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

finptriat aritament. The Ma: tion of the move i lord sh Id be ve v Bishop of Ex great pe Monday STANLEY institut accessible to the 1 ave the ix backw The Earl the causes feasible m in Syria Lord I merston t received from the I by which the each Porte would four powers ever that t n perfect! abolition of capital pun The house having res tomes. t of th restrictions and salt provisions, were mount to prohibitions, if countries, The: ad valorem char colonial tr the West Indies th had recently gran therto monopi that the adva East Indies also. The three cla subject to ad valore A. fourth c excluded, and N he did not propose to provisions, z West Indian subject: th the dut could impc subject pickled fish to to prevent srx Another to admit t t whatev( PALMEF trade, ar County ( various pro is and a child, about seven mo the man and his wife a up in her arms, and f tired, with a bundle ie(l on clothes. The police having their protection, she was enm.- 1 to take Guardian what was •wa utineutLy, sue gu taken out of her hands. This is the fourth case cif posure which has happened during the last fortnig none has the heartless mother been discovered.- s of B TORNEY- )er of t to a committee LABOU CHE present exposed to dull( a fact, 1 A goods i Lnt attic of 71 pi ate prohlt le. the ou read a 1\ IU RDI .nd in qu Garnki CORSIC divider NNERS-ROI At a recent sitting of the Co attention has been occupied him he ought to keep it until the it thernselv I with death i threats c until time Rea his tree mectacle ml :e from ou the exa whom N )wever, r of the a but I tor the i on the RE pro- s tanta- I to an to th, ons to to harc cpFy law infl Oil cha Id 1 for whOMi of i have been 1 and final Wily of Mr. Day, his NI rained from the leßal exe ;ht, and in I cellor —Scottish diate I March t ble fac i this I ipts of the compan 07 18s. ld., and th 'he coal traffic et at 'Y titered r antimpat tion th Among the prisoners, a by name, are to be A Pacheco -who nd not Oribc, he eyed, 'rivate 1 ad at l shipments we ,ot should have direction of the expedition, which r thou :mer as a Ithougli it in view of contin :nabled to delegate ted with had ari: 31S own re in the usualeourse, that himself empowered, should ve taker to nom.inat uccessor, qualified ike his place nferior grade a civil and diploma- the best cter, and - for the ease letter from Macao lbourne; the pre- T ds, should not be onsoon ly of whom know but whether he is 11 known Admiral Elliot had for ader the visitation of that .occted affliction that new and ur be acquainted with him tha oramand of the Cape station iv to strong paroxysms of this disease, that it ful to be with him from the very violent action hich shook the whole room, and was very dis- be said. Under sac if true to anything like the extent, it was of very gross impropriety to commit to the . . an invalid a command of such extreme im- :s that of the Chinese expedition, or even that harge of the Ca' h of October last fobart Town money pr I that •ti supply no new facts r assigned causes. It a 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 head a WEST nst the evil January —Jamaica t packet Trinidad to the 'arbadoes to the In ti ) the follow- and Antigua to the 19th of -January. J amaica 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 estates sugar had already been made, but of very inferior quality, and in others the juices were so weak that they would not granulate. The crop was not expected to exceed that of last year. Besides the inconvenience of the continu -4' the draught throughout the months of November feared there was no chance of establish , crop of 1842, as most part of the island :se months. Provisions were, for the time isonable, from the desire of the planter to clear his `-ns of roots. The Court of Policy at Deme deliberation, but the discussions were --, of local interest. canes for the 'e planted in t of January, an s to t apers to the it of Januar le communicate /he news of an attack by f Natal upon the Chief Capai, in which , ease drove of cattle. The Governor '~h the chiefs of the Slambie and --:ties, which was not finally -Fife HE a situatil ►s to thr ne purcnt )rothers fr but witt ,t the tw the pra seaten with ma they carried off an immense had had a conference vo-' Gonaquabe CaffrP- MERCHANT SERVICI APPOINTMENT OF MASTERS AND MATES (Front the Tirl The persons connected em generally to be mai+ lipping of the outports loveuaLit towards the selec- rs and mates in the mer- tion of chant nt .the appoit onsidering th aipowner alone Ltment rests with the treat risk to which rsons and property are exposed by the employment of iin- nd that c the t allov the interests o F letely identified with those of the men d others who have an interest in the safe convey heir goods, the proposal is to establish boards to merit r the qualification of masters and mates, so that their ap ay not be left solely to the inclination of an N. deputation has come from Glasgow charged ENidun th the r holding conferences with the differen h the shipping of the united kingdom they eon (finent of a legislative enac er desi was resolved that it woulc This deputation ners of Liverpool, at desirable to establish to qualification in navigation :I by le of cargo, and knowledge of r In the event t. The funds, it was resolved, should for examining captains, and also by ton on registering_new ships, or id. per t r reat desire of 3 scheme, that by . - It is the rd t , any right per ton, which ppointing the proposed b n to th governm cording to which the shipowner xist, the sed to be levied on a principle ac s should bear part of the e examined, is calcidated ou a basis ,on the dut 40 are set down kccording to tonnag e guinea for a coasting r itish shipping according to Mr. Johnson, who Glasgow deputation, gives as the number of thins, and Li require as many Ca ;ether 40,000 official Allow- ese to fall off annually, anti - of number of examinations would be ease, as given above, and allowing - ' ied by old masters and mat left, requiring ma masters and mates reign voyages, at two guineas, would give £4200. Masters of coasters and mates of foreign voyages, number 3000, and at the same rate, would give £3150 ; 1500 mates of coasters at 10s. 6d. would give £787 ; and the whole, with the addition of the rate on tonnage, would amount to £11,262; while the expenses of the total number of local boards are estimated to amount to no more than £lO,OOO. The central board of examiners would be xed in London and be appointed by the united committee e general shipowners and Lloyd's. Thi s p roposa l b e i ng . ' ' ge, impossible to tell what will be hat will in a great measure in so early a sta Chance of success, especially 1n defects in the lts, would seem ro71;;;illat the plan has been thoroughly consider;dasto4 its oractical working by the parties who urge its adoption. lready generally known lliers of Lancashire have struck for an advance of tnands. 