The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

BIRTHS, 'MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. NOTICE FURNISHED BY THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT FOR REGISTERING BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND HARRIAG!CS, IN ENGLAND. Ads required ill be done after the Ist day of March, 1837, in all • cases of - The father or mother of any child born after the first day of March, 1337, or the occupier* ofany house or tenement in which any stich birth shall happen, may give notice of such birth to the registrar of the district in which the:birth happens, within 42 days next after the day of such birth; and the father or mother, or (in case of their death ; -illness, absence, or inability) the occupier of the house or tenement. must, within the said 42 days, give inform diem to the registrar on being requested so to do, according t the best of his or her knowledge and belief of the following p.irticulars, namely : 'Lip day of-birth of the child,' - The name (if any is given). The sax. Tire name and surname of the father. The,name and maiden surname of the mother. The rank, profession, trade, or calling of the father. The person giving such information must also state and sign in•the register his or her name, description, and residence: and sinless this he done no register can begiven in evidence. No fee or payment can be lawfully required of the person so giving information respecting any birth; and the entry in the register, which the registrar will thereupon he obltged to make, being signed as afaresaid, will be evidence of such birth in any court of law or equity. Ni. birth vbe registered after 42 days from the time of such birth, unless the father or guardian of the child, or some person present at, the birth, make a solemn declaration of the foregoing particulars, according to the b es t o f hi s or h er k now l e d ge an d belief, and the registrar shall register the birth accordingly, in the presence of the superintendent registrar; and the perion re quiring the birth to be so registered shall pay to-the superin tendent registrar 2s. Gd , and (the iegistrar unless the - delay been - occasioned by' his default) ss. • •- Nn • person shall knowinglv cause any birth to-be registered otherwise than as hereinbefo;e nientioned after 42 days, under a penalty of 5W.; and po 'person shall knowingly cause any, bitth to he'regi4tered at-alt after six calendar mouths from the day of birth s(except in the case of children born at-sea) under the like penally. No register of births made after six calendar months from the day of birth (except in the case of chiidren born at sea) will be received as legal evidence in any court of law or equity. Acts required to be done after the lat day of March, 1837, in all cases of DEATH. Some I,,rson present at a death, or in attendance during the last or (In case of the inability of such person) the occu pier,* or (if the occupier be the person that has died) some inmate of the house or tenement in which a death shall hive happened, may, wiibin five days after the death, give notice thereof to the registrar of the district, and must within eight days give information to the said registrar, on being required to do so, according to the best of his or her knowledge or belief, of the following particulars, namely:— The day of death. The name and surname of the person who has died. The sex. The age. The rank, profession, trade, or calling. The cause of death. ;The person giving information must also state and sign in the register his or her name, description, and residence; and upless this be done, no / register can be given in evidence. No' fee or payment can be !awfully required of the person so giving information respecting any death; and the entry in the regis ter, which the registrar will thereupon be obliged to make, being signed as aforesaid, will be evidence of such death in any court of law or equity. - Every person who shall bury or perform any funeral or any religious service for the burial of any dead body, for which no certificate shall have been made and delivered either by the re gistrar or (iu case of inquest) by the coroner, and who shall not within seven days give notice thereof to the registrar, will forfeit ER/ And no certificate can. be given (except by the coroner when an inquest has bee td) unless the death has : been registered by the registrar of ist rict. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that perso s directed as above shall without delay give information respecting a death to the regis trar of the district within which the death has taken place, that he may register the same, anil thereupon deliver a certificate to the undertaker, or other person having charge of the funeral. Ca urioN.—Every person wilfully making or causing to be made any false statement touching ,any of the particulars re quired to: be known and registered for the purpose of such state ment being inserted in any register of birth, death, or marriage, will be subject to the same pains and penalties as if guilty of per ury. N.B. Persons failing to do that which is by an act of parlia ment enjnined are indictable for a misdemeanour, although no specific penalty is imposed by the act which they have so diso beyed. Acts required to be done by persons who may be desirous of so . le'mnizing MARRIAGE after the Ist day of March, 1&37. ' 1. Persons desirous of solemnizing marriage according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England may be so mar ried after publication of banns, or by licence, or by special licence as heretofore; or they may be married, (without pub lication of banns, or by licence, or by special license,) accord ing to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, on production of a certificate f-om the superintendent registrar of the district, to be obtained in the following manner, namely:— One of the parties intending marriage must give notice under his or her hand to the superintendent registrar of th e di s t r i c t, within which the parties shall have dwelt for not less than seven days then next preceding; or, if they dwell in different districts, they must . give the like notice to the superintendent registrar of each district. The notice must be in the form •of a schedule, which the superintendent registrar will furuish on being ap :Tiled to, and must be filled up with the following particulars:— The name and surname of each of the parties. Whether bachelor or widower, spinster or widow. Their respective rank, profession, or calling. Whether minors or of full a,,ee. Their respecti v e dwelling-places. Whether they have resided within the district .more than one calendar month, or if not, how long. In what church or building the marriage is to be solemnized. . The district and county in which the other party resides when they dwell in different districts. • • antorad he the% e ut registrar in ,a _book Called "the marriage notice-book will benpen at:all reasonable times, without fee, to all persons desirous of inspecting the same. ' The notice must be read by the superintendent registrar, or by the clerk to the guardians, at three weekly meetings of the guardians, or, if such' meetings are not held weekly, at any meeting of the guardians within twenty-one days from the (lay of the notice being entered in the marriage notice-book. And after the expiration of twenty-one days after the entry of the notice, if no impectiment has been shown, the superintendent registrar may be requiredjo issue a certificate. 2. Persons (except Quakers and Jews) desirous of solemniz ing marriage not according to the rights and ceremonies of the Church of England, may be married according to other rites and ceremonies, on production of a certificate obtained as above-mentioned, in a registered place of worship, provided that every such marriage shall be solemnized with open doors, be tween the hour's of eight and twelve o'clock in the forenoon, in the presence of some registrar of the district in which such re gistered building is situate, and of two or more credible wit nesses; provided also that in some part of the ceremony, and in the presence of such registrar and witnesses, each of the par ties shall declare as follows: " I do solemnly declare that I know not of any lawful impe diment why I. A. 8., may not be joined in inataintony to C. 1)." . And each of the parties shall say to the other, " I call upon these persons here present to witness that I, A. 8., do take thee, C. D., to be my lawful wedd e d [ w if e or husband]," Provitled also that there be no lawful itnpediment to the mar riage of such parties. - Persona may be married after seven days from the entry of the notice, if by licence, anti after twenty-one days without licence. A licence tiny be granted by the, superintendent registrar; but only for marriage in a registered building within his district, or in his office ; but before any license can be granted by him; tate of the parties intending marriage must appear personally before him, and in case he shall nut be the superintendent registrar to whom notice of such intended marriage was given, shall deliver to him the certificate of the superintendent registrar, or super intendent registrars, to whom such notice shall have been given ; and such party shall make oath, or shall make his or her solemn affirmation or declaration, instead of taking an oath, that he or she halieveth that there is