The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-05 00:00:00

been detected by the power of conscience—unprincipled mer cenary scoundrels have been detected by the unconscious power of conscience. It has broken out in spite of them ; and when speaking of others before they have had time to collect 'themselves and find more appropriate - language, the unworthy object, painted upon the retina of self application has been exhibited from the tongue, and they. have described themselves to a nicety in the attempt to calumniate others. Now all thi s i s - s aid, s i r, f or the purpose of intimidating Eng land, for the purpose of browbeating the House of Commons, in order to prevent them from daring—aye, daring—(hear)— yes, the British House of Commons must not dare to do what Mr. O'Connell does not approve of—to place the Irish Reform Bill upon the principle of the English as to annual Registration, to remove the names of men who have for feited their qualification, or of men who are dead, and thus to close the door which is now open for fraud, and perjury, and deception. What is opposition to Lord Stanley's Bill, but a determination to keep that door open? (Hear) The in consistency of that opposition, is as flagrant as its corrup tion. (Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell has made the welkin ring with bawlings for assimilation between the English and Irish Reform Acts : but it was all pretence to swell the rent. This is proved, because when in some important particulars, assimilation is proposed, he takes fright, and exemplify ing the epithets he so lavishly applies ; in other words, personifying the unprincipled and mercenary scoundrel, he unbawls what he bawled before, and says, No,—lf you pass that Bill, if you dare to deprive us of getting votes from purgatory, then what is his threat? then nabocklish ! (t.oud cheers.) If I understood Irish better than I do I eould not in two hours give you the power of that word.. It means . something of this kind—"if they dare ! aye, let it alone boys till the time comes, and then we'll" — (hear, and cheers). Hear what this man, who speaks from hi • conscience, and describes hi mse lf so accura t e ly sa ys. He called that high-minded senator, the noble Lord Stanley, a scorpion and a Nero. But you will remember him as the man who accurately describes himself. (Hear.) He says, about emancipation— " The To r i es. were somewhat like the bad school-boy, who, f when he h as go t something good in his mug, spits in it for ye! that his neighbours should be asking him for it. Accord ingly, having go t t h e emancipation in their mug, t h ey sp i t i n Ithink it for fear it s h ou ld do any good from it. " quite enough now has been said to lead to the.esta blishment of an energetic Protestant Association at Birken head. You have signed you have a petition against Maynooth, and ha petition for Church Extension. That lies at the root of our enemt i e matter. ys as drawn up (Hear.) You heard Mr. Ould describe the churin beautiful array of battle against ch. No w that are a • acid ,a( one to the multitude of petitions, Inglis in u p to strensthen the hands of Sir Robert (We will). Soproaeaja g motion for church extension. I thm for nationalan know whether you have sent np a peti- The mum t religious education. „_ - N.—Not yet. M ciaaa—Well, when you have you will have com pleted the circle in all but one point. You must be repealers (Cheers.) You must ask for the regeneration of the coun try, and for the preservation of our liberties, by placing Pro testantism where alone it can be safe. (Hear.) Rest assured it never can be safe upon a level, because Popery is essentially intolerant, and systematically usurping, and never can be quiet except when it is in supremacy. (Loud cheers.) It is not yet so. Our sovereign • must be a Protestant; our sovereign must be a member of the Es tablished Church. That law still stands. The Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland must still be a member of the Established Church ; the Lord Chancellor of England must still be a member of the Established Church ; the Lord Chancellor of Ireland must still be a member of the Esta blished Church. We have so much of the constitution of the country left yet; but I say, unless our Protestantism be re-established, these lingering remnants cannot remain. You must either go forwent or go back. (Hear.) If you vote a parall e li sm between Popery and Protestantism, how shall you retain what then becomes an inconsistent insult to the Catholic religion ? 'You will soon hear all the old argu ments about persecution applied to the remaining restrictions ~you will have it said you keep up the esprit du corps by these invidious distinctions ; why not open the woolsack for your Catholic fellow Christians, as well as the other parties in the state? (Hear, hear.) Then what is the next Step ? Wh at an insult to the old religion to prevent the throne from being occupied by Catholics? What is the an swer? It cannot be given by any man who will justify the the'act of 1829. The principle of that act gives up all ; and the points still so retained are inconsistent with it. I would undertake to prove that the reservation of the crown and Woolsack, and the vice-regal crown in Ireland, are- flagrant in consistencies—that they stand now as blots upon your sta tute book. (Hear.) You have passed the principle, and re fused to carry it out. But there was more than one princi ple in that bill. 'One principle was that there should no longer be exclusion from political power in consequence of religious belief. I say, then, after this, there is an inconsis tency in still . excluding Catholics from time offices I have ' l amed ; but to pass from thi s subject, I would say there was another. principle in that bill, and that was that the esta blished church should .sustain no damage by the passing of it.. There was security, or rather there was supposed to be security taken for the accomplishment of this part of the con tract. The contract on one side was that political offices, as Parliament, and the various offices of the state, with the ex ceptions already made, should be open irrespective of reli gious belief; the contract upon the other side was that the e stablished church should sustain no damage, and in order to make good that side of the contract, an oath was required from those who availed themselves of the first side. Now, I say one side of the contract has been kept to this moment, a nd the other violated. We have kept our part ; we have opened the offices men ti one d i n th e ac t to Roman Catholics, but they have not kept their part, far they have availed themselves of the opening so made to injure our established c hurch. (Hear, hear.). What should the result be? If a Sontract be made ; if there be a condition upon either side ; 1t one party is found to fulfil their condition and the other Party to violate theirs, what should the result be ? I grant first step should be expostulation. 1 would go to the violating party and say, ". you should have kept your part of the bargain as we have ;" but if you found upon expostulation t hey would not do so—if you found them quibbling and say 14g they have not. although they have, most flagrantly vio lated it by using their influence to do away with ten bishop rics of the Established Church, after swearing not to injure that church as established; what should the result be? What Would any.plain man of business say and do ? Ido not say You should proceed to repeal the contract ; I say that it is r epealed by time violation of it, (Cheers). One party has not Stood-td it, and therefore he has absolved you from your Part. As to all .moral obligation the repeal has beeucarried, 1 -Ty the disastrous conduct of one of the parties, and we want the legislature to ratify that repeal, in order that we ,toay not be .bound when the other - party has ceased to be nound. Yet they will say this is intolerance, that we would dri ve them into the Atlantic if we could. I protest if I had the power I would drive them all whither I would go myself, upon -the wrings of faith in time enjoyment of the Holy Spirit ; I would .set before them not the foul idolatry which neu tralizes the Gospel, but Jesus Christ crucified ; I would set before them not the atoning work of man, or time helping work of man to atone, not the purifying fire of purgatory, not the absolving pretences of the priest, but the all-sufficiency of time Lamb'of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. (Hear.) . 1 would set before them that blood which cleanseth from all sin, which whosoever believes is made whiter than snow,-is loved with the pure love wherewith God loved his own Son, and embraced in the arms of • everlasting mercy, cleansed from every defilement of flesh and spirit, received as a member of Christ, of his flesh and of his bones, an heir of everlasting glory, so that to be absent from the body is at once to be present with the Lord, beyond the reach of masses or Prayers or man's performances in the holy enjoyment of him who loved him and gave himself for him. (Hear.) This, sir, is the emancipation we would propagate ; this time liberty which no man can repeal ; this the power of God to salvation. 0, we desire to propagate these truths among the Irish peo- Ple ; we desire nothing more than an opportunity to proclaim this fully to them ; but whilst doing it we desire to maintain the fountain from which it springs, the base upon which it . rests under the good providence of God, and that is British liberty. (Cheers.) We have been taunted by hon. and right hon• gentlemen with holding the absurd notion of striving to Propagate the gospel by means of force. We never enter tained such a notion. Having disposed of this charge, The rev gentleman concluded as follows :—I hope that your wor thy pastor and chairman will not differ from but agree with :Mr. O'Connell in being a repealer. He (Mr. O'Connell) Said--" They say we are mad if we anticipate the repeal—it is impossible repeal should he carried." What was his an swer ? " I say it is impossible that it shall not be." And What he said of the repeal of the Union we say of the repeal of the Emancipation Bill. Madness to ask for its repeal! No ; but it is real madness to expect tranquillity in our Pro testant empire without its repeal.