The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

i‘farqu wriarrtal HOUSI Th tion of t formed him that, havir soondence referred to, 'ard, he had move tt ! bar on there had b, The Earl of G!,t an intention to other pur The IVltirq The Marquis of NORN relative I be ready would be very inconve Bishop of Exeter's me should have bi ome co. great personal Monday (yeste. The orders o adjourned HOUSE OF C( I STANLEY postpoo tration of V of March 4e to the up, making, as ii per and lower eh dress to the crov propOS expectations, and lie vi( ber to leave the matter Sir R. PEEL admittc of the wealthy commu from the man backward in a to call for the baronet, in an necessity of hay lows to country. Mr. WA effect to cents f a justiticatiori tc motion, but if no iseertain the expi Monies of Brit, member wa The E ter rec the causes of d feasibl R. Ingli in Syria was impos HAWE fter wt aouse resumed Pottoc krroKNEY-( Thrttanuilt :lye rise to HOUSE OF I Of MOUNTCASL g, to leg to Canal e moth Ted to 1 extent t 1 on its bacli )N tho no I el ls., of a pony's ott tit 1. rented, at 'lance I t ,ng the most (to- i per 1 duty I ana i r t distilled from the m Canada. tated I ?y Sup-Inpe, Wit Han ich, and , lodged in our countigaol. aly and neatly the chi ,c cum u means of Some routine t adjourned HOUSE OF CO Lord PALMERS' minion of Mehem' A discussion upon tt Lord F. Egerton, Sir I merston took par received from by sv hich ti scendants of this firman the S to say What di lew proposition tinople a r four power official communication from ever that the Por was acting in pertee' Mr. KELLY p abolition of capital punishmen The house having resolved it trade of British possessions bi-' ceeded to bring under the co, customs duties of the West The cot out of the policy of Mr. 1-I restrictions upon ou been tat bad 1 n toward equivocal success. Many arti and salt provisions, Nvere ,, at pr mount to prohibitiOns, if th :ountries ad valorem chai ....._ _ was to pen the colonial trade principle laid down by Mr. the West Indies that this sh lad recently therto monopol that ti upon tides of cons also. The three Duld be Aubject to ad valor proposed to admit A fourth class excluded, and which he did not propose to i salt provisions, and_o ith an a st Indian colonies subjecting those Der cent. Feel' ie irnpo s for our seamen, with the dutie could impose A to th in the ti übject pfc.kl on wines of to prevent 'oposition Ile u to admit the Channel Isla the same term Another tleman concluded rations interest whatever Ir. PALMER was altc of free trade, and suggested whole matter to a committee Mr. Ew ABA' NI as opposed mittee, and only regretted tl to be deprived of the to the eolon was agreed to as to and the hot n duty c ed to a (it ith. i to do a went into proh He prop )ne-half of ti lviction that thes, that no distinction could t opposed to I,h nittee on tween tt from the t laple tree wa Mr. LABOT iistilled from Sates, he thoi )ut half w sugar, no matter from wh ;he sug tained The CHAN'C'E or. of the was injudici when by so ( extende County C various pro the second the itppointir" tliated t the governmen great number LO b! Mr. Fox MAUL The bill was ion. The other or house adjourned Langford, and Consta Kildimo, in men---na Conway, tified, and were, o Limerick Standard CIHLD J child, abou in Blackfriar-street, by tv7. the- man and his wife the former to come 01 lug an infant up ire her arms, and found tired, with a but y it to fourth case ng the matter to a C p olice their protection, she was comp-- Hospital, where, with some diffieui vJwn out of he r h an d s. T his i s the fn otelrilich has happened during the last fortnign Chas ItyeAlvrtless mother been discovered.—S 4'uardiefs , --; :PC ) itAI 'orth of England R CHAN( cery law i this imme Day. h 1 rri the lega 31 that pro The reason f ellor, but with keep th, ting of The coal tr !d market the Sc nortt to be st 1088 .re fast r Court of trial w mr the house al body of t i Ireland chan a; of a char I their little 11 Joseph 11! uation mght to trial to, when again I I,—;.nfinn Day, ti :d in 0 action of all c ince of the o; eery suitors. oncernec MD! kiot on ke pockets of the y and tt pre, unless t llor should humanely look intoli, r and dir__ ate hearing and final adjudication."—From Me Ail ion which 'chan- d many of the poorer annuitants • workhouse ; while the widow, and his daughter, are re .errise of their rights and the full ;ist of the the Lord who, while they can m, will, we tate of liti- its 'mule- protitab. He had sh minister )een Of stock ha e treat but i CORSICAN into a committee on the IVlr. LABOUCIIERE pro- attention has Aeration of the house the more than ordi dies and North American hall was crow xi. ini the relaxation of the I not frequent i lr cornmem h, staves, flour to duties tanta- of torw,gi !dual to ai d it was atie herause. as ti ~ ther tt airhead I for whom ) called the name of hay is left. and eat 1 I family of strained. f in Cor ; lakq, 1 the I , prietors In -ri the COlll and th, um whit h per ( carried as the firs is a custom :ertain r ni iv / to financ negociai ions were y ter of Fc mud Can EW GRANADA 1 at the heir ord inces t Patna, all partj cornplet .ry occupations ENOS British Packet, publi§. i the troops o published it Buenos losas and Laval ml some of bitterly opi ,ortion of t upon ( adju v stment of the One of theip, con the most Ted to t reign Affair ;ero, the pr ), of Grace and Alain, or Ge. of Count Elmo Don Dioisio ie Vice-Presi- reional a letter from Paris, men ling between the Regency s (M. Aguado) and the loan of from 400,000,000 to had proposed to apply to the le redemption of the loan, the „y, the revenues of the colonies, is of the sale of tobacco, which would be ma igents of the lenders. or cash, and journals from Begota and Caraccas, the r to the end of December, the latter to the 20th of the insurrection was, 'according to the latest ac nd some other of rebels, but st of De foverment as then 4 filled with all the inhabitants Ayres, contains he latest date in tantial narrative of the eugi than has hitherto There can now be no doubt that the defeat r was complete, and that he himself had a narrow Among the prisoners, a xiven by name, are to be en of the party, Called Unitarians, as. It was General Pacheco who against Lavalte, and not Oribe, •om Macao by the ovt to powe n cotto: ,d at Chus exceedingly discontented that hould have been Kpedition, which, ted with intly be- !d. On took,it STOL AND 'ect of the 1 pretty pov, ques tio ntil time slit lace of spectacl tance from The crime v lame of .sica, bad share( One of 1 elf, in vi mgh it would seem re a enabled to delegate his own himself empowered, should ion to nominate a successor, qualified, w rank and ability, to take his place. 