The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

finurrtat Mr. Stariley w the falsification c Mr. Wandswo commissioners in Ireland, w ject, after which it was attend at the bar of the adjourned -MUSE OF COMMO Mr. Ries moved mittee to which tnig coasts of I voted upwards c harbour: tant subjec CIIAN'CELLOF ioners, and the. c he had committee world After some di! his motion a good. bar .boor. a report of the coin The motion to 38. .caticy, Mr. ALSTON tb mittee, to which ,Ppoint might be referred a court-martial in th to bring som court-martial he wrote-sow since then never been e obtain Sir T. COCHRANE said tha entertained by the house, suc naval and militar Admiral ADAM defended the col fled thi Captain I' Roche, who necommand to that of the e After some cony motion shoo] out a di accordingly done. Mr. EASTHOPE then Baines, presented on thl consideration. The ho case, which have been air that the petitioner had on senter in his unnecessarily run up to £127, so a great opp id that he Gaol for the non-payment he added, had created the n of the country, and all sucl calculated to The hon. ger effect that th ntleman be injuriot to a great I ciples of r( Lord J. ft the hon. nv persons n support t lead M would I 11 that opett.4, fir d originally (Lord J. Rt He: (Sii.E satisfied that it was use until the other el. Tegsutt which time they would m with the other el, we two 41) would bi very ars, or lord had proposed t :natchbull,) however, ecessary to extend it , move the postpone ;es should be disposed :ter judges of the time could post- auScs, which had nearly posed to be postponed. ive years too long, he y other nut but beeaUse he thought five of years, as an nnnal discussions upon such LI the - proceedinis of ti hould be cautious in t a document recentl A the main object o 1 Ldeed the object In answe INTPLIdrIENrf ANI./ GREAT WESTERN UNION RAILWAY. -,-We.may expect the opening of this line as far as Cirencester by the 26th of next month, the pompany having given notice to the Great Western Directors thrt it will be ready by that day. The latter company has taken this branch on lease at £17,000 per annum.—Cheltenham paper. GASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.—A special general meeting . of proprietors of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenocx Railway Company was held yesterday, in the Sheriff Court Hall here, to consider the bill now be fore parliament fore increasing the capital of the company. After reading'the advertisement convening the meeting, the t because new bill was submitted, by clause, and unanimously approved I the opening of the line, the If such -N uch was not the ly poor law must fail if the wealthy were to with contributions. One of its objects was to prevent and he believed that was what the commi to say ; but they should be re cautious using expressions calculated to give rise to prejudices. He ' ve his support to the proposition for extending the ght to I commission to five years In reply to a qusiion from Colonel SIBTHORP, Lord J. RussELL said that the number of the assistant ;.e partially proved, upon which I commissioners would be reduced to 12. for not Colonel Si BTHORP said he would, at t to five. e proper time, move he been able TCUBULL dC ned to divi, ouse on his iotions like this were to be would be fatal to the I Mr. B. W xt, tl on moved that from the 31st of December nartial, and also 3f Admiralty. rnduct of Captain e should not remain in office more than five as for England and Wales ; but, after some discussion, he declined to divide the committee upon istant-commission very inferior force I the question. Col. SIBTRORY said it was a farce to be making motions without dividing the house, and as he was opposed to having any assistant-commissioners, he should divide the committee upon the point. . , .sion, which was On a di - vision, ther*ndmelit negatived by a majorit pved that the petition of William of 191 to 46 2:1 of February, should be taken into Mr. W. ATTWOOD moved that the chairman should then report progress. This was resisted by Lord J. RUssELL, and the cutlery was cleared for a division. The motion of .r, ultimately resumed. isented to without Mr. Attwood was, however, a division, and the house resurneo. The other orders of the day Were then disposed of, and tY house adjourned :man stated the facts of the before the public, and said :ted conscientiously as a dis- ender the case ooe of in prison in Leicst in that part .nces, lie contended, Were ply inju ,us to the eau nerd by mo of religion. talon to the s calculated tc ) a direct violation of the prin- iosed the motion on the ground that luded by moving a resolution very , rd contended for the ag find out that great many a pay t led that the only wv a which an op iopted by Mr. Baines, inisters was such as glue that church-rates tes as on, ad to exempt M of church from the payer Would be nothin, he enforcement of church intimated that Mr. Baines ,o court martyrdom. rates had been abolished in :re not in existence, and existed in England they would _ . lawns, and cause infinite mischief to the long as the he question before the house was .he contrary of abolishing church . ie of Commons would sanction ; exceptions to the principle of land. The whole argument of xteut that if a man alleged a con- instan 1 of thu right tuber for L, Beth piir- claimed allediiction in the price, in consequence of the charge thus fixed upon it, and obtained, as he doubtless would ob tain, such reduction, who could pity Mr. Benjamin Hawes if he was subsequently thrown into prison, because he had a conscientious s, the Presbytery hick prevent I him from supporting The whole question was pregnant with danger as to whether churc rate; should be maintained ; it was, in fact, a question as to whether not only this law, but any other law of the land; was to be violated at the option of any individual. Feeling the necessity 'of maintaining the law, he should, without at all entering upon the question of the policy of church-rates, en treat the house to reject so dangerous a proposition. Mr. EASTHOPE, in reply, denied that Mr. Baines had violated the law ; on the contrary, he had yielded obedience to the law, and was now Suffering one of its severest penal ties—imprisonment. Mr. HALFORD, on the part of the people of Leicester, de nied that the whole of that town should be considered as sympathising with Mr. Baines. • . IVir. EAST HOPE said he had not represented that the whole town of Leicester went with him. He had said that 30,000 of them were, and u that Mr. Baines, since his imprisonment, had been unanimOtllk e'ected as town councillor. The house then dividad, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 45 to 40. '- Mr. H. Daummotso obtained leave to bring, in a bill to alter the close of the salmon fishery of Scotland. The remaining business being disposed of, the house ad journed. OF LORDS HOUS The mutiny bill and the marine mutiny bill were severally read a second tim The Earl ofAberdeen presented a petition from several in habitants of Newfoundland, complaining of the state of the government of that colony, and praying that such a radical change might take place in the constitution as would tend to the security of the persons, properties, and liberties of the inhabitants. The noble earl, as an illustration of the ne cessity of an alteration in the government of this most un fortunate and distracted of British colonies, stated the fact, that one of the members of the legislative assembly was a farm servant receiving £lO a year wages, and that another was of that class of persons, who, in Scotland, accompany sportsmen in shooting excursions for the purpose of carrying the baggage The Marquis of NORMANBY said that the state . of the co lony was under the consideration of the government, and it would not for the present be desirable that any parliamentary inquiry should be entered upon. Mr. Nicholls, the poor law commissioner for Ireland, was then called to the bar, where he underwent a long examina tion touching the falsification of the returns from the Clon mel union ; and the house adjourned till Monday. OF COMMONS HOUK lIIDAY Mr. ENVART gave notice that he should move the appoint ment of a minister whose duty it should be to lay before par liament periodically returns as to the state of education. The house, in committee, agreed to a resolution moved by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, for a vote of credit of £155,000 for the relief of South Australia. On the motion for the re-committment of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, Mr. WAKLEY rose to move that the bill he divided into two bills. He contended that unless this were done the house would be dealing treacherously by the peo ple, for they were holding out by this bill the idea that the commission was to terminate in fivesears, whereas he believed the real intention was that it should be as perpetual as the poor law itself. He characterised the bill as one to protect the landed property of the kingdom at the expense of every feeling that was estimable in our nature ; and said that the new poor law was the most dangerously revolutionary mea sure that had ever been enacted. Instances of the heartless•. ness of its operation came almost daily within his know ledge. Not the smallest distinction was made between the old man who had