The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-18 00:00:00

It is said that Peter Purcell, the Precursor General of Ireland, is certainly to have the honour of knighthood con ferred upon him. It is a curious fact, that while the average yearly sickness in the members of the benefit societies of Scotland is II days, in :he persons employed in the cotton, silk, wool, flax, and earthenware manufactures of England, it is only 7M. Mount Vesuvius, we find by a recent letter from Naples, is again in a state of eruption. The weather has been so mild in the south of Italy and at Naples, that many people have not yet put on their winter clothing. " Zounds, fellow !" exclaimed a choleric old gentleman to a very phlegmatic matter-of-fact person, " I shall go out of my wits." " Well, you won't have far to go," said the blegmatic man. A conservative dinner, on a grand scale, is to take place at Birmingham this day, under the presidency of Earl Howe. Among the guests who have accepted invitations, are Sir Francis Burdett and the Lords Dartmouth and Bradford. Sir Charles Wetherell has, it is said, obtained a fortune of £60,000 with his bride, daughter of the late Colonel Warns ford. It is, we believe, the hon. and learned gentleman's third matrimonial alliance. His second lady was the daugh ter of Sir Alexander Croke, a retired colonial judge.—Morn iv Herald. SINGULAR THIEF.--A mastiff dog, belonging to Mr- Graves, of Partington, has been detected in the act of steal ing turkeys. On a search being made at his depository, in a garden adjoining the farm from whence the turkeys were stolen, no less than eleven fowls and two turkeys were found buried in the earth. JOHN KEMBLE.—" Pray, sir," said a greenroom lounger to Mr. John Kemble during the run of the elephant at Covent garden Theatre, "is the man very nervous who rides upon the real elephant ?" "Nervous, sir !" replied Kemble, in that deep hollow tone which was the particular characteristic of his voice, "What must I have been when, riding on th e sham elephant, 1 heard the hind legs say to the fore legs, ' Get on, or d— your eyes I shall be down ?' "—Musical World. FASHlON.—Fashion constantly begins and endS in the two things it abhors, singularity and vulgarity. It is the pei pe tually setting up and then disowning a certain standard of taste, elegance, and refinement, which has no other founda tion or authority, rather than that it is the prevailingdistrac lion of the moment, which was yesterday ridiculous from its being new, and to-morrow will be odious from its being com mon. It is one of the most slight and insignificant of all things. It cannot be lasting, for it depends on the constant change and shifting of its own harlequin disguises; it cannot be sterling, for, if it were, it could not depend on the breath of caprice; it must be superficial, to produce its immediate effect on the gaping crowd ' • and frivolous, to admit of its being assumed at pleasure by the numbers of those who affect, by being in the fashion, to be distinguished from the rest of the world.— Hazlitt's Essays. Messrs. J: and T. B. Crompton, paper manufacturers, of Farriworth Mills, near Bolton, received an order on Thurs day for a qnantity of paper, which was to be delivered on Friday. The machine at their works commenced operations on Friday morning The quantity made was 1500/bs.; and the whole was delivered for shipment the same night in a vessel which was to sail the next morning.—Bolton Chronicle_ EARLY WINTER.—The ice on the Neva, at St. Peters burgh, was sufficiently strong on the 23d ult., to allow o passengers crossing over on toot. During the-ensuing night the river was completely frozen over, and the workmen on the following morning began the customary labour of con structing the Isaac Bridge. Accounts from other Baltic ports agree in representing that the early winter had set in with considerable severity. DESTRUCTION of MADAME BLANCHARD.—I was one of the thousands who saw (and I heard it too) the destruction of Madame Blanchard. On the evening of the 6th July, 1819, she ascended in a balloon from the Tivoli Gardens at Paris. At a certain elevation she was to discharge some fireworks which were attached to her car. From my own windows I saw the ascent. For a few minutes the balloon was concealed by clouds. Presently it re-appeared, and there was seen a momentary sheet of flame. There was a dreadful pause. In a few seconds, the poor creature, envelop e d and entangled in the netting f her machine, fell with a frightful crash upon the slanting roof of a house in the line de Pro vence (not a hundred yards from where I was standing), and thence into the street,—and Madame Blanchard was taken up a shattered corpse! It was supposed that the rockets which ought to have been made to point downwards were im properly manag ed; and thus the catastrophe was accounted for. So much for fire-work ascents ! —Pool's Crotchet's in the Air. STEAM TO INDIA.—Lord William Bentick has addressed a long communication to the Directors of the East India Company, on the subject of voyaging by steam to India, tp gether with various correspondence on the subject, in one letter of which Sir John Hobhouse declares himself most anxious to accomplish so desirable an object, and would lose no opportunity of promoting it by all the means in his power. His Lordship observes—" For the whole of the service on the eastern side, I should propose five wooden boats of the follow ing size and power. 1,320 tons and 400 horse power; all these vessels should be similar in every respect as far as pos sible. The models ought to be formed upon that principle which experience has confirmed, and every novel theory should be carefully avoided, except, indeed, Hall's conden sers, the efficiency of which, in respect to the boilers, has been established by many experiments, and recently in a long trial in her Majesty's ship, Macmra, under the careful direc tion of Lieutenant Goldsmith, with complete success. Soctaussi UNMASKED.—On Monday evening, Mr. John Easby, of Manchetter, delivered a lecture in the Theatre, Oldham, to point out the erroneous, immoral, and wicked tendency of the Socialists. There was a tolerably numerous audience, and Mr. Easby spoke for nearly two hours, in a strain of pointed sarcasm and animated condemnation of the opinions of Owen's followers. He denounced their theory of moral marriages as extremely pernicious and monstrous; and their views as to responsibility as horrid and blasphe mous. He was repeatedly cheered.—Manchester Courier. LITERARY CHARACTERS.—Modern men of letters may be divided into three classes; the mere scholar or book-worm, all whose knowledge is taken from books, and who may be passed by as an obsolete character, little inquired after—the literary hack or coffee-house polician, who gets his informa tion mostly from hearsay, and who makes some noise indeed, but the echo of it does not reach beyond his own club or cir cle—and the man of real or pretended genius, who aims to draw upon his own resources of thought or feeling, and to throw a new light upon nature and books. CALMS, DEC. B.—Poor Strauss, who has really made so much noise in the world and delighted so many thousands of its inhabitants, has probably performed his last conceit. He gave one at our beautiful Philarmonic-rooms on Wednesday last, which was attended by our elegantes, French and Eng lish. He led the first pact with his accustomed talent, but was too ill to attend the second. He has been suffering some time, they say, from the climate of England. At all events, on Thursday he dismissed his band, who separated, some returning to Germany, and others to London.—Morning Post THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA.—A society has been formed in Berlin by a number of literary men connected with the pe• riodical press, with the view of checking if possible the grow ing evils of literary piracy. In the absence of any law on which to ground their operations, they reckon, we presume, on their being able to call into existence a moral influence in their behalf. All editors ofjournals, or of other periodical publications, are invited to join the society, and, on becom ing members of it, subscribe to a code of laws, which pre scribe the mode of seeking redress, and the amount of com pensation to be made for every plagiarism. The journalists who keep aloof from the society will, no doubt, be soon re garded by the public as persons who voluntarily take their station beyond the pale of respectability.—Athenccum. O'Connell proposes to march an Irish legion to the defence of the Queen, against the combined atta c k s o f th e E ng li s h Radicals. The Queen of England needs, however, no " Irish legion," commanded by Mr. O'Connell, to protect her from any enemy, foreign or - domestic. There are hearts and arms in her own country, 'and among her own English subjects, to defend her Majesty against all the Radicals in her empire, Mr. O'Connell and his legionaries included. Indeed a le gion of O'Connellites, led by Mr. O'Connell himself, would present no very fortninable obstacle in the way of any enter. prise, good or bad. We must not, however, in the absurdity of this impertinence, overlook its malignity. The Radicals, having once allied themselves to Mr. O'Connell, perhaps de serve all the insult that he can heap upon them as Radicals; but it is as Englishmen, not as Radicals, that the braggart mendicant presumes to insult them, and the affront is there fore common to us all. For the ruffian alien to talk of march ing a legion of such as would follow him, against any class of Englishmen, is an offence that ought not to pass without re buke. The purpose of the bravado is, no doubt, to sharpen the of his wretched followers against all the natives of this country, against those most closely connected with them in political feeling as well as others; but if anything more is intended, we have the type of the project in 1641 when " Irish legions" organised under the pretence of defending the King against his British subjects, forgot at once the pretext of their armament as soon as they got weapons in their hands, employing those weapons in the massacre of 150,000 of their Protestant fellow-subjects. We have no desire to conceal our apprenhensions that, by the decision of Sir Herbert Jenner, yesterday, in the case of Breaks v. Woolfrev, the most serious blow has been inflicted on the Church of - England that it has sustained since the days of Laud. One of the rankest and foulest corruptions of - Popery has been declared to belong to it ! The matter, however, cannot rest here. A direct contradiction exists be tween the doctrines held by our different courts of law and equity. In the case of West and Shuttleworth, no longer back than August 16, 1835, the Master of the Rolls (the pre sent Lord Chancellor,) annulled a bequest for masses for the textatrix, on the express ground that as the testatrix could not be benefitted by such,prayers, they were vain and super stitious, and consequently void inequity. 'This was the plain common-sense view of the case, over which, however, the judgment of Sir H. Jenner, rides triumphantly. The hurh of England must at once bestir itself. If so leading a cor ruption of Popery as this be permitted quietly to take up its abode amongst us, the final result cannot be doubtful. As to the attempt to draw a line between prayers for the dead and purgatory, so as to admit the one, and yet exclude the other, it is mere childishness. And this is the real predicament in which we now stand—that after having composed and put forth an homily against these errors, and having made all her clergy assent to it in the Thirty-fifth Article, as containing " good and wholesome doctrine," the Church is still to be told, by one of her own judges, that she has never given any decision against Rome on this point.