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T U° TO Visitors to Liverpool t PATTERNS may he with promptness and with Messrs. DISMOR SPOONS, Fonics, &4 the same pr LADIE DRES WRIT! ENVEL( SELL] A T GAS CONS IN BUR KID 'GLOVES CLEA Liverpool, Mrs. lin Warehouse, NI Rock Ferry and culating Library, Stationery, New New Ferry. B. LO * Blond der Cleaned and Dyed so A Box despatched to Lo PIANO- CABINET PIAI in Rosewood. A new Square PIANO-FORTE merits, a delightful Instrument, by Also, a Brilliant 'I Half Octaves. Two other Squall A Logier's CHI May be seen at SHAD SIC WAREHOUSE, New Songs and New Day, Week, or Month. COUNTY C IXTHERE, V V day of Augustus 1 Earl of Inve most honourable Master of th Free and Acc pointed LE GEND Provincial Grand 11 of the great power, the said Le Gendr€ me to be his Dep DRINRWATEA. do GRAND LODGI Liverpool, on Tut Ten O'clock in the I nual Business of th Given under my 1 verpool aforesaid, t! Masonry 5841, and By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS LECTIO T. JAMES'S WALK, MOUNT GA[ TRE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS, by which :FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES of the Human Countenance and Person are " won from the hand of Nature" in the short space of a few seconds, respect fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and inhabitants of Lancashire, that the Extraordinary Process ,erpool having granted the site of .f, ST. JAMES'S WALE, a neat and as been erected thereon, in which the IC APPARATUS, the discovery of which ~.”..rpat scientific achievements of the The Corporation the late OBSERVA elegant Building I PH OTOGRAPI is ranked amo present age, is r THE PRICE A FRAME, IS: LILY OPERATION. ACEI PORTRAIT,INCLUDING ONE GUINEA. JOHN RELPH, Manager, The Invention w the ROYAL PoLvi the following are a ing to its r 7 the Timm) THE PHOTOGRA ATURES been so far perfeetet improvement. The being furnished in t more correct U Ogled artist stu' , coup. togei4 technic Institntior the short period of was crowded fo. their turn. TI process—for so object desired, t From the ro a quarter of an inch th and it is so ingeniously In a portion of the roo seat is placed, on which taken sits tion the sitter direction, abot to be im pr esse seconds, t likeness is were admirable formities being alike ashamed of their perso the influence of photos (Prom t bed paint on Ivor ANDELI L I . D E t construction), HOUSE, U' GLASGOW , Clayt nenberg most A - AMES NORRIS from the 1 PFIOTO on Mond, witnes by the phut nobility an, deen, and at the rapidity % men were VI It is, in fa, short of a co Pll OTOC miniature the likene of fact, f makes tone in the 1 wonderful and e.xtraordina traiture are fond of bein patronise the nliotn,..ni,;, tore portrait which waits upon the to produc operate s enable the mirror, anc rial of the most prec while living, a discovery, of being fixe likeness, (for t for eop paintin 30XES, CASES, 4CRIFICI H 0 PER CENT ERS, AND , at Sixpence per Pair, by Co., London. Sinallware and Fancy Ber in-square. s. J. LOMAX, Cir- Toys, and Fancy e Post-office), every article in Embroi linal to new, as usual. 'riday evening GAINS ! ! Half Octaves, 7ith all new improve- Loudon Maker. PIANO, Six and a lad-hand , OW • CHEAP PIANO and MU :MIX-STREET, where all the c arc Lent on Hire by the IN DIVISION out the 14th Duke of Sus- Knight of the &c. &c., Grand le Fraternity of 2stauted and ap- Esquire, M.P., ountv. to be his and by virtue :posed in me by squire, in appointing 11 Mater , I, JOHN rata PROVINCIAL Le Adelphi Hotel, in October next, at the transaction of the An- . ~f the P. G. Lodge, at Li day of September, in the year of our Lord 1811 DRI WATER, D.P.G.M P. G. Secretary. When we formerly describ site for taking a portrait was minutes ; but in c have been madc, I conds on a c operation may The portr as likenesse own delinea delineated, an nary, that the eating sight crowds daily to t The patentee has taking likenesses. space of fivt down on a r simile of the ter. I be the artist, a leaving imrc could effect PHOTOGRAPHIC turd ay of the extraordinary process of etlecting apparatus, lately patented, ,e brought before the public. By the perfect likenesses are taken. in the _pace of trom ten to five and twenty seconds ! We say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of taking portr and now for thi photographic y that object the fault c be attriba, may res Although t and of son' been visited I Among and gratificatia at the r paratus a likenesses The pat 3n, therefore, being thus unerring, htest failure in likeness can only )erson sitting, which, of course, unnatural position sheen only of a private character, ch m w unde . rstand that it has e rarties pos sing the privilege nfluential personages present on Saturdey, we Irl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise le extraordinary invention. Court Journal.) , I , II3SSES. — We attended yesterday by the patentee of the reflecting ap itution, by which photo graphic h the greatest accuracy, in a We were de- to twenty the Morning Post.) 'opted the principle of ) the public at a very moderate of miniatures, trusting to possess them, which he ons who would cherish the or tniiac rRAITS.—We took an opportunity tine the Polytechnic Institution, to in which portraits are taken :'he room was crowded with ig whom we noticed Lord Aber rsons of rank, each of whom, in I their delight and astonishment portraits of different gentle reale fidelity in the execution. le portraits to be any thing copy of natur From the Ob:. appearance of the iezzotint engraving, i of opinion, but a plain matter i is tt :her similar operations, • such subtilty of touch and fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence x this is a most TY exhibition Those who in por- " flattered," will certainly not c method of taking likenesses ; but, who want the real thing, and we 'ijority, will unquestionably spend ass in the production of a ininia ers and mothers, wives, sisters, 1." Separate rooms are also lemen, and a female attendant in arranging the dress so as i l liWari76;ette.) —ror some time it WaS could ever be brought to face and form, so as to .ng and effective likeness, stroying the picture in its ind repeated experiments, ' over the difficulty ; and are now taken, from a ; the time varyinit lATURE PICTURES. —It is the sitter. It is ..ccurate lookinir t the Photographic likeuesP s ved from the surface of the It is an everlasting tnemd. 11 -7—and tnerefore the ,viso love bin n to tilos -.I when dead. It is ‘he sitter from the tediurri . )n for many an hour for his led in the sixth part themselves the surest guide ...-.;,,;!:rnre. or in eio and Orders receive 1. at Mr. f. Ts, 100, Bold-street. gtrangel Orders NEWEST . 1 daily communication Icturer4, London. from this Port, at OFF S E S ENTS COTTAG I into England, at IN, LONDON ; and ding Journals The principle has most incapable of further endant upon the fact of of five - seconds with the most seem- days of laborious of the weather, drei onables, at the Poly t 'notwithstanding ration, the room her, by parties anxiously waiting miated for the magical Nell calculated for the ow of the institution. a the hig' n is const rutted of blue glass, of about ery powerful light is obtained, o revolve with the sun. in the centre, an elevated :y whose likeness is to be backwards. In this posi- ;s box, in an opposite is placed the plate - - lg done so for afew minutes afterwards grapny. he Mor which we saw auties and de- ; therefore those who are ance had better keep from ny Chronicle.) this process, the time requi meral:y speaking,. about four the great improvements that cluced to about five se- but dunnz cloudy dull weather the From a minute and a half to two mi- this means are really extraordinary rue to nature, for nature here is her tures are admirably marked out and esses at first sight are so extraordi- Advertiser.) .—One of the most inter- ble to conceive is now attracting technic Institution, Regent-street. __ the " photographic mode of this process, in the incredibly short likeness of any individual is taken , and the portrait is a perfect fac is nature herself that is called in to performance is truly astonishing, hind it everything that human skill 0 Herat were present on Sa- BOLD.. TREI if FERGUSON begs to announce, that lie has just ve t o ceiv,ed a large supply of Materials expressly n tured for CHILDREN'S DRESSES The 6ilowing are specified : FRENCH MERINOS, in various shades ; SCO:CH TARTANS, of various Clans ; PRINTED and PLAIN VELVETS ; PRINCESS ROYAL CHECKS ; PRUNELLA CLOTHS, in various shades; CHA LLY PLAIDS; WOOLLEN CLOTHS, &c., &c. All these of the best qualities, and will be sold in any lengths to suit. Customers. 30th September, 1811 GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. VANDERGUCHT AND TURTILL, TAILORS AND DRAPERS, HAVE the honour of informing their Patrons, Strangers, and Visitors of Liverpool, that they have received their Autumn supply of Fashionable GOODS, which are of the first class for Durability, Taste, and Elegance. Their importation of FOREIGN VELVETS, SATINS, LA MARENES, DIOMEDE PLUSH, and CASHMERES, for VEST INGS, form a combination of Native and Foreign Talent, unequalled for effect and purity of design. ALBERTINI and FLORENTINE BLAVERS for ITAGLIONI, CHESTERFIELD, and PROMENADE TOP COATS, with every variety of New and Fashionable TROUSERING, of superior Style and Quality. American Captains and Gentlemen Passengers will derive great advantages by Purchasing at this Establishment, as every Article is warranted of the very best description, and offered on such terms as defy competition. The Proprietors also beg to state, that they have formed a Continental connexion, through the medium of which they will receive every novelty in Dress, as produced in succes- sion. First-rate London Talent is secured in the Cutting De partment to guarantee an elegant and perfect fit. 56, CASTLE-STREET, (Late DAVIS and CO.) AN ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM OF THE TEA TRADE COMMENCED on WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, on the Premises, No. 81, CKURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL, (OPPOSITE THE LIVER. THEATRE,) UNDER THE MANAGE MENT OF Messrs. SNOWDON and BROWNLOW. AT a period like the present, when about T en Thousand Chests of Spurious Leaves, in imitation of Tea, brought from Bombay and Sincapore, and about Four Thousand Bags of Tea that was wrecked off the Skerries, in the vessel Mary Elizabeth, but picked up from the wreck, brought to this town, washed and kiln-dried, and now in the hands of those Tea Dealers and Grocers who profess to supply the inhabi tants with Genuine Teas, nothing can be more desirable than an opportunity being afforded to Families and Respectable Dealers of PURCHASING THEIR TEAS DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER, The PROPRIETORS of the NEW TEA ESTABLISHMENT, feeling the importance of this truism, as affecting the inter