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which he winds up the whole is in these words:— " We trust that all who possess influence in Ireland, and have the welfare of the established church at heart, will take some decided way of marking their discountenance and dis approbation of such proceedings as these, and of such per sons as this Mr. Gregg. A contrary course might prove, in its effect, a far heavier blow and greater discouragement to true religion in that distracted country than it ever has been, or ever will be, in the power of a Whig ministry to inflict." For our part, the moral with which we should point the tale, would be simply this—" Beware of mother abbesses !" Quarrels with such functionaries are, in Ireland, anything but pleasant affairs to have in hand, especially when there are Popish magistrates on the bench to adjudicate between them and mere heretics, for whom a prison is too good. Open collisions with prime favourites of the government ought, in point of prudence, we admit, to be eschewed, or very cautiously conducted ; but, nevertheless, we are far from thinking that the individual who happens to love truth more than his own convenience, and is willing to incur a little annoyance for its sake, however unwise he may be in the esteem of some, is one whose proceedings we should mark, as this writer recommends, with " dis countenance and disapprobation" ; and we are quite sure that " all those who possess influence in Ireland" will do nothing of the kind. If an uncompromising opposition to the god that rules in that distracted country, be calculated to inflict a heavy blow and great discouragement on true reli gion, what may we expect to be the consequence of aiding his divinity, submitting to his supremacy, and diffusing his authority in every possible way ? Truly, the Times seems much disposed to give him a friendly hand. If mother abbesses are to be exalted, and magistrates who deal out unrighteous judgment to be defended—if those who prefer honesty to equi vocation, and truth to expediency, are to be hunted down as " bigots" and " fanatics "—what hope can we possibly entertain for " true religion " in the country where such miserable expedients_aiv recom mended ? But we sincerely hope that the writer in the Times has no commission in this respect. The Whigs having resolved, with what Lord Dar lington calls a " tenacity unparalleled in the history of governments," to remain in ojice, it becomes every man who values the constitution of his country and the happiness of the people to try to defeat this most flagitious attempt, and reward it as it deserves. The question to be determined at the hustings will be this : are such men—are men capable of committing such acts as they stand convicted of—fit to be the advisers of our youthful Sovereign—fit to hold in their hands the administration of this great empire, and all its mo mentous interests ? It is not the question which the Whigs would like to put themselves; it is not the question which their time-serving partisans do now, or will hereafter put ; but it is, nevertheless, the question which ought to be put, and which, we trust, the Con servatives will on every occasion submit to the electors of the kingdom. Need we explain for what reason the Whigs will shy it, or upon what account it would be disagreeable to them ? The thing is too manifest ; there is a " conscience which makes cowards " of all men, even of Whigs ; their character won't bear exa mination ; their words and deeds are upon record, and they tell with condemning energy against them. With an increasing revenue they have been every year add ing to the burden of the public debt, and, during the last five years, have contrived to increase it by the se rious amount of seven millions. Still there is a defi ciency, and they come forward, in despair of success from every other resource, with a new plan to supply the want and waste specially caused by their own ra pacity and extravagance. With them then the question may very well be, whe ther or not the people approve of their plan ; but we say that the people should, and will ask, whether such vile managers ought to be any longer entrusted with the finances or government of the country in any shape whatever. With them the question may be the plan; but with us it must and ought to he the men. It is true that the Conservatives have no fear to meet them on any ground whatever ; but what we naturally and fairly say is, that if their scheme were the very best in the world, such acknowledged renegades are not fit to be entrusted with the execution of it. Have they not by anticipation frequently passed the strong est condemnation on it themselves ? To repeal the corn duties—why it was in their eyes "madness"! To encourage slavery—oh, it was unheard of villainy ; and as to colonial timber, it was a staple article of trade which must not be touched. The same int n now come forward eating their leek, and a: kin; the country not so much to smile upon their abject and contemptible recantation, as to give them a House of Comm o n s th a t w ill basely support them in whatever they cho ose t o pr o pose, and betray the nation into their hands. They care nothing for cheap corn, Baltic timber, or slave sugar,--or the convenience and benefit of the people in anything relating to such things ; these arti cles indeed form the staple of their "panic budget" ; but what they really want, is, a subservient house to agree to anything they may ask, to give them a work ing majority, and keep them "in place." It is said that the Whigs were under pledges to O'Connell not to resign without an appeal to the coun try, and that when the affrighted animals seemed in clined to fly, (unmindful of the engagement to their cruel, unrelenting keeper,) the " Irish pig-driver" flou rished his shillelah, and swore they should not budge a foot till they had paid him the last farthing. The animals huddled themselves into a corner, and held a cabinet council ; the terms of the " compact " were referred to ; the " driver " threatened to expose them if they refused obedience to his demand ; and, after a long debate, they determined to yield. Out then came the panic budget" by the Irishman's orders, and into his hands their affairs are now completely surren dered. As to this story, we know not whether it be literally true or not; there is certainly a vraisemblance about it ; but that there is substantial truth in it, we do most potently and implicitly believe. We heard nothing of the panic budget till Lord Morpeth's Irish universal suffrage bill was kicked out : mark that. And who more deeply concerned in that bill than Mr. Daniel O'Connell ?—who more interested in keeping the Whigs in, than that identical gentleman ? Ireland is his price —her patronage his pay for supporting the Whigs ; and he—who more ready ?—will of course work heaven and earth to keep his useful tools just where they are. We are decidedly of opinion that the agitation which has already commenced was entirely of this man's suggesting, and that all who join in it will just be the dupes of this crafty Jesuit. He has already had the assurance to put himself forward as a leader in the movement—to avow himself the champion of " free trade" ; and he " assisted, " at a public meeting in Covent Garden Market, on Thursday, in which this was the theme. Mark this, then : a ministry which has lost the confidence of a House of Commons of its own calling—which has over and over again been beaten, rejected, and condemned by it--takes the un constitutional course of remaining in office in defiance of the most express "want of confidence" of that house, and then appeals to the country to give it a new one more favourable ; —this ministry, we say, comes to the people, and sends—whom ? Mr. Daniel O'Con nell at its pioneer—yes, O'Connell—to agitate England as he has agitated Ireland—and eventually serve the English, doubtless, as he now serves his own country men- This base betrayer of his country calls for free trade —free foreign trade in corn and provisions—in almost the only articles in which the Irish people deal - -and expects, we suppose, that the people of England will listen to him while he is thus attempting to con- Sign his country and countrymen to irretrievable ruin, under the hypocritical pretence of, forsooth, disinte rested concern for English mill-owners and their ope ratives ! Faugh ; the thing is rank and abominable, and "smells to heaven." Why, this Papist O'Connell hates England and the English with a bigoted hatred of which they have no conception ; and will they be lieve that he is now seeking to embroil them in t his free-trade agitation from any c,ther motive but the love he bears them ? Ce r t a i n l y not . none at least but the veriest flats will suppose anything of the sort, O'Connell has virtually ruled England for some time past, and all he wants now is to continue his reign ; he would purchase it any price. He has never been nything but the direst enemy to his own country; he would readily sacrifice to insure his present do minion; but let the Conservatives of England be up and doing. Now is the time to put down this Popish —O'Connell tyranny, and Whig treachery together. Let us not be humbugged with the delusive cry of free trade. We can meet that cry too on its own ground; but in this case it is only used to draw away our attention from what is really dangerous and alarm ing. Liberalism and Popery have joined their hands against the Protestant Established Church and admi rable constitution of this realm ; and the question simply is, shall we surrender both into their hands, or will we not defend them resolutely, and drive back into kindred shade the unholy league that has assailed them ? We anticipate the answer which this question will receive. The present aspect of affairs has thrown the Whigs of this town into an awful state of ferment. The disso lution, which they longed for, is about to come to them, and now they find themselves wholly unpre pared to meet it. They want candidates—want steam —and above all, want coal to get the steam up. The doctors disagree upon the case. One advises Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Labouchere to be called in ; ano ther, Mr. Baring Wall and Lord Palmerston—the latter of whom, by the by, is about to be called to a seat in another assembly ; and, in short, distracted and di vided in their councils, they have the dolce concento in nothing but that their affairs look blue as possible. For this emergency we suppose it was that the Coun cil of the Manchester Anti Corn-law League vouch safed to come over and help them. Knowing well the overwhelming strength of Conservatism in this bo rough, the poor loco-focoos could not muster up face enough to look at the electors and talk about " Sir Joshua Walmsley and free trade "—" sugar and spice, and all that's nice "—so they left the job to be done— or rather begun—by strangers, by a deputation from the millocrats of a neighbouring town. These "millo crats ", it seems, have quite impudence enough for themselves, and their neighbours too—and in the cool est way possible, they actually sent round to all the electors of the borough, an invitation to meet them in the Amphitheatre, and receive their " thunder and lightning " upon slave sugar, agricultural expatria tion, colonial taxation, &c.