The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

ak tion of that he formed and as it woull while the ele which was c ere had been no it cover any object The Earl of GLE an intention to deceiuk other purpose than th The Marquis of NORM AN Come o The Marquis of relative to the sea LordELLI would be very Bishop of Ex after some c great perso; Monday (ye. HOUSE tration of Vo of March, until N Mr. GILLON grant for the establis H and ut of muses accessible to the lower and n _ Mr. LABOUCHERE admitt but objected to the t up, making, as it did, invi per and lower cla dress to the crown r expectations, and he Woad therefore a ber to leave the matter in the hands of Sir R. PEEL admitte( of the matter involve': .Ithv communities from tt. manufactures of the cot backward in a to call for the necessity bus tos which the r EWART . and str Lees in th his sat timents he uttered would country. Mr.. WAKLEY said th Sir R. Pt )n at v views he had so el under certain contingencies, of what he he was anxious to be Dorrectiy understoc the necessity of loca Mr GILLO said he a justification for hit justification for the C the matter into cousid motion, but if no Mr. MACKINNON r cy of ad colonies of Britain and he ber was still a HOUSE OF ORDS Earl of MdUNTCASHEL I his situation, and would have full p ntiv expresser third ( Entotarti Vrirliamtnt Jas the causes feasible means bf HOUSE OF COMMONS ?ALMERSTON stated. in reply I Lord I R. Ingl in Syria as much sec minion of Mehemet Ali ning t -FRIDA lion fro e to thi yed un A discussion upon the eastern question followed, in v Lord F. Egerton, Sir R. Peel, Lord Sandon, and Lord received from the T by which th lants of i Ali un nd the f the v .nding ii at Yorli ty of making more than one ( during the present year, the directors iorrow £50,000 on security of the undertc 't therec paid BR the eft, selves pretty powerful 'feet of the lease on t ever sceptical the iu Corn n the railw with t ss than £:1(1 sho - uld not have been previot we thin' world, have le Our anticipation ing that r their astute ) at a sum wi has been coniputed to pay 6 percent. to 1 and ri:lo NEST LONDON RAILWA of the p. hat in y .ite been st wising ti apany fc year et this firman the Sultan reser sor trom amongst of the kit which, hoWever, latpri 1w what d, four pi official li had f ans of A communication frbcti the British min. was act docainttnt .met A me to upon t .t the Porrte bad no Wl* to Mr : KiLLy . postponed, until a rded to Const The house having resolved itself into a committee on ti trade of British possessions broad, Mr. LABOUCHERE pr ceeded to bring under the consideration of the house t' customs duties of the 'West Indiei and North Amerie colonies. The course he meant to propose was, a followi out of the policy of Mr. Huskisson, in the relaxation of t ep that lasing our commercial restricth restrictions upon our colonial trade and salt provisic mount to pro , were a resent bitions, if the tudecl with t ad valorem charge of from 20 to was to pen the colonial trade to for principle laid down by Mr. Huski the West Indies that this should 1 had recently granted to tl ) duties therto monopoles that the advanta s enjoyed in ti. upon articles of consumption of such imoor East Indies, should be also. The three cl subject to ad valore ided to the is in the V cent. A fourth class, from which all excluded, and which was subjected to a duty of he did not propose t important articles w ttei fere with With respec salt provisions, and other articles of the last importance the West Indian colonies, he should propose a new tar subjecting those articles to ad valorem duties of from 12 to 3er cent. Feeling the importance of the Brie' iurseries for our seamen, altho - with the duties amounting to nsnerie , 6 11 he proposed to do a absolute prohibition. ye could impose a duty of not less than 25 per cent., and Wou subject pickled fish to ss. per barrel. He proposed a unifor duty on wines of i per cent., and he also proposed, in ord to prevent smuggling, to legalise the importation of tea fro the United States into Canada, subject to an additional dui Another proposition he meant to st to admit the Channel Islands the sam hatever )t prove to be it PALMER was alto t to the nous( lthe colonies trade, and sn to any B whole matter to a committee of inquiry. Mr. EwAr,T was opposed to referring the matter to a cm mittee, and only regretted that the mother country was sti to be deprived of the benefit of those enlightened principle which the right hon. gentleman was now proposing to exten to the colonies. After some observations from Mr. WHITE, a resoluti, greed to as to th ;t, and the house )ringing in a bill upon tl The house then went into committee on the East Ind Rum Bill, and a discussion arose as to the propriety of a( mitting rum made from dates in the East Indies at the san duty imposed on that made from cane. It was stated th one-half of the East India sugar was made from dates, ar that no distinction could be made between the si from tl xo descriptions of sue st Indies, a was only fair to th,.. . . maple tree was allowed to be imported from Canada Mr. LABOUCRERE said he should like to have an nits of looking into the matter, for if the spirit was distilled from --- s dates, he thougl ugar, wheth ht it ought to be acct tion a door was to be opened to let in spirit ( ) it. In order to b • portunity referred to tion of the report unt Mr. EWART obser ild adm The CHANCELLOR of the EXCREU aS irljudicious.in'erideavouliiik aen by so doing h agreed to by par; Mr. HAWES intl.' I spirit 1 said his rry out a - princii3le ession which woult 3y difficulty s were Mr. F. MAvLE then moved the second County Courts Bill. 3 OLLOCK, at considerable length various propositions it contain( ti 'ving his or the more importance at the pr number of the p(ovisi Mr. Fox MAULE. ..„ The bill *as eventually read a le other orders of the da house adjourned RDERI e have th, the murct Langford, I and Co Kildimo, in c the neighbour Anway, charg Limerick Standard CHILD •EXPOSED parried seven months old tincture, om Clarity and I ere full' abou in Blackfriar-street, by two the man and his wife at whc c s n called the nal vas left, and ca the former to come ou wanted I neatl seeing an infant alone lying at the doo up in her arms, and found that it ... tired, with a bundle tied on its back contal..._ clothes. The police having refused to take the ch their protection, she was compelled to carry it to Hospital, where, with some difficulty, she taken out of her hands. This is the fourth cab. posure which has happ ened during the last fortni none has the heartless mother been discovered Gufildign• as cies got tier CL ion to some of the He Objected to here might ;ht, and in --Scottish Lee of t e Covernment Import AS motive, but matter bet -FRIDA ,t those objects AT NORTE nave yet t :cured a div The Londoa an :ster ten per cent sides a t per annum.' The North Unimi six and a Londim and Bitniingham Company eigh and a fourth per cent. 11 innum for the time i don and S Live! pool ar lasgow the Lou- Tht us tc ld Colt r railway, which has n, Ilochn€ 1 year s more than quadrupled hi val CORSICAN MANN 3 MURDER recent sitting of the Court of Assizes in Corsica, its 1.- - ; been occupied with a trial which has excited .nore than ordinary curiosity. During the proceedings the hall was crowded to excess. The crime was of a character seldom heard of, for although the crime of assassination is not frequent in that country, yet it is generally to be traced to some attention ,ng exciting cause, eithf ,f the kind ye or jealousy, o )articulars of the case are a `Three brothers of the name of Felce, labou e of that name in ( himsel nother , had shaied their. little patri One of them Joseph Marie 3mune, wished tc it until with death if 1 the same tate to any one This, however, did not de ever, Was deter aan named Bereni. The purehaSer, how :l by the threats of the brothers from takin patiently ied - dow Such was the awn of th he left his o go to A a adjoining commune, to for some pigs, in which ,king with him a sum - of !ding day iarm, o earn that his father ha'dnever inquiry, but without effect; been there. He when it occurred to him that his father must Le ever uecome the victim of some cowardly assassin. Lie then remembered that rassing a certain copse on his road, his dog had entered it, - lon after returned, uttering frightful yells, showing that net with something extraordinary these. He assem '-nds, and proceeded to the spot, when a terra their eyes. The body of the unfortunp c the bnt*-- and s he had I bled his spectacle E irn of a ravine, his head beaten to pieces ing thiee deep ,poignard wounds in his ais cap were found at a short dis t in which lie