—Standard. DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER IN ARMAGH.— On Wednesday evening last, the inhabitants of Scotch street, in the city of Armagh, were greatly alarmed by a loud report as if of artillery, together with the jingling of broken glass and the crash of falling timber, &c. On hastening to the place, the noise was found to have proceeded from the premises of Mrs. Graham, a very respectable bonnet-maker, the front of whose house exhibited a very shattered appear. ance, the shop windows being left a complete wreck, and even the ceiling of the shop being torn off by something in the shape of a missile, in the explosion; the smell, too, of burning wood and clothes, with that of human flesh and hair, the screetching of children, and the alarm and noise of the inmates and their neighbours, who had hastened to their relief, may be easily conceived, but cannot possibly be de scribed. On inquiry, it appeared that a - friend of Mrs. Gra ham's, formerly in the police, had that evening returned to Armagh, and stopped at his sisters his Mrs.G.'s, where he left trunk, and where his daughter lived as an apprentice. Hav ing occasion for something out of the trunk, he sent his daughter with the key to bring it; she was accommpanied by two of Mrs. G.'s children, and had a candle in her hand; the three children having got the article, began, through curiosity, to overhaul the trunk, looking for some presents they expected from the owner, when tl spark from the candle unfortunately fell on some packages of gunpowder which were in the trunk, and the explosion was, of course, the al most instantaneous consequence; the trunk was shivered to atoms, its contents scattered in fragments round the room ; yet strange to tell, not one of the three children was killed, nor a severe wound or br2lten bone inflicted on any of them —their faces, arms, and hands were frightfully scorched, and their lives nearly extinguished by the fright ; the eyebrows, and even the eyelashes, were burned qff them, yet the eyes escaped unhurt, except in a trifling degree. They were promptly attended by Dr. Colvan, the medical attendant of Mrs. G.'s family, and are doingswell and not (likely to be much scared or contracted. Some idea may be formed of the strength of the explosion, when it is known, that the two doors of the room, which was behind the shop, where the explosion occurred, were driven off, and two windows in it shattered to pieces; also a skylight over a back door, in a hall twelve or fourteen yards high from the room, from which a passage led to the hall at right angles, was driven out and shattered. The shop windows, already spoken of, were at least eight or ten yards from the explosion, and a partition was between the shop and the room. A woman passing the .shop at the time, had her face cot, by the. biokep glass, and . was much ffiglatened,—Newry Teteyraph. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 18, 1838. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the new packet-ship Roscius, which arrived here on Saturday we have received New York papers to the 27th ult The news brought by the Rosciustis comparatively unimportant. It appears that M'Kenzie and Theller have been endeavouring to get up another " sympa thising" meeting at Baltimore, but the attempt, according to the representations of the New Yor k papers, appears to have been abortive. The following particulars are furnished in the King ston Chronicle respecting the issue of the engagement at Prescott:— " Ten barrels of powder and several stand of arms, and 10,000 rounds of ball cartridge, were found in the mill. Three pieces of artillery, which had been placed in front of the door of the mill on a battery constructed •,f loose stones, were also captured All the houses in the possession of the brigands were set on fire, except the mill, which was occupied during the night by a company of militia. "The only loss sustained by us on this occasion was one of the light company of the gallant 83d regiment, who was shot through the head. " The loss of the pirates, as far as we can 'learn ,is as follows: — Killed on the 13th Left dead on the field on Friday night 35 Total killed Prisoners taken on Tuesday and sent to Fort Henry Surrendered unconditionally on Friday 132 Total prisoners. 152 "It is with extreme regret we learn that Captain Drummond, of the - Glengary Militia, was shot—hav • ing gone into ope: of the houses on fire, and appearing at one of the windows, it was supposed that he was a rebel. , The volunteers fired, and h e f e ll dead. " The hod:) , of Lieutenant Johnson, of the 83d regiment, has been brought up; He will be interred on Monday, at two o'clock, p.m. • We would suggest to our townsmen, as a mark of respect for the gallant dead, that their shops be closed during the ceremony of the funeral." THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS AND THE REV. MR. JAMES.—We are, by no means, advocates of the popish principle that " the end sanctifies the deed ;" —that it is lawful "to do evil that good may come;" — we do however, maintain that what may be, and are, very properly, termed fearful calamities, delusions, &c., not unfrequently prove conducive to the most beneficial results. In elucidation of this our conviction, we need only instance the lethiferous plague the Corporation has inflicted on the children receiving education under their auspices, evoking such a bold and honest and truly Christian exposition of its baneful tendency as that exhibited in the letters addressed by the Rev. Mr. James to Mr. Wm. Rathbone. We earnestly recom mend them to the attentive perusal of every sincere enquirer after truth,—to every individual not yet im pressed IN ith a holy horror of the " abominable super stitions and blasphemous fables contained in the Popish Catechism," and taught in the Corporation Schools. • We cannot, it is true, flatter ourselves with the pleasing hope, that these ably penned letters will have their appropriate effect on the gentlemen to whom they are addressed, or on his liberal co-frater nity in council ;—far otherwise. It is rather to be apprehended that the clique, finding their heads en lightened—(their hearts, however, remaining seared and callous and untouched)—by them, will conceive their pride injured, and be thus goaded to such a de gree of madness as to stimulate them to adopt (were it possible) more latitudinarian principles, and a more unscrupulous and rancorously persecuting hate toward the faithful protestants against their heresy, and to wards the Established Church. But there is an honest class in society, which, not having its understanding—on religious subjects est:e eially—warped and perverted to compass base, selfish, party purposes, will lay the incontrovertible arguments adduced by Mr. Jones, to heart, 'and which will be, consequently, roused into energy and action for the suppression of a system so nefarious, and so fraught with detriment and ruin to the present and eternal happiness of so many thousands of their fellow crea tures. There is, we affirm, a class in society thirsting, as a parched soil, forinformation such as that conveyed in the Rev. Mr. J.'s letter, which will eagerly imbibe it, and, with alacrity and decision, manifest its convic tions by strenuous opposition to the elevation of men to power so wofully besotted, or determinedly blinded, by their own shallow and empty conceits and crudities, as to withold from the children in the corporation schools that inspired volume which the fountains of wisdom herself declared should be "as a light to their feet and a lantern to their path"—and this, gentle reader, 7 -can you believe it ?—" to avoid giving offence to the bigotry and idolatry of Romanism !" Thus do these truly " liberal" corporators offer open, undis guised insult to the. great and beneficent and orunip tent Creator, that they may conciliate the regard and secure the support of a base, apostate, grovelling antichristian faction ! To support such men, or countenance them in their heretical career, is, at once, to be involved as " parti cipes criminis," for " qui facit per alios, facit per se," as very appositely states Mr. James. The necessity, therefore, is obvious of straining every nerve to place men of tried Christian princi ples and character in charge of the momentous sub ject—" the religious education of the rising genera tion"—in place of the vain visionaries, schismatic sectarians, and cankered churchmen, who can embrace Popery and Den's Theology as paragons of purity and holiness,—and Infidelity and Tom Paine as the most brilliant luminaries of a Christian church ! Till this is effected, we never can expect to see harmony and honourable feeling in the council chamber,—anything, in fact, but the frothy furor of rabid radicalism, ram pant for the prostration of everything that is holy and of good report among us;—but this once achieved, — (and how little effort would it call for from the com bined Protestant population y)—we might expect to see " truth and justice, religion and piety, established among us;"—blessings which would be handed down to generations yet unborn, through a full, and free, and faithful bible education. Then the council cham ber would exhibit that peaceable, orderly, and deco rous aspect so requisite in a deliberating assembly,— idem velle, et idem nolle, eademum firma amicitia est." In conclusion, we would advise that Mr. James's letters be printed and widely circulated, in a cheap form, among the operative Protestants of the town. The Protestant operative associations will, we trust, take this hint and act upon it. On Saturday week, as one of the cooks at the Waterloo Hotel was cutting up a turbot, he found in it a half-crown, a fluke, and a small fish. NEW CHAPEL, AT WAVERTREE.—On Tuesday morning last the first stone of a new chapel, about to be erected at Wavertree, was laid by the Rev. Thos. Sleigh, of that place. The building, which will be a neat stone erection, of the Gothic order, is expected to be completed about the middle of the ensuing year. THEATRE Ro Y A L.—We perceive that Mrs. Clarke, who is deservedly a high favourite on the Liverpool stage, takes her benefit on Friday evening next. She has got a most attractive bill of fare; and the new farce of "Nicholas Nickleby," or •` Doings at Do-the-boys-Hall," from Boz's work, is to be brought out. We have no other anticipation but that she will have a crowded and fashionable house. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL.—Sir B. B. M‘Mabon, Bart., Quintin Dick, M.P., Lady Campbell, Major Cannes, Colonel Burdett, Colonel Watson, Pierce Moore, Esq., John Watt, Esq., Lieutenant Harvey, Captain Willmot, Captain Staunton, W. O'Mere, Esq., H. Caldwell, Esq., C. Hut in, Esq., Henry Bent, Esq., C. Wynn, Esq., Gen. Duncan, H. Bevan, Esq., W. Henchy, Esq., W. Gunstall, Esq., John Ogle, Esq., Miss Emily Watt, Theophilus Cook, Esq., W. Hendry, H. Frosdycke, Esq., Captain Graham, Lord Talbot, W. M. Stanley, Captain Finch, and Colonel Berkeley. ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Great efforts !lave been made of late to improve the character and usefulness of this institu tion, and with every prospect of success. The :erms of ad mission both to proprietors and subscribers are extremely moderate, considering the advantages which are held out, and there is one feature which especially entitles the institu tion to public favour and support. The galleries of casts, and the extensive and valuable museums of natural history are open to the public on the first Monday in each month, from nine to four, free of any charge whatever. LAWS OF HEALTH.