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tarn latorttbingl fereuce to eat am e imPo on of foreigl tv of 19, n of Voters Bi I to, a cotu At (Ire- ved to be times less 1 to several doubtedly :ret as Th e prin ist 50 years, ation in the lent was to Arecom-- mendation a fit person ,olic in tlis niprisoning s . . evil was to be in- tv iviJo Iyets pro atti' ,enalties ton a ver ause of e peculiar to ob- unabl e • t E., a law tor j gave them f the 7 ti wa3 t to n moved that it amentlfr!e so if it nau ~f the house forward ,so u f forward a measures be 1 there not - o attacks upon IMaiestY ? 6 mld; were corn- Ireland by Rona n iceadilly as they did iF only, they pi. _ _ sconten ted a 3 lecessary 1 were ,rt, but be ate object. perary, w hich he nd said that the tdministration of •s, but the honest ;solisolicitor for the with the judges, ,compatible with f tne local solicitor, who Aributed much evil wed to the crown ur• He objected ) y mt more especially ngland and Ireland. f legislation, to say re. If they to have Also in zht also .n)an then .not Lord the house ;eismith branded, a corn t was '7l-1;d had in done more . f , a nxious 'o r ;eland, all.d 11, to in v crim e ' Iry on her hick ich-tley had it Loyalty, it CO"' ltr y under tr ste d the cht_ ~fiCanada: and l e before nlair cd for ..- -- ratalen tS IP .d of, and ould, on Ireland 1 - rx - tunication official shape vernment f her Ma- No other taken by Chan( Luite ready to take his share of the responsibility of that step, or any magistrate who attended such meetings was not fit to .emain in the commission of the peace. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for the production )f the letter of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, which was agreed to. Their lordships then adjourned. ment for appointing persons to the bench whom , station in their profession was such as to command attention, and whose subsequent conduct was wholly unimpeach; able. This act was not proposed in reference to the prese •nt state of Ireland; for notice was given of its introduction 1 ong before the repeal agitation had assumed its present shape. It was, in fact, intended for a totally different state of things, the object being to check the perpetration of asses sination in Ireland. The right hon. baronet then contended that the evidence of Mr. Sheil, as given in his speech crn Monday night, was the strongest possible proof of the necessity of this bill. The whole question was, whether the, house would put an end to any measure for the regulation of the posses sion of arms in Ireland; for, if not, the nature of the measure to be adopted might be settled in committee. The bill was brought forward in no hostile spirit to Ireland, but merely from a desire to afford protection to the peaceable portion of the population of that country, and, under such circum stances, he trusted the house would accord their support to the measure. The house then divided, and the second reading was car ried by a majority of 270 to 105. On the motion that the bill be committed, Mr. S. O'Beiss; moved as an amendment for a select committee to inquire whether the state of Ireland was such as to require statutory enactments differing from those of England, and if so to what causes it was to he attributed. The hon. member read a letter complaining of the conduct of Lord Hawarden to his tenantry. The amendment was negatived without a division. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—TuEsDAY Lord PALNIERSTON took occasion regret that the post ponement of a motion of Mr. Cochrane's relative to our financial intercourse with Greece prevented him from setting Sir R. Peel right in an assertion he had made on a former evening to the effect that the interest on the Greek loan had been guaranteed by the late government. This was an error, for that loan was guaranteed by the government of 1830, of which Sir R. Peel was a leading member. THE IRELAND ARMS BILL. Mr. C. BULLER said that the effect of the bill would be to deprive the virtuous of arms, while it would have no effectlin preventing those disposed to commit outrage from procuring the means of doing so. He did not regard the bill itself as a matter of importance, being only a continuation of an old law which both parties in that house had supported, but in one point of view it was important. It might have been easily passed by the late government without any particular j ea lousy, because the late Government ruled by the feelings of the majority, while the present government ruled accord ing to the feelings of the minority. The repeal of the union ought to be deprecated by every one, and more particularly by the people of Ireland. How then was it that the people of Ireland wished to repeal that union? How was it that the poor and weak wished to separate themselves from the strong and wealthy ? How was it that for the last two cen turies the misgovernment of Ireland had been the scandal of Christendom ? How was it that while all Europe was ad vancing, the condition of the people of Ireland had been getting worse ? The causes of the misery of Ireland were chiefly the conduct of the landlords, and the existence of the Established Church upon the endowments of their ancestors intended for the instruction of the people, but which were expended in disgraceful absenteeism or more deplorable re sidence. Ireland had been quiet under the late administra- Lion, because it sought to conciliate the people ; but the pre sent Government on its accession had alleged itself to the Orange party in that country, and had elevated judges to the bench in whom the people had no confidence, and thus lost . for itself public confidence by the proceeding. In one year and a half the right hon. baronet had alienated from England the hearts of the people of Ireland, and even at the present moment, whatever good for Ireland he had in store, he kept it carefully concealed, and only presented it with an arms bill. Mr. SHAW looked upon Ireland to be in a most unsatis factory and alarming condition, the lower classes being in a state of unnatural excitement, while those above them were despondent and dejected. He referred to the temperance movement, and spoke highly of the motives of Father Mathew, and said that in his own jurisdiction he found that within the last two years crime had decreased one-third. .It appeared, however, th a t everyt hi ng w hi c h i n ot h er countries would be esteemed a blessing beearne in Ireland an addi tional curse, and thus the temperance movement with its badges and medals was made use of by designing people to render more perfect a system of organisation for other pur poses. He did not apprehend any danger of an outbreak in Ireland, for I\lr. O'Connell, as he himsel: declared, " knew a trick worth two of th a t." Hi s w h ole policy was to keep th e people in order while keeping them also in a constant agitation by causing them to meet in myriads. The real danger to be apprehended was not th e repea l o f t h e un i on, but the organisation of the entire country under the plea of repeal. The danger was in fact the combination of the Ca tholic clergy with the mass of the people of Ireland for the pur pose of subverting the ri g ht s o f property i n Ireland. While he said this he felt bound in justice to say that the most alarmed of all classes at th e present state of th i ngs, and the most anxious for its termination, were the respectable Roman Catholics. He supported the second reading of the bill. V. STUART supported the bill, which he hoped would be amended in committee. Sir H. W. BARRON moved the adjournment of the debate which, after some discussion, was agreed to. t. but MOTIS,_ jf COM ___ lueurrenee 'ensure the In 1840 an • to objection o r tuc i. He contended Land oneaninF church ,1 ,iversal 'lots. 'l'o rty of al)- , - would be .eceding lad been t country lad to v him arfor England trtiality udICPtI mnde, it from all imputation HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNASDAY. Mr. Wyss, who resumed the debate on the Irish Arms Bill, contended that the wrongs of Ireland might be redress ed and the people reclaimed by improving the relations be tween landlords and tenants ; by encouraging public works, and thus giving employment to the people; and by promoting everything which might conduce to the happiness and pros perity of the country. It was a mistake to suppose that the organisation for repeal was a thing of yesterday ; for, in point of fact, it originated in the struggle for Catholic emancipa tion. He imputed no blame to the Government for not promoting their political opponents, for no government would go upon any such system as that of neglecting its friends, for the advantage of its enemies, but he did blame the Government for neglecting opportunities of advancing frona the ranks of their friends individuals who would have proved acceptable to the people of Ireland. Lord JOCELYN argued that the bill was necessary in order to preserve social security in Ireland, and that as long as the country continued to be excited by agitators so long would it be necessary to adopt stringent measures to preserve the peace. The much boasted tranquility of Ireland during the late administration was to be entirely attributed to the operation of the Lichfield House compact. Mr. J. O'BRIEN' said it was a reproach to Government and to the Parliament that Ireland after nearly half a cen tury of legislative union should be still treated more as a subjugated province than as an integral part of the empire. They had had a sufficient trial of the inefficacy of a coercive policy, and it would therefore be