The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-29 00:00:00

(1 beet 14 , het bt ,,i 'l. et 1 ., jets Iv is a n d oe, o d ittee Mr. Parkinson, grocer, of Blackburn, proved that in July last he paid the prisoner £39185., on account of his employers. Mr. Lovatt proved that none of these sums had been ac counted for. Mr. Davenport cross-examined Mr. Lovatt with regard to his knowledge of negociations to convert the defalcations into a debt, but the witness positively stated, that he was not aware of any such proceeding. Mr. Rushton then said it was extremely dangerous, if not highly objectionable, to attempt to enter into securities or c ompromises in matters of this kind • and if this had gone a little further, h e s h ou ld h ave f e l t no hesitation in taking the r esponsibility of discharging the prisoner. But he would not do that, because, in a community like this, this was a very grave offence, and one with which magistrates ought to deal with the greatest caution. He should commit the prisoner upon the evidence before him ; but, under the circumstances, he should feel it his duty. to take bail for the appearance of the prisoner at the sessions. The prisoner was then committed for trial. STABBING. Thomas Usher, a lad about twelve years old, was fined £5 for stabbing 'two other lads in the face, on Sunday night. CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS. Fanny K e lly, an elderly wom an , was brought up on a charge of having stolen a piece of merino, the property of Messrs. E. and A Lewis, drapers, of Ranelagh-street. The merino in question was placed on the top of a pile of others, inside the shop door, and the prisoner went to look at them. Hurley, a messenger at the Town-hall, was in the street at the time, and he saw the prisoner take down one piece and Put it into her gown, which was wrapped round her waist so as to form a sort of pocket ; he followed her into Church street and apprehended her, when he found the property in he r possession. Fi ve s hilli ngs i n s il ver were a l so f oun d upon . Hurley wa in the act of taking her back to the shop When h e met Mr. s Lewis, who had come in search of her, having in the meantime discovered the robbery. The priso ner strongly denied the charge. She was committed for trial at the next sessions. TtOBBERY BY . Ann Jack son an d Ellen EIIis SERVANTS were charged with having stolen a smoke-jack, valued at 305., on the 22d instant, from 6 7, Great George-st ree t, th e owner o f w hi c h i s M r . Demp sey Mr. Wellwood Maxwell was removing from the house in question. to N o . 68, D u k e - street, an d t h e pr i soners were ployed to clean it after all the furniture had been removed. The smoke-jack was a fixture, but had been taken down for me time. The prisoners sold it to an old iron dealer in I l ird-street, named Edward Ronson, for 2s. Olp., being at ..the rate of one farthing per lb. he being defence they said the butler had given it to them ; but ~n e ing called, said he had merely given them a few coals and some piece s of wood. They were both committed to the sessions. kIRKDALE FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. DAHLIA SHOW' The Dahlia Show of this Society took place yesterday, at the house of Mr. New, Derby Arms, Kirkdale. A spacious marquee was erected in the garden of the hotel, in which the flowers, fruit, &c., were exhbited. At the top of the room, "n a stage, were displayed the royal initials, surmounted by a regal crown. The effect was extremely good, the whole being composed of dahlias, flowers, &c. The pillars of the tent were profusely decorated with evergreens and flow ers, as well as other parts of the building. A great deal of company visited the show, considering the threatening state of the weather. Many ladies graced the meeting with their presence. We never saw a finer display of fruit or vegetables, either for size or excellence of quality. Taking the exhibition altogether, it was one of the very best, per haps, that has taken place this year. On the stage were some beautiful flowers, contributed by Messrs. Skirving and other gentlemen in the neighbourhood, consisting of seve ral varieties of fuchsias, camellias japonicas, &c. There were two orange trees, one of which being in bloom, shed around a most exquisite perfume. We saw several single ladies eying " the orange blossoms" with smiling looks. Amongst the vegetables we observed a fine specimen of the silver beet, or carde poiree. This root is, we understand, an excellent substitute for the sea kale. The flavour is ex cellent. The root was exhibited by Messrs. Whalley. We noticed also some fine Guernsey lilies. The apples were re markably tine. The dahlias we never saw equalled. This beautiful flower, although comparatively so lately introduced into this country, has taken strong hold on the attention of florists, and 'every year some new variety an d b eau t y i s pro duced• The amateur collection which won the cup excited great admiration. A variety—a seedling of last year, called Lord Sandon— was much admired. The prizes, at the close of the day were distributed. The cup, presented by T. B. Nlolyneux,, Esq., value six guineas, bore the following in scription :—" Presented by T. B. Molyneux, Esq., to the Everton and Kirkdale Floricultural Society, for the best pan. of dahlias, 1840." The prizes were awarded as follow : DARLIAs.—Best pan of 18 dissimilar blooms : this pan won the cup, which was awarded to Henry Moss, Esq. ;- 2nd do., H. Moss, Esq. ;-3rd do., R. W. Preston, Esq. Best pan of 12 dissimilar blooms, Mr. Thompson ; 2, Mr. Henry Joyce ; 3, R. W. Preston, Esq. Maiden Growers.—Best pan of 6 dissimilar blooms, Mr. Thompson ; 2, Mr. H. Joyce. Nurser men's Prize.—Best pan of 30 dissimilar blooms, Air. T. Davies, Wavertree ; 2, Mr. W. Lodge, Broughton, near Manchester. Best seedling, Mr. W. Skirving. Best device of dahlia blooms, Mr. M`Gregor. Srovr, PLANTs.-1, Clterodendron speciosa, C. S. Parker, Esq.; 2, Fuchsia fulgens, Mr. Skirting ; 3, Combretutn 'Ruvuma, do. ; 4, Ardessia crenulata, do. GREENIIOUSE PLANTS.-1, Fuchsia fulgens, Mr. Skir ving ; 3, Cavarillii, do. ERICAS.-1, Mr. T. Davies; 2, Mr. Skirving. HERBACEOUS PLANTS.-1, Sidlllll- Sioboldii, C. S. Par ker, Esq 2, Pentstatnen, Mr. Skirting. Ofteurnams PLANTS.-1, Zygopetaluni Mackiana, C. o. Parker, Esq. ; 2, Mr. Skirting. PANSIES. —Best pan of 20 varieties, Mr. Wm. New ; 2, 11. Moss, Esq. ; 4, do. PI Best basket o f Co' FLOWERS—J. C. Shaw, Esq. NES.--1, R. Leyland, Esq. ; 2, do. p-AF.ult_ _I ,A. Bl a i n, Esq. ; 2, W oo d house, E sq. ~ .—Best s i x, Mr. W. J. Gandy ; ,T. B. Mo- lyneux, Es q . W 2 NP.CTARINES A;C:I3Ci PGE.SAI4.— B est est 2, do. a s u i d r y. J . . Walmsley ; '2 WRITE GItAPES.—B et ,t t wo b unches, A. S i nclair, Esq. ; G. Arbuthnot, Esq. ; 3, Sir J. Walmaley. APPLES.—Best six, J. P. Heywood, Esq. ; 2, M. Ash croft, Esq. PEARS.—Best six, T. Sands, Esq. ; 2, T. R. Molyneux, Esq. CELERY.—Sis best heads, Mr. Turner; 2, C. S. Parker, LETTUCE —Best brace, R. Leyland, Esq. ; 2, Jas. Lunt, CucumnEns.—Best brace, Mr. W. J. Candy ; 2, Mr John Davies. CABBAGES. T -Best brace, Mr. Jas. Lunt. CARROTS.—Best six, W. Blain, Es(7. ----. TURNIPS.—Best six, Mr. W. J. Gandy. EXTRA PRIZES.—PIate of Pears, Geo. Arbuthnot, Esq. ; Plate of Apples, T. Harrison, Esq.; plate of Tomato, It. Leyland, Esq. ; plate of Cherries, T. B. Molyneux, Esq. A very excellent band gave great animation to the meeting. The dahlias will remain on show this day (Tuesday). EXCHANGE WARD Last evening a meeting of the electors of this ward took Mice at the British Hotel, Moortields, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the return of Thos. Sands, Esq. to the council. The room was completely filled. and the utmost unanimity and enthusiasm prevailed. Mr. Sands was warmly greeted on entering the room. N. D. BOLD, Esq. having been called to the chair, briefly stated the purposes of the meeting, and regretted that the 11I ne4s of Mr. James Aspinall prevented him taking the 'flair as anticipated on this occasion. Mr. T. B. HORSEALI proposed the first resolution, which was seconded by Mr. MY ens, to the effect—" That the inde pendent conduct of Thos. Sands, Esq., and his attention to the i n t erests of the war d ent i t l e him to the warmest thanks of the meeting." Mr. SANDS then presented himself to the meeting, and ;vas received with tremendous cheering. He said that it was hi ghly gratifying to him to find himself received in such a good old English fashion, as it was a proof that his Past conduct and his principles were approved of. Mr. Sands adverted to the treacherous conduct of the whig ,Party, which had been promising everything and doing the g. Mr. Sands then referred to his past conduct in Ve council and stated at length his future intentions. 'le said if they wanted a representative who would advocate universal suffrage, he was Lot the man—or annual parlia blents, he was not their man—or, in fact, if it was republi canism they wished for, he would not suit them ! (Loud c heering.) He was one who would support to his utmost the constitution in church and state. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Sands then explained his views as a Wesleyan, and he then referred to the warehouse question and denounced it as fraught with danger, and as a measure likely to do the greatest injury to the prosperity of the town. In conclusion he hoped that the registration courts would be attended to, and success would be certain. (Loud cheers.) Mr. It. DAWSON, in proposing the next resolution, hoped the conservatives would put their shoulders to the wheel, and success would then be certain. The motion he had to pro- Pose was—" That this meeting considers the public charac ter and past conduit of Thomas Sands, Esq., eminently qualify him to be the future representative in the town council of this borough, and that the meeting pledges itself to use every exertion to return him at the ensuing election." Mr. JOHN WALKER. seconded the resolution. Mr. BYFORD proposed the next resolution, which was se conded by Mr. lionNE, to the effect that a committee be formed forthwith for the purpose of carrying the former re solution into effect. Mr. Byford commented upon Mr. Wood's address, and also upon the fact of the cellar popu lation being put upon the registry by the radicals. He then ably a Id energetically called upon the meeting to support Mr. S tnds, and declared his conviction that the operatives were for the most part conservatives, and were as warmly a . tathed to the cause as the richest men in the kingdom. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES proposed the next resolution, to the effect that the meeting earnestly requested the attendance at the Sessions-house of those electors who had been objected to by their radical opponents, and called upon each conser vative elector to use his influence to induce such parties to appear at the revision, and substantiate their right of voting at the election in November. • Mr. Holmes spoke warmly in favour of Mr. Sands, and bore testimony to his efficiency in the council, and ably exposed the trickery of the radicals. He then proceeded to comment upon Mr. Alderman Eyre Evans's testimony given before the House of Commons on the warehouse question, and explained the part taken by Mr. Sands in reference to it. Be then dwelt upon the expulsion of the Bible from the schools, and alluded to the expression of Mr. O'Connell at the late meeting on the subject of the Welsh. Mr. Holmes then commented upon the numerous objections made by the radicals, and hoped that every man who was objected to would not fail to be pre sent to substantiate his claim. Mr. ROWLANDS seconded the motion in a brief but stir ring address, r ecommending Mr. Sands to his b ro th er opera tives, assuring them, that - like Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, they had only to cry—" Up lads and at them"— to ensure success. (Loud cheers.) Mr. ADDISON, (an operative sail-maker), called attention to a part of Mr. Wood's address, which he denounced as anti-scriptural, and pregnant with socialism and infidelity. The speaker, in energetic terms, called attention to various subjects which excited constant Cheering. Mr. JACKSON was then introduced to the meeting, and addressed it. A committee being proposed by Mr. Arrowsmith, and thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated, after giving three cheers for the Queen—the Members—and the Duke of Wellington, &c. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATII.— On Thursday last, a la bouring man of the name of John Leather, residing in New tOn, Came to his breakfast as usual at S o'clock in the morn '"g, having been at his work. He and his wife and a lodger were sitting together in Leather's house, when Leather fell, the chair on which he was sitting coming in contact with the breakfast table and upsetting it. The lodger immediately ran to his assistance and lifted him up, while his agonised wife had not time to recover from the panic into which the ,tudden fall of her husband had thrown her before her bus band was a corpse—the spirit had taken its exit from its !lalrey tenement without a struggle. An inquest was held on (), 1 0 e body te following day, when " Died by the Visitation of was h the verdict returned. s were npre.o7 ben he on the gham, tern to I over t has that on and ~uucr"~ re were ney, or cceded le pro for the ere not cede to nce ?-- at Mr• ioneoi 'weecile r, as to mi not in the enefit• —I did f to be .i v . said 10, and te ileti ith the in the ne, net ii i l poo uld not office? an. you by L ight t° r 'Will io ,per ? pose °f en co' erstan . o pose,, say t " neut. to 110410 esir' -4" Eno ‘, VP° clia (1 1 trity far re bee ens tad ut i t " „we Tbe It is n° 1), ie ; t io: , kat V" ler tb s , to be ks yr s us a n e. Jul(' (I°. wat i v e t i s 1)0'31 cv. • 0 Lan )U1 try' 6Wel: i5Ol Xt t ..... CCUrti?; ton th lad re g°°,o ffere_ 4 , ho ` r T„y o lO t i • lea / ioi :g en ! of glee". ' llotb lOg e Cba rg , g at it 11 vm eo l° L it y 1 ,0 1 i''`e'r3:fol re fore GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE. Last evening a large and enthusiastic concourse of the shipwrights, coopers, and other classes of the free burgesses of Liverpool, was held at the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of forming an Auxiliary Protestant Association for the dis trict of Toxteth Park, where the " old freemen" of Liver pool are chiefly resident. The meeting was Announced to take place at half-past six o'clock ; but long before that hour the whole of the vast building was crowded in every part. In the pit and boxes, as well as on the raised seats behind the platform, there were a great number of respectably dressed females, and not a few ladies, nearly the whole of whom wore conservative favours, thus testifying their attach ment to the " good old cause," in defence of which the free burgesses of Liverpool have stood forth so nobly and con spicuously. The galleries also contained a sprinkling of females. On the platform there were numbers of the ship wrights, dressed in their blue jackets and white trousers, which looked remarkably well. They also wore party coloured ribbons and scarfs. The Amphitheatre was pro fusely decorated with red and blue flags. Over the chair was suspended a splendid royal standard, surrounded by the in scriptions of " For God, our Queen, and our Country," and " Success to the Shipwrights." The following were among the gentlemen whom we ob served on the platform :—Rev. H. H. Higgins, Rev. Mr. Falloon, Rev. W. C. Richards, and Rev. C. Hamilton ; Messrs. Duncan Gibb, 'l'. 0. Cooper, P. Wright, C. Boutflower, W. G. Leete, W. Rowett, Francis Foster, Win. Sharpe, John Peacock, C. H. Horsfall, Thos. Porter, Harbord, John 'Wright, Robertson, Hall. Among the ladies in the private boxes we observed Mrs. Hugh M'Neile and Miss Ward. • The entrance of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile was the signal for a deafening and protracted peal of cheers. Mr. R. CLARKE, a shipwright, moved that the Rev. H. M'Neile take the chair. Mr. H. HUGHES, a pilot, seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The Rev. CHAIRMAN opening the meeting in the follow ing terms. We are sometimes charged with inconsistency in opening a meeting which is mingled with much inevitable noise, and may be connected with many political topics, with prayer. The charge of inconsistency, however, does not rest upon us, for we are not among those who separate religion from politics. (Cheers.) We believe that the affairs of this world, as truly as the affairs of the world to come, are under the immediate direction of our God. (Cheers.) In his word it is written of him, " In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy steps." (Hear, hear.) This has ever been the practice of our country in her great politi cal meetings. The parliament of Great Britain is always opened with prayer. (Hear.) Let the charge of inconsis tency then fall back upon the heads - of those who would banish the Lord our God from the providential management of the world. (Cheers.) I shall therefore call upon a rev. brother now near me, to open this meeting, with asking God's blessing upon us, and all our fellow countrymen, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. (Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. RICHARDS offered several appropriate prayers. The Rev. CHAIRMAN then proceeded as follows :—Friends and fellow townsmen—l rejoice in your determination as ex pressed in the requisition you have sent me, to form your selves into a branch of the Protestant Operative Association. (Cheers.) And I very cordially comply with the request made to me by the members of your provisional committee, that I should be the president of your society, and your chairman, at this meeting this evening. It becomes my duty then to remind you, in the first place, of what the true and proper objects of our Protestant Associations are. (Hear, hear.) The objects I now read from a printed paper—from a circular of the Liverpool Protestant Association. prepared some years ago. " The object of the Protestant Association is not to mis represent—not to calumniate—not to create or foment divi sions among our fellow-citizens—as we are unfairly reported, and as sonic affirm that we do. No ; our objects are of a different character, and may truly be classed under these two heads : first, to' combine, in one Christian brotherhood of self-defence, all who truly love true religion and genuine liberty—all who sincerely advocate the free circulation of the unmutilated and the unadulterated word of God—all who assert and defend the right of private judgment—all who venerate the inviolable sanctity of an oath—all real loy alists, who maintain the unrivalled and universal supremacy of the King or Queen of England within these realms—that renounce, abjure, and detest any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or potentate whatsoever. (Cheers.) Our second object is, to address ourselves, with earnest affection, to those of our fellow-citizens who have the misfortune still to labour under anti-scriptural and anti-national prejudices —who are denied the free circulation of the pure word of God, and the right of private judgment—who arc taught that oaths, under certain circumstances, may and ought to be broken—and who are commanded to yield their first and highest allegiance to a foreign ecclesiastical authority."— (Cheers.) This second object presents us as the advocates—and I gladly now take my stand here as the advocate—of millions of my poor fellow-countrymen who are deprived of their rights. (Cheers.) I speak not here, or any where else, to find fault with those who have no choice of their own, and who are deprived of their rights by tyrants over them. (Loud cheers.) I allege that this is the condition of some millions of our fellow-subjects and of my fellow-countrymen ; and I will, before we go further, supply you with a specimen or two of the rights to which I allude—the rights made theirs by the word of God, and of which they ought not to be deprived by any interference of man. One of the rights to which I allude, and which I trust my Christian auditors will know how to appreciate—for this is a christian meeting, and I know no difference between Protestantism and christianity, —(cheers)—one of the rights, I say, to which I allude is this—the right of receiving the cup in the supper of the Lord. (Hear.) It is commanded of our Lord Jesus Christ, " Drink ye all of this :" and if it be alleged that when he so said be spoke only of ministers of the Gospel, it is said of the Apostle Paul addressing an entire church—the Corinthian church—" as oft as ye eat of this bread and drink of this cup, yea do show the Lord's death until he comes." (Hear.) It is their privilege not only to eat of that bread but to drink of that cup : I say here is a privilege of which millions of my fellow-countrymen are deprived—the cup is taken from, no opportunity is afforded them all the year round or all their lives through of obeying that commandment, of com plying with that instruction, and of enjoying that pri vilege of our common christianity. (Cheers.) And why so ? Not because the scriptures warrant that the cup should be kept from them. There is nothing of that kind in the scrip tures. I have shewn you that the scriptures command that the cup should be used by them ; and need we go beyond scripture for the proofs of our arguments ? (No, and cheers.) I recollect that our Lord himself—our great example in con troversy—when he held controversies with the Pharisees, and Sadducees, and Herodians, ap p e aled only to the word—the written word. He told them that they had made it void by their traditions ; he did not take tradition by tradition, but he appealed only to the scriptures. (Cheers.) He did not attend to the objections now urged and which might have been urged then—" an appeal to the scriptures is but an exercise of private judgment, the Pharisee appeals to it, the Sadducees appeal to it, they differ in opinion, and therefore we must have something else besides the scriptures." No : our Saviour refers to nothing else, and following his example we need. refer to nothing else. (Cheers.) It is the high principle of protestantism that we have the Word of God as the only standard of infallible authority, and that no opinion of man is infallible or can be infallible. (Cheers.) But sup pose we leave this vantage ground, and come down among the records of antiquity, what then ? I hold in my hand a book dear to Englishmen, and that ought to be known by Englishmen better than it is known—(cheers)—a book that I hope will be studied more than it has been, and especially I recommend it to my reverend friends, I :mean " Chilling worth upon the Religion of Protestants." (Loud cheers.) Chillingworth tells us the origin of the defrauding of our brethren of the cup which our Saviour desired they should have. The commencement of it was in the council of Con stance, and it is most remarkable that the men composing that council were of God to record their own condemnation. Here is the canon of the council, as given by Chillingworth— " Although Christ, after his - supper, instituted and admi nistered this venerable sacrament under both kinds, although in the primitive church this sacrament was received by the faithful under both kinds ; yet all this, notwithstanding, this custom, for the avoiding of scandals, (to which the pri mitive church was as obnoxious as the present is) was upon just reason brought in that laics should receive only under one kind." . So, although Christ ordained it in two kinds, although the primitive church received it in two kinds, yet the ?mined ot Constance brings it in that the laity should receive it only in one kind. (Hear, hear.) Now, my friends, I say 1 stand here as the advocate of millions of my fellow countrymen who are deprived by the tyranny of an anti-Christian priesthood, of their scriptural rights, of their Christian birthright. (Cheers.) Ido not stand here to abuse, as they say I do, our Roman catholic fellow countryman, and our Roman catholic fellow subjects. (Hear.) Ido not abuse them, but I will tell you what I do—l take their part against their priests. (Loud-cheers.) There is another right they are deprived of. It is the right of every man to have Christian instruction in the language that the man understands—(hear, hear)—to have Christian prayer in a language that the man understands. (Cheers.) Our own church says "Itis a thing plainly repugnant to the word of God and the custom of the primitive church, to have pUblic prayer in the church, or to minister the sacraments in a tongue not understanded of the people." Now, I say that these men who defraud our Roman catholic fellow countrymen of Christian prayer and Christian sacraments by saying the prayers in Latin and administering the sacraments in Latin—l say they are thieves and robbers. (Loud cheers.) This they call abusing our poor Roman catholic fellow subjects ; but I call it advocating their rights, and detecting the thief. (Continued cheers.) How would the Christian congregations of England like to have their prayers said for them in Latin, to have all the services of. the church in Latin ? I say that the minister would be a barbarian to the people and the