\ Lord Stanley's bill, though excellent in itself, is but a palliation of the mischief, not a remedy. Against even this, however, the Agitator is in arms, and profiting by the fearful success of his threaten ing in times past, he is again treating England as a coward, and has pledged himself, in time speech just quoted, that if Lord Stanley's bill was carried he would die upon the floor of the House of Commons. He said, " I will stop that bill or I will die upon the floor of the house." What ! Is Eng land to be threatened, to be cowed, to be put down by the brawling of a man like this, in a speech, too, that goes through the length and breadth of the land upon the birthday of Wel lington ? (Cheers, and cries of hear, hear.) Surely the man is infathated ! Surely he has been allowed to utter a threat to rouse the generous blood of the British Lion, which will say—" No, no; whilst you patted me it was all very bUt if you begin to threaten, take care, nabocklish I' , (Great cheering.) The motion was then carried. The Rev. C.J. Amiuros moved the formation of the Birkenhead Branch of the Liverpool Protestant Association, the rules of which he read. The motion was carried unani mously. After a few other remarks had been made the meeting separated. [ADVERTISEMENT.] ROYAL GEORGE, STEAMER.— In reference to a paragraph Which appeared in the Mail of Thursday last, headed "Wood Iro n , 'we arc a uthorised to state, that the Royal George, iron steamship, left Glasgow at 12 minutes past 7, and the Admiral, wooden steamer, at 20 minutes past 8. The iron steamer arrived at the Rock at 3 o'clock, and the wooden steamer at half-past four. The time, therefore, occupied from Glasgow to Liverpool by the wooden steamer was 20 hours 10 minutes, and by the iron steamer 19 hours 48 minutes ; leaving a difference in favour of the iron steamer of 22 minutes, exclusive of 25 minutes taking cargo at Renfrew and detention at Greenock, which would make a total gain of 47 minutes in favour of the iron steamer.—Mail of Saturday. GLASGOW STEAMERS.—The new wooden steamer. Admi ral, upwards of 400 horses power, left Greenock on Tuesday evening last, about half-past 11 o'clock, and arrived at the Rock at 20 minutes past 4 o'clock, on Wednesday. The iron steamer Royal George, left Greenock same evening, at 10 o'clock, and reached the Rock at 3 o'clock on Wednes day, making the passage in 17 hours. The distance was thus run in only a few minutes less time by the Admiral than by the iron vessel, not much more than half the power of the wooden vessel.—Albion of yesterday. - The above gratuitous lying which is seemingly in tended to gull the public, needs no other contradiction than the follov.ing statement of facts:— First trip out, the difference in time of arrival taken from opposite the Clarence Dock was precisely one Iron boat arrived at Admiral Difference in start fronaGreenock was I. 37 This time of start from Greenock, therefore, taken into account, the Admiral's gain on the first trip was about 37 minutes. Second trip to Greenock,—Admiral started first by 4 mi nutes, and arrived first by 38 minutes; difference again in favour of Admiral, 34 minutes, Third trip from Greenock,—Admiral started first by 15 minutes, and arrived first by 55 minutes : difference again in favour of Admiral 40 minutes. Their trial trips have been performed in calm weather and smooth water, circumstances the most disadvantageous (in a trial of speed) for a sea-going vessel like the Admiral ; and any invidious remarks about " difference of power," will have small weight with those persons who choose practically to make themselves acquainted with the difference between the Admiral steam-ship and any Iron steam-boat trading to this port. DAVID MAc IvEu. and Co. • • FIRE ON THE NORTH UN lON RAILWAY. — On Thursday bight, when the London and Preston mail train was on its • way to the north, and not far from the Wolverton station, °, ne - of the carriages (the one belonging to the North Union 'ine) was perceived to be on tire ; and before any means • could be used to quench the flames, the whole of the car 'nage, with the greater part of the parcels which it con tained, (in number thirty-one) were consumed.—Preston THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THE LAST NIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH. Last Night but Three of MISS ROMER and MR. G. STANSBURY. 91 HIS present TUESDAY, May 5, 1840, will be per ig formed, for the last time, Barnett's celebrated grand romantic Opera, entitled the MOUNTAIN SYLPH. With all the original Music, as performed in London, up wards of two hundred successive nights, at the Theatre- Royal, English Opera, The Musical arrangements under the direction of Mr. Aldridge. E01ia.... (the Mountain Sylph).... Miss Romer, As originally performed by her in London. Hela.... (the Wizard of the Glen).... Mr. G. Stansbury. Donald Mr. Barker. Christie.. Mr. Baker. I Bailie Macwhapple.. Mr. P. Crowe. Jessie.... Miss Grant. Etheria.. Mrs. P. Crowe. To conclude with the Tragedy, written by the Reverend R. C. Maturin, called BERTRAM. Bertram.. Mr. Stewart. Imogine Miss Cleaver. On WEDNESDAY, the Opera of LOVE IN A VIL LAGE. Rosetta, Miss Romer; Hawthorn, Mr. G. Stans bury ; Justice. Woodcock, Mr. Baker; Young Meadows, Mr. Barker ; Hodge, Mr. Slaiter ; Deborah Woodcock, Mrs. Clarke ; Lucinda, Mrs. P. Crowe ; Madge, Miss Grant. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of the MILLER AND HIS MEN. On THURSDAY, the Opera of THE LOVE SPELL will be repeated for the last time, with other Entertainments. On FRIDAY, Mr. 0. STANSBURY'S BENEFIT, and the last night of the Engagement of Miss Romer and Mr. G. Stansbury. Ebt Etbrrpool &tantratt. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1840. Advices have been received from Jamaica to the 20th of March. Our files of the Royal Gazette and Ja nzaica Standard only extend to the 14th of the same month. The news contained in these papers is, on the whole, of a more favourable character than it has been for some months previous. The liberal, wise, and con ciliatory policy pursued by his Excellency Sir Charles Metcalfe, since his assumption of the government of the island, had succeeded in restoring general confi dence. Political agitation had, in a great measure, been suspended. All parties were regaining that happy state of puce and comfort inseparable from the well doing of a community. We are sorry, however, to find that the Baptist missionaries and their coadjutors have again been endeavouring to disturb the peace of the island, by inflaming the minds of the negroes, and creating a bad feeling in them towards their employers. It is evident, from the reports before us, that the ob ject of these restless agitators is, to instigate the black population of the colony to rebellion. We cannot, on any other supposition, adequately account for their ex traordinary proceedings. It appears that the negroes were beginning to alter their ways, and to evince a greater readiness to accede to such terms as the plan ters could afford in return for their labour. This dis• position to labour alarmed the grievance-mongers— their craft stood in danger—their agitation was likely to receive its death-blow. Conscious of this, Mr. Knibb—the O'Connell of Jamaica—and the worthies who, like him, fatten upon the miseries of the negroes, immediately began to fulminate their anathemas against Sir Charles Metcalfe. Their firebrand organ, the Bap tist Herald, has indulged in a series of virulent and and abusive tirades against his Excellency, in which it is more than insinuated that the policy which he is now pursuing will lead to incendiarism and bloodshed. The truculent language of this abominable publication is calculated to incite the coloured population to rebellion. We sincerely trust and pray that its diabolical attempts may end in failure. We have great confidence in the firmness and integrity of Sir Charles Metcalfe, and we have' our hopes that he will finally succeed in repairing the mischief created by his intemperate predecessor. Sir Charles Metcalfe had given great satisfaction on his tour through the island. It seems to be his con stant study and endeavour to conciliate all parties. While a portion of the Baptist missionaries were re viling his government, he confounded and put to shame the sedition-mongers, by partaking of their hospita- lity. The Royal Gazette gives but an unfavourable account of the agricultural prospects of the island. Some pro perties were doing well, but it is surmised that the whole of the present crop will not exceed two-thirds of the last. The crop of 1839 amounted to two-thirds of that of 1838. The crop of 1840 will only be two thirds of that of 1839. And yet Mr. Scoble and his fellow-agitators have. the audacity to allege_that_there has been no falling off in the trade and produce of Ja maica ! Can the power of impudence go any further ? The falling off in the staple products of Jamaica is ruinous in the highest degree. Renewed agitation, and the threatened equalisation of the duties on sugar, will assuredly prove the death-blow to Jamaica as a sugar colony. The coffee-crop in some districts, it is stated, will be lamentably deficient. In the parish of St. George, where 931,000 lbs. were made, the quantity has been reduced to 157,000; and in the beautiful and prolific parish of Manchester, which has been torn and dis tracted by internal dissensions, the decrease will be tremendous. " But," as is well remarked by the Royal Gazette, " coffee is a production which will thrive in the island, provided the planters can obtain labourers and the only way to overcome the dfniculty is, by a de termined and energetic spirit of immigration. Let tie tide of immigration flow towards the island, and it will yet recover itself—without immigration it must retro grade." This is language with which we most heartily. agree. We rejoice to find that the question of immi gration is forcing itself more than ever upon the notice of the colonial press, and „assuming an accumulated degree of importance. Would that we could persuade our brethren of the conservative press in England to bestow more attention upon this subject, and to join with us in a simultaneous effort to force it upon the at tention of the Home Government. The silk companies in Jamaica were going on pros perously. Mr. Whitmarsh with the Alpine, and Mr. Bradford with the Multicaulis, were both sanguine ; and the Royal Gazette expresses a hope that a supply of silk would, ere long, reach the London market from the island. _ _ The spirit of improvement was effecting wonders in Kingston. Considerable taste is said to be displayed in the various public buildings in process of erection. A company was in course of formation for supplying the city with water, and hopes were entertained that a gas company would be soon established. The Planters' Bank had declared its first dividend at five per cent, for the first six months, placing a large amount to the surplus fund. This institution appears to be in a very prosperous condition, having recently had a large increase of wealthy shareholders, connected with the agricultural interest. We have received our files of the Guiana Times and of the Guiana Chronicle to the 6th of March, inclu sive. We regret to find the latter of these journals occupying so much of its space with paltry personal disputes, instead of devoting its energies, as hereto fore, to the social and general improvement of the co lony. This is a time when personal animosities should give way, in each of our western colonies, to a grand and simultaneous effort to procure the inestimable boon of free immigration. Everything should be made sub servient to this. Of course, we are alluding only to secular matters when we thus express ourselves. e have already transferred to our columns an ex cellent article from the Guiana Times, on the state and prospects of British Guiana. We hope that its peru sal has effected much good. We learn from the Guiana Chronicle that the Court of Policy at Demerara had voted considerable sums for the support of parochial clergymen throughout the Colony, as well as for the promotion of religious edu cation in general. We mention this in answer to the cavils of such men as Mr. Scoble, with whom it is a customary charge against the planters that they have done little or nothing in the way of instructing, or pro viding for the religious wants of the negro population of our colonies. We regret to learn from the Guiana Chronicle of February 19, that an incendiary fire had taken place at Malgre Tout, by which property had been destroyed to the amount of three or four thousand pounds ster ling. Governor Light had offered a reward of one hundred pounds far t h e discover y of the perpetrator of this outrage. Several of the planters had also sub scribed liberally for the same purpose. The Chronicle of March states that the "good work" of immigration was progressing. Two schooners had just arrived with a number of immigrants from Barba does. They were procured through the active exertions of Mr. Day. The success of this experiment induces the Chronicle to inquire whether it would not be expe. dient to try the other islands, in several of which, it is said, there is a redundant population. Great complaints are made respecting the conduct of the German immigrants who had arrived in the colony,—especially of their refusal to pay the expenses of their passage, &c. It is not, however, alleged that they are unfit for the work provided for them. We have received our files of the Sydney Commercial Journal, and of the Sydney Gazette, to the ith of De cember, inclusive. From these papers we learn that Mr. Abraham Polack—the George Robins of Australia —had placed in the hands of trustees the whole of his property, for the purpose of securing to the creditors of John Thomas Wilson (whpse escape we mentioned in a recent number) the sum of fifteen shillings in the pound, and for the further purpose of meeting all his own liabilities. Mr. Polack was about to sail for Eng land. Intelligence had been received from Bathurst of the capture of five bushrangers, who had escaped from the gaol at Goulburn. They were taken by Ensign Hil liard, of the mounted police, and a small party. When seized, they had in their possession eleven stand of arms, five horses, saddles, ammunition, &c. The district of the Hawksbury had been visited with a tremendous hail-storm, from which the crops are said to have suffered severely, whole tracts being beaten down by its violence. The Sydney Gazette declaims very strongly against the appropriation of the land fund of New South Wales to defray the charges of the embryo colony of New Zealand. A portion of the colonists had come forward and petitioned for direct taxation, rather than thus cripple the resources of the colony. The wheat market at Sydney, in consequence of the reports of the partial injury of the crops here and there, was endeavouring to get up, but it was expected that the attempt would prove fruitless. The first quality of flour was quoted at from 365. to 50s. per 100 lbs.; se cond ditto, 308. ; ration ditto, 255. to 285.; bread, ls. 4d. per 4 lb. loaf. In the market for vegetables, turnips were sold. at from 3d. to 6d. per bunch; car rots, 4d.; broad beans, 2s. per peck; French ditto, 2s. 6d. ; potatoes, from 14s. to 18s. per cwt. The rates of insurance to London and Liverpool, at Sydney, were from 21 to 31 per cent. Freights to London and Liverpool were—wool, ltd. per lb. ; oil, old measure, from f 4 ss. to £4 15s. per tun; timber, £5 10. per load ; flax, £6 per ton. In another column will be found several extracts from these papers. It appears that the colony is in a very thriving condition. Trade was brisk, and pro duce abundant. We beg to call the attention of our readers to a conversation which took place on Friday evening in the House of Lords, on the presentation, by Lord Fitzwilliam, of a petition from the " bankers, mer chants, and other inhabitants of Liverpool," for the repeal of the corn-laws ; which petition the noble earl took the liberty of assuring the house was "agreed to unanimously at a meeting convened by the mayor by public advertisement." We pass over the inaccuracy—to use a very mild word—of this statement. His lordship is far from being a Solomon, and no doubt was duly crammed for the occasion by some of thoSe unscrupulous gen tlemen who do the dirty work of the Whig faction in Liverpool. Our business at present is to notice ano ther repr,esentation of the noble earl, which we imagine will be news to some of those weak people who have allowed themselves to he deluded by the plausible speeches of the anti-corn-law agitators. In answer to a question from Lord Wynford, whe ther the petitioners who now called for the repeal of the corn-laws were ready, at the same time, to forego the protecting duties on Manufactures, his lordship replied, " that the .petitioners were unanimous upon that point. They were willing to forego the whole of those protecting duties." Now, with all submission to Lord Fitzwilliam, his lordship is a noodle to suppose any such thing. We readily grant that the cotton spinners of Manchester—the Gregs and the Philipses —the men of the League, with sour Cobden at their head, and sweet, tender-hearted Thomas Potter for their tail—are quite sufficiently imbued with the Mal thusian doctrines of free trade, to consent to any sacri fice of their neighbours' comforts which will result in filling their own pockets. These men are satisfied that they themselves have little to fear from foreign com petition in the home market, and are quite ready, whilst eating their cheap foreign loaf, to enjoy, at the expense of the British artizan, the luxury and the cheapness of foreign boots, shoes, gloves, silks, lace, furniture, &c. ; but we really imagine that the indus trious portion of the inhabitants of Liverpool, whilst petitioning for a repeal of the corn-laws, contemplated nothing of this kind as its accompaniment. The shoemaker or the cabinet-maker would scarcely be benefitted by a reduction in the price of his loaf, if the condition of that reduction was to be the diminu tion of his wages to the level of the miserably-paid workmen of Belgium or Germany ; and we scarcely think that the great body of the well-paid artizans of Liverpool are anxious or able to enter into a competi tion with the lightly-taxed and miserably-paid artizans of the Continent. In one respect, however, we fully coincide with the Manchester repealers, whose sentiments Lord Fitz william erroneously represents as those of the oppo nents of corn-laws generally. If the protection hitherto accorded to agriculture be withdrawn, that given to manufactures of every description must he also with drawn. If the farmer and the farm-labourer he placed in competition with the same classes in other coun tries, these parties will demand, and have a right to demand, the same facilities and the same cheapness which the foreign grower possesses. They will de mand a free ingress to the cheapest markets for every article of consumption or use. They will no longer be compelled to take their shoes, their gloves, their hats, and their clothing from the British manufacturer; and the artizan will find that the fancied advantage of eating a cheaper loaf will be more than counter balanced by his diminished means of paying for it. We wish that our industrious fellow-countrymen would reflect a little before they countenance, by their signature to anti-corn-law petitions, such utter de struction of their comforts and means of existence as would surely follow the granting of their prayer; and, in the name of the industrious artizans of Liverpool, we protest against the assumption of Lord Fitzwilliam, that they have ever contemplated giving up that legis lative protection against foreign competition which they at present enjoy. These men may have been deluded by quacks and theorists such as his lordship, but they have not yet become totally insane. On Wednesday evening the bill of Lord Stanley, for amending the system of registration of voters in Ireland, will either be allowed to go into committee and have its merits