The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

he Great Western steamer was to leave New York on the 23rd nit, and would probably arrive at Briatol yesterday. Tim EIITERPEON.—A very fine euterpeon is to be disposed of at the Belvidere Hotel very shortly. It is one of the finest we have heard for so me time. Those who are lucky should try for it. DEAFNESS.—Mrs. Gardner has effected some very re markable cures since her sojourn here this season, and we have been assured by those who have been under her care, that her mode of treatment is not only very efficacious, but does not entail pain upon the patient. Mrs. Gardner has been highly spoken of at several of the London institutions. DANCING.-Mr. Harwood's petits soirees dansantes are now commencing. They afford a most agreeable mode of Passing an evening. Mr. Harwood, as a teacher of the art of dancing, may be considered as inferior to none in this town. SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—We beg to call attention to an advertisement in our columns of this day, respecting scriptural education in a densely populated and depraved district. The plan therein proposed to raise the sum required, appears to us so excellent and simple a one, that we sincerely trust it will speedily be taken in hand, and completed before the expiration of 1841. DEAD BODY OF A FEMALE FOUND IN THE CANAL. — On Thursday morning last one of the porters of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company found the dead body of a woman floating in the canal, opposite to the wharf- in Great Howard-street. It turned out to be the body of Catharine Mitchell, who had been on Wednesday relieved by the Board of Guardians, and who was to have gone on Friday to prove her settlement. ACCIDENT AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.—OR Tuesday even ing, as Mr. Wells, the equestrian, was delineating the Homeward-bound Sailor, the horse accidentally fell upon its head, and such was the force of the concussion that he died almost instantly. It was ascertained that the neck was dis located. Fortunately, Mr. Wells was uninjured, indeed his escape was miraculous. THE PRINCE OF WALES IS to be " THE PET OF THE PETTICOATS," according to His Royal Highness's Nativity, by Raphael in the Prophetic Almanack, in which little work for 1842 it appears at full length, together with 108 pages of useful and very amusing articles, illustrated with a large Co loured Hieroglyphic on Zinc, and an exquisite Steel Plate called " The Magic Mirror." The succesful position of Raphael's Almanack has enabled the proprietor so to improve it as to merit the appellation of being " the best" of the smaller annuals. On Winter evenings, " the LAUGHABLE WHEEL of PYTHAGORAS" and the CABILISTIC NUMBERS ; and, in leisure moments, the poetical extracts afforded light and gratification. (See Addl.) AN OLD OFFENDER.—At the Police-court yesterday, a young man named Robert Simpson, (before known as an offender,) was charged by a respectable-looking female, with having on Sunday morning, white she was going along Hotham-street, torn a shawl from her back, which he threw into a cellar hole, where it was afterwards found by a police officer. The case was proved, and he was committed to gaol for three months. he SMITH'S ALMANACS. - Mr. Smith, of South Castle-street, has just published two very neat little almanacs for Liver ey pool. One is termed the " Miniature edition," the other -- the " Commercial Almanac*" These useful little works ld contain all the local information usually conveyed in such publications. They are very neatly printed, and of a most Id convenient size either for the desk, the office, or the pocket. Amongst the contents are bankers' lists, the corporation of lists, lists of committees, fairs, railway time tables, the mi ,4o nistry, town council, &c. &c., besides the calendar. The a large: edition is very full of information. THEATRE-ROYAL.-It will be remembered, we hope, that a Mr. Lynne's farewell benefit will take place to-morrow even e- ing. His bill is attractive. Besides the comedy of "The Poor Gentleman," the interlude of " The King's Gardener," of and the afterpiece of " The Robber's Wife," an Address on r, the Drama written by a gentleman of Liverpool for the occa sion, will be spoken.—Mr. Holl and Miss fionner make their )- appeal together on Friday night. We perceive a piece written ;c1 by Mr. Holt will be played for the first time, called " Wap ping Old Stairs," founded on the favourite ballad of that 5 ' name. HEARNE v. STOWELL.—The statement which we gave as to the effect of the decision in this case on the costs of the action, we find is not strictly correct, though we gave it upon good authority. The following remarks are from the Man chester Courier of Saturday last, and are probably grounded on information furnished by Mr. Stowell's solicitor :—" The effect of the decision is, that on the first count of the declara tion, both parties will have to pay their own costs ; whilst on the second count, the plaintiff will have to pay the costs on both sides. A contemporary—learned in every point of law that could possibly arise—in commenting upon the decision, says, with something like a sneer, ' by it indeed Mr. Stowell escapes the payment of his opponent's costs. Mr. Stowell we apprehend escapes more than this. He also escapes pay ing a part of his own costs, for, as we have said, whilst on the first count—setting forth the witten statement—the ver dict was for the plaintiff, both sides pay their own costs in . consequence of the arrest of judgement; on the second count —setting for the words spoken—the verdict was for the de fendant, and consequently the plaintiff is saddled with the costs on both sides. We may observe also, in reply to our learned contemporary, that although the court ` has not de cided that there was nothing libelous in the attack upon Mr. Hearne,' the counsel for Mr. Hearne failed to satisfy the court that there was anything libellous 1" THE ALBION'S EXCLUSIVE CLAIM TO " SKETCH" THE TOWN-COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. — The " person" who " does the paragraphs " in the Albion conceives, it would appear, that he is entitled to enjoy a monopoly of the privilege of sketching the sayings and doings of the council ; and that we, who are not blessed with so lofty an opinion of our humble selves, are not entitled to look in even through the keyhole, and especially if we take liberties with such lumi nous individuals as Mr. Gibraltar Bright and Mr. Alderman Evans. Really this is anything but " liberal" on the part of the Albion, or the " person " who did the paragraph to which we allude. We are not at all aware that we have poached upon what was his exclusive manor. We have ap propriated none of his deities, or imitated very closely his mode of paying them worship; and although it is quite pos sible that he and they would gladly have this particular mode of noticing their sayings and doings all upon their own side, we are not satisfied that there is any necessity that we should indulge them. We shall be as faithful chroniclers, and take .quite as accurate, likenesses, as the Albion; and shall always be very cautious in handling such delicate and precious wares as Mr. Gibraltar Bright and Mr. Evans, who is brighter still, and for whose safety our contemporary ma nifests so tender and motherly a care. ADELPHI CONCERT.—Mrs. Palmer, a very accomplished musician and singer, gives a concert this evening in the Adelpin concert-room. The following is the programme It will be seen that it is a judicious selection :—Part 1. Duet, " Le ranz des Vaches," Mrs. J. Palmer and Miss Cecilia Palmer. Song, " Sweetly o'er my senses stealing," Mrs. J. Palmer. Song, " The Night," Mr. Davies. Variations bril lantes sur le Trio Favori du Pre nut Clercs, Mr. E. F. Smith. Duet, " When thy bosom," Mrs. J. Palmer and Mr. T. Higgins. Song, " I'll be no submissive wife," Miss Cecilia Palmer. Song, " Tell me my heart," Mrs. J. Palmer, ac companied on the guitar by Signor M. Parayso. Glee, " Hark ! 'tis the Indian drum." Part 2. Duet, " Giorno D'Orrore," Mrs. J. Palmer and Signor M. Parayso. Song, " Woman," Mr. Davies. Brilliant fantasia on favourite subjects, from " Les Huguenots," Mr. E. F. Smith. Song, " Tyrant, soon I'll burst thy chains," Mrs. J. Palmer. Song, " Wind of the Winter Night,'; Mr. W. Holden, accompa nied by himself on the piano-forte. Duet, " The meeting," Mrs. J. Palmer and Miss Cecilia Palmer. Song, " Come where the splendid harvest moon," Miss Foster, pupil of Mr. G. Eyton. Glee, " The Watchman." INQUEST.—An inquest was held yesterday, before P.' F. Curry, Esq., on view of the body of James Rice, where death, according to the statement of his brother, had been hastened by his treatment on board ship, and hence the in quiry. Direm Cook, captain of the schooner Cornelian, of Glasgow, said that the deceased was one of the hands. They sailed from Glasgow on Saturday week, and arrived here on Friday morning, at three o'clock. The deceased was well when he came on board, but in about seven hours after leav ing port, complained of tooth-ache, and afterwards of a sore throat, so that he was not able to swallow. He was given up on Friday morning, to his brother, who took him to his lodgings in Jamaica-street. Daniel Rice, the brother of the deceased, said, that he found his brother, who was 29 years of age, in the forecastle of the vessel, in a state of insensibi lity. Ele assisted him on shore, and took him home in a coach. Mr. Leech, surgeon, of the dispensary, said, he was called in, and found the deceased at eleven o'clock , in a state of great exhaustion, as he conjectured, from a want of food. His throat was swelled externally. He (witness) ad ministered such remedies as he deemed proper, and called on him several times throughout the day, but he became much worse, and died soon after nine o'clock the same night. Witness could not account for death. On a postmortem ex amination, he found a large deep-seated abscess in the throat, on both sides of the windpipe, extending to the chest, and pressing on the gullet. He ascribed his death to the general irritation of the system, caused by the abscess, and which was the result of natural causes. The mate of the vessel was called at the request of the deceased's brother, to speak as to his treatment; but said that the deceased could swallow nothing but water, with which molasses was mixed for him ; that he was offered everything in the vessel, including broth, &c., but could not touch it. The deceased's brother com plained that the captain left him so long in the wet forecastle after his arrival in the river.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from natural causes. LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. — Last evening the half-yearly meeting of the members and friends of the Rodney-street and Abercromby wards branch of the Operative Protestant Association was held in the school-room adjoining St. Mark's church, and was nume rously attended. The Rev. B. A. Marshall took the chair, and the proceedings were opened with prayer. He com menced by observing that the meetings of this association were held too seldom, but he hoped soon after the commence ment of the new year to be able - to remedy that defect by giving lectures on Protestantism every month or six weeks. This announcement elicited loud applause. lie next ob served that we had much reason to be thankful for the changes that had recently taken place in public affairs, both as respected the administration of the country and that of our local municipal council. It should be recollected that power always brought with it great responsibility ; and he could not understand why men who loudly professed to hold fast Icy principle should consent to fritter it away by yielding to the doctrine of expediency. When a man had a duty to perform, it was not for him to stop to calculate the conse quences. This remark had been suggested to him by reading the debate which took place in the town council on Wednes day last upon the education question. The reverend gentle man then earnestly contended against the doctrine of expe diency on this question. " Principle and duty," he ob served, say, " I know no law of God, therefore I will not a ll ow any law of man, that teils me to inculcate error, directly or indirectly. He then glanced at the evils of Pusey lain as opposed to evangelical and protestant truth, ;and pow— erfully described the efforts making by that body to disse minate their senti rents through the press since the discon tinuance of their " Tracts for the times ". They bad bought over the Times, the Morning Post, the British Critic ' the British Magazine , the Church Intelligencer , the Irish Ec clesiastical Gazette, the Anglo-Catholic Library, the Quarterly Review, and they had even attempted to buy the London Standard ; they had thus a most powerful agency in their behalf, and great efforts were requisite to counteract the evil tendency of such principles.