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the chimney-sweeps, located in the Isle of Dogs, and plaCed there to be beyond the reach of picking pockets, claims rank and equality with the conqueror of NAPO LEON, the victor of Waterloo! Well may the cockroach pass amongst the race of beetles for an elephant, and the frog by dint of inflation call itself a cow ! Have mercy, most valorous lieutenant-colonel of half pay, upon our nerves ! You say you are no mercenary. Well, then, permit us to inquire and decide as to what you are in reality. When a brave officer enters into the military service of his country we attach some 'degree of credit to the na tionality of his ambition, and we assume that under the banners of his king he fights for distinction, for fame, anti for his native land. We honour him for his valour, but we honour him more for his virtues as a loyal sol dier. His country rejoices in his success—the king re wards him—the people respect and idolize him. But when a British soldier enters the ranks of a foreign ad venturer we treat him in a very different manner. He has no claims upon our national affections—be has no claims upon our admiration—he gains no credit in the court of honour—we look upon him as an huckster in the path of glory, buying and selling his blood in the best market, and gaining by the traffic the share of spoil which gives no renown. Now, what is Colonel EVANS ? He is paid for hisser vices as a broker is paid who enters a poor man's house and distrait* upon his goods for assessed taxes. He is paid for fighting as a chimneysweep is for climbing. He is paid by a foreign power w hich despises him. He is not paid unless his work be equal in point of compensa tion to certain stipulated wages, If a constable be em ployed to detect a thief he is paid for his labour, but the ratio of remuneration , is invariably regulated by his suc cess. If EVANS and the heroes of the Isle of Dogs should succeed in securing the Spanish crown to the child ISABELLA, the probability is that he will be. handsomely rewarded ; if he fail be- will; like. any military trades man, be dismissed, and paid.grudgingly, if paid at all ; Is it any abuse of lartguagtlberefeire, to call such s man a mercenary ? • We knQw kf no term so appropri ate. If it concerned. the. , loklf4pat lieutenant-colonel alone we should speak.of hintwith greater reserve. But the British government are compromised by this mean device of war by the subjects of a neutral sovereign, It places the kingly dignity it a most questionable if not humiliating light. His majtifity ii'at peace—his subjects are at war. He remains quiesc'eit as regards the Spanish monarchy—but his subjects are hired out, as mercena ries, to effect, if it ; be possi6le, an important change in the dynasty of a kingdom with which he has not chosen to interfere. Well, at last, after innumerable delays, the ministerial scheme for accomplishing the purposes of O'CONNELL'S sacrilege, has appeared. On Friday evening Lord Mon Para, the representative of a part of the registered constituency of Yorkshire--LOrd MORPETH, the chief - secretary for Ireland, alias the cat's-paw of the Irish tri bute-money receiver— aye, on Friday evening, the 26th •of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, Lord MORPETH introduced the measure for the plunder of that branch of the protestant `establishment which has hitherto existed in Ireland! Yes, the bare-faced effrontery of the panderers to Irish agita tion have chosen, as a fit and proper day for the introduc tion of this revolting measure, the anniversary of the ac cession of his present - Majesty to the throne of these realms. On the twenty-sixth of June, 1830, our gracious Sovereign became the protestant Monarch of this coun • try ; he becathe, at the same time, defender of the faith, and the supreme .head of the visible church ;—in - one - Word, he was on that day in possession of authority " in all causes, civil as-well as ecclesiastical, within these his dominions, supreme." On that day he became an in stance of the fulfilthent of the gracious promise of JEsto: VAII, that in the days, of the prosperity of his church "kings shall be .I'.er nursing fathers, and queens her nursing mothers."- Who that witnessed these . thins-- who that saw another of the illustrious :house of Bruns wick on the throne—who that reoogniied in that branch -the son of GEORGE lll.—who, we ask in solemn -disap pointment and horror—who could have anticipated that in five years after the occurrence` of these things, a 13-li r-Oster of that King would introduce a bill of sacrilege ? Who, indeed ? Yet so it is. On the 26th June, 1830, King WILLIAM IV..enterg Upon the promise of the most momentous and sacred' engagements for the protection and preservation of the 'prOtesiant faith. On the 26th June, 1835, a minister of the crown—a confidential ad viser of that King—obtains leave in the House . of Com mons to bring in a bill for the suppression of the means in use to combat the errors of popery. Who can witness these things and not tremble for the issue ? Of all the various provisions of this bill it will not be our concern now to speak. The different stages through which thii measure has to pass will allow ample time for this. We must confine ourselves for the present to its general character. We cannot here help observing 'the manifest anxiety to plunder and rob which the very title of the bill evinces. Why, in the name of common equity and sense, - ShOuld the tithe bill and the appropria lien clauses be united except for the sake of plunder? In the former part of the bill the deviations from the bill of last session to be introduced by Sir H. HARDINGE are but few. The million-loan is to be remitted, or, in other words, a bounty is thus to be given to the landlords and popish tenants ; for it must ever be held in view that this is no boon to the protestant clergy in a pecuniary Feint of view. The systeni of a per centage in lieu of tithe differs somewhat from Sir H. HARDINGE'S bill; but of that more hereafter. These are questions of reckon ing. The new features of the bill, however, demand serious consideration- - -we mean the . approPriation clause. Now by this bill 41 parisites•are wholly deprived of a pro testant clergyman. No, we beg pardon, casual travellers are to have the benefit of a clergyman ; and now, generous reader, guess, if you can, the amount of his stipend ? The whigs are ever andanon clainorouS,abnut the impoverished ipcomes of poor curates. NOthing is more common than to hear these brawlers . cOthplaining of the scanty pit tance of £l5O for a curate, and with all this froth an d talk they have th e consul:11014e finytidence to offer a gen.: • edge-priests • • tlesnan and a schola r , (the of Rome in Le land are neither the one nor .the other,) to one whose time and money have been expended to gain an educa tion—to such an one theSe"base slaves o f Q.C.ONNELL i« : • . dare to otibr a stipend o f fiv e pounds a yea r ! Why is this five pounds offered fait for compensation ?. No, it.would not cover one-tenth ',of the imposed expenses. What then ? Why simply this. It is a ready and sim, pie way of offering a marked fnsult to a man of breeding and of honour. Go, slaves of Rome, and you, the slaves of the hire hogs of Rome, go back to the slough-ponds of your native ignominy ! Is it not enough that you have suc ceeded in reducing the clergy of Ireland to pauperism, but you. must also heap insult .upon misery ? But the work of sin ends not here. 'Upwards of eight hundred parishes are to be subjected to a curtailing influence. The maximum amount of plunder calculated upon is about fifty thousand pounds! To get and gain this for a '‘‘ reserve fund," Lord 'MORPETH tells us that he has determined the revenues in every case " STRICTLY AND scorn's." Let us look for a moment ` at this question of " appro priation," as the polite and 'gentle phraseology of the day bath it. We had occasion not very long ago to dis•• cuss this question, on the grOund of the alienation of this property from the protestant ecclesiastical establish ment. We took occasion then to borrow from the valu able charge of the venerable Archdeacon. WILKINS. We again avail ourselves` of his arguments and Jan- guage. At page fifteen, be says, in the passage imme diately following our former quotation : "In the next place, if by the temporal omnipotence of par liament this principle be disregarded, and a fixed proportion only of this property be appropriated to the church as it now exists, and the remainder be turned over to the purposes of general education, that is, to the education of such as are nct protestants, then a religious barrier is set up between the opposing churches, from which is proclaimed this interdiction— 'SO far s ye protestants, may you come, but no further; you havenow a sufficient maintenance for the religion of your peo plesup to the present day. If your numbers increase among yourselves, (for further conversion is out tf the question,) what JUNE 30, 1835, CHURCH." Here the dissenting organ has let the cat out of the . bag. This bill is not to effeet .the totalyor immediate, or _ violent overthrow of the church. • But surely this implies its ultimate subversion ? Unquestionably it :Les. It is for this consummation that the papist and the schismatic are at present leagued; far these parties, opposite though they be in many points, are yet seriously and fully agreed to act in concert in the demolition of the national sanc tuary. TrUly, these men have one thing in common, and that is craft. 