The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-11 00:00:00

REPEAL OP THE BREAD TAX." The corn-law repealers and the admirers of the theory of free trade held a m ee ting last evening in the Music-hall, for the purpose of supporting the ministerial plan of modifying the corn laws. Sir JOSHUA WALMSLFY was called to the chair, and ob served that he was happy to have any opportunity of presiding over a meeting the object of which was to repeal the corn laws. Whatever might have been the cause of fministers having promised to bring forward a plan for modifying the present system, that meeting could not do otherwise than rejoice at it. At least, it put upon those laws the stamp of injustice and iniquity from the very highest position , which would enable them ultimately to sweep them from the statute book. (Hear.) At the meeting in Clayton-square a petition was agreed to praying for a total repeal of the corn laws, but that would not prevent them from supporting the plan of ministers, which was a step towards obtaining what they wanted. If the conservatives came into office, as he feared they would, they would perpetuate the sliding scale under the specious pretext of reducing a portion of the present pro tection ; and therefore he would point out a few of the dis advantages of it. It was devised to protect the landowner, to put into their pockets an amount of money for their corn equal to the yearly taxation of the country ; to maintain a perpetual scarcity ; to keep up the greatest possible fluctua tions, and to convulse all our commercial relations. Mr. H UGH HORNBY moved the first resolution, which was to the effect, that the meeting adhered as strongly as ever to their conviction of the propriety and necessity of the ultimate total repeal of the taxes upon bread, and hailed with satisfac tion the step which ministers had taken towards meeting their views. (Hear, hear.) No man possessed of ordinary reflction and thoughtfulness could contemplate the condition of this great country, at the present crisis, without feeling anxiety and apprehension for the future. The principal branches of our commerce and manufactures were almost paralyzed ; the monetary system of the country was in a statr of derangement, the national revenues were yearly de clining. in the face of increased taxation, whilst the threat ening attitude assumed by foreign powers, and the unsettled state of our colonial dependencies, rendered an increase ab solutely necessary, in order to maintain the security and honour of the nation. There was also a consideration of greater importance even than that—namely, the condition of the working classes. The industrious and intelligent la bouring population of these islands were in a state of fear ful distress, and he greatly feared that there was but very little probability of amelioration. He was firmly persuaded that these evils were mainly owing to the unwise and pre posterous regulations which disfigured the commercial code of this country, and most especially to that most mischievous of all laws, which forbade the introduction into this country of food for the people. Since the death of the late Mr. Huskisson, little or nothing had been done to improve our commercial regulations. We ought not. however, to blame her Majesty's ministers for the tardiness with which they had brought forward this measure, for they had a large ma jority against them in one branch of the legislature, and in the other had to contend with the feeble, languid, and un certain support which the liberal population had afforded them. They had, nevertheless, at length brought forward some measures of commercial reform, which entitled them to the gratitude of all classes. The town of Liverpool would derive most important advantages in all respects from those measures. but what was his surprise and astonishment to find that the member for Liverpool had come for ward to take the lead in opposing those measures in the House of Commons ! As to the other member, he took no interest in the subject whatever. What were the grounds upon which Lord S , ndon had opposed the alteration in the sugar duties, an alteration than which none had been introduced for many years which would have so great an effect upon our prosperity ? Did he oppose it be cause it was not acknowledged upon all hands to be a most judicious and financial measure, because it did not affect the consumers of sugar throughout the country—and he (Mr. Hornby) begged the meeting to recollect that the consumers of sugar were the great mass of the people ? When he told them that during the past year the consumers of sugar had paid a tax exceeding four millions to the owners of colonial possessions, independently of a tax of equal amount to her majesty's treasury, he thought they would admit that this was a subject affecting all. It would also give employment to our manufacturing poor, which was to them happiness and comfort. What, then, had been the ground of Lord Sandon's opposition ? He had opposed it because it would promote the carrying on of the trade in slaves. He (Mr. Hornby) trusted there was no man in the country who held that traffic in greater abhorrence snd detestation than he did, and he was persuaded he was speaking the sentiments of every mem ber of that meeting, when he said that if a continuance of the present system, though he was persuaded it was destroy ing the foundations of the greatness of this country, would put an end to that nefarious practice, he, for one, would take all the disadvantages attendant upon it to obtain so glorious an object. No one knew better than Lord Sandon that our use of the sugar of Brazil did not affect that trade to any material de gree, while it increased the distress of the people of this country. The only way of putting an end to that trade worthy of this nation was boldly and manfully to declare any country, which allowed her colonies to:import slaves, our enemy ; and he would fearlessly say that we had never unsheathed the sword in a more holier or a more righteous cause, nor in one in which she would receive more enthusiastic support from the population. But no such arguments could be used against the proposed alteration of the corn-laws. The argument against an alteration was this, that if the people had cheap bread their wages would decline, in the same proportion. The argument was contrary to common sense; for it we im port foreign corn we must pay for it in the manufactures of this country, and he had yet to learn that a great demand for those manufactures had the effect of reducing wages. Mr. RATHBONE seconded the resolution, pronouncing the occasion which had brought the meeting together one of the utmost importance. Ministers had now done their duty ; would the people do theirs ? The people must turn the tories out, and then they would have honest representatives, but not till then. Look at our local representation—the liberals would not come forward to support their own principles. His friend, Mr. Hornby, had spoken of Lord Sandon as the mem ber for Liverpool, but he had made a great mistake. He was not the member for Liverpool, but the member for the West India interest, and for that alone. The West Indians had claimed the noble lord as their own, and they were wel come to him. The speaker then ridiculed the idea of hu manity being the motive for the resolution proposed by the noble lord, and concluded by a strong call upon the meeting to support the present administration. The Rev. Mr. GILES, a Baptist minister, said he supported the motion, not as a political agitator, but as a philanthro pist, a patriot, a Christian, and a Christian minister. In the name of each of these he said to the meeting " Away with the accursed corn laws." The motion was then carried. Mr. LAWRENCE HEY WORTH, in the absence of Mr. T. Blackburn, moved the second resolution in a very long speech. The resolution declared that the opening of the trade in corn would be found alike beneficialto the merchant, the manufacturer, the shipowner, the shopkeeper, and the labouring classes of the kingdom. The burthen of Mr. Hey - worth's remarks was that dear bread operated two ways, in cutting down the prices of goods, and in lessening the demand for them. Mr. W. Woon seconded the resolution at considerable length. BERNARD MACARTNEY, a working man, here came for ward and said, he wished to move an amendment. The CHAIRMAN said he should be heard, but first he should like to know the nature of the amendment. MACARTNEY said it was to call upon the meeting to ex press its opinion in favour of universal suffrage, rather than in favour of the ministerial plan for modifying the corn laws. The CHAIRMAN said he would put an end to this in a mo ment. They were not met to discuss the neglect of universal suffrage. (Much uproar.) It had no reference to the mat ter under consideration ; and, therefore, he should proceed to put the motion. (Cheers.) MACARTNEY claimed to be heard as an inhabitant. The CHAIRMAN. — SiIence, sir, I will not allow you to speak ; and if you attempt any further I will have you turned out by the police. This threat had its effect ; and Macartney retired amidst ,great uproar. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and it was of course carried. After declaring it, he said—l think it but just to myself and this public meeting to say, that I never upon any occasion was afraid of fair and full discussion upon this and every other subject; but when a meeting is called for a particular purpose, and when a set of men, miscreants as they are—(loud cheers)—come here to endeavour to mis lead you, and to destroy the best interests of the people—l think, I say, it is but just we should mark our disapproba tion and displeasure of those men, not upon this only but upon every occasion. (Cheers, and a cry, " They have sold themselves to the tories.") I believe them to be men paid by your worst enemies, the tories. (Loud cheers.) Leave them, gentlemen, to that merited contempt which you have shewn them, and which they so richly deserve. (Cheers.) Mr. WM. BROWN, highly eulogized the efforts of Lord Melbourne ! Lord Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, and Earl Fitawilliam, in this question, and at his request three cheers were given to them. The resolution he moved, said the inte rests of the landholders were identified with and consequent upon the prosperity of the the manufacturing and com mercial classes, and the meeting confidently anticipated the commencement of sound principles of legislation, on the subject of corn, would benefit them in common with all other classes. Mr. CHARLES HOLLAND, in a fluent speech, full of the usual free trade doctrine, and liberal sentiments, seconded the resolution. Mr. AMBLER, an operative, supported the resolution, after which it was carried. Mr. JAMES HARVEY moved, and Mr. HENRY ROMMILLY seconded the last resolution which was to the effect, that the principles of free trade avowed by the ministers and their declaration of legislating for the welfare of the bulk of the people, in opposition to any class interested, were deserving of cordial support. The meeting then separated. THE SIREN FROM MONTE VIDEO.-By this vessel, T. S. Hood, Esq., H.B.M. consul at Monte Video, has arrived at this port. Booxs.