—Lieut. Tracey, R.N., next addressed the meeting in a long and energetic speech, and expressed the disappointment felt by the protestant ope ratives at the delay which had taken place in placing the cor poration schools upon a sound Scriptural basis. He trusted, however, that the Bible would speedily be found there, and that the conservatives would thus vindicate their principles. The gallant officer also entered upon a review of the debate of Wednesday last, in the course of which he exposed the hollow pretences of the liberals, and refuted the positions advanced by Mr. Aikin, with great effect. lie concluded with some general observations upon the protestant cause, urging its claims upon all classes by a great variety of con siderations which we have not space to enumerate. Several other gentlemen subsequently addressed the meeting ; and after the transaction of the ordinary business of the associa tion, the proceedings terminated. MARRIAGE IN A WRONG NAME.—Dr. Lushington has lately decided that a marriage, in pursuance of bans, in which a wrono. Christian name wa s g iven to the husband, with the knowledge . of the wife, was void, and must be en tirely annulled. The fact of there being no children was alluded to, as if the court would not have so decreed had there been issue. VIN E CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA.—In Australia the vine culture produces wines of the finest flavour. The champagne grape, and fifty other species of vines from the districts of France, flourish luxuriantly. LADIES' CHARITY. A general meeting of the trustees and subscribers to the Ladies' Charity was held in the Blue-coat Hospital on Fri day, for the purpose of considering the expediency of adding wards to the charity for the reception of difficult and danger ous cases of parturition. Several ladies and gentlemen at tended._ . The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS, M.A., took the chair shortly after two o'clock, and explained at some length the causes which had led to the holding of the meeting. An in stitution had, he said, been proposed to be erected in Caz neau-street, the object of which was to take into wards built for the purpose those cases which were peculiar to married women, at the time of their confinement. The same object bad been proposed and treated of among the ladies of the charity some time before. It was suggested to them by the medical gentlemen who attended the charity, and who had published, in the form of a pamphlet, their reasons for think ing it a desirable measure. At that time several ladies had done him (the chairman) the honour of consulting him on the subject, and he then thought that the object was to have a regular lying-in hospital. To any such measure as this he was both then as well as now, equally inclined to object, be cause he thought there were some powerful reasons for ob jecting to a regular lying-in hospital. It was unnecessary for him to go into those reasons upon the present occasion, in asmuch as no such proposal was before the meeting ; but there having been a great deal of lukewarmness at the time, the matter was never brought before the subscribers at large. It was merely brought before the committee, by whom it was left in abeyance. It was neither determined on nor was it positively put aside. It was under these circumstances that certain gentlemen, with the best possible motives, wish ing, no doubt, to provide for what they considered a neces sary want among the lower orders, thought of bringing for ward a new institution for receiving cases of parturition. Two of those gentlemen, Mr. Cropper and Mr. Battie, had waited on him, and when they stated what their object was, he certainly replied at once that he thought it a very injudi cious thing to establish a new institution, by which money would necessarily have to be wasted, when what was wanted might so easily be created in the present institution ; and, in consequence of what had since taken place, the matter had been brought before the present meeting for discussion and determination. It no longer seemed to be a question whe ther there should be any wards for the reception of the cases in question. but whether it should be taken up by the Ladies' Charity or by others. The chairman went on to give his rea sons for thinkinea, Epultiplication of charities a great evil, and concluded by saying that if the meeting should iresolve upon adding wards to the charity for the reception of the cases in question, they would have taken away the excuse and necessity for establishing another institution. Mr. MARRIOT proposed the first resolution, to the effect that it was desirable that the wards should be added. Mr. HEYWORTH seconded it in a speech of some length, and after some observations from Mr. JOSEPH B. YATES, it was carried unanimously. _ _ Mr. ADAM HODGSON proposed the second resolution, to the effect that provision be made at present for six patients, and that they be admitted. Mr. THOMPSON seconded it.—Carried._ Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE proposed the third resolu tion, that it was necessary to obtain an additional amount of subscriptions. He said he had been given to understand that the accommodation proposed for six patients would incur an increased expenditure of about £2OO a-year. Mr. ROBINSON seconded the third resclution. Mr. MARRYAT proposed that a communication be seat to the secretary of the new institution, stating that the present meeting had adopted the plan of having additional wards for the reception of cases of parturition. Mr. A. HODGSON seconded the proppsition.. Mr. HZYWORTU proposed the thanks of the meeting to the medical gentlemen of the charity, for the able report they had published, showing the necessity that existed for having additional wards for the treatment of cases of parturition. Mr. TuomrsoN seconded it. _ _ . . Mr. BAINBRIGGE, M.D., returned thanks for the vote on his own behalf, and that of his medical colleagues. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. NEW ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD IN HONOUR OF CAMBRIA. AND TWO WELSH PROFESSOR SHIPS AT THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. On Friday evening last a meeting of the Welsh inhabitants of Liverpool was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of presenting congratulatory addresses to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth of a Prince of Wales ; immediately after which another meeting of the same parties was held, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen to institute a new order of knighthood, to be called The Royal Order of St. David," and to found two Welsh and Celtic professorships at the English univer sities. _ _ John Richards, Esq., was voted to the chair. The first resolution, embodying the main object of the meeting, was moved by Mr. John Roberts, of Bedford street, ;and seconded by Mr. David Lewis, of the Branch Bank of England ; and carried unanimously. The second resolution was moved by the Rev. D. James, of Kirkdale, and seconded by Mr. Alderman Griffiths. . . And it was unanimously resolied,—that the following peti tion to the Queen be adopted. and signed on behalf of the meeting and the Welsh inhabitants of Liverpool, by the chairman and an enlarged committee . " To HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, VICTORIA, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. - IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, — We, your Ma jesty's most loyal and devoted subjects, natives of the princi pality of Wales, resident in Liverpool and its vicinity, in public meeting assembled, having already expressed our ardent attachment to your Majesty's person and throne, in our united address of sincere congratulation on the birth of a Prince of Wales, venture now most respectfully to approach your Majesty with our national petition. " We desire most dutifully to submit to your Majesty, that the birth of a Prince and heir apparent to the Crown, uniting in himself the royal blood of England, Scotland, and Wales, is an event so pregnant with beneficial issues to the British empire as to deserve to be especially marked in the annals of our country by the institution of a new order of knighthood. " The Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order having with the independent sceptre reverted from the British throne to the independent Sovereign of Hanover, makes the present a most fitting opportunity for the institution of a new order of knighthood in Britain. And as there exist the noble Orders of the Garter and the Bath for England, the Ancient Order of the Thistle for Scotland, the Distinguished Order of St. Patrick for Ireland, the Order of St. Michael and St. George for the United States of the lonian Islands and Malta, we feel assured that your Majesty will see fit, in gracious consideration of the just, but long-neglected, claims of the principality, that the new order shall be designated the Royal Order of St. David.' " And we humbly pray, that a new order of knighthood, bearing this name, in commemoration of the birth of your Majesty's illustrious son, the Prince of Wales, may at this time be instituted. " AND MAY IT LIKEWISE PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, — We, your Majesty's petitioners beg further to represent, that, as by the birth of this Prince his august parents are become peculiarly endeared to the Welsh nation, it is our anxious wish that some appropriate memorials of their illus trious names may be identified with the future history and literary advantages of our native land. " It is with deep regret we observe that the want of some provision for the cultivation of Welsh literature at the English universities has been long felt by the Principality as a serious evil. The Welshmen who resort to those semina ries for their education are left without the means of con tinuing their acquaintance with their native tongue ; and destined as most of them are to fill important stations in their own country, either in the magistracy, in the law, or in the church, their imperfect knowledge of the vernacular language renders them, through life, less efficient than it is desirable they should be, and operates very prejudicially against the administration of justice on the one hand, and the interests of true religion on the other. " But, irrespective of this, we are deliberately of opinion, that if the Welsh language had long ceased to be spoken in the Principality, its cultivation as a dead language would be deemed indispensable to the successful prosecution and ad vancement of national literature in Britain. As an impor tant branch and pure