The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1838. t:l5- The l'ublicatiun of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 6 o'clock. IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM CANADA.—RE SIGNATION OF LORD DURHAM.—The Great Western, which arrived at Bristii4 on Wednesday, brings intelli gence from New York to the 4th instant. This splen did vessel accomplished the distance from New York in 12 days and 'lOl hours. She brought 126 passen gers ! Her outward passage was accomplished in 16 clays. The most important intelligence conveyed by this arrival is the positive announcement of Lord Dur ham's resignation, the following particulars respecting which we take from a leading article in the Times of yesterday : " Since the above was written we have learned that Lord Durham has actually resigned. This the Cana dian papers brought by the Great Western put beyond doubt. They are filled with accounts of the debates in the House of Lords on Lord Brougham's bill, and with reports of meetings, or rumours of meetings, got up for the purpose of persuading Lord Durham to stay where he is. His Lordship, however, considers that he has been very ill-used by the Ministers and the Parliament—by the former, because they did not more strenuously oppose, and by the latter, because they were so cruel as to pass, the bill which Lord Brougham introiuced for the purpose of correcting the blunders of the Governor. It is even probable that Lord Dur ham is now on his way home. He is represented as being in a towering passion—storming at one time and weeping at another, for the edification or the amusement of the deputations that have had the ho. nour of an interview with him on the subject of his resignation. If the following passage from the Mon treal Courier of the 28th ult. be true, our ministers here must have been prepared for Lord Durham's re signation "'The British America arrived last night at 7 o'clock She left Quebec at 8 o'clock on Wednesday night, and brought us the Gazette, Morni-ay Herald, and our con espond ent's letter. "'Captain Armstrong learned at Sorrel that the despatches from Lord Glenelg, received by the last packet from Eng land, were addressed to Lord Durham; or the person adminis tering the Government. Captain Armstrong also learned that Sir John Colborne will be appointed Governor-in-Chief. on the departure of the Earl of Durham."' " We select from among many speeches which Lord Durham has made to deputations from various bodies, and in all of which he declared his determination to resign, the following answer to an address of the deputations of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island :'— "`lt is impossible for me to express to you in language eutliciently strong the feelings of gratitude and pleasure with which I have received this address. "' Representing as you do so worthily the three provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, this proof of your confidence in me, and approbation of the principles On which my administration has been con ducted, is most gratifying to me. "' I assumed the government of the North American pro vinces with the predetermination to provide for the future welfare and prosperity of them all, 'never doubting that such a provision would be the best, nay, the only security for their permanent connexion with the British crown. In communi cations which have taken place between us, and from which I have derived equal pleasure and information, you have been fully apprised of my views and intentions. These you have appreciated and recognized in a manner for which I can never be sufficiently grateful. 1 have, indeed, had a difficult and laborious duty ig perform. The result of my endeavours, however, is one awhich I need not be ashamed. In the shortspace of little more than three months 1 have sAn tranquillity restored, and confidence reviving. I have caused snbstantial justice to be administered, tempered by mercy, I have carefully examined, with a view to reformation, all the institutions of the province more immediately committed to my charge; and I was on the point of promulgating such laws as would have afforded protection to all those great British interests which had been too long neglected. I had also, as you well know, devoted the most careful attention to all suljects which could affect the general interests of all the colonies, and had -Lit-ought nearly to maturity the plan which I intended to submit in the first instance to `.he consideration of the provinces and eventually of the Cabinet and the Imperial Parliament. In this, I trust, useful course, I have been suddenly arrested by the interference of the British Legislature; in which the responsible advisers of the Crown have deemed it their duty to acquiesce. Under those circumstances, I have but one step to take—to resign that authority the exercise of which has thus been so weakened as to render it totally inadequate to thesrave emergency which alone called for its existence. `" Be assured, however, of this, gentlemen, that this un expected and abrupt termination of the official connexion which united me with the North American provinces will Ihit weaken in my mind the feelings of deep interest which I s hall ever take in their fate, or render me less anxious to devote every faculty of my mind, every influence I may pos -sess. to the advancement of their interests, and to the esta blishment, on the most lasting foundation, of their welfare amid prosperity."' THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—We have received a file of the Graham Town's Jorrnal to the 3d of August. These papers are almost entirely occupied with accounts of the depredations committed by the Caffres. Robberies of stock, cattle, &c., were of daily occurance; and the losses tints sustained were, in many cases, very considerable. Treaties had been entered into with their chiefs on the frontier, named Pato, K4MR, and Kobe, which, it was hoped, might tend to diminish the extent of these depredations. According to letters from the vicinity of Port Natal, tt was reported that Dingaan, the Zuola chief, by whom the farmers and settlers had been so repeatedly molested and defeated, had himself been attacked in his rear by Zaposa, the chief of another tribe, and, being at the same time assaulted in front by the Boers, or farmers, was utterly routed, and a large number or his Zoolas slain. In consequence of this success It was expected that the war would conic to a speedy termination. The chief Macoma had requested to he allowed to occupy a farm within the boundary, alleging that he could not control his tribe. Notwithstanding these circumstances, many of the settlers were leaving their places of occupation within the government lines to take up land on the ()inside of the borders, and in . consequence the question of the policy of ex tending the jurisdiction of the governor of the Cape had been mooted. In all other respects the colony wore every appearence of tranquillity ; as one evidence tt appears that shares in the insurance companies had not only doubled, but nearly quadrupled in price, and that those of the new bank were advancing nearly in the sante ratio. At a meeting of the proprietors of th e Cape of Good Hope Bank, on the 24th of May, the unappropriated shares were offered by general Competition to the shareholders who had signed the trust deed of 1837, when the whole of the said shares were sold at from £9l to £lOl per share, the nominal 'slue of each share being 1.7?0, on which the sum of £33 6s 8d had been paid. THE WEST INDIES.—We have received files of the Jamaica Gazette, Dispatch, and Royal Gazette, to the 1 0;11 of last month, inclusive. We are sorry to say that the news continues to be unfavourable. It ap• Pears that the negroes generally continue to be averse 1 0 held labour, and that they entertain the most extra va.ant notions with respect to the fancied int er f e r e n ce "f this English people and government on their be- The papers abound With complaints against Sir Lionel Smith, who appears to be very unpopular. The great evil which at present exists in Jamaica, a nd, indeed, throughout the West Indian colonies, is, the want of a general scale of labour, agreed to by the Governor and magistracy. To give diff?rent advan• c ages to labourers on various pr o p er ti es g i ves r i se t o feeli ngs of jealousy and discontentment. T o afford our readers some knowledge of the actual co ndition of Jam a i ca we subjoin a few extracts from „ '''e correspondence o f th e several journals before From the parish of Westmoreland a correspondent ~r ites thus to the Gazette of the Ist of September I bro ug h t a ll my money ( surp l usage) f rom A merica las t Year, and invested it in- the purchase of the re :!latning term o f apprent i ces hi p of a j obb i ng gang; of ''ll - se it i s now a ll sca tt ere d un t o t h e w i n d s . O ut o f 8a labourers domiciled upon my property, I have not t,n •o at work. They all say houses and grounds are for i!len'm for th ree mont h s , a f ter t h e exp i rat i on o f w hi c h f 'e.thev will wo r k, b u t no t b e f ore , an d if " th e y th e , irs t Int work, them t'other say them spoil the free." It me that no legal opinion has been given or N ianded, an d th at t h e press has not once adverted to the_ Mode to he adopted in obtaining rent, to which we "Just be entitled from the Ist of August. - Are the People to be allowed to sit down in indolence and defy r . t ,' when it is palpably plain by being summoned for ,nt before two magistrates they would be saddled with judgment and costs ? Half a dozen examples thus made would do more good in bringing the people to their senses than all the wheedling and coaxing in the world. Surely the law, making three months' notice necessary, could not have contemplated the boon or gift of our houses and land for that space of time. If it did, the principle is established, and the vested rights of property are no where. Surely the same power that can take away three months can deprive alto gether. "In this parish every man seems to vie with his neighbour in boasting of the numbers at work, and all sorts of untruths are bruited abroad respecting the modus operandi—each, of course, trying to outvie his neighbour, not in good management, but in good boasting. lam sure out of 16,000 labourers there are not 300 at work in field labour throughout this parish. Plans vary; at some estates Friday is given, and about sd. worth of labour obtained. At other places Is. Bd. per day is given, and little more work exacted. That sugar can be profitably made under either of these plans is out of the question. Day labour will not answer; pay the highest wages for good work, and encourage the labourers to do three times what they used to do, and exact full rent for houses, grounds, pasturage, &c. The peasantry would then know what they were about, and the planter would only pay for work performed; each party would be satisfied, and it would be the interest of the labourer to identify him self with the work of the property, never to leave it. However, the big wigs will it otherwise; and so long as