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TO CORRESPONDENTS Justin" ought to have The extracts fix it his lett arlier. It will not are probably deserved bread, a: in to the su Iphlet of I) correct 'uarantee to the Tax TUESM. x Robert Peel and his col les are at length in danger of floundering in their Anti-Protestant policy. Their Maynooth Bill was accepted by the Romish hierarchy and priesthood with a gruff " thank ye." It was received as a small bone by hungry agitation, and when bolted, was forgotten. With his larger offering of increased academical education, however, the Premier hoped to win gol, den o miracle, and this aut umn was to see her Majesty and her advisers make a triumphant progress from shore to shore, their chariots drawn along by tamed cheers of a delighted peop s for the downfal of such . uo uuiy in vpuuuticu lusters chuckled over their sense of amazing libera lity; but their boon, instead of being greedily ac cepted, bas been flung back in their faces as some thing unclean and hateful ! The following are the resolutions of their Reve rences the Roman Catholic Bishops, adopted at a meeting held on the 23d instant, in Dublin, in which this pleasant information is conveyed to go vernment : " Moved by the the Most Rev. Dr. lost Rev. Dr. Slattery ; seconded by Nl'Hale : ' Resolved—That having maturely considered the bill now pending before parliament for the extension of Acade mical Education in Ireland, and giving credit to her Ma jesty's Government for their kind and generous inten tions, manifested in the endowment of the College of Maynooth, we find ourselves compelled by a sense of duty to declare that, anxious as we are to extend the ad vantages of education, we cannot give our approbation to the proposed system, as we deem it dangerous to the faith and morals of the Catholic pupils.' Moved by the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly ; seconded by e Right Rev. Dr. Ryan : Resolved—That, therefore, a respectful memorial, • - .nd soliciting such amendments in the said the faith and the up to th word o bill, as ni - ay be calculat - ed to secur morals of the students, be presente Lord Lieut, same to Her _al to his excellency the ant, praying his Excellency to forward the Majesty's Government, and support its -ight of his influence.' " prayer with the vi And now comes the question—What course will Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues adopt in this, Having spurned the petitions of -pire on the subject of the are they prepared to recant at the __.eir Right Reverences of Rome ? Is ,ir " Gigantic scheme of Godless education" to be licked into the orthodox Popish form, or will the4heasure be withdrawn altogether, seeing that, their dilemma the Prete is of the er Maynooth Bil dictation of ti without the sa ction of can reasonably I the Church," no hope !d that the laity will be 3 of the educational faci- permitted to av lities which it offers questions. We shall certainly never have the har dihood even to guess what these men will do, or will not do. The Globe of Saturday, we observe, seems to think that the bill will be withdrawn, in _ence to the Popish party ; a course which, be .ng insulting to the Protestant portion of the people, towards whose wishes no deference has been shewn, is not an unlikely one to be pursued. One of the most telling of the arguments used,•by Conservatives, in defence of the Ministerial policy of aggrandizing Popery, consists in a shrug of in credulity applied whenever the dangerous character of the tenets of the Romish Church, and her ambi tious aim at the subjugation of universal Christen dom, are brought upon the carpet. " These are old-world tales"—it is said by some—" unworthy of the present age of enlightenment;" whilst by others we are gravely rebuked for "uncharitable- in imputing to our Roman Catholic fellow countrymen opinions which they have long ago ab jured. Romanism, it is urged, is changed from what she was. She is harmless, toothless, fangless. True it may be that her denunciations of vengeance and extermination against heretics remain on the pages of her class-books ; but she no longer teaches True that her doctrines and practices— which we declare to be " braspheraous fables and idle conceits"—things " damnable and idolatrous" —still remain unchanged ; it i s uncharitable, how ever, so to regard them in our legislation. True, again, that her temporal and spiritual power are still regarded as intact, by her members and her priest hood ; but, then, we are told, " how idle now to fear a poor old gentleman at Rome, loaded with in firmities, and only anxious to pass the remainder of his days in peace !" On every side Popery is ex tenuated, coaxed, and petted as some injured inno cent with whom the world deals too harshly; whilst those who dare to stem the delusion, and proclaim her true and u nc h ange d nature, are pointed at as "bigotted," " illiberal," and "uncharitable." We are ourselves not inclined to shrink from the consequences of the position which, as Protestants, we have taken up against the measures in question. We are not to be driven from our convictions by an incredulous shrug or a nickname. Rome, we main tain, is the same as she was centuries ago, still grasp ing at universal dominion,—still the enemy of li berty of thought and actions in every clime—still, Proteus-like, adapting her exterior and her profes sions to surrounding circumstances, but ever ar riving at the same ulterior objects. Within what period, we *ask, has this alleged change taken place? Within what period has she ceased to be dangerous to Protestant recisely twenty years ago ,swan thus exp resse d his an emi of the danger of admitting Popery. to the er joymen e pro- 3e minds of men ,ould I t is most ex- taunted in this wii abject of those securities which erable a part of the Roman Catho re they content, I ask, to give us those a taken by every other state in Europe ? ere is not a state that admits their professors, does not keep a direct controul over their appoint t. have not heard used to form so consid lie professions unities which ai " It is snat tnere wilt be a any right honourabl Pop the mt..; fter you have decided in tition, if you should do so, 1 end of all religious animosity; and iend asks, " are you afraid of the I am not afraid of the Pope . nor of afraid of a powerful internal ' om great numbers are dissatis ciples of religion." pretender; but I y in this country. ere the views of the statesman in question, ith respect to the consequences of what was called Catholic Emancipation. Have they failed .n nne .1 • v-r These v LAW! leugious animosity been allayed Has the Church in that country been - -1_ • • - in Ire 1 : •-• tie contrary, th at measure, notwith securities" (!) with which it was ac added fuel to religious animosity in • • Insolent pretensions' ,drty who are dissatisfied of our religion," until they now no longer care to conceal their determination to level our Protestant establishment to the ground. lie teaching of Rome, we are told, is changed. -nlightened, and no longer promul gates idle. fables and blasphemous conceits amongst her credulous followers. Within what period, we ask, has:this change taken place ? And for a reply *e turn to the same authority which we have quoted above, and who, only twenty years ago, thus ex pressed himself:— But t e has grows " When I hear, sir, that the nature of the Roman Ca tholic religion is changed, I must say, after a pretty ac curate review of what has been passing in Ireland —and I say it in no unfriendly spirit—that that church would have consulted its own dignity much better, if it bad avoided several publications that have lately appeared. In proof of the little