representative of the ancient Celtic, the original language of Europe, it supplies the key to the import of the names originally given to mountains, plains, rivers, and cities on the Continent and in the British Isles ; and proffers to the student of antiquities, and to the writer of history, advantages the want of which no other acquire ments could possibly supply. " In confirmation of this opinion, we beg to quote the fol lowing passage from a speech delivered by the late lamented Bishop Heber, at a congress of Welsh bards at Wrexham : ' Though not myself a Welshman, and though I have not the good fortune to be able to appreciate any otherwise than through the medium of a translation, the treasures of your elder bards, I cannot at all forget that it is from them Gray and Southey have borrowed some of the most striking poetry which my own language contains. Nor can I forget that in the pedigree of almost all existing tongues, and in the his tory of all civilised nations, a knowledge of your antiquities is necessary to a certain extent, whether to the philologist or the antiquary, inasmuch as they were your ancestors who first colonised the widest and fairest regions of Europe ; and who have left behind them, intermixed with the lan guages of their successors, and impressed on the most stri king features of nature from Caucasus to Denmark, the traces of their previous occupancy. Saxon as lam myself. and proud of my nation, I am certainly very far from bla ming—l am naturally disposed to rejoice in—the pains which we have taken to preserve and illustrate the most remote and barren of the Gothic dialects. But I cannot perceive why the Mabinogion and the Gododin do not call for editions equally splendid with those of the Icelandic sages, and why there should not be a WELSH as well as an Anglo-Saxon professor at ONE OR BOTH OF THE UNIVERSITIES.' " The desideratum so disinterestedly expressed in behalf of our country at the close of the above passage, by the dis tinguished Bishop Heber, is that for which we at present humbly petition,—convinced that the foundation of two Welsh professorships at the English Universities, to be called respectively The Victoria Professorship of Welsh and Celtic Literature at Oxford,' and The , Albert Pro fessorship of Welsh and Celtic Literature at Cambridge,' will best associate the name of your Majesty, and that of your royal consort, with the future welfare of the country from which the Prince, your son, derives his highest title. " We feel less diffident in submitting this request as re• gards the University of Oxford s inasmuch as your Majesty has graciously intimated to parliament your royal will and intention to found two new professorships at that university, to be competently endowed by the annexation of two canon ries in the chapter of Christ Church, when such canonries shall become vacant. And your Majesty will be aware, that the deanery and chapter of Christ Church derive £2,500 annually from rectorial tithes in Welsh parishes ; so that one of the new professorships may well be spared, as it is justly claimed by your Majesty's petitioners, for the benefit of the principality of Wales. " But with respect to the endowment of a Welsh and Cel tic professorship at Cambridge, we beg to throw ourselves on your Majesty's royal bounty, in the assurance that, as the name of Albert cannot be less dear to your Majesty than to your Majesty's devoted subjects of Cambrian blood, it will please your Majesty to order that such a monument as we have indicated shall be erected, to transmit his name to posterity as the benefactor of that people whose national at tachment to his illustrious son, the Prince of Wales, defies all description. " And your Majesty's petitioners will ever pray, that Al mighty God may vouchsafe to your Majesty a long and pros perous reign, accompanied by every domestic comfort—may bless your royal consort with health and grace—and continue to spare and protect the infant Prince, until he shall ascend the throne of his ancestors, amidst the undivided loyalty and enthusiastic acclamations of the millions of his subjects." Signed, on behalf of the meeting and the Welsh people in Liverpool, by the chairman and committee. NARROW ESCAPE OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER AVON. —Her Majesty's steamer Avon, was nearly lost on the rocks under Steel Point, near Flamborough Lighthouse, on Sunday night week, during the dreadful hurricane from the south. The steamer got on the rocks in the early part of the evening. As soon as she struck signal guns were fired for assistance, as well as blue lights exhibited, which being perceived by the Manchester steamer, Captain Polwart, and the captain of another large steam-ship, belonging to the London and Leith trade, they bore down, and on coming up to the Avon attempts were made to tow her off, but in consequence of the danger ous condition of the rocks it was impossible to get ropes on board. At length, after heaving the guns overboard, and also part of the provisions, she got off, but it is supposed her bottom sustained much damage. INVITATION TO . UNITED PRAYER, FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ON SATURDAY, Ist JANUARY, 1842, Being the First _Day of the New Year. DEARLY BELOVED IN TIIR The kind Providence of God has brdught us to that inte resting season at which, for some years past, I have had the privilege of inviting you to unite ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR, IN A GENERAL CONCERT FOR PRAYER, FOR THE _OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. The New Year commences on SATURDAY, JANUARY Ist, 1842, and will thus afford the opportunity of engaging with increased fervour in this devotional service : for, the follow ing day being the Holy Sabbath, the spirit of prayer granted on the Saturday, we may trust, will be still more abundantly given on the Lord's Day, and thus a double blessing be ob tained. May the Lord of his great goodness and tender mercy thus favour us. May lie make it a Season of great refreshment to every one who engages in this concert; and of joy in Heaven over many, many sinners, brought to re pentance. _ _ . We may be the more encouraged to expect a great blessing from the very gracious answer given to the united prayers His people offered on the first day of the present year. It may he in your recollection that in my last Invitation, exclusively of those reasons which had shown to all who united in this concert, the unspeakable blessings connected with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, three special calls for fervent prayer for " the promise of the Father," were then presented to us. Ist, The state of the Jews ; 2d, The condi tion of the Eastern Churches, and 3d, The Great Enterprise then just going forth for the extinction of the Slave Trade, and for the general Civilization of Africa. Each of these important subjects were commended to the earnest prayers of those Christians who assembled on Janu ary Ist, 1841. We have only to refer to those delightful events which have since taken place to be convinced that our God does indeed hear and answer prayer. Instead of the scattered remnant of Judah being as they were last year at Damascus and Rhodes, subject to the most grievous persecutions, the Lord has so inclined the hearts of his people towards them, that Jerusalem is becoming the centre of union, in which Protestant states, holding the same faith, though varying in their modes of worship, may act together in harmonious concord. The King of Prussia, with that Christian liberality which does his Majesty so much ho nour, has given a considerable sum towards the endowment of a Protestant Church in Jerusalem ; whilst our Gracious Queen has used her influence with the Ottoman Porte to ob tain an official promise that the Turkish authorities in Jeru salem shall not oppose the erection of this church although it be built on mount Zion itself! In connexion with this royal movement, the Spiritual Heads of our Church have conse crated the Rev. M. S. Alexander, a converted Israelite, and an ordained minister of our Church, to be the Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland, in Jerusalem, with an episcopal jurisdiction, extending to Egypt, Abyssinia, Chaldea, and Syria. Surely these events may remind us at least, of those animating predictions, " I have set Watchmen upon thy walls, 0 Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night." " Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers, and Queens thy nursing Mothers." "The sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their Kings shall minister unto thee." Whilst these pleasing occurrences regarding the Jews have taken place, the following answers to the prayers offered for the revival of the Eastern Churches have been vouchsafed : A society has been formed for the endowment of Colonial Bishoprics, and, amongst others, for a Bishop of Malta, who is to have the oversight of the Lord's cause on the coasts of the Mediterranean. Five Oriental Prelates, namely, one Patriarch and four Metropolitans, have written to the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, requesting protection and assistance. The Druses of Mount Lebanon have applied to her Majesty's government to obtain under their sanction, such means of instruction and civilization as in:,y also best secure their becoming sincere christiaus. The Coptic Patriarch has consecrated as Abuna, or Bishop of Abyssinia, an Egyptian youth, who was educated by a Missionary of our Church ; and several of the Coptic clergy have applied to our Missionaries for the Holy Scriptures, and other religious books, and have held friendly communi cations with them upon spiritual subjects. The expedition to the River Niger has since sailed, and by the divine blessing has reached the shores of Africa, after so prosperous a voyage, that not one case of severe illness oc curred. After spending the Sabbath at Sierra Leone, and taking with them several persons as interpreters, they pro ceeded to the Niger, accompanied by the prayers of a very numerous congregation of converted Africans, who assem bled at Free Town for this purpose. These great blessings the God of all goodness has bestowed since our last concert. Nor can it be forgotten that among many other tokens of divine mercy in this year, our Arch bishops and several of our Bishops have voluntarily become the Patron, and Vice-Patrons, of our Church Missionary and Jews Societies; thus removing whatever scruples any persons might have had in assisting those excellent institu tions in fulfilling the command of our blessed Saviour, "that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations,- BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM." It is thus encouraged, my beloved Christian friends, that I am once more privileged to invite you to join this union for Prayer on the first day of the New Year ;—a year which opens upon us as no previous year has done since the destruc tion of the second temple—A year in which a converted Israelite will probably have arrived in the holy city, as the spiritual representative of the United Protestant Church of England and Ireland, and it may be, ere it closes, have con secrated the building in which prayers will be offered accord ing to the Liturgy of the Church of England ; the pure word of God will be preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinances ;—A year also, when the nations who profess the faith of Christ are all in amity with each other ' • indeed, when the only part of the world in which the sound of war is heard, is on the distant coasts of China ; A year, still further marked by this favourable circumstance, that God in his providence has granted to her Majesty so strong a government, that what ever plans, dependent upon legislative enactment, they may propose, for promoting the spiritual benefit of our own country or the general good of mankind, they will, if the Lord permit, have the power to carry their measures. At such a crisis, what language can express the vast im portance of her Majesty's counsellors being under the special guidance and direction of the God of all grace ?