The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

EN DO-WIG Eft )NESDAY AFTERI:OuN, 1; - ,* the improvement which has the Queen Dowager, the inquiries d gentry of the neighbourhood, for miles very numerous, and the anxiety of the inha- has passed another favourable night, and as er is past. it is now the decided opinion sty will be. ultimately, restored to , her maje iatural that so intense an interest should be nation at large as to the health and probable Queen Dowager, when the unbounded cha ajesty are taken into consideration ; for it is .t, in addition to the many chaiituble institu- majesty is an annual subscriber, nearly g iven by that amiable and revered example ) promote the erection of churches, the educa poor at national schools, in different parts of the 1 the relief of distressed families. Her majesty's nevolence and exemplary piety have consequently .dmiration of a moral and loyal people, and every attaches to her name carries with it an interest hearth of the humblest peasant. to nothing has transpired from whteh the public I formad of the actual duration and state of the ager's health beyond the daily statements issued icians in attendance on her Majesty. 1 learn m her Majesty's return from Sudbury church on [7th ult., that she first complained of inclispo was so slight at the time as not to create any he succeeding Friday her Majesty was consi and on the Sunday evening was obliged to take ber. Since then her Majesty's disease had most serious aspect, and necessarily created alarm to the immediate attendants on that trsonage. Until Saturday last, it cannot be rious apprehensions were entertained by all ected with the royal household. -oyal patient having taken her prescribed diet with a better appetite than has been usual during . - :ssing illness, it was fully anticipated that an ig account, containing at least a decided notice of ty's progressive improvement, would be issued by physician in attendance. These sanguine hopes were, ever, not to be realized, for it is apparent from the Ain snbjoined, there still exists some danger, and owing s ambiguous wording, 1 regret to say it does not relieve public anxiety by announcing any improvement to have taken place in her Majesty's health. strious pe was issued shortly atter eleven. The Queen Dowager slept several hours during the night, her Majssty's cough and other symptoms remain the I, Nov. 17, 18 11 DAVID DAVIES, M.D y Baron Gcrsdurff, the Saxon minister, as four o'clock this morning, from town, had an audience of the Earl Howe. Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, Majesty, to whom a messenger had been >rt time back, was expected to arrive in town lay) from Germany, and it is said the visit )rff had reference to the expected arrival of ,aness here. gratifying communication was received from nt of the Morning Herald, in forwarding the e the above authorised bulletin was issued, I am say, and that upon the best authority, that no serious apprehensions are entertained of a relapse, and that is strength ened by the departure of Dr. Chambers, who left Sudbury Hall shortly after nine this morning for the metropolis. " The Earl of Denbeigh, master of the horse to her Majesty, also left for town this morning on his way to Brighton." TER ATTEMPT TO GET INTO BUCKING HAM PALACE. (From Monday Night's London Standard.) nderstand that a respectable looking individual, with nder his arm, attempted to-day to force an entrance ckingham Palace. When asked his object, he said he to obtain the head of the Queen, as he thought he nuch entitled to her bead as she was to his s e‘ :it that the man was insane, and he was, there ely given into the custody of the police, and conveyed to Bow-street, when it is under from the nature and incoherent manner in which he ' himself, that no doubt was entertained of the man's In fact, so evident was it that the individual was ession of his right faculties, that Mr. Hall, gistrate, without hesitation, considered it to be sign a warrant for his immediate committal to which warrant having been countersigned by Sir im, the Home Secretary, the unfortunate man conveyed, in custody of the police, to that safe abode )ri of lunatics .s not hear the above until past six o'clock this eyeli d consequently, at so late an hour, we are unable to ny details, or to vouch for the general accuracy of rent, as the greatest possible secrecy is observed at Office. We may state, however, with ce r t a i n t y , unfortunate individual has been committed to for ttempting to force his way into the Palace. _ the individual above alluded to was in the of Lord flood. aid that (From yesterday's Morning Herald.) .ntleman arrived at Windsor on the 10th instant, remaining all night at the Castle Inn, conducted n the following day in the most extraordinary He remained in the coffee-room pacing to and fro, gto himself, nearly the whole of the day. Upon observing to him that if he wished, by way of pass e, to view the state apartments at the castle, he a porter with him to show him the way, he re evident excitement, " I must stay where I am, _—..e whole kingdom, Queen, lords, an d corn ons, depends up on my remaining here till I am sent for." ,er observed, " The Queen has used me very ill— ry lit indeed ; but now Queen Adelaide has been proclaim- Queen of England, I have come to Windsor to save the for her, and save it I will." He possessed a pretty , ppetite, having eaten that day for dinner three good. utton-chops, with the usual etceteras. Upon that ed early for his bed-room candle, and retired In a few minutes afterwards he returned to -room, and said to the waiter, " I shan't have a sleep until I've got safe hold of four queen's heads." ify him, sent for four penny-postage a he appeared satisfied, and for which be .aging four sovereigns, and compelled the them. These were immediately given, by the the hands of 'Mr. Cheer, the proprietor of the ake care of for the lunatic. for fellow continued pacing about the coffee-room, mately dancing and singing for upwards of half an and Mr. Chater, therefore, deemed it necessary to send Ilolderness, a surgeon in extensive practice in the o advise with him upon what was best to be done. Mr. Holderness's arrival, he found him in the coffee a with the mayor, who had in the meantime arrived, and ewhat more composed. In the course of some converse , incidentally introduced, upon the health of the Queen, bserved, " O lord ! as to the Queen, why she's dead ; aueen Doweger is the sovereign now." " Indeed," said Ho!derness, " why, how long has that been the case ? hy," replied the lunatic, " I had her b e h ea d e d t hi s very ning, and I have put th e Queen Dowager upon the throne !ad." He then became more composed, and coolly ob ed, " Perhaps you would like to know who Lam—l 'll tell you. I am Charles Prince of Wales, and when I nto full power, you shall see what I 'll do for you. I - -st of all give you a good tory government, and no 3fety of ti 'r, to T town, tt Mr. Holderness, perceiving him to be very quiet, advised him to retire to bed, and left. Immediately after that gen tleman's departure he rose from his chair, jumped about the room in a most extraordinary manner, and continued giving bud cheers for the Queen Dowager. He then sang snatches morn two or three songs, and got more violent than ever. Holderness was consequently again sent for, and also Vir. Gillman, the superintendent of the Windsor police, and fter some time the man became pacified, and consented to ) to bed, whither one of the male servants of the establish ant attended him. Upon getting to his room he refused undress unless he was provided with a large pan of bot er. This he was supplied with, and after thoroughly sing himself from head to foot he sent for Dennis, the c waiter, to ask him if he thought he was clean enough ice. He then gave Dennis a bag of sovereigns, tell t that with them he was to provide him with a splen `di sing-room, a dressing -gown to match, and boots and s fit for a prince; " for," said he, " although I am Sir Charles Mann tonight, you'll find I am Prince of •s to-morrow morning, and then I shall marry the ess Augusta of Cambridge, to whom I am betrothed." some little difficulty he was got into bed, a person 1. watch during the night. he got up the next morning (Saturday), he observed vaiter, " I can't conce i ve what could have been the ith me last night—there must have been some spirit ni to have induced me to have done so." king his breakfast he said he should proceed to *he first train. The waiter then offered him back I, ad given the previour night, amounting in the - c , ised to receive it, saying, " Oh, never ..:, and give it to the Queen." The .en placed in the hands of Mr. Chater, the if the hotel, to give up to his friends. When the _he omnibus to proceed to the railway station, I, he appeared perfectly collected. the late Bishop Ryder, by Chantrey, valued at has just been placed in Lichfield Cathedral. y left St. James's-square on Friday, for re his lordship is expected to remain some 334 the bankruptcies in Yorkshire were 91, in Lanca -48, in Mddlesex 312 ; whereas, in 1840, they went, kshire 185, in Lancashire 252, and in Middlesex 273. w York paper says—" Dr. Lardner is engaged to give of lectures on scientific subjects to the Mercantile ,Association of that city, during the approaching POOR CORPORATION.—At the election of mayor, at .ombe, it was understood that a cheque given by the pro inthorities to a tradesman of the town, for £7, was re- I to be cashed by their treasurer, because he had only a ace of X2O in hand, which be was always desired to re -Bucks Gazette. CliOP OF COTTON. —We understandwhich that the pac- arrived on Saturday from New las rought 'a quantity t is rather early for ItYof Carolina cotton of the new the arrival of new cotton ; hut the the districts whose produce is exported from New are expected to he considerably ic. irT s . - - ) UPON BAN The Gazette of Upper Ger ,der date St. Itive to bankrupts P etersburg, wol 13th nit., states, that an that in future any bankruptiid be shortly published, 40 per cent should be who could not pay •een the months of sent a to serve as a private 9 commercial houses had failed and April of the at Moscow. •v - rioN.—On Sunday Chelsea, ' , mo rning, the congre was thrown into gre a t sudden death of one service was about to commence.members, which ,dered by the churchwardens, Ever y .as immediately attended by Dr. and rWillisfordthe un- Aer, but their assiduous efforts were unava limg. NTRIC OLD Bed well MAID. — Mrs. Sarah B well Voodbridge, died on the 15 th ult. , aged 90. Sh e housekeeper to Mrs. Doughty, and, by h er pe. had accumulated considerable property. I n were found more than 70 sovereigns, cash in mortgages amounting to about £l5OO. Sh e sssion 75 chemises, 36 bonnets, 25 silk gowns, 'ble cloths, and a chest of bed clothes ; and 'd with merely a piece of old carpet, and covered with vermin.