—together with " parti cular advice and directions " how to conduct them selves at the approaching election ! Well ! we defy millocratical, or any other sort of assurance, to go be yond this. But it received a very proper answer—in the first instance by the following resolution agreed to at a meeting of gentlemen, who lost no time in assem bling to consider the matter. It was in these words : " Resolved unanimously,—That this meeting will not sanction or countenance the dictation of men totally uncon nected with this town ; nor will they consent to be made the tools of a party which is traversing the country for the pur pose of propping up a weak and tottering administration, at this peculiar crisis, and for obvious purposes, to excite, mislead, and deceive, the electors of this borough, as they have lately attempted to do those of other places. " James Aspinall, Chairman, " Alex. Smith, Chairman of the Tradesmen's Conservative Association. " Daniel Ledson, Chairman of the Operative Conservative Association. " Conservative Association Office, " May 22, 1841." We thank these gentlemen for their promptness on this occasion, and the perfect fidelity with which they have expressed the sentiments of at least two-thirds of the electors. The free-trade crimps must stick theirloaf on a pole, and beat up for recruits in some other quarter : here it will never do. By the way, some of the liberal journals talk as if the Conservative party had not reason to rejoice at the prospect of a dissolution of parliament—as if they had some fear of it—as if they did not wish for it ; but they are most egregiously mistaken. We say that it is downright scandalous for the dirty Whigs not to re sign ; we say they ought to resign now—that they ought to have done so long ago; but since they basely and meanly " adhere " still, why we shall thank them a thousand times over for dissolving. Their resigna tion would be more acceptable; but dissolution is good, and will answer all our purposes. There is no affection in the people for these cring ing Whigs ; why should there be ? They deserve nothing but contempt. The proffered bribe of bread and sugar will not shame the people into liking them. They know it is a cheat. Wherefore we are not afraid to appeal to them, even upon the issues which the In capables themselves have selected. The people justly dislike monopolists; but there never were such mono polists of place and its perquisites as these Whig mi nisters; and we are confident, therefore, that the people will send them to the right-about. The rogues in grain must be dismissed, and when the parliament comes to its dissolution, we predict that their dissolu tion will very soon follow. As to Liverpool, its Con servative representation is perfectly secure. With regard to the "great demonstration" of last night, we must, for the present, suffer our reporter to speak on that subject. All we have to say of our own knowledge is, that we were very glad to depute to others the perilous task of effecting an entrance on the opening of the doors. This, it will be said, bespeaks a full house—a well-packed meeting ; and we dispute not the inference. The crowd was certainly "prodigious"; we grant that ; but of what sort of persons was it com posed ? How many in the assembly were electors, and of those who were electors, how many will give any real support to the schemes of the millocrats, or join any further in their self-seeking, self-interested, and selfish agitations ? That remains to be seen hereafter. As to the mere heterogeneous gathering collected last night, it does not afford the smallest proof that Manchester dictation is popular in Liverpool, or that the tottering regime of whiggery will be supported here ; not the least. We are only astonished that the excitement of the moment did not draw a much greater number of the unwashed, and the curious. Sir Joshua Walmsley, our would-be representative; [how sadly Liverpool must be at a loss when she chooses the chairman-knight . 1 ] was quite astonished that the conservatives, instead of issuing the resolution which we have inserted above, did not attend at the meeting and discuss the corn-laws, &c., there along with the learned Manchesterian missionaries. What a pretty place for a discussion ! Attend there, indeed, to re-debate the eight nights' discussion in the Commons, and further, to anticipate another eight nights' discus sion on the corn duties ! What a humbug. No; the conservatives will take their own course, and meet, and discuss, when it suits them, without any dictation ; but we must defer any further remarks to our next. Mr. John Gladstone has published another letter, in which that eminent merchant completely prostrates the fallacies propounded by the ministerialists on the sub ject of slave-grown sugar. Most earnestly do we direct attention to Mr. Gladstone's remarks; they abound with practical knowledge, and are supported by incon trovertible reasoning. The letter will be found in another column. LONDON MONEY MARKET. SATURDAY EVENING.—The Stock Market remains almost precisely as before in spite of the glorious victory of the people over the " monopolists," which should have sent Consols up by some half-dozen per-centages at least. They closed however very quiescently at 89i to 90 both for money and time. Bank Stock 168. India Stock 250 to 2. Ex chequer Bills Bs. to 10s. premium. In Foreign Securities the same quietness may be observed. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 521 to I, the Five per Cents 991 to 100. Belgian 100 to 1. Spanish Active with the Coupons 231 to 1. Portuguese Five per Cents 33+ to 4, the Three per Cents 20 to Brazilian 67/ to 81. Mexican 28+ to Colombian 22+ to LONDON COMMERCIAL REPORT. SATURDAY EVENING.—The result of the present week's transactions in the general produce markets has not been satisfactory ; for, although the sales have been large and im portant, the actual purchases at them have not equalled the expectations of the holders. The Tea -market was quiet to-day. Accounts received this afternoon from Liverpool notice an inanimate market for Cotton all the week, the trade only purchasing for immediate wants. Notwithstanding this, however, prices kept tolerably steady, which was the more remarkable, as the stock had been immensely increased within a few days. The stock yesterday at the outport was 494,200 bales, against only 282,500 bales at this time last year. The imports this year have been upwards of 500,000 bales, and the sales 504,000 bales. The sales this week are 17,020 bales. In the St. Petersburg markets, during the week ending the 7th instant, the sales of produce were as follows : Casan Potashes, first quality, 3,500 poods, at 19 3-7 roubles, with 26-7 roubles advance for May ; 2,500 poods at 19 1-7 rouble, cash ; 7,500 poods at 19 1-7 roubles, cash, half for May and half for July; and 1,250 poods at 18 6-7 roubles, cash for July. Straw Ashes, 1,200 poods, at 17 1-7 roubles, with 2 6-7 roubles advance, for June, all berkowetz, and in silver. TO THE CONSTITUENCIES OF PROTESTANT ENGLAND.-LETTER V . FELLOW PROTESTANTS, - 11l the remarks which I ad- dressed to you some weeks ago, my object was to call your attention to the aggressive spirit of Popery, displayed in the attempt of Lord Morpeth to crush by his registration mea sure the protestantism of the Irish constituencies; and I endeavoured to prove to you that, in case of the success of such a measnre, the only step to prevent the voice of 1'ro• testant England being overborne by popery in the legislature, w•as a repeal of the fatal concession of 1829. The bill of Lord Morpeth, however, has been defeated. The time had not come when a British parliament would listen to the pro position to hand over the entire representation of Ireland into the controul of the Romish priesthood. The fruit of years of agitation, tempting though it might be, was not yet ripe ; and the dark spirit, whose excited hopes had whispered that she might walk direct, in the light of day, to the enjoy ment of her hour of triumph over that church, the prostra tion of which is the cherished object of her thoughts and dreams, has been stricken down for a rime—has been driven to shroud once more in kindred obscurity her foul and pesti lent machinations against the liberties of mankind. Yet think not that popery, baffled as she may be, is crushed ! Think not that, although compelled to relinquish the direct attack, she is less energetically pursuing the object of her encreasing ambition. No. The scaling ladder which she had raised against your bulwarks is thrown down, it is true, and the trench abandoned; but she is still working assiduously at the mine, and she hopes in a while to be en abled to advance amid the ruin created by its explosion. This is no time, fellow Protestants, to be found slumbering at your posts. This is no time, either, to allow yourselves to be misled as to the identity of the enemy by whom you are assailed. The hand which led on the late attack upon your constitutional liberties and your religion was that of Rome ; the weapon was Lord Morpeth's registration fraud. The same foul apostacy it is which is now raising throughout Great Britain the flames of civil discord and revolutionary agitation ; and the brand which it bears is the ministerial anti-corn law measure. In endeavouring to enforce upon you this truth, I am aware that I may draw down upon myself the sneers of some who, looking only upon the surface of things, can see nothing to connect the anti-corn law agitation, to the system which it tends to erect, with the realization of the designs of popery. But if I can show—as I trust I shall be able to do—that popery will be strengthened, in her spiritual and temporal power alike, by the acknowledged results of the ministerial measure; if I can demonstrate that, not only will the legiti mate object of the church of Rome be promoted thereby— (the increase of her power in the legislature, and