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Public 33obito, BOROUGH OF ST. MARYLEBONE BANK. Directors of the Borough of St. Marylehone Bank .1 HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that, m pursuance of the powers vested in them, they have made the FIRST CALL of Five Pouuds on each Share. The Holders of Shares are therefore rep' d to pay such Call at the Offices of the Bank, No. 9, Cav ish•square, on or before the 3d day of September next, in e ange fur a Receipt signed by two of the Directors, and count rsigned by the Assis tant• Secretary. By order of the Directors, August lit, 1836.' DAVID HANNAY, Manager. NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BA K. THE Directors of the North a nd South W es Bank have much pleasure in announcing that they e made arrange ments with Messrs. BENSON and JON s f the Aberystwith and Cardiganshire Bank, and that t usiness of the Bank at Aberystwith will, on and after th sth August instant, be carried on by the North and South Wales Bank on the premises at present occupied by Messrs. Benson and Jones, in Bridge street, under the mana6,_ement of RICE JUNES, Esq., and HENRY BENSON, Esq., Local Directors. By order of the Board, THOS. A. CORLETT, General Manager. The Branch at Mold will open fur Business on Tuesday, 9th August. The Head Office, at Liverpool, is now open for general business, and the following Branches are in operation :—Dol gelly, Pwllheli, Oswestry, Welchpool, Caruarvon, Chester, Denbigh, Ruthin, Llanfyllin, Bala, Festiniog, Machynlleth, Newtown, and Bishopscastle. Liverpool, sth Aug. 1836. Endurance Notitt. THE LIVERPOOL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Empowered by Act of Parliament. OFFICE, 37, WATER-STREET. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS. Trustees. Sir Thomas Brancker. William Brown, Esq. I Adam dgson, Esq. Directors. George Holt, Esq., Chairman. Thos. Booth, Esq., and Riad. Edwards, Esq.,Deputy-Chairmen. Thos. Brocklebank, Esq. Alexander Macgregor, Esq. William Dixon, Esq. Andrew Melly, Esq. William Earle, jun., Esq. James Moon, Esq. Joseph C. Ewart, Esq. Lewin Mozley, Esq. Ormerod Hepworth, Esq. William Nicol, Esq. Samuel T. Hobson, Esq. Charles S. Parker, F,sq. Joseph Hornby, Esq. f James Powell, Esq. George H. Lawrence, Esq. William R. Preston, Esq. Andrew Low, Esq. . John Ridgway, Esq. Auditors. Robert Mather, Esq. I Daniel James, Esq.l liled . cal Referees. James Carson, M.D. I Robi. Bickersteth, Esq. Surveyor.—John Stewart, Esq. INSURANCES against Fire may be effected with this Com -1 pony on Property of every description, as well in Foreign Countries as throughout the United Kingdom. The public are reminded that they already enjoy considerable advantage from the establisment of this Office, inasmuch as they are indebted to it for the recent reduction in the rates of Premium for Insuring Mercantile Property in Liverpool. . Assurances upon Lives will be granted on terms which will be found, upon comparison, lower than those required by most other Companies. The Directors do not hold out to the Public any participation in profits, as an inducement to prefer this to any other institution; but have had their Table of Premiums computed on the principle of charging rates of only fair remu neration, and of giving to the Assured the immediate and cer tain benefit of the saving thus obtained. The following will show the Rates of Prenaium for Assurances on the whole duration of a single life, at the respective ages named, viz. : Age. Rate per Cent. I Age. Rate per Cent. 21) 50 55 60 25 30 35 . 2 12 6 40 and the Rates at other ages may be known on application at the Office. It is the intention of the Directors to establish an Agency in each of the following places, viz.:— BELFAST, DUBLIN, LIMERICK, BIRMINGHAM, EDINBURGH, MANCHESTER, BRISTOL, HALIFAX, NOTTINGAAM, CORK, LEEDS, SHIsFFIELD, arid applications for the appointment from respectable parties may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Office, in Liverpool ; all such communications must be post-paid, and contain refer ences as to ability, character. and influence. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary. Liverpool, 6th August, 1836. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE PROPRIETOR OF FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Just as the business at Marlborough-street police-office wa about to conclude on Wednesday, Mr. James Fraser, bookseller 215, Regent-street, whose appearance indicated that very great perosnal violence had recently been used towards him, presented himself before Mr. Dyer and Mr. Chambers, to charge the Hon. Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley with an assault. The defendant a tall, powerful man, and far beyond the complainant in size and strength, was armed with a heavy whip, which, when he was placed at the bar, Mr- Chambers insisted on his relinquishing. Mr. Fraser.—l have to complain of one of the most brutal as saults which has ever been committed on a tradesman. I was alone in my shop, a short time ago, my assistants having gone to dinner, when two persons came in, and one of them, thedefend ant at the bar. asked me if my name was Fraser, I replied it was. and he said I. wish to know the author of the article in your m agazine called " Mr. Grantley Berkeley and his Novel." I naked, who have I the honour of speaking to? and he replied, I am Grantley Berkeley, and I wish to know who is the author of that review. I said f must consider before I can give up the author's name, and I was about to add that I could not give up the name, although I had full permission so to do from the writer, when I was instantly knocked down by the defendant. The blow was so violent that I fell like a brute behind a small desk. The defendant theft dealt upwards of 20 blows on my body while I was lying on the mound. 1 was nearly insensible, but I had sufficient recollection left me to be aware that he had gut hold of a whip and was lashing me with it—cutting me over the face and hands with all his strength. [Here Mr. Fraser pointed to the wounds. on his face, evidently produced by the whip.' I called out for assistance as loudly as I could. Three or four persons came to the door, but the other gentleman who is now in the office deterred them from corning in, and (lid all he could to prevent any one from rendering use assistance. Mr. Chambers asked the individual pointed out by Mr. Fraser what his name uas ; the individual replied, it was Craven Fitz hardinge Berkeley, and he was quite ready to admit that he did keep the people out. Mr. Grautley Berkeley : If it will save the time of the magis trate lam ready to say I don't deny the charge. I came out on purpose to horsewhip the writer of the article, according to his own suggestion. In the magazine there is an article grossly reflecting on me and my faintly, and in it the writer recommends an acquaintance of mine to horsewhip use; so I availed myself of the suggestion. Mr. Chambers: This is much too serious a case to deal with in a summary way. If we convicted the deleuclant in the penalty of £5, it would vitiate any . future proceeding. The best way will he to call on both parties , Mr. Grantley Berkeley and Mr. Craven Berkeley, to find bail. Mr. Chambers to Mr. Craven Berkeley: Why, your brother might have killgd the c omplainant Mr. Craven rerkeley : Oh ! I would not let him kill Mr. Fraser, who only got what he deserved. We came out on pur pose to lick him. Had he been a better man than my brother then my brother would have suffered. Mr. Grantley Berkeley : We served him just as he deserved. Mr. Chambers : You must both put in hail, that Mr. Fraser may have an opportunity of appealing to the laws of his country against this outrage.