The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

EARTHQUAKE AT WOODHOUSE.-011 Sunday last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. It was pre ceded by a loud rumbling noise, as of a waggon on the adjoin ing road, and the shock was sensibly felt by the numerous congregation then assembled in the new church at Woodhouse Eaves; the vibration was so strong as to loosen pieces of mortar from the roof, and which severel persons heard falling down the slates to the ground.—Leicester Herald. EXTENSION OF THE COTTON TRADE AT PRESTON.—We have been given to understand, that, in the course of the en suing spring and summer, several new cotton factories will be erected in the immediate vicinity of this town. We know that land has been already purchased for three or four on a somewhat extensive scale, and it is, we are informed, highly probable that considerably more than this number will be in the course of erection before the expiration of next year. We have thus a prospect of adding in an important degree to the population, and we hope to the prosperity also, of the town. —Preston Chronicle. STATE OF TRADE.--Yesterday being Christmas Day, the usual weekly market is held to day; and we are, therefore, precluded from stating its general character. We may ob serve, however, that the continued advance in cotton has begun to alarm the foreign buyers of yarn, who bought sparingly towards the conclusion of the shipping season, in the expectation of a decline. Towards the conclusion of last week, some rather extensive purchases were made by two or three foreign houses, and there is a decided tendency to an advance in prices. In goods there is no material change.— Manchester Guardian. ASTUNISHIKG QUANTITY OF GAME KILLED —On Tues day, the 13th inst., Charles Scarisbrick, Esq., accompanied by Sir Henry B. Hoghton, entered his coverts and game preserves, at Wrightington Hall, about half after ten in the morning, for the purpose of enjoying the sport of rabbit shooting, and continued to enjoy that sport till half after four in the afternoon, making six hours' actual sport. In this space of time they killed 969 head of game out of 1,007 shuts, making 18 ineffective shots. The goose killed con sisted of 985 rabbits, 3 pheasants, and 1 hare.— Wigan Gaz. SIR GEORGE CLERK.—We observe a paragraph copied from an English radical newspaper (the Stamford Mercury) by some of our contempories, professing to report what Sir George Clerk, member for Stamford, is alleged to have ad dressed to his constituents respecting the probability of a change of administration, and the return of Sir Robert Peel and the conservatives to office. We are authorised to state, that what is alleged in that paragraph concerning the hon. baronet's visit to Stamford, and what he is repot ted to have saia there, is utterly void of foundation.—Edinburgh Adv. LIMIT OF SPEED ON RAILwATS.—Dr. Lardner has dis covered by experiments recently made on the Liverpool and - ianchester railway, that the atmosphere is an opponent to railway speed more forruidabls than has ever been suspected. At thirty-two miles an hour, the resistance it offers is nearly 80 per cent. of all that the steam power has to encounter, and it increases in a proportion so enormously greater than the speed, that there is not the slightest possibility of any such velocity of transit being gained as some (and among them none more ardently than Dr. Lardner himself) have anticipated. It is ascertained that even forty miles an hour cannot be maintained except at a cost which amounts practi cally to a prohibition. NAUTICAL MILLINERY.—Seamen are not only indebted to the fair sex for many of their " terms of art," but also to the " modites" of the land, for much of the knowledge essential to seamanship. For example, no man can " handle his needle," and execute with precision every possible " stitch," front the " herring-bone" to the " double seam." He must also be able to " gore"—" cut upon the bias"— " taughten his stays"—" pass an earring," and " clap a bonnet on his jib." In the last particular, Jack, who often reverses matters, differs with the ladies of the land ; he " claps" his bonnet on the " foot," instead of the head of his jib.—Captain Glascock's Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. GLOCcEsTER CONSERVATIVE UNION ASSOCIATION.—The fifth annual dinner of this association took place on Friday (St. Thomas's day) at the New Inn, and whether we regard the number assembled, or the spirit displayed throughout the evening, it was one of the most gratifying and enthusiastic meetings that has taken place on any similar occasion. Shortly after five o'clock upwards of 400 sat down to a most substantial dinner of roast and boiled beef, plum pudding, &c. &c., provided by Mr. and Mrs. llyett, to whom much credit is due for their excellent arrangements. The great room not being sufficiently commodious to contain so large a number, tables were laid in two other rooms, the parties in which joined their friends after dinner.—G loncester Chronicle THE CHASE.—GAME OF A Fox HOUND.—On Thursday se'ennight, the Pantykendy fox hounds found a fox at Pen town cliffs, and after a short burst ran him into a drain in Mr. Mear's lawn, at Llanstephan Place, which runs in a distance of five or six hundred yards under the garden wall. Not being able to find the head of the drain, a favourite little bitch, named Leda, remained in—she sticking to her game, and could not be got out. However, on Monday last, the bitch and a fine dog were found lying " nose to nose," where the former had kept close to him, though these was sufficient room for her to have come out, had she been so inclined. On finding friends near, she bolted him into a box at the mouth of the drain; and they are alive and well, both of them, to give another day's sport.—Carnarvon BUCKLINGS.—A new method of curing herrings, under the denomination of bucklings, has been recently introduced into this town, which we have little hesitation in saying is likely to be attended with complete success. We understand the same method of curing is practised in the northern part of Germany, where the consumption of these bucklings is very great. They are so prepared as to render further cookery su perfluous, and, by the delicacy of their flavour, the richness and mellowness will afford a most agreeable variety to the breakfast or luncheon table. They only require, in our opi nion, to be more generally known to command that sale which they so decidedly merit, being infinitely mod piquante than the Yarmouth herrings, which they are, to a great ex tent, we may predict, destined to supersede.—Lancaster Guardian. ACCIDENT ON THE BOLTON RAlLWAY.—Yesterday week, as the eleven o'clock train was on its way to this town from Bolton, one of the first-class carriages lost a wheel. The guard was aware of the accident, but was unable to convey the information to the engineer, and the train went on at e a rapid speed to the bottom of the incline at Clifton. The train going the other way met at this period, and perceiving that something was wrong, a signal was given ; but before the train could he stopped. the carriages were thrown off the line. We are glad to say that no one sustained any personal injury. After half an hour's delay, the train proceeded. Had the carriages been thrown off where the wheel was lost they would probably have alighted in the canal.—Manchester Guardian. WORKING OF THE POOR-LAW BILL.—The late overseer of the poor for the township of Little Bolton, offered a premium (previous to the poor•law amendment act coining into opera tion) to all persons who informed him of any woman who was in a pregnant state, and unmarried, and whose child was likely to be born a bastard, and the number that was entered in the overseers' book, from 182-1 to 1834 (the commencement of the poor-law amendment act) was 129. The number, therefore, that have been registered in the said township, in the register book of births, from May, 1838, up to this nate, is 40, being an increase of nearly live to one. An application was made on Thursday last at the overseers' office, Little Bolton, by a woman far advanced in pregnancy of her fourth illegitimate child. One of her children is now in the work house.—Bolton Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY ATTACHMENT OF A DOG.-011 the day after the last Bawtry fair, a bay pony was found grazing in a field near Austerfield, and continued there during a space of several days, attended by a dog of the hull breed. The dog would not allow any one to remove or molest the pony; and it was only by taking other horses into the field, and driving them and the pony together, that it was secured, and confined in the Austerfield pinfold, followed by its faithful guardian, the dog. At the end of two days, the pony died; but the dog still continued to prevent any person from removing it. On the fourth day, however, the dog was enticed, by giving hint food, to leave the dead pony for a short while; and a rope was then fastened to the pony's neck, by which it was dragged to a more convenient place. The carcase was skinned, and afterwards but ied; and the dog followed it to the grave, after having guardel the pony about fifteen days. Nothing has been heard of the owner of them. The faithful dog is yet in Austerfield, in the possession of Mr. z.,tephen Parker.— Doncaster Gazette. NEW FASHIONED SPEAKING TRUMPET.--A powerful hearing trumpet has been lately invented: it is constructed so as to stand upon a table, and receive the voices of persons in the room, which it magnifies to an extraorlinary degree. The power of the instrument is thus described by the inven tor :—" I placed the soniferon at the end of a room sixty feet in length, at the other extremity of which two persons were in low conversation. As long as I continued to hold the tube to my ear, I could hear every word they said to each other; but the moment 1 removed it, I was only sensible of a murmur of voices without distinguishing a syllable." To an experi menter not deaf, the effects of the instrument are by to means comfortable, as every word falls with the force of a black smith's hammer; ana in addition thereto, it makes the ear ring with noises that no other person perceives. SAYINGS FROM THE TA LMUD.—When /Esop, in answer to the question put to him by Chilo, " what God was doing ?" said " that he was depressing the proud and exalting the humble," the reply was considered as most admirable. But the same sentiments are to be found in the Medrash, though expressed, as usual with the Jewish writers, in the form of a story. It runs thus:—A matron once asked Rabbi Jose, In how many days did God create the world ?'