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These Pins.,shotild form &portion of all Medicine Chests, - by sea and land, and ou,gllt,never to be omitted by any person going a long voyage or journey. their.properties are such that neither "heat nor cold will injure their quality, or prevent the due effects on the constitution. Dr. Davieson will attend daily at his residence, from Eight in the morning until Ten at night, (on Sundays from Nina till Two,) where he gives advice to all applicants taking any of his preparations, WITHOUT A FEE. Letters (post-paid) enclosing a remittance, answered by re urn, and Medicines punctually transmitted to any address either by initials or name- No. 54. SEEL-STREET, LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL INTERMEDIATE SESSIONS. (BEFORE JAMES CLARKE, ESQ., RECORDER.) On Wednesday morning, the intermediate sessions for this borough were commenced, in the Session House, Chapel-street. The court having been opened w►th the usual formalities, the following gentlemen were sworn on the GRAND JURY. William Claxton, Bedford-street, corn-merchant, foreman. James Bryans, John -street, North. merchant. Charles Chaloner, Jordan-street, timber-merchant. Edward Lister, Netherfield-road, cotton-broker. Jildward Dannil Maddock, Breck-road, wine-merchant. Robert Mather, Monnt-pleasant, gentleman] John Ridgway, India-buildings, 1114 i-chant. Richard Johnson, Soho-street, coat agent. James Robins Croft, Shaw-street, oil-merchant. Joseph Robinson. Moss-street, cotton broker. Charles Muzley, Mount-pleasant, banker. James Harvey. jun., Catherine-street. Gerard Lyneh, James-street, merchant. John Bewley, Mason-street, merchant. William Henry I:ll,bie. Queen Anne-street, merchant. William. Eaton Hall, Castle-street, gentleman. Alfred King, Pembroke-place, engineer. Tfie proclamation against vice, profaneness, and immorality having been read. The Learned RECORDER briefly charged the grand jury. They were all so well accustomed to investigate the cases that came before them, that his duty became lighter at each succed ing session; however, there were two or three cases on which he would make . a few observations. The first case was a charge against two men for stealing a bale of cotton, which was laid as . the property of Nathan C aims. He had read the depositions, and perhaps a good deal of inquiry would be necessary before they could find the bill. However, the most material part of the depositions was the voluntary examination of the prisoners themselves, and when the jury had read them he thought they would find that they could dispense with a good deal of prelimi nary inquiry. Their might have been some difficulty without their voluntary examination, but with them much difficulty would be removed. The next case to which he would call their attention stood eight or nine in the calandar, and was a charge agaityst two men for stealing a quantity of iron, which was laid as the property of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company. He ought to tell them that possession- alone was sufficient to satisfy the allegation of ownership of the property. The iron which waslhe subject of that indictment had been passed from one set of persons to another, and was left unclaimed in the possession of the prosecutors. In- strictness of law it was not their property, but it was in their custody and charge, and that would make out the allegation of property to satisfy the crimi nal law ; ,. therefore they need not embarrass themselves as to the ownership, but simply whether it was in their custody and charge. On reading the depositions in their case six and seven, against tivo young persons—nee 14 and the other 13 years of age—be found young as-they were, that one of them had been only ten days in the office of the prosecutor, having never been in his employ before, when he was placed in a most confidential situation, and entrusted with the keys of a safe in which money was kept. He-thought the prosecutor bad been guilty of great carelessness indeed. To put money beforeyouth was a great temptation, and no wonderthat boys so young had yielded to that temptation. The prosecutor, by so employing and trust ing ttfe priioner, might have done it out of kindness, but it was an goer-kindness, which ought not to have been shown. There were some eases in the calendar in which the indictments would be strictly laid before them as burglary. Now the law respect 7 ing burglary had of late been a good deal altered. It had been the subject of inquiry, whether it was so light when the offence was committed that the prisoner's hand could have been seen, or whether the day was dawning, so that it could not be aid to be 'night. All that inquiry was now unnecessary ; and the inquiry to which they would have to direct theirattention was, whether the offence was committed between nine o'clock at night and six in the - -morning, without having any re ference to light and darkness, for . between those hours alone d the crane of burglary now be - committed. He had no further obsei4ations to make on them on the eases in the calen dar, for as he!bad stated,aheir• own knowledge and experience would enable them to surmount any difficulties that were likely to arise, but Anything coot rary to his expectation should arise .to render the assistance of the 'court necessary, he -should he happy to do atJlte could to relieve them. He had an interview with Lieutenant LOW on the subject of the frauds committed on the unhappy persous—and God' knows they were the last per sons that. shoul&be made more distressed by taking from them what little therhad left—who came here for the purpose .of emigration. This pert_ might now he considered the principat port to which parties, came from various parts of the country for. the purpose ofgoing to the Western World; and Lieutenant ; Low suggested,-.that if.the persons who were in business as pas senger-brokers could be licensed. they would be better known to the public..ankiratls it was likely would be diminished. The document which Net:tenant Low had same time since prepared -on this subject, had excited great observation in Various parts , of the country; and as long as that document remained unal tered, it remainectas a - stigma upon this town. Upwards of thnusand complaints have been made of frauds. committed on emigrants, and he was glai that the subject had been t a ken up by the town-council. It-,"was only at the last sessions but one• • that he had. transported aaiassenger-broker for ppening a /leak, in a .counting-house, ansir rotsbing it of 75 Ysovereigns.; Which* showed what class of persist - fa mixed themselves up with the bu siness of -passenger-brokers;- and he thought .none of them - should rest till the stigma *as removed from this port. He had• nb further observation to make to theist except this, that what ever was the connexion hesween poverty and crime—and it rested on good authority that .there wag a cloSe connexion—it was highly creditable to.the large population of this town, that when poverty was the greatest, they had distinguished them selves by feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked, at no slight charge; and they were-told on tie highest authority, that inasmuch as they had done it to the poor, it was Mine to Him who was the common Father of them all. The grand jury then retired to .consider their bills, and the petty jury was called , several who did not answer when their names were called over, 'were fined 40s. for nun-attendance. The calendar contained the names of 56 persons on chargesof felony. and five for misdemeanours. As our police reports have contained full particulars of the various cases of felony which tiave been sent tor the sessions, we deem it unnecessary to repeat them in detailed reports Of the sessions' proceedings. Thomas Leeson, 15, a young man who had been employed as a waiter at the Adelphi Hotel, pleaded guilty to an indictment for stealing six knives, the property of Mr. Medley, and was sen tenced to two months' imprisonment. John Sloane, 14, and George Young, 13, were convicted of stealing a cash-box containing five sovereigns, and some other Moneys, the property-or Mr. Edward Shaw and another This ' w;:ii one of the cases mentioned by the learned Recorder in his charge. Sloane was sentenced to one month, and Young to s ix months' imprisonment. Philip King, 20, was convicted of stealing a watch, a guard chain, a pencil case, a razor, a breast-pin, and a handkerchief, the property of Anthony Hubert, from the ship Constitution, and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. - James Edwards, 16, was .iodicted for stealing a variety of wearing apparel from the dwelling of Sampson Mills.