the wiseacres at home deem the non-possession of two ideas to be one of the essentials necessary to qua lify a man for the management of property and unli mited sway in the adjustment of matters of vital im portance to this colony, so long must Jamaica go head long to destruction. Scarce a big wig in this coun try now attempts to arrange the commonest domestic affairs of an estate without a consultation with the sec tarian parson, and to talk of wages without reference to the priesthood of the question. Tempora Mutan tur, Oc." A letter from the parish of St. Elizabeth has the fol lowing language :—" As the Governor is decidedly deaf to all complaints or reports made to him by a proprietor, be he ever so respectable; and perfectly blind to the infamous breaches of the peace now being committed by "armed bodies of negroes"—deceived, headed, and goaded on by that vile incendiary Knibb; so is he miserably lame in the few communications he has condescended to make on subjects of vital import ance to the country, in our present distracted state. The madman Courtney (alias Thom) was proceeded against ere he had committed the fiftieth part of the. atrocities already perpetrated by this Baptist villain, whose public acknowledgments are alone sufficient to prove that he is handsomely paid for his efforts to raise a second rebellion. I say second, because none will deny that Birchall and himself originated the last. It seems the ‘• Star Chamber is revived ;" and magis trates are now.absolutely afraid or disinclined, in many cases, to do their duty, lest a quiet supersedeas should be their reward. Why is Knibb amenable only to a special commission, more than any other individual ? His crime is against the state, as well as against ca nonical laws. He excites her Majesty's liege subjects to rebellion; and appears abroad with thousands of them armed, ready to commit any overt and desperate act;—whereas the maniac Courtney did not muster one hundred. He encourages their diabolical threats, to make Jamaica a second St. Domingo ; and yet he remains at large, and unmolested. It will not end here !! ! If not immediately checked, a few weeks will bring the worst. "You have taken great pains to act up to your motto, in publishing various reports of the state of the labouring classes in different parishes—and have there by gained much credit; but let your readers bear in mind, that some of these reports have been furnished by canters, placemen, and aspirants to government favor. Now, boldly and fearlessly to speak the truth, there is not in this extensive parish one single pro • perty, where the people who ought to work a limited time in payment for houses, grounds, 4-e., have turned out ! ! ! "I assert this without fear of contradiction, having instituted the strictest investigation, and know what I state to be a fact. • You may hear a person say— ,' Oh ! yes, my people are at work !" Press him closely, and you'll find that where he formerly had 25 in the field, he now has 7 or 8. The wife will not work, and the husband pretends he does not live on your property ; but he comes every night clandestinely and feeds from it-consequently works out for hire, and you thus lose two. "To prove these remarks, a few cases on one pro perty will suffice. I have in charge, a small plantation, on which were 16 apprentices previously to the Ist of August. Mark the deficiency ! "No. I. A man, has a wife on next property ; be works abroad, but maintains a right to his property here. "No. 2. A ditto, gone off altogether; nothing wrong in this, as I never see him. " Na. 3. A ditto, will not work, will not quit; smokes and struts about all day. "No. 4. A man, 'says he has hired himself else where ; but still 'mains here, doing no work, and refuses to give up his house, &c., till Ist November. "No. 5. A lad, supposed to be gone away, but is occasionally seen here ; no doubt for provisions. "No. 6. A woman, worked at odd jobs up to 31st July ; refuses to do anything at all, and states, that as her Saviorcr has taken her out of bondage, she will live here as long as she likes. She walks almost every Sunday from five to six miles to chapel, and returns in the afternoon. _ " No. 7. A man did nothing for the last four or five months, as he kept Ids sores open ; everything is now healed, and he is as fat as a pig—but refuses to work, and holds his ground, &c. "No. 8. A woman, with a sore leg, used to shell corn, weed, &e., &c., up to the 31st July ; but will not now think of doing anything for me. "Independent of all this (from which I cannot re lieve myself,) three women have their husbands here, who live on the property, work the land, and hire them selves elsewhere. They sleep here every night, .and sometimes bring their horses ;—also, one man has his wife and children here, and he only turns out two days in each week. This gentleman keeps a filly, and some times goes to work with a fowling piece on his shoulder; during the latter days of the week he carries it to his ground. I now muster only seven, including a washer woman, field cook, and an old fellow, who repairs walls. The other (to make up 10) is denominated a 'w atchman; and has nothing to watch but his own grounds, as I plant nothing now for them to steal. lam waiting to . see if any redress will be afforded by circulars and or ders, or in any other shape to improve this system. If not, 1 shall certainly try some of those cases, in spite of the special spies around us ;—for, be it known to my countrymen, that those retained, now hold that en viable office, if we may judge, by a remark which fell from one of them not long since, and which was as fol lows, viz.—' I should be sorry, , Mr. , to have such a casco report to the Govenor ." Let every per son draw his own conclusion." • From the parish of Ann's we hear—" Nothing is doing here ; the people refuse to work at ss. per week, with houses, grounds, and gardens, and other indulgen cies. I have been obliged to hire people, (strangers to the property; to pick one crop of pimento, at ss. per bushel.) Will you credit it, that yesterday, some vil lains, circulated a report amongst the pickers, that the Governor had ordered the police to scour the pimento walks in this - parish, and to flog every one they found at work picking pimento at ss. per bushel—the evil is considerable. His Excellency has much to answer for unless he steps forward and vindicates the character he' bears, and puts the labourers in the right way of doing what is just and right, otherwise he shall carry his grey hairs to the grave with sorrow and dishonour." A correspondent in Trelawny says—" This parish has been, and is in a miserable state occasioned by the agitation of the Baptists, and one of the Stipendiary Magistrates of the name of Lyon, who have been ad vising the labourers to demand more wages than the proprietors can afford. It is a pity that the proprietors in England do not exert themselves and demand the dismissal of the Stipendiary Magistrates, or most of them." A letter from St. Andrews, dated August 30, says— "We can't get the people out in this quarter. Mount Dakins offered a mac a bushel to pick coffee, as it was dropping off the trees, but they refused. Hermitage (Spalding's) offered a mac a day, with house and ground, but they will not take it. What can the Go vernor be thinking of ? Is he being gulled by the abo minable lies of the " West Indian" and "Colonial Freeman?" We see those ruinous papers occasion ally. They (the labourers) promise me fairly enough, but will not fulfil those promises. No property can afford more than Is. in this quarter, with house and ground, and many must be entirely thrown up, as they cannot afford sd. lam certain the proprietors in this dist' ict are ALL ruined. The Governor, they say, has told them to wait patiently till he gets an answer from the Queen, who will fix a - scale of wages for them. I can't get hands to pick last year's crop in the store, nor to pick the ripe in the fields; and the grass is higher than the trees—a pretty prospect for the crops of the next two or three years." Again, in the Gazette Of the Bth ult., a correspond ent from Manchester writes as follows :—" I have waited in hopes to inform you that the people in this part of the parish had at length resumed labour; but they have not yet dune so for their late masters on any property I know of. "My own people will pay no rent in any way for the three months—saying the Governor told them so at Porus. I think it would be better were the Governor to issue a proclamation to undeceive them, and have it forwarded to every local magistrate in every parish that are known to be loyal men, and no agitators; then, and only then, would the people be made ac quainted With the truth, without unfair comment. " As the Governor could not be distinctly heard in addressing so large a body of negroes, with what fa cility they perverted the words, " that several gentle men of the parish did not intend to charge any rent for houses and ground for three months,"•into—t hat none were to pay rent for that time. I was not aware of the intended visit, though my constables were, and two of them went. If all the gentlemen, magistrates, &c., did agree to give up three months rent, several, I know, must have changed their intentions in a very short time. One offered his people a dollar a barrel to pick coffee; another or two five shillings, and fi7e shillings and tenpence. This may tend to injure others. Will it benefit either themselves or the ne groes ? No. One had 80 apprentices, and may pro bably make five tierces coffee ! One hundred dollars to be divided among 80 people in a crop! Can that be an inducement for them to work at home, and pay 40 dollars per week for rent ? Two other properties, with about 160 people, making perhaps 25 tierces, or' 320 barrels, at ss.