not any impediment of kindred or alliance, or other lawful hindrance, to the said marriage, and that one of the said parties bath for the space of 15 days imme diately before the day of the grant of such licence, had his or her usual place of abode within the district within which such marriage is to be Solemnised, and, where either of the parties (nit being a widower or widow,) shall be under the age of 21 years, that the consent of the person or persons whose consent to such marriage is required by law, has been obtained hither to, or that there is no person has tug authority to give such con sent, as the case may be. 3. Pers , ins objecting to be married either according to the rites and ceremonies rd the Church of England, or in any , such registered building may, after notice and certificate as afore said, solemnise marriage at the office of the superintendent re gistrar, with open doors, between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon, in the presence of the superintendent registrar and some registrar of the district, and in the presence of two Witnesses, making the declaration, and using the form of words required in the case of marriage in a registered building. (bakers may c•intraet and solemnise marriage according to the usage of their society. provided both parties are of that so ciety,. and that notice,shall have been given tothe superinten alent registrar, and,a eertificate shall have been issued as befere- mentioned. Jews may likPwiso rout ract and solemnise marriage accord ing to the usages of the Jewish ,religion under similar provi sions. Every marriage of which notice has been entered as afore said, must be solemnised within three calendar months after such entry, or the notice must he removed. .Every marriage soleinnized after the Ist of March, 1837, un der the provi,ions of this act fur marriages in England, in auy other manner than as heretorire directed. will be null and void. . . Be it also particularly observed, that if any valid marriage •shall be had ander the provision's of the act for marriages in England, by means of any wilfully false notice, certificate, or declaration made by either ploy to such marriage, as. to any matter to. which a notice, certificate, or declaration is therein required, his Majesty's Attorney General or Solicitor General may sue for the forfeiture of all estate and interest in any pro perty accruing to the offending party by such marriage ; and .the proceedings and the consequences will be the same as are provided in the like case with regard to marriages by licence before the passing of these acts. • For the Purposes of this act the muter or keeper of evert- gaol, prison. or house of correction, or workhome, hospital, or lunatic asylum, or public or charitable institution, shall be deemed the occu pier thereof. DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS'.OR LIFE.—On Tuesday morn in;.: about half-past three o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in 'the house of Mr. Martin Bergani, tinman and brazier, Shoe oilker-row, Blackfriars, London, in which, we regret to state, I.lrs. Bergani perished. The fire was first perceived by the 'watchmen, who instantly sprung their rattles. and knocked and 'rung at the door to arouse the inmates, who appear to have :been buried in sleep Mr. Bergani had gone to bed, in the front attic with his two children, at about ten o'clock on the trevious night, leaving his•wife in the back parlour curling her fell aslee p She was never seen afterwards, and it is conjectured she - ha I 4*IZP, and by some accident caused the fire by which she ed by % u n ha p p ily been burnt to death. The first floor was occiipi gr,4,l ~,.:• 'King. bookbinder, who had with him a wife and a zna,ridli7:-11:01,tildinitlhltauit hwtear; impossible to had mounted up _. Et . r <3, au• to escape by the door, liiilv, in ail , - ,;,, t_ with his two children, and Mr. King and fa ”ct a keno a„in". persons, t0,,,t0 their escape by the trap-door. uia_k;mr, over the P of' ,, ot -Nos. 27 and 28, succeeded 40. ' err; hit,,ip_d„, r n a =r n ' d "'lm . an, of No. 29. hear them, who , . s _ #.; .„ do' ieyond what t r h e p t y7i;: f ,l Aitoperty of Mr. Bev: m ; 11:::: • f , o l u, ' They a with..sc a r c l t: 1 1 ) liir eit,:-Oties the destruction o f r h A ."%tdetely destroyed. en „.,„,..: ...,aLlty_-tif new amuua6- and othell;t7i:ilksfievieh:s,lcst a fel & i i........., i ce: 7 : C: 447:&. ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARRINGTON OPERA TIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. The operative conservatives of the good loyal town of War rington • assembled at the Market house, on Tuesday last, to celebrate The first anniversary of their association. The mem bers, amounting to about four hundred, sat down to a substan tial dinner, provided for the occ,sion by Mr. Kay, of the Nag's Head. The room was tastefully decorated with appro priate banners, and a temporary gallery was fitted up for the re ception of•the ladies, mauv of whom, the wives and daughters of the operatives, were present during the greater part of the evening. This association has been on foot only about twelve months, and was called into existence solely by the exertions of a few noble-minded operatives, in order to counteract the evil effects of radicalism, which was at that time beginning to rear its head in the town of Warrington. The society now numbers upwards of five hundred members The consternation in the radical camp, caused by this great accession of the opera tives to conservatism, showed itselfin scandalous placards which were plentifully distributed •throughout the public-houses, and posted on the walls of the town, previous to the meeting, charac terising the dinner then about to take place as a " tory feed," and other equally stale assertions, always in requisition by the radical faction throughout the country. Mr. Thomas Wilson, an operative, occupied the chair, and Mr. Henry Ibbotson, also an operative, was the vice-chair man. --Among the gentry present of Warrington, and the surround . - ing neighbourhood, were J. 1. Blackburne, Esq., M.P. for the borough, Mr. Parr, banker, Mr. Fitchett, Mr. Nicholson, C. Wilkins, Esq , barrister at law, Mr. Wagstaff, Mr. Garnett, Captain Clare, and the Rev. Mr. Baines, Mr. Todd, and Mr. -Jackson. After the cloth was removed, the Chairman gas/ "His Ma jesty, the Duke of Lancaster," which was received with immense applause, and drank with three times three. _ _ _ • 'The national' anthem was then sung by the professional gen tlen. u present. - "The Queen, the ornament of the throne." Three times three. Glee—" Hail smiling morn." "The Princess Victoria, and the other branches of the royal family, and may they never forget the principles which seated the House of Brunswick on the throne of these realms." Grlee—" Hail, star of Brunswick." " Our glorious constitution in church and state." Three times three. "The House of P aers as an independent branch of the legis lature, and may they ever prove themselves the friends of the people, by maintaining our glorious constitution." Four times four. Mr. MALLEY, an operative, rose to respond to the toast. He begged to assure them that it was with feelings of considerable embarrassment that be rose to address them, and more particu larly so when be saw around him so many individnals whose Tonkin Station andin life were so much superior to that of the humble individual who then stood before them. • He would claim theirattentiou for a few moments only, as the present state of, bis physical powers prevented any great exertion on his part. Yet, weak as he was, he was willing to spend and be spent in thellorious cause they were that day met to celebrate —the cause 'of cousertatism. However, he said, they might re gret the necessity for the formation of associations like the pre sent, there would be a still greater reason for regret if the evils which then threatened, and would certainly soon come upon the land,. were not averted by the powerful and organised means of defence with which such societies surrounded its threatened institutions. He contended that it was the duty of every man, who professed to have any respect for the glorious constitution under which' he lived, to come forward in support of that consti tution, now that it was assailed by the united forces of popery and infidelity, but which, notwithstanding, had stood for ages past, and would, under the blessing of God, yet stand—the ad miration of the world. The speaker aat down amid loud cheers. "The honourable and highly esteemed representative of the borough, John Ireland Blackburn, Esq." 'The announcement of the toast was received with loud cheers, which continued for several minutes. When the enthusiasm of the meeting had somewhat subsided, Mr. BLACKBURN rose to respond to the toast. He said it was the first time he had had an opportunity of meeting so large a body of his constituents since the last session of parliament. The flattering manner in which his health was proposed and received, gave him a confident hope that his conduct in parlia ment had met with their approbation. Song by Mr. Ibbotson,—" The fine old English gentleman." The CHAIRMAN next gave in a neat speech the bishop and clergy of the diocese. The Rev. Mr. BAINES, curate of the parish church, rose to return thanks. He said he felt considerable diffidence in re sponding to the toast which had just been drank in so enthu siastic a manner. He was convinced that the enthusiasm with which they had hailed the-announcement of the toast was not a mere ordinary compliment to the bishop and clergy in general, or to himself and brother-clergymen in particular. He felt convinced that the thoughts of those before him had at that time reverted in affection to that church of which they were the humble ministers, and which church had hitherto formed part and parcel of that - . glorious constitution under which they lived. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN then in a brief speech introduced the health of their respected guest, Charles Wilkins, Esq., and the con servative bar. This toast wag responded to with great enthusiasm. Mr. WILKINs rose amid deafening cheers. He began by stating that conflicting feelings in overwhelming torrents poured in upon his mind, and he feared that his self-contiol could not restrain them within those limits that rhetoricians had prescribed to the speaker. He felt that he durst not invite the scrutiny of criticism, and if he occupied much of their time it would be rather in compliance with their kind invitation than in obedience to his own judgment. The circumstances attending their invi tation, whilst they flattered his vantiy, afforded proud proof that in these troublesome and dangerous times his efforts for the pre servation of all that Englishmen should hold dear had nut been in vain. The compliment th it they had paid to his judgment should teach him humility from a consciousness of the responsibility which heaven had imposed upon him, and beget renewed exer tions iu the cause of good order and citizenship. There was anothei, to him, rich source of gratulation, that of being placed iu junta-position with a body of men pre-emduent for their pro found learning and high sense of honour. He would assert, with the pages of history lying before him, in the presence of the proudest monuments of Greece and :tome, that the British bar had produced more illustrious state.inen, more real philoso phers, purer philanthropists; and more exalted patriots than - uttfer rustlrtMon - In the world. Of course he confined not his attention 'to the bar of the present, day:- lie nen in MS mind's eye the sages of bygone days, the light of whose minds still shone on our statute books and volumes of records. (Hear.) When he spoke of lawyers he meant not men merely convei sant with the rules of process and the technicalities of detail. He re ferred to men who'by. deep study, never-ceasing inquiry, and the closest application, had made themselves acquainted with the requirements of society, and had framed laws to meet those re quirements—men who understood the philosophy of the law, whose minds were Caskets of imperishable principles. This was the man who in the largest sense of the word was the lawyer. Such men had always been in the true sense of the word Con servatives.--(Loud cheers.) At one, time braving the threats and temptations of royalty when exercising its 'prerogative for the oppression of the subject, at another loyally and strenuously enforcing the powers of the law in defence of the throne against the lawless attacks and unreasonable demands of the traitor.— ( Hear.) He was not ashamed to acknowledge that an acquaint ance with such minds had wrought in him a total change of po litical sentiments, and with truth he could declare that he never retired to the quietude of his chamber without lifting up his heart in gratitude to that Being who had spared his life to be convinced of error, and - had given him opportunity to - atone for it.—(Loud cheers.) He saw before him a motto of "king; lords, and commons. and no invasion."—(Loud cheers.) That motto was entwined around his heart, and he would say, as a lawyer, though a young one, with all the confidence that cer tainty could give him, that he who should dare to infringe upon the integrity of the constitution described by that motto, nay, even to remove one stone or ornament, violated the implied compact entered into with his constituents, broke the solemn oath taken on entering the senate, and was a traitor to his king. And, should he at any time obtain a seat in St. Stephen's, (and the thing was hot improbable,) if any man 'mould presume to attack any branch of the constitution, if be stood alone he would impeach him in the presence of his country.—(Loud cheers, during which the commencement of the next sentence was lost.) When silence was restored, Mr. Wilkins was heard to Say that the privileges of the peers were as intangible, inviolable, and sacred as the crown. The tights of the three estates of the , •inpire were co-equal, and to be effective must be co-existent.— (l 1 ear, hear.) The levlned gentleman sat down amid the most enthusiaitic cheers, which continued for several minutes. After the lap,e of a short time, Mr. Wilkins again rose, and in a very brief though highly complimentary speech, proposed the health of their worthy i:hai rman which was received with loud plaudits; , Mr. WILSON rose to return thanks for the honour conferred upon him. lle took occasion to give a concise history of the rise a nd progress of the society up to the present hour; from which it appeared that he (the chairman,) actuated by true eon servative principles, bad, on th e 10th Nov., 1833, a fter much apathylatiour or ritl unwillingness lit, Ilia had b een ren d ered weak from the of individual s t o come forward, suc ceeded in cidlecting twenty-nine members, and enrolling them as the 'Warrington Operative Conservative Asso c i a ti on . Si nce that time they had gradually increased , and now number e d a b ou t five hundred members. He conc l uded by pi oposing as a to a st, "The Lancashire witches." Glee—" Here's a health to all good lasses." "The army and navy" was next given, after which the CHAIR mAN gave the health of John Wilson Patten, Esq., and the ConServative members of the House of Commons. Mr. BLAcKBUI:Ng, M.P., in an eloquent speech return e d thanks - fee the .horiour con ferred upon himself and colleagues, and apologized for the absence of Mr;Patten, who had unavoid ably been prevented from attending at the celebration of their first anniversary bya sudden call to town. He begged to assure them, that, although absent, the heart of Mr , Patt en was with the.society. He concluded by proposing, es a toast, " Pros perity to the Warrington Operative Conservative Association, which was received with three times three. Mr. lethersoN, an operative, then rose and addressed the meet ing. The GH A I KSIA-N then gave, "Success to the Operative Con servative Associations throughout the Kingdom. . Mr. It. S., So wi.en, of Manchester, responded to . the toast. Mr. WILKINS here rose, and after observing that he was al ready a member of every conservative association throughout the county except two, presented the treasurer with his annual subscription, and was forthwith elected a member of the War rington Operative Conservative A ssoeiatinti. "The illustrious Duke of Wellington" was then given from the chair, and received with nine distinct rounds of the Kentish tire." Song—" We shall never see the like again." The VICE-PRESIDENT then gaVe '‘ The Donors and Sub scribers of the Warrington Operative Conservative •Associa tion." , -- Mr. WILIctNs, as one of the subscribers, rose to return thanks. _ . " The real reformer of the Age, Si: Robert Peel." Received with great applause. Mr. SowLEtt, in a complimentary speech, proposed the health of Mrs Blackhurne and family. ••-•••-• ••• —•-- Mr. BLACKBUItNE returned thanks, and regretted the absence of Mrs. Blarkburue and her daughter, who had purposed to have been present, but were prevented by the inclemency of the. weather. The CH lICMAN next gave "The Parent Conservative As sociation of South neasbire." - Captain CLaits. in — a very energetic and able speech. returned thanks. He concluds.d by proposing the health of the Conser vative members of the county. 11 r„ Ye ea. as a magi,trate, returned thanks. He took a cur sory review of the devices and stratagetns used by their oppUn ents to undermine the constitution. In Liverpool the Scriptures were expounded by n socinianized quaker , and the tight of rea son was about to be imparted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Mayor of Liverpool. The Conservative members of the county were then proposed. The CIiAIRMAN next proposed the health of the Earl of Eldon. Glee—" For he's a hearty good fellow." Several other toasts followed. and the meeting separated, as they had conducted themselves, it. a very orderly and satisfactory manner. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LIVERPOOL TOWN, COUNCIL. . GENTLEMEN,—In the letter which. I had the honour to ad. dress to you on the 18th instant, I said, " The Irish extracts are unfairly made," and I promised to address another letter it you, in proof of this assertion. I proceed now to redeem the pledge thus given ;—premising only, that a volume, rather that a letter, would be required, to exhibit anything, approaching to an adequate exposure of those books. A characteristic speci men of their unfliirness may, however., be compressed withis moderate limits. I shall endeavour to do - this. The subject is of the highest importance • because all the children who attend your schools, who can read at all, are com pelled to use the books in question; and it is a fact of which the Protestant community are not sufficiently aware, but of which they must be plainly informed, that the religious instructioa given in those schools cannot be impartial, because it is cot.