The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

SEPT, 13, 1836. South Lancashire has indeed nobly done its duty ! We feel that we may be permitted to make this declaration without the risk of being justly accused of offering a mere Compliment to our immediate neighbours and friends, under the influence of local predilections, or as the result 'of an impure party bias, destitute alike of ,principle and honourable sentiment. We mean to say, that the men of Lancashire have done their duty, in the strict sense of the word, as men, and what is more, as Christians. It was our privilege, and our gratifying task, to have given, in our last Tuesday's number, a full and accurate report of that soul-stirring spectacle which drew forth the thousands of our adult and infant population, to witness and to assist in one of those solemnly impressive scenes, which ranks next in importance only to the foundation and consecration of a Christian church—the dedication of a school of public instruction to the service of our God and Saviour,.based on his divine authority, as conveyed in his holy law and everlasting gospel ! It was our - especial, pleasing duty to record that act, which has re deemed our clergy and our christian laity of the town of Liverpool from the foul stigma attempted to be cast upon them by the combined measures of men who are avowed liberals in religion and government, on the one hand, and the covert friends of popery and superstition on the other—principles alien alike to national liberty as they are entirely incompatible with the eternal welfare of man. The Times of Thursday last, and Friday, has placed this question as between our protestant clergy and their opponents, the pro-popish corporators, on its true basis, it has clenched the point with them at once, supported by the unanswerable letter of Lord Stanley, and spared us, for the present, as we insert elsewhere the editor's judicious and pointed remarks, the invidious task of showing up what we know of the designs of these assumed sticklers for freedom of conscience; and having another imperative duty to perform, we leave their confederates of the London ministerial press, and their local radical allies, to help them out of the mire of their own deep laid political iniquity in the best way they can, as they ,have essayed the ungracious office. All we shall offer by way of passing remark is, that the glorious, but unas suming, pageant of forty Christian ministers, supported by our late worthy Mayor, and nearly three hundred gentlemen, composing the wealth, respectability, and in telligence of this town and neighbourhood has been the death-blow of the hopes, as the joyous ringing of our church bells will prove, the funeral knell of the faction, which attempted to force upon us, nolens volens, their unchristian laws—praise be to God ! On Friday we were enabled, under our previous arrangements, to give a full report of the proceedings at one of the most important public dinners ever given in this kingdom, in commemoration of the uprising of the men of Lancashire in vindication of their insulted honour -their civil rights—their blood-bought constitution, and in defence of the protestant altar of their God! " 0 could I worship aught beneath the skies, That earth has seen, or fancy can devise, My altar, sacred Liberty should stand, Built by no mercenary vulgar hand, — This triple realm adores thee—thou art come From Sparta hither, and art here at home ! We feel thy force still active—at this hour Eiijity immunity from priestly pow'r, While conscience happier than in ancient years, Owns no superior, but the God she fears ! Propitious spirit ! yet expunge a wrong . Thy.rights have sufter'd, and our laud too long. Let just Restraint, for public peace design'd, Chain up the Wolves and Tyyers of mankind ; The foe of Virtue has no claim to thee But let insolvent innocence go free !" The spirit of the christian poet, indeed, animated this -assembly,—every line is descriptive of the feeling of that soul-like sentiment which reverberated throughout. here, were religion—virtue —patriotism—freedom of thought and integrity of design, associated in one bond o f co. operative harmony and devotion of purpose, form ing in reality " the feast of reason and the flow of soul," under the constitutional banner of our church and King ! yes, ye advocates of a dominatio plebis—ye champions of unbridled " liberalism "—ye spouters of froth by the hour—you may contemplate this conservative gathering, and hide your diminished heads. Compare the manly decorum which pervaded this meet lug of a thousand constitutional Englishmen to the tluisy and senseless clamour—the .vapourous enthusiasm °f your reform orgies, where theories are broached desti tute alike of reason and practical advantage—where sys rtems and principles are propounded, which the projectors 'themselves can neither thoroughly understand nor sup- Port by.argument or common sense, and saving and ex '°epting now and then by a fine play of empty words, built ' l 'Pon the shallow hypothesis of expediency—a truly con l'eaient phrase for men who cannot illustrate the benefit of their schemes of - professLd improvement, upon the broad and easily comprehended foundation of utility or ecessity • Constrast the speeches delivered on this occasion with the aerial nothingness about Irish corrorate reform and 'eglish municipal corporations, puffed into the ears o f t he all- ex p ec tant 123 w hi gs at the recent Leeds dinner, a nd which their mouths repuffed, and their organ sent forth again, with its " mercurial breath" to the waiting multitude, who turned their noses away from its odour ! 4, Look on this picture and look on this,"—we challenge e tlr Reform Association and our worthy town councillors 10 the comparison, before that grand community of in telligent beings comprehending the NATION. Our noble ancestors of Runnymede did not perform a gre ater service to this Christian country, When th e y Wrested from King John the iron grasp of his Popish .eagued compact, than have the men of England, who, st this our day, have enrolled themselves under the 7 arl dard of th e cons ti tut i on , an d proclaimed i n a vo i ce of Itleder that they would not have that constitution changed, 4Wilether to please the revolutionary radical—gratify the do I : i tien of the .oligarchical whip—or serve the deeper I:• i gns of the p o liti ca l pap i s t. N o ,—th e com p ac t o f itelifiehi e:° - - "u5e,..04 1 311 The march of the English women h'n„netng agitgagargimigh our classic soil of freedom, I ,T o ed thei r ,_e.y, e*;; sdail, ; as the barons o f old to their to t , ll l: d. ' l3e. t.Yrastit !kin; :so the conse rva ti ves o f En g land t i _ a lyraut :faction, which now a t tempts to ru l e both ris. and Lords, and finally hopes to reign over or swamp those principles which throughout have been my guide and conduct, and which must be my guide hereafter. I took back to the question of a reform of - the House of C min - ions; and I ask you, what was the vote which I gave on that occasion ? It was decidedly to oppose organic change. The object of that reform was to do away with the rotten borough system, and to put an end to the nomination of members of the house of Com. moos by certain members of the House of Lords, as being in consistent with the principles of our constitution It was there fore to prevent an organic change that a bill was framed, having for its object a restoration of the rights of the people, by which they could make free exercise of those rights by re turning their representatives to Parliament. Now, then, I say the very same principle will be my guide hereafter, nut to de part from th ose ear l y l essons I h ave l earne d ; t h at pr i nc i p l e I • have long acted upon, and I must oppose any attempt to intro duce election into the House of Lords. It was the opinion of one of the greatest philosophers and statesmen of antiquity, Cicero, who laid down his opinion in more beautiful language than I can describe, that of all forms of government which he knew. be thought the best would lie established by an union of the three existing forms—that was, the kingly, the aristocratical; and the democratical. The government of England for centu ries has been composed of those three estates; we have had a constitution founded in that manner, under which we have pros pered, and for God's sake do not let us, for any momentary disappointment, plunge ourselves into difficulties from which we cannot see our way out. I know that some ardent politicians, some persons loving freedom as well but no better than myself, have pointed to America, and have said, there you see an elective monarchy and an elective upper house ofparlfament all working well. I say, wait a little longer. You have not seen that system of government tried in any other part of the world. Americans yet young; wait and see what civil commoton will produce, when it rises up among them. It has been said that good can never come out of evil. I think we can see the prospects of some evil. I will ask whether America can do well under her accursed system of slavery? I will ask whether good can come