—£Bo in four months. Will it pay their rent ? If these gentlemen have agreed to forego their rent, I commend them for it ; as Ido not other wise see how they can retain their people. "There are many other properties in this district similarly situated,—they cannot, therefore, afford to hire, cultivation only being kept up to the extent of the labour for rent—say two days work in each week. To show that high wages, where small crops are made, has only a temporary effect where labourers are abundant. Although my own people will not work, more people apply to me from the neighbouring properties than I can employ, and actually pick my coffee for 3s. 4d. per barrel ; although they cannot earn more than Is. 3d. to Is. Bd. each. This exhibits one trait of the negro character, viz., their aversion to refund anything in the shape of rent, as they would rather work for me for 10d. or 15d. per day, than Is. Bd. at home, and pay rent. My own people are doing the same, when they can get work, or set down if they cannot." In St. Elizabeth's, on estates, it is worse. You will see on one, with 3 or 400 people on it, a small part of one cane-piece cleaned, apparently done by one family, since the Ist of August. On another of same magni tude, 3 or 4 acres cleaned—on others, of 150 to 200 people, about the same quantity cleaned. It is truly distressing to see such Princely fortunes going so fast to destruction. If his Excellency does not exert him self to stop it, no means will be left to pay any wages; and their freedom will be a curse, instead of a blessing, and ruin to nearly all connected with them. Excuse this one rem irk, which I hope you will take in good part. Old people are apt to turn stubborn, when urged too much; and like the pig, go the way they should not. Perhaps your frequent severe remarks on Sir Lionel may defeat your patriotic intentions. The old gnarled oak cannot be bent like the Sapling." Respecting the conduct of the the Governor the same journal has the following remarks :—As some individu als have expressed an opinion that some of our remarks upon his Excellency the Governor have been so severe and caustic, we think we may now safely refer to his proceedings at Dunsinane on Thursday as affording ample proof of the correctness of our conduct. • 4 1 1 f his Excellency can advance into the interior of the country, and, before large bodies of people, insult respectable proprietors, by declaring that their object was to reduce the value of property to enable them to speculate at other men's expense—if he ungenerously and untruly asserts that white men adopting the garb of policemen, are hired . for the like purposes, to mix amongst the negroes, and set them by the ears,—then do WE assert the right of exposing and denouncing the mischievous tendency of the Governor's conduct." The Jamaica Dispatch, of the 10th ultimo, contains the following strong remarks, which, are, neverthe less, justified by the actual circumstances of the planters :—" It is quite clear to us, that the proprie tors of this colony will never be relieved from the sys tem of misrule and agitation by which they are op pressed, until they form within themselves a combined phalanx to protect their own rights, property, and in dependence. "It is in vain to concede—in vain to conciliate. Their generosity only provokes fresh aggression, and the hypocrites to whom they have yielded every thing —the serpents whom they have fostered on the very hearth stone, wish to beard them on the threshold, and to fasten their venomous stings in the very heart's blood of the benefactors who warmed them into anima tion and life. •" Henceforth let the maxim of the colonists be— "charity begins at home." Let them beware how they injure themselves to serve an enemy. No more hospitality ! No more generous contributions for snakes who sting the hands from which they are re ceived. If such wretches had been treated as they are in Great Britain—left to work for their bread and maintain themselves—their power of doing mischief would have been nipped in the bud. But the open unsuspecting generosity of the West India colonists has laid them bare to treachery and ingratitude. They have hitherto been made victims ; and it is now time they should make an effort to cast off the thraldom. They have strangled the cant cry of slavery for ever. Let them now assert the independent rights of free born men, to drive out their tyrants and oppressors— to relieve themselves from hireling spies and domestic robbers; and all the factious tribe of mercenary syco phants who infest the land. If we are to pay function aries, let it be a parliamentary defender to re-echo the cry of " justice" for the oppressed, the loyal, and free sons of Jamaica!! !" We cordially echo the demand, and trust that a conservative administration will shortly have it in their power to render "Justice to Jamaica." LIVERPOOL SOCIETY FOR RECLAIMING UNFORTU NATE FEMALES.—We rejoice to find that a society un der this denomination has been recently formed in thi town, and cordially hope that the promoters of so ex cellent an institution will meet with success in carry ing their praiseworthy intentions into effect. No ado quate efforts have been hitherto made for reclaiming from their evil courses those unhappy females who are now found infesting our streets, alluring to de struction thousands of our youths. It is true that the "Female Penitentiary" has afforded refuge to numbers of these unfortunate creatures, who have been led, by the compunctions visitings of conscience, to seek an Asylum within its walls. But something more than this has been long wanting. This society proposes to seek out and to induce abandoned females to avail them selves of an opportunity for returning into the paths of virtue. The general plan and objects of the society will be found amply detailed in the advertisement, which will be found in another page, and to which we would earnestly direct the attention of the christian public. It is to be hoped that ample funds will be placed at the disposal of the committee, to enable them to prosecutetheir benevolent labours with success. We feel assured that christian liberality cannot be directed to a more praiseworthy object. MR. ASIITON YATES AND HIS TIPPERARY FRIENDS. —The popularity-hunting wight who has exchanged the peaceful retirement of the Dingle for the bogs of Tipperary, and, for the sake of shining as a senator, has consented to become a joint of O'Connell's caudal extremity, is now seeking to emulate his great master in the epistolary way. Having failed in attracting any notice in the House of Commons, and feeling chagi fined at the neglect of his liberal friends in not rewarding him with official promotion, as a recom pense for the large pecuniary sacrifices which he has made in seeking to promote their interests, he now has recourse to the expedient of trying to establish his fame as an accomplished "letter-writer. We are sorry to inform hint that, from the specimens which have come under our notice, he enjoys but a very sorry chance of posthumous fame. His effusions have one quality-which cannot fail to secure the contempt of the public—they are pervaded by a reckless disre gard of truth. In his wilful exaggerations and his gross misrepresentations he certainly has succeeded in rivalling his mendacious patron : hut as he lacks the talent to clothe his multifarious fictions in the garb of poetry—as his sophistries are too transparent to.de ceive even the most ignorant—we cannot assure him that his celebrity will ever be equal to that of Junius. It appears that Mr. Ashton Yates recently addressed a letter to the Spectator, in defence of his conduct as an Irish member, upon which the editor of that tho roughly " honest and independent" radical journal made sundry slashing and severe remarks. In answer to these castigatory observations he has indited ano ther prosy epistle to the same paper. We never have seen so many untruths crowded together in the same compass before, as we have discovered in this letter. As we do not wish to be personally offensive we shall not characterise the numerous misrepresentations of facts contained in Mr. Ashton Yates' letter by their proper name. We shall, therefore, classify them un der the denomination of "things which are not," of which the following• are undoubted specimens :- 1. That the peasants of Borrisokane, under the old tory regime, when gathered together at fair or funeral, were shot like dogs—with impunity—on the slightest pretext. 2. That they—the peasants—could get no justice in those days. 3. That in Tipperary farmers are every week turned out of their holdings, ou'aecount of having voted for the liberal members. 4. That the conduct of the landlords in that county is the great cause of the disturbances which exist there. 5. That he himself has seen a poor farmer on his way to shoot h►s landlord, because he had no redress by law—but was prevented by his priest. G. That he has himself seen many of these peasantry scooping out an abode, like beavers, in the side of a barren hill, with nothing but the sand to lie on and the sods of heath to form a covering. 7. That the peasantry were goaded to rebellion in 08, in order to accomplish the Union. 8. That he, Mr. Ashton Yates, did not become connected with the county of Carlow by virtue of any negotiation with Mr. O'Connell. 9. That it is safe for any man (except, of course, a member or favourer of the predial conspiracy) to sleep in the county Tipperary with his doors unbarred—safer than in many parts of England : and 10. That if English gentlemen of fortune, who are em ploying their money in wild schemes and adventures at home, would visit these parts of Ireland, and make them selves acquainted with the real state of the country and the character of the people, they would see the wisdom of pur chasing land and coining to settle upon and improve it! ! 11. That a purer election never took place than that of the county of Carlow; and that if the freeholders of the English counties were as independent, honest, and incorruptible as they, (emery, who ?) they (the Irish, we presume) would not now be in the critical state in which they were. 12. That he is in every sense as independent of Mr. O'Connell as he was in 1832. This is a tolerable quantity of mistatements for a &ngle epistle. As we said before, we shall not have recourse to a harsher phraseology in describing them than the one which we have adopted. Let our readers apply the proper term. As an ilins:ration of the statement upon which Mr. Aston Yates has ventured in reference to the present condition of Tipperary we have the following pithy paragraph in the Dublin Evening Mail of 'Wednes day last. Speaking of the Gazette our contemporary reMarks—' . Our Marquizzical contemporary of Tues day proclaims only one new murder, two cases of at tacks on dwelling houses by armed patties, accompa nied by robbery of firearms and threatening notices, and one of the malicious destruction of a large quan • tity of corn by fire. The provincial joutnals received since our last contain nothing more hideous than an attempt to burn a family alive in their own dwelling house—the burning of a quantity of corn (the produce of eight acres of land)—the robbery of firearms—and a simple robbery attended by a simple outrage." This is certainly a delightful country to " sleep in with the doors unbolted !" All these atrocities took place in the single county of Tipperary, and within the space of a few days. Truly Mr. Ashton Yates has a peculiarly Irish notion of tranquillity. Mr. Yates's palaver about the safe employment of British capital in Ireland is arrant nonsense. On this subject we need only refer to the barbarous conduct of the "savages" of Ireland towards the gentlemen who some time since attempted to establish a fishery in that country. CACTION.—We have been requested to caution the public against a female who has for some time past been making the circuit of the outskirts of the town, and practising an imposition upon those who were charitably disposed, by pre senting the cards of different ladies, and representing that she had been desired by such ladies to call and ask assistance to prosecute her journey to Jersey. She has already been to Birkenhead, Woodside, and Evertor), where, we under stand, she has collected a considerable sum of money, and is, no doubt, somewhere in the neighbourhood at present. THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL.—This splendid vessel will sail to-morrow, (Saturday,) on her first voyage for New York, and we understand that nearly all her berths are engaged. Mr. John Van Buren, son of the President, will take his passage in her. LAUNCH OF AN IRON SHlP.—Yesterday, the first iron ship built in Liverpool, was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Jackson, Gordon, and Co., the builders, near the Potteries. As a model this ship is a beautiful thing. She has somewhat of the American build about her bows, has great breadth of beam, and a fine run. With the excep tion of her decks, she is entirely built of iron. She is 271 tons old measurement, 24ft. 6in. breadth of beam, 13ft. 10in. depth of hold, and 96ft. keel, and has 99ft. 9io. for tonnage. All being ready, at eleven o'clock, the dagger was knocked down, and the beautiful vessel, with all her masts and rigging up, glided majestically into the river. She was christened the " Ironsides" by Captain Mitchell, formerly of the ship Abbotsford, who is to sail her. It is understood, that she is for the Brazil trade. When in the water, she floated like a cork, and her masts were as stiff, and steady as possible. AN Hone TOO LATE.-011 Thursday afternoon, at five o'clock, the Coeur de Lion arrived in the river from Quebec. She had been telegraphed in the forenoon. and, as it was known that she hail on board 895 barrels of - flour, considera ble exertion was used, by the consignees, to get her papers for entry at the Custom-house, in order to avail themselves of the advantage of the low rate of duty leviable on that day. They failed, however, in their object, and, we believe, in stead of having to pay a duty of 3d. only, they have now to pay one of 3s. ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION HOTEL , LIME STREET.—Lord Ebriogton, Major Gage, Count Potiina Hon. H. Maxwell, M.P., J. Batson, Esq., John Welch Esq., Lieutenant Armstrong, Miss Stuart, Mrs. Codring ton, Major O'Ryley, Captain M'Muuu, R.N., Fenton Smith, Esq., Rev. W. W. Faye, Lieutenant-Col. Cox, Major H. Beven, J. Torkley, Esq., W. It. Wrenshaw, Esq., Captain Tuttle, Colonel Donaugh, Col. Clements and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bentley and family, Mr. and Mrs. B. Ford, Ul. Cumberland; Esq., H. Armstrong, Esq , Mr. Pickering and family, Mr. Lake, W. Lawn, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Web ster and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carrel and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hume and family, H. Molony, Esq., J. Johnson, Esq.. Mr. and Mrs. Fugh and family, John Fairbiother, Esq., Hugh Unthank, Esq., and John Dawson, Esq. MR. ANDERSON, THE MAGICIAN.—This gentleman is, we believe, about to leave Liverpool in a few days, the next being the last week of his appearance. We readily discharge a duty we own to him as journalists, by recording our high approbation of his merit, as an exhibitor of the mysteries of an art which we are sure mustbe of a very difficult acgoire went in the state of perfection to which he has brought his skill. There have been very few men in his profession com petent to keep the attention of an audience so completely on the qui vive, without the aid of other accessories, which Mr. A. has nothing of the kind to cover a retreat. Though we must pay a passing compliment to his sable assist , int, who realises to the letter, Shakspeare's injunction. We have never seen the faithful Ivory White in one instance " o'erstep the modesty of nature," or " speak more than is set down." Trusting that Mr. A. will revisit us ere lung, we now take leave of him, with our good wishes for his con tinued success. CHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.—h consequence of the very low state of the funds of this Christian undertaking, the Lord Bishop of the Diecese has issued a circular to all his clergy, requesting that their several con gregations may be appealed to in its behalf, and we doubt not that the appeal will be responded to in a manner coin mensurate with the importance of the work, and that ade quate means will soon be forthcoming - to carry on the objects so dear as well as necessary to the welfare of the Established Church.—Chester Courant. ESCAPE OF THE BEAR FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL GA It DENS. —As. a variety of stories are abroad respecting the recent elopement from Mr. Atkins's zoological establishment, we give the following particulars from the mouth of one who had a peculiar.opportunity of knowing the real facts of the case. The individual alluded to is a person named William Mayman. He says,—" About six o'clock on Sunday even ing, the 7th instant, I lyas standing at my own door, near which was a man, with a - basket of nuts for sale. This man first saw a large bear make his way over the gate into the lane. He immediately threw his basket to the beast, and it began to eat the nuts. At this moment a child between two and three years old being on its way to buy some nuts, I ran and caught bold of it to bring it to my house for safety. Be fore I had advanced many yards, the bear jumped upon my back, seized me by the right arm, and began to grind &with his teeth in a dreadful manner. I struggled with him to the best of my power, but he threw me down. 1 called out Murder,' but no one came to my assistance. He then loosed my right arm, and I got upon my feet. I could not, however, make my escape. He next put his paws upon toy shoulders, and attempted to seize my throat. Not succeed ing in this, he caught hold of my left arm and bit it com pletely through. He again tried at my throat; I kept him off, and he fastened once more upon my right arm, threw the down, and commenced dragging the up and down the toad as a cat would a rat. I was still calling 'Murder,' but could get no assistance. Presently the bear loosed my arm, and began to hug me. Ile next seized me by the hip with his teeth, and lastly got hold of me by the back of the head, when the keepers of the gardens came and beat him off, just in time to save my life. The beast then ran away, and I saw no more of him. I was taken into the house by my wife, and medical aid procured for me; and though I was at first pronounced to be in a dangerous state, I thank God my wounds are all doing well, but I am still lying in the position I was in this night week, unable to move or be moved." Tttn STEAMER VICTORIA.-011 Friday last, after beating► out through Crosby Channel, the crew of the pilot-boat No. 9 saw a steam-vessel, with a signal of distress up, the ensign union down, and a whiff up forward at the fore-topmast head, appearing in great distress, and in want of the assistance of the pilot-boat. At this time (half-past twelve) the vessel was a long way to leeward of the pilot-boat. The latter made all possible sail towards her, perceiving that she was drifting down on West Hoyle bank. At two o'clock they got to her, when she proved to be the Vicroria, from Liverpool to Strang. ford, the captain hailing the master of the pilot-boat, saying, that he bad lost his rudder, that his pumps were choked, that all his passengers and crew were bailing with buckets to keep the vessel free, and that the water was gaining so fast as to put the engine fires out. The master of the pilot-boat promptly rendered assistance, by getting two ropes from his stern, and endeavouring to steer him into safety. With diffi culty the pilot-boat got hawsers from each quarter; but the sea running very heavy with squalls, it parted both hawsers. The master advised the captain of the steamer under this difficulty, as she had no way through the water, and was quite unmanageable. Through the indefatigable exertions of himself and crew an endeavour was made to replace the hawsers, when a heavy sea struck the steamer, and hove her on board of the pilot-boat, which sustained considerable da mage. From thirty to forty passengers jumped on board the pilot-boat at the same moment, which placed the master and crew in an awkward situation. The master advised the captain to allow No. 10 pilot-boat, which was in company, to have a hawser out from forward to tow a-head, as the night was coming on very fast. With great difficulty this was accomplished. The pilot-boat had not towed more than half an hour, when a very heavy squall came on, and parted the best and newest hawser which the steam vessel had on board, and the same squall parted also one of the hawsers which No. 9 had out astern steering her, so that there was only one haw ser left to steer her by—the only one on board the steamer. Fortunately it held until they got into smooth water; and at 7 p.m. they came to anchor in safety near the N. E. buoy. At the request of Captain Aberdeen the pilot-boat No. 9 came to anchor close astern of the vessel, where she remained until Saturday morning, when the steamer was towed in safety to the entrance. of Clarence Dock. Great praise is due to the masters and crew of the pilot-boats for their exer tions on this occasion. Had it not been for their interference the Victoria would have been inevitably lost. No. 9 pilot boat sustained very considerable damage, and has been since undergoing repair. PHRENOLGY.—The phrenologists of this town will be re joiced to hear, that there is a probability of Dr. Epps being prevailed upon to deliver a course of lectures, in this town, on phrenology, at the latter end of this month. From the popu larity which this gentleman has acquired in this town as a lecturer, there can be no doubt that the disciples of Gall and Spurzheiro, as well as the friends of Dr. E., will have a fresh treat. CONSECRATION OF THE NEW CHURCH AT RUNCORN.— Saturday last was the day appointed by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese for consecrating the New Church, (Trinity,) at Runcor Runcorn. The ea r ly p ar t of the morning was paricularly unpropitious, a snow storm having set in, but as the day ad vanced the sun shone resplendent, and a vast concourse of visitors had arrived to witness the interesting cerem on y. Hi s lordship, who was a tt en d e d on this occasion by all the clergy of the town and neighbourhood, including the Vicar of Runcorn, after having consecrated this sacred edifice, dedi cated to the Holy and undivided Trinity, preached an ad mirable sermon, at the conclusion of which a handsome col lection was made towards defraying the expenses of the Church. Previous to leaving Runcorn, his lordship, clergy, and gentlemen, partook of an elegant cold collation at Wil son's Hotel, the excellency of which reflected great credit on the culinary qualifications of Mrs. Wilson, and the wines, &c. could not be surpassed. John Johnson, Esq. presided, being supported'by Joseph D,,nald, Esq. The ceremony was most imposing, well attended, and has left a very grati fying impression on the minds of all who witnessed it. In the course of the afternoon, the Bishop proceeded to Aston Chapel, of which the Rev Samuel Bagnall is incumbent, in the same parish, and consecrated an additional part to the chapelyard, where a numerous assemblage met his lordship, including the clergy and - gentlemen of the neighbourhood, Sawnel Chadwick, Esq., Thomas Okell, Esq., Henry White, Esq., the respected agent to A. 11. W. Aston, Esq., Mr. Beckett, &c., &c.