the in creased facility afforded to her proselyting efforts throughout the kingdom)—but that she will be enabled also to achieve other secret and still more cherished objects; if I can show that this measure will not only enable her to gratify her in satiable ambition, but at the same time to glut her long hoarded vengeance, I shall not, I am convinced, be accused of jumping to conclusions when I assert, that it is POPERY which, (like that kindred spirit which of old " squatted by the ear" of the first mother of mankind), is now instilling her dark temptations into the ears of the people of Great Britain, and precipitating the arrival of a great social revo lution, amidst the ruin and misery of which she hopes to plant her truculent foot upon the necks of the British people ! It is well known that from the populous manufacturing dis tricts of England the church of Rome has of late years been drawing the great bulk of her increased power. Teeming as these districts are with an Irish population, in them she found principally a legitimate ground for putting forward her claims to be recognised as one of the great religious bodies of the country; whilst once located, she has never for a moment relaxed in her efforts to increase the numbers and the import ance of her followers. Nor have those efforts been unsuc cessful. Aided by the natural effect of intermarriages—by the tinsel splendour in which she clothes her forms of wor ship, to dazzle and entrap the ignorant and unreflecting ; aided, too, more than all, by the debasement of morals and character which ever results from the accumulation together of masses of population, imperfectly provided with the means of education,—within the last ten years popery has made gi gantic steps towards the accomplishment of her dreams of supremacy in Great Britain. She has thrown aside no wea pon as too foul for her touch ; she has rejected no alliance as too debasing for her embrace. She has used alike for her in struments the atheist, the socialist, and the socinian in reli gion ; the republican, the radical, and the crawling. sub servient whig in politics. She has used all, deluded all, and profited by all in turn ; and yet she has never for a moment lost sight of the ulterior object, towards the advancement of which her efforts were directed. That the immediate tendency of a repeal of the existing corn laws will be to draw together additional masses of the poplation towards the large manufacturing towns, will not be denied, however we may doubt that such a measure will in sure them permanent prosperity. The manufacturing in terests, we are told, are to be " stimulated ;" and the agricultural interests of the country, it is scarcely concealed, are to be in proportion discouraged. Starving millions of men, women, and children, whom the profits of husbandry will no longer support, are to be thrown for subsistence upon the precarious prosperity of foreign commerce—to be with drawn from the quiet and contentment of the valley and the hill-side—to be withdrawn from beneath the paternal eye of their rural pastors, and heaped up in the sinks and stews of our manufacturing towns and villages, to be submitted to the pollution of that moral pestilence, amongst whose turbid waters popery is enabled to throw out her baits so sucessfully for the souls of men. In the rural districts of England popery hitherto has been enabled to make little progress. It is not in health and happiness—it is not whilst walking by day amidst the genial influences of heaven—it is not whilst sur rounded at even by the smiling faces of his children, that man is content to bow down his head and to listen to the foul temptations of the sorceress who claims to interpose her ob scene and idolatrous form between him and his maker. No; the prosperity of the agriculture of Great Britain is a heavy stumbling-block in the path of Rome. Her masses and her mummeries, her prostrations and idolatries, are repulsive in the eyes of men who are permitted daily to gaze abroad upon the glories of earth and heaven, and yet remember that they are forbidden to bend the knee to " the likeness of anything" within that vast circle of power, magnificence, and beauty. In the admixture of squalid poverty and riot—in the alterna tions of weariness and delirious joy—in the midst of pinching care and reckless dissipation—in damp and unwholesome dwellings—in an atmosphere loaded with disease and ringing with the shrieks of crime and suffering :—in such a pande monium it is that the chaunt of the choir falls most grate fully upon the ear—that the magnificence of the altar and trappings of its ministrants attract most the eye and the imagination. Amidst such a population it is that tortured -hearts and startled consciences fly most readily to that foun tain which cools only for a moment—to that hand which sears over for a time the festering' and throbbing wound; and such a population it is with which it is the object and acknowledged tendency of our free-trade theories, to control the manufacturing districts of the kingdom. In her views of proselytism, it can scarcely be disputed that popery must inevitably be a gainer by the full realization of the anti-corn-law agitation. Admitting even the correct ness of the theory upon which that agitation is based; ad mitting even that extensive manufacturing prosperity will be the result, whilst the distress inflicted upon agriculture will be mitigated by the immigration of the agricultural popula tion, and their employment in the manufacturing districts ; still the church of Rome sees in that vast change the sure sources of increased power and influence. Politically, she has every thing to hope from the " discouragement" levelled against the landed aristocracy and the yeomanry of the country, and transfer of their influence into the hands of the manufacturing body, who have for so many years made com mon cause with her. Even now it is well known that she possesses a controlling power in the manufacturing constitu encies, which enables her to ask and have her price; and it would be a folly to suppose that in a new state of things she would possess that power less effectually or exercise it less relentlessly. But let us glance for a moment upon the darker side of the picture. Has Rome shut her eyes, or ought we to be blind to the facility with which a system, under which the great bulk of a nation dependent upon the periodical ebb and flow of commerce, can be worked to the overthrow of institutions which even temporarily interfere, or are imagined to interfere, with its prosperity? Is her far-seeing eye blind to the fact, that the occurrence of an hour—a glut in markets—an embroilment with foreign powers, or a tem porary cessation of demand, from whatever cause produced— may convulse such a state of society to its foundations, and let loose a torrent of wild and resistless passions, to be directed—by her own hand perhaps—towards the accom plishment of any one of her cherished objects of ambition, or the prostration of any, or of all the objects of her fear and hatred ? No, no. Romc is not thus blind. She knows well, that with such a system—with a ruined agriculture, and a bloated commerce—with millions of human beings heaped in masses together, crammed with the revolutionary dogmas of modern liberalism, and liable at any moment to be plunged into the miseries of famine ;—she would be enabled to rend asunder, like cobwebs, the ties which still withhold her from clutching her long-expected prey—to dash aside with a giant strength, the impediments which still remain in her path, towards spiritual and temporal supremacy in Great Britain, and to erect her throne amidst the dust and the ashes of the prostrate altars of British protestantism ! I have not, in this letter, even glanced at the operation of the proposed measure upon the sister kingdom ; and the space which I have already occupied, forbids me now to do so. In a future letter, however, I hope to be allowed to go into that portion of the subject ; for, by its operation upon the interests—nay, upon the existence almost—of that un happy land, we can alone be enabled to form a just concep tion of the anticipated benefits to popery, to secure which she has declared her willingness to hazard such vast sacrifices —to entail such a weight of crushing misery and ruin upon a people who have placed their destiny on earth and beyond the grave, so unreserved in her hands. A PROTESTANT ENGLISHMAN. Liverpool, 22nd May, 1841. LOCAL NEWS. The Leeds Intelligencer holds out the brightest hopes as to the prospects of the conservatives in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Pontefract, and other neighbouring towns, should a general election take place shortly. Our contem porary also adds, " most certainly two conservatives will be returned for the riding, if a contest be entered upon." Mrs. Bolton, of Storr's Hall, but now of Liverpool, had the kindness to present to the parishioners of Bowness a new clock that cost her one hundred guineas, exclusive of paying the carriage of it from Liverpool. After she had made the prishioners a present of it, they had the audacity to write to her, " to know who was to be at the expense of putting it up !" CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—The other day, as a young woman was passing along Burlington-street, she stepped upon the cellar-lid of No. 17, kept by Mrs. Roper. The cover being loose, her foot slipped upon the hole, and she was severely bruised. Yesterday, an information was laid before Mr. Rushton, and Mrs. Roper was flned 108 and costs for her neglect. SIIIP LAUNCH.—On Friday, a schooner, of most beauti ful proportions, of about 200 tons burden, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Banister and Co. in Trentham street. The vessel is called the Grimaldi, intended to form one of the " pantomimic" line of Glasgow traders, belong ing to W. S. Dixon and Co. THE REv. J. BA.YLEE'S SECOND LECTURE. — The second lecture of the Rev. J. Baylee, in answer to Dr. Butler, was delivered on Friday night in the Music-hall before a very crowded auditory, among whom were a considerable body of the clergy. The Rev. H. M`Neile occupied the chair. The subject of the lecture was the sacrifice of the mass. The rev. gentleman exposed the errors of the Romish doctrine, to the conviction of the assembly, who testified their approbation by repeated bursts of applause. The next lecture—owing to the pre -engagement of the Music-hall--will be delivered in the school-room attached to Christ Church. DEATH BY BURNING. -- Yesterday morning, Mary Healy, wife of a labourer residing in Catherine's-place, Chartres street, was found dead, at the bottom of the stairs in her husband's house. The body was nearly burnt to a cinder. The husband was the first to discover it, and he called in some of the neighbours. The floor near where the deceased was lying was much burnt. An inquest will be held on view of the body this day. DEATH FROM LOCK-JAW.