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. PETITIONS IN BEHALF OF THE PROTE .4.11. 1 r CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND IRELAN E 10. 1 97 PETITIONS to to the House of Lords and the House of Conimons, in favour of the Protestant Church in England and Ireland, now lie for signature at the STANDARD-OFFICE, Liverpool; at 'Mr. Sowucit's, the COURIER an HEKALD OFFICE, Manchester; at Messrs. HADDOCKS', St, oners, War rington; at. Mr. GRIFFITH'S, Stationer, W Ran; at Mr. lioLctEN's, Stationer, Rochdale; at Mr. C MPTON'S, St 3.- honer, Bury; and at the CHRONICLE-OFF! in Bolton. It is also left in the care of Mr. Moar, at Tyld ey; Mr. WHITE HEAD, Solicitor, Leigh; Mr. SYLVESTER, Chowbent ; Mr. AP PLETON, Solicitor, Stayley Bridge; Mr. GEORGE SUTCLIFFE, Worsley . ; C!ptain STUART, Prescott Mr. GEORGE HA RRIoTT , OrlnSkiiii."; Air. SPENCER, Southport; THOMAS KIDD, Esq., Taniworth, near Warrington; PETER GREENALL, Esq., St. Helen's; KAYE CLEOG, Esq., Oldham; and at Mr. WHITE'S, Newton-in-Mackerfiebi; who will appoint proper places for it to lie, for signature. TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE NORTHERN HOSPITAL. TRUSTING, from the kind assurances of yo support, that you consider Twenty-two Years' expert ee in the Pro fession, during Twelve of which I was•PnY ICIAN to the EYE INSTITUTION, sufficient to entitle me to y confidence, allow me most respectfully to solicit your atten ce at the CL AREN DON-ROOMS, South - John-street, on FRI AY next, the Ist of May, between the Hours of One and Three. I have the honour to remain, Your faithful and much obliged Servant, ALEX. HANNAY, M.D. Duke-street, April '27, 1835. • • REM.OXAL. 7ronN CIMSOLD, HAIR 'CUTTER and PERFUMER, begs to'dcquaint-his kind Friends and Patrons that he has left his old Shop, 77, 'Cm uncm-sTRmET, and-has Rempved to No. 48, siearly opposite the Liver - Theatre, where he ,•bopes.tii have a coiitinuation of their favours. He has fitted ,hp separate and . convenient Apartments for Ladies and Giintlemen, and he firmly believes that every comfort and convenience will be found in his new Establishment. He takes the liberty of acquainting his Friends that the Per ion who has opened his Old Shop has no connexion with him in nity , way whatever; Two APPRENTICES Wanted immediately. - I.cnouranct Noticrfs. •- ••• ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPAIn, 9, Throgmorton-street, London; 63, King-street, anchester ; 6, Exchange-street East, Liverp CAPITAL, £300,000,. rN THREE THOUS. D SHARES OF £lOO EACH. Ilkir UCH LOWER RATES of ASSURANCE than those 11l of any other Office will be foundin the original and ex teusiiely varied Tables of this Company. • • , 11 k . • LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. . The MAYOR, Patron. THE SHOW .of AURICULAS. PLANTS VEGETA BLES, &c., will take place TO- MOR ROW,. Wednesday,) the 29th inst., at theCoaN E:KCHANGE, Brunsw k-street, when Ladies and Gentlemen (Non-Subscribers) wil be admitted be tween the hours of Two and Four o'clock, payment of 3s. each; and .the Public generally will be a fitted between the hours of Four and Five o'clock, on payme of Is. each. Sub scriptions will be received and Tickets btained at Messrs. CUNNINGHAM'S, SPURN ING'S. and WHA LLEY'S, Seedsmen ; at Messrs. Ross and NIGHTINGALE'S, Lord-street; and at J. and J. MAW DS LEY'S, Castle-street. Non-Subscribers desirous of Showing Flowers, Fruits, &c., will be admitted to do s o, on paying 3s. entrance. The other two Shows will be on the 27th May, for Tulips, and on the 29th July, for Carnations. CHARLES •HORSFALL, Chairman. SutiscriptiOn, 12s.—Ladies' Extra Tickets, ls. 6d. each. * Mr. Sttibbs'sßoyalltarmonie'Band have kindly offered their services. "- - EXTRACT - FROM THE TABLES. Age. Whole Term of Life. One Year. Sewn Years Quarterly Half-yearly Annual. Annual Premium. Premium. Premium. Premium. Premium. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. s. d. £ a. d. 16 0 7 3 0 14 4 1 8 4 0 15 2 0 16 9 20 0 711 0 15 9 1 11 2 0 17 4 0 18 8 30 010 2 1 0 2 1 19.10 1 1 3 1 '2 1 40 013 9 1 7 4 2 13 9 1 4 6 1 - 6 2 50 1 0 4 2 0 4 3 19 2' 1 13 5 1 19 0 LONDO,V LAW REPORT. COURT.-OF CHANCERY.—FarbAy, Aram 24. THE LORDS COMNIISSOMERS. • The Lords Commissioners, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice- ChanCellor, and Mr. - Justice Bosanquet, took the usual oaths this morning in the Court of Chancery, as Lords ComMissiquers appointed to hold the Great Seal.. The Master of the . Rolls, as Chief Commissioner, stated that in taking upon themselves the duties of Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, their first object had been to arrange thp business of all three Courts in that manner, that no intring►e ment of the portions of time appropriated to the administration ofjustice should take' plaCe in either of the three Courts. The arrangement as it regards the Court of Chancery was thisHt, was the Lords Commissioners' intention to sit there on Satur days and Mondays in every week during term, and in the period after term (which has generally been a period of recess), they proposed to devote as many days to the business of the Court as would make up the number winch, in the ordinary course, would have been devoted to business in that Court. By this arrange ment they hoped to devote to each of the Courts as much time as had usually been devoted to them. lie hoped this . arrange= ment would meet with the concurrence of the bar, as they had endeavoured to make this change as little inconvenient as pos sible to that learned body. The first sitting in that Court would be to-motrow (Satur ,day), and they proposed on Saturdays to take motions, and it was desirable for a list to be marre out, as appeal motious would have priority over others; and it was the wish of the Vice- Chancellor as well as himself not tobe present at the discussion of appeals from their own decisions, that a- list should be made out in such a manner as would enable them to select those mo tions which each of them could hear. : Their lordships bowed to the bar and retired. KING'S BENCH.—TntresnaY. NUGER V. GRA xr.—A TAILOR'S BILL.—Mr. Thessiger stated that the plaintiff, a fashionable tailor in St. James's-street, sought to recover £7B. 16s. 6d. upon a bill of exchange accepted by the defendant, a young gentleman from the East Indies; and nephew to Sir Colquhoun Grant, for clothes furnished for his use in the months of April to September, 1832. The bill was dated in December of the same year at seven months' sight. He described the defendant as having a very considerable for tune, thou he had pleaded in bar to the action that lie was an infant at the time of contracting the debt; that the articles were not necessary; and consequently that legally he was not re sponsible. This., the learned counsel said, 'was a dishonourable defence. He then called several of the plaintiff's journeymen to prove the bill, and that the clothes were furnished. Among the items in the bill for clothes were charges of twelve guineas foie biue.clOth elnak; including in the charge one guinea for rich rieckdanesaud tassels, two pounds fourteen shillings a pair for trousers,, ei3 guineas for, each coat, &c.; and it. appeared • that lathe cettese of six months the plaintiff hud ordered six coats, seven waistceats, and ten pair of trousers. • , Mr. Jervis, juti: ' cross-examined the witness on the part,-of ' the :defendant, an d produced considerable laughter from the : court and audieu'ce by the answers he elicited from the opera tives, who described Mr. Grant on his arrival to be dress ed nut in .the fashionable London costume of the Nugee style, and, therefore, it , became necessary to make him look well, and that. the rich necklines were usually worn to, elothcloaks. , Justice, Williams.—Do you meant to say, witness, that those are necessaries? Witness.—They are usual, my lord, to make the gentleman fit to appear fashionably dressed. In fapt he had nothing on fit to appear before his uncle, his clothes were so ill made. . In answer to further questions from ,Mr. Jet vis, the witness did not, he said, inquire into the amount of his property from 'his uncle. The prices charged were the usual prices, though he admitted latterly prices bad been reduced; yet• his master kept a first-rate house, and charged high prices, and furnished the best articles. Heived in the Regent's Park, and kept a carriage. Mr. Jervis.—l see you charge eighteenpence for straps; why the-y may, be hought three pair for sixpence. Mr. Thessiger.