—' In six days,' replied the rabbi, as it is writt,n, In six days God made the heavens and the earth.'—' But,' continued she, ` what is he doing now ?'—' Oh !' replied the rabbi, he makes ladders, on which he causes the poor to ascend, and the rich to descend,' or, in other words, he exalts the lowly, and depresses the haughty." There were discovered on the fragments of an ancient tombstone Greek words to the following purpose:— " I was not, and I became! I ant not, but shall he." The same thought is expressed in the following reply of Rabbi Gabiha to a sceptic. A freethinker once said to Rabbi Ga biha. " Ye fools who believe in a resurrection, see ye not that the living die? how then can you believe that the dead shall live ?"—" Silly man !" replied Gabiha; " thou believest in a creation—well then, if what never before existed exists, why may not that which once existed exist again ?"—Goodhuges Lectures on Biblical Literature. IMPROVEMENT OF THE RIVER LINE.—We have much pleasure in being able to state, that Messrs. Robert Stevenson and Sons, the civil engineers employed by the quay com missioners, have sent in their survey and report on the capa bility of improving the navigation of our river. The result of the investigation and survey, we are informed, is very satisfactory, and shows that the Lune is susceptible of great improvement atla comparatively small expense. We under stand Messrs. Stevenson's report states that the river may be deepened so as to afford sixteen feet of water up to the quay sides, at all ordinary spring titles, of twenty-one feet, at a cost of about £7,500, and that £5,000 of this sum will have to be laid out in the purchase of a steam-dredging machine and boats, which will, in fact, be a property of the quay commissioners, and may be again. sold when the commissioners find they have no further occasion for the vessel. But we fancy, if once purchased, the commissioners will find employment. for her for some years, and will even tually he able to deepen the river from'sixteen feet. (the pro posed depth) to eighteen or twenty feet.— Lancaster Guardian. HARE HUNT EXTRAORDINARY NEAR SEDBERGH.—LateIy, while Mr. Upton, of lngmire Hall was out with his pack they raised a hare, which, after a fine run of half an hour, on Bram haw farm took shelter in the garden of Mr. James Whitehead, tenant, but was instantly pounced upon by the dogs. Whilst in the act of killing poor puss a second hare suddenly sprang up, but before abe could make her escape from her natural enemies, she was also made their victim. Mr. Upton was stand ing by at the time, and the dogs were being flogged from the spot, when a third hare started up in the garden, which she instantly cleared, with the whole pack in pursuit, and after a severe run of three quarters of an hour, amid a heavy hail stone shower, she shared the same fate as did the former two. What renders the circumstance remarkable, is, that three hares should be in the same limited place at one time, Mr. Whitehead's garden being nu more than thirty yards square. —Carslilt Patr io t. RENT OF LAND IN ENGLAND.—The average rent of land in the different counties in England and \Vales is stated to be, per acre, Berkshire, 163 11d; Redford, IBs 4 d; Buckingham shire, 2ls lid; Cumberland, 9s 71; Cornwall, his 3rd; Cam bridgeshire, 16s 6-id; Cheshire, 50s lid; Durham, lds sd; Devonshire, 4s 3id ; Dorsetshire, 15s 2%d; Derbyshire, 18s 10,1 d; Essex, 18s sid ; Gloucestershire, Vs; Hants II s sd; Hertfordshire, 15s Hid ; Huntingdon, I6s ; Hants, 16s 5d ; Kent, 17s sd; Leicestershire, 27s 24d; Lin colnshire, 20s to 21s ; Lancashire, 22s 52d • Middlesex, 38s 8.,/d • Monmouth, 12s 9d ; Norfolk. 14s 40; Northumber land, 15s lid; Nottinghamshire, 19s 112 d; Northampton shire, 2ls 5d ; Oxfordshire. 20s 64d ; Rutland, 20s 9d ; Sus sex, Ils Sid ' - Suffolk, 14s 31d; Soinersetshire, 25s 9d West moreland, 17s 2zl; Staffordshire, 20s; Surrey. 15s 24 , 1; Shrop shire, ]9s Id ; Wilts, 18s 61 , 1; Worcester, 22s 4d; Warwick shire,- 22s 51(1 ; Yorkshire, 16s Sd; Wales, 6s .ed. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at halfpast Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham., Manchester, 4-c. This arrangement renders it necessary that Adver tisements should be sent to the Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. 'Ube Etherpool ,Stanbarti. FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 28, 1838. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the packet ship Independence, Captain Nye, which arrived here on Monday night, we have received New York papers to the 7th instant, inclusive, being only one day later than those brought by the Liverpool. The American citizens seem to be engrossed with their own affairs since the sitting of Congress. Up to the departure of the Independence no vessel had arrived from England since the Sheffield, which was entering the port when the Liverpool left. The rate of exchange at New York was 10 per cent. premium. The Courier and Inquirer contains a string of re solutions, introduced into Congress on the 4th instant, by Mr. Adams, in relation to the conduct of the Ame rican minister at the Court of Great Britain, Mr. Stevenson, touching his correspondence, a few months since, with Mr. O'Connell. These resolutions con template the appointment of a committee with autho tity to send for persons and papers, to ascertain whe- ther Mr. Stevenson has been engaged in any such controversy, and what were its circumstances. The avowed object of the proposed inquiry is, to learn whether Mr. Stevenson has " violated the duties of his office as ambassador, the laws of peace, the laws of the land to which he was an accredited minister, or the privileges of the House of Commons in the person of one of its members." The resolutions were laid on the table, by a vote of 140 to 57. They are not ex pected to pass in their present shape. The question of the abolition of slavery would, of course, become involved in considering the charges against Mr. Ste venson. This was, no doubt, the express object of Mr. Adams in moving the resolutions. From the known pertinacity of Mr. Adams there is every rea son to believe that he will persevere in pressing the inquiry. The American papers declare that numerous defal cations are daily discovered among the officers ap pointed by Van Buren. The latest, that has excited any sensation, was the instance of William Price, a late district attorney, who came over in the Liverpool. A letter which he left behind, addressed to the Presi dent, indicates an ability to adjust his accounts with Le government satisfactorily. It is now apprehended that the defalcations exposed and to be exposed, that have occurred under the administration of General Jackson, will amount to from ten to twenty millions of dollars. The capital of Pennsylvania—Harrisburgh, is de scribed as being in a state of complete anarchy, in consequence of a double organisation of the state le gislature—both parties claiming, in many instances, a majority for their respective candidates. The go vernor was calling out the militia, and the seat of go vernment was in possestion of a mob. The news from Canada is somewhat important.— The New York Morning Heald of the 7th gives the following intelligence from Montreal :—" We learn, through a private channel, from Montreal, that the Russian Consul, of Boston, on a visit to the forme) city, has been arrested by the public authorities of Lower Canada, on a charge of instigating the late re bellion in that province, and of aiding and abetting the insurrectionists in their movements. The Consul, it seems, has several children attending a convent or seminary there, for their education. On a visit to see them, the arrest in question was made. The evidence on which this proceeding was based was information communicated to the Canadian authorities by a certain Baron Frattelin, who was announced the other day as having arrived there in the same boat with the corn. mon hangman. It is possible that this event has some connection with the recent adjournment of the court martial." There can be no doubt that many similar circumstances will shortly transpire of a nature di rectly to implicate Russia in the recent attack of the frontier mercenaries. It remains to be seen what step the government of this country may think proper to adopt in i,i'orouoo to tnte intrigue on thn r are of Russia. But whatever may be the conduct of the Whig ministry in this matter, in which our national honour is so deeply involved, we feel confident that the subject will undergo a searching inquiry in the British Par liament. We learn from Upper Canada that the inhabitants along shore from Amherstburgh to Windsor were con siderably alarmed in consequence of the threatened invasion of their soil by a large number of brigands, who were congregated somewhere among the islands in the lakes, or on the American frontier. The Sand wich Herald of November 27 has the following:— " As we stated in our last, General Brady, of the United States army, left Detroit on Monday, in order to disperse the ruffians said to have assembled at Put in-Bay ; that gallant veteran returned on Wednesday, bringing in tow a "patriot" schooner laden with arms, &c. &c., which were found somewhere about Gibraltar. On their arrival at Detroit a civil process was immediately instituted by the pirates for the re covery of their property. The sheriff was, of course, obliged to do his duty, and serve the process; but, he hold, General Brady, with a spirit of determination worthy of his high and honourable character, placed an armed force and a field-piece on or near the vessel, and personally dared them, sheriff and all, to lay a hand upon it. The consequence of the general's man ly interference in support of the honour of his coun try was, that the arms were safely secured in the go vernment arsenal, and the pirate schooner scuttled and sunk. Too much praise cannot be awarded to Gene ral Brady and his spirited adjuncts, the Brady Guards, who have all, on this occasion, merited the good will and esteem of every friend to good order and the su premacy of the laws. The steam-boat Constitution, Captain Appleby, left Detroy on Friday, with about three hundred patriots, but it is not yet known where they went to. It was rumoured here on Sunday that they had landed with additional force, at Round 0, on Lake Erie—too good news to be true. Captain Ap pleby was the commander of the steam-boat Caroline when she was attacked, taken, and destroyed, by or der of Colonel M'Nab." There