The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-08 00:00:00

,111 Li( 8, 1.81,1‘Q COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held on Wed nesday last. , The TOWN CLERK opened the business by reading the mi nutes of the previous Council meeting.. After which the De puty Town Clerk read the various committee reports. FINANCE COMMITTEE. At a meeting of the'in;;;;; co mm ittee ;tt the 3d of June, it being found that the surveyor required two clerks iu his office, resolved that he be required to recommend two. Resolved that a new lease for thirty-five years be granted to Leece-street Chapel, on payment of a fine of £2O. Resolved that James Jones receive the sum of £lO compen sation for the peculiar circumstances under which he lost his situation at the Baths. Resolved that the treasurer be authorised to pay the interest of the general church endowment fund under the general order. An application Of the Steani Tug CoMpany for leave to moor a vessel as a coal and anchor store in the river. To be left to the harbour master to report thereon.—Refused. Resolved, that a temporary staircase be erected, under the superinte n d ence o f th e surve y or , a t S t . Th omas ' s Ch urc h . Resolved, that the tradesmen employed by the Corporation be requested to send their accounts in quarterly. Resolved, that the town clerk acquaint. the proprietors and occupiers of slaughter-houses that the New Public Slaughter houses will be ready in a month. Resolved, that a change of land be proposed for the site of the Magazines. The resolution recommended certain precau_ dons to be taken in their erection. Resolved, that the sum total of £722 Os. 11d. be paid to the lessees as compensation for the non-occupation of parts of the Goree warehouses during the recent repairs. LEASES. Resolved, that it be recommended to the Council to grant a new lease for the Catholic Schools, and that the fine be remit ted to £2O, A number of applications for the renewal of leases were read. . Mr. Cr. BLACKBURN rose to oppose the grant of a lease with out the usual fine to the Catholic Schools. He did not do so on the ground of its being a catholic school. His decidedconviction sras that, the only course by which they could avoid dissention Was to show no favour to any denomination of christians, or to any schools whatever, but to deal with all perfectly equally and demand the full value of the renewal of their leases from an.' Had it been for any other denomination he should have aa.ken exactly the same course. ( Hear.) He concluded with moving that the grant he suspended for one month. , Mr: Councillor LAWRENCE HEY WORTH said they were com pelled by law to give 'support to the established church which Was one denomination of christians. Mr. Blackburn's obser vations were rendered nugatory by. that. Were they not com pelled to give support to an established church Mr. Black burn's observations would be correct, but as they were com pelled to give that support it was perfectly right to give support to any other denomination of christians. The MA.von would observe that this was the remission of a . part o f the fine for R school lease and not ths support of church. Mr. Councillor S. HOPE was glad to hear such sentiments as he had heard corning from .a member of the established church. He had, however, much pleasure in seconding the motion of Mr. Blackburn ; he only regretted that it was not • his own denomination he was voting against. Mr. Councillor BLACKBURN wished to know why the interest f the endowment for the church had been ordered to be paid tiY the treasurer now the church endowment was settled? The MAYOR said that, the last week, the deCision of the Mas . ter of the Rolls was not known. They were advised to pay the usual half year's salary . , with the understanding that it should be refunded if the endowmeot should be confirmed. To delay having paid them would have been to acknowledge the endow ment _ Mr. Counsellor BOLTON wished it to be• understood that the rev. gentlemen had said, they were no parties to the endowment, they held to the corporation for their salaries. The finance committee reported, with the above exception, and the leases were then confirmed. WATCH COMMITTEE. The report recommended an addition of £3O per annum to the salary of Mr. Batcheldor for his increased duties, owing to the extension of the borough, and expressed satisfaction with Lis arrangements. It also advised the formation of a sick club for the police force. Confirmed. TOWN HALL COMMITTEE. Resolved, that the consideration wof a proposal to build the Mayor au open landau be postponed. Resolved, that a case of champagne be ordered for the use of the Mayor's table. Confirmed. IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Resolved, that a communication be made to the dock com nlittee, recommending the erection of water troughs beside the dock s , for the use of cattle.—Confirmed. MARKET COMMITTEE. Resolved, that the surveyor be authorised to examine the *infer' St. John's Market and report thereon as to what it was n ecessary to repair. Several matters of minor importance were ordered.—Con firmed. EDUCATION COMMITTEE At a meeting of the committee, on the 15th of June,—Resolv ed, on the motion of Mr. Walmsley, that the corporation schools ' , halt be opened each morning at nine o'clock by singing a 'Vona. Resolved, that there be holidays on Thursday and Saturday afternoons, .and that the holidays on Saturday mornings be abolished. Resolved, that the Irish system' of religious education be 4 4?Pted and have a fair trial. Itesolved, that the first master have EMI a-year salary and 'one penny per week for each of the boys. That the second Master have £3O a.year salary and a halfpenny a-week from each of the boys. That the first mistress have Z3O a-year and E ld. a-we e k f rom eac h of the girls, and that the second mistress "ve £2O a-y eiir:and a halfpenny a-week from each of the girls. 'Mr. Councillor CROPPER, though a memberof the committee, 4 ntrtdd not allow this report to pass without proposing an amend- Meat. He objected to the introduction of the Irish selections from the scriptures, and he did so not so much on account of the ections themselves but because, they were accompanied by notes which were calculated to confirm error. He should Move that the proceedings of the education committee be e _,.Qarirnietl, with the exception of that part which refers to the ' 4 'eligiousatistructien of the children, and that the proposition to I ntroduce the Irish selections from the scriptures be referred to the reconsideration of the committee, with a recommendation that the Bible be substituted." Mr. Councillor RUSHTON seconded the motion. Mr. Councillor Sniee.—Be kind enough: to mention the t'ersion of the Bible: Councillor Dr. CARSON denied that there was any exclusion 'of the Bible from these schools. The object of the committee had been to introduce a system of education which should be ac ceptable to all classes of the community. So far as he co uld ua4erstand, there' was nothing in the Iris's system of religious !dilcation to which a christian could object. He never before heard that there was anything objectionable in it. If they went ° ue step f ur th er they entered into a scene of contention, and he round that the remedy which had been proposed was the'beit that could be conceived, and be *did not think that any reason able person could object to it. It was, that a reading of the ' ier iptures•should be proposed to suit the different, classes of the e uttnnunity, 'lt was the wish of the committee to accomplish all the good that could he done to the people gener a lly, without u hf distinction of classes. He fur one had been for disposing *of the schliols and appropriating the money to the establish 41ent of ward schools. He thought they would then have avoid ed a great deal of this clamour, and they might have established a 4YSteril of education which would have raised the character of the town of Liverpool. Mr. Councillor HORSPALL, as the question had been raised, :eyu.lstteit right to state that he felt some difficulty in' regard to this to of Irish education. The selections, the council were were in part froin.the authorised version of the scriptures - Part treat .the Douay Bible, and a part from a translation, h ich was ' not "named, consequently, gentlemen who had not „atd w much attention to these selections could scarcely be tom vateut to give an opinion whether it was such a selection as :Pea to suercede the ible. he ouht to know ell what Leese selecti p ons were bef or e they a T lo w ed them to superwcede the T i thorised version of the scriptures which they did know. , hese selections were placed in the schools to-sup ercede the (o N o, t i o f rom Shiel and others.) Gentlemen eaa 11- no. The Iliede used in ter schools was closed while the "° O l3 were open and not pmitted to be opened till the ' ""bola were closed, and then it was permitted for parties to t e ?nte and give instruction in it, The compilers of theee selec .4Lna said they were offeted, not as a substitute for the sacred c „„%unie itself, but as an introduction to it, and they had been e r`,,Piied in the hope of sending oat a more profitable version the word of God. An introduction to these selections said this nuthber of scriptural lessons for schools has been coin ed on the principles which have been already published on e Old Testarnent and Contains the whole selof St. Luke." " Nothing is more remote from the intent on of the teC"Pilers of these lessons than to offer them as a substitute of whole Bible or to supercede the authorised version of the e stabl ishedchurch." (Hear.) He apprehended that these es tits were placed in the schools to supercede the Bible, so far 4 :te schools here went. (" No," from Mr. Shiel, and cries cit . Order.") It appeared that their school committee were tea the point further than it was intended by tha glad - t en who compiled the selections, and he should be very glad if 4 would refer back that report to the committee, with bereo,!aooltnendation that they should introduce the Bible as a ta „. f instruction into the schools; it was at present in express 4 , 5 7' 8 eaeluded till after school hours; then the school was open, to '4 other room might be, for ministers of every denomination go and instruct the children. He might abio be permitted u say that it h a d b een his w i sh that the schoo l s should be com menced, keeeed, as they use d to b e by a short prayer and hymn ; that ns was couceded