maintained himself in respectability for perhaps thirty years, paying rates the whole time, and the idle spendthrift, who had neglected his wife and family, when, both came to the workhouse. Was this the sort of legisla tion they had a right to expect from the reformed House of Commons ? Yes ! a House of Commons reformed, but not amended ! He declared most solemnly his belief that it would be better for the country and better for the interests if they had the old boroughmongers back again. boroughmongers have proposed a law like 3ut the reformed house, because it represented ^f the people—not the people—presumed to work out this enormous course The hon. member concluded -.L. in dividing the bill into two, he wished that ,e bill should be confined to the commission, and the other ork altogether without the corn -ould give general satisfaction to of the i Would this ? a certain towards the poor ying tt the people of . Lord J. Rt the truth of the pr( measure, when the at the hon. member had not given the bill into two bills. He bad, h, found fault with the result of the great rx phecie s s of the opponents of that great that the clauses giving members to rig into t s would have the effect of send roischievous demagogues, who would ho, if raised to any ju- litan dist lELDEN ho. to turn their courts into arenas noble lord then contended that the poor law was founded were bourer, and to tend ultimately to at every man in England would spressed his abhorrence Lord G. SOMERSETTopposed the amendment. Colonel SIBTLI ORP supported the amendment sio . n s , Mr. W LEY said as the sense ........ ......„.„ , of the ... house appeared to be against his proposition, he would not divide the house. The motion was consequently negatived. Mr. T. PARKER then moved, as an amendment, that the house should resolve itself into committee on the bill that day six months Mr. GRIMSDITCH seconded the motion, which was also supported by General Johnson, and opposed by Mr. W. Miles. Mr. BROTHEItTOII said that his constituents had agreed to a petition against this bill, and he quite agreed with them that it was unsuited to the manufacturing districts. If, how ever, the corn laws were repealed, he .would be then content to throw the people on th e i r resources ; b ut h e was unw illi ng to do this while the landed interest had a law in existence for their own protection. Sir A. DALYMPLE said he had voted against the second reading of the bill, believing it calculated to render the exist ing law more stringent on the poor. As, however, the noble lord had given way on some points, and as th e pr i nc i p l e o f the bill was not in question on the.presen roeasion, he should not support the amendment, hoping th ._ ments might be marl,. ry great aulen m the committee. opposed the amendment. observations from Sir C. DOUGL AS , I iEY said that the bill was not fit to be amended , —that it had not eno u g h of merit to render it worthwi while enter upon its amendme nt. The noble lord (Lor d J. sell) had talked of the m etro p olitan boroughs sendin g mis chievous demagogues into that house, and the noble lord was quite right, for he believed that the members for those boroughs had invariably supported, or very nearly so, the government of the noble lord. Mr. FITZROY considered the bill to be unjust, cruel, and unnatural ; but as it might be amended in committee, he would oppose the amendment. The house divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 247 to 51. - in n e ..house , then went into committee. On ttre first clause, which related to the extension of the Mr. SLAN After a fel , Mr. WA K. (From ly other less than o: IoLL contended egal obligation, Ireland, while contended that lead to constant dis established church Sir R. PEEL saic not as *.o t the princip obedience t the hon. a, lution it. scientiou to violat, chased p the Pres nihaps, find it convellient .14 MEM THURSD.t y, and the rep that w it upon this REQUER opr is relat time t , . the cam- 1 cc ,etition of Capt. La Ro captain, it ring the matter to a of interests l he would not pre recommended in nt of ac It. IN ~ case, roi hold th ray of In" oor-Ino to five y Lord J. R lordships commis- 1 air eastern had I I the nio- .e Franc POPISH STATISTICS The Catholic Dire for the year 1841.—(I .tort' and Annual Ri .tninte Sup eriorunz.) The following is an authentic table of the number o Mass-Houses, - and also ployed in Great Britain :- Chapels in England Chapels in Wales .. Popish E ssaries openly em- Total of Chapels in:England Chapels in Sotland . (Besides 20 stations where Service is performed.) 1 of ( Grind t holic Churc and Chap in Great Britain Colleges in England College in Scotland Total of Catholic Colleges in Great Britain Convents in England Convent in Scotland Total of Catholic Convents in Great Britain Missionary Priests in Great Britain Priests in England in Wale Total of Priests in Eng' Priests in Scotland ... land and Wales Grand total of Missionary Priests in Great Britain RACES TO COME IN 1841 MARCH. Pytchley Hunt ~ Hampton Spring 25 I Epsom Spring 30 I Cottisford APRIL. Croxton-park 1 Curragb Huntingdon Spring .. 6or 13 Bath and Bristol Spring Newmarket 12 Sbifnal 12 I Newmarket .st Sussex Hunt Canterbury F. Catterick-bri 13 i Eglinton-park 14 I Bedford Sping Abergavenny Chester Hippodrom 3 I Beverley 4 I Gorhambury 5 York Spring 11 Epsom 11 JUNE. PliMouth Spring Newmarket Kelso Spring. 2 Newcastle-on-Tyne 2 Bellewston ... . 8 Cheltenham 8 Bibury Club 16 Stockbridge 16 . JULY. Newmarket Manchester Hippodrome Ascot Currag Newton Hampton Worcester 7 Mansfield Liverpool Down Royal Corporation l9 County of Gloucester Lancaster Goodwood .... Newport (Salop. Huntingdon The Pottery Brighton Newcastle (Staffordshire) otverhaxnpton Lewes Ripon Tunbridge Wells Egliam.: Hereford Stockton 5i 11 9 16 SEPTE Stourbridge Warwick York Paisley MISER. Curragh Lincoln Bedford Norwich. Doncaster Lichfield. Leicester. Liverpool Newarkei Western (Ayr) Newmarket • Curragh Leek (Staffordshire Newmarket Shrewsbury Oswestry.. OCTOBER. .11 Caledonian Hunt not fixed .12 Knutsford not fixed .18 Kelso not fixed . 25 THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS (Abridged from the Journal of Commerce.) The idea of establishing a regular :team communication between New York and Liverpool had now come to be seriously entertained by some of the sagacious and enter prising on both sides of the Atlantic. We do not feel called upon here to discuss the question, whether the " Great Western Steam Ship Company," or the " British and Ame rican Steam Navigation Company," are entitled to the credit—and an honourable distinction it certainly is—of leading the way in this great enterprise. That is a question which we take another occasion to examine, when the proper documents are placed within our reach. The Bristol com pany were indeed first upon the line with their noble ship, the Great Western; but the London and New York Com pany were actually first to accomplish the passage through by steam with the Sirius, chartered for the express purpose. To the unwearied perseverance of Mr. Junius Smith, an opulent and distinguished American merchant in London, more than to any other individual, is the final and successful accomplishment of this great enterprise doubtless to be at tributed. From January, 1833, to the present moment, he has been enthusiastically devoted to the object. As early as June, 1835, be published his first prospectus of a line of steam-packets between England and America. The public were at first disposed to ridicule the project. Nothing daunted, he persevered, 4nd in November following issued a second prospectus, whi4 began to attract the attention of capitalists. Shares were subscribed, doubt yielding to de monstration, the requisite capital was soon provided, and the " British and American Steam Navigation Company" was organised on a solid foundation. In October. 1836, they made their contract for building their first steam-ship; the keel was laid on the Ist of April, 1837, but owing to the failure of one of the contractors, and other difficulties, she was not launched until the 24th of May, 1838, when she re ceived the name of the British Queen. She left Ports mouth on the 12th July, 1839, on her first trip to New York, and arrived at New York on the 27th, after a passage of 14 days and 18 hours. No sooner did the fact of the establishment of the British and American Company transpire, than the people of Bristol became aroused to the importance of securing to their ancient city the advantage of a steam communication with New York. Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer, and other gentlemen connected with the great western railway, came forward with liberal subscriptions. A committee was appointed, assisted by one of the most competent practical ship-builders of the kingdom, to make the necessary surveys and examination. Their report was made to the subscribers on the Ist of January, 1836, and on the 2d of June, 1836, the " Great Western Steam Ship Company" was established by deed of settlement. On the 28th of July following, the stern-post of the Great Western was raised, and on the 19th of July, 1837, she was launched. After testing the work of her ma chinery, she departed from Bristol on the Bth of April, 1838, for New. York; arriving at this port 23d of April, after a .passage of 14 days 12 hours. She had made 15 trips across the Atlantic before the British Queen was placed upon the line. _ _ The " Trans-Atlantic Steam Ship Company," formed in Liverpool, in the summer of 1838, put two steamers on the route between that port and New York. The Royal William sailed on the sth of July, and arrived the 24th, making a passage of 18 days 12 hours. The Liverpool sailed on the 6th of November, and arrived the 23d, making a passage in 16 days 12 hours. The Royal William was withdrawn from the route in the winter of 1838, and the Liverpool in 1839. Public attention in London and in New England was soon directed to the establishment of a line of steamers to ply be tween Boston and Liverpool; and in 1839, Mr. Samuel Cunard, of London, succeeded in effecting a contract with the British Government, for the transmission of her Majesty's North American mails, twice a-month from Liverpool, via Halifax to Quebec. The liberal sum of £60,000 per annum, for 7 years, is to be paid by the Government for this service. Four steam-ships are to be placed on this line—two of which, the Britannia and Acadia, have already made their appear ance. The Britannia, the first of the line, arrived at Boston on the 18th of July, in 14 days from Liverpool ; and the Acadia, which left Liverpool on the 4th of August, arrived at Boston on the 17th, making the passage in 12 days, 12 hours—being the shortest ever made from England to Boston. On the same day the President came up the harbour of New York. This magnificent steam-ship belongs to the British and North American Steam Navigation Company. The President was launched on the Thames, on the 9th of Decem ber last, and in model, style of architecture, and beauty of tinisn, is equal perhaps to any other ship that floats upon the deep. The following table we also extract from the Journal (j Commerce Our readers will perceive that the proportion _., ...... ........ of tonnage to power is assumed to be perfect in Cimard's line; and although the Great Western was the first-built ocean steamer, it will be seen that her power to tonnage differs but slightly from Cunard's. The Great Western has not yet been beaten, taking the relative positions of New York and Boston into account. Vessels. '7onnage, Cunard's .... 1200 Gt. Western.. 1340 British Queen 2016 President.... 2366 Horse Tonnage Horse power of en power for every sines, if Mr. C.' - one horse proportion ha, power. been adopted. engine 440 2 8-11 450 2 4 4-45 491 1-3 500 4 4-125 739 1-5 600 3 283-300 867 8.15 A colony of Socialists in the Manea-fen, Cambridgeshire, have just shut up shop and decamped. be nobl, extends . stoners to a query regardir d that he could, with tbe ut most confidence, assure the proprietors that the line should be opened to the public during the present month, on what lot prepared to s,ay. The announcement gave ation, and the meeting separated.--Greenock I by them, in which I Advertiser, March 9 the utility of !ngineer, Mr. Jrrington, st At the same more jealous day he V DURHA SUNDERLAND RAILWA' A. meeting of the Shareholders of the Durham and Sunderland Railway was held in the Long Room, in the Arcade Buildings, Sun derland, on Tuesday last, to hear. the provisions of the bill for raising a further sum of money to complete the works a second read- hich bill has gone throng': ing, and is now in committee: Caleb Wilson, Esq., was called to the chair; and Mr. John Gregson, one of the clerks of the directors, read the principal clauses of the act, which enables the directors to raise, in addition to the capital already subscribed, a further sum, not exceeding £BO,OOO. Of this sum they are empowered to raise £26,000 upon mort gage, and the remainder by the creation and disposal of new shares. On the motion of Chris. Bramwell, Esq., seconded' by Johu Scott, Esq., it was resolved that the bill now read be approved of by the meeting. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned till Tuesday the 31st inst. at twelve o'clock.—Newcastle Journal. RAILWAY TO IN VERNESS.—Wg beg to direct attention to the memorial which will be found l in our columns of to-day, addressed by the provost, magistrates, and town council of the burgh of Inverness to the commissioners of her Majesty's treasury, on the important subject of the extension of the railroads, with which the country is now about to be inter sected, to tl apital of the Highlands This we consider most desirable in the circumstances of Inverness, and we think the memorialists have clearly shown that it is practi cable. We understand that the public are indebted to our intelligent provost for the proposal of this great improve ment. it is of importance that the north should reap the benefit of this new mode of communication as speedily as possible • and in matters of this kind, the public here always look to tile kindly assistance of government, who, we trust, will not refuse to Scotland what has been granted to Ireland —a survey of the capabilities of the whole country.—lnver 'zees Herald. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND EDINBURGII.-It will be observed, by the proceedings in parliament, that the government engineers have reported, that of the different lines proposed to unite the capitals, the preferable one is a continuation of the London and Birming ham, Grand Junction, and Lancaster and Preston Railways, by Carlisle, Gretna, Lcickerby, Beatock and Crawford, to Symington, in Lanarkshire ; and from this point by two di verging lines to Edinburgh and Glasgow,—Symington being about thirty miles distant from each city. From Syming ton to Edinbnrgh two alternate routes are proposed,—one by Biggar, Linton, and Penicuik ; the other by Thankerton, Wilsontown, and Mid-Calder. The route by Linton is the shortest by a mile ; but, from the nature of the ground, that by Wilsontown is considered preferable. The line by the north of the Pentland range, besides being a much easier line, runs through a more productive mineral district than the one by Linton, on the south of the Pentlands ; but the point of divergence commands both sides of that range, as Ld Wales well as both sales of the Clyde. It is a curious fact, that it appears to have been by this line, and also from a similar point in divergence, that the Roman armies marched from England to both the east and west of Scotland ; and from near the same Roman station diverges the great Parliamentary Road, executed by the late Mr. Telford, under the Govern ment Commissioners for improving the communication be tween England and Stirling, and the north of Scotland.— Edinburgh Observer. DREADFUL COAL-MINE ACCIDENT NEAR HAMILTON. • zi not fixed On Tuesday, the town of Hamilton and neighbourhood were thrown into great consternation on hearing of an ex tensive explosion of fire damp in the coal mine near Quarter, accompanied with the loss of eleven lives. On repairing to the spot, we found the account given of it too true. It ap pears that about eight o'clock that morning, (the breakfast hour) there were six men and a boy in the mine, all of whom, it was too plain, must have perished instantly by the explo sion. On the alarm being given, the overseer of the mine not being at hand, seven men, who were on the outside of the mouth of the mine, spontaneously, and under the influ ence of humanity, and vainly hoping to aid their fellow-men in the midst of this dreadful calamity, rushed thoughtlessly into the pestiferous atmosphere of the newly exploded mine ; three of whom were dragged out alive, and four dead, by a third party, who, becoming alarmed for their safety, went to their assistance. Unceasing exertions were made to relieve the mine of the noxious vapour, but it was not till yesterday morning that the bodies of the seven first sufferers were recovered, some of whom were shockingly mangled by the explosion,' in a way that evidently showed that the death of the whole must have been instantaneous. Of the eleven sufferers, nine were married, who have left wives and fami lies behind them to deplore their loss. The noble proprietor of the mine, the Duke. of Hamilton, who is now at the palace, was in the greatest distress on obtaining intelligence of the sad event, and immediately sent pecuniary assistance to the families of the poor sufferers, and has caused every exertion to be used on their behalf, and arrangements to be made, at his own expense, as to their funerals and otherwise, suitable to the sad occasion. The terrible accident, it appears, not fixed not fixed 23 25 or 26 not fixed not fixed not fixed 'as in no degree owing .. • to the negligence or want of skill of his grace's overseerss or engineers. The mine, which is an ingoing eye, or - day level, when the explosion occurred, was completely ventilated, be ing open at both ends to the day, with a current of air con stantly passing through it, and on the morning whenthe'acci dent occurred, had been carefully examined by two oversmer., and reported to he free from danger. It appears that the carbonated hydrogen had been instantly generated from •cer tain fissures connected with a rise in the metals, the sad effects of which no human foresight could prevent. For the satisfaction of those at a distance, who may have friends employed at the Quarter coal mines, we subjoin a list of the sufferers. The seven first were in the mine at the time of the explosion—the remaining four went in to their rescue :—William Brounlie, and his son—a boy ten years of age ; James Duffle •• John Duffle ; Hugh M'Lean ; John Smith ; William. Wotherspoon ; James Fleming; George Plate ; James Fisher ; Jame Fyfe.