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WANTED, an experienced EOOK.KEEPER.—AppIi. atione, in writing, to be made tp WILLIAM SMITIIt Esq.,_Chairman of the Liverpool Mari ije Assurance Co., on Or before Monday next, the 15th instant. WANTED, a HORSE and GIG, or light' PH ETON, ON HIRE, for two or three months. Parties desirous of Letting, can apply (post paid) stating Acrins, to W. H., care of Mr. Lawton, Rainbow Inn, Williamson-square. TO SHIP-MASTERS AND OTHERS. • LIVERPOOL SHIP-MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. THE READING ROOMS of the above Society will be OPENED, 'to Subicribers, on THURSDAY, the 18th June instant. Terms of Membership, and other particulars, may be known at the Rooms, 2, Oldhall-street, near the Exchange. The advantage, which this Association holds out to Mas ters of Vessels, and to mercantile men generally, are such as can be found in no other Institution in Liverpool, andcannot fail to secure the hearty co-operation of all who wish well to the maritime interests of this port. G. J. DUNCAN, Secretary. Bth June, 1840. ANATOMICAL VENUS. I T has already been announced, that TUESDAY and FRI DAYSI are exclusively for LADIES. A wish having been expressed by several Ladies, for a longer explanation of this truly wonderful production of Art, the Proprietor announces, that a competent person will deliver a LEaru RE, provided he obtains a sufficient number of names for the purpose, .on FRIDAY next, June 12th. The Lecture commences (for Ladies only) precisely at Half-past Seven. Admittance, as usual, Is. ; for the Lecture, 2s. Gd. 53, Bold-street. LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. THE SIXTEENTH EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS WILL OPEN in AUGUST NEXT. All Works of Art intended for Exhibitiop4ll be received from the 27th of July to the Bth of Ausc inclusive, and must be addressed to the Secretary, xhibition Rooms, Church-street, accompanied with a Note describing them as intended to be inserted in the Catalogue. (No unnecessary quotation or narrative can be admitted.) At the back of each frame must be written the Name of the Artist, and the Subject. No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Gilt Frame. No Copies, except Enamels, or Water Colours after known celebrated Pictures, nor Works which bare been publicly Exhibited in Liverpool, can be received. Amateur Exhibitors are limited to one work of art. SAML. EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Liverpool Academy of Art. June sth, 1840. MOW OPEN, for PUBLIC INSPECTION, at the Exhi lr Rooms, Postoffice-place. Liverpool, a Splendid, Extensive, and highly-interesting COLLECTION of PIC TURES, the production of the most celebrated Masters of the Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and English Schools, in subjects from Sacred and Profane History, Landscapes, Domestic Scenes, Game, and Flower Pieces, a great variety of Interesting Portraits and Fancy Heads •a series of Cabinet Copies, from the celebrated LOXEMIIOU *G GALLERY, con sisting of twenty-one highly-finished Pictures, by a French Artist ; a Splendid Picture of the Marriage of George she IV. with Princess Caroline of Brunswick, displaying numerous Portraits of the Royal Family, Ladies of the Court, and Officers of State, all taken from the Life ; with other fine Productions of Art ; the whole having been selected in various parts of the Old and New Continents, by the Agent of a Gentleman of Fortune, who has kindly consented to their being exhibited in Liverpool for a Short Time only, under the Direction of Messrs. T. WINSTANLEY and SONS, who have arranged them as above for that purpose. Open from Ten in the Morning till Dusk. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING EACH. . . Descriptive Catalogues (oue Shilling each) may be had at the Rooms. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. AS the EXHIBITION of OBJECTS illustrative of the FINE ARTS, NATURAL HISTORY, EXPERI MENTAL PHILOSOPHY, MACHINERY, MANU FACTURE, ANTIQUITY, &c., will OPEN in about a week from this time, it is earnestly requested that all Per sons intending to send Articles, either as Donations or Loans, will, as early as possible, give notice th the Secretary. As similar Exhibitions, which have been recently held at Manchester, Leeds, Derby, and other plaCes, have been at tended with many excellent results, the Directors confidently expect that their endeavours to render this Exhibition as various and useful as possible will be warmly seconded by the public generally, and especially by those who possess articles of interest in any of the departments above enume rated. All expenses of carriage and removal will be paid, and the greatest care will be taken of all the objects lent, which will be returned immediately after the closing of the Exhibition. For the information of those who may wish to contribute either Gifts or Loans, a list is subjoined of articles desirable to form the Exhibition. NATURAL HISTORY. Botanical Specimens, Woods, Foreign Fruits, Flowers, Minerals, Fossils, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Shells, Eggs, &c. MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES. Specimens of Glass, Spar, Earthenware, Porcelain, Silk, Cotton, Woollen ; ewellery, Clocks, Stoves, Grates ; Cooking Apparatus, Musical Instruments ; Models of Steam Engines, Marine, Stationary, and Locomotive ; Fire Engines, Boilers, Smelting and other Furnaces; Windmills, Mill Work ; Mines, Roofs, Buildings, Bridges, Canal Locks, Railroads, Ships, Boats, Life Boats, Fire scapes, Water Wheels, Pumps ; Steam, Lithographic, and other Printing Presses, Hydrostatic Press and Balance, Apparatus illustra tive of the Mechanical Powers, &c. EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Hygrometers, Anemometers. Hydrometers, Pyrometers, Barometers, Thermometers, Saccharometers, Rain Gauges ; Chemical, Optical, Electrical, Galvanic, Magnetic, and Electro-Magnetic Apparatus, Telescopes, Microscopes, Da guerreotypes, Camerie Obscure;, Camerae Lueiclte, Prisms, Concaves, Convex, and other Mirrors, Models of the Eye, Ear, &c., Orreries, Quadrants, Sextants, Planetaria, Theo dolites, Pentagraphs, Dividing Machines, Drawing and Ma thematical Instruments and Solids. &c. FINE ARTS. Works of Sculpture in Marble, Plaster, Wood, Ivory, or Terra-Cotta; Paintings, Water-coloured and Pencil , Draw ings, Architectural and Mechanical Drawings, Engravings, Specimens of Penmanship ; Castings in Bronze, Iron, Plas ter ; Vases, Medallions, Coins ; Antique Lamps, Candela bra, Papier Mache, and Paintings in Fresco, &C. Antiquities and Curiosities of every kind, such as Ancient or Foreign Armour, Dress, Agricultural or other Imple ments, Autographs, Illuminated Missals, rare Books or Manuscripts, &c., will be gladly received. It is intended that experiments shall be performed at fixed times, and workmen will practise their different branches of art in Glass-blowing, Weaving, Printing, &c. The MIDSUMMER 110 - LIDAYS - will commence on SATURDAY next, the 13th instant. On the preceding THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the Ilth and 12th. there will be a PUBLIC EXAMINATION of the various SCHOOLS; and on SATURDAY, at Twelve o'clock, the Pupils will be assembled in the Lecture-room, when the results of the Examination will be announced. The Parents and Friends of the Pupils, and the Public generally, are requested to attend. To-MORROW, the 10th instant, 'Mr. MIGAULT will de liver the last Lecture of the . Season, on the POETS of the HAINBUND of GERMANY. Annual Subscription, One Guinea ; Ladies' Ditto, Half a Guinea ; Apprentices or Sons of Members, ss. ; Appren tices of Non-Members, 10s. Gd. ; Single Lectures, Is. *** Season Tickets, price 2s. Gd., may now be had at the Institution, and of Nlesrs. LACE and ADDISON, Standard office. Single Admission will be One Shilling, from Nine A.M. to Four Y.M. ; and Sixpence, from Four to Ten p.m. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JUNE 6. AL3IITT6I) Accidents Medical and Surgical CAF,CA Upon recominer.dation Ite,a,:ining in thi DISCIIA !LON 11 Cured Attending as Out Patients . Irregular Total Died. is Hospital . . 80 Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. House Visitors, Henry Holmes, Esq. and Jacques Myers, Esq Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. Arnott• GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL. AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM. 30 a.m. Pir,t Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. O a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Cla'.s 10 30 a.m. First Clays 12 15 p.m. FirEt Class 4 p.m. Mixo.l 7 p.m. First Class FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.in. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston arkside. 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. Fire. Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Nlis.cti 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday lbe Departures will be. , 3 30 a.m. First Clwss, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Ivlixed ft VP 1 :10 p.m. 10 30 a.m. „ 19 7 p.m. „ ft 9, 1 ' 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 245 pail. ~ The Trains on Sion lays stop at First Class Stations only LIVERPOOL AND MA CHESTER RAILWAY. I , IIOM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. First• Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9 „ 0 Pf 11 15 „ ..11 45 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 5 0 „ 5 :10 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 11 Stop only at Newton & Prkside its Train does not start till Three. ON SUNDAYS. FROM L'POOL TO MANCIK,Tr,:i. First Class second Clu•;s - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 ••10 0 11 0 " ..11 45 0 Aftern. .. 230 Attern. 445 sao 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton Z 4, *erksitle * Except on Saturdays, when ti First Class Second Class ~ I First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 1 8 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. a3 O Afterl4. • 5 0 Aft ers . .. 5 :ill Artern. 715 Evening.. 7 15 NI ixei 1 715 Eve n i ng.. 715 M i xed 1 I top only at Newton & Prkside I Stop only at Newton & Prkside , • TO PRESTON AND WIGAN. 750)1 LIVERYDO L. FROM NI ANCIIKSTS R. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 0 , I, 1 11 15 tf r. 2 30 Aftern. .. Second Class 245 Aftern. 445 „ .. Mixed I 5 0 ~ 715 „ .. First Classl 715 ~ ON SUNDAYS. I 7 - 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 30 Afternoon 'lO BOLTON 7 0 Morning.. 5 30 Afternoon Mb:cc! PROM LIVERPOOL. 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 „ • • .. Second Class ..'Mired .. First Class FROM MANCHESTER. - 9 0 Morning.... First Class om sv 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. t• 11 15 ~ ..•. !.1 -15 Afternoon ..Secoi:d Class TO ST. I FROM LIVICRPOOI.. 7 15 Morning `iecunkl Class 10 0 .... 99 I 1 45 /1 • • • • PO 2 30 Afternoon.. 11 5 30 •••• 5 30 „ ON 91 II 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. PP TO RUN , FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.. 11 45 ~ • • 5 30 Afternoon Second Class :V DAYS. 7' 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon „ ONI S u 7 0 Morning.... Second Clam 5 30 Afternoon .. ~ 1 , 11.031 :11ANCIINSTEIt. 7 3() Morning.— Second Class 10 0 OP , 11 45 OP 1 45 Afternoon .. 5 30 IDAYS. I 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. OP :.013.14 GAP. FROM MANCIINSTEIt. 7 30 Morning.... Second Cla 11 45 5 30 Afternoon !MAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon „ The Marquis of Westminster and his friends are said to have lost heavily by the Derby, as they had taken the odds (9 to 4), which were freely offered against Launtelot.