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~,; DECEMBER 1, 1835 EVERY ONE HIS HIS FAULT. Embracing the whole strength of the Company. After which the popular Farce of THE INVINOIBLES. Vie Eiberpool *tanbarb. For the BENEFIT of Mr. ANDREWS, - 1710-MORROW, (Wednesday,) December 2, the Musical X Plav of IVANHOE! A M us teat Otto will be Performed oh Zeitter and Co.'s New Patent Grand Piano-forte, by Mr. R. Andrews, accompanied by a Full Orchestra, arranged by himself expressly for this occa sion, and selected from the most esteemed works of Ignace Moschclles.—The Fall of Paris. Anticipations of Se nd— Kelvin Grove, Auld Robin Gray, Lord Moira's rathspey. Recollections of Ireland—Groves of Blame `arry Owen, St. Patrick's Day; as performed by the or, with enthu siastic applause, at the last Birmingha tusical Festival; to conclude with brilliant variations on t e Swiss Air, as com posed by Mr. R. Andrews. Mr. BEAN, of the King's Band, will perform a Fantasia on the Trombone, in which he will introduce Bishop's much ad mired Bravura Song "Should he upbraid." A variety of favourite Songs and Comic Glees, by Messrs. Frazer, Horncastle, Benwell, and Andrews. To conclude with CHARLES THE SECOND. - Captain Copp Mr. Andrews. Tickets to be had of Mr. Andrews, 10, Commutation-row. • UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF WILLIAM EWART, ESQ., M.P. For the BENEFIT of Mrs. and Miss ST EY, Who most respectfully solicit the Patronage e Friends o the Drama. lA N FRIDAY Evening next, the instant, will be pre tJ seated the achnire s d Comedy of To conclude with the 1 ISQUERADE from GUSTAVUS Geutlemeu accommodated as usual with Habits. Tickets to be had at the Box-office of the Theatre, and of Mrs, and Miss Stanley, at Mr. D. Jones's, Williamsou-square. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1835 We have Ngv York papers to the 10th November They are full of apprehensions with respect to the threat ened war between the United States and France. They represent that the citizens are not prepared for war, and they confess that France has a "powerful fleet" which in the event of hostilities Would commit dreadful havoc a nong their unarmed mercantile marine, the flags of which, they tell us, wave in every sea of the globe. All this is said in a proper spirit of discretion, but it does not look well after all the bombast and bullying which has appeared in the messages of General JACKSON. They should have counted the ships and guns of France, before they talked about seizing the property of the latter wherever they found it. But whatever their apprehen sions and regrets may be,. we suspect they will be com pelled to cut a very humiliating figure before they can extricate themselves from the dilemma. France, we can assure them is in earnest. She has a disposable military force of at least one hundred thousand men, and she has a fleet sufficiently powerful to protect the transports which might convey this armament to the American coast. This, therefore, is no jesting matter. France will not pay the dollars without an ample and unequivocal apology. Mr. ANDREW JACKSON cannot recall his offi cial menaces without covering himself with obloquy, and lowering the too haughtily assumed honour and dignity of the republic. He cannot make the message, to be delivered on the 6th instant, to plead the excuse of his last message, without making himself and his valorous citizens the laughing stock and contempt of Europe. He may temporise, and this we expect, but without an apology, the dollars will not be paid. Some of the New York journals seem to feel the force of this reasoning, and are striving to reduce the nations: into a mere personal and private cinarrel. They loudly blame the president for his hasty and inconsiderate lan guage, and they denounce him as a tyrant for presuming to nominate the chief magistrate who shall succeed him. The following from the IVew York Advertiser of the 9th November, is full of instruction:— THE NEXT PRESIDENT. The election of President of the United States will occur about twelve month from the present time. During the inter vening period, the public attention will be much occupied with the subject, and strong efforts will undoubtedly be made in fa vour of the different individuals who ate, or who may be, held up as candidates for that office. Several persons have already been named as such ; and active measures are already in ape ration among the friends oceach to secure the object which they aev •rally have in view. One of these candidates has been no minated by the present chief magistrate -of the union, as a fit person to succeed him in that office, and for the first time since the establishment of our own government, the Fresident of the United States is openly and actively engaged in electioneering, as the partizan of his jitrouritecandidate. The time has been since the formation of the government, when such conduct on the part of the executive head of it, would have been received by the people of the United States, not only with surprise, but with feelings of indignation and resentment. If a man who had held the dignified office of chief magistrate, and retired to private life, had formerly been found to be engaged in electioneering and intrigue in favOnr of a successor, it would have been con sidered as highly uudigned . and disreputable, and would have shaken the popularity of any man who ever held that office— 'not excepting George Washington himself. But in the present instance not only does the present incumbent exert himself in the various ways which his situation, privileges, the influence of his office, and the power - Of patronage enable to exert, but he goes far beyond thii;-Lhe nominates his successor—a prerogative not possessed by a British monarch, nor by any other royal or imperial sovereign, except those of the most absolute and despotic character.- This alone, in the purer periods of our history, would have been-fatal to the success of the candidate brought out un der such an influence. The example would have been consi dered not only as a proof or extreme arrogance on the past of the officer making the nomination, and busying himself in the degrading employment of an electionecrer in support of it, but as a dangerous precedent, incompatible with the freedom of our system, and the safety of the republic. That ANDREW JACKSON is a ti rant, as all republicans are, we have not, and never had, any doubt at all ; and solely because he is so, he is the best man to rule the United States; but it is vastly amusing to hear these people talk of the " purer periods of our history:" Bless our simple souls i—we always considered the affairs of the republic as the simple matter of a biography. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of living Englishmen Ivito were twenty or thirty years old when the American republic was first called into existence, and yet the vain elves talk of their history! The first history of the United States cannot be written until all the present generation are dead, at which period, we calculate, the States will be ruled, not by an arbitrary soldier, who is called a tyrant, but by a mild, conrtitutional sovereign. JOHN RANDOLPH, a member of the congress, is reported to have said in one of his public speeches that " America (meaning the United States) was an elective monarchy -,-that the President nominates his successor invariably, and that it is circumstances only which prevent him from nominating his own son." These circumstances are, that none of the presidents have yet had a son eligible; but the time may come, and will come. We extract the following in illustration of the respect Which the citizens have for law and liberty : FIFTY TtIOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. The rewird will be given, on the delivery to the Committee of Vigilance for the parish of East Feliciana La., of the notorious abolitionist, ARTHUR TAPPAN, of New York. K` -- Papers opposed to abolition throughout the United States are requested to give publicity to the above. Jackson, La., Oct. 15,1835. The above is in most of the New York papers. TAP PAN, the.man thus threatened, is a citizen of New York. He has committed no offence known to the laws—he is not guilty of any crime—but he is believed to be favour able to slave emancipation, and for thus exercising his free opinions a price is set upon his head, and fifty thou sand dollars are offered to any scoundrel, or any band of scoundrels, who shall do violence to his body, seize him by force of arms, and convey him to Louisiana, where most unquestionably he would be murdered. And this is the land of liberty ! GOD preserve us from such liber ty ! The citizen has equal rights provided he chooses to exercise equal cruelty, and practise corresponding bar barity; but the moment he interferes with the traffic of the spoiler, and moots an abStract principle at variance with their rude notions of justice and selfishness, that very moment be becomes a marked man, and fifty thou sand dollars are offered to any wretch who shall convey him before. Judge LYNcti, and deliver him over to the republican gallows! ! ! It is singularly characteristic of the faction at present in power that they hare never carried or attempted to carry any measure Of reform without having recourse to some mean and disingenuous artifice. They have never tnet any question in a candid and honest manner. So tortuous has been, and still is, their policy, that they la bour to arrive at their object by the must tedious circum locution in preference to the open and plain l ath by I which it might be easily and directly reached.