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NFORM ?s, VISIT( 0 I NTT Her M f the Lodi is the eye TTA SERENA, IN d all' Diseases of the Eye and simple, delightful, and fragrant pplication is fraught with plea s have been accomplished by its rtain in its operation. If Ince the sufferer to make used it. The id Commons Lac have sanctioned its ust t Oculists, —the press J rated herbacious corn- s Eve Snuff, for its efficacy in -nd Read. J lent to the Eyes ee J. B. Laehfi, ( Letter s calls it a National The late Mr. s, recommended Grimstone's Man's best Friend," and the See the many ti .sand Letters , with others is Snuff will ct The only 1., Ss., Signature and the Royal Pa- This Snuff is manufac- E INVENTOR, and the Tendors, by PIRCE and n Snuff Merchants, Castle- JoLEsACE and RETAIL AGENTS ;alsz Welch, Snuff ioss and NightingEit Chronicl Denby, 4, Great Iliznett ists, Moor-fields ; Mr. Proctor, To d ; Mr. Roberts, Druggist, Ranelagh st, Dale-street; Mr. J. [-place ; Mr. Hignett, , Mrs. Moreland, Tobac- Mr. Plummer, Tobacconist, North Ir. Thomas Hignett, Tobacconist, z-stree 11 7 1 r. W. King, Druigist, Soho-street ; :•onist. Elliott-street ; and Mrs. Moore, reet ; and in MANCHESTER, by W. rch Gate, Market-street, and 119, Picca- Tobacconist, 25, Market-place; Mr. G. Mr. J. R. Lynch, Marita 1, Market-street; Abrams 4, ,e Lovett, High-street ; r, Deans street ; Mr: Brown, Market-street; Gee, and every principal Town and City in the HE MANY THOUSAND TESTIMONIALS OF SIGHT ED AND DEAFNESS CURED Whitehall, March 8, 1838. , I think it but justice that I should nts to you for the great benefit I have of your Eye Snuff. ' Its action on Lose, causing the lachrymal glands to uly surprising, and by that means became healthy, strong, n a manner that 1 have _ 78. The renowned G. J. R.S. recommended me to try your eye stion. Many thanks to .ne of tl going an o ks to your invention, that ope- ssary. Sir, you have my permission to ly manner you may think best. your obedient servant, " J. B. LACHFIELD. id to the Thatched House Tavern, 1. and two 2s. 4d. canisters. You parcel for the enclosed half sove " J. B. L. F.R.S. This eminent Surgeon and truth of this Letter of a letter sent to Mr. W. Grimstone, inventor of the celebrated Eye Snuff. Esq„ Inventor of Eye Snuff, 39, Grimst -street Marchioness de Broglio Solari presents her best corn , Mr. W. Grimstone, and has the pleasure to in has had the most convincing proofs of the be -4' his Herbaceous Eye Snuff, in many cases ' , oth of sight and hearing. sir, you are at liberty to make use of 22, 1838, 46. Charlotte-street." a letter Grimsione, Jan. 2, 1841. licted with bad eyes for a long time, 3d who had :eiveci benefit from using your eye snuff the contents of two of to say rf sight has ire- i; is removed ;and, sir, it 3U make the good of —(Third sappy to answer any inquiry " Your "G. SMITH .entish Town abstract of a Letter from Mrs. L. S. Brewer, Dressmakef, 3, Edge-terrace, Kensington Gravel Pits. To Mr. Grimstone, Inventor of Eye Snuff. " sth December, 1840. een a sy'r , Ter for seven years, both eyes ..se blindness. Among the many J attended me was the famous oculist, _.,Deed, I do believe my case was beyond all Physic, bleeding, blistering, with a seaton, and of lotions, but no relief,' till chancing one day being •r house, in 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, my if I had tried your Eye Snuff, on which I 3d. canister, opened it in the shop, took as greatly relieved before I reached my home. ruth assert, and make oath if required to do so, your Eye Snuff cured me. Shall be happy to *-- —I am, sir, yours gratefully, " L. S. BREWER." 311 en as to ca ntlemen )r. Alexander : i nquirea sed a is ny inquir Grimstone, 39, Broad-street. " 10th December, 1840. _een afflicted for many years with a severe attended with a dimness of sight and dart eyes, for which I have had the first medical I have taken large quantities of medicine, !lying any relief; but I am now delighted to say, _hat ever since using your valuable eye snuff, which ye taken copiously, that is, a 2s. 4d. canister weekly, I luite free from those excruciating pains, and can read the [lest print, although I am in the 67th year of my age. is my third testimony, and I shall be most happy to give ) you or to anv respectable inquirer at my residence as er.—l remain, with gratitude, sir, your obedient humble ant. " E. ROBSON. To TV, SIRS I have itreet, Edgeware-road, Marylebone .om Blackwood's Lady's Magazita, for 1838. To Mr. Grimstone, on his valuable invention of the Eye Snuff, e from British herbs, for the diseased organs of the head .t was the power that did to man impart ve genius and inventive art ; !cond praise is, doubtless, Grimstone, thine was thine head, and great was thy design ; recious sight from danger now set free, , widows, fathers, praises sing to thee." .street, Edgeware-road, Marylebonc, copied by many Periodicals." / of a Letter to Wm. Grimstone, Esq. " August 26, 1840. derived from using your justly surprised both me and my friends in medical advice for Ophthalmia for without hope. I now give you my ) the efficacy of your Eye Snuff, for that, and tored my sight f I hay and lef —T am, your obedient set - - " H. MAT7NDER MAY. 'ensington Copy of Letter to Wm. Grinistone, Esq. " 10th August, 1810. take the liberty of enclosing cash for a further I am now happy to inform you that the person who sed your valuable Eye Snuff, being blind for the last six h 3, with a most distressing headache during twelve hs, is greatly relieved from the latter, and nearly restored former, so much so that he can-see to the distance of a mile, doctors and medicine having all been useless.— " THOMAS S. WALLACE. Shircock, Carrickmocross, Ireland. Fanfield Cotta P.S. Shall be Ipy to answer any Inquiry of a Letter to tr. IV. Grimstone, 3, Broad-street, Bloomsbury " July 4, 1840. al a feeling of gratitude I am induced to inform f you pl ease to publish the saine,, sittlit with intlatnniated eyes, my your valoable invention, :t to ver 1 having led me to u I am, sir, now perfectly recovered, only taken it constantly for six weeks, and be without it; my sight is much better any years.—l am, sir, yours respect "J. B RYAN. 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A liberal owners, captain.s, and all vendors of This celebrated snuff is shipped globe, and retains its benign quality, 411 snuffs and cigars skipped on the Eye Snuff irlionials may be had from all the Agents grais past w week s M E MORIAL. —During th e . "S S has been made in the necessar y preparations laying of the foundations of the Memorial an d t h e ;rs' Aisle, the latter of which is already commenced, it is confidently expected will be completed before the .piration of the present year. The Memorial itself . will not ,e completed before the end of 18- 12 . Th e excavation made foundation of the latter is 10 feet deep and 26 feet in diameter, in the making of which the workmen have been compelled to disturb the bones that were removed to that part of the ground from the crypt some years since. They have been taken up and placed in the church, where they will remain till th e laying of the foundation, when we believe they will be replaced from whence they were taken. The founda tion wll be compl e t e f o r th e l a yi ng of th e first stone of the Cross in about three weeks. .TIO F T E the PUBLIC of L D'S RAVELLING DESKS WORK BOXES, .CsuAL PRICY .t 12s. 6d 1 Drawer, at 32: 2 to Xl3, i from :is. 6d. each 1 articlec, at is., 105.,1 knish, at 16s. 6d 'he Ladies' Work Boxes ANY PRICE Boxes in Rosewood, Ebony, ididly inlaid with Pearl, from 0 US .1 Instone's Weather Almanack STORED ! IFIVESS CURED DNAGE 0 MAJESTIES sty's Lords of the Treasury —Luke ii. 34 EXTENRIVR CARPET AND PURNITURE WAREHOUSE HANOVER-STREET, LIVERPOOL. THOMAS BRANCH anounces, that he hag cc RESPECTFULLY HANOVER ROOMS A. particularl and valuable Stock of Elegant and Fashionable CABINET FURNITURE Of every d ,cription, manufactured in theA - rst style of c cellence, from the best Mderials, INCLUDING DRAWING-ROOM SUITE S„_ of Real and imitation Roseich . d, IN CIRCULAR 4ND OBLONG LOO, Work, Flower, Card, Occ4nal, Writing, Sofa, and Fancy Tables, What Nots, Chairs, Couches, Sofas, Tea Poys, Cheffoniers, Canterburies, Fire Screens, &c. MAHOGANY FURNITURE, In Sliding-frame and other forms of Dining Tables, Pedestal and Cellaret Sideboards, Single and Winged Bookcases, Secretaires, Cheval and , other Screens, Single and Double Wardrobes; Ladies' Wardrobes, with brass rods and arms, for Dresses, Trafalgar and Balloon-formed Chairs, Card, Library, Loo, Invalid, Sofa t Snap, Pembroke, Ladies' Work and Screen Tables, Running Side-tables, ouches, Sofas, Children's Chairs, Cots, and Cribs, Chests of Drawers, Night Commodes, Bedsteps, Bidets, Hat Stands, Boot Racks, Music Standsand Stools, Canterburies, Hall Chairs, Butler's Trays, with Stands, Foot Stools, Cheffoniers, Quartetto tables, Dressing-tables and Basin-stands, Rising Sideboard Tables, Gentlemen's Library or Office Tables, Double and Single Knife Boxes, &c. RECUMBENT INVAL ID CHAIRS Elegant Lounging, Library, and Devotional CHAIR FOLDING SOFA AND CHAIR BEDS, JAPANNED. STAINED. AND FANCY CHAIRS, In the greatest variety ; Four-post, Cottage, Cono - py, French, Dame, Camp, Nursery, and Press BEDSTEADS, of every form, In Mahogany, Birch. and Painted Woods ; - Feather BEDS, Hair, Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES PAINTED CHAMBER REQUISITES, Of all descriptions, In Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Toilet Tables, THEATRE.ROYA , L, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sale Leseee FOR TUE BENEFIT OF MRS. WARNER,. • (LATE MISS HUDDART,) who most respectfully announces that - she has availed herself of the opportunity afforded her of engaging the valuable services, for the occasion, of the celebrated Vocalist, Mr. TEMFLETON, Of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. The Last Night but Five of Mr. CHARLES KEAN and Mrs. WARNER, of the Theatres Royal, Drury-lane and Haymarket. Second Night this Seeson of the Tragedy of MACBETH, as produced on MONDAY last, with New Dresses, Scenery, Decorations, &c., and as received with the most enthu siastic applause by a crowded and brilliant auditory. T"'s present FRIDAY EVENING, the 30th instant, will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth Mr. Charles Kean, Lady Macbeth Mrs. Warner, as performed by them fifteen nights in succession last season at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket Macduff Mr. Stuart. (on this occasion) .. Mr. H. 