The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

PUSEYISM IN BIRMINGHAM n Huttleston, which sailed I LETTER or THE L BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY ;rnors of the States of New York 1 brougi The who BISHOP OF WORC —The ceremonials introduced into one of our Protestant churches have at length been le notice of the Lord Bishop of the diocese, conveyinr directly to the Puseyite _ . long enough held in presented, and it is prepared for it rinciple of s had been ad, Indiana, Illinois, and ,olders of the Bank of the adelphia, on Monday, the 3d stockholders is of very great is of the papers. The chief _ the assignments made ants Bank of New Orli Bank of Columbus fo contract between the Bank Associates of the Bank of the at an expense of 178,592. 02 Lent of certain assets of the gations in was or- areholders, with It was books, papers, accounts, and docu xhibited, and remain open for the in- ier, ins agent attor- action of a future meeting, to beheld 1, that the assignments by iu June and September last were ilk- resolution was also sslgnment of all the property of f its debts. The regular ticket ner the Biddle ticket. 6th ult., Nicholas Biddle, Samuel Jan . thaite, John Andrews, and Thomas Dun i on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the be U. S. Bank, and carried before the Re lelphia for examination. On Thursday, the rdinary examination would take place. The Lberated on a bail of 10,000 dollars each. in the Treasury of the United States was amount was estimated at 14,000,000 dollars, I three millions sterling. A bill was before all and pplying the deficiency. lagott had arrived at Albany, on his way to government in Canada. Her Majesty's ship which he was conveyed to New York, had s done in bills of exchange for the Ros ondon was 108 to 1081 ; on Paris 5. 30 rdam 39/ to 40; on Hamburgh 351; and 1. The Liverpool and Havre packets liars on freight. Fair, w give an account of the Massa ch Lord Morpeth attended. He pleased with the exhibition, at me presents_to the Fair, and pur- He conversed very freely on the In reply to some questions respect , be said, " There can not be the Great Britain would be so incon o restore those slaves to bondage. le Creol€ . . A England would not be required to snr :law of nations : certain it is, she would ;chooners, which had been seized at ctor, had been liberated, and were _ sto the 19th ult. had been received Considerable excitement bad been occasioned :le which had appeared in a newspaper called reflecting upon the conduct of the French . The publication of this article had offended dated Dec. 22, and received —" The steamer has just iformation that the port )f New York, sa k.TION OF A CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL. d such an As the Vol louneement as this with the rk Constitution remarks—" Coll oid of all its allies : an active enemy I it is treavo, from their positions the soldiers who are There is enough in the conflict to discourage and ; dded the fickleness and faithlessness ,ed upon as friends, it is hard for the me allude is the Limerick Standard, ich appeared on Thursday. The tot that journal announcing the fact: — u, .JANUARY 27, 1842.—We have incernent, to our friends, which, we I with as much astonishment xultation arid triumph by our po- announcement is, that from thin Limerick Standard shall cease. ,earance, the local interests of Causer _owest ebb. The members of that ) advocate their principles or defend e subject to every species of attack. ress. The Protestant clergy were held up t to massacre, and were daily made the cies of insult and abuse • two of the then being in the hands of their bitterest foes, !st, but an uncertain and timid friend. .ous or glaring were the falsehoods put it principles and the Conservative in inrefated and went forth to the world appearance of the Limerick lit by our suffering friends. d with lists as their champion ; we defended them carried the war into the very camp of our twelve months from the appearance of our was the local Radical press driven from the but confidence was restored to the 'Con our country, and they once more assumed public attairs They subsequently many occasions in a spirited and tearless lat they were backed by an efficient press, vay not only creditable to themselves, but the general interests of Conservatism. ,eriod of promise, our journal steadily pro favour and estimation. We fearlessly advo -1 vi we were embarked. No personal aeration could ever induce us to shrink from rve from our principles, and there was no pc pared by us to render our journal every way confidence and support, and the fruits of th.t , in point of character and influence, Standard was pronounced second to none of circumstances, it was naturaj, to think that ich we had fought so successfully would have Is by self.interest, if not by gratitude, and er of prosperity awaited us ; but, as the time ne return was due to us for the large outlay it appeal to the pocket caused an immediate rvaiive zeal to Zero. True it is, there is a two It . of conservatism than the role body during their lives, if will be, by the rancor Ant of Ayi chopped round to t leaviug those for whom we solonh 3 the tende r mercies of their enemies. RREN( m.—Cambridge Chronicle, .... c.a.( SIX pt. ..agh-minded and' honourable men, influ- streets have a most desolate appearance ; the shop windows ,ne Conservative spirit, who always responded are all closed, and business is totally suspended. ,ere is another class, who only opened their CORR, JAN. 28.—N0 person recollects Cork and its neigh ono very shame, whilst a third, and a nume- bourhood to have been visited by so dreadful a storm as that tined, who deemed it quite sufficient to have of yesterday morning, which continued until an advanced ur of their names to our list of supporters, hour in the day. About midnight on Tuesday, the wind, red at being called on to contribute one six- which blew from the N.W., gradually increased in violence ids. This was a species of support which, until about three, when it blew a storm, levelling chimnies, lever coveted nor could permit. and, in pro- stripping roofs of houses, tearing up trees from their roots. sisted on our rights, we raised up a host of and creating much alarm, both for the safety of the houses onservatism of many was, like Bob Acre's and the shipping at our quays. About half-past six o'clock oosing out at their fingers' ends. in the morning a chimney fell on the roof of the house of his, we still fought on, though At a consi- Messrs. Footts and Fitzintions, Solicitors, South Mall, which tage, owing to circumstances to which it is in its descent carried down the roof and two floors, burying a ticuiarly to allude ; but which, had there son of Mr. Fitzsimon's and two female servants. The acci xue Conservative spirit in the county, should dent having been rrported at the Tuckey-street station, a o-called friends rally round us with greater party of police immediately went to the ruin, and, fearless of ally as at that time advantage was taken of danger from a stack of high chimnies that waved over them, effort made by our political foes to crush they commenced digging the ruins to endeavour to extricate without success ; and though we were aban- those beneath. Atter labouring hard they had the pleasure asi friends, we not only baffled our enemies, of drawing out Master Arthur Fitzsimons, more frightened 11 our journal for the common good. than hurt. This success caused them to renew their exer tid spread of conservative principles and their Cots, and by eight o'clock they removed the two females 1, we naturally expected a termination of m ' fro their distressing position, and they had the last scarcely :ruggles which we had for some ti me ma d e outside the wall of the building when the stack of chimnies nee of our j ourna l an d th e l oca l i nterests o f case, and fell in, carrying everything with it in its fall. Had it laden , at heart ; b u t t h e reverse was the one moment sooner, Mr. G. Pala, the constables and fe or conservati sm arose amongst too many o f males, were no more. The females were much bruised, re an overweenin g their confidence and security, personal achievements but providentially none of their limbs were broken. The are sure, f rom next serious accident—one which we are sorry to say oc he constitutio n ,) an d they seemed to think ::asioned the loss of life — occurred in the provision market their bed m us t b e a bed of roses, and that aside their weapo ns of defence ;in fact, that on the Grand Parade. It was occasioned by the falling of a could do without our services. We were.. brick wall on a timber shed. About ten o'clock Mr. Edward mg in discoverin g that no England, of Winter's-hill, passed from the meat market self-interest, s, no regard even to self ' remembrance in- into the fowl market , when he was knocked down by a 1 that they only sought - linney falling on him, but he received no further injury than ur advocacy and spare for an n a cut on the face and a few bruises on the body. His life opportunity their purse ' iscouraging circumstances — having was saved by the falling of one end of- the main beam on a already sands fighting the battle for thi' l lsparty, and butcher's stall which tg debts increasing until they too ad . reached prevented the timber crushing him. But this was not the only providential occurrence in respect scarcely be credited--due, to this gentleman, for if his course had not been intercepted sals of wealth and station --we considered i rnan y at this moment by the falling in of the linney, be in all pro t the scapegoat of a party, and tobslidnedred bability would have been killed by the falling in of the