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JACK'S COFFEE-HOUSE, 17, CLAYTON-SQUARE. THE Proprietor of this Establish men t re t urns th a nks for the unprecedented success he has met with' during the short time 'he has been open, and begs to observe 'that it will ever be conducted on tha principles of econo and comfort which characterised it from the first. JACK'S COFFEE-HOUSE will be found particularly eligible to Travellers by the R a il way, w h o may have Breakfast at the -earliest hours. The Railway Omnibuses call at the usual hours. CHEAP AND TEMPERATE ENJOYMENT. gand T. TAYLOR b eg t o s ubmit to the Public and their • Friends (who at this festive season of the year are enjoy rig, each other',. , society) their BRITISH WINES; reasonable in price, exquisite in quality, and beneficial to the constitution; manufactured from the best fruit that can be obtained. '1 'her beg to call particular attention ty jbeir highly celebrated GINGER WINE, which can be c4ifidently recommended, more especially to those afflicted with spasms, flatulency, &c. as producing immediate relies. The following British Wines, delivered within six miles, a 18s. per Dozen : Superior Ginger, Orange, Red Currant, White Ditto, 'Black Ditto, Rich Malaga, OLD ESTABLISHE No. 17, Holh Raisin, I Grape, I Parsnip, Elder, Calcavella, Musca, Dry Sun, Frontignae, I Tent, Raspberry, Lunelle, I Cowslip, Gooseherry, Mountain, Lisbon. Sherry, f,D GINGER lon, (Opposite WINE WAR Furnival's Ins EHOUSE, n.) THE LIVERPOOL ENGRAVING AND PRINTING OFFICE, 2, BRUNSWICK-STREET, CASTLE-STREET. niNHE Business executed at the above Establishment, corn prises every description of Plain and Ornamental EN GRAVING, together with Copper-plate, Letter-press, and Lithographic PRINTING, for every Public and Commercial purpose, as Maps, Plans, Cha r t s , Batikerk Notes, Drafts, Mer chants' Bills of Lading and Exchange, Tradesmens' Bills, Cir culars, Cards, Labels, &c. &c. Heraldry Books kept. Arms, Crests, Ciphers, and Mottos, on Gold, Silver, and Copper. Stone Seals, Counting -house Seals. Brass Door and 'Window Plates neatly executed. An APPRENTICE WANTED. SHAWL WAREHOUSE, 66, CHURCH-STitEET. very QIMPSON, GARDNER, and MEREDITH "g to express 1-1 their gratitude to the Public for the very li ral encourage ment they have been favoured with since the pened the above establishinent, and, at the, same time, the eg to inform their numerous Friends, andall Purchasers °IS wls fot private use, the home trade, or for exportation, that t v have commenced SELLING OFF the whole of their WINTER STOCK, con sisting of Shawls, Cloakings, Plaids, Shawl Dresses, Btc. &c., preparatory to making alterations and fresh arrangements for the Spring Trade. S. G. and M. beg to observe that, in order to clear the whole stock in a very limited time, they have reduced their Prices to such, an extent as, on inspection, cannot fail to induce all persons to purchase freely. An early call is respectfully so licited. PATENT WEIGHING MACH! S. IfUTCHINSON'S IMPROVED PAT T WEIGH ING MACHINES for the use of Do •s, Wharfs, Col lieries, Railways, Turnpike Roads, Gas orks, &c., &c., to Weigh from One Pound to Ten Tons, ivered and Fixed at Reduced Prices. Agent—Mr. Dauny, Castle-street, Liverpool. Sheffeld, June, 183.5. ON SALE AT FONTENOY DISTILLERY, FONTENOY-STREET, LIVERPOOL. IJOLLANDS—An Article entirety n ew in market, and made at this Distillery only. from the same materials, earl maeufaeltired same manner as Dutch Schiedam, which i quality; and it is sold at prices consider upon Geneva. Families who are in the • ii' will find this an excellent and econon I well worth the attention of Dealers. I recommended to the public. English GlN—of an excellent quality and flavour. Scotch and Irish WHISKEY. Islay Cambelton and Lowland Malt Ditto. French BRANDY. neat as itnu?lrted• Jamaica and other RUMS, in Bond or otherwise British BRANDY. GINGER WINE—A liqueur of highly estimable qualities. What is here offered is very superior, being manufactured with great care from the best materials. RASPBERRY BRAN DY, Cinnamon, Cloves. Pepper mint, Anniseed, Wormwood, and other CORDIALS. All of the very best qualities and at moderate prices. A liberal allowance made to Dealers.—Orders from the country, with re.pectable references, addressed to R. M‘LA REN, at the Distillery. will be punctnally attended to At MOODIE'S STORE, Hodson-street (behind the Dis tillery) there is a constant supply of ROY'S celebrated Scotch (Alloa) ALES, both for Home Consumption and Exportation —the latter made expressly for the purrse. Also, London and Limerick PORTER—the latter in Barrels and Half Barrels. .ae English .t is produced precisely the 'at least equals in ty under the Duty Jit of using Geneva .1 substitute, and it is - rial of it is confidently Office of Commissioner: of Compensation, 25, Great George-street, 14th January, 1836. JAMAICA. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, th a t th e C omm i ss i oners will proceed to take into Consideration the Uncontested Claims, numbered from 1 to 600 inclusive, in the several Pa rishes of -he Island of Jamaica, on the several dais and in the order undermentioned, at Two o'clock on each day, until fur ther notice : St. Catherine St. Mary 1 St. Ann }.on Monday, 25th inst. And the adjourned uncontested cases I in St. Dorothy and St. John ) Kinston St. Andrew St. Thomas-in-the-East }-onWednesday,27th inst. And the adj!)urned uncontested cases in St. Thomas-in-the-Vale and Vern) St. Elizabeill Westmoreland Hanover On tonday, Ist Feb. And adjourned uncontested cases in r Clarendon,Mauchester, & Port Royal) St. James Trelawney On Wednesday, 3d F e b, And adjourned uncontested cases in St. David, Portland, and St. George, H RISTOPH Ell, DOMINI- CA, GRENADA, AND HONDURAS. The adjourned uncontested cases in these Colonies will be taken iutu consideration every Tuesday and Thursday, at Two o'clock. ST. LUCIA AND ST. VINCENT. One hundred of the uncontested claims in each of these Colonies will continue to be taken into consideration every Tuesday, at Two o'clock. BERMUDA. One hundred of the uncontested claims in this Colony will continue to lie taken into consideration every Thursday, at Two o'clock. BAHAMAS. One hundred of the uncontested claims in this Colony will be taken into consideration every Tuesday, at Two o'clock, com mencing on Tuesday, the 9th February next. IRINIDAD. : Two hundred of the uncontested claims in this Colony will be taken into consideration every Tuesday and Thursday; at Two o'clock, commencing on Tuesday, the 16th February next. Certificates for Compensation to he applied for on the Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week following each of the above days, and will be delivered on the Saturday of that week. By order of the Board, HENRY HILL, Secretary. Xrto Vtiblicationz. Just published, beautifully hound in Arabesque Morocco, price 55., or embossed cloth, 45., LADY'S KEEPSAKE. and MATERNAL MONITOR . By the Author of " A Mother's Portt,it." " he valuable little book before us lays claim to the notice of every female, no matter in what station of life. Advice is here dealt out with no sparing hand, and has the charm of hearing with it the strictest piety and benevolence. The maid can glean from it with benefit—the wife can con it over with satisfaction— and the widow, or mother bereaved of ligr darling child, from its pages can draw a heart-healing consolition. There are some passages that contain simple yet startli g truths, and there is in others a considerable vigour and be. Every station, every step in a woman's life will be fours ;') be skilfully and faith fully dw e lt upon. Th e w h o l e wor k shows a deep insight into human nature. Unhappy sox, whose b--auty is your snare, ExposF4.l to trials made too frail to bear,— Ye should immortalize the author of this work in coming forth as your champion, and showing you every Scylla and Charybdis that threaten in the voyage of life."