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see it." s nose res one t but t —very easy seen it, but —Salvatic priests, who are ON SEEING SOME AGRICULTURAL EMIGRANTS EMBARK. God speed the keel of the trusty ship That bears ye from our shore. There is little chance that ye'll ever glance On our chalky sea-beach more. You are right to seek a far-off earth, — You arc right to boldly strive Where Labour does not pine in dearth, And the - honest poor may thrive. God speed ye all ! ye hopeful band, O'er your boundless path of blue ; But you'll never forget your own old land, Though wealth may gladden the new. You'll often think of the blackthorn leaves, And the dog-rose peeping through ; And you'll never forget the harvest sheaves, Though the wheat was not for you. You'll often think of the busy ploughs, And the merry-beating flail ; You'll sometimes dream of the dappled cow And the chink of the milking-pail. God speed ye all ! ye hopeful band, With hearts still high and true; But you'll never forget your own old land, Though wealth may gladden the new. !ibour Hind You'll call to mind And the widow down the , And you'll wonder if the old man's dead, Or the widow wed again You'll often think of t And the churchyard he village spire, green and fair ; And perchance you'll sigh, with drooping eye, If you've left a loved one there. God speed ye all ! ye hopeful band, With hearts still high and true ; But you'll never forget your own old land, Though wealth may gladden the new. ps ye leap sister, or a brother it heart has Perhar ired sire, :tared to part For ever from a mother ; If so, then many a time and oft Your better thoughts will roam, And Memory's r Will fly to you God speed ye all .trong and soft, your LITERATURE BOOKS FOR REVIEW, & Books, New Print intended for review, m Music, & ay be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red ., London, addressed " to the Editor lion-court, Fleet-street of the LIVERPOOL STA: Ann," when they will be forwarded and receive attention Conrocation : a Sermon. Birkenhead : Cross A Sermon preached by the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, LL.D., in Christ Church, Claughton, Birkenhead, on the 19th of Sept., on the subject of Convocation. The text is taken from St. Matthew, xviii. 17., and, in addition to the Sermon itself, which enters at considerable length into the question of General Councils and Convocation, there is a profusion of notes in which various authorities are referred to, and the subject is also introduced with an energetic preface. The Farmer's Magazine. London: Rogerson and Co The current number of this well-known magazine contains the concluding chapters " On the Science of Manuring," by T. Rowlandson, C.E., F.G.S. The remarks relating to the probability of obtaining a cheaper substitute for guano will be read with great interest. We quote the following : " Reviewing the whole question, it therefore appears that in our present state of knowledge no other chance exists of obtaining a rival to guano than the establishment of some such a manufactory as that indicated in a former part of this paper : one in which all the resources of science shall be brought to bear so as to economise and utilise products often now wasted, and, in some instances, the driving off which is a source of expense, adapting these and other waste materials and products of inferior value to the purposes of husbandry. Great as the im provements have been in manufacturing chemistry during the last century, it ought not to be forgotten that the temptation to the exercise of ingenuity arose mainly from the circumstance that objects of large and growing con sumption, and at continuously enhanced prices, owing to such increased use, attained not only high prices, but were gradually advancing. In the case of manures, how ever, we have two articles required of an expensive cha racter—ammonia and potash—which relatively, as com pared with the power of consumption in the form of manures, are only of very limited production ; whilst, on the other hand, the demand for them for manures at a low price would be to practical purposes unlimited. It is on account of these reasons that the composition of a good and cheap manure is surrounded with so many diffi culties—not insurmountable certainly, but to overcome which requires a somewhat rare combination of practically' scientific, manufacturing, and commercial knowledge on the part of the superintendent on whom the management of such an establishment may be entrusted." ARIETIES WHY IS A DOG biting his tail like a good economist —Because he makes both ends meet. A STRING OF OPINIONS is no more Christian faith than a string of beads is Christian holiness. THE REV. JonN NEWTON used to say that his great aim in preaching was—to break a hard heart, and to heal a broken heart. No CATECHISM is so useful to children as tt example at home. It is the br roof.—Taylor heir parents' ightest mirror under their FAME is like a young duck in a mud-pudd to see, very easy to talk about al it is an awful job to get hold of it ou hay means e place of God to Nt; transports , speaking of the embarkation of troops, said— many of them leave blooming wives RDENER is described as being requested s watch by his sun-dial, when he forth- Notwithtandi behind, the THERE is an old gentleman in Everton so extremely careful of his health that he makes a point of airing his umbrella before using it, for fear of taking cold. PRONUNCIATION.—The the name c lily way in which you can horse Tschitickckoff is by a slight clearing of the throat. 'ollowed b between Sir Watkin Lewis and . be your butt no longer." said Wilkes, " I hate an empty rmer said DN'T GO 1 addy ; " I CORK to- Padd moon h t he car is no occasion to let a fly —Always do as the sun does, look at ght side of things. For while it is just as cheap, it ree times as good for digestion. The melancholy man t even relish wedlock. GOOD ADVICE A CLIENT once burst into a flood of tears after he had ard the statement made by his advocate, Connsellor exclaimed—" I did not think I had .ed half so much 'till I heard i 1 this day." ICED SHUTER rran, and I s explained his reason for preferring ar stockings with holes, to having them darned : "A sole," said he, " may be the accident of a day, and will pass upon the best gentleman, but a darn is premeditate( p6rert " I had at one time for a co-curate a very impulsive and rather democratic man. Our rector was an aristocrat. One Sunday he had delivered himself of a sermon in which he incidentally justified family pride, and spoke in a man ner that must have been offensive to any poor person of any intelligence or independence ; and, as we were leaving , p t y the church, my brother curate exclaimed, with unaffected indignation, " Well, that crowns —'s toadying courses. Such pulpit flunkeyism is intolerable. But I'll there y administer an antidote next Sunday —see if I don't. Like 11;.- 1 ht. and I staid to F erod's worms, our rector's pride is eating him up. did not attempt to dissuade him : our rector treated both of us with a condescension that was anything but flatter ing, and he thought more of being a " gentleman" (upon which he was always indirectly vaunting himself) than of being a Christian, forgetting what Coleridge said, that there was no real gentleman without he was a Christian. Next Sunday morning my co-curate carried out his threat.' He told me nothing about how he proposed to manage or mould his discourse : so judge my surprise when, mount ing the pulpit, he gave out, as his text, the 3d chapter of Luke, part of the 23d, and the whole of the 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 32d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th verses ; "in which (he continued) will be found the following words ;" and then to the mar vel of the whole congregation, who turned towards the pulpit with eyes and mouth open, he read right through the sixteen verses, beginning with " Joseph, which was ; the son of Hell," and ending with, " which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God." Every one is familiar with the peculiar and strange effect upon the ear of the repetition of the words, " which was the son," " which was the son," when even occurring in the reading desk ; but in the pulpit, as a prefix to a sermon in the shape of a text, they sounded oddly. The rector looked at me as if for an explanation, and I did not know where to look, while the principal persons in the parish manifestly came to the conclusion that my brother curate was gone mad. But, if he were, he soon showed them there was method of these sixteen verses a discourse that might have served as an essay on the