'And though, like SAMSON'S foxes, these jesuita—popish and reformed—the one armed with a crucifix and legendary 'story, the other with a steam intellect version of the Bible and a SAMUEL'S mantle— though they be tied tail to tail; and though being thus dos-d-dos, their faces looking different ways, still, like these same foxes, they both " set all on fire;" and when this their unholy purpose shall have been accomplished, then upon her sacred ruins shall the priests of Rome construct the gorgeous fabric of the throne of antichrist. And, should they be successful, what have we to expect ? Simply a dismal choice between the errors of popery and the horrors . of the stake—a recantation of vows, or im prisonment in a dungeon. But it needs no aid from our pen to enable our readers to picture to themselves, even were history silent, the iniquities Of that church which points out to the sinner—the unrepentant sinner—an intermediate place between hope and fact—a sort of se cond•_venture, whence by a deputy friend, a goodly and full purse, and a kind priest, he may be discharged, and . then be crowned, if money abound, a saint in that church. Such is Lord MORPETH'S scheme. On the showing of the Globe, it has for its object the partial, gradual, and gentle annihilation of protestanism. Gracious GOD ! Can these things be ? Unfortunate Mr. O'DWYER! Never was head or tail, statesman or patriot, so shamefully buffetted about and trundled in the kennel. As Mr. W. EwArrr would say, "twice in three short months" has Mr. O'DWYER. been rejected by. the _llouso of Corotuan.q.; first Iteoause he had the misfortune not to be qualified, and secondly be cause he has not been " duly elected" for the borough of Drogheda. It is a hard fate ! Not to be worth three hundred poundS a year is cruel on the part of fortune; not to be " duly elected," with or without three hundred pounds a year, is more cruel still. What is to be done with this joint we cannot imagine, but the London even ing papers of Saturday record the following decision : DROGHEDA ELECTION COMMITTEE. Shortly after three o'clock the right hon. H. Goulburn read the report of the committee, which was, " That A. C. O'Dwyer, Esq. was not duly elected, and ought not to have been returned to serve in parliament for Drogheda. " 2dly, That the hon. Randle Plunket was duly elected, and ought to have been returned. " 3dly, That neither the petition nor the opposition to the peti tion were either frivolous or vexatious; the committee were in deliberation nearly five hours." We have some reasons for believing that besides a substantiated charge of intimidation and the use of worthless votes, 'Mr. O'DWYER was found, as before, unable to produce a proper qualification.. This last fact throws some light upon, th e l ega l k now l e d ge and the solemn judgment of Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL. . It will be recollected-that when O'DWYER was first rejected on the score of disqualification, Mr. O'CONNELL addressed a letter to the electors of Drogheda in which he informed them that he had examined Mr. O'DWYER'S qualifica tion, and that he could assure them, as a lawyer, that it was a good and valid qualification. ~He pledged his .reputation as a lawyer (not much) that Mr. O'DWYER was a person of some considerable property, and that the qualification he rested upon-was an undoubted and un questionable one. The committee have decided other wise, and where then goes O'CONNELL'S law and pro fessional reputation Q Perhaps to the lsle of Dogs, • where patriots most do congregate. But if Mr. O'DwYER's qualification be not the ground of rejection, his case is far from being mended. He must have been guilty of bribery, ,or of procuring men to vote ,in the election who had just as much right to exercise that important privilege as he • has . to exercise the functions of a member of parliament. It is immate , rial which horn Mr. O'DWYER prefers; he is equally contemptible and miserable on the easiest, and there we leave him. UallaX•titriate Mister O'DvviEa •: • TURN-OUT . BURY.—The shoemakers have struck against Mr. Francis Cooper, clogger and shoemaker, and have, as they term it, " blocked";both hi s s h ops . Mr. Cooper has .a shop at the lower end of Bury-lane and another at Moor s id e , littl e l ess than a mile asunder, both o f which are blocked, that is, persons of the craft are stationod near each of them, t o see that none of the trade take any work out or in. These watchmen are re newed at regular intervals throughout the day and night. We are informed that the cause of this turn-out is not that Mr. Cooper has attempted to reduce wages, but because he employs a journeyman who has by some means offended the trade, and refuses to discharge him, although the trade have given him notice to do so. 4fi the early . part of the week a turn-out of the bricklayers was in agitation, for an advance of sixpence per day on their wages, and a few, we are informed, struck work, but the movement was by no means general; the wet weather has, however, effected what the turn-out movement could not, having driven many of them from their occupation.. We have heard also a movement amongst the sawyers of that town, but the result we have not yet been acquainted with. Mr. CORBETT'S FUNERAL.—We have given elsewhere an ac count, copied from a London Sunday paper, of Cobbett's fune ral at Farnham on Saturday last. Our only object in taking any further notice of it is that of directing the attention of our readers to the conduct of O'Connell, who was in attendance. Mr. O'Connell's nice scruples of -conscience, it will be seen, prevented him from following the corpse into the church, and compelled him to s t an d covere d w hil e t h e usual portion of the burial service was rea d at t h e grave. Of course it did not occur to the learned member that the people in attendance, more es pecially the rustics of Farnham and its vicinity, might have had feelings as sensitive, as susceptible of outrage as his own.—or that the man whose remains he pretended to honour entertained, during the whole course of his life, the highest reverence for the established church and for all its offices. THE DOLPHIN POST-OFFICE PACKET.—It having been im possible, owing to the great breadth of this steam-vessel, to ad mit of her entering any of the graving docks, (until those were completed at the north end of the town,) her repairs were ne-* cessarily done on the patent slip, in Cheshire. We understand that during the last week the Dolphin has been in. one of the new docks, and has attracted the notice of many persons, par ticularly professional men, viz., engineers and ship-builders, who have examined minutely her beautiful model; amongst them was observed Mr.' D. Napier, of Glasgow, &c. &c. S o m e persons actually t oo k the trouble to make sketches of the Dol phin's bottom, which is allowed , by every connoisseur to be most perfect. THE NEW SHERIFFS OF LONDON.