to the Roman Catholics , a di ffi culty arising Bu hl v the r egu l ations of their church that they could not join ~s other sect in prayer. He thought, as (he compilers of 6Zei.e selections said the y were not intended to supercede the l e t le, there could be no reason why it should be excluded during ve school hours. He must say the committee had done what seep thou g h t b est, but he Could not agree with them. and on that e r : u nt ,e made these obseivations. He should support Mr. PPe us motion. ail n et rs COlineitiOr RATHBONE saia he should repeat their that th at th n a s t iderati on to what he was about to state. He was sorry discussion had been introduced into that room—he was sorry .th• at it had been introduced out of doors. He did not 142,U.Keit n.ecessary to notice the vulgar scurrility of the Standard, thedid he think it necessary to notice the stupid bigotry of th e urier. proceeding, as he had reason to know it did from foto l e )e a tt of a peace-maker by profession, who had resorted to b et ,`„_ g hl a mt t lies for the base objects of sectarian zeal and sup 'pOuro. c ion, and it was then time to come a little to facts. th e management was to cast every species of odium on those who took „ of the corporatioti schools. He would tell that ' e u!l man that the statements be had m a d e in th e pulpit which 4, desecrated were false—that his statements were false; ottr e hoped' the reporters would put that down. That what Rev. Hugh M'Neile h a d stated, through the Liverpool kier, w as f a l se , was unchristian; he would not say that he ne w what he had stated was false, h e l e ft th at b e t ween G o d 44 d his consc i ence. The se rmon of his in the. Courier was a ittost wicked violation of truth an d f a i rness. He would now tell L et a what had been done in these schools under the direction 1? the clergy. They had the bible read, and very properly, to the older classes . They had five selections of the bible read, nad they had five cateChisins to commit to memory, and it might 48 well have been in Latin for the kneoxwlledge.the children had p pa a r n t a s t 7 of the scrip otf those cathechisins. They had no i r e; they had none of the beautiful th e church of ;?ngland service, and the collects were excluded by those cler oaten who were now making such a noise about these selee , of the liturgy. The 'ls There was no explanation given Loatinger classes were taught, or at least were hea in rd t , h t e he g ir r wd e ee a rn d e - . ',l e lesson s on the crucifixion and the agony .sevould ask any christian in that room whether theiear sielneteswon which young children ought . to learn their lessons. c it o a lady who was no ways fastidious who was absolutely so examining, the children, the chapter on the agony was th is ""Y. He wished to know what respect they could haie en. ta sk subject when they were to cry over it and th umb it as a the wanted.) It was said they wanted to exclude the bible ; tba t _ to do no such thing; he had denied it before in 3p„T o m, and the Re v . H ug h M‘N e il e m i g h t h ave rea d those it s'h e o u and have known that it was false, and it was fa they were read n;;W, as an introduction to'the bible , and to `►educe the children to read the bible when they came to an age tnun derstand it. He was sure that the bible Would be more read, and the 'children Would be better churChmen under the present system than they were before. They now had the selections read to those who could not read, and passages were co emitted to memory which ware calculked to be of benefit in after life.. which, was not formerly -done by those keepers of the tabernacle when the schools had been under their charge. He had felt that, when they were taking the schools from the hands of the clergy, they ought to do it with as much delicacy as they could. He would appeal to any member of the committee whether he had not fought for the clergy as if he were a son of the church, or whether he had brought forward any of 'his own sectarian views there. Let not the Rev. Hugh M'Neile say it was be cause he did not value his own light of the gospel, and think it as true as he did his. Without the consistency of the catholic, in professing openly infallibility he, the (Rev. if. M.) still professed it more than any catholic. And this was what was called exclud ing the bible; would they, for the name of the thing, when there were thousands depending on it both for their temporal and eternal good, refuse the present selections ? He was not willing to use the slang _terms under -which the Rev. Hugh M'Neile concealed his ignorance of the first principles of religion and charity, which was a foundation beyond his hope. He would quote the scriptures to him, "Although yon may prophegY in my name, although you may do many wonderous works, yet if you have not charity you are none of mine, and I shall say, de part from me, workers of iniquity, for I know you not" He had passed sleepless nights in feeling the deep responsibility which had devolved on him as chairman of this committee—in feeling that on the right derision of the committee depended both the temporal and eternal interests of thousands ; and he had given it the most conscientious help he could, and had thrown everything that was sectarian, and everything that was party away; and, under the Almighty, lie believed that this system would do more for the religious education of the poor than was ever done before. • After that he would read to them what it was that the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile had stated of the mem bers of the committee, and he would ask any man who was not in the habit of listening to the vulgarities of that gentleman, if it would not much more properly proceed from punch and Judy; whether it was the language of a christian minister, of an honest man, or of a man who knew what the courtesies of life were. [The speaker then read several long extracts from a ser mon of Mr. M`Neile, reported in the Courier, commenting on them as he proceeded, and designating them as ungentlemanly, and the language as unfit to proceed from a christian minister.] We give the extracts " But it may be urged, this is a small matter. Why ascribe; so much importance to two schools in the town of Liverpool? We answer. This is the gyre's voice of the enemy of all righte ousness.' It has ever been his practice (as we have seen) to do mischief by little and little. To avoid alarm and reaction, he is satisfied to take instalments of evil, Each step is short, and smooth, and gentle; but this, instead of being any indication of harmlessness; is of the nature of a snare. It was while men slept, that tares were sown in the. field, and the sower of evil is loth that men should be awakened. But be not deceived. This is no local matter. It begins in Liverpool it is true. It must have a local commencement. But it cannot end where it be gins. It is a feeler of the national pulse. Is England indeed so stupified in a sleep of infidel indifference to revealed truth, that she e• ill tamely submit to this pro-popery system ? It will be pleaded as a precedent. The time is well choosen. The op portunity is shrewdly seized. Why? Because at this time there exist a number of town-councils in England, composed during a violent reaction of men's minds last winter, who it is to be feared, are ready and willing to follow this precedent ; and if the enemies of God's truth could compass this rejection of the Bible from the schools is the corporate towns, it would be a grand achievement, and go far towards the accomplishment of their final purposes with regard to this kingdom. Yourtown is honoured so far as to be the spot at which they are attempting to inoculate England with the popish virus of this wicked sys tem. People of Liverpool, will you bear it! That is the ques tion we intend to"ask you next week. We shall set the matter fairly before you. We have no authority to interpose in the management of schools that belong to the corporation : we sub mit to the powers that he in all things lawful : but we cannot submit to send Protestant children to schools where the Proles-. tent Bible is not sent. If the corporation has so much money and so much liberality, let them set up popish: schools. I say not that it would be well done, it can never be well to teach men what is opposed to the word of God. But if they talk of justice to numbers, let them be just to both sides. T. plead tenderness of conscience on one part, as a pretext for forcing conscience on the other, this, under the sheep's clothing of liber ality is to be most illiberal, most bigotted, most exclusive, and uuj ust "Beware of compromise. It is quite possible that the council may, on Wednesday bark out of the resolutions of the Educa tion Committee. It is possible that they may see that the in stalment which they have unwarily demanded is too much for a first step. If they reject the recommendation of their commit tee - altogether, and leave the schools as heretofore, let us give God thanks for his overruling mercy. But bewareof compromises. It is more likely that they will put their heads together to de vise some more moderate scheme to begin with, some plausible admission which may have the effect of dividing the friends of Scriptural education. And, not hitting upon this all at once, it is quite possible that they may come to no decision on Wednes day, but take another month to concoct their scheme, and put us olf our guard," If any gentleman in that room, after what he had read, did not feel disgusted he would say he did not value much their chris tianity. He hoped the council would show their disgust of that language by concurring with the recommendation of the edu cation committee. which would at once put au end to this dis graceful proceeding. Mr. Councillor CROPPER wished to explain. He thought there was something personal in the last allusion. Mr. Councillor RATHBONE hoped he would not be permitted to explain; he (Mr. It.) had frequently been refused. Mr. Councillor flonseALL hoped he had given no offence to Mr. Rathbone by his expressions. Mr. Councillor RATHBoNE must say that Mr. Horsfall had• acted towards Wei with courtesy. Mr. Councillor CROPPER said he had had no communication whatever with Mr. M‘Neile on this question; neither was he certain that he should bring it forward when he entered the room. Mr. Councillor BLACKBURN said this was a subject of great importance, and he wished to offer a few observations on it. It was, perhaps, not known that