The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-07 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. CHAPLIN AND MRS. I Go TELLET. r - FIHIS present FRIDAY, December 7, will be performed JL (first time these six years) Mrs. Cowley's celebrated I w medy of the THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Flutter Mr. Chaplin. Mr. Hardy Mr. Baker. Doricourt Mr. W. Howard. Sir George Touchwood Mr. Stuart. Saville Mr. Gray. Courtall, Mr. W. 11. Bland I Letitia Hardy.. Miss Faucit. Lady Frances Touchwood ' 'llrs Tellet. Mrs. Hackett Mrs Clarke. Miss Ogle Miss Grant. End of the Cottldy, Song.— " Now, hope, the Dreatnsiinchanting," Miss Land. A CRACOVIAN DANCE, by Mrs. J. Ridgway After which, an Interlude, called the ROMAN ACTOR • Paris Mr. Stuart. The celebrated Song of the BAVARIAN BROOM GIRL, iu Character, by Miss Grant After ahich, the favourite Farce, (not acted here for many years,) called PAST TEN O'CLOCK AND A RAINY NIGHT I! ! Charles Wildfire Mr. W. H. Bland. Bantam Mr. Chaplin. Dozey Mr. Baker. 1 Sam Squib Mr. Slaiter. Lucy Mrs. Tellet. - Nancy Miss Cleaver. To conclude with a Panoramic Representation of the QUEEN'S VISIT TO GUILDHALL, displaying the whole of the ROYAL AND CIVIC PROCESSION, as it passed St. Paul's Cathedral. FINALE—" GOD SAVE THE QUEEN." Mr. Knowles' last new Play of the MAID OF MARI ENDORPT, as now performing nightly with the greatest success at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and the last new Drama of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, as now performing with unprecedented success at the Adelphi Theatre, London, are in preparation, and will be produced previous to the close of the present season. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MISS CLEAVER has the honour respectfully to an nounce that her BENEFIT will take place on WHnNESDA it, December 12, 1838, on w ch occasion will be performed Lord Byron's celebrated tra edy of WERNE Werner .lllr. Stuart. Ulric.... M. W. H. Bland. or Mr. Gray. Idenstein Josephine Miss C. Cleaver, Ida End of the Play—Song, "O what a j , yous day," by Miss Land. The Highland Fling, by Mr. and Mrs. J. Ridgway, and a comic Pas de Deux, by Messrs. T. Ridgway' and Jonas. The popular ballad of " Rory O'More," iu character, by Miss Grant. To conclude with Mr. Knowles' popular play of WILLIAM TELL, . Compressed into Three Acts. 'William Tell Mr. Stuart. Albert.. Master Edwards. . Gesler Mr. Gray. Michael Mr. W. Howard. Emma Miss Cleaver. Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. Gd.; Pit, 2s. Gd.; Gallery, Is.—Tickets to be had of Miss CLEAVER, No. 4, Commutatior-:ow, and of Mr. PARKE , at the Box-office, where Places may be taken at the usu hours. DEPARTUIt . TO THE LADIES OF IFERPOOL. MRS. NICHOLAS GEARY, f 61 St. James's-street, London, Stay and Corset i ker to Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and R yal Family, begs respect fully to inform the Ladies that she will leave Liverpool for Manchester on Saturday evening the Bth instant. Ladies wishing to avail themselves of her presence are solicited to to make au early call.—Mrs. Geary, at Mrs. Davies, 126, Bold street, near the top. Sole Agent fin. Liverpool—Mrs. Cutter, Milliner, &c. 11, Clarence-street, Rodney-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS, We have received some valuable information relative to the conduct of the Superintendent of St. Martin's Market, which we shall bring before the public on Tuesday next: and our friends, who are in the habit of attending the market, may rest satisfied, that the insolence of the Secre tary of Scotland Ward, and his unjust appropriation of the land allotted to their convenience, shall not pass without censure. Nor do we care that he is countenanced by the liberal members of the town-council, who we know are al ways willing to conceal or palliate the errors of their sup porters. The public shall know why this coarse and il literate booroccupiesland for breeding poultry, &e., which was specially set apart for the convenience of the market people. The favours of several correspondents are unavoidably de ferred. Eibcipoot ei-,tant(ittb. FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1838. IMPORTANT FROM CANADA.—Since our last we have bad another arrival from New York. The packet-ship Orpheus arrived here on Wednesday morning in four. teen and a half days from that city, bringing letters and papers from New York to the 20th ultimo, from Lower Canada to the 16th, and from Upper Canada to the 14th. The Orpheus spoke the steamship Liverpool on the 21st ult. in lat. 40. 10, long. 67. 30. The steamer was proceeding in gallant style, and was expected to reach her destination in twenty-four hours after she was spoken. Considerable anxiety continued to be felt ai New Yotk when the. Orpheus sailed ; but the appre hensions of the public were greatly allayed by the very shrewd conjectures of the leading journals of the city. —The Morning Herald, for instance, remarked that "great anxiety was felt for the Liverpool. From the 20th to the 27th of October, the weather on the coast of England was extremely severe, and when the steamer Live? pool came out of the port of Liverpool, the wind was fresh west, with a heavy head sea. She was last seen 30 miles from Tuskar, at three o'clock P.M., on the 21st ult. She was then making rapid headway considering the weather. The probability is, that she experienced the same if not worse weather than the Great Western, run out of fuel, and is now either beating about the ocean or has put. into Ha fax, Madiera, Bermuda, or some other port." St more accurate was the " guess" of Mr. Bennett in a subsequent paper, when he says that "Captain Fayrer most likely steamed about one-third of his way against head winds, severe gales, and awful seas, when he discovered that the quantity of coal on board would not be sufficient for the trip, but might last to steam back to Liverpool, which he has probably done." The Morning Herald states that the Great Western had experienced head winds and heavy seas almost throughout. the passage, and that she was considerably damaged by the severe gales which prevailed, Her bowsprit was carried away—she lost spars—and her bulwarks, &c., were more or less injured by the tre mendous seas which were continually sweeping her. Some of her cargo was also said to be damaged. It was expected that she would sail for England on the 221 ultimo; so that, in all probability, we may anti- cipate to hear the news of her arrival at Bristol in the I course of today or to-morrow, especially after• the very extraordinary passages of the last three packet ships. The Liverpool would probably leave New York about the 3(1 instant, in which case she may be expected to reach Liverpool about the 16th or 17th in stant. We have no doubt that her outward passage has been accomplished in as short a space of time as might have been reasonably expected, when the wea ther which she must have experienced is taken into consideration. The fact that the Orpheus has crossed the Atlantic in fourteen days and a half affords the strongest evidence that there has been a strong westerly wind prevailing, for some days, between *this and New York; and yet, in spite of this obvious disadvantage, we find that the Liverpool was likely to reach New York in sixteen days and two hours—a passage fully equal, if not superior, to any accomplished by the Great Western, under si milarly adverse circumstances. We sincerely trust that the performances of the Liverpool on her voyage home will still further tend to establish her character as a fast, safe, and most sea-worthy vessel. The news brought by the Orpheus from the United States is not of much importance. Little was doing for shipment in cotton. The last quotations were upland, old, 112 to 131; new, 131 to 142; New Orleans old, 12 to 141-; new, 14 to I 5 A-; new Florida, 14 to Ak i ; old Mobile, 121 to 15 ; -new, 15 to 151. The stock in the market was not large. The news from, and relating to, Canada are of the highest importance. An active correspondence was going on between Mr. Fox, the British minister, and Mr. Forsyth, the American Secretary of State, relating to the state of the northern frontier, and the insurrection now in progress in both the Canadas. The New York Morning Herald slates that the best feelings existed between the, \ two governments ; but it acknowledges that the connivance shown to Mackenzie, eel. Ming, / fanny Wright \ ,, and the other agitators for revolution, Airmust necessaril' tend "to excite the slumbering 4 . flames of sympat ' oughout the republic." Clubs were organised in ' on, as well as in other parts of the States, to aid . and vathize with the revolutionists. At Baltimore, Phila Iphia, and other places, the press of both parties had begun to express approbation of the schemes of the patriots. In this alarming state of things it is difficult to conceive in what way a war between England and the United States can be avoided. The New York Dail!, Express states that, judging from the movements of troops from Montreal towards Upper Canada, it is not probable that the insurgent force can maintain itself much longer. It says that the condition of affairs' upon the frontier is, indeed, critical, calling upon the United States and the British iernment for decision, calmness, and care. The Washington Globe remarks that, "as citizens of the United States, they have nothing on earth to do •lh this rebellion, and the Americanexpatriateslim sett who takes part in it, winning the gallows if taken, and becoming the hero, perhaps, if he takes—in which respect he is a brigand abiding the chances of time. Such propagandists as choose to take this chance of the halter, must not expect to call up sympathy from the homes whence they came, for it is a daring game they are playing, that of glory or the gallows. So far, however, as our knowledge extends, the present rebellion is that of 'foreigners exclu - sively." On this remark the Daily Express comments in the following language r—" We have no right to make suggestions to our contemporaries of the press,—but it strikes us there is something of a national obligation imposed upon AmeriCan editors at this juncture,—by which 'mate or war may be decided. We should not, it seems to us, inculpate our own country, or our own people, without adequate cause. What we say here, is rapidly caught up by the Canadian press that pro fits from the employment of a large standing army in Canadas, and is again retaile*in Great Britain, where, undoubtedly, there are thousands of mischiev ous spirits that thirst for bloodshed. It is very easy in a room six feet by nine, to shed a vast deal of ink, —when it might be very difficult properly to repress all the movements of an American frontier, stretching from the Passamaquoddy Bay to Lake Michigan,— with only a few hundred regular soldiers upon it. We trust, however, the government of the Union,and the governments of the States will discharge to the utmost all their obligations under treaties and the laws. We say to the people on our