- s -Guilty. Ten years' transportation. Jane Heron, 25, pleaded guilty to two indictments fur shop lifting—the one for stealing a piece of cloth, theairoperty of Messrs. James Jeffrey and James Morrish ; and the to tiPi . *stealing a handkerchief, the property of Bernard Ulla k rne`. - .L - Sentence deferred. William Evans, 28, and William Pennington, 41, - were in dieted fcr stealing six hundred weight nt iron,. the proprotk- of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company.—Guilty. one month, Pennington three months' imprisonment. Rendletoti, 18, "John Brooks„l,6, and Win Nk4itley, Indicted for stealingseverai aid iciest of made wearing :he property of Thomas Leather.—Guilty. Sentence lon7 eases at the sessions were got through last night • , 11k tnistierneanours remained to try, of a trivial nature &e. • Arthur 1 7 ~ 6, were it 7 . _4_._f; ,... a argil tt , Y.' ' ' - ' 1 ' ' • 04 fel° , ~ ~,, . :- f.- , fg... 9.4a.ii . 7'41 't k '.. : ::::'. sf.? ,t • )rA V,' • *i • -., - 1, ...1 - l• 't• .:, --- -..,:' imperial .43arliamEnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoNDAY. Lord LYN OH t‘RsT directed attention to the evil consequences resulting to three female children, subjected to solitary con finement in the Penetentiary at Milbank, as well as to other parties; and with the view of leading to some amendment of so pernicious a system, he moved for various returns. Lord MtitionaNs admitted that such matters ought .not to be allowed to paSs without notice, but complained that the mo tion had not been preceded by notice, and made an allusion, for which Lord Lytadhurst called 4or and obtained a satisfactory ex planation. • The• returns were ordered, and their lordships adjourned. - HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The speaker took the chair Shortly before four o'clock, IPSWICH. • Mr. JENKINS presented the report of the Ipswich election coMMittee, which set forth' that Mr. Gibson and Mr. F. Kelly had been duly eleCted—that is, confirming the return o(Mr. Gibson; and' placing' Mr. Kelly in the room - of Mr. 'l'ufflell. Also that the petitions were neither frivolous nor vexatious., Toe following members took their oaths and their seats: — Mr. Lynch of Gal Way, Sir J. Graham for Pembroke, Sir C. Grey for Tynetnouth, and Mr. Fitzpatrick for the Queen's County.' On the motion of Mr. V. SMITH, a new writ was ordered for Rutlandshire, in the room of Sir G. Noel, Bart., deceased. PENITENTIARY (MILBANK.) 'Mr. EWART GLADITONE rose, and seeing the noble lord the secretary of state for the home department in his place, ne begged to put a question to him with regard to a certain state meat which had appeared in the n ewspapers, affecting the ma nagement of the Penitentiary at Milbank, and which was said to have been made by a gentleman connected with the com mission of the peace iu the county of Middlesex. He wished to know whether that statement had been brought under the consideration of the noble lord, as it was one which, if allowed to go on refuted, would prove very prejudicial to the govern- and detrimental to the establishment. He wished fur ther to know whether the noble lord had instituted any inquiry respecting the statements, and, if so, whether he would have any objection to. lay the result on the table of the house before they were.called upon to vote the estimates of that establish meut. litird J. RUSSELL explained, saying he believed that the story to which allusion bad been made, was without foundation ; at the same time. if the hon. getitkonan nn A. ha mAct, it st,.:t u 4 ,-,e;_;f6r k..;::'*.,!.vn past, hV•tte..sld see no use in laying iVapers before the house upon a statement so ex traordinary and extravagant, and so totally false, as that to which his attention had been called. lie begged further to say that an opinion had been given that this convict had feigned insanity in the hope of obtaining a pardon. - 'CHURCH LEASES, &C. _ _ . Lctrit Jow ly RUSSELL said he could not give the notice in strict conformity with the rule which had been laid down iu references to notices of motions; - but he begged leave to ap prise the house, that the week after next he would move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the mode of granting renewable leases by bishops, deans, and chapters, and other ecclesiastical bodies, with the probable amount of the increased - value of property, which might be obtained with due consideration to the interests of the established church. BREACH . OF PRIVILEGE BY MR. O'CONNELL-DEFEAT OF MINIsTERS Lord M IDSTONE rose, be could assure the house, with the greatest diffidence on the present occasion, being but a young member, and'imaequainted with the rules and formalities of the house. He begged, however, distinctly to state, that he brought forward tile motion which he was about to submit, not as the re sult of the suggestions of others, but solely from the dictates and feelings .31 his own heart. (Cheers.) He hoped, therefore, that the animus, the intention by which he was actuated, would carry_ him through, notwithstanding his inexperience and his igno rance of the forme by which their psoceedings were regulated. He could assure the house that, having served on an election committee (the Salford,) and being utterly unconscious, as far as he was himself concerned, of anything like the perjury or the feelings attributed to members of committees in the speech of t t h h e e e h a o r n lie a s n i d op le p a o r r n tu ed nit m y e u m f b t e h r ro ft w ir in D g u , b ,ff lin. tha it t w im as p h u i t s wish to ation, and d a in would v h i a n y c e e d d 0 t h n a e t , h i f e h h e ad b a only m d o s e n l e what other hon. mem ber s he Te w l u c taken no notice of such an imputation. This was not a charge against individual members, but an imputation which affected the character of the House of Commons—(loud cheers from the opposition benches)—and if they tamely suffered themselves to bevilified and defimed, from whom were they to look for re spect or revetence? (Hear; hear.) Who would defend them if they did not vindicate their own honour and character ? (Cheers.) He trusted that the house would not be led to look at this great question as a party quarrel, and that. they would not by their decision that night sanction the use of language whichainest have the effect of warping the determinations of the election committees whiCh were now sitting. (Cheers.) It was more in sorrow than in anger that he moved for a vote of cen sure against the hon. and learned gentleman. He would now deliver the, speech of that hon. and learned member at the table of the house, and Would move that the extracts of which he com plained be read by the clerk. Mr. O'CoNNEet. subMitted that his entire speech should be read.•(Loud laughter.) No one ever heard of a legal document being read in part. The clerk at the table then read the speech of Mr. O'Connell at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, as reported in the Morning Chronicle of Thursday, the 2'2d inst. We give the passage com plained of:—" Corruption of the worstdesclintion existed, and, above all, there was the perjury of the tory politicians. ( Hear, hear, from the opposition.) Ireland was not safe from the Eng lish and Scotch gentry. It was horrible to think that a body of gentlemen-men who ranked high in society. who were them selves the administrators of the law, and who therefore ought to be above all suspicion. and who ought to set an example to others --was, it net horrible that theY should be perjuring themselves in committees of the House of Commons? (Hear, hear.) The time was come when this should be proclaimed boldly. He was ready to be a martyr to justice and truth, but not to false swear ing; and therefore he repeated that there was foul perjury in the tory coromitkees of the, House of Commons." (Hear, hear, from the opposition benches.") The clerk was then proceeding to read the speech as reported in the Morning Post of the same date, when IVir. O'CoeiNE et inqeired of Lord Maidstone,wbether, in order to save the time of the house, he would be content with the read ing of the passage to which he objected ? Lord MAIDSTONE having assented to this, The clerk read the following extract from the Morning Post, of the_ 22d inst.:—" He (Mr. O'Connell) did not mince the mat ter; his words might appear in the public press; he hoped they would. Ireland was not safe from the perjury of English and Scotch gentry, who took oaths according to justice, and voted according to party." (Renewed cheers from the opposition benches.) The reading of these extracts was succeeded by loud cries of " Move, move." lend Maidstone not having responded to this call, there were loud cries from the ministerial and radical benches for " Mr. O'Connell." That