The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-20 00:00:00

Ly TAYLOR, CHEMIST and DRUGGIST, respectfully in b. forms his Friends and the Public generally, that the Business which he has conducted for Mr. E. J3IiADFORD, at 64, RICHMOND•ROW, will in future be continued on his own ac count. In soliciting patronage, H. T. begs to s t ate, that genu ineness of his articles, his accuracy in preparin 1 punctu ality in delivering Medicines committed, to his are, sod his general attention to business, can be best ascertained by trial. Debts due to Mr. 13. will be received here, or at his Esta blishment, 40, Old Haymarket. Liverpool, Sept. 8, 1836. THE LIVERPOOL FISH COMPANY. BUILDERS. willing to CONTRACT for the ERE lON of a NEW FISH HALL, comprehending 0. Vaults and an Ice House, for the purposes of the above pany, may inspect the Plans and Specification at the Office of Messrs. C. and R. B RAMPLING, Architects, Union -buildings, front Ten till Six o'Clock, on TrtuasnAv next, the 22d instant, till THURSbAY, the 29th instant, on which latter day sealed tenders, addressed to the Directors, must be sent in to their Office, 19, Lord-street. NEW SEED WAREHOUSE. TAMES CUTHBERT, SimosmAN,l2, Clayton-square egs el leave to inform Merchants, Captains, and others ortiog Seeds from the Port of Liverpool that he packs ds for all climates in a way that will materially assist the ve tating power of the Seed. J. C., has just received a large supply of WINTER VET CHES. TREFoLium INCARNATUM, ITALIAN RYE GRASS, a choice collection of DUTCH BULBS. TOXTpTH-PARK BAZAAR. UNDER TIIE_PA'_i'RONAGE OF Her Most Gracious Majesty THE QUEEN. And their Royal Highnesses Tire DUCHESS of KENT and the PRINCESS VICTORIA. VICE,PATItoNESsES. Marchioness of SALISBURY, ountesi of BALCARRES, Lady STANLEY, Lady ELIA NOR HOPWOOD, Lady SAN DON, - Lady SKELMERSDALE, Hon. Mrs. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, Mrs. IRELAND BLACKBURN Mrs. WILLIAM EWART, Mrs. WALLACE CURRIE, Mrs. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL. irT is intended to hold a BAZA BFI. at the UNION News -1 Roost, Duke-street, on THURSDAY, the 29th instant, and the two following days. for the purpose of raising Funds for the Erection of a NATIONAL SCHOOL, to be attached to St. John the Baptist's Church, Tnxteth-Park. When it is known that the District in which it is proposed to build the School contains a Poor Population of many thousands. giw it is confidently hoped that the Friends of sound Scriptural Education Will lend their help in furthering the success of an object which, under the blessing of God, cannot but be produc tive of the best results. Contributions will be thankfully received by the following Ladies :—Mrs. Aspinall, Diili,e-street; Mrs. Banner, 'Mill-street; Miss Bird, Dingle Mount; Mrs. John Campbell, Everton ;, Miss Campbell, Dingle Mount ; Mrs. Cartwright, Fair View; Miss Carter, Parkhill-road; Mrs. Denham. Mill-street; Mrs. Dun can, South Hill; Mrs. Hargreaves, High Park-street; Mrs. Lawrence, Parkhill; Mrs Leigh, Parkhill-road; Mrs. H. Lit tledale, Dingle Head; Mrs. Henry Moss, Aigburth; Mrs. Ortt, Park-road; Mrs. Rawson, The Elms; Mrs. Sandbach, Wood lands; Mrs. Shepherd, Mill-street; Mrs. Stavert , North - street ; Mrs. Trotman, Parkhill-road; or by the Rev. James Hassan, M.A., Wellington-place, Toxteth-park. The Sale will continue each day from Eleven till Five. Admission on the first day, 2s. 6d.; on the succeeding days, One Shilling. Enourarat 24Totite0. YORK AND NORTH OF ENGLAND ASSURANC COMPANY. ..., f 11H E folloWing Loa Rates are charged by this Col FIRE ASSURANCE. Flo.iting Polities Specific, all risks. pe. Omit hazardous Trades Omit also hazardous Goods No extra charge for plurality of occupation. Policies filling due at MICHAELMAS will be exchanged for new ones at the reduced rate's. Life Assurance on more favourable terms than in those Offices which declare bonuses. Agent for Liverpool, MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON, Share•broker, India-buildings. rany for it Cent. THE MANCHESTER ASSURANCE COMPAN 33. KING-STREET, MANCHESTER, 4 CAPITAL—TWO MILLIONS. Established March, 1823. ----- FIRE DEPARTMENT Pill E Assured are entitled to one-third of e Profits, without Y any liability me their part to the losses. Parties intending to continue their Policies, falling due al MICHAELNIAS, must renew them within fifteen days from that time, or they will become void. FARMING STOCK, Now EXEMPT from DUTY, is insured by this Company at 2s. per cent. per annum, and WITHOUT the AVERAGE CLAUSE. LIFE DEPARTMENT. The Assured are entitled to tu+o•thirdv of the Profits, without any liability on their part in the losses. The Premiums:charged are lower than those of the majority of other Offices. The business of the Life Department is kept quite distinct from that of Fire, and its accumulations are not liable to make good any losses arising therefrom. The Rates or Premiums, and all other particulars, may be obtained by application to RICHARD DAWSON, Agent, Exchange-alley, Liverpool. BANK OF LIVERPOOL, The fifth general annual meeting of the proprietors of this establishment vial held on Tuesday last, the I:3th instant, at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Adam Hodgson, Esq., in the chair. The report of the proceedings of the company was read by Mr. Langton, the manager, and gave general satisfac tion. It stated that notwithstanding the formation of several new companies during the past year, the present and future prospects of the concern were of the most gratifying character. All the anticipations that had been formed, at the last meeting, of the advantages expected to result from the creation of new shares have been realized. By the appropriation of 4 ; 795 shares, the remainder of the number that had been placed at the dis posal of the directors, the premiums account up to the 30th June, 1836, amounted to t 136,881 ss. 44. Subsequent sales to the extent of 1260 shares have been made, which produced a further addition of i:18,900; credit for which sum will appear in next year's balance. The clear profits of the bank, derivable from its ordinary business, from July 1, 1835, to June 30, 1835, after the payment of current expenses and allowance for bad debts, amounted to £41,133 14s. From this sum the proprietors have received two half-yearly dividends amounting to £28,534 0 0 And a bonus at the rate of 2 3 / 4 per cent of 9,103 0 Leaving a balance of 3,40614 0 This balance has been added to the reserved surplus fund, which fund now stands thus : Amount stated in the last year's report .... . . £31,444 14 9 Amount of premiums to June 30,1836 136,881 5 4 Remainder of profits as above stated 3,496 14 0 Total to June 30 .£171,822 14 1 To this sum add the paid up capital of the com pany to the 3.lth June 364,120 0 0 £535,042 14 1 Which with additions since made, make the available capital of the bank to amount to £567,442 14s. Id. It follows, therefore, that, from the additional increase of capital, the shares , wh ich originally cost £lO each, are now intrinsically worth £l5; con sequently the premium, estimating the present market price of shares at £26 each, will be only £ll on £l5, or 73 per cent — not £l6 on £lO, or £l6O per cent, as some erroneously conclude. The report concluded by stating, that the same liberal and pru dent course will be purs ued by the directors as heretofore, with constant reference to the permanent welfare of the interests confided to their care. Three directors, Messrs. Ornierod Heyworth, Edward Moon, and Richard H. Blundell, had to retire by rotation; their places are now filled by Messrs. Win. Brown, Edward Wilson. and Lawrence Ileywi;rth, jun., who were unanimously chosen by the proprietors assembled. Thanks wero voted to Mr.. Langton, and to Mr. Bownas, the sub.mana ger, for their general attention and judicious management of the affairs of the. company. INCREASE OF CHURCHES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HORNING POST. • Cambridge, Sept. I. have gthat pleasure in communicating to you the fol lowing particulars relating to thw erectimr of elrarehes, a subjeCt to which you have already directed the attention of your readers: The new church at Hilshorough, county of Down, was erected at the sole expense of the Earl of - Hilsborough, the neisly-elected M.P. for that county. It is adorned with three spires, and is one of the finest parish churches in Ireland. The Duke of Sutherland is building