was a destructive fire in the lower town of Quebec on the 30th ult., which destroyed forty•five buildings. The habeas corpus question at Quebec has taken another turn. The counsel for the pt isoner, it appears, having a suspicion that Mr. Young, the superinten dent of the police, had possession of him, sued out a writ of habeas corpus directed to that officer, to which he returned that he had not the man in his custody. This return was deemed insufficient, and a warrant was issued against Mr. Young for contempt of court, which was to be argued on the 30Ih alt. The Montreal Herald of the 2nd inst. contains the following intelligence :—" Yesterday, about sixty or seventy rebels were brought into town from Beauhto nois, under charge of Sir Hew Dalrymple and a de tachment of the 71st regiment. They had three pieces of artillery, strongly hooped with iron, and are about the most manly batch of prisoners yet brought into town, being principally composed of young able-bodied men. The notorious Jean Baptiste Bousquet, of St. Cesaire, was also brought into town yesterday by Captain Colman, who reports ail continues quiet in the parish of Chambly, and that upwards of 80 stand of arms have been delivered over to Major Colman, 15th regiment, the present commandant, by the cure. the Rev. Mr. Migault, through • whose praiseworthy exertions the habitans were induced to surrender them. The evidence for the prosecution before the court martial closed yesterday, and to-day the evidence for the defence will be commenced." From Texas we have the following alarming intel ligence :—" A letter was received at Honstoun on the 17th of November, dated at San Antonio the 14th, which reports the alarming intelligence that the Co manche Indians were gathering in large bodies in that neighbourhood." From South America we have only the following extract from a letter dated Guayaquill, August 31:— " Political affairs in Peru have a very distressing as pect. By a vessel yesterday from Payta we learn that the Chilian expedition had taken Callao, sunk the Peruvian corvette Socubaya, and captured the frigate Congresso. When Orbegoso effected the revolution of the 28th of July, the Bolivian troops rind two bat talions of the Peruvian remained firm to Ole Protector, and marched off from Lima, leaving Orbegoso to battle the watch with the Chilians. Lima is in a dreadful state—business entirely suspended, and the custom house closed. The American squadron, Commodore Ballard, was at Callao on the 15th. We are all quiet here, thanks to the prudence of Ptesident Rocafuerte in keeping clear of the quarrel between Chili and Peru." Since the above was written New York papers to the 9th instant have reached Liverpool by the transit ship Hibernia, which sailed two days after the Inde pendence. From these we have confirmatory accounts of the riots at Harrisburgb, the capital of Pennsylva nia. We insert the accounts in another column, and would direct the attention of our readers to them as au additional illustration of the " blessings" of a re publican form of government. THE ROMANISING "TRACTS FOR THE TIMES."—In another column will be found the first part of an ela borate article, which is to appear in the forthcoming number of the Church of England Quarterly Re view, exposing the errors, and, we might add, the pal pable heresies of the authors of those notorious pub lications the " Tracts for the Times." The whole of this admirable article has been published in the Times. We shall give the conclusion in our next publication. We are sorry that we have been compelled to express the Greek quotations by English characters—having no suitable type for the purpose. This will not, of course, detract anything from the force of the reason ing, as the words must be perfectly familiar to the learned student in theology. We heartily rejoice that the very dangerous tenets advocated by Dr. Pusey, and his fellow-labourers for the resuscitation of Popery in England, have, at length, attracted the attention of the leading journals of the metropolis, which have bestowed upon them a suitable castigation. The Times, the Morning He rald, the Standard, the St. James's Chronicle, the Record, and several other papers of high character, have animadverted upon the doctrines broached in the publications of this semi Popish school in terms of se vere condemnation. Even the John Bull has admit ted several articles repudiating these heretical writ ings; whilst the whole of the provincial press in the Conservative interest, with three solitary and inglo►i ous exceptions, have joined most cordially in deprecat ing the progress of this fresh and alarming schism in our venerable Church. The Church of England Quarterly Review, a periodical of the highest stand ing for deep erudition and critical research, but which we had long suspected of a leaning towards the Pu seyites, has nobly vindicLted its character, as an able and uncompromising advocate of the primitive faith of our PROTESTANT Church, by the publication of the conclusive article to which we have referred. It will be perused with great interest by all who are anxious for the preservation of our national church in the in tegrity of its faith and discipline—by all who wish to avert from this nation the direful curses which are en tailed upon all who have any participation in advan cing the supremacy of the Papacy—by all who feel that the happiness and prosperity of Great Britain are intimately identified with the glorious cause of PRO TESTANT ASCENDANCY. The Church of England Quarterly Review is not, however, the only magazine that has taken the field against Pusey ism. The Christian Observer has long and successfully combated this new-fangled system of Popery. The Christian Guardian has also been dis tinguished for its energetic opposition to the "Oxford Tracts." Of the more secular periodicals the Quar terly Review, Blackwood's Magazine, and Fraser's Magazine, have severally indulged in remarks highly condemnatory of the same publications. Fraser, in particular, has done eminent service to the cause of Protestantism by its manly and unaccommodating ex positions of the Popish tendencies of the " Tracts for the Times." We sincerely rejoice to find so distin guished and so talented an organ of Conservatism, as Fraser's Magazine must be acknowledged to be, em barked in so hallowed a cause as the defence of our Protestant Church from the furtive attacks of her je suitical children. Great as are the dangers to be ap prehended from the more open encroachments of Po pery, there is infinitely greater danger from the secret machinations of those who would gradually, but sub stantially, assimilate the services and discipline of the Church of England to those of the apostate Church of Rome, and thus securely, though silently, pave the way for the future ascendancy of the foredoomed spi ritual Babylon. With such a host of examples before us we cannot refrain any longer from rendering our humble assist ance in rooting out from amongst us the detestable and anti-Protestant tenets of the Puseyite school of theo logy. We have long felt it to be our duty to expose the dangers to which our Church is threatened from the prevalence of these doctrines. These are not times in which it is sufficient that we should bear a cold, dry, and formal testimony to the excellency of our national church. Assailed as she -is by the anomalous con- federacy of Papists, Dissenters, and Infidels—all anxiously watching every opportunity of inflicting injury upon her—it is more especially needful that we should guard against internal foes —against the most dangerous, because less suspected enemies of the Establishment. History informs us that, at no distant period, the pulpits of the Church of England were, in numberless in tances, occupied by Jesuits in disguise, labouring assiduously for the subversion of Protestamsm. The same wily spiritual tacticians found their way into our Universities, and craftily insinuated their Popish dogmas under the garb of Protestant Professors. Nor were the Dissenting pulpits free from the like intru sion of Popish emissaries. We do not mean posi tively to assert that there are members of the college of Jesuits now ministering in the Church of England, though we frankly confess that we have very strong suspicions that such is the case. That there are Jesuits among the professedly Dissenting ministers 11; e have the strongest and most confident belief. The recent aspect of Dissenters in reference to the Church justi- fies our assertion. At the same time it is a well known fact that the avowed Jesuits, in the Romanist profes- sion, were never more actively employed in prepar ing the way for the conversion of the people of this kingdom to Popery than they are at the present mo ment. Under these circumstances we feel imperatively called upon to sound the alarm, and to call upon all who call themselves Protestants to unite against the encroachments of Popery, even though it should appear amongst us in the assumed array of an angel of light. Although the animadversions of the Church of England Quarterly Review, together with those of the other periodicals and journals which have attacked Puseyism, have been hitherto principally directed against the " Tracts of the Times," it is by no means to be inferred that those obnoxious publications are the only works in which the Puseyite doctrines are developed and advocated. There are many hundreds of divines in the Church of England, numbering amongst them many of the dignitaries of the Church, and more than one of the recently created IV/tig bishops, V% ho are equally zealous in labouring for the promul gation of the semi-Popish tenets of the Puseyites. The danger is, therefore, far more extended than might have been inferred from the circumstance that Puseyism has hitherto been chiefly attacked through the medium of critiques upon the " Tracts for the Times." We shall be able to show, before we quit the subject, that the ramifications of this new heresy are spreading in all directions around us; nay we shall be grieved to prove that the diocese of Chester itself— distinguished as it is, almost above all others, for the learning, zeal, and piety of its clergy—is not altoge ther free from the leaven of Popery. Before we proceed any further with our remarks we shall introduce a few observations, pertinent to the subject, from our contemporaries the Standard and Morning Herald. In reference to the article from the Church of England Quarterly Review the Standard has the following observations : " The authors of the Romanising" Tracts,' for the Times,' (we beg that