The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-06-21 00:00:00

JUNE 21, 1`0.6 Su c h things have occurred, and may again, in this as in 1 Other l an d s. If we were to sp e a k all t h at we f ee l o n the ' S ubject We s h o U ld s a y that prosper i ty h as to an alarming ex tent made a l arge portion o f our coutitrymen callous t° every mora l and rel i g i ous o bli gat i on . Upstart wealth i a fun gus in society, and we have too much of it. Its possessorsreitielrbeloved nor aretooarrogant, and they are conse q uentl y respected. Those immediately be low them hate th em , b u t th e narrow feelings of this class tender them equally repulsive to the third class in the dale; so that from the lofty liberal of ample mea ns, Iv % to the shabby ra di ca l who can hardly pay his taxes , e h ave all the pride, insolence, ignorance , and inbred e xe cration of each other, which have their only correc ye in the prostration and extermination of all. M. LA FITTE o f P ar i s i s a liYing illustration of the ra pid downward course of a furious republican. Forty )'ear s of travail in the wilds of revolution have convinced : 141 that during that long lease of y ears he has been ;Ill s he has sown for others to re a p —that ; Ill s PHILIPP E the son of EGALITE is on the throne of and that he LAFITTE is—A BEGGAR ! ! Aye, a be ggar in e ve ry- sense o f th e word—in honour, in purse, il ia "edit, in reputation. Hear the words of this falle n uttered only this . day week in the Chamber of e lleties, when deploring the errors of his revolutionary life; says:_ tit "It the d e fi c i t cont i nue w hil e the existing imposts are main- I shall deem it my duty to ask pardon of God and of my e :,: 44ltr Y for the part I took in the revolution of July. Revolut ions 'dear, when the chief who falls is replaced by that member :a lth e same family w h o is nerti to him in the order of succession , w hen no. more change is effected in things than in persons. " ( thaions cost dear when their fruits are gathered by a small a tlti!ber of persons, to the prejudice of all; they cost:dear when gligai legitimacy is substituted for the national :sovereignty." - . . ,le circumstances which provoked this despairing et a • illatlon on the part of 'the revolutionary patriot, are t tteedin g l y i nstruct i v e. 'During the reign of the last of the old Botntio;is,"the expenditure did not ex ter:45,500,000,000 francs, but since the happy era of the f " t lzeo King the expenditure has averaged 7,5 00 , 000, 9 00 : 411e s) and yet. the people of France are much more re _trieted and much more enslaved than ever they were n der the BOURBONS for the last hundred years„ They base now not even a shadow of a free press. An in salent and ty rann i ca l police are the masters of Paris. li twelve men can meet together without being suspect -17, or running the risk of being dragged to prison. The t li lt's name d a r e not be written, or spoken, or alluded , 11, .except in t er ms . of flattery, else the offending party is liable to be sent to gaol. This is French liberty ! These ar e the la s t wor d s o f L A FITTE! Such is the picture of th e it e ( mseq4enees of revolution ! Bader, 4 • take warning : The same causes ma y pro same consequences nearer home ! xe must be an unenviable person who, although en i,,e4touring to pick a quarrel with every man he meets, not allowed the honour of either giving or receiving :etisfaction. In the Irish beggar, for instance, it is ex „edingly convenient to have an oath in Heaven and be h i'ared the trouble of fighting ; but there are other mem bers of the House of Commons who do not require the i' lle tity of an oath to protect their persons from damage, i l)1 ; St range as it may appear, there is no gentleman who 1 ; c " be at the pains to shoot them. The honourable lii , e ltber for Ipswich belongs to this latter class. He is 4 " a certain fish to be seen in the streets of London : l ing the dog.:days - - . -no one will touch him. He is not Zueular as to'the quality of the individual whom he nrs with his abuse, and strives to mike his enemy ; b ut still high and low are so ungallant as to decline t r bl i e etiog him under any circumstances whatever. This aY seem o dd t o p e ople who live in the back settlements, b ut not to those who have the gratificatiotrof being ac ~uatnted with Mr. RIGBY WASON. He his signalized 14 iself several times by being called to order by the : oker, a n d by being placed more than - once under that 4 ht honourable gentleman's protection; but what is ost characteristic of Mr. WASON is the singular fact when thus in collision with the house or any of its i l l l , e robers, the honourable member for Ipswich is invaria .lY in th e wrong . But Mr. WaspN has his. redeeming : does not too precipitately confess himself "e He fences with facts courageously 1114intains hi4iights warmly—and only yields to prudence it ti earnest Solicitation of his intimate friends. lie is ' ti ff at an apology—but the apology comes in the long Theie beautiful traits of:character in a public man so Fell known tioliticai life; and whose forensic talents %not be .sufficiently admired, have been called to our ,4eollection by • a -recent display in the House of Com. 11141 g-:- . --We mean that of the SPEAKER versus WAsos and h is quite refreshing to see the time of a re 'larrued H ouse • of 'COmnions so meritoriously employ ed. ,t v il eyeople must be delighted to behold representa pt4es devoting.nearly a whole day I to the cultivation of the prevention of bloodshed. True .there was : f ear of embroiling the empire in a sanguinary con t t B t > but on e life might have been lost, and that of a 4t estnan whcini we can so ill spare—viz., the honour -41.11e rnernbet for Ipswich. The d a y i s f as t approaching when stern and uncorn ht°lnising ju s tice will loudly deniand , and effectually rtar n' pr o te ct i on f rom the tyranny of the Romish priest -1:oodfor the poor, oppressed, and deluded peasantry of Irel and. a former number we reprin t ed from the D -1 4Plin Evening Mail an article on the subject of the i e Y• Mr. MULHOLLAND'S petition to the House of 7 °r ds: The light which this specimen of popish into 'ranee throws upon the condition of the Irish people, 44 c 1 the manner in which it points out the source of all ! I/ lir woes, induce us to lay before our readers the fea `44% of this atrocious violation of the provisions of the F eller act of 1829. The facts of the case are simply these the month N ovember, 1833; the Rev. EUGENE MULHOLLAND had ; r ' l e Perpetual cure of the Roman Catholic population of el tnonfechin, in the county of Louth, in Ireland. While * 'Sgaged in the discharge of his priestly duties in this 'Pal ish, he was the subject of a malicious calumny' propa °led by the Rev . . THOMAS TRAYNOR, the priest of the j °l nink parish. Unwilling to suffer under this false , 41 Putation, Mr. MULHOLLAND sought redress at the P anda of his spiritual superior, the Rev. THOMAS KELLY, .:, wllo " : iriurped•then, aiftis successor does now, the title of : 4 .,,telthish o p of Armagh. The matter was referred by fi r. KELLY to his Vicar general, the Rev. ANDREW Ro !Its, who, after making himself acquainted with the cir ;nistances, at once declared the language used by Mr. smrliorr Co be most unpardonable, and such as immedi- T. u ely call e d f or an amp l e p u bli c a p o l og y. Thi s w a s re sed• Having thus failed in obtaining redress f2'y the interference of his ecclesiastical superiors, he, as the only means nterY left to him of removing from his character Inatitain which, until Mr. TRAYNOR'S statement was 4/r9 ved to b e f a l se , must a t tac h i tse lf t o hi m , m a de his U Ppeal to the laws of his country, .and submitted the ad- , *ation of hi s c a s e a nd th e p ur ity o f hi s c h a racter to : t ne de c i s i on and scrutiny of that body (of whose exiSt nce E;tg i(3 lislimen are so justly proud) a jury of his feh low- countrym en . F or t h us exert i ng t h e d i st inguishing Privilege of every British subject, Mr. MULHOLLAND • *as Cruelly deprived of his living. Not only was his gnntiissal f rom th i s living harsh in its operation—it was li Proceeding which the canon laws of the Roman Ca 111°Iie Church allow, and which the Rumish bishops de - elated o n oath to be strictly in accordance with the de crees of their church. Mr. MULHOLLAND then appealed to the “COngregation of the Propagation of the Faith at Rome." 'ln the meanwhile Dr. KELLY died, and was rBoceeded by Dr. WILLIAM C R O LLY, on whom, in May 35 , Mr. MULHOLLAND waited, " furnished with the st rongest recommendatory instructions, to be reinstated lind employed in the mission of his native diocese, where Petitioner had laboured for the last twenty years with • in tmacnlate and irreproachable character, as by the letters of the nobility, gentry, and clergy, both kotestailt and • eStholic, in petitioner's neighbourhood, ready to be pro du ,eed to your h o n o urable house, will mor e rdadily o Cl*se observations Dr. CROLLY returned a smooth 44 . 8 .we 1. . and promised to reinstate Mr. MIATIOLLAND in a iv till of aid*" sured afflo 1, but Ice 11 our Va n ' ;, aLa a sand r anY FIT° Rus ;, and (yore a tfivg arebY a entlx bet"' oOD S ' ~u ~~as cy ept • id, lia' d, still 115 so- Vi e t're ;ti of 11 re not • • i soot iv! the ced t° le " a for L 46 uo trt. apPen r J ~ t,;t his living of Terrnbnfechin ; but week after week. passe4 over Without any fulfilment. of lite promise, until at last Mr. MULUOLLAND, was in August last informed by Dr:- CaotLi that hiS mind was changed, adding, " my love and veneration for the memory of Dr. KELLY is such, I cannot bring my mind to du it." Mr. MULUOLLAND then applied to know if the archbishop bad. any charge to bring against his conduct, either in his private or minis ' terial capacity. To this Dr. CROLLY distinctly replied in the negative, and furnished him with the following . EXEAT. " We, William Crolly, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Arutagh, give an exeat, and grant liberty to our beloved son it Christ, Eugene Mulholland, a priest of the archdiocese of Armagh, and doctor in divinity, to leave our dio cese, and subject himself to the jurisdiction of any bishop in communion with the see of Rome, who wishes to affiliate him in his diocese. We moreover certify),and firmly attest, that the aforesaid Eugene is not affected with any ecclesiastical censures whatsoever, and further, that he is conspicuous for zeal, piety; and doctrine. In faith whereof we have expedited this letter, signed by us, and authenticated with our seal. Dated at Drog heda, 10th August, 1835. " WILLIAM CItoLLY, Archbishop of Armagh. " MATHEW M'CaNN, Vic.