The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

ORMAN E OF CO the rel as not tit t ter zt wo lord, (L, rth wh Toughs sending se divided of 217 to then went mended in committee, be to committee. tame, - which related to the extension of tht atter to a terests. not press William y as a ells costs wer uld be nothing r. kienj alcl be c -ERIDAY ❑prisoumeut, atived b) is a bill t the house ad- to of th of the right :th pur support uestion ated the f sat the state of the co nd it any parliamentary as from ae should move ie appoint- hould be to lay betiOie p. I the i a that the e believed ense of every nil said that the ,tionary mea- within his kno .the ,natty for Was this the sort of -legiil pect from the reformed House of med, but not ;sed a law-lit it the co ing treac If in respectaho t given )bers to a contended that ;as founded were ) tend ultimately to abhorrence sill that ld be then conten :r the exist )OUGLAS, tie mor :ommiss , us in their expressions , nt recently issued by them, in which main obj such were he should d y relief was the .11 was not the wealthy were to with- nd he believed th ;he proposition for e from a alit it w , D =vet was resist Chapels in England and Wal Divine Colleges in E College in Sc Total of Cat} - it in Scotland p Priests in Great Brit Fatal of Priests in En '-nd ;s in Sca f Catholic Convents in Great Britain aly etn- :ts was to prevent )t to sa however, ultimately a a the house resumed r orders of the day were then at the c ;nding th the proper time, move nice more than fiv and Wal ut, afte to divide the committee upon ,osed to h should divide the Dcnmittee atived by a majorit the chairman should then cl by Lord J. Itt The motion of anted to without ,osed of, and the onary Priest &CES TO COME 30 I Cot APRIL. 1 I Curr 1811 it Gre 3 or 13 I Bath and Bristol ....12 S'nifnal 12 I Newmarket 13 Eglinton-park 14 Bedford Sping 14 MAY. Beverley 4 I Gorharribu 5 I York Sprir I Epsom Spring Newca e-on••Ty 8 I Cheltenham 8 I Bibury Club 16 1 Stockbridge Huntingdon le Pottery JULY. 6 Dudley and Tiptc 7 County of Gloucl 12 Lancaster 14 Goodwood 1 Corporation. 19 I Newport (Salop) AUGUST 3 I Tunbridge Well Brighton 4 Hereford... Newcastle (Staffordshire) 5 I Stockton.. Wolverharn ;A on Lewes.. Itipon 16 Paisley.... SEPTEMBER. Warwick .. 7 Lincoln .. Curragh Norwich 13 I Western (Ayr) 14 I Shrewsbury 15 I Oswestry.. OCTOBER Newmarket Curragh 12 Knutsford not fixed Leek (Staffordshire) lB Kelso • not fixed Newmarket 25 STEAMERS ANTIC (Abridged iron The idea of establishing a regular team communication between New York and Liverpool had now come to be the Jourz of Commerce.) seriously entertained by some of the sagacious and, enter prising on both sides of the Atlantic. We do not feel called upon I Western S Ship Company," or avigation Company, British and Am( e entitled to a it certainly i That is a quest eatn and an ading the way in this great enterpris hich we t i to examine, when the proper locuments are placed within our reach. The Bristol com rany were indeed first upon the line with their noble ship, Western; but the London and New York Corn ctually first to accomplish the passage through by chartered for the express purpose. :verance of Mr. Junius Smith, an ied American merchant in London, 1, is the final and successful doubtless to be at- more than to any other individ plishment of ti .d. From Jan 1833, to the present moment, hi devoted to the object. As early a published his first prospectus of a line of betwee gland and America d to ridicul rsevered, and in November following Nothing issued a ,ttention Shares were subscribed, doubt yielding to de li), the requisite capital was soon provided, and the nd American Steam Navigation Company" was 41 a solid foundation. In October. 1836, they r contract for hulloing their first steam-ship; the on the Ist of April, 1837, but owing to the of one of the contractors, and other difficulties, she — , ched until the 24th of May, 1838, when she re of the British Queen. She left Ports ,utti on the 12th July, 1839, on her first trip to New York, arrived at New York on the 27th, after a passage of 14 ays and 18 hours. sect on ceived t No sooner did the fact of the establishment of the British 1 American Company transpire, than the people of Bristol ousad to the importance of securing to their ancient earn communication with New York. .. Brunel, the -.ed engineer, and other gentlemen connected with the great western railway, came forward with beral subscriptions. A committee wa! y one of the most competent practical 1, to make the nec appointed, assisted hip-builders of the ary surveys and c urination ide to the subscribers on the Ist of ni the 2d of Jut pany" was established by d ne stern-pc y, she departed from Bristol on the Bth of April, 1838, ew York, arriving at this port 23d of April, after a eof 14 days 12 hours. She had made 15 trips across fore the British queen was placed upon the he Atlantic The "Trans-Atlantic Steam Ship Company," formed in Liverpool, in the summer of 1838, put two steamers on the route between that port and New York. The Royal William _ . sailed on the sth Of July, and arrived the 24th, making a passage of 18 days 12 hours. The Liverpool sailed on the 6th of November, and arrived the 23d, making a passage in • 16 days 12 hours. The Royal William was withdrawn from the route in the winter of 1838, and the Liverpool in 1839. Public attention in London and in New England was soon cted to the establishment of a line of steamers to ply be- Boston and Liverpool and in 1839, Mr. Samuel icceeded in effecting a contract with ransmission of her Majesty's mails, twice a-month from Liverpool, via .c. The liberal sum of £60,000 per annum, :o be paid by the Government for this service rd, of London, Halifax to Queb, Four steam-ships are to be placed on this line—two of which, the Britannia and Acadia, have already made their appear- The Britannia, the first of the line, arrived at Boston 18th of July, in 14 days from Liverpool ; and the which left Liverpool on the 4th of August, arrived on on the 17th, making the passage in 12 days, 12 Ilortest ever made from England to Boston. the President came up the harbour of New agreed On the same c . This magnificent steam-ship belongs to the British N'orth American Steam Navigation Compziny. The 'ent was launched on the Thames, on the 9th of Decem st, and in model, style of architecture, and beauty of .o any other ship that floats upon'the le following tab rnerce. Our re ye also extract from the Journal rf rs will perceive that th )portion erfect in Cimard Western was the first-built ocean steamer, it will be seen that her power to tonnage differs but slightly from Cunard's. The Great Western has not yet been beaten, taking the relative positions of New York and Boston into account. Vessels. Tonnage Horse I Tonnage Horse power of el povfier 1 one horse gines, r. proportion had engines] power. been adopted. Cunard's .... 1200 440 2 8-11 Gt. Western.. 1310 450 2 4 4-45 491 1-3 British Queen 2016 500 4 4-125 739 1-5 President.... 