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‘7'"'%liew \. ~i`.. ti}.\. CALCUTTA AND SAUGUR RAILWAY AND HAR BQUR COMPAN Y. NO application for Bonds will be receiv after the 20 th *' instant. Bondholders will not be held sponsible beyond the amount they severally subscribe for. pplications for the unappropriated Bonds, Prospectuses, a laps ma y be made at the Company's Offices, 7, Birchin-lane ; or to the under signed, BIRKETT and SON, Solicitors, 3, Cloak-lane. N T 4 ONDON and GRAVESEND RA ILWAY,,being a conti nuation of the LONDON and GREENWICH RAIL WAY. (To be Incorporated by Act of Pa ?lament.) Capital £600,000, in Shares of L•2O per Sh e.—Deposit, £1 per Share. PROVISIONAL DIR RS. Lieut.-Col. Leith Hay, M.P. Char Perkink Esq. Pet er H. Fleetwood, Esq-, M.P. S. J. oileau, Esq._ William Borradaile, Esq. George R. Rowe, Esq., M.D. J. P. Boilean, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel Skerrett John Brothers, Esq. Robert Sutton, jun., Esq. Captain Henry Jones John Twells, Esq. John Nloxon. Esq. Lieut.-Colonel Utterton Richard Digbv Seave, Esq. George Walter, Esq. Robert Page, 'Esq. Thomas Eyre Wyche, Esq. Thomas Phillpotts, Esq. BANKERS—Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co. ENGINEEHL-George Landmann, Esq. SOLICITOR—James Valiance, Esq. SECRETARY — WiIIiam Green, Esq. Office, 76. Cornhill. The Directors have the gratification to report that the whole of the Capital has been subscribed, the Deposits paid, and the standing orders of both Houses of Parliament complied with. Those Subscribers who hare not yet exchanged their Bankers' Receipts for Scrip Shares are requested to do so. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. TILE PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS h a ve 4 ,ch satisfac tion in stating to the Subscribers that, h, ng submitted the Plans and Sections, as prepared by Mr 'air - her, to Mr. Cubitt, they have received a Report from .e latter, on the Dover Line, of which the following is an e, ract:— " Looking at the Line as a whole, f • m Wandsworth to Dover, nothing can be more favourable t , an the greater part of it is for the purpose of a Railway, h • for about forty miles of the portion between Oxted and 1, • er, almost on a perfect level and straight line—so much so at, in my judgment, the advantages of that portion of the line will so far balance the disadvantages of the Croydon division, as to bring the cost of the whole, at per mile, below the average of Railways in general." The " Croydon division" alluded to in the above extract comprises a distance of seven miles, from Croydon to Oxted, where the line is entirely through chalk; but, even in this por tion, the gradients, as stated by Mr. Cubitt in another part of his report, are more ftvourable than those on a part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which has been working with so much profit and success since its first establishment. The opinion of Mr. Cubitt, as expressed in his report, is also highly satisfactory as to the amount of the estimate, as calcu lated by Mr. Palmer, and which Mr. Cubitt considers as suffi cient for the execution of the work. _ _ The Report is open to inspection at the Office, where, also, a revised edition of the I'rospectus may be obtained. .TAMES FLINN, Secretary. Southeastern Railway Offlee,9B. Gracechurch-slreet, January 7th; 1836. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY. A T a PUBLIC MEETING, held in Greenock, on the 280 1 - I._ ult., WM. 'MA.CPIE, Esq., of Langh o u se , Provost of Greenock, in the Chair, it was unanimously agreed/on the mo tion of Sir TheftAEl. SHAW STEWART, Bart., M.P., that the formation of a Railway between Glasgow an Greenock, to Communicate with Paisley, Johnstone, and P t Glasgow, will he productive of the most important adyanta sto the Agricul tural. Commereial, and Manufacturing Inte sts of the Country in general, and cannot fail to afford an mple return to the Subscribers. _ Measui es for forming a Joint Stoc ompany were imme diately taken, the Capital. Stock of whi obe in the first instance £250,000, divided into £lO,OOO Sha s. And such are the evident advantages of this undertaking, arising from the com mercial and manufacturing importance of the towns which the line; not exceeding twenty-five miles, is to connect, in addition to the rich mineral district and the continued dense and indus trious population through which it will pass, that more than one half of the Shares were immediately applied for on the spot. A Provisional Committee has been appointed who have di rected Surveys to be .made, and who will publish a detailed Prospectus as soon as possible. Meanwhile all applications for the Remaining Shares must be made to JAMES TURNER, Town clerk of Greenock. Greenock, 8414 Jcr 1836. \. . ~. • • .. ..:-. ..40 , ....1 7: - . :-N . .1, IRISI SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF CLERGY. Amount already advertised Mrs. G. Grose, Oxford -street B. TT: S„ per IZev. C. Prince.... Two Corittibutions Robert Woodw4rd, jun. From the Minister,and Congregatio f All Saints - Church Mr. E. Bi)shell, Parlegate George Crump. • Miss Green, Poulton, Cheshire - 5 4/ 0 James Dixon Thornton. lO 0 0 Two Ladies, per Rev. J. El. Stafford Wilson and Derbyshire - £201.1 '2 6 Subscription at Meeting upwards of Ea). Subscriptions will also be received by ADA NI HODGSON, Esq., Treasurer, and the Rev. JOHN B. MONK, Secretary. Books are also left at the following places, viz.: —At the Bank of Li verpool; Leyland and Bullin's; Moss and Co.'s ; Underwriter's Room; Exeliange Newsroom ; Athenaeum; Lyceum; Standard office; Mercury-office; Courier-office; J. and J. Mawdsley's, Castle-stteet. A SONNET, EXTEMPORE, ON SREJNG A STATUE OP NAPOLEON IN A PtBLIC. 1:10LSS, IN LIVERPOOL. II ROBERT STORY. So stood he on the field of Austerlitz— So stood he on Marengo's field, ete yet The marshalled squadrons in hot battle met, His calm demeanour such as best befits The' leader of a hest.—The thing is clay ! And what was he whom it (loth represent ? What were the proud materials which, when blent, Embodied forth the hero of his day ? All me! more brittle than his image there, Which may look thus for years! The hero was A statue, made of ICE, that shone full fair In the bright sun of fortune and applause,— But, while it dazzled, melted into air ' Or moistened earth. Alas for glory's cause ! FILL TIIE BRIGHT GOBLET. Fill the bright goblet, and scare away sorrow, 'Tis folly to dream of the evils to come; Fill the bright goblet ! at least till to-mor row— The sunshine of joy shall our pathway illume. • Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip, Till the heart yields to mirth, and the spirit is gay! "Fis the nectar most soothing, save woman's sweet lip, But oh! like her smile—it will never betray ! Fill the bright goblet ! and leave care and sighing To those who chose bitters from life's mingled bowl; The fountain of joy is our wine-cup supplying. With the grape that has ripened to gladden the soul! Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip, Till the shadow of care from each brow flies away ; There's balm in the goblet, like woman's sweet lip, To charm and to soothe us—but never betray! Fill the bright goblet! if friendship is fleeting, It will not fleet faster, 'neat h wine's rosy beam; Fill the bright goblet ! if love will be cheating, We'll drown his deceit, in the grape's ruby stream. Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip, And quaff from the fountain of bliss while we may, What nectar is sweeter, save woman's dear lip, 'ln chase from the bosom all sorrow away?— Fill the bright goblet! and scare away sadness— There's full time for care, through the long busy day But night's social hours should be given to gladness,. Since from its charin'd circle all griefs flee away ! • Pass round the chalice! the wine let us sip— It will brighten the wit, and the fancy inflame; - Then press we the goblet I—like woman's ripe There's a Lethe for care, in the nectar we drain! —Monthly Maya Z e. NEW DIScOVKRY IN CuEralsrev.--We have to notice the discovery of another of those active vegetable principles which I every fresh analysis of plants bring to light. This substance, which has been termed Diatase by its discoverers, MM. Mayen an d Persoz, occurs in barley which has just begun to vegetate. It has little or no action upon any organic matter, excepting starch, upon which it is so considerable as to render 2,000 times its weight of the latter soluble in four times as much warm wa ter. If the proportion of the diatase be increased to about one' two-hundredth of the weight of the starch, and the whole heated to a temperature less than that of boiling, it will be found that the starch has been wholly converted into a mixture of sugar, with a guns resetnbling gum-arabic. The latter is now ern ploved, in the great hospitals of Paris,, as a substitute for gum arabic. The fact has been long known, though not previously acceunted for, th at beer, equally strong, may b e b rewe d f rom a mixture of malt and bailey. as from malt alone; and distillers have availed themselves of this circumstance. The starch of I he barley is, by the action of the diatase of the malt converted into gum and sugar, and the latter, when fermented, furnishes the alcohol or spirit. In organic analysis, diatase, from the ex traordinary power which it possesses of rendering soluble so vast a proportion of starch, will render valuable servich, as it will enable the chemist to separate the smallest portions from foreign substances—The Analyvt. FEN! A LE EDCCATION.