The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-06 00:00:00

SAMBROOKE, on her return from Par' and Lon don, most respectfully informs the Ladies f ol Liver the p i o and the Neighbourhood , that, on Wednesday ext , th September, she will have ready for inspection elegant assort ment of MILLINERY ; also, appropriate Materials for Dresses, suitable for the approachino. Festivals. 88, Duke-street, Liverpool. SHAWLS, CLOAKINGS. &c. &c.—SIMPS GARD NER, and MEREDITH respectfully m the Public that they have just returned from the Scot .larkets,',where they have selected an extensive Stock of SHAWLS and CLOAKINGS, of the most useful and fashionable descrip tions, which are now ready for inspection. Shawl Warehouse, 68, Church-street, Sept. 1, 1836/ SOUTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIV DINNER. THE TIMES. • ir T. GASKILL begs to announce Olt intends to order ;LA. an extra number of THE TIMES ( London) of Sa turday, the 10th, containing a REPORT o the SPEECHI4.:S at the GREAT CONSERVATIVE DINNER at NEWTON on THURSDAY next. Persons wishing for Copies are requested to make early application. 48, Lord-street, Liverpool, September 5, 1836. REDUCTION OF THE NEWSPAPER ST MP DUTY. THE . 'y 4 T. GASKI respectfully an noune s at, after the 15th . instant, he will supply THE TI NI ES urnal (of London) Daily at the Reduced Price. No extr charge is made for delivery. Subsrribers will be supplied at the same price as at the Oftce in London. —; FilittTimEs arrives by,Express Every Morning, at the Office, 48, Lord-street. ANATOMY, PHYSIOLO Y AND PATHOLOGY. HEVRY-STREET, LIVERPOO . TA . CARSON, SEN., Dr. JULIUS LFF. and Mr. CTIATER will deliver a COURSE n .ECTURES on ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PAT LOGY, to com mence October 4th. The Lectures on Physiology, by Dr. Carson, Sen., will be illustrated by Experiments. The Anatomical Demonstrations will be conducted by Dr. Julius Wolff and Mr. Oliver. Dr. Julius Wolff will deliver a Course of Lectures on the ap plication of the Stethascope to the various Diseases affecting the Organs of Respiration and Circulation. . Any arlflitional inAirmatiou muy be had by applying to Mr. CRArri.a, 45, Bold street, LECTURES ON PRESERVED SALMON. JUST Imported, a quantity of PRESERVE SALMON, from the Irish Fisheries, in Cases of 2 a • lbs. each. a . Apply to I'. MOFFAT, at the Coleraine Salm Vaults, Hood street, near St. John's Market. I VSTHEREAS, NATHANIEL PARR, of ridgewater street, Liverpool, in the county of Lane• ter, Cooper, hath by Indenture bearing date the 9th day of ember, 1835, assigned over ali his Estate and Effects in tr t for the etpoil benefit of his Creditors, . Notice it hereby Given, That the said Indenture of Assignment is now Icing at the Of fice of JAMES WINDER Upper Pownall-street, fur the inspec tion and execution of the said Creditors, and all such Creditors as shall refuse or neglect to execute the same on or before, the 2d day of November next, will be excluded the benefit arising therefrom. woopfinws IVIMI.SALA WINES. 19ESSRS. WOOD ti PURE -1141 - ;OTI - IFAA l‘ ave to announce to their Friends owl the. Public, - the ttet;:il Branch of the Business has been discontinued.• .but they will have much pleasute in supplying their brie its with their choicest WINES. in any quantities, not le. s than a Quarter Cask; containincr Twenfv-fmr,Gallons, Imp ial Measure. To the Wholesale Wine Metchant, Messrs. Woo HOUSE BROTHERS are prepared to o'er much more advantageous terms than . heretofore. 2'2, Henry-street, Liverpool. BRONTE MADEIRA WINE. MR. WILLIAM .MILLER begs leave t inform his Friends and the Mlle, that Messrs. S. a W. Worm- MOUSE haviu relinquished the retail sale of it. Bronte Ma deira Wine, in Bottles, and in small quanti sbF the- Gallon. he takes this mode of inf,rmiriv them, that e has commenced the'Business of a WINE MERCHANT in all its branches, and has opened an Establishment for that purpose in DUKE STREET, Liverpool, where such Friends as may please to hymn him with their orders will he supplied with the genuine BRONTE MADEIRA. of the best quality , as imported from Messrs. Woodhouse's Stores, in Sicily, an d at the prices usually charged by them, viz., In Bottles, 265. per Dozen, Bottles inclTled. Without Bottles, 10s. per Imperial Gallon. No. 106, Duke-street, nearly opposite the ' , Union Newsroom, Liverpool, Sep., 1836. ii ir FABItIONABLE DANCING. —• MRS. CHA.RLM ACKERS respectf 11 announces to the Ladies of Birkenhead and the neia urhood that, at the suggestion of several Friends, she has be induced to open an ACADEMY, at the MkGisTitATEs' R OMS, WOODSIDE, where a Class, exclusively for Ladies, will be formed on WED NESDAY, the 28th instant, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon. Terms. &c. may be known`by applying at Mr. Willoughby's Hotel, Birkenhead, or at the Academy, Private Residence, Park-road. CHUBB'S PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS. &c. el CHUBB, Jun , respectfully informs the Public that, in • consequence ~ f the increasing demand for hi , ather's PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS, FIRE-PROOF BOXES, SAFES. CASH BOXES, &c., in this town and anchester. he has Opened a Warehouse for the Sale of t in at No. 5, SOUTH CASTLE-STIZECT, (late Pool-lane.) C. C., jun., need not say anything further i commendation of the Patent Detector Locks than that they ar tilled by his Ma jesty's Government, almost every Banker in e'United King dom, and by above one hundred thousand private individuals. Prospectuses may be had as above. ECONOMICAL CLOTHING ESTABLISHM . Nos. 106 AND 107, Sr. JANIF.A'S-STREET, ( Opposite St. Vincent-street. ) THAGUE having completed his S COCK'. for he Summer • Season, respectfully invites the Public to isit his Este blish.nent, where they will have an opportu of seeing and giving their orders from one of the newest an most extensive Stocks in Liverpool, at the following unequalle Low Prices : £ s. d. £ s. d. Gentlemen's Superfine Dress Coats 1 18 0 to 3 3 0 Ditto „ Frock Ditto 2 2 0 .. 3 15 0 Ditto Cassimere Trousers Ditto West of England Ditto Ditto White Drill Ditto ... .. . 0 6 0..0 10 6 Ditto Moleskin and Cartoon Ditto. 0 7 6..0 10 6 Ditto Valencia Vests 0 5 0..0 10 0 Ditto Fashionable Chalies Ditto 0 9 0..0 12 0 Ditto Silk Velvet Ditto An endless variety of Fancy Striped and Checked Cantoons, Buckskins &c., for Trousers from 10s. to 16s. ner Pair. mpowered by Act of Parliament. THE HOP -P E LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, NEW BRIDGE-STREET , LONDON. Established' 13)7. Capital—One Million. ROBERT WILLIAMS, Esq.. Choirm . JOHN - RAMSBOTTOM, Esq. and M.P., Depu Chairman. ADVANTAGES OFFEIZED TO ASSURE • I.—Guarantee from all responsibility. 2.—Participation in profits to the extent of tw -thirds, by way of Bonus. . . 3. —Bonus added to the Sum assured, or applied in reduction of future premiums. 4.—Premiums may be paid by annual payments for a limited number of years, or by annual payments during the whole teem of life. s.—Permission to pass (in steam-boats and decked vessels) to and from any continental port between the Texel and Brest, inclusive. 6.—No entrance money, admission fee, or other official charge. 7.—Claimi paid in Three Months after proof of death. WILLIAM BURY, Sec. Agent for Liverpool, Mr. Tnomas TINLEY, Ship and Share BrAer, 106, Old Hall-street. Medical Officer, ROBERT BLEKERSZETII, Esq., Surgeon, Rodney-street. CHICORY. SAMUEL YOUNGER, for the information of the Dealers and Traders in the above article, begs to state th:d e Customs' Duty is now fixed by the Government at 20s. r cwt. for the Raw Root, and 565. per cwt. Roasted or Gro d.. He is now prepared to supply it either in the Raw, < sted, or Ground state, at prices according to quantity. icory having been known for years, and obtained an immense consumption on the Continent, in conselluence of its wholesome character, will now become an established commodity in this country, and be ex tensively used with Coffee. As an evidence, the consuinption during . the last year has greatly increased .— Letters must be post-paid, No. B. (3reat Tower-street, London. PRESENTATION OF PLATE AT THE KING'S FERRY. THE COMMITTEE for managing the Sub cription for of. tering a Public Tribute of Respect to • . 