ests of large classes of the community, and knowing that since the Abolition of the East India Company's Charter in 1829, TEA HAS BEEN IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL IN LARGER QUANTITIES than to any other PORT IN THE KINGDOM (London Excepted), without a corresponding advantage to the Consumer, an inducement has been held out to open the present Establish ment, the Proprietors having the fullest confidence that the Patronage of a discerning Public will not be withheld to enable them to carry out their views, when endeavouring TO REFORM THE ABUSES IN THE TEA TRADE, it being their anxiobs wish and strong determination that ECONOMY SHALL BE COMBINED WITH LUXURY in Supplying the INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL AND LANCA SHIRE WITH " REAL" TEA. LIVERPOOL, the second Port in the world, from its advantages of A DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA. and the facilities it affords as a market for purchasing stock, it is natural to infer would have hitherto furnished Teas to the public at something like a reasonable profit, or at any rate at a less price than towns more remote from the place of debarcation. Such, however, not being the fact, the ob ject of this establishment is to supply the public with an article which forms a most essential item in the expenses of almost every family, on THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS, viz., TIIE SMALLEST PROFIT, from the importer to the con- sumer. The Proprietors of the Establishment being intimately connected with one of the first Houses iu London, they will be enabled to take advantage of that market as circumstances may require. CAUTIONING THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE SPU RIOUS MIXTURE OF DRIED LEAVES, which has lately been imported in large quantities, and has found its way into the hands of COUNTRY DEALERS, we beg to inform them our whole time and attention will be devoted to the selection of the two articles Tea and Coffee ; the inferior, and in many instances deleterious, mixtures brought to this country since the abolition of the East India Company's Charter, rendering it highly necessary that all persons engaged in the sale of it should be well experi enced in the tasting and examining of them. THE OVERLAND INDIA MAIL arrived in London on the 4th ultimo, bringing news from China up to May 19th date ; and on reading the private letters, we find that Captain Elliot had effected a truce with the Chinese commissioner, thereby enabling our merchants to get about eleven millions of pounds of Tea (equal to three months' supply for this country) shipped, which has caused quite a panic in London Tea market, attended with a fall of about one shilling per pound on all sorts, within the last three weeks, thus making them as low in price as those now on their way to this country cost the merchants importing ; for we find the lowest quality of Congou sold in Canton, at 25 to 27 taels, equal to about ls. sd. of our money, to which must be added at least sd. per lb. for the expenses of ship ping them to England—together making a cost of l.s. led. per lb. for the lowest Congou to the importers. Still we find, that at the London Public Tea Sale of the 7th ultimo, (at which the most of our stock has been purchased.) Congou characterised by the Tea brokers—good middling Tea, blackish leaf, and strong, (which is at least 6d. per lb. better than the lowest quality,) sold at Is. Md. to Id. per lb. ; and very fine qualities, bearing a character. Superior Tea, strong and full Pekoe flavour, even wiry black leaf, only fetched 2s. 51d. per lb., being, as we before stated, as near as possi ble, the present cost to the importer. To the sale prices acid the duty, 2s. 2d. per lb., which shows that a really useful family Tea costs us in London 4s. 2id. per lb., and quality as tine as it is our intention to advise any family to use, 45. ad. Having been fortunate enough to lay in our stock during the present extraordinary fall in prices, war rants us in saying we can offer an advantage to the public which no other house in the trade can, for it is a well known fact, that (prior to the last news from China,) nearly every person connected with the Tea trade, and even private speculators believing the Emperor of China had ordered all the Tea in his dominions to be destroyed, bought to a very great extent, at prices one shilling per pound above what they are at present. In professing to have this great benefit to offer, we do not boast of any foresight or wonderful advantages over our fellow-traders, it arising merely from our arrangements not being so complete as to enable us to lay in our stock earlier than the Ist ult. At the same time we do not feel too con fident that the present very low prices will continue long, as most of the merchants refuse to submit to so alarming a sacrifice, and we also find by the private India letters, that although Captain Elliot bad effected this truce it was liable to be cancelled by an edict from the Emperor any minute, — in fact our merchants quite expected such would be the case, as vast troops of Chinese soldiers was encamping near Can ton,—so that the next advices may inform us of an entire stoppage of the British trade;—therefore it is our duty to advise all families, and large consumers, to purchase freely at the present prices, they being as low (of good qualities) as was ever known, and in giv in g this advice we wish the public to bear in mind it is solely for their benefit, as the system we shall introduce into our establishment is to to charge a profit of 3d. per lb., so that should the next news from China cause an advance in the value we shall make a corresponding one. We before stated that useful family Congou cost us (duty paid) in London 4s. 21d. per lb., and really fine qualities 4s. 7d. per lb., add ld. per lb. for the carriage here, thus making the costs 4s. 31(1.- and 4s. 81(1., which enables us to offer them at prices lower than has been quoted for many months past, and until a change in the market takes place will be as follow BLACK Sound Breakfast Congou Useful Family Ditto, with strength—recommended Superior Full Strong Pekoe Flavour Ditto, recom mended to all consumers as quite good enough for general use .. Very Rich Full Flavour PekoeSouchong, long crapy leaf. This is the finest Tea in the country 6 0 For the accommodation of connoisseurs we shall keep a supply of the choicest qualities of Flowery and Orange Pe koes, Ning Yong, Ankoi Pouchong, Tetsong, Howqua's Mix ture, and all other rare sorts, but do not recommend them for general use, their peculiar flavours rendering them un palateable to most persons s. d. 4 0 4 6 GREEN Useful Twankay Good Middling Hyson-kind, pale brightish leaf—re- commended - Full Flavoured Hyson, brightish leaf—recommended as quite good enough for family purposes.. Superior Hyson, long twisted and bright leaf Cowslip Hyson, of very choice quality. This Tea is only fit to be mixed with Pekoe Souchong, its main quality _ ‘, being flavour Canton-made Young Hyion Ouchain, or Real Young Hyson—recommended .. 5 6 Canton-made Gunpowder Ditto Imperial Ditto Fine Ditto Ditto Very choice Gunpowder, bright shotty leaf 7 6 Persons buying an original chest, of 801bs, or a half-chest, gain the merchant's overweights, which vary from 2 to 31bs on a chest, and from 1 to 21bs on a half chest. We must now draw your attention to the other branch of our business, viz., Coffee, which we regret to say is as se riously adulterated as Tea. and, if possible, to a more alarm ing extent, which is easily shown by the fact that the con sumption of Chiccory has within the last three years increased fully fifty fold; and about a twelvemonth since several retail tea dealers and grocers were summoned by the excise officers for having large quantities on their premises. Since which (we suppose upon the same principle that duty was allowed to be paid to government upon the four thousand chests of tea that had deen wrecked, then brought to Liverpool, washed, and dried on kilns) government has allowed the free use of it upon payment of a small duty, therefore it is now used with impunity • and the value of it, duty paid , not being more than 5d per lb, offers too great a temptation for the generality of dealers to resist it ; consequently, we advise Families to purchase their Coffee in the berry, thereby en suring a genuine article, assuring them the small outlay of buying a coffee-mill will soon be repaid. We shall roast our Coffees twice a week, viz., Tuesdays and Fridays. Our present prices (which, like our Teas, will vary as the market value changes) are as follows : COFFEES, Whether ground or in the Berry, will be genuine s. d. Good Ceylon Strong Berbiee Good Jamaica. (A very useful Family Coffee, and recommended for general purposes.) Very choice full-flavoured Jamaica (As fine a Coffee as need be used.) Mocha, the finest parcel imported for some time.. _ (Chiefly used by Connoisseurs.) Relying upon the judgment of the Public for that support andatron age w hi c h i s necess ary to the maintenance of an Establishment upon the principles on which its foundation is bas ed , we are N LO W. Your faithful and obedient servants , SNOWDON and BROW P.S.—Our V ans will deliver all Goods, within three miles of the Liverpool Exchange, free of charge; but to insure de livery the same day, the order must be given not later than four o'clock, as the Vans will start their rounds at five. Fa milies and Shopkeepers, resident in the adjacent towns, may rely upon punctual attention to their orders per Post ; but as our terms are Cash only, it will be necessary to enclose about the amount of the Goods, or an order upon some person in Liverpool for payment. A,NNIVIMAARY, HOLI4IfS'S GREAT CLOTH MART, IuTOBER th4 - Ist being the Anniversary of the apenit i v of the above Establisbment, the Proprietor begs return sincere thanks to his Friends and the Public for their unparalleled support. The Proprietor having just returned from the Market, is now enabled to offer an immense Stock of Autumn and Win ter Goods, including WATERPROOF BEAVERS, &c., at surprisingly low prices. Wholesale Buyers and Tailors, Purchasers of Woollen Goods, will do well to give an early call. HOLM E'S GREAT CLOTH MART, 69, PARADISE-STREET, OPPOSITE THU CUSTOM-HOUSE. TO FAMILIES FURNISHING romAs BRADLEY returns his most. sincere thanks Tfor the very flattering patronage he has received front his Friends and the Public at large, for the last six years, and takes this opportunity of informing them that he is about to take his brother, Mr. W. G. Bradley, into Partnership ; in consequence of which, his present larg e and splendid Stock of CABINET and UPHOLSTERY GOODS will be SOLD OFF at reduced prices, for One Month only, pre vious to Alterations in the Premises, to commence on Mon day next, the 4th instant. 