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in mountain fastnesses, or beneath the protecting canopy of darkness But such a demand, you will say, will not be conceded by the legislature, even with the additional strength which Po pery will have received from the passing of Lord Morpeth's bill. The Hons., of Lords, at all events, will stand firm against such a glaring attack upon the religion of their Pro- testant fellow-countrytnen in Ireland. I admit that sue .proposition — in p ur l s na t ura lib us — wou ld n ot be entertained in either house as yet. But let it be borne in mind that Po pery works for instalments; and we know how readily a re formed (?) House of Commons can grant those instalments, whilst the experience of the present week has shown us how the House of Lords stands firm ag great principles of the reformation ast violations of dmitting the Whole force of the objection to such a measure being enter tained by the present Houses of Parliament, are we to sup- poet that the concession to democracy, which is contained in Lord Morpeth's bill, is to be confined to Ireland alone ? Oh, no. There is a class in tkis country too upon, whose " sufferance" Lord Melbourne and his colleagues hold the reins of government. The fierce voluntaryism which rages amongst the population of the manufacturing towns in Eng land and in Scotland demands to be appeased. The English radicals in the House of Commoni have the price of their support of this bill to receive, and that price is at present the abolition of the rate-paying clauses of the reform bill, if not as yet the lowering of the franchise eci rating test tic interest in Indisputably the extension of the democra the House of Commons must follow the pa Morpeth's bill. With what consistency can it be refused Upon what plea? Is an Eu &r, of Lord :er in cur counti mechanic in our large towns, less independent or les ened than the corresp . ondiug clas will not so far libel illy fellow-countrymen as for a moment to nlight- 1 the sister country entertain the supposition. But to what, 1 ask—priniarily— would the extension of the franchise to the £5 occupiers i our large towns inevitably lead ? ,to the return of at least 50 members from the large facturing boroughs throughout the kingdom, bound hand and foot to further by their votes in Parliament the projects Why- I ansm manu- of Popery! Could any independent member .2 any man who had not previously conciliated the Church of Rome and brought over her interest in his favour,—presume to offer himself as the repreientative of Manchester; with its sa,ooa Papists, of Preston, Bolton, Stockport, Wigan, and a host of other towns in which an Irish Catholic working population is congre.ated ? Undoubtedly not the operation of a franchise approaching, sought to be conferred upon Ireland, ti . population, tnarelaalle into a compact body, under the gc could turn the scale as effectually In those towns under extent that Roman Catholic and even now .hat candidate who might have succeeded in securing the good " the Church," as the Popish body in parliament can now hied turn the scale in favour of the )vernment which has.g by compact" the good wishes of the same power The Hous of Commons, then, by whic :h the designs of Popery against the Established Church of Ireland are to b, worked out- —(and how soon those designs will be directed against the Church of England too, ,I will not stay to in- quire)—is not such a house as we should have by the mere passing of this measure. Popery is too astute a pupil Machiavel to attempt with her own hand s to remove th jewel Protestantism from the crown of our Sovereign "holy order of des ls' ses too great an influence in the councils of the Vatican, to allow of a policy which would draw upon Rome and her mummeries the crushing weight of a people's indignation—and that people the people of Eng land. No, no. Rome forges the - bolts, and strings the weapon which is to drive them home ; but another hand must be found, and will he found, to discharge it. A British par liament composed of mingled puritanism and infidelity—o men stained equally with blood and with hypocrisy—was found at no remote period of oar history to apply the torch to the sacred fanes of our fat and a similar body, in whose deceitful professions of conscientious scruple is con cealed a deep hatred of the Church of England, and whose " liberal" principles in religion will not prevent them from allying themselves with Popery or even with infidelity itself to advance their object, will compose the parliament by which Rome hopes to work the downfall of the Protestant church of this empire. The securing of such a parliament—in which rabid dissent, open infidelity and undiluted Popery will be happily blended, is the ulterior object aimed at by the promoters of this bill. Give Popery her first demand ;—give her a ,C,l qualification in Ireland —and she will wring from your hands the same concession in favour of her dissenting allies, the English and Scotch " voluntaries." liostilLy to the established Protes tant church of the realm is the sure passport to her favour, Her consummate skill in detecting the workings of the human mind is not duped by the pretences of your church- rate martyrs, or even of your vin mould all alike— " liberal" churchmen. She merits of offence to wor cherished designs. the cunning and the duped—into instru out her own long and deeply Fellow Protestants—can you perceive any mode of escape from the ruin—the cer a and inevitable ruin—towards which an unprincipled faction is hurrying the destinies of thi great nation Can any merely ordinary exertion on the part of British constituencies arrest permanently the flood of de- mocracy which is about to be let in upon us, through so many rents and seams in the once boasted, constitution of our country ? No, n o ! • .—you cannot. The vital principle of that constitution —the principle of Protestant ascendancy—is gone. W e el.:institution possess now only the mangled remains of that ; and, although we may now denounce the bin d Lord Mo rpeth—although we may point hereafter to those mangled remains, and exclaim with the Roman, Mark Antony—. See what a rent the envious Casca made We must conclude with him that it was the sword of Brutus which struck to the heart ; it was at his fatal stab that the spirit of the mighty Cesar fled. Yes, the fatal measure of 1829 it was which laid in ruins the fabric of the British con stitution ; and in a further and a final letter I will endeavour to show that its repeal alone can ultimately repair the, in- jury, and that THE PASSING OF LORD MOM MU ST BE THE SIGNAL FOR EVERY PROTESTANT CONSTI TUENCY TII,ROPGBOUT TUE EMPIRE TO AGITATE FOR TuAr REPEAL A PROTESTANT ENGLISHMAN Liverpool, 20th March, 1841. OUR PORTRAIT GALL ERY.—No. 1 SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY, KATT. We have long had an ambition to hand down to posterity a few of the illustrious worthies of which our good old town Can boast; and if we must confess the reason why we have decided to make our first essay upon the Oxford knight, Whose name we have affixed in good bold type at the head of this article, it is because, in spite of our Tory predilections, we cannot but consider that loyalty demands of us to honour him firstwl;;;;;(iiueen has " delighted to honour." We did purpose to present to our readers, in addition to our own laudation, the " facial developments" of the subjects of our sketches ; but what pencil less talented than those of Cruikshank or of Phiz could have done justice to the classical features of such individuals as those whom we destine to im mortality in our columns? Could an ordinary dauber—a man whose whole soul was not absorbed in his art—paint the vivida vis animi displayed in the face of an Earle, a Bolton, or a Rathbone ? He could not; and, despairing of our ability to find an artist, sufficiently talented, we have abandoned the attempt, and determined to rely upon the un aided strength of our descriptive powers. Sir Joshua Walmsley—knight ii pra.senti, and M.P. in embryo—is not a large specimen of humanity ; and we may remark, that few'men of the high order of intellect to which Sir J oshua unquestionably belongs, have ever ranged beyond the ordinary standard of drummer boys in a marching regi- Napoleon himself, although, " like a Colossus, he did bestride this narrow world," was but a morsel of a man. Byron, Moore, and Leigh Hunt, amongst our poets, never stood in their stocking feet much above five feet nothing ; and, " last and least"—the quotation doesn't serve exactly— Lord John Russell himself—the patriot, the statesman, and the philosopher—has been very justly compared to what lawyers term " the smallest coin in the realm" - P. —a farthing— a mite—the " widow's mite !" Let no man, therefore, sneeze at Sir Joshua on the score of hp deficiency in longi- tudinal proportions There is nothing very extraordinary to a common observer in the features of our knight, which are somewhat juvenile, and altogether void of that spiritualised expression which commonly may be traced in the features of genius. When pursuing his every day avocations, his toute ensemble is that of a plain and plodding man of business. But it is when seated upon the judicial bench, or upon the platform, that you see in all his glory the man who at no distant day is destined " the applause of listening senates to command." It is when unravelling some knotty case at the Sessions House— w hen having listened attentively to the swearing of some enlightened Patlander, and the counter-swearing of his brother of the hod, Dennis or Murphy—he " assumes the god—affects to nod, and seems to shake the spheres ;" at that m omen t of awful pondering it is that an acute observer of the workings of the human mind may trace the convictions Which are pictured upon those anxious features, and read as plain as noon -d a y th e solemn judgment wh ich is being formed within—that " there is a good deal to be said on both sides" —a judgment, we may remark, which " nobody can deny." Indisputably, it is in the performance of his public duties, as a magistrate or as a politicio, that Sir Joshua is most to be admired. Often when viewing his dignified demeanour, in presiding over some of our public meetings, we have been transported back in imagination to our school -days, and fancied ourselves an admiring listener to the stern accents of rebuke with which the " king of men" was wont to rule the stormy councils of his host. The " godlike Agamemnon" has shone forth to our rapt gaze in the person of the worthy knight ; although we have looked in vain for Diorned or Ajax, :Nestor or Ulysses, in the wiseacres who bowed before his mighty nod. To those of our readers who have listened to him at such Uatherings, we need not expatiate upon the consummate Powers of eloquence with which Sir Joshua is wont to throw a light and a grace upon every subject which he touches. No man can be so affecting upon the subject of the corn taws ; no man can so forcibly declaim in support of the rights of the poor. I - 1 is eloquence is not Ciceronian or Dernostbenic, LOCAL NEWS, 71 la Burke or ,1 la Pox ; but purely in a style of his own—a happy mixture of the " malaprop" and " bubble-and-speak" schools of oratory. As is the case with most great speakers' the knight turns " ever and anon" a lozenge in his mouth, and gets rather red in the face—a characteristic of the - fervid and impassioned speaker. His addresses, too, have one ad- mirable quality ; viz., that in perusal you may begin in the middle or at the end without losing the sense. Nay, we once tried the experiment of reading only each alternate sen tence, and found the sense improved rather than the reverse. With respect to his general attainments, we are not aware that the worthy knight is a great classical scholar, or is pos sessed of deep historical, philosophical, metaphysical, or We are informed, however, that be is so far proficient in the Welsh language—although it is so re cently that his attention has been directed to its study—that he is at present engaged in the compilation of a Welsh ad issued in the event of a dissolution of Parlia- dress, to be tnent ; and that there is every probability of his becoming a competitor for the bardic prize at the next Eisteddfod. We have heard, too, that he has an ambition to contend for the prize of honour as a performer upon the Welsh harp; but we disbelieve the rumour. Sir Joshua is after all but a Whig; and no man who has " music in his soul" was ever a Whig LITERARY NOTICES The Asiatic Journal. 