—Argus. REPUBLICAN " SIMPLICITY." It was a fashion with Mr. Joseph Hume some years ago, whenever anything was asked for the sustenation of royalty, to twit us with the exceeding loveliness of republican sim plicity." The cheapness of democracy charmed him, a Pre sident of the United States was not much more costly than a chairman of the customs with us ; and on one occasion we remember his dwelling with ecstacy on the fact, that if the President desired to give half a dozen friends a night's lodg ing in the government house, he would he forced to "sleep them" two in a bed and "plank it" himself. We thought this a joke at the time; but it turns out to have been true, for there were some curious revelations made in Congress on the 23d ult., touching the alleged " simplicity" of our repub lican cousins in their mode of fitting up. domiciles for their chief ministers of state. We copy from the regular report in the New York Journal of Commerce—" An amendment (motion) was offered for appropriattng 6000 dollars to buy chamber furniture, of American manufacture, for the Presi dent's house. It was stated that there were but three beds in the mansion; and that it was destitute of furniture neces sary to the comfort of a family—though the furniture (such as it was) had cost more than 100,000 dollars, and the allow ance made in Van Buren's time for furniture was 27,000 dollars, all of which was expended in two rooms !" Mr. Van Buren, it was moreover stated, was a single man, and had, therefore, only occasion for two rooms ; hut, shade of Cincinnatus ! only think of a little republican bachelor spend ing 27,000 crowns in 'fitting up for himself t etnWum sane forum and a bedroom ! - 4)ne of the members (s, dr. Alford) " moved to sell the gold spoons, and other suck, articles, and with the proceeds to buy necessary furniture ;" whereupon a Mr. Lincoln, with great gravity and indignation, averred "on the authority of official documents," that Mr. Van Buren's spoons were not gold, that they were only silver gilt ! We should have thought, from Mr. Hume's account, that even a plain silver spoon would have been an abomination in the mouth of a loco-foco statesman ; but it seems that silver itself must be washed in gold to harmonise with his palate ! We perceive, too, that with all their " simplicity" they are in their style of social intercourse generations before us, hav ing adopted that liberal eastern custom by which a guest is allowed, and indeed expected, to smuggle out of the house the cup from which he has been drinking. There seemed to be no surprise created when honourable members accounted for the hundred thousand dollars worth of furniture already purchased by its having been" stolen" ! When Mr. Hume's occupation is gone, as it is likely to be at no distant date, in this country, we advise him to transfer his inquisitive and economical genius to the other side of the Atlantic. He will find plenty of work to keep him from rusting in his old age amongst his models of "simplicity." • CHURCH -RATE, BRIGHTON... On Thursday afternoon, at five o'clock, the two days' poll for a church-rate for this parish terminated, when the rev. vicar, who had attended to receive the votes during the whole of the poll, announced the The few persons present immediately retired, no ob servations having been made at the close of the meeting, as was the case heretofore, when the radicals used to declaim against Sturges Bonrne's Act, and to boast that, although beaten by votes , they had a majority of persons. The num ber of rate-payers who recorded their opposition to the church-rate on this occasion was only 125, out of a popula tion of about 45,000. The following is the result of the poll: For the rate.... 804 votes and 301 krsons. Against it...... 236 125 " Majority for rate 568 votes —Brighton Gazette. 176 persons ETON COLLEGE, FRIDAY, MARCH 19.—1 n consequence of a very large proportion of the boys (I may say at least three-fourths of the school) having been sent for by their parents and left the college up to Wednesday evening, occa sioned by the alarming rumours of the prevalence of the scarlet-fever within the establishment, Dr. Hawtrey, the head-master, came to the determination of dismissing the remainder. Yesterday the school " broke up" accordingly, and by this evening the college (both with respect to the oppidans and the collegers) will be entirely deserted. The business of the school having terminated until the conclu sion of the Easter holidays, the examination for the New castle scholarship has consequently and necessarily been postponed until after that period ; it will commence on Mon day, April the 25th, and terminate on the following Satur day. The examiners are the Rev. Mr. Jell, of Christ Church, Oxford, and G. T. Pennington, Esq., of King's College, Cambridge. Since the fatal termination to the ill ness of the son of Mr. Mount, who died on Monday last, no fresh cases have occurred within the college. D R EADFUL ACCIDENT.—A man of the n ame o f J ohn R o bi n son .was at work last Friday night, i n a p i t near this town , belonging to Thomas Shaw Hellier, Esq., wh en a quantity of coal fell upon him about ten o'clock at night, and almost crushed him to atoms. As there was no individual on the bank, and it being in the night, he was not got out till the men came to work the next morning. There were two other men with him, one of whom was severely injured and the other escaped, but as there was no means of extricating his fellow sufferers from their dreadful situation, he was obliged to stay with them till between five and six o'clock the next morning • an inquest was held on the body on Satu r d ay last, befoze W. Robinson, Esq., coroner. Verdict —Acci dental death.—St eorshire Gazelle. happy s a re re covd from his l a t e ere to state th a t the TII Lord severe indisposition to be able to resume his official duti es. E Loan Chancellor CziaN oiEst L o ff i n. c The noble and learned lord sat on Thursday morning in the House of Lords to bear appeals. His lordship appears to have suffered very severely.— Standard.— On Saturday morning his lordship took his seat in the Chancery Court, Lincoln's Inn, for the first time since his serious indisposition. THEATEF.ROY4I,, ,LIVERrOOf. Under the Management of Mr. C7.4.810E Sole Lessee. MR. WALLACK, Of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, is en gaged for a Fortnight, and will make his second appearance here since his return from America, this Evening. . . . . Mr. WALLACK having been greeted with the most enthusias tic applause last night, in the characters ofJulian St. Pierre and nick Dasball, the drama of THE WOE, and the farce 1Y AUNT, will in consequence be repeated in the course of the week. THIS present Tl.: formed the Trag I'SDAY, the 23d instan)(will be per- I , izAitito Wallack. Mr. aker. Mr. Gray.—Alonzo.. ... Mr. H. Holl Cora.. Mrs, W. H. Bland. Orozembo Pizarro. To conclude with the Musical Play o; ROB ROY. Compressed into two Acts Rob Roy .. Francis Osbaldistone Miss Cleaver Elvira Mr. Stuart. .Air. G. Horneastle v ~~ Bailie Nicol Jarvie.. Mr. Baker. Diana Vernon Miss E. Honner Helen M`Gregor .... On WEDNESDAY—the Comedy. of THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. Wallack ; Colonel Briton, Mr. H. Holl ; Lissario, Mr. Baker ; Frederick, Mr. W. H. Bland; Isabella, MiSs Cleaver ; Violante, Mrs. W. H. Bland ; Flora, Mrs. Clarke. After which, the Musical Drama of the ADOPTED CHILD. MiChael, Mr. Wallack ; Clara, Mrs. Barton; Lucy, Miss E. Homier : Nell, Madame Simon. To con clude with the Operetta of LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCK SMITHS. Captain Beldare, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Risk, Mr. Baker; Lydia; Mrs. P. Crowe. On THURSDAY—CHARLES THE SECOND, BRI GAND, and RENT DAY . - On FRIDAY—The WIFE, MY AUNT, and THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. On SATURDAY--TOWN AND COUNTRY, and the EVIL EYE. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET IN CONSEQUENCE OF rIE CROWDED STATE OF THEZOUSE LAST NIGHT FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRSjofiIGGIE, AME ENTERTAINMEIiTS WILL BE REPEA'ED TM: EVENING. 'THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, le 23d, 1841, 1- the Evening's Entertainments to comm ce with an en tirely new and Historical Drama of intense interest, entitled • THE TOWER OF LONDON; OR, TILE FATE OF LADY JANE GnEv ! Mons: de Noailles.. Mr. Higgic. I Magog... Tilbury. Kill Sin Pimple.. Mr. ( Lady Jane Grey.. Mrs. Gordon. j Gunnora Cicely. .Mrs. C. F. Marshall Marshall. Mrs. H After v rhich, the humourous and highly amusing Interlude of THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN; Lord Totterl OR, THE TIGER IN BOOTS. .Mr. Tilbury_) James Mille Mr. Higgie Raymond Mr. C. F Marshall. Bill Downey Miss Mary Chintz..... To conclude with the Drama, called ROBERT MACAIRE Robert Macaire.... Mr. Higgie Jacques Strop. Maria.. Mrs. Gordon. Clementina. Louise.. Miss de Blaquiere Tickets to be had and Places secured of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Bog-office, daily, from 11 to 3, and at the usual places. C. F. Marshall i.. Miss Browne. jB. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and RINCIPAL o REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, espectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties in rested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM EPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the e ing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. References permitted to Gentlemen o the highest re spectability. Letters, addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive immediate attention. ET)/ Ethrrpoo: &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1841 Twenty thousand persons, we are told, obeyed the summons of the agitator, and met him on the Curragh of Kildare on Sunday week. Seventy thousand tee totallers marched in procession in Dublin on the 17th inst. in honour of St. Patrick; some five thousand in Liverpool ; and further sayeth not. We have not kept an account of the demonstrations in other places, either in the provinces in Ireland, or in various parts of Eng land, where the Irish are quite in sufficient force to make a respectable show when called out for that purpose. The question which people who . give them selves the trouble to think at all on the subject ask, is, —are these exhibitions quite innocent—quite justifi able—quite right ; should they, in short, be permitted ? Some put the question in wrath and indignation, bear ing in mind how intolerant our authorities are of all displays of an oyposite kind. But heat and passion are out of place in the investigation of this nice, pro found, and delicate question. It becomes us to be calm that we may not be ridiculous. There is no longer the slightest appearance of nervous disturbance on the other side. All is cool and methodized there; and on our part, whose business it is to reason over the affair, a corresponding frame of mind is called for. These displays of organized masses, then, are re garded by those of the adverse party as displays of strength, and made not only to show strength, but to acquire more of it. On this point we apprehend no difference of opinion can exist. But this being so, it is scarely more than the correlative proposition to say, that if these displays be a proof of strength, and a means of augmenting it on the one side, they are to ust the same extent a proof of weakness, and a means of increasing that weakness, on the other. We submit that this is goo] logic and a pretty fair deduction from the premises. But what next ? Nay, softly gentle reader, not so fast ! We must go gingerly and delibe. rately in picking our way through this entangled We grant that it is not pleasant to see men, whose politics one does not approve, vaunting their forces, and displaying them insultingly before your eyes, and countenanced rather than discouraged therein by the government. This is not pleasant; still the amount of the feeling must depend on the opinions en tertained of the particular views, and dispositions of the party thus parading the organization and number of its troops. We certainly do not consider it right ;nder any circumstances that men should be allowed to seek the attainment even of a legitimate object by the exhibition of mere physical strength. It is not constitutional, and is of evil example. It is a breaking in upon those rules and laws which the constitution has provided for the prevention of tumultuous assem blages, and to obviate the necessity of even an appear ance of resorting to first principles in order to obtain objects which, if of a legitimate kind, may be obtained, or at least sought for, by other means. But our dis like on this head will bear some proportion to the known character and purposes of those who resort to this unconstitutional mode of proceeding. Therefore it is material to ascertain as nearly as can he, who are the exhibitors, and what is their purpose ? In the first place then, this party are all of one reli gious creed—Romanists—and this `first place' is so material and comprehensive in its kind, that it will not be of very great moment if we should never come to a second. Not a single Protestant joins in the demon strations, or belongs in any way to the fraternity. The grand cement of their union is their religion, and it admits of no admixture. It will neither cohere nor bind, if anyloreign ingredient he introduced into it. There is a witch's charm in the composition, and that charm would be spoiled by the slightest deviation from All the mummers are Romanists— the prescription and Romanists acting with the full consent mid appro bation of their priesthood. Let us bear constantly in mind, when we contemplate one of these demonstra tions, that it is the church of Rame that is making it; and with our historical and other recollections of what that church is, we may he the better able to determine what these pageants are for. But the object is in a great measure declared. There is more candour in this respect in our day than there was in the olden time. O'Connell repeated at Kildare race-course, what he had frequently announced before, that justice to Ireland includes the remaining three fourths of the tithes belonging to the church in Ire land, household suffrage, but above all, a parliament in College-green, Dublin. Now if England grant the parliament in College green, or has the most remote intention to grant it, she may grant all the other things, and as many more as the agitator may please to add to the list; for what will it be to her what becomes of Ireland, if a repeal of the union is to follow? Let us say then, in one word, that the simple object of all these demonstrations is the severance of the king dom—and if that be not TREASON, what is ? The traitors are indeed full of exuberant loyalty to the Queen, personally, while they arc most devoutly seek ing to rob her of her dominions; but it her Majesty should ever deign to cast an eye over th' fulsome, hy pocritical, and disgusting declaration of the agitator, O'Connell, as she may find it in some friendly journal, we hop she is not deceived thereby. We began this head of remark by saying that the parties procession ing and parading in the manner alluded to, were Ro manists ; but if we were to add now that they are rebels, as well as Rotnanists, should we exceed our authority ? That wherever they are, whether in Eng land, Ireland, Scotland, these Romanist, and for the most part, Irish masses, are actuated by a common xe bound to behove, both from tt nen of their religious profession, and their own express declarations. We are warranted to believe that they act in concert, and that they are ready and willing to co-operate for a common purpose. _ _ . In this view of affairs—and it is, we apprehend, the true one, there is evident danger to the state in what is going on Let us remember that the Pope's church is a political as well as religious institution -1 that its affairs are conducted by a corporation that never dies -and that ascendant has ever been its object, with an utter recklessness as to the means by which the end may be accomplished. We have little doubt that his holiness and the college of cardinals calculate on having Ireland entirely their own within a short period, and that in the course of time, England, with due management, will also be brought under the papal yoke This i the developement of the plot, and we are. at least fore warned. There is no secret at all in the business. All is candidly and plainly set before us, and we may say harmlessly so; for here the old maxim--" forewarned '—seems to have lost some portion of its verity. Our government at least refuses to profit by the warning, and continues resolutely deaf to the fore-armed " voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." The moral of our tale would he mainly this, that we have much need to be on our guard, and that the go vernment which is riot only careless on this subject, but in a great measure auxiliary to the existing peril. is absolutely unfit to hold the administration of public affairs in its hands. But we shall be glad to reduce our moral from this vague to a more definite shape; and, for this purpose, not to be tediotls now, shall re sume our theme at another, opportunity. The new American President is an upholder of sla very, and has lately taken an opportunity to declare himself such with a view to his greater popularity. In our apprehension it is an index to his moral qualities of no favourable kind. Any man who does not lament the existence of slavery in the abstract, must be ex- ceedingly dark in this respect, whatever he may be in any other Men may differ as to the time and mode of suppressing the system in a country where it has been long established, and it would be a fair subject for the exercise of individual opinion; but for a man to uphold and plead for the . system itself—to boast himself a defender of it, and a determined, unalterable enemy to its abolition—that, we say, is a melancholy proof, to our mind, that the individual championing such a doctrine, has never submitted his moral feelings to the influence of Christianity. Now, General Harrison has made an express de claration to this effect, and we can make no exception of consequences deducible therefrom on his account. Passing through Richmond in February, he was greeted by a large multitude, whom he addressed. In the course of his speech he touched on the