— Morning Paper. `'~r~\ Varliaintitt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THUILSDAY. The royal assent was given, by commission, to the Tithe Commutation Act Amendment Bill, the Thames Tunnel Bill, and various other bills. The Bishop of LONDON presented numerous petitions in favour of legislative interference with the system of Sunday baking. The Bishop of EXETER asked what the Special Council of Canada had done respecting the inauguration of the Roman Catholic College of St. Sulpice, of which notice had been given in the Gazette? Lord MELBOURNE answered that he had received no or dinance on the subject, nor any report from the Governor- General. The Bishop of EXETER then asked for the papers contain ng instructions to the Governor-General of Canada, to whit h reference had been made in a despatch of March 18. Lord MELBOURNE replied that no instructions had been sent out, but that he had forwarded the opinions of the law officers of the crown, .as to the legality of the proceedings. Some interesting conversation then took place on the sub ject of the corn laws. The Earl of ABERDEEN postponed, until Tuesday, the 16th, the second reading of his " Church Benefices (Scotland) Bill." The Bishop of EXETER deferred, until Friday, the 12th, his motion on the subject of emigration to New South Wales. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, signed by the chair man of a large meeting at Bradford, in Yorkshire, complain ing of the treatment ex p er i ence d b y M r . F eargus O'Connor, in York Castle. The consideration of the Commons' amendments to the Prisons' Bill was then resumed ; but, after some desultory discussion, the further consideration of the amendments was deterred for a week. --- The Payment of Wages Bill (Lord Monson's) was read the second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. On the motion of Sir P. EGERTON, the committee on the Weaver churches bill had leave to make their report on or before Monday the 15th inst. Mr. GREG presented petitions against the corn-laws. DISTRESS OF SILK WEAVERS. Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition, signed by 1000 to 1200 silk weavers at Macclesfield. To his thinking he had never presented one more justly deserving the serious consi deration of the house, for it was virtually the petition of 800,000 hand-loom weavers against any further reduction of the duty on East India manufactured goods. It stated, that when foreign manufactured silks were admitted to home con sumption in the year 1826, their wages fell 40 to 50 per cent., entailing upon them unprecedented distress—demoralization and disaffection followed in the train; that corn and tropical articles of consumption remained, owing to taxation, as dear as when the change overtook them ; that they had no hope but to throw themselves upon the house for protection against any further reduction of their present miserable amount of security by duty; and prayed to be heard before the com mittee sitting to consider of the equalization of duties be twixt England and India. DUTY ON RAILWAY PASSENGERS, Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice, that in committee on the railway regulations bill, when they came to the considera tion of that clause which imposed a duty of one halfpenny upon every four passengers per mile, he should move that the duty of twopence be substituted for that of one halfpenny. HAND-LOOM WEAVERS' COMMISSIONERS ' . REPORT. Mr. G. BERKELY, seeing his hon. friend the Under-Se cretary for the Dome Department in his place, wished to ask him it it was the intention of her majesty's government to take into their consideration the report of the Hand-loom Weavers' Commissioners, to found any measures thereupon, and if the report would speedily be laid before the house ? Mr. Fox MAuLE said the subject more properly belonged to the department of the board of trade. to the president of which board the question would have been more fitly ad dressed. The report, however, would not yet be laid before the house (as was understood). POLICE RATES ASSESSMENT BILL. Mr. Fox MAULS moved the second reading of this bill. Lord G. SOMERSET did not rise to oppose the second read ing of the bill ; but from the great number of communications he had had on .the subject, he thought the bill ought to be well considered before it had the sanction of that house. With reference to the details of the bill, he thought a six penny rate would be sufficient. Mr. Fox MAULE made - some observations in reply, but, in consequence of the noise in the house, he was almost inau dible. He was understood to say he could not agree to the lower rate, believing the higher to be necessary to maintain an efficient police. The bill was then read a second tune, and ordered to be committed on Friday. Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD proposed the omission of the seventh clause, regulating the mode in which the increase of duty shall be borne under contracts of sale not completed. Dr. LUSIIINGTON and others supported the proposal. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER resisted it. After a short conversation, a division took place, in which it was negatived by a large majority. COLONIAL PASSENGERS' BILL. • The order of the day having been read for going into com mittee on the colonial passengers' bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Sir Eardley Wilmot as to the intentions of government respecting the introduction of Hill Coolies from India into the Mauri tius, expressed his opinion that the prohibition on that im migration might be usefully withdrawn under proper protective regulations. Care must be taken, by the appointment of proper agents, to guard the Indians against the delusions and oppressions heretofore practised upon them ; they must be free on their arrival to hire themselves to any master they may choose ; their term of service should not exceed a year ; and provision should be made against the disproportion of the sexes. 'With such precautions as these, he thought the ge neral principle of opening the markets to labour might be fairly applied to the Mauritius, whither, from local position, many Indians already found their way. But he did not con sider it applicable to the West Indies, where the introduction of a third race, with peculiar habits, might be productive of very serious evil. The protection of the Hill Coolies immi grating into the Mauritius would be the object of some clauses which he intended to propose in the committee on this bill. ' Mr. BERNAL regretted that, under the present diiastrous circumstances of the West Indies, the government should have declared against the relief of those colonies by the introduction of new labour. Mr. liosxousE hoped that if the experiment, when tried on a small scale in the Mauritius, should be successful, it would be extended to the West Indies also. Be attached little weight to the apprehension of mixing races. There was no race more mixed than the members of the British House of Commons, the " true-born Englishmen," descended from Saxon, Dane, Norman, and Fleming. Mr. EwAnT thought the danger lay only in the ignorance of the people as to the district and the service to which they were blindly consigned. Mr. WARBURTON said that it might be all well if the emi gration were that of men with their wives and families pro- Ceeding from an overstocked country to people a new land. But here the expectation of the importers was not to raise by, colonization from India, a permanent population of labourers, but to get a fresh supply from India as fast as the successive cargoes should be cut off by the mortality of severe toil. As between the Mauritius and the West Indies, he should rather prefer the' latter, because the inspection was much stricter. Mr. C. BULLER observed, that there was no country where population was more redundant and labour worse paid than Hindostan ; and its people, therefore, fell within the very principle affirmed by Mr. Warburton. The friends of the negro, instead of opposing every plan for the intro duction of free labour, ought to hail such measures as being the probable means of extinguishing slavery i►► the only way in which that extinction could ever be effected. But he feared there was a disposition to import into these debates . revenge against the planters, instead of plain justice. Dr. LUSHINGTON complained of this last expression, which he said was wholly unsupported by fact. He appealed to the evils of past migrations from India, and demanded to know what were to be the securities against the repetition of those evils, especially with reference to parts of India not belonging to England. The people of the Mauritius had evaded all your laws—the law against slave importation, the law of registration, the law forbidding public officers to be proprietors of slaves. On the slave question, the ad►ni nistration of justice itself was poisoned from bead to foot. The Coolies now at the Mauritius were treated most severely ; worked under police inspection ; and not suffered, even after the hours of labour, to quit their districts. It was a new slavery, and the annual mortality was nine per cent. Where, then, was the necessity for now preferring Mauritius, which had been highly prosperous, to our other colonies, which had suffered so heavily ? The whole subject should be consi dered together. Mr. MACAULEY had always been of opinion that the re strictions on the removal of labour were properly applicable only to a state of slavery. That state ceasing, the general principle of the free removal came fitly into operation. It was material to remember that there were always at the Mauritius, for health or pleasure, civil servants of the East India Company, who were invariably found to take a lively interest in the welfare of the Indian emigrants there. Some thing had been said about vindictive feeling; but, in his own mind, the heat occasioned by a long altercation had wholly ceased with the cessation of that slavery which had been its cause; and there was no part of the British dominions of which he was more anxious to behold the prosperity than the colonies in which that great experiment, the free slave labour, was now going forward. Mr. IRVING dwelt on the necessity of fresh labour in the Mauritius, and made a favourable representation of the con dition of the colonists there. Mr. O'CoNivtLL said, the planters of the Mauritius ap peared to be persons who desired not to hire free labour, but notgai I t ' g a o l) uosue s w llf h th th e e p se ro c p l o a s u e s t e l , till emigration. the to a . get labourers and work them out. He saw no security .paa The house ought theti c tl y Cooliesdeveloped, front was more dis tinctly ridicule s d 1 e notion of protection to the casual invalids l of the company's civil seri , ice, . and urged th at there shouldconcluded be a by e r m in a o 1 v i e i n n e r t t andthat salaried body of prote c t ors . H e the bill should be committed th a t d ay six e months. y ° l Mr. VERNON Sat Ulli desi re d t o r become tolerably full, the explanations pat r , the ei house having t L he o h r a d d J n o o li R uss ell in the earlier part of the evening, ve wh eZ attend ance had been very thin. Immigration hesaid, become the quest ion of the col onies. As to the Mauritius Dr. Lushing ton ou g ht lon g since to h ave brought its , mis deeds before p arliament, if they amounte d to one-half o what he had repr esented them to be. A p er manent salaried pro t e ctorship had been demanded by Mr. O'Con ne ll, an d t. t that was one of the very institutions which the governm e nt had it in contempla tion to establish. It was best to c hoose one colony for the experiment, and that one should obviously the Indian peninsula. he the colony near est to . about the forms of proceed' After a short conversation . proceeding. • trily withdrew his amendment, Mr. O'CONNELL temporarily . . to give L • 1 John Russell an opportunity of moving that the Lord committee on this bill should have power to regulate the in tercourse between India and the Mauritius. Mr. GLADSTONE desired he m i g ht not be understood as lof assenting to any particular plan emig r ation, though he was favourable to the general principle. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that if th e house affirmed the general principle, he should advise the crown to executea and on plan, which would be most carefully considered, on which it would be open to parliament to express its opi nion. Without their general sanction to the principle, no step at all would be taken by ministers to break through the existing prohibition. Mr. MACKINNON agreed to the principle, and Mr. WAKLEY made a speech about the English poor an d the Co rn -l aws, at which the House expressed some dissatis faction. lie was followed by Sir C. GR EY , w h o was favourable to the measure. ,ELL' Mr. O'CoN-• s amendment being renewed, was nega tived on a division. Mr. IlAwEs, on the order for the second reading of the Metropolitan Police Courts Bill, moved to refer it to a select committee, with a view to the establishment of a cheap and expeditious jurisdiction in certain civil cases. This jurisdic tion he proposed to vest in the police magistrates, who, when had engaged t o d o this.further their salaries had been raised, duty without increase of stipend. On an assurance from Mr. Fox MAULI that Government would attend to the subject in another session, Mr. HAWES waved his motion, and the bill was read a se cond time. Lord MoRPEnt then volunteered to abandon his Irish Mendicancy Bill, after which the House proceeded with the orders of the day, but on the motion that Mr. F. Maule's Prison (Scotland) Bill be read a first time, the House, at a quarter to 1 o'clock, was counted out. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. Lord HATHERTON stated that on Friday next he should present a petition nuMerously signed by proprietors of the Stafford and Worcester canal, and by many other persona, for the adoption of a measure to prohlb.it the conveyance of goods on canals and railways on Sundays. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, having presented peti tions against Sunday trading, observed that he feared the ob jects on one side were too extravagant, and the indifference on the other too extensive, to affbrd any prospect of the adoption of any effectual remedy for this evil. Lord DENMAN having presented petitions complaining of the treatment of Feargus O'Connor, The Marquis of NRMAN BY read letters received from York Castle, denying some of the allegations of Mr. O'Con nor as to the treatment to which he was exposed. His lord ship added that he had been led to believe the alterations which had taken phi& would afford to Mr. O'Connor as much indulgence as was consistent with the sentence pronounced by the Court of Queen's Bench. Lord BROU GH AM observed, that Mr. O'Connor's state ments had been met only by counter-assertion. For his own part his to dship professed himself so well aware of the value of these contradictions that he should wait for more specific information. Earl FITZWH.LIAM (in answer to Lord Ashburton's in quiry) stated that it was his intention to bring forward, on Thursday next, his resolution on the subject of the corn laws. Lord BROUGHAM having presented petitions from St. Ives, &c, on the subject, said that he viewed, with indescribable alarm, those measures sanctioning the emigration of the hill coolies, which must inevitably lead to the revival of slavery by this country. His lordship wished the government to lay before the house all orders by the governor-general of India regarding the shipment of hill coolies. Their lordships soon afterwards adjourned till Saturday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Mr. HORSMAN took the oaths and his seat on his re-elec ion for Cockermouth. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition complaining of there having been bribery and treating at the last election at Ludlow. Mr. EWART stated, that on the 23d •instant, he should move that the house resolve itself into committee on the several acts imposing duties on sugar, coffee, &c. Mr. B. Woo)) moved for a return of the names of all the unions governed by boards of guardians under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act in England and Wales, the month and year when each was first incorporated, the names of counties wherein such unions are situated, the names of all the assistant poor law commissioners for Eng land and Wales, and date and appointment of each ; the date of every visit paid by each assistant commissioner to boards of unions in England and Wales, from the first day of Jan uary, 1839, to the 31st day of December, 1539; the name of such visiting commissioner, and or such board visited. The Customs Duties Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, and the House having resolved into a committee of supply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving a reso lution as the basis of the intended duties upon timber, en tered into some explanatory details, his general principle being to collect the same amount which the originally in tended 5 per cent. might have been expected to produce, but to collect it in equal proportionS on both kinds of timber. He added, that he did not propose to make the duty take effect instantly, but to fix a future day for its commencement. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON desired a few days' delay in order to give time for the consideration of this plan at the outports. He wished the relative' position of the colonial and the Baltic timber trades to remain the same. Mr. LABOUCHERE expressed his conviction that any other course than that which Government had selected, of impos ing the new duty in equal proportions, would have occa sioned an actual loss of revenue by a total exclusion of the Baltic timber. Mr. WARBURTON concurred in that view. The object here was revenue, not protection. The relative position of the two trades was left as before, for the differential duty remained the same. Mr. Hurr concurred in the views of the Chancellor of the Exchequr ; so did Mr. VILLIERS, who expressed an intention of bringing the whole question before.the house on a future day, with a view to equalize the entire duty. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he was willing to give time for the passing of the bill, but that lie could not postpone the day on which the duties should come into Operation: Mr. HAwEs approved the proposed equalization of the new duties. After some repetitions by several of the speakers before mentioned, the resolution was passed. . . A series of estimates were then moved in committee of supply by Mr. ROBERT Gonnorr, now one of the secretaries of the treasury. Among these estimates were the whole of those which are called the Irish miscellaneous. Just as these were finished, Mr. Serjeant JACKSON entered, and said, that having been absent but a few minutes, he was not a little surprised to find that the business had been all hurried through in that short interval. He gave notice that he should take the opportunity of the report to discuss several of these estimates. While he was speaking, Lord MORPETH entered, amidst a general laugh that the Irish estimates should have been voted in the absence of the Irish secretary. Colonel SIIITHORP animadverted on this anomaly, and said he had intended to propose a reduction in the Irish secretary's salary ; to which Lord MORPETII answered, that he had at first regretted his non-arrival in time for these estimates, but that his absence now turned out to have been only what delicacy would have dictated to him when a discussion was to arise on his own stipend. And Lord JOHN RUSSELL added, that when ministers had been so fortunate as to pass their estimates without opposition, they could hardly be expected to propose them over again for the purpose of letting in objections. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned till half-past one on Saturday. HOUSE OP LORDS.-SATURDAY. Lord Chief Justice DENMAN presided for the Lord Chan cellor. Ihe Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill, the Customs, &c., Duties Bill, and several other hills, were brought from the Commons ; they were read the first time, and the Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill was ordered to be read the second time on Friday. Some other bills having been forwarded a stage, their lord ships adjourned till Thursday nest. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—SATunnAy. After Lord Mortm..mt had - moved the adjournment of the hou.se till Wednesday next, _ _ _ _ Sir G. SINCLAIR complained of the "slovenly manner" in which the public businesS had been performed, and said that, after the recess, he should call attention to the subject. Mr. KELLY deferred his motion, for leave to bring in a bill to abolish capital punishments in all cases but murder and high treason, until Tuesday, the 23d instant. Mr. EWART postponed till the same day his motion for a resolution declaratory of the expediency of reducing the duties on sugar and coffee. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland brought in the Qua lification of Voters (Ireland) Bill. It was read the first time, and ordered to be printed. The report of the committee of ways and means was pre sented, containing the resolution regarding the timber duties. It was read, agreed to, and a bill ordered accordingly. The house then adjourned till Wednesday. THE MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. (From the Morning Herald of yesterday.) On Saturday the following printed handbill was left at the shops of most of the silversmiths and pawnbrokers in and round the metropolis : " FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. "TO PAWNBROKERS, SILVERSMITHS, AND OTHERS. " Missing, from the house of the late Lord William Rus sell, No. 14, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, supposed to have been disposed of between the 24th of April and the sth of May last, the following articles :—Four silver tablespoons, old fashioned, with slight narrow stems, two of them are a little thicker than the others ; four silver dessert-spoons, plain stems, with double thread down the handles, front and back ; four silver dinner-forks, plain stems ; two silver tea spoons, plain stems, with double thread down the handles, front and back. The whole marked. with a crest, a goat walking. Whoever will give such information as will lead the discovery and production of the above articles, or any portion of them, shall receive the above reware on applica tion to Messrs. Wing and Twining, Solicitors, No. 1, Gray's Inn-square, Holborn." The valet Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, we understand, maintains, since his incarceration in Newgate, the most per fect composure and self-possession. He enjoys good health, and whenever spoken to on the subject of the murder of the late Lord William Russell, is most earnest in his declaration of innocence. He has one of the turnkeys in the apartment in which he is confined, with him day and night, and al though a most strict watch has been kept over him, no ap pearance of disturbed dreams have been discovered, his sleep being perfectly calm and sound. He has been visited since his committal to Newgate by the Swiss clergyman, on whose ministry since his residence in this country he has been in the habit of attending ; and Mr. Flower, his solicitor, has been permitted to see him. The next sessions of the Central Criminal Court commence on Monday, the 15th inst. Sarah Mancel and Mary Houston, the housemaid and cook, are still staying at the house in Norfolk-street, as are also Inspector Tedman of the D division, and Serjeant Pul lin of the C division, who will remain in charge of the pre mises until after the termination of the trial. The former accompanies the two females whenever they go out on busi ness or for health. FASHIONS FOR JUNE. (From the " London and . 