The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-20 00:00:00

roubles had. sprung up in a new quarter. For the particulars we must refer our readers to the aetounts given in another column. They are calculated to im press us with any thing but a 'favourable opinion of the state of Canada. A predatory sort of warfare is likely to be carried on for some time in the less densely peopled districts, unless a more formidable demonstra tion is made on the part of the government. The reckless beings who are guilty of these continued at tacks upon the peaceable inhabitants appear to be little else than a gang of desperate thieves, whose only ob • ject is pillage. It will require a very powerful force and the most active measures to eradicate these ma raudera. . It appears that Governor Arthur had issued a pro clamation, interdicting all communication with the American frontier in the vicinity of Niagara. This is a very prudent step, as it will effectually cot off the supplies of arms and ammunition from the rebels. The Rochester Democrat announces that the steam-boat Expert . ment had been purchased and manned by the colonial government, to proceed against the buccaneer Bill Johnson, of whose capture, and the dis persion of his piratical forces, we soon expect to hear. The resignation of Sir John Colborne is viewed by the intelligent inhabitants of Canada as a great mis fortune. He is represented as " a man who has united the mildness of a parent and the energy of a soldier," and as eminently qualified to improve the condition of the colonies. These qualities are suffi cient to procure for him the contumelious hatred of a man who can harbour as his bosom friends such cha racters as Turton and Wakefield. For the state of the money market at New York we we refer to the extracts in another column. Exchange on England was quoted at 8 to 81, when the Sirius left. OTHER WHIG APPOINTMENTS.—Disgusted as our readers must have been by the announcement that Lord Durham had appointed the notorious Turton to be one of his private secretaries, we are sure that they will feel, if possible, a higher degree of loathing when they learn that another individual, equally obnoxious in character, has been added to the number of that proud peer's official retinue. There are very few per• lons in Liverpool, who have arrived at maturity, that lave not heard of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the per "ll that inveigled, by the most scandalous trickery 06 and deception; a young lady of the name of Turner from a boarding schoOl in this neighbourhood. The circum stances of that infamous abduction must be generally known, as are also the subsequent particulars in the history of the unprincipled deceiver. Is it not, there fore. a matter of astonishment that such a man should be selected to grace the mimic court of Her Majesty's representative in Canada ? Yet such is the fact, how• ever my Lord Melbourne, as in the case of the inces tuous Turton, may Plead ignorant of the appointment. But this is not all. The catalogue of infamy does not even end here. We learn that a person of the name of Henry S. Chapman has received a commis sionership froin, government. This man has done all in his power to bring about the Canadian insurrection. H e was once the editor of a paper in Papineau's inter est at Montreal, and subsequently became the active coadjutor of Roebuck, with whom he was connected in . p ro d uc ing• the celebrated but scandalous "Political Pamphlets," published under the name of the ex-mem ber for Bath. This revolutionary writer, as a reward for his services in stirring the people to rebellion, both at home, and in the colonies, is appointed a commis sioner to inquire into the state of hand loom weavers. It is impossible to reflect upon these appointments without involuntarily exclaiming against the reckless indecency of the Whig factio n. 'What a compli ment to the innocent and unsuspecting Queen of. Great Britain it is to select to offices of trust under her ad risers and representatives a convicted adulterer—a condemned seducer—and a frantic republican, who has tried his best to stimulate the subjects of Her Majesty to rebel against her authority ! THE Conti LAWS.—We perceive that the Mercury is determined to continue its warfare against the re strictive duties upon the importation of corn into Great Britain. As the "desultory remarks" of our ciitifeinporary -are intended as a sort of reply to the trticles which appeared in our own columns, relating to the same subject, we feel it our duty to bestow a few further observations on the crude and undigested nonsense of the Mercury. We have already shown that the Mercury has adopted the unpopular side of the question—that there exists no serious and preva lent desire for a repeal of the corn• laws—and that this apathy is not owing to the alleged succession of abun dant harvests, but to a sincere conviction of the im policy of adopting a free trade in corn. We shall next proceed to offer a few "desultory remarks" on the absurdities of the article which was resumed in the Mercury of July 6th. The following paragraph is so very rich a morceau that we cannot resist the temp tation of quoting it at length:- 4 , 4 H*, however, owing to the treachery of pretended Re formers, the Tory faction be ever reinstated in power, a woeful change would be the result, unless the party, re- Podiating alt the principles they have hitherto professed, should entirely abandon their former line of policy. Jud g i ng from the past, there is too much reason to apprehend that they would seize the first, pretext to involve the country in war with some foreign power in order to divert the attention of the people from those reforms at home which are de manded by the spirit of the times. Our commerce and trade would experience such serious depression that the people would become wide awake to the practical operation of the corn monopoly, and unless prevented from publicly assembling to petition the Legislature, as they were during the sway of Castlergnzh, the house of Commons and the foot of the Throne would be besieged with remonstrances against a pernicious system which artificially raises the price of human food at least fifty per cent, above its natural level." The"complicated blunders and palpable contradic tions contained in the preceding extract are truly laughable. We shall endeavour to tender it into in telligible English. If we understand the editor of the Mercury aright, he means to say, that if the Tories got into power once more, we should soon have war—that they would involve the country in war for the purpose of diverting the attention of the people from certain refOrrni—that our trade and commerce would conse quently languish—that the depression of our trade would make the people wide awake to the practical oPeratiOn of the corn monopoly—and that irresistible appeals would be made to the House of Commons and the throne requiring the abolition of the corn laws. This we conceive to he the meaning of the passage. What the learned editor intends to prove by it we can not guess, unless it be his object to show that the Tories are disposed to adopt a line of policy which 'Quid render inevitable the repeal of the corn lira's. we doubt whether the Mercury gives them credit for entertaining such a wish, but it certainly imputes as 1114 4 in the above ery curious and " desultory" pa rxgripb. The Mercury next alleges that unless the corn-laws are repealed, the enterprise, energy, and intelligence of Englishmen, will gradually be excluded from the fore ign markets. We defy him to prove that there is Ili symptom of this sort of exclusion, excepting from ose countries with whom we have entered into re !iProcal commercial treaties. The free trade system Ha! certainly done much to paralyze native industry and enterprise, and is likely to extend the evil. We need only point to the ruin which it has already intro duced into our silk trade, ‘vltich was at one time in a b Bt ,"" of great prosperity. There are many other nelle s of our manufactures which are suffering in like manner from want of protective duties. ' l3 the last Mercury we have another rambling arti e' on the su bj ect o f t h e corn -l aws , i n w hi c h the editor ls r e stows the m o st l av i s h a b use upon th e Earl of Stan lope for espousing the cause of the people against t heir Whig oppressors; but as it does not contain a 'ingle attempt at argument we shall pass it by with "t a single remark. We shall look with anxiety for the next prodigy in the Mercury. Then Cl mur.inGE.—S un d av, t h e I st i nstant, b e i ng Commence t , —"Hotly, the in inning sermon at St. Mary's was l i i reaen eri by the Rev. Th omas T atters h a ll, D. D. minister of A ugustine's, Liverpool, and the afternoon sermim by th . e ev. Fredvrick Iliff, D. D , head master of the Royal Insti mtiou S c h ool of this town.' Both these gentlemen have taken the degree of Doctors in Divinity. „ A Goon L ANDLORD.—The Rev. J ames INlainwaring, of L'reombrow-hall, Cheshire, on the celebration of the. late !oronatiou, gave a ball t o ail his tenants, their wives, and friends, at his mansion. The kind attention and cordiality of the reverend gentleman and his worthy lady excited the admiration of all p resent, and it was allowed by every guest that a happier evening was never spent. A superb supper was provided, after which dancing continued until a late h our. The day was the rent-day, and we should not oniit to 81 410, that the reverend gentleman observed his liberal ens torq of returuin ten per cent. ou. the rental to each tenant. THEATRE-RO Y AL. The managers of this theatre, as au attraction fur the race week, have engaged some of the first musical talent of the metropolis. On Tuesday evening, between the perform ances of some light comedies, a grand 'concert was given, in troducing to the audience Madame Cinii Damoreau, a vocal ist of some celebrity, the pianist Doehler, who has created quitea sensation in London, if we may gather an opinion from the newspaper critiques—an undoubted authority ! Signor Curiuni, the tenor singer, Signor Giubilei, the primo basso of the theatre-royal, Drury-lane, and the inimitable Bochsa, the harpist. The musical performances opened with an overture by the orchestra, -which was exceedingly well played, under the direction of its able leader. Signor Curioni and Signor Giubilei then made their bow to the au dience, and sang a duett from Bellini, " Sunni la Tromba," accompanied on the piano -forte, by Air. Bochsa, of whom anon. The qualifications, if we may so term them, of a pub not_aLuaa.in _gamut-voice, good ear, execution, clear enunciation and knowledge of music; there is still another wanting to ensure complete success; and that is an appearance of respect for and desire to please the audience. When this feeling is shown in a singer it engages the atten tion of the audience and gives it the predisposition to be pleased, and to overlook slight faults. But when a singer or speaker, or any one who solicits the attention of an assemblage, comes forward with an air of .nonchallance, as if careless whether he pleased or displeased, and as if the audience was an affair of very minor consideration to him, the feeling is excessively catching and spreads like wild-fire, and a hundred to one but every individual of his hearers feels in reality as careless about him as he takes pains to appear of them; and moreover there is engendered amongst them a spirit severely to criticise, and first-rate talent alone can save the performer from general disapprobation. If to this be added, in the can vasser for public favor, insufferable puppyisin and affectation, he not only brings down on himself disapprobation but positive ridicule. To these faults, which we point out in a spirit nowise unfriendly, do we attribute