2365 600 3 283-300 867 8-15 A colony of Eocialists in the Manea-fen, Cambridgeshire, ye just shut up shop and decamped. J. Rus- E_ TCRIYU L fore, m upon such RA IL WAI GREAT WESTERN UNION RAI LWA Y• —We may expect the opening of this line as far as Cirencester by the 26th of next month, the company having given notice to the Great Western Directors thrt it will he ready by that day. The latter company has taken this branch on lease at INTELLL".;:!NCI: CRELTENIIAM £17,001 GASC pecial g ~:-Cheltenharri paper. EY. AND GREENOCK RA etinF; of p roprietors of .t 1: isley, and Gre Glasgow, .l yesterday, Sheriff' Court Hall here, to Consider the bill now be: rliament for _increasing the capital of the company. After reac the advertisement convening the ►neeti new bill was submitted, by clause, and unariimously approved. In answer to a query regarding the opening of the line, the engineer, Mr. Errington, stated that he could, with the ut- most confidence, assual the proprietors that the line should be opened to the public during the present month, on what great ,; Advert ction , 2I March 9 DURTIAM e Shareho is held in t SUNDERLAND HAIL and Sunc land Railay ,erland, on Tue sc Arcade Buildit the pro ey to corn .sions of the bill works second Feat 1., was n, one of the clerks the principal clauses of the act, which se, - in addition to the capi. not exceedin to raise £26,000 upon mort- by the creation and dispOsal of ne Esq., It was r by the meeting; o'clock .a - Blle Journal ,eg to direct attention to rial which will be f rid in our columns of to-da by the provost agistrates, and town council Of Majesty's ion of the Inverness to the commissioners of h( the important subject of the ester th which the country is now about to Theatr O❑ SATURDAY VI L EYE. liable in the cireums' of Inverness, and we anly shown that it is We understand that the public are indebted to our intelligent provost for the proposal of this great improve ment. It is of importance that the north should reap the - - benefit of this new mode of communication as speedily as possible • and in matters of this kind, the public here always look to ale kindly assistance of government, who, we trust, will not refuse to Scotland what has been granted to Ireland T.ftriv J Tn men t rbv, Beatock and rd Totter! Bill Downey verging lines to Edinburgh and Glasgow, — miles distant from each city about Mu ton to E , by Bigga Wilsontt shortest that 1 übnrgh two alt , rnington being From s' routes are proposed y wing- by Thankerton, liss Mary THEATnt-r.otAL,Enrclor ler the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee. MR. WALLACK, Royal, Drury-Lane and Haymarket, is en ed for a Fortnight, and will make his second appearance since his return from America,_ this Evening. r. WALLACK having been greeted with the most enthnsias tic applause last night, in the characters ofd ulian St. Pierre and Dick Dashall, the drama of TEIE WIFE, and the farce of MY AUNT, will in consequence be repeated in the course of the week. MH IS present TUESDAY, the 23d instant, will be per formed the Tragedy of PIZARRO. Rolla Orozembo Mr. Baker. Pizarro , Mr. Gray.—Alonzo Mr. H. Holl. uouncement gave Cora.. Mrs. W. H. Bland. separated.-- Greenock I Elvira Miss Cleaver To conclude with the Mueical Play of ROB ROY. Compressed into two Acts. Rob Roy Mr. Stuart. cis Osbaldistone Mr. G. Horncastle Bailie Nicol Jarvie.. Mr. Baker. .. Miss E. Honner. Miss Cleaver. Diana Vernon Helen M'Gregor On WEDNESDAY—the Comedy of THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. Wallack ; Colonel Briton, Mr. H. Boll; Lissardo, M r. Baker ; Frederick, Mr. W. H. Bland ; Isabella, Miss Cleaver; Violante, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Flora, Mrs. Clarke. After which; the Musical Drama of the ADOPTED CHILD. Michael, Mr. Wallack ; Clara. Mrs. Barton; Lucy, Miss E. Honner : Nell, Madame Simon. To con clude with the. Operetta of LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCK SMITHS. Captain Beldare7Mr. G. H orecastle ; Risk, Mr. Baker ; Lydia,Mrs. P. Crowe. , On THURSDAY—CHARLES THE SECOND, BRI GAND, and RENT DAY. On FRIDAY—The WIFE, MY AUNT, and THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. —TOWN AND COUNTRY, and the LIVER THEATRE LAST NIGHT FOR THE I3ENEF CHURCH- ;TREET, IGGIE, AME ENTERTAINMENTS WILL BE REPEATED THIS EVENING. HI S present TUESDAY EVENING, March 23d, 1841 the Evening's- Entertainments to commence with an en tirely new and Historical Drama of intense interest, entitled TILL TOWER OF LONDON; OR; THE FATE OF LADY JANE GREY de Nomilles.:Mr. Mr.l 1 iggie hich, the humourous and highly amusing. nterlude of THE UNFINISHED GENTLENIAN ; OR, THE TIGER IN BOOTS. .Mr. Tilbury. E James Miller, Ir. Higgie qr. C. F Marshall To conclude with the Drama, clled ROBERT MACAIRE Robert Macair ry to extend it disposed the time of years because he thought five ae utility At the same .e jealously tnosive, we are hound to buligre, bpth kern the cne• ness of their religious 'profession, and their own express declarations. We are warranted to believe that they act in concert, and that they are ready and willing to co 7 operate for a common purpose nd it is, we apprehend, the true one, there is evident danger to the state in what is In this view of affairs— going on. Let us remember that the Pope's church is a political as well as religious institution—that its affairs are conducted by a corporation that never dies —and that ascendancy has ever been its object, with an utter recklessness as to the means by which the end may be accomplished. We have little doubt that his holiness and the college of cardinals calculate on having Ireland entirely their own within a short period, and that in the course of time, England, with due management, will also be brought under the papal yoke. This is the developement of the plot, and we are at least fore.- There is no secret at all in the business. All warned is candidly and plainly set before us, and we may say sly so; for here'the old maxim—' l forewarned d to the d of the directo harmle vernin any other of suppressin vu, and Mid-Calder. The route by Linton is the )y a mile ; .but, from the nature of the ground, iered preferable. Tie line by ge, besides being a much easier Wilsontown is consic he north of the Pentland ran rough a more prod active mineral both sides mat range, a: It is a curious fact, that it B. HEWITT, SHORT-HAND WRITER and PRINCIPAL PORTER to the Liverpool Standard, respectfully 'worms Professional Gentlemen and Parties interested, that he purposes to supply accurate VERBATIM REPORTS of the Trials in the Nisi Prius Court at the ensuing Assize- eJ o R a by this line, and also from a similar that the Roman armies marched from Scotland di from r elford:under the Govern- References Permitted to Gentlemen of the highest re- improving the communication 1 nd the north of Scotland spectability. Letters, addressed to the STANDARD OFFICE, will receiv immediate attention ACCIDENT NEAR Ebt Etbrrpoot 'taniaul. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1841 Twenty thousand persons, we are told, obeyed the summons of the agitator, and met him on the Curragh of Kildare on Sunday week. Seventy thousand tee totallers marched in procession in Dublin on the 17th inst. in honour of St. Patrick ; some five thousand in Liverpool ; and further sayeth not. We have not kept an account of the demonstrations in other places, either in the provinces in Ireland, or in various parts of Eng land, where the Irish are quite in sufficient force to make a respectable show when called out for that purpose. The question which people who give them selves the trouble to think at all on the subject ask, is, —are these exhibitions quite innocent—quite justifi able—quite right ; should they, in short, be permitted ? Some put the question in wrath and indignation, bear ing in mind how intolerant our authorities are of all displays of an opposite kind. But heat and passion are out of place in the investigation of this nice, pro found, and delicate question. It becomes us to be calm that we may not he ridiculous. There is no longer the slightest appearance of nervous disturbance on the other side. All is cool and methodized there ; and on our part, whose business it is to reason over the affair, a corresponding frame of mind is called for. These . di'splays bf organized masses, then, are re garded by those of the adverse party as displays of strength, and made not only to show strength, acquire more of it. On this point we apprehend no difference of opinion can exist. But this being so, it is scarely more than the correlative proposition to say, that if these displays be a proof of strength, and a means of augmenting it on the one side, they are to list the same extent a ‘ proof of weakness, and a means of increasing that weakness, on the other. We submit that this is good logic and a pretty fair deduction from but to the premises. But what next ? Nay, softly gentle reader, not so fast ! We must go gingerly and delibe, rately in picking, our way through this entangled maze. We grant that it is not pleasant to see mer. , whose politics one does not approve, vaunting their forces, and displaying them insultingly before your eyes, and countenanced rather than discouraged therein by the government. This is not pleasant; still the amount of the feeling must depend on the opinions en tertained of the particular views, and dispositions of the party thus parading the organization and number of its troops. We certainly do not consider it right nder any circumstances that men should be allowed to seek the attainment even of a legitimate object by the exhibition of mere physical strength. It is not constitutional, and is of evil example. It is a breaking in upon those rules and laws which the constitution has provided for the prevention of tumultuous assem blages, and to obviate the necessity of even an appear ance of resorting to, first principles in order to obtain objects which, if of a legitimate kind, may be obtained, or at least sought for, by other means. But our dis like on this head will bear some proportion to the known character and purposes of those who resort to this unconstitutional mode of proceeding. Therefore it is material to ascertain as nearly as can be, who are purpose ? the exhibitors, and what is their In the first place then, this party are all of one reli- gious creed—Romanists—and this first place' is so material and comprehensive in its kind, that it will not be of very great moment if we should never come to a second. Not a- single Protestant joins in the demon strations, or belongs in any way to the fraternity. l'he grand cement of their union is their religion, and it admits of no admixture. It will neither cohere nor bind, if any foreign ingredient be introduced into it. There is a witch's charm in the composition, and that charm would be spoiled by the slightest deviation from the prescription. All the mummers are Romanists— and Romanists acting with the full consent abd appro bation of their priesthood. Let us bear constantly in mind, when we contemplate one of these demonstra tions, that it is the church of Rome that is making it; and with our historical and other recollections of what that church is, we may be the better able to determine what these pageants are for. But the object is in a great measure declared. There is more candour in this respect in otir day than there was in the olden time. O'Connell repeated at Kildare race-course, what he had frequently announced before, that justice to Ireland includes the remaining three fourths of the tithes belonging to the church in Ire land, household suffrage, but above all, a parliament in 'College-green, Dublin Now if England grant the parliament in College green, or has the most remote intention to grant it, she may grant all the other things, and as many more as the agitator may please to add to the list; for what will it be to her what becomes of Ireland, if a repeal of the union is to follow? Let us say then, in one word, that the simple object of all these demonstrations is the severance of the king dom—and if that be not TREASON, what is ? The traitors are indeed full of exuberant loyalty to the Queen, personally, while they are most devoutly seek ing to rob her of her dominions; but if her Majesty should ever deign to cast an eye over th 9 fulsome, hy pocritical, and disgusting. declaration of the agitator, O'Connell, as she may find it in some friendly journal, we hope she is not deceived thereby. We began this bead of remark by saying that the parties procession, ing and parading in the manner alluded to, were Ro manists ; but if we were to add now that they are rebels, as well as Romanists, should we exceed our authority ? That wherever they are, whether in Eng land, Ireland, Scotland, these Romanist, and for the most part, Irish masses, are actuated by a common fore-armed"--.seems to have lost some portion of its verity. Our government at least refuses to profit by the warning, and continues resolutely deaf. to the " voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." The moral of our tale would he mainly this, that we ~,uard, and that the go nt which is not only careless on this subject, have much need to be on our but in a great measure auxiliary to the existing peril. is absolutely unfit to bold the administration of public affairs in its hands. But we shall be glad to reduce our moral from this vague to a more definite shape ; and, for this purpose, not to be tedious now, shall re- sume our theme at another opportunity The new American President is an upholder of sla- very, and has lately taken an opportunity to declare himself such with a view to his greater popularity. In our apprehension it is an index to his moral qualities of Any man who does not lament wnazever r e mpy be in Men may differ as to the time and mode the system in a country where it has been long established, and it would be a fair subject for the exercise of individual opinion; but for a rr to uphold and plead for the system itself—to boast himself a defender of it, and a determined, unalterable Jacques Strop. Maria.. Mrs. Gordon. I Clementina.. Miss Browne. • proof, to our mind, that the individual championing Louise.. Miss de Blaquiere. . Tickets to be had and Places secured of Mr. J. Foot, at such a doctrine, has never submitted his moral feelings strict than I the Box-office, daily, from 11 to 3, and at the usual places: to the influence of Christianity. Now, General Harrison has made an express de- further sue Linton, on tE point c pears to have int in divergent Wand to both the ( Commissioners England and .Stirling iinburgla 01 DREADFUL COAL-MINE HAMILTON NI Tuesday, the at consternation on hearing of an ex tensive explosion of fire damp in the coal mine near Quarter, accompanied with the loss of eleven lives. On repairing to the spot, we found the account given of it too true. It ap pears that about eight o'clock that morning, (the breakfast I-ourl there were six men and a boy in the mine, all of whom, it was too plain, must have perished instantly by the explo sion. On the alarm being given, the overseer of the mine