—Yes ; but I suppose my learned friend means in St. Paul's. Churchyard. (A laugh.) ~Surely he would not have my client's customer go east of Temple Bar. Mr. Story, Mr. Stultz, and some other high-priced tailors spoke to the reasonableness of the charges. Mr. Story said. he lived in Bond-street, and the charges in the plaintiff's bill were rather below the mark, though he admitted at the present, mo meut a reform had taken place, and that prices were lowered even in the vicinity of St. James's. ; Mr. Jervis, in the course of his address to the jury on the part of the defendant, commented on, the evidence, which he said had described his client's. East Indian dress as of Hottentet description, and contended for the necessity there was of resort ing, to the pleas set down in the defence to guard against im position. The truth was, the defendant was the son of a sur geon at Berhamponre, in the East Indies, who, dying, left him, no t a s his learned friend had stated, a very considerable for tune, but. only £1,200. Was it necessary, he a s ked, that a young man so situated should have half a dozen coats, seven waistcoats, and ten pairs of trousers for his use in six months? Would any jury say those were necessaries? He put it to them to return a verdict in his favour on the bill of exchange, and, if they should think it necessary to give the plaintiff a ver • diet, only to give him such a one as would satisfy the justice of the case. Mr. Clark, of the secretary's office in the East India House, ; produced the register from the presidency of Bengal to show the baptism of the-defendant, %villa took place on the 20th of April, 1814. The Honourable W. Ramsay was acquainted with'the father of the defendant in India,:and remembered the latter as a child in arms in 1814. Mr. Thessiger replied. Mr. Justice Williams, in 'summing up, very politely called the attention of the jury to the enormous charges in the bill, and to some of the items, such as the rich neck lines, &c. They would say whether such articles were really necessaries. His lordihip thonght that the state of society would be much endan gered, if such frivolities were encouraged - , and if . every young man similarly circumstanced were to be allowed to contract for clothes for six months, which even were more than the first duke in the land would think of enga;ing for. 13ut the jury would say what sum, if any, the plaintiff under the circum stances of the case was entitled to. The jury, after consulting some time, said they found the de fendant was a minor, but that they found also a verdict for the plaintiff for - LONDON POLICE REPORT. UNION-HALL-FRIDAY. The inmates of a house in Lion-street, Kent-road, where a man named Cherry, and a son of his, a boy about ten years of Age; lodged, were alarmed in consequence of a fire which broke out in the apartment occupied by those latter persons. It appeared that Cherry had given his son a very severe beat ing, and afterwards fastened his two legs together with a pair . of handcuffs, and locked him up in a room on the ground floor. at five o'clock ou Thursday morning, and left him there. The. boy managed, by some means or other, to get out of the window into the yard, where he was observed by the neighbours in the condition described, and crying most piteously. The • neigh-, hours got over into the yard where the boy was, with the inten tion of placing him in the house again, seeing that he was inca-, pable of making any exertion himself, owing to the manacles on hie legs. On throwing up the window of the room, in order to put the boy through, a quantity of smoke issued out, and it was then perceived that it was on fire in two places, and a pile of rags was discovered all in a blaze underneath the bed, so as to-leave little doubt some person had done it with the view of setting the house ou fire. The boy Cherry having exhibited marks of severe chastisement from the nape of his neck down to the calves of his legs, the police were called iu, when the fire was extinguished in the room, and he was forthwith taken i before the magistrates of this office. In accounting for the marks of punishment on his person, the boy s t a t e d they were inflicted by his father, and gave such a description of his parent's conduct towards him as plainly showed he had been treated. with a degree of severity quite unjustifiable. When the boy was . questioned by the magistrate respecting the origin of the fire in the apartment where his father locked Him in, his answer was, thata few nights ago his father brought a female home with him, and that sown after her departtire a gild pin was miss ing. His father accused him of the theft, and although he de clared his innocence, he beat him most unmercifully on Thurs day morning, and then left the house, about six o'clock, having previously fastened his legs together by means of a pair of hand cuffs, and locked him into the room. At that time there was no fire in the room that he could perceive, : and in about half an hour after his'father was g,one he with difficulty got out at the window into the yard, when he was seen by the neighbours, The policeman said that in a very few moments the bottse would have been on fire had not some of the neighbours got into the room_ .and extinguished se vera l articles of linen which were on fire When they entered. The door was locked on the outside. The policeman added, that the boy's father had kept out of the way since the occurrence, and there was a report spread about the neighbourhood that he had ignited some arti cles in the room before he left 'home on Thursday morning, in order to destroy the place. The magistrates on hearing the statement had the boy sent the workhouse to be taken care of, and issued a warrant fur Lhe apprehension o: his father. THE SELF-STYLED FRIENDS OF THE CHURCH We have been requested to give insertion to the following lets tdr, the handiwork of ,Mr. J. B. Gracie,. with whose name the public of Bdinbtirghis familiar .enough, as a very busy agent of and the-whig clique. It ,did-not pear to 'us that the single observation which we last week penned in regard to either called for or justified a reply on his part. We simply stated a fact which he has not attempted to deny, viz. that he, an elder of the Church of Scotland, counte nanced a meeting chiefly composed of Voluntaries, and the un doubted objectof which was to prevent the extension of reli gious instructiotr, in the principles and doctrines of the esta blishment, to the pauper population of Scotland. We have no hesitation, however, in giving a place to Mr. Gracie's effusion, especially as he appears to think that it will du him good. The conduct of these self-styled friends of the church, who are rousing themselves in unseemly opposition to the deliberate proposition of the principal lees!ers in the establishment, whiffs and tories indifferently, who are desirous of extending the bles sings of the gospel to the.great mass of the poor—such conduct is obviously irreconcileable with a true attachment to the church, and a just appreciation of the value of 'religious instruction. We can understand why voluntary dissenters object to the en largement of the means of the established church—they abhor and decry th e thing. itself, and the•very principle of •its ence, They act, therefore, with perfect consistency, in oppos ing the scheme for additional endowments; and Mr. Adam Black and the American doctor John Ritchie, of the*Potterr row, in taking that course, only follow .out their often avowed opinions, that the established church his damned more souls than it has saved ! But one would imagine that, if no Stronger reason could be found for supporting the proposal which is now the subject of controversy, the simple fact that such men as Mr. Black and the American doctor, with their respective tailS, are fiercely opposed to it, would form a sufficient aignment in its favour. Is it a bad or an immoral thing to build additional churches or grant new endowments for the purpose of enlightening the poor and furthering the i n t eres t s o f t rue re li g i on ? Would there be any thing wrong or even absurd in the proposal to erect a church in every street, with a christian pastor appointed and endowed by the state? Would the public be losers by such a scheme—would the poor -rates or the prison -rates be increased by such a system? It is beyond all doubt that the expeuse would be amply redeemed by the benefits which the adoption'of such a measure would confer upon the community at large. But now, when it is proposed merely to tax (we give our adver saries the benefit of the odious word) the public to the amount of something less than a farthing a-head to effect a great na tional blessing, an outcry is raised by the voluntaries and false "friends" of the church enough to bring down the roofs of the eonventicles in which their most sweet voices are exercised. That men who take their station amongst the office-bearers of the church should mix themselves up with such parties profess- . ing such views is a most melancholy proof how far either per verted judgment or a factious disposition will lead men from the plain path of duty.