The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

fortune of' good captains to have to d"eat with bad men ; but, generally speaking, we think it may be said, that a good captain will make good men. The sailor has every claim to the benevolence of his countrymen whether on sea or on shore. Every plan which bene volence has contrived for his advantage, whether in the shape of " Church," " Home," or " Hospital," is worthy of support; but it must be evident that there is no one thing which would contribute more essentially to his benefit than that of putting him constantly un der the command of a kind as well as intelligent mas ter whilst he is occupied on that element on which the greater part of his time is passed. For the sake of the sailor, therefore, every mean is important which contributes to elevate the moral and intellectual cha racter of the master. We complain of the reckless and dissolute character of seamen on shore ; but would not a different sort of conduct be reasonably expected, if they had been discharged from the service of mas ters who were such as we should wish them to be, and such as we hope in time every member of the Liver pool Shipmasters' Association will be ? True, the as sociatiation is but yet in its infancy, and it may here after be discovered that other instrumentalities are re quisite to effect the wished-for results ; but we do not confine our remarks exclusively to this society; it is the topic in its larger sense to which we would direct attention, and of its great claims there surely cannot be question. Sir Robert Peel's last speech at Tamworth affords no more comfort to the unhappy Whigs than any other speech of his in public that has lately preceded it. He gives them no hints to improve upon; he don't suggest to them what to do ; he won't tell them what he would do himself; but, as if to tantalise and provoke them to the highest possible pitch, he does intimate that when called in, in a regular way, he will not be without his resources, and will have his pre scription forthcoming. Now the right honourable ba ronet may rest assured that however 'his reserve may be unsatisfactory or annoying to the adversary, it is neither the one nor the other, even in the smallest de gree, to his own party. On the contrary, we quite co incide with him as to the prudence of his silence. We should be sorry to see him affording the smallest help to the incal.ables, flung as they now are into the mire; and as the victory we have just obtained was never de- pendent upon any one or two specific measures of either party, but rather upon a feeling of confidence or otherwise which involved a variety of considerations ; so now that that point has been settled, there is: the less occasion for him to enter prematurely into a detail of his future plans. With Sir Robert Peel's last speech, we, as Conser vatives, have no fault whatever to find ; it gives no oc casion to regret that our cause is entrusted so largely into his hands, but serves rather to increase our confi dence and to animate our exertions in its behalf. We like the tone which pervades that address, and relish the advice which it contains ; for we must remark, that it is in several places didactic and in all instructive — however unpalatable the precepts may be to the Whigs. " I am constantly asked," says the right honourable baronet, " what it is I mean to propose supposing I "dm called to the administration of affairs. Gentle " men, I will answer that question when I am placed "in that position. My advice for the present is—dis " miss those who are now in office." Now there is a piece of advice given gratuitously, and plain as our Town-hall cupola. The Whigs cannot complain of any want of candour, clearness, or precision in this respect. The leader of the Opposition is asked for ad vice, and the first advice lie gives, and the only advice that it would become him to give, while occupying his present position—is, to " dismiss those who are now in office." This is his primary reply to those who consult him ; further information may probably be ob tained, when it is seen that the first has been acted upon. But, says the Globe,—the organ of the government as some say, but of the bed-chamber women, as we should suppose—" the right honourable baronet will not stand to it. He is about to fly to the continent to escape the embarrassments that he would be surround ed with, if he were to undertake the formation of a new ministry." Not so, however, says the right hon. baronet himself; " I am not going to the continent; here I remain to meet all the difficulties which may arise as to the consequences of my advice; and I pur pose being in the House of Commons on the 19th instant, if parliament is then to meet." He then breaks up a few more of the enemy's weak inventions—such as the elegant tale of the 16s. 6d., supposed to be due by Sir Robert to the fat publican of Tamworth, and still unpaid, and the on dit that he boasted he would make the Queen a Tory or Conservative, as he said, in six weeks. These mean, malignant, and contemptible slanders are a few foretastes of what may be expected of the Whigs when they are turned over into opposition. The object of the Globe is to render the Conservative leader personally obnoxious to her Majesty, and to play the same game over again which gave the favourites of the bed-chamber women a two years' prolongation of place and pay ; but such a finesse cannot be played a second time ; all the lying of the Globe will fail to give it success; a great change in the relation of parties has taken place since then; and it is to be presumed, that her Majesty has herself improved in knowledge and discernment since that period. But there are other resources ; there is the unpromising state of the wea ther, and the apprehension of a short harvest. This is another god-send to the Liberals, which they look upon as given especially to favour them. We would not have them lay on the flattering unction too heavily, however, that this will prove a way of escape for them. The country has rejected the Whigs because it found them unworthy of confidence; now, is it likely that that confidence will be in any degree restored because unforeseen difficulties should arise ? If we have deemed these men unworthy of trust in the lesser emergency, is it likely or reasonable that we should resort to them in the greater ? By profligate expenditure and gross mismanagement they have so abused and squandered away the national resources, that they can contrive no means of meeting the ordinary expenses of the country without resorting to experiments full of danger to our national independence ; and is it conceivable, that in any extremity of evil entailed upon us by such causes, we should again desire to put ourselves in the hands of the ignorant quacks to whom all the mischief is attri butable ? We should think not. If there be a short harvest, there is the descending scale in the duties on foreign corn, and our deficiencies will he supplied from abroad. Would the free-trade nostrum of the budget men afford a better palliative of the evil ? When there is a deficiency under the existing law, we can go abroad and supply ourselves ; under their free-trade system we might go abroad, and seek to supply our selves in vain. Our dependence on foreign countries is now but small and casual; under their system it would be large and constant, and in case of a bad harvest on the continent, our difficulty wo u ld b e pro portionably increased. No, there is no reason to think we should be driven to the resources of the desperate and dying \Vhigs even by a short harvest. We are far from thinking that there are as yet any just grounds for desponding on this head ; but were it otherwise, sure we a re that the nation would endure its privations and submit to all necessary ordinances much more contentedly and confidingly under the government of men of principle, piety, and paternal anxiety for the general welfare, than it would under the administratio n of a se t of needy, place -hunting, unprincipled indivi duals who seem to have never any thought but of and for themselves, and their own petty and contemptible schemes. Sir Robert Peel concludes his speech by calling on Conservatives everywhere to secure the victory they have obtai ne d i n th e reg istration courts, as there it was that they first obtained the means of achieving it. "This, also, is sound advice, and we earnestly hope may be attended to ; but still, it does not embrace the whole matter. It may operate on those who are already 'Conservatives, but has no tendency to bring new men into the arena; it does not snggest a sufficient motive; it reaches no deep spring of action. This is the great defect of the right honourable baronet's speeches. In .our humble opinion, however, Conservatives would be mightily stirred up to do the thing advised, if they , were assured that it was a grand object with the leaders of their party to use their increased power in building up and strengthening the Church--in extending the national religion, and restoring in the national coun cils that respect for sacred things and zeal for Chris tian instruction which we regard as the first element of social happiness and of national prosperity. The Conservative press is charged with tocr strong a leaning to the landed interest; but the Liberal press certainly leans quite enough the other way, in our humble opinion, to set the balance true. A Liverpool contemporary, the Journal, of Saturday, takes us to task for some re►narks which appeared in this paper during the great agricultural meeting, and from which he infers that we have adopted the " exterminating doctrine" touching manufactures. But we have not been able to discover that we advanced anything which could warrant such a conclusion, not even with the assistance of so lucid and exact a commentator as our contemporary. We are certainly opposed to the poli tics and policy of the gentlemen of the anti-corn-law eague, most of whom are manufacturers, and we have ,een frequently disgusted when hearing with our own ears the language used by their advocates towards the gentry and landed proprietary; but as to any hostile feeling towards their interests, or want of appreciation for British manufacturers, or manufacturing industry, we are not at all conscious of labouring under any such preposterous state of mind. The statements with which our contemporary seeks to quarrel are absolute truisms. We said, and we say again, that the first principle of national independence is, national self support. We said that manufacturing prosperity was precarious, fluctuating, and might altogether cease ; but that so long as we had a soil capable of supporting the population, we might, under a wise government, be a free and happy people, and that, therefore, how ever desirable it might be to promote manufactures, yet that this should never be done at the expense of agriculture, or to such a degree as to render us de pendent