- veyed through 'the medium of books which are unfairly con. piled. I observe, that in your debate of last Wednesday, 'the charge of unfairness advanced against the Irish lesson-books is not adverted to. It is, indeed, a serious charge, and demands explicit proofs. I now present you with some of them. We protest against the lesson-books printed by the Irish Board, and used in your schools : Ist, Because of the new translation of Scripture which they contain. 2d, Because of the notes which they contain. 3d, Because they elevate the Dimas , and Rhemish versions into a position of parallel authority with our authorised version. 4th, Because they inculcate Roman Catholic doctrines. First, we object to a new translation of Scripture by the Irish Board: The Commissioners of Education Inquiry, in 1824, recom mended the experiment of a lesson-book for national schools. A volume was accordingly prepared, which is to be found in the Appendix to- the ninth report' of the commissioners. 'The- Roman Catholic prelates, however, objected to this volume, the ground that it was taken verbatim from the Protestant ver sion of the New Testament. In Archbishop Murray's letter upon the subject, (Dec. 20,'1826, ninth report, p. 20,) he thus objects, " It purports to preient to children the inspired Word " ef God, and yet it differs from the lianslation which those children are taught to consider atith4fittif." This was consi dered a sufficient objection. The soitielHOVivas not as to the re spective merits of the tranSlationaltiiV4 - It was deemed un fair to unsettle the minds of childi j el l- tit presenting them with a new translation. • " With this fact before us, we turn fo the lessons now in use in your schools. No. 1 is a new translation of portions of Genesis, Interspersed with pOrtions of the Psalms, and of the New 'l'ess lament. The preface opens with these words f---" These les sons, as the name imports, are drawn from the sacred volume, and are almost - entirely in the language of Scripture, translated literally from the original." The extent of the novelty of this translation will appear from the fact, that in the first lesson, consisting of two pages and a half -of a small' book; there are ninety and nine variations from the authorised version. I have traced and reckoned the variations in those portions of Genesis down to chap. ix vi., which are introduced into the lessons, (just one half of the Lesson-book No. I,) and find thetii &naming to one thousand one hundred and two! I ant not now speaking of differences which involve doctrines, but merely of differences which stamp novelty upon the hook, thereby unsettling the'mind from all associations of reverence for the authorised version, and therefore to. ilt, snost unfit and unfair, to be forced into the hands of Protestant children. We adopt against this book the prime t facie objection which Dr. Murray urged against its pre decessor of 1824-5. It purports to present to children the inspired Word of God, and yet it difjers from the translation, which those children are taught to consider authentic. Let it be known, then, to the Protestants of this town, that in 'sending their children to your schools, they are sending them where they will be com pelled to lead, as'Scripture, a new translation. Are Protestants prepared to allow the authorised version of the Bible to be so tampered with ? The fact of a new translation being prepared, .and put into the hands of Piotestant children, is of itself an im putation against the old one. And the effect of references to varying manuscripts, readings, points, &c., can only be to create an impression that no certainty can be found in the Scriptures. This is precisely the consummation at which the Roman Catho lic church had always aimed, in her elevation of unwritten tra ditions into equal authority and reverence with written revela tion. That church assumes the existence upon earth of a living infallible tribunal. Protestants deny this, and allege that there is nothing infallible upon earth but the written Word of God. lf, therefore, the minds of men can be brought to make the in quiry with uncertainty, which Mr. Thos. Bolton is reported to have made in your Council-chamber,--" IVh a t i s t h e pure an d unadulterated Hord of God? That is the question. What are the Scriptures 4 "—if this state of mind, I repeat, can be pro duced iu the rising generation, the whole 'affair is settled; the foundation of truth is undermined ; and the result must be either utter scepticism as to revelation altogether, or unexamining prostration under the arrogant. claiins.of:Aomieltlinfallibility; It is, therefore, the most natural thlng imaginable.Ahat the Church of Rome,should rejoice over a new trawlation ; put into the hands of Protestant children. Those childken are compel led in your schools to read the new translation pi . the Word of God. They go home and find the authorised translation as ' the word of God. These two differ in hundreds' and thousands of places, the one from the other. What is, what must be, the re'. suit ? Is not Mr. Bolton's question actually: forced upon th e : children. "What is the, pure Word of God, what are the Scrip tures ?" Thus confidence in all iersions'of the Bible is shaken ;. no standard of certainty is left; we are bereaved of the testimo nies and commandments of God ; and thrown upon the doubt ful reasonings and corrupt traditions of men. If, in answer to this, it be argued that the Irish lessons are not intended to supersede the authorised version, and that it is so distinctly stated in the preface ; we reply, either this new translation of Genesis is an improvement upon the authorised version or it is not. If it be an improvement, why should it not supersede the other? Why should we sanction such a super stitious reverence for antiquity as to retain an old inferior version when we may adopt a new superior one ? If' the new one be indeed an improvement, let us have it by all means, and discard the old one. But if not, if improvement be not even aimed at, if it be not designed to supersede the old one, why make it at all .Is it made out of pure love of translating for translating sake, without improvement? Mr. Carlile says that " he was compelled by the exigency of the case to undertake the task."—Preface. In what that exigency consisted we are not informed; that Mr. Cariile sincerely felt himself so called upon we du not doubt; but the effect is not, on that account, the less disastrous. It is true that new translations of various passages of Scripture have been made by private individuals, but none a f t__ _ J - ' e th, ma.s, LAy. They remain, and are usefui, in the libraries of the learned. But - a new translation, forced by authority into the hands of the rising generation, cannot fail to contribute to the grand design of Romish Church to throw uncertainty over what is the Word of God ! It would have been a more impartial course in itself, and a thousand times less pernicious in its consequences, to have taken the lessons verbatim from the Douay version and the authorised version, alternately, than thus to have introduced a new version, fraught with fresh ele ments of uncertainty. Thus, on the simple ground of novelty in the translation, we utterly reject the lessons as unfair. if it be said they are equally unfair to the Romish and reformed churches, we answer no ; because, a leading object of the Romish church is, and ever has been, to produce uncertainty as to the written Word of God, while it has been equally a leading object of the reformed churches to dissipate all litich uncertainty. Why, let me ask, does not Dr. Murray object to this lessons book, as he did to the book prepared in 1824-5? The objection he urged against that, applies, in the letter of it, to this. "It purports to present to the children the inspired Word of God, and yet it differs from the translation, which those children an taught to consider authentic." Why, then, does he not object" to this, as he did to the former? The answer is, the former had no tendency to create or increase uncertainty, being in the words of the authorised version; but this has au obvious tendency to create and increase uncertainty, and therefore, although it differe from the translation which Roman- Catholics are taught to consider authentic, it is not objected to; but, oil the contrary, its circulation is zealously promoted by Dr. Murray. As to the comparative merits of the translations it is very moderate praise indeed of the forty-seven translators appointed by King James I to say that they were more competent than the members of the Irish Board. Those distinguished scholars were - divided into six companies. Ten were to meet at West- - minster, to translate front the Pentateuch to the end of the Sec ond Book of Kings. Eight, assembled at Cambridge, were to finish the rest of the historical books, and the Hagiographa. At Oxford. seven were to undertake the four greater Plophets, with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the twelve minor Prophets. The four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and Apocalypse, were assigned to another company of eight, also at Oxford. The Epistles were allotted to another company of seven, at West minster. Lastly, another company at Cambridge were to trans late the Apochryphal books. According to the regulations under which the work-was conducted, first, each individual translated EVERY book which was- allotted to his company; secondly, the readings to be adopted each book -were agreed upon by the whole of that company assembled together ; and thirdly, the book, thus prepared, was• sent to each of the other companies to be again examined. At these meetings one lead the translation, the rest holding in their hands some bible, eitherin the learned tongues, or in souse modern language, if they found fault, they spoke ; if not, he read on. The translation commenced in the I spring of 1607, and' the completion of it occupied nearly three years. It was first published at folio in 1611.