not being at hand, seven men, who were on the outside of the mouth of the mine, spontaneously, and under the influ ence of humanity, and vainly hoping to aid their fellow-men in the midst of this dreadful calamity, rushed thoughtlessly into the pestiferous atmosphere of the newt/ exploded mine; three of vv.iom were dragged out alive, and four dead, by a third party, who, becoming alarmed for their safety, went to Unceasing exertions were made to relieve noxious vapour, but it was not till yes n of Hamilton and neighbourhood thrown into their assistar the mine of tt bodies 6f the seven first sufferers were recovered, some of whom were shockingly mangled by the explosion, in a way that evidently showed that the death of the whole must have been instantaneous. Of the eleven sufferers, nine were married, who have left wives and fami lies behind them to deplore their loss. The noble proprietor of the mine, the Duke of Hamilton, who is now at the palace, was in the greatest distress on obtaining intelligence of the sad event, and immediately sent pecuniary assistance to the families of the poor sufferers, and has caused every exertion to be used on their behalf, and arrangements to be made, at his own expense, as to their funerals and otherwise, suitable to the sad occasion. The terrible accident, it appears, was in no degree owing to the negligence or want of skill of his grace's overseers or engineers. The mine, which is an ingoing eye, or day level, when the explosion occurred, was coin pletely ventilated, be ing open at both ends to the day, with a current of air con stantly passing through it, and on the morning when the acci dent occurred, had been carefully examined by two oversme,, and reported to be free from danger. It appears that the carbonated hydrogen had been instantly generated from cer tain fissures connected with a rise in the metals, the sad effects of which no human foresight could prevent. For the satisfaction of those at a distance, who 'may have friends employed at the Quarter coal mines, we subjoin a . . list of the sufferers. The seven first were in the mine at the time of the explosion—the remaining four went in to their rescue :—William Brounlie, and his son—a boy ten years of age ; James Duffle ; John Duffle ; Hugh 11I'Lean ; John Smith ; William Wotherspoon ; James Fleming; George Plate ; James Fisher ; Jame Fyfe.—Argus. REPUBLICAN "SIMPLICITY It was a fashion with Mr. Joseph Hume some years ago, whenever anything was asked for the sustenation of royalty, to twit us with the exceeding loveliness of republican a sim plicity." The cheapness of democracy charmed him, a Pre sident of the United States was not much more costly than a chairman of the customs with us ; and on one occasion we remember his dwelling with ecstacy on the fact, that if the President desired to give half a dozen friends a night's lodg ing in the government house, he would be forced to "sleep them" two in a bed and "plank it" himself. We thought this a joke at the tine; but it turns out to have been true, in Congress on the 23d ult., touching the alleged " simplicity" of our repub lican cousins in their mode of fitting up domiciles for their chief ministers of state. We copy from the regular report in the New York Journal of Commerce—" An amendment (motion) was offered for appropriattng 6000 dollars to buy chamber furniture, of American manufacture, for the Presi dent's house. It was stated that there were but three beds in the mansion; and that it was destitute of furniture neces -though the furniture (such y to the col:11f( as it was) had cost more than 100,000 dollars, and the allow ance made in Van Buren's time for furniture was 27,000 dollars, all of which was expended in two rooms !" Mr. Van Buren, it was moreover stated, was a single man, aril lihd, therefore, only occasion for two rooms ; but, shade of Cincinnatus ! only think of a little republican bachelor spend ing 27,000 crowns in fitting up for himself a sanctum sane forum and a bedroom ! One of the members (a Mr. Alford) " moved to sell the gold spoons, and other such articles, and . with the proceeds to buy necessary furniture ;" whereupon a Mr. Lincoln, with great gravity and indignation, averred " on the authority of official documents," that Mr. Van Buren's spoons were not gold, that they were only silver gilt ! We should have thought, from Mr. Flume's account, that even a plain silver spoon would have been an abomination in the mouth of a loco-foco statesman ; but it seems that silver itself must be washed in gold to harmonise with his palate ! We perceive, too, that with all their " simplicity" they are in their style of social intercourse generations before us, hav ing adopted that liberal eastern custom by which a guest is allowed, and indeed expected, to smuggle - out of the house the cup from which he has been drinking. There seemed to be no surprise created when honourable members accounted for the hundred thousand dollars worth of furniture already purchased by its having been " stolen" l When Mr. H ume's oc..^upation is gone, as it is likely to be at no distant date, in this country, we advise him to transfer his inquisitive and economical genius to the other side of the Atlantic. He will find plenty of work to keep him from rusting in his old age amongst his models of " simplicity." CHURCH -RATE, re o'clock, the t ;... On Thursday afternoon, at ,01l for a church-rate for this parish terminated, when the - rev. vicar, who had attended to receive the votes during the whole of the poll, announced the result. The few persons present immediately retired, no ob servations having been made at the close of the meeting, as was the case heretofore, when the radicals used to declaim against Sturges Bonrne's Act, and to boast that, although beaten by votes , they had a majority of persons. The num ber of rate-payers who recorded their opposition to the church-rate on this occasion was only 125, out of a popula tion of about 45,000. The following is the result of the pull:— For the rate 804 votes and 301 persons. Against it 236 125 " Majority for rate 568 votes 176 persons —Brighton Gazette. ETON COLLEGE, FRIDAY, MARCH 19.—1 n consequence of a very large proportion of the boys (I may say at least three-fourths of the school) having been sent for by their parents and left the college up to Wednesday evening, occa sioned by the alarming rumours of th e preva l ence o f t h e scarlet-fever within the establishment, Dr. Hawtrey, the head-master, came to the determination of dismissing the remainder. Yesterday the school " broke up" accordingly, and by this evening the college (both with respect to the oppidans and the collegers) will be enti re l y d eserte d . The business of the school having terminated u n til t h e conclu sion of the Easter holidays, the examination for the New. castle scholarship has consequently and n ecessar il y b een pos tp o ned until after that period ; it will commence on Mon day April the 25th, and terminate on the foll ow i ng Satur day.' The examiners are the Rev. Mr. Jelf, of Christ Church, Oxford , and G. T. Pennington, Esq., of Ring's College, Cambridge. Since the fatal termination t o th e ill ness of the son of Mr. Mount, who died on Monday last, no fresh cases have occurred within the college. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. —A man of the name of John ,n at work last Friday night, in a pit near this town, belonging to Thomas Shaw Haller, Esq., when, a quantity of coal fell upon him about ten o'clock at night, and almost crushed him to atoms. As there was no indi v id ual on the bank, and it being in the night, he was not go t out t i ll the men came to work the ne xt morning. There were two other men with him, one of whom was severely injured and the other escaped, but as there was no means of ext r i ca ti ng his fellow sufferers from their dreadful situation, he was obliged to stay with them till between five and six o'clock the next morning ; an inquest was held on the body on Saturday last, before W. Robinson, Esq., coroner. Verdict —Acci dental death.—Staffordshire Gazette. THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—We are happy to state that the Lord Chancellor is sufficiently recovered from his late sT;ere indisp os iti on to be able to resume his o ffi cial duties. The noble and learned lord sat on Thursday morning in the House of Lords to hear appeals. His lordship appears to have suffered very severely.— Standard. — On Saturday morning his lordship took his seat in the Chancery Court, Lincoln's Inn, for the first time since his serious indisposition. Robins 27 not fixed not fixed not fixed 25 or 26 not fixed not fixed not fixed upon us By the way, we must own that we paused over some of his yesterday's compounds, and after considering them with the utmost gravity and seriousness, as be came us, could not, after many effOrts, by any means contrive to " take." There was one long of I'dr—some thing about the " church," and the " boy Jones"— (the merriment of the combination was all our critic's own)—which must have been very good indeed, if its wit bore any proportion to its length ; but the joke, unfortunately, lay heavily at the bottom of the bottle, and though we shook and shook, it would not come Do, Mr 1/bion, remedy this in your next dose; and either put up a label to tell us where the point or be pleased to remember the value of brevity your preparations. We will not occupy more space at present with the facetice or the inertia and neatness ir. of the Albion, but hope he will perceive by this, that nsensible to the attention we receive at his we are handy We must attribute the misfortune of having a New Poor-law introduced into Liverpool, if such must be our fate, to the circumstance of our having a Whig town council. Had we a council really representing the' feelings and sentiments of: the inhabitants, it would 4ainq the infliction, a would have prevented any government from daring to persevere in it, 'or to allow their commissioners to force it upon such a city as this, contrary to the expressed and almost unanimous wish The people have petitioned against PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT The Ho (From our London Correspondent) of Commons was occupied on Thursday even- with an attempt on the part of Mr. Easthope to procure, sidewind, a recognition of the principles which actuate, in his contumacious resistance to the law of the land, that worthy imitator of John Thorogood, Mr. W. Baines, of 'The church-rate question has however, been dis and a perusal of the debate of Thusday will add little to the stock of philosophy which we already possess on the subject, beyond that it is almost as difficult to drive common sense into the heads of the political nters who crowd the ministerial benches as it would be Leicester ad nat to clic it an idea from John Thorogood's lapstone. The question of the liability of property—no matter to whom be longing, or by whom occupied—to be rated for the muinte- nance of the fabric of the church has now been distinctly set at rest by t iolecnn decision of the judges ; and dissenters or churchmen have only one plain duty to perform of paying obedience to the law. I should imagine that there should be no " conscientious scruple" against that at any rate. Lord John Russell moved the order of On Friday evening measur )ing into committee on his new poor-law and it is abundantly gratifying to observe, from the debate which ensued, that a feeling is rapidly growing up in the house, which is not confined to any party, the direct ..ne council is silent. The council has not se conded their memorial, and the commissioners imme- it, but 11 diately avail themselves of this seeming division in the town, and proceed to put the law in force. It is a gre .t error, we admit, on the part of our Con- servative members of parliament, that they have not shewn themselves more attentive to the feelings of the people out of doors on this question ; but the odium the thing 'on, and of attempting to give the of driving claration to this effect, and we can make no exception of consequences deducible therefrom on his account. Passing through Richmond in February, he was greeted by a large multitude, whom he addressed. In the course of his speech he touched on the subject of sla very, and said that the report that he was an Abolition- The difisions which took place in the Commons on ist could only have come from an enemy. He then Friday leave us without hope as to the final result of made a full communication of his sentiments in the the bill ; but many important improvements may be following strong—nay, glowing language :—[We quote made in it, and from all that has accrued, we should from the New York Morning Herald of the 25th Fe- think that the terrible rigours o 2 the system will be in bruary.] some degree mitigated or restrained. But do we owe "How could a Virginian, who sees in every thing around anything to the Whigs on this account ? Oh, nothing him, the reminiscences of his youth, be an Abolitionist? in the world. It was all comfortable and smooth in How could a Virginian, born and bred on the lower James their eyes before. Their commissioners are all " second River, and in a house noted for some memorable incidents Daniels come to judgment,"—and in the system itself, in our revolutionary struggle, be an Abolitionist ? How could which treats pauperism as the worst of crimes , they a Virginian, whose sires received many distinguished t can see no fault. All they wish is to renew it for ever, of confidence and esteem of the hands of this virtuous old Commonwealth, be an Abolitionist ? How could a Virginian and saddle themselves in perpetuity on the country be so irreverent to the sacred ashes of his honored ancestors, along with it as to be an Abolitionist? Could such a Virginian be called an Abolitionist by another Virginian, and the other a true hearted Virginian, and sound to the core ? The thing was impossible. The bosom could not be free from taint that harbored such a suspicion. He said he had not given pledges I Somerset house conclave a new ten years lease of their supreme authority, must rest with the "Whig adminis- tration The inquiry into the proceedings of the commission- ers as to the appointment of a returning officer for the Union of Clonmel has produced a nice show-up of their mode of conducting business. The whole of that affair may be summed up in this— —that the commis- and promises before the election, because such a precedent was calculated to produce mischief, and to confer the Presi dency upon men of nromises instead of men of performances. But now that he was no more a candidate for the suffrages of the people, and could not be affected by their votes, he had no hesitation in declaring, what had ever been