had carried his hed the be! neighbours who had ass stely removed, but the mayor insisted One of the brothers mbied Mu the examination first taking place L , elce, however, w :hat the body shot so loud in proposing :en away, that big s was the first cir- cumstance which aroused s ainst the two brc 1 to u prevalent in some parts of Corsica, which is something li the howling over the bodies in Ireland ; and in this ca after the ' " " ' " The body .was t There is- a )led round it, and each in her turn ieceased. One of rotnptu verses in r who have been _ not children of Piazzole (the name of the place where the deceased lived); it is at Felce they first saw the light, and it is there they live." This was enough to point out the objects of suspicion. The threats of Felce were then remembered, and it was gene rally pronounced that none other but them could have been the murderers. In spite of all this, while the prayers for the soul of the, deceased were reading one of the brothers was present, book in hand, and was loudest in his responses. It was, however, remarked that his face bore a corpse-like pale ness; his countenance suddenly changed, and he appeared as if he was just a prey to some horrid vision. The ce remony . . . the company retired 4mnes Were exa had passed the afternoon_ of the day which t ppenecl present where t low voice imploring for mercy. Soon after, two men carne out of the copse, and,, presenting a pistol at hi s h ea d, was. about to take his lire, when a third man advancing, said, " DO not hurt the young man—our safest plan to insure his silence is to make him become an accomplice," and saying this, they gave him 100 f, part of the money they had just taken from the unfortunate Bereni. On this information being given, the mayor immediately caused the two brothers to be arrested, and they were now brought to trial for the crime. The young man, above alluded to, when again called upon for his evidence, gave it without hesitation, and with the most positive assertion that the two prisoners were the men who accosted him, and solemnly declared the truth of what he stated. Other witnesses proved the threats which had been frequently heard pronounced by the two brothers against any one who should purchase the property, and also that on the following day after the murder one of the brothers beration, brought in a verd h extenuating circumstance aft( the pillory Z, now five s rott pr widow anc The kra uce from ti , ty GISj the part of thZ isable to file n s thought advi another ry law inflicts on is immense amount has y. r whom it was intended, and my of we been reduced to beggary t' mily of Mr. Day, his widow, and his daughter, me re lined from the legal exercise of their rights and the full - -"nPrtv to winch no one attempts or pre -,- of the )n of all concerned of the oppr Now here: on which chan: Not on rer annuitants d the wu Now conies the Os .:anon for those delays is not with the Lord , out with a clique of lawyers, who, while they can to divide £5,000 per annum among them, will, we .Rend, keep the unfortunate claimants in a state of liti on for five years more, unless the present excellent Chan 1r should humanely look into it, and direct its imme adjudication."—From the Argus of for 84 r INTV 12 ial adjustment of the, Regent f: thern, con- the most 'ere in circulation at Madrid M. of lounces ti y of th e find i xus of t GRANADA ly doing what Lord Melb, Aid, in the House of Lord gate his own and it seems, fi.om the foil Commercial Advertiser th home of the papers In extra from the " office of t mister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance 1, of Grace and Marine; and General 'Alain,-or it of Count Almo- .0, and u. earo Antonio Accena, to the Vice-Pren- he Sen Don Dionisio a letter from Paris, men- c pending between the Regency its (le las Marism . o) ana te sarquis de Casarernisa, for a loan of (M from Aguad 400,000,000 t h o ) 0,000 reals. The latter had proposed to apply to the iment of the interest and the redemption of the loan, the roperty of the secular clergy, the revenues of the colonies, nd the proceeds of the sale of tobacco, which would be ma aged - ;ents of the lender 27-1 for cash, and at 60 day Journals from Begota and Caraccas, the 4 o the end of December, the latter to the 20th of to the latest ac- n was, accorc iome other ' rebels, but 21st of De- goverment '••• said to the or Tilt NIA( we copied frc king extract from the A action o. Buffalo paper York drove merely a morning contained what is called —riser, Buffalo, Feb. 14, M. Ca 'resent a few of the indi evening, We bay cow(' be e on the subject then tilled with ind that all the inhabitants asurrection 3UENOS AYI ,e British Packet, published at Buenos Ayres, contains number oe December 26, which is the latest date in town, a more circumstantial narrative of the_engagement be tween the troops of Rosas and Lavalle than has hitherto been published. There can now be no doubt that the defeat of the latter was complete, and that he himself had a narrow escape from being taken prisoner. Among the prisoners, a list of the more noted of whom. is given by name, are to be found some of the chief men of the party, called Unitarians, so bitterly opposed to Rosas. It was General Pacheco who commanded in the action against Lavalle, and not Oribe, whose name was to the short account formerly given, and so that t. CHINA and white power-loom cotton hie, tkith there and at Chusan and ks it was known that larg lents were also ieir way out from this country besides, it was appre ed that, even were the Canton market opened, there over-supply of th )ods a t first cue merchants at Macao were exceedingly discontented that, alder any circumstances, Captain Elliot should have been flowed to take the chief direction of the e x p e diti on , w hi c h, ipon the compulsory resignation of Admiral Elliot, necessa ily fell into his hands altogether; for though the command f the naval forces devolved upon Commodore Bremer as a of right, it does not appear t! he was invested with shartd jointly b' , em rer diplomatic cpaci although it could isonable ly that the admiral himse] had arisen, should have 1 :If, in view of contingencies such in; an account of the d action of . the Fall, _ slight glance at it will convince any one that it is a Loan, and by no means a good one , got up by tling who probably 'er saw the fall e will point out ) this conclusion_ -1. The article was not written, although purporting to have been, by the editor of the Birjralo Commercial Advertiser. We know his style too well. lie never deals in such inflated windy language as the account presents. 2. The extra purports to be dated at Buffalo on Sunday evening at 4 o'clock, and it was received in this city last • This could not be done. 3. "Biddle Tower and all the adjoining groundwork had di4appeared."—Mr. Biddle never .built a tower at the falls. Some years ago he caused. ID be.. built a staircase on Goat's Island, leading down to the falls, which goes by his name. 4. " The water made a subterraneous : passage, and burst through the wall of Goat Island." --,-Absurd. •5. "The hotel is gone. It-is believed-no lives have been lost."—The last clause is correct; there can have been no lives lost, because there was no hotel to be carried away. The nearest hotel is the Clifton-house, far below the falls. P.S. Since the above was in type the northern mail, only ice this afternoon, has arrived, and brought us the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening, the latest which - , :ted. The Albany papers of yesterday are silent . The hoax was probably got up in this city tranquillity of The Falls of Niagai Ford a magnificent example of the gressive excavation of a deep valley in a solid ro c k. Th a t river flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, the former lake being 330 feet above the latter, and the distance between theM being 32 miles. On flowing out of the upp er l a k e th e river is almost on a level with its banks, so that if it should rise perpendicularly eight or ten feet, it would lay under wa ter the adjacent flat country of Upper Canada on the west, and of the state of New York on the east; The river, where it issues, is aboutlhrce-quarters of a mil e i n w id t h . B e f ore reaching the Fills it i propelled with great rapidity, being a mile broad, about 25 feet deep, and having a descent of 50 feet in half a mile. An island at the very verge of the cata ract"divides it into two sheets of water: one of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 600 yards wide, and 158 feet perpen dicular; the other, called the American Falls, is about 200 yards in width, and 164 feet in height. The breadth of the island is about 