frontier, there is now no parallel in the case of the Canadians and ours prior to 1775. When we rebelled, we did not rebel in a foreign country, but in the United States. We did not fight our battles in France, but Bunker Hill and Saratoga were on American soil. So far, the Cana dian rebels have not even kept a foot-hold upon their own soil, but they are trying to implicate us in their treason, to make us fight for their liberty, when nobody disputes but that, in our free land, we have liberty enough of our own, without fighting for it. We hare all of us, to be sure, a right to our opinions as to the struggle 'in Canada, but we have no mote right to enter Canada with arms in our hands than to turn brigands or pirates,—and we should look just about as well in fitting out privateer ships to rob and plunder, in time of peace, off the coast of England, as in fitting out forces to enter Canada. We re - peat, however, the work seems to be, thus far, exclusively that of foreign ers. If they do not like their own governments, no body can deny the right they have of running the risk of the gallows in their attempts to overthrow them." We now proceed to lay before our readers a few of the more important extracts from the papers received by the Orpheus. ( From the Oswego Palladium, Extra, Nov. 15.) THE CANADA WAR. A BATTLE—PATRIOTS VICTORIOUS. The steam-boat Oneida, just arrived from Ogdensburgh brings the following news : "A severe engagement took place at Prescott yesterday, commencing at eight, a.m., and lasting seven hours, between the patriots and the British forces. About 500 patriots and 300 British regulars, together with some militia, were engaged. The battle took place about a mile below Prescott. Several were killed and wounded on both sides; the British, how ever, sustained the heaviest loss. Colonel Young, the Bri tish commander, was among the killed. The British were twice repulsed by the patriots, and finally left the field to wait for reinforcements, for which an express was sent to Kingston. During the action the British put their dead and wounded into a barn, behind which they sheltered themselves, and the patriots, to dislodge them, set it on fire, when it was consumed, together with its contents " The Montreal Herald of the 15th ult., has the following in reference to the affair at Prescott:— " Information was received late on Tuesday evening, that 800 men, with eight pieces of artillery, had approached Pre scott, from the opposite shore, on the morning of Monday, about ten o'clock, and failed in an attempt to run two large schooners alongside the wharf. With the assistance of the steamers United States and Paul Pry, about 500 men of the sympathisers, with three guns, disembarked about two miles below the town, where they were stationed when the accounts left. The Experiment, a government armed steamer of small size, arrived at five o'clock on Monday afternoon, and ex changed several shots with the steamer United States, one of which struck her, and caused so much damage that she was compelled to retire to Ogsdenburgh to, get necessary repairs. The 93rd regiment would be at Cornwall yesterday morning, another regiment was ordered on the march, and two companies of the Royals left town yesterday morning, under the command of Col.Wetherall for that place, and the volunteers are flocking in from all quarters. The gallant Glengary Highlanders will cut off the retreat of the brigands by the Rideau Canal, the armed steamer Experiment will ef fectually prevent their escape by boats, and the troops and and volunteers will attack them on both flanks, so that they are completely hemmed in." ANOTHER INVASION OF CANADA. (Correspondence of the Albany Evening Journal.) Oldenburgb, Monday, Nov. 12,1838, 9-o'4:luck, p.m. Friend Ward,—l snatch a few moments' time to give you notice of the proceedings in this place to-day. This morn ing our citizens were aroused by the news that two schooners, loaded with Canadian patriots, were lying in the river oppo site this place, with the intention of attacking Prescott, and also that another band of about 200 had taken possession of the steamer United States. About nine o'clock the steamer left the wharf for the pur pose of towing off the .two schooners, which had both run aground. One, however, got off without assistance, and run on to the Canada side, and landed about 200 men about a mile below the fort The British steam-boat Experiment put after the States, and tired several shots at hdr, only one of which struck the boat and killed a very worthy young man of this place. The British steamer ranged alongside the other schooner, which was aground, and fired a broadside into her, without, however, doing any damage except to her rigging. The schooner returned the fire, and killed six men. The last schooner has just been got off, and is now preparing to go over. The people on board express themselves deter mined to take the fort before the morning. Doubtful, how ever, though there is a rumour in town that the Canadian people are flocking to the standard raised there in great numbers. Our place is in great excitement, and no business has been done to-day. The mail closes soon, and I must close; if anything important is' done I will write to you further by the norrow's mail.—Yours in haste, A. B. JAMES. (Correspondent of the Boston Atlas.) Montpelier, Tuesday, Nov. 13,1838. Our last news from the St. John's vicinity was that the royalists, with the aid of an American steam-boat, had suc ceeded in bringing out 600 troops and landed them near Isle au Noix, thus hemming in Nelson. and cutting off either the way of escape to, or aid from the States. .Of course we have been anticipating either hard fighting or the total dispersion of Nelson's band. But. for two days past the mails hate brought absolutely nothing; no confirmation—and no de nial either—of the Odletown battle. To-night, the Stanstead driver reports that last evening there was fighting at Stanstead, and two of the principal men (royalists) of the village killed when he left, at midnight. This is possible; but, if true, it is unexpected. The eastern townships are generally supposed to be loyal, and immediate war was not apprehended in that vicinity. We understand, says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, that the Alilwaukie has been chartered by the Canadian go vernment, for service on the lake during the season, and that it is intended to put an armament on board. The Milwaukie is one of the swiftest boats on the lake, and was for a time, last summer, in the service of the United States. LATER.—A BATTLE. (From the Oydensburgh Times and Advertiser, Extra ; Tuesday, Nov. 13th.) CANADA WAR. After six o'clock last evening, things remained pretty quiet through the night. There were, however, some reports of cannon iu the evening, at long intervals. During the evening, the Telegraph came ►n, bringing some United States troops, with marshals, &e. They took posses sion of the United States. Our citizens held a meeting dur ing the evening, to take measures for defence; but as our work had been much delayed by the confusion of the day, we could not find time to attend. Early this morning (13th) it was discovered that the armed steam-boats Cobourg and Traveller had arrived with troops. About seven o'clock this evening the armed steam-boats opened a fire on the party at the windmill, which soon brought a large body of spectators to Mile Point, the nearest. Amer ican territory. The point on which the windmill stands is one of some twenty feet elevation above the St. Lawrence. The country back rises gently for about one hundred and fifty rods. The land about is highly cultivated, and presents a charming landscape, with orch ards, shrubbery, and substantial stone buildings. The cannonading between the windmill and the three armed steam-boats continued to be the scene of attraction till nearly eight o'clock, when a line of fire blazed along the summit of the hill in rear for about eighty or a hundred rods, and the crack of the rifle and musket made a continuous roar. The scene was one of the most intense excitement and soli citude. The reflection that men full of high hopes and ardent' expectations were falling by hundreds, was calculated to awaken the most painful reflections. The action on the brow of the bill continued some 20 or 30 minutes, when one party gave way and the third followed, and the combatants passed out of view over the brow of the hill; but the contest raged fiercely, as was evinced by the continuous roar of musketry. Another scene came in view; a party marched down by the river road anti opened a warm tire upon a stone building in which the rebel forces were quartered. The battle con tinued with spirit for some time, when the loyalists retreated, and the combatants over the hill became fainter and fewer, till about nine o'clock, when all seemed hushed for the mo ment. The rebel forces were left in possession of the ground, but they seemed to be in no condition to follow the retreating party. From nine o'clock till three, there was not much excite- went in the scene. An irregular fire was kept up on the windmill, and a body of regulars sent an occasional volley at a stone house in which a body of the assaulting party were sheltered. At three o'clock p.m. ' a barn, a short distance from the windmill, was consumed by lire. This was probably done by the rebels, as the barn afforded a shelter to the loyalists. Seven o'clock, p.m. We have reports from the .field of battle this evening. It is stated that 600 regular troops were engaged, besides the volunteer militia. Major Young, the officer in command at Prescott, a brave and excellent officer in the British army, is supposed to have fallen. The report is that the commanding officer fell eai ly in the morning, and that. several efforts have been made by the loyalists to recover his body without success. The rebel forces were in three detachments—one occupy ing the windmill, another the stone building, and the third were posted on the brow of the hill, and sustained most of the morning's work. It is reported that the field is covered with dead and' wounded soldiers of the government, while so far as was known; but thirteen of the rebels had fallen. The schooners which brought the invading forces down, were taken by the officers of the United States, for breach of neutrality, though we understand that one of them was a British vessel. So far "the patriot" forces have sustained themselves against fear ful odds, and with signal success. What the result will be .it is impossible to predict. ( From the Sackett's Harbor Journal, Extra, of Nov. 15.) Eleven o'clock, a.m. The steam-boat Oneida, just arrived from Ogdensburgh, brings the following news: — A severe engagement took place at Prescott, yesterday, commencing at eight o'clock, a.m., and lasting about seven hours, between the patriots and British forces. About 500 patriots and 300 British regulars, together with some militia, were engaged. The battle took place about a mile below Prescott—the patriots having possession of several stone