—of His granting to them the spirit of wisdom and godly fear—that heavenly wisdom which will enable them to see the high po sition in which He who is " King of Kings and Lord of Lords" has placed our country ? That such is the powerful influence the Almighty has granted to our Protestant Queen, who, and her infant son, our Protestant Prince of Wales, may God long preserve ! that through the instrumentality of her Majesty's government, the most distant regions may re ceive unspeakable blessings. Surely the sincere followers of our Lord, in whatever land they may at present sojourn, bearing this in mind, will entreat the outpouring of the Spirit upon our Rulers in Church and State. This earnest prayer is more loudly called for from the pe culiar activity of the church of Rome at this moment. For, laying aside all disguise, we behold a prelate of that church publicly advocating a union between the church of England and the church of Rome, and using this as one of his strong est reasons, that such a union is much desired by many of our clergy. Alas ! that there should be even one amongst us who should have given the least countenance to such a charge, or one who should have so lamentably departed from his ordination vows, as a minister of our Protestant church. Let, however, these unhappy delusions, and the-artful so phistries used to entrap the younger clergy and other mem bers of our church, rouse us from our slumbers; make us more earnest in prayer that the Lord would in his tender mercy restore those who have fallen, preserve the simple from being taken in the snare, keep us stedfast in the faith of our Protestant forefathers, and make us willing rather to lose the last drop of our blood, than neglect the solemn warn ing given to us from Heaven, " Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues : ' above all, that " The Mighty God" would grant that when " the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord may lift up a standard against him." There are other very important subjects which I would gladly notice, as calling for special prayer ; but this address requires brevity. Referring, therefore, to invitations given in former years, in which many of these subjects are set forth, and requesting you still to bear upon your hearts the state of the Jews ; the condition of the eastern churches ; the expedition to Africa ; the crisis in which Christendom is now placed ; and the extention of the kingdom of our Lord, both among ourselves and the unconverted Heathen.—Entreating you to bear these and other interesting topics in remem brance, I would now affectionately invite all who love or Lord Jesus Christ, in sincerity, TO COMMENCE THE YEAR BY UNITING IN THE GENERAL CONCERT FOR PRAYER FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ON SATUR DAY, THE IST OF JANUARY. The following suggestions are respectfully offered to assist hose who are desirous of doing this. lat.—Let Christians follow the example of our blessed Lord (Mark i. 35), who rose up a great while before day for secret prayer. Let them thus secure the blessing of Him who says, " pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." 2d.—Let them call upon the Lord in their families, for his Spirit to be poured upon themselves and their households, their neighbours, their country, the ministers of the Lord, the Churches of Christ, the remnant of scattered Judah, and outcast Israel, and upon the gentile world. 3d.—Let the ministers of the Lord afterwards privately meet with their brethren of their own communion, in earnest prayer for themselves, their flocks, the whole body of Christ, and the world at large • and then specially consult together upon the most effectual means for hastening the coming of the Lord's kingdom, and particularly for the continuance of such a general concert for prayer, that the year may proceed according to this devout commencement. 4th.—Where circumstances will admit of a morning ser vice, let the congregation be assembled, and in addition to the appointed prayers and a suitable sermon, let all who are devoutly disposed partake together of the supper of the Lord ; or, sth.—As may be more convenient, let the whole congrega- tion meet in the evening for public worship, and let an Eipp-io priate discourse be preached. May the Lord accompany these means of grace, or such others as may be adopted, with his abundant blessing. Oh ! may it indeed be a season of special refreshment from the presence of the Lord. Let this be the prayer of all who read this paper, and, as the new year is now approaching, it would be a great kind ness if those who approve the object, and have influence over the press, WOULD REPUBLISH AND CIRCULATE THIS INVITATION, which any one, into whose hands it may fall, has full permission to do. Peace be with all who love the Lord Jesus Christ iu sin cerity. Thus prays their affectionate brother and servant in the Lord, JAMES HALDANE STEWART. Si. Bride's, Liverpool. DARING ROBBERY.—Great sensation has been created in Myerscough and the neighbourhood, in consequence of a most daring and violent robbery having been committed in Fencefoot-house, Myerscough, in the occupation of Mr. Cottam, (a farmer,) his sister, a lad, (a farm servant,) who having been more or less seriously injured, were bound hand and foot and fastened into their chairs. The house stands in a very lonely situation, at least three or four hundred yards from any other. Mr. Cottarrr is an elderly man, of perhaps 65 years of age. On Saturday evening last, at about eight o'clock, as he was just opening his door, intending to go out to fodder the cattle, a body of eight men presented them selves before him. One of them seized him by the breast and thrust him back from the lobby, which was in darkness, into the kitchen, others of the party telling him that if he did not be quiet they would blow his brains out. The robbers were armed. Mr. Cottam says he saw a double barrelled blunderbuss, or large pistol, and also some smaller fire arms amongst them. Considerable violence was used towards him, and a great scuffle ensued. Mr. Cottam fought the men for a full half hour before he was overpowered ; the flag flooring of the kitchen was covered with blood. He was, however, at last, fastened into a chair, after having been much cut and otherwise injured by his ruffianly assailants. Mr. Cottam's sister was also treated very roughly. The robbers having left nothing unturned in their search after money tied the hands of Mr. Cottam, his sister, and a boy, who lives with them with catgut cord which they had taken with them and fastened them into their chairs with halters and ropes. They then decamped with money to the amount of about £lOO. The boy after the robbers had left succeeded in gnawing the catgut in two, and then released the old man and woman, when information was immediately given of the robbery. Six men had been taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the„robbery, but the case at present made out is very slight indeed. SOCIALISM AND ITS JUVENILE INFIDELS We have been told by conservatives, and good conserva ses too, that the impious doctrines and projects of social- are, from their own weakness and the insignificance of the parties by whom they are propounded, unworthy of the serious notice of the conservative press or the conservative public. We cannot, however, admit the soundness of this view, and are convinced that it can only proceed from an entire ignorance of the character of those doctrines, and of the seductive means adopted to effect their propagation. The open and undoubted atheism which is the root and heart of the system, is calculated indeed to shock rather than to attract the minds of the great body of the commu nity ;—the avowals, on the part of the hired itinerants and their duped and defrauded disciples, of utter unbelief of Scripture—the ribald abuse of every ordinance of religion, which form the staple of the nightly or weekly lectures of their " halls of science"—the mockery of all which we have been accustomed to hold sacred, are so revolting to the Christian portion of the people of England, that they cannot believe that a system of which such profanities constitute the essence can do any material injury to the cause of reli gion and order, and are ready to maintain that, unopposed and unnoticed, it will ultimately expire of inanition, or :)e crushed beneath the indignation of its defrauded dupes. But they must be unaware, in connection with these di- ing profanities, and to induce the unthinking to embrace them, what enticing lures are held out—what specious pro fessions put forth—what attractive shows devised—to lead step by step the young and the giddy from the path of truth into mere contact, at first, with the noxious thing, until they are engulfed at length in all the abomination of its immo rality and blaspheming infidelity. They cannot be aware of the fact, that not only by the temptations offered in the form of social balls and concerts, are the young of both sexes drawn into the vortex of irreligion, but that even the infant mind is laid hold of by these arch-apostles of atheism and purity, and sedulously trained up in the belief of their famous blasphemies. We have been induced to call the attention of our fello townsmen to the proceedings of this body, by an exhibition to which the public were invited on Sunday afternoon, in the Social Hall, in Lord Nelson-street, and of the doings at which we are in possession of information. What does the reader think of the public examination, in a Christian town, a Christian England, in the middle of the nineteenth cen -11, of upwards of fifty juvenile—almost INFANT-INFI- And yet by no milder language can we describe the outrage upon decency, and upon the feelings of a Christian community, which was perpetrated within the walls of this den of infamy in the afternoon of the Sabbath ! Upwards of fifty poor children avowedly trained up to believe religion a fable—the Bible a book of lies and immorality—the exist ence of a future state, and the possession of an immortal soul, delusions ; and their infant lips taught to lisp blasphe mous hymns to the God of Nature, and to scoff at and de ride the God of Truth ! Can we safely shut our eyes to such DELS ! a tnonstrous profanity ? " We do not, in educating these poor children," explained a social expounder of the social system of education, " teach them any thing about David and Goliath, if ever such men existed, or about Sampson carrying off the gates of a city, if ever such a man as Sampson existed. We throw away the Bible and teach them useful knowledge." A nice system this we should think for not a few of the liberals of our council ! The kind of useful knowledge provided was made known by the examination of the juveniles themselves, who went through a description of the anatomical structure of the human body ;—explained the nature and form of nerves, arteries, sinews, muscles, &c., with all the gravity of a college of surgeons ; displayed a profound knowledge of botany, its classes, orders, species, &c., and there can be no doubt could have equally enlightened the auditory upon other branches of philosophy. In real fact, farcical as obviously is the attempt to drill such subjects as these into the memories of complete children, and little calculated for such a task as the diffusion of a correct knowledge of them, as are the half crazy and half rascally pretenders who under take it, the object must be plain—viz., to pervert the young minds,—to lay the foundation for the rejection in future life of scriptural knowledge, and the erection in its stead of a superstructure of materialism and its consequent or ac companying infidelity. And yet all this is done under the superintendence of females (!)