alteration which the spirit of the Ro- amination of t nineteenth centnry . ill read a passage from a little w , rk published by one Coyne, relative to the miracles performed by Prince Hohenlohe ; and I contend, that so far from the change which gentlemen speak of, having taken place, I believe the laugh with which they greeted the mention of the name of Prince Hohenlohe, would have offended no hood Of Ireland sf the number of cures performed by his highness in the city of Wurtzburgh, was that of the Princess Matilda Von Schwartzenburgh. She had been lame from her eighth to her seventeenth y , bad vainly expended on medical aid 80,000 florins—but was cured by the prince's intercession. The Wurtzburgh doctors, who got the 80,000 florins, must have had a very y rate, But at Bamberg the miraculous. Two sisters who had been confined with lamenes vied his doctor from the thir A beneficed clergyman was even getting upholsterer, a sac operated upon I for te❑ years were story to . the street s these, ar n, had all been The saddler could 1, without stick or crutch. (A. ay laugh, if they please, And two years afterwards the same statesman thus recapitulated his objection to the concession of po litical power to Romanists " 1 do not quarrel with the religion of the individual Roman Catholic as a private subject ; but when I see that, with that religion, as professed by millions, a plan of po litical infiuence,—a grand scheme of human and of worldly policy,—is connected, I have a right to inquire into that and extent of that influence, and to ascertain, if I can, what effect it is likely to exercise over the mind of man, and over society, and what will be its final result. " Can I doubt, sir, that there is such a scheme en grafted on the Roman Catholic faith, and that it is more for the sake of this scheme than the doctrines that the religion is so much favoured? I cannot doubt, sir, that it is the policy of the Roman Catholics to engraft such a scheme on their faith ; nor can I doubt that that scheme is calculated and intended to enable man to obtain, ac quire, and exercise dominion over the mind of man. Do I not see, that it confers indulgences, that it claims the power of confessing people, and granting them absolution ; and, can I behold these doctrines without feeling, that the object of inculcating such religious tenets, is not so much the diffusion of a pure Christian morality, as the acquiring of worldly power for worldly purposes ? " 1 say then, sir, that the Roman Catholics are not ex cluded merely on account of their belief, for that is a pri vate affair of the individuals; that it is not on account of their religion merely that they are excluded, but with that religion is connected a vast system of worldly power, which compels me to think they ought to be excluded from our councils. When I see it practically interfering with the political affairs of States—(hear)—that interfer ence it is which compels me to enter into a close investi gation of the nature and origin of that religious authority so misapplied. When these dangerous doctrines are sent out among millions of men, will it be denied, that they may be used for other purposes, than the diffusion of pure faith, namely, for the upholding of that spiritual authority of which some honourable members see only the departed shade? " Sir, when I see the Bulls of the Pope—the honourable gentleman laughs, (some member's smile attracted the right honourable secretary's attention,) but let him re member, that a Pope's Bull is of some importance among four millions of ignorant people, who have not had the advantages of an education such as he received. Over them the Pope's Bull has a practical effect : and let me tell him, when I see this sort of influence exercised, I look with suspicion on the power which does it, and I trace in this act the still-living spirit of that power which has been said to be defunct and extinct. " Will it be believed, sir, that in the year 1807, Pope Pius sent to Ireland, a—l will not call it bull, as the term may appear offensive to honourable gentlemen from the sister-country—(a laugh)—but a rescript, a declara tion, stating that every Roman Catholic would be en titled to a remission of three hundred days' burning in purgatory, who would repeat, three times, the following prayer :—" Oh Jesus, Maria, Joseph. to thee I offer my ardent soul ; oh Jesus, Maria, Toseph, hear my prayer; oh Jesus, Maria, Joseph, help me at my last hour." A remission of three I dred d peating that address, and this in the year 1807, in the enlightened nineteenth century ! (Cheering loud and " But this is mysterious, and may be explained away in a particular sense, exclaims some honourable member. Now, sir, though this mysterious exemption from pur gatorial flames is monstrous enough, I am still more disgusted by the attempt to explain or excuse such a doc trine, proceeding from rational and educated persons, and addressed to an ignorant and superstitious population of millions. " Sir, I ask any honourable member, when I see suck a mockery of all religion sent forth, can 1 doubt whether it has any other object than the promotion of that worldly policy to which I have alluded. Can I doubt that it is intended solely to add to the authority of man over man; which, claiming a power to pardon him, grants the par don on such ridiculOus pretences, or withholds it, if the command is not obeyed. My right honourable friend may condemn me, perhaps, for ridiculing such supersti tious ideas ; but wherever free discussion is allowed, there no fear that any ridicule will turn the really pious man from his religion ; and I must think such attempts are in themselves only worthy of ridicule, though I see they are only practised with a view of obtaining undue influence over the ignorant and credulous. These and other things of the same kind are, perhaps, trifles ; but they arc, as Lord Bacon says, " like straws thrown up in the air, they show the direction of the wind," and, from them, we may learn what is still the spirit of Catho licism." We shall, perhaps, be told by some of our readers that we are quoting the sentiments of some bigotted intolerant; and we may be accused of want of charity in reviving such a description of the princi ples of the Roman Catholic Church, and people, of twenty years ago. To the former objection we re ply that the qultations are from the speeches in parliament of the present prime minister of Great Britain--SIR ROBERT PEEL ; and, if it is unchari table in us to hold up 'to the world the opinions of such a man, it was more uncharitable in him to utter them. If they are uncharitable opinions, let Sir Robert Peel recant them. Let them not remain "embalmed in the pages of Hansard" without apology or retractation. They were the correct ex position of Sir Robert Peel's impression of the cha racter of Romanism at the time when they were uttered. If they are not correct now, let Sir Robert Peel shew to the world, for his own consistency's sake, in what, and when Romanism has changed her principles,—for their tendency she cannot change. Let him satisfy the people of England that he is not at this moment endowing " a great political system," unchanged in its hostility to the Protestant establibhment of the Kingdom whose hierarchy and priesthdod are peaceful as lambs, and whose masses abjure the miraculous cures of Prince Hohenlohe, treat Pastorini as an impostor, and Lord Shrewsbury's estatica as the fabulous creation of dotage. Let Sir Robert Peel satisfy us of all this. Let him shew us, above all, that the effect of the teaching of the present IWaynooth-educated clergy of Ireland has been to expel superstition and igno rance from that country, and to produce