-General and Dean of Armagh." Thus, with no charge against him, and without the slightest slur upon his character, a gentleman, " conspi cuous for zeal, piety, and doctrine," is unceremoniously removed from the district in which he bad laboured for twenty years. Nor is any other compensation offered him than leave to go to America or elsewhere ! ! Under all these circumstances we think Mr. Mtnnor, LAND is perfectly warranted in appealing to the House of Lords for the redress of his serious grievance, and we think that august body will be fully justified in forcing upon the government the absolute necessity there is that they should protect all British. subjects from the un due interference . of a set of spiritual despots, whose chief potentate has his residence in Rome: We shall notice the manner in which this proceeding infringes on the terms of the emancipation act, and the gross assumption,of ,the territorial titles by an intruding priestircod, more fully at another time: LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. Accounts have been received to-day from Charleston to the 13th ultimo. It would appear by the advices, that even the ci tizens of Charleston are becoming, disgusted with the mode in which the sale of negroes was carried ou in that city. A propo sition is stated to have been made before the city council for the establishment of a mart for the sale of negroes, iu a place more remote from observation, and less offensive to the public eye, than the one hitherto used for that purpose. The accounts add, that the establishment of a mart for the sale of slaves, more remote from the public eye, would be acceptable to the com munity, and that witout prejudice to the interests of individuals. However strong the feeling of the inhabitants of the Southern States may be to prevent the spreading of abolition doctrines, this incident may be taken perhaps as an indication, that as knowledge and the rights of man become more . prevalent, the cause of giving freedom to the slave , will prevail lathe southern States of America. It appears that emigration from Ireland into the United States had commenced unusually early this year, and it was ex pected would be carried on to a great extent. Money in the principal cities of the United States had become more abundant, and trade very active. From New Orleans there are dates to the Ist of May. Busi nessabere was extremely brisk. The sales of cotton had been very considerable, and the stock had been reduced to 93,900 bales. The banks were discounting rather more liberally, and specie was arriving freely. The,city has been comparatively deserted to-day, at least as regards the principal frequenters of the Royal Exchange and the Money Market, the display in Hyde-park having been the scene of very general resort. In the Consul Market there have been but few bargains, entered .into, but the quotation for the Account touched 921 in the morning.. During the latter part of the day the price remained unvaried at 92 to 1. In the other portions of the public debt there was little or nothing done. Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and Bank Stock, remain at precisely the same quotations as they realized yesterday. In railway and other shares the business done this week has been again very trifling. The mania for speculating iu new projects has completely subsided, and although many additional companies have been announced, they do "not take." The Brighton (Stephenson's) railway shares have improved from I'2 to 141 premium ; the South Eastern to 3 premium; and the Greenwich to 6 premium. The Grand Western shares have recedel from 26 to 24 premium. The Colonial Bank shares have receded to 3 premium; and the British North American Bank shares to I discount. The shares of the National Bank of Ireland have remained at about 4 premium, and those of the Provincial Bank of Ireland have touched 221 premium • In the Foreign Stuck Market there has also been an absence of extensive business to-day. Spanish Stock, which opened at 421 i, receded to 421, which was about the closing quotation ; the Deferred Bonds, after having been sold at en advance to 201, closed at 201; and the Passive Stock at 13h. Portuguese Stock left off at about the quotations of yesterday. Russian and Danish are a shade lower, but Austrian Metalliqufts have been sold at 34 per cent. above par. Neapolitan Five per Cents. have been sold• this aftertioon.at 1011. Chilian Bonds remain at 47, but Columbian have recd to" 31. The shares have commanded but little attention to-day. -Ste phensou's Brighton railway shares remain at 14- premium. ; the Great Western at 24, and Greenwich at 6 premium. The Bir mingham and Gloucester are a shade lower. Colonial Rank shares are still at 3 premium, and the British North American Bank shares at z discount. The Provincial Bank of Ireland and the National Bank - of Ireland shares remain nominally at previous quotations. THE REGISTRATION.—By the reform act, 2d William IV., cap. 45, sec. 37, overseers of the poor are required to cause to be affixed on or near all the churches and chapels in their re spective parishes a notice to all persons entitled to vote for counties, whose names are not already on the register, on the 20th inst. (yesterday:) All such persons, in addition to those who have changed their place of abode, must send in their claims to the overseers of the parish in which their property is situated on or before the 20th of July next. The proper form of notice will be found in schedule H, No. 1, annexed to the act. LIVERPOOL CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.—In pursuance of a resolution passed at a meeting of this society held last week, it has been determined to establish a reading room for the use of the members of the association.. The room will be furnished with sound moral, religious, and political pub lications, such as will have the effect of counteracting the cheap trash issued by whig-radical exertions for the purpose of spread ing radicalism and infidelity. A subscription has been opened for the above object, which may be seen at the STANDARD OFFICE, where contributions will be received and forwarded to the treasurer of the association. LIVERPOOL MUSIC HALL.—The increasing taste for musical performances in this town , has indu ced a number of gentlemen to publish a prospectus, which will be found in another column, of a commodious building to be erected in Mount-pleasant. We understand most of the shares have already been spoken for.—(For further particulars see advt.) SUNDAY TRADING.—We understand many of the inhabitants living in and near Back Market-street, near the New Market, are very much annoyed by persons employed during the hours of divine service on Sundays, in selling poultry. The parties complaining would do well to acquaint the public authorities with the circumstance. UNION STSANI PICKET COMPANY.—In justice to the Pro. visional Committee of the proposed Union Steam Packet Corn. pally, it is but fair to state that their advertisement with Mr. Bibby's name as chairman, in our last Friday's paper, was an error of our own, having copied a former one which had been sent in the early part of the day, instead of one sent afterwards, in which Mr. Bibby's name was omitted. Itsouxs - rs.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Sessions's house, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on the body of a la bourer named Edward Hughes, who lived in a house in Temple street. lie was found suspended by his neck by a cord to the bannisters, and quite dead, on Sunday morning. About four mouths ago he was confined in a lunatic asylum at Dublin for insanity. Verdict, temporary derangement.—Another inquest was held, at the same time, on the body of an old woman named Catherine Campbell, who lived- with a woman named Ellen Reyes; in Myrtle-street, Richmond - row . On Frid a y ni g ht she went home' intoxicated, and was in the habit of being so. Mrs. Heyee assisted her to bed, and next morning, about twelve o'clock, a child, the grand-daughter of the deceased, came to tell her that she had shaken her grandmother and could not awake her. She went up to see her, and found her quite dead. Mr. Cooper, surgeon, deposed to having taken a post mortem examination of the head of the deceased, and found that her death was caused by apoplexy, brought on by the frequent use of ardent spirits. Verdict accordingly. FATAL. ACCIPENT.—On Thursday last, as a heavily-laden timber-carriage was passing from Berry street to Leece-street, a boy, named Wm. Warden, fell under one of the huge hind wheels,. which passed over him. He was taken up, and conveyed to the Infirmaty. He was found to be dreadfully crushed. He lingered till the following day, when death re lieved him from his sufferings. PEDESTRIANISM.—We understand that the celebrated pedes trian, Mr. Ephraim Anderson, of Morpeth, has undertaken, for a considerable wager, to walk on mile in five minutes. The scene of action will be from the first to the second milestone on the London road, at eight o'clock, this evening. LIVERPOOL FISH COSiPANT.7-The directors and a party of friends embarked on Sunday nu hoard the Mona's Isle, the steam boat belonging to this company, to bring home the fish from the station about 50 miles from this port ; every possible attention was paid by Captain Collins to his visitors. 