be questioned in the Court of Com mon Pleas, or by writ of error ; and, therefore, the applicant came to this court for a mandamus, that his rights might not be prejudiced merely on account of the delay. The court said that of course his rights would not now be prejudiced by delay, but at present the rule need not be granted. Rule refused accordingly. UNFOUNDED CHARGE.—At the police-court, on Friday, a respectable young female, named Hannah Fatraday, daughter of a publican, was placed at the bar, charged with having feloniously possessed herself of a £1 note, the pro perty of a man named William Rufferty. The complainant, a big forward fellow, said that he and some of his compa nions had, on the previous day, gone into Mr. Farraday's public-house, in Waterloo-road, and had each something to drink. A dispute arose as to the payment for the glasses they had drunk, and it was finally agreed that each should pay for his own. The prisoner asked him for payment of his, and (as he alleged) he pulled out and gave her a 30s. country note, with which a£l note was wrapped up. She gave him the change out of the 30s. note, and kept the other, requiring also to be paid for what she would have to give for exchanging the note for coin. He then said he would get the note passed without paying anything, and gave her half a-crown, when the 30s. note was returned, but not the other, and she gave him the change out of the half-crown. He then had her taken into custody. The prisoner told a straight forward and very different story. Thinking he was going without, paying, she demanded her money, and he tossed down the 30s. note in a passion, but no other. She imme diately returned it on his giving her half-a-crown, and for which she gave him the full change. He then accused her of stealing a £1 note; but she declared there was no such note with the other, nor had she seen it, and she herself, smarting under the accusation, sent for the police, as there was no male in the house to take her part, and she submitted her drawers an d her per son t o b e searc h e d b y th e officer, who found nothing. An officer stated that the complainant had admitted to him that he had changed the £1 note before ! Mr. Rushton said he believed the complainant had no £1 note with him, and that the pr, tner, a respectable young w oman, had been most wrongfully given into custody. He reminded the complainant that that was not the first occasion on which he had preferred false cha rges against innocent in dividuals,_ and warned him to bcatou . s how he repeated such conduct. With respect to the risoiter, she would leave the court without any imputatio n P w hatever e(Lefre defend d n her character. The complainant was very urgen t w self, but Mr. Rushton ordere d him out of court. The h ret - - soner was then discharged. VV Mr. C. R. DUNCAN. — This gentleman, who is a son of the i late Capt. Dun can, R.N., of Hol y head, was — it will be n th e rem embrance of many of our readers —for several voy ages first officer of " The Liverpool" transatlantic steam ship, of this port (now " The Great Liverpool," one of the Mediterranean ! nail -ships) ; afterwards first officer of the ill-fated " President" steam -ship (both of them commanded by Lieut. Fayrer, R.N., now of " The Forth," 'West Indian mail-ship) ; and subsequently first officer of one of the Halifax and Boston line of mail ships; and his friends in this quar t e r will be glad to learn that he has been appointed to the command of one of the West India also royal mail ship s , The Solway," of which he had acted, since she was launched, as first officer. Captain Dun can, an active and spirited young man, during his comparatively short career as a seaman, has saved the lives of a considerable number of individuals, who, but for his manly and generous exertions, would have perished in " the briny deep." Conjointly with another gallant " vo lunteer," he saved a man from the Liverpool, who had fallen overboard far from the land, in the Atlantic ocean, when the sea was running hi g h, and when the danger was most imminent. In presence of the writer of this, he saved the lives of two men belonging to " the President," in July twelve months, in the dead of night, i n Ki ngstown harbour. The gold medal of the Shipwreck and Humane Society of this town was awarded to him for his gallantry on this occasio n, and a silver snuff box was also subscribed for by the gentlemen on board, and presented to him, with a suitable inscription and device, shortly after the arrival of the vessel here. We feel assured, that not only our townsmen, but our countrymen generally, will be gratified to learn that Mr. Duncan's merits are now appreciated, and that he has obtained the ommand of one of the finest (if difference there be) of the splendid line of West India Steam-ships. LAST OF THE COURSE OF LECTURES ON THE CREED OF POPE PIUS THE FOURTH. The twelfth and last of the course of lectures on the twelve novel articles of the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth, was de livered on Fridayevening last, in the Music-hall, Bold-street, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. Every part of the room was crowded almost to suffocation. On the platform we observed a great number of the principal clergy and gentry of the town. Mr. MIDDLETON having been called to the chair, the pro ceedings commenced with the offering of prayer by the Rev. J. R. Connor, minister of St. Simon's church. Mr. M'IsTELE then stepped forward, and the enthusiastic cheering with which he was saluted having ceased, he spoke nearly as follows :—Sir, I think it must be obvious to every man of even common discernment, that there exists now in our community a disposition to quiescence, that, after being kept in a state of agitation for many years under a govern ment who were not their own masters, and who therefore were not to be trusted, the country is disposed now to enjoy rest under a strong and independent government. (Hear.) Politically speaking, we rejoice that this is so, and partake of this rest; but, sir, while this change has taken place in the things that are seen, no change has taken place in the relative importance of the things that are not seen. (Hear.) And if we be asked why, while we acknowledge this disposi tion to quietness, we persevere in agitating the Roman Ca tholic controversy, our answer is given in the language of an apostle, " we having received the same spirit of faith, ac cording as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken ; we also believe, and therefore speak." (Hear.) Vie believe the Gospel, the Gospel of the grace of God, in all its direct majesty and in all its exclusiveness, as the way of human salvation. Sir, all that is distinguishing in Roman ism is comparatively novel ; all that Romanism holds, or professes to hold, of primitive Christianity is not distin guishing, for we hold it also. (Hear, hear, hear.) in the course of lectures now to be concluded, attention has been called to the peculiarities of Romanism, not as they are described by interested or prejudiced opponents, but as they are cautiously enumerated in the successive clauses of the creed of Pope Pins the Fourth. It is not my intention to attempt to retrace the steps of any of my predecessors in this course, or to reiterate arguments already well and suffi ciently urged ; but to call attention at once to the distin guishing features of the last article in that creed, entrusted to my care. In the printed list for this course, the article in question is thus given : " XII.—I, N. N.. do at this present freely profess and sincerely hold this true Catholic faith, without which no one can be saved : and I promise most constantly to retain and confess the same entire and inviolate, with God's assistance, to the end of my life." This is given as the last clause of the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth ; but there is a mistake here. The article is mutilated, and an important clause is suppressed. (Hear, hear.) This is a very grave charge; but, wherever the fault may be, this is the fact, that this article, so given in the printed list circulated as our notice for these lectures, is not correctly given. I repeat it is mutilated, and an important clause suppressed. (Hear.) Whose fault is this ? Ido not think that any fault attaches to the gentleman or gentlemen who prepared this list. They took the article as they found it translated into English in both Roman Catholic and Pro testant writers ; no fault, therefore, attaches to them. I think some fault does undoubtedly attach to those Protestant writers who have given the article in a mutilated form. At the same time, there is some degree of excuse for them. They found it so given in Roman Catholic books ; and, con scious of their own fidelity in transcribing documents. they were willing, as all honest men always are, to give credit to their opponents for the exercise of a similar conscientious ness. (Hear.) But what excuse shall be made for the Ro man Catholic writers who have thus printed their own creed in a mutilated form? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Charles Butler. the most distinguished of modern Roman Catholic contro versialists in England, has given it thus in his " Book of the Roman Catholic Church," as may be seen upon the Bth page of that book. Messrs. Berrington and Kirk, two Roman Catholic priests, who published a condensed controversial manual entitled " The Faith of Catholics," have given it in the same mutilated form, as may be seen on the 454th page of their book. (Hear, hear.) It becomes my duty now to supply the suppressed clause. I have the original Latin in my hands, and I will read it first in that language, and then give you a translation of it. The suppressed clause is this : " Atque i meis subditis vel illis, quorum cura ad me in munere meo, spectabit, teneri, doceri et prtedicari, quantum in me erit, curaturum. " Ego, idem, N. spondee, voveo, ac juro : sic me Deus adjuvet, et time sancta Dei Evangelia." The English of this is : " And to take care, as far as in me lies, that it [that is, the faith] shall be held, taught, and published, by my sub jects, or by those the care of whom shall appertain to me in my office. This I, N., do promise vow and swear, so help me God, and these holy Gospels of God." We shall see that this is no unimportant clause ; and we shall see also too palpable, and, under the circumstances, too tempting reasons for the suppression of it. First, however, I call your attention to the former part of the article, as given in the printed list :—" I, N. N., do at this present freely profess and sincerely hold this true Ca tholic faith, without which no one can be saved." Now it is not to libel this statement to say, that it declares that there is no salvation for any man who does not hold all the preceding articles of this creed. (Hear, hear.) The " true Catholic faith " referred to in the last article comprehends all the preceding articles. The charge against the statement is, this, that it declares there is no salvation for any man who does not hnld all the preceding articles of that creed ; and this I venture to call the climax of Rome's direct offence against God and man. To make the nature of this offence clear to you, it