brick we longer continued our struggles to wall towards which was he proceeding at the moment, and 'le success of which so little interest which fell while he was prostrate, burying four women who or the sake of the cause, we did hone sold eggs in the market, beneath its ruins. Immediately ;till have been insured - to it ; tho u gh after the accident, head-constable Condon and a party of po were aware that there were some lice were on the spot, and removed the rubbish and broken sinus to possess themselves of the timber, so as to enable them to take out the creatures that three previous occasions would were under it, who were dreadfully mangled. One of them -u the opportunity of doing so. named Judith Cunningham, of Brandy-lane, who was mar 4ations with that view have ried, and the mother of five children, died shortly after, ended in nothing ; the e7ery bo ne i n h er b o d y hav i ng b een f racture d . Th e ot h ers , Sees could be made up Ellen and Mary S u lli van , s i sters, an d M ar y C o lli ns were re y, will deplore the . moved to th e South Infirmary, where Mary Sullivan died in the course of the day, and her sister it is not supposed could live out the night, as she was severely injured, both legs ney is talked of, they ' . being broken. Many other buildings were injured, and in good morning. a disgraceful feeling the country trees were thrown across the road in several places, and the Dublin Mail sto w r a m s frequently obliged to stop f this party here, it owing to the severity of the any longer to labour Tux STORM IN THE I SLE OF MAN.— O n Wednesday we W e have spent more had a tremendous gale, and a h eavy sea ro ll e d i nto the bay t-vatisrn th an and harbour. No casualitv has occu rre d upon t hi s s i de of ing their Ilv conn exion and th e i s land, but we quote the foll ow i ng f rom a R amsey con -4- respondent :—" After the heavy S. E. gale yesterday morn ing, which drove four vessels on shore between this town and the N. W., and from s the wind duringthe ar:,:orupartto ten of the d a ho'clock ,ew a complete hurricane." In addition to the above, we have heard that a large schooner is on shore neat Kentraugh, and a number of vessels which ought to have been reported safe' have not been heard of, but, the supposition is that they ave made for Scotland.—Manx Sun, of Saturday. . —An inquest was holden at Wittlesea, on p •_. ......--______ , s so _ _ nuay the 21st Blunt, nof Mr . John Blunt, The Times has published a statement, to which the name of that place. P near . lit, the oed, that Mr. jarae - r:in uta the dif- of the writer is appended, showing that even where wheat •sed over a bridge more than twenty bushels per acre, and to Whit lands produce no rentand tithe, the whole charge thereby fridge, about half-past two i ' pay 255. per acre for •in two or three minu n the laid on bread is one penny and one-fifth of another penny res after re heard, and two of the wit- per quartern o .1 af In other words, if all rent and tithe were -'. saw him and another youthwould only reduce the quartern loaf at once swept away, it the same) 'er, amidst the broke n ice by less than five ( i., o rt th i y a c , ircunat , a v nces remaining te lily assistance could he npeuce farthing now, we should, even aii - er . the abolition of rent and tithe, have to pay nine pence! 4. t.tift., - . - TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OP THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPANY. Ladies and Gentleman,—ln the providence of God you have been suddenly set on an eminence to which the eyes of the Scottish people are eagerly turned. You have been.in vested with a power which will soon be exerted for great good or great evil. to this land. Motives of patriotism or profit, or both, may have induced you to enrol your names as share holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; but, now that you have been enrolled, a more momentous question comes before you than the stimulus given to trade, .or the probable amount of your dividends. in the mysterious or dinations of God, it has devolved on you to say whether Scotland is still to enjoy her Sabbaths, or henceforth to mourn them lost—whether the next generation of our countrymen shall retain their fathers' birthright—one whole day in seven for sacred rest, or be doomed to toil incessant on fr - om the cradle to the grave. An instrument has been put into your hands, and soon you must wield it, wherewith to bless or to curse this nation. We are watching the issue. Trusting in the Lord who ruleth over all, we address ourselves to the creatures of his hand. Having first made our prayer unto God; we now employ the pains to persuade men. It' at this moment notices were in your hands summoning you to Glas gow on the 25th February, as a jury in a trial on which a brother's life might depend, you would feel a strong consci entious desire to decide justly and according to law. You are summoned to decide a case which involves a life multi plied, by millions and extending through eternity. Remain ing on the roll of shareholders you cannot be neutral. For or against the Sabbath you must be. You will do well to make up your minds. It is unwise to act at random. After you have signed your mandate at home, or given your vote at the meeting, you cannot lie down to sleep at ease, if even the suspicion lurks in your breast that you have been fight ing._against God. There are many points of common interest to us and you, as men and members of the same community ; but it is specially as ministers and elders that we address you at pre sent. It is our duty to warn you ; and you are hereby warned—Do not this great wickedness and sin against God. Beware of seeking shelter beneath the miserable argument by which some attempt to prove that the Sabbath law was repealed by Christ. It is a lying refuge. It will not cover you. Before any man affirm that the law of the Sabbath has been annulled, he must be able to point to an express statute of repeal. But no such statute of repeal exists ; for Christ came not to destroy, but to fulfil, the law. It is in vain, also, to taunt us with the severe punishments denounced in some parts of the Jewish polity ; for we do not adopt it. We adopt the moral law—the law given from Sinai and recorded iu Israel—the rule of life to MEN. It contains no penalties inflicted by human hands.• Its only sanction is the displea sure of God. The legislature of every country are bound to adopt the law, and enforce it by the sanctions which to them may seem best. Christ adopted it unaltered. He obeyed and taught it. He announced the sum of it under two heads —love to God and love to men. These two commandments He said were binding. Every one then knew, and every person of common understanding since has seen clearly that our Lord referred to the first and second tables of the law, as it was known among the Jews. The great commandment —love to God—they knew to be the first table of the Deca logue, as given on Sinai. The. Sabbath law was in it, and this teacher sent from heaven did.not take it out. One part of the " great commandment" is, " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy ;" and Christ, when .he came, did not destroy that or any part of the law. He cleared away the abuses which'the Jews had heaped upon them ; but never, by word or deed, did he set aside any one of the ten command ments. On this subject we acknowledge no human authority. Men may unite in testifying that they think the sanctification of the Sabbath a needless or hurtful restriction ; but none of these things move us. " The LORD is our lawgiver," and our Judge too. _ _ _ We beseech you, ladies and gentlemen, to respect our feel ings as Scotsmen. Be assured they are not the least reputable and influential portion of the community to whom the sight of Sabbath' traffic on the railway will be bitterness of spirit. It is painful to think, that though our cause is good, and our argument valid, we should be driven to plead anxiously for our Sabbath as a mere matter of speculation and controversy, allow passion and interest to overbear our righteous claim. For your own sakes, as well as ours, have respect to the character of your servants. In Scotland, be assured, they are not the most trustworthy men who will be found willing to follow their usual occupation on the Sabbath. They who fear God will refuse the bribe ; and the lives of the passengers must be entrusted to irreligious men, who have been accus tomed to desecrate the Sabbath. This one point were enough to: settle the question, if it were fully known. The safety of the passengers depends very directly on the high character of the servants, and the gain of the company depends very directly On the safety of the passengers. It is stated in the newspapers, that the receipts on the Great Western Railway during the week following the late accident, were fifty per cent. less than they had been on the week preceeding. Let it be remembered too, that in Scotland you must go much lower down in the scale than it is necessary to go in England, to get men to work for gain on the Sabbath. Godliness is profitable to all things. In another way, ladies and gentlemen, you may find out that our warning has some weight. We represent a portion of the community, who, we hope, will be able to bring an ar gument into position against Sabbath trains, which will tell directly on the sense of profit and loss. No one supposes that the profits of the Sabbath traffic will be great. It is no extravagant calculation to expect that, by withholding all support from the railway, we shall, lessen the amount of the week's gain by more than the whole receipts of the Sabbath. In this way we have been