—Bibliopolists have now an opportunity of making some valuable additions to their libraries, from the collec tions of Mr. Foster and the Dean of St. Patrick's, which have been purchased by Mr. Rees, of Leece-street. LAUNCH OF AN IRON STEAM -VESSEL.—A beautiful iron steam-vessel, of about 200 tons measurement, was launched last Thursday from Mr. John Laird's building-yard, North Birkenhead. She was named the " Lady Flora Hastings," and is intended, we understand, for Demerara. Her engines are now putting on board by Messrs. Fawcett and Co., and she will, it is expected, be very soon ready to sail for the West Indies. _ _ _ DEATH BY SCALDING.—On Monday week a little boy named John Smith, resid in g in Mid g all-st reet , was severely scalded by the overturning of a sauce p an of boiling water. lie was alone when the accident happened. He lingered in great torment till Thursday last, when he died. THE PRESIDENT.—As we stated in our last, the latest ar rival from the West Indies makes no mention of this unfor tunate vessel, but the accounts only reach to the 4th April, twenty days after the cessation of the storm, an interval too short to allow her, if much crippled, to reach the nearest island. The next packet from the West Indies may be ex pected to bring intelligence which will be decisive as to the fate of this ill-fated steamer. Two IMPRUDENT MEN. —Mary Ann Brierley, a disso lute female, was, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having robbed Benjamin Milner. It appeared, that Milner and John Williams, one of his shipmates, were, an Friday last, paid off from the Gulnare. On Friday night, about half-past twelve, they met the prisoner and another woman near the Custom-house. The four adjourned to a house in North-stroet, where, in the course of the ni g ht, a Milner was robb e d of sovereign and his comrade of three half-crowns. Constable Lynch was called, and he took the Prisoner into custody, it appearin ,, that the other gir l had nothing to do with t h e robbery. 'A sovereign was found in the prisoner's possession. She denied the charge, and was committed for trial. WEST INDIA INTEREST.—A great meeting of planters, merchants, and others interested in the British West India colonies, was held in London on Wednesday. Stronr , reso lutions were adopt e d aga i nst the proposed reductioil o b i' duty in foreign sugars. THE DEAN or YOR.E.—On Thursday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Sir W. Follett applied for a rule calling upon the Archbishop of York, and his commissary, Dr. Phillimore, to show cause why a writ should not issue to prohibit the effectuation of a certain sentence which had been delivered by the commissaary and archbishop in the course of some proceedings which had lately taken place in the Cathedral of York. The court granted the rule. LIVERPOOL QUARTER SESSIONS. The Quarter Sessions of the Peace for this borough com menced yesterday, in the Court-house, before JAs. CLARKE, Esq., Recorder. The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury : RICIID. MOON, Esq., Tithebarn-street, merchant, Foreman. Wm. Alexander Brown, Grecian-terrace, merchant. Daniel Buchanan, Northumberland-terrace, broker. James Bateson, Shaw-street, broker. Thomas Brown, Netherfield-road South, broker. Robert Lewin Bolton, Gambier-terrace, merchant. Richard Bryans, jun., North John-street, merchant. Thomas France Bennett, Lodge-lane, agent. George Wm. Boyde, Stanhope-street, corn merchant. John Bibby, Springfield-street, merchant. John Wilson Carter, Erskine-street, corn merchant. Christopher James Corbally, Falkner-street, merchant. Woodhouse Crompton, Mill-street, merchant. Hugh Craig, Percy-street, merchant. James Judson, Monument-place. John Marriott, Beechby, cotton broker. Thomas M`Teer, Chatham-street, merchant. Francis Maxwell, Fenwick-street, corn merchant. John Rowlinson, High Park-street, broker. William Joseph Myers, Aigburth, merchant. Israel Barned, Rodney-street, banker. William Blain, Beech-hill, corn merchant. The CLERK of the PEACE having read the royal proclama tion against vice, profaneness, and immorality, The RECORDER proceeded to deliver the charge to the grand jury. He was happy to inform them, upon looking over the depositions in the various cases, that they would not find them encumbered with difficulty. There was one case, in which William Williams and Patrick Roach were in dicted for having stolen a quantity of wheat. On looking over the depositions he (the learned Recorder) was not satisfied that there would be sufficient evidence to justify them in finding a bill against Roach, nevertheless that was a point entirely for their consideration. He should allude to another case, which, though free from difficulty, was accompanied with many circumstances which were quite alarming. It was against a woman named Agnes Weir, who was indicted for stealing a large quan tity of books and paper, some of which belonged to Mes srs . Moss, the bankers, and others to an attorney. The priso ner , it appeared, was placed in a confidential situation with these parties, and she had, in a most abandoned way, got hold of most valuable papers and books without limit, and sold them as waste paper. Many of these papers were valuable docu ments, and vouchers of the very last importance. He men tioned this to show how particularly oareful merchants and others should be as to whom they admitted into their offices and counting-houses at an early hour in the morning. In another case, a man named Tempest, an attorney's clerk, had stolen away volume after volume of books, and having taken them to grocers and chandlers, sold them there as waste paper. These cases were pregnant with mischief, and they showed how dangerous it was to allow people an unli mited range over premises without check. The learned gen tleman then alluded to the fact that many of the prisoners came out of gaol quite indifferent as to the punishment they had received, and immediately returned to their old prac tices. We had the benefit of a very excellent police, and when that police was established, he expected crime would have decreased ; but crime had not decreased. The police, however, were not to blame, nor were magistrates or judges to blame in their administration of the law. The difficulty arose from there having been no secondary punishment yet found out to deter crime. Capital punishments were done away with, transportation was become very difficult, government, for some reason or other, checking it as much as possible, and consequently they were driven to imprisonment. But imprisonment merely, unless it was combined with something else, would not check crime. In dustry in the gaol was unfortunately very imperfect, and a state of idleness, of all others, was found to encourage crime. The learned recorder then commented upon the heavy bur dens which frequent prosecutions of the same persons imposed upon the country, and attributed them to the ab sence of some mode of secondary punishment, yet undisco vered, capable .of producing reformation. He quoted Sir Matthew Hale to show that the same evil existed in his day, and trusted the jury would not consider these remarks improperly introduced. He saw no remedy for the increase of crime, but the adoption of some judicious and effective mode of secondary punishment. Indeed, if the past system prevailed, of regularly going in and out of gaol, the burdens of the country would be increased, and crime not diminished in the least. The Grand Jury were then dismissed to their labours. SHOP LIFTING Elizabeth Morgan and Mary Forshaw wae charged with taking two pieces of print from a shop. They both pleaded guilty. The case was one of common shop-lifting. The pri soners were young girls. They were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. STEALING HAIR James Murphy was indicted for having stolen Ms. of hair, in a bag, the property of Thomas Thornely, a man who kept a marine store in Addison-street. He had afterwards sold the hair for 9s. The case was altogether uninteresting. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. THEFT FROM A CAR Thomas Waterson was indicted for stealing, on the 10th April, a top coat from a car, the alleged property of William Fletcher, the driver. The case was pretty fully reported in our paper at the time. The prosecutor had taken a fare into Dickenson-street, Pitt-street, and had alighted to get his money, when the prisoner (a youth) and a man who was with him were seen loitering round the car. One of them at length took the coat from the dickey. On being pursued he handed it to the other, and escaped himself. The prisoner afterwards dropped the coat. He was ably defended by Mr. Venables, who elicited from him that the coat was not his own property, as alleged in the indictment, but belonged to his brother-in-law, by whom it had been lent to him (the prosecutor) for a fortnight. This Mr. Venables submitted was fatal to the prosecution, but the Recorder ruled other wise. Mr. VENABLES, in continuing his cross-examination, ob tained the admission from the prosecutor, that the prisoner's father had last week left a sovereign at his (the prosecutor's) house, to pay for the coat ; and that the money was kept for some days before it was returned. He submitted that the receiving and detaining the money constituted a sale of the coat. The witness, however, stated that the money was put on the table, that it was immediately handed back to the prisoner's father, who would not take it ; but it was returned him afterwards, and he received it. The prisoner was found guilty.—Mr. Venables said, in mitigation, that he had learned that the prisoner had not before been tried. It ap peared, however, that he had been committed, and that he did not bear a good character. He was sentenced to four month's imprisonment, and hard labour. STEALING SACK& John Morgan, a carter, was charged with stealing, on the 6th instant, several corn sacks, the property of Messrs. T. and W. Woodward, corn merchants. He afterwards offered them for sale at a marine store dealer's, who would not buy them. They were taken (to the number of twenty) from a number of bags sent to the quay to be used in discharging beans from the Kendal Castle, and were all marked with the names of the owners. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoner being found guilty, was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four calendar months. STRIPFING A CHILD Mary Connolly pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with having stripped a child of its clothing. The Re corder remarked on the heinousness of the offence of strip ping a child, and leaving it helpless in the street. He sen tenced her to twelve month's imprisonment and hard labour. STEALING STUFF GOODS FROM A WAREHOUSE John Mitchell stood indicted for having broken into the warehouse of Messrs. Tyrer and Co. on the 20th March last, and stolen therefrom a piece of stuff goods, their pro perty. The case was detailed when the prisoner was exa mined before the police magistrate. Three pieces of goods were taken, but only one was traced to the prisoner, who had been seen near the premises at the time of the robbery. He was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' transpor tation beyond the seas. STEALING SPADES FROM A WAREHOUSE Edward Williams was indicted for having stolen, on the 27th of March, three spades, the property of W. M`Murdo Duncan and another, of Cooper's-row, and - Ritchie for receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. Williams had been for some years in the employ of Messrs. Duncan and Co., as warehouseman, and it appeared had before borne a good character, he having once found a ring on the premises, which he restored to his employers. Rit chie kept a hardware-shop, and dealt in second-hand as well as new articles. Williams had charge of the cellar where si milar spades were kept, and five of which were missed. He was seen carrying three spades, which he took to Ritchie's shop, who admitted to the police-officer that he had bought them for 3s. There appeared to be no concealment on the part of Ritchie, the spades being placed in front of the counter, and an entry made of the name of " Williams," as the vendor. The evidence against Williams was, lvwever, conclusive. The recorder was of opinion that there were doubts as to Ritchie's guilty knowledge, as he made no con cealment, and Williams at the time bore a good character. The jury, after consulting for some time, returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners, but recommended Ritchie to the merciful consideration of the court. Mr. Venables wished to call witnesses to Williams's character, but the recorder said that it was admitted that he had borne a good character; but it was a serious affair for a servant to rob an employer. He deferred passing sentence. STEALING MANURE. Edward Much was tried and convicted on a charge of having stolen a quantity of manure from Mr. Samuel Bar row, Jordan-street. The prisoner loaded a cart belonging to Mr. Owen, of West Derby, with the manure, and received from Mr. Owen's carter 13s in payment for it. He had no authority to take it, and was unknown to Mr. Barrow. There was a previous conviction for a similar offence, and he was sen tenced to be imprisoned for 12 months and kept to hard labour. THEFT OF TALLOW William Sillitoe and John Porter were indicted for steal ing 401bs. of fat from a butcher. The prosecutor had missed some fat from time to time, and coloured a quantity of the same article with ink, covering the coloured part so that the ink might not show. The bait took, and the material was found in the possession of the delinquents. The pro secutor, Mr. Vessey, had occasionally employed the pri soners, and spoke rather favourably of their former character. They were consigned to 4 month's imprisonment and hard labour, with an admonition to get into some honest way of living, when they were released. STEALING BEEF. A little boy, named Luke Connell, pleaded guilty to steal ing from a stall 41bs. of beef. It appeared that he was tempted by hunger. He was committed for 12 months to prison and hard labour, and the recorder intimated that his education should be attended to. AN INCORRIGIBTE YOUTH A genteel looking young mar., named Fitzcharles, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a quantity of silk cloths from his master. He had previously been convicted at Lancaster. and was there imprisoned. His conduct in that gaol was exemplary, and through the governor had obtained a good situation ; but had again resorted to his former prac tice. The recorder, who stated the fact, said that he had shown so bad a disposition that he bad no hope of his being reclaimed in this country, and sentenced him to be trans ported for ten years. THE CALENDAR.—The calendar contains the names of 90 persons for trial on charges of felony, and 13 on charges of misdemeanour ; total 103. Of this number, viewed with regard to education, there are only three who are able to read and write well, whilst the very large proportion of 31 have never been taught either; and 60 can read and write imperfectly. SERIOU S Loss OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. — During the gale of Wednesday last, no less than eleven boats laden with sea-weed, bound for this port, from Connemara, were lost, and report says, the lives lost were fifteen. —Galway Ad vertiser. It will be seen that the Bishop of Sodor and Man, a brother of the Lord Chancellor, has been translated to the see of Worcester. The annual value of the bishopric was formerly estimated at £6,500 up on an average o f years , but it has since been fixed by statute at £5,000, and it possesses, be sides, the patronage of 17 livings, some of which, as Ripple and Hartlebury, are of great value. SENDING NEWSPAPER S BY P OST. —Th e pos t m aster of Lerwick, in Shetland, says, " I had o c cas ion to return as ma ny as from thirty to forfy new s p a p ers a t a time to the dead letter office,' without any covers whatever ; I would recommend that addresses of all papers be written on the p a pers themselves." — [This is a very w i se suggestion ; but if the newspapers were " without any co vers " we should like to know how they happened to get to Shetland ?] THE SUGAR DUTIES. A FEW THOUGHTS ON LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THURSDAY NIGHT (From our London Correspondent.), In the commencement of his oration, his lordship alluded very feelingly to the mistaken views with respect to.the cha racters! of himself and his colleagues, which had led the public to suppose that the unsettling of the colonial and agricultural interests of the country had been resorted to, " on the spur of the moment," during the bitterness of their defeat upon Lord Morpeth's bill, and to the difficulties un der which he laboured in having no " clubs," no " great merchants combined and associated with their subscriptions," nobody, in fact, but the great mass of the people, to assist them in unsettling those interests. After a somewhat lengthy detail of the causes, or rather the alleged causes of the present financial position of the country, and the consequent necessitous condition of the go vernment, his lordship approached at length the real question before the house—or rather that which was about to be brought before it by Lord Sandon's motion—viz., the pro priety of admitting slave-grown sugar to compete with the produce of free labour in our own colonies ; and attempted to persuade the house that such a competition would have an amazingly beneficial effect upon those colonies—that it would introduce " improved methods of culture" into our plantations, and " stimulate to exertion and energy" their indolent proprietors. Having completed a short treatise upon free trade and its advantages, his lordship next dilated upon the gratifying success of the emancipation measure, and contended that, having converted our various West India colonies into so many black paradises, in which ebony ladies and gentlemen sate " each under their own fig tree ;" having done " every thing which humanity could suggest, and ge nerous legislation adopt, for the welfare of the people of the West Indian Islands," the house ought here to stop, and to withdraw any further exclusive protection from the produce of those islands. Let us pause for a moment, and ask if it really can be the fact that the people of England have paid twenty millions sterling merely to liberate from slavery the existing popula tion of our West Indian colonies, as the little mind of Lord John appears to suppose. I have always thought that in the success of the emancipation measure—nay, that in the pros perity of our colonies under the operation of that measure— was involved the future happiness and the liberty of the whole African race ! I know that there are thousands— millions I may say—in Great Britain, who have looked to the result of that noble experiment as one which was to de monstrate to the world that the products of the tropics could be raised free from the touch of blood—that, by fostering in its infancy that experiment, the abominable traffic in human flesh might ultimately be rendered unprofitable and be put an end to. But such it appears are not the views of her ma jesty's present ministers. No such enlarged notions enter into their philosophy; and although no later than upon the first of April last. I remember hearing the guns from St. James's-park announcing the sailing of an expedition for the purpose of civilizing and Christianizing unhappy Africa—at an expense of £70,000.; yet upon the 7th of May, we are gravely assured that the people of that land are no charge of ours—that the Brazilian, the Spanish and the Portuguese slavers are to be stimulated to plunge deeper in blood, to wanton more recklessly in murder, in order that a whig ministry may patch up a Budget, and an English " liberal" save a halfpenny a pound in the price of his sugar. Mem bers of anti-slavery societies—hide your heads, if this small ministry be one of your oracles ! I will not follow Lord John through the remainder of his shuffling and artful harangue, but merely refer to two topics introduced into it. Lord John claims for the whig party the exclusive credit of every past effort for the abolition of slavery. I will not here attempt to controvert his lordship's position, which was assumed in order to prove that the mo tion of Lord Sandon was a factious party motion (I) ; I will not deny to the ministry of Earl Grey the credit of having originated and having passed a measure of emancipation, of which a compensation of 20 millions was a distinguishing feature, or to that of Lord Melbourne of having attempted to make the grant of that 20 millions an act of wanton ex travagance, by defeating the great object to effect which it was willingly paid by the British people. But I will just suggest to his lordship whether his present course is not a little calculated to strengthen the opinion, which some par ties have not scrupled to express, that the exuberant philan thropy of whig statesmen has been heightened, if not entirely created, by a feeling of antipathy towards the West Indian body. Such a suspicion is, at least, very natural ; and it would be only politic in his lordship, before indulging again in highflown panegyrics upon the exclusive humanity of his party towards the negro race, to examine his own heart, and ascertain whether that feeling has not all along been debased with a dirty admixture of reptile spite against those " clubs and colonial interests," which have ever been so prompt in exposing the frauds, the trickeries, and the im becility of whig statesmen, and at the same time, through good and ill treatment, so loyal to the throne and to the constitution of Great Britain. But let me come to the conclusion of his lordship's dis play, and here I must be allowed to quote his lordship's pre cise words. " I believe," said his lordship, " that not only with regard to the Brazils and the United States, but with regard to the continent of Europe, the example we are now about to give will be of the utmost importance." And what is that example? what is about to become the position of this great country in the eyes of the world ? Why this : that we, a nation of philanthropists, who have claimed and exer cised the right of interfering with every nation to put down slavery ; whose cruisers, armed and manned