The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-06 00:00:00

~- -.--~",~ (- n- 24;1 1 t o PS, Miv 6, M 3.6. Vublic 330bi0. LIVERPOOL ALE AND, PORTER BREWERY COMPNY. rIIHE Provisional Committee of this Company have app. "nted MONDAY next, the...9th May instant, at Twelve o' ock at Noon, in the Clarendon.rooins, fo Era GI M TING of the SHAREHOLDERS to appoint Directors. :WILLIAM VENPO So. The Sh are h o l ders will be requDite A to d prod • the l ir icitor Scrip Receipts on admittance. THE LIVERPOOL MOUSE AND LAND AGENCY - OFFICE. DROSPECTUSES-Of this Establishment, for gi v . g f ac ility -IL to Letting and taking or Selling and Pureh ng Lands, Houses, Warehouses, Offices, Shops, Vaults, 1, ings, Good will of Business, and any other similar descript . of p ro p ert y, will app ear i n a 'few days. Ch atham -buildings, South John-street, 2d May, 1836. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER FISH COMPANY DIRECTORS, • Jamesaate son , E sq . Hugh James Sanderson, Esq. and • James Spence, Esq. Committee .of Manauement having made a CALL the T HE of I:1 per Share, 'the Stareholdeis are requested to pay same on or before Tuesday, the:loth of. May, ' to "The "verpool Tradesmen's Ban k," - North John-street, r (on their account) at Birmingham, into "The Branch e Northern and Central Bank of England," and at Manch er, into " The Noithern and Central Bank of 'England," and n case of non payment, the Sha r es of th e P ersons ma ki ng d e f au lt s h a ll b e forfeit e d. The Circulars containing the Allotment of Shares, and the note thereon, of the' Deposit having been paid, must be pro duced at the respective Banks. WILKINSON and CHRISTIAN, Solicitors to the Company. Liverpool, 27th April, 1836. JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY, PROPOSED TO BE' FORMED BY MESSRS. ASPINALL AND SON, AND ENTITLED "THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIVERPOOL." - ,.WIT H A CAPITAL OF £150,000, IN 15,000 SHARES OF L 0 EACH SUBSCRIBER. Paid up Capital, £50,000, being £5 per Share on 10, hares. TAT the Company shall be considered as for ed when 3,000 Shares are subscribed for, and the D of Settle tient executed. That as soon as the required number of res have been s ubscribed for •a meeting of the Shareholders all be held to elect a Board of DireJtors, to consist of seven Shareho'ders possessing not less than 50 Shares each. j . That only one Partner. in a firia'be a: Director at the same time, and any Director- ceasing to hold the requisite number of Shares . , or bec om in g a. B an k er , Di rec t or , or P ar t ner i n ,' or Ax.ettt for, another:Banking ,Company,- shall be disqualiffed twin n Mee.. • That at all General Meetings of the Shareholders, a Share holder of'lo Shares shall have one vote, 25 Shares three votes, . 5 0 Shares six votes, and for every -additional ten Shares one vote.., Shareholders' to vote either in person, or by prosy in writing; given- to any Shareholder 'whom they may depute; no Perso n to hold more than three proxies at one time. That the su m of 2s. 6d. per Share be paid as soon as the allotment is made to defray expenses, and any excess to go to the funds of the Company. after That a payment of Et per Share be made within one week the Directors are etiosen.. That one months' notice shall be given of any future Calls, which shall not exceed during the firSt year, four in number, ter a greater sum each time than El.per Share. 'That at the e:;piration of 12 months after the commencement of business, a General Meeting of the Shareholders shall be when the accounts of the year shall be exhibited, and a divi denddeclared'. A. T hat the rem a icin g s h a r e s shall b e h e ld by th e C om p an t and i ts 'Posed of for. its benefit, to such pe rsons a s ma y b e w i s hf u l ° open accounts w;th the Bank. - Three of the Directors shall, at the end of each year, go out °f o Olee, an d the same numbercl -, osen, the retiring Directors t o be eligible to be re-elected. " The affairs of the Bank to be under the control of the Di teetors, three orwhom shalt be a quorum. The Manager - to be Mr. Aspinall, and his son Sub-manager a nd Cashi er , both at Salam ies to be fi xed be the Directors. blhe Acco untant and other Clerki or Officers to be appointed 1 * the Directors. S h,ould if' apPear at any time that one-thi:d of the paid up c apital Le lost, the Company shalt he thereby dissolved. he Deed of Settlement will be prepared and contain the necessary prov'isions for the security of the Shareholders, and effec tearmanag-ement of the Company. That the'Directors, and all Officers - and Clerks of the Corn xi!ia:i:usaig: a pledge o f s e crecy as-to all transactions o f th e Corn wiih their Customers, and' the state of accounts with in ,That the Direct or s-have power to - grant to any Sh are h o ld er , ‘-'ash Credit to the - el:tent of Into-thirds of' his paid up Stock. joet the business of the Bank. shall commence as soon as t he instalment of one pound per Shame shall have been paid. 1 11 applications from the coontry to be post pa. IL Ll pplications for Shares to be made, miner seal id , directed to "e erovisional Committee, at the office of Mr. RICHAED FIN COW,_, Solicitor, Clarendon-buildings ; or.. Mr. J. Back', Share t°Ker. Clarendon-buildings. 44, a - ff , 1836. Wn PROSPECTUS OF THE - 0 1)SIDE MX-RINE VILLA_ BUILDING-SOCIETY. ~CANTAL, ElOO,OOO, IN 2,000 Sii.teks oF 00_ EACH. 14ankers.—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. sol icitors.—M r . Jaynes Owen, Manchester- Messrs. Bourne . and HaSsall; Liverpool HE beitity of the COniti . Y, of Which . Oodside, near Liver ajs.. Pool, forms pail, is well known, pesetas a de.sii able h"atiott for residence, either perinane y, or .thiriugthe sum . er month s , when the dense pops let on o r Liverpool, Man ster, and var i ous ot h er t owns i n t e co u nty of Lancaster " e Vire such a chan ge . s he p_rojectots, of th e a b ove me a sure h ave turne d t h e i r atten r v ict. to Woodside, because to that place the conveyance is more than to any other; and as by f ar th e grear part of the abitanl:s of rancdshire, are absorbed in business which can "_ l 3' be left for-a short time, that place must surely b est recom mend itself for the Purposes of recreation anti health, which, ' O 4 l l/ining every.other : aclvantage, is the most easy of access.. tt may be useful to remind the inhabitants of Manchester, and its neighbourlieed, - that the, waterside may be leached in ; L ess than two hours from the time the_Railroacl . Carriages leave Zat town ; that the 'river 'Mersey may be crossd by means of. l e ant Packets every qoarter of•an hour, so that eit will only be °tit T - •d a half ho rat the utmost front Mancbes te ney o . u s.- r to residences intended to be built. by this CoMpany. The ; e tnand for incieased facilities forcrossing the river Mersey, is ''''llvby preparations for the establishment of a new Ferry t;aybetween Woodside and Birkenhead and for ,P of a b Ra ilWay from Woodside to Chester, the shares in foirna- both whieh undertakings are all subscribed for, and the deposit Paid up. tJpwards of seventy thousand Square yards of eligible build -1,,,)g land have been secured, a considerable portion of which ',,, s esses the almost exclusive privilege of making bricks, and ( o h " t .aitts excellent clay for the purpose—thus exhibiting one of of e ,totportant features in this uedertaking.; for, independently ta t , known profit which tt.ay be derived from the clay, the 4 lt , l b it remainsuubuilt upon, must annuall k y increase in value. e prom o t ers of this measure do not see to raise its value it is_ - _ expense o f o th er sc hemes so numerously p u t f or th ; b u t i''ottfidently submitted, that a plan, combining the security .4,7 1 11 Property with p rovision for the Comforts of those who sa c „: ee ltlY and - anxiously engaged in business, at so small a % ,,ii, , Ace of time, must. demand the •attention_ of the capitalist; th e t ip safety - as an investment can only be, endangered when 1,,,51"e f - population shall cease to flow, or the energies of cashire become paralysed. formedthese.impressions, it is proposed that a Company be ~, vvith'it capital. of £100,000,. to be raised by 2,000 shares . 0 4:0 each, Sot._ the purpose of erecting villas and cottages tai nt and supplying the present deficiency of convenient sum- T i l'tstdcuces ter the.acconinoulaiton-of the public., alta r : lt a deposit of £2-per-share be paid. ou the allotment of the recto s ; that a meeting of Subserihers be then called, and Di coodr's appointed, by whom the affairs of_ . the Company . will .be to e i l eted, and the , - Ititure cads, as, required, regulated. No call giv en Li f-5 Per Share, and at least two . months' ..notice to be P r • t w ,. Proprietor of two shares to have one vote; of five shares, in a 4t i es; . o f , eightshares three votes; and.for every two.shares votest'on one vote • but no Subscriber to have more than six ;n the 1 CjaaisutlsCrneet, li nt ,I;aqattous for.shares to be made (postage frce) to. Messrs. BANNER, SON and THOMPtiON, Sharebrokers, 4, Liverpool; and Messrs. I'EET and Hoesori, St. iiodZquare, Manchester, of whom obtained the prospectus • luqk forins of application 'may be . Dt • 'cr 8101 ISHIRE, FLINTS HIRE„kND CHESHIRE C : • . . .RAI LWAY. . q. n 'fa ` i £2 50,000; in 10,000 Shares at E. 25 eacA.