58, Richmond-row, (opposite Comus-street,) October Ist; 1841. THE COALBROOKDALE COMPANY RESPECTFULLY announce. that they have now OPENED their Extensive Premises, in Liverpool, for the Sale of BAR, BOLT, ROD, HOOP, AND SHEET IRON, RIVET, ANGLE BARS, AND BOILER PLATES. Also, a general Assortment of CASTINGS and IRON GOODS, for Home Use and Exportation, an inspection of which is respectfully solicited. JOSEPH ROBINSON, Agent Warehouses, James-street and Seabrow. LESSONS IN WRITING AND BOOKKEEPING. THE CHEAPEST, most EXPEDITIOUS, and CERTAIN mode of acquiring a free and beautiful HAND-WRIT ING, is to take a few lessons of Mr. THOMPSON, whose System and Experience as a Teacher have stood the test for THIRTEEN YEARS in Liverpool. • This of itself speaks volumes.. BOOKKEEPING by Double Entry, as practised in the Merchants' and Brokers' Offices. For Cards of Terms, &c. apply at the CIRCULATING LIBRARY, No. 8, Clayton-square. RAILWAY ACCIDENT, WBOWNESS avails himself of the medium of a • Newspaper to inform his Friends residing in Liver pool and the neighbourhood, that he is favourably recovering from the effects of the late disastrous occurrence near Preston, and begs to solicit the indulgence of those who have favoured him with commissions which are not yet commenced, as well as those whose Portraits are in progress for a few weeks or a month, as he trusts by that time he will be able to resume his professional duties. Victoria Hotel, Fishergate, Preston, October 4tb, 1841. N.B.—Any communication for W. 8., left with Mr, BURTON, 69, Bold-street, will be duly forwarded. SEYSSEL ASPHALTE COMPANY. " CLARIDGE'S PATENT", ESTABLISHED 1838. Principal Depals MARSEILLES; STANGATE, LON DON; and LIVERPOOL. HE Parent Company having taken the. IN ORKS in T ASPHALTE, in the Liverpool District, under their own management, solicit the attention of Engineers, Archi tects, Builders, and others to the valuable properties of the Material, which has been extensively used in this County for nearly Four Years, for the following purposes : FOOT PAVEMENTS, public TUN Room FLOORS ; and other ; I M ALT HOUSE FLOORS ; KITCHEN FLOORS ; PIGGERIES, &e. &C. St( BASEMENTS, where it is es sential to keep damps from COVERING OF RAI/ ROAD and other AREIHES, the only effectual mode to prevent the percolation of Water, which also renders it very appropriate for the LINING OF TANKS AND FISII Tising : GARDEN WALKS AND TF.R- RACES; CARRIAGE DRIVES ; COACH HOUSES AND STA- BLING ; DOG KENNELS PONDS. • BARN FLOORS ; DRAINS, &C. &C. The Directors flatter themselves that, in their arrange ments for the execution of the foregoing works in Liverpool and the surrounding district, they will be completed in such a manner as to ensure for them the patronage not only of Engineers, Architects, and Builders, but of the Public in general. Testimonials of the highest description have been presented to the Company, copies of which may be obtained at the Works, and from Mr. WILLIAM BENSON, Architect and Surveyor to the Company, No. 2, Commerce-court, Lord-street, Liverpool. J. FARRELL, Secretary. Liverpool, June, 1841. G AME LISTS .---COUNTY OF LANCASTER SECOND PUBLICATION.] Arranged and Published by R. Hall. Surveyor, Manchester PERSONS WHO HAVE OBTAINED GAME CERTIFICATES FOR THE YEAR 1841 List I.—General Game Certificates at £4 Os. 10d. each Aldred Thomas Reddish Ashburner John Ulverston Ashworth John .. Cuerdale Atkinson John . . Broughton East Bailey Samuel Golborne Barrow Wm. A. Windle Barrow Edward .. Allithwaite Lower Berry Peter.. Worsley Blackshaw Samuel Chorley __. Brundett James Clayton Burscough Thomas Brindle Caldwell Thomas Ashton Clark John Ulverston Clegg Joseph Coupe Thomas Coward John .. Ulverston Cunliffe R. E Pendleton Davis J. 0. Halker Lower Dutton William Halewood Entwistle Jno. Smith Rochdale Entwistle Robert Kersley Entwistle William Rusbolme Fletcher James Bury Froggatt William Garstang John Gillow William .. Preston Gray William Tonge-with-H a u 1 gli Hall Rowland Bolton Hesketh Roger Formby Higgin W. H. Lancaster Higgin John, jun, . Hindle John Fowden Howitt James Rainford rlam Manchester Knowles James . Tonge-with-llaulgh Latham James .......... Hindle Lloyd Wm. Jones Cheetham Lord James. Lord John Bacu Machell J. P Egton Machell Thomas Manby Rev. J. R. G..... Lancaster Mascale Martin Bolton Mc. Alpin Edward L Commersdale, Scotland Ormerod James. Owen Thomas Bolton Hulme Patterson John Ulverston Peatfield Rev. John West Bridgeford, Nottingham Polding William Blackburn Reade Thomas Clayton-le-Woods Redmayne W. F. Lancaster Richmond Richard Thornton Rideout George Minshull Vernon Rothwell Rd. Renshaw Sephton Rothwell W. Molyneux Sephton Rowland Samuel Liverpool Seddon John Senior Samuel Sergeant John West Derby Shaw Thomas Everton Smith Robert Tyldesley Snailham Thomas Longton Steers Spencer Halewood Stockdale W. F Halker Lower Tarbuck William Tasker James Taylor James Heywood Thackeray William Turner Charles Tweedale Edward .... WalmesleyJohn. Wignall Thomas Lancaster Everton Wilson J. J. List 2.—Gamekeepers not being Assessed Servants, at £•1 Os. 10d, each. Bullock William.. Withnell—appointed by Stephen ] Bair, Esq., for Withnell. Schofield James ... Over Hulton—by Wm. Halton, Esq., for Over Hutton, Middle Hutton, A ther ton, Westhoughton, Rumworth, and Longworth. List 3.—Gamekeepers being Assessed Servants, at £1 7s. Gil. each Corlass James Halliwell—appointed by Peter Ainsw( in It, Esp., for Halliwell and Little Bohm t. Aighton—by the Rev. Francis Daniel,. - for Aighton. Farnworth—py Geo. Piggott, Esq.,, :for Great Leve , Great Bolton, Durcy L evt Tonge-with-Haulgh, and Little Hu tto n. Church—by Robert Peel, Esq., for Clam At and Accrington. Rivington—by _Robert Andrews, Esq.„ :for Rivington. List of Persons Licensed to Deal in Game. Farrar James. Fisher Henry Manchester Gleudinning Robert Liverpool Sidebotham John Tomlinson John.... Made up to the 25th of September, 1811. By order of the Board, CHARLES PRESSLY, Secretary.. Holden Henry Lomax George Saar John Worsley James Stamps and Taxes PENALTIES.—The Commissioners of Stamps atnal Taxes hereby give notice, that every person taking, killii ~ or pursuing game, without first obtaining a certificate, inctins a penalty of £2O, and is also liable to be surcharged in doulAtt the amount of the certificate duty. Any person in pursuit of game refusing, on being duitv required, to produce his certificate, or to permit the same tcs be read, or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare , his true name and place of residence, also incurs a penalty' of 1:20. Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a certificate , at the rate of £1 7s. 6d. will not authorise any person to. kill game beyond the limits of the manor for which he is de-- puted ; and, in order that a certificate at such rate of duty may protect a gamekeeper, it is requisite, not only that he should be deputed by some lord or lady of a manor or . reputed manor, but also that such de p utat ion should be . registered with the clerk of the peace, or the gamekeeper will. be liable to be surcharged in double the duty of 1:4 Os. 10d., and also be prosecute d by any common informer t'or the: penalty of £2O. - N. B. It is the intention of the Commissioners of S tam p s. a d li en d e T es ax o e f s a t l o l personsPubib' in a separate list , the names and rest surcharged in double duty for sporting. without certificates. REVIIION OP VIZ MUNICIPAL LIST The court for the revision of tho. municipal lists opened m Friday last, before the Mayor, Thomas Bolton; Esq., ,and the Assessors, John Yates, jun., Esq., and J. C. Grocott, Esq. The MAvou. called attention to the state of the lists. The number of objections,. he said, amounted to 3405, of which no less than 1343 were objected to by one individual, and 1967 by another. It 'was utterly impossible that any single individual could have had cognisanee of any reasonable ob jection to numbers so large as he had stated. He was happy to learn, however, that an arrangement had been entered into by several wards to withdraw all objections not well founded. He hoped that the other wards which had not en tered into the arrangement would adopt so excellent a plan sithout delay. The Mayor proceeded to lay before the court the arrangements which had been made for the despatch of business. Charles Wilkins, Esq., barrister-at-law, with Mr. Pen ington, solicitor, appeared for the conservatives ; Mr. Snow ball, Mr. Berry, and Mr. Aspinall for the reformers. Mr. Snurrixwon.TH, the deputy town-clerk, proceeded to read over the list of claims. Several names, which had been omitted, were inserted ;. others, whose names had been incorrectly spelled, had their claims allowed. Many refor mers were struck off in consequence of the residence not hav ing been attached to the signature as an appendage to the name, though the residence was duly set forth in the body of the notice. Some of the notices were .not dated, which was also held to be fatal. In the course of , the clay several par- • ties, who had borrowed money to pay their rates, appeared to support their claims. The MAYOR stated that they had transmitted a case to London for the opinion of eminent counsel, and by that opinion, when it arrived, they would be governed. All the cases, arising out of the payment of rates by borrowed money, were allowed to stand over, and the de cisions in them were to be governed by the opinion alluded to. The first reading of the list terminated at six o'clock. The court, however, sat until seven, and a number of persons who were in court were allowed to come forward, and their Icases were heard. It was announced, at the rising of the court, that the list of claims would be finally called over on the following morning. On Saturday morning the court commenced business at nine o'clock. The Mayor immediately announced, that they intendedlo go finally through the list of claims, and that all who did not answer would be at once struck out. Very few individuals were in attendance, and many names were conse quently erased from the list. Mr. Wilkins was not present at the opening of the court, and the claims of those who had paid rates with borrowed money wet e deferred till his arrival. Mr. Wilkins arrived at ten o clock. Shortly afterwards, the case of Henry Wilkinson, who had paid his rates, but refused to say where he had received the money , was called on. His reply was that it was his own. The MAYOR said, they had received the opinion of coun- sel on a case submitted, and the court were prepared to give judgment in the cases which had stood over, in consequence of rates having been paid with money obtained from a soci ety. The public would be aware, from the conflicting opi nions on the subject, and from different decisions which had been given in that court, as well as from the great interest which the question had excited, that the court felt the great est anxiety to have such an opinion as would enable them to come to act with clearness and decision. The Town-clerk had transmitted to Loudon a case prepared with great pains, and after mature