The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-28 00:00:00

rIJE-AUTI - 10t1S' NIGHT LAST REPRBS2tV7 OF T I. t i I sv i OYAT. TARNATIQN Tickets to be had Music-shops ; Books of the words, 6d. eac Mr. CooKE, at to be bad o application to I TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. _ I The largely increased ana mama. • which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOJ STANDARD has now obtained amongst the r body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify --ist the other undeniable favor of that portion 1 who desire to . mg power of urging this, anion, eta ims which it possesses, upc of the mercantile community of Liver' bring their advertisements before the xotice of buyers in in most of manufacturing districts the surrounding towns of Lancashire the In y the STANDARD is ste adil y increasing. In Manchester, --..rn,furino district, our the neighbouring however, the centre of the • nst publication of Tuesday—of portant market day of Exchange and Hotels are thronged with county Cotton Trad and calico prancers —is firmly facturers, spinners, - tablished in circulation, and is perused with increasea and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, u receive an increased measure of •support from the mer- I it affords ---- chants and brokers of the town generallv an us great p l easu re to assure th ose of our friends amongst t h ose classes, w h o have hitherto besto wed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of o ur increased abilit y to do justice to the interests com mitted care. Cirbe ttimpriol A)tanZiarb. --=----- FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1845 acious in dissipating convinced, been mor 1 in illustrating how Aitico-economical fallacies to be estimate far " the wisdom of our ancestoi _ a b ove the crude th eories of unfledged As -- As a science than any similar period in our histor) or rather a collection of truisms dignified by the name of a science, po litical economy stands just w here it did --"b It is just as excellent it li c able i e n; and as inapp -- - in the days of Adam Sm - • theory, now, as it practice. The system of a universal exchange of corn modifies between nation and nation is just as Lothian an abstraction, now, as ever it was; but the notion, that such a sys tem is ever likely to be established, or can ever be profitably established , i s as far from being demonstrated as ever —nay, it is further; for all expe rience is right in the teeth of the philosophy being ever embraced by the majority of mankind, as the guiding rule of their legislation, and most damaging to the opi nion that it is the interest of any nation to hazard much of its existing prosperity in setting the example of its recognition. It has been a leading fallacy with the doctrinaires of this school, that it was no less the duty than the inte rest of Great Britain thus to hazard her acquired posi tion, as the certain means of reaching a still higher position from the adoption of her example by other coun tries. With this view we relaxe d our navigation laws, and admitted to our ports the shipping of every country with which we had commercial treaties. We —tial benefits have we derived • to inly those benefits have not extended themselves to ask, what substar shipping interest — , v would fall. We that portion of the cor- : e d the %Ton whom we were ab a,.._ have g i v en, in fact, more —infinitely mor e —than we lye or fourteen urine' the twe And y ear s after this an d other concessions, what have other have receivea us in our course of exuberant term ed an en li g htened ph ilosopher s p u rsuit of commercial advantage ments , during this ? Why th e histor y by f o reign govern nations done to generosity, whic Period, has been a history of O rl O n every side we e suc cession of move of legislation, manta in an opposite direction• h ave b e en m et by tariffs. res trictive r com merce ; and Market after m arket has been closed agains t ou that we have made head, at all, against the awakened jealousy of other countries, has been owing solely to the success with which we have decreased the cost of production of our commodities (decreasing at the same time the comforts of our labouring population), and t o the immense sustaining power which we possess in our large colonial possessions and in the home that these untoward market. W e were assured, however, the incomplete ness of were attributable s olely to ss of our experiment. e had not gone far enough in W W e had not bid suffi c i e ntly high for the enjoyment of the markets of other countries; and the increased Measure of exclusion to which we had been submitted, we were told, was retaliatory !" If we would o nly go a little further in generosity; admit, without stipulation, the wines of this country, the fruits an d s pices of another, the corn of a third, the and pork of a fourth, we should be rewarded by the voluntary accordance to us of all the benefits de beefivae from a liberal admission to their markets. Well, w e last year reconstructed our tariff. We re duced the duties upon six hundred articles, the produce or manufacture of every country upon the face of the globe t We materially reduced the duties upon the chief food of man, and the staple produce of our own land—corn. We consented to receive the animal food of America and Europe at a low duty ; and yet, how have even our concessions of the past year been met ? Is there a sign, the most remote, of concessions in re turn ? No. We have been met, only, on the part of America, by a tariff even more restrictive than pre viously, and by increased disinclination, our liberality, , a on the par t of us to grea t e r share every other coun tr y , than we alrea d y p ossess of t h e comme rce of the world! to admit ch we are assured that any the adop- voluntary concession of ours would lead to. lion of the free-trade principle by any material portion of the rest of mankind, is utterly exploded• We must from henceforth regard that man as either a fool or a madman, by whom the reduction of the duty upon any one of the six hundred articles enunierated in our tariff is advocated, upon any other ground than the benefit derivable from its cheapness to ourselves . voluntary concession—the concession, even, of a per fectly free trade in corn, if unconditionally made will operate to unlock the restrictions with whic The fallacy, then, by win f No ,h our pro ductions a re met in forei g n markets ; for not only has every voluntary co ncession failed in producing suc h a result, but where such conce ssion has b een the su bject of n e g ociation, and where temp tat ions, appa hav rent ly the most ir resistible, have been offered, we e me t with signa l failure. What is the history of our negociations for a co mmercial treaty with France, but a history of studied evasion and delay pra ctised by the ministers of that country to defeat its ociat result ? What have been the fruits of our recent negions w i t h Spain and Portugal, or with Brazil, but failure ? In one of these countries —Portugal—it is notorious that the entire mercantile interest, and the population of a large and important district, dependent upon the trade in w ine with the British marke bene. Mutuall yw as and is in favour of a tariff which would permit a licial commerce to be carried on with this countr of wretches turers and yet the outcr woollen stuffs, act ing up" ndustry, has de- hostile to the pr nr dipi e past feated the most active Will any m an tell t does not strike a stunning Where be now the zr tit of the from Eng the repeal of the corn- rent dreams of the League, 1 say that each step which we take Furth to our industry, growth of our bre borders of the Ohio of the Baltic and th Black Sea Where•are t dreams of Russian and Pc one hand, recei% x in retu silks, cottons, or woollens and plaintive lamentations with bt her, British 3 the plausi of na- 1. prevented z tons burdened with food, but ye t naiteu , ? from exchanging their surplus with a nation burdened with unsaleable clothing? England, it is p l ai n, has *C"11/1644"1"14clitieliri s' WAX n W tf mt e w s .— to T b h e a v wa y7 attractive. ravings of the Anti-corn-law League 22grocuops'anpupear to afford er much entrtainment. recent absurd demonstration of Mr. Ricardo, 1N QUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held on view of thi with the experience of the past, b d o ea d , y i of n a a pe c r e T hi n r na h m le d William who . sy_a ei was found Marlborough-street. V , otiation with Portugal before 4 , Di e d by the Visitation of God." ACCIDENTAL DEATH.—An inquest was yesterday held . be fore P. F. Curry, Esq, on the body of a man of the name 9t work exhibition at the York The amusing figure n me uirection of an ultra IL ec au.,, 10 C. IV o.ll‘lill Russell, a labourer, who was killed while discharg iliandonment of our power to coerce, or convince, Robert Kerr, lying in the Victoria Dock, in consequence of „,;„,„1 ,„,„_ one of the guys which supported a block o g the st ,ch they WI ng, d one 'part of it stril.ing hii hiacull was fractured. Verdict _:ement in the London papers .... ,ersary sermon of the Ladies' Hibernian Fe male School Society will he preached at St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London, this morning by the Rev. Hugh M'Neilc. The thirty-first anniversary sermon of the Prayer book and Homily Society will be preached in St. Dunstan's Church, London, on the 4th of May, by the Rev. J. H. Steuart, of St. Bride's. We perceive from an adver that tti( • WATER CURE ESTABLISHMENT, 70, MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERI'OOL.—We understand that these extensive premises, which were taken some time ago by Dr. Heathcote, a physi cian of considerable experience in the Hydropathic method of treating diseases, are now in practical operation. Dr. Heathcote's pamphlet informs us that he studied the principle and practice of this system at Grafenberg, and we under stand that he has since treated with great success various cases of disease. CURIOUS CIRCOMSTANCE.—A day or two since a gentle man, whilst walking along the shore at Egremont, picked up a bottle, which on examination he found to contain a piece of paper, on which was written in pencil the following words.:—This perhaps will elucilite the mystery that attends soy fate. On account of the persecutions of a tyrannical wife, I, Patrick O'ConnOr, have thrown myself into the Liffey in despair. P. O'Connor." The oriv;inal paper may be seen at our office. Loss or TOE BARQUE DALE.—We re g ret to say that in formation has been rec e i ve d f rom the British Consul at Lisbon of the wreck of the barque " Dale," of this port, P. Farley, master, whilst on her voyage to New Orleans , with a cargo of salt. The b arque u a or t u nately foundered at sea during the night of the 7th instant, about sixty miles to the north-westward of the Rock of Lisbon, and the whole of the ship's company, seventeen in number, were picked . up in their boats next morning. by th e schooner Porto Novo, and landed at Lisbon on the 9th instant. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening last, a. one of the ferry steamers was moving from the landing-stage at Seacombe, Captain George Smith, who was stepping fron the boat to the shore, slipped into the water. A man, name Evans, one of the hands employed at Seacombe, while at tempting to rescue him, fell into the water. Captain Saw fortunately clung to the stage and was eventually pulled oti of the water. Evans was carried out of reach, and sun before any aid could be rendered him. The unfortunate ma has left a widow and four children EXCISE. INFORMATION Thomas Fr, —fYesterda}•, at the police-eon Land Duncan M'lntyre, theme of the ship Polio day to who had been remanded from a previot .tut the decision of the Board of Customs, v' placed at the bar, charged with having had on the ship in their command a quantity of tobacco in di packages, beimg less quantities than 300 cwt. They in. pleaded guilty, but said they had it for the use of thewselvi and the crew. They were fined £lOO each, and, in default ordered to be imprisoned until such amount be paid. DEATH FItOM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—An inquest was yesterday held before the borough coroner, on view of the body of a woman named Mary Edge. From the evidence of police-constable Davies, it appeared that while he was on duty in the neighbourhood of Bixteth-street, he found the deceased lying on the footway in an excessive state of intoxi cation. With the assistance of another officer she was t3ken to bridewell, and was afterwards removed to the Northern Hospital, where she died yesterday morning.—The surgeon stated that death was caused by excessive drinking. Verdict accordingly. COMMITMENT TO THE ASSIZES.-At the police-court yesterday, a man named Bryan Burns and his wife were placed at the bar on a charge of beine found in possession of a quantity of base coin. Police-officer M'Guire said that in consequence of information he had received he went to the prisoner's house in Oriel-street. The man, on seeing him, went to the back and threw a parcel on the top of an outhouse which he (M'Guire) afterwards found. It contai ned ten base shillings in an unfinished state. In his posses sion were found five other base shillings in a more finished state, also an iron spoon. Another officer also found .a par cel of base shillings and a bag containing plaister-of-Paris. The female had recontly been in ,custody for endeavouring to pass a base shilling at two different places, but was dis charged for want of sufficient evidence. The prisoners were committed for trial atthe assizes. THE FONDS: WEDNESDAY EVENING. Heaviness in. prices continues to be the chief feature of the English stock market. Although the transactions of to-day have been limited, the few sales concluded give closing quotations at a shade lower than yesterday. Bank Stock left off at 180 to 182 ; Consols for _money, 961- to 2-; and for the account, 96 to ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 953 to ; Three-and-a- H alf per Cents. Reduced, lOn to i; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1028 to 4 ; Long Annuities, 128 ; India Stock, 268 to 269; Exchequer-bills, 655. to 675. pm. for the 2d. issue, and 675. to 695. pm. for the 14.1. issue. The settle ment of the half-monthly account in the foreign market takes place .on Friday. Spanish advanced about 4 per cent. in the course of business, and left off firmly at the improve ment, the New Three per Cents., at the close of the day, bearing the quotation of 328 to and the Actives 228 to I. The jobbers are supposed to he in want of stock, and hence the reason assigned for the reaction noticed. Mexican closed flat at 29.1. to ; and the Deferred, Bto A. The other foreign securities remain much the same. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were finally quoted 56; to the Five per Cents., 100 a to ; Colombian, 211 to 25 ; Brazilian, 75 to 76 ; Belgian, 105 to 106; Danish, 85 to 86 ; . and Portuguese Converted, 40 to 11,.. MEETING OF THE DOCK LA BOUI2ERS.—SETTLEMENT OF THE DISPUTED WAGES.-011 Tuesday afternoon last, a meeting of the hibourers employed at the docks was held in the . Assembly-rooms, Lord Nelson-street, at which, such masters as were inclined to accede to the terms proposed at a meeting previously held in the Queen's Theatre were in vited to attend. The room was crowded, and the meeting was riotous in the extreme. One of the resolutions was to the effect that the master lumpers should pay the labourers' demands, viz., 3s. 6d. per day for 101 hours' work, 6d. per hour for overtime, Bd. per 100 for bags of salt, with the addi tion of ld, for heaving ; ld. per ton for common salt, and lid. per ton 'for coals. - Mr. Campbell, one of the most ex tensive stevedores in the port, was the first to declare his willingness to pay the amount. He had never he said paid less, and though no advocate for low wages, he thought that this turn-oat was a most unseaganable one, having occurred at a time when freights 'were:low, ships literally doing nothing, and provisions almost 50 per cent. cheaper than at the same time on the previous year. Mr. Campbell was followed by other speakers, one of whom attributed the, reduction in the wages solely to the men themselves, and prognosticated that the duration of the present scale would not exceed three weeks, for directly work was scarce, they would offer their services at reduced prices. It had been, the case before, and would be so again. Those sentiments were, of course, not well received by the body of the persons present, many of whom attempted to address the 'meeting ; but, though the proceedings lasted for some time longer, nothing of a decisive character took. place. Our readers attention la directed to the following commu nication (translated from the German) „ addressed'tolNlessrs. Rowlands' agen t at Cologne, : 13, Siraitz Euggasse, Co logne, May 23, 1841. D'ir. Thomas S. Ditoes,—Sir,—l have much pleasure in informing you of the extraordinary effects of ROWLAND'S M ACASSAR OIL:' for above nine:years I had not a particle of hair on my head, when I was casually recomm ended to give this celebrated oil a trial. I accord ingly purchased two .bottles at your establishment, and str i c tly followed t h e printed directions; in the course of two months my head was covered with fine short hair, which I then had cut off, and continued to persevere in the use of the oil. The result is, that after five months perseverance I can now boast of as good a head of hair . as any man in this city. In :instice to the inventors I make this acknowledgment, and W i iall feel great pleasure in satisfying any enquiry.—l salute yon , vith respect, ADAM BAUER, Bth Artillery Brigade."— - S e a lv t. CLAIM FOR DAN/ACE TO A FLAT.—On Wednesday, the Captain of the King Orry steamer, appeared before Mr. Rushton at the Police -court, as defendant in an application made by the master of a flat called the Helen, for compen sation for damages d o ne to the latter vessel by the former. The evidence for th e applicant went to show, that while the flat was lying at anchor opposite George's Pier, the steamer carelessly (as it was alleged,) ran against her and damaged her considerably. Itlappeared , appeared, however, from the evidence of the defence, that a long string of flats was lying anchored from opposite the sea-wall from Blackaller's Bank south ward to near the buoy opposite George's Pier, northward; so that the steamer could not get in without going round , a long way to south, or endeavouring to pass within the appli cant's flat and another not far from the buoy, where there was a wider space than between any of the other flats. In adopting the latter course, the space even there being cir cumscribed, the steamer came in contact with the applicant's flat, and hence the damage complained of. It was proved, however, that this flat, (as well as others,) contrary to the rules provided for the convenience of vessels coming to or leaving the basins or the sea-wall, was anchored inside the line of the two buoys which arc parallel with the wall; and that consequently thhoemcosmatplmainra. nAtswkaeswh,itmheselfatfault. harbour-master,This was proved by, amongs t others, a respectable boatman who li, t a u d ,th p t u o r n s , w ued his avocatio n on the river for fort y y ears.— Mr . consequently decided that the captain of the flat could not recover damages, and dismissed the complaint. He also gave instructions to the effect, that the police-officers on duty at the Pier-head, should look to the position of the flats, and on finding any of them within the buoys, give informa tion to the Pier-master, so that they might be fined. The regulation alluded to is painted on a board fixed at the pier, and masters of flats would do well to observe it in future. BIR.KENUEAD COMMISSIONERS.—A recent number of the Chester Chronicle, after some allusions to the multitudinous hills introduced session after session into parliament by the Birkenhead Commissioners for what they call the improve ment of the township, thus concludes some remarks on the k subject of an action tried at the late Chester Assizes, "We should have never thought of the thing, had it not been for \ ' the defence the commissioners set up at the late assizes, in ' bar of the claim of Mr. Cole , for work done under a contract 1 with them, entered into by their surveyor under their orders, : 1 and on their behalf, and which was proved to have been exe cuted dishonest we ever saw set un in a court of justice. It wa:.: altogether based on the wrong doings and illegal acts of the commissioners. We will just recapitulate a few of the points. First,—they objected' to the contract, though on a printed form supplied from their own office, because the terms were contrary to the statute, and also because the act directed that contracts should be executed by the cleric or three commis sioners, and contained no authority for the surveyor being the contracting party! Again,—that the street contracted to be made was not a street in the meaning of the act, and con sequently they had no authority to contract for its formation, paving, or soughing! Again,—that, by their own default, they could not reimburse themselves from the owners of the land, inasmuch as they (the commissioners) had not given the notice required by the act to such owners to do such work, the alternative being that only in case they do not do it, then only shall the commissioners proceed to do it; and consequently they were not legally bound to pay Mr. Cole These are sufficient to show that the real character of the defence was a sort of self-inflicted outlawry, which even the tender conscienced commissioners seem not ashamed of. Mr. Justice Maule very significantly expressed his opinion of the defence : and at the close, pithily said, " I'll take the points down, but in my opinion they amount to nothing: for you may add a good many 'nothings together, still they will only make nothing." They, however, amount to this, — that the Birkenhead Commissioners purposely drag trades men into what they fancy are illegal, and consequently in operative, contracts, with the view of playing fast or loose with them, just as suits themselves. We shall return to the subject again. We know no body of men that more require looking after than the Birkenhead Commissioners." CONIPLAINT AGAINST A PAWNBROKER.