—mothers of families—and is paid for with the money exacted from the curious, the idle, and the giddy, who are drawn nightly and weekly within the walls of this temple of infidelity, from a morbid desire to listen to the blasphemies which are uttered purposely to attract such visits. We, will not, by noticing any of these proceedings, excite further curiosity towards them; but really we do think that it is a duty on the part of the magistrates of Liverpool to endeavour, at the least. to restrain them within the bounds of outward decency. On Sunday week last, we are informed, that the atrocities uttered were beyond measure disgusting ; and notwithstanding all our toleration towards mere error in religious teaching we cannot think that toleration ought to extend to these ribald exhibitions. HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR ST. HELENS (From our own Correspondent.) _ . ST. HELENS, SUNDAY MORNING.—It becomes our pain ful duty to record the facts of a most diabolical:and barbarous murder which has been committed on a highly respectable farmer residing at Rainford, about two miles from St. Helens, whose name was Mr. Henry Grayson. The unfortunate gentlem - an was in the habit of visiting St Helens several time; during the week ; and on Saturday last, being market day, he had been at that town on his ordinary business. Having property there, he had received some rentals during the day, and therefore had a considerable sum of money on his person before he set out for home. Mr. Grayson, it is known, was in St. Helens after mid night, because he was applying for admittance at the King's Head public-house between twelve and one o'clock, but being refused it he went away from there. We have not yet heard that he was afterwards seen until found at a place called Den ton's Green, which is about a mile from the town, and the direct road to his own house. About five o'clock on Sunday morning a man, employed as ostler by the Denton Green Brewery Company, was pro ceeding to his stables, when he discovered the body of a man lying in the centre of the highway, and his suspicion was that he was drunk and asleep. He, however, raised him up, and finding him incapable of either speaking or helping himself, carried him into a barn immediately adjoining, and which belongs to Mr. C. Blades,:of the Gerard's Arms, Denton's Green. There the man left him, supposing he was still asleep, but returned some time after with a lantern, when► he fonnd that he had been dreadfully wounded ou his head and other parts of his body, and if not then dead, was utterly insensible. He immediately gave an a arm, and medical assistance was procured, but the unfortunate gentleman was dead before it could be of any avail. The body is now lying at the Gerard Arms, public-house, where hundreds have been this day to view it. It is shock ingly disfigured, so that his late most intimate friends could scarcely recognise it. There are several severe wounds on the skull, which, it may be surmised, have been inflicted by a hammer or some such instrument. The ribs are nearly all broken, and the face is covered with bruises, and very much swollen. No money was found on the person of the decea sed, and the right-hand trouser pocket is cut out. The police, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent Storey, have been very vigilant and dexterous, and four par ties are in custody on suspicion. The names of these ate Thomas Meadowcroft, Robert Wood, Charles Wood, and Isaac Jacques. These men are well known to the authorities as desperate characters, who have long infested the neigh bourhood, and been imprisoned for various terms very re peatedly. As yet we cannot detail the principal grounds of evidence which will come out against them on the coroner's inquest ; but the imprint of one of the prisoner's shoes, which is remarkably formed, corresponds with some foot marks near the spot where the fatal deed was realized. A clasp knife, besmeared with blood, was found in the posses sion of one of these suspected characters, and a spot of blood has also been detected on his trousers. The excitement produced by the untoward event in the neighbourhood is, of course, very intense; and this is en hanced by the deceased gentleman being one who was well known and highly respected. SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK.—Another party has just been taken by the police, but no justification of the cause for his imprisonment has yet transpired. FURTHER PARTICULARS Since writing the above two more parties have been appre hended on suspicion, but the police are still on the alert,. as the present prisoners are only detained upon circumstantial grounds, and the real murderer may yet be at liberty. A man named Patrick M'Coddom was taken on Sunday after noon, in Rainford, with a tolerable sum of money in his pos session, which he cannot satisfactorily account for; and his personal appearance bespeaks that of a wandering mendicant— the apparel he wore being very much tattered—which may seem rather ominous of his dishonesty. Another man, named William Jacques, is also in " durance vile," in addition to those mentioned above, he being detained because he was seen in company the evening previous to the murder with the first-mentioned parties, and is known by the police as belong ing to their community of " dishonourables , ' who have been a plague to the neighbourhood for years, and are styled the " Long Company," owing to their numbers and the fre quency of their exploits. It has been stated that this company were drinking at a public-house (the sign of the Seven Stars) in Eccleston at a late hour on Saturday night. This place is not very far from the spot where the murder has been committed, and the pro bability of these parties, on leaving there. of having fallen in with Mr. Grayson, and committed the fatal deed, is a pro bability which, however unjust, is seized and insisted upon by all gossips. Robert Woods was rather intoxicated when taken. . . _ Another fact, which is much talked about, is, that on Sun day morning the Superintendent of Police and Police-Ser geant Branwood were going to Rainford, when they called at the house of the deceased, and the superintendent having got out of his gig arid gone into the house, the two prisoners Meadowcroft and Isaac Jacques, mentioned above, were seen by the sergeant coining through the deceased's farm yard, when the officer, knowing these characters, looked keenly upon them, and detected spots of blood upon their apparel. He descended from the gig and collared both of them, when they threatened to attack him if he did not cease his grasp. He called for the superintendent, who immediately came to his assistance, and both parties were secured. We may re mark, that between twelve and one o'clock on the night before the murder, Mr. Blades, the landlord of the public-house at Denton's Green, accompanied a gentleman part of the way to his home, in the direction of Rainford, when they descried two men near a finger-post opposite Mr. Blade's house, and noticed their dresses, which, from the description they have since given, correspond with those of two of the prisoners. These are circumstances which our readers must be content with until an official investigation into the matter is entered upon. At present we cannot lay before our readers anything more definite respecting this melancholy affair until the coroner's inquest has been held, a full report of which shall appear in our number of Friday next. There is no doubt that the ob ject of Mr. Grayson's murderer was pl un d er , f or hi s disposi tion was that of a harmless , inoffensive man, 65 years of age, and it cannot be supposed that he had fallen a victim to the remorseless vengeance of an excited adversary. The Western Times says, the carriage of goods by the Bristol and Exeter Railway to Exeter is much ou the in crease. CORRESPONDENCE TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL. LETTER 111 GENTLEMEN,—" Faithful are the reproofs of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." There are deceitful enemies endeavouring to kiss you into a compromise; listen then, once more, to the voice of your old and trusty Achates, who writes with the unembarrassed liberty of conscious kindness and unaffected respect. It is known to you, Gentlemen, that when the Christian Church in England, under the government of her legitimate rulers, purified herself from the corruptions in doctrine and practice which commenced upon the continent of Europe, and were gradually introduced into England, obscuring the fair face of her primitive Christianity ; there were certain schismatics who, adhering to those corruptions and recogni zing the primacy of Rome, as opposed to that of Canterbury, separated themselves from the Christian Church Catholic in England. The descendants of those schismatics adhered to the schism, and perpetuated the corruptions of their forefa thers. The ecclesiastics of those separatists have, it seems, addressed you, modestly calling themselves "the Catholic Clergy of Liverpool,"and announcing, respectfully of course, that they cannot concur in an arrangement which it was un derstood to be in your contemplation to introduce into your schools. They complain—" that it is in contemplation to discard the Douay version of the Bible entirely from the schools, and to require that all the children shall use the authorised ver sion of the Established Church." This is skilfully worded, as if their objection lay not to the use of the Holy Scripture as such, but only to the exclusive use of one translation of the Scripture rather than the other : and an impression is conveyed by it to the minds of unwary and uninstructed readers, that these gentlemen have no ob jection to the use of the Bible in a translation of which they approve. This seems fair and reasonable, but this is not the question at issue. In rejecting the Douay Bible, Christians are not influenced by the mere matter of translation, (although in many passages they cannot approve of it,) but by the doc trines and traditions of men which have never yet been sepa rated from it. There is, I believe, no such thing as a Douay Bible bona fide without notes or comments of man, and also purified from those apochryphal hooks which were never received as Scripture by the Jews, nor enrolled in the sacred canon by the primitive Christian Church. When such a copy of the Douay Bible shall be prepared for general use, the question between it and our authorised version will be narrowed into a question of translation. As matters now stand, it is im portant that it should be clearly seen and known, that to plead for the use of the Douay Bible, with its notes and interspersed apochryphal books, is to plead for the distin guishing peculiarities of the Roman schism. To give one instance. St. Matt. iii, 2. Our authorised version is "Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The Douay version is, "Do penance: for the king dom of heaven is at hand." Such is the difference in transla tion ; but this is not alt; it is magnified into an irreconcileable breach by the Douay note, which is this— " Which word according to the use of the Scriptures and the holy Fathers does not only signify repentance, and amend ment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such like penitential exercises." On this I wish you to observe, in the first place, the utter hopelessness of combining, in any educational system, the Christian Church and the Roman schismatics. The letter above quoted is an official declaration that by enforcing the use of the Sacred Scriptures upon all the children, and the practice of prayer in the school, you will exclude the schismatics. And you are already in possession of sufficient proof, that, by NOT enforcing these things you will exclude the Christian clergy of the town. In my last letter I quoted for you the bold and manly declarations made in the Amphi theatre Meeting by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks and the Rev. Augustus Campbell. I might have quoted largely similar declarations made upon the same occasion, and on other oc casions, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. These men may be said in a general way to represent all the clergy of the town. These are not men to say one thing on such a subject as this in 1836, and another thing in 1841, and therefore I think you may feel assured that they will remain in their present dignified distance from your schools, and reiterate their Christian protests against the system, unless you do what the Romish priests say they cannot concur in, and more also. Thus, gentlemen, it appears that the alternative you have to determine, is not whether you will, or can, combine all parties in one system—that is impossible—but you have to choose which you will have. Five years ago the council chose the Roman schism : we have confidence that now you will choose the Christian Church. Our confidence is indeed somewhat shaken by what took place in your meeting of last Wednesday. 