'rom fort England, said, tamely, Capt. I asted, N ment n to baffle t tain Elliot, an officer c of - the n it and diploma- ad for the eas ;, is left in sole with the most could be Is ; " thu's," as aletter from Macao ,g what Lord Melbourne, the pre the H ouse of Lords, should not be the direction of the e can read as the of even a any of whom knov mmana of the expedition, but whether he is Alan , here or not we are left in ignorance." It is 11 known Admiral Elliot had for r the visitation of that And this s prey listress in of t ;%; and uneN x been a vietim_to it sainted with him tha id of the Cape station he of this disease, that it n painful to be with him from the very violent action cart. which shook the whole room, -' --- t of very Under suc .oss impropriety to commit to the _ . a an invalid a command of such extreme im- that of the Chinese expedition, or even t and papers have RALIA been received 1 from Hobart Town ply' no new facts re igned causes. It ap )n of a great deal of pears indeed that tl overtrading prevailed among the banks of other parts of Australia, and that in consequence all were more or less pru dently engaged, like those of Van Diemen's Land, in taking steps to remedy or make head against the evil. WEST INDIES. The arrival of the West India mail by the Hope packet has furnished papers from the various islands to the follow ing dates, all inclusive—Jamaica to the Ist of February ; Demerara to the 22d of January ; Trinidad to the 22d of January ; Barbadoes to the 23d of January ; and Antigua to the 19th of January. In the Jamaica papers some accounts appear of the state of the island of Dominica, which was suf fering much from the very dry weather. On some of the tates sugar had already been made, but of very inferior iality, and in others the juices were so weak that they ulate. The crop was not expected to exceed r. Besides the inconvenience of the continu raught tfiroughout the months of November it was feared there was no chance 'of establish ...or the crop of 1842, as most part of the island planted in these months. Provisions were, for the titne °mug, reasonable, from the desire of the planter to clear his cane preparations of roots. The Court of Policy at Deme rara was in course of deliberation, but the discussions were connected only with matters of local interest. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 9th of January, and Graham's Town papers to the Ist of January were also re ceived to-day. These communicate the news of an attack by the emigrant boers of Natal upon the Chief Capai, in which they carried off an immense drove of cattle. The Governor had had a conference with the chiefs of the Slambie and Gonaquabe Caffres on the treaties, which was not finally t the date of these accounts. )ecember [lt will be remembered that inour last we expressed stioug doubts of the correctness of the account of the destruction of the Falls of Niagara, which we copied from a Buffalo paper ; and it seems, from the following extract frtim the New York Comrnercial Advertiser that it is likely to prove merely a Some of the papers this morning contained what is called extra from the " office of the Advertiser, Buffalo, Feb. 14, o'clock," giving an account of the destruction of the Falls tgata. D A slight glance at it will convince any one that bohx . , and by no means a good one, got up by some g who probably never saw the falls. We will point out of the indicia leading to this conclusion. 1. The article was not written, although purporting to have been, by the editor of the _Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. We know his style too well. Ile never deals in such inflated windy language as the account presents. 2. * The extra purports to be dated at Buffalo on Sunday evening at 4 o'clock, and it was received in this city last evening. This could not be done. 3. "Biddle Tower and all the adjoining groundwork had disappeared."—Mr. Biddle never built a tower at the falls. Some years ago he caused to be built a staircase on Goat's Island, leading down to the falls, which goes by his name. 4. "The water made a subterraneous passage, and burst through the wall of Goat Island."—Absurd. 5. " The hotel is gone. It is believed no lives have been lost."—The last - clause is correct; there can have been no lives lost, because there was no hotel to be carried away. The nearest hotel is the Clifton-house, far below the falls. P.S. Since the above was in type the northern mail, only due this afternoon, has arrived, and brought us the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening, the latest which •, The Albany papers of yesterday are silent .1 hoax was probably got Up in this city. The Falls of Niagara afford a magnificent example of the progressive excavation of a deep valley in a solid rock. That river slows froM Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, the former lake being 330 feet above the latter, and the distance between them being 32 miles. On flowing out of the upper lake the river is almost on a level with its banks, so that if it 'should rise perpendicularly eight or ten feet, it would lay under wa ter the adjacent'flat country of Upper Canada on the west, and of the state of New York on the east. The river; where it issues, is about three-quarters of a mile in width. Before reaching the Falls it is propelled with great rapidity, being - a mile broad, about 25 feet deep, and having a descent of 50 feet in half a mile. An iskind at the very verge of the cata ract divides it into two sheets of water : one of these, called the Horseshoe Fall, is 600 yards wide, and 158 feet perpen dicular ; the other, called the American Falls, is about 200 yards in width, and 164 feet in height. The breadth of the island is about 500 yards. This great sheet of water is precipitated over a ledge of hard limestone, '.._ tal strata, below which ,is a, somewhat greater, thickne, t horizon- s away more r Ile, which dec ) thi)t the calcareous rock forms an overha ,he hollow space of wind, charged with spray, which pool into wi ch this enormous cascade shale beds. so that their disintegration is constant, Hy at certain the expanst The superincum- bent limestone bein from time to time in patiied by a not river h Hall, MISCELLANEOUS Arthur Henry, son of Mr. W. Brown, of Brentwood, a youth little more than ten years of age, but of great musi cal promise, has been appointed organist to the new church, £50,000 ue of the plate, paintings, furniture, and other pro •ed front the tire at Wynyard Park, is said to be The total loss is estimated at £70,000, and there ns to be no doubt of the distressing fact that the property was WI: - - since the opening of the Hartlepool and Stockton railway; and the recent opening* of the Great North of England rail way for goods and merchandize, great quantities of fish are no* daily sent from Hartlepool to Darlington, and forwarded by the latter railway for York, Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, Manchestee, and Birmingham. - The quantity of timber imported into the port of Sunderland for the year ending on the sth of last January was 41,705 loads. The quantity imported last year into the united king dom of Great Britain and Ireland was 518,299 loads ; so that the quantity imported at this port exceeded a t wen tieth of that of the whole kingdom. FATAL ACCIDENT.-It is with sincere regret we have to intimate the untimely fate of the Rev. Thomas WRitchie, late minister of the parish of Clunie, in this county. It will be recollected that he voluntarily demitted his pastoral charge, between two and three years ago, for the purpose of going abroad. He was drowned on the Ist July last, in con sequence of the upsetting of a boat in the Kiapara River, on the west coast of New Zealand, while the ship Anna Watson, with which he was a passenger, lay wind-bound on her voy age from Sydney to the Bay of Islands. Mr. WRitchie was in the thirty-sixth year of his age.