the hisses which followed the singing of the first duetto. The coxcombical bearing of Giubilei and the absurd affectation of Bochsa put the audience into the humour for quizzical merriment rather than for appreciating good music. The duetto, however, was well sung; Curioni has an excellent tenor voice, and Giubilei's bass is splendid—we never heard a more perfect singing articulation than his. Madame Cinti Damoreau next came forwards and sang a grand scena Francaise, by Auber, " Nina, Jenne et Sage," from the opera of Acteon. She is possessed of a voice of much sweetness and melody in the natural tones, but, either above or below the scope of the middle octave of her voice, she becomes reedy, harsh, and unmusical. She has not much power, confined execution, and is lamentably deficient in clearness of enunciation. This was particularly observable in the comic English duet afterwards sung by her and Giubilei, " When a little Farm we keep;"_ the clear and distinct utt era n ce a n d pi quanc y o f style of Giubilei being strikingly observable in contradis tion to the mumble-jumble looping of vowels—" Well a li'i far we kee"—of Madame Damoreau. The principal attrac tion was Doehler, who first played a number of brilliant vari ations on the piano-forte, introducing a favourite theme from " Anna Boletus." We are not sufficiently pianists to de scribe his extraordinary feats on this instrument, but his brilliant execution was really wonderful; and not the least extraordinary part of it was his performance of a difficult and rapid variation with one hand, together with the bass accom paniment. It was scarcely possible to imagine that such a volume of tone—such an accumulation of sounds rapidly produced, could be the execution of one hand. ,l - le was rapturously applauded, and his modest, unassuming, nay, retiring demeanour, made bins not the less a favourite with the audience; while it placed in a - itronger light the Baron Pompolino like absurdities of his instrumental com petitor, Bochsa, of whom it is now our turn to speak. No one will deny that Bochsa is a great harpist—that he is the master of his instrument, nor do we mean to call it in ques tion ; but we will say a word about his mode of giving " a touch of his quality." We wonder what Bochsa imagines himself, or what he imagines the Liverpool audience to be; for truly he took amazing liberties with both. If there were any juveniles amongst the latter, we can imagine them tempted to cry out to their mammas, " Some lord or some duke, as sure as I'm born !" with an accent of wonder and admiration, as the harpist gradually obtruded his ungainly figure to its full development before them with such an air— but that we can't describe. Well, Bochsa presided at the piano forte while Damoreau was singing. The audience were pleased with her, but were delighted at him. He rolled himself back over the music stool with all the grace of a very fat gentleman of 50, whisked one side of his coat over his shoulder with a jerk of his thumb to show a white waistcoat, stretched out his dexter leg, and balanced it on his heel, with a slow and impressive movement raised his left hand and gently placed back his straggling locks from off his brow as if to let in the light of inspiration by the portal of his fore head, " Turn'd the outside of his eyes to white, As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't," and finally leisurely surveyed th e ce ili ng as poets do when hoping to find a rhyme in the dusky corners of their apart ments. The audience tittered—well they might—who could help it? Then came Bochsa's turn to play a harp accompa niment to Doehler on the piano forte. This afforded him a very prominent opportunity of exhibiting the same absurd affectation. Dueller went quietly and systematically to work, and charmed the audience. Bochsa was continually behind hand, skipping and joining; Mailer did not give him time enough " To shake himself, and see what prowess In scabbard of his arms sat loose." Then -he broke a string—lucky, very; called a footman to bring a new string, and turned his 'head while executing a rapid passage; had a fine effect, capital. Then he missed a pedal with his foot, and struck a chord all in flats, which ought to have been in the natural key—frowned and looked savage at his harp, and pulled out the tuning key. Then joined Doehler again, and executed well aTapid and brilliant passage, and concluded amidst loud applause. The audience was delighted with Doehlet's playing, and was highly amus ed at Bochsa. The concert finished with the national an them by ➢ladame Cinti Damoreau, accompanied by the rest of the musical corps, and which she sung most wretchedly. The gods wore vociferous for an encore, which was partly acceded to, but the boxes were glad to escape from - a second infliction of " Go save the Queen," as Madame Cinti Da moreatt no doubt thought it. very clever to call it. PROTESTANT CHURCH AT LYONS. On Monday last, a select but highly interesting meeting— ADAM HODGSON, Esq. in the chair—was held at the Chari table Institution House, Slater-street, ro receive from the Rev. Charles Augustus Cordes, pastor of " L'Eglise Evan gelique" at Lyons, the report of the state of religion in that great commercial town. The CHAIRMAN introduced the subject for which they were assembled—to aid in building a Protestant place of worship in Lyons—by a reference to the dreadful atrocities committed in that city in the early part of the French revo lution; and by expressing the pleasure that every friend to religion must feel, that in a town where death was declared to be an eternal sleep, arid where the most profane indigni ties were cast in the most public manner upon the name of - our blessed Saviour and his holy sacrament—that in this town, containing a population of above 180.000 souls, a church should be erected for the worship of God, and the preaching of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the purity of the Protestant faith. The Rev. Mr. CORDES then commenced his statement. First, he gave a detailed account of the religious history of the town of Lyons, spewing the persecutions many of its inhabitants had endured for the truth's sake in the second century—in the days of Peter Waldo—at the reformation— at the time of the massacre on St. Bartholomew's day—and at subsequent periods. Mr. Cordes then referred to the pre sent state of religion in Lyons. According to the enactments of Napoleon Bonaparte, which still form the law throughout France, the deacons of the Protestant churches are chosen from the richest members, or those who are the highest rate payers of taxes to the governtnent. As soon as the Rev. A. Monod, the then pastor of the Protestant church at Lyons, commenced preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to his flock, the deacons thus appointed under the code of Napoleon took offence, commanded him to desist , and levanthirefusals aet so contrarydismissed t him ot h f e r ost p n ii b i i t s o c f h t a h r eg . gospel, U and upon his refusal dismissed him from his charge. Upon this o in n into.d opened a room in his own dwelling-house, where that part of his flock who had benefitted by ht ministry , gladly assem bled. This room was very soon found too small to contain the o g Upon y i n the hi s Protestantleaving emol.to become Professoi of sons s l e er of Montauban, Mr. charge,Cordes became many R o their mn n Catholics,pas tor who w a e t r t ed at Mr. Monod's arbitrary expulsion, came ee t r o m l h r u e isc a h r tl th rs e il? N ig Vo s r he d, believed, renounced the errors of the Church of Rome, and openly professed the Protestant faith. Their numbers daily increased, so that the room which had been engaged as a place of worship, formerly a concert-room, was found to be much too confined. In the spring of 18.37, a remarkable increase of hearers rendered the want of room more painfully evident, and an effort was made to gain additional space by converting a contiguous apartment into a part of the chapel room. Very soon, however, this enlargement was found t th insufficient at the also atmosphere. l o t o f i the ncrease ofm was attendantsfrequently and whilst some of the hearers were from time to time obligedWl7tOsloergfl'edae; others were alto gtoeibheercaurirlzitehdleottiot t i , t b i t a ai s n t, n it c e c o e f ss i . nsensibility , before, but various difficulti es, a n d particularly The idea of erecting a chap el had beennffetnheshuiggghesrtaetde of build g brsote e• u , n i d materials, tleng tit e v a r y d e l; l e h r e e t. to n s a i d p e p t e a a t o e n d insuperable . seemed to vanish before the paramount duty of providing room in the sanctuary of the Lord, for such numbers as were pressing to hear the glad tidings of salvation. An appeal was consequently addressed in the month of February last, to the Christians of France and Switzerland, and by many of these generous answers were returned. Among the most devoted of those who have shown how willingly they could make a sacrifice in favour of such a cause, were the poor of Lyons themselves, who gave proofs of a zeal and self denial truly affecting. But such is their poverty, that the total sum received up to the time Mr. Cordes left Lyons, was about £4OO, whereas the sum re quired for the construction of a chapel, and the purchase of the ground calculated. with the current expenses of the year, upon the most moderate scale, amounts to full £B,OOO sterling. Seeing, therefore, the impossibility of obtaining this sum in Lyons, a special council of the church was summoned on the Bth May. 1838, and at this meeting it was resolved, that the pastor of the church, the .Rev. C. A. Cordes, be autho rised and requested to proceed to England, to solicit the aid of British Christians. Mr. Cordes then, in a very feeling manner, described some of the difficulties with which his flock had to contend, and the private persecution some of the members had endured for the truth sake. This persecution was excited by the jealousy of the Roman Catholic priests. An instance of jealousy is strikingly exhibited in the Archbishop of Amasie, a Roman Catholic Prelate, who, in order to impress the priests in the diocese of Lyons (over which he exerc►ses Episcopal jurisdiction) with a sense of the necessity of making fresh efforts to oppose the progress of the Gospel, has circulated among his clergy a letter, in which the following passages occur " The labours of Protestants to spread among the people their pretended Reformation, and the various means they employ to ensnare, seduce, and pervert the souls of the simple and unsuspecting, ought naturally to excite the zeal and the vigilance of the clergy. You know, sir, as well as ourselves, the manoeuvres of heresy at Lyons, and in seve ral other parts of our diocese, where emissaries, for the most part foreigners, rush into the sheepfold like wolves, devour ing the flock. For it is no longer clandestinely that this sect labour to make proselytes, or to shake the belief of the faith ful, but publicly in our city they hold their meetings, and in the streets, on the bridges, and even at the very portals of our church es , ex hibit an d distribute defamatory libels against the clergy, and impious pamphlets, under the most innocent titles, and Bibles translated after their own manner."