enlighten- pe and their DT ce; and we may then speak of them - iple - s with more tenderness, and al most pardon his own scandalous apostacy the able lecture, upon the effect of want of sana tory regulations in producing disease, delivered by Dr. Grainger on Wednesday . night, must have driven home conviction upon the subject to the heart of every individual of his audience, if indeed any one accustomed to reflect could have gone to alp meeting unconvinced. We have the causes of the comparative unhealthiness of Liverpool now established and recognized —want of pure air, suffi cient water, well-ventilated dwellings, and well sewered streets and houses. The whole body of Dr. Grainger's audience tacitly acknowledged the correctness of his facts and deductiorn '"' and felt not only the they saw 4 extent of slue auu Limy we au( the authorities of the town, in their name, to set about its removal; and we invite, moreover, the parties composing that audience themselves to become ieir efforts until the object sou tattled. ght for is at- Whilst engaged in this d aria in au dition to any remedial steps which may be taken by our local authorities or by the legislature, there is another and most important instrumentality by • . Vetted lich mach gooc •• ••••QII ITU dwellings and and b e t ter drainage and tilatio n in the localities inhabited by our working ,ses, we must endeavour, as well, to introduce amongst them improved habits. Whilst . we en deavour to procure for them an abundant supply of water, we must impress upon them the importance to health and comfort of a free use of it—the value of cleanliness. And to effect this we know of no more efficacious way than by the delivery in various districts of the town of a course of popular lectures, upon the effect of improved habits of cleanliness and order upon health, addressed to the understanding of the working classes. Any gentleman of adequate capability, who would undertake such a duty, would confer upon his humble fellow townsmen a boon, the importance of which can scarcely be estimated. e improvec We have such a gentleman in our eye at this 'mo ment—one who has ably treated the subject of sana tory regulations and grappled boldly with the de plorable want of those c o nd uc i ves t o h ea lth in Li- verpool, through our own columns. We refer to Mr. H. G. Harbord, whose valuable letters published I in. the LIVERPOOL STANDARD four years ago, under the signature of lifedicus Achates, first drew attention to the subject, and pointed out, the neces •' of some decided steps being taken to improve 'th and the comfort of our suffering working We know that Dr. Harbord is intimately acquainted with all the details necessary for an effi cient treatment of the question ; that he has be stowed upon it earnest attention; that he has watched closely the workings of the evil ; and, if he could be induced to spare a little time from his pro fessional- pursuits for such an object, he would be able to effect infinite benefit, and commence a classes reform, where after all it must commence to be of real utility,in the habits of the people themselves. Once convince the intelligent working man and his family that pestilence and death flow from habits of dkor isoru and uncleanliness—from open cess-pools, ill-cleansed channels, dirty apartments, want of air and light—and one half of the battle will be fought and won. Even the very poor, with such a convic tion firmly established in their minds, will not wil lingly incur the dpnger and the suffering insepar able from a neglect of precautions, which involve so little either of trouble or cost; and will recoil from the occupancy of some of the wretched hovels in which they now submit to shelter. We have thrown out this suggestion for the con sideration of the Health Committee recently ap pointed, of which we are glad to observe that Dr. Harbord is a member. We hope that if his col leagues request from him the sacrifice of time which would be required for the efficient performance of the task, he would not hesitate to waive any con sideration of his private convenience for the attain-. ment of so great a good to his humble fellow towns men. The same headlong precipitation which marked the progress of the Maynooth Bill in the House of Commons, from its first introduction by Sir Robert Peel, is being followed up by the Duke of Welling ton in the other house. The bill was read a first time on Friday night, and notwithstanding the strong remonstrances of Lord Charleville, and the understood wishes of several noble lords that time 'should be allowed for the feelings of the country to be made known to the house by petition, the second reading is to be moved on the 2d of June (Monday next), thus leaving barely one week for the presen tation of petitions. Nor is this one week available for such a purpose. To-day is the Queen's birth day, and therefore the house will not assemble. To morrow is ordinarily a parliamentary dies non, and Thursday is a holiday. There will, therefore, be only two days—Friday and Monday next—during which the petitions of the people for or against the measure can be presented to the house. We suspect greatly that there is a motive for this unseemly haste—a motive which we cannot call honest or constitutional. The Duke of Wellington, indeed, tells us of the ample time which has been allowed during the discussion of the bill in the House of Commons ; but that fact has nothing to do with the sufficiency of the time allowed for re cording the opinions of the people by petition to their lordships, inasmuch as, by a rule of the Upper House, no petition against a measure can he brought before it until such measure is definitively introdu ced. It was also urged by the same noble duke, that petitions might be presented during every part of the discussion ; but his grace forgot to remind us that, this being a money bill, the second reading is decisive of its fate, the house not having power to alter a syllable of it in its subsequent stages. The conclusion is, therefore, clear that the country is refused the opportunity of influencing the House of Lords, with respect to this measure, by a legiti mate and constitutional expression of its opinion. The right of petition —one of the most sacred rights secured to us by the great charter of our liberties— is virtually suspended, and the ministerial majority is about to ride roughshod over the majority of the British people. What is the motive of this haste ? what is the mo tive of this virtual infringement of the constitution ? We can only arrive at it by an examination of the bearing of coincident circumstances. The petitions against the measure, presented to the House of Commons, were, in number, 8753, hearing the sig natures of 1,106,772 persons, whilst the petitions in its favour were only 61, and those not at all of an influential character, either as regards the places from which they emanated, or the number of signa tures attached to them. With this deliberate ex pression of public opinion against the measure, Sir Robert Peened, on a recent occasion, the hardi hood—it is a mild term, for which he ought to thank our charity —to say that the excitement of the Pro. testants of the nation had exhausted itself—that such excitement was a merely passing phrenzy, and not the result of a deeply-rooted conviction. We were twitted, moreover, at the last hour, with the paucity of the petitions from Ireland herself, whose Protestants were represented almost in the light of consenting parties to this outrage upon their reli gious feelings. The Protestants of England and of Scotland were, and are now, anxious to refute this unfounded—this false representation of their feel ings. They are prepared to