subject of sla very, and said that the report that he was an Abolition ist could only have come from an enemy. He then made a full communication of his sentiments in the following strong—nay, glowing language :—[We quote from the New York Morning Herald of the 25th Fe bruary.] " do; could a Virginian, who sees in every thing around him, the reminiscences of„ his youth, be an Abolitionist ? How could a Virginian, bo'in and bred on the lower James River, and in a house noted for some memorable incidents in our revolutionary struggle, be an Abolitionist ? How could a Virginian, whose sires received many distinguished tokens of confidence and esteem of the hands of this virtuous old Commonwealth, bean Abolitionist ? Flow could a Virginian be so irreverent to the sacred ashes of his honored ancestors, as to be an Abolitionist? Could such a Virginian be called an Abolitionist by another Virginian, and the other a true hearted Virginian, and sound to the core ? The thing was impossible. The bosom could not be free from taint that harbored such a suspicion. He said he had not given pledges and promises before the election, because such a precedent was calculated to produce mischief, and to confer the Presi dency upon men of promises instead of men of performances. But now that he was no more a candidate for the suffrages of the people, and could not be affected by their votes, he had no hesitation in declaring, what had ever been his feelings, his steadfast devotion to the rights and interests of his native State." We might moralise at much length on this remark able speech, for certainly it affordS rich matter both for speculation and instruction. It forcibly reminds us, in the first place, how dangerous it is to take the opi nions of the many, as ,a rule of right,—as that which is in its own nature abominable, and is, in one coun try, justly abhorred, may, in another, be deemed even honourable, virtuous, and praiseworthy In Virginia, we perceive, that even to suspect a worthy citizen of being unfavourable to slavery, a'man must,' according to General Harrison, have become not free from taint himself, and that to 'be a " true-hearted Virginian— sound to the corn"—one must be a resolute, uncom promising defender of slavery. The Virginian general then ascends the presidential chair, pledged by the " reverence he bears the ashes of his sires, and the gratitude he owes this virtuous old commonwealth," to maintain the slave system ; and nothing is to be hoped for, favourable to its abro gation, during his regime. But is this all ? We fear not; we do apprehend that there is much more to be inferred from such a premiss. We conceive, as we hove already insinuated, :that the man who gives a monopoly of his benevolence to one colour of the human family, must derive his philanthropy from some standard of morals, the acknowledgment of .which is quite incompatible with a due regard to, or belief in the truths of Christianity, and therefore, that we have no security for his conduct, or test of his principles, beyond that ever-fluctuating sense of propriety s& dif ferent in different men, and so liable to change in the same individual. General Harrison scouts the idea of not being an abettor of slavery. Could he justify his system on christian principles Impossible. The law of christian benevolence requires men to do to others as they would that others should do by them. Chris tianity cuts at the very root of slavery. But the American President will maintain the system never theless, and maintain it, because he is a true Virginian —because the Virginians are slave-owners, and slave dealers, and because they inflict on' others, should be his own. We do not envy General Harrison that pinnacle of honour to which he has climbed. It is at this moment one of peculiar danger and difficulty. As to the war cry, he does not seem to us to be the man who would risk his popularity to , any great extent in order to suppress it; but still it is only reasonable to expect that he may desire to commence his administration by endeavouring to restrain an outbreak of folly so re plete with injurious, if not ruinous consequences. Our Whig contemporary, the Albion, by his publica tion of yesterday, has been much occupied by the STANDARD family, and devotes four . leading articles of his paper to the consideration of our numerous errors and deficiencies. As to our London name-sake, we know not that he is aware of all the attention be stowed upon him, for his good, by our local reviewer and critic; but as we cannot plead ignorance on the subject, it would be unpardonable of us not to acknow ledge it in some way or other. In the first place, the Albion evinces a remarkable anxiety as to the state of our editorial health, both mental and bodily, and volunteers to perform the office of surgeon, physician, and apothecary in our behalf. " Our sympathies," he says, "are divided between the established church and the intruder to the palace"—a very bad symptom indeed, and evidently of a strong anti-whiggish character—" we are careful for our Church, and our most gracious Queen"—oh, shocking! It is plain that we are in great need of a Whig phy sician, if not of hellebore, and the voyage to Antycira, to cure us in these respects. But let us hear more of our case ; this is only, as it were, the first feeling of our pulse. " Extreme nervous excitement produces extraordinary illusions."—" Tories and Tory editors must live in a state of trepidation"—(more shame to give them fresh cause, say we)—" Turn his eyes which way lie will, he sees cause for fear and trembling. On the one side stands a Jew and on the other a Catholic, both waiting for tardily administered justice; one requires the rights of citizenship which are his due ; the other looks but for the fulfilment of a bargain and for an equitable appropriation." We would guard our country against Papists and Infidels, the one of whom is only waiting, as our witness says, for " tardily ad ministered justice," and the other for the fulfilment of a " bargain" and an " equitable appropriation"—and oh monstrous evidence of disease and infirmity ! We see in THIS " cause for fear and trembling"—when, if we were like our physician, could be doctored by hint to any purpose, we should be rejoicing at the biftw.us We really hut n" notice before Pf the alarming atato of our ease, and now perceive, in the clearest manner, that it is confirme4 "ppNsERVA. TISM," and nothing less. But what says our Doctor —why, that his opinion, " the subject is worthy of consideration by the " Health Committee" of the Town Council." But nay, friend, why should we go to the Town Council —or, according to the proverb, out of the frying-pan into the fire—in order to be cured ? Our volunteer iEsculapius manifests such arxiety on our account, and pours forth such torrents of physic, or wit as he supposes it to be, for our recovery, that PROCEEDINGS. IN PARLIAMENT (From our London Correspondent.) The House of Commons was occupied on Thursday even 7 ing with an attempt on the part of Mr. Easthope to procure, by a sidcwind, a recognition of the principles which actuate. in his contumacious resistance to the law of the land, that worthy imitator of John Thorogood, Mr. W. Baines, of Leicester. The church-rate question has however, been dis cussed "ad nauseam" and a perusal of the debate of Thusday will acid little to the stock of philosophy which we already lossess omithe subject, beyond that it is almost as difficult to drive coninien sense into the heads of the political dissenters who crowd the ministerial benches as it would be to elicit an idea from John Thorogdod's lapstone. The question of the liability of property—no matter to whom be- longing, or by whom occupied—to be rated for the mainte- lance of the fabric of the church has now been distinctly set at rest by' the [emn decision of the judges and dissenters or churchmen have only one plain duty to perform of paying obedience to the law. I should imagine that there should be no " conscientious scruple" against that at any rate. On Friday evening Lord John Russell moved the order of the day upon going into committee on his new poor-law and, it is abundantly gratifying to observe, from the debate which ensued, that a feeling is rapidly growing up in the house, which is not confined to any party, the direct leaning of which is towards an amelioration of the working of this harsh and inhuman measure. The speech of Mr. Wakley, the member for Finsbury, (who, in his capacity as coroner for Middlesex, has had opportunities such as few measure other members in the house possess, of arriving at a know ledge of the cold-blooded and imperturbable heartlessness with which the system is characterised throughout ? ) should be seriously and attentively read by the people of Liverpool at the present moment, as well for the strong and undeniable facts, of harrowing import, which it embodies as for its bold denunciation of that " liberal" and " reformed" (?) parlia ment which has dared first to inflict such a measure upon the British people. The speech of Mr. Townley Parker is also worthy of attention, as proving distinctly that throughout the whole of that district df Lancashire into which the system has so far been introduced, the expense to the rate-payers has been seriously increased instead of being diminished. The speech of Lord John