The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

g finptriat VartiamEnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THuRsDAr. OATHS OF lIONLIN CATHOLICS. The Bishop of EXETER., in a very able and elaborate address, supported the prayer of the Cork petition, that the house would adopt measures to render effectual the sworn engagements of Roman Catholics not to subvert the present church establish ment, and not to weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government. The rev. prelate's calm and contemptuous de. fiance of Lord J. Russell, who, when he had nothing else to say, always began to talk about the Bishop of Exeter, was very effective. He concluded in the following► words :—" He hoped that if the noble lord had no regard for the dignity of his office, for the sake of justice, of generosity, that he had some friend in that house—and he would trust to his manliness, if there were a particle of it in' him—who would 'come forward in an open and candid manner, so that he might meet him face to face, or that henceforth he should be silent On this subject." 'Lord MELBOCRIs,E, in a very feeble answer, demonstrated that his theological studies have been as unsuccessful as his political ones. His liberal notion of-the mode of interpreting oaths smacks of the school of the Jesuit Garnet, who was the colleague of that eminent agitator Guy Fawkes, Lord WHA UNCLIPFE ended the discussion by thanking the the Bishop of Exeter for having given him the opportunity of stating his opinion, that no person who took that oath could be justified in the course which some Roman Catholics had adopted With respect to the Irish church. He would not say that any Roman Catholic noble lord, or other member of the legislature, who conscientiously believed that in supporting certain mea sures he was ❑ot injuring the established church, was liable to a charge of wilful violation of his oath; but the case was very different with those who-held different . language, and who openly professed that their- object in supporting those measures was the injury of the established church,—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THuRsDay Committees were appointed to try the merits of the election petitions for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Durham city. • After an immense number of petitions on various subjects, Mr. Hume fixed Tuesday next for a motion on the subject of printing the speeches of Mr. O'Connell to which the reprimand referred. Mr. O'CONNELL postponed his motion relative to election committees and qualification-oaths for office, the latter at Mr. WYNN'S request, in honour of the anniversary of St. David. The hon.-member having on Wednesday "eat his leek," haS no doubt as great a veneration for the Welsh saint as ancient Pistol had after a similar process. Captain Pfic HELL'S motion for, "a return of slave shtps cap tured since-February, 1836," was, after some discussion, agreed to. Mr. 13LacKszolstres motion for " a return of union work houses, &c.," ; was, at the request of Lord J. RussaLL, post poned till Monday. 114-ft 0-.-I;;Atmt R, after some conversation, withdrew his mo tion for " Mr. E. Chadwiek's letter of January 6, 1838. &c.," on the understanding that it would be produced when in a com plete shape. Some conversation followed Sir F.TRENCEi'S motion respect ing the better lighting and ventilation of the house. Lord J. RUSSELL then, after an explanatory speech of some length obtained leave to bring in "bills relating to the adminis tration of jtistice at quarter sessions in England and Wales." Mr. P. MAHONY obtained leave to bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the office of sheriffs and under-sheriffs of counties and cities in Ireland." The house adjourned about nine o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS—FRrnAr . . Lord 13nouGuAm, on presenting a petition for the abolitinn of imprisonment for debt, said, that the committee of inquiry 'on the subject had now nearly closed its labours—that the in quiries had been extensive, and that much daylight had broken 'ilfhpou the committee. . Lord 13sountis34 then alluded to the remarks of members in tbe'Vinnmons,ori Thursday, on Capt. Pechell's motion, charg ing him with having accused the officers.of the navy of unfairly seeking.'" head-money," of which he complained. - His lordship declare% that he had only spoken of the " tendency" of the head-money system and moved for a series of papers illustra . tive of the conduct Of vessels before, on the dart, and after the . capture of slave ships, &c. After observations from Lord Minto, the Duke of Welling ton, &c., the papers were ordered. . The Archbishop off' CA NIERBURY gave notice, that, on Thurs day next, he would present the petition from the inhabitants of Camberwell regarding the stability of the church establishment, &c. Their lordships. then adjourned until Monday. HOUSE OP COMMONS.—FRIDAY. In the Commons, the report from the Durham city election committee was presented; it confirmed the return of the sitting member. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition fiom the trustees of Soanes Museum, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Hamilton ; the Earl of Aberdeen,Sir M. Shee, Sir F. Chantrey, &c., praying that no -bill might be entertained to subvert the testator's directions by dividing the museum, &c. Capt. PECkiELL and Sir E. ConatNoroN, in reference to Lord Brougham's complaint of their remarks on his lordship's charge respecting " head-money , " said, that they still adhered to the observations they had felt it then their duty to make in answer to his lordship's attacks. Mr. P. THOstSON, i❑ answer to Mr. M'Kinnon's inquiry,. said, that he did not see that any benefit would result from the appointment of a select committee on the improvements in• steam machinery as appliCable to navigation, except there were some specific object in the inquiry. The Hon Mr. LANGDALE made a very formal complaint of tile Bishop of Exeter's mention of him and his opinions on the Catholic oath; and he was followed by the Attorney-General, Mr. O'Connell, and Lord Howick, they also complaining of the rev. prelate's notices of them and their opinions. The house afterwards, on the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, again resolved into committee on the poor relief (Ireland) bill; Which chiefly occupied the remainder of the sitting. In a coal-pit, at Greeng4res, about fire miles west from "r."rt". 4 was f 0 ,..---t - ctubeddeil in the milid about six fathoms below the surface, and between a level bed tif iron-stone and dalk. Its lodgment was in a soft wet mass, and .the animal was sent to Glasgow in a perfectly lively condition. —Scotch paper. A SECON D DANTEL LAMBERT.-At Handley, near Welling ton, Shropshire, there is a publican of the enormous weight of 21 score Illbs. This' man's father, a short time before his death, weighed 30 score. If the son should continue to increase in weight as fast as he has done of late, before long he will be heavier thari his father was. He is six feet high, and in every respect proportionably made. TH R Use oe - A EixT.lt ought to be knovim as generally as possible, that-a man's hat will serve in most cases as a tempo rary life-preserver, to persons in hazard of drowning, by at tending to the 'following directions :—When a person finds himself in, or about to be in the water, let him lay hold of his hat between his hands, laying the crown close under his chin, and the mouth under the water. By this means the quantity of air contained in the cavity of the hat will be softeient to keep the head above water for several hours, or until assistance can be rendered. THE Ass tzfis.—The northern circuit commenced at Appleby, on Monday. Wills, the reputed murderer of Hunter. the Kendal and Orton carrier, was discharged, the grand jury having ignored the bill against him under the direction of the judge, the evidence not being sufficient to convict him. This will not preclude his being indicted at any future assizes. John Ilusser, German broom-seller, • was charged with stea►ing a sheep, the property of Mr. Charles Bourne, farmer, at Elsiug ham Laithes, on the previous Tuesday. was found guilty. au-I Sentenced to twelve .months' 'imprisonment at Carlisle. The only cause of any interest was an action for slanderous im putations. of a delicate nature, brought by Mrs. Jardine, a widow, against a Miss Calvert, both residing in the village of 16,R:herby. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £5. THE S,%rNT LA wittNcE.—The vastness of this mighty river, the shores of which at this moment excite so deep an interest far exceeds all nor European conceptions. Its entrance from Labrador to Nova Scotia is 106 leagues, running a course of nearly 3000 mires, varying► from one to ninety miles broad, 2000 of which are rtavigable by large ships, and the remainder by vessels up to 61) tons. The great basin of St. Lawrence con tains in mass more than one half of the fresh water in the world, the superficial a rea of which being 72,930 square miles, a quan tity which would form a cubic column of nearly 21 miles on each side. , ,GKOTE' RAT-TRAP EctirrsED.—We understand the radical premium for '‘ a box, a whole box and nothing but a box," is likely to slip through the fingers of Groat the Great. A gen tleman on the bankS of the. Wye having set his brains to work, has, it is said, succeeded in inventing a ballot-box that, in com mon parlance, will '• beat M . r..Grnte's into fits." It ' is reported to be.. so novEft, -- itrgenietiii, and perfect an invention, that an electar might as well attempt to scan an eclipse through a deal board as hope to practise atiick through it. It is further added. that it is so simple and, compact of its kind, that it maybe easily winced from one polling district to another with the assistance of a team of horses. —He..efurd Times. SHOCK 1:;: . G . CIRCUMSTANCE.