1 J 4 tn , ..s Baydell, 14i j for his improvements at the Ferry, ber, le,,v o inform the Sub scribers, that their Chairman, the Right H unable Lord Mos tvn, will present to Mr. Boydell their sp endid Testimonial, with an order on the Treasurer for the balance, on hoard the Ferry Boat, on Wednesday, the 14th of September, at three o'clock; and, for the convenience of Subscribers, the List will not be finally closed until that day. A Dinner will be ready at the Hawarden Castle Hotel, im mediately after the presentation, at which the Right Honoura ble Lord Mostyn will preside; and it is requested tivit Gentle. men intending to dine will make an early application to Mr. Lawrence for Tickets. . TT is respectfully announced, that T. WOOLFIELD is at a present on the CONTINENT. superintendi g the finish ing of a choice variety of handsome Giltand Silv d CLOCKS, VASES, and CANDELABRAS, of the newes and most taste ful designs which have been in course of ufacture during the summer. A Selection of SEVRES and DRES EN CHINA will also comprise some splendtd Patterns of CLOCKS, a la Ro caille, MEDICEAN . VASES, BOUGEOIRS, &c. The above, with some beautiful Specimens of FRENCH MANUFACTURE, will shortly he forwarded from PARIS, and will be submitted to the inspection of his numerous Friends and Patrons previous to the ensuing FESTIVAL. T. Woot.viat.n has likewise made new and extensive pur chases of English Manufactured Goods; BRONZE and OR MOLU LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, VASES and other Ornaments, including a large Assortment of ENGLISH PORCELAIN, of the most elegant and fashionable descrip tion. The whole of which, when fully displayed, will, be trusts, maintain the high reputation for taste and qual►ty of Workman ship, which his unrivalled Establishment has always enjoyed. 71 and 72, Church-street, adjoining the Postoffice. LATIIBURY'S ANTIBILIOUS AND GOUT PILLS TAFAVE:beert ittlterk. for nearly half a century otan with the great est success in-Eillati'Affections, wel.pCorn an,d after free living. To plaints, Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick headach e , d 'e rr -elm ''' . plaints, Loss of Appetite, of vessels, and all others going into warm climate - a- tains they will be found of infinite serviceLindeed, the consum on of them now both in the East and West Indies is a su • .• cient proof of their efficacy in those quarters of the Oche. Also, Ilia RESTORATIVE COUGH P LS, for Coughs. Colds, Asthmas, Consumption, and Hopping Cough, In Boxes at Is !; , .1, 2s 9d, ,end 4s tad. Prepared by 11. U •-.AT. BURY, Chemist, &i:., 20 C a stle-strokit, Liverpool, unit sold most of the respectai:c Medicine Vendors in town and country, An APPRENTICE WANTED. ILD Ii.OOKSOPP'S celebrated 4s. 81 TEA, as usual. The . necessity to send to London for Tea no longer exists. We have imported into Liverpool this season and have no on Sale, all the varieties of the best sorts of Teas, fully equ o the beet ever sold by the East India Company. In one i tance of the Green, the Tea is decidedly "freshet" than an that has before reached England for several years. Our Liverpool Prices will render the Lon on travellers' fu ture jonrnies this road useless. TliE FOLLOWING ARE THE SORTS OP BLACK TEA. CONGOU, of full body and clean flavour, suitable for large Establishments, and a good article for the running Canister of the general Grocer. CONGOU. fine black leaf. DITTO. the best imported. SOUCHONG. the true sort,-high priced, but of the highest Tea flavour; always very limited in the quantity obtainable. POUC HONG. - fine flavour, (in Papere.) ORANGE PEKOE, a first-rate specimen, exceedingly strong. FLOWER Y PEKOE, exqui'itely fragrant. and pfissessing enough of body to impart its flavour to several pounds of Tea , , 01 interior va l ue . '''-'ACK-LEAF PEKOE, at a moderate Price, and the strong est Tea imported. TWA/sIRATHE GREEN 'FLA, ON SALE ARE, with chea t 7, the b e ,t, very strong, and adapted to mixing I an d apv ,,,, , , ,, , k, and making, when blended, an e con om ical 1.1 y S ON KIND, vit'Va.' * cheap er than Hyson, and a materially better Te a th an i, b, Jtesn.erally sold by the name of Hyson. II YSON, a many YOUNG lIY SON. the -,,,,re samples of exquisite delicacy. t h e „ no pc, -; the best. IMPERIAL OUN-POWDuIrt GUNPOWDER, free from the comae fl of the greatest strength,. and entire!} • ( that which ever attaches tn.the.smuggled article sold by this article i'r'i'saraweeil-known at Moscow OVERLAND GREEN, s season f or the first and is offered in En g l and thi and. Paris, • time. , NIXED - T.EA, at various Pri ses. contriinin,; n certa . • portions of Black and Green put together, s.) as to ( i h t ` a i tl C l r,:. gre atest quantity of strength and flavour at th e l east pcss c we Price. WILLIAM BROCKSOPP, 33, Bold-street, Liverpool. TERRIBLE AFFRAY. —NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—The steamer Carrollton, arrived on Sunday last from Vicksburgh, brings intelligence of a deadly affray which took place there previous to leaving, between a planter of the name of Randolph and a Dr. Watts, both citizens of that place. It or i g i na t e d f rom an old grudge, said - to have existed between the parties for some time. It appears Dr. Watts met Randolph on the morning of the 14th inst., when he drew from his breast it pistol, which he and percei v i ng th a t h e tfivraesduantairintdl,ohipehr;a n b u u t p m to is h s i i m ng , a h n ii ri n 'infliet e d several blows on his head , with the but-end of the pistol. Some time after, when Randolph had recovered from the blows inflicted on hint, he armed himself with a brace of pistols, and meeting Watts at the Mansion-house, where they both boarded, followed him and fired as he entered his own room, when in the act of seating himself alongside of his lady. The ball passed through his right ar.n ; with the other he made an effort to seize Randolph, but failing, Randolph fired a second pistol at him, the ball from which lodged in his side. The Doctor's brother, on being in. formed of the rencontre, seized a rifle and made towards Ran dolph's apartment, threatening to break open the door and take his life. The window happening to be•opeo at the moment Ran dolph, fired from it with unerring aim, and shot Watts through the heart. Both the Watts's were placed on the same bed; the dead and dying—a sight well calculated to check the uncontrolled and fiery passions of those around. Randolph, after the perpe tration of the,above; walked deliberately from the room into the street, amongst a crowd of spectators, with cocked pistols in each hand. No attempt was made to impede his progress, and he quietly proceeded to the ferry, which he crossed, seemingly under no apprehension of arrest. PUBLIC MEETING. A LL persons interested in the communication between lA_ Wales and Liverpool, are invited to attend A M EETI NG to be held at the Hawarden Castle Inn, King's Ferry, ota WED, NESDAT, the 14th day of SEPTEMBER, The Right Hon. Lord iNIOSTYN in the C ir, for the purpose of determining to which of the Live )00l Ferries application shall be made to Parliament for a new line of road, in the ensuing session. The chair will be taken at 12 o'clock precisely. .. SOUTH-EASTERN BRIGH . HAVEN U Joining the South-lr,aste DIST A London to 0xted....21 miles. I Oxted to Brighton ..30 TON, LEWES, AND NEW- !rn Railway near Orteci. Branch from Wivels- held to Lels : e;:::. 81 miles. Lewes to Newhave 6 Total distan £5O each—Deposi per Share. COMMITTEE. EdinundHalsw 11,Esq.,London 'Col. Hodgson, Tunbridge Wells Horatio L?ggatt, Esq., Oak Hill, Worth. The lion. CaPtainMande,R.N. Captain Pringle, It. E. The Hon. Gen. St.John,Challey John Villiers Shelley, Esq , Maresfield John Shewell, Esq., London Hen.Shirley,Esq., Peppingford Total distance..sl Capita! ;£1,W;0,009, in Shares of PROViSIoNAL LanOat Archer Burton, Esq., Lon on John 13gshaw, Esq.,lll.P. Georgeßeaucle re, Esq., London Thomas Blake, Esq., Loudon Robert Willis Blencowe, Esq., The Hooke, Chaney. Sir Charles Blunt, Bart., Francis Scawen Blunt, Esq., Crabbett, Worth. Geo. Borradaile, Esq., London. James Burton, Esq., St. Leo n ards-on-S ea. C,iptain Cole, Newhaven Henry Charles Dakeyne, ys q ., London Colonel _ Davies, Dane Park, East G;insteia Sir Francis Shuckburgh, Bart. Lieut.-Colonel Spink, London. Ed.Su art, Esq. Tunbridge Wells iltees Goring Thomas, Esq., East Grinstead Henry Charles Moreton Dyer, Esq., London Howard Elphinstone,Esq.,M.P. Lieut.