deliberation and many consultations, em bracing, he (the Mayor) thought, every contingency which could possibly arise : it included the judgment of Mr. Tem ple, and every opinion which had hitherto been given on the subject. Mr. WILKINS deired that the opinion should be read at once. The MAY 011 said, it should be brought forward when the point arose. Mr. WmciNts proceeded with the examination of Wilkin son, and at length the following question was put :—" Were you furnished by any other person with the money with which you paid your rates ? " Mr. SNOWBALL objected to this query. This raised the question. The MAYOR said, they had now arrived at that point when the opinion sent for should be read. The TOWN-CLERK read the following case and opinion, observing that the judgment of Mr. Temple, which had been sent up, had been revised by that gentleman : CASE. . " You are requested to peruse the cases or queries and opinion of the present Attorney-General, the present Mr. Justice Wightman, (when at the bar,) Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Crompton, contained in pages 21 , 22, and 23 of the pamphlet herewith; and also to peruse the judgment of Mr. Temple, Revising Barrister, pronounced on a case before him on his revision of the Parliamentary List of Voters for the Borough of Liverpool ; and, as the points contained in these cases, opinions, and judgment may materially bear upon cases which may come before the Mayor and Revising Assessors of Liverpool, on the Municipal Revision, to com mence on Friday, the Ist of October, your opinion Is re quested upon the following inquiries : " Suppose that a party objected to upon his examination before the Mayor and Revising Assessors should prove pay ment of the rates by his own hands, together with all the other requisites fur the municipal qualification. (See 5 and 6 Win. IV., c. 76, a. 9.) Is it an objection, that the money has been obtained by the party objected to from an individual or a society, who have advanced it to him for the purpose of paying-the rates in order to enable him to qualify himself as a voter, such individual or society having supplied the money for political purposes, and a knowledge of the political sentiments of the party, and with or without an engagement, express or im plied, that the party should vote in conformity to such politi cal sentiments? " And does it make any difference that the proposal to lend the money has proceeded, in the first instance, from such individual or society? Or whether there be or be not any contract, express or implied, that the money shall be ? ." OPINION " We are of opinion, that, in all the cases above suggested, the party is entitled to be put upon the Burgess List. { FRED. POLLOCK, • " Signed, W. W. FOLLETT, THO. WILDE." "Temple, Ist October, 1841." The Miorox said, himself and the assessors had had a meeting before they came into court, and they had come to an unanimous decision, that it was their duty to act accord ing to the opinions which had been so decidedly expressed by such eminent counsel. The claim of Mr. Wilkinson was, therefore, allowed. Mr. Witxiss said, in the case submitted there was the suppression of a fact which would have given a different aspect to the question. This case supposed that the com plainant himself went to the society, and that it was entirely his own act; instead of which it had been proved, that, in many cases, the society had instigated him. There was no proof, in this case, that the man had acted as a principal. The parties who had come forward at the last revision, and who had been paid for through this society, were all paupers. Mr. SNownatt objected to this statement. Mr. WILKINS said, they were all parties who had failed to pay their rates till assisted by this society, and, in that view, they were paupers, and, consequently, disqualified. These facts ought to have been laid before these eminent persons. The fact was, that the claimants were not principals, but passive beings in the hands of other parties. Mr. YATES : I presume you have read Mr. Temple's opinion. Mr. WILKINS : I have, with very great care. Mr. YATES : the case is there more strongly put than in any other instance that has been brought before the public. The MAYOR: The case is allowed, and we do not sit here to re-try the cases which were brought forward previously." _ Previously to the commencement of the lists of objections, the Solicitors of the Conservative and Reform Associations had come to an agreement to withdraw such a number of objections on both sides as would greatly reduce the lists. All the objections in Castle-street and Rodney-street were withdrawn. In Everton Ward they are reduced to 30 on the part of the Conservatives and 10 on the part of the Reformers ; in Scotland Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform objec tions ; in Vauxhall Ward, to 50 Conservative and 18 Reform objections; in St. Paul's, 60 Conservative and 60 Reform ; in Exchange, 70 Conservative and 70 Reform ; St. Peter's, 72 Conservative and 37 Reform ; Pitt-street, 60 Conservative and 60 Reform. SATURDAY AND YESTERDAY. The revision proceeded on Saturday and yesterday, and our reporter attended in court for a long time, but no case of peculiar interest took place. A considerable number have been struck off the list on either side, principally in conse quence of the absence of the parties when their names were called. We understand that arrangements have been come to by which many of the objections on both sides will be mutually withdrawn, so that the revision will be completed much earlier than was anticipated. THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT PENY DARRAN WORKS, MERTHYR TYDVIL. (Abridged from the Merthyr Guardian. The tidings of this distressing accident having only reached us last week on the eve of publication, we were unable to give as full an account of it as could be desired. The main facts, as stated, were, however, correct. _ . On Saturday last a jury was summoned by the coroner, William Davies, Esq. ; the only duty which they performed was the distressing one of viewing the bodies, in order that they might be buried ; it was then adjourned till Wednesday. The funerals of the deceased workmen took place on Sa turday morning last ; the unfortunate woman who met her death was interred the day following the accident. On Wednesday morning we paid a visit to the Penydarran Works, and the scene of the awful catastrophe was such a one as we shall never forget. The interior of the premises are almost completely demolished, one large and very high stack towering over the ruins. Had this stack fallen, the consequences must have been far more disastrous even than they were; providentially it withstood-the shock. It is impossible to give our readers any accurate idea of the present appearance of the Pennydarran Works. The immense boiler which burst, and which weighed upwards of twelve tons, with the tube, lies 45 feet from its original sta tion, it having been blown to that distance ; the boiler tube was projected about the same distance in a contrary direc tion ; four stacks were knocked down, and one has been taken down since ; the iron roofs are bent in all directions ; im mense masses, and beams of iron, a re lying about in the places to which they were driven by the explosion, and the whole place is filled with a network, if we may so speak, of massive iron bars, beams, &c., almost inextricably blended together. The surrounding houses are also much injured, many 'of the roofs being full of holes, caused by the fall of bricks and pieces of iron. The account given us by the individual who attended us through the works were most heart -sickening. In one place we were told that such a man had been killed there; that in another spot a poor workman had been literally broiled alive; that here a poor woman had discovered her dead husband ; and there a child had in vain sought for a missing parent. The narrow escapes, too, which some of the workmen expe rienced, were most wonderful. One young man told us that an immense quantity of iron fell around him, but he did not receive a scratch. Several, who were close to the boiler when it burst, escaped, whilst others at a distance were either killed or seriously injured. On Wednesday and Thursday an inquest was held on the bodies, and after a most searching inquiry, the coroner ad dressed the jury, and stated that he would read over the whole of the evidence if they requited him so to do. This, however, they did not desire. On the conclusion of the co roner's luminous address, the jury retired, and, after re maining in consultation for about two hours, retuined the following verdict of " Homicide by misadventure ; they find that the death of John Williams was occasioned by the pro jected part of the tube, which fell upon him ; they find also that that explosion was occasioned by an insufficient supply of wate r O n th e tube, w h ere by it became he ated, and that that insufficiency was produced partially through the ignorance of the engine tender and superintendant, and they affix a deo , dand of 55.. on the part of the tube causing the death. Th e jury recommends to the noticewohficthh,e signall)pyrobperiientgorpsrtohpaetrly whistles should be adopted. at- at tached to the boilers, will give timely warning of approaching danger. CONVERSIONS TO PROTESTANTISM. —On Sunday, the 26th ultimo, in the parish church of St. Audoen, Dublin, twelve persons conformed to the holy' apostolic church of Ireland. The Rev. Thomas Scott preached on the occasion, from the 16th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, 30th and 31st verses—" Sirs, what must Idoto be saved ? And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house." He administered also the oaths, ab juring the errors of Romanistn. The church was crowded to suffocation. kNNIVt OP THE LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION The seventh anniversary meeting of the establishment of the Liverpool Protestant Association was held yesterday morning, in the Royal Amphitheatre. The stage, galleries, and•boxes of that splendid building were crowded to excess, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission from the in ability of the place to accommodate them. The arrange- • u►ents were, however, owing to the active superintendence 74 Mr. Crisp, admirable in every respe( Amongst those present we observed—the Rev. Dr. Tat tershall, ReV. H. Stowell, Rev. H. M`Neile, Rev. F. Ould, Rev. W. Ker (Norwich), Rev. W. Falloon, Rev. R. Davies, Rev. WGinnes, Rev. J. It. Connor, Rev. W. Maynard, Rev. T. Nolan, Rev. D. James, 11ev. F. Parry, Rev. J. N. Peill, 11ev. F. Barker, Rev. J. BaYlee, Rev. A. Knox, Rev. J. L. Stone, Rev. W. Rawson, Rev. T. J. Drilfield, Rev. A. Orin, Rev. G. Mansfield, Rev. T. Gardner, Rev. R. P. Jones, Rev. P. Brown, Rev. G. Brown, Rev. Crockett (Eccleston), Rev. B. Powell (Wigan), Rev. J. H. Macgtiire (St. Helens), Rev. J. M. Lynn (St. Helens), Rev. Nor man (Preseot), Rev. Jones (St. David's), Rev. C. Buller (Rainford), Rev. Meredith (Hope), Rev. —Davies (St. Asaph), C. S. Parker, Esq., J. Rigby, Esq.. J. Edwards, Esq., Turner, Esq., C. Bushell, - Esq., Cotesworth, Esq., M. Edwards, Esq., C. Boutflower, Esq., J. Howard, Esq., E. Jones, Esq., W. Jones, Esq., J. Lord, Esq., Jas. Rodin, Esq.; I'. A. Dale, Esq., &c., &c. _ _ . . _ . . Upon the motion of Mr. EDWARDS, the Rev. Dr. Tat tershall was requested to take the chair. (Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. TATTERSIIALL, having taken the chair, said,—My Christian friends, I am sure I do but anticipate the wishes of you all in observing that it has been the prac- tice of the Protestant Association, from the commencement, to open the proceedings of all its meetings with prayer — (hear, hear); and it will be your desire that the present oc casion should form no exception to the observance of so be neficial 'a practice. The beneficial results arising from an observance of such a character are too many and too obvious, that the practice itself shouid require anything to be said in the way either of apology or of defence. I shall therefore at once request my rev. brother, Mr. Nolan, to open the meet ing by offering up prayer to Almighty God upon our behalf. (Hear, hear, heir.) - - The Rev. T. NOLAN having offered up a beautiful and appropriate prayer, The Rev. CH AIRMAN again addressed the meeting nearly as follows :—My Christian friends, we are now risen from our knees, having been engaged in an act of devotion, in viting the presence and special notice and favour of our Fa ther which is in heaven. I inn sure I shall not be thought to say anything unsuitable to the position in which we now stand, if I express the hope that the solemn consideration of that duty in which we have been engaged may continue with us, and influence us during the whole course of this day's proceedings ; if I express the hope that the minds both of those who speak and of those who hear, will be influenced by the consideration that we are in the presence of God, and that it behoves us to s?eak and to hear as those who must give an account of all their actions unto him. (Hear, hear.) This is the fourth time, in consequence of your kindness and confidence, that I have found myself placed in the position which I now hold. lam deeply sensible of the arduous na ture of the duty, and of the possible difficulty that might be long to its discharge, of the position of the chairman of a meeting like this. I could not, however, refuse the invitation of the committee to render what little assist ance I may be able on this present occasion ; and still less could I refuse when I found that request of theirs se conded in the manner it has been since I came into the room. (Hear, hear.) My desire is still to put my trust and contidence 4 in the gracious and merciful goodness of that God who will not forsake the weakest of his servants in the hour of necessity. (Hear. hear.) And I may also add that I rejoice in the confidence I am enabled to place in yourselves who constitute this meeting, having experienced so much kindness and sympathy from you in times past, so that that which might have been an onerous duty has upon every occasion proved, and I have no doubt will upon the present, prove to be a delightful and gratifying privilege. (Hear.) I have more reasons than one for offering but a very few remarks with regard to that which is generally considered to be the proper business of an address from the chair at the commencement of a meeting ; that is, to explain the nature of the proceedings in which we are about to be engaged. At this time of the day it is not necessary to explain the objects and designs of the Protestant Association ; and if the influ ence also of this Protestant Association were required to be demonstrated, I would say, look to the position in which we now stand with reference to the parliamentary representation of the country, which it is my cordial belief has been in no small degree owing to its influence. (Cheers.) And look to the position in which we now stand with respect to those who • are placed at the head of the national affairs. (Renewed cheers.) But I love rather to look at the Protestant Asso ciations in a different relation. I love chiefly to keep my re gard fixed upon its influence in a religious point of view, as an efficient instrument for the promotion of true Protestant principles. (Hear, hear.) I wish ever to bear in remem brance, that the purity of Christian doctrines is not more really but more immediately related to the position in which men stand before God, than to any other matter of inferior moment ; and on this therefore I would desire prominently to fix my regards. (Hear, hear.) With regard to Protestant ism itself, I would observe that it is nothing else than another name for primitive, for undefiled Christianity. (Hear, hear.) Protestantism, so far as its name is concerned, or rather the name of Protestantism, is but an accident of Christianity. (Hear.) We are indebted for the dame of Protestant to Popery. (Hear, hear.) There would have been no such thing as Protestantism if there had been no such thing as Popish error. (Hear.) Christianity, as it came out of the hands of, as it came from, its author, was pure and uncor rupt ; it was worthy of God ; it was suited to the necessities of man as an immortal being, as a creature fallen from God, as a creature whose main interest it was to obtain reconcilia tion with an offended Creator, that they might be eternally happy with him. But Christianity became in the lapse of time, through the craft of Satan, and through the craft of man, corrupted and defiled ; its efficacy was destroyed by the traditions of men. (Hear.) The very grand point of doc trine, that which must be considered the cardinal doctrine of Christianity, the doctrine of free justification through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, based upon his merits and righteous ness—that doctrine had been obscured, or rather taken away, and another gospel substituted in its place which was not another.. .(Cheers.) It was the business of the Reformation to clear away (and in this consists its Protestant character) the encrustation of error which had defiled the fair face of primitive Christianity, to restore the doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ 'back to its primitive purity, and to open and present clear and unobstructed before the perishing sinner the way of everlasting hie, the way of access to the Father, the new and living way, consecrated by the blood of his Son, whu died and gave himself for us. (Cheers.) I have alreadY observed that I had many reasons for avoiding to protract, or rather to defer, the proceedings of this day. I cannot, however, consent to sit down without observing that I con ceive it to be a matter of essential importance that the evils of popery, its spiritual evils, and the political evils which follow in its train, should be exposed, and made to be properly understood ; and this is the object and design which we have in view on occasions like the present. (Hear.) Popery is to be regarded, first, as a soul-destroying error. (Hear, hear.) Keeping, as I have already observed, the Lord Jesus Christ from the view, and causing men to put their trust not in his righteousness, but in a righteousness of their own. (Hear.) Popery is to be regarded also as a political usurpa tion—(hear) —assuming' for its clergy a province which was never designed by God to be attached to man in any position which he can be placed. (Hear.) The carious errors con nected with popery, in this view, have been exposed at va rious times in this place, and 1 think it more than probable they will bejurther exposed to-day ; but it may be desirable 1 should just observe, in a word, that only let popery have its own way, and then the channels of justice, the impar tial administration of the law, upon which the security and good order of society depends—(cheers)—the channels of justice themselves will be obstructed. Who does not know that the oath for confirmation was meant for an end of all strife ? But how can we obtain an end of strife through an oath for confirmation if there is admitted to exist a power which can absolve from the obligation of that oath, provided only that oath is supposed, from its nature and substan ce , t o be unfavourable to the Churc h of Rome ? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Who does not know that the power which has been claimed upon the part of Popery—upon. the part of the supreme Pontiff—has extended to the fearful height of assum ing to arbitrate upon the reciprocal obligations of sovereign and subject? (Hear.) Let Popery prevail as it exists in its true character, and not as it is exhibited in a moderate and modified form among ourselves in consequence of the pressure front without ; let Popery prevail as it exists according to its own claims and prerogatives and the crown of our beloved Queen is not safe upon her head. (Cheers.) And Popery is further to be regarded as the enemy of alt improvement. (Hear, hear, hear.) Science itself, and it is a name which I love to pronounce, science itself, the thing most deserving the attention of man next to religion, even that is no favourite of Popery. (Hear, hear.) There may be a fictitous, a pre. tended zeal for education among those who profess the system of Popery ; but we may depend upon it that this also is due to the pressure from without. (Hear.) Let Popery but have its own course even in this respect, and it has shewn what it would do even with regard to science. In the early part of the 17th century there was one—a man of exalted intellect—who, because he maintained the Copernican system to have the preference of the Ptolomaie, was shut up in the Inquisition, and was warned, after having been detained in confinement for a few months, to renounce his errors, and not to repeat them either in word or writing. Galileo, for that was the name of the celebrated son of science of whom I speak, continued still to maintain the same scientific doctrine, and lie was again brought before the Inquisition ; lie was shut up for, I believe, two years in its cells ; he was, as a matter in which the salvation of his soul was concerned, required to abjure his scientific errors, and I rather think he had to repeat the 7th Penitential Psalms every day during the course of the whole two years he was confined. (Hear.) To come to more recent times. A most learned commentary upon the great scientific treatise to which the whole world may be said to be indebted for the present advanced state of astronomical knowledge, an admirable commentary upon the works of Newton was the production of two Jesuits; and in course of the explanation of the propositions of their author they had entered into the most learned and the most profound scientific investigation. But at the commencement of the third part of their work, after having