* After this interesting statement of facts, (*hid] our limits have constrained us to abridge,) Mr. Con s, with the feel ings of a christian ministsr, sent by his flock as a messenger to the churches, appealed to those who loved their Saviour to aid them in their work. The appeal was made with such christian affection and genuine simplicity, that all who were present were deeply affected. There was scarcely one indi vidual but was in tears. After a short pause, the following resolution was proposed by the Rev. JAMES HA L DA NE, STEWA RT, incumbent of St. Bride's, and seconded by the Rev. Dr. RALPH, minister of the Scotch church, and carried unanimously : " That this meeting deeply sympathize with their Protest ant brethren in Lyons, and deem it highly desirable that a Protestant place of worship should be erected in that town for their better accommodation, and that in aid of the funds for building the same, a subscription be forthwith commenced. "That Adam Hodgson, Esq., be appointed Treasurer, by whom (or by 04 Banlc- of Liverpool, or by Mr. El. Perris, bookseller, Church-street ) ) donations will be thankfully re ceived, and transmitted to the Managing Committee in London. The Rev. Mr.M A visA an,chaplain of the Mariner's Church, then declared his intention, by divine permission, to bring the subject before his congregation ; and he trusted that, al though it was well known that they were not rich, they would show that they had hearts to feel, and hands to communicate to their Protestant brethren ; that they would do as was done by the disciples at Antioch, who, when they heard of the then threatened famine, " every man according to his ability, de termined to send relief unto brethren which dwelt in Judea, which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Paul and Baruabas." Much regret was expressed that the meeting had not been more generally known. It was afterwards understood. that Mr. CORDES had en gagements which obliged him to leave Liverpool the next morning, but that arrangements would be made for a public meeting at which Mr. Cordes would attend. A subscription was itntnediatelv commenced. Several sums were subscrib ed, (for the parliculars of which see advertisement.) After wards a gentleman sent a valuable gold snuffbox, and a lady a very handsome gold chain and brooch. May these be only as the first fruits of that christian liberality which it is hoped dwells in many hearts. * The pamphlets and Bibles thus stigmatized, are the doc trinal and controversial publications issued by the Tract and Evangelical Societies of France, and the received Protes tant and even some Catholic French versions of the sacred Scriptures circulated by the Bible Society. REVISION OF THE IRISH MAGISTRACY.-THE PROTESTANT CLERGY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST✓IND4RD. SlR,—This subject has already occupied the serious atten ticn of the imperial legislature, and, during the discussion of it, many facts of a strange and startling character have been disclosed for public inquiry. It is not, however, for the pur pose of recurring to those facts, or of weakening their effect by useless expansion or repetition, that 1 now solicit the at tention of your respectable and justly numerous readers. I do so from a principle of duty. From coiranunications, which I have lately received from Ireland, I have extracted infor mation with which I think a discerning English public should be made acquainted, and it is therefore that 1 respectfully seek a place in your talented and influential journal. This information relates to the causes and effects of the revision of the Irish magistracy by the Normanby adminis tration. And here, in limine,l remark, that wholesale as have been the dealings of this viceroy, in behalf of the party to whose bold and seditious working he owes the origin of his power, and the permanence of his place; and ready and willing as he has been for these two considerations to play panderer to their appetites, and to pawn both the value and dignity of his crown as a pledge for their adulation and sup port; yet, there has been no one act of his, springing from such motives, more truly disgraceful, anti-national and anti- English, than his revision of the magistracy. I emphasize the word "anti-English" for this reason : —lf we analyze the demands of the Irish factionists, and the concessions of the English ministers, we shall find this one principle pervading them all—the recognition of a separate independence, and a divided interest as regards England and Ireland, and the establishment of such a basis of le g islation for the latt er as would render the wants, wishe s , and dependencies of her people, paramount to those of the community of the empire; in other words, a severing of the connexion of Ireland as an integral portion of the nation, and her formation into a narrow, religious, and political sectary, where every enlarged and liberal notion of g overnment must be made subservient to the ascendancy of a party. If this were not the case, concealed no doubt, by jesuitical craft and cunning, how could we be so often nauseated by the cant of "the majorities and minorities of Irish Catholics, and Irish Protestants," of " the labour of the many being subsidized for the luxury of the few," and all such like phrazes of modern agitation ! In fact, sir, it is the sedition of the demagogue which con stitutes the injustice of the government, for he divides and subdivides the population of the empire into classes of country and religion, that he may the more render them available to his dishonest purposes. Testing the conduct of the Marquis of Normanby, with respect to the Irish magis tracy, upon these principles, it is, that I pronounce it anti national, and above all anti-English. But to the causes of the revision. You are no doubt aware that the Popish party in Ireland, since they got a legislative permission to be turbulent, have been loud and incessant in their outcry against the occupation of the magisterial bench by -the Protestant clergy. They felt, and they felt aright too,. that as long as such men held th e i r p os iti on u p on th a t tribunal, so necessary in such a country, that their efforts at political ascendancy or religious peculation must be in a great measure baffled and retarded. There was a 'barrier between them and the success of their presumptive machi nations, and unless they could overpass or prostrate it by a rush of popular force, they never could finally effectuate their designs upon the church and state of Protestant Ire land. This barrier was the share which the clergy of the established faith had iu the local administration of justice. Hence it was, that demagogues of every description, metro politan and provincial, lay and clerical, united in one conti nued and unrelenting hostility towards this much-injured and calumniated body. There was no slander which malig nant bigotry could invent, and a ready credulity receive, that was not circulated against them. Was there a male factor sent to prison, it was because he was a Papist, and his committal was signed by a Protestant clergyman ! Was there a fraudulent debtor obliged to pay his just debts, csh ! it was an unotfending, honest, poor devil of a Roman Catho lic, victimised by the judicial partiality of a parson magis trate ! In short, Sir, there was no end to the false and scandalous imputations sought to he cast upon the men, whose integrity on the bench, and charity on the threshold, should have aroused for them as many defenders from the gratitude, as they had persecutors front the perfidy, of the people. Thus the incendiary prints of the faction were ever filled with noxious and inflammatory statements of " partial decisions"—" undue influence" corruption of the func tions of justice to party purposes "—" doings of the Orange magistracy " —and such like accusations, got up for the purpose of organising a violent and unceasing assault upon the existence of the Protestant clergy in connection with the magistracy of Ireland. But, Sir, aslong the country was happily in the possession of rulers who held fast and firm by the institutions of our ancestors, and who refused to be hallooed on as the wolf dogs of democracy against everything time-hallowed and venera ble in them, so long their outcries and calumnies fell power less and ineffective on the ears of authority. But, Sir, when a tame and humiliated set of placemen took their seals of office at the dictation and under the patronage of the very lea der of the seditionists, who clamoured for the degradation and spoliation of the Protestant Church, and its ministers spiri tually as welt as temporally, the blindest politician could foresee, that eventually no station of dignity or influence would be left to either. The magisterial bench was' the first object for the fire of the revolutionary battery. Like Napoleon, who secured his command in Italy by, turning his artillery on tne people when they dared to resist manifest usurpation; the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland thought the best way to secure his command from the approbation of his di rectory was by annihilating the political power of the men, t w o h or resist the gener al ist,papal ascendancy cenda confusion ucy a were n d radical honestand fearless aggression. therefore, has struck out every reverend name from the list of the magistrates of the country. No matter what. may have been their experience, capacity, or character,—no matter how their Christian kindness and charity interwove their duties with the affections of the well-disposed of the community, --no matter how they may bare been revered for their justice, or esteemed for their integrity,—no matter how they may be preferred by the right-thinking and induitrious of the peasantry to the novi homines of modern democracy,-- and above all and before.all, no matter how they have teen of late growiugly and intimately connected with a spirit of Protestant inquiry and a thirst for scriptural knowledge, and thus, in their 'respective localities and districts, aggregating in themselves a variety as well as excellence of duties, which none but men of such devotion and principle could hope to discharge; yet as such, the Viceroy of the Whig ministry has swept them from the magisterial bench of Ireland. The besom of political destruction has been busy with their vene rable utility, and the Protestant clergy of Ireland, in refe rence f t e u s w ti e c i e l4 between of the Catholic population, and the affectionate indignat i o n 1 7 a n n ce an to d t m h a e n it:h e i x g t h st c o a n ll ly ing in as ti d te is p r e eg ns re e t rs n of their fellow.thinkers in politics and religion. In doing this, the Marquis of Norinanby has compromised the secu rity of the best interests of the empire, by the betrayal of one of its most vulnerable parts , and has bar te red the respecta bility of Protestant Ireland, for the patronage of its Popish majority. The effects of this revision of the magistracy can be readily shewn. The new Coronet of the Marquis of Normanhy I will adduce as my first evidence To what does his lordship owe the glitter of the bauble which the whig ministry have placed upon his brow? What paramount national good has he achieved? What great and productive services has lie rendered the country? What fame and honour and public claim has lie now, that he is thus sent back to his seat of government emblazoned with the pomp and circumstance of a new title? I will tell you, Sir,—His political creator, the man who called him from the questionable reputation of a noble novelist and slave regenerator, to the once proud sta tion of England's vice-gerent,—he, has said that he has tran quillized distracted Ireland, that he has healed her divisions and united her population, and therefore his vanity must have a gratuity from ministerial gratitude. But the truth is be neath all this. Never was ribbonism, that fell conspiracy of blood and murder and terror more wide spread and diffused, yet still closely connected and linked together in all its intri cate ramifications, than it is at the present moment. Ire land, from one end to the other, is a slumbring volcano of insurrectionary.violence, and those who walk upon the sur face dream not of the elements of destruction, that are con jugating