his feelings, sioners selected, as a proper returning officer for that union, a person who had been discharged as an insol vent, but who was the nephew of a popish bishop, and partisan, in preference to a gentleman every w•ay eligible and qualified for the office; and violent politic his steadfast devotion to the rights and interests of his native then having done this trick, the, Particulars of which State." We might moralise at much length on this remark able speech, for certainly it affords rich matter both for speculation and instruction. It forcibly reminds us, in the first place, how dangerous it is to take the opi nions of the many, as a rule of right,—as that which is in its own nature abominable, and is, in one coun try, justly abhorred, may, in another, be deemed even honourable, virtuous, and praiseworthy. In 'Virginia, they were anxious to conceal, they stuck neither at falsehood nor falsification, nor any other ingenious . device that seemed likely to mystify the deed. " Their records," the Duke of Wellington observed, "were kept in such a manner ,that it was impossible to trace any act of the commissioners. The clause of the act of parliament was little obeyed in Ireland, and he feared as little in England. They were in the hands of this board that possessed unlimited authority to do what we perceive, that even to suspect a NIT . orthy citizen of being unfavourable to slavery, a man must, according to General Harrison, have become not free from taint himself, and that to ba a " true-hearted Virginian— sound to the core"—one must be a resolute, uncom they pleased, and who kept no regular record of their transactions." And yet this is the hoard, it will be remembered, whose authority our Town.:council and the Whig party are so desirous of introducing into the parish. Mark this, burgesses of Liverpool, we beseech promising defender of slavery The'Virginian general then ascends the presidential chair, pledged by the " reverence he bears the ashes Sir Robert Peel, who has done much to stay the tyranny of these shrouded invisibles, by reducing the coming term of their power, did not fail, in the debates of Friday, to bestow upon them some salutary admo• nition. In one of their official papers, it seems, they took upon them to declare, that one principal object of a compulsory provision for the relief of the destitute poor is the prevention of alms giving." I On this Sir Robert Peel observed . " Why he heard the noble lord (J. Russell) himself state, that the Poor Law would completely fail in effect if the afflu ent withheld their alms. That was perfectly true ; and he should abominate the Poor Law if he thought it relieved the rich from the duty of almsgiving. (Cheers.) He was per fectly certain the Poor Law would fail if the affluent, relying upon its provisions alone, however improved the system of administration might be, felt the moral obligation on them to attend to the wants of their poorer neighbours was thereby extinguished. It was no such thing. In pohlt of fact, the relief of the poor must mainly depend on the rich and afflu- cat; and therefore it was unwise in the commissioners to issue a public notice announcing that ' a principal object of a compUlsory provision for the relief of destitution was the prevention of almsgiving.' One object might be the preven tion of mendicancy or vagrancy, certainly not of almsgiving. It was a complete desecration of the precepts of the Divine law—' Give alms to the poor,' Turn not your face from the poor man.' (Hear, hear.) He only mentioned this as an illustration of the great advantage and wisdom of weighing the expressionS which might be used, so as not to get up an impression of unnecessary hardship. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, he did think with respect to the public documents put forth by the commissioners, independently of the use of particular expressions, their general tone and character might be im proved, consistently with the maintenance of the principles of the law." (Cheers from both sides of the house.) This is, indeed, excellent, and what we should expect from the right honourable baronet; and it will, doubt less, do good. At the same time, we do fear that the tyranny of these commissioners, and their mere crea tures, the guardians, will be felt where these Christian sentiments, and the applause which they won, will have little operation. However, it is well that so much has appeared to shew who are, and who are not, the friends of 'die poor. LONGEVITY.—The following remarkable instances of lon gevity have been furnished us by a correspondent at Lich field :—Roger Brook died Oct. 8, 1568, abed 133. Mrs. Cleen, near the Winter Pool, died Jan. 23, 1772, aged 138 years of age: she lived in one house 103 years, and walked five miles, to pay her rent, only three weeks before her death—(tell the wise doctor of Lichfield the pool was in a good state then.) Thomas Damms, of Lighton, in Cheshire, died in 1648, aged 154. William Edwards, of Carren, near Cardiff, died in 1668, aged 168. Henry Fairbrother, of Wi gan, Lancashire, died May 10, 1770. aged 138. Squire Mac finley, of Tipperary, died June 15, 1773, aged 126. Thomas Newman, of Brislington, died in 1542, aged 143. Frederick Harper, of Fishall, Cumberland, died Feb. 8, 1792, aged 120. Mr. T. Robertson, of Hope-hall, near Edinburgh, died July 8, 1793, aged 137. Jane Scrimshaw, died in Rosemary-lane Workhouse, Dec. 6, 1711, aged 126 ; but the workhouses then were not like the whig bastiles now. • • A SPLENDID RELISH.- 1 A BOLTON CANNIBAL. — An in stance has been related to us this week, and for the truth of which we can vouch, of a dog of a bull breed having been hung for displeasing its master, a rope maker, and afterwards interred, in a most blasphemous manner, in a field. Having remained two days in the ground it was dug up, and skinned, and having been cut into pieces, was sent to a beer shop in the neighbourhod and ordered to be stewed. The landlady, an excellent cook, prepared it in the evening, and seasoned it well. About eight o'clock a fishmonger w as passing with hi s cart, and the rope maker called him into the house. " Wir t have a bit of this hash ?" enquired the roper, 1 :tor our Jce and me has been up street an we'll joined at eighteen pen north of mutton." Jean replied , " I'd rather not, because your Joe might not like it." But, however, a large basin full of the soup, containing a full portion of the meat was served up, and forthwith he coonnenced eating, declaring he never " est nowt better in his life, the rope mak er also swal lowing large spoonfuls from another dish. In a few minutes Jem's father entered, and he was supplied with " a Incas. ; , Having filled themselves to the brim, they declared they could not manage the remainder of the me a t, " well take it home with you," was the kind recomme n d at i on. Both did as desired, and three ladies boiled som e p otatoes and made an excellent supper. The old mat!, on his way home, was so swollen that he had to u n butto n his waistcoat, and was' heard to declare " ell ; but if I'd meat as I oug h t to have, I should get fat I know." On the . following day the dreadful truth was revealed, and the bare idea of it threw them into a sickly state, and with faces extended several inches beyond their usual length, unusual ,loses of medicine were swallowed, and, having recovered from the effects