signally successful in Scotland al ready. We shall try again. We presume, ladies and gen tlemen, that you will not persist in the Sabbath traffic when you are convinced that it lessens your dividends. We pre sume few of you will be prepared to sacrifice' your weekly profits by trading on the Sabbath, on the blasphemous pre tensions put forth by one of the directors, that duty to God demands it. We entreat you to pity the poor of this land. Do not in troduce a system which will wrest from them their weekly day of rest. They will not become better workmen and bet ter servants by being taught to desecrate the Sabbath : and in the destruction of religious principle among the working classes, the community may be made to reap the bitter fruits of your profane determinations. We entreat you to_ pity alno tbo rich. we .soh to envy rich, men from themselves. Their cares are creeping over them : and they will madly mul tiply these cares. Their very souls are cleaving to the dust. Locked in its intoxicating embrace, they are impatient of the partial interruption of the Sabbath. Joined to their idols, they'vvish to be let alone. We will not let them alone. We will cry aloud, and spare not. Already you spend too much time on the world, and too little for a near and rapidly approaching eternity. You. must soon depart. You cannot take your riches with you. You should have some time secured for setting your heart on a better inheritance. The use made of the Sabbath trains by very many would be to spend the holy Sabbath in business or amusement. •It is thus that the Sabbath breaker lives without God in the world. We know he must meet with God soon—we wish to afford him time for it now. The present aim of the destroyer is to blot out the hallowed light of the Sabbath, that in the dark ness he way more securely prey upon your life. We will continue our effort to save money-making and pleasure-seek ing. men from destroying themselves. . ladies and gentlemen, the decision of this question lies in your hands ; but remember you are in the hands of God. His eye is on you, and his judgment will await you. You may, by your secretary's pen, blot out the Sabbath's rest from the book which records your gains ; but it remaiueth written in another book which you cannot reach. You may put down the uplifted voice of God's people in the bustle of a railway meeting ; but the whispering of an aggrieved conscience may yet be heard within the curtains of a dying bed. You may vote away from Scotland her Sabbath ; but you cannot vote the Sabbath-breaker into heaven. _ Signedin name and by appointment of the meeting, WILLIAM COLLINS, Chairman POPISH PERSECUTION The following hand-bill, signed by 13 Roman Catholic farmers in the parish of Clontibret, county Monaghan, pro testing against the malignant treatment from their parochial priest (Mr. Tierney), who had so furiously denounced them from the chapel altar, that the labouring population of the district, though nearly out of bread, dared not work for them, in consequence of which they nearly lost their crop. The sole ostensible cause of the shameful treatment they have received from Father Tierney is, that they have in their possession copies of the New Testament, which they refuse to gibe up at the bidding of the priest. • TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF CLONTIBRET Friends and neighbours, you are all acquainted with the •iolent language which has been directed against us ; you have been commanded to hold no communication with us, no dealings, not to work . for us, &c. We deeply lament to find that some persons, influenced by this language, have acted in an unneighbourly and inhuman manner towards some of us; You know that in some cases we have been unable to hire labourers ; even in the want of employment they have been afraid of working for us ; we have been in danger thereby of losing our harvest. Upon a previous occasion, when similar language was used towards us, we wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. Tierney. the Catholic priest ; we denied the charges he brought for ward, we challenged him to the proof, but he gave us no re ply, except his cursings and harangues in the chapel might be so considered. We now appeal to you; we state clearly, the offence we have given, and we put it to you, friends and neighbours, if for this offence we deserve such treatment. We acknowledge that we read the word of God in the Irish language ; we acknowledge that we are most anxious that our children, and, if they will, our neighbours and friends, should all become acquainted with it. We feel satisfied'that nothing is so likely to produce good feeling anti harmony amongst men ; it teaches us the way of salvation, it makei us - acquaitited — *lth the doings and the sufferings of our Saviour to redeem us from sin, and calls upon us, as far as we can, to follow in the footsteps of Him who came to promote peace and goodwill amongst men. We conceive that as Irishmen living in a frel country we have a right to read God's word, and we earnestly pray that we may be enabled in our lives to show forth the praises of Him who died to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. We deny the right of the Rev. Mr. Tierney to holdu - su I t g v o ee t p al u ar b er l gi i e c ad e o x ar m e t ae r g a d e t i st oh for for that idefamation,f wge the sree ute e os x ion e t kjh r u c a te s eb e gi efua o vwtl ef we suffe r h ersoo i uuw s ef fr u eoeeb r ur i dl wrongfully o tnre u rgora b snet t shgw e t fe d euer inrlseieyuogmffhuf for could persecution for the cross to the utmost than do anything that T m h i g e h holyt i n t t e . slightest a d ei e l r s g t y h t e o o f us preserving ness sake v a e r s e w o f e , o a u n r d se n i v o e tn sh and but h families t e n ee l : ill ever induce us to take legal proceedings against our persecu tors and slanderers. But we appeal to you, is it right, for the imaginary offence, to bold us up to public indignation in the countr) , ? We en deavour by our conduct to prove how false these accusati ons are—as St. Peter says, welldoing to put to silen ce th e ignorance of foolish men. The Rev. Mr. Tierney has cursed us, we pray earnestly that God may bless him, that He may give him a new and contrite heart, that he may find mercy to his own soul in the great day of account. You have been commanded to persecute us ; it shall be our endeavours at all times and in'all things to act in a kind and neighbourly manner towards you. We feel we will do everything except the giving up the study of that holy book, which we have found so comfortable to our souls, or the transgressing any of the commands it contains. We repeat again unto you, what we formerly said to Mr. , iern T r ierne e y y ea —t i lr ptrwoeeeeadrein a openehr to is c t o i n an vic in ti a o e n n ; e a r, nd a i n f a th p e r ß ov e e v. to M u r s . that we have no right to read in our own language the wonderful works of God, we will close the sacred volume. If he will prove that it is our duty to train up our children in the same ignorance in which we were involved before we knew the Irish society we will obey him, but until these points are clearly proved to us we will, with God's help, and in reliance on Ells promised blessing , study that word which is " able to m a k e us wise unto salvation," and in teaching the sameunto our children endeavour to train th em u p in the nurture an d a d mon i t i on of t h e L or d. And to you, fo o v v u e r friends rsof the a neighbours, nd Lam b ofGo w by our life and conduct , to prove that we are what we pro fess to be,dtehwatilltaeknedtehavaowuary, the sins of the world.,' ISLE OF MAN.—As a proof of the rising prosperity and public spirit of the town of Peel, we may instance the fact, that no fewer than 14 new tuggers are now building at that port, for the approaching season of the herring fishery:7 Mona's Herald. to to the rest love of novelty or notoriety seems to have taken so strong a hold upon many of the clergy. The letter of the Lord Bi - s . bop has been eircu:ated amongst gy in Birmingham, and doubtless throughout the dio cese, within the last few days, accompanied with the follow ing circular from the Rev. J. Garbett, the rural dean the cler CIRCULAI Birmingbani, Jan 28,4842. Rev, and Dear Sir,—Contsiderable - exciieinent and con troversy having been raised in this place, and offence taken. by the introduction of certain novel observances in Divine worship ; and public attention having been directed to it, not only in our local but also in the metropolitan journals, I for ward you a copy of a letter recently addressed by the Lord Bishop of the diocese to one of our brethren ; it being his lordship's wish that I would embrace the opportunity of thus informing the clergy of his opinions " on the general sub ject ; " in order that it may be known that our diocesan is decidedly opposed to the introduction of novelties—" which create disunion without producing any counterbalancing good whatever ' • " a sentiment in the propriety of which I cannot but think every sincere friend of the church's purity and peace will heartily concur.