well to reverse the policy, and trust to the affections of the Irish people. They should not be led away by the idea that this formidable array of the Irish people was to be entirely attributed to the ambition of a few individuals, for they had the experience of history to teach them that no intelligent people could be similarly excited unless by the stimulus of the conviction of actual wrong. The people of Ireland felt that the spirit of class legislation still existed, and that the Roman Catholics were still a proscribed race. The hon. member enumerated many of the grievances complained of by the people of Ireland, and concluded by expressing his determination to oppose the bill before the house at every stage. Colonel VERNER contrasted the conduQt of orangemen with that of the repealers. The former instantly dissolved their associations on the first declaration of the goverment against them, while the Repeal Association announced its detcrmination to persevere in opposition to the governmen The people of Ireland had a thirst for arms, which should be controlled by such a bill as the one on the table. The O'CoNon DON could not support an arms bill for Ireland, the obnoxious provisions of which would not be tolerated in England. The maintenance of order in Ireland was to be chiefly attributed to the Roman Catholic priests, whose loyalty was undoubted, though they had joined in the repeal agitation in utter despair of obtaining by any other means a remedy for the wrongs of their country. After such an expression of his opinions he thought the Lord Chancellor of Ireland would be as fully justified in dismissing him from the commission of the peace as he thought himself in remov ing Lord Ffrench or any other of those magistrates who had been deprived of the commission. Mr. liAw its advocated the necessity of adopting a system of impartiality in the administration of the law in Ireland, and of conciliating the affections of the people by elevating to office those whose names would inspire confidence in the good spirit and intentions of the executive. He protested against the dismissal of magistrates for exercising the consti- taionsl right of attending public meetings to obtain the re peal of an act of parliament. Deeming the provisions of the hill an indication of the altered spirit of the English govern ment towards Ireland, be would join in opposing it to the sr , me m- utmost. Sir J. GRA ILA 11 admitted that nothing less than very grave reasons could have induced him to interfere with the con stitutional right to carry arms, but the present state of Ire land was a sufficient justification for the bill before the house. The Arms Bill was first imposed on Ireland by its domestic parliament, and bad been continued almost uninterruptedly for a period of half a century. It was a gross misrepresenta tion to say that the bill went the length of disarming the peo ple of Ireland, for it only went the length of enabling the officers of justice to trace the criminal if the crime had been committed by such registered arms. He con tended that the appointments made by the present go vernment in Ireland were, as far as possible, impartial; and they had actually incurred much odium by their ex ertions in favour of the education of the Irish people. It was true that there might be unreasonable prejudices against some of the judicial appointments, but surely the long standing of Chief Justice Pennefather, and of Judges Lefroy, Blackburn, and Jackson, came in aid of their un doubted qualifications for the positions to which they had been raised. The government was resolved to carry out the a dministration of the affairs for the benetit of the people of Ireland, and not of a party, of which the displeasure of that Marty was a sufficient proof. He defended the established Church of Ireland and its clergy from the aspersions cast upon it and them by Mr. C. Buller; and contended that the pea santry of Ireland had reason to be thankful that they had such friends as the clergy to supply the place of an absentee nobility a nd gentry. With respect to a bill like the one on the table, it was observed that Sir Samuel Romilly had said that it would he madness to pass such a measure ; but lie would say, looking at the present state of Ireland, that it would be cowardice and treachery to the interests of Ireland not to pass it. The Earl of LiSiTOWICI. said that if the bill had been merely a continuation of the former act he should not oppose it, but it had clauses which rendered it peculiarly offensive to the people of Ireland, and as it was professed to he the result of the agitation for the repeal of the union he was the more firmly opposed to it on that account, though not an ae,vocate for that measure. Still, seven eighths of the Irish public were now in favour of repeal, and they should rather seek to further irritate them by measures of coercion. The root of all the evils of Ireland was, that the Established Church in that country was the church of the minority and not of the majority, and those evils would, in his opinion, be aggra vated by this bill, which he would therefore decidedly op- pose. Mr. ROEBUCK said, that in respect to this bill the present Government was treading in the steps of preceding Govern ments for centuries back ; and it was a remarkable fact, that when the bill wag that night under discussion there was not one member of the late administration present. When he first saw the present bill he was indignant at several of its provisions, and made enquiry as to the nature of the provi sions of the previous acts, when he found that the original fact was not a " Saxon insult," hut the emanation of an Irish parliament ; and the Irish members during the late adminis tration had, by supporting the re-enactment of the Arms Bill, given to him a warning never to trust an Irish member when the interests of Ireland were at stake. Ireland was a conquered country—the reformation had not been successful there, and some of the greatest friends of liberty in England had been the greatest tyrants in Ireland. He was opposed to the present bill, because it was directed against all the princi ples of good government. The greatest evil of Ireland was the rampant church establishment of the minority of the peo ple, whose revenues should be otherwise appropriated. The hon. member subsequently used the term " robbery," u ap plied to the exactions made on the people for the support of the church, and the expression having met with some dis approbation, he said he used it in no offensive sense, for he proposed robbing himself—robbery of the Irish Church Establishment, the church of the minority; and he wished to use terms not to be misunderstood—to use them above board : for he would apply the revenues of the Church to the maintenance of the religion of the majority, or else apportion them amongst all sects indifferently. The hon. and learned gentleman then asked what the Government proposed to do. Was the English army to be enlisted against the whole people of Ireland? Were they to be called pow to pass coercion bills ; or were they to be told that it 'as high treason to discuss the repeal of an act of Par ' The right lion. baronet at the head of the Go vei-ii,e,et was placed in a most difficult position. His Government was afraid of doing justice to Ireland, because wish to preserve the support of the dominant minority F. lie believed the right lion. baronet would rid of that support, which was in reality i. Let him then follow out the dictates of his ed spirit. Knowing what was right—feeling him do justice to Ireland, and he need l'Em. said, he should, at a more fitting period, he d to prove that he had redeemed his pledge of con the affairs of Ireland in a spirit of conciliation and The chief charge against them was the ap of Mr. Sergeant Jackson and Mr. Lefroy to the Jut in the same breath in which the charge P. 4 admitted that their judicial conduct was was aurrrked ►flat honourable ti r emern tbo oppogition benchti tild not dlepfity come liter kips of libogiity they thus SO tho fiCtertl: '0 MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL. 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Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot find room for the letter of " Castigator" to-day. A correspondent states that all insurance companies are formed under the regulations of acts of parliament, by which the responsibility of the shareholders (unlike that of joint stock banks) is limited to the amount of shares sub scribed for by each individual—hence the names of an insurance directory are no criterion of its solvency or responsibility. tiherpool gPtanbatt. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1843. There was no need existing of a demonstration of the meanness which forms the distinguishing charac teristic of Whig statesmanship. There was scarcely any evidence wanting of its desperate wickedness. And yet how irresistibly are these qualities forced upon our observation by the debate of Monday and Tuesday nights, upon the Irish Arms Bill! A reckless incen diary and an alien priesthood, in Ireland, are struggling to sever that fair but unhappy land from the British Empire. Midnight crime has for years past stained with blood its fertile vallies, and carried terror and outrage to its solitary homesteads. The brutalised and misguided population of Ireland—to use the expres sion of a witness who well knows them—" thirst" for the possession of arms ; and to procure them rush headlong to the commission of violence upon the per sons of the owners. To provide a remedy for such a state of things, the Irish government propose the re newal, or, more properly, the remodification of the existing arms hill—a measure passed, under circum stances infinitely less pressing, by a Whig administra tion ; and yet against the passing of such a measure, at a crisis the most fearful, with rebellion actually im pending, the leader of the late Whig administration has the insufferable audacity to enter his puny protest, and mouth out his own miserable specifics for the cure of the evil which it is designed to meet and overcome I And what is the Whig prescription for the putting down of Irish outrage ? It is, briefly, impunity, and encouragement to its perpetration ! " Ire," exclaims his lordship, " governed Ireland upon the principle of conciliation. We released the convicted murderers in her prisons ; we turned loose upon society her ruffianly assassins ; we gave power and pay to her disaffixted agitators. We displayed to the civilised world the novel spectacle of the councils of a great nation swayed by a mendicant plunderer of his fellow-countrymen and the tail of 30 or 40 venal instruments of his bad ambition, which the terrorism and coercion of mob violence and priestly intimidation had placed within his hands to wield ; and as the result of such a policy, we left Ireland tranquil! Yes : tranquil as the beast of prey after he has gorged himself with the flesh of his victim. Oh, how tranquil was Ireland ! It was a sleeping volcano. Its very air was charged with the elements of ruin and devastation, with the spark only wanting to bring about the explosion Give justice to Ireland, exclaims the apologists of Whig statesmanship. " Justice to Ireland," we ask ! What is that ? Where is its definition ? Is it to be found in the destruction of the Protestant Church in that unhappy priest•ridden land ? Is it to be found in the Repeal of the Union ? We can find it nowhere— in the realisation of no intelligible or definable evasion of the rights of property or of conscience. It is a thing too buoyant to be grasped—too impervious to be felt. Even Lord John Russell dare not attempt to grapple with it ; but contents himself, as a substitute, with pacification for Ireland. You need no arms bill, he exclaims. You may place pikes and muskets in the hands of her unfuriated and misguided millions, and you will be safe, if you only consent to govern them upon Whig principles (!)—to wink at outrage, to con cede to threats, to reward the disaffected, and permit a burly traitor to bask in the smiles of authority, to feed upon peculation, and to insult with his loathsonte and fawning flattery the throne itself ! " I am prepared, when the question of Repeal of the Union, is mooted in a constitutional manner in this house, to meet it by a direct negative ; but I deprecate harsh proceedings on the part of government, which will tend to aggravate the popular dissatisfaction." Indeed, my lord ! But the leader of the agitation for repeal is not disposed to trouble the House of Com mons with any discussion upon the subject. He laughs at Parliament ! He laughs at the power of Great Britain to put down his disaffected proceedings, and is about to attempt the achievement of his object by violence. A petty Whig statesman, longing for the sweets of official place and pay, may talk about his de termination to meet that attempt, when the time is ripe for its explosion, by the arm of authority ; but a wise Conservative government will disarm treason, before it has leisure to put its lance in rest, and commence its headlong career against the peace and integrity of the empire ! cities ! The position of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ire land, in connection with the agitation now going on in that distracted land, is well worthy of our serious con sideration. The declaration of Dr. Higgins, the titular bishop of Armagh, that the entire body of the prelates of the Romish Church in Ireland are in favour of the Repeal of the Union, and of the measures of spoliation and outrage contemplated as the issue of such repeal, stands, as yet, uncontradicted except by Dr. Murray. In his case, even, it is to be doubted whether the re pudiation of sympathy with repeal is so perfectly sin- cere as he would wish it to be believed ; and we have, in addition to this damning evidence of the designs of the Romish party, the fact, which will assuredly nut be denied, that ninety-nine out of a hundred of the priest. hood throughout the country ore ardent and pledged repealers! By that body is carried out the fearful or ganisation—all but a military organisation—which we see at this moment existing amongst the deluded pea santry. It is by them that the vast bodies assembled at Cork, at Limerick, at Longford, were marched in triumph, with banners and music, and, we may add, with arms in their hands, to the places of gathering. Their chapels are the sources from which the stream ing netlitiou is eprestd through every hemlet and every ILlWniefai witi it is atstetly OnetAlgdi er attemittl o be concealed, that when the decisive hour has ar- rived--when blood has to be shed and outrage to stalk openly abroad, it will be by these peaceful and pious ministers of Christ (0 that the frenzied masses will be ,ed on to the consummation of their meditated atro- There must indisputably he something peculiar in he system of education, and religious and political training of the ministers of a church who are to be 'ound thus engaged, to a man, in the pursuit of ob- jects only attainable by violence, and which must be attended with the temporal ruin of the people amongst whom their ministry is placed. Amongst the priest hood of other churches and sects political differences are to be found existing. Rome alone is united! Her clergy, disaffected towards the British connexion, are united in their disaffection. They advance towards their object by the same path; and openly proclaim that they will seek it even through blood and civil war. They are at this moment only nominally subjects of the British Crown; and look forward, end march forward, to the establishment of another supremacy in Ireland— to the establishment, in fact, of the tiara of Rome as the supreme power in that land, and to the destruction of every thing within its shores recognising British authority, or bearing the hated SAXON name ! Such is the position of the clergy of the Romish Church in Ireland. Why is it thus ? How comes it to be thus ? Surely the time has at length arrived when these questions should be imperatively put by the united people of Great Britain. We provide from year to year the funds for which these men are trained to the sacred ogee. We endow MAvNoorn—the hotbed from which this vast mass of disaffection and disloyalty springs up—with the money of the Protes ' tant people of Great Britain. AVE teach the priest hood of Ireland—as a nation we teach them—this reli gion, and confer upon them the qualifications for this ministry, which from the first moment of their entry upon its sacred offices impels them into the pursuit of objects dangerous to the security and entireness of the British Empire ; and it is surely but just and wise that the British Parliament should promptly and deter- minedly demand a knowledge of the peculiar teaching of an institution, of which such are the teeming fruits. What we ask, and we have a right to ask, are the doc trines inculcated, at the expense of the British public, in. the College of Maynooth ? It is too late, now, to tell us of the uncharitableness of such a demand. It is too late to whimper of " con ciliation" and " expediency." These have been tried— and disastrous has been the result of the experiment ! It is to be found in the hundreds of thousands of banded traitors in Ireland, clamouring day by day for the destruction of British property and life in that un happy land ! It is to be found in the fact that we know not the day or the hour in which the blood of thousands of loyal and right-hearted subjects in Ireland may not stain the feet of the wolf of Rome ! It is to be found in tumultuous gatherings of misguided men longing for the time when they may he suffered to howl over the defaced altars of our Protestant Church ; to sweep away from the land every vestige of the power and the civilisation of England, and to rush into the darkness of a spiritual despotism ;—to place their necks and their consciences beneath the feet of a Church which, amid the light and the truth of the nineteenth century, is still insatiatable in her thirst of power, and ruthless in her cravings for blood, as in the darkness of past ages ! It is too late, we repeat, to tell us of concession and conciliation—to tell us of peace when there is no peace. The master evil of Ireland is in the faith which is taught in the seminary of Maynooth ; and, in the name of the Protestant people of Great Britain, we demand to know, now, WHAT IS THAT FAITH ? The gentleme n of the. Anti-Corn-Law League ar just now striving hard to throw dust in the eyes of the merchants and citizens of London, and enlist their sympathie or their pockets, in behalf of their selfish agitation. if we may judge, however, by the names of those wtto are said to attend their various city meet ings, the :tempt has been hitherto rewarded with but a very slight amount of success. Nor is this wonder ful, when we glance at the miserable trash which Mr. Richard Cobden and his fellow spouters have thus far dished up for their acceptance. Such raving as the fQllowing, for example, which was uttered by this gen tleman in the presence of an assembly at the Hall of Commerce, in the city, is surely much better calcu lated for Saint Giles's