—Depo.,it, £1 per Share. - -. • M r. c „ PRov it S!Ok A t-COM Al ITTEE. , Il . xt .lr ee i ihow, Garddeo LodgeOlr.Lloyd,Wrexha m Nl t. - 3 ,; • ElarriS • Gerwva Fara .!Mr. C. I'Oyser, Ju ~Wrexham 1 \1; * . ","ePh Ha'rris, Liyerpnol Mr. H. Scrivenor, Pen-y-bryn, Ali; ,?,V. Kenrick, Wynn Hall Riiabou • • 111,.• ,"e9, Kyrke, Ery u-Mally. 11 , Ir. John • Wilkinson, Brymbo ' n 't• • kYrke, Sunirneigin Halt • • ... •-, — " K ".7 - -.Richard My(idelton Lloyd, Esq., Wr exham. ripi ~, SOLICTTOR:-'*l I% EdgWort . h ' , Wrexham. - "o line of RallWarivill P . ass from Ruabon, in the county I ) . or Denbigh thr - ough the rich Mineral eh - strict of * East Den : .. blghshire; to 'the' Port Of Chester, and will there comAnnicate e . e,, 1 . 1 t e R4 ikvays projeclectfrOtn that Cite with Lill- !ood,.Man- IN-% Bi rtighani. Glourester, Bristril, Loud(., &F. ... tio,,,AlProus lion Works haYe,been for some ti . • in. full opei . s.- ine;l" variousparts of the Line and their r • eris cons.arblY t o eas ing; and Coals, Iron Stone, Lead, ' ime Slone, Free . th t .„ 4e, , Fire a, arid Slates f ate found in great abandance exh-ugn_out the district, - but there ate at resent no means of tr: s t ng this produce, or any other, except by the Chester an d th ere Canal or Land Carriage. , It ti . th e Canal i s only aecissible'at the extreme southern point of Pert on parish, and consequently available only to a V e ry small ta t , l " ~- uf the district, an d even b y t hi s means t h ere . i s a chs a,Nfe ut sS.rniles to be traversed to Chester (the nearest port,) Itart cionsequentlY a heavy tonnage and great - delay incurred, are 4: e .: L andCarriage to which the other parts of - thi district si v ': I l iged to resort is at once tedious, uncertain, and expert to ci l ut by the proposed Railway the distance from Ruabon q t , i e , 3 t 6- will be reduced to lesg than 2() miles, and it will be p ill auY will to every part of the line; and from its pro a!-1- d q u i y i tY and thismode greatly access to the Ports of Liverpool diste'hes'er, and the Market of Manchester, this mineral k ; ,Ict will become the most yaluahle and important in the 'nßdo ln Th e ' , . ha d main li ne will pass in the immediate vicinity of Wrex , 1,i4 in very populous manufactwing district. coLta Southern or Ruabon terminus will be the nearest point of 4"4olllnication- from Liverpool to the projected line of Railway . 41 11 4 1.. ondon to Ireland, via Portdynllaen, to the great _Holy_ g e n ' o,swestry Ellesmere, Welshpool, Newton, Bala, Do!. S e ,Aa.,`„"'d •all p'arts of Montgomeryshire, Menonethshire, and Ifeq . n . ";, 4l es 'and will consequently be the best mode of con pr-dl-45 ' t linCe r, Manufactured, Agricultural, and all other be °- t. t h l e_e to that: Port:—the Northern or Chester terminus will Li ni ' nearest point whence Cheshire can be supplied with e, Coal, and Slates. Mat • 5 10 theerials of the best quality for the construction orthe'roird Leadily obtained in every part of it. The whole country th e i.een carefully surveyed, and the: committee have adopted Thene -which app ears to them most eligible in every .respect. ar antages of this line of Railway, in every point of view, ii, ~,sPie".7ident an d i nd i sputable that there can be no doubt of b e :je'din Na barke g da. ample remuneration for the capital re qu i re d to , 11:'4'' , A PPlications for Shares (post paid) to be made to Mr. lr, RS C OWA RDS, .1, Mitte.court Building, Temple, London ; Coos i.e.HARDD^wsoN, Share-broker, Liverpool; Mr. THos. lihai."etlit.t., Share -broker,. Manchester ; Mr. E. GERRARP,' 4* Nk ti, Obitiier ; and Mr:Einwostret, Solicitor, Wrei PROSPECTUS OF THE VICTORIA PARK TONTINE. Messrs. Daintrv, Rvle, and Co. BANKERS • The Northern and Central Bank of England. ARCHITECT.—Richard Lane, Esq. SOLICITOR.—Mr. T. Percival Bunting. lT FIE design of the undertaking, now submitted to th lic, is the formation of an extensive PARK, in t imme diate neighbourhood of the great and increasing low of Man chester, and the erection of an adequate trumbe f first-rate Dwelling-houses. The want of private residence of this desrip tion is, perhaps, sufficiently notorious, front the treme difficulty which has been experienced in meeting wi h em—a difficulty which, when coupled with the circumsta that a very consi derable numberof the inhabitants must andon their present abodes, in consequence of the rapid conversion of Dwelling houses into Warehouses, will at once evince the desirableness and importance of the proposed measure. Nor can it be doubted that a large and beautiful tract of Land, skilfully laid out for the erection of handsome Villas, protected from every nuisance, and each residence so placed as to command an advantageous pros pect, without interfering with those around it—will furnish an object. of great ornament and interest; and, looking to the in come, arising from bOth the houses to be erected upon it at a cost which the extent of the undertaking will greatly reduce in each particular case, and from such portions of it as may be sold off on chief rents, will prove a very safe and profitable invest ment for capital. • With the view now stated, a very appropriate site has been secured, in a most-fashionable and improving situation, extend ing front the Didsbury•to the Stockport Road, and about two miles from the Manchester Exchange. The land has naturally • a Park-like appearance, and possesses advantages for the in tended purpose perhaps not equalled by any other. Among these may be enumerated its contiguity to the best roads leading from that part of the town, to which the principal business is ra pidly removing; the variety of means of access• to it; its total freedom from manufactures of every kind, and from anv of their disagreeable effects; and the accommodation which will be pre sented by a new and elegant Church, on the point of erection, either in the Park, or immediately on its verge. The principle ofTontines, upon which it has been determined to proceed, is one .which has been often and extensively adopted in various parts of the kingdom, and offers inducements totally different from any of the numerous projects now-before the pub lic. Taken in conjunction with the well understood and appre ciated system of Life Insurance, no scheme can be devised so certain to preserve the capital embarked in it, and so entirely free frOm'all pcissible risk. It will appear from the conditions subsequently stated, that , each shareholder wilLhave the appointment of one nominee for every 1.100 subscribed, and,' during the life of such nominee, will Le.entitled.to an equal proportion of the annual profits of the estate; and that such shareholder, or his representatives, will not only have the chance of becoming entitled to one-fiftieth or even inure, of the whole property ; but, -by- insuring the lives of his nominees, will receive back the whole amount of his sub scription ; and, by similar in sura nces. from time to ti me , may protect, h increased value of his shares;-occasioned by the fall ing off of the nominees of other individuals,—acus taking from the undertaking that speculative character attachiuq to m an y o f the projee,:s now before the public. The expence of insurance will be so trifling as to render ti almost certain ihat in the course of -a very short time. - t he income arising from each share will pay that expence, in addition to a handsome inthrest. Tbe plan,. thus considered, offers a mode of provision for children infinitely superior to any other. The amount of sub scription for each share, upon which a high interest will be re ceivable during the continuance of the life of the nominee, and which may be insured, as before stated, will secure a much greater and more certain result than can be effected uy any other means; besides which, ti should be remembered that, even without an insurance, there is a fair probability that, although the lives should fall before the division of the estate, the sure subscribed will lie amply reimbursed by the largeness of the annual dividends. For example—if a parent of six young children ; uniting the advantages of Life Insurance with those or a Tontine, should take up one share for each child, he might, by the yearly payment of less than £1 a share, secure to himself, on the death of the last survivor of such children, the whole amount of his subscription. It is-quite needless to point out the