—l remain, reverend and dear sir, your affectionate brother, JOHN GARBETT, Rural Dean of Birmingham (CoPr.) Palace, Worcester, Jan. 19, 1342 Reverend Sir,—My attention has been called to certain letters in the Birmingham Advertiser, wherein it is alleged that in one of the churches in Birmingham a gilt cross has been introduced upon the communion table cloth, and that the officiating clergyman is in the habit of kneeling down before this cross, on his way to the reading desk, and of bow ing•to it on returning to it, after the prayers and the sermon. Not knowing to whom these letters referred, I wrote to Mr. Garbett, the rural dean, and requested that he would make the necessary inquiries. I now learn from him that you ary the individual who has given such cause of offence; and 1 think it therefore my duty to call your attention to the fol lowing observations. Wiebout entering into the question of how far the intro duction of such novelties may be justified by the practice of antiquity, I would wish you seriously to consider whether they are of such importance as to justify the destruction of unity in the church, which must be the necessary conse quence. The mere display of the cross,.as a symbol of our Christian profession, may indeed be a matter of indifference ; and I lately declined ordering one to be removed, as I was requested to do, from one of the churches which I have re cently consecrated at Rugby ; but I then said that I would certainly do so, if I afterwards found that it led to idolatrous or superstitious practices. Now I firmly believe that you do not worship the cross in the sense in which the Roman Ca tholics are said to do so ; but if you do not, you cannot at tach any religious importance to its display in your church, or to the genuflexions and obeisances, which, without any direction from the Rubric, you are in the habit of making before it ; and if these be things indifferent, where is the prudence of " troubling the consciences of those who are rightly religious," by. adopting practices in themselves in different, but which you know will give cause of offeioe to others? There is one other point which I wish to press upon your attention. Granting that various modes of divine worship may, for various reasons, have become obsolete, which yet may have been the practice of the primitive church, and even directed by some of our rubrics or canons, who is to decide upon the propriety of their being again revived ? Is every individual minister to take this upon himself? Or does it not more properly belong to those who are placed in autho rity ? And may it not be inferred, from their silence, that they consider such a revival inexpedient, or at least indiffe rent? I have received the little pamphlet which I conclude you sent me ;* and though to comment upon the whole of it would exceed the compass of a letter, I cannot refrain from observ ing, that when you undertake that you will " conform to the Book of Common Prayer," the object of desiring this decla ration from you is to secure the use of the general " form of the Morning and Evening Prayer, and administration of the two Sacraments," in opposition to other forms, or to the extemporaneous composition of the minister. Essential and honest conformity is here meant ; not a scrupulous adherence to petty ceremonies, which time may have rendered obsolete, and which the lawful authorities of the church had never re quired the restoration. _ I have written more at length upon this subject than is, perhaps, required by our relative positions ; because 1 am anxious to use the language of remonstrance, instead of au thority ' • that of a father to an indiscreet son ; or, if you will, that of a senior presbyter, to a very young one, who yet has taken upon himself, without authority from his bishop, to introduce practices, which, if they ever prevailed in the church, have long since fallen into desuetude. In conclusion, I will refer you to an authority older than any that the utmost admirer of antiquity can produce. St. Paul distinctly asserts that there was no sin in eating meat which had been offered to idols ; still, he directs the Corin thians to abstain from such a practice, out of consideration of the consciences of others—" When, therefore, ye sin against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, ye sin against God." And again—" Give then none offence. neither to the Jew nor to the Gentile, nor to the church of God." I feel sure that this admonition will be sufficient to ensure the discontinuance of the novelties complained of; and I beg that you will believe me to be, always, reverend sir, your faithful friend and brother, H. WORCESTER. * Extracts from the Rubrics, Canons. &c. THE LATE GALE PWLLHELI, JAN. 27.—The Solway, of Whitehaven, from Liverpool to Barbadoes, is on shore under Pistill, near Portinllaen; crew saved. The Ardent, Roberts, of Nevin, came ashore at Portivallaen, yesterday, and became a wreck ; one man and a boy drowned. Last night and this morning it blew a most awful gale of wind, ranging from S.W. tq N.W. ; about eight o'clock this morning it moderated a little, still blowing fresh from N.W. The barque Sarah, (before reported) rode out the gale, but drove considerably. I have been informed that she has capsized her windlass. NORTH SHIELDS, JAN. 26.—The fore part of these 24 hours strong gales, with thick showers of snow. At meri dian the Argus, Patterson : and Eliza, Gray, when taking our bar, the wind from E.S.E., got too far to leeward, and drove upon Tynemouth rocks ; they came in contact with each other, and the Eliza within half an hour after striking went to pieces; the crew got on board the Argus, the gale still continuing with great violence. Captain Manby's ap paratus was speedily put into operation, and the crews of both the vessels were safely landed by that useful and invalu able invention. WEXFORD, JAN. 26.—1 t has been blowing a terrific gale, accompanied with rain, since one o'clock this morning, and about four a.m., the Sarah, Rossiter, of Waterford, from Llanelly for Bannow, stranded at Tacumshane, a short dis tance to the westward of the wreck of the Honor, of St. Ives. The sea was breaking with tremendous fury, the crew were in the rigging, and every effort to render assistance proved ineffectual. At last the vessel yielded to the power of the sea, and the master and three of the crew perished together—one man only was saved in the most exhausted state. LIMERICK, JAN. 26.—We have been visited with one of the most terrific and destructive gales of wind it has ever oeen our lot to witness in this country. The gale com menced between the hours of. three and four o'clock, a.m., from the southward, and continued with unabated violence till noon. The, immense damage done to the shipping cannot be properly estimated, bet it is supposed to be considerably underrated at £15,000. The tide was forced considerably above the level of the quay, so that any attempt to keep fenders in their proper places was completely out of the ques tion. The destruction among the houses was also very con siderable ; roofs and chimneys have been blown down, and windows, in thousands, have been broken. Twohouses have been blown down and six persons buried in_ the ruins. The 1. and c as earl El the banks will EVENI 6 to its :tves a very s, that consideration of duty and nd to re- An early day should s the Ist of June. tial, whether i le sooner ay the committee ie Romish innovations pressed, the best results his views in ref UNITED STATES ncupy a lar TER TO LONDON MONEY MARKET, The funds still remain heavy, 'the sales of money stock made to-day further acting on the market. These sales are not supposed to be connected with any political movement ; but with the ordinary orders of the broker who effected them. Money continues, as heretofore, easy and plentiful, and on the security of re cognised borrowers, would not •command" more than 3 to to 31 per cent. Consols for money have fluctuated be tween. 89 and 881. ,atul left. off 884 to 89.4 for the ac count; they closed 894 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 ; Three and a Half per Cents. Reduced, 994 ; New Three and a Half per Cents., 981 ; Long Annuities .(expiring January 5, 1860), 12 9-16; Bank Stock, 167 k to 1684; India Stock, 2464 to 2474 ; Exchequer-bills, 17s. to 10s. premium ; and India BOadS,- 9s. to 11s. premium. The tendency of the foreign securities also continues downwards, but very little business was transacted in any of the descriptions now in the market. Spanish Actives left off at 25 to 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 to ; Ditto Three per Cents., 194 to 204 ; Mexican, 29 to 4 1 ; Danish 81 to 82; Colombian, 214 to 22; Brazilian, 641 to 654 ; and Belgian, 103 to 104. There were fewer sales of shares to-day, but prices were none the better. Bristol and Exeter we done at 25 tol ; Great Western, 85 ; Great .Western, New, 591; Brighton, 364 ; Birmingham, 168 ; South Western, 52 ; Manchester and Leeds, 77; Ditto, quarter shares, 4; Northern and Eastern, 35; North Midland, 714; South Eastern and Dover, 26; York and North Midland, 93; Ditto, New, 314; Cobre Copper, 33, ex div.; Hibernian, 24; Real del Monte, unregistered, 34; and Union of Australia, 31. SATURDAY EVENINC THE TRACTARIANS AND THE BISHOPS (From_ the Lo2!don . Standard.) We have received the following announcement from a quarter which ought to be well informed : " A meeting of the bishops will shortly take place in Lon don, for the purpose of considering the present state of the church, in reference to the doctrines lately put forth in some of the' Tracts for the Times.' " The time seems to have arrived when some such proceed ing on the part of the heads of the church as is here announced is imperatively necessary. We are well aware of the inconvenience, nay more, of the danger of declaratory acts in such cases as that now pre sented by the state of the Church ; we subscribe fully to the maxim that in theology as in law, definitions may be per- lons, "definitiones lege aunt periculosce," and therefore we are far from condemning the forbearance of the bishops up to the present time. Many of their number, probably all of them, to whom an opportunity has fairly presented itself, have