this or some other signifi cant title may be substituted for the honoured name of Oxford,' in speaking of these silly and mischievous publications) have greatly mistaken the motives of the forbearance with which they have been indulged, if they suppose that approbation of, or even connivance at, their heresy has had any place among them. An unwillingness to engage with questions even remotely connected with theological discussion has doubtless had great influence in restraining the press from treat ing the tract writers as they deserve—an unwilling ness to expose the nakedness of the laud,' has fur bidden those most attached to the Church from gibbet ing the errors of men who, however inconsistently (fraudulently would be scarcely too strong a word) hold the station of Church of England clergymen, while a compassionate feeling for those ' whom most people like and yet abuse,' a compassionate feeling for coxcombs, has had its part in protecting these vain lively, eccentric, quaint retailers of paradox. For bearance has, however, been, perhaps, carried too far. The extraordinary speech of Lord Spencer's apostate brother, reported in the Romanist journals, and copied into yesterday's Standard, proves the ex• tent to which the Popish party are encouraged by the activity and impunity of the Romanising Protestants. and the encouragement of the Popish party is in every aspect a serious thing; for let the slightest ray of hope but open to that party, and all its tremendous machinery of intrigue, conspiracy, and crime, will be put into as active operation as in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the other side, the politi cal Disseneer,c, who are never very scrupulous as to the means to which they resort for injuring the Esta blished Church—though themselves leagued with Popery in the strongest bonds—do not hesitate to charge the Popish lapses of the two or three tract mongers, upon the whole body of the Church of Eug. land clergy. "These considerations have at length extorted a protest from more than one of the most distinguished divines of the Church, and of those publications chiefly calculated for theological readers." When the Standard designates the Puseyites as "two or three tract-mongers" we think it expresses itself unadvisedly. The tenets in question, as we have already stated, are strenuously maintained—to their shame be it mentioned—by hundreds of the clergy of the Church of England; nor is their advocacy confined to the "Tracts for the Times." The press has been literally teeming for the last three or four years with elaborate works in which the same doctrines are pro minently brought before the public. To some of these we shall hereafter advert. The Standard, after quot ing from the Church of England Quarterly Review, proceeds : "We have, we think, copied enough to show, that the tract•mongers are Romanists in almost all but the name, as far as their creed goes, and that, in repre senting the distribution of the Scriptures, and impos ing silence on the pulpit, they are doing their utmost to serve the present interests of Popery. We lately met in a newspaper which is not ashamed to lend itself to the service of this sect, and to stigmatise as ' low Church bigots' all who will not engage in the same service, a long letter against building preaching houses' instead of gorgeous temples, and raising the abominations' of pulpits and reading desks in lieu of great brass birds. In this letter the writer expressed his indifference as to where the pulpit should be fixed, or as to there being any pulpit. This is the spirit of the sect; they would reduce the whole of the religious service into those formalities, which, though decent and necessary adjuncts to the worship ' in spirit and truth,' enjoined by the Gospel, would, by themselves, constitute no religion whatever. The tract-mongers might satisfy themselves with a church to be served by an automaton clergy—the 'cast-iron parsons' proposed by one of Mr. Thistlewood's accomplices. It was not thus that the Christian poet thought of the uses of the pulpit. The pulpit therefore (and I name it filled With solemn awe, that bids me well beware With what intent I touch the holy thing) The pulpit when the Satirist has at last (Strutting and vapouring in an empty school) Spent all his force and made no proselyte— I say the pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar power Must stand acknowledged while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause; There stands the messenger of truth—there stands The legate of the skies—his theme divine His office sacred, his credentials clear; By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders, and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace; He 'stablishes the strong—restores the weak— Reclaims the wanderer—binds the broken heart; And armed himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms Bright as his own; and trains by every rule Of holy discipline to glorious war The sacramental host of God's elect." Such is the abomination' of the Romanising tract writers. " We have now discharged a necessary, but a very distasteful task. We have little fear, however, that we shall have often to recur to it : the sect will never make formidable way, and the most that can be re quired is to acquit the Church of giving it any coun tenance, and to disabuse the Rotnanists of the opinion that their auxiliary is likely ever to possess any influ- ence." THE " LAY CHURCHMAN" OF THE ALB lON.—The anonymous ass, whom we reluctantly condescended to notice in our publication of Friday last, has, we observe, been emboldened to amuse himself and the public—suo pretio—with a few more of his nasal notes, through that favoured organ, the Albion. Still imagining himself "pelle Leonis indutus," enve loped In the formidable and imposing tegument of signature, " A Lay Churchman," his innate obtuse ness and stupidity render him incapable of remarking the loud guffaw bursting from all quarters at him, while the exclamation is as general as it is true— "lVomen, et preterea nihil !" We, however, are free to confess, that had this long eared animal been as rude ishly disposed in his for- vier, as he is anxious to appear in his present, tilt against our local clergy, we might have mistaken— no, no—impossible! No one, acquainted with the first principles of natural history, could possibly mis take the " ignarus asinus"—with head and tail equally Pendent, and as admirably depicted in the Albion— for the majestic lion, from head to other extremity erect, and with eye and voice ingenuously indicative of his real title and character. It is not for the purpose of following that despicable creature through all his vagaries and doublings, that we once more " cast a look over our shoulder" at him : were it so, we would richly deserve to be pointed at as "asinus asinurn fricans"—a notoriety and dis tinction we have not the emulous spirit to court, how. ever naturally it may come to the present object of our notice. But whatever disinclination we may feel to comfort the brute by friction—(the few wholesome stripes we inflict on his tough hide serve only to quicken his drowsy intellect)—we have no reluctance to come forward to rescue the monarch's skin from degrading contact with the asinine back. In our former article on this subject, we are pleased to learn, we fully succeeded in doing so, to the satisfaction of true lay Churchmen ; but, should any gentle reader still feel sceptical as to the identity of character we so happily succeeded in giving, we need only refer him to the animus pervading " A Lay Churchman's" last letter, to see all the lineaments fully and faithfully developed,—the only difference being, that darker shades of depravity and venom distinguish it. He presume to style himself "A Lay Churchman," who would insidiously endeavour to sow dissension in the sanctuary ? Monstrous! He have the assurance to assume the name of " A Lay Churchman," who dares to designate as "locusts," &c. &c. (merely because they are Irishmen)—men who, having been trained for - the ministry in a land where our Protestant Church is an oppressed and persecuted one—in a land where Popery tries every stratagem to beguile the unstable and unwary—in a land where bigotry, superstition, and their attendants, misery and wretchedness, neces sarily excite the tenderest Christian sympathies, while they call forth the most strenuous and active ministe rial exertion for their removal,—have been, as it were, driven, by the providential economy of an all. wise and beneficent Being, to drink deeply at the fountain which purges away all artificial, worldly, idolatrous daubings from the naturally fair features of Religion, and thus rendering her a beautiful transcript of the Bible itself? Preposterous! Sure we are, we only speak the sen timents of the English clergy and Protestant laity, when we affirm, that for piety and zeal—for deep Scriptural knowledge and sound orthodox principles— for Christian sympathy, fidelity, and benevolence, the clergy resident among us from the Sister Isle are unsurpassed by any body of Christians in this or any other country. True—if it be a crime now-a-day— they have assumed the elevated and intrepid tone of the persecuted Reformation martyrs, who were heed- less of praises or censures of man, whilst the convic tions of their own consciences were established and strengthened by the immutable standard of revealed truth—the Bible. That Liverpool appreciates such characters, augurs well for her Christian proficiency; and that such characters arouse the maddened invec tive and vituperative scorn of such pitiable creatures as " A Lay Churchman," must be highly satisfactory to them. But poor Mr. M'Neile! how is he ever to get over the indelible disgrace of being a " novus homo" ? After four or five years of unexampled use fulness in our town, to be still a "novus homo" in the estimation of "A Lay Churchman," augurs himself an " ignotus et ignobilis homo"—asinus, we should have said. One word with regard to the Tory "A Lay Church man" represents as having used such indecorous ex pressions in allusion to the trusteeship of the new churches, and we have done. The Tories who honor the Standard-office—and they are not a few, nor talentless—are not a little gratified when they find such a gall as " A Lay Churchman," with whose cre dulity they can amuse themselves. In the present instance such has been the case, we feel assured ; for this "Lay Churchman" was observed, on the morning when our original article appeared, with mouth open, hurrying from place to place—" his thunder" the sole subject of his conversation—and, of course, as it is a propensity of our nature, all desirous of " sending the fool further" administering some stimulus to excite additional merriment. Lo! how well our Tory friend's device has .succeeded l—for can you, gentle reader, without the hearty exercise of your risibles, peruse such a pitiable production as "A Lay Church man" has produced ? We respectfully take our leave of him with this one remark, that, if he desire to be respected, he must be honest, and wear his own skin, ass's though it be. TRUSTEESHIP OF THE NEW CHURCHES.