--Eilinburgli E5l Sly Pest. A. Board of Directors meet daily, by whom poli ides may be 'affected in a few hours. Premiums may be paid Half-yearly or Quarterly. Tables of increasing and decreasing . Premiums, peculiarly adapted to the circumstances and convenience of parties propos ing to assure. • • Distinct Tables, at very mo , lerate rates for all climates, in cluding sea risk, for military and naval officets, and for persons afflicted with disorders not attended with immediate danger to life Medical Referee in Liverpool, Dr. W. S. DCNCAN, 78, Great George-street. Prospectuses, with full particulars 'and. Tables, may be ob tained of the Agents at the following places : LIVERPOOL Mr. JONA. FLOUNDERS. Manchester Mr. William Swindells. Chester Mr. William. Hope. Birmingham ...Mr. George Paulson Wragge. York ' Mr. George Bulmer. Hull . Mr. H. F. Skeet. Leeds Mr. Booth. Sheffield Mr. T. M. Bardswell. Derby NEW CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIONS. CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. AT LAMBETH.--A very nu rnerous meeting of the friends of conservatism was held at the Horns, Kennington, last night, for the purpose of forming a conservative association; Mr. Urquhart was called to the chair. Several excellent speeches in tavour of conservatism were trade daring the evening, and a number of resolutions were passed relative to the formation of the society, which, in the language of Mr. Hart, one of the speakers, " is to produce a union of feeling among those who have any property to lose, and for the purpose of making them of one mind and one heart in fearing (sod. honouring the King, and determining to sup port each other."— Times. BIRMINGHAM LOYAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. —This society, lately established in Birmingham, is daily re ceiving additions to its numbers, and already includes the names of most of the respectable and influential gentlemen of the borough; among , others, we are informed that the names of the Right Hon. Lor a Calthorpe and the Hon. Frederick Calthorpe have been lately added to the list of its vice. presidents. As the society seeks mainly to promote a union or good fellowship among men of conservative principles, without any distinction of classes, and without making any amount of subscription necessary to membership, it is confidently expected that the benefit of the society, and the advantages to be derived from becoming members, will be earnestly sought after and duly ap preciated among their conservative friends of the working and lower classes.—Birmingham Advertiser. SOUTH HANTS CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATOIN.—A meeting of the inhabitants of South Hants favourable to the formation of a conservative association for that division of the county will be holden at the Archery-rooms, Southampton, on Friday next, for the purpose of settling the rules, and appointing the mem bers of the central committee and ether officers of the associa tion.—HaLnyshire Chronicle. EAST NV ORCESTF.ILS H IRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.— At last we have the satisfaction of skewing to our readers the palpable being and existence of a cons ervative association, at least in one division of the county of Worcester. The announce ment in our advertising columns upon that subject will, we are sure, afford more gratification .to the county atlarge than almost any other intelligence we could have placed before it. It would, indeed, be an indelible stain upon the "loyal-county" longer to remain in the rear of the patriotic movement now so universal throughout the enipiie. We are satisfied that under the altera tions which have been made in our representative system, it is only by the union .. and consolidation of the consei votive in fluence through such means, that there is any chance of pre serving and improving the inappreciable institutions of our country. Surely the western division, where the association is perhaps more urgently required than in any other district in all England, will not, for very shame, remain longer inactive, and continue to submit to that deepest of human degradations,— . " The fetters of the willing slave." The meeting at Droitwich on Wednesday next will be one of exciting interest. The list of members which we give this day , is, we understand, becoming rapidly augmented, and the bril liant talents of the chairman, Mr. Pakiugton, will have a more extensive field for their development than in perhaps any of the other situations where they have already conferred so eminent a distinction upon himself, and so much humour upon his native county.— Worcester tjuardian. , THE CARLISLE C&NSEEVATIVE ASSOCIATION.--0111' readers cannot be altogether unprepared for this gratifying announce- . ment. We have,frequeotly urged thelormation of such -a so cislty ; audit IS'irOt 'many .weeks since, after having shown how indispensably - needful it had become to establish one without further delay, we stated that measutes were then in progress for accomplishing() desirable a purpoe. Circumstances, however, put off the design from to time; but at length the foundation has been laid, and a structure will forthwith be reared thereon which is destined, we trust, under Providence, to be a strong tower of defence against those who so audaciously assail the glorious constitution of our eountry in church and state. - Of political associations, in the abstract, we, like many who enter tain the same views of general policy, are not very ardent ad mirers; but extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures; and he is a bold man who will say, that the affairs of our country arc not now placed under most extraordinary circumstances, and as fearful as they are extraordinary. It was the precept of an enlightened patriot, that "when 'bad men combine, good men should associate." And can it be disputed that had men; " bold had men," have combined—combined too for purposes the most fatal to the dearest interests and institu tions of the country, threatening the security of our rights and liberties, both religious and civil ? The object is laid on no narrow party grounds, but on a basis at once liberal, enlightened, and pattiotic.• The 'declaration which the members are re quired to subscribe expresses "a. fixed determitration to main tairithe tried arid ancient principles of the constitution. We will cheerfully assist in the redressing of . actual grievances or the cerrecticin of real and proved abuses,, but we bold ourselves pledged to resist all measures by which the necessary connexion between , the church and state may be severed or relaxed; by which the dignity of the monarchy may be impaired, or its ex istence endangered; by which the privileges of the House of Lords as an independent branch of the legislature may be vir tually'annihilated, or the delib era ti ve pow e rs o f t h e C om mons' H oute of Parliatnentbecome fettered or controlled; as we are con vinced that on the united and energetic support of these authorities depend the Continuance of social order, the security of property,' and the interests of _religion." Such are th e lawful, the laudable purposersof the.Carlisle - Conservative A ssoc i a ti on ; and at such a junctnre as the present, we may almost suspect the loyalty of him who can refuse to concur in them. To the several eloquent speeches delivered at the meeting, a full and faithful report of which we give in succeeding columns, we would earnestly en treat the attention of our readers. The address of the Rev. John Fawcett, in particular, presents the highest claims to con sideration, and we trust that it will be allowed to have its per fect work on the mind of every sincere protestant, whether churchman or dissenter. The position assumed i s p ure l y d e feusive. resolved, and hands prepared, The blessings We enjoy to guard." This may be inscribed on the banner of the association; and at a crisis like this, the call upon every christian patriot to enrol himself Under such a banner is indeed irresistible.