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SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY AND THE REPESEN- TATION OF LIVERPOOL When a citizen in his aspirations after fame quits the re tirement of private life, and becomes a candidate for the highest mark of distinction which his fellow-townsmen can confer, a spirit of enquiry is naturally excited, not only as to the qualifications of the aspirant, but also as to the standing which he possesses in the community where he lives. He must expect the previous sanctity of his private life to be in vaded without.scruple, and his various actions, whether for good or for evil, to be weighed and scrutinised with the ut most severity. In this position Sir Joshua Walmsley has now placed himself. Ile has launched his bark upon the ocean of public opinion, and he must prepare to encounter the rough tempests which abound upon it, in his progress to wards the haven for which he steers. In the first place, then, let us consider what are the pecu liar claims of Sir Joshua Walmsley to the representation of Liverpool. These we should have expected to have found in his address, but certainly a document more meagre in its de tails it has seldom been our fortune to read, and if something more were not known of the candidate than what there ap pears, we should, indeed, have much to learn respecting him. During the period in which he has taken a somewhat pro minent part in the affairs of the town, which may be com prised within the last six years—to wit, since the passing of the municipal act—he has stood before the public as a corn merchant, a municipal councillor, a chairman of the watch committee, a mayor, a president of the Mechanics' Institu tion, a chairman of the Tradesmen's Reform Association, and an active member of ti! notorious Protector Society. It has been remarked of him, that he allowed his party to achieve the reform bills at a vast sacrifice of time and money, without stepping forward to assist them, but that he lost no time in avowing himself a reformer when the burdens had been successfully borne, and the heat and toil attendant upon them triumphantly. .surmounted, and eagerly strove to par ticipate in the new honours which were then opened to view. It has been likewise said, and, as in the previous remarks, by his own supporters, that he cared not how rudely he rushed by those to whom he was indebted for those honours, and if he could not otherwise gain his object, (which, according to his own assertion, he has never yet failed to do,) resorted to means for that purpose, which in others would be charac terised u anything but honourable. If any further evidence be wanting upon these points, we have only to refer to the pi:esent mayor and William Rathbone, Esq., by whom we are sure it will be 'cheerfully afforded. As a merchant of Liverpool, Sir Joshua Walmsley first claims our notice. He has acquired the fortune which he possesses, and as to the extent of which, estimates widely differ, in the pursuit of the corn trade, and having entered both deeply and profitably into that portion of it connected with foreign parts, he naturally wishes to benefit himself still further by means of a free trade in corn. Whatever may be the delusion under which some persons labour upon this political question, Sir Joshua cannot be said to be among the number, as it is obvious to all that such a trade must necessarily be to his advantage. Hence some caution should be exercised before his doctrines upon that subject are received with implicit credence, as men are apt to step be yond the bounds of truth when their own interests are at stake. The first period from which the fortunes of Sir Joshua would appear to have taken date, was when a method was discovered of evading the laws of this country by the importation of foreign grain from the Isle of Man, and nu merous consignments of that article came to the house of Booth and Walmsley. The discovery was doubtlessly in genious, and exhibited a master mind ; but sonic persons are to he found who do not set an extraordinary value upon talent, however gigantic it may be, when it is devoted to such ends, and there were some ugly things said upon the subject in the House of Commons, when the affair was brought under its notice. Upon the principle, however, that a " thief makes the best police-officer," it may be pos sible that Sir Joshua, if the discoverer of that notable schgrne, would make an excellent representative for the people of Liverpool. In our consideration of the merits of Sir Joshua as a Town-councillor, we find him advocating the extension of the bonding system to inland towns, as well as witnessing the contemplated removal of the Post-office packets to Bir kenhead, without an effort to avert the evil. And we can scarcely think that such an astute individual as Sir Joshua could have refrained from bidding for popularity by opposing these measures, did not his interest run in a contrary di- section We have said that Sir Joshua is the chairman of the watch committee, and certainly the clear and lucid statements not only of the number of brothels in the town, but of those who inhabit them, which he has periodically furnished to the public, deserve their warmest gratitude, and there can be no doubt that Lady Walmsley duly appreciates these laud able researches of her husband. But there is another point upon which we think he is not so fully entitled to credit, and that is, the constitution of the police force. It would really be an act of service to the town if some town-council lor were to move for a return of the number of Irishmen, Scotchmen, and Englishmen of whom the police force is composed, as well as how many of the latter were natives of the town. This is, indeed, a more serious matter than it would at first sight appear, for when our churches are desecrated by a savage Irish mob, it is important that the majority of the force by which such attacks are to be repelled should not belong to the same country and creed as these by whom the outrages are committed. We have heard it fre quently asserted that the greatest obstacles are interposed to the admission of a townsman into the police force, whilst an Irishman, especially a Roman catholic, experiences the ut most facility. Really these things should be inquired into. If profuse expenditure, if magnificent balls, if frequent and excellent dinners, be the test of an honorable mayoralty, we are bound to admit that Sir Joshua Walmsley was one of the best—if not the best—mayors that Liverpool has for some time possessed. In our opinion, however, the excel lency of a mayor is not shown so much by his hospitality as by the regard which he exhibits for the real welfare of the town over which he presides, and we cannot discover one single instance in which Sir Joshua excelled his predecessors in that respect. It has not been denied that he spent £5OO in putting Irish catholics upon the register, to influence the last municipal, and the coming parliamentary, elections ; which act her majesty's judicial representatives pronounced highly illegal ; and that the inhabitants of cellars, and the lowest description of houses, so put on, whose claims were sat upon by himself, as judge, may thus legally become bur thensome to the parish for the remainder of their lives. Sir Joshua, as mayor, attended an inspection of the plans of a dissenting place of worship, and expressed his approbation of them, apparently for the purpose of such sentiments find ing access into the public prints, and thereby gaining him a few stray votes, though we do not find that -he took any trouble to attend a similar inspection of the churches which have been built in the town, or even contributed a farthing to their erection : indeed, when invited to attend a dinner in celebration of the laying of the foundation-stone of the new Protestant College, he declined doing so on the score of pre vious engagements, although it is well known that the circu lars which he issued for his own dinner, most auspiciously held on the same evening, were not issued for at least a week after receiving the invitation. Another point connected with his mayoralty, and we have done, as it affords a further il lustration of the facility with which he dragged the insignia of his office through the mire to serve a political purpose. He accompanied Mr. Justice Coleridge and a party through Fawcett's foundry. Her Majesty's Judge left a guinea, to be divided amongst those who had pointed out the different departments the Mayor of Liverpool sent a five pound note for a similar purpose. What man of modest feeling would have caused such a contrast to be drawn? The reason is obvious ;—there are a number of electors and freemen at Fawcett's foundry, whom it was policy to conciliate. The Mechanics' Institution has been no mean stepping stone to Sir Joshua's greatness—such as it is. It was there —when the true leaders of his party, such as Messrs. Rath bone, Bolton, Hornby, &c., would not aid his ambitious projects—it was there that his scheme was first smiled upon. Mr. Urquhart, of Lord-street, consented to become the chairman of his committee, and to manage the requisition upon which Sir Joshua has consented to stand. Oh ! the history of that requisition is a curious affair ;—no document of a similar nature ever experienced so many reverses—so many smiles and frowns. Little do the mechanics, who have heard Sir Joshua Walmsley speak so blandly to them in the theatre of that institution, know how little indebted they are to him for the building in Mount -street—nor what trouble he took to dispossess them of it. A s k M r. Leyland, and he can tell you that Sir Joshua has often regretted that it was ever called a Mechanics' Institution, and that but for his exertions, and those of Lord Sandon in parliament, the institution in Mount-street would ere this have been any thing but a Mechanics' Institution. The only remaining poin t of view in which we purposed is considering Sir Joshua Walmsley, as the chairman of the Reform Association. In that capacity he forced himself upon his party as mayor of Liverpool. Attaching to him a few hungry a dherents—men of broken fortunes, the scorn of th ose who k new t h em —he contrived to have his dirty work done for a time in the most secret and serviceable manner; but murde r and ill deeds will out,—the Liverpool Times would not march with him through Coventry, and the fracas which ensued would, if duly considered and studi ed, afford the best possible insight to the character of Sir Josh ua Walmsley, and discover that in his restless yearnings after fame nothing was an obstacle, and that if the object was attainable, no effort was too great for such a purpose,—and it would there be found that th e swamp i ng of the reg i ster by hordes of wild Irish was deprecated by thei respectable men of the party, as a measure which t en d e d t o upse t ever y principle of free representation which they had been contending for during th e previous century. Having thus traced the history of Sir Joshua Walmsley through the several relations in which he has stood with re spect to his native town, and shewu that in all, self•advance meut and self-aggrandizeme n t have been his ruling passions, we trust that our townsmen will pause before they withdraw their confidence from those who now represent them, in fa vour of a man whose career has been one uniform course of se lfi s h n ess, whose ruling motive is unbounded vanity, and in whom, unless we are grievously mistaken, not one greatness of character can be pointed out which does not spring from a lieltiab root. THE CORN LAWS OPINIONS OF MIL. HIISKISSOY Amongst the multifarious placards on