11 Allen & Co., Leadenball-street At a period when our relations ith India and China are more complicated, and involve graver results than heretofore, the number of the Asiatic Journal for March is peculiarly acceptable, containing as it does a able and comprehensive . . _ st of the recent important events in the eastern world, besides a variety of interesting articles of a lighter and amus- ng characte The " Review of Eastern News, which forms the opening paper, will be perused with deep attention, par ticularly as regards Affghanistan and China. " Hindu() Wo men," as described in a discourse delivered by a native young zentleman, at a new Society for the Acquisition of General hes a .gratifying example of the growing acquireinents and taste of the better order of natives, and gives promise of the refinement, by intellectual culture, at no very distant period, of the people of India. " Wood's Jour ney to the Oxus," is a pleasing detail of eastern adventure and discovery. The article entitled " The Poetical Charac ter of Bishop Heber," is a tribute of merited admiration to the genius Of an accomplished divine and truly amiable man. The " Memoirs of a Griffin" is an amusing sketch of a first visit to India. The description of the approach to Calcutta by water is excellent, and conveys a lively idea of the luxur- , furnisl iant outskirts and the general splendour of that proud me tropolis of British India. The other articles, including a " Memoir of the late Lieutenant Loveday," and a " Review of Glegg'saleinoirs of Warren Hastings," are of considerable merit, and we can safely recommend the whole number as well worth the attention of all who feel interested in the affairs of the east. 'he Law and Practise relating to the Constitution and Management qf Assurance, Banking, and other .Iqint Stock Companies. By Swinton Boult, secretary to the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company. London, Ridgways : Liverpool, Wareing Webb. This is a judicious pamphlet, well timed, and written by a man evidently conversant with the subject. Mr. Boult says he aims at nothing be ad an elucidation of the wants experienced, and of the principles which should test the real value and probable operation of any suggestion to supply Whilst advocating the joint-stock system, he has discussed these points with such moderation and knowledge as cannot fail to recommend his views to the public Site Lessons in Short-hand. By P. B. Templeton. Lon don : Orr and Co. ; Manchester : Heywood. The basis of Mr. Templeton's system is Taylor's, whose alphabetical characters are neat and lineal, and when written may be readily deciphered. The work before us, however, is not a mere rehash, but is in effect a new, and certainly one of the best treatises on the subject of short-hand published for some years. The rules, which in reality are kw in num ber, but which in some. works have been minutely sub divided, so as to be almost incomprehensible at the age when their study should be commenced, are here rendered exceed ingly simple. " He that runs" may indeed read them. An additional recommendation is that they are brought down to the present state of the art, as practised by the best news paper reporters. On these grounds we have no hesitation in recommending this publication to all who feel interested in the progress of a science of so much public utility and private advantage as stenography. There are quacks in all profes sions, and short-hand has not escaped, as the following little anecdote, which we quote from Mr. Templeton's preface, will shew Between three and four years ago a person named -, had been for some time in Manchester professing to writing, mental calculations, short-hand, &c, found his to Middleton, a little town midway between Manchester Rochdale, where he issued flaming bills announcing the • he was about to perform in the way of communicat nowledge. The author of wonder —its treatise, happening to hrough the town in company with a friend, who is passing t good stenographer, was hidwied, by way of curiosity . . to call upon this professor for the purpose of seeing what his capabilities were in reference to short-hand. The worthy teacher, after showing his alphabet, and reiterating his assur ances that if we took his four or six lessons, we should be very competent short-hand writers, exhibited a specimen of what one of his pupils had done with the aid of his instruc tions. This specimen, which was written upon one side of a common sheet of writing paper, (which side, by the way, was not half filled, the writing, too, being in a very large charac ter)—this specimen, we were assured, contained the whole of a sermon which had occupied three quarters of an hour in . the delivery. Having expressed our astonishment that so much matter could be comprised within so limited a space, the professor, in (miler to convince our stubborn understand ings, began to read it. The task, however, was not quite so easy as was expected ; and after having gone over, in the most bungling fashion, four or five lines, which was about one-third of the whole specimen,-and occupied something like a minute and a half in the reading, the gentleman, with the greatest possible composure, laid down his specimen, and proceeded to expatiate on the extraordinary things that might be achieved by stenography. We assured him we had often heard what wonderful feats short-hand writers could acomplish, but that nothing we had ever either heard or seen was at all to be compared with the superiority of his system, which seemingly could enable a pupil to take down a sermon occupying three-quarters of an hour in its delivery, the whole of which he might afterwards read in five minutes ! The gentleman had not another word to say." After this, though it is scarcely necessary, we should be SINGULAR CASE OF LOCK JAW.—On Friday an was held on the body of John Hill, a boy eight years old, who died of lock-jaw, under the following singular circumstances. Another boy and the deceased were playing together on Thurs day week in Hill-street, Toxteth-park, on some balks, and in the act of running over them a piece of wood stuck into his foot. The deceased pulled the splinter out, and the wound bled a good deal, but by putting some oakum to it he was enabled to walk home. His mother saw his foot swelled the next day, and on asking him the cause, he said a piece of iron had fallen uprn it. On Saturday it appeared to get worse, but the boy was still able to walk about. On Tuesday night he went to bed quite hearty, but the next morning he became sick, and could not get up. From nine o'clock on Wednes day morning until one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, he had a constant succession of fits, which terminated in his The. medical roan, Mr. Leech, whe❑ called in, found the instep. The usual medicine was ad -the disease was lock jaw, a slight Scratch c ministered, but it was unavailing — of which he died. THE GOVERNOR FENNER.—This unfortunate vessel, it would seem, has gone to pieces on the coast of %Vales. The mate, we understand, has been down to Criccieth and Aber tfraw, and recovered a trunk belonging to himself, and another the property. of his wife, which had been thrown up in that neighbr'urhood. The beach for sixty miles along the coast was thickly strewed with portions of the wreck. At Aber tfraw, a chest belonging to Wm. Thorns, one of the passengers from Cheltenham, we believe, and containing wearing appa rel, books, and sixty pounds in money had been fdund, and at Criccieth, a trunk, full of female dresses, belonging to a couple lately married at Chester,butwhose names are not in our possession, has been cast up by the waves. In the trunk of Mr. Thorns, a letter was found, written by Mr. Dugan, of Waterloo-road, recommending the bearer to his relatives in America. Him they made acquainted with the affair, and he immediately wrote to Mrs. Thorns on the subject; and on Friday morning Mr. Dugan and the widow returned from Wales, bringing - with them the contents of the trunk, sisting of clothes, 13 sovereigns, 2 American eagles, and dollar;, which she sold to Messrs. Durandu anti Luff, money brokers. It is stated that several other boxes have come on shore at different parts of the coast, and the hull of the Go vernor Fenner was seen only a few days since. It is to be hoped the vessel play be recovered, as there is little doubt there are many valuables still remaining in her. OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—A numerous meeting was held in St. Michael's School-room, Parr -street, on Friday evening, for the purpose of forming a branch of the Protestant Operative Association in connection with Pitt-street and Great George -street districts. The Rev. H. Carpenter presided, and, after opening the proceedings with prayer, addressed the meeting at some length, in the course Of which he stated the objects the association had in view, namely, to enlighten the members of the Church of England on those great and fundamental truths on which themselves and the Church of Rome were at issue, and to lay before the members of the Church of Rome the errors in which they are involved, in order that, by contrasting those errors with the gospel of Christ, they might embrace the truth. After stating that the Rev. Mr. Ould was prevented by indisposi tion from being present, Mr. Swindley proposed and Mr. Ashbrook seconded the first resolution, which was to the effect that Popery was opposed to the freedom of the gospel. The Rev. Mr. Marshall proposed and Mr. Woooburne se conded the next resolution, that the encroachments at pre sent making by the Romish church in Great Britain, and the apathy of professing Protestants, call loudly for active exer tion cn the part of the Operative Protestant Association. The next resolution was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Mansfield and seconded by Mr. Crisp, to the effect that the district branch be formed. Several other excellent speeches were made, a large number entered their names as members, thanks were proposed to the rev. chairman, and the meeting Ul the resolutions were unanimously carried. separated DISPUTED SEAMAN'S WAGES.