buildings, several were killed and wounded on both sides— the British, however, sustained by far the heaviest loss. Col. Young, the British commander, wus among the killed, his body being pierced with seven balls. The British were twice repulsed by the patriots, and finally left the field to wait for reinforcements, for which an express was sent to Kingston. During the action the British put their dead and wounded in a barn, behind which they sheltered, themselves, and the patriots, to dislodge them, set it on fire, when it was con sumed, together with its contents; immediatelyl after which, the British retreated to Prescott for the last time. The steam-boat United States and two schooners were seized yesterday, by the United States marshal, under the Neutrality Law, and are now on their way to this port, under his charge. Mr. t' Oster, the steersman of the steam-boat United States, was killed by a grape-shot from the British steam boat Experiment, yesterday, while engaged in getting a schooner off the fiats in Ogdensburg harbour—after firing into the United States, the Experiment attempted to run down the schooner Charlotte, but was fired upon by the patriots on board of her, killing six and wounding five, after which the Experiment retreated to Prescott. A small boat containing four or five patriots crossing from Ogdensburg to Prescott, was fired into by the British steam-boat Cobourg and disabled, and then she run along side and tired down upon them, sink ing the boat and killing every person that was in her. The steam-boat Oneida has been chartered by Colonel Worth, for the United States service, and is to return imme diately to the river St. Lawrence, with troops from this place. The Oswego Palladium mentions a rumour that -1500 patri ots had taken Malden (U.C.,) with 2W British soldiers. STEAM BOAT GREAT BRITAIN BURNED. (From the Onondaga Standard, Nov. 14.) Just as we were putting our paper to press last evening, the packet from Oswego arrived, bringing intelligence that the steamer Great Britain was burnt at the wharf in Kingston, on Sunday night. She was fitting out as a government ves sel to fight against the patriots. GEN. WOOL AND THE PATRIOTS.—It Will be recollected that General Wool was charged last winter with having of fered to take the command of the rebel forces in Canada. The story is again revived in the following letter to the editor of the Montreal Herald, who affects to believe the whole of it. To the Editor ql the Montreal Herald. Sia,—Some time since, and while I was yet an exile - in the United States, I read an article in your paper, in which I was made - to say that General Wool had in my presence offered Dr. Nelson to take the command of the forces al the disposal of that gentleman, and in which I was also made to ascribe to the American general the following ldnguage:— " My dear Rodier, show me that you have sufficient means, and I will embark in your enterprise," eec. I did not think proper to reply to assertions which are an incorrect version of a conversation with the person who gave you your information. But since my return to my native country, several friends have suggested to me the propriety of explaining myself on this subject, inasmuch as with re ference to it certain New York papers have taken occasion to speak of me' rather unceremoniously. The following brief narrative, sir, contains the truth on this matter, and more or less than the truth I could nut have said to any person whomsoever. I have heard it stated by many citizens of St. Albans, that it was true that General Wool had made, proposals to .Ur. Nelson to take the command of the invading army ; that those proposals had been refused that Judge Brown and Colonel Tarleton-could prove that fact, and that they would prove it so soon as the trial of Dr. Nelson would come on. 1 am almost certain, that Colonel Tatletun has himself assured me of this in Burlington. So much in reply to the first assertion of your informant. With regard to the second, here is what passed between Gen. Wool and lin the presence of a third party. A short time before the affair of Alburg, General Wool paid me a visit at Burlington, and on entering my apartment abruptly introduced the subject. He told me that he had come to the north to oppose all attempts at invasion, and that he would stop them: he repeated several times, " My feelings are with the patriots ;" and then addressing himself to me, he ex claimed, " Mr. Rodier, show me that you have sufficient forces and I will shut my eyes." He then spoke to us con cerning all that was necessary to succeed in an invasion, and endeavoured to convince us that the means of the pa triots were insufficient. After the usual salutations he withdrew. I affirm the truth (Attie above narrative, and I can scarcely imagine that General Wool, under his own hand, will ven ture to contradict it. As for the offensive aspersions of a portion of the American press, they cannot reach sue where lily character is known. Your most obedient, EDWARD E. RoDIER. Montreal, November 13, 1838. UPPER CANADA.-PROCLANIA.TION By His Excellency Sir George Arthur, K.0.H., Lieutena - Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, Alajor-Gene rat commanding Her Majesty's Forces therein, &c. Loyal Inhabitants of Upper Canada, Upon my arrival among you, early in the present year . bearing with me her majesty's commission to administer this government, 1 found you just recovering from the ex citement that had naturally been produced by the then re cent attempts of some infatuated and desperate individuals, both within and without the province, to involve your coun try in the horrors of a civil war; and to subvert those lung cherished institutions, which your conduct has proved that you prize as the first of blessings—and ever ready to maintain, at the hazard of your lives. The alacrity with which you came forward in defence of those institutions, and the valour with which—unaided by ally military force—you overcame the united efforts of treason, and of lawless aggression, have, indeed, nobly won Inc von the approbation et your gracious sovereign, and the admira tion of your fellow-subjects in every part of the wide-extended British empire. In that admiration, even when far distant from you, I par ticipated most warmly ; and it was a source of high gratifi cation to the to be selected as her majesty's representative among; a people who have thus eminently distinguished themselves. It is not my purpose to enter here into a review of the circumstances which, before my arrival, had disturbed your peace, and compelled you to defend, in arms, your dearest tights. It is necessary, however, that I should briefly advert to subsequent occurrences; in order to show you now un ceasing my desire has been, whilst extending to the crimioal authors of the past disturbances the utmost lenity that pru dence would permit, to tranquilize your feeiiugs, and to pro vide for your security. The insurrectionary movements in this province having been completely quelled - by your activity and energy, the object of first importance that presented itself to my consi deration, on assuming the chargeof the government, was the treatment to be pursued towards those who, on either their own confession, or after the most impartial trials, had been convicted of the highest offence of which man, as a member of society, can be guilty, and in accordance both with the humane views of her majesty's government, and with my own.desire of tempering justice with mercy. I suffered the extreme penalty of the law to be inflicted only on two of the most prominent and guilty members of the late rebellion, trusting that such an awful example might be sufficient to impress on the crime of treason its proper stamp; and that a graduated scale of punishment, adapted as nearly as possible to the circumstances of the several cases, might safely be re sorted to in other instances. • The petitions for mercy, the assurance of contrition, the promises of .amendment, and the professions of revived feel ings of loyalty which poured in upon nie, from or on behalf of those who yielded to false representations, and had thus incurred . the forfeiture of their lives, warranted me in con cluding that the manifestation of mercy on the part of the executive would have been attended with all the salutary effects anticipated from it, had nut the: same unjustifiable interference by a portion of the inhabitants of neighbouring country in your affairs, which had so culpably contributed to the former disturbances, partially re-kindled the flame that was about to expire, and engendered a delusive expectation that; by means of co-operation from without, a more success ful effort might be made by the traitorous and disloyal, to shake off their allegiance to their sovereign. In pursuance of their nefarious designs, a fresh invasion of your soil was attempted by a few worthless refugees in con junction with a lawless banditti, whose immediate object was the plunder and devastation of the province, while their ulte rior hope was to rend for ever that tie which binds it to the parent state. Thus called on again to arm in defence of everything dear to you, your success in repelling this second act of aggression was not less signal than it had been in yourquick suppression of the previous insurrection ; nor were your gallantry, your loyalty, and your humanity, less conspicuously displayed than they had already been on that memorable occasion. In the disposal of the prisoners taken at this period— circumstances presented themselves which rendered it my duty to persevere in the lenient Course which her Majesty's advisers had before prescribed ; and on an occasion calling as loudly for some example of rigour, as any that has pro bably ever occurred in the annals of mankind, capital punish ment was inflicted in one solitary instance only. It might reasonably have been expected, after the repeated failure of the attempts of the confederates to effect their revo lutionary objects—after the continual clemency of the exe cutive—and after your praiseworthy forbearance from acts of vengeance or retaliation, that not only all thought of further hostility against you would have been abandoned in hopeless despair, but that a better tone of feeling would have suc ceeded. The comparative state of tranquility which followed the last abortive attempt at invasion, did in fact encourage me to hope that peace, with general harmony and good feeling, would soon be restored to the province. To my deep disap pointment, however, I have learnt from various sources, more or less authentic, that regardless of the 'friendly relations subsisting betavoen her Majesty's government and that of the United States, and stimulated by the worst passions and mo tives, a number of American citizens, along our • frontier, have formed a secret combination for another invasion of these provinces, and that preparations on an extensive scale, for carrying this unprincipled enterprise into execution are at this moment in active progress. It is further stated that the members