500 yards. This great sheet of water is precipitated over a ledge - of hard limestone, in horizo4- •eater thickness , elow which Ts. and crumbles away more ra calcareous rock forms an overhanging ,c-eting forty feet or more above the hollow space The blasts of wind, charged with spray, which e out of the pool into which this enormous ca is projected, strike disintegration is constant gainst tl enabled to del in the usual course, that by which he was himself empowered, should wecaution to nominate a successor, qualified, e the commodore, by rank and ability, to take his place. ;overnment d be_ nu Elliot, an officer of inferior grade, lerformance, a civil and diploma- of very j:erentqualifi arkable hitherto or :he worst signs of racter, and for the eas, left in sole with the most )euitior ; months w The result s a letter from Macao the pre- uld not be lirection of the ex- —a monsoon lost 0 soldiers buried Not even a promise offered to our cautious enemies, many of whom know well how to baffle• Captain Elliot. •Sir Gordon Eremer.suc ceeds to the command, of the expedition, but whether he is plenipotentiary here or not we are left in ignorance." It is proper to add that it was'well known Admiral Elliot had for months previous been suffering under the visitation of that most distressing disease, palpitation of the heart. And this was so far from being a new and unexpected affliction that, on the contrary, the admiral had long been a victim to it. It is stated by those presumed to be acquainted with him that long before appointed to the command of the Cape station he was so subject to strong pAroxysins of this disease, that it -s often painful to be with him from the very violent action heart, which shook the whole room, and was very &- lib' ' - - -id- Under it true t tinctly and ieelinzl it may be s. .0 anything like the extent, it was gross impropriety to commit to the d a command of such extreme lm lion, or even that as that of the Chinese exp , arge of the Casre. TRALIA s have been received from Hobart Town t'acts re- )th of October last pplp no n pears indeed that the same persuasi on of a great deal of overtrading prevailed among the banks of other parts of Australia, and that in consequence all .acre more or less pru dently engaged, like those of Van Diemen's Land, in taking steps to remedy or make head against the evil. WEST INDIES The arrival of the West India mail by the Hope packet has furnished papers from the various islands to the follow ing dates, all inclusive—Jamaica to the Ist of February ; Demerara to the 22d of Januar/ ; Trinidad to the 22d of January ; Barbadoes to the 23d of January ; and Antigua to the 19th of January. ht the Jamaica papers some accounts it of the state of the island of Dominic a , w hi c h was suf . _ xeather. On some of the made, but of very inferior were so weak that they The crop was not expected to exceed uch from the very dr would not granulate .hat of last year he inconvenience of t continu draught throughout the months of November ler itwas.feared there was no chance of establish s for , the crop of 1842, as most p ar t of t he island , • anted in t Provisions were, for the time isonable, from the desire of the planter to clear his sof roots. The Court 'of Policy at Deme )f deliberation, but the discussions were preparati Ira was in cou mnected only with matt Cape of Good Hope papers to the 9th of January, and Graham's Town papers to the Ist of January were also re ceived to-day. These communicate the news of an attack by the emigrant boers of Natal upon the Chief Capai, in which they carried off an immense drove of cattle. The Governor had had a conference with the chiefs of the Slambie and Gonaquabe Caffres on the treaties, which was not finally concluded at the date of these accounts. MERCHANT SERVICE. APPOINTMENT OF MASTERS AND MATES (Fronz the Times.) The persons connected with the shipping of the outports seem generally to be making a movement towards the selec tion of competent persons as masters and mates in the mer chant service. At present the appointment rests with th e • . . _ shipowner alone, and, considerini the great risk to which persons and property are exposed by the employment of im proper persons in an office of such responsibility, and that the low rate of insurance does not allow the interests of the shipowner to be completely identified with those of the mer chants and others who have an interest in the safe convey ance of their goods, the proposal is to establish boards to test the qualification of masters and mates, so that their ap pointment may not be left solely to the inclination 6f an individual. A deputation has come from Glasgow charged with the mission of holding conferences with the different bodies connected with the shipping of the united kingdom, with a view to the establishment of a legislative enactment for such a test as they eonsider desirable. This deputation has held a conference with the shipowners of Liverpool, at which it was resolied that it would be desirable to establish boards for the examination of masters and mates in the merchant service, such boards to be established in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Dublin, and Glasgow (or Leith), and to examine as to qualification in navigation, seamanship, stowage of cargo, and knowledge of princi pal ports, with a power of re-examination in the event of a ship being lost. The funds, it Was resolved, should be raised by fees for examining captains, and also by a charge of 3d. per ton on registering new ships, or id. per ton annually on all British shipping. It is the great desire of the persons who are bringing forward this scheme, that by the legislative enactment appointing the proposed boards no patronage should be given to the government, nor, in deed, any right of interfering with the boards ; but that their appointment should rest with local bodies, such as the town councils of the place, or, where such associations exist, the associations of underwriters or shipowners. ;. .unnosed to be levied on a principle at The duty of 3d cording to which the shipowners should bear part of the expenses, as well as the examined, is calculated ou a basis .according to which the merchant ships in 1810 are set down at 1,700, and their tonnage at 230,000 supposing an increase similar to that of several preceding years. According to this calculation the duty of 3d. on the tonnage would yield £3125, besides the examination fees, which would be two guineas fora captain, and one guinea for a coasting master or a mate, and 10s. 6d. for the mate of a coaster. The account of British shipping according to Mr. Johnson, who is one of the Glasgow deputation' gives as the number of vessels 16,000, which would require as many captains, and about 24,000 mates, altogether 40,000 officials. Allow ing 10 per cent. of these to fall off annually, and of course to he renewed, the number of examinations would be 4000. Taking in the increase, as given above, and allowing the vessels to be 1700 in number, and moreover, supposing that 700 would be supplied by old masters and mates, 1000 vessels would be left, requiring 2500 masters and mates. Now 2000 captains of foreign voyages, at two guineas, would give £4200. Masters of coas t ers and mates of foreign voyages, number 3000, and at the same rate, would give £3150; 1500 mates of coasters at 10s. 6d. would give £787; nd the whole, with the addition of the rate on tonnage, ' , ld amount to £11,262; whil e th e expenses of the total , r of local boards are estimated to amount to no more 'Ph , - central board of examinpr. _ would be fixed in London and be appointed b y the ited.niners committee of the general shi united powners and Lloyd's. This proposal being as yet in so early a stage, it is impossible to tell what will be its chance of success, especially as that will in a great measure depend on a proof that-serious evils arise from defects in the present system. The calculations, at all events, would seem to show that the plan haS been thoroughly considered as to Is practical working by the parties who urge its adoption. ATTEMPTED MURDER. - It is already generally known that the colliers of Lancashire have struck for an advance of wages, and that the coal proprietors have resisted their de mands. In consequence of the general want which is now beginning to be felt, a spirit of insubordination has begun to manifest itself amongst the workmen, and the works of the masters are obliged to be guarded, especially during the night, against the colliers, who assemble in parties of about 20, and patrol the country. Several outrages have already been committed. The most recent occurred on Tuesday evening last, in the neighbourhood