The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-05 00:00:00

r,"l 18'0; FT E Zfirr - fffiT'gr . Th IT Eli 1 ; 0 0 I W: FATtIiEN, f thc. Theatres-Itoyal. Drury-lane and e; ) , , , .;;1gA for TEN NIGHTS, and will inili-re Ins apriParance this Eveninu. VA N I)EN HOFFisstiiviged for ONE NIGHT ONLY, .a his return lion: Arnerica;antl will appear this Evening. I . EI - 111I":• 4 present TUESDAY; June 5, 1838, will be performed Slial;,peare% Tragedy of HAMLET. • :•. Hamlet -- Mr. Vandeniroff. Polonins...(on this occasion). ...Mr. W Farieu. The Ghost of Hamlet's Father - Mr. Stuart. Horatio ' - Mr. Gray. Laertes Mr. W. Howard Usrick ' Mr. Chaplin tiravedi,,trer r i'he Qtieep Mis Cleaver. • Miss Faucit. (Iphelia • • '11.144. ' 1 1•4;141 You To con-chide with the Fart. of • JOHN JONES: #### eacilfic'k • E , ir. • • Mr, W. Farren, (As origindllj' perfotmed by him in Loudon ) Miss Faucit. . . On ,WED,NESDAY, the Drama of PAST AND PRE ANNALS OF IL FRENCH REVOLUTION. I# ! ikriin s ,. Mr. . Farrell, (as originally performed by him in ....,,J4otuhtp.) To conclude With the new comedy• in two acts; 1 . '40090 .the, COUNTRY SQUIRE. Squirti Broadlands, (his cParacter,) Mr. W. Farren: lish!The Alew Dramas of '• ADVICE GRATIS,". `` NAVAL tiAN4.4‘.-GEMENTS," "S El OCKINT; EVENTS," " BEN -4h 44,41.1, TIQER " I - #UNG WIFE, aocl MY OLD UM tfiyo 1110:44A." are in preparation, and will be produced in the courserse Mr. W. E. it EN'S : engagenient.. # ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. lUE FIRST GALA.. of the SEAIi:ON will commence with THE GRAND ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUNUS, •••: On WEDNESDAY NEXT, JUNE 6th, The Volcanic Firing will be under the Superintendence of that able Artist Mr. D'Erust. . ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. SALE POSTPONED TO TuEsnAy, THE 19TH JUNE INSTANT. EXTENSIVE •SALE, AT 'BISHOP COU.RT, ISLE 01' MAN. AAT DIXON has the honour to - announce that he has re . V'V. • yeived instructions,. from the Exeentors of the late. - Lord Bishop. to offer by Publk Competition, at Bishop's Court, Isle of Man, on TuEsox Y. the 19th instant, and following d. 05, the whole of the very valuable PROPERTY of the late Loan ths t iop, -c.rarlprising some . thoroughbred Horses, Car riage, Draught. and Saddle Horses,.several protnisin2 Colts, by Miracle, trod c aw .j . id o t. e . Brood Mares and Foals, Ponies, Sz.c• ; a great nulubei' of titi Cattle of the Short-horned - shire breed; including. many ass newly calved, a .Pair of 1 - I ' o ollllg . Oxen (twins,) and a ry raeat.number of Young f;0 to 70 Pii, s et all ages, of the Short-eartd Portu guese brc: , d; bet ween 300 .or 100 Sheep and Lamhs, of the . .-Leicester and Cheviot breed :.aeveraf hundreds of Poultry. 0•.;7-.PArpages nid Harness, .Carts Ploughs, Harrows, Gears, Rollers, Saddles, Side Ditto. Bridles, Spanish Saddle, Oxen Gears, with a great variety of Agricultural I[Mplemnts, which. will he . pirticulariseA:in Catalogues, to he, ready for delivery seye,n,days prior to the Sale • to be had of the Auctioneer , and ii4l4:diffeaient A quantity of Malt and Hops, several Bolls of Wheat, Win nowing..Al4ine„ Lot of Wool. &c. Also, rife greaterilitirt oldie ROUSEBOLD FURNITURE; Grancl'PEA-NO, The Whote of the Live Stock are in the best possible condi tion,:and'well deservitig the attention of Agriculturists and the Public at large. • - 'Sale to cbirrninCe'each day at Eleven o'clock. Conditions—all Sums under Five Pounds, Ready Money ; all Sum's above Five Pound's, Four Months' Credit, on approved joint •Seenritv. Nay2l;lSi3B. TO THE PUBLIC. At the suggestion of several . of our friends, we have been induced to POSTPONE THE . ENLARGEMENT OF TUE LIVERPOOL STANDARD until the 3d of July, in order ,that we may not break in upon . the half yearly files of our subscribers, and that the new series may commence with the 16:a nUniterin the second half-year. Er, be ilibtupool TU,4 l $ l DA I t IfQRNING, JUNE 5, 1833 !,, , ,n- - - The Publication n i f tn,it STAN DA RD commenced this morn -7.1: .in at 5 o'clock. n '' . IRISH POLICY.—The folly of expecting that the Whig •• f • bAntrtiss ry, t r ec ailun of O'Connell, would receive, odour.: i n any t hi n , tike good faith, the conciliatory overtures IZobert reel, tray, we should imagine, been etwripietely proved by the proceedings of the House of ; , i .tkrinoris on Fihlay \Ve felt assured that any con- • .cession en the part of the Censer vatives - -woulkonly be• treated all - fornier concessions had been=airtheMeans for obtaining ,core—as a handle for further agitation.. felt Colttient whlPtever might be done in the House of Commons in reference to the Nettlement."- of Irish 'clueStbins,:thecountry ~ vould•not be satisfied with . • any snrrender of the rights of the Established Chnrch, or L ' l "' trrc r 1111 m fir of Protestant in fl uence in Ireland. Even Sir Whert Peel had succeeded in carrying his amend, • ments rf4itting to the rating clansesin the Irish Municipal Bill—if he had prevailed .upon • the. Hotise to agree to a -,1 d 03 e'‘• • • . • tranchtse—we felt confident that the ha ,A itu.i ! l perjury, of which: the Popish hordes of Ireland ate . woidd rend:-!r sth:h sin enactmentla perfect nullity. c.;onfiti , -!ec:2 We are more than confirmed by the ` - '•; , ;:extiressf4l opinions the great Popish,agitator as delivered him in the course ,of the debate on Friday laSt, when, zi4ie -to.ol: :occasion to re-assert his authority over. the s nl ,Lvt --)sq j:! - Tuckling Whig ministry. f 4--• • lire discussion which took place on. Eridgy we eon ''staiy-„f the higheSt importance, as affording a clue to • :tfireceeeent ascendancy of the Popish faction in Ireland. ta x jt was confessed by O'Connell that a bona fide £lO. franchise would be equivalent 'to a measure of sweeping disfranchisement, as far as it could operate on - the Irish . . (•onstituencies—that is, We presume, as far as the popu -;..R.- i"us towns were•concerned. We a-re glad of the acknow h-silornent it :will serve.te.open_ the eyes of the people of 1-, oglandle the rotten state of the Irish constituencies. ft ill do infinitely more good than all the money col -1 `ted the prosecution of the Irish election petitions. O'Connell is, for once, entitled to the gratitude of-the people of England, He has disclosed the secret of his power. We know at length from his own testimony— enwittirrolv given, we have no doubt—that the members of the tail owe their elevation to the House of Commons, not to the real - bona fide electors of Ireland, but to the swarms of petjuted beggars who, like their. great ex emplar,--yoill utter any amount of lies to gain their fran chise, and to render theinselveS subservient to the rebellious designs of a knavish priesthood. The genuine • constituencies of Ireland—those, who ought to he pos sessed of the franchise under (Ise Reform BillLare, and have been, shamefully robbed of their rights; for it is t -'... ,, •:Arothing else than sheer robbery to deprive them of the ileac of ret tit-nine- to the House of Commons the men 44tratArkliteir free choice. • The manner in whieli O'Connell divulged the secret bf -his power in. Ireland is extremely eiir ions and instruct- Inc , . ilk was actuaify comjfelledlO adopt the alternative .... , ot tnaltng the disclosure, .or .of maintaining a profound 3 .. ;. 0 ' . , sile tle e on the subjec t of . the franchise; and 'permitting 4, - • 441 '')i r li,ohert, Peel's' amenduients to be 'carried by aeclama `4(ll 1,, firm Nor . was the language 'of Mr. Spiel a.whit less _ . , --tracfertstig of the alarm which he felt for his own late t hlb that employed by his leader, as will be perceived ' INto the followini.; analysis of the debate, which we take .''', f` ', lll the iltorning Herald -" yrom this liositiOn, Sir -Robert declared, that no consider . • • 4tion should induce him to depart. A 101. franchise, to he de ---,az. , termined . by rating 'under the oew poor law, or by some analo •• `g(llts pri n eiple, oils the indispensable condition of his consent i" the passing of the bill before the house. - He was willing to I l'ak ,, certain con cessions; in order to effect the Settlement of , ,h , •:• h,nas,in g q uestions; 'and the concessions, which he had intimated his willingness to make, were, he was aware, deemed; . ,-_, e• iti §Plne quarters, of too comprehensive and sweeping a kind. t i ''': •` '`•/417ri been accused by the organs of public op inion, o f hav ing :,7, 0 l 'ecome 0 party to a discreditable compromise of principle; but, ;• undeterred by such m isapprehensions of his motives, he should . Persist in the'attempt, which he thought the public welfare de ''•'•-I:4lniled to dispose of the questions which had, for yCillS, kept ,‘„, srd - 1 1 1 Tltad;n.a state of constant excitement. Should his terms be i;`& 1 1 , 0":14'•ted, he trusted that he • should stand absolved, in the eyes „,., 4 wq the co un t r y. o f a ny factious desire to impede a satisfactory 101• 64,1ustment of the matters at issue! , -, '• . " This declaratiOn was received with tremendous cheering on • -' l , l e Part of the c i, n servatives;. and was followed by a marked ~ 'C ! 'ullizati o n of the visages of the occupants of the treasury herieli t's, and Of the' Menibers of the tail, in their immediate rear. "'Lord J o hn Russell expressed a hope. that the matter Would, !le amivaldy arran g ed. Fur his own part, he w as disposed to Pre- J ' a 51:franchise ;- but he thought the question did not call for itrimeiiate decision. ~. Mr. Shell, in tones which hedesigned to have a coaxing in= •flk,lexice„ was very sure, that Sir Robert Peel would not be so ' ".9 . "'l'lll , ible as to r ender the g rant of corporations to Ireland ;..''' ' • !n't'l'.li•tit upon the establishment of a rate under the poor law; I :thy - C'""-''''lllr• Irish poor law It might never pass into law ! ~.' W. n L l..S.ir Rohei-t peol, in reply, observed,' that he had not declat•- , - , 4 ° ,"leovii , ;•a! , ' noder the 1 ,4“ r raw to be indispensable to the con d.'