of it, resumed their usual cheerfulness. They attended at the court on Thursday, to obtain redress, but were informed there was no Act of Par liament which would meet the case,--Bolton Chronicle. of his sire, and , the gratitude he owes this virtuous old commonwealth," to maintain the • slave system ; and nothing is to be hoped for, favourable to its abro gation, during his regime. But is this all ? We fear not; we do apprehend that there is much more to be inferred from such a premiss. We conceive, as we hove already insinuated, ;that the man who gives a monopoly of his benevolence to one colour of the human family, must derive his philanthropy from some standard of morals, the acknowledgment of which is quite incompatible with a due regard to, or belief in the truths of Christianity, and therefore, that we have no security for his conduct; or test of his principles, beyond that ever-fluctuating sense of propriety s• dif ferent in different men, and so liable to change in the same individual. General Harrison scouts the idea of not being an abettor of slavery. Could he justify his The law System on christian principles Impossible of christian benevolence requires men to do to others as they would that others should do by them. Chris tianity cuts at the very root of slavery. But the American President will maintain the system never theless, and maintain it, because he is a true 'Virginian —because the Virginians are slave-owners, and slave dealers, and because they inflict on others, should be his own We do not envy General Harrison that pinnacle of honour to which he has climbed. It is at this moment one of peculiar danger and difficulty. As to the war cry, he does not seem.to us to be the man. who would risk his popularity to any great extent in order to suppress it; but still it is only reasonable to expect that he may desire to commence his administration by endeavouring to restrain an outbreak of folly so re plete with injurious, if not ruinous consequences. Our Whig contemporary, the Albion, by his_ publica tion of yesterday, has been much occupied by the STANDARD family, and devotes four leading articles of his paper to the consideration of our numerous errors and deficiencies. As to our London name-sake, we know not that he is aware of all the attention be stowed upon him, for his good, by our local reviewer and critic; but as tvc cannot plead ignorance on the subject, it would be unpardonable of us not to aclAw ledge it in some way or other. In the first place, the 'Albion evinces a remarkable anxiety as to the state of our editorial health, both mental and bodily, and volunteers to perform the office of surgeon, physician, and apothecary in our behalf. " Our sympathies," he says, "are divided between the established church and the intruder to the palace"—a very bad symptom indeed, and evidently of a strong anti-whiggish character—" we are careful for our Church, and our most gracious Queen"—oh, shocking! It is plain that we are in great need of a Whig phy sician, if not of hellebore, and the voyage to Antycira, to cure us in these respects. But let us hear more of our case ; this is only, as it were, the first feeling of our pulse. " Extreme nervous excitement produces extraordinary illusions."—" Tories and Tory editors must live in a state of trepidation"—(more shame to give them fresh cause, say we)—" Turn his eyes which way he will, he sees cause for fear and trembling. On the one side stands a Jew and on the other a Catholic, both waiting for tardily administered justice; one requires the rights of citizenship which are his , due ; the other looks but for the fulfilment of a bargain and for an equitable appropriation." We would guard our country against Papists and Infidels, the one of whom is only waiting, as our witness says, for " tardily ad ministered justice," and the other for the fulfilment of a " bargain" and an " equitable appropriation"—and oh monstrous evidence of disease and infirmity ! We see in THIS " cause for fear and trembling"—when, if we were like our physician, could be doctored by hint to any purpose, we should be rejoicing at the .ect64c)reus We really had no notice before of the alarming state of our case, and now perceive, in the clearest manner, that it is confirmed "CONSERVA.- TI3M," and nothing less. But what says our Doctor by, that his opinion, " the subject is worthy of consideration by the " Health Committee" of the Town Council." But nay, friend, why Should we go to the Town Council. or, according to the proverb, out of frying- . .pan into the fire -in order to be cured Our volunteer iEsculapius manifests such anxiety on our account, and pours forth such torrents of physic, or wit as he supposes it to be, for our recovery, that till he fairly gives up our case as desperate, we shall allow him all reasonable opportunity to . try his skill leaning of which is towards an amelioration of the working of this harsh and inhuman measure. The speech of Mr. he member for Finsbury, (who, in his capacity as coroner for Middlesex, has had opportunities such as ft w Wakley, other members in the house possess, of arriving at a know ledge of the cold-blooded and imperturbable heartlessness system is characterised throughout,) should be seriously and attentively read by the people of Liverpool at the present moment, as well for the strong and undeniable facts, of harrowing import, which it embodies as for its bold denunciation of that " liberal" and " reformed" (?) parlia- with which a ment which has dared first to inflict such a measure upon the The speech of Mr. Townley Parker is also itish people worthy of a:4 - ention, as proving distinctly that throughout the whole of that district of Lancashire into which the system has so far been introduced, the expense to the rate-payerp has been seriously increased instead of being diminished. The speech of Lord John Russell, however, it is above all others to which the attention of the public ought to be di- !he spirit c mixed up tei heartless neilitarianism of 1 71 " liberal." Lord John openly declared in that spe that " destitution" alone should form the claim of our suffering poor to relief; that no distinction should be made between the deserving and the dissolute ; that the "+.torture" of the workhouse test must be applied indiscriminately to the decayed tradesman, to the widow, and to the victim of misfortune, as to the abandoned and the idle; and that the commissioners were the must proper parties to regulate the necessity of that test or " torture," because they cannot be biassed by feelings of humanity—because they are gifted with the possession of hearts of adamant ! It had been urged upon the house that the guardians of a parish—in Kent, I believe—had petitioned those commissioners for the power of allowing an additional four ounces of rice per week to the paupers in their work house, and that they . had been refused ; and Lord John Russell dared in the face of a Christian legislature to defend that refusal —to deny the right of men, administering their own funds, to add 4 ounces of rice a week (!) to the pork broth and rancid cheese by which their unfortunate fellow- parishioners were kept on the verg of starvation—to add hue penny a week to the cost of supporting the miserable victims of misfortune and poverty —and on what ground ? an injustice to the poor rate-payer" ! I imagine there are not many rate-payers in