this system was originallyiutro duced into Ireland principally by Mr. Secretary, now Lord Stanley, and was defended by Mr. Stanley, who explained fully the objects and plans of its institutions which were to do away with the great divisions existing in Ireland; and it was a plan looked on by the ministry as highly desirable to be. adopted, that if possible by it the children of protestant and catholic pa rents might be brought together, and that the feuds which ex isted in that unhappy country might be put an end to. This system had originated iu a benevolent intention. The plan proposed, so far as the religious part was concerned, was, as . protestants would not read the Douay version of the bible, and catholics would not read the authorised version, to strike out some plan by which those difficulties might be obviated. In order to accomplish this object a board was instituted consisting of several denominations of christians. The Roman Catholic and the Protestant archbishop of Dublin, and the Rev. H. Car lisle were on that board, the latter a man of decided orthodoxy, who was now so convinced of the value of this system of educa tion that he had relinquished his pastoral charge, and consigned the whole of his time to.the promotion of the present system; and government were so convinced of the value of his services that they offered him £lul)O a year to devote himself to it; but be with a feeling which did him honour refused to receive any salary but what was an equivalent to his former income, namely, £3OO a-year. (Cheers.) This system came from, the recom mendation of those three gentlemen well qualified to recom mend it. They were three men of prominent characters before the public. The plan they had adopted with regard to scrip tural education was to effect a new translation of certain por tions of scripture to be introduced into these schools with the sanction of the whole board. The books already published were three in number; he held one in his hand. 'f They were neither translations nor copies of the authorised version, nor of the Douay version. The great object had been to effect a true and faithful translation ; and he had yet to learn that any solid ground of objection could he raised either against the transla tion or against the notes appended. Mr. Walmsley informed him•that these commissioners had never yet had any division on any subject before them. Mr. Cropper had objected not so much on account of the translations as on ac.eount of certain notes appended to them. He thought it would have been only fair if he had stated what were the notes to which he particu larly objected. It was on that bung the whole controversy , . If there were objectionable notes it was much to be regretted, and they had better be pointed out. He would refer to one or two of die principal objections. The first was, he thought with re gard to the note contained in the selections made from the bible in the first book, which was from the old testament, comprising the first history. And he would say that there were remarks iu those selections by the way, and there was a reference from time to time to different parts of the sacred scriptures, and to passages in the book of I'salms on the creation. They had also the comments of different writers on the subject, and a better plan of teaching the scriptures could not be well devised ; he considered it a most admirable plan. He thought that very cir cumstance of reference to parts of the scriptures completely re moved the idea of these lessons being brought out as a substi tute for the scriptures. They had no intention of casting the slightest imputation on the scriptures. But to return to the note be had mentioned it was here. In the text it was, "it shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for his heel." The note was, " divers of the fathers say, ipso —she, the woman, shall crush ; others, ipsum—it shall crush. The sense is the same, for it is by the seed of the woman, that is, Jeius." It was said that this was-calculated to' favour the Boman catholic worship of the. Virgin Mary. It merely stated the fact, "that divers of the fa thers have it ipsum, other! ipso." Then followed the explana tion, that "the sense is the. same, for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that she crushes the serpent's head." (Hear.) Another passage was, "the first man is of the earth earthy, the second man is of the Lord of Heaven ;" that was the authorised version. In this book the transhation was this, "the first man is of the earth earthy, the second man is of the heaven hea v enly." It was followed by a note in explanation of it. It had been con tended by various parties that this alteration had been made in order to conciliate the socinian part of the board, and that they had -taken out the passage, " theiLord of Heaven," and trans lated it " of heaven heavenly" in order to conciliate that party ; and it was given' as a sample of the spirit of the board, of what they were willing to give up. What was the fact with regard to the passage ? He was no Greek scholar himself, hut he had inquired of gentlemen who,were competent to give the informa tion on the subject, and that passage was a disputed passage, not as to the translation, but as to the bearing in the ancient version. They were aware that there were a great number of ancient versions which were referred to by learned men ' - and it so turned out that the versions wbich were considered as the best authorities gave the passage as, "of heaven heavenly ;" and the opinion was, - that the phrase, " Lord 'of Heaven," had been mistranslated. This was the opinion of Dr. Adam Clarke, and of Greesebach, and of a very celebrated German critic; and no one would suspect Dr. Adam Clarke of socinianism. They had given the passage as it ought to be translated, yet this was put forwards as one of the grounds of attack ' • and he entreated the council to reflect that if such grounds as these were brought forward by people who bad gone over these translations, as Peter Pindar says, " Mousing for faults," they could not have a better testimony of the correctness of these translations. There was much said on the introduction of this book. It was said it con tained the whole gospel of St. Luke, and yet its opponents say there are eight verses omitted. This was true. There were eight verses omitted of the first chapter, and, instead of those verses, a short condensation of them was given. He would grant that this was a matter of opinion about the propriety of this omission; but he thought that any gentleman who would take the trouble to read those eight verses would see the reason of their omission. They contained the annunciation, as it is called, to the Virgin Mary thit she should become the mother of Jesus Christ—and the sense was faithfullY given in the para graph. This was a great fault with Mr., M`lieile, and he lifted up his hands and eyes in astonishment. He had one or two remarks to make on this. There could be no, suspicion in any man's mind that their being left but had, anything,to do with protestant. and catholic • it was a question that did not touch on that in the smallesedegree. (Hear.) There occurred in the course of the same passages what persons Might think it * The teat is, "it shall bruise thy head, and ilion ihalt bruise his heel." Por in &cv y me, V due their it any at the before before re Are Fended been it giv- s were m bun; wean of the L Man lmbers iressed 'selves !moon orwarl re anti and in 'e Have 3 very ake uP everg u TIM LIVERPOOL STANDARI). ...2:~_..n.^^ .~: ~.:-r. far better that childleUsliodd not read at that early age—r.hear, hear) `:4-and on that aceoent it was thought better to omit it. it was on that account only, and it could not enter any man's mind that it was a question of protestant and catholic; therefore that objection_ utterly fell to the ground. He perceived that great stress was laid on another passage, relating to Peter. That Christ appeared first to Peter; it was assigned as a reason of his having first appeared to Peter, that it was to console him for the deep affliction in which he may have been in consequence of his fall. and it was referred to as a mark of his great condescension that he appeared first to Peter; the construction as put on it, here was denied, and we are told that our Lord " appeared first to Mary," not first to Peter. The intention of the translators was, that he appeared to Peter the first of the apostles; that was, he appeared first to this apostle before any other apostle, and that he was not the first person that he appeared to. The insinuation in Mr. M`Neile's letter was a perfect trifling with words. These four objections were all that occurred to his mind at that moment; they were all evidences of the disposition to find fault—of one anxious to find fault, and carp, and cavil. That disposition found very little to feed upon ; and he would contend that' these_ selections were the most valuable addif lions to the schools of this country. On the subject of reading the Bible in these schools, one word and he had done. No man could have a deeper conviction of the value of the Bible than he had. They talked about using the Bible in the schools, might he ask if any gentleman would contend that any Bible should be put into the hands of children in a school ? Did any , man contend for that ? He did not know that ever any man did. The principle was the same; it was a selection of the Bible that was read even when they gave the children the Bible into their hands; they did not read the whole; it would be extremely injudicious to require young children to read the whole of the Bible, and to expect that they would ac quire benefit from it. If auy advantage was to be acquired from their reading, it was from its finding its way to their hearts. (Applause.) In all schools where the Bible was used there was . only a selection used ; - wou ld an y gen tleman tell him the differ ence between giving the Bible in separate parts and giving it bound up in oue volume ? He saw no difference in point of principle. There was a translation of the holy volume con taining the Book of Genesis, and the 3 vols. contained the Acts of the Apostles, and they were going on with a similar translation, and the fourth book would shortly be out. When • the children read these books were they not reading the holy scriptures ? Could it, . but by a play on the word, be said, that the Bible would be excluded? Was not this the Bible ? and if the children read this