•4l s_l. , bliainp,' . ; 2 o l ii!,,, - ,1 1 0, r•irporOons;—ou the cobtraty, he bad 00/ .7 2 4l2lS t !l'Allh4t'olix,illirir to adut nny other equally sound test 9n ? ) ti c yr,Alryipteopf ill ! , , ii i lirfierparf: anehise ! L luol -i a fi i 1 Al fir Pe; "P bru t 'frikiii)-i:p2: th i , , 5 tatenient, immediately . a tek_A'k 6 g t i lt ri/iclificClili - z,• ,1 1,t,i,,1 1,,, to convert a nominal o sn f uoi joirti Crary ' ~.. , • • . ,r • 4.90 N! ' . ,1 34 : 3 1 e . 93wiB+4 , 1,,,..0u ) illilin t Tg? . 01 . .„...:J. . %, I, N n a l _ arviciiir e vit, tiatii.,Pliii iqu'ttidl,filinr law oe auOpted? 'toe ~,,..`!;', 9 . ..r 'I lij bit ~ 'up-WM& i.F 9 Mffi l liftii'll;4le'lind Scot Ch •Muoi •i,, •a! t od ; s nig.Pilr,o 3 n n Pi!,s' ci f! ' eel'. tWal9,ll,l4liilii: o 't,. in A Itoti,bv h 1 II) , , 7,14.) f, ', 0,pr,,y,A 4 ,4,4,;iii ,, A, , ,, C'iliXeYtortions of the e*mpi r: • ' 5 ~. '',.. _ Y(: . (^t ) . 0 4 1 ,1.101 I if, r ili;lllSir,6tl tary franchise be ai,op et, V I t 1' •- o, • 141V1J'RP001, STANDAIU) should not .tbe fact of a tenant: paying ElOiof yearly rent, be received as proof i hat he was entitled to claim the . 1.10 frau chise under the Municipal Act ? " In reply to' this characteristic effusion, Sir Robert Peel ob served that there really ought to exist:. between Mr. O'Connell and - himself, little difference on the point at issue, since Mr. O'Connell consented to a LEO franchise, -and - he (Sir Robert Peel) merely desired security that the £lO franehise should be iulitith,;whatit professed to be. "`Oh!' exclaimed Mr. O'Connell, I see how it is! Why mock Ireland with the language of conciliation, and at the same time, heap fresh insults upon her ? .The right. hon. baronet's prpposal is a gross delusion, Its object is to narrow the fran chiseand to prevent Roman Catholics from aspiring to their fair share of corporate influence. The test of rating will have the effect of raising the parliamentary franchise—fur the Reform Bill merely declares that the voter shall pay a yearly rent of £10; but the bill before the house proposes that the tenant shall pay £lO of rent, besides repairs, taxes, and burdens of various descriptions. The result will be that the municipal franchise will he a £2O franchise.' `! Sir William Follett replied to Mr. O'Connell's statements, in a speech which, for logical power, for clearness of statement, and for all the attributes of chaste and manly elognence, has rarely been surpasied in the House of Commons. He showed in the most irresistible manner that the burdens accompanying the enjoyment of the proposed muuicipal franchise were all presumed by law to accompany the exercises of the parliamen tary franchise, but that, in point of fact, the provisions of the Irish reform bill had beeti set aside . •in the most scandalous manner, and fictitious qualifications created at. a frightful ex pense of perjury. Sir William proved, by reference to the borough of Clonmel, that the revising barrister had permitted scores of men to exercise the. elective franchise—not on the ground that they paid £lO of Nearly rent, but because these men, occupants* . cellars under grould. had sworn - that the premises which they rented were worth £lO a-year to them. To prevent the. increase of wholesale perjury, and to render such audacious evasions of the law impossible, it was absolutely necessary, as Sir William proved, to adopt the check proposed by Sir Robert Peel! "To the unanswerable reasoning of Sir Williath Follett, Mr. O'Connell attempted a reply, by means of sundry imper tinencies, to the effect that Sir William's principles were re gulated bv•his desire of promotion—promotion, to which Mr O'Connell -was compelled to admit the genius of Sir William .pre-eminently entitled him! ":The same arguments were reiterated on both sides of the hOuse; until at last, Lord John Russell moved as an amedd ment on the words of the bill, that a £5 franchise coupled with. rating under the poor law, should be established, instead of a £lO franchise, in all the corporate towns in Ireland. The house divided; 136 members voted with Lord John, for the .amendineig ; and 11 ragainst it, With:Sir Robert Peel. ".Sir Robert, then, repeated his detrmination never to give his assent to a £5 franchise. He should bring forward no further amendments ; hut should reserve himself until the re port was brought up... He should then; once more, take the sense of the house upon the question ; and at all events, he should never sanctio,n.a.lower fra nc his e than £lO, guarded by such a check as he had suggested. _ _ _ " Sir Robert, further observed, that he could not but deem himself unfortunate, in this matter of the franchise, inasmuch as ministers had themselves originally proposed a £lO franchise forseven towns out of the elevenn, comprehended in the schedules A and B; hat when he proposed to extend , the £lO franchise to the other four. ministers turned sharply round, and lowered the franchise in. all, to £5." We heartily rejoice that Sir Robert Peel has escaped from the meshes of the "compi °wise" in which Lord John Russell, acting under the instructions of the crafty arch agitator, sought to entangle him, and that he has declared his unalterable resolution to insist upon a bona fide ;CIO franchise; as far as it can be secured in such a country as Ireland. Lord John Russell must either abandon the Irish Mu nicipal Bill, or consent to pass it with the very clauses Proposed liy.Sir Robert Peel. It is not difficult to guess which alternative he will adopt. He dare not refuse to carry the bill through the House of Commons in whatever shape O'Connell wishes—he dare not refuse eventually to pass the• bill with such amendments as the House of Lords may think proper to make in its various enact. ments. The position of Lord John Russell in the debate of Friday was humiliating . in the last degree. In the bill, as introduced by him, he had made express provision that seven of the largest cities in Ireland should have a £lO franchise. To these'seven Sir Robert Peel proposed to add four other towns, thus making eleven in which the burgess tenure was to be ten pounds. To this pro position of Sir Robert Peel the whio leader acceded on a former evening. That. there may be no mistake about the mater we shall just quote that part of the sixth sec tion of the bill which relates to the £lO franchise. It is as follows: " And . be it enacted, that after the passing of this act, every man of full age who shall, on the last day of August in any yeaV, he an inhabitant householder, resident within any borough nanied in the said 'schedule (A), or within seven statute miles of tie said borough, and shall hold and occupy within such borough any house, warehOnse, counting-house, office, or shop, which cithet separately or, jointly with any land within such borough; .ceopied therewith by him as owner, shall be truly and reality q' the jull and yearly value of £4O or upwards, shall, if duly enrolled, according to the provisions hereinafter eont a i ne d ; he a burgess of such borough, and member of the body Corpo -rate of -- tbe - inayOr, aldermen, and burgesses of such borough," &c. &c 1 This section of the.bill further provides that -No such occupier shall he admitted to , be enrolled under this act, unless he shall have occupied such premises within said borotigh, or other prem►ses of the like nature within the said borough, rein/:ii and truly of the full value of 1:10 for the space of-six calendar months, at the least next preceding such enrol ment. ; nor unless such Occupier shall hare paid or-discharged all grand jury or municipal cesseg,-rates, - and taxes, it' any, winch shall hare i , ecome legally due and payable kti r him in respect of such rn'emise.c, except such as shall have been imposed or become -due ‘vithin three calendar mouths next before such enrolment." Now, this section either contemplated a bona fide qua lification; of it did not . ; that is, Lord John Russell either meant to deal honestly in the-matter, or he .intended to practice the grossest fraud upon the House of Commons and the British public. The STANDARD very happily brings the matter to an issue, and fixes the tiny Home Secretary between the. horns of a dilemma from which he will find it impossible to escape. We hope we shall not incur the censure of our respected contemporary of the Albion for venturing to avail ourselves of the power ful assistance of our metropolitan namesake. However, the polite and sagacious editor of that weakly repository of elegant extracts is quite at liberty to deal with the following nervous remarks in. any way he pleases. In reference to the crooked policy of My Lord John Russell, the Standard says— Last night, in pursuance of his original declaration, Sir Robert insisted that the qualification should not be a coloura hie qualificati.n, such as might be swamped-up by misrepresen tation and.perjury, but a bona fide qualification, ascertained, as in this - countrv,.by the poor -rates, should the Irish poor-law bill pass—as doubtless jt will pass—or by some other rate. Against this reasonable and just proposition Lord John Russell, Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Shell, raised their voices and made their stand—and - incredible as it may seem, Lord John Russell, in dire . ct contradiction to his own bill, proposed that in all cases— in the case of schedule A, as well as schedule B—t he franchise should be reduced to five pounds if it was to be a bona fide qua lification. So disgustingly audacious a confession of meditated dishonesty Was probably never beftire made. " The qualification on either must not be ten pounds, or it must not be bona . fide. But in the seven towns and cities in schedule A Lord John Russell had made the- qualification ten • pounds;" he therefore acknoWledges distinctly that he did not intend ►t to he bona fide—that he intended it to be a cheat—an organised Sri Stcrn of fraud and perjury; fur , such will be any sstein dependent upon profitable swearing in the unhappy country for which his lordship is legislating. This was ac knowledged by Mr. O'Connell, in a passage of his evidence quoted last night by Sir William Follett; it is acknowledged as follows, in the evidence of the Roman Catholic Bishop Ma gamin Do you not think that perjury is committed to a.vany GREAT EkTENT in consequence of this [the 40s. freehold system, • Magolltin.