republican legend of " Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." The reader has probably anticipated me in the use he made of his long text. " Here," said he, " we have a genealogical tree, not traced by the flattery of sycophants nor the uncertainty of heralds, but by the unerring evangelist. whose inspira tion enabled him to mount from branch to branch—a genealogy beginning with God, and ending, so far as my text goes, with a poor Galilean carpenter. Here is a les son and a rebuke for the pride of descent : the poorest carpenter, in the poorest village of England, can retrace his lineage through the same unbroken succession, and the proudest peer can do no more, unless the latter in his presumption would be disposed to ignore his divine origin. But it would be no use : by whatever different branches, they arrive at the same root : the noble and the peasant, if both had the power of going back over their ancestry, would both meet at the 38th verse of the third chapter of Luke, ' Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.' Here," he continued, looking at the rector and the squire's pews,—" here we all meet on equal terms — disown them as we like in other degrees, here we are brought face to face with and can no longer refuse to acknowledge our poor relations : " then, looking to some forms on which a group of almshouse people sat, he added —" Here, too, my poor friends, you and your superiors' meet in the presence of your common parent, the great God of heaven and earth, in whose eyes the factitious dis tinctions of the world are nought : cold shoulder you as they like through life, they cannot ignore their relation rhips when they come to this—they can no longer speak of you, spurn you, as though you were formed of different clay. The carpenter and the king are one ; and how little importance St. Luke, who was no sycophant genealogist, attaches even to the regal office, may be seen from the manner in which he passes through the 31st verse, where no pause is made to mark the proud title of David, which was merely the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, and so on." In conclusion he urged the poor man to live up to his great origin, and not disentitle himself to that great share in the inheritance which his heavenly Father had laid up for his children who truly serve him. They need not care for the proud man disowning them now—the thing to be feared was God disowning them on the last day. The rich he enjoined to feel for the poor as for brothers if they would not offend that great Being who had a father's interest in all. I thought the rector would never forgive my co-curate ; but the only notice he took of the eccentric discourse was to cease for ever after preaching to the " humbler orders" of the deference they owed their superiors. It was before so bad that a neighbouring clergyman said to me, "If your rector had to put on an eleventh commandment it would run thus—" Thou shalt not neglect to take off thy hat to myself and the squire."—A Curate's Notes. N WESLEY said to one of his follow im the deficiencies of some of the cle ers, who urged gy as a cause fo'r separation from the Church of England-- 2( qf you have nothing but chaff from the pulpit, you are abundantly fed with the finest of wheat from the desk." A. MAN whom Dr. Johnson once reproved for follow ing a useless and demoralising - business, said in excuse, " You know, doctor, that I must live." This brave old thing mea❑ and hateful coolly replied, that the least necessity for that." ter of every be did HOW TO CATCH THE EYE OF THI7 LADIES.—The last method of advertising we have noticed is that adopted by Genin, the hatter, in New York. During the summer he distributed an immense number of fans, labelled with his card, in the streets and omnibuses, gratuitously.—Ame rican Courier. " How MANY RODS MAKE A FURLONG ?" asked a father of his son, a " fast" urchin, as he came home one night from the town school. " Well, I don't know, boss," was the reply of the young hopeful, " but I guess you'd think one rod made an acher, if you got such a tanning as I did from old vinegar -face this afternoon." The parent stood aghast. A CLEVER CHILD.—" Is it true, mamma," inquired a little girl, "that a Quaker never takes his hat off ?" " It is true, my dear," answered the fond mother ; " it is a mark of respect which he thinks he should pay to no man. " But, then, tell me, mamma," answered the clever child, " how does a Quaker manage when he goes to have his hair cut ?" CORNELIUS being asked at a party what he thought of Miss Arabella Wilhelmina Josephine Jones's singing— who was a vocalist of the " screamer" kind, and had favoured the company, to the great danger of their tym panums, with some specimens of her musical powers— replied. " Oh, she's a delicious creature," (screecher). Miss Jones's friend s were s li g htly p uzz l e d t o k n ow his meaning. ANTIQUITY OF THE ORGAN.—The organ, the most majestic and comprehensive of all musical instruments in the present almost perfect state, was not in general use in churches. until the tenth or eleventh century ; but it is known that organs were in use much earlier than the e i g hth century, as mention is made of th em b y var i ous anc i en t authors . 1 itrlivi!is, celebrated in the age of Augustus, described this instrume n t, an d S t. Jerome makes mention of one with . twelve p a i rs of bellows, which might be heard at the distance of a mil e; and another at Jerusalem, which might be heard i at the Mount of Olives. It is said that the English ha d their first organ n 650, A.D. A LADY'S ORTHOGRAPHY. —The " following " cha racter" of a housemaid by her mistress has been sent to the Dundee Advertiser for publication. In its orthogra phy it is certainly a scandal on the boasted accomplish ments "of this enlightened ege," as the writer must have had the opportunity to make herself conversant with the rudiments of her native language :—" The Barer, Mrs. —, is of grate rispektability, and is a most exlent dumys tic in a codfidentkapacity. She nose all sorts of cookary, and gets up plain linen. She has lived ate years in her last plice, and has a hunimpichable carreter. She is bir fectly sobar, and never drinks nothink but what does her good. Will be fund a great acusition to a singel jintle man, or would chute a weddower. The lady where she Uri gives her this carreter, and never would hav pearted With her, but she gos to osstrilye." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1852. Tx BAWBEE.—TIie earliest portraiture known of Mary is her effigies on the small copper coin, called the bawbee. She is there represented in full face, as a fat, smiling in fant, about nine months old, wearing the crown of Scot land over a baby cap, with a miniature ruff about her neck. It was thus she probably appeared at her coronation ; and it has been conjectured that this coin obtained its familiar name of bawbee on account of bearing the image and su perscription of the little Queen.—Life of Mary Stuart by Agnes Strickland. TAXES ON BACHELORS.—The Roman censors fre quently imposed fines on unmarried men, and men of full ages were obliged to marry. The Spartan women at cer tain games laid hold of old bachelors, dragged them round their altars, and inflicted on them various marks of infamy and disgrace. After twenty-five years of age a tax was laid upon bachelors in Eneland—X2 10Q. for a Duke, and for a common person, ls. (7 William 111., 1695.) Bache lors were subject to a double tax on their male and female servants in 1785. THE LATE DR. GREGORY states, that nine-tenths of his own profession consis+s in guesswork ; and the fol lowing anecdote seems confirmatory at least of the fact that the benefit derived from a medicine is often purely imaginary. A physician having prescribed for a country man, gave him the paper on which be had written, and told him he " must be sure to take that"—meaning the potion which he had ordered. The countryman, misap prehending the doctor, wrapped up the paper like a bolus, swallowed it, and was cured ! A REASONABLE ALTERNATIrE.