-Colonel Fanshaw . _ , e R.E. Burwood Godlee, Esq., Lewes EdwardGraharn,Esq.,The Hall, Worth London GeorgeTreherneThounas, Esq., London The Hon. Gen. Trevor, Gly,lc bourne, Lewes __ Robert irotter, Esq., Borde With power to add to their number. ENGINEER—W. A. Provis, Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—W. Cubitt, Esq., PALS. BAN KERS—MeSSES. Esdaile and Co. SoLietroas—Messrs. Clutton and Fearon ; and Messrs. Currie and Woodgate. SECRETARY—J. S. Yeats. THE Plan of the South-Eastern Railway Company, as ori ginally projected, combined in one undertaking two great lines, to Brighton and Dover; but in consequence of the rivalry of other competing lines of road to Brighton, and the necessarily heavy expense attending a severe Pat liamentary contest, it was considered unadvisable to involve the Dover line in an opposi tion which was anticipated to that of Brighton, and, therefore, that part of their project was suspended. An Act for the South• Eastern Dover Line having been ob tained, the present Company is formed for the purpose of bringing forward the Brighton, Lewes,and Newhaven line, with the advantage of having 21 miles out of 51 to Brighton already sanctioned by Parliament—one of the principal objects of the Legislature being to encourage, as much as possible, a junction of railways where practicable, and thereby prevent the country from being unnecessarily intersected. From the point of divergence, near Oxted, the distance to Brighton will be under 3U miles. The line will be direct and nearly straight, and will nut prejudicially affect any ornamental noperty, and the gradients will in no case exceed one in 330, or 16 feet per mile. The advantages of uniting two such important places as Brighton and Dover with the Metropolis by one line common to both for so considerable a portion of the whole distance, and by the adoption of existing outlets from Loudon, are too obvious to require further comment. The terminus at Brighton is at the Great Northern Entrance, the point most central and generally approved of by the inha bitants. From this terminus a branch may be carried to Shore ham (distant five miles,) thereby securing all the commercial advantages of that port to Brighton, without increasing the distance between the Metropolis and that town, or subjecting passengers to Brighton to the inconvenience and annoyance of travelling round by Shoreham. From a poiut near Wirelsfield a favourable line is found to Lewes and to Newhaven, to which latter place the attention of Government and the Public, as the only good natural harbour for large vessels between Portsmouth and the Downs, has long been directed. It is therefore considered that Newhaven is a point of the utmost importance in determining the direction of a line of railway to Brighton; and without comparing its su perior capabilities with those of Shoreham, kt will be observed that by this line a direct railway communication with both these Sea port Towns may with great facility be attained, which could not he effected by any line taking a westerly course. A natural level, for a considerable distance, admits of an easy extension of the line from Lewes to Eastbourne, St. Leonard's, and Hastings; and power is reserved to the Provisional Com mittee to make such an extension of the present line, if, on ma ture consideration, it should be deemed desirable to do so. The present Company being formed for the purpose of carry ing out the original project of the South-Eastern Railway Com pany, by the execution of the Brighton portion of their line, a preference for Shares will therefore be given to holders of Shares in that Company; and power is reserved to unite with the present South-Eastern Railway Company, if such union should be con sidered desirable by a General Meeting of Shareholders of the two Companies. A limited amount only of Shares can, there fore, be allotted to the Public. The Directors of this undertaking have not considered it ne cessary to.lay before the Public a detailed account of the traffic to Brighton. Its magnitude was so fully proved and admitted before the Committees of both Houses of Parliament last ses sion, that a renewal of the subject would be totally uncalled fur. Prospectusses and further information may be obtained on application to the Secretary, South-Eastern Railway Of 98, Gracechurch-street. .1. S. YEATS, Secretary. August 30. RELIEF FROM PAIN. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE. T EFAY'S GRAND POMMADE.—This extraordinary _LA Preparation cures, by two or three external applications, Tic Douloreux, Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, a d Sciatica, and all painful Affections of the Nerves, giving nstantaneous relief in the must severe paroxysms. It has b en extensively employedin the public and private practice ) several French physicians, who have declared that in no c have they found It L o fail in curing those formidable and tormenting maladies. Si nce its introduction into England it has in every ease fully maintained the high character its unrivalled success has ob tained for it on the Continent. Patients who had for years drawn on a miserable existence, and many who had lost the use of their limbs by rheumatism and paralysis, have, by a few ap plications, been restored to health, strength, and comfort, after electricity, galvanism, blistering, veratrine, morphia, colchium, and all the usual remedies, had been found useless. Its asto , - Trithitv, and - almost miraculous-effects. Kaye_ also been expe rienced in the cure of Nervous and Rheumatic Pains of the Head and Face, Paralytic Affections, Contracted and Stiff .Nuts, Glandular Swellings, Pains of the Chest and Bones, Chronic Rheumatism, Palpitation of the Heart, Difficult Re spiration, &c. It requires no restraint from business or plea sure. It does not cause any eruption, and may be applied to the most beautiful skin without fear of injury. I Sold by the appointment of Jean Lea'', the Inventor, by his sole Agent, Stirling, Chemist, No. 86, High-street, Whitecha pel, who will answer any inquiries (if by letter, post paid) re specting it, and also show letters received from numerous pa tients who have benefited by its application. It can be sent to any part of the world, upon enclosing a remittance, and any . part of London carriage free. Sold in Pots at 4s. 6J. each. Nolica.—As there is a spurious imitation, it is requisite to See that th e name "J . W . S t i r li ng, " i s engrave d on th e Go vernment S tamp, outside the wrapper, without which security it cannot be Agents awhood, 20, South John-street, Priestley, Aspi nail. Howell, Roberts, Bradford, Rawson, Neale, Gerdes, Wag staff aud Swift, Liverpool; Bowman and Law, Barker, Taylor, Chemists 'Manchester ; S cowcioft, B o l ton ; Isherwood, Pres ton ; and Medicin e V en d ors. - THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR.D. THE "NATIONAL" EDUCATION SYSTEM. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BROWN-STREET SUNDAY AND DAILY SCHOOL SOCIETY. cm the Ulster Times.) Yesterday week, was held the annual meeting of the popular and useful institutions above-named; and we never remember to have witnessed, on any similar occasion, an assembly more entitled to respectful consideration, from numbers, from intel ligence, from the uniform respectability of the attendance, or the variety of classes from which that attendance was drawn. Every grade of society found there its fitting representative, from the gentleman or hereditary landed property, to the pro fessional man, the merchant, the tradesman, and the mechanic. All were there, all ready, with equal zeal, though with various degrees of ability, to .promote the sacred cause of Scriptural education, and to record their abhorrence and contempt of that disgraceful fraud, by which the style, title, and emoluments of a uational system of education, have been conferred on a scheme of which none but Roman Catholics can conscientiously avail themselves. The ladies formed no inconsiderable part of the throng . but we think they scarcely constituted half of the con gregation; a circumstance which was noticed, with much point and felicity, by one of the speakers. The hour fixed for the meeting was twelve, and before that time, the school - room in Brown,street was already crowded. About a ,quarter past twelve, Sir Robert Bateson took the chair. On the platform we obServed James Emerson Tennent, Esq., M.P.; William Cairns, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Cooke; Rev. Messrs. 111'11w:sine, Bennet, Cousins, &c., and among others, one stranger, whose name was soon circulated among the company, and whose presence excited sensation—the Rev. Mr. Crotty, of Birr. Sir Robert Bateson, having been voted into the chair on the motion of Mr. Cairns, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Brand, ob served that the meeting was convened, agreeably to public notice, for the purpose of celebrating the twenty-sixth ,anni versary of the Brown-street Parochial and Sunday Schools. The hon. baronet then proposed that the ineeting should be opened by prayer, which was accordingly done by the Rev- Mr. Wilson. . Die Chairman expressed the pleasure he experienced in meeting so numerous and respectable an assembly; affording so splendid an evidence of the interest taken by the inhabitants of Belfast in the success and prosperity of the excellent institu tion whose anniversary they met to celebrate. He felt great pleasure in being able to assure the company that the institu tion was in a highly prosperous condition. Mr. James Hart, the Secretary, read the report, the tenour of which fully confirmed the statements made by the Chairman, as above reported. In consequence of the immense throng of individuals who were unable to gain access to the very spacious school-room in which the meeting was originally assembled, a proposal was here made to adjourn to a more roomy building, and, after some conversation, Dr. Cooke's meeting-house was fixed on for the purpose. That immense edifice was little more than adequ* to the accommodation of the audience. When the removal had been effected— . . -- ----- The Chairman again rose, and observed, that the change was calculated to give