—Young divines ought not to complain of the labour of learning Hebrew, when even their own coun try-women can attain it with facility. There are now several • ladies who can read the Old Testament in the original tongue ; • last they are ashamed to confess it, when they see that sonic of the clergy are ignorant of the language. it was death alone I ,, hitl brought to light the Hebrew learning of Miss Elizabeth Smith. 4n increased cultivation of the female mind is a cha - raeteristsc' of the present era. of Christian knowledge, and is a " t° phonetic of a yet brighter period. C us t om an d use w ill I " , the nialority, and even prejudice men of learning and in telligen ',3 - but there seems to me to be little doubt at' phis -sgbiect ; ought to possess of the fidloWing position: Young women given to-Young then advantages of education which are fifteen. I apprehen r general useful learning, until the age of the effect of bathathonthat the difference which now exists, is reason or Christianitv. , it . od is in uo respect accordant with full privileges ofthe t !,! ,1 411 , i s day, women have not enjoyed New Testament alone we see - t r.ian dispensation. It is in the just place. The age of chive." femal e character exalted to its mind than did it honour. in t ia tattie r disgraced the female It:ent circumstances of the world, a due cultivation of th e feni ) : the interests of religion and virtue, t h a u T ,' in d would do more for generally imagined. Whenever knowledge shall become universal. we may he sure that women will be principal instrume n t s atilstruicting the le- ' for there is one benefit to be deriver! from communicating i ,. t ; • male sex, which will be aoknowledged hy -then' to teach their own children. —There must certaline4a,hbilee:ol::: thing very defective in the education of that woman, not instruct her own son (according to the rank in so v eie u tv eni i i n . society in which she herself has lived) to the twelfth y e i r - - 0 - f lie age. To afford a mother such a qualification, and su c h ~,,, advantage, and such a pleasure, is a plain dictate of Christian ity.—Buchattatt. FOREIGN IN rELLIGENCE SPEECH OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. LISBON, JAN. '2, 1836, • Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, and Gentlemen Deputies of the Portugue se N at i on, With real pleasure and a firm hope of seeing the wounds of our country cicatrized by our common efforts, and au impulse given to the increase of her prosper ity, I behold reunited around the throne on which I am seated, the representatives of a people whom I so much love, and to whose happiness I have devoted myself. The !picture of your first legislature was in the very begin ning clouded by one of those terrible blows which resignation submits to as the inevitable decrees of Providence, but which naturally cast down the courage of the legislators, and para lysed the best contrived combinations of men. This catastrophe forcibly distracted the attention of the legislative body to a series of contingent questions which it was forced to resolve, and retarded that necessary developement of the constitutional charter by means of the organised laws and regulations which the nation demanded and hoped from your wisdom. The second session of the legislature, and the first ordinary one of the Cortes, interrupted in its progress b y another un foreseen misfortun e no t less painful to my heart than the formerwas not sufficient to conclude this indispensible work. It scarcely made a commencement and sketched a plan for what the edifice of these same laws required. There remains to us, therefore, in the present session, a most important quantity of indispensible legislative labours to give to the constitutional charter of the monarchy, a regular, uniform, and rapid march. My ministers will propose to you, what they have prepared for such an important undertaking; and from the initiative which belongs to you, will emanate without doubt propositions tending to attain the same end, and these and other projects discussed with the maturity of prudent and dispassionate legislators, will lay the solid foundations of the future happiness of the Portu guese. From statements which will be laid, before you by,the Minis ters of the Interior. o f Ecclesia s tical• Affairs, and of Justice, you will learn what has been done in the interval which has elapsed between the past and the present legislative session, as well as the actual state of the a dministration of the Interior, of the Lusitanian Church, and of the present course of justice— matters to which it is right that I should call your most serious attention, with th e p urpose o f e s tabli s hi ng in a manner the most advantageous to the people, 'and least expensive to the public finances, the first of those objects—of giving to the se cond that protection which religion and the public morals im periously require, —and of disembarrassing the third from the confusion in which circumstances have involved it. My Ministers of War and Marine will inform you what is our existing force by land and sea, the amount which, according to the terms of the charter, it will be your duty to fit. Whey will inform you of the essential provisions which the know ledge of the urgencies of these iin - portant branches of - the' pub lic service will require from your patriotism, and calling your attention to the state of our dominions beyond sea, wits put you in condition to prcivide conveniently for their preservation and future prosperity. Thanks to Divine Providence, peace has not been disturbed in the country, and I flatter myself on good grounds, not only that our relations with friendly powers, and the allies of my crown, will become closer every day in bonds of permanent friendship, but also that in a short time the justice and mode ration of my government will be recognised by those other powers with which our relations have for a short time been in terrupted, and most particularly with the visible head of the Catholic. Church, of which I feel great pride in professing my self a daughter. The Portuguese arms, which have so lately succeeded in free ing this country from the fury of a civil war,' and the efforts of an, usurping and liberticidal faction, now contribute to sustain in a neighbouring kingdom the crown of our august ally, Donna Isabella 11., against efforts not less hostile or adverse to the proiperity of Spain, the interests of which are at present so intimately connected with those of my kingdom; with the assu rance that from our common efforts, and those of the intimate relations which bind us to Great Britain and France, peace and tranquillity will result to the whole Peninsula. Gentlemen Deputies of' the Portuguese Nation, In presenti ng y ou with the estimates fur the ensuing year, and giving you an exact account of the past expenditure, my Minister of Finance will fully inform you of the state of the finances, and of the exigencies of the state; and in conformity with my orders will propose to you such retrenchments and economical arrangements as will impose diminished burthens on the people—as also the precise means of placing the public credit on a firm basis of perfect good faith. and the complete satisfaction of all obligations contracted within the kingdom and abroad. Worthy Peers and-Gentlemen Deputies of the Portuguese Nation; Impressed with your'representations and your wishes for the stability of my dynasty, the sentiments of a Queen, in whom the Portuguese have deposited their hopes of peace cannot be dif ferent from yours." I have considered the interests of the coun try, and silenced before that consideration all other feelings whatsoever. I have to-day the satisfaction of announcing to you, that in Prince D. Perdinand Augustus, Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, my beloved and esteemed husband,. I shall find those virtues which will conduce to my private happiness, and will give to the constitutional monarchy, and to our country, which by this union, he makes henceforward his own, a r,ew and solid support, drawing closer