—On Wednesday a complaint was preferred at the Police-court, by a man of the name of John Finney, against Elias Moss, pawnbroker, Great Crosshall-street, for an overcharge of interest on arti cles pledged at his shop. Mr. Counsellor Venables appeared for the defendant, and requested that the whole of the wit nesses shoulc be ordered out of court, which was complied with by Mr. Rushton. The complainant stated that he was a clerk ; that on the 18th of March he went to Mr. Moss's shop, and tendered him a watch to pledge for £3, but on defendant refusing to lend that amount upon it, he offered another watch in addition ; and on the two, obtained the sum stated, bat from which a deduction of fid. was made for the ticket. (Mr. Rushton remarked, that the amount allowed by law was only 2d.) On Wednesday last he (witness) went to redeem the watches,' when £3. ls. was demanded, which he immediately paid; but on reaching the bottom of Great Crosshall-street, a boy followed him and tendered him some change in copper, which he refused to take. This witness was severely cross-examined by Mr. Venables, but without anything material to the case being elicited. He stated that he had been clerk, and also Sergeant in a regiment, and though he was now out of a situation, and had not been employed as clerk in a merchant's office, he considered him self 'competent to fill such a situation, and therefore entitled to that appellation. He denied that he had ever been a common informer, or that he had previously lodged an in formation against a pawnbroker. Dennis Quick, a labourer in the employ of the Gas Company, corroborated the latter part of the evidence against the defendant. Three witnesses —two of Mr. Moss's apprentices and a woman of the name of M'Avoy—were called for the defence, and two of them stated that 3d. in copper was offered to the complainant on his leaving the shop ; but in the evidence of the last examined, there was considerable discrepancy. Mr. Venables said, he hoped Mr. Rushton would dismiss the complaint. Mr. Rushton said, " I shall do no such thing : I shall convict the defendant in the full penalty of £lo.' Mr. Moss here re marked, "The decision is against both law and justice." Mr. Rushton : .",If you dare to repeat that, I'll fine . you £lO, and you shall not leave the court until it is paid..' After a pause, Mr. Rushton added, that when Mr. Moss first mentioned the case to him, on Saturday last, he (Mr. Rush ton) certainly thoughts it a hard one; for then Mr. Moss said, that immediately on his discovering the mistake, he sent the boy after the complainant; but from the evidence now before the court, it was proved that he (the defendant) was not himself present at the time. Mr. Venables then gave notice of appeal on behalf of his client. THE FEMALE ;PENITENTIARY.—The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of this excellent Institution, — the thirty-second since its commencenient,—was held yester day evening, at the Institution - house in Slater-street The attendance was pretty numerous, including a considerable .number of ladies. The chair was occupied by Mr. Charles ' R. Jones. Mr. Loxdale Eden read the report which was of an interesting nature. It stated that the number of peni tents happily restored to their friends, or placed in respecta ble service was twenty-five ,— fully the average number of for mer years. Accounts were also frequently received from in dividuals, now, in decent and creditable circumstances, who had years ago been inmates of the institution, and who ex pressed their grateful thanks to the conductors, for the be nefits they had received through its instrumentality. The only discouragement was the diminution of yearly subscrip tions and donations, partly owing to the pressure of the times, and partly to the decrease or removal of many valued friends and s ubscribers. The committee found it difficult to supply these chasms by new subscribers, unless more effectually.aided by the friends of the charity at large. They therefore called upon every individual io use every available influence to meet the emergency. The number of applicants in the house during the year (including those re mained as per last report) was 116, of whom there now re mained 57. The expenditure had been rather less owing to the reduction iu the prices of provisions. The support for each individual was about £7, being £2 less than last year. The sum of 1:354 had been received for work done by peni tents, a proof of the habits of industry inculcated. Tire ef forts of the committee had been zealously seconded by the Ladies committee, whose sersices were beyond all praise. The report concluded by a strong appeal to the friends of the institution and the public generally, and appended were given a number of cases in which its influence had been the means of reclaiming individuals from sin and misery, to stations of honesty and respectability. The treasurers' ac counts were then read, Dom which it appeared that the in stitution was considerably in debt, to the amount, indeed, of some nandduen distributedd o e ds. increase The agreed to ; that it be prin twhesubscribers ; and that efforts subscripti ons . R eso l u ti ons w e re stbeedmat ramongst thero e n fort st ts also agreed to appointing the usual committees, and also a committee to devise and prosecute the best means of re treinevtlienige the fin j a a ispeakers were th e f o llowing Rev. Lister, Dr. Jliff, F. P ar ry, S. Cragg, gentlemen:—James finances. The —Kelly, Cave Brown Cave ; Mr. Thomas Crook, &c, They made very eloquent and touching appeals in behalf of the institution, dwelling on the dreadful effects of the sin which it sought to reduce, and urging increased exertions. A general feeling seemed to prevail that the institution, and the benefit it was calculated to confer on the town were not sufficiently known, and an understanding was come to that the committee especially appointed to solicit for support, should do their utmost to enlist the sym pathies of the town for that purpose. The Rev. Mr. Cave gave in his name as a subscriber, and also the names of ten others. A subscription was also annonnced of ten guineas front his worship the Mayor. Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. DAMAGE TO A VESSEL.--Yesterday, at the Police-court, Captain Core, of the schooner Sovereign, appeared before Mr. Rushton, to claim injury done to his vessel,. the Sovereign, by one of the steam tugs ronning against her. He stated that on the 15th instant he went along side the wall at the entrance of the Brunswick Dock, waiting his turn to get in. By direction of the pier master he hauled a iittle astern from his first position, and remained there as ordered until after a ship had come out of the entrance in tow by the Blanch steam tug, when the Mona steam tug which had taken a po sition rather a-head of him came backwards towards him, ran against his vessel with one of her paddle-boxes, thrust her against the wall, and curried away a considerable length of her bulwarks and covering board on both sides. ' The Mona, he said, might have gone to the other side of the en trance out of the way. The repair of the damage had already cost £l2. The Steam-tug Company were ably defended by Mr. Peter Wright, who endeavoured to shew that the ship that was coming out being swung round by the strength of the tide had first run against the Mona, and from her against the Sovereign, and that the Mona was in her usual place when wanted to tug out vessels. It appeared, however, from further evidence and from the .cross-examination, that the Mona was at fanit in taking such a position in the way of the ship ; that she should have kept further astern as she might have have done ; and that even the captain of her, who was on the quay at the time, had said to the mate, who was in charge of her, as soon as he saw the conduct, " If you had backed as I told you this would not have happened !" This settled the case, and Mr. Rushton said the Steam-tug Com pany must pay the damage, but the vessel should be surveyed before a, person sent by each of the parties, and the amount assessed by Mr. Askew, the harbour-master, who was in court. The parties then left the court. - - GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.—A few weeks since we no ticed a very elegant silver candelabrum then on view in Mr. Doke's shop, Lord-street, and intended as a present to Sir Hugh Pallisser, Bart.. of Wexford, from his tenantry. We find by the Wexford Independent that this tribute of grati tude has been presented to the worthy Baronet, of whose benevolence that journal speaks in the highest praise. An address accompanied this testimonial, in the course of which the tenants say, " This lamp, which will be frequently burning on your table, will be emblematic of that ardent love, which glows in our hearts towards you, our kind and benevolent landlord—and we sincerely hope will tend to perpetuate be tween our children and your descendant, down to the latest posterity, that mutual friendship and good will, which should ever subsist between landlord and tenant." To this, Sir Hugh returned a very kind reply from which the following is an extract e—" The sentiments of affection and attachment you express for me are flattering in the highest sense of the word, and 1 sincerely trust and hope that my future conduct towards ycu all will be such as to increase (if possible) the love and affection that now so happily subsists between us. Since I came to Ireland I have had constant intercourse with you all ; and I am proud to say, that the better I know you, the more I am convinced that few landlords can boast of such a set of tenantry. Industry will ever have its reward , and such is your case; content and happiness reign in every house —long, very long may it continue. I must now refer to the beautiful present you have this day presented me with. But I find words inadequate to express the pride I feel when look ing at it. knowing, as I do, that it is the gift of affection, and as such, my friends and tenants, I accept the elegant piece of plate, with the liveliest feelings of gratitude, and with my most fervent prayer that health and happiness, and every comfort may attend von." IRON HorsEs.—We gave in our last a brief description of the iron palace now on view near the Custom-house, and intended for King Eyambo, one of the African Princes, on the Calabar river. The history of the building of this struc ture is as follows .—Sme time ago a handsome house of wood was sent out from this port, for the use of a rival Prince on the same coast, which, when erected, became, like the British constitution, the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the (African) world. On this, King Eyambo determined to be milli secundus in the accommoda tion of his royal self and his 320 wives, and resolved to have a palace built, superior not only to the wooden house, but to any thing ever seen on the coast of Africa. With this design, his Majesty gave the order for the house just com pleted by Mr. Laycock. - Unfortunately, the exchequer of King Eyambo, like that of a few other Princes who might be named, was not quite equal to the splendour of his de signs ; and lie was compelled to fix limits to the cost of the palace, which have rendered it impossible to construct it altogether of iron. A considerable quantity of wood has, in consequence, been introduced into the building. This is to be regretted, as it exposes his Majesty to the danger of being burnt out of house arid home by a chance spark, and to the certainty of being eaten out of it by the wood lice and white ants, which swarm in his dominions, as in all other tropical climates. We are glad to learn that there is a prospect of the experiment of iron structures being tried on a great scale in the West Indies. The French Government is now mak ing inquiries, and seeking estimates of the cost of rebuilding entirely with iron the unfortunate city of Point-ii-Pitre, in the island of Guadaloupe,lhr own down by the late earth quake, and afterwards utterly consumed by fire. It is said that one reason why wooden houses, though so much' safer in countries exposed to earthquakes, are so little used in the West Indies, is, that the rate of insurance upon them is so heavy as to render the expente unbearable. In some cases it am ounts to three per cent. per lIWRIIII, CORRESPONDENCE, THE FLAG AT THE TOWN-HALL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sru,—Having