The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Mr. HARLEY. of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane, is engaged for a Fortnight, and will make his fifth appearance here these two years This Evening. Third Week of Mr. F. VINING. THIS present FRIDAY . EVENING , the 31st instant, will be performed Colman's celebrated Comedy of THE POOR GENTLEMAN. Doctor 011apod Mr. Harley. Frederick Bramble Sir Robert Bramble Mr. Baker; Sir Ch ar l es C rop l an d, Mr. W. H. Bl an d ; L ieutenant: Worthington, Mr. Stuart; Stephen Harrowby, Mr. Slaiter; Corporal Foss, Mr. Gray; Emily Worthington, Miss Faucit; Miss Lucretia Mac Tab, Mrs. Clarke ; Mary, Mrs. 'Pellet. To conclude with the favourite Drama of ENGLISHMEN IN INDIA. Tom Tape.. (his ori g in a l c h arac t er ) ..M r . H ar l ey. Sir Matthew Scraggs, Mr. Baker ; Count Glorieux, Mr. Chaplin ; Colonel o , wald, Mr. W. Howard; Dorrington, Mr. G. Horucastle; Lady Seraggs. Mrs. Clarke; Mi ss S a lly Scraggs, Mr s . T e ll e t ; Guluare, Aliss Faucit. TO-MORROW, the Comedy of SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Billy Lackaday, Mr. Harley; The Ad- Miral, Mr. Granby; Charles, Mr. W. Howard; Sandford, Mr. G. Horacastle ; Eugenia, Miss Cleaver;- Laura, Miss Grant; Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Clarke; Susan, Mrs. Tellet.—After Which, the Interlude of THE INNKEEPER'S BRIDE. Tom, Mr. Harley; Rambleton, Mr. W . , - Howard ; Varnish, Mr. W. H. Bland; Ellen, Mrs. 'Pellet.—To —To conclude with the Melo-Drama of THE MILLER'S MAID. Matty Marvellous, Mr. Harley; George, Mr. W. Howard; Giles, Mr. Slaiter ; Phmbe, Miss . Cleaver. On MONDAY next, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. CLARKE Acting Manager, the Comedy o f THE PRO VOKED HUSBAND; the petit.Drama of A LOAN OF tL A OVER ; and the Farce of HIGH LIFE BELOW ir li t 8; in whicla the f o llowi ng M etropo lit an P er f ormers nkt, sustain principal characters :—Mr. and Miss VAN- Ai r OFF, positively their last appearance this season ; Mr . A H LEY (the second week of his engagement ;) men . and Mrs. KEELEY, who will commence an engage t n f Ten Nights on the above Evening; and Mr. F. VINING. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The concluding lecture of Dr. Grant's course upon the struc ture and histo r y of the articulated classes of animals shall appear in our next. Ein lubcupool FRIDA I" MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1838. The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 5 o'clock. FATAL EFFECTS OF SUPERSTITION AND IGNORANCE IN IRELAND.—The LIVERPOOL STANDARD of Tuesday last contained a hideous and revolting narrativ e of cruelty and murder, committed by one of those foul and filthy vagabonds—those base and unprincipled im postors—which infest and prowl through Ireland un der the name and mask of "monks." As.a deed of cold-blooded atrocity, when perpetrated in Ireland, it Is neither a novelty nor a wonder ; for, unhappily for that wretched country, such acts of iron-handed bar barity, such desperate malignity of heart and pur pose, are of too frequent, and even ordinary occur rence, to require any other comment than the indig nant reprobation which every member of society must utter at the fierce infraction of its laws, though, as in the case with the sister isle, that reprobation will fall powerless and ineffective upon the habitual defiers and outragers of every social and moral obligation. It is, therefore, that looking upon the murder of the inno cent and helpless infant by the monster Carmelite, even horrified as we may be at the slow and lingering process of brutality and starvation by which his end was accomplished, still, as an isolated act of blood guiltiness and ferocity,committed in a land which reeks from one end to the other with the same dark and in effaceable stains, it is not perhaps (politically speak ing) entitled to a tithe of the notice we have already given to it. But there is a consideration which takes this act of murder out of the mass of similar enormities, and places it before our eyes in a distinct and separatecha racter. There are reflections which, while they de stroy its idAntity with the system of terror and vio lence for centuries the only distinguishing qtialities of our Irish fellow -subjects, give to it a hue and colour ing of depravity that deepens in shadow and intensity the more they loom before the shuddering gaze. They are these :—The act of the monk Garrick is only a part and parcel of the system of monkish trickery practised upon the credulity of an ignorant and be nighted population—it is only one of the many fatal effects of that dark and perilous superstition in which the wild and exciteable fancies of a mercurial nation are enwrapped, and which has in this, as in every other exampl e of the kind, brought them blind and wondering to thefeet of their spiritual tyrants, either the partici pators of their guilt or the victims of their perfidy. It is true that the act is, i n th e wor d s o f mo d ern t i mes, without parallel or precedent--that is, undiscovered and unconvicted. It is true that the statement of a hypocritical pretender to sanctity, trading upon the lives and auff't-rings of deserted orphans, and earning a criminal as well us a polluted livelihood by a phara saical affectation of tenderness and duty, only for the purpose of indulging the cravings of a ruffian spirit In its hunger after cruelty and torture, is as novel as it is startling. It may, perhaps, seem almost conjec tural to many, that a wretch could be found so kith and, kindred to " the son of perdition" as thus to set up a busier's depository for the rejected portions of outcast humanity, and without the avarice to make them a barter of blood, to keep them as the morsels of his own savage enjoyment. Ave, and it will seem stranger far than even this, that his den of infamy should be found in the very heart of a populous city, and that the victims of his murderous propensity should be voluntarily supplied by the individuals who should most shudder at even an allusion to wanton and cause less atrocities. But whatever may have been the feelings With which the Mil icting narrative may have been perused by those unacquainted with the moral and religious degradation of the people of Ireland, to those who are painfully familiar with the aspect of their spiritual debasement, and.who bitterly know how low and helplessly they are wallowing in the mire of ignorance, superstition, and immoral dependency upon-the perverted knowledge of their priests, can find in it nothing calculated either to elicits their scepticism or surprise. Any man who has seen the miserable and demoralising, thraldom in which the surpliced i m p ostors o f P opery have prostrated the t he faculties of every follower of that dark and Pri lcus cr ee d ; every one who has pre ce i ve d tire work it of t h at system of jugglery and craft w hi c h h as f or 118 nil lect th e h oo d w i n ki ng of t h e reason and the judg °- b r le , n i t ' but to g i ve libe,rty to the fancy, the prejudice, t , l e Pas s i on; and every one who has seen how the e ( i hi rtte of reve l ation and inspired knowledge has been b°lsed and sealed u p f rom t h e i nqu i ry o f t h e great " the people., and instead thereof, their- minds 1 'e("vith every monstrous and i m p ro b a bl e t ra diti on , "er Y wild and imaginative fiction—every seductive R" Plausible theory which prepare the willing and 5 dup es for the successful imposition of any fraud ne w --any act of p o li t i cal or religious swindling ;—every ° ti ho h as had this experience can at once see into he very causes whi c h fi rst prompte d t h e monster i n wl t1) , an shape t o hi s course of diabolical dece p tion, and Chch made the unfortunate inhabitants u od thercad ministers to his coarse yet hellish ex pe th di o his neigh ent. C an it be for one moment supposed, that if there. .Yti.lse i er e „„ ie Wrid and genuine .prin c iple of religion in t on - ri ' n "s of th e people; if they had been at all accuts , had b`en 1° the' exercise orPrivate judgment, and if they n eac-ly taught to adjudicate, in matters of reli gt°n "tvven the unauthorised assertions of - indivi s and the authority of holy-writ, that any vulgar c ou ld ildignorant impostor,Tlike the murderer Garrick, pa er to tend hate established himself amongst them as a pre sanctity and devotion, and incline them to th ""r i t° his appetites of avarice and cruelty under mae me.ancholy belief that they were ministering, to a 0,2.,, God ? We will doubtless be told, in reply, of ill God of th/.. maniac Thom,. and those who uld take upon themselves the honourable task of dapologists for the ignorance and subserviency of the eluded Irish will say, that the instance of so many ; b n .c )ming the f anat i c disciples of that raving madman, (rdbibte readi ng and free jud g i ns country like Fmg . is a moie than g, a counter-balan c i ng exam pl e to 14t the blind e d and superstitious dupes of the blood stained monk. But here we have the infidels oho r it the bin. It is to guard against this hazard of fanaticism —it is to oppose a barrier to the .progress of schismatical inquiry and incipient heresy, that the scriptures are surreptitiously withheld from the body !of the Irish people, and only explained to them accord rig to the caprice or the policy of the priest. Hence it is to be, concluded, that the acts of the unlearned and uninitiated are traceable to the craft of their teach er4'and that the vices and the delusions of the unre "cting and the unthinking, ar e t o b e inscribed on the eshold s of those who prohibited them from the exer cise' of the orie,"and denied them the o the indul gence of the other attribute, pportunity fo r Arguing. upon these premises we come to consider the crime of the Monk Garrick in its true and per chance profitable light. In the first place it is a strong palpable evidence - of the state of moral .and religious prostitution in which the Catholic population of Ire ' land is at this moment steeped. It shows how fatally, hoW deplorably ignorant they are of those. very rea soning faculties which distinguish even the cautious and wary savage; and how blind and groping they wander on the path, both of this world and the next, unsuspicious of the thousand perils and difficulties which beset their unguarded footsteps. In the second place, it exhibits the fatal facility .which their igno rance and enthusiasm gives to every impostor, politi cal and religious, for converting them into the tools of his avarice and guilt; and that no matter how mon strous the notion they are to swallow,—no matter how repulsive to their innate sense of decency and pro priety, so it comes gilded to them from the laboratory of priest-craft, and is administered, to ttem by some subtle rogue and knave, with the cowl of a Monk and the leer of a Jesuit, and they are ready to gape wide at his bidding, and do their best to gulp down the nostrum. In the third and last place it is a melan choly proof of the mischievous and truly perilous de rangement in which the frame of society must be in Ireland. Trust the fact before you Englishmen. Millions of people whose religious opinions are of such a nature as we have been describing cannot be safe and secure fellow subjects. There must be, and there is, lurking treason, sedition, and disaffection. There must be, and there are, the germs of anti-En glish, anti-protestant prejudice growing up and ma turing under the fostering hand of those monastic gardiners. And above all, there must, and there will be, some stronger and more alarming proofs . of the . doings 'of the clerical impostors of Ireland than the blood-stained tragedy before us. THE UNITED STATES.