—" Ma," said a little girl the other day, who had scarcely entered her teens, " ma, mayn't I get married ?" " Why, child," said the anxious mother, " what on earth put that notion into your head ?" "'Cause all the other girls are getting married as fast as they can, and I want to, too." " Well, you must not think of such a thing—don't you ever ask me such a foolish questio n aga i n . M arr i e d indeed 1 I never heard the like !" " Well, ma, if I can't have a husband, mayn't I have a piece of bread and butter."' A CASE was being tried on Long Island about the soundness of a horse, in which a clergyman, not very conversant with such matters, appeared as a witness. Ile was a little confused in giving his evidence; and a blustering lawyer who examined him, at last exclaimed— " Pray, sir, do you know the difference between a horse and a cow ?" " I acknowledge my ignorance," replied the clergyman, " I hardly know the difference between a horse and a cow, or a bully and a bull, only that a bull has horns, and a bully (bowing with meek respect to the pettifogger), luckily for me, has none!" "You can re tire, sir," said the lawyer : " I've no further questions to ask you !" ROYAL Wl' —Amongst the various anecdotes passing g to her Majesty's stay at Balmoral is the —Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Prince urrent reia s, accompanied by Dr. Robertson, were one day ascending a pretty steep hill, when they were overtaken by a shower. The party took shelter in a shepherd's hut, which at the time was unoccupied. The report goes that the princes —father and son—along with the doctor, busied themselves in collecting some scraps of firewood, and soon kindled a comfortable blaze, while her Majesty was seated on the end of a kilt admiring their industry. The shepherd shortly returned to his hut, and found it much more comfortable than when he left it, and ho noured as few huts have ever been. Before leaving, the royal party wished to give the shepherd a douceur. Prince Albert requested the doctor to give him a sovereign —the doctor found he had left his purse at Balmoral. "Then," said the Prince, " I shall give it him ;" but found himself in the same predicament, for he, too, was purseless. Her Majesty observed their consternation, and inquired what was the cause. On being told, "Oh !" said her Majesty, " I shall endeavour to provide the sup- plies upon this occasion," but, on examining her purse, found it to contain only half-a-crown. " Well," said her Majesty, " this is a pretty royal party—without a sovereign —and the Queen with only the ha!' of a crown !" —lnverness Advertiser. 'GLACIERS IN THE NORTH.—It is difficult to account for the entire absence of glaciers in the limestone district to the west of Lancaster Sound. The supposed cause of this has been already noticed, and I believe it must be sought in the peculiar character of the surface of the land. Why the snow which falls on the extensive tracts of land on both sides of Barrow Straits, in latitude 72 deg. to 77 deg., should escape into the sea whence it came in running streams, while that which falls on the west coasts of Greenland, Davis' Straits, and Baffin's Bay, including Lancaster Sound, should only reach the sea after the lapse of ages, not as streams of running water, carrying down mud and shingle into the immediately adjoining seas, but as streams of hard ice, slow in their motion, but sure in their action, carrying, in addition to the mud and shingle of the other, immense boulders, which they do not drop in the adjoining sea, but dis t ribute over an area of many thousand miles, is a problem difficult to solve. The difference between the two may rest in a few degrees of temperature, perhaps not more than the half of one degree ; and the cause of this differ ence may rest in the character of the soil, the one being highly animalised,' and finely divided on the surface, the other presenting not so much as a trace of anything that had ever been endowed with life, and hard and crystalline on the surface. The disposition of things, however, is wisely arranged ; for the shallow shores of Barrow Straits would so entangle icebergs, that, even in a few years, the passages which they might cut out for themselves would become blocked up, their exit would be impossible, and a frozen continent would be the result of a few small glaciers on the Parry group of islands. The various channels leading southward and northward of Barrow Straits would be blocked up. North Devon and Corn wallis Island would be joined by ice, extending to the bottom of the water in the Wellington Channel, and rising to the level of, perhaps far higher than, Cape Spencer ; the same ice, stretching across to Whaler Point, might probably extend a little to the east, in which case we should have a magnificent glacier entering Lan caster Sound, occupying the very sites of mountains, the names of which I shall not mention, and sending out towering icebergs, which might accomplish distances half way to the Equator, along with their neighbours from the opposite side of Baffin's Bay. Before bringing these speculations to a close, I must add, that one of the chief causes of the glacier accumulations is the more plentiful and more constant supply of material by evaporation, in the immediate vicinity of the localities where they occur, than there is where the distri'iution of land predominates over that of water. This, however, is not a sufficient cause for the entire absence of glaciers, for, according to it, we ought to have the accumulation in due proportion to the evaporation .—Sutherland's Voyage in Ba f fin's Bay. GENEALOGICAL SERMON THE NEW POPISH CRUSADE AGAINST THE IRISH BRANCH OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. A new parliamant has met, from whose legislation you are entitled to expect, and we trust are prepared to demand, an answer to the question we set before you on the 20th of June last :—" THE QUEEN'S LAWS. OR THE POPE'S LAWS, WHICH ARETOPREVAIL IN THIS REALM?" The Pope's adherents are well aware that one of the first duties of this parliament is to put down the continued, insulting, and open defiance of the laws of the empire by the Popish priests. They know that they ought to be at once thrown upon the defensive; so, with Jesuit address and audacity, they endeavour to escape from this position by assuming the offensive themselves. Weakened as they are in numbers, character, and political influence—no longer supported by their former liberal advocates of the press—they yet a f fect to agitate for the spoliation of the Irish branch of our Protestant Church. Why not the English branch, since, both in England and Ireland, the Church stands on the same footing ? Both branches are established on the sole ground of religious truth, recognised by the legislature, and enforced by statute on all who hold the benefices, endowed in every locality by our remotest ancestors, to instruct the people residing therein, in the law of God. _ Futile as this crusade now preached against the Church may well appear, the committee of the National Club would fail in their duty, were they to pass it by in silence. I. They desire, therefore, to remind you that (1.) when in 1826 Mr. O'Connell, the acknowledged leader of the Irish Roman Catholic laity and priesthood, was examined before a committee of the House of Lords, he gave the following evidence : . . . " The Cat holies would accept of emancipation with the same gratitude that they would take it without the provision which I am now going to state, coupled with a protiso that it should be utterly void, and that the entire penal code should be re-enacted the moment any such claim from the Protestant Church to the Catholic were made by any considerable portion of the Catholic people. We would most readily make that the charter or condition enacted by the Protestant parliament of the equalisation of our civil rights." (2.) Every Roman Catholic member of the legislature, as the condition of taking his seat, declares on oath that he " disclaims, disavows, and solemnly abjures any in tention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this realm." Here, then, are two things :-1. The conditions of the emancipation of the Roman Catholics defined by their leader. 