The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

parties concerned in it, The working dame, for whom) benefit (as the name imports) it was exclusively designed, have derived little or no benefit from it. "There are evening classes," says a journal of the party, "very spar ingly attended by the working men and their children. There are lectures, attended numerously by pupils, by those who pay for admission, and by subscribers to the library. But the extent to which its benefits are shared by the poor is very limited indeed. it is no fault of the managers that this is the case. They have made every effort to induce the working classes to attend. With the aid of the proprietors of some large engineering estab lishments, who use their influence over their appren tices, they-have to a certain extent succeeded; but the general result is failure." Thus through party jealousy and by a purely party spirit the truth is forced out, and sentence is given against the grant to the liberal Me chanics' Institution, with the hope of preventing one from being passed in favour of a rival establishment, founded on Conservative principles. But such an argument can have no weight with a Conservative Council; no weight, at least, for the purpose for which it is adduced, whatever it may possess for an opposite. It is, in fact, a good argument in favour of a fresh benevolence in aid of a similar establishment projected on a better plan, and with a fairer prospect of answer ing the end proposed by its founders, unless the Council adopt the Vandal notion actually pleaded by a Liberal journal, that any description of collegiate instil ution in Liverpool is undeserving of their support ! "We argued," says the Journal of Saturday, "that the failure of the Mechanics' Institution was a sufficient reason for not listening to any proposal to spend more of the public money in the same way, for it was now clear that the only classes who would benefit by such institutions were thoSe who could a f ford to pay for them." Here, then, is a protest from one of those luminaries which assume to exercise a special guardianship. over the " march of intellect " against any pecuniary aid whatever being contributed by the conservators of our public interests' to any institution which professes to deal with the higher branches and more advanced departments of a liberal education. Of such, he has discovered by experience, the working classes have no need for themselves, therefore it would be throwing money away to erect them for their use; and as to the superior classes and the rich, they, if they require them, he contends, should be left to provide them at their own cost. Thus the opposition of the Liberal party resolves itself into this, that the local government of Liverpool is bound to take no interest in the mental progression and intellectual developments of the wealthier orders of the community, and to refuse all support to any institution, however judiciously planned, which pro fesses to afford instruction to any other but the "work- ing " classes On this subject we shall have something further to say in our next Triumph crowds upon triumph; and new sources of strength and health hourly develope themselves in our glorious constitution and in the Conservative adminis tration, which now happily watches over the nation's welfare. On Friday we announced, in a second edition, the victory achieved by the principle of Protestantism over a noxious and dangerous heresy in the University of Oxford ; and we have now the satisfaction of an nouncing another and, if possible, a more important triumph, in the virtual declaration of the government of Sir Robert Peel in favour of sound Protestant prin ciples in our Established Church itself. The appoint ment of the Rev. Dr. Gilbert—the principal of Bra zenose College, and the strenuous supporter, during the late struggle, of the anti-Puseyite candidate—to the vacant bishopric of Chichester, will be received with acclamation by every true churchman throughout the kingdom ; and the minister who has made so gratifying an appointment, at a time, too, when its meaning can not be mistaken, has well deserved and will receive a largely increased amoant of confidence from the Pro- By the people of Liverpool we know that such an appointment will be viewed with unmingled satisfaction; and the proper inference to be drawn from it will not be overlooked. To the advantages which we anticipate from the administration of the affairs of government by Conservar I now the .additional pro- hands we have raise, which this appointment guarantees, that its foster ing care .will be exercised to preserve, uninjured and unweakened, the Protestantism of our Church; and for this well-timed and bold indication of the sound principles of his government, in the name of our Con servative fellow -townsmen, earnestly and emphatically, we thank Sir Robert Peel. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c The Market for Cotton during the past week has worn a very languid appearance, and prices of most deicriptions have sustained a decline. During the last two days, how ever, more firmness has been evinced, and holders refuse to submit to further reduction. The sales on Saturday were only 2000 bales; but yesterday 4000 were sold. We cannot report any materially improved feeling amongst our commer cial men generally, and scarcely anticipate any such change in the present quiet state of things until the measures of go vernment are to some extent developed. The Market for Manufactured Goods has been very inani mate, without, however, any alteration in price. Some par ticular descriptions of goods are, however, in demand, and some extensive purchases have been made for the Greek Market, and a confident opinion exists that a fair spring trade will be done. In Manchester the same anxiety is felt with respect to the measures of Sir Robert Peel' and the feeling that some valuable commercial c be depended upon, i 3 very generally entertained. LOCAL NEWS THE POOR OF KlRKDALE.—lmmediately on the frost and severe weather setting in, the Rev. D. James, incumbent of St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, commenced investigating the state of the poor in his own district, and to administer relief without waiting for a public subscription. In the course of a few days GO blankets, 147 yards of excellent flannel, and provisions to a large amount were distributed among 130 fa milies, giving to each family its choice of what it most needed. On Sunday morning last, the rev. gentleman made an appeal to his congregation in aid of this object, and the sum of £4l Bs. was collected, being the largest collection ever made in that church since it was opened. THE ELECTlON.—Parliament will meet on Thursday week, the 3rd of February. The motion for the issuing of a new writ for Liverpool, consequent on the elevation of Mr, Cress well to the Judicial Bench, will, in all likelihood, be made on that day or the next. The writ will, in that case, reach Preston by the end of the week, and Liverpool in a few hours afterwards. The election will, threrefore take place towards the end of the week following, probably on the 11th of Feb ruary. A PUBLIC PARK IN TOXTETH -PARK —The Town Council having declined to purchase land for the purpose of forming a park or parks for the use and recreation of the public, Mr. Richard Vaughan Yates has purchased from the . Earl of tSef:on the large quantity of forty-three acres, two-thirds of which arc to be laid out for a park for the use of the public, and the marling third is to be appropriated to sites for villas. The noble lord receives £llOO per acre ; so that the p i urc eha money for the whole will exceed £ 4 7, 000 . The laud abuts, .on the south, to Ullet-lane, which runs from the Park chapel past the end of Aigburth-road, and, on the east , to Lodge lane, which joins Ullet-lane. It is beautifully situate, com manding fine views in every direction. THE PIAN O .—We have been much gratified by a recent inspection of Mr. Dreaper's new and varied assortment of instruments. There are in his collection at present some su perb grand-squares, and cabinets, by Collard and Collard, Broadwood, Tomkisson, and others of the first London ma nufacturers, which have ' pleased us alike by the richness and nrillian cy o f the i r tone, and the splendour an d b eauty o f their piceaa appearance. We have been surprised at the moderate which Mr. 1). can afford to sell such superior in struments, and would strongly recommend any lady or gen tleman in want of this indispensable article, to pay an early visit to his show rooms d Lewis,(Se eadvertisement.) BURGLARY. —Joseph place — a respectable-looking man, was, on Saturday, dwelling - house before Mr. Rushton, chargrd with h av ing broken into tlAtedii, of James Farritnund, of Johnson's-court, g a t a ortreet. It appeared from the evidence, that Mr. Farrim l Frida locked up his house at eleven o'clock on the night of Friday and that on Saturday morning at five it was found some thief or thieves had obtained access through a wintlo t and had stolen a clock and two chairs. About a quart w e'r o past five o'clock that morning, constable 542, who The of flattop-garden in Dale-street, r a r i s aane ; t t ton-garden with the stopped the prisoner at the corn w p e clock in his possessi °n • by a old a long story of the clock having been given to him him to carry it to Cumberland-street. H _l e man who directed was committed for trial. BLUE COAT BROTHERLY SOCIETY.—Under the foregoing Liverpool n ßlue ie title a society was fo rmed about fouryears ago, consisting exclusively of individu als educated in the Coat Hospital, whose p rincipal object is to visit apprenticed from that i nstitution, and to afford then boy such Advice and assistance as their circumstances may from to time requite. Of the utility oft such a society thercure be but one opinion ; and we have geat pleasure in noticinaen iroin the rrt for the pastyear, which has just been pu i,;_' the society for the past y ear dished, that" the proceedings ot' 4 ' have been attended with the same favourable and gratifyi ng .., success which accomp anied their exer r t e io se n i s it duunrdienrg their " former years. The numb er of boys at p " superintendence is 127, being an increase of 46 over the " number of last year, who have been visited, and the reports " of the visits laid before the society, and the trustees of the " school, the general result of which has beets highly satis " factory." It affords great pleasure to the society that they have been able to relieve with clothing all the boys who ave stood in need of their assistance, and tha such assistance has beved with becoming gratitude.t The remainder of theen received funds has been, throughout the year, constantly in circulation in the shape of loans to different members, several of whom have profited by this Mean s of accommodation, and have thereby been materially assisted in their business. The Cutsntne Pox Bounds will meet en Monday, the 31st instant, at Sandiwayhead ; Wednesday. Feb. 2, at Had don Heath; Thursday, Feb, 3, Duddon Heath; Saturday, Feb. 5, Buckley Hill—if the weather permits. FlLE.—Yesterday evening, about a quarter before six o'clock, an alarm of a tire having broken out in Shaw's-alley (leading out of Mersey-street), %iv passed along by the police constables to the tire-station in Temple-court. An engine, with a sufficient force, was immediately passed along, (and others were in readiness to follow it, if required), but it was counter-ordered before it reached the spot, it having been found that only the chimney of a small dwelling-house (on the west side of the street), had become ignited, and was put out without any damage worthy of notice. RELIEF OF THE POOR.