on several recent occasions observed, on the death of members of the Royal Family, that the Royal standard, hoisted lialf•mast over the portico of the Town ball, and also the flags on the church towers, have been torn almost to shreds by the wind, permit me to suggest to the authorities that flags of stronger texture, and rather smaller in size, should be provided for foul weather. The flag now flying at the Town-hall is of silk, and must have cost a very considerable sum. I know not whether it be a spare one or an old one ; but certain it is that the after-part of it is re duced to ribbons, and that its appearance is by no means creditable to the town. A smaller royal standard might be made of strong buntain (the worsted fabric used for flags in the navy and merchant service), and would be found, from its transparency, nearly as handsome as silk, and would at the same time stand "the tussle of a breeze much longer. The silk standard might then he preserved for high-days and holidays when the weather is fine. I would also suggest that the flags (in cases of mourn ing for some days) should be struck at sundown, a n d aga i n hoisted in the morning. At present they are left up all night, and are consequently sub jected to double tear and wear. I am, Sir, yours, &C., NAUTICUS. SIGNS OF THE Ti Ks —At a sale which took place the other day at Trade s t on Of th e household furniture, horse, cart, &c. of a carte r , t h e h orse ,(we are told rather a working animal,) sold for f our shillings anil , eigh t p ence ; the cart, wheels, .and axle fo r e i g h t s hilli ng s ; and the household fur. n!ture for six shillin gs an d sixpence,—tuaking a total of nineteen shillings and twopence ! The expense s of the sale were not less than three ' pounds, and the preferable taxes payable by the landlord one pound fourteen shillings : 1 gow Paper. -Glee THE DISTRESS IN PAISLEY .—The h i g hest number of people on the Paisley re li e f l i st was 14,791 ; this was on the 11th, of November, 1842. The n umber on the list this (last) week is 835. The relief committee at their meeting on Thurs day last came to the resolution that their distribution of pro. visions to the unemployed should cease on Saturday, the 29th instant. The total number of men on the relief list this week is 70. This includes still a few plain weavers, but the greater part of them are dyers, and other trades which have not yet partaken of the improvement,—Caledonia4 Mercury. GREAT PUBLIC MEETING, TN LIVERPOOL, IN FAVOUR OF THE FACTORIES' EDUCATION BILL. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a great public meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool was held in the Royal Amphitheatre, for the purpose of receiving and adopting a petition to the Houses of Parliament, in favour of the bill brought forward by government for the extension of religious education in the manufacturing districts. The spacious edifice was completely filled, and never did we observe within its walls a more•en- thusiastic and unanimous auditory. Among those on the platform we observed, among others, the following clergymen and gentlemen :—Revs. Rector Campbell, H. M`Neile, C. W. Lawrence, F. Ould, J. R. Connor, H. Hampton, J. Cordeaux, W. Rawson, S. Boutdower, A. Knox, F. Parry, W. Maynard, W. Butler, B. A. Marshall, W. J. Purdan, Hughes, Bailey, W. Dwyre, W. Bush, Etough, W. Bromilaw, T. Gardner, Green, W. W. Ewbank, E. Jones, S. Cragg, T. Bold, Dr. Tattershall, Dover, D. James, Higgins, Irwine, W. Falloon, R. Davies, W. A. Cane, E. Stokes, T. Carter, A. M'Conkey, Whitley, W. Badham, Radnall, Walker, Mallinsan ; J. B-Moore, Esq., C. Turner, Esq., J. Aspinall, Esq., S. L. Trotman, Esq., J. A. Tinne, Esq., J. B. Lloyd, Esq., D. Hodgson, Esq., A. Hod gson , E sq ., T. B. Horsfall. Esq., . . W. Jones, Esq., C. Inman, Esq., P. P. Glazebrook, Esq., B. Moore, Esq., R. W. Preston, Esq., J. Rigby, Esq., C. • . Boutflower, Esq., E. Jones, Esq., 3. Robertson, Esq., J. Howard, Esq., J. Sheppard, Esq., T. Carson, Esq., W. Birkett, Esq., J. Booker, Esq., C. Cotesworth, Esq., J. Edwards, Esq., S. Sandbach, Esq., J. S. Leigh, Esq., R. A. Payne, Esq., C. Ironside, Esq., J. Tyrer, Esq., S. John son, Esq., F. Shand, Esq., J. Leyland, Esq., D. Waterhouse, Esq., Ackers, Esq., J. Parker, Esq., J. Pownall, Esq., J. Plumpton. Esq., LBrocklebank, Esq., J. 11. Webster, Esq., W. Maples, Esq., J. Middleton, Esq., R. J. Roper, Esq., Richard Sanders, Esq., T. Brassey, Esq., Dover, Esq., John Wilkinson, Esq., R. Woodward, Esq., G. Langtry, Esq., Batty, Esq., R. Sherlock, Esq. On the motion of Mr. DAVID IlooosoN, seconded by Mr. J. A. TINNE, EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esq., Chairman of the Education Committee of the Town-council, was unanimously called to the chair. Mr. MOLYNEvx, on assuming the chair, was received with loud and general cheers. He said that in accordance with the wishes of the meeting he had the honour and pleasure to take the chair. (Cheers.) He considered it a great honour and privilege to be placed in that situation. (Hear.) The object of the meeting was, that the friends of Scriptural Education might have an opportunity of expressing their sentiments in approbation of the measure which Sir James Graham had brought forward for the religious education of children in the manufacturing distrists. (Hear, hear.) It would be useless for him to attempt to enter into the details of the measure, as ether gentlemen would address the meet ieg on that subject who were more competent to do it jus tice. (Hear, hear.) The Chairman read a letter from the Rev. Frederick Barker, expressing his regret at being un able to attend the meeting, but authorising his signature to be appended to the petition ; after which he called upon the mover of the first resolution. The Rev. AUGUSTUS CANIPDELL, Junior Rector of Liver pool, then stepped forward, and amidst great cheering proceeded to move the resolution. The rev. gentleman spoke nearly as follows. Mr. Chairman, although totally un fitted by want of health and want of inclination to address such a meeting as this, still I feel constrained, by the un speakable importance of the measure which has broueht us together, to come forward and propose the first resolution. I come forward, Sir in a spirit of perf ec t c h ar ity w ith a ll men, anxious to avoid every expression of offence, and ani mated solely by a fervent desire to promote the interests of that people in whose service I am employed as a minister of the Gospel. (Cheers.) And surely, Sir, it is impossible for any man, who has this desire uppermost in his mind, to con template the state of the manufacturing classes without the deepest sorrow and alarm ; it is impossible, I think, for any one who prays for the peace of his native land, to look upon the picture which Lord Ashley has drawn of its moral disorder with so skilful a hand, and not to feel, that we may be figu ratively said to stand, as it were, upon the breast of a volcano ready to burst around our feet in awful conflagration. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, the remedy for this state of moral disorder is education (cheers ;) but I believe that no effective system of education can be established in the manufacturing dis tricts but by the Goverment, and that the Government must make it, to a certain extent, compulsory. (Hear.) All hope of educating the manufacturing population upon the volun tary system, has hitherto failed, and I believe will continue to fail. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I think the experience of half a century, of more than half a century, I may say, has proved this to demonstration; but, then, Sir, the education thus nationally undertiken by a Christian governinent must he a Christian education—(hear, hear)—recognising the au thority of the Christian revelation, and based upon the im mutable Word of God. (Loud cheers.) The self-styled " poor man's friend" offers him consolation under the mise ries of this life, by robbing him of every hope and expecta tion of a better; and stimulates him to improve his condition in this world by the plunder of factories and the burning of parsonage-houses. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, it is necessary he should be trained up as a child in better lessons than these —in that religion which alone teaches every roan, whatever his condition may everywhere be, to be content—which in structs the rich man how to be abased, and the poor man how to abound. Here unfortunately our difficulties bed's — difficulties consequent upon our religious divisions ; I sup pose, however, we must not complain too loudly, because I fear they are the necessary consequence of that religions freedom which we prize so dearly, and which we cannot re sign. (Cheers.) Some would get rid of those difficulties in a very summary way—that is, by excluding Christianity from the business of the school, and by only permitting it to be taught upon the voluntary system, by the ministers of reli gion if they choose to teach it, and to the people if they choose to learn it. (Hear.) Now, sir, I hope to God that no Christian Government will ever sanction such a scheme as this. (Cheers.) I hope that no Christian Government will sanction anything but a Christian education, based upon the Word of Gon. (Cheers.) And here the conflict arises be tween those who claim a monopoly of influence for the established church, and those who would give the established • church no influence at all. In answer to those who would claim a monopoly of influence for the established church, I would venture to say, with humble deference to their judg ment, and with the profoundest respect for their conscienti ous convictions, that if the government in the national schools provide for the teaching of God's holy word in that authorized version which it yeeogpizes to be the true one, and provide for the teaching of the children of the church, in the principles of the church, and give the clergy a sufficient L influence in the managernentof the schools, and provide, for the exclusion of error, for the appointment of schoolmasters that belong to the established church, it does all that is con sistent with the principle of •religious toleration, and all, I . humbly think, that the Bible requires. (Cheers.) The human mind must have liberty in all religious matters, and ought to have liberty • and, certainly, any att empt to destroy that liberty w ill introduce evils much greater than any that can be remedied by authorised uniformity. (Hear, hear.) The question to be resolved is this— may the civil government assist in the education of those who do not belong to the Established Church? That the Bishop of Exeter, if he is rightly reported, in the debate in the House of Lords, upon the sth of July, 1839, answers—That the government may so assist in the education of those who do not belong to the Established Church. (Hear.) " If I am asked," he says, " whether the state is generally to assist in the education of persons who do not belong to the church recognised by the state, I will answer most readily ; I think it right the state should give such assistance; but if I am asked whether the state should give aid, especially in the way of teaching doctrines which the church believes to be false to religion, then I say, with equal candour, the state would depart from its first duty if it dared to do so." (Hear, hear,) The Archbishop of C an t er b ur y i s repor t e d to h ave said, upon the same occasion, " I would not be understood to say that consideration ought not to be had for those who religiously dissent from the Established