out of such a system ? What is it that we can contemplate under it but civil war ? As the population increases, and those who are held in bondage become stronger, their anxiety to free themselves from their oppressors will increase, and we shall have the slave states in open hostility against the free states, and her govern ment will uecome as powerless as it is powerful at present. And then, gentlemen, we shall see whether they do not want some of that stability which our ablest and best writers have attributed to an hereditary monarchy and an hereditary House of Lords." We hail this speech as ominous of a mighty split in the camp of the whips; and cannot withhold from Sir George Strickland, on this occasion, our humble meed of praise; for the know ledge he has displayed of the essential principles of the British constitution; and the just tribute of respect paid by him to the value and importance of the hereditary second estate of the realm, as an integral and indissoluble part of the monarchy. He has displayed both sound understanding and a true inde pendent spirit on its behalf, and if we are not much mistaken the Captain-General of the cabinet of poetical Lambs would rather that my Lord Morpeth had been snugly quartered at Derrynane Abbey or Dublin Castle than engaged in spouting at this whig dinner at Leeds the three estates of the realm, that it may govern the whole people, have lifted the voice of proud defiance; they will not have the fundamental laws of England chan,eied, nor the birth-right possessions of Englishmen entirely destroyed to serve the purposes of a false phi losophy, the dangerous spirit of perpetual innovation, or the designs of an ambitious anti-national church, sup ported by an anti-national creed. And why ?—because the conservatives of England saw clearly, without our using any improper metaphor, that on one side yawned the drea►y abyss of popular licentiousness and anarchy, with all their long train of concomitant evils ; and on the other frowned the precipice of despotism ! In one case, departure from the rule of 'political rectitude—in the other, the desertion of the grand foundation on which all moral rule is to be sustained, with equity—with se curity—and with true religious freedom. The Conservatives, then, have nobly met the first assault on the Constitution ; but the battle is not yet entirely fought; the crafty combined enemy will yet. make one or two more expiring struggles, and their roar ing chief, from his lair of Derrynane, still wields the club of papal power, and 'insolently brandishes it over our heads. The compact by which he is upheld is not yet broken; and. as the victory of Waterloo was not won till after sunset, we must not attempt to leave the field at noonday in the possession of the momentarily distracted but crafty enemy, who bewails the want of a congenial spirit of.evil purpose in the breasts of Englishmen. We must not forget the advice given by Sir Robert Peel, at the ever memorable dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hail ; repeated to his constituents at Tamworth ; and which has laid ns under the deep obligation of rendering the House of Commons constitutionally Conservative. The House of Lords has done its duty fearlessly, nay magnanimously ; and the country, the cation at large is grateful to the House of Lords ; but the Conser vatives must 'still show; . .ftc trustees for the nation, - by their continued zeal and- increased energy, that they are fully sensible of what has been done, and the importance of crowning it by their own exer tions. This we have no doubt they will do. The glorious scene at Newton is the earnest of a general burst of Conservatism throughout the kingdom, which will soon make Lord Melbourne's majority of twenty-nine, in the lower house, a foctorn supporting hope, indeed! Undoubtedly, we shall be again honoured by the mauvaise plaisanterie of our Radical-whig opponents; they may even deign to favour us with something in the shape of Wig argument, if not in the Johnsonian style, as the great moralist was not of their fraternity,) out of their own vocabulary of specious sophisms and false rhetoric!, to attempt to parry the effect of the Standard truths we have humbly, and without any pretensions to editorial coxcombry, or cynical self-conceit, put before our reflecting readers. We give them the challenge and the opportunity of making their case fair, if they can. We are neither judge nor jury in our own cause, and which is not the mere cause of self, but is identified with all that is valuable and worthy of preservation in this Chris tian state. We are launched on the wide ocean of public favour, or condemnation, not held fast by the narrow minded prejudices, or capricious judgment of individuals, nor controlled by the trammels of party faction. We have the colours of patriotism flying from the mast head of our vessel. She offers trusty conduct to all who will honour her with their confidence. in support of religion and sound moral principles; and, if she be not armed with the heavy artillery of Whiggery, or the brass guns of her Radical, pro-popery competitors, she has, in our hands, the invitation of candour, the materiel for defence, the ballast of honest intention, the canvass of resolution, and the. invigorating and propelling breeze of loyal Con. servatism to aid her progress; she is, therefore, equipped for the voyage, —may that voyage be prosperous ! That the present aspect of public affairs, domestic and foreign, presents a crisis of events, under which apathy becomes criminal, with all those who are really anxious for the support of sound principles, either moral, religi ous, p,r political, will not be denied by any man capable of discriminating between cause and effect, and who is not poisoned by the influence of a perverse spirit. That, as regards our social condition, the period is slowly but surely approaching, when another daring effort will be made by a desperate faction, n its threatened expiring agony, to convulse this kingdoM, with the view of en tirely subverting its remaining Institutions, and with the hope of increased parliamentary strength to estab lish an oligarchy, is but too clearly manifest, to deceive those who are capable of forming an ordinary judgment upon the conduct of men and things. If this should succeed the spoliation of the Protestant temples of our God will be but the prelude to the general disolution of the remaining safeguards and privileges of Englishmen. Thus honest industry will, inevitably, be deprived of its gains, and the rights of property be rendered subservient to new schemes of popular advantage. Patronage will be diverted into new channels, that our Popish-Whig Government may garble the House of Commons to its own will, and effectually choke the voice of its independ ent members,—and, should the Lords still resist, with all their patriotism—their constancy—their legislative acumen—it will avail but little—repeated and combined assaults on the independence of their hereditary position, will compel them to give way, and they will be borne down by the torrent In such a predicament, what is the duty of every man, rich and poor, who really loves his country, and who is not entirely insensible to the benefit of preserving his own freedom, upon something like a tangible foundation ? - It is evident, that the tlir(!atened consequences we have described, should be met by efforts corre.ponding with the magnitude and dreary aspect_ of their lowering appearance, by a perfectly understood and well-defined union, on the part of all loyal and good Christian men, throughout the kingdom ; and not confined entirely to those boroughs, districts, counties, or localities, where the elements of evil are more actively engaged; but a counter poise against that evil should be sought elsewhere, amongst the well-disposed, that the integral interests of our Commonwealth, may be duly sustained as a whole, in the House of Commons, and the time of independent constitutional members, not entirely and uselessly wasted in idle cabal and personal contention ; but the mischiefs of evil legislation, for the most unhallowed purposes, effectually controlled, in its own arena. To effect this desideratum, there is need of active co operative energy in detail—of unanimity in design—of energy in action—prudence in execution. It is, there fore, not sufficient, that public bodies should alone step forward to meet the swelling tide of democracy —indi viduals, who are all personally interested in this great moral struggle, should everywhere lend a helping hand to maintain that which embraces all that is valuable of earth's possessions —our moral and civil liberty, founded upon the Christian religion,—to raise an effectual em bankment against the swelling surge of Atheism on the one hand, of anarchy—sedition—and papal tyranny on the other. Were we now to fall back, and rest contented with that which has been done, we should retreat upon a false security—lose the vantage ground we have gained, and afford a greater triumph to the common enemy,— let us not then be deceiYed by the "lull" which precedes the coming storm. Now, men of