at the same time by this mar- Tinge those bonds which unite me to some of the most ancient allies of my crown. . Wortli f ; Peers and Gentlemen, The entire midi complete re-establishmentof tranquility. and the internal security, protection, and activity of agriculture, in dustry, and commerce, emanating from prosperity,after having been almost extinguished by past calamities will, without doubt, form other important objects of your deliberations, as they shall he of the continual solicitude of my government. lam certain that you will endeavour, as far as it is in your power, to assist your Queen in theinoble enterprise, so glori o usly b egun , o f .re storing our country. Hit be necessary that there should be sacrifiees,.those sacrifices will be unanimously made in every thing that nil) , be requisite for the good of the country, that generous nation, which we have the honour of representing. The Legislative Session is opened. EXECUTION OF LACENAIRE AND AVRIL, (Abridged from the Gazette de Tribuneaux of Sunday. Jan. 10.) At nine o'clock on Friday night Lacenaire was informed at the prison of the Conciergerie that he must rise from bed, in order to be transferred to the prison of Bicetre. "Nell, then," said he, " I only wish that it may be all over to-morrow." A vril was sound asleep at the time. When told that he must pre pare to go to the Bicetre, he displayed great coolness, and ex pressed the same wish that Lacenaire had. It was a quarter past ten o'clock when the convicts reached the Bicetre. The reason of this removal had been carefully concealed from them ; but they declared that "they were not to be duped by any se crecy; that they knew well enough that it was for to-morrow. * • *" And they immediately set to and sang the Parisienne. The next minute they were locked up in separate cells. At eleven o'clock the head of the street police visited -the culprits, with the view of obtaining from them, if possible, fresh disclo sures; but they both, on being separately interrogated, declared that they bad nothing to add to what they had already confessed. " I have told all that I know," Lacenaire observed. Never theless, the procureur-general had commissioned M. Commer son, one of the registers of the court in which the convicts were tried, to receive any disclosures which they might make at the last moment, and had also directed that gentleman to suspend, if necessary, the execution. The two culprits, though separately confined, could, by raising their voices, contrive to addr ess t o each other a few words. Lacenaiie was beard to say to Avril, " It is cold; it freezes : the ground will be hard and cold to morrow." At six o'clock on Saturday morning the Abbe Mon tes, general gaol chaplain, and the Abbe Azibert went to the condemned cells. Lacenaire received the Abbe Monies with great politeness. "I thank you," said he, addressing the pi jest, "but I regret the trouble you have put yourself to. You know that what you have come about does not at all accord with my manner of looking at things, and your visit is useless." Yet, with an inconsistency which might appear inexplicable, if, in the expressions we have just reported, some dregs of the habi tue of the courts of assizes might not be discovered, Lacenaire had, on the previous evening, composed, at the Conciergerie, a prayer to God, the concluding lines of which are as follow : " Dieu que j•invoque, ecoute ma priere :)aide en moo tune on rayon de ta Carje rougis de n'etre que maitiere, Et cependant je doute nialgrr". mei Pardonne-moi ' si dans to creature Mon ceil superbe a 'talent= ta main. Dieu—le neant—notre ante—la nature— C'est un secret ;—je le saurai deurain." "La Conciergerie, 8 Janvier, 1836." Avril received M. Azihert with greater earnestness. lie listened to the exhortations of the venerable ecclesiastic with great resignation, and manifested a strung religious sentiment. " Monsieur YAW.," said he, " be pleased to fulfil one of my last wishes:—announce, in your sermon to the prisoners of Bi cetre, that I repent what I have done; tell them that my exam ple ought to be useful to them. I am very guilty, I know ; if I had not lost my family when I was quite young, I should not be in the situation I am now in." At a quarter to nine o'clock the mournful procession arrived at the foot of the scaffold, which had been raised at one•o'clock that morning by torchlight. Lacenaire descended fisst from the cart; the pallid hue of his face was terrifying, his look was vague and uncertain; he muttered something, and seemed to seek for words which his tongue hail not the power of uttering. Avril, in his turn, got down from the fatal vehicle, but with a light and firm step, and took a tranquil view of the people as sembled around. Constant in his resignation be approached La — Cent - fire — and embraced him.. old boy, said be, "I am going to commence the march." He then mounted the scaffold with a firm step, and was bound to the fatal plank. He turned round once more, and said " Come, Lacenaire, my old boy, courage; follow my ezample." These were his last words, for in another second the fatal knife descended, and his head rolled on the boards of the scaffold. Whilst this appalling scene was passing, Lacenaire stood at the foot of the scaffold. The Abbe Montes endeavoured to di vert his attention from the terrific spectacle. " Ah, bah!" re plied Lacenaire in a weak voice; in vain he again tried to as sume an appearance of courage which he now no longer pos sessed. "Is M. A]ard there ?" he inquired in a still weaker tune. On being told that he was present, he added, " I am— I am —very glad." He had previously announced that he in tended to address the people, out he had not the strength to do so; his knees trembled under him, his countenance became completely changed, he only mounted the steps of the scaffold with the assistance of the executioner, and the fatal blow soon put an end to his life and to his sufferings. At the conclusion of the proceedings at the trial of Lacenaire several writers have endeavoured to form a correct idea of his character; we, however,carefully abstained from giving any opinion at the time, reserving our judgment until more decisive proofs could be adduced, and our anticipations have not been deceived. Some have attempted *to draw the character of Lacenaire from the line of conduct he pursued since the period of his ar rest: he was.falsely judged. Lacenaire was by no means the person he wished to pass for—a.man conceiving himself unfor tunate through the fault of" his fellow men, hesitating between suicide and crime, and plunging into the latter because society was unjust an‘cruel towards him; he was certainly not the systematic assass in: ic h i o di h n a g d h s i i s g p n o e i d na a r p d a l c ik t e ag a a p in e s n t ; so n c i i , e . t rt , id i e i e sk d: su ch men exist Such was th e L acena i re andiug h fo i s r t t h in e a a t d el and e w of the Court of Assize, and such perhaps will be the character which dramatists and romance writers will attribute to him; but we must declare, for the honour of human nature, that suet) was not the man who had just lost his life upon the scaffold. Lacenaire had plunged into crime because debauchery, gam ing, and idle habits would not allow him to seek a different course as a means of existence. lie was first a robber, then an assassin, not because they appeared to him lawful and proper avocations. but for the reason that he was bent upon gratifying passions which honest labour could not satisfy, and, finally, because he hoped that the day of retribution would never arrive. But to a considerable stock of vanity Lacenaire joined a cul tivated mind. a rare understanding, and uncommon capacity, and this was the reason that he found it necessary to give a certain gloss to his profession of a robber and assassin. Hence the part which he had undertaken to play, and which he bravely sustained as long as death seemed at a distance, as long as a gleam of hope remained; hence originated the character he had assumed, a character certainly not his, and which belonged to no one. He could no longer deny his crime; it was too well' known; there was no justifying it, for the details were but too horrible. Finding himseif in this predicament, he adopted the part of an inflexible logician, who would become wicked, not from depravity, buz from system, who robs and murders because be had deeply studied the theory of society. Execrable quack ery! And this man, whom awkward commentators have held up as a philosopher, tries to snatch at this species of proffered sympathy; and this culprit, this assassin, whilst in the dungeons of the Conciergerie, in the condemned cell becomes a literary character, lays claim to publicity, and boasts of his talent. He writes his memoirs. We are unacquainted with their contents; we