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37 , f , _ _ ./7 . • • k f a„, 1 -7 z, teed ir - JULY 19, 1836, LECTURES ON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY. DR. CARSON, SeV.l);.Tli.lii.S WOLFF, and Mr. CH ATER. will delivers COURSE of LECTURES on ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY, to com mence in the early part of Ocrourm next. / The Lectures on: Physiology, by Dr. Car n, Sen., will be illustrated by actual experiment. Dr. JULIUS WOLFF will Deliver a URSE of LECTURES on the Application of the STETHOSCOPE the various Diseases affecting the Organs of RESPIRATION an I CIRCULATION. The Anatomical Demonstrations and Dissections will be con ducted by Dr. Julius Wolff and Mr. Chater. Further particulars will be given in future papers. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, On the Four Race Nights (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) the I er . formances will not cominenceloltitEight o'clock. The Public is respectfully inform/ that Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY Of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, . engaged for Ten Nights previous to their departure for merica, and will ap pear this Evening. Miss TLRPIN, Principal Vocalist of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, who is engaged for a Fortnight, will make her secund.appeanince here these three years. Mr. BROUGH, Of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin. whose success in the American Theatres, during his recent visit there, has been must decided, and Mr. HENRY HORNCASTLE. Of the Theatre-Roval. Drury-lane, who are engaged for a limited period, will likewise appear this Evening. 1 riIHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 19th instant, will be performed Mozart's Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. • Fioreilo—Mr. Henry Horncastle I Basil—Mr. Brough. Count Altnaviva..Mr. Horncastle I Figaro.. Mr. Browne. Cherubim). ... (the Page) Miss Chaplin. C9uutess Almaviva.. Mrs.W. H. Bland. (late Miss Somerville.) Susanna. "Miss Turpin. In the course - of the Evening the Glee of " Mynheer Van Dunck," by Mr. Henry Horncastle, Mr. Broug,h, and ik r. G. Horncastle, and a Pas de Deux by Mr. J. Ridgway and Wladlle. Marie. To conclude with the Musical Farce of WHY DON'T SHE MARRY? Natz Tieck .. Mr. Keeley I Lisette Gierstein —Mrs. Keeley. To-moßnow, (Wednesday,) the Musical Play of GUY lIANNERING. Henry Bertram, Mr. Henry * Horncastle; Gabriel, Mr. Broug,h; Dirk Hatteraick, Mr. Browne; Lucy Bertram, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Julia Mannering, Miss Turpiu conclude with the Musical Farce of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Peter Spyk, Mr. Keeley; Gertrude, Mrs. Keeley. WE owe an apology to our numerous subscribers, especially those of then, not resident in the town, for the delay in the delivery of our last publication. The entire proceedings at the glorious meeting of Wednesday being of considerable importance, and, being desirous that nothing which was said upon that occasion should be lost to the reader, we were obliged to postpone getting the paper to press nearly four hours beyond the usual time—hence arose the inconvenience. .We have, however, such arrangements in contemplation as will, when made, prevent similar disappointment in future. We have received several communications respecting the vari ous published reports of the proceedings at the great meeting held on Wednesday—We have nothing to do with any co her report than that which appeared in the STANDARD of Friday, and which, it is only bare justice to state, is by far the longest and most accurate extant. If H. R., will call at the Standard-office we will explain to him why his letter has not been inserted. Zbe I,ll.'crpool g.:tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1836. The news from the seat of war in Spain continues to be in favour of the Carlists. There have been disorders at Figueras, where the po- Pulace rose and murdered the governor, TENA, but what his offence was no one can tell. CABRERA has published a notice to the effect, that for every Carlist shot by the Queenites he will shoot ten of the latter. Both parties appear to be equally savage and Worthless. Yet the British arms are permitted to be tar nished by being employed in this contest. Rumours prevail at Paris of another attempt upon the life of the King on the part of a connexion of FIESCRI'S. There is nothing tangible in the story. The English Church Bill is likely to pass the House of Lords without material alteration ; so that this question may be considered as settled. The conduct of the clergy has been most exemplary, and it has extorted the praise even of the bitterest enemies of the church. The Irish Church Bill was read a third time in the Commons, on Friday night. The English Church Re form Bill is making rapid progress. Mr. SPRING RICE again returned to his Newspaper Stamp Bill last night, and, we presume, got it through a committee. The'ri,ght honourable gentleman is slashing away to wind up the session. On Friday night, Mr. CLAY made an attempt to force on Government that part of the Danish claims relating 'to ships and cargoes seized in the Baltic, the claims for book debts and goods seized on shore, having been pre viously admitted, and the former liquidated. The Chancellor of the Exchequer resisted the motion on the ground that the seizure accorded with the law of nations, and if compensation were allowed in this case, why the principle would lead to compensation for all other captures of the same kind; and it was clear, he ar gued, that no such principle could be listened to. On a division, however, Mr. CLAY'S motion was lost by a majority of 8 only ; 51 having voted with him, 59 against him. A vast deal of fine florid indignation has been flung out against the peers for rejecting the South Durham Railway Bill; and a journal near home, ever ready to adopt every complaint against the Lords, however stupid, however unfounded, gravely inquires if their lordships are not now to be deprived of the power of doing mis chief? Why they have done nothing of the sort—they have s imply extinguished a job, the principle of which, once admitted and acted on—though recognised in this in stance by a slovenly and unreflecting House of Corn illmls—would lead to the invasion of property of all kinds for private purposes. The South Durham Railway was the project of per sons interested in certain coal-fields, the produce of Which they wished to convey over the property of other Proprietors of coals, to the sea, without the consent of t hose proprietors, and without offering any material pub lie advantage, inasmuch as the supply of coals from Dur ham and Northumberland is already greater than the 'latnand, and the works are carried on at a bare profit. In all other cases of railroads to the sea, as Lord WHARCLIFFE stated, the consent - of the owners of pro- Aerty had been obtained gratuitously, or purchased by large sums of money. The South Durham Railway pro jectors sought to push their bill without this ingredient; t hey were interested in getting it ; the owners of the pro perty over which they wanted to pass were interested in resisting it, and the latter prevailed, in the House of Ln rdst for the incontrovertible reason stated. What would our liberal friend of the Mercury say to an Act of Podia %mit to authorise the printing of some rival Liverpool journal at his machine, without his consent—without money and without price ? We bear nothing farther of O'CONNELL'S " National Association ;" and the Big