hon. member, however still retained his seat, upon which some confusion arose, and cries proceeded from all parts of the house of "move move;" "Chair, chair;" " Lord Maidstone," and "Mr O'Connell." The ex citetnent did nut subside until after repeated cries of " Order" from the chair. The SPEAKER then said that, according to his apprehension a similar course of proceeding should be adopted in the present instance to that which had been pursued by the house in the analogous case in which a charge was preferred against Sir Francis Burdett. In that case the charge waif clear and dis tinct, having been in the form of a written charge, to which the charge in the present instance might be considered as tan tamounteas the papers had been put in by the noble lord and read from the table. The course which had been pursued in the instance to which he referred, and of.which he iecominended the adoption in the present case, was, that the hon. member who pre ferred the complaint having been heard first, the hon. member complained of should be next heard, and subsequently the hon. member who made the complaint. Mr. O'CONNELL then rose and said—Sir, however inconve nient such a course may be, I bow at once to your decision. It certainly is most peculiarly inconvenient, because my intention was, if the noble lord had concluded by a motion, to move an amendment for inquiry on this subject; it was my intention to have moved an inquiry into the inerits-e(Cries of " Oh, oh." from the Tories.) I have no'right to complain of the noble lord; on the contrary, I think he delivered himself with as much courtesy as was reasonably to be expected; and if he failed in one phrase, I attribute that readily more to his inex perience at his time of life in public speaking, than to any at tempt to infringe any rule of this house or to any want of Cour tesy. (hear.). 1 don't know of what the noble lord complains. (Laughter from the Opposition ) I like hilarity. (Laughter.) I repeat, I don't know °fee hat he complains. He talks of my attacking the whole house, and he reads a paragraph from a speech of mine, in which I attack only one side. (Hear.) I the more readily forgive his impatience upon the subject, be cause he has been on an Election Committee himself. ( Hear.), A ud it is natural to feeta repugnance to an imputation of a cor rupt or partial tribunal. Nething is more hateful than a partial public tribunal. (Cheers.): Yet lam convinced such a state of things does - exist. (Hear.) lam thankful to the noble lord ,for having brought public attention tot he subject. I endea voured to call the attention of the house to it; _but 1 failed, and I' resolved to appeal to the public. I have heard a great deal, in the house about piety; on observances—(hear, hear, hear)— about the- desecretion of the Sabbath; but I know not of any desecration go terrible as that of the holy name of God, which is taken to attest the determinationeo do justice, with a predispo sitton to ecepartially. (Cheeis.) Does the noble lord think there is neseuch thintrie This house? (Bear.) _ I did not hear him deny eliat committees were partial— I suppose be meant to deny it by isayplicat ion Heaven help the man who, out of this hciuse, even among members of this house, should venture to s ay, that EleCtion Committees of this house are impartial tri btinals—that they are assembled to do justice hetw6en the par ties—he would be laughed to ridicule. (Hear.) The public ';,pinion has been made up upon the point—the public do not hesitate to say that these tribunals are corrupt. What do they s ay Do they not, when they see the members come up to your table. to be sworn, the moment they see the composition of the co mmittee, they can tell you the decision. Was the noble lord house the other night w h en the Youghal Committee was ted for? (Cheers.) Did h e hear the cheer, the loud h in al t i h o e cheer—for even delicacy did not suppress it—did be hear the cheer with which the last name was received by his friends around him ? (Loud Ministerial cheers, with cries of "No no, clapping of hand s actual ly" frouithe Tories , an d " Y es, yes," f rom t h e i r opponents.) ik "i c e of " Yes , I he a rd it , " f rom the Ministerial took pl ace. (" No, no," from the sid n the issue, let us try it any way you please— eTories, -, s) m y hearing, and I am ready t o I w p i u th t it 0 it did occur prove it. (Loud noble lord perfectly a • e that no ballot cheers.) Is not the present l awar e, p l a ce during-,t,he_ this that t here h as not has taken I see that paper has been brought been regular canvassine Carlton C lub-' Is not the noble lord aware, that down from the upon every canvass ing, vutes are sent out from the C ar l ton Club-house to every me mber on 'whom the party c an d epen d . Are not the z o pposite summoned, upon th e i r andallegi -eullenlet attend to every ballot? 1 wou ld li ke ance,,to come down to see any gentlem.an op posite my up and deny y statement. :There is none—nine o f you dare deny it. (Hear, hear.) Well, n e v e ry election ball o t, an d f or then, there is a canvas s what is it you come down? Is it into order discharge your conscientious duties, o r, is it in order to prevent us from having our committees on this side the house? I dare any of yonto say, that it is I y in discharge o our conscience s .—(llear , hear, hear.), Then you co me down here in order t o prevent ' ee mmittees on this side th e h ouse . us from. fieei,ing. partia'' Then yen have brought the same charges 'against thi s s id e t h e house .that 4 - - e t ence brought .there a Aan ainongst pewees o t'does not know the ini qu i ty o f t h e ri when •a c ommittee is struck ? Don't system? What is Sak(l- everyone say - O h , now otel..eet. right—(laughter)— th ere can be, no doubt that. the' trey, w ill he unseated, or th a t, h e w ill • the committee is; even t e. counse t retaitehis seat, arnorcling a.s —do oast they say, Oh, Its-k! II right, ee may take this easy; " with the vote of the chairman. we have d., majority of 65, " 1 "" , . of 75 , • we can now take it easy; we giVe us a,(qear majority are all Has the noble lord read the address of Sir Samuel which he stated that he bad' re signed because he despaired of s uccess, seeing that there w as a f t ties upon the- committee. (Hear, hear ) lwrge--ma j ortiv..o 0 • i so-, andi t s put in them, by wav of The public nevispaperp sai d , advertisement, and yet the noble lord is shocked at it. He says, let us vindicate our honour; so say I. (Cheers ) But the way to do so is to get rid of the present system. (Cheers.) The way to vindicate tour consciences is to do away with such proceedings; and the way to vindicate your religious feelings is to send such matters to a proper tribunal, that tribunal to which your lives and property is confided. Let such questions be left to judges and juries, fairly selected from the counties, least tainted with particular wishes upon particular questions— (cheers)—giving power to the judges to set aside improper ver dicts. with power to the superior judges to set aside any matters of law. (Loud cheers.) Let the honourable gentleman oppo site protest before God that this is all a calumny—let your Eng lish geattemen boldly state that you are the victims of a system, and that you are not acting of your own disposition—proclaim that you are borne down by Ihe faults of the system, that you are forced into practices as a party which as individuals you would scorn. Repeal that system altogether—reform it, and you shallhave any apology from me you please—(cheers)—but until you abolish that yeti shall not, have a word from me,. be cause I assert that I have•spoken nothing.but-the truth. You shall.fo-morrow have the papers iu every part of the town, and in every part of the country, calling out fur fair play and jus tice—it is impossible that you can resist it; and if I have been an humble instrument in briugiog things to such a pitch, I !eel honoured. Had I not been prevented by you, sir, I intended to have moved that a committee of twenty one should be ap pointed to sit from day to day, to iuquire into and report upon the working of the Grenville Act,—that committee should re port from time to time, and intended to have suggested that all committees under that act should be adjourned for a week. (Cries of " Oh, oh," and laughter from the opposition.) Why, sir, if I wanted ajustification of my statement I have it at pre sent in the fact that honourable members may vote against me while they agree with me• in opinion. Therefore, sir, I shall now retire, declaring to the house that I have come forward in this business from a thorough conviction of the truth of what I have said. lam bound to thank the noble lord for the courtesy with which he has brought forward the motion, and with these sentiments I shall, as the usual course is, withdraw. Lord MAIDSTONE urged that, instead of meeting the ques tion, Mr. O'Connell had endeavoured to laugh away the charge. Considering that his complaint was untouched by the answer, he moved two resolutions, declaratory in effect that the lan guage of Mr. O'Connell was false and calumnious, and that, as such, the expressions were a breach of the privileges of that house. • Mr- MAUNSELL seconded the resolution. ' Lord Howicx briefly moved, that the other orders of the day be proceeded with, on the ground that the house could gain no thing by entertaining the question, and that the charge of the bon. and learned member for Dublin was substantially true as regarded election committees chosen, not from one party in particular, but from all parties. It is to be observed, that no single - member who spoke last night was hardy enough to deny that election committees were frequently governed add biassed by their political feelings. What they said amounted, in reality, to an admission that the members violated their oaths in noose. 