—A person of the name of Thos. Blenilal, of Elawcoat, a village about six Miles:from Ulverston, who unfortunately lived an uncomfortable life with his wife, has hail recourse,tin a moment of passion, to a-most unprecedented expedient in °Met to rid.himself of his troubles. Blendal was in a st.atea-ifilowxication, sad .grcatla excited at the-time, owin, t o some trifling dispute ; 'and he asked his wife for some gun powder whiCh-was in the house, anti which she after hesitaing, some little time, gave to him. • Ile directly threwit into the tfire it is said with the hortible intention of destroying his wife, but happily staei-sraperl by running out of the house. The melan choly result of the explosion was, that Blendal lost the sight of both his eyeti; and also received serious bodily injury, which in all probability, has rendered him an example for life, of the consequences of unbridled passion_ The windows were all blown out, and the furniture so injured as to be of very little - vatue.- 7 Lancaster Gazette. • COST OF NECT(6LITY.—One of the New York papers ad vfTlising to the cost incurred by the United States in maintain ing neutrality on the Canada fi millers, states it to be as follows: --.197,000 dollars to pay the three thousand militia called into s...t3rvice on the northern frontier for three months; 80,00) dol- Lirs for travelling from and returning to their homes; 300,000 dollars for various objects of supply ; 15,000 dollars for ac coutrements; 7,5110 dollars for surgeon's department; I6,0(X) dollars for arms and equipage; 60,000 for provisions. " Thus," says the Commercial Adeertiser,, the journal quoted from, " g75,0(X) dollars must be paid by the people of the United States, in order that Mr. M.Kensie may flourish awhile as an important personage, and Mr. Van Rensselaer make a fool of himself." MRS. NORTON.—There is at present a suit pending in the 'Connor Common Pleas, which affords considerable conversa.: lion among the gentlemen of the long robe, and the legal pro fession generally. It is an action• brought by Messrs. StOrr, Mortimer, and Hunt, the celebrated jewellers of Bond-street, "Piccadilly, against the Hon. George 'Chapple Norton, to re •cover the sum of I Is. 6d., the b4lance of £229 12s. 6d., he, the defendant, having paid £l2B Is. into court for good sold and delivered to hitt' and to his wife, the Hon. Mrs. Nor toe, to recover the sum of £lOl Hs. 6d., the balance of £229 12s. 6d., he the defendant, having paid £l2B Is. into court for goods sold and (telivered to him and to his wife, the Hon. Mrs. 'Norton, consisting of plate, jewellery,' and several articles of bijouterie, a port ign of which was supplied to Mrs. Norton since her separation from Mr. Norton, and since the appearance of an advertisement in the public prints, setting forth that that gen tleinarywould not be answerable for any debts that Mrs. Nor ton might occur after their separation, Much speculation is afloat as to the defence that will he adopted at the trial, which is anticipated will savour of certain ctitions di,elosures. Ser jeant Wi4'de and Serjeant Talfourd are the plaintiff's counsel. The cause is expected to come on at the sittings after next• Easter term. The object of these proceedings we believe to be a decision; not so - mileh as to the liability of Mr. Norton, as to the grwinlis of his - separation from his lady.—We have heard hem varintis quarters that a reconciliation- was likely to take Plat's) bettii - #O, therial-tie, and shall be glad to find that such an etent. may vet put a stop to the" cause here 'alluded •to. —John Bulk • ;•::•%‘- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE, PARIS, MARCH, 1. REPORTED ALARMING NEWS FROM AMERICA. Yesterday afternoon the most alarming news of a commer cial and financial character were put into circulation at the bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies. It was said, and is re peated to-day by La Presse and by the Courrier Francais, the former believing, and the latter denying the news, the Count Mole bad received an official letter from the United States, to inform him that a political and financial crisis, of a terrific cha racter, would shortly break out in that country, much worse than that of last vear—that the American government is unable to pay the 12,000,000 of francs due by it to France; and that 4,000,000 of francs of merchandise ordered by the Americans from Lyons would not be paid for. The Presse of day adds, that 'Belgium is also on the eve of having its commercial crisis— and that London must not, and cannot expect to escape from a financial Catastrophe: All this news was, however, put into circulation by the friends and agents of the government, at the very moment when the sixth bureau was engaged in naming its -comissioner to form part of the general commission for ex amining the proposition of M. Gouin as to the 5 per cents. It would seers, however, that the news did not produce theex pected effect, for the bureau appointed M. Moreau as commis s►nner, who, in spite of the expected financial disaster's, is still one who insists on the conversion of the 5 per cents. If, then, the reports in question were nothing more than a ruse, it has failed ; and the ministry, which thinks itself so " capable," so intelligent, and enlightened, will be unable to form such a five per cent. commission as it would desire. SPAIN. A .telegraphic diSpafch from Bortleaux,dated Feb. 27, is to the following effect The assembled bands of Jara, of Peco, and others, to the number of 2000 infantry and 800 cavalry, were attacked on the 18th in the environs of Yebenes, in the province of Toledo, by the Brigadier ' , linter, who gained a complete victory over them. . There were 130 dead, 309 wounded, and 13-10 made prisoners, of wilom 40 were officers or chiefs ; 300 horses, a great quantity of arms, and all the baggage were likewiie the prizes of this most fortunate affair." So, according to this account, which is and most be greatly exaggerated, there were 1779 killed, wounded, or made prison erg, out of 2800. This is a manifest lie. Besides which, we now bear for the first time of the bands of Jara, Poet), &c. amounting to 2000 infantry and 800 cavalry. We have heard of 600 infantry and 200 cavalry-800 in all—but never till now of 2800.: That a victory has been gained is unquestionable, but the Bourdeaux telegraph has seen with a magnifying glass or telescope of immense powers indeed. The Extraordinary Gazette de Madrid of the 21st publishes the report of the Brigadier ' , linter, dated 18th February, of the head quarters of Yebenes. - The Quotidienne, in reference to this affair, says, "If Jara,. Peco. and other Carlist chiefs equally unknown, have with them 2000 infantry and 800 cavalry, what must be the forces under Basilio Garcia and Palillos?" A. letter from Cordova, of the I2th ult. states that Cabrera had not only estOlished a communication with Don Basilio Garcia, but that thee chiefs hart an interview, at which a plan of offensive operations was agreed upon, by which the safety of the city of Valencia itself will shortly be seriously compromised. A letter from Bayonne, dated Feb. 25, says—‘• On the 231 inst. all the English pieces of artillery were taken to St. Se bastian to be placed upon the heights and line of liernani; and the same day three companies of royal British marines entered that town to form the garrison, the Spanish troops having aban doned the point, with the exception of the National Guards, who are occupying the chateau." HANOVER. (From the Standard. A friend in Hanover has forwarded to us the following authentic translation of the King's Speech upon his Majesty's opening of the session:— COPY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF HANOVER'S SPEECH, On opening the Session of the States of the Kingdom of Hanover. on the 20th day of Febroary„lB3B. " High and Mighty Prince, Ncible Loids. and Gentlemen of the States, "To my great joy the moment is at last arrived when I see you, the worthy representatives of the kingdom assembled around my throne. " When I found myself induced to declare, by my proclama tion of the Ist of November, 1837, the obligatory power of the Constitution of the 26th of September, 1833, to be entirely null and void, several individuals endeavoured to prejudice the pub lic mind by promulgating the opinion, that it was my intention to govern in an arbitrary manner over those who have been entrusted to my care by Divine Providence. " Arbitrary government I have ever detested, and it is only by law and by justice that I will govern my beloved subjects. " In order to give you, my worthy States, a convincing proof of the sincerity of my intentions, 1 have directed to be laid be fore you for your consideration the draft of a constitution for rnv kingdom, framed upon the principles by which the German na tions were long rendered happy. - " I fully confide in the certain hope that my views will coin cide with yours upon all material points of this proposed new Constitution. "Besides the above-mentioned document, there will he laid before you certain other important propositions for legislative enactment, which will claim your particular attention. " 1 hereby declare that the States are formally opened." All the members took the oaths most cheerfully, thereby recognising formally the Constitution of 1819, and equally his Majesty's undoubted right of annulling the illegal Constitution of 183.3. That point, therefore, is settled. There are but three unrepresented towns in the kingdom; and the absence of their representatives was in part the result of accident, The King's speech was heard with most respectful attention. His Majesty spoke with marked emphasis in ex pressing his detestation of " arbitrary government." The con stitution of the Lower Chamber (about the constitution of the Upper Chamber there could never be any anxiety) is highly satisfactory—the number of the seditious and refractory mem bers does not exceed three or four, the rest are all prudent, in telligent, and well-disposed men, In the evening his Majesty entertained the members of both chambers, when much loyal enthusiasm was manifested; the care- genet ally excellent. tbat of the Cro. peculiarlywhen his health was arunic, was noted as modest, graceful, and full of feeling. It produced a wonderful im pression. The Swabian Mercury of the 26th ult. annonnces that the King of Hanover would proceed to Berlin in the course of the present spring, and be present at the grand manoeuvres which are to be commanded by Prince William. It was believed in Berlin on the 20th, that the Crown Prince of Russia would be married to a Princess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, during the feasts which the King of Prussia is to give to his illnstrious