or Bedlam, than for the hear ing of the sober and reflecting merchants of the metro polis of Great Britain. After describing to his audience the state of our re ations with Brazil, he proceeded in this strain : " Why, you do not understand these things, or you would be no more quiet than I am under them. There is no man of spirit that understands them that could he quiet (D It is an ignomy—it is a disgrace to such a state of things. Why, there might be some merit— some consolation at all events—to be under the thrall of such men as Cmsar, a Napoleon, or a Cromwell ; but to be the e oor paltry slaves of the mongrel aristocracy of the sugar hogshead—to be the creatures of such sor did oligarchy, is to suffer a deeper degradation than ever was inflicted upon a people, by a Ilahomet Ali, or any barbarian conqueror, or usurper, that I ever read of." Is it to be wondered at that men who can deliberately utter in public such rubbish as this, are shrunk from with disgust by the wealthy merchants and trades of London ? Is it tt. I.e wondered at that their city audi ences are the tailor e, barbers, and other respectable persons, who happen to be engaged in celebrating the festival of their favorite saint—" Saint Monday ;" We are quite content to leave our contemporary, the Manchester Guardian, in possession of his fancied tri umph. He, of course, is perfectly aware of his own position, and we are content with our own. We have offered to grapple with the question, which he was so confident that we would shrink from, provided he would state it distinctly. Ile hes refused so to do; and we are confident that those who know the Guardian will agree with the prudence of our determination to enter upon no discussion with him upon a question which our opponent leaves so loosely stated that he can back out of it at pleasure. The Guardian is rather an adept at this kind of practice. FACTORY EDUCATION BILL TO THE RUN , . W 11,1.1,114 VEVERS Sin,—l am sorry you should have addressed me as an enemy to the Wesleyan Methodists, or as having made any unkind or unfriendly proposal to them. Nothing could have been farther from my intention: and on reviewing my lan guage as reported in the newspapers, I am happy to say that I cannot find any just ground for the accusations which you have felt it your duty publicly to advance against me. By some anonymous, and to me ur,known, writer, who has published a defence of me against your charges, 1 find the following description of the object I had in view. The writer has fairly gathered it from the speech, and I cordially adopt his description as correct and true. He says— The appeal made by Mr. M'Neile to the Wesleyan body was, in broad terms, this. We admit the amount and efficacy of the educational efforts made thus tar by the Wesleyan body. We see. however, at the same time, their inability to cope with the vast ex tent of the evil disclosed to our view. The state has also arrived at this conviction, accompanied by a sense of its own duty in the emergency presented ; and has offered a plan by which the evil may be fully and efficiently grappled with. But the state has a re ligion, that religion being the religion of the Church of England, in all the essentials of which Wesleyaus agree ; and she puts it to you, as a matter of earnest consideration, whether, having already done no much for the promotion of Scriptural education, and feeling that your utmost zeal is unequal to the work which presses to be done, you nre disposed to stand in the way of that work being un dertaken by her, through the agency of the established clergy, or merging your sectarian prejudices, you are disposed to occupy the broad ground of Christian good FOR ALL, and to say to the CHURCH " God speed you to the full accomplishment of the task of duty, to the performinice of which we confess ourselves with our willingnems, unequal." This was the spirit and substance of Mr. M'Neile's appeal to the Wesleyan body. In Christian kindness It was made; but how ha); it been met by Mr. Veeet4 ? This is just —except that I used no expression so harsh as sectarian prejudices. A s a specimen of the manner in which you have treated my speech, I will here take the liberty of transcribing a passage from vonr letter, and compare it with the passage in the speech to which it refers, and from which it contains a partial quotation : And now that both Church and State are roused, what is the philanthropic mode of proceeding which you, ns the champion of the claims of the Clergy, propose for adoption? Is it to stay plague? No the plague has been stayed in that portion of the . _ community which hris been brought tinder iustruction by the Wes leyans and the Dissenters. Tour proposal substantial!) is that the We‘leY B P`; nod Dissemers should cease to labour in this moral tt F t.rt ; that the Clergy should enter upon their labours, and take cx clusive poAsession of the Lich t : the inevitable emmeinienett of which would be the prevalen ce an d t h e e xteurdon of the plague. You pro. pow, not actually to att emp t to stRY the plague, but to labour Wittt° 1 4, 400 ha been et,nyed Your 9kVti lang.ittact, which tO.l hr 48111 tU tft WCtidysttOj IN "We riAntilt mike tivtio, of the children for whom we have 80 long toiled being taken from our institution, and consigned to the care of a board of trustees, the official chairman of which is a Tractarian, who condemns the principle of the Reformation, and avows his desire to unprotes tantize the English Church." This is a distinct and unequivocal avowal on your part that your object is, not so much to stay the plague where it actually rages, as to take possession of the fruits of the labours of the Wesleyans and Dissenters. What patriotism ! What piety ! This is a sample of class interest! —Letter, p. 7• Now compare with this, the report of the part of my speech iere referred to, the same report which you say was before 'ou, namely, that given in the Liverpool Standard:— And now you have a golden opportunity of showing the true ele. vation of the motives and principles by which you are actuated, You may say we have supplied for a nason, as far as we could, the lack of service of both Church and State : we have been forward to Atand in the gap, and by all our energies to stay the plague. Tha work, Indeed, was too heavy for us, hut we did our best State is roused to the necessity of engaging in this work, with a Now, th power such as we could not of course command, and instead of employing us, she employs the established church as her agent. What, then, is our Christian course ? Is it to he contentious, and envious and murmuring ; or is to be thankful that now, at last, the work we wished to do, and endeavoured to do, but could not effec- ually do, is to be effectually done by others? IF YOU BAY, would rejoice to see the work done, but we grieve to see it spoiled, as spoiled it must be by the established church clergy in their pre. sent semi-popish state ; we cannot endure the notion of the chil dren for whom we hare so long toiled being taken from the institu tion, and consigned to the care of a board of trustees, the official chairman of which is a Tractarian, who condemns theprinciplo of the Reformation, and avows his desire to unprotestantize the Eng lish church ;"—lf you say this, I agree with you in this, with all my heart and soul; and if I believed that such vilics were indeed cha •acteristic of the clergy of the established church as a body, I would advocate nothing that would place power or influence in their hands But is this so ? The words I have here printed in italics, bearing as they do upon the drift of the whole passage, and OMITTED AS THEY ARE IN YOUR LETTER, will place the matter between us in a clear point of view, and answer. I hope, so far as I am concerned, all your eloquence against " Puseyistn," which, however valuable in its place, was wholly misplaced in an appeal to me. I proceeded to assign some reasons for thinking that the evil of Tractarianism (as it is called for convenience and brevity) is by no means so widely spread in the Church of England as many persons seem to suppose ; and I did so, because I understood the chief objection of the Wesleyans to the educational clauses of the Factory Bill to be grounded upon the supposed unsoundness of the Clergy of the Esta blished Church as a body. The tone and tenor of my whole address to the Wesleyans were, on the occasion referred to, as always, those of un feigned kindliness ; and I feel assured that the specimen al ready supplied of the manner in which you have met me will exculpate me in their minds from any necessity of entering more largely into your letter. The only substantial answer that could be given to my friendly expostulation would be proof (if proof could be supplied) of so general a prevalence of Tractarianism in the Church, as would justify the want of confidence now for the first time manifested by the Wes leyans. Ido not believe that any sucrt unsoundness can be proved, and therefore I deeply regret that the patriotic de sign of Her Majesty's Government, on behalf of the thou sands of ignorant children in the manufacturing districts of the country, has been so vehemently opposed. Grant some evils in the proposed plan ; but can they be removed without incurring greater evils ? And in the details of practical mea sures, are not wise men, in this fallen world, continually driven into a choice of evils ? Nothing human is perfect. It is the part of maturing wisdom to make approaches to perfection ; and what are APPROACHES to perfection, but MINOR evils under another name? Unfortunately, what are indeed minor evils upon the whole, appear to the circum- scribfA views of some to be the greatest of evils; and thus the plans of comprehensive wisdom are continually thwarted by the short-sighted claims and jealousies of conflicting scl fishnesses. It is, perhaps, too much for me to expect that you will take dispassionately into consideration the maLA rivx AMOUNT of evil which would inevitably be incurred by setting aside the Established Church from national prece dence in any national establishment of education; the RE LATIVE AMOUNT of evil now inevitable, if the State supply no help for the education of the people; and the relative amount of evil incurred by transferring some thousands of children from the management of Wesleyan teachers to the management of Church of England teachers. Compare, weigh, and decide. I am strongly impressed with the deep responsibility of those who have opposed themselves to the proposed educa tional measure. Their sincerity is not doubted; but since rity is no test of truth. It is the duty of public men to have informed, as well as conscientious, minds. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, 27Th May, 1843 HUGH. M'NEILE LOCAL Nh'IVS. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.—We understand that the Rev. W. Falloon has received the appointment of the incumbency of St. John's Church, in this town, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Loxham. CORPORATION BATHS.—Between 300 and 400 persons visit these baths weekly, and enjoy the luxury of a hot or cold bath for a penny or twopence, while as many as 500 dozens of clothes are washed weekly on the premises, under the baths, by the wives of labouring men residing in the neighbourhood. THREATENED AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—On Tuesday last, Mr. Palgrave, solicitor, appeared before Mr. Rushton, at the police-court, on behalf of an elderly gentleman named M'Leod, who, it appears, wished to procure a warrant for the apprehension of James Rae, jun. of 55, South Castle street. Mr. Palgrave put a letter into Mr. Rushton's hands. Mr. Rushton (having perused the letter): Well, I suppose you look upon this as a challenge to fight? Mr. Rushton proceeded to read the letter aloud. We were not allowed to take copies of this and a letter subsequently submitted, but Mr. Rushton read rapidly to the following effect :—" The way in which you have ridiculed my character, particularly within the last few days, has been such, that I beg to chat lenge you to meet at the office, 55, Castle-street, where I wish all explained. It must be this week. If not I shall challenge you to settle the business by shot, yourself naming the place and time. (Signed) James Rae." Mr. Rushton : Where is Rae? Mr. M'Leod : At his bro ther's office, 55, South Castle-street. Mr. Rushton : Leve rett I (to Superintendent Leverett,) Go and desire Mr. Rae to come here immediately, or I shall send a warrant . M r. Leverett departed. On his return be stated that James Rae, jun. was not at the office. He was expected to be in about a quarter of an hour. Mr. Rushton : Let a warrant issue. Here the matter terminated for the time being. On Wednesday the warrant was returned, and in due time the prisoner, James Rae, was placed at the bar. He is showy_ looking young man, of fair complexion, and rather hind- some countenance. He looked unutterable things at the complainant, who gave his name Roderick M'Leod. Mr. .Palgrave (to Mr. Rushton); You have the letters which were put in yesterday. I shall call Mr. M'Leod. Mr. M'Leod was sworn. He stated that he did not know the prisoner, but he knew his handwriting. Mr. M'Leod proved the handwriting of the prisoner in the letters. Mr. Rushton (to the prisoner) : You are charged with having written two threatening letters to this old gentleman, stating that he had ridiculed your character, and that if he did not apologise you would challenge him and have a shot at him! do you know anything about these letters. Mr. Rae I am their author. Mr. Rushton said then there was only one course to take: the old gentleman had received threatening letters, and was greatly excited in consequence. The letters were calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, and— Mr. Rae.—l have not threatened without having reason for it. Mr. Rushton. —You must find bail, yourself in £2OO and two sureties in £lOO each, that you will be of good behaviour, and keep the peace to all her Majesty's subjects, but especially to this old man. Mr. Rae.—Very well, sir. Mr. Palgrave.—Shall I have notice of the bail, sir. Mr. Rushton.—Yes; unless bail, which is satisfactory to me, be tendered before the rising of the court. If such bail be tendered I shall receive it. (To the prisoner.) You had better send word to your friends and get your bail prepared. The prisoner was removed from the bar.—Yesterday, Mr. Rae, the father of the prisoner, appeared before Mr. Rushton as one of his bail, and was immediately accepted. Another surety is still, however, wanted, and the young man remains in custody. DOCK COMMITTEE, YESTERDAY.—Present, Messrs. Sands, Horsfall, Holt Holmes, Middleton, Nicol, Bulley, Evans, Royden, Tobi n , B o ld, M oore , and Ripley. A long conversation took place as to whether iron or wood buoys should be used in some of the most exposed situations, and, after two divisions, it was carried that iron buoys should be ordered. In reply to a question from the Chairman, Mr. Hartley said that none of the men employed by the com mittee at the new dock works were employed on the Sunday. The contractor sometimes did something which could not be done on the week day. The Chairman said it was the wish of the committee that no work should be done on the Sun day, hut what was absolutely necessary. On the suggestion of Mr. Nichol copies of the evidence of Captain Den ham and Captain Cappel, given before a select commit tee of the House of Commons were ordered for the committee. Mr. Nicol then said, on the subject of moorings, Captain Denham had told the committee that that board always got the cheapest iron, and that it was only within the last month or so that they had ordered the best. This statement excited some langhter.—Mr. Ripley stated, on the subject of the transit sheds, that a case had been laid before counsel as regarded the insurance. It was the solici tor's decided opinion that they were not bound to insure, and in the event of any thing being consumed after leaving the sheds, the committee were not liable. Mr. Nicol—Are we liable whilst the goods are in the sheds? Mr. Evans—No. Mr. Nicol—Then how can we be liable after they have left the sheds ? Mr. Ripley explained, that if the goods remained in the sheds over time, the committee warehoused them, and if they were burned in that warehouse, it was the opinion of the solicitors they were not liable.—Mr. Moore said he wished to ask a question respecting the Floating Bath. Several parties had been complaining to him that it was a nui sance in that part of the river. Did the estate receive any profit from it? Mr. Horsfall said it was not within their jurisdiction ;—that belonged to the Corporation. It was in the moat inconvenient position for shipping that it could be. Mr. Evans—lt has vested rights. It has been there nearly thirty years. The Chairman said the best plan would be:to bring it before the Corporation. Mr. Moore said it was direct ly in the way of shipping. Mr. Ripley thought it in a very inconvenient position. Mr. Horsfall said Mr. Askew held the opinion that its situation was bad. The Chairman said that they could not give the Harbour-master any orders on the sub ject. He was the water-bailiff, and must receive instructions from the Corporation. Mr. Nicol said it might be proper fur this board to state to the Corporation the inconvenience it caused to the shipping. Mt . Horsfall thought that before they rernonstarted, they ought to have a case made out. Mr. Moore thought the very situation showed the i ticonvenience : if it were necessary, he could get fifty persons to prove it. Mr. Ripley stated, that in going out in one of his own ships they ran into it about ten years ago. \lr. Tobin said the matter had been before the committee three or four times. If a vessel went on the one side of it it was too near, and on the other side it was too far away in trying for George's Dock basin. Mr. Bold said there was another nuisance to the ladies crossing in the steam-hoats. At high water, men were bathing in the river, and were seen running about the decks in a state of nudity. Mr. Moore begged to move "that this committee consider the position of the Floating Bath most inconvenient, and that it represent to the Corporation that it should be removed to aorne place were it is not so liable to obstruct the shipping," On the suggestion of Mr, Evana, the teOA rgetptitlyti till nest: eteeß; to tiwalt th rttait Of Airs THE GREAT WESTERN..---The following extract from the log of the Great Western, giving the particulars of the quick est passage ever made across the Atlantic, is taken from the letter of a passenger : Saturday, 29th April, at 101 a.m. left Dock. Sunday, 30th „ lat. 55 28, lon. 8 18, 245 miles Monday, Ist May, „ 54 48, „ 15 37, 254 „ Tuesday, 2nd ~ ~ 55 45, ~ 22 40, 254 9, Wednesday 3rd „ „ 51 53, „ 29 17, 265 ~ Thursday, 4th „ 49 52, „ 34 54, 245 „ Friday, sth „ „47 54, „39 57, 235 „ Saturday, 6th „ „ 45 50, „ 44 46, 230 ~ Sunday, 7th „ „44 43, „ 49 41, 226 „ Monday, Bth „ „ 44 25, „ 54 22, 202 „ Tuesday, 9th „ „ 43 35, „ 59 37, 245 „ WednesdaylOth „ „ 42 12, „ 66 12, 285 -,, Thursday, 11th „ „ 40 38, „ 71 32, 264 „ 2951 „ Sandy Hook supposed to be.. 114 „ Distance made, 3068 „ Reckoning the Rock Light and Sandy Hook, as the points of departure and arrival, we were exactly 12i days, by sink ing the difference of time. THE LIVERPOOL WATER BILL.