—lpswich 1 m by the Aired, cuvere OVAL, I.4vEaylor Under t/ & Manoyem CLAP A-P. SOIL ' ,ogee, Durinz the remainder of the Season, the performances will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST SIX. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. CHARLES .IRAN, And the Last Night of Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. CHARLES KEAN. The Tragedy of THE GAMESTER, h av i ng b een rece i ve d with the most rapturous plaudits by brilliant and crowded auditories, on the first and second representations, will be performed, for the third time, THIS EVENING. THIS present FRIDAY, the 19th instant, will be per formed, for the third time, the revived Tragedy of THE GAMESTER. 7 - Mrs. Beverley Mr. Beverley Mr. Charles Kean. Stukely Mr. Stuart. I Lewson. ~ Mr. H. Hull. Charlotte Mrs. Baker. At the end of the Play, a PAS DE DEUX, by Master and Miss C. Webster. To conclude with the Comedy of THE HONEYMOON. The Duke Aranza.. (first time here).. Mr. Charles Kean. Juliana Miss Ellen Tree. Mr. H. Holl. Volante.... Miss E. Honner. Mr. Baker. Zam0ra........ Mrs. Baker. Rolando Jacques. AIRS. CLARKF'S BENEFIT Is appointed to take place on .MONDAY - NEXT, the 22d instant, on which occasion will be performed a Favourite COMEDY, (not acted this season,) with a FARCE, and other ENTERTAINMENTS; in which several leading Performers of the Metropolitan Theatres, who have kindly offered their valuable services on the occasion, will sustain principal characters.—Full particulars will be announced in future Bills and Advertisements. Tickets to be had of Mrs. CLARKS, No. 1, Houghton street, Williamson-square; and of Mr. MINSTER, at the Box-office of the Theatre, of whom Places may be taken daily, from Ten until Three. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Extraordinary sensation created by " The Death Grasp." Third Night of the highly successful Ballet of The Nations." THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, and TO-MOR ROW, (Saturday,) the 19th and 20th instant, the per.. formances will commence with the new domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE DEATH GRASP, oil. A FATHER'S CURSE. Aldolpho de Floriville, ...... .......Mr. Howard. Caleb Swinton.... Mr. H. Beverley. After which, an entire new Allegorical Ballet, with new Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, to be called THE ASSEMBLAGE OF THE NATIONS TO CONGRATULATE BRITANNIA ON THE' BIRTH OF A PRINCE OF WALES! Concluding with a splendid picturesque Tableau!! New Scenes in the Arena, by Mr. Wells, Master Arnold, Master Bell, Master Miller, and Young Kite. In consequence of the general satisfaction given by this Piece, it will be repeated this evening and to-morrow, Saturday, THE CATARACT OF THE GANGES; Oft, THE RAJAH'S DAUGHTER. Mokarra.. Mr. Howard—Jack Robinson.. Mr. H. Beverly. TO CORRESPONDENTS titnrpool gptanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1 9, 1841 le fort Manchester and Glasgow in the South American and Mediterranean markets ; while from the markets of Eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Eastern Archi- pelago, and China, they have almost excluded their British rivals But while the manufacturer looks only to the present moment—while he feels his great want to be immediate markets, and seeks to attain that object by what he conceives to be the shortest road—the business of the sagacious and prudent minister must be to take a somewhat wider and more distant view of the subject tle may have a reasonable fear that manufacturing industry and the factory system (its now inseparable concomitant in some of the chief branches) would be pushed too far; and seek to lessen a passing distress by draining off a portion of the unemployed, rather than by attempting to create an instant demand for manufactured goods through the doubtful and danger- ous experiment of free-trade. He may not hope 0 satisfy the impatience of the short-time working ma, nufacturer by this process; but he may be satisfied in his own mind that he is consulting best for the inter. est not only of the distressed operative, but of the country at large—its lasting peace at home—its ex. tended importance in the eye of the world mother country will be made to put forth her swarms more freely ; our distant colonial lands will receive new inhabitants; the empire will be extended, not by blood -stained conquests over men, but by converting the wilderness into a garden—by the peaceful con quests of civilization over barbarism ; and our ships, our colonies, and our commerce will increase together. it will be a great object, worthy the name of a Con servative Administration, to carry into effect the vast project alluded to by Lord Stanley. !SER.—Much curious gossip has been caused in by the extraordinary circumstance attending t h e to our contem ca person named Mary Aspull, who lived by herself leg ; never having been married. Upon p t e h r e so d n e s at w h h o o f We are obliged Lady, a search was made by one or twoporary of the Times-- xt of kin to the deceased; they being, however, only infinitely obliged. He has enabled us to unmask a cousins. These parties, with one or two other per hypocrisy, and to show o had been requested to attend them, found in their rank . forth, naked and undis in the most obscure and unlikely parts of the house, , u i , sed, the crawling, abject natur e of • that " philan than £5,040 ; the whole of which, with the exception t £4O or £5O, consisted in guineas. thropy '' by the loud profession of which the " Lib i e_ We have no intention of publishing in a pamphlet from the lecture of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, which appears at length elsewhere ; and parties who are, therefore, derirous of securing copies of that admirable composition, should make early application for the Standard of to-day. From the statement made by Lord Stanley to the Scottish deputation, to the effect that the subject of Emigration, on a large scale, was under the considera tion of her Majesty's Government, a good deal of spe culation has been set afloat. Such a project has had from time to time a considerable number of sanguine advocates, but no ministry has thought fit to make it a subject of deliberation—upon a scale at least in any degree commensurate to their expectations. The in clination of the public mind towards the plan has, however, been decidedly a growing one, though sub ject to much disturbance, and to influences of an ex ceedingly opposite tendency. It cannot be denied or disputed, however, by any party, that it is a prodi gious advantage to an old country to possess colonies. " Ships, Colonies, and Commerce," have become a sort of byword • adopted by all who speculate on the grand outward instrumentalities of national greatness ; but colonies are obviously the first link in the chain. It would seem that there should have existed in this country for a length of time a great desire to promote colonization, and that it should have been contempla ted with more concern with a view to promote our maritime and domestic interests, than it appears gene rally to have been. The most likely cause to assign for such apathy, is the abundance of prosperity with which the country has been blessed, without applying any extraordinary stimulus to the colonization princi ple. Emigration was too much looked upon as a spe cies of banishment. A body of emigrants about to embark for a distant settlement—at any time indeed an object of interest—was made the subject of melan choly foreboding. Thus Goldsmith sung : Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done ; Even now, methinks, as pond'ring here I stand, 1 see the ruralfvirtues leave the land, Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads tne sail, That idly waiting, flaps with every gale, Downward they move, a melancholy band. The commercial maxim of " ships and colonies" was unknown to the poet, and even had it been so, it is more likely that he would have preferred indulging in the poetry of the passing sigh or the parting tear, to any speculations which involve concerns much more fitted to interest the statesman than the bard. The story, too, of almost all first settlers in a new country has been one of great trial and difficulty, and their reports have rarely suggested inducements to fresh tempters of the wilderness. The advocates of Emi gration have therefore had to contend with an unpo pular theme, and no pressure of necessity has either been so extensive or of such long continuance as to prepare the general ear for its reception. Changes, however—vast changes indeed—have been going on in the world ; and we shall not he surprised hereafter to find a very different view taken of the subject of Emigration from that which prevailed at the time when Goldsmith wrote, and long subsequently. Our manufacturers want markets—and what mar ket so sure as the colonial ? They expect to attain their object by free trade in corn—a free trade chiefly with the old countries of Europe; but these countries do not promise to take our manufactures in exchange, and have long been making every effort to dispense with them by manufacturing for themselves. We learn from the valuable work of Mr. Montgomery on the contrast of the cotton manufactures of the two nations, that there is already invested in the cotton manufactures of the United States upwards of forty five millions of dollars, or about one-fourth of the capital involved in the cotton manufactures of Great Britain. This enormous sum, observes a London contemporary, our free-trade oracles assert that the republic would allow us to destroy, in return for throwing open our ports to the grain of the north west. Credat Judeus. Already do the coarser de. scriptioas of American cottons compete with those of meeting. rids of the present age drawn. so Ihrioly 01164 the sympathies of the u,nilhini‘ing portion of mankind In his reply, or what 11.0 assumes to be a reply, recent observations of our own upon the Brazilian question, the 7iines thus delivers himself to some " Our contemporary's passionate appeal in favour of free labourers, though a little odd, as coming from an advocate of the West Indians, would be something to the purpose, if there was any reason to ,believe that the happiness of the nsgrocs depended on the quantity of sugar produced. That is not the opinion of men, whose attachment to the negro race, has induced them to visit the West Indies ; and, with regard to the planters, although