'rhe trip was an exceedingly pleasant one, and the : sight of the fish being taken from the smacks into the steamer was extremely novel and interesting to the party. The catch yesterday was about tons of very fine fish. The Mona's Isle goes every day to the station, arid it is. we believe, the intention of the directors to take out parties at a moderate! rate, who Wity,Vbish to witness the m anceuvre of the fleet and enjoy the exhilitating sea breeze. SECOND GALA AT THE ZooLOGICA!, GARDENs.--Last even ing, the sece,pri gala at tbese gardens commenced. The wea ther;thoughline, was cold and wiudy, which a little counter balanced the enjoyments of the evening so liberally provided by Mr. Atkins. 7 The gardens were, however, very much crowded, and there could not he less than 2,000 persons present, amo ngst whom were a great number of highly respectable persons. The illuminations were on the usual magnificent scale, and, about half-past nine o'clock, were fully lighted, and had a very pretty effect. At this time, every approach to the. gardens where a view of the fireworkscould possibly,be obtained was crowded. Shortly after, a few rockets were sent ufe and a feuds i g ie was fired to announce the commencem e nt of firing. A number of different coloured lights were then bartit';. Which greatly illuminated the garden, and had a very beautiful effect. The rockets were Jiffy numerous, and some of them splendid. Sonic of the wheels were magnificent, and ,fully bore out Monseiur Ernst's, reputation as a pyrotechnist. One of the wheels was pal ticulurly beautiful. A number of wheels were fired, end a serpent v , as seen tracing in and out of them, fol, lowing an apple.. 'lbis fire-work, whilst burning, was loudly cheered. The v,liole concluded shortly after eleven o'clock. The total expense of the new Houses of . Parliament; including; Fittings-up, &c., citioiated at £81:4196 4 : • THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD THE NOTTINGHAM CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB:- 61)1j1W11)4S-OF.CLIA.1{LES WILKINS, ESQI Two very admirable and • powerful speeches, stripping radi calism of its last rag, - and expOsing the miserable sophisms up, en which, the litime, the O'Connell, and the Lord-John-Rus , sell schools of moral and political philosophy are based, were delivered at Nottingham, ou•Thursday last, by Mr. Wilkins, at the fifth Anniversary Dinner of the Constitutional , Club. established in that town. These speeches have been published in the fin - in of a pamphlet, at about the cost price of the ty pography and paper, and we can assure our readers that amore splendid pennyworth has but rarely been issued from the press. We take the following extract from the learned gentleman's first speech : ",You see me an altered man—you see me a conservative. In 1830 you saw me a radical reformer! Before proceeding to explanation, I avow iu the most unequivocal terms that my sentiments are changed, "in tote ccelo." .1 speak thus explicitly, because the party whom I have abandoned may remind me of former protestations and opinions, and may taunt me with the change. In that Change I exult, -and- thank God that I have lived long enough to be convinced of error, and that I. possess couarge enough, at all hazards, to renounce it, (Loud cheers.) The change to me will be, therefore, no source of reproach; but the conduct which rendered that change necessary will haunt me to the day of my death. Thus, then, having declared that change, I proceed •to state the circumst ances which p roduced it:—There are many fallacies abroad inimical to the moral ha provement of man. One of them is that austract, unqualified hatred of change of political and religious sentiment. Why, it appears to me, that the very province of time and experience is to convince of error ; and if. I kno.w any thing of .the history of man, his whole life, from his cradle upwards, is an abandon ment to-day of the evils of yesterday : why, then, should that exercise of private judgment , which is praiseworthy in all the social and diurnal affairs of life, be condemned and denied in questions of greater moment? Gentlemen, there is no reason for such denial, but that it suits party purposes. The other side govern by numbers, and in order to maintain their numer ical force, they visit a change of sentiment with persecution, and treat that as criminal, which is the noblest achievement of reason—l mean a conviction and abandonment of error. (Loud cheers.) " Vieere insipiens rester turps est." What a drivelling idiot is that, who calls upon his grey hairs to attest his consistency in error!—with his last breath utters his own condemnation, and dies content with the debasing conscious ness that prejudice and obstinacy have preserved entire the crude, abortive opinions of boyhood! If change be followed by reproach, I am proud of my badge; I offer no apology for it; 1 exult in it. But my exultation, you will say, - is no proof that my conversion sprang out of proper motives. True : before you re- cognise in me a brother„ you have a right—nay, it is-your duty, to ascertain my sincerity. A love of gain—ambition—vin dictiveness—a hundred base motives may. induce desertion. Can it be said that the love- of gain would induce a young barrister to abandon the - party Vrho have the -keys nflhe., tional treasury, and who never introduce any measure to the., -senate; that does not furnish emolument for the heal Cientle men, if I do loathe them for one thing more than another, it is their. unceasing attack upon the integrity of the bar: they,arq, labouring to. fetter. us with bribes, and cripple us in the bonds of obligation. Am I, it may be asked, ambitious r No,,gen a , tleinen ; had I been actuated by sordid motives, such .aarAlsesq., I should not have abandoned th - e party who have exclusivelV - the • means of political reward and promotion. CanitiffeAtaid that I am one of the briefless, and that am seeking briefs,byikulitical harangues ? I thank God that my success at the bar has out stripped my most.sanguine expectations: I believel limy say, that it is unparalleded. Let not my angry opponents, therefore, impugn my motives; I never marketted my politico yet; I tryat- I never shall give to the world such abject proof of, abseuce of principle. (Cheers.) You must be aware as men of the world, that this open avowal requires some courage : it will be to ex pose myself to the hatred and persecution of that party whom,. I once espoused—to the unrelenting tyranny of men who whilst they prate about liberty, practice the most unrelenting cruelty to any man (no matter how superior in intellect—re gardless of his standing in society), who shall be honest andj bold enqugh to scowl upon their duplicity—whos.e thirst ler! vengeance on their oppenents cannot be quenched by the flames, which themselves have raised in the dwelling of their neigh; bour—and whose hatred cannot be buried in the tomb pf whose only crime was thinking for himself. For a time these considerations kept me silent : for three years I had not uttered a sentence in public on political matters. I knew that sudden changes always beget suspicion on the one part, and hatred on the other ; but when it became a question between t he Kin g , the Peers, and the Commons . of Britain.—and Daniel O'Con nell, and the ministerd priests of Ireland, I could remain mute no longer. Gentlemen, the question, as it seems to me, resolves itself into this : — shall I be the subject of Wil liam the Fourth or the slave of Daniel O'Connell ? and with this impression on my mind I feel it would be criminal to allow the considerations which so long sealed up my lips any longer to influence my conduct. The first shock that my poli tical creed sustained was in this town. 1 had no statistic know ledge but what I had derived from books, and I had read from such as best suited with my boyish fancy; the writers of the French Revolution presented ju st such brilliant sentiments and splendid sophims as are calculated to entrap the passions and mislead the judgmentof youth: they are all the productions of minds much more characterised by perspectiveness than re flectiveness; they are rather books of amusement than instruc tion, and suit with that meutal indolence and voluptuousness which set reflection at defiance, and so often lead the self-suf ficient stripling to unqualified dogma and crude speculation. (Hear.) These writers invariably declare that the law which is to produce general good must be the offspring of the general will; this is the key-Stone of the arch on which rests the whole of their theory : remove this, and the whole fabric, beautiful and fanciful as it is, falls. (Cheers ) For a time I took this aphorism for granted. I heard of the majesty of the people, and applauded the sentiment, till echo applauded again ; and it was not till the blaze on yonder hill dispelled the vapours which bad hung about my mind, that I discovered that the majesty of the people was the majesty of passion, of prejudice,. andadtvsi cal force—that it was the ruinous sway of the hunery lion-de vastating the ; forest to assuage the cravings of his voracious appetite. - (Tremendous cheering.) Every thing that persua sion—that ingenuity—that kindness could devise, had beep urged to disstiade the multitude during the day from acts of violence, but in vain. This ought to have tauss . ht others as well as myself, that'hewho calls into being the passion and impulse of a mob, like Frankenstein, create a minister too hideous to dwell upon,:tand whein his indiscriminate fury will destroy the hand`that gave him birth. (Cheers.) That uight; as they were proceeding to this work of plunder and devastation, I stepped in between them and the object of their attack; I remonstrated with them in the kindest language that suggested itself, and the consequence was, that I was compelled to tlee for