1 1 a,...c Ladles' Mayazine of Pa. hion.'') The newest materials at this moment for dresses are the ; mousseline prairie, organdy's in small patterns, gaze barite, and batiste barZge ecussaise. Lilac is a colnur much in fa vour, and predominates both in dresses, bonnets and scarfs. Tight • sleeves may be considered among the changes this season, though they encounter some opposition, and are only suitable to thick materials; they are sometimes itl'Aina dis, with two seams, or cut }dais with a single seam, taking the form of the arm, having some plaits at the arm-hole; others are quite plain with jockeys. Corsages will continue fitted to the shape, with three coutures, a row of buttons placed en V on two of the seams, the skirts open en redingote buttoning down the front, or ornamented with gimp trim mings in Grecian or Arabic patterns, mends, tassels, &c., these are for dresses of stout materials. For poils de chevre, fancy checks, &c., the trimmings will be generally of baias, occasionally with flounces, but always in threes, fives, or sevens. Peignoirs for ti6glig6 are trimmed with two or three frills. Na n k een d resses are ma ki ng i n P ar i s em b ro id ere d i la Polonaise with silk or braid. Spencers and cannezous are very fashionable. Lace and embroidery will be very gene rally used. Scarfs, shawls, burnous of clear muslin are lined with lilac,pink, or paint! silk, and trimmed with lace. Theu'ost in e Small intuit l e eg l a o n u t rs l:o w u i r t n h o f t r is iog a e re to ot i ' o m a p e i l t h e cachemire, em broidered es 4 Louis XV. are made of black lace lined in every shade of colo s u e r a , if b , ut particularly violet, trimmed with d a a I flat ilag re, bouillon.tleblue, nfrtllthey and trimmed with fringe of white a re alsofi letare fashionable 1! sou , worn, lined foulard I .de e r. marron of taffetas in all colours, wi r r ihe a r p e la i i s d g o r r ea c t hit b ie o y ty observable in bonnets ; we have pailles de riz, leghorns and ou s t. i ti l ,ts lc h s o , bt 7 ac i . : l ie s of crape, intermixed crape lisle, bouillionn6es, muc h used, apple-green ornamented vewil's:l o w a i p t with t e b s a bands of shaded straw, cra p c e a , p . lilacs,Crape apricot s pr v i e e r o y t a c and red green isilks are o r n rs e ' t s are of a more Open form e tl a i colour with violets, pearl gray with bleur i t 1 ( ad missible in every form and style. ',Lune lilac lace is. f flowers without leuillage e trre d eiazc e tobl ik ol •ely of lace, lined with lilac or pink gauze, ; SO„'„, b(o'thers, i . aa t the favourite : fi li olitzi:ii‘eoi. have u )do r lesv i and ornamented with wild flowers; capotes 4 co i l ) u:l e is a s t e e s a i n e o f 1 ! crape paiis a o r f e (,lveryclear organdynumerous, c a n t: I d ) r sonic o ir e b d o bonnets in tesoti coloured worsted, in small wreaths, taking the form cl the front, the ribbons to match, or nceuds of organdy similarly embroidered. Dark ribbons are fashionable for straw bonnets; many have plaid preferred. ribbon,yelve those Coral continues very fashionable in Paris, in cameos, beads, or seed. • It is said that in a single pawnbroker's shop in the town of Bradford, there are no less than one hundred thousand pledges. The labouring portion of the population have al most all been obliged to have recourse to the pawnbrokers' assistance. \ \ INTELLIGENCE FROM CHINA: Canton papers to the 22d of February have been. received by the Queen Mab which arrived here on Saturday . after- noon. The principal feature of their contents is the fact Or an aflicer of higher rank than the Kwang-chou-foo, called the Taoutae, having been appointed by the Emperor, Pre sident of the Western district of the province of Matao, to reside in that port, and manage public affairs, remaining there - " a year or two, until the foreigner's shall be brought to order." The functionary began his career with a threat ening proclamation. Captain Elliott had solicited the in terposition of the Portuguese Governor of Macao, to pro tect the lives and the properties of himself and his - country men from the attacks of the Chinese. His excellency, who was well inclined to assist, was afraid to do so openly, lest his protection of the English should call down on the Por tuguese the vengeance of the Chinese GovernMent. In this very critical state of affairs, Captain Smith, the naval officer in command on the station, had moved the Hyacinth into the inner roads of Macao, with the intention of affording every succour in his power to his countrymen, should the Chinese carry into effect their threatened attack on the En glish residents. This bold step alarmed the Portuguese Governor, who, having consulted the Senate on the point, remonstrated with Captain Smith on the subject. The result was a correspondence between that officer and his excellency, followed by the partial withdrawal of the Hya cinth. After the arrival of the Mor on the 15th of Feb ruary, the Hyacinth, it is stated, returned to her moorings in the inner roads. Up to the 21st, the day on which the Queen Mab sailed. the Chinese had not made the menaced attack on Captain Elliott and the English residents at Macao, where, the private accounts state, things remained much as they had.done for several weeks previous. .The Mor, which sailed from Plymouth on the 2-Ith of October, with despatches from the Government for Captain Elliot, arrived at Latao on the 15th of February, after a pas sage of 113 days. On the 20th, - .Mr. Robertson, who left London with despatches dated the 4th of November, and proceeded overland to Aden, arrived in the Ariel. ATTEMPT TO FORM A CHINESE NAVY. " The Admiral Kwan's ' victory ' at Chuenpee, on the 3d of November last, over her Majesty's ships Volage and Hy acinth, in which these came away without the slightest hurt, whilst a number of junks were blown up, sunk, and destroy ed, seems to have led the Imperial Commissioner to the conviction, that if he should be obliged to report any more such victories to his Government, he will be left without a naval force ; and be has, therefore, it seems, determined on possessing himself of large foreign merchant-ships wherewith to oppose the English naval power. One ship, lately the Cambridge, now we believe the Chesapeake, under American colours, has already been purchased by the Chinese for 30,000 dollars, we hear ;in fact, her being allowed to enter the river at all, and dispose of her. c a r go , wa s, we are t o ld, made con ditional on her sale. The Chinese are treating for the pur chase of other vessels likewise, and wished also to buy two Danish ships, the Danske Konge and Norden (late Vansittart and Mithras), but not being able to arrange matters to their satisfaction with the owner, the Imperial Commissioner has hit upon an easier mode of possessing himself of these ves sels, as will be seen • front the edict, in which he decrees the confiscation of the Dense Konge for no other reason but that she has come to Whampoa without erasing from her stern her former name, although ha confesses, in the same edict, that on application having been made for that vessel proceeding to Whampoa, the circumstance of her change of ownership and flag had been stated. " The other vessel, the Norden, is confiscated, not because she had a wrong name at her stern, but because she had none at all, and this the Chinese discover now that they want the ship, though that same vessel, without a name on.her stern, has often discharged and taken in cargo at WhamPoa. These despotic and unprincipled acts of the Chinese, in making laws for the occasion, proves to us daily more the necessity there was for the foreign merchants, after their imprisonment, leaving Canton until their safety shall be mere guarantees which it may not be in the power of a Chinese mandarin to break as caprice or avarice may prompt. " Besides the three ships, the Cambridge, Danske Konge, and Norden, several other large country ships, now under the American flag, are spoken of as likely to be bought by the Chinese, who have also been desirous to contract for the building of a number of gun-boats after European models. We hope they may succeed to make a respectable show of fine vessels, and should it come to open war between China and England, congratulate the naval officers of the latter upon the event. " We hear it confidently stated that the imperial commis sioner Lin has been appointed to the government of the Kwangtung and Kwangse provinces, and that Tang has been removed to that of Yunnan and Kwichow. This appoint went seems to indicate the confidence of the Pekin govern ment in the abilities of Lin for the suppression of the opium trade and the oppression of foreigners."—Canton Press. (From the Canton Register, of February 18.) " Canton, 15th February, 1840. " An edict from the Emperor was received here on the 12th, inquiring of the local Government as to the policy of excluding the trade of all foreign nations without exception, and authorizing the Governor to give effect to the interdict without referring to Peking,, should he deem it politic to do so. But the most intelligent Chinese are of opinion, that there are too many opposing interests to admit of . such course being adopted. " After the hong merchants had settled for the purchase of the Danish ship Norden, for v 45,000, the Government have receded from the bargain, on the ground of her not being worth so considerable a sum. it is thought in Canto❑ they do not mean to persevere in their project ofemploying foreign shipping." Lin has falle' from his high estate of High Commissioner, holding irresponsible power and the imperial seal, into the office of Governor of the two Kwang provinces: He re turned the seal to the Emperor by the hands of the late Go vernor, Tang. It is also said, that Tang will return to the Government of Canton. We cannot help suspecting a plan. at Peking to entrap Lin into some further faux pas, by in vesting him with the power of stopping the trade of all na tions with China ; for an account of which wild measure see an extract from a letter from Canton further on. The Mor, Captain Adam Young, of about 405 tons, built by Messrs. \Vigrain and Green, expressly for sailing quali ties; without reference to stowage, left Plymouth 24 th Octo ber, and arrived off Lantao on the 15th February, in 1 l 3 days, of which 72 were to Java Head : sent out with Government despatches, which, with a few letters for her consignees, were landed on Sunday. A boat has been sent for the general packet, which is hourly expected. (Monday evening) It is believed, on the best authority, that the public de spatches by the Mor confirm the propriety of Capt. Elliot's conduct in withdrawing the British residents from Canton, and doing all in his power to prevent their return thither. The instructions are not positive or definite ; but, if we can place any reliance on what we hear, Captain Elliot's mea sures are generally supported by the Home Government. Nothing has yet passed on the subject of the opium, the Go vernment awaiting the arrival of Captain Elliot's receipts for the drug surrendered to the Government of China. It is believed, that the management of the negociations with China, under the authority of the Home Government, will be confided to the Governor-General of India. (Prom the Canton Press, of February S.) We fondly hoped, that though of late the imperial edicts and those from the provincial and loCal Chinese authorities have been many, that yet the Chinese New Year holydays would be allowed to pass over quietly without again actually annoying the British residents ►n Macao. This, however, was not to be. On Saturday last a new edict, which our readers will find in another column, was stuck on the walls, in which the Taou-tae, the newly arrived provincial officer, threatens Captain Elliot and six other British subjects with an attack upon their houses, and with forcible seizure of their persons, should they not obey the so often reiterated orders for their departure. The Taou-tae had, it was understood, previous to issuing this edict, gone to Heang-shan to spend the holydays, or to Canton to be present at the departure of the former and instalment of the present Governor of Kwang tung and Kwangse, and was not expected finally to take up his residence at Macao before the 20th day of the China Moon. Meanwhile, Captain Smith, of H. M. S. Volage, (as will - be seen from the official correspondence which we have partly translated from' 0 Portugues na China, and of part of which copies have been kindly furnished us by Capt. Smith,) for the protection of the British residents thought it necessary, it being known that some Chinese troops had en tered the town on the night before, on Tuesday last to move H. M. S. Hyacinth into the inner harbour, a proceeding which created great sensation among the Portuguese and the Chinese population, particularly amongst the Mandarins and Chinese soldiers, which latter, however, as will be seen from the correspondence already alluded to, were prevailed on, by the Portuguese authorities, to leave the town on the evening of the same day, and the quiet of the town was not interrupted then, nor has it suffered since the departure of the Hyacinth on the following morning. Being well aware of the peculiar circumstances in which the Macao Government is placed with that of China, we refrain from offering any comments on Captain Smith's proceedings, and the correspondence result ing from it, further than expressing our conviction, that the Macao authorities will faithfully and cheerfully give what protection they can to the British residents here, without drawing upon themselves the vengeance of the Chinese, who, by depriving the settlement of supplies, may at any time very 