cannot say whether he has not once more endeavoured to develope his frightful theory, but, whatever they may be, there will be another page to add to these memoirs. It is absolutely necessary that those who peruse them should be aware of the last moments of the miserable historian who had placed himself in so bold and careless a manner in the presence of crime and of the scaffold. Lacenaire, the "materialist," the "jovial and poetical" as sassin, died trembling. He who would believe in nothing, and who would not repent, turned pale, and was unable to stand at the sight of the fatal spot. It was in vain that he exerted him self to play his part until the end; his strength failed him en tirely. There is something consoling in the thought, that this criminal could not brave the fate which awaited him as boldly as he could have wished. His companion, Avril, who had boasted not of want of fear, who had acknowledged the enor mity of his crime, who expressed contrition and hope of pardon in another world, died with calmness and resignation. At this tryin g moment he gave an example to Lacenaire of which no one ad supposed that the latter stood in need. On the scaffold he said to Lacenaire—" Come, now is the time to show courage. It is now your turn to imitate me!" • In spite of these words, Lacenaire, when he wrote them, ePrtainly did not know that his execution would take place on the following day. LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-MONDAY. This being the first day of term, the Judges accompanied the Lords Commissioners to Westminster Hall, after having taken breakfast at Lincoln's Inn. The Judges of this Court took their seats on the bench shortly after one o'clock. CORPORATION OF IPSWICH-REX V. BRAIN. Sir William Follett said he was instructed to apply to the court for a quo warranto, calling upon Mr. Brain to show by what authority he held the office of mayor bf the borough of Ipswich. The question, which rested partly on the .old and partly on the new municipal corporation act, was simply this—whether the persons who presided at the election of Mr. Brain were the proper parties? The municipal corporation act (5 and 6 William IV., c. 76) provided that the first elec tions under that act should be held before the mayor who should be in office at the time the act came into force. The 38th section of the act, after enacting that, existing mayors and councillors should go out of office on election of councillors under this act, contained the following proviso, " that in .every borough in which by statute, charter, by-law, or custom any election is appointed to be holden between the day of the passing of this act and the Ist of May next, both inclusive, no such election shall be holden, but every person holding office in any borough on the day of the passing of this act shall con tinue to hold such office, and to have all the powers as he would have had if elected to such office between the day of the pass ing of this act and the said Ist day of May, and statute, charter, by-law, or custom notwithstanding." In the borough of Ipswich there was no mayor, but the chief officers were two bailiffs, and under the interpretation clause the word " mayor" was to be construed to mean, the chief officers of the borough by whatever name they were then called. The question turned upon the words of the 36th and 38th sections of the act with re ference to the parties who presided at the first election of offi cers under the act. The borough of Ipswich was erected into a corporation by a charter poised in the third year of the reign of Edward IV., and by that charter the burgesses were required on the Bth September in every year to elect two burgesses for bailiffs to preside over the corporation for the ensuing year. There was another charter issued in the 36th year of the reign of Charles IL, which directed that the election of bailiffs should take place on the 28th of September, but they should not be sworn into .office until the 29th of September. There were other charters which were altogether immaterial to the question. The charter of Charles was afterwards annulled, and conse quently the old charter of the 3d Edward IV. was the govern ing charter. It had been the practice for some years to elect the bailiffs on the Bth of September, under the old-charter, but not to swear them in until the'29i hof September. The charter of Edward was silent as to when the bailiffs were to be sworn in, and he should contend that they ought to be sworn in on the day of election ; but even supposing the practice to he proper, the municipal corporation act did not enable the bailiffs elected in the previous year to continue in office. The day, 9th of September, on which this act of parliament received the Royal assent was material in considering this case, as the bailiffs were not sworn in on the Bth of September, and were not, therefore,, the " persons holding office on the day of the passing the act." A rule for a mandamus to swear in the Mayor of Lyme had been made absolute by this court, and that decision established the course pursued at Ipswich to be invalid. If the decision in the Lyme case was correct, the course which should - have been pursued by the corporation of Ipswich was to apply to this court fora mandamus. Either the decision in the Lyme case, or the course adopted at Ipswich was wrong. As there was no valid election of bailiffs on the Sth of September, iu point of law, there could be nu person to preside over the fitst election under the act. He contended the correct course for the corpo ration to have followed would have been the same as that adopted in the case of Lyme. There was another point arising on another section ofthe act, but with that he would not trouble the court.—The court granted a rule. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. REX V. THE ALDERMEN OP IPSWICII. Sir W. Follett said he was instructed to apply for a similar rule against the individuals who had been elected aldermen. The same facts governed the case against them.- 7 -1 uletgranted. HEX V. THE COUNCILLORS OF IPSWICH. A similar rule was granted against the councillors of Ipswich ARRIV4L OF THE NORFOLK, BERWICK WHALE SHIP. ( From the Berwick Warder.) It is with much gratification we are at length enabled to an nounce the arrival at this port of the Berwick whale ship Nor folk, Captain Harrison, one of the vessels beset in the ice in Davis' Straits. . The Norfolk got clear of the ice on the 13th November, and continued to drift southward, followed by the Grenville Bay and Lady Jane (Newcastle vessels), which made their escape three days afterwards. On the 20th saw the land, distant about 40 miles, in lat. 64. The Abram was seen last on the 28th, beat ing to the north-eastward, lat. about 68. The prevailing winds being easterly, they continued to drift southward, and set shore ward, and on the Bth December they were in the mouth of Hud son's Bay, Resolution Island bearing east 15 or 20 miles. They were then carried by the current to Green Island, and proceeded a considerable way in Ungava Bay; but, very fortu na t e ly, . a current swept them along the land and round Batton's island, and carried them entirely out of Hudson's Straits, where they were apprehensive at one time they would have to winter. There were frequently partial openings in the park of ice, and the ships took advantage to proceed eastward, and heavy swells aided their escape; but the vessels received some heavy blows from the ice. This was in lat. 58 50, and distant from the Labrador coast 30 miles. Several whales were seen in about lat. 61 30, and though the attempt was made to take them, it was unsuccessful, owing to the ice and heavy gales. The Norfolk called at the Orkneys to put on shore a portion of the crew. She left there on Monday morning, carried a fair wind fur Peterhead, and turned from thence with the wind southerly. On Friday morning she reached Berwick Bay, and anchored off the pier; and with the afternoon's tide she came into the Tweed, and is now stationed off Spittal. The captain and crew of the Norfolk, we are glad to say, have endured their hardships as jolly British tars always do, and are all well. Her success, however, has been very mode rate; she has only one fish; and Captain Harrison declares it was never in his power the whole year to look for fish, as the season was so severe with frost. Since they left Davis' Straits„ the weather, we understand, has been extremely fine. The arrival of the Norfolk has diffused one universal feeling of joy throughout all classes of the inhabitants. Since the foregoing was written we have been on board the Norfolk, and can, from personal observation, give the most favourable account of the whole crew. She came into the Tweed, towed by a steamer, amid the joyous acclamations of a large concourse of people assembled