—Chester Courant. AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.- Just as the busi ness of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Chester was about to commence yesterday (Monday) at Knutsford, an awful instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred in the death of Mr. Thomas Walshman, who for 34 years had filled the situation of confidential clerk to the clerks of the peace, and treasurer for the county. He had, according to his usual custom, set out from Chester on Sunday night, and had slept in Northwich. In the morning he went on to Knutsford in a postchaise, accompanied by two friends. On the way he complained of being very unwell, and on reach ing the George Inn, he partook of a bottle of soda water and some brandy. He after wards set out for the Sessions-house, to attend to his duties as acting treasurer for the county. He walked tolerably well as far as the lawn in front of the build in z, when all of a sudden he fell to the ground, in what ap peared to those around him, to be an apoplectic fit. He was carried into the Court-house, and after giving one deep sigh, he expired. By his employers he was highly esteemed; so much so, that a few years ago they presented him with a piece of plate for his long-continued and faithful services. His loss will be much regretted by them, as well as by a large circle of friends. CURLING.-A correspondent at Largs informs us, that, not withstanding the milduess and superiority of their climate, the frost was so keen on Saturday morning that a short cur ling game was played, and the thermometer, at seven o'clock, stood in the E exposure at 32 deg. It is time the potatoes were up.--Glasgow Courier. CORRESPONDENCE, WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4IVD,IIID, Ste,—Your insertion in your next number of the following letters, &c. will supply the lack of common justice in the " Christian Advocate, and oblige, sir, your obedient servant, October 18, 1838. W. H. (Cory.) 9, Pembroke-place, Liverpool, 20th September, 1838. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. SlR,—Relative to your reply to mine of the 12th instant, " that we do not believe Mr. Hosking's statement, and, therefore, will not insert it," I have now applied to my leader on the subject, who has both seen a copy of mine to you of the 12th instant, and the written notice of the expul sion alluded to therein; and he now declares that those " statements" of mine are correct : and, with his testimony, I again beg your insertion of them, a copy of which (lest it should have been destroyed) 1 now send you. I am, sir, Your obedient servant. WM. lIOSKING. P.S.—Sir, you really cannot have any grounds for con sidering the communication a hoax; and, if not, as the editor of a professedly liberal and independent paper, I think you are in duty bound to insert it, and then let some of the parties who are acquainted with the truth contradict my statements if they dare. (Coyv.) 9, Pembroke place, Liverpool, 12th Sept., 1838. To TILE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. SIR,-1 shall feel obliged by your inserting in your next number the following matter of fact. I am, sir, Your obedient servant, W. HOSKING. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL , Fifth Night of the new Farce of TOM NODDY'S SE CRET, which has been receiyad on each representation with the most distinguished applause. ►p HIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 19th instant, iY[ will be performed the Tragedy of Virginias Mr. Stuart. Appius Claudius.. Mr. Gray. Icilius .... Mr. W. Howard. l Virginia Dentatus ' Mr. Baker . Servia Miss Cleaver. After which, for the Fifth time here, a new Farce, called TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Captain Ormond, Mr. W. Howard; Tom Noddy, Mr. Baker; Inkpen, Mr. Slaiter; Mary, Miss Grant ; Gabrielle, Mrs. Tellet. To conclude with the Romantic Melo-Drama of VALENTINE AND ORSON. MR. AND MRS. WOOD, Of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane, are engag e d for Ten Nights, and will wake their appearance on MONDAY next, the 22d instant, in the character of " Haw thorn," and " Rosetta," in the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE, in which __ _ MR. BARKER, Principal Tenor Singer of Mr. Bruhain's Theatre, London, and of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin and Edinburgh, will make his first appearance at this Theatre in the character of " Young Meadows." _ MISS LAND, From the Theatre-Royal Covent-garden, is also engaged, and will make her first appearance here in the character of " Lucinda." On MONDAY next, the 22d instant, the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Hawthorn, Mr. Wood; Young Mea dows. Mr. Barker; Rosetta, Mrs. Wood ; Lucinda, Miss Land ; Justice Woodcock, Mr. Baker; Eustace, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Hodge, Mr. Slaiter ; Deborah Woodcock, Mrs. Clarke; Madge, Mrs. 'fellet.—After which, the Tra gedy of WILLIAM TELL, (compressed into Three Acts.) William Tell, Mr. Stuart; Gesler, Mr. Gray; Albert, Mrs. 'Pellet; Emma, Miss Cleaver. ije 11,therpool g.-"tantrarb. ILLEGAL EXPULSION has also commenced with the Wesleyan Association, in Liver pool. On Sunday, the 24 instant, a member received his quarterly society ticket, and on the Thursday following he was expelled from the society, by a leader's meeting, without notice, without charge, and without trial—without precedent— consequently his leader sent in his resignation on Thursday last, and many others are most seriously demurring against it. The whole society is in a fearful state of agitation, the consequence of which time only can develope. His "reverence" John Peters in the Chair. I do hereby testify that the above is correct, the member alluded to being one of my own class. (Signed) WM. SHIRLEY, Leader and Local Preacher. These facts are now left with the Christian public, who may be desirous of promoting real reform and Christian liberty. They will think and judge for themselves, whether such con duct in the Association is capable of promoting their high pretensions to reform and liberty, or whether such conduct, with their very high pretensions, do not prove them to be a hundred-fold more reprehensible and despicable. And will they not think something for themselves, about the poor Christian Advocate? What is become of its once boasted liberality arid independence? Did that expire at the periotl when it became the property of the Association gentlemen? and are we bound to believe its Editor's statement, " that those gentlemen have now nothing► to do with its manage ment ?" However, we sincerely pity him, whether his late " unhandsome and illiberal conduct" is his own fault, or that of the illiberality of the firm, Messrs. 1). Rowland and Co., 114 whose employ he is engaged to get his livelihood. So it appears that the last spark of independence in the poor Chris tian Advocate is extinguished. W. H. Since the above was written, the following answer has been received through the Christian Advocate:—" If Mr. Hocking can get his statement certified to be true, by Mr. Farrer, Mr. D. Rowland. or some other member of the Association whom we know, we will insert it; but not else. There is a vulgar but expressive proverb,--" Once bit—twice shy." Relative to the unmanly personal insinuation, evidently attempted therein, I do now say that there is not a shadow of truth in it. But this part of it:is comparatively trivial, con sidering the wholesale sacrifice of principle and common ho nesty, which is most evidently implied in it also. Just read the Editor's own notice, under the head of " Letters to the Edi tor," and compare it with this answer :—" The Editor wishes it to be distinctly understood, that, .alt hough it is his desire that this Journal should freely express the opinions of his correspondents, he is not to be considered as responsible for such opinions. All letters involving facts must he authenti cated by the name and address of the writer." Yet, he has refused my letter, stating " facts," not only with my address and name, but with a very respectable testimony of one of our own leaders and local preachers, and thus, in fact, per sonally accusing hint also of falsehood. And with such a stretch of illiberal and unrighteous conduct, might we not be quite prepared to see the Editor go to the outrageous lengths he has gone to, i❑ denouncing the whole of a Christian church, consisting of about 1000 members, with from 70 to 100 official persons, as unworthy of any confidence, (except ing two or three individuals, who have had the temerity to lend their aid and name in declared opposition to the rights and liberties of their brethren.) Looking at the above an swer, this is no exaggeration of the case. "If Mr. Hos king can get his statements certified to be true by Mr. Varrer, or Mr. D. Rowland, or some other member of the Associa tion whom we know, (does he know a third individual in the Association in Liverpool?) we will insert it; but not else." The Editor might have replied to my letter on Monday, the 21th ult.; but it would appear that he was so brought up by the testimony which I had sent him, that he could not give any answer till he had laid the knotty case before his em ployers in Liverpool, and had their instructions on the sub ject. And we were partially prepared to guess at the in structions that would be given from a certain quarter. From the well known assurance of Mr. D. Rowland, we were quite prepared to see this most preposterous assumption of power over his brethren, the whole church. But we should be very sorry to find that " Mr. Fairer" should so far miss his way, as to join in league against the rights and liberties of his brethren. His being hooked in (or otherwise) by the Editor of the Christian Advocate with another gentleman already noted; has excited suspicion. W. H. . . have been informed, by the by, that these " leaders" were forced to acknowledge, at their last quar terly meeting, that they had done wrong by expelling the member alluded to above ; but their lordships, with their high and mightiness, have nut had the common honesty officially to inform the expelled member of it—while they were in breathless haste officially to inform him of their fiat of his expulsion. At my leisure and convenience I intend fully to expose theta and their system, by a series of public lectures, to be open to all the Methodistical sects. The miscalled " Christian Advocate" may now see that we can do without its columns, either to write or to read, fur, after subscribing to it for the last three years, 1 have now given it up altogether ; and can it be matter of surprise that such a conducted paper " is under a considerable weekly loss?" And if it was lost altogether, we may put it down for gain to the Christian public. NV. 11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBION Ste,—Since the memorable period of your political apos tacy, you have favoured the public with few productions of your pen