—Perth Constitutional. A French paper called the Audience contains a letter from a private correspondent, dated Gibralter, the 28th ult., which states that an opulent British merchant, named James Box- Well, long resident there, had been tried and convicted of the murder his daughter, on circumstantial evidence, and that on the way to execution the convict saw in the crowd ano ther Englishman named John Keats, who had been active in Collecting evidence against him. The convict expressed a desire to die in peace with all mankind, and to pardon this petson, whom he considered his greatest enemy. When the convict reached the scaffold, the executioner was preparing to exeeute the sentence of the law, when a voice was heard in the crowd exclaiming—" It is I that am guilty, and not the convict." This exclamation was made by John Keats. He confessed that it was he who bad carried off James Box well's daughter ; that he had cut off her hair during her sleep, and stolen one of her dresses, which he had steeped in blood ; and that the generous pardon granted to him by this victim had caused him to reflect on the enormity of his The executioner immediately withdrew the rope ..t's neck, and the cap from his face, when it was discovered that he was dead from the effects of tensor. The atrocious John Keats was conducted to prison amidst the execrations of the populace, who wished to tear him to from the convic DESPERATE OUTRAGE BY AN ARMED PARTY. — On the night of Monday, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, a large body of armed men surrounded the house of Patrick Ryan, of Ballywilliam. Five of them having en tered, the first thing they did was to demand of Ryan what decrees he had in the house ; not having immediately com plied with the demand, one of the ruffians snapt a gun at his head, which fortunately missed fire ; two others of the party also attempted to shoot him, but their pistols burned priming. They then assaulted him with the butt ends of their fire-arms, and having knocked him down, they asked him if he would give up the decrees he had obtained at the last quarter sessions against the Boyles, Gormans, Ryans, and others. Having given them the decrees, they placed him on his knees, and swore him as to the fact of his having any more of them. They also swore him to give up an acre of land, which he had rented for the last twelve months from Caleb Powel, of Castleotway, and threatened him with cer tain death if he put them to the necessity of a second visit. Before they departed they beat a weaver who was sleeping in the house, in a most unmerciful manner, and broke several of his teeth. His name is Thomas M`Mahon, and his of fence was being entered in one or two of the decrees as a specialty. Several shots were heard after the gang had left the house.—Limerick Standard. COLLISION AND SINKING OF A PASSENGER STEAM-BOAT. —An accident of an extraordinary and alarming nature oc curred Ou Tuesday morning, at Kilpinpike, near Howden. The facts are briefly these :—About eight o'clock the iron steamer Hirondelle, Captain Wilson, from Hull to Selby, came in contact with a vessel lying at anchor in the river, and so dreadful was the collision, that the steamer's starboard bow was completely stove in, and her machinery so dread fully shattered, that in less than five minutes she filled with water and disappeared. She had on board about 50 passen gers and 93 sheep. We are happy to state that all the pas sengers saved their lives by jumping on board the vessel with which the steamer came in collision; but nearly half of the sheep were drowned : 25 dead ones have been picked up at Booth Ferry. A Jew lost a valuable box of jewellery, valued at £3OO. The screams of the people on board the packet were heart-rending, and they certainly were in imminent danger, as the interval which elapsed between the shock and sinking was scarcely five minutes, and had the vessel onboard which they escaped been in the least damaged by the colli sion, they would inevitably have perished. The weather was calm, but a dense fog prevailed at the time of the accident. This is the account given by the persons who were on the deck of the steamer when the collision took place.—Eastern Counties' Herald. The g AND HER FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN A " GIANTESS HUSBAND. — On Saturday night, after the performance in a booth at the foot of Saltmarket-street had closed, the woman who exhibited herself as a giantess quarrelled with her hus band, on account, it is said, of his excessively dissipated ha bits, and in the course of the struggle which ensued, the lat ter received :a severe blow on the forehead with some weapon. The unfortunate man soon after became seriously ill, and on Sabbath afternoon, about five o'clock, he expired. Prepara tions were made for the interment of the body on Tuesday, but on the circumstances of the death being made known to the police, the obsequies were postponed, the body taken to the police-office, and submitted to medical inspection. The female was, at the same time, taken into custody for exami nation. It appeared that the weapon used was part of a bed.. post ; but we understand that the medical gentlemen are of opinion that, from the morbid state of the brain, death might have ensued although there had been no external violence. The deceased's name was Moir. The accused is a woman about five feet nine inches in height, and of a masculine figure. She denies having used deadly violence towards her husband, and frequently asks for what sbe is confined. S,ince the above was wrote the prisoner has been discharged by the fiscal, subsequent to the report of the medical gentlemen having been received.—Scotlish Guardian. SUICIDE.—On Monday evening a man and a woman en gaged lodgings in a house in Bell-street, and remained during that night. In the morning the man went out after break fast, and did not return. On Tuesday evening the former ordered some coffee, into which the landlady observed she put a white powder, but supposing it to be some medicine, took no suspicion of the matter. During the night the woman was heard to vomit excessively, and in the morning she was found in hen bed dead. Under the pillow was a letter, ad dressed to " Wm. Barton," of whom we have learned nothing but the name. The writer, however, was known as a per former in the booths at the foot of Saltmarket-street, and bad been married to a showman named Scott, some years dead. She addresses Barton in affectionate terms, informing him that this letter was the last her poor hands would write in this vale of tears ; that his departure from her was the last blow to her proud and bursting heart. She prays for forgiveness to all who have spoke reproachfully of her ; and concludes—" her eyes becoming dim '—with a last request to her sister to attend her funeral. We learn that the de ceased was respectably connected. She was about thirty-six years of age, and had been good looking, but from her course of life her countenance had assumed rather a haggard ap pearance.—Scottish Guardian. FATAL ACCIDENT.—TWO LIVES LOST.—On Thursday morning, between 11 and 12'o'clock, the following lamenta ble occurrence took place :—lt appears that two nursery maids, attached to the establishment of Major Macfarlane, of 16, Raymond-terrace, Regent's Park, went out with three of the children for the purpose of walking round the park. On arriving at the bridge over the canal, one of the servants incautiously placed the youngest child on the parapet of the bridge, and was in the act of tying the strings of its hat when the child fell backward over the bridge. The servant succeeded in grasping its leg before it disappeared, and, in her endeavours to save the child, she overbalanced herself, and both were 'precipitated into the canal. The screams of the other servant quickly drew a number of persons to the spot, and several railed down to the water side, but the child and its nurse had disappeared beneath the surface. Two gentlemen, divesting themselves of their coats, immediately plunged into the water, and,'after repeatedly diving, at length succeeded in bringing out the bodies of the nurse and child. The poor infant was found closely clasped in the arms of the unfortunate young woman, who, it is supposed, had never lost her hold of the child. The bodies were conveyed to the residence of Richards, Esq., close to the spot, and every exertion was used to restore animation, but without effect, life being quite extinot.