—A man named Fall, assistant to Mr. Dodson, cowkeeper, Brougham-terrace, Derby-road, was, about six weeks ago, injured by a gig, in King-street, driven by a young gentleman. He was conveyed to the In firmary, where every attention was paid to him, but he died of lock-jaw on Sunday last. An inquest will of course be held on the body. A MAN DROWNED.—Yesterday a man unknown was taken out of the water at the Potteries, Toxteth-park. He was conveyed to the station-house, Mr. Lawton's, Welling ton-road, where the usual means were applied to restore suspended animation, but without effect. An inquest will be held this day. WRITING AND BOOK-KEEPING.—Ina commercial town like Liverpool, one of the greatest recommendations of a young man about to devote himself to mercantile pursuits is a bold and expeditious hand-writing, and a knowledge of the most approved system of book-keeping. These desiderata may be readily attained under the able and rapid tuition of Mr. Thompson, who has acquired a just celebrity as an ac complished penman and accountant.—See Advt. CAUTION.—On Sunday forenoon last, a respectably dressed person, carrying a small travelling-bag, called at a house, in grove-street, and asked if this was not Mr. 's house, naming the gentleman who resides in it, and, upon being answered in the affirmative, was about to walk in. The servant, however, stated that the family had gone to church, and requested him to call again. He replied he was aware they had gone to church, for he had met his master, who directed him to call and wait his return. The servant, however, prudently refused to admit the stranger, and he departed, stating that he would report her conduct to her master. Upon the return of the family, it was found that no such person had either been seen or expected,—so that the nature and object of the gentleman's visit became appa rent enough, and, no doubt, he had intended to render the travelling-bag very useful upon the occasion. Much praise is due to the servant for her firmness,—and it were well if servants were always as sharp, and as much on their guard against the tricks of such characters. As the same worthy may very probable make similar attempts elsewhere, the public had better be on the alert. On Saturday last, a person named John Reid, formerly cook of a vessel called " the Lorina, Thompson, of Liver pool," was lodged in the Gorbals police-office, under the following circumstances :—The Lorina, it appears, was lying in the port of Algiers on the 6th of January last, when a quarrel took place between this man Reid, and a seaman be longing to the same vessel, named Elias Enough, a native of Jersey, when it is alleged that Reid drew a large knife and stabbed Enough in the chest, inflicting a dreadful wound, which caused his death in a few hours afterwards. The mat ter was reported to the British Consul-General at Algiers, who issned orders to the captain of the Lorina (Thompson) to carry Reid home to England, and to have him lodged in one of Her Majesty's gaols, at any port to which he might direct his course in the voyage homeward. The vessel, it appears, was bound for the Broo mielaw, and after lying for the customary period of quarantine in the iioly Loch, came into the harbour here on Saturday, when, in terms of his in structions, the captain delivered the prisoner into the hands of Captain Richardson of the Gorbals Police, accompanied with a certificate from a French surgeon as to the cause of Enough's death, and also the authority under which he acted from the Consul-General. Reid, is, in consequence, de tained in custody, and a communication has been made to the Secretary of State on the subject, to know in what man ner he shall be disposed of.—Glasgow Chronicle. FATAL ACCIDENT.—As Joseph Emerson, carrier between Rothbury and Shields, was within a few yards of Mr. Da vidson's Inn, at Hartford Bridge, on Wednesday night, dri ving his cart, owing, it is supposed, to his having fallen asleep, the cart and horse fell over the bank upon him, who, on being missed off the road by Dixon, another carrier, search was made for him, and he was found lying under the cart quite dead. The deceased belonged to Snitter, near Roth bury, and has left a widow and five children to deplore his fate. He had for several years travelled weckly to North Shields. THE TOWN COUNCIL.—The proceedings of onr immacu late Corporators, at their special meeting on Wednesday, will be read with interest and instruction, and should be well pondered by the whole constituent body. It will be seen with what admirable facility a knot of self-styled libe rals can, in pursuit of party objects and with the view of subserving the designs of an unprincipled faction, turn their backs upon all their previously recorded professions, and seek to convert a body, constituted for strictly local and mu nicipal purposes, into a political debating clnb. Most scan dalously have they betrayed their trust, and shewn by their conduct that the commercial prosperity of the town and the welfare of the inhabitants are but secondary matters in their consideration. Let the municipal electors bear these things in mind, and avenge their wrongs when their mis-representa tives apply to them for a renewal of their support in Novem ber.—Newcastle Journal. STEALING WORKMEN'S TooLs.—Yesterday, at the police court, a wretched-looking woman, named Elizabeth Thomas, was committed to take her trial at the sessions, on a charge of stealing a quantity of masons' tools. It appeared that the prisoner was, on Saturday, seen going into a new build ing, in Beau-street, by a joiner named Beardwood, and on being searched by him, he found in her apron fourteen ma son's chisels. These were identified by Isaac Pilling, a stone-mason, as his property. He had placed them in a box under some boards. Yesterday morning, on his return to the premises, he found the box broken open and the tools gone. The prisoner said that she had been drinking, and that a man had sent her for the chisels, which be said were his own. CHARGE OF FORGERY. --A good-looking young man, named James Reid, was yesterday placed at the bar of the police court, on a charge of forging an order for money. Mr. Dowling stated that the order was for £lO, was drawn in the name of a person at Newry, and presented to a Mr. Dixon, of this town, who luckily did not pay the prisoner the full amount. There could be no doubt but it was a for gery; but as the person by whom it was purported to be drawn had left the country, through embarrassments, and could not be produced, he apprehended the magistrate could only caution the accused on the impropriety of his conduct. The prisoner had respectable relations in Ireland, in the north of which his father h e ld the commission of the peace. Mr. Wardle said that he was instructed to state, that if the person alluded to was produced, he could prove that the sig nature was his own, and that he h a d g i ven th e or d er to t h e prisoner Mr. Dowling said that could not be, as the per son referred to was not in the country at the time it was dated. Mr. Rushton said the charge was a most serious one, and after admonishing the prisoner, discharged him for want of evidence. THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED IN WEST DERDY.—One of the rules of a watch and clock club in West Derby, is thus set forth in the house where it i s h e ld :—" Th at when the Treseuar as received cash to the amount of XS 0. 0, Thear Shall be A Draw By Lottery for the Chance, and the highest shall take the Artlick, wetber Watch or Clock, witch he may choose." LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY. The second annual meeting of the subscribers to the Liverpool Shipwieck and Humane Society was held on Wednesday last, in the Underwriters'-rooms, at which George Johnston, Esq. presided. It appeared, from the accounts, that £lll 16s Od. had been expended in rewards, £135 2s 6d. in relief, and £42 9s 6d. in general expenses, leaving a balance in the Royal Bank of £576 ss. Od., and in the hands of the treasurer of £35 45. Ild., the greater part of which will be absorbed in the expenses of the medals which have already been voted by the society. but, owing to various circumstances, have not yet been struck. RIGHT OF DEMANDING TOLL.—On Thursday last, at the Police-office at Birkenhead, the toll-collector at the newly erected gate on the Chester - roa d, nea r Tranmere Pool, ap peared to answer a charge preferred against him by Messrs. J. and W. Walker, builders, of Birkenhead, of having taken illegal toll from a carter in their employ. William Gatley, carter to Messrs. Walker, pro ved that he carted building ma terials from Birkenhead to the new church, erecting by his masters at Rock Ferry, on the 26th of April, and two follow ing days : he had occasion to pass through the gate with the same cart and team three or four times on each day, and, every time he went through with a fresh load, the collector insisted on his paying toll. It was contended, on behalf of the turnpike commissioners, that Messrs. Walker, when car rying materials by which they made a profit, were liable as common carriers, com ing under the denominatio n " a stage carriage of any d es cription," As they wore the road in an equal degree. The act, it appeared, provided that, except for stage vehicles, tolls could only be demanded for three loads in One day. The magistrates declined coming to a de cision upon the case till counsel's opinion had been taken. It was agreed that the expense of this should be paid by the parties, and that, meanwhile, all tolls paid by Messrs. Walker should be paid under protest. The opinion is to be read in court on Thursday week, when judgment will be given in the case. ANOTHER LARGE STEAMER SEEN AT SEA.