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1, 18'14 MOnlemor, on behalf of her brother, Dorn Miguel, which led to the _Queen's issuin a-positive order for her return the,capital from SaMora, where she was at the time ~ t,y.),40- g ; fhb request was inimediatelkcomplied with. Lord floWaid de Walden has, come home in the Iberia. Advices from Alexandria of the 6th instant state that an express had arrived in the night from Syria, with de spatches announcing the .cessation of hostilities in that - country. The Druses, after four unsuccessful attacks against the Egyptia❑ troops, had implored the mercy of Hussein Pasha, who refused to listen to any propositions of peace until the insurgents should have first laid down their arms. - The plague had manifested itself at Jaffa; five persons had died of it at the house of the Russian Consul. The British government had obtained the ces . Sion of. Aden from the, Sultan of that district for a sum of - 30,000 f. (£1200.) That town is considered the key of the Red Sea ; and its harbour, one of the best along that coast, is.spacious enough to contain a large fleet. From Bogota papers have been received to the midge of March. The province of New Grenada was at peace and in unity witty its neighbours and foreigners, but to • wards Spain no advancement had been made in forming friendly relations. Mr. Turner, the-English minister to New Grenada, had his audience of leave for a temporary absence on the 4th •of March. By the congratulations which passed between him and the ministers it would appear that the good understanding between the Eng lish and New Grenada governments which had been in ' terrupted by the imprisonment of the vice consul at Pa - namkitad been entirely reStofed. Buenos A:r•res papers to the end of February have been received. They eqntain no domestic news i• for the Ar gentine republic, except as' regards its wanton quarrel with Peru, is undisturbed by agitation of any political kind; but upon the unmeaning-struggle which is still maintained in the neighbouring' state, of the oriental re public, they supply some .particulars. The warfare still wears an undecided character, but inclines to favour what is called the established government. The chief rebel, Rivets, after sitting doWn before Monte Video, the ca pital, had withdrawn with.. 1,500 men, the whole of his army - During this investruent the place was kept in a state of great_ excitement, and it required a small body of Frenchmen from a vessel•of war to assure the inhabi , tants." . .General Latallega had gone in pursnit of the re bels, and an immediate conflict was regarded by the last accounts as inevitable. The existing government calcu lated upon drawing the war to a conclusion upon this occasion. There is no other foreign news of any importance. ' From the relative position of the belligerent parties in Spain we may expect daily to hear of a decisive engage ment. hRiSFi POLICY.—From recent manifestations in both • Rouses of Parliament, as well as from the language of the ministerial organs of the press,_ the conviction is forced upon us that the-political leaders both in the Lords and Commons are calculating upon a coalition. The unaccountable conduct of the - Duke of Wellington in reference to the Itisli Education system, viewed in connection with the numberless instances of his interfer ence on behalf of Lord Melbourne and his associates in office, is undoubtedly calculated to excite a strong sirspi cion that ihe protecting shield which he has so frequently thrown over the weakness of the Whig ministry has some other - inscription upon . it besides the mere term " generosity." We frankly confess that we look upon the movements of the noble Duke with some degree of alarM. However high May be his personal character— ' 24 " 1 -ihowever i - nitierishable the laurels by which' his brow is -- A r eucircled-L-diOvvevei - disinterested may be his personal -.... 'irrOtives—aa,d however distinguished he may be for poll foresir-ht and sagacitywe cannot conceal from' "ViAirselves that the Duke of Wellington was mainly •in-. " I ? tws littiltnental, under the advice of . a profligate monarch, in 14: \l" w t 4 ;aiYttigl into eVet the 4estruCtiVe measure of Catholic 546 'eiit'ancipation--a measure which, above all others, haS ---' tendency to undermine the Protestant establish of the British empire'-a . rneai tire which has been- • franglit with incalculable evil to the constitution of Great 1114 - given migehievonsly preponderating influence to a reckless band of factious: and peiltirnd IriSh' papists, whO are leagued together for LP 1 the destinction of all our venerated institutions in church 1 - 141, and state. We-repeat it, that .we look upOn the recent '"'extraordinary conduct of the Duke of Wellington with • •'mo small degree of anxiety, when we call to mind the baneful consequences which have already flowed from bis•over-conciliatinti-disposition. He is too apt to yield to motives of expedienC2v, and too prone to forget the • grand interests of the country in his anxiety to concede to the clamour of the Popish faction those advantages to Which he conceives them entitled. We would by no means pluck a single leaf from that chaplet which he has won by his unrivalled military prowess—we would not seek to diminish by one iota that debt of gratitude which his country owes to him—but we would solemnly and earnestly appeal to our Protestant fellow country men, whether the Duke of Wellington be the fittest man • in whom to place the safe custody of the interests of the ' Established Church ? Has he not already proved his incompetency for a trust of such paramount importance? .• Has he not already sacrificed the interests of the church at the shrine of political expedienCy ? We do not, how ever, ground our alarm upon the conduct of the Duke • of Wellington exclusively ; nor are we singular in en tertaining the apprehensions which we have expressed. The conduct of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com mons is quite as much calculatiA to excite alarm. On this subject we find the. following very appropriate ob servations in the Horning Herald of Wednesday:— t `. Prom the conversation on the subject of Irish policy which took place in the House of Commons, last night, between Sir Robert Peel, and. Lord John 'Russell, it will be perceived that the prospect of a coalition between the parties, of which the noble lord and the right hon. baronet are, respectively, the heads, becomes stronger every day. The signs of approaching change are, at ail events, worth noting. A coalition between the conservatives and the whigs may be a very desirable result. But, of this great truth, at all events, we are assured, that the body of conservatives throughout the country, did not at the last election send three hundred gentlemen to the House of Commons, in order that these three hundred gentlemen should there become parties to a compromise with whiggery. If we bear in mind the statements of the opposing candidates at the last election, the principles of conservatism were, then, declared to be irreconcil ably hostile to the principles of whiggery. Yet, now, the par liamentary leader of the conservatives seems to have discovered that these . irreconcilably hoitile principles will admit of atnalga- mation, by a very easy process. This process of amalgamation, we again state, may be the best of all possible experiments; but, on the other hand, it was not, assuredly, an experiment contemplated by the conservative gentlemen, tradesmen, and artisans of England, who, at the last election, sought out, at a ` l , r ' l, t- cost, and risk, organs for the expression in parliathent of conservative opinions. Sir Robert Peel was, when stating his views, last night, in the highest deg' ee, temperate and candid. Nothing could ex ceed, the fervour of his expressions of regard for the establish trient of peace in Ireland—except, perhaps, his expressions of "Minn to the interests or the Irish established church! It ' ' 4 "!! be well, h owever , that the great body of the friends of that !church should not, at the present moment, relax in vigilance t Sir Robert Peel will consent to a commutation of Irish tithe into a rent charge, without any stipulation as to the prin. neiple of redemption ; and he will also consent to the establish (.;vent of municipal corporations in Ireland, to be founded on a .:Popular basis, providing the qualification of the elector, shall be . a bond fide qualification, to be determined by the assessment to t he poor-rate, or by some analogous principle. As to a poor law for Ireland,--som e poor law must, hereafter, prevail; and as the ministerial bill was, necessarily, an experiment, attended with difficulties of all kinds, Sir Robert stated, that he had ab stained from canvassing its imperf4tions with too critical an ev. "The condition of these concessions on the part of Sir Robert 6, that the sUrpluS of church revenue shall always be devoted to eccle s i astical purposes. To such a condition the present officials , - consented by anticipation ; when they declared, some time ago, that they never meant to act upon the appropriation clause! • "Lord John Russell was no less conciliatory than Sir Robert; and their partisans, respectively, responded to the feelings of .30144 chiefs. The whigs applauded Sir Robert. The Conserva i',ltPii't,!iT cheered Lord John. Mr. O'Connell, it is true, did not ,v l ,- 4 32 .kairitinate,to the full, extent, in the general satisfaction. He tb hattfriliy, l 'l6abiu s of an alliance, which may take from him 11110prhiriarket ."I"frjegia e frie`tids'of the e , tatdished church bestir themselves. T ,es,4aii.6fr • „... -„,,htch the preliminaries were, last night, re ' ttOrs , ;(l, will, if completed, be completed_at• her cost.