Liverpool at least Because to do so would be who would complain of such an injustice It had been urged that so strong is the repugnance which exists amongst the suffering door to enter into the union workhouses, that in one instance a wretched being had been discovered literally starved to death in a garret, who was proved to have carried in his pocket for three days an order of admission to the workhouse, and to have preferred, at last, this most miserable death which human nature can know, to the protracted torture which was prepared for him in that abode of despair and wretchedness. And Lord John Russell ventured even to defend the odious cruelty by which that bountiful provision which the constitution of our ances tors has provided for the victim of misfortune, at the expense of his more affluent fellow-beings, if hedged round withiuch unsupportable and wantonly-inflicted degredation, that death itself is deemed preferable to its acceptance. Yet this " libe ral" lordling—who appears to possess, with the form, the deep malignity of the Elfin race—had the assurance to con tend that it is wise and Christian policy which renders the last shelter which offers itself to suffering wretchedness as a barrier against starvation, so revolting to all the feelings of humanity as to be scarcely preferable to the very extremity of buman misery The remarks which fell from Sir Robert Peel were cha racterized by more of a Christian spirit and less of mere utilitarianism than he has previously displayed upon this sub ject. Still, I cannot think that we have much to be thankful for when we look at the votes by which those remarks were accompanied. Sir Robert has given his deliberate sanction to a prolongation of the Somerset House_ tyranny for five !store years; and although that permission waaolloWea by a rebuke to the commissioners for the superfluous cruelty of their regulations, and especially for the " harshness of lan guage" in which those regulations ere conveyed ; yet Sir Ro bert Peel ought not to be blind to the fact that it is not to the harshness of language only but to the working principle of the whole measure that nine-tenths of the people of England object. The right hon. baronet had an opportunity before him of gaining for ever the reverenee and love of that people, by standing forward boldly to demand, in their name, the cessation of this tyranny which " grinds the faces of the '—but he haslet slip the opportunity. He professes to see, indeed, the necessity of abating the tyranny ; but he may rest assured that no half-way measures—no weapon which loes not strike at the root of the evil—which does not de stroy utterly the centralization principle—can ever effect this abject. The odious nature of the system cannot be abated. It must be utterly destroyed. In the House of Lords on Friday a petition was presented by the Earl of Aberdeen from certain of the inhabitants of the colony of Newfoundland, praying that some measure of protection might be afforded them in the exercise of their vil right It may be interesting to your readers to know that the constitution which was in 1832 conceded by the vhig government to the demands of popery in that colony is lmost precisely similar, as regards the franchise, to that bout to be conceded to popery in Ireland ; and that so in buses so attendant upon its working—so wholly are the people placed under the control of priestly in timidation and outrage, when seeking to exercise their privi leges of electing members—that the governor-general has actually found it necessary to refuse the issue of any further ufferable are the o writs, after the expiration of the present session, until some measure of protection is devised. A pleasant foretaste cer- tainly of the result of a similar measure nearer home! TO THE CONSTITUENCIES OF PROTESTANT ENGLAND.-LETTER FELLOW PROTESTANTS,—I inquired of you, in my last, whether you would endure the perpetuation, by Lord Mor peth's bill, of the grinding tyranny by which your opinions and feelings are at present outraged ;—whether you are pre-; pared to add to the numerical strength of these Romish emi saries, whose votes, purchased by the surrender of the prin ciples of your Protestant constitution to their insolent de mands, enable a profligate faction to trample upon the liber ties of the British people. Permit me now briefly to bring before your notice what must be the immediate effect of the passing of that measure. The ►municipal strength of the Popish body in parliament at present amounts to upwards of 40 votes, the whole of which are exercised in servile dependence upon the dictates of the member for Dublin and the priesthood of Ireland. In this number it must be borne in mind that I do not include the whole of the " liberal" members for Irish constituencies, but merely those who are known to hold their seats subject to the influence of O'Connell and the priesthood, and whose votes in the house are embraced in the compact entered into by Popery with Lord Melbourne's administration. The ope ration of Lord Morpeth's bill in lowering the stains of the constituencies, will add at least 30 democratic members to the Romish interest ; and the member for Dublin will tben be able to wave, in insulting defiance over the deliberations of the British people, a " tail" comprising 70 and odd joints, and even more effectually than at present to place in the hands of the Church of Rome the substantive power of the government of Great Britain. And what, let me ask, would be the first demand which this ruffian, gorged with the accession of his new strength, and inflated with the insolence of his coarse and brutal na ture, would endeavour to win from the cringing imbeciles who would thus be placed so completely at his mercy? Have not his own lips told you-what that demand would be ? Un doubtedly they have.. You have yielded to him one-fourth of the tithes of the Irish Church, and he has told you deli berately that he " will never be contented until the whole is yielded up !" The wolf of Rome slept without the thresh hold of Protestantism, where the mailed hands of the war riors of the reformation had chained him down. You have waked him from that sleep. You have allowed him to dip his fang in the body of the Protestant Church of Ireland, and now he is straining to break from his last fetter, and to quench his burning thirst in a feast of blood. You have allowed him to desecrate the portals of the house of God, and, he demands now to be permitted to throw down the altar. Yes—the Protestant Church of Ireland must be yielded up. It stinks in the nostrils of Popery, and must be resigned to her tender mercies. The humble spires which rise amidst the green hills and vallies of that land of superstition, with their small congregations of decent and devout worshippers, who bow the knee to no power save that of the God whom they adore, are distasteful to the disciples of Maynooth, who joy only to gaze upon crowds of crawling and abject wretches prostrating themselves in the degradation of their penances, or rushing uRh seared hearts and inflamed passions from the darkness of the confessional to midnight outrage. Those spires must no more, on Sabbath morn or eve, send forth upon the air of heaven " the sound of the church-going bar —those humble worshippers must either be coerced to bend the kne in temples of idolatry, or be driven to seek the bread of li