they were reading the Bible in a way cal culated to do great good. They stood on circumstances in which' they must decide whether they would open the schools for the of their population- or for a part of it. If they would introduce, the authorized Version of the scriptures into the schools, it was a statute of objection to every Roman Catholic. They took an objection to it and would not attend. He.did not agree with them. On the other hand Protestant would not read the Douay version. He thought that here the commissioners' , 1 system was worthy of all acceptation, and the state of the schools . in-Liverpool called on them to act on this plan. The Roman Catholics who came here were entitled to every consideration. Driven *miry...our abuse of our peaver over Irelansl, through successive generations, they were entitled to every aiilstance they (the Council) could give them; and he trusted that the Council would show that they had a deep . sense of the injuries of Ireland. They could adopt this system in perfect consistency with the word of God, and he did not doubt bat-that great good would result from its introduction. On taking his seat Mr. Blackburne was greeted with loud applause Mr. Counsellor LA WHENCE HEYIVORTH complimented Mi. Blackburne on his very able definitions which had come home very satisfactorily to him as he hoped they had done to every one there. He found that the commissioners had permitted and. appointed certain hours when the Bible might be read ; a book . in his opinion the most valuable. It contained a science, the • science of religion, and it ought to be taught like all other Sciences, by furnishing a child with the simple elements of re ligion first. (Loud cries of " Vote, vote.") Iklr. Councillor HENRY LAW RENC R said, though he had been much struck with the observations of Mr. Blackburn, yet the whole of this system came under his notice as something new, and he felt bound to support the amendment. . The MaYost took the liberty of saying one word before they voted. It was to express his unbounded admiration of the speech of Mr. Blackburn; but he hoped it would not be con fined to the fleeting records of that council-room, but would be further extended. Mr. Cropper's amendment was then put, when there ap peared for the amendment 6, against it 45. The proceedings of the committee were then confirmed. The following is a list of the division:— For the amendment, Messrs. C. Horsfall, J. Barton, W. Rushton, H. Lawrence, E. Cropper, and J. S. Leigh. Against the amendment—Messrs. J. Hohnes, S. Hope, C. Logan, W. Thornhill, R. Shiel, E. Harvey, E. Smith, J. D. Thornely, C. Rawdon, A. M‘Gregor, H. Holmes, L. Hey worth, J. Walmslev, I'. Bolton, J. Woollwright, R. Bright, H. Hornby, W. Rathbone, W. Maxwell, J. Aikin, W. Lassell, T. Holt, J. Carson', T. Morecroft, T. Blackburn, lt. Itoskell, T. Coglan, R. Alison, jun., G. Holt, F. Jordan, W. M. Dun can, C. Tayleur, E. Evans, W. Blain, 0. Heyworth, T. Bullet', G. Robinson, W. Stuart, T. Booth, W. Brown, T. Leathom, T. Smith, C. H. Jonv.s R. Berm, and the Mayor. Absent—Messsrs. J. Mellor, C. Birch, W. It P res tp n , J. Lawrence, W. Earle, jun., 'l'. Brocklebank, J. Sanders, J Cropper, jun., J. Moou, Wit P. Freme, T. B. Barclay, and J Hornby. . • CUSTOM-HOUSE COMMITTEE. • A communication was read from Mr. Francis Baring from the Treasury, in answer to one to the Treasury from the com mittee, offering the use of the west wing of the Custom-house now completed. The letter allowed the giant of the,.west wing to the customs. The rest of the report spoke of the progress of the works. — Confirmed. MR. PARLOUR'S COMPENSATION CLAIM. The TOWN-CLERK read a claim put in by Mr. Parlour, the late superintendent of police, for compensation for having been removed from his office at the time of the passing of the municipal act of parliament, under the provisions of whiCh he claimed compensation. He claimed the, stint of £5,374 10s., or an annuity of £337 10s. du r i ng his life. The claim then set forth his fees and salary for each year, from 1830 to 1835; for salary £3OO, for fees £lOO, for emolument of house £5O, making a total of £450 for, each year. The TOWN CLERK proposed that the Council should act on, this occasion as they had done when the county coroner's claim was laid before them. That the Consolidated Paid Officers Committee should then take the subject into consideration and report to the Council thereon at that sitting. The committee then retired. The IVIAYOR announced that it would be necessary now to an nounce to the rectors whether their attendance was in future re quired at the Corporation Schools. They would expect such a communication to be made to them. Mr. Councillor HORSFALL thought it would be better to transmit to them a copyof the Education Committee's resolu tions, and request or not their attendance: be should suggest to request their attendance. Mr. Alderman ROBINSON would suggest that the subject be referred to the educational committee. Mr. Councillor SHIEL would read a resolution of the com mittee that the schools be placed exclusively under the commit tee. After some further conversation it was agreed to refer the subject to the Education Committee to do what was right. A memorial was read, from the inhabitants of Cleveland square Market, pra:%ing for some fish stalls. Steps bad bee❑ taken for That purpose. A letter of thanks was read from the organist of St. Thomas's Church. A memorial was read from the master chimney sweeps, praying the Council to put . in force the late act of parliament, referring to them, for the purpose of making their trade more respecta ble, and clearing the town of worthless sweeps. Referred amidst laughter to the improvement committee. The Paid Officers Committee now rettirned. The TOWN-CLERK read a resolution of the committee, "that the claim of Mr. Wm. Parlour having been referred to the con solidated committee, they having taken counsels' opinion upon it, have agreed to report that, in their. opinion, the said claim is invalid, and Mr. Parlour is not,mititlecl to any compensation," Mr. Councillor H. LAwftENcri,,,li a. ving seen opinion s on b ot h sides, was not prepared to give 4 lin opinio s n.. He agreed with the committee that they could not do otherwise than they had done, but it must be put in the way of trial. The MAYOR.—That rests with Mr. Parlour. ' The resolution of the committee was then agreed to. FUN DS COLLECTED FROM THE BOYS AT THE • CORPORATION SCHOOLS The MAYOR stated that some months ago the treasurer had applied to the rector for a sum of money which had accrued from the pence contributed by the boys. He, the Mayor, had applied to the Rev. Rector 'Campbell, and had received two letters, one of which promised to lay the matter before the Rev. Mr. Brooks; the other stated that the corporation having ap propriated the money in question to the purchase of books to be given as rewards to the boys, and invested the surplus with the rectors, to be held in trust for the schools, they did not feel in clined to deliver it up, but requested to know the grounds on which the present corporation claimed it. The Mayor stated that the sum was £268. The resolutions of the old corporation on this subject were then read. Mr. Couiicillor HOPE would be glad to know if the rectors did not consider themselves answerable for the money to the council. Mr. Councillor H. LAWRENCE said the rectors had merely hesitated because they were not exactly aware of the proper course to be adopted. If the documents which had just been read were sent to them, their compliance with the request would be immediate. My. Councillor SIIIEL said this was a matter of money, and the rectors were bound to know under what authority they held the money. When clergymen once gut money they were very loth to part with'it. Mr. Shiel then entered into a statement of the expenditure of the corporation schools, which he denominat • ed as monstrous. He called on the council to adopt a resolution that the rectors be forthwith called on to refund the money to the corporation.' Mr. Cauncillor HENRY LA WRENCE was of opinion that, if the restitutions of the old corporation were forwarded to the rectors, it would save any formal demand, and was quite as civil a way of doing it. He did not differ with Mr. Shiel in his desire of obtaining the money, but he differed with him very much in the way of making the demand. An instruction was then carried that a copy of the old corporations, resolutions be sent to the ; rectors as an answer to their letter, and as the grounds on which }the council called on them to refund the money to the treasurer. remove the nuisance as far as he was concerned, provided that all the other manufactories of a similar nature were likewise slopped. He should inlve that the improveuient committee be directed to inquire into the most effectual means of putting a stop to all such nuisances. Doctor CARSON in strong terms expressed his opinion of the deleterious effects of the muriatic acid gas,generated in the pro cess of 'procuring alkali from salt, as practised by the manufac turers in question. There was a remedy irimaking them .cot sume the smoke. The muriatic gas had ,such an affinity for water, that by making it pass through it it would be entirely consumed. This would be attended with some expense, but it was imperative, and in the power of the law to compel it. He did not think there would be much difficulty in having the whole of the works destroyed. It would be no disadvantage to the proprietors if all were destroyed, and they would be well pleased if they were compelled to use the old alkali, for a better article would be produced. But so long as one continued, as now, all must continue. Mr. Councillor BLACKBURN spoke in equally strong terms to the same effect. The TOWN-CLERK said, that by the 92d section of the act, Power was given to the council to apply money for the purposes of prosecuting, &c. where the public health was concerned. Mr. Councillor THORNHILL said, that as one of the market committee he had taken charge of St. Martin's market, and he was frequently unable to remain there for more than 10 minutes at a tiirre, in .consequence of the quantity of this gas which sometimes filled the place. The meat, fish, and vegetables there were sometimes changed by it. Several other members expressed ;heir opinions in favour of the nuisances being done away speedily as possible. The subject was referred to the impr6vernent committee to in stitute an inquiry on the subject s with an