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 i.ct in the neighbourhood of Wigan. About 20 ho con- V VGIIIII6 laa., ••+ •-• colliers attacked the house of a fellow-workman w tinned to work at the (Ad rate of wages. They fired a gun, loaded with slugs, through the window, happily without effect, and then broke all the windows with stones. The 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 fella quantity oI ukuvu vvaa aucu, eV baa, aiv 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. )rt u is ied his w;.},pd I saying id just 1 for the s which lerefor for life, 1, died iliing of Df those muitants vhile the are re the full or pre- t of - t 1 at Chan- nd direc From the FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SPAIN er the ti ,ter of For tone' Cant, sts of the members who may be called ljustment of the Regency 1. One of them, con ) be the most sere done on the Gth GRANADA we received journals from Begota and Caraccas, the to the end of DeceMber, the latter to the 20th of according to the latest ac- Patria, and some other all parties of rebels, but - Ist of De ppears y were tiyit Ist of September, tt plete tranquillity. then' filled witl Ayres, contains Ltest d sas and Lavaile than has hitherto can now be no doubt that the defeat nd that he himself had a narrow ,g taker noted of vhom is gi a a lett troops of R, tern n CHINA Elliot y ni 400,000,000 t( :d to apply to the the eolonie which would be ma Laval! for cash, an, pplv of •....1fi;11(11 long be -loom cotton san &id THE FALLS OF THE NIAGARA [lt will be remembered that in our last we expressed stiong 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 from the New York mercial likely to prove mereb orning contained what is call , Advertiser, 13ufralo, Feb. 1 etion.of the Fa witling who probably the fal We will point of z to hax le never t red."—Mr. Biddle ti . e . ver . l;uilt a tower at the fall caused to be built a staircase c n to the falls, which goes by his 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 Byffalo Comm r of Saturday evening, the latest which le Albany papers of yesterday are silent hoax was -probabl The Falls of pt up in this city iagara afford a magnificent example of the ation of a deep valley in a solid rock. That river flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, the former lake beiig 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 Ise perpendicularly eight or ten feet, it would lay under wa er the adjacent flat country of Upper Canada on the west, ,nd of the state of New York on the east. The river, where it issues, is about three-quarters of a mile in width. Bt.. 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 island 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 t!ti height. The breadth of the island is n"- -- • This great sheet of water is precipitated tal strut out 50U yards: )ver a ledge of 1 below which is a somewhat greater thickness )1 soft shale, which decays and crumbles away more • ra. pidiy, so that the calcareous rock forms an overhanging mass, projecting forty feet or more above the hollow space below. The blasts of wind, charged with spray, which rise out of the pool into' which this enormous cascade is projected, strike against the shale beds, so that their disintegration is constant. They also waste away at certain easons by the expansive action of frost. The superineum ent limestone being thus left without a foundation, falls When these enormous n rocky masses sho - ek is felt at some disl parried by a like a distant clap of thunder river has passed over the Fal Hall, is iinmediatel furiously along the , accom kfter the hu the cont acter, observes Capt. aanged. It then runs wall-sided valley, or -trata by itfi huge fr in rnos' ily perceived on approach- Lnd completc trench, which has been cu d action of the stream ie bed of the river here is :revved ore edge of the precipice., The waters, which expand at the 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 h.' perpenutcul ;t id the ravine state of tremendous gitation, i I 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 immediate:y at the foot of the fall. When the Falls were visited in 1829 bv Mr. R. Bakewell, jun., he ascertained had lived 40 years in that part of the ttler there, that during that le had receded 40 or 50 instead of being in a ;o tranquil as to allow a ,oat to cross with ease from a person country, and had been the first period the Falls on the Canada yards, in consequence of the co and undermining of the lime loyal of the shale, hove described. It late 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, 25 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 iu 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. ECCLESIASTICAL A INTELLIGE JD UNIVERSITY CE. (From the Oxford Herald.) lam lamented death of Mrs. Wilberforce, ill be delivered in the we believe that no Barnpton 1 tv Pulpit this year. PROMOTIONS J. Symons, 8.D., Rector of Radnage, Bucks, and '..and, 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., islicensed 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. Thom as 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 