—A meeting was held last evening at the Fleece Inn, Oldhall-street, to take steps to relieve the many suffering poor in St. Paul's Ward ; Alderman Griffiths in the chair. We noticed present John Deakin, Esq., J. Jump, Esq., 0. Wiliiams, Esq., George Wright, Esq., and John Hickson, Esq. The resolutions will be found in our advertising columns. The subscriptions in the room amounted to £57. Amongst the items we perceived the names of Alderman Griffiths and the Councillors Blundell and Edwards for £lO each. The distress is indescribable, and calls loudly for the attention of the benevolent. THEFT FROM A Snip.—Some time in December last, six cases of shawls, marked A.D., and numbered 27 to 34, were sent to this town, from Mr. Templeton, of Kilmarnock, through Mr. James Robinson, merchant, and shipped in the Cockermouth Castle, for Rio Janeiro. The hatch of the vessel was broken up during the night of the 17th December, one of the cases was broken open, and six dozen of the shawls were stolen. On Saturday Lawrence Pierson, James Taylor, and Mary Taylor were placed before the magistrates, charged with having been concerned in the robbery. The possession of several of the shawls was clearly traced to the prisoners Pierson and Mary Taylor. James Taylor was one of the men employed by the stevedore to stow the Cockermouth Castle. It appeared by the evidence, that a man named James Farrell, had given away some of the shawls, which had been pledged, and which were identified as part of the property stoic'. This Farrell is in gaol for felony. also, was employed by the stevedore. The prisoners were remanded. THE ALBION BANK-PAPER.—We understand that our townsman, Mr. Bean, the proprietor of the Liverpool Albion, has purchased the premises in Castle-street now occupied as the Albion Bank ; and that his paper will in future be issued there instead of the paper of the establishment in question. We sincerely congratulate our contemporary upon the state of affairs which this change evidences, and trust lie will con tinue that liberality or liberalism in his mode of doing busi ness which has thus enabled him to acquire for his issues the consideration of bank paper, and that those who discount at his new establishment will not have reason to complain, in these hard times, that his bullion is dispensed with a nig gardly hand. Lucky dogs are they of the liberal press. We wish we could see the day when the favours of conservatism shall be showered in such abundance upon those who labour in its behalf as to enable them to step out in so magnificent a style. The whip party do support those by whom they are supported. Ecce signora. We institute, however, no com parisons. •• • SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.—The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends to this excellent institution was held at the committee-room, London-road, on Friday last, for the general business of the year. Samuel Turner, Esq. pre sided on the occasion. Mr. Houghton, the secretary, read the heads of the several accounts. The income of the year had amounted to £3588 ss. 5d., and the expenditure to £3163 13s. 7d., leaving a balance of ..£424 Ils. 10d. in favour of the society. There were, however, several outstanding debts unpaid. Several of the bills which had been already sent in amounted to £1229 14s. 9d., and there were many others not yet received. The sales in 1841 had amounted to £1553 13s. 7d: There were 105 pupils at present in the school :-22 pupils had been admitted in 1841, and 24 had quitted the institution. The secretary said that the annual income was not equal to the expenditure, and that if all the outstanding bills were paid, the institution would be £6OO or £lOO i❑ debt. It was only about £4OO in debt at the close of last year. Sir T. B. Birch, Bart. was elected president for the ensuing year. TIIE NIGER EXPEDITION.—The following letter from one of the officers engaged in this expedition, dated Fernando Po, October 24,1841, has not yet appeared in our columns : " We got about three hundred and eighty miles up the river, where we formed a settlement. I then left the Albert and joined the Soudan, to bring the invalids down. Vie lost six hands in the Albert before I left, and brought in the Soudan thirty sick. The doctor, purser, and carpenter died coming down, and two more at Fernando Po. Captain Allen left the Soudan. and went on board the Albert, and Mr. Fish bourne brought her here. as there was not one officer well belonging to her. The Wilberforce came down shortly after wards with more sick, and the Albert went up, hut two wore have died since we left. The purser of the Wilberforce died coming down, and the master of the Albert came down in her and died here. A doctor's mate and Mr. Fishbourne were taken sick here, and went to Ascension in the Wilber force, and Lieutenant Strange came here. We left the Albert on the 19th of September, and arrived here on the 27th ; we left again on the Bth of October, and went up the river to look for the Albert, but met her coining over the bar in charge of Captain Beacroft—all hands sick but four. Captain Trotter is very ill indeed, but is getting better. Captain B. Allen died tr.is morning. The Albert lost three coming down and two here. She has a great many sick on shore, and two in a very bad state. We are going to Ascen sion as soon as the state of our sick will permit, where we will stop till the sick on board the other vessels recover suffi ciently to allow of the whole being sent to England. We arc going to leave the Soudan here. Mr. Strange has joined the Albert here, and we hare got an officer from the Pluto. A clerk aid an engineer, in the height of the fever, jumped overboard from the Albert ; the engineer was lost, but two men succeeded in saving the clerk. It is a fine country in the interior ; there is plenty of palm oil, gold dust, ivory, and indigo, which may be purchased very cheap. I expect we shall be home in March." RAINUILL SUNDAY SCHOOL. — The congregation of St. Ann's Church, Rainhill, assembled in the school room on Sunday evening last, and presented Mr. George Ashton, of Prescot, with a very handsome piece of plate, for his inde fatigable exertions as founder of the Sunday School connected with the said church, when, in the absence of the Rev. J. Brierly, the incumbent, who was unavoidably prevented from attending, and who had a short time since kindly presented Mr. Ashton with some valuable' hooks as'alriark of esteem for his services, the Rev. Mr. Lamb, the curate, passed a very high eulogiurn on Mr. Ashton's unceasing attention as conductor of that school. Mr. Ashton replied in a very affectionate and sympathising manner. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. W. Longton and Mr. J. Mel ling, who also bore testimony to his services in the education of the poorer classes in the neighbourhood. The meeting concluded by singing a hymn, and all retired highly gratified with the proceedings of the evening. The following is the inscription on the plate :—" Presented to Mr. G. Ashton , by the clergy and congregation of St. Ann's Church, Rainhill, as a small token of respect for his unwearied exertions in be half of the Sunday School. January, 1842." THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. — The fol lowing appears as a P.S. to the circular convening the general meeting of the proprietors :—" As the company's establish ments for engine and coach-building and repairing are about to be removed to the new works at Crewe, and several hun dred men with their families will thereupon be taken away (for the compan's advantage) from their present residences. and means of spiritual and temporal instruction, and com pelled to reside in a district almost wholly unprovided in both these respects, it is the intention of the directors (and they take this opportunity of distinctly stating it beforehand) to submit for the consideration of the sharel , olders, at the general meeting on the Ist of February, the propriety of authorizing the appropriation, out of the company's funds, of a snm not exceeding 11000, towards the establishment of a church and school, in the neighbourhood of, and in con nection with, the new works. We have just been favoured with the sight of a splendid Hebrew Poem, composed by Mr. M, Margoliantb, Under graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, late an inmate of the Liverpool Institution for Enquiring and Converted Jews, in this town, superbly bound in crimson velvet, and lined with amber satin. Altogether it is the most unique production we ever beheld, and for purity of diction and elegance of writing, rivals the Talrnudical writings of the learned Hebrews of any age. It has been transmitted for presentation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert at the royal christening; and con tains a description of the national and literary character of the English nation and its august queen, the coronation of her most gracious majesty, the auspicious marriage of the queen, the happy birth of a prince and princess, and the baptism of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We can add nothing more than that we wish it may meet with the favourable reception its great merit so richly deserves. We understand that it was bound and ornamented by Mr. Batey, of London-road. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. — On Sunday forenoon a boat in which were several men, was caught in a squall, off the Clarence Dock, and upset. Boats from diffe rent points made towards the spot, in the hope of picking up the men : a buoy was thrown overboard from the packet-ship Siddons as they floated by ;and the Egremont Steamer went to their assistance. All the efforts so save the unfortunate fellows were in vain, the whole, supposed to have been four in number, having perished. We, yesterday, made enquiries along the line of Princes Pier, and Clarence Dock, and northward to the extremity of the sea walls, with a view to supply some further particulars of the melancholy event, but without being enabled to obtain the names of the unfortunate deceased, All we could learn was that the boat was a gig, from the south end of the town—nrobably the King's Dock Basin,—and the parties were not, it would appear, boat, men, but individuals who had gone on an excursion of pleasure, and apparently not accustomed to the management of so small and delicate a vessel in the tide-ways of our river. The wind was blowing from the northward at the time, and as the tide was running in the opposite direction, there was a sea-way on, dangerous for small boats incautiously worked. She had not much sail set, having only the foresail with the sprit out—forming a small shoulder-of-mutton sail, and the jigger ; and the accident consequently occurred from the sea breaking into or over her and swamping her. None of the bodies, so far as we could learn, up to last night, have yet been found. ANDERSON'S STATUARY—IMPORTANT TO THE NOBI LITY, GENTRY, AND OTHERS.—It will be observed by an advertisement in another column, that Mr. Anderson, on ac count of ill health, has decided upon submitting his cele brated groups to a subscription sale, to consist of 500 mem bers at £1 each. The figures include Tam o'Shanter on his mare Meg, the witch Cutty Sark, large as life, and cut from one stone ; the comic group of the Deil and the Exciseman, and Watty and Meg—forming, we understand, three prizes. It is to be regretted that Mr. Anderson's state of health should have made this arrangement necessary previous to his •isiting other parts of the country, for, as specimens of the artist's ability as a sculptor, public inspection is only re quired to gain for him "a never dying fame," and ensure complete success in his present speculation. Eulogiums of the highest character have been bestowed upon the exhibition by the journals in the various towns Mr. Anderson has vi sited, and the winner of either of these groups will gain a prize indeed. Noblemen and gentlemen wishing to obtain first-rate specimens of sculpture, will find them worthy their attention, as they would form very excellent ornaments for the ball. To others they might beeome an independent living by travelling with them for the purpose of exhibition. Another class, who may have neither of the above objecte in view, ought not to allow this opdortunity to escape without giving their support to native genius wnen thus appealed to. Tickets, we believe, will be for sale in a few of the large ma nufacturing towns, and, it is to be hoped, the requisite num ber of subscribers will come forward, in order that an early day may be fixed upon for the sale. FRAUD ON A BOOKSELLER.