—lierne's Introdue lion. vol. ii, p. 250-251, edit. v. With this history before us, we scarcely wonder at the eulo- giums which have been written in commendation (dour author ized version by scholars of all parties. In Mr. llot ne's truly valuable work, just referred to, you will find the testimonies Of Sehlen, Walton, Lowth, Horsley, Middleton, Dr. Geddes, Whittaker, Doddridge, Dr. John Taylor of Norwich, Dr. Jas. Beattie, Dr. Adam Clarke,! and Professor Stuart, of North America, all uniting in eloquent admiration of the accuracy, elegance, strength, learning, pathos, and sublimity of our un rivy.lted translation. It is no disparagement to Mr. Cathie or any membe r s l , r ,c is , h ,nd accoun t this translation rate, "'l . d to • .•••••.“..Z.J.• —oar, to say that we refuse to .. the an receive a new one at their hands as an im provement. n°. Sevi ~ then, that by the confession of the board themselves, is not intended,f • they d isclaim ' for . all intention of superseding in env degree the authorised version; and , seeing that novelty, w i t h out i inprovemenk,,ean only , he productive of unmixed mischief, we occupy thiaour first, firin ground of ob jection to the lesson-bo(tic. s n now, , ,wied in , your schools. We know. by evidence not to , Scripture is . and w :e t vtl-insaid. what the canon of in spiredsurnetimotsly . protest against any attempt to throw discredit or un certainty Upon it, by whomso ever such attempt may: be-, ma d e ' deceived or by men who aredecei'ver.so w h e ther byloth.men who ore. 2 . w e object to these. books, its the . Ilex ) ; 1 the NoTEs which they contain. Ile— ' Rotuma ' C a e. e.e t - f Church has never sanctioned the circulation of any yersion t 'o f lic he`nr tures in the native language, .tae ot peoPle; Without o n t r s, ' IP is notorious. On the contrary, theßible alone contains the fhis reli gion of Protestants We have nc it, forgotten the s.tit• animated Protestant Britain, when churchmen and dissente rs of all denominations proclaimed from like, th ou sand platfor ent :of bible societies, with the authorised - version in their' lan na d , ' " The Bible, the whole Bible, and NOTHING 11:T the Bibe." lands , — ' distinguishing characteristic of genuine Christianity j,, that it rests exclusively . on the Word of God, Without noteor corn merit. The distinguishing characteristic of Itotnanisit is, that i t h o lds notes and comments to he . iodispeuseible. 11pi,., again , the Irish lessons are unfa i r , because they reject the Pot es t an pr inciple, and adopt the Romish erautjue. They conhin mul titudes or notes and comments. Some of those notes ire ver batim from the Romish Bible, and inculcatti.inusl olnoxious Romish doctrine; and yet in your schools the'. P . Lielts cottaining such notes are , fumed into the hands of Protestant children, and they are compelled to read them, and to be exani n ed i n them. het the Pr otestants of Liverpool:hear and knot this. One of the notes in question is this, on' the celebrabd pro phecy in the third chap ter of Genesis : " It shall el - 4h, Eye., ipsa, she, the woman ;, so divers of the fathers read His place conformably to the Latin; others read it ipsum, viz. Ise seed. The sense is the same ; for it is by her seed Jesus Chist, that the woman crushes the serpent's head."—Note to nu Douay version on Genesis iii. 15. This note states what is not lie fact. Of the two readings, it says, the sense is the Same. The^ fact is. the sense is not the same . The one statement is, pra, the VVOILUU, crushes the serpent's bead by her seed: the ,theris, ipsum, the seed, crushes the setpent's head. In the me case the woman is the agent, and her seed an instrument; in the' -other, the seed of the woman is the agent. NOw, as thewoman, and the seed of the woman, are not the same person, the sense of , the two statements is not, and cannot be, the same sense. On the - contrary, the one is Protestant, that is Scriptural, doc trine; and the other is Roman Catholic; that is unscriptural, doctrine. Commenting in defence of this note, Mr. Blackburn says, "'That the woman bruised the serpent's head by her own power or agency, is not the doctrine-of the Roman Catholic Church. That glorious work, they, in common with Protestants, ascribe to the Lord Jesus Christ." How far Mr. Blackburn is, in this instance, acquainted with the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, will appear from the following facts. First, in the return made to the House of Commons, August 17, 1833, of the books to be used by . Roman Catholics in the hours of separate religious instructiou, with the sanction and approbation of the board, we find " Reeves's history of the Old and New Testaments." Secondly, in this book, so sanctioned and used at one period of the day, by children, who at another period of the day, read the lessons, this pas sage occurs, " Mary was the woman destined by Almighty " God to crush the serpent's head, as it is written in the " book of Genesis, (chap. iii,) and it was to obtain her consent " that God then sent his angel to Nazareth." Here, the crush ing of the serpent's bead is ascribed to tile woman, without any mention of her seed. This passage in Reeves's hook, gave prise to a curious examination of Dr. Murray, by the commis sioners. Reeves is a Roman Catholic expositor. His book is adopted for instruction in Roman Catholic doctrine. Misstate ments of doctrine are sanctioned by the Roman Catholic mem bers of the national board, including Archbishop Murray. But Mr. Blackburn assures us, that what Reeves states to be the doctrine of the Roman Catholic church, is not the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. Is not this in effect, however undesigned, to misrepresent the Roman Catholic Church ? Gentlemen, I have been accused of misrepresenting that church. I have already asked when and where? And now I will say, that it any person will have the kindness to point out to me, in any of my writings, such a palpable misre-presentation of Roman Catholic doctrine as the above, I will publicly retract it, and express my sincere thanks to the friend who shall haVe pointed it out. In the lesson-book professing to contain St.. Luke, the follow ing mite occurs at - page 3 : '"Beeause thou has'not believed, 4-c. , Zacharias might no: be blameable' in doubting,- for what saw might hare been an illusion; bat he should have waited the event, which ; would have decided. Craving, however, ass immediate sign, he received one whiCh was also a rebulde,'!':' ; The. Scripture says. that Zacharias received his rebuke,: not because he did not suspend his belierand reinain in doubt until the prediction was verified by the event, but because he did not steadfastly believe it as soon as it was foretold. The angel does not say, "Because thou wilt not wait the event:" but, "because thou halt not believed." Yet the commissioners pronounce that "Zacharias might not be blameable in doubting !" This note, then, contradicts the Bible, and teaches the harmless ness of sceptcism respecting a divine revelation.—Christian Evaminer. In lesson exiii, seven notes are given respecting the fall of Peter. The last of them is in these words :—" Peter's repent ance was immediate, sincere, and lasting, and he was in conse quence received into favour again, and continued, till his death, a faithful. and undaunted champion in his blessed Master's cause." _ _ _ Here the commissioners, in their anxiety to exalt St. Peter in the minds of the children, and to wipe away the stain from his character, appear to have forgotten that on a subsequent occasion he again showed that he was not undaunted, but, " fear iog them of the circumcision," was guilty of " dissimulation ;" for which St. Paul deemed it necessary not only to censure him, severely and openly, before all who were then present at Antioch, but subsequently to record this censure in his Epistle to the Ga latians. On Acts xv, 7, this note occurs : " Peter here states the origin of the whole dispute and discussion !" The commissioners say not a word to call attention to the marked tone of authority in which St. James, the bishop of the infant church, and the presi dent of the assembly, gave his decision. But endeavour rather to fix observation on the part which Peter took in the debate, as if he were the principal person in the council, and opened the business, although, in fact, he did not speak until after "there had been much discussion." The argument for the suprsmacy of Peter, which is deduced in the note on this passage in the Rheims Testament was too glaring a falsification of the history to he transplanted in full blossom into the pages of the Scripture lessons. The seed of it, however, is sown ; and lest it should fail to produce the expected fruit, it is watered by means of a question at the end of the les son, in these words: " Who first addressed the assembly ?" It would be difficult for the children to answer this correctly, as the inspired writer has not informed us who they were that took part in the discussion before Peter spoke ; but it is evident that the commissioners had the old Rhemish note iu their eye when they constructed the answer to this question. It is as follows : "St Peter, as the head of the church, speaketh first, as his suc cessors have ever had: not only in their personal presence, but in their absence, by their legates and substitutes the chief voice in all councils general, none ever being received into authority and credit in the church without their cor!firmation." And in Reeves's History, and Gahan's abridgment of it, both which works are sanctioned for the use of the Raman Ca tholics in the National Schools, it is directly asserted, that " St. Peter, asynesident over all the rest, opened the subjects of de bate."