the walls of this town at the present moment, is one which affects to represent the opinions of Mr. Huskisson on the corn laws, and vainly endeavours to present them in contrast with the sentiments of our noble representative, Lord Sandon, as put forth in his lordship's inimitable address to his constituents. It is almost a work of supererogation to point out all the dishonourable shifts and disgraceful falsehoods resorted to by the Walms leyites, to prop up their sinking cause ; but as some little at tention has been drawn to Mr. Huskisson's reported lan guage, we consider it best to give that gentleman's real rea soning on this important question, which we extract from a speech delivered by him to the electors of Chichester. It places the subject on a broad basis, and is conclusive in re futation of the assertion that the corn laws are merely a benefit to the lauded proprietor. We wish all who respect the opinions of this advocate of free trade in general, but of a fair protection to the English agriculturist, would examine the arguments he' advances as detailed in his published speeches, and not run away with garbled statements put forth by enemies of Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Huskisson's opinions. We subjoin the right honourable gentleman's language : " If I were not fully convinced, that the consumer in ge neral, but more especially that class of consumers whose subsistence depends on their own industry, would be bene fitted by the proposed alteration, it would not have had my support. My sole object is to prevent (as far as human means can prevent) bread corn from ever again reaching the late extravagant prices. Can any man have witnessed the scarcities and consequent privations of the people, during six or seven different seasons of the last twenty years, with out feeling anxious to guard the country against the return of such severe distress ? But if we wish to cure an evil of this alarming magnitude, we must first trace it to its source. What is that source ? Obviously this, that until now, we did not, even in good years, grow corn enough for our own consumption. Habitually depending upon foreign supply, that supply was interrupted by war. or by bad seasons abroad. The present war, it is true, is now at an end ; but peace is at all times too precarious not to induce us to guard against the repetition of similar calamities, whenever hosti lities may be renewed. But even in peace, the habitual de pendence on foreign supply is dangerous. We place the subsistence of our own population not only at the mercy of foreign powers, but also on their being able to spare as much corn as we may want to buy. Suppose, as it frequently hap pens, the harvest in the same year to be a short one, not only in this country, but in the foreign countries from which we are fed. What follows? The habitually exporting country, France for instance, stopt the export of its corn, and feeds its people without any great pressure.* The habitually im porting country, England, which, in a good season, has hitherto depended on the aid of foreign corn, deprived of that aid, in a year of scarcity, is driven to distress, border ing upon famine. There is therefore no effectual security, either in peace or war, against the frequent return of scarcity, approaching to starvation, such as of late years we have so frequently experienced, but in our maintaining ourselves habitually independent of foreign supply. Let the bread we eat be the produce of corn grown among ourselves, and, for one, I care not how cheap it is ; the cheaper the better. It is cheap now, and I rejoice at it, because it is altogether owing to a sufficiency of corn of our own growth. But in order to insure a continuance of that cheapness and that sufficiency, we must insure to our own growers that protec tion against foreign import which has produced these bless ings, and by which alone they can be permanently main tained. " The history of the country for the last one hundred and seventy years, clearly proves, on the one hand, that cheap ness produced by foreign import is the sure forerunner of scarcity ;t and on the other, that a steady home supply is the only safe foundation of steady and moderate prices. During upwards of one hundred years, up to the year 1765, the import of foreign corn was restrained by very high duties. What was the state of the country during those one hundred years ? That in ordinary seasons our eWn growth supplied a stock of corn fully ample for our own consumption ;—that in abundant seasons we had some to spare, which we export ed ;—that in bad seasons we felt no want, and were under no apprehension ; — that the price of corn seldom varied mo re than a few shilings per quarter;—that we had no years of inordinate gain to the farmer, and of starvation to the con sumer ;—that prices, instead of rising from year to year, were gradually diminishing so that at the end of this long period of a century, during which we never imported foreign corn, they were actually one-fifth lower than at the begin ning of it. Would to God that we had continued in this salutary system ! But in 1765 it was unfortunately aban donded. What has been the result? Precisely the reverse of the former system. Instead of a steady supply, afforded at steady and moderate prices, we have witnessed frequent and alarming scarcities. Every year our dependence on foreign supplies was increasing till the war came, and by interrupting that supply, greatly aggravated all our evils ; for, a country which depends on its enemies or its rivals for its food of its people, is never safe in war. (Mr. Huskisson might have added, nor in peace.') In the first eighteen years of this war, we were forced to pay sixty millions of money (to nations, every one of whom has, in the course of it, been our enemy) for a scanty and inadequate supply of foreign corn ; and when for this purpose we had parted with all our gold, and even our silver currency, combined Europe shut its ports against us, and America, co-operating, first laid an embargo, and then went to war. This combination was formed with the vain hope to break our spirit by starving our bodies. We struggled hard both at home and abroad, but by the struggle we have gained much. Abroad we have subdued our enemies ; at home, we come out of the war with our agriculture so extended and improved, as to make us at this moment independent of foreign supply. We are so at this moment ; and shall I, who to the entire conviction of my own judgnzent, have traced the lung sufferings of the people to a contrary state of things, be deterred from using my honest endeavours in parliament to prevent the recurrence of such sufferings? For that purpose we must go back to the principles of our forefathers ; and by reverting, as much as possible, to their system, we shall secure to ourselves and our posterity all the benefits which they derived from it. " I admit, that if unlimited foreign import, which the war had suspended, were now again allowed, bread might be a little, though a very little cheaper, than it now is, for a year or two. But what would follow ? The small farmer would be ruined ; improvements would everywhere stand still ; inferior lands now producing corn would be given up, and return to a state of waste ; the home consumption and brisk demand for all the various articles of the retail trader, which has so long contributed, even during the pressure of war to the prosperity of our towns, (and especially of those which arc connected with manufactures or foreign commerce,) would rapidly decline ; farming servants, and all the trades which depepd on agriculture for employment, would be thrown out of work ; and the necessary result of the want of work would be, that wages would fall even more rapidly than the price of corn. Then conies some interruption to the foreign import, coinciding with the decay of agriculture at home, and corn is suddenly forced up again to a famine price. Such, I conceive, would be the inevitable consequence of again placing ourselves in a state of habitual and increas ing dependence on foreign supply. Who, upon the long run, would profit by such a state of things ? Certainly not the consumer; but precisely those who have profited too much already from a similar state of things • namely, the over grown farmers with large capitals. They will be enabled, for two or three years, to bear up against the foreign import ; and whenever that import is interrupted, the extravagant prices they will then be enabled to command, will more than repay the temporary losses which their poorer, but not less industrious, neighbour had not the means to withstand. Every one thus forced out of cultivation will insure to them an ultimate increase of profit, and in proportion to that profit will inflict an increased pressure upon the consumer. To protect the small farmer, therefore, is ultimately to protect the people. This is my sole object ; and, whatever may be the fate of the bill now in the House of Commons, I can most conscientiously declare is , in my op inion, the sole ten dency of the plan which that bill is calculated to carry into effect." * Or it may lay on an export duty for the sake of revenue. t Trade dependent on foreign demand is sure to be at tended with distress. T. As they are now doing. THE CALEDONIA STEAM-SHIP. The following is the log and the list of passengers of the Caledonia on her last homeward trip :--__ LIST OF PASSEAGERS. From Boston.—Mr. Mark W. Collett, Mr. James Brown and lady, Mr. Jno. A. Islin, M. Mossy, Bishop Deane, Rev. Mr. Height, Mr. Nathan B. Warren, Mr. Stephen E. War ren, Edward Sullivan, servant to ditto, Mr. Ezra F. New hall, Mr. Edward Martineau, Mr. C. Dord, Mr. P. de Billier, M. Blandin, Miss Ann Morehead, Mr. A. Fielder, Mr. Cerremont, Mr. Lerais, Mr. Duval, Mr. Marquis, Mr. Marechal, Lady Georgians Cathcart, live children, two maid servants, and one man servant ; Mr. A. Burnes, Mr. David Nevins and lady, Mr. W. C. Little, Mr. R. Matherson and lady ; Mr. F. Laison, M. Bonis, Mr. Jno. M. B. N. Bos chetti, Mr. Henry King, Mr. Wm. E. Lewis, Mr. Thomas Wood, jun., Mr. David Bruce, Mr. G. Spear, Mr. E. C. Richards. Mr. Alex. Jardine, Mr. Russell, Mr. George Vir the, Mr. E. Henschen, Mr. James Walton, the Right Rev. Wm. Mead, Mr. J. Ducomear, Mr. Wethereld, Mr. A. Unit, Mr J. Faisone, Mr. George Noar, Mr. F. Gillett, Mr. A. Fay, Mr. Edmond Tehr, Mr. Wm. M`Kenna, Rev. A. Doyle, Mr. David Loring, Mr. George Callender, Miss Eliza Pritchard, Rev. George Pritchard, Messrs. Wm. and Thomas A. Pritchard, Messrs. Alex. and James B. Pritchard, Mr. Benjamin F. Marsh, Mr. Anthony L. Froch, Mr. John Gravely, Mr. W. C. Grant, Rev. Chas. W. Andrews, Mr. W. Berry, Dr. Frontray, D. Pedrode S. Botellio ' Mr. Wm. Lewis, Mr. C. T. Cunningham, M. Andre Basso, Mr. An drews, Mrs. W. H. Russell, Capt. Metherall, Captain Gales, Mr. John Welton. From Halifax.—Capt. Rolston, lady, and servant ; Hon. E. Jarvis, Mr. M. Jarvis, Miss Colley, Mr. Stairs, Mr. Henry Hood, Mr. H. P. Sturdee, Capt. Eills, Mr. T. Wil liams, Mr. T. Farmer, Mr. Ballantyne, Mr. Mackechnie, Mr. Remington and lady, Mr. Dana, Mr. Winchester. ABSTRACT OF THE LOG. June I.—At 4 P.M., sailed from Boston, and run the dis tance to Halifax, 395 miles, in 42 hours; greater part thick foggy weather. _ June 3.—At 7 30 P.m., sailed from Halifax ; light breezes and fine. June 4.—Wind N.W. ; distance 161 miles; lat. 44 30, long. 60 30 ; steady breezes and fine weather ; passed several vessels. June s.—Wind N.W. ; dist. 264 miles ; lat. 41 50, long. 54 20 ; steady breezes and fine clear weather. Juno 6.