—A fine little boy, who gave his name as D av id Macnaniara, was placed before Mr. Rush ton, on Saturday, charged with having, by false representa tions, obtained possession of a set of books, entitled "Tales of Peerage and Peasantry," the property of Mr. Webster, cigar manufacturer, bookseller, and keeper of a c i rcu l a ti ng library, Slater-street. The prisoner went to Mr. Webster's shop and said he wanted the books for a Mr. Evans, hair dresser, of Buld-street. As he could not procure what he asked for, he had to go frequently and return. At length he obtained the books above mentioned and went off with them. Mr. Webster observed him, and saw that lie did not go to Mr. Evans's. lie then followed him and took him into custody. The prisoner, who had been in custody before, but n ever was committed, said a boy, w h om h e named, stated that h e was in the told lof M • Evans, hair-dresser, and emp to l. him to go and do what lie did. The prisoner was, at first, ordered to be committed, but Mr. Rushton, on hearing his statement, directed that lie should stand remanded, and that the boy should be inquired after. TlNtor4 CIALLEILY.—We re rot to of tine paintings is about to close, today, cannot have a greater treat than inspecting t of art displayed within its walls. The inspection of tt of statuary by Michael Angelo is alone worth the price t VENTRILOQUISM.—We refer our readers to Messrs. Va lentinis' announcement, elsewhere. We have heard these gentlemen highly spoken of. MISS CLARA NOVELLO.-At Genoa Miss Clara Novell() is performing with the utmost success in Lucrezia lo►gia in the part of the heroine. She is supported by lvanoff, Genaro, Signora Smoda, &e. La Leila Inglese is a great favourite with the Genoese. The reception of the opera wss brilliant. —Sunday Times. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday mcrnil about eight o'clock, while one of the crew of the pack ship Cambridge, recently arrived from New York, and at anchor in the river, off 'he Clarence Dock, was in the going aloft to assist in unbending the sails, his toot s on his stepping on the main top, in consequence, it is of some ice having there accumulated, and he lost his ha- lance and tell on the deck. The height is great, and he was so much injured that he expired almost immediately. The coroner's jury viewed the body yesterday, and the inquest will be held this day. EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY.—An unusual mortality has recently taken place amongst the aged people at Prescot, Lancashire, as will be seen from the following extract from their registry : Interred. ElizatiethVelsby, from Huyton, aged 83, Jan. 10, 1842 's government, hanges may Elizabeth Windle, „ Prescot, „' 85 John Webster George Lawrenson, „ Sutton„, 90, „ 16, „ Elizabeth Dudley, „ Bold, „ 91, „ 19, „ Alice Taylor, „ Eccleston, „ 81, „ 20, „ Six persons, their ages amounting to 516 years, all within ten days. On referring, there were only four interments, during the whole year of 1841, whose ages exceeded 80 years . IMPRUDENCE PUNISIIED.—Jane Ross, a female of the most degraded class, and Thomas Brown, a mean-looking fellow, were placed at the bar of the Police-court, on Satur day, charged with having robbed a Mr. Penmen, a rather gaily-dressed individual, who represented himself as a mer chant of London. It appeared, from Mr. Pennell's state ment, that he was passing along Castle-street, when be was accosted by the prisoner and another woman, who asked him to treat them. He declined going home with them, as they requested, but he accompanied them to a public-house, where he paid for some drink for them, and they left him. On quitting the public-house he missed his purse, which contained a £2O note, three £5 notes, five sovereigns, and some silver. The delinquents were discovered by Inspector Cottam, who, accidentally saw the male prisoner changing a l''2o note at a public-house in Marybone. He took him into custody, and, knowing him to he the " fancy man" of the girl, he went and apprehended her also. She was at once identified, both by Mr. Pennell and the landlady of the house where the latter bad treated the girls. The male prisoner said he worked hard for his living, and denied that he had ever been the "fancy man" of the prisoner, or anybody else. The Inspector said the female prisoner had, a few months ago, claimed the protection of the police when he was violently abusing her. Police-officer Pierson also stated, that he had seen them together frequently. The note offered by the male prisoner was identified by Mr. Pennell. The prisoners were committed for trial. CORRESPONDENC_E SOCIALISTS AT THE POST-OFFICE AND RAIL- ROAD YARD TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. St tt,—l should like to inquire through your valuable paper, whether the Past-office authorities are aware they are em ploying both Socialists and Chartists, as lettet-carriers ; and also, whether the Rail-road directors know that they are employing Socialists in their yard—aye, and in such situa tions too that they have the power or influence to appoint others, which, of course, are also Socialists ? Being one of those old fashioned persons who think a man who declares himself to be an " irresponsible being," should not be trusted, I would recommend the authorities at both esta blishments to institute immediate inquiry. —Your obedient servant, FACT. Liverpool, Jan. 24, 1842 " THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND ITS PROFESSORS." TO 2'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sto.,—l have never read any of Mr. Reid's works, and for anything I know they may be very full of errors ; indeed some have been pointed out, in a more kindly spirit, by the Athenceurn. A writer in the STANDARD, who signs " 8.," has undoubtedly, however, criticised him in a very carping spirit; and I think you will admit that the wisest of men► may make mistakes, if I shew you that even "B." is n')t infallible. Finding fault with Mr. Reid for saying of acri form fluids that they are usually colourless and invisible, " B." says all colourless things are invisible. Now such is not the tact. Pure water is colourless, and not invisible. All black objects and all white ones arc colourless, and not invisible. The diamond usually is colourless, and certainly never invisible—except in circumstances under which all things are so, namely, in the dark. Possibly, however, " B." never saw the diamond, and concluded that therefore it was invisible. So much for the facts of" B.'s" criticism. Now for its spirit. Surely any one might see that "it is" is merely a misprint for " they are " ; and I am surprised that a newspaper, being constantly liable to have its sense turned into nonsense by mistakes of compositors, should do more than notice the fact of the mistake. But then " B." could not have sported his " light weight"-ed and' " ex tremely light" wit. And surely, to say of anything inor ganic that it is insensible to the touch, is at the worst but a familiar arid colloquial mode of saying that it is not discerni ble by the touch. The statement could mislead no one as to the author's meaning. Mr. Reid must certainly be wrong in saying that the particles pass through each other, as they can only pass between each other; but is " B." any nearer right in asserting the absolute impenetrability of matter? Matter is certainly penetrable by heat and electricity, and in certain cases by light. Even according to those who deny the material nature of light, heat, and electricity, matter is penetrated by a subtle wther which conveys these influences. Now possibly the work in question may contain more serious errors than any pointed out by " 8.," wbo may be even un able to discover them ; but let them be discussed in a candid mariner. Do not treat Mr. Reid unjustly because he belongs to an institution of which you disapprove, but observe Liverpool, Jan. 21, 1842. FA I R PLAY T II E FUTURE REPRESENTATIVE OF LIVERPOOL , TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—On account, of the elevation to the bench of our esteemed representative, Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., I beg to ask you, through your valuable journal, who, in your opinion, is likely to be brought forward on the conservative interest. As there are many reports that some of the follow ing gentlemen are to be brought forward for our suffrages, it is quite essential that we should make the selection imme diately, and go to work with that true protestant spirit, which I hope and trust will for ever distinguish this great commercial town. The names of those reported as likely to be brought forward are Mr. Colquhoun, Sir Geo. Murray, Sir Howard Douglas, the Hon. W. Cust, Lord Maidstone, and Robertson Gladstone, Esq., of our own town. Now, sir, all the above gentlemen are worthy the highest enco• mium, as being staunch conservatives ; but which is the best PROTESTANT, in deed and in truth? He it is who is entitled to the suffrages of our protestant burgesses ; he who will go to the House of Commons free from the taint of expediency, and who will boldly and fearlessly declare that he values the three creeds of our beloved church, and that he holds in ve neration the 39 articles, and particularly the 37th, which says, with a voice dear to every true and faithful protestant, that the " Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England";—he it is for whom I and hundieds of my fellow-operative protestant burgesses would like to record our votes. I hope .he will be one who will not forget to avow the principles which have been so manfully avowed by Mr. Gregory in Dublin, when he told the electors plainly that he did not approve of the grant to Maynooth College ; and I hope and trust, sir, that such will be the manifestation of the gentleman who may offer himself as our protestant conservative candidate. I hope, sir, you will pardon me for this intrusion; but I have heard it represented that it would be well to call ward meetings to make choice of one of the gentlemen above named, because the protestant constituency of Liverpool will no longer trust to the name of conservative, unless it derives from a true protestant principle. Only refer to the result of last November, and look at the conduct of those half-and-half, lukewarm, ostentatious, and nominal protes tants, on the school question ; and it will suffice to spew, that we ought to return the candidate only who has his con servatism founded on true protestant principles, which alone can be the only safeguard of life and property in this world, and of immortal souls in the realms of eternal bliss. I hope and trust, sir, you will have the goodness to give your esteemed opinion on these few remarks, as I, in con junction with my brother operatives, am in the habit of reading your valuable journal constantly twice a week, knowing that you are always anxious to further the views of the protestant operatives, and to cultivate that mutual feel ing, which ought to exist to a greater extent, between the aristocracy and the democracy, which 1 am glad to say is much increasing; and I hope, sir, it may continue so to do, as we are all under one glorious banner, under which we all wish to " fight the good fight " of faith, and maintain those blessings which God has given us at the hands of our ances tors, in whose steps may we always be ready to follow; and when duty calls we will all obey, I beg to subscribe myself, your obedient servant, A PROTESTANT OPERATIVE AND BURGESS. Tuxleth park, lan. 22nd, 1842. THE NAME OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—There is now no doubt that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will be christened Albert Edward, with, it is expected, one or two additions. This point, upon which, of late, so much spec ulation has been afloat, it would not have been " court etiquette " to have decided until after the arrival of the royal sponsor. The ceremony will be performed by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE AND PRAISEWORTHY CONDUCT. —On Wednesday, the 12th instant, Captain Robert Walsh, of the schooner Eleanor, of Maryport, on her passage from Limerick to Glasson-dock, when off Mulroy, in the north of part of Ireland, fell in with a small open fishing boat, which had been driven out to sea about 20 miles. It appears that the crew consisted of nine individuals, three of whom had died of fatigue and cold ; the remaining six Captain Walsh took on board and treated with great kindness,and made every endeavour to launch them near their place of abode, but, in consequence of the then prevailing contrary winds, he was unable to accomplish:it, and eventually brought them to Peil harbour, which they reached on Wednesday last. On their being landed at the latter place the captain and mate provided means for their support, and gave them a certificate to guard the public against imposition. THE ROYAL COMSTENING CAKE.