The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-05 00:00:00

THOMA 2 nIANTOTIV, SILVEARMVIII ANA SCWIII.I.IIA TO Tice QUEEN, respectfully informg 'Strangers and Visitors to Liverpool that a choice STOCK tit' the NEWEST PATTERNS may be selected from, ally completed with pro m pt ness an d accuracy , b e i ng i ally communication with Messrs. DISMORE and SON, Manufacturers, London. SPOONS, FORKS, &c. for Exportation from this Port, at the same prices as in London. NOW SELLING OFF PRESENTS LADIES' AND GENTLEM 'ST'S DRESSING C. SES, WRITING DESKS, W K BOXES, ENVELOPE AND PA ER CASES, SELLING OFF AT A SACRIFICE, AT GLASGOW HOUSE GAS CONSUMERS SAVE 25 PER CENT. IN BURNERS, CHANDELIERS, AND WATER S L I D E S, Warranted of the best construction), AT GLASGOW HOUSE, - )3, CHURCH -STREET, LIVERPOOL K ID GLOVES CLEANED, at Sixpence per Pair, by L. RATEAU and Co., London. AGENTS : Liverpool, Mrs. B. LOMAX, Smallware and Fancy Ber lin Warehouse, No. 8, Cases-street, Claytori-square. Rock Ferry and Neighbourhood, Mrs.A. LOMAX, Cir culating Library, and Dealer in Smalllis, Toys, and Fancy Stationery, New Chester-road (opp te the Post-office), New Ferry. *** Blonde, Satin, Velvet, and every article in Embroi dery Cleaned and Dyed so as to be equal to new, as usual. A Box despatched to London every Friday evening. PIANO-FORTES -BARGAINS ! ! CABINET PIANO-FORTES, Six-and-Half Octaves, in Rosewood. A new Square PIANO-FORTE. with all tiew improve ments, a delightful Instrument, by a Lond Maker. Also, a Brilliant Toned COTTAGE PI 'O, Six and a Half Octaves. Two other Square PIANO-FORTES, econd-hand. A Logier's CHIROPLAST, &c. May be seen at SHADE'S CHEAP PIANO and MU SIC WAREHOUSE, 4, BERRY-STREET, where all the New Songs and New Music are Lent on Hire by the Day, Week, or Month. COUNTY OF LANCASTER, WESTERN DIVISION. WHEREAS, by Patent bearing date on or about the 14th day of September, 1826, His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick of Brunswick Lunenberg, Duke of Sus sex, Earl of Inverness, Baron of Arklow, Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter, &c. &c., Grand Master of the most Ancient and honour4e Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England, cdistituted and ap pointed LE GENDItE NICHOLAS STARKIE, Esquire, M.P., &c. &c. &c., of Huntroyde, in the said county, to be his Provincial Grand Master for the said divisio►► ; and by virtue of the great power, trust, and confidence reposed in me by the said Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, Esquire, in appointing me to be his Deputy Provincial Grand Master, I, JOHN DRINKWATER. do hereby give Notice that a PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE will be held at the" Adelphi Hotel, in Liverpool, on THURSDAY, the 21st day of October next, at Teh o'clock in the Forenoon, for the transaction of the An nual Business of the Province. __ _ Given under my hand and seal of the P. G. Lodge, at Li verpool aforesaid, this 210th day of September, in the year of Masonry 5841, and of our Lord 1841. JOHN DRINKWATER, D.P.G.M. JAMES NORRIS, P. G. Secretary. By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS TAKEN BY THE REFLECTION OF LIGHT, AT THE MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WALK, LIVERPOOL. THE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS, by which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES of the Human Countenance and Peutein are " won from the hand of Nature" in the short space of a few seconds, respect fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Lancashire, that the Extraordinary Process IS NOW OPEN. The Corporatio❑ of Liverpool having granted the site of the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMBS'S WALK, a neat and elegant Building has been erected thereon, in which the PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of which is ranked among the greatest scientific achievements of the present age, is now in DAILY OPERATION. THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA. JOHN RELPH, Manager. The Invention was recently introduced into England, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON; and the following are a few extracts from the leading Journals relating to its merits : _ µ (From the Times.) THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of further improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact of being furnished in the short space of five seconds with a more correct miniature likeness than the most accom plished artist could paint on ivory, after days of laborious study, coupled with the fineness of the weather, drew together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly. technic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding the short period of time. occupied in the operation, the room was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magical process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the object desired, being on the highest story of the institution. From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about a quarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained, and it is so ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the in. In a portion of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated seat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is to be taken sits, with his head reclined backwards. In this posi tion the sitter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so fora few seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a likeness is presented to him. The likenesses which we saw were admirable, and closely true to nature, beauties and de formities being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are ashamed of their personal appearance had better keep from the influence of photography. ' (From the Morning Chronicle.) When we formerly described this process, the time requi site for taking a portrait was, generally speaking, about four minutes ; but in consequence of the great improvements that have been made, the time has beeft reduced to about five se conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the operation may require from a minute and a half to two mi nutes. The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature here is her own delineator. The features are admirably marked out and delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi nary, that they are really startling. - (Froin the Morning Advertiser.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter esting sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting crowds daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing, leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill could effect. Fro»z the Morning Herald.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—we were present on Sa turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented, and now for the first time brought before the public. By the photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken. in the short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds! We say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects is reflected Must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring, the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course, may result from an assumed or unnatural position. Although the exhibition has been only of a private character, and of some two or three days, we understand that it has been visited by all the parties possessing the privilege. Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise and gratification at the extraordinary invention. (From the Court Journal.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic likenesses are taken, and with the greatest accuracy, in a period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de lighhted with the. exhibition. (From the Morning Post.) The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the best memento of a dear friend or relative. (From the Courier.) " Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from Abe:pencil_ oLnature, without flattery or fallacy." (From the Weekly Dispatch.) - PHOTOGRAPHIC Po RTIIAITS.—We took an opportunity on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken by the photographic process. The room was crowded with nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution. It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing short of a complete copy of nature. (From the Observer.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the Miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving, the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations, makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most wonderful and' extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses ; but, on the other hand they who want the real thing, and we presume them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters, and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant waits upon the former to assist in arranging the dress so as to produce the most desirable pictorial effect. (From the Naval and Military Gazette.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. —For some time it was doubted whether Photography could ever be brought to operate satisfactorily on the human face 'and form, so as to enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness, the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its progrees. I ngenuity, perseverance, and repeated experiments, have at length completely triumphed over th e di fficulty ; and miniature portraits, infallib ,aith,feucl,riadrse;ntorlettaikmeen,vfarroyminga sitttio of from r: to jt o w f e twenty light. o g according tl s the 11., .—lt is Messenger s Ifteekly .) theindividual who is the sitttesr. EXTRAORDIN ART' FACT. —MINIATURE PioTuß bodily and personally as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate lo il : glass, but with this difference, that the Photograpkicliktieus is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the mirror, and rendered perpetual.' It . is an' everlasting memo_ rial of the man at the moment it is taken'-and therefore the Most-precious gift that can be given to those who love him while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium of being fixed in the s:inie position for many an hour for his likeness, (for this is aeoUmplished in the sixth part of a mi (.1.5 :\ , /.. 7 . ite)—but it t : tfrords to artists themselks the surest guide 1.1:% k /,., -.„. copying other li!ierieSses, whether in ;miniature, or in oil C Z v. .--" !laiiitings as large as lite C..... ,g C" :,, A ' . M . SPOimens may oe seen, and Orders received, at Mr. LA ,,,, ...;, ,,11E104. REPOSITORY or ARTY, 100, * ..,.. :"._••_ , - , .-_,1.. i_ i i ...: Bold-street. Cl: r GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. VANDERGUCHT AND TuRTILL, TAILORS AND DRAPERS, HAVE the honour of informing their Patrons, Strangers, and Visitors of Liverpool, that they have received their Autumn supply of Fashionable GOODS, which are of the first class for Durability, Taste, and_Elegttrice._ Their - importation 01FOREIGN VELViTS, SATINS, LA /1 MARENES, DIOMEDE PLUSH, and C MERES, for VEST INGs, form a combination of Nativ and Foreign Talent, unequalled for effect and purity of d gn. ALBERTINI and FLORENTINE BI.