—The parties then left the office. The article referred to by Mr. Grantley Berkeley appears in Fraser's Magazine for this month, and is headed " Mr. Grantley Berkeley and his Novel." The passages which appear to have excited the ire of the defendants to the greatest extent are as follows. Speaking of " Berkeley Castle," the reviewer says : " But in the present case how absolutelyAso"usting is the con duct of M r . G ran tl e y B er k e l e y. He should have been among lir last people in the world to call public attention to the history 41 - his house. Why, may we ask him, is his eldest brother pitehforked into the House of Lords by the title of Lord Segrave ? Why does he not sit there as Earl of Berkeley ? We are far from being desirous to insult, as the paltry author of this book does, the character of woman ; but when matters are recorded in solemn judgment, there can be no indelicacy in stating that Mr. Grantley Berkeley's mother lived with his father as his mistress, and that she had at least one chit,' before she could induce the old and very stupidlord to marry her." "The horribly vulgar and ungrammatical writing of the dedi cation (to the Countess of Euston) is of no consequence—it is just as good as the rest of the work. But duet.; the roan, in writ ing to the Countess of Euston that she is one ' whom he bath ever regarded with affection,' mean to insinuate that he was ever placed in a position to be able to use, without the most absurb impertinence, the following quotations from his work—' Chat his undisguised friendship trembled on the brink of love'—and that 'taking advantage of certain situations is not its human nature to forego !' It is a downright affront! They call Lord Euston the thin piece of parliament!! Could he, not borrow a horsewhip ? We assure him he might exercise it with perfect security." S DUEL BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE GRANTLEY BERKELEY AND DR. MAGINN. In consequence of the assault on the person of Mr. J. Fraser, the eminent bookseller of Regent-street, on Thursday last, Dr. Maginn, one of the editors of the Standard newspaper, and well known to the literary world as one of the most able writers in Blackwood's and Fraser's Magazines, wrote a note to the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, stating that he was the author of the article in the last number of Fraser's Magazine, headed " Mr. Grantley Berkely and his Novel." He shortly afterwards received a card from Major Fancourt, M.P., on the part of the Hon. G. Berkeley, who stated that he was anxious to see Dr. Maginn on particular business. Dr. Maginn waited upon Major Fan court, and it was agreed between them--the doctor in the mean time procuring a second—that a meeting should take place that evening, at seven o'clock. The place appointed was a field on the New Barnet-road, near St. John's-wood. Mr. Hugh Fraser (no relation of the bookseller, Mr. J. Fraser) acted as the second of Dr. Maginn, and Major Fancourt as the second of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley. The parties were placed on the ground at a little before seven; and, in the first exchange of shots, Dr. Maginn fired rather high, which induced Major Fancourt to ask whether the doctor had done it purposely, not to fire at his antagonist. Mr. Hugh Fraser answered that he did not know. The pistols were again loaded, handed to the end the second fire passed without taking any effect. The seconds here interfered. but in vain. A third exchange of 'shots took lace the Hon. Grantlev Berkeley's bullet grazing the° "et of Deter Maginn boot, a• nd . t he Doctor's bullet grazing the collar.edand, without his adversarl's coat. The seconds again interfer ed, other,:lettthtewnhe-gradu(n) anc " lti t p gy the parties, merely bowing to behaved with S .- 'lt was observed that both parties not a word, with utmost t coolness and determination, and that the question Of M40%1,696011 of the word of command and are sorry to hear that marocourt, passed nn the occasion. We effects of the savage assa u l t Fraser is stilt labouring under the is obliged to keep hi s hed t . committed upOn him,- and that he most dreadfully cnt from the tilt , fac t e, hands, and arms are the whip, and some time i s ex rcted to 'elapse befor e , ° u againthrough attend to business. ppears to have been moment he he ar d o f the as most fair and honourable„ „„ sault. Although there were considerati ons . I*h - would have deterred most men, he at once avowed hitnielf the a u th or of the article in question.—Observer. SIR R. PEEL'S VISIT TO MORRIS CASTLE, (FROM A CORRESPONDENT OF THE STANDARD.) Enclosed is an address to Sir H. Peel, winch was signed by nearly 400 (375) persons in a few days, and would (had tone and opportunity allowed, or had it been cleynied important to make extraordinary exertions) have been signed by double the number. A deputation to present it assembled at Osborne, the seat of Fitzroy Blackford, Esq., at half-past twelve o'clock, and thence repaired to Norris Castle at half-past one, the hour appointed by Sir Robert for receiving the address. The deputation was headed by John Fleming, Esq., M.P. for South Hants, who read the address : " Sir Robert Peel—l have great pleasure in complying with the wishes of my friends and neighbours in this island, by placing in your hands an address expressing the warm feelings with which they welcome your arrival, and the high sense they entertain of your public services as a member of the legislature, and as a minister of the crown. Having, sir, for so many years in my place in the House of Commons Supported, with few ex ceptions, the various public measures which from time to time you brought under the consideration of parliament, and duriug that period also participated in the cheers and admiration which• your commanding eloquence and unrivalled talents so con stantly elicited from all sides of the house, I need .not say how fully I concur in the sentiments of this address, and how fer vently I join iu the prayer that the counsels of our country may long be aided by your wisdom, experience, and I dare not, sir, iti thus personally addressing you, or even in your presence, trust myself to review the important services you have rendered to your country, or in tracing the brilliant career which since your first entrance into public life has dis tinguished you as one of the brightest ornaments of the British senate, and ranked you amongst the wisest and ablest of Bri tish statesmen. I cannot, however, pass over the brief period in the year that is passed during which you presided over the counsels of the crown, and revived the drooping hopes and con fidence of our distracted and misgoverned country by the wis dom of the measures - which you introduced, and by your earn est endeavours to effect every possible reform in the civil and ecclesiastical establishments of the country, and let me add, sir, the moderation, disinterestedness, temper, and forbearance, which have marked your conduct since the period of your re tirement from office, are no less honourable to vou than con demnatory of your opponents, as contrasted with the factious and vexatious clamour with which they assailed the efforts of your government, and defeated the very measures which they have since had the meanness to adopt as their own, and submit for the sanction of the two houses of parliament. But let us hope that the reign of misrule is drawing to a close. Be as, sured, sir, that the eyes and understanding of the people of this country are at length awakened to their real interest, and that the hopes and wishes of all who are estimable for character and intelligence are fixed upon you, and the glorious and illustrious partner of your patriotic labours; and as his victorious sword has already saved our country from