instruction that all similar manufactories in the town should be included in the in quiry. KIRKDALII GAOL. The MAYOR stated, that an arrangement had been completed for the committal of vagrants to theKirkdale Goal. The Bo• rough Gaol had been so much crowded during the late intensely hot weather, that such arrangement became a matter of abso lute necessity. The charge would be ss. Per head per week. — Confirmed. An application from Seacombe for a subscription towards an esplanade was refused, on legal grounds, as was the annual sub scription, to the Eye Infirmary, the municipal act not allowing such an appropriation of the borough funds. MR. FOSTER'S CLAIMS. Mr. Councillor RATHBONE said, that in consequence of the late arrival of the opinion of a professional gentleman who had been consulted in London, he wished to adjourn this question until next Wednesday, when the committee wonld be fully pre pared to report upon it. This was agreed to, and the question is to be discussed at a special meeting of the council, which will be convened for the purpose on Wednesday next, at eleven o'clock. MOUNT GARDENS, Mr Councillor SMITH repeated — hi; motion, that Robert Jones, who was formerly the keeper of, these gardens, and who has been thrown out of employment by the new arrangements respecting them, be appointed a constable to take charge of them. After some discussion, such appointment was declared to be unnecessary. Mr. Smith moved that twelve seats be erected in the gardens. which was referred to the garden com , mittee. Mr. Smith further moved that a like number of seats be erected on the Prince's Pier. Iteferred to the improvement committee. The MAYOR said that he believed the troughs for cattle at 06 Clarence Dock had already been erected. A meniorial was read from the inhabitants of St. Patil's=, square, complaining of the nuisance arising from the chemical works attached, to Mr. Lunt's soapery, in Earle-street, whereby . theroperty in the vicinity was depreciated in value, their fur-, niture injured; and their health much affected. Mr: Couledilld iatit fhat LO ' *at PAVING AND SEWERAGE ACT. The TOWN-ct.Er.x said, that at the last meeting nine gentle men had been appointed commissioners Mader this act. It ap peared, however, that though these nine commissioners must be members of the council, that the choice must be left to the inhabitants in vestry. The 733 clause of the Municipal act, it was true, appeared to give the choice to the council, but on taking the whole act, it did not seem to him that they had greater power this respect than . the old council. H e would advise, that for the present the committee which had been chosen should not enter upon the performance of their functions. The council then adjourned at three o'clock, until Wedueb day next. MIDSUMMER SESSION TUESDAY. ROBBERY BY A SHOPItfAN A genteel-looking young Man, aged 22, whose connexions were stated to be hiolily respectable, was indicted under a charge of having feloniou 'sly stolen five half-crowns, the property of his master Nicholas Twigg. The prosecutor stated that he was a grocer and provision dealer, in St. James's-street, in this town. He carried on an extensive business, aadkeptseveral shopmeu. ati the 11th of April last the prisoner entered his service, he (witness) receiving a g ood chara.cter with" him from his last place. On th e 30th of April the prosecutor, for the first time, entertained suspicions that some of the shopmen were acting dis honestly. Under this impression and determined to find out the guilty party, he-had on a subsequent day at different periods of that day, marked a quantity of silver amounting in all to about £2O. This he placed in' three different drawers or tills in the shop. At twelve o'clock on that night, he assembled his men and told them that he had a charge against one or more of them. He then commanded that each person should produce what money he had about him. This was instantly complied with. The money which each produced was examined, the prisoner having produced money to the total amount of £1 lls. 6d. from all his pockets. Among this were five half-crowns, all of them marked distinctly with the impress which proved them to be those which Mr. Twigg had placed in the drawers. On his cross-examination by Mr. Vena.bles, he said he believed the pri soner was of respectable connexions and had previously borne a good character. In the defence it was attempted to be proved, that the prisoner had given change for a sovereign to a lady who entered the shop ; that this lady returned and requested to have a sovereign for the silver in return, which sovereign he had then given out of his own pocket, in which he deposited' the silver which she returned. Thus he attempted 'to account fol• the market silver having found its way into his pocket. It ap peared, however, that alady had changed a sovereign on the day in question, but the change was given by another shopman. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The RECORDER exhorted the prisoner to take warning from the disreputable position in which he was at present placed, and amend his way of life. The learned gentleman dwelt much on the respectability of the prisoner's connexions, which he said had induced him to pass a mild sentence, hoping this would be the prisoner's last offence. The court sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for six months. ROBBRRY BY A SERVANT Jane Bagshaw•, aged :3!;, was charged with having, on the Bth June last, feloniously taken a silver teapot, the property of her master, John Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton stated, that he resided in Toxteth-park ; the prisoner lived as a servant with him. On the day above-men farmed he missed the silver teapot produced; it was - a piece of old plate, and had been in his family for a number of years. He gave information to the police, by whose vigilance it was discovered that the teapot had been pledged at the shop of Mr. Little, pawnbroker . „. Hill-sheet, Toiteth-park. The latter stated, that the prisoner had pawned the teapot with him for which was the sum she asked upon it. She stated that it belonged to her mistress, Jessie Hamilton, in whose name she pledged it. The prisoner, in her defence, said that her master owed her a mouth's wages, and she had pawned the teapot to par herself. Mr. Hamilton said, that the prisoner had - been inlis service but a short time, and he dismissed her fur drunk enness. He" paid her wages up to the time of dismissal, but she demanded a month's wages extra; which he refused to pay. The linconnErt remarked to the jury, that nothing could be more absurd than the notion that had obtained currency on the subject of-this month's wages. If a servant behaved . impro perly, a master might dismiss her at any moment; and all the wages which she could claim were those which were due up to that period. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court passed sen tence of transportation for seven years. . 'PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND SPRY. On Tuesday the grand•jury, sworn for the • present borough sessions finished their labours. Previously to their dismissal by the Recorder they delivered the following presentment. The grand jury cannot allow themselves to separate with out repectfully intimating to the court their high approbation of the new police in the borough of Liverpool. They deem it eminently calculated as well for the prevention as the dis covery of crime; and they beg to express a hope that every well wisher to virtue and good order will aid and encourage the body in the due discharge of their duty. 'they also beg to express the importance which they attach to the clear and valuable manner in which the officers of the police have given their evi dence, which has greatly simplified and facilitated the proceed ings of the grand jury. NICHOLAS ROSKELL, Foreman. The Recorder expressed his high gratification at the senti ments which the grand jury had expressed, as from the oppor tunities which he had had, though they were not so extensive as those of the grand jury, he coincided with them entirely. He then thanked the grand jury for their unwearied attention, and*disinissed them. The following is a summary of the remainder of the con victions at the sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday, and yester day : _ _ _ To , be transported for life.—John Charnock, aged 34, and Alexander. Mac Goverin, aged 26, for stealing a sovereign, from Walter Bushell Smith. To he transported for 14 years.—James Charters, aged 28, for stealing a watch, &c., the property of Robert Jones; Margaret Burns, aged 30, for stealing £36 the property of Thomas Fleet wood, her master; John Potter, aged 17, and James Bains, aged 19, for having stolen a quantity of plate the property of M r. H. James Ames. To ,be transported for 7 years.—John Wilson, aged 24, for stealing a waistcoat, &c., the property of Joseph Armstrong; William Dixon, aged 25, and William Langley, for stealing three sovereigns, the property of Benj. Bateman; Elizabeth Mottram, aged 19, and Catherine Hughes, aged 22, for steal ing a bank note for £5O, and other notes, the property of Patrick Henry; Henry Dixon, aged 41, for stealing some clothing, the property of Wm. Thomas; John Jackson, aged 41, for stealing some plate, the property of Mr. H. James Ames ; John Maddock, aged 21, for obtaining goods under false pretences, from Mr. M ander, and Mr. Wm. Duncan Mac Andrew by forging the name of Mr. William Whitehouse; Jane Dutton, aged 25, for stealing a table cover, and' other articles, the property of Griffith Jones. To be imprisoned one year.—Harriet M'Mellan, aged 18. for stealing some articles of wearing apparel, the property of Wm: Thomas; Mary M'Keown, aged 23, fur stealing a Vair of boots, and two handkerchiefs, the property of Miss Eliza 1~ ernyhough; Thomas Burke, aged 18, for having stolen a waistcoat, &c., the property of Kendrick Habertield; . William Hughes, aged IS, for having stolen a pair of trowers, and a coat, the property of George Henderson; Ellen Jones, aged 23, for having stolen £7 from the person of John Gri c e; Samu e l Dixon, a g ed 18, and John Colman, 21, for uttering base coin ; Constantine Ma guire, aged 22, for uttering 'base coin. To be imprisoned 18 months.—Ann Carty, aged 30, for steal ing a child belonging to John Evans, with intent to steal its clothes; Jeremiah Cohen, aged 30, for uttering counterfeit coin. To be imprisoned ,9 months.