2. The abjuration by each Roman Catholic who has, through emancipation, obtained a seat in the legis lature' of any intention to subvert the Protestant Church in Ireland. Now the Romanist Archbishop, resident at Tuam, pro claims, in his letter to the Earl of Derby, the present " intentions" of the newly-elected Roman Catholic mem bers of parliament. In that letter, dated from Saint Jarlath's, in October, 1852, after having described the Irish Protestant Church as " an incubus which has op pressed all the energies of the country," he proceeds to say that "Those ecclesiastical funds, so long misused, should, after the life interests of their present occupants, revert to their own original purposes of promoting Catholic piety, charity, and education. Too long has their usufruct been squandered, with no other result than propagating dimensions, and upholding an unholy ascendancy. It is fortunate that there remains such a fund for the erection and endowment of Catholic schools and the building of Catholic churches ; and, should it extend so far, to serve as an outfit for the purchase of Catholic glebes. It will be an act of just and tardy restitution of property, long diverted from its legitimate objects. * * * As for the Protestant Establishment, dream no longer of upholding it in Ireland ; treat it like the question of free-trade, yielding to the inevitable necessity of events, which statesmen cannot control. The Catholic people of this country are resolved not to be content until they witness its legislative annihilation. (Signed) " JOHN, Archbishop of TuAm." Such are the designs which Archbishop M'Hale pro claims as those of the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, and of their representatives in parliament. On such points, the committee feel it to be needless to offer any lengthened comment, since, at a glance, they show, not only a contract made, and a contract deli berately violated, but they likewise record the penalty which the recognised head of one of the parties voluntarily proposed to incur as the consequence of its violatien— viz., that emancipation should be void, and the entire penal code should be re-enacted." How is it, then, that the Irish Romanists now dare to demand the " legislative annihilation" of the Irish branch of our United Church, and the transference of its pro perty to their own ? 11. There are others, however, not Romanists, who, having contracted no special obligation to maintain in its integrity this Irish branch of our Church, think them selves free to deal with it as they please. On the plea that it is not the Church of the majority in Ireland, they would urge the appropriation of a portion of the revenues to secular purposes, or would even go the length of Dr. M'Hale, and advocate its " legislative annihilation." The committee, therefore, think it right to reiterate the reasons on which they found the strongest protest that words can convey against the sacrilegious spoliation by the legislature of the Irish Church. (1.) Because the British nation, represented by its Sovereign and parliament, have invariably held it to be a sacred duty to take care that Christian pastors should be dispersed throughout every district of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, in all the parishes into which the surface of the country is divided, one or more of the Protestant clergy have, since the Reformation, been located. As this is the case throughout Great Britain, so it is the case throughout Ireland. Every parish there is under a of some lawful minister of the Protestant Church, Unhappily, however, in many parishes there are few Protestants, and large numbers of Roman Catholics. In such a state of things, prima' facie, the natural course would seem to be that some steps should be taken to provide these large numbers of persons with Roman Catholic pastors. Why, then, has not this course been adopted ? Simply because this Protestant nation believes the Popish oreed inconsistent with the true doctrine of that Gospel, which its Sovereign is sworn to maintain. Because the Church of England openly avows its belief that the leading doctrines of P o p er y a re " blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." Because no Protestant can deny that that faith (to use the language of men of ultra-liberal principles in politics) " is a false. idolatrous, and debasing superstition —a lamentable corruption of the Christian faith." Because to endow Popish priests is to subsidise the sworn vassals of a power which defies the laws of this empire. This Protestant nation, therefore, dare nut run the risk of drawing down the Divine dis pleasure by teaching their fellow-subjects what they believe to be a " false and idolatrous superstition." The Protestant clergy of the Irish branch of our United Church are therefore dispersed over Ireland to testify to the truth. Those clergy are sent to every individual within their cure ; the Roman Catholics are their parish ioners ; and they are bound to preach the Gospel to all, and amongst all, to disseminate, so far as in them lies, the knowledge of the entire Word of God. Woe betide the nation which should dare to withdraw one of these witnesses to the truth from any part of that benighted land ! Point out a parish in which every in habitant is a Roman Catholic, and we affirm that that is the parish where a Protestant pastor ought more especially to dwell. (2.) Because the property of the Irish branch of the United Church in possession of the Protestant clergy be longs in fee to those who may at any time compose the communion of the Protestant Church in Ireland—precisely as whatever property may be in possession of the Roman Catholic priesthood, or of the dissenting ministers in the United Kingdom, belongs in fee to those religious com munities—subject, like all other property, to the regula tions of law, but, in common with all other property to which, by the existing laws, any parties have a right, not liable to be taken away from its possessors by any new law, without a fair and adequate compensation. In what manner it was that, some three centuries ago, the Church became possessed of this property, is wholly beside the question. The historical fact, however, is, that the great mass of the Irish clergy threw off the Papal usurpation, and that the whole body (except two) of the ancient episcopate embraced the Reformation ; so that it is the legitimate successors of the ancient bishops who are now everywhere confronted by a new and Italian episco pate, owing their origin to the will of a foreign potentate. But had the state of 1560 forcibly deprived the whole Romanist clergy of their property, it would not alter, in 1852, the real merits of the case. For if, under the exist ing laws of the land, the Irish Church cannot be deprived of its property, it would be downright robbery to enact laws by which that deprivation should be effected. (3.) Because sound policy would dictate an extension rat her than a diminution of the numbers of the Protestant clergy, more especially at a period when, as the Times states, " Papists are diminishing, and Protestants are mul tiplying by hundreds daily." A wise government, assu redly, would aid such a movement, because the greatest blessing, both to Ireland and England, must ever be the conversion of all their Roman Catholic children to the Protestant faith ; for mental degradation, and physical poverty, and political insubordination, are notoriously the almost invariable accompaniments, under all circum stances, of the domination of a Roman Catholic priesthood. On these principles, the committee protest against any attempt to deprive any districts in Ireland of their Pro testant clergy, or to take away any portion, however minute, of the property belonging to the Protestant Church. These principles, if true at all, are true univer sally and on all occasions. The lapse of centuries cannot impair them. It is on these grounds that the committee are content to rest the case of the Irish Church. . . 111. They therefore abstain from pointing out at large the great blessings which, during the late famine, districts, exclusively Roman Catholic, derived from the presence of a Protestant clergyman—how great the love for his person and office, which has, in consequence, grown up towards him amongst his Romanist parishioners; neither will they dwell on the untiring zeal with which, although themselves suffering unexampled distress and privation, the Pro testant clergy have, during seventeen years, subscribed largely, out of their scanty incomes, to support in their own schools the great principles of Scriptural education— nor will they descant on the false; and wicked assertions that the Irish Church is a richly-endowed Church, when, according to the showing of an avowedly hostile govern ment, at a time when they proposed to abstract the com paratively small sum of £70,000 a year from her revenues £7O per annum was the utmost amount, out of the whole sum left to the Church, which they said they could pro pose to apportion to the great majority of the educated clergy of our Irish Protestant Church. Neither will the committee dwell upon the danger to all Irish property which must arise from the confiscation of that belonging to the Church. The two must stand or fall together; both are held under the same title, (the Act of Settlement) ; s successful aggression on the one is sure to be followed by a successful aggression on the other. These are all points which statesmen may well urge against those who would rob the revenues or destroy the existence of the Irish Church. But it is earnestly to be hoped that while the expediency of maintaining and strengthening that Church is set forth by its supporters, none of them will rest on expediency alone. - What can only be defended as expedient to-day may cease to be expedient to-morrow. Let it, therefore, never be forgotten, that fidelity to our Christian faith demands the existence of the Protestant Church in Ireland—that fidelity to the principles of eternal justice demands that the property of this Church should be preserved to her inviolate ; and that sound policy must ever dictate to a Protestant government the maintenance of pure Scriptural truth. By the Committee, W. H. BELLAMY, Socretary. National Club, Whitehall-gardens, Nov. 5,1852. CORRESPONDENCE. Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith ; this is indispensably requisite in any statement of facts. The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold himself responsible for the opinions or statements of his correspondents. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. A SOCIETY under this title has been established in the metropolis under the sanction and patronage of a large body of the leading Conservative gentlemen, for the pur pose of counteracting the attempts which have been made by the Radical party to obtain possession of the represen tation of the English counties. It has been found that through the operations of the National Freehold Land Society, and others of a similar character, an immense number of votes on the Radical side have been obtained in several counties ; and it has been considered that the only effectual means of meeting the evil is by pursuing a similar course on the Conservative side. According to the prospectus, the shares are fixed at .CO each, for which the minimum contribution is Bs. per month, and each shareholder will become entitled to freehold land of equal value, conferring on him the franchise at the end of ten years, but he may anticipate the payments so as to become entitled to the franchise at once. The Society since its formation has been extending its operations through the several counties, and last week a deputation visited Liverpool with the same object. On Friday a public meeting was held at the Cotton Sales room, and, notwithstanding the boisterous weather, was very respectably attended. Mr. Thomas Lee, merchant, took the chair, and briefly introduced the deputation. HENRY POWNALL, Esq., addressed the meeting, and expressed his regret at the unavoidable absence of Viscount Ranelagli ; but, owing to the delay of a train on the Brighton Railway, he had been prevented from reaching Liverpool in time for the meeting. H e (Mr.Pownall)craved their indulgence while he addressed them on the object for which the meeting was called, vvkic.li was to promote the operations of the Conservative Land Society. He might be met with the objection, that there were land societies already in existence, and, therefore, what need had they for more ? He might also be asked, why should they come to Liverpool, which had returned two Conser vative representatives ? It was because the men of Liver pool had proved themselves to be good Conservatives that they, the deputation of the Land Society, came down to ask for their assistance in promulgating Conservative principles. It was not a question whether such societies should be established ; they already existed, as some con stituencies knew to their cost, when the representation had been transferred into the hands of their opponents. But, apart from this, it was a question that every man had a just right to enjoy the franchise. He was no friend to universal suffrage—no advocate for the ballot ; but he thought that every man who had industry, prudence, and intelligence to husband his resources, had a just right to obtain the forty shilling franchise. Many of such socie ties were in existence ; and one of those, which was called the National Freehold Land Society, had already pur chased 1448 acres of land, with which they had obtained the following number of votes in the respective counties : Middlesex Surrey Essex Hertfordshire Kent Sussex.. Being a total of Besides this they had an annual capital of more than £200,000, which was being invested in a similar manner in order to carry out the objects of the society. If one society could do this, and if Conservatives continued to look on with indifference, what must be the result but the total defeat of that party which possessed intelligence and Influence, and were of importance to the best inter ests of the country. If tailors and shoemakers advertise they do so in order that the public may be aware of the superiority of their respective goods, and obtain an increased business; so, if one party is constantly trumpet ing forth that they only possess liberal measures, the pub lic mind necessarily leans towards that party whenever the opportunity occurs. That might be well, but the other party should not repose in their easy chairs and think that the influence which they possess will continue to operate without exertion. Some talked about Tories, but meant the Tories of the reign of Queen Anne. "I" (said Dr. Pownall) " profess myself a Tory, but I profess myself a lover of my country. He loved to contemplate the pro gress of this great country, which, like the Sun, diffused the blessings of light and heat wherever their influence extended. He loved to contemplate the House of Lords, which formed a senate which no other country could boast. He rejoiced to have a vote to return mem bers to the House of Commons, for he believed that it represented a people than which none enjoyed greater privileges nor more real freedom, He also entertained respect for those who differed with him, but he was anxious for the maintenance of the principles which he espoused. He knew their zeal at elections, but that was not all that was wanted. They must work with equal zeal and readi ness in the less exciting business of the registration, and in order to place those who were entitled to the franchise upon the register. He loved to see the labouring man intelligent, well-informed, and brought up on Christian principles, and it was to give such men the right to vote that he advocated the support of the Conservative Land Society. If the opposing party had done so much, why should it be said that Conservatives had done nothing for that class which formed the great strength of the country? The credit of furthering the cause of education had been claimed by the Radicals, hut it was a mutual work, as both had shared in it. He did say that, when looking round upon their teeming population, such order, intelli gence, peace and respect for each other were not to be equalled in any other portion of the globe. Speaking for the society, he concluded by saying that they did not want to interfere with individual or local arrangements, but they wished to unite the great Conservative party in one bond of union. [Mr. Pownall sat down amidst loud cheering.] Mr. Lewis, the secretary of the society, then addressed the meeting. The Conservative Land Society arose out of a political necessity, but it was also expedient and advantageous, in order to give every man who joined it the right of voting in maintenance of Conservative prin ciples. In the first place, he must confess that he should not have recommended such a system, but the Radicals were not so scrupulous, and their operations had been so effectual that it was absolutely necessary the Conservatives should exert themselves in self-defence, for, unless some thing was done to counteract their opponents, the Conse rvatives would lose their proper position in the country. He then proceeded to show the advantages which would accrue to the shareholders, not only in a political but in a pecuniary point of view, and detailed the particular claims of the society to general support. The amount of the shares had been fixed at £5O, which would guarantee the franchise to the shareholder, and the payments might be made at Bs. per month, or the completion hastened by larger paym be divided between three have a chance of obtaining an early all Mr. "1-lARaisoN, one of the solicitors to the society, also addressed the meeting. In alluding to the late Free-trade banquet at Manchester, he said that Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Co. had created a false alarm, by pretending that the movement was in self-defence. He saw in that banquet a proof that the Manchester men were going to attack the Conservative cause, and one of the objects which the society had in view was to counteract this. Mr.N. W. SHAND then moved the following resolution : " That this meeting, highly approving of the principles of the Conservative Land Society, request the deputation