gone through the ma thematical principles upon which physical astronomy depends —when they commenced the application of those mathemati cal principles to the explanation of the phenomena of nature, they prefixed to this part of their work a certain advertise ment, or declaration, and what do you suppose that declaration was ? (Hear.) It was to the effect that Newton, in explain ing his principles, makes a supposition that the earth moves round the sun, and without making the same supposition they could not explain the words of their author; upon this ac count they were obliged, they say, to appear under a disguise. but that they nevertheless submitted to the decrees which had been published by the Popes, declaring that the sun moved round the earth and not the earth round the sun. (Hear, hear.) This is a declaration which stands at the head of the third volume of the Jesuits' Comments on Newton's Principia, and there any one may see it, for 1 never saw a copy without it. (Hear.) I may be permitted to observe, before 'I sit down, that I think it more than probable that there may be a few, or perhaps not a few, members of the Roman Catholic Church, or persons holding the Roman Ca tholic persuasion, now ,in the present meeting. To such I beg permission to say, that so far from any feeling of hostility to themselves in any the slightest degree, I am sure that I have no other feeling in my own heart, and I fully believe I may answer with all sincerity for my rev. brethren around me, and all who shall be engaged in this meeting, that we have no feeling towards them but that of pure and ardent affection. With all our hearts we welcome the m to their places in the present meeting. But it is but right that they should be reminded that this meeting properly consists of the members of a Protestant Association, and that all who are not members of the Protestant Association are not here pro perly upon business but by permission, and as a matter of courtesy. I think it right, therefore, to admonish them that they are not called upon to take any part in the pro ceedings of this day. There are no questions proposed, or to be proposed, to their acceptance or refusal. The Protestant Association is met for the performance of its own proper and necessary business. We have, indeed, no secrets to keep, and we desire that these proceedings should be as open and as clear to be understood as the noon day ; but, I repeat, we have no questions to propose for approbation one way or the other to any except the members of the Protestant Associa tion ; and in return, therefore, for the courtesy of their ad mission here, I am sure "shall not be thought to make an unreasona bl e request if I express my hope that they will hear these - proceedings in silence. (Hear.) I shall now, with myn, V 641.41011 .t report . orthe Committee for the past year. Mr. Cnisr then read the report, of which the following is REPORT. The committee of the Liverpool Protestant Association, in coming again before their friends and constituents, rejoice to' --0 _ acknowledge renewed claims upon them for increased thank fulness, and continued trust in the God and Giver of all blessing The past year has been signalized by many events, which your committee cannot but regard as highly encouraging to „ - the progress and prospects of Protestant principles and _Scrip - - - tural trit the auspicious change, which has recently been effected in the councils of our beloved Sovereign. But, while they are ready to hail with gratitude the advancement to powe men who who hang not on the smile of Itomish favour,—whose period of official existence depends not on the continuance of llomish support, your committee feel especially called upon in the present Crisis to remind their supporters and friends, that as Protestant Associations were. called into being origi nally without reference to objects merely political, so their proceedings have been conducted, and must be continued, on principles, wholly ; irrespective of the ascendancy of this or that party in the state; :•• • It is necessary to return thus to the first principles of our association, the rather, that some are inclined to imagine, that by the removal from power of a government, that lived only by dealing " heaver blows and great disconragetnents to Protestantisin"—the,necessity for our associations, if not al- • together superseded, is it leasicorigiderably diminished. An impression of this kind must be met at once, and not allowed either to extend itself or to take root. In order to which your committee feel it a duty to recall attention to the first circular of the Liverpool Protestant Association, (issued on the 29th October, 1835;) wherein the motives that led to its formation, and the principles on which it rests, the objects aimed at, together with the means (under God) of accom plishing them are clearly and briefly set forth. . . The circular declares that " The association was called into existence and activity by imperative self-defence. It funda mental principle is this—that the will of the one living and true God, the maker of heaven and earth, as revealed in Jesus Christ, by the Bible, is the only sure and safe standard of right and wrong, whether public or private, and therefore con stitutes the only sure and safe basis for Christian legislation, as well as Christian conduct." In the same circular, the objects of the association are 'stated and classed under the two following heads " First,—To combine in one Christian brotherhood of self defence all who truly love true religion and genuine liberty ; all who sincerely advocate the free circulation of immutulated and unadulterated word of God ; all who assert and defend the right of private judgment ; all who venerate the inviola ble sanctity of an oath ; all real loyalists who ►naintain the system unrivalled and universal suprerimey'of the King or Queen of England within these realms, and renounce, abjure, and de tect any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or potentate, ecclesiastical or civil. This is the direct object of our Pro- testant Association considered in its Scriptural foundation, and in its national exercise. Our second object is, to address ourselves with earnest affection to those of our fellow-coun trymen who have the misfortune still to labour under anti scriptural and anti-national prejudices; who are denied the free circulation of the pure word of God, and the right of private judginent ; who are taught that oaths, under certain c ir c umstances, may and ought to be violated; and who are commanded to yield their first and highest allegiance - to a foreign ecclesiastical authority_ Upon this your Committee would beg to remark, that the principles here enunciated are everlasting as the inspired re cord f,om whence they are derived, " the word of our God, which shall stand for ever," and unchangeable as the Author him of that mini. "I am the Lord,' I change not"— and ti.ssefore cannot be affected by any change (even for the better) in the unstable councils of men. Moreover, the objects aimed at are of enduring interest, the pursuit-of which may not be given up until it is no longer necessary to " contend for the faith once delivered to the saints " ; while the duties involved are of such a constraining character, that so lone , as a dear brother or sister is bound in the chains of Romish darkness, " we cannot but speak to them the things we have seen and heard " and felt of the saving, sanctifying, emancipating power of " the truth as it is in Jesus." " Your committee does - not affect to conceal the strong confidence it entertains, that, by a firm and impartial admi nistration of the existing law, en the part of her Majesty's present government, much of that evil will be mitigated by which we have been of late afflicted. The Romish organs and demagogues, strenuous as ever in the pursuit of their favourite project of " Repeal of the Union," (which is but another name for the downfal of the Irish church, and the dismemberment of the British empire,) have even already adopted and recommended a " lower tone " in their language and their bearing. Nevertheless, your committee is bold to declare, in the presence of their friends and constituents, that so far from discontinuing now the operations of our Protestant Association, there never was a period, more than the present, which required discreet and prudent, but withal strenuous and united exertion. The policy of Rornanism, under the sunshine of court favour, especially in Ireland, has developed itself fully during the last twelve years. It has exhibited neither an improved theology, nor a mitigated intolerance. it does not even profess (and we know the hollowness of Romish professions) any increased attachment to the established institutions of our country, nor any abated desire of supremacy, civil or ecclesiastical, for itself ; so that, building our expectations of the future upon the experience of the past, we can only conclude that Romanism lacks but the power to rekindle in England the fires of Smithfield, and to re-enact in Ireland the murderous and perfidious scenes of 1641 and 1798. Your committee likewise does not hesitate to add, that it is owing mainly (under Divine superintendence) to the in strumentality/of Protestant Associations, that public atten tion has been directed, and the public mind enlightened more or less as to the principles and the working, the objects and the instruments of Popery within this empire, by the pro duction of well-authenticated documents and,facts. The establishment of these facts as to the pressure of Popery on its helpless victims, together with the discovery of the uu scriptural and otherwise dangerous principles contained in these documents, involve in our minds imperative obliga tions—first to defend the privileges we enjoy, and which are so - deservedly dear to ourselves; and then " the love of Christ constrained' us" to go forth amongst our oppressed brethren, to invite them to come and see, and share the great things the Lord hath done for us. Such is the object aimed at, and the course pursued, by our Protestant Associ ation—to acquaint our itoinish lellow-countrymen with their noblest birthright, as men. as Britons,, and as Christians, and to secure them in the exercise of it—in the study of the Bible, given by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the record of his Father's love, " which maketh wise unto salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus." In furtherance of all which objects (and this leads to the proceedings of the year that is past) your committee are able to state, that very many useful tracts and handbills have been circulated, that a petition to parliament has been prepared, for enquiry into the laws affecting the Romish College of Maynooth, with upwards of 20,000 signatures attached. That the Protestant Sentinel, after having been conducted for twelve months by your association, has recently, with a view to its