people barbarians to the minister. (Cheers.) This is what St. Paul said- 4 ' If he speaks in language that the people do not understand he is a barbarian to them and they are barbarians to him ;" and how can a man that occupies the place of the unlearned say Amen to one giving of thanks, when he does not know what he says ? (Cheers.) Strange things any of the popish priests might say, and when the right time comes how can the poor people say Amen when they do not know what it is to ? Ido not think it is possible for me to convey the full force of this to your minds without saying something in an unknown tongue to your ears. (Cheers.) I shall, for the sake of advocating the rights of our Roman catholic fellow subjects, make myself for a moment or two a perfect barbarian— " Cosi al megro fanciullo porgiamo aspersi Di suave licor gli orli del vaso Succhi amari ingannato intantoei beve E dal inganno suo vita receve." This is from an Italian poet called Tasso. I have done this in order to make you, not to laugh at, but to feel for, the depths of the deprivation in which my poor Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen are kept by a set of ecclesiastical tyrants who say prayers in Latin. (Loud cheers.) If it be alleged, well, but he does not speak against the people, he speaks against the priests. I never deny it. I never did and never will deny it. (Cheers.) There may be some of them sincere, but for the most part many, who have learned these things themselves, and are capable of arguing about them, must, according to the constitution of the human mind and consci ence, know in their hearts that they are keeping the people wilfully in ignorance. But, perhaps, this is a " calumny ; perhaps this is one of those " falsehoods" propagated against our Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen ; perhaps there is no such thing as communion only in one kind; may be, they give the cup to the laity in the popish chapels ; perhaps. also, they never say any Latin prayers—for it is hard to get at the truth now-a-days. I remember a piece of truth that was told about penance, and when it was tried in a court of justice, it was pronounced to be a falsehood. Perhaps it is entirely false that they say Latin prayers, entirely false that they keep the communion from the people in the cup; per haps, also, it is entirely false that they keep the Bible from the people. I have a very remarkable document brought me by the post this very day. It is the last number of the .Achill Missionary Herald; and it contains a letter from the Rev. Edward Naugle, addressed to the Rev. Hugh Stowell. With regard to what passed upon the subject of Mr. Stowell's late trial, Mr. Nangle writes :—" The same means which have been employed by our opponents to injure the good cause, should be used by us to frustrate their inten tions. With this view, I deliberately publish the following statement. I challenge investigation in a court of law : let the party accused proceed against me for libel, and I pledge myself to produce legal proof of the truth of every tittle of my statement :—` I, Edward Nangle, clerk of the Protestant missionary settlement in the island of Achill, Ireland, do hereby declare that the Rev. John O'Flynn, Roman Catholic priest, formerly of Achoury, but now of Curry, in the dio cese of Achoury, and county of Sligo, Ireland, and also the Rev. Michael O'Flynn, R.C.C., of Ballisadare, in the same diocese and county, did, in the exercise of their office as priests of the Church of Rome, require one of their parish. ioners to burn a bible, of which said parishioner had become possessed, and to perform stations successively at Croagh Patrick, Baal, and Lough Deerag, which stations were en joined in the way of penance, in order to obtain absolution, and which were to be performed by crawling considerable distances on the knees, to the laceration of the person.' " This is precisely the sort of statement that has been denied. Mr. Nangle reiterates it. He gives the names of two priests; he gives their residences; and pledges himself to make good in a court of justice, by legal evidence, the fact that they commanded a parishioner to burn the Bible, and inflicted penance upon others, to the laceration of their persons. (Hear.) Now, much has been made of the verdict against this statement, in Manchester. There they had no op portunity, because the man in question could not be brought into court, to make good the evidence against the priest : here, if they be sincere, let them take Mr. Nangle at his word, and let them prosecute him for a libel. (Cheers.) I must recollect it is not to address you at considerable length, but rather to preside whilst other per sons addressed you that I came here this evening. (Cries of " go on.") You say well in the requisition sent to me, that our protestant constitution is assailed by outward violence, as well as undermined by secret treachery. You do well to combine in its defence; but, my friends, it is my opinion, deliberately formed—and I have no hesitation in expressing it to you now—that our constitution - in its present condition cannot be defended. Serious breaches have been made in it, and if we would permanently and successfully defend, we must immediately and resolutely repair. (Cheers.) If our efforts are to be conservative at last, they must be restorative at once. (Renewed cheers.) My friends, a broken break water soon ceases to be a breakwater at all, and only reminds us by its crumbling ruins that once there existed a break water. (Cheers.) The sea is in perpetual motion with open violence, foaming fury at the top, and secret und-rmining at the bottom ; the effected breach becomes every day the grand breach, and it is truly in vain to attempt to defend what remains in any other manner than by repairing what is damaged. (Cheers.) What is it then that has been damaged, and what is it then that must be repaired? I answer, the essential protestantism of our constitution. (Loud cheers.) —the civil and eeelesiastical ascendancy of protestantism. (Renewed cheers.) I am well aware of the uproar caused among the ranks of the liberals, by that old-fashioned word, " ascendancy." (Hear, hear.) I am well aware how . the vocabulary has been ransacked for epithets to represent that word, as the basest of things to be ap plied to mankind. I well know that what the vocabulary, as supplied by Dr. Johnsnn in his dictionary, lacks; Billings. gate and Derrynane have supplied. But, suppose that after all ascendancy of some kind would be enough ; suppose upon inquiry it should be ascertained that the essential laws of human society do repudiate a level as truly and as invariably as the laws of external nature repudiate a vacuum ; suppose it should be found that the system of British liberty, based upon the common law, upon the statute book, and admi nistered by trial in open court and verdicts by sworn juries, could not rest upon a level with the Roman system, which is based upon the canon law of the papal court, and adminis tered by inquisitors ; suppose it to be found, I say, that the two things cannot co-exist upon one level, and in equality. One must be pre-eminent. 'What is to be done then ? I know full well the answer men will give us if the question be, " Shall we have ascendancy or shall we have equality?" If a bona fide, well ordered, honest, fair, permanent, equality of privileges—and here let our liberals be honest and fair, and give us credit for what we say—do not let them wilfully shuffle, and stifle this part of our statement, and fasten upon some parts that they think will give them an advantage : let them take it as they find it—all of it—(hear) ;—well, I say, if it can be shewn that real, bona fide, true, honest, perma nent equality of privileges can be enjoyed—that man owning a foreign sovereign, and man repudiating a foreign sovereign, can stand upon an equality of privileges in the realm of our sove reign ; if it can be shewn that there is no reason why equality should not be maintained, I for one would joyfully advocate equality of all civil privileges for all persons what ever. (Cheers.) But if equality cannot be had, if the thing is utterly impossible, if no ingenuity of man can put truth and falsehood upon a level and keep them there, if the power of man cannot put error—fatal error—and saving truth upon a level—if no man can make a divided allegiance and an un divided allegiance to remain upon a level—if these things cannot he, and there must be an ascendancy, if one must be uppermost, and the .question comes which must be upper most—we turn upon the liberals and ask them " which will you have—will you have English liberty uppermost, which allows you your liberty, or will you have Romanist power which you in thumb-screws, and racks, and tortures ? " (Cheers.) I believe that from the nature f man, and from the constitution of human society, ascendancy of some kind is as truly and absolutely inevitable in societies as it is among individuals. Look at any class in society as men, as indivi dual?. Can you have equality—permanent equality ? Im otsokara them et not : eruim t a he a tr a h e ea g d a s ai a i r ty e , of th d e i i ff r ere pe n r t se sh a a a p a es re ; nottheir bi uponnl e t . e a l l n e L c e equality, their eyes do not look alike. (Cheers.) No ; it is impossible to maintain equality ; there is an ascen dancy in person, in figure, in stature, in manners, in talent, —all show that equality is impossible. So it is in society. Equality cannot be. There must be ascendancy. And if there is to be anything. of political ascendancy, as we have shown you it is indispensable, then in the name of common sense what sort of ascendancy will you have ? (Cries of " protestant ascendancy," and cheers.) Aye, protestant as cendancy to be sure. (Loud cheers.) I solemnly and deli berately think and say that both the welfare of mankind, the progress of human society, all the advances of the human species, the movements of all improvements—improvements in science, in agriculture, in commerce—the welfare of mankind—nay all that is for the temporal as well as the eternal peace of man and for the eternal 'glory of our God, all, call for Christian protestant ascendancy. (Hear, and laud cheers.) How is this to be had; how is it to be regained in this city ? There are various things to be done. There is one line of effort which I think I may very properly suggest to you, in order to meet some of the taunts and sneers of some of our opponents. They'are ever more throwing out taunts that the right sort of christianity is that which shows love to one another—that the right sort of religion is that which teaches mercy—not that which enables man to perform these duties. I entirely agree with this in its own proper place. " By this shall all men know we are Christ's disciples if we have love one to another," and one of the marks of that love is .4 you shall in no wise suffer sin by your brother, and when lie does in any wise offend reprove him." Now what I want to impress upon all assembled in this place this night—a n ighty and important multitude, though I should not at all wonder if we hear by and bye it was not half full—here it is, however, with above -four thousand witnesses to being quite full. (Cheers, and a Voice, " Aye, five thousand.")