will adjourn the meeting till the 19th instant, in order that the Conservatives of Liverpool generally may have an opportunity of again hearing the statements and joining the society." _ Mr. GEORGE BOOKER seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and the meeting then adjourned. LIVERPOOLACADEMY ,-(SEVENTHNOTICE.) The Exhibition-rooms of the Academy are now open in the evening, brilliantly illuminated with gas. This arrangement is well adapted to the wants of very many of our townsmen, who are so situated as to be unable to view the pictures during the hours of business, but can spare an hour or two in the evening for so intellectual a re creation. In our notice of the pictures, we have now the second room to deal with ; many of the subjects we have already remarked upon in connection with the names of the artists. On entering from the large room there hangs close to the doorway on the left a remarkable picture, by Mr. A. J. Woolmer, M.5.8.A., entitled, " Sir Calidor and the Shepherds." If fancy is to play any part in the creations of the pencil, we think Mr. Woolmer's picture is deserv ing great commendation. If every scene of the " Faerie Queen" were thus illustrated, the poet would be intel ligible to all. We have heard it objected that the colouring is not natural; perhaps not ; the scene it illustrates is not natural ; but both works prove the powerful imaginations of the poet and the artist. The scenery is most natural, and most beautifully does it illustrate the union of the ideal with the real. We hope to see Mr. Woolmer obtain the credit due to this style of painting. Mr. Newenham's picture of the " Princess (afterwards Queen Elizabeth) being examined by the Bishops touch ing her faith," is a masterly production, though wanting life and vigour ; there is too insignificant an appearance about the young Princess. We feel at once that she could not have been the antecedent of our energetic and deter mined " Good Queen Bess." "The Mistletoe Bough," by James Archer, A.R.S.A., has been the point of attraction in this room. The mourn ful legend of the " Old Oak Chest" is most painfully told in this painting. The details of the work are most care fully and artistically managed ; we have looked long and often at it, but do not think any alteration would improve the picture, except that the face of the young bride, step ping artlessly into her living tomb, is not the beautiful ideal we had pictured to ourselves. The artist has pour trayed a pleasing, but not a pretty, face. Mr. J. W. Glass's picture of the " Free Companions," which represents an armed troop of mercenaries riding across a marsh, in search of fresh employment in their bloody trade, is a very effective picture ; the utter indif ference as to the future, the hardy daring, and other qualities of the mercenary soldier are most forcibly de picted: even the gloomy clouds and threatening storm seem to cause no concern in the minds of the troopers as to where their next quarters are to be found. On the screen in this room are three medallions, one a portrait of Dr. Hume. by Signor Grispi, is a very forcible likeness, well executed ; and Mr. M‘Bride's " Brother and Sister" is an admirable little piece of plastic art. IDIOTS IN THE STREETS. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,— , As I was walking up Hardman.street the other evening, with my wife, I passed a poor creature who appeared to be an epileptic idiot. He was bare-headed and odiously dirty, and the convulsive distortions of his features were frightful. It is not necessary to inquire whether this appearance was assumed ; if it was, the man should be punished ; but if, as I am now supposing, it was the involuntary effect of a heavy affliction, he ought to be taken care of, and should not be allowed publicly to parade a calamity so dangerous as it is terrible ; for it is well known to medical men that epilepsy is most readily communicable by sympathy ; and I remember hearing it stated, at a meeting held at the London Tavern a few years ago, when the Highgate Idiot Asylum was established, that the propagation of idiotcy, through impressions made upon the minds of expectant mothers, occurs to an extent beyond the belief of those who are not acquainted with the fact, and beyond the computation of those who are. This being the case, I would most earnestly contend that the public exhibition of such repulsive objects ought not to be permitted. Our wives and sisters ought to be able to pass along the principal thoroughfares of a great town like this, without the danger of being met and terrified by a mouthing, gesticulating idiot. Sir, I know something of the consequences of these painful and revolting sights, and I maintain that any extra amount of rate, which might be required for keeping in safety and comfort those whom the visitation of God has rendered unable to get their own living, would be a cheap exchange for our present risks. Even as it is, these pitiable objects are a charge upon the community. Such a provision, as I have hinted at, would only effect, in a proper and regular manner, that which is nog impert by the irregular alms of dividuals. i will not further occupy • 'eace at pre. hat what I have said may suffice to van attention to a great public evil, and lead to the estatlishment of better and more humane arrangements for the care of the afflicted, with a wiser consideration for the public good.— I am, Sir, &c., &c., MARrrus. Liverpool, 6th November, 1852. ur space at present I,W AY ACCOMMODATION INSUFFICIENT RAIL To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD SIII,—I are in the habit of coming to Liverpool occa sionally, by the morning trains, sometimes from Huyton, sometimes from Broad-green, and often observe the dan gerous rush, at both stations, made by passengers to get places, in consequence of the insufficiency of accommo dation Although I have long pitied this short-sighted, miserable economy on the part of the directors of the company, to whom just complaints have, I understand, proved unavailing, yet, I fancied the serious injury re cently sustained by a young gentleman (Mr. Sparks), at Huyton, since dead, through their wretched economy, would have awakened them to a proper sense of their duty, by an immediate remedy of the unjust and un pardonable evil. No such thing. On Saturday morning, at Broad-green, the rush for places was greater than ever, and I believe some people were left behind. The filthy state of the carriages, even when you get in, and want of punctuality as to time, are disagreeable enough—worse than any line in Europe. Even in Ireland and Scotland the carriages are cleaner and better, the fares more mo derate, and the punctuality much greater. Should the sordidness or incapacity of this company induce them still to turn a deaf ear to the voice of justice, cleanliness, or death, an investigation by authority, for the sake of the public, becomes indispensable. MERCATOR. Liverpool, Bth November, 1852. HORTICULTURE. OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, Src.—The excessively wet weather which prevails at this season requires that fire heat, with the side sashes open, should be applied to the Conservatory and Greenhouse during the day occasionally, for the purpose of expelling the damp, otherwise mildew will make great havoc with everything. Nothing suffers so much from this pest as the crysanthennum,:the varieties of which now rank amongst the most favourite winter flowers of the greenhouse. They are, however, fre quently very much disfigured by mildew at this season ; if it is once started amongst them, nothing but a thorough application of finely powdered sulphur will cure the evil. The little pompone crysanthemums are all very beautiful when carefully cultivated, and they appear to vary in their times of flowering, so there is reason to hope we may succeed in getting a succession of them. Tree carnations are worth any trouble ; they are easily managed in the greenhouse, and furnish a constant supply of their de lightfully aromatic flowers all through the winter. In the forcing fruit-houses, if they are required to be used for very early forcing, they should be got in readiness im mediately. Flower Garden.—Cut down dahlias, and the first dry weather raise the roots carefully, and put them under cover to dry before storing them away. Plant tulips, crocuses, snowdrops, and other hardy bulbs. Ranun culuses are quite as well planted in February. MISCELLANEA. Greenhouses in Winter.