• They are not satisfied with the adoption of a principle until they have seasoned it with a spice of falsehood, just as persons of a vitiated or sublimated taste are not content with the pepper and salt of the cook until they have administered an extra dash of their own. It would be no difficult task to show that every mea sure of the Whig party for the last four years is tainted lin this manner. In every instance they have taken care that each and all of their contemplated reforms should be ushered in by a job—by some sort of commission or other—by certain forms of inquiry, setting at defiance all the rules of evidence, and making a jest of the first maxims of justice, but by which they might provide for a long tail and dove-tailed band of needy adherents to do their pleasure and obey their instructions, without a spark of pride or independence. The Irish church commission was one of these bare faced impositions concocted for the sake of patronage. Lord Atit)* stated that he could not enter upon the reform of the Irish church without inquiry, and he accor dingly ordered a travelling commission, which was com posed of the most needy of his creatures. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was - of the same opinion in 1834, and he sup ported Lord ALTHORP. But in 1835 Lord JOHN changed his opinion ; and although his commission had not made any report, he, with the gravest and most glaring incon sistency, proposed to reform the Irish church without in quiry! lle actually obtained the consent of parliament to a principle which embraced the „whole question at is sue, which the commissioners, although employed for the avowed purpose, were not allowed time to report upon ! The same might be said of the municipal commission. If ever there was a fraud committed upon the common sense and the justice of the country this was one. It was an inquiry destitute even of the ordinary forms of judicial proceedings; and although it may be said that the tree will be judged by its fruits, still we contend that, be the fruits sweet or bitter, wholesome or pernicious, it was an act of unpardonable iniquity and oppression, affecting the rights of property in a way which we fear will be imitated and put in force against those lords of "reason and philosophy," and of palmy wealth, by whom it was countenanced. But we come--for that is the _object of the present ar ticle--to the last act of one-sided investigation and vio lated professions committed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his colleagues. We allude to the commission which was appointed, near the end of the late session of parliament, to inquire into the state of the Church of Scotland, and the extent of religious provision for the people of that country. It will be difficult, we know, to make ourselves understood to most of our English readers; but we shall do our best, and, as the subject is of vast importance to every protestant churchman, we beg the earnest attention of all ; for let it be borne in mind that the Church of England can only stand by maintaining her outposts. While these remain she is safe. This the ivhigs know ; and their policy has consequently been to attack the dis tant forts—to make war upon the extremities of our lines—to assail isolated points—and to clear the way to the citadel—England Is any man who knows the way to parish church so blind, so dull, so obtuse, as not to perceive that this out post war has already begun. What is the meaning of the persecution of our protestant brethren in Ireland by the papists, and the menaced overthrow of the establish ment in Ireland by the RUSSELL and O'CONNELL coali tion, but a war—a war to the knife—against the Church of England What is the meaning of the recent, most uncalled for, and most heartless attack upon the Church of Scotland by his Majesty's ministers, but an attack upon the Church of England? What is the meaning of the monstrous union between the unitarians and the papists, in which the quakers, the anabaptists, and the people who call themselves indepen dents, are almost to a man joined, but a deep-laid con spiracy against the Church of England ? Why are infidels and evangelists—those who profess to tolerate all creeds, and those who would tolerate none but their own—those who revere the bible and those who would burn it—those who acknowledge no sacraments and those who believe in seven—why are these conflict ing parties banded at this moment in a most sacrilegious union, but to root out and utterly destroy the Church of England ? These are hard nuts, which we leave the incredulous of our friends to crack at their leisure. Now for the Church of Scotland. Jo the early part of last session, and in accordance with the freely expressed and most earnest solicitations of those who represent the majority in numbers, in wealth, n intelligence, and in true piety of the people of Scot. land, a deputation consisting of the most distinguished clergymen of the Scottish church waited upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL to represent the neglected state of their church, the urgent wants of the people, and to solicit - the aid of government in providing for these wants by the erection of new churches. Lord JOHN did not attempt to gnes- tion the truth of their representations, for that would have been dangerous ground. He did not even attempt to controvert the position that the state is bound to pro vide for the spiritual wants of the people. He was too well trained a jesuit to advance any bold doctrine of this nature. On the contrary he professed, and poor Lord MELBOURNE did the same, that he was anxious to meet their views.and promote their wishes. But, under the cover of deliberation, be shuffled, and shifted, and twist ed, and equivocated, (a la Exeter,) in order to gain time. Meanwhile he put himself in correspondence with the dissenters of Scotland—the enemies of the church—the worst class of sectaries, perhaps, in all Christendom— men who are mere stockjobbers in religion, and xl ho drive a trade by poaching on other men's manors—who derive a profit from the waifs and strays of the church— who speculate in chapels and pews as the expelled mal contents of the Stock Exchange—who frequent its lanes, and speculate in scrip omnium and time bargains—Lord JOHN, we say, put himself in correspondence with these factions, because, under the mask of purity of religion, they are in reality only political dissenters. What happened ? They represented to Lord JOHN that which he was extremely anxious to avail himself of, viz., that the Church of Scotland was not only amply endowed, but that it had more churches than it could fill, and that they the dissenters were the only flourishing and popular class of religionists in the country. We give them credit here for no mean measure of worldly wisdom, and We concede to them a liberal allowance of ingenuity ; but no degree of impudence, or ingenious sophistry, or well-concerted malevolence, can conceal the "trail of the Serpent," the brand of the Jesuit, and the stockjobber. They took alarm lest the price of pews and the rent of chapels should be deteriorated. They saw in the measure a probable reduction of profits. They beheld a plan calculated to narrow the field of their se cular and venal speculations. They trembled for their bonds, their followers, and their victims. They had risen to some distinction owing to the tardy justice of the landowners, the careless habits of whig impropriators, the anti-social nature of the Scottish nobility so different from that of the nobility of England, and, last not least, from the cruel spoliation to which church property in Scotland had been subjected for several centuries. It is needless to say that the