—A most magnificen " christening cake," manufactured by royal connnand, ex pressly for the occasion, by Mr. John C. Mawditt, first yeo man confectioner to her Majesty, will be placed upon the royal banquetting table. It weighs very nearly 2 cwt., and has thus been described :—" Its case or outside, and all the ornaments, are made entirely of sugar, several of the latter are silvered over. It is ornamented round the bottom with a neatly executed border of the rose thistle and shamrock. O n the sides of the cake are placed, alternately, medallion por traits in silver of her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the arms of England over them, and the Prince of Wales' fea thers with the Arms of Wales over them, the whole sur mounted by a neat scroll in dead sugar work. Above are three tiers, each environed by smaller scroll work, surmoun ted by silvered princes' feathers; and on the summit are pedestals supporting sugar figures of Ceres, Fortune, Plenty, Britannia holding the infant prince, Clio, the goddess of history ; and St. David, the tutelar saint of Wales. In the the centre of the group is a representation of the royal font and several small vases, with flowers, surround the figures The lout ensemble present an elegant and chaste appearance." - --- - We regret to notice the death of the venerable master of the Charterhouse, the Rev. Dr. Fisher, who died at Kingston on Wednesday last. The reverend gentleman was in his 92d year. By his death there is also a vacancy in the canon residentiaryships of Norwich. By a somewhat remarkable coincidence the Rev. Robert Watts, the librarian of Sion College, who was exactly of the same age, died the same day at the college. The Rev. Mr. Watts was also rector of St. Alphage, London-wall, and a prebendary of St. Paul's Ca thedral.—Morning Herald. THE NIGER EXPEDITION AND IMMIGRATION TO THE WEST. INDIES, The Niger expedition, of whicii some particulars will be found elsewhere, and from which visionary philanthropists anticipated such important benefits to the people of Africa, may now safely be said to have resulted in signal and dis astrous failure. We record the fact with no pleasurable It is painful to contemplate such a result to an -which received the good wishes of the virtuous and benevolent of every party, and feelings effort made under such auspices- which has been conducted throughout with such energy and The Lt VERPOOL STANDARD denounced it then as a hopeless and a mad project; and we viewed it as espeCially injurious to the real African race, hill - sring' as it drew away at- vantages to be derived by establishing upon a permanent basis the prosperity of our West Indian colonies, from which source we are satisfied must mainly emanate the future civilization of unhappy Africa. Our object in recurring to this subject now is not to in dulge in any taunts against those of our fellow townsmen, who, at the time, regarded the opinions, which we felt bound to express against the practical usefulness of this expensive national effort, as emanating from feelings of no very amiable character. We have no desire to build up a claim to superior discernment, and thus to triumph, upon an issue so full of calamity and so destructive to the nation's hopes. On the contrary we would gladly convert even this disastrous failure into a blessing. We would gladly erect upon this prostration of the fond anticipations of so many wise arid good glens beacon to direct them in the true path to the object which they have in view. We would gladly use it as a warning to the friends of the negro race, at once to lay aside the con templation of visionary projects which involve physical im possibilities ; to lay aside, too, unworthy prejndices ; and to direct their attention earnestly and honestly towards the means which we possess in our own hands of effecting a vast amelioration of the condition of the people of Africa, if not ultimately, even, of bringing them within the pale of civili zation •, and if such a good can be brought out of the evil which has attended this unfortunate expedition, the treasure lavished upon it will not have been spent, and our gallant fellow-countrymen, who have fallen its victims, have died in vain. Let the friends of Africa now—let those whose sympathies were with this effort of misdirected humanity.—turn their at tention calmly and seriously to an examination of their posi tion with respect to the object which they have in view. The experiment to promote the happiness and civilization of Africa by means of colonisation has been made and failed. We can effect no amelioration internally and directly in the condition of the people of Africa. Malaria and disease hedge them round in their present state of abject degrada tion ; and the barrier which they form is impassable and impregnable against any efforts of European cilvilization. What then are the means by which we can operate upon that state of degradation from without T By commerce along the shores of Africa, something—and yet how small when com pared with the whole which we contemplate ?—may be done. We may stimulate the inhabitants of the coast to the adoption of European habits and create in them new wants, which in return will induce exertion and industry to supply them. But there, alas, the curse which aflicts Africa stands in our way ; and those wants which we create, and from which we look for the production of industry, result only in giving a stimu lus to barbarity. The Brazilian, the Spanish or the American slaver lurks in the rivers and prowls along the coasts of that unhappy land; and human flesh and blood is bartered to pur chase the luxuries and comforts for which commercial inter course has created a taste. So long as slavery exists in the world, civilisation, to the extent to which commerce can effect it, is a curse and not a blessing to Africa.% Unhesi tatingly we make that declaration. The continued ellstence of slavery and the slave traffic neutralises all our efforts in the cause of African amelioration ; and a perseverance in them. unaccompanied by a determined resolution to effect the destruction of that odious traffic, is cruelty rather than philanthropy ! . . . . . . But is not Great Britain earnest and resolute in her efforts to put down slavery? it may be asked. Are not her cruisers upon every coast, and at the mouth of every river? And has she not determined to risk even war rather than relax in her noble efforts? All this we reply is true and yet the slave trade increases despite of all this energy and determina tion, and the horrors of that trade are increased tenfold be cause of it ! We cannot, with all the sacrifice of valuable lives and money, which the effort involves, do more than check it. We cannot even make it unremnnerating; and until we can do this, and so long as avarice is inherent in the human mind, the slaver will laugh at our efforts and deride our philanthropy. • . . . . _ _ _ Turn, then, We ask of the friends of the African race, to our British West Indies, and examine the facilities which there present themselves for effecting the objects which they, and we too, have in view. In those colonies we see thou sands of our African brethren enjoying the blessings of free dom, in the enjoyment of every comfort,—civilized, educated, Christianized, and under the guarding protection of British laws and lit itish institutions. In those colonies, too, we see an exhaustless field for the supply of additional hundreds of thousands of Africans with the means of comfort and the blessings of civilization. With proper cultivation those colo nies are capable of supplying the whole world with those pro= ducts which the bosom of unhappy Africa is rifled for limbs to raise? And yet what use does Britain make of these noble possessions ? To what extent are they made to operate to wards the accomplishment of that great object which, as a nation, we profess to have in view ? We answer, NONE ! British philanthropy, when it struck the fetters from the West Indian slave, there paused, and left but half accom plished its glorious and beneficent task. sought to strike tto have gon e f or th t h e e di c t a t a blow to the heart of slavery: we have not pierced the skin. From these fertile lands o t t every enslav e d man b enea th th e whose sound the fetters canopy of heaven would have been broken ; an d yet th e spec tacle which they present has only riveted those fetters more firmly and hopelessly upon . . . . We have already shewn that in one at least of our colonies (Guiana) cultivation by means of free labour cannot be car ried on except at a ruinous sa crifice to the plititer ; and that without a supply of labour it mast hoot' cease entirely, and the markets of Great .13ritaia pical produce be thrown open without restriction to the cultiva tion of foreign slave countries. No government canton maintain th e protect i on at for mat present afforded to free-labour produce, in the face of a li mited and high-priced supply. We must have those neces saries of life which the tropics afford us at a diminished price and in larger quantities; and there are but two modes by which that can be accomplished. Abandon West Indian protection--declare emancipation a failure—proclaim to the world the harrowing fact that tropical produce cannot be produced by free labour—throw open the 13ritish markets to slave labour without restriction, and say to the slave-trader, " Go on in your inhuman traffic, which has now become one necessary to the comfort and the luxury of mankind ; " or, as the only alternative which can avert a result so greatly to be deprecated, throw into the hands of the planters in your own colonies the means of procuring a supply of labour give to the degraded and oppressed natives of Africa the means of transporting themselves within the confines of ci vilization, since civilization cannot visit them in their own deathly and wretched climate. Can the British philanthropist have any hesitation which of these two courses he should advocate? Surely he cannot. The only means by which the amelioration of tire condition of the African race can be effected, exist in our emancipated colonies. In these colonies the labour of Africa may find an abundant market. Here they may find protection, edu cation, and Christianity. From these lands the slave traffic may be effectually and peacefully put down ; and thence ul timately the blessings of civilization may reach the heart of Africa her self. " I consider," wrote Lord