and concentrating beneath. And yet, Sir, the Go vernor of such a country. and the chief controller of its im mediate destinies is hailed and welcomed and trapped out in the panoply of heraldic state, as if, like Washington, he was "a source of energy, a bond of union, the centre of an enlightened people's confidence." Here is the secret. The magisterial bench of Ireland is converted into a kennel for his own and his master's hounds. Every spirit that could not he lashed into subserviency, every offspring of good breed and blood, that could not live upon their political offal, and turned fiercely upon the mean and paltry profligates set over them; these have-been excluded from the enclosures of go vernment patronage and influence, and none but the base and the mongrel retained within them. Why then should not Mr. O'Connell proudly and confidently stand up in the House of Commons and say the ribbon conspiracy is at an end in Ireland—yea, farther, challenge proof to the contrary? He knows he cannot be satisfactorily contradicted. The Viceroy is his pensioned, bedizened tool—the magisterial bench his territory—the assistant barristers, in all the sus pected counties, his abettors—the chiefs of police his veriest creatures—can he not then proclain what falsehoods his cor rupted imagination may conceive, or his mischievous heart sanction ? But the pernicious tendency of the measure does not rest here. The administration of justice is rendered palsied and incapable. The people have no confidence in the parties who have been promoted to the vacancies. The Roman Catholics know them, and the Protestants fear them. Thus, there are sowing the germs of a terrible state of things. Impurity, partizanship, and corruption on the one hand— distrust, retaliation, and hatred on the other. The . popish party are in possession of the sword of—l will not call it justice, butpower, and they would be belying every record of history, and every legend of that tradition upon which they so much rely, ►f they did not use it, to say the least of them, to their own aggrandizing usurpation. . - But, sir, let not the peo - ple of England imagine that actions such as these—so defying of every recollection of the past, so monstrous among the inconsistencies of the present, and so perilous to the interests of the future, have not had their due and appropriate effect upon the yet loyal and faithful few who stand by the institutions from which they have well nigh been excluded. There is an indignation attic heart as well as the passions, which makes its vibration tingle through every nerve of the social system, and which. ere long, will gather strength enough to make itself both feared and felt. It is tine that the 'Marquis of Normanby, in the pomp of his new coronet, and while he is crouching under the wing of Mr. O'Connell, may affect to despise the growth of this in dignation. 0 yes, when he goes back to ,the rabble over which he sways his bauble sceptre, and displays his share in the spolia opima of the coronation, he will doubtless, in the huzzas of the crowd and the adulation of the slavering hypo crites who minister to his vanity, reflect little upon the wounds which his mischievous policy is inflicting on the future peace and prosperity of unhappy Ireland. But let him, and the patty whose dominion be is so insidiously nursing into power, even in this, the hey-day of their tri umph, beware! Protestant Ireland was never yet conquered, and, with the assistance of Divine Providence, never shall, 'at least by the present asserters of infidelity and sedition.— ' am, &c., WZNiEUS. Liverpool, jnly 16th, 1838. LIVERPOOL RACES. The Liverpool July meeting, an event of much importance to the sporting fraternity, and of much more paramount in terest in most other parts of the county than in Liverpool itself, commenced on Tuesday. In the morning the weather was capricious, alternate showers and sunshine, and it was a fair sample of what the Whole day turned out to be. As early as ten o'clock the road leading to Aintree began to ex hibit symptoms of bustle and animation. Those who had business at the races were on the alert; those who may be properly denominated the sporting gentry were scarcely stir ring. Their occupations in the betting, ring, in the various momentous matters of making up boOks,• of dropping or touching a few sovereigns at hazard, of lookillg after the probable state of affairs at the cock-pit, &c. &c:, had kept them from their beds till a late hour on the preceding night, and it was left to those who had to administer to their appe tites, and to certain keel, votaries of iniquity, who gather loose cash from the simple rustics, to "give note of prepara tion." Accordingly, the road, at the hour we have named, was covered with such humble vehicles as carts, shandries, vans, &c. The former carried loads of eatables and drinka bles, with the bipeds who were to retail them to the hungry and thirsty lieges of her Majesty. The shandries conveyed to the course a pretty considerable number of hosts and host esses, and not a few regular-built blacklegs of the " upper class," those individuals tolerably " famous in story," who hunt in couples, "pick up" the provincials,' and, by the mere toss of a halfpenny or sonic other equally simple expedient, manage to get from them their money. The vans were not many. Amongst them, however, we observed two of that description called gaming vans. In these were all the appa ratus fur un, deux, cinq, roulette, &c., ready to be fixed up on the course in a most convenient spot that might offer. They also contained proper accommodations for those who remain to take charge of the balls and tables during the night. Hundreds of the minor genus of gamblers, who in fest all the race-courses from one end of the kingdom to the other, were journeying on foot towards the scene of action, intermingled with professional mendicants, hucksters, ped lers, venders of racing cards, showmen, pugilists, &c. The thimble-riggers were amongst the most numerous of those where we have the minor gambling. These carried their whole stock in trade about them; a three-legged deal table on the shoulder, and thimbles in the pocket. It turned out, however, that there were, to use a homely expression, "more traps than mice." The gaming-tables, of every de scription, were proportionately snore numerous than the company. As the day advanced, the gloomy state of the atmosphere threw a corresponding gloom over the minds of the pleasure-seekers, and the dampness of the weather threw a damp over the proceedings. Many who had resorved to make a journey to the course, gave up the intention, and resolved to wait and see if the weather would not be more propitious for the more attractive races of Wednesday. The number of individuals at the course was not very great. The Grand Stand was not half filled, the other stands near to the winning-post were but scantily supplied with visitors, and those still lower down showed but sprinklings. The pedes trians on the course were not numerous, and altogether, so far as attendance went, the thing was what is commonly called "shy." Even the rustics of the neighbOurhood, who com monly- enjoy such scenes greatly, had not mustered in strong force. In fact, the races of the day were not particularly in teresting to any but sporting men, and the heroes of the turf were present in considerable numbers, and busy as labourers at the harvest. But they had but little business except amongst themselves; it was "diamond cut diamond" to the end of the chapter, both at the gaming-tables and in the betting circles. The amusement of the day, however, "the .order of the course," was good, the racing being generally above par, and the people entered into the spirit of it with appropriate enthusiasm. Amongst the distinguished individuals present we observed, Lord Derby, Lord and Lady Molyneux, with some other members of the Molyneux family, Lord g lin g ton, Lord Miltown, Lord Archibald Seymour, Lord Mostyn, Lord St. Maur, Baron Strafford, Sir John Gerard, Sir John Hilton, and the Hon. Mr. Fitzroy. The first race was THE CROXTETH STAKES of 15 sous each, 10 ft with3o added ; three yrs old 6st 816 ; four, Bst 21b ; five ' Bst 91b ; six and aged, 9st. Marrs and Geldings a ll owe d 31b. Mr. Buckley's Harpurhey, 3 yrs.... (Whitehouse).. 1 Sir John Gerard's b g The Potentate, 6 yrs.. (Lye).. 2 Mr. Phillip's Maid of Muntin, 4 yrs (Templeman).. 3 Sir Wm. bulkeley's Brown Duchess, 3 yrs (W. Jones) 4 Lord Derby's Aggante and Lord Eglington's St. Martin, were entered, but did not start. Betting 6t04 on the Poten tate, 3 to 1 against Maid of Mont in, and 4 to 1 against Har purhey : no other named. There were two false starts, White house and Templeman being each determined upon the lead. The third time off the horses went away well together, Har purhey taking the lead, but Templeman immediately pushed past and made the running. Whitehouse, however, kept a good inside place on his haunch; finding the pace good enough for his purpose, he husbanded the strength of his horse after the first push. Brown Duchess soon exhibited symptoms of the severity of the pace being rather more than she liked, and at the turn she cried enough, flagged, and was rapidly tailed off. Templeman made some play till near the distance chair when it became evident that the Maid must give way. The running then was all between Potentate and Harpurhey for about half a distance. Ultimately, about forty yards from home, Whitehouse pushed his horse forward cleverly and won a well-contested race by about a length and a half. Brown Duchess carried five pounds above her proper weight. A SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for the produce of mares covered in 1834; cults, Bst Glb ; fillies, Bst 311. Tw•o miles. Mr. F. Price's hr c Captain Pops (W. Jones) 1 Sir W. Bulkelev's br f Picotee, by Tethers (Doling) 2 There were ente r ed, Lord D e rby' s colt, by Felt, Sir Thos. Stanley's, by Brutandorf, end chesnut filly, by Bulladore, Mr. Turner's Recovery, and Lord Westminstees fillies, by Pantaloon, out of Banterand Ambuscade. Betting 5t02 on Captain Pops. The latter had it all his own way, and the race was won in a canter. The MERSaY STAKES, for two years old. A swe'ipstakes of 25 sovs. each, with 30 soya. added; colts Bst 51b; fillies _ _Bst 2ibs. T.Y.C. Mr. Fowler's b; c Profligate (Darling) 1 Lord Derby's ch cby Velocipeue . (Lye) 5 Mr. Newsham's be Huntingdon (Thompson) 3 Mr. Peel's b c Billy (Templeman) 4 Sir J. Gerard's In fby Olympus (Edwards) 5 The betting was 5 to 4 against H untingdon, 3 to 1 against the Derby colt, and 3 to 1 against Profligate. Mr. Bower's colt by Priam, Mr. Gifford's by Langer, and Lord Egliuton's colt Uriah were entered, but did not start. This was a beautiful and well-contested race. After two false starts, the horses stretched out beautifully in a line. In a moment or two Sir Jahn Gerard's filly took the lead, but as quickly gave it up without a chance of recovery. Billy was then a little in advance, the horse s carr yi ng on a t t o p s p ee d. At the distance Billy began to hang back, and it was soon evident that his place must be in the rear. , The other three rushed up the course all together, Lord Derby's colt showing his nose slightly in front of the others, though Profligate and Huntingdon showed that they were in great vigour. For the last sixty yards the race was most exciting. - Huntingdon lost by about a length. Ld..Derby's colt and Profligate were neck and neck till within about ten yards of the ;gaol, when the latter, by a few " brave b oun d s, " s h ot a b out half r alength a-head of his competitor. A MAIDEN PL ATE, value 70 sous. for hotses that never won £5O. at any time. Three years old, 7st ; four,Bst2lb; five, Bst lib; six and aged, Bst I.olb. The second horse to re ceive 10 says, out of the Plate. Heats, two miles. Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn's ch c by Ld. Orford's Grand Duke, 3 yrs (Dodgson) 1 () 1 Sir John Gerard's bc by Belzoni, 3 yrs (Nat) U 1 2 Captain Lamb's Miss kitty Cockle .. ('l'empleman) 20 3 Mr. Cook's bf by Herbert Lacy, 3 yrs..(W. Jones) 3 2 d Mr. J. Walker's ch c The Tyrant, 3 yrs (Lye) 00 4 Mr. Roberts's ch c by Recovery, was entered, but did not start. Betting on the first heat 7to 4 against Mr. Most) n's colt, 2 to 1 against Belzoni, and 5 to 1 against Kitty Cockle. This was the best contested heat of the day. The Tyrant ' and Sir John Gerard's colt saved distance and reserved them selves. The pace at first was slow, being for the first mile and a half little better than a canter. The contest at the distance put the horses to their best speed, but Mr. Cook's colt fell behind about<lo yards from home. The Grand Duke colt and Kitty Cockle then contested every inch, and after a close race the former won by half a head. All the horses started for the second heat., The running was this time en tirely between Mr. Cook's filly and Belzoni, the other three in turn reserving themselves. The heat was won easily by Sir John Gerard's colt. When the horses started for the third heat, the Herbert Lacy filly having been withdrawn, the betting was 6t04 on the field. The heat turned out un interesting after all. The Grand Duke colt had it all his own way, and won easily half a length. WEDNESDAY. - . This morning, broke more auspicious, for not a single ' shower fell to damp the ardour of the many thousands of our own population, besides the immense numbers that had ar rived from distant inland towns, and even the sister king dom, to enjoy the sports; and therefore many that were de terred from venturing out on Tuesday were this day early on the road. The line of road presented many pedestrians who were pedestrians from sheer necessity, vehicles not being procurable; and to some gentlemen who had come from a distance, desirous to speculate, the delay thus occasioned from want of conveyance was extremely vexatious. The usual motley groups were likewise observable, and the con gregation of the dense mass on the stands and grounds, afforded an exhilirating prospect. The grand stand had a full and fashionable attendance of nobility and gentry, but there were also many of the swell mob who followed their vocation with some success. However, Messrs. Flockhart, Bradshaw, inspector Poole, and several other active officers of the Liverpool police, were vigilantly observant, and as they attended iu plain clothes their efficiency was the greater, for their business was unsuspected. Mr. Inspector Poole seized one elegantly-dressed individual, we believe, in the act of appropriating tlw purse of a gentleman without per mission. The small fry were also busied below, and robber ies of all kinds were numerous where yokels (and they were many) sported their money with the pea and thimble rig gers, and the gamesters in an ascending scale. But notwithstanding these detracting circumstances the amusements of the day, as the day itself; were brilliant and delightful. The sports commenced with A SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs. each. h ft, with 20 sovs. added; three yrs old fillies Bst 31b. One mile. Mr. F. R. Price's ch f Zillah, by Reveller, out of Morisco, (M. Junes) walked over. Lord Stanley's ch f Rodora II Mr. Walter's Bisbopsgate . Mr. W. Smith ns br f Brown Duchess A SWEEPSTAKES of 1(K) soya each, h ft; for the produce o mares covered in 1834; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. • tried stallions or mares allowed 31b. ) Aintree Course about a mile and a half. The second horse to save hi stake *Mr. W. I urner's ch c by Recovery (Templeman) I *Mr. Houldsworth's b f by Vanish, out of Flush(Darling) 2 Lott! Derby's br c by Humphrey Clinker, out of Armida. p Betting 5t04 on the Chesnut colt by Recovery. Temple man made the racing with the filly at his quarters, who ap peared to wait quietly to be let out at the proper moment, but this was delayed too long, and Turner's colt won by a head. Great disapprobation was felt with the result of this race, and some went so far as to blame Darling for waiting so long; but we understand he had a bad tempered horse that would not bear the whip, and that in other respects he did all that it was possible to do to win. The Tradesmen's Cup, or Piece of Plate, value 200 sovs. with 100 soya in Specie added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, Isft. Two miles. The winner to pay 30 sovs. to the judge. The second horse to receive 5U sovs. out of the stakes. 7 4 Lord Eglinton's b or br c St. Bennett, 4 yrs (T Lye) 1 8 5 Lord It. Grosvenor ns Harkaway, 4 yra..(Holmes) 2 7 12 Mr. Robinsons's br c Melbourne,4 yrs (Templeman) 3 7 0 Lord Chesterfield's b c by Priam, hr. bred 4 yrs (Nat) 0 S 5 Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff, 4 yrs (Edwards 0 9 3 H0n.E.M.1.1. Mostyn's bm Birdlime, aged (Darling 0 8 7 Lord Suffield's Caravan, 4 yrs (G. Edwards 0 7 4 Mr. G. Cook's ch m Rachael, 4 yrs :...(W. Jones) 0 7 3 Lord Miltown's ch f Cruiskeen (Neale) 0 6 12 Lord Miltown's ch c Cushneiche. ( Hanlel 0 6 12 Mr. Fitzroy ns b ra Vesper, 5 yrs (Dodgson 0 6 7 Lord Warwick's c by Bruntandorr, (G. Whitehouse 0 7 12 Mr. Meiklam's b f Modesty, 4 yrs ....(Cartwright) 0 The interest excited by this race was greater than on any previous occasion, heightened doubtless by the heavy engage ments of the Irish party on the crack horse Harkaway. This horse has but recently arrived from Ireland, where his run ning has proved him a very superior horse, and so satisfied were his friends of his qualities, that they scarcely placed any limit to their speculations. ilefore starting he stood second favourite, as will be seen by the following quotations: 2 to I against St. Benuett, (taken ), 3 to 1 against Harkaway (taken), 7 to 1 against Birdlime, 7 to 1 against Caravan, 9 to 1 against Puff, 100 to 6 against Modesty, 20 to 1 against Mayflower, 50 to 1 against Racine!, 50 to 1 agst Cruiskeen, 50 to 1 agst Vesper, Z 5 to 1 agst Lord Warwick's.—Slashing Harry was declared not to start before the race. The horses, with the exception of Birdlime, showed in front of the stand. Being fretful, she was saddled at the extreme end of the straight run, adjoining the starting pole,. where she was joined by the other horses. The lot were brought together, and Mr. Jackson succeeded in getting thehi off without a false start; but Birdlime's fretfulness t hrew her in the rear, where she was soon joined by Lord Warwick's horse, Puff being but little in advance; the rest were in a ruck, St. Ben nett leading, and Harkaway close up. • At the first turn passing the stand liachael momentarily beaded St. Bennett, but he regained the lead, and retained it to the close. Very little change was observable to the bridge, but at the turn the tailing commenced. The pace was very severe throughout, and to this the tailing was of course attributable. St. Ben nett and Harkaway parted company, and from the distance to the goal the race was severely contested. About twenty lengths from home Harkaway appeared to be advancing to the front, and Lye, in consequence, applied both persuaders "and whip with right good-will, to which his horse instantly answered. Harkaway's great weight, too, told against him; and St. Bennett succeeded in winning a severely run race by half a length only. Harkaway, with 151 b greater weight than the winner, proved himself to be as good a horse as his friends had represented. Of the rest ante horses in this race it is scarcely necessary to speak, for the tailing extended to the distance, but we may observe that Melbourne was in the third place, some three or four lengths off; Mayflower next; then followed Puff, who bad worked his way through the horses to the fifth place, and Birdlime sixth. The riding of both Lye and Holmes was the subject oe general admiration; Lye was scarcely ever seen to greater advantage. A PLATE, value 70 sovs for all ages. Three years old 6st 81b; four, Bst 51b, five, Bst,l2lb ; six and aged, 9st 21b. Heats, once round and a distance. The winner of a Plate this year, before starting, to carry 31b extra, of two Plates a Culp, or her Majesty's Plate, tilb extra. Lord Eglinton's hr c St. Martin, 3yrs ' (Lye) 2 1 vr.o. Mr. Topham's b e The Drone, 3 yrs ..(W. Jones) 1 2 d Mr. Clarke's b c Anvil, 4 yrs (Darling) 3 3 d St. Martin was supported at 3 to 1 before the first heat, which Drone, after making good running, won easily. The second heat St. Martin won cleverly, Anvil being beaten off near half a distance. St. Martin walked over the next heat. This finished the day's sports, and the return home was characterised by as much bustle. and excitement as the out ward journey, yet with no untoward collision to destroy the pleasurable feelings that prevailed. THURSDAY. The Sr. LEGER STAKES of 25 sovs each, with 50 sovs added. Colts 8 - 4 t 61b, tidies, Bst 31b. One mile and three-quarters. Mr../lowes, ch c Arpleton Lad (H. Edwards) 1 Mr. Fowler's ch c Gilbert Gurney (Calloway) 2 The CHUSTEIiFIKLD.STAKES of 5U sovs each.li ft. for the produce of mares covered in 1835; colts Bst 51b, fillies Bst 21b. A wioner.in- 18.38 to carry 31b, twice 51bs. extra. T.Y.C. Lord Stanley's eh c by Velocipede, out of A rmida .(Lye) 1 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's ch c Ginger Blue, by Recovery, (Darling) 2 A FREE HANDICAP STAKE of 25 sous each, 15 ft, for all ages. One mile and a quarter. Three to accept, or no race. Lord Derby's b f Miss 1307 e, 4 yrs. .....(Cartwright) walked over. DERBY HANDICAP.--A SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, with 80 added by the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby. One mile. Mr. Hesseltine's b c Slashing Harry, 4 yrs (Hesseltine)•l Lord Stanley's b f Miss Boa e, 4 vrs (Cartwright) 2 Lord Eglington's b g The Potentate, 6 yrs Mr. Fowler's b m Mersey, 5 yrs Lord Eglingtou's bik h Time Black Diamond, 5 vrs Her MAJESTY'S PLATE, value WO truineas. Three years old 7st 51b, four 9st lib, live 9st 111 b, six and aged lOst 21b. Two mile heats. Lord Eglington's br c St. Martin, 3 yrs (LyeN 4 1 Mr. Ferguson's ell c Harkaway, 4 yrs ....(Holmes) 1 '2 d Hon. E. M. Ll. Mostyn's br f the Brown Duchess .. 