—Liverpool Chronicle. "We can safely recommend it as a hook well worth ladies. and females of a lower rank, keeping and weighing its precepts." ___L i t, r a,y Gazette. "We do not hesitate to recommend "The Lady's Keepsake" to our fair friends as tho most instructive and practically useful book we have ever taken up,"--Sung/ay Tim es . Published by H. LActr, Bookseller, &c., 64, Bold-street. THE NEW RULES. and dedicat e d b y perm i ss i on to the Just published, price Ss., Bight lion. Sir Nicholas Con ngham Tyndal, Knight. Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common PI s, by RICHARD CIEs II Nom Esq , of the Inner Temple, A DIGEST of all 'he NEW RULES relating to PBAC• IV TICE and PLEA DING in all the C from Easter Term ist, WILLIA M I c d.. to which i • ded an Appendix of all the recent Statnes affecting the ractice, including the Amended Act for the more entire Sup essmn of 'Voluntary and Extra-judicial Oaths and Ailidavis, w h Explanatory Observa tions and Copious Notes of every Division of Importance on the Construction of the said Rules and Statutes, brought down to the present time. It has been the design of the Author to render the Work as practically useful as rssible, and it is therefore particularly recommended to the notice of Prac titioners. Edward Lumley, Bookseller, 56, Chancery-lane. Just published, Vols. I. and 11., neatly bound in cloth, price 2a. 9d. each, of THE PENNY SUNDAY READER. Edited by the Rev. „ E. N. IIIoLESIVORTFI, " Rector of St. Ma tin' s , and one o ln e Six Preach e rs of the Cathedral, C a nt er ry . Thesee!, two volumes complete the obseryatio . on the Collects, Epistland Gosp e l s , f or ever y S un d a y i e Year; an d , the Editor napes, will form, what has been uch wanted, an in teresting and various collection of Sund• - Reading, which every master usay plavp in the hands of hiss slants, children, triends, and neighbours, with a view to gi e 1 ens amusing and instruc tive occupation, suitable to the c crl character of the Lord's Day, and to increase thei r l ose a of the Chu7rls admiration of the Se rv i ces . Th e work is continued its Nurrsbe•s, The leading object f ur each Number in 18.36, will be the " Proper L essons" or the several Sundays. The Inis eellanerms part will continue f on the same pianos in 1.+35. Sold by Ilis,-ingtotts. St. Paul's Churchyard and Waterloo place. London ; and all'other Booksellers. Of whom may he bed, the follawing I'Vorks, by the same Editor, I. TALES from the '-SCRAP=BOOK. of a COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. Price ovEßnura; or, 4ome • Advantages of an Established and 1 .. j Church.' Price Is. .3 .R6EdF"dild NIA.TION'NOT . A NEW -RELIGION : a Se t . mon. Price 6d. • TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS VICINITY. To be published, dedicated by permission to Lord FaANcis EGEIITON. M.P., nice, in boards, ss. 6d., T4YRICAL EFFORTS, by ROBERT : STOREY, Author of " The I s les a re Aw a k e ," & c . & N.B. Ladies or Gentlemen desirous o ossessing Copies will oblige the Author by sending their n• } nes to the Standard office, Liverpool, on or before the Ist February next. A Subscription Paper is opened for Signatures at the Office of the Liverpool Standard. NEW MUSIC. Shortly will he Published, riIHE following NEW COMPOSITIONS, by SAMUEL I HENSHA LI, Organist of the Copperas-hill Chapel, viz : "Thine, hine alone;" "We part, dear maid;" "The only circumstance of life," Sung by the Composer, with a Chorus a f t arranged for the occasion at his Conce i t at the Adelphi Hotel " Shades your solitude I greet," Cot . sed expressly for the late Rev. William White; "Ah ! dear 't girl;" and " Young love stole a rose from a bower." The above Songs having been Sung at various Concerts, by the most distinguished living vocalists in London, Bath, Edin burgh, and Dublin, the Author, in consequence of repeated ap plications, is induced to publish them. SACRED AND OTHER MUSIC. "Gratias Agimus," (sophrano solo,) and "Tantum Ergo,' bass solo. The following Works, already published, may be had of the Author, at his Residence, No. 41, Seymour-street, or at the dif ferent Music Shops in '['own and Country. Mass No. 1, for four voices, with a separate accompaniment for the Organ or Piano-forte. Songs—" Why does my mother say beware;" " A heart for sale;" and " 0 dear, that cruel doubting brow." Duet—" Dear maid." Mr. HENSHA LL takes this opportunity of announcing to his Pupils that, he has . resumed his Professional Engagements as a TEACHER. on the Piano-forte, Singing, and the Theory of Music. BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. WILLIAM WALLACE CURRIE, ESQ., MAYOR. T HE COURT of PASSAGE fo r t e TRIAL of CIVIL CAUSES will be held in the OURT-ROOM, on the south side of Chapel-street, on Tuna AY next, the 21st day of January instant, at Ten o'clock in the Morning, of which the Attorneys of the said Court are requested to take notice. RICHARD RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk and Registrar. TO IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, &c, - Corpnratiou for Preserving and Improving the Port I. of Dublin, will receive Proposals for Constructing one or more. LIGHT-HOUSE LAN'FERNS, agreeably to pattern, which may be viewed on application to their ngineer at Dub lin. The work must be in every respect e best description. Proposals, sealed and endorsed, adds dto the Secretary, will be received on or before WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next. Printed forms for the purpose can be had at this Office, and the Lantern or Lanterns to be completed and delivered in Dublin within four months from the acceptance of the Proposal. By order, H. VEREKER, Secretary. Ballast-office, Dublin, Jan. 3, 1836. QUAKER JESUITISM. Friend William Howitt, a quaker, and the author of a trum pery book on priestcraft, has been elected an alderman of the borough of Nottingham. Speaking of that sect, old Butler says:— _ . " Quakers, (who, like to lantern's, bear Their light within 'ent,) will not swear: Their gospel is an accidence, By which they construe conscience, And hold no sin so deeply red As that of breakint , Priscian's head; — These, thinking they are obliged to troth In swearing, will not take an oath." To show friend Howitt's sense of the obligation imposed by a declaration, which is supposed to, be as binding as an oath, we copy from a Nottingham radical journal a speech delivered by the newly made quaker-alderman respecting his " new light" as to what was meant by the legislature when it required con formity to a specific declaration from all who should become members of