—We feel concerned to learn that we were in error, on Tuesday last, in saying that the appointment of Trustees to the new Churches, to be erected by the Liverpool Church Building Society, might be considered as de finitively fixed upon, and that the future election might be considered as merely formal. From the in formation which we received, and upon which our re marks were grounded, we conceived that there had been some sort of general appeal made to the sub • scribers on the subject, and that the announcement which we made was the result of such appeal. We are, however, informed, and we hasten to lay the in formation before our readers. in order to disabuse them of any prejudice which they may have con tracted, that the appointment of Trustees will rest entirely with the subscribers, as agreed upon at the preliminary meeting. Of course the subscribers will be at perfect liberty to determine the time and mode of nomination and election. We rejoice to find that the contributions already amount to upwards of £14,000, and that the list of annual subscribers has been considerably augmented. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT GLASGOW.—We refer our readers, with feelings of peculiar gratification, to the reports which we this day publish of the admirable speeches delivered by Sir James Graham at Glasgow, both on the occasion of his installation, and on the presentation to him of the freedom of the city. His allusion to the progress of Conservative and Protes tant reaction in Glasgow, evidenced by the fact that the freedom of the city was spontaneously bestowed upon him by the Town Council, after that body had refused a similar honour to Lord Stanley and Sir Robert Peel, was as felicitous as it was encouraging to the hopes of every true Conservative. His remarks on the state of the navy, and the necessity for main taining that " right arm of Britain's strength" in full efficiency for every emergency, were also most forcible and appropriate. In vindicating himself from the charge of inconsistency, and from the other calumnies of his enemies, he was eminently successful: while the bold and uncompromising manner in which he avowed his devoted attachment to the sacred cause of Protestant ascendancy does equal honour to his bead and his heart. NEW, QUICK, AND HUMANE METHOD OF - SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS I take this method of announcing to the public, that I have discovered, and, after a long series of experiments, matured a new, quick, and humane method of slaughtering animals for human food, which promises to be of the greatest benefit to mankind, and for which her majesty the queen has been graciously pleased to grant me her royal letters patent. The physiological principle upon which this discovery is founded, and the existence of which was first ascertained by myself', is, that a power, of great and extensive use to animal life, is derived from the stretch in which the lungs are held both in the living and recently dead animal, in opposition to their elasticity. In consequence of this power existing after death, while the antagonist and controlling power derived from irritability was destroyed with life, the blood, lymphatic and lacteal fluids, are all drained from the arteries and smaller veins of the larger circulation, and from the lymphatics and lacteals into the vicera and blood-vessels within the chest, and into the roots of the larger veins approaching to it. It is impossible, and would be unseasonable, to enter fully into the physiological doctrine in an address of this kind. Such as may wish to be better informed on the subject are referred to a paper of mine, printed in the Philosophical Tran sactions for 1820, on the "Elasticity of the Lungs;" to ano ther paper of mine, printed in the Transactionsof the Medico- Chiruryical Society of London for 1821, on the "'acuity of the Arteries after lleath;" and to the articles, "Respiration," Motion of the blood," and "Absorption," contained in the second edition of the Inguiry into the Causes of the Motion of the Blood, published in the year 183.3. The object of the mode of slaughtering recommended is, to remove the impediments which nature has set up against the elasticity of the lungs, on the existence of which impediments life in a great measure depends, and, of course, to allow the lungs to resiliate into their natural dimensions, or, in other words, to collapse, while the animal is still alive. The method of removing these impediments in the circum stances stated, to break fully and at once what may be consi dered the mainspring of life, in all animals with elastic lungs, in the most humane manner, has been the object of long and anxious consideration, and of much varied experiment. The results have been effectual and conclusive. The effect of this method of slaughtering is to retain the lymphatic and laci.eal fluids, and, indeed, all the finer juices of the body, at the same points and in the same proportion in which they existed while the animal was stilt alive, instead of being accumulated in the large vessels and discharged out of the body in a mass, and becoming a nuisance. The result is an increase of the edible part of a carcase, to the amount of at least one-tenth beyond that which it would supply by any mode of slaughtering hitherto in use. The meat thus obtained is more juicy, tender, and far better fla voured. It sets sooner, and, of course, is earlier fit for use. It keeps much longer sweet and untainted. This remarkable and important property is evidently derived from none of the vessels being empty so as to admit the external air, and from an oozing of juice or lymph from the full vessels, when any portion is cut, upon the raw surface of that portion, and, by its tenacity, forming a sealed cement. This property is of great importance to butchers. who lose a great deal of meat in certain states of the weather; to the public in general, but particularly to mariners and to the inhabitants of warm climates. The time to which this meat will keep in different states of the weather has not been ascertained, for it has always been used be fore any marks of approaching putrescency have been discovered; but, in the course of last autumn, this meat con tinued sweet and untained for many days after other meat, killed at the same time and placed in the same circumstances, had given such proofs of spoiling as to render it necessary to cook it. The meat, the produce of slaughtering in this mode, is more economical. In the first place it never shrinks, but, on the contrary, enlarges in cooking; the fat, being supplied with the juices which enrich the muscular or red portion, is much more savoury, and is more acceptable to delicate palates, and is, therefore, less wasted. It requires less time to cook. The centre of a large joint is done neatly as soon as the surface. These properties ace derived from the meat being less spongy, and a better conductor of heat than meat obtained by any of the modes of slaughtering at rirer•ent in use. It preserves well, and requires a much less quantity of salt. Other valua ble properties will present themselves to those who use this meat, and the method in question is also attended with ad vantageous results affecting hides, skins, &c. upon which it is ❑ot necessary now to dilate. Such of the public as wish to make a trial of what may be called the patent butcher's meat, upon a short notice being given, may be supplied by any of the butchers whose names will be given. Any butcher who wishes to be instructed in the manner of slaughtering, may obtain that and any other necessary information appertaining to the patent, by applying to Messrs. Carson Brothers, the patentee's agents for Liver pool. I may, I trust, he permitted to state, that the addition of one-tenth, at least, to the edible portion of animals slaughtered for human food, with a high degree of improvement - in the quality of the whole, with the property of keeping much longer, and with a diminution of the expence of cooking, as well as less waste in the substance cooked, will not be deemed one of the least important boons which science has, at any period, been found to yield to the exigencies of human life. The development of a plan by which a great addition of animal food may be said to be, as it were, created, will be considered peculiarly propitious at a time in which the vege table food of the country is apprehended to be deficient, and, if timeously and extensively embraced, may be the means of preventing, or greatly alleviating, that distress which is always felt in seasons of scarcity JAS. CARSON, M.D., F.R.S. Liverpool, 24th Dec. 1838. POLICE INFELLIGENCE. CHARGE OF BIGAMY.