for that purpose, sweep every sea ; who have expended for the promotion of that object millions of treasure—sacrificed thousands of the lives of our fellow-subjects amongst the swamps and plains of Fernando Po and Sierra Leone ; we, who but yesterday, with a flourish and a swagger, paid down twenty millions sterling to be enabled to stand up and declare to the world that our dominions contained not one enslaved human being, —have " flinched," to use the appropriate words of Lord Sandon, " under the very first pressure of inconvenience," from our boasted professions, and amidst the contempt and laughter of the world are " returning like dogs to their vomit"—are returnine to nestle beneath the black shadow of slavery —to mingle our daily food with blood—for the mise rable consolation of saving the fraction of a penny—a frac tion of that dirty god of the idolatry of whig statesmanship ! Yes, Lord John, we are about to furnish an example of im portance to the world ; but I do trust that it will be an example more worthy of us than that to which your small mind points. I trust that we are about to furnish an exam ple of a people who not only glory in their own freedom, but who, so far as human means and example can effect such an object, are resolved that the same freedom shall be extended over every nation of the globe, until the day shall come when the sun shall not shine upon one human being who is branded with the mark of slavery. By interlarding his speech throughout with clap-trap and forced positions—such as that which assumes that because we cannot exclude all slave products we ought not to seek to exclude any—by merging the immediate and special question before him in the general one of free trade, Lord John con trived to elicit something like enthusiasm, of a very cold na ture, however, in the minds of his party, in the midst of which he sate down with about the same expression of dignified self-complacency which one might expect from the very smallest of the Roman geese after having saved the capitol. AN APOSTOLIC LEGEND OF THE 19th CENTURY Upon a certain day, in the season of " merry Christmas," in a certain locality within our good old town, four reverend bachelors sate down to refresh themselves, after the labours of the confessional, with supper. Of what " mortifying" fare that meal consisted we do not think it worth while to specify. It is sufficient forour purpose to relate that, what ever might be the edibles, they were sufficient to form a sub stratum for an after-course of hot whiskey punch—a liquid, under the generous influence of which the most strict ascetic is speedily warmed into the exhibition of human feeling, and the most rigid saint lays aside for awhile his celestial attri butes, and becomes a mere mortal—a laughing, rosy being, full of the milk of human kindness, mixed up with the usual portion of human frailty, from which bachelor priests, not withstanding their direct succession from the apostles, are not exempt. We have no wish to chronicle the sayings —devout, no doubt—during the progress of the reverend quatrain of their jollification. Priests are but mortals after all; and bachelor priests especially have in all ages, from the time of Friar Tuck to the present day, been disposed, like the ancient philosopher, " Not to let the glass go round the board like a cripple, But gaily to chat, whilst discussing their tipple." Whether the superior merits of Mary, the cook, or of Betty, the housemaid, had, amongst other subjects, been brought upon the carpet, during the " sederunt," we know not ; but certain it is that before the worthy fathers retired to their rest, their kindliness and supereminent charity was evinced by dispatching two brimming tumblers of undeniably rare punch, compounded by apostolic hands, into the kitchen, to comfort and nourish the stomachs of these worthy damsels and their gossips, after which meritorious action our " ba chelors" retired to repose. Meanwhile, in the kitchen below the mirth " waxed fast and furious;" and, inspired by the right apostolic liquid, the maids were speedily " O'er all the ills of life victorious," and, as is usual in such cases, a little noisy —so much so, in fact, as to disturb the slumbers of one of the fattest of the fathers, who, on listening attentively, was enabled to overhear the delightful strains of " Jump Jim Crow," delightfully warbled with a " jumping accompaniment," amidst peals of female laughter, by the mellifluous voice of Mary, the cook. For a while his fat reverence lay and listened ; but at length an inclination seized him to look too. " It was the witching time of night when spirits walk ;" and Father thought that he too might walk—down stairs to witness the scene of jollity which was enacting in the kitchen. But what a scene it was which presented itself to shock the eyes of his bachelor reverence! Into the black " unmentionables" of one of his reverend brethren, (by what means procured we know not,) the rosy cheeked cook, had contrived to insinuate her lower extremities, and, thus attired, was busy performing a saraband for her delighted compa titans ; and, as she " wheeled about, and turned about, and jumped," as nothing human in those priestly garments ever jumped before, his reverence contrived to creep up stairs again and to wake, his three reverend companions, for the holy object, no doubt, of assisting him to " exorcise" the said unmentionables, and lay the demon which had crept into them in the Red Sea. Almost instanter the whole four were up and dressed ; and dire was the dismay when they broke in together upon the revel in the kitchen. In vain the sacrilegious cook strove to escape,—into the scullery, into the passage, into the washhouse,—in vain she endeavoured to " shuffle off the coil" of broad-cloth which encased her lower extremities. The fathers were too many for her. She was dragged back to the scene of her merry exploits ; and compelled, whilst blushing " celestial rosy red—cook's proper hue," to per form by way of penance the Jim Crow movement, in the pre sence and for the edification of the apostolicals themselves. The scene we will not attempt to describe. We can neither do justice to the agonizing laughter of his fat reverence who first witnessed the performance, nor of his reverend breth ren; and we shall not at present disclose whether at St. Anthony's or at Copperas-hill the unfortunate unmentiona bles, which were subsequently exorcised in due form, are now religiously preserved for the inspection of the faithful. It is sufficient for us to state the simple facts, which we know; and we willingly leave to the future chronicler of this legend to supply the details, the names of the actors, &c., after the true, orthodox fashion. Perhaps Father Matthew may be induced to try his hand upon it—or Dr. Butler can lug it into his next lecture at St. Anthony's, if his reverence Father is not of opinion that with respect to the little escapade of his cook and his unmentionables the least said may be the soonest mended. THE FINE ARTS Amongst the sales by auction which are announced else where, there are two, of paintings, deserving of notice from us, and though it is something unusual to find attention in vited to such advertisements, we do so in this instance from a wish that out friends may avail themselves of an opportu nity, if not of purchasing, at any rate of inspecting, the works of art about to be offered for public competition. The first sale to which notice is drawn, will be by Mr. Winstanley on Monday next, and will consist of about 30 paintings by the late Rev. John Thomson, of Duddingstone, an artist of sin gular merit and rare talent. His style is bold, vigorous and original—his colouring brilliant—his lights pure and trans parent—and his shadows massive and highly effective. There is a warmth and glow about his works that can only proceed from a pencil of genius, and a fidelity and truth to nature that a close observer can only impart to the canvas. As years pass away, Mr. Thomson's pictures will each year be come still more valuable than at present, and as they grow scarce will be still more prized. To the collector this sale will prove highly interesting, as the pictures coming directly from the study of the artist have the stamp of character thrown over them, upon which no shadow of doubt can rest. Amongst the pictures are many favourite ones of the late lamented and most talented artist; so rare an opportunity we feel confident will not be lost by the amateurs of this town to inspect works of such high standing in modern art, or by purchasers to enrich their collections. We shall notice them at length on Friday next. The other sale to which we draw attention takes place to-morrow, (Wednesday), and has been intrusted to Mr. Hodgson. In this collection arc many very fine works of art, by the old and modern masters. They are now exhibiting at the Adelphi Hotel. As we cannot notice all, we shall particularize a few which struck us as being highly meritorious. No. I,—sketch by Allen, very clever ; 2,—by George Morland, very clever ; 4,—fine portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, an early effort; 9,—Breemberg, an imitation of Polemberg ; 15,—Juvenile Recruiting Party, a fine picture ; 2,—Richard Wilson, a Landscape, boldly painted and rich in colouring ; 29,—Vanden Bosch, The Water Doctor, equal to Gerard Dow; 22,—Westall, Satan, Sin and Death. This is one of Westall's early works, before he adopted that stiffness which pervades all his later produc tions. 31,—Claude Lorraine Smith, Landscape & Figures, a charming picture by this clever artist, reminding us of Both, Wilson, and Claude. This painting has a calmness and per fect serenity thrown over it, and may be considered a good specimen of the artist. 45,—A fine Battle Piece, by Wou vermans, painted in a bold and masterly style, remarkable for breadth and vigour of design. 69,—A View of the City of Hertford, by Constable, a very clever and pleasing picture, with most happy effect. 73,—The Faithless Rib, by Hogarth, one of this great artist's witty but immodest paintings. 76, —A Female Watching a Ship at Sea, by Liverseege, a clever picture : the sky and distance are very fine. 84,—The Na tivity, by Leonardo da Vinci, a fine cabinet picture by this master. Leonardo's women and children are all delightfully painted, they have great sweetness and expression. This picture is very pure and has been kept with great care ; the colours are as brilliant as when laid on. 85,—The Ancient Compidoglio. This is a rare, most curious and ingenious work, being composed of inlaid wood ; it has all the effect of light and depth of shade of a painted picture. 100,—The Pea Cart, by Wheatley. A capital picture—beautifully painted, full of expression and interest, equal to Mar/mid in closeness to nature. 104,—The Bridge of St. Angelo, by Canaletti. A very fine picture. There is another remarkable work by this artist, but different in subject and matter. 103,—A Picture of a Ball and Masquerade. 107,—The Rape of Europa, by Boucher. This is a very remarkable and at the same time beautiful painting, admirable in drawing, capital in design, and most excellently and sweetly coloured. 