show, by petitions to the House of Lords, that they have not been actu ated thus far, in their opposition to the bill for the endowment of Maynobth, by a passing frenzy. And the Protestants of Ireland, in especial, are indignant at the gross misrepresentation of their feelings which has issued from the lips of the Prime Minister, and been echoed by his supporters. On the evening of the introduction of the bill into the House of Lords, no less than 65 petitions against the bill, from pa rishes and places in Ireland (more than the total number in its favour from the whole of the empire), were presented by one noble lord ; and if time were allowed, we are confident that our fellow Protestants of Ireland would nobly wipe off the stain which it is attempted to fasten upon them. Now, it must be borne in mind that these men, so unscrupulous in their assertions, so—(we dare not trust ourselves to characterize their conduct)—have the ear of our most gracious Sovereign. The same misrepresentation of the feelings of her Protestant subjects, which has been hazarded in the House of Commons, will go up to the throne, asseverated by the same lips; and we are denied a fair opportunity of shewing, by petition to the second branch of the legislature, that the opinions already expressed in the House of Commons are abiding opinions, formed upon conviction of their truth. Ministers dare not place the issue of this question in the hands of the nation they dare not leave its d ec i s i on to the constituencies. They have already admitted this fact, and they 'dare not place this bill before her Majesty, for her acceptance, accompanied by a legi timate expression of her people's repugnance to it and its pr• • - .inciPlei. No ; the Throne is to be approached with Sir Robert Peel's misrepre sentation of the feelings of her loyal people, as the plea for assenting to this Anti-Protestant measure. There is, however, still a constitutional mode— alas ! the only constitutional one—of defeating this prOcedure. We have still the privilege of approach ing the Throne itself, although its constitutional avenue—tbe House of Lords—is closed against us. We can still lay our petitions at the feet of our most gracious Sovereign, and to that last resource we are now imperatively driven. It is the only mode in which the opinions and feelings of her Majesty's loyal people can now reach her ear. w. _ - throughout•the empire —PETITION THE THRONE There is no other course left to us. DIRICZNHEAD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.--) paragraph has been going the round of the papers, statin that this bill has been thrown out by the Standin he decision of the committee is not yet made known, and the promoters of the measure are uomeatt now anxiously awai - - RECEXPT STAMPS—IMPORTANT • - tnrday. it WAQ Mem —ln the Court of A ... --I,e -1-1-4- - THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. equer on - .7 wuvcu LC/ 11.1 “iC tIUSCWILe a rule nisi, in an action brought for work and labour, to whch the defendant (Mr. Leigh) pleaded a receipt un stamped in the following words :—" July 8, 1843.—Re ceived of Mt.. G. Leigh the sum of £2 25., being the balance of the account current up to this day, for the houses in the Wellington -road." At the trial the receipt was admitted, and there was a verdict for the defendant, with liberty for the plaintiff to move to alter it. It was now argued that the verdict should be entered for the plaintiff under the clause of the stamp act, which enacts, " That no memorandum or writing which shall contain any general acknowledgment of any debt, whereof th amount is not therein specified, having been paid," sho ' be receivable in evidence without a stamp. court, without calling on the plaintiff's counsel, held the receipt inadmissible, and made the rule absolute ; the Chief Baron observing that it was very important that the public should know that there was such a clause in the stamp act, as till his own attention was lately called to it at nisiprius he had not been aware of it. WALLASEY IMPROVEMENT ACT. On Friday evening a meeting of the ratepayers of Poul ton-cum-Seacombe was held at Parry's Hotel, Seacombe, to consider the propriety of selecting a list of ratepayers, duly qualified, to serve as Commissioners under the Wallasey Improvement act, preparatory to the election on the 2d of June. Mr. BItYCEW was called to the chair, and stated that the act required that twenty-one commissioners should be elected, and it was thought a fair division that Seacombe and Liscard should each nominate eight, and Wallasey, which was of small population, five. Mr. WOODWARD moved a list of seven names. , Mr. LEWIN said th a t eac h ra t epayer i n the township should' vote for twenty-one. He submitted a list of twenty-one names. Mr. OKiLL, Mr. HILL, and other gentlemen, thought a meeting of the whole of the townships should be called for that purpose, and, after a spirited discussion, a motion to that effect was agreed to. Last night, in accordance with the above resolution, a meeting of the ratepayers of the parish took place in the same room. On the motion of Mr. HALDANE, Mr. JOSEPH BRYCE was unanimously called to the chair ; and he stated that a list had been prepared of gentlemen eligible to serve as commissioners. The list had been drawn up with the greatest possible care, in especial reference to the duties the commissioners would have to perform, and he believed that the majority of the names would be found those of persons extremely suitable for the office. Few of them, he believed, had any selfish interest to subserve They were men who would act for the aggregate benefit of the community and not for individual advantage—(hear, hear); and he trusted the list would be sufficiently po pular on the day of election to subdue or remove all chance of contention or opposition. He hoped, too, that it would prove conclusive with reference to the attain ment of the objects in view. (Hear.) Mr. MEADOWS then moved that the following twenty one gentlemen be recommended to the ratepayers as fit and proper persons to serve as commissioners under the Wallasey Improvement Act :—Messrs. Henry Winch, Henry Meadows, John Halliday, Jqhn Parry, G. H. Crump, Joseph Brice, Gideon Dare, S. F. Symonds, William Atherton, Harold Littledale, Joseph Ewart, Charles Holland, Thomas Dean, Robert Edwards, James Leay, John Ripley, John Bewley, William Healing, Wm. Dickenson, Thomas Webster, and Samuel Carter. Mr. WOODWARD said he had great pleasure in second ing the motion ; but he certainly would not pledge him self to vote for every one upon it, although he thought a better list could not have been submitted. Mr. DALEY agreed that the list was a good one with reference to the number of ratepayers in the parish, the number qualified to vote in each township, and the num ber qualified to act as commissioners. In November last, when the bill was being applied for, of ratepayers, from £1 and upwards, there were— In Liscard.... In Poulton-cum-Seaconabe In Wallasey (township) Total ratepayers.......... 886 Of ratepayers, under the act, £lO and upwards, there were— In Liscard In Poulton-cum-Seacombe In Wallasey (township) ... Total 717 These were bona fide voters. Of those qualified to act as commissioners, there were— In Liscard. . ... In Poulton-cum-Seacombe In Wallasey (township) l9 Total ... 