—Wind N.E. ; dist. 242 miles; lat. 45 2, long. 48 36 ; steady breezes and thick cloudy weather. At 11 a.m! passed the brigs Tom Bowling, of Liverpool, and Agnes, of llull ; at 2 p.m. passed the Argus, of Newcastle, standing to the westward. June 7.—Wind N.N.E. ; dist. 240 miles ; lat. 45 55, long. 43 6; steady breezes and cloudy weather, with a heavy swell from the northward. At 1 p.m. passed the brig Alpha, of Whitby, bound west. June B.—Wind N.N.E.; dist. 255 miles ; lat. 45 48 ; long. 37 12 ; first part squally with heavy rain ; latter part light breezes and fine. June 9.—Wind E. by S. 1 S.; diet. 217 miles ; lat. 46 51, long. 32 3 ; light airs and fine weather, with a heavy cross swell from the eastward. June 10.—Wind S.; dist. 210 miles; lat. 48, long. 27 10; steady breezes and fine weather, with a heavy head sea. June 11.—Calm ; dist. 241 miles ; lat. 1914 ; long. 21 11 calm, cloudy weather. Passed the barque Chatham, and the Dutch barque Vrow Johanna. June 12.—Wind dist. 250 miles; lat 50 19, long. 14 56 ; stron g b reezes and E.N.E.*cloudy weather. June 13.—Wind variable ; diet. 238 miles ; lat. 51 27 ; long. 910 ; fresh breezes and cloudy weather. At 730 a.m. made the land ; at 10 30 a.m., passed Cape Clear. June U.—Running up channel. At 630 a.m. abreast of Holyhead ; at 8 30 a.m. received on board a pilot off Point Lynas ; at 2 p.m. arrived in the Mersey ' • ma king the passage from Halifax to Liverpool in 10 d ays 14 hours. INSTRUCTION IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.—We beg to recommend to notice Monsieur Hubert (whose address will be found elsewhere) as a teach er o f th e F r ench language. We have had opportunities for many years of ascertaining his qualifications as an instructor either of adults or young persons ; and we know of few in whom confidence may be more safely reposed. THEATRE-ROYAL, We have been greatly delighted with Miss Rainforth and Mr. Harrison, who made their debut in the " Beggars' Opera" on Monday evening. Although the " Beggars' Opera" abounds with beautiful melodies, and the dialogue is racy, witty, and piquante, it has never been a favourite of ours. The moral is bad ; the characters, excepting Polly, are all essentially low, vulgar, and debased ; and, though it may suit a London audience, it has too much of the " Jack Sheppard" school to prove attractive to the frequenters of a country theatre. Say what they will, there is a refinement and discrimination in the country that does not exist in the metropolis—at any rate in matters theatrical. We have had many, nay constant, instances of this. Witness the late engagement of the Adelphi Company and their dramas. They kept money out of the house instead of bringing cash into it. The " Beggars' Opera," we believe, old as it is, has had a run in London latterly. On Monday the boxes were very shy of ladies ; and, in fact, in spite of two debu tants, the piece failed to draw. Such is the difference of opinion in town and country. Tuesday " Love in a Village" was performed in most ex cellent style. Miss Itainforth's Rosetta was very cleverly done ; her songs were exquisitely sung. Miss Rainforth has a neat figure, and expressive face ; her eye is sparkling, and full of archness and animation. Her voice is of a sweet tone, her enunciation very distinct, her execution brilliant. She possesses taste, feeling, and judgment. In her scenes with Justice Woodcock (capitally played by Mr. Baker), she exhibited her powers as an actress. The playful manner in which she quizzed the amorous old magistrate was inimi table. Miss.Rainforth has greatly pleased us. Mr. Har rison's Hawthorn is one of the best on the stage. This gentleman is not only a good singer, but an excellent actor also. His voice is of fine quality, and has a mound full tone, with considerable power. Mr. Harrison does not appear fond of embellishment, but when he does indulge, he shows good taste and fancy. He sings without effort, and the me lody appears to flow from his lips without exertion. He blends excellently the natural voice with the falsetto; the latter is remarkably sweet. Remembering how few good singers there are on the stage at present, we cannot but feel delight in hearing this gentleman, and we may safely place him in the front rank amongst his contemporaries. Ile acted Hawthorn in a jovial, rollicking, farmer-like manner, and appeared to enter into the spirit of the character. He sang that delightful ballad, " We all love a pretty girl," most cleverly and with great humour, and was encored in it. We were greatly pleased with the sweet ballad, " My Dolly is the fairest thing." It was given with a pathos and feeling which showed that he understood what he was singing. Miss Honner played and sung Madge well. Mr. Slaiter's Bodge was excellent : in it he showed his very peculiar talent. Mrs. Clarke's Deborah Woodcock was also very good : her humour is not to be equalled. Mr. Geo. Horn castle's Young Meadows was passableasent.—ln the after. piece the Boleno Family delighted and astonished every one. Never were such tumblers seen as these some of their tricks were extremely droll. Miss Webster's dancing is charming : although not a Taglioni, she promises fair to become one. On 'Wednesday " Fra Diavolo " was very well performed, and last night " The Devil's Bridge," in which Mr. Har-' rison sang Braham's song of " Is there a heart" most ex quisitely : it was rapturously encored. We have heard no thing like it for many a day. Miss Rainforth warbled " Lo! here the gentle lark," very sweetly. _ . This evening Mr. Harrison and Miss Rainforth take; their benefit, with " Love in a Village" and " Rob Roy."—On Monday the Vandenhoffs will appear. REASONS FOR VOTING FOR LORD JOHN RUS SELL TO BE M.P. FOR THE CITY OF LONDON. I.—Because he can get no other place to have him, at least for a continuance In 1818 he entered parliament by means of the rotten bo rough of Tavisto6k. In 1820 he shifted his seat to the county of Huntingdon : from this county he was ejected in 1826, after a contest ; and took refuge in the close borough of Ban don-bridge. In 1830 he removed to Devon, from which county he was thrown out by a poll, in 1835. He then re moved to Stroud, the electors of which arc now preparing to dislodge him. ll.—Because be has a very convenient knack of suiting his language to his auditors. 1. When he sat for a county, he spoke of the electors of London, Westminster, &c., as "THE WORST OF ALL RANDS' in which the government could be placed." He now wishes the electors of London to adopt him, and therefore talks of the " honour" they do him, and •' hopes to be sust fined by their enlightened approbation." 2. When he represented an agricultural constituency, he thus defended the corn laws : _.... " There is a party amongst us, however, distinguished in what is called the science of political economy, who wish to substitute the corn of Poland and Russia for their own. Their principle is, that you ought always to buy where you can buy cheapest !" " They count as nothing the value to the coun try of a hardy race of farmers and labourers. They ears not for the difference between au agricultural and manufacturing population, in all that concerns morals, order, national strength, and national tranquillity. Wealth is the only ob ject of their speculation ; nor do they much consider the two or three millions of people who may be reduced to utter beg gary in the course of their operations. This they call ' di verting capital into another channel.' It is to these men, I suspect, that our ministers are about to give up the question of trade in corn." Now, representing a manufacturing borough, he takes the very course which he formerly deprecated, and attacks those same corn laws which he then defended! . _. . 3. When trying to gain popularity, he can attend religious meetings, and mix with dissenters and methodists, as if one of themselves ; and yet, when writing his Memoirs of the History of Europe, for the higher classes, he thus libels one of the principal of these religious bodies, the Wesleyan Me thodists :- 64 Another very palpable offence of methodism is the en - couragement it affords to fraud and every species of cant." " They multiply miracles far beyond the regular and limited practice of the Homish Church. If a methodist preacher wants a dinner, a suit of clothes, or a few pence to pay a turnpike, he puts up a prayer, and his want is miraculously supplied. Thus, between forgery audfanaticism, sober and genuine christianity is utterly lost."—Memoirs of Europe, vol. ii., p. 581. " Upon the whole, it can hardly be said that the introduc tion of Wesleyan Methodism permanently improved the mo rals of England. It resembled some very powerful drug, which suddenly obtains a reputation in physic, and is re nowned for the wonderful cures which it performs ; but pre sently the efficacy of the remedy ceases, and many of the cured either relapse or fall into some new and incurable disease. A quack medicine of this kind is soon famous and soon for gotten."—Memoirs of Europe, vol. ii., p. 584. lll.—Because he is such a firm friend to civil as well as to religious liberty. 1. He vehemently endeavoured, only two years since, to take away the privileges of the city, and to bring the citizens under the authority of the police commissioners in Scotland yard. 2. He seized and imprisoned, by an arbitrary and despotic vote of the House of Commons, the two sheriffs of London, for no other offence than their adherence to their oaths, and their obedience to the Queen's will. . 3. He resolutely maintains, and will hear of no modifica- tions or abatements of—the despotic power assigned to the three poor law commissioners, making their will to be law, and their orders as binding as an act of parliament, through out the kingdom. 4. He firmly adheres to all the oppressive parts of the new poor law system, which treats poverty as a crime, separates parent from children, and husband from wife, and reduces the diet for the poor man out of work, in many cases, below the prison fare of the criminal. For all these reasons,—if you like to make the city of Lon don a " refuge for the destitute," and to pick up the rejected candidates of country boroughs ;—if you admire a man who has one language for the farmer, and another for the manu facturer ;—if you are grateful for the imprisonment of your sheriffs,—for his attempt to put your city under the West minster police,—and for his resolute adherence to tke new poor Iaw,—VOTE FOR LORD JOHN RUSSELL, and show that he rightly characterised you when he called you " THE WORST OF ALL HANDS in which the government could be placed," CARD OF THE RUNNING HORSES FOR THE L VERPOOL CONSTITUTIONAL PRIZE CUP. The two first in to be deolared the winners, SANDO—A thorough-bred in good condition, has been trained for ten or twelve years ; and has often won the cup before : knows the Liverpool course well; a most valuable acquisition to his right owner—John Bull. CRESSY—Has run on the same course with Sando before, and is decidedly a favourite. Has been some time in train ing, and has become very valuable. SIR JOSHUA—A. fast horse, but rather a bolter, and too fond of his corn ; has changed names ; was formerly known as Birchrod, and was lately passed off as the Liverpool mare; piebald and no breed •, has not run before, except as a hack. It is ',expected that he will win the match—like the Irish man's race horse Botheration—by driving them all before him. _ _ PALNIT—The Rat-tailed hack : an old stager on various race-courses; has formed part of the Royal stud for very many years, at an enormous expense to the nation, but has had so many drivers that he is difficult to manage now ; is entered for two courses at the same time, and it is not ex pected that he will run for the Liverpool cup. BETTING.