guests during their stay in his capital. THE UN ['FED STATES. The Quebec brings the following intelligence:— TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION. (From the New Yurk American, Feb. 8.) ENCROACHMENTS ON THE WESTERN TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Mr. Coshing moved to take up and refer an executive mes sage, on the table of the•house, giving information concerning the extreme western territory of the United States. Mr. C. said, that Great Britain was , a t the pre sen t momen t, p ursu i ng, or at least permitting, a series of gross encroachments on that part of the territory of the United States; encroachments, fla grant, palpable, monstrous; which it was time the whole nation should understand. The message was accordingly taken up.'and referred to the committee on Foreign Affairs. The United States and Mexican President Bustamente, in a speech at the opening of the Mexican Congress, thus notices the difference between the two nations:— I regret to announce to you, that the government of the United States has not only appreciated the conduct of the Re public in sustaining with dignity the rights of the nation in ac knowledging with the utmost candour the justness of some of the claims, and denying with some frankness that of many others, as fuunded neither on public right, nor international law, our own claims have met with no satisfaction on the part of the Cabinet, and 1 will not look upon the harmony whi c h should exist between two people for their mutual prosperity, as perfectly re-established, until 1 obtain the proofs by a frank and friendly conduct, by the religious observance of treaties, and by a due regard to the principles and relations of national proximi ty. Let us hope that this confidence will be speedily reprodu ced, and the government will omit nothing to prevent a rupture which would be attended. with fatal consequences tothese power ful states." The bill which provides for a snpension of the Small Bill Law for two years, passed the Senate, on the 6th, by a vote of 18 to 12. The Sub-Treasury Bill was under discussion in the Senate on the Bth, when the•nnestion was again adjourned. A great meeting was held at the Masonic-hall, New York, on the 7th, when resolutions were agreed to condemnatory of the sub-treasury scheme. The opposition to it was increas ing in intensity, and little doubt was entertained that it should pass the senate it would be thrown out by the House of. Re presentatives. Excti NGES.—Bills on Europe, taken for the packets of the Bthinstant were sold at a further decline of about one per cent., the offerings having greatly exceeded the demand, which was rather limited, on account of the present difficulty to raise money. The sales of good current hills were chiefly at 7 or 81- per cent. premium on London, sf. 30c. on France, 394_ a 40 cents. on' Midland, 35-1 a ati cents on Hisinburgh, and 80 teB3l . cents Bremen, At:the close of the business souse sales were made at a trifle under the above lowest rates. • SPEC! F. —."Amorican gold, at al a premium; half dollars, 4a 4 ditto ; doubloons. 17 dollars a—; patriot doubloons, 16 dollars a 16 dollars 12k. NAPLES. Advices front Naples, of the 13th ult., state that fresh dis turbances of a serious nature, fomented by the partisans of Prince Charles of Capita, had taken place in Sicily. According to the reports in circulation, the efforts of the revolters Were directed to the separation of that island from the kingdom of Naples. ST. DOMINGO. Advices from St. Domingo, to the 11th of January, have been received cid Havre. At that period the French squadron had not arrived at Port au Prince. The commissioners were anxiously expected, but the French residents were not without apprehension as to the effects wLich the appearance of the squadron might produce on the native population. it is added• that President Boyer has desired the journals not to make use of theword " squadron," (but employ only " French commis sioners" in noticing the expected expedition. CONSERVA-TISM.—We are glad to hear that - the Operative Conservative News Room, &C., recently established in this town, is in a flourishing condition. Several liberal donations of books having just .been made by John Ryle, Esq., late M.P. for the borough, and D. S. Clayton, Esq., of Bollington.— Macclesfield Courier. THE TURN-OUT AT MACCLESFIELD.—We have not learnt that any final arrangement has been come to, on the subject of the dispute between some of the masters in Macclesfield and their workmen. Yesterday, the workmen turned out in aug mented numbers. but they have not, as far as we can learn, proceeded during the week, to any acts of violence. There is an opinion very prevalent that an arrangement will speedily take place.—Macclesfield Courier. CURE OF CANCER.—At the sitting of the Academy of S c ienee,, Paris, Jan. 13, 1838, M. M. Baitperthuy and Adel-de-Roseville addressed to . the Aeadeiny a detailed note on the animalculaz which are found in the contiguity of cancerous ulcers. These observations have proved the presence of animalculte in all the cancers which tht.s have examined. These gentlemen have sought the means which are best fitted to destroy the animaleulm, and their exiieriments have led them to the following results : Brandy, the tincture of iodine, concentrated solutions of the double chloride of mercury, of the cloride of gold, of arsenic, of the salts of copper, of the nitrate of silver, the laudanham of Sydenham and Rousseau; kill the animalculm instantaneously. Solutions of the same agents, in the dose of two grains to the ounce, do not make their action felt on the aarinalculae bofore the end of a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes but destroy them insensibly after a space of time more or less lung. — Journatrie Paris. 'I'HE LIVERPOOL iiANbAitl) NEWS Izno.M CANADA. (From the Correspondent of the London Standard, of Saturday.) PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, HALF-PAST EIGHT, A.M.—The American packet ship, Quebec, arrived here this mottling, at four o'clock, which vessel left New York on the 10th ult. The accounts from Canada are of a favourable character, tranquillity having been entirely restored on the American fron tier. The Montreal Herald of the. 3dTeb. states that there was a probability of fresh disturbances in the county of Arcadie, in Lower Canada; but every precaution had been take❑ by the government to prevent such an occurrence. A brother of M. Papineatt is said to nave been arrested on a charge of high trea son. The news from the United 'Stales is of no importance. A meeting was held at New York, on-the 7th of February, when resolutions were agreed to against the sub - -treasury scheme. The boundary question is likely soon to occupy p u bli c atten tion. In the House of Representatives, on the Bth, a discussion took place upon some alledged encroachment of the British on the territory of the United. States,: when a message from the Executive on that subject was ref erre d to t h e Committee on Fo reign Affairs. The following are extracts from these papers:— ( From the New York Mercantile Advertiser of Feb. 7.) Extract of a letter from Detroit, Jan. 16.—" Our frontier ex hibits quite a warlike aspect. 3000 men , are encamped on the opposite Canadian shore; and, as is usual with that most civil ised of all uncivilised nations, Great Britain, among those 3000 troops are 800 Indians." Extract of another letter from Detroit, Jan. 16.—Every thing continues quiet here, so far, since the dispersion of the patriots from Sugar Island; hut I am apprehensive that General Suther land will give us more trouble. I send you to-day a letter from Col. Dodge, who was one of the patriot officers in the schooner which was captured at Malden by the British, and Who received a ball in his head on the occasion. The letter was addressed to General Sutherland, who affects to believe it forgery. The letter says, ' You; as well as I, have been all deceived as to the feelings and opinions of the people of this province. 'As far as I can learn, - see, and judge, so far from being disaffected to their laws, constitution, and government, they are as much at tached to them, and as determined to support them, as any 'people in the civiliSed world. They have rallied to this frontier from all parts; and there are not less, as lain credibly informed and believe, than from 2 to 3000 men, well armed, and ready to defend themselves from any attack. In this state of affairs, allots me to entreat and implore you to disband yourselves, and to return home To gain the point, we aimed at is utterly im possible. To prevent further bloodshed is our duty. Nothing can be gained by further hostile operations; and as vonr friend engaged, as I foolishly thought, in the cause of liberty—l again implore you to separate, to return home, and to abandon a cause so utterly hopeless, and, as I now perceive, so thoroughly un just.' rhe genuineness of the letter is attested by a member of our Senate, and by two other respectable gentlemen, ,who saw the writer at Malden. Dr. Pitcher, who was sent for to extract the ball from Dodge's head; but could not succeed, also assures we that the letter is genuine. '' General Brady still considers it necessary to have guards up at , our magazine and arsenal. . _ _ 1 ! M. Princ'e, of Sane wich, late, and probably at present, a member of the Canadian provincial parliament, came over yesterday to see Governor Mason. He addressed about a hun dred of our citizens in a speech, the object of which was to re present things in their true colours. He promises that all the prisoners taken at Malden shall be given up, if he has to go upon his knees to the provincial governor, except Dr. Theller, who, although a citizen of Detroit, is, Mr. Prince states, a na tive born British subject. He can make no promise for his re lease. Besides being a British subject, he says that his conduct wasoutrageous at Malden, firing into the streets among women and children. He fears that there is no hope for him. You know the Doctor very well, and know him to be a citizen of the United States. Whether he has forfeited his claim to their protection, by volunteering into a foreign service, I am not ca pable of deciding. All 1 know is, that we have suffered very much here by the proceedings in this Canadian affair." Extract of another letter from Detroit, Jan. 18.