great and general satisfaction. The bon. baronet added, that as the place in which'thev were now col lected was consecrated to public worship, he hoped the corn.: pally would feel the propriety of abstaining from those marks of approbation which were customary on such occasions, and to which he was sure they would be impelled by the enthusiasm with which they entered into the subject under discussion, and the eloquent addresses they would probably hear; The ltev. Mr. M•llwaine then rose to propose the first reso lution. which was as follows : _ _ " Thatthe Repurt now read, and the statement of accounts be received, and printed under the direction of the new com mittee." Although he had not`hoen among those who were foremost in the field, and who had originally fought the battle and gained the victory they were assembled to commemorate, he was yet ready to contribute his feeble support to the great cause at issue. It was the cause of protestantisin againit popery; of the Bible against Infidelity ; and in such a cause no man could in nocently remain neuter; least of all, a minister of the Gospel. When the question was first mooted as to the Merits of this so called national system, he was quite new to the controversy; but it required no extraordinary acumen to discover that prin ciples were involved in the dispute, nor was he long in recog nising the principles in question, as those fot Ohich he would readily surrender his life. Under this official system, the Bible was to give way to books shaped and moulded by man. He saw with dismay and horror, papists and infidels cutting and carving the Bible to make a better book than God's book. This was a proceeding which he never could tolerate or sanction. He further saw that the board recognised the superintendence of Roman Catholic priests with as much cordiality and weight as that of legitimate teachers of the Gospel. The instructions of both were acknowledged as of equal value, and the influence of both encouraged as equally salutary. Against the principles involved in such proceedings as those he protested. They were not the principles of the,reformers; they were not the princi ples of the compilers of that liturgy to which he had pledged his solemn faith. Experience had proved the incompatibility of the scheme with genuine Christian principles. The protes tant clergy who had been deluded or entrapped into co7opera tion with the board were rapidly withdrawing from the un hallowed connexion. The Rev. Mr. Wilson seconded the resolution. The resolution was then put from the chair, and unanimously carried. The Rev. Hugh I'Neile then rose to move the next reso lution That this Society continues to avow and maintain the un restricted rights of all parents to determine how much of the ordinary school hours their children shall employ in reading the Holy Scriptures, and considers every restriction of this right an unwarrantable infringement upon that liberty where with Christ has made his people free." The Reverend Gentleman spoke to the following effect:— Sir, I fell no difficulty in complying with the wish of my Hon. Friend in the chair, and claiming your indulgence, while I point out the application of the principle declared in the resolution I hold in my hand, to the course we are now met to advocate. That principle is briefly and simply this—the unrestricted use of the uninutilated word of God; but before I enter farther on the subject, allow me to recur to the recollection of a meeting similar to this, held two years ago, at which. also I had the honour of being present. At that meet ing, yotir society determiop.l not to associate thenselVCS with that board which is so improperly called national. The history of your progress from that period to the present is pregnant with 'instruction and encouragement. Actuated by the laudable desire of participating in the aid to be derived from the public funds, you requested the assistance - of the board towards the proiecution of your ancient system of education. To this pro posal a qualified assent was given. Delusive hopes were ex cited; plausible and specious replies were returned; such as certainly were understood to bold the word of promise to the ear. But the equivocal character of the language employed roused suspicion ; ambiguity led to inquiry, and it soon hecaMe manifest that your principles, and those of the board, were fun damentally opposed. The correspondence which passed was curious and instructive; it betrayed the real character of the scheme propounded by the board, while it happily exposed the subtlety with which the friends of the project were prepared to promote its success. But if the correspondence which then took place was instructive, the history of your progress since is not less encouraging. Your prosperity has been such as your most sanguine friends scarcely ventured to anticipate. You have enjoyed the full-measure of that blessing which ever awaits the intrepid assertors of principle. You spurned the wages of compromise —you surrendered all claim on the public purse, prostituted to unholy purposes—you threw yourselves with unhesitating confidence on the resources of christian zeal and christian benevolence, and you haVe not been disappointed. Funds have flowed in upon you from all quarted. Debt has disappeared; your sphere of usefulness is exteuded; yout trea sury is replenished. Are these facts no encouragement? Do they not attest the Divine blessing on your proceedings? You will all unite with me in the devout and gratefnl admission that they do. Let me, then, now remind you once more of the pre cise principle which you have been thus manifestly blessed in asserting. It is the unrestricted use of the unniutilated word of God. This principle constituted the very pith and marrow of the reformation struggle. To this principle Wicliffe bore wit ness in England, even to the death. This principle Luther proclaimed from the recesses of a Saxon convent. Zuinglius and Calvin echoed it amid the Alpine fortresses of freedom, and Knox in Scotland struggled and triumphed in the same sacred cause. Rome—papal Rome, alone refused to acknowledge its inestimable worth She kept it veiled in unknown tongues, or immured in conventual solitudes; under her tyrannical aria its noblest champions died on the scaffold, or agonised' at the stake; and had her power of vengeance but corresponded with her ruthless will, the precious heir-loom would never have descended to us consecrated with the blood of its defenders. This statement is no effusion of bigoted calumny : it is the grate ful record of a plain and simple truth, attested by a mass of his torical evidence which none will dare to controvert or deny. The reformation was the instrument by which, as by a- moral earthquake, God broke this blood-stained power down; and the mightiest achievement of that epoch was the command-deli vered to the Bible in the vernacular tongues of Europe; " Go free." I heard with delight the statement of the chairman; that experience had proved the National System must be considered as a system for the education of catholics alone; that protss tants had all and every where withdrawn themselves front the connexion. This speaks well for protestant principle in Ire land. I am not afraid of open, but of concealed, enemies. I am alarmed when I see ministers. of the protestant chusehes joining the unhallowed standard of our enemies. Ministers of the Church of Scotland have come forward as defenders of the liberal policy in religion. There must he something wrong when this is the case. Scotland banished Popery with the strong hand, and the uplifted claymore. Yet at the present moment there stands in Edinburgh a spacious nunnery:—The- , tosie- of protestantism in that country must have degenerated Prc testant principles are no longer valued, for their own sake, as they once where. The truth is, there is a deepseated and latent, but in:dignatit infidelity, at the root of this fearful change. The cant of the day represents all 'religions as equally entitled to consideration and respect, but this liberalism is the offspring of infidelity, and its real name is indifference. These liberals are all tolerance when differences of creed are discussed. They smile over the discrepancies of religious opinion, with an urbanity which is quite delightful, until its secret motive is de tected. But let the same individuals differ on a scientific-ques tion—their politeness, their teleiation vanish in an instant. Let two of them differ on one of the most imperfect and crude of scientific theories—that of Geoloey—and the controversy will be waged with a bigotry quite as aciinionious and as-fierce as ever charged on theologians. The solution is simple—here they are in earnest: they attach importance to the subject; but the case is far different with respect to reli g ion. Wh a t an admirable spectacle of courtesy must the boardexhibitl papist and protestant —trinitarian and sociniau—adjusting their fling differences with