foreign toes, so, sir, it will be your bright destiny, in conjunction with him, to defeat the machinations of no less dangerous doestic enemies, as well as to maintain the rights and constitution of Englishmen, and re store the peace, happiness, and prosperity of the empire. " I will now, Sir, with your permission, read the address which I hold in my hand, which although most numerously signed, being subscribed by nearly 400 persons, has not one half of the sieuatures which would have been obtained had more ample time been allowed; but I can vouch for the high respect ability of the signatures, and that there is scarcely a name who is not a voter of the Isle of Wight." I regret that f have no notes of Sir Robert's reply to Mr. Fleming's speech; but he replied with great force and feeling to Mr. Fleming's allusion to his friendship with the Duke of Wellington, and the unanimity which subsisted, and had never been interrupted, between himself and that illustrious noble man. Sir Robert Peel looked extremely well. He was evidently moved while Mr. Fleming was speaking and reading the address. His oe n reply was delivered with great firmness. The gentle men o;' the deputation had the honour of being severally intro duced to Sir Rebell Peel. TO THE RIGHT HON. SiR ROBERT PEEL, BART. M.P. "Sia,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, feel it difficult to give adequate expression to those emotions of pride and pleasure with which we greet your arrival on our shores.. On any occasion, and at any period, since you, Sir, first took a lead in the government of our beloved country, your cumin!". among us would have been regarded as a subject of con gratulation. But with the sense we entertain of the imminence of the present crisis to all our great public interests and institu tions; and of the wisdom, dignity, firmness, moderation, and patriotism by which your public conduct has been regulated, now is it possible for us not to gather around you with the at tachment with which it becomes the children of the common wealth to rally around him who has earned to himself the proud distinction of being hailed as " The Father of his Country." " We are sensible bow inadequately our congratulations express the feeling and reverence with which a grateful country regards you. We cannot, however, forbear to consider it as an event seldom recorded even in the page of history, that an individual should have thus concentrated upon himself the hopes and wishes of a nation, without any of the adventitious aids deriVed from the possession and influence of office, but by the mere force and weight of character alone. No one has ever arisen among us with judgment and temper so well fitted to conduct us safely through the present crisis, in which we are as much in danger from rashness on the one hand, as from timidity on the other. We can only aid our prayers that your career may continue and terminate as it has begun; 'equally distin guished for honour, sagacity, disinterestedness, and above all, for wisdom. . . " That your sojourn among us may tend to recruit those energies which have been so severely tried in the public service, and that health and felicity to you and yours may crown your visit to our island, is our most earnest and united prayer," SIR ROBERT PEEL'S REPLY. "Gentlemen—lt is truly gratifying to me, on my arrival on the shores of this beautiful island, to receive from you, and from those you represent, such cordial assurances of your kind and friendly feeling towards me, and of your approbation of my conduct in public life. " Whatever influence I possess, is mainly derived from having gained the esteem and confidence of men like yourselves, who desire the redress of every real grievance and the correction of every actual abuse, but who believe such redress and correction to be perfectly compatible with caution and circumspection in the application of remedies, and, above all, with the brm main tenance of those great institutions in church and state, which constitute, as a whole, the form of government under which we live, and which, under the blessing of God, we will transmit to those who are to follow us. " Allots' me to say, gentlemen, that I look forward, with great confidence to the result of any trials to which those institutions may be exposed. "I never can believe that the people of this country, this in telligent and enlightened community, comparing the blessings they enjoy with those of any other nation that now exists, or of which history has left a record, remembering their ancient glory, success, and security in war, reviewing their extended empire in every quarter of the globe, their perfect guarantees for civil and religious liberty, the wonderful expansion of their commerce, and developement of their skill and industry—l never can believe that a people sensible and worthy of such blessings, will consent to put them to hazard by constant changes in the lead ing institutions of government, or interference with their re spective privileges and independent authority. " I thank you most sincerely for your good wishes for my health and happiness, and cheered by your approbation, and relying upon your support, I shall return with increased anima tion to the active duties of public life." FUNERAL OF MR. ROTHSCHILD. The residence of the above celebrated individual was through out the whole of yesterday kept quite secluded, and an officer of the city police was stationed at the gates (which were shut) of the house, New Court, St. Swithues-lane, to prevent the admit tance of persons who applied out of curiosity, on which account a great many persons called. Some private friends of Mr. Rothschild have put on mourning, and many gentlemen who transacted business at his establishment, out of deep respect for his memory, have also done the same. The remains of the eminent deceased are deposited in a leaded coffin, which is en cased in another, fanned of oak, carved and moulded in a very superior manner, and having silver handles. There is no in scription on the outer coffin, but there is a breast-plate of oak of a finer quality than the coffin, on which is engraved the coat of arms and crest of the family. Mr. Aaron Hendrick, Castle.street, Whitechapel, who has received an appointment by the great German synagogue, for the pu rpo.9e of conducting the funeral ceremonies connected with the Hebrew church, will undertake the obsequies, which will be performed in as plain a manner as possible. In consequence of the depth of the coffin, a hearse is being prepared for the nourn fill occasion, which will be drawn by four horses. At present 24 mourning coaches and pairs are ordered to follow; there are more expected. The four sonsof the deceased as chief mourners will be in the first coach. In those following will be fist, the Rev. Dr. Solomon Herschell High Rabbi of the synagogue, with the chief reader a nd wardens of the synagogue, followed, in the other coaches, by readers from the different synagogues of the metropolis, and the officers attached to them, the most intimate relations and friends being in the remainder. '!'here will he no feathers on the mourning coaches, nor are hat-bands allowed, except with the domestics of those of a different per suasion, who will wear what is the'custom of their church On each side the hearse and mourning coaches ten children from the different charitable institutions of which he was patron will walk in. procession. In the absence of the second son of the deceased, who is hourly e xpected from the Continent, no definite arrangements as try the time of 'the funeral - have yet been come to, nor is it decided where the commencement of it shall take place. As it is expected that an immense number of private carriages will follow i t h as b ee n proposed that the procession shall start from Piccadilly; hut, from whatever place it may go, the whole will pass deign Duke's-place. in front of the Jewish synagogue, along Whitechapel, to the Jewish b urial- g round, N ortli-street,lWhite ecrhapcehliewrheireieTte. service The remainswlllbe performed by the High Rabbi, will be deposited in a grave bricked as a vault, which will be eight feet deep. The grave will contain no other body, as it is the custom of the Jews in no instance, whether poor or rich, to have more than one body in will a grave. A monument will be laid ove r the be placed at the tom , b. An extra number of watchtnen, after the interment, grave for a length of time, to prevent any sacrilegious act to wards the deceased.