'pence ' but not one.of them co u ld en d ure t h at t h e wor d "per jury" should be applied ; so that, in fact, the question resolved itself into so nice a distinction, that it will be.incompreheosible to all right-minded men throughout the county. An extended and animated debate then followed, in the course of which Lord J. Russell and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer supported the amendment, and Sir R. Peel and Sir W. Follett, the original motion. The house, which had become very clamorous for a division, then divided on Lord Howick's amendment, that they pro ceed to the orders of the day. It was lost, there being 234 for it, and 2 . 63 against it. Majority against the ministers nine! The SPEAKER then put the original motion, on which Mr. Hume opposed it, and declared that he agreed in opinion with M r. O'Connell. The first resolution was understood then to be adopted with• out any division; but on the second being put, Lord J. ItussaLL admitted that, after the opinion expressed by the house that the decision should be taken, he considered 'that there could not be much doubt as to what that opinion ought to be. The house again divided. The numbers were-- For the second resolution Against it 85 Majority --208 Lord MAIDSTONE thereupon moved that the Speaker do "reprimand" Mr. O'Connell in his place. This led to still more extraordinary proceedings, as will be observed on reference to the parliamentary report. Mr. HUME, on the question of reprimand, moved that several other members, having used language similar in its purport to that avowed by Mr. O'Connell, be included in such reprimand. Mr. WYNN submitted that such course could not be pursued, inasmuch as the language of members used in the house could not be complained of, except the complaint were made at the time. Adjournment was moved, and upon that the house divided Thelma:there were— For adjournment 159 Against it 246 Majority against ------87 Further discussions ensued; but Sir R. PRF.L said that it was in vain to think of resisting questions of adjournment; and it was thereupon agreed to adjourn the question of "reprimand" until Tuesday. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. ROMAN CATHOLICS' OATHS. The Bishop of EKE:TER stated, that he had been intrusted with the presentation of a petition which involved a subject so im portant, that he felt it necessary to give notice of the period at which he would present it. He therefore gave notice that on Thursday next he would present a petition from certain inhabi tants of the city of Cork, praying that measures may be taken to render effectual the sworn engagements of Roman Catholics, not to subvert the present church establishment, mid not to weaken the Protestant religion or Protestant government. SLAVERY. Lord BROUGHAM then fixed for Tuesday next for hismotion respecting negro slavery, and presented a petition from West Brunswick for its abolition. miss piewmAN. Lord BROUGHAM begged to put a question to the n o bl e vis count at the head of her Majesty's government s respecting a matter which had taken place at the late meeting of the Mid dlesex magistrates. It was there stated that Miss Newman, who had been convicted of various robberies, and sentenced to 14 years' transportation, was favoured wi th a c ommu t a ti on o f the punishment to imprisonment in the Penitentiary, when she was removed to Bedlam, on account of pretended madness, and was now living there in comparative luxury. It was also stated that the matron of that establishment, upon close observation, was conviced of the assumption, and threatened to subject Miss. Newman to the discipline of the establishment, if she persisted in the imposition. He begged to ask if that was true? Lord MELBOURNE replied that it was certainly true that Miss Newman had been so convicted and sentenced; and, at the re commendation of the judge, the sentence was commuted to three years in the Penitentiary, whence she was removed to Bedlam, upon the recommendation of the medical officers of that esta blishment. In Bedlam, however, it was discovered that she was perfectly sane, and that she had been so throughout. With re- specr to the.continement of the three children in the House of Correction; the best way would be to draw up a report of all the circumstances, and lay it on the table. (Hear.) They had been sent up from the country, by the magistrates, under sen tence of transportation, which bad been passed upon them for the purpose of removing them from their parents, by whom they had been instructed in crime. The secretary of state sent them to the House of Correction for the purpose of reformation. It was not true that they were subjected to solitary confinement, which was not inflicted . upon auy prisoner, except as an addi tional punishment for misconduct in prison. Nor was it true that any adults had become insane through tlp severity of their sufferings. After a few words from Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Radnor, and others, the house adjourned. , THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, [Left sittjpg.) •-, ' the course pursued by the noble lord since the attention of the house had been first drawn to the subject before them by the noble member for Northampton. When that noble lord had given a notice upon that subject, the noble secretary of state for the home department had also given a notice, conditionally, dependent upon the course which the noble lord near him should pursue. If the notice which the noble lord thus conditionally gave, relative to expressions used elsewhere with reterence to the conduct of honourable membera by a right reverend prelate, were given not with a purpose and determination to bring such a breach of privilege before the house, but with a view to screen from punishment a political ally, tbeu he must say that such was not a very dignified line of conduct. Whilst, on the contrary, if the noble secretary did intend to bring the charge forward, not through a sense of his public duty, but in retaliation for bringing the honourable member before the house to answer for his offence, then he must say that such conduct was something worse than undignified. (Loud cheers.) The mover of the amendment said it was better to dismiss the subject. Now, for his own p ar t, h e was no t so anx i ous f or pun i s h ment. E noug hl he thought had been done for vindicating the honour of the mem bers of that house. ( Hear, hear.) He was one who enter tained, despite of all that had been stated, a respect for the vote of the House of Commons. Last night, in a house containing 520 members, the honourable and learned member for Dublin had been charged with uttering a slanderous charge against members of that house. How was this met? The secretary of war, representing, the ministry, did not attempt to exculpate the honourable and learned member, or meet the charge. He proposed the previous question. (Hear, hear.) But, in that house of 52J members, the offence imputed to the honourable and learned member was voted to be a false and scandalous charge without a division. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord had asked why had they not adopted a stronger proposition as to the extent of the punishment of the offence. He wished no stronger course to be adopted on this occasiou. Ile and his friends had appealed to the house as to a jury upon the subject of this charge, and the jury had acquitted them. The noble secretary had exonerated them iu his speech from the foul charge, although he would not put it on record by his vote. The effect of all punishment, he had found in his pro - fessional expe rience, depended upon the constitution, the feelings, and the character of the person upon whom the sentence was to be pro nounced. He had witnessed the effects of a verdict of guilty upon an offender who had suffered extremely, and been quite abashed, though it was known the punishment would be slight, whilst the sentence when pronounced upon others with a full knowledge that the punishment would be severe, had been re ceived by the delinquent with callous indifference—the former being liable to a punishment of only one month'simprisonment, the latter to two years and the tread-mill. (Hear.) What the honourable and learned gentleman would feel when submitting to the reprimand for his offence, and exposed to the indignity of correction, aggravated by that which the speaker might be disposed to add in vindication of the insulted honour of that assembly, it was not for him to divine; but this he knew, that if he were ever to be placed in such a situation, the reproof of the chair of that house could not fail to produce an effect upon him that he could not forget to the latest hour of his existence: These ,were his feelings in reference to this subject. They were, he hoped, the feelings which ought to actuate a gentleman and a man; and he thought that, under such a mortifying in-1 fliction, those feelings would not be lessened in their intensity by remaining after it a member of that house; he would most assuredly take the earliest opportunity of retiring. (Loud cheering from the opposition benches.) Some further discussion took place, in which Mr. Wynn, Lord Castlereagh, Sir F. Pollock, &c., took part. The house then divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it 249 Majority —2l Mr. Gil ATTIN then moved that the following words he added to the motion:—Notwithstanding that the hon. members for the county and the city of Cork, for the borough of Sligo, the borough Of Liskeard, and the borough of Falkirk, had avowed in their places in that house sentiments similar to those ex pressed by the hon. member for Dublin ; and although that house was contented to pass uncensured, and even unnoticed, a published, charge of the Bishop of Exeter, accusing the ca tholic members of the house of a disregard to their oaths, and denouncing the exercise of their rights as " treachery agravated by perjury." 'lbis was also negatived after debate and a division ; the num bers were t—ayes, 197 ; noes, 226; inajorlty against the amend ment, 29. The original motion for the reprimand was then carried. Lord Ma t ostoNE afterwards moved that Mr. O'Connell be ordered to attend in his place in the house this day, which motion was also agreed to. Mr. GiLLON said that he agreed in the sentiments of Mr. O'Connell. Mr. 1 - tents moved that the words be taken down s Which was done. A Lord G. LENNOX called attention to the slow promotion of the officers of the royal marines, and moved an address to her Majesty, recommending the expediency of adopting some plan to accelerate promotion generally in that corps. Captain BOLDER° seconded the motion. Mr. C. Wool) resisted the motion as uncalled for, and de fended the system of promotion adopted as applied to the royal marines. The house then divided, when there appeared— Ayes Noes ... ' Majority The announcement of the numbers was received with loud cheers. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. The speaker took the chair alfottr o'clock, at which" time a great number of members were present, and the strangers' gallery was crowded to exccess. The Paington Harbour Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. O'Connell entered the house at a quarter past four o'clock, and took his usual seat on the ministerial benches. The hon. and learned member had a large bundle of petitions under his arm, and as he walked up he bowed to a number of mem bers as if anxious to attract attention. No expression of feel ing, on either side, however, was manifested. A number of petitions on various subjects were presented. , CORN-LAWS. The Marquis of CHANDOS enquired if it was the intention of the hon. member for Wolverhampton (Mr. Villiers) to bring forward the motion, of which he had given notice for to-morrow, for a repeal of the corn-laws? It was highly important to know whether the motion was to come on to-morrow or not. Mr. THOHNLEY said his hon. colleague (Mr. Villiers) had not been able to attend the house since Monday, in consequence of indisposition, but he saw his hon. friend this morning, and he informed him that if be (Mr. V.) was able to attend the house to-morrow he should certainly persevere in his motion. (Hear.) REPRIMAND OF MR. O'CONNELL. Lord MAIDSTONE moved the order of the day for the Speaker reprimanding Mr. O'Connell in his place. The order of the day having been read by the Clerk, The SPEAKER inquired if Mr. O'Connell was present? Mr. O'CONNELL.-1 am here. (Hear.) The SPEAK ER.—M r. ()'Con nell will please to rise. Mr. O'Connell obeyed the order. The SPEAKER then spoke to the following effect. Mr. O'Con nell, you have, in the heat of debate, been unfortunately be_ frayed into the expression of language against many members of this house, which the house has declared to be false and scan dalous, and your having admitted the truth of the report, and openly avowed it in your place, the house has decided, that you have been guilty of a breach of privilege, and it has ordered that you be reprimanded by the chair. The charge of perjury which you have made against many members of this house is one of the gravest possible nature, and you have laid yourself open to the censure of the house. You have alleged, that your wish was to improve the tribunals for trying controverted elec tions : if that was your desire, you did not take the proper mode of proceeding. (Hear, hear.) If such was your desire, you ought to have adopted a different coarse of proceeding. You have also alleged that other members of the house, and persons out of it, had used the same expressions—that was no excuse. As a member of the house, you ought to have consi dered its dignity, and not disparage the honour of members by charging them with perjury. No one knew better than you the power of the house to punish for such offence; and it was the bounden duty of the house to vindicate its own honour and character. If the house were once stripped of its moral cha racter it would lose all confidence in the public mind, and the solemn deliberations of that great assembly be defeated. The Speaker concluded by saying, that he should be unworthy of the office be held if he shrunk from expressing his strong dis approbation of the language used. He had, therefore, in the discharge of his duty, felt called upon to animadvert thus strongly on the present occasion, and to express his great re gret that a member of the house should so far forget himself as to impeach the honour and character of certain members of that house. It only remains for me now, in obedience to the resolutions of the house, to reprimand you in your place, which Ido accordingly. (El ear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL then addressed the house at considerable length ; and in an impassioned manner he repeated all he had ever said on the subject. (Hear.) He did not, nor would not retract a single word. (Hear.) It was well known as soon as a committee was formed what the result would be (hear, hear , hear,) and therefore he would never cease until he had obtained an alteratio❑ of the law. Mr. O'Connell concluded by moving for the appointment of a select committee to be appointed by the speaker to try the truth of the charge he bad made. The SPEAKER said the hon. member must give notice of his motion. Mr. O'CuNNE►,L.—Then I give notice for to-morrow. Lord J. RussELL, moved the reprimand of Mr. Speaker be inserted in the journals.—Ordered. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. Mr. CURRY stated to the house that a member of the Lon don Election Committee had voted at the last election, upon learning which fact the committee adjourned, and or dered the chairman to report the fact to the house. (Loud laugh ter.) Mr. SANDERSON had desired to vote for the City of Lon don, and had thought it had been openly done at the pre vious election (hear,) but having found it not considered proper, he informed the committee of the fact, and ha was sorry if his having voted had put the, house to any incon venience. Mr. WYNN said, some years ago he recollected a clause in an act of parliament, in order to meet any mistake of this kind, which directs that 11 members should be sworn, and deemed a proper committee for trying the petition, which was intended to remove any inconvenience arising from cases exactly similar to this. A somewhat similar case happened two years ago, in re spect to Dublin, when a gentleman stated his disqualification before he had been sworn at the table of the house. It appeared to him that the committee was sworn, anti the house cannot now interfere; but perhaps the gentleman alluded to, reg arding the City of London Committee, might he exempted from any further attendance. ( Hear.) (The noise in the horse was now so great, and Mr. Wynn spoke in so low a tone, as to render it almost impossible to distinctly catch the nature of his observa- lions.) Lord J. RUSSELL agreed with the last speaker. The committee must continue, hut the gentleman ought to be allowed to absent himself from the comrnitt'e. Mr. Sanderson was then excused from further attendance upon the committee. . . ..... In answer to a question when the County-rates Bill would be read a second time, it was stated that it would be this day- fort night. On the order of the day being read for going into committee on the First-fruits and Tenths Bill, Mr. G. KtirGIIT rose and addressed the house, but the noise which prevailed rendered the observations of the hon. member inaudible. • __ HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY. In consequence of there being three ballots for the Queen's county, Taunton, and the city of London election committees, the gallery was not opened until a quarter to five. TAUNTON ELECTION. MC HALMERS appeared at the bar with the reduced list of the members ballotted for the petition against the return foi Taunton. The following were the names :—R. Hurst, T. P. Williams, Hon. R. H. Clive, Richard Price, Edward Litton, Robert Williams, Hon. Georf.7,e Henry Cavendish, Sir Charles Robert Blunt, Sir Charles Brooke Vere, William B. Brigbtson, and Robert Palmer. QUEEN'S COUNTY ELECTION COMMITTEE. The reduced list of members to serve on this committee was handed in by the clerk, and was as follows :—Jas. Loch, Philip H. Posey, Andrew White, Hon. John Charles Dundas, Archi bald Hastie, Lord Viscount Barrington, Hobert Hollond, Lord Dalmeny, Thomas Benjamin Hobbouse, David Morris, Lord Seymour. CITY CF LONDON ELECTION PETITION. The following is the list of members who form the committee to try the merits of this petition, namely, Mr. Richard Sander son, Mr. Joseph Brotherton, Mr. Fr ederick Hodgson, Sir William Lawrence Young, Bart., Mr. John Fort, the Hon. Cornelius O'Callaghan, Mr. John Brocklehurst, Mr. Thomas Duffield, Mr. John Bowes, Mr. Curry, and the Hon. Arthur Henry Cole. CHURCH LEASES AND IRISH TITHES. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, wished to give notice that on the 13tb . of March, he should propose a committee on church leases. He wished likewise to state that he hoped to be able next week to. ,state the terms of the notice of the course intended to be, pur sued by the government respecting the Irish tithes. (Cheers.) He wished likewise to state, in answer to a question put to him -yesterday, which ; he answered at the time w ith respect to the detailes relative to persons c o nfin e d i n the Penitentiary at Mil- - bank, that he hart thought it best to ask for a report from the committee of the Penitentiary with respect to the circumstances that had been detailed by the bon. gentleman who asked the question. He could not say this without at the same time re turning Iris thanks to the hon. baronet who had put the question vesterday for having given him notice of his intention to do so— (cheers) —and for having proposed the question merely for in formation. (Cheers.) He must at the same time deprecate the I contrary practice—that of bringing forward subjects, attacking -and making imputations against a minister of the criown, and taking care to bring that subject forward without notice being given in that house. (Cheers.) Lord SANDON rose to order, amid opposition cheering. He wished to know whether it was according to the rules of the house, that remarks made in the other house should be noticed. (Cheers from the tories, and loud cries of "Chai-, The SPEAKER.—Order, order. _ Lord SAN DON— I rise, sir, for the purpose of asking whether it is in order, there being no question before the house—(loud cheers from the tories)—and no individual in this house having been personalty alluded to, that reflections should be made on a course of conduct pursued in the other house. (Vehement cheering from the tory benches.) Lord Cheering RUSSELL then rose, and after standing on his legs for a second or two, amid the most violent cries of " Chair, chair," from the opposite b enc he s , resumed his se a t. Hi s lord ship again rose, but was greeted with the same vociferous cries of " Chair, chair," when The SPF.AKER, as we understand, said the general rule was not to notice a particular transaction in another house; and the noble lord having asked whether any body had been attacked in that house. he was bound to say be w.as not aware that such hid been the case. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Lord MAIDSTONE moved that the order be read for resuming the adjourned debate on the question that Mr, O'Connell be re primanded in his. place by Mr. Speaker. Mr, PENDA RVES moved as an amendment, that the house. taking into consideration that several members had avowed their belief that. the decisions of election committees sworn well and truly to try the matters before them were biassed by party in terests and questions; and considering, the late elections had been impugned in the strongest terms by the public, press; con sidering, moreover, that the house had ordered to be read a second time a bill to regulate the tithe of elections and returns Of members to serve. in parliament, was content to proceed no further in the said matter. The amendment being seconded, . Mr. GRESSWELL rose, and- observed that it ill became the noble lord opposite to attempt to impute the shabbiness to hon. members last night upon his side of the house,rn respect to their conduct on this occasion, when, it was•recollected What lidd been, THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. ripllE Public is respectfully informed, that the Season w commence On MONDAY, MARCH 26th, and that the popular Irish Comedian, Me. POWER, Of the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane who is engaged for the FIRST FORTNIGHT, will make his appear ance here on the Opening Night, in a popular New Drama, written expressly for Mr. POWER. The ear:s , arrangements of the Theatre will include the en gagement of the popular Vocalists, Mr. and Mrs. W 0 0 D, of the Theatres Royal Drurylane and Covent-garden. Full announcements will be made in future advertisements. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. ORATORIO, IN AID OF THE FUNDS FOR RELIEVING THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR. PATRONS. The Worshipful the MAYOR. JOSEPH LANGTON, Esq. Z Trustees Liverpool Choral JAMES ASPINA LL, Esq S Society. /AN TUESDAY EVENING, March the 6th, Handel' s kl Sublime Oratorio MESSIAH, With Accompaniments by Mozart, Will be performed at the 'l'heatre•Royal, by the LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY, with the assistance of the most eminent professional talent in Liverpool, in every department of the Orchestra. Leader, Mr. EyTort. A powerful ORGAN will be erected on the Stage for this occa. sion, at which Mr. MICHAEL MAYBRICK will preside. The Band and Chorus will consist of nearly 200 Performers. Conductor, Mr. GEORGE HOLDEN. Tickets for the Boxes, ss.—Upper Boxes, 4s.—Pit, 2s. 6d. —Gallery Is. each, to be had at the Music Shops, &c. The Box Plan will lie at Mr. WEISS' Music Saloon, Church street, from February the 27th, to March the 3rd, and at the Box-office of the Theatre, on Monday the sth, and Tuesday, the 6th of March, from Ten till Three. Full particulars will be published in a Book, which may be had at the Music Shops, and at the Theatre on the evening of Performance,-Is. each. _ Doors open at half-past Six,—Performance to commence al Seven o'Ciock. GRAND CONCERT AT TIIR TEMPLARS'-HALL, GREAT GEORGE-STREET. IUrR. BROWN respectfully announces his intention of hav- LVJ. a CONCERT, on TUESDAY EVENING, the 13th MARCH, 1838, at the Hsu. OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. The principal Professional Talent of the town have, upon this occasion, kindly volunteered their valuable services. LEADER, MR. G. EYTON. PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS, MRS. MILES, MRS. BRAND, MASTER GILLOW, MR. WALTON, MR. DAVIES, MR. F. GARDNER, (From the London and Bath Concerts.) AND MR. S. HENSHALL. PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTALISTS, Second Violin, MR. WILBERFORCE. Viola, MR. WILTON. Violoncello, MR. JACKSON. Double Bass, MR. TAYLEutts. Flute, MR. BROWN. Oboe, MR. CAFFERATA. Clarionet, MR. STUBBS. Horn and Cornet-a-Piston, M. THOMPSON. Trumpet, MR. HANSON. Trombone, MR. EDGAR. Double Drums, MR. FILLREN. CONDUCTOR, , MR. G. HOLDEN. A Select Number of the Members of the Choral Society will form a Full and Effective Chorus. Schemes of the Performance will he issued immediately. Tickets to be bad at the Standard Office; Messrs. Hime and Son, Church-street and Bold-street; the Templars' Hall; and at the Adelphi Hotel. Tickets for the Body of the Hall, ss.