declared their disapprobation of both the doctrines and practices of the tractarian sect ; and it was natural for men, pious, candid, and modest themselves, to suppose that advice tendered in such kind and gentle terms as those in which the advice of the bishops has been offered, would not fail of success. We grieve, however, to say that such advice has failed, anti when the voice of mild admonition has failed the voice of authority must be employed. Men who will not listen to such appeals as the beautiful letter* of the Bishop of Worcester, must be compelled by other means. As long as there was a• hope that the Tractarian would yield to the influence of common sense, of the people, of the great body of the clergy, and of the heads of the church, we ourselves cautiously abstained from even distant allusion to their propagandist devices. The contest for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford for one of the leaders in the schism was, however, a step too daring to be safely disregarded, and upon that contest we delivered our opinion freely ; but when the particular affair that summoned us to act had ended we hoped to be able to return to labours more within our proper sphere, and for which we were not so ill qualified. In this hope, however, we are disappointed. . The Tractarians have, by whatever means, possessed themselves of a great part of the periodical press, including some of the more respectable organs of all the several classes of the press ; and every one must be aware that, in this country, whatever is promoted by an important division of the public press must succeed in the end if the rest of the press is inactive and acquiescent. They who are silent will by enemies be set down as approving of all to which they offer no reply. * This seasonable letter appears in our columns to-day. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND We have to announce the demise of the Duke of Cleve land, after a protracted although not painful illness of several mouths. The melancholy event took place at four minutes to seven o'clock on Saturday morning, at the family mansion in St. James's-square. _ — Tileduchess, Lady Arabella Arden, and Lady Augusta Milbanke, were with the noble duke when his dissolution took place, and the Earl of Darlington was immediately sent for when the approaching death of his grace became too apparent. the deceased, William Henry Vane, Duke and Marquis of Cleveland, Earl of Darlington, Viscount and Baron Bar nard of Barnard's Castle, county Durham, and Baron Rabv of Raby Castle, county Durham, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was only son of Henry second Earl of Darlington and Margaret, daughter of Mr. Robert Lowther, and sister of the late and aunt of the present Earl of Lonsdale.— He was born the 27th July, 1766, and was consequently in his 76th year. In September, 1787, he married Lady Ka tharine Margaret Powlett, second daughter and co-heir of Henry sixth and last Duke'of Bolton, and co-heir of one moiety of the barony of St. John of Basing, by whom, who died 17th June, 1807, his grace had issue eight children— namely, Henry Earl of Darlington, M.P. (now Duke of Cleveland); Lady Louisa Catherine Barbara, born 4th Jan., 1791, and married 29th July, 1813, Mr. Francis Forester, brother.of the late Lord Forester, and died Bth January, 1821 ; Lord Wm. John Frederick Powlett, born 3d April, 1792, and married, 3d July, 1815, Lady Caroline Lowther, fifth daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale ; Lady Caroline died an infant ; Lady Augusta Henrietta, born 4th Jan., 1797, and married, 2d June, 1817, Mr. Mark Milbanke ; Lady Laura, born 6th Jan., 1800, and married, 24th Feb., 1823, Col. Wm. Henry Meyrick ; Lady Arabella, born 2d June, 1811, and' married, 25th April, 1831, the Hon. Richard Pep per Arden ; and Lord Henry George Vane, M.P. for the county of Durham and late secretary of legation at Stock holm, born 19th April, 1803. The duke married, secondly, 27th July, 1813, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Robert Russell, the present dowager duchess. NAVAL COURT MARTIAL (From the Sun.) The following case of Court Martial has recently attracted considerable attention. Mr. Elton was a midshipman of her Majesty's ship Cambridge. While lying off Beyrout last July, a friend of his, Mr. Bagot Crewe Reid, a gentleman of fortune, travelling in Syria, came on board the Cambridge to visit him. By an overs ight, very common after di nn er, th e means of conveying Mr. Reid to the shore were overlooked, and at an advanced period of the evening it was discovered that no boat had been sent for him, and he was to leave Bey rout for the interior on the following morning. In this di lemma, it happened that a Captain Williams, of the Strom boli, with whom Mr. Elton had served , was dining on board the Cambridge,:and his vessel was lying between the Cam bridge and the shore. Mr. Elton accordingly addressed a respectful note to Captain Williams, requesting him to allow his boat, after putting him on board his own ship, to convey Mr. Elton's friend to Beyrout. To this note Captain Wil liams did not deign to return an answer. Nettled at this contemptuous treatment, Mr. Elton wrote an improper letter to Captain Williams, gibingdesc his conduct as " uneourte.• ous and ungentlemanlike, and saying that " Captain Wil liams screened himself under his rank to offer an insult which'he would not dare to do were Mr. Elton not his ju nior officer." Mr. Elton soon became sensible of his error, and on the first opportunity wrote a humble apology to Cap tain Williams. That did not suffice ; he was, in November last, tried by a court-martial at Malta, Rear -Admiral Sir John Louis, President, and was found guilty of treating his superior officer with disrespect and of provoking him to quarrel. He was sentenced to be dismissed the naval ser vice, and on his arrival in England to be imprisoned six months in some one oilier Majesty's gaols. Mr. Llton was subsequently confined for twenty-five days on board the Howe, and then sent as a prisoner to Gibraltar and England. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) We cannot for one moment be thought to justify Mr. Elton ; 'he clearly was guilty of a breach of an article of war, which imposes the sentence of death upon the offender, and therefore this imprisonment for six months may be called merciful, on the part of his judges ; but we cannot but ex press our regret that Captain Williams, by an exceedingly uncourteous behaviour, brought the matter on. And we still more lament that he did not unreservedly and frankly accept of the honest, well-meant , and gentlemanly apology offered. He (Captain Williams) should also have recol lected the age of the youngster, the excitement his own ca valier conduct had untowardly caused. and should, as doubt less he could, have bad the order for the court-martial with drawn. With regard to the court itself, it has passed an illegal sentence, and one which will instantly be set aside by the judges. It will be seen Mr. Elton is sentenced to an un defined term of imprisonment, inasmuch as his six months' imprisonment is to commence on his arrival in England. Suppose then the Admiralty thought proper to order him to be kept in Malta harbour, on board the flag ship for twenty years, he would, in that case, be virtually imprisoned for life—this the law would not allow. Again, this young gen tleman is entitled to his immediate discharge, on the ground that Captain Barnard, who was a material witness, formed one of the court, and thus appeared in the character of a prosecutor and judge—an anomaly which the law will not admit of. In support of this position we refer to M'Arthur, and there we find that on the information of the court to try Admiral Keppel, the Hon. Capt. Walsingham objected to those officers being rejected from forming part of the court who had been summoned to give evidence, on which the case was submitted to the then Attorney and Solicitor Ge neral and Mr. Cust, who gave the following opinion on the case:— The usage of the service is very material upon this case, for naval courts-martial are evidently considered , in the statutes concerning them, as known and established courts, consequently, in matters not especially provided for, th e settled course of proceedings must have great weight. That the characters of witness and judge are not consistent is very obvious ; and though in the common law of England there is no challenge to a judge, yet in the only instance we know where judges were called upon to give evidence in a criminal case (Kelyng's Rep. 12), it is observed that they sat no more during the trial. By a strict and literal construction of the statute of the 22d of Geo. 11., chap. 33, sec. 12, neither the prosecutor nor the prisoner would cease to be judges. But this construction would be absurd, and the act must, from common sense, admit, as the usage is, that officers, to whom there is a just ground of exception, or who have a just ground of excuse, shall not be included in the number of those of whom the court is to be composed; consequently, if any officer, entitled by his rank to sit, is either prosecutor, party, or witness, the person next in seniority must supply his place, and the court, so composed, will be legally held according to the intent of the act." Mr. Elton, who came to England in the Hastings, was removed to London, on Tuesday last, under charge of an ad miralty messenger, and we much fear that, during the time he was in that ship, he, from impetuosity of temper, greatly committed himself. We mention this merely to account for any want of mercy which the admiralty might have been dis posed, under the circumstances of the case, to have shown towards him ; still his friends, who are powerful (he being a nephew of Sir Abraham Elton, of Clifton), have their re medy, by application to the Lord Chief Justice. Touctt OF BRITISH VALOUR AT THE BATTLE OF VI MEIRA.