—Obsercer. Two WIVES IN A WEEK.—On Tuesday last, George Watson (a gr ocer o f K en d a l, i n a go od line of business) was committed to Appleby gaol to take his trial on a charge of bigamy. About a month ag o , th e accuse d was married at Kendal church to a Miss Heaps, and on the following day he set off with a friend to the neighbourhood of Kirby Lansdale, where he met with a young woman of the name of Allen, with whom he had previous ly been upon terms of intimacy. To this young woman, on the day succeeding, it is said, he was married at Halton church by the Rev. Mr. Mackareth—thus fastening himself in wedlock's chains twice in three days. With his second wife he journeyed to Liverpool. and ii. two days left her, when she returned home. Watson came to Kendal on Friday l as t ; on Saturday he was apprehended at his mother's house by the police; and on Tues day committed for trial at the ensuing assizes, as stated above. —kendal Mercury. TEmpIiIIATUREOF THE INTE RIon OF TUE E A ETH.—AI.Arago, i on Wednesday, n delivering a lecture on the theory of the central heat of the earth, related an operation at this time carry ing on in Paris, which may be of the highest importance not only to science but to public economy. I'he municipality have ordered an Artesian well to be pierced near the Barritire des Martyrs; but the men employed, after getting to a depth of 900 feet without finding water, came to a stratum of chalk, so thick that the undertaking would have been given up but for the interferenceof men of science, who wished it to be continued, with a view to the elucidation of the above theory. According to observations made by means of a thermom e t er , no d ou bt re mains as to a fact which hitherto it has not been possible to verily with any degree of precision—namely, that the tempera. ture of the earth rises in regular proportion towards the centre; so that at the tenth degree front the surface all known matter must be in a state of fusion. At the p oint t o which the perfora tion in question has reached, M. Arago expects a spring of water will arise- . of a sufficient degree of heat to warm public establish ments,. supply baths, and serve for other purposes. We cannot help thinking this expectation of M. Arago a very fanciful one. —Gulignaner ilessenger. LONDON TIMES AND EVENING MAIL. THE Public is respectfully informed that THE TIMES arrives by EXP HESS every Morning at Half-past Seven, - and witl he on Sale at the Office, No. 48, Lord-street. THE EVENING MAIL three days per wee - iiy post — Price 7d. Advertisements and communications for e Editor are re quested to he iert at the Office, as above, as a Parcel is for warded to the TINIES-OFFICE Nightly. L. T. GASKILL, Agent. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. tors,—one great truth is manifest, namely, that the grossly vituperated " House of Lords." or rather its con servative majority, is prepared to go all rational lengths in its concessions to the principles reasonably propounded by the third estate, representing the popular interests, generally. One great objection to the marriage bill, in a religious point of view, is the establishment of a purely civil, or strictly legal supervision over that, which, in all christian ages, has been considered to partake more of a religious than a civil compact; and more proper at all times to come within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, al though secured, as a matter of contract, by the agency of the civil law. Every conscientious dissenter must be aware, that when our Saviour sent his apostles to " go and teach all na tions," he sent them to people who were in their fallen state of unbelief, and in their condition of political and moral degradation, in consequence of the desertion of a system originally designed by God to be universal for mankind. Thus, when nations became converted to the faith of the gospel, they interwove in their schemes of civil regulation most of those maxims expressly laid down in the sacred writings—some upon the principle of imi tation only, but others upon the full faith, and even the conscientious conviction, that they had a divine authority for their adoption. Keeping then the model under their eye, they adopted and moulded them to their social polity, from time to time, as the circumstances of popu lation and the due authority of national law required. For this there is abundant authority of various degrees, which different men will estimate according to their own judgment; but the government and discipline of the Church of England have been formed upon it, and under it she has preserved to the dissenters themselves all those privileges and immunities of citizenship—the pro tection of established law, and security of their lives and possessions—which they now prosperously enjoy, in com mon with the members of that establishment, which is so ungenerously assailed by the " political order" of their own body ! It should be fully understood, that this argument has especial reference to christian governments. If we be lieve the scriptures, we are bound also to believe that these governments, and the very portions of the earth whereon, they rest, shall become the kingdoms of Christ, as their supreme governor, even before that very earth passes away, and a newer and more perfect one shall be formed; and therefore (despite of all assertion to the contrary) Christ's kingdom is of this earth. For this great change of government our Saviour himself prepared th4reliminary forms, or paved the way, by restoring some parts of the patriarchal form of government. He restored the primeval marriage, and that upon the prin ciple, that it was so in the beginning of time; and as he was fully aware that even in so doing the Jews would not obey the change, under their stubborn prejudice and un belief, and until their perfect conversion, he addressed himself to mankind generally. These are the views under which our Saxon ancestors embraced the Christian covenant, and in proof of which we find in the laws of Edmund, that the marriage con tract is expressly assigned to the priestly office. The words explicitly are, "Let the priest be present at the marriage ceremony: he by law must be present to bless the marriage." Thus the sanctity of this rite was held indispensable in the laws of the Heptarchy. It may be objected, that this long respected form of marriage, connected as it was with baptism, is a remnant of the Saxon feudal system ; be it so : it is, nevertheless, an evidence strongly supportive of the great principle of our ancieni constitution in church and state. It proves that religious faith formed the chief title and acknow ledgment in the tenure of all property, as well as the possession of civil rights; and that the christian mar riage, and baptism, and the christian oath, connected with the rights of primogeniture, were held indispensa • ble in the conditions, and were joined thereby to the ci vil and military services of the state ; for the law of Ina expressly decreed, that the man who