219 This table showed that Wallasey had but a very small population of qualified persons, but it also showed the necessity for Seadombe and the adjoining parts of Egre mont not to go so far as New Brighton, but to be as unanimous as possible, for if they were not united parties would come in who who had been active in getting the bill, but who would improve their own property at the expense of the rate-payers. Every rate payer ought to be upon his guard, and endeavour to secure men who would keep the rates as low as possible so as to induce parties to reside in the parish. By this kind of policy the place would become more populous, property would increase in value, there would be a greater number of rate payers, and, as a necessary consequence, the expense of improvement would fall very light. Mr. MEADOWS, as the mover of the list, here made some observations to the effect, that it would be abso lutely necessary to prevent the landowners from gaining an ascendancy in the board of commissioners. Mr. MAWDESLEY repeated a suggestion, which he had thrown out at the meeting on Friday. the substance of which was, that each township in the parish should be as sembled to name its commissioners. A fairer repre sentation would thus be acquired, whilst no township would be deprived of the privilege to which it was entitled. Mr. LEWIN, in reply to this suggestion, contended that it was not competent for the meeting to pass lists for each township, but only one for the whole parish. The act constituted the several townships into one parish, and the list must, consequently, be passed entire. The great point, in framing the list, would be to avoid putting on too many landowners, whose interest it was to obtain im provements at the expense of the ratepayers ; but it was decidedly irregular to divide the list into townships. Mr. MAWDESLEY—I suppose a parishioner isnot com pelled to vote for this particular list ? The CHAlRMAN.—Certainly not. Mr. HUGH BANNER. said that without meaning any thing personal he would move that in the places of Messrs. Meadows, Symmons, Dean, and Webster, the following be put on the list :—Messrs. George Wilson, Willy, Odell, and Leicester. Mr. BALL also proposed that Mr. Hugh Banner's name be inserted. The CHAIRMAN decided that the list as originally pro posed must be put, and if it w e r e carr i e d by a majority no alteration could be made in it. He then put it and declared it to have been carried by a considerable ma jority. Mr. HILL moved that the following gentlemen be ap pointed a committee, with power to add to their number, to carry out the previous resolution :—Messrs. Garratt, R. Parry, Thos. Lewin, Hill, Watson, Manlove, Peake, and_Daley. Mr. MEADOWS seconded the motion, and it was car ried unanimously. Mr. DALEY then reminded the meeting that all poor rates must be paid on or before the 2d June next, other wise the parties would be disqualified. The chairman was then thanked for his conduct in the chair, and after a collection had been made to defray the expenses, the meeting separated. THE DERBY The latest accounts from head-quarters represent the course at Epsom to be exceedingly heavy; should the weather continue unfavourable, the races will be mere trials of strength. Betting in London on Saturday night. DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Idas, (taken.) 33 to 1 agst Kedger. 6 1 Weatherbit. 35 1 Merry-Monarch. 13 2 --- Alarm. 35 1 -- Fuzbos, (taken.) 9 1 The Libel. 35 1 Mentor. 10 1 Forth's lot. 35 1 W or thl ess. 16 —1 Pantasa, (taken.) 40 —1 Columbus. 20 1.-- Pam (taken.) 150 1 Jinglepot. 20 1 Old - England. 50 1 Miss Whip c. `0 1 Doleful. 50 1 Laird o'Cockpen . .. 6to 1 agst Lady Wild a i r , (tk O AKS 20 .) to 1 agst Event. 6 •-1 Lan. Witch, (tic.) 20 —1 Stamp 10 1 Maid of Orleans. FRUITS OF NO-POPERY TUITION.—An infamous para graph, under this heading, in the MercUry, of Friday week, commented upon the circumstance of two boys, who had been scholars of the St. Jude's Church Schools, being brought up at the police -court for theft, and insinuated that such crime was the result of the scriptural teaching at those schools. The facts, we believe, are that one of the boys in question had been expelled for flagrant miscon duct, and the other suspended, some time before the commission of the theft. The Mercury's appetite for an attack upon the Protestant establishment must be great indeed, when he can descend to so paltry an imputation as this. There are black sheep in every flock. There are failures in every system of teaching ; and, if we were dis posed to ferret out every case of such failure which has occurred in his own pet liberal system, the Mercury would be the first to exclaim against our illiberality and want of charity. THE FRENCH OPERA IN LIVERPOOL.—The somewhat hasty exception taken to the first performance of this company, viz., that selections from operas were given in stead of complete operas, has had the effect which might naturally have been anticipated. Having made an effort to please beyond what was stipulated for in the engage ment of Dupre.z and Madame E. Garcia, and adapted his pieces to display the powers of these two celebrated voca lists, M. De L'Osier roused such a critical furor in his subscribers and the public that his regular company has been condemned almost unheard, and the undertaking has been blown up. In justice to this unfortunate gen tleman, we must say, that he has been rather harshly treated in the matter. Sufficient consideration has'not been shown for the acknowledged difficulties of the task. An operatic company of the very highest order he cer tainly had not around him : where, by the bye, can such a company be met with except at an expense which it would be preposterous to encounter? There were amongst the company, however, several singers of a high class; and they were, as a whole, quite capable of affording delight and amusement to any audience not predisposed to blame and hypercritical. Their light comedy, in parti cular, was almost perfect, and might have been studied with advantage by many of our native performers. This compulsory abandonment of the scheme has, we regret to learn, in addition to the disappointment and loss incurred by its projector, thrown the members of the company themselves into serious embarrassment. Tbey are left here, in a strange land, and for no fault of their own, ab solutely without the means of returning to their own shores. Under these circumstances, an appeal to the public will be made to-morrow night. We are not cer tain that a visit to the theatre, on this occasion, which charity and gallantry alike call for, will not have the ef fect of inducing many to withdraw their hasty condemna tion of the company. We are happy to be able here to record an act of generosity, on the part of M. Duprez, which does that talented vocalist great credit. M. Du prez arrived at the Angel Hotel on Sunday night, on his way from Dublin to London, for which he left yesterday. His engagement precluded the possibility of his affording the aid of his valuable services to the distressed company. Previous to his departure, however, be left twenty pounds to be distributed amongst those actually in want of relief. INSTANT CURE FORTOOTH.ACHE.—Rub the tooth with spirits of hartshorn : a safe remedy.