-2 to lon Sando and Cressy; 10 to 1 against the other two—no takers. A FRENCII DO-THE-BOYS HALL.—In the course of the past week an exposure was made at the Mansion-house, Lon don, of the infamous system which has been pursued at a seminary in France, a system which even out-does that de scribed by Boz in his details of the sufferings of the boys at the Yorkshire seminary. About five miles from Bolougne- Ser-Mer is the academy of Mons. de Bree, known also as the " Chateau de la Capelle," a large ancient house, situated in grounds of a very picturesque and enchanting appearance. Monsieur de Bree is a single gentleman, who has raised a school by periodically visiting London and advertising in the public journals, soliciting parents to submit their children to his care and educational instruction, promising every atten tion to their intellectual improvement, the cultivation of their morals, and their domestic comforts. Till within a few weeks of the present date, the establishment he had succeeded in thus forming consisted of English and American youth. In his circular M. de Bree set forth, that he professed to take the whole responsibility of their education by his own ardu ous and undivided exertions for the proficiency of his pupils, rather than to risk the negligence of tutors, while the domes tic arrangements of his household were committed to the anxious and motherly superintendence of his revered parent. Lulled by the speciousness of the charlatan, pa rents eagerly embraced an opportunity to send their boys to be advanced in the French language at an establishment apparently so comfortable and within so short a distance from London, where they easily imagined a weekly cor • respondence could be had with their children. Mr. John Forrester, of the Mansion-house police establishment, hav ing some business at Bolougne, made a hasty visit to his son, who was one of Monsieur de Bree's pupils. The father was so shocked at the child's appearance and at the report the boy gave of the treatment the pupils received from Monsieur de Bree and his mother that he immediately re moved the lad, and with him his friend Mr. Ruthven's two sons, who had been sent to the school by his recommenda tion. He brought his son home, and called upon the parents of some of the other boys, to state his reasons for removing the boy from the academy. Several other boys were im mediately removed, and the wretched state in which they arrived at home gave fearful evidence of the truth of their relations touching the treatment which they had experienced. Should any persons be sceptical on the subject, however, the vouchers are now numerous and well-authenticated. It ap pears that the poor boys were worked, starved, physiced, beaten, and in short, treated with the greatest inhumanity. They were left in a state of the most disgusting dirt and wretchedness till their bodies were covered with sores, while not even their education was attended to. They were not suffered to write to their parents, and they could not run away from the strict surveillance which was exercised over them and the distance of the chateau from Boulogne. In short, the details submitted to the lord mayor in proof of the statements are disgusting beyond description. The lord mayor said he considered it his duty to make the atrocious proceeding as public as possible, and with this view, the whole circumstances have been published at length in the London papers. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. The Dock Committee met yesterday. There were pre• sent, Messrs. Benn (chairman), Horsfall, Barclay, T. Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Aikin, Booth, Evans, Bulley, Tabin, Chapman, G. Holt, and Sands. A communication was read from the Board of Admiralty, giving the assent of the lords to the erection of the contem plated new works in conformity with the 3Gth section of the new dock act. The sub-committee of works produced plans of the in tended new dock, of the river wall, the alterations in Salt house Dock, and of the entrance to Canning Dock, together with the report of the Surveyor, of the course he recom mended to be pursued. The SECRUTARY read his report, which was interesting, and of very great length. It gave the surveyor's views most minutely, on every point involved in the workmanship of the ntended dock, Ste. _ Some conversation followed concerning Canning Dock being deepened simultaneously with the progress of the other works, and a general opinion was expressed that it would be desirable. The chief difficulty, however, :was, where the coasting vessels should be placed during the period required for its deepening, namely, nine or ten months. Mr. Chapman suggested that George's Dock should be appro priated for their use, and the vessels which usually fre quent that dock, distributed over the others. Eventually the further consideration of the subject was deferred till Thursday next, the sub-committee in the mean time to take the opinion of the harbo ur - mas t ers u pon the practicability of the suggestion. A report was presented from the Sub-committee, stating that they had investigated the complaint of the master of the Liverpool life boat against four of his crew, for not answer ing a signal of distress. The men, the report stated, had been reprimanded, and the conduct of the master of the boat in bringing the case forward approved of. An additional dock-gateman was ordered to be appointed at Waterloo Dock, who should have the responsibility of the northern pier of Prince's Dock. The CHAIRMAN said, that as the next matter which would come before the committee concerned a ship of his own, he should take no part in the proceedings. It appeared that, on Sunday afternoon, a vessel called the Tiber went into Prince's Basin, intending to go into Prince's Dock, but that being full she - was obliged to go into Water loo Dock. There was a difference between the captain and the master of Prince's Dock whether the dock was full ; and before it was arranged into which the vessel should enter, the captain applied at the North Harbour Master's office. He was there told by a child five years of age that Mr. Hodg son was in the country, but would soon return. The case was brought forward, the chairman said, not because his ship could not get into Prince's Dock, but because the Harbour Master was not at his duty, and he had reason to believe he was absent from it at other times. The parties having been called in, the Harbour Master said be bad gone into the country and had returned before half-past five o'clock, but during his absence there was every facility for working the (locks. He was not aware that he was expected to attend on Sundays ; if be was, of course he must submit. The Harbour Master having retired, and the committee consulted together, he was again called in, when The CHAIRMAN said, the committee expected the Harbour Masters to attend their duty during tide times on Sundays as well as other days. On no account were they to be ab- sent during tide time, whether on Sunday or in the week day. The committee would impress upon him (Mr. Hodg son) the necessity of attending to the rules laid down for the regulation of the Harbour Masters, and visit each dock not less than once a day, and almost always within the reach of business hours. _ Mr. HODGSON' said he was not aware having omitted to o so. The CHAIRMAN said some people complained that he was not always to be found; it niiglit be as he had stated, but on the present occasion, according to his own admission, he could not be found. . . Mr. Hodgson then retired. A letter was read from Mr. George Worthington, solicitor, who, it will be recollected, resigned his appointment as so licitor to the committee at a previous meeting, informing them that the kindness and sympathy of his friends had se cured him from further molestation, in consequence of the derangement of his affairs, and requesting permission to with draw his resignation.—Agreed to. A dock-gateman, named John James, requested leave of absence for a month. The Secretary stated that James was a maker of fireworks, that he had had permission to absent himself for three weeks, but that he had remained away for eight weeks without leave, yet now he applied for an addi tional month. Another man had been employed in his place The Secretary was directed to inform the applicant that unless he returned immediately he would be struck off the list of dock-gatemen. The reporters were then requested to retire. MR. LYNNE.—This gentleman has been engaged by Mr. Macready, and will appear at Drury-lane during the ap proaching season. DRAWING.—Those who wish to acquire a knowledge of perspective should place themselves under the tuition of Mr. Sheppard.—(See advertisement.) FINE ARTS.—III our next we shall notice some capital pictures on sale at Mr. Ward's, in Williamson-square. They are remarkably well worth the attention of connoisseurs. DREADFUL MURDER NEAR LEEDS.—EarIy on Saturday morning last, an aged man, named Christopher Winder, a slubber, residing at Armley, was found on the highway, brutally murdered. The affair is involved in some little mystery, but from the evidence adduced upon the inquest held on Monday, before J. Blackburn, Esq., it appears that Thomas Milett, a dealer in salt, and who had a cart, having on the name of " Owen Cofield, salt dealer, Bradford," was drinking with deceased and: others at the Rose and Crown Inn, Armley, on the Friday evening. Winder left about seven, and Milett about ten o'clock, both being the worse of liquor. About half-past one on the following morning, Milett returned without his cart, and having gained an entrance into the_ house, the landlord found that he had Winder's hat on, and he gave a confused account of having had a scuffle with a man on the road who wanted to rob him. Winder was uncle to the landlord, and he knew ,e hat. The body of Winder was discovered laid in the )ad, about 200 yards from Cockshott-lane Bar, by two men who were passing in a cart. He was quite dead, and several large stones, many of them covered with blood, were laid around the body, one of them weighing about 41bs., had a sharp edge. The body was removed to the Barley Mow Inn. The ground was minutely examined, and it appeared evident there had been a dreadful struggle ; opposite the body was found a cap, and the pockets of deceased appeared to have been rifled. Upon the conclusion of the examination of witnesses, The coroner inquired of Milett if he wished to say anything ; he replied that he knew nothing of what they had been talking about. The inquest was adjourned to Tuesday evening, when a verdict of " Wilful Murder " was returned against Milett. The Manchester Guardian publishes a lengthy correspon dence between Mr. J. B. Smith and Mr. Holland Hoole, of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and Sir Robert Peel, on the subject of some misunderstanding as to what passed between a deputation from the chamber and the baronet on the question of free trade. At the conference, the deputation requested Sir Robert's attention to a report of the chamber on the import duties ; while one of them, Mr. Ashworth, before taking leave, asked Sir Robert if he bad seen Mr. Greg's pamphlet ? Sir Robert confounded the two volumes ; and in the debate on the sugar-duties, in the House of Commons, represented the deputation as having requested his attention to the pamphlet, which, contrary to the opinion of the chamber, favours a temporary continuance of the protecting duties. The chamber regard ed this confusion as intentional. Sir Robert observes : " Mr. Ashworth took the leading part at that interview. If it were intended by