neglected to have his child baptised should forfeit all his land. As the law at present stands, the clergyman not only performs the religious rite, but also most properly decides the legal right, before marriage, as was the practice and custom in the time of the Saxons. The question, " Who giveth this woman to be married to this man ?" being still re tained in the church marriage service; and showing the right of protection and guardianship to be under the mi nister's control. The trammels and delays, the expences and annoy ances, arising out of the complex machinery of civil re gistration, and the consequent appeals to registrars., will more than outweigh the advantages the dissenters hope to obtain from the passing of these bills, in a religious point of view ; and with reference to civil advantages, purely, the political and worldly minded amongst the dis senting body will, with their more conscientious brethren, contribute to the establishment and furtherance of a sys tem infinitely more secular and more selfish, as well as far more despotic in principle, than the tried customs they so assidiously labour to abrogate. This is their own look out. Our duty is to maintain the cause of our chris tian church, which, by God's help, we will do, and that fearlessly in the face of all her enemies. Tlie objections urged by Lord Wynford in his place to the registration of births bill, (both in principle and practice,) although it is likely to become the law of. the land, have our hearty concurrence. They convey senti ments which do honour to the heart and judgment of the noble and learned lord ; and we would, if possible, urge the reflecting portion of our non-conforming brethren to ponder them seriously ; they partake not of the spirit of intolerant bigotry, but display a sound and dispassionate legal knowledge of those effects which must inevitably result from the proposed new system. "He (Lord Wyn ford) fully believed, that pedigrees could be traced with greater facility under the present system than under the provisions of this bill. He could not consider the office of the superintendent registrar quite so good a place in which to preserve the records as the diocesan and eccle siastical registries. Under the new system, a person who wishes to search the registry will have to go to the church first to obtain his information ; not succeeding there, he will have to go to the office of the registrar, and then, perhaps, to every dissenting minister in the neighbourhood, before he can know the truth. Thus con siderable expence and inconvenience will be entailed upon the parties seeking such information, who, under the present law, might obtain the required certificate from—the- clergyman himself at once. At present, the party obtaining the certificate would have to pay for it; but by this bill the expence was to be thrown upon the funds raised for the poor of the country ; and this, to gether with the other additional burthens which this bill would create, he was sure would give great dissatisfac tion." Let it be borne in mind that these are the opin ions of a judge, practically acquainted, by long habit and experience, with the subject, who records his conscien tious protest against the' interference of the bill with the members of the established church. i4,1{3 As, however, a " a sop must be thrown to Cerberns," the political section of the dissenters may conscientiously hail this semblance of a boon as the measure " of entire and ample relief" so amiably promised by Mr. Spring Rice, to " our dissenting brethren and fellow-subjects," at the memorable Cambridge dinner. True it is, that the dissenters cannot but admire the great piety displayed by the pliant Lord Melbourne on this occasion, in de claring marriage to be "a recognised holy ordinance, which demanded the sanction of religion ;" nor will they quarrel with the condescension of the Peers in rejecting, on a division, the Bishop of Exeter's amendment in clause 22, which went to bind more securely the due ob servance of the obligation, by a more solemn declaration than that stipulated for by those who represent their in terests (temporal and spiritual) in "another place!" We should not do justice to the protestant inhabitants of the Isle of Man if we did not congratulate them on the stand so ably made by the Earl of Ripon for the pre ervation of their ancient bishopric. It was one of the recommendations of the ecclesiastical commissioners that this venerable see of fourteen hundred years' duration hould be abolished, and united with that of Carlisle. Much as we are inclined to yield generally to the re forms proposed by the commissioners, we are inclined to ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EXTRAORDINARY FETE! Tins DAY, (Tuesday,) the 9th of August instant. riIHE Proprietor begs leave respectfully to k dte, that he has engaged Mr. YATES, the celebrated Manager of the Adelphi Theatre, who, with his talented Assistants, it is presumed, will get up an Entertain ment quite novel to the inhabitants of Liverpool, and precisely on the same scale as those which have taken place under Mr. Yates's superintendence at the It'r , yal Pitville Gardens, at Cheltenham; Sydney Gardens, Bath ; and at Birmingham, Manchester, and the principal Towns in the Kingdom. A CONCERT Will take place in the Gardens. Principal vocalists Miss BETT S, Of the Theatre Royal. Drury-lane, Mr. W. It WILLIAMS, One or the first Comic Singers of the day; and others whose names will he announced in future Advertisements will attend. Mr. Y A TES will deliver an Address on the occasion, and give hiS\4ecollections of the principal London Actors. A Prosce nium will be erected in the Gardens, on which will be repre sented the DELINEATIONS OF THE PASSIONS, Embodying a Series of beautiful TABLEAUX VIVANTES, or Living Pictures, which will be enlivened and enriched by various coloured Fires, and accompanied by appropriate Music. The whole Entertainment to conclude with the most splendid display of .• FIRE WORKS! ever seen in Liverpool ; by M. D'EaNsr, Artist to his Majesty. The Entertainments will be more fully explained in the Bills. On account of the immense expense incurred, the Admission will be, for Non-Subscribers, 25.; Children, Half-price. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The last night but four of Mr. 0. SMITH, of the Theatre-royal, English Opera-house. Fourth week of Mr. FIEN RV HO RNCA STLE, of the Theatre royal, Drury-lane. Mr. VALE, of the Theatre-royal, Covent-garden, is engaged fora limited period, and will make his third appearance here this evening. MHIS present TUESDAY, the 9th instant, will be perform -1 ed the Melo-drama of • ; st , THE WRECK ASHORE... ! • Founded upon one of theTalesof a Voyager, seco• nd series. Grampus Mr. 0. Smith, (as originally performed by him in,London,) Miles Bertram Mr. W. Howard. Marmaduke Magog... Mr. Baker. Alice Miss Faucit I Bella. Miss Chaplin. After which will be produced, for the first time here, a new Farce, called LAW AND LIONS.,, Jemmy Mammoth. (as originally performed by Win in London,) In which character he will introduce his original Song, " Man-. kind are different sorts of dogs," written expressly for hie , j , by Mr. Moncreiti. • Hi . . - Mr. James, alias Erasmus Epic Mr. Browne ••. -E Mrs. Mammoth Nlrs Clarke. Jane Miss Stanley. To conclude with the romantic drama, called PRESUNIP PION ; OR, THE FATE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Written by R. B. Peak, Esq., and the materials drawn from Mrs. B. Shelly's poetical novel of Frankenstein. The * * *'* * * Mr. 0. Smith, (as originally performed by him iu London.) Felix.... _ _ Frankenstein Mr. Stuart I Fritz w Mr. Baker. Clerval \lr. G. Horncastle. Elizabeth Mrs. W. H. Bland, late Miss Somerville Agatha M iss Stanley. TO•MORROW, (Wednesday.) the new drama of ROBERT MACAIRE,—Rohert Macaire, Mr. 0. Smith; Jacques Strop, Mr. Vale,; (as performed by them in London;) Marie, Mrs. Stanley. After which, the n,elo•drama of THE MILLER'S MAlD,—Matte Marvellous, Mr. Vale ; George, Mr. W. Howard; Plicebe, Miss Faucit. To conclude with the opera of DER FREISCHUTZ,—ZarnieI, Mr. 0. Smith, (as originally performed by him in London;) Rudolph, Mr. Henry Horn castle; Caspar, Mr. G. Horncastle; Killian, Mr. Baker; Agnes, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Anna, Miss Stanley. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We regret that, owing to the crowded state of our columns, we are obliged to omit several valuable communications from our correspondents. Zbe itiberpool ,tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1836. We have received New York papers up to the 17th ult., but find in them little worth extracting. It is stated that the commissioners who had been sent to Matamoras, by the Texian government, to treat for the exchange of prisoners, had been arrested by the Mexican authorities, and thrown into prison. Further, that all overtures or propositions, made on the part of the Texians, were re jected—that a liberation of the prisoners at Matamoros was positively refused—and, in fine, that nothing like treating with thefii on the basis of Texian independence, would be listed to by the Mexicans. By this arrival we also learn that 4000 Mexican troops were at Matamoras, 4000 at the Nueces, and 6000 at Saltillo. A fire had occurred in Gold-street, New York, on the 12th nit., which destroyed considerable property, chiefly literary. It was supposed to be the work of an incendiary. In the House of Commons, on Friday evening, Mr. Maclean, in a speech at once eloquent, sound, and discri minating, introduced the subject of Spanish affairs, con nected with the present . contest in that truly unhappy country. We have not room to give even a fair outline of the luminous expose made by this gentleman on the various and highly important topics his speech embraced; and though precluded from making any specific motion on the question, by the decision of the Speaker, the cas tigation given to ministers, and the crooked nature of their foreign policy, with respect to Spain. under the ma nagement of the hero of the " scented cane"—the would be facetious Lord Palmerston—was one which will not easily be forgotten by the horse, and will assuredly have its due weight with the reflecting portion of the commu• nity throughout the kingdom. Mr. Maclean, after des canting upon the financial arrangements entered into for the supply of stores and munitions of war to the govern ment of the Queen, fully demonstrated that no valid gua rantee had been taken by the English government for the repayment of the money expended in these matters. He then showed that the employment of the naval forces and marines, to the extent to which it had been carried, was out of the boundary laid down by the stipulations of the " quadruple treaty," and that we were in a state of na tional hostile aggression to the cause and person of Don Carlos, with whose interests we had no right, under the law of nations, to interfere on the soil of Spain, in flagrant opposition to the feelings and determination of a large proportion of the people of that country, and in furtherance of a course of policy :which was calculated to bring certain dishonour on the British nation, and dis, credit on the former and long since achieved credit of her arms, "per mare et per terms," in every part of the globe. In reply to Mr. Maclean's strictures on the con duct of the Westminster hero . , and his death threatening proclamation against English soldiers found fighting in the cause of Don Carlos, the sapient war minister of a British monarch said he." was no lawyer, and could not precisely say of what crime British subjects so fighting would be guilty" ! As for the rest it was vague, evasive, and unsatisfactory. Mr. Grove Price supported Mr. Maclean with his usual spirit. - It was our intention, bad our space permitted in our last number, to have offered some further observations on the progress in committee of the Lords, of the two measures introduced by Lord John Russell, ostensibly for the pur pose of relieving dissenters from certain disabilities, with regard to the solemnization of marriages, the rite of bap tism, registration, et cetera. By reference to the proceedings in the House of Lords on Monday evening, the Ist instant, it will be seen, that the all liberal and accommodating Whig cabinet, advanced certain steps with the two several and respective pana ceas for conciliating that portion of "the people," com prehending the dissenting interest—the " marriages bill," and the "registration of births bill." Infinitely inferior in all respects as both these measures still are, to the comprehensive plans of Sir Robert Peel, for removing the alleged " grievances" of dissenters, and for obviat ing their objections to the established forms and ceremo nies of the communion of the Church of England ; and, however imprudent and speculatively innovating, as a matter of internal social policy, so great a departure from the fundamental principles of the baptismal and marriage laws of our venerable established church, may justly be held, by her reflecting and orthodox members, who have been properly taught to cherish and uphold the indefeasi bility of all christian tenures and customs, and retained more or less from the earliest times of our Saxon ances- support the views of the Earl of Ripon with regard to this bishopric. His lordship's argument is fully in point. The Isle of Man forms a community within itself,„en tirely, distinct from the English customs; and parliament might as justly dispossess the inhabitants of their civil privileges as deprive them of their own exclusive bishop ! The memorable decision of the House of Commons on Tuesday evening last, on the Irish church, or " tithe bill," is, on reflection, a subject of too weighty moment to the interests of our protestant brethren to be passed over superficially by us, who stand resolved to defend the cause of truth, without fear or favour. We therefore return to the subject, however nauseating it has become, and calculated to produce mingled impressions of painful loathing and disgust. We have already broadly asserted that the "appropriation" part of the question was posi tively worn threadbare as a matter for argument—that it offered nothing beyond a glaring and an anomalous com pound of impudent and deceptive irrationality, indefensi ble in principle, and contemptibly worthless as a practical measure of honest " justice to Ireland," however well calculated to favour the designs of the radical-popish clan, to deceive the ignorant, and to delude the unwary. Have not our protestant and candid readers responded to our sentiments most cordially ? Let us then unmask a little further this nondescript—unseemly, ill-begotten measure of papal whiggery—let us show it forth in its naked, crooked deformity, to the extent of our humble powers, as it was, finally, we hope, exhibited to Sir Robert Peel and his conservative band of associates (representing the wealth and the intellect of the British nation,) under the reflected light of the great political star of the church-loving house of Bedford, on this ever memorable evening, when the ascendant wisdom of whiggism assumed,' for a brief moment, the airs of sitting in judgment on the important question of privilege, until the wig of a more formidable quality suspended or eclipsed that judgment, by the interposition of its own I It surely is not from any novelty displayed by the noble champion of the united liberal, or papal party, in the lower, or " people's house," either in tone, or effect, that we feel bound, as it were, once more to honour this truly despicable, and happily, by the prowess of the whigs themselves, defunct bill, with a farther notice; but be cause Lord John Russell has, unwittingly, himself dis played before us, in their true colours, the astounding pretensions of that measure of " dubious virtue," which the Times has saucily, but most justly and pithily ob served, " should be henceforth and always denominated, on the authority of the prime minister himself, a bill for giving a heavy blow to protestantisna in Ireland !" Well, indeed, might the peers of England deprive it of its admitted sting, its paralyzing-noxious qualities--well done great, good, candid, pious Lord Melbourne, the protestants of Ireland most gratefully thank you ! But what shall we say of those who have thwarted the con servative peers, the " hereditary legislators," acting un der your admonitory jurisdiction ? What ! your coadjutor and noble colleague in the house of " the people," to talk of " resigning," if its members did not reject the amended bill, which you, Lord Melbourne, had so spe cially condemned in your place, and before the assembled peers of England, who, acting under the spirit, if not the letter of your admonition—your warning, extracted only the poison from the " great discouragement to protes tantism bill," as the Times has it, credite posteri ! Well, happily for the present, this great evil has been rendered abortive—the calamity is postponed, and that by means of the crooked policy of the enlightened spirit of whiggery itself, pacta convents, accordingly as that amiable cham pion of the papacy, Misther O'Connell, and his worthy allies, and humble subordinates, may deem compatible with their notions of justice, and their admirable code of expediency. The Times, with great justice and force of reasoning, further observes, on the result of this last debate. " The question is whether in this land, renowned through all the nations of the earth, chiefly and above all things, for having burst asunder the bonds of, spiritual tyranny, and freed the worship of the living God, from the de graing and deceitful mummeries of Popery, a govern ment shall be allowed to deal " a heavy blow"—to give " a great discouragement to Protestantism,"—or whether their impious and sacriligious band shall be stayed, from defiling that ever blessed and imperishable work, and the memory of the glorious army of martyrs, who se cured to us with their blood the purity and the liberty of religious worship, which we enjoy, shall be protected from the scorn and insult, which these their degenerate descendants, have dared openly to threaten it." It is impossible for us, under our Protestant feeling, to avoid entering into a cordial and hearty reverberation of these sentiments, which speak aloud to the hearts, the consciences, and the religious feelings of all Protest ants,—nay of all truly Christian men, in accents of powerful and conclusive conviction. And we repeat the appeal contained in them,—we address ourselves to the understanding of our unprejudiced readers, of every sect, to their sense of honour,—to their respect for mo rals,—to their veneration for religion; and we ask them, how long this moral turpitude is to be permitted to po lute the councils of a great, a chivalrous, and a thinking nation, to its utter wrong, its discredit, and its shame ? That portion of my countrymen whom we frankly and proudly acknowledge, as the PEOPLE, properly, unmisti fied by the vapourings of the ' Spirit of the Age,' which is the spirit of irreligion, of anarchy, and of bloodshed, under temporary restraint, will not fail in forming an appropriate judgment of the wisdom, the sincerity, and the ethics of that - band of would-be legislators, who, to preserve place and to usurp power, in a firm utterly at variance with all constitutional means have perverted all the fundamental principles, the genuine and essential characteristics, the securities of old English policy ; and even bartered their own honourable independence, as statesmen, and their reputation as honest men, by manoeu vring to obtain office, through the medium of a positively fictitious majority,composed and made-up of needy place men, their own dependants, and Roman Catholic expect ants for power, whose feelings and whose principles of legislation, or even respect for the sanctity of an oath, have nothing in common with the pure faith and the tolerant religion of the Gospel of Christ ! Do we over colour the picture? Let us at a " bird's eye view" sift'the value, and the independent pretensions, of the famous majority of twenty-nine,---let us contrast its actual strength, and the weight of its authority, for inflicting upon us, for six months longer, the humiliation under which we nationally labour,—let us compare the con servative majority of the House of Lords, and the de clared majority of the people " out of doors," in opinion, from Devon county to Newcastle town; and let the issue be decided thereupon, fairly decided, for the constitution and the protestant church, on the scrutiny we here pre sent to the equitable considerations of our fellow-towns men,—aye, even the liberal portion of them,--let them be told, that the conscientious Lord Melbourne declared, on the second reading of the discarded bill in the upper House, that he "would continue to hold office so long, only, as he was supported by a majority of the House of Commons!" We now come to the quality of the noble Premier's supporting majority. On carefully looking through the list on the division of Tuesday night, we find that thirty-five placemen voted in the gross majority. Thus leaving— Conservative members 231 Liberals, Whigs, and Roman Catholics 26U Deduct officials Actual independent majority 6! Of the total number who voted (491) forty-one were Roman Catholics,—thus leaving a purely independent majority of twelve Protestants against Lord Melbourne and his colleagues! It does not appear, that the noble viscount has yet presented himself at Windsor, for the purpose of permitting the exercise of the royal preroga tive; and although we may be accused of drawing an in vidious distinction between Protestant, Official, and Ro man Catholic members, we maintain, under our Standard respect for truth, and our regard for principle, that the 'atter had no fair right to strain their privilege,' by voting on a question purely relating to the Protestant Church, and for the avowed purpose of appropriating its funds to the benefit of ti;e laity of an opposite creed, AUGUST 9, 18:36, bound up with their own temporal interests. This is the equitable view we take of the question, and on the result of his division, which is offered to the reflection of the Prime Minister, that he may avail himself of it, on the occasion of his next interview with our most gracious Sovereign. Upon Lord John Russell's own showing, his proposi tion, if capable of application at ali, (and which we posi deny,) under Lord Melbourne's declared sympathy and affectionate solicitude for the welfare of the protestant church in Ireland, gave but the assurance of a negative benefit to that church upon the entire face of the pro ceeding; for it is fallacious to deny that the papistical supporters of the ministerial appropriation bill, in such its designed plunder of the legal and just subsistence and property of the Irish Church, received it on any other understanding or foundation than as an " instalment" -- a precursor to the total extinction of her long-held pos sessions, or their positive and direct application to Ro man Catholic uses—the utter subversion of a protestant ministry (declared by their priesthood to be " the bane of our days") and a protestant government