—The Fifth Lecture on Popular Phy siology and Laws of Health was delivered, in the M e di ca l Institution, by Dr. Thornburn, on Friday evening. Diet and the best rules for eating and drinking in the healthystate, together with practical suggestions to those who suffer from stomach complaints, bile, and indigestion, formed the staple of the doctor's remarks. The subject of diet was followed by a series of valuable comments on physical education. A large amount of information was rendered highly attractive, and entertaining, by a continual flow and admixture of anec dote, and amusing incident. The theatre was crowded to excess. MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY CANAL AND RAILWAY. —We refer our readers to an advertisement, in another page, relative to the times at which the different trains on this rail way start from the two ends. Since the opening to the pre sent time, upwards of 230,0 W passengers have travelled over it. As the trains, the reader will observe, go, from seven o'clock in the morning tiil seven at night, nearly every hour, excepting just in the middle of the day, the traveller from Liverpool has a commodious and expeditious conveyance to Bolton, taking the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and and then the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and so back from the Bolton and Bury district to Liverpool. A friend of ours the other day, left Bolton, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, went to Manchester by the railway, had half-an-hour for business there, and carne to Liverpool by the Liverpool and Manches ter ailway eleven o'clock train, and was on 'Change at a little after twelve. We are glad to hear, that the traffic on this railway continues steady, with the prospect of a consider able increase, when the roads now foaming towards Yorkshire shall be completed. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton arrived at their seat, Worsley Hall, on Tuesday. On Thursday, his lordship, Mr. Greville, and Mr. Bradshaw, had a day's sport over the preserves at Worsley, when they killed amongst them se venty-six rabbits, fifty-two bares, twenty pheasants, and five woodcocks, making in all 153 head of game. The party afterwards adjourned to Mr. Sutcliffe's, the Bridgewater Hotel, where sixty-four sat down to a most sumptuous dinner. THU?. CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.—We are glad to ob serve that out of the one hundred and sixteen chemists and druggists carrying on business in Liverpool, one hundred and four have signed the pledge to observe the resolutions passed at the recent general meeting of the trade, in favour of closidg their shops at an earlier hour than formerly. Ten pe; sou.; have agreed to the regulation, but declined to sign, and only two have refused. This is a most gratifying an nouncement to make, and we trust it will have a beneficial effect upon the minds of the young men who will be liberated from the close attendance on their professional duties which has hitherto been required from them. They must, in the first instance, be persons of some education, and they will now have the opportunity of improving those literary attain ments for which a taste has of necessity been implanted. The opportunity of attending the lectures which are so fre quently delivered at our public institutions Should be afforded them as often as possible, and their employers, we feel quite confident, would reap therefrom considerable advantage. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of Arthur Burns, a chimney sweeper, who died of hydrophobia under the following circumstances: —The deceased lived in Banastre-street, and kept a small terrier bitch. About five weeks ago he tied it up with a rope, and in the act of doing so the bitch bit him on the rightthumb. On the same day it bit him a second time on the same hand, and also attempted to bite another person who lived in the same house with Burns. He then hanged it. The wound in the thumb bled a good deal, but without exciting much at tention, and in a short time it healed. On Saturday last he took seriously ill, and was carried to the Northern Hospital. After being admitted, he had several convulsions, and com plained of his throat. On Sunday, the most decided symptoms •of hydrophobia showed themselves. He died on Sunday night. On the hand where he was bitten there was a scar; no wound. Before he died he had a great abhorrence of water or any fluid. A. verdict of "Died from hydrophobia" was accordingly given. ARRIVAL OF CONVICT REBELS FROM CANADA.—Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, thirty-four state prisoners engaged in the first rebellion in Canada, were landed by steamer, ex barque Captain Ross, Morton, from Quebec. The whole have been tried and sentenced to be transported for life, and are now on their way to New South Wales They were accompanied by eleven felons, also convicts. The whole are now confined in the Borough - aol, awaiting the orders of the Secretary of State about their trans-shipment. We annex the names of the political privoiers : some of them we under stand to be .highly respectable men. Mr. John S. Parker, we learn, was an extensive merchant in Canada, and is well known in this port. It was reported that the prisoners had attempted to rise and mutiny on the voyage; but we have heard from the captain that this report is wholly unfounded. The receipt of the intelligence of their arrival produced con siderable and unusual excitement in the Exchange News room, where the intelligence was posted. The following are the names of the political convicts :—Alex. M'Laud, Tinley Malcolm, John Grant, J. J. M‘Ntilty, Jno.G. Parker, Benj. West, John Vernon, Norman Mellory, Paul Bedford, James Wagoner, Samuel Chandler, Leonard Watson, Wm. Rey nolds, Simes W. Miller, Win. Aloes, Robert Walker, James Gemmell, George Cooley, Jacob Berner, Garrett Van Camp, James Brown, Ira Anderson,, Randal Bison, Francis Farnell, James Lynn, Bernard O'Hara, Joseph Langloys, Joseph Hamel, James Thompson. Agnes Provost, Isidore Pare, Charles M'Loud, Thomas Oliver, Baptiste Cadine. SHAMPOOING.—Our readers will find, on reference to an advertisement in another column, that the art of shampooing, so strongly recommended by medical men, on account of its salutary effects, in various diseases, has been introduced into Liverpool, under the superintodence of a qualified person. THE TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIP " LIVER- Poot.."—A splendid lithographic engraving► of this magnifi cent vessel has just been published b) Mr. Isaac, the execu tion of which reflects the highest credit upon his talents as an artist. We feel assured that our fellow-townsmen will ap preciate this engraving, as a lasting memento of the spirit and enterprise which prompted the Transatlantic Steam Naviga tion Company to establish a permanent line of communica tion with New York. The splendid vessel called "The Li verpool" is here most accurately represented ploughing the main with stateliness at her utmost speed, the wind ou her larboard quarter, and her foresail, mainsail and wizen, her foretop-sail, foretop-gallant, and jib set, and sheeted home with the nicest attention to seamanship. There are also ex hibited two views of the interior of her elegant cabins, with the passengers in the enjoyment of the nice things which the caterers so liberally provide for their comfort; and two smaller views of the ports of Liverpool and New York These are surrounded with a number of appropriate devices of great beauty and of exquisite execution. DISCUSSION ON THE Naw Pooa LAW.—Last evening► Messrs. Sleigh and Acland, held a discussion on the merits of the New Poor Law, at the Shooting Gallery, Tarleton street. It suited the purpose of Mr. Acland to contend : that the new poor law was the best of all possible laws; and Mr. Sleigh denounced it as unconstitutional, cruel, and unchris tian, as no doubt it is. When the 43rd of Elizabeth was passed, it was hailed by the rich as a happy settlement— founded on Christianity and humanity—of the question, of the support of the poor of the land; and by the poor it W LIS hailed as a boon and a blessing. The new peor law is looked on by the majority of the rich, and of thinking men, as a yielding to the necessity of keeping in some way people who cannot keep themselves, rather than as a charitable and Christian institution : and as founded on the assumption that paupers are all scoundrels, and deserve only the treatment of felons, rather than that they are objects of compassion and charity ; by the poor it is abhorred and opposed, as placing on their helpless poverty the brand of disgrace, and as giving them the alternative of starvation with a good name, or an ignominious pittance with the treatment and de gradation of felons—as a law, which in many districts they will shed their best blood rather than submit to; and it is looked upon as a good law only by the pelosophers, the eco nomists of the Hume and Malthus School—the "dot and go one" gentlemen, to whom anything like feeling, or humanity, or Christian charity is precious humbug compared with the "enlightened principle" of screwing a penny a day out of the miserable existence of a pauper. It is, of course, out of the question to give anything like a report of the discussion at tbis late hour. A chairman was appointed, and each speaker had half an hour allowed. The meeting was adjourned shortly after 10 o'clock, and the discussion is to be renewed to•uigbt, on the National Education system. CORRESPONDENCE. THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stir,—l shall esteem it a favor if you will insert this in your next publication :—believing you to be an enemy to the hypo critical cant which is so common in the present day, and knowing that your columns are perused by the most respec table portion of the inhabitants of this town, I think 1 can not avail myself of a inure proper medium of expressing my sentiments. "lieu tempera ! 0 mores! " How are the mighty fallen ! These exclamations naturally escape me, when I reflect on the conduct at present pursued by some of my professional brethren, phy s i c i ans i u Liverpool. Since I have had the honor to belong to that, generally, so highly respectable body, it has always been considered derogatory in any of it.; members to enter into any kind of trade or corn mert ial speculation ; and properly so, for it is one of the most liberal of the professions, and requires long study and expe rience, and great learning to enable a physician to practice with success and advantage to society. We have always been looked up to as persons high in station, and far above the mercenary ideas of traffic; but alas! the time has now come, when men eminent for their talent, and prosperous in their profession, think it no disgrace to become tradesmen as well. You will find by referring to the prospectus issued by the Apothecaries' Company, that several shares are held by me dical gentlemen, many of whom are ph ys i c i ans o f th e fi rst standing. How can we reconcile this? Is it not enough that a physician should receive his fee, but he must also re ceive a profit from the medicine which he prescribes ? It is a common practice for these gentlemen to recommend their prescription to the Apothecaries' Hall; this would be well enough if they were disinterested, but what shall we say of an M.D. who - holds perhaps a hundred shares in that com pany, and uses his influence to enhance the profits of the concern ? He has a direct interest in prescribing more me dicine than he otherwise would, and, in fact, is the dispenser of his own prescriptions: in this case he should give up his fee as a physician, and content himself with his profits as an apothecary. I hope that the public will see through all such recommendations, and act with becoming spirit; let it not be said that physicians now-a-days are turned druggists; let every trade have its fair share of public patronage, and let not the physician, while he receives his guinea for his ad vice, again receive his pence upon the medicine. The chemists and druggists are a highly respectable body of men, and hitherto have compounded prescriptions to the satisfaction of the profession generally, and the public at large. It is, therefore, too bad that they should be opposed by those very men that they have been accustomed to recom mend to their friends and customers, and whom they have considered a superior class to themselves. This evil must produce its own remedy; for it requires persons only to know, that gentlemen who proffer such recommendations as I have spoken of, are interested parties, and they will, of course, in future consult physicians, who are satisfied with practising their profession alone, without meddling witk the business of the druggist. A PHYSICIAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL. DRAPERS' INSTITUTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sta,—As the Drapers' Assistants have already established an Institution (which, I trust, will be as useful as it is their wish to make it), would it not be advisable for the Assistants in other Trades to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by such an establishment, and thereby to prove to their em ployers that they, as well as the Drapers' Assistants, were actuated only by a desire to improve themselves, when they sought a curtailment of their hours of business ?