‘VERS for :TAGLIONI, CHESTERFIELD, and PROMENADE TOP COATS, with every variety of New and Fashionable TROUSERING, of superior Style and Quality. American Captains and Gentlemen Passengers will derive great advantages by Purchasing at this Establishment, as every Article is warranted of the very best description, and offered on such terms as defy competition. The Proprietors also beg to state, that they have formed a Continental connexion, through the medium of which they will receive every novelty in Dress, as produced in succes sion. First-rate London Talent is secured in the Cutting De partment to guarantee an elegant and perfect fit. 56, CASTLE-STREET, • (Late DAVIS and CO.) AN ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM OF THE TEA TRADE COMMENCED on WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, on the Premises, ' No. 81, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL, (OPPOSITE THE LIVER THEATRE,) UNDER THE MANAGE LESSONS IN WRITING AND BOOKKEEPING. THE CHEAPEST, MSC EXPEDITIOUS, and CERTAIN mode of acquiring a free and beautiful HAND-WR IT ING, is to take a few lessons of Mr. THOMPSON, whose System and Experience as a Teacher halt_ stood the test for THIRTEEN YEARS in Liverpool. This of itself speaks volumes. BOOKKEEPING by Double Entry, as practised in the Merchants' and Brokers' Offices. For Cards of Terms, &c. apply at the CIRCULATING LIBRARY, No. 8, Clayton-square. iUVENILR CLOTITTNn 4, BOLD-RTREE7. si FERGUSON begs to an nounce , th a t h e h as j us t re ./ • ceived a large supply of Materials expressly manufac tured for CHILDREN'S DRESSES. The following are specified FRENCH MERINOS, in various shades; SCOTCH TARTANS, of various Clans • PRINTED and PLAIN VELVET • PRINCESS ROYAL CHECKS PRUNELLA CLOTHS, in various shades; CHALLY PLAIDS ; WOOLLEN CLOTHS, &c., &e. All these of the best qualities, and will be sold in any lengths to suit Customers. 30th September, 1841. t~HMr rT MENT OF Messrs. SNOWDON and BROWNLOW. AT a period like the present, when about Ten ' Thousand i p Chests of Spurious Leaves, in imitatio of-Tea, brought from Bombay and Sincapore, and about Fo housand Bags of Tea that was wrecked off the Skerries, ' the vessel Mary Elizabeth, but picked up from the wrec , brought to this town, washed and kiln-dried, and now in the hands of those Tea Dealers and Grocers who profess to supply the inhabi tants with Genuine Teas, nothing c.n be more desirable than an opportunity being afforded to Families and Respectable Dealers of PURCHASING THEIR TEAS DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER, The PROPRIETORS Of the NEW TEA ESTABLISHMENT, feeling the importance of this truism, as affecting the inter ests of large classes of the community, and knowing that since the Abolition of the East India Company's Charter in 1829, TEA HAS BEEN IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL IN LARGER QUANTITIES than to any other PORT IN THE KINGDOM (London Excepted), without a corresponding advantage to the Consumer, an inducement has been held out to open the present Establish ment, the Proprietors having the fullest confidence that the Patronage of a discerning Public will not be withheld to enable them to carry out their views, when endeavouring TO REFORM. THE ABUSES IN THE TEA TRADE, it being their anxious wish and strong determination that ECONOMY SHALL BE COMBINED WITH LUXURY in Supplying the INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL AND LANCA• SHIRE WITH REAL" TEA. LIVERPOOL, _ _ . the second Port in the world, from its advantages of A DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA and the facilities it affords as a market for purchasing stock, it is natural to infer would have hitherto furnished Teas to the public at something like a reasonable profit, or at any rate at a less price than towns more remote from the place of debarcation. Such, however, not being the fact, the ob ject of this establishment is to supply the public with an article which forms a most essential item in the expenses of almost every family, on THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS, viz., THE SMALLEST PROFIT, from the importer to the con- sumer ....______ The Proprietors of the Establishment being intimately connected with one of the first Houses in London, they will be enabled to take advantage of that market as circumstances may require. CAUTIONING THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE SPU- RIOUS MIXTURE OF DRIED LEAVES, which has lately been imported in large quantities, and has found its way into the hands of COUNTRY DEALERS, we beg to inform them our whole time and attention will be devoted to the selection of the two articles Tea and Coffee ; the inferior, and in many instances deleterious, mixtures brought to this country since the abolition of the East India Company's Charter, rendering it highly necessary that all persons engaged in the sale of it should be well experi enced in the tasting and examining of them. THE OVERLAND INDIA MAIL arrived in London on the 4th ultimo, bringing news from China up to May 19th date ; and on reading the private letters, we find that Captain Elliot had effected a truce with the Chinese commissioner, thereby enabling our merchants to get about eleven millions of pounds of Tea (equal to three months' supply for this country) shipped, which has caused quite a panic in London Tea market, attended with a fall of about one shilling per pound on all sorts, within the last three weeks, thus making them as low in price as those now on their way to this country cost the merchants importing ; for we find the lowest quality of Congou sold in Canton, at 25 to 27 taels, equal to about Is. sd. of our money, to which must be added at least sd. per lb. for the expenses of ship ping them to England—together malting a cost of Is. 10d. per lb. for the lowest Congou to the importers. Still we find, that at the London Public Tea Sale of the 7th ultimo, (at which the most of our stock has been purchased,) Congou characterised by the Tea brokers—good middling Tea, blackish leaf, and strong, (which is at least 6d. per lb. better than the lowest quality,) sold at Is. 114 d. to Id. per lb. ; and very fine qualities, bearing a character. Superior Tea, strong and full Pekoe flavour, even wiry black leaf, only fetched 2s. sid. per lb., being, as we before stated, as near as possi ble, the present cost to the importer. To the sale prices add the duty, 2s. 2.41. per lb., which shows that a really useful family Tea costs us in London 4s. ad. per lb., and quality as fine as it is our intention to advise any family to use, 4s. 71d. Having been fortunate enough to lay in our stock during the present extraordinary fall in prices, war rants us in saying we can offer an advantage to the public which no other house in the trade can, for it is a well known fact, that (prior to the last news from China,) nearly every person connected with the Tea trade, and even private speculators believing the Emperor of China had ordered all the Tea in his dominions to be destroyed, bought to a very great extent, at prices one shilling per pound above what they are at present. In professing to have this great benefit to offer, we do not boast of any foresight or wonderful advantages over our fellow-traders, it arising merely from our arrangements not being so complete as to enable us to lay in our stock earlier than the Ist ult. At the same time we do not feel too con fident that the present very low prices will continue long, as most of the merchants refuse to submit to so alarming a sacrifice, and we also find by the private India letters, that although Captain Elliot had effected this truce it was liable to be cancelled by an edict from the Emperor any minute, — in fact our merchants quite expected such would be the case, as vast troops of Chinese soldiers was encamping near Can ton,—so that the next advices may inf orm us o f an en ti re stoppage of the British trade;—therefore it is our duty to advise all families, and large consumers, to purchase freely at the present prices, they being as low (of good qualities) as was ever known, and in giving this advice we wish the public to bear in mind it is solely for their benefit, as the system we shall introduce into our establishment is to to charge a profit of 3d. per lb., so that should the next news from China cause an advance in the value we shall make a corresponding one. We before stated that useful family Congou cost us (duty paid) in London 4s. 24d. per lb., and really fine qualities 4s. 71d. per lb., add ld. per lb. for the carriage here, thus making the costs 4s. nd. and 4s. Bd., which enables us to offer them at prices lower than has been quoted for many months past, and until a change in the market takes place will be as follow : BLACK. s. d. Sound Breakfast Congou 4 0 Useful Family Ditto, with strength—recommended Superior Full Strong Pekoe Flavour Ditto, recom mended to all consumers as quite good enough for general use Very Rich Full Flavour PekoeSouchong, long craps leaf. This is the finest Tea in the country 6 0 For the accommodation of connoisseurs we shall keep a supply of the choicest qualities of Flowery and Orange Pe koes, Ning Yong, Ankoi Pouchong, Tetsong, Howqua's Mix ture, and all other rare sorts, but do not recommend them for general use, their peculiar flavours rendering them un palateable to most persons. GREEN. S. d. Useful Twankay . Good Middling Hyson-kind, pale brightish leaf—re- ... . . . commended _ Full Flavoured Hyson, brightish leaf—recommended as quite good enough for family purposes 5 0 Superior Hyson, long twisted and bright leaf 6 0 Cowslip Hyson, of very choice quality. This Tea is only fit to be mixed with Pekoe Souchong, its main quality being flavour Canton-made Young Hyson Ouchain, or Real Young Hyson—recommended .. Canton-made Gunpowder Ditto Imperial Ditto Fine Ditto Ditto Very choice Gunpowder, bright shotty leaf Persons buying an original chest, of 801bs, or a half-chest, gain the merchant's overweights, which vary from 2 to 3lbs on a chest, and from 1 to 21bs on a half chest. We must now draw your attention to the other branch of our business, viz., Coffee, which we regret to say is as se riously.adulterated as Tea, and, if possible, to a more alarm ing extent, which is easily shown by the fact that the con sumption of Chiccory has within the last three years increased fully fifty fold; and about a twelvemonth since several retail tea dealers and grocers were summoned by the excise officers for having large quantities on their premises. Since which (we suppose upon the same principle that duty was allowed to be paid to government upon the four thousand chests of tea that had deen wrecked, then brought to Liverpool, washed, and dried on kilns) government has allowed the free use of it upon payment of a small duty, therefore it is now used with impunity ; and the value of it, duty paid, not being more than 5d per lb, offers too great a temptation for the generality of dealers to resist it ; consequently, we advise Families to purchase their Coffee in the berry, thereby en suring a genuine article, assuring them the small outlay of buying a coffee-mill will soon be repaid. We shall roast our Coffees twice a week, viz. Tuesdays and Fridays. Our present prices (which, like our Teas, will vary as the market value changes) are as follows : COFFEES, Whether ground or in the Berry, will be genuine. s. d. Good Ceylon Strong Berbice Good Jamaica (A very useful Family Coffee, and recommended for general purposes.) Very choice full-flavoured Jamaica. (As fine a Coffee as need be used.) Mocha, the finest parcel imported for some time.. 2 4 (Chiefly used by Connoisseurs.) Relying upon the judgment of the Public for that support and patronage which is necessary to the maintenance of an Establishment upon the principles on which its foundation is based, we are ofPteeti?eurrp Your faithful and obedient servants, O V O l a n t s x w c h i wilt u S d g N e e l o ,i vfe W r re ea D I of f G N ho ao a rd n gs d e, B ; w ß bi tu O ht i W nt 0 t N ihn L r se O ue rWme miles . livery the same day, the order must be given not later th an four o'clock, as the Vans will start their rounds at five. Fa milies and Shopkeepers, resident in the adjacent towns, may rely upon punctual attention to their orders per Post ; but as our terms are the amount of Cash only, it will be necessary to enclose about the Goods. or an order upon some person in Liverpool for payment. GAME LIST S.