• Securi- ties are, no doubt, talked about; but securities have been talked of before, with no less confidence. "The return of Sir Robert Peel to office may be expected when the Irish church question shall have been, quietly, thrown overboard. Some superstitious conservatives regard the coining year with considerable apprehension. The nines have been un lucky years for conservatism. 'ln 1829, the emancipation act was passed. In 1839, the overthrow of the established church of Ireland will, in all probability, be completed. • These considerations are entitled to the most serious attention of the people—the protestant people of England. The time for a temporising policy has long since gone by—the popish and republican factions are as clamorous as everconcessioa has only stimulated fresh demands—the very existence of our national church is in imminent danger—our constitutional privileges are at stake—and all that is rendered dear to us by the stamp of antiquity and the impress of Christianity is now vibrating in the balance. • It. is therefore incumbent upon the people of England to be 'incessantly on their guard, lest the grand enemy of their liberties should ob tain any advantage from the lukewarmness •of their leaders. The grand question at issue, and which must be speed ily resolved, is, whether Ireland shall be thrown into the hands of the Popish faction, or be retained as an ap pendage to the British crown--whether the Church of Ireland is to be sustained in a state of efficiency, or of fered up as a sacrifice to glut the craving appetites of the rabble-priests of Maynooth—whether the loyalty of the Protestants or the rebellious machinations of the Ribbon men is to be stigmatised as a crime—whether peace, or der, and subordination; o'r misrule, violence, and anarchy, are to obtain the ascendancy in that country. This is the contingency which depends upon the policy pursued towards Ireland—whether she is to be lost or preserved as an integral portion of the British empire. There is but one way in which Ireland can be go verned peaceably, and that is by.crushing the temporal power of the Popish priests. It is perfectly idle to ex pect any good result from a conciliatory policy. What has concession already done ? As we have said before, it has only tended to increase the clamour of the peSti ferous popish faction—it has only added fresh fuel to their zeal for the subversion of the Protestant religion— it has only made them more turbulent and disloyal. It is idle to talk of any " satisfactory adjustment" of the tithe question. Is it not on record that the grand ob ject of the Papists is, not the purgation of the Esta blished Church from any of its abuses—not the removal of any practical grievance connected with the collection of tithes—but the entire overthrow of the church, and the alienation of its revenues to Popish objects ? Is it not as notorious as daylight that any thing short of this must prove unsatisfactory to the Papists? Why, then, talk of conciliating them ? As well might the lamb ex pect to conciliate the wolf. The supposition involves an absurdity too gross to impose upon the most credulous. These remarks have been extorted from us by a re trospect of the proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. Sir Robert Peel has consented, in the name of the conservative oppositiOn, to the establish ment of municipal corporations in eleven cities and towns in Ireland, each containing a population of 15,000 or .more. The following are the particulars upon which this Concession is grounded:— First, that the members of the municipality shall be elected by bona fide £lO householders, ascertained by some unerring test of qualification, such as rating to the poor if the poor-law bill should pass; but in any case by some criterion by which fraud shall be absolutely and effectually excluded. Secondly, these municipalities too have no control over the administration of justice by the appointment of either ' sheriffs or recorders—such appointment to rest with the government. Thirdly, the municipalities to have no authority over any police force, the direction. of such furce- to remain with the government. Fourthly, the municipalities to administer the corpor ate funds, subject to review by a general board of audit, which shall take care that the monies expended shall be expended only for legitimate purposes. . Fifthly, tolls where not hypothecated for the payment ,ofwdeht, to be . abolished—and Sixthly, charity trusts to remain as at present, until the s legislature shall otherwise provide, the Lord Chan cellor meanwhile filling up any vacancies as they may occur; and in any future arrangement under this head, provision must be made, that trustees of charities design ed for the use of the Established Church shall themselves be members of the church. In addition to these conditions the right hon. Bart. proposes, that any of the smaller towns tnay, if a majority of the- inhabitants. it, have municipal corporations upon 148 samelerms: In reference to the first condition, we would merely remark, that it is useless to think of providing " any cri terion by which fraud shall be abSalutely and effectually excluded," as long as perjury is considered a virtue when the intereSts,. of the Romish church are concerned. Re specting the other conditions it is scarcely necessary to make any fUrther observation, than that they interpose no imaginable obstacle to the ascendancy of the Popish fac tion. But the worst feature in the plan is, that any peddling little town in Ireland may, if a majority of the inhabit ants require it, obtain a charter of incorporation. Oppor tunities will thus be afforded in every district for oppres sing the Protestants, whose condition in the smaller towns will be found far more degrading than in the larger cities. In the lattet, the Protestants frequently compose a numerical majority, and possess a degree of influence, from their wealth and station in society, which may, in some measure, neutralize the mischief which any bill for reforming the Irish corporations must entail ; but in the smaller towns, the tyranny of the Papists will be found overwhelming. In shot t, we know of no safe way of dealing with the Irish municipalities than to abolish them altogether, or to leave them as they are. We have never heard of any mischief that they have done under their present consti tution. They have answered the end for which they were established. They have formed garrisons for the protection of British influence in Ireland. They have served as means of defence to the Protestants of Ireland; and rather than we should throw these ramparts with all their munitions into the hands of the enemy of British influence and of the Protestant faith, let us rase them to the foundation,—let us leave no vantage ground to the foe,—let us not turn the means of safety into a weapon of perpetual annoyance. In whatever way the question of Irish policy may be treated in Parliament, we are confident that the cry of the people-of England will be "No SURRENDER !" • STEAM TO NEW YORK.—The City of Dublin Company are preparing to share in the competition in transatlantic steam navigation. They propose announcing their plans immediately. We wish this enterprising company every success; and though last in the field, we do not expect they will be last in the race for fame and profit. THE TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.--The gentleman f ro m neristol, who spoke at the monthly meeting of this association, on Monday night last, with so much originality and eloquence, is Mr. Henry Bushell, merchant, of Bristol. We were not in possession of his name when our report ap peared on Tuesday last. . - The Grace, belonging to Messrs. Shands, arrived here on the 23d instant, from Antigua, with a cargo of 600 casks sugar and , molasses- she commenced discharging 24th finished on the 26th, and went to sea again on the 3 0th inst., in all, a period of seven days only. NNW MAGISTRATES.—On Monday last, being the first day of the pending Salford sessions, Paul Moon James, Esq., of Manchester, late of Birmingham, and William Smith, Esq.. of Reddish House, Stockport, came upon the bench, took the oaths, and qualified as magistrates of this county. Ma. ST. ALBIN'S BALL.—A morning ball was given yester day, at the Adelphi Hotel, to Mr. St. Albin's pupils, and a greater treat could not have been afforded to the very numerous and fashionable company that assembled. The room was quite full, and presented a brilliant appearance. Some very elegant and graceful dances were performed. We remarked particularly a minuette and gavotte by four young ladies, also an allemand by nine; La Cachucha was also danced in a style to elicit the warmest applause. Mr. St. Albin should be proud indeed of his pupils. CURIOUS PIECE op MECHANISIII,—A. very curious as well as elegant piece of mechanism is now exhibiting for sale at Mr. Eastees in the Crescent. The figures consist of a Persian Rope dancer with attendant musicians. It is really a beautiful work of ingenuity andart. GRAND CORONATION MASQUARADE.