dissenters of Scotland— the self-interested and narrow-minded proprietors, bonds men, and trustees of chapels—offered the most furious opposition to the clairns and the rights of the established church. Perhaps the vehemence of their opposition was not a little increased, by their collusive knowledge of the private sentiments of Lord JOiUSI RUSSELL. Religious factions, no matter how much they may differ from each other, are like the bituminous patches which float on the bosom, of the dead sea—they naturally draw towards each other, until they unite, unscathed by storms, in one com mon centre. Lord JOHN - , smiling like a small fiend at this centrepetal association of ,discordant elements, took advantage of it. The mean Whig is the shabbiest of all politicians, and Lord JOHN is the meanest of the class. He resorted, aCCottliiihf ie hig nature, to the usual job of a commission: fie ifidEeti Lord IViivro at the head of this conirnissiofi t if hiif of the members of which can be consideted fridida . I:'f the chute?, some of Whom are farie6tolig diftetiietv 04 triMfft ?tie' uteri elutteuble with having any settled notions of religion at all. The insult thus offered to the Scottish church has, we know, been deeply felt, and will be deeply resented. Lord Joxil will, perhcps, live to regret it, but that is his business. What Lord MELBOURNE thinks concerns Mr. O'CoN• NELL we suspect much more than the premier. We much mistake the feeling and the pride of the country— we much mistake the opinions of those who speak through the public press —we much mistake the visible signs of desertion from the RUSSELL camp by the old whips—if • we do not see proofs that Lord JOHN RUSSELL is now held in as muck-detestation as O'CONNELL is, and tha) comes high up to a measure of overflowing and unanimous • execration of one man or set of men as ever was cherished by a nation. It would have been well for the guilty--contrivers of this scheme—this job thrown as a bribe to dissenting pew-dealers--the chapmen of pulpits, preachers, and chapels—if the matter had ended here. But by all ac counts it only begins where it should have ended. The commissioners are prosecuting their inquiries. They not only demand to know the extent of duty, the extent of territory, and the pecuniary compensation of•every in cumbent of every parish] church in Scotland, but they in vade the private concerns of the members of the church, and insist upon knowing the condition, means, resources, and liabilities of every chapel of ease. This inquisitorial proceeding, objectionable though it be, would not, we are assured, have been complained of, if an equal measure of investigation were applied to the dissenting chapels. This, however, is not the case. The commissioners, be it remembered, are, by their commission, authorised, and required, to ascertain the amount of provision for the re ligious instruction of the whole people of Scotland. The church deputation clearly understood from Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord MELBOURNE, that the dissenting cha pets would come under the instructions of general in 7 quirt' as much as the establishment itself. This promise has not been fulfilled. The dissenters oppose the scru tiny; and they are now told that they need not answer any questions unless they please. This concession—this most unfair and unjust concession is everything. How can the practical and spiritual utility of the establishment be ascertained except by contrast with the opposition sects. if two men row boats in the same direction how can the speed of the one be arrived at without the cor responding speed of the other being equally well ascer tained. if seat rents are high in a chapel of ease, their exorbitancy of price is a mere matter of contrast, and this can only be decided by the proper returns. If a mi nister of a church chapel have an income incommensurate with his duties or his abilities, how are we to judge of the fact except by the substantiated superiority in talent, and inferiority of remuneration by , the dissenter most opposed to him. If the dissenters, their chapels, their incomes, their debts, their congregations, their funds, their chari table collections, do not form part of this inquiry, the whole thing is a farce, a gross delusion, if not a shame less imposition upon the people of Scotland. If dissen ters are to be exempted from this scrutiny then we hesi tate not to declare that the ccmmission is a fraud, and that every member of the church who submits to it is bar tering his rights, and selling the dignity of his ecclesias tical station, and humbling the sanctuary to which he is endeared by so many ties—committing an outrage upon his sacred mother—compromising his principles, and, unintentionally perhaps, recognising an authority which is as Various as it is assumed, and the author of which, instead of being treated with respect, should be openly arraigned and defied. When this commission was issued there were thousands of moderate men in Scotland—good men—intelligent men too—men who not dreaming of evil, but little ac quainted with political parties, and averse from question ing the paternal attachments of what they had lived long enough to consider a paternal government—who were disposed, in the assurances of a minister of the crown, to abide the scrutiny, and assist to the fullest of their power the inquiries of the government. These men now see their error. They not only see error : —they feel all the pangs which can be imposed or inflicted by fraud. They consider that their good faith has been challenged-41w `their love of truth has, been qnestioned—that their n_ Jibe rality)ll,l has bee const;' ed into an admission of accum n - ' lated negligencies on t eir part, and th e p ar t o f th e c h urc h ; but they now plainly .. e that the church is nothing in th e eyes of the kovernmE.: t -that dissent is everything-- that popery arid disse' .‘ stand highest in, the estimation of the ministers of the - crown—that the rebel religionist is the preferred' christipi—that the creed of our fore . fathers is an old almanack, and that protestntism, when it jars with popery, sOcipianism, or infidelity, is a thing to be hUnted down as a fox or badger is in the environs of Woburn Abbey. This is, going far beyond the bounds of toleration. It is insulting to the presbyterians of Scotland in the high est degree, and surely it will noti'be endured while we have a protestant Prince of the House of Brunswick on the throne; Whatever may be done, or attempted to be done in Ireland, it is too late in the day to tell us that .the protestant people of Scotland will submit to have their religion prejudged by a man of such contemptible intellect as Lord JOUIN RUSSELL, or allow fetters to be placed upon their minds, or counterbalances upon their settled opinions, under the vile pretext of advancing their political' regeneintion. We have much more to say on this important subject, but, our spacn,lcieing occupied, we shall return to it at the first opportui!ky. We are delighted to announce that our 'honoured and popular representative, Mr. WM. EWART, is, and will be for a few days only, at home. The electors, therefore, will be pleased not to lose any time in paying their re spects to him at his inn. He comes to hear all griev ances, and redress, as far as he can, all wrongs. We regret to observe that there are some staring pla cards on the walls containing the elegant address which Mr. EWART published to his fellow burgesses a few years ago. This digging up of old bones evinces an unchris tian disposition, and cannot be too loudly deprecated. What interest can the people take in anything that was uttered or published by the honourable member in . 