Russell, however, "it is above all others to which the attention of the public Ought to be di rected, as displaying the spirit of a fiend mixed up with the heartless utilitarianism of the modern " liberal." Lord John openly declared in that speech that " destitution" alone should form the claim of our suffering poor to relief; that no distinction should be made between the deserving and the dissolute ; that the " torture" of the workhouse test must be applied indiscriminately to the decayed tradesman, to the widow, and to the victim of misfortune, as to the abandoned and the idle; and that the commissioners were the most proper parties to regulate the necessity of that test or " torture," because they cannot be biassed by feelings of -because they are gifted with the possession of hearts of adamant ! It had been urged upon the house that the guardians of a parish—in Kent, I believe--yhad petitioned those commissioners for the power of allowing an additional four ounces of rice per week to the paupers in their work house, and that they had been refused ; and Lord John Russell dared in the face of a Christian legislature to defend that refusal—to deny the right of men, administering their own funds, to add 4 ounces of rice a week (!) to the pork broth and rancid cheese by which their unfortunate fellow parishioners were kept on the verge of starvation—to add one penny a week to the cost of supporting the miserable victims of misfortune and poverty :—and on what ground ? Because to do so would be "an injustice to the poor rate-payer" ! I imagine there are not many rate-payers in Liverpool at least who would complain of such an injustice. It had been urged that so strong is the repugnance which hnmanity— exists amongst the suffering poor to enter into the union workhouses, that in one instance a wretched being had been discovered literally starved to death in a garret, who was proved to have carried in his pocket for three days an order of admission to the workhouse, and to have preferred, at last, this most iifiserable death which human nature can know, to the protracted torture which was prepared for him in that abode of despair and wretchedness. And Lord John Russell ventured even to defend the odious cruelty by which that bountiful provision which the constitution of our ances tors has provided Tor the victim of misfortune, at the expense of his more affluentfellow-beings, if hedged round with such unsupportable and wantonly-inflicted degradation, that death itself is deemed pteferabl s e to its acceptance. Yet this " libe ral" lordling—who appears to possess, with the form, the deep malignity of the Elfin race—had the assurance to con tend that it is wise and Christian policy which renders the last shelter which offers itself to suffering wretchedness as a barrier against starvation, so revolting to all the feelings of numanity as tp_ be scarcely preferable to the very extremity of human misery The remarks wilich fell from Sir Robert Peel were cha racterized by more ,of a Christian spirit and less of mere utilitarianism than he has previously displayed upon this sub ject. Still, I cannot think that we have much to be thankful for when we look at the votes by which those remarks were accompanied. Sir Robert has given his deliberate sanction to a prolongation of the Somerset House tyranny for five more years aid although that permission was followed by a rebuke to the commissioners for the superiluous - cruelty of !cially for the " harshness of lan- niveyed ; yet Sir Ro- Bert Peel ott ght not to be id to the fact that it is not to the be only but to the working principle of ie whole measure that nine-tenths of the people of England The right hon. baronet had an opportunity before harshness of langua till he fairly gives up our case as desperate. allow him all reasonable opp lortunit upon us to try his skill By the way, w must own that we paused over; some of his yesterday'S :compounds, and after considering them with tWoitmoSk.gravity and seriousness, as be came us, emir I not, after many efforts, by any means • contrive to " take." There was one long affair—some thing about the " church," and the " boy Jones"—L (the merriment of the combination was all our critic's own)—which. must have been very good indeed, if its wit bore any proportion to its length ; but the joke, unfortunately, lay heavily at the bottom of the bottle, and though we shook nnd shook, it would not come up. Do, Mr. Albion, remedy this in your next dose ; and either pea up a label to tell us where the point lies, or be pleased to remember the value of brevity and neatness in your preparations. We will not occupy more space at present with the facetice or the inertie of the Albion, but hope he will perceive by this, that we are not insensible to the attention we receive at his hands. We must attribute the misfortune of having a New I, Poor-law introduced into Liverpool, if such must be our fate, to the circumstance of our having a Whig town council. Had we a council really representing the feelings and sentiments of the inhabitants, it would have given them such aid in their remonstrances against the infliction, as would have prevented any government from daring to persevere in it, or to allow their commissioners to force it upon such a city as this, contrary to the expressed and almost unanimous wish of the inhabitants. The people have petitioned against it, but the council is silent. The council has not se conded their memorial, and the commissioners imme diately avail themselves of this seeming division in the town, and proceed to put the law in force. It is a great error, we admit, on the part of our Con servative members of parliament, that they have not shewn themselves more attentive to the feelings of the people out of doors on this question; but the odium of driving the thing on, and of attempting to give the Somerset House conclave a new ten years lease of their supreme authority, - Must rest with the Whig adminis- tration The divisions which took place in the Commons on Friday leave us without hope as to the final result of the bill ; but many important improvements may be made in it, and from all that has accrued, we, should think that the terrible rigours of the system will be in some degree mitigated or restrained. But do we owe anything to the Whigs on this account ? Oh, nothing in the world. It was all comfortable and smooth in their eyes before. Their commissioners are all " second Daniels come to judgment,"—and in the system itself, which treats pauperism as the worst of crimes, they can see no fault. All they wish is to renew it for ever, and saddle themselves in perpetuity on the country along with The inquiry into the proceedings of the commission ers as to the appointment of a returning officer for the Union of Clonmel has produced a nice skew-up of their mode of conducting business. The whole of that affair may be summed up in this—that the commis sioners selected, as a proper returning officer for that union, a person who had been discharged as an insol vent, but who was the nephew of a popish bishop, and violent political partisan, in preference to a gentleman in every way eligible and qualified for the office; and then having done this trick, the particulars of which they were anxious to conceal, they stuck neither at falsehood nor falsification, nor any other ingenious device that seemed likely to mystify the deed records," the Duke of 'Wellington observed, "were kept in such a manner that it was impossible to trace any act of the commissioners. The clause of the act of parliament WilS little obeyed in Ireland; and he feared as little in England. They were in the hands of this board that possessed udimited authority to do what " Their they pleased, and who kept no regular record cf thei transactions." And yet this is the board, it 'will be remembered, whose authority our Town-council anc the Whig party are so desirous of introducing into the parish. Mark this, burgesses of Liverpool, we beseech Sir Robert Peel, who has done much to stay the tyranny of these shrouded invisibles, by re coming term of their power, did not fail, in the debates of Friday, to bestow upon them some salutary admo• nition. In one of their official.papers, it seems, they took upon them to declare, that " one principal object of a compulsory proviSion for the relief of the destitute poor is the prevention of alms giving." ! On this Sir Robert Peel observed . ;lacing ti • 4.- " Why he heard the noble lord (J. Russell) himself state, that the Poor Law would completely fail in effect if the afflu ent withheld their alms. That was perfectly true ; and he should abominate the Poor Law if he thought it relieved the rich from the duty of almsgiving. (Cheers.) He was per fectly certain the Poor Law would fail if the affluent, relying upon its provisions alone, however improved the system of administration might be, felt the moral obligation on them to attend to the wants of their poorer neighbours was thereby extinguished. It was no such thing. In point of fact, the relief of the poor must mainly depend on the rich and afflu ent; and therefore it was unwise in the commissioners to issue a public notice announcing that ' a principal object of a compulsory provisioa for the relief of destitution was the prevention of almsgiving.' One object might be the preven tion of mendicancy or vagrancy, certainly not of almsgiving. It was a complete desecration of the precepts of the Divine law—` Give alms to the poor,' Turn not your face from the poor man.' (Hear, hear.) He only mentioned this as an illustration of the great advantage and wisdom of weighing the expressions which might be used, so as not to get up an impression of unnecessary hardship. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, he did think with respect to the public documents put forth by the commissioners, independently of the use of particular expressions, their general tone and character might be im proved, consistently with the maintenance of the principles of the law." (Cheers from both sides of the house.) This is, indeed, excellent, and what we should expect froin the right honourable baronet; and it will, doubt less, do good. At the same time, we do fear that the tyranny of these commissioners, and their mere crea tures, the guardians, will be felt where these Christian sentiments, and the applause which they won, will have little operation. However, it is well that so much has appeared to shew who are, and who are not, the friends of the poor, _ . . LONGEVITY.—The following remarkable instances of lon gevity have been furnished us by a correspondent at Lich field :—Roger Brook died Oct. 8, 1568. aged 133. Mrs. Cleen, near the Winter Pool, died Jan. 23, 1772, aged 138 years of age : she lived in one house 103 years, and walked five miles, to pay her rent, only three weeks before her death—(tell the wise doctor of Lichfield the pool was in a good state then.) Thomas Damms, of Lighton, in Cheshire, died in 1648, aged 154. William Edwards, of Carren, near Cardiff, died in 1668, aged 168. Henry Fairbrother, of Wi gan, Lancashire, died May 10, 1770, aged 138. Squire Mac finley, of Tipperary, died June 15, 1773, aged 126. Thomas Newman, of Brislington, died in 1542, aged 143. Frederick Harper, of Fishall, Cumberland, died Feb. 8, 1792, aged 120. Mr. T. Robertson, of Hope-hall, near Edinburgh, died July 8. 1793, aged 137. Jane Scrimshaw, died in Rosemary-lane Workhouse, Dec. 6, 1711, aged 126; but the workhouses then were not like the whig bastiles now. A SPLENDID RELISH.—A BOLTON CANNIBAL.—AII in stance has been related to us this week, and for the truth of which we can vouch, of a dog of a bull breed having been hung for displeasing its master, a rope maker, and afterwards interred, in a most blasphemous manner, in a field. Having remained two days in the ground it was dug up, and skinned, and having been cut into pieces, was sent to a beer shop i n the neighbourhorband ordered to be stewed. The landlady, an excellent cook, prepared it in the evening, and seasoned it well. About eight o'clock a fishmonger was passing with his cart, and the rope maker called him into the house. Wir t have a bit of this hash ?" enquired the roper, " for our Joe and me has been up street an we'n joined at eighteen pen north of mutton." J em replied, " I'd rather not, because your Joe might not like it." But, however, a large basin full of the soup, containing a full portion of the meat was served up, and forthwith he commenced eating, declaring he never " eat nowt better in his life," the ro pe makerl also swal lowing large spoonfuls from another dish. In a few minutes Jem's father entered, and he was supplied with " a mess." Having filled themselves to the brim, they declared they could not manage the remainder of the meat, well take it home with you," was the kind recommendation. Both did as desired, and three ladies boiled some potatoes and made an excellent supper. The old man, on his way home, was so swollen that he had to unbutton his waistcoat', and was beard to declare " eh ; but if I'd meat as I oug h t to h ave, I s h ou ld get fat I know." On the following d a y t h e d rea df u l truth was revealed, and the bare idea of it threw them into a sickly state, and with faces extended several inches beyond their usual length, unusual Joses of medicine were swallowed, and, having recovered from the effects of it, resumed their usual cheerfulness. They attended at the court on Thursday. to obtain redress, but were informed there was no Act of Par liament which would meet the qase.—Bolion Chronicle. er the reverenee and love of that people, by standing forward boldly to demand, in their name, the aim of gaining for ation of this, tyranny which " grinds the faces of the —but he haslet slip the opportunity. He professes to ee, indeed, the necessity of abating the tyranny ; but he may 'est assured that no half-way measures—no weapon which foes not strike at the root of the evil—which does not de itroy utterly the centralization principle—can ever effect this The odious nature of the system cannot be abated. It must be utterly destroyed. In the House of Lords on Friday a petition was presented by the Earl of Aberdeen from certain of the inbabitants of the colony of Newfoundland, praying that some measure of protection might be afforded them in the exercise of their civil rights It may be interesting to your readers to know that the constitution which was in 1832 conceded by the whig government to the demands of popery in that colony is almost precisely similar, as regards the franchise, to that about to be conceded to popery in Ireland ; and that so in sufferable are the abuses so attendant upon its working—so wholly are the people placed under the control of priestly in timidation and outrage, when seeking to exercise their privi leges of electing members—that the governor-general has actually found it necessary to refuse the issue of any further writs, after the expiration of the present session, until some measure of protection is devised. A pleasant foretaste cer- tainly of the result of a similar measure nearer home ! TO THE .CONSTITUENCIES OF PROTESTANT .ENGLAND.-LETTER FELLOW PROTESTANTS ,—I inquired of you, in my last, whether- you would endure the perpetuation, by Lord Mor grinding tyranny by which your opinions and feelings are at present outraged ;—whether you are pre pared to add to the numerical strength of these Romish mi series, whose votes, purchased by the surrender of the prin ciples of your Protestant constitution to their insolent de mands, enable a profligate faction to trample upon the liber ties of the British people. Permit me now briefly to bring before your notice what must be the immediate effect of the passing of that measure. peth's bill, of a The municipal strength of the Popish body in parliament at present amounts to upwards of 40 votes, the whole of which are exercised in servile dependence upon the dictates of the member for Dublin and the priesthood of Ireland. In this number it must be borne in mind that I do not include the whole of the " liberal" members for Irish constituencies, but merely those who are known to hold their seats subject to the influence of O'Connell and the priesthood, and whose votes In the house are embraced in the compact entered into by Popery with Lord Melbourne's administration. The ope ration of Lord Morpeth's bill in lowering the status of the constituencies, will add at least 30 democratic members to the RornisU interest; and the member for Dublin will then be able to wave, in insulting defiance over the deliberations of the British people, a " tail" comprising 70 and odd joints, and even more effectually than at present to place in the hands of the Church of Rome the substantive power of the government of Great Britain. • And what, let me ask, would be the first demand which this ruffian, gorged with the accession of his new strength, and inflated with the insolence of his coarse and brutal na ture, would endeavour to win from the cringing imbeciles who would thus be placed so completely at his mercy ? Have not his own lips told you what that demand would be ? Un doubtedly they have. You have yielded to him one-fourth of the tithes of the Irish Church, and he has told you deli berately that he " will never be contented until the whole is yielded up !" The wolf of Rome slept without the thresh hold of Protestantism, where the mailed hands of the war riors of the reformation had chained him down. You have waked him from that sleep. You have allowed him to dip his fang in the body of the Protestant Church of Ireland, and now he is straining to break from his last fetter, and to quench his burning thirst in a feast of blood. You have allowed him to desecrate the portals of the house of Gad, and he demands now to be permitted to throw down the altar. Yes—the )testant Church of Ireland must be yielded up. It stinks in the nostrils of Popery, and must be resigned to her tender The humble spires which rise amidst the green hills and vallies of that land of superstition, with their small congregations of decent and devout worshippers, who bow the knee to no power save that of the God whom they adore, are distasteful to the disciples of Maynooth, who joy only to gaze upon crowds of crawling and abject wretches prostrating themselves in the degradation of their penances, or rushing with seared hearts and inflamed passions from the darkness of the confessional to midnight outrage. Those spires must no more, on Sabbath morn or eve, send forth upon the air of heaven " the sound of the church-going belll"—those humble worshippers must either be coerced to bend the kno in temples of idolatry, or be driven to seek the bread of li