—Captain M'Pherson, of the Mary Ann Peters, appeared on Saturday before Mr. Rushton, to answer a summons obtained against him by a seaman named Williams, to show cause why he refused to pay a balance of wages said to be due. Williams stated that he shipped on board the Mary Ann Peters, in Calabar, as chief mate, at £6 a month, and arrived in Liverpool on the 3rd February. On his passage home, the captain "'knocked him off work," and refused to pay him his wages.—The ap plicant is a well-known character at the police court, having applied, within the last few days, more than once for wages disputed, and which the court has refused to enforce, it being shown that he had misconducted himself whilst on board the respective ships for the service in which he had claimed com pensation ; in one case it was shown that he had incited the crew to mutiny.—Captain M`Pherson stated, that, when at Calabar, he had taken Williams on board out of sheer cha rity, he at that time being in irons for mutiny in another vessel. On the passage home he found that he was totally useless, and that he was inciting the crew to insubordination ; he therefore determined to put him on shore. The captain gave a case to prove his assertion, but, unfortunately, it was not entered in the log.—Mr. Rushton said, under the cir cumstances, as the captain had no legal objection to resist payment, he must order that the amount due be forthwith paid, but expressed a strong opinion on the conduct of Wil liams, more particularly as he had attempted to injure the character of Captain M`Pherson, as he had done those of several other captains. He was sorry that Captain Wilber son's charity should have been thrown away upon so worth less a fellow. THE ROCK HARMONICON.—TO Mr. Richardson, inventor and proprietor of the rock harmonicon.—Sir, We, who have hereto attached our signatures, being the teachers of the children in connexion with the charity. schools, who have be. nefited, and at the same time been delighted at hearing the sweet music of your admirable invention, the rock harmoni con, beg, on our own and their behalf, to return our sincere thanks for your liberality, in granting gratuitous admission to those to whom, on other terms, the pleasure must have been sacrificed. Having been made acquainted with the his tory of the invention, the children have had an opportunity of learning that industry and perseverance can extract sweet melody and dulcet notes even from rocks. With our sincere wish that your ingenuity and liberality may meet with its just reward, we have the honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servants, William Henry Bell, master of Harrington Free School: Anne Braithwaite. mistress of ditto _ William Washington, St. James's School; R. Bulman and D. Wright; Elizabeth M`Bride, Caledonian School; J. Lees, St. Mi chael's School; Jane M`Bride, ditto; John Jones, Moor fields School ; Mary A. M'Comb, ditto ; Richard Simm, St. Paul's School; M. Allanson, ditto. DOG STEALlNG.—Yesterday Mr. Thos. Kaye, proprietor of the Liverpool Courier, appeared before Mr. Rushton at the Police-court, to prefer a charge of stealing a dog, his property, against two brothers named William and Matthew . . - Stroud. It appeared that one morning, about two months ago, a boy in Mr. Kaye's service was going along London road with the dog, and when he was near Lime-street the prisoners met him, and asked him to whom the dog belonged. lie told them it was his master's, and they then desired him to give it to them, and to say that he had lost it, but he re fused. When he had gone a little further, he discovered the prisoners running away, and that one of ! them had the dog under his arm.—The prisoners said that Mr. Kaye had had the dog since that time. Mr. Rushton asked them what business they had to steal it? In reply, they denied the charge.—Mr. Dowling explained that the dog had been re stored to Mr. Kaye, but had been stolen again.—Mr. Kaye told the magistrate that the boy was naturally much dis tressed after he bad lost the dog, and went to his mother to know what he should do. His mother went with him to the cellar in which the prisoners lived, and there found the dog tied to the bedstock. The boy claimed the dog, and it was liberated. He (Mr. Kaye) then went to Mr. Whitty, to procure the apprehension of the prisoners, but the officers could not succeed. On Saturday last, the dog having es caped from him (Mr. Kaye) whilst he was in Bold-street, it occurred to him that it might be in the cellar where it was found before. Search was made for it this morning ; the animal could not be found, but the two prisoners were met with and placed in custody. He (Mr. Kaye) should be sorry to occupy the time of the bench with such a trifling case, had there not existed in this town a regular system of dog stealing.—Mr. Rushton inquired the value of the dog ? Mr. Kaye replied that he had paid 30s. for it some time ago. A dog of value could scarcely be kept at all anywhere ; but when it was stolen, if a reward of 10s. was offered, it was frequently brought back for the sake of the reward.—ln answer to the magistrate, Mr. Parkinson said that both the prisoners hail been previously before the court.—Mr. Rush- An Essay on Deafness. By D. Cronin_ Wertheim, ton ordered them to pay 305., the value of the dog, and a penalty of £5 in additi on ; i n def a ult of payment, they must London. be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for This essay, to those afflicted with deafness, will prove very one month. And, further, if they were ever brought before acceptable. Mr. Cronin appears thoroughly to understand him again for dog-stealing, he would apply the other provi the construction of the ear, and seems well acquainted with sions of the act to them, and order them both to be well its diseases. A variety of i n teresting cases are given in the wtohpipapyetdhtewmicoeti—eyTheTphrei y eso werenrs sa s i o d n s t e b e u y n werere c l o t o m t a pJ t e t p e a d red work, which have met w ith a speedy cure in Mr. Croniu's Mr. K a y e s t a t e d, that the boys in the neighbourhood of the hands. We recommend this little essay to the notice of all cellar had annoyed his boy, from whom the dog had been who require the auri s t' s a id, an d d ou bt no t, under the an- stolen. Mr. Rushton de s i re d th e names o f a ny of them to be given to him who had been guilty of such proceedings. thor's treatment, that the valuable faculty of hearing will be One was given, and an officer was ordered to enforce his restored. His method is simple, but at present a secret to attendance to-dav (Tuesday). himself. unjust if we omitted to mention that Mr. Templeton is an excellent practical reporter, well competent to discern and expose the tricks of such pretenders. We anticipate that his book will be the means of preventing " payment in advance" being obtained by these impostors. In conclusion, we again recommend these " Six Lessons." The work is neatly got up, and by no means dear consider ing the quantity and the quality of its contents. Ex are s N OF POOR-LAW GUARDIANS AT FORMBY.—We ry to hear that the poor in the township of Formby ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVER SITY are in .a ost lamentable state of destitution, and that the INTELLIGENCE. paltry relief doled out under the new poor-law system barely keeps them from starvation. Some old women 70 or 80 years of age are compelled to subsist upon Is. or Is. 6d. per week. The election of the guardian for this township, according to the information we have received, does not appear to proceed accordinc , to the much boasted practice of purity of election. One of the rural police has been placed at the disposal of the clerk of the board of guardians, and this gertleman takes half of the voting papers, and the assistant-overseer (whose duty it is to deliver the 2vhole) attends to the remainder. The parochial constable enters each house as soon as the assistant-overseer has left it, offers to assist the ratepayer in signing the paper ; and at the same time uses his influence to induce them to vote for a guardian obnoxious to the ma jority of the ratepayers. The parochial constable secures the paper after it is signed, delivers it into the hands of the assistant-overseer, instead of, according to the directions of the poor-law commissioners, allowing it to remain until the 23d, when he (the assistant-overseer) is bound to call for it. The whin method of carrying out one of their projects is ge nerally as objectionable as the measure itself, (From the Oxford Herald.) PROMOTIONS Rev. R. Allen, Rector of Barcombe, Sussex, to the Pre bend of Exceit, on the presentation of her Majesty. Rev. C. H. Bromby, 8.A., of St. College, Cambridge, to the Head Mastership of the Stepney Proprietary School. Rev. G. 0. Townsend, to be Chaplain to the British Resi dents at St. Germain-en-Laye, in the room of the Rev. W. Wright, D.C.L. Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M.A., late Crosse Theological Scholar in the University of Cambridge, to the Rectory of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev. John Trefusis ; patron, Edmund Walker, Esq. Rev. T. Townsend, Curate of Dooms, to the Rectory of Kilruane, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Hawkesworth. Alfred Wrigley, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be the Mathematical Master of the Artillery and En gineers' Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey. Rev. Owen Jones, Curate of 'l'alyllyn, to the Vicarage of Towyn, Merionethshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. M. Edwards; patron, the Bishop of Bangor. Rev. R. Dixon, M.A., to be Principal of King William's College, Isle of Man, in the room of the Rev. A. Phillips, resigned. Rev. Henry Robert Lloyd, M.A., to the Donative of Taliaris, Caerrnarthenshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Roberts; patron, William Peel, Esq., of Taliaris. Rev. William Aldrit, to the Chaplaincy of the Wells Union Workhouse. The Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Reverend Oliver Ormerod, M.A., incumbent of Birch-within-War rington, Lancashire, and Domestic Chaplain to the Lord Viscount Canning, to the Rectoy and Vicarage of Presteign and Discoyd, in the diocese of Hereford, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Beebee ; patron, the Earl of Oxford and M ortimer. On the Bth instant, the Rev. George Edward Maunsell, 8.A., of Christ Church, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, to the Rectory of Thorpe Malsor, North amptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Young ; patron, T. P. Maunsell, Esq. The Rev. W. W. Tirernan, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College, has been presented to the 'Rectory of Bowers Gif ford, Essex, void by the cession of the Rev. J. Bluck. The Rev. Daniel Butler, M.A., of Lincoln College, has been elected Master of the Clergy Orphans' School, St. John's Wood, London. SUPERSTITION.