of this unholy union communicate by certain mystic signs-Lthat they are possessed of considerable resources—that they have amongst them some individuals of influence; and are one and all bound by an 1011cm:fad oath to plunder you of your property—to destroy your institutions—and to sever your connexion with the mother country. Though large allowances are to be made for exaggerated or interested statements; and though it is known that the traitorous within, and their partisans without, are mutually deceiving each other, and are falsely using the names of in dividuals of station and respectability, in order to give some colouring to their wicked conspiracy—yet I deem it proper to promulgate that such information has reached me as calls for the adoption of precautionary measures, for averting, if pos sible, an impending mischief, or for promptly defeating it should it actually occur. Relying on the amity and good faith of the American go vernment, I have miple to it, through the medium of her majesty's minister at Washington, such representations as will, I irust, ensure its immediate and decisive interference, in suppressing these outrageous proceedings of its border citizens. I have likewise written to the officers of the United States army, commanding on the frontier, whose honourable pro fession, and personal characters, claim our confidence, urging them vigorously to second the efforts of their government, by • this employment of every means that may be at their disposal. It is but' reasonable also, when the base design of un provoked aggression shall_ become more generally known throughout the union, that I should look with full confidence to the great body of its respectable eitizen4, to rescue their country front the last ing . discredit that would be entailed on it by the actual commission of the hostile acts contemplated by'a licentious portion of its population, and the proceedings incident to which tend so fatally to interrupt that good under standing between the inhabitants of the two countries, which their mutual interests, cemented by the endearing baud of a common origin should lead them strictly to maintain. But, after all, it is less to the interposition of others than ourselves—supported as we are le: a just cause, and' pro tected, as we may still confidently hope to be, by a righteous Providence—that we must look for safety. With this view I have directed that in addition to the re gular force already in the province, that several regiments of your gallant militia shall be again embodied; anti that their services shall be engaged for a continuous period of eighteen months. I have further authorized the assembling, for a shorter period, of other corps of militia in various places; - and it is with much satisfaction that I am enabled to add, that many of these brave men have already promptly en rolled themselves. _ _ On the magistracy, and other influential classes, I im plicitly- depend for that important aid which is so much iu their power, and which they have always shown themselves so ready to afford. I exhort them to direct their attention to the channels through which information respecting the de signs of their enemies may be derived—to guard against de lusive statements—and to act with calmness, judgment, and decision; in the preservation of the public peace. 1 also call upon those who . have so recently experienced the lenity of the executive, to evince their gratitude for the large mea sure of mercy extended to them, and to prove the sincerity of their professions of repentance for their former errors. Nor can I let pass this opportunity of earnestly cautioning you against the hasty adoption of opinions injurious to your confidence in the sincere intentions of the government on the all important subject of religious instruction. While I am most anxious to secure to you and your children this ines timable blessing, it is not my wish to a eea dominant church established over you, or the members of one religious com munity either rendered subject to the spiritual jurisdiction, or called upon to contribute to the temporal support of ano ther. And I trust that any misapprehension on this subject will he removed when I declare to you my conviction, that no such result can or will flow from any measure of church appropriation which has hitherto been made, or still lest from the course of policy which it is my intention to recom mend in this matter. Apparent as it must be to every one, that our security will chiefly depend on the preservation of perfect harmony and concord among ourselves, I cannot refrain, on an occasion like the present, from offering a few observations on this all important subject. In every community, differences, result ing from opposition of interests, diversity of tastes, and con scientious scruples in matters of religion, will necessarily exist; and these when restrained within those bounds which the principles of Christianity enjoin, may exist in times of peace and tranquility, without any prejudice to the general interests of society. lit is even possible that they may, in some instances, tend directly to promote them. But when the plunder of our property, and the total overthrow of our venerable constitution, have become the "latest dream at night, and the earliest vision of the morning," with a few desperate traitors, leagued with a numerous anditti on our frontier, it is the part of prudence, no less than of duty, to lay aside all difference on minor matters, and to unite hand and heart in the defence of everything that is dear to us. I do, therefore, most earnestly and most affectionately advise and recommend you . to bury, as much as possible, those re collections of past events, which may tend to keep alive angry feelings towards those of your fellow-subjects who have once strayed from the path of duty and may now be sincerely desirous of returning to it—to avoid all irritating discussions—and to drown all differences in a common regard for the public safety. Let the only contest between us henceforth be, who shall show himself the best man, and the most loyal subject. Inhabitants ofUpper Canada! —lt is not to arouse your pa triotism and loyalty—since they, I know, require no stimu lant—but rather to allay any undue apprehensions, or ex cessive excitement, which rumour may have produced, that I now address you; and in requiring you to be prepared to repel, with steady heart, and ready hand, the first aggression on the part of the lawless bligands, who threaten your •ectu aity, I can confidently assure you that there are ample means at my disposal for your protection. Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Toronto, this fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of her Majesty's reign the second. Gao. A nTH UIt. By his Excellency's command. C. A. HAGERMAN, Attorney-General. R. A. Tucker, Secretary. GOD SAVE TIIE QUEEN. The above proclamation of Sir George Arthur is a production worthy of an honest and straightforward British soldier. It is a pity that the superlative dolts who now occupy the treasury benches at home did not confide the future government of the Canadas in the hands of Sir Francis Bond Head and Sir George Ar thur, instead of sending over Lord Durham to foster the spirit of discontent, and " more embroil the fray." If the former gentlemen bad been invested with the same authority that was given to the upstart coal lord, we should not have been employed in detailing the particulars of another revolt in Canada. Their firm ness and prudence, and, above all, their chivalrous loyalty to the British throne—qualities for which Lord Durham is, by no means, conspicuous—would have effectually crushed the rising hopes of the traito rous papists and revolutionists. Canada would now have been at peace under their sway; and the alter native of a war with the United States would have been averted. But what was the peace of Canada to our present tottering ministry compared to the oppor. tunity which was presented to them of expatriating a dangerous rival? We are sorry that our space will not permit us to give a fuller detail of the more recent transactions on the frontiers and in Upper Canada. We must con tent ourselves with a brief abstract. On the morning of the 12th an attempt was made by rebels to capture a British vessel in the American waters, at the mouth of Genessee river. The following particulars re specting this outrage are furnished by a correspond ent of the lilor2zing Herald : Rochester, Nov. 13, 1838. Dear Sir,-1 hasten to inform you of a singular outrage that occurred at our city last night. The British schooner Caroline, of and for Toronto, Upper Canada, laden with a valuable cargo of merchandise, cleared last night, and was to sail early this morning. About midnight she was boarded by twenty armed men, who took possession of her in the name of the patriotic government, confined the captain and crew below, and attempted to navigate the vessel into the lake. From our harbour to the lake is six miles, and not being fa miliar with the channel, the patriots, or pirates, got aground near the mouth of the river. Unable to get the vessel off the shoal, they abandoned her, and took to the woods, and have not yet been arrested. The captain made a deposition of the above facts before the proper authorities this afternoon, and has sailed for Canada. It will produce great excitement on the other side: many of our inhabitants fear rdtaliation. Thus recommence the outrages that disgraced our frontier last winter Yours, &c. In addition to this intelligence, we learn from numerous letters before us, received Irons ie frontier, extending from Buffalo to Ogdenburg, that all the idle loafers in the jute. Jr of the state are concentrating at various points, and _hat a general onset will be made on the 20th instant. The out rage at Rochester is only the first mutterings of the thunder. Our correspondents state that the number of loafers capable of forming materials to attack Canada are estimated as fol- ,OWS : Buffalo and neighbourhood Niagara do. Rochester do. Northern frontier 2500 Aggregate loafers or patriots 9OOO Nothing can step the emeute, but the vigorous arm of the American government. General Scott, we learn, has been ordered to the northern frontier. But unfortunately, while the government is apparently endeavouring to maintain its neutrality, all its supporters here and on the frontier are ac tively engaged in fanning the flames. The New Era, the go vernment organ here, says, that "the patriotic cause is the good cause." A similar attack is also detailed in the following correspondence : Oydensburgh, November 12, Early this morning it was discovered that two schooners_ loaded with armed men, lay in the river between this village and Prescott. Expectation was soon rife, and excitement prevaded the wh o l e p o pulation. It was obvious that Fort Wellington was the point of attack, and our citizens soon thronged the shore, eager to catch every movement. A small armed steam-boat was lying at the opposite wharf, and the people of Prescott, parading up