—The left wing of our regiment, to which I still be longed, had nothing to do but to be spectators of the fight, which took place on the heights of Vimeira. Our situation was on the slope of an eminence ; we saw our people promptly advance against the enemy's masses, which were formed in column, and with which they b o ldly attempted to break the British lines. The attempt was vain, although they were ably assisted by their ordnance and howitzers, from the latter of which we saw the balls rise high in the air, and after des cribing many segments of a circle, they generally fell between our people, who were advancing and ourselves. Dense smoke soon after enveloped the belligerents. It was then we found our situation irksome ; many of our officers, too high spirited to be thus shut out of the glowing scene, actually left us and ran into battle. Those who remained contrived a scheme for the chance of following them. We heard our bugles sound the charge ;we heard, or fancied we heard, the enemy's fire growing stronger, when from the right of us idlers arose die cry, " The colonel is shot !" his lady hearing this rushed through every restraint down the hill, which was an excuse for many of our men to follow in protection.--Memoirs of a Serjeant. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Messrs. J. H. ANDERSON and W.J. HAMMOND Second l'rice, to all parts qf the house, at Nine o'clock. T HIS present. TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist instant THE. SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER. DANCING, by Mons. and Madame Schmidt THE WATERMAN ; and A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. First Price.—Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Gallery, is. Second Price.—Lower Boxes, 2s. 61 ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, Gd• RQYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL MR. COLLINS FOR FOUR NIGHTS Second Appearance this Season of Mr. C. F. MARSHALL. T H IS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist instant. the New Drama, called PAUL CLIFFORD; Or, THE LOST HEIR. Paul Clifford.... Miss Cuthbert will Dance her admired French Hornpipe To which will be added, the Interlude, called THE NERVOUS MAN AND THE MAN OF NERVE Mr. M`Shane Mr. R. M. Raymond. To conclude with the celebrated Extravaganza, entitled NORMA. Norma.... Mr. C. F. Marshall I Adelgisa.... Mr. Higgie. Pollio Mr. R. M. Raymond. Places for the Boxes may be had of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box-office. from Eleven till Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. (to which the number will be limited.) Second Price :—Boxes, 2s. ; Pit. Is. Doors to be open at Half-past Six ; Peeformances to begin at Seven. Second Price at Half-past Eight. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr..Egerlon, Sole Lessee. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist February, and during the Week, the Performance will commence with the Spectacle, entitled N\ ARS OF OLIVER CROININVELL ; Or, .ENGLAND'S _MONARCH and the ROYAL OAK. Charles the Second.;.. Mr. W: D. Broadfoot. Cromwell Cockle Mr. H. Beverly. Alice Lee Mrs. Nunn To be followed by an entire Change of DUCROW'S SCENES OF THE - CIRCLE ! To conclude with a Comic Equestrian Pantomime, entitled THE WITCH AND THE WHITE HORSE; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE OLD WOMAN OF BANBURY CROSS. For Characters and detail, see bills Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on ap plication to Mr. F. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from Eleven until Three o'clock. Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'clock :—Centre Dress Boxes. 25.; Side Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit. Is.; Lower Gallery, 6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price will be taken for Children under Twelve years of age to the Boxes only. Dorss to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance to commence at Seven o'clock precisely. TO CORRESPONDENTS In the letter of " Baptistes," in last Friday's STANDARD, a slight error occurs. " Queen of Heaven," ought to have been " Queen of Angels." We may take this opportunity of inquiring whether our intelligent correspondent has seen the reply of Dr. Youens, in yesterday's Albion. We are requested to contradict the marriage, inserted in our last, between Mr. E. Halfpenny and Miss M. E. Jones. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE AND STATIONERY ESTABLISHMENT, 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT. ' LACE & ADDISON beg leave to intimate to their Friends and the Public, that every description of MERCANTILE LETTERPRESS AND LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING Is neatly and expeditiously executed at their establishment, and that they have always on band an extensive Stock of STATIONERY FOR EXPORTATION AND GENERAL PURPOSES Proceedings of Public Meetings, &c., Reported and Printed at the shortest possible notice. BOOKWORK, POSTING Sc HAND BILLS, CARDS, &c ACCOUNT BOOKS Made on the most approved principle. BANKRUPTCY and other LAW FORMS. Afew Copies of RYALL'S CONSERVATIVE PORTRAITS on hand. ?Ltbtrpoot cfPtanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1842 The gratifying unanimity which prevailed at the anauting, haia flatalao-ilptm !bo nantl j csta to be brought forward by the . ConservatiVe party at the approaching election, furnishes a sufficient reply to the chuckling of the now powerless Whig faction over the alleged divisions of opinion existing amongst the Conservatives of Liverpool. We can now tell our opponents proudly that we are no broken, disorganised, spiritless host. We have no difference—and - we have had no difference—of opinion with respect to the illus trious individual who is selected to fight our battle. The merchants, the tradesmen, and the operatives of this loyal borough will rally, in one united phalanx, and in resistless strength, beneath the banner of Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS; and they laugh at the feeble efforts of their prostrate opponents to create division in their ranks, or to damp the enthusiasm with which they are prepared to struggle for the cause of their country and her venerated institutions—to add another to the long list of triumphs which they have already achieved in behalf of the monarchy, the church, and the liberties of this great nation. To the gallant candidate himself so unanimous a display of enthusiastic feeling in his behalf cannot fail to be flattering, as it is most honourable to the Con servatives of Liverpool. The long array of influential names which were present at this meeting, to record their approval of Sir Howard's claimS and fitness, is in itself sufficient to stamp that gallant officer as al ready the chosen of all that is loyal and Conservative amongst us. Our fellow-townsmen have shown that they are not the unstable and fickle beings who will turn their backs to-day upon. the recorded opinions of yesterday. " TRUSTY AND TRUE," the appropriate motto of one of the Douglas race, might now, with equal propriety be emblazon ed upon the banner of the Conservative electors of I:am-pool ; and we do not he sitate to assure the gallant Sir Howard, and the oppo nents of his claims on the present occasion, that he and they will find no flinching in the coming contest ; but that the entire Conserv.2tisin of the borough will be found in readiness on the day of trial to place in overwhelming strength uponithe poll the champion of its choice. With respect to the qualifications of Sir Howard Douglas for the important position which he is called upon to occupy, we need not enlarge. They are well known amongst us, and throughout the empire. To those of our opponents, however, who object to him as not being, though well versed in the theory of com merce—though acquainted with all our commercial re lations with other countries, and possessing a long experience of the wants and working of the trade of our colonial empirehimself a commercial man, we would recommend a perusal of the admirable address of Mr. Samuel Holme, which will be fOund reported at length in another column. Let the gentlemen in question look in that mirror for a correct reflection of their amazing inconsistency ;—let them glance through the long list of non-commercial candidates, in whose lauda tion they have yelped in chorus in years gone by —at the number of the illustrious obscure, consisting of horse-racing Lords, second-rate speechifiers and •brief less barristers, in just proportions, for whom they have shouted and agitated,—and we do think that on the score of modesty and decency alone, if from no other consideration, it would become our sapient friends of the Whig-Radical camp to be discreetly silent. Creep into a walnut-shell, good gentlemen, and rant no more ! To the 103 al Protestant Operatives of Liverpool, whose presence at this meeting contributed materially to the pleasing and proud picture of Conservative strength which it presented, we must express our sin cere congratulations. In the gallant candidate, whose cause is now in their hands, they have a sincere church man and an unflinching Protestant,—one who will not surrender one stone of our national establishment, or one tittle of our national faith, to the hand of the de stroyer. He has already proved himself the ardent friend of scriptural education for the children of all classes of the