on foreigners for actual necessaries. And surely the Jorirnal cannot be serious in disputing such propositions ; but if so, we really do not perceive how it is possible for us to conduct a controversy with him. Where would be our axioms, and postulates, our data, concessions, and so forth ? But the Journal has no fancy for the golden age, nor the primitive pastoral state ; he dreads the idea of swords being beat into plough-shares, and spinning jennies being converted into hoes or rakes ; and he takes us to Italy and the Italians to convince us that this agricultural state is the worst in the world. But is he sure that Italian misery and degradation are truly the result of the agricultural state? Are the Italians a degraded, servile, beggarly race, merely because they possess a delightful climate and a fertile soil, and because, instead of being confined to towns, and shut up in factories, they labour in the open air, cultivate their corn, and wine, and oil, their fruits and fields, and reside in cottages ? " God made the country,' , saith the proverb, " but man made the town :" does our contemporary mean to say, that the town is better? He might have spared himself the trouble to quote authorities for us as to the wretchedness of the Italians; we should have readily conceded the fact ; but we gladly borrow part of his quotation, as he says it is from a work of first-rate authority. It is as follows : " Every public walk, the doors of every frequented church, are besieged by crowds of beggars. of whom, though many may be idlers or impostors, a large majority are wretched creatures really dying of hunger. These are, indeed, chari table societies which spend large sums every year; there are also hospitals, amongst which those of Milan, Genoa, Rome, and Naples, are the most famous. But all these remedies are local and inadequate. The governments do little or no thing for the poor ; they do not even compel them to bide their misery ; and the rags and sores of hunger and paupers, pressing themselves on our attention by hundreds in every town and village from Susa to Reggio, may help us to a part of our account when we are next asked why the lower Italians are discontented, and, as is alleged, addicted to robberies." " The Italians," says Eustace, "are a very barbarous people ; and if they do not enjoy the blessings attached by Providence to industry, the fault does not lie with them, but in the system by which they are governed." "It is with mingled sentiments of pride and gratitude," says another English writer, " that a native of this country should return from traversing the Italian states ; with pride that he is the member of a com munity in which the energy of the people has reared a constitution which has shed o'er our northern isle a splendour unknown to the regions of the sun;' and with gratitude that public happiness is not the peculiar growth of any climate ; but under all circumstances and in all ages, is to be won by the vigour of a free people." Neither of these writers, however, touches the deepest spring of all, and that which is by fa r the most important in our eyes ; but our contem porary of the Journal is not so deficient; he an ticipates most exactly what we would say. " The STANDARD," says he, " will probably reply that the misery of the Italian peasantry is not owing to the want of manufactures, but to the want of a Church of England among them, to the want of such "lions men as the Stowells, M‘Neiles, Magees, of this highly favoured country." Most true ; we do say so. The curse of Popery is on that fair land, and the people are consequently what the Journal's " first rate autho rity" says they are, a nation of slaves and beggars. But why did he go to Italy to show us what Popery can do for a people? He need not to have gone so far; it would have done to have just steamed over to O'Connell's country. There, indeed, he would have seen lights, and shadows—light in every Protestant district, and darkness in every Popish. The agricul tural state again, and the British constitution, at least in name; but Popery again with its blight—a mildew and blast—powerful only for evil. But our contemporary, in the last place, compares the peasantry with the manufacturing population of this country, and argues for the superior condition of the factory operatives. Well, there is no disputing about tastes; but as we do not feel ourselves particu larly concerned in determining the point, we shall leave the matter in his hands. The happiness of a people does not after all, depend so much on the nature or character of their industrial occupation; it depends much more on their religion and government. If these be all right, it does not signify what their pecu liar occupations may be, so they be honest—and the labouring man, whether peasant or mechanic, may en joy a reasonable share of comfort and contentment. LOCAL NEWS. DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND. — On Friday morning last, at half-past seven o'clock, as Joseph Sandon, a shoe maker, was passing along Tenterden-street, he found a bun dle lying on the footwalk. He opened it, and found a new born female child. He delivered it to the inspector of the district, and it was sent to the Infirmary. It is the opinion of the surgeon who examined it, that it was not born alive. J. W. Patten, Esq., one of the estimable members of the Noathern Division of this county, gave the tenants on his Wintnarleigh property a treat to the ltoyal Agricultural So ciety's meeting at Liverpool, a numerous party of whom gladly availed themselves of this kind offer, and will, no doubt, long and very gratefully feel the value of the favour conferred upon them. THE RAINBOW HOTEL.—Strangers, travellers, and all who are en route, and wish to be well accommodated, re ceive politeness, and enjoy good fare, will find every requi site at the house of" mine host " Lawton, at the Rainbow. We can recommend him and his hotel to notice. THEATRE-ROYAL.—This theatre has been literally cram med every night since " London Assurance" has been played ; to-night is the last night it can be performed. The comic scene, " Two in the Morning," is a most capital bit of hu mour. WINSTANLEY'S Rooms.—The lovers of fine arts will be highly gratified in visiting Messrs. Winstanley's rooms, where will be found on view to-day (intended for public sale to-morrow) a collection of exquisite works of art Tarste and Vertu. Amongst the glass wares are some elegant speci mens of the Bohemian Manufactories. The bronzes are very beautiful. The china is extremely curious, but what gave us the greatest pleasure was the inspection of some carvings in ivory, from the gifted chisels of Michael Angelo, and others. These carvings are, without exception, the most ex quisite works we have ever seen in this country. The carvings in wood, from Spain, are very curious, and well worth the attention of any gentleman fitting up rooms in the olden style. Amongst the satuary are works of Canova, Binnaime. and other sculptors of eminence. We strongly recommend a visit to Messrs. Winstanley's rooms, to inspect these charming productions. There has seldom been such a collection offered for public sale, and a lively competition will doubtless take place for its possession. NEW BRIGHTON.—Nothing can be more agreeable at the present season than a residence at this delightful sea-bathing place, which is, every summer, rising into great celebrity. The salubrity of the climate is almost enough to " make old age forget his years, and throw away his crutch." The sea ' views are magnificent; and, while it is a place quite suited for th e idle and the fashionable, it is no less so for the man of business, who, after his daily toil, has only to step into one of the steam-packets, which are continually crossing to and from Liverpool, and in a few minutes he is wafted from the din and smoke of the town, to the bracing air and beautiful shore of New Brighton. At present it is graced by not a few of the great and noble of the land, amongst whom are the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, Right Hon. Lord and Lady Tenhain, Hon. W. Kenyon and lady, Lady Dallas, Sir Ste phen Glynn, Bart., Lady Walsingham, Lady Emily North, Lady Jane Ram, Sir Edward Hartoff, Bart., Mr. Gladstone, Mr. W. Fielden. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Davenport,P Mr. and Mrs. Richard Esq., &c., Ald Mar tineau, Mrs. Holland, Christopher Bullin, Esq., James Mel lor,Mr.Greenall, Esq.,Houghton, q., &c. _ , . CHARGE AGAINST A PAWNBROKER.—A notorious fellow, a common informer, who at present figures in the name of Turnbull, and who has lately rendered himself unenviably conspicuous by the anxiety he has evinced to entrap different pawnbrokers of the town, appeared to prefer a charge against Mr. John Parry, pawnbroker, Thurlow-street, for an over charge of lid. upon 6 s , the amount lent upon a coat pledged. The informer had not given the pawnbroker notice to pro duce the ticket, and Mr. Rushton would not allow him to offer a copy as evidence, and the information therefore failed, being, as Mr. Rushton intimated, bad in another respect. RIOTS AT THE ELECTION. - At the Quarter Sessions on Friday, eleven persons were committed to prison, for periods varying according to the nature of their offences, for being engaged in a riot on the day of election. The longest period of punishment was four months. ERAFIn very beautiful and highly interesting animals are advertised to be taken away from Liverpool next Monday. Those of our leaders who have not seen them should lose no time in doing so. They aic really great won ders, end deceiving of much notice. The Law Association of Manchester have addressed a memorial to the Home Secretary, praying that the assize business of the Hundred of Salford may be transferred to Manchester. E WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. — The members of the conference met on Wednesday morning last, at Oldham street, Manchester, when the Rev. James Dixon was elected president, and Dr. Hannan secretary, by large majorities. The question of the ministers wearing silk gowns was dis cussed on a subsequent day, when it was decided that the gown should not be worn, and the conduct of the ministers who appeared in one was referred to the committee. The centenary fund, we are informed, amounts to X 190, 0 000; and it is fully expected, that the amount will eventually be made up to £200,000. The total number of ministers who have died within the year is 27. _ _ _ _ EXTENSIVE itOBBERY OF MONEY.