they may be entitled to be treated with indulgence, and to receive a reasonable amount of protection, yet we deny that either they or any other set of persons are entitled to claim a monopoly enforced by pro hibitory duties. Justice to the consumer, and the interests of the trade generally, are opposed to any such exclusive system." It is not, we think, with all due deference to our contemporary, at all " odd " that the LIVERPOOL STANDARD should. raise its voice in • behalf of the principle of free labour in our West Indian colonies . We have never hesitated to insist upon the necessity and the justice of giving a fair and a full trial to the operation of that principle, and of aiding it by every means in the power of the British Government. Upon the success or the failure of that trial depends, in our opinion, the question, whether the brand of slavery shall ever be removed from the limbs of the African race; Whether the slave trade, with all its revolting cruelties, is rather to progress with the advancement of civilisation and the spread of commerce, or to be put down by the universal voice of mankind, as a hideous and unnecessary blot upon the character of the human raca. In this light, and not merely as "an advocate of the West Indians," we have ever regarded, and shall continue to regard, the question at issue bettween the Conservative party in this country and the advo cates of slave interests in Brazil; and our contempo rary may depend upon It that we have with us the sym pathies of the far greater portion not only of our fel low -countrymen, but of the sound and reflecting throughout the world. But it is odd, we think —very odd—it is monstrous, to observe the position of the professedly philanthropic Liberals, and of the Liverpool Times itfelf upon this question. For what, we ask, is the fair interpretation of the passage which we have quoted, with respect to that position ? For years the government and the and tqe people of Great Britain have been labouring to effect the deliverance of the African from the thraldom of his fellow-man. To effect this noble object our fleets have scoured the seas and our gold has been showered with a lavish and a willing hand. We have crippled the demon Slavery upon every shore; we have drawn down upon his head the indignation of mankind in every clime; and, last and noblest effort of all, we have cast him out, utterly and we trust for ever, from every spot of earth which renders allegiance to the crown of Britain. And yet, after all this sacrifice, we are told that the paltry effect of our philanthropy is to be the creation of a black elysium in each of our West Indian colonies " The happiness of the negroes," in the opinion of men whose " attachment to the race has induced them to visit the West Indies," is not for warded by encouraging there the cultivation of sugar; and we are therefore to bound ourselves for the future in our exertions for the welfare of the African people, to a consideration for the ease and comfort of the ne groes of the West Indies alone ! We are to abandon, say these pseudo philanthroPists, the cultivation of the sugar cane to the slave-importing Brazilian. We are to regard this product with the same eye that we look upon other products of slave labour; and to cast to the winds any effective legislative protec tion of sugar—the produce of free labour—since we cannot at once dispense with our supplies of other articles raised by slaves. We are to prostrate the statue of liberty which we have erected as a mark for the world to bow down to, because the Brazilian planter can extract sugar from the life-blood of his enslaved myriads at a cheaper rate than it can as yet—thanks to the exertions of the Scobles and the Sturges —be produced by free labour in our colonies. Philanthropy "oozes out of the fingers ends" when tickled by the sight of gold or dollars. The humane and sleek.faces that we have seen in days past smeared over • with " free-labour sugar"—the eyes which we have seen revelling, on pletforme, in a dream of " free-laboiir treacle,"—are now enraptured only by the chink of specie, and revel only in dreams of a world of calico and bobbinet. Oh, Nature ! human Nature ! is this thy nobility ? Do we live to witness such a stain upon our kind, as is the very contemplation of such a sacrifice of well-earned honour as has been achieved by the nation, in whose front these impostors have bawled and ranted, wept arid whined, to the crawling and abject love of mere money-getting ? " Every objection of principle," urge these philan thropic philosophers, "applies as much to slaye-labour cotton and coffee as to slave-labour sugar." Oft refuted fallacy. The Liverpool Tunes knows, or ought to know, that to the cultivation of sugar by slave labour is to be attributed one-half of the sufferings of the negro race. It is this which wears down human life in the tropics, whilst the cultivation of cotton and coffee, involving infinitely lighter labour, is less destruc tive and painful to the labourers. We can diminish, if we cannot at present altogether prevent, such culti vation by slave-labour and the misery it involves. We can at least supply Great Britain with sugar, into the composition of which not one drop of human wretch edness enters. And shall we not do this ? Shall we not throw a portion, at least, of the curse of slavery from us, even although we cannot as yet relieve our selves of the whole ? We shall do so ! Upon the politico-economical part of the question we shall not offer a word of remark. If the Liverpool Times is satisfied to leave it where it is, so are we, and so is the public. We shall, therefore, content our selves with hinting to our contemporary, our conviction that our policy towards the Brazils is a bad subject on which to found a grievance. Let it alone. Let it alone In directing the attention of our readers to the eloquent and beautiful address on the life and cha racter of Benjamin Franklin, delivered in our Amphi theatre, on Wednesday evening, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile—which will be found fully reported in our columns this day—we are compelled to express our strong disapprobation of the mode in which the praise worthy object for which the lecture was delivered has been, we fear, in a great manner, frustrated by the individuals who took upon themselves the manage ment of the meeting. When a clergyman of the Church of England lends the sanction of his high cha racter and talents to advance any charitable purpose, and when men of all parties come forward liberally to its aid, the least that we can expeet, on the part of those effecting to be especially concerned iu it, is the display of a disinterested spirit, and a sincere desire to carry out, in its management, the object in view, apart from private jobbing and the indulgence of party pre dilections. That this has not been the conduct of the managers of this lecture we are satisfied. Mismanage ment the most gross, and expenditure the most reck less, has, we fear, marred a great portion of the success of Mr. McsTeile's splendid effort ; and that gentleman, and the public who supported him in it, will have cause at least to suspect the disinterestedness of some of those parties, in whose hands they were in- , duced to leave the conducting of the preliminary arrangements and the business details; generally of the It needed not, we are sure, one fourth of th e p r i nt i ng and placarding which was adopted, to fill the Amphi theatre upon such an occasion. It needed not so many forms of tickets of admission to be pnovided. And it was scarcely in good faith towards the public to go on with this wastefnl expenditure so long after it was mo rally certain that as many tickets, or even more than as many, would be sold as would cram the place to over flowing. To those of the public who, by this grasping conduct of the management, were shut out from an opportunity of hearing the lecture, some apology is fairly due; and it cannot be gratifying to those even who had the pleasure of being present to reflect that the ulterior object of the lecture itself—a liberal contri bution to the Printers' Pension Fund—should be in part frustrated by extravagant and jobbing managment. We have not as yet the gross receipts before us. From the best calculation we can form, however, we cannot esti mate them at less than £2oo—a handsome sum it mu: it be admitted to be devoted to the purposes of any cha city. From this, h owever, it will greatly. surprise us if one farthing l ess than a half will have to be deducte.3 for the wcpenses i ocurred—for the print. ltlg ariut berelly dispensed by the Whig.radicaki, of whom the committee was formed. atooogst the hungryadherents of their faction. We are assured upon good authority, that the total expense which is incurred upon the oc- Oil Sunday 64°dDit I g rut : th 6 }tev, T. H. Porter, ,os Dublin, preached in at. Barnabas' Church, to a large and attentive congregation, on the subject of the efforts maul by the Church Education Society for Ireland, to spread the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in that Country. COM 'NI ISSION OF TIIO • VF,AcE.—The name of Jas. Po Neal', Esq., of Pownall-hali, has bean inserted in the commission of the peace for the county of Chester.—Macclesfield paper. To POTATO GrtowEns.—The most excessive crop of potatoes grown this year in this neighbourhood has been grown by Mr. John Shand, of the Court House. Brombro, trom a description of potato lately introduced into this part of the country, the mangelwurzel, the value of which is nearly fourfold over every other sort, for cattle and feeding purposes, many of the potatoes weighing nearly 41bs., the average of the crop being from ?Ob. to 11b. each, and even in this un propitious season every potato was sound and dry ; and, from being a long keeper, is a very valuable improvement upon the old sorts of cattle potato, particularly as it is a very free and heavy bearer, having produced five and a half measures, of 901bs. to the measure, per rod. casion of one of our Protestant meetings, for printing, placarding, &c., has rarely exceeded ten pounds ; and yet here, for a meeting, the mere announcement of which, in a few score of handbills, would have ef fectually answered any honest purpose which the corn- mittee could have in view; we have had our walls covered with gratuitous puffs, in all types, and sizes, and colours,—as if the tickets were an absolute drug, instead of being the object of urgent quest,—and an expense incurred which will absorb, we are confident, a large portion of a hundred pounds, thus absolutely lost to the charity—juggled away from Radical hands to Radical breeches pockets—swallowed up with the avidity of .hungry cormorants, to whom the hope of another meal of jobbery was removed for ever ! But when, we ask, was it ever otherwise where money had to pass through the alembic of Whig-radical hands ? MR. BRINDLEY.