—Morning Herald. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—StIEERNESS, MARCH 10.— reatest bustle and activity prevail in the royal dock _ i here in getting her Majesty's ships Monarch and Ver non fitted out. V/hen completed, they proceed to Spithead for orders. No doubt is entertained here but that their des tination is a visit to our braggart brother " Jonathan" and the rest of the Van Buren faction. A letter received here (Sheerness) this morning states, that at Plymouth and Ports mouth the utmost activity prevails in the naval departments, and our position in China is now talked about as if it were a secondary consideration. NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. — We understand that it is not Lord Maidstone's intention again to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of North Northamptonshire. Although, in conjunction with his constituenfs, we sincerely regret to lose the services of a nobleman whose spirit, energy, and talents have so thoroughly commended him to our good opinion, yet we rejoice to know that the conservative arrange ments are quite completed, and that Augustus O'Brien, Esq„ is. fully prepared to take the field, in connexion with Mr. Maunsell, that well-tried and unflinching upholder of his country's weal, whenever a dissolution takes .place.—North amp/on Herald. GALILEO.—TI►e ceremony of Galileo's abjuration was one of exciting interest, and of awful formality. Clothed in the sackcloth of a repentant criminal, the venerable sage fell upon his knees before the assembled cardinals; and laying his hands upon the Holy Evangelists, he invoked the Divine aid in abjuring and detesting, and vowing again never to teach, the doctrine of the earth's motion and of the sun's stability. He pledged himself that he would never again, either in words or in writing, propagate such heresies ; and he swore that he would fulfil and observe the penances which had been inflicted upon him. At the conclusion of this ceremony, in which he recited his abjuration word for word, and then signed it, he was conveyed, in conformity with his sentence, to the prison of the Inquisition. The account which we have given of the trial and the sentence of Galileo, is pregnant with the deepest instruction. Human nature is here drawn in its darkest colouring; and in surveying the melancholy picture, it is difficult to decide whether religion or philoso phy has been most degraded. While we witness' the pre sumptuous priest pronouncing infallible decrees of his own erring judgment, we see the highminded philosopher abjuring the eternal and immutable truths which he had himself the glory of establishing. In the ignorances and prejudices of the age—in a too literal interpretration of the language of Scripture—in a mistaken respect for the errors that had be come venerable from their antiquity—and i n the peculiar position which Galileo had taken among the avowed enemies of the church, we find the elements of an apology, poor though it he, for the conduct of the Inquisition. But what excuse can we devise for the humiliating confe ss i on and abjuration of Galileo ? Why did this master-spirit Of the age—this high priest of the stars — this representa tive of science—this hoary sage, whose career of glory was near its consummation — why did he reject the crown Of martyrdom which he had himself coveted, and which, plaited with immortal laurels, was about to descend upon his head? If, in place of disavowing the laws of nature, and surrender ing in his own person the intellectual dignity of his species, he had boldly asserted the truth of his opinions, a n d con fid e d his character to posterity , and his cause to an all-ruling Pro vidence, he would have strung up the hair-suspended sabre, and disarmed for ever the hostility which threatened to over whelm him. The philosopher, however, was supported only by philosophy ; and in the love of truth he found a miserable substitute for the hopes of the martyr. Galileo cowered un der the fear of man, and his submissio n was th e sa l va ti o n of the church. The sword of the inquisition descended on his prostrate neck, and . though its stroke was no t phy s ical, yet it fell with a moral influence fatal to the character of its vic tim, and to the dignity of science.—The Martyrs of Science. By Sir David Brewster. MERCHANT SERVICE. APPOINTMENT OF MASTERS AND MATE (From the Ti !cted with tht The persons cony .m generally to be making ping of the outports movement towards t tion of competent persons as in t present the d. conside ,pointment rests with the the great risk to which pow ner cl by the employment of inn- es not allow the interests of the .dentified with those of the mer- hipowner to be completel :hints and others who hi rest in the safe convey- .. goods, the proposal is to establish boards to st the qualification of masters an mates, so that their ap inclination of an ance of the not be left solely to t individual )11 has ( e from Glasgow c with the t ith the different [on of ho. bodies connected with )ping of the united ith a view to the establishment L legislative enactmen .ble. This deputatia iipowners of Liverpool, at it would be desirable to establish n of masters and mates in the irds to be established in London, astle. Dublin, and Glasgow (or Ice with th ed to qualification in navigation, of cargo, and knowledge Of princi xarnination in the event s resolved, should with a - power of re- , eing lost. The fund bes for examining captain 3d. per ton on registering on all British shipping. It is t who are brinzinz forward this scheme lesire of that by the lezislative enactment appointing the proposed board no patronage should be given to the government, nor, in deed, any right of interfering with the boards ; but that thei with local bodie ils of t uch associations exist, the duty of 3d Ipowner ,vied on cording to which the shipowners should bear part of the expenses, as well as the examined, is calculated ou a basis according to which the merchant ships in 1840 are set down at 1,700, and their tonnage at 250,000 supposing an increase According to thi• I. on the tonna- 'oral preceding years au I calculation t would yield fees, which would be two the examination uineas for a captain. and one guinea for a coasting master r a mate, and 10s. 6d. for the mate of a coaster. The ccount of British shipping according to Mr. Johnson, who ow deputal yes as the num Jels 16,000, which would require as many captains, and gout 24,000 mates, altogether 40,000 officials. Allow mg . 