England—hereditary freemen, is the time—now is the hour, to man afresh the majestic vessel of the state—to look well to her ap pointments —to ascertain well the strength of her bul warks —every "good man and true" to his post, that he may assist in working her to ride out the reviving fury of the blustering waves of agitation. England's hope is not yet broken if her sons will do their duty ! True it is that many thousands of well intentioned and thoroughly loyal men in this united kingdom (in Ireland especially) have been deterred by the dread of violence, under popular clamour, from speaking out boldly their sentiments, much more from taking a personal interest In conservative objects. Under the rage of faction and the threatened convulsion of society the quietude and presumed security of private life was preferred to the performance of a grave public duty. The season of fear in this respect on our side of the water has passed away, and it is incumbent now on every good member of the state to assist actively in its preservation. The whigs by their cwn measure have been driven to the nce,?s'si of the registration• A passive medium for efri , cting the THEATRE ROYAL. Dufing . the past week, the new Tragedy, brought out tor' the first time in Liverpool on yesterday week, of ", the Provost of Bruges," has been several tim es repeate d , and,each evening with success. The tragedy contains much scope for fine acting, anput to d,'as uch so as any talen g t' of an a c t or . The' traedy we ever witnessed, ct is ca too lculate of its to m the proof the,fad only last"sea son h av i ng b een b rought out in Louden, precluded any slavish copyings of the readings of other actors. Mr: Stuart, by h is master l y representation of the character allotted to him (the Provost) has raised still higher his reputa tion airiengsrhis fellow townsmen, as an actor of genius. The proud old man, raised by his own surpassing courage and wis dom, f ro m th e station of a serf to that of a rulerin the land, and afterwards borne down by trouble on trouble to the verge of madness, partook under this actor's masterly representation, of perfect personification; the audience forgot the actor in the Provost, admired and pitied him. We know not that •we can pay Mr: Stuart higher praise than i n complimenting him in thus attainin g the perfection of ' his art. Mr. Cooper, as Bouchard, played'with correctness of taste and judgment. Miss Faucit as Constance, forget__also play e d we ll . The more this lady en deavours to affectation, and to copy nature, the greater will she find her success; she has considerably- improved of late. Last evening we witnessed " Richard the nird," the part of Richard by Mr.tKean, of the Theatres Revel - Drury-lane and Covent-garden, who has been engaged for ten nights. We un derstand this gentleman has been making an extremely success ful provincial tour in the north. We went expecting a high mental treat, but must in justice say we felt disappointed. If Shakspeare intended to represent Richard the Third as a maniac, giving vent to continued ravings, and his every action to be conceived and executed in a fury, then was Richard, last evening; well represented; but if he intended to represent him as an impetuous, headstrong, and plotting villain, with some humane compunctions and misgivings —a s an ambitious, design ing, and cautious man, with courage, energy, and nerve enough to work out the dark broodin,gs of his brain, then was Shaks , peare's conception torn to shreds and tatters. The. Richard of last night showed not the designing man of mind and the daring villain, but from first to last the furious madman. What great scheme was ever plotted in a fury ? What great plot was ever worked out by the schemer in a whirlwind of blind passion approaching to an ecstacy over which reason had no sway? The gallery and a part of the pit applauded, of course; it suited them; besides the actor is one of celebrity, and therefore his acting must be fine. The more thinking part of the pit and the boxes sat silent; they saw the effort but felt' it not. Nature never works by contradictory rules. We, how ever, do Mr. Kean the justice to.say, thatin some parts of the play his acting betrayed great talent and high finish. We have not space to particularise, but many points told well. Mr. Cocper, as the Earl of Richmond, 'met with considerable ap plause.- He played, as he always does, with steadiness, cor rectness, and well. The amusements of the evening were con cluded with th e new travesty of " Master Romeo and Miss Ju liet," which, we understand, is about to be transferred to the London boards. The house was full. The son of the celebrated Rain Mohun Roy was sat in one of the boxes in eastern cos tume, and excited some attention. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,INDdRD. Stu,—At the memorable meeting, held in the Amphitheatre, on the 13th of July last, in defence of Scriptural Education, the Rev. Hugh in a strain of luxuriant and caustic irony, exposed toe anomalies and absurdities of that system which our sapient and liberal Town Council have introduced into the Cor poration Schools, for the avowed object of reconciling all con fileallg creeds, and removing all sectarian prejudices. I have observed that this was a memorable meeting; and such it assur edly was, comprising, with one or two exceptions, the whole of our clergy, who, with a zeal and devotion highly praiseworthy, came forward to record their dissent from that system of educa tion which excludes the word of God, and, consequently, weakens the force of moral obligation. In this sacred duty they were supported by hundreds of our leading merchants and gen try; and the spirit of Protestant feeling which ourst forth from upwards of 5000 voices carried consternation and terror into this Council Chamber, paralysed their exertions, and gave the death-blow to their fondly cherished hopes. To counteract the effect produced by the exposure of this their favourite system, it was deemed of the highest importance that measures should be adopted which might delude the public into the belief; that the picture was over coloured, and the charge pre.erred utterly false. By one of our wise Councillors it was positively denied " that the scriptures were secluded, or that , it was ever the intention of the Comicil to exclude them." This was a strange assertion, and created a wonderful sensation in the Council 'Chamber, inasmuch as Many had supported the measure on the express understanding that the scriptures were to be excluded, and the selections introduced. The • effect produced out of doors was somewhat different, and the natural in quiry arose, " How is this?" " Has there not been some mistake ?" "Is it possible that this honourable Councillor, who some few days before said, in reference to a charge which was supported by the evidence of fact, "It is false," and gave fur ther weight to this concise and brief sentence, by repeating with additional emph as i s , "Gentlemen,it is false," shotild expose himself to' the same reflection ?" The proof was called for, but of course- the public were never favoured with it. The fair and honourable mode' of substantiating a charge - was left to the advocates and supporters orscriptural education, as th e obliga tions of morality f orm no pare.of that system which excludes the light of revelation, and regards the precepts of the moral law as an obligation which interferes with the " liberty" of man. The " liberty" they contend for is to believe what they like, tp act as they like, and to say what they like, unrestrained by the obligations of truth and honour. Such is their system of edu cation ! Such their code of morals ! Such their notions of civil and religious liberty! "Licentiousness they mean when they cry liberty." It was impossible to believe that this sapient Councillor had as r sorted what he knew to be false, and it was generally believed he had prepared himself for the occasion by putting a bible in hi s pocket when h e v i s i te d th e-sc h ools, as I am credibly informed it has never been seen on the reading-desk of the scholar since .the introduction of the new system. Another champion who volunteered for the defence was a member of the same Council, and distinguished fur his uncom promising advocacy of those principles which, for want of a more appropriate name, are designated "liberal." This zealous Councillor had supported the system on its introduction in a speech which your contemporary, the Albion, pronounced "pub lic property," and urged its disseminatio n amongst a ll c l asses of the community. The fallacies contained in this speech were cleverly exposed by the Rev. Hugh M'Ncile, and this very sound advice was offered to the gentleman for his future govern. ment— • " IVe cuter ultra crepidam." VIE LIVERPOOL sTANDAkti. ol)jeets in view has succeeded to the threatened violence of unionism out of doors, of which the three confederated parties are compelled to avail themselves, and thus there is a fair and open field before the conservative in heart and the moderate christian - in feeling to compete with the demagogue leveller and the free-thinker