safety to au adjoining house. Since that time, gentlemen, you have never heard my voice in Nottingham till now; never shall I . forget the misery, the horror, the anxiety, that pervaded my mind during the whole of that night. The reflection that any speeches of mine might have assisted in provoking that discontent .which afterwards broke out in such acts of destruction, distracted me, and as you will readily believe, very much shook my faith in popular virtue - and judgment. Since then I have had numberless opportunities of j edging of popular capabilities for legislature; and th e onl y conclusion at which I codlid arrive has been, that the many are too uneducated, too prejudiced, too much the slaves of inclination, for a science which master minds approach with trembling diffi dence. I found that the multitude would listen to no one but the flatterer; that, as of old, that man became their enemy who told them the truth, if that truth were condemnatory of them selves. I could not stoop to obtain their plaudits by playing the pander, and on several occasions my life has been endangered by endeavouring to serve them. I have, since 1 first appeared in the political world (and the first political speech that 1 ever delivered was in this town,) in the pursuit of legal knowledge, been compelled to make myself acquainted with the constitu tional history of my country. In my progress, I have frequently despaired of surmounting, the difficulties which the study de ncanded, and .then did I discover with shame how flippantly I had impugned institutions which investigation proved to be ex cellent; how frequently I had condemned because I did not understand. I then perceived that legislation required all the advantages of Superior intellect, liberal education, and uninter rupted attention. I discovered that national liberty was difficult to define, and that to secure universal good, individual sacrifice must be great: (Cheers) With these views, then, you will ' not wonder that the sophism of the republican was stripped of its speciousness, and that I discovered in it one of those marked fallacies which euphony and an artful selection of terms impose upon the unthinking as truth." IRISH CORPORATION BILL. A petition from James Edward Devereux, of Carigmenan, in the county of Wexford, Esq., against the ministerial Irish mu nicipal corporation hill, was presented to the House of Lords in May last, by Lord 'Lyndhurst. Mr. Devereux is a staunch Roman Catholic,—wastne of the five delegates who, on the 3d of January, 1793, presented the petition of the catholics of Ire land to Geo. 111. ; his whole life has been devoted to forward ing the real and substantial interests of his catholic brethren ; his statement, we conceive, ought to have more weight with the respectable part of the Irish inhabitants of Liverpool than the opinion of the editor of the Liverpool Chronicle. To prove that Mr. Devereux has been long considered worthy of the esteem and confidence of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, it may be correct to state, that he has repeatedly received the thanks of the eatholics of the towns of Wexford and New Ross through their general committee,—the thanks upon several occasions of the catholics of Ireland, which general committee presented him with a piece of plate of the 'value of one hundred guineas. Mr. Devereux expresses his belief that, though he is not an thos iced by the catholics of Ireland to present in their name this petition, in that there is,. nevertheless, not one independ ent catholic n that country, clergyman or layman, who does. not coincide in every word which it contains. Mr. Devereux says that the bill against which he raises his voice is only cal culated to place the catholics of Ireland under the absolute do minion of au "unprincipled faction, composed of the Irish ca tholic members of the House of Commons, who, forming one head and one body, have, as it were, repudiated all indivi duality;" and therefore, he thinks that lie had a right to "con sider th act of any one member of that body as the act of the whole." The bill would, he contends, in the first place, give all the &Al Vcover to "the !action," and the civil power having at its disposal the military power under various -circumstances , it must follow, as a necessary result . ; that "faction would enjoy absolute doininion." To prove that places where there does not exist a corpora tion are not deprived, and - need not be deprived , of self-govern went ot municipal government, the petitioner instances the case of Belfast, a town hourly increasing in wealth and importance, where all the civic bus iness is p erformed by municipal boards ; and, to prove that the absence of corporations dues not prevent Wide and ilanufactures hum. flourishing in this country, he in stances the highly prosperous state of Manchester and ilirming ham. The petitioner further notices the fact, that although at a general election party feelings were of course excited, yet. when the election was over, that these party feelings subsided; whereas, in corporations, party feeling was always in action, as there was not au election for any functionary or petty depen dent on thevorporation that did not rouse party feeling, solhat hate and strife were unceasing. The petitioner says this should i be avoided, and nowhere more than .n towns in Ireland, inha bited by a merculial population, so easily roused and excited. The Irish people, he says, would be kept in a state of perma nent excitement, for, iu each town, two parties would rinute diately be found—not a catholic and protestant party—but two catholic parties, bating one another most cordially; the one the party of the pretended catholic faction, with its servile tail. and the other the party of independent catholics, of all ranks, - which, of course, the protestants, abhorring hypocrisy, would join. The petitioner then argues that if the. new corporate system were allowed, that peace could not long continue, since the father of the bill had declared " that these corporations are to be normal schools" (not of peace, but) "of agitation." The petitioner justly infers from this declaration, that the baneful fruits of these corporation struggles would be " political strife, and - hatred, and rancour !" ..We 611. upon the independent Irishmen residing •in the town of Liverpool to pay attention to what the petitioner states mould he the ultimate effects that would be produced if the mi-. nis,erial.proposition were carried into effect. , most respectable citizens would, no doubt, ,1)(3 al.tirst .elected to. office; but •the,t would not long satisfy the incetAdiarY .0 pre-; tended cathelic• faction formed in those tovna v in coAssciUenCe 4 ) 1 0, 11 : °•,_ltS;;ipprAv f lii e4 . l.%,o#l -Lau:Lconle,llotu What was Most ito‘.7 , le !Mitt tlll governable by the facilities which the new system afforded to the intrigues.of agitators. All the manoeuvres of the dema gogues would be aimed at every man in the town who presumed 'to think for himself; respectable citizens would soots be wearied out by the attacks of the faction—they would renounce all. functions, and.those functions would be iustautly occupied by scamps of the pretended catholic faction. Ilayingthus ousted the worthy out of all authority, they would then trample upon them at their leisure. The worthy merchant, tradesman, shop keeper, mechanic, or labourer, who would have a will of his own, would be persecuted without mercy, threatened with ex clus►ve dealing—with a death's-head and cross-bones, &c., and compelled to yield to the very dregs of society, so that those towns would soon become pandemoniums under political de moniac rulers; a constant goading opposition would be created, and it would be sufficient that the virtuous and worthy citizens of all degrees should pursue one line of conduct to excite vexa tious persecution from the other party." Such, independent Irishmen, is the picture drawn by an Irish catholic of a very ancient house—by one who for many years laboured in the catholic cause, whose opinions are not the off spring of self-interest or disappointed ambition, and which, therefore, deserves the serious consideration of such of his fellow-countrymen as are nut irrevocably bound to O'Connell and his " faction." SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND. The report of the committee of this valuable institution for the year ending 1835 has just been published. It appears that the number of pupils in the school on the 31st December, 1834, amounted to 106, and 24 have been admitted in the subsequent year, and 25 have quitted it, thus leaving the actual number in the school at the close of the year 1835 of 105 pupils. The num ber admitted into the school from its commencement, January 17th, 1791, up to December, 1835, amounts to 953 persons, 594 being totally, and 359 partially blind, of whom 163 belong to the parish Of Liverpool, 221 to other parishes in the county of , Lancaster, and 569 to other parts of the united kingdom, &c. From the financial statement of the school it appears that the balance due to Mr. It. W. Houghton, treasurer, amounted 'to £l9O. 4s. 20. By the blind school chapel account we find that the amount in the bands of the chapelwardeus on the Ist Jan., 1835, was £264. Is. 10d. since which time the following sums have been received :- From collections at the chapel door, £6BB. 15.64.; from rents of pews, £658. 16s. 9d.; for stock sold, £lOO. 19s. 74.; for dividend on stock and interest allowed by the bank, £lO. 9s. 9d., making a total of £1722 9s. 54., out of which the following sums have been paid, viz :-sundry trades men's accounts, £833. 2s. Bd.; salaries to singers. organist, clerk, sextons, and incidentallexpeuses, £291. 18s. 74.; to the Rev. Edward Hull, chaplain, £500; for the collection of pew rents, £23. Os ; leaving a balance in the hands of the chapel wardens of £73. 