'We were grieved to see your Education Committee betray their own weakness and disunion, and still more so to see so many of you (without any explanation of why you did it) joining your common adversaries to defeat that com mittee, though it be but for a time. There is an ap pearance, at least, of indecision about it, which arms your opponents with the hope that by skilful management and professions of moderation, they may succeed in continuing perhaps increasing, your disunion ; so as practically to neu tralise your ostensible majority, so far as this great question is concerned. True, the report of the Education Committee recommended a sweeping measure : true, they were con victed of not having formally read for the purpose the reso lutions which they proposed to rescind : true, they were shewn to be disunited ! What then ? That political opponents should avail themselves of such topics for embarrassment is natural enough ; hut that political friends should at such a moment join their opponents. and affirm by a majority that they have no confidence in their own committee, is painfully unnatural, and excites serious apprehensions for the future. That it was done with yood intentions, I do not for a mo ment doubt ; but this increases the alarm, because equally disastrous measures may be carried with equally good inten tions ; and, when our friends have injured us, it will be but poor consolation to be told that they were all the while con scientiously intending to do us good. If you could not conscientiously support your own com mittee, neither retire before a division : but if, on the con trary, you were conscientiously constrained to oppose your committee ; it must, one may fairly suppose, have been for very strong reasons : and surely, gentlemen, those reasons should have been distinctly stated at the time, and the ne cessity, in your judgment, for such a step made plain to all. But no reasons were stated, and, consequently, the division was well calculated, not only to embarrass your friends, but, also, to encourage your opponents. Hence, we are not sur prised to find, upon the summons for the meeting of the council, for Wednesday next, the following motion, of which notice has been given by Mr. Councillor Bolton : " That it be an instruction to the Education Committee, that the children of Roman Catholics shall not, in the cor poration schools, be required to use or read any book what ever, against which their parents or guardians may have conscientious objections." Can you wonder, gentlemen, that we should be grieved that a majority, returned, as you have been, should have so acted and spoken as to leave yourselves still open to such an assault as this, with the slightest hope of success ? Excuse this bold remonstrance. It is the boldness of faith ful affection, and the exigency of the crisis seems at once to demand and to justify it. I conclude for the present, as I began—" Faithful are the reproofs of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."—Yours, FIDUS ACHATES. Liverpool, Mc. 4, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Liverpool, 61h Dec., 1841 Sin,—The Editor of the Journal having refused to insert the following, in answer to a letter of Mr. Rathbone's, I take this opportunity to forward it to you, trusting you will find room for it in the Standard of Tuesday next. AN OLD SCHOOLMASTER. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL JOURNAL SlR,—Allow me to make a few remarks on a letter, pub lished in " The Liverpool Journal" of Saturday last, on the subject of education, and bearing the signature of Wm. Rathbone, who avers that the leading doctrines of the Bible (or words to that effect, as I quote from memory) should be taught to the children attending the corporation schools, ir respective of any particular creed : this would be very well if it came from one who himself believed in the fundamental doctrines of the Bible ; but, I confess, that I am utterly una ble to conceive what a Unitarian can have to do in teaching the doctrines of Christianity, the saving influence of which he disbelieves, and, consequently, rejects the grand and fun damental doctrines of the Bible,: in consequence of his dis belief in the divinity of Christ. Yet so it is, for we find Wm. Rathbone gravely talking about the right and justness of teaching children the leading doctrines of the Bible, the essence of which (either Protestant or Catholic) he, as a Uni tarian, rejects as spurious. Now, sir, the man who thinks that he can consistently at tach any importance to, or lay any stress upon the necessity or propriety of imparting to children (who are incapable of judging in such matters) the leading principles of a religion, the essence of which he disbelieves, would do well, in my humble opinion, to read, and apply to his own particular case, the following language of scripture, which he will find in the 50th Psalm :—" What bast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. These things halt thou done, and I kept silence ; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself ; but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. . . . . I say how any one can consistently insist on, or wish to instil, into the minds of children, doctrines which he himself disbelieves, is a question, the solution of which, I hope, he will favour us with at his earliest convenience. As regards the future management of the schools, I think, notwithstanding the exclusive rule the tories are likely to follow, the whigs can have little cause to complain, seeing that during their five years' reign they have done nothing more than open (as they call it) the two schools under their controul to the children of Papists ; this simple, yet just act, having afforded th em su ffi c i en t matter to boast of and quarrel over ever since. _ . . Now if they had established, in the above period, half a dozen schools, in the most benighted and densely populated parts of the town, they might then hav e . had some ju s t cl a i m to be styled " th e f r i en d s of education " ; but their supineness on this and other important questions clearly proves that liberality of sentiment is with them only a name and nothing more. They fondly, but at the same time falsely, imagined that municipal reform brought with it lasting power to their party, and that they should henceforth reign supreme over their more hu nble brethren : the remit has evinced their error, and shewn them that the only way to retain power, :is to treat their fellowmen with that attention and civility which integrity of character and a free and independant spirit entitle them to. But independance in a poor man is a very bad thing, and must be put down by all manner of means—no matter what harsh treatment, he has received—he is expected to pocket it all, and keep his independance till an election comes round, and then he will be exhorted to exert it to the utmost, and sacrifice his best interest by giving an independant vote in favour of, and to gratify the selfish ambition of those, who are utterly unworthy of such a sacrifice. Perhaps some of your readers may think that this is personal : in reply, I beg to state that I never had a vote to give, so that I was never even solicited for one. I simply mention facts that have come under my own observation, or otherwise, as a liberal minded and independant man. To return : can it be possible that Mr. P.,lthbone intends sailing into some political haven, by filling his sails with a wind of expediency? He lately talks a good deal about the duties of Christians; we had something of it in his address to the electors of Great George-street ward ; and now again in his letter to Mr. Lawrence. It looks odd. AN OLD SCHOOLMNSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sise,—As you have fought for us and with us so long in the good cause of truth, and for the promotion of the Word of God amongst our children, let us, through your valuable paper, protest against that false charity which pervades the minds of some of our representatives. They had our assist ance, our time, and our labour; and now we see some of these men doing what we sent them not to do. We protest, then, that we are deceived in some of them. The great sti mulating cause which nerved our exertions at the recent election, was that, if successful, we should get rid of the popish-infidel schools, and the clergy of our apostolical church would be enabled to superintend the teaching of our children. These were the grounds on which we acted, and these the views which our representatives professed to hold on the day of election. Then, we say, gentlemen, be con sistent ; and if your sort of charity be now inconsistent with what you professed when you sought our votes, resign your trust again into our hands, and we will put in men that will be consistent. We had no idea that gentlemen put in to act as our representatives would be so duped as to vote away our money to our greatest enemies. A meeting will be held in Toxteth-liall to-morrow evening, when we hope to see our representatives. This, Mr. Editor, is the language of hundreds of Protes tant voters in the Park, who have done their duty, and are willing to do so again when required.