with out risk of annoyance, or any manitained neglect of the duties of private life. Unquestionably the success which the arts of intimi- dation, aided by clamour, have met, in the sister kingdom especially, has encouraged and given hopes to the popish adventurer beyond his first expectations, and hence the new struggle of his " General Justice Association" to get the entire registry, if possible, within his grasp for Ireland. In this struggle both him and his association are the working agents of the whig ministers ; their manifesto is the feeler. - Here the great beggarman is their very humble servant—a small set off for being else where their MASTER ; and thus they alternately play the cups and balls like other jugglers. But with us the case is somewhat different. Many, from a natural diffidence and timidity of purpose purely, have given that equivocal support to the principles they in their heart approve and strictly deem to be correct, that they have appeared rather as favourers to that cause they conscientiously condemn than otherwise. The consequences of this line of conduct is now obvious; it has given our political op ponents a momentary triumph, and nowhere more con spicuously displayed than in our town of Liverpool, where the socinian liberal, the political dissenter, and the advocate of popery have taken the place of our protestant guardians, and expelled the Bible from our schools. Thankful, indeed, may we be to Lord Lyndhurst for his splendid opposition to the " charitable trustees bill." It is quite enough, as the Times expresses it, " to be sub jected to Mr. Rice's superficial inch scale with regard to God's own word ;" and that " the Bible itself has been garbled, and that, - too, by professed or professing protes tant dissenters," in a manner we think the general body will not attempt to vindicate. The Morning Chronicl e may labour to jeer down the question in its support of those who give credit to Lord Melbourne for his designed " heavy blow and great discouragement to protestant ism ;" but every truly upright man in the empire and every real friend of religion will put his seal upon the disgraceful compact. Now that experience has shown, that the intimidation and false alarm resorted to by the agents of the faction, was merely wielded by them as a bug-bear in the hands of a hireling press, to frighten the timid and draw aside the unwary, with the spectral illusion of national convulsion, let every man who stood on the neutral ground—who assumed for the moment the visor of tacit acquiescence, declare himself openly against the principle of evil, which is poluting our social atmosphere, in the hands of de signing adventurers; so that the genuine light of his feelings and his principles, may shine forth for the bene fit of the community, of which he is an individual mem ber—in the words of the immortal Burke, "it is the bounden duty of every man in the sphere in which God has placed him, to stand forward and perform his part to his country at such a crisis,"—and we would add, should he do so, he will not merely perform the part of a true patriot. but in the end will enjoy the benefit of an ap- proving ccnscience. But, even intimidation itself, has not proved so formi dable a weapon in the hands of the miscreant pro-popery faction, as the arch delusion which has been so thorough lr practised upon every grade and every class of society, in this yet Christian kingdom—that delusion has been but too complete and extensive in its effects. We may seek in vain through the history of any other country or people, that'ever had existence for its parallel —any re cord of credulity so entrapped —any instance of an intel ligent chivalrous nation, which was so completely triumphed over by designing men, to the destruction of its better polity —aye, even the desecration of its esta blished religion ! The retrospect leads one to infer, that men who ought to have been strong in fidelity, had sud denly fallen down prostrate before the versatile' spirit of change—that they had become blind worshippers of the god of error in every form—on the one hand lauding forth the phantasmagoria of Whiggery, stripped of its former integrity, and. on the other crouching to popery, cap in hand, ready to swallow the barbed hook held out to them, by the hireling champion of a foreign priest hood—the avowed enemy of everything British in prin ciple=everything Protestant in established regulation. The nobleman—the gentleman—the artisan, and the peasant, each vieing with the other, as gt were, to propel the machinery of revolution. Yes, it will stand to future ages, for the judgment of a reflecting posterity, a sad memento of the strange perversity of the human character, in this boasted age of learning—its inability to judob: correctly of its own interests—a warning beacon to forthcoming generations, of the dangerous consequences which may result from the misguided zeal of one leading Statesman in a nation, attempting as did Lord Grey, to wield and direct the energies of an im passioned people, under a system of policy, opposed to all the ancient principles of their constitution, and vainly thinking in his own person to " ride on the whirlwind and controul the storm" of those reform elements he had rashly called into power, solely to end in his own dis comfiture—his bitter disappointment, and his country's injury; leaving bins only the momentary chance of saving his honour and his credit, by a hasty retirement, to the mortifying reflections of private life,—and we would hope, that it will indeed prove a useful example to the present generation of Englishmen, of the dark artifices which associated political faction-mongers resort to, for the purpose of forwarding their own desperate fortunes, in the contemplated ruin of their country. OVERSEERS' Lisr.—A list of persons claiming to be placed on the list of electors has just been printed. It is highly com plimentary to the present rate-book clerk, Mr. Hart, for the claimants number only 57, and the objections are only against 196. Several of the objections have already been withdrawn, and we are assured that the real claimants will not exceed 20. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—The courts for the autumn circuit arc appointed to be held before H. R. Reynolds, Esq. Chief Commissioner, at Lancaster, Nov. 5, at Preston, Nov. 14; Liverpool, Nov. 15; Chester and City, Nov. IS. Considerable dissatisfaction appears to prevail at Manches ter, that Liverpool should precede it in receiving the British Association next year. THEATRICALS.—Miss Clara Chaplin, a favourite actress on the Liverpool boards, has received an advantageous offer from the managers of the Adelphi Theatre, London, throu g h M r . Yates; but which M r . Ch ap li n has declined for the present. DANGER OF DOING A GOOD ACTION.—On Tuesday last a man, passing along the banks of the canal, near Bootle, saw a woman struggling in the water. He immediately ran to her assistance, dragged her out, and carried her to the nearest house. At this time she was insensible; and, the man's business being urgent, he left her in the care of the people of the house. He had scarcely gone when one of the byestanders started a suspicion, that he had been attempting to drown the woman, and was mak ing his escape for fear he should be taken up. The suspicion, once started, seized all present. The constable was sent for, and he hurried after the supposed culprit, whom he overtook on the bank of the canal, and brought back to the house where the woman was. Meanwhile she recovered, and, to the questions put to her, replied, that, having a quarrel with her husband, she had left her home to drown herself in the canal; and drowned she certainly would have been, had not the man the constable had apprehended, on suspicion that he had intended to make away with her, come to her rescue. We understand that the extraordinary success which has so invariably attended the celebrated aurist, Mrs. Gardner, in cases of deafness and other disorders of the ear is chiefly owing to the innocence of the means she makes use of—a practice which has obtained her both the confidence of the public and the patr onage of the faculty. • Another material point is, that her opinion is candidly given without any fee in cases that are beyond the reach of art—a system worthy of imitation by some serf-styled aurists, whose chief object in travelling from town to town is merely to delude the unwary by promising what they are unable to per form. We beg to recommend to the notice of our readers a set, con sisting of twelve plates, of beautifully executed lithographic il lustrations of the " Progress of cotton," from the plantation until it becomes a manufactured fabric. We give the titles of the plates, which are splendid specimens of the art. 1, Cotton P lant tatiand D on. 2, Willowing,. 3, L a p -f rame. 4, Carding. 5, obbin frames. 6, Spi nn i ng. 7, Bleaching. 8, Warping and Winding. 9. lteedin,g or DraWing i n . 10 , Weaving. 11, Dying. 