which can at all equal your leading leader of the 15th instant—an article not less remarkable for the mild and gentle tone of Christian charity which pervades it, than for the grammatical accuracy, and elegance of its composition. In the present dearth of . news, and with the printer's devil continually at your elbow, crying out for "copy, more copy," you were no doubt particularly obliged to the "component items" of the Abercromby Ward Conservative Committee for furnishing you with matter for a leader of a column and a half in length; and to show your gratitude for the windfall, you of course proceeded to make the best and the most of it. How I should have enjoyed a peep at you, when you sat down to peruse the Abercromby Ward report of the 2nd instant! What a treat it would have been to contemplate the " knight of the rueful countenance," as he sat poring over the " Tory catalogue of ways and means ;" and to wit ness the burst of triumph which illuminated his features, when he made the wonderful discovery that the report of a political association, was —" a political report altogether" ! ! ! But, to be serious. You give a long extract from the report in question, and then assert that the extract so given " has manifest treachery and falsehood stamped upon it." Now, Sir, I defy you to substantiate your charge. You appear, indeed, to have attempted it, but You have signally failed ; I must at least confass my inability to understand the con fused jumble of words, by which you have attempted to prove the first head of your accusation. I readily admit that the . committee took the money offered by the Reformers, amount ing, I believe, to the enormous sum of nearly a sixth part of the whole fund; and that they would have taken ten times as much, had it been offered;-1 - admit, also : that they would have applied it to the purpose for which it was subscribed, viz., to the relief of the suffering poor of the ward ;—and yet, after admitting all this, I am so blind that I cannot see the treachery which you declare to be manifest. With respect to the sentence in which you declare that you detect manifest falsehood, you have surely wasted much la bour in devoting a good quarter of a column to expose that which you say is "too apparent to need exposure." You say, " the whole town was alive to the distress which was pre vailing ; and benevolence was seeking in every quarter for objects upon whom to exercise its bounties ;"—and with an air of triumph you ask, " Why was it probable that the poor of Abercromby Ward would have bean left to starve, unnoticed and unknown?" Why, Sir! I will tell you w hy it was probable. Benevolence in its search had forgotten that particular quarter called Abercromby Ward; or probably it thought, that in a ward which one of your liberal friends has designated as the most aristocratical ward in the town, it would find no objects upon whom to bestow its bounties." Indeed, I think I remember reading a paragraph in your own paper, in which the writer, after extolling the charity dis played in other parts of the town, regretted that nothing had been done in Abercromby Ward ; but, however this may be, is is certain that up to the 27th February, the day on which the committee commenced their labours, there had been no effort made to relieve the distress prevailing in the ward. It is true that a few had received assistance front the funds so generously subscribed at St. Jude's and St. Mark's Churches : and so grateful was one of the recipients, that he declared he was eating M`Neile's bread, arid burning • M`Neile's coals, and if M'Neile were there he would burn him at the top of them. But the relief thus given was not sufficient for a tithe of the persons who were suffering the tortures of hunger and cold; andl state it as a fact, that in several cases, if Wiled not been for the timely aid afforded by the conservative committee, famine would have finished its work, and made au end of its victims. Again you ask " Is there no one in that quarter of the town who would have relieved distress, or, at all events if it had passed the bounds of indi vidual means, have made it known, and exerted himself to stein the torrent of human misery and suffering ?" Yes ! I answer, there was one who did all this; a tory; one of those individuals who are denounced by O'Connell, and by your self, as dishonest scoundrels, as oppressorS of the poor, as every thing mean, vile, and contemptible; and that man was Robertson Gladstone! And here I must express my surprise that any circumstance—even a desire to blacken your political opponents, should have induced you for once to do justice to a Church of England clergyman, and my happiness in being able, most cordially, to join you in your eulogy of the Rev. Mr. North, whose conduct during that pe riod of deep distress was deserving of the most unqualified praise. But where meanwhile were the liberals of the ward? Where were the liberal councillors Messrs. Earle, Brockle bank, and Carson? doubtless they flew to their posts with liberal offers of tune and money, as soon as they heard of the existence of distress in the ward. No, no! the man who once declared that he was ready to make a division of his property, did not think that a fit time to part with a single atom of his dross; Mr. Brocklebank had enough to do to attend to his ship-building and repairing in Cumberland; and Dr. Carson, like a true liberal, sent persons with notes for relief; but alas! he forgot to send any notes wherewith to relieve them. The liberals upon this, as upon many other occasions proved the truth of the old adage, that it is easier to preach than to practice; they find it much easier to sit by a comfort able fire-side penning their day-dreams about the horrors of slavery, and the necessity of "sending out flannin veskits, and moral pocket hankichers to the poor black niggers in the Vest Indis," than to dive into the lowly abodes of squallid poverty, and alleviate the sufferings of the miserable beings, by whom they are more immediately surrounded. It is scarcely necessary to reply to your base insinuation that the fund was diverted from its legitimate channel, to serve the political purposes of the conservatives. You insi nuate, that, " the conservative charity rested not in the house of the widow and orphan, but in those of persons who might be brought on the municipal list." The insinuation is false! It rested where it was intended to rest, in the houses of all who owing to the severity of the weather were thrown out of employment, and had not wherewith to procure the food and fuel necessary to support nature, during that inclement sea son. On an investigation I find, that of the one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight individuals relieved, ONE only was on the municipal list; and if you wish proof of this, I shall be happy to submit to you the lists of persons relieved, with the recommendations, which are signed by men of almost every shade of religion and politics. In penning your long Igrticle you have been actuated by the truly Christian and charitable desire to throw odium upon a body of men perhaps as pure minded as yourself, by imputing evil motives as the cause of good actions; your venom, however, like that of the foul and hideous toad, though vomited forth with the most malignant intention, is perfectly harmless, or at worst can cause but a slight irri tation where it falls, though it may lead to the destruction of the vile thing that voids it. The report of the Abercromby Ward Conservative Association might ere this have been forgotten; but you have unwittingly given it a fresh exist ence. It will now be read by many, who but for you, might never have heard of it; and it is not at all unlikely, that its perusal may lead to inferences and comparisons, which may not tend to raise your parsimonious pi otege in the estimation of those in whose eyes he just now wishes to appear every thing that is amiable. 1 remain , Sir , Yours , to command, A BURGESS. Abercromby Ward, Oct. 17, 1838. THE RAILWAY INTERESTS OF LANCASHIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.IIND.IIRD. Stn,—lt has afforded me sincere gratification to witness the firmness with which the shares of Eastern Counties Rail way have been held since my last communication, during which period the call, making £lO per share paid up, has fallen due—inducing sales to be made if at any time—which gives promise of close and steady adherence onward. The favourable conclusion of arrangements with the Northern and Eastern Company, with the satisfactory advancement of the works, as noticed iu the Railway Times of Saturday last, affords ample encouragement for the line of policy; and I hope no Lancashire man will sell a share that he can pos sibly retain. In advocating this line, I am influenced by several considerations, as far as regards its especial selection —tbe unequalled promise of returns on the capital required— the already preponderating interest of this district in the un dertaking—the comparatively light farther demand upon the shares, not more than £l2 10s. per share—another call of £2 10s. being required, with the addition of the loan autho rised by the amended act, to complete the line to Colchester, so that we may hold, safely, double the number of shares con templated, when it was expected the whole £25 would be wanted, and which, in the present position and aspect of the railway market, gives to these so decided an advantage aver other shares, upon which calls will ensue every few months, to the extent of from £3O to £5O or £6O, before any returns can be expected. These considerations give we confidence in selecting this line, to be made an example of regeneration to others possessing similar solid pretensions. Every successive week will now be so developing to the world at large the value and capabilities of railways as investments—knowledge hi therto confined almost exclusively to this great centre from whence they have radiated, and against which the public have been blinded and prejudiced through the powerful in fluence of landed and other opponents, unfortunately, in this case, having too much weight with the press, especially, I regret to say, with that portion circulating amongst the wealthy classes, viz. the Conservative press—witness the absurdly ignorant and .insane tirade admitted into Fraser, from some briefless Briefwit, "taking up his parable" thus, " I'm on the rail,"—you would have wondered to have seen such a tissue of rash, stupid folly in anything above the cali bre of Paddy Kelly :—every day's experience will now so incontestibly confute and put down these attempts, and so establish the excellency of this kind of property, that we may expect the first half of the corning year to work an extraor dinary revolution in its favour. The sleepless eyes of the great cormorants of our Stock Exchange monied world are watching for the turn of the tide, and, in their preying desire to grasp from our weakness, I trust they have missed it, or will, and ourselves hold the fish. The splendid returns of the London and Birmingham, yet in the leading-strings of its infancy, and