—Correspondent. EXTRAORDINARY REMINISCENCES Yesterday, at the Police-court, a respectably-dressed and intelligent man of colour, named John Tkomas Blen man, appeared before Mr. Rushton, to pref . & a claim for wages to the amount of £l7 10s., alleged to be due to him by Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman, of this town, owners of the ship " Vitula." Mr. Davenport appeared for the claimant, and Mr. Collier (of the firm of Davenport and Collier) for the defendants. The complainant stated that he sailed with the Vitula, Captain Fielding, from this port on the 2d of October, 1842, bound to Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso, and was, as steward, to receive £2 10s. per month. The ship reached Buenos Ayres, and proceeded to Monte Video, whence she went round Cape Horn, and finally reached Callao. From the last-named port she went to the Chincha islands, about 100 miles off in the Pacific. There they took in guano, but the Peruvian au thorities said they were stealing it, and a Peruvian schoo ner, formerly a man of war, captured the ship and crew. The captain and crew were taken to Callao in custody, where they were driven on shore, and very ill used. The Vitula was seized, and sold by the Peruvian government, e claimant added that the sum stated was due to him as wages. Mr. Collier cross-examined the witngss, who said he had received no advance or payment beyond a month's pay on starting, and a dollar afterwards. Mr. Collier ex plained to Mr. Rushton that his clients had unfortunately given:the vessel in charge to Capt. Fielding, with instruc tions to proceed to Monte Video, and thence to Valpa raiso, at which last port he was to do his best for their in terests. In place, however, of complying with these in structions, he had, on his own account, taken the vessel to the islands named to get guano. He was caught in the illegitimate act, and the ship was seized and sold. (The witness read a letter from which it appeared that the sale brought 15,000 dollars.) Mr. Rushton enquired of the claimant•whether he had ever applied to the British consul for his wages, and the reply was, that be had. He added that the captain of the Vindictive, British vessel of war, then there, knew many of the circumstances, and he,believed was now in this country. He (claimant) being in expectation of re ceiving his wages, remained in the country for fourteen months, serving on board of a Peruvian steamer, from which he produced his discharge—but as there were po• litical cote motions and warfare goirg on all the time—with three successive presidents—he deemed it advisable to return to this country. He wished to get to his home in Barbadoes as soon as possible, and would work his pas sage if he could find a ship. Mr. Collier said that his clients had no wish to with stand a fair claim for wages, but as they had received no official account relative to the sale of the vessel, they na turally inferred that the crew had • been paid their wages by the consul, who it was to be presumed would look after that matter. He requested, on their part, that the further hearing of the case should be postponed until a reply to a letter to the Secretary of State should be re ceived, as to whether any information on the subject had been transmitted to him by the British consul in Peru. Mr. Rushton said he considered it but reasonable that . a fair time should be allowed for such enquiry by return of post; bat the prima facie facts were such that he thought the man entitled to his wages, unless good cause was shown to the contrary, and that soon. He should (as he was going out of town for a few days) in the mean time order payment on Saturday next, unless by that time such evidence were adduced by the defendant as would justify a departure from that award. To this Mr. Collier assented. The facts connected with the Vitula are of painful remi niscence. Captain Fielding, in place of attending to his instructions, went to obtain, surreptitiously, a cargo of guano at the Chincha Islands, without leave of, or the customary payment to, the authorities. He was caught ; his ship seized, and himself, amongst others, imprisoned in Callao, and treated with, so far as we have heard, great severity. He contrived, however, though strongly mana cled, to elude the vigilance of his Peruvian keepers, and got on board of the Saladin, a passenger, along with his son, a boy. While in that vessel he formed a conspiracy, with a great part of the crew, to murder the master and mate. These two were accordingly murdered, as were also eight of the crew. After that horrible transaction, six of.the crew survived, including two who had taken no part in the transaction. These, after they had been some time at sea with Fielding, became fearful for their own safety, and secured, as far as they could, the knives and arms in the cabin; and continuing to be still more and more alarmed, they detetrained to make away with him. They secured him and bound him down on the cabin floor for two days, after which they threw him overboard. They then held a consultation as to the fate of his son, which ended in his destruction in a similar way. All this was the work of four out of the six survivors. The ship was afterwards" in her homeward voyage overtaken by another vessel, and taken into New Brunt wick, where the four. aggressors were tried, and, beir.g convicted of the murders executed. The full details appeared in our paper last year. The claim for wages made by the stew ard (Blenman) on the owners of the Vitula is the first that has been preferred ; and he states that there is but another man, the second mate, who can make any claim, the twe alone being the only men who accomplished the voyage, until the seizure, the others being shipped at Valparaiso. ON M. T. B. MACAULAY'S VULGAR REMARK, " EXETER HALL SET UP ITS BRAY." When asses speak, let impious men beware, Nor in the path of ruin madly dare; The senseless staff' may smite, yet still there stands The unsheath'd weapon in the Angel's hands. A FRIEND TO " TRUTH." 24M May, 1845. The Bishop of Chester has announced his intention of holding an annual confirmation, in future, for the benefit of such pupils in the various schools in Liverpool as shall be above the age of sixteen. His lordship has also stated that this confirmation will take place at the end of Octo ber in the present year. COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE COURT. —Mary Woolfall, for stealing a pair of shoes from St. Martins market on Saturday night —seven days imprison ment. Joseph Carlisle, a worker at the docks, for being found in possession of two pieces of old copper from a ship's bottom without being able to give a proper account of how he became possessed of them—seven days. • ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The first club match will come off, on Monday, the 16th June, and we under stand the course will be from Rock Ferry, up the Crosby Channel, and round the Bell Buoy and back again to Rock Ferry. The yachts, on account of the opening day being so unauspicious, are going to sail in company, on Thurs day, round the lightships. To start off New Brighton, at ten:o'clock in the morning. STEALING LEATHER.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a man named Samuel Jones,. by trade a shoemaker. was charged with having been found in the streets on Satur day night with a bundle containing a number of boot fronts—stated to be of the value of £6—of which he could give no satisfactory account. It appeared that the shop of Mr. Edward Welsh, currier, in Paradise-street, had been robbed on that night, and several of the articles were identified, though not very clearly, as his property. The prisoner was committed. ACCIDENTS, &c.—lnquests will be concluded to-mor row, before Mr. Curry, on the bodies of William John son and William Wynn, working men, one of whom bad fallen into the hold of a vessel; and the other had been scalded with dye-water, at Manchester, about a week ago. They both died in the Southern Hospital.