Beggarman is himself, strange to tell, silent. We suppose he is exhausted for a time With the unusual exploit of subscribing the immense sum cl £33 in the names of twenty-six members of his pre c►ous family. It is indeed a wonder that he let a penny *lip through his fingers. We said, by anticipation, that the meeting at the Am ltitheatre would be one of the greatest, as it was one of the most important, ever held in Liverpool. On most obcasions such assemblies have to discuss and consider some mere party or secular question. Higher duties tlevolved on the memorable meeting of Wednesday. Not ° illy were momentous principles involved, but the souls of present and remote future generations were at stake. At such a meeting, therefore, the Clergy of the Church of England were most appropriately the organs of the Public will, and the directors of the public voice. One of the radical prints stupidly affects to " consider the meet ing insignificant as an expression of popular feeling ;" Ytt this same radical print admits that more than five thousand people were present, including persons of both saxes and all classes; that the most enthusiastic feeling Pretrailed ; that the speakers were much applauded ; and that every allusion to the wickednesses and absurdities of the levelling Town Council were received in a manner 'hid' indicated sovereign contempt mingled with glow , in t indignation ; still, says the complacent simpleton' to whom we allude, " we are quite confident that when the matter comes to be properly understood, the proceedings of the town council will meet with the approbation of every reasonable being in the community whose good opinion is worth having,-." Comes to be understood We are quite confident that the blockhead who penned this stuff is himself a councillor—no other man upon earth could have been guilty of perpetrating so exquisite a sample of absurdity. Such of our readers as have attended to our report will have seen that the meeting was an extremely strong and most decided "expression of public feeling ;" that more than five thousand persons were present, and double that number would have attended had there been room; that such was the public anxiety to obtain tickets large sums of money were offered for them ; that seventy clergymen were present, and several dissenting ministers, in cluding the much-respected Dr. RALPH of the Scotch church, and the equally-respected Rev. JAMES DIXON of the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; that the laity were as influential and intellectual as numerous; and that hut one sentiment pervaded the congregated mass, namely, a determined yet in all respects Christian resistance to the presumptuous and scandalous attempt of the Town Council to deprive the rising generation of our populous borough of the free and unrestricted use of the Word of GOD. Yes, the meeting was in the best sense of the word a glorious one, and the subscription list shows that its OBJECT IS FULLY ACCOMPLISHED. The new arrangements are already in operation. In a short time capacious schools will spring up in various parts of the town ; so that the effect of the Council's effort to O'Conneilize and Socinianize the children of the poor will not only be defeated, but a spirit is excited which will send to the new schools thousands of children who other wise might never have entered a place of sound Protestant scriptural instruction. We are told that the Town Council will persevere in its " liberal" plans, notwithstanding the utter desertion of the Corporation Schools. That is probable enough; wickedness and folly are proverbially obstinate. A ma jority of the Town Council have prescribed to themselves certain courses in order to produce a political effect pro motive of their ulterior views with regard to Church and State, and in order also to enhance their local power and authority. They reverse the fine sentiment of the great Bard. They practically cry, 'Tis excellent to have a giant's strength, but profitless not to use it like a giant. They forget the instability of mundane things—the vanity of human wishes—that there is a Power greater than that of the Socinian Liverpool Town Council anti Mr. (at present) M.P. EWART to hoot;—that the battle is not to the strong, but to him who is permitted to conquer. It would be to distrust the goodness of Providence even to fear that such men and such designs will be long per mitted to prevail. Their first open step, indeed, against the unsophisticated faith of the Bible is likely to he their last, and, whatever the extent of their obstinacy, we are persuaded that the day is not far distant when we shall find them upon their knees imploring forgiveness of that public whom they have so grossly outraged. This they will do from worldly and trading considerations. We confess we despair of seeing them soliciting a pardon where it is more important to obtain. The Senior Rector opened the business of the meeting in a speech in all respects worthy of the cause and of his own high character. He was firm, yet as mild as the doctrines he so ably preaches. Rightly did he consider it "a very high honour, and a very high privilege," to have been placed in the chair; such an event is a bright link in the chain of any man's life. It must be added, in justice, that in coming forward as the Rev. Gentleman has done, at the head of his clerical brethren, he has ren dered a public service that will be remembered to his advantage after he shall have gone to his rest. Oh how the paltry but tyrant majority of the Council must blush, if they have any shame, at his simple exposure of their sophistry about using their selections and concoctions as an introduction, as a guide to the Scripture?. "We use selections in our schools (said the Senior Rector,) but we use them with a different intention and in a different principle from what they do in the Irish system. We hold the selections in one hand, but we keep fast hold of the Bible with the other. (Immense applause, thrice re peated.) We use our selections as aids, as helps, as steps to a better knowledge of the Bible ; they use them as a substitute for the Bible. (Long .continued applause.) The knowledge which we teach toour children when they come to our schools is tantamount to this : we teach them that there is a book which contains every thing that is necessary for their guidance here and for eternal happi ness hereafter." This is the true distinction. Do the RATHBONE clique misunderstand it? Oh, no, no, no; they fully comprehend it; but their object, disguise it as they may, is to prevent the Bible from being read. In this vital error the Socinian and the Papist Priest concur. The one knows that the Bible will put down his corrupt and delusive Church; the other feels that if the Bible be received and understood, the recipient cannot entertain Deistical notions, because he must see that Christianity is based upon the Atonement which the Socinian both doctrinally and practically denies. In Mr. CHARLES HORSFALL'S speech we have not only sound argument, and an accurate sense of Christian duty, but testimony that will not be disputed to the fact that the meeting which the Mercury " considers an in significant expression of popular feeling," was one of the largest and most respectable ever seen in Liverpool within living memory. The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL spoke well, and to the purpose in all respects. One of his facts is decisive as to the animus of the Town Council. While the Education Committee, as they are called, consulted and advised with the Romish Priests resident