-- I DO. `Both upon registries and'elections? Mayonrin.—Y " Mr. O'Connor, of Mount Druid, a Roman catholic, i n hi s interesting Swiss tour, published last summer, after full ex perience had of the•working. of the reform bill elections, de 'scribes the'process of perjury still more minutely :—"rhe legal qualification of an elector in Switzerland is not so high aS it is 'in 'lreland, loft the depravity and immorality prodhced by electioneering • have actually made the elective qualification much lOwer in the latter country. The £lO -franchise is ob tained out of a few acres of land, let at a rack-rent. and the pro -prietor and the serf combine to give a value of £lO to what is not worth £l, and •reconcile the perjury 'by identifYing the produCe of personal labour exercised on the raw material with Its marketable value. .A few hundred Swiss franks constitute the qualification 'of a Swiss elector, and his innate honesty Would never be reconciled to perjury.' "The hideous mass of perjury detailed in the evidence before the Fictitious Votes Committee, and in the evidence before the CarioW, Longford, Belfast, Kinsale, and all the other Irish electinn committees where the registry has been .opened—the refusal of the Popish party, whenever they ha v e hid the power, to open the registry, furnish a dreadful.commentary upon the evidence of Mr. O'Connell and Dr. Magourin, and the state ment of Mr:O'Connor. Give the O'Connellites 'the book hand' —a phrase of their own wretched country, and they will swear Up to any necessary qualification. This, indeed, was plainly confessed by Mr. 0:Connell last night when he said (and for Once he spoke 'the truth that the bond fide £lO qualification would - place the municipal electors above the parliamentary electors admission as distinct as it can be niade that the parliaMentary electors are not bOnd fide £lO householders, but paupers Who have obtained the franchise by perjury." Here we let the . matter rest for the present. We shall, again have occasion to recur to:the subject of the multiplication of fictitious votes in Treland.L.a subject which has been so strongly forced upon our attention . by the confessions of Mr. O'Connell. We have before us Some curious returns connected with several of the Irish constituencies, of which we shall hereafter avail ourselves. AS to the More important question of Irish Tithes we have now no longer any fears. The Conservatives have been taught once more how vain it is to enter upon any thing like a compromise with the Whig-Radical ministry. They cannot be so forgetful of their duty to !heir consti tuents as to yield themselves up to any terni.orising Tedients, in dealing ivith the interests of the Chuich of Ireland. ,They Must oppOSe:a bold front to ilPir and .trennonsly resist every attempt to despoil t !le chorch. Th?y, have the truth on their Magna i?st ...itag, et prcevalliii:' • 4i -Trip- ' 4 AurooN-... 7 !-LTlre :Wm/A. of the Liverpool pres 9 has again been attempting to excite the risibility of the public at our expense ; but we are satisfied, that the ex tremely ludicrous figure_ which he cuts, whenever he makes such an attempt, cannot fail to produce the very opposite effect to that which is intended—a hearty gu at the foolery of the mimic himself. Week after week do we find our remarks animadverted upon in the same style of vulgar scurrility which distinguishes the article which the editor of the Albion has yesterday bestowed upon the STANDARD. To this we have no objection. We sincerely congratulate ourselves, that we are not to unworthy as to merit the praise of the Albion. Its cen sure we hail as the best proof that we are pursuing an honest and straightforward career. We trust that we shall always continue to be equally entitled to its viru lent abuse, and that our fair fame may for ever remain uncontaminated by the slime of its flattery. It is only in the inflexible performance of our duty to our country, that we become the object of the malignant Persecution of the Albion : it is only by neglecting that duty, arid forfeiting every claim to the character of the patriot, the loyalist, or the .Protestant churchman, that we can ex• pect to obtain its approbation. We say, that we have no objeetioo whatever to the aAaieurdversions of the Editor of the Albion ; but we do not think that he is acting a fair- and professional part by allowing a correspondent to assume the editorial " we," and thus making his journal . a conduit for discharging the excrementitious filth of an individual so utterly con temptible as the amateur editor who figures in the Albion of yesterday. Entertaining, as we do, the most ineffable contempt for the coxcomical puppy, whose splenetic effu sion has been thus admitted, after sundry clippings and parings, into the columns of the Albion, we shall not waste the time of our readers, nor adMinister to the vanity of the,crackbrained scribbler by any extended no ticp of his puerile observations. To one of his inuendoes we shall reply by saying, that " our leading articles are not copied verbatim from other conservative papers." The assertion is a lie—an unqualified lie, We have occasionally inserted articles of news which were not original, in the same type as our leaders ; but we never quote from our contemporaries without acknowledging the source from which such observations are derived. If this be laid to our charge as an act of plagiarism, then is the Liverpool Albion ghilty of the same literary crime in a far more heinous degree; for we can scarcely refer to a single publication of that caterer to the gullible appetites of ladies maids and milliners' apprentices, which does not contain numerous extracts from the STANDARD: If our contemporary finds it more conve nient to retail our commodities than to furnish his custo mers with his own staple manufacture, he has our full consent to continue the system. The only condition on which we insist is, that our contemporary shall not at tempt to pass off any of our remarks in a mutilated shape. He has too frequently had recourse to this trick in order to obviate any disparaging comparisons which his readers might feel tempted to make. Let him but carefully avoid this for the future, and he may then con sider himself entitled to a more lenient treatment than he has hitherto met with. But, though we disdain to notice in detail the trash and flummery which the amateur " we" of the Albion has et ammed into the article which the editor of that pa per has had the infinite condescension to admit into its columns, we still feel disposed "to answer the fool ac cording to his folly" lest he should be " wise in his own conceit." There may be a few silly noodles who may possibly mistake the idiotic buffoonery of this writer for a display of wit: indeed, we question whether the class of simpletons be not by far the most numerous among the readers of the Albion, or else we should not find its shrewd and talented conductor so willing as he is to yield up his editorial chair to an individual so superlatively silly as the author of the attack upon the STANDARD, which appears in juxta-position with the leading articles in the Albion of yesterday. This prince of dunces' flounders from one absurdity to another in a manner. which baffles all description. But his absurdities we may as well let alone; they can only provoke a smile at the best. We hope to be favoured with another chapter next week. We shall be exceedingly sorry to miss the treat. Let the blockhead, however,. avoid introducing any more of his inverted commas, lest he shoUld lead the public to suppose that he is quoting from the STANDARD, which lie has not the honesty or the sagacity to do. The odd collocation of sentences which he has attributed to us in yesterday's Albion we need scarcely assure our readers never appeared in the STANDARD. The whole mass of verbiage : in which he has endeavoured to ridi cule the STANDARD is, owing to the perverseness of the writer in misquoting us, the most harmless stuff that ever emanated from the pen of the greatest dullard in existence. His irony is as devoid of pungency as the overflowings 'of a swilling-tub—his sarcasm is just as biting as his toothless grandmamma—and his style is as,' vulgar and assuming .as that .of the silliest of the be whiskered monkeys who perambulate our streets in the garb of humanity, but who owe every thing that resem bles men about them—to their tailors. It the pragma tical personage who has been permitted, through the in conceivable kindness of the editor of the Albion, to:- surne the regal " we," fancies for one moment that his lucubrations have tended to ruffle our equanimity, we' beg to assure him that he is very much deceived. We should just as soon feel provoked at the hissing of the , greenest gander that we ever met with. We shall not, however, part with him without bestowing upon him a passing word of advice. Let him henceforward demean himself with a little more modestyrit will become him. Nothing can be' more offensive than for a simpleton, whom nature evidently intended for a chimney-sweep or a pot-boy, to take.upon himself the airs of a critic. Ne sutor ultra crepidani. Naw STEAM -SHIP COMMODORE.