will be necessary to make a few important distinctions ; and first—this creed avowedly makes ADDITIONS to what is alleged to be contained in holy scripture. This it does by binding on its disciples in the first article " apostolical and ecclesiastical traditions," and in the eleventh article " all the sacred canons and general councils." Omitting, therefore, for the present, the limits. tion which it places upon the reception of scripture in the second article refusing to receive it, unless " in accordance with the unanimous consent of the fathers,"—that is, in fact, refusing to receive it at all, for it is held in abeyance until the unanimous consent can be found, and unanimous consent cannot be found—(cheers)—but omitting this for the present, omitting also the erroneous interpretation of many parts of Scripture which are dogmatically assumed in the other articles of the creed, I consider simply now the ad ditions to Scripture avowedly here introduced, traditions, canons, and councils. (Hear.) Concerning all these, it is here declared, that without a belief' of them, no man can be saved. Now that a belief in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, is indeed indispensable to salvation, is a great truth, and it is no offence to say it. Our Saviour himself said it; his inspired apostles said it; his orthodox church, and we as a portion of it say the same when we read his Gospel, and when we read the Athanasian Creed. The Church of Rome in professedly retaining that creed, says the same. Here, then, there is no controversy between us. In declaring that the Gospel of God, as revealed in the word of God, must be believed for salvation, we are but repeating upon earth what God himself has declared from heaven ; therefore, it is disingenuous in Roman Catholic controver sialists, as it is unreasonable and unfair in itself, to attempt to put the declaration of the Athanasian Creed concerning what is in Scripture upon a par with this declaration in the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth, concerning what is avowedly not in Scripture. (Hear, hear.) Another distinction must be made. Additions to Scrip ture are of a twofold character : first, things not forbidden in the Scripture, and, consequently, in themselves indiffer ent ; and secondly, things forbidden, and consequently unlawful. An example of the first may be supplied in the wearing of a surplice, or the use of a liturgy ; an example of the second in bowing down to an image. (Hear.) The . first I call indifferent, for Scripture leaves them untouched; they are not forbidden. The second I have called things unlawful, for Scripture forbids them. Now I call attention to the first—things indifferent; and I ask you to consider the use that may properly be made, and the use that ought not to be made of additions to Scripture in things indifferent. For any church in any country to add to the general princi ples laid down in Scripture, special regulations and special ceremonies of her own, for her own management and her own order, and to declare that compliance with these regu lations is indispensable towards participation in her commu nion—this is no offence at all. This is no more than any voluntary society among men has a right to do, holding out special advantages and prescribinc , special conditions ; and this any particular church has a right e to do. This the church at Jerusalem did, the church at Alexandria. and the church at Antioch, and this the Church 6f England does. To the general principles contained in Scripture, she adds, of things indiffe rent, a variety of regulations for her own order, and her own management, and she requires compliance with them all as indispensable to communion with her. These need not be always and in every church the same. The 34th article of our church says, " At all times they have been diverse, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against God's word." And again " Every particular or na tional church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the church ordained only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying." This is the use which may properly be made of additions to Scripture in things indifferent. (Hear.) But now, mark, if any church in any country pronounces that compliance with such things is indispensable, not only towards communion with her but also towards salvation with God, then she is guilty of an awful offence, for then she presumes to elevate her private and local regulations into a parallelism of authority with the word of God. (Hear, hear, hear.) Of this offence the Church of England would be guilty if she declared that a faith, com prising her articles, her catechism, her homilies. was neces sary to salvation ; and of this offence the Church of Rome is guilty when she says, in this creed, that a faith comprising her traditions, her canons, her councils, is necessary not only to communion with her, but to salvation with God. ( Hear.) Thus, even if we were to grant, which we cannot do, but if we were to grant, that the preceding articles of this creed contain nothing opposed to Scripture but only additions in things in different, and that, as such, they might fairly be required by the Church of Rome for communion with herself; vet even then to pronounce, as she has pronounced, and required all her disciples to pronounce upon oath in this creed, that they are indispensable to salvation with God, is a daring offence. Even supposing it were things indifferent, observe, her de claration, even so, would be a daring offence against the ma jesty of God's written word. (Cheers.) But this is not all. Now, look at the other species of additions to Scripture which are unlawful. For any church in any country to add to the general principles of Holy Scrip ture special regulations of her own, for her own management and her own order, involving things unlawful—that is, things forbidden by the divine word, and for that church to require compliance with them as indispensable towards her own com munion, this would be a grievous offence. It would resemble the guilt of an illegal society among men, holding out special supposed advantages but prescribing conditions condemned by the law of the land. No loyal and true subject of the realm, properly instructed in the laws of his country, and in requirements of such society, could become a member of such society. (cheers.) This is what the Church of Rome has done—enacting as indispensable towards communion with herself what the King of Heaven has forbidden and condemned—as the use of images in worship for instance, and no loyal and true subject of the kingdom of heaven, properly instructed in the laws of his God and in the requirements of that church, can belong to that society. (Loud cheers.) One step more. Concerning unlawful things, enacted in verbatim hostility and daring defiance to the law of God, the Church of Rome declares, not only that they are indis pensable towards communion with her, but indispensable towards salvation with that God whom she is thus outraging. Engaged in systematic rebellion against the great Sovereign, she denounces the everlasting anger of the Sovereign against all who have not joined her rebellion. (Cheers.) This is what I have ventured to call the climax of Rome's direct offence against God and man. ( Hear.) To see this offence in its true light, and see the full extent of its heinousness, we must look in contrast to the majesty and exclusive ness o f i nsp i rat i on . (Hear, hear.) " All Scripture is given by inspiration of God ;" and is, therefore, immeasurably separated from every tradition and every com positionhr eahor.fman, how ever exce ll en t, however wise. (Hear, ea patriarchs, )andapoale Scripture s ; is not the word of prophets, and the mouth of th ose h it is the word cho whichchoice e in s God nl e st selecting g k e t by e h holy men. Those men were not left to a human, and, therefore, a fallible words they should use. They were the voice or voices of the thinkeri r n e f a a d l y lib w le riter2, Tarnude is is, jit speaker ; they were " the pens of the ma chines in the same sense indeed , that they were not creatures in divers senses, and He are ; but God works with to the constitution of its nature . e works with each according writers exercised the abilities of the l r ue o i wn t is m t i h n a d t s th an e d s jaucdregd. went in selecting acceptable words to convey the revelation ; but equally true it is that the Holy Spirit, who is more inti mate with the skill and movements of man's mind than man himself is, did so order and direct every movement in that choice, that every word they used was as truly His word as if He had given it to them with an audible voice, and they had transcribed it from the sound. (Cheers.) " Well spake the Holy Ghost by the prophet," exclaims the apostle; again, " Thou, 0 God, has said by the mouth of thy servant David ;" and again, " Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (Cheers.) Now this distin guishes Scripture immeasurably, as I said, from every other word. (Hear.) The Word of God so spoken, the Word of God so spoken alone, and ALL the Word of God so spoken —by this shall men be judged at the last day. (Hear.) Nothing is to be added to this, nothing is to be taken from this, with respect to salvation. (Hear.) I have already distinguished between communion with the church and salvation with God. Many things may be added to this, if they be lawful in themselves, for communion with any particular church; but nothing is to be added to this for salvation with our God. The Church of England observes the distinction ; for, whilst she adds many things for her own regulation, she no where says that the reception of these things is necessary for salvation with God. Roman Catholic controversialists object this to us. They say, " How can you defend yourself against the charge of making the 39 articles what we make the creed of Pope Pius IV. ?" The answer is, we never said that the 39 articles are necessary for salvation; never; and were we required to say so, I can an swer for some, that we would rather lay down our hands from our arms, and have our tongue cut from our lips, than say so. (Loud cheers.) We value them as condensed expressions of truth; we prefer the community hedged within them, and value them to guard against needless diversity, of sentiment; we declare their reception necessary to communion with us; but to say that the reception of them is necessary to salva tion, is abhorrent to our very souls, To elevate any word of man, any tradition, or composition of man to a level with any word of God, is to open the door for indefinite and intermin able superstitions ; while to lower any word of God to the level of man's fallibility, or subject it to the crucible of human criti cism, is to open the door for every species of infidelity. The Socinian, upon the one side, lowers the word of God to the level of man's word, and criticises and explains it away by the rules of grammar, as if a fallible man had spoken it. This is the way to infidelity. The Romanist exalts man's word to a parallel with the word of God ; and this is the way to super stitign. (Hear, hear.) The Church of England distinguishes always between these ; keeps scripture upon its high