—Carlisle Patr'iot. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL. A newspaper, to be conducted on conservative princi.. pies, has been established, where it was much wanted, in Dumfries. It is entitled the Dumfries—shire and Galloway , . Herald, and we wish it success. We extract the follow ing as a contribution •to its first number by Mr. Allan Cunningham, who is, we believe, a native of Dumfries- shire .: ADDRESS TO NITHSDALE. Green Nithsdale o'er thy pastoral hills The eastern star is glowing, And.twilight through Dalswinton glens Her scented dew is sowing ; On grey Lincluden's hermit towers The moon has hung her banner, Dumfries, like lady gay and fair, ' Calls Solway breeze to fan her ; The wind in Blackwood's haunted oaks Speaks with a voice of gladness ; Nith hails me—pouring through my soul • A not unsocial sadness. I am thy son, fair land, wilt thou Before the world disown me ? Thou gav'st me life, and from thy groves I plucked the wreathes which crown me ; I muse amid thy tranquil vales Thy high and heathery mountains, The Melody of all thy winds The music of thy fountains : I gaze with moistening eyes and feel As through thy scenes I'm. ranging, That all is steadfastness, save man, The reckless and the changing ! Through noble Maxwell's sculptured halls For bats the schoolboy clambers, The owl her twin-brood rears and hoots From Carlyle's painted chambers: Heriies, thy bugle blast is mute That roused from ./E to Yarrow ; O'er all things triumphant change Drags her remorseless harrow. Through vale nd • cot, throtigh tower and town She strides iu proud dominion ; Even Faith and Ho.pe must follow sad That meteor called Opinion. But glorious Nature knows no change— The seasons - do their duty,' And the eternal hills hem in Thy vale, with all its beauty : Flowers scent the air, the winding Nith Still:sings to thee in flowing ; Igor dropping dews, nor golden suns Neglect to nurse the Bowan ; While pure Imagination still In her flight will linger, And of thy people trace bright things With her immortal finger. GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES. ATHENS, Mallon 4.—The excavations in the citadel, close to the fouudation.of the Parthenon, proceed with great activity. The workmen have cut down, on the western side, between the first and second pillars, as far as the original rock of the Acro polis; and we are astonished to find the foundation, which is of yellowish muschelkalk, and excellent material for building, which is found in almost every part of Greece, is admirable. The workmen have proceeded as far as the centre of the tem ple, where they found a staircase of blocks of marble of diffe rent sizes, made at the time when the Parthenon was used as a church to the virgin. They have also discovered a large num ber of pieces of sculpture and inscriptions: the principal of these is the right leg of a Torso, of which we have before given an account, and which, according to Leake's example, though without sufficient reason, has been denominated a Mars. The leg is very beautiful; and, with the exception of part of the knee, is in a better state of preservation than the rest, of the body: its position indicates that the god was represented sit . ting and resting on the heel. Of the two female draped sta tue*, designated by Leake, Latona and Vesta, the greater part of the side next the wall has been found; the workmanship is, however, not highly finished, owing, probably, to this side being turned from the spectator. Of the large centre figure, whether of Jupiter or Neptune, the breast to the navel has been found in a state_ of perfect preservation; also, several fragments of the hind thighs of the horses of the Biga, of exquisite beauty. There are many other pieces of great excellence—for estample, fragments of heads—but which do not appear to have belonged to the statues on the pediment. A well-preserved Centaur's head, belonging to one of the Metopes on the south side, has been dug up, with a wanton mouth, suited to such a savage, half-brutal nature. The excavations have proceeded consider ably on the south side, but only along the wall, as they cannot advance closer to the temple' till the heavy pillars and archi traves have been removed, fur which the requisite machines are expected. We may then look for a very rich harvest. The restoration of the temple has also been commenced: on the north side several slabs of the pavement of cella, which were among the ruins, have been replaced; but the removal of such heavy masses with imperfect instruments goes on very slowly. The works at the Temple of Theseus, on the north side of the city, of which we have lately spoken, are also in progress. The vaulted roof of the cella, built, in the middle ages, of Maltese stone, the yellow colour of which best harmonises with the gold colour of the pillars and the other parts of the temple, has been repaired, to snake it weather-tight. Windows are to be made at both ends of the roof, to light the interior of the cella; but which are not to be visible from the exterior. The temple is intended for a museum. On removing the rubbish and the earth which covered the roof, fresh, indications of its perfect restoration have been discovered, viz., fragments of the cornice above the tympan, with. well preserved drawings of elegant pal mettos, tb the recognised.—Literarytolourso which,f G aze tie. however, be THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The Public is respectfully informed that the. Theatre is Open for the Season, and that Madame V ESTR IS, who is engaged for a Fortnight, Will snake her Second appearance here these three years this evening, THIS present TUESDAY. the 28th instant, will be per formed (for the second time) a new Comedy, called RURAL FELICITY. Singleton Unit Mr. Chaplin. I Layton Mr. Frazer. Twaddle Mr. Granby. I Simon Sly Mr. Baker. Mrs. Wiley Mrs. Stanley. I Ilarriet Mrs. Shaw. Jetniina....Miss Chaplin. I Cecilia.... Miss Stanley. At the end of the Comedy, a grand Turkish Pas Da• - neux, by Mr. J. Ridgway and Mollie. Marie./ t„4 ( After which (for the second time) a new Dr . " • THE WELSII GIRL. Julia.... (with songs) Madam A Military Pas de Cossay , By Messrs. T. and J. Ridgway and Mr. F. Jonas. To conclude with (for the first time) isinew Drama, called THE BEULAH A. Caroline Grantley..(with assumed characters)..Mad. Vestris. TO-MORROW, the Melo-Drama of the AVANDERING .BOYS. Paul and Justine (the Wandering Boys), Miss Chap lin gala Miss Stanley.—lncidental to the piece, a variety of Dancing, by Messrs. T. and J. Ridgway and F. Jonas, and Madlle. Marie.—After which, A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Alfred Highflyer, Mr. Hooper, of the Theatres- Reval Drury-lane and Olympic, who is engaged for a Fort night. Marra Darlington, Madame Vestris.—To conclude with the LOAN OF A LOVER. Gertrue (with Songs) Madame Vestris. ___ __ _ (rna, called r estris tt;;;;:Boxes 4s.—Upper Boxes 3s. 6d.—Pit 2s. 6d.—Gallery is. A limited number of Subscription Tickets to be disposed of for tile Season, not transferrable, nor admissible at Benefits, on application at the Box-office. Places may be taken of Mr. Parker, at the Box-ntlice, from Ten till Three. No places can be secured unless Tickets are taken. TO CORRESPONDENTS. SNARE IN THI3 GRASS" may rest assikred that we shall over. Hall the gentleman in question when the proper time comes. An opportunity perhaps will soon occur. - - We cannot answer the question of "A Tow NSMAN." The nuisance to which Y. Z. alludes would only be increased if any notice were taken of it in the journals. The letter about Winwick is inadmissible in its present form. STATE OF TRADE. The cloth trade at Leeds continues very good, and prices re main firm. In the present aspect of affairs there is no induce ment to speculate, and to this circumstance we are probably indebted for the present wholesome state of our commercial. Yelations. Our recent markets have been marked by more ex tensive purchases than usual, and prices are looking upwards. BRADFORD MAnKET.