and down from the village to the fort, gave no small evidence that no small de gree of hubbub and excitement pervaded the population. One of the schooners containing the rebel armament had gone aground during the night, end a baud of armed men seized the steam-boat United States, and pressed some of the hands into their service for the purpose of getting her off. She, however, was not able to reach the schooner, as the water was not sufficient for her draft, and she came into port for a longer hawser. As she went out again, the Experiment (a British armed steam-boat) greeted her with two shots, which missed, and she passed down the river. About nine o'clock, a. tn., one detachment of the forces made a landing on the Canada shore, about a mile below Fort Wellington, and whether they were attacked or not is uncer tain. Our opinion is that a party attacked them, but retieated at the first fire. Men have been constantly crossing to them in small boats, and up to this hour (two o'clock p. nr.) about Liao are supposed to have joined them. The great scene of excitement, however, has been on the water. The Experiment kept up an irregular fire during the forenoon on the schooner and the United States. Watch ing their various evolutions, and observing the skipping of the shot as they glanced along the surface of the water, formed a very exciting scene in a quiet village like this. Betty len 11 and 12 o'crock, the Paul Pry, used as a ferry boat between this place and Prescott, went to the relief of the schooner that lay on the bar, and succeeded in getting her afloat. The Experiment threw in her shots at a liberal rate, and they were so near several times, thatthev exchanged musket and rifle shots. It is reported that the 'Experiment sustained a lass of seven men—the schooner none. After the schooner got afloat, the United Status came up and entered the harbour. As she passed the armed steam boat a shot passed through the wheel-house, and killed every worthy young man, by the name of Foster, a steersman on the boat. Three o'clock, p.m.—The rebel forces occupy a windmill, about a mile below Prescott, and it is understood that there is another body above who have taken up a bridge, and stand prepared to defend themselves. The afternoon has been quiet so far. Small boats are constantly crossing with men and arms. We have a most favourable location for observing the movements, as our window affords a full view of Prescott and the river above and below, for two or three miles. Pres cott is unusually quiet this afternoon. We have hardly seen a m'iving being in the streets or about it. Six o'clock, p.m.—Arms and ammunition appear to abundant. The schooners have placed themselves near the wharf on which the windmill stands. A body of loyalists, reported 400, are on their march from Brockville (12 miles above this) to meet them, and if the parties have an appetite for cold fighting, we may expect important events soon. WHAT ARE MINISTERS DOING ?—ln the present position of Great Britain, in reference to its foreign relations—to our colonial possessions—and to our domestic politics, the question naturally recurs, " What are ministers doing le" Never, since tin period of the threatened invasion of our island by Buonaparte and his legions, has the country been in a more alarming condition than it is at present : and yet, amidst the impending dangers by which she is surrounded—dangers of a magnitude to appal the most resolute statesman—amidst the insults offered to our national flag—the contumely heaped upon our representatives in foreign countries—and the revolu tionary tumult which is spread over our colonies, we are constrained to ask—and we blush for the honour of our country when we propose the humiliating question,--" What are ministers doing Y" What is our present position ? Look at Great LIVERPOOL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY . The Mai-pis of Downshire and family arrived yesterday in Her Majesty's packet Avon, Captain Townly, from Dublin. Me. STUART'S BENEFIT.—This gentleman's benefit will take place on Monday night. With an excellent bid, and the attraction of his sister, we doubt not he will have a full house.—We have heard that a number of that gentleman's private friends have determined to give him a public dinner, as a testimony of their estimation of his talents. THE FRENCH BLOCKADING SQUADRON.—The Falmouth letter of Dec. 2d, filed yeAerday on 'Change, states the ar rival at that port of 11. M. P. Swift, Lieut. Welsch, from Mexico; freight 1,300,000 dollars; and adds, "No news; except that the French blockading squadron. which lately sailed from Cadiz, had arrived; that they had altogether about 35 vessels, and that they were cruising off Havannah, until the sickly season should have passed away. The Prince de Joinville, with the large vessels of war, was off Havannah." —ln the Liverpool letter of Tuesday on 'Change, there is a statement that the French squadron from Toulon had arrived at Havannah, and had sailed thence on 27th October for Vera Cruz. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a meeting, convened by the rectors of the parish, in accordance with the expressed wishes of upwards of forty of the clergy of the town, was held in the large room behind the Queen's Arms hotel, in Cook. street, for the purpose of forming a society to be called th e " Liverpool Church Building Society ;" the objects of which are to build churches in those populous parts of the town where there is now a dearth of them, and to afford cheap church accomodation for the poor. The meeting was attended by about two hundred gentlemen, consisting of nearly the whole of the clergy, and the principal gentry and merchants of the town. We observed the following gentlemen present: — Bishop of Chester, Rector Brooks, Rector Campbell, Revs. C. T. Gladwin, T. Bold, J. H. Stewart, J. C. Bates, S. B. Monk, R. L. Townsend, R. Leicester. T. Bibby, D. James, W. Hesketh, J. North, J. H. Stafford, C. Wray, R. P. Bud dicom, Sands, W. Badnall, H. Carpenter, J. Jones, ltd- Appleton, T. S. Bowstead, J. llassall, I'. L. Pain, F. Ould, S. Spencer, H. M`Neile; Major Brooks, J. Rigby, A. Swainson, 'l'. Wilson, John Eden, jun., W. R. Preston, C. Groves, W. Jones, A. Hodgson, J. Langton, J. Queen, J. Aspinall, R. Gladstone, C. Birchall, J. Pownall, C. S. Par ker, Esqrs. On the motion of the Rev. Rector Brooks, the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester was moved into the chair. The RIGHT REV. PRELATE in opening the meeting, said he should not occupy their time unnecessarily with regard to the object of the meeting, and it would be unnecessary if he were to say anything upon the object of their assembling together except the expression of gratification which he fe lt in - having been summoned on an occasion of this kind to the town of Liverpool, where he so often had had to offer his thanks to those who had supported him in the claims he had made fur other parts of his diocese. He was glad to see that Liverpool itself was to be supplied with churches; that hav ing done much in the supply of other parts of Lancashire, it had turned its attention to the wants that existed at home, and that those wants were not likely to continue what they are at present, with regard to one class of the po pulation. It must be in the knowledge of them all that many churches had been built within the last few years at Liverpool ; but it was equally in *the knowledge of them all that those churches had been built by persons who had their own wants in view, and they were not altogether suited for that class of the population who ought to have their wants supplied. They were to provide that which the law now allowed them to supply with profit— churches which should accommodate every class of the popu lation; receiving the rich, who can afford to pay for their seats, and also giving accommodation to the poor, if they would pay a very small proportion, in which they would con tribute something fey the support of the ministry. The law was now in such a state, that it enabled this to be done. I t enabled churches to be built, and to be placed under the pa tronage of trustees, who should have the appointment of the minister, and should have the general armngement of the affairs of the church. It was with this view that certain re solutions had been framed; and he would now request their valued friend, Rector Brooks, to read them to the meeting. (Applause.) The Rev. Rector BROOKS then came forwards. He said, if his Lordship bad thought it right to express the gratification which he felt in being called to Liverpool on such an occasion as the present, that gratification must be felt ten-fold by the ministry of Liverpool, in seeing his lordship taking the head on an occasion in which the inte rests of the great body of the parishioners were so greatly concerned. They must not forget that it was to his lordship they owed it; be had no hesitation in saying that it was to his lordship's labours that it was to be mainly attributed, that since his lordship came into that diocese no less than 50 new churches had been built in it. (Cheers.) It had been im pressed on them for some time that a strong necessity existed for such a class of churches, of which they had very few. That had been so strongly experienced that it had been for some time in consideration to appeal to the parishioners for their assistance to meet the want, and supply a remedy for this deficiency; and as they might appear to have a consi derable number of churches in this town, it was as well to look into two things connected with them, which he thought would shew, that though they had many churches, they had none at all in comparison with what they ought to have for the particu lar object for which they were assembled. In so doing he would look first to the distribution of the churches, and then to the character of the churches. He was speaking to gen tlemen who knew the geography of Liverpool very well, and he would, therefore, beg to take a line and cut through the town. In a line drawn to the north of Scotland-road, through Byrom-street, through the Haymarket, along Ren shaw-street, Great George's-street to the High Park.