John Russell, on the 20th of March last—" I consider the establishment of a regular INTERCOURSE BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE WEST INDIES will tend greatly not only to the prosperity of the British West India possessions, bet likewise to the civilization of Africa. A new epoch has arrived for the African race. We have in the West Indies 80Q,000 negroes, of wham, perhaps, three-fourths are Christians in the enjoyment of practical freedom, of means of education and of physical comfort, to a very high degree. There is no reason to suppose that their advances in wealth, knowledge, and religious improvement may not be in proportion to the most hopeful anticipations. Nothing like this state of society exists among the African race elsewhere." Open out, then, we say, even at the expense of the British government, additional facilities for that intercourse. Let no unworthy prejudice against the planters of the West Indies interfere with such a work of real benefit to the African race. People our West Indies from the shores of that be nighted land. Lay the foundation there of an Africa's em pire; and from its growth and prosperity, and the intercourse which may be established between it and the parent conti nent, who shall place a limit to the vast results of good which may arise to the cause of humanity and to the negro race ? " OBSERVATIONS ON THE REV. H. M'NEILE'S LETTEIt. By THE REV. T. YouKNs, D.D." Liverpool : Rockliff and Ellis, Castle street. We took up the above " Observations " in the full expec tation of finding in them a reply to the arguments and the statements contained in the letter of Mr. M`Neile, which appeared in our publication of the 11th instant. The repu tation of the rev. doctor as a controversialist, fully warranted us in the supposition that he would meet the whole question embraced in that letter fully and fairly ; and we must con fess that we have laid it down with the impression indelibly fixed upon our mind, that, even as a controversialist, per mitted by the usage of his order to employ every subtlety of argument and perversion or evasion of truth to establish the case of the church to which he belongs, the author has most signally failed to prove himself entitled to enter the lists and to break a lance, 'in the presence of intelligent and discrimi nating witnesses, with so approved and powerful a champion as the rev. gentleman against whom he has so presumptu ously set himself in array. A more feeble and flippant pro duction it is scarcely possible to conceive than the letter before us ; and could there have existed any reasonable doubt as to its authorship, we should have unhesitatingly main tained the impossibility of so flimsy and t r ifli ng a composi tionWe could easily prove th e corre ctness of this judgment by quoting entire the five pag es and a half of mingled swagger and shuffle, which the doctor has endeavoured to palm off uponbea havingtrlsi emanated from the learned doctor whose imprint ignorant su pporters of his c h urc h as a triumphant settlement of the whol e q uestion at is sue , but which no edu cated and reasoning R oman Catho lic will be satisfied, we imagine, to accept as such. We h ave not space for this, it i however, even if we were desirous to load our columns with the rev. doctor's rhodommitade ; and shall content ourselves with an extract or two merel, as specimen s o f hi s sty l e an d of the quality of his arguments " On the subject of creeds we hav e a little more skirmish ing on the outskirts o f the q uestion. argument, cha rg i ng him with incon tYnhe Athanasia n Creed and in subscri iietrttoiy?'-gnmi c Articles. lie Ai tells I M'Neile s us that a t h t e e mpts safely and consistently receive the Athanasian Creed, ' be cause can scripture contents ' ; and th a t l ie can su b scr ib e t bs o iisnt e ge l un to oy e i t ti l hi l e ca f dT o t r ili c ) n i ne Articles, because th ey h ave no condem natory clauses. tot h l e 'Thirty-nine i i r t t s y. n Creed with its condemnatory clauses, clauses. And yet his orthodoxy can "'This is really amusing. ' No power on earth could in duce him to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles if they had ' swallowthe and that without any apparent effort. This reminds me of .a singular peculiarity of deglution mentioned in the Gospel." This little flourish, we dare say, will be " very amusing" to the ignorant P o pish reader of the learned doctor's observa tions, and their author will be incontinently held up as a nasia prteux chevalier amongst the c ontroversialists of Romunism but, unfortunately for the doctor's reputation in the eyes of the thinking and reasoning portion. of mankind, the flourish in question has only been gained at the expense of truth. The alleged inconsistency of Mr. M'Neile in receiving the Athanasian Creed, and at the same time subscribing to the 39 Articles, is thus triumphantly establi s h e d b y simply mis representing the meaning and su ppressing a port i on of the ,' explanation itself, by wh ich ,". M'Neile s h owe d most satis factorily the unstable grounos , _uyon w hi c h D r. Youens found ed his original charge. Mr. 1%:1 Neile never told the doctor or any other person that be received th e Athanasian creed " be cause of its scripture contents, mid subscribed the 39 arti cles " because they contained no condemnatory cl auses. " Ilia argument, as published, was a consistent whole: its al leged substance, as given by the doctor in the extracts above, is only composed of shreds, cunningly selected, to pervert its waning, The doctor quotes 'within inverted commas ' n Mr. M'Neile's c om p os iti on , a paragrap h w hi c h Mr. M'Neil never wrote We could give similar instances of the doctor's jesuitry ; but it is perhaps superfluous. Doctor Youens has been met in his first essay against Mr. M'Neile. has shuffled out of large, and a portion of the reflecting Roman Catholics them selves, will nut be satisfied unless the doctrines of the Romish Church can he defended and their antiquity established upon scriptural evidence ; and its chosen champion, when chal lenged to do this, has distinctly declined the attempt—has laid down the Bible, and taken refuge in the fathers. " Let Mr. 111`Ncile nor," writes Dr. Youens in concluding his feeble ' Observations,' " tell us that Scripture is his test. In his hand ihe Scripture ha. till the potency of a magical wand : by means of it lie can, at will, change truth into error, and error into truth. Until, therefore, he and I can come •• to some understanding as to the criterion whereby religion truth is to be distinguished from religious error, let hint tit me a lest" (the Bible) ‘• against which I p ro t es t." B y a means, most learned doctor ; and the conclusion whist tit bile must arid will draw front such a ens nnn nn yb e tin the existing Chur'th of Rowe ral, and schismatic ❑ovelty, or why " protest" against appeal to the Scriptures. MR. BRAID'S DISCOVERIES On Saturday evening Mr. Braid, surgeon, of Manchester 'hose discoveries in the so-called science of Mesmerist) have been noticed in our paper, delivered at the Portico, it Newington, a lecture, which was partly a narrative of tin incidents which caused him to turn his attention to the sub• ject; descriptive of the process by which he produces the somnambulie, or cataleptiform, state ; elucidative of what he conceives to be the causes of the phenomena induced ; an►l illustrative so far as regarded the production of certain effects on the parties whom he himself brought forward. The room was well filled, at an early hour, with a highly-respectable auditory, among whom were several ladies, and many gentle men of the medical profession. The lecture commenced at eight o'clock. It does not, however, require to be reported at any length, as it was chiefly a recapitulation of matter which has been already published more than once. He set out with a brief history of Mesmerism ; alluding to the scepticism which prevailed on the subject; the admission which had been made touching its phenomena; the •conve.sion of D r . Elli otson i n t hi s country; Mr. Wakley's investigation of points averred by the 'alter, with the results thereof; and the deathblow thereby inflicted on Mesmerism in England till the subject was revived by the visit of M. Lafontaine. With such variable ac counts of the success of the latter he was, like many others, ex tremely sceptical, and he deter mined t o go an d j u d ge for him self. From this POint Mr. Braid proceeded to describe the progress of his discovery, and its gradual developement, all of which has been abundantly narrated heretofore. lie appeared particularly desirous of drawing a strong distinction be tween the professors of animal magnetism and himself, and ridiculed the notion of one person having a power over another, as has been constantly asserted by the former. He believed that the magnetizers produced the same effects, though not by their manipulations, but by causes similar to those which he set forth; and, while the magnetizers frequently failed, he seldom did so, as even the most strong, if they complied with his directions, mentally as well as bodily, must be influenced, and so far from it being requisite that any individual should have power over them, they might, if they pleased, mesmerize themselves by complying with his directions. The lecturer here paused for the purpose of cautioning his hearers not to attempt ex periments of this nature alone, as one or two individuals. who had imprudently brought on the cataleptic state without having some person at hand to awaken them, had been found in a very alarming condition. The lecturer mentioned the exceedingly strange susceptibility of the patient, and the extra ordinary variations which take place in the pulse. He ad verted to an instance which lie had noted in a girl, named Sarah Connor; whose pulse, before he was mesmerized, was 94 ; in two minutes after she was put into the cataleptic state it was 90: when one limb was mesmerized it went no to 118. and subsequently to 148. The statement went to show, that when the limbs were demesmerized, the pulse sank, and tha it rose again as they were mesmerized or placed in a state o rigidity. Mr. M Braid explained the eseful purposes to which he had turned his discovery. It had enabled him to extract teeth without pain, for the persons so influenced were not sensible of pain. lle had removed rheumatism of long standing ; had cured a tic-doloreaux in eleven minutes ; had even restored the use of paralytic limbs,—limbs which had been paralytic from birth ; and had cured the deaf and dumb. Some of his worldly-wise friends had desired him to conceal his disco veries, and to practice them in private for his own profit and emolument ; but, as he found them important and capable of being largely beneficial to mankind, he thought they could not be too widely disseminated. Mr. Braid having con cluded his lecture, expressed his intention of illustrating his discourse by experiments. His plan was first to call forward those whose susceptibility be had tried, and then to experi mentize on any individual who might offer. Mr. Braid first called forward a young woman, who is, he informed us, his domestic cook. Iler name did not transpire. He held his lancet-ease above her eyes, and she fixed her eyes steadily upon it. In a few seconds her eyes closed. The operator raised her arms, so as to bring each of her hands nearly in contact with her face. Ile then caused her to fol low him. She walked slowly and cautiously, and with an ap peorance of great rigidity of muscle. The operator observed that she was a heavy sleeper, and a heavy walker likewise. She was placed in a chair, her arms still up, and the operator extended her legs, which she retained at a right angle to her spine. He declared her insensible to pain, and, to prove it, darted pins into her forehead, where they stuck. He then pierced her legs till the blood followed each