—NN e understand that the Royal A mpitheatre will be fitted up fora grand masquerade on the evening of the 28th instant, in celebration of the ap proaching coronation. The pit will be hoarded over, and the loWer part surrounded with splendid paintings. A band of twenty, two, under the direction of Mr. P. Stubbs, will he in attendanpe. We have no doubt that the company will be both nutneroas and select. LIVERPOOL STANDARD. COI?RESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, S I observed in the Mail of yesterday another letter from the individual who signs himself Z. I was glad to see that letter, because it states -the dissensions of the Sirius and Tiger in detail. Z's " figures are satisfactory," as they enable me to draw correct comparisons between the vessels whose characters he advocates and the " Royal William." I will give figures also, and thus enable the public to decide. Length Beam Depth Tonnage Cylinders. Stroke H orses Length Beam Depth Tonnage Cylinders Stroke Horses ...181 feet 10 inches. ... 28 3 ... 18 0 ...696 tons. ... 60 inches. 6 feet 3 inches. ...288. —.166 feet 6 inches. ... 28 0 ..18-10 ..6`24 tons. .. 57 inches. ... 6 feet. ..256. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A ,PITC.IIED BATTE r PREVENTED.—On Tuesday, eight men, named Patrick. Canning, Martin Murphy, Edward Connolly, James Dunun, Charles Graham, sen., and Charles Graham, jun.; Thomas Richards, and George M`Carthy, were brought before Mr. Hall. Mr. Whitty stated, that he had received information , that there was to be a pitched battle in the neigh bourhood of Windsor, lie give orders to the Inspector and officers of the district to prevent the rencontre. At the appointed hour a considerable body of men assembled in a field near Windsor, and preparations were made for the commencement of the combat. On seeing these demonstrations, the police advanced, and the crowd moved off. Shortly afterivards, how ever, they re-assembled in another field further from the town. The officers again marched towards them, when they again de parted to another-field, were preparations were made for a light. The officers continued to advance till they came up to the mob, who now no longer retreated. The Inspector of Police com manded the crowd to disperse. To the astonishment of the officers, every man in the crowd produced a bludgeon, and one or two of the individuals advanced, and an immediate affray was the consequence. The officers were assaulted with great violence and determination, and several of them, Mr. Whitty said, were so severely injured, , that it would be some days before they would be able to attend to their duties. At length the police gained the victory, the bulk of the crowd dispersed, and some of the ringleaders, with others who were present, were captured. Police-officer No 70, stood forward and said he could identify all the prisoners as having been in the crowd. Canning and Connolly'he saw very actively employed, and they struck one or two of the officers. Police-officer 126 identified Connolly, as one of the ringleaders in the affray. He saw him with a bludgeon in his right hand, and a large stone in the other. He (Connolly) threw the stone amongst the officers. He also saw Murphy using every endeavour to instigate the crowd to action against the police. \Viten the latter arrived, he called out "'Stand, boys," seeming to fear that the crowd would again retreat. He (witness) kept. his eye upon him, and when the rout became general lie pursued him. lie ran swiftly to Wind sor, where witness apprehended him, he having been beaten to a stand-still Policeofficer 231 identified Dunun, who, he said, had a sort of bludgeon, with which he laid about him most violently. Connolly he also saw with a large stone, which he threw among the officers, and a stick with which he struck several. Police-officer 273 identified Richards, who, it appeared, had been out of custodyon bail. This individual had used much bad language, the officer said, but he did not see him strike any person. He ordered him to go a way, but he refused. Police officer 250, stated that he was pursuing the retreating crowd, he saw Graham, sen., running. He ran after him, and as he made a grasp at him he threw him over into a pit. Graham swam over to an eminence in the middle of the pond. While he was there, Graham, jun., came to the side of the pond and told him toseturn. He did so, and he (the officer) took them both into custody. The same officer swore also to M'Carthy as having been in the crowd. It appeared, that Richards was booked to the Inspector, who was so much injured that he could not attend the Courts. A gentleman said he was walking in the Park on the preceding day, when he saw a crowd standing in a field par leying with some police officers. He saw several individuals of the crowd rush upon the.police and knock one of them down. The officer lay upon his face, and while prostrate was beaten most brutally with sticks. A man in a barragan jacket, he be lieved it was Canning, struck the prostrate - officer most fero ciously. He begged the police office to retreat, or tbey would get murdered. When he saw how the mob were behaving he called out " Murder," upon which several individuals attacked him„ took his own stick from him, and beat him with it. Two young gentlemen, (brothers) named Rickerby, identified Can ning and M`Carthy. Canning, Murphy, Connolly, and Dunun, said they were present merely by accident, and they denied that they had used any violence towards the officers. Graham, sen. said he merely went into the field to see what had occasioned the disturbance. Seeing that the police officers were pursuing the crowd, be was running to get away, when he was tumbled over itito the pond by the police-officer. His son, with whom he had been in company, came to the side of the pond and spoke to him. Graham, jun., corroborated this statement. The ex cuse made by Richards was to similar effect. M'Carthy denied that he ever had been in the field at all. Mr. Rickerby stepped forward and swore that he saw this prisoner in the crowd pretty actively employed. Mr. HALL, after animadverting on the conduct of the pri soners, ordered Canning, Murphy, Connolly, and Dunun, to pay a fine of £5. each, or, in default of payment, to be com mitted to the House of Correction for two months. M'Carthy was ordered to pay a fine of £l. 10s. in default to be committed for three weeks. The two Grahams and Richards were dis charged. FILCHING FROM SAILORS.—On Wednesday, at the Police office, an abandoned female, and a man named John Morris, the keeper of two houses of ill-fame in Ben Johnson-street, were placed at the bar, charged with having robbed a sailor of his money, his hat, and his handkerchief. The sailor stated that he had just arrived in the town, and went to a public-,house, where he met the male prisoner. He (complainant) said, he wished he knew where to go to for a bed, as he was much tired. The prisoner Morris said he could provide him with a bed, and conducted him to his house, and on the way they were joined by the female prisoner, and in the house had some rum, at which the female foined, and he suspected her of having picked his pocket. He afterwards went to bed, and in the morning found his hat, neckerchief, and coat gone. The male prisoner gave him his coat again, but refused to let him have his hat and necker chief till he had paid 7s. 6d. for his lodgings. The complainant refused to do this, and went and pawned his coat, and offered the male prisoner 2s. for his hat and neckerchief, which the prisoner Morris, however, refused to give up without7s. fid., and the complainant accordingly acquainted time police with the cir cumstance, anti both the prisoners were taken into custody. It was stated by the policeman that the male prisoner kept two common brothells. The prisoner Morris denied that he had charged the complainant inure than is. 6d. for his bed.—Mr. Hall ordered Morris to Lind bail to answer the charge of keeping these houses at the sessions: the girl was acquitted. FOOLISH CONDUCT.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, two piostitutes and three men, bullies,, were charged with rob bing the master of a ship, named Walter Sparke, of £27. Inspector Cockrane said, that a little after twelve o'clock that morning he received information of a man having been robbed in Lace-street of about £3O, and a description of two girls who had robbed him. He went there,-and discovered the two girls in company with the three male prisoners, and he took them all into custody. On one of the girls he found four sovereigns, and on the other 16s. 3:1.--.The complainant stated, that he was a shipmaster, and had the money on him to pay some bills, and was coming down the street rather in liquor, and got ticed away. He had nothing to do with the girls ; it was not his way of doing. (A laugh.) He went to a house with them, and one of the girls snatched the money out of his pocket, and the other ran away with it. He turned round to follow her when he was faced by three bullies, who foug ht with him till both girls got off. It was a very bad job for him. He had lost four £5 notes and - seven sovereigns.