--On Thursday, there was a very gene ral demand for all descriptions of goods, and many extensive sales were effected, highest prices having been asked iu several instances. The purchases of wool have beeei steady during th e week, the demand being. principally for hogs and superior wether sorts. Yarns have met, ready sale, and in some instances better prices have been obtained. HUDDERSFIELD.—There was a good demand here on Tues day for cloths of a low quality, and alsu for some of the newest patterns of fancy goods. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—Business continues brisk, and every loom is fully employed. .ROCII DA LE, APRIL 20.—Our market to-day was not quite so active as last week, yet, on.the whole, there was a fair business done : on some kinds prices could scarcely be maintained, the spring trade being almost over. In wools the demand was pretty good without any alteration in price. DIFFICULTIES OF Eoi;oas.—The truth is, an Editor casino step without treading on somebody's toes. If he expresses his opinion fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If he states facts without comments, he dares not avow his sen timents. If he conscientiously refuses to advocate the claims Of an individual to office, he is accused of personal hostility. A jackanapes, who measures off words into verse as a clerk does tape—by the yard—hands him a parcel of stuff that j ins gles like a handfulof rusty nails and a gimlet; and if the editor IS not fool enough to print the nonsense—“stop my paper, I Wont patronize a man that's no better judge of poetry, as if it really were a loss to be regretted, the profits being so enor mous; and after paying four pence halfpenny for the sheet of paper before it is printed on. together with the expeaes attend ing collecting and printing the contents of a newspaper, eels , taiuly a Monstrous revenue exists oat of the seven pence, after theie must-be-paid expeuses are liquidated!! One murmurs because his paper is too literary—another because it is not literary enough. One grumbles because the advertisements engrois too much room—another complains that the paper is too large, he can't find time to read it all. One wants the type so small that a microscope would be indispensable in almost every family. Another threatens to discontinue the paper unless the letters are half an inch long. One old lady actually offered to give an additional price - for a.paper that should be printed with such type as are used for handbills. In fact every subsCriber has a plan of his own for conducting a Journal, and the labour of Sysiphus was recreation when compared with that of an editor who undertakeoo - nlease .ti ..--Americou Paw, ._ 'CONVERTS TO THE-Tlittili VAITH.—At the Molyneux Asylum Chapel, Peter-street, in this city, seven persons renounced the errors of popery, and embraced the reformed religion, on Sun day last. They are all of the better order of citizens—one of them a medical gentleman, who, as we understand, intends publishing his reasons' for the change. They are.in- a great degree indebted to the Rev. Mr. Delaney, whose lectures, deli vered in Grafton-street, they have attended for some time past. There are, we areinforined, five others, two of whom have been • students, for the Romish priesthood, about to follow the example. We regret to hear that Dr.Whately, archbishop of Dublin, has N refused to allow the lately converted priests , the Rev. Mr. Nolan east the Rev. Mr. Delany, the privilege of preaching in any of his churches. This, to us, appears like a wish on the part of . his grace to discountenance proselytism from holy mother church to the true religion of Christ.—Dublin Evening Packet. SUPPRESSION OF MONASTERIES IN SPAlN.—Martinez de la Rosa, on the 11th, in the Procuradores, said that by law every couvent should number at reaSt twelve Monks, and as 890 con vents were found not to have so many, they would be suppressed. The monastic population had much diminished, and it was better to extinguish it gradually and legally than after any abrupt or revolutionary fashion. • When we - see the year in his prime and pride, decked with beautiful hlessoms, and all goodly varieties of flowers, cheered with the music of birds, and stated in a sweet and moderate temper of heat and cold, bow glad we are that we have made so good an exchange for a hard and chilling winter; and how ready we could he to wish that this pleasure and happy season might last all the year long. But herein (were our desires satisfied) we should wish to our own disadvantage; for if the spring were not followed with au intention of summer heat, these fruits, whose hopes we see in the bud and flower, would never come to any perfection, and even that succeeding fer vour, if it should continue long, would be no less prejudicial to the health and life of all creatures; and if there were not a relaxation of that vigorous heat in autumn, as the sap returns hack into the root, we could never look to see but one year's fruit.—Birhop Hall. ' The amount of damages assessed and paid by the Treasurer of the West !tiding in reparation of the injury done to property during the riots at the recent election for the borough of Halifax is £3344. 7s. Gil. This sum will have to be paid, in addition to their ordinary contributions to the county-rate, by the inhabitants of the MorleY division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and 11Iorley. Let not the quietness of any man's temper, much less the confidente he has in thy honesty and goodness, tempt thee to contrive any mischief akainst I,im i for the more securely he relies on thy virtue, and the leSs mistrust he has of any harm from thee, the greater wickedness will it be to euteriain even 1 the, thought of doing him an its;Ury.Bishop Petrick.. Zbe Eiberpool "*'tanbarb., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1835. The contests in Devonshire, Yorkshire, Manchester, and other places, are, as far as these places are concerned, A TRIAL OF FAITH. That the members of the Church of England constitute the majority of the elec tors of the country has been repeatedly and recently proved by the decisions in favour of cherch-rates. In no one instance—not even in Manchestetr—where the question has been tried—have the enemies of the chore' succeeded. This, therefore, is to us ample proof that the majority of rate-payers, and, consequAly, the ma, jority of electors, are attached to the church. Now comes the trying point. The elections will de cide whether those who support the Church of England are at the same time disposed to support popery in Ire land. We have every reliance on the good sense of our countrymen. They. know the scriptural adage—" you cannot serve GOD and MAMMON"—you cannot treat that as justifiable in Ireland which is criminal in England—. you cannot reconcile fraud and fiction to truth—you can not take the bible for your guide here, and the mass book for your guide there--lou cannot cheat the AL MIGHTY by a pretended reverence for his holy oracles in England, and by a real regard for mummery, wafers, images, miraculous toe nails, impudent impositions, ly- ing, and extortion in Ireland. We rest our case.on this.. The consistency of our actions is the test of our principles. The people of England are too honest, too intelligent, and too religious to resort to the beggarly vice and the popish subterfuge of mental reservation—meaning one thing and doing another—en couraging robbery on one side of the hedge, and de nouncing it on the other. No, we have a far better opi nion of them ; and we feel confident that, in a great struggle like this, they will merge all minor and party considerations, and come forward, " one and all," to vin dicate the faith once delivered to the saints, avenge the insulted shrines of their fathers, drive the blood-stained persecutors from their gate, and preserve untouched, un profaned, and uncontaminated, the pure word of GOD, for the benefit of their children, and of generatitins yet unborn. We mistake their character, their principles, their love of country, and their sense of justice and true religion, if they do not unite upon this fundamental ques tion, and teach the impostors of Ireland, and their-sla vish agents, the rump of the English whigs, that they have trifled too long with their opinions, and drawn too largely upon their forbearance. Fora long and tiresome period it has been harped into our ears that the protestants of England have been dis affected towards their church, and have cooled in their admiration of the religious institutions founded at there formation. This