10 per cent. of these to fall off annually, and of course to be renewed, the number of examinations would be 4000. Taking iu the increase, as given above, and allowing ) the vessels to be 1700 in number, and moreover, supposing is that 700 would be supplied by old masters and mates, 1000 re- vessels would be left, requiring 2500 masters and mate try, Now 2000 captains of 'fleas —gn voyages, at two,guu. , would .s of coasters and mates of foreign )O, and at the same rate, would give £3150 ; 1500 mates of coast at 10s. Gd. would giv wnole, with the addition of th e ra t e on tonnage, )ount to £11,262; while the expenses of the total of local boards are estimated to amount to no more . [0,900. The central board of examiners would be London, and be appointed by the united committee moral shipowners and Lloyd's. This proposal being is yet in so early a stage, it is impossible to tell what will be .ts chance of success, especially as that will in a great measure depend on a proof that serious evils arise from defects in the present system. The calculations, at all events, would seem to show that the plan has been thoroughly considered as to its practical working by the parties who urge its adoption. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—It is already generally known that the colliers of Lancashire have struck for an advance of wag es, and that the coal proprietors have resisted their de mands. In consequence of the general want which is now beginning to be felt, a spirit of insubordination has begun to manifest itself amongst the workmen, and the works of the masters are obliged to be guarded, especially during the night, against the colliers, who assemble in parties of about 20, and patrol the country. Several outrages have already been committed. The most recent occurred on Tuesday in the neighbourhood of Wigan. About 20 _...rs attacked the house of a fellow-workman who con tinued to work at the old rate of wages. They fired a gun, loaded with slugs, through the window, happily without effect, and then broke all the windows with stones. Th e father of the collier then took his gun and opened his door, and fired amongst the besiegers. One of them was observed to fall, and was borne away by his companions. On the spot where he fell a quantity of blood was seen, _so that no doubt remains of his having been severely wounded, and this circumstance may lead to his apprehension. The collier attacked is in the employ of R. B. H. Blundell, Esq., of Pemberton. evening lapP taken prisone sed to Roy the setior as to t They also waste ction of frost titout a foundation, falls When these enormous ocky masses at some distance I clap of thunder After the , its character, observes Capt. ...fa completely changed. It then runs bottom of a deep wall-sided valley, or „e trench, which has been cut into the horizontal strata by the continued action of the stream during the lapse of ages. The bed of the 'river here is strewed over with huge frag ments of rock ; the cliffs on 1- passed over the Falls furiously along tlx ~ are in most places perm e raw only perceived on approach- The waters, which expand at of the r Falls, where they are divided by the - island, are con tracted again, after their union, into a stream not more than 160 yards broad. It is remarkable that the water of the pool into which the cataract is precipitated, and that of the nar row channel immediately below, instead of being in a state of tremendous agitation, is so tranquil as to allow a ferry-boat to cross with ease; and even to approach within the reach of the spray, without experiencing any un usual motion. Various explanations have been offered of this phenomenon. According to Mr. Gibson, the vast body of sea-green water, instead of plunging deep as a solid column would do into the sheet below, is drawn out in its descent of 160 feet into white rolls of attenuated foam. He conceives, therefore, that most of the water falls lightly in the form of spray, and the force of the rest is broken by the debris which lie immediately at the foot of the fall. When the Falls were visited in 1829 by Mr. R. Bakewell, jun., he ascertained from a person who had lived 40 years in that part of the country, and had been the first settler there, that during that period the Falls on the Canada side had receded 40 or 50 yards, in consequence of the continued removal of the shale, and undermining of the limestone, above described. It seems difficult to speculate on the future rate of recession of the Falls, for as they retreat the height of the precipice may be reduced or augmented by the varying hardness of the rocks, the division of the stream by islands, and other modifying circumstances. If in the course of many thou sand years the Falls should reach , Lake Erie, 23 miles dis tant, that lake might be effectually drained, inasmuch as the present height of the Falls far exceeds the greatest depth of the lake. It has been supposed that in this case the sudden escape of the water might occasion a deluge on the low lands bordering Ontario ; but in reply, M. De la Beche has objected, that as the bottom of Lake Erie shelves very gently from the shore, the discharge, even after the cataract had receded to the lake, would take place gradually, and it would require time before the river channel was cut back to where the water is deepest. It may also be questioned whe ther the entire area of Lake Erie may not be,converted into dry land before the Falls recede to its shores, so shallow is this lake, its average depth being only 10 or 12 fathoms, and and so fast is it filling up with sediment. ?.CCLESIASTIC NTELLI AL AND UNIVERSITY IGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) In consequence of the lamented death of Mrs. Wilberforce, we believe that no Bampton Lectures will be delivered in the University Pulpit this year. PROMOTIONS. Rev. J. Symons, 8.D., Rector of Radnage, Bucks, and Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire, to be Chaplain to R. Lane, Esq., High Sheriff for the county of Bucks. Joseph Harris, 8.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the Second Mathematical Mastership in the city of London School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Cock, M.A. Rev. Aaron Rogers, M.A., is licensed by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, to the Perpetual Curacy of the church of the district parish of the Holy Trinity, Bristol, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Fryer Jennings, on the nomina tion of John Scandrett Harford, Esq., A. G. H. Battersby, Esq., and others, Rev. C. Carpenter , 8.A., to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord BeaUmont. Rev. W. H. Brookfield, Curate of St. James's Piccadilly to be Morning Preacher at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel Regent-street, London. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) The Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M. A., late scholar of Tri nity college, in this university, and late university theological erOsse scholar, has been instituted by the right rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the rectory of Columb Major, in the county of Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. John Tre fusis, M.A. Patron Edmund Walker, Esq ; Alfred Wrigley, Esq. , 8.A. , of StJohn s college, in this university, has been appointed by the directors of the East India Company, mathematical master of the Artillery and Engineers' Seminary, at Addiscombe, Surrey. Thomas Evans, Esq., 8.A., of St. John's college, in this university, has been appointed classical master of Shrews- bury GrtiMmar School. The Rev. G. Newnham, of Trinity college, in this univer sity, has been appointed curate of Shaw Melksham, in the county of Wilts. The Rev. T. Reynolds, of Pembroke College, in this uni versity, has been appointed curate of Stanford, in Essex. The Rev. J. Kitton, of Queen's College, in this university, has been appointed to the incumbency of the District Church of Houghton, near Carlisle. The Rev. T. Holdieh, M.A., of Clare Hall, in this univer sity, and rector of IVlaidvvell, Northamptonshire, has been preferred to the rectory of Draughton, in the same county, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Griffin. Patron, H. H. Hungerford, Esq.