19s. 10d. on the let January of the present year. From the stock account it will be. found that the following articles, with their value attached,. have been manufactured in the institution, viz., hearth u, tea rugs, rug bears, &c. &c., £l6l. Is. 6 4 .; baskets, &c. , £319. 6s. 31d.; tarred bears, £33. Os. 101,d.; white bears, £58..185. 10id. • points, gaskets, &C.; £l4. 2s.;' tarred lobby cloths, £ 56 . 13s. Ad.; witidnw sash andeurtain line, £90.445. lid.; wove and knit shoes,Ess.lBB.lod; worsted carpeting, bell cord, &c.. £97. Is. 7,d.; ropes, twine, &c.,£580'. 7s. 64.; leather shoes, £93. 14s. 74d.; lobby cloths, £l6, Is 6d. The total amount of these useful articles is - L1;616.:25. 14d., which hove been sold for £1,839. 15s. 91 , 1.. leaving a net profit to the iestitutionof no less than £223. 13s. 84. The balance of stock in hand at the end of the year amounted to £489. 18s. THEATRE-ROYAL. Mr Harley took his benefit at this theatre on Friday, when .. . there- wasa.,pretty good attendance.. The first piece selected for cAtiiifivening iotatheniusical play of "Guy Mannering," Dwai liifetWeitipsurybY Mr. Harlgy, in which he was ably supported by `Mrs' HoneYiirs Julia ManN7ing, who has made her appearance . - hete' since our last notice, , and the regular corps dromatique. Mrs. Honey possesses most oflhe requisites of an accomplished actress. : She appears well acquainted with the business of the stage—plays with ease and vivacity, chiefly the same round of characters - with which Madame Vestris has identified herself, and of whom Mrs. honey is, to a certain extent, an imitator. She has a good knowledge of musical science, together with a voice of considerable power and sweetness, over which she has entire command. She is also a pretty woman. The singing in Julia Maunerinq was all that could be desired ; and the songs of " Sing away, sing away," " We'll go no more a roaming," and another, incidental to the • play, were encored. . Harley's ' Dominie- Sampson was a tolerable performance. The part of Lucy Bertram, assigned to Mrs. W. .11. Bland, was evidently ' too much for her, not that she is unequal to the character in other circumstances, but that she was so on Friday evening, in consequence of suffering from ill health, must have been apparent to the persons present on that occasion. For that reason it is evident that she is incapacitated from sustaining any leading part in the drama, and hitherto it must have been painful to herself while doing so, as it has no doubt been to the feelings of those who have witnessed her. At the end of the play- Mr. Barnett introduced a song called the "French Actor." in which he gave some imitations of Telma and . Tainburni. It.will per haps be sufficient to state that. it was called for a second time. Mr. Harley concluded his engagement by singing a piece of slip slop trash, neither rhyme nor reason, entitled "A comic song, written for the occasion by a gentleman of Liver pool." The actor made the most of it, and it was repeated by the desire of some noisy people in the gallery who could hear very little of what was said, and no doubt thought they were paying Harley a compliment by calling for its repetition. In less humourous hands than his it would probably have met with a different reception. The business of the evening terminated with the representation of a new musical drama, never acted here before, and written by Mr. Barnett,' called " The Spirit of the Rhine." The piece itself possesses uo great merit. It is one of those ephemeral productions with which we have re cently been satiated, and which will scarcely bear repeating. Mrs. Honey, and Messrs.: Baker and Horncastle had the prin cipal part of the busin ess to do. Mrs. Hone y san g two or three it songs in an admirable manner. Indeed it was well worth the money paid to witness thew e evenin g 's entertainments to • - hear her sing "My beau tiful I ine,"which the house was not satisfied with hearing three times over, but attempted to have sung We a understand Mady is shortly expected to pay us a visit. • LORD SANDON. TO TIE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. 1 Sta,--Flaving observed that Lord Sandon's absence from the committee eet , the, Liverpoul_docks when the. Runcorn exemption clause was Under consideration, and of which I was indirectly the cause, has been commented upon, Lbeg, to state in my own justification, that, feeling .a deep interest in all that regards the prosperity of Liverpool, I should not have been instrumental in drawing his lordship a moment flora that, committee, but that, as chairman of the select committee of eleven, to whom the Dublin Steam Company's hill was referred, the committee could not proceed without him. The committee being waiting nearly an hour for his lordship, I naturally pressed his attendance, • and, indeed, obtained it very reluctaotly. Under any other circumstances I should certainly not have asked his lordship to leave the dock committee when so - important a subject was un der consideration; and I trust I may be allowed to say, that the Dublin Steam Company's bill is one of no small importance, even to the town of Liverpool.—l am, yours, truly, C. W. WILLIAMS. TO THE EDITOR OF LIVERPOOL STANDARD. S e,—Heresvith you will receive a few extracts from a small book lately published, called " Remarks on the Progress of Popery," by the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, rector of Walton, Herts. He is brother to Lord Langdale, the present Lord Chancellor, and I earnestly recommend his lordship, and all self.styled and miscalleUiberals, to read this very interesting little work, especially UR extracts I have sen R t.—Yours, &c., A POTESTANT. Page 6.—" Respecting Great Britain, we have information of the progress of popery of a painful character. About forty years since there were but about 30 chapels in Great Britain. In the year 1835 there were 510: in England 421, and in Scot land 89. In that year 11 new ones had been built. In Dover, and also in Kidderminster, a protestant chapel has been con verted into a papal chapel. There are said to be now 700 ecclesiastics in this island, and they have resorted, in several places, to preaching in the open air. Popish colleges and semi naries are multiplying, and these are modern institutions; there are now 8 popish colleges and 52 seminaries. Monasteries and nunneries are also beginning. With these efforts are con nected several tract societies; they have been very active in distributing tracts in favour of popery at the doors of meetings and churches, and at the Scotch Church, near Covent-garden, at the evening service, they distributed them in the church. They form schools adapted to attract the children of the poor, giving public breakfasts and clothing the children, and thus getting the parents to attend mass. The chief body of reporters for the public journals are said to be papists. In Scotland there once were but few Roman catholic families, there are now in Glasgow alone 30,000 Roman catholics. "The influence of papists with the government under recent administrations has been manifested not only by the grant to Maynooth College and the withholding of grants from the Kil dare-place Society, but in aiding the sending out priests abroad, and in the national system of education now adopted in Ireland. I am credibly informed that since the year 1815 large sums have been remitted from the continent to this country and Ire land for the purpose of promoting popery; and my informant put the sum at £400,000, and stated the name of the person to whom the distribution of it was assigned." Page 49.—" The removal of the disabilities from papists has taken the national brand from popery, and given up the legisla tive confession of Ootestantism. It has brought the papists into our legislature, and has so gagged and restrained protestants that their Months are too much shut as to a frank, open, and full declaration of theqtpostacy. Whether it be from refinement of manners, unwillingness to hurt the feelings of others, from infi delity, or its daughter liberalism, protestauts have closed their mouths on popery as antichristian and idolatrous." Page 50.—" There are -difficulties from without and diffiCulties from within. Those from without arise from its intimate con nexion with the politics of the world. it-ia s so interwoven with state matters That it is difficult to bear tertimony against it without being suspected of political motives.. Popery wonder fully adapts itself' to every kind of government. It can be monarchical, aristocratic or democratic, despotic or conserva tive, liberal or radical, just according as circumstances require for its advancement in the country where it is situated. In this oconueuptaryrt,vifii7iewaltittaiecskapnidipaetrtya,evik'iengaraensoutphpoo.sedTthoe Isietadteefeolfidoeg. Ire land dt and the p th is e .s designs atnvcde respectin g ciriailsertrri eaealdlsse,od anitlidib t e l yt i L e i 7ie e ffin s he t ; ug b ril l tia i yr s at h olyi e t: d iussl c iii h )poi u rowi r ltruti h iiige, , ls f a otal r uls - o o rtt u hid r ve e iesi d rs. line of act,. interestedii affecting onlY'the glory of God and the salvation of"souls which actuate real christians. Another difficulty is, that sonic of those, ouce at the greatest distance from popery, have joined with papists for the overthrow of the established church: I mean our dissenting brethren. Some of them have so mingled themselves up with politics as to fancy now that is part of true religion to overthrow a protestant established church, and that they are justified in uniting with antichrist for this }impose. While they charge establishments with bringing the reformation to a stand, and being the grand centre of the corruption of the reli gion, a dissenting deputation will go to a leading papist to soli cit his help in promoting what they call religious liberty. Page 55.