puncture. Dili. M'Culloch and M'lntyre felt her pulse. It was, at first, 84 : when her limbs were extended it was 166. Her legs were dereestnerized, and she was slightly aroused when the pulse sunk to 80. The limbs were again extended, and the pulse rose to 152. During the whole of this time the muscles of the arms were extremely rigid, her face was flushed, and her eyes, on being examined by Dr. Sutherland and the other medical gentlemen, were found to he congested with blood. the iris was preternaturally dilated, and the retina was insert. Bible to the action of light. All these phenomena were par ticularly noted. The girl was next subjected to the influence of galvanism. The shocks produced a sensible effect on her arms, but no indication of pain was visible on her counte nance. The pulse, immediately after the removal of the galvanic apparatus, was 160, As her face had become much flushed, the operator aroused her by a few strokes of his fan and a few shakes. She opened her eyes and exhibited all the appearance of a person suddenly started nom a deep sleep. Mr. Braid immediately mes►nerized her again, for the purpose of trying upon her the effect of the fumes of ammonia. The ammonia used was exceedingly strong. Several young gentlemen who stood about the stage were sceptical as to its power. Mr. Bushell applied it to his nose, and it was so potent that it brought the tears from his eyes. However, it had no effect on the girl. Ilereupon the scep tics, who were, assuredly, most hard of belief, declared that she held her breath. This was tested by Dr. Sutherland, who, while he ascertained that she was breathing, applied the phial to her nostrils, It produced no effect. A Mr. Bain bridge, who was one of the most unbelieving of the unbe lievers, required that some snuff should be exhibited. A copious pinch of snuff' was administered, but it produced no evidence of sensibility. The girl, on being aroused, pre sented the same indications of half returned consciousness as before. The next girl produced was Sarah Connor. Our space will not permit us to go into a detailed account of all the experiments. This girl was quickly put into the cataleptic, or somnanibulic, state, when her pulse was found to be 120. The operat or , in or d er t o conv i nce th e au di ence o f t h e supe rior sensibility of persons in this state, took out his watch, and directed her to follow it, he going with it from place to place at a certain distance from her. This experiment par tially failed, which the operator stated arose (ruin so many gentlemen having watches about them. The girl wax next seated, and her limbs raised, when shp bnre the test of pricking with pins, &c. without any indications of sensibility, though the blood flowed each puncture. She was also tried withthe galvanic battery, which produced precisely the same indications as were exhibited iu the former case. A young gentleman, one of the sceptics, at the suggestion of Dr. M'lntyre, tried the galvanic apparatus, and he was enabled to hold it without fli nc hing. Dr. M'lntyre bad previously tried it. and had thrown it precipitately front him. Another gentleman, who tried subsequently. threw one of the bars from him very quickly. Mr. Braid next produced two boys, Edward and James Shelmerdine, two brothers of three who were born deaf and dumb. Edward had been entirely deaf from his birth, as had the brother who was absent. James had been capable of hearing the report of a gun. He had operated on them a few times, and they were now able to hear the ticking of a watch, and, though they could not speak, the power of speech was restored to them, and they could imitate articulate sounds. Mr. Braid said, these boys were well-educated, and could write well, having been brought up in the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Manchester. Mr. Braid read certificates of the truth of what he said, and gave convincing proofs that the boys could hear and articulate. Ile subse quently put them into the cataleptic state, when they exhi bited all the usual phenomena, the boy Edward in a remark able degree. His pulse beat most vehemently, his face flushed, and, at length, the vessels of his neck and visage ap peared so swoln that the operator deemed it necessary to de mesmerize him. It was shown that, after this process, the hearing of the boys was considerably improved. The audi ence was compelled, o f cour se, to take this upon the showing of the boys, who were either deceiving themselves or wil fully deceiving the audience. Mr. Braid mentioned several instances of the great success which had attended his experiments on deaf persons, which we are sorry we have not space to advert to. After having mesmerized his own servant man with the usual results, he called forward two little girls, one of whom is a daughter of Mr. Edw. Browne, of this town, professor of the flute. The last-named child, he stated, he had mesmerized only once be fore. After gazing a few minutes at an object, they shut their eyelids, and their arms were raised in different posi tions. In this state, with closed eyes, they followed Mr. Braid whither he desired, and turned and walked in the di rection of any individual who called to them. At the desire of Mr. Braid, one of them waltzed with apparent good-will, and both essayed to sing, but with an intonation indicative of drowsiness. When Mr. Braid informed the audience that he would ex perimentise on any individuals who would submit to the ope ration, the male candidates were numerous. Mr. Braid in quired if any lady present wished to put his statements ti, the test of trial. After a slight pause, a lady who sat in one of the front seats, stepped forward. Previously to trying the experiment, Mr. Braid related that he had, by fixing the gaze of a lion on one occasion, and of a Newfoundland (log on ano ther, succeeded in mesmerising both these animals. Mr. B. proceeded to try the experiment upon the lady to whom we have alluded. After gazing for a few moments at his lancet case, she closed her eyes, in obedience to the whispered in junctions of the operator. Mr. Braid then raised her arms, which she kept in the position in which he placed them, and, on her pulse being felt, it was found to be 100. She soon opened her eyes, and Mr. B. intimattd politely that he had done with her. The operator was completely under the im pression that he had succeeded ; but the lady was of a diffe rent opinion, for she declared that she could at any moment have put down her arms or opened her eyes, a fact that was communicated to the audience by Dr. M'lntyre. Mr. Braid observed that it could not be said that he had not produced any effect, seeing that the lady's pulse had risen to 140, and as to her opinion on the subject, he had uniformly observed, that the parties Mesmerised would not at first 'believe that any effect was produced. The lady was, however, in the first stage, which would have gone on till the cataleptic state would have been produced in its extremity. Four of the candidates for specimens of the operators powers were now placed on the stage in a line. The first of these, a good looking young gentleman, Mr. George Jobbling, of this town, quickly closed his eyes. One of his ar►ns was raised,. and the operator left him and proceeded to the gaze of Mr. Smith, a gentleman in the corporation treasurer's office, who, after looking intently at the lancet case for a few moments, closed his eyes. His arm was then raised, and h e , too, was left with an arm uplifted towards the sky, in the attitude of a Brutus when appesling to the gods against the tyranny of a Tarquin. The fourth gentleman, Mr. Moss, secretary to the Shipmasters Association, Oldball-street, gazed most intently, but could not, or would not, yield. Many times the operator evidently thought he was going off; but he ever and a non opened his eyes, and created much mer riment by gazing around. Suddenly Mr. Johbling's arm dropped, his head fell upon his breast, and it was feared be would have fallen forward. In this attitude he continued till Mr. Braid again raised his arm, which he held out rigid as before, The operation was again tried on the refractory subject above alluded to ; but he resisted all Mr. Braid's powers. A sudden sound awakened Mr. Jobbling, when operator, catching Mr. Smith's arm, per formed the same kind office for him. Numerous question, were asked by the audience, many more than could pos. sibly be answered. Mr. Braid said he had no conceal. meat, and he requested the gentleman to reply candidly. Mr. Smith said, he had closed his eyes at the request of the operator, and had also, for the same reason, held his arms in the position in which they were placed, though he had power at any moment to have opened his eyes and to have let fall his arms to their natural place. Mr. Jobbling declared that he had no power whatever either to open his eyes or to move his arms. He was perfectly conscious, but he seemed to have lost all control over all his muscles. A young gentleman, named Tinley, was the last person on whom the experiment was tried. His eyes soon closed, and his arms were fixed. lie speedily awoke, however, when he ' , lelared that he had endeavoured to open his eyes, but w' the till lie was fully roused. lie was u wess, and in this as in the former c .lin subjected to when his eyes 3. He was now short interval of silen ce , f or th e purpose of allowing his insensibility to deepen, his arms and one of his legs were raised. His face flu s h e d excee di ng l y, and it was evident from his breathing that his pulse was greatly accelerated, though nu one tried the experiment. Lie appeared, through Out, to be struggling to awake, which at length he did. He stated to the audience, that he felt an un usual sensation of warmth ; that he had no power to open his eyes or to arouse himself ; but that he cou ld, if h e h a d pleased, have put down either his arms or his leg. Several other individuals were very desirous of being mes merised, but, as it was now within a quarter of an hour of twelve o'clock, Mr. Braid decided upon discontinuing the operations. We may observe in conclusion, that a portion of the audience were sceptical and dissatisfied to the last; while the main hulk of those present, if not entirely convin ced, were, at least, much gratified, and those who looked on and iistened with a firm desire for the attainment of truth were without doubt, edified and instructed. dosed teArs rolled copiously down his cheek seated in a chair. and, att Mr. Braid thanked the audience for the attention with which they had listened to him, and said, if it were desired, he would repeat his visit, and endeavour further to illustrate his subject Al uch applause followed this anouncement. THE COALBROOKDALE IRON COMPANY Whatever may be the moral condition of our country , which we would fain hope, notwithstanding the demurs of cynical philosophers, is in progress of improvement ; our advancement in scientific and mechanical science is unques tionable, and enables us to appropriate materials considered by our forefathers the most obdurate and unpromising to purposes of utility or elegance. In the adaptation of sub- Stanaes, " dug from the bdwels of the harmless earth," and particularly of the most ordinary and abundant, though per haps the most truly valuable of metals ; and, by means of the furnace or the forge, fashioning it into an infinite variety of forms, from the largest structures in naval and domestic architecture, to itrticles of utility or ornament tile most minute, we have assuredly progressed to a degree of perfec tion, the bare anticipation of which our forefathers would have deemed altogether chimerical. Modern ingenuity and perseverance have found in iron an admirable substitute for timber, brass, and other materials formerly exclusively in requisition as alone suited for many of those purposes ; and we have now not only iron machinery, but iron roads, iron ships, iron printing