—The deputation to London, on the subject of the new water bill, has returned ; and, notwithstanding the strong opposition made on the part of the water companies, the measure has passed the com mittee of the House of Commons with even greater powers than were expected. The wells are not to be sunk within one mile and a quarter of Windsor, where the works of the above company are situated, nor within the township of Toxteth-park. The two great objects of the commissioners— the effectual watering of the streets, and the prompt sup pression of fires—will be accomplished by this bill ; and thus, we may hope, the town will be relieved from the disgraceful notoriety which has so long attached to it, and those ruin ously devastating fires, which have excited the astonishment of strangers, and caused wide-spread consternation among the inhabitants, be altogether prevented. A more striking proof of the insecurity of property in Liverpool could hardly be conceived than that which is afforded by the evidence taken before the parliamentary committee, in the course of which, the difference being asked between the rate of pre mium upon a floating policy to cover mercantile goods in Liverpool and the rate for a similar policy in London, it was answered from 255. to 30s. per cent in the former case, and 2s. 6d. in the latter! That such an enormous charge for in surance should operate most prejudicially to the interests of the town, in driving trade to other ports where the same burdens are not imposed, it can need no argument to prove. The commissioners may use the water which is to be fresh for the general good of the town, for baths, pumps, foun tains, &c., and we believe they may supply it gratuitously to the poor. ROBBERY OF A BONDED WAREITOUSE.—Henry Jones, James Oldham, John Westmore, and Ann Westmore, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Tuesday last, charged with having stolen a quantity of wine from Messrs. Robert Ledson and Son's bonded warehouse in Lydia Ann-street. — Richard Radkin, labourer, stated, that about half-past seven o'clock on Monday evening he was passing home along Lydia Anne-street, when he saw the prisoner Jones standing at Messrs. Ledsons' warehouse door. Ile looked back, and saw him go in. Suspecting that all was not right he went into his house, which was close at hand, and disguised him self. He stood at the corner of the street, and saw Jones come out of the warehouse with a cask on his shoulder, there being another cask in the street. Ile went and seized the prisoner, with whom he had a violent struggle, but he ulti mately overcame him, and gave him into the custody of police-officer 518. The latter put the casks again into the warehouse, and they were subsequently carried to the office of the commissioner of police. The prisoner Jones was taken to bridewell. On his person was found a screw-driver and a hammer.—Tristram Foster, a locker in the Customs, stated that he was on duty at Messrs. Ledson's warehouse, in Lydia Anne-street. on Monday last. He locked the room of No. 1, in which casks of bottled wine were placed, at four o'clock. That morning (Tuesday) when he went to the warehouse he found that the doors of No. 1 had been forced open, and the locks were lying on the floor. He examined the stock and missed one cask marked R.V.H. 11, and one cask marked A.R. 16. He had no doubt other casks were missing, but he had not yet searched further.—Mr. Superintendent Le verett and Inspectors Savage and Walker, having received information, went about a quarter-past ten o'clock to John son's stables in Henry-street, where they found the prisoner, Ann Westmore, and Mrs. Oldham, the wife of the prisoner James Oldham. They requested permission to search the stable, which Mrs. Westmore refused. Seeing a key in her hand, Savage took it and unlocked the stable, where they found a cask containing two and-a-half dozen of bottled port wine, and an empty cask. Westmore kept a beer-house next door to which they went. There they found the pri soner Oldham intoxicated, and smelling strongly of wine. When sober, he stated that Westmore had engaged him to carry a cask (he is a carter), and had given him part of a bottle of wine. Savage produced in court a cask containing thirty bottles of wine and an empty cask. Mr. Leverett found at Westmore's eight bottles of wine in a water-tub, and Walker found thirteen bottles of sherry in a swilling-tub. Two empty bottles, one of which had contained port and the other sherry, were found in the house. William French, clerk to Messrs. Nicholas and Whittle, wine merchants, proved that they had wine in Messrs. Ledson's warehouse, Lydia Anne-street, and that they had missed the casks car ried to the commissioner's office. The casks found at the beer-shop were also identified. The prisoners were commit ted for trial. LECTURES AT THE COLLRGIATII INSTITUTION.-011 Tuesday evening Mr. Addams delivered his third lecture on voltaic and magnetic electricity, before a numerous and highly respectable audience, the division of th e su bj ec t f or t h e even ing being " electro-dynamics, electro-dynamic attraction and repulsion, galvanometers, magnetic arrangements, electro magnetic rotations," &c. He began by stating that an abundant display of electricity might be produced without the powers which it possessed under other circumstances ; for instance a large electrical machine might emit sparks, yet with none of the effects requisite to produce a current of elec tricity running continuously through conductors or other bodies intervening. We might have currents, too, but so small as to have little or no effect, without the application of the galvanic battery, one of which he showed, consisting of several plates of zinc and copper suspended in a frame, and which being let down into a case or cistern below, containing acid and water, (the conducting wire being applied,) produced a continuous and effective current of the fluid. If a flash of lightning were to pass through two wires it would have no effect upon them ; but if even a small current passed through them continuously an extraordinary effect would be the re sult. He Proceeded to show some experiments in dynamics, the first with an apparatus of two frames of wires, nearly in the form of one square within another, by which he demon strated that when two currents of voltuic electricity passed along the wires in the same direction, they a tt racte d eac h other; but if one current passed in one direction, and the other in an opposite one, they repelled one another. This experiment was a delicate one to manage, but was important, as all the phenomena in magnetic electricity could be ex plained upon it as a foundation. Here parrallel currents only had been in action, but the same effect was observable if the currents passed through angles. This established the fact that when currents of electricity passed in one direction, at traction of the wires is the result, but when the electricity passes in an opposite direction they are repelled; and this will happen whether the wires or conductors be parrallel or diverge in au oblique manner, provided they set off from the summit of the angle in the same direction ; but if they pro ceed in different directions from the summit of the angle, and one of the currents be going to, and the other coming from, they will invariably repel each other whatever may be the measure of the angle. Bodies could be made to rotate by having two currents, the one stationary and the other move able. This was called electro-dynamic rotation. This he showed by a diagram, and a very ingenious apparatus, a basin or cistern with quicksilver in it, (as a conductor,) and piece of paper in the form of a small card placed on edge, on a slender pivot over it. The electric current being communi cated in a manner which he clearly described, the paper journeyed round, though no magnet was employed, the fluid in two currents being conveyed to two small balls appended to the lower corners of the paper. The rotatory motion was brought about by the action of a fixed spiral con ductor, (in the apparatus,) carrying electricity upon a moveable rectilinear current. A piece of round wood, or a roll of paper, wrapped round with wire in a spiral or screw form, and covered with cotton as a non-conduc tor, would become a magnet, with polarity, by the wire alone. This roll being delicately suspended in the middle in a horizontal position, was repelled and attracted by a mag netic bar in the same manner as the magnetic needle. In all magnetized bodies or bars there was a circumferential cur rent of electricity circulating round them. Even a slice of a round bar had the same property. It not only circulated on the outward portions, but round the atoms or grains of the steel within the bar. When magnetism is given to steel the currents run in one direction, and this was the cause of its polarity ; anti if a loadstone or certifical magnet of steel be broken into a thousand parts, each fragment will be found to 'be polarized. By means of two wheels, each formed out wardly of arrows in curves corresponding with the circum ference, he showed the duration of the circumferential cur rents of electricity round a magnet (as probably round the earth, and causing its motion on its axis.) One represented the North Pole, the current going in the same direction as the hands of a watch ; the other south—in the opposite di rection. He further