—Somebody said five thou sand, but I do not like to exaggerate—l want, I say-, to im press upon you that one mode at which we must aim, in or der to regain our Protestant ascendancy to this—bear with me whilst I tell you, for I show my love in so doing—it is this—that no Protestant man be. found at any time in a state of intoxication (cheers); that no man possessing Protestant principles be found at any time b r e a ki ng th e Lord's day, absenting himself from a place of worship, idly in the streets upon the - Sunday = that no man profess ing Protestant principles shall ever be found commit ting fornication or adultery that no man professing Pro testant principles shall ever be found going beyond or de frauding a brother in any bargain ; that no- man professing Protestant principles shall ever be found stealing anything however small. (Cheers.) These are features of Protestant ascendancy. (Continued cheers.) These are the fruits — I shall not go into doctrines, and go into the roots—but let the roots be judged and known by the fruits. (Loud - cheers.) You are willing to appeal to the Bible; and if you were not willing to appeal to it, I should not be your chairman. The Bible then says " by their fruits shall ye know them ;" and if you allow temperance, prudence, honesty, truth, chastity, integrity, and sabbath keeping; if you allow these things to be shewn more or as much by the poor, deluded, and de frauded Romanist, who will believe that Protestantism de serves ascendancy ? But if these things shew upon you, they prove the tree to be good. " Make the tree good," says our highest authority, " and its fruit is good." If you give practical proof that these principles are in you, rest assured it is not too late yet, by this method, to regain Protestant as cendancy in England. (Loud cheers.) I believe that it can not be regained in any other way. I believe that by our men in auAority it is not to be regained, because one and all of them, or nearly all—l beg pardon, there are a few glorious ex ceptions—but nearly all, of all parties, have proved faithless to the great principle of Protestant ascendancy ; and the only way to regain it is, by cultivating the Protestant democracy. (Cheers.) That is the way to regain Protestant ascendancy. It is to be regained by the people, or it cannot be regained at all. The power is given to the people—the middle classes of society have the power; and if they will become a Protes tant people, we shall have Protestant ascendancy again, the Bible in the ascendant, and the principles of the Bible su preme in the legislation of our country. (Cheers.) Who appoints our legislators ? You and such as you select them. You and such as you, showing such fruits as I have describ ed, may well send forth your representatives —men that shall stand up in the House of Commons for the principles that you follow up in your several departments in life. If you will first bring forth these fruits yourselves, and then select representatives like-minded with yourselves, we shall have a regenerated House of Commons—a Protestant House of Coininons. (Loud cheers.) We are using our efforts for this. I claim, and I am glad in this immense assembly to claim it, as it is in all justice due, a high regard at your hands for the labouring clergy of the Established Church, who are working this matter with and for you, and with all the powers of our minds and bodies striving to have Protes tant ascendancy. (Cheers.) The Protestant Association of Liverpool was drawn into being by the clergy of the Esta blished Church, and the Protestant Association of Liverpool, which commenced with a small beg l / 4 innitj i g, in a little room, has extended, like the prophecy concerning the Jewish na tion—the little one has become thousands, aye, tens of thou sands. (Loud cheers.) Behold such a meeting as this, which can be called at a few days' notice, .for the purpose of forming a branch association. (Hear, hear.) Aye, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal ; but scripture tracts—scriptural arguments--scriptural sermons--and I believe that God blesses the preaching of the gospel amongst the people. I believe that it is the faithful preach ing of the gospel which shall be the first thing to break down the iron hand of the Romish tyranny in England, and which shall be the first thing to reinstate protestant ascendancy. (Loud cheers.) I believe that, as the pulpit won the Re formation, the pulpit is destined, • under God, to keep and restotion, irto eeue e ndnn t ,d l it i eli e hekr tee ß Giirt e oc f ndl o rie r v,av m ent eosm a r t tteb i ho o ree n. , dflobe, raia ( sgtt C liolhmo o t tp n eres t d c o peril rather tißn u h: e riladtcltelhyey l oa i r, e ngu e yio r ib i owo n ofoe g wyp . t ) Y woehdruerßcm e nhe s E Hooper —men ntrorcwmh : hh—a g e tyranny of Rome, rather than be deprived of the cup in the communion, rather than have Latin prayers said to English ears . (Continued cheers.) Now, what is your just return ? Why, rally round your clergy. Uphold their hands. The loud shout of applause is very well in its place ; but that will not do. If the members of our congregations will admire our true protestant preaching, and will give us the shout of their applause in public meetings ; if any of these same men are bringing forth—what shall I call it? I may call them with out offence Popish fruits which are bad fruits—if we find them bringing forth bad fruits, what shall we say? The enemies of our cause will throw it in our teeth. S ee , ,, they will say—" this comes of your fine Protestantism —there is one of your congtegation found drunk in the streets every night." It was said of George Whitfield, that he was re proached with one of his converts being found drunk in the streets the other night; he replied, " Aye, you did well to call him one of my converts : he was not one of God's." Some of our weapons are of this character. Here is your true Protestant Sentinel. (The reverend gentleman here held up in his hand a copy of the last number of the Protestant Sentinel, the appearance of which elicited loud cheers. The rev. gent. said he was happy to be able to state that this little publication of the Liverpool Protestant Association had al ready obtained a very extensive circulation. He hoped that all would give it that encouragement which it deserved by largely purChasing it. The price of it was only one penny. It was published on every third Saturday in the month ; and the number that he held in Isis hand was that of Sept. 19). I feel grateful, continued the rev. gentleman, for the kind at tention with which you have hearkened to these observations, and I now leave you by calling upon the gentlemen appointed nth e list to move and second the resolutions. The rev. gentleman, after a few further remarks, sat down amidst en thusiastic cheers. Captain CRICHTON, being introduced by the chairman, said he felt great diffidence in presenting himself befOre so numerous an assembly. He would not, indeed, have come forward, wAI knowing that many who were present could deal with the subject with much more ability than he could, had it not been that he was a sailor, and being such, he was im pressed with tie fact, that " England expects every man to do his duty," and he would never be backward to the call of duty. (Cheers.) He then read the resolution, to the effect that in the opinion of that meeting the system of popery now gaining ground was alike inimical to the authority of the mo narchy, and opposed to the liberty of the subject. The speaker then remarked that his thanks, as well as those of the general community, were due to those mercantile individuals present, and especially to the shipwrights before him, without whom the commerce of the country could not proceed. He himself could bear testimony to their skill and industry in their vocation. The ship in which he had until lately sailed, during a period of six years, was built at this port; and he could say, that so faithfully was she built, that he had as much confidence in her in a gale of wind as if he were on shore. Yes ! even when the waves were rolling around him, and her timbers creaked, had he lain down to rest with as much confidence as if he were on land. (Hear, hear.) He congratulated the reverend chairman on the numerous assembly there before him. He considered these honest working men as the timbers of the vessel of the constitution, and though some of the planks had unhappily been stripped off, and those timbers were exposed, they would rally round the gallant ship. repair her throughout; bret into her the binding streak, and finally caulk her, so that she may defy the rush of infidelity, and float securely and proudly over the waves. They were protestants ; and upon that they took their ground. A late good old King (Geo. III.) had said every one in his dominions ought to be able to read the Bible : and it was for them to consider whether they opened that sacred volume, in that sincerity, and with that attention which would make us wise unto salvation. What was re quired was the whole Bible, and not that mutilation of it which was distributed by the Education Society. That so ciety sent forth mere portions of the scriptures ; which, like extracts from some fruits, good as a whole, might be poison ous. The Bible was believed to be the Word of God, and on that alone should their faith be established. He saw oneach side of him the British ensign, on which was emblazoned the cross. This ought to remind them of the Saviour. That flag floated over an extent of the British territory on which the sun never sets. Let them then rally around it as a sacred and honourable banner. He remembered that when he first took command of a ship, he was requested to take out six young gentlemen as passengers to India. He replied that he would not take them without knowing who they were ; and, finding they were Catholics, he refused to take them. 'He always main tained Christian discipline in his ship, and he knew that it was impossible to connect true Christianity with popery. He had heard that such discipline could not be introduced amongst seamen, but he had found the contrary ; and he knew not a few blue.jackets who would gladly go abroad with hint again. He had even been offered £5OO to take out the young men ; but they were Jesuits. He instanced another ease in which he set himself against the bringing from China of four young men of Pekin, to be educated as Catholic priests at Naples ; for he would not be accessory to the pro pagation of error. He would not have fixed upon him what in Revelations was termed " the mark of the beast." After some allusion to the idolatry of.the Chinese, he rejoiced that there was now a prospect of a door being opened to the spread of true religion in that country ; and he concluded by ex pressing his hope that the blessing of God might so favour the society about to be formed, and others similar to it, that England might again enjoy that prosperity which could arise only from true protestant principles. (Loud cheers.) Mr. SHEPHERD, after complimenting the chairman as the Wellington of the army of Protestants, seconded the resolu tion. In corroboration of what had been advanced from the chair, he should, he said, offer a few remarks. He then read an extract from the pastoral address of the Catholic Bishops of 1826, in which they denied all intention to subvert the Protestant Church, as established in these realms. In Feb., 1830, on the occasion of the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, they again issued a similar declaration. This was signed by a large number of the dignitaries of 'the Catholic Church in this country, and the sentiments expressed accorded with those also declared at the same time by Cardinal Weld. Not only the Catholic clergy but the laity then pledged themselves not to interfere with the Established Church of this country, yet at a public meeting held at Mayo a few weeks ago, a Mr. Hughes, a Catholic priest, said that no Catholic could con scientiously do otherwise than maintain, against all others, the ascendancy of his own church. Their opponents also sup ported Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in his agitation for the repeal of the union. (Mr. O'Connell's name was received by the meeting with groans and hisses.) And that individual said, that until the Catholics got what they wanted, he should not cease to agitate that question, and, if possible, to bring about the object it had in view. What, he , would ask, did the Catholics want ? What would satisfy their wants ? They had knocked off two bishoprics. They had got a reduction of £60,000 of Church cess, and various other large reductions,. but as long as they got what they expressed at the time, as the extent of their wants, they. immediately wanted more. Would the Protestants of this country allow this system to go on? (Cries of " No, no.") It was said by sonic that there were few or no protestants in Ireland. But when he went to reside in the county of Wexford, he found a number of poor protestants on the confines of two parishes, without a church within their reach, and many of them were drawn over to attend the Catholic chapel. He represented the fact to Mr. Alcock, brother of one of the representatives of 'the county, and drew up, with his sane- ' tion, a memorial to the bishop. That bishop, and a succes sor, lamented the fact, but nothing could then be done. He ' waited, however, on the next, the estimable Dr. Hethering ton, who, on his representation of the religious destitution of the protestants in that part of the country, made personal inquiries, and finally put his shoulder to the wheel, so that he (Mr. Sheppard) had the satisfaction to see before he left the county a protestant church erected, which was attended by from 80 to 90 poor protestants, who were before totally destitute of instruction in the religion of their fathers. He concluded by an allusion to the protestant press of Liver pool, and three cheers were given suecessively for the Mail, the STANDARD, and the Courier. Sotne allusion being made to the Mercury, when Mr. S. remarked that that paper sup ported its party strongly ; and that the others named did their duty to the protestants. Let them but consider the toil and expense of the latter in giving reports of such meetings as the' present, and let them and the merchants support them by their advertisements and otherwise. Their own press ought to be supported, and they would find it a powerful engine in their behalf. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. CH AIRMAN then put the resolution, and it was unanimously carried. Mr. SAMUEL HoLsiE (whose rising was the signal for a most enthusiastic burst of applause) spoke as follows : I had hoped, sir, before I was requested' by your secretary to take part in this interesting meeting, ,that I might have been permitted to remain a silent though not an uninterested spectator of your proceedings, because my numerous avoca tions render it impossible for me to make any suitable pre paration for addressing such an assemblage as the present. But this circumstance may he in some degree consolatory to the meeting, as they will be spared perhaps the infliction of a very long speech. I have little reading time, and my in formation, such as it is, is rather derived from the study of mankind than from the learning of the schools. But sir, on such fundamental points as we are met to consider, and on such vital principles as we are met to support and defend, I am thankful to say that I am never wholly unprepared ; and conceiving it to be my duty at any and at every time to de fend the principles with which I am identified, I hesitate not to throw myself on the indulgence of the vast assemblage, more especially as I see before me, many old familiar faces of working men, with whom I spent many of my younger days, and who remain still, what they were then, the unflinching supporters of our Protestant church, together with that free constitution of which the church is at once the foundation and the bulwark. (Loud cheers.) It is to me a source of the highest gratification to see so many hundreds, nay thousands of the working classes assembled together for such a holy object. A few years ago it would have been deemed impossible, and yet, such is the judicial blindness of our rulers, that they seem absolutely insensible to the fact, that England contains ten thousand times ten thousand men of all ranks and of all classes, who love and value the institutions under which they were born, which preserves to us liberty of thought, freedom of action and security for life and property. (" He ar , h ear, " and cl'ieers.) In the pre servation of these blessings all classes have the deepest in terest, and I doubt not but all who hear me will join heart and hand in preservirig and t ransm itti ng t o p os t er i ty t h e c i v il and religious liberty which we ourselves possess, (Cheers.) Feeling, therefore, that I am speaking the sentiments of thousands, I shall take the liberty of making a few observa tions, in drawing your attention to the motion which has been placed in my hands. And here, sir, let me observe, that 1 shall deeply regret if I wound the feelings of any con scientious Roman Catholic. It is no part of my creed, or of the creed of the church to which I belong, to wound indivi duals, for it is systems, not individuals which we condemn. But I hold that it is the bounden 'duty of every member of the Church of England, if he is zealous and consistent, to defend her doctrines, and to see that her frame-work is not injured or destroyed. (Several rounds of approbation.) Nay more, it is his duty to become aggressive against those' systems which are established for her injury, and to oppose, vigorously and manfully, every engine prepared for her destruction. (It is, it is.) If tlie church of England remains much longer on; the defensive—she is gone—for it is an axiom in warfare that a besieged city must eventually fall ; but if the garrison is strong enough to make a sortie and repel the aggressors it is secure. This is now the position of the church of England. She is assailed by a motley group whose only bond of unison is a desire for her downfall, and the time has arrived when the sortie must be made. She 'mist .carry the war into the enemy's camp, must defeat her assailants, must expose their weaknesses and defects, and being herself built upon the rock of scriptural truth, must attack the errors of those who are hoodwinking the people, and forging fetters for the mind and the liberties of England, that when our political liberties are destroyed, our religious liberties may. follow, and then our beloved country will easily be laid prostrate at the feet of papal Rome. (Hear, hear.) Do I need, sir, to use any argument to convince this meeting that great encroachments are now being made by the papal system in England ? Is she not multiplying her mass houses by dozens ? Are not her col leges, her emissaries and her mummeries, springing up on every side ? Does she not demand and obtain pecuniary aid from the legislature (more shame on the British House of Commons) that our colonies may swarm with her bishops and priests ? Does she not bar every avenue to the throne, and reign triumphant in the palaCe of the sovereign, for the first time since William of Orange was called to wear the crown of protestant England ? Do we not find her represented in in the privy council, and at the education board ? And is she not at this present moment ruling the destinies of this protestant kingdom, and keeping in power a degraded ministry, the subservient tools with which she condescends to work ? (Hisses.) And are not all her movements directed to the attainment of political supremacy, that all may be made to bend to her authority and implicitly submit to her decrees ? She Proteus like, professes to be the friend of education here, but where her authority is paramount she stifles the cry for it. Where her visible head is the temporal monarch, there are no public schools. Slavery exists — the slavery of the mind I mean, there is scarcely a middle class, and desolation and filth, commercial stagnation and mental and moral degradation, reign triumphant. (Hear.) Judge her then by the fruits of her government, in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, or in Ireland. What mean the Catholic Institute, the Protector Societies of England—(hisses)—which will soon fill us with an increased number of paupers ? What mean the Popish Associations in Ireland? 'Why, sir, there are so many chains forging to bind the liberties of Eng land, and surely we are not to sit quietly still till the manacles are riveted on us. (Loud cries of " Hear.") Surely we shall not be so fascinated with the serpent that we shall remain in torpid inactivity till we are folded in its deadly coil. (No. no.) And here, sir, I am brought to ano ther part of my resolution, the apathy with which the en croachments of Rome are regarded by professing protestants. Many peaceable and well meaning persons think that it sa vours of intolerance to speak out concerning popery : but I hold that whatever is erroneous and dangerous ought to be repudiated, whether in the Church of Rome or in that of England, if the latter had any errors either of doctrine or of practice. Popery is a double evil. It is a political evil, for it enslaves instead of giving liberty. It is a religious evil, for its creed is false, and it withholds the scripthres from the people, for the pope knows well that popery and the free cir culation.of God's holy word cannot be co-existent. Being inimical therefore, both to political and religious liberty, it is passing sttange that they who profess to be the advocates of both, should be found yoked to her chariot, and like the infatuated Hindoos, be urging forward the car which is des tined to crush them in the dust. (Hear, hear.) If popery were triumphant in England, dissent would have the privilege of being the first devoured. I trust, sir, that those members of the Church of England who are lending themselves to the f service of popery, will do so no longer, and that those who I aye hitherto displayed apathy will be apathetic no more. It was not by apathy that our ancestors succeeded in muz li ig the monster. (Cheers.) It was not by apathy that they rue seeded in quenching the fires of Smithfield. (Cheers.) It was not by apathy that they erected the pillar of our pro terant constitution, and it must not be by apathy that we can preserve it in its harmonious proportions and in its pris tine beauty. (This sentiment was loudly cheered.) But my resolution eglls for active exertions, and as they are now needed, I trust they will not be withheld. The tide of protestant feeling has set in, and I hope that our rulers, both national and local—(hear, hear)—will be made to know that that feeling is not to be trifled with, and that England will not submit to the moral scourge, which, like a pest, lays prostrate the energies of every country which it has the misfortune to visit. And to this end I hope that those seminaries which make the Word of God secondary to the acquisition of secular knowledge, will never have the cordial support of the members of the Church of England. Of the veneration of George the Third for that church, I had a pleas ing instance only last week. An address had been presented to the king on his birthday, and with his own hand he drew up his answer—it was in these words :—" I can scarcely find words to convey sufficiently my thanks for your very affectionate and dutiful congratulations on this day. You may rest assured of my attachment to our church esta blishment, and that I think its support essential to the maintenance of our glorious civil constitution." (Hear.) The word " church" was interlined, as if he did not wish his sentiments 'to be in the least misunderstood when lie used the term " establishment" only. The possessor of the docu ment is a gentleman at Runcorn, who had, in his youth, been his Majesty's page, and was with him when he read it, and has now the manuscript framed and hung over his mantel piece. (Bravo.) I trust, sir, that the same feeling which animated that venerable monarch may actuate his illustrious grandaughter. Her throne is only secure while it stands on a Protestant foundation, and while it is buttressed by the Established Church. Dissent is, in its very essence, demo cratic; but the church, from its nature, teaches subordina tion to lawful authority, and , is consequently monarchical. To forward the great work of education in the doctrines and principles of the Established Church, and to com bine secular and scientific information with true reli gion, a great and noble work has been commenced in this town—l allude to the Collegiate Institution for the education of the commercial, trading, and working classes of this great community, and I claim for this institution the zealous sup port of every member of our National Church. I rejoice to jell you, that nearly'Xl2,ooo has been already subscribed for its establishment, and much shall I mistake the inhabitants of Liverpool if that sum is not soon doubled. (It will.) [Mr. Holme here entered into some explanations concerning the origin of the institution, which, from the lateness of the hour at which we write, we are unable to give.] He con tinued. Does the Church of England, then, neglect scien tific acquirements? Far otherwise. But, considering that man is an immortal as well as an intellectual being, she makes science subordinate, and scripture paramount. She thinks the study of astronomy is heightened in sublimity, when the student has been taught from his youth to say with David--" 'When I consider thy h eavens , the work of fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, or the sou of man that thou visitest him." We think that geography is enhanced in value when the child reads that God has made of one blood. all the nations of the earth, and that he willeth not the death of a sinner, but that all should turn and live. The study of navigation, too, which it is purposed t o h ave t aug h t i n our Collegiate Institution, cannot be less interesting, because the sailor when tossed on the ocean billow calls to mind the in- struction of his youth, and can recognise in the heaving of the mighty deep the mercy as well as the power of the Almighty —can say in his heart, " The sea is his, and he made it;" and he can say to it, " Peace, and there shall be a calm." (Loud cheers.) The knowledge of the Bible sanctifies science, but science alone never made man happy. We would have every man, rich as well as poor, to be able not only to discern a Creator's power, but a Redeemer's