—On Friday, at the Police-court, two men, James Roberts and:William Greaves, both well known to the police, were placed at the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of money from the house of Mr. Joseph Harris, keeper of the Eagle Inn, corner of Great Nelson-street and Scotland-road. It appeared from the evidence, that on Tuesday night last, the prisoners and four other men went into Mr. Harris's, where they had something to drink. They were in a room by themselves, and when they went out it was remarked that they had left some liquor in their glasses. The prisoners were afterwards noticed in the street on their leaving the house, and one of them was carrying a box or desk under his arm. The mistress of the house was informed of this ; and suspicion being excited, she went up stairs, and immediately missed a portable writ ing-desk, in which she had shortly before placed a £2O note, three £lO notes, one £5 note, 53 sovereigns, £3 in half crowns, fifteen shillings in silver, and a dollar, worth about 4s. 2d. ; making in all a sum of £lll 19s. 2d. Information was given to the police, to whom the dress and appearance of the supposed delinquents were described, and they were apprehended. The desk, broken open, was found emptied of its contents ; no money was found. The prisoners were also seen by other witnesses in the street, one of them car rying the desk, which was partly wrapped up. They were committed to take their trials at the assizes. On Thursday last, the 29th instant, an inquest was held at St. Helens. The deceased, Henry Ashton, a young man about 16 years of age, worked at an upper mine at the col liery of Messrs. Muspratt and Daglish, in Parr, and deceased and two other men were standing together on the stage where the coals are brought to from the lower mine. He handed a candle to his brother, who was on a stage about six feet above that on which deceased was standing. He stood for about a minute, and he then fell backwards to the bottom of the pit, a distance of about thirty-four yards. He never spoke nor called out when he fell. He must have been suddenly seized with faintness or giddiness which occasioned his fall. Ile was quite dead when they took him up. Verdict dental death " An inquest was held on the 27th July last, at Warrington, before John Keyes, Esq.; coroner, on the body of Thomas Allerton, a man about 76 years of age, who, on Sunday, the 25th, was walking up Bridge-street towards Market Gate, in \Varrington. Some persons were standing on the steps of a hatter's shop there, and the deceased came up and requested permission to seat himself on the steps ; they assisted de ceased, and in a minute or two perceived that he frothed at the mouth, when they sent immediately for a surgeon, but upon his arrival deceased was quite dead. Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." Another inquest was held at the same place, on the body of Jane White, a child about 16 months old, who was stand ing in the street when a cart drawn by one horse was passing, and before the horse could be stopped the cart passed over her breast, which canted her immediate death. The driver was close to his horse's head, but the deceased was on the opposite side, and unfortunately was not seen by him until the wheel had passed over her. Verdict—" Accidental death." THE. TOWN-HALL CLOCK.—Scaffolding is now erected round the dome of the Town-hall, for the purpose of repaint ing and regilding the four faces of the clock. The public have long been of opinion, that the faces of a clock so conspicu ous as this ought to be illuminated with gas, like the faces of the clocks of St. George, St. Peter, and St. Nicholas ; and, since the scaffolding was put up, that opinion has very ge nerally been expressed, particularly by the inhabitants iu the district around the Town-hall. A memorial to the Town council, praying them to cause the clock faces to be illumi nated, has been drawn up and is now in course of signature. It will be presented on Wednesday, when the Council will, we hope, order the measure to be adopted. THEATRE-ROY AL, MANCHESTER.—The new play of London Assurance, and the attraction of the different per formers of the Covent-garden company, drew an audience crowded to overflowing at this theatre on Saturday; the mu sicians vacated their seats in the orchestra to accommodate several parties who could not obtain places in the boxes ; and the announcement of the comedy for repetition in Manches ter on Saturday next, was greeted with a burst of applause from all parts of the densely filled house. CASE OF ABSCONDING FROM TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS. —At the police -court yesterday, John Williams, a pilot, was placed at the bar, on the following chagre, the substance of which was stated by Mr. Shuttleworth, deputy Town-clerk. About six months ago the prisoner was held to bail, himself in £3O and two sureties in £l5 each, to answer a charge of having committed a 'violent assault, on board of a pilot-boat, upon another pilot named Sadler, by which he lost an eye. The latter appeared in the witness box yesterday. A true bill was found against the prisoner at the sessions, and he was called on to plead, but was not in court, he having left town to avoid trial. His recognizances were accordingly estreated, and he was afterwards apprehended on a bench warrant for his appearance at the next sessions. Mr. Suttleworth now requested that heavy bail should be required. Mr. Rushton ordered him to find sureties to stand his trial himself in £l5O and two others in £75 each, and to give forty-eight hours' notice of the proposed bail. CONSERVATIVE STRENGTH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The strength of the conservatives in the House of Commons has thus gradually risen year by year— In 1833 they were .. 1834 „ l9O 1838 „ 1835 „ 1836 „ 1837 - 3lO INQUBSTS ON SATURDAY, BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ.— On view of the body of Ellen Riley, aged 68, who was on Friday run over by a cart in Ranelagh-place while crossing. Verdict—" Accidental death."—On the body of Thomas Barry. While assisting to remove a heavy pot at the soap ery of Mr. Moore, Leeas-street, it tell upon him. Verdict— " Accidental death."—On the body of a still born child, found, wrapped up, in a sand-hole in Tenderton-street. Verdict accordingly. SWINDLING A BOOTM A KER.—A well-dressed fellow, named James M`Lean, was put forward on a charge of having swindled Mr. T. B. Elley, boot and shoemaker, of Old Haymarket, out of three pair of Wellington boots, of the value of £2 17s. From the evidence it appeared that, be tween the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last, the prisoner and one of his associates walked into Mr. Elley's shop and asked Mr. Denison, the manager of the concern, to be shown a pair of Wellington boots. The prisoner having fitted himself with a pair, his companion asked tki be shown another pair, and he having been also fitted, they next inquired the price, and were told 19s. a pair. They then desired Mr. Denison to send the two pair they had fitted on, together with a third pair of similar size, to Mr. John Sixsmith's, at the old churchyard, for inspec tion, that they should there pay the bearer for two pair and return the third. Accordingly, a shopboy, of the name of Dowd, was despatched with the parties, with instructions not to part with the boots without having first obtained the money. When they had pi oceeded as far as Petty's public house, they induced the boy to drink a glass of rum, and having purchased some tobacco at a shop in Crosshall-street, they made the boy swallow a piece of it. At Sixsmiths' the prisoner's companion cried out, " Come, give me the boots !" and having obtained the three pairs, he rushed with them up stairs. The prisoner then treated the boy to a glass of ale, and was then making off, when the boy gave chase and had him taken into custody. Search was then made for his companion, but he had previously effected his escape by a back door which leads into the churchyard, of course taking the boots with him. When the prisoner had been searched in Bridewell, 2s. 9d. only was found on his person. He was committed for trial. POPULATION OF WARRINGTON.—The township of War rington, according to the census taken on the 7th of June, contains 18,969 inhabitants, of which number 9185 are males and 9784 females. The Warrington Natural History Society have received a munificent donation from her Majesty, of a selection from the ancient coins discovered last year at Cuerdale, in this county, and to which, in her quality as Duchess of Lancaster, her Majesty was entitled as treasure trover. They are 29 in number, of Anglo-Saxon and continental silver coinage. They are all in fine preservation, and several were previously unknown. THE BARBAROUS MURDER AT EXETER.—WC have already given the principal facts connected with the murder and robbing of a gentleman named Bennett at Exeter. Brins mead, one of the prisoners, has made a confession, the sub stance of which is, that he was about to go home after leaving the Cattle Market Inn, on Friday night, immediately after Mr. Bennett, and that Pitts came up to him, and asked him to go along with him, and they would have some more beer by and bye. This he at first refused, hut ultimately agreed to do so. They then doged Mr. Bennett towards his house, through South-street and Holloway-street, at the lower end of Colleton-terrace. Here they met Mr. Bennett, and Pitts said to him, that he (Mr. Bennett) had been with one of their sisters, and they would make it known if he did not treat them to some beer. Mr. Bennett agreed to give them some, and went to Ugler's public-house for that purpose, but it was shut up. Pitts then persuaded him to go on fur ther, and when in the lane, between the Deaf and Dumb Institution, Pitts asked Mr. Bennett for some money. The latter gave him fid., but Pitts swore that he would have some more, and not such a trumpery sum, and ad ded, that Brinsmead might have it. Brinsmead said he would, and took it from Pitts. Pitts then clasped Mr. Bennett round the body from behind, grasping both his arms and pressing him against some rails at the side of the lane. He called out to Brinshead to strike him, which the latter refused to do. Pitts then struck Mr. Bennett a tremendous blow in the face with his right hand from behind, and the latter called for mercy. Brinsmead then ' said to Pitts, " You have done it ; I shall not stay here, I shall go home." Pitts begged of him not to do so, but he went to some distance, and from there observed that a tre mendous struggle was going on between the two, who gra dually advanced to the path by the side of the river. Some heavy blows were struck, and he at last heard a " Blouse" into the water, and cries of " mercy, mercy." Immediately after he beard the sound of a person as if in the act of swim ming. He then left the spot and proceeded to near the Custom-house, where in a short time he was joined by Pitts, who said, "The man's in the water; he attempted to cut my throat, and has nearly cut my finger off." Pitts added that be had got Mr. Bennett's watch and a sovereign, and thal if he ever wanted a shilling he (Brinsmead) should have ii from him. Brinsmead positively declares that to his know. ledi , e no women were at all concerned in the matter, ant that he had none of the money except the sixpence given him by Pitts. He also said that a third party went with them when they first set out, but that he (lid not know his name. Pitts, Fletcher, Tint, Sanders, and Brinsmead, have been again remanded for further inquiry. AMERICAN " CHEAP BREAD. "— The following is a ver batim copy of an advertisement in an American paper.