a church at Wellington, Salop; and has given £lOOO towards the endowment of another new church, at Ketlev, in the same county. The venerable Earl of Eldon has rebuilt, at his own cost, th e church of Kingston, in the Isle of Purbeck, in a very substau. tial and handsome Manner. In Yorkshire :—Warlsley (I IA D o ncaster (a), Manninghatri fly")) (3), Oulton (4), Newland, Cross Stones, Norland, the Wilderness ( Elalifas) Ilowde, Ripon, Bardsley (two), Sunk Island, Benwell High Cross, Crossland, Linthwaite, Elether thong, Bradford, Leeds, Morley, Braffington (two), Brignal, Anstonley, Upleathani, Lewthwaite, Earl's Eaton, Attercliffe, Sheffield (two), Dewsbury, Greatborough, Cleckheaton, Brig house. Grindel, Spccton, Scarborough, Lockwood, Hudders field, Idle, Golear, Lindley, Kirkstall, Little Horton, Brear trio, Cnapel Hadderley Snainton, Kirkdale. In Staffordshire :—Wolverhampton, (5) Hilderston, (6) Newhall, (7) Stone, Stapenhill. Ettingsball, Mincham, Tipton, Burslem (two), Stoke, Hanley, Newcastle, Horsley hield, Moreton, Shelton, Langton, Betlev, Wetley, Sedgley, Smeth wick, Cossley, West Bromwich, Wordsley, Tunstall, Brereton, - Walsall Wood. In Cheshire :—Pulford, (8) Wharton, (9) Bollington, New bury, Dukenfield, Casterton, Tarvin, Chorley, Birkenhead, Macclesfield, Stretton, Newton, 'rintwistle, Coppeuhall, W bar ton Green, Rudheath, and many'others. The above lists do not pretend to completeness; and I should be glad if any of your correspondents would complete them. The are, however, sufficient to show the immense progress , by the doctrines of our beloved church within the last few Years in four most important counties. Many of these churches are lfeSplendidto architecture, and have added new and interest ing you think o , the country. and most thesevaluable notices deserving of insertion in your pro testant_cialuable journal, you will much oblige u *obedie n t servant and constant reader, A CHURCHMAN. (1) Built by the Alisaes (2) Built and eridowpdt,7,7 T 'son• (3) One built by mattlie;rm Jarrett. Esq. Wood. FA 4 I. T immPson. Esq.; the other by John . (4) Built and endowed; ant i _ Es Parsonage built, by John Blayda, (5) Built and endowed by the Rev. w D alton. (6) Built by Ralph Bourne, Ei,q. (7) Built by the Rev. J. Clay, and J. B (8) Built by the Marquis of We s t a n na l' a r• q. f 9) Built by J. F. France, Esq. A bridge of boats is building between Constantinople and Greats, which greatly WCreitSel the intercourse between theta . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. (From the correstiondeney of the Morning Herald.) ESPELETA, SEPT. 7.—A. heavy fall of rain, which has now lasted four days, prevented my receiving communications from Dan Carlos's . head-quarters until this afternoon.' Among other papers, I have received a copy of a proclamation addressed by Don Carlos to the'Spanish nation, calling on the people to unite, to place themselve'sunder his paternal protection, and by a strong effort rid themselves of the yoke of the persecuting would-be liberals. I will send you to morrow a translation of this document. There are various reports afloat of victories gained by the Carlists; but I am induced to thick that faith can only, with safety, be put in the following official letter : " Royal Head-quarters, Aspeitia, Sept. 6. "The Christinos, in number about 7,000 infantry, and seve ral squadrons of •cavalry, entered Salvatierra on the 211, and quitted it again the next morning at break of day. During the night they were much harassed by our guerillas. After pro claiming the constitution at Zalduendo, they returned to Vitto ria ; but our artillery at Guevara so incommoded them, that they were obliged to quit the high road, and find their way back by traversing fields and bye-roads." The following letter is from an authority in whom I have great confidence!— " SEGURA, SEPT.• 6.—" It is reported to-day, but I cannot trace it to any respectable source, that Gomez has entered Val ladolid. This much is certain—tnat he has been reoeived throughout Castile with the greatest enthusiasm, and that he entered the different townsand villages amidst the acclamations of Viva Don Carlos.' _ _ . " With satisfaction I inform you that the whole of oisr army is in a state of the greatest activity, and that we are likely to turn to good profit the disorganisation of society occasioned by the claiming of the constitution of 1812. "mould the division of Ganez be able to draw the attention of the enemy towards Valladolid, and another of our divisions keep possession of the high road ; should, at the same time, the last expedition sent into Aragon, strengthened by the troops under the command of Cabrera, make a movement forwards of Molina and Seguenza ; then, it is my firm opinion, that ere long the struggle will have ended, and Don Carlos enter trium phant into Madrid. I will keep you acquainted with all that is worth knowing; but we hear so many reports that it is difficult to arrive - at the truth." I can give vou as . positive that the' oft-annihilated Gomez completely defeated the Christinos near Guadalaxara on the 27th. The following extract of a letter received from Madrid gives all the detail§ that I have been enabled to gather of this affair : " MADRID, SEAT. 2.—On the 27th Gen Gomez, with 4,000 men, attacked the Christino General, Narciso Lopez, with 2,000 men, at Jadraque. After an obstinate resistance the Christinos were compelled to retreat, leaving in the hands of the Carlists an 'immense number of prisoners, a great many muskets, and two pieces of artillery. The loss of killed and wounded is also con siderable. It is said that the battalion of the Guards which behaved so infaolously to the Queen at the time she was forced to sign the constitution has been nearly cut to pieces. " The Ayuutarniento of Guadalaxara, on the afternoon of the action, tied to Alcala, abandoning the city. " General Rodil has gone in pursuit of Gomez. On the 27th he was at Sepulveda, and on the 30th at- A lcala. " We are in a most deplorable condition here, and every body endeavours to get away. We have now a forced loan for 200 millions of reals to -contend. with; or rather, Mendizabal has determined on robbing and pillaging every family through out the kingdom. When this man—for he, after all, rules the treasury—has reduced the country to beggary, he will have no difficulty in getting himself named dictator. The sins of Spaniards must have been great to have been cursed with such a Nero! "The church bells.are to be taken down anti coined. Thete is also some talk of assignats. " It is said that Espartero has had a severe apoplectic attack, and that he is not able to remain at the head of his division. ' General Mina has gone to the coast for his health, and may be induced—so say his friends—to try the water o❑ the French side of the Pyrenees. The malady of this patriot is greatly in,- creased by the ingratitude of the sans culottes of Barcelona, who parade the streets, crying out Death to Mina!' Death to the renegade.' " 1 have accounts front St. Sebastian, of the sth. Gen. Shaw, having had some disagreement with General Evans, respecting an article which appeared in the Courier, quitted the legion for France. The Bth and 9th regiments had returned to St. Se bastian from Santona and Santander, preparatory—so it is ge nerally believed—to a break up. ESPELETA, Septeniber B.—The brilliant victory gained by Gomez, near Guadalaxara, is to-day fully confiimed. Not a Christino escaped; those not killed wore made prisoners, and all the baggage, muskets, artillery, ammunition, &c., fell into the hands of the Carlists. Gomez, who for some time past has had the project of forming a junction with Quilez, entered Va lencia on the 20th, Penafiel on the 25th, and on,the 27th at tacked Lopez at Jadraque. After the action Gomez took the direction of Amanda about five leagues from Madrid, which place he entered on the 3d. I have seen several private letters from Madrid, they all describe the army as in a state of mutiny ; the serjeants will no longer obey their superiors, pretending that they proclaimed the constitution, and ought to reap the ad vantages of the regeneration. Already 170 officers had quitted the service, and it was expected that ere long not a respectable man would remain in the army. There is a general cry out against the generals commanding in the north, and Fermin Iriarte, the general commanding the district of Santander, has been obliged to retire on account of ill-health. 