advantages which the shareholders who shall have selected any of the fifty surviving nominees will realize, or the great addition to the value of the existing shares which must necessarily be experienced annually. It is sufficient simply to'advert to the rapid and signal improve ment which the formation of the Park must at once occasion, and to the gradual rise in the price of land in this neighbourhood price which, notwithstanding its late increase, is yet not One-third that of land similarly situated near Liverpool and other large towns. The holders of shares, in respect of which an income of Ten Pounds per annum is derivable, will be entitled to Votes for the County. The Tontine is to consist of 7500 shares of £lOO each. The interest of the shareholders is to depend upon the lives of nominees, to be named by theta on or before the first day of Oc tober next. 7 One life may be nominated for each share, or for any number of shares, at the option - of the shareholder; and, during the life of the nominee, the shareholder nominating, his heirs or assigns, is to be entitled to-a proportion of 'the tints, profits, and other advantages arising front the estate, corresponding with the num ber of existing shares. On the death of a nominee, all right, estate, and interest whatever attaching to such life, and to the shareholder having nominated the same, shall immediately merge in the funds of the Company, thereby increasing the annual income of the other-shareholders, and consequently the value of the shares. When the number of the nominees shall be reduced to fifty, the shareholders, their heirs or assigns, who shall have selected such fifty surviving nominees, will become the absolute owners of the estate. The estate shall- be vested in three persons, to be nominated by the Directors, as Trustees for the shareholders; and all vacancies,,Whether by death or otherwise, shall be supplied al a. General Meetino• The whole Management of the Tontine shall be vested in a committee of five, shareholders, (not being Trustees,) to be called " THE DIRECTORS OF/THE VICTORIA PARK TONTINE," who shall be appointed at a General. Meeting of the Shareholders, to be convened by the P r ovisional Committee, who shall have power to enter, into all contracts for purchase or sale—to make by-laws and such other rules and regulations as they may think necessary to the interest of the Company.—The Directors shall, ' choosea secretary, to be responsible to and removable by them. An Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders shall be held in the month of July, at which the business of the Com pany shall be transacted;. but-Special General Meetings may be called at - any time by the Secretary, on the requisition of three Directors, or of twenty Shareholders. Each shareholder shall have a vote at every general meeting, for every ten shares held by him or her. The nnrnber of shares to ,be holden - by any one person shall be limited. Each shareholder shall pay a deposit of £5 per share, on allot ment, in the Bank of Messrs. DAINTRY, RYLE, and Co., or in to the Northern and Central Bank of England, at the same time producing a certificate of his having signed the declaration of association ; together with such further calls, not exceeding £lO per share at any one time, nor without two months' pre vious notice, as the Directors may require. That the shares of those persons who shall neglect or refuse to pay any call or calls, within the time prescribed, shall be forfeited, and shall become part of the general Stock of the Company. That shareholders shall have the preference, according to propriety of application, of purchasing such sites in the Park as may be laid nut for Selling upon chief-rent, at the price fixed by the Directors. That every shareholders who shall transfer his shares to such person or persons as shall be approved of by the Directors, shall thenceforth cease to be liable to any further responsibility to the Company. Copies of the Prospeetut and Conditions; with Blank Forms for signature, may be obtained from Mr. RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker, Liverpool. By order of the Provisional Committee, 'l'. P. BUNTING, SOLICITOR. Oottito. TEE MONK'S FI!UtY COMPANY, A GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held on AtON 0A r next, the thh'insiaut, at t a rendon-roOins at One o'clock in the Afternoon,; or purpose of appointing Ditectorsof theCumpan, purse t the terms of the Prospectus: Br order of the Provisional Committee THOMAS HARVEY, Solicitor. SALISBURY AND SOU' COMI THAMPTON RAILWAY ?ANY. I SHARES OF £2,5 EAcH. ;TORS. William Pinney, Esq., M.P. Howand Ronald, Esq. John Rundle, Esq., M.P. Joseph Barnes Sa. gem Esq. Henry Short, E Sir John Slad•, Bart. Joseph Sp• es, Esq. Henry Co ns Splatt, Esq. Sparkes, Esq. John Henry:R odway Stock, Esq. !Thomas Bruce Swinhoe, Esq. [tight Hon. Sir Ed. Thornton, CAPITAL; £300,000; IN DIItEC' John Allen, Eq., Bath. Colonel Wm. Bailey. William Borradaile, Esq. Hon. Duncombe Pleydel Bou• verie, R.N. John Brothers, Esq. W. W. Burdon, Esq., M.P. William Cash, Esq. Robert Downie, E.q., of Appin Edward Everett, Esq., Sarum. Josiah George, Esq. William Campbell Galan, Esq. J. A. H. Grubbe, AI.A. Thomas Heath, Esq. George Hogarth, Esq. Edward Hughes, Esq. George Mouey, Esq. H. Norman, Esq. Robert Page, Esq. Sir John W.Pol len, Bart.,M.P, G.C.B. Col. John Charles Tufnell. Jo;m. '!'wells, Esq. George Walter, Esq. C. Wheeler, Esq.. M.D. James C. Wileoeks, jun., Esq John Yates, Esq. ruHIS RAILWAY will branch from the London Salisbury, 1. Exeter, Plymouth, and Falmouth Railway. at Salisbury, and will proceed to Romsey, and from thence to Southampton, and their join the projected Railway between Portsmouth and Southampton ; thus forming a direct Railway communication between the south-eastern counties and the West of England, the ports of Portsmouth, Plymouth and Falmouth. The Committee of Management of the London, Salisbury, Exeter, Plyincuth, and Falmouth Railway Company having been strongly urged, by many. influential parties connected with the Age icultural, Mercantile, and Trading interests of the districts through which the Line will pass, to add this most im portant Brarich to the Grand Line originally undertaken by them, have unanimously resolved to do so. [twill, neverthe less, have all the advantages of a distinct Company, with a se parate expenditure and dividend, and be regulated by a sepa rate Act of Parliament, at the same time that it will receive the aid or the powerful talent already announced in the Lon don direction, and in the professional skill engaged in the con struction of the Main Line. . The country has been surveyed, and presents a most favoura ble surface. The names of the Local Committee at Salisbury, Romsey, and Sonthampton; will beaorthwith published, with a ,moie de tailed PrOspectus. Applications for Shares may be made to Messrs. WlLLimus, DEACON, and Co ; and GEORGE PRICE, Esq., the Secretary, at the Railway-office, Pancras-lane, London : the Banks of Messrs. MADDISON and Co.; Messrs. ATHERLEY and FALL; and the Hampshire Banking Company, Southampton • Messrs. FoomEr. and Co.; and the Hampshire Banking Company, .Romsey; Messrs. Grant and Co., Co.;Portsmouth; Messrs. BRO DIE and • Messrs. HETLEY. EVERETT, and Co., and the Wilts and Dorset Banking . COmpany, Salisbury; to WILLIAM HOUSMAN. Esq., the ClOse, Salisbury, Messrs. DAMON and STEAD. Romsey, Messrs. CLEMENT and . NEWMAN, Southampton, Joint Solicitors to the Company, or to G. ATKINSON and TOWNLEY, 3. Water-street. *OFM OF APPLICATtON:- To Mr. I hereby authorise you' to put down my . name as a sub scriber for shares in the Victoria Park Tontine, which I engage to take' on the terms and conditions of the Prospectu s of the said Company. ame. • rofestiob.. • • Residence. • THE LIVERPOOL stANDAith. TO. THE INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL. equisition, respectably signed, to call a PUBLIC MEETING, on an early day, for the purpose of iqking into consideration the present critical pos . nof THE Tulsa UNICIPA I, REFottm Mo., and theproj yof address ing ;tie King awl the House of Commons h on, ' Do ti Lit EBY APPOINT DAY, ( Fr the 6th instant; at One o'clock in the Atternignn, in i Court-rooth, in the Session-house, Chapel-street, for such Meeting. • (Signed) W. WALLAIJE CURRIE, Mayor. Tu.ort-hall, April 30, 1836. PARISH OF LIVERPOOL. TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. rIII4E MANURE collected and to be collected, at the Work house, between the 25th of March last an the 25th of March, 1837, will be offered for SALE, at II WORKHOUSE, THIS DAY, (Saturday,) the 7th instant, at e o'clock in the . Afternoon. Any information that may be required ill be furnished by Mr. DOWDALL. the Governor of the House. • By order, JOHN MACKINLAY, Secretary. _ Parish-offices, Fenivick-street, y 4, 1936. DINNER. OF THE