—Very few persons appear to know the value of the sponge in a greenhouse,—l mean for the purpose of washing the leaves of all those plants with leaves broad enough to admit of it. 1 took the hint some five years ago from a neighbour, the most successful plant-grower 1 have ever had the good fortune to know. His plants were always so especially fresh and healthy that I was for a long time puzzled to understand his secret ; and he always declared be had no secret. But early one morning I caught him with a pail of clean water, slightly warm, by his side, sponging the leaves of all his choice plants. I said to myself, " I have it." I did more, I went home and practised it. My plants soon showed, by their new aspect, that I was not wrong in believing it to be the real secret of my neighbour's success. — Horticulturist. FREEMASONRY A sermon has just been published which was preached in the Cathedral Church of Bangor, by the Very Rev. the Dean, on the 6th of September, before the Society of Freemasons of North Wales and Shropshire. The rev. preacher gives some account of the origin and progress of Freemasonry, tracing the former in this country to the introduction of Christianity, and attributing to it the knowledge of architecture which has raised so many ec- clesiastical structur Of its uses lie says " It is to the members of the Craft that we owe those stately towers that figure and shadow out the stability of that Church against which the gates of hell shall not pre vail ; as also the taper spire, whose head reaches to the heavens, pointing out to us higher worlds, and leading our thoughts from earth to heaven. To them we owe the lofty shaft, the sweeping arch, the winged buttress, the the fretted vault, the cloistered walk—all alike adapted, and calculated at once to call to meditation, to excite de votion, to perfect praise. Upon these monuments of eminent skill, and of beautiful design, so full of mind, (a cluster of contrivances, in which beauty is always madc. subservient to utility, but in which.utiliiy always termi nates.in beauty ;1 upon these we may gaze with delight, and the more appreciate the more we understand their accurate proportions, their emblematical designs, and significant devices. And indeed with re hang over these buildings with high intellec son may we tion - al delight, we know that Christopher Wren, the great master of the Palladian style, himself a Mason, declared (it is said) of one of these buildings, that he could have raised such, could he have known how and where to place the first stone." Taking for his text 1 Peter, ii. 17, " Honour all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the King," he enlarges with genuine eloquence upon the practice of the several virtues enjoined, and pleading in behalf of the Carnarvonshire and Anglesey Infirmary, concludes with the following forcible peroration : " Let us then observe the promise of the Word of God, and the practice of the Son of God. The Promise— " Blessed is the mar. who provideth for the sick and needy, the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble." The Practice—" He went about doing good and healing all." Onward then be our path ; inward be our prayer ; upward be our faith, hope, and charity. Give holily, and so please God,—give liberally, and so please all men, —give cheerfully, and so honour the brotherhood and sa tisfy yourselves. No man is liberal in the degree in which he should be, but he who makes his own luxuries yield to his neighbour's comforts, his own comforts to his neigh bour's wants, and his own wants to his neighbour's ex treme necessities. If we would obey this rule, we must learn to dress with less decoration, and to dine less dain tily ; a few shreds of our fine linen, a remnant of our ptirple clothing, and the few crumbs which fall from our tables, would serve to feed the hungry, cover the naked, and comfort the sick. " Dearly beloved Brethren,—the Scripture moveth us in sundry places, to be " willing to give, and to be glad to distribute." I will not burden you, I ask you no more than my Master bids me to ask. I ask you then this only, to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, —" It is more blessed to give than to receive." BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.—The Registrar- General has just issued his quarterly return, from which we learn that the marriages, births, and deaths, exceed the average, so that the result is mixed , indicating great activity in all the sources of employment, hut no general diminution of the causes of mortality. 80,014 persons were 4 married n i e n w t l f i a e m q i u l i a e r s t ejeending a b .l l i u s n b e e d 3 ,0 o t , r 5 1 , 8 2 5 8 2 6 ; m a o n r d e t t i h m u n s were established in the corresponding quarter of 1848. The proportion of persons married to the population was 1,766 ; of marriages 883 in 100,000 ; while the average numbers are respectively 1,655 and 82S. The increase in the marriages appears to be greatest in London, where in the quarter they were 6,713, or 1,304 more than in the corresponding quarter of 1848. In Hampshire, Devon, Somerset, Cheshire, Lancashire, Durham, Cumberland, and South Wales, and gener a lly i n th e por t s f rom which emigrants sail, an unusual number of marriages was celebrated. 151,193 birth s was reg i s t ere d i n the quarter ending September 30th, 1852. The number slightly exceeds the high number registered in the corresponding quarter of 1851, and is trea t er by 31,371 th a n the number registered in 1840. Within the last twelve months 621,260 children have been enrolled on the national re gisters. The rate of births in England is influenced by the seasons ; it is higher in the first than it is in the last two quarters of the year, in the proportion of 34 to 31. As 15.1,193 births and 100,497 deaths have been registered in the quarter, the natural increase is 50,696, which is at thexate 0f:3,1i9.9 weekly, id 557 daily. DISTRICT following stance MUNlClPALcontests however, returned, is the result, the two first•named i n `7; nif 1 7 be leb rfi G ,ii , Poo g s; *.e_cra-builder, 103; *Mr. Edwin Steel, surge°!;.„ol: * j .o l 1 ir.w.Tilhlioammasß:Vynororladlsl,,_ tanner,miller, 8842.; SAofur.thc-betziariii:os9li :I 111,. ' Joseph B ax t e r Edelsten, file tnanufacturenjobtl draper, 75. South-west y ar d : ilr‘l,.. Toy. p k e ß r. y 4 l l an ; d; ir. wire josmepahnoufwacetnu,rderra,:e3r;,37`.ll4,7,,eforit il nt Ward: *Mr. William Geddes, teadealer,O,T;criford N I _*Mr. William Pierpoint, builder, unopposed. if Those confidentlys this er 'aar a ; cde t e i l ::. - e c 37 party irorarir p jeg o oi k t i lv n h : en n es tlloinreff retiri ng C ael in creases Wright,' t n es h e : e d . n : scfm e i A l i v r t a i r'. na l se ' A e a aylvd:noel:c 1 II:til:0:a the : erC Li t i I l el l 1 ' ------------ ardian AND WA LES GRlFFlTH,llN:NhMoinT:f'eLs‘nNtorlsl.:lllßkel3°- llsnt : October E '1 ,eneir.isl_h:wtaitargstpauhseusbiagnbstesteesedi e reen n innyeg a soiet P ,enTfr P estavi ° :_tee i hha ri xsfaelod t dictarsiowi:obyoct; risger:o 3t9oooifirt, gent. phans of the Irish c T O H N E S Hu n ed ---- apep docks i i , e , a , sdE t uslisnappylionrfgtyeFd.linFti.rst i jieut. 14 stgate-row, —heCliarles James Trel(jrll°Per' with the s c 7 o s ' total, m pa a r i c l e s Improvement Comm bCcolmietvrnitolleinsatsdhfioocarnt:t:sh..c..etrb.sroisn.ttsite:a.lo, T F J ~ T a P o " CaitweekLieut. 1 eg i bens, l ' T ° o lli t li Bridgewater th uo a o r o e ro a , b a o n u t t i to to m fo a r k m e e a x o t eon; i i v i n e o n o d CHESTER X 3332 14s 7 la st increatse6:lc7s.2ll; ended AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY „ 55 105., - - : good's, cattle, tkc., .7-0- mote. rresponding week of last yea r s "" n ThOle RAIL`a, as the ACCIDENT AT BIRXE:4OFAD.""'"'n Ante t b 1 the last London train was about to . - .l. 9 ttea ° ruxßausmlsl2ol:3l'ueßarr4Tiej d ff Ga sd 1 l oos )ctTri°l:,icalEtethrsieetqtsi ht.oi it w' t off the line in consequence of the ni _ lo t, ntsman. Fortunately no lives we; t be i the engine was very much page CHESHIRE m of the po THE MILITIA . IN FLINTSHIR.. . . n bei 40 , _l c _ I in . that e At influential Rn serve.f regarduG eAnTt greatsame ' h of en' hoodlL.nn North 0 this o rt f ht countyl I I er i e n s u wi t s s i ii almost n u o u t smtrbe:ennr:: rofustnen :lit:, ing, the 28t iE h cibaAril u , T l the Welsh T h , dissenting - -te d u r e l : T e b .:lle a eel : : : :dv b ie e tsr° e lt n ibt _ tb : tfa i brut ie nem-rek l itr: ni_orlikiieli,'. .