1830 ? If, indeed, it be intended to prove his consistency, well and good, for no man breathing his more reason to be proud of his consistent politics, his untarnished independ ence, and his notorious hatred of bribery and corruption.. But we strongly suspect that the placards are posted, by some of the fallen and defunct tories, merely to evince their envy of Mr. EWART. Various notices have also been exhibited on the walls in reference to the honour able member, but we are authorised to say that none of them are authentic. The following, which, per favour, we have received exclusively is the only letter which Mr. EWART, at the present sitting, has addressed to his constituents. We request for it the most attentive perusal. "Angel Inn, Dale-street, 30 Nov., 1835. " TO THE INDEPENDENT BURGESSES 01' LIVERPOOL. " FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. "The plurality of indifferences which, like the poet's halo, throw a dim obsenration over the reminisences of political affi nity, are revived and tempered into the kindliest ardour by finding myself, once more, my dear fellow countrymen, after the lapse of a few short months, in the midst of you. Arduous and anti-complacent, no doubt, are the exuberances of con dign patriotism, and refreshing as the dews which descend from the etherial are the pleasures which sustain the recipro city of enjoyment when friends embrace in overpowering con gratulations. I am, therefore, unostentatiously and calmly sensible of our beneficial intercourses at the Angel Inn, kept by a most respectable lady, whom 1 am proud to prepossess by the most amicable concords, and in one of whose most deli cious parlours, on the first floor, I shall be trancendantly en ra.ptured to see you any day between the hours of twelve and two o'clock. " I premise this announcement in order to prevent any mis stakes. I shall be unutterably happy to see My friends, unbi assed by undue predilections, in order to concert with them the destinies of liberal extension, the promulgation of academical theorems, and secure for the common welfare of our beloved country those esteemed attributes of felicitous mercantilism ire which I take so profound an interest. "It is requisite, my fellow burgesses, at this awful and irw; pending crisis, that the intrinsic maxim of the Latin poet should be observed— WhOteveiorilyus est nos againstibus Cannotis bi, per um:, foribus.' . - ''The times are replete with untiring examples. My pledges itlid in undying sunshine—my votes are in the records of Air THE, LIVERPOOL STANDARD. perishable history—and my servitude of sleepless vigilance is not like the tale 'told by an idiot'—it is something. Modesty, deferentially, forbids further expletives. "When the seasons shall have revolved to the extremity of another election, which, permit me to expound, is by no means desirable, I shall rely upon the unforfcited consanguinity of your integrity, discrimination, and natural acuteness of dis cernment. Then I shall be, what I have ever been, ready, as Milton says— 'To war with worlds and disarm the Gods.' "The mean the Peers,' have beet), alas for e tensive developments ! the impenetrable nucleus of undesecrated reform. I have now, however, dared them to unexting.uishable contest, and, panoplied in reason and unfastidious science, I hold myself confident of success. "The perfectibility of municipal arrangements, completed under my auspices, will secure to my fellow burgesses an enlarged prosperity, relieve them from many onerous and almost overwhelming civic burdens, give purification to domi nancy in our streets, throw the corradiations of sublimated gas into remote parts, and increase the value of municipal mort gagees. These are my unalloyed congratulations. "I have the honour to he, "My dear fellow countrymen, " Your faithful servant, " W. EWAItT. ".N.8.-The lady of the Angel does not supply soup during toy sojourn in Liverpool." LONDON LATEST ATEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock, The Consol Market was slightly influenced on Thursday by the purchases made by the commissioners under the slave abo lition act, who invested a further sum of £390,000. This invest ment was made at 911 the price for the account being then 9I T I 92. On Friday the price fell to 91g, and for the account 911 , 3 - This afternoon, owing to rumours of an unfavourable nature, respecting the affairs of Spain and Portugal, and France and America, the public securities have undergone a still fur t her depression. These rumours are, that the Portuguese troops will not, on account of the changes in the cabinet of Lisbon, be permitted to enter Spain, and that th e movements in the French naval departments indicate an approaching skirmiSh between those mighty potentates, Andrew of America and Louis Phil lippe of France, respectiri,c, , the dollars and the apologv. - - - tience - . Consols which opened at OR ;4 fell this afternoon to 9i t, and .1,,r money to 91. - The closing prices of the public securities were : Bank Stock, 211; Reduced Annuities, 90; Consols, 91i ; per Cents. Reduced, ; New Ditto, 99- - g ; ; Long Annuities, ; India Stock, 2561; India Bonds, Gprm; Consols fur Ac— count, 912. The unstable condition of the Portuguese ministry being likely to render inefficient or altogether prevent the intervention of Donna Maria in the affairs of Spain, - has led to sonic exten sive sates of Spanish Bonds, and a consequent depression of those securities. The mike - Consolidated Bonds have fallen from 191- to 46 : Deferred from 2.51 to 231; Passive from 15 to 131. Tire Portuguese Stocks have aiso been much deteriorated in :alue—the 5 per Cents. filling from 91 to S'Fq, and the 3 per Cents, from 53+: 1 to 37):: 55. The northern securities remain arm. ATROCIOUS CASE OF STABBING, On Friday Mr. Alderman Wright was engaged at the private room in the Sessions-hoese, in the investigation of the follow ing extraordinary case, which had been postponed in conse quence of the inability of Mr. Walker, one of the parties in the case, to attend from the injuries he had received. Mr. Crewe attended on behalf of Mr. Hegne, and Mr. Snowball, appear ed for Mr. Walker. After a brief preliminary conversation it was agreed between the two solicitors that the first charge should come from Mr. Crewe, Mr. Snowball remarking, that it was his belief that his client would he cleared, in which case the charge would he made by him in his turn Mr. Crewe then stated the nature of the charge to the following effect:—'That on Saturday night, the 7th of October, Mr. Walker was passing along Dawson-street, when he was accosted by a girl, who bo e the name of Bridget Tierney, and who resided with Mr. Hague, to whoie house both ultimately adjourned. After he had been 'there some time, Mrs. Hague heard a cry of murder proceeding from the front parlour, where Mr. Walker and the girt were. On her entrance Mr. Walker rushed at her with a knife and at tempted to stab her. Upon this Mr. Hague entered the apart ment, and placed himself between . Mrs. Hague and the assail ant, when the latter rushed at hint and made a thrust at his bowels, which, however, did not take effect. The defendant then made several cuts at Mr. Walker's face which he gashed in a most severe manner. Mr. Hague then seized him and threw him down and held him till a policeeacer was sent for, to whom he was given in charge. Mr. Crewe then called Bridget Tierney, who sworn to the of Mr, Walker having met her in the street. and gone Into Hague's house with her. She stated that when there he had promised to make her a pre sent of seven•shilliegs and sixpence, which she afterwards re quested him to pay. Instead of complying, he drew forth a knife from his pocket and advanced towards tier. Alderman Wright asked her if be had struck or stabbed her with the knife. She replied, " No." " Then," said the Magistrate, "how did you dare to tell me on your former examination that he had Made a violent stab at you, and that he cut your clothes, and, but for the hone of your stays, the knife would have entered Your bowels ?" The witness equivocated, blundered, was con tused, and ultimately contradicted herself three or four times. Indeed the whole of her evidence, especially upon minute points was a series of contradictions, and from the set phrases which she copiously used, it is pretty evident that site bad been well drilled, on particular points. her intention seemed to be to prove that Mr. Walker had refused to pay her deiitand,—that he had taken 'a knife from his pocket. and had threatened her with it.