—This gentleman, as will be seen from an advertisement, purposes visiting this town next week, in order to give a series of lectures on various subjects which are now agitating the lower orders of this town. Sufficient is already known of Mr. Brindley and_ the interesting character of his lectures to secure him a numerous auditory. His services, in unmasking the delusions which unprincipled men have long delighted to palm upon the poorer portion of the . community, for the purpose of obtaining from them some of their hard earned gains, will not soon be forgotten. BUILDING WITHOUT NOTICE. — At the Police-court yester day, an information was preferred against Mr. Robinson, builder, by Mr. Rushton, district inspector under the local act, for the proper and secure building of houses and other premises. Mr. Rushton stated, that the defendant, without giving the requisite notice, was erecting four houses in Myrtle street, which had been partly built, but with very bad morter,, of which he produced a sample. Mr. Robinson said, that the notice had been duly prepared and given to his father, but he had neglected to give it in. It was not his intention to con struct inadequate buildings, and finding that the sand absorbed much lime, and that the alorter was insufficient, he had had the walls pulled down, and had served the notice. Mr. Rushton admitted the statement, and said he had never before had occasion to complain of the defendant as a builder. Under the circumstances, the defendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs. FELONY.—A man named Charles Duffield was yesterday placed at the bar of the Police-court on a charge of having stolen a bundle of clothes from a public-house. Patrick Tranner said, he was boots at Mrs. Sharples's, Egremont Hotel, and that on Wednesday he had gone to a house in Gill-street, and there got three shirts, a pair of stockings, and a pair of trowsers, for Mr. Thomas Sharpies. About six in the evening he went into Sixsmith's, at the bottom of Chapel-street; and put the parcel on a table in one of the rooms. In about twenty minutes he missed the parcel. A soldier, named Carrol, of the 95th Regiment, who observed the prisons take - it away, pursued him, and gave him in charge of-a police-officer, who produced the articles. The prisoner said he was in company with a soldier, at the public house, and they were talking together about the service. He understood him to say that he wished him to help him to carry his things, and he accordingly waited until he (the soldier) was going away, as he thought. He was committed for trial at the sessions. Even with the deduction, however, of the pickings out of it, which have stuck to the " itching palms" of the liberal philosophers who composed the committee, and their adherents, the result of the lecture, so far even as the charity to be immediately henefitted is con cerned, cannot be regarded as o th erw i se than most creditable to the people of Liverpool, and especially as most strikingly illustrative of the estimation in which the splendid mind of the Reverend Lecturer is held by his fellow townsmen of every sect and grade. One hundred pounds we estimate will result to the Printers' Pension Fund—a gratifying offering ; and yet, we see, Whig rapacity is not satisfied. Under the pretence of sympathy with the printers of London, and to add to this sum, the Rev. Gentleman was persuaded to allow his noble effort of Wednesday. to be consigned, in per petuity to Whig hands—to be printed as a pamphlet for the benefit of the same fund ; and the same feathering of nests, we are satisfied, will be the result. We are unaffectedly sorry for this, we think, hasty concession of Mr. M`Neile. Having done so well for this particular charity, we do really think that other objects, nearer home, might have been found upon whom to bestow the profits of publication of his lecture in the form of a pamphlet. It is too late, however, now to regret the decision hastily, we repeat, adopted; bu, we would impress upon the Rev. Gentle man the propriety of looking closely to the parties, into whose hands his lecture has fallen, that no more extravagant and jobbing expenditure may take place to interrupt what is now his offering to this charity. THE STEAM-SHIP " FORTH."—This fine ship, (Captain Fayrer) one of the fourteen belonging to " The Royal West India Mail Packet Company," made a short trial trip from this port on Sunday, and another on Monday, and the result was, on both occasions, highly satisfactory. There were on board on the latter day, Captain Chappell, R.N., the Marine Superintendent appointed to inspect the " fleet," the Rev. Dr. Byrth, Rector of Wallasey, John D. Maddock, Esq., ma g istrate, the Russian con su l f rom L on d on , w i t h several of his countrymen, and a number of other gentlemen. Capt. Chappell, and, indeed, all on board, expressed their great gratification with the performance of the vessel and the admirable arrangements and accomodations throughout. The weather was hazy, and the wind and tide unfavourable, rendering the navigation of the channel somewhat diffiSult, yet she made good from lli to 111 knots an hour, out and back, rounding one of the outer light ships. The engines made 161 revolutions per minute. On her return she anchored in the river opposite the Sloyne, and on Wednes day re-entered the Coburg Dock, where she is receiving her complement of coals, and other necessaries, preparatory to her proceeding, in a few days, to Southampton to take her place in the West India line. MRS. CLARKE'S BENEFIT.—Mrs. Clarke's benefit is ge nerally—nay, always —a brimful, overflowing house, and those who are first generally come off the best in the choice of seats. On Monday evening, we suspect, that those who wish to be present must be very early if they want to be comfortable; for, independent of th e grea t mer i t o f M rs. Clarke—her qualities as an actress, and as the cara sposa of the manager—the bill she puts out is such a loadstone that it will draw everybody from the fireside who can enjoy the excellencies in dramatic art. Ellen Tree—a great name— Charles Kean, not only the magni nominis umbra, bat some thing substantial in himself—Mrs. Keeley, the cleverest little creature on the stage—Keeley—and--but look at the bill, good reader, and, if you want to be highly de lighted on the evening of Monday, betake yourself to Wil liamson-square. Mrs. Clarke is the best Audrey on the stage, and second to none as Mrs. Subtle—the Widow. Green —Mrs. Malaprop—Nell—Mrs. Racket—th e b uxom w id ow in " Money," and many other first-rate characters. It is said that " Town and Cr untry" is to be the play, and " A Lady and Gentleman in wery Pekooliar Circumstances" the PENCIL CEDAR.—It is n o t genera lly k nown th at if the afterpiece. , • lining of drawers, in whi c h c l o th es are k ept , i s ma d e of OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FAL SE P RETENCES .—Yes- terday, at the Police court, a rather well-d resse d man , name d pencil cedar no moths or oth er d es t ruc ti ve i nsects w ill get Jonathan Watmough, was brought up before the sitting ma into them, and as the wood is much cheaper than wainscot gistrates on this charge. Charles Davidson, a sailor, said or mahogany, and gives a delightful perfume to the clothes the prisoner had come to him on Wednesday, and asked him contained in the drawers, these facts only require to be known to bring it into very ge nera l use . if he knew of any seamen who want e d a s hi p . E nqu i ry was made for what vessel they were wanted, and the reply was, Society quarterly meeting of the auxiliary of the for the Parsee Merchant, bound flu the East Indies. An Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was agreement was m . ade, and tw o . shipping notes were made out, held in this town, on Tuesday last, the 16th instant, in the for which the prisoner required and received 2s. for each. National School-room ; Thos. Keeling, Esq., in the chair, The complainant was told to call next day at the prisoner's when a very numerous and respectable audience (consisting slipping- t office, su in cli a s n tr o elwhieh d le named; but on enquir y, of the principal inhabitants of the town) was addressed by learned that thevesse .. l . ha the following speakers ;—Thos. Keeling, Esq., the Rev. Mr. sa=ted on Tuesday . Lst. William Walto n , a no ther ti s i atloy, Bush, M. A., incumbent of the Seamen's Church, Weston stated that he had been similarly impo sed b y . e pp- Point, and- - Mr. M. Margoliontis, a converted - Jew, under- so ,to whom he had paid two shllngs u f p or on two shipping graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. notes. To one of the parties he had given the names of CLIMATE ON THE HAIR.—The effect of climate u p on th e M essrs . H o ld erness and Chilton as owners of the vessel, and hair is very great. Extreme cold is apt to dry and wither to the other Messrs. Pooles and Co. The'former were owners the roots; and, on the contrary, extreme heat to enervate of the vessel, but had not authorised the prisoner to ship and weaken this important integument of the head. The seamen for her; the latter had nothing to do with her. The most extraordinary thing connected with the preceding fact prisoner said the notes were given to him with the signatures is, that one counteracting agent should be endowed with the attached, and he was not aware that they were illegal, and singular virtues of preserving the hair, in health and beauty, did not know but that the vessel was in the dock at the time. in either the torrid or frigid zone; and it is a question, whe- He added, that he had represented that she was to sail on ther Roweesin's MneAssAn OIL is most used in warm or Saturday or Sunday, the time mentioned to him, and that cold countries. At the court of Russia, the above delightful he had told them that the office was in the north-east corner conservator of the hair is lauded with extraordinary encomi- of the dock. He was committed for trial ; but it was inti ums ; while in India, the consumption of Rowland's Macassar mated to him that he might be admitted to bail, on giving is immense.—See advt. sureties, himself in £3O and two others in £l5 each, to an- IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND APPRENTICES.—A case of swer the charge at the sessions. considerable importance, as regards th e l aws re l at i ng to PRINTERS' tiNION.