- That would divide the town into two parts ; but it would leave to the west of the line two-thirds of a very dense population : for it included the whole of Harrington and that thick popu lation. Now, when they came to look how our churches were distributed, they would find they had only ten churches in that line to the west of those streets; and those by no means churches able to contain the largest numbers in com parison with the others of the town. If they took a line from St. John's Church to Vauxhall-road, which he might fairly estimate as a mile and a quarter, there was not a single church ; within that space there was scarcely a place of public worship. There was a small chapel in Coekspur-street, of what denomination'of Christians he knew not, and a small Methodist chapel in another street, which were the whole of the places of worship in that district. He would take a line front the bottom of Pool-lane, the present Custom-house, and run it up to St. James's Church, and they had but St. James's Church. On the west of that they had an exceedingly dense population, and not a church was to be found. In both these divisions, then, he thought it could hardly be said that they were not in want of the description of churches they were now endeavouring to obtain. Then, if they looked at the description of churches at the other side of that line, he found at the north that they had, beginning at All Saints', within 200 yards St. Anne's, and in the same street Trinity Church; within 200 yards of that Christ Church, and about the same distance from that St. John's, and not far from that was St. Stephen's, and near to that St. Mary's ; so that they had no less than seven churches which lay in is cluster to the north. They would go to the south again ; and there they found, beginning St. Andrew's, St. Philip's, very near, near to that St. Luke's, and St. Mark's just below, all collected together: and if they took a very small radius they would find close to them St. David's, near St. Andrew's, St. Catherine's, near St. Philip's,. and St. Bride's, near St.' Mark's ; therefore here were two clusters of churches. This might not be of much moment to those who could come to church as they liked, under cover, but it was a great incon venience to those who had to walk a mile or two before they could reach them. It appeared to him that the great object of a national establishment was in the bringing of religious instruction and the ordinances of Christianity as near to the doors of the great mass of the people as possible. (Hear.) Having disposed of the distribution of the churches, he would go to the character of them. The expense of taking seats in those churches was far beyond the means of that class of so ciety to which they particularly now looked. It was only the other day that a friend of his told him that he had paid £l9 a year for his own and servants' seats in St. Catherine's; this was quite out of the reach of the mid tiling and lower ranks. it was quite obvious that accom modation could only be purchased by the classes who could afford, to give it; for soillyr was the rent for a good dwellinhouse. In eof those churches „- there were a number of free seats; but that again from their situation was unprofitable; and yet if filled, they were by no means adequate to the wants of the people around them; and there were no churches with the exception of one, in which there was a graduated scale of small annual payments for the sittings of the second class of tradesmen of the town. in one church there was a graduated scale of charges fur sittings from is. to is. Gd. a quarter; but in the rest of the churches there was nothing of that kind for that class, for whom they were bound, more than for any other class, to provide, for they were not able to provide for themselves. He trusted they had not unnecessarily called on the parishioners to come to their assistance, with regard to furnishing the means of religious instruction and superintendence. He was not now going to detain the meeting by entering minutely into the abstract question, to whom the object really belonged of making this provision : that was a question which might in volve great time, and bring them to no practical conclusion. It was something like education—the question whether the people were to be educated, was settled long ago. Th e question was, how? whether by a sound religious'know. ledge in the establishment of the country, or whether they were to be left to the 'chance of getting it where they might? . That was the state of education. It was not the propriety of being sent to religious worship, but how the people were to be sent. It should not be their fault if they were not sent to the Church of England. (Applause.) tie would, before reading the resolutions, call the attention of the meeting to the exertions of other towns. He would point out the town of Manchester as having expended between 20 and £30,000 in building churches. In Birmingham, where they were go ing to raise a subscription for building ten new churches, with an endowment of £lOOO for each, they - had in a few days succeeded in getting £lO,OOO towards that amount. He would point to their dissenting brethren. Let them look to what they were doing at their centenary, in order to relieve their chapels from debt. They did not think of collecting less than £lOO,OOO. He would advert to another class of their dissenting brethren—the Roman Catholics. Half a cen tury ago they had not more than thirty chape ls in the whole of the 'United Kingdom. There were now and build ing 476. His friend Mr. Campbell, had very properly told him that he bad omitted a very important branch of the representation: they had raised £38,000 in Glasgow for additional churches there for their population. Now, he would ask the wealthy inhabitants of Liverpool, whether Li verpool was to be the only first class place in England in which the members of the Church of England would not come forward to support their own principles. He trusted that would not be the case: because he knew when the men of Liverpool had a fair case made out, they were never back ward in providing means for any excellent purpose. He had had a long experience of forty years in the town; and it was a great satisfaction to him to say, that he had always lived among a set of persons who had always shown a feeling of liberality, both for religious purposes and for purposes of temporal charity. As the clergy had been the means o' calling the meeting together, they would naturally look _ them for some definite proposition. The clergy had met, and some forty of them bad prepared the resolutions which he should lay on his Lordship's table for the consideration of the meeting. They had treated this meeting as a preli minary meeting, as one preparatory to the establish inent of the church building society in the municipal boundary. With that view they had purposely kept off pi o posing any code of regulations, considering whenever any one gave in their support to a society of this sort they would be the fittest persons to signify what the code of regulations should be; therefore these resolutions were principally decla ratory, the two first entirely so; the 3rd related to the con vening of another meeting; and the 4th to a point which it was of great importance to those persons who were inclined to support a society of this sort, to consider well in establish ing it. The act of parliament required that property of this description should be vested in five trustees. All, therefore, the clergy had ventured to arrange was, what should entitle a person to a vote for these trustees. Any modifications of the plan proposed they would be glad to hear. They had no object of their own to serve; they were merely establishing the principle without in any way interfering with the manner in which it shall be carried out by the subscribers. (The Reverend Rector then read the resolutions, which wilt be found in our advertising columns.) These were resolutions passed unanimously at a large meeting of the clergy; and as they considered that they would be called on at the present meeting to give some ex planation of what was wanted, these resolutions he would now leave in his lordship's hands; and he doubted not but that the same unanimity would prevail in the future meetings which prevailed on that occasion. (Loud applause.) His LoanstnlPsaid it would seem to be unnecessary to take up the time of the meeting by reading again resolutions so clear as those laid before them by their friend the rector, or by making any remarks upon them. The only one that could he considered as of material importance upon which there could be any difference of opinion was that which re lated to the appointment of trustees ; because the trustees were the patrons, so to speak, of the churches. Each church must, by law, be endowed by £lOOO, and that placed the endowment not in the hands in which it would naturally by the general law be placed ; but in the hands of the trustees of the church, and therefore it must he seen by all that that was an important part of the plan; and he was happy to see that any difficulty as to the appointment of trustees had been happily suet by the arrangement proposed, because those persons who felt the importance of the appoint. ment of trustees would have the opportunity of securing it to themselves, for it was given to those who would bid the highest for it. Every £2.5. subscribed would give a vote towards the appointment of trustees. Any person who felt five times as fit on gl y as his neighbour, bad only to give five Britain itself. Here we find a band of republican Fanatics traversing the country, uncontrolled and un- molested—casting firebrands around them on their progress through the land—stimulating the disaffected to open rebellion—urging demands, to concede which would imply the overthrow of our constitution, and the dissolution of society itself—goading the deluded victims of their revolutionary agitation to open vio lence—tempting the morbid cupidity of the idle and dissolute by the prospect of universal spoliation—and daring the government of the country to arrest them on their destructive career: we see all this—we have witnessed it for weeks and months—and yet the question recurs "what are ministers doing ?" Have they made any effort whatever, beyond issuing a few inoperative directions to the magistracy, to stem the threatening torrent of sedition? Have they not al lowed it to spread its devasting influence, on the right hand and the left, until resistance is laughed'at as an empty mockery . . Look again at Ireland. There we see, in the course of active organisation, a society of " alien" rebels banded together for the express purpose of subverting the established church in that country, and thus break ing asunder the only link which binds it as an append age of the British crown. There we see diligently at work the ferocious incendiary O'Connell, training his millions of willing dupes to acts of constructive treason, and the equally ferocious and more desperately cun ning Popish priesthood instilling into the minds of the sanguinary rabble the most deadly hatred of every thing bearing the name or semblance of Protestanism. There we see violence and murder in all their compli cated and revolting atrocity—the laws mocked at, and set at defiance—all the rigorous tortures of the in quisition set at work in the persecution of innocent Protestants, whose loyal attachment to the British throne alone renders them obnoxious to the malignant and rancourous enmity of their enemies—and every species of brutal intimidation resorted to for the pur pose of impeding the course of justice, and stifling the dictates of humanity. Ireland is, in fact, on the eve of a mighty political convulsion. The rumbling of its volcanic fires is already perceptible. Our govern ment is aware of this state of things: and yet the question is forced upon us "what are our ministers