—This magnificent vessel possesses now a very high reputation for speed, and it is justly merited, for she was alongside the Clarence Dock, on Sunday afternoon,' ull four hours before high water. THE THEA-TRE ROYAL.—After a very successful week the Italian Opera Buffa Company have lett this theatre, and is succeeded by Mr. W. Fa rren , w h o i s d ec id e dly the fir s t come dian on the stage. Last night Mr. Farren played Lord Oyle'y in "The Clandestine Marriage." To-night Mr. Vandenboff, who has just returned from America, is engaged to plaV as ." Hamlet," before leaving th e town, and no doubt will draw . a crowded house. The fresh hays with which be has adorned his brow by his transatlanti c tour can in no ways have lessened his former reputation in Liverpool. Mr. Stuart, his successor as first tragedian at the 'i heatre, is announced to play the Ghost to his Hamlet. -- - We understand that the Rev. James H. Stewart. announced from the pulpit at Saint Bride's, on Sunday last, his intention to have public worship in that hurch to-morrow evening, after the confirmation, for the purpose of inanlorim„. , the blessing of the Great Author and Finisher of our faith, upon that sole mn and highly-important ordin ance of our Ap os t o lical Church. And that he purposes, after the sermon, t o d e li ver a suitable discourse to the young. persons confirmed.. 'The service, we belieVe,.will begin at the usual hour of seven in the evening. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLRRGYMAN.—OD Saturday last several members of St. Simon's Chapel, Sir Thomas'-buildings, presented their respected minister, the Rev. H. S. Joseph, with a very bandsome . gown and cassock, which were accompanied by the following address:—" Presented to the Rev. H. S. Jo seph, by a few seatholders and members of St. Simon's Chapel, Liverpool, and a few friends, as a small token of .their sincere Christian .regard, and as a feeble expressiOn of gratitude for his past labours, in the hope that he may long be spared to preach with energy and faithfulness the truths of the everlasting gos pel, and with the prayer that Almighty God tray accompany his ministration by the converting and sanctifying influence of the Holy. Spirit." ZooLoolcat, GARDENS.—The picture of Vestivius, in these gardens, is now completed. Mr. Danson, the artist, has been actively engaged upon it for some time past, and it promises to be one of the most singular and interesting exhibitions in Liver pool. In its present state, with the cataract barely covered over, the effect is most extraordinary. In the back ground towering on high, is the volcano, the town of. Naples at its foot, and the bay,, studded with fishing-boats, fills up the fore; ground of the picture. It will, doubtless, attract crowds to see it. We understand that, at night, during the, eruption, the effect will be grand in the extreme. It will be perceived, on 'reference to the advertisement, that the first grand gala is an nounced to take place. to-morrow (Wednesday), when the eruption Of Vesuvius will be exhibited for the first time. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BOLTON RAILWAY.—AIR inquest was held last Thursday upon the body of Evan Evans, a man about thirty years of. age, who had. been killed at the opening of the railway on Monday. The deceased, with about forty others, was in one of the .furry boxes next to the engine, and as the..train.was. passing the,Gravel-hole, the speed of the engine was suddenly incieased, by which the carriages got a jerk, which threw deceased out,. and, the carriages passing over his head, he was killed on the spot.—Verdict " Accidental death." Tb Fa r EN.—Every freeman whose name is on the present register'and whose present residence is not-properly described, ShoUld; without loss of time, at all events befoi e theist of July iv, a notice in writing to the Town Clerk, at his office. in t T,twn Hall, statiag.his name and actual place of ;abode, and number on the present register: Also eveiv freeman Who is on the roll, and whose, name is not in the present register, should e!aim to have his name inserted in , the next list, to he made oet v the. TOwn Glerk 'according to.the form set forth in tlhe out. irDENCE 560RRESP-' SHARE - BROKERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE, LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Ste,—As you have allowed the Liverpool Standard to become the medium of a vile, because untrue, and an unwarrantable, because not substantiated, attack on'a body of men individually and collectively as honourable, as intelligent, and embracing as much integrity at any association in the kingdom in proportion to its extent; fair play demands that you permit the same organ to become the corrective of an impression which the commu nication of your correspondent of. Vriday last might by possi bility produce, if allowed to pass current without contradiction. Who the writer is, it might, perhaps, not be difficult to ascer tain, if the object were worth the,trouble ; but whether he be a Hebrew principal, smarting under the recoil of his own irregu larity and want of punctuality, or an unsuccessful candidate for admission into that association which he has so grossly ma ligned, either as matter of importance only, as it would supply the key to unravel the motive and display the animus which go vern. the author and originate the slander. The good taste of the writeris on a par with his facts—both are alike defective—the former is manifested in the uncalled for and unnecessary use of the :crin " upstart fraternity," as ap plied, I apprehend (if it have any application at all) to mem bers of the Stock Exchange, who have recently become such; and the latter, in the false and sweeping declaration that "it is no uncommon - thing to see one of those transfermen transferred to the care and keeping of a sheriff's officer." In the eyes then of this Solon in commercial ethics, it is a crime of the first-magnitude to couple the business of a share broker_with that of any other in ,which the." upstart fraternity" .may. have been previously engaged, though it were only 0 transact the business and further the interests of the "shape realer" himself; and an unwarrantable piece of presumption for any mars or set of men to meet, or endeavour to meet, the exigencies of a new state of things; and this, I suppose, because their individual interests are. implicated in receiving the quid pro quo of a commission for services performed and risks incur red. Truly, we live in strange, times; a.stranger still will be those times whensuch philosophy as this shall find an approving echo in the public voice. , . . . . . That ther . e has not been a sufficient or satisfactory observance of punctuality in making payments for stock sold and delivered is a charge that may be, and J believe is, to some extent true. This I shall neither attempt to justify nor palliate, not even on the customary ground of the difficulty which all who are con versant with mercantile .matters know to be inseparable from pecuniary arrangements; but admitting the existence of the fact—to whom I ask is the delay attributable, but in nine in stances out of ten, to the "share dealer" himielf, who hesitates not to enter into a purchase of stock when he is probably de pendent for payment on a contingency that may be procrasti nated beyond all, calculation on his part at the time of entering into the contract—a circumstance that will necessarily revert disappointment to the seller, carrying in its train the concomi tants of chagrin anal dissatisfaction to all parties concerned. To the flagitious and libellous part of your correspondents letter, however, I feel myself called upon to give a direct con tradiction. lie asserts an audacious and gratuitous _untruth when he states that "the arrest of a share broker is no uncommon thing." It is on the contrary so uncommon "a thing," that I and many others, metnbers of the maligned body, were perfectly unconscious of its having occurred at all, until the " Share dealer's" accusation induced the institution of an inquiry, which resulted in a rumour only, that something of the kind had occur red to an individual, whose visits to the Stock Exchange are, and have been, so few and far between, and whose intercom-nu nicatiou with its members so rare, as scarcely to warrant the assumption on his part ofahe rights of membership. But sup posing for argument's sake that the instance of arrest, instead of being solitary had beeu triplicated; what then does it justify so unqualified au imputation as that made b y this "Shure dealer," that such things are not uncommon? As well might the crime of bankruptcy, if it be one, be levelled against the whole of our high-principled merchants, who require neither vindication nor eulogy at my hands, because some small fraction of their body had unfortunately found its way into the Gazette. The mode of placing that circumstance before the public is re prehensible in the extreme, it is illogical and does little credit either.to the impartiality or the heart of the protnulgater. " The " Share-deate;" asserts on his own experience, that he has not only "had to wait for months for the payment of stock," but has further been compelled to resort to legal.'mea sures to enforce it ;—which may be true—but the corollory of that I should