—BV the packet-ship Inde pendence, Captain Nye, which arrived here yesterday, we have received :Yew York Papers to the 7th instant inclusive. We subjoin the most important extracts : (From the New York Courier and Enquirer of August 6.) ARRIVAL OF TFIE GREAT WESTERN. SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND. By the arrival of the steam-ship Great Western, Captain James Hoskin, we are placed in possession of London and Liverpool dates to the 20th July, and Bristol of the 21st. The Great Western sailed from Kingsroad, Bristol Chan nel, at 8 o'clock, p .m., on the evening of the 21st of July, and arrived this morning at 8 o'clock, a.m.,—thus accom plishing, her third voyage from Bristol to New York in 14 days and 12 hours, notwithstanging her having experienced more rough weather than on any former occasion. She brings out one hundred and thirty cabin passengers, and a 101 l cargo of freight;—among the passengers we notice the names of Mr. Power, the - justly popular comedian; Mr. and Mrs. Mathews, (late Madame Vestris,) and Mr. Maywood, the manager of the Philadelphia Theatre. BERMUDA.—The British brig Queen Victoria, arrived yesterday from Bermuda. By a paper published there on the 28th, we learn the arrival there of the Canadian exiles from Quebec in H. M. ship Vestal. They are admitted on -their parole of honour to a residence in the main island, and will experience up interruption in their excursions to any part of it. THE GREAT WESTERN. (From the New York Courier, of the 7th instant.) This noble ship is once more in our harbour; and if there existed any sceptics as to the entire success of the great ex periment to navigate the Atlantic with steam, the regularity with which she has made her five passages to and from New York and Bristol. cannot fail to carry conviction to their minds that ali doubts iu relation to this great undertaking should at once be discaided. We have been permitted to copy from her log the following full particulars of her last voyage; and we believe we may with safety assert, that for four days in succession, she en countered rougher weather than is usual at this season of the year. During this period of successive gales of wind, with a heavy sea, au admirable opportunity was afforded iirf testing her qualities as a sea b oa t ; an d never did a vessel Live greater satisfaction, or elicit greater admiration from thoze on board of her than did this noble ship. And uow that foreign capital has thus tested the great su periority of steam in navigating the Atlantic - , we confidently expect that our enterprising merchants will at once make ar rangements to secure to our city the same superiority in steam ships that we have heretofore exhibited in our unequalled sailing packets. • co co Ns tsD tc, s f= •'• ••C• ' • cr c- c- • • cr" • • • -•• cr • • cn • • • c p cr • cnci: • 4,•;••• •w • 4.t.v..41.• ••• - 41.- •- • • • ccci:H.4 CocWn - .WMWwcpc:.;cos. r. R-.lq;cPc),Wweob:to v7' 0 • *2 Cn' • ~.• • z • ZZtt • • Z• :1 ;4 1 " ,•. • . .• • • (r 'v•• • ' F- En • • • it . • •• • • 6 ;I; a a - • C. +a C a co g • •=-• cr; C (C rD • =rg u O. CD C••• Ca 0 • et+ .1. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. MONDAY, AUGUST 6—Six P.M.—The effect of the news per Great 'Western seems, on the whole, to have depressed the markets. The resumption by the Southern banks depends so much on the maintenance of the price of cotton in Eng land, that the slightest indication of a fall in rates there tends to check the movements of financial men. It is true that the stock on hand is at this time very large in England, but the quantity of capital seeking employment is so great that a stimulus must be given thereby to the manufacturing districts, which will support the price of the raw material. This, in the event that the grain crops shall turn out as abundant as it is now hoped will be the case; but should this expectation fail, as in 1828, when the crops proved so deficient as to turn foreign exchange partially against England, in consequence of the quantity of bullion required on the continent, for the purchase of grain for that country, un contrivance on the part of holders can bolster up the staple in the face of the new crop, the season for which is rapidly approaching. We have, moreover, seen private letters from individuals of goad standing, which give but a gloomy prospect for the cotton market, from the rivalry which is said to exist between the great holders—for instance, if there appears a little inquiry in the market, and the United States Bank comes forward as a seller at a certain price, sonic other holder supplies the de mand at a less rate, and so vice versa this grows out of their anxiety to dispose of the mass on hand as early as it can be done safely. Domestic exchange remains nearly as last quo ted. A scarcity of Eastern funds exists in the city. At New Orleans on the 28th, -sight checks on New York were at 51 to 61, 60 days 31 to 41. At Augusta, Ga., on the 30th, sight checks on New York were at 6 per cent. United States Bank notes were very scarce. The number of Michigan banks under the General Banking Association is 42, com prising a capital of 3,200,000. We understand Col. J. S. C. Wilkins, and Judge E. C. Wilkinson, commissioners for the sale of the • Mississippi State bonds, 15,500,000 dollars, arrived in the city yesterday. These bonds are among the best of our state securities, and will undoubtedly command a good sale in the market. The average time of their redemption is 15 years. bearing an interest of 5 per cent., upon the resumption of the state banks, and a purifying of the currency. These securities will be greatly in demand with the London capitalists. The business at the Stock Exchange has been to-day rather • limited Compared with some of the latter (lays of last week, and prices, which opened heavy, at the close were very firm, and in some instances at an advance on the sales of Satur day. Morris Canal rose 11- per cent., Paterson and Stoning ton 21 per cent.; in most instances a falling off from the last sales was visible. • :United States Bank declined 1 per cent., Am. L. and T. 1 per cent., Kentucky per cent., Vicksburg 1 per cent., N. j.. 11. It a per cent., Utica 1 per cent. New ORIKANS, JULY 27.—Cotton.—The transactions of the week amount to - about. 6,000 bales, which is very large considering the quantity for sale, which is not now estima ted over 2,000 or 3,000 bales, as most of the receivers are shipping on owners' account. The prices are said to be to per cent. over last week; but we do not change our quota tions. There is very little Louisiana or Mississippi in mar ket; what is on sale consists principally of North Alabama and Tennessee. The exports are 701,210 bales, against 570,674 to the same period last season, making an excess of 130,447 bales. The stock now on hand and on shipboard not cleared, is about 48,000 bales. FREIGHTS—We find no change in rates since last week. There are now 28 ships and barques in port, eleven of which are loading for Liverpool, one Glasgow, three Havre, one Marseilles, one Cowes, one Trieste, one New York, two destination not known, and seven disengaged. Some are asking higher rates, but shippers will not accede to their de mands, as the ships and barques now loading will take at least 20,020 bales of cotton, and 2,000 hogsheads of tobacco, besides what will be taken by smaller vessels. CorroN.—July 28.—Louisiana and - Mississippi choice. 13c.; ditto good fair, 121 c.; fair, 11 to 11ic.; middling, 9 to 10c.; ordinary, 81 to 9c.; Tennersee and Alabama, 7 to 11c. NEW ORLEANS, JULY 29. From Mexico.—The American schooner Mexico, Capt. Crosby, arrived lat 4 night from the coast of Mexico. She was captured by the French fleet off Tuspan, sent to Sacri ficios, and released. She brought bock her whole cargo. We learn from Capt. Crosby that the French are narrowly watching every nook and corner of the Mexican-coast. In Barrowdale, Buttermere, and other parts of Cumber land celebraled for the production of nuts, there is this year an abundant promise of a plentiful crop, provided there be a continuance of sunny weather to ripen them on the bushes. CORRESPONDENCE. THE REV. T. D. GREGG. TO THE EDITOR OIL THE LIVERPOOL ST.IINDARD. Srn,—lt is with 'egret that I learn from this week's Courier, that the originators of a subscription, as a testimony of re spect to the Rev. T. D. Gregg fur his services in the late dis cussion with Father Maguire, have been the " Operative Protestants of Liverpool."' I, for one, was sanguine (and I know that many others were) in my expectations, that some wealthier persons, who have the bulwark of our Constitution, which is the Protestant Church of England at heart, would have, before this, shown their appreciation of the Rev. Mr Gregg's triumphant issue of the recent discussion with that subtle champion and crimson-stained character of the Church of Rome. It is known, that when the controversialists took the field, it was agreed upon, that the doctrines .and practices of the rival churches were to be fully discussed and thoroughly sift ed; but when Father Maguire became aware, that the blas phemous practice of the Mother of Harlots, the confessional, was to be brought to light, and Dons' 'Theology thereto brought under public notice, he, with the subtlety and serenity of the serpent, quietly, in conjunction with his chair man, left the controversy without giving his opponent, the Rev. Mr. Gregg, the satisfaction, or rather without the public satisfaction, of his being an instrument in the hands of God, and with the sword of the Spirit, of triumphing over the scar let whore of Babylon. I am told, and can rely upon the veracity of the statement, that the Rev. Mr. Gregg is, at this' day, the object of attack of the poor deluded peasantry of the Church of Rome, and that the weapons they make use of are those of the stones of the street. Mr. Gregg has written a most pathetic address to his foes concerning this; beginning-with " Dear Enemies;" and can the Protestants of Liverpool, who have the truth at heart, bear of one who has triumphantly, and victoriously placed the truth of Jesus over the damnable heresies spoken of by the Apostle, without giving him some consolation ? Really, Mr. Editor, this subject conveys to my mind the case of Mary at the grave of Lazarus, weeping over her la mented brother, and the Jews, and Jesus himself groaning in the spirit, and all forming, in strains which man cannot suf ficiently express, that sympathetic condolence which ought to subsist among the disciples of Christ. What a lesson does this afford to truth-loving Protestants, when hearing of a poor brother being an object of hatred of the enemies of Christ, and falling a victim to the furiousness of Popish rage! I trust, Sir, that the subject of this note will be meritori ously looked into, and will not be suffered to pass unnoticed by the wealthier Protestants of Liverpool. Believe me ever yours, A PROTESTANT AT HEART. 