Mr. Ashworth to recommend to me parts onl3 of the pamphlet of Mr. Greg, the reservation ought to have been made at the time. If, again, Mr. Ashworth was speaking sometimes in his individual capacity, and at others as a member of the deputation, or if he offered to me suggestions from which you dissented, I cannot but think that an inti mation to that effect ought to have been conveyed to me du ring our interview." Mr. Smith and Mr. Hoole, however, collating Sir Robert's speech, as reported in the Morning Chronicle, and as sancti one d by himself, except in one pas sage, with the corrected vers i on o f his speech published in the orm of a pamphlet, and finding all the passages to which they objected in the first version omitted in the second, inti mate that they adhere to their opinion that the misrepresen tation was intentional ; at least they say—" We cannot, however, close this correspondence without deeply regretting that a statesman, aspiring to the first office in the government, should, even by implication, have justified the suspicion of having sought to procure a temporary triumph of party inte rests, not only at the expense of the character and reputation of the deputation of the Chamber of Commarce at Manches ter, but also at that of truth and justice." There has been some further correspondence, which does not, however, materially vary the acts of the case. The Merchant Tailors' Company gave their grand annual dinner on Friday, to celebrate the election of youths educated in their school to vacant fellowships at St. John's, Oxford. As usual, some of the leading conservative members of both houses of parliament, and some of the chief officers of the Oxford university were present. Sir Robert Peel was not present, as he was celebrating the marriage of his daughter ; but his health was drank with honour due. Lord Stanley made this allusion to the progress of his party :—" It is now three years ago since, by the kindness and liberality of the c ompany, he had been present in that hall, at the festival given to his right honorable friend—a scene which was in delibly stamped upon hi s memory — w h en his right honor able friend found himself in the unparalleled position of the leader of an opposition of 312 gentlemen. That was a place in which no politics were to be spoken—(hear, hear, and a laugh)—but he might be allowed to say that, whatever might be thought of that position, the country might rejoice to know that up to the present day it had been continually im proving." The other speakers were the Marquis of Lon donderry, Dr. Wyntar, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, the Mar quis of Salisbury, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Mr. Henry Kemble. THE CLERGY : STATE OF . THE CHURCH.—On Friday the House of Commons ordered, on the motion of Dr. Nichou, to be forthwith prepared a series of returns regard ing the clergy—namely, 1. Returns for each of the dioceses of England and Wales, and for each of the years 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840.-2. Of the number of ordinations of priests.-3. Of the number of ordinations of deacons.-4. Of the number of donations, of nominations, of presenta tions, of institutions, of inductions, of installations, of col lations, of licenses, or of other admissio ns t o ca th e d ra l preferments and benefices with cure of souls, (within the meaning of the Pluralities Act, 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106,) distinguishing those above the annual value of £3OO, those above the annual value of £l5O and under the annual value of £3OO, and those under the value of £150.-5. For the year 1840, of the amount of stamp duties, and of fees pay able or paid to government officers, or to the clerks, secreta ries, or servants of government officers, or to chapter clerks, or registrars, clerks, or ministers of deans and chapters, or to the judges, registrars , clerks, or ministers of ecclesiastical courts (distinguishing to whom ) on each donation, nomina tion, presentation, institution , . induction, installation, colla tion, license, or other admission to any cathedral preferment or benefice with cure of souls, and on each dispensation for holding together two or more benefices ; stating in each case the annual value of the cathedral preferment.-6. Of all dispensations for holding together two benefices granted since the passing of the act 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 106, speci fying in each case the patron or patrons of each of such benefices, the diocese o r dioceses in which situated, the annual value and population of each of such benefices, and the estimated distance from church to church.-7. F rom each diocese of Englan d and Wales, of the num b er o f licenses granted since the passing of the act 1 an d 2 Vi ctor i a, C. 106, for non-residence in enumerated cases.-8. For non residence in cases not enumerated.-9. For residence else where than in the glebe-house, under the act 1 and 2 Vic toria, c. 106, s. 33.-10. Of monitions to retur n t o res id ence. —ll. Of sequestrations for non-obedience to such monitions, or for non-residence.-12. Of sequestrations at the suit of a creditor. —l3. Of other sequestrations, specifying the nature thereof. 14. Of „ livings avoided un d er 1 an d 2 Victoria, c. 106, s. 5 8.-15. Of revoc a ti ons o f l i censes for non-residence.-16. Of licenses to stipendiary curates to non-resident incumbents. -17. Of licenses to assistant cu rates to resident incumbents. -18. Of licenses to curates appointed to sequestered benefice. -19. Of licenses to curates appointed on account of the inadeq ua t e per f ormance of duty, under the act 1 an d 2 Victoria, c. 106, s. 77.-20. Of licenses to curates, under the act 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 105, s. 105.-21. Of licens es to curates, under the stet' of 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 105, s. 78.-22. Of licenses to a second stipendiary curate.-23. Of cases where two services have been ordered, under the act 1 and ' 2 Victoria, c . 106 a. 80.— 24. Of cases where a third service , has been directed, under „ the act 58 George 111., C. s. 65. OWIRESPONDBNC.E. LORD PALMERSTON'S LIBERALITY. MONDAY AFTERNOON TO THE EDITOR OF THR LIVERPOOL STANDARD a,—A gentleman, who has to-day arrived here, in com mand of a steamer from Hamburg, has just informed me that, (in 1832, being then employed upon the Harwich packet station,) he was deprived of his commission, in consequence of the interest which he had taken in returning the two tory members for Harwich. His father and grandfather had com manded the post office packets before him, and their friends, very naturally, made a strong representation to the govern ment on the subject. How was it met? Lord Palmerston declared that the half-pay (in consequence of his gallantry at the bombardment of Algiers) which Mr. B. had derived would be stopped, if possible, if his friends pursued the matter any farther. 1 cite this as an instance of the liberality of a man whom it is endeavoured to thrust upon the electors of Liverpool as their representative in parliament. I am, dear Sir, yours obediently, 11. \V. HAYMAN TO SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY, KNIGHT, CANDIDATE FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL Joshua! Joshua! you have really come to the scratch— eh ? Well, I would not have believed it. Are you really a bold fellow, then, or are you only a goose ? Joshua Waling ley, amateur police-officer! 1 really imagined once you had some view to the place excellently filled by Mr. Whitty, for your wealth was not then known to be what they say it is now. Joshua, or Sir Joshua Walmsley, chairman of the Anything-you•like Association, cunning, wriggling, officious Joshua! have you really per►uaded yourself that the sort of small celebrity you have painfully gained in popularity hunting of the poorest description, which the truly superior eschew, brings you at all within the range, the widest range, of the class from among whom constituencies like that of Li verpool will elect their representatives ? Faith! I suppose you have bemused yourself over the columns of Time: and Mercury until you believe so ; for theie you are on the walls, tidy and common-place like yourself, with an address cut in a neat patter► like your coat or breeches, and altogether as serious and silly as if you were in earnest, and so T suppose you are. Well, it is a stirring time ! Chimney-sweepers' apprentices hail each other from the chimney-tops, to ask what 's the news ; and so William Ewart legislates, Thomas Thornely is sought of many cities, and Joshua Walmsley is solicited and consents to contest the representation of Liver pool 1 .. . _ . Well, but, Joshua, let us have a bit of friendly chat about this business. It is really no joking matter. It would be no joke, I alisure you, for Liverpool, if you were to succeed in representing us in parliament ; and, I take it on my con science to admonish you, it would be no joke to you either to succeed or fail in the attempt. To succeed? Good God! what would become of you? You have no conception what a different sort of thing it is to be a real representative of Liverpool, and only to think or talk of it at a distance; — and to fail in an object of this sort is only creditable in a man who has some reasonable pretensions to make the at tempt. Have you consulted your friends on this subject? I do not mean the three thousand six hundred friends! but any real ones. Have you asked Mr. Booth's opinion, your governor? But he, I think, has dissolved you—has he not? not liking these strange ways of yours out of the counting house. Ask Mr. Sanders, your partner in the colliery, what he thinks of it. He is a friend of Lord Sandon's, but a clear-beaded man for all that : (many are so who, notwith standing, support his lordship.) He will give you good ad vice, even although he is obliged to look down upon you for the purpose. I have said your address is very tidy, very tidy indeed : it is by no means unlike what a man might be expected to say on such an occasion. I forget whether there are models for this sort of writing in the " Complete Letter-writer" : it reads like a pattern thing to be found in a book of that sort, saying something like what might be expected to be said, with a passable neatness, but without soul or reality. I think I could have improved upon it, if you had consulted me. Something might have been advantageously said about railroads : it might have gained some votes among the share holders and sharebrokers, and the subject is conspicuous among the things of the movement, together with abolition of, church-rates, extension of franchise, Dan O'Connell, Lord John Russell, &c., &c. _ _ One passage of your address is a little, a very little, worth particular notice for its graciousness. You are so good as to say, that whatever position you may hold in public life, you will still study our interests in common with those of this country. Happy Liverpool! and thrice-happy country ! Whatever position (position!) our little knight may attain in public life, blessings on his modest face ! he will yet re member yon both !