in the Borough, they did not seek the advice of the Clergy of the Establishment, in the same sense, under whose guidance and direction the Cor poration Schools have been carried on from their com mencement. This, we say, is decisive. It more than justifies the Clergy of the Establishment for withdrawing, were there not other and even weightier considerations. Mr. CAMPBELL was one of those who were "captivated" with the Irish system at first. But then he only saw it at a distance, and looked at it as a single measure, the pro fessed design of which was to produce harmony where harmony seldom comes. He has now seen the working of the system ; he perceives the design of the thing ; he has discovered the cloven foot under the robe of charity and peace ; and the Rector is himself again and in his right place—namely, contending for the Church and the Monarchy—contending for an education of the poor the basis of which shall be the unadulterated scriptures and a pure faith ;—contending, in short, for the Word of God. We know that the scoffing Socinian and the Infidel will sneer at this, and say, in the impious jargon of the hour, that GOD can protect his own Word without man's aid. He can. He can also sustain man without man's labour and foresight, if he pleases. But GOD has imposed du ties upon mankind, and woe to them who wilfully shut their eyes to those duties. There is one passage in Mr. CAMPBELL'S speech that we must not pass over. He complimented Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE'S gentlemanly courtesy towards himself, and declared that he had not detected in him a disposition to throw the clergy of the Establishment out of the schools. The mere mention of Mr. RATHBONE'S name called down a storm of disapprobation, so " disgusting" have the " ig norant" meddlings of that pragmatical Socinian become. Mr. CAMPBELL did not, we are very sure, express his strict meaning in the sentence adverted to. He must have intended to say that, professedly, be did not detect in Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE a desire to drive the clergy from the schools by dint of Town-Council stave and hal bert. But Mr. RATHBONE has been head and front in the O'Connellization experiment ; he insisted upon the new system; he fell like a tiger upon the opponents of his schemes; he went out of his way to assail and misrepresent the Rev. H. WNEILE, (whom he hates for his . talents and the efficient use he makes of them ;) and therefore Mr. WM. RATHBONE has done all that in him lies to expel the clergy from the schools, for he has been instrumental in introducing therein a syStem which he well knew the clergy ought to resist—Which they could not tolerate without a desertion of that duty which they owe to both God and Man. We therefore cannnot acquit Mr. RATH_ 8010 in the unqualified sense of Mr. Rector CAMPBELL'S' wordg but we are. willing to tecsii•e his eta Bence in THE LIVERPOOL STAN DART. your of Mr. \VM. RATHBONE'S gentlemanly courtesies, though w•e acknowledge that it is only on Unquestion able testimony that we can bring ourselves to believe in a seeming impos,:ibility. The P,-v. HUGH. M'NEILE followed the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, and was most enthusiastically received. His was the speech of the day : it occupied two hours in the delivery, and, we will answer for it, there was not one person in the vast assemblage who did not consider it too short. A whole volume of useful commentary might be writ ten on this splendid oratorical effort. Its principal va lue consists of the important facts it conveys with regard to the operation of the Irish system even in that land for which it was especially designed. But the most attract ive and the most amusing portion of the speech was that in which the Rev. Gentleman exposed, ridiculed, and an swered the puling sophistries of Mr. BLACKBURN'S silky oration in the Town Council—that speech which "struck" some with astonishment, and drew from the Mayor so much "admiration." We wish his Worship had been at the Amphitheatre to witness the dissection of the sub ject of his hasty eulogy! Nothing could have been more successful than the Rev. Gentleman's parallel between the Irish municipal bill and the Irish systeM of education. So annihilating to a false argument is this happy illustra tion that the Mercury is under the necessity of replying to it by calling Mr. M'NEtLE a mountebank, a jack-pud ding, and a stage-player. The poor senior editor! Here we lament the hard necessity which drove a man of his profound learning, mature judgment, and brilliant fancy to so miserable an expedient. What ! " Katterfelto, with his hair on end, WoLdering at his own wonders," quite out of countenance, without the semblance of an argument, driven to mean falsehood and still meaner in sult. But we need not dwell on Mr. M'NEILE's incom parable speech ; that has been universally read both by his friends and his enemies, and its best praise is that it came from the heart. Mr. S. HormE made some important observations on the feelings of the working classes in Liverpool, and the duties of the masters who have under them large bodies of workpeople. His anecdote of a town councillor, with respect to the Scriptures, was at once melancholy and instructive, showing, on the one hand, the baneful and seductive effects of a specious liberality, on the other, the wide difference there is between lip-profession and prac tical operation. Mr. HoLmF, is charitable enough to think that many of the Town Council have been deluded into the present system, and are ignorant of its ultimate effects; yet he very rationally believes that there is an unseen power behind the scenes pulling the wires, and that that power'is popery. Now ought not the gentlemen to whom Mr. HoLmE alludes to be able to perceive and appreciate this glaring truth ? We say, yes. And if we were to allow that they mean well, but are deluded, we should do it an expense to their understandings for which they would feel little disposition to thank us. In Mr. HOLME'S exhortation to all who enjoy the light to contribute towards spreading the light, we cordially con cur; we will say moreover that those who refuse to do so are unworthy of the 'light, and are not very likely to be saved by it from fatally stumbling when it is too late to recover. We were exceedingly glad to see Dr. RALPH take part in the proceedings, for his own sake and that of his church, as well as for for the cause he so ably supported. His compliment to Mr. M'NEILE should be engraved on a monument which ought to be raised to that Rev. Gentle man's honour—" The most lion-hearted Churchman since the day's Of LUTHER." No less gratified were we to see the resolution moved by Dr. RALPH, seconded by the Rev. JAMES DIXON, Wesleyan Minister in this town. The hour was late, and Mr. DIXON had no opportunity for a lengthened address, but he did much in two or three short sentences relative to the establishment and the Liverpool Clergy. 