--COUNTY OF LANCASTER [SECOND PUBLICATION.] Arranged and Published by R. Hall, Surveyor, Manchester PERSONS WHO HAVE OBTAINED GAME CERTIFICATES FOR THE YEAR 1841. List I.—General Game Certificates at Xi Os. 10d. each Aldred Thomas Reddish Ashburner John... Ashworth John Cnerdale Atkinson John .. Broughton East Bailey Samuel Golborne Barrow Wm. A. Windle Barrow Edward Allithwaite Lower Berry Peter Worsley Blackshaw Samuel Chorley Brundett James Clayton Burscough Thomas Brindle Caldwell Thomas Clark John Clegg Joseph .... Coupe Thomas .. Coward John .... Cunliffe R. E Davis J. 0..... Dutton William Ashton Ulverston Whitetield Clayton-le-Woods Ulverston Pendleton Halker Lower Halewood Entwistle Jno. Smith .... Rochdale Entwistle Robert .. Kersley Entwistle William.. Rusholme Fletcher James . Froggatt William Garstang John Gillow William Gray William.. Rusholme Clay ton-le.Woods Preston Tonne-with-Hanlgh Hall Rowland Bolton Hesketh Roger Formby Higgin W. H. Lancaster Higgin John, jun,... . Hindle John Fowden Howitt James Rainford Irlam William Knowles James Latham James Lloyd Wm. Jones, Lord James. Lord John .. Manchester Tonge-with-Haulgh Machell J. P Machell Thomas Man*, Rev. J. R. G Masaile Martin.. Mc."Alpin Edward L Hindle Cheetham Healey Bacup Egton Staveley Lancaster Bolton Commersdale, Scotland Ormisrod James, Owen Thomas Bolton Hulme Patterson John .... Peatfield Rev. John Polding William.... Ulverston West Bridgeford, Nottingham Blackburn Reade Thomas Clayton-le-Woods Redmayne W. F. Lancaster Richmond Richard Thornton Rideout George Minshull Vernon Rothwell Rd. Renshaw Sephton Rothwell W. Molyneux Sephton Rowland Samuel Liverpool Seddon John .... Senior Samuel .. Sergeant John .. Shaw Thomas.... Smith Robert.... Snailharn Thomas Steers Spencer .. Stockdale W. F. Breightmet Liverpool West Derby Everton Tyldesley Longton Halewood. Halker Lawn- Tarbuck William Tasker James Taylor James Heywood Thackeray William Turner Charles Tweedale Edward Whitworth and Brandwood WalmesleyJohn. Wignall Thomas Wilson J. J. ... Lancaster Everton Lancaster List 2. Gamekeepers not being Assessed Servants, at £4 Os. 10d, each. Bullock William.. Withnell—appointed by Stephen 131 air.. Esq., for Withnell. Schofield James ... Over Hulton—by Wm. Hulton, 'Esq.., for Over Hulton, Middle Hulton, Ather ton, Westhoughton, Rumworth, and Longworth. List 3.—Gamekeepers being Assessed Servants, at £1 7s. 6d. each. Corlass James Halliwell—appointed by Peter Ainsworth, ESQ., for Halliwell and Little Bolton. Holden Henry Aighton—by the Rev. Francis Daniel, for Aighton. Lomax George Farnworth— r by Geo. Piggott, Esq., for Great Levet, G reat B olton, Darcy Lever, Tonge-with.Haulgh, and Little Hatton_ Sagar John Church—by Robert Peel, Esq., for Church. and Accrington. Worsley James Rivington—by Robert Andrews, Esq., for Riv ington. List of Persons Licensed to Deal in Game. Farrar James Chorlton-upon-Medlock Fisher Henry Manchester Glendinning Robert Liverpool Sidebotham John Knott Mill Tomlinson John .. North Meols. Made up to the 25th of September, 1841. By order of the Board, CHARLES PRESSLY, Secretary. Stamps and Taxes. PENALTIES.—The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes hereby give notice, that every person taking, killing, or pursuing game, without fi rst o b taining a certificate, incurs a penalty of £2O, and is also liable to be surcharged in double the amount of the certificate duty. Any person in pursuit of game refusing, on being duly required, to produce his certificate, or to pen nit the same to be read, or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare his true name and place of residence, also incurs a penalty of £2O. Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a certificate at the rate of £1 7s. 6d. will not authorise any person to kill game beyond the limits of the manor for which be is de puted; and, in order that a certificate at such rate of duty may protect a gamekeeper, it is requisite, loot only that he should be deputed by some lord or lady of a manor or reputed manor, but also that such deputation should be registered with the clerk of the peace, or the gamekeeper will be liable to be surcharged in double the duty of £4 Os. 10d., and also be prosecuted by any common informer for the penalty of £2O. N. B. It is the intention of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to publish, in a separate list, the Dames and resi dences of all persons surcharged irk double duty for sporting without certificates. A: NIVERSAftY. ITOLME'S GREAT CLOTH MART OCTOBER the Ist b e i ng the Anniversary of opening of the above Establishment, the Proprietor begs to return sincere thanks to his Friends and the Public for their unparalleled support. The Proprietor having just returne from the Market, is now enabled to offer an immense of Autumn and Win ter Goods, including \\TATE RP OF BEAVERS, &c., at surprisingly low prices. • Wholesale Buyers and Tailors, Purchasers of Woollen Goods, will do well to give an early call. HOLME'S GREAT CLOTH MART, 69, PARADISE-STREET, OPPOSITE THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. TO FAMILIES FURNISHING. THOMAS BRADLEY returns his most sincere thanks I for the very flattering patronage he has received from his Friends and the Public at large, for the last six years, and takes this opportunity of informing them that he is about to take his brother, Mr. W. G. Bradley i Partnership ; in consequence of which, his present rge and splendid Stock of CABINET and UPHOLST Y GOODS will be SOLD OFF at reduced prices, for One Month only, pre vious to Alterations iirthe Premises, to commence on Mon daynext, the 4th instant. 68, Richmond-row, (opposite Conaus-street ,) October Ist; 1841. THE COALBROOKDALE COMPANY RESPECTFULLY announce , that they have now OPENED their Extensive Premises, kp Liverpool, for the Sale of BAR, BOLT, ROD, HOOP, ANI it IeHEET IRON, RIVET, ANGLE BARS, AND B ER PLATES. Also, a general Assortorent of CASTINGS and IRON GOODS, for Home Use and Exportation, an inspection of which is respectfully solicited. JOSEPH ROBINSON, Agent. Warehouses, James-street and Seabrow. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. BOWNESS avails himself of the medium of a • Newspaper to inform his Friends residing in Liver pool and the neighbourhood, that he is favourably recovering from the effects of the late disastroO occurrence near Preston, and begs to solicit the indulger* of those who have favoured him with commissions which are not yet commenced, as well as those whose Portraits are in progress for a few weeks or a mouth, as he trusts by that time he will be able to resume his professional duties. Victoria Hotel, Fishergate, Preston, October 4th, 1841. N.B.—Any communication for W. 8., left with Mr. BURTON, 69, Bold-street, will be duly forwarded. SEYSSEL ASPHALTE COMPANY. " CLARIDGE'S PATENT", ESTABLISHED 1838. Principal Dep6ts, MARSEILLES: - STA NGATE, LON- DON; and LIVERPOOL. , THE Parent Company having taken,: the NA , ORKS in ASPHALTE, in the Liverpool ' District, under their own management, solicit the attentilef Engineers, Archi tects, Builders, and others to the var ble properties of the Material, which has been extensively used in this County for nearly Four Years, for the following purposes : FOOT PAVEMENTS, public TUN ROOM FLOORS ; and other; MALT HOUSE FLOORS; KITCHEN FLOORS ; PIGGSICIES, &C. &C. &C. BASEMENTS, where it iS es- - sential to keep damps from I COVERING OF RAN' ROAD Ind other AMITIES, the only rising GARDEN WALKS AND TER- RACES; CARRIAGE DRIVES ; COACH HOUSES AND STA BLING ; DOG KENNELS BARN FLOORS ; effectual mode to prevent the percolation of Water, which also renders it very appropriate for the LINING OF TANKS AND FISH PONDS. DRAINS, &C. &C. The Directors flatter themselves that, in their arrange ments for the execution of the foregoing works in Liverpool and the surrounding district, they be completed in suck a manner as to ensure for them the patronage not only of Engineers, Architects, and Builders, but of the Public in general. Testimonials of the highest description have been presented to the Company, copies of which may be obtained at the Works, and from Mr. WILLIAM BENSON, Architect and Surveyor to the Company, No. 2, Commerce-court, Lord-street, Liverpool. Liverpool, June, 1841: J. FARR E' EL , Secretary REVISION OF THE MUNICIPAL LIST The court for the revision of the municipal lists opened on Friday last, before the Mayor, Thomas Bolton, Esq., and the Assessors, John Yates, jun., Esq., and J. C. Grocott, Esq. _ ' The MAYOR called attention to the state of the lists. The number of objections, he said, amounted to 3405, of which no less than 1343 were objected to by one individual, and 1967 by another. It was utterly impossible that any single individual could have had cognisanee of any reasonable ob jection to numbers so large as he had stated. He was happy to learn, however, that an arrangement had been entered into by several wards to withdraw all objections not well founded. He hoped that the other wards which had not en tred into the arrangement would adopt so excellent a plan without delay. The Mayor proceeded to lay before the court the arrangements which had been made for the despatch of business. Charles Wilkins, Esq., barrister-at-law, with Mr. Pen ington, solicitor, appeared for the conservatives; Mr. Snow ball, Mr. Berry, and Mr. Aspinall for the reformers. Mr. Sit urrrs.won.TH, the deputy town-clerk, proceeded to read over the list of claims. Several names, which had been omitted, were inserted ; others, whose names had been incorrectly spelled, had their claims allowed. Many refor mers were struck off in consequence of the residence not hav ing been attached to the signature as an appendage to the name, though the residence was duly set forth in the body of the notice. Some of the notices were not dated, which was also held to be fatal. In the course of the day several par ties, who bad borrowed money to pay their rates, appeared to support their claims. The MAYOR stated that they had transmitted a case to London for the opinion of eminent counsel, and by that opinion, when it arrived, they would be governed. All the cases, arising out of the payment of rates by borrowed money, were allowed to stand over, and the de cisions in them were to be governed by the opinion alluded to. The first reading of the list terminated at six o'clock. The court, however, sat until seven, and a.number