ST, ANNE'S CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. On Tuesday evening, about fifty of the members of this association dined together at Mr. Holden's, in Richmond-row. The dinner itself was most ample and excellent, and fully sustained Mr. Holden's high character as a first-rate restorateur. There was no lack of champagne, and other wines were in abundance and excellent. The tickets were lOs 6d each, and we are persuaded but few members thought it ill laid out. Some of the members of the noted glee-singing company who assemble there lent their vocal assistance, and contributed much to the general harmony of the meeting. Mr. Parker, the chairman of the association, occupied the chair; and. Mr. Bateson, the rice-chair. After the cloth had been withdrawn, "Yon nobis Domine," was sung, and the chairman then proposed the following toasts : " Church and King." GLEE—" God save the King."' " The most illustrious lady of the land, the Queen of England, an ornament to her sex and a bright example of domestic life." GLEE— " My dear mistress." The Princess Victoria, and the rest of the Royal Family." GLEE —" Hail, smiling morn." " The Peers of the realm, the anchor of the nation ;" given with three times three. GLEE—"A jolly full bottle." " The Army and Navy, and may they ever rally round the constitu tion by which they have gained so many glorious victories." Mr. Moore's song —" The Jackets of blue." Mr. HAYES proposed " Mr. Parker, the indefatigable chairman of the association ;" (given with three times three cheers.) The chair man acknowledged the toast. The CHAIRMAN then gave, not only the greatest general, but the greatest man of his age, " The Duke of Wellington ;" (given with three times three cheers.) -GLEE—" Mighty COnqueror." " Sir Robert Peel, r 6 tl iIN surrounds him in the House of Commons;" (given with three times three cheers.) "Lord Sandon, our worthy tepresentative';" (given with three times three cheers.) GLEE—" Fill round the bumper, hip, hip, hurra." "The worthy vice-president, Mr. Bateson." Mr. Batesun acknow ledged the toast. The CuAntmAN gave "The Members of the southern division of Lancashire;" (great cheering.) GLEE—" The laughing chorus." • The VICE-PRESIDENT gave " The health of Mr. George Green ;" which was drunk amidst loud cheering. Mr. GREEN acknowledged the toast, and strongly recommended similar meetings to the one they were enjoying, as tending more firmly to • unite the conservatives, and to bind together the various classes of society. He concluded with proposing " the health of Mr. Holden," whiCh was given with loud cheers. Mr. HOLDEN, in an appropriate speech, responded to the toast. He concluded with proposing " the health of Mr. Ellison." which was given with three times three cheers. Mr. Ellison acknowledged the toast. The Chairman gave " the members of the several conservative asso ciations of the wards o f the borough of Liverpool." Mr. JonNsoN, on behalf 'of the Lime-street ward association, ac knowledged the toast. The Chairman proposed " the conservative press of this country," which was drunk with three times three cheers. Mr. PATTISSON, the publisher of the Liverpool Standard, acknow ledged the toast. Mr. HOLDEN proposed "the health of John Bolton, Esq.," which was drunk amidst loud cheering. SONG—" The fine old English gen tleman." • The Chairman proposed "the tradesman's conservativeassociation." Mr. WILKINSON replied to the toast. In the course of his speech he noticed the great progress which these associations are making in the country, and the strong body of members enrolled in them. Ile concluded with proposing "success to the new conservative society in London." The "conservative operative association," "Lord Eldon." " The Lancaster heart of oak club." " The unsuccessful conservative candidates for the wards at the last municipal election ;" and other toasts were proposed and responded to. The company broke up at twelve o'clock, after enjoying la most delightful evening, marked by conviviality and friendly feeling. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KEAN" Of the Theatres-Royal, Drury lane and Covent-garden; and the Lass Night of his appearance. The Last Night of the. RUSSIAN ROPE DANCERS, Fannie De Vinter and Cartivan De Vinter, Brother and Sister. rtillB present. FRIDAY EVENING, the Gth instant, will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD ILL Richard, Duke of Glo'ster 'Mr: Kean. Prince of Wales. :Miss Chaplin. Lord Mayur....Nlr. Baker. Queen Elizabeth. :Mrs. Stanley. I Lady :inne..Miss Faucit. A fter which, flu thetas( time, TIIE 12117!"'SEAN ROPE D. N . 3S, Fannie De Vinter and Carlivan De Vi , will go through their extraordinary and unrivalled l'erfo ances on the Double Tight Rope in the costume of Cossack Soldiers, and perform their National Dance. To conclude with the Romantic Drania of THE ROBBER'S WIFE. Sawney Macfile, Mr. Baker. I Mark liedland,, Mr. Hamilton, 'rinse Briarley Miss Fducit. To-monnow (Saturday) the Tragedy of JANE SHORE. Duke of (Po'ster, Mr. Stuart; • Lord Hastings, Mr, W. Howard; Jane Shore, Miss Faucit; Alicia, Mrs. Stanley.—After which, the Interlude of BLUE DEVILS. Dlegri►n, Mr. Chaplin; James, Mr. Baker; Annette, Miss Chaplin.—To conclude with the Melo Drama of THE BLIND BOY. Edmund, (the Blind Boy,) Miss Chaplin; Melillo, Mr. Baker; Elvina, Mrs. Baker. This day is published, price r fourpe , P 0 P E R - Y! AS IT WA' DASIT IS ; Compiled : . ..ont Authentic Docum s. Published by JOHN ARNOLD, Posto ce-place, Liverpool; and to be had of all Booksellers. To WILLIAM EWAIIT, Eso.; M.P. SIR,—You are not indebted to any intellectual qualifiations or moral efrcellencies of your own for the notice which I now take of you, but merely to the circumstance of your having been thrust into a situation where your small talents enable you . to work much mischief. Jona- than Martin, notwithstanding his insignificance wielded the fire-brand which well nigh destroyed one of our most magnificent national tern nles ; Bellingham, unknown, until distinguished by his crime, was the means of depriving his country of its prime minister ; and Necker precipitated the French revolution. Although I of course grant that you possess neither the frenzy of Martin, the audacity and cruelty of Bellingham, nor the ability of Necker, yet there is often lurking in the breasts of ambitious men a moral phreory. and a political delin quency More fatal to . the nation at large than the fire-brand of thejn ecndiary, or the knife of the assassin. It is more in pity than in anger that I notice your late conduct in your place in parliament, where in the lowest and most reckless society you were found acting as a " teller" against the attempt of •In.tter men 'than - you your asso ciates, to give to the poor man the blessed repose of the , sabbath, and you were theie found a idi ng th e att e mpt o f t h e ungodly-, and " sitting in the seat of the scornful." Whatever may be your private feelings on 'sabbath legislation, you ought at least t o h ave respecte d t h e SUBJECT; you ought to have res pected tbe feeli ngs o f h un d re d s of thousands who appear to have-bet ter notions of propriety and decency than m..ny members of your ho nourable (7) parliamentary friends in the house. An old hook, not much read now-a-days by men professing liberal opinions," de clares, that " rn:hteousness exalts a nation;" and promises national blessings to those who keep the sabbath, as it prediets"national curses against those who break and desecrate that holy clay. You, Sir, are fond of France, and, judging from your society, cannot much dislike popery. Have not these predictions been fulfilled in that unhappy land h—where Providence, to punish the abominable iniquity of the nation, first permitted them to be given up to the councils of such su perficial and vain legislators as yourself and then—l need not repeat what followed. Let me tell you, young man, seriously, that you are in a dangerous position ; that, having voluntarily placed yourself in front of the he terogeneous assemblage of atheists:of free thinkers. of mere political dissenters, and of nothingarians. you must go forward or be trampled under foot. The party known as yours, miscalled liberal, will not show their liberality by allowing you the benefit of your.own opinions ; you are in the estimation of the modest, the thinking, and the wise, the mere delegate of the mass ;. their mouth-piece in a parliament where you are scarcely regarded, and where your continual chatterings are the subject of ridicule. That you have degenerated from the ho nourable and straight forward loyalty of your esteemed father,' who , had lie lived, would have frowned upon your conduct ; that you have altered the tone of your family friendships and will finally succeed in driving them from Liverpool, and then in following them yourself— these are subjects for private