„ 13 Lift . !,: els.N e erEn e L n tis g nti ag c el i i t n c ll dissuadin gßi RgE ::::: r 5 fr ::: T i e fle ° l e : h t. e , aPernaceeetiSnogci:.atys hheall'edobilstT° pope, tv energy for the object 135Puttlets e o n N u 3p r iaD c rrc h .t it ine i sEa n sva Tir ß eeEs i a r r Ib l AcoyirrnaphdbLeduatisavni , 1:1. : . ._ e o :0 ; :go: es i tgoo e rc • epe n : i s rl.. ii t ivi e llb r ,;l ' l, : i - vg i .gf t worthyatrhai a n d liev- J. P. Davies, with a handsome gen!tifled bi,itali was taken by the Rev. Dr. Bay lee, who he testis! ° ,r'rre beautiful surplice. The proceedings of tb;,_, w b. _. greatly enlivened musice 'Welsh Choral Soct 7 fociooP• RP ILI Air; during indefatigable w i The eSi'o, the next session. An act Ices e ...„g 1.6 t ' r, for a period up to 1854 ; it is not, howefeed Ora ..,eo and easha:;:dll:ldns;:eu i raffli t o e ': e . i l l ee , :t o iee° o :l t n e i mined whether the old line will be 0100 „ awl sonore set out. A single line only is spoken of 5 . 5 1"000$9; ,joss This can be Eccomplished at a very trilling to t I°' especially so as we hear that the landowoer° tias/' for it.—Chester Courant. 01 1 I gh ° Oil ° RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CHESTEO,. bbe -,-e oi o f about mdnight, the engine which tooll s , / its I° .,aieg the boole bank left a portion of the. Junction s goods train out tieing unable to e r .,es o'oo C arr .. l 7o o gte i ° upon the line. By some means this in. . caw .0 tittloo , fro motion, and running back into Chester s _ ~000 °_ ,Itbe that was just leaving. The collision sertoa I_loolol,re, civilt . tre subject to prepared the contact with a London and Nortb.vre.stesr.loo„,the North-western engine, and broke to pieees,,%ol thefritbe wagons. The driver ed nearly unhorlooon ° en of in continuation man was much scalded; and tie bre?bat pee face if Cheshire Junction train who was "'Wired i the train that ran back, 'was much in u . severely cut and his shoulder dislocated. o der s ll l l' o l PROPOSED RAILWAY.--We are giVe.° TreighbOOrpo, that some gentlemen in Rutbin and tV„bens°,ll4iloll eabe,irntgle;fifooolcio; irointioeerollon taking, to aP ° here t " branch to the Crown Inn, Llandegla, or, i. an d t ~, g e r or west, between that and Dafern-dotOrcu.t of pnerg, n a t. P P t ir:etvoacimooaefkd R e Ta 1 lento terminate f t s l 1 : eme uenufiedeneeersgssptaaitrenlyideei sptri:lafpf trains, on having the concurrence 0 1 .. .. a nd . `', o (ler through whose lands the line will Ps"'for wisedis" die gentlemen areprepared to find the Me e, pr 3 for . t o Doe , i ifi ,13 are enabled to go to parliament in the garrootices , which it is indispensable that the neeesoorant. • pea be published without delay. __Chester, ......A.n adjouree, BIRKENHEAD BUILDL:G S°clqlc;,, a nu ildir ge dr to beorsetcluieredproensetnht: p fo ro r j te,che tsrparnisobtg 018.02::: meeting for the purpose .'of establisel: neigbbou _told ciety for the town of Birkenhead and th e.,,,t), TaverPeithr was held on 'Wednesday last, at the Li' ISiderSti°.°o 9°1); was very numerously attended. The c° the oleelLo, 104 proposed rules wa s again gone • into, ano,;‘rjaesil:oo F, sequently adjourned until to.tnorrow Co'verain alresdt proceeding with the rules, and for the .. hafe y ell' . trustees. A very larze number of meroberjersoogg or joined the society. Thin association, we°, A nJ LI cv mences under peculiarly favourable auspiee',4ortiaficter • ties ''''' s till . b ee perience in the working of such socie , , oc rs e , ~ at once insures its being pre.eminentl s',,iol b Joel! the ' tbe 11 0 ported by a number of gentlemen of longhrese ,h;sr The want of a well-conducted society of , to upon' increased in Birkenhead since the comPle.,ed on that side of the water was finally d ecide wish the undertaking every success. stoker b A c 861 1 TnE PROVOKED Wire --On gotl"9-,,t0 ol,;ii, able to have her own way Foregate-street, in this ciiy, was throw!, e ' - ss , the r be i, quietude by the disappearance of its Mistt in Oter,.i.b' a licensed victualler. It is stated that, roattc,osi4 threatened to drown herself; and whe n as Of the doors came, and her absence w as ti'to ege.itc" e el feared that she had carried loverheat I. pot , 1 . , t or e Tuesday morning inquiries set nely tO U'eosl direction in which her whereabout was 111,sacre50ie b and established, but in vaio. The 11°,0iii 00016 much alarm, and it was considered ce r ` r i, the c olas/ done it at last ; and as a dernier resstbn t he 4t ea but fruitlessly. . bad OP ng, when the faMill in some dottlesro' e for Lit 00 rive; Were dragged, Wednesday g • to disclose: _uode, seek her dr eaci' l , , e 65 Or draw her frailties iron) tt:eicicustowe!,i, opr. t he made her appearance in the ;_ A o used_ e d,tgo aughed heartily at the bother she Ir con ce lesson to_r he r 88 81 AOlll further to no one would vem...- - Chronicle. (OP • meeting NoTVf this - bodyCwomssm Queen's Arms llotel, hallLisear, . 0- " o f the c oilf" t i i 1 7 , sicf: o e i 01 ' 1; 1 , 11 :: —rneeedings t c ~ere, no pru— v ._„ ,ommittee, or the lighting ""n whlia od o r , o r The law-clerk read an opinio from Mr. Cowling, barrister, as t ° in e the commissioners to make foot-ro, ~det -t* the tOWnSbr °W CO ri"A A resoTiFoor-riie 01 , 4 i t t , improvement committee to form ,efirool_a 0 0 „, c oo, construction in the road betweel i,ool.l.olgbt b` l . 0; wont, King-street, Trafalgar-ro"'....bich r . ° , i t es oti ° o veral of the roads in the tovvnship, ,',,. e r atn_ e re f. r e', sidered desirable, was adopted• il..i,iis of 1 ,": f er! , 0 ' r. Fellows, applying watch committee, which included ?,`,lnrerestietter%etot business, not possessing any ptt b IT.I VT 0 r 11 , 0 and confirmed without observed° c•o_,,h ,0,:, t 0,,,, from M and the other from' Mr. William recho're, c f o f, OA ing star grass on land near the set' d i s pos e Some routine matters having beell missioners adjourned. .for ~i; „..rrelstele' vele,' to the effect that the make such foot-roads O tern s .i t 'l l a ias t nb e ß ae d i ni r i t a l , } adaLt nlei l. eAfde:segLnitehaLddl the defendants , l, CRUELTY itnI sh9sve,ailcppwerpTroces renaxceentrsdiolS:seadscil. :e l': sr: A sse l e0:14.11 1. 0 :11; irt u n: : :: ee l f ee e l ' sooo. 3.l :_ dbt i oi r os e eo o l s : l. tot i n I r ti tib r e:3o l e P ti j i e : 4 o ' ot ° ll,, i ,e b t l i i f Ic a l , 1 ) 1 01: : : ,) ) ' ,1i0 1" :f. 11 vo a i n no t I eu ie ro a , she:fd the w n s ' l a with a rope, was yt a n t te servant - girlded b y h,;:ell'enisbbee'rtc°::o:tuer:.‘ill:,' presented by Mr. Bardswell. The,,;;os' M,Yc ,, 'bet °, an inmate of the Liverpool Orl2P•rse girt, 01 0 o ite , occasions in which her roaster arid cn i6 r d lai ° oat of or magistrates on riclnf• self Sir p or.nrcog end, and had locked her up in the eel'iOeti 1 0 ' - io PO 7 ,, length, by Mr. Bardsvvell, without s that be t o e co p. her evidence. He stated, however.' bt os !f e e to b eti , able to place the matter in such ti ! ig to sill: 44 the m ' AiffictotY, 643(0,610,0r . agistrates, without any .. sir 09 - 4 composed of three cortsr, 00 it_ec000,110,0!, elusion favourable to his client. had bee rat t tiv' in his opening, stated that the case ,‘„,ooe ea' fily cealed because the girl had received u s '-'7 b ut IP f ;klP,Oll' Mr. Pemberton to hush the matter .._!..vi' letlgo4, le:or stances of the case had corne to tbei6l';, Orre esti' 'dents of ti) I)* I , ton, who had instituted these proce. iii., nu _op ” tion was further adjourned until tbts 0 Y.OO ftlefit'l)P, THE BIRKEN HEAD COMMISSIOSrgr. 5.10 b e f el moved to other localities, the usual monthly meeting of this 110,)'„occe,„eps ttcf" and ve'12,0:., whiel!fjorl49.l, pied the chair. It was suggested in tii_e,crerol P,,otst,„to', lighting and watch committee that,;4 i.t.nuit -reiiii, was the large one nt Woodside Vl;fle Joel; 0011,ry., posed to remove to 31 arket.sqoVe• J• mrontec:,' ~brie',,,t'3 about to be resumed, permission was 7 003 l'aotiptiv 0 as before, free of charge, but sneer „ Ate s t fre j olv might be made by the commis- ~5000_,0tr be the bouWer Poo s,oer tion to the trustees, to quarry sto,ne lob reogroyoor iV en empowered to remove dto IsT the c0t0,3 approaches to Woodside Fern' , aa in, p roe ofe ia tt fc A meeting having been at Oston to u,c, 0 t b: ,po,r and it having appeared that this c t o io I 'had be _nolkoovii, done within the township, a deputa. :the illweiihes‘lifi.,s!, to ascertain for what retnuneratttoo the Dir fttellye; would allow the drainage to run ln utatiorill de 01'0 1 , 1 let sewers. A meeting with the dP. be n Ol f) tof oetv I Oil r for next week. — the arrangement iota D ing, t g ( 0 o ill Ravenscroft for the continuation an ..., recetP4eopo.4., maelie.road.—lt appeared that the0191:1, 13 the el,O. f,,,rsl, bet had been £l,BB-1 against .£2,1 .„.le bta-9`PfittP., month of 1851. The receipts for IN October NC's '' 4" o IF the 24th of April and the 31st of. rio t yes, 'oititl, ' £12,386 in the same perio:it.oli the 2/" expendsture for the half -year en 0 £8,200.