of persons who were in court were allowed to come forward, and their cases were heard. It was announced, at the rising of the court. that the list of claims would be finally called over on the following - morning. On Saturday morning the court commenced business at nine o'clock. The Mayor immediately announced, that they intended to go finally through the list of claims, and that all who did not answer, would be at once s t ruc k out. V ery f ew individuals were in attendance, and many names were conse quently erased from the list. Mr. Wilkins was not present at the opening of the court, and the claims of those who had paid rates with borrowed money were deferred till his arrival. Mr. Wilkins arrived at ten o'clock. Shortly afterwards, the case of Henry Wilkinson, who had paid his rates, but refused to say where he had received the money, was called on. His reply was that it was his own. The MAYOR said, they had received the opinion of coun sel on a case submitted, and the court were prepared to give judgment in the cases which had stood over, in consequence oftates having been paid with money obtained from a soci ety. The public would be aware, from the conflicting opi nions on the subject, and from different decisions which had been given in that court, as well as from the great interest which the question had excited, that the court felt the great est anxiety to have such an opinion as would enable them to come to act with clearness and decision. The Town-clerk had transmitted to London a case prepared with great pains, and after mature deliberation and many consultations, em bracing, he (the Mayor) thought, every contingency which could possibly arise: it included the judgment of Mr. Tem ple, and every opinion which had hitherto been given on the subject. Mr. WI,I,CINS desired that the.opinion should be read at The MAYOR said, it should be brought forward when the point arose. Mr. WILKINS proceeded with the examination of Wilkin son, and at length the following question was put :—" Were you furnished by any other person with the money with which you paid your rates ? " . . . Mr. SNOWBA LL objected to this query. This raised the question. The MAYOR said, they had now arrived at that point when_the opinion sent for should be read. The TOWN-CLERK read the following case and opinion, observing that the judgment of Mr. Temple, which had been sent upy.had been revised by that gentleman : " You are requested to peruse the cases or queries and opinion of the present Attorney-General, the present Mr. Justice Wightman, (when at the bar,) Mr, Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Crompton, contained in pages 21, 22, and 23 of the pamphlet herewith; and also to peruse the judgment of Mr. Temple, Revising Barrister, pronounced on a case before him on his revision of the Parliamentary List of Voters for the Borough of Liverpool ; and, as the points contained in these cases, opinions, and judgment may materially bear upon cases which may come before the .Mayor and Revising Assessors of Liverpool, on the Municipal Revision, to com mence on Friday, the Ist of October, your opinion is re quaslvd upon the following inquiries : " 4pPpose that a party objected to upon his examination before the Mayor and Revising Assessors should prove pay ment of the rates by his own hands, together with all the other requisites for the municipal qualification. (See 5 and 6 Win. IV., c. 76, s. 9.) " Is it an objection, that the money has been obtained by the party objected to from an individual or a society, who have advanced it to him for the purpose of paying the rates in order to enable him to qualify himself as a voter, such individual or society having supplied the money for political purposes, and a knowledge of the political sentiments of the party, and with or without an engagement, express or im plied, that the party should vote in conformity to such politi cal sentiments? " And does it make any difference that the proposal to lend the money has proceeded, in the first instance, from such individual or society? Or whether there be or be not any contract. express or implied, that the money shall be repaid ?" "OPINION " We are of opinion, that, in all the cases above suggested, the party is entitled to be put upon the Burgess List. - {FRED. - POLLOCK, " Signed, W. W. FOLLETT, THO. WILDE." " Telpple, Ist October, 1841." - - The MAlroß said, himself and the assessors had had a meeting before they came into court, and - they had come to an unanimous decision, that it was their duty to act accord ing to the opinions which had been so decidedly expressed by such eminent counsel. The claim of Mr. Wilkinson was, therefore, allowed. Mr. WILKINS said, in the case submitted there was the suppression of a fact which would have given a different aspect to the question. This case supposed that the com plainant himself went to the society, and that it was entirely his own act; instead of which it had been proved, that, in many cases, the society had instigated him. Th er e was no proof, in this case, that the man had acted as a principal. The parties who had come forward at the last revision, and who had been paid for through this society, were all paupers. Mr. SNOWBALL objected to this stateme n t. ___ _ .. Mr. WitictNs said, they were all parties who had failed to pay their rates till assisted by this society, and, in that view, they were paupers, and, consequently, disqualified. These facts ought to have been laid before these eminent persons. The fact was, that the claimants were not principals, but passive beings in the hands of other parties. Mr. YATES : I presume you have read Mr. Temple's opinion. Mr. WiLictrts : I have, with very great care. Mr. YATES : the case is there more strongly put than in any other instance that has been brought before the public. The MAYOR : The case is allowed, and we do not sit here to re-try the cases which were brought forward previously." Previously to the commencement of the lists of objections, the Solicitors of the Conservative and Reform Associations had come to an agreement to withdraw such a number of objections on both sides as would greatly reduce the lists. All the objections in Castle -street and Rodney-street were withdrawn. In Everton Ward they are reduced to 30 on the part of the Conservatives and 10 on the part of the Reformers ; in Scotland Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform objec tions ; in Vauxhall Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform objections ; in St. Paul's, 60 Conservative and 60 Reform in Exchange, 70 Conservative and 70 Reform ' • St. Peter's, 72 Conservative and 37 Reform ; Pitt-street, 60 Conservative and 60 Reform. SATURDAY AND YESTERDAY The revision proceeded on Saturday and yesterday, and our reporter attended in court for a long time, but no case of peculiar interest took place. A considerable number have been struck off the list on either side, principally in conse qu'ence of the absence of the parties when their names were calied. We understand that arrangements have been come to by - which many of the objections on both sides will be mutually withdrawn, so that the revision will be completed much e trlier than was anticipated. THE L ATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT PENY DAAIRAN WORKS, MERTHYR TYDVIL. • (A bridged from , the Merthyr Guardian. The tidir,,s of this distressing accident having only reached us last week on the eve of publication, we were unable to give as full an account of it as could be desired. The main facts, as stated, were, however, correct. On Saturday last a jury was summoned by the coroner, William Davits, Esq. ; the only duty which they performed was the distressing one of viewing the bodies, in order that they might be Pried ; it was then adjourned till Wednesday. The funerals of the deceased workmen took place on Sa turday morning last ; the unfortunate woman who met her death was interred the day following the accident. On Wednesday morning we paid a visit to the Penydarran Works, and the scene of the awful catastrophe was such a one as we shall never forget. The interior of the premises are almost completely demolished, one large and very high stack towering over the ruins. Had this stack fallen, the consequences.must have been far more disastrous even than they were ; prOvidentially it withstood the shock. It is impossible to give our readers any accurate ides of the present appearance of the Pennydarran Works. The immense boiler which burst, and which weighed upwards of twelve tons, with the tube, lies 45 feet from its original sta don, it having been blown to that distance ; the boiler tube was projected about the same distance in a contrary direc tion ; four stacks were knocked down, and one has been taken down since; the iron roofs are bent in all directions; im mense masses, and beams of iron, are lying about in the place.% to which they were driven by the explosion, and the whole. place is filled with a network, if we may so speak, of masshre iron bars, beams, &c., almost inextricably blended together. The surrounding houses are also much injured, many of the roofs being full of holes, caused by the fall of bricks aid pieces of iron. The ac...munt given as by the individual who attended us through tfie works were most heart-sickening. In one place we were told that torch a man had been killed there; that in another spot a poor workman had been literally broiled alive; that here a poor wotnan had discovered her dead husband; and there a child ha d in vain sought for a missing parent. The narrow escapes, t..ro, which some of the workmen expe rienced, were most wonderful. One young man told us that an immense quantity of iron fell around him, but be did not receive a scratch. Sev era], who were close to the boiler when it burst, escaped, w .hilst others at a distance were either killed or seriously injured- On Wednesday and Thuitsday an inquest was held on the bodies, and after a most Si torching inquiry, the coroner ad dressed the jury, and stated that he would read over the whole of the evidence if they reqrdied him so to do. This, however, they did not desire. On the conclusion of the co roner's luminous address, the jury retired, and, after re maining in consultation for abou t two hours, returned t he following verdict of " Homicide by misatlventure; they find that the death of John Williams was occasioned by the pro jected part of the tube, which fell upon him they find also that that explosion was occasioned by an insulAcient supply of water on the tube, whereby it became heated, and that that insufficiency was pr oduced partially through the ig.noranee of the engine tender and superintendant, and they affir . a deo daad of ss. on the part of the tube causing the death. The jury recommends to the notice of the proprietors that signal whistles should be adopted. which, by being properly at tached to the boilers, will give timely warning of approachii:g I danger. CONVERSIONS TO P RO TESTANTISM .