2 dis. Mr. Davies ns ii c St. Leonard, 3 yrs THE GREAT WESTERN The following letter has been addressed to Colonel Ma berly by the Directors of the Great Western Steam Corn pany. It reflects the greatest credit upon them for their li berality, and we hope that the Postoffice authorities will at once meet their handsoMe offer, and accede to the wishes of the whole mercantile community. " TO COL. 111-ABERLY. " The Directors of the Great Western Steam Shipping Company make the following request to Col. Maberly:— They are informed by the merchants of Liverpool trading with America that it is of great importance that the letters for the Great Western Steam Ship, which vessel will leave Kingroad on Saturday next, the 21st, should not leave Li verpool at an earlier hour than 7 on the evening of Friday .next, at which hour a railway train leaves Liverpool for Bir mi“gham. If sent at the regular hour of 3on that day, they cannot take out to the United States the Cotton reports, &c. of the current week, an object of the greatest impor tance to the general commercial interests of the country. If despatched by the 7 o'clock train the letters would arrive in Birmingham by eleven or twelve o'clock on Friday night. which would be too late for the Bristol mail for that town; but if Colonel Maberly will permit the bag to be brought from that town to Bristol, by express, they will arrive in time for the Great Western; and the directors beg to say, that they will willingly pay the expense of such express. Should Col. Maberly accede to this request, they further beg the favour of his allowing the necessary instructions to be sent to the Postmaster of Liverpool immediately, that notice may be given to the merchants of that port. " The directors regret that it is impossible that the Great Western can be detained under any circumstances, as upwards of one-hundred passengers, of the first class, have already engaged their berths in her to sail on Saturday." STEAMING .ON THE CANALS. In an article under this head in the Guar , tien of Saturday last, we noticed the first down voyage to this town from Lon don, through the canals, of a steam boat named the Novelty. Before entering into souse further particulars respecting this boat, we are desirous to correct an error into which we were led by our informant, and which, not having ourselves wit nessed the speed of the boat on the canal, we had no means of setting right at, the time. We there stated her speed to be at the rate of nearly eight miles an hour; but so far from this being the case on the canals, we understand that all that is sought for is to attain, as a regular speed, a rate of six miles an hour; and this speed has been maintained in even the first trial through the canals, in the most satisfactory manner. The speed of " nearly eight miles an hour" has been attained by the boat, but not on the canals: it was run during a trial on the Thames, under circumstances much more favourable to steaming than are to be obtained in canal navigation. We have already stated, that the Novelty is the hull of an old canal boat. Her form, to those unacquainted with the build of these boats, will be better understood when we state that her length is about seventy-four feet; with seven feet six inch beam; she is heavily constructed, and, when loaded, draws about two feet water. We noticed that her engine was high pressure and of four horses' power, supplied with steam from a small locomotive boiler. The boat is fitted with a species of paddles, already described, but perhaps better known as " Ericsson's propellers," in substitution of the side paddles, of the old steamers—which are constructed so as to propel, without raising a surge injurious to canal banks, and so as to pass through the narrow locks with ease and safety—objects hithertounattained, and deemed impracti cable. The main peculiarity of this invention is the construc tion of the paddle, so as to secure an action resembling that of a fish's tail, or of a perpetual sculling through the water. The difference between the operation of the propellers and that of the fish or double scull, is, that instead of the force being alternate from side to side, the propellers' strokes upon the water are simultaneous. We before explained the construction of the paddle-boards, and the fact of their re volving in opposite directions. This is effected by the wheels or rings being fixed, one to a hollow shaft, and the other to a solid shaft, revolving within the hollow one; so that, although they move in opposite directions, they turn upon the same centre; each opponent paddle-board striking the water at the same time. The power from the engine is communicated by a crank at the solid shaft; a cog-wheel attached_to the crank shaft works in gear with another cog-wheel immediately un der it, and the reversed action of the other propellers is ob tained by gearing and an endless chain. As these propellers work with the greatest effect when submerged, no waste of power is incurred, and no shaking motion communicated to the boat. When in motion, with her propellers submerged, there is little to distinguish the Novelty from other canal boats, the old wooden funnel being retained; there being little smoke, as coke is the fuel consumed; the engine and boiler being out of sight, and the only variation in her form being the elongation and widening of the stern, about 14 inches, with the addition of a slight stage for the helmsman. We noticed the fact of an experimental trip having been made by this boat on Monday week, upon the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal. The party on board consisted of some of the principal canal proprietors and water carriers in ibis town and neighbourhood, and their friends. The Novelty started from the Manchester end of the canal, about six minutes before one o'clock; passed the Worsley branch at twenty minutes past one o'clock; and reached the wharf at Altrincham at half-past two o'clock, having performed the eight miles in one hour and thirty-six minutes. The speed of the boat, and the fact of no towing horses being visible, caused no small astonishment to various rustics on the canal batiks; and some of the more cunning of these people, hear ing the panting of the engine, and seeing the bubbling of the water in her wake, at length decided that there was "stinvinut (slave in her tail." The voyagers, much delighted with their trip, proceeded to the Stamford Arms, Altrincham, where "Success to the undertaking" was toasted: and, amongst other !walls given, were those of Lord Francis Egerton, as the representative and successor of the Duke of Bridgewater; of Messrs. Robins, Mills, S.: Co. the proprietors of the boat, and projectors of th e experiment of steam pro pulsion on the canals • and of their friend M r . Willi ams , who steamed down in the I Novelty, and kept her log. At twenty minutes before five o'clock, the boat started on her return from Altrincham bridge, and on her way came up with the Wellington fly-boat, which, having just before been freshly horsed, kept a-head for about two Miles, but was then obliged to yield with a bad grace, his horses being half killed under the unwonted exertion. The Novelty passed " his grace" in fine style, and arrived at Messrs. Robins, Mills, and Co.'s wharf, at ten minutes after six o'clock. Owing to the construction and form of the boat, to the propellers being only partially immersed, to the engine being out of repair, and to the utterdisregard of her " trim" during the experiment, it was observed that the propellers had not a fair chance; nor could the boat attain that higher rate of speed which her due emergence was to three-quarters of an inch,—about 1-36th part of her draught; anti it was observed that there was no sensible increase of her speed when the engine, from 70, increased to 81 revolutions per minute. In crease of speed under such circumstances must have resulted, had the boat been of such a form as to have allowed her to rise out of the water, and to keep in trim. During the trial trip, no injurious ripple was produced by the propellers; but where the water was shallow, a ripple, caused by the dis placement of water by the boat, followed midway, and con siderably impeded her progress. With deeper water her speed accelerated, and on the Thames she is said to have at , tained a rate varying from eight to nine, and even up to and exceeding ten miles per hour. We understand that the American government, ever on the alert, has at once availed itself of this invention. An iron steam-boat, built by Mr. John Laird, of North Birkenhead, (under the inspection of Mr. F. B. Ogden, the United States Consul at Liverpool,) and fitted with these propellers, was launched on the 7th instant. She is at present waiting for her boilers, and it is expected will be tried on the Mersey in the course of next week. She is intended to be worked as a steam-tug, to tow ships upon the Delaware and Raritan canal, (New Jersey,) which was completed in 1834, and is 42 miles in length. Her machinery is said to be of a new and improved construction, and not a tentlipart of the weight of the machinery in general use, of equal power. It is, perhaps, premature to speculate on the great revo lution which the success of this experiment, and the conse quent adoption of steam power on canals, would occasion in canal navigation. Some of the earliest and most obvious re sults would be—the necessity of deepening the canals, or keeping more water in them; the avoidance of that delay now so much complained of, in boats waiting, very often for several days together, for turns, at the various locks: and au increased traffic in lighter goods, by means of rower boats than are at present employed on the canals. All these ad vantages, however, are of course contingent on the success of the mechanical invention, in its application to canals, and on the degree of cordiality with which canal proprietors ap prove of a change, which some of them may imagine (whe ther justly or not we do nut affirm) will cause a greater wear and tear of their properly than that to which the ordinary method of horse towing at present subjects them.—Manches ter Guardian. THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE FESTIVAL. The members of the Total Abstinence and similar Societies have been holding a grand festival during the week. On Monday evening there were a number of simultaneous meet ings in different parts of the town. 'On Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, public meetings were held in St. Luke's School-room, Cropper-street; Hanover Chapel, Mill-street; in Circus-street; and at the Brunswick Chapel, Clare-street. On Wednesday there was a grand procession of the unit ed societies, which formed at ten o'clock in the morning, at Shaw's-brow and Old Infirmary Yard. From thence the route of the procession was Dale-street, round Nelson's mo nument, Castle-street, Park-lane, St. James's -street, Great George's-place, Mill-street, to Duke -street, on to Rodney street, and the line of streets to the north end of the town. The procession was headed by a band of ml:sic and banners, followed by about 500 boys walking two abreast, and adorned with white ribbands and medals, and carrying small banners with such mottoes as " Prevention is better than cure," &c. After these came the Independent Order of Rechabites, headed by the D. H. C. R. (we cannot .inform our readers what that is) of the order. About 300 of the members of this society walked two abreast, and were very respectably clad, most of them dressed in white trousers and shouldering um brellas, the weather being rather inconstant. Then followed Jolliffe's band, heading about 50 women walking two and two, some of them carrying the insignia of the sex—infants, as a substitute for flags, banners, &c. The appearance of these zealous abstainers from the juice of the grape and the essence of grain, excited much amusement. We will do them the credit, however, to say, that few of them looked like " reformed drunk-herds." After these came the Roe-street Total Abstinence Society. headed by a very good band, the rear being brought up by that well-meaning, but rather weak, gentleman, Mr. Lawrence Hey worth, with two friends, lead ers in some of these societies, in an open phaeton and pair. Each of these " lights" of abstinence were profusely deco rated with white silk, we presume as an emblem of ginless purity. After the phaeton followed one of the Roman Catholic Associations, bearing one or two handsome flags; one, our Saviour at the well asking the maid to draw him water, was very beautiful. After these followed a Welsh so ciety, which was brought up by a zealous member in a square tub-like shandry, with his wife and seven (!) " little uns" in it—no doubt, to point out to tiplers what temperance could do. Then followed a number of societies, being an odd mix ture of men, boys, girls, and women, music -less, and in no very regular order, " Like a wounded snake dragging its slow length along." We were highly amused with one old lady dressed in black silk, who certainly had some symptoms of (no, it could not be; it was most likely rasp-berry brandy) about her, who, as the procession passed our office, eyed our laughing at the queer " mixture," as if it were the very height of profanity. After these followed the Church of England