—" I can give you nothing new"to-day about Canada. Gen. Sutherland and about a dozen rebels, as the Canadian loyalists call them, are parading our streets. dressed in blanket coats, with tri coloured cockades in their hats, and muskets on their shoulders." (From the New York Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 8.) We have Toronto papers of the 2d instant. The following paragraphs are from the Patriot of that date:— .• "Fifteen of the persons taken in the schooner Ann, captured by the Loyalists, said by the Detroit Post to have been all massacred,' were brought to this city on Tuesday afternoon, under a guard of militia, and lodged in gaol to await their trial. The London district, so much talked of as the theatre of excitement and discontent, seems Co be quiet. " Names of the Prisoners.—Edward A. 'Pheller, General ; Stephen B. Bropney, Colonel of Engineers; Claude Campean, Augustus D. Bodineau, Francis St. Augustine, Henry John ston, Abraham W. Partridge, T. Cuiver, Chancey Parker, Louis Lennoux, Francis Cloutier, Walter Chase, Benjamin F. Pew, Henry L. Hull, and George Davis, Captain. " The Assembly have voted 100 gunieas for a sword to be presented to their honourable Speaker Colonel M‘Nah; and 75 guineas for a sword for Captain Drew, R.N., for his gallantry in capturing the piratical Caroline. This is right. While go vernments are grateful, subjects will be heroic." ( From the N el.O York Gazette, Feb. 10.) TORONTO, UPPER CANADA, Jan. 31.—Every thing interna 1 is quite tranquil here. An election, in the room of David Gibson, is at this moment going on. The candidates, three in number, are conservatives. On the Niagara frontier all seems quiet, and the affair of the Anna at Amberstbnrg has at all events checked the patriotic ardour in that part of the world. We have now three regiments of incorporated militia, in very good training, and the service companies of the 24th, 32d, and 8.34 regiments, with a , good train of artillery, howitzers, and mortars. (From the Buffalo Daily Advertiser, Feb. 5.) FROM THE FRONTIKR.—We understand that General Scott has received, by express. from Govenor Mason and General Brady, at Detroit, official despatches, dated the 24 inst., stating tbu ihatrrontier h as b een entirely restored, and that there is no necessity for calling out a militia force, it being thought three companies of regulars sent up by the Robert Fulton, from this place, and which arri ved on the 27th ult., will be amply sufficient to secure that tranquillity for the future; and, indeed, that impression was so strong, that a company of Detroit Volunteers,. temporarily on duty, were immediately discharged. We further learn, that Colonel Worth, Lieutenant Talcott, and two or three citizens of Buffalo all of whom went up in the tiobett Fulton, left Detroit on th e morning of the 2d, and may he expected in this place in the course of the day, by the way of Canada. At Malden and its vicinity the government has an armed 'one of 1500 men. _ _ The letter from Fort George, given as a postscript in - the Journal of Saturday, and the. Star of this morning, stating that the patriots had crossed over in the western district, and driven the royalists with loss of three pieces of ai finery, ammunition, provisions, &c., has not a shadow of truth. The writer proba bly intended it as a hoax. (From the Detroit Daily Advertiser.) —Extra. Saturday, J an . 27, 4 o'clock, p.m. About twelve o'clock this day our citizens were greeted with an unusual occurrence in the month of January,. A large steam-boat hove in sight, which gave rise to a thousand con jectures as to her object, destination, &c. On arriving at the wharf she proved to be . the Robert Fulton, from Buffalo, in employment of the general government, and containing three Companies of United States troops, under the-command of Col. Worth. The appearance of the Fulton off Maiden produced consi derable excitement amongst the troops, as she passed Bois Blanc, she was hailed, but of course suffered to pass. The military portion of this expedition is under the command •Genera] Brady, of this city, who has already ordered one com pany to Fort Gratiot. • Mr. Leonard, United States, district attorney of Buffalo. and Mr. Brown, marshal of the same place, accompanied the expe dition on board the Fulton. The New England and Barcelona, under Captain Unmans, are in readiness•on the Lake, prepared to prevent, on the part of the United States, any breach of neutrality. The Fulton had a tolerably fair passage over the Lake, and we are informed by Captain Humans that there is but little ice to interrupt the navigation. Captain Humans will return this evening. ••• (From the Yew York Gazette, Feb. 3.) LOWER CANADA.—The light company of the 34th regiment with Captain• Hammond, Lieut. Bark, and Ensign Hervey, arrived at Quebec on the 25th from Halifax, via New Bruns wick. The Grenadier company, with Captain Byron and Lieut. Gooden o ugh, crossed over to the city on the 26th, and marched to the barracks. LOWER CANADA. We have the Montreal Herald' of the 3d inst. from which we learn that further trouble vas anticipated in the county of Arcadie, where the Canadians were undergoing frequent drill ings, and threatening the British portion of the population. A considerable number, estimated at 200, French Canadiang,, had crossed the line in the direction of Napierville and Oilelltown, to reinforce General Cote. A respectable force has been sta tioned at Laprarie, St. John's, and Chambly, and two com panies of the 13th regiment, under Captains_Powez and Brock man, left Montreal on the Ist for Napierville, to prevent any organised movements among the rebels. A. B. Papinean, a brother of the Speaker of the House of• Assembly, was brought into Montreal on the 2d on a charge of high treason., Lord Gosford has paid Mr. Debartach, a man whom the • Herald' ac cuses as the prime instigator of the late insurrection, ,£lOOO on the account of the losses he sustained in the destruction of his property by the Canadians in the village of St. Charles. His lordship was to take his departure fur Quebec on the 4th, and Messrs. Stuart and Ryland left on the Ist for Montreal, to be present as Executive Councillors at the swearing in of Sir J. Colborne as Governor-in-chief. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—From advertise, ments in our paper of to-day, it will be seen that this company, the bill for whose incorporation passed last session, is preparing to commence active operations. The Maryport and Carlisle line is one very little known, but only wants to be more gener ally known to occupy a prominent place in the market as a safe investment. It completes the Carlisle and Newcastle line to Maryport, the first port of debarkation ou the west coast, and must become the line of a great passenger traffic. Its length is 27 miles, and estimated cost under £200,((X),. Mr. Robert Stephenson is the engineer. The returns are very moderately estimated by Mr. Stephenson at'l7 per cent. per annum. At present the shares are held almost exclusively by landowners and capitalists in the neighbourhood, * lt will be one of the cheapest lines in England, having vet f favourable gradients, with Out a single tunnel, embankment, deep cutting, or con siderable bridge, and running over land of comparatively little value. Being unopposed, the parliamentary and legal expenses are next to nothing. The whole of the commerce between the neighbouring counties, and the west of Scotland, Ireland, and Lancashire, must pass along it, and should a line of railway be ever taken from Lancaster along Morecomhe Bay to Scotland, it will form part of it. We understand the directors mean in the first instance to execute the first nine miles from the sea, which will open 'out to the Irish market a vast coal-field, and from the inclinations, cod can be brought to the sea at a very light expenditure of locomotive power, and consequently at a profit not usual on so bulky an article. The present annual vend of Cumberland coal in the Irish markets exceeds five hundred thousand ton; and is daily increasing. COAL-PIT ACCIDENT.-011 Friday morning week, as three lads were descending a coal-pit at Breightmet colliery, near Bolton. on arriving within seven yards of the bottom, a quan tity of bricks and earth fell from the yard mine bay, which was about twenty yards above them . ; and so great was its weight that it forced out the bottom of the tub in which the lads were standing, and they were precipitated to the bottom of the pit. One of the lads, William Greenhalgh, who resided at Roscoe Field, had his head dreadfully fractured, and died on Sunday morning. The other two are expected to recover. PROTESTANT INFATUATION IN RELATION TO POPERY. (From the Covenanter for February.) There are few evils of worse character, or inure ominous ten dency, than the growth of Popery in any country; and there are few signs of the present times more dark and foreboding, than the insensibility and infatuation of Protestants, of different names, on this subject. In the last September number of this periodical, we attempted to exhibit some instances of this delu sion, and to show the utter fallaciousness of many of the pre tences nut forward in favour of the headlong measure of Papists, either hy themselves, or by those who faternize with them in their political schemes. The subject is far from being, exhausted: under the desire and hope that an exposure of this kind may be blessed to awaken some Protestants to a sense of evils from which, though of enor mous magnitude, they apprehend no danger, and to encourage faithful men, " when the Enemy comes in like a flood," to " lift up a standard against him," we present to the notice of our readers a few other examples of Protestant delusion in re gard to Popery and its partisans, as striking and deplorable as any that have yet been noticed. Unhappily, in our day, the cases in which the supporters of evil systems push forward their destructive plans, without excit ing any deep concern in the religious community, are not of rare occurrence. The spirit of slumber seems to have overtaken rulers and people. While unfulfilled prophecy is hastening to its accomplishment, and those events are rapidly transpiring which are intended to prepare the way for shedding the last blood