—OR Sund a y, t h e 26th ultim o , i n th e p a rish church of St. Audoen, Dublin, twelve persons conformed to the holy apostolic church of Ireland. The Rev. Thomas Scott preached on the occasion, from the 16th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, 30th and 31st verses —"Sirs, what must Idoto be saved ? A n d they said, beli eve on t h e L o rd Jesus Chr i st , and th ou s h alt b e saved and thy h ouse ." He administered also the outhS, ab juring the errors of Romanism. The church was crowded to suffocation. ANNIVERSARY OF TIM LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION The seventh anniversary meeting of the establishment of the Liverpool Protestant Association was held yesterday morning, in the Royal Amphitheatre. The stage, galleries, and boxes of that splendid building were crowded to excess, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission from the in ability of the place to accommodate them. The arrange ments were, however, owing to the active superintendence of Mr. Crisp, admirable in every respect. Amongst those present we observed—the Rev. Dr. Tat tershall, Rev. H. Stowell, Rev. H. M'Neile, Rev. F. Ould, Rev. W. Ker (Norwich), Rev. W. Falloon, Rev. R. Davies, Rev. M`Ginnes, Rev. J. R. Connor, Rev. W. Maynard, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. D. James, Rev. F. Parry, Rev. J. N. Peill, Rev. F. Barker, Rev. J. Baylee, Rev. A. Knox, Rev. J. L. Stone, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. T. J. Dritlield, Rev. A. Orm, Rev. G. Mansfield, _Rev. T. Gardner, Rev. R. P. Jones, Rev. P. Brown, Rev. G. Brown, Rev. Crockett ( St. Rev. B. Powell (Wigan), Rev. J. H. Macguire (St. Helens), Rev. J. M. Lynn (St. Helens), Rev. Nor man (Prescot), Rev. Jones (St. David's), Rev. C. Buller (Rainford), Rev. Meredith (Hope), Rev.- Davies (St. Asaph), C. S. Parker, Esq., J. Rigby, Esq.. J. Edwards, Esq., Turner, Esq., C. ushell, Esq., Cotesworth, Esq., M. Edwards, Esq., C. Boutflower, Esq., J. Howard, Esq., E. Jones, Esq., W. Jones, Esq., J. Lord, Esq., Jas. Rodin, Esq., T. A. Dale, Esq., &c., &c. Upon the motion of Mr. EDWARDS, the Rev. Dr. Tat tershall was requested to take the chair. (Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, having taken the chair, said,—My Christian friends, I am sure I do but anticipate the wishes of you all in observing that it has been the prac tice of the Protestant Association, from the commencement, to open the proceedings of all its meetings with prayer— (hear, bear) •, and it will be your desire that the present oc casion should form no exception to the observance of so be neficial a practice. The beneficial results arising from an observance of such a character are too many and too obvious, that the practice itself shonid require anything to be said in the way either of apology or of defence. I shall therefore at once request my rev. brother. Mr. Nolan, to open the meet ing by offering up prayer to Almighty God upon our behalf. (Hear, hear, hear.) The Rev. T. NOLAN having offered up a beautiful and appropriate prayer, The Rev. CHAIRMAN again addressed the meeting nearly as follows :—My Christian friends, we are now risen from our knees, having been engaged in an act of devotion, in viting the presence and special notice and favour of our Fa ther which is in heaven. lam sure I shall not be thought to say anything unsuitable to the position in which we now stand, if I express the hope that the .solemn consideration of that duty in which we have been engaged may continue with us, and influence us during the whole course of this day's proceedings ; if I express the hope that the minds both of those who speak and of those who hear, will be influenced by the consideration that we are in the presence of God, and that it behoves us to speak and to hear as those who must give an account of all their actions unto him. (Hear, hear.) This is the fourth time, in consequence of your kindness and confidence, that I have found myself placed in the. position which I now hold. lam deeply sensible of the arduous na ture of the duty, and of the possible difficulty that might be long to its discharge, of the position of the chairman of a meeting .like this. I could not, however, refuse the invitation of the committee to render what little assist ance I may be able on this present occasion ; and still less could I refuse when I found that request of theirs se conded in the manner it has been since I came into the room. (Hear, hear.) My desire is still to put my trust and confidence in the gracious and merciful goodness of that God who will not forsake the weakest of his servants in the hour of necessity. (Hear. hear.) And I may also add that I rejoice in the confidence I am enabled to place in yourselves who constitute this meeting, having experienced so much kindness and sympathy from you in times past, so that that which might have been an onerous duty has upon every occasion proved, and I have no doubt will upon the present, prove to be a delightful and gratifying privilege. (Hear.) I have more reasons than one for offering but a very few remarks with regard to that which is generally considered to be the proper business of an address from the chair at the commencement of a meeting ; that is, to explain the nature of the proceedings in which we are about to be engaged. At this time of the day it is not necessary to explain the objects and designs of the Protestant Association ; and if the influ ence also of this Protestant Association were required to be demonstrated, I would say, look to the position in which we now stand with reference to the parliamentary representation of the country, which it is my cordial belief has been in rio small degree owing to its influence. (Cheers.) And look to the position in which we now stand with respect to those who are placed at the head of the national affairs. (Renewed cheers.) But I love rather to look at the Protestant Asso ciations in a different relation. I love chiefly to keep my re gard fixed upon its influence in a religious point of view, as an efficient instrument for the promotion of true Protestant principles. (Hear, hear.) I wish ever to bear in remem brance, that the purity of Christian doctrines is not more really but more immediately related to the position in which men stand before God, than to any other matter of inferior moment ; and on this therefore I would desire prominently to fix my regards. (Hear, hear.) With regard to Protestant ism itself, I would observe that it is nothing else than another name for primitive, for undefiled Christianity. (Hear, hear.) Protestantism, so far as its name is concerned, or rather the name of Protestantism, is but an accident of Christianity (Hear.) We are indebted for the name of Protestant to Popery. (Hear, hear.) There would have been no such __ _ thing as Protestantism if there had been no such thing as Popish error. (Hear.) Christianity, as it came out of the hands of, as it came from, its author, was pure and uncor rupt ; it was worthy of God ; it was suited to the necessities ofman as an immortal being, as a creature fallen from God, as a creature whose main interest it was to obtain reconcilia tion with an offended Creator, that they might be eternally happy with him. But Christianity became in the lapse of time, through the craft of Satan, and through the craft of man, corrupted and defiled ; its efficacy was destroyed by the traditions of men. (Hear.) The very grand point of doc trine, that which must be considered the cardinal doctrine of Christianity, the doctrine of free justification through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, based upon his merits and righteous ness—tbat doctrine had been obscured, or rather taken away, and another gospel substituted in its place which was not another. (Cheers.) It was the business of the Reformation to clear away (and in this consists its Protestant character) the encrustation of error which had defiled the fair face of primitive Christianity, to restore the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ back to its primitive purity, and to open and present clear and unobstructed before the perishing sinner the way of everlasting life, the way of access to the Father, the new and living way, consecrated by the blood of his Son, who died and gave himself for us. (Cheers.) 1 have already observed that I had many reasons for avoiding to protract, or rather to defer, the proceedings of this day. 1 cannot, however, consent to sit down without observing that I con ceive it to be a matter of essential importance that the evils of popery, its spiritual evils, and the political evils which follow in its train, should be exposed, and made to be properly understood; and this is the object and design which we have -in view on occasions like the present. (Hear.) Popery is to be regarded, first, as a soul-destroying error. (Hear, hear.) Keeping, as I have already observed, the Lord Jesus Christ from the view, and causing men to rfht their trust not in his righteousness, but in a righteousness of their own. (Hear.) Popery is to be regarded also as a political usurpa tion—(hear)—assuming for its clergy a province which was never designed by God to be attached to man in any position which he can be placed. (Hear.) The c arious errors con nected with popery, in this view, have been exposed at va rious times in this place, and I think it more than probable they will be further exposed to-day ; but it may be desirable I should just observe, in a word, that only let popery have its own way, and then the channels of justice, the impar tial administration of the law, upon which the security and good order of society depends--(cheers)--the channels of justice themselves will be obstructed. Who does not know that the oath for confirmation was meant for an end of all strife ? But pow can we obtain an end of strife through an oath for confirmation if there is admitted to exist a power which can absolve from the obligation of that oath, provided only that oath is supposed, from its nature and substance, to be unfavourable to the Church of Rome? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Who does not know that the power which has been claimed upon the part of Popery —upon the part of the supreme Pontiff—has extended to the fearful height of assum ing to arbitrate upon the reciprocal obligations of sovereign and subject? (Hear.) Let Popery prevail as it exists in its true character, and not as it is exhibited in a moderate and modified form among ourselves in consequence of the pressure from without ; let Popery prevail as it exist s a ccor di ng t o it s own claims and prerogatives and the crown of our beloved Queen is not safe upon her head. (Cheers.) And Popery is further to be regarded as the enemy of all improvement. (Hear, hear, hear.) Science itslif, and it is a name which I love to pronounce, science itself, the thing most deserving the attention of man next to religion, even that is no favourite of Popery. (Hear, hear.) There may be a fictitous, a pre tended zeal for education among those who profess the system of Popery ; but we may depend upon it that this also is due to the pressure from without. (Hear.) Let Popery but have its own course even in this respect, and it has shewn what it would do even with regard to science. In the early part of the 17th century there was one—a man of exalted intellect—who, because he maintained the Copernican system to have the preference of the Ptolomaie, was shut up in the Inquisition, and was warned, after having been detained in confinement for a few months, to renounce his errors, and not to repeat them either in word or writing. Galileo, for that was the name of the celebrated son of science of whom I speak, continued still to maintain the same scientific doctrine, and he was again brought before