—nay it is stronger—no consideration shall divert him from remembering you! ! In the name of all that is nonsensical, what have you got into your head ? Position ! Why, what position could you possibly obtain. if even such a thing could occur as that the constituency of Liverpool should once send you to parlia ment? The only position I know of would be that you might select for your latter end on the benches of the house. I conjecture it would be near Joe Hume ; and the proximity of that awful proser would really be a position unfavourable to your recollecting town or country either, and would drive Brunswick-street and Watery-hall equally out of your head. Believe me, Joshua, you are wasting time and shoeleather to no sort of purpose. Look fairly in the face of your equals among your supporters, and see if they are not most of them quizzing you—fooling your vanity, as it were, to the top of your bent. They know you cannot be returned for Liver pool, or they would see you at the d--1 before you should have a vote from one of them. Do get as quickly back to the counting-house as you can—mind your commissions— keep your nails clean—and look out of evenings upon the whirring trains of the railway. It is far more within the range of your capacity than troubling the House of Com mons. Yours, 12th June, 184 L A WELL-WISHER. THE LATE DISGRACEFUL RIOTS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Sitt,—The system of club-law carried on by the non electors last general election appears to be revived under the cloak of corn-law discussions. The brutal conduct of the organized bands of ruffians who skirt the meetings, and .avagely strike down and ill-treat any one they imagine op posed to them is characteristic or ti,., ya. tice, but ow.t dis graceful to the town. Are the magistrates to allow the peaceable citizens to be rudely assailed, and a dead stop to be put to all business night after night in the vicinity of these gatherings? The passions of the ignorant rabble who assemble to hear the thousand and one lies given by hired debaters and political quacks are warmly excited, and the parties retire to commit further deeds of violence. It was after the gang had left Clayton-square, on Thursday night, that they were ripe to break the windows of the Church of England School, in Moorfields, and to destroy the glass in St. Thomas's Church. It is by these means that the nightly rows up and down the town originate, and it is by these rabble routes that the gangs who congregate concert the way laying of the shipwrights, and having numbers, cowardly knock down every operative they suppose friendly to con servative opinions. I was much struck with the tact dis played by the Romish Priests, who signed a paper which ap peared upon the walls only this morning, calling upon the Papists to be quiet, and the authorities would protect them ! —poor innocents, I wonder who would have offered them violence ; like the knife-grinder, sketched by Canning, they would be surprised if they were told to state the injuries they have received. But the paper deserves to be noted for its tardy appearance. Since last Wednesday the Irish papists have been daily, almost incessantly, harassinr , our operatives and injuring the property of conservatives, and ' yet no clerical reproof or counsel from their priests appears until the Rev. H. M`Neile, at the meeting on Friday evening, de nounces the violence of our opponents, and thus mark, the paper which appears attempts to throw the onus upon our friends. Who would not admire the ingenuity and ingeni ousness of a jesuit ? For what, let me ask, had 2,000 of our English operative brethren to appear in a body at the Town hall yesterday ? Was It not to demand protection, or to ob tain liberty from the chief magistrate to protect themselves ? And what nonsence to talk of the " authorities" protecting the men from whose violence the carpenters claimed protec tion ! I hope our loyal and devoted protestant friends, opera tives, tradesmen, and merchants, will follow up the excellent and judicious advice of the " Lion of St. Jude's ;" let the ruffian gangs of bludgeon-men shout and have their way ; let us stop at our homes regardless of their taunts and defy ins their malice—we are conscious of our strength, and can afford to be forbearing. Let us assist the authorities in pre serving peace ; let every man who may be tempted to resent an injury remember that he then plays the enemies game, and when the day of conflict arrives we shall be at our posts, our motto Sandon and Cresswell, our rallying cry England and St. George, our shout of victory for the perpetuity of our glorious constitution in church and state. 1 remain, Sir, yours, &c., R. G. J. Liverpool, 121 h June, 1841. CHEAP BREAD TO THE WOHIEPEOPLE OF ENGLAND Fellow Operatives,—Until recently we allowed ourselves to be humbugged by the most hollow set of hypocrites in the empire ; I mean the whig or millocrat faction. Experience, however, has taught us the utter faithlessness of these people —we have found out the secret of all their mock philan thropy, and that is, the attainment of wealth at the expense of our bones and sinews—that is all they want. See the game they are playing now in their attempt (vain attempt, I trust,) to delude us by their hideous and malig nant outcry against the corn laws : why, it is for the selfsame object they try to ruin the agriculturists, (better men a mil lion times over than themselves) in order that the labourers may come down to the manufacturing towns by thousands, so that they (the millowners) may have their work done for whatever they choose to give for it—and you can guess pretty nearly what that will be, when you are left to their tender mercy ; already they cast you away at middle age, when you are the most able and willing to work, and fill your places with females and children ; because you will not work for the next thing to nothing ; this statement is most conclu sively proved by that real philanthropist and patriot, Dr. Holland, of Sheffield. In his sixth letter to Mr. Mar shall, spinner, of Leeds, he proves, among many other im portant facts,—that the flax spinners of the United Kingdom in 1835, were 33,283, of whom only 4564 were adults above 18 years of age—the remaining 28,719 being females and children! ! Think of that. Again, in the silk manufactories, the proportion of children under 18 years old is 60 per cent., and of females 70 per cent., and many thousands of able-bodied men can only sarn 4s. 6d. to 6s. Gd. per week ; and multitudes of women and children for six days hard labour, receive only half that stun ! ! Think of that. The result of this system of employing women and children in place of men, is, that in the silk trade alone, the number of surplus hands created annually is 10,153, and in five years, 50,767 ! ! Ponder deeply on that also. Mr. Marshall's mill alone shows the following horrible re sults, as proved by his own evidence : Number of hands employed in one of his mi 115.... 1229 Number under 21 years of age of the above ...... 1025 Leaving only above the age of 21, and of which small number of 204, the greater number are under 30! The average wages paid to the above 1025 workpeople is just ss. 6d. per week wages paid of this too. Mr. .Holland adds with commendable indignity, ``you are -!ither killing or throwing upon society, as useless, from hav ing reached 21 years of age, at least 100 persons annually." So much then for these kind-hearted millocrats, who want cheap bread for us, just as they want cheap oil for their ma chinery; but let us not be quelled by the tyrants who them selves reside in palaces, and wallow in wealth and luxury, while they degrade us beneath the level of their beasts. They think that we have no sense to see, that, so long as they can get their work done by children, and STEAM MA CHINERY, there will be no use in our appealing to them for work, unless we do it for children' pay I Now let us see the effects of this sytem (of turning men out of employ to make room for the " free labour" of children) on the state of crime in this country. The committals for crime in England and Wales 4600 in 1825 were ................ The same under the present system : in 1838, were 22,000 Again, the number who have been in custody in the Leeds Borough Gaol, in 1816, was 364 ; and in 1836, 3202 ! ! Con sider this well. So much then for the neeredity of their system. Let us next see its effects on the duratien of human life. The proportion out of every 1000 persons who reach 70 years of age and upwards, are— In the agricultural districts of Durham and Devonshire 205 In the manufacturing districts of Manchester and Leeds 60i Here is a picture for your study, consider these things well, and then ask yourselves, what might be the objects of the millocrats in asking our aid to ruin ourselves. I might go on enlarging on the villainy and hypocrisy of these brawlers for cheap bread, which we all know by this time means low wages, or no wages at all. But this much may suffice for the present. I arn, &c., A FELLOW-OiTRATIVI ANTI-CORN-LAW AGITATION AT PRESCOT, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, I have no doubt it will be gratifying to the friends of order and the protectors of the rights of property to learn the na ture of a meeting, or pretence for a meeting, on anti-corn law principles, which was convened, or rather conveyed here from Liverpool on yesterday evening, and which was intended to be called a meeting of the inhabitants of Prescot. I at tended, amongst the mob (for there was no other description of persons present), when, to my utter disappointment, I found it was only a few of those teetotal preachers from Liverpool, hired by the whigs, and one of whom I imme diately recognised, wearing an old white hat, and may be seen on a Sunday mounted on an old cart, or something like it, in that waste ground near the Custom-house, announcing himself as a reclaimed drunkard and vagabond : as for a Prescot gentleman, there was no such amongst them, except a few who came down to shew their detestation of the pro ceedings. They were headed by a Mr. Hey worth, from near Knotty Ash, an old teetotal preacher, and a raving whig radical of the O'Connell and Melbourne minority. On their entering Prescot, I only pronounced the name of Lord Stan ley, when several cheers were heard from various parts of the throng, which shewed they were not all whig fools and dupes. I think they adopted certain resolutions, prepared before starting from Liverpool, and seconded by a few of the above description of persons, whom they brought with them for the purpose in something like a dung cart, with small flags, a loaf, &c. They got up a bit of music in the nature of a band, which, of course, attracted considerable numbers of the ignorant mob, chiefly Irish. Their text was followed by the doctrines of spoliation of property, and preached to those who had none, who, instead of supporting a set of such impostors, ought to be found with something like em ployment, for, if we had any means of getting reasonable em ployment, bread is cheap enough at present, and it will be poor consolation to see the number of our poor unemployed people increased by millions ; this will be a desperate sight to behold, and a very unwise accompaniment with cheap bread, but I believe people of property in every place are opposed to this foolish experiment; they are bound to pro tect themselves, and whilst thus protected, all Britain is then protected, and with them the labourer is protected in his wages, and every other tradesman thereby enabled to live. What the O'Connell party call monopoly is only the mono poly of every Englishman in our land over the foreigner and barbarian, to whose market we are bound as Englishmen not to resort for the produce which our own English neighbours can supply us with, and, with a repeal of the corn laws, they must repeal every other tax to enable us to purchase every thing then with ss. the same as we do now with 15s. Then who will defend the national independence? Tne whigs would just allow such a state of things so long as it suited their party purposes, but we could not rely on them to give us always cheap bread. It is no grant at all, if our wages are to be reduced along with it. In fact, if the cup of sweet cannot be given without a mixture of sour and bitter things, there is not the slightest confidence to be placed in the givers ; besides it is quite a new invention, a last expedient trick of the poor-law bill supporters. We must not put the slightest confidence in whigs.