—that Mrs. Hague came in first, and that Mr. Walker had endeavoured to stab her,—that Mr. Hague hart interfered, and that Mr. Walker had made a stab at his stomach, and had afterwards cut him on the face. In the course of her cross-ex amination by Alderman Wright, several glaring cemtlictions were elicited. Mr. Isindney, surgeon, was called to prove the nature- of Mr. blague's wounds, which it appears were pretty deep (legit wounds of the cheeks and lips. • Mary Beattie, who resides in Dawson-street, stated that ehe had entered Mr. Hague's house in consequence olthe shrieks ' which she had hoard in the inside. - She had seen Mr. Walker ' on the floor on his bands and knees, and Mr. Hague upon hint holding him down. Mr. Ilagee's face was bleeding copiously, and his blood was flowing on Mr. Walker. At the request of Mrs. Hague, she went for. a police-otlicer, and brought Shelley. The latter stated that when he arrived at Hague's house, tie found Mr.Welker' lying on the floor of the passage covered with blond. Hague was kneeling upon him, Mrs. Hague stood near with the bloody knife in her hand. When he p.,ot. Mr. Walker up, he Was uedrly insensible. Ile, however, slowly re covered, but his ejaculations were all of a nature expressive of the strongest alarm. When he got nut he continued to call upon the officer to save hint, and frequently called him the pre server of his life... When he got him to Brulewell he sent for a surgeon. His (Mr. Walker's) head was contused and wounded •in a frightful manner. The surgeon declared that Mr. Walker Was its considerable danger. Hague, the keeper of the dis orderly-house, gave testimony of a similar tendency to that of the girl Bridget Tierney. He, however, swore that lie accom panied his wife into the parlour in the rst instance, while the former had said that he did not enter till afterwards. He de nied ever having before seen the knife which Shelley produced. .Mr. Snowball suggested that 111 r Walker should make his de fenee; by giving his own version of the transaction. • Mr. Walker simply stated that he had been to see souse friends, and was; at about half-past seven o'clock passing along Dawson street, When he was accosted by several disorderly girls, who dragged him into Hague's house ag a i nst hi s own inclination: He was thrust into a parlour where two of the girls remained with him, and insistedupon his paying for some wine. He re fused, and was about to take his departure, when one of the girls called oiit, " lock the frontdoor." With this request he heard some one comply. He then went to the parlour door and found that it was fastened outside He insisted upon being let out upon which Hague entered and asked him if he did not intend . to pay forsome wine. He replied in the negative, when Hague felt upon him, and as he endeavoured to escape into the passage, he was knocked down and beaten about the head in a most violent manner. Hague seated himself upon his body and re peatedly knocked his head against the floor. He had no further recollection of any occurrence, save, that as he was coming to himself, he heard Hague whisper to a servant that they had better remove him to the back part of the house. He denied that he had made use of a knife or any other weapon. He did not usually carry a knife. A witness named Richard Case was called, who testified tha• he bad been in the service of Hague, and had been accustomed to use the knife which was produced, to clean the horses bits, It came out in this part of the evidence that Hague kept a. horse, a mule, a gig, and one male and three female servants. This witness knew the knife well; it was a common hack about Hague's 'souse. Alderman Wright was of opinion that with such evidence he could not entertain the charge against Mr. Walker, and it was accordingly dismissed. Ile was in the same -dilemma with re spect to the contra-charge. Mr. Walker seemed anxious that his attorney should proceed against Hague. Some conversation. ensued on this subject between the solicitors, but we were un able to learn the result. " TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE LIVERPOOL AND PIiESTON TURNPIKE 110 AD. QENTLEMEN,—I observe that you meet to-morrow, to take .into consideration a motion to be made, that an additional toll gate be erected across the road, between the second and third mile-stone from Liverpool to Ormskirk. The object of this attempt to have a gate so near Liverpool manifestly is, not so much (though this may be pretended) to make the farmers and inhabitants of Walton pay toll, as it is to get as much as you can from the inhabitants of Liverpool who may wish to take a ride for pleasure or otherwise. If, therefore, you carry - your object into effect, the levying of a toll so near the lawn of Liverpool will, although justifiable by law, (because I believe you can, by your act of Parliament, erect gates any where on the road, provided you do not touch the extreme boundary of the town,) be an additional impost upon the in habitants of. Liverpool. Now, gentlemen, will you he pleased to consider that all tolls are, per se, nuisances, and can only be sanctioned by the neces sity of the case. Do you and that the money you now receive is ins , Sicierit to keep your road in yeod repair, atter paying all cliaq.es and expenses? I trove not. On the contrary; lam credibly informed that you have a yearly surplus, and that your trust is in a most flourishing condition. if so, permit me to ask, what should induce you, by placing a tollgate nearer to Liverpool, to create a greater inconvenience than the neces sity of the case requires? t shall say no more, except that these are not times when tolls will cheerfully be submitted to, when ni and purpose can be discerned.—l Ste. I - ,STIGA l'O November 30, PM. 110 I I Malla (A DTERTISEITE _ LISCARD POWDER AGAZINES. L 'PPOOL STANDXRD. veral weeks since published A Requisitionist," being re h had appeared therein, under TO THE EDITOR OF TIT Ste,—Under the above head in your paper two letters, signe , plies to two previous letters sv! the signature " Conservator." I have this day been written to by a gentleman residing near the Magazines, who infoums me that the letters signed " A Re tplit,itioni-t" have been considered as personally applied to him, and be assures me that he dues not knots who is. the writer of the letters signed " Conservator," Permit me, then, through the same medium as my replies ap peared in to state that they were intended to the writer "Con servator," and that such application of them _by any . person to that gentleman whose residence is near the Magazines is in correct, and that I disclaim any intention of encouragnig so erro.; ncous an impression. —Yours, A REQUISITIONIST. Liward, 30th Novent'vr, 1835. TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL! AND TO THE PROTESTANTS OP GREAT lIRITAIN AND IRELAND. "That the state has nothing to do with one religion snore than another." Such is the cant or jesuitical phrase adopted by the advocates of dissent., and the ministerial organs of the press, Who are ini tiated in repudiating the principles upon which is built the established church. Men as often confuse their own minds as . mistily those of others. by the use of certain cabalistic terms, the import of which is, for the time, not apprehended. But we would ea rnestlycall upon all who have not cast off the fear of offend ing the living God, their" Ahnighty Creator, that what we 411 ac knowledge to be the only revelation of God to man, is come to us! In it we read—" Be wise now, Uye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son." The organs of dissent, unhappily for themselves, assert that the state, as a nation, must equally protect or neglect protes tantistn, popery, judaism, mahomedism, hindoois m , p agan i sm ! It is such a proposition as this, reduced to practice, by renegade nations, which calls for denunciation from the throne of the Eternal 4 "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel." "The Lord from Ileaven did not become man to make known a salvation to be rejected by men, in whatever capacity they act, as they list, to be put on a level, in practice, with the foul imposture of Mahomet. or the bloody rites of paganism. We assert it, as really a fundamental truth, that it is the .first duty of man, in his individual, domestic, national, and every oth er c once i va bl e capacity, to do every thing in his power to establish and per petuate the pure worship of the only true Jehovah; and that • if natiims, whether in their individual or collective capacity, swerve from this, their primary duty, under any conceivable pretence or:excuse, they bring themselves, as responsible beimis, under the displeasure and judgments of the Almighty. And shall it be annunciated as "a first principle" by a man professing to be a christian, that a nation, or any nation, "has nothing to do with one religion more than another?" That a nation, consistently with the fundamental cimstitution of things, cannot nationally serve,: please, or offend God. Out upon the ridiculous, the impious, the ineffable, the atheistical absurdity! "Blessed be God," says an able and pious writer on the subject of the church, (side an article in the Record newspaper, of the 12th instant,) "Our fathers knsw nothing of the ineffable ab surdity and infamous impiety of the first principle,' that 'the state has nothing to do with one religion inure than another.' They embraced the christian religion—they endowed it; that endowment, with the exception of some unjust and infamous , spoliathms by unprincipled and despotic, kings for iiie reward of their minions, has come down to us of this day. When the Christian faith became so encruqied with error as to be nearly lost, throdgh the corruptions and heresies of