111,—SirJoshua - Reynolds, a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Garrick. This is a curious relic of modern art : to any collector of histrionic portraits it will be invaluable. 116,—The Marriage of St. Catherine, by Alonzo Cano, a magnificent picture—wonder fully painted—admirably coloured, and vigorous in design. The composition of this picture is most masterly, the lights being dispersed throughout in a wonderful manner. Besides these are works by Murillo, Luini, Titian, the Caracci, Ruben:, Vandycke, Both, Cuyp, Vandevelde, Wynants, and Greuze : several very clever paintings by Sir Thomas Law rence, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others—a very curious painting by Zucchero, is marked 52, and one 30, a Portrai t of Admiral Rooke, by Sir G. Kneller, deserves attention. ROBERTS' SKETCHES IN THE HOLY LAND.—The original sketches made by Mr. Roberts during his visit to the Holy Land are now exhibiting in Mr. Lacey's room, in Bold street. They are 110 in number, and we may pronounce them the most interesting collection we ever saw congregated. In viewing them the memory wanders to the Jewish his tory, to the tales of the Crusades, and all those various cir cumstances so prominent in the history of mankind. Here we see the remains of a temple erected a thousand years ago; there a figure so colossal, that it is hardly possible to believe human hands could have sculptured it : there the fallen co lumn—here the time-battered and decaying portico, erected with such beauty of proportion, elegance, and taste, that we cannot fail to admire the race of men who could imagine and build such edifices and noble works. Views of Mount Sinai recal to our minds the solemn commandments—Mount Horeb the burning bush. Next views in Edom attract our attention, with all the remarkable prophecies connected therewith, many of which are fearfully fulfilled, many of which are being daily worked out, while others have yet to come to pass. Look at the ruined Edom : is not the pro phecy of Ezekiel fulfilled? " I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate. I will lay thy cities waste." Who can regard its ruined temples, tri umphal arches, and dwellings cut out of the face of the rock, mouldering and decaying, without reflecting that a voice bath said, " I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will make it desolate from Teman." What wonderful works must not those of Petrea have been! What a state of luxury must not its indwellers have arrived at ! If archi tecture was in such an advanced state, is it not reasonable to conclude that all the other arts and refinements were equally approaching to perfection ? Then come views of the Holy Land. Here is the Dead Sea, remarkable indeed in the Sacred history. Next we see a view of Bethlehem, to good and well-directed minds a place replete with interest, and holy awakenings of thought. Here is a view of Gaza, the gates of which Sampson carried away. Next we find views of Jerusalem, both within and without the walls, all most deeply interesting, and all bringing pious recollections : Jerusalem from the road leading to Bethany ; Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives—a beautiful and highly-interesting sketch; the Pool of Bethesda : the Holy Sepulchre ; the Vale of Jehosaphat ; and Mount Calvary. In view 57 we have a view of St. Jean d'Acre, recalling thoughts of the lion hearted Richard, the valiant Saladin, and warriors of every age, down to Sir Sydney Smith and Napier at the present day. Then comes before us ancient Tyre, and next Sidon. How interesting thi s must be by late occurrences we need hardly tell. Baalbec next attracts attention ; how wonderful are all the temples in this place ! how massive, and yet how beautiful in proportion and design ! in fact, look around where we will, this collection is one of the most remarkable ever exhibited. There is not a single view presented to our notice that does not invite our attention, and make us wish for its history. Th e s k e t c h es for our books to search d ee p are dashed off with a masterly hand, and are capitally drawn : the effect in many of them is really wonderful. We shall return to this exhibition shortly ; in the meantime recom mending our friends to visit it, feeling assured that they will be highly delighted. These sketches are about to be litho graphed, indeed many of them are now in course of publica tion. It has just struck us that a most instructive, delight ful, and interesting course of lectures might be delivered upon the subject of the Holy Land, illustrated by these sketches, which might be drawn on canvas and exhibited as transparencies. It is understood that the situation of Surveyor General of of the Ordnance, vacant by the death of Sir Rufane Donkin will be filled up by the appointment of Colonel Fox, at pre sent Secretary to the Master General of the Ordnance. NEW RAILWAY CARRIAGES. —Henry Houldsworth, Esq., of Manchester, has taken out a patent for railway carriages, which are intended to combine the pleasantness of an open with the comforts of a closed carriage. The object is accom plished or net, of a texture suffi plished by covering the carria . ge, either wholly or in part, with metallic wire gauze, ciently close to break the force of the wind, an d d estroy the violence of the currents produced by rapid motion through it; and also to impede the entrance of the particles of coke dust emitted by the locomotive engine chimney, and yet not materially to obstruct the view of external objects. The wire gauze recommended is of copper wires, 1-100th of an inch in diameter, woven with about 30 wires to the inch. LITERARY NOTICES. The Excellent Properties of Salted Brandy. By the Rev Samuel Fenton, A. M. Liverpool : Lace and Addison p.p. 40 The discovery of the excellent and very remarkable quali ties of brandy and salt, has given rise to many pamphlets, most of which have engrossed public attention. Of these we may at once pronounce the present little work to be the cheapest and the best. It enters into the merits of the medi cine, and details very fully the cases to which it may be ap plied.—The price of the pamphlet (sixpence) puts into the power of all to purchase if they feel any anxiety or curiosity about the matter. As a specimen of typography we can commend Mr. Fenton's work : it is neat, correct, and taste fully got up. The following are the cases mentioned which the medicine has been known to cure :—lnflammation--Open Sores—Bruises — Sprains—lndurated Tumors—Paralysis— Rheumatism—Erysipelas —Jaundice Indigestion—Heart burn—Spasms--Palpitation of the Heart—Nettle-rash—Fits, Hysteric or Epileptic — Dysentery—Asthma—Cholera Mor bus—Cancer—Chilb/ains—Ringworm—Atrophy, or Wasting away of the Body—Toothache—Sore Throat—Piles—Pul monory Consumption—Liver Complaint—Ureter, affection of — Diabetes—Colds—Coughs —Sickness at Stomach—Scro fula. There is also an able preface, a letter from Mr. Lee, who claims the merit of the invention, and an attempt to ac count for the universality of the effect of salted brandy as a remedy—its probable effects—directions for making it—how to use it—and finally, its applicability to the disorders of the brute creation. Dublin University Magazine, The number for this month contains a portrait and sketch of Colonel Blacker, which affords good compensation for a late representation which, we fear, gave no small offence to a large body of the political admirers and patrons of this publication. Colonel Blacker is, in every sense of the word, a gentleman, and we are not the less pleased, with a faithful delineation of him, because he is an " Irish gentleman." His delineation has been faithfully executed by his limner as well of the pictorial as of the literary art, and is as perfect as such a thing could be, professing only to give a mere out line. Yet--we own—so much interest do we take in the subject—it leaves us unsatisfied, and desirous of having much more of one whose character and acquirements appear to be of so high an order, and so replete with excellence of various kinds. The articles in this month are numerous and diversified. The first is a review of Mr. Emerson Tennent's " Belgium," and contains much complimentary, but well-merited notice of that gentleman's labours both literary and political. Carle ton's " Barney Branagan" is brought to a close, and those who have taken an interest in the history of his adventures will be glad to find that his last misfortune—in the due order of poetical justice—was the making of him. " Charles O'Malley" rides on with his " long sword, saddle, bridle," the very beau ideal of an Irish dragoon, and no mistake ; nor have his " moving accidents by flood and field" lost any portion of their moving power. The " Apology for Har mony" is a sensible article, and contains many useful and truthful observations in favour of the cultivation of music, in which we entirely concur. " Dramatic Doings" are un questionably from life—and the author is, we believe, a well known Irish Earl—who has written some clever and success ful pieces for the stage. There are other articles of much in terest and importance, which we have not had time to dip into ; but we have examined enough to be able to say that the number is a particularly good one. The Divine Origin and Perpetual and Universal Obligation of Tithes. By a Clergyman of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Whyte and Co. 1841. pp. 23 and 610. The doctrine of tithes under the Christian dispensation we had fancied one of those untenable pretensions of Popery which the pure light of the Reformation had for ever ex ploded. The work before us has, however, supplied us with much information on the subject, with which we were pre viously unacquainted. From its pages we learn, that, in the opinion of the Jews, the duty of offering firstfruits and pay ing tithes was revealed to man at the outset of the world's history, antecedently to the sacrifices of Abel and Cain ; and that it was not only acknowledged by the patriarchs after the flood, but by all the heathen nations of antiquity. The author adopts the sentiments of some learned Protes- tant divines, and contends that as tithes had their origin prior to the Levitical dispensation, so they continue binding even under the more perfect economy which superseded it. Among the moral grounds on which an a priori argument for the perpetual observance of them is based, is the analo gous case of the Sabbath. It is contended that as God con secrated to himself a seventh portion of time, so he demands a tenth of income as an acknowledgment that it is from His gracious providence we receive whatsoever we possess. In illustration of this view, we might suggest to the author that even in Paradise there was among the trees of the garden one which the Sovereign Lord claimed for himself ; and that in granting man the use of animals for food, the blessed Giver did—at least till the diffusion of Christianity—with hold the blood as a sacred memorial of Him who provides our sustenance, and washed away our sins in his own blood. The objection that the New Testament does not expressly renew the command to pay tithes, is first answered by ano ther appeal to the case of the Sabbath, the observance of which is not there