take to be, some defect in the title given by the seller. This then becomes the exception, and not, as your correspondent would ungratefully insinuate, the rule, His other charge, of " brokers reaping the interest of their princi pal's money" is another gratuitous assertion of an untruth, and ought not to be dignified by a confutation. This suggestion, "not to part with your money until value be received," is excellent advice if it could be pursued; it is a theory that looks well upon paper, but in practice would be found by no means facile of accomplishment. Suppose the case of a broker working a transaction between two refractory, or, if you prefer it, timid !principals, the one a Liverpool, the other a London resident, the one refusing to part with his money until he has received the stock, and ascertained that the transfer documents are regular and complete, the other adopt ing " Share-dealer's" suggestion, equally firm in his refusal to part with the stock before receiving the money; in what posi tion would the whole party, broker and principals, be placed: why the two latter must submit to the circumlocution and ex pense of a journey of a hundred miles, and meet each other at Birmingham, half way, to ratify a transaction that might be at once completed by the selection of a broker, in whom confi dence might and ought to be placed. This selection of such a broker, notwithstanding " Share-dealer's" base insinuation to the contrary, would be no - herculean labour; there are many, very many such to be found in the share brokers' association— if not, quite sure am I that they will not be found out of it. This, I say, without even the slightest intention or wish to derogate from the respectability of those brokers who do not belong to it; and, however strongly "Share-dealer" may re commend a secession from that association, 1 take leave to tell him that it possesses advantages for principals that are neither to be found outside its pale, nor to be affected by the flimsy tissue of impeachment, which your correspondent, in his s te e l: t e s r h it i y m , st a ir s t v o e b n e ttred a, lo s m ha ak ree.d . i a f n l d ie n b o e ta what b herok broker, e ,prhe an must o o t k s n i doewbfruol broker e w r e v, ll 7 — i g i f, u a n s d er tmayhe defeat befairly ofr s e tr e p c e t i c o t t e i d . , h s e o b r e . position is at' once accounted for—his malignity is unmasked, and the rancorous virulence of his attack, will pass for just that it is worth, NOTHING. Liverpool, Ist June, 1838. SHARE BROKERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST./IND.4RD. SlR,—Pertnit me to offer a few observations on the subject of a letter, in your last number, signed a " Share Dealer." As a member of a collective body, 1 feel that it implicates me to a certain extent individually, and iu self-defence, calls for some reply, which, however, I do not make in a spirit of hostility, as I admit at once, that there is much truth in his. letter, though it is evidently written in a very petulant humour, and contains at least, one assertion that cannot be substantiated, viz.— . "That it is no uncommon thing to, see one of these transfer men transferred to the care of a sheriffs officer." This is cer tainly a trespass upon truth, and opposed to his own statement of the general respectabily of the body of brokers. But to the subject—the evils he complains of in the business of share, bruiting, as conducted in this market, are, that there are too many 'brokers—that there is great promptitude in demanding„ payment for purchases made, and equal laxity in settling for .stock sold—that the scrip, should not, as it is, be parted with, before the seller obtains payment—and that the existence and working of the association of brokers is objeCtionable. As to the first complaint, it is not the business ,of any body to inter fere with it, every man having .a right to choose his own pro, lession or calling, and he .will receive his reward according to his merit. That there is g reat irregularity and laxity in making settlements, is an evil, th e existence of which, no one can deny, and which requires immediate reformation, but though practised to a very inconvenient degree, it, is by means so general be tween btokerx and their principals, as a " Share Dealer" would imply; many cross transactions occur between brokers, and it occasionally requires some indulgence to each other to facilitate business; hut, principals not. directly implicated in the trans ' action, should never he unduly inconvenienced, and speaking for myself, and to my knowledge of the practise of several other brokers, they seldom if ever are; and thus a " Share Dealer," • who has been, seems unfortunate in his selection of parties, 'who have managed his business negligently, has the remedy in his own power, by immediately applying to those who can, and do, conduct their business with honour, promptitude, and despatch. But whilst I ant willing to admit • that a much better system may, and ought to be introduced I do not admit that the blame of the delay rests in more instances with the brokers, than with the principals. It must be within the knowledge of every person whp has been much in the share market, that during the speculative mania alluded to, nine out of every.ten, who became speculators, bad not the means of paying for a tithe of the purchase made by them through their brokers. They were speculating from day to day, for a rise, and whether disappointed or successful, the most they could do • was to pay, or receive, a difference, and when the broker had the amount of purchase money paid to him, lie was required to re-sell the stock and receive his payment from the next buyer; and thus being handed from one to another, it was impostible,,, unless he had the command of unlimited capital, that he could keep faith with all the friends for whom he was engaged, thus was the evil originated, and the remedy is easy—by instituting, one on even twd settling days in each week, which'being once the rule of the market, there would he no excuse for the buyer to put off payment, and no disappointment could consequently accrue to the seller. Making the "signing of a transferatonce the condition and term of payment," would be a hindrance, and beget a great deal of the evils (delay,) already complained of; no buyer could he expected to part with his money, if the seller would not part with his scrip: it therefore only requires a dealer to sell to such brokers as he can place implicit conti deuce in, and when he delivers to him his certificates on his transfers complete, he looks to him, and holds him responsible, for the return of either his money, or hit documents. Of "the existence and working of the Brokers Association" much may be said. To the existence of such a body where business may be concentrated. I apprehend there can be no objection, but from the working out of the principles for which that body is associated, arises the evil to be complained of—and with this the public . who deal in shares have much to do. To those who may not be aware of it, it may be necessary to say, that it is no guarantee of a man's honour or respectabiiirv, either in his pri vate or public life, that be is a member of that body. Nor is it any test of his sagacity, or peculiar fitness for the business of snare broking, that entitles him to be elected a member of ibis society; but on the contrary the very opposite principle seems to be acted upon, as the vote for election is taken by ballot, and a small minority excludes private interests 111111 feelings prevail, and he whose intelligence or activity is least to be feared, has the strongest claim to admission. This has been exemplified in many instances by the exclusion of intelligent and respectable inen, and the adn;ission at the same time of others who have no pretension to either character. I shall not follow the subject further at present, contenting 'myself with the admissions that 1 have made of the evils which do exist, anti trusting to see the subject immediately taken up by the leading brokers, who, by instituting fresh rules for the goVerement of the association and the share market generally; will thus remove all causes of complaint, and give to the share business in this town that degree of respectability to which the extent and importance of the transactions entitle it. I am, Sir, yours, &c. A SHARE BROKER. Liverpool, June 2, 1838. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN OF THE ESTA BLISHED CHURCH.—On Friday last a deputation of the con gregation of Christ Church, Liverpool, presented, to their, late c•Ncellent Curate, the Rev. James Power, A.M, a purse and a piece of plate, hearing the following inscription Presented to the • Rev. James Power, A,M„ By the congregation of Christ Church, Liverpool, . " In testimony. of their esteem • - • and gratitude for his Christian kindness, and . , attention durina• hig miniory among them May 29 . ,h, 1838. VISITATION OF TI-tE CLERGY OF THIS DI , ;TRIaT OF THE DIOCESE!. BY THE. RIGHT REV. JOHN BIRD SUMNER, LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE. Yesterday, at St. Peter's Church. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese held a visitation of the clergy of this district of the diocese. About 1(X) of the clergy of the diocese were present, embodying the whole of the clergy of the tow 4, and the district of Preston, Ormskirk, Prescot,• Walton, Kirktia.le, Wavertree, Wootton, and the surrounding towns. The morning service was read by the Rev. Rector Campbell. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Rector Brooks, A.M., and was one marked by strong good sense, and Christian precepts. We have, from its excellence, been induced to give, what we believe, a ver batim report of it, with the exception of an occasional bestial inaccuracy, from our . being seated in an unfavourable position for hearing well. The Rev. RECTOR took for his text, the Itth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and the 16th verse," Beloved, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye there fore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." The great object and design. of Christianity was to prepare men for eternal life, and happiness in another world. The kingdom of God, and his righteousnesi comprehended the main business of religion.. This is what we are instructed to be care ful first to see. In comparison with this, all other things are but of secondary importance. To secure this should be our con stant aim, and endeavour; and then, whatever else may be needful ler us, we may expect as a necessary consequence. The means which it pleased God to institute fur the attainment of this 'end, was the establishment of a visible 'church. That church St. "Paul informs us, is as the pillar and ground of truth: its divine founder called it " the light of the world ;" in it was enshrined the gospel of our common salvation; out of its bosom were to flow those lilting streams which were to be the spiritual nourishment of.the whole'hutnan race; and. from its orders were to issue those streams of celestial light whirl were to illu mine the darkness of the heathen world, as well us to be the glory of the hitherto more feeble Israel. This provision then being made for the security of this sacred deposite, the next step was the method which should he contrived for its general diffusion ; and this was to be dune by appointment of a stand ing ministry. In This chapter we have recorded by St. Matthew, an account of the commission given by our Saviour to his apostles, and of the instructions which, upOn this interesting, and momentous occasion, he imparted to them in carrying it into effect. He was well aware of the danger and difficulties to which this office would expose them. He was sending them to preach *bids of 'peace, and of gentleness, but he knew how much they wodlit he perverted by the obstinacy of prejudice, and by the violence 'of passion. They were to be the bearers of a m'e'ssage' fratight with kindness, and with mercy; but he forsaw' that it' Would provoke animosities, and give cause of offence. 'They were to impart a knowledge calculated to make men wise Unto salvation; but he knew that temporal interests, and wordly profeSsions, would reject the profered gift, and turn it into the source of contention, and of discord. They were to performing good. will towards men; the reception they were to meet with would be, hatred, persecution, and death. Such then being the case, he deemed it necessary that they should be fore warned of the obstacles which would be opposed to their success; that they should be prepared for the treatment which they must inevitably experience; and that those false notions, which, in common With the rest of their countrymen, they had imbibed, as-regarded the character of their masters kingdom, as one of worldly triumph, of Worldly wonder, and of worldly dominion, should be t:orrected. In order that the sad and melancholy scene which he was going to open to their view tnif.thi not have the effect of discouraging their exertions, he begins by endea vouring to inspire them with confidence in himself, and in the authOrity with which, as the Sou of God, he is'invested. He bestows upon them the power of working miracles;, he assures them that they should be supplied with whatever was necessary for subsistence, and ; that without any care on their part ; he annimates them with the promise of supernatural assistance to enable them to advance the doctrines.whiO they had under taken to promulgate, and to uphold the cause, of truth against all opposition. He reminds them that he himself had been the object of bitter prosecution ; that iris actions had been misre presented, and his notions maligned; that " the disciple could not expect to be above his master, nor the servant above his lord," that it was enough if in its support, they were placed on the same Heintimates to them, that they, as be had done, wclte to combat the errors and passions of men; that they' Weed to establish a worship that was foreign to all re . ceived 'principles, and provides that they were to inculcate the renunciation of inordinate desires that had never known re straint, and of evil habits that had grown rank by long in dulgence': that even those whom they might prevail on to receive the new religion; would he objects of the most determined cruelty, and hatred, and that the divisions that would be intro duced with it would be carried to such au excess, that the tenderest sympathies of nature would be violated, and the closest ties Of kindred would afford no protection against the animosity of enmity and malice. And if such consequences were to attend the mere profession of it, what were they to ex pect who had boldly to stand forward as it advocates, and the instructors of its doctrines? When all the bad passions of mankind were thus excited, it was scarcely speaking in a figure to tell them that " he sent them forth as sheep in the midst of wolves," as the meekest, and most helpless of animals , exposed to the fury of the most savage and ferocious; and yet they a*a not to allow themselves to be spared even uder such apparinfly hopeless circumstances as these. Why should they tear death ? the utmost extent of vvhose_ power could only affect their mortal bodies—that perishable part of them, which accident or disease might at any moment annihilate. There was au armour with which they could cloth themselves ; there were weapons with which they might furnish themselves—the shield of.taith, and trust, aad confidence in him whose power extended not over the body only. but the immortal soul—the sword of the spirit, that spirit which was to work with them, and which would inspire i them with fortitude, with courage, and with faith. This would i not only form their own protection, but would enable theM to work a mighty change in the nature, and the temper of their adversaries. Still, however, the proper use of this would re quire much skill, and discretion. It they would defend them- i selves with effect, it must be by putting on the combined virtues of wisdom and of innocence; by so blending them together t that the meekness of the one should counteract whatever there s might he of worldly cunning in the other; and the discretion I or the former prevent the simplicity of the latter from becom- 4 ing the victim of oppression, and of fraud. "Be ye wise as t serpents, and harmless as doves." Take the wisdom of the m serpent to guard you against the wisdom of the world, and the 4 artifices of those whom you will find opposed against you; but t always united with the harmlessness of the dove, that you may I preserve the genuine spirit, and character of your Redeemer. I I'he one will not allow you to shrink from any necessary duty I under any apprehension of personal danger, the other, by the exercise of a true foresight will prevent' you from incurring an Unnecessary risk. The one will in all cases restrain you from sin, the other will tend to mitigate the evil; whilst the one will admit of no improper compliance, the other will make use of no indecent provocation; whilst the one will never depart from what is right from the prospect of temporal advantage, the other will not court any interest which is incompatible with innocence. Simplicity will form no groundless jealousy or suspicion ; wisdom will awaken viligance. The former will I recommend you to the protection of God; the latter will guard you against the plottin g ' s of men. Such was the admonition given to the first preachers of Christianity in the discharge of I the arduous work committed to their care in establishing the foundation of a Christian world. They were under peculiar I circumstances, and it is by no means the part or wisdom I to make an unshakled, and unqua l if i e d app li cat i on, e i t h er f of their condition or of their duties to the ministers of the 1 gospel 'in the present day. Still, however, there is so much of general resemblance as to make the same qualifications necessary, though not always in the stone degree, no with relation to the same precise objects. Time first preachers, so far as the Jews were concerned, had to set aside the religion I which was endeared to them as the religion of their fathers, which was intimately associated with their privileges as the de scendants of Ablation', which regarded as inviolate a wall of 4 partition .between themselves and the rest of the world, which • it was the professed object of the new dispensation to break down and to destroy. So with regard to the Gentiles, they had 4 to overturn the superstitions of idolatry, and to introduce a pure and spiritual worship in the place of one which had found a sa nction for every vice and for every iniquity; to substitute faith in Christ for the pride of philosophy, and self denial for 1 self indulgence: In the present day. Christianity lies become firmly established, and is gradually winning her way through the utmost distant quarters .of the habitable globe. She has no target all the 'minces of the world set in array against her; on i the contrary,' according to the predictions of the prophet, kings have become her nursing fathers, oust - queens her nursing mothers. The interest site has already made, and the triumphs she has already achieved, has no longer left it a.question whe ther she shall alter speedily time religion of the Jew and the idolatry of the Gentile. But