29th August, 1838. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-1 here send you notes of a speech deliverd by Mr. E. Ratcliffe, on Monday evening last, at the meeting of the Operative Protestants, held in Hackin's-hey School Room. Should be glad if you can spare their a place in your next publication.—Yours, &c., A CHURCHMAN. MEETING OF OPERATIVE PROTESTANTS. SPEECH OF MR. E. RATCLIFFE. At the meeting of Operative Protestants, held on Monday evening last, in the Hackie's-hey School Room, Mr. E. Rat cliffe delivered the following speech : Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, if ever there was a time in the history of our country when Protestants were called upon to be "up and doing," that time is the present. It can not be denied that Popery is progressing, and threatens, ere long, unless checked in its progress, to overflow our native land. She has put on the mask of charity, in order that she may deceivethe unwary; for we have a Popish bishop id Ire land who writes to the Protestants of England, and calls them "beloved fellow christians," at the very time that he is circula ting the atrocious, abominable, and persecuting doctrines, of Dens in Ireland•—(Loud cheers.) And we have iu Our own town a Popish priest, who has sworn to the decrees of the council of Trent, which anathatnatiies you and me as here tics; yet goes up into the pulpit in St. Patrick's Chapel, and says to his audience, "It is a charge -brought against our church that we condemn to everlasting perdition, all who do not belong to our communion. I should blush for myself and for you, my dear friends, if such sentiments could find a place in our hearts. No, we believe that many out of every creed, Protestant, Methodist, and Quaker, will he saved." This was uttered by a man who has sworn to the decrees of the council of Trent, which anathematizes all Protestants as he retics.—(Cheers.) Thus Popery is deceiving the unwary, and snaking progress through the land, building her chapels, founding her nunneries, and establishing her schools. There are, I believe, at the present, 18 nunneries, those dens of ini quity, and about 500 mass houses, those temples of idolatry and superstition, scattered over the lands of once Protestant England, and, unless we arouse ourselves, and raise one uni versal cry of "no popery"—loud cheers)—from east to west, and from north to south, popery will regain the ascendancy, England will again become the slave of Rome, and the idola trous mummeries ofthe papacy, will be substitute for the beau tiful, scriptural, and soul-cheering services of our church.— (Cheers, and loud cries of never, never.) She will never be satisfied with any thing less than the ascendancy, at that she is aiming, and towards that, I am sorry to say, she is advan cing in Ireland. There has been, within the last three mouths, 52 Roman Catholics appointed to places of trust in that un fortunate country, through the influence of O'Connell and his tail.—(Laughter and cheers) But popery finds the Church of England a barrier in her way; for the Church of England has been, and may she long continue to be, the bulwark of Pro testautism.—(Cheers. ) In order, therefore, that she may gain the ascendancy, she will endeavour to sap the foundation of the church.—(Hear, hear.) I know they will not avow this at present, but, indeed, there are some who are beginning to speak out on this subject. I have before me an extract of a letter written by Dr. M'Hale, a Popish bishop, to the Bishop of Exeter, which proves my assertion. In speaking of the 10 suppressed Bishopricks in Ireland, lie says, "It is some con solation. to reflect that the le g i s l a ti ve axe i s l a id to t h e root of the establishment. The pruners of the ecclesiastical vine yard hove not read the Roman history in vain, and already, ten of the lofty plants which poisoned by their narcotic inflU ence, the wholesome vegetation are laid low. This, doubtless, is a prelude to a further and more enlarged process of expur gation. With every successive measure of Reform, existing abuses will be removed until it is to be hoped not a vestige of the mighty nuisance wilt remain." New this is speaking out. He calls the Church of England a" mighty nuisance," and hopes, that ere long "not a vestige of it will remain." Now this is rather a curious document.—(Laughter.) He calls the Railicals "the pruners untie ecclesiastical vineyard," and he speaks of " the legislative axe laid to the root of it." Now, I think, that it would be rather a novel way of pruning a tree, to take an axe and strike at the roots of it.—(Laughter.) Ile speaks also of "reform" and " a process of expurgation." Now these papists are very fond of purgatory, and I have no doubt whatever that Dr. M'Hale would he very glad if the Church of Englund was there undergoing a "proof of ex purgation." (Loud laughter and applause ) And I verily believe, that if the Church. of England was to be in purge tary to-morrow, neither Dr. M`Hale, nor Father Maguire, nor any other popish bishop or priest would come forward to say a single mass to get her out. (Continued laughter and cheers.) Again, he calls the Church of England " a mighty nuisance." Yes, Popery found the Church of England a " mighty" bulwark against her inuovations, and, therefore, she is considered a " mighty nuisance," and l o ng m a y s h e continue to he a mighty nuisance in the estimation of every papist and every revolutionist. (Loud cheers.) But I tell Dr. M`Hate that it is not the Church of England that is the " mighty nuisance," but the Church of Rome. The Church 'of England is a mighty blessing, carrying the waters of life to every corner of our land. - edifying by her heavenly doc trines every spiritual worship far within her happy enclosure, directing the heavy laden sinner to cast his exclusive depend puce for salvation on the sacrifice of Calvary, and cheering the weary pilgrim with the prospect of a glorious immortality beyond the tomb. (Loud cheers.) But the Church of Rome is the " mighty nuisance," keeping her deluded votaries in darkness and superstition, and unless merciful Heaven interferes, she will lead them down to the regions of eternal death—(hear, hear)—yes, I repeat, the Church of Rome is the " mighty nuisance," and I tell you what else she is. I tell you in an acrostic what she is. She is the Prolific source of every woe! Of all the numerous ills that flow: Produced by sin, and nurs'd by hell; Enthroned within thy bosom ,dwell Revenge; and fire and sword attract You, mark thy footsteps to their end ! (Cheers.) Yes, the Church of Rome is the mighty nuisance, for upon her forehead is written, "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth." (Tre mendous entering.) And ere long, " not a vestige of this mighty will remain," for the vengeance of Heaven shall fall upon her, and the cry shall go forth through the length and breadth of the universe, " Babylon the great is fallen, is ,Callen!" (Loud cheers.) But this may not be yet. The Lord may for our lukewarmness and unfaithfulness suffer popery to become predominate in this land. But some may say, we see no danger, no cause for alarm; and if it should be the case, it will not come in our day, therefore we have no reason to be concerned. But, oh! should we not endeavour to preserve inviolate the blessings handed down to us by our forefathers, and cemented with their blood—blessings gained for us by the death of a Ridley and a Latimer, a Cranmer and a Hooper, and transmit them unimpaired to our children, for where is the christian parent that can bear the thought, that perhaps at some future time, when he is gathered unto his fathers, the children whom he loves as 'his own life, may be initiated to bow down before a crucifix, to attend at the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass, or be subjected to the ordeal of the dark confessional. (Loud cheers.) Our duty to our children demands that we should exert ourselves. So does our duty to our country, the land of our nativity—the land that we love—for popery, wherever it conies, brings national calamities in its train. And our duty to our God demands it, for popery dishonours God, by stripping the Saviour of his glory. (Cheers.) And we have a duty to perform to our poor deluded Roman Catholic countrymen. We should do all in our power to bring them out of the darkness of popery into the light of God's eternal. truth—fur they are a benighted and priest ridden people. Look at the Roman Catholics of Ireland, a more enslaved and priest-ridden people are not to be found on the face of the earth. This I can prove front the testimony of the Rev. I. W. Dixon, for merly a Roman Catholic priest, in an impoverished parish in the County Mayo. I have here a list of dues exacted by the priest of the parish alluded to, published by Mr. Dixon, which with the chairman's leave, I will read to the meeting They are as follows: £. s. d. Chargo- of 2s. 6d. on each house yearly: gross total of families, 800 100 0 0 Collection of corn worth Is. 3d. from each house 5O 0 0 Collection on Christmas-day and Easter-day, by a rule in the parish, 6d. each time from each house 40 0 0 Collection from young people in the parish, making an average of two in each family, at 6d. each, at Christmas Do. do. at Easter 4O 0 .0 - -- 150 baptisms, at 3s. 4d. each 25 0 0 40 marriages, at £1 Bs. 2d. each 56 6 8 Legacies on deaths, average 40, at lOs. each, inclu ding the price of a mass to remove the soul from. purgatory. 2O 0 0 Charge for anointing, ls. ld. each time—average, 200 times .. Private masses for private intentions, price varying 15 0 0 Making offices for sick cattle, at ls. Id. each—ave rage number, 150 8 2 G Total £405 5 10 £lOO paid out of this to the Bishop, fur holy oil and other expenses of the parish, leaving a balance of more than £301) as the emolument to the priest. (The reading of the above caused considerable langhter.)