—Mr. Hall remanded them till next morning. EMIGRANTS.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, Mr. Jones, of the emigration office, applied for a summons against Patrick O'Neil, emigration agent, for refusing to pay a number of emigrants a shilling a day for deten tion, according to con tract. The summons was granted. POST-OFFICE ItOBBERY.—A boy, aged about thirteen years, was on Wednesday placed before Mr. Hall, charged with hav ing defrauded his master. A gentleman named Phibbs, stated that the prisoner bad been in his service as an office-boy. On the preceding morning he sent him to the Post-office for his letters, He brought him one letter, for which be said he had paid Is. Bd., which sum was marked on the, back. As this was an extraordinary charge, he suspected that all wasnot right. He went to the post-office to make inquiry, and there he discovered that the real postage had been eightpence, and that the prisoner hail put the figure indicating the extra shilling himself. A clerk from the post-office corroborated this evidence. The boy was very much distressed. Mr. Hall remanded the prisoner, at the same time intimating that he should like to see his father. INGENIOUS DEVlcE.—Yesterday, at the police-office, a young lad, whose name we suppress for the sake of his friends, was brought before the magistrates, charged with defrauding a number of persons of the pretended carriage of parcels. A number of individuals appeared who stated that the prisoner had left a parcel with each - of them stating that it had come from Manchester and was to be paid sixpence carriage. In each instance the carriage was paid, and all the parcels contained notes purporting to be written by Messrs. Geo. Dean and Co., carriers, of St. Anne's square, Manchester, and stating that they had received a parcel, carriage paid, for the individual, and that as they were not in the habit of forwarding such parcels without advice, and wishing to know what was to be done with it. On the parties duped writing to Manchester, to Messrs. Dean and Co., it appeared that no such parcels were there. A great number of individuals were in attendance at the court who produced their parcels for which each of them had paid 6d. Mr. Hall ordered the informations for his commitment to be taken. A gentleman stood up and said the lad had very res pectable h t a l i i inu a d t tn i ( t. 30 t m u po u r s in t he h es a a , d v a e nad b g e ah e i u n nps s et h dh e in r . e n c i‘ e ia s rl - 1. s e w H i : t u a Yu l r i l s dw s e a h . a i ic i c t qh i u t was a very ser i ous c h arge; t h e l aw mus t t a ke its acquaint FURIOUS DRlVlNG. — Yesterdav, at the Police-office, a groom named Henry Jones, in the service of Mr. Samuel Untrue, was placed before 111 r. Hall, charged by officer 192 with being drunk in the street, and furiously driving and u p s et t i ng - a gig. The officer stated, that at .seven o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the prisoner was given into his charge for being drunk and up setting a horse and gig in Fleet-street into a cellar. On taking him into custody he had been very violent and abused him.— Mr. Holmes said he had ordered the man, who was his groom. to put one of the horses in the gig and bring it down to the office. Soon after he was told that the horse and gig bad been upset, and that the groom was drunk. The horse was a very fine one, for which he had given £5O but three weeks before, and the man bad broken his knees and completely ruined him. He bad taken the man into his service not Very long ago, in a very distressed state. He could forgive the injury to the horse, but the conduct of the man afterwards, at his place of business had been so riotous and disorderly, he could not look over that. The man was put back till a second magistrate arrived, to be punished for the assault. He was then ordered to pay 308. and costs, or be committed for three weeks to the Borough gaol.— Mr. Hall said he had behaved as bad as man could do, both to his master and to the officer; for it appeared he had been in the police force formerly, and ought to have known better than assault an officer. STABBlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police.Offize' a young boy, named John Higgins , was plac e d be fore the magistrates, charged with having that morning stabbed another boy in the breast. A person named Leathom, stated that he was crossing Hatton-garden that morning, and saw the prisoner strike another boy in the breast. He proceeded a few yards and saw blood gushing out of the breast of the boy that was struck, and then he immediately seized the prisoner by the collar, and took a large pair of newly-ground scissors out of his hand, with which it appeared be had struck the other boy.. A surgeon ap peared, who stated that the boy stabbed was pierced above the fifth rib on the left side into the lung, and he could not as yet tell whether inflammation would ensue or not. The prisoner was remanded to this day. LIVERPOOL. CORONATION REGATTA.—We understand that the arrangements relating to this regatta (to take place on the Mersey on the 28th June, in honor of her Majesty's corona tion) are progressing rapidly. Two tents are.to be erected in the neighbourhood of Rock Ferry, for the purpose of providing refreshments for the visitors. The esplanade, extending from the Rock to the New Ferry, and about three quarters of a mile in length, capable-of accommodating several thousand per sons, is admirably adapted for the purpose of viewing a scene of this kind. Several yachts and boats are expected from Ches ter, Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and other places, and we are assured that a vast concourse of strangers will be' present should the weather prove favourable. As this is the only public demon stration yet announced in honour of her Majesty in the im mediate vicinity of Liverpool, it cannot fail to be attended with unusual attractions. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 28. W e have had another brisk market to-day; the demand for pieces still continues good, and somewhat better prices have been ob tained for the finer sorts of goods. There has also been a fair quantity of business done in Wool to-day, and the price may be .fpted R §hade 4igher, SIRIUS, TIGER. ROYAL WILLIAM. Length Beam .175 feet 0 inches .. 27 0 Depth Tonnage .617 tons. Cylinders 6O inches. Stroke Horse§ 276. By the above it is clear the Royal William has more power in proportion to her tonnage than either of the other two; and how it can be asserted that the Sirius is 320 horses' power I am at a loss to understand. If Zbe ignorant of the mode of calculating the power of engines, he should have hesitated ere he attempted to raise the characters of certain steamers to the prejudice of others. If he be not, he wilfully tries to deceive the public. He may say that almost every engineer has his own method for cal culating power; perhaps it is so; but, in drawing the above comparison, I have calculated on one and the same principle for all, giving the Sirius and Tiger a speed for their pistons of 240 feet per minute, and the Royal William of 231 feet. As regards the detached boilers of the Royal William, the ob servations of Z are really unique, I will ask, is it not desirable that, in the event of one boiler receiving injury, others should be available for working the machinery, if not to their . fat/ power, certainly very near it, as has been already proved ? Look at the advantages which three separate boilers offer. Suppose in crossing the Atlantic a steamer has a fair wind, she can economize fuel to a great extent by putting out the fire of two, as the steam generated by one will be quite sufficient to turn the wheels round so as to prevent their floats retarding the velocity of the hull. Z does not seem to understand the principles of working steam economically, or he would not say that a boiler larger than necessary to generate for a given power is a waste of fuel. Steam can be economised to almost any extent on board the Royal William, by the aid of her expansive valves; conse quently, fuel can be economised equally by other means than that of reducing the furnace surface. Z's comparison between a house on fire and a vessel divided into compartments by iron water-tight bulkheads is equally argumentative with the other portions of his observations. He does not seem to know that fire will cease to burn if deprived of air. Suppose any section of a vessel so divided to be on fire; all that would be necessary to extinguish it would be to close the batches of that section, and prevent the admission of air. In reply to Z's inquiry as to where and when water-tight bulkheads have been proved to prevent the foundering of vessels, I beg to inform him that, during the meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, last year, a steamer belonging to the City of Dublin Company, having water-tight bulkheads, similar to the Royal William's, had holes bored through the sides, on the wake of the lower fore-hold, and that section thus filled to the level of the water outside only depressed the vessel twelve inches. I will tell Z that the bulkheads remained immovable and water-tight.—l am, &c., AN ENGINEER. P.S.