—Joseph Cranage, an elderly man of respectable appearance, and diminutive stature, was placed before the magistrates on Monday, charged with having mar ried Georgina Hassan, his former wife being still alive. The second wife, a good-looking young woman, aged 27, appeared and stated, that she was married to the prisoner by license, at St. Nicholas's Church, in the month of June, 1836. The prisoner represented himself as a widower, stating that his wife who had been absent from him for many years, bad died at Paris. William Cross, the brother of the first wife, deposed that his sister had recently come to Liverpool, but she was so ill tha! she could not attend the court, nor could any question be put to her. He was present at the marriage of the prisoner with his sister on the 22d of November, 1822, at St. George's Church. They lived together for four or five years, when, in consequence of some differences they separated. His sister lived with her father, and afterwards with some respectable relatives, whom he named, for a length of time. At length, somewhere about 1830, she went to London, where she en tered into the service of afatnily, with whom she subsequently went to the continent. During her absence they heard from her very regularly. Mr. Davenport, who appeared for the prisoner, said he should be able to prove that the prisoner heard, and was fully impressed with the conviction, that his first wife was dead, and that, in fact, he made inquiries after her for twelve months before he got married the second time. Thomas Cranage, a brother of the prisoner stated, that he and the latter married two sisters on the same day. His wife was the sister of the second wife. His brother was obliged to separate from his first wife, after they had lived together for a few years. She went away, and he never heard anything of her till he was given to understand that she was dead. He (witness) was anxious to be married, but he wasted twelve months that his brother might be mar ried at the same time, and to give him an opportunity of making inquiries as to whether his first wife were alive or dead. A newspaper was here handed by the witness to Mr. Davenport, who said, " Yes; your brother even advertised her, I believe." Witness—" Yes." Mr. Hall required that the advertisement should be read. The paper was handed to an officer of the court. It was the Liverpool Courier. The advertisement was dated April 2, 1838, before the first wife had left Liverpol. It ran as fol lows:—" Notice is hereby given, that I will not be liable for any debts that my wife, Sarah Cranage, may contract after this date." The pr►soner's signature was attached Witness said he had never seen the first wife but once since the advertisement appeared. On being questioned by Mr. Hall, the witness said be could not tell what steps the prisoner had taken to learn the fate of his wife. He believed he had made every inquiry. Mr. HALL.—Did be make inquiry of her family, with whom, it appears, she was in constant communication ? Witness.—l don't know that he ever made inquiry at them. William Cross said, though he had frequently seen the prisoner, he never asked him any questions respecting his sister. The case was adjourned for further hearing►. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Cross deposed that her sister had been married to the prisoner about fourteen years ago. They lived together three or fiur years, and then separated. After the separation, Mrs. Cranage lived %%Mr her mother about twelve months. She then went to London, but had never been upon the continent; she had been to Margate, the Isle of Wight, and other places, but had never left England. She was occasionally in the habit of writing home to her mother during her absence, which lasted altogether about nine years. There had been a rumour of Mrs. Cra nage's death, but she believed that it had been circulated by the husband himself. The prisoner knew that the relatives of his first wile were in Liverpool, but he had never made any application to them, to know whether she was alive or dead. The sister of the prisoner was next examined, and she stated that she had told the prisoner, whe❑ his second mar riage was in contemplation, that he had no knowledge of his wife's death, and cautioned him how he acted. As to the report of Mrs. Crandge's death, she told him that he had put it cut himself. lie denied this, and said that his wife was dead. The witness answered, "She is not dead." The prisoner was remanded to take his trial. CLOSING SHOPS ON THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDIIRD. SlR,—With much pleasure and satisfaction I see the ma jority of the respectable hairdressers, &c. of this town have come to the laudable determination of closing their shops on the Sabbath day, and I am further gratified to hear that the Watch Committee are determined to enforce so good an arrangement. I regret to acquaint you that some of the least respectable in the above business are decidedly hostile to closing their establishments on the Sunday, and declare, come what will, they will follow the old system. To reform the rebellious few, I would suggest that a committee be formed, of the most respectable and influential in the trade, to see and report all those individuals who will desecrate the Sabbath by shaving, &c., and I would request the heads of the police to urge their officers and men to put a stop to those who would act in defiance of this salutary measure.—Yours, &c., A FRIEND OF GOOD ORDER. " TRANSATLANTIC BOMBAST."-AMERICAN ARMY. WHAT FORCE COULD BE BROUGHT AGAINST THE AMERICANS, IN CASE OF WAR? TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I was much astonished in reading a paragraph in your valuable paper of the 14th inst., headed "Transatlantic Bombast," wherein it is stated, that the editor of the New York Herald asserts that there are four millions of fighting men in the United States. I now therefore beg leave, with all due deference to the editor of the N. Y. Herald, to con tradict his bombastic and ridiculous assertion. While in the States, I frequently read articles of a similar tendency, and never bad the pleasure of seeing them contradicted. I shall therefore have an eye upon their assertions, and I venture to say, that nine assertions out of ten will be found to be incorrect. I will go the "whole hog," and if 1 do not " row them up salt river," I ant much mistaken. I will dispose of the Herald first. lu the Politician's Guide, (Philadelphia, hey and Biddle, 1835, page 10,) I find the " fighting men" of the United States amount to 1,362,315, instead of 4,000,000, as the Herald asserts! ! The standing army of the U. S. amounts to only 5,052 men, being only 166 soldiers to each state and territory! Of the standing army and militia, I know not how to express myself. I only wish, Mr. Editor, you could have seen a muster of these "fighting men !"—then, and only then, you could appreciate my feelings. The most miserable squad of wretches I ever saw collected together was upon an American "field day;" some with guns, others with swords and pistols, whilst others had rifles, muskets, blunderbusses, &c.. the whole arranged in the most picturesque disorder. The "fighting men" laughing and talking—the officers joking with the soldiers— the shrill fife and discordant bugle—the ill-timed march— wretched ignorance of the commands; and the whole turnout was the most laughable and disgusting attempt at military order I ever beheld, or ever will behold again. This is no high-coloured picture: I appeal to any honest man, who has visited the United States, if this is not "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." In Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, I had numerous good opportunities of seeing the "standing army," and certainly I never saw such an apology for soldiers: neither their persons, dress, nor disci pline would lead you to form any other opinion, than that they are, in the words of an American paper, "a host of igno rant pretenders!" I ask any military man, what could an army of undisciplined men do in war ? Their numbers would only lead to the greater defeat; they could do nothing against a disciplined army. Place 1,000 Britons, in a fair field, with 10,000 Yankees, and the result is obvious: the Yankees would be mowed down like grass. Another thing is, they have no experienced eicers to command an army. What are men without good officers ? Nothing. They have, in fact, no officers worth talking of, and not one of them capable; of taking the command of a large army. The Americans could never fight like brave men. In the revolution and last war, they fought like what they are—a batch of cowards. They always fought behind rocks, trees, walls, &c.; they concealed themselves clandestir.ely to pick, choose, aim, and shoot their fellow-men,—in short, converted themselves from self-styled soldiers to cold, bloody murderers. I shall now show, and clearly prove — What force could be brought against the Americans in case of war. IsT. THE BLACKS.—The coloured people in the United States, free and slave, amount to 2,800,000 to 3,000.000! ! of which number, 1,014,345 are male slaves-153,545 free coloured males,—total, 1,167,896 coloured males! Slaves capable of bearing arms, 760,754; free coloured males too, 115,153 ; total coloured men capable of bearing arms, 875,917 ! ! Here we have 875,917 men that are enduring all the tortures of slavery, kicked and buffeted, lashed and sold, by the democratic whites! Would these men fight for Ame rica or England in case of war? I need not answer, they would rush to the standard of Great Britain, and defend it with the last drop of their heart's blood. They would fight with the desperation of tigers; and well knowing the result if they were defeated, they would go to the battle with an impetuosity not to be repelled. An eminent French writer, who resided in the United States several years, says:—" In case of war, the blacks will have numerical strength and the energy of despair on their side; and these are powerful re sources to men who have taken up arms. The fate of the white population of the Southern States will be similar to that of the Moors in Spain. After having occupied the land for centuries, it will, perhaps, be forced to retire to the country whence its ancestors came, and_ to abandon to the neyroes the possession of a territory, which Providence seems to have more peculiarly destined for them." This truly would be the fate of the Americans ;—they know ir, and dread it. The Northern States would have to take care of themselves, without helping the South : even if they did come to their help, the climate would reduce them—the fever and alt its results await them; while, on the other hand, the blacks are accustomed to the climate. These are great considerations, and sooner or later will be found to be true. The northern coloured people know "Slaves cannot breathe in England," and a great part of their southern brethren also. They know our West India slaves are free; and joyfully would they join the standard of England, and rout their heartless oppressorS. The blacks are increasing daily in numbers. From 1790 to 1830 the whites have augmented in the proportion of 80 to 100, and the blacks in that of 112 to 100! ! Thus we see the blacks are gaining the ascendancy in numbers. The Phila delphia Ledger says :—" Should foreigners interfere, who shall say that a black empire will not rise up at the South, to be in continual war with the North? Would the Mexi cans, already exasperated by our injustice, be idle spectators? or would they improve the precious opportunity to raise an African barrier between themselves and our Anglo-Saxon spirit of encroachment?" The abolitionists of the North—a large and powerful body—would help the freeing army. I have heard some of their first men say s o. They know the wretched government they are living under. One of their chief men, the agent of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, said,—" The American Union is the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by man ! —the Union, a wicked and ignominious compact !