pedes tal, as that wherein alone God deals with man ; and upon a secondary platform she has her own regulations, wherein it is lawful for her to deal with her own children, not with man kind in general. (Loud cheers.) I hope that these distinctions, though briefly stated, have been made plain to your minds. (Hear.) I have endea voured to condense the matter, in order as much as possible to avoid much speaking in such an atmosphere as we are confined in at present ; but I hope they have not been too much condensed to convey, simply and fully, the meaning, which will bear expansion in your meditations. (Loud cries of " hear, hear.") Now I come to the suppressed clause of this article. You 'Will see, by reference to this suppressed clause which I have transcribed, that it requires every sincere Romanist not only himself to hold, but to cause as far as he can that others shall hold—and not only that others shall hold, but that others shall teach, the whole of this creed. (Hear.) He not only promises to hold it himself, but he says—" And to take care, as far as in me lies, that it shall be held, taught, and pub lished by my subjects, or by those the care of whom shall appertain to me in my office. This Ido promise, vow, and swear, so help me God, and these holy gospels of God!" The language is comprehensive of all classes of society. (Hear, hear, hear.) When this oath is taken by a Roman Catholic Sovereign, the expression " by my subjects" applies literally; and he is bound by oath to take care, as far as in him lies, that the Roman faith, as expressed in this creed, shall be held, taught, and published by all his subjects. (Hear, hear.) Our second James endeavoured honestly to act up to this oath, to act up to his obligations as a Roman Catholic; he was not content to hold the faith himself according to the first clause of the article given by all the modern writers, but he took the whole article ; he felt, as an honest man, bound to propagate the faith; and he endeavoured to do so. In the good providence of God his attempt was premature ; the bishops of the English church preferred prison to apostacy ! (Cheers.) The nation sided with the faithful prelates ; and, in stead of England losing her unadulterated Bible and her pri mitive Christianity, the popish violator of her charters lost his crown! (Renewed cheers.) But it is not to Sovereigns only and Bishops that this creed is administered ; and, there fore, there is another clause which may have escaped your notice. , It says not only "by my subjects," but " those the care of whom shall appertain to me in my office." (Hear.) This includes all offices ecclesiastical and civil, public and private ; and it binds every priest with reference to his flock, every magistrate with reference to his community, every pa rent with reference to his family, every master with refer ence to his servants and apprentices. (Hear.) The whole population under this creed become the pledged and sworn disciples and proselytisers of Rome. (Hear, hear, hear.) This is the clause they have kept back! (Hear, hear.) On this suppressed clause the Rev. Richard Pope, in his admi rable treatise called " Roman Misquotation," after exposing the suppression, makes the following remarks : " It needs scarcely be observed, that this solemn promise of interference with the creeds of men exhibits in colours not to be mistaken, the proselytizing character of the church of Rome. Now lam very far from asserting that determina tion, in a religious bOdY, to propagate their opinions is not commendable. It is clear, however, that a system, like Ro manism, if avowedly pledged to the extension of its princi ples, might be regarded with distrust in a Protestant country. Was it then to prevent such a feeling being entertained by an unsuspecting public that in two volumes, one of which was specially designed for a Protestant nation, the authorised symbol of the church of Rome is presented, divested of the clause, in which her members bind themselves to the zealous dissemination of their faith ?" In other words, was it for the purpose of deceiving the British public that, in the series of years imm e di a t e ly ante cedent to '29, Roman Catholic controversialists, putting the fairest face they could upon their system, obliged to give the creed of Pope Pius IV., as a known document, did, never theless, so far calculate upon the ignorance of the people of England, that they ventured to mutilate that document, and give it, divested of this obnoxious clause ? Mr. Pope gives no answer to this question. He concludes the chapter with the question, significantly enough, leaving his readers to sup ply the answer, giving them credit for sufficient discernment to supply the right answer. None of his Roman Catholic readers have given him a reply. (Hear.) How, indeed, could they, when their leading aim in these our days has been to represent themselves as the friends of religious liberty, warm advocates of universal religious liberty ? And not only so, but absolutely horrified, horrified, like the lowest dissenters, at the bigotry of interfering with the opinions of others ! I folding, indeed, in all sincerity, their own opinions, but pro testing against the intolerance of interfering with the religious opinions of other people ! (Hear.) To convey this idea of themselves, they have written, they have spoken, they have sworn. (Hear.) To propagate this idea, at this moment, Dr. Murray flatters, Dr. Wiseman coaxes, Dr. Baines insin uates. (Laughter.) Who would have thought it, that these very men, and all their archbishops and bishops,and all their peers, and all their members of parliament, and all their ma gistrates, and all their masters and schoolmasters, and if there be any other office appertaining to them—that they are all bound by oath, " as far as in them lies," to interfere, to pro pagate and teach and publish, all Pope Pius's creed ? (Hear.) Who would have thought it? (Laughter.) Mr. Charles Butler knew the creed in the original. That is no libel ; (laughter)—or if it be the commencement of a libel upon his honesty, then what is it upon his information ? (Hear, hear.) He knew the creed in the original ; he wrote a book in which he professed to give this creeed—that is no libel—and he did not give all the creed ! (Hear, hear.) That is no libel. (Hear, hear, hear.) Messrs. Berington and Kirk knew the creed in the original—that is true. Messrs. Beri ng t on an d Kirk wrote a controversial book in which they professed to give this creed ; but Messrs. Berington and Kirk mutilated the creed—they gave only part of it. That is true. (Hear, and cheers.) Now our good friends of the Protestant Asso ciation—including Mr. Crisp, have been deceived by these mutilations, and they have sent me before you with this mu tilated article to lecture upon ! That is true ;—(hear, hear) —but I was determined to bring the clause forward, and I hope the suppresed clause will he printed both in Latin and English. (Hear, hear.) Although Mr. Charles Butler knew the creed in the origi nal, and although Messrs. Berington and Kirk knew it in the original, the Protestants of England did not know it, and most of them do not know it now, and among those to whom it is told, many will not believe it. I hope that will not apply to any of you, but it does apply—many will not believe it. (Hear, hear.) They are so disposed to be quiet, they are so determined to be charitable, they are so indis posed to be asked to believe these things that they seem rather inclined to silence us by the charge of bigotry than take the trouble of examining our awful statements. (Hear.) But as I said at the first, so say I now again, " having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have' I spoken—we also believe, and therefore spake." (Hear, hear.) At the same time I feel that there is a subject that it may be well to offer a few words upon in connection with this grave argument before us, and that is upon the hacknied charge so constantly reiterated, and s o injuriously believed against us, that we are harsh in this matter and our opponents mild ; that we are bigotted and our opponents charitable ; that we are vulgar and our oppo nents gentlemanlike. (Hear.) Sir, it has been well and truly said, that a good christian ought never to be outdone in good manners. I quite agree in that sentiment ; but I think it is equally true that a good christian ought never to be outdone in honesty, sincerity, and truth. (Cheer s .) N ow , sir, to speak of R.ornanisna with honesty, sincerity an d t ru th, and all the while to give no offence in word, or gesture, or tone against good manners, to be a faithful controversialist without ceasing to be a polished gentleman—this is an at tainment of no ordinary excellence. In aiming at it we should at least have some fixed and determined standard of good manners, to which to refer our judgment, and by which to regulate our procedure ; otherwise that which seems suf ficiently polite and gentlemanlike to some, may wear to others the aspect of rudeness, perhaps even of vulgarity. (Cheers.) In like manner the species of language which some may consider sufficiently mild and gentle, may appear to others uncourteous, to say the least of it, perhaps un kind—perhaps worse—but I desire to refrain from any lan guage unsuitable to the context. (Hear, hear.) For ex ample, when a controversialist, a member of the Church of Rome calls all of us HERETICS, which they have no scruple in doing, does he offend against good manners? (Hear.) It seems not. There does not appear to be the least feeling that he has offended : his character as a mild conciliatory man is in no way blemished. (Hear.) Perhaps upon some other occasion, or it is very possible upon the same occasion, he may have called the " heretics" " beloved fellow chris tians !" (Hear.) What then? Why then, sir, his incon sistency is overlooked, and some of his soft expressions are eulogised as perfect models of christian charity ! (Hear.) This is no fancy sketch ; I paint from th e lif e . (Ch eers .) But now let us reverse the picture. (Hear.) A controver sialist, a member of the Church of England, ventures in the tempest, torrent, and whirlwind of his eloquence to call Ro man Catholics " heretics." Does he offend against good man ners? (Hear.) Oh, shocking! Oh, d rea df u l ! Never was any thing heard so uncharitable ! Such l anguage i s not to be tolerated for a moment I (Hear.) Where is the stan dard of good manners? What is gentlemanlike, hlatshisouthlde like to know, and what is not? (Hear, hear.) w reason that Roman Catholics are offended when we use such words as "imposture " or " superstition," and that we are not offended when they use such words as "heretic?" (H ear .) I think we take the appellation " heretic" from th em , as Mr, Southey remarks, just as we would the appellation of dogs or kaffers from the Turks ; he says that Prote s t ants are not galled by such terms, because their " withers are un wiling:" (Hear, hear.) I have said this, not as an apology for harsh words, for it ha s not been my intention to use any ,— l prot e st I intended to steer clear of all, and I believe I have done so all this evening, —but I say this to call attention to the treatment we receive, and to the manner in which we bear