—Z will observe that I have altered his figures as re gards the tonnage of the Tiger. Accdrding to the dimensions he has put down, she is 624 tons, and no more. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Si n, —I perceive that some of your respected contemporaries are not ashamed to reiterate the false boast of the enemies of truth, that the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile of this town refused a dis cussion with the Rev. M. Maguire. The contrary is the fact. I have before me the third edition of a correspondence between the rev. gentlemen. At page 7 Mr. M`Neile says— " I have, within the last few months, published a sermon on the character of the church of Rome. Between 2,000 and 3,000 copies of it have been circulated in this town. Write and pub lish a refutation of its statements and arguments. I pledge my self to write and publish an answer to you. Do not object to the press. The statements made in an oral discussion must, after all, be committed to the press to be of any extended benefit. " I challenge you, then, to a controversy in the press, and throw down my sermon on the character of the church of Rome as the first blow. You will there find your church proved to be anti-scriptural, tyrannical, blasphemous, and persecuting. " I arni sir, your obedient servant, " HUGH 111• NEILE." " Liverpool, 16th Sept., 18382' Again at pages 8 and 9, he says— " J. First, I call your attention to my letter of the 17th ult. accepting your challenge. ".As the challenged party, I have an undoubted right to choose my weapons, without assigning any cause; but I am willing that you and the public should be in possession of my reasons for preferring the press as a vehicle of theological con troversy. If my object were to display my own talents as a dis putant; to excite party contention; to rouse angry feelings of opposition against my Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen; , wi l t f h n o l darken authorities, public the or p s r u i b v j a e t c e t ; in au and n h dt h d o b s y a r t o h t e a t e i x o p n e s nfrsoemo of truth, t and ati o p n e : a peace, e f , these e h , honest , y, s a t )n, v t of t o gain h par m en y t a tr e i t u n m at it tg in in d o i t s t p v u e: then I should probaby p refer the platform; but none of these au thorised formularies of the church ofnot form any part of my object. My ob j ect is to show that the R bear , and the thlight e superstthe hes e, an were apparent sa cred word of God; that what the church of Rome inculcates o us practices founded thereon, will of as the gospel of Christ was never inculcated by Christ himself, or by his inspired apostles; and that, consequently, both priests and people should flee out of the anti-scriptural apostacy, read and believe the word or God, and be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ with a free, full, present, and everlasting salvation. Now, what is your object ? Is it to display your talents as a disputant? Is it to excite party contention ? Is it to rouse an gry feelings of opposition against your protestant fellow-country men r Is it wilfully to darken the subject in hand by quotations from fathers, and councils, and bulls, which contra - diet one an other as freely and flippantly as fretful children or angry women ? Is it thus, at the expense of truth, and peace, and honesty, to gain an apparent triumph in disputation? If these, or any of these, be your actuating motive, I do not wonder that you should prefer the platform. But if none of these be sour object—but, if your object be to show that the authorised formularies of the church of Rome are in accordance with the word of God; that what the church of Rome inculcates as the gospel was inculcat• ed by Christ and his apostles; and that, consequently, all here tics should see that they are guilty of the fatal sin of schism, and thereupon return for salvation into the bosom of the mother and mistress of all the churches; then, assuredly, both your object and mine will be best attained by a painstaking series of writ ings. ".I prefer the press, then, because, first, bravado and bluster, t i v e except reasoni b n y g. sound And, ineereparnetsaetion and sophistry will go for nothing when on paper, and no perma nentattes attested facts,pres s impression and will ill eo be nse n t. i n a e se condly, such interpretations, facts and reasoniugs, will theri be submitted, not to the impromptu suffrages of an excited and im patient assembly, (small at the largest possible amount of audi tors,) but to the calm, deliberate inspection of the United King dom, and the educated world." And at page 13, in reply to Mr. Maguire's evasion, he says— " My challenge to you also remains unanswered. Your letter evades it wholly. Here, then, again, I call upon you to write wbat you can upon interpretation, argument, fact, or evidence, 'in defence of what Popery is, and I will answer you. My reasons for preferring the press are already before the public; and if you, theliist aggressor in this matter, decline a controversy in the press, the conclusion to be drawn from it will also be before the public, and with a plainness which no man capable of reflec tion can fail to appreciate. You say, that "in a face to face discussion' more can be settled in a day than could be performed through the press in a month." I answer, there is no hurry. No matter of real consequence can be settled in a hurry. A gladiator for ephemeral victory may be in a hurry: a lover of eternal truth need never be so. It is written in the prophets, " he that believeth need not make haste." " I shall direct my publisher to send you a copy of the second edition of my sermon, in which your church, as exhibited in hem own accredited formularies, is shown to he anti-scriptural, tyran nical, blasphemous, persecuting, and perfidious. Again t call upon you to answer this if you can. " You say I have mis-stated the tenets of your church. I ask where and how ? And I beg to remind you of the facility of as ' sertion without proof " Mr. M'Neile's sermon on the character of the Church of Rome remains unanswered. Who then has refused the discus sion? An assertion upon this subject, in notorious opposition to facie and evidence, appears to be the only retort by which Mr. M'Neile's enemies can assail him, Why they assail him so often is best known to themselves : though, indeed it can be no mystery to those who witness his effective labours. Will your contemporaries, who have so frequently printed 'the false charge, have candour sufficient to print this letter, and with it, if they please, Mr. Maguire's letters on the occasion : or will they be prudently silent ? I am, Sir, yours, S.CRUTA.TUR. Liverpool, May 30, 1838. S HARE-BROKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD• Sin,—You will be doing me, and, if I mistake not, the pub lic generally, no inconsiderable favour by allowing your journal to become the public medium of my complaints against the man ner in which the business of share-broking is conducted in this When the great rag town. e for speculation arose, in 1836, and schemes of all sorts sprung up daily like mushrooms' a host of share-brokers arose with them,—l was going to add, like mush rooms too,—and the number is now almost as great as that of all the joint-stock companies whose shares they are commissioned to sell or purchase. Previously to this era of madness, when every one seemed more or less affected by the prevailing mania, stock and share brokers were comparatively few in number; but most, if not all of these, were then, as they still are, highly respectable, prompt in their dealings, and worthy of public confidence. Hence, I believe, there was little or no inconvenience, and still less any loss experienced by those who had to employ brokers iu the pur chase and sale of shares • and although delays might and doubt less did occur occasionally, I never heard of complaints so loud and general as ate now prevailing against the delays, and even the difficulties, experienced in getting either scrip or money from the hands of brokers. It is with a wish to remedy this state of things, by drawing public attention to the fact, and snaking certain suggestions, that I have taken the liberty of addressing you; and when it is considered how immense the amount of money is which must necessarily `pass through the hands of brokers, in this of all others, the ruling market of shares, I think you and your read ers will agree with me, that promptitude and despatch in the transfer both of shares and value should be the leading princi ples—the very motto of a broker's business. In one respect, and in one only, is promptitude shown; and that is, when you become the purchaser of shares—in which case there is no delay—nay, a very extraordinary degree of prompti tude is exhibited io demanding and obtaining payment of your purchase. But, sell those shares again, and you must dance attendance at certain offices for weeks and months, and often have recourse to legal proceedings before you can obtain the value of them. This is no idle or empty assertion, as some of the upstart fraternity may attempt in reply to make it, for, like many others possessed of some spare capital, I have lately had occasion to employ brokers in the purchase and sale of shares; and while everyfacility was afforded me to pay for rhoif bought, I have had to wait for mouths, and even to .employ legal means berme I got the price of those sold. Nor did I require to ask any commercial friends if this was frequently or generally as to their:transactions ; for, during my many pours of attendance at their offices, I was as much astonished as they (the brokers) ought to have been ashanled at the numbers and importunities of dunners like myself. But, roused and annoyed by such practices, I took pains to inquire pretty extensively how otherS had been treated; and 1 found that—with some few ex ceptions—their treatment had been similar to my own. I found many, too, who having been kept out of their money for several months after a sale of shares, bid at last to enforce payment by the strong arm of the law. Nay, more, there are many living witnesses pow on 'Change who are cognizant not only of this fact, but also of another equally easy of proof, viz., that it is no uncommon thing to see one of those transfer-men transferred to the care and keeping of a sheriff's officer ! Why, then, should this disgraceful and dangerous system be permitted to exist any longer, and what means should be adopted to put a stop to it ? 