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FOR COUGHS AND ASTHMAS! -CdGGLESTON'S OXYMEL of HOREHOUND has the extraordinary property of giving immediate relief in all Asthmatic and Consumptive Cases, Hoarseness, Difficulty of Breathing, &c., promoting gentle expectoration, giving ease and freedom to the Lungs, and is justly considered un- rivalled as a Universal Family Medicine. Those who are deprived of rest at night by incessant Coughing, will, by taking one dose, find immediate ease; and a small bottle will, in most cases, effect a Cure. Numerous authentic Testimonials, and References .of the highest respectability, may be had of the Proprietor, J. V. EGGLESTON, Chemist, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street. Sold in Bottles at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each, the 2s. 9d. size containing four of the smaller ones. ir4r The Genuine Oxymel is sold only by J. V. EGGLE STON, Chemist, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street, Li verpool. WONDERFUL AND GRATIFYING DISCOVERY !! EGGLESTON'S VEGETABLE PASTE, a safe, per manent, and instant Cure for the most agonizing Tooth ache, Ear-ache, and Tic Doloureux. Invented and sold only by J. V. EGGLESTON, Chemist, 52, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street, in pots, ls. each, or three pots for 2s. Gd. " We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the Tooth-ache." — Liverpool Standard. " One application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' cured a most inveterate Tooth-ache, which had deprived me of rest for three nights. " JOAN POYNTZ. " 10, Dance-street, Rupert-street, Liverpool. " My daughter, Elizabeth Pritchard, was troubled with a most excruciating Tooth-ache for three weeks : the first application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' gave immediate ease, and in the course of two hours she was completely cured, and has been free from pain ever since. " ELLEN PRITCHARD. " 25, Marlborough-street, Liverpool, " May 15th, 18l0." Mr. CROPPER, Publican, St. Andrew-street, Liverpool, was cured in less than a minute. NOTICE. — For the accommodation of the Public, the Pro prietor of the Vegetable Paste has appointed the following Chemists and Druggists as Agents for Liverpool and its vicinity :—Mr. Priestly, Lord-street; Watson and Dickin son, St. James'-treet ; Mr. Cox, Fox-street; Mr. Barnett, Edge-hill ; and Mr. Smith, Woodside. *** Observe the Stamp round each Pot has the signature of " J. V. EGGLESTON.' r e CAUSE AND EFFECT. — Digby fell down the other slippery morning. As he sat on the ground, he muttered, " 1 have no desire to see the city burnt down, but devoutly wish the streets were laid in ashes."—Boston (American) Post. RAILROADS versus STAGE-COACHES.—III the coffee-room at the Black Swan Tavern, in York, hangs an advertisement, of which the following is a copy, in a glazed frame, over the mantel-piece :—" York four days stage-coach. Begins on Friday, the 12th of April, 1706. All that are desirous to pass from London to York, or from York to London, or any other place on that road, let them repair to the Black Swan, in Holbourn, in London, and to the Black Swan, in Coney-street, York. At both which places they ma) be re ceived in a stage-coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Fri day, which performs the whole journey in four days,.(if God permits.) And sets forth at five in the morning. And re turns from York to Stamford in two days, and from Stam ford, by Huntington, to London, in two days more—and the like stages on their return. Allowing each passenger l4lbs. weight, and all above, 3d. a pound. Performed by Benjamin Kingman, Henry Harrison, Walter Baynes. Also, this gives notice, that the Newcastle stage-coach sets out from York every Monday and Friday, and from Newcastle every Monday and Friday." This journey is now performed, on the railroad between York and London, in ten hours. A. MAD Ox.—On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a small ox of the Scotch breed, was being driven into the slaughter-house of a butcher, in Salisbury, when the animal became infuriated, and broke away from the butchers. He took his course through Market-place, where the first object of his attack was a little child, whom he tossed into the air ; the child fell into the channel, and by that means escaped without very serious injury. Pursuing his course up Win chester-street, he attacked a poor woman named Sanders, the wife of a shoemaker, who was endeavouring to remove one of herchildren from danger ; she was tossed three times, and the horn of the animal entered the side of the throat, inflicting, it is feared, mortal wounds. When the animal had nearly reached the London-road, at the top of the town, a malster belonging to Maton's brewery, attempted to arrest his progress with a rake, but the unfortunate man was speedily knocked down, and the calf of his leg was nearly torn off by the horn of the ox. Several other persons received minor in juries ; and the animal remained at large in the fields until Tuesday morning, when a party went in pursuit, and suc ceeded in shooting him at Ford Farm, about two miles from the city. A REGULAR OUT-AND-OUT VAGABOND.—Last Thursday afternoon, as Mr. Mulby, of the Sawyer's Arms, was resting awhile on one of the stone seats behind the church, a middle: aged man, apparently in great distress, came up to him, and after asking charity, commenced a most pitiable recital of his misery and want ; he had been a sailor " shipwrecked and drowned, and then sold for a slave." Mr. Mulby was on the point of relieving him, when Mr. William Mecoid, block maker, came up to them quite out of breath with having run up the Vicarage-hill from the Quay as fast as he could. After ascertaining that Mr. Mulby had been sonic time in the church-yard, he asked him if he had seen a strange man pass him. Mr. Mulby replied that the only person he had seen was the poor beggar before them, who seemed to be sadly in want. Gaberlunzie upon this was preparing to bolt, and looked anxiously about, which way he had best shape his course ; but just as he was going to shoot a-head, Mr. Mecoid, who is an old sailor, threw his grappling irons over him, telling him that he must overhaul his cargo before he allowed him to take his departure. Mr. Mulby, as may well be supposed, was surprised at such a rencontre, and much more so , when, upon the fellow being searched, a good linen shirt was taken from him, which the impudent impostor had been seen to take from a garden-hedge. As he cried loudly for quarters, Mr. Mecoid let the fellow go upon conditions that he took his rascally presence from the town instanter. The man stood not upon the order of his going, but set off down the yard into Church-street at railroad speed. But here the " tragedy" did not end ; for whilst Mr. Mecoid and Mr. Mulby were talking the affair over, up to thon hastened two other men from the Quay, and also a female, all asking, as Mr. Mecoid had done, " if a strange man had just gone through the yard." Upon the adventure detailed above being related to them, it appeared that they were after him upon the same errand, as he had been robbing hedges, at the bottom of the Vicarage, with the greatest coolness, never supposing that he could be seen from the small window at the back of the houses on the Quay. Chace was immediately given, but as yet the fellow has not been apprehended. and probably he will not be in this quarter, as he would doubt less leave the town without delay. He is a stoutish-built man, apparently about fifty years of age, and had on a suit of shabby dark clothes. [Since the above was in type, we find that the man, whose name is Roberts, has been taken up, and committed for trial.)—Preston Chronicle. DARING BRIGANDS.—We understand, that, for three or four months past, two men, armed with guns, have been prowling about amongst the hills, on the borders of Lanca shire and Yorkshire, committing a number of robberies and outrages of the must audacious kind. They are believed to be two notorious poachers, named Briggs and Dickenson, from the neighbourhooja Bolton-by-Howland, near Clithe roe. These men are suspected to have committed the rob beries and outrages near Bacup ; and more recently, they appear to have been carrying on their atrocious proceedings in the northern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It appears, from the Kendal Mercury of Saturday last, that on the preceding Thursday, as a man named Mr. Joseph Wig nail, butter buyer, was on his road to Hawes Market, about six or seven o'c:oelt in the morning, he came in company, when crossing the Stake, a very solitary and mountainous district, with a man on foot, who went with bins some dis tance, although Mr. 