of Wi ,, an. Abo u t 20 colliers attacked the house of a fellow-workman who con tinued to work at the old rate of wages. They fired a gun, loaded with slugs, through the window, happily without effect, and then broke all ithe windows with stones. The father of the collier then took his gun and opened his door, and fired amongst the besiegers. One of them was observed to fall, and was borne away by his companions. On the spot where he fell a quantity of blood was seen, so that no doubt remains of his having been severely wounded, and this circumstance may lead to his apprehension. The collier attacked is in the employ of R. B. H. Blundell, Esq., of Pemberton. - Lilt do for 141 shale beds, so that their They also vast away at certain seasons.by the expansive action of frost. The superincum bent limestone being thus left without a foundation, falls from time to time in rocky masses. When these enormous fragments descend, a s shdek is felt at some distance, accom panied by a noise like a distant clap of thunder. After the river has passed over the Falls, its character, observes Capt. Hall, is immediat e ly and completely changed. It then runs furiously along the bottom of a deep wall-sided valley, or huge trench, which has been out into the horizontal strata by the continued action of the stream during the lapse of ages. The bed of the river here is strewed over with huge frag ments of rock ; the cliffs on both sides are in most places perpendicular, and the ravine is on ly percei ve d o n approach ing the edge of the precipice. The waters, which expand at the Falls, where they are divided by the island, are con tracted again, after their union, into a stream not more than 160 yards broad. It is remarkable that the water of the pool into which the cataract is precipitated, and that of the nar row channel immediately, below,. instead of being in a 4tate of tremendous agitation;. is. so tranquil as to allow a ferry-boat to cro'ls with ease, and even to approach within the reach of the spray, without experiencing any un usual motion. Various explanations have been offered of this phenoinedon. According to Mr. Gibson, the vast body of sea-green water, instead of plunging deep as a solid column would do into the sheet below, is drawn out in its descent of 160 feet into white rolls of attenuated foam. He conceives, 'therefore, that most of the water falls lightly in the form of spray, and the force of the rest is broken by the debris which lie immediately at the foot of the fall. When the Falls were visited in 1829 by Mr. R. Bakewell, jun., he ascertained from a person who had lived 40 years in that part of the country, and had been the first settler there, that during that period the Falls on the Canada side bad receded 40 or 50 yards, in consequence of the continued removal of the shale, and undermining of the limestone, above described. It seems difficult to speculate on the future rate of recession of the Falls, for as they ret rea t t h e h e i g ht o f th e prec i p i ce maybe reducedC or augmented by the varying hardness of the rocks, the division of the stream by islands, and other modifying circumstances. If in the course of many thou sand years the Falls should reach Lake Erie, 25 miles dis tant, that lake might be effectually drained, inasmuch as the present height of the Falls far exceeds the greatest depth of the lake. It has been supposed that in this case the sudden escape of the water might occasion a deluge on the low lands bordering Ontario ; but in reply, M. De la Beche has objected, that as the bottom of Lake Erie shelves very gently from the shore, the discharge, even after the cataract had receded to the lake, would take place gradually, and it would require time before the river channel was cut back to where the water is deepest. It may also be questioned whe ther the entire area of Lake Erie may not be converted jnto dry land before the Falls recede to its shores, so shallow is this lake, its average depth being only 10 or 12 fathoms, and and so fast is it filling up with sediment. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) In consequence of the lamented death of Mrs. 'Wilberforce, we believe that no Bampton Lectures will be delivered in the University Pulpit this year. PROMOTIONS, Rev. J. Symons, 8.D., Rector of Radnage, Bucks, and Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire, to be Chaplain to R. Lane, Esq., High Sheriff for the county of Bucks. Joseph Harris, 8.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Second Mathematical Mastership in the city of London School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Cock, M.A. Rev. Aaron Rogers, M.A., is licensed by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, to the Perpetual Curacy of the church of the district parish of the Holy Trinity, Bristol, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Fryer Jennings, on the nomina tion of John Scandrett Harford, Esq., A. G. H. Battersby, Esq., and others. • . I Rev. C. Carpenter, P.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Beaumont Rev. W. H. Brookfield, Curate of St. James's Piccadilly, to be Morning Preacher, at Archbishop _Tenison's Chapel, Regent-street, London. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) The Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M. A., late scholar of Tri nity college, in this university, and late university theological crosse scholar:llas been instituted by the right rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the rectory of Colunib Major, in the county of Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. John Tre fusis, M.A. Patron Edmund Walker ' Esq. Alfred Wrigley, Esq., 8.A., of St. John's college, in this university, has been appointed by the directors of the East India Company, mathematical master of the Artillery and Engineers' Seminary, at Addiscombe, Surrey. Thomas Evans, Esq.. 8.A., of St. John's college, in this university, has been appointed classical master of Shrews bury Grammar School. The Rev. G. Newnhatn, of Trinity college, in this univer sity, has been appointed curate of Shaw Melkshatn, in the county of Wilts. _ _ The Rev. T. Reynolds, of Pembikike College, in this uni versity, has been appointed curate of Stanford, in Essex. The Rev. J. Kitton, of Queen's College, in this university, has been appointed to the incumbency of the District Church of Houghton, near Carlisle. _ _ The Rev. T. Holdich, M.A., of Clare Hall, in this univer sity, and rector of Maidwell, Northamptonshire, has been preferred to the rectory of Draughton, in the same county, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Griffin. Patron, H. H. Hungerford, Esq.—Value, £343. The Rev. C. H. Bromley, of -St. John's College, in this university, has bee n a pp o i n t e d to th e h ea d mastership of the. Stepney Proprietary School, DOCTOR COOKE AND REV. T. D. GREGG The following document has been published by the deputa tion which waited on these reverend gentlemen. Three of the members are Presbyterians, four Episcopalians, and one a Methodist : " We, the undersigned, having been appointed a deputation to communicate to the Rev. Dr. Cooke and the Rev,. T. D. Gregg, the resolution unanimously adopted by a most influ ential public meeting, held here on the Ist instant, strongly disapproving of the proposed discussion between those gen tlemen, earnestly desiring that it should be abandoned, can not but deeply regret, that Mr. Gregg should have declined yielding to the wishes of that meeting. And, at the same time, we feel called on to express the satisfaction we expe rienced from the manner in which Dr. Cooke received the Deputation, and the desire he manifested to sacrifice his own feelings in deference to them. And he having placed the matter entirely in our hands, we beg to state it as our decided opinion, that (notwithstanding the steps since taken by Mr. Gregg), for the sake of Protestant peace and union, Dr. Cooke should not enter on this discussion. " JoHN CHAINE, Deane of Connor. " A..C. MAcAttTNEy ' Vicar of Belfast. " DANIEL WAFEE, Wesleyan Minister. " DAVID HAMILTON, Presbyterian Minister. " JOHN M'NEILE. ANDREW MULHOLLAND. ".JAMES GODDARD "JAMES BLAIR. " Belfast, March 3, 1841." MAYNOOTH COLLEGE Mr. Daniel O'Connell denies that the teaching at May nooth goes to impugn the sanctity of an oath, and with that Jesuitical denial of cherished opinions, which even Maho medanism would repudiate, he proceeds to apostrophize upon the misrepresentation of the meek Abbes, perpetrated by Sergeant Jackson. Now, what is the testimony of one of the class books of Maynooth ? By the .Priests' Directory of 1835, Den's Theology is declared to be " the best book ever published on that