still the contest must be carried on against the same principles, though they are placed before • us front the change of time and circumstances, under a different aspect. infidelity is still at work ; she does nut in deed boldly attempt to struggle for empire; she attempts to undermine where she cannot openly deny; and by insidiously circulating her poison under the specious garb of au affected liberality, seeks to entrap the unwary and to deceive the care less. But Christianity has not now to strive only with external enemies, with internal concord and union, which drew from her adversaries the proud and the gratifying confession, "see how these Christians love one another." This has ceased to be the divine characteristic of her apostles; deadly hatreds and bitter animosities have divided-the church of Christ itself into contending parties. The fierceness of ill-tempered zeal • has been as mischievous in its tendency and as injurious in its effeets to the canse.of religion as the.cruel persecutions of the heathen and the Jew, and the words of our Lord- have been applicable to the present day no less than in the times immediately subse quent to the inculcation of his religion, that a tuan's toes are invariably in his own household." To repel then these united attacks of infidelity from without, schism loom within, the church of Christ will require all the aid she can receive from learning; from industry; and from well directed' zeal. AS the priest of old stood. between the dead and the living to stay the plague, so must her ministers.take their stand between religion and infidelity; between the form of God's words and the unsound ness of heretical opinions; and while they exercise that wisdom -reject every unholy compromise of principle, and every faith less sacrifice of truth, insist unite with it that purity of disposi tion, that mildness of temper, and that honesty of purpose, which clearly prove its character to be that which is from above. And if such be the duty of all who minister in any branch of the church of Christ, it surely is peculiarly binding upon us who have the happy privilege of serving at the altars of that which is established within the kingdom. The principles upon which our church is founded are the most complete exemplification of that spirit which our present Saviour recommended to his apostles: her confessions of faith are strono,.and her opinions professed with so much f or bearance, so much charity and mo deration as might reasonably lead to the hope that she would have disarmed all opposition, and conciliated general affection and esteem. If this has unhappily not beers the case—if, on the contrary, she has been made the apparent object of attack —if she has been assailed on the right hand and on the left, by men widely differing from each other in religious opinion and diametrically opposed in doctrine—if her intentions have been misconstrued, her failings exaggerated and her policy impugn. ed as sensual and worldly—if her ministers have been charged with being faithless to their trrust, as dead to the spiritual winos of those under their care, and as influenced only by the base ambition of temporal g ain, it should not be to us a matter of ' wonder or surprise. We have no right tocalculate for an entire ' exemption from those difficulties with which the first preachers of the gospel had to contend. if they were called upon to suffer bonds and imprisonment, and often even death—if they were troubled on every side—if they were persecuted from city to city, and if the altered state both of religion and society no longer renders us subject to the same arguments ; yet we have no reason to believe that ours .must be a state of uninterrupted repose. The time is not yet come when we are tires pect that the word willbaye free course; it has still obstacle's, to contend ' with which must prove in ,the highest degree itmitimicat to -its peace; audit we, its appointed champions, have still fireoinbat with profaneness and with profligac4 . , with malice aard -with envy, with false doctrine and with heresy. with bail faitlrand with awful superstition, we must look .to be-assailed with the breath of calumny and the rudest censure; .we must honk so our actions being sometimes condemned, and. to nor motives being improperly impugned ; we must picture. to ,bear with the nu merited suffering of evil reports, and; iristearl of allowing our selves to feet any enmity which time -terms of such treatment mav he calculated to inspire, we must take our stand upon the ruck 'if troth rind uphold and protect the high and holy interests which bact , been committed to our care; we must shrink from tlo exertions, however laborious—from no reproaches, however . s.6ifere which may Inset us in the dischargeour duty to whip% we have bound ouraelves. We know whom we serve; we know the master whose steps we trove even un dertaken to follow,' we-0a man of sorrows and acquetnted with grief; we 'mow that the captain of *our salvation—he Irons whom our faith orrVnistes, aod on whom it 'is founded was, during bis abode on earth, despised and rejected 'of , nets; end "the ser vant is not above his: Lord." Looking, then, to him for our example, we must run - frith patience the rat'e set before us; we must count all things but lost for the excellency of the law of Christ, and for that gosnel which he laid down his life to give to us. We must be ready to sacrifice every earthly cousideration in announcing this as the, only name given under' heaven whereby man can be saved, and we must glory in the'apostlet application of the glowing language of prophesy—" how beau tiful upon the inuuntains• are the feet of them who bring good tidings and publish peace."—You, my brethren, to whom I am now addressing ins selt, without doubt, believe that there is no church in Christendom which has a stronger claim to the faith ful allegiance of her sons than the one to which we belong; and, on the elevated ground, and on the conviction, that in both her doctrines and her precepts she comes nearest to the apos. tolic copy. She stood nobly forward to dispel the darkness when the light of the gospel had been obscured and almost lost amidst the early rise of Papal superstition, and early gained the title of being the glory of the reformed churches. We trust she has done nothing to forfeit that high character which she stilt maintains, abd under the blessing of God will long continue to maintain, the purity of the faith - mice delivered to the saints. You are devoted to her, it is hoped, upon more enlightened principles than the narrow feelinies of sectarian zeal, from re garding her as the faithful repository of the redeemed world— as' the guardian Of the system of truth which leads to everlasting life, 'You wilt naturally wish to see ber :animated to the ad vancement of true religion, spreading wide the - language of sal vation, and offering to all the rich and precious treasures in which her whole hopes are built; you will adopt the language' of one of her eloquent advocates, " I would 'wish .to see tl e established church of Englaud greaf at? powerful; I would wish to see her foundations laid low and deep; I would have her head raised up to that heaven to which she conchicts us; I would have her open wide her massive gates to all with liberal compasSion, but I would have no breaches in her walls; 1 would have her cherish all those who are within, and pity all those who ate without ; I would have her a firm bletSing to the world, an ensample if not an instruction to the whole of those who have the happiness to belong to her. I would'have bet give lessons of peace to inankiud that a vexed generation might seek for repose in the bosom of Christianity, anti not in the harlot lap of infidelity and indifference." But how can this wish be better accomplished thou by the union of the energy of all her friends? We know, indeed, that our church is in the bands of God; but we are bound to take every care that can conduce to her safety. We believe her to be fOuucted on Scripture; and as it has pleased God to withdraw the extraordinary gift of the holy Spirit, and to leave the future extension of his holy reli gion to human aid, supported by the holy influence of divine . grace, the • • unity of wisdom and purity is more than ever n eces- sary ; and indifference, and seltishnets, and sloth ought to have no paLe among I. • lowed with other views. These are not the times for a listless inaction; there are various causes at present at work calculat ed- deeply to affect the interests of the chord) which we love and venerate ; they are too apparent to he unseen 'from our view; they are too important to be clisreg,arded ; they hold out a warning which ought not to be loSt upon us; but it should speak to us only of increased faithfulness and zeal. We must indeed feel how inadequate we are of ourselves to do this, but we should feel all things through Christ, and the grace of God will not be wanting to those who are earnest in their defence.' And we are contending for the purity of rhat•institutiou which' we believe to be the puiest church of Christ on earth, and to be built on a stable foundation, Jesus Gist himself being the chief corner stone; and we should stand•forth, therefore, not, indeed, in our own strength,but called, in fighteousness, and uni ting the wisdom of the serpent with the harmlessness of the dove, to maintain the principles of our faith and of moderation, yet, at the seine time, with the unshaken consistency which becomes our profession, with Christian charity and Christian meekness, but at the saute time with undoubted arninesi and with devoted re solution. In discharging the momentous responsibilities which• in this respect