—Mr. C our t, Secretary to the Underwriters, received yesterday morning, from his correspondents at Lisbon, a letter, stating, that the Conde de Palma arrived at that port from Rio, saw, on the 23d of April, at 6, p.m., in lat. 31 24, long. 40 23, a large steamer, with three masts, painted a dark colour : the pad dles were not in action, nor did any smoke issue from the chimney. She did not exhibit any . flags. She was unde r a press of canvass and steering N.N.E. At eight o'clock on the following morning, the steamer was still in sight, with topsails and fore aft sails set. Some persons hope, that the steamer seen by the Conde de Palm°, on the 23d of April, was the President, which would then have been out thirty six days from New York. O thers su ppose , that it was the on the 10th of April, same steamer which was seen , by the Lord Saumarez, the particu lars res p ecti ng which we pub lished in a former paper. In neit her instance did the steamer make any signal to th e sails in si ght , an act w hi c h the President, in her peculiar circumstances, would sc arce l y have omitted, and the omission of which, in both instances, satisfies us, that, whatever steamer or steamers they were that were seen on the 10th and the 23d of April, neither of them was th e P r esident. Besides , if the steamer sail e d so as to keep i n s i g ht of the Conde P al ma , and w as b ound for England, we ought to have heard of her arrival at some port before now. Still, as the letter received by Mr. Court has excited much interest, we have deemed it our duty to publish its contents for the inforination of the public. The probabi ' lity is, that th e v e s sel was the steam frigate Dee, which has arrived at Porthmouth. MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY. Last evening a meeting of the members and friends of this society was held in the large room under All Saints, Church, Grosvenor -street, for the purrose of forming a branch association, the more effectually to extend and carry out the principles adopted by the parent association. The attendance was numerous, the room being nearly filled. The Rev. Mr. M'Conkev occupied the chair, and opened the proceedings by an impressive prayer. He stated the ob ject of the meeting, and the reasons that urged its formation. A Young Men's Established Church Society already existed in the town, which had two half-yearly meetings ; in differ ent quarters of the town ; but this was not deemed suffici ent, and a branch association to hold meetings at intervening periods, was therefore highly desirable. It was proposed that the branch should include Scotland Ward and Vauxhall Ward, and that they should meet monthly in that room. He would have preferred that Vauxhall Ward should have its own place of meeting ; but there were difficulties that could not be immediately overcome, and it was thought that that room would in the meantime suffice for both. He then read the declaration of the parent society, and explained the advantages of the proposed branch. It would make the young men better acquainted with the principles contained in that declaration, and to them it more particularly addressed itself, though it was accessible to the old as well as the young. By discussing those principles, they would be ena bled to meet the snarls of those who cooped at them. He rejoiced in the prospect of an efficient branch society to meet monthly, as it would enable them to take up each question separately, and discuss it in all its points. They would have the map of facts before them : they would find out the weak parts of the enemy's fortress, and be enabled to station their defences in the most favourable position. The reverend gentleman then entered with much eloquence into several questions relative to the propriety of a church established by law, and the objections made by papists and dissenters to such an establishment. First they objected to all connection between the church and the state. But he would see no harm in such an establishment, seeing that it was to provide the poor man with a church, a bill to call him to worship, and a Bible to teach him the truth as it was in Jesus. And what would they substitute for such a church ? They had no right to pull down even the hovel of the poor man without providing him with another and a better place of abode ; and still less had they a right to pull down the poor man's church, without substituting a better place of worship. What they would substitute was voluntaryism for sooth. Yet, strange to say, the established church with all its alleged means and wealth was unable to overtake the poor man's wants, and voluntaryism came limping up very slowly. (Loud cheers.) Voluntaryism included the socinian, the in dependent; the papist, and the infidel. The question of a church established by law would therefore be the subject of ' the first monthly meeting of the Branch Society. The next objection was, that they were an episcopal church : but he saw no harm in that episcopacy was sanctioned by the Bible. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) They read of the angel of the seven churches presiding over the ministers of the respective flocks ; and angel—literally translated—meant a messenger,—the angel of the covenant. He referred to the city of Ephesus, and thought there was no harm in fol lowing scriptural authority and the usages of antiquity, par ticularly as degrees of superiority or station were analogous to the whole works of God. This subject might be discussed at the second meeting. On the third night they might discuss the thirty-nine articles of the established church, in which its principles were gathered up in a written form, and con stinted the standard of faith of that church. He could see no harm in this. Those articles were deduced from the 'Word of God. which man from from his sinfulness was prone to pervert ; and they were written in language which could not be distorted or miscontrued. They formed the stakes that merked out the pasturage upon which the flock should feed, and prevented them from wandering over ground that might present moue alluring verdure, but the herbage of which was poisonous and deadly. (Hear, hear.) They also kept the shepherd within due bounds, and if he went beyond them he must retire from his charge. What would dissenters give them in lieu of this excellent standard of faith ? Why, merely the creed of " I believe," &c., a floating creed which might become no better than a tradition of popery. The preacher who was bound only by this might introduce So cinianism, Methodism, or any other ism, until himself borne down to destruction in the stream of errot or infidelity, his congregation were involved in the same perdition. He had known of numerous chapels without articles of faith, swerve from their prosperity and go down the whirlpool of Socinian ism or infidelity. He blessed God that they had their arti cles as a rule of faith. A fottrth question for discussion would be the objections made to the form of prayer. It was stated that the prayers of the Church of England were full of repe tition—the service of the lip—a dry form of worship— in place of the outpourings of the heart. The rev. gentleman defended the Book of Common Prayer from these aspersions, dwelling with great vigour and eloquence upon its superiority to all extempore invocations, the fervour of which depended merely on the feeling and temperament of the utterer at the moment. The Prayer Book met the wants of all, from the cradle to the grave. It made provision for mankind, both here and hereafter ; it furnished a• solace amid the troubles of life : it prepared the mind for receiving the holy sacra ment ; it smoothed the bed of sickness, and cheered the droopin g heart by assurance of salvation by repentance, through the merits of Jesus ; and it afforded consolation to the afflicted, who gathered round the grave of the departed parent, brother, or friend, and promised them immorta lity if they were guided by the gospel truth. Instead of this, dissenters would give them not a printed form, which might be read and investigated, but an extemporaneous inde finite thing, which had no local habitation or name. They would give them merely the prayer of the preacher, which could only raise his congregation to the level of his own per sonal devotion. On the other hand, whatever the doctrine a minister of the Church of England might promulgate from the pulpit, a safeguard was to be found in the pure scriptural form of words contained in the Book of Common Prayer. The rev. gentleman concluded a very able address (which want of time restrains us to a hasty sketch) by expressing the delight he should have in being with them at their future meetings,!and rendering them any assistance within his power. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Mr. HERNE then addressed the meeting in behalf of the church, in a very argumentative and impressive man ner. He proposed a resolution declaratory of the established church being the most efficacious instrument for defending and advancing christian truth, and pledging the meeting to use every legitimate means to promote the efficiency of our venerable apostolic chnrch. Mr. JAMES MATTnEws seconded the resolution in a very eloquent manner. It was unanimously carried. Mr. GRIFFITHS proposed a resolution to the effect that the proposed Branch Society should be established. This was seconded by Mr. JONES. This too was carried. A number of young men and others then enrolled them selves in the new society, and the meeting dispersed after a vote of thanks to the Chairman. IRRUPTION OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE INTO LIVERPOOL. Several gentlemen from Manchester, one of whose amuse ments is to go from town to town, practising the art of elo quence upon the corn laws, called a meeting last night of the electors of this borough, for the purpose of presenting cer tain well-known ministerial objects, which, as an election is impending, it is felt desirable should be accomplished. The place was crowded. On the motion of Col. WILLIAMS, Sir JOSHUA WALM SLEY was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAM, in opening the business, denied the as sertion that the Anti-Corn-law League bad visited Liver pool in a spirit of dictation as had been represented. They were men of all parties, whigs, tories, and radicals, and came here to shew their distress, to appeal for assistance, and to explain to them their wants and wishes. They came here to shew us that the corn laws were unjust and iniquitous, and they wanted the co-operation of the electors of Liverpool in their abolition. The chairman then made sundry professions as to his desire to have a fair discussion of this question, and trusted, that a tory placard, which he said had been issued for the purpose of creating confusion, would have no such effect. Mr. ASHWORTH, a quaker, from Bolton, complained bitterly that the manufacturing and commercial interest had never been fairly and properly represented in the House of Commons. This was the reason that it had to contend with various giant monopolies, one of which was that of the West India interest, but the greatest and most danger ous of all was