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Infirmary. on the body of P. Hayes, aged 40, a labourer, unmarried. It appeared from the evidence of Mary Cooper, landlady of the " Fortune of War," Marsh-street, where the deceased lodged, that on Wednesday night, the Bth inst., he got up between twelve and one o'clock, and fell down stairs. Witness, hearing the noise, asked what was the matter? and Hayes replied, "It is me; lam dead." He was at that time a little in drink. The witness then proceeded—" The next morning he complained, and was brought here (the Infir mary), and attended by the doctors of this house. I rather thi n k he saw a ghost, which haunts the house. It is the ghost of a lady in Silk, and has been troublesome to some former lodgers. Two or three lodgers have been killed in the same house, and no doubt frightened from the same thathave the never deceaseds e e n the h deposedcsoanusel!! Ighost myself." Mr. Wat ad received injury in the eel., vical vertebrae, for which proper treatment was used, but he died that morning. Verdict, accidental death.—Bristol Journal. ROYAL. INSTITUTIVN.-At a meeting of the Philosophical Society, last evening, Sir John Salisbury in the chair, a most delightful paper was read from the pen of Mr. Winstanley, on the life, character, and works of Raphael. The essay appeare&to excite profound attention, and was much admired for the learning and research exhibi te d i n it. Mr. Winstan- ley illustrated leis observations by many fine engraving ILLEGALLY PLEDGING. — DanieI Atkins, a mulatto, was yesterday charged, at the Police -court. with havin g pledged some clothes given him to get was h e d b y seamen . The case was proved, and he was required to pay 1 9 5., the value of the articles, also a penalty of 505., or, in default, to be impri soned for one month. The prisoner was tried last assizes for stabbing but wa .cquitted FORCIBLE ENTRY INTO A DRAPER'S SHOP BY A STRANGE STOMER.—Yesterday eveni ng , a cow , th a t was being dri long_ Berry-street, suddenly bolted through the shop window of Mr. Grace, smashing in a very large pane of crown glass, without damaging the wood work. The animal, when she found herself in " boutique de toile," appeared no less astonished than the inmates, s t oo d s t oc k s till, and Rer .. • . . mitred herself to be quietly ejeced. It is not known whe ther she performed the feat by being overdriven, or by taking fright at some object in the street. DEATH BY SCALDING.—An inquest was held on Satur day, before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Esther Bibby Potts, a child of two years old, who lived with her parents in Cotter's-place, Cotter-street, Toxteth-park. On the morn ing of Thursday deceased was scalded by a pot of hot coffee, which was left near her on the table. Her left side was much injured. She was taken to the Dispensary, and dressed; but gradually declined until Friday morning, when she died. Verdict, " Accidental death" accordingly. STEALING LEAD.—At the Police -court, yesterday, Geo. Johnson was charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Mr. Foster, from the top of a pantry, in a pas sage leading out of Renshaw -street. He was found carrying it by a police-officer. He said he had received it from ano ther man, who said he would give him something to can y it for him to Fontenoy-street. The prisoner had before been committed for felony, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. STEALING A COPPER PUMP.--A man named Elias Hughes was yesterday charged with having obtained felonious pos session of a copper pump._ Evan Jones said_ be was an en- gineer in the service of Messrs. Richard and Cornthwaite, who have a rice-mill in Manesty-lane. The prisoner came to him in the engine -house, and said he wanted Mr. Taylor's pump. Witness was aware that the prisoner had worked for Mr. Taylor, but afterwards found he had given the pump to the wrong person. The prisoner was watched as he carried it away, by another person, into Hanover-street. Mr. Samuel Taylor, oil and colour merchant, Seddon-street. said the prisoner had been in his service up to the 11th instant, when he discharged him. He was aware that witness had a pump at Messrs. Richard and Cornthwaites', hut he was not sent for it. It was worth from ..-£5 to .1:: 1 3. The prisoner was found by the police in a cellar in Circus-street. SUICIDE.—An inquest was7held on Saturday before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Patrick Wallace. Catherine Taylin: said the deceased,'who was 60 years of age, and a tailor by trade, had lodged with her for five years, in Rut ledge-court, Blundell-street. On Thursday he went to bed about half-past Bight o'clock, a little in drink. She did not see him again till next day, when she had occasion to go into his room, and on opening the door she saw the deceased in a sitting posture in bed, with something black round his neck, and the other end fastened to a hook in the wall. She thought he was hanging and screamed out, and some persons came to her assistance He was cut down saw him dead on the bed and she soon afterwards She had never observed anything manner that induced her to think he was at B.'ll de ranged in his mind He was a very quiet, inoffensive man, and used to take a little drink on a - Saiurdziy or Sunday. and came home littletipsy,but never in a state of great intox- ication.—Peter Jan . son had seen the deceased on the same day, a little in liquor, and conversed with him. He was called in by the last witness, and found him as described, with a piece of listing round his neck, and the other end fastened to a black silk stock, which was again fastened to a hattpin in the wall. He was cut down, and was found to be quite dead and cold. A surgeon was called, but could ren der no assistance. There was nothing in his manner that led him to think he was out of his mind.—Francis Williams, publican, Blundell-street, said the deceased had called at his house on Thursday morning, and asked him to let him have a glass of whiskey, which he refused, as the deceased was in liquor. He appeared perfectly well, and spoke rationally.— Martha Mills, who lodged in the same house with the de• ceased saw him on Wednesday, when he appeared quite well She observed nothing in his manner to lead her to think by • was deranged ; but a few days before he seemed to be in a melancholy state of mind, and talked of going to Dublin to see his daughter, who resided there. He was rather re served .but appeared togbe quite in his senses. The jury re turned a verdict of .felo de Be, and orders were given for the interment of the body privately within the hours'iixed by law A SEAMAN'S WIFE DROWNED IN THE COBURG DOCK. —Yesterday, an inqUest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Ann Smith, wife of one of the crew of the lazarette Newcastle, now lying in the Coburg Dock. Edward Tilly, one of the hands, said that on Saturday night last he was in the vessel, when deceased came to the quay and wanted to come on board. He opened the gangway, and placed a plank from the ship's side to the quay. He was assisting her on board, and had hold of her hand; and while they were walking along, deceased tripped and fell, and both fell into the dock. He was not able to swim, and called for help, and a policeman came and he was taken out. Before he was'rescued he had hold of the clothes of the de ceased, and kept her up ; but he did not know whether her head was above water or not. She was taken out directly after, and carried to the station-house ; and when he next saw her, at eleveh o'clock the same evening, she was dead. Deceased was about 48 years of age. When she fell, she struck against one of the fenders which is placed against the side of the ship. John WKnedle, the police-officer, said that a man went down by a rope, and kept the deceased up by his feet till she was got out. She appeared to be dead. She was in the water from seven to ten . niinutes. wascalled, but she was past recovery. Verdict— A surgeon Acciden- tal death LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT Assoc: ATION.— Last evening a very crowded mee►ing was held in the school-room underneath All Saints' Church, Grosvenoi street, for the purpose of forming a district branch, for Scot land-road, of the Operative Protestant Association, and o promoting the general interests of the Protestant ea Ilse. The Rev. Andrew M'Conkey, incumbent of All Saints' Church, occupied the chair, and addressed the meeting in an able speech. Mr. James Matthews followed, and with consider able eloquence exposed many bf tho errors and falsehoods propagated by the Romish church. The other speakers were the Rev. Mr. Orme, Mr. Gleaves, Mr. Leatherbarrow, and Mr. Ashbrooke, each of whom produced much effect. All the resolutions were unanimously carried.—We perceive that a meeting of the St. Simon's branch of the Operative Pro testant Association is appointed to be held on the evening of Thursday next, in liackin's-hey School-room. DEATH BY FALLING FROM A SHANDRA Y.—An inquisition was held before the borough coroner on Saturday, touching the death of John Anderton. Alice 1 - hinter, cousin of the deceased, said that he was about 35 years of age. Last Sun day afternoon, the deceased and another man, named Bates, drove up a shandrey to the house in Lambert. street where he lined. Deceased was supporting the other man, who was driving. The former got out, and Mr. Bates was taken into the house; bleeding at the head. The deceased took the horse from the shandrey, and put him into the stable. On his return witness, (having heard that they were thrown out,) asked him if he was much hurt, and he said, " not much, but that he was shaken." On the following day he com plained of being hurt, and that he felt it in his hip. On Tuesd ., y he was not able to get up, and a surgeon was spoken of, but he would not consent. Re became worse on Wed nesday. A draught was procured for him from a druggist, 04,1 - • and, as he gradually becameworse, a surgeon was called on Thursday afternoon, but he died on the same evening between 9 and 10 o'clock. — W illiam Bates stated that he was a la. bourer, and a friend of the deceased. They were returning from Roby, both fresh. When as far as Kensington they observed a gig before them, going the same way. The de ceased was driving, at a middling brisk trot, and overtaking the gig. Just as they were passing it, the near wheel of the shandrey got fast between the off wh ee l an d the body of the gig, and both vehicles were upset, and deceased and he were thrown out. Witness was hurt and became insensible, and recollected nothing until the following morning. Deceased was quite capable of driving at the time.—William Fitz said he saw the shandry coming up. The horse was at a gallop, and the driver was whipping it. Both parties were thrown out. There was room enough for the shandrey to pass the gig. There were in the gig a gentleman and two females. When they recovered from the shock they drove away. The parties in the shandrey were alone to blame.—Francis Wil son, surgeon, attended the deceased on Thursday. He found him in a sinking state. He did not complain of pain. He ma d e a post mortem examination. Death was occasioned by injury to the lungs, the result of external v i olence. T he jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased's death w as occasioned by injuries accidentally received. It is re markable that the deceased appeared to be much less hurt than his companion who recovered. SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY OF IRELAND.