'seriously annoy,the population. We have been favoured with the translation of another edict from Lin, High Imperial Commissioner and Governor of Kwang-tung and Kwangse, ordering the foreign export trade to be so regulated that none of the foreign nations trading with China be permitted to export more tea and rhubarb than they require for their own consumption, in order to prevent the possibility of their supplyingthe English with these articles, and thus enable them to prolong their existence. If this new imperial order were acted upon, it cannot fail considerably to increase the difficulties of the trade at Canton, which, in fact, it seems to be the object of the Peking government to reduce to the smallest possible volume. In the meanwhile, the Canton authorities, much to the annoyance and loss of the Hong ►merchants, who have to pay for them, we believe, continue their endeavours to ob tain, by purchase or otherwise,. foreign ships._. They have al, ready bought the Cambridge and the Norden, and another American ship also, we believe, nor have they as yet, though we published an edict to that effect last week, confiscated the Vansittart, and will probably also pay for her. What they will do for the manning of these ships remains to be seen. No American or European sailors will. we presume, be fool ish enough to enlist under Admiral Kwan's flag, and there are but very few Chinese at all acquainted with the handling and working fiireign ships, nor will their own sailors, as we are assured on the experience of several commanders of ships, ever ascend higher• than the maintop. The rumour of the expulsion from Canton of several Ame rican merchants, which was current here during the past week, has not been confirmed, and we may, therefore, now consider it as without foundation. • The American vice-consul had sent a very humble petition to the High Commissioner, praying that " his countrymen might be allowed to go to any market, and load cargo for Canton, giving them thus the opportunity Of earning a little profit, for which they would he abundantly grateful," and actually offered to act as searcher, at Whampoa, for English goods, and to give a chop, under his seal and office, as a proof of the case. - We should think that the American go vernment would feel the humiliation of such an offer, and disapprove of this step on the part of their vice-consul, thus voluntarily placing the movements of their vessels under the control of the provincial government of Canton. It is well remarked by the Canton Register, that it is no part of a con sul's duty to become a searcher of the customs, or a police officer in the service of a foreign state. A petition had been presented by the Dutch vice-consul in favour of the owner of a ship from Linstedt, who had signed the opium bond, and another had been forwarded from Captain Townes, who had also signed the bond, praying the Hoppa to give instructions for allowing them to discharge cargo, which petitions appear to have been remitted to the Hong m erchants, with instruc tions for them to apply for the opening of these vessels' holds, in contimnity with new regulations which had been issued by the Commissioner. The specie on board the America n ships Ann, M`Kinn, Lintin, and Valparaiso, had been seized by the Hoppa, and instructions given to issue goods of equal value to them in exchange. The whole winds up with a pro clamation from the Taoatae, intimating that he had received " express orders from the high officers of government to col lect and array soldiers, and proceed to - Macao, and, taking Elliot and the others specified, surround and seize them one by one." It - was reported that 2.000 soldiers were in march for Macao to enforce this proclamation, which had caused great excitem en t, an d the English were beginning to take re fuge, again on b oar d the i r vessels. lour vess e l s were f i tt i ng out by the Chi nese t o ac t on th e defensive again s t the British fleet. These vessels are British built, two of which, under American colours, had been pur chased by the Chinese, but the other two, under Danish co louri, they has seized as above noticed. LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY. The half-yearly general meeting of the members of thi• useful and praiseworthy society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, on Friday evening. There was a numerous and highly-respectable auditory. On the motion of Mr. RowETT, seconded by Mr. MAT THEWS. 'l', I3.llorsfall, Esq., w as ca ll e d t o the chair. The Rev. Mr. TAMES having supplicated the divine bless ing on the Trocedings, The CHAIRMAN then rose and said, that however long he mighthe disposed to occupy the attention of the meeting, he felt that he could not state the objects of the meeting more clearly than they had been defined in the excellent address which was issued by - the committee in October last, wherein it was stated that the grand object was to disseminate amongst our young men information upon the principles of national establishments for religion. and thus make them intelligent defenders of, as well as devoted believers in, the faith they profess to hold. He was convinced that the more this information was disseminated, and' the more the princi ples of our church were known, the greater would be the number of its defenders; and he felt assured that many who were now amongst its most inveterate enemies would thus become, as some had already done, its warmest and most devoted supporters. When he said this, he alluded not to those lay members of dissenting congregations who could pass - unobserved from the chapel to the church ; but be spoke of those dissenting ministers, some of whom had already joined, and Others - were in course of joining, our national church. (Cheers.) And be believed that he was at liberty to state the fact, that during the past year no less than four teen or sixteen—he was not certain which—dissenting minis- ' ters had applied to our own excellent bishop for episcopal ordination. (Much applause.) He felt that, in a meeting like the present, consisting chiefly of the members and friends of the Young Men's Established Church Society, it were needless for him to dwell either on the propriety or the principles of the national establishment; but, as a general principle, it was desirable at all times, when endeavouring to get others to co-operate with them in any undertaking, to show them the advantages to he attained ; and he thought that it would not be a difficult matter, at any time, for the members of that society to point - out to others the advan tages of a national establishment, the first of which, that he would allude. to, was the union that existed between church and state. (Hear, hear.) And in looking at this question, they ought to look * at it in a double point of view. They must look. at it as churchmen; they must look at it as patriots; and while they might not acqui esce in the extravagant statements of the benefits said to be derived from the state by the church, yet, as patriots, they must acknowledge the great benefits which were derived by the state from the church. It carried out the great object of the union, as had been admirably and clearly stated by.an eminent statesman, which was not to make the church poli tical, but to make the state religious. (Cheers.) Another advantage which he thought existed in our national establish-, went, was that the church compelled her ministers to hold fast the form of sound words ; and although the most unfaith ful minister, or the most designing man, might by possibility find his way into the church, yet they . had their beautiful . . liturgy by which to test his conduct anti his preaching. An other advantage of our national church was, that her mem bers united in prayer, Sabbath after Sabbath, for our Queen, our country, and our church, thus keeping alive the princi ples of loyalty, of patriotism, and of churchmanism. (Cheers.) And althoUgh it might be an easy matter to enlarge on this subject, he should only mention one circumstance, to show the desirableneas of keeping these feelings alive. It was a fact: already publicly stated, that in the recent insurrection in Canada, there was not found among the prisoners, or among those known to the rebels, a single member of the national church. (Cheers.) It was not, however, sufficient to be satisfied with knowing and making known the auvan tages of the established Church of England ; but he trusted that it would ever be the object of that society to make. known, as opportunity offered, the destitution of many of the poorer members of the church, in different parts of the coun try. On a former occasion, in that room, he took the op portunity of pointing out the want of church accommodation and pastoral superintendence in that partof South Wales where the recent Chartist disturbances took place, and although such statements might be out of the province of the chairman of that meeting, he begged for its indulgence while he referred for a moment to that part.of North \Vales where the Chartist dis turbances took place, in order to substantiate the opinion he then expressed, and in which he had been more and more confirmed, that the insurrection and insubordination arose in a great degree from the want of church accommodation and pastoral superintendence. In the two parishes of North Wales where the Chartist disturbances took place, Llanidloes and Newtown, there was a great want of church accommo dation and pastoral superintendence. In the former, a pa rish 12 or 13 miles in length, by four or five in breadth, and containing a population of about 5000 souls, there was but one clergyman, and one church capable of holding but 500 persons, with but 30 free sittings. (Hear, hear.) In the parish of Newtown, with a population of 9000 souls, there was also but one church capable of containing 500 persons; and although it was in contemplation to erect another in that parish, yet in neither one nor the other. parish was there a national school. (Hear, hear.) If they wished to come nearer home, and ascertain the state of things, it was only necessary to refer to the statistical documents which had been issued, showing the state of the population in this county. It was said that in the 130 years antecedent to the last census, which was taken in 1831, the increase of p'opulation in England, including the agricultural districts, had been at the rate of 135 per cent. ; in the mining and manufacturing districts, the increase had been 300 per cent. ; and in Lancashire, our county, 800 per cent. Now, with such an increase of popu lation as this, he should like to know what they had all done, voluntaries and churchmen, in providing for the spiritual wants of the people; and it ought to he borne in mind that since then (1831) the population had increased one million and a half. How could they be surprised at insurrectionary movements, or anything else, taking place in any part of the country, while such a state of things as this existed ? It was not his intention, however, to dwell any farther on this sub ject. (The speaker sat down amidst loud applause.) The Rev. WILLIAM FALLOON move the first resolution. In the absence of those who were better qualified to advocate the cause in hand, he had consented willingly, as regarded his holy office in the establishment, but unwillingly as re garded himself individually, to take part in the proceedings of the evening. So low , as he found it written in his Bible,. " Quit you like men anti be strong ;" so long as he found it written upon the pages of inspiration as a commission for those who stood upon the walls of Zion, to " cry aloud and • spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression ;" so long as he found it written in the New Testament, " Whosoever shall be aslciu»ed of me and my word in this sinful and adulterous generation, of him also will I be ashamed when 1 come with my father in great glory ;", so long as he found these words in the pages of his Bible, so long must he consider indifference to be desertion from the banners of, Christ. (Hear.) It was upon these grounds and these alone that he had consented to speak to the first resolution, which was " that this meeting, loving the Church of England because of her scriptural character and, the national pledge which she offers of our adherence to christianity, and considering she