doctrine has been taught by the advo cates of the Romish priests—by their hirelings of the press—by the active agents of a revolutionary party—by the herd of levelling dissenters, illiterate and extrava gant, desperate and unprincipled, who shout and howl in tlreir conventicler against all religiouS establishments, but who have no bond of union save in their fierce ha tred of the Church of England. They have contended that the ministers of our blessed religion are overpaid— that they are the oppressors of the poor—that they take from the labourer a tithe of his industry, and that their creed and their exactions are alike obnoxious to the great mass of the people. A more audacious falsehood—a more deliberate Ca lumny--a more atrocious insult—never was promulgated by any set of men. The familiars of the Spanish inqui sition never lied or swore with more audacity.. From the beginning to the end the representation is false. We will take upon ourselves to prove that a large, a very large majority of the people of England and Scotland are sincerely attached to the venerable institutions of the reformation, and that they hate popery with an undying hatred—with that hatred which awakens all the powers of wrath and scorn against an imposition practised upon the common people by the priests of the Church of Rome. If there be any feature in the character of an Englishman more strongly developed than another, it is that which condemns fraud, hypocrisy, and imposition— which denounces double dealing—which execrates men tal reservation—which despises the shifts, artifices, and the mean devices of priestcraft, and will not tolerate any jugglery founded on tradition or pretended miracles, the tricks of men, and not recognised by the canons of di, vine revelation. There may be, and there are amongst us many men who consider that the church requires the pruning book of reform. We confess ourselves to be of the number. But this reform is not demanded in con sequence of any error, or any mistake, or any malformation in the institutions of the churcb. „Tle.necessitY-eof tdriirbas its Origfi in the unguarded liberality of the.. church itself." Some of .its ministers are its worst ene mies. Those who live by the altar are those who, hav ing brought discredit upon their mother, are the readiest to defame her. Her pulpits in many instances are occu pied by men who, like vipers, sting the boSom which has nourished them, and would make infamous and bankrupt the charitable benefactress Who has fed them. Alas, it is true ! and we confess it with deep sorrow, that the great est enemies of the Church of England are some of its anointed pastors—men of feeble intellect—who mingle in socinian society—vain creatures who overrate their own talents—who deem themselves worthy of a higher place than that which they occupy—whom spleen has made venomous and even libellous—who, in the narrow ness of their malignity, assail the very staff of life upon which they feed, and circulate calumnies against the in stitutions of religion, under which they flourish, and but for which they would never have reached a higher eleva tion than that of secular priests, remarkably indolent, wonderfully loquacious, but esteemed as shining lights only in aba:ptist, independent, or unitarian meeting-house —a house built like that of the Scotch baptists in Hunter street, over a most convenient gin shop. We have too many such ministers of. the church of England. They are to be found in every town in England. They draw milk from their mother and pronounce it sour. 'They would be rectors, dean s , archdeacons, bishops, (poor creatures, God help them !) and because they are not—because the world pronounces them to be incompetent —because they are not promoted to the rank in the church to which they imagine they are entitled, but to which their works prove them to have no claim—they spirt their venom upon her institutions, and declare her, aye, even from the pulpit, to be corrupt and defective in the whole of her ecclesiastical regime. If we were disposed we could prostrate some of these men in the dust in five minutes, and they know we can do it ; but we . have more charity than they, unhappily for themselves, ever show to others. The time may APRIL 48, 1S& last, in which will be found an awful exposurq 4f the • march and increase of infidelity and atheism in tile United States. The details are of the most startling nature, and but for the respectability of the magazin e et which we find them we should have hesitated to prese them as facts before our readers. For the sake of ti lt!), however, we now give them to this part of the Or ld. America has no national church ; the doctrines of 4 69- t tianity are left to work their own way; the presider is mitl I not, like a king, the " nursing father" of the gospel , I alas! we see the pernicious results. Reader, think a nd judge for yourself—here they are. In the city of New York there are three large soci etie o l f which, for want of a better name, we shall call congregatilei professed infidels ; some of their papers have said that c , 4 ,, numbered twenty thousand adherents. At Wilmington , no ware, is another regularly organised congregation; th ere re , several of more or less notoriety in the west, one in Provides R. 1., and one in Briton. Besides these regularly organised societies, it is well lul, ll . that professed infidels exist - in large numbers, in all the e 0 siderable towns in the west. Dr. Cooper states that half of `„, male inhabitants of South Carolina are infidels; and the Il s e lation of the valley of the Mississippi may be set down a s ,ua infidel. We have only to look carefully near home, au",,.. shall be surprised at their existence where we had aot 'p g r , petted; Satan is no longer scared by sound of church be . o f nor is industry a safeguard against the insidious approach es,r the tempter; for it is stated that more than three hundrei!'„ fidels are to be found among the inhabitants of Lowell. I „, ne ' e j are very obvious reasons why they have not openly byr'', - a themselves into a society; but they will inevitably sue in shaking the faith of a majority of the operatives there, u g . - , e l attention is given to the subject the guardians of morels - 0 4 religion ; for they so address themselves to the passio ls ' e eue pander the appetites of the young, as to be certain of gal their ear. • thers ' In all the different towns in the country it will be found are several men of idle habits and loose morals, who hav e . e e chance or wish for success in any fixed and honest calliole h l e b who are ever ready for the introduction of anything by w c ite they may gain distinction and profit. Distinction tiers d, is Better than none; and as they are generally of a eouluesi cativo turn, in every body's shop, and about every bodies kei,. ness in the village, they make excellent distributors a ate J , tical and agrarian principles. Now it will be found that Sae` men receive the infidel papers, and from such beginning s h small parties or societies been 'formed. a Attempts are now making to affiliate these societies; su.e. spirit is breathed through the whole by means of the estabip_i ment of newspapers, and the dissemination of infidel tracts t, books. The Boston Investigator Strikes off two thousand minded":a sions weekly, which are eagerly taken up, read, and han. from one to another. The Free Inquirer of New Yor k iss u , 00 also about two thousand: the Comet has an extensive circ coo, time and the atheistical paper at Wilmington, Delaware , 6 ' o , lates about one thousand copies. These are the principal u t t er s papers that are professedly atheistical; but how ma n y ° w e e arc there which neglect no opportunity of giving a side aa Y at christianity ? Besides these, there are immense editions of atheistical Wore:printed at the various infidel presses, and sold dog c heap, they are stereotyped, and in some instances great pains been taken to distribute them gratuitously over the countr7"ers In these works no hesitation is made about sapping the'veie foundations of society, and sowing discord among the Or' classes to get rid of them. They are the wicked instrumealsoi. oppression, and they must be annulled or we are a ruined p pie. The writer alludes to the gradual formation of atheists,l_ns; dels, and agrarians, into a party ; which has already 11, done to a certain degree—and will be done more perfeetlysrl,l organization of congregations, several of which are reg ui h e r established, and proceed with all the order and system of . e societies. The nature of the ser v ices in these congregat i°o , thus explained in an account of the public services in th e ' gregation of free inquirers in this city. over The old Federal -street Theatre has been prepared, an dicated as a Temple of Reason :—the pit has been flooredlio on a level with the stage; in the centre is a pulpit, and lu eie s rear of this, flanking it on both sid es , a n d extending. 