showed by a powerful double magnet placed in contiguity with a piece of swing wire, the extraor dinary power of magnetic electricity connected with polarity, the wire being alternately attracted strongly and adhesively, by the magnet being placed on one side, and repelled from its upright position to some distance from it when it was placed on the other. He next exhibited an Electro Dynamic Globe, representing the earth turning on its axis. The globe was of wood, but covered with hundreds of feet of copper wire passed round it spirally from pole to pole, in the manner of a string on boys' peg-tops, and this covered with silk or cotton. Over it was placed a dipping needle; and when the battery wires had conveyed the electric circumferential current, and the north pole was elevated so as to be under the needle, the latter instantly dipped so as to be nearly perpendicular; when the south pole was elevated, it dipped in the reverse manner; and when the equator was uppermost, it stood horizontal. This was a very satisfactory experiment, and the lecturer adduced from it that electricity circulated on the surface of the globe, from E. to W. in the northern latitudes, and from W. to E. in the southern. He then showed an expe riment made in 1820 by Professor Oersted of Copenhagen, who found that the magnetic needle was deflected by a cur rent of electricity. lie (the lecturer) showed a needle thus deflected by the currents of electricity passing along a con ducting wire in the form of three sides of a square placed vertically. When the needle was placed over the horizontal part of the wire, and the current was made to pass along it, the end of the needle which before pointed to the north went round towards the west; and when the current passed in an opposite direction, the north pole stood towards the east. On placing the needle under the wire, the north turned to wards the east instead of the west with the same current of electricity. When placed on the west side of the wire, the north end dipped • if upon th e east, i t lame. It was easy to remember in which' direction the poles of the magnetic needle would go, by attending to the following, which lie showed by a small figure of an admiral extending his left arm. If a person had a wire, conveying electricity from the battery, attached to his person, immediately before him, so that elec tricity might enter that part of the wire at his head, be would, when looking towards the magnet, always find the north end of the needle go to his left hand. He explained the principles of the construction of the galvanometer, in which originally a pair of plates only were applied, and showed a very simple one, consisting of t wo p i eces of sponge tied to the extremity of two pieces of copper. The sponges being dipped in salt and acid, and the other ends of the wires placed as conductors to a tine magnetic needle, the moment the sponges were put in contact, there was an immediate effect observable upon the needle. In reference to electro ari er et a i r l i r y e , n a m and agnetic rotation, he showed a n experiment of a wheel, turned rapidly by time effect of l electricee t s' first t a c4 °l : e tic d way and then the other ; and anoth er ( if possible still more uponi ntere b s interesting) it' g h ) eelectric of a magnetic retteitrirt(tmbta, that it rotated with great r, p velo city. The motion was reversed by changing the poles of the noienet. These experiments, however, can " be clearly detailed without diagrams. The lecturer, in fact, must be heard, and his experiments with his apparatus seen, in order to a clear understanding of the extraordinary agencies which they develope. M r. Addamsd concluded by expressing a hope he had establishe m llr osfholtiliisdaupduiresnuct.,etthletesfuabc! that and in his next lecture show what extraordinary power electro-magnetic machines, which might t i l :t a tt i: magnetism WA4 electricity, jc b o e ul t ( t i p b p e lie g d iveT e l Vtt y to raw-mills, and the pimping of inn ,tti4 hioti orpiotitivti threep,liesit ANSI mt the On Tuesday night one of the c rew belonging to the ° o side steamer Nun, named Myers, got out of his han 3 n,_ l o ° 4 in his sleep and fell overboard a nd was drowned. His " was found on Thursday afternoon. . s t r eet, Bernard Mullin, who resides in a cellar in I.Midghali-55.... was on Tuesday committed by Mr. Rushton to the ,beesi, Lai; for having stabbed his mother in the throat and leg, ai , she refused to give him some money. The old wow pleaded hard for the discharge of her inhuman son. ~ Am pnITH EATRE—T here was a full and fashionable Bacon_ -1.,,e the is ta ance at the Amphitheatre on Tuesday lest, wheal the company of the Theatre-Royal took a benefit. This o i o g is also devoted to their interest, and we hope the P larg portion of the public will not fail to be present. ~..„,. i , CHINESE EXHIBITION.—This ve r y curious exbibitr our upon the eve of closing. We cannot but recom a n ll o th a e t objects s s i t again contains, t o pay abuvtisfitrn, nmottrhneilyvalfruosmbiteheinrfaorriintYmaoteif:eci. may be gathered in examining the various objects display The dissolving views are worth the price of admission. . INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, o f a new-born, full- rough coroner, on view of the body grown f ema le child, which was found on the footweta thllle Leeds-street. It appeared that it had breathed, ° " foun d cause of death could not be assigned. A verdict of dead" was returned. TROOPS FOR IRELAND. TWO troops of the 3d Drop/ Guards (or Queen's Bays) arrived here on Wednesday I,r_r! f o r Ire a l_e.,., Manchester, where they received the " route" quite unexpectedly. It is said that their present destinr 7; is Mullinar, and they embark for Ireland tmo, c h e er , Three more troops of the same regiment are expect e ' will before the,bz to-morrow, and will remain until Monday, when they embark for Dublin. FOR • MO' NEW IRON STEAM ND SAILING V ES SELS fined head, TO AFRICA— A Mr. John Laird, of Nor th 13. i I fitted head, is now constructing a tine iron schooner, to be diary up with Mr. Smith's patent screw propellor, as an au t tn all, to her sails. The engine power will be comparative!! _.„,p, but will be of greatadvantage in calms and light airs in T es „ igating the coast and rivers of Africa, for which she ide s. igating Oars. tined. The engines are being made by our townsmen' Messrs' of Forrester and Co. She is, we learn intended for the ' l 'll be the Baptist Missionary Society, and we should think gill be found to be all that can be desired for the important and humane purpose in view. IleLb'--. Of the ANTI-MONOPOLY MEETING AT THE MUSIC On Wednesday evening a meeting of the Anti-Monopoly Association of this town, and their tag gr. and-bobtail admirers, took place at the Music Hall, _, Charles Holland in the chair. Mr. Archibald Prentice, the Manchester Times, was the principal speaker, and of so lengthy and so tame withal as to tire cut the pat the the groundlings. After him followed Mr. Baines , ° Mr. Liverpool Times, and next, in humble order, ca ll° w ho Lawrence Heyworth and Mr. Christopher Benth al % the " monopolized" the rest of the evening to themselves, . _,,,,, member s chagrin and disappointment of many juvenile spouters, w_u_, had prepared their equally witless orations, and with Ma. During bo u ' i ; toil and trouble committed them to m emory. delivery of Mr. Prentice's harangue some unrnannel an d (of their own party, we believe,) began to s hot'' , Ya' roW otherwise disturb him ; and a regular and interestingw n, meaning but indiscreet youngsters. ensued, which ended in the ejection of the handful oaf he'd Happ ily, not . 11 , ha t was broken—no further damage could have ensued 1 11 03 ' a / region,—and no arguments in favour of a sound ss"ate du T ri H ng E protective trade were demolished. .. u larif the last E fo n r . t — ni F g o h r t s e o r ro t e et w i - e d e a k y s s quarter has been very unsettled, with heavy showera' pie occasional continuous rains of several hours duration. ne ed temperature, generally, has also been low for the ruic t e h a p. period 'of the year, up to yesterday, when the wa r° the ee er, o , proached almost to closeness. On the whole, how season has been highly favourable for the growth of v e g : o p tion, and the fields and woods never exhibited a mor e be li es( tiful and luxuriant appearance. It was hoped that the bat themoon (on Monday morning) would bring a changr.'wee' til expectation has not yet been realised, and the isitb,. days, the aWnedePhnerrilCin *sibilia er-wise," in whose opinion we put little or ov„ ta ialt predict a drippy summer. The ground is now c e ' ie even well saturated, but no harm has yet been done. ensure low lands, and a few weeks ofsithshine probably one of the earliest and abundant harvest:loa thick for many years past. Yesterda would the staple productions of the soil we have been f ay ? 0 e les part or _r rains (luring the previous night' and great , o ce e` day, the sky was stillcloudy, but • h aPP ea ' - with an change. 