too, prede termined by them to be carried into effect under all the crafts of jesuitical policy,paripassu, with the means they may be enabled to command, and no matter how treacher ously' or disingenuously applied so long as the end should be attained, and their church, infallible, obtain her wonted supremacy. Is the position of the subtle enemy un masked or not ? Have we not made a fair and full reconnoisance of the very heart of the papal entrench ments, and placed our protestant brethren "en fait de position" herein ? Dare they make a sortie upon us ? Now, in the language of the immortal Burke, have " we dragged the tiger from his den ;" we will draw his talons► nor be driven from our holy purpose " by the buzzing of wasps !" Whether the papal whigs act upon it or not, or make a show of fight, we will, at all events, for these remarks, act the part of le gerand responsable, in sustenance of our premises, and in stern defence of the altars of that pure religion, wherein dwell the purest consolation and the surest hope. It was a positive un-• mitigated insult to the protestant Church of Ireland for this " minister of justice" to tell the House of Commons , that under such a measure, if passed with the obnoxiou s clause, the government would have stood "pledged" to pay the miserable allowance assigned to it by a conscien tious majority of Roman Catholic members, its sworn enemies at heart, out of its own legitimate possessions• Verily, this was " out-heroding Herod !" Proh-pudor , my Lord of Russell—blush you not whilst making s uch hypocritical assertions in the face of God and man? What is the intrinsic value of such a pledge at your hands, or, rather, at the hands of your Roman Catholic —your O'Connell ridden cabinet ? The British nation , in waiting ezpectancy, demands your answer—will y OO freely, honestly give it? No! Rather, my lord, shall it be obtained from the frowning spirit of your illustriou s ancestor, but not your prototype—the Protestant Russell of a former and a more virtuous age—it will decide the question against you and your long train, or tail, of priestly coadjutors; and we, as Englishmen still, maY yet have reason to venerate the name you bear, (sinking the memory of your own acts,) and now ingloriously at tempt to uphold in your own feeble person by means ° I au un-English association, and by principles at once dig creditable to your lineage, to your understanding, an d to your professions. Finally, in the spirit of peace, w e would recommend the noble colleagues of office to reflec t seriously on the severe but just satire of the great Re man senator, and read thefein its adaptation to th e circumstances of their own present position with an inde pendent community of Britons. " Nullce runt occultiores insidice quain ex qua latent in simula" tione qfficii, aut in aliquo necessitudines nomine!" Protestants of England, remember the warning W e here give you ! At the last meeting of our hopeful Town Council gr . Rathbone added to his justly-acquired celebrity. This man is rapidly becoming demented. His vault? eats him up, his passions minister to his vanity, and 131 ignorance to both. But in looking.at his character as a whole, we a re qu it e a t a l oss to say whether his love 01 t mischief or his stupidity prevail. .If compelled to d e cide , we should incline to the latter limb of the alternative fo r the sake of the proverb—" Curst cows have short horna•' It was observed that at the council meeting, on Wed nesday, Mr. Rathbone was in a desperately sour m ood. Something had ruffled him, that was clear ; the secr et afterwards came out. The unhappy man had met with 3 reception somewhere about the north school which vvri ° exceedingly grating to so keen a searcher after pop° . larity. After the usual quantum of twaddle regarding thing. in general, and the Magazines in particular, the "Churc h question," as it was termed, came under consideration' This was the signal for poor Mr. Rathbone's innate pro pensity to indulge in extravagance. Only mention th e Church in Councillor Rathbone's presence, and he h i. continently fires off a broadside. On Wednesday, " 11 : would first ask a question." And what was that questio o • " Whether those bills of the Churches had been paid 25 well as passed ?" The italics denote the orator's O . phasis. Mr. Councillor Sheil (a savage papist at times, but possessing many good qualities, and among them th e milk of human kindness) seemed to take a malicious pleasure in telling Brother Rathbone that the bills ha d been paid ;—a fact, by. the way, of which Rathbone wa s as well informed as Sheil, but he wanted a peg on whie b to bang his hatred of the Church for present use. Well, then, the bills having been unfortunately Pai d ' there was no help for it. What's done cannot b e undone. But Councillor Rathbone was bent on provid ing for the future ; so he moved an instruction to th e Committee that " no further payment take place Until a report on the Church question be made." Having P er ; formed that exploit, he proceeded to tell the council wh a he " felt as a dissenter." In some respects, this was c a work of supererogation, because the council haVe h ad many opportunities of seeing how Mr. Rathbone "fe els as a dissenter ;" yet, after all, the sweet-tempered ge n ', tleman has made a considerable reservation on that he ad as a matter of prudence. However, on WednesdaY , 2 ; , was Mr. Rathbone's policy to say that he wished tii` Church question to be left in the hands of churchmen he ought to have added, provided he can find churchrn eli (so called) as ready to insult and pull down the Chut eo , as he himself is. But as that is a sort of moral - imp o9s/ . : bility, why, Mr. Rathbone was constrained to do his ow work with his own hands ; and he vents his misera ble spite by endeavouring to intercept the corporation 1 : 1 , t , tance from reaching gentlemen who would most hear t "; despise both the corporation and its pittance did 111, their duty incline them to look upon the errors of th e ' fellow-men with Christian charity. The best of the joke was, that Councillor Rathbor et gave himself credit for having ‘. sh own by hi s cond uc t , that he had leaned to the liberal side" on the Cllu r question. He now avows, howe v er, that he takes t ie r " opposite" side; that is to say, h e h as d e t erm ined be lie f° forth to be illiberal and unj us t ; an d if lie can contri ve to make a more cqnspicuous display, in this respect, in tit° to come than he has done in time past, we shall be read , ' give him the praise of surpassing ingenuity. l i e The amiable Mr. Rathbone went on the new 11.71 " #ho t had chalked ou t f or hi mse lf , an d i t mus t b e con fessed he shone with considerable brilliancy. He nh arg os e Messrs. Glad w i n an d W ra y w ith i n decency, b eca „,es they, as Mi n i s t ers o f G o d' s W o rd, had put their to a placard cautioning the public against sending re el dren to the Rathboneized Corporation Schools, where attempt has been made to substitute something v.cit, than God's Word ! This, in the stupid council lor's an d nion, is indecent on the part of Messrs. Gladwi t ll froo , Wray, " they at the same time receiving paY meri b oo the corporation funds." In this short senten ce we cive the whole soul of Mr. Rathbone. He cann ot con o tbe how a man can dare do his duty as a Minister o t_ o f Gospel, in opposition to the unitarian corporatit inreo, Liverpool, "at the same time receiving Pa.Y6l!n the corporation funds." Why what idea does this cillor Rathbone attach to corporation funds ? Are t h e counci llors ti thes e fade ° funds his pr( perty, or that. of any one who suppurt him in his vagaries ? Heaven oftk kid s baby or ph ovr Up till vei Mu Co Mc the for am am Pul Pla thte to 4 dare the