increased efficiency, been placed in the hands of Mr. Perris, bookseller, and your committee would beg to recommend it to public support, as a means of much good. There are other indirect ways in which your committee feels: the association to have been serviceable, even though they cannot particularize. Such as promoting and facilitating the formation of associations in other places, and lending aid (es pecially through the indefatigable and well-directed exertions of your zealous agent, Mr. Crisp) in various ways to every effort for the advancement of Protestant truth, the main tenance of Protestant principle, or the furtherance of every movement in support of our Protestant institutions civil and religious. The useful operations of your association, are at this moment only limited by the want of sufficient funds to justify the enlargement of them. On these grounds your committee is confident, in renewing its appeal to the Protestant feeling and Christian love of their well-tried_ friends and staunch supporters, nay mere, they even venture to suggest the necessity for increased contribu tion, inasmuch as the occasion demands increased exertion. What the association has hitherto been able to accomplish, is proof that " our labour is not in vain in the Lord," while the vast amount of what yet remains undone loudly calls for continued and augmented efforts, reminding us at once of the command and the promise, " Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." The Rev. Fr.EnEaiCK PARRY, of St. Clement's, Wind sor, then rose to move that the report be adopted, and printed, and circulated under the direction of the committee, and to propose the committee for the ensuing year. He said,—Mr. Chairman and fellow-christians, if, in proposing this resolution, I adopt a very common but a very natural exordium to addresses on occasions of this kind—if I say that I have peculiar pleasure in moving this resolution ; I can say so with perfect sincerity and truth. But I should be travelling beyond the boundary of truth were I to say that that pleasure is without alloy. Unalloyed pleasure is per haps rarely the portion of man in his present imperfect exist ence. It is enough for the Christian to know, that hereafter his joy shall be as perfect as pure—that pain shall be remem bered only as that which is passed away forever, and remem bered to enhance and heighten the present bliss, and that his pleasure shall be as the full rich sunshine, over which no pas sing cloud shall ever cast the gloom of its shadow for a single moment. If I cannot say that my pleasure on this occasion is unalloyed—if I say that I feel pain as well as pleasure in proposing that this resolution be adopted, I de sire that it may be distinctly understood that this does not arise from any doubt on my mind with regard to the scriptural principles on which this association is based, the justice of the cause on which it is embarked, or the imoera tive necessity which called it into existence. (Hear.) It is the conviction I cordially entertain upon these points that forms the source of the gratification 1 feel in taking a part in your proceedings this day. Yet here I am bound to say, my pleasure is not unattended by the alloy. When I reflect on the importance of the cause which I advocate, when I consider the magnitude of the interests at stake, 1 cannot but feel a repressing, a painful,sense of my own incompetence to do justice to the task assigned Me. - But there is a pleasure —a pleasure which I trust may be indulged without any tinc ture of legality, and Pharisaic leaven, in an honest attempt to discharge, however imperfectly, what we feel to be a plain and palpable duty, and in reference -to which we are bat yielding a reverential homage, a true obedience, to the voice of conscience. (Cries of " hear, hear.") St. Paul himself, who held in abhorrence any feeling of a legal character, who repudiated with fervent and indignant zeal every self-righteous principle, rejoiced in the testimony of his conscience. " Our rejoicing," he says, "is this, the testimony of our conscience." And it is well remarked by an old Divine, that " there is no music like that of the bird in the bosom -when it sings sweetly." I should have done violence to my conscience, I should have been actuated by an utter disregard of its suggestions, and in complete defiance of its dictates, had I permitted my own felt inferiority to the other advocates of this great cause, had I permitted any feeling or consideration whatever to deter me, when requested to move this resolution, from meeting that request with a prompt and unhesitating acquiescence. (Cheers.) I dared not shrink from the opportunity thus afforded me of early and plainly, on coming to reside among you, taking my place beneath the banner of this association, enlisting in the same glorious cause, embarking, in the same gallant vessel, enrol ling myself among those who through evil report and good report are discharging a plain scriptural duty in contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. (Cheers.) The truth and the principles implied and involved in that com mon but frequent expression the " faith," I find in my Bible. I find them also in the articles of that beloved and venerated church which I have ex animo subscribed. I find them again in your Association, formed for the defence of those identical truths and principles; and, therefore, of your association I ex anitno subscribe myself a member. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) My feelings, as 1 have said, are of a mingled character in proposing this resolution. If I have pleasure for the reasons I have stated, how can I but feel pain when I consider the nature of one of its announce ments? How can I but feel pain, how can you but sympathise with me in the feeling, when we learn that the support given to the Protestant Association of Liverpool by the Protestant public of .Liverpool is so inadequate to its wants, and so far from commensurate to its objects? Surely that object has not been fully appreciated ! (Hear, hear.) Surely it has not been fairly considered by the Protestant public of Liver pool at large ! It is an object calculated, one might imagine , to thaw the ice of indifference itself, and to kindle even apathy itself into a glow of energetic ardour. (Cheers.) If " the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare" — if in proportion to the strength of the enemy we have to grapple with should be our ardour and energy, the intensity of our interest and the vigour of our exertion, then is the cir sumstance in every peint of view deeply to be deplored, that in a town in which there is no deficiency of energy, of spirit, of effort, of liberality for:the prosecution of other objects, au association with such objects as this should be crippled in its a in:Haile:l in ita iinqUinef3 ipplied,. (Hoar.) lam al. t given to Protestantism it Grits popu, .rivAeinc Awn and wealth, is somewhat akin to the encourage, oent given to literature by a certain wealthy individual, vho, on being remonstrated with, and told that a person if his ample means ought to give- something for 'the iteouragement of literature, said, " I do; I join a friend of nine in taking every week the Penny Magazine." (Cheers ind laughter.) But while feeling pain at this announce there is another circumstance operating on nay mind, ,vith still greater weight than even the deficiency of our rands, and that is, that there should exist a nei:essity, a great, . • 1171...• t in urgent necessity for such an association at an. is mu. Have .more than three centuries elapsed since,.by the provi lence of God, the light of the blessed reformation visited our land, and is our national estimate of the blessings of the re rormation so low, are our national principles so loose, is our sense of the mercy of God in the reformation so slight, are oar steps taking so retrograde a direction,-when, after the experience of three centuries, our path ought to be as the shining light, that shineth inure and more into the perfect day, that it is become necessary to organise and establish Protestant associations ? Is this the boasted march of mind? (Great applause.) But we find this necessity denied. I will cite a witness for its existence, one who holds a very high rank among the master minds, and who stands still higher among the men of God in the present day—the Rev. Henry Melville : " I cannot," he says, " put away the persuasion that there has been amongst Protestants a growing ignorance and indifference with regard to points in dispute between the Reformed church and the Papal, and a strengthening opinion that the two, after all.-difter in little that is vital. And their degeneracy - of Protestantism has given encouragement to Popery ; so that the false system against which our fathers rose manfully up, and in expelling which they perilled substance and life, is putting forth tokens of strength and expansion." I believe this witness is true. - And if the fact be so,—and I believe it would be much easi,er to deny than to disprove it,—then you have a demonstration of the necessity that has called Protestant associations into existence. Why, if it be a mere fancy and delusion of Mr. Melville and others. that there has been this degeneracy, in the first place, of Protestantism, how are we to account for the mitigated language and the moderated tone now so common in reference to that system against which our forefathers protest ed, and signed the protest with their blood, and in reference to nine of the most bigoted and sanguinary adherents of the (Hear.) I will not occupy your time by bringing forward a multiplicity of proofs. 1 will advert to a single and very simple one. It is becoming the fashion to designate Queen Mary as " the calumniated Mary." Two instances have very recently come under my observation. In one. neither the author nor his book possess sufficient moral weight to justify much importance being attached to it. The other occurs in a sermon preached at Oxford, by one over whose hallucination it is impossible for those who bear in re collection his earlier and better days, not to sigh with pecu liar sorrow. The calumniated Mary ! After all, then, his tory has proved what it has been asserted to be, an old al manac, and about as veracious in its records as some modern almanacs are in their predictions. (A laugh.) Even Hume himself, no very staunch friend to Protestantism—witness his proneness to sneer at Luther and the Reformation—even the infidel Hume grossly calumniates Mary when he asserts that Cranmer, and Latimer, and Ridley. and Hooker, ..and others,—(hear, hear, and cheers.)