the new corporate bodies. "Mr Howitt stated to a meeting of the electors last week his intention to subscribe to it (the declaration) at once, and occasioned a good deal of merriment by his mode of demonstrat ing it. Ile declared that had it been an unqualified declara tion, no motive whatever should have induced him to accept it, but, as it was strictly and avowedly " official," the words " by virtue of your office," confining its operation to the council room, and leaving him at perfect liberty, as before, to act against the church in his private capacity, he should not only take it, but strictly and actually act upon it. If this church was to be thrust upon every honest man when he entered office, like some old woman who had lived so riotously as to have disabled her legs with gout, and must have supporters, why, in egice he would even tolerate her presence. He would not say a word about her in the council chamber; no; if he were asked a question about her, he would not answer it; he would say : " Olt no! we never mention ber Her name is never heard ;" But the moment he got out of doors then he would thunder against her with all his might. In the council-room, he would not hurt this poor old beldame; but the moment he got out, he would catch her in the larding-place, pitch her down, and break her neck. This was his male of reasoning. It required no compromise of any principle; no one would suspect him of a desire to prop the establishment; it only required him to close his mouth on one subject, in one room, and that only till the law was altered, and left him and all beside to act upon it. Here we have a very pleasant, luminous, anti witty interpre tation of a quaker's opinion as to how he can conscientiously, "without the compromise of any principle," make a declara tion, keep it to the word, and break it to the sense. But, we have a quaker alderman in Liverpool. We would ask him whether he adopts or disavows friend Howitt's jesuitism? Whe ther he enters on civic duties, inconsistent with his religious opinions, with the full concurrence of the society of which he is a member? And, lastly, we would ask the society of friends, generally, whether they are not called upon to repudiate the doctrines held by Alderman Howitt if they have the slightest wish to preserve the world's respect? If they do not do this they will richly deserve all the contempt that has been thrown upon them as jesuits in disguise. INVITATION TO DANIEL O'CONNELL. In the STANDARD of Friday last, we gave an account of the proceedings of another " private meeting for a public purpose," convened by " circular," and held on the preceding Wednesday, at the Clarendon Rooms, from which those mischief-making rogues, the reporters were intended to be, and were, indeed, virtually excluded. Although no notes were supposed to be taken, we know that the report supplied us was substantially correct, except in one instance, the substitution of the name of Mr. Joseph Brooke Yates fur that of Mr. Richard Vaughan Yates, an error, how ever, that was discovered and corrected in a large part of our publication of that (lay. Presuming that the proceedings would really be what they were intended to be, " secret," the correspondent of the Morn ing Chronicle dispatched his version of the proceedings on Wed nesday evening, n hich we extract from that paper of Friday morning, as a curious instance of the fidelity with which mat ters of this kind are reported by the radicals to their favourite organs " Liverpool, January 13.—This day, a highly respectable meeting of the leading reformers of Liverpool was held at the Clarendon-rooms, fur the purpose of sending au invitation to Mr. O'Connell to dine here on his way to town. About one hundred and thirty of the most influential and spirited reformers were in attendance, including nearly a score of the members of the new town council. The proceedings were inset unanimous. Every one present was impressed with the conviction that the unbought and honourable support tendered by Mr. O'Connell to the present government was creditable to both parties, and en titled that gifted and much abused " individual" to the highest compliment which the reformers of Liverpool could bestow. Mr. Wm. Rathbone, one of the most popular and deservedly respected men in Liverpool, was in the chair, and was deputed by the meeting tu communicate with Mr. O'Connell by this night's post." Bravo ! We will wager a rump and citizen to a pint of small beer, although we are no great admirers of that beverage, that we could name the " individual" shop boy, aye, and the very shop too, where he serves out literary trash from behind a counter, who penned this most impudent and lying puff—this most audacious falsification of what really took place, which the Morning Chronicle seized upon with avidity, and the Globe and Courier republished, as a sureliproof that the reformers of Liver pool are unanimous in the support of O'Connell and Melbourne as " one and indivisible." The paragraph was, nn doubt, written in utter ignorance that the LIVERPOOL STANDA at , of Friday would contain an account of what really did take place, and shows the degree of confidence that may be placed upon a radical report of a radical meeting. There can be but little doubt that the master's of the ministerial morning paper hailed the appearance of the O'Connell move ment here, with great delight. Alas, alas! how woefully they have been deceived as to the unanimity, the numbers, and the respectability of the meeting ! APPOINTMENT OF SCAVENGERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.I.A.D4RD. Stn,—The disgraceful state of the Liverpool streets was never inure apparent than at the present moment. As the town is now divided into sixteen wards, and an tilderman appointed to each, I would suggest, as the worthy aldermen appear to ha ve no duties whatever defined for them, though it is a very dirty job, whether it would not be a suitable one for them to superintend the cleansing of their respective wards. ----- Perhaps the twenty-four J. P.'s who are complaining they will have nothing to do, will assist them. I am at present, Sir, UP 1 , 0 THE ANCLES IN MUD. Saturday night. THE CL in.—lt maybe remembered that some time ago we mentioned that the brig Clio, from this port to Para, had been boarded by the Indians, who took her cargo out of her, scuttled the vessel, and massacred her crew, with the exception of the second mate and two sailors. It was stated at the same time, that Sir r, verard Home had gone in the Racehorse to investigate the affair. By accounts received yesterday from Para, per Rival, from Maranham, we learn that Sir Everard had suc ceeded in ~>•ettiiig the second mate on board the Racehorse. The two men, he found, had been drowned in making an at tempt to cross the river. As the Racehorse was on her way down the river to Maranham, she fell in with the expedition from Pernambuco, consisting of five vessels with 700 men on board; she returned with them to Para. It is affirmed that the Indians are divided into two parties, and that the small pox had been committing dreadful ravages amongst them. This, toge ther with their trequnit dissensions, would cause tham to fall an easy prey. CONCERT, ADELI'HI HOTEL. Under the immediate Patronage of the Worshipful the MATOR. MRS. LENNON, (late Miss Oassior,) has the honour to acquaint her Friends and the Public that it is her in tention to have a CONCERT, on TUESDAY, the 26th January instant, when she respectfully solicits their patrona e. • By the kind permission of Colonel Brad aw, The BAND of the 77th Regiment will att d. Conductor Mr. . Holden. Principal performers already e aged, Mrs. Lennon. Miss Ca s' v. " Mr. Henshall, Mr. Boothbv, Mr. emberton, and Mr. Walton, (of Manc ster,) Mr. E. Brown, who will perform on the Flute a new grand Fantasia by Nicholson, and Mr. Edward W. Thomas, of the Nobility's Concert, London, who will play Beethoven's celebrated Waltz, with Variations fur the Violin, by F. Pechatsehek. Mrs. Lennon will also be assisted by several amateurs. Tickets may be had of Mrs. Lennon, No. 17, Warren-street, and at the principal Music Warehouses. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. For the BENEFIT of Miss SMITH, - - . (Niece of Miss Stephens,) T0 -MORROW, (Wednesday,) the 29th instant, the Even- Jt entertainments to commence with a POPULAR DRAMA, In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. Binge, and the Misses Smith will perform. After which, A GRAND CONCERI. Grand Italian Duo—"Ravvisa qual (from the Opera of II Crociato iu Egitto,) the Misses Smith.—Mayerbeer. Song—" My Heart's in the Ilighlands,'rMr. Binge.—Phillipps. Duet—" When a little Farm we keep," Miss Smith and Mr. W. J. Hamhiiino. Grand Scena—" Fortune's Frowns," Miss J. Smith.—Rossini. Song—" The Old English Gentleman," Mr. Smith.—Purdy. Duet (by desire)—" I know a Bank," the Misses Smith.—Horn. Comic Song—" The Steam Arm; or, the Refractory Member," Mr. W. J. Hammond. To conclude with, BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William Mr. T. P. Cooke, In which character he will introduce the Song—" Bound 'Pren tice to a Coasting Ship," and Dance his celebrated Hornpipe. Captain Crusstree Mr. Binge, With the Song of—" The Anchor's Weighed." Gnatbrain....Mr. W. J. Hammond, With the Mock Bravura—" 0 Dolce Doll Consento." Blue Peter Mr. Smith, With the Song—" All in the Downs." Black-eyed Susan Mrs. Herbert. Doors to open at Half-past Six, the Curtain to rise at Seven o'clock.—Boxes 35., Second Price 2s.—Pit 25., Second Price ls.—Gallery 6d. Tickets to be had of Mr. SMITH, at Mrs. Meladew's, coraof of York-street, Duke-street; at the principal Music Shops; and of Mr. Fogg, at the Theatre. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STR ET. RE-ENGAGEMENT of Mr. T. P. • a OKE, The Misses SMITH, Mr. SMITH, an. r. BINGE. THIS present TUESDAY, the 19th '•scant, will be pre. seated the celebrated Drama of THE VAMPIR ; OR, THE BRIDE OF T • ISLES. The Vampit•e r. I'. P. Cooke. Effie is9. Smith. Robert I r. Binge. M'Swile Mr. W. J. Hammond. With the Interlude called With the original Music selected from Dibdin's Songs, by Mr, Blewitt. THE MAN OF TRAVELS. Patrick O'Blunder Mr. Raymond. The whole to conclude with THE PILOT. Long Tom Coffin Mr. T. P. Cooke. Lloroughcliffe....Mr. W. J. Hammond. Ceceilia Miss J. Smith. Kate Mr= Raymond. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. transfers of claims made for any pecuniary consideration, shall stand only as securities for the money actually ad• vanced upon them with simple interest, and for any ex pehse which the purchaser may have properly incurred in prosecuting the claim, and in receiving the money." The dissatisfaction of the colonists with their governor, and with the working of the bill generally, continues un abated. The next sugar crop is expected to be consider ably less than that of last year. While, in our own local affair's, the nets, made solons of the corporation ale jobbing as fast as the wings of folly and extravagance can carry them, their masters, the Whig-radicals of Downing -street, are purchasing useless props at a ruinous price, giving away coronets for a song, and making the way clear for a disastrous and dishonourable retreat. When a man is regardless of the price he pays for any article, provided he can obtain enough of it upon credit, we may depend upon it that he meditates an act of fraud ending in bankruptcy. We consider his Majesty's ministers to be in this con dition. They are putting their house in order—they are making free gifts to their friends—they are providing for near relations—they are pumping the well to the utmost capability of suction, preparatory to their retreat from office and their abandonment of the water-logged and rat-eaten craft which is fast sinking under them. Let us see what they have done. Ist. Sir C. PEPS is raised from the Rolls to the Woolsack. 2:1. Mr. BICKERSTETII is raised from the bar to the Rolls. 3d. The Attorney-General's wife is to become Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S baroness in her own right. 4th. Lord DENMAN, being found inefficient as a judge, the Court of King's Bench falling into disrepute under his management, is to be persuaded to accept the speak ership of the House of Lords, (salary not named,) and— sth. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL IS to become Lord Chief Justice as .soon as Lord DENMAN can be persuaded to ac cept the speakership. This is pretty well for one week's work. It is work, however, which the ministerial journals tell us has caused much anxiety under very painful and trying circumstan ces. We do not doubt it. Certainly it was painful to compel Sir JOHN CAMPBELL to tender his resignation— it was painful to conciliate him with a coronet to his lady and a judge's wig in prospective for himself—it was painful to promote BICKERSTETH at the expense of Sir JOHN, the express condition, we are told, on which Sir C. PEPYS would move from a certainty for life of £BOOO a year to the certainty of £14,000 for six weeks, and the further certainty of only £5OOO per annum for the remainder of his days. These were, questionless, painful circumstances ; but they become doubly distressing when we consider that notwithstanding the enormous expense entailed upon the country, HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, the lion of the last session, the tiger of that which is approaching, has been diddled, or rather thimble-rigged, as Lord STANLEY would say, out of all his hopes and expectancies, by his whig friends—by the very men whom he gratuitously upheld in office—whom he defended when they had no advocate but himself—whom he fought for when they had no othei champion. This, then, is whig government ! Lord BROUGHAM has the door slammed in his face by that " creature," as his lordship calls him, Lord JOHN RUSSELL; while PEPYS, the unknown bird BICKERSTETII, and Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S wife, the baroness that is to be, are shoved up, in order to keep him down ! It is no joke to sit on a barrel of gunpowder while a friend is piercing its side with a red-hot poker' k but this is worse. Lord BROUGHAM is not only deserted—he is insulted. He is not blown up; for the explosion would have been a requiem as cending to heaven ; but he is kicked into the kennel, trampled upon by the RUSSELL scamps, spit upon by the foul-linen gentry of the Irish brigade, hissed by the souters of Downing-street, and laughed at by every pe dantic mushroom of municipal patronage, who, twelve months