that fo the agricultural interest. The West Indies took goods from us only to the amount of four millions annually the profit of which was ten per cent, or £400,000. In return for this every man before him paid to the planter 4d. a pound for every pound of sugar he consumed, so that we paid £3,000,000 for this monopoly. He next referred to what he called the monopoly of the agri cultural interest, and so they had never yet made out a case shewing that they paid their own share of taxation. . . Mr. JOHN BROOKS made rather a humourous speech against the corn laws, He told the same history about his losses, and his origin at Blackburn, from frequent repetion, whith is familiar to his own townsmen. Some hits at Sir Robert Peel—especially his challenge to a public discussion —were sufficiently absurd even for Mr. Brooks. Mr. GARNETT, a cotton-spinner, from Clitheroe, said that he commenced business in 1799, consequently he had been in business 42 years. Every year profits had been de clining, and he had never known trade so paralysed as it was at the present moment. ---- Mr. • COBDEN then addressed the meeting for upwards of an hour. The CHAIRMAN said, if there was any one who took a different view of the question from the preceding speakers, he should be glad to hear him. Mr. HARDY here stepped forward. After he had held some conversations with the chairman, The CHAIRMAN said he could not hear Mr. Hardy, as he had discovered that he went further even than the Manches ter deputation. Mr: Dix here presented himself and claimed a hearing, but the uproar prevented him. The CHAIRMAN endeavoured to calm the meeting, ap pealing to them on the ground that the gentlemen from Man chester invited discussion. Mr. HARDY—You refused it to roe ; that is not a fair dis cussion. The CHAIRMAN said he should order Mr. Hardy to be turned out. The deputation had invited discussion, and it was their wish that all should have a hearing. He therefore wished the meeting to hear Mr. Dix, and Mr. Cobden would reply to him. Mr. Dix then said he should like to ask Mr. Cobden what was the actual rental paid to the landlord by the tenant for a quarter of corn. Mr. COBDEN said he could not profess to answer that ques tion ; and that if he could, it would not help Mr. Dix's ar gument. - Mr. Dix again attempted to address the meeting, and for some moments he succeeded, during which he sheaved several misstatements on the part of the league. Mr. COBDEN having replied with some humour to these statements, called upon the elctors to vote against all mo nopolists. Mr. RAWSON, a most tedious member of the league, next addressed the meeting, and, like his predecessors, did not forget to impress upon the eectors the necessity of turning out Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell. Mr. RATHBONE followed rather briefly, and called upon the electors to return none but free traders. Some others of less note followed—none of them forget ting the main point —as to voting at the election, and at the end the meeting was adjourned to Wednesday. GIRAFFES.—M. Riboulet arrived here on Saturday last, with five giraffes, which he caught himself young in Abyssi nia, and which have been exhibited here during the past week. This enterprising traveller had captured six of these beautiful creatures, but in hoisting one of them on board the Great Liverpool it struggled so that the crate gave way, and he so injured himself that it was found necessary to destroy him.—Portsmouth paper. CITY OF LONDON REPRESENTATION. —On Saturday, the gentlemen who presented the requisition to the Lord Mayor to call a meeting regarding the corn laws, having learned that Mr. Grote would not again present himself, adopted and signed a requisition to Lord John Russell, soliciting his lordship to allow himself to be put in nomination at the next general election as a fit and proper candidate to represent the city of London. It will be circulated to-day for further sig natures. His lordship had previously been spoken of for the Tower Hamletsoin lieu of Dr. Lushington, who is disquali fied by act of parliament, he being a judge, again to become a candidate ; so that, what with actual gratitude to Stroud, and prospective gratitude to the Tower Hamlets, his lordship, if he comply with the requisition for the city, will be placed in no enviable position, especially should he lose London ! Beware, Lord John ! CORRESPONDENCE. THE CORN-LAWS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, - ---• Sia,—The time is come when every man is called upon to do his duty, and lend a hand to free his country from hypo critical friends, more dangerous than declared enemies. The whigs now, for their party purpose, drag into debate the very laws which were passed by conservatives for the security of the interests of British subjects—the corn-laws. If there is not a general opposition to the scheme, the people are blind. From one end of Ireland to the other, you can behold in harvest-time the millions of small farms under corn crops, which are all intended for market with a quantity of pota toes, which is their chief support ; but I hardly think that O'Connell will make such long speeches for the reduction of the price of their grain. He knows Ireland too well to do so, and appear afterwards at the hustings there. I expect he will leave that argument to the other members present. The country people want many things besides bread, which they will be deprived of, if their bank, the corn-market, should fail ' • and O'Connell has always relied u p on mo b po pularity in Ireland. What will the English labouring classes think, if they are deprived of their present scanty wages, and obliged to accept what Lord Melbourne, by and with the advice of O'Connell, sends them in its stead—the parish workhouse; whilst our enemies may be employed in other countries growing corn for the English market, and receiving the wages which our English and I r i s h l a b ourers oug ht t o receive'? I proclaim them open enemies to Englishmen and Irishmen, who dare propose such a change; and I fear the O'Connell " rint" would not be paid without any deduction if the price of corn is reduced. Ministers, 1 suppose, ex pected on the sugar debate to have the support of the Eng lish gentlemen who are interested in plantations ; careless of how it might lead to the renewal of the slave trade, if it added one shadow of popularity to them for their party pur poses ; as in the case of the corn-laws they are careless as to, or else they aim at, the fate of the farmers, corn-growers, and labouring classes of Great Britain and Ireland. People will argue both for and against these schemes without coming to any reasonable conclusion, whereas common sense shews, that if we lose our agricultural employment, and it be trans ferred to other countries, giving increased employment to foreigners, it must diminish the employment of British peo ple ; and if it becomes at all general, which it must, it will be found a national calamity. And to speak of the ultimate end which whigs seek to ac complish—Popish government. If it is to be accompanied by these distressing evils, its approach is the more to be feared ' • for the destruction of our re li g i on , an d th e persecu tion which we must expect under papal authority, is severe enough in itself without this spoliation of English interests. Another reason for opposition to Popish government:— O'Connell himself, and some whiggish noble lords, have boasted of the general virtues of the Irish females ; I'll not dispute that; but they will allow, as in all general rules, the right of some saving and excepting, which leaves some ground for English females to make a similar claim ; whilst on the part of the English people there is this advantage—that the English are not such advocates for those abominable Popish prisons called nunneries, which few will deny ought to be pulled down : but their governors are the guilty parties—the priests exercise power over the nuns, who must submit to the priests as to God !!! and they forgive or condemn, as the nature of the case may require. It is a glorious thing to see that the warning voices of our clergy are sent forth to preserve our country from such dominion ; but I fear they are but poorly aided by gentlemen of property and influence. All classes, from the king to the peasant, ought to exert themselves to root Popery out of the land. Its dominion on the mind urges opposition to religion, and God's holy ordi nances generally. In Ireland, lords and gentlemen are daily threatened by the O'Connell mob that their estates must shortly revert to the descendants of the men who fought against William the Third, and they go so far as to preserve the right line of heirship in their families. If people of in fluence don't exert themselves, the following evils will be brought on us by the whigs :—Popish government—transfer of our church property to Popish churches—onr bishops and clergy's livings and the tithes to Papists —a confiscation of estated gentlemen's properties to Papists—persecution of Protestants, and no redress—and whatsoever else his holi ness's and the priests' pleasure may be. Whilst we have the power and the means, is the time to prevent such a curse from visiting our land (and they are now members of her Majesty's government who seek this state of things), and finally protect our own people, keep employment for our own labouring classes, and we should do everything to forward the dismissal of the whigs. We should not have them any longer at any price. We want such men as Wellington, who will not make a dirty retreat, rind conclude a peace before the interests of England are established—who would carry on either war or some other employment instead of parish warkhouses for the people, whilst they (the whigs) are nothing but feather-bed cham pions. We want men who will promote the general interests of the country, and encourage English employment. This also will be found the principle upon which O'Connell acted in his last struggle in Ireland, when lie commanded the Irish to take nothing which could be called foreign manufacture, and attempted to keep everything which was English out of Ireland. Dan must call us blind if we cannot see how to benefit ourselves by his orders to the Irish. And is it not plain to every one that the present ministry are actuated all through by his advice ? And what is his advice ? To over run England every year with foreign produce, to our preju dice, and for the benefit of foreigners. Then down with the whigs, and support the friends of Old England—the conser vatives, who stand up for the protection of English, wages and English employment !