—John Moran,. aged 32, for having stolen some workmen's tools, the property of George Cormack. To Ise imprisoned 6 months.—Sarah Ferguson, aged 26, for having stolen a watch from the person of John Gough; Robert : Edgar, aged 50, Maria Field, 26, and Maria Cavannagh, 19, for uttering counterfeit coin. To be imprisoned 4 months.—Mary Ann Bruce, aged 27, for stealing:£ls from the nerson of Thomas Daniel; Samuel John son, aged 15, for stealing 125., the property of his master, and to be once whipped, and confined 14 days in solitary confinement. To be imprisoned 1 month.--Catherine Atherton, aged IS, for stealing a watch from the person of Mr. Brassy; J. Roberts, 'l9, for having stolen a number of fowls, the property of William Shotwell; Rose Southern, 24, for having stolen a watch from the person of Edward Thompson. • To be imprisoned 7 .days.—Thomai Comilla, aged 40, for having stolen a gun, the property of Thomas Reilley. Thomas Liff, aged 28, James -Fay, 21, Thomas Quinn, 23, Patrick Duffer, 28, and William Greenhatn, 21, and several others who were out on bail, named Plunkett. Johnsonrampay, Fea. Boyle, and Bl ea k e l , were charged with having created a riot in Vauxhall- roa d, on the 2.3 d of April last, and violently assaulted and injured some Of the police. The particulars Of the riot have before appeared in full in this journal. The case occupied considerable time. The jury found all the prisoners guilty, but recommended them to the mercy of the court. The Recorder, in passing sentence, ordered those who had been out on bail to stand up. The sentence of the court was, that they be imprisoned three calendar months, and kept to hard labour; and it appeared to him, that in passing this sentence he had paid great attention to the recommendation of the jury. Liff, Quin, and Duffey were then ordered to stand up. The court took into consideration the length of their confinement already; they were sentenced to be imprisoned two calendar months each: Greenhorn was sentenced to be imprisoned one month, .and Fay who had used great violence, was sentenced to be im prisoned six months. John Stence, aged 32, a man of colour, was charged with having very violently assaulted Dennis Devine, in Moorfields, On the 27th .of June, without any previous provocation. A knotted cord, having three lead pullets at the end, was pro duced as the instrument with which the assault had been com mitted, and with which he had broken the nose and severely injured the complainant: The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned three calendar months. This finished the sessions business, and the Recorder dis charged the jury yesterday about two o'clock. BRITISH MusEcm.—We learn from an abstract of the ac- Counts presented to parllament, that the receipts of the museum from Christmas 1834 to 183,5, were £19.603 Bs., and the expend ditvre for the same Period £19,079 4s. Of this latter sum up- Wards of £ll,OOO consisted of salatles and wages. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. M. M. G. Dowling, of Li verpool, have been unanimously elected members of the Dra reratit Atithdre Society; of London. LIVERPOOL MUSICAL !FESTIVAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE mt7trePooL ST:IND.7IW. • • Sts",--4 observe by a paragraph iti yOur last paper that the com mittee of management of the approaching Manchester Musical Fes tival have nearly completed their 'aritingements. No public intima tion, however, has yet been given of what the Liverpool 'committee 'have clone. It is stated in a Manchester new s paper that Sir George Smart, with whom I hear our committee are in treaty, holds in great contempt the abilities of the provincial professors of music—that he has written to the committee at that place desiring that as few of the resident musicians as possible may be engaged, and the consequence has been, that very few are so, and with a very niggardly remunera tion. Notwithstanding, the committee are entitled to considerable praise for having. chosen Mr. Wilkinson, who is a Manchester man, as the organist. This is as it should be, and I hope the Liverpool committee, following this example, will also appoint some well-quali fied gentleman of this town to play the organ at our festival, and, ikewise, that they will secure all the available native talent they can obtain, in the other vocal and instrumental departments.—Yours, Etc. J. J. LIVERPOOL POLICE. STEALING PEWTER POTS.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office, a female named Mary Robinson, was brought before the ma gistrates, charged by a publican named Bishop, with having stolen a pewter put o his. Mr. Bishop stated that on Monday evening lust, Mr. 'Carlton, of Crosshall-street, came to him and asked if that pot belonged to him, and he instantly recognised it. Mr. Tarlton said that he saw the woman scratching the name off the pot on last Monday or Tuesday evening, and sus pecting she had not come honestly by it, gave her into custody. He made several inquiries amongst the publicans about it, and found that it belonged to Mr. Bishop. Mr. Bishop said that he had lost six pewter half-pints since the last Saturday, wit h his name engraved thereon. The case was remanded to afford time for further evidence. POCKkT PICKING.—On Tuesday, at the _police.office, two lads, the eldest of whomwas not more than 12 years old, named Peter Naylor and Edward Mundy. were , brought before the . magistrates, charged with picking pockets in Chapel-street, the day before. Policeman 140 stated that the Boiler-makers' Club were walking through Cistle=street.the morning before, and a great crowd was collected. He saw the two lads very busy in the crowd, and watched them knowing them to be thieves. Af ter a while he saw Naylor with his hand and arm as far as he: could get it in a woman's pocket, and the other standing before him, and endeavouring to bide what he has about, as w e ll as h e could ; he accordingly took them both into custody. Batcheldor said they were both well-known theives; he had known Naylor a thief for the last .five years. They were each sent for three months to Kirkdale. House of Correction. CEVELTY TO A DEAF AND DUMB FORTUNE TELLER.—On Tuesday, at the police office, a young man. earned William Darlington, was brought before the magistrates, charged by a gentleman with having made use of cruel usage to a poor deaf and dumb . man that morning. The gentleman stat e d th a t he was coming along the footwitik besides. Canning..D.ick,‘ about an hour before, when he saw the prisoner pushing a poor dumb man about, and afterwards tripping him up. A crowd collected and they were laughing at the tricks played to the poor man by the prisoner. The pour man was both deaf and dumb, and could not help himself. He then gave the prisoner in charge to a policeman. The prisoner said that the deaf and dumb man came up to him and wanted to tell him his fortune by his signs. He told him "to be off," but he kept annoying him 'so he pushed him off; and in doing so they both fell, but he had no intention of throwing him down and hurting. him. The gen tlerrlaa said that after he had thrown, the man down he went away and absolutely returned again and threw the man down. Mr. Hall said that that showed the animas with which he had done it; and it was highly praiseworthy in the gentleman to come forward as he had done and give him into custody. The magis trates ordered him to pay .ss. and costs, or in default to be com mitted as many days. ASSAULT ON THE Potica.—On Tuesday. at the police office, John Hoyle, who keeps a beer house in Leecestreet, and Wil liam Cowan were brought before the magistrates charged with assaulting the police. Glover, the policera .n, said that the night before, about six o'clock, Hoyle was turning a blind fiddler out of his house and very ill using him, he went to protect him, when the prisoner. Royle struck him aviolent blow on the face, and the other persons in the house surrounded him and ill used him; he called for assistance, and several policemen came; one had got his fingers trapped by a brick .bat, and another had got very severely hurt by a brick thrown on to his head by the prisoner, Cowan. Several policemen, and inspector Poole con; roborated this statement. Royle was 'fined 20s. and costs, in default to be imprisoned eighteen days in the Borough Gaol, and Cowan 13s. and costs, or fourteen days imprisonment. INFORMATION—POST HORSE DuTtEs.--On Tuesday, at the police-office, Mr. Waiuwright, collector of post-horse duties, ap peared to lay an inforniation before the magistrates against Mr. Bunnell, post-horse'master, for neglecting to deliver and refusing to permit him to examine his accounts. Mr. Wain wright said he was duly authorised by the commissioners of post horse duties to inspect the accounts and collect the duties from the post-horse masters. Hi had called on Mr. Bunnell several times the last week for that purpose, and had been unable to get to see his accounts, and on one occasion Mr. Bunnell's ser vant had refused to let him see them, saying he could not with out his master's permission; whereas he had a perfect right to inspect them at any time. He had had a great deal of trouble, and he found it necessary to lay this information. He was liable to a penalty of Eli), and double the amount of his duly. He would not. however, press for the penalty, if he had a promise not to have this conduct repeated. Mr. Hall then dismissed the information, but with a caution to the defendant that if brought up again the full penalty would be inflicted. SEAMENS' WAGES.—IMPORTA INT TO SEA MEN.