of the Southampton, the second week's re ceipts from which, with only six coaches working into the line—twelve more the coach-proprietors were to bring on at Basingstoke this day (the fish)—would yield a profit equal to paying 5 per cent. on the amount of capital expended on the portion of line opened. These facts cannot be suppressed or withherd front the public, and thousands must flow into these channels in consequence. The doubtful state of the Great Western question has been considered the great incubus of the railway interest, but certainly all the experience of that undertaking tells for the system, so far as the returns bear upon a limited expenditure; and, whatever may be thought of the great experiment, there is nothing to hang a doubt upon—nothing of a speculative character, in the case of the lines laid upon the established principle, with all its practical im provements—taken up, remember, after years of successful working in its latest and most consummated modifications— and, before our eyes, so triumphantly and abundantly meet ing the wants, convenience, and comfort of the community. I doubt not, we shall, as these lines attain completion, very contentedly pocket our 15 to 20s. dividends from them— working well--though not exceeding 40 miles an hour, and he must be an effeminate, unworthy of the name of Briton, who requires greater ease of transit than he may now have on the Birmingham line. Brother shareholders, keep your hold, I wish my suggestion as to the meeting of the leading holders monthly were adopted. A man building his cot watches every brick being laid, and it is laid in his heart, and his attachments ivy round the growing walls, and the snore you know of the progress of your railways the more you attach yourselves to them. Pray think of this. I am, Sir, &c. W. M. Liverpool, October 17th, 1838. THEATRE ROYAL. During the week Mr. Charles Kean has appeared out of the beaten track of his round of Shaksperian characters, as Claude Melnotte, in Sir Edw. Lytton Bulvver's new play of "The Lady of Lyons." There is nothing very great in the character—no profound intellectual depths. The amount of it is simply this; Claude Melnotte, a gardener's son, falls in love with u rich merchant's daughter, and alter laboriously improving, himself in polite learning with a view of distin guishing himself for her, ventures a poetic epistle to her, signed with his own name. This is treated as an act of great presumption, and the poor gardener's son is insulted with all the offensive arrogance and pride of puffed-up wealth. His pride is wounded and his feelings are deeply hurt, and whilst in this state of mind he is found by a rejected suitor, (Beauseant,jof Pauline Deschappelles—the "Lady of Lyons," with whom he (Claude Melnotte) is in love, and enters into a conspiracy with Beauseant, to be introduced to her as a foreign prince, Beauseant finding the m eans; an d un d er t h e advantages which the silly pride of Pauline and her mother, Madame Deschappelles (Mrs. Clarke) would give him in this character to win the affections and marry Pauline, and then take her home to his cottage as a gardener's wife, and thus gratify his own and Beauseant's revenge. Claude is a man of right feeling, and repents him of his crnel purpose, but which he is bonnd to carry out by an oath. He marries Pau line, and then, after a scene of outrageous passion and wounded pride on her part, when she finds that instead of being the wife of a prince, her husband is but a gardener, he absolves her from her incomplete legal tie, and executing a divorce, delivers her up to her parents. He then enters the army resolved to raise himself, and to wipe off the stain on his honour, consequent to lending himself to this conspiracy; and after a rapid rise in the army, finds and rescues his di vorced Pauline from becoming the wife of Beauseant, to save her father from ruin, and marries her. The carrying out of this' plot, gives a few opportunities for the expression of the feelingss of ardent hope, mortified pride and re morse. The play, however, has nothing great about it, and it is little better than a melo-drama. Kean's act ing as Claude Melnotte was clever, effective, and strik ing ; yet it was not a perfect whole. When describing to Pauline his palace at Como, while in the character of Prince, and indeed during the whole of his interview with her, his performance was a feelingless piece of recitation. The tongue spoke, indeed, in tones of passion, but the soul of passion, the eye,—the features—earnest yet subdued action were wanting; the manner was cold and flatly contradicted the tongue. Again on taking his leave of Pauline and his mothe in his cottage and rushing out to serve his country as r soldier, his manner, was outrageously melo-dramatic stamps ing, dust-kicking up, wind-millizing, mountebankizing, and_ murdering of propriety. Leaving out these blots, his per formance was very effective. Miss Faucit as Pauline, played with great skill. The character is perfectly her forte; and hur acting was a fine specimen of womanly affection mixed with excessive pride. Mrs. Clarke's Madame Desohappelles was exceedingly clever. The manner in which she called Claude, as a prince, " our beautiful prince," and as a poor gardener "you ugly villin," was an exquisite touch of cha racter. The author of the play has had here a keen perception of the foibles of human nature. How many living Madame Deschappelles are there to whom an honourable and deserving youth, undistinguished by wealth— or ra th er w ithout wealth,° for wealth is no distinction—and "unknown to fame," would be "an ugly villain," who, with these "accidental" gifts of fortune, would be "our beautiful Prince?" But so the world wags. The new farce of 'l'. IL Bayley, Esq. which has just been brought out in London with considerable suc cess, "Tom Niiddy's Secret," has concluded the perform ances. The gist of the joke consists in a superannuated old schoolmaster, Tom Noddy (Mr. Baker), who will see about" everything and does nothing; who ties knots on his pocket handkerchief to remember to "see about it," and forgets what he has tied the knot for, and then ties another to remind him not to forget to "see about" what he tied the first knot to remember. This, not very unusual trait of character— tnere being Tom Noddy's enough in every community,—is the foundation, beginning and end of the whole piece. It ex cites a laugh, but we don't think it worth the fuss that our metropolitan brethren have made about it. POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS. We are requested to publish the following corrected ac count of the Post-office arrangements, consequent on the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway : AM. 6.30—F0r Prescot and the York line of road. 8 o—For Maghull and Ormskirk. 8 30—For Manchester. 9 o—For Birkenhead, Chester, and the road. 11 o—For Birmingham, and the Grand Junction line of road. 11 30—For Manchester. P. 51. 1 30—For Manchester. 4 o—For the North Road and Scotland—for Prescot, Wigan, Manchester, and the York road—for Chester and Shrewsbury. 4 30—For all Ireland. 5 o—For London, Birmingham, Bristol, Falmouth, and the line of road, and for South Wales. 6 o—For Chester and North Wales. 12 o—For Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Grand Junction line of road, also for the North Road and Scotland. The above is the hour at which the box closes fur the re ceipts of letters and papers. _ The delivery of leitei-s by the London mail takes place at nine a.m. and 10 30 p.m. PARLIAMENTARY OBJECTIONS. Cons. Cons. Reds. Reds. Dup. Wards. allow- struck allow- struck Objcc- Total, ed. out. ed. out. tion. 1. Evertor and 12 15 3 6 0 36 Kirkdale.... 2. Scotland ..... 4 5 2 4 0 16 3. Vauxhall 1 3 4 13 0 21 4. St. Paul's 5. Exchange 6. Castle-street 3 12 3 9 2 22 7. St. Peter's 5 12 8 11 3 39 8. Pitt-street 9. St. George 4 7 0 14 2 24 10 Rodney-street 4 4 9 10 3 30 11. Abercromby 12, Lime-street 13. St. Anne's 5 4 2 8 0 19 44. West Derby 2 6 5 11 0 24 15. South Toxteth 16. North Toxtet h lB 31 1 18 0 75 18 531 In the two last Wards, it is to be remarked, that out of the number objected to by the Reformers, their valid objections only amount to 18 in both Wards. The remainder are ac counted for as commissioned officers in the Excise or her Majesty's Customs. This remark will also apply to several of the others in dif ferent parts of the town, who also hold a commission in the Customs. THE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. We again resume our lucubrations. No. 168. "The Passions. From Collins's Ode." By G. Patten, A. R. A. This is one of the chief paintings in the exhibition, if not the chief. The idea is taken from Coltins'e Ode-- " When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The passions oft to hear her shell, Througed around her magic cell. * * First Fear -- Next Anger - * * * * With woful measure wan despair. * * * , * But thou, Oh Hope, with eves so fair. **• - * * Revenge impatient rose. * * * * Several of our contemporaries have entered into minute cri ticisms on this painting, and it has already been greatly scanned : there is the less need, therefore, for us to do this. No one will doubt of the difficulty of embodying a picture from Collins's Ode. A poetic picture is drawn, yet with such latitude and absence of particularity that no two minds would conceive the same idea of it. Let the spec tator read the ode, and try mentally to embody what it de scribes, and paint in fancy the scene, forgetting Patten's picture, and we will vouch for it, with the same description to guide him, he will build an aerial vision far different to this painting; and so would another man differ from him. Having then thus established the unconfined boundary of the description, let no man quarrel with Mr. Patten's embodi ment of it, because it may differ from his own idea of it. Mr. Patten here gives us his conception. We confess, to us, that it is not a plain tale, and that part of it we cannot understand. A part of it, however, does well picture the ode, and for the rest we attribute it to a poetic fancy or a painter's license. Music, represented by a female form, appears as described in the ode. reclining in her " magic cell," wrapt as it were in a soft hallucination produced by the tones of her own sweet " shell." Fear is represented as stetting away, a robe floating in the wind, over him. This appears to us to be the most faulty figure in the picture. The prominent shoulder is not according to the symmetry of nature; it looks in fact like painted canvas. Anger is a fine bold, symmetrical figure of a man, excited to violent attitudes and contortions. Despair is appropriately drawn sitting "wan" and wretched, by the side of a pool of water, brooding on her troubles, and contemplating the placid waters as if to seek in them oblivion from her misery. Hope, "with eyes so fair," is an exquisitely drawn and painted fe male figure. advancing with a lute. I?etenge, in tie form of an armour clad wart ior, is represented as `• impatient rising." Other exquisitely drawn and coloured female figures fill up the centre of the