—the signers of the declaration were men who virtually dethroned the Most High God!—the American Union, the most atrocious villany ever exhibited on earth! I recognise the Union with feelings of shame and indignation; it will be held in everlasting infamy throughout the world—an unholy alliance!!"—Address of the Agent of the N. E. A. S. S., published in the Colonisation Herald, Philadelphia, May 16th, 1838. This is the opinion of the abolitionists of America, and they will stand by it. The coloured men, backed by the presence of a British force, would carry every thing before them. God will guide them. Liberty or Death! will be the watchword, and victory will be the result. 2ND. THE INDIANS. —These are another body of perse cuted beings. Driven from their lands—transported in rotten steamboats, and then blown up! hundreds at a time ;—all for what? Because they say, "We will not sell the land that contains the bones of our fathers." For seven long years have the Americans hunted the Semniole Indians in Florida. The war commenced in the Americans selling the wife 'f the gallant Oseeda as a slave. The Cherokees, a tribe of civilised Indians, who talk and write the English language, have churches, schools, &c.;—and they—ah ! they have not es caped the persecution of the Americans. They have been transported from their cultivated lands in Georgia to the unknown regions west of the great waters of the Mississippi. I have seen numerous Indian tribes transported beyond the Mississippi. I have conversed with the chiefs of the Chero kee—Semniole—Winnebago—Choetau, Chickasan—Cteek, Kickapoo—Pottanatomie—Ottaway—and Miami Indians. They know our power. Black Hawk. and several of their chiefs, are well-informed men. They know there is "some happier island in the watery waste." 300,0(X) Indian war riors are upon the confines of the United States. They are only watching the opportunity to rush upon their heartless oppressors. They can overrun the West and South Western States, and co-operate with the Negroes. Then woe betidt the Americans! 300,000 oppressed Indians will march onward to liberty or death. The tomahawk and rifle will not be hung up in their cabins, till they have given a good account of the last A merican. 3u n. THE MEXICANS.—It is well known, the injuries the Mexicans have sustained at the hands of the Americans. Texas, a large and valuable tract of land, has been snatched from them by a band of lawless villains. They applied to the American Government for redress, but in vain. The so-called "Republic of Te.vas" has been sanctioned by the American Government, and is recognised by them as such. Therefore, the Mexicans would gladly accept and benefit by ,a chance of not only regaining their lost territory, but of being revenged upon their detestable neighbours. 500,000 men could be spared by Mexico, to invade the States. This is a fact, and the number is not exaggerated. The Mexicans ru❑ no danger of being invaded, neither have they any com merce, worth talking of, to lose. Some of the Americans know this. In the Philadelphia Ledger, March, 1838, I find the following:—" Would Mexico, already exasperated by our injustice, be idle spectators (in case of a war with Eng land)? or would they improve the precious opportunity to raise an African barrier between themselves and our spirit of encroachment?" We wira. SOON SEE whether or not this is the case. 4TH. HAYTI.—This black nation would be a pewerful auxiliay. They hate the Americans most cordially, and amongst them reside great numbers of coloured people, who fled from American tyranny, and they have brought with them a hatred never to be quenched except by blood. Boyer, their king, is a fine, dashing fellow, very ambitious, and entertaining an utter contempt of the whole American fa mily. They could send a powerful army of coloured men to help their brethren In bondage. The Haytians are a very military people, brought up :o arms from their infancy, re gularly drilled and accustomed to military affairs; they have some exellent officers amongst them, capable of commanding any'army. This I know from facts and personal observations. About 200,000 could be spared to invade the south, and these 200,000 as fine coloured fellows as ever drew a sword. STH. WEST INDIANS.—The population of the West India Islands amount to 2,000,800; British West India, 754,800. The coloured people are all now free men, enjoying the blessings of British philanthropy. These men know what it is to be slaves and free, and they can feel for their fellow countrymen in chains. 100,000 of these men could be sent to the Southern States, to help and tight in the cause of free dom. 6TH, AND LAST, THOUGH NOT LEAST, BRITISH CANA DIANS.—In the Canadas there are about 100,000 British fighting men, men of whose bravery I need not speak, it being too well known. They are excellent riflemen, and, amongst other blessings, detest the Yankees to their heart's content. The Indians are coloured men. I have not been enabled to learn their number, but, at the very least, they muster 100,000 fighting men. The British Canadians ate the most loyal of her Majesty's colonial subjects; and, as their national anthem truly concludes, " Ear from our father's land, Nobly we'll fall or stand, For England's Queen; In town or forest, free Britons unconquered, we Sing with true loyalty; God save the Queen." Therefore, the grand sum total of the force that could be easily brought against the States, is 2,175,917 !! ! This needs not further observations. And here we see that 2,175,917 fighting men could be got to invade the United States. And, truly I think that the Americans will repent the day that gave England cnuse for sending such a force against their country. This number is exclusive of Engl►sh troops to be sent from Great Britain, say 300,000, which could easily be done. And '2,475,917 men could be marched against the Americans, ready to tight and die in the glorious cause of rational liberty, defending and protecting the ban ner of the greatest, the freest, and noblest nation under hea ven—England. Apologizing . for taking up so much of your valuable time and paper, I have the honour to remain, yours, &c., December 21st; 1838. S. W. B SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF BASE COIN.-At Pedmore, on Saturday last, a person of the •name of 'rubor found, in the trunk. of an old tree, a small tin, box, which contained 178 counterfeit shil'ings of the coin circulated in the reign of George IlL—Ten Tam' lifdssexpur. INQUESTS. DEATH OF AN OLD MAN FROM STARVATION.—An in quest was held before the coroner, on Saturday, touching the death of Peter Talbot, a man eighty years of age, who resided in a house in Nelson's-court, Gladstone-street. Mary Kendrick, a next door neighbour of the deceased, deposed that the old man lived by himself. He had been rather un well lately, and his daughters occasionally went to visit him. On Wednesday last, witness went into the house to see the deceased; both daughters were then present. On Thursday morning she again went to see him ; and in the evening, when one of the daughters was in the house, she again called in for the same purpose. The daughter said that her father was then asleep, but that she would call in Mrs. K. when he awoke. On Friday a dispensary surgeon called at the house of the witness, and said that it was a very great shame that a man like Talbot should be locked up, and no one in the house to give him a drink of water. The door was ascer tained to be fast; and the neighbours, thinking it a very singu lar thing, got a key which would unlock the door, and went in —The old man was found dead, and laid out. Witness saw the daughters on Friday evening, and, at the request of the surgeon, told them that they must either give information of their father's death to the beadle or coroner. They said that they neither cared for the coroner nor the doctor—that the deceased was their own father, and that they could do as they liked with him, and that he had not been neglected.—hlr. Grant, surgeon, proved that he had been attending the de ceased in consequence of a bruise which he bad received from a fall. He (witness) saw Talbot last on Wednesday evening, when he did not consider him in danger. On Fri day, when he called, the door was locked. He went again the same evening, and then ascertained that the old man was dead. He could not tell what was the cause of death, as there was nothing in the case to lead him to suppose he would die so soon, or at all from any thing that was the matter with him when witness last saw him alive The inquest was in consequence adjourned until Monday, to allow time for a post mortem examination of the body. Mr. Grant then said, " I have made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, in the presence of Dr. Vose and another surgeon. The brain, liver, lungs, and all the other v scera were quite healthy. There was not anything in the stomach, and lam quite satisfied that the deceased died from want of the com mon necessaries of life. The stomach was healthy ; and it was evident that he had not had anything of a solid nature for several hours before death. For his time of life, the de ceased was a particularly muscular and healthy man. There was a slight contusion on the hip, but of no consequence." Alice Talbot, a daughter of the deceased, said that she had not lived with her father for the last thirty years. She had not called upon the old man for several weeks, as he worked in hlr. Lunt's soapery in the night-time, and she did not wish to disturb him by calling upon him in the day-time She was never aware that he was in want of anything• Having heard that he was unwell, she went on the Wednes-• day to see him, and staid with him until ten at night. She gave him some tea, a bun, and part of an apple. The next day she went again, and he then appeared much the same. She went out to try to get him admitted into the Infirmary, and soon after her return he appeared to be dying. He expired at four o'clock in the afternoon. She then went for her sis ter•, and they laid him out. The deceased said that he had 15 sovereigns and a half in a drawer in a chest down stairs; but they could not find the money anywhere. They found 20s. in one of his drawers. She did not tell the neighbours of her father's death, as she was afraid of their taking things out of the house. The jury returned a verdict to the follow ing effect, " that the deceased died through want of the common necessaries of life." CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.