'Wignall was on horseback ; and when they came to a certain part of the road, a gun was fired at him from behind the wall, but fortunately the contents did not effect the murderous intention. The piece had been loaded with hail shot, about half-a-dozen of which had pene trated Mr. Wignall's head and face, but without doing him much injury. He immediately put his animal to full speed, and left the villains to ruminate on what they no doubt con sider their bad fortune. There were carts not more than a quarter of a mile behind at the time, and some people were not very far before, whom Mr. Wignall soon overtook, and related to them what had happened. The circumstance soon became generally known in the neighbourhood, and several young men volunteered their services to go in search of the villains. It fell to the lot of one party, consisting of a con stable and another man, to track diem towards Horton, near Settle, where, stepping into a farmhouse to make inquiry concerning them, they beheld the very persons of whom they were in quest, quietly drying their stockings by the fire ; they instantly seiz e d h o ld o f t h em, w h en a scu ffle t o ok pl ace ; an d they all four rolled on the floor together, in which position one of the men (the constable) had his hand and cheek dread fully lacerated by -n the teeth of his antagonist. One of the villains succeeded d e ra a w re in s g or a pistol, t when the constable and his man, put to i flight, an d t o t a lly wor sted, retreated to Settle. Hitherto, w have not been apprehended : bUt y , as o say, their t names these desperadoes and pe n sons are known, they cannot long escape the pursuit which is now making after them in. all directions. Banquo Francis Osbaldistone In addition to the songs of the Piece, Mr. Templeton will sing " There lives a young Lassie," " The Bonny Breast Knots," and, by express desire, " I love her how I kve her!" Rob Roy Bailie Nicol Jarvie Major Galbraith \ Diana Vernon Helen M‘Gregor. Mr. Stuart ..... Mr. Baker. Mr. G. Horncastle. Miss E. Honner. Mrs. Warner. On MONDAY, May 3d, RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard Duke of Gloister, Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Warner. To conclude with the Farce of the SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. GRAND CONCERTS A/ONS. JULIEN, Director of the Concert D'Hiver, ./V.l. Drury-lane, Conductor of the Orchestra at the Casino and Opera Balls, in Paris. has the honour to anounce that he will give SIX CONCERTS at the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, on MONDAY next, the 3d May, and the Five successive Nights, when he will be assisted by his unrivalled Band, se lected from the Drury-lane Concerts,_and including the fol lowing eminent performers :—HERfi MULLER, first Trum peter in the world ; Mons, Prospere, the celebrated Ophi cleide of France, the first that appeared in England, and obtained such immense success at the Concerts of Drury lane HERB FRISCH, first Flute of Strauss' Orchestra, Concerts Musard, Pars and Grand Theatre, Harnburgh ; MONS. DELABARRE,Iirst Oboe, from the Academie Royal, Paris; MONS. DUBREUIL, first Alto of the Musard Con certs ; MoNs. LAURENT, jun. first Cornet-a-Piston, of her Majesty's Theatre, London ; MONS. FAIVRE, first Trom bone at the Opera, Paris : SIG. BARTOLINI, first Violin at the Concerts Julien, leader at the Opera Ball and Casino, Puganini, Paris. Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; First Gal lery, Is. ; Second, 6d. Tickets to be had at the Music Shops, and of Mr. CHOF FIN, Parker-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS not do so, elusion of our manufactures and the promotion of their own, which they have felt was every day becom ing more pressingly necessary for the emi;oyment o! their increasing population, the result of a long conti nuance of peace and a want of colonial vents to take off a In consequence of a great pressure of advertisements at a late hour, and many local matters which would not brook delay, we are compelled to postpone our remarks on the Book of Registry for British Shipping until Tuesday. ebt Kiintwei &tanbartt. art of their surpluses, s ich as we fortunately possess; though, at the same time, we seem to speak and act as if ours was the only country where excess of population or want of employment was to be found ?" The reply of the free-traders to these facts—for a reply they must have— Convince a man against his will, And, though convinced, he'll argue still— is, that the argument is drawn from an irregularity This, say they, was the consequence of trade not being free at all times. Had free trade been the rule, you would have had no such results. Abolish your pro- teeling duties altogether, throw open your market per manently to the foreigner, and he will make his ar- rangements to afford you an adequate supply, and to deal with you for your commodities in return. It is your refusal to do this which drives him to the neces sity of manufacturing for himself, and of refusing to sell you his corn, when a scarcity compels you to re sort to him, except on cash terms. Such is the reply of the invincible free traders ; but it rests entirely on hypothesis—an hypothesis which, it may he shown, is anything hut a sound one. Under existing circumstances, they admit that the inconvenience spoken of by Mr. Gladstone might re sult ; but if the protecting duties were abolished, there would be no reason, they say, to apprehend any such consequence. But if foreigners derive an advantage from protecting their own manufactures whilst a pro hibition is laid upon their corn trade, it is only fair to ask, how that interest would be diminished if their trade in corn were set free ? So far from that interest, whatever it may be, being lessened by this circum stance, it would, we conceive, he considerably increased; for the condition of the corn-grower being improved, he necessarily becomes a better customer to the manu facturer, and therefore the manufacturer, so far from having less interest in the protection of his trade from the prosperity of the corn-grower, has necessarily and obviously more. We ask, therefore, upon what foun dation of probability does this hypothesis of the free traders rest ? Did they propose to make the matter the subject of commercial treaty—did they require that in consideration of the removal of restrictions on our part, an equivalent should be conceded by the fo reigner—there would be some show of prudence in their requisitions ; but when they propose to cut the painter and launch out to sea, depending solely on the common-sense principle for their guide, we are com pelled to say, that at least our common-sense principle tells us that they must very soon be swamped, upset, or wrecked. The common-sense principle, we take to be this, that the foreigner will, take all the advantage we are kind enough to give him, and be much obliged to us, but give us as little in exchange as he possibly can ; and we do not perceive how or why he should be coaxed into giving up his infant domestic manufac tures merely because we afford them—indirectly, in deed, but certainly—additional encouragement, by en abling the corn-growers of his country to buy them. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1841 A passenger on board the British Queen, in her voyage out, gives what evidently appears to be a " landsman's" description of the great storm she en countered, and the perilous position in which, to his eyes, she seemed to be placed during its continuance. "The steam-power of the ship," he says, "crippled as she was, (having lost more than half her paddles) was totally inadequate to the size of her and the storm. We rolled helplessly in the mighty billows. Every sail was split into rags, and we were completely at the mercy of the waves. At length the violence of the storm and size of the waves rendered it unsafe to scud before the wind, and our only chance was to face it with half-paddle power. The consequence was, we were twice, each time for four or five hours, in the trough of the sea without steerage way, and as help less as a raft. Nothing saved us but the prodigious strength and buoyancy of our noble ship, which only wants 150 more horses' power to make her uncon querable." But there is one country at least, says the free trader, which would deal with us on equal terms, namely, the United States—a country, too, which, if we only give the necessary encouragement, will he quite equal to supply all our wants. But we must deal with things as they are; and Mr. Gladstone re- minds us that the United States have of late years required foreign corn for their own consumption ; " and," he adds, " even if they had corn to spare, they would also be to pay for it in cash, as the large sup plies of cotton that we annually receive from them alone require the cost of all our exports to pay for them, nor is it long since a deficiency of funds to do so was supplied to make it good by an export from hence. South America, Asia, and the south of Europe, where our goods are exported, have no corn to give us in return, but pay us for them in other productions." And thus the argument returns in full force, that the free trade sought would only drein away our gold, and in a little time leave matters even worse than it found them. From this description we can form a tolerable idea of a storm in