reflection, rather than for public ani madversion—although it would be considered a public loss to lose a fa milY so distinguished for their commercial enterprise as yours have uniformly been: But, I repeat, Sir, you have made your own bed, and you must now lie down upon it and slumber if you can. As long as you are the willing tool of the destructi'Ve association, and do their dirty and degrading work; as long •as you are found the rolvocate against the established caurcb as long as you are found humbly foil lowing in the wake Of O'ConnelL:anti rushing into fill up the vacuum caused by his progress, so long will you have the cheers of the radicals and the papists. I, for one, Sir, have little or no hope of your reform ation, because you have no will of your own ; ambition prompts you.' at the expense of your country's best interests, and you have neither the dignity to assert your own independence, nor the magnanimity to carry it into effect, if you possessed any. Liverpool, sir, is morally disgraced by having yon for itarepresenta- tive. It w'as left for the vilified Lord Saudon alone to rebuke the levity and ribaldry of the house ,and to stand up boldly for the honeu . of truereligion, while You, sir, in company with Roebuck, O'Connellr and such like, could net only join in the disgraceful sneer, but act as a " teller" to throw out the sahbath bill on its first introduction; a thing , contrary to the usage of parliament on the most common question. .• Now, sir, I ask the respectable•dissenters of this town to look well to your conduct, to scan your principles,, and to watch your downward progress. , How they can support yob, Won' the intelligent and pious and able Men who fill the pulpits of Great George -street, and Lime street, and Duncan-street, chapels, and who there faithfully warn sab bath-breakers; how they and their. fellow-labourera\can again vote `for you and preserve their religious consistency will be truly mar vellous.. But it is one of those happy circumstances in the ordinations of providence that error defeats itself;—" Vaulting ambition, &c.," you delight in quotations and can supply the remainder. You have for ,once fairly overshot the mark, and I do hope that on the first op portunity your political services will be dispensed with, and that we shall be nolorig,er misrepresented by one whose opinions are at vari ance With the spirit of sacred writ, and whose unthinking help is bringing disgrace on the land. Ponder on your conduct, your situation, your progress, and recol lect, sir, that there 'is another tribunal, higher than public opinion, where motives will be regarded ; where situations of eminence will be found' to have entailed fearful responsibilities, and where are, before whom kings and statesmen and mighty men are as nothing, will re quire of you an account of your motives as well as opinions when it will be too late to retract an error or retrace a step.—Yours, &c. Liverpool, .4pril 29th, 1836. VIELLIARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAN.D✓IRD. Sin,—A paragraph both affronting to my feelings and injurious to my credit having appeared in your paper of Friday, April 29th, under The head " Ophthalmic Infirmary," in which my colleague, Mr. Neill, is represented to have performed, solely, forty successful operations for cataract in the course of the preceding year, I consider it a duty which I owe myself to state through the medium of your paper, notwith standing the correction of the error inserted in your paper of Tuesday, May 3d, that the office which I hold in connexion with this institu tion, though entirely gratuitous, is not a mere nominal one, but one of great responsibility and labour. It has been my privilege and happi ness, sir, to have served that charity for a period of nine years, and do still continue to attend there three days weekly for the purpose of relieving all cases of diseases of the eyetf, and, of course, of perform ing all the most delicate operations of Ophthalmic surgery which may fall to my lot.—Yours,. Sze. 23, Bold-street, May sth, 1836. JOHN , EDWARDS, M.D., genior Surgeon to the Liverpool Ophthalmic Infirmary. NORTH MIDLAND RA ILK' A Y.—The preamble to this bill has been agread to in the. select committee, 21 members voting in fervour of, and 5 against it. EXHIBITION OF PICTURES Mayor and Town Council have kindly gr ed the use of the EXHIBITION-HOOMS, POSTOFFI -PLACE, , IO the Mechanics' Institution, for the purpose of e' !biting RIPPiN GILLE'S celebrated SERIES of P EJRES, illustrating the PROGRESS of DUUNKENNE . The Price of Admission in the Day is 6d. In the Evening the Itoonts are LIGHTED WITH GAS. when the Working Classes are admitteu, to whom a Packet, (price 6d.,) containing Three Tickets, each Ticket achniiting a Family, will be Sold at the ltooms. TO 'COR RESPONDENTS. We cannot say why Bicrekwoorl's Magazine for the merry month of May has not yet made its appearance ill Liverpool. We hope that none of the Glasgow steamers have gone down in consequence of the enormous weight of the copies.. Ir. ivlThutr's book, entitled Advice to Purchasers of Horses, has been received, and will be noticed anon, - The British and Foreign Review has not come to hand. We shall endeavour to insert the letter of " V taida," but can not promise any pltdicular day. • FI?IDAY MORNING, MAY G, 1836. A month or two ago this journal was the first to make the British public acquainted with the case of " MARIA Moritz," who hae been nun in the convent called the Hotel Dieu, at Montreal, in Canada. The gentleman who first furnished us with the information, and some ex tracts .from this 'unfortunate woman's book, entitled " Awful Disclosures," said that the story appeared in credible, and would be 'denied; but that, ;rum some what long and intimate acquaintance with popish priests and mysteries of the monastic system, he for one be lieved every word of it. To this hour we-have not seen the book, but we have perused many and large portions of it as they have from time to time appeared in ihe New York papers, in which city, or its vicinity, Miss MONK resided, and, we under stand, still resides. Not giving entire credence to the tale; we still considered it a pAlic duty to publish some of .he least offensive par is of it, thereby affording the accused fraternity and sisteiliood as oppoquanity to lute it if they cook]. It will be remembered that MARIA illoNK, according to her story, bad fled from the convent at the 6; st practic.:ble moment, and that she left it under the pangs of remorse, the unfortunate victim of compul sory seduciiiao, tis;;ing her own life LI escaping from its hori•ors rather than be guilty in the first degree, or by CON'' . nee, of the -:me a ittfo,),:c*Ce. Hat it?s• provi dentii,ily effected her escape, her first practical proof of her grailiude to GOD was to disclose the atrocious and abornion'ole practices of the l-lo:el Dieu. S:1?, states that seduction by the priests and confessots is the almost inevitable fate of every female IA ho has passed her novi ciate in that convent; that chOrt murder is deemed by them a venial offence ; and that the murder of the nun herself who resists their unhallowed passions, or, having y;elded to them, refuses to destroy her helpless progeny, happens frequently, and is part of the execrable system. Miss MONK mentions a nnn, a companion of her own, whose - family name was Dußois, but who was known in the convent as "La Belle St. Francois"—a lovely and intesting girl, but Ihe daughter of poor parents in some distant part of the country—who was put to death for one of the reasons above assigned, and was actually smo thered between two beds by the inmates of the place. Mis. MONK declares that: she was present in the room when this foul and hellish deed of blood was perpetrated, she being compelled to giveherrelnctant assistance in its accomplishment. She _Moreover -'states that the re mains of the infants as well as of the murdered adults are tlfrown into some deep vault arc coc; rpd . wiil~ quid: ii• rrt9ts9.)