has been, under God, the' means of securing to England the unexampled prosperity en-, joyed by her for the last three hundred years, cannot but feel surprise (the rev. gentleman read regret) and sorrow at the incessant efforts of her enemies to injure her." Ile gladly responded to the sentiments of this resolution. It contained several facts—first, that it was a scriptural church, founded upon the word of God alone, being so founded it must be a national blessing, and being so established upon the basis of the scriptures, it could put forward no other pledge but a pledge of security to the nation. Now, the pledgeour church offered was a pledge of national adherence to christianity. The next fact was that a church so founded, offerin,e , such a pledge must, by maintaining tlia doctrines upon which she was based, by maintaining the glorious gospel of the grace of God,—that church, so maintained and established in any country, must secure prosperity to that country. Therefore, in the words of the resolution, we acknowledged our belief that, under God, the Church of England had been the means of securing the prosperity enjoyed by this country for the last three hundred years. Feeling, then, our hearts embued with love to our glorious establishment, loving her not for the sake of the loaves and fishes, but because she bad the princi ples of eternal truth enlivened and preached within her walls, we could not but feel regret and sorrow at the incessant• ef forts made by her enemies to injure her. To give a brief sketch of the history of the church. We found that, imme diately after man had apostatised, a witness for truth sprung up in the person of Abel, and the character of Abel was the character of the church from that moment to the present. It was by faith that he was enabled to offer up a more accepta ble sacrifice than Cain,. Abel, in his experience, exhibited a feature which had characterized the church to this moment. Ile was persecuted • and condemned; he was murdered by Cain the apostate, thereby embodying in his own person the Christian character of the church, and in his experience and final end, the circumstances of an apostate church, which was always unscriptu ral. A church that stood fast upon its principles and to the. gospel must always be persecuted. (Hear.) From that moment the principles of truth were carried forward by indi viduals, each individual being a link in the chain ; they spread it into families. There were witnesses for God even in those times, and so the worship of God spread on from family to family, till the family which had it most eminently within them were made bond slaves in Egypt; in the metropolis of idolatry. There a great number apostasized, but there were a few witnesses for Jehovah among them ; and after enduring slavery for live hundred years they cried to God; he heard their cry, and sent help to rescue them. He sent them help by Moses; and after bearing with them through the wilder ness, and with their ingratitude, he at last brought the seed of Jacob into the possession of the promised land. There they flourished ; the heathen were driven out ; the worship of God became the established religion ;. and so long as the worship of the true God was maintained, so long prosperity rested with that nation. Herein we saw the Old Testament. instructing us, and upon this ground we stood now in de fence of an Established Church. Whilst David was their king the might have vied with any nation in the world, though at first they were but a handful, because they main tained their. allegiance to God, and because they worshipped only the true God. But woe unto apostacy! David was gathered to his fathers, Solomon, his son, reigned in his stead. For a time he stood fast, but strange women were brought in ; they were • idolatrous women, and brought idolatry into the. palace : the king became infected with idolatry, the nation caught the infection from the king ; idolotry was maintained, temples were built to idols, - the worship of the true God declined, and from that moment away went the nation's blessing. God gave them up to their enemies ; the nations around came and carried them into captivity. Thus the nation became captive and enslaved when idolatry came in. (Hear, hear.) This history.was in structive to us. Paul said. " what is written iforetimc is for our instruction," and these things were written that we might read and understand. (Hear, hear.) When that people were itiafliiction they b egan t o see k th e i r G o d again; they sig . heil for the days of th e i r f a th ers . f or th e g l or i ous times of liberty, for the glorious temple wherein they had worshipped the God of their fathers ; they felt the thraldom of a degrading superstition ; their sighs ascended to God ; the Lord heard them, and lie put it into the heart of an earthly monarch that Jerusalem should be rebuilt, and free doom give n t o th e I srae li tes to return to t h e i r own l an d. They returned; the temple service was renewed; but after a short time hypocrisy in worship succeeded. There was nothing hut the outward form of worship ; nothing but the coldheartedness of discipline. The spirit of love was not there. Here and there were some few witnesses for God, but in general there was nothing but coldness mid heartlessness. till at last the time for the change of dispensation came, and then the truth was to go forward in brightness and glory., It was amid s t thi s u ni versa l d ar k nes s that the star of Bethlehem arose. The meeting knew how he and the apos tles were insulted and despised; they had the whole Jewish . priesthood against them ; they had the rulers of the nation as their enemies ; in the latter days the whole Roman power leagued itself against them, and the neighbouring nations, Roman forgettin g th e i r differences, joined with the. power against them, so that the whole world was opposed to this little band, who were anxious to maintain the truth. On they went. They protested against the errors of the day ; they brok e throu g h the craft of hypocrisy ; they maintained that the light had gone out, and that they had come to re kindle it. They were, in consequence, brought before kings and rulers ; they bore imprisonments and inflictions without number, yet on they went maintaining their opinions, con sistently protesting against the errors of the day. They preached the Gospel, and the word of God prevailed. Now, although it began with such a small beginning, yet the power of truth overspread the country ; there were many faithful witnesses for the truth ; and after the lapse of four hundred centuries paganism was banished, and christianity once again appeared dominant in our land. But, as usual, after all these revivals, there succeeded a tabu, christianity became languid and seemed to die away. There were a few witnesses for truth here and there ; gross darkness seemed to enshroud the land. Pagan Rome becaMe papal Rome ; the Pope took the chair ; he ruled the victory, and once again the light seemed to be put out. Beta monk in his cell met with a dusty folio. It was the Bible, and it was Luther who was reading it. (Cheers.) He found by it how far the nations had departed from God. He raised his voice in words of power; he Spoke against the idolatry of the land, and against the coarse superstition that had put out the truth. He revived the doctrines of the cross ; he declared that all images should be cast down, and the Lord alone be exalted; he maintained in his latter days, that he who sat upon the chair at Rome, was a usurper and Auto-Christ. (Cheers.) That voice increased ; the mighty echo swelled, for salvation was upon it, and men felt the comfort of the liberty of the gospel: they felt the thraldom of papal Rome ; the little band swelled into a multitude ; the voice of the gospel reached England, - and Rome tottered.to its base at its pro clamation. (Loud cheering.) Then .came a noble band of Men forward in defence of the truth, they watered the plains with their blood; they gave "their bodies to be burned in Smithfield. (Cheers.) .The blood of the martyrs proVed the seed of the church ;'the seed flourished ; it rose and brought forth fruit ; and the word of God, and the gospel of Jesus Christ became once again established in this kingdom. (Hear.) But, again, after all this trouble and exertion, there came a coldness. The violent protesters fell asleep, and again coldness began to gather, Romanism remained quiet for a long time—for so long as the truth prevailed, popery was dormant—but its evil workings were going forward ; as the gospel declined in the pulpits, so cold morality succeeded e and as many seized upon livings for the sake of the loaYes and fishes, more than from the love of souls, Romanism began to usurp its place. The church became fractured in her powers, and popery seemed to flourish for a season. Now he dated the progress of all dissent from the moment that • coldness succeeded the doctrines of Jesus Christ. From that moment Arianism, Socinianism, and all the various forms of dissent began to take the place the church should have held. 'We could not wonder, so long as the church did not take her place, that dissent should spread ; but the church having slept her sleep, she seemed to have awoke as a giant re freshed with wine. Our Zion seemed to have put on her beautiful garments ; she was now appearing in her strength, and could we be surprised that these upstart sects-e-and this whilst she slept—should start forth in opposition to her? We could discover the spirit of some of this opposition ; it seemed not to be an honest desire for the glory of Jesus Christ, or for the spread of the gospel, or else why did they not protest against the established church whilst she was asleep? (Cheers.) Then they were all quiet; they were gathering their own strength. The church was at peace, doing little good or little evil, she was not exerting herself as she ought, he grieved to say ; but was it the part of a true friend to hide her faults? But now when she did take her place and boldly stood forward as the national bulwark, wh en she entered her most solemn protest against the usurpation of a foreign tyranny—for the Church of England was the protesting church of this land. (Hear.) When she seemed to raise her voice preeminently (he would not say exclusively) against the beast ; all their energies were roused against her, and they cried "Down with her, down with her even to the ground." (Cheers.) In all this we saw it was not the love of the truth that actuated them. or why not join the Church of England in the noble fight? Here we saw the lurking jealousy that existed against the establishment. In all this he saw nothing good. (Hear.) He saw nothing but that restless spirit of democracy which would exalt itself above God himself, and which would establish itself; he saw not in it the spirit of truth, or an honest desire to spread the knowledge of Jesus Christ. They put us upon our defence :- we were therefore obliged to band ourselves together and to form these societies, to maintain the principles of the church by which we would stand, or by which we were determined to fall. (Cheers.) It was not because the church was esta blished that we defended her, but because she contained within her the pearl of great price. 