— The speaker continued :—When I first read this, did not exactly understand the meaning of these " offices for sick cattle." I thought that the priest must be a farrier, or cow. doctor, (loud laughter,) and that this item of £8 2s. 61 must be the amount of charges • upon the parishioners for attend ance and medicine for their sick cattle. (Continued laugh ter and ('beers.) But I Kecollected having read in the Pro.. *testant Penny Magazine—edited by that man of God, the 11ev. Edward Nangle, who was Mr. Gregg's chairman in the late discussion—something about cattle hearing mass, (laughter,).and I will now lead it to the meeti ng . Here it is: the article is headed "Cattle hearing Mass," and is as follows :—" It was a tine Sabbath morning in summer, when all nature seemed to unite with the sacredness of the season in inviting God's intelligent creatures to holy and joyful meditation, that M— heard the noise of some cattle passing at the end of his house. He at first supposed that it might be his own cows, 'which he, had driven out to graze in the mountains, returning to seek refuge under the friendly roof from the oppressive heat of the sun, and the annoyance of the flies. On going to the door, however, he discovered the son of one of his neighbours driving several cattle before him, [ Where are you going with the c attle at thi s h our o f th e ! day?' said M—. lam driving them,' said the boy, with that careless gravity with which a common-place question is usually answered, am driving them to mass.' (Laughter.) To mass!' exclaimed Yes,' continued the boy, without taking notice of the surprise which his extraordinary announcement had excited, 'to mass; the priest is waiting yonder for them.' Fne little buy pursued his way; the cows were assembled, and the priest said mass for them." (Laugh ter.) Mr. Nangle continues—" We pledge our veracity for the authenticity of this story. Indeed, the circumstance to which it relates is one of common occurrence, and by no means limited to the mountainous and secluded district which was the scene of the particular transaction described above." " They offer masses," writes the Rev. Mr. Nolan, in his second pamphlet, " for the prosperity of houses, lands, cattle, and various other appendages of property." Oh! does not all this prove my assertion, that the Roman Catho lics of Ireland are a degraded and priest-ridden people? We should pity them—we should pray for them—and be seech them, with earnest affection, to flee out of Babylon. (Loud cheers.) And let us do all in our power to resist the tide of Popery in our own land, and, if possible, to drive it back to Rome, its native place; and let not "the Bishop of Rome ever have any jurisdiction in this realm of England." (Loud cheers.) But it may be asked, " What can we du ?" I will tell you one thing that I think we ought to do, and that is, to form an Operative Protestant Association in this town. (Loud cheers.) I have thrown out the hint, and I hope it will be acted upon. I shall now, at this late hour of the evening, conclude, and, like Father Maguire when he was beaten by Mr. Gregg. gather up my books and run away. (Loud laughter, and long-continued cheering.) WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.JRD. Stu,—l shall feel much obliged by occupying a space in the columns of your next number. The subject is as follows— At the Annual Assembly of the Wesleyan Association, held at Rochdale, in the beginning of this month, a communica tion having been sent from Liverpool to the President, rela tive to Messrs. David Rowland and John Peters, these two gentlemen were there put on their trial, and the Christian Advocate, after giving a very seriously incorrect report of the "communications" from Liverpool, to the public; and having positively refused to cot rect them, the favour now solicited is that you will be so obliging as to supply its lack of courtesy, candour and correct ness , by inserting the .following commu nications. August 30th, 1838. (Copy.) 9, Pernbroke•place, Liverpool, 3rd August, 1838 SIR,—As chairman of the June' quarterly .meeting, it be comes my duty to apprise you that Messrs. Peters and Row land, who, I understand, arc now at Rochdale, representing themselves to be delegates from the Liverpool circuit to the Annual Assembly, were not chosen by the June quarterly meeting, or by any other authorised meeting. This lam quite prepared to prove. The following are the facts of the case:— Nearly from the commencement of the Association our official persons have manifested a disposition to keep the whole un controlled management of the church in their own hands, while the private members have been desirous that our first principles should be fully carried out—" the right of the members of the church to manage its own affairs." Some little time since, by a simultaneous effort, we managed to. open the quarterly meeting to every member, this meeting to manage all our affairs, and every other meeting to he subject to it. 'When this meeting was thus open, instead of being in undated by the private members—partly on account of the very inconvenient hour at which it was held—the difficulty was, to have a sufficient number of them present to counter act the voice of the officials, who were opposed to every liberal measure; thus the regular channel for discussion soon became shut up, by their moving and carrying resolu tions to stop us, terming what we had to say in that meeting " frivolous and vexatious;" then we saw plainly that our rights and privileges were gone, unless we could get the private members into the quarterly meeting to maintain their rights; for this purpose, and for this purpose only, we attempted to form a little discussion society, (I now enclose you one of the cards which we had for that occasion ;*) but, this meeting was interrupted by the officials saying, " V 4 by such a meeting, when the regular channel is open—the quarterly meeting?" At this last June quarterly meeting, there was some very important business to be brought for ward; the officials were about to alter the constitution of the quarterly meeting, and to cram down something they call rules " for our people." W e w ere aware o f a lt this, and were preparing to meet them in the "regular channel" by endeavouring to bring the private members forward, to main tain and obtain all their rightful privileges, and we thought it a very favourable circumstance that the appointed quarterly meeting fell on the coronation day ; and, the more effectually to remind our people of it, these litte papers were printed for distribution among the members, viz.:— " Liverpool Wesleyan Association.—All the brethren are particularly requested to attend the quarterly meeting, to be held in the Committee-room, at the Music-hall, on Thursday, 28th June, 1838, (the coronation day,) commencing at one o'clock, on special business." And it would appear that they gave an alarm to the other party, fur they were taken to the leaders' meeting, and there, we understand, read and discussed, and the result was, the postponement of the quarterly meeting, for no other purpose but to keep the private members out of that meeting. And this opinion is confi rme d b y t h e very t i me they hadchosen for this postponed meeting to be held, viz. the very time fixed, according to the preachers' printed plan, for our monthly missionary prayer meeting, when the missionary collectors, in all from 60 to 70 of our own members, meet to pay In the monthly subscriptions, consequently they could not attend the quarterly meeting, and I am prepared to prove that this was not an oversight but a design, for that day or evening two months they had fixed for another illegally adjourned meeting to alter the constitution of the quarterly meeting. I then wrote to the chairman, Mr. Peters, reminding him of the circumstance, and wishing him to get their adjourned meeting put off till the following evening, but it was not done. Now when we were informed that the leaders' meeting had postponed the quarterly meeting, we saw at once their design, and the injustice and cruelty of it, that the members should have had such a favourable opportunity snatched out of their hands, for we conceived that ten to one might attend that day, it being a general holyday; and we were not singular iu these- views, for other parties had embraced that day as a favourable opportunity for special business, even at our own place of worship the Music Hall, Mr. Bowes and his brethren fixed that day to meet on very special business relative to ' their church. But to decide the legality of that postpone ment we referred to their own law, and found that they have n - 8 control over, and no more right to postpone the quarterly meeting, than they have to postpone the meeting of parlia ment, or the Annual Assembly. • They should have ca ll e d a spec i a l mee ting for that pur pose, (see in the " spurious" page 11 and 12, and section 13,) therefore by their own law, that postponement was illegal, consequently the regularly appointed quarterly meeting would remain legal, and that meeting was duly held, and of course all the business done in that meeting is legal—and agreeably to a required notice I duly transmitted the names of our delegates then c h osen, to M r . Molineux of Rochdale, a copy of which letter now enclose you. (Com) • " 9, Pembroke-place, Liverpool, 9th July, 1838. "DEAR Stn,—l perceive by a notice given in the Magazine, that it devolves on myself to transmit to you the names of the brethren who are appointed our representatives to the annual assembly. Our quarterly meeting was held on the 28th ult., when the following brethren were unanimously elected : Mr. Chester, preacher, Mr. James Picton, and Mr. Richard Farrer. You will please excuse me for not giving the re quired information earlier, as the notice in the Magazine had escaped my observation until yesterday. Beg also to say, that Mr. Chester was also elected to be our superin teudant preacher for the ensuing year, and it is most earnestly wished that that appointment may be confirmed by the Annual Assembly. lam glad to have it to say, that our meeting was most harmonious, the most important business of which was, the passing and adopting a code of rules for our circuit, a few of which will be sent to the Annual Assembly, as one of theit must be put into the bands of each preacher who may be put down for the Liverpool circuit.—l am, sir, yours respectfully, " WM. HOSKIN G. "To Mr. Molineux, Wesleyan Association Minister, Rochdale." I am aware that the veracity of that communication has been questioned; but if required, I am ready to come to the Annual Assembly to give any farther explanation. After this com munication, should Messrs. Peters and Rowland be reported as our delegates, we shall consider ourselves quite at liberty publicly to contradict it. Relative to Messrs.' Chester and Picton, I personally had their consent to go as our delegates it elected; but if by any means they should not attend, of course Messrs. P. and R. are not authorised to take their places, and as to permission or indulgence, that is altogether out of the question. Mr. Peters, as a reformer, is not known in Liverpool; and as to Mr. D. Rowland, while he may be considered a complete hero of a reformer abroad, at home he is considered a complete anything else. And of all men, whe ther in the circuit or out, they would be the last whom we, as reforming Methodists, would either choose or permit to represent our interests. I enclose you a placard, "Notice and Caution" to our members, viz., " WESLEYAN METHODIST ASSOCIATION. the " N societyoi cE.e l d na t y ba h t a t v h e e t ihu e l i e n s for hy IreT NOTICE.—The printed, membersad that are i they ft : r applying at No. 9, Pembroke-place, on showing their society tickets; these rules were passed and•adopted atthe REGULAR quarterly meeting, held on the 28th June, 1838. "CAUTION.— '!' he members are now warned that all rules are spurious. excepting those bearing the above date, printed by J. Perry & Co.; a number of fictitious rules having been got up and printed by a party of individuals, which have never received the sanction of any authorised meeting, and these have been put into the hands of the leaders to be im posed on the members, instead of the genuine rules. " N.B. The members may have any explanatory informa tion by applying at 9, Pembroke-place. " Liverpool, 21st July, 1838." Thus we have been obliged to carry out our enactments. If 1 am wrong as au individual active in these proceedings, it may be asked, why do not the officers expel me at once? Why, they have been trying to do it at their quarterly meet ing and leaders' meeting; and on last Monday they had a special circuit meeting on my case, but to no purpose, for they dared neither expel me nor suspend me, neither have I had a single official censure. Is not this a confirmation that what was done at the quarterly meeting held on the 28th of June was legal, even in the eves•of the officials themselves? —I am, honoured Sir, your obedient servant, WM. 1 - 10SKI14G. To the President of the Wesleyan Association, Rochdale. The members of the Association may perceive that the above prolix communication maybe brought into a very small com pass.