an unruffled equanimity of demeanour; which the most accomplished dissembler at the gaming table would vainly attempt to emulate. It requires all the firmness: "and more than all the sagacity of the reformers, to fight our battle now. You, sir, (to the chairman) have heard the system discussed in an assembly . , where every attempt to p ro b e i t h as been evaded, with a dexterity which has been but too successful in imposing on uominal, and perhaps, on sincere protestants. For I am far from saving or thinking that all those who in England aid and abet this pernicious system, are intentionally guilty of treason to the protestant case ; but I do say that the policy of the Roman Catholic church is the same as it ever was, and that it wears the mask of liberalism only because liberalism is the po pular delusion of the day. It is of the essence of a dupe that he should he unconscious of the delusion of which he is the victim, and all the dangers by which protestantism is now threatened arise from the partial miccessof what may be properly denominated the sly system. It is the trimming which is so popular on one hand, and the heartless carelessness which prevails on the other, that has re duced us to the humiliation of seeing a single protestant Caine affixed to an application which binds him to the restricted use of a mutilated bible. Where, oh where, is the blush of protes tant shame at the record of such a fact! .Let us become a more bible-reading and prayer-addicted people, and we shall be in spired with energy to sustain the combat, and in the conscious ness of a sacred cause to remain as insensible to the assaults of our adversaries as the rocky pillars of our coast to the waves that break, and foam, and roar around their base. The Word of God frustrates the policy and humiliates the pride of man, convincing him that his only hope is in that free salvation which is vouchsafed to the repentant prodigal however short his prac tice may'have fallen of the standard erected . by the formalist. In proportion as that sacred and life-giving word is valued among us will the spirit of primitive protestantism 'revive,-and kindle, and cumin auicate. (Hear, hear.) Let the ministers of the gospel speak faithfully, and fearlessly, and urgently on this all-important topic ; for, in employing the Word of God, they wield that weapon of wtherial temper which, in the hands of Luther, cleft the mail of popery, and left it, like the image of Dagon, a maimed and quivering trunk on the threshold of its appropriate temple. No milder form of war will enable us to cope with the reviving monster; no feebler weapon penetrates the hide of the Leviathan. Dr. Cooke seconded the motion, and spoke to the following effect :—Sir, in supporting the resolution which has been pro posed with so much eloquence and ability by the reverend gen tleman who has preceded me, I wish to advert to one fact which is of considerable importance in estimating the character and claims of the institution on whose behalf we are thus assembled. The Brown-street Society was not merely characterized by its assertion of the unrestricted use of an uumutilated bible—it was ori g inally one of those dupes so happily described by the reve rend mover of the resolution before the meeting an unconscious victim of delusion; it is an emancipated thrall. In the pride of our hearts we thought we had carried away captive the board, when we fund that we had " caught a tartar," that we were ourselves the prisoners • and that at the moment when we fan cied ourselves secure dvictory, defeat and discomfiture awaited ns. What is the real character of the national system? It is most important to put an end to the popular illusions which pre vail on this point. That system is founded on this simple and distinct basis. During four hours of every day you must not open the Word of God. This is the plain and incontrovertible state of the case. The board propose to us the following bar gain:—Give us four hours daily, and we will give you this money; grant us only this little portion of the day, in which the opening of God's Word shall be a crime, and you shall re ceive an usurious price for the guilty compliance. What ought to be the answer of protestant christians to such a proposition ? We find an example in point in the response of our blessed Sa viour to the proffer of all the kingdoms of the earth and their glory as the reward of momentary assentation to the powers of darkness. No! never will I consent for one moment to barter away the birth-right of Protestantism—the heir-loott't purchased by the blood of inv ancestors—the inalienable pledge of participation in the privileges and promises of the gospel. Unite before me whatever there is of worth and piety in the Church of Scot land; whatever of dignity in the Church of England; combine the popery of one and the socinianism of another, and the lati tudinarianism of a third, in confederate entreaty, and, as a free born Protestant, I will never yield this sacred right; for, in the • moment when I do so, I might be summoned to that great ac count where no pretences could veil the sacrilege. Lose not— I implore you—lose not sight of the principle. " Give us up this petty interval, and you shall have all that cupidity can de sire." No, not for an instant—for in that instant I may be summoned to account. Moreover, if I join this plausible board, I must " encourage" popery. There stands the word. It can nut be obliterated or explained away. Nonsense is equally non sense from the lips of an archbishop or an arch-heretic. In another way were the regulations of this board constructed with the obvious purpose of "giving a heavy blow and a great dis couragement to protestantism." It is a national crime to en dow popery. Let any protestant nation commit this crime, and the sun of that nation is set for ever. But it is an undenied and a n undeniable fact, that, ir. practice, the board has turned out t o be a mere engine for the endowment of popery. As an ex ample of this, I will state what occurred the other day in a pa rish in the county of Down, at no great distance from the spot where we are now assembled. The popish priest of the parish in question, aided by a few of those liberal protestants who have been so well described this day, succeeded in getting up a school in connexion with the beard, at which all the young Ro man Catholics of the neighbourhood were duly congregated. A poor presbyterian widow was prevailed upon by assiduous solici tation to send her little daughter to this nursery of papists. No sooner did she make her appearance than she was assailed by a volley of interrogatories as to her faith, and one of the embryo inquisitors asked where she went on Sund a y. Sh e answere d, "'lo the meeting-house." " The meeting-house!" cried the whole fry in concert, " then what business have you here ? Father will kick you out like a dog—and so you ought." l'his, be it observed, was in Ulster—in Protestant Down ! I rejoice to hear that Protestants are everywhere withdrawing from their connexion with this abominable system. With what pleasure did I hear of the secession of that accomplished and exemplary individual, Mr. Ward; nor can I describe the gra tification I derived from the protest of Lord Stanley, against the invasion of England by the system. I am told that John Bull has been put to school—the experiment will do him good— it will serve to admonish him that what sits so ill on his sto mach may possibly not agree to a hair with Paddy. There was a retributive justice in the fact, that an Irishman had the ho nour of whipping John into a sense of his error. The Liver pool affair has taught England that Protestantism does not rely exclusively on the public funds for support. Mr. Emerson Teunent, in a very eloquent speech, proposed the next resolution. _ _ Rev. Dr. Bennett, Wesleyan minister, dwelt on the necessity of religious education, without which secular and scientific edu cation was only an instrument of mischief. The Rev. Mr. Beamish, Wesleyan minister, moved the fourth resolution. The motion was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Cousins. The Rev. Dr. Cooke had been anxious to procure a hearing for the Rev. Mr. Crotty, of Birr, on the present occasion, but the late hour to which the meeting had been protracted rendered him apprehensive that he should be intruding too far on the pa tieuce of his audience. The Rev. Dr. then entered into some particulars of the proceedings of the reverend gentleman, and of the success which bad attended his efforts to wean his con gregation from the superstitions of Romanism. Mr. Crotty then came forward. After expressing the ad miration with which he had witnessed the evident progress of Belfast in opulence and importance, and the contrast presented by the province of Ulster'generally to the other districts of Ire land, the reverend gentleman attributed this superiority to the happier faith which prevailed in the North. This feeling in