popery,' -(of those iniquitous-errors we will give ample proofs at our leisure,) our -forellitherstbrew offthe apotaciy, justly a lid ig reserving. the endowments, (according to the deliberate judgment of churchmen and non-conformists,) to the christian church, now cleansed from its heresy and defilement. Here we are then, at this day, with the established churches voluntarily endowed. And here :ire dissenters, professing evangelical truth, demand ing that, the churches shall be deprived of their property, thus voluntarily appropriated to them. And to what .purpose? Is is to extend the interests of evangelical truth ? No! but to be desecrated to purely secular purposes, in order that the cier tz y may not Ire richer, nor more honoured, nor moved in a higher circle of society than they. This, we asert, is the grand rea son avowed, recognized, and approved of by the great leaders and organs of the dissenting bodies. Of the decency, conclu siveness, and christian fitness of the established church, we leave the country to judge. We now proceed topoint out what the essence of " rotes tantism" is. A striking peculiarity of protestantism is, "that it ever appeals front all that professes to be spiritual authority to the word of God," instead of appealing to " private con science." Protestaatimi teaches (rain the word of God, that the conscience of fallen man has lost its original power of just discernment and accurate judgment. Protestantism, therelore, appeals not to ahuman authority," neither to "private con science," but to "the dec!aied will of God," as revealed in the infallible directory given in the bible. The leaders of the "re formation," making this appeal, the "Itomish church," under the judgment of the bible, was found wanting by this ptoteptaut people, (churchmen and non-conformi , ts,) and. was cast out, as no longer " hoiding forth the word of h;e" to a lost world, which is the duty and object of the "christian church," and fur which purpose she had been originally endowed. In establishing the present churches, the nation did not rest on " public authority," but on the sacred scriptures, and, in re sisting the , present impious attempts to destroy them—made jointly by papists and renegade non-conforingts, the nation does not " appeal bark again b 'lnman authority," neither does - - it rest on " iii . uividual conscience, but it appeals as before to the volume of inspiration, lying spread open before it, and it finds, in consequence of that appeal, that their fmefathers performed a pious and Godly act, no doubt; but still nothing more than their bounden duty in appropriating a certain pact of their pro perty for the maintenance of His worship and service; and, by another appeal to the same infallible authority, they also find that they who would deprive the established church of this pro perty, voluntarily appropriated and firmly secured to them, to desecrate it to secular purposes, are perpetrating au act to which the names of robbery and sacrilege may with the utmost propriety he applied. " Expediency" is no excuse for spoliating the property of the established copreh. Whether it had been a fifth, a tenth, or a twentieth, it'was originally a pure, voluntary act. The "gift" was as voluntarily made as Lady Hewiey's endowment, or the endowment of dheshunt CbliF•ge by Lady Huntingdon, or of Highbury College, by Thomas NA , dson and others,. or that of any dissenting college, or chapel, oi-library,'in . past or present time. Does this voluntary endowment of the christian church lose its voluntary character because it was made centuries ago? Be cause it was voluntary, may it be resumed ? Then, also, may Lady Hewley's, Lady Huntingdon's, Mr. Thomas Wilson's, or auv other voluntaries. Let it, then, once for all, be noted down and borne in mind by all our readers, that the established churehetin these islands stand on the voluntary principle, and that the state, or rather the lato, does no more for it than it does for Lady Hewley's Charity, t c. , &c. To conclude, I shall merely remark, that any one convex - snot with -the historr-of'rhe deilverauce country from popery, and the establishment of the Church of England, to gether with the fiery trials through which " the Zion .of our fathers" had to pass, and the pious principles and christian for titude of her earls' supporters, will not hesitate iu the course he ought to adopt Tr lien assailed by the designing machinations of unprincipled and selfish demagogues who are themselves the unconscious tools of O'Connell, who, in his turn, is the active agent and tool of the Roman Catholic priests, who are the de positaries of Deus's Theology—the conference book of the popi4lt church in Ireland. " The flagitious and abominable principles of this bad book are now sufficiently understood to render an enlarged exposition of its character unnecessary." Ignorant men, or benevolent, unsuspecting christians are often deluded by the jesuist sophistry of designing demagogues, who talk of popery as " something very harmless;" olid - they even speak slightingly of those who purchased with their blood the privileges which we now enjoy; but, assuredly, no christion man, acquainted with the history of his country, can do other than venerate their Memory, zealously- &tend the privileges which they left us in trust, and be ready on every proper ()eel. sion to call to remembrance the great gelidness of Gal, mani fested in the deliverance of their country front the persecutions and slavish bondage of a popish yoke. O'Connell, in an 'un guarded hour, let nut " the secret of the Vatican !" " Let us first," said he, at a meeting in Ireland,• get the dissenters' aid in upsetting the established church, and, after that, we caa soon and easily manage the dissenteis • Such, fellow protes tants, is the sound truth &aced before you. Rouse up ! Re member Wickliffe, Mclancthon, and Luther, &c., who, through fiery troubles, brought the inspired volume of truth, and righteousness, which bringeth to salvation, to the light! It is the cause of God. A. R. November 19/4, 1835. SEA LS IN THE wErt TwEr.D.--4t is generally supposed that the seal lives in salt water only; but for some weeks past,!seve ral of these occasionlly have been seen playing their gambols in the Tweed, much to the astonishment of most people. About a fortnight ago they were observed at Upsetlington, in the shal low stream that runs below The ford, and where their bodies were but half covered by the water. Soon afterwards, two seals were seen in the deep water below Milne Graden House about four miles below Upsetlington. The fishermen think they had come up the river in pursuit of saltuon.—Beruick and Ktho Warder. PutrlT OrtAzon.Y.—A certain voluntary preacher, whose . public exhibitions are generally more amusing than edifying, in commencing his lecture on a late occasion in his. own church, took occasion to condemn a practice that is gaining ground among fashionable preachers, of not dividing their discourses into heads, according to ancient usage; and expressed his Pel ings on the subject, b y telling his scanty congre ga ti on "th a t for his part, he looked upon sermons without heads in the same light as brose without nott. !"—Edinburgh Evening Foal. TEMPESTrOUS STATE OF THE WRATH ER.—Nie scarcely eve; rennonber such tempestuous weather as fur the last few days has prevailed in our city. The wind was exceedingly high, and it was extremely dangerous for any.person to pass through the streets, occasioned by the falling of slates anti missiles Irons the roofs of the houses. Besides this, the parade, the Dyke, and Old George's-street were overflowed with water, which was touch increased by the high tides and,the wind blowing in the mouth of the harbour, contributing thereby greatly to its in; crease. About ten o'clock last night the wind ceased in a great' degree, but the rain. continues all thisatay . with unabated seve rity. We fear theAecidents at sea must be many and dange,r otos. We have just heard from a gentleman who reached Corks . a few hours since, that he witnessed on his way from Itosscar-, bery here seven wrecks on the western coast, some of which were actually going to pieces. We have also,heardAthat a Por tuguese schooner, with her crew, has been lost, in Ballycottoo Bay.—Cork Herald. A. FRIGHTFUL AND APPALLING I.? ACT—OFFICIAL.--AR DENT SPIRITS AND Cnistr..