painting, whose chief beauty consists in their elegance and beautiful colouring. Much has been said about the colouring of the characters in this painting, and learned dispute entered into to prove that the style of colour ing belongs to this and to that old master. For our parts, we give Mr. Patten credit for having chiefly studied and copied the oldest, and only infallible master—nature. We fancy that his sky is such an one as Guido delighted to paint, and which we have seen in several of Guido's paintings, but which is not the sky of nature. Whether or no Mr. Patten is here a copiest, from a fallible copy, we will not say. We have often been amused at the kind of veneration with which the paintings of a Titian, a Reubens, a Raphael, or a Van dycke have been observed. The question has not been whe ther they are good paintings according to "Nature's just standard whieh is still the same," and let that "Your judgment frame," but, who are they by? "Oh, sir, this is a Guido." "Oh ! then it must be excellent." It is taken for granted; the thing is done ; and by this silly veneration for an old master the "judgment" is "framed" after the "standard" of Guido, and not after that of nature. Now Guido was a fallible painter, and moreover his excellence did not growall at once, but like the excellence of most other men, by patient toiling upwards step by step, and many scores of the early productions of Guido yet exist, and are almost adored by their present possessors, which Guido himself—the Guido of after years would have been heartily ashamed of. And besides, in what consisted the secret of Guido's fame ? Was it in some essence in the man, possessed only by him ? No such thing. It was only in his superiority over his con temporaries, in faithfully copying nature, and painting her in all her attitudes and appearances as she is. How silly then, in a painter, when he has the original in unchanged excellence before nim, to be content with a copy—that is, if his ambition is excellence in his art. How silly to set up these old masters as the standards of excellence; and how very silly, if a painter succeeds in giving a good idea of the original, to say that be has copied this and that old master, because they have each given a good idea of the original. We hate this acknowledgment of lack of genius—this shrink ing from grappling with nature, and hiding behind a Titian or a Vandycke. It is as bad as the Tom Noddyism of the lawyers, in letting a precedent be a license and permission for any absurdity. Well then, let nature be our standaid, and let us try this picture by it, and by that shall we find out its faults and beauties. We do not like the drawing of the most naked of the figures, as we think it in some respects faulty. It is, however, exquisitely painted. The drawing of each of the central group is superior, and the figure of Hope is especially beautiful in form, proportion, and colouring. As a whole, however, the painting is a very splendid one, and a credit to the exhibition and to the town. No. 139. "Boy and Goat."—This is one of Mrs. Sayer's characteristic paintings. Her style of painting is a minute copy of peculiarities, and, by correct shading, her figures stand prominently forward on the canvass. There is, how ever, a poverty of colouring about them. No. 140. " Llangollen Mill, Denbighshire," is a tolerable landscape paintin g . No. 141. " A Landscape."-142. " Windsor Castle— early morning."-143. " View from Shooter's Hill."-144. "Italian Landscape." And 145. " The Approaching Storm," are placed too high for observation. No. 146. " Christ blessing the bread and wine."—ls a richly coloured painting, but is one of those matter of fact sort of things which require little draught on the genius of an artist. No. 148. " Train up a child in the way he should go,"—is faulty in more senses than one. It represents a child, at that age when the mind thinks of nothing but riding across sticks, kite flying, and sugar candy, leaning over a big bible, with his grandmother over him. Till the years of thought and re flection come, the good example of a parent is worth all the bible reading in the world. We know two or three saturnine feminine specimens of little pride, " envy, hatred, and malice, and ail uncharitableness," who think they admirably train up their children in the way they should go," by dosing them with tasks in the scriptures. The child reads and thinks little, if at. all, of what he reads and then sees his inonima vexing his father with a few unainiable airs, or hears her unreasonably scolding the servants, or enviously talking of a neighbour, and thus gets his " training up." He re members the proud look, or the spiteful air, or the unbecom ing anger, because surrounding objects.remind him of it, and he forgets the precepts of the bible, because abstract un assisted thinking is not theibrie of a child. We do not like, therefore, this notion of "training up," &c. As a painting, it is a daub. No. 150. " An old Fisherman, painted from the life,"—is a clever painting after nature. The old fisherman is repre sented surrounded by the insignia of his office—baskets of cod, &c. No. 152. "` The Goatherd—Evening—ltaly,"—is a beau tiful glowing scene by Havel'. There is an extraordinary and beautiful flood of light thrown over the whole painting. Like most of Havell's productions it has been sold. No. 153. " Bolton Ahbev,"—by W. Linton, is a very beautiful drawing, but is sketchy in finish and deficient in colouring. No. ".Ulswater, Cumberland,"—is a pretty and well painted little landscape. No. 155. " View of Conniston, Cumberland—Winter,"— is one of Pennington's winter scenes. Nearly all Penning ton's winter paintings are alike. 'l'here is ,a great peculi arity about the style, which is yet very beautiful. go. 157. " Terrace on Richard Hill, Surrey."—This is an extraordinarily beautiful sunset scene, on a small scale, by Havell. It partakes of all the beautiful glowing richness of colouring which characterises all his paintings, but which is scarcely applicable to English scenery. No. 159. " Cromwell's Troopers gambling for Church Property in Canterbury Cathedral,"—by Charles Landseer. A.R.A. The idea of this painting is novel. An interior of a cathedral is represented, with a number of troopers scat tered about. A docr, torn off its hinges, is propped up for a table, and on it lay various rows of beads, crucifixes, &c., for which two of the troopers are gambling. A wounded trooper is lying asleep, with his head bound up, in one corner, and in another, another trooper is lolling asleep on the pulpit cushion, and a war-horse behind him is picking some oats out of a sack. It is an exceedingly fine painting. No. 160. " Displaying theeatch,' l —by \V. F. Withering ton, A.R.A. This is also a superior painting, and is full of points of character. It represents two gentlemen fishing in a pool, who are presumed to have been successful, from a large heap of fine fish, " the catch," which a boy, apparently of their party, is exultingly " displaying" to two lads, who appear to have been unsuccessful. The elder lad, who car ries the rod, is surveying the catch with cool and envious surprise: his little brother, beside him, appears to be ex claiming with mingled astonishment and admiration at the sight of the fish. The whole is exceedingly well drawn, and the colouring is judicious. It is full of points of study, and as an old piscator, we can pronounce the painting of the fish to be excellent. The peroxide of iron is said to be an efficient agent in coun teracting the effect of arsenic when taken into the stomach. SUPPORTING THE PRESS.—Taking a newspaper three or four years, and, when dunned for the money, getting into a pet, refusing to pay, and discontinuing the paper.—New York Daily Express. Mr. Van Amburgb's lions, which have attracted such ex traordinary houses at Astley's, are engaged at Drury-lane, and will appear there in a few days. THE HONOURABLE DESEIZTER.—The scion of a noble fa mily who was examined some time since at Guildhall, and subsequently tried by a court martial for desertion, has been sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment, and to be branded with the letter D. TURNPIKE TRUSTS.—Few persons are likely to be more seriously affected by rail-roads than the creditors (to a vast amount) on most of the present turnpikes. Wh a t i s t o be come both of the principal andinterest, are questions begin ning to be asked, but by no means easily answered. AnctiEny.—There was a tfrand gala dayof the Royal Bow men at Wynnstay, the hospitable seat of that fine old British gentleman, Sir W. W. Wynn, on Friday week. Nearly four hundred guests partook of an early dinner, and were present at the ball and supper that closed the day's proceedings, the whole arrangements of which were such as did honour to the goodness of heart and princely disposition of the worthy ba ronet.—Chester Gazette. WRITING IN NEWSPAPERS.—A postmaster in the neigh bourhood informs us, that he had a letter a few days ago from the General Postoffiee, requesting him to call upon a person with a newspaper, in which he had sent a written communi cation, and demand of £2 2s. as the postage upon it. In case of refusal to pay that sum, he was to inform him that the Postmaster-General would be andel the necessity of pro secuting him for a misdemeanour, under the Ist Victoria, c. 36, s. 5, in attempting to defraud the revenue.—Maccles field Courier. EFFECTS OF II IGII PRICES.—It is in the nature of high prices to encourage cupidity, and when this occurs in the article of bread, the first necessary of life, it greatly aggra vates the evil. In the town of Alaidstone alone, it seems, that upwards of forty bakers have been accused of selling bread short of weight, and it may, we fear, be too saf e l y inferred that Maidstone, though singular, we hope, in the extent of the offence, is far from standing alone in its com mission. Now is the time when leet juries and uther inspectors of weights and measures should be especially on the alert; considering that this is a subject which concerns all classes of the c ommunity, but especially that class who have the least power to help themselves. Fancy bread, of which a vast deal is now used, is not liable to be weighed at all. it would be as well if it were. At any rate buyers would do well to inform themselves what the weight is which they get for their money.— Aforning Herald. DUTIES ON SOA P.—We understand that considerable alarm has existed among the manufacturers, in consequence of its being supposed, that the allowances of the duties of excise paid on soap used in certain manufactures and processes, as set forth in 3 and 4 Wm. IV, cap. 16, and continued by 5- and 6 Wm. IV, cap. 16, had altogether ceased with the last session of Parliament. We have, however, ascertained that the last mentioned act is still in force, and continues until the end of the next session ; and that general instructions have been issued by the excise to their collectors to govern themselves accordingly. These drawbacks will therefore continue to be paid as heretofore, *eta the close of the ensuing session.