the vast Atlantic, and the condition of one of our mammoth steamers when overtaken by its mighty force. We read the description with a painful suggestion on our mind, we own, as to the fate of the President. But whatever her lot may be, we think this lesson has been taught by recent experience—namely, that steamers of her vast bulk are not the best adapted to Atlantic navigation. It was early ascertained that the power of the en gines in these enormous vessels was not equal to the obstacles to be overcome in circumstances of trial of an extreme kind; and it is further a question whether, in the present state of our mechanical knowledge, the defect is remediable without incurring danger in other respects. Mere powerful engines could, no doubt, be made; but, not. we believe, without a proportionate increase in the weight of metal; and then there is th risk arising from such a massive structure being stowed in the hold—a cargo in itself—and a cargo to which this disadvantage is annexed, that no part of it can be thrown overboard upon an emergency, without an abandonment of the great element itself from which the safety of the ship is to be looked for. An amplitude of power would seem to he the most important ingre dient in the machinery of the steamer under trying circumstances; and, in order to give this, we must either have machinery of greater efficiency, or vessels of less burden for distant and dangerous navigation. The performances of the Cunard packets confirm the theory, which may be considered an important one in connection with this invaluable science. As to the memorial on the slave-grown sugar of Cuba and Brazil, it suggests another strong argument to shew, that however good and desirable "free trade" may he in the abstract—and none admit the principle more fully than we do—it is nevertheless quite impos sible to bring it into operation in all cases, without either some gross injustice to particular interests, or violation of some great and paramount principle of religion or morals. The memorial has clearly shewn that, in opening a trade with Brazil arid Cuba on the terms and in the , articles proposed, flagrant injustice and wrong would be done, in both these respects, to our own colonies, and to that great principle of bene volence which we have, as a nation, made such vast and honourable sacrifices to establish. We could not speak too warmly in praise of this paper, and we are confident that whatever apparent advantage we n - ray forego by refusing to take the sugar of countries in which all the detestable wickedness and cruelty of slavery continue in full commission, we shall find a much greater in the end by persevering in our present system. In our last number there were inserted two papers to which we were only able at the moment to direct the attention of our readers in a few general terms : we allude to the memorial of the British and Foreign Anti-S!avcry Society concerning the sugar trade with Cuba and Brazil, and Mr. Gladstone's able letter on the Corn Duties. We would now detain our readers for a brief space, chiefly with a view to show the very great importance of the considerations suggested in these documents. A sum amounting to nearly £28,000 was subscribed at a meeting held on Tuesday last, for the purpose of sending out bishops to the various colonies in which this country has settlements, and where such officers do not exist at present. The meeting was most nume rously attended, and dignified by the presence of the archbishops, and a number of the bishops and other dignitaries of the church, several of the nobility, of the judges, and other laymen of rank and influence. It has long been a matter of regret to many that a subject of such moment has heretofore engaged so little attention in high quarters. They were aware, both from reflection and report, of the evils that re sulted from our colonies being left without episcopal superintendence; and they saw but little to hope, in the way of relief, florn official persons, in the conduct and feelings manifested by them towards the church at home. British colonisation, they observed, was ex tending to the remotest parts of the globe, and the lan guage and civil institutions of England went abroad also, but, strange to say, the Church of England, in her discipline, polity, and government, and appointed heads, went not along with them. If Mr. Gladstone's positions be well-founded, it must be observed . that the bait held out to the work ing classes, of cheaper bread being the ultimate and abiding result of the solicited freedom in the corn trade, is altogether a deception. Some temporary fall of prices there certainly would be, just enough to do great injury to the farmer, and drive him out of his native market—just enough to give foreigners the ad vantage over him, and spoil him as the best customer of the shopkeeper and manufacturer. So much be nefit there might be attained ; but it would have but a very, very short duration. Gold must go abroad to pay for the foreigner's corn; our circulating medium in the precious metals is drained away; money be comes scarce ; and then—the poor man finds it as difficult as ever to pay for his loaf, and the bubble of the present hour immediately resolves itself into thin Mr. Gladstone puts this case in a manner so plain and practical that we desire to add nothing to his state ment. When our gold is exhausted, he asks, how is foreign corn to be paid for ? and what then becomes of our multitudes of manufacturers and artisans ? "With home production discouraged, limited, if not put down, by this temporary foreign supply, it could no longer be depended on as heretofore, whilst, exposed to this risk of competition, which, from the position of our home-growers, they could not, while it lasted, maintain. Their consumption of goods, too, would be lost to tho, manufacturer ; and, with such adverse and conflicting results, might not the public revenue be expected to suffer, and alarm to rise ? Who then would be found to stem the torrent when the flood was once broke loose ?" The answer of the free traders on this head consists in a denial of the position that gold would he thus 'drawn out of the country. No, say they, that would not be the result; but foreigners being permitted a free access to our market with their grain and flour, would then take our manufactures in exchange ; and thus, whilst we should have a greater abundance of bread from abroad, our trade and commerce would be ex tended. This answer is indisputably plausible, and would be of immense value indeed, if we could depend upon its being well-founded. But at present it is a mere theory, and, instead of being supported by facts and experience, is strikingly contradicted by them. Mr. Gladstone refers to the unfavourable seasons of 1837, 1838, 1839, and our importations during those years. Our supplies were drawn from Germany, Rus sia, Prussia, and other countries bordering on the Baltic; and he asks this material question—" did they take payment in our manufactures during those years . ? Or, on the contrary, is it not well known that they did On this important subject no care was bestowed, and no provision was made. It was a great neglect — big with fatal consequences—and every day seemed only to make the cure more difficult, and more hopeless. It was clearly the duty of the government to consoli date the empire, and bind its colonies and dependencies firmly to it—if they would act from no higher motive — by making the church establishment coextensive with its possessions. But how long s hould we wait for our rulers to become enlightened on this point? Too much time has been already suffered to elapse without any thing being done, and the government seems still as little disposed to move in the right course as ever. Now the meeting of Tuesday was held for the pur pose of effecting that by voluntary effort which seemed unlikely to be accomplished by any other means ; and the beginning was indeed one of the most gratifying and encouraging kind that it is possible to imagine. On the importance and duty of giving our colonies and dependencies the full benefit of the national church, by giving them bishops to superintend, and ordain, as well as ministers to baptise and teach, there could be no difference of opinion in such a meeting ; the won der would be, how any government could attempt to palliate the omission. We can conceive it to have pro ceeded from only one or other of two causes—either an absolute infidelity, which would, of course, make light of all religious instruction ; or contempt for the Church of England, as though religion could be as well cared for without her instrumentality. The omission, we conceive, amounted to a proclamation to all distant lands, that religion was a matter of little consequence, and that our national church was quite unnecessary; and can it be supposed that such an act of foul impiety would not be repaid to us? It was by such neglect we lost America, and a continuance in the same course now would endanger the adhesion of other possessions similarly circumstanced, and in time re-act with terri ble disaster on the mother country. But the question is no. longer speculative, but practical. The meeting of Tuesday has brought it to this point, and we hail it and that they have been engaged for yeast; ag an omen of great good not only to our coons but past in originating and adopting measures for the ex- to the domestic empire. The speeches of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London were worthy of Christian bi shops, and particularly