doing ?" Are they seeking to repress the precursory treason ? Are they endeavouring to protect the per secuted Protestants? Do they manifest any anxiety to retain Ireland as a portion of her Majesty's domi nions? Far frcnn it. Their lauded and flattered vice gerent is the idol of the Popish faction, as well as its accommodating slave. He sternly repels the proffered allegiance of the loyal Protestants, and courts the smiles of the Popish priesthood, while he encourages them in their traitorous intrigues. With one hand he marks out the -victims of midnight plunder or assassi nation—with the other he unlocks the gate of the pri son cell to allow the convicted felon and murderer to escape the vengeance of the law. Look again at the state of India, where our empire is threatened with a violent disruption, and over whose fair provinces the Vulture of the North is hovering, ready to pounce upon his prey. Look at the unchecked encroachment of Russia upon our commerce in the East. Look at the disorganised state of things in the West Indies, where the negro population are encou raged in their unreasonable demands by the minions of government, and where open rebellion and a general massacre are objects of daily dread. Look again at Canada, the fearful condition of which may be inferred from the details given in a preceding article. Look, again, to the crippled and almost desperate state of our navy—the great bulwark of our defence—and let the question be answered " what are ministers doing r Mere is a crisis evidently at hand. Lord Melbourne and his " awkward squad " must give way to men of more honest principles—of stronger nerve—of more unaccommodating natures—of more devoted loyalty. This alone can secure the salvation of our country and the permanency of our empire. LIVERPOOL 'CHURCH. BUILDING SOCIETY.—It is with feelings of unfeigned gratification that we would direct the attention of our readers to the report which appears in another column, of the interesting proceed ings at the meeting of yesterday, for the purpose of forming a Church Building Society for the municipal borough. The object of this society is, more especi ally, to make provision for the accommodation of the middle and lower classes, in places of worship con nected with the establishment—an object which must carry with it its own recommendation to every bene volent and christian mind—and an object which se most cordially hope to see satisfactorily realised. The donations already announced amount to fire thousand one hundred and forty six pounds. This is certainly a glorious beginning. We hope it will only prove the harbinger of still more grateful results. JAMAICA AND GRENADA. By the Theodosia we have received files of Jamaica papers of the date of the 20th of October. Their contents are, as usual, unsatisfactory. The negroes in Grenada have abso lutely and obstinately refused to resume their ag,ricultural labours, or to quit the houses which they cumber with their presence. Their opposition to the planters is no longer pas sion : it has become active and unequivocal. They have de luded themselves with the opinion that the cottages in which they had been accustomed to reside were their own pro perty—a notion of which the governor has endeavoured to disabuse them. They retorted that if their employers had been authorised to assume possession, the occupants would ere this have been forcibly ejected, thus ungratefully and cun ningly denouncing the lenient spirit which the planters have extended to them as an indication of a positive absence of power to protect their own rights. Several proprietors of estates in Duquesne Valley, wearied out with the continued listlessness of the labourers, and alarmed at the prospects of ruin which the decay of their neglected crops augured, peremptorily ordered the blacks to quit their huts. The negroes refused to budge, and stoutly maintained possession. In this emergency it was found necessary to summon the assistance of the resident magistracy and police, whom the blacks, nevertheless, succeeded in defeating. An intimation of the state of matters was forwarded by express to the go vernor, who promptly summoned his council, and dispatched by water to the scene of strife detachments of the 70th and the Ist regiments. The incidents which occurred on their arrival are not detailed—the result of it is not unwelcome. On four of the estates only nine were at work, on 11 all were employed, and on one estate all the labourers, with the excep tion of three recreants, who were imprisoned for their mis deeds. We are sorry to add, that the system of " stock plun der" has been extensively practised by the blacks; but the planters are not disinclined to hope that the presence of the soldiers will check all attempts at future excesses, and drive the population into tranquil submission. On some of the estates in Jamaica the negroes, convinced of their folly and protracted opposition, have returned to their work. The accounts furnished from many of the districts are, however, not equally flattering. In the parish of West moreland the labourers are stubbornly idle. - Tla.:y reject the terms of remuneration which the planters offer them, and threaten to effect their purpose by a general strike. At Hanover they have boasted that they willeven hazard an out break. Worse than all, in the neighbourhood of the capital several of the blacks, who were considered as men who had determinedly resolved to maintain peace, and pursue their avocations, have now been cajoled to abandon the culture of the crops. At a public meeting of the magistrates at Portland it was resolved to memorialise the executive—that in the opi nion of the subscribers no continuity of exertion could be expected from the emancipated slaves—that their demand for wages were exorbitant and preposterous, and that the spirit of insubordination which they seem to be mutually fostering, will require that a frigate shall be stationed off the coast during the early part of November, at which period, as the law of ejectment will be brought into general and vigorous operation, a feverish excitement may be expected to prevail. The negroes in this region have been heard to mutter a threat, that as they cannot risk a simultanemis attack, they will re sort to individual assassination, and pristine and predatory warfare—an outrage which, in the memory of persons now living in the island, they have already shown their ability to commit. It is with unaffected pain we add, that the Baptist missionaries have so far forgotten the peaceful nature of the office whose functions they are appointed to discharge, as to preach to the deluded and irritated negroes the doctrine of passive resistance—a principle, the inculcation of which, we are informed, fearfully inflames the passions of the malcon tents to whom it is addressed. The planters complain that the policy of the executive is not sufficiently vigorous, and they assert that were the interference of the Governor of Ja maica as prompt as has been that of his contemporary at Grenada, the discontents with which these islands are dis tracted would speedily be allayed. From Cuba we learn, that the excessively boisterous weather with which that island has been visited, bas suspended all the operations of trade, and that the coffee crop is seriously injured. be la TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STaND,IRD. S I a.—The site of the old Custom House has become a great thoroughfare, and because this has been the case, it really would appear tbat the authorities have permitted filth of every description tote accumulated thereupon. Pray remon strate with the powers that be upon their want of attention to this part of the town, and oblige Your obedient servant, Canning-place, 6th Dec., 1838. J. N. times as much, and he bad five times the power in the ap pointment of trustees. (Hear.) He hoped that those wants which they saw would be supplied—supplied in the most liberal manner by those whom they saw around them. They were not able to rest satisfied in the position in which tttey were, but they had gone forth to supply the destitution around them, which they lamented, and which they were anxious to remove. Without further remark, be would read the resolutions once more, and take the sense of the meeting on their being adopted as the resolutions on which they should found that plan, for which many unborn would see reason tb bless the day when it was first adopted. [The Right Rev. PRELATE then read over the two first resolutions.] They must feel it to be of particular importance that there should be an individual whose concern it should be, not only to minister in the chinch, but to minister out of the church ; that they might be able to see exemplified here what has been so largely exemplified elsewhere, that "the house-going clergyman makes the church-going population." [The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN then read the third resolu- That would give an opportunity of seeing what arrange ments would be made elsewhere, that, in one respect, those who-came last in the field would have an advantage; for they could profit by the errors or experience of those who had gone before. The Rev. HUGH WNEILE said the chairman would ex cuse him for remarking on that clause. He had left the meeting under the impression that communicants of the Church of England should be the trustees. The Rev. RECTOR BROOKS said, there seemed to be no doubt or apprehension that they should be communicants. But he understood that that should be a part of the regula tions ; that the future trustees appointed should be commu nicants of the Church of England. They knew that certain chapels had got out of the hands of those persons for whom they were intended, and had got into the hands of persons of opposite doctrines. To prevent that in future, the trus tees under the regular code of the society, should not only be members, but communicants of the Church of England. The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN trusted that they were fast ap proaching the time when they should never speak of mem bers of the Church of England but of communicants; and he trusted the meeting that day would greatly, under God's blessing, contribute to such a result. The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN then read the 4th resolution.] The trustees need not be five, but they must not be more than five under the existing law: they might be any number not exceeding five; and thus, as to the appointment of trus tees there would be many things to consider relating to the management of churches. The £5O subscribers would be al lowed- four years to pay the amount; because with their ut most hopes it would be three or four or five years before the churches could be completed; and the last year's instalment would just come in to pay the last of the £lOO,OOO, which he trusted would be the result of the meeting.