—lt is not likely that every distinct trade will have a separate Institu tion, and as the Assistants in the Linen and Woollen Dra pery Business, with those in the Lace, Hosiery, and Silk Mercer Departments, have made common cause, and shown the fruit of their united efforts in an undertaking so praise worthy, they would, I am sure, have no objection to admit the Shopmen belonging to any other Branch of Trade. More over, the Drapers' Assistants state, in their advertisement, that " the public in general may become subscribers;" and, therefore, there is no excuse for those Assistants, in whatever Trade, who neglect or decline to embrace such an opportu nity. As it is expected that the Master Drapers will contribute very liberally towards the funds of this Institution, the Shop keepers in other Trades will surely, if their Assistants become subscribers, be not less munificent than the Master Drapers. Hoping that these observations may be attended with a beneficial effect, I am, your's. &c., A GROCER. ST. MARTIN'S MARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In answering an anonymous letter in the STAND ARD of Friday last, I beg to state that I am the Superin tendent of the several Markets there named, nor do I deny taking a small part at the late municipal election. To the remaining numerous paragraphs of that letter, I give the most unqualified, unlimited contradiction. For the information of the concoctors (for there is more than the attorney's clerk) of this letter, I beg to state that the Market Committee will meet on Monday, the 24th inst. ; at one o'clock, at the Town Hall, when and where, if they are not as destitute of courage, as they are of writing the truth, they will come forward and me e t me. I have been more than once charged with coercing the tenants in St. Martin's Market; what will the public say, when they are informed there is only one person in the market who was eligible to vote for Scotland Ward, Mr. William Leatherbarrow, who is independent_ of either the superintendent or any oth er person.—Yours, &c, St. Martin's Market, Dec. 17, 1838. R. GROSE. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS. THE REV. D. JAMES AND MR. W. RATHBONE. Stn,—Your letter of the 6th instant, addressed to me, through the medium of the Liverpool Mail, I should have allowed to pass unnoticed but for one statement, on which you seem, with an air of triumph, to court explanation. That explanation I am both ready and willing to give, and the more so, as it will afford me another opportunity of exposing the new systenrof education introduced into the corporation schools. This is the only feature of interest to the public in this correspondence. It is therefore clearly my duty to pass over in silence some minor points in your letter, noticing others only very briefly, that I may address myself more at length to the main subject in dispdte. I shall follow the ori ginal order, and commence, if you please, with No. 1. I gave you credit for truth when you stated that you had received information, "that on visiting the North Corporation School I had refused to enter my name in the visitors' book." It was obvious at once that the authorities of the school alone could have originally given that information, the visitors' book being in their keeping. But the head master, Mr. Robert J. Nelson, in his published letter of the 4th instant, openly disavows, on his own part, and on the part of his col leagues, ever having given such information, saying " The fact is, Mr. James was never asked to enter his name in the book." This point must now be left to be settled between you And the schoolmaster; for up to this time you have had neither the candour nor the courage to give up your authority, and the public are curious to learn who the author of the fabrication is. There can be little doubt, whoever he may be, that he is a warm friend and supporter of the new system of education. Be it so, or not, I mean to re-assert that that system is calculated to produce a reckless disregard of truth in all connected with it. I will state a true case to illustrate this. And you cannot object to be introduced as one of the actors in the scene. You have gone, sir, into one of the corporation schools yourself, and taught the Church of England catechism on one side of the room, whilstyour own paid master or monitor, acting in obedience to the regulations of the school, and car rying out the system authorised by you and the liberal part of the town council, was occupied, on the opposite side of the same room, in teaching the Roman Catholic catechism. You had to propose to the children under your instruction the fol lowing question "4:— . How runny sacraments hath Christ ordained in his church ?" The children replied:— "A.—Two only, as generally necessary to salvation, that is to say, baptism, and the supper of the Lord." Your monitor also had to propose a similar question to the children under his instruction : " Q.—Hovin;;;;;;;;;;is are' there ?" The children advisedly replied:— "A.—These seven: baptism, confirmation, holy encharist, penance, extreme unction, holy order, and matrimony." Now, either you or he taught the children to believe what was false. You taught the children in your charge to believe that there are two Christian sacraments, and only two; he taught the children on his side of the room to believe there are seven sacraments. And you both were only acting your respective parts under one and the same system. And when, after the hour of religious instruction was over, you and the monitor met at the same desk, or b ecame f a irly confronted at the door in going out, pray, what did you think of each other? And, more especially, what did you think of the sys tem which led one of you to act so disgraceful a part towards the children; fin you cannot avoid the conclusion that one portion of the children, no matter which, were on that day deliberately taught to believe a lie;" and that, not in as tronomy, geography, arithmetic, or commerce, but in religion, which is a transaction between the immortal soul and the just and holy God. And let me impress upon your mind that I consider you were placed in a far worse position than the mo• nitor. He was acting according to orders, and probably in culcating that which strictly accorded with his creed; but you were sanctioning his teaching as well as your own, for he could not have been there but for the authority of the town-council, much less have taught in your presence doc trines the very opposite to those which you were teaching. You were therefore guilty, not simply of having previously assisted in introducing into the school a system by which truth and falsehood should necessarily be taught in the same room, on the same day, and in the same hour; but of being actually present to render all the help in your power to the working of that system. You were there acting your part and eountenancing the whole proceeding ! ! And where was your regard for truth, when you resorted to the school, day after day, to aid, countenance, and sanction the teaching of false hood? Are you sure the system has had no injurious effect on your own moral principles ? Whence those unwarrantable attacks on the clergy for which your speeches have of late been so distinguished ? Whence that prurient and most in satiable desire of ascribing to them acts and deeds of which they have never been guilty? In your place, in the council, the other day, you thought fit to prefer against myself four grave charges, three of which were utterly without foundation : and in the course of the same speech—not very remarkable for its length—you made an attempt to degrade the whole body of the national clergy, by saying they were "paid by the state," an assertion which you must have known at the time it was made could not be supported by the evidence of history or of fact; but you were well aware it was one likely to prejudice the clergy in the estimation of the ignorant and disaffected out of doors. Whence this wholesale dealing in slanderous imputations and false statements? I think, sir, the answer is found in the treacherous system of education with which you have been so completely identified since its introduction into Liverpool. I trust the public will bear this in mind, that they may know in future what importance to attach to your sayings and doings, especially with respect to religion, education, and the national church. _ —" You stated in the council tlrat I had used the pulpit to malign parties by name," meaning as appears by a report of your speech in the Liverpool Standard, " yourself and Mr. Blackburn." To this I replied, " I did not., on any occasion, malign you from my pulnit,—l bear no malice to wards you or any man living. " Was not this meeting the charge fairly and fully ? And yet you tell me I do not deny the charge, except in reference to yourself. I am astonished at your disingenousness and perverseness. The system of education, in which you have been so heartily engaged, ap pears to have blinded your understanding and corrupted your heart, and to have left you but few noble and honourable qualities remaining. I would advise you, sir, for your own sake, and that of the public, to rid yourself without delay of the monster that preys upon your moral constitution, and introduces derangement into your public acts; and to restore to the schools a system of education, based on the written word of God which abideth for ever, that nothing but truth be inculcated where falsehood is now daily and systematically taught. But now one word respecting Mr. Blackburn. That honourable councillor has published a pamphlet in support and defence of the new system of education. I hhd occasion to make some remarks on that specious production, and in doing so, I ventured to mention the author's name, a privilege which I believe to be exercised by ministers of all denomina tions, of which, authors themselves, have no right to com plain. The people invariably expect to be informed who the author is, whose work is quoted or commented upon. And I am in the habit of satisfying them on that score; but I pro test against your insidious attempt to persuade the public that