the Inquisition ; he was shut up for, I believe, two years in its cells ; he was, as a matter in which the salvation of his soul was concerned, -required to abjure his scientific errors, and I rather think he had to repeat the 7th Penitential Psalms every day during the course of the whole two years he was confined. (Hear.) To come to more recent times. A most learned commentary upon the great scientific treatise to which the whole world may be said to be indebted for the present advanced state of astronomical knowledge, an admirable commentary upon the works of Newton was the production of two Jesuits ; and in course of the explanation of the propositions of their author they had entered into the most learned and the most profound scientific investigation. But at the commencement of the third part of their work, after having gone through the ma thematical principles upon which physical astronomy depends —when they commenced the application of those mathemati cal principles to the explanation of the phenomena of nature, they prefixed to this part of their work a certain advertise ment, or declaration.and what do you suppose that declaration was? (Hear.) It was to the effect that Newton, in explain ing his principles, makes a supposition that the earth moves round the sun, and without making the same supposition they could not explain the words of their author; upon this ac count they were obliged, they say, to appear under a disguise, but that they nevertheless submitted to the decrees which had been published by the Popes, declaring that the sun moved round the earth and not the earth round the sun. (Hear, hear.) This is a declaration which stands at the head of the third volume of the Jesuits' Comments on Newton's Principia, and there any one may see it, for I never saw a copy without it. (Hear.) I may be permitted to observe, before I sit down, that I think it more than probable that there may be a few, or perhaps not a few, members of the Roman Catholic Church, or persons holding the Roman Ca tholic persuasion, now in the present meeting. To suc h I beg permission to say, that so far from any feeling of ho s tilit y to themselves in any the slightest degree, I am sure th a t I have no other feeling in my own heart, and I fully believe may answer with all sincerity for my rev. brethren around me, and all who shall be engaged in this meeting, that we have no feeling towards them but that of pure and ardent affection, With all our hearts we welcome them to their places in the present meeting. But it is but right that they should be reminded that this meeting properly consists of the members of a Protestant Association, and that all who are not members of the Protestant Association are not here pro perly upon business but by permission, and as a matter of courtesy, I think it right, therefore, to admonish them that they are not called upon to take any part in the pro ceedings of this day : There are no questions proposed, or to be proyosed, to their acceptance or refusal: The Protestant Association is met for the performauce of its own proper and necessary business, We have, i n d ee d , no ' secrets to k eep, and we d e sire that these proceedi ngs should be as open and as c lear to be understood as the noon day but, I repeat, we ' propose for approb a ti on one way or the other except the membe rs o f t h e P rotestant Associa have t i.OO q uestions to lion and in return, therefore, f or t h e courtesy o f th e i r ad mission re, I am sure I shall no t b e t h oug h t to ma ke an unreasonable request if I express my hope that they will hear these proceedings in silence. (Hear.) I shall now, with , your permission, sit down, and request the secretary to read the report of the committee for the past year. Mr. CRISP then read the report, of which the following is a copy REPORT The committee of the Liverpool Protestant Association, in coining again before their friends and constituents, rejoice to acknowledge renewed claims upon them for increased thank fulness,- and continued trust in the God and Giver of all blessing. The past year has been signalized by many events; which your committee cannot but regard as highly encouraging to the progress and prospects of Protestant principles and Scrip tural truths, amongst which they are willing to enumerate the auspicious change, which has recently been effected in the councils of our beloved Sovereign. But, while they are ready to hail with gratitude the advancement to power, of men who hang ,not on the smile of Romish favour,—whose period of official existence depends not on the continuance of Romish support, your committee feel especially called upon in the present crisis to remind their supporters and friends, that as Protestant Associations were called into being 'origi nally without - reference to objects merely political, so their proceedings have been conducted; and must be continued, on principles, wholly irrespective of the ascendancy of this or that party in the state. It is necessary to return thus to the first principles of our association, the rather,. that some are inclined to imagine, that by the removal from power of a government, that lived only try dealing " heaveyblows and great discouragements to Protestantism''necessity for our associations, if not al together superseded, is at least considerably diminished. An impression of this kindanust be met at once, and not allowed either to extend itself or to take root. In order to which your committee feel it a duty to recall attention to the first circular of the Liverpool Protestant Association, (issued' on the 29th October, 1835,) wherein the motives that led to. its formation, and the principles on which it rests, the objects aimed at, together with the means (under .God) of accom plishing them are clearly and briefly set forth. The circular declares that " The association was called into existence and.activity by imperative self-defence. It funda mental principle is this—that the will of the one living and true God, the maker of heaven and earth, as revealed in Jesus Christ, by the Bible, is the only sure and safe standard of right and wrong, whether public or private, and therefore con stitutes the only sure and safe basis for Christian legislation, as well as Christian conduct." In the same circular, the objects of the association are stated and classed under the two following heads : " First,—To combine in one Christian brotherhood of self defence all who truly love true religion and genuine liberty ; all who sincerely advocate the free circulation of unmutulated and unadulterated word of God ; all who assert and defend the 'right of private judgment ; all who venerate the inviola ble sanctity of an oath;. -all real loyalists who maintain the unrivalled and universal supremacy of the King or Queen pf England within these realms, and renounce, abjure, and de tect any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or potentate, ecclesiastical or civil. This is the direct object of our Pro testant Association considered in its Scriptural foundation, and in its national exercise. Our second object is, to address ourselves with earnest affection to those of our fellow-coun trymen who have the misfortune still to labour under anti scriptural and anti-national prejudices; who are denied the free circulation of the pure word of God, and the right of private judgment ; who are taught that oaths, under certain circumstances, may and ought to be violated ; and who are commanded to yield their first and highest allegiance to a foreign ecclesiastical authority." Upo:: this your Committee would beg to remark, that the principles here enunciated are everlasting as the inspired re cord orn whence they are derived, " the word of our God, which shall stand for ever," and unchangeable as the Author himself of that word. "I am the Lord, I change not" — and therefore cannot be affected by any change (even for the better) in the unstable councils of men. Moreover, the objects aimed at are of enduring interest, the pursuit of which may not be given up until it is no longernecessary to " contend for the faith once delivered to the saints " ; while the duties involved are of such a constraining character, that so long as a dear brother or sister is bound in the chains of Romish darkness, " we cannot but speak to them the things we have seen and heard " and felt of the saving, sanctifying, emancipating power of " the truth as it is in Jesus." " Your committee does not affect to conceal the strong confidence it entertains, that, by a firm and impartial admi nistration of the existing law, en the part of her Majesty's present government, much of that evil will be mitigated by which we have been of late afflicted. The Romish organs and demagogues, strenuous as ever in the pursuit of their •. •. • . • • favourite project of " Repeal of the Union," (which is but another name for the downfal of the Irish church, and the dismemberment of the British empire,) have even already adopted and recommended.:t " lower tone " in their language and their bearing. Nevertheless, your committee is bold to declare, in the presence of their friends and constituents, that so far from discontinuing now the operations of our Protestant Association, there never was a period, more than the present. which required discreet and prudent, but withal strenuous and united exertion. The policy of Romanism, under the' sunshine of court favour, especially in Ireland, hai developed itself fully during the last twelve years. It has exhibited neither an improved theology, nor a mitigated intolerance. It does not even profess (and we know the hollowness of Romish professions) any increased attachment to the established institutions of our country, nor any abated desire of supremacy, civil or ecclesiastical, for itself ; so that, building our expectations of the future upon the experience of the past, we can only conclude that Romanism lacks but the power to rekindle in England the fires of Smithfield, and to re-enact in Ireland the murderous and perfidious scenes of 1641 and 1798. Your committee likewise does not hesitate to add, that it is owing mainly (under Divine superintendence) to the in strumentality of Protestant Associations, that public atten tion has been directed, and the public mind enlightened more or less as to the principles and the working, the objects and the instruments of Popery within this empire, by the pro duction, of well-authenticated documents and facts. The establishment of these facts, as to the pressure of Popery on its helpless victims, together with the discovery of the un scriptural and otherwise dangerous principles contained in these documents, involve in our minds imperative obliga tions—first to defend the privileges we enjoy, and which are so deservedly dear to ourselves ; and then " the love of Christ constraineth us" to go forth amongst our oppressed brethren, to invite them to come and see, and share the great things the Lord bath done for us. Such is the object aimed at, and the course pursued, by our Protestant Associ ation--toacquaint our ltomish fellow-countrymen with their noblest birthright, as men, as Britons, and as Christians, and to secure them in the exercise of it—in the study of the Bible, given by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the record of his Father's love, " which maketh wise unto salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus." Iu