Church." (Cheers.) If, then, the state establishes schools, excluding error, but providing for the sufficient teaching of the truth in God's holy Word, and calls upon me as a clergyman to come in and instruct the children belonging to the church, I do not see how I can conscientiously refuse, even although dissenters are admitted into the schools and not obliged to learn the catechism. (Hear.) And, besides, I would venture to insinuate to those who are most anxious to make dissen ters learn the catechism, although I would use this argument cautiously, because I know it will cut both ways—l say I would venture to insinuate to those, that one of the best ex. pedients for inducing dissenters to learn the church cate chism is to tell them they need not learn it unless they please. (Hear.) John Bull, particularly a dissenting John Bull, is that sort of person that if you tell him he must do such a a thing, he has a great propensity to say he won't (laugh ter); therefore, if you say to him that his child must learn the catechism, ten to one he would gay "he shan't." (Re newed laughter.) But if you tell him the catechism is a very good thing, that though called popish, it really is not popish, and you wish be would learn it; you wish he would allow his child to learn it; but if he won't you can't help it, and you will not complain, the probability is, he will allow you to teach it him. (Cheers.) Again, if I am told, if I as a clergyman am told that I am bound to " banish and drive away all strange and erroneous doctrines," and therefore I cannot go into the school unless I am permitted to force my own doctrines upon all the children of the school ; to that I would reply, that really the best way of " driving away strange and erroneous doctrines," and making the true doc• trine acceptable to the people, is by gentleness, and kindness, and forbearance, and charity ; by persuading them, in fact, to accept the truth, and not attempting to force it upon then. (Hear, hear.) I know it is prophecied of that Blessed Saviour in whose footsteps I am commanded to walk, he was neither to strike nor to drive, nor to lift up his voice in the streets • and I know he was never tempted to anythi ng th a t savoured of the appearance of violence, except upon one occasion, when he drove indignantly and ignominiously from the temple those who had turned it into a den of thieves; and I think it becomes us, as far as we possibly can, to.imi tate his example, and never to employ force when we can, by any possibility, succeed by persuasion. -Here, sir, I really believe is the secret of half the opposition which is raised to this'Government measure. There are some people who are very much afraid of proselytism, and' who think that too great an advantage will be given to the church by the ad mission, the authoritative admission, of the clergy, into these schools ; but this, sir, I must maintain, is a fear to which Government ought not concede, because, I do not thine it is a fear in which the people will sympathize. (Hear.) I do not believe that the people are afraid of the teaching of the church, or the presence of a clergyman ; I believe that the people, generally speaking, are very much afraid of Popery— (loud cheers)—and my friend Mr. M'Neile takes very good care that that fear shall notslumber in their bosoms. (Cheers and laughter.) If the people are told that the catechism is popish, and the clergy teach popish doctrines, then I think they will be very shy of hearing the catechism or listening to, the teachings of the clergy ; and I shall not be one to blame them tor their shyness; but, sir, the fact is this, the catechism is not • popish, the clergy do not preach popish doctrines; therefore, I do not see why the government should not recommend the teaching of the church to the people. If compulsion is not to be. sed, apd if the people choose volun tarily to come to the teaching of the ,churcte then I say that that is proselytism, which the government, so far from dis couraging, are bound to encourage; it is a preSeletisna of persuasion, and not of force, and one to which I say no one has a right to object, whatever his religious and political opinions may be. (Hear.) Besides, sir, with regard tb this part of the subject, as has been well argued in the Spectator, a -journal generally favourable to the people—and here I might leave the question—" the regulations of the bill put the entire controul of national education into the hands of government, which is responsible to the people. A majority of the local trustees are appointed from the justices who are appointed by the responsible government; the inspectors are appointed by government; the Committee of Privy Council have power of check over the regulations, thereby ensuring liberty of conacience; the system must be worked by the mi nisters,of the gag ; the ministers of the day must conform to the sense of the House of Commons, and the House of Com mons is elected .by the people," What more, then, need be done to insure a popular system of education? (Hear, hear.) I do hope and tsust, therefore, that the friends of the people will all unite in supporting this system—(loud cheers)---not as a perfect system, bAcause that As itovossible, However, for elearnea, and for eenv e pience In L 1 four hea lsoo3loo, it may be proper to present them to )ou under ds. (Hear, hear.) First,—The advocates of general knowledge without re perfect IL I opinion, and the present state of human the present state of I m t m rust, that the clergy will but the system is as 1 earnestly hope, and I may say,than infirmity will public government on this momentous question. (Hear.) : • do all they can to co-operate withl am sure that they will do hope they will take care that their l e r a e r ) well—a n di in nothing but what their consciences the government more formed—that they do not exact tro n exact ; s a o l U p s r c o ie v r e i consciences hope and trust -‘ that the go other baud I do most sincerelyand upon the than the Bible cow mends them to m moved by the violence tinned cheer)—that they will !gilt satisfy—(renewed _ (reaewed cheers) yen-intent upon their side will be r —(great and long con of those whom no coneesson will ver y will satisfy, short of —whom, I say the violence of any hear.) I hope they will not be moved as will compel the the entire dest i r ' i o ectro l l i i ce or i t o l l l ‘' e . s a ta le b e l d ie h hed church. (Hear, such men, to make such concessions p , sir, they will not be government schools. (Hear.) o e from giving to the clergy, as a matter of conscience, hope, refuse to enter into the doctrines, that influence in church, her ministers, and her are entitled to demand. prevented by any intimidation whate ver . _ the government schools which . they r confidence to the pro it became her, trusting in respect.o • (Loud cheers.) The church, sir, hiherto . has been silent as tection of a christian government, but though silent she has and willing to obey the powers that arc ordained of God ; not slept, and if she is roused, she will speak in a voice that must and will be heard. (Tremendous cheers.) I will now sir, brin g my observations to a close. I can assure you it was with the greatest possible reluctance that I consented to appear at this meeting, because I am fully conscious of the febleness with which I have been obliged to propose this resolution, (cries of " No, no,") and of my inability to do it justice; but, sir, I was most earnestly requested to give to this meeting that-small sanction which my situation in the town enables me to give, (hear, hear,) and I could not con scientiously refuse. (Cheers.) It is a question, sir, upon which I feel most deeply ; because I believe that upon the skilful and religious management of it, the safety of this great empire may in some measure be said to depend. (Hear, hear.) I therefore am afraid to trust my feelings, to say all I should be disposed to say upon the occasion, lest should try my own weakness and your patience too long. (No, My heart, I. can assure you, is warm within me ; and no.) if I were to allow the fire to kindle, I do not know how long it might burn. (Hear.) I will therefore conclude . these few observations, again apologisiag for the feebleness with which I have advocated the question, and thanking you for the patience with which you have listened to me. (H ear.) I have one word more to say, which is, simply, to express my anxious hope that this, which is the cause, I believe, of God's truth, will be argued without any acrimony, and with that meekness and gentleness which its truth deserves. (The rev. gentleman was loudly cheered on resuming his seat.) Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, amidst much applause, rose to se cond the resolution. He said, although Mr. Chairman, our worthy rector has said everything upon the subject of this resolution which the object of it may scent to require, or its importance demand, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of making one or two observations upon the great question of Scriptural education, which is maintained i n th e reso l u ti on . (Hear, hear.) No one, I think, who has read the proceedings of the House of Commons,—who has read the d e t a il s o f the fearful state of demoralization in our manufacturing districts, can hesitate for one moment in saving that any government which has the slightest paternal regard for the people, is in duty bound to bring forward some remedy f or thi s crying evil. (Hear, hear.) Sir, it was a source of great satisfac tion, certainly to me, to read the proposition of Sir Jas. Gra ham, and to see that proposition received, as it were, with almost unanimity by the House of Commons. (Applause.) Sir, we received that proposition in the spirit in which it was offered. (Hear.) We always, we must, perhaps, as Church men say, wished to have gone a little further upon some points ; yet, as Christian men, we accept it; we received it as a harbinger of peace and good will ; but Sir, if there be those who are determined it shall not be so received, if there are those who being. continually opposed to Scriptural Education, and who are still opposed to this measure,—then, sir, I say it is time we should not be content with simply defending what is good in this bill, but we may even ask for more where we think it is deficient. (Loud cheers.) I am not sir, one of those to whom the rector has alluded, who would insist upon an exclusive and an entirely church system ; but I agree, sir, I hope with all in this building. when 1 say I trust we should offer the most uncompromising opposition to every bill which did not require the , grailing of the unneutilated, una dulterated Word of God.-- {Long-continued .cheers.) We are met, sir, and this proposition was met by the House of Commons by a most uncommon argument, or rather asser tion, namely—" Give the people secular education, and reli gious instruction will follow ; and one will induce the other." (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, I maintain we have no more right to expect that a child, or a man, can become religious without religious instruction than a man can act upon scientific principles without any knowledge of science. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Give to your children secular in struction if you please ; we are advocates of secular instruction, but we say give them, at the same time, religious instruction also. (Cheers.) Give to your children secular education without religious instruction, and you give them power without the principle to guide it; give your children secular instruction without - religions instruction, and you send them forth to. combat with all the difficulties of this world, with the name of Christian warriors, it is true, but you rob them of the shield of faith, the helmet of . salvatiop, and the sword of the spirit. (Great Cheering.) Give your children secular instruction without religion, arid you send them forth to tread the dark and dreary ways of this world, without that guide which is their own—which is given them to be " a lamp to their feet," and " a light to their path ;" (cheers)—you send them to dig in the mines of lead and of copper ore, while the rich vein of gold remains untouched; — (renewed cheers)—you profess to educate them for usefulness in this world—to stand behind the counters of ycur shop's, or at the stalls in your markets, but you forget to teach them, to your own cost and to their ruin, that " a false balance is an abomination to the Lord ;"—(continued cheering)— you educate your children in the wisdom of this world which must pass away, but you neglect to educate them, in the wisdom of that world which must endure. T for ever. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He who advocates secular instruction without religion, I contend, begins at the wrong end. They say, " Give secular instruction first;" but we have a higher authority which says, "-The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," th e f ear o f the. Lord is th e be ginning o knowledge. (Cheers.) And, 'sir, I would only observe, in conclusion, that whilst we oppose any system such as secular instruction without religion, let us join most cordially, not only in supporting the bill now before parlia ment, but in supporting every measure which is likely to inculcate this ; Christian principle on the rising generation, which shall enable them to stand forward, and to fight and contend against all the difficulties of this world, and clad in which, they will be clad in more than Spartan armour to contend for the faith, and, if needful, to die in its defence. (Great cheering.) The resolution was then put from the chair, and Carried unanimously. The Rev.. Hume WNEILE then rose to move the second resolutiOn. The rev. gentleman was greeted with enthu siastic cheers, after which he proceeded—Sir, I rise to-move that this meeting feel a public expression of their sentiments upon the subject of the Factories' Education Bill, a debt they owe to her Majesty's government, and that approving of the bill they agree to the following petition in-favour of it : " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament adsembled. " The humble petition of the undersigned Clergy, Bankers, Merchants, Tradesmen, and other Inhabitants of the borough of Liverpool, SIIEWETH, " That your petitioners feel deeply the duty under all cir cumstances, and, under the existing circumstances of this country, the urgent necessity of extending Scriptural educa tion amongst all classes of the people. " That they, therefore, rejoice in the determination of her Majesty's government, as announced in the Factory Bill now before parliament, to establish schools for the children of the poor in the factory districts. " That they have witnessed with touch concern the oppo eition which has been loudly, b.ut, as they think, unreasonably, expressed against the proposed system.for the regulation and management of those schools—an opposition resting. for the most part on arguments , and assertions which are as available against the existence of an Established Cnurch e as they are against the proposed schools. " That in consequence of such opposition your petitioners feel a public expression of their sentiments to be a duty which they owe to her Majesty's government, and that, approving as they do of the place assigned to the Sacred Scriptures in that system, and of the recognition of the Established Church as the official trustee for the education of the people, they implore your honourable house to carry the bill, as printed, through the committee, without allowing any such alteration in the educational clauses as would at all impair the scriptural character of, the plan, or of its management under the pastoral care of the Established Church. " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." . (Loud cheers.) Sir, proceeded the rev. gentleman, when we assembled in this piece a few years ago upon the subject of Scriptural Education, it was in - an exercise of self defence, for the protection of -our own schools. We are to-day as sembled in an exereise'of Christian sympathy on behalf of the schools of others. I am reminded, sir, by your presence, and by the office which you have the honour to hold in the Education Committee of the Town Council, of the success which attended our efforts for our own schools. (Cheers.) We repudiated the system introduced by your predecessors in office, because it appeared to us to be dishonouring to the Word of our God, and therefore injurious to the highest and most enduring interests of our fellow men (hear, hear) ; and we have established one in its stead which, while it exalts Divine Revelation above ail the prejudices, pretences, and objections of men, and recognises the church in es tablished connection with the state, does at the same time refrain from forcing upon any dissenters the peculiar doctrines or discipline of that church. (Cheers.) In doing this we did well; and her Majesty's Government have now given practical proof that they think ;we did well. (Cheers.) They have proposed, as you have heard, a system of education for certain districts of the country where such interference is most required; and in the important article of religious instruction their plan is, substarstially, identical with ours. (Hear.) A distinguished member of the Govern ment did indeed give us reason to suppose that would be so when, at the opening of the Collegiate Institution lie ex pounded his own views upon the subject with a classic sim plicity and elegance of expression only equalled by the scrip tural fidelity of the sentiments he expressed. (Cheers.) Sir, the Government measure is of course open to the scru tiny, the criticism, and the comment of the nation. (Hear.) I say of course, because it is our happiness to live not under a despotiSm which ,carries measures upon the mere impulse responsiblese f n t o hta itself.that so m( oc much erlae fststueo(Cheers.) she„ by of individual caprice, without the consultation of differing minds, and the consequent modifications of political wisdom ch bTwr ruler ere u ho i h i af d ans e t popula r r ihbrele a teeoriial itggiioevn,t nsfaoa G troi o o anh v f e oda r oie n rot meoerxremeandmit determines examination en the opponents of the Government, the opponents of though still n h s of the church in her present mild, and forbearing, faithful character ; the opponents of the Bible ; the of t era of society,true t r h d o e order andpp oopponents subordination n a a l t l i on privilegesainong l o t e w v h a i cr they° petiti l on e v iere, so selves do not share--all these join in one ) loti A d s c e ry s 1, hostility not of they against the measure. (Hear, hear, hear. in this town, they have carried petition after are now obtaining signature s to those petitions ix: only, but, as I am credibly informed, of school boysofal'snoe.—° (hear)—in order to swell the appearance of opposition bill. Sir, the town in the great mass of its respectable Music-haoTltrhiene. lation why, look here in the middle of the day popu. inendous cheering.) They talk of filling the the evening, • when work is over, when it cost nobody any thing to go—but look here i n t h e middle of the d it will cost all these men so me thi ng to attend! (Renewed cheers.) The town, I say, and the mass of its respectable population, in an overwhelMing majority of its parliarnentar and municipal constituencies, is i n f avour of the great princi! ple involved in the educational clauses of this bill. (Hear, and cheers.) This is not a matter of doubtful opinion • but this is a statementof undoubted history. (Hear.) 'beyy have shewn thetuselyee so .! Ecee Signum I (Gre a t c h eering.) I think an oppoetuniterOf giving public expression to their sentiments should have been afforded them a fortnight or three weeks ago, a nd I must take the liberty of seying, th at the delay has not been my:fault. I hOpe that, i n t h e mean time, her Majesty's government will not heve mist a k en , either here or elsewhere, the voice Of a party, and of a comp arat i vely small party, for the vog. • .e of the nation (cheers); and I h o p e they will not be induced, w hen they go into committee upon Commons, to make any such alter bill in the House of the ecclesiastical clauses, rations or modifications in the as scriptural character, or ecclesiastical will impair - the e eat measure. (Hear, hear.) Sir, a management, f 13- oppositionthis great w hich has been made to this mea sure of the curious field for classification, if, indeed, it sure presents a the genera and species of the divers be possible to classify been exhibited in unnatural uni on . have denominations which of moral. vt l't' ligion. Secondly,—The advocates of reaso4abl , out any cramming or mvsteriou -, di 0 11 t • moardeepityhe.;:bsee A VWCE.—Puseyistn ! (Cheers.) tire l\ s l e r rit i ly l that the division of a subject is one of the roost itopor, Di :NE (C m h K ee .— rs T i i ( sie it i t i v a g t i ie ,te tc r e .) , . il l I will come to that_ parts of it, and that wan has stoppl.:dov';;.ev(erl:imognhelek:4"77' must therefore beg . n the list again. (Hear.) _re ,. . , First,—The ad% orates of general Aurotriedie without 'igloo. Secondly,—The advocates of reasonable de &pont, wi th " out any cramming of mysterious dogniis. creeds—' Thirdly,—'The advocates of equa/iiy mizong all ‘ c / .. i ,: 0 , 1 (Some confusio.t were took mace ;., the ~ !, ' l l' l ll* / •nvidi am describing them right—(Lie• h e ous preference or persecuting 1 artiality, or i an s, Y ,t 6 D iti g iood• attempt to distinguish betwetu truth anu .-- - (Cheers.) . T 1 all FourthlY,—Those who substantially : gree r u t f r .l o i m: t u_ e : All and among one another, as to the particular enactor UI more abstract questions; but I—lsolvdtiliffie of this bill. (Cheers.) . in MO° Sir, are in the field together, ril ' Allg lin ''' - ' c intricate their abstract. theories with their practical oni___ t te i %n e s e t ; u i a n i one enlighten seri t et i i i c i e ; nt and rationalizing tli e beoanuttihees suhli citifies 0 . 