—A young man in Ireland committed . a murder in March 1633. Ile was afterwards tried at Kilkenny, and pronounced by the jury to be guilty. " Yes, my Lord," said the prisoner, "I am guilty, and pointing to hiS soother, a woman more titan eighty years of age who stood by, 'She is the cause of it.''' It appeared-that this aged woman had agreed be forehand for the price of the blood of Mr. Leonard, the man who, according to that agreement, was to he - murdered by her son. The mother watched for the coming of the unforturale and unsuspecting man, and when she saw him approaching, she handed the pistol to her son, but there wits not enough of wick edness and hardiness in the young man to commit the deed. Ile instinctively shrunk back, say tog "how can I murder the poor gentleman?" The motherhamled him the whisky bottle. which she had provided for the occasion, 'and site said "take that." Ile took it—he shot the man—and he was hanged. When he made the accusation against his mother, she would have been prosecuted on his testimony had not the son been a convicted felon.—British Parlianteidarq Report, page 292. LONDON SOLITUDE.—In London, any thing may be had for money; and one thing may be had there in .perfection without it—that one thing is solitude. . Take up your abode, in the deep est glen, or on the wildest heath, in the remotest province in the kingdom, where the din of commerce is not heard. where the wheels of pleasure make no trace, even there humanity will find you, anti sympathy, under some of its varied aspects, will creep beneath the humble roof. Travellers' curiosity will -be excited to gaze upon the recluse, or the village pastor willeonse to offer his religious consolations to the heart chilled solitary; or some kind spinster, who is good to the poor, will proffer her kindly aid in medicine for sickness, or in some 'shape of relief for poverty. 1311 t in the mighty metropolis, where myriads of human hearts are throbbing—where all that is busy in com merce, all that is elegant io manners, all that is mighty in power, all that is dazzling in splendour, all that is brilliant in genius, all that is benevolent in feeling, is congregated toge-• . ther—there the penniless solitary may feel the depth of his soli- tude. Front morn to night he may pensively puce the streets, envying every equipage that sweeps by him . in its pride, and eo-. voting the crusts of the unwashed artificer. And there shall pass hint in his walks, poets that musically sing of human feel ing, priests that preach the religion of mercy, the wealthy who pity the sorrows of the poor, the sentimental whose hearts are touched by the tale of woe—and none of these - shall heed him; and he may retire at night to his bedless garret, and sit cold and hungry by his empty grate; the world may be . busy, and cheerful, and noisy mound him, but no sympathy shall reach him; his heart shall be as dry as Gidenn'l fleece, while the ititeuing dews of hurl - amity are falling around arkr,ll -, e a r: •••t'' wv(*ipt:k..-• • - • • -4 •, 1. ~ '.l .:.. ~'~' ~~'+ ~r - .~~~ LOCAL NETV,S .• ase ilthoriited by the Chairman rif the Cntis'erVativd association for condu6ting: the municipal elections, t Smith, .Esq, 9f Fullwood),_ to state that the list of candidates fot the commoustsonncil en the ••eforni interest, which - appeared on the walls sonte s slays ago, Were placed there without his know :ledge, and on inquiry he %as informed that it did not etuanate from the conservative committee. \lr. Smith authorises us to sat, that he -hopes this will be considered a sufficient reply to the various remarks on the subject which have appeared in souse of the liberal newspapers. , • STREET ItOEBERY.—On Saturday evening last; about five o'clock, ac Mr. 1 - liggie of Greek-street, was returning homeS when within a few yards from his own house, be.sea s attacked by some young, ruffians, who knocked hint down and robbed hint - of an excellent patent lever watch. The Polibtrs have as yet not tesen taken. Tuts New COt'NTY ELECTIoNS.—The accounts from l'iorth ainptonsltire speak of the return of Mr. Maunseil, the conser vative candidate for that county, as quite certain, although the whole influence of government, together with that of the Earls Spencer and iqts:williain, and some other Whig families will be united in favour ()flits opponent. 'Lord Charles Manners will ; it is expected, he elected for,the northern division of LeiCester shire in the room tif hii deceased brother, Lord Robert Man ners, Without opposition. It. Blast:dot , ;Sale, Esd., has been se lectetb Its the conservative hotly of West Gloucestershire as the successes of the Marquis of Vvorcester (new Duke of Beaufort) in Pariiament. Mr. dale, it is sail, will he peptised by a no minee of Lord Segrave, hut, says the Bristol Journal, " we hard not the slightest apprehension as to the result." '.6 . ITTER'S SNoesinr-Es.—We have mach pleasure in calling the attention of our musical readers to an advertisement in another column of Messrs. Zsiter and Css's gravid and semi grand pianofortes. We : _have no hesitation in pronouncing these instruments to he superier its every respect to any in coni moo ;les.. They possess a fulness, and, at the saute time, a rich ness and delicacy atone beyond our power, to descrilie, and the touch is so line that the crescendo and diormendo eau with very little effurt be produced to the utmost nicets. Our limits will not permit us to enter into a detail of the vast improvement its the snechanism of these instrineents; we, however, recommend them as being well worth the inspection of both professors and amatenrs. , few minutes after nine o'clock on Sunday night, the watchman on duty discovered that the premises of Mr. sugar-refiner, Finny-lane, Atherton-street, were on fire. It originated, it appears, in the stove, anti soon extended throtigh the whole liuilding, threatenints the imetted warehouse which adjoins. Mr. Whitty beiesr in the neigabourhood, kept the , bolts closed until the arrival a the engire:s, Which was in less. than live minutes, anti in half an hour t -s' fire was extin ssnished. Mr. Dill; we regret so :lad, rsd insured, bUt the dnosege•is rent very esumiderales . • .. Ns:w Jot vr Sr oett BANNING Com' anottier part of ' our paper wilt he fontid the prospectus 41i . a new joint stock h au ki tt s- eerapany to be called The East or England Commer cial il4rs." , The capital priposed to be Ssi!-ed is ;S:300.000 in 25,1)00 shares of 220 each. The central (ace ef the eank v.lll be in Notwich mid branch offices will be esatblithed in all the `principal towns of Nurhilk anti Sogolk. Louis LitcuTasi A NT of GLouesreassints.—A London even , ing-whig panes, of Thursday last., contained the followingpara graph It is said that Ltird Ducie will succeed the late Duke of Beaufort, as Lord Lieutenant of Gleucestershire. Lord Segrave has been mentioned, but. Lord Ducie, it is said, who is an unflinching whin, has prior claims." If this scrap of neat comes front -toe HOme Office, what will the Lord of Berkeley Castle say to it ? DEATH or THE nEv. MR. 3PCT.FAN.—We stun the press to ann'eunce—reed we say with what feelings of s o rrow and re gret?—the death of th e " Rey. Mr. lit'Clean, one of the junior febows of our University. • This event has just-oceurted. The disease which terminated the existence of this estimable and respected gentleman was Indignant fever.=--llub/in Evening' Mail. 1 , 0 „t „„d L a d y F ranc i s Egerton have left their romantic seat. at OatlainiAlo join the Dukc and Duchess of :..iuthei land, Lady Charlotte Greville, &e., at Pari. ENTR A OROINA RV COLLECTION AT A AVESI.F.YAN A PEIL.— On Sunday last, three sermons were preached in the Wesleyan Methodist' Chapel, Gratrix-gardens, Hnlme, on behalf of that chapel, and of another recently erected in the vicinity of Nevi Islington, Aroats. The Rev..ior. Bunting being in the neigh bourhood, was prevailed upon tcetake the mottling service, and after a most. admirable discoerse, a collection was made, amount ing to .:().10 1!'. 2d., beinic, it is believed, the largest ever made in a Wesleyan Chapel, at Manchester. This amount was sub serviently increased to I.:GSO 15s. 3d., .after two able and ener getic sermons by the Rev, Edward Walkerein the afternoon and evening of the same day. The trustees of the New Isling ton Chapel are under the deepest obligations to Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., fur his truly munificent gift of the land occupied by the trust property-4 gift amounting in value to several hun dred pounds. We also understand that the Rev. Dr. Bunting, a few days since, received an anonymous -leper, signed •" A Debtor to Methotticia as it is," inclosing the handsoine . sum of £5OO, to be appropriated towards the objects of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.—jranchester Courier. ANNUAL SPORTING DINNTi.R.—On Thursday evening, about two hundred admirers of EugUsh horse-racing dined together in the Manor Court-room, Brown-street; Mr. 