44 Though Providence has placed me (said Mr. DixoN) not exactly in their communion, but close by their side, I wish to give utterance to this opinion, that I, for one, do think the Church of England (scripturally speaking) a lawful establishment. The Church of England ought to be maintained, and preserved in its integrity, for it is necessary for the preservation of the rights and well-being of that great community, and I most heartily desire, and consistently pray, that this Church may he preserved in all her glory. I wish to respond to an expression of two or three of the reverend gentlemen who addressed the meeting at an early part of the evening; and my opinion is, and I speak it as an honest man—l speak it in the presence of this dignified assembly, and I would speak it in the presence of an assembled world—that I believe the Church of England is indeed the great breakwater against the swelling tide of Popery at the present day." Towards the close some zealous persons called for an expression of feeling hostile to Popery in a strain which was natural and praiseworthy in itself, but Mr. M'NEILE, pursuing the enemy to be contended with, stepped forth and proposed the singing of the doxology, and his request was instant!! complied with most decorously and devoutly ; yet it has been made matter of charge against the Rev. Gentleman that lie encouraged disorder by attemping to inflame ? The meeting ended with unquestionable proof of the sincerity of those engaged in it, for nearly Three Thou sand Pounds were instantly subscribed; by Thursday evening that amount had swelled to upwards of Five Thousand; and at the time of sending our present sheet to the press the subscription is £6447. We repeat, then, that the OBJECT OF THE MEETING IS FULLY ACCOMPLISHED. The Town Council, in this mat ter, are deserving of nothing but our severest reprehen sion ; still it must be inferred that, without intending it, it has done much towards the promotion of the cause of unrestricted Scriptural Education in the Borough of Liverpool. As instinctively connected with this subject, we refer to our report, which is the fullest we could obtain, of the great meeting held at Exeter Hall, in the metropolis, on Thursday, for the purpose of laying before the public " the peculiar perils in which the protestants of Ireland are involved, and to receive an appeal to be made in the spirit of candour and Christian charity to our fellow-sub jects themselves, as well as to the Britssh nation in ge neral, on the principles from which these perils ariSe.' Mr. FINCH, M.P. took the chair; the attendance was exceedingly numerous, and the Rev. Mr. M'GnEE was almost the only speaker. O'CONNELL had been respect fully invited to attend and reply to Mr. M‘GnEE, if be thought proper ; but he shrunk from the contest. No ! The Agitator, though he boasts that the wealth, and pa triotism, and intellect ci the metropolis are on his side, dare not show himself in an intellectual and impakial English assembly. Mr. M‘G-HEE's statement was one of great moment at the present time, and its circulation must be attended with beneficial consequences. The Liverpool Town Council! What a train of mis chief, hypocrisy, und humbug dwells in that one short sentence—the fabled ills of Pandora's Box were a mere tzifle in comparison with it. In our Friday's number we gave a full and accurate report of the proceedings of said Council on the pre ceding Wednesday,with reference to Mr. FOSTER'S claim of compensation. After a long delay, and a tremendous expenditure of .the public money, it is at last settled that Mr. FOSTER is to have £2500 a-vear for life; and the Town is thus saddled with a heavy burthen by a set of meddling and brawling partisans, pledged to rigid eco nomy, for no better reason than that a despicable faction might exercise patronage and reward a hanger-on. For this purpose, a gentleman of great talent and experience is turned adrift without any trial, and his office is given to one who has not the tithe of the experience in public business as his predecessor, and which was amply proved before the municipal commissioners. Let us look a little into the history of this affair—it is pregnant with instruction whether applied to the past, the present, or the future. No man can be better qualified for the office of Town clerk than Mr. FOSTER; but Mr. FOSTER is a conserva tive—a supporter of the monarchical constitution of the country—a friend of the established church—one who cannot fawn and crouch and crawl upon all fours before persons whom he has reason to despise; therefore, as a matter of course, Mr. FosTErt found no favour in the eyes of liberal reformers. No man, on the whole can he less qualified for the office of Town-clerk than Mr. RADCLIFFE, if sundry re ports be true; but he is not a supporter of the monarchi cal constitution of the country—he is not a friend of the established church, but its enemy—he can fawn, and crouch, and crawl, too, if need be, before persons whom he ought to despise; therefore, as a matter of course, he is just the man for sham liberals and mock reformers, and several thousand pounds a-year of the public money are put into his pockets. Mr. Fosma, as most of our readers are aware, was displaced on the Ist of January last. The act of parlia ment which gave the faction in power authority to turn him out, also gave him 'a claim tocompensation to a very large amount; so that his right was quite equal to that of his enemies; yet these people (as they now openly avow) took it i!ito their wise heads that they should be able, by hook or by crook, to shuffle out of paying Mr. FOSTER his due. In the course of the discussion, on Wednesday, Councillor RATIIBONE unwittingly said that though the committee had recommended a specific sum, they "conceded" the compensation with "the greatest reluctance." Councillor COGLAN went further. He averred that Mr. FOSTER " was not entitled to one penny," well knowing at the same time that he was "en titled," by act of parliament, to a sum nearer £4,000 than £2,500. The committee, however, after a series of drixi ous in quiries, and the expenditure of a large amount of money, made the discovery that they could not defeat Mr. Fos TEE'S just claim, and within the last two months several su ms have been named from £1,500 to £2,300, as having been offered to Mr. FOSTER; if this be true it proves the shabby spirit in which these offers were made, not on ac count of the insufficiency of the sum, as from the outset Mr. FOSTER stated, in his letter dated the 11th inst., that he felt disposed to "meet the council liberally" on the subject. By referring to the report of the committee, the reader will get a . glimpse of the ruinous machinery put in mo tion in this matter. A whole host of accountants were organised to make calculations, and these gentlemen so' bothered the shallow brains of Councillor RATIMONE that the poor man seems to have been quite at sea. Then Mr. Town-clerk RADCLIFFE is set to work; and he, in turn, very naturally seeks the "eminent" assistance of his London law-agent, Mr. FAULKNER, who gets sundry "nice pickings," for he runs to the "public-officer," who naughty man, gave JOB'S comfort. Here we Ought to ask, what right had the " public-officer" to give an opinion on the subject? There was nothing before the court to justify Mr. FAULKNER'S "influence" being used; or had the "public-officer" any right to give an exparte opinion, as the lawyers have it. In our opinion this "public-officer" ought to be reported to his superiors. Then a Mr. PATTERSON also had his tug at the purse strings; and the "advice" of Mr. CROMPTON and Mr. RUSIITON was taken, and these disinterested and patriotic liberals were so obliging as to take their fees in return for their advice, which, after all, was worth nothing to the unhappy committee, for the report tells us that Mr. CROMPTON and Mr. RUSHTON, as well as Mr. -FAULKNER and Mr. RADCLIFFE, were strongly in favour of a "com promise of £2,500." Wherefore ? Because that was Mr. FOSTER'S due? Ah, no, good reader. These "mousing" gentlemen had found out, in process of in vestigation, that the Lords of the Treasury would not aid the council in their dirty designs upon Mr. FOSTER, and that if he pushed his claim, and the matter had got into the impartial hands of the "public-officer," it was "seriously apprehended" (vide report of the commit tee) that Mr. FOSTER would obtain, not £1,500 not £2,300, not £2,500, but at least £3,278 12s. 3d., pro bably a larger sum; therefore, as the report says, they "advised" a "compromise of £2,500." Poor Councillor RATIIBONE'S committee were thus driven up into a corner---.