on the pier the ramparts, the Carr-ruck, and every place that could command a view of the interesting scene, and was moored off the new jetty at Carr rock. The ship was immediately thronged with visitors, and congratulations heaped upon the captain and his hardy tars in abundance, their return being regarded as a sort of resurrec tion. They all look tolerably well, considering what-they have endured, remarkably well—thin, but healthful. The captain is full of4' moving accidents." He has some fears, it would seem, a the fate of the Abram. The ships he left in the ice cannot, he thinks, get out till spring; and be is of opinion that Captain Ross's expedition will scarcely be available. THE GRENVILLE BAY WHALER. ( From the Newcastle Joana.) This ship, recently embayed in the ice at Davis' Straits, has escaped from her perilous position, and happily arrived in the ; Tyne, amidst great rejoicings, on Wednesday last. We have been favoured with the following authentic and interesting par ticulars : "This vessel is one of the seven whalers which were beset in the middle of Davis' Straits in the early part of October, in lat. 68 55 ; and front the accounts of the description of the ice, and its progressive movement southward, brought up the vessels which have arrived, and were similarly situated, her arrival, and that of the Lady Jane, have been most anxiously looked for. The Grenville Bay has three fish, which will yield about 70 tuns of oil. Captain Taylor is in tolerable good health, con sidering the untoward circumstances he has had to contend with, and his crew, as might be expected, are rather feeble, and some laid down with the scurvy. One poor fellow, in a very bad state, was sent to the Infirmary immediately on the vessel's arrival. The Grenville Bay drifted upwards of 800 miles in the ice, and early in December, from the prevalence of easterly winds, and a strong in-draught to the \Vest Island, was car ried, with the Lady Jane and Norfolk in company, into Hud son's Straits—passing Resolution Island, down the Bay of Ungava, where they were apprehensive they would have had to winter; in fact, they bore up to endeavour to reach the settle ment, as a place of security and to obtain supplies. From the haziness of the weather they did not know with certainty where they were; but fortunately •meeting with a strong current, they were driven rapidly out of the Strait, passing Button's Islands, and got clear of the ice in lat. 58 51, about 30 miles from the Labrador coast, on the 16th December. She made her passage across the Atlantic in 21 days. Captain Taylor saw several fish in lat. 61 30, but front the state of the ice, and the feebleness of his crew, the attempt to capture them proved unsuccessful. The Abram, of Hull, was last seen on the 29th November, wheu she bore to the north-east in lat. 63. The temperature varied from 28 degrees above Zero to 20 below. Captain Taylor unfortunately lust his cook overboard on the passage home. The Lady Jane was in sight the day before Captain Taylor got clear of the ice, and w as se t by th e curren t to the westward, but there was no doubt of her getting clear, and therefore she may be looked for. The Norfolk, of Ber wick, has arrived at that port." THE ANGT.o•SP%NISTT LEGtorc—Cork had a "good riddance" of some of the heroes who volunteered to do battle in behalf of her youthful Majesty of Spain. The public need not to be re minded that they consisted generally of the most disorderly and depraved characters in the city, and, if report speak truly, they have been nothing improved by transference to another clinic. It is stated—we know not on what authority--that four or five of them having been concerned in a burglary in Spain, they were given up by General Evans on the demand of the Spanish authorities, tried, convicted, and hanged. They were all from theneighbourhood of the Marsh.—Cork Constitution. EARLY ORIGIN OF CHURCH ENDOWMENTS. We extract the following statement. of an important fact in ear ly ecclesiastical history, from the Rev. Mr. Sinclair's valuable Dissertation, Vindicating- the Church of En, , land, &c. It ex hibits the sentiments which christians during the purest ages of their faith, entertained regarding the necessity of making a per manent provision for the support of religion, instead of leaving its existence and moral influences contingent upon the precari ous bounty of its professors : It may here be interesting to remark, that the endowments attached to churches, and the distinction bestowed on church officers, are much more ancient than is generally supposed. The settlement of lands and houses upon ecclesiastical bodies is commonly regarded as of later date than even the political es tablishment of christianity in the reign of Constantine ; and the Apostolic poverty and purity of the church antecedent to that late period, has often been the theme of dissenting panegyric. Yet at the very beginning of the third century, we find from public records that landed property, even withil the limits of Rome itself, was attached to christian churches• Before the close of that century not only the church of Rome but also those of Milan, Carthage, Antioch, and Alexandria, are descibed to have been opulently endowed. A decree was passed by Con stantine in the early part of his career, and while he only shared (with Licinius) the imperial dignity, (A.n. 303.) that the gar dens, lands, and other possessions, which had previously belov ed to the church, and which had been confiscated in times of persecution, should he restored. And St. Chrysostom, raised to the patriarchal see of Constantinople, reproachfully contrasts the poverty of that church, in his time, with its wealth and pros perous state in preceding ages. RECALL OF, THE FORLORN-HOPER We understand that Messrs. lie Year, Pouncey, Bainbridge, and Co., electors of Westminster, have engaged a steamer to proceed to St. Sebastian, and from thence to Vittoria, to bring back their representative colonel—we beg his pardon—General Evans. They say, and very justly, that as he is at present situated he is of no use to man or beast—to the men of West minster or the beastly Christinos; and that under such cireum. stances it is their bounden duty to turn him to sonic account, especially as he had for some months t a k e n the liberty to tu rn them to account. They had a n id ea t h at i n g i v i ng him permis sion to pick up a few dollars in the " thriving cause," he would either distinguish or extinguish himself. Seeing however that he has not had the good fortune Co do either, they have properly and economically determined upon having their patriotic penny worth out of the mercenary ruililant, iu his place for their place in parliament. Wot's the use (blurts Out Bully Bainbridge) of having a mere Major Sturgeon—a dung--a swell toot marches and coun termarches, and never vonce shows fight at uothink whatsum dever? Wot's the use of having sich a feller as the cat here at home, and. uses it abroad, laying it into the British Legin of Hoaxillieries like winkin hat . Wittorid?—a feller wot's boon giving dancing balls to the Spanish vimin, instead of musket balls to the men—wot's sneaked out of the Bilboes by stolen marches, to get into safer kivarters—and to escape a leathering gets under the kiver of Cordoran!—(Hear, hear! from De Year.) —Wot's the use, I says, of having sich a rotten snag in West minster's jaw like that? I says, let's have hint home agin and work his buff. It's the gallusest thing as is for ye to be misrip persended in this 'ere sort of a vay;—if it ain't I'm Mowed and . no mistake." • The appeal of the leech of St. Martin's-lane was as irresisti ble as it was eloquent; and the meeting determined upon cross ing the " Bay of Bi sca y 0!"in a forlorn hope," to bring home their Forloru-hoper.—Age. THE NEW DICTIONARY. As it is probable that several weeks may elapse before this voluminous work issues from the press, we have obtained per mission to make thefollowing . extracts from the proof sheets, for the satisfaction of our inquiring country Correspondents : "THE PEorLE."—Persons who love liquor and leisure bet than labour, and congregate in alehouses to beswizzle them selves with beer, politics and tobacco. PATRIOT.—Any man who, having the gift of the gab, goes about wherever two or three persons are gathered together and makes them believe that " nothing will never go right" until they take the government of the country into their own hands. He also is eloquent i n p ra i se o f f o lk s " w h o go ragged and shabby ;" and he contends that a man who goes comfortably clad cannot have come honestly by his clothes. REF - ORAL—The extinction of any institution established be fore we were born. CHURCHES.