fairly examined in detail, or be factiously burked by the venal majority of the House of Commons. The former course would at once be adopted by a body of legislators whose real object was the good of their country, and not merely that of party. As a measure of detail, in which there may fairly exist some differences of opinion, and some principles en tertained in common by both sides of the house, the legitimate and honest course would undoubtedly be to go into committee ; but we must confess that we have doubts whether this will be permitted. The ministe rial lash will, we fear, be unsparingly used, and the true interests of the British people postponed, to assuage the howl of Irish agitation, and to procure a ' few more weeks or months of pay and patronage for a ministry, whose only claim to the support of its party is the facili\ty with which it abandons principle at the bidding ofliction, and the baseness with which it yields up bulwark after bulwark of the British constitution, to be trampled beneath the feet of a fierce democracy ! Whatever fete, however, may attend Lord Stanley's bill in the House of Commons during the present session, we are satisfied that its ultimate success will he secured, at no distant period, by the concurring voice of the vast majority of the empire. It cannot now be concealed that the agitation, got up in Ireland to impede it, is a failure—an utter and ridiculous failure. The treasonable spoutings of the hacks of Irish faction have led to no corresponding demonstra tion on the part of the Irish people. The cry of repeal has been raised, but even that cry has fallen upon list less' or averted ears. The great Leinster demonstra tion, on Tuesday last, which was to have surpassed all former efforts of the agitator, presented only a " mile. rable account of empty benches," and an equally mise rably display of empty braggadocio. Ireland will not listen to the voice of the charmer, " charm he never so wisely." Her interests—the interests of the moral and industrious portion of her population—are beco ming day by day more strongly bound up with those of the British nation ; and the trammels of a blinding superstition, the goading dictation of a tyrannical priesthood, and the disgusting whine of a bloated mendicant, pampered by the dishonest gains wrung from her fears and her credulity, are not strong enough to burst asunder the feelings of kindly affection and mutual interest, with which time is cementing toge ther the people of Great Britain and Ireland. The same result has attended the numerous attempts made to stir up an opposition to Lord Stanley's mea sure on this side of the Channel. The ministerial press has in vain fulminated its slanders against the motives of its author and its supporters—in vain mis represented its provisions and condemned its princi ples. The jaded hack of the treasury, dispatched under the tutelage of the Coppock, of Reform Associ ation and Ludlow notoriety, to the fondling care of our Coppock,—the Coppock of Stockport,—has made the appeal ad ?nisericordiam to the provinces; and equally in vain. The tag-rag of Liverpool, the men of motley, hodmen and nightrnen, lumpers and exca vators, with a sprinkling of hangers-on of the corpo ration and a few of the " galled jades" of that august body itself, are, at the moment we write, assembled in Clayton-square, to witness the:performance of a farce, in which the actors are equally as worthy of approba tion as their illustrious progenitors of the time of Bottom the weaver ; but, alas ! the roaring of their lion is infinitely inferior to the performance of that renowned professor of the histrionic art, and marvel lously more like the braying of a certain quadruped than the notes of " any sucking dove." The farce itself is farce travestied ; and the world may go to bed assured that its actors will not succeed in setting either the Thames or the Mersey on fire. The provinces will not move. England will dance no longer to Whig- Radical piping; and, " strange to say,"—we quote the doleful but candid admission of the Liverpool Mercury,—" the people of England and Scotland, if we may judge from the absence of public meetings and the paucity of petitions, seem to think that this" (Lord Stanley's bill) " is a matter which does not affect them" ! So far as regards the people of Great Britain and Ireland, the principle and necessity of Lord Stanley's bill are approved; and it now only remains to be seen how the measure will be treated by the House of Com mons, which affects to represent the opinions and feel ings of that people. We have certainly little confi dence in the honesty of a portion of that house; but we think it will require a somewhat extraordinary de gree of reckless assurance in ministers and their sup porters, to refuse to commit a bill, the main principles of which they have already admitted. However well it may accord with the peculiar notions of morality which some of these gentlemen entertain, to vote that black is white, for a factious purpose—to deny to-day what they affirmed yesterday—to refuse an acknow ledged good because the hand that offers it is not smeared with the honey of the treasury,—the people of England will not for ever submit to have this jug gling policy played off under their very eyes. If there is in Lord Stanley's bill any portion of good —any portion of the principle of the measure brought for ward by the Irish government of Lord Melbourne in 1835, and which at that time met with the cordial support of these tricksters—let that portion be given to us, and let the details and its mode of application be regulated in committee. If we cannot have a com plete cleansing of the Augean stable of Irish corrup tion, let us have at least so much as the government of Lord Melbourne have before offered us. We our selves contend that the measure of Lord Stanley is, in its main features, identical with that of Sir Michael O'Loyhlen, the IVitig Attorney-General. If it differs, that difference is in matters of detail, which we are perfectly willing to leave to the judgment of a com mittee of the House of Commons ; and, even if we get only the leading principles of the measure, we are content to accept of these as an instalment. The Whig-Radicals have themselves taught us the value of taking a part as an instalment of the whole. Let us, therefore, have an evil, admitted by the government itself, corrected by the best measure we can get. We care not ourselves from whom it comes. But this degraded administration will not—DARE NOT—meet the question except on the grounds of faction. Skulking behind the brazen shield of O'Con nell, they will only bring against the sound arguments and convincing statements of Lord Stanley and his supporters, that shuffling evasion which characterises all their policy; and, under the tricky pretence of seeking protection, as ministers, from the assaults of Conservatism, they will repudiate those principles to which, as men, they stand pledged before the House of Commons and the country. They will succeed, we dare say, in defeating, by misrepresentation and fraud, an attempt to control the system of perjury, priestly intimidation, and corruption, upon which their present tenure of office is based ; but they will effect this at a sacrifice of honour, consistency, and truth, which will stamp them as THE BASEST AND MOST PROFLIGATE PARTY WHICH EVER WIELDED THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS GREAT EMPIRE ! A word at parting to our Conservative friends in the House of Commons. We must observe the ab sence of no Conservative member on Wednesday even ing, unless from urgent necessity. . The contest in which they are now engaged is no mere tilting match, no jousting with blunted spears for a lady's glove,— but an encounter, with vizor down and pointed lance, upon the result of which depends, in all human likeli hood, the happiness and security of millions of our fellow-beings. The question at issue is one upon which Conservative and Protestant England is pre pared to stake her all, and she will not lightly suffer her claim—her righteous claim—for JUSTICE to be perilled. We would suggest also to those country gentlemen who, although on most questions of real business agreeing with the leaders of the Conservative party, are ready, at the sound of the treasury whistle, to rush to the rescue of the present servile and degraded fac tion, that upon this question the sou n d p ort i on o f the people of England are resolved to think and judge for themselves. Vulgar insolence, nicknames, and bare faced misrepresentations, may pass current, instead of argument, with a Liverpool or a Dublin mob; inane twaddle, coming from the mouth of a member of the government, may be swallowed by a herd of noodles assembled at a half-crown dinner in the enlightened borough of Stockport i—but, on a great question like this, the people of England, we repeat, will read the evidence—the debates in the House of Commons— and judge for themselves. 'We should therefore sug gest to these trimming gentlemen that the eve of a general election—and to that we are approaching—is not the best possible time to venture upon a factious and dishonest vote. There was a time when the gatherings of Whig- Radicalism in Liverpool comprised some portion of respectability—when decent men, hahited in broad cloth, were not ashamed to be found listening to the professions, and applauding the principles, of our would-be Solons. But, alas ! that time has gone by; and even the prospect of hearing the laboured elo quence of a Blackburn, a Currie, and a Rathbone, with the assured certainty of seeing once again the everlasting white ducks of our dear, delightful colonel, can only muster a ragged concourse of idlers, from whose " most sweet" persons it would be difficult to collect the materials for one decent suit, presentable at church or passable at a wake. The assembly which on this good " Saint Monday" has graced the area of Clayton-square, to petition— save the mark !