—Christian Examiner. Such instances might be multiplied, as you may see by re ference to two valuable treatises, the perusal of which I would strongly recommend. One is entitled Ast EXAMINATION OF 'THE SCRIPTURE LESSONS, &c., by Henry Newland, D.D., Vicar of Ferns. The other is a reprint from the Christian Ex aminer, entitled A REVIEW OF THE SCRIPTURE LESSONS, &c., with an Appendix. Again, then, 1 would ask, are books, containing such notes, to be forced into the hands of Protestant children ? This is a question loudly claiming the attention of the Protestants of Li verpool. Will they sanction schools during whose authoritative hours of instruction, these books must be read, and the authoris ed version of the'Bible must not be read? Will they be satisfied, in the face of all this, with the plea, that for one hour, and that 'the last arid must wearisome hour, an hour, moreover, subse quent to the time at which the resolution of the Council says the schools shall be considered closed,—that the Bible during this 1 one hour may be read, that is, it is not prohibited, provided the children remain, and some person, not employed by the Coun cil, should choose to come and read it to them ? The resolu tion of the Council (and we are hound to take you at your printed words, not at what may be your private intentions) is this—" That the schools shall be considered as closed at three o'clock in the winter, and four o'clock in the summer." _:,..,, 5....5s s spa , days ago, I went a va4l. nut of my way to visit the north school, in company with my reverend friend Mr. Lyons, about a quarter-past three o'clock. I asked the master if the boys we saw sitting in the lower room were all the boys of the school ?• He replied, " All the catholic boys." I asked, "Where are the Protestant boys ?" lie answered, "Gone into the Committee-room." 1 asked, " What are these boys now engaged at ?" lie answered, " Nothing, sir ; lam keep ing them till the priest comes." We went up stairs, where we found the Protestant children, both boys and girls, in one corner of the room, and two ladies teaching them the Church Collect for the following Sunday. The remainder of the room was oc cupied by classes of girls saving the Douay Catechism. After some time we returned to the boys' room, and found them still unoccupied, no priest or other teacher having come. Mr. Lyons asked the master if he ever read the Bible with the boys? and he said, " No, never." I did not ask him by what authority he kept them after three o'clock, because I did not wish to excite any feelings of dissatisfaction in his mind ; but I now respect fully ask you, gentlemen, by what authority the master, as in the case above stated, keeps the boys in the school after Ithree o'clock ? Is it by . his owu authority, in opposition to your printed resolution ; or is it by the authority of unpublished instructions from you ? According to your own published rules, the schools are con sidered as closed at three o'clock in winter. Till three o'clock the Bible is not, and must not be read. After three o'clock it may or not be read, according to circumstances. if clergymen ten he found willing to go, then the Bible, after three o clock, may be. read. But if the system be such, in other respects, as to deprive clergymen, on conscientious grounds, of the power of availing themselves of the one hour, then, as far as they are concerned, the Bible cannot be read at all. This is precisely our position. The sYstem excludes the Bible, except for one hour. We cannot, lay attending during that hour, give our sanction to this system; so that, as far as we are concerned, the system excludes the Bible altogether. 1 need not enlarge upon our reasons for not being able to sanction this system. We can sanction no system of education which does not enforce the reading of the Word of God. We do not desire or attempt to - enforce attendance. Attendance is optional : but upon all who choose to attend, we do and must enforce the reading of the Bible. You were told on Wednesday, by one of your own body, that to enforce the reading of the Bible was " not Protestantism, but persecution." We do not think so. We think it sound Protestantism, because it is obedience to the Bible itself, which commands us to bring up children in the nurture and admonition of THE LORD. But we think the, hrase is legitimately transferable to books, which are not the Word of God, which are not extracts from any known translation, but a new translation without authority; and which contain notes by men, notes of at least doubtful in terpretation. To enforce the reading of these books, as is the practice in your schools, is indeed " not Protestantism, but per secution." I have thus, under the heads of translation and notes, given you some of our strong objections to these books. There re inain other sources of objection, but instead of swelling this letter to an inconvenient size, I will reserve them for another. Meantime, I am anxious to offer an observation or two upon a statement made in your debate of last Wednesday. Mr. Black burn is reported to have said concerning my letter to you, "This " letter concluded in a style of denunciation. It must convince " every gentleman who sat in that council, that the divine judg '" Merits were not at the disposal of the writer of it. He sup " posed, if they were, he for one, and all who sat in thercouncil " who dared to thinki differently, would fall under the writer's " ban." These words may not be quite correctly given; but to the substance of this statement, or rather to the state of mind Which appears to have dictated it, I reply, that my letter con cludes with an earn est p ra y er, for the ur g enc y of which a so lemn reason is assigned in the very words of Scripture. I have never either expressed or e ntert a ined a thought of evil towards 1\ 1 r. Blackburn, or any other member of your honourable coun cil. If it were in my power to do any of you any real service, I would cordially rejoice in the opportunity. If I have at any time written or spoken anything, beyond what the interests of truth required, calculated to wound any of your feelings, I beg ter assure you, gentlemen, that I am sorry - for it; that nothing could be more remote from my intention ; and that if I knew wherein I hale offended you, I would gladly apologise fur it. The subject is of mach too high a character, and the interests at stake vastly too important, to admit of anything approaching to personalities.-1 have the honour to be, Gentlemen, with much respect, your obedient seivaut, SI. Jude's, Noe. 28, 1836. HUGH AVNEILE. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning last, John Osborn, one of the porters at the railway station in Lime-street, in running across the rails whe❑ the train was issuing from the tunnel, Caine in contact with the buffer of a carriage lorry, which threw him down, and the lorry and three of the carriages passed over him. He was alive on being taken up, but expired almost immediately. DINNER TO Silt ROBERT PEEL—We understand that large order, for tickets to the banquet to be given here to Sir Robert Peel, are pouring in from all the surrounding towns and dis tricts, as well as from Perthshire, Ayrshire. E'dinburghshire, &c.—ln the first place, as had been agreed upon, tickets for the requisitionists: here, ionounting to" 1200, will be laid aside ; and, to secure against mistake regarding this point, all their names and addresses, arranged in alphabetical order, were copied from the scroll previous to its being conveyed to Tamworth.—The situation. selected for the entertainment, in rear of Mr. Gor don's mansion in Buchanan street, we believe is capable of containing a much larger assembly than has vet been announced; but with eves y wish on the part of the directors to accommodate the greatest possible number, that number must be limited, as it is well known, were the company so large as to prevent them from hearing the speakers, dissatisfaction and disappointment must be the consequence.--4t is possible we may be eased of part. of the rush of company from the east, as we observe, with pleasure. by the Edinburgh papers of Saturday, that a requisi tion to Sit Robert to accept of a public dinner in "the metropolis Of Scotland," has also been got up. —We shall, however, have the first of the right honourable gentleman at all events. — Herald. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1836. We have ben favoured with New York papers up to the Bth ult. The contents are particularly interesting ; but we regret that our limits will not admit of any ex tended extracts this day. We are happy to inform our readers that we have made arrangements for obtaining a regular supply of papers from that city, and shall in future be enabled to present them with the earliest in formation on the affairs of the United States. The most recent arrivals announce that the elections are proceed ing with great vigour. The friends of Van Buren seem confident of success. We transcribe the following:— TIIEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. WOOD, And positirely their last appearance this Season. Last Night of Mr. BROUGH. THIS present FRIDAY, the 2d instant, will b e p er formed the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Hawthorn. Mr. Wood. Eustace....(on this occasion)....Mr. Brough. Young Meadows.. Mr. G Horncastle. I Hodge Mr. Baker. Deborah Woodcock Mrs. Clarke. Lucinda.... Miss Stanley. Madge.... Miss Chaplin. Rosetta Mrs. Wood. To conclude with Auher's Grand Opera of MASA N I ELLO. Masaniello Mr. Wood. I Pietro Mr. Brough. Don Alphonso Mr. G. Horncastle. Fenella..(the Dumb Girl)..Mrs. Baker. Elvira Mrs. Wood. On MONDAY next, for the Benefit of Miss FAUCIT, will be performed Mr. Knowles' celebrated Tragedy of VIR GIN I US. Virginius, Mr. Stuart; Icilius, Mr. W. Howard; Titus, Mr. Baker; Virginia, Miss Faucit; Servia, Mrs. Stan ley.—To conclude with (for the second time these six years) the splendid Eastern Drama of ALADDIN ; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP Aladdin, Miss Chaplin; Abena zack, Mr. W. Howard; Kazrac, Mr. J. Ridgway; First Citi zen, Mr. Baker; Second Citizen, Mr. G. Horncastle; Princess Bedroulbadour, Miss Stanley; Zobyad, Mrs. Baker; Mustapha, (Aladdin's Mother,) Mrs. Clarke. THEATRE-ROYAL R. ANDREWS - most • respectfully announces to his in. Friends and the Public, that his TWENTY-SEVENTH APPEAL for their kind support on his Benefit Night takes place On TUESDAY next, December 6, When will be performed the celebrated Comedy of the PROVOKED HUSBAND. To conclude with A GRAND MELO-DRAMATIC. SPECTACLE. By the special kind permission of H. Philips, Esq., the cele brated Duet of "OLD ACQUAINTANCE," as sung by Messrs. Braham and Philips, with tumultuous ap plause during the Liverpool and Manchester Festivals, will be introduced by Messrs. G. Horncastle an&Andrews. By particular desire of several old Fri e nds„".o t . o KING COLE, I : in character. - - - • • -*- .• Tickets to be had of Mr. ANDREWS, 10 , Commutation-row, and the usual places. 'I'IIEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. & MRS. W. H. BLAND. (AN WEDNESDAY next, the 7th instant, will be.performed k. 7 the Opera, not aetedthis seasontealled HENRI QUATRE; OH, PARIS IN THE OLDEN TIME. Henri Quatre Mr. Stufirt. Eugene de Biron Mr. W. Howard. Frederick St. Leon Mr. W. H. Bland. Jocrisse Mr. Baker. I Gervaise..Mr. G. Horneastle. Moustache Louison Mrs. W. H. Bland. In the course of the Evening Mrs. W. H. Bland will sing " Meet me in the Willow Glen," "Fear ne'er assail me!" "The Mocking Bird," and " Pity and Protect the Slave." Mr. J. Ridway will (by particulardesire) present, for the first time in Liverpool. his CLASSICAL SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT STATUES, As performad by him in the pinciple Theatres in England. To conclude with the Musical Drama of THE SLAVE. Colonel Lindenburg Gambia Mr. Stuart. I Sam Sharpset ....Mr. Slaiter. Miss Von Frimp....Mrs. Clarke. Zelinda Mrs. W. H. Bland. Tickets to be had of Mr. W. H. BLAND, 21, Islington, and of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office of the Theatre, where places may be taken from Ten till Three. LIVER THEATRE. ri \HIS EVENING (FRIDAY) the 2d instant, a brilliant display of MAGIC HIDDEN MYSTERIES and VENTRILOQUISM. FIVE SPLENDID REPRESENTATIONS NEXT WEEK, Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, 'Thursday, and Friday. the sth, 6th, 7th, Bth, and 9th instant, on which occasion Mr. SUTTON will exceed his former efforts to please the crowded and delighted audience which has nightly honoured him. The magic feast of next week will be of the first order. Among the experiments are—Mephistophiles, the Bottle Imp; the Casket of Trophias, or Who's in Love ? Plutus Postmaster; the Shower of Sweets, Fairy 'Tribute; Enchanted Fruit; Magic Flight; Incompatibles; Oberon's Refectory; the En chanted Watches, &c. Each Representation which Mr. Sutton will have the honour of offering to the public will be diversified by a great many novelties. Doors open at Seven o'clock, Curtain rises at half-past Seven precisely. Boxes 28., Pit Is., Gallery 6d; no Half-price. Children, accompanied by their Parents or Guardians, ad mitted to the Boxes at Half-price. Tickets and places to be had of Mr. Fogg, daily, from Eleven to Three o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received the following publications, which shall be noticed in our next number;—Blackwood, Fiaser, and the 12th Number of the New Statistical Account of Scotland. The " Examination of Mr. Blackburn's Defence" has been received. We shall avail ourselves of the author's courtesy, and publish some extracts in our next. We have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. T. J. Ouseley's volume of Poems. We shall present the public with some of its choice gems in our future numbers. Mit Eiberpool *tanbarti, IMPJRTANT FROM MEXICO. The following letter was received from the Merchants' Ex change Bulletin Board, New Orleans : " VERA CRUZ, OCT. 1. •' General Bravo has been appointed to the command of the army destined for the north, said to be from. 18,000 to 20,000 strong. A detachment of 4,000, ender the command of General Garay, was to have left Mexico for the same destination on the 16th ult., but the troops refused to march, on the ground of not having received their pay. Within a few days past the govern ment has raised a loan of 800,000 dollars, which will enable it to put their warriors ou the march for Texas. " A brig of war, built at Baltimore for the Mexican govern ment, had arrived at Vera Cruz. She is intended to mount 11 18-pounders, with grenades, and to be commanded by Captain Wise, who will take charge of the fleet said to be undergoing repairs at Campeachy. " The ex-President, Bustamente, who was some years since subjected to banishment from this country, has been invited to return. He is expected from France daily, and will probably be appointed to the Presidency in place of the present ►ncum bent." We have been favoured with files of Sydney papers to the date of July 25th. The Sydney Herald of that date contains the following pungent remarks on the colonial policy of the present 'government. Our readers will perceive that the same observations will literally apply to the mode in which the Whigs exercise their patronage " at home" : " Tii6 'SUPPLEMENTARY' ESTIMATES.—The principle of the present home government seems to be, to amuse the British public with a show of reforming alleged abuses in the state, while they seize with rapacious hands the rich plunder which some of the colonial revenues afford. In proportion as the ve nal propensities of whigs are checked by the people of England, so are the tugs made at the purses of the colonists, to provide place and emoluments for the miserable hangers•ou of that po litical body. This corrupt system, which we believe to have existence in every British colony, wherein Whig influence prevails, is most strikingly manifested in the supplementary estimates of the charges on the treasury for the present year, which we have now before us. The account, we do not hesitate to say, embraces items which clearly exhibit the most reckless disregard for the opinions of the most respectable colonists, who are thus plandeted for the maintenance of the political princi ples, which some of these estimates unfold, and to which we purpose calling the attention of our readers, though not in the order in which they appear upon the printed statement." N Nothing rende rs a man more d esp i ca bl e t h an d upl i c i ty —it is a. complex vice, 'including in itself lying, fraud, selfishness, and hypocrisy—it destroys all that confidence which gives stability to human compact—it is a moral leprosy which separates men from the society of the vir tuous —even truth itself becomes suspected when found the companion of equivocation—and charity, which " thinketh no evil," distrusts the good offices of "such an one"—if its beginning be prosperous, its end is con temptible—in fine, if it be not the compound of every other crime, it contains the elements of them. But, odious and detestable as is this vice, it is not a stranger in the world, though it finds chief fellowship with public men; if somewhat shy, and susceptible of shame, in the humbler walks of social life, she wears a brazen vizor, and talks flippantly, and sometimes raves, when detected and exposed to scorn and contempt in the senate—pointed at by the finger of truth. We have seen men, and we blush to think we are of the same species with them, to day advocating measures with all the earnestness of a convinced judgment, and all the importunity of disinte rested zeal, who, in the brief space of a month, will op pose and deprecate the very same measures with as re solute a determination, and apparently deep feeling, as if