1 am also cre dibly informed that General Oraa has requested permission to retire to France, his health requiring him to take the waters I This is the state of the arms - of the Exaltados ! Who now doubts the ultimate, aye, speedy success of Don Carlos? BAYONNE, September B.—On the 3d the Queen's troops made a general movement towards Mendigorria and Larraga, with the intentitt, it is supposed, of attacking Estella. General Garcia accordingly proceeded with twelve battalions to the en virons of that city, and occupied Oteyzu, Muniatu, Morentin, Dicastillo, and Aberin. The approach of the Christinos spread considerable alarm in Estella, and a portion of the authorities and inhabitants fled into the mountains. The garrison was pre paring to offer an obstinate resistance. A general enuagement may shortly be expected. General Garcia has under his orders a battalion of 350 men, -composed entirely of deserters from the legion of Algiers. It is called the " Battalion of the King's Chasseurs and Guides of the General." September 9.—On the 4th the Carlists conveyed to the neigh bourhood of St. Sebastian a large howitzer, which was cast in the forge of Onate. The recruits brought by Basilio Garcia from Aragon and Cas tile have been equipped and armed, and incorporated into a bat talion, called the Ist Battalion of Aragon. The horses have been divided among the three battalions of Navarre. The Carlists have been reinforced by two battalions, under the orders of Brigadier Zubiri. The expedition commanded by Brigadier Don Pablo Sanz was preparing to enter Castile. The four battalions composing that division have been paid up their arrears. On the 6th and 7th the Carnets removed to Oroquieto, in the valley of Ulzama, an immense quantity of ammunition; and it is inferred from this circumstance that they intend shortly to make another attack against the line of Valcarlos. General Espeleta arrived yesterday at Ainegui, in France, escorted by a detachment of Wad°, es of Navarre. • The Gazette Extraordinary of Madrid, dated Sept. 2d, con tains the following special letter: — "Your Excellency,-1 had the honour to inform you yester day of my departure from Atienza, and also of the movements of the enemy up to the '27th. I was at that moment ignorant of the fate which had befallen Brigadier Lopez, but, as soon as the news reached me, I marched rapidly to the scene of action. General Gomez, warned of my motions, retreated hastily upon Brihuega, with such of the wounded as he could remove. I left those which remained behind to the care of the authorities, and also ordered them to be forwarded as soon as possible to Sign enza. This morning, at four o'clock, I marched from Bigalaro against Gomez, who had sent his commands to the authorities at Brihuega to convey his men to his quarters. At nine o'clock my Chasseurs attacked his troops, and I pursued him all that day. I retook the two pieces of cannon which were lost by General Lopez, and also many of the prisoners which Gomez had taken. Gomez retreated hastily on the towns of Carreden do and Bielices, seemingly as if he intended to go to Molino. To-morrow I continue my pursuit, which 1 shall persevere in until [ have exterminated him. " God preserve your Excellency (Signed) " Cifuentes, Aug. 31. "To the Minister of War. " ISIDRO ALAIX. " P.S.—Not having been able to use the two pieces of re taken cannon, it will be necessary that you issue orders to have them transported to some place of safety." THE WREN of SPAIN.—The following is an extract of a let ter from Madrid of the 4th inst. :—" The Qneen took an airing -yesterday on the Prado in an open carriage, and less serenity was retrial ked in her countenance than usual. The traits of her face are altered, and the violent effect of the military revolt at La Granja has shaken her health. Her mind is much troubled hv anxiety; and it is said that M. Grimaldi, who lately set out for Pariti, is the hearer of an autograph letter to the King of the French. The letter, it is sail, draws the most touching. pic ture of the sufferings of the Queen. The people, weighed down by a ruinous war, do not answer to the call for funds made upon hem." COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE By Cape (3f. Gn64 Hope papers to the 26th of June we learn that the accounts from the eastern frontiers are favourable, with the exception of a few robberies on the part of the Fingoes.-- The weather had been favourable for the crops, and it was therefore anticipated that the ensuing harvest would be success ful. The formation of a new Steam Navigation Company had created an amazing interest in the colony; the project had been very favourably received, and its success was most confidently anticipated. It was considered likely to be the means of ad vancing the agricultural prosperity . Of that highly-interesting colony, and to facilitate the communication between the differ ent ports of that settlement. As an instance of the commercial prosperity of the Cape, we can state that the amount of bills discounted by the Government Bank, from the Ist of January, 1830 . to the alst, 1835, was £2,067,251; and the loss up on dis counts during 20 years amounted to only £2,304 upon a suns discounted amounting to £60,000,000. The eastern province of the Cape of Good Hope was to be placed under the care of a lieut.-governor, and to be divided into four districts—namely, Uitenhage, Graaf Reinet. Albany, and Somerset. The first contains 9,000 inhabitants ; Graaf Reinet 15,000; Albany 10,000; and Somerset 11,000—in all 45,000 souls. The introduction of a branch of the Australian Banking Company into the Cape had created much satisfaction, and it was anticipated that this means of introducing capital would have a very beneficial effect u p on th e co l ony . Th e exports of wool from New South Wales had created a rival disposition to encourage the growth of Cape wools, which the application of capital, guided by judgment, would undoubtedly foster. At the works of R. Stephenson and Co., at Newcastle, there is now, we understand, constructinga locomotive engine for the Emperor of Russia , for a railway six feet in diameter, and the speed is guaranteed to he forty miles per hour. —Carlisle Patriot. HULL AND SGLBY tr.wa v.—On the 31st ult. a genera l an d very numerous meeting of shareholders in the Hull and Selby Railway was held at Hull, when the report of th e directors was read. Every thing is state d to be in a good state of progress. The receipts (deposit and first call) amount to £36,552. 14s. ld., and the whole expenses of surveys and of parlia men t ary an d other disbursements in procuring their bill amounte d to £10,515.25. 6d., leaving a surplus in hand of £26,037. Ils. 7d. This railway, with the Leeds and Selby, Leeds and Manches ter, and Liverpool and Manchester railways, would secure a direct railway communication from sea to sea, from Hull to Liverpool. Similar lines extended from Hull to Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Newcastle to the north; to Gloucester, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, &c., through Nottingham, Derby, Bir mingham, and Worcester towards the south ; and the Eastern Counties Railway and Northern and Eastern Railway towards the east. The report was received, fifteen directors appointed, and the other preliminary business transacted of an incorporated body. The total capital in 8,000 shares, is £383,636, and is all subscribed for. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAVIi. THE DUKE OF'WELLINGTON. MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. A preliminary meeting was held at the Mansion-house, on Wednesday mo , ning, for the purpose of making necessary ar rangements for calling a public meetin g on the subject of erect ing an equestrian statue in honour of the Duke of Wellington. The meeting was most respectably attended. The Right Hon. the Loi d Mayor in the chair. His lordship said, the object they had in view, on the present occasion, was to appoint a provisional committee to prepare a requisition, calling a public matting to adopt measures for erect ing an equestrian statue in honour of the hero of Waterloo. It was unnecessary, on that occasion, to allude to the brilliant ca reer of the illustrious duke, or call to mind the services he had rendered his country, as they would be better discussed on a fu ture occasion. Several gentlemen present wished the requisition calling a general meeting to state that it was intended the proposed statue should be erected on the Southwark side of London-bridge. Some discussion ensued on this point, when it was urged that the situation fur placing the statue ought to be left openfor con sideration at a' public meeting. The gentlemen who made the proposition ultimately concurred.in this view of the case, and therefore waived the motion they had intended to make. A provisional committee of tWentvone gentlemen, consisting of the Lord. Mayor, Mr. Ald. Scholey, Mr. Ald. Wood, Mr. Aid. Winchester, Mr. Aid. Farebrother, Mr. Ald. Humphery, Mr. Ald. Lainson, Chas. Barclay, Esq., MT:, Mr. Sheriff Sa lomons, Weston, Esq., —. Chadwick; Esq., Jones, Esq., W. Simpson, Esq., E. Tickner, Esq., Dr. Golding, &c. were then appointed to make arrangements for. calling a public meeting, . • . The Lord Mayor said, he trusted now a committee had been appointed, it would meet with a unity of purpose, and that no exertion would be wanting to carry into effect the 'ciblect , thev had in view, viz., raising a statue in honour of thd Duke of Wel lington. He hoped, after a meeting at the.. Mansion-house on this interesting subject, that no delay Would take place, parti cularly as gentlemen, no doubt, were aware that his grace had never been consulted or informed of the honour intended him. If, therefore, any delay arose, the noble duke would have just grounds of complaint, and might tell the committee they ought not to have put his name before the public without his authority or sanction. (Hear.) His lordship then expt eased a hope that the gentlemen of Southwark would most cordially unite with those of London, and he had no doubt. of seeing a statue erected which would do honour to the country aud in conclusion said, in his opinion, no site could be selected so proper and desirable • • as the one proposed near London-bridge. Mr. Simpson proposed a vote of thanks to the Lord or. The Lord -Mayor.—l thinit : that honour may be' 41$0eiiited with on the .present occasion, as this is only a pfCtiutiiiiiry meeting. (Hear.) Mr. Simpson.—Your lordship is entitled to the thanks of the citizens of London for your general impartial conduct. I shall therefore submit the motion to the meeting. Mr. Alderman Scholey seconded.the - motion, which was car ried unanimously. • j 6. The Lord Mayor returned thanks, and theanee,tioeseparated. The - committee will take immediate steps fp4tvlitillanblic .meeting as early as.poSsible.-41yfriflard. .11 p • 5 • ,t-1 0 9r1.1 IL. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Mr: KEAN having been nightly' reeeived 'by crowded audit°- ries, with the most enthtunastic applause, his engagement has, in consequence, been extended; and he will This Evening perform the character of KING JOHN ; and, to ,give addi twnai to the Dramas in which Mr. Kean will appear, Mr. COOPER is re-engaged for the present week. Last. Night but Three of Mt. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. Mrs. TAY LEURE, of the Theatres-Royal Covent-garden and Haymarket, (late Miss Grant, formerly of this Theatre,) is engaged fora Fortnight, and will make her second appearance here, since her London engagement, This Evening'. • The Travestie of MASTER ROMEO and M 1 SS JULIET will be repeated for the sixth time This Evening. Cart I IS present TUESDAY, the 20th instant, will be repeated Jl Shakspeare's Tragedy of KING JOHN. .King John Mr. Kean I Falconbridge Mr.. Cooper. Hubert Mr. Stuart I Prince Arthur ..A.• ' a Chaplin. Queen Elinor Mrs. Clarke I Lady Falconbr' e Mra.Granby. Lady Constance Mrs. Stanley I Blanche of stile Miss Faucit. After which the Far ' • - POPPING THE QU TION. Mr. Primrose Mr. Baker I Ellen....bliss Stanley. Bobbin—Miss Chaplin I Miss Winterblossom..Mrs. Tayleure. Tu conclude with; for the sixth time, a Burlesque Tragedy, called MASTER ROMEO AND MISS JULIET, Written by a Oentleman - of Liverpool—the. Author of the popular Drama of "Othello Tracestie." Master Romeo • Mr. Baker I Mr. Mercutin....Mr. Browne. • Miss Juliet Miss Stanley. On WEDNESDAY, the Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac beth, Mr. Keati ; MaCduff, Mr. Cootrr; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Stanley. After which, a favourite I , ARCE, which will be ex pressed in the Bills. • On THURSDAY. OTHELLO. • On FRIDAY. HAMLET, and other Entertainments. The Play of RICHARD 111. will be repeated in the next week, and in a few nights Mr. Kean will, for the first time, per form the character of KING LEAR. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We ha.wpceived the account of the conversion of the Rev. EdMtid*J. Burke, Roman Catholic priest, and shall notice it in our next. A correspondent complains that the police are not sufficiently vigilant in looking after the dohs which infest our streets. He states that Mr. Boileau, the arrister, was attacked by one of them on Saturday, opposite the site of the Old Infirmary, and that there was no policeman in sight at the time. We do not agree with the author of the verses with the bnrden of -" She is called ' Merry England' no more." Our happy fatherlandilis still "great, glorious, and free;" and she will soon stitticeoff the,dist urhers of her peace :, 4 34ike the dew-drops from the lion's mane." Civi3!!, fuggfgts.the propriety of roofing in the whole area of l fixt theluinge. with waterproof atoning, for the approaching, festtkil; fabis is certainly a magnificent idea. Why' not have recourse tdithe railway station, in Lime-street ? We are afraid: the complaint of " A Conitant Reader" admits of-no remedy.: We shall endeavour to find room in our next for a few extracts front "The Unanswered Challenge," advertised in another column. We are obliged to postpone our Literary notices until our next publication. LONDON HIBELINN SOCIETY Extracts front the Thirteenth Report of the abok•e SOcOir'' SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS.--AS In the previous yeal7; the schools of your society have teen operating in every CoUtity in Ireland; the total number of day; Sunday, and adult eStablish ments, have amounted to one thousand nine hundred anilsixty two, and the scholars to one hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three ; being, as compared with 1835, an augmentation of seventeen schools, and eight hundred and thirty-seven pupils : but the increase falls far short of that an nounced in the last report, and chiefly arising from a cause to which your committee must presently request your particular attention ; yet, small as the addition is, they are happy in being able to state that it has occurred almost entirely in the south and west of Ireland, where such a system of education as that provided by your society is specially needed; while in the pre sent state of Irish education, they feel that it is well to have it in their power to say, that the institution has snore than stood its ground. The day schools for the year just closed, are one thou sand and eleven, containing seventy-seven thousand seven hun dred and sixty-two scholars ; of whom forty-eight thousand one hundred and sixty were prote'stants, and twenty-nine thousand six hundred and two Roman catholics. The Sunday schools, as last year, have amounted to five hundred and thirty-six, and the pupils to twenty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty; of which number seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty-six also at tended the day schools: and the adult schools are four hundred and seven, with seven thousand three hundred and thirty-four scholars ; a considerable portion of which, as also of the Sun day pupils, being of the Roman catholic persuasion. There have also been eight exclusively Irish schools for adults , with two hundred and sixteen scholars, and three hundred and sixty one children, forming the Irish classes in the day schools. While they are cheered by the knowledge of an actual increase of schools and scholars upon the year, and that, notwithstanding the increased violence of the enemies of bible instruction, the number of Roman catholics in your schools very nearly equals the preceding year, and does not fall much short of forty thousand. LOCAL PATRONAGE.-554 of your day schools have been un ' der the immediate superintendence of clergymen of the Estab lished Church; 68 under the care of ministers of other denomi nations; 362 with noblemen, ladies, and gentlemen; 27 were without local patrons or visitors.