-011 Wednesday Mr. Al derman Lainson and Mr. D. Solomons, the latter a Jew, were elected sheriffs of London, and sheriffs of the county of Middle sex for the ensuing year. Mr. Solomons will be the first Jew who has ever filled that office. you 'slow have, shoull it. not be further lessened, must satisfy you, and you must spread it over the surface of your wants as widely as you can; snore you cannot have, for the surplus will immediately be so locked up in various institutions as to make restoration of it impossible; nor indeed can further means be requisite, for, from this time, none •of our people shall pass over to you, and as we shall thrive and multiply upon what we have obtained, and upon what more we shall expect to gain, it will be wise in you to consult, while - you have the power, where you may find an asylum better suited to your safety and hap piness, and in a country more congenial to your religious feel ings than this!' " auch will he the language of papist tyranny—such will be the unhallowed accents which the hero of the Dublin Corn Exchange will then bellow forth. And who is this man for whom all this is to be sacrificed ? Vast and extensive as is the sweep of European history, it will be difficult to find a character that the virulent voice of anarchy has more succeeded in extolling than that of O'CONNELL ;—a man who, stained with the crimes of treason and rebellion, has been dignified with the titles of patriot and martyr—titles which the present disor ganized state of society seems determined on identifying with those of rebel and assassin. Whether we regard the black and dark depth of his subtle plans, their de structive extent, or their sanguinary consummation, we shall not fail to recognise therein a conspiracy formed for the subversion of our nation and religion. Murders, assassinations, massacres, &c., seem to O'CONNELL but a trivial price for obtaining the overthrow of the pro testant faith. But, though prepared to see this monster emissary of Romanisin thus eager in the work of pro testant annihilation, we were not prepared to see him aided and abetted in his mischievous and wicked designs by a protestant minister of the protestant King of a pro testant people. And, to show that our fears for the -per manence of the national establishment are not the vision ary creations of our own fancy, we quote the following passage from some remarks which appeared as a leading article in the Globe of Saturday evening : " We do not think Lord Morpeth need have been in any alarm as to his measure for the regulation of the revenues of the Iristr ryinch falling► short- of : *hat' he must cell-shier th high- Rowu expectations of .the liberal party in the house. We be eieve that the hill satisfies all' who %do- . not. desire the TOTAL, • ",IM6iATE, and VIOLENT SUBVERSION of the PROTE S TANT THE LIVERPOOL, STANDARD. MR. ALDERMAN LEYLAND AND THE CORPORATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STaND.4RD. SlR, —The character of a public man is public property, and it is the duty of every member of the community to vindicate and protect character when it is unfairly and unwarrantably assailed: You, sir, I presume, cannot be ignorant of the ru mours which have been actively circulated within the last few days relative to Mr. Alderman Leyland and the Finance Com mittee of the Liverpool Corporation. These rumours have, indeed, found their way into one of our local prints, and, con sidering the spirit which has been evinced in that journal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the enemies of the corporation rejoice at the apparent dissensions which the transaction alluded to is calculated to cou,ntenance, and the angry feelings which it is said to have excited. I know it is a delicate subject to call upon you to offer any opinion on a subject in which many of your warmest friends take opposite sides. I, however, do not ask you to offer ary opinion; I only crave permission to state mine; and I solicit the benefit of your medium and your columns on the gro. ltd of justice and strict impartiality. That few men have conferred greater obligations on his na tive town and on his country than Mr. Alderman Leyland will be admitted by all who know him. He is a wealthy banker, and in that capacity he has important duties to discharge, nut only to himself, but to his constituents, and for the sake of public credit. In unsettled times like these, when the nation is reeling towards anarchy, and when a wild love for change shows as little regard for property as for principle, the duty of a banker is to protect himself by protecting others on whom the commer cial, manufacturing, and trading:interests of the nation chiefly depend. That Mr. Leyland is an acute observer of the times he has repeatedly proved. That he has foresight to apprehend danger, and energy and skill to avert it, will be admitted by every experienced merchant in this community. Bearing these facts in mind, I will proceed to the matter in dispute. The paragraph in the newspaper to which I have alluded, and which is confirmed by public rumour, states that Mr. Alderman Leyland, at a meeting of the finance committee, on the 19th instant, without any previous intimation, informed the committee that the banking house of which he is the head had resolved not to make any further advances to the commit tee; and. public rumour, not content with this, goes farther and says that Mr. Leyland demanded payment of the balance due t o liii - houte, aniouuting to upwardslgila",ooo:—.i--- IsTow, sir, I take upon myself, being well acquainted with the whole facts, t 0 assure the public through youAbat Mr. Leyland is by these rumours most grossly misrepresented. I have before me a copy of the minute entered upon the books of the finance committee, at their sitting of the 19. h instant, and it is iii these mauls "Mr. Alderman Leyland stated to the committee, that Messrs, Leyland and Bultins would not allow the debt due from the corporation to their bank to be increased beyond the present amount, £12,869 I9s. 10d., until it is ascertained what provision will be made by parliament FOR THE SECUTITY OF THE CRE DITORS OF THE CORPORATION in the municipal regulation bill slow before the house." This is the whole offence, if offence it be, which Mr. Leyland committed. He did not demand his money—he only asked for information. , He did not question the credit of the present cor poration—he only desired to be informed whether their succes sors were likely to be as honourable men as themselves—whe ther the payment of just debts would be proiided for by the municipal - reform bill—and whether the claims of creditors would be respected by Lord John Russell and the House o Commons. I say that in this intimation, and most proper and salutary intimation, there was nothing whatever to give uffcnce or excite angry feelings. No man can entertain a more sincere respect for Mr. Alderman Sandbach than I do—there is no man with whom I more desire to be on terms of reciprocal esteem and mutual confidence—there is no man whose word or whose honour I regard more ; but still Mr. Sandbach will pardon me when I say that I think his condact was too warm and un necessarily precipitate. I moreover think that the committee took, on the spur of the moment, and most unfortunately, a mis taken view of the subject. It was a serious matter, which called for grave deliberation. It would only have been an act of courtesy towards Mr. Leyland if they had postponed the con sideration of the communication until some other day. It would not have derogated from their dignity —it would not have mili tated against their credit—it would not have been an unreason able deference if they had submitted the communication to a full meeting of the common council. This proceeding would have done no h trin —it might have done good—it might have pre vented much soreness, and ended in union and harmony. Consider, sir, the state of the case. Mr. Alderman Leyland did not demand any bond for the money he had advanced. He did not insult the corporation by saying he would not advance any additional sum except upon the bond of the corporation. No; all thal he asked was inquiry and explanation. He did not im pugn their credit—he only questioned the probable power and credit of their successors. Mr. Leyland has often been in ad vance to the corporation of sums reaching to about £.59,0X)i, tie - 'knew that such another - advance would br , required in a few weeks, and he also knew that on the 26th of October' next, should the present bill pass, the powers and liabilities of the corporation would probably be in new hands. Was it unreason able, therefore, that a banker thus placed should seek for i nformation There are those, I know, who think that, even under the pro visions of the new bill, the credit of the corporation will not be affected or impaired. lam sorry to say that I differ from the gentlemen who think so. It is impossible to tell what the fran chise, approaching almost to universal suffrage, will do with the Liverpool corporation. I have observed its direful effects upon the corporations in Edinburgh and GlasgoW. I have seen there that intelligent and independent merchants have been rejected from - borough councils by the populace, and bankrupt shop keepers, unprincipled attorneys, and characterless quacks placed in their stead. What has happened on the other side of the Tweed may occur here, and the credit of the corporation of LiverpooLmay sink' like . that of Glasgow. I beg pardon.for pressing, as I most anxiously do, these ob servitions upon the attention of my fellow burgesses. By in trusting you with my name, you will perceive that I am no un interested intruder. I think the conduct of Mr. Leyland has been misunderstood, and that his motives have not been pro perly appreciated. These are my sentiments, and I give you full liberty, as being the ardent and able friend and advocate of all the parties concerned, to comment upon them as you may think proper. I am, sir, • Your very obedient servant, A BURGESS. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL S7'.4NDSRD. SI R,—Having been appointed as emigrant agent in this city, for the purpose of assisting my countrymen on their arrival here to obtain whatever object they may have in, View at the least possible ccst or inconvenience, but more particulaly to protect them from falling into the snares of a host of land sharks who infest the ships on their arrival, I take an early opportunity of furnishing you with some particulars that, through the medium of your valuable and widely circulated paper, you may, if you think %proper, warn, the numerous emi grants to be upon their guard. • On the arrival of a ship with passengers, several of these characters (called bete "runners") flock around the unsus pecting emigrants, and, by flattery and falsehood, actually make them believe .whatever they assert. These again are supported by a tribe of boardinghouse -keepers, who are brought up to coroborate the truth of their assertions, and thereby give an.appearaiace of truth, and, supporting the whole with extreme liberality, the poor fellows not unfrequently become entangled in their snares and Atiipt of their money. The runners re ceive from their employers Is. a head for passengers, and con sequently care not so long as they get them to what inconve nience they are liable; and as an instance, I now hold under summons before the corporation two of these fellows, who, a short time ago, took passage money for eight persons (totally unacquainted with the geography of the country) to Buffalo, on Lake Erie, whose destination was Cobourg, in Upper Canada, opposite Oswego, on Lake Ontario. I should have sent them there for five dollars, whereas they would go 3(X) or 400 miles out of their course, and at a considerable additional cost. Innumerable such instances might be related; but all I can ask of you is to be assured that by occasionally referring to these facts, and warning the public that such an appointment has taken place, and that they may rely the information given them by me may be depended on, and that without any cost every assistance in my power will be rendered. But they will be told that no such person is to be found this they must not notice. You will do a public good —you will have the satisfaction of saving many a poor fellow probably from utter ruin, and you will confer on me a favour I shall never be able to repay, by assisting me to do my duty.—l am &c. CHARLES ATKINSON, Lieutenant of Royal Marines, Agent for the Canada Co., and British Emi'grant Agent, 48, Water.street, New York. New York, United States, May 23, 1835. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Have the goodness to hold up to . public notice the gross delusion practised on the house, by . Lord John Russell, on Monday night last, on the corporate reform question, and which seems to have caused great effect on the house, and re mains still unanswered, as far as I have observed, although the papers tell us there are now seventy town-clerks in London, every one of whom must have been well aware of the fallacy of his lordship's argument. I allude to the exhibition by his lordship of a schedule of the number of freemen made in 128 boroughs for a given number of years, by which it appears tha in the years on which elections have taken pace, the numbers frac•nea I.nitted was ener ! n usly increased, meaning to iin- Tess on the house that they were so made for corrupt purposes, iuring the approaching election, than Which nothing can be :nore untrue. Every town-clerk, and . every electioneerer, knows that young freemen of the lower orders, having no other Ise for his franchise, rarely takes it up till roused by the ap proaching election; and that, if five year§ have intervened, the number of young freemen admitted must be greatly increased on - that year. When this is known, his lordship's.argument 4ppears to me to offer slight grounds for the cheering that fol lowed it. liis lordship played off the game argument with equal success on the reform question ! Not wishing to intrude on your valuable space, I will refrain from remarking further on the prevalent blindness and absolute infatuation of the lower, middle, and even h;gher orders of the commonalty, in thus rushing headlong to the destruction of cor porate rights, (rights wrested by our forefathers from our kings and nobles during their contentions,) by asking them if they think that on the fall of the Liverpool corporation, as an effi cient body, the power of the Sefton and Derby families will not frame liately and progressively increase?—l am, &c. Lwerpool, June 27, 1835. A FREEMAN. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL .STANDARD, Sta,—Some person, under the signature of a "Fireman," has inserted in to-day's Albion a letter in which he has. thought fit to introduce my name. The paragraph he alludes to in the Journal is as follows:-- "FIRE.—On Wednesday night last, about twelve o'clock, a fire was discovered in the shop of Mr. Brown, druggist, White chapel. Iu a short time the West of England engine arrived, followed by two of the fire police engines ; and there being a good supply of water in the mains, the fire was extinguished in about two hours from the commencement. Owing to some un accountable delay, which frequently takes place in I ingirig the fire bell after an alarm has been given, all the firemen, except the one who resides in the station, were quietly reposing in their beds at the time the engines were arriving at the scene of the conflagration." His version of the same is : "In the Journal of Saturday a paragraph' appeared, by the authority and at the express desire of Mr. Whitehouse, as I learned from the editor, stating that the fire bell was not rung, in order, as is insinuated, that.the fire police engines might be first at the fire(lhat 'there were no firemen present, in conse quence of the bell not'baving been rung; that the West of England errgithi 4 was , firsOun the spot; and that she'assistedlo extinguishing the are." ' I have only to reinark that I think it a Waste of time to'enter :nto a discussion with a man who thus distorts and misquotes ,o serve his own purposes.—l am, •&c. June 29, 1,835. \\%'NVII.ITE HOUSE THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL.--PUBLIC MEETING OF FREEMEN. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a public meeting of the freemen of this borough, hastily convened by placards on the walls, signed by Mr. Alderman John Wright, was held in the Large Room of the Golden Lion, Dale-street, for the purpose of taking, into consideration th e p ro p r i e t y o f pet i t i on i ng the House of Commons not to assent to those clauses of the corporation reform bill which would, if passed into a law, deprive them and their children of their rights and privileges. Considering the short ness of the notice given, the meeting was numerous and highly respectable. Amongst the gentlemen present, whom we recog nised as stanch friends of the freemen, we noticed John Wright, Esq., T. B. Horsfall, Esq., J. N e l son W oo d , E sq , Thomas Tobin, Esq., Richard Dawson, Esq., J. Irving, Esq., Jantes Foster, Esq., R. Horsfall, Esq., Thomas Carson, Esq., J. Brassey, Esq., and R. H oug ht o n, Esq. Mr. Alderman Wright having entered tue room amidst loud applause, Mr. CYRUS Moattai.r. advanced to the table, amid said that his brother freemen were well aware that they had met together to petition on a subject extremely interesting to them all, and he was happy to see that they badpaid that attention which the importance of the question to be discussed demanded. (Hear.) The first step to the commencement of the proceedings was to propose a chairman, and he felt great pleasure in i n t ro d uc i ng to their notice one who h a d ev er distinguished himself as the steady and uncompromising advocate, not only of the interests of the freemen but of the borough at large,—he meant Mr. r - John W r i g ht. (L ou d Ch eers. ) JOHN WRIGHT, Esq., having been unanimously voted to the chair, then said he thought most present would agree with him that as it was but just twelve o'clock, the 'hour when the opera tives ceased work, it would be advisable ; and but fair, to give those who laboured in honest industry an opportunity of coming forward to hear what he and others had to say on a subject in which they were so deeply interested. He therefore proposed that a quarter of an hour should elapse previous to the com mencement of the business ; and then, if they had anything to say or propose, the meeting would gladly hear them. `This proposition being assented to, and the meeting haYing in a short time considerably increased, Mr. WRIGHT said that as it had been intimated to him that there were many present obliged to be back at their employment at a certain time, and seeing that the meeting had received-an accession of strength, he thought, for the purpose of accommo dating, that the business had better proceed. He felt satisfied with the appearance of the meeting, but was certain