—Prove to me that the " Leaders meeting" hod no right to postpone the " Quarterly meeting", and tou prove to me that Messrs. Rowland and Peters are to be regarded as impostors at. the annual 'assembly, and with such proof, whatever may have been the decision of others, or whatever may have been the instruction of others to the Christian Advocate, in Liver pool, they are still regarded as such. N.B.—Agreeably to a former notice, the members may have th e r u l es o f ih e soc i e ty, and any further information or expla• nation on the subject, by applying at 9, Pembroke.place. WM. HOSKIN (.;- Chairman of the June Quarterly Meeting. LIVERPOOL WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION. PRIVATE MEMBERS ' DISCUSSION SOCIETY. " Resolved,—That the basis of a plan for a reformation of existing abuses in Methodism, shall be the principle of the right of interference—on the part of the members of the Church—in the regulation of alt its airairs."—Beport of the Provisional Meeting of Delegates in 1835. " Tell it unto the Church."—St. Matthew, xviii. 17. PRIVATE MEMBERS' ADMISSION TICKET. THE POLICE FORCE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD. SlR,—The following sketch may perhaps be instructive to the heads of our police force, particularly when they are in formed that such scenes in this and other neighbourhoods are by no means or rare occurrence, and which perhaps might be obviated by the presence of a policeman constantly on duty, aided by the activity which might naturally be ex pected from them on acting promptly on information ten dered by spectators or individuals located in the neighbour. hood. On Tuesday morning last, a young man of respect a bl e exterior, but of a swarthy complexion, apparently a steward of one of the American pockets, was making the best of his way along Tithebarn-street, which has been no thoroughfare for a long time in consequence of the slow movement attend. ant on the making of the main sewer, that at the present moment there is a bare passage for foot passengers at the end of 'Bachelor' or as it might with great propriety be called `Pig-street,' at the corner of which street there is always an horde of disorderlies of both sexes. The person alluded to in attempting to pass this notorious corner was assailed with very gross language by several individuals standing there, one of whom eventually marched up to him and inflicted several savage blows in the young man's face before he could get away. The individual whO perpetrated this outrage was an ill-looking Irishman of the lowest description, no offence whatever was given by, the wayfaring man, if I may use the word, unless it was the fact of his being a fOreigner and of a somewhat darker tinge than himself. The corporate serv ants, the sewer excavators, who witnessed the outrage, aided and abetted their countryman, (as many as were I r i s h) b y language most scandalous. Two respectable housekeepers who witnessed with astonishment the whole transaction, were threatened with similar treatment if they did not move off. This took place a little before nine o'clock in the morning, within a stone's throw from the police station, and when the policeman 'made his appearance, all was quiet, and the same quietness would have ensued hail the man been mortally wounded. And when the circumstances were detailed to the policeman, he turned a deaf ear to it. The police imagine that their line of duty is confined entirely to matters in which they are witnesses. __ Yours, respectfully. AN ENGLISHMAN DRY ROT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,INIIRD. DRY ROT IN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE MAY BE PREVENTED by steeping them in a solution of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), or sulphate of copper (blue vitriol), substances which are worth about 345. per cwt. I have used them both for the last 18 months, and find them as effectual as corrosive sublimate, used by Mr Ryan, which costs £l9 12s. per cwt., besides his patent-right charge of £8 Bs. per cwt. Sulphates of zinc and copper being so cheap, and free from patent, will, it is hoped, lead to their universal use iu all cases where dry rot is liable. I would strongly recommend that wood be inserted in the solution as soon as the tree is felled; the juices being then in a fluid state, will allow the solution to penetrate every part of the tree. I have in my possession leaves taken from the top branches of a tree, which are completely impregnated with the solution of sulphate of copper. Indeed, albumen (the cause of dry rot,) has such an affinity for either of the above salts, that if a hole about an inch in diameter be bored in a tree, and then filled up with either sulphate of zinc, or copper, or corrosive sublimate, the salt will, in the course of a day or two, entirely disappear, having been dissolved and taken up by the the juices of the tree, with the albumen of which it forms an insoluble compound. This is best shown by mixing the white of an egg, which is nearly pure albumen, with a quantity of water, and then droping into the mixture a solution of the salt in water, the albumen will be instanity precipitated. White of egg is, therefore, an antidote for the above poisons, and those trees which decay soonest will be found to have most albumen in their composition. In my experiments I tried other substances, said to have an effect in preserving timber, such as common salt, alum, sugar of lead, sulphate of iron, (green vitriol) but found they had little or no effect. Liverpool, 29th Aug. R. S. NEWALL. A J 0 B!! TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST4ND.4RD. St tt,—l have just made a calculation by which l 'l find that no less a sum tha❑ about £150,111t. will legitimately fall into the pockets of the " Sweaters,was soon as they shall have completed their pious labours of reducing the original to the recently proclaimed standard weight of gold coin in, this country. What blessed muffs her majesty's ministers are to be sure. Yours, HARRY BULLION. Water-street, August 30, 1838 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CURIOUS CASE OF FORGERY. Matthew Marwood was on Monday placed before Mr. Hall, charged with having defrauded a young man named Thomas Briscoe, and further with having committed a forgery on the Union Bank of this town. Thomas Briscoe, the prosecutor, stated that about the 20th of December last, he came to this town from Parkgate. He entered into the service of Mr. James Wilson, a butcher, of Cleveland-square. Matthew Marwoud, the prisoner, was Mr. Wilson's cash-keeper. Witness had in the Chester Bank, one hundred and fifty-four pounds, which his father had left him. About a week after be came to Liverpool he drew the money out, the prisoner being aware that he had done so. Three days after he had drawn it out, the Prisoner told him that if he chose to intrust him with it, be could lay it out for him, so that he (witness) would receive eight per cent. in return for it. Witness upon this gave him one hun dred and forty sovereigns, with which he said he would pur chase banking shares, or lay the money out at interest, so as to make the best return possible. A few days afterwards, the prisoner presented the prosecutor with a banker's cheque, (produced.) of which the following is a copy: "No. 69. Liverpool, Jan. 4, 1838. LIVERPOOL UNION BANK.Pay or Bearer. Received from Thomas Briscoe one hundred and forty pounds,' Per M. MAEWOOD, £140.03. Od. JAMES LISTER." Mr. Briscoe proceeded to say, that the prisoner informed him that he had put the whole of the money in the Union Bank. The prisoner told him to take care of the cheque, and if' he wanted any money at any time he was to ask him (the prisoner) for it, until they went to the bank together, when they would have a settling. After that the prosecutor received about seven pounds from the prisoner. Just before dinner, on Monday week, witness requested the prisoner to go with him to the bank, that they might square accounts with each other. Witness did not himself know where the Union Bank was. The prisoner put him off, saying, "we will go to-morrow." Next day came, however, and witness did not see anything of the prisoner, nor did he see him again till he saw him in custody. , Witness had communicated the transaction to Mr.' Wilson, who, on Friday last, at noon, re quested lion to show the cheque which the prisoner had given to him. Mr. Wilson, on seeing the cheque, took the prose cutor with him to the Union Bank. The cheque was shown to Mr. Lister, the manager of the bank, who having stated that it was a forgery, the assistance of Constable James Chalmer was procured, and they went in search of the pri soner. They found him in Cleveland-square, where Chaliner took him into custody. It appeased, that Mr. Wilson had received £4O. from the' prisoner on account of the prosecutor This sum was due to Mr. Wilson by agreement with' the prosecutor. The cheque was proved to be in the prisoner's hand-writing. The de ficiency due to the prosecutor was stated to be £93. It fur ther appeared, by the testimony of the prosecutor and Mr. Wilson, that the prisoner stated he was about to sail for South Australia with Captain Porter, of the ship Porter. It is said that he has purchased some land in South Australia. James Chalmer, constable, stated, that he had received the cheque and information of the fraud from Briscoe, and he took the prisoner in Cleveland-square. He said to the pri soner, " I have some very unpleasant news for you." The prisoner said, " What is it ?" Ctialmer said, " You are charged with having forged a cheque upon the Liverpool Union Bank." The prisoner said, " I will tell you the truth —I did write it." He (the prisoner) then called out to Bris coe,' "Oh, Thomas, I never thought you would do this." On the way to Bridewell the prisoner said, " I will pay all the money if you will let me go to my friends." Witness said, " You are charged to me; I cannot do it; you must go before a magistrate." A cheque-book of the Union Bank was found upon the prisoner, and two notes which stated that he was going to South Australia. Mr. James Lister, the manager of the Union Bank, proved that neither the cheque nor signature were in his hand-writ ing The prisoner had formerly kept an account at the Union Bank, and was furniihed with a book. The prisoner had not had any money there for the last six months except a small deposit which he drew out in a few days. The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, and was committed for trial. , Disc ACEFUL TRANSACTION.