—Last evening a meeting of the Liverpool Association Auxiliary to the above society was held :in Christ Church School-room, Christian street. The room was crowded to excess by a most numer ous and respectable assembly. At seven o'clock the chair was taken by the Rev. Fielding Ould, who opened.the busi ness with prayer, and then explained at considerable length, and in a very eloquent and impressive address, the object of the meeting. It was to interest the people, and to obtain funds in aid of the Sunday School Society for Ireland—one of the most important and useful institutions in whose behalf the sympathies of the British public could possibly be soli cited. It had been established upwards of thirty years—had commenced when there werc not more than two Sabbath schools in all Ireland, but has now more than three thousand ......--- such:schools under its own care. The goad AV hiCh it had been the means of effecting was incalculable, and he earnestly be- • sought the meeting to contribute liberally to its aid. A. few ladies of his congregation, who interested themselves in its behalf, had for some time been enabled to collect about sixty pounds a-year—an example which he re commended to the imitation of others--The Rev. Thomas Gregg, of St. Catherine's Church, Dublin, then pleaded the cause of the society in a very powerful speech, re plete with highly important and interesting statements, which excited the deepest attention. The operatives of the society, he said, had been so successful that it would be now impossible to put the work down. It was in the power of friend to help it forward, but it t was not in the power of princes, of earth or hell toput down ---fo r the Lord had blessed, and was still blessing lit.—Some other rev. gentle men then addressed the meeting, which, after a collectio n had been made, separated shortly after ten o'clock. EXTRAORDINAY CASE OF ASSAULT.—On Saturday last William Kelly, a pale, withered old man, who appeared to be suffering much pain and to be enfeebled by sickness, appeared before Mr. Rushton, to complain against William Martin, who had been apprehended by warrant for assaulting him. The statement of the complainant was to the effect, that on the 25th February last he went to the house of the prisoner, who forced him to remain the whole afternoon. When at night he wished to go away, the prisoner placed a chain across the door, and fastened it so that he could not get out. Next morning lie was very desirous of going away, but he found that the prisoner had hidden his boots. He sought for them a long time, but could not find them ; he was, therefore, com pelled to walk about barefoot. The prisoner was, meanwhile, frolicking about the house, or, as the complainant called it, " cutting his capers", till at length he commenced persecu ting him. After he had thrown him down once or twice, he forcibly pulled down his stockings, and with a knife which he held in his hand cut part of the feet from them. He then, with the same knife, inflicted a severe gash on the complain ant's foot, across his instep. Then, having made the poker red hot, he told the old man he would make a forrester of him. After he had brandished the poker for a short time, to the infinite terror of the complainant, he put the hot instru ment to his foot and burned it severely. The complainant stated, that he then wept bitterly and begged to be allowed to depart. The prisoner, however, had not yet done with him. Kneading a piece of new bread till he had made it soft, he pressed it firmly on the old man's eyes, and, at the same time putting over his head the noose of a rope which was passed over a hook in the ceiling, he pulled at it, and Kelly, who had his arms at liberty and had taken the dough from his eyes, was terrified lest his persecutor should hang him. He managed to slip his neck from the noose, and again he wept and begged to be set at liberty. Upon this Martin, after shaking him for a short time, threw him heavily to the ground, by which four of his ribs were fractured, A certificate from a surgeon was produced, showing, that the cut and the burn on the foot had been very severe, and that the ribs of the old man had been fractured. As Kelly had no witnesses present, Mr. Rushton ordered a constable to go for Mr. Mitchell's servant, who, Kelly said, saw the whole transaction. The servant fully corroborated the testimony of the complainant. The prisoner stated, that the old man told him he had been a soldier, and he (prisoner) took him home to his house, and fed him and used him well. He attributed his misconduct to the influence of drink. Mr. Rushton ordered him to find CONCEALING TOBACCO. —James Moore, steward of the ship Eleanor, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday. charged with having concealed beneath some bread, on board the above ship, 1211bs of cigars, for the purpose of defrauding the revenue. The officers who went to rummage the ship, found the cigars in a canister and box, and the prisoner ac knowleged they were his. H is defence was , that he was a stranger, that he brought them for his own use, and he did not know there was any limit to the quantity allowed. He was convicted in the penalty of £lOO. In default of payment he was to be imprisoned 6 months. A representation of the will go to the board. e xtenuative circumstances MELANCHOLY DEATH.'-0n Tuesday last, the 19th in stant, an accident of a distressing nature occurred at Lowton, near Newton, the following are the circumstances :—The de ceased, a young woman of th e Daum of Mar y Hart, aged 20 years of age, resided with her uncle at Lovvton, and on the night of Friday she went into the garden at the back of the house. Deceased had been absent about half an hour, when her uncle, who had been expecting her return for sometime, went in search of deceased, and in a short ti me di scovered her in the garden lying with her face in a small pool of water in one of the walks, which was not more than a foot in depth, quite dead. She had apparently fallen down in a fit, with her face in the water, and by that means she was suffocated. There is no reason to suppose that the fit sh e h ad would, of itself, have caused her death, if she had h a p pened to fail in any other spot than where she did fall. Th e deceased had previously been subject to fits, and a ter Years ago had the misfortune, whilst labouring under one, to fall on the fire, by which she was so severely burned as to have endangered her life, she being several mo nths befor e she perfectly re. covered. The inquest was . to be held yes erday, and the ver dict no doubt would be accidentally drowned or suffocated. bail for his appearance to answer an indictment which would be preferred at the next sessions, himself in £5O and two sureties in £23 each. DEATH OF SIR JalIN RICHARDSON.--This distinguished lawyer, so me years since one o f the j ud ges of the Court of Common Pleas (which situati on he was obl iged to resign in consequence of ill health), died on Thursda y at his res:dence in Bedford-square. Sir John was considered by the profes sion as one of the soundest lawyers of the day. GRATIFYING ADDITION TO THE NUMBER OI CHURCHES IN LIVERPOOL We have in a previous number i tile ret tablished Church, afte separation f •om her of several years Into the cause of the rev. gentleman's estrar during that period, we have no time nor space to enter ; but we sincerely congrE late into the history of gement, and his proceedi :e mem ational establishment, no less than Aikin himself, uTon the circut nce we tioned. During Mr. Aikin's connection with t ye men- " Christian e erec- hearts, while iu exte rna l a r rangemen t s , with Ch r i st i an liber ty, with wisdom and discretion, they set things in order for themselves. The reason and mercy of this are obvious, in a religion which, unlike localised Judmism, was designed to extend to the north and the south, to the east and the west ; ivated cir ty, and the flora gregE to assemble its con- , ns in eve _ varying latitude, fro m th e b urn i ng san d s la and Peru, to the icebergs on the coast of Norway of Gu and Greenland attainment and clear i particu ad ceremonies for the nd order, yet it contains very distinct of the Christian church had authority to dc Paul certainly bad such .sed to exercise it, when he came to Co uage to Titus, already quoted, would if Titus also had not possessed such - Obey them that have the rule over submit yourselves. for they watch for your souls as it must give acco ' Here dutiful submission to tctions of their r ors, is inculcated upon the Chris- Christian Hebrew they that must give account " tian laity Comp these things together, and see what follows. nandments in the Scriptures cannot be scriptu )me external arrangements of rites previmisly agreed upon. The Bible I ceremonies : it leaves them want- withot id cereal - on but it commands the ministers of the church to set in order the things that are wanting, and it commands the lay members of the church to submit themselves to the minis- ments and ordain ,tiara church to make such arrange rites and ceremonies, and a scriptural thing in the people to submit themselves to the decent and orderly adoption of such arrangements so made • but it fol lows also, that it would be an unscriptural dereliction of duty in the ministers of the Christian church not to make ;uch array it would be a negl .igent ex !epic and themselves to the inroads of inevi6 Dsure of e con- ach as the Word fusion, _ .k.iod condemns. And, likewise, it would be an unscriptural dereliction of duty in the people not to submit themselves to such external arrangements, rites, and ceremonies as the ministers of the church enjoin. Must, then, those arrangements, rites, and ceremonies be always and everywhere the same ? We answer, No. Had they been prescribed by divine inspiration in the Bible, no man might dare to deviate from them. Unity in ceremony would in that case be like unity in the faith But such is not the case. They have not been prescribed in the Bible, but, as we have seen, purposely omitted. But as the pastors of the church have scriptural authority to prescribe rites and ceremonies, if we have it handed (lowa to us, that some of them in any particular country, at any particular time, did prescribe certain particular details, is it necessary that their model should be everywhere adopted ? Again we answer, No. Because this would be to invest the appointments of men not only with that local and temporary obligation which the Scripture assigns to them, but also with a universality and perpetuity of obligation which belongs to the Word of God, and to that alone. Thus speaks our Eng lish Church, Art. XXXIV. is not a all place and those arrangements, rites :ssary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in ver thr be ordained and approved ment last Instruction Society" he was the means of procuring tI tion of two buildin, tenets held by that hod for public worship, according to the One of these buildings was in London, and the ether in I- Liverpool . . the rev. gentleman perceived " the error of his wa was naturally anxious to return to the ministerial office in the fold he had left. He therefore applied to the Lord Bishops of London and Chester to license the two buildings referred to, and, on due proof of his earnestness and sincerity, their lordships assented. Unfortunately, with respect to the building in London, it was found to have been built within the distance that the act of parliament states churches shall be erected from each other, and consequently the bishop had no power to grant the necessary license, which