gratifying as coming from pre lates occupying so high a station. We could find none of that morose and narrow-minded bigotry in their ad- dresses which tractarian churchmen seem to consider a necessary part of good churchrnanship ; no=-they put their plea for the church on the broad ground of the church's usefulness, and argued the necessity of giving bishops to our colonies and dependencies as a natural consequence of a sincere attachment to, and belief in the advantages of, our church in its entirety-7 — in its complete apostolical order and discipline; and in their addresses there was the enlarged spirit of men who kept the diffusion of CHRISTIANITY in view as their first object. The right reverend prelates were ably supported in the discussion by Mr. Justice Cole ridge, and Mr. W. E.. Gladstone, M.P. ; and at the con clusion of the meeting the following, amongst other munificent contributions to the object in view, were announced : " Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, £2,000 (loud cheers); the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, £lO,OOO (great cheers) ; the Society for the Propagation of the Gos pel, £5,000 (cheers) ; the Church Missionary Society, £6OO a-year, to continue until they should be enabled to make a grant of laud, which it was their intention to make as soon as possible (cheers) ; the Colonial Church Society, £11.2 ; the Archbishop of Canterbury, £l,OOO (cheers) ; the Arch bishop of Armagh, £500; the Bishop of London, I:1,000 (cheers) ; the Bishop of Winchester, £300; the Bishop of Durham, £315 ; the Bishop of Calcutta, £25 ; the Bishop of Bangor, £200 ; the Bishop of St. Asaph, £200; the Bishop of Llandaff, £2OO ; the Bishop of Salisbury, £lOO ; the Bishop of Chichester, £5O ; the Dean of Chichester, £2OO ; the Dean of Westminster, £2OO ; the Dean of Leigh lin, £lOO ; Sir Thos. Dyke and Mr. Acland, £5OO (cheers); Lord Bexley, £lOO ; Colonel Austen, £lOO ; the Marquis of Cholinondeley, £500; John Gladstone and Sons, J2I,COC (loud cheers)." We are in sonic hope that the career of Melbourn O'Connellistn is about to terminate been to them a week of serious disaster beaten on the principle of their Irish Registration Bi in the Commons on Monday night, by a majority o twenty-one, in a house of five hundred and sixty mem, bers ; and Nottingham, radical no longer, has returned the Conservative candidate by the large majority of two hundred and seventy-nine. Thus, in the course cf the last five months, Ministers have lost five votes, and the Conservatives have gained five, making a difference The present has They were of ten on a division. The lost seats are Carlow, Can terhury, Walsall, Monmouthshire, and now, Notting ham. The tide has fairly turned against them; but the overthrow of Monday night is, we apprehend, irre deemable. It has been alleged by a Ministerial organ that this victory was not a purely Conservative one ; that the motion was Lord Howick's, and gained by the aid of his partisans. Lord Howick's tail, however, happens to be a small one, and cannot, with the most liberal disposition to allow, be ascertained by any means to exceed eight votes, including his own ; so that without his lordship's aid at all, the Conservatives would have been in a clear majority of thirteen. But again, as to the question on which the house divided being one of his lordship's prOposing, that is a point of little consequence. It raised the only question which the Conservatives cared about, viz., the question of property, or beneficial interest, as distinguished from qualification by mere rating ; and this is the principle for which they contended, and have contended .all through. His lordship is quite welcome to the honour of having so far aided his friends in place; the Con servatives will freely grant it to him, well pleased at having gained an important victory by the opportunity he afforded them. But being thus shamefully beaten, it might be ex pected, if we had any other other than a bed-chambe ministry to deal with, that Ministers would have mediately sent in their resignations. But not so; they took just a day to consider about it, and then came to the resolution to go on with their bill as if nothing had happened. This brings us to Wednesday evening ; but here again another amusing episode occurs, for now Lord Howick, having done his friends all the mischief in his power, begs leave to announce that he will go no further with his amendment,' or, in other words, abzin dons it altogether! Of the debate on this evening we shall say nothing: as we are hastening to the denouente;lt. The gran division on the £8 rating, we shall merely say did 11C take place on Wednesday, but was postponed to evening, the house agreeing to meet at five o'clock this special purpose, The result of this division, with the fate of Melbourne and of Rome," we may per haps know by the mail of this morning ; if so, we sha: communicate it to our readers in a second edition. Th division will, indeed, be one of momentous import— for if ministers be beaten on it, we cannot, nom A very serious blow is aimed at, and will be inflicte on the trade of Liverpool, if, by any accident, the in LOCAL NETVS, DISSOCIATION. - It is confidently stated that jody will hold their meeting- in 1812 in the town of hester. SIIOP-LIFTING.—On Monday, an old offender, named Kelly, was committed to take his trial on a charge of having attempted to steal a piece of black silk handkerchiefs from e shop of Mr. Byford. Park-lane, on Saturday afternoon, here he and another man went in under the pretence of lying so - . - ae. He took the advantage of the young man of e shop being engaged with his companion to take the hand iefs out of the window and place them under his k clothes EALING ntom A CHILD.—On Monday a woman named r O'Hara, was committed to take her trial at the sex , for having stolen a bundle of clothes from a child in ;-street, about a fortnight ago. It appeared that the , H annah Dixon, was bringing the clothes from Brown bill to the house of her parents in Houghton-street, i the prisoner accosted her, and having engaged her at on, snatched the bundle from her and ran away with it. prisoner was seen by_ several persons running : with th - - . buncile in her apron. The little girl having met the pri soner in St. John's-market, on Saturday, identified her and ye her in charge We are gratified to find that a remedy has at length been liscovered for the relief of the peculiar noise or nervous rritation that accompanies deafness. Musk passed in va lour into the internal ear, by quieting the irritative action, rives tone and energy to the pents within the ear, and in a hort time completely removes the cause of irritation. Mr. - .;ronin may well feel proud of this successful experiment, rhich promises decided benefit to the sufferer. We perceive )y Mr. C.'s advertisement he intends paying our Manchester hends a visit. AMATEUR. PERFORMANCE. - To-night an amateur per formance will take place at the Amphitheatre, when some of our young Liverpool blades will " strut and fret their hour upon the stage." We hope they will be well supported, as their " intent" is " charitable," the proceeds of the house being for the benefit of the Bluecoat Hospital. Report speaks highly of the getting-up of the pieces, which are under the direction of Mr. Marshall, of the Liver Theatre. That most delightful actress, Mrs. Gordon, plays Emily Worthington, in the " Poor Gentleman." There is much talent and true acting in Mrs. Gordon. The Liverpool playgoers have not as yet had an opportunity of seeing this lady in parts wherein she can display her abilities. lEEIING OF 13/.LACKS AND C 0.,. CREDITORS, OF MAN 3STER.—On Tuesday the first meeting of creditors under fiat was held, being for the proof of debts and to choose gnees. It was dated 15th March. The bankrupts, Mr. in IL Hayward and William Cosier Fletcher, were in at dance. Several extraordinary disclosures were made at meeting relative to certain transactions which the batik ,ts had bad with other parties. It appeared they endea wed to establish themselves in London and elsewhere, and ried on business in the names of other parties. The amount of debts proved during the day was beiween £50,000 and £60,000. Besides the amount of £9,363 proved by the Union Bank, the amount proved by the Bank of Manchester was £20,316; the South Lancashire Bank, £654 ; Messrs. Orr and Co. (on bills), £696 4s. 6d. ;Mssrs. Seeley. and Burnside, £362 ss. 4a: ; Messrs. Charles Knight and Co. £5,900. The meeting terminated a little before lour o'clock. STREET RODDERY.—A man, named John Wilson, was, on Monday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged by a farmer named Nathan Lovelady, with havitrg attempted to rob him on the previous morning. It appeared that on Saturday evening the complainant had been at a friend's house in the New Haymarket, which he left early the followint , morning. He was proceeding home on foot up London-road, and, on :urning into Ans On-street, the prisoner and another man [aid hold of him to get their hands into his pockets, in which was £7 Os. Od.—but the old man being resolute prevented them, when Wilson (the prisoner) struck him on the face , and knocked him down. They again attempted to rifle his pockets, but he struggled with them and called out, when police-constable No. 216, hearing the cry, saw the prisoner and his companion making off, but he succeeded in capturing Wilson. The prisoner was committed for trial. MODEL OF DUBLIN.