formally commanded, but only implied. Not content with this negative evidence, the author pursues his inquiry, and adduces from the pages of the New Testa ment several passages which favour his views, the strongest of which, we think, is the declaration in Hebrews, that our Lord is the antitype of Melchizedec, to whom it was that Abraham gave tithes, and Levi in him. There may be dif ferences of judgment on the important question thus brought under the notice of the Christian public. The almost unani mous voice of mankind, up till the thirteenth century of our era, declared . on the side espoused by our author. After that period the growing abuses of the Romish church, in the mal appropriation of tithes, induced a desire to throw off what came to be regarded as bnrdensome and disgustful, till at length the Reformation afforded an opportunity for spread ing, along with much wholesome truth, notions regarding tithes that may be found on examination to savour more of worldly wisdom than scriptural rectitude. Without assent ing to the doctrine that the duty of paying tithes is absolute and explicit, we are warranted to express our regret, that, with the light and liberty which were then introduced, suf ficiently deep and vivid impressions were not made, or per haps even sought to be made, as to the claims which a mer ciful God, the Divine Saviour, and a world lying in wicked ness, affectingly present on Christians who have themselves happily escaped from darkness, to devote at least as much to the cause of God as blinded heathens, or the yet benighted 1 Israelites. Rather, as our privileges are greater, so should our acts of gratitude exceed theirs. It appears to us that the work under review, if it fail to convince all who read it that tithes must be paid, will satisfy every candid mind which weighs its contents that they ought to be; and in this way we anticipate from its circulation in calculable good. If we mistake not, it will be the means of rousing the church of Christ to a profound sense of its sin in hitherto so long and grievously neglecting to " bring all the tithes into the storehouse," and " prove" God's faithfulness to his promise of pouring out " a blessing so great that there shall not be room enough to receive it." A great part of the volume is taken up with the author's views as to the benefits of re-adopting this primitive prac tice, and as to the light which the doctrine of tithes throws on the warrant, rights, and duties of an established church, and on the questions which now agitate the Church of Scot land. The author—a Presbyterian clergyman of a cultivated mind and refined taste—modestly withholds his name from the book, which is written in a most catholic spirit : indeed, the whole of it is pervaded by profound Christian candour and charity, and contains many suggestions which the pious of all denominations will do well to consider. We can find room for only one extract, . which we cheerfully insert, be cause it embodies sentiments which we well remember were declared with effect by Mr. M`Neile at last year's meeting of the Church Missionary Society in this place, the truth and importance of which are, we hope, daily more and more felt : " But still these are not the only duties incumbent on the established churches. To them, not less than to the church in the days of the apostles, has been given the command, " Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." This, then, is another duty equally incumbent on both churches, and which both ought to be equally forward to acknowledge and perform, th e one as g l ory i ng i n i ts apos tolical succession, the other as glorying in its apostolical con stitution. It were a noble spectacle, to behold both churches seeking to vindicate their respective claims to apostolical order, by their zeal to propagate the gospel throughout the world; by their sending forth missionaries to the remotest ends of the earth to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ. Where this evidence of id en tit y w ith th e primitive church is wanting ; where a church in its corporate capacity, is not recognising the obligation to make known the gospel to every creature, however bold it may be in its assertion of its apostolical order, it scarcely deserves the name of a Christian church ; at all events, it violates the condition on which the presence of Christ is promised to his church, for it is only as the church fulfils the command to preach the gospel to every creature, that the Saviour has said " Lo I am with you al ways, even to the end of the world." Whenever, then, this condition is violated by any c h urc h, it mus t weaken, if not altogether destroy, its claim to be regarded as a church of Christ. The chu rc h o f Ch r i st i s essen ti a lly evangelistic ; and it is only as it is active in disseminating the truth, that, in the highest and noblest sense of the term, it is entitled to be designated apostolical. What a reproach is it to both churches, both of which have been throughout so confident in their assertion of the scriptural character of their constitu tion, that the gospel should have been chiefly propagated, not by them, but by those who have dissented from them. What a reproach is it to the Church of England, that as yet, it has not as a church formed any scheme, or adopted any measures for the evangelization of the world ; and to the Church of Scotland, that it has only within these few years recognised its responsibility, and established a mission to the heathen. Both may indeed plead, that the societies for pro pagating Christian knowledg,e are church societies, but so little comparatively has been effected through their medium, as scarcely to weaken, and certainly not to remove the re proach." INTERNAL EVIDENCE.—In Zion's Banner, an American publication, we find the following beautiful lines : A man of subtle reasoning asked A peasant if he knew Where was the internal evidence, That prov'd his Bible true ? The terms of disputative art Had never reached his ear ; He laid his hand upon his heart, And only answered—" Here." REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS—THE MINIS TERIAL PLAN. A T a very numerous and respectable Meeting of the inha -1-X bitants of Liverpool, held at the Music-hall, on the evening of Monday, the 10th of May, Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY in the Chair, the following resolutions were agreed to unanimously : - Moved by HUGH fIORNBY, Esq.; seconded by WILLIAM RATHBONE, Esq.; and supported by the Rev. WILLIAM GILES, Baptist Minister. 1. That this Meeting adhering as strongly as ever to their conviction of the propriety and necessity of an ultimate total repeal of the tax on bread, yet hail with great satisfac tion the step which Ministers have taken towards meeting their views on this subject, and will adopt every_ means in their power to support the measure now before - Parliament. Moved by LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, Esq. ; seconded by WM. Woon, Esq., 2. That the opening of the trade in Corn will be found alike beneficial by the Merchant, the Manufacturer, the Ship-owner, the Shopkeeper, and the Labouring Classes of the kingdom. . Moved by WILLIAM BRoyii(, Esq. ; seconded by CEIAS. HOLLAND, Esq. ; and suppOrted by Mr. JoiT7: AMBLER, 3. That this Meeting . , ,being deeply impre.sicd with the opinion that the interesti'of the - Landholders are identified with, and consequent upon the prosperity of the Manufactu ring and Commercial Classes of the community, confidently anticipate that this commencement of sound principles of Legislation, on the subject of Corn, will benefit them in common with all other classes. Moved by JAMES HARVEY, Esq., Jun., and seconded by HENRY ROMILLY, Esq. 4. That the principles of Free Trade avowed by her Ma jesty's Ministers, and their declaration of legislating for the welfare of the bulk of her Majesty's subjects in opposition to any class interests, are deserving our most cordial sup port. Moved by Mr. ROBERT JONES, seconded by JAS. RYLEY, Jun., Esq., and carried unanimously, 5. That a Petition, embodying the foregoing resolutions, be prepared, signed by the Chairman on behalf of the Meet ing, and be presented to the Commons House of Parliament by Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P. . JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Chairman. The Chairman havinc , left the Chair, and Jas. Palmer Budd, Esq. being calleethereto. Moved by W. - RAT-11BONE, Esq. seconded by Wat. BROWN, Esq., and carried by acclamation, That the waamest Thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir Joshua Walmsley for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair. JAMES P. BUDD, Chairman MR. GLADSTONE ON THE CORN LAWS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Having lately read Mr. Gladstone's letter on the corn laws, I have been on the look out for what might emanate in the shape of reply. My attention has' been directed to a letter, under the sig nature of W. S. L.," in the last Liverpool Courier, the writer of which is entitled to notice, for his opinions are ex pressed in terms of moderation no one can find fault with. But his arguments and inferences I cannot say so much for ; and in proof of this I quote from his own letter, to which it is not difficult to furnish a reply. He says— " The ground on which Mr. Gladstone rests his defence of these laws is, the impossibility of our obtainint , supplies from foreigners without paying for it in specie, and the argument is further based upon the experience of the years 1837-8-9, when our foreign supply amounted to somewhere near twenty millions of quarters annually; these supplies, he says, were drawn from Germany, Russia, Prussia, and the other corn producing countries that lieon the borders of the Baltic Sea; and then he proceeds—l ask, did they take payment in our manufactures? No, Mr. Editor, no, nor was it expected that they would ; it was our necessity that drove us to them for a supply which we were compelled to obtain at any price to save the country:from famine, and because we were com pelled to apply to them for grain in these years, where it may not be necessary to go again for the same cause in the next five years, could it be expected that they would permit us to glut their home market with an unexpected supply of our manufactures to the ruin of their own ; no, they defended them, and had a right to do so ' • and we had therefore to pay money for that which, under abetter order of things, might have been obtained, not by gold and silver, but by barter." Now, sir, Mr. Gladstone very justly argues, and his reason ing is founded on fact—on past experience —that if we are to be dependent on foreign supplies, those supplies will be paid for in specie, as has been the case in the last three or four years. But what says Mr. W. S. L. to this, in advocating the exchange of manufactures for corn—" That it was not expected that Germany, Prussia, and Russia would take payment for their corn in our manufactures; that it was our necessity that drove us to them, to save the country from famine," and so forth ; but how does this alter the case ? Does Mr. W. S. L. mean to say that we could COMPEL Germany, Prussia, and Russia to take our manufactures if we took their corn? because if we could not do so, what security is there for their corning to us for manufactures at all ? Are the people of these countries not possessed, as we are, of all the necessary requisites for making manufactures for themselves • and is not machinery for the purpose ex ported from this country every day ? Grievously shall we be disappointed if reliance is to be placed on such expecta tions. The answer then is obvious. The continent can make manufactures for themselves. If we take their corn, they will require to be paid for it in money. _ So much for Mr. S. L.'s notions of corn laws : he attributes to others that they advance only what suits them. Now rests this charge on his own shoulders.