—We stated a few days s i nce th a t th e masters and apprentices, came on for d ec i s i on on M onday, dissolution of this union would not only considerably re li eve before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansio n H ouse. M r. Pr i tch- the employers, but would also be very advanta g e ous t o t h e ard, an exten s i v e c igar manufa c t urer at Cl erkenwell, ap men themselves. It would appear from the following lett er peered before his Lordship upon th e h ear i ng o f a compla i nt addressed to the London Times, that there are some o f t h e against his apprentice, James Mo ore , f or m i sconduct, the men who coincide with our remarks, notwithstanding a state hearing havin g b een a djourned on S atur d ay, i n order that the went to the contrary which appeared in a local co n t emporary City Solicitor's opinion might be t a k en upon an o bj ect i on of last week.—" Amidst the many and import an t o bj ects raised to the ju r i s di c ti on o f th e mag i staate, b ecause it ap- which occupy your attention, and your endeavour s to expose peered by the inde n tures that n o p rem i um h ad b een paid, error, you would indeed do a service to a consider a bl e b o d y and it was conte n d e d for the app rent i ce, that inasmuch as of men—the journeymen compositors—could y ou s p are t i me the words of th e ac t g i v i ng the j us ti ces j ur i sdiction related to to review the working of the Union established a mong t h em, " pauper apprentice s and others, u p on w h ose bi nd i ngs out and to show its entire failure in achieving the obj ec t s f or which it has been established. So far from benefitti ng , i t no larger sum th an £5 w as paid," i t must b e made to appear that that sum had been paid by way o f prem i um. It had has injured the trade; instead of raising, it h as l owere d been decided, it wages ; instead of unity, there is more discord th an ever ; was said, at some of the police-offices, that a instead of decreasing, it has increased the numbe r o f men ; farthing would b e sufficient for the p urpose, b ut w i t h out t h e payment of a premium was recited i n th e i n d enture the ma- and scarce a day occurs in which its mischievous re gu l at i ons gistrate would be ousted of jurisdicti on un d er the statute. do not become apparent to those engaged in the trade. A t t h e The City Solicitor gave it as his opi n i on t h at the magistrates present time, when our body are suffering from unu sua l d e . had jurisdiction i n the case, and th at i t had not been decided pression, it may be that some among them will be more that the pro v i s i ons o f the statute did not apply where no pre- inclined to hear the voice of wisdom. For one I most d eep l y mium had bee n p a id. The evide nce i n proof of the miscon lament the existence of the Union ; many are the in s t ances duct of the boy given on Saturday was then read over. It in which the discontented have availed themselv es o f i ts stated that the apprentice having a cqu i re d such a knowledge regulations to disturb the quiet of a whole establi s h ment. of the business to which he wa s b ound as to be of value to The hour that witnesses amongst us the dissolution o f t h e his, master, instead of paying proper attention to his duties present Union will be indeed a nappy one." was in the habit of leaving the ho use f or six or seven conse- SUSPECTED MURDER AT WARRINGTON.—OR M on d ay cutive days, and s howed a most d angerous example to the last, an inquest was held at the Ring of Bells, Wa rr i ngton, other apprentices, by inciting th em to acts of disobedience before John lieges, Esq., coroner, to inquire touchi ng t h e oulds and insubordi n atio n . Wheneve r h e took it into his head he death of Sarah M in Ki ,aged 47. The deceased w as a lace walked away, bidding defiance to hi s master, and was evi- worker, residing ng-street, Warrington. Sh e was for dently acting under the impressi on t h at the Lord Mayor had merly in good circumstances, but had been red uce d. O n Sunday Morning, as William Savage, the sexton of th e par i sh no power to act in such a case ; th at the indentures were a mockery, upon which no puni s h ment would be inflicted. church of Warrington, was busied in the chur c hy ar d, h e saw After some further conversation the Lord Mayor said, 1 a reticule basket in the adjoining field. He went to pick it convict the apprentice, and s en t ence him to hard labour in up, when he saw the deceased lying near th e di tc h , on her the house of Corre c tio n f or one month. Defendant.—Oh, face, with her head covered over with a sha w l, an d one of her Lord ! what for ? The Lord Mayor.—For fl in in the face le g s, whic h wa s disco loured, uncovered. She was covered of your indenture s . I see how it is ;you have a cq uired a good deal such with mud. The surgeon who made a p os t mortem examine a knowledge of th e b us i ness as to be able to ear lion of the body of the deceased, testifi e d th at h er sh i ns ex of money, and now, i nstea d of servingour master, -y hibited marks of violent bruises, and th a t from the appear abandon hi m . I t i s i n my power to sente nce ou to mpr ante of the lungs and brain, the d ecease d must h ave died of i youi sonaient and hard l a b our f or th ree calenderm y onths. The drowning or suffocation. On the side of the ditch were defendant wa s th en sen t t o th e treadmill for a month, and marks, as if a person had struggled viole n tly. I t appeared his Lord s hi p state d , t h at if any case of the kind should come that the deceased, who occasionally took i n t ox i cat i ng d r i nk, before him again, th e d e f en d an t, if not able to show good had, on Saturday night, purchased som e t ea , co ff ee, &e., reason for objecti ng , s h ou ld mos t certainly be sentenced in which were carefully packed in the bask e t. I n t h e b asket the extreme p ena l ty . which was found in the field, the articles were put very ' The sentence had wo n d er f u l e ff e ct roughly, and some of the coffee had been spilled. It was upon several lads who were said to be apprentices, and who proved that the deceased had been at a public-house till ten cut off to their day's work the moment they hear d thh deci o'clock, s p in a man named Gill, with whom she had two sion of the chief magistrate.—[This decision is irectl in the glasses of spirits and water. Gill was in custody. From the teeth of the resolution come to by our stipendiary m agistrate. evidence of Mr. Jones, the deputy constable, it appeared, He has, we believe, refused to interfere between m asters and. apprentices where no p rem i um h a d b een paid, but we hope that a book which was known to have been in the p ossess i on that after so hi g h an aut h or i ty an d such a respectable exam- of the deceased on Saturday night, was found a t Gill' s h ouse ; t pie, he will co ns id er i t r i g h t to rev i ew the grounds on which that a pair of trousers, spotted with mud, s i m il ar t o th at on he has based th e o pini on h e h as arr i ved at, and redress a the clothes, were likewise found, and that his sho es fill e d - grievance under which a grea t num b er o f persons have for a fain footmarks found in the field, an d i n th e path. The long time labou re d f rom re f ractory apprent i ces, who treat the jury returned a verdi c t t o the eff ec t th a t th e d ecease d was sh remonstrances of their m as t ers w ith the mos t un di sgu i se d found suffocated, without as si gn i ng an y means b y which th e the strates. contempt, under an i m p ress i on that th e l a tt er h ave no re - came to her death. Th e accuse d was disci, nag but medy against them i n th e P o il ce . court .—E. L. S.] whole case is to be th oroug hly i nves ti gate d b y th e DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT MUR PORTICO VOCAL CONCERTS.—The fifth of these delight- DER, AT KENDAL.—On the night of Saturday last, about ful concerts was given on Monday, and again we have the seven o'clock, one of the most atrocious attempts at murder pleasing task of noticing the exertions of the performers, as and highway robbery was perpetrated, near Kendal, that has a whfill eole, d , favourably. We were la ds to find the room pretty stained the annals of crime in that part of th e country f or well though not so mu c h so as we could have wished, many years. It appears that Mr. John Benson, of Sedbergh, or the entertainment deserved. " God save the Queen" was a highly respectable, aged man, has been a carrier between sang beautifully by Miss Stott, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Case, Kendal and Sedbergh for about forty-five years, and who is and a very full an d e ffi c i ent chorus. An a ddi t i ona l verse i n also an extensive dealer in grain,fl our, &c., and is known to honour of our new-born prince, which we gave in our last, carry l arge sums o f money about his person. Therefore, on was given on this occasion, and was rapturously applauded. the night in question, lie was proceeding to Sedbergh, and After the national anthem the regular concert commenced on reaching a very lonely part of the road, which is with the the madrigal of " All creatures are merry-minded," shadowed with plantations, and about two miles and a e half well and correctly sung by the whole of the artists. The from Kendal, he was attacked and felled from his horse by a glee of " See the chariot at hand," sung by Miss Stott, murderous blow, which brought on momentary insensibility. Hornby and Case, and Mrs. Armstrong, followed, and was The robber then rifled his pockets of nine five pound notes, well received. A beautiful duet, by Warde, " I've wan- seventeen sovereigns, and three guineas. Mr. Benson was dered in dreams," was most pleasingly given by the young shortly afterwards found laving on the road, bleeding was pro- Prima Donna," Miss Stott, ably sustained by Mr. Stott, fusely from the right temple, w hilst . his left eye b ro w . who took the second. Mr. Hornby sung well, and in, true dreadfully cut. He was immediatel conveyed to a public manly style, the comic bravura of the B" water drinker," and house close to where the robbers wa s committed. The mail was loudly and deservedly encored. Bishop's delightful duet from the north having proceeded as far as the town of Miln from Henri Quatre, "My pretty page," w as playfully given thorp, wheae a person applied to be taken up, which was by Mrs. Armstrong and Miss Stott, and met an universal complied with, and on reaching Lancaster, an omnibus dri encore. • This really was one of the gems of the evening, and ver, of the name of Wils wl had been made acquainted both ladies deserve great credit for the good taste in which with the facts of the case, ea' a