12, Printing. Film—Last evening, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in a stable belonging to Mr. Copeland, in Marybone. The en gines were quickly on the spot, under the superintendence of Mr. Whitty, and the fire was soon got under with no consider able damage. Letters from Alexandria st a t e , t h at nearly all the St. Simo nians who accompanied Father Enfautin into Egypt have dis appeared. They were twenty i n num b er, of whom one has died of some ordinary disease, five have been carried off by the plague, four have turned Mabometans, another has disappeared, nobody knows how, and three have left Egypt for other parts of the East. One of these last, although he cannot speak a word of Arabic, and has not assumed the turban, has had the courage to put himself at the head of a caravan of pilgrims from the West, and gone to Mecca; but, as the caravan had not return ed, his fate was not known. The rest have found employment in superintending the roads, time hospitals, and in giving public instruction. Father Eulantin alone remains unoccupied; he is sustained by his brethren, and particularly by Solyintut (Colonel Selve3.) LIVERPOOL POLICE. EXCISE INFORMATION.—On Friday, at the Police-office, Ed ward Owens was placed before the magistrates on a charge of having smuggled ashore, from a sloop at the Prince's Dock, a large quantity of tobacco. Mr. Brooke, solicitor, apPeared on behalf of the prosecution. A porter named Edward Turner de posed that on the Friday before he was standing at the Prince's Dock, about half-past eight o'clock, when the prisoner told hint to fetch a car. He backed the car, by his instructions, to the quay side, and then went down aboard a Welsh sloop to assist him to bring a hamper ashore. He put the hamper in the car, and drove off up Chapel-street, when he was stopped by a police officer, who asked him what was in the hamper, and afterwards proceeded to open it, and found in it two rounds of tobacco. The officer then took charge of the hamper, and took him with it to the Customs; the prisoner ran away. Ile afterwards went down to the sloop and pointed out the prisoner, who was stand itw on the sloop, to the officer, and he was taken into, custody. The police-officer corrob orate d th is statement. James Hindley, tide-surveyor, deposed that in consequence of information he received he seized the tobacco which weighed 621b5., and which appeared to be of foreign manufacture. The prisoner was mate of a Bangor sloop, the Lady Penrhyn. The prisoner denied that he had any knowledge of what the hamper contained. Mr. Ilall said he had incurred the penalty of £lOO, which he should adjudge him to pay, or be committed to the Borough Gaol, until it was paid. He had no alternative. AssaULT.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a female named Mary Coglan, bearing all the characteristic Irish traits, and in a genuine Irish fever, appeared before the magistrates to com plain against Mrs. Mary Malowney and Mrs. Ann James for a grievous assault. Mrs. Mary Coglan, dropping a curtsey, and with eyes sparkling with indignation, then addressed the ma gistrates. " I niver offended Mary Mallowney in me life, phase yer worships ; but she sthruck ine tree times, and offended me very bad intirely as I wur goen for me husband's taties, and I cried out for witnesh severhall thimes, an' I never sthruk her at all at all till she'd sthruck me all over in every place; and Mrs. Ann James was as bad as she, for by dint of dhragging they pulled me on 'le top of Misthress Mallowney, who twishted her !lan's in me hair, an', sis she, arrah you ould diowol I pitch you man alive,' sis she, (laughter,) till Misthress James comes up, an', don't kill the little woman, sis she ;' bud-an.age,' sis I kape yer ban's out ov her hair,' sis she, 'sure one pull you've had's enough,' sis she. An' its the truths I'm tellin', an' no lie, yer hanners."—Mr. Hall : " Well, have you any witnesses?"— Complainant; " Witneshes, och sure an' I have; Mrs. Taylor, stan' up Mrs. Taylor." Mrs. Taylor then stood up, and on the book being presented to her to swear her, she shrunk from it as though it were a wasp, saying, " Shure, yer banners shirs, not wish to take an oath at all at all; bud anythin' yer hanners wish that I have to say, I'll say id." (Dropping a curtsey.) `Mr. Hall : "Then you may stand down. Well, Mrs. Malowney, what have you to saytathis?"—Mrs. Mallowney: " Why, plase yer riverences, I live in Gloster-street since I was four years odd; an' whinl come to me (Moor, she called me, an' abhused me poor mother as has bhin dead these sixteen years, and me aunt an' all to the best dishadvantage. Put that in your pocket, Misthress Mallowney,' sis she. A'n' she's tould a lie dhere wid de book in her hen'. She sis she was goen for pitay ties, in the stead o' the which she sthood at her dhoor, an' sis she, 'there' s n o t a woman f rom t h e top to the bhottom -of the sthreet bud I can lick.' So I wint accross the sthreet, when she sazed me, and dhragged me by the hair, an', phase yer river ences, wottldn't I suffer all kinds of visitation before I 'ud giv' her a whack at all ?"—Mr. Hall: " Well, Mrs. James, what have you to say."—" Why, phase ye gintlemen, whin she seen me she begun backsliding agin my husband, as has gone to his long home these shixteen years, till it wasn't in human natur to bide id. Be the beauty o' man,' sis 1, 'humid yer whisht, an' don't be makin' me mad intirely ;' when she ups fist and begun fighting and knocks me down fiat as a griddle; an' shure its 29 years I've bin in dhe parish, and liver was here before, an' I can get me written charactur' if you plaze, gintlemen."—Mr. Hall inquired if they had any witnesses, when a host of women behind replied, " Yes." It appeared, however, that hardly any of them were present, and others declined swearing. One of the witnesses, however, burst out, that "She (complainant) lives in my house, an' as I heard that she'd pick'd up wid the /with o' bad company, I wint and axed her for dhe rent, whin she turned round and spit in ine face."—Mr. Hall ordered each of the de fendants to pay ss. and costs, or, in default, to be committed for seven days. • THE CoINERS.—On Saturday Edward Arnett, his wife, and sister were placed before Robert Elison Harvey, Esq., to receive their commitment for the coining case. Mr. Harvey, in the usual form, ordered each to be committed for felony for coining to take their trial at the assizes. Mr. Crewe, jun. inquired if bail could he taken for Mrs. Arnett, who is near her confinement. Mr. Harvey replied that the magistrates had no authority to grant it. Mrs. Arnett wished to know if they might be allowed to see their friends before they were sent to gaol. Mr. Harvey said they must apply to the visiting magistrates. Mr s . A rnett then appli e d t o k now if t h ey might Ise allowed to have pillows, for the beds were so bad it quite distressed them. Mr. Harvey replied that the magistrates had no authority in thegaol to which they would be committed. Mr. Powell, of the Mint, and all the constables who had given evidence, were then hound over in their own recognizances in £lOO, to appear and give evidence against the prisoners at the ensuing assizes. The prisoners were then cm's - milted to Kirkdale Gaol. Mrs. Arnett appeared very much distressed, and Arnett much care worn. The con finement of the last few days hail given each of them a pallid appearance. ; ROBBERY BY A SBRVANT.—Yesterday, at the police-office, a girl named Sarah Kendall,sservant to Mrs. Moreton, pawn broker, of Dale-street, was placed befor e th e mag i strates charged with having pilfered a variety of articles, the property of her mistress. Miss Eliza Moreton deposed that they kept a pawn broker's shop in Dale-street, and that the prisoner had lived with them as servant for three months. They had lately sus pected her honesty, and determined to turn her away. On searching her box they found a quantity of jewellery, which they could identify as their property. Miss Moreton then pro duced a brooch, souse ear-rings, a coral necklace, a ring, &c., which had been found in her box. She had also missed several things of late. Police-officer 215, who took the prisoner into custody, deposed that the prisoner Owned that she had the things in her - box, but that she kept them there for fear they should be lost. The magistrates remanded her till to-day to afford time to Miss Moreton to ascertain whether she had missed any other articles-which she could s p ea k to. - IMPIUMENCE.—Y es t er d ay , at the police-office, one of those unfortunate females who infest our streets, of rather prepos sessing appearance, named Ellen Wallace, was brought before the magistrates charged by a middle-aged respectable-looking man named Lawson, a stranger, from Kent, with having robbed him the night before of £B. The complainant stated that the night before he was standing in Dale-street, at a little before eleven o'clock, when he was accosted by the prisoner. He re mained talking to her for souse time in the street, when she picked his pocket of his purse, containing a £5 Bank of Eng land note and three sovereigns. He saw her withdraw her hand from his trousers pocket, and in an instant she either trans ferred it to her companion, or threw it away, for he charged her immediately with the robbery, and gave her into custody, but the purse was not found. He was perfectly sober at the time. The magistrates ordered the depositions to be taken. CASE OF SWIN DIA NG.