Teetotal Society, consisting chiefly of children, who were very neat and order= ly, and carried a great number of small banners. There was carried amongst them a very splendid painted flag of Moses smiting the rock in the wilderness, and the water gushing out; and his receiving the ten commandments. The rear was brought up by t be usual medley of a procession, a cart or two, the " mobility," and a few piemen and chelsea-bun men in dustriously following their vocation. THE GRAND CONCENTRATED MEETING. Last evening, at seven o'clock, a grand concentrated meeting of the society was held at the Amphitheatre—Mr. Thonias Freme in the chair. On the stage seats were ar ranged for a number of ladies, and the leaders and speakers of the society. The boxes were filled with a strange medley of men, women, and children, and almost of all ranks. The gallery was crowded with men, and the pit about a quarter filled with respectably-clad men and women. Altogether there might he about 600 persons present, the Amphitheatre not being nearly so crowded as on the last occasi o n. Th e front of the boxes was decorated all round the theatre with a number of small silk banners, bearing various devices and mottoes, about abstaining from drink; and in one corner of the orchestra was stationed a band of wind instruments, and a big drum, that ever and anon " made night hideous;" and those who could hear, envied the deaf. The speechifying was, as a whole, much superior to that at the meeting of last year; there was no red-hot Brummagem blacksmith to hammer away for two hours together, and forge thunder bolts for every body and every thing but teetotallers; nor was there a talking woman—a Mrs. Hamilton, to weary out the patience with laughable rigmarole and strange conceits; but still there was enough of nonsense talked—" two bushels of chaff to three grains of wheat"— an odd mixture of absurdity and truth. We are no enemies to these societies; for with certain classes and certain per sons of weak resolution we believe they are aids to resist the temptations of intemperance, and therefore do good in saving the insane victims-of this vice from the consequent and cer tain misery in person, purse, and domestic happiness which result from an indulgence in it. But, because we are not inimical to them we cannot shut our eyes to the babyish ab surdities the members often indulge in, and the extrava gances in which they appear to delight, which make rational men shun their meetings and scorn to be participators in follies which their reason scouts. Let theta shake off these weaknesses and fooleries, and we have no doubt the sphere of their usefulness will be widely extended. We shall there fore give our report, confined as it must be at this late hour, fairly, exposing to ridicule what is ridiculous, and preserving what is worth preserving, being convinced that this is the best mode to correct what is foolish, and to uphold what is worthy of admiration. The CIL( tamAN announced to the meeting that they would be obleeged to the band if they would play " God save the Queen." This was done in the truest sense of the word, "God save the Queen" was reeled in most drunken fashion. Time and music were both wanting. The CHAIRMAN then said-4' Noo, my friends, I've to beg your pity and consolation and excuse for anything I may do amiss here. lam bro't for'ard unintentionally. You have been led to expect the Bishop of Norwich, and I-feel for your disappointment very much ; but I can't dwell on theta great deal, for I must feel for myself. Now, my friends, you who know my habit, know this is the first time I ever came for'ard in such a consarn as this. The first meeting of ibis sort I attended, the purest springs of my h ear t was touc h e d . Now, my friends, if you had had the bishop here, you would have had the first man in the country; a man of profound knowledge—a man who has laid himself out for religious and civil liberty; and I must say there is but one Bishop o' Norwich." [Our readers will perhaps, after this specimen, excuse us from further transcripts of the chairman's el°. quence.l The chairman concluded with calling on the secretary to read u letter he had received from the Bishop of Norwich. The SECRETARY, Mr. JOHN M'KENNA, after stating that it became his duty to explain why the Bishop of Mint icb did not piesida on that occasion, and to disabuse the public mind, lest it should he supposed that anything like trick was used in mentioning his name as being invited to preside, lie had been instructed by the committee to address a letter to his lordship, inviting him to preside on that occasion, and the time would not allow them to wait for a reply before the bills had to be printed; so they had printed what was correct, that his lordship had been.invited to preside: However, though they had been disappointed in not having him there, they would be highly gratified on hearing Vs approbation of the teetotal cause. The secretary then proceeded to read the following letter : "Woodchurch, Suffolk, July 7, 1838. "The Bishop of Norwich being at present engaged in a course of confirmations and visitations which will occupy him for sometime to come, regrets that it will not befit his power to support the Temperance Societies of Liverpool by his pre sence, which he would wtih pleasure have done had he peen in their neighbourhood. I-le can only assure the committee, that he most sincerely wishes for a continuation of success to societies, which he knows from his own knowledge have been so productive of benefit to the country as large.—(Applause.) "Mr. John McKenna, " Secretary to the Temperance Society, Liverpool" Mr. FITZSIMMONS. an Irishman, was then called on to ad dress the meeting, which he proceeded to do in a strain of rich brogue and absurdity. Ile said "Id was a ;Arising con thrast to say such a large portion oy dhe thruly virtuous, honourable, and philanthropic portion of society ass-sembled together to aid in promote:' one of the most beneficial favours dhat was ever conferred on mankind." He would not insult the hatrdience by attempting to prove the vast advantages of the society to mankind. He was surrounded by a host of champions who were ready at any moment to cover with dis grace any man who would have the temerity to attempt to throw any obstacle in the way of the great cause they advo cated. [We positively quake in our shoes!] The speaker then proceeded to enlighten the audience by telling them be was an Irishman and a catholic, and was in "lineal succes sion from their forefather in Christ, the illustrious Saint Patrick, who had first planted the standard of the cross in Ireland, and that he (,Fitzsimmon, not St. Patrick,) would not depart one iota from his principles. To which the audience cried " Question," and lie came to the question by quoting O'Leary about religion; but, by gradual steps, got worked round again to " intoxicating drink," and then pro ceeded to prophesy on the wonderful progression of the socie ty through the land. " There was not a grade in society in which they should not run through, as blood through the ramifications of an arm!" There Was no power on earth could sustain them, if they were united among themselves. Drunk ards, who it was the object of this society to reform, broke every commandment of the decalogue they polluted the very atmosphere around them by the profaneness of their bad example. This society " was calculated to remove all obstructions." (" Throw physic to the dogs" after this!) He had been what was called a "moderate drinker," and had been gradually drawn by it into the vortex of dissipation and ruin, and concluded with announcing, that circum stances would, in all probability, prevent him from address ing them again ! ltev. Mr. BEAR nsati,, of Manchester, next spoke with the peculiar style and affected pronunciation of a ranter parson. He commenced with quoting a verse, the first lines of which. in the peculiar twang of these reverends, we un derstood to be-- " We cab, we cob, we cob, And rouse the tem-perance watchword, Lin-erty." He knew there was a general impression abroad that they put tee-totalism in the place of religion; but such was not the case. They were anxious to give food to their fellow men in its substantial form, and to take from them liquid poison, on which they had been too long feeding, deriving no strength from it. He then descanted at considerable length on negro slavery, and argued that as they had striven to set the negroes free, they should now strive to set white men free from the slavery of drink. Their society had demon strated that this could be done. He never was so free as now; before he joined this society the moderate use of in toxicating drinks had continually drawn hint with its allure ments; but now his health was better, and strength greater, and with a delicate constitution he could go through labour on the Sunday, which he was convinced no other man of similar constitution could go through, with even the mode rate use of one glass of wine per day. He would now retire to make way fur the peculiar talents which tee-totalism had called forth. The band here played the Teetotal March— The landlord kick'd me out of doors, • And I will never get drunk again." Mr. Kay briefly announced the fact, that as negro slavery bad been alluded to, intelligence bad been received, that the slaves of Jamaica, and of British Guiana were to be set free on the fist of August next. (Great cheering.) They had agitated till negro slavery had been put an end to, and he hoped they would agitate till white slavery—drunkenness was put an end to. It was the greatest curse that ever came upon England. The CHAIRMAN called upon the band to play " God save the Queen," in honour of the freedom to the slaves of the West Indies. Mr. GOODS, of Preston, then came forward to address the meeting, who, notwithstanding his name, turned out a com plete butterfly of eloquence. We but do him justice when we say, his speech was powerful, argumentative, and elo quent: it was the speech of the evening, and was the saving clause of the meeting. He spoke at considerable length, and gave several vivid and true pictures of the misery and wretchedness which are entai!ed by the drunkard on himself and family by indulging in his degrading and brutalising propensity. They could not wonder at the ignorance of the working classes, nor at the fearful increase of crime, when they considered the error that had been promulgated abroad, and attempted to he established, that intoxicating liquors were necessary for man. Man was fitted for happiness with out this acquired taste. His constitution was not fitted by nature for this exciting drink; and if it were said that it was necessary for his happiness, he could imagine no satire so bitter as to suppose that the most finished work of God required the addenda of intoxicating liquors to contribute to his happiness. (" Hear, hear," and loud cheers,) — What were the advantages they proposed to confer on a man by a pint of beer a day ? He would maintain that he was as good a man either morally, intellectually, or physically, as any man who took his pint of beer a day, and he never tasted it, or other intoxicating liquor. Many would not read of the evils of drink or of the little bepefit they could derive from it, for fear of the " s still small voice" of conscience. They dared not read; knowledge would be fatal to them. They dared not investigate, for truth would triumph, which was not what they wished; they wanted to be believed to be in the truth. The scriptures were brought forward to prove the allowance of intoxicating liquors; but, before the invention of dis tilling, the wines of the ancients were not at all of the in toxicating character of those now in use, fermentation not being able to make them so; and the man who drank his wine