of the martyrs of Jesus, the strong judicial infatuation to which Protestants are given up, is itself one of the surest symp toms that a time of trial and suffering is approaching. An instance of the infatuation of Protestants in relation to the claims and schemes of Papists, to which we formerly advert ed, deserves further notice, because of the recent illustrations which it has received in various parts of the British empire. It is maintained, that to tree the devotees of Rome from all civil disabilities—to concede to them political power, and to extend to them the fostering care of Protestant governments, is the sure way to secure their cordial love and attachment; and some there are who vainly dream, that thus, too, the spiritual fetters of Rome will he broken, and her children brought to the recep tion of gospel truth. This was the syren song of every political empyric, and of numbers of lukewarm and liberal Protestants, when the measure of Boman Catholic Emancipation was pass ed; and after the experiment has been tried upon the loyalty, peaceful dispositions, and kindly intentions of Romanists, on a large scale, it is still the darling plea ever and anon urged in behalf of further concession, by those who are the willing dupes of the partisans of Popery, or who are lulled in deceitful secu rity in relation to the dangers that are thickening around them. Such a course adopted would be the strength of the empire— would restore the halcyon days of peace and concord between all classes of professing Christians : the wolf would cease to prowl and prey, and the serpent would be despoiled of his fangs, and become innocuous! Can there he an expectation more fallacious than this? Never in the annals of any country has legislation more miserably failed to effect the good designed, than has the measure of Popish Emancipation done in this country. Instead of conciliating the kind dispositions of Ito manists towards Protestantism, Protestant rulers, or Protestant fellow subjects, it has only tended to draw forth and display the embittered and irreconcilable hatred of Papists towards every thing that bears the name of Protestant. And, instead of the concession of political power opening the way fur the spread of truth among Rumanists, ever) person the least acquainted with the state of matters in Ireland, knows that the door has been completely closed, in many quarters, since Popish Emancipa tion was granted, and that it is every day closing more and more in others, against any efforts for disseminating the light of the gospel through the dark places of the land. If other proof was wanting to show that connexion with idols tors will ever be fraught with baleful consequences, we have abundance ,furnished in the present disturbances in Lower Canada, amounting, there is reason to fear, to a well-organised rebellion, and involving one of the fairest colonies of the em pire in the horrors of civil war. Canada was originally colonised by French settlers, many , of them the dregs of the population of France, and bigotedly attach e d t o p o p er y i n it s mos t d e b as i ng form. In 1759, it was ceded to England, after the conquest of Quebec, by Wolfe; and every thing was clone to conciliate the inhabitants. Popery obtained not alone full toleration—it was the religion established by law, the Romtsh clergy enjeying ex clusive right to the tithes, exemption from taxes, and other va luable immunities. So light was the taxation that a conside rable part of the expenses of government was furnished out of the national revenne of Britain, and not raised off the colonists. Of late, too, numerous concessions were made to the Canadians by liberal legislators in Britain. All this, however, instead of conciliating regard, has only rendered the ever active and rest less partisans of Rome—the priests and political demagogues, more iusatiate in their demands. The Canadians had few griev ances. They were fostered till treason and rebellion have been matured till the feeling of utter abhorrence to British power or connexion has been spread extensively, and has at length burst forth in deeds of violence and blood, and till there is ground to apprehend the disruption of the tie that binds the colony to England. Britain found the Papists of Canada steeped in po verty and wretchedness; she nourished them in her bosom; she lavished on them unbounded kindness. What has been the fruit; Like a viper benumbed, when roused from sensibility by the fostering care of some humane but incautious traveller, they heve repaid British generosity by attempting to sting to death their benefactors. Such is the consequence of concession to Papists—such the effects that may be expected to flow from cherishing idolatory. The Moral Governor of the Universe has, in righteous retribution, visited the guilt. of British rulers in swearing to support Popish idolatory in Canada. With such instances before our eyes, how grievioua the delusion to enter tain the belief, that favours lavished on the slave of Rome will ever command for a Protestant people gratitude, obedience, or respect) Another aspect of the same delusion is seen in the deceitful serusity in which the abettors of Popery have contrived to lull Protestants in reference to the success of their schemes. On all sides, in Protestant lands, that which forms the subject of dis tinct prediction in the Sacred Volume, seems to be in progress of being accomplished. The deadly wound of the Beast is healed. In England, Ireland, and in various parts of the Con tinent of Europe, Popery is on the incr ease — s h e i s ex t en di ng her conque s ts, and strengthening her bulwarks. Monasteries and nunneries are erecting in various directions; Jesuit osta blishments are spreading ; and the different reli g iou s or d ers , as notne - s devoted soldiery, are rapidly introducing, and calculating on Protestant ignorance or delusion, they un blushingly trumpet forth the merits of their self-invented devo tions for the living and the dead. A Popish Bishop has been recently appointed for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope; an,ther, largely endowed by the British Government, has been recently sent out to New South Wales, and the proposal has been favourably entertained by British rulers to establish Popery in a portion of Southern India, and to grant a public endowment to its priesthood. _ In the United States of America, the land of boasted civil and religious freedom, within the last eight or ten years, Popery has male the most astonishing progress. The whole territory has been meted out by the Pope into Dioceses, in which already reign in princely state, one Alchbishop and Eleven Bishops, with innumerable grand Vicars, theologions,_ priests, monks, nuns, &c. " in the year 1830, the Pope and the crowned heads of Eu rope, between whom, by the way, and Rome, an alliance for furtherance of their respective despotisms is in the highest de gree natural, appropriated 200,000 dollars per annum, for the propagation of Romanism in the valley of the Mississippi alone. At the same period,•and in the same quarter, the Society de Propagand a had a hundred Jesuit missionaries employed. A single associatio n in France gave, in foul years, from 1824 to 1828, more than 61,000 dollars for the same object, and the Pope himself granted 20000 to the Bishop of Alabama alone. In the Christian Intelligencer of March, 1835, published in connexion with the Ditch Reformed Church, is stated, that in 1833, no less than 3(X) mass houses were erected, or in the course of erection, in the United States; and that "the Papists pro phesy that in thirty years they will have carried the Western States, and then, they say, they will easi.y manage the East. In many towns and counties of the Western Valley, they have a decided ascendancy. They constitute one fourth part of the population in our five largest cities, in some of which, they have nearly muzzled the press and the pulpit, and in most of which, gravitating like a single weight, their number is sufficient to turn the scale in the present balance of political parties."* While these extensive schemes are in progress, it is the deep laid policy of Antichrist to keep Protestants incredulous or in different on the subject. The press is in many cases muzzled, or by the influence of money, Rome's potent lever, becomes a pledged instrument to help forward the design of universal con quest. If any honest public men discover the designs of the enemy, and speak out on the subject, every attempt is made to decry or discredit their testimony. They are branded as enthu siasts, and held up to public odium and aborrence. Well-ver sant in the grand maxim of the prince of darkness—divide and conquer —Popish plotters aim to weaken Protestants by disuni ting them, and then to strengthen themselves by the co-opera tion of lukewarm or Infidel protestants. They boast loudly of the numbers of Protestants who are inveigled into their associa tions, though it is evident that many of these are merely Pro testants in name, knowing nothing of, or carryin g nothing for genuine Protestant principles. Grasping at universal domi nion, they are ever restless, while, with consummate address, they will carefully screen what they have gained, magnify their imaginary grievances or privations, and become more assuming, overbearing, and intolerant, as they think matters are in a pre pared state for effecting their purposes. At one time, and in certain kinds of Protestant society, they ate all humility; they plead their poverty, and are full of professions of universal good will. In other circumstances, they assume the bearing of haughty lordlings—breathe forth the most intolerant dogmas, and evidence, in their conduct, that their professions of kind ness are but a stalking-horse to effect their designs, while their hearts still meditate extermination to Protestant men and prin ciple. After such unequivocal evidences of the spirit, and aims, end tactics of popery, is it not sheer delusion and folly to con tinue blind to the success of this wicked system, and to remain indifferent to the plans whereby the partisans of Rome assidu ously labour to make Protestants themselves the unconscious tools of their evil machinations? Of this deep iniatuatitin,;;;otice another exemplification in the pleas that Protestants frequently advance about