—against Lord Stanley's bill, was most assuredly not one which is calculated to convey the idea of any additional strength or respectability ac quired by Whig-Radicalism in Liverpool, or, at any rate, of that portion of it which is content to rake in the same gutter, and feed from the garbage polluted by the foetid breath of the mendicant ruler of Ireland, Popery, Socialism, and Socinianism contributed their hordes from the docks, the alleys, and the stews ; but the respectability of the Whi g p arty kept aloof, and, except the few exhibitors upon the balcony, a sprin kling of Conservatives drawn together from .curiosity, and a few moderate Whigs looking unutterable things as they buttoned up their breeches-pockets and slunk Away dissatisfied with their company, the entire re. spectability of the meeting might have been transported by one omnibus licensed to carry thirteen inside and one out. Meagre, hov ever, as the meeting was in respectabi lity, and, considering the means and the time chosen for assembling it, in numbers also, it was evidently an object of gratification to some of the leaders of the Whig-Radical party, who have not lately had an op portunity of riding the high horse in public. The countenance of William Rathbone was radiant with pleasure; and, as he expressed his wish that " HE HAD THE VOICE AND LANGUAGE OF AN ANGEL," we were at a loss whether these attributes were in tended to match the august assembly he was address. ing, or his own refulgent looks. The proceedings, of which we have given a brief sketch,—as much, however, as their importance de manded,—were of the kind usual at such demonstra tions. A few got-up speeches were delivered : the leaders of the Mercury and Albion, with the bragga docio and stage-thunder of the Irish showman, were hashed and re-hashed. Words were "plenty as black berries," but of argument there was literally none. The bill of Lord Stanley was set up in (Ifigy, and then valiantly knocked down, amid the cheers of the motley assemblage. We could have fancied, if we did not know the men, that the speakers were ashamed of offering argument, or even truth, to such an audience. In that case they would have explained the working of the present system, and the difference between the proposed system of Lord Stanley and that which the Whigs a few years ago themselves proposed, and which the agitator himself advocated. But, knowing the men, we cannot wonder that no such explanation was at tempted, and that, during the whole course of the proceedings, not one syllable was uttered to intimate that the present system of Irish representation was any other than perfection itself. Upon the individual eloquence of the speakers we shall not venture to set ourselves up in judgment. We never thought much of the talent of our Liverpool Whig-Radical illuminati; but we must confess we never thought so little of it as this evening, after hear ing their laboured efforts at a meeting, in which they had all their own way. We should seriously recom mend some of these gentlemen to withdraw their most sweet faces from the public for the future. It is of no use, we assure them, attempting to `. call spirits from the vasty deep" when none " will come when they do call," and we particularly press this advice upon Mr. Wallace Currie who is—we assure him with all pos sible respect and esteem—no conqueror. As a whole the speakers were worthy of the audience, with the exception of one gentleman, Mr. Rosson, we believe, who is evidently as far superior to the company he got amongst, as " Hyperion to a satyr." His address was, of course, heard with listnesness and impatience. The resolutions adopted at this trumpery affair will no doubt go forth as the unanimous voice of the people of Liverpool, we readily acknowledge, and that they had, as any other resolutions would have had, the al most unanimous assent of the meeting. But when we still state, that the slightest evidence of dissent from the opinions of the speakers, and of the Irish portion of the audience, was rewarded at once by a savage assault, and the dissentients unceremoniously handed off by the police to meditate in a lock-up house upon the Whig Radical interpretation of free dom of discussion, we do not fear that the country and the legislature will attach more to them than their true weight, which is nothing. We perceive from the advertisement, that a general meeting of those ladies and gentlemen who feel inter ested in the establishment of the Liverpool Female Or phan Asylum is announced to take place, this day, in the Lecture Room of the Royal Institution ; when his worship, the Mayor, will take the chair. We under stand that the Rev. Rector Brooks, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, and others, will address the meeting, in advo cacy of the truly benevolent objects of the proposed charity. We trust that there will be a full attendance on the occasion, and that the meeting will result in a fresh impulse being given to the promotion of a cause which presents so many claims upon the sympathies of a Christian community. EMIGRATION.—A number of Prussians arrived here with Mr. Phillipson, by the Tiger, Capt. Knocker, from Hamburg, on Tuesday last, on their way to Liverpool, and from thence to New York. We arc informed that great numbers will pass through this port and Newcastle, to emigrate by way of Liverpool, during the summer.—Hull Times. THE ANATOMICAL VENUS.—We are happy to hear, that our townsmen are likely soon to become well skilled in the anatomy of the human frame, for their studies of the beauti ful subject, known by the prefixed title, have been indefa tigable. Ile ladies, too, have rivalled the gentlemen in their desire to contemplate the mysteries of structure in the genus Immo. The crowd of ladies who thronged to the exhibition, on Friday last, was so great, that if female curiosity continue to increase in the ratio that it has done, the proprietor of the figure will be compelled to appropriate an extra day for the fair ones. STEAMER ADMIRAL.—This remarkably fine vessel arrived here yesterday, on Tier third experimental trip. W e cannot praise her more highly than by saying, that of the many tine steamers that Robert Napier, of the Vulean Foundry, Glas gow, has yet turned out of his hands this one excels them all, a credit to him and an ornament to the port. It appears, that in speed, &c., she has realised the sanguine expectations of all interested, and is believed to be the fastest merchant steamer afloat at this present day. The Admiral proceeds to Glasgow this day, or to-morrow, and in the course of a fortnight, when her cabins are finished, she will take her place permanently on the Liverpool and Glasgow station. THE LAw OF EVIDENCE.—AIthough this may, to the uninitiated, appear at times somewhat arbitrary, and scarcely just, it is yet said to be beautiful in itself, and to be founded upon very correct principles ; but, whatever may be thought upon other testimony, that of enemies, when favourable, is invariably deemed authentic—because unsuspicious ! Who, therefore, for one moment can doubt the sincerity of the following recently published testimony respecting ATKIN SON'S INFANTS' PRESERVATIVE, by one who is anything but a friend to the present proprietor of that deservedly cele brated medicine ?—" To all mothers and nurses," says he, " it is confidently recommended, being entirely free from those narcotics and pernicious drugs which are too commonly introduced into medicines for the use of. children. It is a most safe, agreeable, and useful medicine, almost invariably giving instant relief in all those numerous disorders of the stomach and bowels which arise from a redundanee of acidity, as well as from other causes which produce flatulency,griping pains, looseness, convulsions, internal fits, the thrush or frog, difficult teething, the rickets, worms, &c. It may be given with perfect safety to - the youngest and most delicate infant, and i s use persevered in without the slightest fear of ill consequences. In most cases it gives immediate relief by neutralising the acidity and soothing the pain, and soon re stores the little sufferer to perfect ease and health." INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of George Crumbie. It ap peared that on Sunday morning, about three o'clock, John Poole, a policeman, was called from Hill -street, by hearing a rattle sprung, and on going into Gardner's-court, Perry street, was informed that there had been a fight in a house there, and that a man had been killed. He went into - the house, and saw a man lying dead upon the floor, stripped to the waist. There were two officers and a surgeon in the house, besides another man and a woman. He was informed that the deceased had been fighting, and that the man who had killed him was up stairs. He went up and found the prisoner in bed. He was also stripped to his waist, and there was much blood upon him. He gave his name as John Milan. He admitted that he had been fighting, and that he was intoxi cated at the time. A labourer, who lodged in the house with the prisoner and the deceased, said that about 1 o'clock that morning, deceased and he came home, neither of them very sober. Prisoner came in soon after ;he was not sober either, and brought with him some rum, of which they all partook. The deceased shoved the prisoner's wife on one side, and this caused a quarrel, and they both stripped to the waist. They were separated, but began again. They fought se vera l roun d s and had a good many falls. The List round the deceased fell undermost, and the prisoner fell across him, and the deceased never moved afterwards. The deceased struck the first blow before they fought. An alarm was given, and the doctor and the police officers came in. The deceased was about 30 years of age. Other witnesses corroborated these statements. Mr. Hutchinson, surgeon, said he was called in to the deceased at the time stated, and found him dead. He had made a post mortem examination, and the deceased was much bruised on the head, and there was an extensive effusion of blood at the base of the brain, which, in his opinion, caused death. The heart was also diseased. External violence was, he thought, the cause of death. Some further evidence being required, the inquest was adjourned to this day. INQUEST.