mentioning an author's'name from the pulpit is malign tog him. You profess to be an advocate of liberty, and yet you employ every means in your power to rob the clergy of (heirs. In a country like this, where the press is free, publi cations fraught with infidel principles, and of a tendency to subvert true religion and virtue, are daily pouring forth upon the public ; and it is essential to the faithful discharge of their duties, as watchmen over the house of God, and as the author ised guardians of divine truth and revealed religion, that the clergy should have the pulpits free ; and that they should avail themselves of that freedom in every corner of the land. In no other way can the evils arising from the perverted use of the press be adequately met. And it would be indeed hard, if a minister,in noticing an obnoxious work,and guarding his flock against its unsound principles or irreligious tendency, should not be at liberty to announce the author's name. So long, sir, as you wiil contend for the liberty of the press, I stall contend for the liberty of the pulpit. No. 3. Your original charge under this head was, that " I bad said from my pulpit, I would not give the communion to him who would vote for a liberal town-councillor." Finding this statement refuted in a manner not to be gainsaid, you change your ground of accusation and attempt to justify what you before said falsely, by now saying what is true. Your words are these, " My statement certainly was, that you were said to have declared you would refuse the com munion to voters for a liberal town-councillor. As I was not present I cannot pretend to verbal accuracy, nor is the dif fercnce material, if it should prove that it is not to the voter for the town-councillor you would refuse the communion, but to the town-councillor himself who was a supporter of the Irish system of national education." To you, sir, so ac customed to countenance and sanction the teaching of truth and error in the same school—so accustomed to carry the Bible in one hand and a code of heresies in the other—so ac customed to deny the divinity of Christ in your chapel, and teach the divinity of Christ in the school—so accustomed to consider two and seven as amounting to nearly the same thing—to you there may not appear a material difference be tween your former statement and the present; but, sir, ifyou go to your schoolmaster and ask him what oifference exists between correcting a comparatively innocent lad and laying the strap across the shoulders of a determinedly obstinate of fender, he wil! tell you that, whilst to punish the former would he wrong and unjustifiable, to correct the latter is a duty of the greatest importance, both to the offender hi mse lf a nd t o the community in which he moves. Such, sir, I consider to be the difference between refusing the communion to voters for liberal town-councillors themselves directly implicated in the guilt of teaching heretical doctrines. Now, sir, I do not see why any misrepresentation should have been made on this point. I had previously announced to my congregation my intention of submitting to them the results of my visits to the North Corporation School, and of explaining the real character of the system of education therein pursued. There were present 806 people, at the least, capable of repeating the opinion I so deliberately expressed, that those town-councillors who had introduced, and were still upholding that heretical and anti-Christian system, had forfeited their claim to Chri s tian commun i on, an d t h at if any one of them bad happened to be a professed member of my congregation, I should have considered it my duty in faith fulness to him, and solemnly before God, to act on that opi nion. I stated this as my conviction, after a most mature consideration of the subject, and up to this moment I have seen no reason to change. 1 am still of the same opinion. But before I proceed to state the premises, or give the rea sons by which I arrived at this conclusion, permit me to ex tract a few sentences from an impartial source on the sub ject of excommunication. "Excommunication is a penalty or censure, whereby per sons who ale guilty of any notorious crime or offence are se parated from the fellowship of the church, &c." "Excommunication is founded upon a natural right which all societies have of excluding out of their body such as vio late the laws thereof; and it was originally instituted for preserving the purity of the church." "The power of excommunication was lodged in the hands of the clergy, who distinguished it into the greater and the less. The less consisted in excluding persons from the par -1 ticipation of the eucharist, and the prayers of the faithful, 1 but they were not expelled the church. The greater con sisted in absolute and entire seclusion from the church, and the Participation of all its rights." • The causes of excommunication in the church of Eng land are, contempt of the bishop's court, heresy, &c. "The exclusion of a person from any Christian church does not deprive him of the liberty of attending public wor ship. It removes him, however, fiom the communion of the church and the privileges dependent on it. This is done that he may be ashamed of his sin, and be brought to re pentance, that the honour of Christ may he vindicated, and stumbling blocks removed out of the way."—(Buck's Dict., edited by Dr. Henderson, Highbury College.) 'There are four points which I wish you to notice in these extracts. First,—That the church, which is a congregation of faith ful men, has, in common with all societie s , a natural right of excluding from its pale offending members. Secondly,—that the power of excommunication was from the first lodged in the bands of the clergy. Thirdly,—That simple exclusion from the eucharist is the mildest form of excommunication ever practised in the church. And lastly, that one of the causes of excommunication in the Church of England, is HERESY. As you may have forgotten the definition of the words — heresy and heretic—which appeared in a former letter, I beg to remind you that "A man becomes an heretic by a stfff, dis ingenuous, wilful, turbulent adherence to an opinion opposite to some articles of the Christian faith, whether it regard specu lation or practice."—(Pantalogia.) According to another dissenting author, " Heresy is generally used to signify some fundamental error adhered to with obstinacy. Heretics are the false prophets and teachers, which Christ and his apostles foretold should come, who should forsake the faith themselves and seduce others into error. A heretic is to be rejected and cast out of the church, if he remain obstinate after a first and second admonition."—(Brown's Dictionary.) Now, sir, one point only remains to be established, and I shall have made out a complete justification of the opinion which I expressed, and the determination to which I am. come : and that is, to prove that you and your liberal fellow councillors who advocate, support, and enforce the new sys tem of education in the corporation schools, are guilty of teaching and propagating heretical doctrines. The Roman catholic catechism contains doctrines which are admitted by all denominations of protestants to be false, anti-scriptural, and heretical. The catechism is daily taught in the corpora tion schools by your authority. The system makes it impe rative upon the masters of monitors, in the absence of the priest, to instruct the Romish children in their own catechism the last hour . in each day. When 1 visited the North Cor poration School in the month of October, 1837, I found one of the masters instructing the children to pray to the Virgin Mary. In my visit to the same school in the month of No vember last, there was no Roman catholic priest present, but the master was doing his work for him, as usual. And the public may as well be informed that the only catechism taught in the North School at present is the Roman catholic catechism. That of the church of England was the first to be turned out, and that of Dr. Watts the next. With the reasons assigned for this by the head master I have nothing to do; I mention the fact simply to show the leaning of the corporation to popery, and to fasten upon the liberal mem bers of that body . the crime and offence of teaching with un remitting assiduity the abominable superstitions and blas phemous fables contained in the popish catechisin. It will not serve your purpose to say that, because you do it not in propria persona', you do it not; every poor unlettered man in the town will see through the hollowness of so bare faced an assertiou. It is a maxim of law admitted in all the judicial courts of the country. "Quifacit per alium, facit per se"—he that does it by another, it is the same as if be did it himself. And so correct and just is this rule, that we find an instance of it in scripture—" The Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptised not, but his disciples."—John iv. 1, 2. You teach not, it may be, the heretical doctrines of the church of Rome in person, but you authorise the masters and moni tors to do it; you have established a system by . which it must be done; yon insist on that system being carried into effect; you enforce and sanction the teaching, and you pay the masters for doing it; you are the principals, and the masters are the accessaries in this nefarious work. There is no ground for believiug that Jereboam, the son of Nebat, set up the golden calves in Dan and Bethel with his own hands. They were set up to be worshipped by his authority, as chief magistrate or king, and he, consequently, is the one continu ally charged with the crime of leading Israel to idolatry. On the same principle, you, sir, and your liberal associates in the corporation, stand charged with teaching the poor Roman catholic children, amongst others, the following doctrines:- I.—You teach them to believe, that "the church is, in mat ters of faith, infallible." contrary to the direct prophetic tes timony of St. Paul, that in the Christian church " there should come a falling away, and the man of sin should sit in the temple of God."-2 Thess. ii. 3, 4. And besides, infalli bility is an incommunicable attribute of the Divine Being. To declare the church, therefore, infallible, is to advance the company of the faithful to an equality with God, which is blasphemy. 2.—You teach them to believe that "the souls of the right eous must, after death, discharge the debt of some mortal sins in the fire of purgatory ;" us if the atonement made by Christ were incomplete for human redemption, without the appendage of human merit and human suffering: whereas the word of God declares, that " Christ his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, and that by his stripes we are healed."-1 Peter, ii. 24. 3.—You teach them to believe," that sins committed after baptism are forgiven by the sacrament of penance, and that doing the penance imposed by the priest is satisfaction," whereas God bas written on the page of inspiration, as it were with a sunbeam, that forgiveness of sin is through the blood of Christ—" Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without ble mish and without spot."-1 Peter ii. 18 19. " How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consci ence from dead works to serve the living God ?"- - Heb, ie.l4. 4.—You teach them to believe that " some sins are venial, and do not kill the soul," in direct contradiction to the testi mony of God, " The soul that sinneth, it shall die."—Ezek. xviii. 4. s.—You teach them to " pray to the Virgin Mary, and to saints and angels," as if these were joint mediators with Christ, and omnipresent, to hear prayer in every corner of the world. Thus is Christ lowered from the supreme dignity and power to which he was advanced in bis mediatorial cha racter, and angels and saints are made to share with him in the merit of heavenly intercession. But what saitli the scrip ture? " There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."