'Upon these grounds . alone—upon the scriptural character of the Church of. Eng land, we loved her, and belived that she had been the means of giving to England the unexampled prosperity she had en joyed. The rev. gent. concluded by moving the resolution. The Rev. Dr. TATPERSIIALL rose to second the resolu • tion. It was with much pleasure that he came forward to take some part in the . proceedings of this evenin g . He felt it a privilege to have this repeated opportunity, after havirg expressed his sentiments with reference to the design and constitution of the society at a former meeting e of giving ut terance to the same approbation, and of declaring to them again how grateful he felt to Almighty God that he had put it into their hearts to associate together for the purpose for which the society had been established. He could indeed have rejoiced greatly had there been ho.occasion for any as sociation of this nature, and had the cause not arisen which made it necessary that they should associate as a society in defence of the Established Church. Such occasion, however, had arisen. We were not the aggressors. Other associa tions had been formed with a view of assailing the Esta blished Church with, as we believed, so little reason in their nature, that it became a sacred duty which we owed to our selves, to the Church, and to the Great Head of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ, not to be backward to defend that sacred institution of which He was the head, and which was constituted upon the model which He had handed down, throtigh the instrumentality of Ilis inspired servants, to us. (Applause.) It would not be necessary to go in dieted through all the particulars of the resolution which had been so ably commended to their attention, but he would venture to make one or two remarks with regard to some of those particulars. He might, however, observe, that be felt strongly, and was gratified to hear, the remark of his reve rend brother with reference to a clause at the close of the re solution. He had intended to have made a similar remark himself; hut he was happy to unite in the views just ex pressed, and to approve of the alteration of the word " sur prise" to regret." He did hot feel surprise, thoughle might feel sorrow, at the endeavours of the enemies of the Church to injure her. His surprise was that any who called themselves Christians, and who professed to he actuated by the love of God, and by zeal for the salvation of souls, should be the enemies of the Church of England. (Cheers.) But, being enemies, he was not surprised that they . should endea vour to injure her; he was only sorry they should continue to walk in that enmity against the church, and, as he believed, against the interests of religion, which was so much in ac cordance with the interests of the adversary who " goes about as a roaring lion, seeking' whom lie may devour." The re solution said, in effect, that they (the Society) loved the Church of England. . They had good reason to love the Church of England. But love was sometimes established upon very different principles. There was love founded upon prejudice, and love from impulse; but neither of these were of great value, as they had in them little or nothing of the principle of permanency. We were commanded to love God " with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength"—with an intelligent as well as a fervent affection. We ought to know the reason why we loved the Church ; and in proportion as our love was founded upon settled and well-understood grounds, we had a pledge that that love would be permanent and efficacious. Now there were assigned in the resolution good and sufficient reasons why they should love the Church of England. In adopting the resolution they declared they loved her for her scriptural character — that was, he supposed, for her scriptural doctrines, and her scriptural constitution. These were very weighty words. (Hear, hear.) To say they loved her for her scriptural cha racter and doctrines was to convey a great deal of meaning ; and he hoped, therefore, that the adoption of these words would be felt to have a great and a strong meaning. (Cheers.) They were not mere words of course. If they loved the Church upon account of her scriptural doctrines, let them re member that those doctrines were not flattering doctrines. We were reminded in the doctrines of the Church of. Eng land of •our own fallen condition by nature, end of the utter impossibility by any process of our own of turning ourselves to God. (Hear.) The doctrines of the Church of England were not deceptive doctrines : they did not teach us to look to any works or righteousness of our own as-the ground of our acceptance with God. The doctrines of the Church of England' were designed distinctly to point out exclusively the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of righteousness and strength. The doctrines of the Church of England directed us to look for the spirit of holiness - as the only source from which we might derive that grace by means of which we might walk before God holy and acceptable all the days of our lives. To say that they loved her upon account of - her scriptural character, was to say that they loved her because they loved her teachings, because they loved to be faithfully and plainly dealt with, because they believed her to speak ac cording to the oracles of truth, and able to direct them safely into the way of holiness and into the way of heaven. (Hear.) if such were really the ground and basis of their love for the Church of England, he need not say there-was in it an assu rance that their love would be permanent, and that as day by day they appreciated the benefits of her spiritual influence and services, so day by day would their love of the Church of England increase, and with it their desire for her per manency increase also. (Cheers.) The resolution also said they loved the Church of England on account of the :national pledge she offered of our adherence to christianity. He would venture another slight correction upon the iihrase sdogy of this part of the resolution. He felt strongly that a distinction should be drawn between christianity and every mere pretence to christianity, and therefore he would beg to insert the word " pure" before the word " christiaiiity." (Cheers.) They loved the Church of England then because she offered a pledge of our adherence to pure christianity, to primitive christianity, to christianity unalloyed, and to chris tianity uninutilated. (Cheers.) Reference had been ably made to the corrupt forms of christiatiity. It waa not neces sary he should go over that g round again; but he must say that it was the glory of the Church of England that she stood forward as the bulwark of pure christianity. (Hear, hear.) When we considered ourselves as an established church, it Was the glory of our country that we held our position as an established church upon the very ground of protesting against all the corruptions of christianity. (Hear.) The very rea son why we were an established church was because we protested against the errors of the Church of Rome ; and if it had not been for that we should not have been an esta blished church. (Cheers.) Before he sat down he would beg leave to mention one thing in which this Young Men's Society might shew in a practical and useful manner their regard for the Church of England. There was a society, a branch of which was established in this town, which if any other deserved that character, might be well described as purely a church society—a society for distributing the prayer book and homilies of the Church of England, and especially for distributing those formularies of the Church of England, among a class of individuals difficult to reach, and to whom, it was to be feared, hut very little attention was paid—he meant the seafaring population of time port, to whom, it was needless to say, this town was very much indebted. The Prayer-book and Homily Society had had an auxiliary in this town for some years, although it had not attracted the notice or received that support which its necessities required and its objects deserved. (Hear.) There was an agency in this town to visit the shipping, and dispose of copies of the prayer book and homilies to as many seamen as were willing to pur chase them at a cheap rate, lit. its efforts were greatly crippled by the want of sufficient means. Now he could scarc ely imagine any object more completely in unison with the spirit of the Young Men's Established Church Society, than to take that society in hand, to help it forward, and so practically to Shew their attachment to the formularies of the Church of England, in fact, in this respect as well as in a more solemn one, to shew their faith by their works. (Hear,) Most happy should he be if the Young Men's Established . Church .Society would consider this hint. If that were the case, it they resolved t o t a k e t h a t soc i e ty by the hand, and if each individual member would make it convenient either to contribute or raise by contributions among their friends only five shillings a year, they would benefit the funds, and promote the efficiency of the institution to a very great extent. (Hear.) With these remarks he begged to second the resolution.-- The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. - The Rev. Timuns M'Greis moved the second resolution, " That this meeting, feeling grateful to Almighty God for the success he has been pleased to vouchsafe to the attempts made by this and similar societies to rouse the energies of church men, pledge themselves to increased exertion in the sacred cause they have united to support." He was very glad to discover so wise a sentiment in the hearts of this society, as an expression that the blessing which God had conferred upon this and other similar institutions, was not to be the cause of lukewarmness on their part, but of increased and renewed exertion. There was in this a good scriptural feel ing, namely, that we should show forth our gratitude, not in in our words, but in our works. Some kind of apology had been made by the gentleman who had preceded him for com ing forward to support this society. He called it apology, because although, as ministers of the church, they, of course, must belong to every institution which bad for its object the support of that church, yet for himielf, and for his reverend brethren, he might say that nothing would induce them to appear on that platform it they did not see in the object the means of promoting the knowledge of that glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which was committed to the care, the custody, and to the protection of our venerable church. (Cheers.) All political triumphs, all polemical achievements, all party victories, must ever sink in compari son with that great victory which it was the chief end and the . . chief glory of eery Chriatithi niiniater to attain. Tear, hear.) lie felt, however" highly thermight vindicate t e ho nour of the church, however highly they might recommend her to the affections of the people, all would fall short if they failed to win, by those victories, many souls to the allegiance and love of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Hear.) Let not the meeting think they were altogether without danger of fall ing into some error like this. We lived in days of agi tation, of excitement, of strong party feeling, when we were apt to mistake sentiment for principle, and enthu siasm for right-minded working; we were apt to be car ried away by these kind of impressions, and consequently they made him more anxious to win souls to Christ, more anxious to extend the boundaries of his kingdom. His young friends, therefore, must nut find fault with their mi nisters if they occasionally ventured to remind them that there was great responsibility attaching to them and to their body, by associating themselves together for so high a cause as the protection and support of the Church of Eng land. In that object was enshrined all that ought to be most dear to them as immortal beings; the salvation of souls, their present and eternal welfare were indissolubly connected with the Church of England. (Hear.) He beseeched them then, by the tenderest recollections, to remember that they professed and called themselves Christians; he beseeched them by the remembrance of their fathers and mothers who had departed, and who were now bending an anxious eye upon the children they had left; he beseeched them by the waters of baptism, to be true. first to the Lord Jesus Christ, and then they would be true to the Church of England. (Cheers.) They were placed in a peculiar position. Whilst they had associated themselves together for the maintenance of the highest principles of man, they were necessarily placed irksome sort of opposition to many of their fellow subjects. It was wise for them to consider that some of their fellow- subjects to whom they were now opposed, were for a long time distinguished for their faithful adherence to the true principles of the Gospel—he meant the Protestant Dissenters of England, who for a long time fanned the flame of truth in this country, and who kept alive the spirit of true religion when it was• neglected by churchmen. (Hear.) Although now this society was politically opposed to them, let us look back at what they had done in England, and learn therefrom what we had to do. (Hear.) The meeting would