'ro the public, or rather to that portion of it who deal in shares, I would say, "Part not with your scrip till you get value received; or, if that is not always practicable, make the signing of the transfer at once the condition and the term of payment. This is invariably the case in London, and ought to be obtained here; for, as the commission of brokers is an ample and lucrativ equivalent for their trouble, without the reaping the interest of your money—you, who require and pay for that trouble, have a right not merely to expect, but to insist upon the preempt and safe transaction of your business; and richly will you deserve the worst of consequences if you do not unite with me in. de , - nouncing and exposing the rottenness of the present system." To the Association of Brokers I would say—not, however, before premising that I entertain the strongest objections to the working. and even the existence of such a society—" Take the remedy into your own hands, by instituting certain stringent rules on the conduct of the members, insisting on the strict observance of those rules, and punishing or expelling all those who are complained against for their infringement. Failing in this—l would add—let some of your leading members announce to the public that they had ceased to have any connexion with an association ; that they were determined, and would pledge themselves individually, to transact the business of sharebroking on those principles which alone can merit and obtain public confidence." So strongly am I impressed with the necessity of some change or check being effected in the present mode of transacting the important business of share-broking, that I apprehend more mischief or injury will accrue to the public by continuing to be subject to its consequences, than by any depreciation of stock that can possibly arise in the market—of which by the bye this association is now become the ail-ruling power. While=-as in justice, 1 said before—l exempt most if not all of the older brokers from the causes of complaint which I have now preferred, 1 must also in justice add that there are some amongst the younger ones most honourable, prompt, and trust woi thy men of business. It is for the public to decide whether these constitute the majority or the minority—the rule or the exception.—l am, sir, yours, &c., A SHARE-DEALER. Liverpool, ilby 30th, 1838. MEETING AT WARRINGTON OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE RELI GIOUS PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORMATION. Last evening, a meeting of the friends of the above society was held at the Lion Hotel, Warrington, at half-past six o'clock. The society was formed for the purpose ofchecking the progress of popery, and the . meeting was called to " communicate in teresting information as to the progress of popery in this country, and the efforts of this society to check its progress." The meetino , was numerously and respectithlv attended, the large room 41 the Red Lion being quite full. We observed on the platform, beside the speakers, the Rev. T. Lowe, Rev. James Todd, Rev. J. Jones, Rev. R. Parkinson, Rev. Thomas Whittington, Rev. C. T. Quirk, Rev. P. S. Dale, Rev. D. Slyman, Rey. W. C. Clarke, and the Rev. J. Cunningham and the Rev. It. Parkinson, from the parent society, &c. On the motion of JOHN CLARKE, Esq., Thomas Greenhall, Esq., was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN then called upon the Rev. James Wright to open the proceedings with prayer. After which, The CHAIRMAN said he had been requested to take the chair that evening, and under a sense of duty he complied with that request. He thought, in these eventful times, Christians ought not to remain still. It was his opinion that the time was not far distant when they should be called on to give a reason for the faith that was in them. There were two gentlemen present who had visited them for the purpose of laying before them the pro gress of Popery in the land. He trusted from the statements to be made to them they would see the necessity of uniting as one man in opposing its progress, and in support of the truth. WILLIAM ALL, Esq., then rose to move the first resolu tion. " That this meeting considers the distinctive dogmas of the Church of Rome to be directly opposed in their nature, and practical effects to the words of God, ruinous to the soul, and subversive of real godliness and morality." If that meeting had been convened for any party or political purpose—if it had been convened on matters unconnected with the present and future wellbeing of men—if it had been for any purpose of hostility towards his Roman Catholic brethren, (he spoke the sentiments of many around him, as well as, of him self), he would not have countenanced such a proceeding. It was not against Roman Catholics they protested, it was against Popery, and the spirit of Popery, conceiving that it was detrimental not only to the present but the eter nal interests of their fellow creatures. Man, from his na ture, was inclined rather to trust to his own merits than in the atonement of a Saviour, and therewith to be reconciled to God; and Popery was sustained on the fallen nature of man; for it said " by baptism a man was converted, and by penance his sins were blotted out" and when he came to the hour of death, extreme unction was open to him to cleanse him from sin. Such were the doctrines of Popery, and such they were called upon as Protestants to protest against, as contrary to the word of God - , for St. Paul said "being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." The Rev. Mr. PARKINSON, one of the deputation from the society, rose to second the resolution, which he did at consider able length. He desired to treat the subject with all that so lemnity it so eminently deserved. They were met not for the discussion of a political subject, for the society which they came forward there to advocate, by its very title excluded from its consideration, the politics of this world. It was termed "The British Society for the promotion of the Religious Principles of 1 , the Reformation." These principles concerned their immortal souls, and when they considered the importance of the salvation of the immortal soul—when they considered that when this world with all its fleeting pomps and vanities should have passed away for ever—when the time should arrive when the angeT should stand with one foot on the sea and one on the land, declaring that time should be no more, and that the everlasting happiness or misery of the souls of men should then be determined, they might calculate in some measure the worth of an immortal soul. For the smallest transgression we were liable to condemnation, and unless we found a refuge from God's wrath we must perish for ever. That refuge was in the revealed Word of God, and they came there to declare that the Church of Rome, so far from providing this remedy, had substituted the inventions of men, or to make use of the language of the articles of the Church of England, had substituted "blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." They mean t to bring - before the meeting some of the dangerous doctrin es o f t h e C hurc h o f R ome; and first of all, the Word of God declared one Mediator between God and man—the Saviour Jesus Christ. The Word of God declared that he was "God over all blessed for ever;" and at the same *male it declared to us " when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, under the law, that we might through him receive the adoption of sons." By reason of his divine and human nature he was fitted for his mediatorial work between God and the sinner. The Church of Rome came forward and substituted many media tors—the Virgin Mary, and a long catalogue of saints, and they found the Virgin Mary in the Popish doctrines often asked for those blessings which could only be asked of God himself. Therefore, popery destroyed the word of God by substituting many mediators for the one he had provided in his mercy and in his love. The church of Rome inculcated the doctrine of transubstantiation—that in the sacrament of