population of Great Britain and her colonies; and to his firmness, his honesty, and his un swerving sincerity, our Protestant fellow-townsmen may look up with confidence for a zealous advocacy in the House of Commons, and with the Government itself, of sound scriptural principles as the leading fea tures of any system of education which may be nro vided for the people at the national cost. Upon this point we recommend to the perusal of our readers the address of Sir Howard on the first occasion of his coming forward for Liverpool, which was read at the meeting by James Aspinall, Esq., and will be found in our columns. From the principles there expressed we are satisfied the gallant officer will not recede. That Sir Howard has not before this, according to our anticipations, appeared personally amongst U were informed by the chairman of the meeting, Sir Thomas Brancker, is to he attributed only to pressing engagements of a public nature, which have hitherto detained him in London. The requisition, however, which will this day be presented to him, will, we have no doubt, at once bring him amongst us; and in the mean time need we call upon the Conservative electors to be up and doing ? At this moment we are not aware whether the enemy has any intention of entering upon so hopeless a speculation as would he a contest for Liverpool. Our Conservative fellow -townsmen, however, must not trust too far to the seeming quies cence of so shifty a set; and we call upon them, there fore, to unfurl their banner, to rally round it in all their strength, and to be prepared to strike home at the first summons of our war-cry—" A DOUGLAS ! A DOUGLAS !" So brief a period has Low to elapse before the open ing of parliament will throw a full light upon the question, that it is scarcely worth while to enter into an inquiry as to the probable measures or the general policy of the government of Sir Robert Peel. It may be useful, however, in order to enable us to estimate the vast extent of responsibility which attaches at the present moment to the right honourable baronet and his colleagues, to glance briefly at the disastrous state of things which they have to encounter, and for which the country, distracted by the variety of nostrums which are eagerly pressed upon its acceptance, looks up in patient and confiding hope to their sterling ho nesty, their admitted talent, and their energetic deter mination to provide a remedy. In whatever direction we turn ourselves, there is most assuredly nothing in the prospect to render a statesman enamoured of the task before him. On every side are difficulties, vast, complicated, and im minent. Abroad and at home, in our colonies, in our commercial relations, in our financial and in our social system, we see only derangement and impending dan ger. From without we are compelled, by numberless entanglements, to keep up to their full extent our na val and military establishments ; whilst, at home, we have a deficient revenue, the public debt accumulating upon the shoulders of the people, commerce enfeebled and shaken with disaster upon disaster, industry laid prostrate, and famine and misery crowding our streets with pallid and sinking victims. Bankruptcy and ruin have compassed the length and breadth of the land, and have struck down, and are even now striking down, their thousands of our once wealthy and thriv ing classes ; whilst poverty, dogging their path, knocks at the door of the miserable hovel of the labourer, and drags the blanket from the bed and the bread from the lips of his shivering children. The whole fabric of our past prosperity. is shaken to its base; and Eng land—once " merry England"—like one whom a burn ing fever has racked to the verge of the grave, lies powerless, bloodless, and exhausted, where she stood so lately in her pride of healthful vigour. _ . To such a state has ten years of Whig legislation reduced this once happy and flourishing empire. At the present hour we cannot lay our hand upon one branch of industry—we cannot point to one class of our population—and say, " Here is no canker-worm, no decay, no disease !" There is not in Great Britain a city or a valley, a mansion, a farm stead, or a hut, to which suffering, more or less intense, has not penetrated. The mechanic, the agriculturist, the manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, and the humble labourer alike languish under the blight which presuming incapacity has brought over their homes and their hopes ; and even CAPITAL itself—the vampire which has lain so long at the fountain of our national industry and absorbed the waters which a bountiful Providence intended should irrigate and fertilize equally the fair face of society— which has been wont to feed upon toil-worn frames and wasted limbs—to blanch the cheek of youth and to paralize the despairing efforts of age—has sunk be neath the giant pressure of the times, unable to pursue further its career of exaction, and compelled even to disgorge a putdon . vf Its uau►iuua act:m - 11111460ne. From one extremity to the other we can travel now through this once smiling land, and exclaim, with per fect truth, that " all is barren"—all is present or inci pient desolation. . . To the correction of such a mass of social disease and suffering the government of Sir Robert Peel must at once address itself ; and it will readily be admitted that a task more herculean was scarcely ever presented to any statesman. That the right honourable baronet is deeply convinced of the momentous responsibility which is imposed upon him we know; and it must be gratifying, as it is flattering, to him to notice, that not all the efforts of the faction, whose dishonest legisla tion has produced the disease, have been able to shake the nation's confidence in his ability and his honest en deavours to effect its cure. The people of Great Bri tain look indeed for no miracles at his hands—for no sudden restoration from a state of suffering and ex haustion to one of health and vigour. They anticipate no resort to legerdemain in his mode of cure. They wish for no merely temporary, hand-to-mouth legisla tion—no mere skinning of the wound ; but are con tent even to endure the probe and the cautery, in the hope of at length arriving at a complete and a perma nent prosperity. We certainly do not anticipate that the government of Sir Robert Peel will attempt to effect this, by taking up the wild and crude theories put forth, in their last clutching hours of official life, by the faction which preceded him, in 'power, however loudly their admirers may proclaim their drenches •and stimulants to be the only effectual restoratives. The wise, physician will not, we think, adopt the kill-or-cure practice of the quack,who has just been kicked from the bedside of his exhausted and abused patient. We look for no measures of free trade in corn, in timber, or in sugar, at his hands; but we do look for liberal commercial le gislation, for the healthy developement of the national industry, and for the protection of that industry—(call such protection " monopoly " or what you like) — from every encroachment, from within or from without. Sir Robert Peel, we know, will carry out to their just and wise extent, and no .further, the principles of " Free Trade ;" and we can easily afford, even with the prospect of an election before us, to laugh at the pre sumption of the incapable faction which, having caught up in their fall the mere words, without the substance, of commercial liberality, are content to repeat them as a shibboleth which, of itself, establishes their exclusive claim to legislate for a commercial people. 'We look with perfect confidence for many important ameliorations in our commercial system from Sir Ro bert Peel—for many relaxations of the stringency of our present tariff; but those relaxations, we know, will be conceded temperately and upon grounds only of justice and wise policy, and will be such as are calcu lated to diffuse their benefits universally, and not to be absorbed by the manufacturing capitalist and the scheming speculator. The people of England, amidst all their sufferings, f6el this confidence; and they can not forget that, notwithstanding all their present cla mour for free trade, the liberal faction, when in office, and with a powerful majority at their back, made no efforts to attain it; and they suspect, moreover, that that clamour was only at length resorted to when its parrot-like and senseless iteration was all that was left them to hide their absolute dearth of practicable and definite measures. That these are the feelings and opinions of the com mercial constituency of Liverpool we confidently be lieve; and that they will give expression to them by returning, as their representative, a gentleman prepared to support the government of the right honourable baronet against all the mere chattering by which it will be opposed. Let the local faction, whose ceaseless prate is of " monopoly" and " restrictions," bring forward, if they dare, one of their most shining lights to contest the representation of Liverpool with Sir Howard Douglas, and the electors will point to the bankruptcies, the poverty, the crimes which Whig le gislation has brought down upon Great Britain ; they will point to the mass of suffering and wretchedness which is around them, as the realization of the abun dant promises of the past ten years of. "liberal" rule— and laugh to scorn the attempt once more to palm upon their credulity mere chattering incapacity for statesmanlike ability—a senseless parrot for th e bi r d of Jove. We are not at any time admirers of the practice of resorting to a bazaar, or any similar tawdry exhibition, for the purpose of raising