s furtherance of all which objects (and this leads to the proceedings of the year that is past) your committee are able to state, that very many useful tracts and handbills have been circulated, that. a petition to parliament has been prepared, for enqpiry.Anto the laws affecting the Romish College of Maynooth, . with upwards of 20,000 signatures attached. That the Protestant Sentinel, after having been conducted for twelve months by your association, has recently, with a view to its increased efficiency, been placed in the hands of Mr.. -Perris, bookseller, arid your committee would beg to recommend it to public support, as a means of much good. There are other indirect ways in which your committee feels th 6 association to have been serviceable, even though they cannot particularize. Such as promoting and facilitating the formation of associations in other places, and lending aid (es pecially through the indefatigable and well-directed exertions of your zealous agent, Mr. Crisp) in various ways to every effort for the advancement of Protestant truth, the main tenance of Protestant principle, or the furtherance of every movement in support of our Protestant institutions civil and religious. The useful operations of your association, are at this moment only limited by the want of sufficient funds to justify the enlargement of them. On these grounds your committee is confident, in renewing its appeal to the Protestant feeling and Christian love of their well-tried friends and staunch supporters, nay more, they even venture to suggest the necessity for increased contribu tion, inasmuch as the occasion demands increased exertion. What the association has hitherto been able to accomplish, is proof that " our labour is not in vain in the Lord," while the vast amount of what yet remains undone loudly calls for continued and augmented efforts, reminding us at once of the command and the promise, " Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." The Rev. FREDERICK PARRY, Of St. Clement's, Wind sor, then rose to move that the report *be adopted, and printed, and circulated under the direction of the committee, and to propose the committee for the ensuing year. He said,—Mr. Chairman and fellow-christians, if, in proposing this resolution, I adopt a very common but a very natural exordium to addresses on occasions of this kind—if I say that I have peculiar pleasure in moving this resolution ; I can say so with perfect sincerity and truth. But I should be travelling beyond the boundary of truth were I to say that that pleasure is without alloy. Unalloyed pleasure is per haps rarely the portion of man in his present imperfect exist ence. It is enough for the Christian to know, that hereafter his joy shall be as perfect as pure—that pain shall be remem bered only as that which is passed away for ever, and remem bered to enhance and heighten the present bliss, and that his pleasure shall be as the full rich sunshine, over which no pas sing cloud shall ever cast the gloom of its shadow for a single moment. If I cannot say that my pleasure on this occasion is unalloyed—if I say that I feel pain as well as pleasure in proposing that this resolution be adopted, I de sire that it may be distinctly understood that this does not arise from any doubt on my mind with regard to the scriptural principles on which this association is based, the justice of the cause on which it is embarked, or the impera tive necessity which called it into existence. (Hear.) 'lt is the conviction I cordially entertain upon these points that forms the source of the gratification 1. feel in taking a part in your proceedings this day. Yet here I am bound to say, my pleasure is not unattended by the alloy. When I reflect on the importance of the cause which I advocate, when I consider the magnitude of the interests at stake, I cannot but feel a repressing, a painful sense of my own incompetence to do justice to the task assigned me. But there lea pleasure —a pleasure which I trust may be indulged without any tineture of legality, and Pharisaic leaven, in an honest attempt to discharge, however imperfectly, what we feel to be a plain and palpable duty, and in reference to which we are but yielding a reverential homage, 'a true obedience, to the voice of conscience. (Cries of " hear, hear.") St. Paul himself, who held in abhorrence any feeling of a legal character, who repudiated with fervent and indignant zeal every self-righteous principle, rejoiced in the testimony of his conscience. " Our rejoicing," he says, "is this, the testimony of our conscience." And it is well remarked by an old Divine, that "there is no music like that of the bird in the bosom when it sings sweetly." I should have done violence to my conscience, I should have been actuated by an utter disregard of its suggestions, and in complete defiance of its dictates, had I permitted my own felt inferiority to the other advocates of this great cause, had I permitted any feeling or consideration whatever to deter me, when requested to move this resolution, from meeting that request with a prompt and unhesitating acquiescence. (Cheers.) I dared not shrink from the opportunity thus afforded me of early and plainly, on coming to reside among you, taking my place beneath the banner of this association, enlisting in the same glorious cause, embarking in the same gallant vessel, enrol ling myself among those who through evil report and good report are discharging a plain scriptural duty in contending for the faith on delivered to the saints. (Cheers.) The truth and the principles implied and involved in that com mon but frequent expression the " faith," I find in my Bible. I find them also in the Articles of that beloved and venerated church which I have ex animo subscribed. I find them again in your Association, formed for the defence of those identical truths and principles ; and, therefore, of your association I ex animo subscribe myself a member. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) My feelings, as I have said, are of a mingled character in proposing this resolution. If I have pleasure for the reasons I have stated, how can I but feel pain when I consider the nature of one of its announce ments? How can 1 but feel pain, how can you but sympathise with me in the feeling, whoa we learn that the support given to the Protestant Association of Liverpool by the Protestant public of Liverpool is so inadequate to its wants, and so far from commensurate to its objects Surely that object has not been fully appreciated ! (Hear, hear.) Surely it has not been fairly considered by the Protestant public of Liver pool at large ! It is an object calculated, one might imagine, to thaw the ice of indifference itself, and to kindle even apathy itself into a glow of energetic ardour. (Cheers.) If " the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare" — if it) proportion to the strength of the enemy we have to grapple with should be our ardour and energy, the intensity of our interest 4.rid the vigour of our exertion, then is the cir surnstance in every point of yiew deeply to be deplored, that in a town in which there is no deficiency of energy, of spirit,' of effort, of liberality for the prosecutioo of other objects, an atisoriation with such .objects as this should hegrippled in its to as usenarnisa iy the scantiness of the funds supplied. (Hear.) lam al nost afraid that the encouragement given to Protestantism 'y the Protestant public, considering the amount of its popu astion and wealth, is somewhat akin to the encourage ment given to literature by a certain wealthy individual, who, on being remonstrated with, and told that a person of his ample means ought to give something for the encouragement of literature, said, " I do; l join a friend of mine in taking every week the Penny Magazine." (Cheers and laughter.) -But while feeling pain at this announce ment, there is another circumstance operating on lily mind, with still greater weight than even the deficiency of our funds, and that is, that there should exist a necessity, a great, an urgent necessity for such an association at all. What! Have more than three centuries elapsed since, by the provi dence of God, the light of the blessed reformation visited our land, and is our national estimate of the blessings of the re formation-so low, are our national principles so loose, is our sense of the mercy of God in the reformation so slight, are our steps taking so retrograde a direction, when, alter the experience of three centuries, our path ought to be as the shining tight, that shineth more and more into the perfect day, that it is become necessary to organise and establish Protestant associations ?, Is this the boasted march of mind? (Great applause.) But we find this necessity denied. I will cite a witness for its existence, one who holds a very high rank among the master minds, and who stands still higher among the men of God in the present day—the Rev. Henry Melville : " I cannot," he says,_ " put away the persuasion that there has been amongst Protestants a growing ignorance and indifference with regard to points in dispute between the Reformed church and the Papal, and a strengthening opinion that the two, after all, differ in little that is vital. And their degeneracy of Protestantism has given encouragement to Popery ; so that the false system against which our fathers rose manfully up, and in expelling which they perilled substance and life, is putting forth tokens of strength and expansion." I believe this witness is true. And if the fact be so,—and I believe it would be much easier to deny than to disprove it,—then you have a demonstration of the necessity that has called Protestant associations into existence. Why, if it be a mere fancy and delusion of Mr. Melville and others. that there has been this degeneracy, in the first place, of Protestantiiin , how are we to account for the mitigated language and the moderated tone now so common in reference to that system against which our forefathersprotest ed, and signed the protest with their blood, and in reference to some of the most bigoted and sanguinary adherents of the system ? (Hear.) I will not occupy your time by bringing forward a multiplicity of proofs. 1 will advert to a single and very simple one. It is becoming the fashion to designate Queen Mary as " the calumniated Mary." Two instances have very recently come under my observation. In one, neither the author nor his book possess sufficient moral weight to justify much importance being attached to it. The other occurs in a sermon preached at Oxford, by one over whose hallucination it is impossible for those who bear in re collection his earlier and better days, not to sigh with pecu liar :orrow. The calumniated Mary ! After all, then, his tory has proved what it has been asserted to be, an old al manac, and about as veracious in its records as souse modern almanacs are in their predictions. (A laugh.) Even Home himself, no very staunch friend to Protestantism—witness his proneness to sneer at Luther and the Reformation—even the infidel Hume grossly calumniates Mary when he asserts that Cranmer, and Latimer, and Ridley, and' Hooker, and others,—(hear, hear, and cheers.)