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, a good-looking servant-sort of female was placed at the bar charged with having robbed the keeper of a lodging-house in this town, named Robert Maxwell. The complainant stated that on Monday,•about one o'clock, he met the prisoner at the docks, and went with her to treat her, and finally they went together to a house in King-lane, where he passed the night with her. He had foursovereigns in his trowsers pocket, which he wrapped up and placed under his pillow. He went to bed about eleven o'clock at night. When Lls awoke in the morning he found only one sonereign and sixpence in copper in his pocket. He was sober enough to know what he had, but was not sober. There were other girls in the house. but he did not fasten the door. There was no other bed in the room. He asked the prisoner for the money, and she said she had not got any. Another girl then came and searched her, and she dropped a sovereign, which he got. He taw the prisoner drop it. When he charged her with having got the money she began to cry, and told hint to put her in Bridewell, and he said he would. Mr. Hall—" Pray where do you come from ?" Complainant— " I have been twenty-nine years in Liverpool." Mr. Hall— " You ought to have known better. Do you keep house in town ?"' Complainant—" I do, sir." Mr. Hall—" You are, a married man ?" Compl:tinant—" Yes, sir." Mr. Hall— " Awl have a family of children?" Complainant—" Yes, sir. She used to live a servant of mine." The prisoner being asked what she had to say, said, " I lived servant with him, and met hitn on Monday, and he would treat me till I was tipsy, and then led tne to a house I never was in before." Mr. Hall (to complainant)—" Is that true ?" The com plainant shook his head. Prisouer—" And when I awoke next morning, ' Oh dear, says I, let me get home before I am seen.' He then said he had lost some money, and that I had got it, and I told him to call a policeman. When I got home I told my mistress what had happened." Mr. Hall—" Where do you live ?" Prisoner—" In Church-alley, with Mrs. Ed wards; and I can ge t a goo d c h aracter at the last place I have been to." Mr. Hall inquired who the other girl was that searched her ? Policeman—" She is a brothel-house keeper." Mr. Shuttleworth said, it was very Litely that she had dropped the sovereign to throw suspicion on the prisoner. Mr. Hall (to the Complainant)" Your evidence requires confirmation, sir; I must see that other girl." The prisoner was then remanded. She cried bitterly during the examina tion. The complainant, a man half a century old, appeared perfectly shameless. RECKLESS FOLLY OF SAILORS.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, one of those frequent pitiable spectacles of the folly with which sailors "spend their money like asses, after working for it like horses," was exhibited. A young sailor; with an immense quid of tobacco stowed away in one cheek, appeared to prefer a complaint against a girl of the town for having robbed him. He stated his case as follows—" That there girl, your honour, made it her business to put her hand in my pocket and take out my purse; she emptied it of the money, and then threw the purse in my face. Here's the purse." (Holding up his empty purse.) Mr. Hall—" Were you sober ?" Complainant—" Yes, as sober as lam now." Mr. Hall—" What wer e you d o i ng to let her put her hand in your pocket and steal your purse ?" Complainant—" I felt her doing it once, - and told her to drop it." • The landlady of a public-house where the plaintiff had been with the pri soner, said that she saw him in the house in the course of Tuesday, and raw him count seven sovereigns in his purse. He changed one for a pint of rum, and sat drinking with the prisoner and another girl. He then went out and bought the prisoner a lot of things—the cap which she had on, a handkerchief, gown, &c., and they came in again and began drinking. The complainant then pulled a lot of silver and copper out of his pocket and threw it on the prisoner's lap, and then the other girl got vexed with him, timd said he had done more for the prisoner than he had done for her. The complainant then said he was drunk or he would not have done it. It ended in his losing all his money. Mr. Dowling, —" He told me he was drunk." Mr. Hall—" How is it that you told me you were as sober as you ate now ?" Complain ant—" Well,'l was." Mr. Hall--", Are von not quite sober now?" Complainant—" No. (A laugh.) I said I was neither drunk nor sober." Mr. Hall—" I suppose you rarely ate quite sober ? We must have you here when you are sober; do you think you can come sour to-morrow ?" Com plainant—" Yes." Mr. Hall—" Well, come to-morrow, and don't let any grog come within your lips. Put the prisoner back." •-• Yesterday the complainant again 'appeared at the Police office. Mr. Hall.—" Well, are you sober now ?" Com plainant.—" Yes, sir." The complainant then recapitulated his complaint. On Monday he went to an auction room, and bought some flannels and other things to make drawers of, which he intended the prisoner to make for him; and for doing it he bought her a shawl, a cap, a handkerchief, a pair of stockings, and a pair of boots. (Laughter.) She took the flannel home with her, and next day when he called fur his drawers she picked his pocket as above described. It appeared also that he had been making the servant girl a lot of presents of flannel and linen. Mr. Hall.—" You have been making presents to every body; the truth is you have got money about you, and don't know how to get rid of it." Complainant.—" If I had kept company with the girl I should never have said anything about it. (Laughter.) Will you ask her what presents I made her ?" Mr. Hall.— "Oh, we know that; that cap and that handkerchief she has on." Prisouer.—" And a gown, and petticoat, and a white shirt, and four sovereigns." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall.— "Did she not give you the four sovereigns back again?" 'Complainant.—" Yes, sir." Mr. Hall.—" Discharge her." SHOPLIFTING.—EIiza Rigby, Margaret M‘Lean, Mary Ann Clarke, and Mary Ireland, were on Wednesday placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with having stolen four pieces of prints from the shop of Messrs. Shaw and Hill, Manchester fent warehouse, Old Haymarket. It ap peared that on Tuesday morning, the four prisoners went to the shop of the prosecutor, at a few minutes past eight o'clock. They asked a lad who was behind the counter to show them some dresses. They examined a great variety of articles, and at length left the shop without buying any thing. About half-past eight o'clock the same morning, police-officer Taylor, No. 334, was on duty in Scotland place, when he met the four prisoners. As he knew two of them to be bad characters, he looked at them intently. This it appears alarmed them, for they threw away four pieces of prints into a cellar and ran away. Intent on securing the property, he allowed the prisoners to escape. He succeeded however, soon afterwards in capturing the prisoner M‘Lean, who told him where they had stolen the prints from She also declared that she would not be taken without the others. She gave the officer such information as enabled him to take the other three prisoners. Raving seethed them in Bridewell, he went to the shop of Messrs. Shaw and Hill, who had not yet missed the property. They immediately claimed it, and showed the officer the pieces from which the prints had been cut. Two of the prisoners bud been dis charged from the Borough gaol on the same morning, (Tuesday) at seven o'clock. The prisoners were all com mitted fur trial. CHARGE OF UTTERING BASE COlN.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a young man, habited. as a gentleman's ser vant, named Moore, a nd who, we understood, was the ser vant of Mr. Martin, the barrister, was placed before the ma gistrates on a charge of attempting to pass a bad half-crown at Mr. Sampson's the Champion publ ic -h ouse , o pp os it e th e New Market. Mr.i Sampson stated that he came in the day before, and after ordering some refieshment asked change for a sovereign; as soon as he had got change he charged Mr. Sampson with having given him a bad half-crown; and Mr. Sampson threatened to have him apprehended. He said he would go for a policeman himself, and shortly re turned with one, and Mr. Sampson said he should now charge him as he persisted in his statement; and ordered the officer to take him into custody, and search him. The officer searched him, and another bad half-crown was found upon him. The prisoner said that he had five shillings given him by a Mrs. Alexander, in London, wrapped up in paper, and on opening it he found two half-crowns, one of them a a bad one; and his master s aid h e wou ld no t f or £5 h ave given a had half-crown to a servant in that way. This half crown he had in his pocket when lie went to' Sampson's house, and on getting change said he knew one of the half crowns to be a bad one, for he had seen one before upon which a dispute arose, which ended in his being tak e n into custody. He showed the policeman the bad half-crown on the way to Sampson's. This was found to be correct. Mr. Hall said under all the circumstances it was a case in which he thought he ought to discharge the prisoner. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. SEASONING CASKS AT THE DOCKS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mr. Wm. Waddle was summoned before the magistrates, for seasoning water casks on the Prince's Dock Quay. An officer deposed that a number of water casks had remained full on the dock quay for six days, which belonged to the defendant. Mr. Hall said this was an abominable nuisance. They had no business whatever to remain there. Mr. Dowling said the mischief was, that the casks when sea soned were turned up, and all the water poured out of them, which flowed all over the dock quay; and he had known in stances of bale goods to an immense amount having been spoiled by water flowing underneath them. Mr. Hall.— Twenty shillings and costs. Mr. Waddle.—They are for South Australia; and if you had to drink water out of a new cask for four months, you would.see what it was. UTTERING BASE COlN.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mary Burns, a female of disorderly habits, was placed at the bar charged with having in conjunction with a man named Dixon, who was committed on Monday last for the same offence, endeavoured to pass base money. Constable Flock hart stated, that from information he had received he had apprehended the prisoner, who denied to him that she had been in company with the prisoner Dixon. Mrs. Lyon, the keeper of a public-house, stated that the prisoner on Thurs day last came into the bar of her house along with Dixon, who was committed on Monday, and asked for two glasses of wine. They were served with the wine, and then Dixon said he had no silver, could she give him change, and then handed to her a good sovereign She was going . to get it when lie asked the prisoner, " havn't you got sixpence ?" and told her (Mrs. Lyon) to stop and give him the sovereign back, as the prisoner had perhaps got the money. She did so, and then Dixon said, •‘ I think you had better give me change, I don't think she has got any money," and gave her a bad sovereign. She told him it was a bad one, and then he told her to give it him again, and he paid her with Gd. Mrs. Hope, the keep er o f a public-house in Gilbert-street, and Mr. Brookfield, the keeper of an eating-house in Percy street,. both described similar attempts by the prisoner along with Dixon, to pass off base sovereigns upon them on Thursday night. Mr. Hall said he should detain her and leave it to the mint to decide whether or not they would prosecute her along with Dixon. JUVENILE THlEVES.