—On Friday an inquest was held at the house of Mr. Westmore, in West Derby, before John Hey es, Esq. and a most respectable jury, on view of the body of Sarah Watkin, a young woman, 18 years of age, who came to her death under the following singular circumstances. On Wed nesday night about 8 o'clock, deceased and her sister Eliza beth were fetching clothes from some lines not far from the house—there is a pit close to the lines, and a girl, named Susan Queen, about 19 years old, was fetching water from the pit—the sister of the deceased had part of a blind cord in her hand which she shewed to the girl, who asked her for it, and was refused : the girl got hold of it, and just at the time the deceased came up and said, " give it me, won't you." Susan Queen had not it at that time but they struggled to gether in play—both of them fell to the ground, and being close to the pit, both of them rolled into it. The sister of the deceased tried to catch hold of them, but could not succeed, and then she screamed out for help ; several persons came, and soon rescued Susan Queen, though nearly lifeless, but the deceased was longer in being got out, they were obliged to get drag-hooks, and when she was brought to the surface life was extinct. She must have been in the water a quarter of an hour. It appearing evident that the deceased and Sarah Queen we r e mere l y strugg li ng i n p l a y an d not in anger, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. 1N QU EST.—On Saturday an inquest was of the Horse an d J oc key, public-house, Warrington,heldatthheestbigtne John lieyes, Esq. coroner, on view of the b o d f gyaofe who ohn d K e i e n , yon, a Chelsea pensioner, about 68 years ( suddenly in his own disease. by himself, the deceased lived in a house complained of house. It appeared bu by en t d h t e t. h e a v tl i doenndeci of thatf the witnesses who lived nest door one had heard him com plain On witneas returningfrom her work p s l l a le in se o w f phaiminsengeTneereasldley,ybnuiFthntoltesotf, ahney thenpar icuar e his th v e l d alarm, ow feeling rather worse. She throughgav perceived him lying on ' the 'next day, at noon, the she fl l ro k r. ed several persons coming up they broke . open his door, and a found him quite dead.—Verthet, died by the visitation of WA. CHESTER RACES. The Chester meeting, the favourite resort of the admirers of British horse racing of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, second only to Doncaster, took place yesterday. The weather proved very auspicious for the sport, and an immense con course of persons were drawn together. The steam-boats from the Eastham and Birkenhead Ferries, were crowded by anxious sportsmen from an early hour until two, and at three o'clock, the Roodee, the city walls, the grand stand, and the minor stands were filled to excess. The at tendance of fashionables was very great, and the stands were crowded with some of the principal betting men of the kingdom, among whom were a considerable sprinkling of the Manchester gentry. The chief contest of the day was the cup, or tradesmen's plate, of £2OO in specie, on which immense amounts were pending in bets. Our readers are already aware that the betting pn the cup was stationary for several days, Cowboy being the favourite at from 4 to 3 to 1, parties however, taking odds against the particular horses, according to their fancy. Among these horses, which may be termed outsiders, Lanercost and Cruiskeen had the pull, either of which would have won considerable sums for many of our betting men. Towards the commencement of the race the odds naturally altered, and the mare Bellina, which previously had not been much thought of, was backed at Bto 1. 3 to 1 against Cowboy, Bto 1 Lanercost, Bto 1 Gilbert Gurney, 9 to 1 Cruiskeen, 12 to 1 King Cole, 12 to 1 against the Dey of Algiers, 20 to 1 Captain Pops. 25 to 1 against Tubalcain. None others named. Twenty one horses started for the race at a few minutes before five o'clock, at a rapid pace, all well together. The Dey led, Bellona second, Pops third, Tubalcain and Cowboy lying close up. Lanercost was last hut two, being followed by Aimwell and the Feather. It was a beautiful race. The Dey never was headed, and won by about a neck. The contest is considered to be one of the best that has taken place in Chester for many years. The first race of the day was for the Trial Stakes, which was won easy by Sir Thomas Stanley's Apothecary, beating Mr. Allen's Quid, and Mr. Critchley's Dunstan. The betting was 2 to 1 in favour of Sir Thomas. The Produce Sweepstakes, of 50 sous each, were won by Sir Thomas Stanley's ch c, by Battledore, beating Lord Westminster's Secander and Daphne, and Mr. Price's Maid of Maelor. The betting was 2to 1 against the winner, and . 3 to 1 against Secander. The sports of the day concluded with the contest for the Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each for horses that never won before the day of entry for the Plates, which was won by Mr. Mos tyn's Bedalian, beating Nightshade. The Dey of Algiers was ridden by Natt, and Melbourne by Marsou. IMPORTANT TO BRICKMAKERS. A case of great importance was, on Friday, brought before Mr. Rushton, connected with the foolish strike of the brick makers, most of whom have been idling away the last few weeks, to the detriment both of themselves and their employ ers. The following facts will explain the nature of the case, which is not a strike for wages, but the result of a resolution of the Journeymen Brickrnakers' Union, to which the mas ters have seen fit to demur. The whole court was densely crowded with the turnouts, and many of the masters we re a l so present. John William s , John Cosgrove, Michael Duffey, George Morecroft, Samuel Daniels, William Harrison, John Tomkinson, and John Thompson, were placed at the bar, charged by Messrs. Samuel and James Holme with having absented themselves from work, having previously contracted to make bricks for the season, at certain prices, and in moulds of a certain size. Mr. Samuel Holme having been sworn, deposed that John Williams was in his and his brother's employment—that Williams, as well as the others, had commenced the prepara tion of his clay at the end of last autumn, by casting or throwing up—that during the whole of the winter months everything went on satisfactorily, weekly wages being ad vanced on account of the work performed—no objections being ever made by any man either to the prices or the size of the moulds. A few weeks ago when it was necessary to commence moulding the bricks, but whilst the men were levelling the ground, which they did by the day, he received a note dated the 10th April, Is4o, stating, " that in accor dance with a resolution passed the day before, the brick makers of Liverpool would cease to work with any mould containing more than 150 cubic inches of clay when wet, after Saturday, the 11th instant." This note was signed by John Roberts and James Mawdsley, " secretaries to the committee." The evening, before paying them their wages, Mr. Holme told them that he would not permit them to go on with any more day work until he had an assurance that they would work with the usual sized moulds, such as were customary. To this they did not seem to object, and on the Monday evening many of them came to the office and stated that they were walking about against their will, and that they would go to work if they dared. Amongst others who made this remark was Harrison, one of the defendants. They, however, all consented to enter into an agreement, in writing, to go to work, after having had a long conversation with Mr. Holme, who remonstrated with them on the folly of their conduct, and after having signed the contract, all the other men came up to the office, including the defendants, and voluntarily entered into the written engagement. As some of the moulds were too short for the width, Messrs. Holme had some new moulds made, the cubical quantity of clay which they contained being, however, considerably less than the contents of the moulds usually employed. Having to go from home, directions were given that when these new moulds were ready they should be substituted; but in the mean time, the men bad been influenced by the club, and on one of the clerks informing them that he should send up the moulds when ready, they refused to work with them, notwithstanding they had been made to ensure uniformity of size in the bricks, eight or ten cubic inches less than the moulds agreed on. Three sets of men, however. had refused to obey the club, and had continued honestly arid soberly at their employment. notwithstanding the jeopardy in which they were placed by their good conduct, and Mr Holme hoped the magistrates would give them th e i r p ower f u l protect i on. Mr. Wardle, solicitor, who appeared for the workmen, objected to the agreement, as it was not on stamp. Mr. Rushton.