subject," and this work is proved, beyond a question, to be a class book of the Irish Popish college. What will our readers say, then, to find, that so daring in in iquity was Peter Dens that he has devoted a whole chapter of his work to illustrations " De Juramento simulato," " of pretended swearing." (Dens, vol. IV., p. 190, Coyne, Dublin.) In this portion of what the Roman Catholic bishops declared in council to be " the best theological work ever PUBLISHED," we have the following: -- "Q. An juramentum si- " Question. Whether an mulatuni factum per verba oath, apparently made by exterius serio probato, sed words seriously spoken, but cum intentione interiori non with the inward intention of jurandi est verum juramen- not swearing, is a true and mentum et obligatiorum ? binding obligation ? "R. Negative, eo quod ju- "Answer. We answer ne ramentum movet testimo- gatively, because as to that nium Dei, qui internam in- the oath invokes the testi tentione aspicit et ita sine monv of God, who beholds intentione jurandi nunquam the inward intention, so with j uratur." out the intention of swearing it is never sworn." Now, here is an open advocacy of mental reservation and perjury, and that inculcated in a class book of Maynooth. But this is not, by any means, the worst portion of the work. There are laid down in it TH I RTY-THREE DIFFERENT MODES OF VOIDING LAWS, PROMISES, AND OATHS ! By th e ru l es propounded laws may be made void in eleven modes, (Vol. II p. 363,) promises in five modes, (Vol. 111., p. 297,) vows in seven modes, (Vol. IV., p. 129,) and OATHS IN TEN MODES, (Vol: IV., p. 214.) So much for the moralit y of Maynooth, and the veracity of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. Romances are a dangerous recreation. 'Tis like dining every day on sweetmeats ; it palls your appetite for whole some food, and at length makes you hate the sweetmeats too. MISCELLANEOUS, Ir. NV, Brown, of Brentwoot the new church, ore than ten years of aye, but of s been appointed organist to at Brentwood t multi. The valne of the plate, paintings, furniture, and other pro- Wynyard Park, is said to be perty saved from the fire £50,000: The total loss is estimated at £70,000, and there now seems to be_ no doubt of the distressing fact that the property was wholly uninsured Since the opening of the Hartlepool and Stockton railway, and the recent openin of the Great North of England rail way for goods and merchandize, great quantities of fish are now daily sent from Hartlepool to Darlington, and forwarded by the latter rail wa y f or Y or k , Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, Manchester, and Birmingham. The quantity of timberimported into the port of Sunderland for the year ending on the sth of last January was 41,705 loads. The quantity imported last year into the united king dom of Great Britain and Ireland was 818,299 loads ; so that the quantity imported at this port exceeded a twentieth of that of the whole kingdom. FATAL ACCIDENT,L-It is with sincere regret we have to intimate the untimely fate of the Rev. Thomas M`Ritehie, late minister of the parish of Clunie, in this county. It will be' recollected that he voluntarily demitted his pastoral charge, between two and three years ago, for the purpose of going abroad. He was drowned on the Ist July last, in con sequence of the upsetting of a boat in the Kiapara River, on the west coast of New Zealand, while the ship Anna Watson, with which he was a passenger, lay wind-bound on her voy age from Sydney to the Bay of Islands. Mr. M`Ritchie was '-sixth year of his age.--Perth Constitutional. iu the thirt A French paper called the Audience contains a letter from e correspondent, dated Gibralter, the 28th ult., which states that an opulent British merchant, named James Bos well, long resident there, had been tried and convicted of the murder of his daughter, on circumstantial evidence, and that on the way to execution the convict saw in the crowd ano ther Englishman named John Keats, who had been active in collecting evidence against him. The convict expressed a desire to die in peace with all mankind, and to pardon this person, whom he considered his greatest enemy. When the convict reached the scaffold, the executioner was preparing to execute the sentence of the law, when a voice was heard in the crowd exclaiming---" It is I that am guilty, and not the convict." ' This exclamation was made by John Keats. He confessed that it was he who hail carried off James Box well's daughter; that he had cut off her hair during her sleep, and stolen one of her dresses, which he had steeped in blood ; and that the generous pardon granted to him by this victim had caused him to reflect on the enormity of his crime. The executioner immediately withdrew the rope from the convict's neck, and the cap from his face, when it 4 private scovered that he was dead from the effects of terror. File atrocious John Keats was conducted to prison amidst the execrations of the populace, who wished to tear him to DESPERATE OUTRAGE DS AN ARMED PARTY.—On the night of 'Monday, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a large body of armed men surrounded the house of Patrick Ryan, of Ballywilliam. Five of them having en tered, the tirst'thing they did was to demand of Ryan what decree's he had in the house; not having immediately com plied with the demand, one of the ruffians snapt a gun at his head, which fortunately missed fire ; two others of the party also attempted to shoot him, but their pistols burned priming. They then assaulted him with the butt ends of their fire-arms, and having knocked him down, they asked him if lie would give up the decrees he had obtained at the last quarter sessions against the Boyles, Gormans, Ryans, and others. Havinggiven them the decrees, they placed him on his knees, and swore him as to the fact of his having any more of them. They also swore him to give up an acre of land, which be had rented for the last twelve months from Caleb Powel, of Castleotway, and threatened him with cer tain death if he put them to the necessity of a second visit. Before they departed they beat a weaver who was sleeping in the house, in a most unmerciful manner, and broke several of his teeth. His name is Thomas M`Mahon, and his of fence was being entered in one or two of the decrees as a specialty. Several shots were heard after the gang had left the house.—Liraerick Standard. COLLISION AND SINKING OF A PASSENGER STEAM-BOAT. —An accident of an extraordinary and alarming nature oc curred oa Tuesday morning, at Kilpinpike, near Howden. The facts are briefly these :—About eight o'clock the iron steamer Hirondelle, Captain Wilson, from Hull to Selby, came in contact with a vessel lying at anchor in the river, and so dreadful wa s th e co lli s i on, t h at t h e steamer ' s starboard bow was completely stove in, and her machinery so dread fully shattered, that in less than five minutes she filled with water and disappeared. She had on board about 50 passen gers and 93 sheep. We are happy to state that all the pas sengers saved their lives by jumping on board the vessel with which the steamer came in collision ; but nearly half of the sheep were drowned : 25 dead ones have been picked up at Booth Ferry. A Jew lost a valuable box of jewellery, valued at £3OO. The screams of the people on board the packet were heart-rending, and they certainly were in imminent danger, as the interval which elapsed b e t ween th e s h oc k an d sinking was scarcely five minutes, and had the ves se l o n b oar d which they escaped be en i n the least damaged by the colli sion, they would inevitably have perished. The weather was calm, but a dense fog prevailed at the time of the accident. This is the account given by the persons who were on the deck of the steamer when the collision took place.—Eastern Counties' Herald. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN A " GIANTESS" AND HER HUSBAND. — On Saturday night, after the performance in a booth at the foot of Saltmarket-street had closed, the woman who exhibited herself as a giantess quarrelled with her hus band, on acccunt, it is said, of his excessively dissipated ha bits, and in the course of the struggle which ensued, the lat ter received .a severe blow on the forehead with some weapon. The unfortunate man soon after became seriously ill, and on Sabbath afternoon, about five o'clock, he expired. Prepara tions were made for the interment of the body on Tuesday, but on the circumstances of the death being made known to the. police, the obsequies were postponed, the body taken to the police-office, and submitted to medical inspection. The female was, at the same time, taken into custody for exami nation. It appeared that, the weapon used was part of a bed post ; but we understand-that the medical gentlemen are of opinion that, from the morbid state of the brain, death might have ensued although there had been no external violence. The deceased's name was Moir. The accused is a woman about five feet nine inches in height, and of -a' masculine figure. She denies having used deadly violence towards her husband, and frequently asks for what she is confined. Since the above was wrote the prisoner has been discharged by the fiscal, subsequent to the report of the medical gentlemen having been received.