Vicar of Mo: 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 Rer. S. Edmund Walker, M. A., late scholar of Tri nity college, in this university, and late university theological crosse scholar, has been instituted by the right rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the rectory of Columh Maor, in th county of Cornwall, void by the d eath of the Rev j John Tre e fusis, M.A. Patron Edmund Walker, Esq. Alfred Wrigley, Esq., 8.A. , of St. John'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 Grammar 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. Holdich, M.A., of Clare Hall, in this univer sity, and rector of Maidwell, 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. Rev. C. H. Bromley, of St. John's College, in this y, has been appointed to the head mastership of the Proprietary School. DOCTOR COOKE AND REV. T. D. GREG( The following document has been published by the deputa tion which waited on these reverend gentlemen. Three of the members are Presbyterians, four Episcopalians, and one " 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 havedecr at the same yielding to the wishes of that meeting. And, 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 placed 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 sake of Protestant peace and union, Dr. Cooke should not.enter on this discussion. " JOHN CHAINE, Deane of Connor. "A. C. MAcAraNty, Vicar of Belfast. " DANIEL M'AFEE, Wesleyan Minister. "DAVID HAMILTON , Presbyterian Minister. " JOHN M NEIL! NDRILIV MUL H OLL AND ` Belfa "JAMES GODDARD " JAMES BLAnt. March 3, 1841.'' MAYNOOT COLLEGE Mr. Daniel O'Connell, denies that the teachin g 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, he 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 Pr iests ' D irectory 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 simula , to," yne, " of Co pretended swearing." (Dens, vo l. IV., p. 190 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 :-- "Q. An juramentum si- " Question. Whether an mulatum factum per verba oath, apparently ma d e b y exterius serio probato, sed words seriously spoken, but cum intentione interiori non with the inward intention of jurandi est verum juramen- not swearing, is a true and mentum et obligatiorum ? bindini, obligation ? "R. Negative, en quod ju- " Answer. We ans ramentum movet testimo- gatively, because .er TIC- is to that Dei, qui internam in- t h e oath Invokes the testi picit et ita sine mony of God, who beholds li nunquam the inward intention, so with ont the intention of swearing it is never sworn." Now, here is an open advocany of mental reservation and perjury, and that inculcated in a class book of Maytiooth. But this is not, by any means, the worst portion of the work. There are laid down in it THIRTY-THREE DIFFERENT MODES OF VOIDING LAWS, PROMISES, AND p. 363,) promises in five mo d es, iOnAelle'vHeSn!moßdyest,h(evroull.el propoun ded laws may be made v o id i (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 o f Maynooth, and the veracity of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. tentione a 1 intentione jur juratur 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. 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, at Brentwood. The value of the plate, paintings, furniture, and other pro rty saved from the fire at Wynyard Park, is said to be 10,000. The total loss is estimated at £70,000, and there , w seems to be no doubt of the distressing fact that the and the re way for gc Since the opening of the Hartlepool and Stockton railway, nt opening of the Great North of England rail is and merchandize, great quantities of fish are v daily sent from Hartlepool to Darlington, and forwarded the latter railway for York, Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, xnchester, and Birmingham. of timber imported into the port of Sun for the year ending on the sth of last January was loads. The quantity imported last year into the Unite dom of Great Britain and Ireland was 818,299 loads ; the quantity imported at this port exceeded a twer, that of the whole kingdom. FATAL —lt is intimate the untimely fate of the Rev :ere regret we have to Thomas Win:chic, late minister of the parish of Clunie, in this county be recollected that he voluntarily demitted his 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 day of Islands. Mr. M`Ritchie 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 of 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 bad been active in collecting evidence against him. The convict expressed a desire to die in peace with all mankind, and to pardon this person, whom he considered his greatest enemy. When the convict reached the scaffold, the executioner was preparing to execute 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 had carried off James Box well's daughter ; that he had cut off her hair duaing her sleep, and stolen one of her dresses, which lie had steeped in blood ; and that the generous pardon granted 'to him by this victim bad caused. him to reflect on the enormity of his crime. The executioner immediately withdrew the rope from the convict's neck, and the cap from his face, - when it was discovered that he was dead from the effects of terror. The atrocious John Keats was ,conducted to prison amidst the execrations of the populace, who wished to tear him to • DESPERATE OUTRAGE DY 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 gtun 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 tire-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 hiui 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 oit Tuesday mornin, at Kilpinpike, near Howden. 'he facts __re briefly these:--bout 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 on board 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. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN A " GIANTESS" AND HER 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-,- , ofiice, 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 tirs husband, and frequently asks for what she is confine. the above was wrote the prisoner has been discharg fiscal, subseqUent to the report of the medical g having been received.