./ • Thislast fact. was the one upon Iviiich we founded a .liortion of our belief in the credibility of the story. It admits of an easy proof, and,"if a fiction, of an easy de tection. Human bones resist the destructibility even of quick lime, so that if an inforination, based upon Miss MoN,K's:evidence, were laid before the judicial authori ties, they would be bound—if the law in Canada be the law of England—to institute a search, and either excul pate the sisterhood by declaring the statement to be a fraud, or by apprehending the inmates and bringing them to jnstice. We are not aware, however, that the secular arm of the law has any power or jurisdiction in popish countries where the affairs of the church are concerned; or where monastic institutions are tolerated ; and unfortunately For Montreal, it is in LoWer Canada, whickis a popish province of the protestant King of England, and its re ligions institutions, we fear, are exempt from the right of visitation by the magistrate which the King.exercises in almost every other part of •his dominions. Beihisi however, as it may, we published at all hazard some of the: leading facts in MARIA MONK'S story, and, as we expected, they were contradicted by the Journal, a paper which is under the influence of the Romish priests of Liverpool, who are chiefly Maynooth-bred priests, and, consequently, not persons who stick at trifles. Their contradiction, nevertheless, had some Irish singularity about it. They denied too lustily and' too rashly, and, like suborned witnesses, they attempted to prove - too much. They denied that there was any such person as MARIA MONK in existence. They asserted that tile book was the copy of one mote than P. century old, and that the MARIA MONK of New - York in . 1836 was the _identical nun which was said..io have made simi lar disclosures in the time of our great-grandfathers. Very well ! thought we; if there be no MARIA MONK there is an end of the case ; meanwhile we shall lay-to for fresh evidence. But during all this time, and since the book was published, the holy monks, the faithful mo ther, and the pious sisters of the Hotel Dieu, have not answered one word. The accused have not pleaded. No Romish bishop has appeared, as in Miss REED'S case, to declare the girl mad That common defence of the sys tern has not been resorted to on the present occasion. Why ? That; like murder, will come out hereafter. The popish priests of Liverpool committed an error when they instructed their organ to deny the existence of Miss MONK. We perceive, by n New 'York paper, that her identity has been established by most respecta ble and credible witnesses, and, what is equally impor tant, some of the statements of Miss MONK are clearly verified with respect to the indecency of the Montreal priests and the existence of La Belle St. Francois. But here is the evidence as we find it:— AWFUL DISCLOSURES CONFIRMED. The following ate the attestations of two of the persons of whose testimony I have availed myself, in the pamphlet lately pub lished, entitled, " Desisive Confirmation of the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk," &c. " City and County of New York, SS. " William Miller, being duly sworn, doth say- 7 1 knew Maria Monk when she was quite a child, and was acquainted with all her father's family. My father, Mr, Adam Miller, kept the government school at St. John's, Lower Canada, for sotee years. Captain William Monk, Maria's father, lived in the garrison, a short distance from the village, and she attended the school with me for come months, pro bably as much as a year. Nei four brothers also attended with us. Our families were on terms of intimacy, as my father had a high re gard for Captain Monk ; but the temper of his wife was such, even at that time, as to cause much tremble.' Captain Monk died very sud denly, as was reported,' in consequence of being poisoned. Mrs., Moat was then keeper of die govetnment house•in Montreal; and re: ceived a pension, which privilege she has since enjoyed. In the sum iner of 1832 I left Canada, and came to this 'city. In about a year afterwards I visited Montreal, and on the day when the governo r reviewed the troops, I believe about the end of August, 1 called at the government house, where I saw Mrs. Monk and several of the family, I inquired where Maria was, and she told me she was in the nunnery. This fact I well remember, because the information gave me great pain, as I had unfavourable opinions of the nunneries. On reading the • Awful Disclosures,' I at once knew she was the eloped nun, but was unable to find her until r few days since, when we recognised each other immediately. 1 give with pleasure my testimony in her favour, as she is among strangers, and exertions haie been made against her. I declare my personal knowledge of .nany facts stated in her book, and my full belief in the truth of - her story, which, shock ing as it is, cannot appear incredible to those persons acquainted with Canada. " W ILLIADI MILLER. •' Sworn before me, this 3d day of March, 1836, "BENIA3IIN D. K. Cairh. " Commissioner of Deeda, Sce." The following is the testimony of a respectable lady now in this city, and of one, too, who is still a Papist " I was born in Montreal, and reskied there until within a few months, and where my frioyds stl! re vain. I was educated aiiiong the Catholics, and have never separated myself from them. "I kneti• Maria Monk wl'en quite a child. We went to school to gether for abort a year, as near as I can teasember, to Mr. Wo.k man, Seerareent.sirect, in Montreal. She is aboiri One month youager than mysetr. We left that school at the same time, and eeteied the Con gregational Nunnery neatly to;ether. I could mention many thing s which I wittiessA there, ealculat..d to confirm some of her Dement - S. " I know of i'oe elopement or-a priest named Leclete, who was a colfessur, wijt a non sent from the Congregational Nunnery, to teach in a village. They were brought back, after which She gave Lira' to an infant, and was again employed as a teachee. " Children were often aunished in the Congregational Nunnery by being me de to stand with arms extended to imitele Christ's posttreon the cross ; and when we found vermin in our soup, as was often the case, we were exhoi ted to overcome our I eppgnance to it, because Christ died for us. I have seen such belts as are mentioned in the `Aw ful Disclosurea,' as well as togs; but never saw theln_applied.. " Maria Monk lea the Congregational Nunnery berme I did, and became a Novii; in the Hotel Dieu. I remember her entrance into the latter very well, for we bad a jour de come (holiday) on that occasion. " Some short time subsequently after school hours one afternoon, while :o the school-room in the second story of the Congregational Nunnery, several of.the girls standing near a window, exclaimed, ` There is Maria Monk.' I sprung to the window to look, and saw her with several other novices, in the yard in the Hotel. Dieu, among the plants which grew there. She did not appear to notice us, but I perfectly recognised her. "I have frequently visited the public hosnital of the Hotel Dieu. It is the custom there for some of the nuns amt novice§ to eoifer at three o'clock p.m. in procession with food and:delicacies for the'sick. T recollect some of my visits there by circumstances attending thetrt For instance, I was much struck, on several occasions, by the beauty of a young novice, whose slender, gracefUl form, and interesting ap pearance distinguished her from the rest. On inquiry, I learnt that her name was Dubois, or something like it, and the daughter of an old man, who had removed from the country, and lived near the Place d'Armes. She was so generally admired for her beauty, that she was called ' la belle St. Francois'—St. Francis being the saint's name she had assumed in the convent. " I frequently went to the hospital to see two of my iarticular friends, who were novices ; and subsequently to visit one who had a sore throat, and was sick for sonic weeks. I saw Maria Monk there many times, in the dress of a novice, employed in different ways ; but we were never allowed to speak to each other. " Towards the close of the winter of 1833-4, I visited the hospital of the Hotel Dieu very frequently to see Miss i3nurtte, a friend of mine, although I was not permitted to speal: with her. 'While there one day, at the hour of conge,' • collation,' which, as I before stated, was at three p.m., a procession of nuns and novices entered, and among the former I saw Maria Monk, with a black veil, &c. She per ceived and recognised wie ; but put her finger upon her lips in token of silence; and knowing how rigidly the rules were enforced, I did not speak. " A short time afterwards, I saw her again in the same place, and undersimilar circumstances. " i cailfix the year when this occurred, because 1 recollect that the nuns in the hospital stared at a red dress I wore that season ; and 1 . am certain about the time of year, because 1 left my galo-shoes at the door before I went in. " The improper conduct of a priest was the cause of any leaving the Congregational Nunnery; or my brother saw him kissing a female one day while he was on a visit to me, and exclaimed—' 0 mon Dieu! What a place you are in—if father does not take you out of it, I will, if I have to tear you away.' " After the last sight I had of Maria Monk in the hospital, I never saw nor heard of her, until after I had been for some time an inhabit ant of New York. I then saw an extract from 'Awful Disclosures,' published in a newspaper, when I was perfectly satisfied that she was the authoress, and again at liberty. I was unable for several weeks to find her residence, but at length visited the house when