—This very beautiful model has not been visited by the numbers of visitors we certainly antici pated. We are quite convinced that, if its merits were suf ficiently known, instead of a few dozen persons seeing it per day, as many hundreds would inspect it. It is without ex ception the most exquisite work we ever saw. The houses are all made of wood : the little gardens, which hound throughout the Irish metropolis, are distinctly laid out, even to their very flower-beds. On looking at the model, one might fancy 'oneself in a balloon, gazing down upon " the swate city' ) : the Liffey, like a silver snake creeping through it, has its banks covered with warehouses, &c. Take our advice, good reader, and see the model of Dublin. You will be highly . gratified, we promise you. Should you be an " EmerEader," a view of what Judy of Roundwood was wont to call " the Cit. of Dub. with Trin. C 01.," will do you good. LIVERPOOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—The annual meet ing of the subscribers and friends to this institution was held in the Charitable Institution House, on Tuesday evening.. Sir Joshua Walmsley was called to the chair, and opened the meeting with some very pertinent remarks upon the import ance and value of an institution which had now been esta blished thirty years, and had been productive of so much good amongst a class of individuals so greatly to be pitied for their great degradation. John Cropper, jun., Esq., in the absence of the treasurer, Mr. Joseph King, read the audited cash account, and explained the financial circumstances of the charity. It appeared that the institution was upwards of £5OO. in debt. The report of the committee was then.read. It appeared that out of 103 applitations for admission during the:last year, 63 were received, being All that came within the rules. Twenty-one had been restored to their friends or placed out to respectable service, after having been their full time in the house; fifty-seven still remained, and the sum of £423. 16s. Ild. had been received for work done by the peni tents during the last year. The adoption of the report was moved by the Rev. Charles Haydon, Wesleyan minister, who commented upon the facts stated therein in a very judicious and eloquent speech.. The Rev. F. F. Barker moved the re solution of the appointment of the officers and committee for the year ensuing: He urged the claims of the institution • upon the regard of the benevolent part of the community. Several gentlemen briefly addressed the auditory, when the thanks of the meeting were voted to the chairman, who ac ' knowledged the token of respect, and beaded a subscription for the reduction of the debt by a donation of ten pounds, Which example was followed by some others. Several new subscriptions were also announced. Tfl EATRE-ROYAL.—After an absence of a few brief years Mrs. Warner has again come amongst us. What she was when she quitted the Liverpool company any playgoer can remember. She has returned with her talents matured, — her style if anything more fascinating, and her person lovlier than ever. Her welcome was the most enthusiastic we have witnessed for many a day. Her Lady Macbeth, on Monday night, was a fine conception. She fully developed the poet's creation, and gave us a true impersonation of the bold, daring, and ambitious woman, who will allow no obstacle to stand between her and her husband's preferment. Mr. Charles Kean, who made his first appearance this season as the • " Thane," played it extremely well. It was replete with those bursts of genius which electrify and delight as well as astonish. Mr. Charles Kean is in full possession of the sub tleties of his art, and we are glad to uphold him as the first actor of his day. Mr. Charles Kean is not without his faults, but we are always too much delighted with him to notice them. Mr. Stuart's Macduf was very cleverly and judiciously played. Few men know and understand Shakspere better than Mr. Stuart. " Macbeth" has been got up in a splendid style. The audience appeared quite surprised at the new scenery presented to their view, while "the appliances to boot" appeared to afford equal astonishment. If all ,Shakspere's plays were represented with the same care and expense, we are confident crowded houses would well repay any manager for his outlay and risk. We have never seen " Macbeth" produced in the provinces so expensively as at the Theatre-royal at present.—On Tuesday "The Stranger" was played—Mrs. Warner as Mrs. Haller, and Mr. Charles Kean as The Stranger, his first appearance, here in the cha racter. He played it with great ability, though it afforded little scope for display. His description of his wrongs was finely given—his earnestness thrilled through the audience, and drew forth a burst of applause. Mrs. Baker played the Coyntess Wintersen very nicely. Mr. Bland made the most of the Count. Baker and Slaiter were extremely droll as Solomon and Peter, while Mrs. Clarke's Charlotte, with her airs and impertinences, was very amusing. But what shall we say of Mrs. Warner's Mrs. Haller? We may de clare, with truth, that so graceful, natural, and so beautiful an impersonation, has not been seen tor many and many a day. The sympathy of the audience was enlisted towards the erring but penitent woman from the first ; and pity for her " stooping to folly" prevailed in the sternest hearts ; but the closing scene was a triumph of histrionic art. Her pathos, tears, grief, and distress wrung tears from minim eye, "albeit unused to the melting mood." The poet says, that standing all' our experience of their tenacity, believe that they will presume to hold on any longer. We are very sanguine in our expectation that last night's division will prOve to have been against them. Many circumstances lead us to this conclusion. If we are right, we shall only have to congatulate our readers very heartily, that the reign of Whig O'Connellism at length, very near its end, if not altogether terminated. land bonding bill, now progressing through parliament, should pass. What gain Manchester would make by it we cannot undertake to say ; but avarice, if it be un like justice in other respects, has, as we have frequently observed, a small resemblance to it in this particular— that it is sometimes very near-sighted, if not quite blind. Manchester is not satisfied with its immense traffic and profits as the chief seat of the cotton manu facture—it now aims at becoming, in spite of fate and nature, a great emporium of foreign commerce, and seeks, consequently, to deprive Liverpool of those ad vantages which she enjoys as the legitimate fruit of her position. Avarice, in its blindness, may suppose the attainment to be easy, and close at, hand, for, in the cloudy state of its vision, it is apt to mistake the diS tance of objects ; but persons not inflamed by the same diseased cupidity, see things in quite a different light. If Manchester is granted the privilege of becoming a Smiles may be false, but tears must be true ;' fiscal port, other inland towns will, of course, set up a claim to the enjoyment of a similar privilege—and we may look forward to having an indefinite number of such inland ports. By such an arrangement Liverpool, doubtless, must suffer. Her cotton importers and bro kers must be injured Manchester and other " impor ters," and their employes, must supplant them. But what will the Manchester manufacturer gain by having the staple article of his trade, instead of being all brought to the one market—where prices are at once ascertained, and selections made—scattered about in different quarters, and taken up for divers lesser mar kets. In our humble opinion he will gain a loss, and discover, in the end, that he has been attempting to grasp too much. But this is his affair, not ours. Our position simply is, that the bill will necessarily do great injury to our ain town, and that the legislature, hold ing the balance fairly between conflicting localities, as it should do, ought to reject it. We are aware that we have some potent influences to contend against— that there is rottenness and jobbing in the transaction —that a shifty, place-making, patronage-seeking mi and many a true tear ran down stern cheeks on Tuesday night. As for the ladies, God bless them, no wonder they should weep—they would have been no women to have refrained. We never saw such a scene ; a pin might have been heard to fall until the curtain dropped, when a tremendous burst of applause rang through the house, continuing until Mr. Kean appeared, leading on Mrs. Warner, to receive the courtesies of the audience. The.closing farce of " The Sleeping Draught" proved anything but a " sleeping draught" to the audience. Mrs. Clarke, as Nonna, and Baker,. as Popolino, kept the audience laughing for the rest of the evening. Norma' s packing her lover up in the grave clothes was most ludicrous. Verily, Mrs. Clarke has no compeer. in similar characters. To-night; " Macbeth will be repeated, for Mrs. Warner's benefit. nistry gives it encouragement—and that the silence even of our Town Council has been secured by some extraordinary interposition; but we do nevertheless opine that the mischievous scheme may be defe ted if the people of Liverpool will only move, as they should do, to oppose it. Whatever may be conferred upon Manchester, or any other inland town, will be just so much taken front Liverpool. And for what purpose, or for what cause, we beg to ask, is Liverpool to be sub jected to such a privation ? Liverpool has a vested interest in this matter, which the legislature is bound to respect. Liverpool is properly the handmaid of Manchester—her merchant, her port, and her broker —and both have thriven together as fellow-workers and mutual auxiliaries; and why is the connection to he dissolved ? why is the eye to say to the hand I have no need of thee ? why this " sedition of the members" to be encouraged ? We see no reason for it but the mere lust of the eye—the mere wantonness of an un reasonable covetousness, and an unwise ambition. To the country at large it will be disadvantageous, for it will increase the expenses of revenue collection. In short, it is an unwise and a mischievous scheme alto. gether, and ought to be most strenuously resisted, We hope the necessary movement may be made in. time, PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO ALL SECRET ORDERS.