—died at the stake for their Protestant principles. (Hear.) It must be, that instead of dying for the truth. they died calmly in their beds. or in sonic other way than that said to have been ordered by Mary. Or if they died as described in the reign of Mary, Mary had nothing at all to do with their deaths. Oh , Mary did not sign the death warrants. She in no way sanctioned the persecution that bound the faggots and kindled the tire, and numbered the men of GA among the dead. In what profound ignorance must Mary have been of what was pass ing in her dominions ! (Hear.) In what profound indiffer ence to the condition•of her subjects must the calumniated Mary, have been reposing ! (Hear.) Still we have the awk ward statements of history exhibiting her very much in the light in which the Word of God represents the church of which she was so warm a partisan—" Drunk with the blood of the saints". (Loud applause.) It is incumbent on those who speak of her in these softened terms to refute the plain statements of history, and to give us themselves the round, unvarnished tale of Mary'S reign. (1-fear, hear.) There is another point to which we are led by Mr. Melville, and that is, the tokens of expansion and strength which he represents Popery as putting forth. We are assured by many that, even if the fact be so, there is no necessity for protesting whatever—that the spirit and isharacter of Popery are quite different from what they were in the dark ages—that it largely partakes of the benign influence of the enlightened days in which we live—that it is as gentle as the dove, and as harm less as the lamb. (Hear, and cheers.) We have no confi dence in the justice of these conclusions, because we have no faith in the truth of the premises. But, waiving for a mo ment the altered character and spirit of Popery, and confining ourselves to the strength and expansion it is putting forth, we find the fact peremptorily denied. If there be any truth in the old, well-known adage, that " none are so deaf as those who wont hear," is it not equally true that none are so blind as those who are determined not to see ? (A laugh.) And if they cannot see that Popery, from whatever cause, has of late years acquired fresh spirit, fresh life; fresh vigour, and new strength, 1 can only say that they must be as igno- • rant of of what is passing around them as the calumniated Mary herself was. (Laughter.) But what confidence can we have in those who have already established their reputation as false prophets—who formerly spoke " peace, peace!" and 10, in the event there was no peace ? They told us most confidently, before the passing of that measure which has given that fresh spirit and life to Popery, which has infused that new vigour into it, that the fears we ex pressed . with regard to the effects of that measure were per fectly groundless ; that they would be of the most beneficial character; that it would be a measure that would tranquilse Ireland, neutralise Popery, and instead of imparting to it new strength, would render it completely innocuous. (Hear.) I remember being in company with one who always delivered his opinion ex cathedra, who pronounced it with oracular emphasis and more than oracular perspicuity, and with as much of truth and infallibility as oracular sounds sometimes embody. All the apprehensions which I and others ex pressed, he said, which prove to be absurd and visionary in the extreme. " You will see by the event," he added, " and you will all he ashamed of yourselves." Mr. Marsh, of Birmingham, replied, in his plain, good-humoured way, " At present, sir. we are ashamed of you." (Cheers, and great laughter.) Who proved the true prophets ? The even s has too plainly decided the point. Would that oar predictions had not been verified ! We could well afford the laugh which those who took the opposite view would have enjoyed at our expense. We should have been most thank ful for their triumph. To know that our predictions have been verified—that our tears and forebodings have been re alised—is a poor consolation. It cannot even minister to our self-complacency. It required no remarkable acuteness of discernment, no signal depth of sagacity, to foresee and fore tell ail that our fears expressed, and all that the event has unhappily realised. (Cheers.) We assert,. then, the necessity —the imperative necessity —of Protestant Associations. When all that is vital in ProtestantisM is. assailed—when all that is worthy in Protestantism is disparaged—when all that is noble in Protestantism is vituperated—when Protestantism is wounded. in the house of her friends—(hear and cheers) — when those who profess and call themselves her admirers and adherents stand prepared to throw open every gate of the citadel to her avowed and inveterate enemies—it is high time for those who so glory in the name of Protestantism—who prize her principles, and love her truth—should rally round her standard, and unite in her defence. (Much applause.) It has been justly stated in the report that these associations are of a defensive character. They have, as you are aware, been frequently represented and reviled as of an aggressive character. Suppose they had been, what would have been the nature of their aggressiveness ? However misrepresented and maligned, we contend that it would have been the ag gressiveness of genuine benevolence and true philanthropy' impelled by scriptural principles, and flowing in scriptural channels,—the aggressiveness of tender compassion for our Roman Catholic brethren, affectionate zeal for their best interests, and fervent love for their immortal souls. (Cheers.) And if taunted with our aggressiveness, we say, as well aim the shafts of our invective, and ridicule against the founders and supporters of infirmaries for their aggressiveness in rela tion to the sick and needy. With as much justice and pro priety the Samaritan might have been reproached - for hey aggressiveness in regard to the poor man who was wounded on his way from Jerusalem to Jericho, by carrying to him his oil and wine, and binding up his wounds. Had Protes!. cant associations been thus aggressive, we should have had no reason to blush. We have rather reason to blush that tneY have not been more aggressive—that they were unknown till the necessity—the urgent necessity—was apparent for erect ing them as bulwarks in defence of those principles to which, under God, we owe our civil privileges and liberties, to which we are indebted for our emancipation from that yoke of bon dage under which our forefathers, in common with all Christendom, so long groaned, from which we derive all our consolation and peace in life, and to which we look for all our hope and quiet in death. (Cheers.) For the final issue of the conflict between light and darkness we have no fears. Great is the truth, and it will prevail. Not that our confi dence rests even in the greatness of the truth itself. but on the sure word of God, and the Almighty arm of his power. Here, then, we cast anchor. But at the same time it be hoves us to remember, while we repose in exclusive and un limited confidence on the word and working of the Lord of all power and might, it would be - the pride of presumption, not the province of faith, to sit inactive and supine while our good Protestant principles are assailed on the tight hand and on the left. (Applause.) Those principles , I will observe in conclusion, have lost nothing of their im portance—nothing of their value, since our Cranmers, and Latimers, and Ridleys, and the noble army of martyrs , jeopardied their lives unto the death in their defence ; and if, adopting the liberal sentiments so current in the present day, we think Protestant Associations unnecessary, or even worse than useless—imprudent and improper, we may dis cover, when too late, that we have nothing left to defend that is worth defending. (Much applause.) The Rev. HuGst STOWELL rose to second the resolution. and was greeted with protracted applause. He said, —I thank you, my Christian friends, for the fervent and flatter ing reception you have given me. I met with a welcome from several of my reverend friends, on the score of my un expected appearance among them, because rumour would have it that I was more fit for a sick chamber than for a pub lic assembly. I scarcely know how such a report obtained, currency, except that the wish was father to the thought, and that some of my Roman Catholic opponents deem my efforts sufficiently important to wish that I was fairly and quietlY out of the way. (A laugh.) No : I thank God I call ecb° the words of the noble reformer of other times, who, when he was supposed to be in the act of dying, was surrounded by base Jesuits, who whispered he was gone. He suddenlY sprang up and exclaimed, " I shall not die but live, and de clare the evil doings of the Jesuits." (Loud cheers.) thank God I have a sufficient measure of strength and energy left, and I trust I shall always consecrate, as long as theY need, a large portion of it to the hallowed cause for w hich A our Protestant Associations are founded . ( Applause.) And if even there were a period in their annals when it became them not to retire from their posts, or to be wanting to their God, their country, and the ir church, assuredly th at period is the present. There is much at the present epoch to call for thanksgiving to God, and con gra t u lations u t each other, and of our beloved Protestant land. I need n ot remind you, for you have it daily in your minds and memo ries, that we live again under a Protestant governme, nt i (Great cheering.) And I feel m y Chri stian friends as 1, breathed more freely , and addressed you as an unf etterea Englishmen, when we are no longer ruled by a set of c i Pu,P pets, the moving st rin g s of which w ere held by a Routh' company. (Cheers.) There are not wanting, in the acces sion of a Conservative administration, hopeful and cheeriq features. For when we find that our prime minister, as vie very first act on assuming office, throws down the gaun tle of defiance to t hat un p rinci p led agitator who long held rh-e rod of terror o ver the trembling backs of the late adinini': trat i on —(loud cheers)—whene find that he treats Oa' agitator with the disdain and contempt his character and eon: duct have so richly earned, and which he would have nae' with years ago, if England had been actuated by the t on ed honourable feeling and mor a l spirit which once dia,,Pea9" guished her among the nations of the ear th—with that th i dain with which a man of honour and honesty ought to tr the man who has prostituted his character and violated e very tie that should hind a man as a member of civil and 103 , 1 1 society. (Cheers.) There is another . feature which ulaY / %1 2 , animate our Protestant hearts. There is not, so far as l o ud aware, a single papist in the cabinet. (Hear, hear. en; he cheers.) Not one in the p brivy council, utterly unfitted must be, to b e th e counsellor of a Protestant Q ueen, er en of is bound by an oath of allegi o ence to the Italian usurper _ o _ our petty state. We cannot but bail it with a burst f up" feigned. joy, moreover, that in the • domestic Queen there is remark Drs Tat. trade not a single Romanist. [A Tat. made by the chairman.] I Stand corrected. ur circle of oure a copy