presses, iron stoves, iron utensils, ad in finitum, but (as will be shown), iron chairs, iron bedsteads. and even iron statuary, iron pictures, iron houses, and iron tomb-stones we have not vet revived the beatitude of " the golden nge," we may, at least, physically speaking, assume our claim to have realised the age of iron ; and we should be cold, indeed, as iron itself, did we not take pride to ourselves in living in a generation characterised by such a triumph of human ►ntellect,—especially when we rind the articles enumerated to be neater, more elegant in form, stronger and more durable than those of former times, and of which we ►nay have an inexhaustible supply even at our own doors. We have been led to these reflections by a recent visit to the Coalbrookdale Company's splendid warehouse in James street, which though but lately established in this locality, and consequently not vet generally known, is deservedly worthy of baing classed amongst the lions of our native town. We were at once surprised and delighted by an inspection of the numerous beautiful articles, large and small, displayed in extensive show rooms. A quarter of a century ago, the Car ron Iron Works, near Glasgow, were considered the first foundry in the kingdom, and the common Rumford grates, ovens, &c., there produced were regarded as a great acquisition to the comforts of the parlour and the cuisine. Great im provements have doubtless been there introduced since that time, and we have seen some fine modern specimens; but without wishing to disparage the efforts of our northern ne:ghbours or others, we must say that the Coalbrookdale Company, whether in taste oldesign. perfection in execution, or the magnitude of their undertakings, have distanced all former competitors in the art. The extent of their works (at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire), where they are in possession of valuable iron and coal mines, may be estimated from the fact that they employ upwards of five thousand men ! The warehouse here is a stone building constructed ex pressly for the purpose. It is of Grecian architecture en riched with columns in front, between the wings, and is one of the handsomest commercial edifices in the town. In the lower room, which occupies its full length, are shown the finer descriptions of articles. The prevailing style, inn accordance with the revived fashion of the dry, is the florid Elizabethan, which permits of great richness and variety. The fenders are peculiarly elegant and of great diversity of design, some resembling the finest bronze, and others in Berlin black, with classical figures minutely cast, and ornamental open-work, polished steel shafts, &c. Toe fire-irons, of various modern patterns, are of the finest polished steel. The tables are of 'numerous forms and sizes,—some for balls, of antique , the tops resembling real marble, or polished oak, and others of smaller size and round toned for the drawing-room or boudoir, mounted on richly-carved pillars or pedestals, the tops of some of anent enriched with beauti ful groups of flowers in the French style, select views, finely painted, and so japanned as precisely to resemble the finest work in papier• triach4; others of them are inlaid with marble, as backgammon tables, and one curiously topped with a va riety of Derbyshire spar. The castings forming the edgings of the tops of these arc of open-work like lace are chiefly of the stove description, and of be design The grates atifttl, rich de- signs, —many of them with chimney-pieces painted or var. nished in marble, &c., and cast as smooth as that material when polished. Amongst a splendid assortment of articles or vertu—all of east - iron—are the Warwick, other v excecedingly perfect in every respect. The pro jecting Roman heads on the former are as minutely tine and expressive as if formed of wax in the finest mould. It is considered superior in execution to the same vase produced in bronze at Berlin, and is but half the price. We observed some handsome and elaborately-designed fruit plates, in imi tation of bronze, or in Berlin black. One of them in parti cular is of fine open-work, interspersed with small heads, finely finished, and the pattern cai.ied out on both sides of the article. Others are in the form of shells. The chimney and drawing-room ornaments arc various and beautiful— equal in every point to the finest productions in bronze. A representation . of the Crucifixion is quite a grin. The figure of the Saviour is only from four-nod-a-half to five inches, ong, yet anatomical accuracy is strictly preserved, and the rown of thorns and even the hair on the head are minutely lirown out. A nude and female French peasant a hors'e amp:int, a bull. &c., arc all perfect and spirited representa ions. The attitudes arc tine, and the Whole beautifully smooth. There are also some fine pictorial castings of hisl torical subjects, amongst which is the " Lord's Supper," in alto relievo, taken from the celebrated plate recently pub lished. The price of this imperishable " picture," (which is within a frame,) is extremely moderate. A variety of ink stands, of elaborate designs, ornamental watch-stands, flower-bowls, 64c., also claim the visitors' attention. We noticed, too, several handsome flower-vases for the parterre, Painted In resemblance of stone. These and other castings for exterior ornament arc boiled in oil after being cast, and, being impervious to moisture, arc not subject to corrode or rust. Gas-fittings are also produced at the works, in pillars and chandeliers, of the most elaborate, massy, and c l ass i ca l . design. One, of a superb description, is now in p rogress o f completion by the company, for Dr. Itatties's new chapel, Great George's-street. The design is much admired, and it will, we believe, be decorated with Chitin ornaments in flowers, manufactured at the celebrated China-works, at Coalbrookdale, contiguous to the company's iron-works. The stoves are of numerous descriptions, and beautifully designed—Grecian, Elizabethan , &c. Th e company sup plied a splendid large one, m the former classical style, for the Great Western steamship, the drawing of which we were shewn. It hits four fires, one on each side, and the flue forms a highly ornamental column. The warerooms above are also well worthy of inspection, being filled with an endless variety of grates ; cabooses for ships, on the most compact and approved principles ; iron safes, with gilded mouldings, and Chubb's patent locks ; kitchen ranges, &c., all designed and finished in a superior style of workmanship. One of the last is of great size, with two ovens, hot •hesrths, &c., and appears to be calculated for a baronial residence, in which the good things of this life are dispensed to numerous guests and retainers in the liberal spirit of good Old English hospitality. We here observed several handsome garden-chairs, representing seats formed of the vine in its full luxuriance. From this we wandered into other spacious apartments, where we were almost lost amongst piles of boilers, pots, bushes for wheels, register stoves, and a variety of castings, weighing hundreds of tons, though on an upper floor. It is somewhat remark able that some of the larger double stoves (one of which fully heats, with common coal, the very large room below) have door-handles formed of a large bulb of cut crystal, a material which, probably from its being a non-conductor of the electric fluid, never becomes inconveniently hot. We were shown a bird's-eye view of a house to be con structed entirely of iron, for a Izetitlemau ;mil his lady resid ing in America. It is in the Elizabethan Gothic: style, richly ornamented. It is to be sixty feet square, and besides being fire-proof, will, no doubt (judging from the drawing), form a very handsome and comfortable residence. The company have also, we learn, extensive premises in Manchester. In conclusion, we repeat that these show-rooms cannot fail to interest visitors, whether the. scientific or the merely curious. , The smoothness, sharpness of edge, and general beauty of the castings, exhibit to nn eminent degree the adaptation of iron skilfully employed to many purposes in which it was hitherto unemployed ; and the designs an d ex- ecution reflect the highest credit on the proprietors of the works. THE IRISH REPEALERS OF LIVERPOOL When we read week after week the amount of contributions which, under the title of " The Repeal Rent," the mendi cant impostor—his lordship of Dublin and Derrynane— scrapes into his capacious maw, we are sometimes inclined to inquire whether the scoundrelism of the receiver or the gullibility of the contributors is the most prominent. There must be, we have always imagined, a vast number of very uncomprehending animals in " unhappy Ireland," or the rapacity of this " inoomprelkensible vagabond" could never be permitted to absorb the immense sum to which this weekly rent must amount, We were, therefore, scarcely prepared for the information conveyed in the following paragraph, which we extract from the Dublin correspondence of the Liverpool Journal of Saturday last:— "The Repeal Association met on Monday, when further remittances from Liverpool, towards the repeal rent, amount ing to £145, were acknowledged. The truth is, that were it not for the subscriptions received from England and America, the doors 'of the Repeal Association could hardly , be kept open. The amount of rent for the week was £260. ' Really this is very oomplimentary to the good sense of the Irish inhabitants of Liverpool ! The gulls of the great im poster arc not, after all, the poor benighted bogtrotters of his own country. They, stupid and ignorant as they are, have begun to see through the manifold frauds and the giant avarice which attend every movement of the great 0. But America has fortunately her " sympathizers " and abettors of rebellion, and England, and Liverpool at its head, has its besotted idiots in abundance, to supply the vacuum caused by the secession of Ireland herself from the number of his dupes. Ycs, even now, in our own town, whilst the hand of benevolence is being stretched forth to save thousands of the suffering poor of Ireland from perishing in our streets —when the cry of sympathy is being raised in behalfof the education of he childrn of tse poor—the Irish inhabitants can raise to t swell the e hoard ho s or a burly imposter no less a sum than £145 in one week ; and we are gravely told that but for such contributions from amongst us, and from the braggart " symphatbizers " of the United States, the arrant LUlllbUg repeal must (lie of inanition. The thing is monstrous and disqusting ; and the scoundrels who aid in this system of ex t or tion in I..iverpool, by which their ignorant fellow. countrymen arc thus robbed and duped, are worthy, it th ey could he made known, of the indignant reprobation of the MONEY MARKET AND CITY , T N, A ,eI . )2 , TELLIGENCI SATURDAY EVENING.—WitiI the exception of a few in considerable purchases by the Chancery broker, to the amount altogether of about £lB,OOO for Friday next, and sales by the same party to the amount of about £B,OOO, this has been al together a quiet day in the funds. Consols in consequence of these purchases were a shade better for money, the closing prices for present transfer being 891 to 1, and for account 891 to 4. Exchequer Bills were 16s to 18s premium. Bank Stock 167 to 4. India Stock 217 to In Foreign - Secoriti and-a-Half per Cent: to I. Belgian 102 to 24{ to 5. Portugueat Cents 20 to 1. lombian 22 to Five ncr ( no al teration. Dutch Two 1, the Five per Cents 100 Ac:irr with the Coupons to 4, the Three per can 29L to 30. Co- London and Birmingham Railway Shares w Great Western 211 to 2.!,. the Halt Shares 1(I port 51 to 6; premium. - 5, North Midland 71 to 3, the New Sham. 36} to 7k. Blackwall 11 to 1, South Weste, share. Eastern Counties 11; to 14, South Dover 211 to 201 discount. 