—Scottish Guardian. SUICIDE.—On Monday evening a man and a w; 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 suspicibn of the matter. During the night the woman was heard to vomit excessively, and in the morning she was found in her 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 had 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 bands 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. the age— Scripture— 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 rushed 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 extinct. — Morning Herald. WARLIKE PREPARATIONS : -- SHEERNESS, MARCH 10.— The greatest bustle and activity prevail in the royal dock yard here in getting her Majesty's ships Monarch and Ver non fitted cut. When 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 constituents, 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 consewvativt 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 anzpion Herald. GALILEO.—The ceremony of Galileo's abjuration was one of exciting interest, and of awful formality. Clothed in the sackcloth ofd 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 in a too literal interpretration of the language of ---rn a mistaken respect for the errors that had be come venerable from their antiquity—and in the peculiar position which Galileo had taken among the avowed enemies of the church, we find the elements of an apology, poor though it be, for the conduct of the Inquisition. But what excuse can we devise for the humiliating confession 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 heid? 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, and confided, 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 submission was the salvation of the church. The sword of the inquisition descended on his prostrate neck, and though its stroke was not physical, 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. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. r[lo-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. B. 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 STANDAUD. 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. orizontal s THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee. Last Week of Mr. ELTON and Mr. J. S. BALLS. PHIS present TU SDAY, the 16th instant, will be per formed the Tragedy of VIRGINIUS. Virginias lcilius .... Mr. • Baker ClaudiUs. Mr: Elton Mr.. 11. 801 l Appius Claudius.. .... Mr. W. 11. Blanc Mr. Gra Virginia . Mrs. W. H. Bland.—Seryia.. Miss Cleaver. After which, for the second time here, the new Farce no performing with great success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called 808 SHORT, Which was received last night at this Theatre with the most distinguished approbation. ... Mr. J. S. Balls. Mr. Baker. Bob Short Fitzarthur Tot, 'ricknot.. Madame 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.. Mi. R. H. Sharpe. Jack Ardourly Mr. W. H. Bland. Adolphine de Courcy.. Miss Chaplin. Madarite Ballegarde Madame Simon. 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. Honner, 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 WALLACK, 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 OF ST. PATRICK. THE ANNUAL EXAMINATION of the PUPILS will 1 take place at the ScllooL-Room Pleasant-street, on Tilts 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 20th instant. Open from Ten to Four. Lyceum, Bold-street, 15th March, 1841. POSTOFFICE-PLACE GALLERY. IN this EXHIBITION will be found PICTURES. by the 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 DONIENICHINO, 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, from the collection of Lucien Bunnaparte. CHRIST BEARING HIS CROSS, by SEBASTIAN° DEL PIOMBO. A HOLY FAMILY, by PARMEGIANO. A SEA. VIEW, by BAcKnursEw. -ST. CECILIA, by DOMENICHINO. A ROAD-SIDE PUBLIC-HOUSE, by GEO. MORLAND. • A FINE LANDSCAPE, by GASPAR 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. ejß. HEWITT, SIIORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL • REPORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully informs Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that he purposes tmsupply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius 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. 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 Neu; Orleans, remained at anchor between the Floating Light and Ormshead from the 9th to thel4th 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. EJit Ethrrpoot &tanbarb. 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 S 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 glorious 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- land undertook the compilation of a work which wag designed as a full examination and refutation of the doctrines of the Tractarians; he is a scholar and the ologian than whom there is none better qualified for such an undertaking; but after advancing some way in his task, he gave it up, with this declaration, which was the result of long and anxious deliberation—l re nounce this labour, because I find that in refuting Pu seyism, I am only doing what has been long since done by our reformers. The same process of reasoning which refutes Popery refutes Puseyism, 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 not 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 he 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 nc,t to be required of any man, that it should be 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 theme 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 Whig 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 \Valaisley—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. 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 as not to be worth speaking of—v as tl y o bli ge d , to b e sure, for such kind intentions—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. But if this ground of opposition to the victimizing