—Your objection is futile, as the act of par liament does not require an agreement between master and workmen to be on stamp. Richard ivloore deposed that he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Holme, that the agreement produced bore the si_natures of all the defendants, and, that they had absented themselves from work after being requested to proceed. Mr. Wardle then called Edward Moorcroft and Samuel Earle for the defendants, but neither of them appeared. He next called Mr. Siddel, one of Messrs. Holmes' clerks, to endeavour to prove that the agreement had been broken by Messrs. Holme preventing the men proceeding. It ap peared, however, that the contrary had been the case. The witness deposed that during the absence of both his masters, he had, so far from stopping the men, requested them to go on—had reasoned with them on their folly, and had also to make himself clearly understood, sent a special message to them on the Monday to request that they would proceed with the regular moulds, at least until Mr. Samuel Holmes' return home ; but they all refused to do so, and struck work. Mr. Rushton then addressed the defendants in a very powerful and feeling manner, and after explaini ng t o th em the act of parlia m e n t, which left him no discretion but the painful one of committing them to the House of Correction, amongst thieves and vagabonds, he entreated the men to go their work according to the desire of their masters, who did not wish to enforce the penalty of the law, unless by their own obstinacy and blindness. He desired them to consider their wives and families, and not exhibit a ridiculous bravado because they might have made a foolish promise to a club. Labour, he said, was the poor man's capital, and he had a right,to sell it on what terms he pleased, high or low. Every man breathing had a right to do so ; and those who, by in timidation or threats, prevented a man's disposing of his labour for the benefit of himself. his wife, and children, was guilty of the grossest tyranny, and if proved against such a person, would deservedly subject him to severe punishment. But in their case it was altogether different. They had en tered into a written contract, which had been most satisfac torily proved on oath, and unless that contract was fulfilled, painful as it might be to him, he should deem it his bounden duty to commit the whole of them for the longest period which the law admitted, taking into his consideration the peculiar circumstances of the case. They had been ably de fended, and he requsted they would confer with their legal adviser and let him know their decision. During the time the men were conferring with Mr. Wardle, a man of the name of Wood, who is, we are told, a ringleader amongst the turn-outs, in a most impudent strain questioned Mr. Rushton's decision, declared that in the law between masters and servants there was nothing said about brick makers (loud laughter), and produced an article from the Albion newspaper, stating that that was the law, and that no brick should be moulded more than 150 cubic inches. He ultimately conducted himself with such rudeness, that Mr. Rushton was obliged to threaten his committal, and declared that such a man was deserving of punishment, as it was evident that he was misleading better men. After a conference of more than half an hour, the men again came into court, and, after displaying much stupidity and mental evasion as to the size of the moulds and other matters, which, however, which Mr. Rushton promptly detected, they one and all consented to go to their work. Mr Rushton again addressed them, and told them he was glad of their decision, and he assured them, that when they went to work, if they were in any way molested by any other workmen, they should have every necessary protection. The law was strong enough to repress any breach of its provisions : and, if it were necessary, the whcle of the police force should be ordered to protect them. He warned all those who heard him, against interfering with them or any other men who were willing to work, more especially such characters as that which had just given such annoyance to the court ; and he declared his intention of punishing, with the utmost severity, all who so unjustifiably and cruelly prevented an honest man from earning his bread on any terms he chose. Mr. Samuel Holme begged Mr.- Rushton to read to the court, which he perceived was crowded with bricknsakers, the definition of the Act 2d Vi c t or i a, as h e believed many of the workmen were influenced by the opinion that the Act required the moulds to be within'lso cubic inches. Mr. Rushton read to the court the " general order" of the Board of Excise, as well as a communication from the Secretary to the Masters, in which it appears, that by reason of some description of clay shrinking when in the act of drying, much more than others, it is impossible that a general standard mould can be specified ; but that the definition of the act is this, that the bricks when dry and ready for the kiln shall not contain a greater quantity of cubic inches than 150, that being the usual size of bricks, when burnt, for many years : whereas if the clay is only made in a mould of that size, the bricks .would be very much below the stipulation of the act when they were dry ; and both masters and the public who buy by the thousand would be proportionate loser. This, at least, appears to us, as far as we can understand it, to be the question at issue. Mr. Holme wished to say a few words before the men were dismissed. He assured them that he s hould forgive and t forget the whole transaction ; and when they returned to work he should endeavour to make their situatio n and employ ment as comfortable as it had hitherto beie n. The whole of the defendants were then liberated. DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH QUEEN, FOR NEW YORK. It will be perceived, by the following copy of a letter from Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon, the Agents for the Und erwr i ters ' Association of this town, to Mr. Court, tht.t the British Queen left Portsmouth, for New York, at h a lf- past four, on Fri day last. the Ist 'natant. She was, we h ear, full of pas sengers. We beg to call the attention of our r ea d ers to the latter part of the letter, in which Messrs. Garratt and Gibbon offer to take charge of letters on any similar occasion, and put them on board the vessel for which they are intended. " Portsmouth, May Ist, 1840. SIR,—We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your es teemed favour of the 29th instant, with letter enclosed, which we immediately put on board the British Queen, in charge of our clerk afloat, who deposited it in our letter-bag, with se veral others we received from Liverpool the same post, which we have acknowledged to the respective writers, whose names we have annexed. Many others also came without any ad vice ; they were also all put on board. The vessel sailed at half-past four, p.m. to-day. We are much obliged for the suggestion, and beg you will inform the merchants and ship owners, generally, we shall, on similar and all other occasions, be most happy to receive and forward their letters, and that we will always advise them if they are in time or not. —Re maining, sir, most respectfully, your very obedient servants, " GARRATT and GIBBON. " Thomas Court, Esq. " Secretary, Underwriters' Rooms, Liverpool"' A cow from Lord Clarina's pasturage, which was killed for this market last week, yielded 13st. 41bs- tallow, and hide 3st. 51bs. The beast was sold to Mr. Hickop, Irk,. tvtaller, for £27.—Lies rica Chronitle. LORD STANLEY'S IRISH REGISTRATION BILL Yesterday a public meeting was held in Clayton-square for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the legislature against the bill introduced by the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, for the purpose of reforming the notorious and monstrous vices of the Irish system of registration. The note of preparation had been extensively sounded, and accordingly a considerable body of the whig and radical forces made their appearance in the square at twelve o'clock, headed by the leading members and orators of the Reform Association. Mr. Tnos. BLACKBURN, having been called to the chair, stated the object of the meeting, and after having urged the miseries that would be inflicted, not only on Ireland, but on England and Scotland, by the proposed measure, he said if it passed, he would not say that he should not become a re pealer. He was, however, confident that it would not pass; and that it had already raised a spirit that would show the tory party the impossibility of their principles ever becoming the government of the country. The bill must be defeated, if it were for no other reason but that Lord Stanley had in troduced it. • Mr. W. W. CuRRIE moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that the right of electing representatives in par liament, was the undoubted constitutional privilege of the inhabitants of all parts of the United Kingdom, and that all unnecessary difficulties placed in the way of their exercising that right was an invasion of that privilege which it was their undoubted duty to resist. Mr. Currie, in support of this resolution, contended that this was a case in which they were called upon to resist—Lord Stanley's bill, that it ought not to be entertained, as it had a concealed object in view, and, lastly, that if reforms were required, the party now coming forward were not the party whom they (the liberals) expected to make them. Mr. JOSEPH En ART seconded the motion. Ile was de lighted to see his fellow townsmen assembled under the canopy of heaven, whilst their opponents were too much iii the habit of p ac ki ng th e i r meet i ngs an d st ifli ng t h e free voice of the people, in the way in which he trusted they would always mee t to di scuss l egally, quietly, and constitutionally all those great measures which affected either them indi vidually or the general interests of the country. It was incumbent on the town of Liverpool, circumstanced as it was with regard to Ireland, to do its utmost to assist him in the glorious struggle in which she was engaged ! and he was sure Liverpool would never rest satisfied till every measure of justice was conceded to that country. He trusted this great meeting would b e f o l lowed by others in various parts of the country. There were very few privileges conceded yet--there were the corn -laws and the ballot, which though they _were apparently slumbering for a time, were only slumbering to wake like a greater giant, who would never forget, in them the rights and privileges of Ireland. The resolution was carried. Mr. Wm. RATHBONE in moving the next resolution, wished he had the voice and language of an angel to bring home to every one's heart as much as it was to his, how much the noble lord of thiuible-rig notoriety was inclined to give a specimen of the system the people must expect from him. Lord Stanley professed that the bill was to assimilate the Irish registrations to the English, now he (Mr. Rathbone) had looked at it, hut he did not find that it would make any similarity between them. He must candidly s y that the measure was one the despotic ruler of China would have been shamed to have introduced to the poorest of his people. If there were no other reason for it, he (Mr. Rathborne) would oppose the bill, because it would throw the repre sentation of the counties into the