—Value, £343. The Rev. C. H. Bromley,'of St. John's College, in this university, has been appointed to the head mastership of the Ltannnv Prnnrietary School. DOCTOR COOKE AND REV. T. D. GREG( The following document has been published by the deputa tion which waited on these reverend gen tlemen. Three of the members are Presbyterians, four Episcopalians, and one a Methodist : " We, the undersigned, having been appointed a deputation to communicate to the Rev. Dr. Cooke and the Rev. T. D. Gregg, the resolution unanimously adopted by a most influ ential public meeting, held here on the Ist instant, strongly disapproving of the proposed discussion between those gen tlemen, earnestly desiring that it should be abandoned, can not but deeply regret, that Mr. Gregg should have declined yielding to the wishes of that meeting. And, at the same time, we feel called on to express the satisfaction we expe rienced from the manner in which Dr. Cooke received the Deputation, and the desire he manifested to sacrifice his own feelings in deference to them. And he having placdd the matter entirely in our hands, we beg to state it as our decided opinion, that (notwithstanding the steps since taken by Mr. Gregg), for the sakd of Protestant peace and union, Dr. Cooke should not enter on this discussion. "JOHN CHkINE, Deane of Connor. "A. C. MAcArcrNEY, Vicar of Belfast. " DANIEL WAFEE, Wesleyan Minister. " DAVID HAMILTON, Presbyterian Minister. "'JOHN M iNVMULVOLL AND " JAMES BLAIR Belfast, March 3, 1841." MAYNOOTH COLLEGI Mr. Daniel O'Connell denies that the teaching at May nooth goes to impugn the sanctity of an oath, and with that Jesuitical denial of cherished opinions, which even Maho medanism would repudiate, h e proceeds to apostrophize upon the misrepresentation of the meek Abbes, perpetrated by Sergeant Jackson. Now, what is the testimony of one of the. class books of Maynooth ? By the Priests Directory of 1835, Den's Theology is declared to be " the best book ever published on that subject," and this work is proved, beyond a question, to be a class book of the Irish Popish college. What will our readers say, then, to find, that so daring in in iquity was Peter Dens that he has devoted a whole chapter of his work to illustrations " De Juramento simulato " ." of pretended swearing." (Dens , vol. IV., p . 190, eoyne, Dublin.) In this portion of what the Roman Catholic bishops declared in council to be " the best theological work ever PUBLISHED, " we have the following i-- "Q. An juramentum si- " Question. Whether an mulatum faetum per verba oath, apparently made by exterius serio probato, sed words seriously spoken, but cum intentione interiors non with the inward intention of jurandi est verum jurarnen- not swearing , is a true and mentum et obligatiorum ? binding obligation ? "R. Negative, eo quad ju- "Answer. We answer ne ramentum movet testimo- g atively, because as t o th at nium Dei, qui internam in- the oath invokes the testi tentione aspicit et ita sine many of God, who beholds intentione jurandi nunquara the inward intention, so with juratur." out the intention of swearing it is never sworn." Now, here is an open advocacy of mental reservation and perjury, and that inculcated in a class book of Maynooth. But this is, not, by any means, the worst portion of the work. There are laid clown in it THIRT Y-THREE DIFFERENT PROMISES, AND MODES OF VOIDING LAW S, OATHS ! By the rules propoun ded laws ma y be made void in eleven mod es , (V o l. 11., I p . 3630 p romises i n five modes, (Vol. 111., p. 297,) vows in seven modes, (Vol. IV., p. 129,) and OATHS IN TEN MODES, (Vol. IV., p. 214.) So much for the morality of Maynooth, and the veracity of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. Romances are a dangerous recreation. 'Tis like dining every day on sweetmeats ; it palls your appetite for whole, some food, and at length makes you hate the sweetmeats too. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL itder the Management of Mr. CLARICE, Sole Lessee. Last Week of Mr. ELTON and Mr. J. S. BALLS. rums present TU SDAY, the 16th instant, will be per formed the Tragedy of VfRGINIUS -- Virginins Icilins Dentatus.... Mr. Baker.—Appius Claudius.... Mr. Gray. Caius Claudius Mr. W. H. Bland. Virginia . Mrs. W. H. Bland.—Servia.. Miss Cleaver. kftcr which, for the second time here, the new Farce now performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called 808 SHORT, IVhich was received last night at this Theatre with the most distinguished approbation. Bob Short... Mr. Baker. Fitzarthur 'rot Mrs. Ticknot:.M;S;; Simon.—Betty.. Mrs. P. Crowe Miss Esther Dipwick .. Miss Chaplin. To conclude with•the Farce of MONSIEUR- . TONSON. Monsieur Morbleau (a French-Barber) Mr. Grainger, from the Theatre-royal, Edinburgh and Bath, his first appearance. • Tom King.. Mr. R. H. Sharpe. Jack Ardourly Mr. W. H. Bland. Adolphine de Courey.. Miss Chaplin. Madame Ballegarde Mrs. Thompson.. Mrs. Baker. On WEDNESDAY, Mr. Knowles's play of WILLIAM TELL. William Tell, Mr. Elton. After which, the new farce of 808 SHORT. To conclude with the operetta of NO SONG NO SUPPER. Margaretta, Miss E. Homier, from the Theatre-royal, Bath, her first appearance here. In addition to the list of auxiliaries already announced, an arrangement has been made with the popular performer, Mr. JAMES \VALLACK, of the Theatres-Royal , Drury-Lane and Haymarket, who will shortly commence an engagement for a limited number of nights, being his first appearance here since his return from America. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY AND FREE SCHOOL 0 ST. PATRICK. THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION of the PUPILS will take place at the ScnooL-noom Pleasant-street, on Tuis DAY, (Tuesday,) the 16th instant, at Eleven o'clock, when the attendance of the Friends and Supporters of the Institution is particularly requested. WILL. MOORE, Secretary. THE WATERLOO COURSING MEETING. THE EXHIBITION of the PICTURE of the WATER, LOO COURSING MEETING, painted by Mr ANSDELL, WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY next, the 20t1 instant. Open from Ten to Four. Lycerm, Bold-street, 15th _March, 1841. POSTOFFICE-PLACE GALLERY. TN this EXHIBITION will be found PICTURES. b y the I Old and Modern- Masters, of the very highest quality and class. Amongst the most remarkable, to which Public attention is particularly drawn, are THE CASA DE LORETTO, by DoMENICHINO, from the Gallery of his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca. ST. JEROME, by RUBENS and VANDYCK, purchased of the Mareschal Soult. ST. JEROME, by SPAGNOLLETO, front the collection of Lucien Buonaparte. CHRIST BEARING HIS CROSS, by SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO. A HOLY FA)IILY, by PARMEGIANO. A SEA VIEW, by BACKITUYSEN. ST. CECILIA, by DOMENICHINO. A ROAD-SIDE PUBLIC•HOUSE, by GF.o. MORLAND A FINE LANDSCAPE, by GASP - AR PoUSSIN. And President WEST'S celebrated Picture of the BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR & DEATH OF NELSON, for which 1000 Guineas was originally paid. Admission, ls.—The Room is brilliantly Lighted by Gas in the Evening. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. B. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL 0 REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prins Court at the ensuing Assizes, on terms peculiarly moderate. ReferenceS permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re spectability. Letters, addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receive immediate attention. - MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. PO -MORROW, (Wednesday,) at Half-past Seven P.M., Mr. A. J. MASON, of London, will commence a Course of FOUR LECTURES on WOOD ENGRAVING, &c., to be continued on the following SATURDAY, at the same hour. To be succeeded by EIGHT LECTURES on ASTRO NOMY, by Professor WALLIS, and FOUR LECTURES on ELOCUTION, by the Rev. 13. T. STANNUS. Admission to Single Lectures, Is. A Donation of Ten Guineas constitutes the Contributor a Life Member of the Institution. Annual Subscription, (en titling to Library, Lectures, and Evening Schools,) One Guinea; Lady's Ditto, (entitling to Library and Lectures,) 10s. 6d. ; Apprentices of Non-Members, 10s. 6d. ; Sons or Apprentices of Members, ss. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. TO CORRESPONDENTS The lines by B. will not suit the columns of the STANDARD. We shall not forget the suggestion offered by " Pat," but he will easily imagine our reason for not inserting his letter : we have a great objection to be brought unnecessarily into contact with a contemporary. The publication to which " A Staunch Protestant" alludes is too obscure for notice, and it would be unjust to insert his communication apart from such notice. Any parcel left at Messrs. Whittaker and Co.'s, Ave Maria lane, addressed "To the Editor of the STANDARD, Liverpool," will duly reach our office. We have again to complain of the non-arrival of the Dublin Statesman. Unless we receive it more regularly, we must cease exchanging with our contemporary. We have received 10s. from Mrs. Priestley, Lord-street, in aid of the fund now raising on behalf of the widow men tioned in our last. yid undertook the compilation of a work which was , signed as a full examination and refutation of the octrines of the Tractarians; he is a scholar and the- ogian than whom there is none better qualified for icli an undertaking; but after advancing some way his task, he gave it up, with this declaration, which 'as the result of long and anxious deliberation—l re ounce this labour, because I find that in refuting Pu- eyism, I am only doing what has been long since done by our reformers The same process of reasoning 'hich refutes Popery refutes Puseyisrn, and the work is already done to my hand—causa finita est. But as to what this school of divines would do with our church, if they had the power, we have an inti mation from themselves in the very last number of the Tracts for the Times, which exhorts us to " let the church sit still for the present ; let her be content to be in bondage; let her work in chains; let her go on teaching with the stammering lips of ambiguous for mularies, and inconsistent precedents, and principles but partially developed." If this mysterious language does riot shroud some meditated revolution, we own we are utterly unable to guess its meaning But to turn from the theology to the policy of the question, it does strike us that to any reasonable and observing mind it must be evident that the great want of the church at present is EXTENSlON—extension chiefly among the poorer orders -of society—the la bouring and manufacturing population. This, for her political security, and indeed for every reason, is one of her chief wants, if not the very first; and this be ing so, it naturally occurs to one to ask, is the Tracta-, rian school of theology adapted to, and likely to pro mote this end ? We should certainly think not. It is, we may remark, in the first place, one of a very exclu sive order, and has much in it to repel, but little in deed to gain over those who have been drawn away into the ranks of dissent. In the next place, it sets the laity at an immeasurable distance from the ecclesi astical body, and disdains the aid even of the most worthy towards supplying at any humble distance the ministrations of the church among the poor ; and, lastly, it combines so much of traditional teaching with the simple enunciations of Scripture, that it ne cessarily adds embarrassment and difficulty to church instruction, and deprives her services of that , free course which they otherwise might have. The Church of Rome, we may be reminded, finds it easy to progress among the poor and ignorant. True ; but the Church of Rome first takes away the light of holy writ, and then traffics with the ignorance that she creates. We have not heard that the Tractarians cal culated on " putting out the light" in like manner ; but if they do, they should no longer be regarded as members of the Church of England, but as a sort of Romanist separatists from her. The Church of Eng land is built upon holy writ : " so that whatsoever is not read there, nor may be proved thereby," she de clares, " is not to be required of any man, that it should he believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation ;" and for this reason, the more consistent her instructions are with the divine records, and the more perfectly they harmonise with the pure and simple doctrines of the gospel, the more readily are they likely to find accept ance among a Bible-reading and Bible-instructed po- pulation That the introduction of the Poor Law tyranny into Liverpool has been suggested by some most pitiful motive, there can be no doubt; but we feel assured that those who have been accessory to the movement will hereafter have abundant cause to repent bitterly of it. Taking it for granted that every man, woman, and child in the kingdom is now perfectly satisfied that the commission-administered law is the greatest scourge ever put into the hands of public functionaries in this kingdom for the purposes of tyranny, cruelty, and op pression, we have only to express our astonishment that the spirit of party could operate to such an extent as to prevent some men joining with the great body of their fellow-citizens who naturally and justly acclaim against so grievous an imposition. Baneful indeed must that influence be which can render them insensi ble to the approach of so gigantic an evil, and _ take from them all desire to avert it,—nay, which leads them rather to court its arrival and weigh the petty gratifi cation of witnessing for a moment the fancied humilia tion of political rivals, against the great and lasting mischief which must follow immediately in the train of so miserable a triumph. We should have expected that all party feeling would be forgotten where the in terests of the poor, and the interests of our common locality, are so intimately concerned ; but such has not been the case—and we own, that, low as our ideas of Whiggery have ever been, this unpartiotic and dis graceful defection—(for the defalcation is all on one side)—has depressed them to a point beyond which, we suppose, they cannot now descend. How comes it, let us ask, that every Conservative is opposed to the commission-tyranny, but that not a single TVhig has the courage openly to contend against it ? When the question was asked at the meeting of the special vestry held on Thursday—" For whose be nefit it was intended," some mysterious unknown in the assembly replied " For Sir Joshua Walmsley's ;" and really that great unknown, who is perhaps more in the secret than we are, may be right. If we can conceive so monstrous a nuisance to be for the benefit of any human being, Sir Joshua Walmsley may as well be the happy