-literally tailed to the wall by' all their ample ears. Now mark the characteristic way in which they played the subsequent part of the dis honest game. Having ascertained that Mr. FOSTER was legally en titled to between three and four thousand pounds, and might obtain that amount if he chose to put the council to the expense of a legal appeal under the act, they seize the opportunity of that gentleman's absence, dispatch the Town-clerk to Mr. LLOYD, Mr. FOSTER'S partner, with the "liberal" offer of £2,500. Mr. LLOYD good naturedly entertains the proposition, under proper pre- Cautions and stipulations—writes to his friend, Mr. Fos- TER—describes to him, no doubt, the agitated state of the Rathbonian nervous system—lays open to him, we dare say, the secret workings of the paltry plot, for he must have seen through the whole thing—and Mr. Fos- TER takes pity on the woe-begone RATTIBONE, and saves himself from further annoyance by accepting the proffered £2,500, thus opposing to low trick a real and practical liberality of spirit. It is clue to Mr. FOSTER to repeat here, from his own letter, the actual and undeniable cir cumstances under which he consented to put an end to the sacrifice of the public money in the vain and dis graceful pursuit of some possible method of perpetrating an act of injustice by driving the Town Council coach and-six through the whig,r statute. " I . wish to state (says Mr. Foster) that I am entirely led to agree to this proposition from an anxious desire for the ami cable settlement of a question in which I am so personally con cerned, and likewise that in so doing I consider I am voluntarily relinquishing a legal claim to more than £l,OOO per annum, according to the terms of the treasury minute, upon the lowest estimate of the profits of the offices held by my predecessor and myself, and this not upon an average of the profits of the last five years only, but upon the well known and acknowledged emolu ments for many preceding years. " On accepting an amount of compensation so much below the amount claimed, I feel it due to myself to make this state ment, as it might otherwise he inferred that I was conscious the claim could not be supported as delivered; whilst on the other hand, having always declared my readiness to meet the town council liberally on the settlement of my claim, I trust my acquiescence in theiir proposal to you will prove that I have fulfilled that determination." Well, then, having sped so far, and so fortunately, the next consideration was how the SHELLS and the COGLANS of the council might be best humbugged ; and it must be confessed that the plan adopted was worthy of the bril liant genius of Mr. Chairman-of-Committee RATHBONE. That worthy repairs to the council-chamber with the re port of the committee in his pocket, and, with an air of ' importance and mystery suited to the occasion, calls for the "confidence" of his colleagues, and moves that the report be adopted without being read. There were de tails in the report, be said, which the "other side" might take advantage of, if the report went forth to the public and were not agreed to by the council. He felt assured that the council had full confidence, and so forth. Alas! Mr. Councillor RATHBONE'S "assurance," though notoriously great, stood him in poor stead this time. Mr. Sum wished for something better, and talked of having been sent into the council " to promote the interests of his constituents," as if a single man, woman, or child in the wide range of the municipal borough of Liverpool cared a single straw about anything such a man may say or do in his office of town•councillor ! Councillor Coo- LAN also refused " confidence " to Mr. RATHBONE in his own peculiarly mild and gentlemanly manner, and growled out something that the reporters took for "bol stering up a system of oppression." I‘lr FOSTER'S clai , ' excessivelyhe s a id, was so " mons trously extravagant, and so not be placed upon the shoulders of the council or upon any ties—upon the Lord s of the Treasury. He (Mr. F.) was a unjust, that the onus of its paymen t should f . th e mem b ers o f it, b u t u pon those of other par not entitled to one penny." Now the report then lying under this silly man's very nose established precisely the contrary of his dogmatical assertions. It proved that Mr. FosTEß's claim was below the just mark; and that he was entitled to one thousand pounds a-year more than the RATHBONE committee propose to give. We would, there fore, advise this head-over-heels unitarian radical to give up the perilous practice of oratory and stick to his traffic in shares if he is desirous that any human being should in future place "confidence" in him. The desire evinced to hear the report read socompletely conglomerated Councillor RATHBONE that he fell into the most pitiable mistakes. In contradiction to Mr. Stwir., he said that "it was not the treasury," but the Lords of the Privy Council, with whom the decision on Mr. roy- TER'S claim rested, and it was easy to perceiVe (he added) what would have been their situation in the hands of such a body constituted as it was! Mr. SHELL, however, again refused to place "confidence " in Mr. RATHBONE; and de clared that he (SHELL) was right in saying that the de cision lay with the treasury; and the Town-clerk, on be ing appealed to, was compelled to give his verdict against his bosom friend, when Mr. RATHBONE apologised, and expressed a hope that his ignorance would not be made to attach to all the members of the committee of which he was the head—and what a bead ! But this man's impudence greatly exceeds his ignorance, profound as the latter unquestionably is. He knows as little about the Lords of the Council as about the municipal act and the treasury; yet he dares to insinuate that that body would depart from l , its sworn duty for the purpose of putting a little money into Mr. FOSTER'S pockets! The best of the joke is—for RATHBONE'S public acts are so su premely ridiculous they are a general jest—that the Lords of the council, "constituted as that body is," consist, in the present disorder of things, almost wholly of politicians of his own stamp. Mr. HOPE proposed to cut the gordian knot. He pro posed to exclude the reporters. He had in his pocket some cut-and-dry " calculations " on the subject of the compensation, he intimated, and he would produce them, and even go further, if the reporters were excluded! Mr. HOPE is wise in his generation. While the reporters are present he acts most discreetly in keeping his "cal culations " to himself. The report, however, was read, and then out came Mr, RATHBONE'S cat from the bag. Then it was seen that if the council did not agree to give Mr. FOSTER the £2,500, which 113 forbearingly consented to accept, they would have to pay him nearly £l,OOO more ; so the report was adopted by forty-five to two. The illustrious pair of dis sentiems were COGLAN and MAXWELL. We have seen what manner of .man the former is; he has a patent right to absurd wrong-headedness. As to Councillor MAX WELL, his radicalism is so rank that it long since over grew his modicum of common sense, therefore he was quite in character. Now