—OId fashioned public buildings, erected before the commencement of the Age of Intellect, for what was then called " Dirine Service ;" but now converted into debating shops for the display of penny wisdom, and reducing " Divine Service" to a non-entity pro bong publica. • ion;.—Silly notions which some weak persons entertain respecting what they call "a future state."—There are many various kinds of religion—as the Jewish, the Mahometan and the Christian ; and this latter is again divided into protestantism and papistry; but they are equally unimportant —mere matters of taste; and very bad taste in those who make any mention of the matter publicly. • GOVERNMENT.—An impertinent interference with the full enjoyment of our most piquant propensities. LIBERALS.--Persons who hold that Human Nature is, like Gadsden's Stilton Cheese, "always in the highest perfection;" and that the greatest happiness of the greatest number will be best brought about by letting human nature alone to follow its own fancy. LI FIER A TOR.—A person who gives up a rusty black gown for a bright greeh frock; a frousty horse-hair wig without powder, for a smart foraging cap of green and gold; and VOX) a year, with much labour of mind and body, f0r.E20,000 a year, for a rov ing, rollicking, guttliug, guzzling sort of life, and no labour at GENTLEMAN.—Any male individual of the genus homo. MAN.—An obsolete word signifying "gentleman." LADY.--ALIV individual of the genus homo. WOMAN.—An obsolete word; for which the sexual adjective ",female" is now universally substituted. CHEAP KNowt.EnGE.---I ( hat knowledge which you steal from those persons who have paid much money for it, and sell again as your own. faELAN r>.—The first and finest country in all the world ; bounded only by th 4 vast Atlantic ocean on one side, and its own Irish channel on the other, and dazzling the universe with the corruscations of its genius ! ENGLAND.-Au island lying somewhere between the coast of Ireland and the continent of Europe; and seldom mentioned now a days.—lllormog Herald. RADICAL PARSONS. • his the unvarying tactiqu e of the radicals, if an unfortunate p r w edant c l er gyman should presume to demand his tithes—or the arrears of tithe due for two, three, or four years—to raise against him the yell of " tyrant—oppressor—gripiug pluralist" —and to run him clown like a wild beast, by the blood-hound cry of their press. On the other hand; if ene of those mongrel clerics — thos e half-caste ecclesiastics — those "Vi cars of Bray " — who "run with the hare and hold with the hounds" —those libe rals who belong to the church as pillars, iu the same sense as cater-pillars belong to a cauliflower, if they, in the wantonness of their "liberality," commit such offences as would justly pro voke public indignation, these innocents are suffered to pass scatheless through the radical furnace—these worthies are up held and defended for the sake of that very contempt which they bring upon their body. Without any particular application of the foregoing remarks to the case which we are about to lav before the public—we say merely,—" hand abludit imago"—tWere is some truth in the de scription we have given of a radical parson's conduct=some likeness of the picture we have drawn of the manner in which the radical laity will receive his exploits. But we roust proceed to the matter in hand, The younger of the clerical Hannibals is the Rector of Bray. There is a gentleman of gre a respectability resident in his pa rish, and rated for tithes at the high composition of 7s. 6d. per acre. This gentleman's tithes became due in last November, without a farthing of arrears impending. No application of any kind was made to him for payment, until the first day of January instant :—on which day Mr. Plunket's agent handed to him a bill of account, accompanied by the following letter to himself ( the agent:)-- " January 1, 1836. "FR ANK,--I wish you would call to-day at Mr. 's, in Old Connaught, for my tithe, and if you are not paid, leave word that you have my positive directions to drive for it on Monday next, the 4th instant; don't neglect this. " W. C. Pr.urgker." Now, here is a case of precipitation, hardship, and insult to a respectable parishioner, which we say to be without parallel. Shall the delinquent escape reproach because he is the son of Lord Plunket ? or' shall the discredit of such proceedings be laid upon the church in general—without a reclamation from its true friends against participating in the offence, and consequent dis grace ? For our part, it shall not; and we think we but dis charge our duty to the church by exposing the misconduct of one of its ministers.—Dublin Evening Mail. H. M. S. HYACINTH. (Prom the Hobart Town Courier.) We are indebted for the following inteteeting account to one of the officers of his Majesty's ship Hyacinth : Mooday 23d September 1835, i n l a tit u d e 3 , 39 , 47, and long. 69, 24, 30, the Maldive Islands, bearing North 53, East 3, 8 miles—Dpriug the early part of this morning, we experienced squalls with very heavy rain, and at 4h. 30m. A, Si., encountered a most terrific thunder storm, which lasted about h a lf an h our, in the course of which peri o d, the Hyacinth, was - ,reduced•to -a complete wreck aloft. Two fire-balls struck the ship in succession, which shattered the fore and main top masts so severely, that on day-light ap pearing, we could distinctly see through the cehtre of the spars from the deck; and the top gallant masts from the truck down wards, were completely splintered. The head of the foremast was likewise so much damaged, that on arriving at Calcutta, we found it necessary to get the mast out to repair. The fore mast was the first struck by a ball of fire, attracted in all proba bility by the sheaves of the truck and copper pins, shivering the royal mast, thence to the iron jacks, glancing on to the copper of the sheave-hole, it descended through the top gallant mast, thence, on to the copper in the top mast sheave-hole, which it melted in some places, and bounded on the top-mast futtock hoot), from which, with a tremendous crash, it shattered the top mast in a most remarkable manner, until it reached the two hoops on the heel; it then glanced int o th e f oremast, severely wounding the head of it, thence down the starboard chain topsail sheet, to the bitt-head, knocking down and scorching slightly the look out man sitting between the sheets, whose howling added considerably to the horrors of the scene, and thence to the iron anchor stock, and over board; several other seamen were also laid prostrate by the shock. A second ball fell close to the ship, and about six minutes 'after the first, a third struck the main royal mast, passing down wards similarly as the fore, but only slightly chipping the main mast, thence down the starboard chain topsail sheet, descend ing by the main hatchway to the lower deck, and burst over the armourers bench with the report of a cannon, starting one of the carliugs and knocking a marine out of his hammock, as well as slightly affecting the other men who were sleeping near him. The lower deck at this tune was s o d ense l y fill e d with smoke, that for some minutes it was doubtful whether the ship was not on fire. The electric fluid then descended under the lower deck, until encountering the leaden pipe of Shear le's pump in its progress, burst it and escaped through the ships side at the extremity of the pipe, the cock of which was fortunately turned at the time, or in all probability, a must serious accident would have hap pened to the ship; indeed 1 may add, that the escape of the. final destruction of the ship from the effects of the electric fiord, is miraculous. Daylight shortly broke, the weather cleared up and by 11 o'clock that forenoon, top mast and top gallant masts were shift ed, the bead of the fore mast fished, and the little Hyacinth all ataunt, and gaily proceeding on her voyage as though nothing had happened. FIRE AT LIMERICK.--A destructive fire broke out in the great provision stures of Mr. Russell, William-street, Limerick, on Thursday last, by which property to the amount-of £30,000 was consumed. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL ITALIAN OPERRS. Under the Management of Signor DE BEGNIS. Last Night of the Grand Opera, (with new and splendid Dresses,) composed by the celebrated . Bellini, called LA SON N A MBUL A, on which occasion the Orchestra and Choruses will be considerably augmented. TN consequence of the great applause with which Bellini's celebrated Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, • Was received, by a crowded audience, on Wednesday evening, and at the request of several patrons of the Opera, it will be repeated THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 15th instant, for the Last Time. Principal Characters by Marine. DE ANGIOLI, Signora MARIANI, Signora OLDERICCI ; Signor BERRET TONI, Signor DE ANGIOLI, Signor GALLI, and Mr. BENNETT. OZ7' Signor DE BEGNIS re • ectfolly informs the Patrons of the Opera, that he has in ink ediate preparation, with New and Appropriate Scenery, and rth New and Splendid Dresses, (which he ha s h a d ma d e for thi Opera by the Principal Master- Tailor to the Albion Cloth ompany, Edinburgh,) the cele brated Opera, composed by ssini, of LA DONNA DEL LAGO. The story founded on the celebrated - Poem of the "Lady of the Lake," by the late lament e d Si r W a lter Scott. The Piece will be produced by Signor De Begnis in the same splen did manner as erformed, with the greatest success, at the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh; and, on this occasion, by the kind permission of Colonel Bradshaw, of the 77th, the MILITAnY BANE of that Regiment will attend in the Orchestra, in order to give the greatest effect to the Martial Music in this Opera, on which Rossini bestowed the most marked attention. During the next week there will be Four Performances, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. Gd.—Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at Seven, and the Performances to com mence at Eight o'clock. LIV ER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. POSITIVELY THE LAST TWO NIGHTS OF MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Which mud be withdrawn for forthcoming Novelties. Mr. T. I'. COOKE, the Misses SMITH, Mr. SMITH, and Mr. BINGE. ripHIS present FRIDAY, the 15th, and TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 16th instant, will be presented, for the Last Time, the successful Nautical Drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. llarry Halyard Mr. T. P. Cooke. With the popular Inter ude of PECCADILLO Principal characters by the Misses S iith, Mrs. Raymond, Mr. W. J. Hammond, a Mi. Binge. To conclud with SQUALLS A ORE. Harry Mr. T. P. Cooke. TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS VICINITY. To be published, dedicated by permission to ord FRANCIS EGERTON. M.P., - once, in boards, r Gd., T4YRICAL EFFORTS, by ROBERT TOREY, Author of " The Isles are Awake," &c. &c. N.B. Ladies or Gentlemen desirous of ssessing Copies will oblige the Author by sending their na sto the Standard office, Liverpool, on or before the Ist February next. A Subscription Paper is opened for Signatures at the Office of the Liverpool Standard. _ LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION, COL STREET. Airß. EDWARD TAYLOR, of LoNnoN, irk 1111_ Course of FOUR LECTURES on EN, CAL HARMONY, to commence on MoNDA, at One o'clock, and to be continued on THURSDAY and MONDAY, at the same houl at Half-past Seven each succeeding Tu VOCAL PERFORMEI 'deliver a ISH VO- '',' Jan. 4. 1836, Ach succeeding 4 Repeating them Y and FI;IDAY. Miss Leach, m r ßoothby, Miss H ornby, Mr. Walton, Mr. Ball, Mr. E. Taylor. Mr. G. Holden will preside at the Piano-forte. Subscriptions to the Course, Half-a-Guinea. Admission to a Single- Lecture, Three Shillings; and for Children and Schools, Half-price,—a Teacher being admitted Free when Six Scholars attend. rbe titurpool FRIDAY MORNING, JANCLIRY 15, 1836, Lisbon papers to the 2(1 instant were received in Lon don, 7) , :a Falmouth, on Wednesday. Her Majesty the Queen was married on New-year's, day, by proxy, at the Metropolitan Church, at Lisbon, to Prince FERDINAND AuGusrus, another fortunate youth of the Royal House of Saxe Coburgh Gotha. Her Majesty, immediately after the performance of this ceremony, received the con gratulations of the diplomatic body, and on the following day opened the session for 1836 with a speech which will be found elsewhere. The Portuguese treasury is re ported to be in an exhausted state, the Cortes to be di vided into three parties, and the return of SyLVA CAR VALHO to power quite out of the question. Lord How- ATM DE WALDEN'S influence at court is on the wane, and the arrival of Prince FERDINAND, who is understood to be devoted to French interests, will most probably de stroy it altogether. By the Britannia, Captain Short, which sailed from Demerara on the 28th November, we have received a file of the Guiana Chronicle to that date. Nothing of lin • portance appears to have occurred in that colony since the last advices were despatched. Under the head of " BARB.ADOES" it is stated that the savage practice of maiming cattle had not been effectn ally put down ; that a meeting of the House of Assem bly had been called for the 3d November ; and the non attendance of the members is thus explained in the West Indian ;—" There was no meeting of the House of As sembly on Tuesday last, most of the members being en gaged in planting beans and buonavis." A Committee of the House of Assembly, Tobago, have agreed to the following resolutions respecting the education of the children of apprenticed labourers : " That crime is rapidly on the advance whilst the attendance of the rising generation to religious instrtictiou is evidently on the decline, caused by the withdrawing of the authority and controul their masters formerly possessed over them." "That for the better regulating the manners and improving the morals of emancipated children, and in order to create a fund for the accomplishment of an object of such essential im portance, tance it is the opinion of this committe that a certain sum per acre be exacted by their employer on all provision grounds cultivated by apprenticed labourers over and above the quanti ty they are by law allowed. "That the special magistrates appointed by the executive be authorized to enter into any agreement on the part of the ap prentices with their employers to furnish labour in lieu of quo nev, at a fair and just rate of wages so as to remunerate the master for erecting schools and furnishing benches and instruc tors. "That it is the opinion of this committee that the parents should enforce the attendance of their children at some place of divine instruction, at least once every Sunday, either in chapels provided for them on the plantation or at some church or chapel in the vicinity thereof. " That a committee of both branches of the legislature, be ap pointed to frame an act for the b,4tter observance of the sabbath, and for devising the best and most efficient means of providing for, and insuring the moral instruction and education of the offspring of the apprenticed labourers in this Colony." There are in public life as well as in private society certain persona he may be called the go-betweens of parties-..who preess to be peacemakers—to whose tongue tht term "moderation" is as familiar as the fa vonrite if not the only word of a pet parrot—rind who, under the pretext of reconciling differences and subdu ing animosities, are the mere professors of fashionable cant—who are tolerated because their imbecility passes for meekness, and their,duplicity for chrigtian forbear ance, and their intrusive importunities for kindly inter cession—but who, to speak truth, are shallow creatures, sensitively imbued with vanity and selfishness — who are devoid of alt principle, and are, consequently, rotten at heat t. Towards these selfish and self-important busy bodies we cannot conceal that we entertain a most intense ha trod founded upon a perfect knowledge of their cha racter. The distracted situation of our country, which certain jacobins and infidels, recently glutted With power, seem resolved to precipitate into all the horrors of anarchy, demands at our hands the expression of those unreserved, unequivocal, and well-considered opinions, upon the as cendancy of which, in relation to the throne and the pro testant religion, depend , the solution of this important pioblem—Ts the British monarchy to -merge in republi canism ?