ago, would have been proud and happy to have had the honour to clean Lord BROUGHAM'S shoes. It will be recollected that when the present ministry came into office theyvere in so embarrassed a state that they could not appoint a successor to Lord LYNDHURST. Lord BROUGHAM, it is said, did not stand well in a cer tain quarter, and we do not wonder at it ; but surely, with all his faults, the noble and learned lord is a million times more respectable, more accomplished, and more honcurable and consistent than some of the persons whom the King has been compelled to recognise and confront. At that time, however, the MELnouRNE and O'CON NELL cabinet did not consider it safe to quarrel with or affront Lord BROUGHAM. They put the seals in com mission, where they have remained until now. For nearly a whole year we have had no Lord Chancellor. The noble lord's feelings were respected, and no succes sor to him was named. The noble and learned lord was grateful. He worked for the ministry by night and by day. He was the only person of the slightest preten sions to oratorical power which they possessed in the House of Lords; and Lord MELBOURNE would have been helpless as a sucking babe, and would have been laughed out of temper and political existence, but for the chivalrous aid of Lord BROUGHAM. Now, however, the ministry must have a chancellor— the King commands it—they must obey or retire; but rather than retire—rather than surrender place and pay, patronage and pelf—they agree to sacrifice Lord BROUGHAM ! When ? This is the startling question— when At the very moment when the noble and learned lord is confined, by severe indisposition, to his house, in a remote part of the country. We do not as sert that his dear whig friends are desirous of killing Lord BROUGHAM—they do not, to use the words of SHAKSPEARE, " wish him dead ;" but we cannot help thinking that this unkind, cruel, and apparently treach erous treatment, is well calculated to facilitate a consum mation which we should be the first to lament. But we hope better things. Treachery invariably betrays itself, and carries a sting which proves fatal to its author. Lord BROUGHAM, we trust, will be in his place to pun ish—to torture, to scarify, to maul, to skin alive, and parboil the dirty place-hunting and unprincipled crea tures who have dared to insult him. He has power to do it—Goo knows he has had temptation enough ! It is more than probable that the MELBOURNE administra tion will have ceased to exist before the middle of Feb ruary ; but, if it should linger on till that period, we sincerely trust that Lord BROUGHAM will be in at the death, and in good condition, to wake and roast Lord MELBOURNE and the " creature" Lord Jolts, as the Irish beggar would say, " according to the custom of our grandmothers." With respect to the other appointments little need be said. Lord Chancellor PEPYS is a tolerable lawyer, but he is so fly-blown with radical predilections, as the Li verpool injunction case proved, that it is impossible the country can have any confidence in or any respect for his decisions. Mr. BIOKERSTETH, as Master of the Rolls, is an un tried man. There is some tory blood in him ; he was a tore, and will perhaps show that he is not a whig. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, from the very curious position he holds, is the most incomprehensible item in the bill of fare. He has been, rather scurvily, thrust aside. Had he been an Irish papist he would have been Lord Chan cellor. But rarely do we see any talent in an Irish Ro man Catholic, further than that which gives professional reputation to a hard pleader in defence of a desperate thief or more desperate murderer. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL is a good-natured, unostentatious, and placid man. He has dipped deeply into the folly of electioneering tricks and revolutionary projects. But he is just such a man whom Lord JOHN RUSSELL might consider fair game in a contest for power. Flattery tells upon him. A grati fying compliment is received as the current coin of the realm. The " creature" who flatters him thinks he can drive him, hut he is mistaken. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL may be led, but cannot be driven, and this his whig associates have found to their cost. What claims had BICKERSTETIT to the Rolls which Sir Jons did not possess in a superior degree ? This is an swered by making " JOCK CAMPBELL'S" wife a peeress. Who is Lady CAMPBELL? She is the unfortunate (laugh ter of Lord ABINGER—sIe was a Miss SCARLETT, whose father was a West Indian creole—whose father was an attorney, or something of the sort, in Jamaica—and who, apart from her unbounded love for her husband, is just as much entitled to the peerage as the most obscure person in the kingdom. In short, it is a whig job altogether; for Sir JAMES SCARLET ..Lord ABINGER that is, was and is a whig, who, though a judge, is as miserable a one as ever was raised to the bench, and who has done more to injure and alienate the tory party than any man living. He is a peer—his daughter is to be a peeress—GoD help En g land when it is come to this ! Lawyers only can be lords ! Coronets are flung like juggler's bubbles ; but they can only be, arrested by lawyers. Six-and-eight pence is the pass-word. Whoever goes to the treasury with a bag full of falsehoods is sure to obtain promotion. How it comes that GRIFFITH JENKINS has been passed over we cannot tell. Is there no honour amongst thieves? The man who cheated a poor drunken welshman out of his property, by administering to him certain glasses of gin until he died of the gin fever, ought not to be passed over in the desperate and last promotions of the day ! Our excellent and inimitable contemporary of the Mercury, who, now that he has been elevated to the high station of a common councillor, we deeply regret we have not the honour to know, even by the ordinary interchanges of personal recognition, came out on Fri day last in extraordinary brilliancy and announced him self to be, whether by appointment or assumption is of no consequence, the CHESTERFIELD of the new corpo ration. When DOLLY the cook, in a borrowed or stolen dress, is called " my lady," the airs she assumes, and the cari cature of fashionable manners which she exhibits, are ir resistably comic. The response is not in a gentle smile, like a damsel making her fine teeth pay a compliment on the principles of reciprocity, but in a loud laugh taxing most horridly the jaws of a burnkin. In this respect our admirable and amusing contemporary has treated us ra ther unceremoniously. In such cold weather it is not al ways convenient or expedient to relax a la lantern, into a guffaw. We are willing to do him all honour; but to be compelled to laugh is a serious impost upon the nerves if not an infraction of the constitution, and the civil and religious liberties of his most ardent admirers. But we must do our contemporary, the councillor, justice. He has in his usual imperial manner, laid down in strong lines the "Duties of a Common Councilman." He says, in majestic' language, we did vote so and so— we supported so and so—we are.not to be denounced so and so—we vote as we please and we care npt a straw for Mr. JAMES BRANCKER, and so on, which imperious style we