—Yesterday, at the police-office, two girls, the oldest of whom was nut above 11 years of age, named Charlotte Jones and Mary Roberts, were placed at the bar, for the fou r th or fif t h t i me, c h arge d w i t h s h op lifti ng . Mr. Roberts, of Whitechapel, said, the children came into his shop to buy some stockings, and while the young man was engaged with on e o f th em, the .other contrived . to secrete two pieces of silk handkerchiefs, worth between £3 and £4. A gentleman who happened to he looking in at the window, saw her doing this, and gave him information, when she was searched, and the goods found secreted under her frock. Mr. Hall.—" She is only 9 years old, though au old offender. I am sure I don't know what to do with either of them." The youngest said the man at the window gave her a shilling to buy the stockings, and told her to st ea l th e h an dk erc hi e f s, an d then went and told of her.--.(A laugh.) Mr. Hall.—" I sup pose her parents send her out " Mr. Parkinson.—" I believe they do ; the youngest has been here a dozen times. "'They were each sent for a month to the Borough House of Cor rection. EXPENSIVE FOOD.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an Irishwoman named Catherine Ityley, with a child at her breast, was placed at the bar, charged by another Irishwo man, dressed in an old grey cloak, with the usual number of holes, forconvenient ventilation, which generally adorn the garments of the lower class of Irish, with having stolen' a £5 note from her. The complainant stated, that on Wednesday her little boy found a Bank of England £5 note in the street, and the prisoner took it from him. When discovered, and told to give it up, she would not, a'nd on an officer being called she attempted to swallow it.—A policeman said that he was told on Wednesday night that the prisoner had taken a £5 note from the complainant's little boy, and would not give it up. He went up to her, and asked her for it. She was chewing something, and could not speak; at length she Attempted to swallow something, and said she had not got it. He asked her what she had got in her mouth, and suspecting it was the note, seized hold of her, and positively choked it out of her throat.—Mr. Dowling said, when first the note was brought to him, it was a small piece of pulp, and with much difficulty he had contrived to spread it on paper, and the amount and number' were not destroyed.—Mr. H all (to com plainant) : What is your husband, pray ?—Complainant : He is a chicken butcher. (Laughter.)—Mr. Hall: Well, he is worth a good deal of money, is he ? —Complainant : He's worth 12s. a-week, his wages.—Mr. Hall said he must have some inquiry made as to how she came by the note. — The prisoner said, " The little boy put it in my mouth, and 1 chewed it, not knowing what it was." (Laughter.)—She was put back for further inquiry. A TEE-TOTALLER IN '!'ROUBLE.—Yesterday, at the Po- liceo-ffice, an individual named Patrick Hughes, from Ire land, was charged with having been found drunk in the streets, and unable to take care of himself. The Bridewell keeper handed to the magistrates a card found on him, from which it appeared, that he was a member of a tee-total so ciety. Be that as it may; he had got himself so teetotally drunk, that the of fi cer said when brought into Brideweil, he could not give his name. Mr. Hall.—" Pray, how long have you been a member of this temperance society ?" Prisoner. —" Sixteen months this day; and going to Ireland I got myself transferred as a tee-totaller, and got a drop of beer on the occasion, but I did not taste any spirits whatever— not a drop of spirits. I happen to be on my,way to America." Mr. Hall.—" It is a most fortunate accident. Then I sup pose you don't want this card again, showing that you are a temperate man ?" Prisoner.—" Why, sir, I'm temperate against spirits, sir." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Hall.—" Well, you are going to America, are you ?" Prisoner.—" Yes, sir, I am." Mr. Hall —" Well, off with you." Owing to the lateness of the harvest partridge shooting has been in many places postponed to the 10th, and in others to the 14th of September. TAKING IT COOLY.--A professional firm of this town hav ing applied to a man at West Bromwich for a small !amount, received in reply, the following, whfch we think may be consi dered as the quintescence of the art of "taking it coolly." We give it verbatim e t libe ra ii m :—" Jintlemin I should - be sory to anser your Letter to give you any ofense But to send you 13. 5. o..returne of poste is as likly as a shipe to sail Down Oxford Street in London your Obedent. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Mr. Atkins was fortunate in having a fine evening yesterday, when the splendid mimic effect of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was repeated to a garden. Another grand illumination and gala is an nounced for Tuesday next, when Monsieur D'Ernst will exhibit his magnificent fire-works. The price will on this occasion be raised. It was erroneously stated in our last that it was the intention of Mr. Atkins to break up the mountain. DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The fourth season ball at the Castle Mona Hotel was held on Monday last, and was both numerously and respectably attended. Dancing commenced at ten o'clock and was kept up until an early hour in the morning. Mr. Phillips's excellent quadrille band was en gaged from Liverpool, and the waltzes and quadrilles were iashionable and well executed. On Sunday night her Majesty's steamer Firebrand arrived in the river from Holyhead, on her annual voyage of inspec tion, having on board Lord Minto, the First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Admiral Sir William Parker, Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Sir William Symonds, Surveyor to the Navy, and Mr. Stifnal, private secretary to Lord Minto, &c. &c. The Admiralty flag was hoisted on board her Majesty's steamer Redwing; and on Monday morning the party, attended by Captain Chappell, R.N., commanding her M a j es ty' s vesse l s on thi s s t a ti on , inspec t e d her Majesty's steamers Avon, Lieut. Townley, R.N., commander; Lucifer, Lieut. Phillips, R.N., commander; and the Sheerwater, - Lieut. Tudor, R.N., commander. His lordship and suite visited 'Change on Monday, and on Tuesday left the port in pursuance of their ulterior objects. THE THEATRE ROYAL.—Mr. Harley has during the week been exercising his comic powers at this theatre. Last evening Mr. Kuowles's new play of " Woman's Wit" was performed to but a thin house. Mr. Harley played as Clever with great humour. Miss Faucit is improving much, and gradually acquiring more of nature and less of affectation in her performing. The part of Eustace, a most unnatural and strained character, was miserably played by Miss Cleaver. This lady's forte is light comedy; she is wholly unable to grasp the characters which she lias lately taken on the Li verpool stage. Her attempts at tragedy are indeed "stale, flat, and unprofitable—hurried and unmeaning rehearsals of words without one spark of sentiment or feeling—nothing but words. We have seen her some years ago play in light comedy - pieces—" the lnvincibles" for instance—remarka bly well. She is sprightly enough in these shallows, but sinks and is overwhelmed in the depths of tragedy. We were glad to see Mr. Stuart able to perform so well as Wal sinhham after his recent serious accident of breaking his arm. To-night Harley plays as Di. 011apod in the "Poor Gentleman." It is one of his best characters. Every thing betokens a cramming house for Mr. Clarke's benefit on Monday. Steam navigation has been brought to such perfection that a person may now go at mid-day from London-bridge to West minster by "Starlight," and he may return at mid-night by "Daylight," or he may have his choice of doing it by "Moon light," or "Twilight," there being four steam-boat omni buses called by these delightful names, This has quite cap sized the watermen, who, when they see "Starlight" take the place of "Daylight," draw their nightcaps over their eyes, and go to bed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. There has been no particular movement in the three first favourites for the St. Leger since the close of the York meeting. The friends of lon and Don John are firm to their horses. The latter having been made decidedly premier at Tattersall's, may be considered half a better than at our last quotations. The Duke of Cleveland's success with his filly by Rowton, out of Pucelle, has attracted more notice to that stable, and many persons imagine that the filly will be found a party's horse on the day. Several engagements have been made on her, the last that we are aware of (last evening) was at 16 to 1 ; Alzira was backed also yesterday at 12, and Appleton Lad at the same quotation. To-day 3to 1 was offered on the field, and three backed to win. The running last week places entirely on the shelf two or three o f th e out siders backed h er e w ith some spirit ; particularly Major Yarburgh's filly. The following are the average prices :- 3 to 1 against Lord Chesterfield's Don John. 7to 2 „ Colonel Peel's lon. 7to 1 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. 9i to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus. 12 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. 12 to I „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad. 14 to 1 „ Mr. H. Coombe's Cobham. 160 to 10 „ Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle (taken.) 18 to 1 „ Mr. Fox's Jemmy Jumps. TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY. The recent meeting at York brought out the Pucelle filly in such favourable colours that her friends in that neighbour hood immediately gave her a lift in the odds on the above race, and many expected that the business at "the corner" would have a corresponding effect. Such, however, has not proved to be the case; for although the demonstrations in the early part of the afternoon warranted an impression that she was coming." It very soon became apparent, that another favourite, in the same stable, was to be placed in the " front of the battle;" one party was lucky enough to get 15 to 1 in fifties, but nearly the whole of the money laid out (two or three hundred pounds) was invested at 12 to 1. It is true, that in order to complete a commission, a point more was laid to £10; but, at the close of the room, no one would bet more than the odds mentioned (12 to 1.) Pucelle, in the meantime, declined to 20 to 1, with a very feeble party. lon and Don John have at length changed places—offers to bet 7 to 2 against the former, and to take it about the Don, each having a strong party. Except a slight retrogression in Ap pleton Lad, there is no change worthy of observation. Closing prices : ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 against Lord Chesterfield's Don John (t 7 to 2.) 