-1 'Tim. ii. 5. 6.—You teach them to believe " that it is lawful to honour relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures, with a relative honour as they relate to Christ and his saints, and as memorials of them:" notwithstanding that such honour was declared to be idolatry in the case of the Israelites, and is positively forbid den in the second commandment. 7.—You teach them to believe that " by fasting they may satisfy God for their sins;" which must lead them to substi tute the merit of human observances for the atoning death of Christ in the matter of justification. But holy scripture sets forth Christ as the " Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world."—John i. 29. " And what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful fl es h, a nd for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: so that Christ is the end of the law for righ teousness to every one that believeth."—Rom. viii. 3, x. 4. B.—You teach them to believe " that the holy eucharist is the true body and blood of Christ, under the appearances of bread and wine"—" that the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ"—" that the mass is the un bloody. sacrifice of the body and blond of Christ." Which of these is the most ridiculous, it is difficult to say; but they are all awfully false, and contradicted by the evidence of the senses.Whe seeing, the feeling, the tasting, declare the bread and wine to remain the same after consecration as before. And against the fiction that Christ is offered by the priest in the mass—a fiction which tends to the most idolatrous prac tices—we have the repeated testimony of St. Paul, that " Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many."—Heb. ix. 28. The tendency of all these cunningly-devised fables and perversions of truth, is but too obvious to require any expla nation—it is to draw away the rising generation entirely from " God, their strength," and to make them rely upon themselves and on their own performances in the matter of salvation, that the man may be exalted, and the Redeemer despised and forgotten. Self-righteousness has always been the most prominent feature in the character of the papacy, and self-adulation is the rampant sin of modern liberalism : hence the contact and desperate embrace between the papists and the liberals—the former adhere to a foreign monarch, who is magnified into a god ; the latter have erected a tem ple to philosophy, in which they worship each other. But need I tell you, sir, that God will blow away all this dust with one breath ?—for it is written, " Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it."—Psalm cxxvii. 1. I need not adduce any more specimens of the kind of doctrine you teach the poor deluded and ill-used children of Roman catholic parents. Every one of these counts may, without hesitation, be declared heretical. Each contains " an opinion opposite to some articles of the Christian faith;" amid you, who authorise and sanction the teachiPg of them in the corporation schools, stand convicted of an of fence against Christianity. And why should you uphold and enforce a system so replete with error and so oppressed with heresy? Is it because heresy may be taught without danger to the children? St. Peter declares heresies to be "damnable," that is, causing damnation to the teachers and to the taught. "There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring its damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them : and many shall follow in their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of ; and through covetousness shall they with _feigned lips make merchandise of you."-2 Peter ii. 1, &c. Huw truly verified is this prophetic passage in the events that are now taking place in our own town! And yet the guilty will not take it to themselves. You have above a thousand Roman catholic children in the two schools, of whom you make merchandise for the sake of place and power, consigning them over, without a sigh or a tear of pity, to the deathful embrace of christi an ized idolatry and priestly superstition. You teach them to worship the Virgin —to worship saints—to worship angels. For in what more direct way do we worship the true God than by bowing the knee and praying to him? You teach them to honour relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures as memorials of Christand his saints—which is precisely. the kind of worship the Greeks and Romans paid to the images of Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, and Diana; for they never looked upon those images as any thing more than mere representations and memorials of their gods. And have you considered well the consequences of train ing up these children in the act and practice of idolatry? St. Paul states them in the following passage :—" Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these—adultery, fornica tion—idolatry—heresies—envyings, &c. ; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."— Gal. v. 19-21. And in the book of the Revelation it is writ ten, "The fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers—and idolators, and all liars, shall haie their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."—Rev. xxi. 8. If these thousand children, whom you instruct systematically in the errors I have enumerated, should continue through life to pray to the Virgin Mary, and to saints and angels, oftener than to Christ or God, and contrary to his command, they will owe it to you! If they should,through life, transfer to relics, cru cifixes, and holy pictures, the honour which is due to Gud, and to him alone, they will owe it to you! If they should through life, build their hope of salvation on fasting and pen ances, instead of the death of Christ, they will owe it to vou! If they should, through life, pay divine worship to the bread and wine in the eucharist, under the impression that they see the real body and blood of Christ, they will owe it to you! If they should, through life, consider some sins as venial, and consequently neglect to solicit the pardon of God for such, they will owe it to you! If they should, through life, in consequence of believing the church to be infallible, resign blindly their eternal destinies to the hands of an apostate priest, they will owe it - to you! And should any, or many, or most of the children, ih consequence of all these abominable practices —so offensive to God, so dero gatory to Christ, and so degrading to themselves, in the end, miss their way to glory, they will owe it to you!! Oh, sir, is it a light thing with you to support and enforce a sys tem of education which must necessarily terminate in conse quences so awful and unredeetnable? Consider the circum stances under which the mischief is done ! The children surrender themselves into your hands with unhesitating con fidence, expecting that you will teach them nothi ng but the truth, and that you will put them in the right way of attain ing heaven and glory; they give you credit for sincere and disinterested benevolence. The suspicion that you may do them wrong, especially in religion, never enters their mind. How cruel, therefore, it is in you to lead them astray; and what will be their astonishment, if, by the mercy of God, any of them shall ever escape the trammels of popery, to find that you had played towards them a part that might have entailed upon them eternal ruin ? Their bosoms will heave with indignation, and their eyes kindle into a flame of righteous scorn, at the fraud, and treachery, and hypocrisy of the system. They will shrink with horror from the consequences that would, but for the miraculous interposition of divine grace, have most certainly ensued. And did you expect, sir, that 1 should have ad mitted any of you, after so solemn a mockery of God and trus Christianity, to the privilege of communicating with the saints, without a word of remonstrance? No, sir, I should not have allowed any man so far to deceive himself as to suppose that under the circumstances he was a fit and proper person to set his hands to time seals of the new covenant. I sh mld have called upon him first to declare his regret and so:row for his past conduct, and openly to disavow having any participation in the propagation of heresy. And in so doing I should only be following the example of St. Paul: " Holding faith and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom 1 have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme." -1 Tim. i. 19, 20. I will not push the subject any further at present, but simply observe, that I have my opinion as to the scene that will take place at the great day of final retribution, when the children now ruined by the antichristian system of education in your schools, will rise up in judgment with you, and will condemn you, because they went to your schools to learn truth, and vou taught them error. No. 4.--- - Under this head I have only one observation to make : it is this, that, in my opinion, it is no crime, or want of Christaiu charity in a minister of the national church to refuse co-vperation in the present day with dissenting minis ters of a certain description. I shall heartily rejoice to see the time come when we may think better of them. They have wounded our feelings too deeply to forget the wrong in one day. Will you, sir, set the example, and acknowledge the injustice you have done both to the church and to the clergy, by your spiteful opposition to the former, and slander ous attacks on the latter . Praying that God, of His infinite goodness, may deliver you and your liberal colleagues in the corporation, " from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism: from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and com mandments." I remain, sir, Your most obedient servant, D. JAMES THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THE LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF THE SEASON. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. GRAY, MR. BENWELL, MR. T. RIDGWAY, AND MRS. GRANBY. THIS present TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 1838, will be per formed Sbakspeare's Tragedy of M A C BE T H. Macbeth.... Mr. Stuart. Macduff....Mr. Gray. Malcolm.... Mr. W. H. Bland. Banquo....Mr. W. Howard. Rosse....Mr. Chaplin: Lady Macbeth Miss Cleaver. After which; a Comic Ballet, called ELECTRICITY. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of the BROKEN SWORD. Rif.,volio....Mr. W. H. Bland. Estevan.. - .. Mr. Gray. Myrtillo..Mrs. Tenet - . Pablo.... Mr. Baker. Rosara.... Miss Cleaver. Stella r Miss Grant. On WEDNESDAY, for the Benefit of Miss LAND, Mr. Knowles' Play of THE WIFE. Julian St. Pierre, Mr. Stuart; Ferrardo, Mr. Gray; Leonardo, Mr. W. How ard; Lorenzo, Mr. W. H. Bland; Mariana, Miss Faucit.— To conclude with the Musical Play of the LORD OF THE MANOR. Sir John Contrast, Mr. Baker; Young Con trast, Mr. W. Howard; Rashley, Mr. Gray; La Nippe, Mr. Chaplin ; Moll Flaggon, Mr. Slaiter; Annette, Miss Land; Peggy, Mrs. Clarke; Sophia, Miss Charlotte Land (her first appearance on any stage). THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. CLARKE, AND THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. • On which occasion will be performed, for the first tinie here, Mr. Sheridan Knowles' last new and highly popular Drama, called the MAID OF MARIENDORPT, as produced this Season, with the greatestsuccess, at the Theatre Royal, Hay market, and now performing there nightll D•rth undiminished attraction and also the last New Farcif never acted here. called NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ; or, DOINGS AT DO-THE-BOYS HALL, as adapted for theatrical repre sentation, from the celebrated work of Boz, and performing now in nightly succession at the Adelphi Theatre, with un precedented success, to crowded auditories.