—(Cheers ) He had now only to hope that these resolutions would meet with the concurrence of the gentlemen assembled. The Rev. Mr. JONES wished to enquire, what would be the mode of electing trustees—whether a list was to be presented, or each subscriber was to name an individual? He wished to know if any scheme or plan had been brought forward? The Rev. Rector Baocats said he should say this plan should be determined by the decision of the meeting. So far as he was concerned, he really had no choice in the matter. He was only anxious that it should be secured in the best possible manner. Whether it should be done by proposing a certain list, he, for one, should decline proposing any list, because he should wish the meeting to form their own opi nion. Individually, he had no possible wish regarding the trustees, who, he was confident, would perform the slaty which was imposed upon them by that very responsible and important office; and when he looked round the town of Liverpool, and at the class of persons whom they might ex pect to be nominated trustees, they could hardly go wrong. There were none with whom he would not most cordiallY act; and he was quite sure the good sense of .those who liad to appoint them, would put in that situation gentlemen well fitted for the purpose. He was quite ready to follow any mode which his friend, Mr. Jones, might suggest. He, for one, would most cordially acquiesce in any mode. The Right Rev. CtI AIRMMAN said, there would, perhaps, be no difficulty in following the plan adopted in London, by the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. When the members were appointed, each person put his name opposite the name of the person whom he desired to form the com mittee; this formed a kind of ballot, and the majority formed the committee. They could not suppose the trustees, who would be thought of would consist of more than 20 or 30 persons, and those who got the majority of votes would be the trustees. He thought this plan would not be found to have any practical diliculty.— A CLERGYMAN said, a question was asked behind of some importance; whether absent subscribers would have a vote? The Rev. Rector BROOKS.—Oh yes; I conceive that every person who subscribes £25 will have a vote if he notifies his wishes in writing. The Rev. Mr. BUDDICOME.—It has been mentioned tome, with your permission, that there are some who would gladly subscribe £25, to whom it would be inconvenient to pay it at once, but who would be happy to do it at twice, as those who subscribed £5O were allowed to do it at four times. This suggestion was unanimously agreed to, that the sub scribers of £25 should have two years to pay it in. The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL said, as he possibly might take the liberty of concluding that there was no objection to these resolutions, he therefore might conclude that they were passed. He would venture, if he might be permitted, to say a few words on the most important subject, which was the subject of finance and collection of donations ; that they might be able to raise money for that most desirable and im portant object they had in view, the books were on the table. If any individuals piesent were willing to subscribe their names on the terms that had been proposed, of course the clergy would be most thankful to receive it; and perhaps he might be permitted to read nart of a letter from Mr. Samuel Holme, who was prevented'from attending at this particular time. (The Rev. Rector then read an extract from a letter from Mr. Sarni. Holme, stating his satisfaction in announc ing that Mr. Jas. Tomkinson the builder, though a dissenter, would give £lOO. to the object in yiew. He hoped that they would be able to raise at least ten new churches. After alluding to the very handsome sum raised by the Methodists, which ought to be an example to them, and hoping that the poor might have cheap accommodation provided, so as not to be driven to dissenting places of wor ship, be states that he shall be obliged by having his name put down for £lOO, his brother James also for £lOO, and his mother for ten guineas towards the general fund. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Campbell) must also be permitted to add— not perhaps, that the individual whom he was going to men tion would thank him for so doing—but he must be permitted , to add that Mr. Charles Groves put down his name for £5OO. (Applause.) He hoped that his example would be followed, and that they should all of them give after their power. The Right Rev. CHAIRMAN believed that nothing more remained for him as chairman to do; but it had given him the greatest satisfaction to find the unanimity with which the proposition had been received. Concurrence in the resolu tions would be better exhibited by subscribing their neones than by any other way, and he trusted that the rectors , and clergy of Liverpool ; who had proposed these resolutions to their parishioners, would have the gratification of seeing the wants they deplored supplied. The Rev. HUGH M'IN RILE cordially rejoiced in the appa rent unanimity which had pervaded that assembly; hut in the apprehension that it might not be so entirely as they could wish a real unanimity, he was apprehensive that there were gentlemen who were unwilling to come forward to pledge themselves to large donations till they had first ascer tained in whom the trust was invested; and he was appre hensive further, that that mistake might be made by many excellent friends of theirs, and that they might fancy them selves called on to maintain the feeling they had cherished of the propriety of knowing the trust before they knew the names of the trustees. The object of his address was, for them to give up their individual preferences for the sake of unanimity. He thought there were points which they could not venture to recommend, because they could not venture to practise any compromise; but he thought that there should be a marked difference made and clearly under stood, between those personal preferences which vary in individuals, and those essential truths which never vary. To yield essential truths for the sake of unanimity, leads to in fidelity; hut to maintain personal preference, which was not an essential truth, at the expense of woundinvunanimity, was, he thought, personal bigotry. (Hear.) He used sim ple words and strong ones to avoid circumlocution. Let there not be the slightest appearance of disunion amongst them; let no man leave the room because his own private view was not adopted. (Hear.) The Rev. Rector Bnooks then suggested that the tanks of the town should be authorized to receive subscriptions, till the proper officers of the institution were appointed. They should summon a meeting in the first week in January, be cause that would give gentlemen an opportunity of making up their minds as to w hat they should do by that time; that if auy other place should be thought more feasible, they might be ready to meet that object. The Rev. II UGH APNEILE suggested that the day of the meeting in January should be fixed at that meeting, as it might obviate some inconvenience, and they might make their arrangements accordingly. The day of the next meeting was then fixed for the first day in the new year. at two o'clock. The Rev. Rector BROOK s then proposed the thanks of the meeting to the Lord Bishop of Chester for coming over to take the chair, at a time when they were determining an object of so much importance. The Lord Bt sHOP of CHESTER said it really gave him the greatest pleasure to be able to attend that day. He believed it was the only day in the week when he could have attended. It was quite providential ; and he trusted the day fixed might also be considered as a providential appointment; because if one thing more than another enabled them to be gin the year with God it surely must be the advancement of his glory and kingdom. They were desirous of promoting the honour of God; to Him they committed what they now undertook, and might they trust that His providence would watch over them. Might those persons appointed be those who were the best able to carry into effect the objects they I had in view in building the churches, namely, the glory of • God and his creatures. The meeting was then adjourned at three o'clock to the Ist I of January next. It will be seen that upwards of £5OOO have already been f subscribed ; and it is rumoured that a wealthy individual has f also promised a subscription of £4OOO, which will raise the f subscriptions in one afternoon to upwards of £9OOO. There are already six candidates for the town clerkship of .he newly incorporated borough of Manchester. A proclamation to divide the county of Tipperary into two ridings will be issued in a few days.—Limerick Chronicle. Lord Durham is now, we understand, on a visit at the re sidence of J. C. Bulteel, Esq., where it is said the countess will remain some time, but his lordship will proceed to town some day in the course of the present week.— Western Lumi nary. A DISTINGUISHED NAME.—The yoengest daughter of Prince _Charles of Bavaria is shortly to be married to the heir to a very ancient family in that kingdom. Her elder sister is already rnarri^d to a Bavarian nobleman, the Baron Von Grumppenbery Poitmes! BRIVIITON, 'TUESDAY , —From a letter received here this morning from a person of rank connected with her Majesty's household, we are assured tbat the Queen, who was expected at the Pavilion on Thursday next, will not leave Windsor for some time, owing to urgent business, yelairng to the Ca -1 nadas, requiring her Majesty's presence in the vicinity of the m etropolis.—Morning Herald. MALTA, Nov. 14.—We have the satisfaction to learn that her Majesty Queen Adelaide arrived at Naples in the Has tings on the 29th ult., after a most prosperous passage from Gibraltar. Her Majesty will, we understand, make a stay of about three weeks in that capital, and after paying a short visit to Palermo and Messina, will proceed to this island, where the most cordial reception awaits her eltival. LINCHING EXTRAORDINARY.—A barrel of whisky was recently tarred and feathered, and then consumed by fire, at Valley Forge, Va., after a temperance address by the Rev. Mr. Hunt. The leader of the work of destruction was a dealer in ardent spirits.—American paper. An infant was devoured in its cradle at Killarney last week by a pig.—Limerick Chronicle. . EXTRAORDINARY TURNlP.—Abraham Coates, Esq., of Talbot-street, has received from the Earl of Stradbrooke, of Hannon Hall, Suffolk, a present of a hare, two large phea sants, three line partridges, and a woodcock, which were for warded in a scooped turnip of an enormous size.—Dublin Evening Packet. BRIGIITON, DEC. 4.—Our high constable, Mr. Bradshaw, received an'otficial communication yesterday evening, from Windsor, expressive of her Majesty's intention of being in Brighton on Wednesday, the 18th inst., unless any unfore seen circumstance should occur to set aside the present ar rangements.—We are sorry to hear that our worthy repre sentative, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, is confined to Sir Hew Ross's residence, in Comi,nland, with an attack of rheuma tic fever and gout. —Morning Post. I 1 I i I 4