—l am, sir, your obedient servant. FAIR PLAY. Liverpool, May 5, 1811. THE BOLD-STEET CLUBS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, In the Liverpool Times, of Tuesday last, appeared a letter headed " Insults to Ladies," and bearing the signature of " Observer," in which the writer animadverts, in the most unmeasured terms, upon the conduct'of the gentlemen—mem bers of the clubs in Bold-street. Ilad " Observer" confined himself within the limits of truth, or even of reason, nobody would have blamed him for publishing his opinion of the men and manners of Liverpool of the present day, if he thought that by so doing he should benefit the ladies or any other class of his readers. When, however, he states that it is the custom of the gentlemen above alluded to "either to make some rude remark of ladies passing by within their hearing, or deliberately to accost them and force a conversation," he states what every frequenter of Bold-street, lady or gentleman, knows to be untrue, and he surely lays himself open to the charge either of wilful misrepresentation, or of ascribing to the ladies of Liverpool a want of proper womanly delicacy and pride, in permitting such advances by strangers to them, as he asserts are daily to be witnessed ;—an imputation which the gentlemen whose conduct he impugns think and know, as well by the rules of society and good breeding as by their own experience, that the ladies cannot and do not merit. The only excuse I can offer for troubling you, Sir, with these few lines, in reply to Observer's foolishly false letter, is, that many person's expect a contradiction to be publicly given to any statement publicly made, however absurd or how:ever palpably untrue that statement may be. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE CLUBS IN BOLD-STRZET. Liverpool, May 6, 1840. MARINE INSTITUTIONS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, payfield-square, Edinburgh, 4th May, 1841 SlR,—The improvement of the education of the' masters and mates of vessels is at last beginning to engage the atten tion of shipowners. It is many years since, from circum stances partly personal and partly connected with the inte rests of friends, I was led to think upon the same subject; and as my ideas are rather more comprehensive than I think those put forth by practical men appear, you will perhaps allow me through your paper to communicate them to the public. The shipowners appear to limit themselves to requiring cer tificates of the qualifications of persons aspiring to employ ment as masters of vessels, &c., and it is quite clear that cer tificates should be required ; but if shipowners limit them selves to requiring qualifications, without at the same time doing something towards providing them, they are likely to injure rather than assist themselves, by creating a sort of monopoly of such employment in favour of a few men perhaps very well qualified to conduct a vessel as far as mere nautical science is concerned, but very ill qualified from tem per and general understanding. Without farther reasoning, I may say, that it has long ap peared to Inc anomalous that in a great commercial country like Britain there should be no SCHOOLS for the instruction of officers of the commercial navy. So far back as 1833, therefore, I proposed to government, that all masters and mates of vessels, whether by sail or steam, all engineers of steam-vessels and of railroad coaches, should, like every other person entrusted with the public health and safety, be required to produce certificates of qualification and general character—for steadiness, temper, and general intelligence ; I proposed that on every such certificate there should be a government stamp, bearing a duty proportioned to the im portance of the charge—that is to say, whether for master or mate, and those of coasting or foreign-going vessels, &c. In return for the revenue thus to be derived, I proposed as follows—viz., that in every considerable sea-port, where there might be universities, a chair should be endowed for the teaching of practical seamanship, in all its branches ; and I instanced Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, in Scotland, Dublin in Ireland, and London in England;—and where univerities did not exist, I proposed that MARINE INSTITU TIONS should be raised up for the same purpose, in Belfast, Cork, and Limerick. in Ireland ; Liverpool. Bristol, New castle, and perhaps Hull, in England; leaving Portsmouth and Plymouth for the royal navy. I proposed that these institutions should be presided over by PRACTICAL SEAMEN, of the first character for professional ta lent, and general good sense and intelligence ; that they should be rewarded like professors in other sciences, partly by salaries, provided by general or by local munificence, and partly by moderate fees,lfrom persons pro posing to take certificates ;—that they should not only super intend the mere teaching to conduct vessels mathematically, but give lectures, illustrated by models, on all points of sea manship, including the form and properties of vessels, load ing, trimming, and navigating, whether by sail or in any other manner ; the principles of floatation, to enable to judge upon principle how long a vessel in given circumstances might continue to be navigated in the usual manner—how long abided by. I was led to consider this of the utmost consequence, from instances of valuable vessels being aban doned without necessity, or improvidently trusted to when there was no chance of safety. I would consider the princi ples of mechanics, and even some practice, to be a very ap propriate accompaniment, in order to enable to direct in supplying substitutes for rudders or spars, constructing rafts, or fitting boats for any unusual service ;—lectures upon dis cipline also, and general duty ; upon the preservation or economy of food or water, or on finding substitutes ; on the seas, ports, and harbours most usually frequented, and the laws and customs of the countries ;—all would seem very useful to persons intending to embark in this profession. I proposed that a swimming school also should be attached, and experiments on plans of preserving life by swimming, communicating with, and reaching land, &c., &c., practised. l i To all these lectures and exhibitions I proposed that seamen in general should he admitted, either entirely free, or at a very trivial charge; including among seamen all fishermen— to whose particular profession also some attention should be given ; but, of course, those intending to take certificates only, to be entitled to examine models, and go through ex periments. In short, I proposed to give such initiatory in struction in this very important science as is given in all other practical sciences, and to produce a race of seamen as intelligent and thoughtful, as we see of medical, military, or any other useful men,—eapable of rationally conducting themselves in ordinar j circumstances, and of using all prac ticable means of saving themselves, in case of accident or misfortune. With such schools in their neighbourhood, seafaringmen would no longer dissipate their lei sure t i me, as they pre sent uniformly do. With su c h su bj ects for thoughat would no longer be the mindle ss b e i ngs they at present they too often are. They would be imp rove d through all their ranks, and superiorly qualified for all their duties • they would be much happier in prosperity, and much safer in adversity ; for every one would thus be qualified to co-operate mustte with another, and many improve ments i n every de necessarily follow from thi s eeneral intelligence, and habits of thought and observation to which it would lead. The train of thought once given, as I think these few sug gestions would give it, many improvements might occur in many quarters. Shipowners seem willing to tax themselves so far for raising the necessary revenue, may be a very and perhaps this appropriate mode. But I think the public in 1,1 general is also interested, and that, as pater perk), the Id vernment should both assist and control. I am, sir, your very obedient servant, D. BAIN. ANOTHER CONVERSION TO PROTESTANTISM TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-With the desire of encouraging the hearts of those who arc labouring to arrest the attempts now making by the " corrupt Church of Rome" to extend her baneful influence in England, I beg to announce, through the medium of your valued journal, the fact of my conversion from Popery to the Protestant faith. lam a Sicilian by birth (born in Messina), and was educated in the Romish religion ; and, having spent the greatest part of my life in a country where it is univer sally professed, I have had abundant opportunity of knowing its secrets, and observing the conduct of those who professed it, both of which produced in my mind, even long before I visited England, an " utter abomination" of the whole sys tem. The simple instrument of my conversion has been the " Word of God," in which I can find " no foundation for the strange pretensions of the Church of Rome," and the reading of which has, under God, relieved my mind of " an oppressive load," by 'delivering me from superstitious errors, and bringing me to appreciate and embrace the pure faith of the Gospel of Christ, as it is held by the Church of England I am ashamed to remember once more all the scandal hypocrisy used by the Roman priests, both in 0- life and during their service. I have no objection in signing my name, and show to the world " that I am happy of hav ing become a true Protestant, and abjured the absurdity of the Roman religion." May every other poor Romanist have grace given him to follow my example, and leave the Pope and his priests (and also Dr. Butler of Liverpool) to their absurd and unscriptural dogmas. Leek, Bth May, 1841. -- [The writer of this letter affixes his name to it, Leir private but, at the request of several members of his family, we suppress it. He is a highly-respectable young gentleman, and the par ticulars which are given can he authenticated by numbers to whom he is known.—ED. STANDARD.] "VEAL POYS MEsTUR ITEDITOR,—A Neybur o moine, whos bin at Lerpoo, toud mi tother dey that yore Mayur's verrey fond o " Veal Poys," an that he laitley treatit sum feitin fello thay cawn Kommydur Nappyar wi seven on um that kost a mattur o fore pense a peese. Neaw yo mun no that I meak kappi tal Veal Poys, an sell um a deeal cheppur ; but as 1 donna no heaw fort apply proppurley, I thowt id send yo a bit of a loine fur yo to put i your papur, an 'th Mayor meit happun see it an gi mi an Ordur.