let the great, opulent, and honourable Town of Liverpool contemplate these doings of the men who, by virtue of a whip Act of Parliament, presume to call themselves its Council. Not only have these economists burthened the borough with £2500 a year by their scan dalous dismissal of Mr. FOSTER ; hut, under the guidance of Mr. RATHBONE, they add to the injustice they have done Mr. FOSTER in that dismissal by depriving him of his right as established by their own inquiries. If they had entertained a proper sense of honour, they would have given Mr. FOSTER all that was due to him, having ascertained it at the cost of so much labour and so much public money, after having fenced with him and misre presented and abused him for a period of six months. Councillor COGLAN protests against the onus of pay• ment being placed upon the shoulders of the council or those of any of its members; and this is also the lan guage of the base journals in the pay of the grovelling fac tion. But even the pothouse politicians refuse to be made the dupes of this shallow artifice. If it is the Council, and the Council alone, upon whom the scandal rests of having saddled the Borough with the £2500 per annum, in all probability for many years to come, for Mr. FOSTER is in the vigor of manhood—and long may he live to enjoy theconfusion of his mean-spirited enemies !—for it was the Council, and the Council alone, who dismissed Mr. FOSTER, thus rendering compensation necessary and inevitable. One word more, and we have done for the present. Having bared to the public gaze the gross and disgraceful jobbery with regard to Messrs. FAULKNER, RUSHTON, CROMPTON, RADCLIFFE, the Accountants, &c., we must be allowed to express a hope thai at the very first oppor tunity some independent member of the municipal body will move for the production of a statement of the expense thus incurred. Let the burgesses see into what hands they have fallen—let them see what awaits them as to the future, unless, as each succeeding Novem ber arrives they do their duty by making a clear sweep of the precious "councillors" who have so glaringly-com promised the public interests. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.—As it appears very improbable that these schools will ever be of any advantage to the town under the new system, and as the Corporation funds are being fast exhausted in meeting demands for com p ensation, and prosecuting legal proceedings, instituted for no public advantage, but solely to gratify the political hatred of some members of the council, we think such a bargain for the two schools might just now be made as would relieve the council from the onerous task of taking charge of the rising generation REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.--In the Standard of this day week, we stated, upon the information of a person connected with the family of Mr. Baines, that that gentleman would re tire from the representation of the borough at the termination of the present session. Coming from such a source, we had no hesitation in publishing the circumstance, believing it to be true. It appears, however, from a statement published in the hon. member's own newspaper, that he has no intention of resigning his seat during the present parli iment, and that Mr. Croker, whom we mentioned as having been named as his successor, would not be returned if put in nomination. Now what is the meaning of this ? He has no intention of resigning during the present parliament. Mr. Baines knows very well that it is be lieve,' on all hands, the present parliament will never be called together again—that it will be dissolved before Christmas and that he will not then tender his services to the electors of Leeds. Therefore, we were not far wrong in asserting that his parlia mentary career would terminate with the present session. Will he tell us point blank whether our information is not now " ac curate" ? As to Mr. Croker, we understand that he would be a very formidable competitor with even Mr. Baines, to say nothing of a less plausible person, for the second 'seat, ad mitting, of course, the return of Sir John Beckett to be certain. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens now present a most delightful resort; the numerous plants and flowers being in full foliage and flower. Some of the flowers are very rare, and very beautiful specimens of the kind, and almost entitle the gardens to the epithet of a Botanical Garden, as well as to its present cognomen. Mr. Atkins, the spirited proprietor, has recently erected a new building, adjoining the gardens, which which he has converted into a museum, and which is in process of formation. The museum, besides collections of rare stuffed birds, skins, shells, &c. already contains, perhaps, one of the finest entomological collections in the kingdom. WONDERFUL ESCAPE..—On Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, as Inspector Heaton was going his rounds down Prussia-street, when opposite Mr. Johnson's, publican, a man suddenly fell flat from the top (three story) window, on the flags before him. On raising him he found him quite insensi ble, but after a few moments he came round, and commenced abusing the police, asking them "what the devil they wanted ?" Inspector Heaton immediately sent for Dr. Broadfey from the Dispensary, who quickly arrived. On examining the man, however, he was found, most surprisingly, to be uninjured. The man's name is John Hill, from Wallasey, audit appeared that he had been drinking all day, and had gone up stairs to bed and opened the window, when he was so drunk that he tumbled out. A petition has been presented to the House of Commons by Lord Sandon, from the bakers of Liverpool, praying for per mission to make ship biscuits, for the use of outward hound vessels, from bonded flour. LIVERPOOL AND NEW OR LEA N A.—A meeting has been held at New Orleans for the purpose of forming a line of flist sailing packets, between that port and Liverpool. It was determined that it should be formed if a sufficient number of subscribers could be obtained. A JAIL-BIRD.—Ann Hall was, for the one-ltundretl and stmt) time, committed to the borough House of Correction. On her last appearance at the Police-office, a calculation was made, by which it was ascertained that she had, although lint little more than 30 years of age, passed form oretha_u ten years of th at time in prison, as a puni shment her disorderly conduct. Mr. Hall sent her for another 14 days, and she left the bar ex claiming, " Thank God! fourteen days will not h ur t m e a f ter being in prison for ten years ! The brig Irish Lass, Captain Samuel Gandy, arrived at this port on Sunday last from . St. John's, Newfoundland,*fter tire unu sually short passage ot eleven days. Charles Blundell , Esq. , of Ince, near Liverpool, h a s ver y' liberally returned 25 to 30 per cent., to his tenants, last rent day. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRITANNIA SONS OF MERSEY SO. CIETY.