—Yesterday, at the police• office, a stout, good-looking ' middle-aged inatiiid respectabl y d ressed, was placed in the dock before the magistrates charged by a young man, an Irishman, with having robbed him of ten sovereigns. On swearing the complainant, however, he expressed sonie difficulty about taking the oath, and said that he did not know the prisoner, and could not swear to him, he only suspected it was he. The prisoner was in consequence discharged. In a few minutes, however, he was again placed in the box, and the com plainant brought forward by Ainsworth, a vigilant and active officer, and told to state the circumstances under which he was robbed, The complainant, whose name is James Coneys, and who appeared very green, and freshly imported from Erin, was again sworn. He deposed—" I am a sthranger in this town, an' I cannot exactly shwear where I was robbed, but it was about half a mile from the Exchange." The magistrate inquired when it was, and the circumstances under which it occurred. Coin plainant—" I was robbed on Friday nightilasht, an' id was dark ish. I first saw this man down at the docks in a house about half -past three o'clock on Friday. He had a (rind wid 'im, an' they called for some ale, an' I took some wid 'em, an' they then pressed me to take a glass of punch, which 1 did. They then said they were sthrangers in dhe town, an' they would have me to shew 'em dhe town as I had been in id a wake. An' 1 have a strong suspicion dhat dhat is the man dhat Ethnic my ten sovereigns. He said he niver kept company wid any one he did not suppose was a gentleman, an' pruv to me now," sis he, "dhat you are a g . intleman." " How will I do dhat," sis 1, "'bud by me conducts" its "Just show me your money, sis he, "an' I'll show mine to pray dhat I'm a gin'teman," sis he, an he pulls out a lot of sovereigns, an' then put 'em in his fob, an' deshired me to do the shame for shafety it I had any. So I pulled out my ten shovereigns, an' he wrapped 'em up for me in brown paper an' put 'ens in my watch pocket, an' instead of puttin' the shovereigus in my pocket he shoved in a lump o' brown paper, an' dhat is de way I was rhobbed. An' I have never seen de man since till now?' A witness deposed to being told of the robbery. by the complainant, and to complainant's pointing out the prisoner as he was wa lki ng along, and telling him that he thought that was the man who had robbed him; in consequence he (witness) went up to the prisoner and charged him with the robbery, when he said that he was a stranger in the town, and . knew nothing of courts of j ustice, and that he would rather givef£B than have anything to do with it, which he of fered to de. Mr. Whitty appliedto have the prisoner remanded till next day, in order to afford time for further inquiries. The prisoner is a well-known thief, and goes by the c ognomen o f `Staffordshire Joe." His n ame is Joseph Buckley. The ma-. gistrates accordingly remanded the prisouer till to-day. The prisoner behaved with great nonchalance. CHARGE OF STABBING.— Yesterday the South American Indian, named Emanuel Rice, who has been some time in cus tody on a charge of stabbing the mate of the Vere, African trader, whilst in the river at Bunny, was again placed helot() the magistrates, he having been remanded in order that the Spanish consul might be in attendance during his trial. The Indian presented a most ferocious aspect. He is low of stature, with square copper-coloured features, having a diabolical ex pression. The Spanish consul was in attendance, as was also Captain Huskisson, of the Vere, who brought him home, and who witnessed the circumstance. It was announced that the mate did not intend to press the charge or have any further trouble about it; he had perfectly recovered, and he thought the punishment the man had received from his long imprison ment enough. Capt. Huskisson said he had no charge against hi m ; he should not have brought him home if he had not been compelled. Mr. Hall said the case. was one which concerned the mate more than the public, and if the mate did not choose to press the charge he should discharge him. He was then told i n Spanish, by the consul, that he was discharged, the mate de clining to prosecute. . . The amount of the la* bill alone of the• town-clerk of , the new corporation, in the short time since his appointment, is' nearly I.:3oo.—Stochport Advertiser. We regret to have to announce the death of Mrs. Lister, of Armitage-park, which took place at Tunbridge-Wells. Mrs. Lister was mother of Lady John Russell; she had been ailing for some time past. It was, however, a source of melancholy consolation that she was surrounded at the time of her deeectce by her nearest relatives, including her daughter a n d son -i n -l aw . —Evening Paper. T f in KtNG.—The fact of the Duke of Bedford having sub scribed to the O'Connell fund was not made known to his Ma jesty until a few days ago. when, we are informed, and our information may be fully relied on, the King appeared much surprised, and "expressed his indignation at the conduct of his grace by ordering the bust of the Duke of Bedford, which stood in the gallery at Windsor, to be immediately removed, at the right to stand by hi s party, if he chose it, he would not allow the bust of any nobl eman to retrain at the cast l e w h o s h ou ld ssuanb)secrtiibmee "v to tsheering, th at, although every man was per f ect l y O'Connell tribute.—Northampton Herald. THs VOLUNTARY SY sTmENI.—It appears that the annual subscription to the Bucks Infirmary of the churchmen in Ayles bury, is in the proportion of nearly £lO to the dissenters' £l. Donations and collections in nearly the same ratio. The gene ral subscription proving that the churchman has subscribed £26 Ids- for every subscribed by the dissenters; and in do nations and collections has bestowed 176 times as much as the dissenter, i. e. for every £1 donation by the dissenter, the church man has presented £176 in actualamonnt ; whilst the voluntary preaching dissenter has given £36 o.s. 5d., the voluntary practi sing churchman lies given the sum of -!.:(43-18 7s. 4d. ! —Bucks Herald. However, this worthy Councillor proved very obstinate in his error, and, under feelings of great irritation, sat down to write his famous "defence," which neither does credit to his head nor to his heart. His "defence" is addressed to the ignorant and credulous, and is marked by a disposition to evade " the light lest his deeds should be reproved." He too has met with a formidable antagonist in the person of the Rev. John Lyons, who has stripped bins of his laurels, and accused him of an en deavour to mislead the public by garbled extracts from those selections which are to form the school-book in the corporation schools. To this charge he has not, that lam aware of, even deigned a reply. Failures, like these, would have daunted most men from entering the Gists against such " champions of our faith," but with a recklessness of consequence, and with a spirit of haughty daring, which betrays his weakness, that indi vidual whom Mr. M'lsleile so felicitously characterised as "Tom in the middle," has buckled on his armour and prepared himself for battle.. The socinian on the one hand, and the advocate of the vo luntaryprinciple on the other, have attempted to reconcile the ab .surdities of this system, but have failed in their enterprise. It was recommended by the rev. speaker that this task should be confided to "Toes in the middle," and the result proves that his advice has been received and acted upon. How he has succeeded you and your readers must judge. His defence is found in a letter whicli appeared in the Albion of yesterday, addressed to the late mayor, criticising pretty freely the speech which he delivered upon the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the protestant school. In justice to this "Middleman" I must allow that he has displayed considerable talent,. and exposed two or three glaring absurdities, such as " primitive protestantism" and "re ligion without doctrine," which, I confess candidly, I cannot understand. But my object, sir, is to point out the fallacious reasoning and false premises , upon which he essays to defend the system of education adopted in the corporation schools, and also in Ireland. Mr. Aspinall asserted, in the course of his speech, " that education without religion was a curse instead of a blessing." In proof of the correctness of this assertion, we might refer to the opinion of many learned and pious men who possess an intimate acquaintance with the human mind, and know what effects are produced on the moral habits by force of education. Swift remarks that " All nations have agreed in the necessity of a strict education, which consists in the observance of moral duties." In support of this principle, I would refer your readers to the charge delivered by Lord Abinger at the last assizes of the county of Leicester, especially to that part which