1 ho fl ' s ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday, at the Police-court, -° eiet elf evening-, alte r e t ee ton was placed at the bar, charged with having e er 001', permitted a bale of cotton, which he was lowering f row liegb I shead's warehouse, in Dutton-street, to fall from the e ver ell whereby John Montgomery, steward of a vessel, wa s 15e 500e r injured. An inspector of police, who had taken the P r , l „ the into custody, stated that Montgomery was carried ," . Northern Hospital, where he la in a dangerousistaTt or certificate peare that fr m om on o t n go e m o e f ry the a d surgeons th prheoc w wa unestvieoirn) ro t d o u egeoul,ol aid middle of the street. The bal e e rebounoe. as a po rter o , t te ll struck him in its second fall. Samuel' Jones, he saw the bale slip out of the sling, but he coul d l id ire' whether it had been properly adjusted. Bales wo° Bb; quently slip when the tackle was put in m otion. M r. tie" ton :It is quite necessary that all you men shou t wo la be " fly severe lessons sometimes, as I fear these bales are 11'01 tithe slung with great carelessness. I cannot part with hit, tbe out bail. One of the turnkeys of Bridewell eni tl ' h t- e r 01 , prisoner had stated that he ought to have had allo t ,bere• to assist him. Mr. Rushton : How many of you erereajl os e , Prisoner : Only myself. The warehouseman : I t ir i i tt ° b - s e b h t li c : l :; man's work. Mr. Rushton : What is the weight The warehouseman : Four hundred weight. I ‘ l . e ' „ It t u eor, g r .. And is one man sufficient for that? How can he a g - h t ly 0 ; 1 0 -. Jigger and put out the cotton properly It is a s"ail ,l3 e; g se erous practice. The prisoner was ordered to fine -,'„ e tie l ii If in £4O and two sureties in £2O each, to epee ° ` - ir eb% any charge that might be preferredagainst him', Th e .. - t was entered before the rising of the court. ---We : a ,: f ; led.; t - e l say that poor Mongomery died yesterday mornif:',citlel:l,-, the inquest held on his body, verdict of 4- Ir a - of" - death" was returned, with a deo a dand of X 9, value bale. P . DECLINE IN THE FUNDS.—LONDON, WEDNS--ht a.- I „% Y li ING.—A considerable decline has taken ' place lo t "; he l a g.; securities to-day, which asst be attributed s olely t° " pe t rirs,. - 4 ear which is entertained of affairs in Ireland. The facts that were broug'i e rie,e;'' in the debate last night tend to increase the ge nera l ' ' - :I ness, and some are of opinion that in addition to the f o e% gistration of Arms Bill," a " Coercio Bill" Will that t necessar y The more timid capitalists are sellingldliest t menuence of the alarm, but it must not be sueP°:4les Ba . e e: _ n asures of the Government are regarded with `Lit ths t ibe c O . the contrary, in such a state of things it is R - be fore, f e urqy can alone lie the adoption of the bill new aeo t °',o Legislature. Consols both for money and the s c „ c i bilg i , iP h - of ' been as low as 93,f, having in the early hours v ri t, 4 ",jef ' _ l t n ood at 94k for money, and-941 to 1 for the ireeoll"af tile d r. 1 wever, lett off rather better, being at the clv ae i t eheS e ts• bill r market has also been much agitated, quoted respectfully 93+ to I, and 93f to 1. T he - : de ti- Tb e ions for the two issues at present saleable wil t ! B ` ) ,,,lee, e r t , i , - ee lid. bills were quoted 40s. to 50. prem., and t" e r - 0; '-g" f e. at 30s. to 40s. prem. Bank Stock closed (15178 t°,,,'&otS. ii i to per Cents. Reduced, 921 tot; Three-and -a-Ha" ve iv- to duced, 1004 to I • New Three. and-a-Half per Ceo k, jo6l in 4 ; India Stock, ' 264 to 266 ; and South Sea SWeaescre4,e. 4. There • was a very small amount of business col lo 01 00 , the f ()reign securities, the attractions of Ees° ll3 bli t he rs r e l ifil drawn many of the brokers and jobbers frorg "„ Seviar• Actives were finally quoted 19f to markets, and prices generally were full at a decor'''. l' "- r „a. to ',f pa tugue. ..e Converted, 40 to 4 ; Dutch Two-andA- M e w' Cents • •, 53 i to 51; Ditto, Five per Cents., 991 toi; g 9; s' ' 85 to 85 ; Colombian, 21 to 24 Mexican,B t° ; .. T O ferred, 8 to A ; and Brazilian, 73 to 74. r. o vor i d o, DEFECTIVE WEIGHTS, SCALES, & • . -a. t.r . 1.. C• • ......ias, Jo . SHOP ' KEEPERS, AND DEALERS GENERA pie bt J e OP at the Sessions-house, no fewer than twentY7al( g r e for e A duals, including market-people, shopkeepers, Los ewe' sion, and potato-dealers, &c., appeared by su, ',4preei,-bts his Worship the Mayor, to answer informat"of ' 4 ;5 0 against them by Mr. John Atkinson, inspector active ive.rhg, and measures, for having in • defee ll Or ig elt their possession of by 0 ,10 or scales, vending (c 1 ) (coals) s by measure in place . ea ey f t he as required by the act of 1836, and other eree tie slasir e abl e e - %ler their c . ustomers would not have just weight. co si at° delinquents belonged to the markets, lied a c iear eure t a t number were coal-dealers. Many of them e° A i v elfe y ee t explain away the charge against them resr e ;', eOO l OO general plea being that they were not the first det,. l „ et: of the fact, but the mayor said it was the 1-.ovee-hiee dealer to see that his scales, weights, and ineastnali. olio rect ; and that he was determined to enforce the,, 010 0 was a wholesome one, though as leniently es /l ie. Pe e pe s cases would admit of,—the full penalty being 0 , to er e rtif strongly cautioned the parties, on fining them, 11 0 re ee c or i ; Naele:ll°l4lll.s .iaDbli, _before him again, otherwise they would be °S e f e etil e r of dealt with. it c h ine O w n a l s y fi t n w e ' d o were 2o s. a nd e acquitted , osts , 13 . fr d r ° . , ... baec "i ° p o g o ' 0 ,4 :, , 0 6 0 ‘ 1 : ; offences at 10s. and costs for each ; two 100. 0 ",, o ne 10 DI each ; twelve ss. and costs 2s. 6d. each; 811 ,"„ - e ers l ,o -0 ; costs ls. On one man being called for se'r a l' r es' e ( e d s' measure in place of weight, at the Earl of 133%0'04 eV: t Ai l lr. James MOSE, solicitor, stated that be Bas m at t t"eo l i this case not to offer any resistance, but to rer ry , Balc a r boa , cumstances. It had been the practice at ar e ' ig t i eet i ore: yard for years to sell coals to the poor in the e e t o o h r i o 'C who came for them in small quantities (ev Ori SP O r e pennyworth) at a very low rate, his lordship il e ° ll feeppe get anything more than, arid scarcely so I " the en• la iS c i", people, the bare cost of getting and carry the y bey cos e N ea l was only a large scale in the yard, at which t ,. to icia i ib,l be weighed in such small quantities withotl w ith , 6 0 .1a, r 0 time, and they were consequently naeasureu a or° be te. e hand, more being given than could be got at t !` e$ of e t $ the for the money ; and as this was done from v w n ' i t c ho ~1 , - 0 04 i ' 6 he (Mr. Moss) trusted the s stem wou ld 1,0 0 ."A r lA/ to, otherwise the poor parties would be t" - nppli e 'ilie livl small dealers, were they would not be so well o s n ,ity, ' b e o$ Mayor said that no matter how small the (I A ,boog b ily Po required that they should be weighed ' an - lee Or 0 , '1 sat b e We its' not doubt the motive stated, what could n for e, i , i ee should not be undertaken. He should, thered 40. 6 ' mitigated fine, as in the other cases, of 58 ' 80 _........e. _,,te O ow t he ______ 030 1 ' 1 .0. of Re A v. special meeting of the Parishioners of . b Cb ° Ar Hill was held, ye, scar, • • • t he Fur ls pa rP 1 0 .-A sterg, in thl , es tlir Thomis Moss, in the chair, '` fr i . g r . .1 0 ,11 0 ( 000 taking into consideration the resignation 0. r sebv - e iec„oo ker, the schoolmaster of the Free Graianlling decd t i fiag 11 „ r r e said parish, of determining upon and coneedra ,keu r ot) of a new schoolmaster as his successor , , s B ,%t to b e 'lt e e •toe' such preliminary steps as may be thougu• try ° i ller ti e te r vim's to such election; or (in case the vestry any ot „pi s t e of immediately, and then and there, or ° L ew sch t n io rla he nominating, appointing, and electingsetting news o bilrea to such school, and fixing upon and if or e ch il i , he is to perform, and the sums of moneY ti t, o f lir . i f" shall be permitted to charge to the Par e° e d bf • 00. - being parishioners." This notice was sig n ) orril le t' F. Roskell, churchwarden, and Mr. Thotro_sqojeci 0 ire man. The meeting was very tnimerouslY _a L b y rea u f iesr, 0 0 churchwardens erhfcreho4CmvraaHrtmAdh Grammar. n ß als A ar : t A ,ers m esesci il o ig: openeda shed raodcde r e e d: e l 15 , e to, ni theater tileni o ri o i l .0 1 i 0 rend tv :a reinb ig clee r: 41 14 1e 11 " Se:rc ia ff! Mr. T. F. ROSKELL then m oved , a" d . t M r. oo l i „,,,t tau w o 1 LEIGH seconded, a resolution to the ete-- ~, u na 0 01, resignation be accepted. The motion Ow dr ib l'll a ' ried. ; refa s ,:' of r eenei l i wiag for ° t y Mr. T. B. HORSFALL, after a J ew w r 110 - ..a0 ei ... the Jo ~t 1 he should propose, as the next m0ti0.,,,- , st le, ~J, 0. ; ,. o r, , before the appointment of a successor tle ',,„oitio oIA with ancient custom, a committee be . B h t;r e ieet i e , of,oltv, powered to take the necessary steps for the 0 01 ;0 0 , P Fer e master, by advertising for, and receiving trlig ion,.. e d t o _ I) 0, dates, as well as examining into their 9 . h ' e re qu" o bic or it!! fix the duties which the said master shall " it ' 0 11 . 1!, jr cil, ;o bi: form, together with the sums Pain e2t of O re " o pi o ' o ct o shall be permitted to charge the e s t here .° o he j i ef e° parishioners; also to enquire what fondsiri _ so e oft i to paying. the master, and whether any t c hei r r : sr ted to increase the same, and to Ma k ,/ o O s t ee to an adjourned meeting Of the vestry. act to ef t Mr. LooAN seconded the motion., •.1„. r esr , Ow - g P hat with Oa ' i ttb PI Mr. 'l'. F. Rosall.t, mentioned t . ...., ; 5 read iJ- rip pointment counsel's opinion had been tar' be I. " .° that both the case and opinion s boult tie itl be 0 0 iO - B. 11-1010470,14 thou. t t ho Ll p u r ia •00 6 lII° iits A t i a r n a ce i , ot that II olt4v il Ot tht tiiption 414 notlnterkrti *0 .iial oi WI Ji IC Limo id fdly 10 0 tiuw' WALTON FREE GRAMMAR Sc