the eucharist the bread and wine was changed into the actual body and blood of Christ, a doctrine founded on a literal reading of a figurative expression in the Bible, and which he contended the church of Rome had in no other instance followed. '!'his doctrine had first been preached by a man named Radburt, in the ninth century, and was at first-universally scouted by the heads of the Roman Catholic Church, by Scobus, and Bertram, and others, and yet this doctrine had gradually crept into the church of Rome, and at length at the council of Florence it was de clared to be a doctrine of the church; and in the 16th century, in 1564, it. was brought into Pope Pius' creed. The practical workings of this doctrine were, that the Roman Catholics were brought to believe tnat the sacramental bread and wine after the consecration were changed into the actual body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and poor people were induced to fall down and stupidly worship the bread and wine- and the Coun cil of Trent had ordered th at the same ;duration should be given to the consecrated host as to Almighty. God himself. Thus the Church of Rome involved her followers in tl.e most awful idolatry. In Order to prove that this was the true doctrine, the Church of Rome said our Saviour said, " This is my body, and this is my blood," so als - O our Saviour had said, " am the true vine;" and again be had said to his disciples, " You are the branches." And did the Church of Rome believe that he was a vine, and that his disciples were transubstantiated into branches ? No such thing. She there adopted the figurative language. They were entitled by this figurative language, adopted throughout the New Testament, to believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, when he said, " This is my body, and this is my blood," spoke figuratively, and so only. Just as a person would say, who had a map of Europe spread out before him, "'!'his is Ireland, this is England, this is France," and so on, meaning that this represents Ireland, this represents England, and this France; but who would ever ima gine for a moment that he meant that the paper map was transub stantiated into the countries it represented. (Applause.) But this very text, on which the Church of Rome founded this doc trine, taken from the 6th chapter of John, was spoken two years before our Lord's supper. The Church of Rome quoted the 53d and 54th verses to prove this extravagant doctrine. " Then Jesus said unto them Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the grin of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in ye." The Church of Rome said the Lord Jesus Christ in that text pointed to the supper of the Eucharist; but what was the natural result, if this were the meaning of that text, that unless we were partakers of the Lord's supper, we could not by possibility enter into the kingdom of Hea ven. According, to this view all infants must go to hell. And what did the Church of Rome do ? She absolutely took away the consecrated cup from the laity, and, according to her own version of the text, sent all her followers to everlasting perdition. The Rev. gentleman then went at considerable length through many of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, proving their unsoundness;. but the lateness of the hour com pels us to omit them. Protestants were taunted with their creed being a new one, and originating in Martin Luther. Such was not the case, for it was founded on the word of God. But it might be asked where was the religion of the Church of Rome before Luther ? - Where was it to be found? Not in the bible, unless it be described in the spirit of prophesy as the awful apostacy from the living God; but it was to be found in the canons of the council of Trent, and in the de crees of Pope Pins the IV. The council of Trent did not sit until the sixteenth century in 1545, so that Roman Catholicism was not yet three hundred years old, and, in fact, had not existed until after Luther was dead. Again, they might ask when was the creed of Pepe Pius IV. founded ? Not until the year 1564: but at what time was the creed of the Church of England founded? It was written So long back as the year 325. (Hear.) How then would the Church of Rome make it appear to the world that the creed which she held, that of Pope Pius IV., was older than that of the Church of England? The rev. gentleman then alluded to the rapid itlides of popery, in different parts of the country, and to the establishment of a society recently in London for the purpose of obtaining sub scriptions for the building of chapels throughont the country, the distributing of Roman Catholic tracts, &c:; and the deliVer ing of lectures by their emissaries, and called on the meeting to come forward with counter efforts to do away with the poisonous • -Ter ssss • is; l ie s o se• • „ ‘ti 6 la _ effects of sack a society. He alluded totft lE , ` t la; Roman catholic chapels that have been cent ly. lie had seen a very handsome one egN i t , field, in Yorkshire ; towards which he had hei r. a• s manufacturet s had subscribed under' hreat s from t . ere that if they did not their trade with Ireland shoold be put an end to. He mentioned the instance of a Mr. Stables, an extensive ma nufacturer, of Huddersfield, who had been cotnpelled by the Priest there to subscribe £5O towards the new Catholic Chapel, though a Protestant toad against his conscience, and he wag told if he did not do so, his trade with Ireland should be put ati end to, The tame thing had been attempted to be practised in Manehester on Mr. Wm. Towrishend, but he, much to his , credit, had said it was coptrary to his principles, and sooner than his principles should be corhpromised, he would-sacrifice his principles. (Applause.) Forty years ago there were only 30 mass-houses in England ; now there Were betiveen 500 snit 600. He called upon the meeting to aid that society in rooting out that plague spot from the land, and concluded with second ing the resolution: The Rev. Mr. POWELL rose to move the next resolution, " that the present state of Pcipery in Ireland, and the exertions of the Church of Rome to exteud the system. in England and Scotland, are such as ought to awaken in the minds of those who feel the blessings of the ReforMation; the most intense desire to counteract this evil, and imperatively call for the inimediate adoption, on their part, of all those means which the Word of God supplies and inculcates fur that purpose." He would not trespass on their tin v iiby any lengthened obser vations, knowing by whom he to be followed; but as a friend to freedom he must be an enemy to Popery; because where Popery existed freedom could not find a being, (Hear.) He described at Some length the social evils which Popery in flicted, in dissevering friends and producing discord in families, a part of whom were Protestants and the rest Catholics- Such, however, were the insinuating and snake-like lures of Roman Catholicism, that in nine cases out of ten the Protestant of a family of mixed faith was converted to Catholicism. The Reit. Mr. CUMMING, one of the emissaries of the society, rose to second the resolution. He spoke at great length, with surpassing eloquence, and we regret that our time and space compel up to give but a very brief outline. It appeared to hint delightful to see the ministers of the Church of England and of Scotland assisting together in a cause so holy. Scotland and England had shed their blood, and laid themselves together on, the same field, but now their efforts were, that their throne Might he secure, their altars holy, and their people happy. The institution he advocated was not associated in any shape with the affairs of the present world, he left these subjects to po liticians and statesmen. His call was a sacred call, and he came forward as au ambassador of God, and would endeavour to stand forward as he of old, between the living and the dead -the living protestantism and the dead popery. Some would say this was a gratuitous insult to the respectable body of Roman catholics for them thus to insult their religion and their' faith; but if' he saw au individual in that room ready to drink off a delicious draft, which was a deadly Risen. and were to dash the cup from his lips, would that not be the height of humanity to the individual? So said t hey all to the members of the Church of Rome; they did not dash the poison from theM which was de struction to the body, but which dealt death to the soul. The Church of Rome hail once proceeded honestly, holding out the Council of Trent in her left hand and pointing to the martyr's stake and to the faggot with the other ; but now, in a land where Protestantism was still triumphant, she knew she dared not " play such fantastic tricks before high heaven," and therefore assumed another attitude; she was now .a deceiver; she dared not roar as a lion, but tried to sting like a serpent. They were told that the Church of Rome professed to be infallible. This was just wat they (the PrOteStants) wanted—an infalli ble church; but where were they to find the proofs of its infallibility? ( Hear, hear; hear.) He went to one priest and he told him the Pope was infallible,- he went to a second priest and he told him that the General Council was infallible; he went