—A CONCERT, for which the celebrated Vocalist, Mr. BENNETT, is engaged, who will Sing two of his most popular Songs, and a favour ite Duet with his Pupil, Miss ALDRIDGE, being her third ap pearance on the stage. Mr. FREDERICK GARDNER, of the Royal Vauxhall Gardens, will make his first appearance at this Theatre, and Sing two Popular Songs. To give variety to the Entertainments, and for the gratification and holiday amusement of the Juveuile Branches of Families, the servi ces of Mons. PLEGE and his two sons have been secured for this night, and these unrivalled Artists will exhibit their novel and astonishing feats of performance on the TIGHT ROPE. ON FRIDAY EVENING, Dec. 21, 1838, will be per formed the Last New Play, written by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, called the MAID OF MARIENDORPT. The principal characters by Mr. Stuart, Mr. Baker; Mr. W. Howard, Mr. Gray, Mr. Webster, Mr. W. H. Bland, Miss Faucit, Mrs. Clarke, and Miss Cleaver.—To be followed by A CONCERT, In which Mr. Bennett, Mr. Gardner, Miss Land, Miss Grant, and Miss Aldridge will sing several favourite Songs and Duets. —After which Monsieur PLEGE, and his two sons will go through their extraordinary performances on the TIGHT ROPE. The Entertainments to conclude with the Popular and At tractive New Farce, called NICHOLAS NICKLEBY; OR, DOINGS AT DO-THE-BOYS HALL. The principal characters by Mr. W. H. Bland, Mr. Chap lin, Mr. Webster, Mr. Gray, Mr. J. Ridgway, Mr. T. Ridg way, Mr, Jonas, Mrs. Tellet, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Faucit, Miss Cleaver, Miss Land, Miss Grant, Mrs. Granby, Mrs. Ben well, Mrs. Edwards, and Mrs. J. Ridgway. Full particulars will be announced in future Advertisements. Tickets may be had of Mrs. Clarke, 1, Houghton-street, Williamson-square; at Mr. Himes' Music Warehouse, Church-street; and of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office of the Theatre, of whom places may be taken from ten until three. TO THE LADIES OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS VICINITY. MRS. NICHOLAS GEARY, 61, - St. Janes' -street, London, STAY and CORSET MAKER to H Majesty the Queen, the Queen Dowager, Her Imperi• 1 ighness the Princess of Orange, and RoyaPamily, beg espectfully to announce to the Nobility of Liverpool and it Environs, that she has APPOINTED Mrs. CUTTER, Milliner, &c. &c., No. 11, Clarence-street, Rodney-street, HER SOLE AGENT FOR LIVERPOOL, where they can be suited with her elegant newly-invented Anatomical Stays, which are also patronised and recommended by all the most distin guished Members of the Medical Profession in the Metro polis. In consequence of the late. Post-(ffice regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham,Manchester,&c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. 'The libtrpoot Z-tanbatb. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. COMMITMENT TO THE SE S SIONS .— OnFriday, a seaman, named William Stanley, was placed at the bar of the police court, charged with having robbed Benjamin Bly, a com panion, of his chest of clothes, his bed, quadrant, and other articles. The complainant said that the prisoner had been with him at the same lodging-house, in Union-street, and had assisted him on Wednesday to take his clothes, Et:c., on board the schooner Gertrude, with which he (complainant) bad intended to sail. On the following day the whole were missing, and it appeared from the testimony of other wit nesses that the prisoner had taken them, that he had broken open the chest, had pledged some of the articles, and sold others. Amongst the articles pledged was the quadrant; and the chest, broken to pieces, was tound in another lodging house, in Brook-street, where he had carried the quadrant to pledge, and a small box belonging to the complainant was found in the prironer's bed-room. When found by the police constable he was searched, and threw two pawn-tickets into the fire. The complainant stated that he was stripped of all he possessed in wearing apparel, &c. Mr. Hall advised him to remain until the sessions, to prosecute the delinquent, whom he fully committed for trial. THE SMALL TENEMENT EJECTMENT ACT.—On Thurs day last, several cases of parties refusing to quit the premises occupied by them, after the expiration of their respective notices, were brought before Mr. Hall, at the police-office; but owing to inaccuracies in the notices served, or other non-compliance with the requirements of the act, they were held to be objectionable, and the parties must proceed again to give fresh notices to the tenants whom they wish to eject. Mr. Hall, adverting to the notices, said that no specified period was stated for the party to quit; and that all the cir cumstances, (as whether the serving parties were owners or agents, &c.,) ought to be se t forth on the face of the com plaint, and not merely submitted in proof afterwards, other wise the notice would be invalid. In another of the cases, the witness who had attested the notice did not appear, and the complaint was dismissed, with an intimation, however, that if that witness (a female) should be required in a subse quent case, he would grant a summons to compel ber attend ance. After due notice of service, (as appeared from a re mark of 'Mr. Hall,) the party on whom it is served may re main on the premises for twenty-one days; but if he then refuses to quit, he may be forcibly ejected, and his goods thrown into the street. SEAMAN'S WAGES.—At the Police-office on Friday, Cap tain Keen, of the ship Harvest Home, was summoned by John Davies, a seaman, for arrear of wages. It appeared from the statement of the complainant, that he shipped from St. Domingo on the 18th of August last, at £2.5s per month. He arrived at Liverpool on the 2d of December. He re mained with the vessel until she docked. On applying for his wages the Captain refused to pay him the amount claimed. Captain Keen stated in his defence, that the com plainant had been insolent to the mate of the ship while at St. Domingo, and refused to work. The consequence was, that he (Keen) had the complainant apprehended and lodged in gaol for 21 days. For the time be was in gaol he refused to pay him. It appeared from the statement of the com plainant's attorney, Mr. Davenport, that the misunderstand ing between Davies and the mate arose out of some words which the latter addressed to him in the French language. In consequence ' Captain Keen proceeded to th e Vice-Con sul's house, and procured an order for the prisoner's com mittal. Mr. Hall asked Keen whether, before committal, the complainant had been brought before the consul and examined. Keen replied in the negative. Mr. Hall: " What! the British consul order a man to gaol without giving him a hearing, without knowing what he had to say ?" Keen replied that the complainant was insolent, and refused to work. Mr. Hall: " Yes • but the refusal might not have lasted more than 24 hours, Cot here you send him to prison for twenty-one days." Captain Keen here put in a docu ment signed by the consul. Mr. Hall: " This certificate only shows that he was in gaol. I think it a most improper act on the part of any man to send another to prison on mere ea , parte statements. What would be the consequence if such a practice became general in our merchant ships?" The captain, in explanation, stated that the consul was sick in bed; he had had an interview with him in his bed-cham ber. Mr. Hall : " Did he ask to see the prisoner?" Captain Keen: " No. - ' Mr. Hall: " Was there no one to represent him during his illness?" Captain Keen: " I believe not." Mr. Hall, after saying that such a system was contrary to every principle of justice, ordered the complainant to be paid the full amount of his wages, £7 lOs. 6d., with costs. The captain differed with the magistrates definition of jus tice, and, after sulkily paying the money, left the Court. A NEW TR ICK.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a young; man, named James Terrimont, was placed before the magis trates charged with being a suspicious character, and re ceiver of stolen property. Police-officer 306 stated that for the last month he had been residing in a brothel in Carleton street, and his mode of getting his living was by slinking in the entries in the street near the bad houses there; and when the girls in these houses contrived to lob any man they had seduced there, they ran out and gave th e p ro perty to the pri soner, who then made off with it. When the policeman was called in no property could be found, and the thieves es caped; and, confident that nothing could be found against them, occupied their time in abusing the police. The pri soner's master, a respectable wheelwright, gave him a very good character, and said he was not aware he had got into bad company. The prisoner had not been at work for some time, but he understood he was ill. Mr. Hall said the fact was, he was the bully to these brothels, and found it more profitable than working. The master said he he had no ob jection to take him back if he would leave off these practices. Mr. Hall, after admonishing him, said he would give him another trial; but if ever he were brought before him again he should send him to Kirkdale. JUVENILE Hic HW YMEN.—Yesterday at the police-office, four lads, named Phidian, Kale, Bell, and Quin, the eldest about 14 years of age, and the youngest about 10, were placed before the magistrate, chargel with attempting to rob a stout powerful young man in Hurst-street. A policeman stated that he heard a great noise in Hurst-street, and on going to see what was the matter, saw Phidian, Kale, and Bell hold ing fast by the waist of the complainant and attempting to rob him. With the assistance of his Inspector he took the three into custody. Quin was afterwards pointed out to him, and he took him into custody. The complainant said he was walking home on Saturday night about eight o'clock from his sister's quite sober, with his pipe in his mouth, when he received a violent blow from Phidian which broke his pipe. and cut his mouth, Three other lads then seized hold of him, knocked him down, and tried to rob him.—Mr. Hall : What! those three lads knock you down?—The inspector said there were about twenty other lads, and by getting hold of the man and clinging round him, and all beating him as hard as they could, they had pulled him down.—The watch man said that the three first prisoners had fast hold of him, and were butting him as hard as they could; he had knocked the other lad Quin down, and several others. All the pri soners had various excuses, and denied that they knew any thing at all about it. The inspector said there had been three similar 4ttenipt4 at robbing that night, in liirit,street, by lads, who overpowered people by numbers. Mr. Parkin don said all the prisoners were very well knows. They were each sent for three months to the Borough House of Correction. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mr. Simpson, one of the partners in the Herculaneum Pottery, appeared before Mr. Hall, to prefer a charge against his servant, Ann Jones, a smart dressed girl, of robbing him of various articles of clothing belonging to his children. Mr. Simpson said, his wife having missed a quantity of articles of clothing, he had reason to suspect his servant girl with be ing guilty of stealing them. Sunday being her day of going out, he stopped her at his lodge gate, and requested her to show the old woman, who keeps his , lodge, her pocket. The prisoner took her pocket off and gave it to the old woman, and it contained a number of stockings belonging to his chil dren, marked with their initials —Mr. Hall: Is that (the old woman) your wife (!) ?