—I remain, A LABOURERS' FRIEND TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sra,—A portion of the retail grocers appear to have fallen into the whig-radical trap, and have been petitioning for the anti-British slave-holding system of Lord John Russell. Have these gentlemen considered the effect of the measure they support? The trade to our colonies employs and sup ports British merchants, British vessels, British seamen, British manufacturers, British mechanics, artisans, and co lonists. The colonists are large customers for goods the Brazilians would not require ; and, being British sabjects, are always good payers, our laws being binding upon them, and payment easily enforced in case of refusal. Not so in the Brazils ; enormous sums are lost in bad debts even in the limited trade we now carry on ; and the delay and difficulty of foreign courts of law prevents appeal. The British merchant has no interest in influencing ex changes against this country, or draining it of its bullion, and thus takes goods when foreigners would have gold. Will the retail grocers oppose themselves, therefore, to the interest of our merchants, shipwrights, sailmakers, and, in fact, the British artisan and shopkeeper generally; and is the paltry reduction on sugar to be a set-off against stopping one of the surest and most open outlets for British capital and enter prise. I presume it is not attempted to poison us with the rubbish imported from the East at present. The respectable chairman of the grocers is a gentleman of known principles and unquestionable philanthrophy, and I own it was with sorrow I saw his name appended to a docu ment which, indirectly, will be of the greatest encouragement to the most brutal and inhuman slave system ever practised. The impetus given to slavery in Cuba and the Brazils, by our rashness, would, indeed, have been truly alarming had the abominable bill of Lord John Russell been carried; and it appears almost insanity to encourage slave produce after paying millions of money to enjoy sugar manufactured by freemen. A friend of mine, practically acquainted with the sugar trade and Africa, assures me that, if the whig bill had passed, he would have been on the Coast, and make a fortune in three years. He is not a solitary individual holding this opinion, for the temptation to deal in slaves, when such a demand would ensue, high prices would tempt numbers of masters of vessels and small capitalists to run the risk, and the British navy would almost be unable to put an end to the abuse. I hope our grocers will take a more national and christian view of the subject, and that we may all be found combining to support " SHIPS, COLONIES, AND COMMERCE." I am, sir, yours, &c., R. G. J. Liverpool, 23d May, 1841. THE " PROTECTORS" AGAIN TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR, - At the present time, when apparently we are upon the eve of a parliamentary contest, it cannot be thought out of place to send all the intelligence we can obtain of the enemy's movements in this town to the conservative press; so that by these means the friends of the conservative cause may be stimulated to greater exertions, in order to counter act as much as possible the efforts of their opponents. The other day a circular was placed in my hands by a friend, who had received it in mistake, he being of the same name, and living in the same neighbourhood, as the person to whom it was directed. I give you for insertion a true copy. May 24th, 1841. R. M , Jun. " 6, Barned's-buildings, Sweeting-street, May 20, 1841. " SlR,—The central committee of the Protector Society respectfully beg to apprise you, that your acknowledgmeot for £2 2s. 5d., advanced in 1840, remains in their hands yet unredeemed. " To counteract the ceaseless activity of our opponents, the immediate efforts of every friend to civil and religious freedom are required. To meet the expenses of the forth coming registration, money, the sinews of war,' will be re. quisite. To all who are in arrear on our books, the commit tee therefore confidently look for cheerful repayment of the sums against them. As private and public principle concur in aiding the present appeal, the committee feel assured that with the honourable and patriotic it cannot fail of being successful. (Signed) " JOHN RossoN, President. " THOS. APENTEER, Secretary. " To Mr. Tlios. S , -street." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sir,—As the trusty guardian of our general interests, let me class those relating to religion at head of all others. I beg to intrude for a few moments on your valuable time. I may be mistaken in suggesting a movement which is to have for its object the prevention of the general agitation which may be expected through the empire, from a dissolution of parliament. One circumstance which the whigs manage to raise a point from, for the purpose of their faction, I believe is, that they constantly persuade our Queen to be aware of that party who were heretofore the friends of old England and British liberty : and it clearly appears that many a threatening lesson the Queen has received to deter her Ma jesty from choosing proper ministers to protect the national interests to this effect, that it would be dangerous to her Majesty's person, if she should have such ministers. This damnable whiggish doctrine, and the effect created thereby on her Majesty's mind, might be at once removed with the persons from whom it sprung ; by petitions from all parts of the empire, expressing our sincere loyalty and our fears ; and praying for a dismissal of the present ministers, &c. &c., which could be done with less public agitation and danger to the peace, and as beneficial results, perhaps, as the danger ous agitation consequent on a dissolution of parliament.—l beg to remain, Sir, A FRIEND TO ORDER AND GOOD OLD ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. MORE HOLE - AND-CORNER WORK.—The Globe, in a leading article, writes as follows :—" The men of Sheffield are at their post. As soon as the intelligence had arri ve d that the division had gone against ministers, a public meeting was immediately convened, and in spite of some interruption by a small section of tory chartists, the following address to her majesty was agreed to by an immense majority." Now, perhaps the Globe will tell us how and by whom this meeting was convened—by the Parker and Ward party. Perhaps it will tell us how many hours' notice was given of it ? Was there so much as four hours' notice given ? Why, if the Parkers and Wards really want a fair expression of public opinion, do they not give a fair public notice one day, and have the meeting the next? In a town like Sheffield, con taining more than 100,000 inhabitants, nothing is so easy as for a few large master manufacturers to box a couple of thou sand. But we repeat these are not Public meetings. Hud dling together a section of partizans between post time, and, as they call it at Sheffield, one o'clock half struck, is not taking the sense of the people. It is positively shying it. And then, not a petition to parliament, but an address to her majesty ! Nothing shows the weakness of the whig-radical party so much as this. Her majesty is to be imposed upon by Lord Melbourne faking these addresses to the palace in his pocket, and giving his own account of them. Her ma jesty's ear is not to be reached constitutionally, through the House of Commons, but through the courtier premier. What shall we have next ? PLAIN QUESTIONS PRACTICALLY ANSWEREit Who, during their administration, reduced the national debt twenty millions, without abridging the comforts of the poor, thereby proving themselves the real friends of the country? Who, during their five years administration, have increased the national debt seven millions five hundred thousand, and still wish to impose more taxes, have decreased the comforts of the poor, and carried into effect most severely the poor larninquisition THE WHIGS. Who z have, within the last few years, so leaded their own pockets, that they boast they could buy up the whole landed interest? THE MANUFACTURERS. Who is the real supporter of the poor, the church, and the state, and who pays taxes and is at all times ready to protect the working classes against the enormities of the poor law tyranny? THE LANDHOLDER. Who is the oppressor of the helpless, the supporter of in fant slavery, the dictator of our land, and the petty despot of our manufacturing towns? THE MANUFACTURER. Who, for the first 14 centuries, before manufactories were known in England, brought the country to so high a pitch of happiness? THE LANDHOLDER. Who now cry " down with the corn laws" under the hy pocritical pretence that the poor will get cheap bread thereby, but the real object of which is to put more money in their own pockets, by reducing wages? THE MANUFACTURERS. Who, in the time of war, protects our land from foreign aggressron, as well as protects us from internal strife ? THE LANDHOLDER. Who is it that, in the time of small profits, stops his works, and dismisses his hands, so that the people are driven to the greatest extremity of misery, wretchedness, and famine, un til they are obliged t o t a k e up w i t h the blessed poor law bastiles ? THE MANUFACTURER. Who, should it hail, rain, or snow for the whole year round, continues to till, manure, and sow his land, thereby giving, even in the time of the greatest distress, continued work to the labourer, th oug h h e hi mse lf should reap no profit? THE LANDHOLDER. Therefore, if we love our Queen, our country, and our church, long will we cry, " Success to the Conservative and the Landholder." A PRACTICAL MAN. THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON STEAMERS (From the London Journal of Commerce.) While referring to the extension of steam navigation, we may mention one most encouraging fact. Under the old packet system, between Falmouth and Halifax, by the gun brigs, the expense to government was about £40,000 annually more than the receipts of postage. By the line of Cunard's steam-ships, a balance of £20,000 appears already to the side of the Atlantic mails. (The indomitable spirit of British enterprise never had a better or more patriotic representative than Mr. Cunard. He is not only boldly and simply entered into a contract with the government to build four steam-ships of 1200 tons, and with engines of 300 horse power each, to run across the At lantic to British North America once a fortnight, but he has more than fulfilled his hazardous engagement. His fine ves sels have brought one of our most valuable dependencies within twelve days' distance from the