—Con Tuesday last, the members of this society held their anniversary dinner at the house o f M r . J o h n D re d ge , th e Blue Bell Inn, in London -road. The dinner was a most ex cellent one, and was served up in the first style, doing much credit to the landlord. After the cloth had been removed, the following toasts were drank amidst loud applause :--" The King," three times three; " The Queen and Royal Family," three times three; " The Army and Navy," three times three ; " The Land we live in," three times three; " The Representa tives of the Borough," three times three; " Our worthy Chief Magistrate, William Wallace Currie, Esq.," three times three ; " Mr. and Mrs. Dredge, and thanks to I hem for the excellent manner in which they have provided fur and conducted this feast," three times three ; " The Britannia Sons of Mersey Society, and may they enjoy health, wealth, and prosperity, s three times three ; " The health of Dr. Gillow , " three times three; " The President and Officers of the Society,', 0,,, three , times three. The members, after enjoying themselyest ther other in love and harmony, and congratulating each early hour, the 'On the prosperous state of the society, broke up greatest hilarity and good order having pr a prevailed aniied throughout. CAUTION TO CAR DRIVERS.—On Saturday , at the Police W ainwright's car' office, William Roon, the driver of V No. 9, was brought before the m agistrates iilian r on the information of Barton, charged with gallopingctown Parker-street, after the London mail, on Tuesday afternoon last, and afterwards plying hire in Church-street, a plac e not appointed The carmen to the ointed for a stand. It was a practice much complained against. num ber of five or six were in the habit of galloping after the mail to the great danger of per sons in the street, in order to secure a fare from the coach. He was fined ss. and costs. Mr. H all remarking if this would not put a stop to it, they must take severer measures. Several other informations of a precisely similar nature were laid: )RK- Pre more ;dom• ssing mient have ttings tde to 3ING ether ; ag ail En 125.• 6, See. that is anner, great Build- and i con- LAMrs iety of temps• I other sistiog S. for opriato I tation ALA RBIS ci Iron, EENS• lANP Colour4 ne fine inieres , is andi 3, direct i n g teh ,ZORS , oRESS ry Com exceed- lated on ry H ith Slik forming ipproved *rorn CO- an d s. to 30s• per Pair. )THER- BAGA" acy Arty Patron , m to ent, such ing to his !nt in Li' i in L° 1 !" ,ter, their ey of. th e Puerto Canary ed v essel , of Mail ndo ol g to th e , CaPtan i tor to se' able to be s that th e h ' s whit lave bee n formati on dagdalen. a went ° 1 :1 h e fou r a was t he e she wa s c Lt deal 0 injuriou.: iok out 030pP - ' ./,~- tt,-( TO W. RATHBONE, ESQ. DEAR SER,7-1, thank y ou for the copy of Your letter, which is to appear in the Albion, and to which I will briefly, and for once r ep l y I . atated in my speech, that the Roman Catholic clergy had . been consulted as to whether they would permit the children of their communion to join the others in prayer. you say. they W'tire not cOnsulted, but that Mr. Wilcox. was "tpok-ef: to by Mr. Hbrsfall, as to a matter-of-fact." This matter-of-fact related to the :permission of joint prayer. The permission was not granted, and prayer was disallowed. • • I am reported to have stated, broadly, that the clergy of the Establishment were not constilted. It I did this, I did not mean to do it, and don't believe I did.: My intention was to convey to the meeting, that, as the clergy Were the alirial act in* Cominittee, it would have been better if they had been offi cially consulted, (as I believed the Roman Catholic c ergy had been respecting a point of church discipline), with a View to se- , cure their future services. Joint prayer and the Protestant Bible were excluded from school hours,. to accommodate the, Roman Catholic clergy : the concession made to the Estab lished cler.V as a body, was their admission, with all the other ministers, When the school hours were closed. . You say,•," the plan for the arrangements now adopted wail in my hands previous to its being brought before.the Commit tee.' Only one plan wai placed in my hands, and lies before me now. You confess I declined approving of it, and it dif-, fers materially, from the plan. adopted, It did not ; exclude. the Bible in school hours. It allows three quatters 0, an hpur for re.: ligious instruction every. morning, from a quarter past. nine to ten, and additional ,hours on. such afternoons as mightlie ap pointed. This is the .only plan l ever saw. I did nut apereve of it, and it has not been adopted. , When you sent me ,the resolutions of June 15, appointing Thursday and Saturday afternoons for. Bible:reading, I wrote to say, " that they were sp disappointing to any hopes, as to convey to my mind nothing but pain : and sorrow." On the 4th of July, you met me in the street, and asked me to ;Wend your sub-committee at two, after our Huskisson Cointnittee at one. I went with you, but I protest,. you totally misunderstood me, 1 did not attend officially. I never referred to any former plan, as one which would be satisfactory to me; and the only plan I know of was not adopted. 1 declare, finally, that I proteSted, in the outset, against the Irish Scripture lessons, and an adoption of the Irish system, and said, that, if it was adopted, I must withdraw., The Irish system has been adopted, and I have withdrawn, regretting the necessity ; foreseeing, but disregarding, the.. certainty of mis interpreted motives, and determined to "hope all things," be fore 1 would leave the schools. Your obedient servant. • , AUGS. CAMPBELL: TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.I.7VD,IRD. Sia,—Having observed in the Liverpool Times, of the 12th instant, a paragraph (and which I subjoin) entitled a case of seaman's wages," and which asserted that I, in the John Walker, on a voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool, put my crew on a short allowance of provisions, on account of which they refused to do any duty for forty-eight bouri. Now, sir, I will merely state what that allowance was, and which was not disputed by the seamen themselves in court, and appeal to the public whether or not it could be called u.short one-:—Tbey had, daily, of beef, 11 , 1 b. or lith. of pork; bread and water, unli mited; pease awl barley, unlimited; tea and sugar or c off ee and mocasses, night and morning, also unlimited; flour once a-week, also an unlimited quantity; and a glass of spirits daily; which was proved by a naval gentleman in court to be fifty per cent. more than that allowed in his majesty's navy. I have now been about twenty years at sea, (eleven Of which as master.) and have never yet had provisions of .a better quality, although at all times accustomed to lay in the best, and which were open for inspection, as there is still on board at leastaa ton of bread and a sufficiency of beef and pork to carry the vessel nut again to America. Now, sir, my motive for not paying these men was, their tinous conduct during the passage, after I was obliged, for the safety of all entrusted to me, to comply with their demands of an additional quantity of beef and pork, as will appear from my paying the other half of them upon arrival, who conducted themselves with prudence and propriety, although also guilty. of the first offence; but, not bein allowed to bring before the court, having uo attorney, led to that, letter against which was animadverted in so strong terms, and by which I only wished to have their conduct more fully enquired into ere 1 laid it be fore the public, being so unacquainted with the rules of court as to think it unnecessary to employ an attorney, and which Mr. Hall himself declared, on a final hearing of the case on Thursday last, would have been of vital importance in en earlier stage; it was also stated that the mate, when asked whether he thought the allowance sufficient, replied, " .1 think not," and afterwards that it was sufficient for him, Now, sir,' I recollect that the manner in which that evidence was given not a little astonished the court; he swore that he had never been on an allowance