—A Mr. Doherty, from Manchester, having placarded the town in every direction, threatening a " heavy blow and great dis couragement" to all secret societies, inasmuch as he would deliver a lecture at the Music-hall, on the utter absurdity and fallacy of Och!fellows, Foresters, Druids, Recabites, &c., and that he would there develop a plan much safer, and more in accordance with the attributes of justice, he, according to this public announcement, lectured on Wednesday night at the above-named place, when upwards of 1000 persons at tended. A great deal of noise and confusion ensued with regard to the election of a chairman—Mr. D. wishing Mr. Dix to occupy the chair, he belonging to no society what ever, and the majority of the meeting being in favour of a Mr. Kelly. A show. of hands being called for, Mr. Kelly had a great majority. Mr. Doherty then commenced his lecture; and although he had stated •in the bills that he would show the risk persons were subject to who were in anywise connected with secret societies, he never touched that point, unless when he alluded to the last quarterly report of the Reckabites, where two cases were enumerated of persons being guilty of fraud, and over which cases the ma gistracy said they had no controul, the society notbeing enroll ed according to the act of parliament. The whole tenor of his lecture bore upon the superior system, as he stated it to be, of insurance. He, along with a number more, had adopted this plan ; but, previous to doing so they had waited upon the directors of the Norwich Life Insurance Society for the pur pose of ascertaining whether they would insure to the amount of £25. They had for answer that this was rather a new feature, and would require consideration. In about three weeks after they received an answer, stating their willingness to adopt this system, and consequently they had all enrolled themselves under the banners of the Norwich Society for a life assurance for £25. The manner he proposed to raise the 10s. per week for the sick was by a levy from each mem ber ' • so that the money to be rece iv ed after death, and the sick allowance, were altogether distinct—the members de pending on Insurance Society for their burial allowance, while the other was controlled by themselves. In favour of his system he urged the benefit to be derived from the mem bers being protected by law, which secret orders could not boast of. After he had concluded, he was warmly attacked by a few gentlemen belonging to the different secret orders in town, one of whom, Mr. Hardwick. Taylor, challenged Mr. D. to a public discussion on the merits of the insurance system and the system adopted by secret orders, the largest place in town; which could be bad, to be taken for the occa sion, and twopence to be charged for admission—the receipts of the evening, after paying expenses, to be given to some charitable institution. Mr. Doherty accepted the proposal, and the parties were to meet after the close of the meeting for the purpose of drawing up the preliminaries, such as fix ing the place and night of discussion, &c. The meeting throughout was rather turbulent. Mr. Dix stated, previous to our leaving, that he had never as yet belonged to any so ciety, but, from the discussion he had beard, he would cer tainly take the earliest opportunity of becoming a member of one of the secret societies, and that would be the Odd fellows. Mr. Kelly, us .chairman, acted in an extremely impartial manner. ' • THE Du gn or WELLtivoTorr....To.morreiv the Duke of Wellington attains his seventy-third year ; and we are urged by a correspondent to call upon the authorities to show, in the usual manner, the respect in which the noble duke is held by all classes of his countrymen. We hope some de monstrations will take place on the occasion. GEORGE'S PIER BATIIS.—We are happy to announce that these baths are now open for the season, under the superin tendence of Mrs. Penn, and we are certain, from the accom modation afforded, and the attention to the comfort of visit ors always show:i at the establishment, that a continuance of the patronage of the town will be given to the widow of the late lessee.—See Advt. IfrQuEsTs.—An inquest was held on Friday last at Wal lasey, on the body of John Metcalf, who was found lying dead in a sandhole, at Wallasey, with a deep wound in his throat. The deceased was " boots" at the Victoria Hotel, New Brighton, in Liscard, and had been for a few days in a bad state of health. His master, Mr. Garratt, was very kind to him, and told him on the Wednesday morning, that he would send for .a surgeon, bidding him at the same time not to go out ofthe way. The doctor arrived, but the de ceased was not to be found, and on the following day he was discovered lying on his face quite dead, in a sandhole at Wallasey, with a razor beside him.—On Saturday, an in quest was held at Ellesmere, •on the body of James Leech. The deceased was a flatman. and had been drinking in a public-house at Whitby Locks until he became intoxicated. He was then taken to his flat, which lay in the basin, and being missed on the following day, the basin was searched, and his body was discovered. Verdicts were returned in each case according to the evidence. THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.—We beg to refer to a notice of a meeting which will take place this day, of the American merchants and others, on the subject of shewing some mark of respect on the occasion of the death of General Harrison. Some en quiries having been made, by several of our correspondents, whether a new election will take place, we beg to state that the present vice-president, John Tyler, Esq., who is presi • dent also of the senate, steps into the president's chair, and serves the time out ; and a new election of vice-president Will take place, that office to be chosen by congress, and not by the people. Mr. Tyler is a retired planter, from Virginia, a person of considerable wealth. Now that we are on this sub ject, we cannot help expressing our surprise that the Mayor, connected so closely as he is with the United States, has not given orders to have the colours at the Town-hall hoisted half-mast ; and we think there is a want of respect shown by many of the masters of vessels in the port, in not paying a similar mournful compliment. We have observed that the Americans at all times exhibit the greatest attention in this respect, on occasions relative to public events in this country. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—If there is one institution more than another which requires investigation, and demands im mediate reform, it is that of the College of Maynooth. Al ready have the blasphemous doctrines and the treasonable principles inculcated therein been brought before the atten tion of the public, through the painstaking and persevering labours of a committee of the House of Lords ; but our le- . gislators are too much imbued with the fashionable indiffer entism of the present day to attend to any of these things, and, unless the) are compelled to feel the pressure from with out, they will continue to foster and support any and every teacher and false opinion, if they only minister to the vile passions of an enslaved population, who are willing at all times to obey the mandate of the priest, and he, as is well known, is the mere tool of a foreign potentate who abhors our liberty, and seeks to destroy our social privileges. Let our Protestant readers, then—all of them—attend the meet ing to be held in the Music-hall on Wednesday next, for the purpose of petitioninr , our rulers to withdraw the annual grant from Maynooth'College. It is expected that the Rev. Hugh M`Neile will preside, and the Rev. Hugh Stowell has been requested to lend his powerful assistance. LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—On Wednesday evening an eloquent sermon was preached in Christ Church, Hunter-street, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, in aid of the funds of the Liverpool Protestant Association. The weather was peculiarly unfavourable, and a smart shower, which oc curred at the commencement of the service, must have kept many away; nevertheless, the church Was almost filled, and the upper gallery was crowded with protestant operatives. Mr. M'Neite selected for his text the 2d chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, and the 18th and 19th verses : " Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary hu mility and worshipping of angels, entering into those things which he bath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the head from which all the body by joints and bands, having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God." From these words the rev. gentleman traced the sources of the corruption of Christianity, which had been taught from the beginning by