personage as any other that we wot of. Certainly he has not shown himself the friend of the poor, or of the inhabitants of Liverpool, by joining in the remonstrance against it. We have it on the au thority of Mr. EARLE—and a very good authority too in such a case--that the introduction of the law which has been so long deferred may be attributed to the over-much righteousness of the special vestry, and: their scrupulous attention to the interests of the parish, in the matter of the warehouse bill—it is, he gave us to understand, a punishment upon them for meddling with the projects of the Town Council—for their " mal versatio" of the parish funds in protecting the parish oners against the encroachments of the Council. Only think how attentive the commissioners sitting in So merset House, London, have been to the interests of the people of Liverpool—how anxious they have been, amid numerous other cases, to save us from misma nagement and adjudicate impartially between our Whig Town Council and our constitutional special vestry. But whence did they receive their information ? How came the commissioners so well to understand our local differences, and to apply with such nice discri mination a remedy so exactly suitable to our wants ? Was it Mr. EARLE himself that put them up to it, or was it Sir Joshua Wahnsley—an active stirring man in all public affairs—or who was it ? Well, no matter ; at present our only concern is, that the visitation may be averted ; for we do aver that if ever there was a project calculated to fire the indignation and provoke the displeasure of a patient people, the abominable pro ject in question is the one. Let us briefly review the , facts. But if this ground of opposition to the victimizing We have in the first place a system among us that answers all the purposes of which such a system is ca pable, and so administered that no complaint whatever has been preferred against a management which, from. its peculiar nature, is of all others the most difficult.. Neither tax-payer on the one hand, nor pauper on the. other, is heard to murmur—a circumstance in itself remarkable and most creditable to the town. We should think that few instances of a state of things so singularly felicitous in a matter of so grave a character, and so deeply important, could be pointed out. And yet a proposition is made wantonly to destroy and sub vert it. Under what pretence, or for whose benefit? The official answer must of course be, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Liverpool. But the inhabitants of Liverpool, all but a clique so numerically insignificant of—vastly obliged, to be sure,a not s f o t ro such h w o k r i t n h d speakingintentiintentions—are s—are desirous rather of remaining just as they are, in their present unreformed but happy condition. They ask for no new law; they have no wish to have foreign commissioners put over their heads; they want no deputy to assist them; they only require to be allowed to manage their own affairs. and are willing to bear those evils that they have rather than experimentalize with others that they know not of : in a word, they ask to be let alone. But no—this may not be Whig influence must be forced through every vacant corner of the land; and as neighbouring towns have been put in the stocks, a good pretence is furnished for inflicting a similar punishment upon Li verpool. Centralization and " uniformity" are stock in-trade humbugs of the school. THE STEAM SHIP " COLUMBIA." This vessel was anxiously looked for during the whole of yesterday, but up to the time of our going to press, no tidings had been received of her. It will be observed, from our shipping intelligence, that the Queen Victoria , from New Orleans, remained at anchor between the Floating Light and Ormshead front the 9th to the 14th instant, and could not get up owing to the fog. It is not improbable that a slight detention may have been experienced by the Columbia from a similar cause, or she may have been kept for a short time at the other side of the Atlantic, in order to bring some despatches for the British government. Of course no anxiety is manifested respecting her, as she cannot yet be con sidered overdue. We are ready any moment for a second edition. Ethrrpoot &tattbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1841 When the Popish member for all Ireland blesses Heaven for any extraordinary gift, one naturally feels alarmed as if some evil tidings were to be expected, or as if some public calaMity had happened. It will be recol lected that but a few evenings since he gave Heaven thanks that the doctrines of the Oxford tract school of theology were " very close to the ancient Catholics," and spreading widely in our church. Now if this statement were true, and also one that sincere members of the church could have reason to rejoice in, we sup pose it will be pretty generally admitted that Mr. Da niel O'Connell would never, in reality, " bless Heaven" for being enabled to make it. The statement consists of two parts—the first refer ring to the nature and character of the doctrines taught, and the second to the extent to which they have been disseminated. Were we to examine it mi nutely, it would obviously lead us into a theological discussion in the first instance, and into an inquiry of fact of considerable difficulty in the second ; but with neither shall we trouble our readers at present. We enjoy the pre-eminent and decided advantage, in con nection with the Church of England, of having settled articles, creeds, and formularies, which render it un necessary for individual members of her communion, whose churchmanship has been once settled, to make themselves uneasy about new teachers, commentators, and .expounders who may start up within her pale. We do not say that errors in this kind ought not to be combated in a suitable place and mode; but we main tain that the church, settled as it is in doctrine and dis cipline, by articles, canons, and prescriptions, affords a bond of union to her children without exacting perfect unity of sentiment upon all points ; and that those who wish for peace within her walls are not called upon to prove the goodness of their churchmanship by sub scribing to the Oxford Tracts, or any other unautho rised publications pretending to be expounders of her doctrines, or indeed to trouble themselves about such productions at all either in the way of acceptance or refutation unless under some peculiar circumstances of provocation. Whether the Oxford Tractarians, in case of meeting with all that success to which their unknown ambition may aspire, would leave the church in possession of her gloricus Anglican liberties, and . admirable forms, is a point that certainly does not admit of conclusive de termination. Judging by what we have seen of their writings, we should, for our part, say that they would not. There is too evident a leaning on their side to the Judaising formalities of Romanism for a modest con tentment of this sort. Rome is, in their sympathising view, of near kindred with us—our " elder but erring sister," as they say ; and, according to their interpre tation, we have seen that our church is " not to be considered as condemning purgatory, image, and relic worship, invocation of saints, masses, and so on, as they are taught authoritatively by the Church of Rome, but only absurd practices, and opinions which intelli gent Romanists repudiate as much as we do." We have heard, and indeed know it to be a fact, that a learned and pious divine of the Church of Eng-