but for this rent with the building in Liverpool issued the license, and it is :low called S John the Evange On Sunday last (after having been postponed for a week, In consequence o M`Neile) the church w lie death of a re ned for the c worship in connection with our unrivalled national church The Rev. Hugh M`Neile was the morning preacher, and the new incumbent, the Rev. Robert Aikin, preached in the The church on both occasions, but particularly in evening the morning, was crowded to excess, great interest having been excited in the neighbourhood by the event. As Mr. M`Neile's discourse bore strongly upon the neces sity of au established church, and the evils of dissent, we make no apology for inserting the subjoined sketch of it : The Rev. Gentleman selected as his text the following words—the 40th verse of the 14th chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians—" Let all things be done decently and in order." fle then conime :ed as follows Brethren,—l have in the first place to congratulate you, which I do very cordially, on your accession to the estab lished church. Your minister has seen and felt, and I trust so have you all, the complicated evils of separation from the church, with all its consequent irregularities and contusions. Conscious of his past errors, be has not been ashamed or afraid to make a due, candid, and manly acknow them. As a first step towards brotherly forgiveness and happy reconciliation this is all that fellow creatures unable to . . search the thing more than this may, indeed, be fairly and properly re quired previous to renewed co-operation. Before we can co-operate with confidence, we may, without any lack of courtesy or kindness, require not only an acknowledgment of error in time past, but also a pledge that there shall be no wilful repetition of such error. This pledge your minister has frankly and honestly given. I hail as such a pledge his request respectfully submitted to our bishop, that he may be permitted to retrace his steps, and again to occupy a pos►tion in which he can give practical and permanent proof of his attachment to the regularity of established order among men, as well as to the saving efficacy of the revealed truth of God. The bishop, in the exercise of a wise discretion, and animated with sentiments of paternal tenderness towards wayward wanderers who again seek a Father's home and heart, has granted the request, and given his episcopal license to your minister and to this house of prayer. Then followed a re- quest to me, as a this place on this occasion 3rother clergyman, that I net that recut ohm _ st with the fratik- ness and cordiality of a brother, and ha . ving communicated with the bishop and received his lordship's express sanction and a pprobatin brief testimony to then uong you, first to bear this very gratifying fac and then to position and duty as members of the Church of England. The first point then, to be observed, and never lost sight of, is the distinction between those truths which are revealed by God, to be taught in the church of Christ I to be b 1i - eyed for salvation ceremonies, which are instituted of men, in England or else where, for the preservation of decency and order. This dis tinction is not fanciful or arbitrary. It is not invented for convenience sake, to make a case; but is fundamental and imperatively demanded by the Scripture itself. This I hope to make plain to you. Consider the truths which are revealed by God, to be taught in the church of Christ, and which are to be believed for sal vation. These are all comprised in Jesus Christ, who is emphatically the truth. The Lord Jesus Christ, in the glory of his divine person, the mystery of his holy incarnation, the completeness of his work, living dying and rising again in human nature, the exclusiveness of his claim on human wor ship, the significance of his titles, and the glory of his coming and kingdom.—These comprise the glad tidings of great joy to be proclaimed to all people. These are the treasures, the unsearchable riches, which the Holy Spirit takes and shows them unto men. By these he secretly touches and wins the hearts of whom he will, for their conversion and salvation These, with their experienced cons( quences hi the characters of all who receive them, form the de lightful themes of the faithful minister of Christ. On these he rejoices to expatiate. For the sake of these, he values all his opportunities; and all the arrangements, rites, and cere monies, with all their decency and order, by which those op portunities are secured and multiplied and rendered available for their great end. Under the shelter, and in the calm and dignified regularity of established externals himself with all his heart to these eternal and unchangi% truths ; but there are some occasions on which it becomes f his duty to descend from his high ground, and address him- he can devote ld not have been left to man to pre elf to the lower, but not unimportant subject of the necessity scribe, but would have been laid doirn in the word of God. that exists to have externals established. The present is one Our Lord's prayer for all that should believe on him, through of those occasions; but first, for clearness' sake, a few addi- the word—that then ALL might be one, that the world might tional observations must be made concerning the great truths believe that God had senthim, has reference to that period when which are revealed by God to be believed unto salvation. lle shall have accomplished the number of his elect, when They are all contained in holy Scripture. None of them • they shall all be manifested together in their resurrection, and are taught or can he found elsewhere. With reference to when the beauty of the bride, the Lamb's wife, without spot them, the Bible proclaims its own sufficiency. St. Paul in- or blemish, or any such thing, shall at last convince the forms Timothy that the holy Scriptures are able. to make him world that God sent Jesus Christ. It cannot apply to any micro onto salvition_ through faith whirl. ip in Christ Jesus: ',prior) durinv this disnensation. before all who shall believe - - - and adds that all scripture is given by inspiration of God. and in him ale born. how can they all he manifestly one, while is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for in- some of them are out of the body, and some in the body, and struction in righteousness, that the man of God may be per- some not yet in being at all? It cannot apply to any period in feet, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim., this dispensation, because during the whole period the world iii, 14-17.) And St. John expressly declares the distinction remains unbelieving, the devil is the god of this age, the whole between these things concerning Jesus which were not creation groans, being burdened, waiting for the nzanifesta written. and those which were written, adding the glorious tion of the sons of God, in one glorious body.. It is for the object for which they were written, and for which they are accomplishment of this great design that our Lord prays. all sufficient. (St. john xx, 30, 31.) Here the rev. gentleman strongly warned the minister and " And many other signs truly• did Jesus in the presence of people who heard him against reaction : reminding them that his disciples, which are not written in this book. _But these in the moral as in the physical world, action and reaction are are written that ye might believe that J esus is the Christ, the _ Son of God ; and that believing ye might have life through treme separatists swingi ry, and reminding them of instances of ex back into excessive ritualists, till his name." In strict accorda they lost sight of the distinction between lawful and unlaw e with this, one of our Church Articles ful in matters of church authority, and eventually repudi- that " Holy Scripture coutaineth all things nec .tedthe protestant reformation sary to salvation." (Art. We regret that we cannot give this part of the discourse These truths, revealed by God to be taught and believed which was ca valuable protest against the " non-protestant " for salvation, and contained in the Scripture and in the party in the church, as well as a wise warning to 111 r. Aikin Scripture only, are always and everywhere the same. Man's and his congregation.] necessity is always and everywhere the same. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the . , glory of God. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever : the same to Jew and Greek, barbarian, and Scythian, bond and free. The Holy Spirit is the same, the The royal mail steamer Acadia, Lieut. Miller, R.N., sailed on Friday evening, for Halifax and Boston. She carried out ers and heav 70 passe Atithor and Giver of life, who spake by the prophets, who THEATRE ROYAL-Mr. Elton's engagement closed on filled and qualified the apostles, who dwells in and sanctifies Saturday, and though few have been to see him, he has im the church. The faith is one, always and everywhere the pressed those who attended the theatre with a warm estima 'arne, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of tion of his talents. He is a chaste and talented actor, free - mss not seen, giving practical victory over this present from all the vulgarisms and applause-catching tricks of the - and r- whet' Abraham, Moses, dav evil world; and working alike, whether in David, Paul, Polycarp. Luther, or Leighton. true unity of the church of Christ, concerning which consi dered i- aggregate of all members from the first to last This is the Shits and we mil} , place him safely in the foremost ranks of n actors.—Mr. Wallack commenced an engage ght, opening with St. Pierre, in Knowles the Lord himself says, " M love, m the nearest to the poet's conception on the stage. 'ltss STOTT'S CONCERT.—The announcement of Miss will be perceived in another part of the STAN- All the available talent in Liverpool appear — Thus concerning these great truths which God has revealei to be taught and believed for salvation, we have these three important observations before us, to be steadily borne in mind. First—they are the great end, for the propagation of which all arrangements of decency and order, all rites and ceremonies, and other " means of grace" are instituted : se- MR. FOGG'S BENEFIT.—One of the civilest boxkeepers is condly, they are all contained in holy Scripture ; and thirdly, Fogg: He is ready and willing at all times to oblige, and they are all, always, and everywhere the same. never appears to think any trouble too great. The members In the light of this, consider now in the second place, of the press, and those who have the entree, ought to use all those arrangements, rites, and ceremonies which are insti- their efforts for him, as, like mercy, " his civility is not tuted of men, in England ur elsewhere, for the preserva- strained," but " falls on all alike." His bill is very attrac tion of decency and order. tive, and we expect he will have a bumper. He has been )Artn this day ;ecl, and w iope so deserving and a singer may be honoured with a good attendant to nine years in the'establishment, and though not an amusing SOME such arrangements are indispensable, in order comply with the commandments of Scripture. Is it asked, member, a most necessary one why SO? If Scripture be all-sufficient in matters of faith, ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM A FEMALE.