3 6 C ' t1 - 0 4 the stage, are the seats for the singers. The pulpit i s " h with black; on the front are inscribed, in Greek char s te 'KNOW 'THYSELF;' and on the drapery over bead is ins cri in flamin g letters, Ha THAT WILL NOT REASON, IS A BIGOT; HE THAT CANNOT REASON, IS AN IDIOT; • HE THAT DARES NOT REASON, IS A SLAVE.' f o r On the Sabbath, as if in mockery of those who assembles° a christian worship, the doors of this temple are thrown ope l li ieu, to ,l the congregation begins to collect ; the boxes are occup s oe marked as private pews; the seats in the pit fill up protoLoe ously with men and women, and when the church bells tolling, the services minister sommence. e oe' First the rises, and invites the attention of the i bs gregation to the singing of a hymn, which be reads,--saLms 97th hymn. The music strikes up a waltz, perhaps, or quick tune—the singers rise, and sing as follows : Gather your roses while you may, Old time is ever flying ; • And that same flower which shines to-day, To-morrow may be dying. Wisely improve the present hour, Be innocently merry; Slight not the pleasures in your power, Which will not, cannot tarry. Let virtue ever be your guide, While merged in fleeting pleasure ; All other Objects else beside Can prove no lasting treasure. Though time must fly, though flowers must fad e, And pleasure prove uncertain, In pleasure's path we'll ever tread, 1 ill death shall draw the curtain. f bif After this the minister rises, awl invites the attention o f flock to the reading of a portion of the Bible of Reason +a • • • r After reading this portion of their scriptures, the tu' u eeef gives out another hymn, or song—for their hymn book coop both, and the singers strike up, perhaps, the 124th song, runs thus : • Away with melancholy, Nor doleful changes ring On life and human folly, But merrily, merrily sing, so gay, &C. the After this -the minister rises and commences his sern2 o 2, ll rc e nature of which may be imagined from the nature of the ec t iss of the texts. The general tenor is to ridicule th e chrl6oB, religion, to persuade the congregation that there is o fic es no future state, and no soul; in short, to preach the doci•tv of the French infidels, but not with the dazzling ingetT' f a ir a Voltaire, or the subtle logic of the encyclopedist; n ot u Y t ioe , argument and from established premises, but by bold as ser impudent assumption, unblushing falsehood, coarse ridicule, profane jests. wel iU But we leave the doctrines to future description. d ear here mention a proof of the confidence with which the i, ll '"air look to the prevalence of their doctrines, that in one Of ' ,: ; 9 poi courses we heard Mr. Kneeland exhorting his congreg, 36 ,4 - 0 6 03 to resort to force in case he should be imprisoned; 'of upon it," says he, " it will hurt the cause; besides , rI am cause a struggle in which I may be killed; and although b ile; not afraid to die, I don't want to die by violence, nor yet a' c a tg• I hope to live some twenty . or thirty years, and die pe oce :bic b I know," says he, " there is a spirit abroad in the c ountry " ) ,01' cries out for resistance to tyranny; but, my brethreo , 'l „tr!,i quiet awhile; strive to spread knowledge through the 0,. 1 ) depend upon it it will do us the most good; and , by the e hie, the struggle must come, and blood be shed, take ye la for securing the victory to the right." oti r l e ; After the sermon comes another hymn, and then the c° cation is dismissed with the announcement that-" the 1 " ball will be held in this place on Wednesday evening. come. But whatever may be the 'defects in the ecclesiastical government of the church of England, we deny, in the strongest terms that language can afford, that the people of England, the members of the church, are the com plaining parties. But supposing that they were, com mon sense would teach the intelligent people of this country that a lesser evil has the preference over a greater. The alternative is now presented to them. Lord JOHN RUSSELL gives the preference to popery in Ireland. He proposes to despoil the protestant church for the purpose of applying certain of its revenues t the education of the people of Ireland—the popish po pulation in particular—they forming the majority. The government of the noble lord is founded upon this propo sition. The King has consented that Lord MELBOURNE should form a ministry based upon the policy intimated by Lord Jons's motion. We therefore ask—WILL THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND STAND THIS ? Will they consent that any portion of the revenues of tile protestant church in Ireland shall be appropriated to popish purposes ? The infamous pro position has relation to the beginning of a great end. It embraces this question—is tile reformation a fraud ? —are our doctrines spurious ?—is our faith false ? With the infidel it is now a question whether popery is more conducive to civil and religious liberty, human happiness, and national independence, than the prin ciples and the polity of protestantism ? We leave the answer to the nation. We leave it to the chiselled words on our fathers' tombstones. We leave it to him who visits at the lune hour the graves of his ancestors. We leave it to him who reads history. We leave it to him in whose veins runs the blood that was spilled in accomplishing our religious emancipation, and who has marked upon his shield of arms the sainted crosses of him who sleeps in the grave, from whom he is descended, and whose honoured name he bears—we leave it to him to say whether he will dishonour those sacred ashes, bring down upon a once free country the hated despotism of monks, give up his wife and daughter to voluptuous father-confessors, and stamp himself a slave by yielding to the decrees of licentiousness and idolatry ? These, my countrymen ! are the questions you are re quired to answer by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S appeal to the electors of Devonshire. Answer it as you please ; but we ask you to answer it under the responsibility of your allegiance, and your still more awful responsibility as members of the Church of England. We now speak to the churchmen—particularly to the religious people — the conscientious' people—the devout and honest peo ple—who are protestants in Devonshire. They have a duty to perform, and that involves their peace here and their happiness hereafter. It is not a contest confined to tile conflicting claims of party or faction. It has no hearing upon trade or commerce—upon rates or taxes— upon the price of corn, or the rations to be given to the poor. It is a plain question, and as important as it is plain, inasmuch as it is to decide the fate of the church of England—pass sentence upon the deliberate judgment of our forefathers, and condemn the principles we pro fess by our own decrees. If the people are dissatisfied with the church and the doctrines of the reformation, that is one tiling ; if they have become enamoured of popery, that is another tiling; if they be favourable to infidelity and republicanism, that differs essentially from either. But by their votes on this occasion they will sup port one or other of these three propositions. The papist and the infidel will vote for Lord JOHN RUSSELL, tile protestant will support Mr. MONTAGUE PARKER in De vonshire ; or to come nearer home, the one will take tile side of Mr. POULETT TnomsoN, and the other that of Mr. BRAIDLEY, in Manchester. Let it be remembered that the sacrifice to be offered, if the electors approve of it, is to be offered, in order, as its advocates assert, to conciliate Ireland. Pray, how many sacrifices of this kind have we not already made in vain ?,. In the reign of GEORGE 111. the re peal of the penal statutes was to conciliate Ireland. In the same reign, the act which conferred the elective fran chise upon the Roman Catholics was passed to conciliate Ireland. The endowment of the Jesuit's college of May nooth was to conciliate the