the im proved character of Popery and Papists, while the most abusive and reproachful epithets ale heaped upon all who faithfully maintain their protest against the abominations of the Man of Sin. Already have we noticed the utter futility and falsity of the plea that Popery and Papists are more tolerant than in former times, and shown that her unchanged statute-book and her boasted infallibility utterly falsify the plea that she is less Petsecuting, in spirit and principle, a nd more t o l eran t t owar d s rotestant principles and professors than in former ages. The power may be gone, and the spirit of the age altered, but the tone and temper of the Romish Church, and of her true sons towards the heretics, whom she consigns to hopeless perdition— and all Protestants are of this number—are the same, un changed and unchangeable. Reform without—a mere political bubble—may he cried up by the abettors of Papal policy, when it subserves the scheme of their domination and aggrandisement —but reform enters not within the walls of the Vatican; it is a term wholly meaningless when applied to any part of the stu pendous fabric of Popish superstition and intolerance. * According to the statement of various religions institu tions, papists already form a tenth part of the United States. In a work entitled, " Foreig n C onsp i racy aga i nst the liberties of Ame r i ca ," it is said, " They (the papists) are already the mast powerful and dangerous sect in the country," for they are not confined in their schem es an d means, lik e t h e ot h er sects, to our own borders, but they work with the minds and the _funds of all despotic Europe." It is farther added in the same work— " The recklessness and unprincipled character of too many of our politicians give a , rreat advantage to these conspirators. There is a set of men in the country who will have power and ' office, cost what they may, To such politicians, a body of men thus drilled by the priests, presents a well fitted tool. The bargain with the priests will be easily struck. Give me office, rind 1 will take care of the interests of your Church.' The ef fect of the bargain upon the great moral or political interests of the country, will not for a moment influence the calculation. Thus we have among us a body of men, a religions sect, who can exercise a direct controlling influence in the politics of the county, and can be !unveil together in a solid phalanx; we have a church interfering directly and most powerfully in the affairs of the state. There is not in the whole country a parallel to this among the other sects." This account is but too justly appli cable to our land, since Papists were admitted to place and power and trust in the nation. Facts that are every-day transpiring are the best refutation of this idle plea fur Romish tolerance. What, for instance, in our own land, is Ow tolerance evinced by popish priests, leaders or neople, towards those who forsake popery, or who labour to diffuse Scriptural truth among a benighted people? Let the fulminations of th e P o p e ' s E ncyc li ca l l et t ers aga in s t Bible societies—the anathemas of the priesthood from the altar—the inflammatory and imbittered invectives of Popish agitators — arid the blood of murdered l'rotestant ministers, Irish Scripture readers, and unoffending teachers, answer the question. If these are the evidences of Romish liberality and tolerance and they are instances with which in late years our unhappy land has been deplorably familiar—we freely leave them to substantiate the apology as best they can—only we must be per mitted to retain our wonder at theinfatuation that thus advances fur Baal, a plea which all facts falsify. Casting our eyes to Popish Europe an countr i es, we are furnished with abundant _similar samples of the advance of papists in the theory and practice of modern toleration. But a few months back, his holiness of Rome issued his mandate to suppress Infant Schools throughout his Italian dominions—affording thus a fine speci men truly of papal favour to th e s p rea d of k nowledge! The Protestants in France, with all the boasted tolerance of popery there, at the present moment, are threatened in various ways. Their activity in disseminating the Scriptures, and the revival of evangelical principle among them, seem to have sorely an noyed their enemies. Some of the leading public papers—and these strongly in the interest of government, openly declare that Protestant efforts must no longer be permitted, and give no uncertain indications that coercive measures against the reformed in France, would be neither displeasing to the Romish ecclesiastics, nor to some who hold the reins of political power. But the other day, when a number of simple villagers in a part of the Austrian dominions, relinquished the superstition and thraldom of Auti-christ, after euduring every species of insult and opposition from the devotees of popery—both priest and people, the mandate of the Emperor was imperative that they should return to the b osom o f th e R oman Catholic Church, or depart from their native country. These faithful converts nobly preferred expatriation to the sacrifice of a good consci ence, and they have gone forth to a distant land, rather than return to the abominations of Rome. In a late number of the Dublin Review, a popish periodical, the recent work of a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Peidmontese vallies on the Waldenses, is held up to unmeasured commendation. In this work the butcheries perpetrated upon the unoffending Waldenses of for mer times are vindicated; these noble confessors are exposed to every species of reproach, and the evident object is to excite the present Peidinontese rulers to oppress them. Such are a few samples of the tender mercies of those who are most deeply initiated in the policy of Rome: such the instances of the al leged improved principles and spirit of the sons of the papacy. If this is the spiritof men in authority, men of learning and re finement, men that direct the administration, need we wonder that their myrmidons, the ignorant and deluded thousands who obey the imperious mandate of their despotic masters, should be prepared for re-acting the worst scenes in the bloody drama of popish intolerance and persecution ? The matter of wonder is the frequency with which nominal protestants reiterate the plea for Romish tolerance, notwith standing such glaring instances of cruelty, injustice, and op pression. Protestants, in the excess of their liberality, speak for papists what they would not say for themselves. Th e y allege that they a re now " as h ame d o f their persecuting prin ciples," and that they disown the deeds of their forefathers. Where have popish priests or writers ever said this ? Not they, indeed. They have attempted to justify the burning of John Huss, in violation o f th e mos t so l em n stipulation for his safety. They have vindicated the butcheries of the inquisition; they have pleaded in behalf of the persecution under bloody Mary; they have apologised for the Bartholomew massacre, and for the Irish massacres of 1641 ; and, even at present, they dare un blushingly to tell the world, in the enlightened nineteenth con tury, that the most innocent and unoffending of all the Popish persecution—the • Waldenses, deservedly suffered the deaths which their heartless oppressors inflicte d upon them w i t h in human barbarity ! A n d, l es t th e b ase ne s s of the apology thus offered by treacherous or unsuspecting protestants should be detected, they raise a hue and cry about tory persecution, but say not a word about the intolerance, wholesale murders, and systematic persecution perpetrated by popery under the mask of liberality. The delusion is even kept up by c h arg i ng t h e Westminster Standards with intolerant and persecuting prin ciples, and the men who faithfully maintain them as intolerant higots.j- The fact is, with papists,. and with the liberal hireling press, there can be no persecution if their own party is safe, and if all that stand in their way and will not become unprin cipled liberals or practical papists bedestroyed either in p erson, or influence, or cha rac t e r. This i s j ust ice with a vengeance— this is generosity, liberality, intolerance ! Such we readily concede to papists and their abettors; and when protestants foolishly talk of popish amelioration and of the progress of tolerant principles among the partisans of Rome, we give them the plea thus far, but no farther. We only add the fervent wish that we and all who love the truth as it is in Jesus mar ever be preserved from adopting the infatnated maxims whici we have attempted to expose. t It is a sufficient answer to this base allegation, put forward by apostates—by men who seem to have a peculiar fondness for papists and their measures, and by those who manifest a spirit of embittered hostility to consistent religious men, that if the Westminster Standards teach intolerance and persecution, so do the scriptures of truth, for they inculcate nothing that is not enjoined in the Bible ; and to affirm, what all impartial history corroborates, that the men who first adopted the Westminster confessions, though often persecuted, never persecuted, and that those who firmly maintain it in the present day, to say the least, discover in their spirit and conduct as much philanthr o py as those who would monopolise all the liberality of the age. THE BALLOT. Extract from a letter written by a well-known whig baronet in Kent, (Sir John M. Fylden,) to the Editor of the Maidstone Gazette. My opinions may be wrong; but not having vet met with any argument sufficiently strong to change them, I must still continue to oppose the ballot, although, in doing so, I am aware that I differ from many sterling reformers, for whose opinion l have great respect; but I think that, in their anxiety to obtain relief from the evils we all complain of, they too eagerly take a plan which chews so fair and plausible without duly reflect ing on its ulterior consequnces, or, indeed, without any cer tainty that it will answer the hopes and expectations anticipated from it. I now proceed to the ballot question; the object sup posed attainable by it is perfect freedom of voting.' If it fails in this material point, I conclude its strongest friends would not adhere to it. That it will fail, as it has done in America, I am quite confident, and on that account, and for many others, I object to it. My reasons are the following Because the ballot will necessarily reduce the general scale of morality, by making the vice of hypocrisy a seeming virtue. 