mother country, and that with unerring regularity. The punctual success of the Cunard steam-ships is owing, in a great measure, to their construction, being far stronger, in respect to timber, planks and fastening, than is usual in ships of equal size. The strength of construction renders the working of the powerful engines perfectly safe in combating the resistance of the most tempestuous weather. Not only are these vessels built much stronger than the usually required strength, but the engines placed in them exceed the power contracted for, being not 300, but 440 horse power. The fiscal success of these packets ought, we think, to in duce the Government to extend the communication, by en larging Mr. Cunard's contract, so that he could increase his steam float and de s p a t c h a p ac k e t f rom Li verpoo l to Halifax and Boston once a week during the eight spring, summer, and autumnal months, and once a fortnight during the winter months. By such an arrangement not only would the Post office gain in revenue and Mr. Cunard be amply remunera ted, but this frequent intercourse would form a rapid line of communication between the whole of Europe and all North America, including every country from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Superior. We mention these facts, because, in our admiration of the success of the vessels, we are apt to forget the merit due to the contractor and speculator, Mr. Cunard. If he who makes a blade of grass grow where barrenness previously was, is a benefactor of his species, scarcely less grateful ought we to be to him who diminishes distance between two fairly separated but intimately connected countries, and who subdues the tempests and dangers of the ocean for the pur poses of facile and speedy intercourse between mankind. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) PROMOTIONS. Rev. John Ashley, M.A., late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, Chaplain and b r other-in-law to the L or d Bi s h op of Ely, to the Prebendal Stall in that Cathedral vacant by the death of the Rev. G. 0. Cambridge. Rev. John Edwards, Head Master of the Grammar School, Bury St. Edmund's, to be Greek Professor in the University of Durham, to which a Canonry in the Cathedral of Durham has recently been attached by the Ecclesiastical Commission ers •, patron, the Bishop of Durham. Rev. Sutcliffe Sowden, 8.A., of Magdalen College, Cam bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Mytholm, in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire. Rev. J. N. H. Thomas, 8.A., Dublin, to the Perpetual curacy of Milbrook, Devon ; patron, the Earl of Mount F,dgecumbe. Rev. R. Thompson, Curate of West Wittering, near Chi chester, to be Chaplain of 11. M. S. Impregnable. Rev. J. Thornton, 8.A., of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, to the United Chaplaincies of the Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Northampton. Rev. Robert Baker, to the Vicarage of Friston with Snape, Suffolk ; patron, Richard Wm. Howard Howard, Vyse, Esq. Rev. F. Upjohn, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Gorleston, Suffolk, on his own petition. Rev. Mr. Snelgar, to the - Vicarage of Royston, Herts, va cant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Cantherley ; patron, Lord Dacre. Rev. Jas. Mules, to be the Curate of Binegar, near Wells. Rev. Hugh Allen, M.A., to the Incumbency of St. Paul's Church, Bury. THEATRE RoyAL.—A very amusing, original, and bustling pantomime was brought out here last night. We may say it is one of the best ever produced. The Boleno family astonished every one by their agility. Miss Webster's dancing was really exquisite. We cannot notice the pan tomime at length in our present number. MRS. BLAND.—Mrs. Bland has accepted an engagement at Covent Garden. She leaves this company at the close of the season, and will bear with her the hearty good wishes of every true lover of the drama. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.—We perceive that M. Jullien is about to delight the inhabitants of Woodside and its vicinity with another concert. His band of fine players ought to be heard. It is a treat, indeed, to listen to M. Jullien's music. Yesterday her Majesty entered upon the 23d year of her age, when the usual demonstrations of loyalty and respect were observed in this ancient town. His worship the Mayor entertained a select company of friends to dinner in the evening, including several distinguished officers of the army and navy. A serious accident happened to Miss Davys, daughter of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, on Saturday last. As she was returning from an airing, on horseback with her father, on the North Bank, her steed became unmanageable, and she was in consequence precipitated backwards with con siderable violence to the ground. Her riding-habit being very long caught the pommel of the saddle, and she was drawn for a distance of upwards of 40 yards before she could be extricated from her perilous situation. Miss Davys was at length removed home in a carriage, and, although she was much bruised, we are happy to state that she is in a fair way of recovery.—Lincoln Mercury. On Sunday morning the following desperate and determined suicide was committed at the residence of Mr. Minikin, pro prietor of the Cambrian Hotel and Coffee-house, Great Rus sell-street, Covent-garden, by a gentleman unknown. It ap pears from the statement of Mr. Minikin that the gentleman entered the coffee-room on Saturday night, and requested to know if he could be accommodated with a bed, and, being answered in the affirmative, he sat some time, and afterwards retired to bed. At half-past two o'clock, yesterday morn ing, Mr. Minikin, in passing the gentleman's bed-room door, heard dreadful moaning, and on entering the room he found him lying with his head over the side of the bed bleeding co piously from an extensive wound in the throat, which he had inflicted with a razor. Surgical assistance was instantly sent for, when Messrs. Ackland and Smith promptly attended, and used every means to restore him, but without effect ; he expired shortly afterwards. There were no papers nor any articles found on his person to lead to a discovery of his identity. FATAL ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO-sal nGE .--Between six and seven o'clock on Saturday morning another of those accidents which so repeatedly occur by boys playing on the floating timber near shore, happened on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge to a fine little fellow of the name of Wilden, aged six years. The deceased and several other boys were running across the timbers, when, from an unknown cause, the timbers opened, and the deceased fell into the water. An alarm was instantly given, when several watermen, and In spector Ives, of the Thames police, with his men, used their utmost exertions to recover the body, but without effect. After a considerable lapse of time the body was discovered under the timber, having been drawn there by the water. A shell was obtained from Mr. Nott, the undertaker, who caused the body to be conveyed to the vault of St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, to await a coroner's inquest. It has often been a matter of astonishment that some measures have not been adopted by the parties to whom the timber be longs to prevent the boys from playing on them. As many as 20 or 30 at times may be seen running about, while the weight of those on the timber causes the logs to open from each other, and by which means these fatal accidents occur. MURDER OF THE ITALIAN ORGAN-PLAYER AT RATH FARNHAM.—In investigation took place on Tuesday in the jury-room, Rathfarnham, relative to the above murder. An Italian organ-player, named Giovanni Vernasi, who was ar rested in Cork on suspicion of being concerned in the mur der, and brought up to Dublin under a warrant, was brought up in custody before the magistrates. It appeared that Ver nasi was the man who purchased the leather for the unfortu nate Garlibarbo to make the belt in which he used to carry his money. This coupled with the fact of his being absent from the company of Italians about the time of the murder, and not being heard of since until a few days ago, led to his arrest in Cork. A man named Enstace and other persons were examined, and stated that they had seen two Italians walking together on the Rathfarnham-road the day before the murder of the unfortunate man ; but none of them could identify the prisoner Vernasi as one of the party. Master Robert Whiteford deposed that he saw two Italians walking together on the evening of the murder, about half-past live o'clock, between Sir Robert Shaw's Gate and Rathfarnham ; he heard them speaking Italian ; thinks that Vernasi was one of the men, but could not swear he was. The magistrates were of opinion that there was no evidence to warrant them in detaining Vernasi in custody. He was accordingly dis charged. Two of the Italians, named Stillo end Fraco, who were arrested on suspicion at the time of the murder but were discharged, attended the investigatiou.—Dublin Paper. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—It may be interesting to our readers to state, on tke eve of the forthcoming generale election, the number of dissolutions of parliament which have occurred during the last 15 years. A dissolution took_ in December, 1826, in the reign of his late M i ves q ty ue G n e c o e rg o o f Fourth ; another occurred in July, 1830, ' the death of George Fourth ; a third. 831 dissolution consequence of on by Earl Grey's ministry in Ayr, bill. This dissolution the non-success of the newdlissh,lintioconnwsaes resolved i reform Parliament was again dis solved considered a coup a sohv o ed us a e t o t f h c e o c m lo m se o o n f s a 1 c 83 03 2 r , d for n g the toe purpose the pr v o i f s i having f first reformed parliament lasted tehleecd; elected the new reform act. h ? which Sir Robert Peel was the pre by the new ministry , havionlbeeen dissolved in December, 1831, about two years, mier. Sir Robert came it eers p t a o rllrl an en u t n e t x ii i n s e t l e y d e a n b d o , u u t 11 ; 1. 1 ocoyneasers and a half, w henltthelamented demise of his late Majesty William will thus be seen that the average duration of Voe t nrthce i o th f e six Parliaments which have been elected from e° lB ° 2 - 6 to o- 1837 inclusive was not more than about two years and four months (under two years and a half). The present Parliament, if dissolved, as is expected in a week or two will not have lasted four years ; it has sat during four sessions including the present one.