—(The Sun published it at New York, June 7th, 18.11.)—" Large Bread.—Five pounds s of baked bread for one shilling , at W. S. Wilkston's bakery, 4, Madison-street, corner of Chesnut, warranted as good as any in the city. The abo've cannot be too widely circulated, as it will tend to expose the fallacy of the Anti-Corn Law League in their late exhibition through the streets of this and other towns in England, of the large American shilling loaf. The best bread is sold in this town, where we are subject to a corn law, at tenpenee halfpenny for the six-pound loaf, and in that land of plenty—America, where there is no corn law, and where we are to have so much cheap flour fro m , it i s Llvertised as cheap—five pounds for a shilling —very near a halfpenny per pound dearer than in this town. It will be seen from our report of the Dorchester election dinner, that Sir James Graham paid a deserved compliment to, whilst lie availed himself of the arguments of, our eminent townsman, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, on the subject of " Home-fed England." 315 318 325 368 MEETING OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE TOWN, ON THE STATE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, &c., IN CHINA. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a meeting of medical and sur gical gentlemen of the town, and others, was held at the Medical Institution, Mount-pleasant, in purimince of invi tation from Dr. Parker, who has recently returned from a successful missionary campaign in Cbhui, and who proposed to submit a brief statement of the present state of medicine and surgery in China, and the establiShment of hospitals in that country The meeting, almost solely of professional men, was nu merously attended. The whole of the seats in the lecture room were occupied, there being present from fifty to sixty individuals. Dr. FORMBY was called to the chair. Dr. PARKER, in his exordium, dwelt upon the importance of the objects he had in view, which were—first, to enlighten the empire of China in the sciences of physic and surgery ; and, secondly, having opened the way, by their means to spread amongst the vast popujation of that country the blessings of Christianity. He went on to show the defective and erroneous state of medical science in that country. He then proceeded to adduce a number of cases that had fallen within his own experience, showing the great value of hospi tals in that country, not only in the advancement of science amongst the natives, and in the practical benevolent effects, but in conciliating the good feelings of the natives, and thereby clearing the way for the introduction of Christian principles amongst them, and, by removing the jealousy of foreigners, entertained by that extraordinary people, tending in a high degree to promote between them and Europeans an amicable and profitable system of commerce. He instanced a case of treatment for suspended animation, from immersion in the water, and a variety of others, showing the extreme igno rance of the Chinese faculty ; and detailed his success in many of them, to the astonishment of the Chinese, whose gratitude was unbounded. He next noticed the labours of many British practitioners in China, who had there established hospitals. Amongst these was Dr. Pearson, formerly of this town, who was the first to introduce vaccination, now extensively practiced there, a native doctor, named Longhead, (from the extraordinary length of his head,) being now the principal practitioner in Canton. The latter, during a practice of thirty years, had vaccinated upwards of a million of persons. Drs. Livingston, Mor rison, and Colledge had also been highly successful ; and in treating cases of ophthalmia, having restored to the dark eye-balls of hundreds the blessed light of day. He himself had embarked for China in 1834, attached to the Medical Missionary Society ; and the scene of his labours had chiefly been at the opthalmic hospital at Canton. Another was also established at Macao. He had also gone to Singapore, where he established an infirmary, and soon became known and sought after as " the foreign physician." The patients who were cured or relieved were, he added, very generally induced to read the society's books, and he related several affecting instances of their conversion to Christianity. During the recent political commotions his labours, and those who acted with hini were nearly arrested ; but he attended to patients at his own house. At first he received but slight encourage ment, but eventually one patient brought another, until the street was frequently crowded with applicants for relief. Be fore he left Canton, in June last year, the number of patients had been not less than six thousand. Many of the chief officers of the empire (including Imperial Commissioner Lin) had sought and obtained relief, and their expressions of gratitude were unbounded. The institution was opened for cases of opthalmia alone ; but some surgical cases forced themselves upon his attention, which it was im possible not to attend to, and, though the original name of the institution was retained, it had now become a general hospital. He noticed several cases of the cure of cataract — and in particular of an old woman of 78. The treatment of the native doctors in these and other cases was most unsci entific. A case of cure of a young woman who fell from the roof of a house during a thunder storm, and was severely wounded, excited much interest. He next noticed a variety of successful operations on parties afflicted with enormous tumours. The gratitude of the parties in these and other cases was excessive, and demonstrated in some instances in affecting pieces of poetry, or in that poetical language pecu liar to eastern countries. Amongst others, the father of a little girl who was brought and cured, afterwards brought a tablet on which was inscribed, "You have removed the flaw from the gem, and my beloved child is again a perfect pearl." He concluded by a strong appeal in behalf of the Medical Missionary Society, in carrying on the hospital, which was peculiarly desirable in prosecuting the object in view. The principal immediate object was to encourage gen tlemen of the medical profession to go and practise gratuitously among the Chinese, by affording the usual aid of hospitals, medicine, and attendants ; but the support or remuneration of such medical gentlemen was not at present within its con templation. The foreign residents of Canton and Macao were prepared to sustain the objects of the hospital. From the peculiar character of the people and their government it was requisite that the missionary should, in addition to a thirst for the propagation of Christianity, the capabilities of the physician and surgeon. He enumerated many friends of the institution in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other towns, including Sir Geo. Stanton, the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, the Rev. Baptist Noel, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, and many others. The medical profession, who had ever been the foremost to en counter plague and pestilence for the relief of their fellow creatures would, he trusted, not be backward in assisting to give enlightened practice to a country containing 360,000,000 of inhabitants. Great success had already attended the cir cumscribed operations of the society, and if the English and Americans (the latter of whom had already come forward most humanely in the cause), only put their shoulders to the wheel, christianity, combined with the healing heart, would take root in China. In re g ard to commerce, too, Sir George Robinson had well remarked of the society, that the surgeon's knife was better calculated to conciliate the Chinese than any weapons of war. The Royal College of Surgeons in this country had, he was happy to say, agreed to .educate three Chinese youths, to promote the objects in view, and when he returned to China it would be his object to select three promising young men for that purpose. After a warm eulo gium on Dr. Lockhart for his labours in the cause, he con cluded by stating, that if the medical men here would forward the objects stated, in behalf of the millione in China, their benevolence would meet with the heartfelt gratitude of all who were attached to the cause which he had the pleasure tc advocate. After a vote of thanks being passed to Dr. Parker for the interesting information he had afforded, a medical committee was named and appointed to carry out his views. Amongst them were:—Dr. Formby, Mr. Bickersteth, Mr. Blackburn, Dr. Dickens, Dr. Ramsay, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Blower, Dr. Sutherland, Mr. Batty, Mr. Eden, Mr. Neill, Dr. Robert son, and Dr. Moffatt. _ . . (A further committee of non-professional gentlemen re mains to be formed at a subsequent meeting.) The meeting then separated. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION A lecture on the views and objects of Protestant Associ• ations was delivered on Tuesday evening last, in Mr. Lady. man's large room, Wavertree, by James Lord, Esq., one 01 the secretaries to the association. Present—Rev. Messrs W. Badnall, M'lver, Greene, Pendon, Richards, Gardner Wilson, Messrs. Barber, Finlay, Phillips, Wood, Swindon &c., &c. The Rev. W. BADNALL, M.A., incumbent of Wavertree, having been moved to the chair, called on the Rev. C. W. RICHARDS to commence proceedings by prayer; after which, The Rev. CHAIRMAN addressed the assembly at some length on the importance of the object for which they had met, and the great need for protestants of the present day to be on their guard against popery. Mr. Loan, in rising to address the meeting, disclaimed being actuated by any unkind or uncharitable feeling towards Roman Catholics. It was not with the men, but with the principles he had to contend : it was against the system of popery, and not those who were the victims of it, that they protested. And what, he asked, w as this popery ? Was it any new thing? Was it a t hi ng respecting which scripture and history were silent ? No ! Was it not rather that same system of anti-scriptural doctrines, and intolerant principles, against which our forefathers— o ur martyred forefathers pro tested, and against which we too ought to protest with equal energy and firmness? . If a spark of the same spirit animated us that led them on to contend earnestly for the truth, and to protest against the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome, most assuredly popery had undergone no change in her principles—anti -scriptural then she is anti-scriptural now, and we therefore ought to protest against her—intole rant and persecuting then, she is still the same—and it be came protestants therefore to guard against her encroach ments.