unenlightened men. They were two-fold, Judaism and pagan philosophy ; and it was against both Judaizing and heathenizing teachers—who had intruded themselves into the Christian church—that St. Paul was to be found strenuously contending, in the chapter from which the text had been taken, at every step contrasting the truth which he com mended with the falsehood which he deprecated. He laid it down as a scriptural axiom that a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, as both existed among the Roman Catholics of the present day, was a humility existing in man's own device, and not in any commandments of God, and that it was a wilful humility tending to beguile Christians from the course which they ought to pursue. For a long time Christendom had slumbered over those things, and though there had been many whining their way to God with out either saint or angel who grieved in silence, yet their number had been but few, and to all 'appearance the truth had departed; darkness covered the land, and gross darkness the people, but, after a time, light sprung np again. The egregious corruptions of the day affronted even the common sense of sonic men, and the reformation was effected. The church in England was then purged from the surround ing error—the holy scriptures were brought out—the voluntary humility and worshipping of angels were con demned—and the church contained a noble protest against those inventions. If the protest of the church of England had been kept' plainly before the people, there would be no occasion at present for protestant associations, because the whole church would be a protestant association, and the whole country members of that association. But there had been a declination ; and in proportion as men declined, and the pro test was not made, reiterated, and repeated, the human heart returned ; there had been a relapse into what had been con genial to men's minds—there had been a falling away and a slumber, both on the part of laity as well as the clergy ; this pervaded all ranks of the country—it exte n ded t o our rulers, and, indeed, had chiefly been confined to the highest ranks, all in consequence of the needful protest not having been. properly attended to. This it was which had given rise to the establishment of such a society as the present—a sdeiety . whose duty it was to sound the alarm, to remind the country of its protest, to remind the clergy of their pledges, an d to ask the latter to redeem them for what were those pledges ? Why, the fact was, that every clergyman in the kingdom had given thirty-nine pledges. Was it sufficient for a man who had given such a number to redeetn the pledge in fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen cases, and to leave the remainder of them unredeemed? Surely they should redeem them all, and go their rounds inasmuch as they were not intended to be use , less. The object, therefore, of the society was, to sound the alarm among ,the clergy, to invite them to consider their pledges, and to ask why they permitted some of them to be so long slumbering in their prayer-books, after having pledged themselves to spetik out boldly upon the invocation ,of saints and the worshipping of angels, and further to why they had - continued to slumber in this respect, and why, from the day they were ordained, to the present hon . ': they never opened their mouths on the subject? The reverend preacher next addressed the laity as citizens of the state, and told them plainly that not only was their salva tion hereafter at stake, but that their civil privileges here, and those of their children after them., were at stake also. He asked why it was that the Bishop of Rome should have any jurisdiction in this realm, and where it was stated in the protest that he should possess such jurisdiction over the heads of the clergy and laity of the land ; Two courses were left open for the protestants to pursue—either to blot out the protest alitigether, or to revive such a protestant tone as would give it utterance. There were some who would blot it out, and there were whet s who would revive the tone ; which of those courses would the protestants pursue ? The protes tants of Liverpool had associated for the purpose of making the prayer-book speak. and to continue sound doctrine and civil liberty in the land ; to hear the " one sa cr ifi ce f o r sin" universally prothulgated, and to have one sovereign in Eng land, and no jurisdiction upon the part of the Bishop of Rome. Those were the gloriims tones of the protest, and for those purposes they were associated. But means should be used—they did not expect miracles—and it was by means of meetings, sermons, publications, petitions, associations — means such as they had been using for the last few years in Liverpool, and he thanked God they had not been used in vain. Mr. M'Neile then appealed to the congregation to be liberal in supplying the means for carrying on this work. The sermon occupied about an hour and a quarter, and was highly interesting and instructive. A PEEP IN THE -PRINT-SHOPS.—WC must confess that we like dearly to stare at the print-shops. It is a habit we acquired in our boyhood, while perambulating through the mazes of the great metropolis, before we knew what was ex cellent in art, true in nature, or capital in execution. How many a ten minutes have we not spent gazing at the caricatures in the corner-shop in Pilgrim-street? How we used to revel at Tilt's, feast at Akermart's, and banquet at Colnaghi's, Moon's, and a hundred other pleasant places, all endeared to us by the happy memories of boyhood! We confess that we still enjoy a good stare in the printshops. Lacey's often at tracts us, Linuecar's has always fine specimens of fine works, Hunt's is sure to pull us up, and in Holden's we can always find something to admire. Good or bad, a print is a print, and has given employment to many, from the artist who sketched it, to the publisher who sells it ; and, therefore, let it be honoured. It has been said that in Liverpool the arts are not encouraged. Now how , can this be main tained, when we see so much money yearly laid out on the paintings at the exhibitions, the numbers of pictures Sold at auctions, the quantities of tine engravings dis posed of by the various printsellers ? Why we could adduce a hundred ether reasons to spew and prove that art is encouraged in Liverpool, and liberally paid for. Not only do we readily purchase the works of London pub lishers, but the printsellers here issue themselves at their • own risk, and upon speculation. There have been many very beautiful engravings published in Liverpool, that are highly esteemed in the world of art. Now that we are upon this matter, we may notice a very admirable engraving of the Rev. Mr. Haldane Stewart, by Lupton, just published, from the picture by Patten, which was exhibited a year or two ago. This picture, it may be remembered, was painted at the desire of the rev. gentleman's congregation. It has been esteemed so excellent a likeness,. that a demand has been excited for an engraving from it.—Another local work, we may here notice, is now in ckritemplation : we allude to the portrait of the late Mr. W. W. Currie, by Phillips, now in the T own -h a ll . Thi s portra it w ill be readily purchased. The late Mr. Currie's virtues are still fresh in the recollec tion of his friends.—Besides these, a very large plate is now in progress (we believe by Mr. Hague) of a view of the river, and the port in the distance. —Quitting local works, we now turn to those of general interest. g Th a e t one ur fi p r l s e t as is e: which all sporting men will•look upon with great we allude to the portrait of John Mytton, of Ralston. The celebrated sportsman is seen mounted on his famous horse Sir Oliver, and is surrounded by some of his crack dogs, and accom panied by his whipper-in, Edward Evans, on the celebrated Little Grey. This. engraving is full of character : the like nesses are most faithful; the grouping is excellent. The landscape is chosen from a portion of the Halston estate.— Amongst other works now complete and in progress, there are the Waterloo Banquet, from a painting by Slater ; a mili tary portrait of the Duke in his uniform of a field marshal, painted by Lucas ; the Queen receiving the Holy Sacrament at her Coronation , by Leslie ; and Napoleon and his Gene nerals, by Horace Vernet. — Roberts's Views, now in pro gress of publication , are occupying much attention. They arc extremely beautiful, and replete with interest. • Railway travelling must be apprecicted by gentlemen of most vocations, but none perhaps so much as auctioneers, because their busy time is confined to a few months, and they incline to the good old practice, to " make hay while the sun shines." Referring to our journal of Saturday last, it will be seen that Mr. G. Robins sold, at Ludlow, on Mon day last ; he goes then to Newmarket to sell, on Friday next ; on the 4th and sth of May, the following week, Lord South ampton's estates ; and the Gth and 7th, estates at the Mart ; on the 9th, to be at Windermere, in Cumberland ; on the 13th, to sell estates at the Mart ; on the 15th, to be in North Devonshire ; on the 18th, in Cornwall ; and the 20th, in South Devonshire ' • on the Ist of June, he sells at the Mart. After a little breathing time and selling large estates in London, the 17th and 24th of June, he goes to Liverpool, the 29th ; and to Dublin three days after ; and in Shropshire. the 7th of July. This is indeed active employment, and could only be accomplished by the aid of railways.