relates to the education of the lower classes of society. He says " that he certainly never would discourage educating the lower classes ofsociety, but he would boldly affirm that if the education was not founded on a moral and religious principle, instead of becoming a blessing to the poor, it would, in the end, turn out a curse. To give a sound education to the poor, moral and religious instruction must accompany it—the receiver must be well made to know not only the moral duties he has to perform, but also the religious ones; and, however number of conscientious men may talk, and advocate the one t without the o th er , s till b e wou ld maintain the design an d effect intended by educati on wou ld b e l ost if not a dh ere d to. st Educa tion, without reli g i ous i nstruct i on cou ld not contro l t, e strong passions of the hu man race, an d h e h a d on ly againrepeat g that the various calend ars th roug h ou t t h e circuit the poorer had toi plainly / convinced him that it w ou ld b e far better to l ease classes of the community i n ignorance than a to n _edueate thenwith out having for the groun d wor k our blessedrevealed religion. Teach men their r e li g i ous an d m oral duties in this world, and he had no hesitati on i n sa y i ng that crime in this circuit." would not, iu th e en d , appear so monstro us as h e had witnessed Supported by this testimony, the public are in no dan ger o f being led away by th e a bsurd:sod fallacious reasonings of "'lost in the middle." His argument rests on two positi ons, e i t h er of which, successfully controverted, would destroy the whole super structure. The first is, an appeal to Mr. Aspi na ll whether he would consider himself accursed had he not superadded to the cultivation of his mental faculties a knowledge of religion as taught by the church of England. The second is, an attempt; to prove that education in the doctrine s o f t h e false prophet of Mecca, is as great a blessing as being educated i n t h e pure . and holy doctrines of sacred scripture. With regard to th e fi rs t,' I boldly avow that Mr. Aspinall would consider himself accursed had the cultivation of his mental and intellectual faculties not been .connected with a knowledge of religion and the observance of moral duties, excepting indeed that the absence of all religious truth had led him to prefer the dogmas of a false philosophy to the precepts and obligations of revealed truth. The tendency o f sin is to harden the heart, and philosophy teaches men to c l a spise an affect d rejectthe what th ey cannot understand. But, sir, this d o es not argument. •We are not to inquire what Mr. Aspinall might have been—devoid of a religious education—but what he is. No man can look around him and witness the misery and sin which is produced by the want of religious education— the diffusion of infidel sentiment—the contempt which is poured upon the word and ordinances of God—the desecration of his Sabbath, and the licentiousness which prevails even amongst men educated in that knowledge which may adorn and improve the intellect, but leaves him a prey to the worst passions of his nature,—without valuing his privilege in being made acquainted with that knowledge, which, whilst it elevates the mind and ennobles the intellect, also improves the life. With regard to. his second tijection, 1 might refer him to tite pages of anti qu it y f or a positive contradiction of his assumed su ch length, B ut h av i ng d rawn out this commun i cat i on to length, I must conf i ne myself to an argument another source. If happi ness can ex i s t where licentiousness and imm ora lit y preva il —w h ere v i ce tr iu m phs in thedera'tousneis vin ruin and from degradation of mankind—where every abound s — w h ere crue l ty an d oppress i on are found, specieswohfatiniit- neces sity exists for the circulation of the sacred scriptures ? Why are Christians of every denomination engaged in the holy en terprise of evangelizing the world by sending out men to teach the way of salvation, if error and superstition of the most abomi nable character tend to their happiness in exact proportion with the blessings of Christianity ? The correspondent of the Albion, in his zeal to oppose the spread of scriphital education; haS avowed sentiments utterly at variance with those enter tained and expressed by the adt'ocates of the new system. It is .infidelity alone which dares to compare the Word of God with the Koran, either in its influence on the preieni or future condition of inan The advocates and defenders of the system of education in our corporation schools, will not thank " Toni in the middle" for hi s i n j u di c i ous Teal in pumungstich a li ne or defente.—Yotirs, &c., • THEOPHILUS. . . • - TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Siti,—The following advice (by the writer no'doubt thought terse) has been received by some of the clergy of Liverpool:— " Elide your head, Father Thomas is in town." Now, does the writer mean to insinuate, that wheie Father Thomas and his fraternity preside; heads are in danger? Or does he kindly mean to remind the clergy, that no good man should show his head where Father Thomas shows his skull ? Or is it a hint, that heads will be totally out of place in such company, blocks being all-sufficient ? We leave the solution of the question to the 'writer hiniself; merely reminding him that the Protestant clergy of Liverpool are not of those who are accustomed to conceal, under the cowl and- cloak, their faces or their persons, their deeds and their de signs, —not of those who, "for a garment wide and broad, have cloaked them in religion." Should the writer, however, wish to regain possession of his, to him, interesting docUment, the value of which appears to be so dubious, let him apply at the General Post-office, where it awaits him. Its further destiny is at his own disposal; but might we he permitted to advise iii our turn, it would be, that he should hide "the head and trout of his offending" in the first fire he meets with. Your's, truly, _ NO CLERGYMAN. LICENSED ,VICTUALLERS AND WHIG -RADICAL TRICKERY. TO THE EDITOR, OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4ID. Stn,—Of all the desperate shifts to which the Whig-radical corporation have been driven, there is none by which they have displayed a more galling or meaner submission to the voice of justice than by their late conduct towards the licensed viettial lers. . It.would be vain and idle to•insinuate that the publicans of Liverpool haVe not been severelytreated; more so, 1 believe, than those of any other place. Even at the meeting at the Queen's Theatre, it was stated by One of the speakers, (Mr. Danson, 1 think,) that Mr.Whitty admitt e d t o hi m t ha t several respectable publicans had been fined "fbr very trivial (Paces," but that a new system was about to be adopted. They may well change a system that has created general disgmit, th;egh some of its supporters would gladly go still further if it Were in their power. If the late system was a good one, why , should they alter it? If it was a bad one, why did they ever adopt it ? Let them answer either or both of these questions. •Why' should respectable publican,be fined for very trivial efencei whilst li censes are granted to lifty-six or fifty-eight houses that "depend solely on thieves and postitute s ?" Let them ans wer thi s qu es t tion if they can. Whether is it better to allow respectable pub.‘ Beaus to escape for trivial offences, or to encourage crime in a wholesale manner by licensing so eiany houses which they know, through their police, are supported by the ,very dregs of society? ,We know that it is right for the police to lay informa lions against disorderly houses. Then, out of - 58 houses sup: Ported by such characters, how does it come that only 26 have been fitted, though many respectable ones have not escaped In discovering that these houses are as bad as they are repre sented, sufficient evidence was afforded to convict, otherwise these houses have been unjustly maligned. Thus the corpora: tion, the magistrates, and the police are placed in positions from which it will be impossible to extricate theraSelyes by any reasonable arguments.' It is evident that some have been treated with great severity, and others with shameful lenity. There is not a semblance of even-handed justice in the whole matter. Is it possible for them to reconcile such glaring inconsistencies? But now they are going to adopt a new system. Wherefore? The day of election, is approaching! ." Aye r there's the rilb"— "conscience snakes cowards of us all." Yes, it is better td mend late than never. They are beginning now to open their eyes and their ears—to see and to hear that to which they were lately both blind and deaf. They now strive to persuade the publicans that such treatment is not so bad as " ill-conditioned people would represent it." One of the organs of the press that supports the corporation through good and ill report compares the love of the tories for the publicans to the love of the lion for the lamb, or the hawk for the dove. But if this editor had been inclined to write the