they had come to the discussion with minds confirmed by years of preparation—and in both cases, if opposed in their career, or questioned as to consistency, they will add imprecations to arg uments —deliberately lie in the face of public records and moral evidence ; and, if in dauger of exposure, skulk under the cloak o f any pa l try evasion, the last subtertne of this vice, though much too DEC. 2, 1836. narrow to conceal diens—contrition and amendment are neither felt nor purposed—.such men would be a nuisance in private life, which the laws and discipline of society would soon abate ; but, to the infamy of our pubiic coun cils, and especially under our present administration, it may be told, that the men who can act best the Proteus of the day, practice duplicity with the hest semblance of virtue, is the man highest in esteem, most in requisition, and who best promotes his temporal interest. After such a portraiture of a detested vice, it might be supposed that we.should single out the wretch to whom it is faithful in every lineament, and hang him up as an ob ject of universal detestation. We, one day, may perform that painful duty, and when we take the pencil for the purpose, we shall not lay it down till we have finished a group of the same feather. At present our design is to expose the gross, tangible, inconsistency of those who profess, and call themselves, and are, by a deluded peo ple, believed to be, the friends and advocates of unhappY Ireland. Such an exposure may serve, in the approach ing session of Parliament, to moderate the course o f un principled policy intended to be pursued towards that unfortunate country. When the Irish municipal reform bill was under ,dis cussion in the House of Commons, it was contended by Mr. O'Connell, and the ministerial carcass of which is, virtually, both the head and tail, that precisely the same plan ought to be granted to Ireland that has been adopted in England-that there was an exact parity Of circumstances between the two countries demanding it, and an exactly similar constitutional right which claimed it—that Ireland asked, and could not justly be refused, a uniforinity of legislation for the whole kingdom—to make one provision for England, and another provision for Ireland, was, they said, to create invidious compari sons, and to be guilty of partial distinctions—it was to treat her as a vassal, not as a subject. We had granted her but half emancipation, whilst she stood not on• the same level with us who made her free ; and' was not, in every respect, regarded in the British senate as a British subject. This was the language heard from the "centum ora," the hundred months of the hydra-headed mo nster of Irish reform—a brainless head head like that dis sected by Addison, where the vessels that produce blush• ing could not be found—a head that has no communica tion with a sound heart—between which and the con science all the channels are obstructed—a little month, and the waters of oblivion had washed away, at least for a convenient moment, all remembrance of this flowery Oratory. Ireland, that had raised herself on tip-toe, in order that she might shoulder England as her equal po litical and civil sister, and caught the cry of corruption , and asked the blessings of reform, now bends the knee-- piteously whines out her inferiority—renounces through her ministerial organs all thought of equality—declares that she is centuries behind us in civilization and the arts of life—in wealth, and as an object of legislation ;—yes , Ireland, in which Mr. O'Connell asks for " justice," and by " justice" tells us he means equality of legisla tion. This high-priest of duplicity, in the golden clouds of incense that rise from the altar of his sacrificed coun try, loses sight of equality of legislation, and tells us► what almost enrages patience to hear, that the poor, the starving, naked poor, the victims of his political selfish ness, cannot be provided for, by laws similar to those that provide for the poor in England. Away, then, with the principle of uniform legislation—tire frothy argument evaporates that proclaims the policy and right of Ireland to be identical with that of England, and that the same provisions which advance the interests of one will equally advance that of the other. We do not now discuss either the question of the Irish municipal reform, or the expe diency of introducing our poor laws into that country- - with those questions we now have nothing to d o —vie have accomplished what we designed, when we prove► out of the mouth of our adversaries, that there is no jus tice in the position, that in all cases for Ireland and England the same system of legislation is eligible► though we may hope, that this exhibition of political tur pitude may also not be without its use. Henceforward, then, never let us hear, when an Irish question is under the consideration of Parliament, that this or that policy is right as regards Ireland, because it has been adopted in England. No I—we have, "ex con fesso," the admission of the leader of agitation, an ac knowledgment, that every question must rest upon its own merits. Poor laws for Ireland is an Irish question, so says Mr. O'Connell—poor laws for England is an English question, so says Mr. O'Connell. Sri - we say, adopting his own principles, municipal reform for Irish corporations is an Irish question—municipal reform for English corporations is an English question. Let these things, therefore, never again be confounded, and much error and sophistry, confusion and injustice, will be avoid ed in the discussion of Irish measures. But will Mr. O'Connell—will his ministerial colleagues—be governed by this conclusion. No, not an instant. 'Whenever it shall favour their designs, Ireland will be made to claim the protection of the very same laws as those admini stered in England; and when it shall favour their designs she will demand laws peculiar for herself. We have, however, done our duty in exposing the inconsistency► the gross duplicity, of this party in the state; and we hope, and trust, our labours will not be wholly useless when reform shall again sound the trumpet for the battle of innovation. One further premonitory caution We would add, as a security against this illegitimate species of reasoning. The same faction which to-day will quote England as a precedent for Ireland, will to-morrow q uote Ireland ass a precedent for England.' They justify the claims of Ireland to an EngliSh municipal reform they Will, if they succeed in destroying, or mutilating the es tablished church in Ireland, justify the same course in England, and plead Ireland as an example. W e w arn our constitutional friends to keep alive to this most dan gerous, because most specious of all sophisms—it has already made dreadful havoc in the laws and institution s of this country. Parliamentary reform became a prece dent for municipal reform, and both are pleaded as pre cedents for church reform ; and thus onward will it pro ceed, in endless progression, uniting objects that have no connexion with each other. But we shall not suffer our readers to slumber whilst the wolf is prowling round the fold. If a man clenches his fist, and stands in a menacing attitude before another, though he strike no blow the laws consider him as a violator of the peace; and if a man ask for charity, and present to you that compound of wood and iron, called a pistol, though he do no vio lence, and threaten none, he is considered as guilty of robbery, and would, in a criminal court, be visited with the "punishment assigned to that offence. Is it not a subtle piece of political casuistry, that shall distinguish between these cases of civil delinquency, and the ap pointment of an armed flt et to the ports and rivers of a country, with which we are not at war ?—is not a hostile intent presumable in this instance as well as in the others, from the awe inspired by the appearance of pre meditated force ? " What mean ye here, riding o ut an Atlantic winter," might a Portuguese say to our British Admiral in the Tagus, " if you are a non interfering nation ?" What answer could be given by the inc°e" sistent ministry from whom our Admiral has received his appointment ? Will they have the barefaced impudence to say, that they have no other object, no other motive' than the protection of British property But whatever may be the assigned motive, this formidable array evinced its purpose, when civil rebellion threatened t o revolutionize Portugal —at the request, or command, we care not which, of the Queen, our fleet disembarked its forces, whose presence checked the career of insurrec tion, and restored the agitated, and precipitately flying Regent to h er th rone. I s t hi s non- i nter f erence ?_w ere there a tribunal before which our ministers could be summoned, and put upon their trial, would there he et t . y chance of th e i r acqu i t t a l ? B u t w hy do we call pu b " attention to these facts? We reply, for no other than to exp o se here, as we have done in our l eading article, the uniform duplicity of our present administra tion—without principle to guide, or firmness to act, they temporize, till they lose all respect in the eyes o f their own country, and of the world—if interference be ex pedient, let them show decision—it non-interference be their policy, let them not menace — wag no t shall )11°r show your teeth, .if you mean mot to bite--but not reason, hi la ti I i ti