2. Because it must widen the distinction between rich and poor, as the rich man can have no occasion to disguise his political opinions, while the poor elector must do so, or be subject to the same persecution as under the present system. 3. Because it inevi tably must lead to wholesale bribery, without the possibility of detection. 4. Because it will not put an end to canvass, feast ing, or treating. 5 Because its tendency is to lower an indi vidual in his own opinion; for if there is one thing a Briton ought to be more proud of than another, it is his power of o p en l y expressing his political opinions, and the power ought to be se cured to him without fear of injury or expectation of benefit. 6. Because in a short time it will cease, as in America, to en sure secresy. 7. Because it will be no safeguard against in timidation, for few will then be able to conceal their political opinions, that they will not be known by their employers or landlords; and if they are base enough (as now) to punish a man for a conscientious vote, they will be equally base —per haps more so—and punish a person for entertaining opinions contrary to their own. 8. Because, as in America, the ballot will have a tendency to form electors into clubs or parties, go verned by a few clever individuals; and all who belong to such a club —or, to use the American phrase, a caucus —must vote as they are directed. It may be said that, as the ballot is secret, this cannot he; but so strong is the spirit of partizanship and the bond of union among them, that, although the ballot box is supposed to conceal their votes, the result of an election can he known before it is commenced. Thus the great object of • freedom of opinion' will be as completely set at naught und er the ballot as it is at present. I concede, that it is possible many of my objections, particularly the last, may not be fully develo ped or felt for some years; but it behoves us to reflect and con sider what may be the cousequence to our posterity of a measure which may so vitally affect all our social and moral habits, before we resort to it ; and we should be careful, least in the endeavour to relieve ourselves we should entail upon them worse ev il s t h an those we now suffer. My second objection may require a few words of explanation. I affirm that 'it would lead to wholesale bribery;' apd it will be effected in this way:—An agent (the furies may have many, perfectly ready for the work) may say to a certain number of electors, If my friend is retu r n e d, y ou shall receive a certain sum, on a certain day after the election.' The agent is safe, as no money is to be paid till the work is done ; and detection is impossible; because, granting that the offer becomes public, what proof can be adduced that the man has voted? And surely, any one has right to offer money to another when the intention is so completely concealed." PREPARATIONS FOR THE DEPARTURE of LORD DURHAM.-- Great expedition is making, at Sheerness, in fitting out the Hastings, 71, the late flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir William Gall Gage, the late Commander-in-Chief in the Tagus, that vessel having been ordered to convey the Earl and Countess of Durham, family and suite, to Quebec. 'l'he Hastings, com manded by Captain Lock, is expected to be ready for sea in five weeks. MORE PICK LED NEGROES. —EarIy yesterday morning a bar rel was found placed amongst several barrels of provisions in front of the store of Mr. Buckley, 88, South -street. The dogs began to smell round it, and it, was opened, and found to con tain two more negro women in pickle, intended for the southern market. Doubtless the trade in pickled negroes will soon be come a very extensive affair.—New York paper. GRAND PEDESTRIAN UNDERTAKING. —The great match against time to waik, fair tue and heel walking, ten miles in one hour and a half, came off on Wednesday, and drew an im mense concourse of spectators. Time had been backed from £25. to £15.; and, when the difficulties of such an undertaking are Considered, there could be little difficulty in getting money laid out to that extent. The pedestrian had not only the bad weather to contend against, but the greater part of the m:ttch was done on a rough road, and through a popnions neighbour hood. Betting was two to one on time, and the takers were very shy. The start took place at ten minutes past three, from the White Swan, Ray-street, Clerkenwell, and two miles and a half were done right out, and the saute distance back again. The first five miles were done in forty-two minutes, and the ne x t five miles in forty-seven minutes, thus leaving the pedestrian the winner by one minute. Sutton, the man hacked for this task, did not appear to suffer particularly from fatigue. 'rH E CHURCH,—The society for promoting the employment of addional curates in populous places, is, it appears, taking very active, and judicious proceedings for the purpose of carry ing into effect the very important and truly christian object for which they have associated themselves, under the patronage of her most gra cious majesty, Queen Victoria. The society has issued a circular, directed to the different bishops of the (lit . . ferent diocesses, stating the terms and conditions upon which the additional curates are to he appointed; and it is accompa nied by a paper of queries to be fully and purticularly :Answered by the incumbent applying for their aid. The society will not take into consideration any application for assistance until the approbation o f the diocesan has been obtained; they therefore confine their operations to granting money to incumbents for the employment of curates appointed by the bishop, and duly licenser]. UNION or THE ATLANTIC AND PAClFlC.—Letters just re ceived front Guatemala, in New Spain, say that the works of the long,-proposed canals for uniting the AtlantiC and Pacific Oceans are still actively proce , ding,: and that this vast enter prise, which is calculated to create a commercial revolution throughout the maid, will be competed towards the end of next year. The line of route for the communication extends from the mouth of the river St. Jean de Nicaragua, following its course to the great lake of the same name, a distance of 130 miles; the line proceeds across the lake to the coast and town Nicaragua, 97 miles; from this latter town it extends to Bor rette, in the Gulf of Popava, a distanc e of 16 miles, making the total length of th e line 2'1.3 miles. 1V AR cri 6, 1838. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. (From the Sunday Times.) CITY, SATURDAY.—The inland navigation of the country having been resumed by the absence of ice in the canals, an increase has taken place this week in the transactions in ma nufactured goods, almost solely confined, however, to the sup plies for the home trade. There were large amounts of all de scriptions of manufactures locked up in the canals, which were on their way to the metropolis, the detention of which, by the suspension of the traffic, led to many very serious inconven iences. It is satisfactory, however, now to state, that business is renewed with double energy, and the prices of most of the more important description of manufactures are on the advance. The speculations which have been however, in progress, in some articles of raw p ro d uce, especially silk, is likely to prove prejudicial, as the present high rates—and they are equal to those which have hitherto been realised—check the operations of the manufacturer, who cannot yet obtain prices for his goods anything equal to the advance demanded for the raw ' It will hardly be possible, however, to keep up the value of cot ton wool, the imports from America being very great indeed. We incorrectly stated the amount of the exports from the United States in our last week's summary. The shipments up to the tat ult. from the United States, had amounted to nearly 375,000 bales, which rather exceed s the quantity dispatched off up to the same period, 1837. The general export trade ofthe country has rather improved, especially to the more northern parts of Europe. In the United States, manufactured goods are still in heavy demand, and it is, therefore, now considered certain, that no very material revival in this important branch of the country's commerce will take place until the end of the year. There may, however, be some consider a bl e s hi pments ma de shortly for the fall trade of the United States. The doubts which still exist as to the possibility of the banks of the Union returning to specie payments—upon which so materially depends a return to a healty state of things in America—necessarily in duces our merchants to exercise extreme caution in all their operations. One of the most recent papers received from New York, in reference to the specie payments, observes as follows: "The Committee from the banks of New York, who visited Philadelphia last week, have returned. We are not furnished with the result of their deliberations ; but this, we believe, that notwithstanding the talk in New York about specie payments, they neither can, nor wish to pay specie. How can they? There are payable in New York within about sixty days, four millions of dollars in bonds. Now if the general government will only take specie or treasury notes, how are the New York ers to meet that payment, which is nearly equal to all the specie of that state ? When people talk about resuming specie pay ment, let them think a little of the causes of suspension, and of the ruinous consequences of te-suspension. While the govern ment persists in its war upon the people by the demand of specie, it is impossible for any one to say when specie payments can be permanently resumed." The returns relative to the stock of the - principal articles of West India produce for the month which terminated yesterday, show a considerable reduction in the amount of produce in hand. Of sugar, there was at present i n first hands only ab o ut 10,000 hhds., and 700 tierces, or full 7000 hhds. and tierces less than at the same period of 1837. Of Rum, the present stock may be estimated at not more than 7500 puncheons, and 900 Mids., being less by 4,500 puncheons and 900 hhds. than at the com mencement of the month of March last, Of British Planta tion Coffee the reduction has been from 4000 casks, and 2300 bags and bat rels, in the end of February, 1837, to 1700 casks, and 8.50 barrels, and bags at the termination of the past month. There is, however, a considerable increase in the stock of fo reign sugars and coffees on band as compared with the quanti ties held at the same period of 18.37. The funds have again further advanced this week, the Specu lators for higher prices having been much assisted by the reso lution of the Bank of England to reduce the rate of advances upon approved security, to 31 per cent. This determination was communicated to the public on Thursday, when the follow ing notice was sent to the Stock Exchange. "The governor and company of the Bank of England do hereby give notice, that on and after the Ist inst. they will be ready to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of ap proved Bills of Exchange, not having more than six months to run, such loans to be repaid on or before the 16th of April next, with interest at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than £2OOO, Bank of England.