forgive for the sake of the principles and the proofs of independence which pervade his declaration. But let us come to his " duties of a Common Council man." The intelligent and independent representative of Vauxhall Ward, says in his usually terse and elegant manner what follows : " Whoever expects to give general satisfaction by the independent and conscientions discharge of his duty in any public capacity must have read the fable of the Man and his ASS without comprehending the moral." The modesty and candour of this assumption reflect the highest honour on Mister Councillor of the Mercury. The electors of Vauxhall Ward, we are bound to infer, are the •man" in the fable alluded to, and Mr. Coun• cillor SMITH, we strongly suspect, is the "Ass." They have carried him on their backs to the Town Hall, and he is inclined to think with us that they are immense fools for their pains. But he professes to be an indepen dent ass. He has qualms of conscience and kicks most unmercifully at the bare idea of being driven. He stands up boldly for the natural rights of his kind. He is will ing to go, he admits, but he has no notion of going by compulsion— by unreasonable thumps, or unconstitu tional appeals by ashen correctors to his head or hind quarters—in short he will not be ridden and spurred by that wicked donkey-driver JAMES BRANCKER the sugar baker. Upon the whole there is a conservative tone about our contemporary which entitles him to our respect, and for which perhaps we have to thank this Aid JAMES BRANC ICER. He has delivered himself of one or two very sen sible observations since he became a councillor. He says, that there ought to be one or two tories in the list of aldermen, and that it was upon this ground lie, SMITH, voted for Mr. ADAM HODGSON. We shall not stop to enquire whether our contemporary could not assign a better reason for voting for Mr. HODGSON; for it is enough to know that certain of the radicals are convinced that the assistance of a few tories is extremely desirable, and that the business of the Common Council cannot be safely carried on without them. It is clear, however, that Mr. SMITH is not quite at home in the Council Chamber. He calls anxiously for the protection of the ballot, and would rather that the public should not know how, or for whom or what he votes. There are . some shopkeepers like himself in a similar condition. They are afraid lest they act counter to their interests, but none of them have made such sacrifices as our excellent contemporary. Mercury never stood high among the gods on the score of honesty, but our Mercury is a pa ragon of virtue in the Common Council. He has pre cluded himself from doing any work for profit or reward for the corporation. He cannot supply them with books, paper, cork jackets, or any thing else. He cannot have dealings with them by contract, or by accoUnt, in any way whatever, unless he choose to supply gas for the use of Mr. WM. RATHBONE, or cold water for the bene fit of the Town clerk. Even if he should advertise for the corporation in the columns of his newspaper, he would do that which is illegal, and the cost of which he could not recover in any court of law. A member of the coun cil cannot have a debt claim against the council. He cannot be the auditor of his own accounts—he cannot pay himself, for he cannot sue himself. Poor Mercury! The sapient liberals of the Common Council—see their proceedings—have let out the large room of the Town-hall for some sort of sixpenny hop, the profits of which are, it is said, to be given to the Roman Catholic Orphan Institution. If by this kind of caper some loose cash can be turned to the benefit of poor children, we shall he content ; but it strikes us that something very like an insult is intended by converting the public build ings, belonging to the protestants of Liverpool, to pur poses which they cannot conscientiously countenance. The Bible, we understand, is carefully excluded from the schools on whose behalf this dancing appeal is made. The Roman Catholic priests take care that not a ray of light is allowed to penetrate the mental prisonhouse of these young persons, and that no means are afforded them of knowing what the SAVIOUR of the world has taught respecting the meek, the poor, the forlorn, and the desti tute, in his own blessed book. Popery has for the last few years assumed such a do minant and tyrannical spirit that it is time for protes tants to study their own interests by keeping at a dis tance its insidious delusions and most pestilent doctrines. The true Christian cannot serve Gov and mammon at the same time; he cannot encourage popery without writing " fraud" upon his own confession of faith ; he cannot countenance the irreligious and superstitious edu cation of the Roman Catholics without compromising his own principles, and raising up enemies to that church which is founded in the blood of the martyrs. Let the ball proceed by all means—let the rooms be defiled under a guarantee of twenty pounds—let us see what the quakers, the unitarians, and the anabaptists can do in the dance for the benefit of their dear allies of the Romish church—but let no member of the Church of England disgrace him or herself by being present. The inhabitants of Liverpool have been too liberal already in their contributions to Roman Catholic institutions ; and blind and stupid they must be if they do not now see that their very benevolence is perverted into a hostile weapon against them. They cannot surely be ignorant of the cruel and terrible persecution which the protes tant clergy in Ireland • are suffering at the hands of po pish incendiaries and priestly ruffians. They must be aware of the designs of O'CoNNELL and his band against the Church of England. Ten bishops have already been sacrificed to agitation in Ireland. The greater portion of our municipal institutions is already in the hands of, .4, II C.:L.. • republican dissenters, who are in alliance with Roma Catholics; and, if we he not vigilant and united, still greater sacrifices will be demanded and yielded in order to conciliate O'CONNELL and his legion of furious and rapacious priests. But this liberal grant of the Town-hall to charitable' applicants—where is it to end ? If orphans and Romaa Catholic spinsters are to have their hop there, are protes tants, similarly situated, and having higher claims, to be excluded ? Suppose that Don BOT MERCURALDIZ, with his blind fiddler and dancing bear, should condescend to offer the Roman Catholic orphans the benefit of a night's performance, how can a liberal common councilman ob ject to the bear's waltzing exploits in the Town-hall ? Suppose that a dance is got up for the benefit of an unitarian parson sadly out at the elbows, whose salary is unpaid, and whose flock have deserted him, can the use of the ball-room be refused ? Suppose that a popish chapel is in debt from the inadequacy of the penny sub scriptions to meet the engagements of the trustees, are high mass, singing, and other trumpery to be tole rated in the Town-hall ? We contend that this open ing in favour of the papists, is an opening of a general kind; and that the " peoples' hall" must be in future a common hall for PUNCH and JUDY, for WILLIAM RATH BONE and THOMAS BOLTON, for Councillor SMITH and cork