—Also on the body of Francis Edward Peelew, a child, who was found dead in bed, on Sunday morning, in Hale-street, from what cause is yet unknown; and on the body of a a man, named Carhill, who kept a tavern, The Lighthouse, in Prices-street, and who died, on Friday, after an illness of some short duration. He had, it is said, latterly drunk hard. ST. BARNABAS' 'DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—It is to us matter of sincere gratification to be able to record the large measure of success which has thus far attended these schools. Although only a fortnight in operation, the day schools are already attended by 500 children ; and the Sunday schools opened on Sunday last with 300 scho lars. This large number of tLe children of our working ior are thus enabled, at a trifling charge to , ir parP- to receive the blessing of a sound icriptural education, and placed upon the direct path to a life of usefulness and vir tue. In the church of St. Barnabas itself, so highly are the Christian labours of its exemplary and talented mi nister, Mr. Nolan, appreciated by his flock, and by the poor of the district, that a hundred free sittings have just been added to accommodate the children, and those who assemble to hear the word from his lips ; and yet the room afforded is still insufficient, and an enlargement of the for in iSin. The Protestant public of this wealthy town will surely not allow those who hunger for the truth to go away unsatisfied LAUNCH OF A FINE IRON STEAM -SHIP.—On Satur day last, a beautiful iron steam-ship, called the "Prince Ernest," of about 350 tons measurement, and 120 horse power, was launched from the yard of Mr. John Laird, North Birkenhead, in the presence of a numerous and de lighted assemblage of'spectators. She is one of the sharp est vessels ever built on our river, and of a light draught of water. Engines of the most approved.construction are being built for her, by Messrs. G. Forrester and Co., who have long been celebrated in this department. She is built for the South-Eastern Railway Company, to run be tween Folkestone and Bologne. She was christened by the Honourable Mrs. Hall, lady of Captain W. H. Hall, R.N., who is so well known as the distinguished com mander of the Nemesis, iron steamer built at the same yard, and which, it will be in remembrance, did this coun - -I..ulabie services in China during the contest in :he world. The " Prince Ernest" is of _ .cugth, and, on the water, presented a most rakish and pretty appearance. We shall have an opportunity of noticing her in detail when she is fully equipped. that quarter of great 1 AMATEUR PERFORMANCE.—We understand that the gentlemen of the Licensed Victuallers Society, who ac quitted themselves so creditably hi the amateur perform ances, some time ago, in behalf of the funds for the cha ritable objects of that society, intend shortly to present a popular play, and other entertainments at the Theatr e royal, for the benefit of that old and excellent institution, the Blue Coat School. This is, we believe, prompted by a grateful sense of the kind and liberal manner in which their, efforts for their own decayed members, and the or phans of publicans, were received ; as well as a desire to show that in venturing, on occasions " few and far be tween," to step aside from their usual avocations, they are actuated by no motives of selfishness. We have no doubt but the committee of the Hospital will give their sanction to the proposition, as well as their co-operation in ensuring a full and respectable attendance ; and that the " coming night" will be looked forward to with in terest by a large portion of the community--especially as many were excluded from attending on the former occa sion by the crowded state of the house. May 27, 1845. LAST NIGHT'S MAIL! —•— RAILWAY COMMITTEE'S DECISIONS -- ;YESTERDAY. GROUP E. The preamble of the Newcastle and Berwick Railw ai Bill proved. The Northumberland Atmospheric Railway Billrejectel MARK LANE CORN MARKET-YESTERD A Y' At this day's market we had a moderate supply of E 7 Wheat, which met a bri s k sa l e an d an a d vance o f ll* eed over the currency of this d a y week. F ree Fore i gn part'C'',„'°';o-e in a similar improvem en t, an d b onded i s held for 2s. to 35- , Thoney. do There is more firmness in Ba r l e y, M a lt , B eans, a nd Peas, a all the turn dearer. seven or We have a liberal arrival of Foreign Oats, and about ~„co eight Irish cargoes have got in this morning. In conserlu.:;d of the advance in the Irish markets, factors tried to reall'% u i vanced rates on this descrb.tion, which checked the sale, a n d the demand was chiefly on the foreign, in which there vi" moder.te consumptive sale at fully our previous currency SMITHFIELD. MARKET-YESTERDAY' 91 The number of Foreign Beast s h ere t o- d ay cons isted head, the whole of which were in fair average c ondin i n ock whilst fresh up from our vario us graz i ng di str i c t s , the bil l se droves were somewhat on the i ncrease, compare d with th d ° ol reported ry dealersoretoeuJnotnthisday wasse'nn me igh so t.T w h h e a a t extensive, e ny of both L °D ue ef the "'d i trade, arising chiefly from the Beasts coming to band inn'tli so better condition than for som a wee k s past, was not .191,ad59 active as on Friday, though the c u rr enc i es real i se d on I‘l°'"oce last were supported in every i ns t ance , and a good cica la was effected by the salesmen. - Wor e We regret to observe that both the B eas t s an d Sheep, e ,, particularly the latter, were suffering severely from the o u of the epidemic. On the roads the losses continue severe. re , . From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, Nv e or dp ceived-1700 shorthorns, Scots and homebreds ; from the ocl Mi d ern counties 200 shorthorns ; from the western and As districts 230 Devons, Herefords, runts, &c. ; from other P a r od England 200 of various breeds; and from Scotland 250 h° and ]numbers Scot. thou there ee was snothnothing S r h e e m e a p rk w a e h r le e a se m a o so n n g a st bl t y h e e x m te a n s siv t e o , qu a is Prime old Downs moved off freely, at fully the late advanol the quotations—they selling at from 4s 10d t o 5 s per sib, lin , other breeds met a very dull inquiry at barely late rates. From the Isle of Wight, 147 Lambs came to hand per radrG e while the receipts from othe r quar t ers were l ib era l. %et Down qualities were in steady d eman d , at full pr i ces; but . kinds of Lambs were rather inactive. r te s We had a fair trade for Veal, an d l as t wee k' s quo t a tions „ es well supported. More business was doing in Pigs, and the rs had an improved tendency. Per Elb.to sink the offal. PRICES" OF STOCKS, &c.—YEsTERDA I ,..• t The markets markets for public securities have opened rather fla morning. Consols have been done at go, Reduced Three g ii Cents gsi, the New Three and a Quarter 101 i, Exchequer 1 1te 60 62, and India Bonds 71 72 pm. Monday has, however, O , Saturday, become almost a dies non, except when there is co siderable excitement. Ole There has been a fair proportion of business done in -Lao. Bonds. Brazil Bonds have been sold at 89, Chilian 97. bias 15i , Mexican Deferred 18, Portuguese Three per CenT , '4 l l Spanish Five per Cents 291, the Three per Cents 411, Venezu -4 ti, Russian 1181 LONDON SHARE MARKET—YEsTERPO' t The share transactions have been limited in extent; b u d. the advance in the old lines of railway i s f u lly m aintain e d, Bristol and Exeter 84 ; Caledonian lok i ; Great N° 1. 9 1, 'of England 225 • Do. New 571 8; Last Creation 2 9, 9; Midland 173 5 • Do. New 201,11, ilk; Newcastle fn.!. Berwick 16k, 171,161 ; South Eastern and Dover 401, Trent Valley and Holyhead Ju nc ti on 31., 3 1 21; shrew' bury, Wolverhampton, and Bir m i ng h am 4i. The execution of the convict Conner is fixed for IW°' day next. _ -- -- - JUST PUNISHMENT.