she was ab sent. Seeing an infant among a number of persons who were strangers to me, as those present will testify, I declared that it must he the child mentioned in her book, from the striking resemblance it bears to Father Phelan, whom I well know. This declaration has also been made by others. " When Maria Monk entered she passed across the room without turning towards me; but I recognised her by her gait, and when she saw me, she knew me at once. I have since spent many hours with her, and am entirely convinced of the truth of her story, especially as I knew many things before which tend to Confirm the statements Which she makes," We have endeavoured, but without success, to aseer tain the names of the, requisitionists at whose instance the Mayor called the meeting which is to assemble this day, and the object of which is to present soma.address o the Commons for the purpose of insoliinv, and calling in question the constitutional rights and independent in tegrity of the lords. The secrecy thus observ.ed is suspicious. It is not the custom of the popish members of the radical faction to be so chary in obtruding their names upon the public, but in this instance it is probable that they are ashamed of the paucity of their numbers, the poverty of their cha racter, and the mushroom nature of their standing in this commercial community. The purport of their meet- iug appears to be to follow up DANIEL O'CONNELL'S project of "doing justice to Ireland," which justice means keeping alive agitation, putting money into the beggar's p'irse, augmenting the influence of his employ ers the foetid priests of Maynooth, and conferring upon diem, by a popis;) municipal bill, supreme power in that unfortunate island. They profess to be anxious that the dame measure of corporation reform should be meted to Ireland which has been given to England. .But it is not the lords who have prevented this. If any one is to blame it is the author of the bill, their own Irish and popish Attorney-Gene ral, acting under the instructions of that poor creature Lord JOHN RUSSELL. If they will consent. to put Ire land in the same conditima as England is, there would then be no objection to deal similarly with both. In England no burgess is allowed to vote for a municipal officer who has not been rated to the poor for P period of three years, and who has not paid the said rates. Now in Ireland there are no pool rates ; it is impossible to distinguish the mendicant from the industrious work man, or the defeolier prom the regol.sr contributor. What claim, then, has Ireland to the same privileges as the people of England The first step towards civiliza tion on the part of a people is to provide. just, liberal, and generous provision for the poor. This provision, to fall equitably on all classes, must be compulsory. Has Ireland made any such approach to civilization by mak ing-this provision ? Most certainly not. She is tw•o .hundred years behind England. She - has not yet emerged froth' barbarism. The great majority of her - population are, in body and mind, spiritually and temporally, the slaves of unprincipled and . tyrannicalyriestS. They are held in a sort of savage restraint by the terrors of a de basing superstition. They canna call their souls, their substance, pr their thoughts their own. Will any of the popish requisitionists at the meeting of to-day dare to deny this ? If any dare, let them speak out at their Why then should we be bored with Complaints-in a matter which Lord JOHN RUSSELL has set at rest by framing a bill which gives political power to the Roman catholics of Ireland, but which: degrades by withhold ing from them the local exercise of judicial func tions. Lord JOHN is willing to erect popish corportitioni in Ireland, but he stigmatises them as being unfit in their municipal capacity to dispense justice in a question of meum and tuum, amounting to less than twenty shil lings! ! What will Mr. SHIEL say to . this ? PerhapS the less the better. But these worthies, of no standing in the town of Li verpool, are to censure Ilk lords for . not doing " justice to Ireland" ! We know not whether to censure most the silliness or the impudence of this conduct. lt is only matched by the three tailors of Tooley-street calling 'themselves the people of England. It is the bray of the jackass in the skin of the lion. It is, like the councillor's floating tub gurgling the sewer-odoured waters of the Mersey, compared with a seventy-four in the middle of the Atlantic: Faugh! it smells rank of tobacco smoke and radicalisik and we, only regret to see a gentleman like Mr. 'WALLACE Cuurtti, the Mayor, making himgel f the tool of a factio . n so worthleis and contimptible.. We beg most earnestly to call attention. to a cneap' pamphlet just issued from the press entitled, " POPERY! AS IT WAS AND AS IT is !" The preface states that, "The object of this publication is to make the humbler clas's'es of Rothan Catholics in England,. Seotliend; and Ireland, fully acquainted with the abominable mysteries of popery by which the mid is kept enslaved, the so cial bonds of society are unhinged, tI4 virtaous polluted; and by which domestic happiness is destroyed." We hiVe read the work with great interest, alth oug h most of the facts it contains are not new to us, but we feel persuaded that it is the duty of every family and individual, partieulaily our Roniart Catholic bre , thren, to make themselvei conversant with them. The articles are, first, the trial of a priest at Cori, for as saulting an old man for reading his bible. The second is entitled "The confessional in Ireland," in which the horrid details of that system are, painted in dark but true colours. The third contains M. LOUIS Pam, COUR. RIER'S exposure of the conduct of unmarried priests' in France. The fourth is entitled "Popery in Canada," in which the nunneries of Montreal are most justly held up td public indignation. The fifth is a description of a nun taking the veil, by the Rev. Jonx DAVIES, B. D., Rector of St. Pancras, Chichester; and the sixth and last contains the confeSsions of the Rev. DAVID CR4OLY; a Roman Catholic priest on the subject of the bible; transubstantiation, and cOnfeSsion. The work, we understand, is ptiblished as an experi ment upon public feeling; and we therefore trust that the proteStants of Liverpool will not loge a moment, not only in purchasing it for their own instruction, but for the purpose of distributing it among the poor Romati Catholics. No pecuniary profit is. intended to be deriv ed from the work, and, as its aim is truth and usefulness; we reel assured that the religious portion of the com munity will give to it their best patronage. The publiation is sold by Mr. ARNOLD, Postoffice.:. 3 r ...~_ • ' 4 l4' • "'~= -~~~ ..._ - -~~: ~i ;. i ~~' .~-- 1 _ ._1"". ~ r ~ y ~.My'.. ~'.4 ~..~ ,r., -.~. :.k ,-~ ~~i ~ru'rs',.ir^. LONDON LA 7' S7' NEWS. City Wednesclan Evening, Half past Seven o'clock. _ There are now d►ie two mails from France, one from the Me diterranean, one froth Lisbon, one from Mexico, and one from. the Brazils; and we haVe been without any arrivals to-day of the least importance. In Consols the market is very flat, and for the Account the price is 911 this evening. Exchequer Bills left off,at 19 to 21 and India Bonds are at 3 to 5. In the Forei g n Market th e r e i s an e q ua l pauc i ty o f specula.; tion to-day, but during the last day or two there has been an ad 'wince in Spanish and the Portuguese .Bonds, the former closing. at 46i ex-dividend. The Portuguese 5 per Ceuts. leaving off at 111, and the 3 per Cents: at 537. In the Northern lionds there has been nothing of moment doing. The dividends on Belgian bends are in cpurse of pay 4 went, and ex t dividend they are quoted 1011. .RUs s i a n St oc k is at 10913 Dutch 5 per Cent. close at 104' this afternoon, and the 21 per Cents. are 564. In the Republican Bonds there is little to notice; Colombian are at 33; Chitian at 48 to 49; UM! Mexican 35 to 36. In the Share Market there is nothing of importance doing, and the Share List only exhibits the following prices this after noon :—Birmingham and Gloucester, 91 10; Cheltenham a nd Great Western, 24; Cheltenham, Oxford, and Tring, 44; ComMercial Blackwall, 2 4; EaStern Counties, Edin burgh and. Dunbar, lg ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 21-; Great Western, 36, 35k; London and Brighton, (Stevenson's,) Dr. Rennie's, 2f 2 - ; Dr. Cundy's, 2 11; Greenwich, 27i; D o . and Southampton, 281 27k; Northern and Eastern, 44 ; Margate and Ramsgate, 2i; South Easternf 7; Anti Dry hot Company, 4.1 1; Colonial Bank; IS 172 ; London, Westminster, and York, 264: PROPOSED TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. TO THE EDITOR OF TIE LIVERPOOL ,STAND4RD. Stn,—A writer in the Manchester Courier, of the 23d ult., who has witnessed the beneficial effects which have resulted from the circulation of " The Churchman," a monthly periodical, ana other writings of the Rev. M, A. Gathercole, suggests that some testimonial should be presented to this tried and indefatigable , chainpion of the church, which would show the high sense in which his .alents and labours are held by the friends of the es tablishment. Perhaps, sir, you would have no objection to give publicity to this suggestion, and receive subscriptions in furtherance of the object. '• 'lne Churchman" is now becoming extensively read, and is a favourite with the Operative Conservative Association, and working people generally. Its main object is to explain.to them the title character of the Church of England•as a branch of the one Catholic and aposto lic church of Christ above, possessing attilloritY to administer. the holy sacraments, and to evangelize the people. It explains also the true nature of dissent as a rebellious iepdration &Gni the family of Christ, and his appointed means of grace, The price of "The Churchman" (two-pence) is such as to place it within the reach of every one, and its style is plain, and adapted to the comprehensions of the lower orders.