it, and to the language— the gentleman-like title of " heretics" —whereby we and all Protestants are distinguished from " all the faithful," not only by Roman Catholic controversialists in angry mood, but i with utme into here —an my hand by the most authoritative documents o f the Ro m an Cathol ic Ch a u a r d c a m I t is sa r only I a n d a a v y a o a r a t t w b o r agooag brought had t address from the Roman Catholic bishop of this district, to " all the faithful" in Lancashire ! Now , he is not writing to us ; he is writing to " all the faithful , " as distinguished from us. (Hear.) And not only the name, but the treatment to be plainlygiven downret c s i , a " t b h o e t s h e i d n a this a w n o t r a l . d a I n d w I n a t a l ite quote recordin connec olved in the creed to lo, t ia n ag withb ut the h w e a c n r e t a tdo before put this s a passagefar it isupona which they swear in the last article. With regard to heretics —I will not trouble you with the Latin , but I will read the translation that is here—they are to be thus treated,— " Such as are condemned are to be delivered over to the existing secular powers, or their officers, to receive due punishment. If laymen, their effects shall be confiscated : if priests, they shall be first degraded from their respective orders, and their property applied to the use of the churches in which they have officiated. Those who have incurred a public suspicion of heresy shall be punished with anathema, and their company shunned by all men, unless they tho roughly clear themselves from the charge. If they remain under excommunication a year, they shall then be condemned as heretics." And you have heard what is to be done with such as are condemned. It goes on,— " Secular powers of all ranks and degrees are to be warned, induced, and, if necessary, compelled by ecclesiastical cen sures, as they desire to be accounted faithful, publicly to swear that they will exert themselves to the utmost in defence of the faith, and exterminate all heretics—[the original ex pression is exterminare hereticos, to exterminate heretics]-- denounced by the church, who shall be found in their terri tories. And whenever any person shall assume government, whether it be spiritual or temporal, he shall be bound to swear to abide by this decree. " If any temporal lord, after having been admonished and required by the church, shall neglect to clear his territory of heretical pravity, the metropolitan and the bishops of the province shall unite in excommunicating him. Should he remain contumacious a - whole year, the fact shall be signified to the supreme pontiff, who will declare his vassals released from their allegiance from that .time, and will bestow his territory on Catholics, to be occupied by them on the con dition of exterminating the heretics [exterminatis hereticie], and preserving the said territory in the pure faith."—(Third Canon of the Fourth Council of Lateran.) Oh, sir, the age we live in is one of toleration. Light, liberty, and knowledge have spread their wings over the nations ; and if men are to be swayed now, it must be by means which, apparently at least, are fair and reasonable. To plead guilty to sentiments and principles so odious as these, would now be fatal to any party or any system. Of course, therefore, the defenders of the Church of Rome deny now that they hold these principles : they repudiate them loudly, boldly, and, to all appearance, honestly ; and they call it wilful calumny in us to persevere in citing such senti ments as theirs. (Hear, hear.) But, sir, unfortunately for that system, all these fair professions are neutralized by stubborn facts. (Hear.) The great fact, comprehensive of many facts, is this, that the creed of Pope Pius IV, with that winding up oath which I have been commenting upon just now, remains to this hour, the authorized, accredited, pub licly used—not laid upon the shelf—but the publicly-used document of the Church of Rome, sworn to by every bene ficed clergyman in her communion, and publicly professed, with assent and consent, by every convert to her communion, (Hear.) A part of that creed se bound upon their consci ences by an oath is, that they receive all that is contained in the sacred canons and general councils of the church. I have quoted from one of their general councils. They are as legitimately bound, as ever a man was bound by oath, to these sentiments. The creed of Pope Pius IV. is not denied by them ; it is put forward by themselves as their own docu ment. Mr. Charles Butler, whom I have already named, says, the creed of Pope Pius IV. is an accurate and explicit summary of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, to be received without restriction or qualification ; while at the same time that very same gentleman loudly repudiates many of the principles to which that creed binds him ! (Hear, hear.) He acknowledges the creed, and he rejects the con tents of the creed! (Hear, hear.) Upor. this subject, Mr. Southey, in writing to Mr. Butler, has used the following words : " The creed, Sir, which you have thus brought forward, comprehends all those obnoxious opinions which, in the name of the British Roman Catholics, you are so eager to renounce or disavow. It comprehends an acknowledgment of the temporal authority of the popes, of their power to de pose kings, and to absolve subjects from their allegiance. It includes an assent to the propositions that heretics are to be persecuted; faith is not to be kept with them ; that simula tion is lawful." He has a note on this, which is worthy of observation for the melancholy perversion it exhibits in reference to the Holy Scriptures. The canon law says—" Simulatio utilis est, et in tempore assumenda," that is, simulation is useful and sometimes ought to be practised." (Hear, hear.) A curious passage occurs in the Decretals—" Ipse dominus noster, non hahens peccatum, nec carnem peccati, simulationem pecca tricis carnis assumpsit." Our Lord himself not having flesh or sin, took upon him the pretence of sinful flesh ! And this is quoted as Scriptural authority for the lawfulness of pre tending what is not fact! Here we get at the root, in the canon law, of the practise I have been exhibiting. Just as if I made bold to ask Mr. Charles Butler, or Messrs. Berington and Kirk, or any other Roman Catholic, when they put for ward the creed in the mutilated form— " Gentlemen, did you not know the original ?—Yes. " Did you profess to give the whole of the creed of Pope Pins the Fourth ?—Yes. " Did you give it as it stands in the original ?—No. `• Did you profess to give it as it stands in the original ? Yes. " Was that right ?—Yes. Simulatio utilis est, et in tern pore asssumenda. Simulation is lawful, and sometimes it must be practised. (Tremendous cheers.) Mr. Southey proceeds, " it includes an assent to the pro positions that heretics are to be persecuted ; that faith is not to be kept with them ; that simulation is lawful, and that the guilt of homicide is not incurred by killing excommunicated persons, if zeal for religion be the motive. For these principles have been laid down in the canons, or proclaimed by councils ; and upon these principles the papal church has acted so far in strict conformity to its own creed. In my heart, Sir, I believe that you heartily disavow them, and that the great body of the British Romanists are sincere in dis claiming such intolerable opinions. But they are distinctly asserted in your canons and by your councils ; and they are comprehended in this creed which you yourself present as "an accurate and explicit summary of the Roman Catholic faith" to be received without restriction or qualification." It is impossible, Sir, that you, and the body for which you speak, can assent to all that this creed includes ; your feelings, your opinions, your solemn protestations are in opposition to it. But in rendering to you and to them this willing justice, I must add that there are some among you whose temper and whose doctrines are in perfect accord with these principles. There are men among you upon whom the mantles of Gardiner and Bonner have descended; who equivocate like Jesuits, and who would persecute like Dominicans, if the power were In their hands. And these are the consistent Romanists, lomanists in heart and soul as well as profession, who assent to all that the thirteen ad ditional articles of their creed comprehend, and would joy fully act up to the very letter of their law. But for yourself, sir, and those who with you renounce in full sincerity these abominable tenets, and who are, therefore, reduced to the un comfortable necessity of denying in public declarations what you profess and swear to in your confession of faith, this re ligious grievance must surely be more painful than the political disabilities which those tenets have rendered neces sary for our safety. Is it unreasonable to suggest, then, that the British Roman Catholics might with more propriety apply for relief to the court of Rome than to the British parliament; and that instead of agitating these kingdoms with their demands for political power, they would do well to petition the head of their church for a revision of the creed of Pope Pius IV for a removal of the restrictions which it imposes upon their understanding, their loyalty, and their conscience, for emancipation from the moral and intellectual bondage in which it holds them ?" (Hear, hear.) Sir, this suggestion of Mr. Southey's is most pertinent and valuable ; for I ask you only imagine a Roman Catholic gentleman, a man of understanding, of conscience, and of loyalty, a man attached to his own church but ignorant of the contents of the canons and councels of that church. He is taking some office, and he is called upon to sign this creed of Pope Pius IV, and he comes to the clause I am lecturing upon, which binds by oath all the preceding clauses upon his conscience; he looks at one of those preceding clauses, and finds that it involves all that is contained in the sacred canons and general counsels. Why, would not such an honest man pause, and start back, and say, " What is all this lam going to sign? Without knowing what is in those documents I am going to put my hand to a paper that in volves whole volumes that I have never read ; as an honest man I cannot do it ;—(cheers)-1 must see what these canons and general counsels are before I can sign this paper. (Re newed cheers.) There is one of them, I find, that Protestant controversalists often refer to, that is the fourth counsel of Lateran; perhaps it does contain what they say, and if I sign the creed of Pope Pius IV I shall make myself liable to all they say, and what they say will no longer be calumny in them, but the height of imprudence in me—so I must see what is in the counsels before I sign that paper." (Cheers.) I protest in all honesty that I am giving what I believe would he the movements of mind, and the final determination of conscience of many and many a Roman Catholic gentleman, if they were at liberty to follow the dictates of their con science, if they were not enslaved by a foregone conclusion. (Hear.) But they have not taken Mr. Southey's advice; they have not gone to the head of their church • they have not asked for any revision of the creed of Pope