love, in every blade of grass on which we tread, in every leaf that flutters in the breeze, in every flower that sheds its fragrance around our path, as well as in those sublime and scientific at tainments which involve the triumph of mathematical skill and reflection. (Much enthusiasm was here elicited.) Such, sir, is the institution which we propose, and every man who wishes well to his country and to his own offspring, be he rich or be he poor, will hasten to render it support. Its projectors enter upon the work with confidence, for they know well that there is in Liverpool a spirit of loyal attach ment to our protestant institutions which only requires to be fanned into a flame. (There is.) To every man who hears me, I say, permit not the standard of protestantism to be lowered to please the latitudinarian spirit of the age. Re member, my respected operative friends, that on the conti nuance of protestantism in England, the evangelisation as well as the Civilisation of the world mainly depend. Com merce, manufactures, and science follow in her train, and she is favourable to intellectual cultivation as well as to civil liberty. (Loud cheers.) Popery once gained a footing in Pa tagonia, and succeeded in causing many of the natives to em brace her system, but they did not carry with them the word of God, and when they left the country the poor natives cast aside their mummery and again relapsed into idolatry. The northern part of the western hemisphere, on the contrary, was colonized by protestant England and protestant Hol land, and what has been the result? Why England has found an outlet for her manufactures and her population. The Scriptures have had free course there, and in North America we see the features of a free and mighty nation. (Hear.) Two antagonist systems are now struggling for the ascendancy in Britain—the Church of England and the Church of Rome. The grand struggle lies between the two. At present dis sent repudiate the doctrines of the latter, although she un wittingly assists her in her political aggrandisements ; but dissent cannot florish either with the increased piety and efficiency of the national establishment or with the supremacy of the Church of Rome. But, sir, there is no room for fear. An abundance of that spirit which animated our Ridleys and our Latimers yet remains ; and whatever the upper classes may do, I will answer for that Class to which I have the hap piness to belong, and there are now present hundreds of our operative friends who are ready to answer for themselves— (much applause)—that the royal standard of Protes tantism shall be nailed to the masthead, and either fly victo riously there, or we will sink with our colours flying, for it is better to die in a combat for truth than to exist the slaves of a miserable expediency ; better to die a freeman, whom the truth makes free, than to live in a state of mental degra dation, or bound in the detestable shackles of any spiritual despot. Sir, the arithmetician is not yet born who is:able to compute the inestimable value of that chastened religious liberty, and of that subordinate political liberty, which is not less the undoubted privilege than it is the inalienable birth right of the humblest subject of the British Crown. In the preservation of these blessings I hope we shall be joined by every right-minded man in the empire, and my fervent prayer is, that United and happy, at loyalty's shrine, The rose and the thistle may flourish and twine Round a sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green. Mr. Holme concluded by. proposing the following resolution : " That it is the opinion of this meeting the encroachments now making by the Romish Church in Great Britain, and the apathy with which those encroachments are regarded by professing Protestants, call aloud for the active exertions of all those who desire the continuance of pure religion and civil liberty in our land."—Mr. Holme .sat down amidst thunders of applause. Mr. ANDREW CLARKE, an operative, appeared amidst much cheering to second the resolution. He stated th a t the tive Association had waited till the rev. chairman came home to solicit him to become their patron. He regretted to ob serve so few names to the'requisition to that effect in the STANDARD a short time since ; but he would assure the meeting that in place of fourteen, he believed the names of thousands could now be obtained. (Cheers.) He believed that since the time of William 111 so great and glorious a struggle had not been made for protestantism ; and he be lieved the association they were uow forming would make a clear road through the Protector Society. (Loud cheers.) He was glad to hear Captain Crichton deliver his sentiments BO well, but be wished also to hear a ship-owner or master ship-wright address the meeting. He saw near him the Bri- tisli flag; and hoped they would be able to hoist it more triumphantly than ever on the 29th of May. He had him self something to do with procuring the royal standard then over their heads. The magistrates had thought proper to investigate that flag before they exhibited it, though strange to say they had suffered the papists to carry their flags un scrutinised. But he hoped the day was fast approaching When they would he enabled to curry what flags they thought proper without scrutiny. (Loud cheers.) The motion was then put and unanimously carried. Mr. WHATII A M rose amidst loud cheers to move the next resolution, which he did in a most eloquent speech, to which we regret our inability to do justice. He p a id a we ll earne d tribute of praise to the moral courage of the distinguished chairman on behalf of Protestantism, and he subsequently demonstrated that the present meeting was one really and truly a shipwrights! meeting constituted for the purpose of defending protestantism, without any reference to the approaching municipal election. He reminded the meeting that had it not been for the Shipwrights' Associaion, Liverpool, probably, would not now have been represented by two conservatives—and it was, therefore, a public duty to aid their exertions in defence of protestantism. He hoped, indeed, that they would assist the conservative bond in winning many a glorious triumph. Nevertheless, the Shipwrights' Protestant Association was not a political body. They were determined to uphold their religious faith ; and they took the best means to do so, for their committee, up wards of forty in number, every Sunday distributed religious tracts among our most degraded and ignorant fellow towns men. The speaker next alluded to O'C onne ll' s l a t e s peech in the Queen's Theatre, particularly to a few of the hack neyed blackguardisms in it. O'Connell said he did not care about the Rev. T. D. Gregg. for he was not a responsible animal, but it was the Rev. Mr. M`Neile who was doing all the mischief. And then, as if he thought he had given too much importance to Mr. M'Neile, he said that man must be inspired by the very devil himself. He (Mr. Whatham) fancied he would have been nearer to the truth if he had said that he himself (O'Connell) had been under the visitation of the satanic inspiration, for it was exhibited in his very coun tenance. After speaking in terms of praise of the principles of the shipwrights, coopers, ropers, and sailmakers, Mr. Whatham concluded by expressing a hope that they would all come forward manfully to protect the British constitution, and so enable it to sail victoriously over the waves of faction and prejudice. (Load cheers.) Mr. JOHN LONGWORTH moved the next resolution. He saw the necessity of the proposed society, to counteract a ne farious one established in the neighbourhood of the Mass house of St. Patrick. The flag of their society, (the Royal Standard), over their heads was not disloyal. Th e motto was—" For God, our Queen, and our country." Had it been a Popish flag, it would have commenced with—" For the Pope, the Queen, and the country." If the Queen of England were in danger, she would find much more assist ance and succour from the Protestant shipwrights of Liver pool, than from the Papists ; and, if she sought refuge in Li verpool, would return back to her palace and cry out " No popery" herself. (Cheers.) The resolution was then carried unanimously. The Rev. CHAIRMAN, after a brief eulogium upon his cha racter, introduced the curate to his predecessor as pastor of St. Jude's Church, the Rev. Mr. Dalton, The Rev. HENRY HUGH HIGGINS, who said he was fully conscious that his only claim on the time and attention of that large and influential meeting, arose from their kind in dulgence. He considered it a great privilege to take a part in the establishment of a Protestant Association in a meeting of so many of his fellow-countrymen, as sembled to defend the best interests of their church. (Cheers.) He had lately come from a country well known to them (Ireland,) where he had seen somewhat of the workings of the Popish system. He had discovered that it was one thing to be well aware, in the abstract, of the fallacy of the Papal system, and another to be convinced of its evil practi cal workings. He held any man of sound understanding, with his bible in his hand, and, with God's blessing, might fully demonstrate to his own satisfaction the fallacy of the Papal system : but it was another thing to know the distresses a and the fatal consequences which attended upon the spread that system. . b of ut th u saw W t h e e t in y t i g g g h a t r countenanceshave heerd errea and wasted d of fm forms famine, —unless we heard the last dying g as p of those p eris hing from it—we had little conceptio n of the distress occasio ned by famine. The spread of the Papal superstition was a famine worse than that of bread. It was a famine of the word of God ; and some of the effects of that famine he had seen where he had lately been travelling. The rev. gentleman went on to describe the state of knowledge amongst the lower classes of people in Ireland. He shewed that there was a lamenta ble destitution of sound religious instruction amongst them ; and that, although there might be some acquaintance with arithmetic, there was little knowledge of the diverging lines ' of sin and holiness, or of the great centre of the universe and the Divine Being. He asked what was the amusement of the chief school which was under the direction of the Jesuits? The pupils were there taught, at an early age, to use the card table and the dice box ; but this was not without its design. It was adapted because they believed that if they were used at an early age they enervated and enfeebled the mind, and so it became an easier subject for the superstitious adminis trations of their priesthood. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman, after a few further observations, proposed the rules of the association and the appointment of the officers, as follows : I.—That this association shall be designated the " Toxteth park Branch of the Liverpool Protestant Operative Associa tion." 2.—That the objects of this association shall be to endea- your, with the Divine of Protestantism amongst t to impress upon all the fleet tion to resist the encroach and, in a Christian spirit, ti church of the dangerous err pies of their system. sing, to rouse the dormant spirit he working classes of the town ; :ssityof using every lawful exer ments of the Church of Rome"; ) convince the members of that ors and soul-destroying princi- :hall be "composed of Protestant r friendly to, the Established 3.—That the association operatives, members of, of Churches of England.and Sc 4.—That the association one president, eight vice-pre; a committee of management annually at the general meeti s.—That the association al purpose of admitting new Int couraging each other to perm 6.—That the speakers at el the committee. 7.—That a clergyman of t sionallyinvited to preside at That all meetings of t with prayer. 9.