—Yours, &c., To:rteth-park,Dec. Cth, Hal R. M. C THE TOWN COUNCIL AND SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD take the liberty of writing a few lines to you on he proceeding of your municipal body on the education ques- Lon, for I assure you 1 take a very lively interest in it ; and I may say, that both in Manchester and throughout the country, the whole body of Christians that prefer principle to expediency are closely watching their proceedings. Your corporation have now the power to set an example to the British nation. For what, may I ask, has been the curse of our country for the last eight or ten years but a system of expediency and vacillation, which amounts to infidelity ? He that fears God rather than man will at once see his duty, and will not hesitate to perform it. Now, if your council will act on the motto of fearing God rather than man, they will at once come to the conclusion ; of teaching the children what they believe to be the truth, and leave the teaching of what they believe to he error to others. Let them act according to the directions of the prophet of old : " Choose you this day whom you will serve ; if the Lord be God, follow him ; if Baal, follow him." If the majority will act on the principles of Messrs. Harbord, Hodgson, and others, they cannot to wrong. Mr. Ilarbord said, all his actions were based on religious principles ; and whenever a man acted contrary to those principles, he was deceiving himself and others also. And Mr. Hodgson said—in reply to the plausible insinuation of one of the councillors that they might hit on some plan as an expedient—that there was no expedient where principle was concerned. It is my firm belief, if the principles that are laid down in the two extracts above be not acted on, the corporatio❑ of Liverpool will again fall into liberalism and infidelity, which God forbid. — I am yours obediently, A CONSTANT READER, Manchester, Dec. 4, 1841 TO THE COUNCILLORS OF ABERCRONIBY WARD GENTLEMEN,—As one represented by you, I beg to call your attention to the following short statement of my views on the, to me, most important question of the management of the Corporation Schools. All power is from God : " the powers that be are ordained of God." The individual receiving power, through the appointment of His providence, is required to exercise that power for the furtherance of His will. We have no revela tion of His will but in the Bible. It is there written— " Train up a child in the way lie should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Should I, then, be acting in obedience to this command, if I were to provide facilities for the training up of children in that which I feel to be idolatrous, and, consequently, soul-destroying ? It is said, " Charity requires that I should not turn the Romish chil dren, who most need instruction, upon the streets." I re ply, " Duties are ours; consequences are God's." Does tle ever make it necessary that we should act contrary to the dictates of His word, fur the purpose of benefitting our fellow-creatures ? Such charity is not Christian charity, however specious it may appear to those who do not take the Bible for their rule : therefore I would entreat those in authority to repudiate it. AN ELECTOR OF ABERCROMBY WARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD Sfit,—,-You have truly said in your sketch of the last Council proceedings, that their result " has struck a chill into the heart of every true Conservative out of doors." It has done so, sir ; nay 1 do not hesitate to say that it has done more than this to many of the operative class to which I belong, by giving colour to the representation, by which we have so frequently been assailed by the radical faction, that the Conservative gentry only use their humbler brethren for the advancement of their own selfish interests, or the grati fication of their selfish ambition. I need not say, sir, that I do not believe that this or any thing even approaching to it is true, of the greater portion of the Conservative gentlemen of this town; but can I refute believing that it is true with respect to the wavercrs in the council who have so cruelly thrown overboard, upon this Education question their operative brethren, who are so deeply interested in its settlement upon constitutional and protestant principles? For what have we toiled in years past—for what have we contributed our money and time— for what have we risked life itself against the bludgeons of our popish and liberal opponents. if not to secure the advan tages of a sound Bible education for our children? For nothing, assuredly, so much as for this have the operative burgesses of Liverpool stood forth in the front of the battle, and crushed with their resolute and unswerving energy the obnoxious thing which had fastened itself upon the necks of our fellow-townsmen ; and yet now, when the;fight has been won—gloriously, effectually and for ever won , —are we to be told that we must forego the fruits because a few gentlemen wish to parade upon 'Change. their exceeding liberality — their vast charity—their desire of conciliation, and their horror of being termed bigots and intolerants? We cannot, it is said by these conciliatory gentlemen, re concile ourselves to turn out upon the streets and consign to ignorance and crime the children of Roman Catholic parents. But can they any more consign to ignorance the children of those loyal they who have placed them in those very seats of honour and power which they now occupy ? Dare they crush to the earth that loyal spirit which has stood firm against the attacks of obloquy—against the insidious appeals of Chartism, of Socialism, of free-trade agitation—against the threats and the blows of a ferocious Popish faction—and which can only be prostrated beneath the conviction of be trayal and ingratitude ? Where can be the charity of such a course ? Where its JUSTICE ? We ask for nothing the propriety of granting which has not been again and again proclaimed by these same trimming gentlemen. We ask for nothing which is not recognised as just and constitutional. We ask only for SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION. We have battled for it and won it ; and through you, sir, I tell these gentlemen WE WILL HAVE IT They may baffle us now. They may trick us out of our determination for a time; but we will have it from other hands, if theirs refuse to do us justice. I write strongly, Sir, because I feel warmly. in common with nine tenths, I am sure, of the class to which I belong, and because I feel too that there can be no hesitation upon this question if the minds be honest which have to decide upon it. There can be no half-way house upon the road from error to Scriptural truth. There can be no twilight path between the darkness of that error and the full light of that truth. We have proclaimed this fact in days gone by, and it would seem about to be forgotten. We have agitated for " the Bible, and the whole Bible:" and if those in whom we have placed our trust are resolved to forfeit their consistency, I tell you, Sir, and I tell them, that the Conservative Opera tives of Liverpool are equally resolved that their consistency shall not be _forfeited I I have the honour to be ' Sir, AN OPERATIVE BURGESS, AND NO TRIMMER. LIVERPOOL AS THE WEST INDIA MAIL STATION. As in some degree illustrating the advantages which the port of Liverpool possesses for the fitting out and dispatch of large steamers, we copy froni a Boston paper a statement of the exact time of arrival in Boston of Cunard's mail boats, during a period of twelve months. The unparalleled regu larity attained by these steamers, on their voyage out from Liverpool, as shown in this statement, must at least be sa tisfactory evidence that we possess within our port ample facilities for the transmission of the West India or any other line in perfect sea order, and that no difficulties of naviga tion present themselves to create delay after leaving our river. The time is calculated from the hour of their departure from Liverpool to the hour of their arrival in Boston, without de ducting the time of their detention in Halifax. Britannia arrived July 18, 1840, in 14 days 8 hours. Acadia Aug. 17 l2 12 .. Britannia Caledonia Oct. 2 13 .. Acadia Britannia Nov. 3 Caledonia Nov. 19 Acadia Dec. 21 .16 .. 22 .. Columbia Tan. 21, 1841 .... 16 .. li .. Britannia Feb. 22 l7 13 .. Caledonia . Mar. 20 15 0 0 Acadia April 7 Columbia April2l l5 .. .. Britannil May 6 l5 .. 10 .. Caledonia May 19 l4 .. 12 .. Acadia June 2 ...... ..... 13 .. 12 .. Columbia June 17 l2 2 Britannia _Caledonia July 17 l3 .. 1 .. It will be seen by the above table that the boats have per formed nineteen voyages from Liverpool to Boston. The average time occupied in these passages is fourteen days and ten hours, which, considering the tempestuous weather dur ing the winter months, and which necessarily lengthened the voyages at that season of the year, may be said to be unpa ralleled in the annals of steam navigation. A rumour was current in Limerick on Monday, that the murderer of the late Lord Norbury has been arrested. THE GLASS MANUFACTURE IN BRISTOL. — The Sun cf the 29th ult. contains a paragraph giving a gloomy view of the state of trade of this manufacture here. We have made enquiries on the subject, of the highly respectable firm cf Powell, Brothers, and Co., glass bottle manufacturers, and are sorry to have the statement of the Sun confirmed. It, however, appears that these gentlemen extinguished th e i r fires for repairs fourteen weeks ago; and finding their stock very heavy, they deemed it prudent to suspend their opera tions until the stock of bottles was materially diminished, " most handsomely and cons ideratel y p a y i ng in the meantime 12s. per week, as "play wages , to their men. W e, how. ever, are happy to say, that it is the intention of the firm to commenc e working again on Monday next, with a reasona bl e prospect of an improved trade. With regard to a house in the glass trade alluded to by the Sun, we believe it is true that it "bas its warehouse full of goods, upon which duty to the amount of £ 20,000 has been paid, but can find no outlet for them.—Aris/of j 0,0.„/. CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION. On Tuesday last we gave an abridged report of the second annual meeting of this excellent institution, which was held in Manchester yesterday week. We have much pleasure in transferring from the Manchester Courier the following ad mirable sentiments which were delivered with great effect by our talented townsman Edward Cardwell, Esq. on that occasion. _ My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—At this stage of the proceedings, I am sure it cannot be necessary to dwell upon that part of this resolution which expresses the necessity of undiminished exertion. It is not necessary to remind you that you are placed here in the centre of the densest popula tion that God, in his providence, has ptrinitted to assemble any where upon earth ; or that here, wore than elsewhere, the physical industry of the people is subject to the keenest stimulus. and,more particularly, the younger portion of them are called, at an earlier age, to enter upon the thorny path of life, and share. in the evils and trials of their parents. Neither is it necessary to enforce the peculiar responsibility which these considerations entail, of expanding the moral instincts, of unfolding the right affections, of arming them for their arduous warfare it, all the parioples of truth. Your presence here to-day abundantly testifies that you are mindful of these circumstances, and sensible of these obligations— (hear, hear)—and, therefore, we may proceed at once to that more immediate practical part of the resolution which invites you to proclaim the ncessity of extending and improving the system. And how will you extend and im prove it ? Human learning is in its nature progressive ; dis covery results from the collision of conflicting opinion ; the agitation of thought is the elimination of truth; the bold conjecture of one age becomes the established principle, or, it may be, the exploded fallacy of the succeeding. And so, we have been beautifully told, that we must not confine within the trammels of the seventeenth century, the talent and merit of this enlightened age. And, my lord, as a state ment, that may be very true ; but, as a sneer, it is positively false. As a statement it may be very true ; for though the seventeenth century comprises all the giants of our national literature, and we live in an age when genius rarely attains an historic stature, yet we begin where they left off, and, how ever little in proportion we may be able to effect it must be something beyond what they have already accompiNhed. We must be in advance of our age. Your lordship has truly told us that we are in advance of our age ; for we have not sacri ficed that substantial advantage, because the phrase has been perverted, or the principle abused. But, does it not follow from hence, as a most