—Gallery, 3s. Doors to be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Concert to commence at Half-past Seven precisely. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE -STREET, LIVERPOOL. EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY ! The VENETIAN MINSTRELS, every Night this Week, FOR THE BENEFIT of Mr. BROOK, the Author of Crichton. TTHIS present FRIDAY, the 2nd instant, will be repre sented the highly popular and successful drama of CRICHTON; Or, the Dark Days of Catherine de Medicis. In which Mr. RYAN'S ENTIRE STUD and COMPANY will appear. End of the Drama, the VENETIAN MINSTRELS will appear, and sing a variety of Songs and Duets, accompanying themselves on the Harmonica, Mandolin, and Guitar. Mr. J. THOMPSON'S Portraiture of the GRECIAN STATUES. Signor G. VALANTINI on the CO ',DE VOLANTg SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. ASTONISHING ACTS OF HORSEMANSHIP. To conclude with a highly popular Entertainment. A Day Performance on Saturday next. Proprietor, Mr. BATES.---Stage Manager, Mr. Nsvittz, SHORT-HAND. AS an EXPERIENCED and PRACTICAL SHORT HA NDWRITER, Mr. T. C. FOSTER, REPORTER FOR THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, has frequently beeen applied to, and now offers to give LESSONS in the above Delightful Art. Of its general and sometimes important utility, as a ready and secure mode of taking Memoranda, copying letters, &c., there cannot he a doubt; even if it be not wanted, as a splendid triumph of art over what otherwise would be an insurmountable difficulty, to take down verbatim Sermons, Speeches, Trials, &c. as tbev are spoken. "La Strlnograpie," says Massieu, a L'Abbe &;icard, "va comme le cerf ou le cheval, mais l'ecriture ordinaire comme le bceuf." Mr. T. C. FOSTER makes no profession of being able, by any short . process, to make a perfect Short-hand Writer. To those anxious to learn from him he will give the whole of his System, whereby. with the requisite diligence, they may be come equally prolicients in tile art with himself.—Applications to be made at the Standard Office. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of "An Old Freeman" in our next. We have received another communication from Mr. Rurnball on the subject of Phrenology, for which we cannot afford any space. We must decline any further communications on the subject. Ebe ILiberpool ,Stanbarb, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1838. q= , . The Publication of the STANDAR D commenced this motel- lug at 5 o'clock. THE WEST INDIES.—We have received files of the Guiana Chronicle to the 25th of December, and of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and Kingston Chronicle to the 18th of January. Though these papers are comparatively devoid of news, they are pregnant with illustrations of the miserable and infatuated policy of the Crim.-Connellite ministry to wards our colonial possessions. They also abound with pertinent remarks upon the irretrievable mischief effect ed by the senseless agitation of the pseudo-philanthro pists of Great Britain. We shall proceed to lay before our readers such extracts as we think must convince every unprejudiced mind of the ruinous tendency of the fallacious statements propagated by Joseph Sturge and his worthy associates. The sympathy of Englishmen has been strongly excited in favour of the poor negroes by the powerful appeals which have been grounded on the ex parte evidence of the Quaker humanity-mongers; but we think that, if the British public knew the actual state of things in the West Indies, a larger share of sympathy would be bestowed - upon the maligned and persecuted planters, who have been the defenceless vic tims of a system of slander and persecution, to which the records of negro slavery scarcely afford a parallel. From the following extract we find that the rampant spirit of radicalism pervades a large portion of the po pulation of Jamaica, where it is attended by its usual effects, brutal intimidation and a contempt for all the de cencies of civilised life. We quote from the Kingston Chronicle of Jan. 17 : "We have this day inserted in our preceding columns the report of the proceedings which took place at the St. Catherine's Vestry, and which prove the pitch to which radical ra ge an d presumption have been raised in this community, when p ersons to:ally unqualified for the situations they seek to fill, and who have not the ability even to maintain themselves, insist upon usurp ing seats they hare been illegally thrust into by an excited rabble. The fact is. that as elections are now conducted in Jamaica, the respectable freeholders of any colour or class have no chance whatever against the blackguard mob! For their lives are ac tually endangered by the violence and brutality of the Loco Foco assailants. Penknives, scissors, nails, &c. & c , are se. creted by these ruffian radicals to assault and keep from the poll any person who has the appearance of a gentleman, or teilo seems desirous to rote fir a properly qualified and competent candidate! Within earshot of the King's-House authorities the vilest epi thets and most abominable threats are levelled against the re spectable freeholders of the parish, and gentlemen who do not like to expose their Fersons to the attacks of these cowardly ruffians, are thus deterred from geing to the poll. TO ; gives the Loco Focos fresh spirit to exert their physical ability. and to boast and barfly that, in a short time, they will be enabled to I, am ple law and justice, principle and propriety under their feet. Jack Straw may be lord of the Ascendant, and - Isom Cades' mouth the Parliament of Jamaica!—Whether Sir Lionel is instructed to encourage this March of Democracy, we leave Lord Qlenelg to explain. But his rejection of the former Election Law, and other necesary acts to secure the property and privileges of the subject, looks very much like an attempt to revolutionize the NlAitcti t, 1838 island, and it is quite clear, unless the purity of election be main tained, and a Registration Act passed, securing us from the preponderance of illegal voters, there is no chance that the pa rochial or legislative concerns of this colony can be carried on with any degree of wisdom, propriety, or discretion. For, if paupers, idlers, and blackguards are to be our parish officers and legislators, we might as well resign ourselves to a military government at once as the lesser evil,—always bearing in mind that, in purchasing freedom for the bondmen of Africa, the mi nistry of England have been guilty of the base, treacherous, and tyrannical act of enslaving the free-born subjects of Britain !" Is not this picture an exact counterpart of what is en acted in Great Britain and Ireland ! Does it not for cibly remind our readers of the brutal scenes which were witnessed at the last election for Liverpool ? Do we not also find that the radicals of this town are equally anxi ous to fill every office of trust and importance with pre cisely the same class of persons, as we find described in the preceding extract —men utterly devoid of principles fortune, or respectability—ignorant, clownish, turbulent demagogues ? We would particularly put our townsmen on their guard, lest such scenes of ferocious intimidation as were witnessed at the general election should be again exhibited at the annual vestry meeting. The ra dicals of this town are capable of proceeding to any ex tremities, as was fully proved by the diabolical exhibi tion of last year. We subjoin another extract illustrative of' the mis chievous consequences arising from the ascendancy of radical principles : " If the proprietors of this fine colony are doomed to be trodden under the hoof of a ruthless democracy, and to be de prived of all power of protecting their property and privileges —if the privilege of passing laws calculated to promote indus try, morality, and good order, is to be taken from them, and they are to be placed at the mercy of a rapacious canaille — then, the sooner they claim payment for the amount of their property, and are thus enabled to remove from the island, the better it will be for the cause of humanity and justice! The ministers of the crown, at the passing of the abolition act, pledged the government to be answerable for all the evil con sequences of what they