priests. The enormous sums of money granted to make roads, build bridges, erect quays, docks, harbours, and custom houses, were given to conciliate Ireland. She has been a favoured island, and more money has been spent upon her than would have sufficed to bring Jamaica as near to England. It has all been expended in vain. She has been exempted from British taxation to an extent which is unpardonable. Her exported produce is the ruin of the :British farmer. Her exported paupers drive our own labourers into the poor house. Two-thirds of the rates levied in this town are spent upon Irish mendicants. Irish papists infest ou r streets, worm themselves into our local establishments, sit at our civic boards, and deprive Englishmen of em ployment. All this we have done—all this we have submitted to—and what is the result ? Why, this, that the people o f England are now called upon to annihilate the protestant religion, and establish popery in Ireland. It is now time that we should open our eyes to these facts. We cannot now deceive ourselves as to the conse quences of the last boon conferred upon the Roman Ca tholics of Ireland. We must see the effects of the eman cipation bill. According to Mr. Secretary LITTLETON it has produced TWO MURDERS A DAY in that frightful country. Life and property are alike insecure. No man who does not kneel before a fetid priest has more than a month's purchase of his existence in Ireland. Every thing is unhinged, every thing is insecure, every thing is uncertain, since the passing of that unfortunate and pernicious measure. And last of all, they demand the confiscation of the property belonging to the protest. ant church ! What next? No matter; we make our stand here ; and we say, once for all, in plain terms, and in well-con sidered words, that rather than yield this point, or sub mit to such an inroad upon our religious feelings, we will consent to the REPEAL OF THE UNION! Rather than insult heaven we are prepared to make a bolder sacri fice. If there be no alternative between sacrilege and open resistance let us cut the painter at once. Rather than rob one party for the advantage of another, let us cease to be arbiters between the protestants and Roman In-justire to-both Itt - rtileiielieranA to her ,self. If WILLIAM IV. would only recal his lieutenant andsdeclare hiniself the sovereign protector of Ireland, we should then enable the contending parties to settle the right of supremacy among themselves. All that we should have to do would be to prevent any foreign in terference. This could be done by a few ships of war. WT could easily place the whole island in a state of blockade, and enforce a most rigid non-interference. Leave the protestants, we say, to defend themselves. We have no fears as to the result. We knoW on which side is the right, or if they will, we have no objections to leave it to the might. Our readers, we doubt not, will readily bear witness that we have been extremely liberal in our animadver sions upon the people and the free institutions of the United Stales of America. A certain book is said to be its own interpreter, and we may say the same of the re public. The system supplies the materials which enable us to form a tolerably correct estimate of its merits. We have allowed America and Anr.:rican writers to speak for themselves, and explain in the American language the nature of the liberty they enjoy and the equality they recognise. Not one opinion has gone forth from us which we did not borrow from some respectable and creditable citizen, and we have only differed from the native historian in not taking all his statements to be facts. We have had a regard for tender consciences and thin skins, thinking it better to administer the medicine sparingly at first, in order to prepare the patient fur the full dose. We have bad before us for some time a very valuable work, published in America, and extremely creditable to the literature of that country, called the New England Magazine. The numbers we particularly beg leave to call attention to are those for January and December ~ LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, half-part Seven o' el' 9 . c ;og The accounts from South Devon continue of a most the vu character, and the conservative canvass has proved h e) expectation. A rumour is generally current that the re .., o o& smptoms of a breaking up among " the tail," occe:tioet chiefly by the impatience of some of its most hungry r', A re, for the commencement of that "scramble" to whicli encouraged to look as the certain result of their despert` r tiie f dishonest combination . It now appears they deMur to l i k i r on delay; the claims of their landladies for the rint" of the„ r tit pairs hack have become more violent, and,' unlike th e lire head, they have no corresponding " rint" of their Own t° litpe upon. Hence has schism arisen, and, we believe, no t l e to the annoyance of the cabinet, who find themselves int 01 lemma of either losing their amiable allies the O's, or coolsityl to court the loathed embrace (only endured from nece th;10 still closer. In addition to this, it is further reported t h3t is a little division among certain of the cabinet theraselves;r, thateven before the ricketty machine is put in motion tb litio", a prospect of its falling to pieces. Such i s the state of P e o , affairs here—Such the issue of the success of those who overturn the monarchy to further their own selash view s ° gra ndizement 0 Our Conant . Market has been' looking try for the last otarti two, and for the account the price was 92i 93. Ir l l° hOwever,-_qlosvi betty 921 -- • - A 0 ,15' Tn the Foreign Market ther has been extraordinarY $ ° d on e tions in the various securities. Spanish Stock has be e , u ,,..etl as high as 72, but closed rather tlat at 711. In P° r ,`,.. — o cile7, there has also been great fluctuation; the quotation o upon par to-day, closing at 991. Large wagers were deP e ., k 'b e upon this. The chief fluctuation, however, has bee° 1 .0 , transatlantic securities, Colombian Bonds have fallen t° Chilian t 53 54, nd Mexican to -18 49. By the commer a cial advic c es ,from Naples to the lithirlot3ol:e th we leani that the season bad been most favourable fo r ---e r at'`l berry trees, which were in full bearing, and wore an arr e3 o ,yi'', of great luxuriance. In the districts in the neighbour° prod th of silk had yearly increased throughout the kingdouri cultivation of the mulberry tree was multiplying in all " Me situations. et , II By adyices from St. Petersburgh we learn that at theceoe j ning of the spring communication by means of steani,,a, would be commenced between Odessa, Eupatoria, A" other points of the Crimea. THE LIVER THEATRE. 0 4 The Liverperformances terminated on Friday eseninPottl(oil', save the King" was well sung by Mrs. Raymond, Mis: ton, and Miss Leelercq, and most heartily encored. to the commencement of the - last act of Don Giovev"a Raymond came forward amidst very loud applause a n dressed a numerous audience as follows osl 09 as 0 Ladies and gentlemen,—At the close of our season , bor3i I take the liberty of saying a few words, not as the aetvr.llotte,, the manager, and as 1. - (lo not wish to occupy the tim e r - av e,'" to your amusement I shall be as brief as p oss ible. I " t b0:: the name of Mr. Hammond and myself, mug sincerely 'uu for your patronage, and gratefully to tell you , tia" - 1 ° P,.4 season has been successful. On the part of the actorscot''„ individually and collectively to make an acknowlel i g'''ber'' the favours bestowed upon them, and we ail hop e that Is e' long we may have the pleasure of meeting you again' moat respectfully bid you farewell. _.s (1 ;,,1; The Duchess of St. Alban's, With her usual liberalitY• at Brighton on Easter Sunday to cne hundred p0" , 1 .,'" amounting to five hundred in number, meat, bread, c° 11 ""' . 11)71 and tea, also one shilling to each, besides relieving scrl!,, e"' and old infirm persons with every article of clothinP... each, and a good dinner of roast beef and plumb pu-ddlillisiot Loan LYNDEIURST.—The countenance of Lord 14 11 ., ( 11 0 , 4 is singularly epxressive of his character. His brow band erigir power of the Phidian Jupiter • while the good burn° ure d,liet t that ever hangs about his moot% strougly.reminds one of T it! it . 11 :: ing Mephistopheles.. Great intellectual capacity, wil i di tolt: v uo moral earnestness of purpo s e, would then be 412 10 ' of nis character.—Printing Machine.