clear deduction, that if human learning is always advancing, it is always changing, and least ca pable of definition when it is most active, and always depending for the limitation of its boundaries upon the balance of human opinion. But there is knowledge which is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever,—(applause,)---the will of God traced upon the heart of man, or graven, b God's own finger, upon the tablets of his word. (Applause.) And, my lord, that sneer would certainly be very false which represented us as arbitrary or exclusive ; arbitrary, because, while we make the best, as others do, of that which is in its nature arbitrary, we give that, too, which bears the cer tain impress of a divine origin ; exclusive, because, while we embrace, as others do, every branch of temporal acquire ment, we desire to comprehend that likewise which is of eternal importance. (Applause,) My lord, we know that the broad stream of learning must derive its waters from sources which cannot he numbered ; anxiously, joyfully we embrace them all; and we only ask besides, that it may be blended with Siloa's brook, and flow fast by the oracles of God. And how are we to accomplish this? The resolution invites you to accomplish this, by extending your improved education within the pale and according to the principles of that mild and tolerant church which, by God's blessing, is established in these dominions. And, my lord, in maintaining that position I shall not meddle, as most certainly it would lit tle become me, with any recondite question of controversial divinity. It needs not the sagacity of the schoolmen to dis cover that, without unity of purpose, you can have no suc cessful operation, that a house divided against itself cannot stand. (Applause.) But do we seek for examples ? We have undertaken to civilize Africa, and we have proclaimed that the gospel is the most efficient instrument of that civili zatisii. A meeting was held of all denominations ; charity was abundantly professed; but, because they could not agree in what shape the gospel should be sent out, they have con cluded in not sending it out at all. (Applause. And so the civilizers are gone, but without the instrument for their civilization. Yes, my lord, the husbandmen are abroad upon that arid soil, and they have left their plough behind. (Loud applause.) Again, is it not fresh in all our recollections that, in this very place, some hundreds of persons, who called themselves ministers of peace, were assembled for what they said was a purpose of benevolence ; and they brought with them so much charity, and so much devotion, that because they could not agree in what manner they should worship God, they were brought to harmony at last, by re solving not to worship Him at all, (Loud applause.) Now, my lord, why do I cite these examples? Not for the reproach of any individual ; I am not here to deny to any man the possession of piety and charity ; but 1 do say that things like these are wonderful illustrations of a most im portant truth. And I trust it will not be thought pre sumptuous in me, if I refer to what has just now occurred, to show how immediately, where there is unity of system and adequate authority, misunderstanding are happily removed, and harmony immediately restored. Of old, when wars were in fashion, men made a solitude, and called it peace ; and now, when our war is the war of intellect, men have established an abnegation of principle, and they call it a universal accor dance. (Applause.) But let us not be blind to the course of events, nor deaf to the voice of experience. Within the last few years, a broad issue has been taken before the British people, upon the subject of education, and they have answered intelligibly enough, as you have come here to-day to answer that they will have an improved and extended system, and that they will look for it first at the hands of their church. And, my lord, it is gratifying to remember that this victory is due not solely to the genuine liege-men of the church, but, in good part, to the effectual alliance of exemplary men, who are often called, though I do not know whether they call themselves, dissenters, but whom, I am sure, proceedings like those of to-day must tend to convert from faithful friends into soldiers of the ancient standard. (Applause.) The ark of the Lord has been carried into the temple of Dagon, and Dagon has fallen upon his face before the ark of the Lord. (Applause.) May the trial we have passed, and the triumph we have won, so animate our zeal, and so purify our devo tion, that we may earnestly co-operate with his lordship in these schemes of benevolence which Providence has peculi arly entrusted to his charge. For why else, I wonder, did God, who never works in vain, plant the purest of churches in the greatest of empires. (Applause.) And, by the spirit in which we prosecute this holy work, may it be seen of all men that we have enrolled under his lord ship's banner ; not because we seek to be arbitrary or ex clusive, but because we know that a man is never so little arbitrary as when, abandoning the illusions of individual opinion, he cleaves to the discipline of his fathers, and never so little exclusive as when he labours to extend and improve, amongst a united people, the influence of the universal church. (Loud applause.) Let us then, with one voice, join with his lordship to proclaim " that there is a necessity for undiminished exertion in the cause of education in con nection with the church, both as regards its improvement and its extension." (Loud applause.) The Newry Telegraph states that Dr. Elrington is at length the Dean of Armagh, the Rev. Mr. Hudson having resigned, on finding that his appointment was not in accord ance with the arrangements of his Grace the Lord Primate. We have authority for stating that her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Lord Wharucliffe, Lord President of her Majesty's Privy Council, to the important office of Lord Lieutenant and Custos-Rotulorin of the West-Riding of the county of York, vacant by the decease of the Right Ilon. Henry, Earl of Harewood. No better ap pointment could have been made.—Leeds Intelligettcer. THE BlBLE.—Casting away the fear of being accounted superstitious, cultivate the habit of looking at a Bible with respect and reverence. Open it with a kind of solemn plea sure ; for God is there, in all his greatness, and holiness, and love. Read it with thankfulness ; for it is a grant to you, under the hand of God, and it is sealed to you by the blood of Christ ; and the grant secures to you, if yon be a humble believer, forgiveness and sanctification, and victory and hea ven. It secures to you " all things," for" you are Christ's and Christ is God's." When good old Bishop Latimer was led to the stake, he took the Bible with him. He clung to it with holy affection. It had pointed out to him a Saviour ; it had taught him how to live with comfort ; it was now to teach him how to die with triumph. There is scarcely a page in the Bible which does not show more of God than all the wonders of creation.—Life of the Bee. B. HOUSWII4. SINGULAR SwcinE.—A young man named Luther Harris, aged about 21, committed suicide at Marlborough, Now Hampshire, the week before last, having first written a notice of his death, which he forwarded to the Keene Sentinel. It is as follows:—" Melancholy.—Died in Marlborough, Oct. 1, Luther Harris. He took his own life. He was teacher of the select school in Marlborough when he died, and gave no reason which no one else has thought of. His body was carried to his friends in Windham. His soul is now in another, another, another world. May it be a warning to others not to take their own lives. His connexions were re spectable. His father is a minister of the Gospel. His school by this act is broken up, and will not soon be started again." American Paper. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Thursday week, John Bellringer, a careful labourer of North Curry, who by his industry had saved a little property, having attained the age of 70, and being, it is supposed, depressed by rheumatic pains, applied to Mr. Bridge, solicitor, of that village, to make his will. lie had walked from his abode a distance of one mile for the purpose, and having insti ucted the clerk as to the contemplated disposition of the will, he said, " I shall give my dwelling-house between two of my children, and f.. 5 to one of my sons, and £5 to one other :" and at the moment of uttering the last word he dropped from his chair and ex pired in less than ten minutes. An inquest was held, and a verdict returned of died by the visitation of God.—Bristol Journal. COMING TO TELE POINT.—A young gentleman, whose ex treme bashfulness might otherwise cause serious embarrass ment to the fair, takes the following very m odest means of breathing his sighs through the columns of the Carmarthen Journal;—" Open to all South Wales.—Wanted, by a hand. some young gentleman of nineteen, (whose bashfulness has caused him to adopt this unusual mode of courtship,) en ob ject of affection. She must be pretty, not very tall, accom plished, fond of music, and have a good voice of her own : her age from 17 to 25. Money of no consideration ! Address, post-paid, to " 44 * The utmost secrecy observed.—p.s . Any lady wishing to embrace the present opportunity, w ill meet with an affectionate lover, and perkaps wealthy hus band." BANKING A dying banker thus a ddressed his eldes son :—" You may suppose you are going to inherit a large fortune, but you are mistaken. I have no pr o p erty, and the bank is insolvent to the amount of .C 200,000, On the death of my father, who died of a broken heart, 1 found the bank was hardly solvent. I at first resolved to close the concern, and pay off the creditors, but I afterwards determined other. w i se. I proved my father's will for a quarter of a million, and set up a larg e establishme nt. This gave me the reputa• tion of wealth, and increased the business of the bank. I have lived in slendour, as you know, fur many years. All your brothers are handsomely provided for, and to you, as m y eldest son, I now leave the bank. I have appointed you sole executor to my will. You have only to prove my pro perty for any amount you may think proper to name, and if you manage your aff a i rs prudently, the bank may l ast out your time as it has mine.' NIAItRIAGE BY ACT 01 , PARLIAMENT.--A short time since two Young persons, of Ramsey, desirous of entering into the bonds of wedlock, the one apprentice to a coach smith, a minor, but who untruly stated he was more than 21, and the other about 17 y e ars of age, caused notice to be given at the H un ti ngton Board of Guardians. Such notice was given three times, and the 21 days allowed by the Act, expired on Monday week last. By mere accident the father of the young girl was apprized of the circumstance on the Sunday, the marriage being to take place at the Superintendant Registrar's office at 10 o'clock the following morning. A caveat was prepared Monday and signed, and a messenger dispatched with it early on Monday morning ; but the Registrar deeming it not quite satisqctory, the messenger returned for the father, who, with the aid a good horse and a little extra whipcord, arrived in time to prevent the marriage, which had been ad journed, and was to take place before 12 o'clock. Tbe - d ates of Hyman had in the meantime surtnized, that some. th i ng was amiss, and started off towards Cambridge, t rust i ug to the chapter of accidents or the God of Love to remove the obstacles before them. The father, however, pi:lilted and caught them about 5 miles from liuntiniton, and brought his daughter, who came reluctantly, home with biro. Thi s , ims. tive is given principally to illustrate the working of th e new sytem.—Caistbriellye Chronicte.