—Total, 1,011. CIRCULATION OF THE HOLY SCRTPTCRES.---The object of the institution. being "to establish schools and circulate the Holy Scriptures in Ireland," your committee feel that neither could be carried on with an equal promise of success irrespective of the other. The operations of the school would indeed be paralyzed, if not rendered danyesnus, without the Bible as a foundation upon which to raise the superstructure of useful and safe knowledge; such knowledge as will be best calculated to render the recipient of it happy in himself, and a useful member of the community; while in such a country as Ireland the cir culation of the Sacred Volume would be limited indeed without the school as a centre from whence the glorious light of Divine Truth may break forth in all directions to cheer the surround ing wilderness. During the last year the committee of that society have granted to this Institution no less than 4,000 Bibles, and 31,000 Testaments. The actual distribution in Ireland, from the Ist of March, 1835, to the 29th of February, 1836, is as follows:—English Bibles 3,111, English Testaments 22,969, Irish Bibles 6, Irish Testaments 7—Total 26,093—being an increase on the preceding year of five thousand, four hun dred and seventeen Bibles amid Testa ;gents, and forming a total of three hundred and sixty-nine thousand, eight hundred and sixty-eight copies of the Book of God distributed by the society, since its formation in 1806. MURDER AT STAPLETON. BRISTOL, SEPT. 12.—We regret to state that the immediate neighbourhood of our city has been made the scene of as brutal and cold-blooded a murder as any which disgraces our criminal annals. On Saturday afternoon information was brought to the St. Philip's station-huuse that a woman had been murdered at Stapleton. Immediately upon the receipt of this intelligence, Mr. Inspector Garrard repaired to the spot, and was speedily followed by police sergeants Alexander and Waltham. On ar riving at the Mason's Arms, Stapleton, the officers there found the lifeless body of a respectably dressed female. Her death appeared to have been caused by her having received the con tents of a pistol at the back of her bead. The slugs with which the pistol had been loaded had entered just above the nape of the neck, and made their way through the brain upwards and forwards. until stopped by the frontal bone. The landlord in formed the officers that between one and two o'clock on that day (Saturday.) the female in question (who was about 45 years of age,) together with a young man attired in a white hat, plaid waistcoat and trousers, striped shirt, and dark coat. came to his house, and called for two small glasses of gin-and-water, which were sent into the parlour to them ; the young man then came out of the room and borrowed a knife, for the purpose, as he said, of "cutting a bit of stick ;" he then went for some time into the back-yard, and when he returned the knife to the land lady she observed that he hung down his head, and appeared much agitated; there was a notch in the knife when he brought it back. Determined to make him speak, she said, " It is stormy weather :" to which, after considerable hesitation, he made an unconnected and vague reply; he then paid for the two glasses of gin-and-water, and he and his companion both went away, and turned up the road, when a female saw them turn down Libbett's-lane, the entrance to which is about eight or ten yards from the Mason's-arms. Upon reaching the bottom of the lane, where there is a stoue stile, another person saw them, and they turned back up the lane, the young man having his arm behind the woman's back. In a short time a man, who was at work inS a quarry, heard the report of a pistol or gun in the direction of the lane, but, from its being September, he took no notice of the circumstance; and in less than an. hour from the time of leaving the public-house the unfortunate woman was brought back to it a murdered corpse, having been found lying dead in the lane with her gown torn off (the hooks and eyes of which were after wards found in the lane), which, together with her shawl, was gone; her bonnet had also been removed, and the ribands torn off it ;* but theme were evident marks of the shot having passed through it; her gloves were half off her bands, as if the murderer had attempted to take them off, but had been disturbed in his purpose. In her pockets was found 4s. 6d., and upon her finger was a gold ring with hair in it. She was found with one leg doubled under her, apparently from her struggles in the agonies of death. It appeared that the deceased was a Mrs. Lewis; who, hearing that her daughter and her husband were in Bristol, had come from Monmouthshire to see them. The deceased's daughter had resided in Bath as a lady's maid; but a short time since she married a man named Robert Bartlett, who has been acting as a perforiner in one of the shows the Sanspareil Theatre) during the late Bristol fair; in which capacity he had very frequently, as is the practice here, tired off the pistol to draw attention to the exhibition. til i nces of Bartlett, r s retur r n t leintt in g to Bristol, Barton -street, the3' immediatelyand learned that search edOthn the ( elodg)g Mrs. Lewis had been there with him at 12 o'clock on the day of her decease ; that a few words arose between them, and sbe went out, followed by Bartlett, who did not return to his lodg ings until between 5 and 6, when he immediately changed his clothes and shirt. On searching the room, the officers found the striped shill., white hat, dark coat, and plaid waistcoat and trousers, exactly answering the description given by the land lord at Stapleton. In a pocket was discovered some powder, and a stick cut roughly . for a ramrod ; the stick was of hard wood of the same description as a bit left in the notch of the knife. The officers also found a double-barrelled pistol, which appeared to have been recently discharged. Y e sterday (Sunday) afternoon, as if by a strange fatility ' Bartlett went to the house at Stapleton where the body was lying, apparently from curiosity, and upon entering the room before he could see the f ac e of t he deceased , he exclaimed' " Good God ! it is Mrs. Lewis my mother-in-law !" and threw himself upon the chair in a state of great agitation. He then wanted to go away, but the landlord got him to stay, and sent for the landlady and a Mrs. White, who had been in the room with Bartlett and the deceased, and they both identified him ; he was consequently taken into custody to await the result of the inquest. It is understood that the deceased was pos sessed of some property, which would come to him at her de cease. This morning an inquest was held at the Mason's Arms, Sta pleton, before Mr. W. J. Ellis, coroner, and a respectable jury. The body of the murdered female was exposed to the jury on two tables, from which a quantity of blood had run so as nearly to cover the tables as well as to completely saturate the floor. A surgeon who was examined stated that the pistol was discharged immediately behind the left ear, and that he had found four of the slugs lodged in the brain. Mrs. White, the landlady, iden tified the prisoner as the person who had been at her house in company with the deceased on Saturday afternoon. The pri soner accounted for having the pistol by saying it was for the purpose of making as much noise as possible at fairs, &c. stating that those who could. buy such or other means, make most noise, generally succeeded best. He rather wished to call some witnesses, but wan dissuaded from doing so by the coroner. who advised him to remain silent, unless he should wish to ask the witnesses for the prosecution any questions. His behaviour was no other than appropriate for a person in his situation. After a lengthened investigation, a verdict xif " Wilful Murder" was returned against Robert Bartlett, and he was accordingly committed by the coroner to Gloucester gaol for trial.—Bath Ga zette. • The remains of the gown and bonnet ribands have since been found in a pond in the " Duchess's Park," as it is called. Ebe iLibErpool ,tatibao. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1836. An unusual supply of foreign news has been received since our last number was published, furnished by the. Paris journals, bringing intelligence from Spain, up to Friday last. We give elsewhere such extracts from the London papers, as our space and the topics of domestic interest ad mit, and which appear to us most likely to prove gratify : - ing to our general, readers. It would seem that a great deal of difficulty and confusion still exist, respecting the final completion of the French ministry, the inevitable consequence of the present condition of the entire Pen insula, which will not be a little aggravated by the state of affairs in Portugal, and the proclaiming there of the Constitution of 1820, the particulars of which we sub join. An extraordinary express of the Weekly Post has brought the latest intelligence from Paris to Friday af. ternoon. From these papers It would appear that the French King is greatly embarrassed, in consequence of more than half-a-dozeti of the most able men in France having positively declined taking office ;—Soult, Molitor, and two or three other generals had decidedly refused the ministry of war, and only M. Martin du Nord had been persuaded to accept the charge of the department of public works,—M. Gabriel Delassert, Prefect of Police, in the room of M. Guisquet, and of M. Rernusat, sub- Secretary of State for the Interior, and M. Gasparin chief. These form the only additional appointments since our former notice. It is even stated, that the dis union of feeling ran so high on Wednesday last, as to threaten the immediate break up of the present cabinet, in its incomplete form. This state of affairs arises in a great measure from the almost universal opposition of the press to the doctrinaire party, few moderate men choosing to expose themselves to animadversion at such a crisis. The presidency of the war department, and that of the Chamber of Commerce, remaining open, are 'serious obstacles to Louis Phillipe ; and the great pro bability exists that if these be nut speedily filled up, the triumph of the extreme liberal party will be complete—the state of Portugal will speedily determine the question. With regard to Spain, all is confusion worse than con founded, and the greatest alarm exists in the capital of the hourly-expected arrival of one or other of the roving bodies of the Carlists. It was the Brigadier Gomez, and not Basilio Garcia, who had obtained the victory of Jad. raque, as stated by us on Friday. Garcia has recrossed the Ebro, with an immense booty. Espurtero is stated to have expired under an attack of paralysis, but more pro bably from poison; and the Brigadier Alaix was appoint ed to his command, and had proceeded in quest of Gomez. Don Carlos has published a spirited, yet tem perate, address to the Spanish nation, on its present condition, offering to it his paternal protection, an ex tract from which we give. REVOLUTION AT LISBON and proclaiming the consti tution of 1820. At the moment of the assembling of the Cortes, and immediately on the expected opening of that august assembly by the Queen in person, on the 11th instant, it is stated, in the private correspondence of the Weekly Post of Sunday, that a revolution (see contem poraneous extracts.) had taken place. This is, to all ap pearance, the result of a deeply-laid plot ; an army has figured therein in exactly the same form and with pre cisely the same spirit as that of Spain. We cannot well doubt the correctness .of this intelligence, furnished by our able contemporary, who briefly notices it under the usual leading column, but we must wait the arrival of the official despatches. Preparations, it is said, were made to receive the Queen and her immediate friends on board the English squadron, as soon as her escape from her revolutionary keepers could be safely effected. Since writing the above summary we have received the important intelligence of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Evans's failure in another attack upon the Carlists. "B.IFO.A"JVB, Sept. 12. " General Evans has attempted, without success, an attack upon the Carlists to the south-east of Hernani. Three battalions have repulsed the 5,000 men, with whom the General had promised hinitelf to avenge the check sustained at Fuentarabia. The Christinos continue inactive on every part of the line In the direction of Bilboa and to wards the Ebro. The regiments think not of fighting. In their ranks have been organized clubs, denoininated societies of "Padilla," affi liated with the. great association of the Communeros, which, under its leaders of 1823, has revived. These bold champions of perfect equality between all men, and of the liberty of the human race, among other things, make oath to judge, condemn, and execute all individuals, without excepting the Sovereign, who may abuse their authority. It is not easy to conceive how the restoration of the Communeros can rouse the Patriots from their apathy. This political sect, which amounted to about '70,000 members in 1821, is now mnch less numer ous, though they be disseminated all over Spain. General Cordova having wished to make a promenade towards Behobia, his appearance upon the bridge, the head of which is com manded by a small party of Christinos, has excited some agitation. The officers declare that if General Cordova had advanced to the fort, he would have been roughly handled by its garrison of 140 soldiers. The General has returned to Bayonne, after having been subjected on his wa y, at Behobia, as well as St. Jean de Luiz, to violent menaces. We have heard no tidings whatever of the little division under General Labeau, recently stationed in the vicinity of Estella. That General, as well as Colonel Conrad, and the French officers serving under them, are in a very critical position, owing to the probable dis banding of the auxiliary legions forming at Pau. Advises from Madrid inform us that M. Campuzano is appointed Minister at Paris, and M. Aguilar in London. Count de Toreno has left Madrid to repair to Santander. The D u ke de Rivas has departed for Gibraltar. General Vanhalen has left the army, and most severe searches a re ma d e t o di scover hi s re t rea t . ,• Letters from Saragossa, of the 9th, state Euarista San Miguel to be pursuing the factions in Lower Arragon, but that all his efforts were unsuccessful, their bands overrunning the country with impunity. Don Carlos has transferred his head quarters to Tolosa. He left Aepetia on the 9th, in the morning. The Infante Don Sebastian has followed him to Tolosa. It is not thought that the two Princes will stay long in that town, the dampness of which has already proved de trimental to the health of Don Carlos. General Villareal, who has not seen the Prince since his promotion to the supreme command, is ex pected at Tolosa. The official report of General Gnibelalde upon the affair which h a s just taken place before St. Sebastian, contains the following Towards three o'clock, the enemy supported by numerous pieces of ordnance, and batteries of the village of Alza, attacked the works we are erecting on the heights of Amezagana. The third battalion, which was on the line, and some companies of the Oth and Gth regi ment, in conjunction with it, defended the position with so much spirit and vigour till night, that the enemy, after several attacks, have been compelled to abandon their project. 011 T loss amounts to f.,'o killed and wounded." This bulletin is dated head-quarters, Ilernani , 9th September. " Advices from Elifsondo of the 10th state General Espartero to have expired at Sesma." It is now upwards of twelve months since the conser vative press so ably and fearlessly did its duty with re ference to the crooked policy of our present intractable government, on the subject of Spain, in connexion with the quadruple alliance. The consequences of suspending the Foreign Enlistment Act were also so freely exposed by Lord Mahon, that any ministry, not insensibly blind to reason, and entirely infatuated with the folly of deal ing with questions of great national policy upon abstract principles, would have foreseen the end to which its dis ingenuous measures must inevitably lead. Putting aside the glaring impropriety of interfering in a family state quarrel, with the merits of which we had nothing whatever to do, and which in no way, as regarded the regular succession, bore unfavourably on the national interests of this country, but, on the contrary, the very mode of interference selected was of so imbecile a cha racter, that in the judgment of all reflecting men, and those best acquainted with the internal condition and feeling of the Spanish people, it could not rationally be expected to lead to anything short of failure, and