jackets, for prick-the-garter gentlemen, and artists of the thimble-rig —in short, for every nuisance and for all sorts of filth and quackery—for every thing cheap and nasty--for smoking as it is done in the floating tub—for swilling, as it is performed at the Vine Tavern —in accordance with the rules of this, as PADDY SHIEL calls it, the age of enlightenment. • In our long report of Friday's proceedings in the common council, we have been compelled to cut out more than a column of debate—of the most arrant trash that was ever talked in an assembly of men who have the arrogance to consider a baboon an inferior animal. We have suppressed their babble, because it is utterly unfit for publication. Two columns of vulgar talk, in which BOLTON and RATHBONE are the principal speakers, we omit in kindness to bur readers. To see sixty per- 7 . sons, who would be offended if we did not call them gen tlemen, debating about who should have the disposal of the Town-hall, is a melancholy spectacle. Have these liberals no respect for their mayor ? They placed Mr. WM. WALLACE CURRIE in the arduous post of magistrate, and God knows his is no enviable situation, but they will not confide to him the disposal of the rooms committed to his charge, and of which, in law, be is the proper conservator. What an insult to the first re formed mayor! What a galling and personal affront to a gentleman !—for Mr. CURRIE is a gentleman—and must be heart-sick of the vulgarity of the " low set" who tyrannize over him, and who, if they dared, would dictate who should dine with him in his private residence, and who should supply his table with pot herbs. But this was not the only exhibition on Friday which calls for remark. Mr. Councillor RATHBONE gave the lie direct to a brother councillor. He rudely, and in the style of an inebriated coalheaver, interrupted Mr. SAN DABS with a charge of falsehood. Mr. SANDARS, we know, is well able to defend his honour against such an assailant, and he did right in allowing the shuffling and rabid quaker to make an humble and abject apology to the Mayor and to himself. In any other society Mr, SANDARS would have posted him, or sent him home to his friends with more metal in his lower intestines than he has courage, honesty, or righteousness in the attic of his corporation. But who is Mr. Was. RATFIBONE ? He is one of the persons recommended to the King as a fit person to dis charge the , trust of a justice of the peace for life l• Yes, to our shame be it said, this unmannerly person, this rude goth in a wet broad-brim, is to be, saving his Majesty's sanction, a justice of the peace for life ! This is the man whom General GASCOYNE has so many rea ' sons to remember. This is the hissing, fuming, and spitting creature who is to be a justice of the peace 1 . Lord JOIIN RUSSELL may not know it, but to speak truth he is enough to bring discredit upon the most respectable commission that ever was selected in England under a fiat emanating from the crown. Another item in the debate of Friday is the claim of the late Town-clerk for compensation to the amount of seventy-seven thousand pounds. Under no possible cir cumstances can the council, with the assistance of the Lords of the Treasury, reduce this claim to less than sixty thousand pounds. Where is the money to come from ? If the corporation do not resort to the borrowing system, which they seem to held in abhorrence, all the surplus revenue of the next two years is actually absorbed and anticipated. If they agree to borrow, who will be foolish enough to lend them a single farthing ? If they do not, or cannot borrow the necessary funds, how are the public improvements to be proceeded with ? If they fail in obtaining a large su m up on l oan , th e y w ill b e i n a situation little better than that of insolvency. Under these circumstances a e wish them joy and a happy deliverance. In the meantime we have to thank the radicals, who have so pointedly insulted Mr. JAMES BRANCKER, for fighting our battles. They are making themselves known in a delightful manner to the whole community. Their prac tical notions of patriotism cannot be mistaken. They have gained power, but they have created a giant which they cannot control, and who will most assuredly rise up in judgment against them, and hew 'them to pieces. With our most respectful compliments, we beg to assure them that we shall endeavour to be in—at the death ! Has that very conceited and vain creature, the minister of St. Mary's Chapel, no friends, or is he so obstinate and pugnacious as to scorm good advice ? 1 t would really seem to be so. We thought that we should never again he called upon to mention the name of the Rev. EDWARD Hum., of the Blind Church, but lie has forced himself upon our notice in such a way that we feel it to be our duty to bring his temper, his pretensions, and his follies, before the public. On Friday last this very sensitive person, evident'y writhing under the castigation we inflicted upon him some months ago, appeared before the committee of the Asylum for the Blind to protest against his re-election as a director, when in point of fact there was ❑ot a person present to support him, or any chance of his services being required. He had, however, the opportunity of indulging in a splenetic speech, and he comp!ained most biliously of Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE hav►ng aspersed his character and deserted his chapel. In this speech the reverend chaplain talked very swaggeringly of pistols and the consequences. He did not admit that he was any advocate for duelling, but he hinted that but for his clerical robes Mr. GLADSTONE must have encountered him at some chalk farm, at the distance of fourteen paces. What empty and disgusting braggadocia is all this on the part of a poor old enervated creature, in a blue cloak and cold silk hose, who has the honour to be a clergyman of the church of England We feel half ashamed at being under the necessity of noticing his flippancy ; and we should not have noticed him at all had he not had the weakness to be the reporter of his own twaddle to the Chronicle of Saturday last. He complains of injurious aspersions, but he has not the candour or the honesty to explain their nature, ten dency, or bearing. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, it would appear, left his chapel, as many other gentlemen ' have done recently; but is that a ground of complaint before the committee of the asylum ? Does Mr. HULL wish to be acquainted with the real reasons ? If so, we should judge from Mr. GLADSTONE'S straightforward manner and honourable character, that he is the last man in the world to refuse assigning them. At the same time we are bound to admit that the world has no right to know what were his motives for retiring from the Blind Church. We have had no communication with Mr. GLADSTONE on the subject, and even if we had, his opinions or his motives of dissent would not effect us in the slightest degree. All we can presume to say is, what arises from our own construction ofa very plain case, and which we justify by arguments which we should use ourselves in reference to this charity and Mr. HULL. This is a charity for helpless persons who have been deprived of the powers of vision. It is a most useful charity. It is well managed—it is liberally supported— the benevolence of its object is well appreciated. But THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. ITALIAN OPERAS, . Under the Management of Signor DE BEGNIS. POSITIVELY THI? LAST NIGHT OF CE.:',RENTOLIL rLIHIS present TUESDAY, the 19th in, ant, will be re peated, in consequence of numerous applications at the Box-office, Rossiui's Opera of LA CENERENTODA. Principal Characters by Signora Cjintessa Degli Antonj, Signors De Begnis, Berrettoni, BenVetti, De Angioli, Olde ricci, Mariani.