remember that for a long time the church was lukewarm and cold, but there was throughout England kept alive a true evangelical spirit among the dissenters. (Hear.) In their attachment to the church let the society never forget this—that what rallied round the dissenters multitudes of our fellow-subjects was, not the antiquity, not the sanctity, not the outward cir cumstances in which they were placed, not any authority delegated to them, or the recognition of them by the state, but solely the pure preaching of the word of God. Let thee► remember, too, that the church defined in her articles what she meant by the term church—" a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached and the sacrament duly administered :" they would observe also, in looking over thehistory of the country, that we never progressed as a church but when we had the pure word of God conjoined with the due administration of the sacararnents. Now the dissenters preached the pure word of God, but they could not duly administer the sacraments. (Hear, hear.) The church of this day represented, in the most perfect manner, the actual form of aChr . istian church as laid flown in her articles ; in her the pure word of God was preached and the sacraments duly administered, and so long as these two things were kept together she must prevail. (Cheers.) She had what Popery pretended to have, the right to administer the sacraments ; and she had, what popery never yet had, a pure preaching of of the words of eternal life. (Cheers.) But we never were in the midst of any prosperity or great blessing, but God tried our activity and watchfulness by bringing evils along with those blessings ; we were never allowed to sleep whilst things were going on well, lest we should become careless in our remem brance of Ilim who is the giver of every good and perfect gift. At the present time; when we rejoiced in seeing our church maintain the character of a Christian church, many of its ministers were giving an undue weight to, the administration of the sacraments, and, he feared, neglecting the preaching of the word. He made this remark with caution, but he felt it imperatively necessary to make it for the guidance of the society, as it was among the young that there was an active attempt being made to disseminate these principles. He had sometimes of late had an opportunity, or rather he had been called upon, to enter into some churches which he had after wards left with deep sorrow, and for which he had most fer- vently prayed God that lie would be pleased to look upon them • with compassion, and that he would kindle as with a coal from the altar, the true spirit of love to our Lord Jesus Christ, where at present all was coldness, dullness, and death. 0, he felt his heart sink within him, when he entered into one . of those gorgeous temples, originally dedicated to the worship of God and the service of Christ, where there was a drowsy preacher, an insensible reader (not prayer) of the prayers, where there was none of that heart touching melody which rose upon the wings of grateful praise and thanksgiving to God, where all was insensible and lifeless, and where the hungry sheep were looking up in vain for the preaching of the words of eternal life ! He prayed with thern, but when he left that place of worship he felt inclined to write upon the door—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians—by this craft we live." There was a great deal of that in it. He could not think he was in the Church of England when he went into these places ; and when he looked into her h. turgy and articles, he found reason to believe that there the Word of God was not preached, though the sacraments were duly administered. There was the authorised minister of Christ; there was the due celebration of the sacraments; there was the due performance of public worship—he begged pardon for calling it " the performance," but the term ap plied in this case ;—and there was not that heartfelt, heart searching appeal to the hearts of sinners, upon the subject most near and most dear to their immortal souls. This had been the case for a lon g time ; there was nothing new in it, he was sorry to say ; but the persons he mentioned a short time ago, as endeavouring to put the administration of the sacraments above the preaching of the Word, found support. in these places: Those lukewarm people who took upon • themselves the name of high churehmen jumped at these Oxford doctrines ; they said, "To be sure we hold apostolic doctrine—we have always held that ;" and _thus the old party, who were by degrees becoming evangelical, had gone back. They had found supporters in high places. Do not let them find any supporters among this society. (Hear. hear.) If the society lent them their support, they would flourish : if they discountenanced them, they must fall to the ground. (Hear.) They looked to the people for support, and, if they got support from the people, the evil which had been introduced among us now would be perpetuated for generations to come. But if the young men, the forloin hope of this generation, should withstand all attempts to foist upon them these old, musty, mouldy principle s , we should get rid of them for ever. (Cheers.) Much as we might la ment that many of the old ministers were renewing their youth in this respect, it was still more deplorable to know that many of our young divines, now coining forth as autho rised ministers of Christ, were very fond of these doctrines. He was sorry to find this the case, because he had studied and knew what the articles of the church were, and how much these men must differ from them upon the all-weighty concern of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ. He did not, however, wish the meeting to • run away with the idea that there was nothing good or nothing worth in the opinions of these men. No, we must read and consider ; and he had no doubt they would be led themselves after wards to confess that many of the points they had advanced they had carried too far. Thus we should get rid of the chaff, and secure the wheat. The resolution mentioned that they had pledged themselves to increase their energies ; and Dr. Tattershall had taken some of his ground away from him, for he intended to have suggested their union with that excellent society whose object was the dissemination of the Homilies'and the Book of Common Prayer. He would only add a hope that every member of this society possessed a copy of the Homilies. He knew that some of them did not, but they ought to-do. The Homilies were the text-book of the church. There we got our. strength when we wished to know the church's doctrines; we were sure to find them in the Homilies, and if we read those Homilies with a desire to understand the mind of the church, he was sure we should find it. They were without excuse in not having copies of them, for . they were sold at a very low price indeed. The rev. gentleman then concluded by moving the resolution. Mr: JAMES MATTHEWS seconded the resolution in an appropriate speech, in the course of which he pointed out the evils of popery and socialism, and called upon the meet ing to be earnest in supporting the church. One of the ob jects of the society as expressed in the original address, was the formation of a library. He was happy to say that a library had nOw been formed ; and he lied been requested to state that it would be opened in the course of next week. It would be lodged in Mr.. Crisp's office in Church-street. The resolution was carried. Mr. MconE moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman. In that gentleman the meeting saw the successful opponent to an attempt made in this town to promote the public dese cration of the Sabbath. (Loud cheers.) • Mr. Row Err seconded the resolution, and it was carried by acclamation. Mr. HORSF ALL assured the meeting that he felt deeply grateful for the mark of their kindness which had been just exhibited. He would rather avoid any reference to himself further than to say, with regard to what had fallen from the gentleman who moved the resolution, that in doing what he had with regard to the desecration of the Sabbath, or in en- . tering his protest against what he conceived to be an ac t of desecration, he only did what he conceived to be his duty. He(Hear.) only did what he was sure, from the expression of feeling lie had just witnessed, every other individual in that room would have done had he been similarly situated. The hour was now late ; there were yet some details of busi ness to be gone through, and he would only detain the meet ing one moment further, just to remind them of the substance of the two resolutions they had adopted. The first was an expression of love and attachment to their church. He hoped that upon all occasions when we felt called upon to express our love and attachment, we should be careful of exhibiting any want of love towards those who were not members of our church. (Hear.) The second resolution was a practical one, and they had pledged themselves by it to increased exer tions in the sacred cause they had united to support. Dr. Tattershall had stated one way in which they might exhibit their increased. exertions, and that was by giving aid to a most valuable, and useful, and scriptural establishment in this town—the Prayer Book and I loniily Society. (I - lear.)• He would only add to that the expression of his earnest hope that the society would most cordially respond to that call, and that they would, as churchmen and as members of society, not only giVe their support to that society. but to every so ciety in connection with the established church of this land. (Cheers.) The meeting then separated. Several persons in Ennis have suffered from using flour (thirds) with which it is suppdsed rye was mixed. They at first complained of,dizziness and partial loss of vision, in some i ns tances vomiting, &c., f o ll owe d. Fl our a d u lt era t e d in this manner might lead to serious consequenceS, which could not be too cautiously guarded against. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, GREENOCK, AND AYR RAILWAY • —The tunnel at Arkelston, is now sufficiently excavated to allow a passage for a locomotive engine. On Saturday last , the one built by Messrs. Barr and. APNab. and placed a fe"' months since on the railway to the eastward, was pushed through, and on Tuesday arrived at the depot here. As this was the tirst.tinie a locomotive engine had crossed the Cart, and reached the centre of the town, her appearance excited rather a sensation among the spectators. She has since bee" employed daily, and facilitates the work to a g rea t extent; The building for the .various offices is nearly at its full height, and will be ready for the roof in a few days. It i 5 altogether a very handsome building. It is of the same turreted style of architecture as the County Buildings, With which it agreeably harmonises.. The Directors, we under' stand, are sanguine as to the opening of the communicati on between Glasgow and Paisley very early next month. -- Paisley Advertiser. _ _ ~, ELOPEMENT.—Wednesday night an elopement took Pl ace from the quiet and ancient. town of Caerleon. Thus run!, the tale :—A certain m ,`aster-builder, of soft and per manners, had long 'paid his devoirs to one of those youn:: and beautiful damsels who bl o o m so plenteou s ly i n the pl c ''; sant town of Caerleon. The fair beauty, captivated by t t blandness awl affection of her swain, reciprocated the s , ',..`; ‘ , passion, and vowed to he his only. But " fathers have flit! '., hearts." The wooings of the enamoured lovers vered, and a careful restraint placed over the actions of au young lady. Being driven to determine, since parco!alor thority was so rigidly interposed, the gallant Lothar_ l ! u %d e d cured a stolen interview with his inamorata, andifreelstave her to elope ; and having got possession of a were disco vered, bullet' she al ladder, it was fixed against the window, down o w ii most flew from her chamber, and fell , i s , into her br ea— e a L rriage bard lover's arms, who bore her triumphantly 9 by, and bade the post-boy drive like wind: et been disco- Passage, beyond which no trace of them h ' roving lovers" ming vered ; but there is no doubt that " the 3' c at have, ere this, pledged their vows 0 1 deathless contan y the altar of Hymen.—Medin. ~, ~:~ ,