Pius IV, and subscription to that creed in this country still hangs its mill stone weight , upon the understanding, and upon the con science, and upon the loyalty, of every British subject of the court of Rome! (Cheers.) Now, sir, 1 have done. I pray sincerely in harmony with the prayer offered before I began, that a blessing may rest upon what has been spoken. I have spoken to those who have opportunities of hearing the gospel of God, of contrast ing it with the peculiarities of Romanism. I have spoken to those who have been partners in an act which has deprived England of all defence against the machinations of the papal court, except the defence found in the principles of her people. (Hear.) Legislative defence is removed, and more entirely removed from England than from any country under the sun. (Hear.) I will briefly tell you why, sir. During the period when the papal court was felt to be formidable, the continental courts of Europe took security against the aggressions of that court, by requiring that every rescript of the court of Rome which entered their dominions should be submitted to the Minister of the Interior before it was missed on to the Archbishops, in order that the minister might take cognizance that it contained only ecclesiastical matter. In those days England was so shielded by the state of her laws that she did not require such a guard as that. Sbe was guarded then more than any state ; but when her laws were altered, nothing tantamount to the guard in other states was enacted, and England, from being more guarded than any, became more exposed than any. (Hear, hear.) Her de fence now is in the principles of her people (cheers) ; her genuine defenders in the established pastors of those people whose duty it is to set those principles before them ; deli berately, fairly, honestly to a r g ue those principles out wibh out railing (of which they fa lsel y accuse us), without ani mosity, without anger, without bigotry to call attention to the word of God, and to the traditions and compositions of men as contrasted with that, and say, i n the powerful lan guage of that word, " He that bath a dream, let him tell a dream, and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully ' ;" what is the chaff to the wheat ? saith th e L or d of Hosts. The reverend gentleman then retired amidst great applause from all parts of the room, The Rev. F. PARRY moved, and Mr. JOHN HOWARD seconded a vote of thanks, which was carried by acclamation, to the Rev. Mr. M‘Neile f or his ab le , eloquent, and con vincing lecture. a blessing having been A doxology was then sung, an _d . pronounced, the meeting separated ATHLONE ELECTION PETITION.—The committee have decided that G. de la Poer Beresford was not duly elected, and that D. H. Farrell , Esq., ought to have been returned. Mr. Beresford is allowed to pe tition against the return. It is said that Mr. Brunel, who is about to enter into a contract with the Sardinian gov e rnment for a railway to communicate with Milan and Turin from Genoa, intends to avail himself of the atmospheric propulsion for some part, at least, of the distance. THE LONDON TOWN•CLER KsuIP-- The committee, ap pointed by the Town-council of London to inquire into the circumstances attending the resignation of Mr. Pearson, the city solicitor, who was a candidate for the vacant office of Town-clerk, have reported :—" That we, your committee, having taken the same into our serious and attentive con sideration, are of opinion that Mr. Pearson had an undoubted right to withdraw himself as a candidate for the office of Town -clerk. That under the circumstances and documents we now respectfully lay before you, he was bound in honour to do so ; an d t h at t h e pr ivileges of you r h on. Court have not been interfered with." It is quite a matter of doubt upon whom the election will fall. Mr. Pearson's friends, who are very numerous, seem to be determined to propose him as a candidate in the event of the non-suspension of the standing order of th e C ourt which, if acted upon , will certainl ex clude Serje an t M erewet her. The contest w ill then be be tween Mr. Pearson, Mr. Pritchard, and Mr. Hughes Hughes. If Serjeant Merewether's friends are strong enouugh to sus pend the standing order, the Serjeant will, it is supposed, be elected. WILFUL MURDER OF A MALE CHILD-AND COMMITMENT OF THE PRISONER. An inquest was yegterday held before Mr. Curry, the bo rough coroner, on view of the body of a new-born male infant. The mother had been taken into custody on suspicion of hav ing murdered it. Mary Cole, the first witness, deposed that she resided in Sandon-street. The prisoner Elizabeth Russell was a ser vant in her employ. On Thursday week witness went out and left the prisoner in charge of the house. Her (witness's) mother and a lady who resided with them were in the house. Witness returned home at nine o'clock the same evening, when the prisoner complained of being ill, but she did not observe anything particular in her appearance then. Wit ness told her to go•to bed, which she did, and next morning resumed her duty. There was a little girl named Mary Bruce, who used to assist in the house, but did not live there. On Thursday last she did not come as usual, and witness went to her mother to ascertain the reason, when she informed her that her daughter had been put to work that was not fit for her, and from what she said some suspicion rose in witness's mind that there was something wrong. Witness went and informed her sister, who advised her to question the prisoner as to whether anything had been the matter beyond the com mon course of nature. Witness did 'question her, but she denied anything of the sort. This was on Wednesday last, and witness told prisoner she would call on Dr. Blackburn. Next day 'witness's sister sent up a woman named Agnes Harding to question the prisoner, and who informed witness that the same day she had confessed to having been delivered of a child, and that from what the prisoner and she supposed the child had been born dead. Dr. Blackburn was immedi ately informed of what had occurred. Mrs. Agnes Harding, a widow, said—l acted as nurse in the service of Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith. They reside at 35, Great George-street. Mrs. Beckwith sent me up on Thurs day to question Betsey Russell about this transaction. I went. The prisoner was in the kitchen, and opened the door and let me in. I asked her what had been the matter with her. The prisoner rather hesitated, and I then said, " Betsey, tell the truth;" and asked her, " Is there a child born ?" and the prisoner said, " Yes." I asked her how long she had been gone with child, and if she had been seven months, and she said, " Yes, she might." I asked her if the child was alive, and she answered " No." I asked her if she had ever felt the child alive, and she said she had not felt it much. I asked her what she had done with the child, and she said it was in the privy. I asked her if she had got any milk, and she said " No." I then returned home, and gave an account of what she had acknowledged, and I know nothing more about it. Ann Smith, a girl, said she resided in Prussia-street. On Thursday last she was in bridewell, for having some words with a man. The same evening the prisoner was brought there. One of the turnkeys asked her to stop with - her all night, and she did so. Witness continued : I asked her what she was brought there for, and she said it was for a child. I asked her if she had killed it. She did not say whether she had or had not. She said the child did not cry, and for fear of its doing so she had tied a towel round its head. She said she had put the child in the midden, and that she did not in tend to leave it there, but to•take it away on the morning she was taken, but had not an opportunity. She did not, she said, know whether it was a boy or a girl, as she was iu such a hurry to put it away, as some of the family were in the house. Mr. Thomas Blackburn, surgeon, being sworn said—l was consulted about this case by some of Miss Cole's friends, and went to her house on Thursday evening last. I there saw the prisoner. I questioned her about the child, and she acknowledged that she had given birth to a child. From the previous information I had received, as well as her own ad mission, I considered it my duty to give information to the police. I was present when the dead body of a male child was taken out of the privy by a police-officer. On the follow ing morning I examined the body in the presence of, and with the assistance of Mr. Batty and Mr. Blower. I have no doubt the child had arrived at its full period. The general appearance of the child's body was that of one born alive and in health, with the exception of the head, which was very much injured—the bones being all loose, and the whole having the aspect of a loose bag filled with a fluid or semi-fluid substance. On a more minute inspection, an opening into the cavity of the head was discovered on the right side, a little above and behind the ear ; it had all the appearance of a wound inflicted by violence, and probably with a sharp, or, at least, a pointed instrument—such as a large pair of scissors, or a kitchen skewer of a flat form. The wound was nearly half an inch in length, and penetrated between the upper edge of the temporal and the lower edge of parietal bone ; and there was a corresponding perforation in the dura mater, with a ragged edge, indicating that force had been used. The dura mater was torn open very extensively, and the inside of the cranium occupied with grumous blood ; and the sub stance of the brain mixed together in such a way as could not, in my opinion, have been produced except by external violence. The frontal bone was fractured, and the bones generally loose, and separated from the general suters. The integuments of the head were not in a state of putrescence, but firm, though black and bruised, and every other part of the body was perfectly free from any approach to decompo sition,—having all the appearance of recent death. The neck was carefully examined,, with a view of ascertaining whether strangulation had taken place, but there was no trace of extravasation or aquamosis, nor was the tongue at all black or discoloured, as would have been the case had the child been strangled. The chest was opened and examined. The lungs fully occupied the cavity. and had the usual ap pearance of lungs that had been distended by air. They were fully expanded in every part; and I have, therefore, no doubt but the child had breathed fully. On removing these from the chest they floated on the surface of the water. The state of the abdomen was perfectly natural, and the bowels contained the meconium. In my opinion, from a careful examination, the child was born alive, and bad been destroyed by the injury done to the brain as described. James Ainsworth said—l am a constable. Thursday last I went to Miss Cole's, and in company with Dr. Blackburn and another officer we proceeded to search the privy. We found a bundle containing a child. It was wrapped in a towel, and its head much bruised. Mr. Blackburn gave the information. I took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner declined to question any of the witnesses. On being