to a third and he told him that was quite a mistake, it was the Pope at the head of the council that was iufallible ; he went to a fourth, and he told him the other was all quite wrong, that it was only the Pope when he sat in a certaia chair—the chair of St. Peter—that was infallible. (Loud laughter.) He had tried in vain to find this philosopher's stone of infallibility. When he went to one it was here; then there; and like the airy ghost they read of, they no sooner got a hold of it, than it sprun g from their grasp and got somewhere else. What mattered it to the sick that there was a panacea for the plague -if it could no where be found. So it was with the Church, of Rome; infallibility was a delightful thing, but it could no where be found. The great boast of Roman Catholics was that they were united, but that Protestants were divided among themselves. He (Mr. Cunningham) deplored that there were sectarians—that there were divisions among them, but take them all, with the exception of the doctrine of SOcinius, which he called a religion robbed dell that was divine, and they would find that Protestants all held one common hope in Christ as a Me diator with the Father in the hour of danger, and in theday ofjudg ment. It was contended by the Romish church, that intention was essential to every act done. Therefore, unless it was the inten tion of the priest to baptise or to marry, or to administer the saT crament, a person might go through those rights to no avail, and be in effect neither baptised nor married, nor receive the sa crament. After adverting at great length to the doctrines and precepts of Catholicism, and their unscriptural foundation, he proceeded to notice the results if it where it was pro fessed. He compared degraded Catholic Ireland with Pro testant Scotland and England, and compared Ireland with her self, showing the peaceable and orderly demeanour of Ulster with the unsettled and criminal state of the other three provinces. Catholicism had ever been found degrading in its effects, whe ther in peace or in war. On the battle field, what troops so brave as those of Protestant Eugland and Scotland; nay, the lash regiment of Enniskillen dragoons, which was a Protestant regiment, had proved itself brave in battle, and conducted itself with heroism; whilst the other Catholic Irish regiments had been proved to be poltroons. Ile concluded, amidst rapturoug applause, with seconding the resolution. The Rev..lo tits M'KuNzta, of Wigan, moved the next re solution—" That it appears to this meeting that the British Society for promoting the religious principles of the Reforma mation, is calculated ulider God to carry its object into effect, and is therefore worthy of our cordial support" He spoke at considerable length, and with much power in favour of the re= solution. The Rev. Mr. WRIGHT, of Warrington, seconded the reso lution, which was unanimously adopted, as were all the• resolu tions. _ _ A vote of thanks was moved to the Rev. Mr. Parkinson, and the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, by JOHN CLARKS, Esq., seconded by Mr. HALTS, and after a doxulogad been sung, the meeting concluded at half-past nine o'cilek. BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN PORTS. F - - The following letter was posted on Wednesday in the Under writers'-rooms, being a reply to one froth that association to Lord Palmerston, on the subject or the blockade of the Mexican Ports : " Foreign Office, May 29, 1838. "Si n,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to ac quaint you in answer thereto; that the only information of the blockade of the ports of Mexico by the French, which her Majesty's government have as yet received, is drived from official papers published at Washington on the 4112 instant, announcing that an effective blockade of the Mexican ports was declared on the 16th of April by the admiral command ing the French squadron in the Gulf of Mexico.—l am, Sir, your obedi• nt humble servant, " J. BACKHOUSE. " Thos. Cort, Esq., Secretary to the Liverpoo! Underwriters' Association." A CONSERVATIVE SONG. [The following spirited song, composed by Mr. W. H. Woakes; M.R.A.P., was sung with rapturous applause at the Peel Banquet, by Mr. J. G. cal.. --ee advertisement.] Like a plain dealing soldiei has Wellington spoke, . Ere the Crown shall go down, there are crowns to be broke, Ere we give up the game we Milst have a new deal, So stand fast with me round the banner of Peel. Then fill up your cup and I'll All up my can, • A fig for the Whigs and their Master King Dan ! We shall soon see them bOth to the right-about wheel, If we only are true to brave Arthur and Peel. Who does not remember—who o'er can forget The field where the star of ,Napoleon set, And say, shall it now be remembered in vain ? Or that long track of glory, the triumphs of Spain ? No! fill up your cup and fill up my can, The Whigs like the French have mistaken their man : The name of the Duke is a phalanx of steel, And the mantle of Pitt is the banner of Peel! It is useless to murmur for what is now past, The conservative flag must be nailed to the mast! The ship is still sound from the deck to the keel, • . And will weather all stotnis when she's guided by Peel. So fill up your cup and I'll fill up my can, . A fig for the Whigs and the big beggarman; For, trust me, they both in due season shall feel That they've not seen the laSt. of brave Arthur and Peel ! One of the late Zlr. Wilberforce's plans of church reform, al we learn front his life, was, that "one-sixth of the income of all benefices exceeding £•I50 per annum, were the incumbent was not resident, should be added to the curate's stipend." Mr. Hyett, the late member for Stroud, came down from London, to the election for this city, expressly to vote in favour of Mr. Hope! Mr. Ilyett, and hislate colleague, Mr. Ricardo, both resigned their seats for that radical borough, and both now entertain decidedly conservative principles. What a tale does this tell!—Gloucestershire Chronicle. Mr. Grant, son of Colonel Francis W. Grant, M.P. for the county of Elgin, has started for Inverness-shire in the tory in terest, in the room of Mr. A. W. Chisholm, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. It is said that Mr. Murray Grant, of Glenmoriston, who contested the county on two former occa sions, will again take the field in the whig interest. A GOOD MARKSMAN.— Our old friend, Captain Richard son, of this city, went out on Tuesday for a bit of sport, and, with a new rook rifle, at a distance of nearly seventy yards, shot a yellow hammer in the head with a ball. Before we would venture a Yankee duel with the captain, we would imitate the celebrated Bob Acres, and walk quietly away from the scene of combat, to prevent us getting a bullet through our " small gut." —Chester Gazette. THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER.—By the arrival of the Sirius and Great Western steam-vessels, it is said that a large sum has changed owners, many high bets have been laid On • their respective speed, and the power of their boilers; it is like wise mole than whispered that several great capitalists, some of whom are largely interested in America, have betted a large sum that they will shortly produce a vessel; which, fitted up with the boiler advertised for sale by Mr. George Robins, early in June, will easily pass either of the above vessels, or any oilier which may compete with her; they are also determined, as fir as in their power, to introduce this into general nse—vit:, the patent double tubular iron boiler, which will effectually put a stop to the awful loss of life occurring froth the bursting of the dangerous ones now in use. Certainly our own, enterprising capitalists will not let slip the opportunity now offered, by the formation of a company to apply this patent to vessels, roads, railway carriages, &c. STEAM FROM THE TYNE TO THE CONTINENT.—We have much pleasure in congratulating our readers and ,the public ge nerally, on the fair prospect we now have of the speedy esta blishment of a weekly communication, by means of steam-ships, from this port to the continent of Europe, via the Elbe and the Rhine. This Means of communication has been long much wanted, not only by the mercantile interests of this great port; but by the gentry of the surrounding populous and wealthy neighbourhood. During the past week several of the most in fluential gentlemen in this town have determined on the forma tion of a company for that purpose, the prospectus of *hick, tre are inforined, will be submitted to the public in a few days. Newcastle has long been acknowledged the greateit inanufat turing and commercial town in the North of England; its situ ation on the lines and on the termination of several of the greateit railroads in the kingdom; its close Connection b 0 means of that magnificent undertaking, the Newcastle and Car lisle Railway, with the west Coasts of England and Scotland and the east coast of Ireland; its situation opposite to the ports of Harnburgh and Rotterdam, the great depots of the merchan dise of the Continent,—the great highway to the several capitals of Europe,—naturally point out our good old town as the half way house for all travellers to and from the northern parts of this kingdom and the European continent.—Newcastle JeUrnal.