—At Berlin a lieutenant has b ee n sentenced to six months' imprisonment for figlitini'vy duel at Konigsberg, with a ci v ili an , w h o was mortl °to wounded. The seconds of the forme r were sentence one year's imprisonment. ,ht Another autograph of Shakspere is about to be brol i , s o , to the hammer by Mr. Fletcher, of Piccadilly, Lona% e It is pronounced by competent judges to be a gen'L l ie, one.' The name has not the "a" in the final sylla bi and is written in a thin octavo volume in Italian. St' A church rate has been refused for th e p ar ish of k w George in the East, London, wh ere th e rec tor a few months since introduced the innovations i n the cb g th - e service which have caused so much opposition in country. has THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—The Journal des 1 5 bats states, that the Cardinal Archbishop of LYon s of ordered public prayers to be offered odor the cessation ne f the bad weather. Our private letters express a be that the weather had changed for the better. ei SUPPOSED MURDER.—A medical gentleman, n a- p m d. Hoyle, at a village near Lincoln, has suddenly disappea r : e d The pony he was riding has been found, and it is sueP°' he that he has been robbed, murdered, and th ro wn into t river. His hat was discovered at Bo s ton, having 11 ° 3tea down the stream. ter' The packet-ship Sea, Captain Ed w ard s , sailed yes „ 0 day for New York, with a larger amount of freight i n board than has been obtained for some weeks past. C al ": 6 passengers—Mrs. Rivers and two child ren , Miss Jo n " Miss Edward's, Mr. Joseph Houghton, Mr. Edw ard W S O T O A d , V N E l s r . L ar o t r , d a s n o d f M th r e . T T ; E as d u tn ry on h d a s v . e given i r ; tice that they will permit all staves exceeding 72 i n ches length to be reduced in bond, a t th e expense of the pa,rries to the dimensions under w hi c h th e same won ld b e ar," 0 , sible, duty free, by the recent re s ol u ti ons o f the 11° 1 5 1 0 of Commons, upo n th e di s ti nc t un d erstan di ng that staves be made use of for no other purpose than CaSkS•OO. CONSEQUENCES OF DUELLING.—The Cologne Ace zette of the 21st announc es th a t th ree officers, t v( " n re non-commissioned officers, and five privates, vvil°e, engaged in the pulling down of the ho use o f M• H at tbe against whom the public indignation was raised 139 . pe t share he took in the duel, whici. was so much the sou•l'nd of observation at the ti me , h ave b een b roug ht to trial, a condemned to various punishments. eafe Two young lads, named Bedford sad Spencer, •-„ a been committed for manslaughter at Southampton , charge of killing a little boy, eight years of age, 08 " -e re ..e. Jacob Light, the son of a pedlar. The prisoners playing and the child having passed them on a don t 76 they took hold of him and tied him to the animal, viii'„a they set off at full speed. The child fell from his seat , a ct , was dragged a considerable distance until life was e% t n i n in rt, r THE PANOPE.—SALVA GE .—I n the Admiralty t on Saturday. Dr. Lushington pronounced judg,ro' t be The vessel, which belonged t o thi s por t, w hile nn io t, coast of Africa, was assisted, on th e 30th o f August ' - 036 by Captain Johnson, and carried over the bars of the river Bonny. The captain died about a month after occurrence, and his representatives now claimed ant i.„ or at the hands of the Court. On th e same d a y two 0 105 5 vessels ran on the outer bar, and were wrecked, wit h 0 0e of life. The value of the property saved was on Woe side stated at £4600, and on the other at £3BOO. _ fe st Court held that the Panope had been rescued from 6. danger, and awarded £3OO for the services. AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—BOGOTA, Feb. k , ; learn that on the 19th instant, a slide of snow and ea $ came down from the Paramo of Ruiz and destroY e t he great part of the plain of Maraquita lying betwee n to , river Sabaudija and Lagnnilla, buryin g i n its progre': - o as , wards the river Magdalena, all the tobacco planta tl its houses, people,. cattle • in fact, everything that lay i ll e aiS course, the exact number of persons who have peri e 4o° not et known, but it is supposed that at le a st I,o o u o r' lost their lives. We fear the consequences of this c' e for rence will be very serious to the coming tobacco cr ° P'telr not only was the Lagunilla district one of the most es t er sive and productive, but we apprehe n d th a t the gr ro c part of the people who have perished were tobacco g ers, whose loss it will take some time to replace. ;of CIVIL ENGINEERS INSTITUT ION .—At a ineet` n ker this society last week, Sir J. Renni e i n th e c hair, af, was read by Mr. Grantham. It gave an interestincoelf count of the wreck of the Vanguard iron stearo•v, e ,.oce which went on shore on a l e d ge o f roc k s at t he en'ti - tb o of the Cove of Cork, a n d a ft er rema i n i ng t h er e ont o ,' a ter rocks were cut away at low water, so that a llig h , i th o tide carried her off, w as f oun d t o b e so li tt l e injure',e ore i a few days sufficed t o repair damages. The engne' l j scarcely strained, and nothing was broken. This :,'"f tlr the mention of some ver y remar k a bl e instances jeet'a power of resistance of iron vessels, an d t o the expel 0 0 now in progress of trial at Wo o l w i c h on th e power ° log ! vessels to resist shot. It appeared that, with a oh charge of powder, a hole was merely punched throlh , bol l plate by the ball ; but that, w ith a h eav y c harge, tr,ittle' striking the plate with grea t ve l oc ity ren d er ed it "' o per' and the fragments flew abo u t i n an ex t raor dinary eiT'; jor. We refer our reader s t o th e a d ver ti sem ent 0 ' t O'Hanlon, who has opened a n e xt ens i ve establishale'l, is the woollen-drapery lin e , i n P ara di se stree t. His new, and the prices are such as must command att 'prti,iS': PFIRENOLOGY.—We refer our read ers to the au v f tv ment of Mrs. Hamilton—a c e l e b ra t e d professor: „ -4r science—whose very extraordinary sk e tches of el ,, be"' are creating no little surprise. Her stay will only , rafted. 1 1 ;ra t An immense live Halebut, long, 7 feet weigh — O y 4.1- s '-of pounds, may be seen, and will be cut up, this - 4 , 00 0 , i, Joseph Newton's, 14, St. John's Fish Market, m a did of the Queen's birthday. The lovers of good thi g " have a treat. The fish was taken on our oun co ast ' is the largest ever exhibited in our market. dug d muchWe had pleasure a few days ago in inspect very superb stock of articles of taste and vertu a'sr t reel at the establishment of Mr. Flower, in RenshavP!rote" To attempt to describe the many articles that 0 4 P our attention would be invidious. All who v is t i broiP . Flower will admit there are few stocks selected vfl tncte_ 9 ..es tiOd CONCERTS.—These Oleo, Qg -ing classes continue to attract lai n " . e ree l l. those for whom they hare been instituted. We, P r v olo that Mrs. Sinderland (than whom a more pop Sf a ist has not appeared in Liverpool for years), m" troP'' h (always a b e welcome e nga go t e m f d o r alwaysgood), wee . and M. Arms aver u e a ric Mu. HENRY RUSSELL.—It will be seen b 3 t",,,. 0 0 5 "„ tisement in another column that this favourite "iertawo; vocalist will give one of his celebrated vocal, e h n c A li o( ments on Monday next. The popularity whi c "O ' or"rl acquired in this town, in connexion with the ac r e Evening Concerts, has never been surpassed , °l o t t",,, rarely equalled. We cannot, therefore, doubt too Concert-hall will be densely crowded on this ° c o le especially when it is known that Mr. Russell io ta short time to leave this country f o r America. -7 for the wort LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, MAY 27, 184 5 . -0 , PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORN' BY , a 0 JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove - s tre et LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-stre_eo'k, At N 0.4, ST. GE onas's CRESCSNT, LIYSIIVU