hands of the great landed proprietors. He begged to move " that this meeting cannot to strongly express its indignation at the introduction of a bill in the House of Commons by Lord Stanley, for the regulation of the registration of votes in Ireland, being con vinced that the insidious, unfair and compulsory provisions of that bill are such as if passed into a law, must eventually disfranchise many of those who are legally entitled to vote for members of parliament, and make the members for counties the mere nominees of the great landed proprietors of the country." Mr. JAMES AITKEN seconded the resolution, and it was carried. Col. WILLIAMS, after a long discursive speech, in which he complained of all the grievances that have supplied whig orators with materials for their eloquence, mixed up with much abuse of Lord Stanley, Lord Sandon, and Mr. Cress well, moved the next resolution. Mr. JAMES MULLENEUX seconded the resolution, and said, that since they had wrested the reform bill from the hands of an insolent oligarchy, that oligarchy, through the Marquis of Chandos, had maintained their power in the counties ; and through the old freemen in some of the bo roughs thus grasping at the whole representation of England. If they succeeded in this hated measure of Lord Stanley's, they would substantially repeal the reform bill, and rivet the chain as effectually as ever it was bound by feudal robbers, round the necks of the people; if they succeeded we should have heavy taxation and expensive establishments kept up for their support, and the consolation of labouring and toil ing to enable them to wallow in luxury and idleness. Lord Stanley was a man steeped to the eyes in insolence, pride, and arrogance; and whv ? Was it because of his fancied superiority ? He was but the accident of an accident ; and if he were swept away by the angel of death to-morrow, the community would suffer far less loss than by the removal of the poorest artisan who contributed to the national wealth. The resolution was carried. Mr. RICHARD SHIEL proposed the next resolution, which was to the effect, that if this bill was carried, it would strengthen the efforts of those who wished to dissolve the legislative union between the two countries. The last time lie had the honor of addressing a public meeting, he was threatened with an opposition, but where was now the gen tleman, who said he was ready to meet him in Clayton Square? Did he appear without giving that gentleman fair notice? Had not the annocncement of that meeting been posted publicly in every district of Liverpool ? Why then did not the gentleman appear? Having made these allu sions, Mr. Shiel proceeded to speak on the resolution, con cluding, by reproaching the people for having appointed conservative overseers. Mr. WILSON LEDGER seconded the resolution, and con. tended that Ireland had never been treated as the sister country ought to have been. Lord Stanley's bill, he de clared, would puzzle the wisdom of Solomon himself to comprehend. Mr. FLETCHER supported the resolution, on the ground. that the proposed measure was an insult, a sin, a shame. It was then carried. The remaining resolutions were moved by Mr. Rosson,,. Mr. Charles Willi a mS, M r . R. V. Y a t es, M r. Ottiwell ' Wood, Mr. Theodore, Rathbone, and they we-e all carried. The meeting separated about three o'clock. Several dis turbances occurred during the proceedings, but they were speedily suppressed. 4/11.:114,‘,L . NriN.i)ll7'l - _ -, IP ~-ri017.-!, '-'-"*.':- - I . :], fl Til..- ...1 - ,1 , . t ...„.„4-, ?.),4,.. 2 , 4 , a , 7., i, Tit- 5 -;- t - - q.1"7: ' , i i ' --r--, ~,,,„, _IL - ' Vaav - ,I N *taw I CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. Last evening, a numerous meeting of the rate-payers of Birkenhead, was held in the Town Hall, for the purl cse of taking into consideration the propriety of consenting ti communication proposed to be made by the proprietors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company, by a tram road, to be worked by coaches and horses, between the terminus of Grange-lane and the Monk's Ferry, in order to prevent the confusion attendant on numerous omnibuses. Mr. Wm. Fry was called to the chair. The CUAIRMAN having mentioned the objects of the meeting, Mr. MALL/till, clerk to the Birkenhead Company, said that he appeared on behalf of that body, to give any explanation which might be required by the late-payers as tottie train road which they were desirous of constructing between Grange lane and Monks' Ferry. Great misrepresentations had been cir culated with referenc3 to this proposed roil', but the Coin pany wished that all should be enabled to exercise an un biassed judgment upon the question. Plans had been dis tributed through the township with the view of cor recting the error that seemed to prevail, and a plan, on an enlarged scale, was exhibited at the head of the room, showing the relative breadths of the foot-ways, the roadways, and the tramway; and there was an ad ditional section showing the relative widths of the vehicles upon the road, supposing them to be running abreast upon the road. There were two footways, one on each side, of six feet each, two gutters of nearly five feet, a roadway of 18 feet wide, leaving five feet for the tram-road. lie would ask whether it would not be better for the township to have the. immense traffic of the railway drawn quietly and noiselessly upon a tram-road than upon a common road, on which there would necessarily be the noise and danger of numerous om nibuses? Mr. Mallaby next proceeded to reply to the state ments contained in a handbill, signed "A Ratepayer;" and In conclusion he called upon the ratepnyers to decide for themselves according to their own opinions, without. subject ing their judgment to the imperious dictation or to the over nearing tyrataty of any party whatever. (Cheers.) Mr. APPLETON opposed the proposition in a very long and effective speech. He- said he had measured the street, and found it 36 feet 6 inches, or 12 yards 6 inches wide. Now the law of Birkenhead was, that one-third of the whole should go to the parapet, which was 12 feet 2 inches. He had also measured a load of hay, and found it to be 9 feet; anti a good load would be 11 feet, and lie could produce wit nesses who had measured railway vehicles of 8 feet 11 inches. The company therefore could not accomplish what they pro mised. r. Appleton proceeded to contend that the tram road would injure the interests of Birkenhead, and that if leave to make it were granted to one public company, others, such as the Liverpool Corporation and the Woodside Ferry Company might ask for the same privi:ege, and they could not be refused. He strongly opposed the motion on these and a number of other grounds, and he should move that that the propositions be dismissed. Mr. RICHARD FRY opposed it also, and pointed out many ways in which the proposed line would be productive of danger to the community, and damage to the interests of the township. Mr. HILLIAR supported the proposition. Mr. BENTHAM said he was convinced that the proposed tram-road would be the means of improving the value of pro perty. Mr. HORRIDGE contended that the sending away of pas. proceeeings of the sengers to Liverpool by means of the company's tram-road, could not be productive of prosperity to Birkenhead. n d sh e i f p dn ‘ d vo ed uld th l e )e in a company, and w orn; d* con di. if it refused to consent to the tram road, than it was. Mr. WILLIA:afi,I JACKSONthetO Ks. informed the meeting, that the special board of surveyors, in July, 1835, permitted the Liverpool and Man chester Railway company to make a train road, in Wapritse., u nder certain conditions, and said, t h at hitherto there '11:d been no bad consequences resulting. Mr. SMITH opposed the designs of the company, and made some strong remarks on the conduct of their clerk in various matters connected with the township politics of Birkenhead. Mr. BRODENT suggested an adjournment of the debate. Mr. MALLABY having replied to Mr. Smith with much energy, and also to the arguments urged against the proposed road, A short discussion followed, at the end of which it wag unanimously determined that the consideration of the ques tion should be adjourned six weeks. MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY RAILWAY_ A special meeting of shareholders of this railway was held last night, at the Clarendon-rooms. There were about 201 gentlemen present. Mr. JOHN ROBINSON, on heir,: called to the chair, said that the meeting had been called with a view to devise some means by which to reduce the expenditure in salaries and wages on the line, which were so great as to be seriously in jurious to the interests of the shareholders. He should be glad to hear any proposition on the subject. Mr. RATCLIVFB said he had taken some pains to. obtain information on the subject, and found• that -oaf of a half yearly income of £18,780, the salaries and wages paid acre no less than £3,091, without engines ; or, in other words, 15 per cent. upon the whole. This linowonld be proseerous if it were economically managed, and he should propose that. a sub-committee should be appointed to inquive into every department of the management, and afterw ar d s •t o call toge— ther those now assembled, and communicate to them the. result. He instanced the excellent effect such a step had• with regard to the St. Helens railway, and concluded with a, motion that the sub-committee be appointed as suggested. Mr. Rigg said he did no t think such a step would result in, benefit, and suggested that steps should •be taken tnbring about an amalgamation with the Manchester railway com— pany, as the Crewe company did with the Grand Je.tiotion.. This proposition was not relished by any of those ziresent,, and the motion being put was carried unanimously. The names of seven gentlemen were then severally named' and seconded to be of the committee, with an understanding ! that when they had obtained the requisite inforniation they should call together the shareholders then present. Thc• meeting then dispersed. The foreign trade of Belfeet now surpavw trlt of thla Potts, ip Ireleuct w ; q