—" Our difficulties from papists will most probably very greatly increase. As the papists increase, they will get more political power, and they are very subtle to use it. Al ready they vera• extensively hamper and restrain the efforts of true protestants, and, where they can , in j ure and annoy them. In I relandwhat a bitter spirit they have manifested in depriving the protestant. clergy of their legal income." • Page 56.—" Another advantage is, that the removal of all • political disabilities from the papist has served to manifest the real character of popery, and allows us also.to speak with more openness and freedom than we perhaps ought to do t o wards a manacled opponent. One after another of political disadvan tages and bands have been removed from popery in this em pire; they have had freedom given theism perhaps unprecedented, not merely in protestant, but in papal countries.: and what has beet , the effect? Not corresponding returns of gratitude, but increasing efforts to supplant and overthrow the, religiou of that country in which they gained those advantages, even though there be the express oath, do-hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention: to subvert the present church establishment as settled by law within this realm; and I do so lemnly swear that I will never exercise any privilege, to which I ant or may become entitled,.te , disturb or weaken the pro twant religion or protestant government in the united king done." LIVERPOOL POLICE. CARELESS DRIVING AND ASSUAI.T.,-OW Friday;• at the Police-office, a brawny-looking cart-driver was brought before the magistrates charged with having run agaiust and injured a car, and afterwards knocked down the driver. '['he cart-driver, with his face all greasy with perspiration, and his shirt-neck open, evidently appearing to have partaken too freely of Sir •John Barleycoru, rolled on his brawny arias on the frout of thss dock, and looked most familiarly and colloquially disposed at the magistrates. A constable deposed to seeing the prisoner knock a carman down, and in consequence he took him into custody. The carman said he was standing with his car oppo site Sir Thotnas's-buildings, waiting for a g entleman, about au hour before, when the cart-driver came up driving a harry • he drove right on, sitting iu the back part of the ta rr y , and Love against his car wheel, by which means " he brok e the car all to pieces, and injured it very much." Mr. Hall: "I suppose, if it was broken in pieces, it must have been injured very much. Is it repairable ?" Carman: Oh, yes." A gentleman named Thompson corroborated this statement; that he saw the cart driver upset the car and drive on as if nothing had happened; and on the car-driver running after him to get his number, he knocked him down. The cart-driver being asked what he had to reply tOthe charge, giving himself an extra roll on the dock front, said, " Whoy, please yer wurship, I was droiving up past Sir Thomas's-buildings when I seed this inon standing wiv his car at t'wroug soid at t'road; soa I calls to him to droive on and get out o' t' road, and loik all them jarvies as wants to put on us cart drivers, and thinks as they are gentlemen; he said he'd t' reight o' t' road, and wad due as he looked ; soa I druv on, and t' wheel howded on ov his car. I stopped t' hos as soon as I could, but its a good hos you knew, and pull'd away." The prisoner began to throw his arms about and shout at the top of his voice and repeat his story, vkhen Mr. Hall inquired if he was drunk. He was answered by the officers, in the affirmative, " very drunk." Mr. Hall, in consequence, ordered him to be put down till the following day till he was sober. As the pri soner was being put down he said, addressing Mi. Hall, " Why then, pleaze yur worship, I hoap as you'll see t' bosses done to (Laughter.) He was next day fined 40s. and costs, and in default to be committed one month. BURGLA Y.—On Saturday, at the Police.office, a man named John Strain was brotight before the magistrates charged with having broken open the shop of Mr. Hobsou, chemist, Bold street, his late employer. James Stephenson, police-officer, deposed that he met the prisoner coining up Lord-street about ten minutes past two o'clock that wording with a cash-box in his hand.. He asked hint where he got it, and he replied in Wood-street. He then took hint into custody. On searching him, he found a gold watch in his waistcoat pocket, and a bag, with about £5 of silver in it, in his breeches pocket. Mr. Hobson had informed the police that morning of the robbery. M r . Hobson deposed to the cash-bat produced being his pro perty. He left it locked up in his desk the night before, and final his desk broken open that morning and the cash-box gone. The prisoner had been in his employment; he had taken him out of charity, as he was in great distress. Mrs. Hobson had also given his wife a quantity of linen, as she was neat her confinement, and this was his return. He bad placed £5 in sil ver in the box that evening, and there was about 30s. in it before. There was also a gold watch and a number of metre). modulus._ All the things produced were his property. The priSoner had lived as porter with hint, and knew where he placed his cash-box. lie had entered the door of the Situp, which had not been properly fastened owing to the carelessness of the apprentice, and bad forced open the desk with a chisel found in the shop. Tire informations for his commitment to take his trial were ordered to be taken. • Tire. REWARD OF IMI'RUDENCE.—On Saturday, at the Police office, a respectable-ltwkiug man named James HeYworth, who was represented, as coming from Akerton, near Manchester, appeared to complain before the magistrates of two girls of the town, named Mary Ann Johnson and Jane Hughes. two dis gusting-looking females, having robbed him the night before. The complainant, who was evidently much ashamed of himself, said that he Went ever the water into Cheshire the day before, and spent "a very loose afternoon;" he returned. by the last packet from Egremont, and was persuaded by the two prisoners to accompany them to a house in Heaton-street, and whilst there he had been robbed of all his money, £2. 15s. Oue of the pri soners had taken his money whilst he was asleep and gone away with it, and he could not obtain any satisfactory accou nt of it . : they said they knew nothing about it. In the morning he wanted souse breakfast, and they said they had no money; and he thought it very 'hard to be robbed of all his money and go with out breakfast besides, so he called in a policeman, and told him how he bad been rubbed. He searched the women, and found in their hands 19s. in silver. One of the females had been out, and might have disposed of. the rest. The constable corrobo rated this statement. Mr. Hall ordered the iuformatious to be taken for Mary Ann Johnson, who was the prisoner who had left the house, and who (the complainant said) had taken his money. ROBBERY.—On Saturday, at the police office, four lads, named Joseph Robertson, Robert Pugh, Frederick Turner, and Thomas Finney, were brought .before the magistrates charged with having stolen two silver ladles, two tea spoons, and two egg spoons, the property of Mr. M‘Laren, of 11, Seymour-street, on Tuesday morning last. :There was also another complaint against the same prisoners fot having stolen a quantity of spoons out of the cellar window of Mr. Pelting, of Great Orford-street. Ellen Henderson deposed to living servant with Mr. M‘Laren, of Seymour-street, and at one o'clock on Tues day morning last, she found the cellar window open, and from underneath the window the plate named above had been remov ed. She had seen it a short time before in •use at the table. She saw four boys resembling the prisoners lounging about the street, but could'unt swear' to them. A witness named Peter Whittle deposed to seeing the boys all standing together in London-road, and one of them tool: something white out of his pocket and give it to one of the other boys. The four prisoners were the, boys. They were afterwards taken into custody on suspicion, Issabella White deposed to seeing all the prisoners together the night before and one of them open the cellar win dow of Mr. Pilling, in Great Orford street, and take some silver spoons out. Mrs. Mary Ann Seggit deposed to giving information of this to Mrs. Pilling, and she also saw the boss entering the window. Mrs. Pilling said she went into the kitchen on the information she had 'received and missed a table spoon and two dessert spoons; marked with the letter P. The four prisoners were afterwards taken into custody under sus picious, circumstances, and the spormi of Mr.' Pilling 'were found in their possession. The prisoners each denied • the charge. They were fully committed to take their trial for the offence. ~SMUGGLING.—CIo- Matti - Tony -at the Poliee-orn—s named Peter Cregau was brought before the magistrates by time officers of customs, charged with smuggling a quantity of to bacco. Mr. Brooks, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the cus toms. Robert Hirley, a police-officer, deposed to meeting the 'prisoner in South John-street on the evening of the 9th instant with a bundle in his hand. He asked him what he had got in it, and found it contained tobacco, which lie had delivered to Mr. Young, Customhouse officer, and, ou finding it, he took the prisoner into custody. Mr. Young, tide-surveyor, deposed to receiving the tobacco from the police-officer, which weighed Bibs.; and was foreign manufactured tobacco of the kind, called Cavendish. Mr. Hall said the penalty incurred was £lOO, and be had no power to mitigate . it. He would represent to the board of customs any mitigating circumstances which there might be. The prisoner said he had au aged mother, a wife. and two children depending on him for support. Mr. Hall said he would represent that to the customs. This is a second con viction of the prisoner, and be is liable to be imprisoned till the fine is paid. ROBBERY AND ASSAULTING A CONSTABI E.