that had a little longer notice been given, the attendance would have been infinitely greater. For his part he had no son to be deprived of the rights and privileges which the corporation re form bill contemplated; but he could not forget that the free men of Liverpool had twice placed hi tn in that high and enviable office, i:i which it was his pride to render all the service in his power, and he felt it his duty to conic forward and make a stand ite protect the rights and privileges of the freemen whenever they were attacka Cheers.) His apology for putting the placards on the walls and calling them together was, that he thought it high time when they found such had feelings broached by a minister of the crown towards the f r e emen , for them to rouse themselves. Expressions during the last .week had been used in the House of Commons which were startling. It had been said that men had no right to privileges from the accident of their bit th. He would just look how far that species of reason ing would go. -There was Lord John Russell, who, if he had not been Lord John Russell by the " accident of birth," could never in his (Mr. Wright's) opinion have obtained that title and distinction by any merit or works of his own. (Cheers and laughter.) If that argument was to be tolerated, they might as well apply it to the King's son, and say he had no right to suc ceed his father in the throne. And the same would apply to the House of Peers. (Cheers.) They had probably read the re port of the commissioners, and 'likewise the speech of the Attorney-General thereon. The Attorney-General had pre sumed to say that charters were not to he c ons id ere d , an d had called all rights given to the freemen by the charters usurpa tions. (Hear.) When they say this, was it not, he would ask, time for them to bestir themselves and petition the government not to assent to those clauses which deprived them, their chil dren, and children's children of their rights by a system of mis representation? (Hear.) He would allude a little more to what the learned gentleman had chosen to say. He had stated that the freemen were a degraded set'of individuals, and a curse to the country ; that they were wretched demoralized persons, whose lives (the greater part of them) had been passed in gaols. (Cries of " Shame !") The person who made use of this language called himself a liberal. He (Mr. Wright) had never appropriated to himself that title, and he hoped he never should whilst such language was identified with liberality. It was almost impossible to describe.the disposition of a person who could thus speak, and he was afraid to trust himself with words to designate him by his proper character. He would, however, ask the freemen of Liverpool not to allow this person to add to his assertions and epithets, " that they were pusilla nimous; and afraid to protect themselves as honest men," or to stand up for the privileges of their children, and apprentices who were bound to them. He hoped they would not allow it to be said that they were cowards, and shrunk under the ca lumny, but that they would come forward with respectful lan guage and petition the House of Commons. Mr. Wright con cluded amidst loud cheers, by informing the meeting 'sat there were gentlemen present prepared with resolutions to be sub mitted for its adoption. THOMAS ToBIN, Esq. then came forward to propose the first resolution, which was to the effect, that the meeting observed with surprise and alarm the introduction into the bill for the reform of municipal corporations, of those clauses which ex clude from the new corporations the ancient burgesses of England, and deprived their sons and apprentices of their in choate rights and privileges, which prevented the latter from obtaining the elective franchise so recently and solemnly guar ranteed to burgesses or their successors. 'Having read the re solution, which he felt great pleasure in proposing, Mr. Tobin said that he regretted to hear that sonic of their own body were then in London, as a deputation, endeavouring to procure the passing of these clauses which were to deprive their children and successors of their just rights. (Cries of " Hear" and " Shame.") - N. D. BOLD, - Esq., said, that coinciding as be did in the sen timents of Mr. Tobin, and with the resolution, be begged leave to second the motion, which was put by the chairman, and una nimously carried. T. B. HORSFALL, Esq. then moved the second resolution, and in doing so, said, that having been al,sent from home during the past week, he had learnt more of the precise object of the present meeting from the remarks of their excellent chairman, than from any other source. He had certainly cast his eye over the debates on the municipal reform bill, and had seen quite sufficient to make him concur in the sentiments which were expressed in the resolution which he had the honour to propose. He had seen also remarks to which the chairman had alluded, stated to have been made by the attorney-general re specting the freemen, although those remarks in the report which he had seen were couched in somewhat different terms ; they were in language equally unwarrantable and abusive; and he would tell the attorney-general that as far as Liverpool, at least, was concerned, his accusation was utterly untrue.— (Cheers.) The language which he (Mr. H.) had read was, that " the freemen were a mean, beggarly, exceptionable set of individuals,"—that the property they held " was held by usur pation," and that they existed by corruption." It was an easy matter for persons to deal out empty declamation when de ficient in argument, and he would beg leave to tell the attorney s general that his definition of those epithets was not the true one. There were mean individuals who brought charges against others which they could not substantiate. (Cheers.) There were beggarly individuals, who cared not how they could get place or power, so that they might live upon the bounty of the public; (cheers) those were exceptionable individuals who went hand in hand with Mr. O'Connell and others in endeavouring to subvert every existing institution of the country; (cheers) those were usurpers who grasped at official situations• for which they were neither qualified by nature or acquirenknt; (cheers) and those existed by corruption who were paid to support mea sures which they did not in their heart approve, and to plead causes whether their consciences approved them o r not. (Loud cheers.) But with regard to the clause in the bill respecting the right of freedom by inheritance, he could not believe that the House of Commons would pass it;—he did not believe that Lord Melbourne himself could approve of it. He could not conceive how any peer could by possibility sanction the clause. Pass but that clause,—abolish the hereditary rights of the freemem and the rubicon would be passed;—the hereditary rights of the peerage would quickly follow, and well would it lie for England if an hereditary monarch was permitted to ascend the throne. They had been told on high authority that they must not now depend upon the, Lords—he, however, did depend upon them, and lie felt convinced that should that clause pass the Commons, the Lords would do their duty ; they had stood by the freem e n before and they would stand by them again. (Loud cheers.) And he would have them remember there was a third estate of the realm—there was set a King—it was a King who had granted these rights to their forefathers, and he felt assured theta King would uphold and protect them for their children's children. Air. Horsfall eousluded by moving a resolution, calling upon ~~~~- the House of Commons not to assent to thoie clauses which 'affected - the rights and privileges conferred upon the burgesses by the charters of the town. JAMES IRVING, Esq., briefly seconded the motion. RICHARD DA wsort, Esq., then said that he had been request ed to move that a petition be adopted by the meeting, to be submitted to the House of Commons, and he felt great pleasure in doing so, as he was at all times anxious to render to his brother freemen what assistance he could. He was proud to see the spirit which was manifested by the meeting in defence of their rights, against the oppression of faction, and he trusted that a similar spirit would be infused in the freemen of other towns. He had no doubt that the example of Liverpool would spread throughout the country, and if' so,. they might look for a protec tion of those rights which were so justly theirs. (Cheers.) ,Mr. Dawson then handed the following petition to Mr. Car soh; and that gentleman having read it to the meeting, it was seconded by WILLIAM SHAND, Esq., and adopted amid loud cheers, not one dissentient hand being held up against it. To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parli amen t assem bl e d. The Humble PETITION of the undersigned BURGESSES of the Town of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, SHEWETH, That by virtue of divers charters, granted by his most gracious Majesty's royal predecessors, the town of Liverpool possesses an ancient municipal corporation, consisting of mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses, and which is known by the corporate name or style of the " mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of Liverpool." 