—On Toes day, at the Police-office, Captain Sinclair was summoned by Seth Botwood, ane of his seamen, for his balance of waged. The seaman stated that he shipped'on board Captain Sinclair's vessel, bound for Savannah and back to Liverpool. He per formed the voyage, and signed the articles to receive £2 10s. a month. He shipped on the 2Uth of January, and art ived back on the 24th of June, and claimed a balance of wages due to him of £8 Os: 6d. Captain Sinclair said his balance •of wages was only £2 17s. lie had had £2 10s. advanced, £1 10s. for clothing, hospital money for five months, 55., and medecine ou board ship ss. Mr. Hall said the last item could not be charged. The late act of parliament made it compulsory for the captain of every ship to have a medicine chest on board calculated to meet the dangers and accidents of the voyage for the use of the crew, which was not to be at the expense of - the crew but to be provided-at the expense of the owners. Captain . Sinclair said that the fall wages due were £l2 Iss. Bd.: the above items, with some ship stores which had been furnished to the com plainant, amounted to £4 17s. Gd. to deduct from that, and there was also an item for gaol fees in Savannah, arising from the misconduct of the man, amounting to £3 10s., and £1 Bs. 4d. fur his wages for seventeen days that he was absent to deduct as well. Mr. Hall inquired what the gaol fees were for ? The captain replied, that while about six miles from Sitvanuah he went on shore with the boat, taking that seaman and another with him, and left them in charge of the boat whilst he went into the town; they however left it, got drunk, and from what -his mate had overheard he was apprehensive that they were going to desert from the ship, and in consequence he applied for a warrant to.have them taken into custody, and they were confined in gaol 17 days, and he had had substitutes to hire for them. He had paid £3 lUs, gaol fees for each of them. The captain then underwent a long cross-examination by Mr. Yates, who appeared for the complainant, but nothing material was elicited. 'Anthony Fleming, the second mate, deposed that he overheard this man the day after he had left the boat, and when he had agreed to return to the ship, agree with a "crimp" who waslo come with a-boat to the bow of the ship in the night, and he would be ready to leave the ship with his things. He gave inkrmation of this, and the captain got a warran t to apprehend Aid detain him till -the ship sailed. The captain produced receipts of the amount of gaol fees that he had paid; be had only deducted Is.-Bd. a day from the man's wages while lie was confined, and he had paid 6s. Bd. a day for the substi tute. Mr. Hall said that the English law recognised the right of captains to deduct the cost of apprehension of seamen from their wages ; though in this country there were no exhoibitant gaol fees, the law authorised the sieducting of expenses arising from the misconduct of a seaman. There was no question from the evidence of the second mate, but that the captain was au thorised in making the application he had done to the ma gistrates; there could be no doubt hut that the man intended to quit the ship. lie was therefore decidedly of opinion that the gaol fees should be deducted from the man's wages as they arose from his own misconduct. With regard to the 17 days, the captain had a right to choose whether he would deduct the price of the seaman's wages or the price of the substitute. If he had done the latter 'he would have deducted Gs. Bd. per day, and he thought the captain had acted very fairly, for he had only deducted ls. Bd. per day, the atnount of the seaman's wages. He was also authorised to deduct two days for every day that the seaman was absent, and he had only deducted 17 days. He thought, under the circumstances, the balance which was to be awarded was £3 Os. 9d. and no more. - Another sea man, named George Dean, made a precisely similar applica tion, and be had been confined in the same manner to prevent his deserting. The evidence, however, of his intention to desert was not sn clear as in the other case. The mate proved that a boat came to the ship at midnight, as the second mate bad heard it arranged, and asked fur both Dean and Botwood. Mr. Hall said, that though he might be of opinion it was his intention to desert, he could only ad from the evidence, and in fairness to the man - he could not order the gaol fees in this instance to be deducted. at MAD DOGS.—CORPORATION GRAMMAR.—On Tuesday. the Police-office, an information was laid by policeman 2-13, against Mr. Kevans, .of Collingwood-street, for alloinga savage dog to run about the streets unniuzzled . he withouthad attending on any person. The constable sta ted had complaints made to him about this dog, that it had flown o'clock, i at several persons, and that -morning sevena b b i o i n ut if he had not mo t flew at a little boy, and would have bit tected him. It was a very savage dog of the hull and teiri species. He had seen a notice posted up requiring for persons t keep their dogs in doors. Mr. Morris appeared wtabsentinetCeAr ant. ;From his knowledge he should presume it Kevan's dog ; he had seen his dog, and_ did_ not answer the in policean. Mr. Kevan invariably description given of it by in k his yard both before and since the ' kept his dog chained up pawnbro e r, was obliged to have the dog notice. He was a for the protection of his house. the dog was kept in the, shop during the night, and in the morning when th e s h op was opened was let out for a few minutes, and returned. Mr. H has been issued req ui r i ng a ll d ogs to be k ept w ithin doors, and muzzled, and it found otherwise the owner s are liable to a penalty of 40s. on tl Aa t no ti ce. Mr. Morris.—Yes, hut upon that notice the information can not lie; for so far as 1 can understand that notice, it is that the owners shall be confined and muzzled, an d no t dogs. Be sides the act of parliament only specifies that they shall be confined on such notice where there is any suspicion of mark n ests, and a penalty if not complied with. The notice of the Mayor was to this effect "' Isiotice is hereby given, that, the owners of all dogs found at large between this d a t e a nd the 15th day of September next, and which are unmuzzled, or not in care of or attendant upon au person will in c u r a penalty of forty Shillings, titc." signed ' RADCLIFFE, Town -clerk." Mr. Hall.--I should say that the relative pronoun there re lates to dogs. Morris. - -According to the usual version of the English language, I should think not. Mr. Hall.--I beg your pardon. A femtsle witness deposed that the dog was a small dog , an d was kept i n th e shop all night, and only allowed to run out few minutes in the morning when it was shut up in the yard. e Mr. [fall said they h a d the best evidence of its being a dog from its having .that morning flown at a boy a nd s n a: riy bitten him. On the evidence whieb.hadheen givenl shallif it had fine dd bitten any body they would be liable for dam a g es. the defe ant in 10s. and costs, and it m us t not occntagain; it is letting hid off very easily as the fine is 40s. Mr. Morris then gave notice of appeal. A king's letter has been issued to the clergy, commanding iermolis to be preached, and collections to be made, in all wishes throughout the kingdom, in aid of the funds of the Society for Promoting the Building of Churches and Cha liels. , ,k4X I 41, ' a jti i` • ;4 7 ' ri4, 1. TO WM. EwidlT, Esq., M.P Sta,Yod.iii - e reported to hove Said, in your place in tha House of 4, aat a late eeca , ion, that "it was the P re , testant orthodox . agitators, and- not tbe Roman Catholics, that were the enemies of both the crown and tte,peuple," Itis qttite possible that some Vethal inaccuracy - may have occurred in the report of. your .speeeh;,,but it is (pith certaiii that von uttered; and it is presumed that you are prepared to;deletid the general statement here quoted. The object of thiS letter is to give you an opportunity fit such defence in t4e fact of. your constituents. You are doubtless awme, that the education subcommittee of our - new town-council have resolved to discontinue the sys tem of Scriptural education hitherto practised in the Corpora l tion Schools, and 'to introduce, in its stead, the syatetn,.with Tittle alteration, and the books, with no alteration, of "the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland." • ‘;,•' This is an important step. It is not a la n ai matter affecting `Liverpool only; though even as such it would Le deserving of your attention. But it is manifestly of a t'.(' ry different charac ter. It is a feeler of th e p u l se o f tngland, to a seertaiu whether the healthful, beat of Scriptural Protestantism has given way before the hectic flutter of the liberal fever. It will be claimed as a precedent for extended and extending adoption. The friends of the "liberal principle," as it is "tow called by many "sweet voices,"'tiot content with Ireland, I'vlioye they have the poor but plausible plea of a numerical 'Majority of persons opposed to the unrestricted reading of the Word of God, are ambitious of introducing into England, also, a system which in its workin z ; has, been found so congenial : to. those consistent coadjutors of the 'liberal 'principle, the trionks and nuns of the south and west of Ireland. The plan is well . laid,—the oppor tunity is well ehoseu,.:—because there exist," just noir, several town-councils in .England, who, in the -pride of this much vaunted liberality, and the intoxication of thiiir. brief authority are ready and willing to fallow such a precedent. • •To spread this systeni in this country would be a grand eon summation. for you and your political ftiends; who would un doubtedly have every reason to anticipate'final success in your un-English measures, it' von- could prevail, upon Englishmen to lay aside the HolY•.SZriptures, and emancipate themselves from the principles of national subordination, social integrity, and individual devotion, which they . inculcate. In every point of view, therefore, it is worthy of yonr time and talents,' and eloquence and - influence, to defend this attempt' to inoculate England (in the spot you represent) with-the views of the Irish anti-Bible education system. .• : . I have the pleasure to inform you; that this assault upon the palladium of our civil and religioes liberty, so wantonly made by our town-council, has roused into action a new ph;ilanx of "Protestant orthodox ugitator:,"—men of different parties, of widely different opinions, both in religion and politics,;—men of moderate views and habits, whir have hitherto abstained froM. auy public movement, but are new united in-one firm determi nation to "agitate" this Bible question. We are (excuse the contradiction of your reported words) friends, and not enemies, to both the crown and the people. As such, we are friends to Scriptural education in all classes of the community. We have been sedulously employed in promoting such education amongst the children of the poorer classes. • In this, our appropriate—our delighful ivork, our borne, if I may so express it in a word dear to Englishmen, we have been assailed by the ruthless hand of a '• tyrant majority." We have not provoked the- contest. Wc...4PP4r in sell-defence. 