spired him, though a stranger, with a lively sympathy, arising from the essential identity of his religious sentiments with those of the individuals by whom he was surrounded. The circulation of the pure and unmutilated scriptures was the peculiar privilege of protestantism, and the only instrument for the diffusion of genuine christianity. He, therefore, called on those around him, by every means, under every oilliculty, and in the ex tremity of danger or of suffering, if such a crisis should arrive, never to compromise or surrender this precious privilege. How great a change had been effected among his followers by the limited distribution he was able to make of the scriptures, none Who had not witnessed it would believe. Ile had, from pruden tial considerations, judg'd it better to employ the Douay Testa ment, but his own feelings would have prompted him to use the protestant version. He should return to Parsonstown more than ever convinced, from what he had seen in Ulster, that the diffusion of christian light was the great thing necessary to re generate Ireland. He had grapplNl for eleven years with su-1 perstition, and all the engines of sacerdotal tyranny had been vainly employed to put - him down. The government had united with the priesthood in this impious crusade, and the bayonets of the castle had been associated with the thunders of the Vati can. To the hand of God alone was it due that he had made such advances as those of which Dr. Cooke had spoken. He had emancipated two thousand of his fellow-thralls from the yoke of superstition. He had succeeded in withdrawing his congregation with himself from the error of their ways. And in this point of view he presumed to think that a peculiar interest and a peculiar importance attached to his exertions. What had been effected by the recantation of individual priests, as Nolan. or Crolly, or Burke ? In a national point of view, no thing. What was wanted was a movement among the priest. hood, which should bring their flocks with them; and protestant might be assured that very slight encouragement would effect it to an extent which would astonish the most sanguine. Many were the priests in Ireland who were groaning under the yoke of prelatical tyranny; who were standing on the tip-toe of ex pectation to watch his appeal to protestant sympathy; who were disgusted with the gross impositions of which they were the un willing rools ; who felt self-degraded by the means to which they were compelled to . have recourse to extort from the misery of their flocks the sums exacted by the rapacious hierarchy of Rome. If a ray of hope were extended to those individuals by the protestant public, they would eagerly follow its guidance, but if they were now checked and disappointed, they would sink at once more into sullen apathy. Torpor and insensibility would seize them, and you would vainly endeavour hereafter to awake them to your aid. If ever there was a time which called for harmony and co-operation, the present was that time. Popery, supported by the bayonet and the sceptre, is making a struggle of unprecedented energy and art. In England, those who should be up and stirring to resist its advances, slumber in ignorant security. No slumber was ever adapted with such consummate skill to every variety of human character. Varying its form, hue, and guise, with Protean versatility, in spirit and in genius it is ever the same; ever aiming at asceudancy. But history, ex perience, and reason, alike tell you, said the rev. gentleman, that popish ascendancy is incompatible with your national institu tions, with the protestant religion, and with protestant freedom. By these considerations, I conjure you to come forward and lend a helping hand to those who will be yoursurest allies in the contest which is assuredy impending.—He then drew a power ful picture of the sacrifices made by a Rowish priest in Ireland, who abandoned his church—of the affluent competence he for feited—of the power he surrendered—of the alienation of friends he encountered—of the positive contempt he braved, and the probable danger he incurred. We regret that our limits forbid us to du more than present an imperfect sketch of one of the most impressive addresses to which we ever listened, and which Mr. Crotty concluded by stating, that in Dublin, he had collected _nearly £600; that it was necessary to pro vide for the accomodation of two thousand of his own people, besides numerous protestant visitors ; and that lie had re formed the Liturgy by the expurgation of the grossest errors of Rome. He produced a copy of the reformed service for the inspection of the gentlemen on the platform. Dr. Cooke announced that he and his Elders would gladly 'receive contributions towards the - oltjeet- of Mr. cvatty'Ajour ney. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned. MEI4:TING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS uF THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders of this railway was- held on Thursday, at the Clarendon-rooms, L. Heyworth, Esq., in the chair. The Chairman said, that at a previous meeting it had been resolved that the directors should be written to send down Mr. J. C. Robertson, their secretary, to explain to the Lancashire shareholders the various particulars respecting the speculation on v hich they wished to be informed. A letter had been re ceived, to which he would now call their attention. A letter - w is then read from Mr. J. C. Robertson, in which he stated that the directors could not, officially, give assent to the demand of the Liverpool shareholders. They considered that Mr. Robertson's attendance was inexpedient, because, if he went to one body of shareholders, he should go to another, and, indeed, like application had been made from Norvitich and Man chester. The directors could not, under the act, call any but a general meeting, which would take place on the 26th of Septem ber, being a much earlier time than the act demanded. Th e directors recognized the importance of a good undetstanding between them and the Liverpool subscribers, mho were more numerous and (from their experience in railroads) more influ ential than those of any other place, and hoped that, at the general meeting, the Liverpool subscribers, would attend. The letter highly eulogized the ability of Mr. H a ll, w h o h a d go ne to London to examine into the particulars of the specula tion. Mr. Bolton moved a resolution of confidence in the directors, and regretted that Mr. Robertson could not attend. Mr. Ellis Yates seconded the Motion, which was carried nem. eon. A Gentleman moved that the Liverpool shareholders were entitled to share in the direction of the company. Mr. Wotherspoon asked if the present directors went out next meeting. The Chairman.—Not until February, 1838. Mr. Smith wished to know how the affairs and prospects of the company were. Mr. Hall said the report of the House ,of Commons showed that the investment might return 23 per cent. Some of the heavier shareholders in Liverpool, however, wished to examine snore minutely into the pi ospects of the company. He accord ingly had proceeded to London, and found the directors and the secretary most willing to afford him the fullest information. He bad not bought or sold one share since his return, nor would he buy until this meeting was over, (Applause.) For passengers alone they calculated on receiving £338,000 per annum ; or, if the usual railway estimates were made, there would he .C4,5(),000 TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1836. Our Parisian intelligence up to last evening does not enable us to announce, as yet, the formation of the new French administration. Up to Wednesday evening Louis Phillipe was unsuccessfully engaged in endeavours to reconcile the conflicting interests which prevented a satisfactory arrangement with Messieurs Guizot, Monta livet, and Drechatel, under the Presidency of the Count Mole. This, however, entirely failed on Thursday morn ing. It is said that M. Guizot has no objection to M. Mole having the Presidency of the Council; but that he wishes the majority of the new Cabinet to be composed of his own partizans. To this M. Mole, as may naturally be inferred, objects, as it would confer on him merely a nominal Presidency, in which objection it is generally supposed, by the best informed in the diplomatic circles, be is supported by M. Biny, who has become entirely weary of the Doctrinaire party. Indeed, the Jour•naldes Debats, the organ of that party, gives up, with apparent mortification, the prospect of any union being effected between the three Ministers alluded to, and M. Mole as President. By another journal it would appear, that M. Guizot stipulated for the Presidency for himself, or to be allowed to dispose of the three chief appointments, in cluding the ministry of the interior; and, also, that he made the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies a point with the King, in the event of the new Cabinet not