—died at the stake for their Protestant principles. (Hear.) It must be, that instead of dying for the truth, they died calmly in their beds, or in some other way than that said to have been ordered by Mary. Or if they died as described in the reign of Mary, Mary had nothing at all to do with their deaths. Oh, Mary did not sign the death warrants. She in no way sanctioned the persecution that bound the faggots and kindled the fire, and numbered the men of Gad among the dead. In what profound ignorance must Mary have been of what was pass ing in her dominions ! (Hear.) In what profound indiffer ence to the condition of her subjects must the calumniated Mary have been reposing ! (Hear.) Still we have the awk ward statements of history exhibiting her very much in the light in which the Word of God represents the church of which she was so warm a partisan—" Drunk with the blood of the saints". (Loud applause.) It is incumbent on those who speak of her in these softened terms to refute the plain statements of history, and to give us themselves the round, unvarnished tale of Mary's reign. (Hear ' hear.) There is another point to which we are led by Mr. Melville, and that is, the• tokens of expansion and strength which he represents Popery as putting forth. We are assured by many that, even if the fact be so, there is no necessity for protesting whatever—that the spirit and character of Popery are quite different from what they were in the dark ages—that it largely partakes of the benign influence of the enlightened days in which we live—that it is as gentle as the dove, and as harm less as the lamb. (Hear, and cheers.) We have no confi dence in the justice of these conclusions, because we have no faith in the truth of the premises. But, waiving for a mo ment the altered character and spirit of Popery, and confining ourselves to the strength and expansion it is putting forth, we find the fact peremptorily denied. If there be any truth in the old, well-known adage, that "none are so deaf as those who wont hear," is it not equally true that none are so blind as those who are determined not to see ? (A laugh-) And if they cannot see that Popery, from whatever cause , has of late years acquired fresh spirit, fresh life, fresh vigour , and new strength, I can only say that they must be as ignn; rant of of what is passing around them as the calumniate' , Mary herself was. (Laughter.) But what confidence can we have in those who have already established their reputation as false prophets—who formerly spoke " peaer: peace!" and 10, in the event there was no peace I They told us most confidently, before the passing of that pleasure which has given thaffresh spirit and life to Popery, which has infused that new vigour into it, that the fears we ex pressed with regard to the effects of that measure were per fectly groundless; that they would be of the most beneficial character; that it would be a measure that would trarquils e Ireland, neutralise Popery, and instead of imparting tO it new strength,would render it completely innocuous. (Hear' I remember being in company with one who always delivere his opinion ex cathedra, who pronounced it with oracular emphasis and. more than oracular perspicuity, and with as much of truth and infallibility as oracular sounds sometim es embody. All the apprehensions which I and others ex pressed, he said, which prove to be absurd arid visionary itj the extreme. " You will see by the e v ent;" h e a dd e d, " f you will all be a s h ame d o f y ourse l ves ." M r . M ar sh, o f Birmingham, replied, i n hi s pl a i n , goo d - h umoure d way, " present. sir, We are ashamed ot; yen." (Cheers, arid g r s e , - , - laughter.) Who proved the tru e prophets? no has too plainly decided the p o i n t. Would that our predictions had not been verified ! We could well afford the laugh which those who took the opposite view would hav e enjoyed at our expense. We should have been most thank ful for their triumph. To know th a t our p re di c tions have been verified—that our fears and forebodings have been re: alised—is a poor consolation. It gannet even minister tO pyr self-complacency, It reeuired no remarkable acuteness a discernment, no signal depth of sagacity, to foresee and foil! tell all that our fears expressed, and all that the event has • unhappilysealised. (Cheers.) We assert, then, the necessity —the imperative necessity —of Protestant Association s ' When all that is vital in Protestantism is assailed—when ° t that is worthy in Protestantism is disparaged—when all than is noble in Protestantism is vituperated—when Protestants ro is wounded in the house of her friends—(hear and cheers) -- j when those who profess and call themselves her admirers at, adherents stand prepared to throw open every gate of t" - , citadel to her avowed and inveterate enemies—it is high tit for those who so glory in the name of Protestantism- 4 "a prize her principles, and love her truth—should rally rout' ) her standard, and unite in her defence. (Much applau,s e ,;, It has been justly stated in the report that these associa"-; are of a defensive character. They have, as you are asVar'',; been frequently represented and r eviled a s o t an a ggreasi s character. Suppose they had been, what would have be the nature of their aggressiveness? H owev e r m i sre present ed and maligned, we contend that it would have been the 83' gressiveness of genuine benevolence and true philanthrcei impelled by scriptu ra l p r i nc i p l es , an d fl ow i ng i n scriptursr channels, —the aggressive ness o f t en d er compass i on for ou t Roman Catholic brethren, affectionate zeal for their bey interests, and ferve n t l ove f or t h e i r i mmorta l sou l s. (Cheer ) And if taunted with our aggressiveness, we say, as well i ta the shafts of our i nvec ti ve , an d r idi cu l e aga i nst the foun de r' , and supporters of infi rmar i es f or t h e i r aggress i veness i n ro e ' tion to the sick and needy. With as much justice and P r q; priety the Samaritan might • have been reproached for 1 1 . d aggressiveness in regard to the poo r man w h o was wo und s on his way .from Jerusalem to Jeri c h o , b y carry i ng .to 12 ` - his oil and wine, anti binding up hi s woun d s . H a d Pro ; Sant associations been thus aggressive, we should have had reason to blush. We have rather re as o n to bl us h that °I have.not been more aggressive —that they were unknown the necessity—the urgent necessity—was apparent for erect ing„ them as bulwarks in defence of those pri nc ipl es to Wmt",, ij, wh ir under God, we owe our civil privileges and liberties, to wht, we are indebted for our emancipatio n f rom th a t yoke of be% dage under which our forefathers, in common with s r Christendom, so long groaned, from which we derive a ll ov consolation and peace in life, and to which we look for all oar o r bope and quiet in death. (Cheers.) For the final issue the conflict between light and darkness we have no fear: Great is the truth, and it will prevail. Not that our CO ' oll dence rests even in the greatness of the truth itself, but 0 the sure word of God, and the Almighty ,arm of his pose!: Here, then, we cast anchor. But at the same time it hoves us to remember, while we repose in exclusive and u'',4 limited confidence on the. word and working of the Lor p' all power and might, it would be the pride of presumpti, c ' ils not the province of faith, to sit inactive and supine leP he our good Protestant principles are assailed on right hand and on the left. (Applause.) Those princin,',,„` I will observe in conclusion, have lost no thi ng o f their '' - „j portance—nothing of their value, s i nce our C ranmers , Latimers, and Ridleys, 'and the noble army of martY r jeopardied their lives unto the death i n th e i r d e fe nc e ; 611 ; if, adopting the liberal sentiments so current in the presel, day, we think Protestant Associations unnecessary, or el! o , worse than useless—imprudent and improper, we may ` 11 (1 cover, when too late, that we have nothing left to def e rs that is worth defending. (Much applause,) The. Rev. Ilucti STOWELL rose to second the resolut i ,l and was greeted with protracted applause. He sa id, r , thank you, my Christian frie n d s , f or th e f erven t an d th i n t ro e ing reception you have g i ven me . I me t w ith a welt net' from several of my rev eren d f r i en d s , on th e score o f MY (JO expected appea rance among them, because rumour w cl „s , have it that I w as more fit for a sick chamber than for 3 lie assembly. I scarcely know how such a report obta' 0 " 0 1 currency, except that the wish was father to the though t i o rta that some of my Roman Catholic opponents deem my e . e tlY sufficiently important to wish that I was fairly and tlu 3 ,bo out of the way. (A laugh.) No : I th an k G o d I 0 ~ 9 ;100 the words of the noble reformer of other times, wh0 , ,, - dbY he was supposed to be in the act of dying, was sur r ounl e all base Jesuits, who whispered he was gone. H e sua d ae; sprang up and exclaimed, " I shall not die but live, en dare the evil doings of the Jesuits." (Loud cheets'kgf thank God I have a sufficient measure of strength and ei l t hey left, and I trust I shall always consecrate, as long as,hicl; need, a large portion of it to the hallowed caus e for "e our Protestant Associations are founded. (Applause4ose if even there were a period in their annals when it hni t eir them not to retire from their posts,.or t o b e want i n g to t hat God, their country, and their church, assuredly e at period is the present. There is much at the Pr e to of epoch to call for thanksgiving to God, and co ng ratula t e D ot each other, and of our beloved Protestant l an d. Ine eese remind you, for you have it daily in your minds and I°.. e t• ries, that we live again under a Prote s t an t goverm - if (Great cheering.) And I feel my Christian friends asterd breathed more freely, and addressed you as an un fe f t paP s : Englishmen, when we are no longer by a set ° y o wls' pets, the moving strings •of which were held by ... ace °. company. (Cheers.) There are not wanting, in the „gat sion of a Conservative administration, hopeful and eh% hie features. For when we find that our prime minister, 3 n tO very first act on assuming o ffi ce, throws Flown the Eli the of defiance to that nnprineipled rod of terror over time trembling backs of the lathe ; , tbsF agitatnr who ion; Pl ia j o isf tration—(loud cheers)---when we find that hp „ - deont, agitator with the disdain and contempt his character k a ",, e pie" duct have so richly earned, and which he would P a i with years ago, if England had been actuated by th d i s tia , toned honourable feeling and moral spirit which once at die" guished her amo ng th e nations of the earth — w ith t p . t reat dais with which a man of honour and honesty ough t a every the man who h as prost i tuted his character an d violate o rs' tie that should bi n d a man as a member o f c ivil 0 11 _, 011 animate our Protestant hearts. society. (Cheers.) There is another feature which ru a ' s 'i s in aware, bear, an 10 a single papist in the cabinet. (H e ar, s t as *cheers. There is not, so f ar d local I Not one in the Privy council, utterly unnt ° be n be, must be, to be the counsellor of a Protestant Queen' er burst or _„ is bound by an oath of allegience to the Italian usi , ow our petty state. We cannot but bail it with a , s of oIP feigned joy, moreover, that in the domestic Queen there is not a single Romanist. [4,- remark Dr. made by the chairman.] Oh, stand correcte d, circle bee beret I'tl in it