—l am, your humbal sarvant, .TUMMUS TUMSON But communley caved VEAL POY TUMMUS Northtveitch, April 30, 1841 DEATH OF MRS. JENNER This unhappy lady, who, with her youngest son, was shot on the morning of Tuesday, the 27th of April, by her hus band, Mr. William Jenner, at their house in Portland-place, Everton, expired, from the effects of the wound, on Friday night last. The next day, Saturday, a jury was impannelled, to inquire the cause of death; and, after viewing the body, the inquest was adjourned till Monday ,at twelve o'clock, in order that in the mean time a poet mortem examination might take place. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the jury assembled at the coroner's office, in Lord-street. The inquiry, however, did not commence for upwards of an hour afterwards, in conse quence of Mr. Curry, who had been out of town, having been detained for a period of two hours, by a slight accident to the engine of one of the trains on the Grand Junction Railway. The evidence of the facts was the same as that given at the inquest upon the body, and as we have already published it, there is no necessity for its repetition. Mr. Richard Yates Ackerley, surgeon, said he continued to attend the deceased from the morning the wound was in flicted till her death, on Friday night. He had since made a post mortem examination of the body, and had found the ball, which was in two pieces. He found a wound through the scalp and the occipital bone. The scalp was removed, and about an inch from the wound, in a posterior direction, he found a ball in the right lateral s , nus of the brain. There were two abscesses in the brain, one in the cerebrum, and the other in the cerebellum, which had discharged their con tents through the passage made by the ball. He had no doubt that the injuries the deceased received from the ball were the cause of her death. The Coroner then called the attention of the jury to the principal facts of the case, and explained the requisites ne cessary to constitute the crime of murder. The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against William Jenner. Mr. Jenner, who we understand is very ill, was not present during the inquiry. NAPIERISING.—The recent speech of a gallant officer at Liverpool has given birth to a new word, which is already becoming general in the London clubs ; any one ostentati ously standing forward as his own trumpeter, and blowing his instrument a leetle too loudly, is said to be " Napier ising ! "—Brighton Gazette. THE MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—IMPORTANT Disco- VERY.--A Mr. Ferguson, veterinary surgeon, delivered a lecture lately in the Dublin Society House, relative to the present distemper among cattle, in which he announces the important fact, ascertained by repeated experiments, that the distemper may be greatly mitigated —nay, rendered perfectly innocuous—by inoculation. ADDITIONAL CRUILCHLS.—We are rejoiced to find that by further subscriptions since our last, the amountsubscribed for this purpose has been increased to £4,240 3s. 10d., and also that sites for the churches have been gratuitously offered by the Rev. Robert Jarratt, and James Alderson, Esq., M.D., —an example, it is hoped, that may induce other landed pro prietors to come forward with similar offers.—Hull Times. and it is REPRESENTATION OF EDINEURGH.—We underst very improbable that Sir John Campbell will again present himself for the snffrages of the electors of this city. The party who supported him on former occasions have resolved to support Mr. Gibson-Craig, who, we are told, will not again stand for Mid-Lothian, as the conservatives in this county indisputably possess a great majority. We hear, however, there is no doubt Mr. Macauley will again appear as a candidate for the city, in the event of a dissolution. It is expected by some of the whigs that similar measures will be adopted on the occasion of a parliamentary election to those which resulted in the election of Sir James Forrest to the Lord Provostship, and of Mr. Drysdale as treasurer, by the joint aid of conservatives and whig churchmen.—Scottish Standard. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—An occurrence of an exceed ingly distressing nature, took place in Cambridge on Thurs day last. John Newitt, a respectable and well-conducted labouring man, lately under porter at Addenbrooke's Hos pital, and who lived with his wife and children in the Falcon yard, Pettycury, almost severed from its body the head of his own son, an infant seven weeks old, on Thursday even ing, and then gave himself up to the police, stating that he was led to commit the horrid deed through dread of the Union Workhouse. The unhappy man had, on the morning of the same day, attempted his own life by taking a quantity of laudanum. A coroner's inquest was held on the follow ing day, when a verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned against the father. RN-ORGANISATION OF THE CHARTISTS IN GLOUCES TERSHIRE AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. — OD Friday evening last, the notorious Henry Vincent, who has recently leased from prison after a long imprisonment for se, appeared in the city of Gloucester, and convene placard a meeting of his friends and supporters in a yai the vicinity of Alvin-street. A tolerably large assembly tt place. Having given a particular detail of his sufferings prison, he valourously proclairried it as his intention " t. stand by the people," though it should lead him to the scaf fold:! He described thewhigs as the most vacillating body of statesmen which ever held the reins of Government, and an nounced that he was deputed by the national association of chartists to re-organise the working men of the counties of Gloucester and Monmouth, on a more formidable and consul - coons basis than ever they had seen before. The chartists, he knew, had not sufficient power in an electoral borough in England to return a candidate of their own, but they could make their power felt by throning all their influence and votes into the scale of the tories, with a view to defeat the dastardly whigs. This might seem objectionable to some, but he could tell his friends that unquestionably had as the tories were, they were infinitely better than the whigs. They might coerce the people, but they never coerced them in the name of liberty ! Nay, in the palmiest days of Castle reagh and the spy system, the tories had never exercised so despotic and cruel a system of espionage and treachery as the whigs had manifested recently in their determination to crush the friends of the charter.—Devises Gazette. Among the persons arrested with Prince Louis Napoleon, at Boulogne, was one in a sailor's jacket and trousers, whs appeared to be a youth, and who gave the name of Boucher, and the age of 22, declaring that he was servant to the prince. The capture being made known to Louis Nat- ' he informed the magistrates that the prisoner in q was a female, and his entreaties for her discharge were plied with. She contrived to come to Paris, hoping tt, protected by an English family with whom she had previou: lived, or else to be supported by the generosity of the princt The family' however, were not in Paris, and the prince was too closely guarded or her to get access to him. She ob tained board and lodging in the house of a woman who let out rooms, by pretending that money would be remitted to her through M. Lafitte. Time passed, but no money came, and at length some articles in the house disappeared. Sus picion naturally fell upon the poor girl ; her room and perF were searched ; an umbrella and handkerchief were fo , - one, and a chemise belonging to the landlady upon the on She was denounced and committed to prison. " - fore yesterday she made her appearance at the Cm. Tribunal, but denied any intention of stealing the um, and handkerchief, and protested that she only wore chemise while her own, the only one she had left, was be washed. The court dealt leniently with her, acquitted h of the theft of the two former articl6, but as the appropria tion of the other was too positive, she was convicted. The penalty, however, was only three day's imprisonment. NOVEL PORTRAIT PAINTING.—At twenty years of age, Mdlle, Guimard had her portrait painted by an eminent artist, and by the aid of this picture she was enabled, if 1 may so express myself, to annalyse her complexion ; that is to say, she made herseif accurately acquainted with all the different tints of which it was composed in the blooming days of her youth. With these colours duly prepared, she seated herself at her toilet, as an artist would place himself before his easel, and there, with the portrait beside her, she every morning re produced its perfect fac-simile. By this ingenious stratagem , Guimard, at fifty, frequently p asse d for twenty.— Theodore Hook's French Sta' e. PLANTING TREES.—He who plants trees upon his pater nal estate repays a debt to his posterity which he owes to his ancestors. A gentleman, whose lands were more extensive than fertile, used to plant 1,000 trees on the birth of every daughter, upon his waste grounds, which were, on an ave rage, worth £1 each on her coming of age ; thus enaliling him to give her a fortune of £lOOO without any extraordi nary economy on his part—the regular thinning of the trees at proper seasons, with barking, &c., paying off all the cur rent expenses, besides yielding him a small rent for the land. In the year 1758, 92 fir trees were planted upon a piece of ground, about th ree-quarters of an acre in extent. The lani, was waste and poor; no extra expense was incurred, and no further attention was paid to the young trees. In 1813 they were cut down, yielding 90 tons ofof tin:l 6 h o e , wi : ich worth £4 per ton, giving a round wssas years. Can to ca a o re a nt m o o f re £ o 6 oes, l , a fortune the facility with which a man e e be intervening si, or indeed, extend his family hopes much 9 in s ci d n u g esiun p mg ro s o a t f h r but who is there that does not for his grandchildren? It is, deed m ang Yorkshire, very recently; 5,000 beyond that period ? In ielded the sum of £lOO,OOO to look forward: oaks were cut down, which Yielded an offer of £50,000. Even in the timber of an estate of d not worth 30s. per acre for agri piece of grou an n and, as a a s e r r e e c s e w nt as ly irnerSaosemderr_seet h Scotland, a 1 ted with sycamore, and at the end cultural purposes, d 'eg that period. There are ways, however, acre per annum : patently good for nothing else but plant_of sixty years the t r w re i n e s s P fetched such a sum as paid £l4 per of making land, p ing , y i e ld even an immediate profit, by a very simple process; ascertained that a pound of turnip seed sown upon an acre of light, sandy, gravelly land, after harvest, by over had been worn out ploughing, and ploughed which , a ft er two months' growth, leaves, roots, &e., had as fer tilising it has been as tTlising an effect as could have been produced by twenty-five loads of manure upon that quantity of land. The practice has not been uncommon in some parts of Surrey.