—Yesterday, at the Polici-office, a maa named John Holland, was brought be fore the magistrates charged by atihn Hudson, the watchman of Bootle, with having ou Saturday night violently assaulted him whilst in the execution of his duty. The watchman said that whilst he was on duty on Saturday night in Bootle, about two o'clock in the morning, he met the prisoner and another man catlying two sacks. He asked them what they had got iu them, and , they, replied some singing birds. He felt in one of the bags and found there were birds in it; on looking into the other bag he' found it full of onions. Ile then told them they must leave the bags with him and stop themselves also; on hearing this the men threw the bags down and ran away; he pursued them and succeeded in taking one of them into cus tody, and carried him to the Kirkdale toll-bar house in order to obtain the assistance . olk the toll-bar keeper iu securing him. The toll-bar keeper was out, and the prisoner then said if he would not let him go be would -kill him dead, The prisoner then drew a knife and attempted to stab him; he warded off the blow and they strugg led to g ether, uud in the rstruggle he lost his stick, and the prisoner struck him with it a violent blow on the head, and afterwards on the hip and broke two of his ribs. The bar-man's daughter had mean time run out to fetch her father, who entered at this juncture and secured the prisqu . er. The toll-bar house being within the parliamentary bouudJary for the borough, time prisoner was brought to the Police-oice. The prisoner said he hoped the magistrates would be • lemscit 1 with him as it was his first offence. Mr. Hall said lie bad its jured the watchman very seriously whilst taking him into ens tody under very suspicions circumstances, and when he had a right to take him into custody. The gentlemen of Bootle 'w,etp in the first instance anxious to prosecute him at the sessioA, however, they now left his punishment to the magistrates. He must pay 'a - penalty of £5 including costs, and iii default, he must be committed to the Borough gaol for two calendar months. A TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE INTEMPERATELY. USED.—Yes terd4, at the police-office, a spruce mincing young man, mimed' John Robinson, a member of a temperance society,, and an aspirant for oratorical distinction, appeared before the mates- . Crates to complain against a labourer named Felix Little, fur having, whilst he was speaking at a temperance meetieg. Sunday morning, produced a ludicrous and unbecoming o f effect . ine his audience by giving him a t hum p on his seat honour," which caused him suddenly to descend from the chair on-which lie was elevated. The complainant, hand and putting his countenance in t o an expressionuilleawst:_ ra i s i„g his e rut to i o be peculiarly interesting, addressed the magistrates as _ e t .c . tv " May it please you, gentlemen , 1 h ave the supreme . fitu t . c . t t i tti . n t s be a member of one of those va luable and excelleart sl t a m fa l l, a v4 l . a temperance society. Yesterday morning, morning, according to our revered and adtmitur t eat stGeorge's held a temperance meeting before Lreakfas place, when, may it please you, gentlenteus, a l had the exquisite most respectable' i honour and supreme satisfaction to address t t temperance. , : e . ti le d and godly-tuinded assembly on the "m been lecturing to this goodly and well f -_olut that it p"9 d w tom e pasany tem for the space of twenty - five minutes, han an i•s w 1 was about bringing my lec ture to an effecting , e fficien porarily exalted upon a char. , and eminently successful perora tints, by g i v ing- out a temperance hymn, when this unruly. filthy, beastly, nasty, intoxicated fellor came suddenly, an d ernier , , and gave tne a violent contsipounshoend toeuers s u a l c y i m tiz stan di n g on the chair, whicuh caused " the loud laugh which bespeaks the vacant mind" from a number of low feliors, his associates;, and I have reason, may it please you, g entlemen, to believe.. that he received it glass of gro g from a publican to coe arid , liehave towards me asae a au u ubecorning, undecor m ous, and ungentlemanly manner." A witness, apparently a warehouseman, here step ped forward and said, ' 1 happened to receive a hitivitatiou to attend this meeting. and I always think it a honour to advo cate such a honourable cause, and 1 wentboldly and fearlessly without being hafraid to the meeting, and liadvocated, as hindivideal, to the best of m_y humble powers, such a glorious' a nd soul.saving cause. Well, gentlemen, this here young gentleman was then haddressing of the meeting, and a giving out'a hymn, such as is used by uz of the temperance society, when that vile man as stands before you, being a little intossi rated, hendevered to strike this here young gentleman behind, and although one of our friends seized his arm it struck this Young gentleman very violently and pushed him off the chair. And I heard a person say that that man was sent by a drunken landlord, along with a chimney-sweep. named Mortimer, to disturb and disaunui the meeting, and they was to have a glass of grog for it." The prisoner denied that be struck the com plainant, but that there was a great deal of pushing back Wards. and forwards, and he was pushed agains t the complaitiant and could 'not help it, and he " axed his pardon" for it ate be t 1 Mr." Hall said lie had much better become a quiet ine that society than go there to disturb them. if itinib,e_fi,rec. ne him again on a similar charge h e should tine him must pay five shillings for being drunk. 'Mr. Justice Coleridge, in giving judgement in a case on onday, said it did not signify whether a lady: was or was not the rpal wife of the party ;. if he suffered her to pass as his wife he was liable for her engagements. .~~ t'S ~' '`'~-- =~- -- ; . N - - , . . FEtoNv.--Ort.Friday 7 at the Police-ufSee, t tti o carters nam , Henry and Edward Smith were brought nature the magistrates ehar.ed with having stolen a quantity of. irow the night before from the marine store-yard of Mr. Peter in Duke's place. A witness named Mandeville, and oilier witnesses, de.; posed to seeing ihe.prisoners coming mit of the yard with two sacks upon their shoulders, and tracing them to the cellar of a person named Jones, in Mason-street, where' they were after wards found by the officers sitting on the..bags'. which contained old iron. A part•of the iron , was .produced,and identified by Mr. M'Ardle. The prisoners denied that • thev.had stolen the iron, but bad purchased it of a joiner for 15d. 'Toe informations for their commitment were ordered to be. taken.. ST. GEORGE'S RA ao et.—The. Harbours of Refuge Commit tee. of the commons, which has for some weeks past been sitting, closed its investigations on. Friday, the lOth by the ex- . ainination of many witnesses relative to St. Geo-ge's Harbour. This refuge haven, we understand, is to be funned in a Liss lying between the Great and Little Orrnsheads, on the - mast of tiorth Wales. A pier projecting from a point on the wrest Side of 'tile , bay will, itis confidently believed, form a most convenient har bour iu which ships and vessels of all sizes may find shelter from the hardest gales. We have long been . of ophaien, that an asylum harbour upon this coast was not only 'degirable but absolutely requisite to the trade of Liverpool, and we shall look for the completion of this work as a matter of national import ance. The report of this committee, when printed, will be most interesting to all concerned in the safety of ships and the lives of seamen. We shall not fail, therefore, to cetrimunicate its contents to our readers at the earliest possible period.—Shipping Gazette. • MANCHESTER PETITION.•TO THE HOUSE OF: LORDS.—Th• petition- to , the House of LOrds. , in support of the amendments made by their lordships in the Irish Corporation Bill, was for- . warded.on Saturday night. to the Earl of Wilton for presenta tion. It contained,6Bo.s . signatures; but as several sheets, con taining altogether 553 signatures, afterwards were sent in, the total number amounts 7358. Amongst-these are included most of our principal merchants and manufacturers; and as every individual alongwith his,name stated his occupation and place' of abodes there was little or no risk of imposition. It may also be remarked, that comparatively little exertion was made to oh- tain the names of passers-by; nor were any appeals made to the prejudices and passions of the multitude by means of placards.' NVe have, therefore, no hesitation in saying, that in the judg ment of all impartial men, - this expression of public opinion must have infinitely more weight than that which w as s ,- D t to to the House of Commons from this town in favour of the origi nal hill.--illanchester Courier. • MANCHESTER MCSIeAL FESTIVAL;-llr. Macvicar, the boroughteeve of Madchester, accompanied by the two borough representatives, waited upon the Duiqies of tent and the Pllu cess of Victoria, last week to solicit the patronage of their royal highnesses in favour of the musical festival which is to be held at Manchester in September next, anti to convey the wishes of tne town nnd neighbourhood, that their royal highnesses would' condescend to visit the capital of the manufacturing industry of England. The deputation , was must graciously received, and . the assurance was given to them, that although toe other ar rangements of the clueless and of the princess did not permit of their visiting Manchester this autumn, the inhabitants uagiit confidently expect the gratification of receiving the royal per sonages on some future occasion. In the mean time their royal :highnesses conferred the honour of their patronage upon the Ihusical festival. SPEAKER OF THE FRENCH HOUSE OF CoMMONS.-.