—Mr. Lord proceeded further to observe, that the Protestant Association regarded protestantism as inse parably bound up and connected with the best and dearest interests of the country. Nor should it be imagined that, though the term protestantism was comparatively new, that therefore protestantism itself was a novelty. No—it was as old as Christianity. Whe n t aunte d b y R oman i sts w i t h th e nov elty of our faith, we might reply, as one of old had re plied when asked " Where was your religion before the time of Luther ? 7 " t was wh ere your re li g i on never was —i t • was in the Bible." Christianity was planted in this island be fore popery was known ; the Reformation was not the in vention of a new religion, but a restoration of the old reli gion, by purging off those dark errors and superstitions with w hich popery had overshadowed and obscured it. The ob jects of the Protestant Association were to preserve inviolate the blessings of that Reformation—to arouse the dormant spirit of Protestantism, and to lead to the adoption of such measures as might prove suc cessful, by the divine blessing, to avert those evils which seemed to be now impending. All we valued as free men and as Christians was at stake. Popery, the enemy of both the one.and the other, was moving forward with giant strides to regain the despotic power she heretofore exercised and to re-establish her superstitions in the midst of protest ant England.—After proceeding further to shew the increase of popery and popish influence, both at home and abroad, he commented on the falsely-styled " liberal" spirit of the pre sent day—something little short of infidelity—which led many indiscriminately' to support conflicting creeds and opi nions. The very inconsistency of this, he observed, might have been thought sufficient to prevent parties from such conduct ; but unfortunately too many individual and na , tional instances were to be found where such a course had been pursued.—Mr. Lord here adverted among others to Maynooth College, and what, he asked, could be more in rotestantism on the o ne h an d t c consistent than with P protest against popery: and parer Protestant the other hand to pro. test against Protestantism ? Th Association had directed their efforts to procure a discontinuance of this grant, and he trusted those present would not forget to peti. tion parliament against this and all similar grants for popisl purposes. sought to carry out th e i r o bjects The mode by which th e y was by forming- branc h associations, by meetings and lec tures—by the publication and extensive dissemination of tracts, handbills, and magazines—and by this instrumentality he trusted that much good had already been accom pli s h e d. Many had thereby been induced to see the dangers to which protestantism was now exposed, and the great necessity of exerting themselves, if they would conti nue to en j oy an d hand down to their posterity that pure faith, and those civil and religious institutions which their ancestors had handed down to them, and under the benign influence of which England had attained such pre-eminent glory and prosperity. As he knew there were many other speakers about to address the assem bly, he would not, he said, at further length occupy their attention, and sat down amidst loud cheering. A variety of resolutions were then moved and adopted, by the clergy and gentry present, and spe eches made re p lete with piety and learning, but which we regret we cannot more f u ll y notice. We subjoin the following fundamental resolutions, from the ' sound principles they co ntain : Resolved,—That the influence of true religion over a peo ple forms the best security for their individual rights, and the surest basis of nat ional p ros p erit y. That the British constitution acknowledges in it's principles and laws the so vereignty of Almighty God, and the sup reme aut h or i ty o f his holy word, and has prom'. d for the script ura l i nstruct i on of the people by its religious establishments. Resolved,—That in opposition to this principle of the con stitution, the Church of Rome is zealously exerting itself to destroy the' Protestant character of the constitution, and to counteract these efforts, all who venerate the Word of God, and value British institutions, should be called on to co-operate in taking measures to inspire the people with e just sense of the blessings and benefits of the Protestant constitution. Samuel Woods, Esq., jun. , was appointed secr et ar y, an( a vote of thanks having been moved to the ch a i rman an d the lecturer, the meeting cl osed b y sin g in g the doxology. Paris has now upwards of twenty-seven daily paper: average sale of whichexceeds 90,000 per diem, while don has only nine daily papers, with a sale of about 4 per diem. ENGLAND AND IRELAND .1 Preach the Law.". TO TII DITOII 01 Psalm II YE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. airtt.—lt scarcely required the startling events of the late elections to fix attention on the condition, moral and politi cal, of Ireland. Now, and for ever, over the dark page of such history as is left to her, sorrow, suffering, turbulence, and bloodshed form the hideous materials for the historian's labours, and few and far b e t ween are th e re f res hi ng in c idents that indicate the change from barbarism to refinement, of a generous people, self-corrected and improving, qualifying themselves for a station amongst the nations of the world. Can it be that any portion of the terrestial globe is marked by the mysterious providence of God to prove to erring mor tals that everything we must esteem and value is a curse and not a blessing ? That it is the feeble blindness of our nature, the eye seeing darkly, that leads us to conceive that brilliant transparency of atmosphere—genial healthfulness of climate —luxuriant productiveness of soil, are blessings that lend assistance towards the civilization and happiness of a people ? Else, wherefore, is it that a country, blessed by providence beyond other lands, presents a yawning crater in the midst of civilization, now scattering in wild irruption the embers of discord; or, it in apparent peacefulness, presenting only the bubbling slumber of the lover, ready on all occasions to burst forth and sear the footsteps of mercy and charity, whenever they venture to approach her shores? Sad, very sad, is the truth, but public events appear to prove that amidst increased advantages of knowledge and improvement the social virtues retrograde. The mild precepts of religion are employed, not for the purpose of fostering love to the fellow creature, but for creating feelings of hatred and re venge, and the intellect sharpened by adventitious circum stances, devised more ingenious methods for their gratifica tion. It enters into no part of the anticipations of the writer of this, that the enigma which has apparently set at defiance the intellect of sages and law-givers, lies within his powers of solution. But truth, however perverted by crime, or concealed by circumstances, ultimately appears ; and late events are calculated not only to make the cry of the real sufferer heard, but to throw to the timid and wavering the miserable strength of the oppressor,—to point out beyond the power of contradiction or evasion, that the leader or di rector of crime is no friend to a country or a people, that it is a scourge—a bitter, savage scourge—that forces an appa rent adoration, from either words or actions, by the dread of a most devilishly devised system of torture. That secures the tacit approval of fathers of families by no idle threats of instant assassination. And mark it! ye who have the power of protection ! The elections are incontrovertible testimony that this system, so long the terror of every good man, the mock of surrounding nations, the shame of England, is exercised not only by reckless poverty against property, but by the few against the many. We are few, said Danton, therefore we must show no mercy. Without, therefore, undertaking the Lysiphean task of solving all the circum stances that have produced this lamentable problem, it be comes the solemn duty of every man in England to say " you are of our household, our family, and whatever may be the injuries you complain of, or the objects you have in view, you shall not avenge the bne, or gratify the other, by acts that equally stain our honour, and sacrifice your own souls." The moral force of England has only to declare the will as it unquestionably has the power, and on the instant crime would fly abashed—the dastardly midnight murderer—the :owardly bully—the ambitious traitor—would be hurled from die bad eminence they now enjoy, and in their place peace, law, and order would spread themselves over a people, who, in prosperity, would lift up their hands in gratitude to a na tion that had delivered them from a misery which now " is greater than they can bear." Is this the language of an enemy ? Too long and too often has it been the cus tom to brand the individual who dared to lift his voice against turbulence and agitation as the enemy of Ireland. The Englishman who has done this can never have been a witness to the practical effects of those terrible visitations ; he who has beheld the highly educated and high-minded re duced by this accursed system to want their daily bread ; who has seen the father full of life and hope leave his dwell ing in the morning, and at set of sun brought back a mangled corse ; who has lent his unavailing aid to soften misery, as it was great beyond all human calculation, so was it beyond all controul, 'and has held communion with families, who from worldly circumstances were justified in looking forward to years of uninterrupted union and happiness, but in obedi ence to the deadly mandate, were gone " even as a match in the night." "He who speaks of that he has known, and testifies of that he has seen," will regard with wonder and abhorrence the man, who with a grave face will put a dispu tation of abstract political rights into competition with scenes like these. He will feel surprise not unmixed with indigna tion, that as one man his countrymen do not uplift their voices and say, " These things shall not be." We are met at all points with the cuckoo cry of " justioc to Ireland." It is put forth in a tone of insolent defiance that bespeaks to the party addressed an unfeeling and unrelenting tyrant. To whom is it addressed, and what is the demand ? It is ad dressed to the sovereign majesty of England ; to that mighty power who never from its earliest infancy to its present hour of glory, has listened unheeding to the cry of the suffering and oppressed ; who has expended the profits of her in dustry, and poured forth her child, en's blood in remote cor ners of the earth, in avenging the injured and putting down the evil doer. The insulting tone announces