—Within the net week there have been four inquests held on the bodies of persons who have been burnt to death. On Monday an inquest was held 'on a daughter of Mr. Curtis, plumber, of Renshaw-street. The child was six years of age. On Friday evening her clothes caught fire, and she was so severely burnt that she died on Sunday night.—Verdict, accidental death. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on Monday, re specting the death of a labouring man named Edwd. G'Don nell, who was in the employ of Mr. Threlfall, brewer, Crosbie street. On the 3d instant, O'Donnell, with others, was en gaged in taking out ale from the cellar. The men were hoisting it out by means of a crane. The deceased was at the handle. A cask had been raised, and on a person outside calling out, as usual, "lower," O'Donnell, instead of doing so, let go the handle, which, in its revolution, struck him upon the temple. The wound was a very dangerous one. Erysipelas came on, and spread over the whole of the body, terminating in the mortification of the right arm, which caused the death of the man. A. verdict of accidental death was re turned by the jury. DEATH OF A CARPENTER.—On Wednesday last an in quest was held touching the death of Edward Watkinson, a carpenter, in the employ of Messrs. Wilson, ship-builders. About five or six weeks ago, the deceased was engaged ma king a stage to work upon, at the cutwater of a vessel that was being built in the yard. He drove in one nail into the bearer, and he then took off the rope that it was slung by. As soon as he had taken off the rope, he stood upon the bearer, the nail came out, and the deceased fell to the ground, from a height of about 25 feet. He was severely injured by the fall, and was taken to the Northern Hospital. His left arm was severely lacerated; the bones were dislocated; and the ar tery was torn across; and amputation was considered neces sary. The man, however, died on Monday, from the shock which his constitution had received from the accident. Ver dict, " Accidental Death." Tuesday being Christmas-day, the Worshipful the Mayor presented the debtors confined in the Borough Gaol with a good substantial dinner. Each person had an allowance of 2 lbs. of bread, 2 lbs. of beef, 2 lbs. of potatoes, and a quart of ale. The prisoners on the criminal side also partook of the Mayor's bounty, in a plentiful supply of bread, beef, and potatoes. - - - CutriA.—Extract of a letter received by Mr. Court from the agents for Lloyd's at China, dated 29th July, 1838: " Her Britannic Majesty's superintendent of trade, Captain Elliot, returned to Canton, and hoisted his flag on the 27th instant; but it is understood his stay will be only for a few days, having come on special business, probably to serve as an organ of communication between the government and Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland, who remains outside." Lord and Lady Skelmersdale are seeing company at La tham House, Ormskirk, during the week. The mess of the g-Ith have just purchased a costly set of plate to the tune of £3,(x10. — Limerick Chronicle. Lord and Lady Delamere intend giving a series of theatri cal fetes and bal masq .es, at Vale Royal, their seat in Cheshire, the second week in the ensuing month. The Earl of Stamford and Warrington is displaying the same old English hospitality as has been usual during the last quarter of a century, at Dunham Hall, in Cheshire, and Enville Hall, i❑ Staffordshire. Mr. W. Egerton, M. P., and Lady Charlotte Egerton are en!ertaining a party at 'Patton Park, Cheshire. Lord Cantilupe had a severe fall whilst hunting with Lord Suffield's hounds last week, by which his collar-bone was broken. Sir David Baird has also been seriously injured by a fall in bunting. PRICE or POTATOES.—The material reduction in the price of potatoes at Liverpool, and generally throughout England, has had a corresponding effect on the potato mar ket of Douglas, where they have already fallen to is. the boll, or 32d. a stone, and are expected to be still lower, from the large stocks remaining in the bands of farmers.—Manx Liberal. ISLE OF MAN.—Douglas market continues to be abund antly supplied with fish by the trawl boats, but the most sale able portion of their captures is invariably shipped for Li verpool by the steam-packet,. while the consumers here are kindly allowed the refuse, which the forestallers take care to enhance much above its real value. —Ma'kr Liberal. GERMAN MINES.—The mining company of the Grand Duchy of Baden has recently discovered several veins of t °- bait and silver. The produce of the cobalt has been so con siderable, that the company h,is been induced to establish on the spot a fabric of small, which article, by its quantity and excellent quality, becomes now the object of a lucrative commerce. The erection of an immense range of batteries, in the shape of a half-moon, is contemplated by government at the en trance of the Thames and Medway, on the isles of Grain ;nit Sheppy. This will include Sheerness dock-yard, which is now quite unprotected ! The estimated expense is nearly a million and a half. GOUT AND RHEUMATISM, —We beg to refer our readers to Dr. Barker's advertisement, in which they will perceive that a cure for Gout and Rheumatism, discovered and prepared by him, has proved wonderfully successful. We, from our own personal knowledge, can vouch for its efficacy, and we would recommend it to all persons labouring under these painful complaints."—Edinburgh Mservtr, January 28, 1834. • OLIVE OlL.—The merchants, importers, and dealers in terested in the trade of olive oil, in Liverpool. have addressed a memorial to the Right Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson, presidentof her Majesty's board of trade—" Respectfully re presenting the hardship and inconvenience to which they have long been subjected, by the continuance of the differ ential duty of four guineas per tun on the oil imported into the kingdom from the dominions of the King of the Two Si cities. This difference of duty operates, they say, equally to the disadvantage of the manufacturer as to the various in terests which the memorialists represent, by causing him to use an article of inferior quality, or to pay an additional price for oil of the best quality, either imported direct, or ob tained circuitously at an enhanced value, and frequently with false certificates. The liberal policy pursued with re spect to some other branches of commercial imposts, on which, during successive years, reductions of duties have been made, as well as the insignificant sum raised from the present existing duties upon olive oil, appear to the memo rialists to call for an equalization, at least, of the duty on olive oil; but they are of opinion that little or no diminution of revenue would be occasioned by a general reduction of duty, at this particular period, would tend greatly to increase the consumption of olive oil, since the articles of tallow, palm oil, and cocoa-nut oil, are now, and seem likely to con tinue, at unusually high relative value ; and they therefore conclude that a great benefit would be conferred on our woollen manufacturers and others, by furnishing them with the cheaper substitute of olive oil, for a variety of uses. They, ' - therefore earnestly pray that the board of trade will recom mend to her Majesty's government either to equalize the duty on the oil which may hereafter be imported from the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, or that a considerable reduc tion may be made of the duty of all olive oils without dis tinction." COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WALLSEND.—It is OUT painful duty this week to record one of those fatal colliery explosions which too frequently occur in the mines of this district, and which are not only attended with such serious consequences to human life, but so suddenly throw so many families into a state of utter destitution and distress. The pit at which this accident occurred is the G Church Pit, Wallsend, and the same which exploded about three years and a half ago, when 101 lives were lost. The explosion took place on Wed nesday, about half-past eight o'clock, the time when the "night shift" was on, in the seam so well known as the "Bensham Seam;" and we regret to add that the whole of the men, eleven in number, perished. The accident was not known for some time after by those engaged at the bank -of the pit, the report of the explosion not havinglbeen heard, and the fire .being confined in the pit; it being first dis covered by the lamp-keepers of the B pit, about a mile dis tant, from the foul air coming with great force upon the fur nace. The alarm was then given to the C pit, which is close adjoining, when it was immediately made known to those at the pit which had fired. Several of the sinkers, with great readiness, volunteered their services to go down to the aid of their unfortunate fellow-workmen, but after pdoceeding a little way were obliged to return, in consequence of the attei damp. After a short time, however, another attempt was made, when they succeeded in finding four of the bodies, which were dreadfully burnt and mutilated; but up to the time our reporter left, no more bodies had been brought to the bank. It is remarkable that out of a number of horses down the pit, only one was killed. Previous to the time of the accident, the pit was never considered to be in a better or safer condition in the " broken ;" and it is conjectured, at present, that the explosion must have been occasioned by one of the Davy lamps having gone wrong, or fallen down, as two had been found much bulged and broken.—Newcastle paper. TERRIBLE STEAM-BOAT DISASTER.—The steamer 'Fiber, which arrived on Tuesday morning from Louisville, reports that she passed the wreck of the steam-boat Gen. Brown, at St. Helena, where the hitter had collapsed a flue. The cap tain, pilot, one of the engineers, and thirty other persons on board the Gen. Brown, lost their lives by this calamity. The following comprises the list of killed, as far as was ascer tained when the Tiber passed. Killed—the captain and se vesal of the crew, and the following passengers:—Messrs. C. Libley, D. L. Davis, N. A Miller, George Dr. Price, 1-1; M. Blanchard, E. Hubbard, Johnson, J. K. Gartliv.aiie, T. D. Lewis, Keane, T. D. Levey, and one other, name unknown. Th. Tiber also repotts the steamer Comanche to be sunk below Salt. River, and the Oa, rdhard aground at Cumberland Island.--Ainbrican payer, '