o . int ' e t e d ie ou w t a t s his porson as likely to they sang it. Miss Stott also, in the first part, gave with have committed the outra p e d ir ectly taken into great sweetness, " The last adieu." Our hint has been custody by Superintendent Wright, of the Lancaster police, taken, and the concert varied by the introduction of a solo and searched, when fiv e . five pound notes were_ found con on the piano -forte. Mr. Elliott, of the Royal Academy, was cealed in one boot and in the other boot the three guineas, the performer. This gentleman is a brilliant and powerful and the retn.aining'four five pound notes in his . . pocket. The player, and was loudly applauded. In the second part of the whole of this money exactly corresponds with that stolen concert, in some instances, other pieces were substituted for from Mr. Benson , and particularly the guineas, which Mr. those in the programme, for what reason we cannot say, but B. had had i a n s, we think it unwise on the part of the director to permit it. his possession for the last twelve years. The prisoneris a person of the name of Christopher lon, the Mrs. Armstrong's "What's a conundrum" was arch, and re- keeper o f a public-house in Vauxhall-road, Liverpool, who minded us of Vestris. This- lady's duet with Mr. Arm- w ab a o s u f t six mon ths ago kept ' the Black Bull Inn, Kendal, and strong, " O'er shepherd pipe,", Sse , was also well sung ; she is a pleasant singer, as is also her ' husband. Mr. Davies doubt orhmaedr y a purchasing agent for Mr. Benso n, . which, no gi l ven him an opportunity of obser v i ng the habits delighted the audience -with " The white squall," an imita- of ' B on was brought up for examinati on at /Cendal, don of " The sea." The greatest treat of the evening was to o n Mr . Monday last, but was remandedm for Benson, ftir _ ther ,rho still - The r robher I. Forisidered Miss Stott's solo of " Hark the vesper hymn is stealing," time for the recovery of with distant chorus. This lady exceeded herself in this de. t t o in a uer in a very dangerous . state. lightful composition, and the effect of the unseen chorus— have been premeditated, from the fact of Iylliasving arrived w hi c h is SO well managed as to be quite a feature in the Por , nd . al that very evening, by the orl on N Briton coach tiro—was: magical. We hope this composition will be re. from f Liverpool, and gone directly to the place where the ne peated. soon. " The Watchman," • nous deed was committed. by (s. Holden, followed, and was much laughed at, especially by the singers them. a We understand Princess R 1 that the oya has lately been selves ; but are not the cries of watchmen in all sort of tones, suffer ing. slightly from the effects of dentition. But, not and the springing of rattles, however witty in themselves..., !, withstanding the fact that she has cut seven or eightteeth, rather out of place in a classical concert? The chorus or she has h h h that which ' e tus far passed t . roug d . _ls -requently one " Queen of our Isle" wound up the pleasures of a very de- of the severest ordeals of infancy, an its only e ff ect has been lightfia evenjog• to make her a little thinner than heretOfore.—Evening Paper LOCAL NEWS. THE LATE JOSHUA LACE, ESQ, The public, we doubt not, will learn with regret the death of Joshua Lace, Esq., which took place yesterday morning, at four o'clock, at his house at Gateacre, at a very advanced age. For a period of nearly sixty years Mr. Lace has been a hard-working and respected member of the legal profession, i❑ which he has earned the esteem, not only of his immedi ate clients, and of his professional brethren, by the urbanity and straight-forward integrity with which he has exercised its duties, but of the community at large, for whom, during his career of usefulness, it has been his satisfaction to have secured important benefits. For some time past his health has been in a declining state ; but until within the last few days of his decease he has continued able to transact busi ness. It must be satisfactory to the public that the name of Lace, so long and so honourably associated with the legal profession of the town of Liverpool will not, by his lamented death, be separated from it. Mr. Lace is succeeded by his two sons, who, inheriting his name and his talents, will, we have no doubt, bear with them, through life, the same strict integrity which distinguished their venerable parent, and reap at its close the same reward, in the respect and esteem of their fellow-townsmen. MISS CLARA NOVELLO.—Mss Clara Novell() is at Bo logna, progressing rapidly in her professional career, under the immediate auspices of Rossini. She is a great favourite with the Bolognese. COIIRESPONDENCE A 'PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC, AND THE PRESENT TOWN COUNCIL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sts,--it has been already my privilege to offer a few ob servations to the public, through your columns, on different subjects. It will b e m y p resen t p r i v il ege to o ff er a sugge,,- . tion, which, while the recollection of the recent change in the municipal body makes every Protestant bosom to pulsate with delight, I would respectfully bring before the inhabitants of Liverpool, and also the' channel of communication. The immense population in the diocese of Chester urged the propriety, a short time since, of making Manchest er a bishop's se e , w h ose di ocese should b e the entire county of Lancaster; that much good would result from the effecting of such an arrangement no one acquainted with church go vernment can doubt, but that much more good would result from making Liverpool a bistip's see, whose diocese should embrace one half of the county of Lancaster, while the dio cese of Manchester embraced the other half, is, as I think, indisputable. We owe to religion, in fact, everything. Nineteen hun dred years ago our ancestors were a race of men bearing a strong resemblance to savages —wars and animosities were their chief pastimes—waste lands and wild cattle were their chief property—and a pagan superstition, full of bloody Bola tries, was associated with their government : as a consequence to these things, poverty and barbarity are the chief features in their history. A learned prelate (Bishop Burgess) has proved, by com petent authorities, that St. Paul preached the gospel of Christ: in Britain about the 14th year of the Emperor Nero, and A. D. 68: that he there appointed Aristobulus, mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans as the first bishop, and estab lished a complete form of church government. Eusebius says, that the apostles preached the gospel in all the world, and some of them passed beyond the ocean into the British Isles. Theodoret states that the apostles had induced every nation and kind of men to embrace the gospel, and among the converted nations he reckoned particularly the Britons. Towards the close of the sixth century, when Gregory the Great sent his first missionary into Britain, there were in the island schools and churches, and a flourishing clergy in a flourishing state : and Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, himself an Englishnian, and the son of an English woman, had severat E ng li s h bi s h ops pre i ent at the First Coun c il o f Nice, nearly three centuries previous. With Christianity civilization dawned on our forefathers. Britain, having welcomed the Almighty's message to salva tion, ceased to be the land of barbarism. Under a form of ecclesiastical government. consisting of bishops and a subor dinate clergy, arranged by the Apostles of Jesus Christ, as God's instrument for the conversion of nations, waste lands were converted into fruitful field's ; weapons of warfare were exchanged for instruments of husbandry; the daisies first spangled the pastures ; the dog rose and the honeysuckle first bloomed in the hedgerows ; the clack of the windmill and the music of the watermill first delighted English ears ; the arts and sciences, that were in future generations to result in the useful canal, the giant steam-ship, and the wonderful railroad, and the aggrandisement that is now seen, in the dominion of the mighty waters, a kingdom on which th e sun never sets, and the greatest, the wealthiest, the most power ful, and the most civilized nation that has a present existence, were first germed. It appears to have been the will and the intention of the first founders of church government, namely, the apostles, that every considerable town or city should have had a bishop. Tertullian, a learned father of the third century, says, that St. John appointed bishops, in the seven principal cities of Lesser Asia—Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira Sardis, Philadel phia, Laodi cea , Pergamos, and each of which cities contained a bishop, we are assured fro m Scripture, in St. John's time; in fact, St. John was to them an archbishop. He resided much at Ephesus, and frequently made a circuit of all these cities. Timothy, who was ordained the first bishop of the church at Ephesus, received directions from St. Paul as to the appointment of bishops, iu case the apostle tarried long in other places ; which circumstance suggests a presumption that bishops were intended to be many in number. The Epistle to Titus contains St. Paul's reasons for the apostles leaving him in Crete in these memorable words : " For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders, in every city, as I had appointed thee ; if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly ; for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God ; not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he bath been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gain sayers." From these sources we have a clear view of the apostolical plan ; this plan was mirrored in the arrangements of their immediate followers ; the early history of the Christian church presents many such arrangements, shewing a reflec tion of it, more or less clear in their detada, to every atten tive reader's eye. To advance 'beyond the boundaries of the more early his tory of the British church, that by a nearer road I may ar rive at the chief object I have in view, I will briefly glance at a' fewfaets, offering considerable assistance in my ways Our little island did not, at the time of the conquest, con tain much above a .million inhabitants,altogether ; (this is a pretty general statement) yet, in the year 604, more than four hundred years before then, London was made a Bishop's see : in reality, during the heptarchy, the different dioceses did not contain anything like a numerous population ; to abolish some increasing