—l remain, sir, AN ADVOCATE FOR HIGH WAGES Prescot, 17th June, 1841. -..u5.----- SANDON v. PALMERSTON ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—A report is current that some conservatives intend recording their votes at the ensuing electfon for Lord Pal merston in conjunction with Lord Sandon. Let no man call himself a conservative who, at this important election, commits this fatal error. There must be no mistake about the matter. This battle will decide the fate of England—whether the institutions of the country and society are to be preserved, or gradually, but surely, fall under the tyranny of democracy and licentious ness. . Lord Palmerston is the representative of everything mis chievous belonging to whig doctrines, the most michlevous because the most talented of the party. Personally, he might effectually discharge the practical business of a representa tive, but any conservative who may vote fur him, will not only betray the sacred principles be professes, but tacitly admits he has no very strong objection to the measures of the movement. The disguise the whigs are attempting to assume of " anti-monopolists " is an electioneering trick, and nothing can equal its impudence except its shallow ab surdity. The object of the whigs is not free trade. The object of the tories is not monopoly. Those who assert that this is the matter in dispute, assert what they know to be a falsehood, and do so to mask intentions, that, even in this their hour of extremity, they will not venture to express. The whig government have never yet proposed free trade. The tories never yet insisted on monopoly. Let the conservative electors then oppose whig-radicalism under whatever polished guise he may make his appearance, and not sacrifice their constitutional monarchy by linking it to the putrid carcass of unlicensed democracy.-1 am, sir, yours obediently, CONSERVATOR. [We hope thei-e are few conservatives who require the warning:of our correspondent, or they deserve not the name. —Ed. L. S.] LITERARY NOTICEB. Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated. Part 5 Edited by N. P. Willis, Esq. G. Virtue, London. This part contains four engravings representing the scenery of Ireland, from sketches by Bartlett. The first is the "Ap proach to Killarney from the Kenmare Road ;" the second, the " Natural Bridge near Kilkee ;" the third, " Scene from the Sugar Loaf Mountain, Bantry Bay ;" the fourth, " Head of the Killeries, Connemara." They are beautifully executed. The literary part is extremely interesting and cleverly written. The account of the Siege of Derry is very graphic. Ireland, its Scenery, Character, 4.c. No. 8. By Mrs. S C. Hall. How and Parsons, 132, Fleet-street. This month's number contains a neat map of Limerick, and an engraving of King John's Castle and old Thomond Bridge, by Hinchlitfe, from a painting by T. Cresvrick, and many very cleverly executed •ignettes. The literary portion consists of a description of Limerick, with historical and topo graphical remarks ; an account of the Shannon River and country adjacent. There arc several very amusing tales and legends interspersed in the number, highly characteristic of the manners of the people. This is one of the cleverest works of the day. Whig-Radicalism v. Wesleyan Methodism, or Sayings and Doings of certain Liberal Divines and Statesmen, touch ing the Wesleyans and Methodism. London : Paul; Liverpool : Lace and Addison. This publication is well calculated to open the eyes of Wesleyans as to who are most likely to be the protectors and fosterers of the doctrines and discipline of their church—the falsely-styled liberals, or the zealous and consistent mem bers of the Established Church. The best and simplest method of exhibiting the drift and object of the pamphlet is to give a few extracts illustrative of its character. We sub join the sentiments of Daniel O'Connell, who is well known as the clamourer for what he calls " justice to Ireland" and " the repeal of the union." Wesleyans, hear his opinion of you and your system. "The Wesleyan Methodists, in the person of their founder, and from his days have, upon all occasions, shown them selves the enemies of f ree d o m of conscience." " You have at least appeared, if you were not really, amongst the ardent supporters of the enemies of the English Protestant Dissenters." " The Rev. John Wesley exhibited the most ardent but melancholy zeal in the cause of intolerance." " The Wesleyan Methodists, as far as the more liberal spirit of the present period will allow, countenance the prin ciple of religious persecution." " Your organization is extensive, and would be formidable but for its inherent spirit of charitable antipathy to your fellow-Christians." " I charge the Wesleyan Methodists with being inveterate enemies of freedom of conscience." " Your history is a short one, scarcely exceeding some eighty years. Show me within that period, that you have distinguished yourselves by any one act, or declaration, or movement, in favour of freedom of conscience or full religi ous liberty, indeed I may say in favour of either civil or re ligious liberty ; and I will blot out the word hypocrisy,' retract my charges, apologise most humbly, and write you down charitable Christians, and not intolerants and bigots." " I do believe that of all the errors that have deluded the human mind since christianity commenced, there are none so totally defenceless in the field of argument as the ever varying, contradictory, and fantastic doctrines of Wesleyan ism. There is no sect, society, or persuasion, that has lent itself to worse politics than the Wesleyans." We will next give a sample of the estimation in which Me thodism is held by the brawlers for " liberty of conscience." Thus speak Messrs. Bogue and Bennett, the two dissenting ministers, who published the " History of Dissenters." These personages are well known as fierce voluntaries, and hating methodisin ; these historians of dissent had not the manliness or the honesty fairly to attempt the contravention of its creeds and framework, but they must needs descend to gross misrepresentation and wilful perversion. But we give their language. " Mr. Wesley was, indeed, regarded as an Ishmael, for his hand was against every man, and every man's hand wa against him." " The multitudes which attended the preaching of Mr. Wesley were not so numerous as those who had flocked to Mr. Whitfield ; but the sudden impressions and load cries of the hearers were far greater than any thing we find re corded in the life of Whitfield, for Mr. Wesley was exactly in that state of mind which welcomes the marvellous." " Pelagianism, which the church of England condemns in her articles, asserts that the death of Christ was intended alike for all, and that all men have a certain light, or grace, which they may by their own power improve, and that this makes the difference between one man and another. Snch is the creed of the Arminian methodists." " Both of the methodist communions sent forth teachers exceedingly rude and uninformed ; but such were better fitted for Arminian than Calvinistic preachers. Arminianism be ing the common creed of the careless world, it is readily wel comed by the carnal mind, without any rigorous examina tion of its proofs or tendencies ; for there is no difficulty in convincing men of what they already believe." The opinions of Lord John Russell are then given, but these will be found in another column. We have not room for further extracts, but give the following appeal to the Wesleyan body, to which are appended many other excellent and appropriate remarks : " Return such men to parliament as Lord John Russell. Mr. Gibson, Mr. Baines, Sir Joshua Walmsley, andAlr. Brotherton, and you will then be lending your aid to the establishment of such schools all ov er th e ki ngdom ; and you will be taxed for the support of the monstrous doctrines taught in them ;—but remember also, you must be held indi vidually responsible for the results." TRIBUTE or RESPECT. —On Wednesday evening, the 16th June, the members of the Benevolent Union Society, held at Mr. J. Coombes's, Greenfield -street, Edge-hill, presented a very handsome and valuable snuff-box to their Secretary. with the following inscription engraved thereon :—" Pre sented to Mr. Rob er t C o l e b ourn, as a token of respect, horn the 13eneToleut Seeiety, 16th Jane, 1841. NEW BUILDINGS IN LIVERPOOL We have for some time past remarked (no doubt in com mon with other inhabitants of this town) that many ne w an d elegant buildings have risen to completion, or are in progress of erection, in several parts of the town,—not only churches and other public edifices, but commercial structures in the busier thoroughfares, and private domeciles in every direc tion. Their appearance is highly gratifying, whether regarded with reference to the greater accommodation and comfort which they afford, or to the general improvement of the town, by inspiring a more decided and general taste for architectural adornment, and its concomitant advantages— additional cleanliness and health. With these opinions we purpose to notice, from time to time, the more prominent structures called into existence by the talismanic wand of public or private enterprise, as being honourable to the par ties themselves, and benefical to the community at large. We are further induced to draw attention to the subject from the impression, that even in these comparatively depressed times, improvements are so rapidly, and, to those in the im mediate locality, almost imperceptibly made, that strangers, of whom numbers visit the town at this season of the year, trusting solely to the " guides" already published, might otherwise omit to notice them, on their casual rambles through the town; and we have that (we trust) blameless pride of locality about us, that prompts us to let them know how (as brother Jonathan would say) we are " getting a head." Amongst the new churches we may enumerate St. Bartho lomew, in Naylor-street, St. Barnabas' ' Greenland-street, St. Clement's, Wind s or, St. S av i our ' s , Upper Parliament street, St. Silas', Pembroke-place, Great George's-street Chapel, and others, all of neat ecclesiastical structure—more more or less fiord. We have also the Collegiate Institution, now being erected in Shaw-street, which, when finished, will be one of the finest specimens of the Tudor Gothic extant in the north of England. These and others we shall here after notice somewhat in detail, confining ourselves for the present to several of the new and handsome commercial buildings near the docks. After the widening of Lord-street and Dale -street, some years ago, two principal thoroughfares from the upper parts of the town to the river,—the intermediate streets, parallel with and rectangular to them, on the east side of Castle street, took up the spirit of improvement. North and South John-street, parallel with Castle-street, rose in ample width, and classical variegated design, out of the ruins of a compa ratively narrow, noxious, and crooked lane. More recently, some good commercial buildings have sprung up in Harring ton-street, leading out of Castle-street, and even in Elbow lane, which last, though, from the great value of land in that central quarter, it cannot readily be