'chat your petitioners are the burgesses of the said corpora tion, and as such, are entitled to vote in the election of mem bers of Parliament for the borough of Liverpool, and also in the annual election of the mayor and bailiffs thereof; and they are exempted from the payment of all town dues and tolls at the said town, and have various other rights and privileges granted and confirmed. to them by the said charters. That the ordinary mode of acquiring the right to be admitted a burgess of the said corporation, is by birth or servitude ; that all sous of burgesses, born within the borough, upon their attaining the aee of twenty-one years, are entitled to be ad mitted and enrolled as burgesses; and all apprentides bound to burgesses fora term of seven years, and having served the full period of their apprenticeship, are entitled to be admitted and enrolled as burgesses of the said corporation. That your petitioners have observed, with surprise and alarm, that by the bill introduced into your honourable house for the re gulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales, it is intended to exclude your petitioners from being members of the corporation to be established in Liverpool, and that such cor poration is to be composed of a body of Individuals distinct from your petitioners, by virtue of a new qualification—that it is pro posed to deprive the sons and apprentices of your petitioners of their inchoate right to become burgesses; and moreover, that Such sons and apprentices will also be prevented by the said bill from obtaining the ancient elective franchise of the said bo rough, although the object of the bill is stated to be merely such a reform of the municipal corporations, as will make them racire'gfficient instrments of local government. That whifil your pelitigners do net object to a l arge and li heral measure of Municipal reform, yet the% respectfully sub mit to your honourabl e h ouse , th a t i t would be inure consisten t .rnstite- towards the-eissiegeisses who shave iii! t, been. members of municipal corporations, that they sheuld be and continue members of the new corporations proposed by she said bill, and that'this plan of framing the new corporations so as to conSist of the old and new burgesses, would be in full ac cordance with the principle of the reiOrm act, which, while it conferred the right of voting upon a new and numerous class of individuals, preserved to the burgesses their ancient elective franchise. •• That your petitioners would earnestly appeal to your honour able house on behalf of their sons and apprentices, for on these will fall, with peculiar hardship, the consequences c,f the pro posed bill. That they humbly conce i ve t h at t h e inchoate rights of their sons are leg al and indisputabl e r i g ht s d er i ve d f rom the said charters, and by virtue thereof already vested; that the right to all privileges and exemptions conferred by those char ters now exists, although the period of enjoyment is postponed, and that Parliament cannot destroy such right without disre garding the' sacredness of the property of the subject. And that whilst your petitioners would also urge the same argument in behalf of their apprenticei„ they would further state to your honourable house, that with the view of obtaining the rights, privileges, and exemptions granted by the said charter s, the latter have bou n d th emse l ves f ur a l ong per i o d o f servitude, have in many instances paid large premiums to their masters, and in others have been contented to receive very trifling wages. That your petitioners, therefore, confidently hope that your honour able house will pay due regard to contracts thus entered into, and in part performed. That your petitioners would further complain to your honour able house of those clauses of the proposed bill which would now deprive their sous and apprentices, and future sons and apprentices, of the ELECTIVE FRANCHISE in the borough of Liverpool, although, by the act for amending the representation of the people of Englatid and Wales, recently passed, that fran chise was guaranteed, no t on l y to your petitioners, but also to their sons and apprentices, in perpetuity. That the above-mentioned act, at the time it was passed, was declared to be a final measure, and the conclusive settlement of a great national questi o n ; th a t, w hi lst i t conferred the new right of voting, it confirmed the old, end bestowed the elective franchise upon all classes of his majesty's subjects. That your petitioners have not yet heard of any just reasons why an attempt should be thus suddenly made to break that solemn compact between the parliament and the people, or why one of the two peat classes of electors, whose rights and privi leges it declared should be maintained, should thus be sacrificed without any offence on their part, or any general demand on the part of the nation at large; and your petitoners would re spectfully represent to your honourable house, that this attempt. is not only suddenly made, hut sought t o h e accomp li s h e d b y a measure avowedly brought forward for a different purpose. That your petitioners conceive that the character of parlia ment is involved in the present measure, and they confidently trust that your honourable house will never sanction a bill, which they respectfully, but. earnestly, submit to your honour able house will be a breach of feith with a large and imp irtant body of the electors of England. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable home will preserve to your petitioners, their sons, and ap prentices, and their future sons and apprentices, all their rights and privileges in as large and ample a manner as they have been enjoyed by their predecessors, by virtue of the said charters, and confirmed (as to the elective franchise) by the said act'of 'parliament; and that your honourable house will refuse its assent to those clauses and provisions of the said bill, which in.. terfere with the rights and privileges of the burgesses of Liver pool ; and that your petitioners may be heard by themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses, at the bar of your honour able house, against Such of the clauses and provisions of the said bill as affect your petitioners, their sons, and apprentices. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. J: NELSON WOOD, Esq., then advanced to propose that the petition read to the meeting be forwarded to Lord Sandon for presentation, and that Mr. Ewart he requested to give it his best support. He said that although he was much pleased in having au opportunity Of serving the freemen in any way, he must state that he should have proposed the resolution more Madly had it not contained the namaof one for whom he could not conscientiously entertain the least respect, lie meant that of Mr. Ewart. ( Cries of " Hear, hear," and " We'll not have the meeting disgraced by his name.") Mr. Ewart was called one of the representatives of Liverpool, but he Vv - odd) denied that he was the representative of the opinions of the people of Liverpool or of the commercial interests of the bo rough. (Hear, hear.) He was certainly a representative, but of what ? Why, of a radical faction, with whom he was ready to go any lengths to pull down and destroy every institution sacred to the country. (Cheers.) He was against the insertion of Mr. Ewart's name in the resolution, but was induced, at the suggestion of 'a friend, to give him another trial, as he had re peatedly denied being the enemy of the freemen. This was the reason why he now did not object to Mr. Ewart being called upon, as one of the members for the borough, to give his best support to the petition. (Mr. Wood concluded amidst the cries of " No Ewart," "Ask Lord Francis Egerton to support it.") THOS. Mootie, Esq., seconded the motion. The meeting appearing to be against the insertion of Mr Ewart's name, Mr. WRIGHT said that he wished to say a word upon the sub bect of the resolution. H e h ope d t h ey would not for a moment elieve that because his friend had moved the resolution with Mr. Ewart's name in it, that Mr. Ewart was any friend of the mover or to the cause. It was merely to give Mr. Ewart an op portunity of openly declaring what his sentiments were towards the freemen. They knew that Mr. Ewart at one time had stated, when they voted for him, that the freemen had nobly retrieved their character. The freemen had not been charged with doing anything wrong since that expression, therefore, when Lord Sandon presented the petition they would see whether Mr. Ewart was sincere or not, or whether he would steal off as here tofore, or say yes, or no,.stO their prayer. When Mr. Ewart came to Liverpool they would also have an opportunity of ques tioning him and ascertaining for'a certainty whether he was fur them or against them. (Hear.) Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH was of opinion that the insertion of Lord Francis Egerton's name instead of Mr. Ewart's would be most calculated to serve the interests of the freemen. (Hear.) Mr. WRIGHT.—" We wish to nail the gentleman to the counter." (Laughter.) Mr. WRIGHT filen put the resolution to the meeting, when it was resolved that Mr. Ewart's name should not be erased. T. B. LYON, Esq. then moved that the thanks of the meeting be given to John Wright, Esq., their worthy chairman. From the enthusiastic reception the meeting had conceded to him he was quite confident the motion would be approved JOHN SA smarts, Esq.', seconded the motion, and in doing so urged upon the meeting the necessity of individual exertion to obtain signatures to the petition, as there was no time to be lost. A Gentleman then proposed three cheers for the chairman, and three cheers for Lord Sandon, which were heartily given. Mr. Ntrimir, in return for the compliment, again came for ward, and claimed permission to thank them sincerely for the attention his brother freemen had shown him, not only at the present time, but whenever he hag occasion to meet them. He was not apt to give pledges, but he would say that he would pledge himself, ever to be ready to the best of his ability to protect the rights and privileges of the freemen whenever they were attacked. He hoped that he had an honest heart to stand by them if he had not eloquence to speak for them. lie wished, in conclusion, to impress upon their minds the necessity of sign ing the petition. If they had any feeling of respect for him, themselves, or their chilldren, or those who were bound to them by indenture, they must not neglect. it, but use every exertion to get their fellow freemen to sign. He knew from high au thority that if it was numerously signed it would hare the de sired effect. The information they had received was recent, and that was the reasou why longer notice was not given. Mr. Wright concluded amidst loud cheers. • The meeting then separated, having previ o u s ly g i ven t h ree cheers for the King, the same for the Queen, and the same for the House of Peers. Notwithstanding the brevity of the notice of this meeting, the placards not appearing until Saturday evening, the atend ance about a quarter of an hour after the commencement of the proceedings was very numerous. OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—The feeling. which we noticed last week is spreading rapidly arrinng the working classes, and we hope soon to find that Operative Conservative Associations have been established in every dis trict of the town. A general meeting was held on Wednesday evening, at the Coach and Horses, London-road, for the purpose of enrolling znembers in the association already established, and for making other arrangements, when some gratifying informa tion relative to the spread of sound feelings amongst the opera tives was given by the persons assembled. A suggestion thrown out by a poor weaver deserves to be recorded, as a proof of the attachment to the constitution, which exists to a tar greater extent than is generally imagined, and w hi c h oug h t t o b e f ostere d and encouraged by the higher classes. The difficulty of obtain ing votes by those persons whose poor-rates are paid I.y their landlords was under discussion, when this poor man declared that he would immediately set about retrenching in some de partment or other of his expenditure, in order that be might he able to raise the money to pay his own poor-rates; and he re commended every one present, who was situated as he was, to do the same. The committee meet every Wednesday evening ; at the Coach and Horses, to enrol the names of such - persons as may wish to join the society : and in order to secure the admis sion of none but men of sound principles, it is necessary that every person applying should be known to at least two of the ineinhers,-141anehes.er Courier, LONDON LATEST' NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. The transactions in the Money Market hate teen of so ineig.: nificant a nature to-day as scarcely to deserve remark. Con sols for Account have remained at 911 flow the commiqicemenj k to the termination of business, purchases having been made at that price, tik.- which, perh a p s, may b e considered rather Ili au in cation of firmness. Money Stock is extremely steady. Ex; chequer Bills haie Slightly improved this afternoon, namely, from 26 to 28 prerintim; and India Bonds left off at. 7 irernium.; Bank Stock has improved from 216 to 5161. CLosING PRICE.—Bank Stock, 2161; Reduced 3gtr Cents, 901 ; Consols, shut; 31 per Cents. Reduced, 981; New 31 per, Cents. shut; Lon g A nnu i t i es, 16 11-16ths; India BondS,7 law.; Exchequer Bills, 28 pm.; Consols for Account, 9lli THE DUKE9F NEWCASTLE. Tho following letter from the Duke of Newcastle was read at ; the Nottingham Conservative Festival, on Thursday last; his ' Grace could not attend. Several passages in the letter were received by the company with cheers:— London, Jun e 17, 1835 . "Dear Sir,—Your secretary, its the name of the committee; had signified, in a letter whiCh I received yesterday, an earnest wish that I would be present at your d nner to-morrow. I an swered, that I had a strong inclination to comply with the wish; and that if I could I would attend. I now find that I cannot , perform what I certainly desired very much to accomplish. I regret this for many reasons; but specially because you, ex- • uressed a desire to see me among you, aril because I should have derived a sincere and heartfelt pleasure, and a proud gratification, in meeting on their first grand assemblage such a noble array of Nottingham conservatives. As patron, too, of the Constitutional Club; I should have felt that 1 was where I ought to be if I were supporting you in its chair. "You know my ardent desire to support and encourage con servative principles. I do so from conviction, and not front party motives. lam a conservative in spirit and in truth. love and venerate the British constitution; I would, therefore, preseive it. I have known and benefited by its blessings; and I would desire to transmit them unimpaired to my latest de scendants. I look with fear and trembling at the awful strides which revolution is daily making in the shape of reform. Un der this guise you may pJainly perceive what lamentable inroads "are successively making upon the institutions of the country. I do not think that we ourselves sufficiently see the extent of the evil, or where we shall be placed when concession after con cession, be they even small or unimportant at first view, shall have been granted. " The insidious attacks upon property 'of all kinds cannot fail to alarm every sound and loyal man. The church, the state, all that we have hitherto loved and .venerated, are inveterately at tacked.% It must be apparent to you, and All the gentlemen who ail he assembled with you to-morrow, that a stand, a firm stand; must be made. It must he equally apparent that you must make_ your, stand upon tellable ground. Now, in my judArienti - expediency is not tenable ground-.-it is a rotten cor rupt bog and must let you in a t l as t, up to t h e c hi n , fi rst, and _o ver-km(l very quickly after. But principle w ill d o; th at i s sound ground ; u p on th a t yoif may make a firm and vigorous stand, There is good and bad—one must not be confounded with thenther. What is good, and has been proved to be good; let that be maintained, and let us of Nottinghamshire be the first to maintain it. `• Although I cannot, on this. occaSion, have the' pleasure of meeting you, there may be other occasions; and if my presence can either contribute to your benefit, or promote the interests that we have so deeply at heart, communicate your wish, and will not be slack to attend to it. I write in great haste, and can barely save the post; but I was most unwilling not to offer these hurried lines, illegible as they may be. " Believe me, deal sir, yours very sincerely, " NEWCASI LE." STATE OF TRADE. There was a brisk demand for goods on Saturday, iii both thi coloured and white cloth halls, in Leeds, and on Tuesday there was a good deal of business done, but not to the same extent as on Saturdirv. Firadfort market, on Thursday, was again brisk. A fair quantity of manufactured „..00ds were sold, an d th ere was a goo d demand for yarn, but no alteration in prices. Wools were dull sale at falling prices. There was a very good