—are the protestant establishments of England and Scotland to fall a.prey to the dissenters, to the unita rians, the quakers, the independents, the anabaptists, the papists.of Ireland, and the infidels of both countries ? Looking at the facts s as they have: been forced upon our attention within the last three weeks, every indica tion of a popular kind is favourable to our hopes. It is un deniable that the members of the Church of England, including that most estimable body the Wesleyan metho dists; constitute two-thirds of the whole population. If wealth be taken into consideration, they possess it in a much greater proportion. if loyalty be„considered, they have it, with few exceptions, exclusively on their side. If learning, talent, and intelligence be reckoned, we claim—as the press shows, as the periodical publications show, as every work of genius, of the highest order of intellect in the walks of art, science, philosophy, criti cism, jurisprudence, divinity, and the higher n:athema- JAN'U`AItI' 13, Bs3 6 tics show—we are entitled to claim four-fifths of all thd mind and intelligence of the nation. How comes it then that we find in all the municipal elections the majority of successful candidates to be so cinians, baptists, quakers, independents, and Infidels How comes it that where property is at stake, the rupt and the swindler are elected its guardians ? W e shall not attempt to answer, these questions, be- cause if we did this article would be extended far beyond the sufferance and endurance of a newspaper reader. What we aim at, under these restrictions, is to show the deep injury which has been inflicted upon the country by the legion family of the go-betweens—of those. incubi which sit in apparently maternal fondness, and press, while they pretend to hatch, every germ of nobleness and true patriotism, not into life, but to death. We perceive, by the Times wad the Standard, that. some anonymous shufflers, as destitute of principle as a practitioner at thimble-rip-, find fault with the disclo sures, or, rather, the exposures of popery, which have recently been made by the most able, learned, and -elo quent men that Ireland or any other country ever pro duced. In mincing terms and mawkish millinery phrases, which indicate an excess of superficiality and a most plentiful lack of sincerity and true patriotism, they com plain that those men who have torn the veil from popery, and have drawn up the curtain and shown the papist, the socinian, the quaker, and the infidel dancing a quadrille under the directions of a jesuit as master of the cere monies—they complain that protestants have dealt too hardly with their Roman catholic brethren ! Too hard ly What do thes e s li ppere d pantaloons of the Church of England.mean? Is truth in their judgment of no va lue ? Is religion, according to their political creed, a mere farce, in which the.most expert juggler—the most ingenious quack---the most adroit hypocrite—ought to receive the loudest plaudits and the highest rewards ? Such must'be their meaning, if they have any mean ing which can fairly be made reconcileable to their pre posterous and corrupt jargon. They attach much blame to us tories—we glory - in the name !—for daring to dis tinguish between truth and falsehood—between christi anity and idolatry—betw een the errors of the Church of Rome in Ireland, which vitiate, degrade, and demoralise the human mind, and those sublimer truths of revelation which make the terms of salvation and the beneficent attributes of divine intercession more intelligible to hu man capacity. Their avowed pretext for this irreverent if not blasphemous doctrine of conciliation is founded upon principles which are utterly disgraceful, and which, like the light of a candle on the disturbed and rippling stream, fling back glimpses of distortion and deformity. These aspirants to honours which are based, like their base selves, in the double baseness of reckless conciliation, think—do they think ?—that the Church of England can gain anything by playing handmaiden to the Church of Rothe—that lay impropriators are more secure, even on politic grounds, by tolerating claims that strike at their existence—or that it is consistent with their sworn duty to make an idol of the snake which they have warmed by nursing it in their bosoms ? Those who are of this opinion are speculators, and nothing more, with whom religion is a game, while their life-interest in its institu tions is the only preventive check against any open hos tility on their part during the continuance of that inte rest. These are the conciliatory go-betweens. These are the pastors that cry peace ! peace ! and yet would embrace the sworn enemies of their church. These are the men who deprecate all controversy with the church of Rome, all doctrinal discussions, and all measures cal culated to give offence to our "Catholic brethren ;" but who, with disgusting inconsistency, look on unmoved at the horrid persecution of their "protestant brethren" in Ireland = who have no sigh to spare for ruined families, no censure to level against plundering priests, no denun ciations against murder, no anathemas to pour upon banded ruffians, midnight robbers, or those who at the word of command given by their blasphemous leaders are ready to destroy in the ashes of their own cottage the humble peasant and his unsuspecting and innocent fa mily. These men, of a one-sided charity, we say again, are the canker-worms of the church of England. They eat her bread--they eat in security—but they seem re solved to eat all up and leave nothing for their successors. The worst part of the case is, that these churchmen in terpose their officious advice to mar the objects of those who are doing nothing more than their duty in exposing the errors of popery, and who have happily fallen upon times when the worst features of the system are in a state of transition, if not in the agonies of dissolution. Why all this excitement, violence, menace, and impious appeals from the altar, on the part of the Rotnish priests of Ireland ? Is there any man so imbecile as to imagine that popery has the slightest chance regaining an as cendancy in these islands ? The results of every parlia mentary election within the last twelve months prove the contrary. It was proved in Devonshire, in North amptonshire, in Inverness-shire, in Gloucestershire, and in various other places. It is proved by the success of every protestant newspaper in England. It is demon strated by the defeat of all the enemies of the church, on the question of church-rates, in every town in England, with the scandalous and unpardonable exception of Brighton. The excitement, then, is caused not by any well-grounded fears of the advancement of popery to wards supreme power, but by a consciousness on the part of the Irish priests that their tyrannical dominion in that country is shaken to its base, that their superstitious temples rock in the wind of public opinion, that the foun tain of their revenues is fast drying up, that the appli ances of extortion are losing their potency, that the bible is driVing the dog-latin mass book into oblivion, that purgatory is beginning to be stripped of . its hopes and terrors, and that the pure and hallowed light of protestant christianity is penetrating the darkness of the darkest realms of popery in Ireland. - This is the main cause of the religious struggle, at tended by so many revolting circumstances, which is• shaking the sister island to her very foundations, steeling the hearts of a guilty priesthood to the commission of deadly crimes, and such excesses as are the last resort of desperate men: And yet this is the crisis when the con ciliators of our protestant church would, if they could, stay the progress of a glorious triumph, and silence truth in its advances towards conviction. There may be in our church men, of snchtrimming . politics, of such con venient principles, that they never deem themselves safe unless they have a different set of colours on board—one for victory on either side—one to. pull down if need be. and another to hoist up if it be expedient. These trim mers, we suspect, are ,the counsellors of moderation at the present moment. They take no interest in the con test apart from a merely personal interest. They care nothing for the church, but a great deal for the living—• very little for true religion, but a vast deal for midis-, turbed pluralities and quiet possession. They care not-. how he fare s w h o s h a ll come a f ter t h em. I t i s the in-. cumbent who preaches for himself! We have had enough of this. Those who cavil at-the reviVal of better principles, and sneer at the splendid ta lents and unparalleled exertions of 0' Sum VAN, NPGIIEE, BOYTON, POPE, and others, are not the friends of the church of England. They are wolves in sheep's, cloth-. ing. They may not be •socinians, or papists, but they are most unquestionably of the order of Jesuits, with this difference, that they profess an attachment to the church which they are insidiously labouring to undermine. The good work, however, has begun, and it will advance in spite of them. Popery is tottering, anal it must tall, no matter how many or how few of our conciliators take an unnatural interest in procrastinating the completion of the desired reformation. We beg leave to direct attention to two curious and instructive reports which will be found in our columns of this day ; the first relative to the election of twenty-four "gentlemen of the commission," but who are better known by the more unfashionable title of "Justices of the Peace ;" and the second concerning a private-public meeting convened to invite DANIEL, of Derrynane, to a dinner in Liverpool, which, if he should come, we sup, pose will take place in the large room of the Town-hall. With respect to the first affair we shall decline offering any observations until we are certified by authority that the King has given his sanction to their nomination. We need, however, be less reserved with respect to those