that this gene rous people, who never refused justice to their bitterest enemy, withhold it from their own children in a manner that bespeaks capricious tyranny. It is said that a lie repeated often, is at length believed by the party who invents the falsehood. The case of Ireland presents an extensive illus tration of the proverb. England, so far from playing the hard mistress over Ireland, has, with a prodigal generosity, characteristic of her nature, showered with an open hand intended blessings over the land. Everything that might be considered burdensome in taxation has been withheld; all hat was thought favourable in her laws and institutions has )een bestowed. Here we reach the great secret of the evil. It is not from England's jealousy, selfishness, or cruelty that Ireland has been wronged, but from a mistaken sense of ge nerous kindness. In the unsuspecting confidence of their nature, Englishmen have thought that whatever was good for their own country, must be equally so for other people, that the laws, institutions, and modes of government that worked so well in this country, must as a consequence operate in the same direction in Ireland. Thus with no un friendly feeling, the imperial parliament has been forcing English laws and English institutions upon a country totally unfitted for their reception. Is it meant by this that the Irish, as a people, are inferior to the English, and that, consequently, we should deal with them after their inferiority? God forbid. Nations differ in every thing that constitutes variety as to complexion, cha racter, and disposition; and to point out the difference is not to underrate. The customs, feelings, dispositions—the work of the Creator—that in one country, acted on by human laws, lead to tranquility and happiness, will, on different feelings and customs, produce the opposite effects, and lead to crime and irritation. It is not possible that the laws and institutions fitted for the most sedate and quiet people on the face of the earth, can be equally wholesome and beneficial to the most exciteable and vivacious. No one knows this im portant truth better than the lawless agitators, who, distinct from the real people of Ireland, live on the distraction of that devoted land. The same laws, the same privileges are unceasingly demanded by the individual who knows the remedy he would apply, will add fuel to the flame. Every additional attempt to engraft English law upon Irish habits, is only creating new sources of irratation,—giving food to the agitators, and surrendering the peaceable and well-dis posed to the tender mercies of the lawless. Will any man who is acquainted with criminal proceedings in Ireland be bold enough to assert, that trial by jury, which in this country is considered the palladium of liberty, operates in the same beneficial manner in the sister country ? In England it is the protector of the injured—the redresser of his wrongs—the guardian of the accused against all attempts at unjust power, whether on the part of the sovereign or subject. Is it so in Ireland ? On the contrary, have not each of the two contending parties alternately used the power the law has given them to encourage crime by sheltering the guilty, and prostituted this sacred tribunal into the mere protector of an arraigned partisan ? No man, or body of men, can ultimately profit by a perversion such as this ; and if the trial by jury, which may be considered the foundation of British institutions, and only defensive in its operations, thus fails to produce the desired effects, how much more injurious must those institutions be which act offensively on the different relations of society. What will be the effect of the Municipal Reform Bill, the New Poor Law, cum multis aliis? Does the most ardent admirer and supporter of either of these measures seriously believe that their effects will be peace, law, order, an im proved state of society and property ? It is confidently asserted, there is not one man entertains such utopian con ceptions. From the earliest discussion of the questions, it has been an unceasing struggle for mere supremacy of party. The new power has armed the contending factions, not with the arts of peace and the implements of social improvement, but with more deadly weapons for the encounter, which they will not fail to use: until one of the parties be destroyed, or the cause of contention removed from out of the country. Nothing affords more just grounds for astonishment than the deference paid, by Englishmen, to those who, in their noisy impudence, arrogate to themselves the title of " Friends of Ireland." The names of certain leaders have excited a kind of terror, that, not confined to a respectable portion of society, has affected the " sovereign powers of legislation" itself. These men must laugh in their sleeve at the attention they attract, and the fears that they create. England, in her course of unsullied justice, has no cause of fear from any man or na tion of men upon earth ; least of all has she to fear the brawling agitator, whose power is founded upon terror, who seals up the public indignation by the dread of the bullet and the bludgeon, and who will be struck down by the respect abie portion of society the instant the strange policy of the government is withdrawn that at present affords him sanction and protection. Can there be a man so far cajoled out of his proper powers of reason as to believe that, if the voice of the constituency could be heard, Mr. O'Connell would be al lowed to stand, colossus like, with one foot upon Cork, the other upon Meath ? Away with the delusion. There is no prouder or better blood in British bosoms than circulates in the veins of the inhabitants of those lonely counties. Long did they continue the contest, at the hazard of their lives. Longer would they have done so, but the humanity of the conservative leaders interposed, and refused to attempt a conquest that must be bought with blood. Mr. O'Connell well knows the indignation that is now felt over the county A Cork at the outrage that has been practised on them. A :onservative people have been misrepresented and belied, aeld up as advocates of measures that must ultimately lead 1:o their own ruin, and the dismemberment of the united Kingdom. Who publishes the libel that a majority of voters in the county of Cork are favourable to a repeal of the corn laws and of the legislative union ? The papers under the im mediate pay or controul of the repeal party. No great length of time has elapsed since this department of the powers of agitation was exposed in a series of letters published in the Times newspaper. The power and truth manifested in these remarkable compositions struck terror into the heart of the agitator himself, and, in the overflowings of his wrath, he fixed, in insulting terms, their authorship upon a party to whom he was afterwards obliged to apologise and retract. The talented author of those l e tte rs i s a t p re sent apparently silent, but he is not the only one who has witnessed the works ing of the repeal press in Ireland. Others are acquainted with the tyranny, insults, falsehood, cruelty, and humbugging that is practised ; men of hi g h t a le n t an d g enerous feelings s triving in vain to free themselves from the serpent e ye that was upon them ; geniu s s t rugg li ng t o ex t r i c ate itself froma vortex into which it h a d unc o nsc io us ly ventured, and in which many and many a one had sunk ; the best efforts un derrated ; now doing too much, now too little. If, In an in moment, truth h as b een u tte r ed, pointed out n a public assembly as a villain of the deepest dye, and driven . with personal violence from the place—those area few of the means employed to keep down the constitutional voice of Ireland, and direct the opinions of the turbulent, as the disturber and exc it er ma y thi n k p r oper. Great as would be the mercy to free the conservatives of Ireland from the tyranny that is over them, the boon is no less prayed for and would be no less felt, if bestowed on the miserable slaves who appear to be linked inseperably to the chariot w t liee!s o f the oppressor. It is impossible, in an enquiry into !e state t. of society in Ireland, to pass over the remarkable position o the Protestant clergy. If all the othehrevroeiciess st)llllaetsirzi.ceall on England for redress were silent, alone to rouse her to immediate action. .The ancient ()r hea re t core d ls of devotion and martyrdom present nothing more r ren perse cuted body. Under the bitter pangs of poverty ing than the sufferings that have been endured byathdisspterse arva- tion, they have been taunted with gorging on the spoils of " the richest church in the world. Possessing genius leave been and acquirements that never were su rpassed, branded with ignorance and i nsuf fi cienc y . Presidin g over they numerous and respectable congr e g ations, it has been roundl y stated that they are an isolated class, ne g lected and a void e d , whose only occupation is to seek for money that others earn, And live on the property that belongs to others. What is the fact? It is only in the most distant and solitary corners of the kingdom that the Protestant churches are deserted ; in all the populated districts the churches are attended by numerous, respectable, and increasing congregations. These bodies are remarkable for their piety and sincerity ; and the sufferance and patient endurance of their clergy prove to them that they rely on a higher and holier power than the sword of the magistrate for the support of the doctrines they profess. Let us hope that the slander, robbery, and murder that has been done on them has satisfied the most relentless, and that justice, however tardy, will be done their talents and . their virtues. " But the salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord. who is also their strength in the time of trouble." The course fur England appears to he marked by Providence in characters that cannot be mistaken. Outrage and disturbance must be put down wheresoever and by whom soever they may be committed. The laws affecting property and the person must be fully and entirely vindicated. All those English institutions whose practical operations led to disorder and bloodshed, whatever political privileges they involve, must,be removed, or placed in such a position that the peaceable and well disposed shall be safe from the ma chinations of the democrat. All attempts to force new laws and institutions where those at present existing are mis chievous or inoperative, must cease. A brave and generous people must be taken as they are, and with reference alone to those faculties and feelings wherewith God has endowed them must their freedom and happiness be consulted. They will then possess real liberty, where they are now cheated only with the name. Peace will take the place of turbulence — and the law, free from the intervention of partizan juries, protecting alike the peasant and the noble, will be as much an object of respect as it is now of jealousy and mistrust. Every one must feel a protector against the political pre judices of his neighbour, and turning from the delusive pro mises of self-interested agitators, they may, " seeing the light," join in a general exertion towards the general good. I am, Sir, yours, &c., CONSERVATOR. N.B.