—That each member slia ll yearly meeting, into a fund fc shall be under the controul of sidents, secretary, treasurer, and consisting of 24, to be chosen hail meet once a quarter, for the embers, and stirring up and en evere in this laudable work. Pre Rev. Hug ch meeting shall be chosen by he Established Church be occa the meetings of the association. the association shall commence 11 pay one shilling at each half )r defraying the expenses of the CElts sident. gh Al'Neile Vice-Presidents. Alex. Smith, jun., Esq. Andrew Browne, jun., Esq John Payne, jun., Esq. Joseph Harrison, Esq. Treasurer. Duncan - Gibb, Esq. Joseph Cooper, Esq. Richard Harbord, Esq John Sheppard, Esq. Mr. And .rew Clarke. Mr. R Williams Christopher Watson Wales Buchanan. Wrn. Whatham. Joseph Edwards. Wm. Turton. Johnson Buchanan. John Parry. John Ellames. Charles Hunton. John Longworth. Robt. M'Clay. John Hudson. nW George Smith. George Bickerstaffe John Kerow.. Daniel Gelling. Edward Law. Joseph Crisp. Edward Radcliffe. Wm. Bleasdale. David Sambrook. Richard Cobb. John Leatherbarrow Mr. ROBERT MACLEAN feeling arid suitable address, i upon protestant gentlemen in operatives, to give their ch They felt that it was the on them, and be their friend in econded the motion in a very 3 the course of which he called the higher walks, as well as the Idren a scriptural education. ly principle which could save world to come. This was the reason why . they came forward to support our protestant institutions and the church, and this was the reason why they hoped the meeting would sup port them by their prayers. He was rather surprised at hearing the rev. chairman calling the Roman Catholics our fellow-subjects. They could not be so. They could not, for instance, be loyal both to the Pope and to the Queen. Their allegiance was divided. He could not, therefore, call them fellow-subjects ; but he could call them fellow-sinners. After a few more words Mr. Maclean concluded by seconding the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. JOHN 'WRIGHT, who was received with tremendous applause, fiat came forward and said, that he thanked the meeting very heartily for coming forward to form this asso ciation. He felt proud of having an opportunity of convey ing from that meeting, from the situation he had been placed in, and from the foundation from which he had sprung— that of an old shipwright—to their excellent chairman that vote of thanks which he had so well earned this evening. (Cheers.) Thousands upon thousands were indebted to the excellent man who now presided. (Cheers.) So much had been said in praise of the institution they bad met to form, that it would be wrong in him to add any more, but he must be allowed to speak one word to his old brother chips, to say how delighted he felt to see them come forward and set it on foot, supported by those kind friends of. his in former days— the brick makers, the rope-makers, the sail-makers, and many others of the operative classes. (Loud cheers.) Though he was getting into the " sear and yellow leaf" if his old brother chips would call upon him to come forward in such a cause as this, he would atways answer their call in the affir mative. (Loud cheers.) He would now turn to the excel lent man who occupied the chair. May God bless him, pro ceeded Mr. Wright, for his kindness always towards you ; may God bless him in his ydrs ; may they be many, and for ever successfully devoted to the welfare of his fellow-crea tures. (Immense cheering.) _ _ _ Mr. DUNCAN Ginn ex - pressed the pleasure be felt in se conding the motion, not only for the services of the rev. chairman during the evening, but for his labours since the first day he entered into Liverpool. (Cheers.) The motion was carried by acclamation. The Rev. H. M‘Nime then returned thanks. He should make no attempt to express some of his present feelings. Others of them he would express. Il e would first of all ex press his thanks to his good Christian friend and remembran cer Robert Maclean. He (Mr. M'Neile) had been wrong. He had used a wrong expression, against which he had argued in former times, and against which he (Mr. Maclean) had heard him argue. He had very properly reminded him (Mr. M'Neile) that the term fellow subjects was not, strictly ta ken, applicable to those who held a divided allegiance. He• was sincerely obliged to him for it, and quite as much so for reminding him of a term which did apply when he called them felloW sinners. It was as sinners he (Mr. M'Neile) now desired to speak to them, for, alas! there was not a .man upon earth that did good. Every man had sinned, but we had an adiocate with the father, Jesus - Christ the Righteous, who was the propitiation for our sins. This was the grand truth that made christianity what it was to us. There was a consciousness of sin in man, and a secret fear of the great Supreme. False religion trafficked- upon this fear; christianity relieved it by the blood of the Lamb of God. False religion, availing itself of the pangs of the human con science. imposed burdens hard to be borne ; and, when it had borne the burden for a season, conveyed a daubing with untem pered mortar, which had a seductive hallowing. saying 'peace,' when there was really no peace—when, he said. the bearing of this burden had deceived the poor creature, suffering under the pangs of conscience, till those pangs subsided, then false religion loosed the veins, and led the man, whilst his consci ence slumbered, to the exercise of his passions, till the pa roxysm returned, and the penance was repeated ; and so going on with the ultimate swingings of the pendulum within, the paroxysm and the ease; the pangs and the relief, having penance for the one, and carelessness for the other—having Lent for one, and the Carnival for the other—having the con fessional book for the one, and the riot for the other—man was kept asleep, God was dishonoured, society was contami nated, all that was noble in man was kept down, and all that panted after God was defeated, frustrated, hindered. (Hear, hear.) But true religion presented Jesus Christ to the soul —presented the measure and the manifestation of the love of God in his dear Son, his pardonint , love, reaching the paroxysm of conscience with a real balm, a holy balm, which placed a new affection over the hour of ease, and so won the man, without the paroxysm, to the enjoyment of his God, having ready the atoning blood when the conscience clamoured, laving ready the affectionate embrace, the friendly countenance, and the fatherly tenderness of the Son of God. This was what sanctified, this was what confirmed man to his God ; this ennobled the creature ; this elevated the affections ; this burst the bonds of selfishness ; this raised the human heart above the narrow sphere of tribe or kin or party, and enabled it to expand after a Godlike manner upon the right hand and upon the left, over all for whom Christ died. This was Christianity. This alone was to be found in the gospel—the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Cheers.) After some further observations, the rev. gentleman suggested that a new society be formed to be called " the Restorer Society." The design of which should be to procure the queen's preach ers to be sent out by royal authority into any town in the kingdom to preach the Gospel as they were before the time of the Reformation. This suggestion was received with great applause. It would be a great means of spreading the prin ciples of Protestantism among the people, and it could not fail to be attended with the most beneficial results. The Doxology, " Praise God from whom all blessings flow," was then sang, and at a quarter past eleven the meeting separated, having occupied little short of five hours. INQUESTS.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on the body of Jane Molloy, an infant three months old. The deceased was an illegitimate child of Ann Cole man, who lives in a cellar in Preston-street. On Wednesday night Coleman was drunk, and lay upon the floor of the cel lar the whole of the night. The infant was iu bed along with a man named Bryan Leonard, who was very drunk. In the morning the child was found dead in bed. Mr. Fred. Cripps, surgeon, stated that the deceased had died front suffocation. Verdict, " died from suffocation, but front what cause there is no evidence to the jury to show."—Also, on view of the body of Thomas Harney. The deceased, on Wednesday af ternoon, was in the surgery of Mr. Taylor, Cleveland square. and whilst waiting for a prescription being made up, fell down and expired. Mr. Taylor, who had made a post mortem examination of the body, stated that he found a lesion of the air cells of the right lung which, in his opinion, was the cause of death ; the left lung was also diseased. Verdict, " died by.the visitation of God." THE IRON WAR STEAMER NEMESIS.—This splendid iron vessel, W. H. Hall, commander, R.N., from Liverpool, last from Prince's Island and the Bights, and now in Table Bay, is the largest of her class ever built in England, and does great credit to her scientific builder, John Laird, Esq., Bir kenhead, near Liverpool. Her dimensions are 168 feet long, 29 feet beam, and 650 tons burthen, and fitted with two me dium pivot guns, thirty-two pounders, one forward, the other aft, and six swivels. The engines are 120 horse power, of superior make, in good order, and are highly creditable to Messrs. Forrester and Co., of Liverpool, and she is, we he sitate not to say, one of the finest steamers that ever came into this bay, and certainly the first iron one. On the 19th June, in lat. 31 0 S., lon. 8 10 E., she experienced a N. W. gale, with the usual high Cape sea : she was extremely ea s y, never shipping any water, and going nine and ten knots, un der canvas alone, the floats having been taken off. Last Fri day, the governor and suite having gone on board, she slip ped from her anchorage, and steamed round the bay, try i ng r the different range of h er g uns. At two o'clock p.m co m m ander brought her alongside the jetty (and we mus:, ie must not forget to mention that here she was first also), and landed the governor and suite with three hearty and British cheers During her stay she was crowded with visitors, for the ex- , treme novelty of the circumstance excited the curiosity of all classes from th e shore. Having taken on board, in three h ou rs, 100 tons coal, and completed water, alth mtlghno pre parations had been made, she anchora g e it ret urned to her in the bay.—Cape of Good Hope Shipping List, full, 7, 1840. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FRONT DROWNING.—Dr. Bowker, an eminent practitioner from Nottingham, who has been successfully, for some time past, performing the new opera tion for squinting and chtb-foot, was aecompaned by his , friend Mr. Andrew, surgeon, of St. Paul's-square, fire miles N.W. of the Bell Buoy, on Saturday evening last, ou theh departure to Australia with government emigrants, whe , t i i rew latter gentleman met with a serious accident. Mr. t . i t ie i Andrew was was returning from the outward-bound bark, vyli_c7ice of the of the steam-tug Mona nearly upset by the violence where waves. Mr. Andrew was precipitatedinto _t he iel waves,' which for some time he floated on his back. T were running hi g h w i t h t h e e bb- ti d e , carried consi derable distance i n t o t h e sea , an d, fearing he him a „ e to strike out and n d he might not be overtaken by th e sma ll b oa t, he attempted presence of mind, e mep face the stre am . N o t w i t h s t an ding and the equilib r i um w ith which 1 kept r himself up, accord ingi Smith, he became ex to th e di rec ti ons o f Mr. Egerton hausted,.and had - sunk some depth beneath the water, wh en Mona, sprung to his r escue, Captain Miller, of the steam -tug and, at the imminent risk of his own life, bore him t o th e steamer. Too mych prai s e and remuneration cannot be w arded to men of such da ri ng and humane conduct.—Cor arespondent of the Albion. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN- We promi se d i n ouHE STER r late remRAILWAY arks upon this undertaking to show that, independent of its merits as an investment, it possessed strong claims for support upon the commercial in terests of Liverpool ; and we now proceed to fulfil our promise. The communication between Liverpool and the midland district of England, has been hitherto almost entirely unfitted for the purposes of commerce. A vast portion of the cut lery and heavy wares of Sheffield and Rotherham, it is well known, is taken off by the American trade. Yet, between these two towns, and their western seaport, the only route for merchandise is by a hilly, and, in winter, an impractica ble road conveyance for upwards of forty miles to the Man chester and Liverpool Railway, or for more than twenty miles by road, to a circuitous and expensive canal convey ance at Castleton, in Derbyshire. By either of these routes the carriage is so expensive and tedious as to exclude our merchants from supplying Sheffield with any considerable quantity of imported articles. The formation of a railway from Manchester to Sheffield, communicating at the former place, with the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, will therefore introduce to Liverpool, for the first time, valuable and extensive consumers in the population of Sheffield, and the various other places adjacent to the line of railway on the Yorkshire side of the summit ridge, the whole of which have hitherto been dependent for a supply of the products of the western world, upon the ports of London and Hull. It will also throw open the Liverpool and the Irish markets to a large agricultural dis trict, south and south-east of Sheffield, besides shortening considerably our communication with the important manu facturing towns of Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Loughbo rough, &c. Instead - of the transit of merchandise between 'these places, occupying as at present three and four days, it will be conveyed by railway with certainty in nine or ten hours, at one-third the present cost. In addition to the advantages thus offered by the commu nication afforded with Sheffield and its neighbourhood, a considerable intermediate traffic would arise between Liver pool and the large manufacturing towns upon the line of railway on the Manchester side of the Summit Ridge. Amongst these we may mention Glossop, Mottram, Staley bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Newton, and Hyde, containing together a population of about 100,000 souls ; a great portion of Derbyshire, with the manufacturing valley of Holmfirth, New Mills, &c. In all probability, too, this line will ulti mately furnish the nearest railway route to Huddersfield, and decidedly the nearest to the Humber, and to the whole. of the north of England. The line to the Humber we may mention has been already surveyed by Mr. Locke, the pre sent engineer of the company. We cannot but think that a candid consideration of the advantages which this undertaking holds out to the et no merce of the port of Liverpool, should induce our enterpris ing capitalists to afford it the assistance of some portion of their countenance and support. On a future occasion we shall endeavour to dissipate some of the prejudices which we believe to exist, with respect to its merits as an engineering and remunerating line. THE GREAT WEsTERN RAILWAY.—The extraordinary speed with which his Royal Highness Prince Albert travelled on the above line of railway, on the occasion of his visit to the late Princess Augusta, on Monday last, is, perhaps, the greatest that has yet been attained on that or any other rail way, it averaging nearly a mile per minute. The train was one specially ordered for the occasion, and consisted of the " Sun" new engine, to which was attached a second-class carriage, and the Royal Saloon carriage, which has been re cently built by the company for the exclusive use of the mem bers of the royal family. In allusion to the extraordinary speed of the train, his royal highness, on his return from Clarence House. to the terminus at Paddington, was heard to observe to the directors, as they were handing him into the saloon, " You travel very fast on this line ; not so fast back, if you Please." The line will, we understand, be further opened, before the end of the year, to Wootton Bassett, and from Cheltenham to Cirencester, and the entire length of the railway on the Ist of June next (1841.) GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TRAFFIC BETWEEN BRIS TOL AND BATH.—Week ending 20th September, Passengers, 13.8631; Receipts, £1,12305. 9d. The Shoreham branch of the London and Brighton Rail way carried 3926 passengers during the week ending the 15th of September, which is an aver ag e of 561 daily; the receipts were £134 Bs. Bd.—Briyhton Gazelle. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—We understand the Eastern Counties Directors have given up the idea of creating new shares at a discount, and intend to issue debentures of one-third the value of the original shares,•or at £8 6s Bd., covenanting that the holders of these debentures shall, at the end of two years, have the option of receiving for each such debenture, a share in the common stock of the Company, and with respect to dividends stand upon precisely the same footing as the original shareholders.—Railway Times. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.--The lines in the - neighbourhood of London, on account of the recent bad weather, have slightly fallen or upon the week ; a slight improvement, however, is visible in the country generally. The North Midland has increased 20 per cent, the Birmingham and Derby 16, the Midland Counties 12, the Newcastle and Carlisle, and the York and North Midland 10 per cent. The first report of traffic on the Northern and Eastern Railway for eight days is £37l.—lbid. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY week ending 19th September : Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and —Traffic returns for the Merchandise and minerals, previous week £3834 1 9 464 5 10 £4298 7 7 HULL AND SELBYRAILWAY.—Traffic returns from Sep ;ember 14 to September 20, inclusive Passengers (3697), parcels, &c Goods, parcels, sheep, Szt £507 6 9 214 15 3 THE BIRKENHEAD BAZAAR.—It has been resolved to reopen this Bazaar, which is in aid of a fund for the comple tion of the beautiful new church at Birkenhead, to-morrow and next day—the weather having during the past week been so unfavourable, as doubtless to have deterred parties from attending: -The amount received on the first three days was, we learn, about £350. There are still many beautiful at tides -on sale, and as the object is one , which promises a lasting blessing to a large portion of the community, we sincerely wish that the fair keepers of the stalls will be even more suc cessful than hitherto. ODD FELLOWS' SOCIETY AT BIRKENHEAD.—Yesterday the quarterly meeting of the Independent Order of Odd Fel lows of Birkenhead, holding of the Manchester Unity, was held at the Albion Hotel, in the former place. The attend ance was unusually numerous, and many new names were added. We learn that such is the increase in this the " Li verpool" district, that it is in contemplation to divide it into two divisions. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—This railway, which was opened to the public last week, has, considering the shortness of the notice, the state of the weather, and the fact that the Crewe line, leading from Chester into the Grand Junction is not yet carried through, bid fair to command a large number of passengers. There are five trains from each of the termini every week day, and five times in all on Sunday, namely—three from Birkenhead and two from Chester,—the Sunday trains being in the morning and evening only. Seve ral of the trains have taken from 80 to 100 passengers, and the traffic is progressively on the increase. The whole line is rapidly approaching to a state of completion at all points ; and as the period of transit between this town and Chester will be very brief, the probability is that it will become more and more popular as it becomes known. PitonanLE ACCIDENT ON THE CHESTER AND BIRKEN HEAD RAILWAY AVERTED.-011 Saturday forenoon last, the children who, it appears, had found their way upon the railway close to the Tranmere iron bridge, got a loose wooden sleeper, and laid it across the rails. Luckily Mr. Graham, one of the sub-contractors, happened to pass soon afterwards, and discovered the piece of timber, a very short time before the approach of a train from Chester. which might have been thrown, by cont.lct with it, off the line, and a sacrifice of life or limb been the consequence, as the railway passes over a high embankment at the spot. The juvenile delinquents were afterwards apprehended by Mr. Groves, superintendent of the Tranmere police. They were respectively only six, sel en, and eight years of age. They were taken before the magistrates, when, us it could not be supposed that mere children could compass or imagine the destruction that might have ensued, and as it appeared they were not instigated to the act by others, they were strongly admonished and dis charged. _ _ REPRESENTATION OT MANCRESTER.-Mr. T. M. Gib son addressed a meeting of the members of the Manchester Reform Association on Friday, and a resolution was passed, that he was a fit person to be brought forward at the next election, in opposition to Sir George Murray. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., has subscribed the liberal sum of £5O towards the erection of a chapel of ease at Farn worth; to be called the New Berry Chapel. IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPBUILDING.—The Roseanna, a new ship, lately built by Mr. Jackson, at the South Shore, is the first vessel ever entirely fitted with iron lower-deck beams. They are remarkable for their strength and neatne,s, and, above all, give additional room for stowage, equivalent to 12 inches depth of hold. It is by such practical combinations of Acid and iron that we may expect to compete with other nations more highly favoured with shipbuilding; and ue advise every man who takes an interest in " the wooden walls" to go and judgefor himself. The Roseanna lies at the southwest corner of the Brunswick Dock. LaNcAsinau INDEPEN DENT COLLEGE.—The Manches ter Guardian gives the following account of the accident which happened at the laying of the foundation stone of this college, on Wednesday. Our neighbour, the itt —ereury, ri - presented it as " distressing and frightful ;" but we are glad to find that the old lady was imposed upon :—" For the con venience of the parties expected to be present on the occa sion, a temporary gallery had been erected, which was ap propriated to the ladies. It was constructed of timber, and was in the form of a hustings used at elections. The length of it was perhaps from 30 to 40 feet. About eighty ladies were on the gallery, and there were about as many, or per haps more, gentlemen on the ground. The Rev. J. Gwyther commenced the proceedings by giving out the 118th hymn in the congregational hymn-book, the first verse of which had been sung, and he was giving out the first two lines of the second when a crackling noise was heard, followed immedi ately by an awful scream ; and it was perceived that the centre support of the gallery had given way, and that the whole structure, except the sides, had fallen to pieces, one end of the planks falling towards the centre, funning on both sides an inclined plane, and the ladies fell upon each other, sonic amongst and others under portions of the timber. A rush was instantly made to rescue them from the situation in which they were placed, whilst the agonising cries and excla mations made by those who were in search of their wives or daughters were truly distressing, and great apprehension was felt that some lives were lost. In the course of a few mi nutes, however, this fear was removed ; the ladies were all extricated; and it was ascertained that, though many were severely hurt, no one was killed, nor was any fatal or dan gerous injury inflicted ; and we therefore think it unneces sary to give the names of the sufferers." A palm tree of enormous dimensions was taken through this town on Thursday week, on its way to the Duke of Devonshire's seat at Chatsworth. Its weight was 12 tons, it was drawn by nine horses, and the carriage alone was ex pected to amount, before it reached its destination, to £l,OOO. —Northampton Mercury. Dr. Shuttleworth, the new bishop of Chichester, is a native of Preston, and was educated at the Corporation Grammar School there, of which town his father several years ago was vicar. _ _ CUNNING OF MOUNTAIN FOXES—When the litter is dis covered, " the fox-hunter" is b roug ht i nto requ i s i t i on ( w h o often, at this time, has more ca ll s t h an h e can answer ) ; hi s terriers are sent into the den, and the young massacred. A watch is then sent t o command a view all around, in order, if possible, to shoot the old ones when they return. I have been told by people thus employed, that they had no idea of the proverbial cunning of the fox, until they saw it shown upon such occasions. Although the place has been perfectly bare, the old ones have come, unperceived, within ten yards of the party ; and were, at last, only discovered by the strain ing of the dogs on the leash. I have often heard Ow watchers say, that the ease with which "the tod" avoids their faces, and skulks behind their backs, .is most surprising. If the foxes escape the gun, as they commonly do, " thestreakers" are slipped upon them ; and if not then run down, nothing remains to be done but again . to set the watch. So long as the old ones are prevented from entering, they will return morning and evening for several days ; but should either of them get access, and miss the young, they come back no wore.—The Moor and the Loch. is the !sting Wit r the d ha itness a day ne, he d not. Lovatt lif ival o h rt - ed, to, t i l er b e uo' rIY i 1 b fii e ver , 1 Eli :ed