money either for a public or a private object. There is something un-English and almost revolting in the contemplation of respectable matrons or misses, tricked out in smiles, and exerting in public those blandishments and powers of persua sion which are so irresistible when exercised within the private circle of their own homes, to entice staring► and vulgar loungers to purchase worthless toys ; and although we may endure such a breach of the proprie ties of society and of the sex, when the act is sanctified by a charitable motive, we can view it only with the deepest disgust when it is prompted by unprincipled selfishness and sordid avarice. With such a feeling we cannot but confess that we have noticed the exhibition of female Liberalism which was opened yesterday in the Theatre-Royal, Manches- ter, under the title of the " Grand National Anti- Corn-Law Bazaar." We could have tolerated this display of the wives and daughters of the League-men of that town with some degree of patience, had the object been to raise a fund for the purposes of bene volence ; had it been proposed out of the funds re alised to relieve the mass of poverty and wretchedness which may be found at the very doors of the fair ex hibitors. But we cannot extend our forbearance to such a degradation of the se; when the object is merely to save the pockets of their husbands and fa thers—to swell the funds of the Anti-Corn-Law League—and to enable its itinerant mountebanks and spouters, its Aclands and Smiths; to go on in their work of delusion and fraud, without the necessity of dipping into the purses of the Cobdens and Potters who seek to profit by their agitation. It is an inde cency of which men of correct taste and principle would not have been guilty, to have drawn forth from the privacy which best becomes every female, and an Errglish female especially, these, no doubt, estimable in'l amiable ladies, to mingle in the field of political strife, and to be ogled indiscriminately by every puppy who has a shilling in his pocket to purchase a nic-nac of their fair handiwork. With this feeling we are confident that nine-tenths of the gentlemen and ladies of Manchester will view the proceedings of this Grand National Anti-Corn-Law Bazaar ;, and that the shame less and selfish beings themselves, for whose factious objects the profanation has been practised, will incur the well-merited contempt of every right-thinking man throughout the empire. We blame not the ladies themselves who have figured in this affair, however much we. may deprecate the party and political spirit which has led them to allow themselves to be put forward thus publicly upon such an occasion. We blame the men of Manchester—the " Leaguers"—whose avarice and meanness could in duce them to degrade the amiable ornaments of their firesides to the level of the Jew clotheswomen of Rag Fair, or the slopsellers of Cranbourne-alley. Verily they are a scurvy set, these men of the League ! Where is Sir Joshua Walmsley ? Pray good, kind, Whig-Radical gentlemen, do resolve for us this im portant question ; for your press, we lament to say, is most mysteriously silent upon the subject. Or if the worthy knight is not willing to come forward to redeem his pledge—if his purse is hermetically sealed, and his name is no more to lead on your forlorn hope to the breach, do tell us upon what superlative genius his mantle has fallen; who wields his abandoned rod and reigns in his stead. You are silent, all—muzzled and mute—dumb as dormice—dead beat! You are a lost faction ; and we pity you most sincerely. We did hope, indeed, from the swaggering tone of your oracles, one and all, that some astonishing speci men of Liberalism would have been found to titillate you into life in your last extremity. There was a mys teriously mischievous Meaning in the countenance of more than one of the elite of Whig-Radicalism whom we met yesterday in our peregrinations; and we have listened anxiously for the tocsin to be sounded in be half of some of the fraternity ; but, as yet, we have list ened in vain. Liberalism has no stomach for such a fight as we could promise its followers, It flies no longer at noble game; but hawks at dung-hill birds, and silly sparrows—is content now to squabble in the council, scribble in the corner of obscure journals, and speechify fn pot-house gatherings; but it dare not " meet us at Philippi." Do, gentlemen—do, good, kind Radicals,--let us have a fight for fun's sake, and to keep our hands in ! Bring forward WM. RATIIBONE, WM. EARLS,--any body; don't, pray don't go out like a spent rushlight, or a farthing dip ; but allow us to extinguish you, or turn you up in the socket, and then you may die de cently. We congratulate the Conservative electors of Dub lin upon the crowning victory which they have won for the cause of loyalty and constitutional principles. The truculent beggerman may now gather up his wal let and hide his beaten head in the fastnesses of Derry nane ; for Dublin—Conservative Dublin—will neither brook himself nor his nominee as its representative. So near as we can at present ascertain, the numbers at the close of the polling on Saturday evening were— For GREGORY For Morpeth • 3301 Majority for Conservatism 399 ! ! ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF THE DOCK COM MITTEE, IN THE PLACE OF MR. CIIAPMAN. The election of a member of the Dock Committee, in the place of Mr. Chapman, who resigned for the reasons stated in his letter published in the Standard of Friday week, took place yesterday in the Dock-office, Revenue-buildings. This election was regarded with considerable interest, as the libe rals, although the ground on which Mr. Chapman resigned was non-political, brought forward Mr. Robert Been, the late chairman of the Dock Committee, partly from his liberal principles, and partly from his experience in dock affairs. The conservatives brought forward Mr. Thomas Bold, of the firm of Mesrs. Bold and Starkey, and as Mr. Chapman declined being put in nomination, the contest lay between Mr.. Beni and Mr. Bold. The polling commenced at one o'clock before the Mayor, and was - continued with con siderable animation till four o'clock, when it closed, the numbers being— For Mr. Bold For Mr. Benn Majority for Mr. Bold STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c, Our market for cotton during the past week has slightly declined i❑ price, although we can report an improved feeling on the part of the buyers, some of whom have made large purchases in anticipation of a speedy improvement in the trade generally. The sales yesterday amounted to 4900 bags, with no change worthy of noticing. The market for manufactured goods continues without animation, and prices are it shade easier. We have not heard of any extensive orders by the last arrival from the United States ; and little is yet doing for the continental markets. The opinion still gains strength that the government of Sir Robert Peel will bring forward, on the opening of Par liament, some important commercial measures, the probable effect of which will be a restoration of the confidence of ma nufacturers generally, and a more healthy feeling in the market. We trust that this expectation will be realized ; but the manufacturing interest must unshackle themselves from the thrall of the blatant members of the Anti-Corn- Law League if they wish to reap the full benefit of such a change. A cessation from commercial agitation is quite as much wanted as any legislative measures to give a tone of confidence to the market for their goods. Two or three extensive failures have been spoken of as having occurred in London this week. The engagements of one house, that of Messrs. Hunter, Gouger and Co., are said to amount to £70,000; and their stoppage, having arisen from nu imprudence of their own, but from the failure of some of their correspondents in India, has excited general regret. The other cases mentioned are of less importance ; and it is thought that the difficulties of one of them are only temporary and will be surmounted. CowsioNs ON THE RIVER. —On Thursday , at the Po lice-court, the captain of the Seacombe steamer Alice, summ oned by the ow ners o f th e Ennishoweti, gO E em w °p as t boat, for damage done to that vesse l b y the formerntne 4th of the present month. Mr. John Martin, master of the Ennishowen, stated that lie was coming up the river on the afternoon in question, when the Mice attempted to cross the eaiof clear bows of his vessel. At that time a l arge steam-boat was going to sea, and the Alice, tin e c r lit s l t g ero th . at T sh h e e couldcaptain e not the the steamer, put her helm up and run unde r th e b ows of the j E u n ie n e islw• Ennishowen, admitted ca t r h r e adyildegaiwngly he r of the case, but said that the Ennishowen had run into Ills vessel. The testimony of Martin, however, was supported by a gentleman named Bu chanan, who was on board the Egremont boat at the time, and Mr. Rushton directed an order to be made out against the owners of the Alice, for the damage done to the other vessel. Captain M`Fie, of the Christina M'lslab, was also summoned for having on the 18th carried away, by runn i ng _ foul of her, the mast of the Ennishowen, whereby damage to the amo unt of two guineas was sustained. The facts were admited, and the defendant was ordered to pay the amount. In both cases the costs of the repairs to be subjected to the ap proval of the Harbour-master, Mr. Askew, who attended m to assist .1 r. Rushton in the decision of the case. CH the v and t of th ing o happ: colur with verti: STAL and the Frid was thro anyt You riste to el tion alter Pro' and stati Tin, ~ 0 " lo " sh su6 of t Yes: bea ove and hay five shit