truth, he might have written thus We are compelled, in downright truth and honour, to acknowledge that the love of the tories for the publicans is at least as great, if not greater, th an t h e paterna l affection which has been evinced towards them by our reformed corporation." If lie had come out in this way, he would have acted a fair and manly part; but it would not do for him to give tories their due; because he must run them down in every quarter if he expects to please his readers. I could not avoid laughing at the very humiliating' conde scension of the watch committee in consenting to send their report to the licensed victuallers' meeting before that document had been presented to the council. Even Mr. Waimsicy is willing to conciliate. They have yet a few friends among the publicans, some of whom are not ashamed to stand up and yin. dicate the abuses of the old system, though they cannot convince their brothers in the trade but that some of the most respectable have been severely dealt with, whilst some of the most guilty have escaped with impunity. It is very clear that these oppres sors of the publicans have made two important discOveries : Ist. That they have carried matters too far; 2d. That the day of election is too near. VINDEX, LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL, LEED STREET, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPkRPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In drawing up_a statistical report of the surgical prac tice of the Northern Hospital, during the last twelve month, the following facts presented themselves, and, from their nature, prove the great usefulness of that charity. If you think them worthy a place in your journal, I shall feel obliged by your giv ing them insertion. I t w ill h e, I hope, a means of making the charity more generally known, and, from the knowledge of its great utility, produce an increase of subscriptions; and, when it is understood that the committee have been compelled to take the adjoining house to the hospital, fur the purpose of accomino ' dating thirty-four other patients, I feel confident that the pub lic of Liverpool will come forward with its usual benevolence, and contribute to the support of the increased accommodation given to the poor. The accidents admitted into the hospital are, genet ally, the very worst of their kind, such as to make the removal of them to a distance (if not impossible) of so much danger and suffer ing as, at once, to justify the locality of the institution. Never theless, from a want of room, no less than ten severe accidents were sent away from the hospital-door since January last. Out of this number were three broken legs; the others, from their severity, were equally well deserving admission into an hospi tal. The following account, contains the list of surgical cases; the medical cases do not form any part of this report.—You!s, very, respectfully, JOHN M . BAN NER. 24, Rodney -street. A report of the surgical cases admitted into the Northern Hos,- pital from the 25th of August, 1835, to 25th August, 1836. Accidents admitted 247 Surgical diseases 96 343 Of the above number 281 were cured, 4 incurable, 27 rethaih ing in the house, and 28 died; 11 of the patients who were brought in with accidents died within two hours after admission: Out of the 247 accidents, 131 were fractures-106 simple, 28 compound. Ot the surgical cases, 136 were labourers, 95 sailors, 53 ma sons, plasterers, &c., and 59 women ; total 343. 25 of the patients, when admitted with accidents, were in a state of intoxi cation.. There were 11 cases of suspended animation from immersion in water: these were recovered with the exception of one case_ There have been 29 operations during the twelve months, out of these 27 recovered. Of the 343 cases mentioned above, 15G were English, 90 Trish, 18 Scotch, 38 Welsh, 17 Americans, 2 Swedes, 1 Dane, 1 Mal :ese, 3 Germans, 1. African, 2 Prussians, 13 unknown. BEATON PARK M EE T I NG.—This fashionable i c t ss e e l s l n le. now n e e e l e i t t :o ue f g .io s nu p W r o i bs l r ee l commence on the 28th instant, and, from the preparation t every s inak;• ing,ie doubtless previous m i t will e eti exceedng. A new g in splendour a nd a t n h d x stand e races, by 28 f eet , The basement o ias o nti f ig,ir. yrfor erection, ioeizn e: he t and will be completed before r a a n n d e a c t a l a c n u d l atecommodious m structure o d ate lo 0 0 , m e s a p s . e u e r t i a n t g o r 7 s? . f will present a neat Grecian front, with pilasters, corn i ce, c emented in imitation of sto ne; and the interior will c Wilton's private stai rcase, Lord Wilton's dress gentlemen riders' dressing-room, jockeys' dress ign.traoionn, Lady and (ly weighing-room. Th e second story will be the dress ing-room, ladies' stand, open in front, and the roof supported by fluted iron pillars, with ornamental capitals and bases; an ornamental iron ballustrade will run along the front, in the centre compart ment of which is a neat casti ng of Lord Wilton's arms. About one-fourth of this part of th e stand is divided from tin! rest by a l ow partition, and appropriated to Lady Wilton and her party; the rest is public. The gentlemen's stand is on the root', which rises iri steps.covered with .lead, and is protected by an orna mental balustrade in front. The entrance to the public part of the ladies' stand and to the gentlemen's stand is by a flight of stone steps at the back. The situation of the stand is such as to command an admirable view of the sport, and it will form an additional ornament to the beautiful scenery of the park.— Mane/rester Guardian. The Hantburylt Correspondent gives the following of the 23d ult. from Copenhagen :—"A fact that lately occurred at Fort. St. Thomas shows that the disbanding of 120 men, a few mouths since, has not overcome the had disposition of the garrisons in our West India Islands. Three soldiers, guilty of robbery, had been subjected to corporal punishment by order of the coni rnauder of the fort. A soldier who witnessed the punishment thought that the sub-officer who inflicted the blows struck them rather too hard; he entered the guard-house, borrowed a knife from one of his comrades, and on the sub-officer coming in, he plunged th e k n if e i n t o his heart, crying out at the same time, 'lt holds firm.' Ihe assassin was brought before a court-martial, and shot a few days afterwards. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry "arrived the day before yesterday in this city, coming from Kiel, on hoard the steamer.' A letter from Marseillessays,that the project of the French government to establish a regular communication, by ti s n i np _ p4 iessels,'between Marseilles, Naples, Athens, and Constanis hopedl is in a state of great forwardness.. In September it w... , „%. that several steam-boats, destined for that set only seven s,rivielnt y es.f Brest, and begin their regular voyages. At first q sets s were antin s e u , l a il i T d sed othertnecessary,obe stoppages, ~ which ! I n n, a, c ) . ori d. e te i a m y l , t it t e i i o r ti r o t f u t r h il e , the number has been increased to nice, , dt I s B e o rb l r i t o ls rs a e uc p i ( d e i r t :. 1 a tenth will be aced,pre prhe steam-enginesno de Bela ins b m o a a y rd llc e a h u i s tii. e e d , sbel are f a and fiVe ha s fak. gel.'n'll'lli! reinaintl r S e i a x d o y f be th e e n making, or are already made, 'everything ecnogniinpelestewie,riendorsdere,tlo F,il:nici d e e n t in France:iTii(l7l Vce.a.siisiehlilii:iig?...6:o;ehleli other 'passengers: -Thiiinp,r.tiiee voyage e u p, and agreeable.pi. o v lt Theed s lv e e , f v t oi re e t q cha u eb t quite na splend i d. si. . ssa I_e calculatedf from oi mi Everythe ns 6 sue o l_P p , c ha a::s t ) s s :::: ae l; a • g n P n e t : i t t a : l :l °l ' Constantinople -I ) uh l u i 6 r kt: l, ll : l 9 e i . .. 11 ';" b ta l o r board l ,...H e e r Li i., e ; r 03.). fratits. excludi ii the 1 d cabin fitted bin s_l n d . i n ti theca e b e in - F ro m Alexandria to Atihooensfrtahtecpsr.iceF•iosrtoevbeer,y sealetigu.e. p francs, withso hammocks .Marseillestce r a g f e o t yinotthheerltdefeagneot mentioned, the charge to be for the c blin a e7 b st i vi n erea t nn ea6n' franc, are much lower, it is said, than those chiirged in' the greater number of the English Post-office steam-boats=, and in those which for behoof of individuals make the voyage between Mar seilles and Naples. It is expectecithat this scheme will he very profitable to the French government. Should Marseilles be soon connected with Lyons and Pails by a railway, the work will he then completed. Marseilles will then be the chief mart for all the trade between the Mediterranean coast and the north of Europe, as well as the second city of France. When the railroad shall be completed, a traveller will reach Lyons from Marseilles in 10 hours, and Paris in 30 hours. A Versa, travelling from England might then reach Marseilles in three days, from Falmouth, going round by the Straits of Gibraltardr , Gutiyna a i's Ales, , tnyer. • '' ' ' • •eTJ~'-''u'~'.gie'.~-.r_. .'"""-- x,91 ~~ 3. = ' l ~> 1 fat le, tr , . 4