cautioned as to what she might think proper to say, she merely said—" I have nothing to say only that I did not hear the child cry." The Coroner said that he bad never known a case in which the cruelty of a mother to her offspring had been so power fully shewn as in this. They had first to consider whether the child was born alive, and if so, how it came by its death. The prisoner had herself admitted to one of the witnesses that she had delivered herself of a child. With respect to its having lived, they had the evidence of Dr. Blackburn, which appeared to him to be conclusive.. After a careful examination, in conjunction with other medical gentlemen, that witness gave his express and decided opinion that it had been born alive, and that its death had been caused by the infliction of injuries on the head, which, besides being shattered, had been perforated with some pointed instru ment—such as a pair of scissors, or a skewer. There was no positive evidence that the prisoner did the deed—for no one saw her; but such a chain of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner as, he thought, would lead them, pain ful as the duty was, to a proper verdict. He defined the legal difference between manslaughter and murder, and left them to decide by an unbiassed consideration of the evidence. The jury, after a very short consideration, returned a ver dict of wilful murder against the prisoner, Elizabeth Rus sell, and she was committed to take her trial at the next assizes. The prisoner is a little slender-looking woman, appa rently about 28 or 30 pears of age. She was a good deal agitated when the first witnesses were examined, and as she appeared faint, was supplied by a female present with a smelling bottle. She seemed to recover her composure towards the close, and did not evince any strong or peculiar feeling beyond a serious look, on hearing the verdict. The witnesses were bound over to appear, and give evi dence on the trial, in the sum of £lOO each. She was taken away in custody in a car to the Workhouse, to be thence sent, if her state of health would permit, to Kirkdalc Gaol. HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF A STILL-BORN INFANT An inquest was held yesterday before P. P. Curry, Esq., touching the deatll of a new-born female child, the horrible mutilation of whose body, by (as is supposed) the mother, excited a strong degree of horror and indignation amongst all who became cognizant of the revolting fact. In conse quence of the mother being, at the time of her apprehen sion, in a feeble state, from her recent accouchenicnt, she was taken to the Workhouse, and the investigation took place in the Board Room of that establishment, she not having sufficiently recovered to be taken to the coroner's office. Nancy Friel, wife of Stephen Friel, said :—I live in Crooked-lane. The prisoner was a lodger in our house. She gave her name as Mrs. Babbington. She was large looking, as if in a family way, but I imputed it to her clothes. On Thursday last, she and I were sitting in our place and she said she had been taken ill in the night, and that as it was dark she had stained the floor, but had wiped it up as well as she could. When it was convenient I went up and examined the bed. I found it a good deal out of order. I saw the bed, and the sheets likewise, stained with blood, and also a little blood on the floor. 1 went down stairs and told the prisoner she had done a bad job for me. Before I went down I had observed that the bed was turned upside down. She said she was very sorry for it. In the afternoon I went to the petty, and in the soil saw two pieces of flannel, and, thinking they might be useful, took theM and washed them. There was a good quantity of blood on them. When my husband came home I told him all I have stated. He told me to look sharp, but to say nothing. He, on Sunday morn ing, discovered the arm of a little infant in the soil of the privy. He came to the house and called me and two lodgers up to come and see it. I saw the arm also. My husband went and fetched a police officer: Some police officers came, who made a further search, and the body and limbs of a child were brought up one piece after another. Betsey Hall, - a widow, live in Crooked-lane, and get my living by charring. I know Mrs. Friel, who keeps a lodging-house in the same street. Last Monday I was in Mrs. Ffiel's house, and I saw the prisoner there. I re marked to her that I thought she (prisoner) was in the fa mily way. Prisoner's appearance is now much altered. I know nothing more about the matter. Stephen Friel said,—l am a porter, and live in Crooked lane. I know the p r i soner , who lodged in our house. She had lodged with us before. About a fortnight ago, I went to meet her at the railway, having received a letter from her to do so. I did not take notice whether she was in the family way or not. On Thursday last my mistress told me that the bed on which the prisoner slept had been greatly abused. Having some suspicion, I examined the petty on Saturday night. I found some cloths in it. The first thing on Sun day morning I made a further search. I found a black cloth, and underneath that another, and then the hand and arm of a child appeared to me. I covered it up again, and went and wakened my mistress and told her. I also wakened the two lodgers, who came down and saw the same. We con sulted, and I went and broaght a police-officer immediately. One of the officers went into the privy; and I afterwards saw the head, body, arms, and legs of an infant in a tub in the yard. They took away the body and limbs. The pri soner had been poorly a day or two after she came to the house, but I did not afterwards take particular notice of her appearance. - Joseph Appleton, inspector of police, said,—On Sunday morning, in consequence of information I received, I and two other officers proceeded to the house of Stephen Friel, in Crooked-lane. I went into the midden-stead accompanied by one of the officers. Immediately under the seat in the privy I found four pieces of cloth, one of them a black one. Two of the other pieces appeared to have been a flannel petticoat cut in two. I got a candle and examined under neath, and found the arm and leg of an infant. I searched further, and found another arm and leg. I then pushed my arm down lower, and brought up the trunk, and afterwards the bead, of a child. They were all taken to the dead-house. I then sent for my superintendent, and proceeded to the room where the prisoner slept, and betwixt the quilt and the sheet of the bed I found a white bed-gown, the sleeves and different parts of which were covered with blood. I asked her if the bed-gown was hers, and she said it was. M y said,--I was sent for to head, li m b s , an d the superintendent found a pair of scissors covered with blood in the window. A phial was found , mar ked hellibore. Mr. M'Clelland, of the Dispensary, was se nt fo r. Crooked-lane MAnclre on wMs`Culnedlia7 to surgeon,d,lookat body of a child found in a privy. It was apparently full grown. The head was severed from the body at the lower part of the neck, the arms at the shoulder joint s , an d t h e I thighs at the hip joints. afterwards made a careful ex amination of the body. I am decidedly of opinion that the child was not born alive. I was directed to make an exami of the person of the prisoner. She was asked when she had been confined, and she seemed not to understand what was meant. From the personal examination I am quite certain that the prisoner was recently delivered. The coroner in addressing the jury said, his o b servat i ons would be very brief, inasmuch as it being in evidence that the child was still born, their verdict must be to that effect, for his jurisdiction did not extend to the concealment of preg nancy, which must be dealt with elsewhere. lie should how ever, hand over the depositions to the police magistrate, who would doubtless take cognisance of the case, the details of which were too revolting to be dwelt upon. The jury then returned a verdict to the effect that the de ceased had been " still horn." The coroner then directed the proper officer to detain the prisoner in custody in the workhouse until her case was made known to Mr. Rushton, and a decision was come to as to future proceedings against her. The prisoner is rather a young woman, of fair complexion, with sandy or reddish hair. She appeared pale and slightly depressed, but has doubtless in somewhat earlier life been good-looking. There was certainly nothing in her appear- ance to indicate a proneness to the commission of an act so revolting as that which she is supposed to have committed. We have heard (though we know nothing of the fact our. selves) that she ;vas fo - rmcrly the wife of a respectable shot keeper in Whitechapel (or Paradise-street), now deceased. ROBERT ROSE, ESQ., THE BARD OF COLOUR, AND OURSELVES This person, whose impertinent letter to us last week we mercifully suppressed, is, we find, running up and down our town in a black passion, threatening horsewhips and we know not what besides. If the gentleman will aspire to a ridiculous notoriety we shall oblige him ; and for this pur- pose we give, at foot, his letter verbatim et literatim—(and a curiosity it is)—together with two other communications which have reached us upon the subject. Here they are : Liverpool, 6th June, 11342. SIR,—As my time, during my short stay here, is valua ble, I should not have given myself the trouble of calling on you personally, except out of respect to the author of " A Voice from the Town." lie did not present his poem to you, but gave me copies of it to distribute as I liked. I selected your paper among others, and therefore considered myself justified in writing what I did, as you would never, but for me have had the work presented to you. The respon sibility rested on myself of laying it out (!) with the press, which responsibility is at all times unpleasant, especially in your case, as it has proved. However, as you have taken a different view [of what ?], I take the opportunity, previous [previously ?] to my leaving town, of sending you a volume unmarked, and would thank you to return the other per bearer, which I left you, as I do not wish you to have my autograph, (!) as your vanity would infer. lam gratified, as far as the notice of the work is con cerned; and having performed my .promise to the author, and given you a substitute for the volume I left, I find no cause to look with disatisfaction on my part in the affair, and take leave of you with merely stating, so far as my own impression goes, that it is unworthy of an editor, provided he possess gentlemanly feelings, or good taste (to which you appear not to have the least pretensions) to make public what is scarcely worthy of private notice. If you were short of matter to fill up your paper, you should have extracted from the book sent, and not have put forth such trash as you did. I feel almost ashamed to take up the pen to reply to it ; but having said this much, I, with the most per fect good feeling, am willing to make every allowance for your apparent ignorance of the amenities of life, too often owing to a deficiency in a polite education, or to a want of having mined in good society, which, in justice, I must own, has not been yourfault, but your misfortune.