—Mr. Simpson: No; she is my lodge-gate keeper.—Mr. Hall: Can you swear to all the articles?—Mr. Simpson : I cannot swear to all, but I can swear to the stockings belonging to my daughters, which are marked.—Mr. Hall: The prisoner was your servant, was she P—Mr. Simpson : She has been my servant for the last ten weeks.—Mr. Hall : Well, keep the articles, and let your wife come here in the morning, and see if she can identify them ! ! PASSAGE OF THE STEAMER LIVERPOOL. Mr. Shaw, the Marine Manager to the Transatlantic Steam ship Company, who, it will be recollected, joined the Liver pool, steam-ship, at Cork, has published, in the New York papers, the following account of the passage from Cove : New York, Notiember 23, 1838. So much kind anxiety having been shewn by the American community for the absence of the Liverpool, steam-ship, so long after her first departure from Europe, it is due from me to state explicitly the cause of her non-arrival before this morning; and, in going into the circumstances, I shall be excused if I compress them into the smallest compass consis tent with a knowledge of facts. That vessel left Liverpool at one o'clock, p.m.,•of the 20th ult., and with a sufficiency of fuel to navigate her across the Atlantic under unfavour able circumstances. This data was derived from an experi mental trip to Ireland and back, made a week previous. During that trip her consumption of fuel was accurately as certained to be 27,1 0 cwt. per hour, and that, too, under pe culiarly disadvantageous circumstances. As a proof; she had not her expansion valves attached to the machinery, as they were not completed in time for this, her first trip. She was, in nautical phraseology, " flying light," and the whole of her furnace surface was in action to generate sufficient steam to propel the engines to their utmost speed. When, therefore, that hourly consumption was taken as a data for the entire voyage to New York, I think the scientific world will not condemn the management, in Liverpool, for confining them , selves to it. When she left Liverpool the expansion valves were attached, although, as afterwards ascertained, not so perfect as intended by the manufacturer. The vessel was depressed in the water two feet beyond her " flying light" trim to Ireland, and four of her furnaces were bricked up to save fuel by ignition, as the remainder were not sufficient to keep the pressure to the resistance of the safety valves. It was not, therefore, too much to expect that her consumption would be mueh less than during the experimental trip. She left Liverpool, as before remarked, at one o'clock, p.m., on the 20th October, and, at the end of the following 24 hours, bad progressed 186 miles, although opposed by strong winds and a head sea. From that period until she proceeded 600 miles west of Cape Clear, the gales increased in strength to almost a perfect hurricane, and it was neces sary to keep up the power of the engines to their utmost capabilities to give steerage way to the hull. Thus was pro duced an immense consumption of fuel to gain a slight mo mentum against opposing forces. The head engineer, know ing the value of expansion valves, thought to gain sufficient steerage way by " shutting off," as it is termed, but found the valves so arranged that he had not the power of doing so, and they were set to one grade, and one g . i;de only. Under this misfortune, and the gale still increasing, it was decided on to return to Cove, there to alter the valves and renew the fuel already consumed. She left that harbour on the 6th in stant, and arrived at the New York pilot ground in 16 days 174 hours, encountering, during the passage, severe and almost constant gales from most points of the compass—the westerly, however, preponderating to a great extent; as a proof, she never hoisted canvass during the last 1400 miles, having to contend against heavy storms between the points of W. by S. and N.W. This passage has proved the cor rectness of the calculations made in Liverpool prior to her first departure, as the consumption of fuel has been much less than 27. 1. 0. per hour. Igo into detail to satisfy the 'public mind on the subject, and here follows an extract from my journal, which was made up from hourly returns from the head engineer, every pound of fuel having been weighed as we progressed. - Hours Consump- Miles steamed. Lion. per day. Nov. 6....2i tons 3.2.2.0. 20 S.E. 7....24 29.18.0.0 180 South—S.S.W. 8.-24 28.8.0.0 184 N.W. to North. ' 9....24 27.8.0.0 216 N.N.W. to North. 10.-24 27.18.0.0 207 E. iS. to S.E. by S 11....24 28.12.0.0 228 E. to S. E. 12....24 28.16.0.0 242 S.E. to S.S.E. 13....24 27.13.0.0 140 S.S.W. to S.W. by S 14....24 27.11.0.0 144 S.W. to W. 15....24 24.17.0.0 151 N. to W.N.W. 16....24 24.12.0.0 202 N.N.W. to W.by W. 17 ....2 4 24.8.0.0 175 N. by W. to N.N.W. 18....24 . 26.8.0.0 214 -N. to W.N.W. 19....24 26.8.0.3 176 N.W. 20....24 26.12.0.0 200 N.W, by W. 21....24 28.16.0.0 144 W.N.W. to N.W. 22.•••24 30.4.0.0 165 W.N.W. to N.W. 23....14 21.15.0.0 170 W. by S.to W. by N. Nautical. Totals, 4012 462.6.2.0 3156 Her hourly average of speed has been 8 miles, but, if I add to the above distance of 3156 miles, the velocity of the opposing current between longitude 40 and 60 west, the hourly average has been 8 1-3 d miles. The daily consump tion of fuel has been 28 tons. The consumption per mile has been under 3 cwt., and, for each horse-power per hour, 5Th. 12oz. It must be borne iu mind, that the Liverpool's power is beyond that of any steamer afloat at this moment, having 75 inch cylinders and a stroke of 7 feet. The con sumption, therefore, per diem, is small indeed. On arrival at ber anchorage, this morning, she had a sufficiency on board for six days' steaming, which might nave been mote had a necessity for economy existed after our destined port was within our grasp. To make the latter remark intelligi ble to the public, I will make an extract from my journal, the original having been written prior to the Liverpool leav ing the Cove of Cork. My intentions are to endeavour, during the passage to New Yolk, to bring the consumption of fuel to 3 cwt. for every mile, that is, taking the average for the entire distance. How far my theory of regulating the consumption to meet the speed of the vessel will be carried into effect, the result at the end of the voyage will show. In navigating so wide an ocean as the Atlantic, the greatest care should be taken of the fuel throughout the entire distance, as it is far more advisable to go slow with a certainty of crossing, than fast with an uncertainty of reaching the destined port. In other words, the maximum speed of both machinery and vessel ought not to be attempted until the port, to which the vessel is bound, is within the grasp of the fuel under any circum stances of weather." I have given above a "plain, unvarnished tale," and whe ther it may add to, or detract from, th e p ract i ca b ility of Transatlantic Steaming during the winter months, your en terprising countrymen can decide as well as mine. Seeing in one of your journals an article on the recent high state of the barometer in America, although accompanied by weather not unusual when the mercury is so elevated, I I beg to lay before the scientific world the state of one kept on board the Liverpool. It was noted by me each day at noon. Lat. Long. Ht.of M. 'Weather. 50.14 N 12.22 W 28.9.10 blowing hard from N. W. at noon. 48.17 15.54 29.4-10 , „ W. hf. S. 49.04 20.35 29.3-10 moderate from S.E. by S. 45.12 24.47 29.9-10 blowing hard from E. hf S. 43.25 29.37 30 hard gale at S.E. 42.37 35.05 29.6-10 moderate at S.S.E. 42.28 38.00 29.4-10 „ at S.W. by S. ( 42.05 41.36 29.6-10 hard gale at N.B. 41.21 44.34 29.9-10 moderate gale at N.E. i 41.34 47.31 30.1-20 ,7 77 at N. by W. 42 7 51.40 29.9-10 light breeze at W.S.W. f 41.52 55.37 30.1-20 strong breeze at N.W. 41.36 60.00 29.7-10 , „ at S.W. by S. 41.19 63.40 30 moderatei at N.W. 40.48 67.48 30.1-10 strong gales at W.N.W. 40.14 71.17 29.9-10 fresh gale at W. by S. I am, sir, your obedient servant, JAS. C. SHAW, Mar. Man. to the Trans. S.S . Co WARRINGTON. ST. JAMES'S CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL.--Upwards Of £7O was collected on Sunday, at St. James's Church, Latchford,l after two sermons preached by the Rev. M. O'Sullivan, D.D., for the benefit of St. James's Church Sunday School. WESLEYAN CENTENARY.—A public meeting was held in the Methodist Chapel, Warrington, on Monday, for the pur pose of furthering the objects of the centenary of Wesleyan Methodism, to be celebrated in the year 1839. Thomas Had field, Esq., took the chair, and the mee ti ng was a dd resse d b y the Rev. ohn Nelson, Rev. J. Holgate, Rev. B. Clayton, Rev. J. Laycock, the Rev. J. Bedford, and other speakers. The chairman and Thomas Hazlehurst, Esq., of Runcorn, each gave £lOO, and the total amount of subscriptions an nounced was £4OO. A PROMISING YOUTH.—On Monday, William Purcell, a lad of fourteen, was committed flour Warrington for trial, on the charge of stealing a piece of bacon. In 1836 he was sen tenced to fourteen days imprisonment and whipped : in the same year he was also imprisoned three months. In January, 1837, he was tried and acquitted; and, on the following Oc tober, sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months, This case is a strong illustration of the want of some better mode than that at present adopted for the punishment and refor mation of juvenile offenders. IMPUDENT RonaEar.—On Saturday night last, Ralph Littler, a labourer, was attacked by a gang of pickpockets on coming out of the Three Crowns public-house, in the Corn-market, Warrington. Three of the party were appre hended, and on Monday committed to Kirkdale for trial. Their names are 'Thomas Flanagan, Joseph Cooper, and John Lea. ' - ST. HELEN'S. ROBBERY AT SUTTON PARSONAGE.—Last week, some mid night depredators stole a large quantity of poultry, the pro perty of the Rev. J. Furnival, M.A. ' minister of St. Helen's, from Sutton Parsona ge . N o c l ue has yet been discovered likely to lead to the apprehension of the offenders. A HORSE DROWNED.—on Monday night, Mr. Barlow, of St. Helen's, left his horse and gig standing at the door of the Engine public-house, on Thatow Heath, while he and his friends went inside to partake of some refreshment. The horse took fright, and was next morning found drowned in a pit on the heath. ASHTON-UNDER.LYNE. THE CHARTISTS.—TORCH LIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS.— On Sunday evening, with closed doors, in the meeting-room, Charlestown, the Rev. Incendiary Stephens was advising the dupes of his sophistry to decline their torch light meeting un til the assembling of parliament, as seven old women magis trates had signed and issued notices of their illegal and dan gerous tendency, and their determination to enforce the law in future against all persons so offending, and also to break up their associated bodies of subscribing for arms, and in fu ture to buy each one his own. He said also that Lucifer Jowett was the first who had offended, as be had held the first torch light meeting, and a most glorious one it was. Had he but known the event, had it cost him five sovereigns he would have been present. On Monday evening this arch destruc tive divine introduced the subject again, by telling his lads that he had looked over the ruins, and a most glorious sight it was, and did it but rest with him, there should not be left one factory standing the next morning. —Manchester Courier. 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