7to 2 „ Colonel Peel's lon (t 4to 1.) Bto 1 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost (t.) Bto 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's two (t.) 12 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Alomus (t.) 12 to 1 Duke of Cleveland's Alzira (t 13 to I.) 14 to 1 Mr. Coombe's Cobham (t.) 16 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad (t.) 18 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Albemarle (L) 20 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle filly (t.) 20 to 1 ~ Mr. S. L. Fox's Jemmy Jumps (t.) 150 even on the field against lon, Don John, and Grey Momus; 300 even between lon and Dun John; 11 to 8 on the field against two (taken.) MR. WATERTON ON THE SURINAM " FOUR EYES." TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. _ . Sir,—The Standard has informed us, that a paper was read in the British Association assembled at Newcastle, "on a fish of Surinam with four eyes, which, although previously un known to zoologists, was met with in large shoals, off some parts of the coast of Surinam," &c. The account further observes, that "it has a singular mode of escape from its enemies, for when alarmed by the sentinels, it retreats to the bottom with its head upwards, and, by the aid of its dor sal fins, it buries its body in the sand ; but in this position they are frequently decapitated in large shoals by the ground shark, which is their most inveterate enemy."—"After some discussion, in which many of the members doubted the ex istence of such a fish, the subject was ord ere d t o b e l a id as i de until the author furnished further information omit." ' I don't see how a fish could well plant its body in the sand, head upwards, by the aid of its dorsal fins; and, moreover, I cannot conceive that any man's eye s i g ht cou ld b e strong enough to witness the extraordinary operation through the thick and muddy waters on the coast of Guinea. In every part of this coast I have seen a fish with four eyes. It goes in shoals with its head above the water. You may approach it within a few yards, both at the flowing and the ebbing water; and it bounds or jumps away from you, being visible all the while on the surface of the water. It is known to everybody by the name of Four-eyes, and may always be seen close in at the sluices when there is water enough to float it. I have had worse fish in my stomach than the Four-eyes; and I have not a doubt but that a scientific cook could make it a dish, at which a London alderman himself would not sneeze. Should this fish turn out to be the same as that which has puzzled the knowing ones in the British Association, perhaps these few notes on it will tend to remove their scepticism, in some degree, as to its actual existence. I disclaim all know ledge of its subaquatic evolutions. The muddy waters which it inhabits would totally prevent my having a distinct view of it, were I even hardy enough to go down to the bottom, and expose myself to be snapped up by the ground shark, whilst I was endeavouring, to get a sight of it when burying its pos teriors in the sand. I am. sir, your very obedient servant, Walton-hall, Aug. 25, 1838. CHARLES WATERTON. MECHANICS'S INSTITUTION.-Mr. Pemberton is repeating his lectures upon the tragic characters of Shakspeare, of which copious reports have previously appeared in our columns. As before, they draw the most dense audiences. We can promise our readers much gratification by an attendance. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—As at present arranged, and if no unforeseen circumstance should occur, it is intended to open the London and Birmingham Railway throughout, on the 24th September. The directors, in the first instance, being especially desirous to secure the perfect regularity of the travelling, on their line, intend to make th e time occupied by the journey between the two termini six hours; so that with half an hour's stoppage at Birmingham, the journey from Manchester and Liverpool, to London, and vice versa, will occupy about eleven hours. We understand that negociations are at present in progress betw een t h e Lon. don and Birmingham. and Grand Junction compan i es, with respect to the most proper times for starting from each en d o f their respective lines; it is also intended to ru n niglirtrains to carry the mails ; &c. From London, th e h our of starting with these will continue as at present, h a lf- past 8 p.m. ; from Manchester and Liverpool, it will p ro b a bl y b e 7 p.m With respect to the morning mails, we have at present no infor mation. way, being AwCetiTltCAt sleepo J o i(E b . —y theOn Mon ' d e d o a r y a ,. C v, a l g a g r loe in it a g r t k a i t s n o n !den with employed on the Great Western Hail of eat th. Some of his pot companions turned• intoxication, FAT'uPn leaving him covered with th e so il . The uov t e o r the vehicl e , was soon after released from th e s i tuation in ortnl:t i e j man e was struggling, but was so much hurt 'that he died h s ort y after wards.— Wilts Herald. CHELTENHAM, AUG. 27.—The influx of the nobility and gentry within the past fortnight has not been equalled for many seasons past. The Earl of Sefton, who is still in a feeble state, has arrived at the Cambridge Villas, attended by the Countess and the Ladies Nlolyneux, for the benefit of his health. It was by the advice of his lordship's physician that the noble earl was removed by easy stages from Stoke Park. The Hon. Colonel and Lady Louisa Molyneux have removed from their hotel to the family residence. IRON STEAMERS.—The iron steam vessel, Voador, has, we understand, arrived at Pernambuco, after a passage of actual steaming of only four and a half days from Maran ham. Sailing vessels are generally, we believe, twenty to thirty days making this passage, and a fast-sailing vessel ar rived at Pernambuco two days before the Voador, that had been 45 days on the voyage from Maranham. This proves the great advantage to be derived from the introduction of steam-vessels on a coast where the current and wind prevail so as to prevent sailing vessels accomplishing their passage in a reasonable time, and must shortly lead to the adoption of steam vessels both on the east and west coast of South America. CoNsECRATIoN OF THE CHIGsvELL MASONIC LODGE.— On Wednesday last a numerous gathering of the craft took place at Chigwell, for the purpose of ass sting in the conse cration of the first Masonic Lodge held in that place, by the immediate promotion of Brother G. R. Rowe, and several other influential members of the Dundee Lodge, under the ready and zealous auspices of Rowland Alston, Esq., Atp Provincial Grand Mast er fo r E ssex . an d hi s son, Rimiana Alston, Esq., the Deputy P. G. Master for this count,. Amongst those present were Brothers Edward Harper, G.S. T. Crucefix, (M.D.) past J. G.D.; John Paulson, P.G.K. and L. Thompson, P.G.D.C. for Essex; H. Archer, past P G.R. and W. L. Thomas, past P.G. S. for Herts ; W. R. G. Key, P.G.D.C. for Suffolk; J. P. Acklam, P.M., Grand Steward's Lodge; G. R. Corner, W. M. Grand Master's Lodge; J. Lee, W.M. Lodge of Fidelity No. 3; J. L. Stevens, M.C. British Lodge No. 8; and Brothers Macarthy, Cox, Filbv and other a c ti ve masons , ma ki ng up a party, w i t h the members of the new lodge, of nearly 40. The consecra tion took place at the King's Head, the P.G. Master pre siding, assisted by his Deputy G.M.; after which the installa tion of Brother G. R. Rowe, as the first Worshipful Grand Master of the Chigwell Lodge, was performed in a manner rendered truly impressive by the masonic charges delivered by the D.G. Master. The wardens were then installed, the bye-laws of the lodge discussed and passed, and three initia tions crowned the masonic labours of the day. At half-past six the company sat down to a choice banquet. —Essex Herald. MR. OASTLF.R'S REMOVAL FROM FIXBY HALL.— It having been announced that on Saturday last Mr. and Mrs. Oastler would take their departure from Fixby-hall, his friends resolved that he should not leave alone, And proposed to accompany him in his departure from the place which bad been witness to his boyish sports and to his athletic labours. About four o'clock the friends of Mr. Oastler began to assem ble in the park in the front of Fixbv-hall. Deputations arrived from London, Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Ashton, Staylev Bridge, Halifax, Bradford, Dewsbury, and other places. The different parties from different towns ar rived with banners and music. At five o'clock, the hour of departure, the concourse of people in the park could not have been less than 15,000 persons. There were seven bands of mu sic, and flags with appropriate inscriptive devices. A carriage with four gray horses was provided for Mr. and Mrs. Oastler and his adopted daughter. Mr. Oastler immediately ordered two of the horses to be taken out, declaring that as his late mas ter drove four grays, so he would only have two. When Mr. Oastler, the shouts of the assembled accom p a nied by his wife and daught er , en t ere d t h e carriage, multitude were most en th us iastic and overwhelming. Mr. Oastl er ' s constant an d never-failing friend, Mr. W. Stocks, jun., rode with him in the carriage. As soon as they were seated, and the cheers had subsided, the cannon was fired the music stritck and the procession proceeded to Huddersfield. The windows of the hall were filled with the weeping friends and domestics of Mr. Oastler. At this moment the sight was truly affect ing and picturesque—the beautiful landscape of the park, the flags, the banners, the music, the enthusiasm of the popu lace, added to the scene. Mr. Oastler's appearance was unwonted, and there was nothing to damp the pleasure of the scene save the tears of those friends he was leaving behind. The procession proceeded by Netheroyd-hill, Cowcliff, and Hill-house; and during the whole line of road the greatest enthusiasm towards' Mr. Oastler, and against the cursed Bastile bill, was displayed. The windows, the trees, and the roofs of houses were all occupied. The cheers of the people were such as never were heard before, though many wept who fain would have cheered. The number of the people was computed at 100,000; by none less than 50,000. . The procession having reached Huddersfield, proceeded through his sAt by rt ehotdiemat:tTe Oastler ad all the principal streets until it arrived at Mr. Latham's r. (Mr. Oastler's brother-in-law,) in Queen-street, where Mr. Oastler's carriage stopped, and he handed Mrs. Oastler and his daughter into their new and temporary home. When he stepped iuto the carriage, after performing that office, he said to the people—" There, friends; that is•now my home." Many voices immediately exclaimed—" We will in Ramsden-street, near St. Paul's towns. After this soon a vacant t n p d i eycoeuoat ground better." The procession then moved on to a Church, where a temporaio , hustings had been erected. At The hustings were filled tpersonshe crowd r w• composing d‘rasim t m be el Yi e ierent deputations who addressespre resse a d dressed " X; ntrhieni their respective spee ch. After Mr. Oas t ier had left the hustings, the followfng resolution was passed: —" That a general subscription be immediately opened throughout Great Britain for the p.urtiptoasseasoghfea7Fdrde7elsmly.t d enlythteo Oastler, principles public enableliflife, a equalt theha t egat f e r qde e eunv e . aithslleao friend ni l aee estate appointed attaototoetbb. devote e r havre s no u r sc h fehrhn i o , f itatmmileendsdre thel .pfloeol‘tirltlir ,subscribers justice and humanity."