1. . ti n _ part cit . without religion •, and in the next, combatthag the i s lar manner in which Sir Jarnes Graham Proposes to conn_tly tute the board else trustees for the tnanagement o f the., t e ht , schools : in on ntence taking scientific flights iii all it i i s le o s b s v o io r u a s po tl l l i a t t ica th l pride of a modein Icarus in an aerial steam carriage--VB_urit. t te le r i —and in the next, crawling upon the earth in all th;•ii., fr , one endeavouri stage, class of these objectors will not appear to have anY direct ea espaercgiaulmpelenatdscirl.ece(sGsarre;tt cheers.) II ' plication to another class, and vice versa' ; rind, therefore, 1 tig"tu answer them seriatim, WC must, -- each 44 while grappling- with what sonic have fe t el i, be liable to the charge of wandering from wha t t aces - to ef b i a e in t i l r i i e g tqlifeensltiinonte;r—ru(phteieanr: bear)—therefore, l° entreat your • little r • ' . patience in this matter; a little indulg_: far asl can,,to go through the whole four. (Cheers.) note $ Now, Sir, as a specimen of the first class, 1 beg to. ( I,. vere d passage or two from a speech reported to have been ae' l , ec t ata.uneeting held last week in this town, in ,Paradise-a 1.., I ,7, o ls, t iy, s st a tei l i i , Chapel. (Hear hear.) The speaker is reported to have I ° l ' , " It was a melancholy fact, that the greatest obstacle at Or P reset' ( nLo e m a e r n i t to nationtil education was afforded by the religion of riot , d t hiseoun tr t , earl ) t1 It was_ most melancholy to reflect that if rel l b, „;,il4 , into the minds of the people. • . • l o t i f l .) t ii b rl e r " a i ;! , : i tiiii:niii.:,:vist(i; instruction ~,,l , : , s e h jo i c i ri o ,.. a , , i i, n i d ti: d ,c . u t i i i , iiiiiotryel.:ntiwhatevereoll:riaide o i ht d y e l'airn)vitel°ossueoirrni'' blessing ~,elopnifnt ith- And again he said— Iv re D ot w a s the na ~ there not something monstrous in the thought 7 to an e to fi ot something shocking in the thought of religion struggling ; trun'ep to with of the peopar)—religion interfering t war .knowledge—faith in God, aml Christ made the .ps he peo ple., prevent the spread of humanizing instruction avaungst.t._,ool,ll (Hear, hear.) In that meeting, and in that place, he inporof yr to say that it was their (Mr. Martineau s) d istia n c i iOl l ' vit4 t did t hat theirs was a Christianity which could never be found in c ° ,:„ — t s , opf,°;'; the highest interests of society ;it never could be brouglu, ion bolt with the benign agency of instruction ; theirs was a r " lg the eju' never c,,uld be found opposed to the best hope of the countrY ca.;ioll of the people." 1 dge 85 NOW, sir, it may be f a irly a s k e d w hat is that ka ow-e stre et is laid ? That humanising contradistinguished from religion upon which so rotleb__ o te thenrY e b o ol the highest interests of mankind ? A favourite the . religionists, or the dogmatists I should say, of thislgo• to so , is, that nature teaches everything that man requite s knowledge which would Pr°'lot both for his needful instruction and for the protection of tbst Fiety as a mass. They say that nature teaches religio,o4-:000 it gives religious instruction. Another s peaker at of de' meeting is reported to have said, when speaking 0 scho ols' graded system of education in the Corporation which he very much approved of— with tbe.01,(11: pious kelings of individuals ; they _ . " In Ulf; Corporation Schools there was no interference ,-_,.....,,, ee, ously instructed, aye, in the line of secular education, buot*Tcatil...,:' eurrence of all parties,— with the avowed concurrence 1 . . ' av d car clergy ; they were taught the ldetory of tie holy Lan u ', e it ud, a o „ u ar , other branches of knowledge necessary for the Christian , * Id . (0` better taught than mitny of those whom he now addressv were instructed,—theY . I .‘f i he cof. near.) s They were instructed, religious) instructed , in the hi sew' and geog ra phy o f t h e h oly lam!. y Upon the concluding' s al the children tence of this quotation from Mr. Ratlibone's sPee ell . e ' 01 4 unwilling to comment—icae hear) —he says' e un ti tb 3u many of those he then addressed, I have some childrenl‘l!° l'e of the modicum of informationd b the oo f possessc Y ,,„ in the schools,.' they were better tauPriedge his sayings, they describes, but 1 have no means of estimating the -, - g h e e ers. ) , information possessed by a meeting Of Unitarians. 0'10(10 .I\l. Rathbone ought to know them, and as they aPi' ade in f,,re e are parallel ; theorl. his assertion. (Laughter and cheers.) Sir, the 4 scrip' thi..d there cannot be offended at us if we Ni t "' of tor -, school is, that the book of nature and the book o the same they, they must teach the same lesson " 311 0 14 511 aine end. Having laid down this first propost_nee t, the mistaken the assertion for the proof of it, they au!;`,"..eo of they came from the same hand, al ici d to allie second. It is found, as a matter of fact, that chil . " ; for t., _ denominations of people can read the book of nag them' divisions are occasioned, therefore they say it 15 nature' Whit national education to confine it to the book Of o r'' a lmey read together. Now, sir, the very fact of so . i ese t oo able a differeuce being produced in. the study of t% ie aou' t books might have induced the notion that possibly their thef,, are are not parallel—that iossibl as a matter of l' id, bo are not parallel, True they ' caMeyfrom the same h 3l e ford the book of nature has received damage shie e it l ea : curb° that Hand ; a disaster has fallen upon it ', a s"' e ,,.• o ri rese u ,. " hear, • hear.)' has been ronounced upon it, and accordinalY " rfkles,',', The grand everywhere mystery which no w h e re it explainhev 017 mystery is . .,.. ii e a es 0 of learnin the 1 • ovine, amiable, and mero" class hand of God from • . nature, and the speak of the various. to , life, and the enjoyment of livingcreatures under createol're' • death. ;ract e f , liv i n g A ove r hut, sir, how come , it to pass that all these die? If life be a'M ilk Clkindness a nd I itthe Great Creator, ' Of a whatgol)sddneeastshaan in ark ? • ( , 13 aa ; bo 1 5. . e be good to give life, is - it good to take it away • the aiiii: Iji ~ then, that takes away life? Death is spread overture lithe f n a o c t e of creation ; all nature cries out death ; b ut le 1 34 „ - r explain why thereshould (Ele not nod be death.; z $ Bible explains • it • it ; is given from the same ba nd) ' c iaho' n 'ig the same • disaster, but for the very par pose o f pro vphi too d remedy for the disaster ; for the P P . se °f e. • arl ' very putlT , , e cl us , they the therefore, they do not teach the same lesson' t,'''" i i hot gro cannot lead to the same end. iiak ledge„ ° i, t tst a ne a to man victory over the world in /O t t ints"rafYi"" carePSP-tnete around him ? What knowledge is it that gives , e s— r it s otici- 4g rector was saying just now, to the - r wa ll a-- Ag ain ) poor ant i t ige the r ich against despondency, and to richthe self-s uffieieneY? What knowledge m it n that m ek rnkf il"Y of man give cheerfully, and the isreceive t- a ' a tbo ( poor man ,_ ers p,_, r , o What knowledge is •it that sweetens the to" m enu' i s he society in this world, and prepares the various, who . 0g them for a better society in'the world -to COrne',.., not k el p that overcometh the world—overcometh . the w on. , o ld • re overcome by it? Who is th the 11 0 11 he that overcome dal bo it he describethatcan the orbits of the planets, i . 5 it 11 to .. the distances ' of the fixed stars ? Not tit all. ''' 'Ol4 t art o can analyse the various substances and clasiify the v ea rth• t its d at lons that are to be found u on the face of toe n o:10 w ' all. Is it he who fi d* P ' b his c- 0 5 ' fin din onefossil bone, Y ,te- I be 'Anatomy can construct the whole - skeleton of a:, Is' A " fi e. ,or, as he thinks, an ti-Adamic beasts? Not at 81R odr e 7;18 6 who, cultivated in all the niceties, and tlelicaeies,by $ "" a t hocke u Not t merits; 'of classical literature, " has his ears 6 d ? tha t ure, o __ or _,_ , quantity, and his taste outraged by a false c nu ? tiv orki • cheer ll l all. But who is 1 he that overcometh the w d , ( to believeth that Jesus Christ is die Son of (4 ,.? ? l ot e rboa t We are ment. not prepared, then, to hearken to tu e ,aae, ' lt ps eri ioned, of the advocates of general se c ondknoi passe religion.o lo ,_ Now, sir as a specimen of the , t i o o,P t her I mentioned, f will read the following resell' 0 togeoi at ss another meeting held in town few daYs a g 'a se this a bee with a few comm ' reported to hav e ents upon it, by the mover :— 1 0 ' 1 ' le, P l .l,or fr the peoP ot , 0:0 "1. That 11114 meeting regards the edneation of a nion intellectual, intelle ' inorc.l, and rel •object of P ar ,' igious, as au ance.'' . „ 4 ., 0 0 The comment is this— . 0 0°7041 interests necossity of such a declaration showed tpi , d , a V e :,:b i k. c.P,I est nth of the country were placed by the nlet's 4 ,',.r n iiilat t elT:,:,;) , clay convened to oppose. The resolution cOns -, t he Pr" 00 e,e'tt I, s y ‘ s v t .i c i a c l i „ intellectual, moral . , and religio.ns edueationcd_ tot, e rn -- 0 ( e l ni l m i ii i ,, lie . eonecived to be the culture of the nl a ,;tise V e rie s io ,l, schools ehools ; t ' , ' . i :l ;.. o! , !t it ith certain dogmas, as w 39 11 • W '•!Lble ra°C al e l'i tt lY tin:: l enient the Chairman adarerted as nalsel t ; itur e of . oo,), re e drawing out it.: l , n , e o nt 9'' some education waS t he ctrl er ol ;i;it ° % ' iD e q......rtpes, and enabling it W cope , _ the sl h icti Jr min the truth y arid. under all 4is;dvantages,—to a waVii t; % to_ o lio enquir inculcate habits of independent judgia el l . be ton. s .) education 11 , e. . 1 ( 1 theca the very first birthright of 13.ritonsbip? ..'`) deg ' 0 hie -' el This is la o 0• ' hts what I have ventured to call the reastn . opY o f tr, Went system, the culture of the mind s ysteih_f y ' w oea ter l „),i w the e school of mysterious dogmas. 'Pie a u •.„.,glit n e lfer are of opinion that children should be 70 , 0 te; Of they are enabled to Understand : that the ail °. s eers' hib ii should be, by simple plain '., chiely s o w c a l, jects at first, and thin,s , 't i e s o v elOP_A to developc the reasoning f a cia ~.r e de , par - . and t then as those faculties become more and in'''keepitt Or; ,i,,oitii presenth more and more advanced thieV , is ieri, If ts ' e lf 1 ' " pupil's advancing powers of comp the step too OO 4 reasontaken• of every step may be appreciated, as t rac e °P eel ° ; but not to attempt in any eas e, to _ be re 4 ce ro' Young mind, dark and unintelligible things', to 0 00 deep upon the authority of the teachers, without the t P ba t th e s oer prehension' ersion of the learner. On this ground it its t his c e , s terl. abstruse doctrines. or 'as they can them . sg e 1 03 ple 1 ion, to invest them with a character of middle:a the o_ooit' the , dogmas of Christianity objected to ;e° . off. t . to, are , „ e d, ii ot elements ( f history and morality are pretel c • •.. in „saw, istic 6 able for ) th; • beginners. (Hear hear.) New , ii i i 'arac ter , ed, vi ,,, s, we say, that if ' only c - eloP P . ' reason were the be dev del II man ; and his • mtellect the only faculty to. , ion, 8 - o f 0 , should (~ the e .a,,ree to the general principle here lain etaaaarassylin, I . s a . tiving comprehension of the puPil t be ..,, e ere in Frog ttiiii.,a .tainments. The proof that we are 61 " do this. g , tbl i , , is, that in ' matters purely intellectual we ple, Priyaff h . ' t f the ' ~ e leinentary rides of arithmetic, for e*""'" '-,..1a e"„"oeo r e r e highest branches of mathematics,knowledge '1:. gra-well folatn, each link of which. must be intelligenetit; a d log o; guilty e t the link next above it can be appreen tt s itioa e go ti cie t o i 4l e y i i ) /f no such absurdity as.to cram a firoPO c bilel *r el ief 0 es or conk sections into the mince f , a ) em i r ° a t , not knowe knowled thP' 'Multiplication table. (Cb - ieesse s 7i i t tr e- ji knowledge Imt very different thing; it ad differe cite very .different character, d demands a very &two q, is il e :t cr,.an _ f', • tbs. 0 0 , merit. There is , another feature in ma n 'a a n d tbe 0 pendance characteristic of the species aS . reason itsei ,dition, sots 0 _ dance upon a superior. Man in every co n st igtiOr t $ gr e , educated and powerful, e u 11 . with tbe W.Q., will P , ,, fel ineignificant is de end n ri a 51 the soverelgu f e yerYS .. P ,e t upon o e el superior ; • e xercise At th out a ot , entirely deendent for the tio t _ n of life at every moment of his existence.ea, w itb us is he great superior, without any reason asS i g r t ' be seeP., o igi ti !,.; opportunity afforded to ask for a reason', tbe gra , up er- io from the hand of the ei iirin monarch, en u ' a eisb f a ....6 0 ‘ 1 if out a stone to mark it, • g f noi -WO IV - ' is open or ee 0 , he (Hear, hear, hear.) There is no help , T tgiy , ile w to 10 King, Man is subject—(hear hear)--abs?'ll;6-ent°s'hiP,,btp eventually, dependant, To ' resist this ' 5 - ricits' • Vi tyr P'i miserably—(hear,) —it is to kick against tile P new sst .