evils apparent-in the times of our venerable national ecclesiastical historian Bede, he made use of the recommendations contained in the following portion of a letter, which lie wrote to Egbert, Archbishop of York : " Your diocese is too large to allow you to go through the whole in one' year, therefore appoint presbyters in each vil lage to instruct-and administer the . sacraments ; and let them be studious, that every one of them may learn by heart, the creed arid the Lord's prayer, and that if they do not under stand Latin,•they •may repeat them in their own tongue ; I have translated them into English for the benefit of English pastors ; I am told there are many villages in our nation, in the mountain parts, the inhabitants of which have never seen a bishop or a pastor, and yet they are obliged to pay their dues to the bishop. " The best means to reform our church is to increase the number of bishops; who sees not how much more reasona ble it is for numbers to share this burden ; Gregory therefore desired Augustine to appoint twelve bishops, to be•under the Archbishop of York as their metropolitan. I wish you would fill up this number, with the assistance of the King of Nor thumberland." In the former part of this letter, Bede commends the es pecial perusal of the Epistle to Timothy and Titus; this letter was written in the early part of the eighth century, and who will deny, that though educated in a monastery, the writer was a reformer? Liverpool now contains a population more than equal to the population of London long after London was made a Bishop's see, and considerably greater than the present populations in the dioceses of Bangor, St. Asiph, Bristol, Carlisle, Chichester, Ely, Hereford, Llandaff, Oxford, Pe terborough and Rochester. Why should not Liverpool be made a cathedral town ? While English bishops, and arch bishops even at least as numerous, at a time when the entire population of England did not reach the number, why should the present diocese of Chester contain two million inhabi tants : If the apostle Paul appointed bishops in every city in Crete, why should not every city in Lancashire, at least every considerable city, have its bishop? If Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira, Philadelphia, and the rest of the cities of Asia minor, had each its bishop, why should not Liverpool have its bishop? Our liberal friends will certainly object to our having a bishop, not but that many of them would like to see a Ro man Catholic bishop, but that bishops are useless, that their office imposes expense and other like evils ; but constituted as society is constituted now, evil as men's passions are now, and mischievous as people's inclinations are now, we can only keep the barriers of civilization perfect, by either churches, or prisons, being distributed within the water walled bulwarks of England; much more expense must be entailed on such objectors for the support of prisons than would be entailed on them for the support of churches, and much larger salaries paid to policemen for tormenting peo ple than to clergymen for making people happy ; if they won't have churches and chapels, they must have prisons and hulks ; if they won't have pulpits and pews, they must have treadmills and jibbets ; if they won't send people to Heaven, they must send people to Hell; and if they won't love their fellow-creatures from motives of Christian philan throphy, they must hate their fellow-creatures from its oppo site feeling. Let us have a cathedral and we shall soon dis pense with a prison ; let kindly sympathies one towards another be exercised, and we shall soon have no occasion for a workhouse ; let us have bishops, and we shall soon not want overseers ; let us have clergymen, and we shall soon do away with constables; let apostolical Christianity prevail amongst us, and love to all men will be our m as t er passion ; let libral principles be carried out, and hatred towards all men, under another name, will be our chief characteristic. I shall advocate the subject still further in a future letter. Yours, &c., A CONSERVATIVE --- --.11110.- GREAT GEORGE-STREET CHAPEL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Knowing the desire which you have always evinced for impartiality, I beg, through the medium of your valuable paper, to offer a few remarks on the one-sided opinions that have been so profusely dealt out in praise of the design, architectural arrangement, and detail of Great George-street Chapel. With regard to the general plan of the building, it seems to embrace all that has been required : but it may be ob served, that it is much more suited to the purposes of a theatre than that of a place of worship, —not with respect to its facilities of plan alone, but from the general appearance of the building. Its gaudy playfulness is at variance with the solemn dutieti which have to be performed within it, and therefore produces an effect contrary to its meaning. The architect—a gentleman of known abilities, but, I believe, better known in the professional world as the " old lady" of the Town-hall—can have no claim to originality in the de sign of this theatrical structure; nor has he, with his valua ble assistant (the gentleman who had to ask for a share of the praise of planning this building), done themselves much credit by the intercolumniation of the order that has been adopted, it being, as near as I can judge, en style, more the practice of the Greeks than the Romans ; and it is obvious that this is an insurmountable error. The whole arrange ment becomes affected by it, not only with respect to its apertures being contracted in width, and thereby rendered disproportionate ; but it also precludes the possibility of producing any other than that of a meagre, diminutive detail to those apertures, and thereby becoming more offensive to the eye in every respect; and which is the more increased by the want of finish to the archivolts over the windows, they having neither console, impost, nor keystone ; indeed the windows are nothing more than a long slip of a circular headed loophole, divided in the middle by a panel, set in a little from the face of the architrave, which serves to conceal the gallery joists. The order, too, taking it as a whole, has not a very agreeable appearance : there is a want of combi nation in its parts. The cornice, in particular, the lower Part of which seems to have no connexion with the coroner and upper members, the bed, and dentil band, being too di minutive for the modellions which surmount them ; there is also a gross derangement in the modellions at each angle of the building : so much so, that the three or four modellions approaching the extreme of each facade have not much more than half the space betwixt than of their cognate neighbours. The circular vestibule which forms the principal entrance, being continued above the roof of the pronoas, forms itself into a stylobate, the die of which is perforated to give light to the interior; and from the undulated blocking which sur mounts the cornice of the stylobate, springs a dome, perhaps as handsome in its contour as any one that Liverpool can boast of, but which has been very much deteriorated in its appearance by the monstrously large (I should suppose chryselephantme) finial, which has been introduced as its crowning ornament; but, through some wise arrangement, it bas since been taken down, I am informed, to be reduced to one-half its former size, which will no doubt greatly im prove it; when it has undergone this operation, I suppose it will be again exhibited to the public, in all its glittering splendour. The impropriety of springing a dome from a mere stylobate, is forcibly represented in this structure : its want of interspace and entabletnent gives it somewhat the appearance of the cone of the " wind-mill," architecturally embellished, yet requiring the finish produced by its sails. The huge attic which surmounts the body of the building, is at variance with the style chosen , it merely serving to con ceal the roof ; while the roof, in this particular style, is ge nerally intended to be the leading feature of .the building. This seems at first.to have been considered, inasmuch as the roof of the portigo..pprir and ia finiihpfl wait the of the cytue'► this principle —emit even a blank aperture or finish of any kintt• iron railing and its arrangement in the front has no claiM to praise in its design, it beir.g too much broken up, and there fore produces nothing more unimposing effect , I _mould you not consider me too troublesome, win re sume this subject at some future period, by cotnnienting upon the arrangement an d arc hit ec t ura l fi n i s h o f the interior of this building.—l am, sir, yours, &c., Liverpool, Nov. 121 n, 1841. P. S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Six,—Allow me through your excellent journal to inform the electors of North Toxteth Ward, that it was Mr. John Smith, of West Derby Ward, who voted on the school question for Mr. R. V. Yates, the Socinian, in opposition to a defender and supporter of our protestant church, and not their excellent member, Alexander Smith, Jun. , Esq.—l am Sir, yours respectfully, A PROTESTANT, THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE'S LECTURE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. I understand it is intended to publish the very interesting lecture delivered at the Amphitheatre last evening by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. All well. But, I venture to suggest that the proceeds of the sale of the pamphlet be a ppropriated to some of our own c h ar iti es , as th e soc i ety , w h ose claims the reverend lecturer advocated with such extraordinary ability and success, has already reaped what I consider a suP ficient harvest, and we should not forget that there are many deserving institutions in our own town whose claims are equally great, and whose funds are at slow ebb. If you think well of my suggestion, "(offered in a spirit of fairness, I hope,) perhaps you w ill p u bli s h it t omorrow .