—March 1., 18.38." This determination of the Bank was known on Wednesday afternoon, when a rise of about % to s per cent. took place in Consols. The effect of the reduction of the rate of interest to 34 per cent., will not, however, much assist the resources of the Bank, as the same accommodation can be obtained in the city generally, at least one half per cent lover. The value of Bank Stock, however, has advanced from 206 to 2074. Upon Con sols, and the other pOlic securities, the improvement this week may be stated at per cent. Consols for the April Ac count reached 931 yesterday ; for money 93% 4; the 31 per Cents. Reduced 1014; and the New Stock 100%; and-India Stock 2654. The prem. upon Exchequer bills has also risen from 54 to 6.3; and on India bonds from 55 to 63 prem. The arrangement of the Account in Consols took place on Tuesday last. The Bulls have had in this instance the advantage over the Bears. The prices of Foreign Stock have not materially changed this week, though in general much buoyancy has prevailed, the na tural consequence of the state of the other markets. The quo tations of the Continental securities were very firm—Russian has advanced to 1131; Danish to 751; Belgian to 1034 ; and Dutch 5 per Cents to 1035. The speculation in Spanish and Portuguese Stock has increased this week, but there are still few hopes of any improvement in the state of affairs in Spain or Portugal. The prem. of the latter (5 per Cent) has risen from 274 to 274; the 3 per Cents from 18 to 184 ; and of Spanish from to 191. The R e p u bli can Stocks have been also in good request; Mexican at an improvement from 29 to 2947 Colombian from 26 to 295; and Peruvian from 20 to 204 4. The Share market is still rising. The business doing has been so extensive, that it is not possible within the limits usually devoted to this article, to detail all the fluctuations. The high est prices which have been given are the following—in the Lon don and Birmingham 170 or 90 prem.; for the Brighton 135 or 54 prem.; for the Great Western 94 or 294 prem.; for the Southampton 43 or 8 disc.; for the Leeds and Manchester 40 or 20 prem.; for the North Midland 44 or 9 prem.- the Black wall 74 or 44 prem. : the G reenw i c h 19 or I disc.; t he Northern and Eastern 6 or 2 disc.; aad the Manchester and Birmingham 12 or 5 prem. The Irish Waste Lands Improvement Compa ny's shares have been in request at 4, or about 4 disc.; Lon don and Westminster Bank shares have risen to 224 or 2i prem. ; Colonial Bank to 251 or 4 prem.; and British North American shares to 194 or a disc. for share. We are informed that Mr. Jaudon, the agent of the United States Bank, has received instructions to anticipate the paying —Not so r the w much,: nt n ds h of' the Bonds in circulation h ere i ssue d by the Bank, and which were redeemable in Ap r il next. Parties disposed to receive . The hoit Money y e a d ra e e vdweu businessoc been t r i th o ha n s9il o 3bu f leo e; r t i ne t a e dnt r rd e aa s tnf t a ra t ic A t ti h rate y u transacted tEre may c eO s C eL C rOC o ceelP s i: tci her ols noit i ,nhw o t, Ee f m F ' 2 l l, 7 , h n i Funds. Money Stocks are most of them shut, prior to the payment of the dividends. Exchequer Bills and India Bon-Is both fetch 63 premium. In the Foreign Bond market Portuguese now are at 271 ; Spanish C onso l s at 191 ; Brazilian at 76 ; Colombian at 291; and Dut c h Two-and-a-Eialf per Cents at 534. Shares remain much the same as yesterday- Great Western are at 284, and the Brighton at 4i premium. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND AYRSHIRE RAILWAY. The half-yearly General Meeting of th e Sh are h o ld ers o f t hi s Railway wa s held here on Tuesday, when the following very satisfactory Report of the proceedings of the Directors was read, and Resolutions entered into for taking the most vi gorous measures for proceeding with the works. The reso lutions of the meetlng will be found in our advertising co lumns : REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS. Since the last General Meeting of Shareholders, held on 20th Dec. last, your Directors have been engaged in taking active steps for the immediate commencement of the works. With a v►ew to this, they made an equalising call of £5 per share, payable on the 13th instant, under deduction of the £2 10s. of deposit money, formerly paid up ; and they are glad to ob serve the prompt manner ►n which the call has been met, and the increased demand which has taken place for the Company's shares. Your Directors have, conjointly with the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway Company, made preparations for im mediately executing the line between Glasgow and Paisley: Mr. Locke, the engineer on the Grand Junction Railway, has been named engineer on this portion of the railway, and has undertaken to open it in two years. His assistants have already made considerable progress in laving it off, and he himself is expected in the course of a few days, finally to adjust the work ing plans. The Company's engineer, Mr. Miller, who has now nearly completed the railway between Dundee and Arbroath within the estimate, has undertaken to open within the same period the line between Paisley and Johnstone, and he is at present engaged in staking it off. When opened, your Directors look forward to the traffic on it being both very considerable and profitable, as by the agreement with the Glasgow and Greenock Co., the trade between Glasgow and places beyond Paisley passes over the joint line, free of any tonnage, and is only sub ject to a proportionate share of the expense of maintaining the joint line. Your Directors will, in the course of a few days, be prepared to commence the execution of the main line of railway be tween Ayr and Kilwinning, and the advertisements for con tracts are now prepared, and will be immediately inserted int the newspapers. It is expected that this portion of the Rail - will be opened in about 15 months; and your Directors anticipate that they will he able to conclude arrangements fe.; securing the relaying and straightening of the Kilmartitiel ktok a b n e d p A ro y c:c i tt r e v tl in w e i ' th A I; at as early a. pengid Troon railway. by the same date —so that ~40 whole trade, be thus accommeclat stj:t between scooaft i K hwe i il narnock li ne will Troou, /twig The remaining per-. possible. ast Your directors havegiven n o ti ces of an application to. par, liarnent next rats, for m a ki ng a short branch from the Main. line of railwrdy, near near I rv i ne W ater, to. the Johnstone and, Ardross.„- n rai lway. A n agreement, containing an obligationto that effect, was entered into with Lord Egliuton on behalf of the promoters of the late Kilmarnock and Ardrossan railway, pre vious to the act of incorporation being obtained ; but your Pirec, tors have reason to think, that the cons e nt othis lordship, an d .o t the oth er part i es interested in that undertaking, will he obtaitted to the postponement of the application to parliament for another year. Your Directors mieht also have applied for various blanches th connect towns lying contiguous to the line,but they have refrain ed from doing so for the present, in order that their attention m a y be ex c l us i vely devoted to the formation of the main lines. They would, however, remark, that it is one distinguishing feature of this line, that there are numerous manufacturing t0.,,, na an d v it, lager, lying on each side of this railway, and wienin a mile or. two of it, to which branches may ultimately bees' tied, and wlxich, will serve as so many tributary streams, to increase the traiSq on the main line. Your Directors cannot help adverting with pleasure to. the survey proposed to be made, with a view to this railway being extended to Dumfries, and from thence to Carlisle. They under stand that a subscription for this purpose is now proceeding in Dumfries-shire, and they would recommend that authority, should be given to your Directors to contribat e >i small sum tom arils so important an object. The superior nature of the gradients to which it is known can this route, a s compare d wbeitohbttahieneldinfeorbayramilowffaayt,toanEdngtlha:d by greater population of the country, afford the stroneest reason s to believe, that the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway will at no very distant period form, part of the great trunk line to England. The Directors have now to cougjatulate the Shareholders on the present state of the Company. Th e public are daily cooling to appre ciate more and more the advantages of this undertaking; and your directors are convinced, that the more this line is gene rally known and examined, the more will it rise in public esti mation. EMIGRATION TO Nhiy SouTEI WALES,--lt is in contempla, tion by government to send a ship to this port in the course O the spring, for the conv e y ance not exceed , gratis, o r married a,,riculturistst the above flourishing col ing a certain age, with t h e i r wives aturfantilies, tv, c . ony.--Derry Jourrtut, _4.