11 to tern a PROFESSOR OF POETRY. RETIREMENT OF MR. WILLIAMS (From our Second Edilion of Friday.) We have this moment been favoured with the fol owing gratifying letter from the Principal of Brase nose College, Oxford : TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD " Brute-nose Col lanuar " SIR,—A comparison has 5 number of promises given in behalf of each eu Professorship of Poetry, when they were foun " For Mr. Garbett Mr. Williams didate f " Mr. Williams has in consequence withdrawn. " We beg you to accept our thanks for the intention ea• pressed by you of supporting Mr. Garbett, and to congratu late you on this termination of the contest. " 1 am, Sir, " For the Fellows of this College and myself, " Your obedient faithful Servant, " A. T. GILBERT, Principal.' AICA. By the Cambridge pack M et-s Eß hip, which arrived at this port on Friday, we are in receipt of New York papers to the 3d instant, inclusive ; being four days later than those re ceived by the last Boston steamer. The intelligence possesses no great interest. Tile Albany and Boston Railroad was opened on the 28th ult., and a grand dinner was given on the occasion by the authorities of the city of Albany. Governor Seward's mes sage was expected to arrive from Albany on the evening of the 4th instant, and will be brought by the Roscoe packet ship of the 7th. According to the Herald, the probability that the currency project of the President would pass into a law, declined every day. The moderate whigs opposed the exchange feature of the plan, and the ultra whigs were against the whole. Not withstanding there was a general want of confidence in State and Bank Stocks, the stocks of flour, wool, cotton, and corn commanded cash at moderate prices. The first of January was a holyday, and little or no busi ness was therefore transacted in the money market. The second of January was Sunday, and no alteration has there fore taken place since the Columbia left. The transactions at the stock board on the 31st ultimo were large, and prices were generally up. A fair busi►►ess was done in bills. TEXAS. According to our lust advice; the Texan Santa Fe expedi tion had fallen into the hands of the Mexicans, and were in prison. This intelligence, however, is doubted by many. We have accounts from Santa Martha to the 27th Nov., and from Carthagena to the 30th. The New British Consul General, Mr. Stewart, had arrived at. Santa Martha, with powers from his government to effeet a reconciliation between the Federalists and Constitutionalists. On the 11th he had an interview with General Cormona, and inamedirtely left for the head quarters of President Goran, at Chivinana. On the 30th ult. Carthagena was invested with a force of 1000 to 1500 men. Great sickness prevailed among them. The town was well supplied with provisions, enough for the next six months. FROM MEXICO. We have late intelligence from the city of Mexico. Af fairs had settled down quietly, and Santo Anna was supreme in all things. 'We have nothing particularly new to commu nicate, and all that we can give of any interest is the fol- lowing DECREE Art. 1. The law of Nov. per cent the duty on consumption of foreign goods, _ main without effect from and after the day which ma, designated by the Governors of the Departments, with the assent of the Juntas. In the Department of Mexico, and in every other in which the order of the Government, dated the 4th of September last, has been put into execution, the designation of the day will not take place. Art. 2. Consequently, the duties established by the laws which were in force prior to the said 26th day of November, 1839, shall alone be collected hereafter. Art. 3. The laws of December 27, 1839, and of April 23, and June 9, 1810, relative to the same duties of consuintion. bhall also be without effect. Given at Tacubarga, Oct. IG, 1811. ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. 26th, 1839, increasing to fifteen 111 re- ARE ROMANISTS CATHOLICS • (From .Dr. Kennedy's Lefler.) It was, is and ever will be. my principle in contr to use those terms which, while they do not compron own opinions, are least offensive to those of the °chi Catholic, you know I cannot call you, without virtu/ flying my own Catholicity. Homan you, if you were a subject of a country in Rome. But, as long as you, being a British subjet excommunicated from the one Catholic Church of England I cannot regard you as a Catholic at all. I have, therefore upon principle, and without the slightest wish to insult you but rather with a strong desire to be as courteous as possible spoken of your place of worship as Romisli--of yourselves a., Romanista—and of your faith 116 Romanism. In so doing, I have followed the example of an eminent prelate, towards whom you probably feel as much gratitude as you have shewn to other persons, who have dune their best to place you on a civil equality with your countrymen. Archbishop Whateley, in his excellent work, entitled " The Errors of liomanism traced to their origin in human nature," uses, throughout, the terms I have used ; and I recommend the note on the subject, in his appendix, to the serious consider ation of all Churchmen, who follow the loose and foolish habit of calling those of your faith Catholics. Now, sir, do you accuse Archbishop Whateley of contemptuous and in sulting language towards you ? And is your accusation sup ported by your Titular Archbishop, Dr. Murray, who sits at the same Board of Education with the Lord Primate? Surely, sir, it is no more contemptuous and insulting in me to refuse you the title of " Cath o li c ," an d t o d eny t h e canonical vali dity of your mission, than it is in you to refuse me the same title, and to deny the validity of my ordination. You very well know the only question at issue between us is,—which of us is a true Catholic? Which is the true member of that one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in which we declare our belief in the apostles and Nicene Creed, and for which we of the Church of England pray continually, in the collect, " for all conditi ons o f men "? I t i s therefore either puerile or evasive in either of UP, to charge the other with insult and contempt in using terms which are absolutely ne cessary for the expression of our respective opinions. (From Archbishop Whaleley.) The title of Catholics, the Romanists claim, and apply to themselves, not merely as Le/ongino to them (and it is not denied that they are a branch, though a corrupt one, of the Universal or Catholic Church), but us distinctive, and pecu liar to the members of the Church of Rome ; and Protestants have usually, in language, conceded this claim. But I think that, in so doing, they manifest too exclusively the harmless ness of the dove, and leave the wisdom of the serpent entirely with their opponents. it Is urged that these are offer ded at being called Papists, considering that as a term of repr from its being used only by their adversaries. That 1 not seem to seek it quarrel, I have generally avoided that name ; but let us not be so weak as to imagine that " Roma nist," or any other title by which they can be properly de signated will ever fail, when it shall hare become common, to be complained of as reproachful, or that they will ever acqui esce in any appellation which do e s not i m ply a r e p roac h t o ourselves. Even the apparently neutral designation of " Members of the Church of Rome." is one which we must not too confidently expect them to adopt or acquiesce in; nor is it unlikely that they may complain of it as reproachful, should it ever become their customary appellation among Protestants • for it implies that there are other Churches, properly cal l ed Churches, besides the Church of Rome. W e , indeed, arc content to be designated as Members of the Church of England, and we regard them as belonging to a distinct Church, over which, though we censure it as corrupt, we claim no supremacy ; but they do not take a correspond ing view of us ; they do not regard us as constituting any distinct Church, but as actually members, though schisma tical and revolted members—subjects de jure, though rebel lious subjects—Of their Church, A name, therefore, which implies that there are other Churches distinct from theirs, contradicts one of their fundamental tenets, viz., that they, and they only, are faithful members of the one true church ; and this tenet they have embodied in the appellation they have chosen for themselves, which consequently implies, as I have said, a reproach to all other Christians. The title of Catholic, when used as distinctive, implies the exclusion of all others from the character of loyal members of the Society which Christ founded—of " the holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints," as it is expressed and explained in the Apostles Creed; it implies, in short, that all others are heretics or schismatics. That the term Papist is a term of reproach, (though I do not insist on its being employed,) I can never admit. 2 " term of reproach" is one which implies something dimarcee fid in the opinion of the party to whom it is applied. Th e % Heretic (in its ordinary, not, perhaps, in its e tyinologi: , sense) implies the h o ldi ng of some erroneous tenet ;ic,., consequently, a rep roac hf u l term. B ut P ap i st imphes oth ply one who acknowledges the authority of the Feller!' lb 5 au those to whom it is applied, du, openly, acknowledg e thority. b u t the ad- But we are told that the term is used by none, aye t „ ri g ht versaries of the Romanists, and, therefore, to complain of it. At this rate they may Ina ' .e t „ npply it to will a term of reproach, by simply refusit:g_in do so w i th themselves. And we may h-e assured the! " to us. To call every title which does not imply a repro is B ; they at least sre themselves, distinctively Catholics, lu s heretics. Let ti lu;• title they to eseep ,_, well aware, whatever we t giinSt the name them be admonished, that when they oues declaiming at the of Papists, and assume that of C_ o , t . ','„ ep roncliful lang ua same time against the cruelty or e u"_:„ s ure applies, not tuts, let them be admonished, that th but t An of we skilfu lutior aim is t r h e e n French practicallte‘. o tio t . this is a trifling ',;(qmivinestaionitti w e maxim, laid ,o themselves. orris 3d le t a i i i t d n n o l a i t a n b n l jeeesst; thought ,:jeut!at:viler i s :I , doe; sufferings the tifi F Oily acted on by someg i Z :.''' Great A, that "to t in all debate mid coo Wished, such becon _ es t:.. terms as beg li, PUS un• t i and to : imply a decision on one side. lion, and virtually ii , ,vt .,,, i 1 Itomanist(by n o m.. inher to ha ve j ciety, wi t h middle cinso of no . , whom I had a ~,--- 0 ( 0 , points wherein we differed. isoussion 0, ed to dwell iiim4 on his mind was, the • • inconsistent. lit of professing bell f • (keine. . , ein " the Holy Catha j •" when ' yours, " he said • iurc i , is not the (Athol , ' • 'ewe' of the of di, seemc its he lie Ch Churc '~,~,-~ Toy who ‘v bo the ntid 101 The pi highest petted SOUTHWRAXIIALL BURGLARY.—JoIin Gough, Y. taken at South anipton on Frid a y l ast , i s b e li eve d to man who pointed th e p i sto l at Miss Awdry's head. akes the ninth of the party who has been apprehended. ,olice, w hose exertio ns on th i s occasion deserve the A praise, are inclose pursuit of one or two other sus parties. Nin morni rated ( over t le prisoners escaped from Tiverton Gaol on Friday ng last. It is supposed that two men who were film- MI Thursday had thrown something from the outside he wall, by which the others were enabled to make their They broke open live doors end dng through two luta th e i r measures were concerted with such secrecy keep el late must retake , access, that but for an occidental circumstance, the T could not have been made aware of their escape until 3 the morning, when all hopes of a successful pursuit have been very doubtful. As it is, only five have been en.-IVest of England Conservative.