13e , . air, we do not intend to confine ourselVes to the .use of the shield. The majority just mentioned exists in the council, but not in the town. The council, whoever may be their pilot, have now steered upon a rock that will be their ruin. SCRIPTURAL RDUCATION is our motto, and we appeil to their and your con stituents. You shall have due notice of the day of our public meeting. It will be. a meeting of the ''friends of Scriptural education." I write this letter without any conference, and cannot, of course, give any pledge that you shall be heard a t our meeting, though I, for one, would gladly make an excep tion in your favour. But should this be deemed improper, then I take the liberty of .inviting you to another meeting of thousands of your con stituents, to be convened expressly for the putpose, under pro per regulations, and at .yourconvenience as to time, at which you shall have ample opportunity to _defend this unprovoked assault of the council, and at which it shall be my endeavour (though unaccustomed to debate) to show that the arguments advanced in support of their present proceeding are ra di ca lly unsound,—that even in Ireland the system of education, falsely called national, is exclusive and bigoted,—that the proposal to introduce it into England is an infidel insult to a Christian com munity,—and that the cry of "justice to the people of Ireland" is a.varnished mask, behind which is hid (awl hid perhaps from. many liberals of " weak intellect" wlro admire the mask) "ascendancy to the Popish priests iu Ireland." Should you decline this invitation to ineet one of the " Pro testant orthodox agitators," and wrap yourself up in such sena torial dignity as will not condescend to discuss, face to face, with a clergyman who is r6ludtantly compelled. into "Protestant agitation" by the a g gression of your pro-Popery proceedings; then I have only to hope, that your right lion, and honourable associates in the [louse of Commons will.know how to appre ciate (and will not fail to put you in mipd of) the nature of the heroism which you display. wilen on any future occasion you so far forget your dignity as u senator, as to become the accuser of the absent and, the unrepresented. Be assured, sir, if this wet e a passing matter of party politics, I ,woold not be induced by it to for Sake the comparative privacy of my professional avocations; but it affects the very foundation of our holy reli gion, and in so doing it renders interference, to the best of our ability, imperative upon the ministers of that religion. • • I have the honour to be, sir, with all due respect for your station as a member of our legislature, with unfaigned ; and un disguised hostility to your awl-Scriptural opinions, and with sincere and earnest prayer, for your present peace end everlast ing happiness, your humble servant, HUGH M'NEILE, Incumbent of St. Jutle' t ; Church, Liverpool. 4th July, 1835. O'CONNELL'S LAST. It is altogether a supertluoys task to proVe Mr. O'Connell a; liar that has been done "over and over again • nevcrtheless„ iG is necessary sometimes to do so in justi ce to again; objects of hitst calumny. In this detestable inan's second, letter to the people of Engliind, appear the following parity' aphs "The rector of this parish is the Rev. Mr. Longfield. If (3, has been rector for the last 10 or 12 years ; I believe he has not. been as many days in the parish. .I never saw him.; hod the only service t he ever did me,-wasleaviiigiris usual residence at Bath or Cheltenham, and coining to an election to Kerry for the purpos of voting against ills—that is "lii; composition for tithes ous of the parish amounts 4o ' £5OO per annum, or tliereabou.s. Ile - has also three or four glebes There are two parishes according to the Catholic divi sion. We, the .Catholics, cheerfully sudport the Catholic cler gymen of both. " The case, then, is this.--I, as a catholic, have to suppor my awn clergymen, to build toy own church, and keep it in repair. The parish is poor, and the principal burden of all these falls on me; and now the ReVerend Mr. Longfield in sists that, in addition, I 'shall pay him £5O a-year for tithes ; and because I deem this demand, as it manifestly is, most un just and unreasonable, he causes a bill to be filed against mein the Court of Exchequer, hands me over to a voracious attorney to mulct me in heavy costs, and then, forsooth, tells me.that the religion which stimulates him to, and sanctions, this gross and palpable injustice, is better than my religion." The Rev. Mr. Longfield thus replies to the above in a letter addressed " TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK CONSTITUTION, Sir,—l have seen in your paper a letter to the people of England, in which my name is introduced. If it ivere addressed to the people of Ireland I should not take the trouble of con tradicting the false assertions in it, which the writer calls facts, as his facts are too well known in ibis country ; but ip this (as I state it) apology for not paying his debts to me, though as could prove, he has paid other clergymen when it was his in terest, there is hardly one fact, except, indeed, it may be true that he will not pav me. "As to my residing in Bath or Cheltenhard, I never spent a day in either, but have resided in another parish, and officiated without a curate for 38 years, and never spent us much as one month out or if. so much for Ibis fact; and as to the tithe composition in Mr, O'Connell's parish being £5OO, it is little more than half that sum, being but £2SS. " As to the number of days I spent in the parish, he knovrs nothing; but when I got the parish there was neither churCh; clergyman, nor glebe-house in it. Now there are all three. As to the glebes, there is one, for which I payannually £3O for twenty had acres, on which the glebe-house stands—the glebe belonging to the parish being a mountain at the remote end of it, of little value, and, if the curate is badly paid, the charge comes badly from a man who has , ut paid his tithes these four years. " I am, sir, your obedient servant, M. I,ONGFtELD. " Church-hill, Couuty qlCork." . How a plain tale puts down the agitator! The following passehgers came in the sltip Aliqu.is, Captain John nhich arrived here on the sth instant, James Campbell, ril p b e ll Fe. , e Esq., lady, and family ; John Purvis, Esq.; Wit.: Liam Henry Martineau, Esq.; 'i t ;•to...as Weston Clay, ,Esq. This splendid vessel brought a freight of 2115 bales of cotton. The Right Honourable the .Earl of, Carrick has appointed the Rev. James Wright, of La,tchford Parsonage, in the diocese of Chester, to be one of his lordship's domestic chap lains. A handsome marble statue of Locke., by Westmacott, R. A., has been recently erected in the vebtibule of the London Uni , versify. . . . etH'KTY MAGISTRACY.-At fhe Lancastersessions last week . James Cornelins'Satterthwitite, of Lancaster, Esq. and William Moore, of Grimeshill, near Kirkby Lonsdale. Esq. and at Pres- - ton sessions, on Wednesday last, Charles Dickson Archibald, of.Rusland-hail, near Milothorpe, Esq. qualified as magistrates. Since the accessiou of the present administration to,office,thirty- Ave gentlemen (exclusive of the above) have been appointed . and qualified as county magiitrates; of these 10 ate churchmen, 1 Roma n ca th o li c , a nd 24 Di - viewers. For some time Mr. Gawthorpe, the Governor of the House of Correction, had been surprised by hearing the soft strains of a flute within that prison, and in vain had lie exercised his vigi lauce to dicover whence those souuds proceeded, as no such in -' r strtitnent 'could be discovered in any part of the prison, nor upon the person of any of the prisoners. The other day, how ever the mystery was cleared up, for on removing a stool in the day room, one of the fei , q came otf, and it was then found. that one of the prisoners had most itigeniously constructed a flute put . of it, iu order to lighteo the weary hours of his incarceration . We can hardly think that one Who this disposed of his leisure time is irreclaimably viciiins.—York 1-li.al‘t. The Liverpool ApotheCories' Company have purchased , the house in Colquit-streeet. corner of Wood-street, formerlyt; tho ~ k residence of the late P.W. Brancker, Esq. on the site of w they intend to erect a hall for the purpose of carrying .0n i th e. business of the company. -ch e spirited direc tors THE ROYAL ROCK FERRY AND PAritc.—. • .. of. ,theihtritl3oPel.'it isthe intention of Mrs to and from the Rock lintel, to , a ti hools. The children tors of the Royal Rock Fen y on Tuesdajyt gave .200 a cti f i i i( e ir e en of st. Michael's Church day walked in procession, -hleModer.a re o ti f ie l‘ y lr r , e l t .: ll . r . l. A le l d . P o il o c u he t r e , iz th h e t. as .A n ui d iji , , , B ,2, (c D i ..:l ld l k N e , r ti ) e th ir e.) te e a n t i l l i , e a r r s k , ed h7a s r in in g flags, down to George's Pir , , packet left the pier. They v B-- ',, t 0 h . 6 . Dobson, .the worthy hostiss,. ing " God save the King', After enjoying a most de- , withov e ta afterwards aad eoffe r e e g ai a inu l iebrt ed 1 , a 1,1 again swag tile, National lightful afternoon, 0 and three c. h ' f • vers for the success qf the Ferry,' Anthem, rave,T,calsm,,lainnddoOtnheiresaving grand opening dinner at the Fame to when a band of music will be.in attendance.. Hotel, n in) d tbesl t o, b nt e in , l : , rh e e f t friends el l l r d s ; t i o% l a 's i, ° •e n 'a pre parations have been made to render the afternoon as proprietorS of the Rock Park have of land faci n g t he R . a ad- G u r r e e l h t a agreeable se d as possible. i arg e l a T tl l t i i e t y P 4.• iver an joining the Rock Ferry Hotel, which it is intended to lay out in building lots for Jetacherl villas, in the manner of a park.. Each building lot to have a certain quantity of land attached to it, and the houses to be built after a specified plan. The grounds , and gardens to be k nteriected w ith p a rk t rees an d carr ia ge drives, and th e whole to be called the Rock Park. Fronting the river it is intended to build an esplanade running the whole length of the park. There will also in the neighbourhood of the park b e a church erected, the full amount of subscription. towards .thi expense of which is nearly obtained. We have, seen a plan of the intended improvements, and when com pleted-; the' Rock Ferry will form one of the most delightful re sorts', Judging from the plan, there is nothing equal toot ad ' the neigt4ourhood of Liverpool. ,fr! often The it is st OQ B fol- Ouse, 7y be. fY clear [ye to I pro. occu !. lay ships, a may LOrapt ay be letber fished