- ir re cent vote of the Chamber of Deputies, the Speaker's 'salary,. which was hitherto 10,000 f. (1.300.) per month during the' ses sion only, has been fixed at 80.000 f.. (i 13,220.) a-year, without reference to the duration of the sitting. Besides this, the pre sident is allowed a house. - CONSISTENCY OF O'CONNELL—He attended a meeting last week for promoting "the Cobbett Monument"—a monument . to the man who, in his life time, O'Connell expatiated on his virtues and noble'deeds by calling hint "a savage miscreant," . "monster;" "fell monster," "greatest monster," " practical liar," "living libel on the human species"—•' a beast." PARLIAMENTARY RATS AND RUN AWAYS.—ISit true that Sir Richard Vvvyan, Mr. Blackstone, and Mr. Kirk. declined vot ing on Friday night on the Irish Municipal Question ? Can its be true, we ask, that Sir Richard Vyvyan deserted his linty' on that momentous division ? We put the question iu order to have an avowal or a denial of the fact. This is no time for mincing matters. It behoves the conservative party to know who are, and who are not, to be depended upon, when the hour of struggle comes. We do not hesitate to say, that the contrast between the conservatives and the destructiyes, as far as atten tion to legislative duty and activity goes its the furtherance of their respective causes, is lamentably against the former. if men will not or cannot act when made representatives of the conservative interest, they ought to surrender that trust, and let the duty be done by men who will not fail to fulfil the wishes and support the interests of the cause. This is no time for your - Serjeaut Etthersides; and we hope the constituency of Oxford.; shire and Yarmouth will teach Messrs. Harcourt and Baring' that they are not to be trifled with by men voting one day for one set of principles, and another day for an opposite.—Age. • Tua DUKE OF Sessax.—The following notice appeated in the Gazette of Friday last : " Kensington Palace; June 16, 1836. " His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex sulaiiitted to the • operation of extraction of the cataract from ear h eve, on Fri-- • day, the 10th June. The progress of his royal highness has subsequently been as satisfactory as possible. . . "HENRY HOLLAND, . I"THOMAS COPELAND. -"HENRY ALEXANDER." LAUGHABLE ERROR OF THE PRESS.—When Madame Ves tris,• Neely, &c., were lately performing at Liverpool, Manchei- • ter, &c., the operetta of The Wash . Girl was announced, the, music in which, the bills stated, was adapted nod arranged by Mr. Parry, the celebrated Welsh " Methodist," instead of " melodist." DEATH BY LIGHTNING.--During the storm of thunder and lightning which visited this neighbourhood yesterday afternoon, we learn that a boy about 14 years of age, riding upon a jackass, near Leyland, was .struck on the head with the electric fluid, and. the poor beast also, and very nielaucholly to add, both were killed on the spot.—Preston Pi/ca, • A TEMPTING OFFER.--A lady; who styles herself tican4idate• for connubial bliss, advertises in an American paper that she " ardently desires to unite herself to some gentleman whose habits and dispositionare accordant with her own." The modest. fair one says, " My complexion is brunette, eves and hair black, nose vises-foe, eseesie e e s so s hes. a ",- so.„„ s et e • full, height fi ve feet three Riches,, and hands delicately firmed. Fortune abbot 20,(X0 dollars." ' • The town council of Lythington have fixed the fine•for re-• fusing to serve the office of .Mayor at £lO, aldelinan at £ 2 40, • councillor, assessor, or auditor at £lO, and ss. for non-attendance at any meeting. The Cholera has penetrated into Upper Italy, and : is daily expected to visit Milan. The French princes have, in cuuse e . quence, given up . their visit to Italy. THE DUKE of Sessex.—The operation of removing the.ca taract which had for so long a period obstructed his Rovab Highness's vision was performed en Friday morning, betweim twelve and one o'clock, by Mr. Alexander, with every prospect. of complete success. It occupied ,from ten to fifteen minutes. The Duke is doing well. A fair damsel of seventeen, of a highly respectable family, at Aire, in the Pas de Calais, appeared on Sunday the sth inst., - as the representative Of the 1 , irgin Mary, in tlie• procession of the Fete Dieu. She was, however, soon tired or her essurriedr character, for she eloped the same evenining with an officer of the 4th regiment of Cuirassiers. . . • The eight sail of the line at the Sore, Spithead, and Plymouth Sound, are now ready for sea, though they still require a few more men to render them effective for hostile operations. THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.—The following curious commu, nieation is published in the Paris Messenger of Friday, on the authority of a Loudon correspondent On Saturday last,. M.,Dedel, in the name of the king of the Netherlueds, made a formal demand of the baud of the Princess Victoria for the eldest sou of the Prince of Orange. The King of Englaud, who, as well as the Queen, is personally in favour .41114 4- intind e consulted his council upon it, who, persisting in the s ine tention of leaving to the young princ e ss the lies cheice of a husband, communicated the demand to the Duchess of Kent the day before yesterday. The Duchess replied that her daughter had already decided in favour of the eldest son of the Duke of Coburg. This young prince, as well as his brother, is distill guished for his uuderstanding and good conduct as much as by his external advantages. 'lnc world will approve of the resoles lion of the Princess Victoria. As soon as the onswer i ef the Duchess•of Kent was known, couriers were sent off to different parts of the continent. The marriage will not be delayed; and the formalities, which, accordiug to the hies of etiquette, must precede the union of a pri nce and princess, are being executed." UrNpseEr s ucceeded tsGs .—1 :° the three Norman princes and the usurper the Angeriu or French sovereiens; Stephen,eettso . whom we common) }' call the Plantaeenets. They were su p -. planted by a rac e o Welch monarchs sprung from a private 'geetleman of Ang lesea. We next passed under the dominion. of a Scottish race, for whom a Dutchman bus substituted, and we are no transferred to a German family. From Egbert to' Geotge the third, during the lapse of a thousand years, only one real 4oglishmati, prqperly so denothinated e •as• sprung from• a native Sleek, I mean the brave anti' unfort u n a t e Harold, has r eigned Ake- mean _ Memoirs: • ' IN M I IXICO.--IMPORTANT SALE.—The sale of . 100.000 acres of land, in the` evince of Texas, took place yesterday at the Mart. It was miler the direction of Mr. George Robins. The price at which the lots were sold, viz. front two shillings down to one shilling per acre for the lee simple_ appeared to us a most inadsquate price, atelehe mote so as the news from 't hat quarter was so favourable. In a country where the climate is veto' dui, mid its capabilities to.produc'e sugar, coffee, spices of all kinds, wine, cotton, tobacco, and tiles every sort of corn and fruit, 'are su manifest, navigable rivers close by, and roilroads in prokfratt,• surely this must be a favourable mode to invest motley. We• understand th e r e were several lots bought in; and for . the fee-- simple 01 which one shilling per acre will he taken ; although -a • low sum. Mr. George Robins is duly authorised to treat.-- London paper of. Saturday. . . ,• •., • The • Sultan Mahonset has , commanded the engagement bf sixty musicians hoes. Paris, who , ere to .proceed to Censtanti- , nople fur the purpose-of performing at the approaching nuptials of the Sultana.. •" Assuredly (bays .a French paper) the good city of Coustatainopie will reach the height of our civilisation:7. Certions Discos:entes.—A blacksmith of Milan s named Poe- • ti, has discovered that, by suspending a length of chain to nee of the corners of the. anvil by means of a ring, the noise of: tun 'hammer may be al most entirely deadened. • SALE'us A WIFE.—A labouring man, residing near Tewkes bury, stint his wit's to a travelling haeker •:a .few cla:.s ago, fur the sum of four sovereigns, and three men. were called into a public-house to witness and ratify the agreement by driukidt, each a gallon of ale. , . • ortoll THE ALLEGED •Closh Co-see-The trial of the ease. ut the. r. Melbourne, is fixed to take place on Wedneteitismeue.ext, Cindall • Court of Common Pleas, Itelote - Lord Chie , f . J!', ;tiry i n t h e . and a specialiery. Sir R. )?eel remains ,oeiteey,!:" f our who are to s. suit and has heal s ou ni monestamoug the t , , attend the Court 411 the trot. e ep / I-roma of a celebrated Manetoe Matounae.—Tee ?re. s lane& with , a latle'of• tribly su , Cantatrice is said to - a f a p t ni t feminine putatiun o brandy, besides a inantuf, se yclept " heavy wet, ' • , . . Mr. CHI/tit:H ILL. —The tellawing (sots the 1' art . Alio ) is the „. Lord rolisoObA to the Turk . •Is mi n ist er • is for official note oi tiu chu relt•11 TI , MVP May. 1 ? ( ) " 42 ' n " ffairs ' ire l e d e ersi g ued, his Britannic• 10, 1836 " T s h.e u and 1l Masests's Atubas a • E, x traonn n y' eneettentierY, had the honour to ot acquainthis Exeellency.the Minister fur ic ortiii,:n Affairs, for the information of the Sublime • Porte ; that his F.Acelleuci . , • Akif , • Effendi, having atoasted the rights. of a British subject-iights conferred by the Sultans ef• glorious memory, tind most patti sealarly respected the ilhist nous sovereign maw reigning; for the happiness of his sajeciti—the undersigned is obliged to declare to the•Sublitne Porte• that the undersired will not. anti; longer. hold official communication with his , Lxcellency, Akif Effendi; and the undersigned respectfully submits to the`Sublinre - Porte, and teruphatically to the- Sultan himself, bit just' complaint againSt the , minister who has dared to violate the laws,oPhis own' sovereiguomid insult the Pratish natioa, The undeibigted has the honour, 84c:—rorisufigt" - 14, I *" iful out e— oy, the 51 r. ha. Irs. iew Its. Sa lay. ect )ich fans. that lawn iron- Ala- tate, lead, ition as to kind on al no lo of r the id D e , that LTTI- übtic Of f the ,sible were 1 who