acknowledged to be a rash and fright ful experiment ! They promised to administer the act they in sisted on passing, with strict and impartial justice, and to make the probationary term of apprenticeship a noviciate towards preparing the negro population for their future duties in life. How have these pledges been redeemed by the parties now in office? By the most shameless violation of a ratified compact—by appointing partial. prejudiced, and ignorant per sons to pervert the meaning of the law, to give encouragement to idleness, fraud, and intemperance, and to do all that in them lay, as they have the indecency to confess—" to make the mas ters sick of the apprenticeship." We shall see,' say they, who will tire soonest, those who are injured and abused and deprived of their fair portion of labour, 01 those who have things all their own way without reference to law or justice ! A passive re sistance to the equitable provisions of the abolition act has been encouraged amongst the apprentices throughout the colony—AND THIS, for the avowed purpose of making the masters sick of the apprenticeship!' and inducing !hem to abolish it at all risks ! ALTHOUGH THIS, they have not the power to do without the sanction of her Majesty and the British parliament ! But what inducement have they, even to pray for its abolition, whilst the march of demoralization is on the stride, industry on the decline, and no thing but anarchy and confusion in prospect? Facts are stubborn things, and there fore by facts we shall hereafter demonstrate the truth of our statements! For the present we refer to the table of exports laid before the Assembly, which at once shows the lamentable falling off in our crops, owing principally to the paralyzation of industry. Next year threatens to be worse, as we understand the coffee crops are rotting in the ground for lack of picking. If these are to be the results of liberty, we say again, the sooner the parliament pay us for our property, and present it to their pets, the better it will be for the British colonists." — Kingston Chronicle. Jan. 11. Respecting the present position and future prospects of the West India Islands we find the following strong remarks : " We may justly agree with the poet, who says that " coming events cast their shadows before;' for certainly at no period of colonial history were the prospects of the British colonists more overshadowed with the gloom of evil forebodings and antici pated ruin than at the present alarming crisis. Having done all that in them lay to satisfy the inordinate demands of the parent government, they are now threatened with an entire subversion of constitutional law and justice, and with measures calculated to coerce every honest man into a violation of his allegiance to the crown by the unprecedented injuries he is doomed to sustain from a faction erected to destroy the rights of the people. Canada is already a prey to martial contest, and bow much blood will be shed before the conflict can be quelled, we leave the adherents of the O'Connell revolutionists to decide. The leader of that party had, doubtless,t reason to call tier Majesty's ministers the brutal and bloody whips, from the arbitrary measures be believed them capable of forcing -- upon his countrymen and fellow-subjects. But whether he will advise them, now they have conciliated his favour, to pur sue the same harsh and coercive means of compelling a slavish submission to their extra-judicial policy in these islands, we have yet to learn, but if it should be attempted, we may speedily prognosticate the downfall of her Majesty's empire in the• west."—Kingstori Chronicle, Jan. 9. - - "On whichever side we turn, we are pained to hear the me lancholy forebodings as to the future prospects of Jamaica—the lamentations as to the probable destruction of her agricultural pro perty, and the ruin and dispersion of her most useful and in dustrious classes, compelled to abandon a country without laws to afford them protection, and where idleness and vice are per mitted to range at pleasure! The persons thus forced by a treacherous and impolitic government to give up all hope of securing their chartered liberties and rights will doubtless fly to America, or the Spanish colonies, as their only place of re— fuge from the insults and persecutions of a❑ anti-national usurpating faction, who are sacrificing the interests of British commonwealth to their own party views, and who, when all classes of her Majesty's liege subjects find out the frauds and delusions they have practised, by the jeopardy in which they e placed, and the rapid decline of British commerce and prosperity, will be visited with the just retribution of their rash and selfish projects by finding their influence and power de graded to the dust, their names execrated, and their country distracted by the turmoil and miseries of civil war—the inevi table result of the petty pride and low ambition of a mean and intriguing spirit which seeks to aggrandize the unworthy at ther cost of all that is wise, excellent, expedient, or just. One more effort, the friends of this colony will soon be called upon t make—if that fail, the government must be pledged to destroy the charter granted by the King; and whether they be saints or sinners to whom they have sold our privileges, they are bound to pay the price of their own usurpations, and to give us back the cost of the property sacrificed by their shameless vio lation of the national faith—the solemn oath and compact of the imperial parliament of Dritaiu I" , —Kinyston Chronicle.. Jan. 8. From the following it would appear that the charge of infringing the conditions of the Emancipation Act may be retorted upon the government of this country : " The present packet will convey to Great Britain pretty striking evidence of the effects of the mispolicy of the govern ment with regard to her Majesty's transatlantic colonies ! The Canadians in open arms to assert their independence, and the West Indians sunk in apathy and despair at the irremediable state of ruin and disorder brought upon their commerce, their, property, and their plantations, by the persecuting spirit of deceitful faction ! Without laws to stimulate labour, or to . protect property or life, men look at each other, and inquire how far the march of disorganization is to proceed ? Whether they are to submit tamely to be taxed to feed a population who will not work, but who profit by the plunder of the industrious; or whether, like the Canadians, they must take arms in their own defence to resist unlawful oppression ? The murmurs ark,• not loud but deep against the treacherous and unconstitutioneK, interference of the Colonial Secretary with the chartered rights of the colonists. Erery honest and honorable man scorns the con temptible manner in which the whig ministry have managed to forfeit and pervert their solemn pledge to the colonists, by forcing upon them their own bribed tools to misinterpret and initucc the Abolition Act—to make it an instrument of injury qnd vexation to the master, and a means of jealousy and distrust to the apprentice; to render it, in short, the source of continual bickerings and dis cord, and a pretence for teaching the negro labourer ju hate, de spise, and disobey his master! We had enough of travelling parsons, mountebank doctors, and itinerant quacks and qqal i cerp of all descriptions, pursuing their peregrine,tions over the island to pick up pence and popularity by preaching sedition to the blacks, that God knows we had no need of government incen diaries or stipendiaries to add fuel to the same. The most of the latter gentry, however, happeq to be in the pay of Alder manbury, and, therefore, could not d o less than they were re. quited—" Make the rnasterS as sick as they possibly could of the apprenticeship term." These cantcraft ,fficials have shown themselves on all occasions to be far snore merciless tyrants than. the cruelest planter our annals can mate, and that without any other motive than the vain display of their brief authority, or the wicked one of making the system wrong. To their mismanage ment all the confusion and disorder it has produced, and they alone are responsible for the misconstruction of the act. Con sidering these things, no wonder their friends deprecate a parlia mentary inquiry, or any fair and impartial inquiry, whir' wound lead to an exposure (!f . their inalrersation of off' ce--to their abuse and oppression of the master, and their tampering and intrigue with the apprentices—to the exhibition of their ex-parte and lop sided decisions, and their glaring perversions of the provisions of the law ! As to the ioiamous calumnies which Sturge and Co. still t:ontinue to repeat, We can only assure our British readers