—Scollish Guardian. SUICIDE.—On Monday evening a man and a woman en gaged lodgings in a house in. Bell-street, and remained during that night. In the morning the man went out after break fast, and did not return. On Tuesday evening the former ordered some coffee, into which the landlady observed she put a white powder, but supposing it to be some medicine, took no suspicion of the matt er . ring the night the woman was heard to vomit excessively, and in the morning she was found in her bed dead. Under the pillow was a letter, ad dressed to " Wm. Barton," of whom we have learned nothing but the name. The writer, however, was known as a per former in the booths at the foot of Saltmarket-street, and had been married to a showman named Scott, some years dead. She addresses Barton in affectionate terms, informing him that this letter was the last her poor hands would write in this vale of tears ; that his departure from her was the last blow to her proud and bursting heart. She prays for forgiveness to all who have spoke reproachfully of her ; and concludes—" her eyes becoming dim"—with a last request to her sister to attend her funeral. We learn that the de ceased was respectably connected. She was about thirty-six years of age, and had been good looking, but from her course of life her countenance had assumed rather a haggard ap pearance.—Scottish Guardian. FATAL ACCIDENT.—T I V O LIVES LOST.—On Thursday morning, between 11 and 12 o'clock, the following lamenta ble occurrence took place :—lt appears that two nursery maids, attached to the establishment of Major Macfarlane, of 16, Raymond-terrace, Regent's Park, went out with three of the children for the purpose of walking round the park. On arriving at the bridge over the canal, one of the servants incautiously placed the youngest child on the parapet of the bridge, and was in the act of tying the strings of its hat when the child fell backward over the bridge. The servant succeeded in grasping its leg before it disappeared, and, in her endeavours to save the child, she overbalanced herself, and both were precipitated into the canal. The screams of the other servant quickly drew a number of persons to the spot, and several rushed down to the water side, but the child and its nurse had disappeared beneath the surface. Two gentlemen, divesting themselves of their coats, immediately plunged into ihe•water, and, after repeatedly diving, at length succeeded in bringing out the bodies of the nurse and child. The poor infant was found closely clasped in the arms, of the unfortunate young woman, who, it is supposed, had never lost her hold of the child. The bodies were conveyed to the residence of Richards, Esq., close to the spot, and every exertion was used to restore animation, but without effect, life being quite extinct.—Morning Herald. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—SHEERNESS, MARCH 10.— The greatest bustle and activity prevail in the royal dock yard here in getting her Majesty's ships Monarch and Ver non fitted out. 'When completed, they proceed to Spithead for orders. No doubt is entertained here but that their des tination is a visit to our braggart brother " Jonathan" and the rest of the Van Buren faction. A letter received here (Sheerness) this morning states,. that at Plymouth and Ports mouth the utmost activity prevails in the naval departments, and our position in China is now tallied about as if it were a secondary consideration. NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—WO understand that it is not Lord Maidstone's intention again to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of North Northamptonshire. Although, in conjunction with his constituents, we sincerely regret to lose the services of a nobleman whose spirit, energy, and talents have so thoroughly commended him to our good opinion, yet we rejoice to know that the conservative arrange ments are quite completed, and that Augustus O'Brien, Esq„ is fully prepared to take the field, in connexion with Mr. Maunsell, that well-tried and unflinching upholder of his country's weal, whenever a dissolution takes place.—North ampton Herald. GALILEO.—The ceremony of Galileo's abjuration was one of exciting interest, and of awful formality. Clothed in the sackcloth of a repentant criminal, the venerable sage fell upon his knees before the assembled cardinals; and laying his hands upon the Holy Evangelists, he invoked the Divine aid in abjuring and detesting, and vowing again never to teach, the doctrine of the earth's motion and of the sun's stability. He pledged himself that he would never again, either in words or in writing, propagate such heresies ; and he swore that he would fulfil and observe the, penances which had been inflicted upon him. At the conclusion of this ceremony, in which he recited his abjuration word for word, and then signed it, he was conveyed, in conformity with his sentence, to the prison of the Inquisition. The account which we have given of the trial and the sentence of Galileo, is pregnant with the deepest instruction. Human nature is here drawn in its darkest colouring; and in surveying the melancholy picture, it is difficult to decide whether religion or philoso phy has been most degraded. While we witness the pre sumptuous priest pronouncing infallible decrees of his own erring judgment, we see the highminded philosopher abjuring the eternal and immutable truths which he had himself the glory of establishing. In the ignorances and prejudices of the age--in a too literal interpretration of the language of Scripture—in a mistaken respect for the errors that had be come venerable from their antiquity—and in the peculiar position which Galileo had taken among the avowed enemies of the cluirch, we find' the elements of an apology, poor though it be, for the conduct of the Inquisition. But what excuse can we devise fqr the humiliating confession and abjuration of Galileo? Why did this master-spirit of the age—this high priest of the stars—this representa tive of science—this hoary sage, whose career of glory was near its consummation—why did he reject the crown of martyrdom which he had himself coveted, and which, plaited with immortal laurels, was about to descend uponehis head? If, in place of disavowing -the laws of nature, and surrender ing in his own person the intellectual dignity of his species, he had boldly asserted the truth of his opinions, and confided his character to posterity, and his cause to an all-ruling Pro vidence, he would have strung up the hair-suspended sabre, and disarmed for ever the hostility which threatened to over whelm him. The philosopher, however, was supported only by Philosophy ' • and in the love of truth he found a m i serable substit u t e for the hopes of the martyr. Galileo cowered un der the fear of man, and his submission was the salvation of the church. The sword of the inquisition descended on his prostrate neck, and though its stroke was not physical, yet it fell with a moral influence fatal to the character of its vic tim, and to the dignity of science.—The Martyrs of Science. By Sir David Brewster. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1841 When the Popish member for all Ireland blesses Heaven for any extraordinary gift, one naturally feels alarmed as if some evil tidings were to be expected, or as if some public calamity had happened. It will he recol lected that but a few evenings since lie gave Heaven thanks that the doctrines of the Oxford tract school of theology were " very close to the ancient Catholics," and spreading widely in our church. Now if this statement were true, and also one that sincere members of the church could have reason to rejoice in, we sup pose it will be pretty generally admitted that Mr. Da niel O'Connell would never, in reality, " bless Heaven" for being enabled to make it. The statement consists of two parts—the first refer ring to the nature and character of the doctrines taught, and the second to the extent to which they have been disseminated. Were we to examine it mi nutely, it would obviously lead us into a theological discussion in the first instance, and into an inquiry of fact of considerable difficulty in the second ; but with neither shall we trouble our readers at present. We enjoy the pre-eminent and decided advantage, in con • nection with the Church of England, of having settled articles, creeds, and formularies, .which render it un necessary for individual members of her communion, whose churchmanship has been once settled, to make themselves uneasy about new teachers, commentators, and expounders who may start up within her pale. We do not say that errors in this kind ought not to be' combated in a suitable place and mode; but we main tain that the church, settled as it is in doctrine and dis cipline, by articles, canons, and prescriptions, affords a bond of union to her children without exacting perfect unity of sentiment upon► all points ; and that those who wish for peace within her walls are not called upon to prove the goodness of their churchmanship b?sub scribing to the Oxford Tracts, or any other unautho rised publications pretending to be expounders of her doctrines, or indeed to trouble themselves about such productions at all either in the way of acceptance or refutation unless under some peculiar circumstances of •ovocation Whether the Oxford Tractarians, in case of meeting with all that success to which their unknown ainbition way aspire, would leave the church in possession of her glorious Anglican liberties, and admirable forms, is a point that certainly does not admit of conclusive de termination. Judging by what we have seen of their writings, we should, for our pari,'say that they would not. There is too evident a leaning on their side to the Judaising formalities of Romanism for a modest con tentment of this sort. Rome is, in their sympathising view, of near kindred with us —our " elder but erring sister," as they say ; and, according to their interpre tation, we have seen that our church is " not to be considered as condemning purgatory, image, and relic worship, invocation of saints, masses, and so on, as they are taught authoritatively by the Church of Rome, but only absurd practices, and opinions which intelli gent Romanists repudiate as much as we do." We have heard, and indeed know it to be a fact, that a learned and pious divine of the Church of Eng land undertook the compilation of a work which was designed as a full examination and refutation of the doctrines of the Tractarians ; he is a scholar and the ologian than whom there is none better qualified for such an undertaking; but after advancing some way in his task, he gave it up, with this declaration, which was the result of long and anxious deliberation—l re nounce this labour, because I find that in refuting Pu seyism, I am only doing what has been long since done by our reformers. 'The same process of reasoning which refutes Popery refutes Puseyism, and the work is already done to my hand—causa finita est. But as to what this school of divines would do with our church, if they had the power, we have an inti mation from themselves in the very last number of the Tracts for the Times, which exhorts us to " let the church sit still for the present; let her be content to be in bondage; let her work in chains; let her go on teaching with the stammering lips of ambiguous for mularies, and inconsistent precedents, and principles but partially developed." If this mysterious language. does not shroud some meditated revolution, we own we are utterly unable to guess its meaning. But to turn from the theology to the policy of the question, it does strike us that to any reasonable and observing mind it must be evident that the great want of the church at present is EXTENSlON—extension chiefly among the poorer orders of society—the la bouring and manufacturing population. This, for her political security, and indeed for every reason, is one of her chief wants, if npt the very first; and this 'be ing so, it naturally ocbirNi t one to ask, is the Tracta rian school of theology adapted to, and likely to pro mote this end ? We should certainly think not. It is, we may remark, in the first place, one of a very exclu sive order, and has much in it to repel, but little•in deed to gain over those who have been drawn away into the ranks of dissent. In the next place, it sets the laity at an immeasurable distance from the ecclesi astical body, and disdains the aid even of the most worthy towards supplying at any bumble distance the ministrations of the church among the poor ; and, lastly, it combines so much of traditional teaching with the simple enunciations of Scripture, that it ne cessarily adds embarrassment and'difficulty to church instruction, and deprives her services of that free course which they otherwise might have. The Churci of Rome, we may be reminded, finds it easy to progress among the poor and ignorant. True; but the Church of Rome first takes away the light of holy writ, and then traffics with the ignorance that she creates. We have not heard that the Tractarians cal culated on "putting out the light" in like manner; but if they do, they should no longer be regarded as members of the Church of England, but as a sort of Romanist separatists from her. The Church of Eng land is built upon holy writ : " so that whatsoever is riot read there, nor may be proved thereby," she de clares, " is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation ;" and for this reason, the more consistent her instructions are with the divine records, and the more perfectly they harmoniw with the pure and simple doctrines of the gospel, the more readily are they likely to find accept ance among a Bible-reading and Bible-instructed po pulation. That the introduction of the Poor Law tyranny into Liverpool has been suggested by some most pitiful motive, there can be no doubt; but we feel assured that those who have been accessory to the movement will hereafter have abundant cause to repent bitterly of it. 'faking it for granted that every man, woman, and child in the kingdom is now perfectly satisfied that the commission -administered law is the greatest scourge ever put into the hands of public functionaries in this kingdom for the purposes of tyranny, crpelty, and op pression, we have only to express our astonishment that the spirit of party could operate to such an extent as to prevent some men joining with the great body of their fellow,-citizens who naturally and justly acclaim against so grievous an imposition. Baneful indeed must that influence be which can render them insensi ble to the approach of so gigantic an evil, and take from them all desire to avert it,—nay, which leads them rather to court its arrival and weigh the petty grafi& cation of witnessing for a moment the fancied humilia tion of political rivals, against the great and lasting mischief which must follow immediately in the train of so miserable a triumph. We should have expected that all party feeling would be forgotten where the in terests of the poor, and the interests of our common locality, are so intimately concerned ; but such has not been the case—and we own, that, low as our ideas of Whiggery have ever begin, this unpartiotic and dis graceful defection—(for the defalcation is all on one side)—has depressed them to a point beyond which, we suppose, they cannot now descend. How comes it, let us ask, that every Conservative is opposed to the commission-tyranny, but that not a single Whig has the courage openly to contend against it ? When the question was asked at the meeting of the special vestry held on Thursday—" For whose be nefit it was intended," some mysterious unknown in the assembly replied " For Sir Joshua Walmsley's ;" and really that great unknown, who is perhaps more in the se,eret than we are, may be right. If we can conceive so monstrous a nuisance to be for the benefit of any human being, Sir Joshua Walmsley may as well be the happy personage as any other that we wot of. Certainly he has not shown himself the friend of the poor, or of the Inhabitants of Liverpool, by joining in the remonstrance against it. • We have it on the au thority of Mr. EARLE—and a very good authority too in such a case--that the introduction of the law which has been so long deferred may be attributed to the over-much righteousness of the special vestry, and their scrupulous attention to the interests of the parish in the matter of the warehouse bill—it is, he gave us to understand, a punishment upon them for meddling with the projects of the Town Council—for their "mal versatio" of the parish funds in protecting the parish oners against the encroachments of the Council. Only think how attentive the commissioners sitting in So merset House, London, have been to the interests of the people