—l a m, Sir, yours, &c., A. B. C. ROMISH CONTROVERSY. TO THE REV. DR. BUTLER SIR,—A respectable Roman Catholic bookseller called on a friend of mine, stating that you had declared to him your readiness to meet me, and undertook to bring a written mes sage tn me to that effect. He again called on my friend on Mo.,(irly last, and said that you bad refused to write it, but that you commissioned him to say that you were willing , upon certain conditions, to meet me. I take this method of inquiring whether you really Po _age. If so, my address is " Parkfield, Birken head," and a letter will at any time find me. I beg again to repeat my readiness publicly to bring to the test of God's holy Word the doctrines of Roenanism. You have written two volumes professing to prove - the " TRUTII,I OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION FROM SCRIPTURE ALONE• I have carefully read those volumes, and I have already pub licly shewn, in four lectures, that you have eminently failed in proving the peculiar doctrines of the Romish Church to have any foundation in Scripture. I now again, sir, call upon you to meet me in the presence of your people, and to bring to the test of Scripture the fol lowing Romish doctrines :- 1. THE WORSHIP OF THE HOST. Romanism teaches that the host is to be worshipped 85 God. that mess. Have we precept or example in the New Testament for the worship of the host ? 2. THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS FOR THE DEAD. Romanism teaches that the sacrifice of the mass is an offering propitiatory for the sins of the dead. Where is this taught in the New Testament? Do We read any where of Christ or his apostles making an offering for the dead? 3. JUSTIFYING FAITH. Romanism pronounces the man accursed who believes that justifying faith is nothing else but a confidence in the Divine mercy pardoning sins for Christ's sake. Where does Scripture pronounce that curse? Did Christ or his apostles teach that it is a damnable heresy to trust alone in God's mercy through Christ ? 4. ELECTION TO EVERLASTING LIFE. Romanism pronounces the man accursed who believes himself to be in the number of the elect. Where is that curse pronounced in Scripture? 5. SUPREMACY OF THE POPE. The Bishop of Rome claims supreme authority over the whole Chnrch, as the successor of St. Peter. Where does Scripture teach us that St. Peter was ever Bishop of Rome ; or that he conferred any prerogative upon the Roman See ? 6. IMPURITIES OF THE CONFESSIONAL. Romanism teaches that priests should ask females abo minable and indecent questions, at confession ; and that females must not shrink from conversing in the most in delicate manner with unmarried priests. Where does Scripture teach auricular confession ; or command Christian ministers to pollute the female members of their churches by filthy conversation ? I invite you, sir, to come forward and bring these doctrines to the test of God's Word. I have the authority of that Word for saying, that if you really believe them, and if you have learned them from the Scriptures, you will not refuse to do so. If you continue to hold back, it is not uncharita ble to say that to you are applicable the words of our Lord— " EVERY ONE THAT DOETH EVIL HATETH THE LIGHT, NEITHER COMETH TO THE LIGHT, LEST HIS DEEDS SHOULD BE REPROVED." If you continue to hold back, you and your brethren will find that Rornanists in the light of Protestant England are a very different class of persons from Romanists in an Italian parish. They will think. They are reading my letters. Two thouaand copies of my last letter to you have been circulated amongst them. This one will also be widely diffused ; and, by the blessing of God, many of them will be induced to do what you refuse to do. They will search the Scriptures, and find in them that Catholic truth pronounces Romanism a heresy denying the true Gospel of Cbrist ; and by the blessed Saviour's grace they will hear his voice— " COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT vs BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER PLAGUES." Excuse my plain speaking. I write in the preset:ice and the fear of God. He knows that I write with no unkind feelings towards you or towards any man. I hate your errors: I love your person, and mourn over the ruin which impends over your soul, when you shall have to answer at the judgment -seat of Christ for your false teaching. I remain, Sir, your faithful servant in Christ, JOSEPH BAYLEE. Parkfield, Birkenh ea d, N ov . 18, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Will you allow me the privilege, through the medium of your valuable paper, to suggest to the charitable portion of the town, the propriety of immediately opening the soup houses ? My reason for wishing thus to intrude on your columns is the numerous and heart-rending instances of the greatest distress, the scarceness of work, and the intensity of the weather.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 17th Nov. 1841 PH ILANTH IiOPUS REV. T. D. GREGG We are happy to observe that the magistrates of Dublin, against whom this gentleman had brought an action for false imprisonment, in consequence of their hasty and wrongful committal of him, growing out of an affair in which he had acted the generous and Christian part of endeavouring to rescue a young lady out of a nunnery in which she was de tained against the wish of her friends, have made the amende, and induced him to withdraw his action by paying all the costs. The authorised statement, by Mr. Gregg's solicitor, is as follows : "TO THE EDITOR OF SAUNDERS'S NEWS-LETTER. " Sri,—As the solicitor of the Rev. T. D. Gregg, I feel it due to the character of that gentleman to place, through you, the following statement before the public :—ln consequence of the committal of Mr. Gregg in May last, by the Magis trates of Henry -street Police-office, I received his instructions to proceed against those gentlemen in an action for false im prisonment. Peeling himself aggrieved by their decision, which he could not but consider as calculated to injure him in public estimation, Mr. Gregg determined to place the whole matter before a jury of his countrymen, and submit with confidence his acts and motives to their verdict. The gentlemen against whom this action was commenced have met it with an offer to pay all the costs incurred by Mr. Gregg. As Mr. Gregg's only object was to vindicate his character as a Christian clergyman from the imputations which his committal was calculated to throw upon him, an object which he believes fully obtained by this offer of amends on the part of the Magistrates, I have received his directions to discontinue tile action, the Magistrates con senting to the publication of this statement, which Mr. Gregg considers is as much as be ought to require from gen tlemen holding the situations which they occupy ; and I am further authorised to say, that the Magistrates feel obliged to Mr. Gregg for having acceded to their wishes. " 1 am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, " OLIVER ANSELNI TIBEAUDO. " 13, York-street AN UNHEALTHY SPOT.—The New York Herald, speak ing of the sanitary state of Vicksburg, says " Young men sleep two in a room, that one may call a doctor if the other be attacked with the fever." NEWSPAPERS.—The first English newspaper was printed by order of Queen Elizabeth, during the time of the Spanish Armada ; it was called " The English' Mercurie " a copy of which is now in the British Museum, dated July 23, 1588, and contains the following curious article :—" Yesterday the Scotch Ambassador had a private audience of her Majesty, and delivered a letter from the King, his master, containing the most cordial assurances of adhering to her Majesty's interest. And the young King said to her Majesty's minis ter at his court, that all the favour he expected from the . Spaniards was, the courtesy shoe n by Polyphemus to Ulys ses, that he should be devoured the last." QUIDDITIES.—" I prefer your room to your company," as the rabbit said to the ferret, when the latter paid him a domiciliary visit, " Vaunting ambition doth o'erleap itself," as the spider said to the fly, when he hopped into the cob web. "We are very hospitable to strangers," as the trap said to the mouse, when she put her head inside it. " She's got into Davy's locker," as the sexton said when his dog worried the cat i n th e pu l p i t. " Slaughter of the innocents, ' as the chambermaid observed when she was killing fleas. ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON.—ShortIy before the battle of Jena, Napoleon had well nigh fallen a victim to one of those accidents which may be considered as reinforcements to the legitimate hazards encountered in the glorious " trade of war." At Weimar the Emperor disposed his forces in order of battle, and bivouaced in the centre of his guard. He had ordered a passage to be hollowed in the rock, and towards 2 o'clock in the morning, set out on foot to ascertain how the work was proceeding. Having remained au hour on the spot, he resolved to make a rapid inspection of the nearest outposts, before returning to his bivouac. This solitary ex cursion nearly cost the Emperor his life. The night was so dark that the sentries were unable to see the slightest hehteTstoEbjtenc.t at the distance o f t en p aces . One of them, hearin g f ootsteps, challenged, and immediately presented his piece. peror, who was prevented from hearing the qui viva by one of his fits of absence, made no answer, and was speedily aroused from his reverie by a ball whizzing past his ear. Instantly aware of his danger, he threw himself flat on the ground. No sooner had he adopted this precaution than a shower of bullets passed over him ; the first sentry's fire having been repeated through the whole line. The momen tary danger past, the Emperor rose and walked straight to the nearest outpost, where he was immediately recognised. In a few minutes the sentry who had first challenged and fired was relieved from his post, and brought before Napo leon. The soldier was a young Grenadier in one of the regi ments of the line. " You young rasca l !" said the Emperor, familiarly pinching his cheek, "it seems you took roe for a Prussian ! the dog does not waste his powder ; nothing less than an Emperor serves him for a mark." The poor soldier, in the utmost consternation at the idea that he might have killed the little corporal, whom he idolised not less than the rest of the army, could only stammer out a few broken sen tences Pardon, sire, but I had orders to fire ;if you will not answer, I am not to blame; another time you must put in the orders that you dont choose to answer." The Empe ror laughed, and, to reconcile the poor fellow to himself, said, as he withdrew, " My brave lad, it was not your fault; for a random shot in the dark, yours was not amiss ; it will soon be daylight ; take a better aim, and I'll provide for you." 13eenOb;;;;;Ftl;rOtTgtIOTit, 7 it would have done the author much more credit. It would appear that the inhabitants o f Nelson-street and Great George 's -square have no taste for architecture, and the " old lady," knowing this, has given them nothing more to look at than a warehouse, or mer chants' stores ; indeed the building, George-square, it nothing as seen fro m Great with- • The more than a huge blank Wall,