being able to command a majority therein, but to which, also, his Majesty evinced great objection. There is much conflicting discussion and opinion on these points in the French papers. It is also said, that General Sebastiani declined the war department, which our London informa tion corroborates, that gentleman preferring a residence, with the conduct of the embassy there, to the turmoil of the former•, in the existing state of Spanish affairs. There are few Men in France possessed of equal infor mation on the subject of Spanish policy and the character of the population with General Sebastiani. Be was one of the confidential officers of Napoleon, during the critical campaigns of 1811, 1812, and 1813, and has always been esteemed an able diplomatist; and he.too_ well knows the difficulties he would have to contend against; and, if we are not greatly mistaken, would be one of the first to ad vise a direct intervention. In this emergency the veteran Soult has been sent for by the King; but it is well known that he has long sought retirement from public or active life. He has acquired his rank and his " la;n•els ;" and would not be pleased to relinquish them in the tingraclous task of settling the Spanish Liberals down to rest under their trumpery waste paper Constitution. M. Thiers retains office ad interim. The Moniteur gives positive information that General Rodil is definiti , ..ely appointed to the command of the northern army and Minister of War. hi Spain the Cortes are convoked by a decree of the 24th of August for the 24th of October, by virtue of the electoral law of 1812. Cordova has fled to France, having narrowly escaped assassination on his route. He had arrived at Bayonne with some other officers of rank, together with the Countess de las Navao, the unfortunate mother-in law of Count Donadio, who was slain at Malaga. It does not appear that !turalde either surrendered or betrayed the cause of Don Carlos in his late disaster. He made his escape, and was joined by a great many of his comrades; and the particulars of the court martial ordered to try him were hourly expected in town. Gomez is pro ceeding vigorously. On the 20th ult. he detached the Brigadier Arroyo with a large body of troops to the city of Valencia, in old Castile. Reflecting on the critical aspect of the times in which we live—the awful increase of democratic faction—the progress of irreligion, on the one hand, and the increase of papal power on the other, aided by the degenerate policy of public men, hostile in all their measures to the best interests of the nation, we feel it to be our duty to make a decided appeal to the feelings and to the under_ SEPT. 6, 1836, standing of all those who love the British constitution, or who are not insensible to its great value as an insti tution of human government. That constitution, the theme of Montesquieu's praise, who said " it never would fall but through the triumph, of the legislative over the executive power in the state," stands at this moment in peril of dissolution. We are neither prepared to mystify the truth—disposed to create false alarm—nor allow our judgment in the performance of a public and grave trust to be diverted from its honest purpose. We have taken our stand upon a principle—that fun damental principle which 'eared up and established the British constitutional monarchy—which has made it all as it is, and by that principle " we stand or fall ;"—but,- as we can make no compromise with false philosophy — no covenant with popery or infidelity—so are we resolved to perish on the ramparts of that constitution which has given to the empire the four greatest blessings which can be enjoyed by man in a state of free society—se curity of person with security of property—the freedom of political opinion, and the freedom of religious wor ship in the unrestricted use of the word of God, all of which have raised this country to an elevation of wealth, vigour, and intelligence, never possessed by any other people in the history of the world; and created that na tural aristocracy in all the elements of our social struc ture, without which there would be no subordination. It is clear, then, that we stand in the front of the "battle ground," opposed to the principles of the " Ge neral Justice Association," and opposed to all the demo cratic clubs, which contend for a principle the very oppo site to our own—a principle at once anti-monarchical revolutionary, and republican with the latter—absolute, unconstitutional, and papal with the former ; but masked with all the art that jesuitism can invent, and false elo quence uphold, to effect its purpose. Are we to yield to either? We say, No! We appeal to the conservative associations of England, and to those of Lancashire and Cheshire especially, to aid our humble efforts in erecting that barrier against the swelling tide, which is imme diately necessary for our preservation. Compare the result of that security and prosperity which we have described to the consequences which would ensue from the establishment of the ancient Gre cians—•' Tyranny of the four hundred,"—or from an ir responsible and arrogant oligarchy of the Whigs awl liberals, as evidenced by their acts during the past ses sion—their poor law despotism—composed of a mere majority of that intractable assembly, in which even Brougham, with all his sarcasm against the conservative lords, has put his seal, as an incompetent body to manage the legislative functions of this mighty empire, without an independent supervising control ! Experience, an cient and modern, has proved what a majority of the English House of Commons, unchecked, are capable of performing; but it is quite sufficient for our present pur pose to refer to recent acts, fresh within our memory, and before the eyes of every man of reflection from one. end of the kingdom to the other. It is not an easy task to define the mode by which fictitious majorities, for merely factious purposes, and the most unconstitutional designs, are obtained in the pie sumed independent House of Commons—but every man, the least practically acquainted with the present mode of . conducting th e b us i ness o f t h at h ouse, i s t h oroug hly aware of it, although, if a purely independent and con- . scientious repr esen t a ti ve o f t h e peoples ' r i ghts, he h as not the power of controlling what he knows and feels to , be a glaring evil, and a stumbling-block to the true in terests of his country. In illustration of this position. we here quote, as directly in point, the sentiments ex pressed by a constitutional writer of the present time.' whose work, neither the Whigs nor their allies, have at- . tempted to answer, although so conspicuously brought under their notice, by the leading Reviews and Conser vative journals of the last and present year. "The grand source of most of the mistakes and erroneous decisions, in matters debated by popular assemblies, arises from the impure influence ofprivate persons, of some notoriety or pro" perry, upon great numbers, styled, in common phraseology, leading men and heads of parties : if these are not influenced by motives of real public utility, the consequences are obvious. Whenever we find a string of words put together, sustained and carried by a fictitious debate, which passes for the vote or resolution of the whole assembly, and which we cannot possibly reconcile to prudence or public advantage; we are justified in coming to the conclusion that such a vote is, primarily, the con ception of a single brain—promoted by an obsequious party, and confirmed, under the usual methods, by a purely artificial majority. It is not possible to conceive how some of the tnea sures of the late Parliament could have passed the Honse of Commons under any other circumstances." * * r "Where the object sought for is mainly to be attained by party spirit or influence, the means designed to the end, are en compassed and applied according to the circumstances,_-thus, they are too frequently such as cannot be justified, even on the broad principle of common integrity; and this is the dark part of the science of politics, not generally known to, nor duly con - sidered by, the public at large. Hence the desire to court popular favour, and to obtain the means of exercising undue in fluence, which the people are ever too ready to grant to design ing men, in the hands of whom they generally become the ready agents—the voluntary engines for creating a power which is ultimately turned against themselves—uor, is it an easy task to convince them of the delusion practised under their misled feel-. ings or angry passions,—thus, when a leader is once fixed, there will never fail to be followers, (0! imitatores sernum p ec us,) although he may be the worst of the flock! The calm punish ment of experience may indeed at length convince them of their folly, and its consequent evils, but experience comes too late to be available against the mischief completed, and they are left without remedy—for the few independent stragglers that re main, are borne down by the torrent.