„,4111 hard. Simply to this ndeoiable .O e on n or admit as an u a 13t1t . fo noribii quiet, or a it i s s called beet ha d ver b e att u ig" is to be ba PPY Man's best hainess wi' , e n - done e !,,, vii .4 o voluntariness to the voluntariness of his deP c- his `Ti PT; luntariness will ever be proportionated 1, ; ( :o is bo o hio ledge of the Being onwhom he depends . ci ris t : t hing ( .1 1 nal to know the oily ear, hear.) This is relic', the In ddre, es' to man, the morally responsible as well „ce is a 0 el -,. ; reasonable creature is appealed to. Coescle"oescien bell'. conscious of guilt, conscious of exposure, c ( o , larifiesr p . t re, conscious of helpless c lependan ce ":l " i - eg• .. . -- olgc ee rio Here are elements which'' pass all understanttiog in >• red .._e Here man is not a self-complacent pupil , 81 . e if-e 0 1„01 n je' upon every statement by his teacher, but a '' soit ereno 6 01,;61 urinal, gasoin f bar oft be abi gor relicf before the to be ba A C d!' -- (LOUd C v el° beers.) Relief here is not but by f oo 0 and P e nt.: of the faculties of the ma n % i n gs (,)., the LPG (Hear, ree.eption of the d,eep 84 0 pliyOrthe# , ite the , hear, hear'.) ' The . gospel .ot Jcsuti.. _ wry , . to one only way of relief from ' moral 9 j t i f n iatiot,,Tert_ r it onlytheref way ,of access to true m oral b.7 h lbe . p . llTruistip i s su ' re we do not, we dare not, begin Iviralitir snotiiPb # and O , P P °Se d, and shallower elernent4,lP°telopPliesd'ePPti:9 sup e 7 e eg ra P b Y. We know that all Ken ?Ike pf Yf ef iPP ° Platt eial at the last, polng tbe 0; 1 ' 97 iplittP er, and, therefore, we begin a once 09 ff. J. Ha A.NGT .nd Chron RA 01 held out our hand to the world, filled 1 profusion, with offered benefits ; and the We hay yen to blame is assuredly not ours ; our gifts have been spurned—we are not, certainly, to be called upon to " give, give," even by the craving of the horse-leech, when all that we receive in return is mockery of our folly ! The downward career of the Whig- . Radical faction, which so lately rode rampant in authority over this good old town, is truly an instructive object of con- There was a time, even in its declining templation days, when it could still muster a respectable front ; when it dared hazard a decisive battle for an extensive object. That time, however, has gone by; and, as the fallen roue, who once swaggered at Crockford's, and betted his thousands at Newmarket or Epsom, is con tent to shine as the hero of a little-go—to " rook" ad- venturous footmen at chicken-hazard, or to join a party of seedy thimble-riggers in an attack upon a 'prentice's purse at a fair,—our fallen faction have de scended to hawk at small game, and spend their once mighty energies upon a parish squabble. Poor beings ! It is an achievement for them, now, to strut at th election of a churchwarden or an overseer ; and we do not despair of seeing them, some of these days, de voting themselves, with all their usual appliances of placarding and journalising, to the mighty object of carrying the election of a parish beadle or a corpora- tion bill-sticker ! Seriously, we ask, can the contemptible position of this once haughty faction be more strikingly illustrated, than by the exertions recently put forth by them, for the gratification of a paltry personal spite against an individual member of the Conservative party —Mr Birkett For weeks past—for months— puddle a storm" 11.8 been getting up. For months, every engine of detraction has been set to work, and their conjoint dirty stream directed against this gentleman A whole battery engaged in the very arduous (!) task of blowing a cock-boat out of the in especial water is not a more ridiculous misapplication of power than the whole force of whiggery—its Mercury, Times, Journal, and Chranicle—engaged in cannonading the single person of Nit.. Wm. Birkett ! The entire affair, however well disguised under the cloak of an assumed zeal for the due adniinistration of the affairs o f the workhouse—(for which Nlr. Birkett is just as much or as little responsible as any other of the 25 members of the select vestry)—has been, in very truth, no more than a splenetic persecution waged by the united Whig faction against this gentleman—waged against him because they durst not attempt the same manifestation of feeling against the Conservative body —waged against him upon the same principle as that which incites a malicious coward to pinch his neigh bour's child, when he dare not lift even a finger at its father. Well, this paltry effort has been successful ; and great is the gratulation—great the cock-crowing—in the Whig-Radical camp. But over what victory of principle is this gratulation ? Mr. Birkett, a Conser vative—a tried and known friend to the poor—has been replaced by—not a Radical, but—a Conservative. Over what, then, we repeat, have the Whig-Radical faction to triumph ? They have not replaced Mr. Birkett by one of their own kidney! They have gained no Whig-Radical victory, in the only proper accepta tion of the term ! They have gained, therefore, no triumph of principle—no triumph other than one of party spite over one individual ! And how have they gained even this pitiful thing ? Why thus—and we ask Conservatives to reflect upon the reply;-=they have gained their little all, by dividing Conservatism against itse f ! - Individually it is nothing to us, and we are sure that it must be nothing to Mr. Birkett, that such has been the result of the recent attack upon him. The election of Mr. Henshaw is not a Conservative demonstration, and therefore does not implicate us in any implied ap probation of that system which he is understood to favour ; and it cannot be claimed as a victory of Whiggery. But we must confess that we do grieve over the apathy, on the part of the Conservative rate-payers, which has permitted this slight to be in flicted upon one of the most energetic of their party— one whose exertions for the good cause, unobtrusive though they may have been exercised,—h4ve,..contri buted as much to the attainment of• its present - proud position as those of any other gentleman to whom we could point; and we can imagine nothing mere likely to prove the ruin of that cause than the neglect of Conservatives to rally, upon every occasion, in its de fence, whenever it is attacked, even in the person of the very humblest of its members. We are at present, thank Heaven, the ascendant body. We were not thus proudly situated, however, a few years ago ; and a very, very brief period of inertion and neglect of our best friends may change our position more irretrievably than we at present imagine, when we may find our selves not the first people in the world who have cried " wolf" too late We are informed that it was Mr. Birkett's strong desire to he relieved from the duties which he has for some time so efficiently discharged in connexion with the parish, and that nothing but the threatened retire. went of several others of our parochial authorities along with him induced him to forego that desire. We are reluctantly compelled to postpone some remarks on the council proceedings which appear reported in our columns to-day in consequence of the length to which the speeches at the Amphitheatre yes terday have extended. And with reference to the latter, we can only urge our readers to study atten tively the statements of the Rev: Rector Campbell, and the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, if they desire to appre ciate the merits of the Factory Education Bill now before Parliament. LOCAL NEWS The next overland mail to India, via Marseilles, will be made up in London on Thursday next. —The Corporation Warm Baths, we perceive, are announced to be in complete repair, and quite ready for the reception of visitors. BATHING.- ROYAL ASSEMBLY Roonts.—lt will be seen that Mrs. Raymond, Mrs. Waylett, and Mr. A. Lee have announced an entertainment at the above rooms, of a novel character. Mr. Raymond's " Scrap Book" will, no doubt, prove amus ing and attractive. We understand that on Wednesday seve:al hundred boys from the Mechanics' Institute visited the Iron Palace, being charged only Id. each. On Friday, at two o'clock, the Blue Coat boys will pay a similar visit, and arrangements are making to admit the Collegiate students, who will visit the house in their gowns, &c. EXTRAORDINARY QUICK PASSAGES.—The New York packet -ship Independence, Captain Nye, which , arrived here on Tuesday last, has again made the passage in eighteen days from port to port. Her outward passage she made in fifteen days, which,- considering the general prevalence of westerly winds on the Atlantic, is an occurrence, we may say, unparalleled in the records of swift sailing. CHINESE EXHIBITION.—NOW that [the affairs of China are here creating so much interest in the public mind, we ought to hail with pleasure any means of throwing a light upon the habits and customs of its inhabitants. We are led to make this remark from observing that a Chinese Exhibi tion is about to be opened at the Portico. It will no doubt prove highly interesting and instructive. VISIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPPING.—II is only a short time since our docks had an unusual number of vessels at whose mast-heads a broom was fixed, denoting them on sale; but within the last week this sign of depressed times has so rapidly decreased, that there are now scarcely a dozen vessels advertised for sale ; the others having been either advan tageously chartered or sold. From this we may contemplate s speedy increase in the demand for export TAYLOR V. ASHTON AND OTHERS:—In the Court of Ex chequer, on Tuesday, Mr. Knowles moved for a new trial in this case on the ground of misdirection on the part of Mr. Justice Coltman, before whom the cause was tried at the late assizes in this town. The action was one in which the plaintiff sought to recover compensation from the defendants, who were four of the directors of the celebrated " Commer cial Bank of England," for certain alleged fraudulent and false representations contained in the annual reports of the s -^ress, and prospects," by reason of ,ecl to invest little less Mr. Knowles argued at policy, prop die plaintiff, had been ind than £3OOO in shares of that bank .. s tn in support of the rule, and the court said as the iestion was so important they would take time to consider. ARTISTS' CONVERSAZIONE.—The second meeting of the Artists' Conversazione for this season took place on Wednes day evening last, at the Adelphi. Independent of the beautiful presentation sketches, from the professional members, there were some works of art in progress, and portfolios of sketches laid upon the table ; but the principal attraction was the original sketch, by Sir David Wilkie, of "Knox administering the Sacrament at Calder House." Although in an unfinished state, it is a work of great talent, and full of intense feeling. There was also a coloured copy of the work just published of his sketches taken during his tour in the Holy Land, and the last number of Roberts sketches in the Holy Land. Those members of the society who were absent lost a great treat. tation for is opened 1 amb6°_....., A countries