'l'. Haggerty officiated as president on the occasion, and Mr. Williamson took the vice-chair. The dinner, which consisted of every delicacy of the season,-was provided by Mr. James Bake, of the Bull'e Head, Barnes-street; the wines and spirits were of the choicest quality, and the tvhole of the arrangements reflected the highest credit upon the worthy host awl hostess. After the cloth had been drawn, the healths of the King, the Queen, the Princess Vi ctoria, and the other branches of the royal family, were severally given front the chair. The chairman said the next toast he had to propose was the health of a nobleman to whom the inhabitants of this town were indebted fur one of the first private meetings in the kingdom; They had many supporters of the turf in this neighbourhood, but he considered that the noble earl he wag about to name • stood first upon the list as . a British sportsman. It would he presumptuous in hint to enumerate the many ex , cellent points in this nobleman's character, he should therefore propose- the health of their fellow-townsman. "The. Earl of Wilton," (Three times three,. and .one. cheer nire,) The health of E. L. Mostyn, Esq., theoinpnichased and unpur= chaseable owner of the , Queen of Trutops, followed, and was received with great cheering. Thomas Houldsworth, Es 9., Turner, Esq., the Earl of Derby, and many tither individual„ connected with the turf, were also suitably noticed. Several excellent songs, duets ' &c. were sung, and the evening was spent in the most convivial manner,--Manchester Courier. A LoTtia tie AN HUME:I i LIPIi.—On Wednesday last, ti labouring man was brought before hie worship the mayor, and Sir. Alderman Saudhach, on a peace •wa•rrant, obtained egaimt him by a voting married woman, who thus stated her coin , . plaint;—"Oentlemen,—Sir,---Intst Friday that man came to pair of bellows belonging to myself ; my house, and took up a which I had fetched from my mother's, and cut me shamefully with them. Be comes and swears that he wild split my skull open, and it is quite a scandal to the neighbourhood." Magis trate—"llas he a ny - reason for annoying You?" Complainant —"I was an utifoiennate girl, and lived' with him formerly; but I have been married about torte line - ohs, and now he.wiati't, let use live quietly withony lansband, at I want." De. fvpdant--" Wilt a nor worship let me speak?" M:tvor—"Cer tainiy; what have-you to say Cenneainalit—"Tlus lass and rue tined together for two years, and then he got toil tied to a comp 'She of mine,' 'She-came beck to toe within three (lore after she was rnarried, and lived with the eight . months out of the ten she has been married.- She is after toe night and day to comae and live with ow again, and waited me to poison her . husband. No, says I, if you nant your husband's Hie ' take it yourself, if it's all the samne o to \ u, have ma hing to do with: it." Mr. Alderman "Sandbach—' You have ()ode proved all that she has charged you with ; you cone ;old annoy her, when all she wants is to live peaceably with her husband." Cont.! y o ur worship," • Mr. Sande plainant—" inveigled ales'ay, bach—" lie must find hail to keep the peace." As the prisoner left the bar he said to his accuser, You have not get me e k b y your summer's." Ile was consequeellv called hack and told that two good sureties would be required in £'s each. EDINRURGH AND GLASGOW 1; A ILWA Y.—We understand ti prospectus of a railway between ledinteirgn and Glasgow, ettr-i veved b% Messrs. Stevenson and Son, of Edinburgh, will shortly appear. The line proposed is pretty oiuch the same as that sure veved in 1814, by Mr. Stevenson, sem, for a canal upon One bo.;e/ between these cities. It passes (lose In the towns of Lin lithgow and Falkirk, and enters (:lac'„ ow by the Coweeddensi from which a branch strikes off to the Ilteontielaw. At the eastern end of the line commueications are to be maileoidth Leith, Granton, and other places in the neighbourhood. The summit level of this line does not rise more than 155 feet above the sea, and it continues nearly on one level all the way from Edinburgh to the village of Kilsv, a distance of about thirty five miles, after which it falls genily by kirkintilloch and time Kelvin Aqueduct to the Coweaddens, and the top of Buchannane street, in Glasgow, communicating as already noticed with the Brooniielaw by a branch front this point, The branch to the Breoinielaw, which is the steepest inclination on the line, does not exceed one in 100, and is therefore somewhat easier than the 4ainhill plane on our own railway. - The whole length the line between Edinburgh and Glasgotv is forty-ci!rht miles ! , and as it is nearly level, the journey , between these cities will not occupy more than two hours instead of lire as at present. MATH (IF SIR 1:11;NRY PHILIP UOGHTON, BART.-••—Wei have had the inelancholv task to insert in our present Obituary the death of a universally respected neighbour, Sir 11. 1". Lloghton, Bart. - , .which event took place at his seat at Walton, ball,- near this town, yesterday afternoot:. Very soon after the mrairatil'itttelligente teas ku - i:vn ' in 'Presnin, the hiitTs in the parish church (,if which the worthy baronet was lay rector)' rang muffled peals, at interYals, (11:riiiir the eeen'int,:. The hair.; mities under which Sir I - lenry Ili gliton had long laboured; had, in a great degree, estranged lie front public society; but to the friends who were pertnitted the c o ntinued pleasure of his acquaintance, the experience of his kind and hospitable be. havionr was a ,source . of high gratifichlboi, as the recollectioti of its loss-is now* subject of sincere regret, But it were to o lt wrong his memory'" • that, the feelings of respect and admi ration for his thara we COlltilled to thor. more intimately acquainted with hi they were equally shared by all who had witnessed the exe tplary wanner in which he discharged his duties in the' various relations of life. ' Whether, then, he was regarded as a fattier, a friend, or neighbour, or in the proud character which his whole line established to him, • . " A tine old English gyntleitian. of the olden time," it is not too iy.uoll to say that. he lived emitientiv'respected, and that his delth is sincerely lamented. It is scarcely , accessary to that he is succeedtd by his only son, Mr. Henry Bold,' now :Sir .1-lenry Bold floghtoo, Batt.--;Prexitni The functionaries of tie fort-ellice have determined npon pet a piece of plate to :•Sir I e ucis Feeding as a trihute of tiwir great respect. A subscription is now Open for that . purpose.—Edinbury/i. Adreptiter. Sown' MON UMEN T.—We hear that the stib-conirtittee of sub.; scribers have reduced the list. of .Plans to two, which are note it under their consideration. 'Their Otste halts between an obelisk and a gothic cross; the CaSti of 1 26C1- feet in height, anti the latter some SO. 'A be projected site. it •etimewbere in Char-• lotte,quare.—/Oid. PELIANG FREA K.—Oit Monday felloW of the Rafe of Reay accompanied a feutale to thO altar of St. John's Church in this town. lie had, it appears, deceived the \ ()wig woman on two former n ; and .he is so loWrn het actor that the numey to pay the fees was enti timed to one of the bridal party, consisting of leiatives of the man amtwoman. When, the clergyman was preparing t o p er f orm the ceremony, the pet. son in possession of the money imprudently handed it to R. ay,. who instantly turned round and ran off at full speed. lea%ing his intended wife in the utmost distress and the rest of the party in consternation.—Newcastle LIBEL—Some of our readers too; remember that some time ago a gross libel upon the Rev. Air. Fletcher, vicar of Dalstone, in Cumberland. was published in that sink of radicalism, the Carlisle Journal. A rule to show cause why a criminal informa tion should not be tiled against the proprietor and editor was therefore obtained in the Court of King's Bench. A few dais ago the defendants' counsel came into court..and made au; et, ject apology on behalf of his clients. They expressed their belief that there was no foundation whatever tor the imputations it conveyed, and they begged to apologize for liaving, oven cur rency to them. They were ready to pay the costs incurred by the itev. Mr. Fletcher in appealing to the court, anti thus, with their lordships' leave, to put an end to the inattcr. Mr. CieSs well, on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Fletcher, acceded to this ar rangement, and the rule for a &initial information tos dis• charged. The libel itnputej to Mr. Fletcher wars that he turf behaved with injisticc an oppression. towards one of his pa." sishioners on the Ailbject of tittie-Notcasll4 Jovrval.