widened, has thereby undergone an astonishing change for the better. We in stance " Barned's Buildings." In Cook-street also, some good new buildings have been erected ; but it is to he lamented that this street was not previously widened, and carried in a direct line through to Whitechapel. The same remark will apply to an almost equal extent to Harrington-street. We come, however, to the west side of Castle-street, where the improvements are more immediate : Hedeross street, which once comparatively flourishing bad fallen some what " back in the world," is again resuming its import ance, and a substantial commercial building has recently been finished on the north side. James-street, amply widened, shows still greater advancement. On both sides at the top there are handsome new buildings, in varied styles of Grecian architecture—the new North and South Wales Bank, opposite the steeple of St. George's Church, being the principal. It is of extremely rich Grecian architecture. in fine stone, with two fronts, one to James-street, and the other to Fenwick-street ; but unluckily for the designer, the ground was too circumscribed, and from its great elevation, and rather heavy projecting cornicing, it resembles rather the wing of a large building than an isolated structure. We noticed it in detail last year, and still entertain the opinion that had the other wing been at the corner of Castle -street, with a colonnade central part between, it would have formed one of the finest, if not the finest building in Liverpool. On the south side James-street, a little lower down, a range of fine buildings commences, rounding into Preeson's-row. The street was widened from this side, and there is still some vacant ground. Over the coach-office at the corner, (and in Preeson's-row), there is inserted under a window of the new building, a stone antiquely letterd as follows— which we presume was taken out of the old house, part of which formerly stood on the spot, close to the old Castle of Liverpool : " E. A. I. " God's Providence hath been my inheritance. 1660." Lower down, on the same side, stands a handsome large stone building in the Grecian style, not yet entirely finished. It has shops below, the spaces between the windows (and the central door) being board pilasters, supporting a plain frieze and cornice. Over these, in the centre, is a colonnade of four lonic quarter three-quarter columns, rising so as to in clude the other two stories. There are two wings with pilas ters to correspond with the columns, which project a little beyond them. There are seven large windows in each story. The main cornice and blocking above is very neat, and the whole, though not florid, bears a substantial, classical and neat appearance. The lower windows will be fitted with patent iron shutters. The buildings on the other side, at the top, are also new, and the whole street will shortly form the most handsome, appropriate and shortest thorough fare to George's-pier, the principal site of the steam traffic of the port. Fenwick-street, parallel to Castle-street, on the west, exhibits, if possible, still greater advances. From being bat a few years ago a comparatively dirty narrow lane beset with unseemly brick warehouses, it is rapidly becoming a fine. though not very wide street, adorned by buildings which in point of architectural embellishment and modern conve nience, surpasses the best erections in our " pet" Castle street itself. Opposite to the splendid western front of the North and South Wales Bank, (before noticed,) are build ings, in which are the offices of the British and American Steam Navigation Company, handsome Grecian erections with classical embellishments. Next are " Britannia Buildings," belonging to Mr. Jones, baker and cheese factor, very tastefully designed, and highly creditable to him as a British tradesman. Further northward, them is now in progress of erection, a splendid commercial pile, to be called " Ewart's-build ings," the property of J. C. Ewart, Esquire. These will have three fronts, the two principal being on the north to Brunswick-street, and on the east to Fenwick-street. The minor front, or rather the bank, is to the " Old Ropsry." The premises occupy a very large area of ground, and in giv ing some short account of their style of architecture, we an ticipate the reality, as they have scarcely yet' reached the height of the first story. A. great number of workmen are however, employed, and we hope to witness the " rearing" of them in a few months. The nrchiteet is Mr WillinnlF, jiule,ins t knyn the de- signs, as - well as the work hitherto accomplished, we are scarcely premature in our expectancy that the pile, en tirely of stone, will, when completed, add another orna ment to our town. The design is mixed Grecian. The principal elevation is towards Brunswick-street, and though entirely unadorned by columns, or even pilasters, it will be otherwise so enriched as to present a very elegant and pleas ing appearance. The ground story, already nearly at its height, is rusticated, with rusticated rock-work octagonal quoins, at the corners. A moulded plinth runs under the windows of superior drab-coloured Yorkshire stone. Finely carved trusses support the sill string, and under each window is a fluted panel. The windows have moulded jambs and heads. In the centre will be two doors, one the entrance to the offices on the ground floor, the other to those above. Between these will be a fanned window, the whole orna mented with wreath-work above, of the same elevation. These doors and the window will be semicircularly topped, each having a bold key-stone, on which is carved a human head. The upper stories are of the ionic order. There will, in each of these, be a row of seven large windows, those of the middle with architrave jambs, and heads forming a segment in the mould ; those in the upper story with similar jambs, but surmounted by pediments supported by trusses. The cornice will be enriched with medillions, and the frieze with floriated raised ornaments, empanelled. Over the blocking will be placed, at considerable distances, Grecian ornaments in the form of a leaf. The front to Fenwick-street will cor respond in every respect, with rows of nine windows in each of the upper stories. The first story will be of freestone, from Rathbone-street quarry ; the upper stories of stone from Storeton Hill. Beyond this building in Fenwick-street we have the Union Bank, designed by the same architect Mr. Benson, of Man ehester), as the North and South Waits Bank, and an almost equally fine structure. Further on are " India Buildings," and opposite them the Parish Offices ; the former, which is in the lonic style, with three-quarter fluted columns, rising from the rustic basement, a pleasing revival of the Grecian. In Water-street there are also some fine build ings, but our limited space constrains us to conclude for the present. VANDINHOFF AND THS INDIAN CHIEF.—The Sioux and loways, whom we visited at the National Hotel, were not so fine a race of men as the Sauks and Foxes, nor so well dressed, but they were far more communicative. Some of them, indeed, talked with us at great length. Mr. Vanden hoff, the English actor, happened to be in the room at the time ; and being struck with the appearance of scars from burns, running up the arm of one of the chiefs, from the wrist to the shoulder, he wished to know how it happened ; but the interpreter being in another part of the room, and engaged, he was unable to communicate with the Indian, ex cept through the language of pantomime; be accordingly pointed to the sears, and then, by a variety of significant signs, intimated his wish to know how they occurred ; upon which, the chief performed these several motions : he first held his hand horizontally before his body, as if grasp ing a cup or basin, while with his right he performed the motion of lifting something from the ground, out of which he poured liquid into the stationary vessel. He then lifted this vessel to his mouth, and, turning back his head, and gurgling his throat, made signs of drinking copiously. His next ac tion was to rise, and reel about, as though growing gradually intoxicated, until he became unable to stand ; when he de scribed a large heap of something, with flames ascending and falling : on this he began to roll about with agony, and rnb his right arm as the part chiefly affected. Mr. Vandenboff exclaimed, " I see it—whisky, whisky !" at which the old man nodded assent with a smile. The fact was, as we after wards learnt, that the white people had made him drunk, as they too often do, with ardent spirits, and he had fallen on a large wood fire, and thus got dreadfully burnt.—Buckitiyham's America. THE Why, sir, I'll tell you what I heard a man say one day, not long ago. I was bringing some Erris people on this very jaunting-car from the fair of Ballina. They were talking, as they walked up this very bill, of acci dents happening their cattle, and one of them tould what I am now going, as well as I can remember, to say to your ho nour. "There was a neighbour of mine,' says he, coming one evening, as we now are, from a fair in the " Arable" '— Mal, your honour, is the name the Erris mountaineers give the good land in our country about Ballima and Crosmolina— and just on this very road he met a concourse of people and cattle coming along as if returning from a fair, and as he cast his eye on the drove of beasts, sum enough he saw, though he could scarcely believe his eyesight, two bullocks of his own which some time before were drowned in a bog hole. By dad,' says be, this is quare ; but any how here are my cattle—l'd swear anywhere to my own brand ; I'm in the best of good luck this night, and home I'll drive them.' So with his stick he tould off his two bullocks from • he rest, and giving them a good welting to force them on, he was hastening away with his recovered property, when he hears a man following and shouting after him, where are you going with my bastes?' So he stopt a little, and up comes a man he knew once very well, but who was long ago dead and buried, and that he had good rason to know, for he was first husband to his own wife (Paddy being married to a widdy.) ' Och then, Paddy M'Cormick, where are you going, you thieving son of a , with my cattle ?' They're not yours I'd give my Bible oath, but they're my own. Wouldn't I swear to them anywhere, and m yowi e i brand on them ? And why should you, Terry after elaning them, seeing as how you are long deadago t's that to buried, and I am married to your widdy ?" The you to what call has the likes of _ you, you ignoramus, you . d, at any rate, I know the ins and outs of these matters ? and, Barrett, a a b d have as good a right' to your dead eattle, in the bog hole of Poulehesare, as you the best of the bargin, wife. I won't say, Paddy, who b e a n s d with that he hits him whohave d t i o e d m h y o n u e r s i t n l g y but any how I'll have the cattle;' d Paddy was sot backward, a polthoge with his cudgel, for up comes a faction of you may swear ; but they e of them Paddy knew to he long were not I p e e ft op lo le n t g a to nd th u e . m ha s t elv w e a s s , until their downwak strange all out, every:n e and berrin'—and y t e h s e koocked out of him, and there he lay ago dead—shouldn't -13 he went, the fell k n to ov r a it, t, beating wn of f a Paddy was at senses you may be sure when he awoke there until morning, and neither man nor baste to be seen ; but all around his headwa, a cro p of fairy mushrooms growing. Oeh, then, if even / look, says pat, ' afther dead cattle, may rnushroonis b e my bed insbead of the best of feathers:—Okray€ Sketches in Ifrris.