—Your' s , &c., _ _ R. ROSE. P.S.—lf you will tell me, in confidence, where you got your education, I p rom i se you i t s h a ll go nofurther. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD " Genus irritabile" is the epithet applied to the whole tribe of poets, and, aware of this, it was an act of much impru dence certainly to stir up It. Rose, Esquire, for, strange to say, the smaller the poet, the more intense the irritability ! I have only to warn you he is in a most immense and tower ing passion and, instead of the " bard of colour," may now more properly be called the " bard of choler," at least as regards you I send this by way of caveto, and recom mend a sharp look-out, as I suppose you would not wish the infliction of a horsewhip from that most tuneful and har monious swain. Should he foolishly have reccairse to this mode of venting history, you have your remedy by getting him into a cage if you can ; such a fine blackbird will sing as well there as at large. Poets of all hues have we seen, A black one only lacking, Who now a lustre sheds I weer, Like Day and Martin's blacking! White mice, white foxes, and white crows All curious are and rare, But a black poet and black rose Must make the nations stare!! The ladies call him quite " a love," Who'll sing and never tire. A perfect blackbird of the grove Is Robert Rose, Esquire. CYGNUS NIGER We really have to offer our readers some apology for ob truding before their notice a silly communication from that very silly and vain person, Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour); but as our contemporary, the Albion, in the absence of his usual rubbish, has found room for Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), we feel bound to admit that we intended giving the letter in our last, and it was actually in type, but thrown out by important matter. As Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), as it will be seen in the aceful and elegant postscript of his letter, we have no objection to give it, because as we enjoy a good laugh, we fancy our readers participate :Id w•e av his letter was funny I not sl is, however, wide of the question. Robert Rose, Esq., tries to get a notice of himself, by his friend Rogerson's laudatory poetry, in the STANDARD. We do not choose to be dictated to, " so we show him up," as Mr. Smalt said of Mr. Tims. Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), now takes up a great deal of space in our paper, and we hope he is satisfied. Anything further must really be paid for as an advertisement. -...49...- .-- ORANGE ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARL Sitt,—Some misapprehension appearing to exist respecting an answer returned by Sir James Graham, to a letter of con gratulation from Birmingham upon her Majesty's late fortu nate escape, I beg leave to state that the address did not eminate from the Loyal Orange Institution of England, but from a body who separated from them some few years since. The Journal having made a handle of Sir James Graham's reply, to prejudice the Orangemen of this town on the forth coming procession, I have thought it right to give this ex planation.—Yours &c., AN ORANGEMAN OF LIVERPOOL. SWINDLERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, If any man can read the editorial remarks in th e S un d a y Times of S un day last without feeling obliged to the editor of that paper for the manner he is showing up a gang of swin dlers of the vilest description, he must, indeed, be callous. There area set in Liverpool that will shortly be shown. In the meantime I recommend no bets to be laid on any race connected with the Liverpool gang until the exposure is made, after that nobody will pity them after they are robbed, which is certain. Does a betting-house, kept open until one, two, and sometimes three o'clock in the morning, come under the denomination of a gambling-house? AMICUS EDGE-HILL INFANT SCHOOL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—In reply to the gross misrepresentation of a circum stance which occurred in this school on Tuesday last, I send you the following statement, premising that I should not have noticed an anonymous communication had not the cha racter of the mistress who has for 17 years copducted the school, to the satisfaction of all parties, been indolved, and had not Mr. J. Colquhoun, of No. 12, Clarence -street, Edge-hill, avowed himself the author of the letter ad dressed to you. Mr. Colquhoun has made his statement; I now make mine, which can be proved upon oath. Mr. J. C. asserts that there is in the Infant School a place called " the dungeon"—that the child in question had been put there for punishment—that one or two years ago the same thing was done, and the child found apparently lifeless —that another child was also shut up there—and that, in short, it is a " system" in the school to lock up children in " the dungeon." In all this there is not a syllable of truth. There a , -e two class-rooms and a cloak-room connected with the school. The cloak-room is a small triangular room, on the same floor with the school, well lighted and ventilated, but with the door opening inwards against an acute angle of the room, and when open, cutting off the corner formed by the angle. Tuesday afternoon was excessively hot ; four children fen asleep in the gallery, and one child strayed into the cloak room, got into the corner, and fell asleep. It is the duty of the second assistant to fetch the caps and bonnets out of the cloak-room at the close of school, and carry them to the se nior assistant, who distributes them to the children in the gallery. 0n the afternoon in question this was done by a boy of S or 9 years old, who, being nearly blind, is allowed to come to the Infant School to learn what he can from the gallery lessons, and such other instruction as his condition permits him to receive. This boy says that he did not see the child, which is very easily accounted for, both from the manner in which the door shuts off part of the room, and from the circumstance of the bov's partial blindness. The next morning, at six o'clock, the child was found sitting in the school (not in the cloak-room) playing with some doll's clothes, and on seeing its mother said, " Don't cry, mother, I've got my doll rags, and don't beat me." It was brought to my house at eight o'clock, and neither the child nor the mother were " distracted," or said anything which showed that they be lieved the accidental shutting up was a punishm6nt. The mother has since expressed the same to Mr. J. C., in the presence of a gentleman belonging to the committee. Th e statement that a year or two ago a child was shut up in " the dungeon," and found in a state of insensibility next morn ing, is utterly false, and without any foundation ; as must also be the story about J. C.'s servant's brother ; the mis tress has been there 17 years, and never shut up a child. The greatest punishment she uses is to put a child by itself in the middle of the room. No parent ever complained that a mark was left on her child ; and when this attack upon the mistress's character was known, nearly thirty parents came to say how unfounded and wicked they believed it to be, and that they knew her to be incapable of doing anything of the kind, but supposed that some enemy had put it in the paper. The school is now and has been for this year so full, that more cannot be admitted, and without any considerable in crease in the population, has steadily increased its numbers within three years, from 100 to 140. This fact shows what the parents think of the school ; and I must do the mistress (who is herself the mother of a family) the justice to say, that a kinder or more affectionate teacher of infants I do not know. ___ ... To all this the only reply that can be made is that there was neglect on the part of some one ; tbat a child ought not to be locked up in the school and left there. The blame, if any is due, consists in this, that the cloak-room was not nar rowly examined by one of the teachers, but the circumstances 1 have mentioned will surely prove that this (notbeing usual) O t might be omitted with ou tbl ame a tt ac hi ng t o an y one, hnd_taliv what had never occur r ed i n 17 years m i g ht naturally ibiap been deemed unlikely t o occur on thi s evening.l3o 'l in t e to my pens most fortunately that a ci r cumstance ha s e knowledge since I commenced this letter o'clock on there is no want of care in the teachers. At seven proves that the evening when this child was shut in, " which class met in the adjoining boys' school, and the . assistantteacher of the infants' school, while waiting to go . in t be in .. t . he infant heard a child cry ; the thought it migh. school, and sent for the keys ; after she had dose this another teacher pointed out the child who had been crying, seated on the step of the street door leading to the infant school yard ; but, to satisfy himself that no child was in the infant school, he went to the window, and knocked, and called, but without obtaining any reply, and having thus satisfied hina self that no one was in the infant school, told the infant teacher, who did not examine the school. She saw the child who had been crying, and she was assured that no one was in the school, and was, in my opinion, quite justified in taking no further notice of the matter. J. t:;pe;li;cfll7e" terrified look" of the " imprisoned child ;" the child was found, as I said, in the school-room, and not in the cloak-room ; its only terror on being found was lest its mother should beat it for going into the cloak room, and when at my house was delighted at the reception it met with in being presented with some food, while the mo ther said she should certainly send the child to school again, though she has not yet done so. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, _ FREDERIC BARKEI Edge-hill, June 13th, 1842. P.S.—I omitted to mention that the mother made no apph cation to the mistress when her child was missing; this, which would have been the most natural course, and m case of children straying on their way home is frequently done, would have been the means of discovering the child immedi ately. [iVe have erased a few words from Mr. Barker's letter, as they do not seem to afford any reply to Mr. Colquhoun, and are only unnecessary remarks on the freedom of the press. We have been most egregiously misled if the facts turn out as represented by Mr. Barker, and shall have more to say when we have made a little further en q ui ry i nto t h e matter.] A PEER AND HIS TENANTRI We beg to refer the following " address" from the Mar quis of Donegal to the electors of Belfast, to the Committee of Privileges. If it be not an undue and illegal interference of a peer with the liberty of election—and in his own town too, and with his own tenants—we know not what a breach of privilege means. Oh !if the Earl of Roden had addressed such a letter as this to the electors of 'Dundalk on behalf of his son Lord Joc e ly n — w h at convu l s i ons our ra di ca l cotem poraries would be in ? But it is ever thus with that party. A thorough going whig may steal a sheep with impunity, while an honest-minded tory cannot look over the wall with out being assailed : " TO THE ELECTORS OF BELFAST. " GENTLEMEN,-1 beg to inform you that it is the inten tion of my son, Lord Hamilton Chichester, to offer himself as one of the candidates at the ensuing election, for the ho nour of representing your borough in parliament. " I have, therefore, to request that you will do me the favour of keeping your suffrages unpledged, until he shall have an opportunity of doing so.