of Liverpool —how anxious they have been, amid numerous other cases, to save us from misma nagement and adjudicate impartially between our Whig Town Council and our constitutional special vestry. But whence did they receive their information ? How came the commissioners so well to understand our local differences, and to apply with such nice discri mination a remedy so exactly suitable to our wants ? Was it Mr. EARLE himself that put them up to it, or was it Sir Joshua Walmsley—an active stirring man in all public affairs—or who was it Well, no matter; at present our only concern is, that the visitation may be averted; for we do aver that if ever there was a project calculated to fire the indignation and provoke the displeasure of a patient people, the abominable pro ject in question is the one. Let us briefly review the facts. We have in the first place a system among us that answers all the purposes of which such a system is ca pable, and so administered that no complaint what ever has been preferred against a management which, from its peculiar nature, is of all others the most difficult. Neither tax-payer on the one hand, nor pauper on the other, is heard to murmur—a circumstance in itself remarkable and most creditable to the.:town. We should think that few instances of a sta444.fthings so singularly felicitous in a matter of so grave a character, and so deeply important, could be pointed out. And yet a proposition is made wantonly to destroy and sub vert it. Under what pretence, or for whose benefit? The official answer must of course be, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Liverpool. But the inhabitants of Liverpool, all hut a clique so numerically insignificant as not to be worth speaking of —vastly obliged, to be sure, for such kind intentions—are desirous rather of remaining just as they are, in their present unreformed but happy condition. They ask for no new law; they have no wish to have foreign commissioners put over their heads; they want no deputy to assist them ; they only require to be allowed to manage their own affairs. and are willing to bear those evils that they have rather than experimentalize with others that they know not of : in a word, they ask to be let alone. But no—this may not be. Whig influence must be forced through every vacant corner of the land ; and as neighbouring towns have been put in the stocks, a good pretence is furnished for inflicting a similar punishment upon Li verpool. Centralization and " uniformity" are stock in-trade humbugs of the school. But if this ground of opposition to the victimizing Llvr,r.root TIMATRE.TIOYAL, Lido. Elio Manaytwent of Mc. C 7,ARKE, Sole Luse Last Week of Mr. ELTON and Mr. J. S. BALLS, liIS present TU SDAY, the lGth instant, will be per formed the Tragedy of VIRGINIUS Virginius leilius Dentatus.... Mr. Baker.—Appius Claudius... Canis Claudius.. Virginia . Mrs. W. H. Bland.—Servia.. Miss Cleaver. After which, for the second time here, the new Farce now performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called 808 SHOR.', Which was receiv e d l as t n i g h t at t hi s T tre with the m os t distinguished approbat n. Bob Short Fitzarthur T0t.... Mr. Baker. Mrs. Ticknot.. Madame Simon.—Betty.. Mrs. P. Crowe. Miss Esther Dipwick .. Miss Chaplin. To conclude with the Farce of MONSIEUR TONSON. Monsieur Morbleau (a French Barber) Mr. Grainger, from the Theatre-royal, Edinburgh and Bath, his first appearance. Tom King.. Mr. R. H. Sharpe. Jack Ardourly Adolphine de Courcy... Miss Chaplin. Madame Ballegarde Madame Simon. Thompson.. Mrs. Baker Mr. Gray On WEDNESDAY, Mr. Knowles's play of WILLIAM TELL. William Tell. Mr. Elton. After which, the new farce of 808 SHORT. To conclude with the operetta of NO SONG NO SUPPER. Mai-nut-am, Miss E. Ho mier , from the Theat re - roya l, Bath, hertir6t appearance here. In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an arrangement has been made with the popular performer, Mr. JAMES WALLACK, of the Theatres- Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, who will shortly commence an engagement for a limited number of nights, being his first appearance here since his return from America. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY AND FREE SCHOOL OF ST. PATRICK. THE ANNUAL EXAMINATIONM the PUPILS will take place' at the ScnooL-RooWPleasant-street, on Tins DAY, (Tuesday,) the 16th instant, at Eleven o'clock, when the attendance of the Friends and Supporters of the Institution is particularly requested. WILL MOORE, Secretary THE WATERLOO:COURSING MEETING. 9[l HE EXHIBITION ottlie PICTURE of the WATER LOO COURSING • MEETING/ painted by 111.. ANSDELL, WILL CLOSE on SAT U MAY next, the 20th instant. Open from Ten to Four. Lyceum, Bold-sfreet, 15th March, 1841. POSTOFFICE-PLACE GALLERY IN this EXHIBITION will be found ilajitES, by the 1. Old and Modern Masters, of the very highest quality and class. Amongst the most remarkable, to which Public attention is particularly drawn, are THE CASA DE LORETTO, by DomEntcniNo, from the Gallery of his Royal Ilighness the Duke of Lucca. ST. JEROME, by RUBENS and VANDYcx, purchased of the Mareschal Soult. ST. JEROME, by SPAGNOLLETO, from the collection of Lucien I3uonaparte. CHRIST BEARING HIS CROSS, by SEBASTIAN° DEL PIOMBO. A HOLY FAMILY, by PARMEGIANO A SEA VIEW, by BACKIIUYSEN. ST. CECILIA, by DOMENICHINO. A ROAD-SIDE PUBLIC•HOUSE, by GEo. MOILLAND. A FINE LANDSCAPE, by GASPAR POUSSIN. And President WEST'S celebrated Picture of the BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR & DEATH OF NELSON, for which 1000 Guineas vas originally paid. Admission, ls.—The Room is brilliantly Lighted by Gas in the Evening. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. jB. HEWITT, SHORT-lIAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL e REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and nirties interested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATISf REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the ensuing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. References permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re spectability. Letters:addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive immediate attention. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION PO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) at Half-past Seven P.M., Mr. A. J. MASON, of London, will commence a Course of FOUR LECTURES on WOOD ENGRAVING, &c., to be continued on the following SNTyIiDAY, at the same hour. A /- To be succeeded by EIGHT LECTUKES on ASTRO NOMY, by Professor WALLIS, and FOUR LECTURES on ELOCUTION, by the Rev. B. T. STANNUS. Admission to Single Lectures, ls. A Donation of Ten Guineas constitutes the Contributor a Life Member of the Institution. Annual Subscription, (en titling to Library, Lectures, and Evening Schools,) One Guinea ; Lady's Ditto, (entitling to Library and Lectures,) 10s. Gd. ; Apprentices of Non-Members, 10s. 6d.; Sons or Apprentices of Members W. B. HODGSON, Secretary TO CORRESPONDENTS The lines by B. will not suit the columns of the STANDARD. We shall not forget the suggestion offered by " Pat," but he will easily imagine our reason for not inserting his letter': we have a great objection to be brought unnecessarily into contact with a contemporary. The publication to which " A Staunch Protestant" alludes is too obscure for notice, and it would be unjust to insert his communication apart from such notice. Any parcel left at Messrs. Whittaker and Co.'s, Ave Maria lane, addressed " To. the Editor of the STANDARD, Liverpool," will duly reach our office. We have again to complain of the non-arrival of the Dublin Statesman. Unless we receive it more regularly, we must cease exchanging with our contemporary. We have received 10s. from Mrs. Priestley, Lord-street, in aid of the fund now raising on behalf of the widow men tioned in our last. THE STEAM SHIP " COLUMBIA." This vessel was anxiously looked for during the whole of yesterday, but up to the time of our going to press, no tidings had been received of her. It will be observed, from our shipping intelligence, that the Queen Victoria from New Orleans, remained at anchor between the Floating Light and Orinshead from the 9th to the l 4th instant, and could not get up owing to the fog. It is not improbable that a slight detention may have been experienced by the Columbia from a similar cause, or she may have been kept for a short time at the other side of the Atlantic, in order to bring some despatches for the British ?government. Of course no anxiety is manifested respecting her, as she cannot yet be con sidered overdue. We are ready any moment for a second edition. Lt rrpool &taitbarb.