—Chorus, &c. Between the first and second Acts of the Opera, Mr. Enw. W. THOSIAs, of the King's Theatre, will perform Beethoven's celebrated Waltz, with Variations by Pechatsehek, on the Violin. A GRAND OVERTURE, by J. Z. Herrmann. TO-MOB ROW, (Wednesday,) will be produced Rossini's celebrated Opera of 14A DONNA DEL LAGO, which will be performed on the same scale of grandeur as represented at the King's Theatre, The Orchestra and Chorus on this occasion will be consi derably augmented. Notwithstanding the great expense attending this under taking, the Prices of Admission will remain as usual, viz.:— Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. 6d.—Gallery, ls. Doors to be opened at Seven, and the Performance to com mence at Eight o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • P is right, the master is as guilty as his servant; hut the busi ness will very speedily be removed from that shop, which, though chiefly supported by conservatives, is the worst den of radicalism in Liverpnol. We cannot undertake to return articles which are not inserted. The Durham conservative meeting is exceedingly interesting, and we thank our correspondent for his attention, but we cannot make room for it. We have been requested by . the Rev. Dr. Ralph, as a means of conveying the information to the anonymous donor, to say that he has received one guinea from a passenger, in the Strathisla, to New South Wale•, signing himself A Native of Scotland, which will bis- applied to the benevolent purpose desired. sb e imberpool ,Stanbarb. TUESDAY MORNLVG, JANUARY 19, 1836. We have received via Falmouth Jamaica papers to the 15th December. Their coltuns are chiefly occupiei by the debates in the House of Assembly on the emigration and police bills. Speaking of these measures, the Ja maica Despatch of the 14th December, says : " The House of Assembly has made a noble provision for the support of emigration ; and however limited our resources are we must not hesitate to apply them towards the only measure that will save as fine a country as the sun of heaven ever shone upon. \Ve have already sufficient evidence that Mr. Quashia will not work more than he likes, even with the coercion exer cised by the special magistrates. What, we ask, witl be the re sult when the abolition now ceases to have effect, and the spe cial magistrates become powerless? We answer idleness, de pravity, and every vice to which the human animal is prone to will be the result ! The apprentice will retrogade, and, in spite of the schoolmaster being abroad, will degenerate into the savage—will reside in the woods—disregard every tie which binds man to his fellow. The thefts, burglaries, and horse stealing which have taken place since the Ist of August, 1833, almost exceed belief; and the extreme consideration which has too often been displayed towards the latter criminals has made. their trade a very Iterative one. One black man is now con- , fined in the cage of this city for stealing three horses from a pen in St. Elizabeth. The same black gentleman was tried some time ago for a similar act of industry, and, having escaped, he recommenced his trade under the belief of a similar kind feel ing being extended towards him. One of the animals had been sold to another gentleman for one-fourth of its value, \Ve are, however, happy to add that the purchaser is likely to be charged as a receiver of stolen property, and, we sincerely trust, will be punished with the utmost rigour of the law." " The police bill has passed the House of Assembly like the English mutiny act, for another twelvemonth; and, we have no doubt, will be continued in the same manner as long as the re ' sources of the country will be abl e t o meet th e ex p e nse. To have passed such an enactment during the remainder of the pe riod of apprenticeship, would have placed a most dangerous power in the hands ot any governor ; and we are very much amused at the modest assurance in which the request was made. We have seen quite enough of the acts of Lord Sligo to teach us not to confide to his tender mercies any permanent grant of the public money; and we hope the committee of accounts will narrowly investigate every account of the public expenditure for the last vear, as we have seen accounts of some of the King's House parasites, in which charges are introduced at double the usual rates! Every article supplied for the police should be tendered for, and by that means, the very appearance of favour itism could not for a moment exist; and the public functionary who deviates from such a rule ought to be impeached." In the early past of the session two messages had been sent to the house by his excellency the governor, em bodying letters from Lord GLEN ELG, the first on the sub ject of diffusing education and religious improvement among the mass of the population. On this subject Lo rd G LENELG says : " Whatever objections may exist in more advanced societies to the principles of compulsory education, they can have no place in reference to a colony in which the great mass of the people have just emerged from slavery, but have not yet gene rally acquired any acquaintance with the principles and precepts of Christianity, and are for the most part destitute if the first I ELEMENTS OF LEA lINING. In such a case it would be a Subsll tution of the name, for the substance of liberty, if we should hold ourselves bound to acknowledge and respect among the negroes, the freedom to choose between knowledge and igno rance. The boon, even if not voluntarily accepted, is yet of too clear and inestimable advantage to the individual, and to the society of which he is a member, not to be _forced upon him, if necessary, by legislative provisions." From this it would seem that the negroes are as little inclined to mental as they are to bodily labour; but it is now too late to inquire whether freedom from slavery should not have followed, instead of preceded the ac quirement of that degree of knowledge, in the absence of which, the liberty given to the slave has been a curse instead of a blessing to him. The second letter of the noble colonial secretary sub - mitted to the House ot Assembly, refers to the claims of small proprietors under the emancipation act. His Lord ship says, that it has been represented to him " not by any official authority,'' but " by oral statements" that very extensive purchases of the claims of smaller propri etors, who in a state of ignorance and unfounded alarm, have sold their claims r,t. a discount amounting to fifty and even sixty per Cent. To remedy this abuse, be re commends the local legislature o; each colony to enact, as the commissioners of compensation cannel resist those claims when Properly authenticated, that. " aU sales and