—A rough-look why not equally all-sufficient in matters of obedience? The ing young man without a coat, was yesterday placed at the answer is simply a matter of tact. The Scripture is not so bar of the Police-court, on a charge of attempting to rob a sufficient. On the contrary, it contains express command- respectable female. Eliza Evans, a good-looking young meets to do some things without any directions in detail as female, said, that on Sunday evening she was walking with to ' ' ' " ' - those things are to be done. Our Lord expressly _ ren near the large gate in Dutton-street, when the commands the preaching of the gospel, the administration prisoner came near her, put his hand into her pocket, and of baptism, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper, and then made off. She immediately thought he had got some St. Paul as expressly enjoins the duty of Christians to assem- money which was loose in her pocket, pursued him, got hold ble together for the purposes of prayer and religious exhor- of him, and held him for some moments. At the moment he tation. Now, if Scripture is to be obeyed at all, these things was making off he called out " nicks" to some others near must be done in some way or other. But //ow are they to be him. Two men followed him, and be took to the canal and done? From the nature of the things themselves, they can- swam across it. Some persons were on the other side ready not be done in secrecy and solitude by each individual to stop him, and be swam back again and was eventually Christian. • They cannot be done, as truth is received, in the secured. The complainant afterwards found that her mone invisible actions of the mind and emotions of the heart. was left in her pocket; but as the attempted They \ involve of necessity outward and visible actions, out- clearly established by the evidence and the prison, ward and audible sounds, and those not of detached indivi- he was committed to the House of Correctionfor tl: duals only, but of assembled companies. How is this to be two chilc robbery was r's conduct, months Nester- managed without some previou rrangemeut The Chris- young man of the name of Peter Ryan was charged In the 11th cba' Ater of this same ~,,,,,. ~,, ~,,, appea l - to nave attempteu it ; ann the result with• getting into a house in Arthur's-court, Denison-street, was, as might have been anticipated, most unedifying con- with intent to commit a felony. Mary Clarke said she was fusion. The Apostle Paul describes and reproves it. How a widow, and lived at the house in question. About eight is it then b. ethren, he exclaims, when ye come together, o'clock on Sunday night she went out, without leaving any every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a one in charge of the premises. A Mrs. Lewis was up stairs tongue, hatn a revelation, hath an interpretation. To check at the time, in bed. She left the candle lighted on the table this bewildering irregularity, the apostle says, in general in the house part, and closed the door by the snap-latch, terms, Let all things be doneunto edifying. Then after one taking the key with her. She returned home in about ten or two directions concerning prophecyings, he adds,for God minutes, and found the candle removed and a light up stairs. is not the Author of confusion, but of peace, as in all As soon as she entered the candle was put out, and the pri churches of the saints. And then, after forbidding women soner came down stairs. She seized him by the collar, and to speak in the church, he concludes the subject with the locked the door. She sent for assistance, and constable general exhortation, Let all things be done decently and :n Samuel White came in, and took the prisoner into custody. order. On examining the house, they found that the chest of a '.. we learn that sailor who lodged with her had heen nnened_ and a shirt. a similar confusion had arisen among them when they assem- pair of trousers, &c., taken out, and laid on the floor close hled to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The apostle reproves to it. They were the property of Joseph Farrar, who went it, gives a few general directions, and says in conclusion, the to sea on the following (Monday) morning. The prisoner, rest will I set in order whe n I come . w h o was an o ld offender, was committed for trial at the Concerning another church, he thus writes to his young sessions. friend Titus, for this c a use l e ft I thee i n C re t e , th a t thou A POLICE-OFFICER R EBUKED FOR S TRIKIN G A FEMALE. shouldst SET IN ORDER THE THINGS THAT ARE WANTING, —At the Police -court, yesterday, a female was placed at the and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee. (Titus i. 5.) bar on a charge preferred by olice-officer John Morley No. 202, who stated that she was standing in the street with' It is thus plainly proved from scripture itself, that in order some others, and, apprehending a disturbance, he ordered to comply with the commandments enjoined in scripture, her home. She refu.ed to go, and he took her into custody. avoiding the confusion which is condemned in scripture ; The prisoner said she was merely talking to a person whom some previous arrangements must be made and complied she knew, and was doing no harm whatever; and that the with, some forms and ceremonies must be instituted, by the policeman came up to her and struck her several times vio adoption of which, with the consent of all parties, order and lently on the back with his stick, although she requested decency shall be preserved. him to take her to bridewell, if he would, without assaulting Now it is most car e f u lly t o b e no t e d, th a t the scripture no h er. Th e policeman admitted that he ha d use d hi s st i c k on where prescribes any such arrangements in detail ; ic, where her refusal to cro .—.., An ,• thigliton severely reprimanded _ enjoins any such forms or ceremonies. The scripture no ---- - ---- -- su away. .. • L , ----- the officer, who, h e sa id, had n o right to use his stick against where describes how Paul s e t thi n s in order at Corinth , or . Titus in Crete. There ar e, indeed,g a few general directions 1,1, " female. If she had done w rong, he ought to have taken er to brid ewe ll, an d procure d assistance if it were required given, as we have se en , t o th e C or i n thian church, but they by her resistance. He discharged the prisoner, and inti ahisa D person n ren e e applied fnr to Q 0 1% m l 1- e . • are manifestly inadequate, being rather negative prohibitions mated that the officer should be suspended. than positive institutions, while much is avowedly withheld till the apostle should personally make the arrangement. LAW RELATING TO APPRENTICES AND THEIR MASTERS. W this omission ? Why this clearly designed omission —At the police-court, o!! . o T u h t u a r g s a d i a n y s , t . D. .L. of any detailed arrangement of rites or torn..., ~„ s „ enjoined by apostolical authority? It would have been as kind of misconduct. Mr. Rushton said"Did you receive a easy for the Apostle to describe all the particulars of decent p r emium with your apprentice No," was the reply. order, as to say generally, " Let all things be done decently Then," answered Mr. R., I cannot interfere. The and in order." But he did not do so, either here or else- judge s have lately decided, that as the law specifies that a where; neither has any apostle done so. In other . words, magistrate may interfere when a sum not exceeding .£2O has God has designedly omitted any authoritative appointment been paid as a premium, except a premium be paid he has no i of rites or ceremonies or external arrangements , in the Chris- right to interfe re. It would b e necessary, therefore, for those tiara church. A. most gracious omission !---that different parties who wslied the magistrat es to h ave j ur i s di ct i on over churches of the saints in differing circumstances and ages, their apprentices, to take a premium of half-a-crown or • five and climates, might enjoy the same faith and lore in their shillings for the future." s taev have ties and m of countries, times, and men's manners, so that nothing be been divers be cha to the dive firough ins pri- .nci i:l7pos, fi open. _ . . . the traditions and ceremonies of the Church, which be not repugnant to the Word of God, and be ordained and approved bv common authority, ought to be rebuked openly. (that others may fear to do the like,) as he that offendeth against the common order of the Church, and hurteth the authority of oundeth the consciences of the weak ticular or national Church bath authority to and abolish, ceremonies or rights of the :d only by man's authority, so that all things ordain, change Church ordains be done to edifying Consider weft ti Lrtiele, on both sic Lnd interminable scriptural statements contained in this ; ; both as they condemn the reckless arities of - dissent in this country Popish assumption of visible unit: and also E in rites judgment, Milli gly and _ traditions and ceremonies gnaut to the Word of God, rs may fear to do the like,, ndeth against the common order of the Church nuthority o f the Of the weak brethre aint upon the manifold and end f private judgment, nothing but actual ord of God, in a ceremony of the church, can justify dissent from its common use. An individual in the exercise of his private judgment may deem a ceremony of the church frivolous, or vexatious, or even ridiculous ; but unless he can shesv it to be anti-scriptural, the command to submit himself to the ruler, obliges him to comply with it, not only for conven ence, but for conscience sake. repugnance to the Here the rev. gentleman introduced some illustrations, rendering his ,übject plain and - popular, vindicating the re formation on the ground that the ceremonies of the Church of Rome are repugnant to the word of God, which he sheaved very forcibly in the instance of the second commandment ; and condemning dissent on the ground that the ceremonies of the Church of England are not repugnant to the word of God. Granted they were not prescribed by scripture, but being pre scribed by authority of the church, and not opposed to scrip ture, they became invested with a legitimately scriptural obli gation. Suppose them to contain a few expressions of doubt ful interpretation, yet these cannot be undeniably andplainly proved, as in the case of Rome, to be repugnant to scripture, and nothing short of such proof pressing intolerably on a man's conscience, should induce him to take the solemn and responsible step of separation. No personsl preferences among things in themselves indifferent, can justify a violation of the " common order of the church." " It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one, and utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers, and may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times, and map's manners, so that nothing be Est God's Wad ordain( _ On the other si under this dispensat remember universal unity is not to be bad If it had been SECOND EDII iON Standard-office, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGI (From Messrs 1P larmp intinv R. MAKL\ SONS' Cir cargoes in since, augment and Forei inclusive.. gu, to 25,045 qrs. f i instar —Of Barley and Malt coast of Bea thence and Europe, the arrivals are rather liberal; Flour, 1600 bags from India, with 9900 barrels fr American states ; from Ireland, however, the supplie -T IS DAY neral are still only modera The Wheat trade this morning opened with a dull apr ance, at the depression of Friday ; but having a good att ance of town and country buyers, the demand afteru improved, and, assuming a firmer aspect towards the c the market, a moderately fair extent of business was trz ed, at the decline above:mentioned : the abatement in applying to all descriptions, except very prim small parcels of which exceeded our uuot Flour, heir very• slow request, all sorts of f ceded Gd to is per barrel, and Irish w 'eign re. Barley, upon a very difficult sale, was further reduced in value, the best malting samples of English hardly support ing 37s per quarter.