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, " DONEGAI " Ormeau, 7th Jne." THE "GREAT BRITAIN" IRON STEAM -SHIP, (From Grantham on Iron for Shipbuilding.) The scientific world is awaiting with intense interest th, completion of the iron ship the " Great Britain,"now build ing at Bristol. and better known as the " Mammoth." I have been favoured by Mr. Guppy, the managing director of the company to wlsih she belongs, with her dimensions, which are truly gigattic. They are as follows : Length of keel Length from figure head to tafrail Beam.. Total depth from underside of the upper deck to the keel Draft of water when loaded . Tonnage, per old measurement, about.. 3500 tons Displacement of water when drawing 16 feet, about.. The plates of the keel are from iths of an inch thick in the middle, to 1 inch at the ends ; and all the plates under water are from tths to inch, at the top, except the upper plate, which is tths. She is clencher-built, and double rivetted throughout. Towards the extremities, and quite aloft, the thicknesses are reduced gradually to 7-16ths. The ribs are framed of angle-iron, 6 inches by 31, by inch thick at the bottom of the vessel, and 7-16ths thick at the top, The mean distance of the ribs from centre to cen tre is 14 inches; and all these ribs will be doubled; the dis tance is then increased to 18 inches, and then gradually to 21 inches at the extremities. 289 feet 320 ~ 3000 ton - - The boiler platform is of plate iron, supported upon ten iron kelsons, of which the centre ones are 3 feet 3 inches deep. These kelsons are formed, like the floorings, of iron plates placed on edge. The hull is divided into five distinct compartments by means of substantial water-tight iron bulkheads. The decks, which are of wood, consist of the cargo deck, two cabin decks, and the upper deck. The Rev. Jacob Picton, incumbent of St. Stephen's Church, in this town, is about to resign the pastoral charge of that flock, having accepted a curacy in a rural district in Staffordshire. We believe the neat presentation is in the hands of the rectors of Liverpool. THE FUNDS: SATURDAY EVENING.—The English funds, with barely such good quotations as they closed yesterday, remained quiet throughout the day, business being very limited. Consols for the account closed 911 to 4 ; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 914 to 92 ; 34 per Cents. Reduced, 1001 to 4 ; Bank Stock. 167 to 168 ; Exchequer-bills, 48s. to 50s. premium ; and India Bonds, 225. to 245. premjum. Quota tions were not affected in any material degree by the dealings in foreign seeurities. Spanish Actives left off 221 to 4; Ditto. New, 231 to 4; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 374 to 38 ; Ditto, 3 per Cents., 22 to 4; Mexican, 36} to 37; Dutch, 2i per Cents., 521 to 53 ; Columbian, 26 to i; Chilian, 87 to 89; Brazilian, 661 to 671 ; and Belgian, 102 to 103. FATAL ACCIDENT WHILE BATIIING,--011 Sunday last, a young man named William Gregory was drowned while bathing on the Cheshire shore, between Tranmere and Rock Ferry. The deceased, who was about 24 years of age, and unmarried, was employed as a general servant by Mr. Whal ley, of the Adelphi Hotel, Woodside. He stripped about 12 o'clock, and went into the water near a place called Gunner's Pool—a sort of rut or hole in the sand silt opposite to the Sloyne, and which, like many other small indentures in the banks of our river, is dangerous for bathers who cannot swim. It is supposed that he got into the gut, and finding himself suddenly out of his depth, became aware of his dan ger and soon afterwards sunk. He rose to the surface more than once, and shouted for assistance ; but though there were some bathers at no great distance, they were either alarmed for their own safety, or could not reach him in time ; and he sank to rise no more. Information was immediately con veyed to Mr. Whalley, who lost no time in hastening to the spot ; but the body was not found nntil the retiring of the tide, when it was picked up near the spot where the cata strophe occurred. It was conveyed to Mr. Quigley's, the Queen's Arms, Tranmere, where the inquest will be held this day, before Mr. Churton, the coroner for the district. The deceased was, we learn, a young man of good character. We have heard from good authority, that Government are in possession of information from Jellalabad, three days later than what has been given to the public, by which the grati fying fact is known that General Pollock had effected a junction with Sir R. Sale, and that the united force would be competent for offensive operations.—Hampshire Telegraph. The Bristol and Exeter Railway Company have petitioned parliament in favor of Bristol, as the most suitable port 'of communication between this country and Ireland. Sir Charles Metcalfe, the late Governor of Jamaica, is daily expected from the West Indies. Lord Middleton has disposed of 4iis estates in the county of Waterford. They brought nearly £20,000. THE HAY HARVEST.—Haymaking is becoming pretty general, and the crops are good, although the drought of the last fortnight has, to some extent, diminished them, and in many parts of the country the want of rain is beginning to be felt severely.—Morning Herald. SIR JOSEPH LITTLEDALE.—We regret to learn that this excellent Judge and most estimable man is labouring under severe bodily infirmities, and, although no immediate danger i s apprehended, his situation is such as to give the utmost pain to his friends, and precludes the most remote hope of his recovery. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, SATURDAY. Every thing up to the present moment is going on triumphantly for Mr. Colquhoun, the conservative candidate, who, since his arri val in the borough on Tuesday last, has met in all quarters with the most favourable and cordial reception. Having had two clear days' start of his opponent (Mr. Harris, the late radical candidate), he has been fortunate enough to to secure the votes of many of the neutral and wavering a mongst the electors, who generally hold back till the last moment. Mr. Colquhoun has taken every possible oppor tunity of informing the electors of his political opinions, and his unflinching adherence to the government of Sir Robert Peel, whose measures he has explained, and strongly contrasted with the weak, vacillating, and do-nothing policy of the whig ministry. He expresses his confidence as to the result of the election ; but under any circumstances he has the highest legal authority for saving that Mr. Harris is disqualified for sitting as the representative of the borough in parliament. MANSLAUGIITER.—A shocking affray, by which the life of one man has been forfeited, and the liberty of another will be sacrificed, took place in the establishment of Mr. Richard Eede Marshall, ironmonger, of this town, last Wednesday, Two men in the employ of Mr. M., named Alfred Pensom, and William Hall, were on frien dl y terms together, an d used to send for their beer from a nei g hbourin g p ubl ic - house c l l e r Set ri- jointly : on Tuesday afternoon P ensom sent one o f the lads for a pint of beer in Hall's name, the latter bein g at the time absent. On the men coming to th eir work the next iip t o ,Hal and u Hall dir for v t e u r n e a d te tl l i y at g t r l e ie w p v in er t y of ya b s e s e i o r n h a a t e d e b o e n e ing it, abusing Pensom very outrageously. p ens , sequence of the abusive terms, struck H a ll a m blow in face, sharp, but not very serious ; Hall, infuriated ow on the Con sion, snatched up a sledge-hammer, and inflic t ed with p" - Pensom's head with the murderous weapon t he ' poor fellow died from the effects in less than twentv_fo4r h quest was held on Thursday before J. Barr e tt , ours ! An hi Esq., when the jury returned a manslaught coroner, er against William Hall. Hall absconded immediately after of the assault was known.—Cheltenham Jotuhrne a se l. rious nature COMMITTAL OF A SOCIALIST LECTURER.--At the Chel tenham Police-office, on Friday , social lecturer and editor Ge orge Jacob Holyoake. of le Oracle of Reason, %va B dis cussion on the existence of the Deit charged with blasphemy. The p risoner twtahseeadin Mechanics' I e. stitution, at that place, on the 24th of May. a The against him were two compositors emplo 'a in the Chelten ham Chronicle office, one of whom James Bartram, deposed that the prisoner, while delivering a lecture upon home colo nisation, said, in answer to a questionput to bin , by one of his audience, " that he l f this country thought the peop e 0 b e li e ve were too poor to have any religion ; that he did not ve the i there was such a thing as a God, and that lie would ha witnesses William Deity served as the government treated the subalt.erns Henrylace them on half-pay." The other witness , eople were Pearce, deposed that the prisoner said " d i n F or mypart, I poor to have any religion; and be added' religion are wor am no religion at all; those who pro e f shippers of Mammon. Ido not belie; d for the prosecution, u , r b e u t t i e N s i i r n as a God." Mr. Bubb, who ILOP e81 ; j a w of the land, which there is such a thing said he should proceed on the comm a is the existence or provi provided that any person who f o fine, corporal punish dence of the Deity shall be liable The bench then committed him ment, and imprisonmen. for trial, allowing bail, £5O each. Persons were . in himself•‘vainitil : ng " to ' a o l ff id er tw b o ai s l should give 24 hours ' ' the prisoner notice. Bubb required that to prison. He was then taken back rt rs•---The first traces that I IRON CANAL ...,0A . nof iron vessels, are of can dis cover of the contstr this country. for the canals of ek as forty years since a few, I believe, were built as far ba . . , and It is stated by hare had a good opportunit of those who still be in Y knowing, that some of them ! n a y • t • -, ex i stenc e. During the meet he British Associa ion in Gias ing of t gow after a p l d ion the subject of iron vessel ' aper la been real ' facts, which had come s, several gentlemen communicated e within the ledge, with respect to their early introduction.thei r own know writing on this subject, states that A friend, in shire was at that time cutting a gentleman in Stafford bad been at work twenty-eight some iron vessels which page, was engaged in g t years. My partner, Mr. upwards of thirty year s si building several canal boats of iron, vessels in Staffordshire nce ;. and I have myself seen iron date of the con s tructio n , of a still greater age, but the precise These facts are interesting, of which I could not ascertain. has long been not only as proving that the sub jectas evidence of the u nde r the attention of practical men, but points to which I strength and durability of iron vessels, hans On fro shall hereafter more fully allude . — Grant ham as a Material for Shipbuildino.