—Yours, CATHOLIC US. LADIEV CHARITY.—At a special general meeting of the trus tees ot this eharity, held on Wednesday last, in pursuance of ari advertisement, at the matron's house, Mr. Bevan was elected surgeon accoucheur to the charity, the votes being, for Mr: Bevan 204, for Dr. Malins 106, and for Mr. Garthaide 20. The Right nondurable the Earl of Burlington has appointed the Rev. John Dowdall, M.A., formerly curate of St. Mark's Church in this town, one of his lordship's domestic chaplains. METROPOLITAN Jouitrviit..--We have received several num bers of this able and spirited journal, and are glad to learn that it has been eminently sitccessfut. Its moderate price, (3d.,) ample dimensions, aoa conservative tone ought to secure it a place In every reading-room, tavern, and public institution in the country. It is also an excellent family Miscellany. THE DOCK ESTATE.—AII the members of the town council, with the exception of the conservative portion of that body„, whether dock rate-payers or not, have signed a petition to the House of Commons, praying that the management of the dock estate may be vested in the corporation of Liverpool. No one, who takes into consideration th e f ac t, th a t nothin g h as b een Anne for Edwin beet, Esq., the Stay-maker; that no crusts how. been given to satisfy the hunger of roaring ltushton, Rosso the popish barrister, and some score or so of other liberal hang ers-on,can feel the slightest surprise at the course now attempted to be pursued. But the dock rale-payers, if they are unani,-, mous, will succeed in keeping in their own hands the manage ment of an estate in which they alone are interested. HONESTY.—The fol , owing which we copy from a late Jamaica . paper, is rather a curious mode of e , tablishing a man's title to honesty:—" Kingston, March 1, 1836.—The undersigned de• claies hat he is an honest man, and 'bat every gentleman in Jamaica will certify as much. Some magistrates .of this city, who have Ipeakfasted with him, now atteinpt to annoy him ; indeed he has ‘eat many of them sums of money, as far even as £3oo.—lsAAc DIAS F." - FIRE.—The telegraph yesterday morning announced that on, lire Wednesday, at 7 P.rd., an alarming're broke out at, Baron= hill, Beaudiaiis, the residence of Sir R. Bulkeley, Bart. M.P. ANATOtiv OF DRUNKENNESS--111Thun, Glasgow.—We are . happy to annonnce a fifth edition of this most useful and intel ligent work. The author, Mr, Robert Macnish, has done more . service to the cause of sobriety, by describing in this book the lamentable results of immoderate 'indulgence in intoxicating fluids, than all the TemperanceSocieties,in England. In fact; if Air. Buckingham and his fellow-twaddiers of the celebrated . drunken committee, instead of recommending absurd and im practicable legal enactments for the prevention of drunkenness, had prevailed on parliament to grant a sum of money fo'r the dissemination of Alacnish's " Anatomy," they would hav taken. them most effectual means to check an evil which is really of a sad and devastating character. We remember once hearing a worthy gentleman advise an unhappy infidel to read Bishop, Watson's reply to Tom Paine's Age of Reason, remarking, "If you study that book, Sir,,you cannot be an unbeliever," 7 With out seeking to weaken the force of the good Christian's injunc-; tion, we say to all whe are in danger of contracting the truly horrible habit of intoxication, read'Aiacuish on Drunkenness.— London Jfreekly Dispatch. SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.--OnTuesdeV afternoon, as the American ship Splendid, with passengers- for New. York, was going through the north locks of the Prince's Dock; a flour barrel, supposed to contain bread, was brought' alongside. Preparations was imm e di a t e l y ma d e f or putt i ng i t on b oar d , but by some chance or other the fastenings slipped, and down: it went between the vessel and the quay. Before it reached the water, the head started, when to the astonishment of the tnerous bystanders, a living being, in the shape of a full-growd, " son of a sod" dropped out! Assistance being at hand, he was immediately drawn on terra firma, without further damage than a good ducking, and the loss of his shoes. The poor fel low said that he had been contined in the barrel for about two . 'hours, and had given a sovereign (which was all that he pos-, sessed) to some person, to smuggle him on hoard in the above manner, and thus evade paying the regular passage money. Divitsiu."-Mr. Deane, the celebrated diver.• who has so suc cessfully gone down to the wreck rf his Majesty's ship Royal George, of 120 guns, which was sunk at Spithead, upwards of 50 years ago, and raised, in 72 feet water, several of her gtins,, 32-Ninders, weighing upwards of s,oo(Hbs. each, which are deposlied at Portsmouth, is on a visit to this town. Mr. Deane having also been very uselUlly employed in raising 'vessels and . recovering goods which have 'helm wrecked, as well as in clear ing away obstructions near the gates of the London docks,: clearing anchors which have got foul or' the moorings of other, sh;ps, sc., the dock committee have invited him to come to Liverpool, in the hope that his services may not only be avail able to the dock establishment, but to the merchants and under-. writers in general in cases of wrecks, the position , of which p. have not been clearly ascertained. Mr. Deane sees euployed, we understand, on Tuesday afternoon, in clearing. behiud the gates of the Clarence Dock. and will, so clown to exe h ntine the position of s e tow's), as soon as the weather will tiat whic h has been sunk oppoSite t permit. 11is l we believe, he niud from bell, is he is enveloped in water- i t s iro d supplied through a tube operations differ materiallT from those of: of person with h th a e ht i .l v l i r t i l e g t thereforeday4s direction, furnished with hoses, and fresh iii at liberty to move about to a moderate from an air putnp on the deck or d6 ii linveLtions may become of have heard of pinions above. and he communicates,, by raivrteesrileisit;anbcise Mr. Deane's opera , feel i pulling iw7hoartdwith his c " 11.2 his The following are the resolutions moved. DIVORCE BILLS.— that much general utility. juus . by Mr. Divett, on Frid a y last, i n the House of C ommons "1. That the practice of examining witnesses at the bar of this• house, in committees on divorce bills, .is an iniperfect mode of judicial investigation, and ought to be clisContnmed.-2. That -. the privilege of obtainiug divorce bills acts Of .parliament is,, from its expense, exclusively afforded tO the rich' amid therefore, calculated to bring discredit on the impartial, .distribution of justice, and the character of parliament. —3. That the only ef fectual remedy fur these evils would be fotind ,m the confine ment of legal proceeding for divorce to the courts of law." CURIOUS STATE.OF THE L AWS .— Th u inh a bi tants o f M entz ace governed by th e o ld F rench civil code; and the garrison ,is Composed of Austrian and Pfessian - troops who are governed . by the laws of their respective nati . ons. Hence the most per plexing incidents sometimes ensue.. A short time ago an Ans.- . trian soldier i n t h e garr i son was condemned to death forhay. ing killed a woman. According td the law of. Austria the mode of death was to b e hanging, and' accordinc , to the French fitiv t ' decapitati on . Th e executioner refusedto'hang the man, `arid the Austrian authorities would not permit the decapitation. length•the dispute was compromised in a vray.satistactoryl,t2r i tilt< Parties, except the culprit himself, wiso was shot.--Court sun- . 441. • ~~ ---..--,. , wwwi ii ' 17: Zbe,iel•vot of 1,6 be nt ray , ide alc ti~ ~, i I