before. Now, from the day the ship left Liverpool, he himself was in the habit of serving out the self same quantity until the time you state, and I never yet once heard a complaint about its insufficiency. I ant aware that the motives which actuated him in giving his prevaricating and un decisive evidence were mistaken by the magistrate, as he was a witness of mine ; yet he, nevertheless, stated that all the pro. visions were of the best quality. But, could he have brought forward one clause to my prejudice, lam confident it would not have been withheld; but little short of such circumstances must happen when a captain is situated with such officers, who are first to set an example of intemperance and other mis conduct. I have dwelt much lcuiger than I intended on the subject,.but I am convinced the affair has been viewed in a wrong light. and am sorry that such an example is thus set forth, h o lding ou t , as it were, a bounty to disobedience. Had my conduct to these men at any time been revere, (anal I have not shrunk from the strictest. scrutiny,) I :night have supposed that a reason for your taking such notice of the case ; hut they had what we term watch. and watch, or, in other words, were only required to be on deck twelve hours in the twenty-four; but I wished to make the passage as quick as possible, and their interests were the contrary, being shipped at New Orleans at an exhorbitant rate of wages per month — and there lay the grounds of contention. I uiav also remark, for the information of captains and shipowners in general. that these men, having absolutely refused all duty, -for, three days and nights, (not merely forty-eight hours,) and otherwise conducted themselves in a most mutinous and insolent manner, leaving the ship in a state of distress by refusing to take in, sail, all of which is stated in the mate's log-book, were awarded their wages in full, and from which decision there is no appeal; so that now, when a captain cannot but by mere firma, force assert his supremacy, forbearance is of no avail, as I think the present case sufficiently proves. SurelY this cannot be the meaning of the sth and 6th Witirmn IV.-I am, &c., WILLIAM BLACK. SEAMAN'S WAGES.—ON SattirdaV, at the Police-office, Mr. Hall gave his decision in the case of Captain Black, of the John Walker, who had been summoned by James Dermock, for £2. 10s. wages due for a voyage from New Orleans to this port. The amount of wages was admitted to be correct, but the cap tain refused to pav on the ground of the seaman having forfeited all claim to wage; by reason of his having, with the rest of the Crew of the vessel, disobeyed orders, and refused to work the ship for 48 hours. Several of the crew, in answer to this statement, deposed that the captain, ‘N hen they had been five days at sea, _ put them on short allowance, and he the mate, who w as called to prove the captain's case, in answer to the question put by Mr. Hall—" Do you think the men had sufficient provisions ? said, " No, I think not." Under these circumstances Mr. 11 411 was of opinion that the charge against the crew could not be sus tained, as it had been held in the courts above, that in the event of a captain not providing a sufficient quantity of provisions for the crew of his vessel, and they in consequence of it refused to work, at the conclusion the voyage they could not be pro ceeded against for the forfeiture of their wages. Ile therefore awarded the complainant to he paid his wages in full. Prior to giving this decision Mr. Hall animadverted in strong let ms upon the fact of a letter having been sent to him on - the previ ous afternoon from the captain, giving his version of the •case. The captain must have had an extraordinary idea of justice, if he imagined that a magistrate was to be trifled uith out of court, and, in the next place, the threat that, iu the event of his de ciding in favour of the seaman, to report his (Mr. Hall's) - con-, duct to the Association of Merchants. was highly improper.' He . had Ye t to learn that a magistrate was in any way responsible , to any body of merchants, and he must say the conteuts of the letter were most insolent, and argued but little of the knowledge' of decorum on the part of the writer. CRICKET. On Wednesday last the return mathh was played between the Liverpool and Manchester Clubs on the ground . of the former,. - M anc hester winning by 159 notches. The folloWing is the score:— MANCHESTER, lst Innings. . • 2d Innings. J. Watson c o Bridge ...... 14—c . 4 Thompson ....... . . ... 19 Whitmore b 0 Palgrave.... B—b n Eaton C. Garnett b o Palgrave ...26—b o Pa!grave 7 Lea Birch c o Thompson ...11—not one 121 H. Garnett c o Bridge .....24—b 0 Ulis. .. Lupton b o Palgoave . ..... 3—b o Eaton .... .... • l4 H. Matchitt b o Palgrave... s:—c o Bridge C. Matchitt c o E11i5....... I—c o Bridge .4 Hollins, not not .... l3—c o W. Eaton 4 Campbell b o Palgrave ..... 2—b 0 Eliis Player c o P a l grave .. ..... 4—b o 'Ellis Fives • 2 Byes 8, Ivlcw balls 1.. 9 I.IVERPOOL. ~...._ „..... Ist Innings. ' ' 2d InningS. Dixon b o Whitmore Crooke b o Whitmore '..... 4—c oJ. Watson - Ellis c o Inn 7=c o Player 0 W. Eaton b Birch . ..... .20—b oC. Garnett . l7 Thompson st. Whitmore ... I—Leg before wicket. 4 33 C. Eaton co H. Matchitt... o—c oH. Matchitt ', . 4 Cardwell b o Whitmore .... I—h o C. Garnett Palgrave, run out 2—run out Bridge, run out 14—b oC. Garnett ' .. 11 Lyons, not out Hughes, run out . . Byes a N t nerrc,l,t them logicalt the Zoo ( I ; j a " ;(1 11 e n N s, nn °. Regent's p ie Nano.—Died the twenty-second year of his a g e. th ne he was the property of 111 already complained of ; la, beasts. was-allowed to be the largest lio:) ". t a h t a ed t I P L )l e i t i' e 't r ° b r o ( e )f n w e l x ici .: hibited in Englat;d7 mT"vell. i n habitants tiia t ii ii: u ti t t ld t e h r os t e he w o h l i a ctt re t g h i e m y e h:aVe ve the borough -rate is said £i,ooo more Some of the smaTi:hthe o u r r p w o . r f a . (t i n n s s, are a to amount to nearly displaced. At burdensome Mr.-W. H. Forrester, the Russia broker, who recently ab sconded,Tun LATE SIR FRANCIS FREELINO.—We regvet to announce has been traced to Havre. the death of Sir Francis Freelin", Bart., Secretary to the Ge neral Post-office. The deceased was an eminent instance of te I er o , a ur tne celebrated at a ti the truth of the observation, that in this count's tshatever sta tion an individual may be born in, talent, governed by integrity, may place him in the highest ranks of society. Sir Francis, was once a poor boy at Bristol; h e rece i ve d a very li m i te d education; but when on , Ce . be was " set going," his talent, in dustry, and probity, ca rr i e d hi m forward until he became the director of that important department, the Post-office, in which: he effected such striking improvements, that it presents at this moment one of the finest systems for despatch and regularity. Such an instance as that of the respected individual deceased, presents a lesson which the young should not overlook. STAN!? DUTIES ON NEWSPAPERS.—The Chancellor of the. Exchequer has fixed the Ist of September for the reduction of the stamp duty ou newspapers to come i n t o operation. Mrs. Norton has commenced proceedings against her hus band, in the proper court, for separation. &c.---Mis. Norton it in Paris, and intends going to reside at Rome and Naples,. its order to finish a poem which her domestic rt'orrows have ciitis pelled her to suspend.- t 0 •,• • ique of ' the v ar than lure, here and ;sort ; the I in- ) his Gilt, usely :aken V KS, entry Ch in