the in evitable result of the compromise of our national dignity. Lord Mahon's ability, and Sir J. Elley's manly integrity,, were alike lost upon our self-adulating, foreign secretary and his pur-blind colleagues. It was, in fact, generally agreed that a force of 10,000 men, raised in this country upon the plan proposed, and even if well officered and provided, would he entirely inadequate to effect the ob jects so plausibly held forth by our sticklers for the cause of Christina, and the estatuto real system of policy, for the government of her daughter. We fearlessly main tain that, molder whatever form such an auxiliary force was sent out, it carried with it the character of an irra tional compact—an intervention for pay in a dispute which in no way concerned us nationally ; and Conse quently in which the reflecting portion of the people of Spain, in fine, all but a knot of aspiring partizans, and even the revolutionary dregs of that people would not sympathise, but view with distrust. The evils which have fallen upon the Spanish nation successively, and the present deplorable condition of the legion, without having effected any one palpable benefit, or in any way arrested the progress of Don Carlos, sufficiently attest the correctness of our view, setting aside the losses and misery endured by that legion during an inglorious cam paign of twelve months, crowned by the marching through France of the unfortunate deserters from its ranks, who would no longer submit to the infliction of the cat-o'-nine-tails, nor to the risk of being shot by the Car lists without honour or pay. In all warfare, the nature of the danger or difficulty to be surmounted should always regulate the means taken to obviate it; but this wise precaution never appears to have once entered into the heads of our truly chivalrous ministers, who vainly imagined it was only needful to exhibit the caps of the Westminster Grenadiers to the hardy mountaineers of Charles the Fifth, to make them take to their heels and throw down their arms—an effect the very reverse has been shown long since, but it made no alteration in the Palmerstonian policy. The chief of Downing-street, all-sufficient, and awaiting the " destiny from above," left his hapless radical protege Evans, to his winter repose at Vittoria, and his soldiers to die of hun ger and disease by hundreds, without even the expres sion of a sigh, at the downfal of British honour, occa sioned by the want of due preparation and timely suc cour. Well, the spring came, and with it the abrogation, by Don Carlos, of the Elliot treaty, and upon substantial grounds, arising from the first desertion of its letter and spirit by the Christinos, and subsequently, through our improper intrusion on the rights of an individual, with whom, and with whose followers, we were not at war, nationally! If the fate of an invasion of our own island were to be determined upon the same principles—to be attempted to be effected in the same manner—if the cap turing of our vessels, and the possession of our forts, enabled a party in the state to wage war against the re gular succession to the throne, by the assistance of a foreign band of mercenaries, the most scrupulous amongst us, not interested in the success of the faction, would at once decree the justice of sinking or burning such foreign enemy, and denying to it the rights of belligerent na tions. This, therefore, is a question purely for the deter mination of that power against which the force so em ployed is directed—it might suit that power to capture the vessels, and burn them—it might suit it to destroy the crews ; and in either case the injured or opposed party (no declaration of war existing) would be justified by the law or custom of civilized nations. This is pre cisely the position of the Legion, with Don Carlos, in the war of succession. We do not wish to place our unfor tunate, deluded countrymen, in a more degrading situa ation than they have been placed in by the criminal policy and, latterly, supine conduct of those who pretend to watch over the subjects of a British King, and their wel fare at home and abroad. The present condition of the Legion, composed of Bri•. tish subjects, and which we cannot, with an eye to pro priety, honour with the ostensible appellation of the " English Legion," engaged as it is, before a people fight ing for their fueros, or ancient liberties, is, nevertheless, one of painful interest; and the conduct of the govern ment respecting it, merits the strongest expression of public indignation. Why are not measures taken to en sure its return home, as its power of utility is now at an end, if ever it proposed any? We need hardly argue the question now, that the sub jects of neutrals who join a belligerent, cease to have a right to claim the protection of their own government as against the other belligerent,—but in this case, humanity and national honour should interpose. Those per sons," says Galiani, " who serve a foreign sovereign for hire, are no longer subjects of their former sovereign,— they are under him who pays them,— so that the op ponent of the latter may consider them irregular or hos tile troops, and whenever he falls in with them; whether on board ship or on land, and though even they should not have reached the territory of their new sovereign, he may legitimately attack, destroy, or capture them, (with out reference to international law,) neither is their for mer sovereign entitled to protect them; for this would be to overstEvp the correct limits of impartiality." Our wor thy contemporaries of the London Chronicle and Globe have long since endeavoured tomake itappear, that there is no defined covenant properly understood by the " law of nations." We deny this false logic,—there are cer tain established, long recognised usages, respecting which all the ablest writers on the law of nations are agreed, and we . further assert, they are not more unanimous on any one point than that the subjects of a neutral state, receiving the pay of one of the belligerents, cease to have any claim to the protection of their own sovereign, and may be treated exactly as the subjects of the belligerent, which they have joined. The proclamations of Don Car los, have long since put the troops of Christina out of the pale of national warfare; the policy of the whig cabinet has placed English subjects in the same predica ment; and yet no steps are taken to retrieve this dis graceful error, nor to save the unfortunate victims from its consequences. The ink is hardly dry upon our paper, which records the splendid scene at Newton, when we are called to notice the gathering of another " thousand" constitu tional heroes at Beverley, in Yorkshire. We most heartily accord to them their rivalry, and vtill weave for them the humble garland of our commendation, with the same zeal as they have wove the garland of their protes tant devotion around that motto, which combines within itself a rallying call to every man, who bears, and, who truly glories in the name of Englishman ! Yes, indeed, " pro aris et foci's," are words which convey to the real English heart sentiments of a soul -stirring character, — the man who would not defend his altar and his hearth, when they are both exposed to danger must he dead to the voice of chivalry indeed ! This meeting has been a most glorious one, in the centre of the whiggery crows nest of Yorkshire. Nine hundred and eighty-fire Eng lish hearts, associated at one festival in honour of con servatism. What say you - to this ye mighty of Leeds. ye one hundred and twenty-three, who Oheefed the- twid- 20_ IB*g6. die of municipal story, sounded in your ears by the -2lfor pethian cymbal of an imbecile ministry, and which the base notes of the great " Mercurial" organ—and old mistress " Grnpticle's serpent" have sent forth again in order to alarm the constitution defenders of the mon archy. Verily, this proceeding of yours was an im ported Irish bull, exhibited by the chief secretary in a Yorkshire hide, " and no mistake," as Aar friend Gully of Pontefract, would say! e have got these worthy men of Leeds—the whip mayor, and his conclave be tween the conservative fire of York and Lancaster, and the Lord have mercy upon them and their " thimble riggery," in concert with their patrons elsewhere. Sir G. Strickland was a shrewd soldie-r to declare off as he has done—he has escaped thereby the mire of political de gradation, into which this " Gordian