—This paper was completed before Mr. O'Connell's last manifesto from the Repeal Association appeared. That document deserves the attention of Englishmen. [We shall be extremely glad to hear from our correspon dent at any time, but he would much oblige us by writing on only one side of the paper, and making each communication as short as convenient.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. you permit me to ask the Poor-law Guardians if they are aware that the accounts of the Registrars for the last census were passed by the magistrates on Friday and Saturday ? Are they aware that nothing more is required to entitle the enumerators to payment? Can they for a moment Close their ears against the claims of men, many of whom have moved in highly responsible situations, and who have, with the most cool-blooded apathy, been put off with evasive and shuffling answers from day to day,—and in consequence of which delay many of them have been put to great and painful inconveniences ? May I inquire why the payment is further postponed till to-morrow week?—By inserting this statement you will, sir, greatly oblige an ENUMERATOR. Monday evening, August 2, 1811. THE APPROACHING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS Unless we are much mistaken, our whig local faction pur pose making au effort in the approaching municipal elections to retrieve their position in the council ; and we must strongly impress upon our conservative friends the importance of being prepared to render that effort unavailing. The elec tions in November will practically decide the whole questions at issue between the council and the inhabitants of the bo rough ; for, to whichever party victory inclines, will be se cured a preponderance of power in the Council-room for some time to come. It is imperative, therefore, upon every elector who desires to see our local government conducted upon conservative and Christian principles, to be watchful and energetic, in order to frustrate the attempts of Socini ' anism and liberalism to fasten themselves, in perpeluo, upon the borough of Liverpool. We must not allow ourselves to be misled by any over-confidence of our strength; but fight the battle in every ward with a determination to win ; and, as the result, we shall be rewarded by seeing A CONSERVA- TIVE ELECTED TO THE MAYORALTY, for the first time since the passing of whig municipal reform, whilst a conservative premier wields the power of the state, for the first time since the passing of whig parliamentary reform I Such a triumph the electors of Liverpool roast not allow to slip through their fingers THE POLICY OF SIR ROBERT PEEL'S ADMIN ISTRATION There is one fact which is worthy of being borne in mind as indicating what ought to be the policy of a conservative administration at the present crisis. In no single contest throughout the recent elections has a great conservative vic tory been won where the battle was not fought upon high conservative and protestant principles. We can point to no instance where " moderate " conservatism has: been in the ascendant. We know of no constituency who have selected a half-caste politician to represent them ; and the conclu sion is obvious that whoever may be the individuals who compose the new administration, its policy, to be in accord ance with the declared wishes of the nation, must be of a decided and thorough conservative and protestant character. We must have no frittering away of great principles—no temporising with the enemy—no hanging back from the full assertion of the entire protestantism of the constitution ; but on the contrary, the administration of Sir Robert Peel—if its members wish to be efficiently supported by the voice of the nation—must take its stand boldly, and assert without flinching, the supremacy of those principles which have alone been effectual in arresting the advance of democracy over the ruins of our monarchial institutions We are quite prepared to encounter from timid and irre solute politicians some little demur to the propriety of the above views. There are men, we know, who see danger in asserting the full measure of benefit for which they have struggled, and who would seek to conciliate rather than to vanquish opponents. But it should be borne in mind that hostile principles are not to be dealt with in the same way as hostile men. We may allow the latter to breathe in the same atmosphere with their victors ; but the former we must crush if we would be safe. We may at any moment be able to strike down the knife which is in the hand of our antago nist ; but we must extirpate the poisonous sore if we wish for health to the body politic. We have now the power and the opportunity to do this, _and the national sanction for its being done ; and weak indeed would be our conduct if we allowed the opportunity to escape us. We have no wish :as protestants to embark in a crusade against the opinions or the liberties of other men ; but we must insist upon asserting and protecting our own ; and that object can only be attained by promptly and effectually en deavouring to repair the progress made during the past ten years towards dilapidating our national church and unchris tianising the state. The country requires a large measure of church extension, and the providing of ample means of reli gious education for all people ; and from the securing of both these desiderata we trust that the conservative party will not by any clamour on the part of liberalism and dissent allow themselves to be driven. Upon matters of commercial policy we are willing to allow a wide range to expediency ;. but we cannot be satisfied with less than the full measure of our demands in behalf of the national morality and the na- tional religion RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE On Thursday last an occurrence of an unusual nature was witnessed in the Insolvent Debtors' Court in London, viz., an opposition to the discharge of an insolvent, on the part of a railway company, to whom he was indebted for calls upon shares. We do not wish to give additional publicity to the proceedings in question—ill-advised and objectionable as we believe them to be—and our only motive for alluding to them at all is to suggest to the directors of the company in question the extreme impolicy of thus flying in the face of public opi nion, which is notoriously opposed to a stringent exercise of the great powers which acts of parliament confer upon such companies Of course it is quite proper that the payment of calls should be enforced from shareholders in arrear ; but when the law has done its part, and its victim takes refuge in the Court of Bankruptcy or Insolvency, it is beneath a great public com pany to display a vindictive spirit, by opposing him there. At all events, they ought to be certain of their grounds be fore doing so, and not allow themselves, as in the case before us, to appear in connection with a seeming harsh proceeding, from which they reap nothing but the obloquy attached to it. We sincerely wish well to the railway in question, but we must express our conviction that the public mind must be conciliated towards it, before it will over assume its proper position in the market, or the directors be relieved from the painful task, which it must be, to drive on an undertaking by means of continued law proceedings against its share holders. THE REGISTRY. ELECTORS,—See that you are registered. The overseers are bound to place the lists of voters on the church doors on Sunday, August 1, and again on Sunday next, August 8. COUNTY ELECTORS,—Look at the county list. Note the name of every man you know to be dead, to have lost or sold his qualification, and mark especially the fudged votes of the farmers' sons, and of the men without legal qualification. If you are on the list for the county, give notice of objection to the party and to the overseers on or before August 25. If you are not on the list yourself, find some friend to give the notices. _ BOROUGH ELECTORS,—Examine the list of voters for your borough ; see that your own name is inserted correctly ; if it is not, give a written notice of claim to the overseers on or before August 25. See what bad votes are in the list, and give a written notice of objection to the overseers on or before August 25. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE barrels. Free. (From the Cambridge . Chronicle.) The Rev. It. Reade, 8.A., of Cams College, in this uni• versity, has been presented to the rectory of Romaldskirk, Yorkshire, void by the cession of the Rev. G. Price. Patron, .1. Bowes, Esq. Value, £773. Population, 2507. The Rev. W. Haddon, M.A., late of Trinity College, in this university, has been appointed to be officiating minister of St. Stephen, Liverpool. Mr. Robert Anchor Thompson, of Catharine Hall, and Mr. John Hays, of St. John's College, in this university, have been appointed, by the Dean and Chapter of Durham, to two of the scholarships founded by Dr. Hartwell, lately vacant. Th e Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwicke has appointed the Rev. Law, rector of Orwell, and late Fellow and assistant Tutor of Trinity College, in this university, to be one of his lordship's domestic chaplains. OPERAS IN THE PROVINCES.—Mr. and Mrs. Martin, late Miss Inverarity, have arr i ve d i n this country f rom A m erica, and, with Messrs. Frazer and Stretton, are about to makea operatical tour th rong t h e pr i nc i pa l t h ea trical towns, com mencing at Birmi ng h am ear l y i n th e ensuingra"th' — .. 0 Sicol World. SECOND EDITION: Standard-office, Three LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tais DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular) Of English, Irish, and Foreign Wheat together, t arrivals into this port since Tuesday last contain a good sup - ply, with a fair quantity of Malt coastwise and of Beans from Egypt; whilst of Oats, Flour, and Oatmeal the imports of the week are only moderate, and of Barley very inconsider able. The following are the quantities of Grain, Flour, and 0 meal computed Ito re:nail - 111in Liverpool on the 31st Ju 1841 : In Bond.—Wheat 98,137, Barley 2,550, Oats 11,231, Rye 1,897, Beans 27,614, Pease: 4,726 quarters ; Flour 140,029 —Wheat 28,000, Barley 1,500, Oats 9,800, Rye —, Beans 2,500, Pease 500 quarters ; Flour 18,300 barrels and 1,000 sacks ; Oatmeal 21,000 sacks. Our Corn Exchange to-day was tolerably well attended by town and country buyers ; and having but a limited show good free Wheats on sale, all descriptions of English, Irish, and Foreign, although not in lively demand, were dispose d of to a moderate extent at the full improvement of Friday, and in some cases 3d. to 4d. per 701bs. over last Tuesday's currency was obtained. Of bonded Wheats further con siderable sales' continued to take place daily, and the advance above stated was fully supportedlthis morning. English and,lrish Flour must be noted ls. per sack, and free barrel Flour ls. dearer than on this day se'nnight ; and parcels under lock, being still in good request, readily com manded an amendment of Is. to ls. 6d. per barrel. Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, attracting rather more notice than of late, realized an advance of Is. per quarter each ; and Oats, upon a short supply, maintained the pre ceding amendment. Oatmeal was also more readily saleable, and 6d. per 2401b5. dearer. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 P.m The overland mail from India is not of a satisfactory na ture, and though we could not be wor:e than we have le ,n for some time past, yet it has added to the stagnation ; we have had scarcely any demand for Cotton to-day, and th 3 sales do not exceed, even if the reach 1,000 bales, at ye: ter day's prices. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE TUESDAY. AUGUST _3 ARRIVED.—Courier, Alward. from St. Petersburg—Apparition —, from Monte Video—Thomas, Akendorf, from Danzic—Si Mendezona, from Havana—and Comtneree, Kennedy, from Newry, With, Shaw, and Currency, Parker, hence at Calcutta Patriot King, Roddick, hence at ditto in 97 days John Bull, Rodger, and Jamaica, Gibson, sailed from Calcutta for Liverpool 28th May Elvira, Walker, and the Hesperus, --, sailed from Saugcr for Liverpool 10th May Mauritius, Long, from Sable Bay at Madras,•and sailed 61h June for Calcutta Tally Ho, Taylor, and Bertha, Elliot, hence at Leghorn Caroline, Shirley, hence at Naples John Lee, Scotland, hence at Almeira Sophia Christere, Dade, henae at Riga Robert Syers, Atkins, hence at Laguira Bahamian, Stroyan, hence at Calcutta in 104 days Louise, Wallis, hence at Memel Pomerania, Brandt, and the Elise Hoffnung, Doltz, hence at Copenhagen Jeanette, Dam, hence at Antwerp Hopkinson, Stevens, from Calcutta to this port, was spoken 22nd May, in lat. 16, long. 81 PETERHEAD, July 20.—The Eagle, front Liverpool, which was on shore at Scots TOwn Head, has been got off, and taken into the harbour with damage -, hence at Dan DANZIG, July 23.— o The William & Sarah, Jack, which sailed hence for Liverpool llith instant, put back on the 22nd, with pumps choked, loss of anchor and chain, and a list of four planks ; cargo discharging partly damaged. Off the port, at 10 a.m. 3 brigs and 2 schooners. BIRKENHEAD AND WOODSIDE (From our Correspondent.) PIGEON SHOOTING.—We understand that a sweepstakes of .C 1 each will come off at Mr. Shakeshaft's, the Sportsman Inn, Higher Tranmere, on Tuesday, the 24th inst. From the names already entered, we have no doubt that it will afford much amusement to the lovers of the sport. Should any of our friends wish to enter their names, we advise them to do so as early as possible, as we understand the list is nearly filled up. RACING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Tuesday last, the inha bitants of Birkenhead were highly delighted by witnessing a novel and glorious race by the police-officers to catch a pig, which had escaped from the safe custody of the keeper of the pinfold. After performing various and sundry evolu tions, whereby the dignities of the officers were much sullied by coming in contact with several commissioners' beds, the animal succeeded in giving them the go-by, and arrived safe at the domicile of his owner and trainer, Mr. Counsellor Cross, who, after this wonderful feat, offered to back his pig four miles across a fair sporting country against all the posse coninsitatus in the township. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—Thomas Jones, boot and shoemaker, Chapel-street, Birkenhead, retired to bed about eleven o'clock on Thursday evening last, apparently in good health. The following morning, between seven and eight o'clock, his wife arose, and, while in the act of dressing herself, discovered that her husband was a corpse! Medical aid was immediately procured, but proved ineffectual. On Saturday morning, an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Harwood, Market Inn, Birkenhead, before F. Thomas, Esq., coroner for this division of the county ; when an intelligent jury, who were summoned for the occasion, after a careful investigation, returned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy, caused by excessive drinking." HoyLa KE.—A. number of highly respectable gentlemen sat down to a most excellent dinner, provided at the house of Mr. Robert Shaw, Punch Bowl Inn, to celebrate the re turn of Sir P. Egerton, Bart., and John Tollemache, Esq., as members for this division of the county ; and, after an evening delightfully spent, the party separated, highly grati fied in having had an opportunity afforded them of giving expression to their political sentiments. LONDON MONEY MARKET.-SATURDAY The public securities exhibited no symptoms of recovery to-day, but rather the contrary, for they were very heavy till just before the close of business, when Consols were quoted at about yesterday's prices. Bank Stock, India Stock, and Exchequer Bills suffered more materially, and left off flat ; Bank Stock, 169 to 170 ; India Stock, 247 to 2-19 ; and Ex chequer Bills 14s. to 16s. premium ; Consols for money closed 89k, and for the account, 87i buyers ; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 88$; 3-I per Cents. Reduced, 98k to 99; New 3 per Cents., 981 ; Long Annuities (expiring on the sth of January, 1860), 12 15-16; and India Bonds, 7s. premium. Business in the Foreign stocks comprised a very few bar gains. Dutch 21 per Cents. were quoted 51k to 52k ; ditto 5 per Cents. 101 k to lO2k ; Spanish, 19k to i; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 291 to 301; ditto 3 per Cents., 17i to 18/ ; Co lombian, 19/ to 20; Mexican, 25/ to 26; Danish, 78k to 794, . . „ . and Brazilian, 671 to i. Railway Shares continue flat ; Birmingham 70 to 72 pre mium ; Great Western, 18 to 19 premium ; South-Western, 524 to 531 per share. Espartero has quarrelled with the Pope, the old gentleman at Rome declaring him the greatest vagabond in Europe. Mr. Pigott, after his election for Clonmel, gave the beggars of the town two shillings and sixpence. There is iron enough in the blood of one man to make a chain of strength sufficient to bind him. The quantity of " brass" iu his face is not so readily ascertained. There are said to be no fewer than 3,861 known languages in use in the world ; 937 are Asiatic, 587 European, 516 African, and 1,624 American languages and dialects. A dissenting preacher, named Dyer, of Sydenbam, com mitted suicide last week by drowning himself in a water butt. ' Her Majesty has granted a pension of £2OO. a year, on the civil list, to Lady Jeremie, the widow of Sir John Jere mie, late Governor of Sierra Leone. A ne),vspaper editor fancied he was a paragraph, anti as he lay in bed, debated whether he should rise altogether, or sentence by sentence. The importation of fresh salmon into London, from Dun dee, amounts to 700 boxes per week. - - - - - - _ An optician in London has invented a machine which, he says, will infallibly shew the distance traversed by hackney coaches, cabs, &c. If this be so, the extortion of the cab men, (which in London amounts on a fair calculation to 50 per cent.) will be put an end to. The number of emigrants this season, up to June 26, who have arrived at Quebec is 15,251. The experiment of sending produce down the rapids to Montreal by steam has succeeded. The National Intelligencer estimates that the amount of debt and liabilities of the United States Government on the Ist of January next will be 18,694,449 dollars. Accounts from Havannah to the 16th of June, received via New York, mention that by advices from Mexico re ceived there the people were extremely dissatisfied at the high duties which were levied on the importation of merchan dise, amounting on cottons to 240 per cent. and on woollens to 108 per cent. on the coast price in Europe. The merchants also complain that this excessive impost ruins the fair trader by the encouragement of smuggling, and in a petition from Vera Cruz ou the subject, with 125 signatures, state that no less than six ships have been loaded in Eng lish ports for the Pacific coast of Mexico, whose car goes it was expected would be introduced without paying a single dollar of duty. All classes, the poorer especially, agree that the duty now payable on articles actually necessary is three or four times more than on goods consumed by the more wealthy, and that from this cause the government re venues from the contraband trade are scarcely halt' so large as they were when the tariff was only one-third as high as it was formerly, or would be if it were reduced. Several pe titions to the same purport had been addressed to Santa Anna. OPERATIONS AGAINST THE WRECK OF THE ROVAI. GEORGE.—The explosion of Gsolbs. of powder announced in our last number took place on Wednesday, the 28th instant, at the hour stated, one p.m., in spite of a strong gale of wind from the westward, which, as the tide ran in the same direction at the ti me , ren d ere d it i mposs ibl e f or Lieutenant Hutchinson to go from No. 5 lump, from whence the charge s was let down, to No. 4, in which the voltaic battery obliged placed, the latter being to windward, so that h o e_ twoafsocroegmoplheitsedinbtyensteiorgneaonf Sergeant-Major a similar effect the time of low water, this charge producedMrinajgoritJohnilenss.eif Beinga d Wastfi fired circuit a bou t it threw up a column of clear wate feudollowed by a small in miniature to those of the great esprl,ofoanustiofuflllaysstpyaerskriinags in the sun, to the height of 12 several yachts Notwithstanding the violence eruption of water blackened a out to witness this explosion, of f y thegaflrer the bottom, and small sailing vessels C f m m e ast from the mud, abour four whiCh disengaged a p 9 piece of mast from the mud, abour four or five feet long, which floated to the surface and drifteet to or five feet long, failed tit: the at t b t e o m a t p o t , r d a e s r e t il l et tow cure se - the men were obliged to abandon it in line broke twice s passage to the Success hulk, which was save their order to theeaitstiwi them, for at that time no boat could stem the ya Colonelr d w' i th w n t r _ l ; , : a i e e s h i w e i y n , to leeward of united action of th wind and tide. Next day, thought it still blew a gale, and the lumps pitched violently, five divers were e mployed v as usual, and a good cargo of wre c k h as b een stowed away in the hold of the Drake sailing lighter. Thus the skill acquired by experience has enabled the executive officer, and the men employed, to work to advantage in wea ther, which, at first, would have put an entire stop to such operations.—Hampshire Telegraph.