unmixed with water, was considered worse than a hea then. If the mere sanctioning of scripture to the use of wine were constituted into an approval, Scripturearight be made to approve of many gross vices, which other parts of it condemn ed, as it did drunkenness and wine drinking. It was contra ry to the physical constitution of man to be bene fi ted by strong drink . ; his organization was best suited to thrive on a total abstinence from it. It was, therefore, evident that the AlMiglity had imposed on loan, in his formation, such laws that they conid not but think He never intended us to drink strong liquors. They saw the young man of great promise entering into life, and watched him putting forth his energies, mixing with his fellows, and conducting himself in a way that was honourable to his manhood; they saw him lead to the altar an amiable and accom plished woman, paying a devoted and willing homage of affection to her, and receiving from her the most noble and disinterested sacrifice which it was possible for a human being to give—she gave herself, and with herself her all. After a few years the vile sin of drun kenness brought poverty on their once happy home, and look then at the change, at that poor broken-hearted girl! See her as she waves to and fro besides the morsel of fire, under the agonies of broken affection. She thinks of the happy days of tier childhood, and of the blooming promises of her womanhood. She thinks of what she was and what she is; while the cruel author of her distresses engages in distant revelry, reckless of consequencess, rushing further into ruin. He returns to his house, and offers to his almost heart-broken wife nothing but a sot's disgusting brutality. Could they wonder that affection in such a moment as this should be broken assuuder, and that the miserable wife should desire death, not to make her more happy, but to put an end to her sorrows? Let them look to the streets at the outcasts there, through this vice denied the privilege of a home, awl with out a heart to love. Let them who had sisters robbed of their affection from strong drink;' let them who had mothers, who could feel as none beside could feel; let their hearts bleed for their injuries : let them go back to the paths of virtue, for sake strong drink, and these evils which resulted from the use of it would cease. The speaker concluded amidst loud applause. PROFESSOR GREENBANK was next called forward. After a few introductory observations he proceeded to recite a long poem, commencino . " Oh, bright water, bright water for me— Leave wine for the tremulous debauch&" He then proceeded to deliver or rather recite, verbatim, the same speech as he delivered last year, which ended in a comparative failure of effect, and about which we think it doing him a kindness to say no more. Mr. En. JONES, called on by the chairman, proceeded to sing in good style, and with a very tolerable voice, to the tune of the " Old English Gentleman," what was called a teetotal song. We endeavoured to take notes of it as he was singing it, and make it out as follows: I will sing you a new temperance song Of a young tee-totaller, who had a nice estate, And he kept up his mansion at a good tee-total rate, With his little nice tee-total wife that earned her sweet estate, And he was a stanch teetotaller, one of the present time. His house was bung about with pictures fine to view, And rich and beauteous furniture was ranged around all new ; And every night, when toil was o'er, he would seat him in his pride, And quaff his Sampson just to support his inside, For he was a tee-totaller, one of the present time. The winter, with his frost and snow, shed darkness o'er each scene, He felt how happy he was then to what he once had been ; And he never suffered unrelieved the cravings of the poor, He gave as much as he could snare, he could not well give inure. _ 4 , 4 , J• • For he was a tee-totaller,"oue of the present time. He used to beat his wife and drink, and spend his hard earned gains In wine-wash and jerry-broth *.o steal away his brains; His coat was out at elbows, and his bat without a crown, In fact he was a common pest—a nuisance to the town, Before he turned tee-totaller, one of the present time . But now so happy is his life, so nicely he is dressed, He never beats his little wife, but clasps ber to his breast, And if a tear is in her eye, it is for joy that he Left off his beastly drunkenness, and turned out to be A real staunch teetotaller, one of the present time. Now surely this is better far than all their ale or wine, And if you wish real happiness, you will come and sign; For I contend that abstinence has done great things for me, For once I wanted a little drop, but none now you see, For I'm a staunch teetotaller, one of the present time. This morceau was loudly encored. Mr. HANKER next followed, and stated, he had been 20 years a drunken dragoon, and through drink got discharged, and was reduced to a street-sweeper at Manchester, and had raised himself from that degraded situation to comfort and plenty, by abandoning his former course of living, and happiness and contentment at home had taken the place of misery, revilings, and bickerings, his pride being now to see his children well-dressed and respectable rather than Miss Susannah, the innkeeper's daughter, a fine lady with his money. He was better in health, end had ceased patronizing the doctor's shop and wanted now no pills but baker's pills, and his intellects were none the worse for having given over hiccuping out at the ale-house bench " We'll not go home till morning." A vote of thanks was passed to the Bishop of Norwich for his answer to the application made to him; it was announced that the " inimitable Grubb" would speak to night; a Doxology was sung, and the meeting broke up at ten o'clock. THE LIVERPOOL CLERGY ENDOWMENT BILL.—In the House of Commons, on Friday last, this bill was ordered to be bruught in by Lord Sault(); and Mr. Cresswell. Mr. Kennedy, the poet, author of the Siege of Athens, and lately editor of the Hull Advertiser, has gone out to Canada, and is appointed by Lord Durham one of his lordship's se cretaries. The Sirius, steamer, arrived at Plymouth 16th instant, at noun, sailed from New York on the - Ist; having landed the mail she proceeded to London the same day. ZOOLOGICAL GA lIDENS.—The extraordinary exhibition of Mount Vesuvius in a state of eruption wits be repeated on Monday evening, It will bear seeing many times. PICTUR Es IN BOLD-STREET.—These fine pictures have ex cited considerable attention, and have been visited by num. hers of persons. As the period is very limited for their stay in this town, we recommend an ear l y inspect i on. The Great Western steam-ship will sail from Bristol to morrow, Saturday, for New York Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Matthews, who are going on a theatrical excursion to the United States, will lie amongst•the passengers. They were expected to have gone by the Royal William. The Postmaster has given notice, that letters posted before 2h 45 p. m. on Friday, and the postage to Bristol paid, will be in time for the steamer. Marshal Soult, attended by the Marquis of Dalmatia, Marquis de Morndy, &c., will leave town on Saturday morn ing early, for Liverpool. His excellency will return to town on Monday night. His excellency had made arrangements to embark at the Tower on the following day; but, on ac count of her Majesty's diplomatic banquet on t he 25th, it is generally thought the gallant marshal will postpone his de parture until the 26th instant.—[.onion paper. In another part of our publication will be found an adver tisement fur an assistant-surgeon to the Dispensaries. This additional officer has beer rendered necessary by the resolu tion of the committee, in compliance with the wishes of the subscribers in Evertor and riirkdale, to extend the limits of the visiting surgeons of the institution. A very important benefit will thus be conferred upon a large and rapidly in creasing population; but as the funds of the charity are at the same time extremely low, we hope it will stimulate the friends of the sick and poor to renewed and more strenuous exertions, and that an early and earnest appeal on behalf of this most valuable institution will be made by the ministers of religion. EXCITEMENT.—A man drinks three 'glasses, and he is in a state of excitement. A person receives a box on the ear, and be is excited. You stick your elbow in your neighbour's soup at table, and be is excited, You kick him with a sharp toed boot, and he is excited. You pull his nose and spit in his face, and he is excited. In fact you can do nothing in the world without creating excitement—save one thing ; hire a man by the day, and such an example of coolness and Christian patience he will exhibit, is enough to kill good folks.—American Paper. SECOND EINTION. Standard Office, Three o'Clock. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY, JULY 20,1838. The limited supplies from Ireland and our own coast, men- tioned on Tuesday, have been since very little increased by arrivals from those quarters, and we have only to report 600 qrs. of Wheat, and 430 qrs. of Peas from abroad. With much firmness on the part of holders, there have been but moderate transactions in the trade for free Grain between Tuesday last and to-day; and at this morning's market, partly owing to the scanty show of Wheat samples, buyers appeared disinclined to purchase to any extent; we had consequently littlb business passing in this article, fur which the full quotations of our last circular may be repeated. Good fresh Flour continues to meet a steady sale, and quite as much money realized : inferior qualities neglected. Fine Malt is in moderate request at late prices, but we have no demand for inferior parcels. Beaus and Pease, with little inquiry, unaltered in value. The demand for Oats is but limited to-day, but there are so few prime lots offering that holders of such have obtained quite as high, or a shade higher, prices; other sorts are, however, altogether unim proved. In Oatmeal, a ri.oderats business done. Bonded Grain and Flour.—A further advance has been obtained on Wheat, 7s. 9d. having been paid for very superior red, and a fair quantity having changed hands since Tues day. The transactions in Flour are about 600 barrels old States', at 285., and a small quantity of fresh European at 295. to 30s. per barrel. COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK. There has been a pretty good demand to-diy, and the sales are 3,500 bags. The business of the week amounts to 19,760 Bags, 900 of which have been taken fur export, and the remainder to the trade. The market has closed steadily without change in prices. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, JULY 20. ARRIVED—Louis Cass, and Mary Ann, Peters, frOm Mo bile—St. Mark, --, from Charleston—Castlereagh, ---, from Ihnibro'—Sarah and Arsilia, Gardner, from New York. Adriana, Jones, from Berbice, at this port ; sailed 12th June, in company with the Penninghnm. for this port. The Mobile and Rambler, for London, sailed 10th Jun City of Edinburgh, Ryan. from Sydney, N.S.W. at Rio Janeiro, 22d Marchovith boats and bulwarks stove, and 80 bales wool thrown overboard, having been on her beam ends in a violent gale, on the 22d of April, during which she shipped a quantity of water in her old Margrret, ----, hence for Quebec was spoken sth instant in lat. 49, long. 20 Ellen, Kemp, from Valparaiso at Rio Janeiro Black-eyed Susan, ---, sailed from Smyrna for Falmouth, 23d June _ Tomlinson, Wallace, hence at Syra and Salonica Mary Scott, Scott, from Bahia, for Hambro', at Cowes '1 heodosia,'hence for Jamaica, w a s spoken 14th instant, in lat. 50, long. 10 Cameroons, -, from London, at Berbice Trinidad Packet, --, hence, at ditip