knot" of Whigs assuredly fall ere long. Returning to the scene at Beverley, we must especially refer to the speeches of Lord Hotham, and the Rev. Mr. Coltman, they embrace all the topics which we have feebly essayed to exp uind to our realers ; but the subject not yet exhausted in our hands. One of the most cheeping and gratifying prospects of the present moment, is the already established and in creasing union between the upper branches of our aristocracy and its descending links, throughout the en tire kingdom, Without exception ; and although brought about by the exigencies of our political situation, as a matter of necessity, fur mutual preservation, it is pleasing to contemplate the increasing confidence, stability 'of principle, and social harmony which is engendered. Never did Britain, at any period of her highly displayed zeal of purpose and unanimity of courageods sentiment, exhibit the richer traits of her national character to greater perfection, than in liar present attitude of defen sive conservatism. From east to west—from north to south, the impulse is impressively imposing. Thus, we find the call of Lancashire, simultaneously responded to by Suffolk, by Essex, by Kent, by York, and; in • sion, all the leading counties and:bet - thigh towns in: the kingdom. It is impossib'e that a reunion of the better elements of our social structure like this progressing, can be repelled by the Whig-raclival confederacy, and well the faction is aware of it; for all its attention is now turned to Ireland to obtain from thence, by the most corrupt and impolitic concession of principle, a.counter poise to the rising Protestantism of England. Atone of the most respectable and enthusiastic public dinners, at which we have had the pleasure of being present, given in the borough of Marylebone in the early part of the year, his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, on rising to return thanks for the honour of the toast, which coupled his name with the House of Lords, said, " he felt the difference of the position in which he was at that moment placed, as the guest of the company assembled, compared with that in which he stood'a very few years ago. At the period to which he alluded, no - one in that district would have dared to invite him to his table; but thanks to the good feeling and the returning good sense of his fellow countrymen matters were then so much altered, that he could happily show himself in the midst of that respectable company, by which he was surrounded." It must be borne in mind, that this referred to the improved state of opinion in one of the strongest holds of 'radical and Whig domination. And why should the Duke of Newcastle, one of the best private characters in this kingdom, as a moral man—a Christian and a Peer, be deprived of the utility and the gratification of meeting any portion of his fellow citizens of the state in social harmony, and in celebration of pure national feeling ? If the higher aristocracy of this country need conviction, on any point of policy which may be assumed to be at variance with the interests of the popular classes, let that conviction be the result of reason, not the forced effect of clamour and false theory. The interests of the Peers are blended 'with the interests of the entire people; and the salvation of Britainis at this moment dependent on the union and good understanding now cementing between the nobility and the intelligent classes, which will present an invulnerable barrier against oligarchical whiggery and radical dismeinberment ; and eventually. restore the national confidence and prosperity. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile has addressed a letter to the Rev. Thomas Maguire on the subject 'of his late challenge to the Protestant clergy of this town. This able minis ter, whose fearless exposures of the errors and iniquities of the Church of Rome, and zeal in the defence of Pro testantism, has subjected him to every species of calumny and abuse that malice could invent, has come for Ward and avowed his willingness to meet the " triumphant defen der of Catholicism," in public controversy, on the doc • trines of their respective churches. The terms upon which he proposes to accept Mr. Maguire's ehallabge are at once fair and reasonable—he expressly states " that Mr. Maguire must exculpate himself from the charge of for gery preferred against him by the Rev. Mr. Nolan, and thus render himself worthy of admittance" into an ho nourable arena where the love of truth is the avowedly animating motive of both parties." Mr. Maguire is, therefore, fairly put upon his defence, and is bound to answer the charge brought against him, or he cannot ex pect that any gentleman will condescend to meet him lit the controversial arena. The charge aifects his character as a minister of religion, as a gentleman, and a scholar;. and, if he shrinks from boldly and honestly' meeting it, the public will form their own opinion of his empty boast, and adjudge him guilty of prevarication , and falsehood, in his oft repeated expression of willingness. to meet every opponent, and answer every charge. Mr. APN,RiIe has very judiciously resolved to conduct the con troversy through the medium of the press, as a greater degree of practical good will result to the public from written statements, which are open to reference and exa mination, than from the momentary excitement produced' by an appeal to the passions or prejudices of their hewers. Our contemporary of the Journal observes that Mr. .1414 Neile attaches toe much importance to the charge brought against Mr. Maguire, by Mr. Nolan. We re ply, that the charge of using forged documents knowing them Is be forged, cannot be treated too gravely. ft is of vital importance. The man who is guilty of it in a transaction of this world's business becomes ipso facto excommunicated from the society of gentlemen. The man who is guilty of it in theological controversy, ought, at the least, to confess his fault, and appear before the church as a penitent, before he can be admissible to the . society of christians. Under certain circumstances there may, doubtless, be special advantages attending an Mal diScussion ; but for their attainment it is absolutely indispensible that both parties should reverance Reveltion ; that both parties s'Aould love truth rather than victory : and thus be pre served from the treachery of him, Who, while he kissed his Master in apparant zeal and love, was in the act of betraying him to 14€ invetrate enemies. 7. If, under existing circumstances. Mr. Maguire shrinks from a written discussion, it can only be because he de pends more upon the temporary effect of a personal (perhaps reckless) exhibition, than on the intrinsic weight and permanent influence of sound argument. If this be so, the people of Liverpool, and the public generally, will know how to appreciate his vaunt ings as a controversialist. That Mr. Magalire will avail himself of this very fair proposition we very much doubt. We have had an opportunity of attending his lectures in this town, and observed, with infinite dis gust, the low cunning, the vulgar wit, and the coarse sa tire, with which he sought to gain the applause of his deluded hearers, avid the glaring falsehoods and misre presentations made use of to conceal the deformities add iniquities of his own church. Through the medium of the press, every subject can be carefully analysed- 11° appeal to the degraded passions or to prejudice will be regarded as of equal weight with soulrid arguments—a ° that species of contemptible buffoonery which Mr. Ma" guire usually indulges in, to excite a laugh, or create a cheer, will be carefully avoided. The courtesy of the gentleman, the erudition of the scholar, and the faithfulness of the christian minister must be blended togeth er in defence of their principles, to possess any weight Or g: fluence with the reflecting part of the community. ,: position in which Mr. Maguire is now placed is, pe rll V • the most degrading that can be imagined. Aceus4cl P.P the one hand of direct forgery and falsehood.;- and eal: 3 b e O ter, encountering a formidable opppirnt in the isOn SEP or the R( the " un from that the love! of his rt forded h I Pnge ; that the I the tond and exhi Whethi the long. Roman C seen. A Cardinal down the enabled ti glove, not has, neve bound to bat, and t Protestor report ha Priest ha the fight. 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