—(From a Constitutional work, entitled The Lords and the People, dedicated to the King. London, 1833. Edwards. pp. 203, 206, 207.—Part 2. cap. 4.) In the above selected extract, from a very elaborate work on the political institutions of Britain, ancient and modern, we have, at a bird's eye view, a perfect illustra tion of the composition and policy of the majority of the present House of Commons, under the leadership of the whigs, and the influence of their radical and anti-protest ant allies—it developes their entire system, and its pre mises are fully borne out, as we undertake to prove, by once again recoursing to the leading acts of the last two sessions, taking them seriatim, for which we are partly indebted to our able contemporary of the Times. The underground conspiracy, and slanderous treachery , which, for purely factious and party purposes, (under the barefaced pretext of assisting a great political prigcipled supplanted the late upright, and, on all hands admitted. efficient Speaker of the House of Commons, under the iniquitous compact made at Litchfield House—the tyran nous and grossly partial proceedings in the case- of the Ipswich borough election, against men merelYriceuSed or a breach of privilege—the conflicting partial policy i" favour of the popish supporters of government, (in the Carlow bribery affair,) the prime agent therein, having been the leading prosecutor against the Ipswich conser vatives, allowed to get off unscathed,--the unconstitu tional denouncement of that truly loyal protestant body'' the Orange Association of Ireland; and the tacit suppor t of ribborrism and popish combination against the authoritY of the law—the introduction of a republican system of • irresponsible legislation into the English corporations' the determined appropriation of the revenues of the Irish protestant church establishment, under a feigned - surplus' to strictly anti-protestant uses—the designed establish ment of popiali, and the utter extinction of the protestant corporations in Ireland—the encouraged exercise by th e Whig government of a tyrannous controul over the con stitutional and legislative functions of the Jamaica hous e of Assembly, representing the interests of the West In dian colonies—the j o bb ery w i t h regar d to C an ada and our North Americ an possessions—finally, the united effo rt with the government, to introduce the principle 0f a n oligarchy int o th e const i tut i on of t h e H ouse o f Peers, account of its upright opposition to all the daring Pri"' pies evolved in this summary catalogue ! Now, men o f E ng l an d , t h e f ree d escen d an ts of tlje no blest ancestry upon earth, is the question put fairly contra fore you ? W e say i t i s , an d d e f y t h e so phists to n diet the me ri t s o f our case —the jesuits to parry our argu ments—or the all-sapient whigs to smother our vc tion, by either their logic or their rhetoric, ocr:their: ability to 4 ‘ make the worse appear the bette r cause... jvvui: seek then an impartial verdict at your bands , and even contend for, but That nay,justice which .1 tice for England"---justice for Ireland we will e. 7 .n con_ the British state, we will not accept, nor place any per annum from this source alone. Besides this they might cal culate, from other sources, on a prospective increase of £130,000. The terminus was at Shoreditch ; and they took no credit for what rnight accrue from passengers wishing, from curiosity, to see a line of railway without a tunnel. There were 61,000 shares in all, of which from 15,000 to 20,000 were taken in Liverpool. Mr. Joseph King said, that such shareholders as have not sent their scrip to London, might hand it to him, on a gurautee, be fore the 10th of September. (Applause.) The Chairman said that the railway would cost a million and a half of money, and the income from coaching alone would pay eleven per cent. The cost of conveying a ton of goods from Norwich to London was now £9 6s. 8d per coach, and Ea per van, and by the railway it would be £2 13s. 6d; but the act gave this railway the maximum of 64 per ton per mile, while other railways could only charge 3d. The revenue arising from the carriage of goods was only estimated before the Commons at £164,000 per annum, whilst the real amount would be £300,000 more, or, according to the original prospectuses, £480,000 yearly. For his own part, he had so much confidence in the company's pr . ospects, that he would not sell his shares for an enormous pre mium, unless he was sure of being able to replace them. (Ap plause.) There was now, on this hue, £1,100,000 paid for tran sit of goods by land carriage. The act did now allow the share holders to vote by proxy, and therefore it was desirable that the Liverpool proprietors should be well represented in the direction. Mr. Smith said the Liverpool proprietors held one-third of the stock, and that two directors among 22 would not sufficiently represent them. He would suggest that a committee be appoint ed to consider the best mode of communicating on the subject with the directors. The Chairman opposed this sub-committee. Nineteen of the the London directors held stuck to the amount of £36,003, and would act properly on account of their stake. Mr. Bates!ml moved that it was expedient that the Liverpool proprietors should be represented in the direction. The motion was carried unanimously. The Chairman said reply to a question) that he and his friends had a list of gentlemen whom they would recommend to be elected as directors. Mr. Coglan suggested that a sub-committee be appointed to select the most eligible persons. Those chosen on the spur of the moment would probably not be so effective as those chosen, with deliberate care, by a sub-committee. The Chairman said that delays were dangerous. It was then moved, seconded, and carried, that Mr. Hall and Mr. L. eyworth would be proper persons to be placed in the direction. Mr. Hall and Mr. Heyworth severally pledged themselves to do their duty towards the shareholders. Mr. Hall - moved a resolution expressive of the conviction of the meeting, that the eastern counties railway possessed so many singular advantages as to justify a well-grounded confidence of its proving one of the most beneficial lines in the kingdom. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The whole of the Entertainments having beeu received last Aright by a crowded auditory with reiterated plaudits, the same Per formances will be repeated this Evening. Second Night of Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury lane. Last Week of Mr. 111 AC KAY, of the Theatre- Royal, Edinburgh. r l,_ j•tallS present TUESDAY EVEN TG, the 6th i ns t ant, will be performed, for the secon time here, a n ew Tra gedy, as performed with the greatest uccess last season at th e Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, called,, THE PROVOST 0 BRUGES. ti t Bouchard....(Son-in-law of Bertulphe) Mr. Cooper, (As originally performed by him in London.) Charles, Earl of Flanders Bertulphe, (Provost of the Chapter of Bruges,) Mr. Stuart. Thancmar, (Chatelain of Bourbourg) Mr. W. Howard. Constance.......(daughter of Bertulphe) Miss Faucit. After which, a Farce, called THE SCA PE GOAT Ignatius Polyglot Mr. Mackay. Molly Maggs .... Mrs. Clarke. To conclude with, for the 2nd time here, a Burlesque Tragedy, called MASTER ROMEO AND MISS JULIET, Written by a Gentleman of Liverpool, the Author of the popular Drama of " Othello Travestie." Master Romeo.. Mr. Baker. I Mr. Mercutio..Mr. Browne. Mr. Benvo!io Mr. H. Horncastle. Lawrence Couple'eun, (the Gretna Green Blacksinith,) Mr. G. Horncastle. Miss Juliet Miss Stanley. On WEDNESDAY, VENICE PRESERVED, CRAMOND BRIG, and ROBERT MACAIRE. THEATRE-ROYAL. / ]4R. MACKAY t a k es l eave t o intimatelo his Friends and the Public of Liverpool, that his BENEFIT is fixed for FRIDAY EVENING, the 9th instant, }then will be performed ROB ROY. Rob Roy, by Mr. Cooper. I BailieVrvie, by Mr. Mackay. A variety o f ENTERT NMENTS. To conclude with the Farce of GILDEROY. Jock Muir. (the Herd,) by Mr. Mackay. Tickets to be had of Mr. MACKAY, at 19, Williamson-square, and the Box-office. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have made arrangements for giving, in our next publica tion, a full report of the proceedings at the Great Conservative Dinner to he held at Newton, on THURSDAY next. Our friends in the country may rely upon our attention in for warding their copies by the earliest post. We are again obliged to postpone the insertion of several im portant communications from our correspondents. The inter esting proceedings at Belfast, and our report of the procession yesterday, occupy so much space that we must entreat their forbearance until rriday. The Dublin University Magazine was received at our office, but withdrawn by the agent. tr7be ILiberpool gi.taoarb. 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