lie upon us, we must not marital from ourselves that the eyes of all are directed towards .tts; . Some anxiously lay hold of every opportunity to misrepresent and to traduce us; others, while they affect to feel some; for our faults, are too apt to place them in au unfavourabler . ight more than they deserve, and nut a few, perhaps, are inetitifed to seek an excuse in their own failings-in the infirmities whirilkhey see in us. It is, no doubt, a difficult task so to walk• as to keep ourselves from all blame. if we are quiet we are charged wick remiss-' ness; if we are active, we are considered tocrinterfering ; if we'' inculcate practice, we are said to be deficient+ in - faith; if ww enforce doctrine, we are accused of being neglectful of mo rality ; if we content ourselves with the simplicity of the - Gos; pel, we are described as lying down and loving to slumber ; if we enter into controversy, we are condemned as bigots. And if such be the acciisatiens of our enemies, there io sometimes, I' regret to say, Si) much of lukewarmness in our friends as in duces them to lend a too wilting ear to these unreasonable repre ,, sentations. Still, however, the remedy is in our own hands; to , pursue the straightforward course, deviating neither to the one side Dor to the other, and taking that elevation of character which can only be gained by the union of these qualities en , j o i ne d by our Saviour, wisdom and innocence. A zealous and conscientious discharge of our duties, tempered by discre tide', .and 'adorned by sensibility, and purity will, generally speaking, secure for us the attachment of those with whom we are professionally connected if we but speak, and do the things' which become sound in doctrine; if we but feel the power of that religion which we preach. and preach the power we feel ; if we endeavour to rightly to divide the word of truth; if we apply it judiciously to the wants and circumstances o those whom we teach; if we are ever ready as occasion may require to instruct ignorance, support weakness, to raise the despond iug, to cheer the uenitent, to rouse the careless, to warn the fearless, and to warn the reprobate, we may reasonably look for the blessing of God on our labours, and if we do not succeed in attaining the good opinion of those who are determined not to see anything that is, good in us, she shall, at least, conciliate the esteem of the pious, and the virtuous, and reap even more— , that reward which isthe fitting object of our desires, so long as we use not for the purpose.of self gratification, but only as it! enables us to extend our usefulness, and provide additional means of glorifying our Father who is in heaven. Let us then, my brethren, steadily put sue .our course of duty with a zeal enlightened by wisdom, and.purified by meekness; let us place our confidence in Him in whom alone is our strength; and in conclusion, I would exhort you, not in the feebleness of him who is now addressing you, but in the energetic language of one of the most eminent preachers -of , the 17th century. " Go forth, and preach Christ Jesus the Lord , , determined to know nothing among your people, but Christ crucified. Let his name and grace, his spirit and love triumph in the midst of all your disc..urses; let your g•eat end be to glorify him in the earth, and to render him precious in the'eyes of his people; lead them to him as a sanctuary to protect them, apropitiation to reconcile them, a treasure to enrich them, a physician to heal them, an advocate to present them and their. services to God, who is wisdom to counsel, is righteousness to justify, is redemp tion to save." Now to God &c. ._ . The Lotto Bishop having then entered within the rails be fore the altar the clergy assembled round him, and answered to their names as called over by his officer, to the number of about 80. The right rev, prelate then proceeded to deliver his charge to them; but we heard him so indistinctly we can only present an outline to our readers. They were met together to take counsel in things in which they were immediately concerned, and in the first place he noticed the -necessity that existed, in the rapid 'evolution in time, for them to *or - k.for the glory of God "while it was called to-day,". Many subjects there were of ecclesiastical policy which might excite their interest or suspicion, but he found himself irresistibly carried on to one -object as far transcending every other,—he meant the local advancement of religion in their own pa rishes, and the ,districts committed to them as the-. par,i cular field which was assigned to each. This seemed the point to which their atteution might, still -most properly be directed. In all 'natters of general religious legislation, they remained touch where they were ten years ago. They bad alwa3s had changes in project and changes in experiment; but, as to ail essential things, they remained unchanged. Our ad ministration had still the some opportunities of usefulness, an& were still encountered by the same obstacles. Ile knew ni t that the one were increased, and he was not sure that the other were decreased. Now, had they (the clergy) waited mean while, and suspended their exertions, very different would have been the aspect of things at the present hour. Their concern was of time and eternity; time flies too rapidly to be lost ; the interests of eternity are too serious to be neglected. They might hope, therefore for better fruits from having used the • means they had. The object set before them, though still far distant in the horison, was not so distant as before; some ob stacles that intervened had been removed The right rev. prelate then went ou to notice the most prominent spiritual wants. One of the most prominent was the want of religious education; the young must be brought up in the knowledge of the Lord. In reason, the nature of education must be deter mined by the nature of the subject of that education; and, since man was an immortal being—since his eternal existence must depend on his conduct in this world—chive- What profiteth it unto a man to gain the whole world,and lose his own soul ;" therefore the kirowledge of God was eter nity to hint. The, education, also, which provided for eternity was tire roost valuable for him, for it was better ealcwlaied than any other education to strengthen and expand the faculties of .the mind. There were those who thought that the studymf the bible contracted the mind and fettered the understanding; but let such remember that the greatest men this country had tVti• known, and those who had arrived at the greatest degree of worldly knowledge, had ever been most conversant with the bible. Education led to evil except where the head .was stort d the mind was brought wider regulation; and the mind could be regulated in no other way except by- those .great truths of scripture, of love to. Christ, - binding., the heart. The passions were not controlled nor the appetites brought into subjection, because the mind was acquainted with,literature or the arts, with history or geography. Bow frequently did we find the most. transcendent abilities connected„ with, corruption of heart. They had no safeguard that a merely. intellectual man would be an useful member of the community to which he belonged; he might be a slave to debasing vice and a pest to. society. ; The want of education—scriptural . education—did not arise so much from the want of schools as from the ignorance of parents and the unwillingness of persons , to send their , children to them. This arose from many causes, from the necessity of children; at a very , early age, working for their subsistence—from the temptations to which they w ere exposed which made them unwilling to attend school. Legisla tive enactments could do little in this respect to change thena - tore of man; nothing but morel teaching and gospel exercise, would , clo.away with this. In connexion with the national so ciety, 59 new schools have been.established in the diocese, con taining 21,000 scholars, and had .been raised at an expense X-44,692. In proportion as they.were enabled to carry mil. ous education through the mass of .the population, they wou find it inure efficient. Those who were instructed and we , c , I brought afterwards into contact -with others, would find then. r also untleykthe control of like influences; the dangers of. ass , - ciation would be prevented, and companionship would. not be 'to corrupt but to iMprove. ,l-e rejoiced-to meet the .clergy uior ' with increased hope. The times had received them wilt' kspirit of enmity, which, instead of laying their honour its the dust,.ha , : awakened them to fresh exertions in the cause of Jesus Chris Since his last visitation. 30 churches had been erected,. and • more were building in this part of the diocese; and when them I churches should he completed, the diocesa.would be richer b'. 100- churches than when they had met before within-the lass three years. Our government must be shown, that no trate is so effective as tbe minister of the church; that no 'v.v.:: are-so effective as the laws of God. , fitter the conclusion of the charge, the visitation broke I:1- . ; • three .o'clock. , To-day a confirmation will be held by BiSliop, at the different churches. We understand that a ser►uon to young persons generri'' and especially to those fecently confirmed, will he preache.. St. Andrew's Church to-mor►ow evening, by the Wot,ol the Chancellor of the Diocese. RAILWAY TO N EWTON RACE COW? SE.,-We under, considerable improvements have been made'•nn this branch,. prevent delay or accident with the trains to Newton races--i ►f we may judge from.the entry of horses for the anfuiug tug, there will be no Lick. of spurt.