attendance of rn r erchants at Hudders field market on Tuesday, but the sales were not proportionably extensive. The buyers seemed very chary of purchasing beyond their orders in the present state of the market. The demand fur woollen cloths at Saddleworth, particularly finest sorts for export, remains unusually brisk, and low sortg. for America have within the last few days been much inquired after. Several very large sales have been e ff ec t e d . Rochdale flann e l tnaiket on Monday last was very dull, and sales could only be effected on reduced terms, which were in many cases submitted to by the needy manufacturers. The flatness noticed in our last week's report of the wool market at Wakefield continued during the whole of last week ; and a purchaser would find no difficulty in laying in a stock ort better terms than he could have done for three or four previous weeks. The•general impression with the trade is that the pre sent high price of wool cannot be maintained. There was a good supply of wool at York market on Thin's-, day, which, notwithstanding its wet condition in consequende of the heavy rain, was nearly all sold up, hut at a further decline., iu price from our last quotations of nearly Is. per stone of 14lbs. Therefore the prices of the day are for super hog 18d. to 19d. _per lb.; half hog and ewe 16d. ; one-third hog'd 15(1. to 151 d. 'locks and cots 9d. to 11d.; pasture wools 7d. to 71d. ; no moor wools at market. There was a numerous attendance of buyers at Doncaster wool market on Saturday, and the quantity of wool offering for sale was large; in . the morning few sales were effected, thd market being exceedingly slack, but in the afternoon busrui evinced more disposition to purchase, and nearly the whole wai bought up with briskness, at the following rates :—Hog 225.6 d., boa and ewe, 19s. 6d,, ewe 16s. Gd., pet stone of 14tbs. ; locks' 103. per lb. WooL. —The weight as well as quality of the present year's clip is the subject of general remark, b u t th e f o ll ow i ng circum stance it is beli eve d is almost unprecedented :—A few days since Mr. Hewett, of Land Farm, Silverton, Devon. sheared a two year old rain, which gave the extraordinary quantity of 22 tlbs:. of Wool,'of 14 In c h es in l ength. This animal was sheared .a,; hog last year, and gave 18ilbs. of wool. DENBIGHSHIRE CONSERVATIVE AtSOCIATION.—WC much pleasure in stating that the firFt annual meeting of the above association will take place at ituthin on Friday next, and that a numerous attendance of the members is expected. De-: putations, we understand, are invited from Cheshire, Liverpool ; and South Lancashire. REMOVAL OF THE ASSIZES TO LIVERPOOL.—The Gazette of Friday contains an order of the King iu council, that the assizes and sessions held under the commissions of gaol delivery, and other commissions fur the despatch of civil and criminal busi-: ness, for the county palatine of Lancaster, heretofore holden at Lancaster, shall b e h erea f ter h o ld en, on the' same circuit, bath at Lancaster and Liverpool, in the said county palatine; the county to be divided into north and south, the northern division comprehending the several hundreds of Lonsdale, Amounder nest, Leyland, and Blackhurne; the sontlietn, Salford and . West Derby. CLOSING THE SEWER Gl2 ATINGS.--On Saturday last a gen teel-looking young man Was brought before the magistrates, in custody of one of the officers of the nightly watch, who complaip ed that the prisoner bad, during the heavy rain of Thursday night last, closed the gratings of several sewer! In Byrom-street. Mr. Whitty, superintendent of the nightly watch, informed the mayor, that, in consequenbe of conduct similar to that alleged against the defendant, the cellars of several poor individuals in the neighbourhood had been inundated riud their property much injured ; and that no less than fourteen latch of sand had since been removed from the street, which had been left by the water. Alderman Bourne pointed out to the prisoner the impropriety of his conduct, and discharged him. HUMANE AND INTREPID CONDPET.—On Sunday, as Mr. Longhottom, of Great Howard-street, was walking round thci Clarence Dock, he noticed the sudden disappearance of a young man and a woman who were crossing from the. Princess Victo ria steam-packet to the shore. Mr. Longhottom immediately hastened to the spot, and found them both struggling in the water. Throwing off his coat, he plugged into the basin to their assistance, and seizing the woman bytme of her arms, kept her afloat until he had succeeded in getting hold of the man In this situation they remained until a rope was lowered from the packet, which the :young man caught hold of, and was hoisted into the ship ;—it was again lowered and passed round , the waist of the woman, and after she had been safely lodged on the deck of the vessel, was again throWn down to M r. Long bottom. By this time Mr. Longbottom was so exhausted that when he had nearly reached the deck of the Victoria his strength failed him, and he fell again into the basin. He was, however, speedily raised to the same place of safety that be bad been the means of securing to those whom he had so fortunately preserved. The gallantry and presenc e o f m i n d di sp l aye d by Mr. Long= bottom entitles him to the highest commendation. STEALING A WATCII.—A young man, named Garner, wit's; on Saturday last, brought before the magistrates, haying been taken into custody by Ainsworth, the police-officer, and charged with having stolen a watch. The proprietress of the watch stated, that the prisoner had been in the habit of visiting at her house, and that, on the 18th of June, she had left him alone in an apartment where the watch hung upon a nail over the chitnneypiece. She was nut some time, and when she returned both the watch and prisoner were missing. The prisoner ae= knowledged to having pledged the watch a , Mr. Grindrod's, in Brownlow-hill. He was committed for Lial at the 80r0u441-1 sessions. BOROUGH OF OLDHAM.—The death of Mr. Cobbett havin; occasioned a vacancy in the representation of this borough, it is about 4, be the scene of a contested election. The candidates are Mr. Lees, of Werneth Lodge, a conservative; Mr. Ashton Yates, a Whig; and Mr. John Cobbett, son of the late member. Au active canvass has been begun by the friends of the differ: ent candidates; but we have not heard any particulars. Ola ham, we know, possesses a strong conservative party; we trust strong enough to return a conservative member; but to insure success great exertion will be necess ar y ; an d we trust the friends of the constitution will not have occasion to reproach themselves that by apathy or neglect they have lost an opportu nitv of strengthening the cause of good government in the flo - use of Counnous.—Mancliester Courier. DROGHEDA EIJECTION.—On Saturday afternoon the com mittee appointed to try the merits of the Drogheda election pe- , tition. after a few hours deliberation, resolved.—" That Mr. O'Dwyer was NOT duly elected,—how very shockin..!—and that the Honourable Randle Plunkett was duly eirt•tecr, and ouFht to have been returned, and that the petition and the opposition to the petition were neither frivolous nor vexatious." Roan Ear SY A soi-digant CATHOLIC PRIEST.— On Saturday se'nni<rht, a man, named Rob e rt Sp encer, called at the house of the'ltev. Mr. Kaye, the Catholic priest, in George-strect i and told the servant-girl that he had just seen Mr. Kaye at the vestry of Rook-street chapel. and hail roceivvd instructions from hint lo wait at his house until he came. The girl having seen Spencer With her mast,r before, on occasi •na when Mr. Kaye gave him some relief, had no suspicion that his story was false, and accordingly shoWed hint into the parker, aert then went about her household work. In a few minutes she heard the front door open, and on going to see who had opened it she found that Spencer had taken his departure, carrying with hits a black coat and waistcoat of Mr. Kaye's. She immediately' went out in search of him, Init he was soceessitil in making his escape. He was taken into custody on Tuesdv last, and o n the following day h e was b rought up at the New Bailey for ex amination. when Mrs. Edwards, a pawnbroker, proved that he had offered to pledge a coat and wtystcoat with her similar to that stolen from Mr. Kaye's, but they could not agree nun the terms, and he went away, taking with him another waistcoat which was lying on her shop counter.—The prisoner, in his defence, said he was formerly a Catholic priest, and declared upon his honour that he was unjustly accused. Ile called Mr. Kaye as a witness in his behalf, but that gcntleinays declared that he knew nothing of the Prisoner but what he heard from his own mouth, and that he did not know him to he a Catholic priest.—The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessiorrs Afanchester Courier.