—Malt was also very unsaleable, with a tendency to decline. Beans and Pease ruled extremely heavy at the rates of Oats, in consequence of actual scarcity, were held on higher terms, and obtained id per 451bs over last week's prices. —Oatmeal, on the contrary, attracted very little no tice, and was 3d per 210 lbs cheaper. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 16th to the 2' Wheat Barley Malt . Oats . Rye.. Qrs Qrs Qrs Qrs. Qrs. 2d March, 1841, inclusive :95 2401 40 4113 Beans Qrs. Pease. Qrs. Shelled Bailey . Qrs. , Indian Corn Qrs.l Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal .... Loads 1 356.) Flour . Sacks 141) Ditto . Des.: Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise 73 qrs.; Oats, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids -Wheat, 8 Flour, qrs. ; Beans, asks; Barley, pf Grain, for the week ending March 12. Barley32s.ild. I Oats.. 225.11 d. 1 , Rye.. Beans.. 395. gd. I Pease.. as. 9d. Aggregate average of th Wheat.. 625. 3d. lyarley.. 325. ad. f Oat: Barley 1 ~Wheat 248.8 d 13eans,11s. ud. I Pease Jd. 1 Fluurl4.3 Od. I Ind. CerDl3, Liverpool Averages, week ending Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. .... 1708 / 278 2281 2d. I 46: March 16. Beans LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 r the intelligence of the settlement of the I should have any effect on our Cotton Marl the signing of the treaty by the fly :rn flue but so Dwers seems to guarante, the peace of Europe, and has given a tone of confidence to the market, inducing several speculators to operate, so that we have to report upon 3000 bales, which is, for Tuesday, considered a fair extent of business ; 1000 to speculators, at the full prices of yesteaday ; the market closing with greater firmness SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE TUESDAY, MARCH 23, Harvest Home, Muirhead, from St. John's, N. 8., at Cove, for this port Douglas, Brew, hence for Charente, at Waterford, to repair da mage to rudder, &c. James M'Queen, Philip, hence at Trinidad Brooke, Adam, hence at Jamaica Elizabeth, Stone; Thunder, Small; and Water Witch, Robertson, hence at Leghorn Coronation, Scott, hence at llelvoet Jane, -, hence for Constantinople, off Cape Spartel 3d instant Kentrille, Hughes, hence' at Donegal, with best bower anchor and part of forerigging carried away by a schooner with which she came in contact 14th instant Caroline, Kirkpatrick, hence for l3allyshannon, at Killybegs, with loss of maintopgallantinast and rigging ROCK HARMONICOS.—This exhibition closes this week. Those who have not vet heard it must take time by the fore lock. We perceive that there will be a dance to its enliveninT, sounds on Thursday evening. This will be a novelty indeed. LIVERPOOL GAS BILL.—The bill to legalize the creation of new capital by the Old Gas Company, passed the commit tee of the House of Commons on Friday; but in a shape modified to meet the views of the deputation of consumers, and to place this company upon a par, as to its powe the new company. The most material cl s which I. public have gained, through the interference of the gentle men deputed to watch the measure, are those which restrict the rate of profit which the proprietors are entitled to receive for their investment to 10 per cent. per annum, and fix seven shillings as the maximum price which they are allowed to charge the consumer. In case the nett profits produce at any time more than will be sufficient to pay a dividend of 10 per cent., the surplus is to be funded, in the first instance to meet any unforeseen contingencies ; but if such surplus accumulates to any greater sum than £6000., a rateable re duction is to be made in the price of gas, so as to bring down the profits of the company to the maximum amount of 10 per cent. To enable the consumer to ascertain what are the profits derived and to prevent any evasion of this clause, a statement of income and expenditure is to be made out an nual,ly and lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the inspec tion of the public. A clause sought to be introduced into the bill, to place the expellee of taking up arid removing the pipes belonging toile company upon the consumer, was after a short discussion, negatived by the committee, as tending to deter parties at present supplied with gas by this company from going to another market; and in this respect therefore the powers of the new and the old company remain alike. A number of other clauses were also negatived by consent ; but we understand that most of them involved only minor details, and that their loss is not considered as materially damaging the bill. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT LUDLOW.—Misters. who, will shortly take his trial for the attempted murder of Mr. Mackreth, is likely to escape, as we hear that the principal witness, Mr. Cook, of the Angel Inn, Ludlow, is unfortu nately an inmate of Gloucester Asylum.—Bristol Mirror. DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL.—We feel much gratification in being enabled to state that the lord bishop of this diocese has made arrangements for consecrating, in tho ensuing month, the undermentioned new churches, fur three of which we are indebted to the Diocesan Church Building Society :-1. The church recently erected near King's Pa rade, Clifton ; 2. that at High Orchard, Gloucester ; 3. that in Barton-street, Gloucester ; 4. that at White's Hill, Stroud. PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE.—During the squall yesterday morning, (Monday,) a small gig boat was upset about five miles beyond the Rock. The owner, Benjamin Davies and his three men, James and Henry Martindale (brothers,) and William Blundell remained clinging to the boat for more than half an hour, when they were providentially rescued from their perilous situation by the steamer Glasgow, from Drogheda. The above individuals rescued the crew of the Lord Nelson, wrecked in January last, who, it will be re membered, were sent in a deplorable condition to the Work house. One good turn has thus obtained another. STEALING FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—John Rae, a young man, was charged yesterday, at the Police Court, with steal ing a copper spirit-can. Police-officer Hilsborough, No. 420, saw the prisoner at the gate of the Victoria Dock quay with the can, which he endeavoured to conceal under his jacket. Enquiry was made, and it was found that it had been taken from the house of Wm. Norman, publican, corner of Crompton-street, Waterloo-road, and was the property of John Sixsmith. The prisoner said he had picked it up in the street. He was committed for trial. TUE LATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT MANCHESTER-- William Hampson, the man who last week made a desperate attempt at murder upon a female named Frances Bostock, living with him as his wife, was brought up before Mr. Maude, having been remanded till that day to see if the un fortunate woman would sufficiently recover to attend the court for the purpose of giving evidence. Mr. Beswick told the magistrate that the woman still continued in a very dan gerous state, and he understood there was little probability of her recovery. Under these circumstances he wished to have the prisoner further remanded. Mr. Maude ultimatell, , remanded the man till to-morrow. rAILURES IN LONDO —Within the last three c: have had a many failures, the aggregate amount of -rhos liabilities is estimated at no less than £200,000. They ar all respectable firms, connected with the produce marfiete, chiefly tea, and one has helped to pull down the other. The serious depreciation in the value of most descriptions of pro duce, amounting to 20s. per cwt. on sugar within a few weeks, and to about 30 per cent. on tea, are causes themselves suffi cient to account for these unfortunate reverses : but we must at the same time remark, that the tea trade has been affected, in addition, to a very serious extent by the extensive, and, in many cases, wild speculations entered into; for if houses of old standing and acknowledged wealth do not themselves share in it, their connexions often do, and thus involve therm in the common loss.—Shipping Gazette. INDIAN BOATMEN.—Their continued severe labour be come a source of painful interest. Now drenched to the skin in swattering through a shallow pool in which they tracked up to the middle in water ; now plunging into 20 foot water to swim to the pinnace and push her off the bank on which she had grounded ; anon threading in single file the steep bank which crumbled under their feet, beating the billows into yellow foam, and again coming on board for a short space only to tug at the oar in their shallop ahead till a favourable towing path again presented itself. And all this toil, all this exposure, for a mere subsistence of the coarsest rice, with now and then a little fish.—Society in India. THE REPORTFD DESTRUCTION OF THE FALLS OF Nl- AGARA.—Although the account of the removal of the Falls of Niagara is prononnced to be a hoax, their destruction was. predicted many years ago by Lyall,in h . • IS ography ; " and the causes,_ the progress, the coecurre,.. , and its consequences, a a s r i e r t c l a ie lmlyand_ clearly laid down ii, that ingenious work ' similar events, and had been as author much has i been l i a r is e a d spectatorw with them, m ot , by the every day occurrences of life, as he was by his ordi:: nary studies in the exterior construction of our globe. Ile there proves that the event is but the latest (perhaps not last) of a series of disembankments, caused, in the lapse of ages, by the weight and impetus of the Superior waters, which have reduced the mighty inland fresh water seas of North Americ' (from the Falls down to its mighty embrouchure in th in the narrow but still stately limits of the river St. Lawrenct and he proceeds to assert that in the consequent progress o drainage, caused by the removal of the great barrier at Nia gara, the regions now cover ed by the upper and lower lakes will become solid fertile land, intersected by a river, th e i r sole remains, from suc h i point, if there be any such, where the elevation of the b ot t om to a ce r tain height will present a. barrier to the waters lying beyond it ; until, in the process of time, and by the operation of existing causes, that barrier and barrier after barrier, shall have given way, watery waste of blue waters be succeeded by and the now magn ificent valley of undualating hills and wi d e 1111 spread immense and cov ered with green pastures , ted and inhabited plains. by man and beast. 1 Elements of Ge- c ocean