The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-26 00:00:00

BERLAND one story, and Lord MELBOURNE another, both relative to the same subject, and the one being a denial of the other. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the country should know who is right and who wrong, or whether some unfortunate mistake has not conduced to make both parties right and wrong to a cer tain extent. It is particularly incumbent on parliament at this peculiar juncture to ascertain whether it is possi ble that a peer of the realm, in his. legislative and judi cial capacity, can be guilty of a breath of truth for the sake of party. In this remark we allude to no one.party , more than another. We have a right to know what va lue is to be set on a peer's or a minister's word. We see in the case of some of the Irish demagogues the most wanton disregard of truth—the most impious violation of solemn oaths=the most profligate prostitution of the sacred name of honour—the most open breach of the • commandments of Gop ; and it is therefore the duty of i every Englishman to see that no protestant peer of these realms, and that none of our countrymen, no matter what station he occupies in society or in the assemblies of the nation, is guilty of this foul, mean, and detestable vice. What may not that nation expect to suffer which has, on the judgment seat, and amongst the elders and counsellors of the 'people, a man whose word cannot be depended on ? This must not be. In the Irish dema gogue, too long tolerated, we have enough to an swer for. We are responsible for the immorality of , which lie is the propagator, because we gave him power to commit perjury. We encouraged levity and fraud under the pretext of liberality. We made the House of Commons what it now- is, and whith we dare not de scribe, in the spurionithelief tl?at we were advancing the cause of civil and religious liberty. We opened the :Iloddgates of -demoralisation in the name Of freedom. We conferred honour tin a dastardly and unprincipled beggar, the devotee-of Trish priests, whom the Duke of NoaPoLx,himself a Roman catholic, says is unworthy of being a member of BaoorcEs's club—we admitted within the pale of the British constitution men who are its sworn and unrelenting enemies—we gave place and power to popish rebels, who have for years, and despite the gallows, rnenaced'ihe dismemberment of the. King's dominions. Bad, bad is all this ; but. we sincerely hope and trust that the manners of these men are not imitated by any oT the peers or commoners of England. While we are on this subject we cannot resist noticing the extraordinary .and contradictory language which fell from Lord LANSDOWNE and Lord MELBOURNE in the de bate ofFridav last.. - In alluding to the illegal procession which attended Lord MULGRAVE do his entrance into Dub lin, and which had been summoned by O'CONNELL and the priests, Lord LANSDOWNE is reported to have said that since that occurrence. Lord MuLaaAvE " had been in structed to take measures for the suppression of all ille gal meetings and processions." TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1835. By an arrival on Sunday, we have received Sydney and other New South Wales papers to the 14th of De cember, but they do not contain any intelligence worth transcribing. Some of the colonists seem to entertain strong objections to the Emigration Society of London, but on what particular grounds we are unable to learn. Our attention has.been called to a law which is rigidly enforced at the town and port of Savannah, in the United States, which is not only oppressive and unjust, but is an insult to the subjects of the King of Great Britain, and a gross violation of the laws of nations. For instance; if a ship belonging to this or any other port in Europe were to enter the Savannah, having on board a passenger,. sailor, steward, or cook, being of negro descent, or' a-person of colour, the said ship is either 'compelled to perform a quarantine of forty days, or deliver up the said person of colour to the common gaol, there to remain until the ship is again ready for sea. In every . instance this rule is strictly enforced. The man of colour, no matter who he is, even the master of the vessel himself, must go to gaol, must sub mit to ignominy,must run the risk of pestilential fever, of injuring his health, perhaps of losing his life, simply because a man of colour, by the laws of this " glorious republic," this land of freedom, is not permitted to speak .to a negro, or a man of colour in Savannah ! Lord LANSDOWNE, in the debate, was followed by Lord LONDONDERRY, who asked Lord MELBOURNE if he had " any objection to lay on the table a copy of the letter written by the. Lord Lientenant with respect to this pro cession, and a copy of the instructions since transmitted .to his lordship." All the newspapers report the following as the noble viscount's answer : " Viscount MELBOURNE said there 'were no INSTRUCTIONS"! Those who can reconcile this palpable contradiction of one minister by another, in the face of parliament, and In the worst of times the laws of the slave colonies of England never enforced any act of cruelty . and injustice equal to this. The King's subjects, contrary to the ex press conditions of treaties, are treated like felons in the United States, merely because their faces happen to be a shade darker than . that of my Lord BROUGHAM'S. Why is this submitted to by Englishmen ? What says FOWELL BUXTON to this horrid treatment of his " black brethren?" Suppose the . . British parliament were to pass a law that no American citizen with black hair, or that snuffle& through his nose, or that wore a straw hat, should be permitted to land in the county of Lancaster, and if found od shore should be committed to gaol, and that any Quaker who held intercourse with him should re ceive thirty-nine lashes and a month's imprisonment at the tread mill—what would the American citizens say to ? Aud yet, if such a. law were_passed to-forrow, it would notbe one whit more oppressive and unjust than the law at present in force against..his Britannic Ma jesty's free-born subjects in the town and port of Savannah, in Georgia, in.ihe land of liberty ! We sincerely hope that some spirited member of par liament will call attention to this shameless violation of international law,.and gross insult to his Majesty's sub jects. The following is the clause in the ordinance upon which the authorities act. It was passed on the 25th of February, 1830. to the astonishment of every body, ought not to lose a single hour in doing so. Lord, LANSDOWNE asserts that instructions were sent to Lord.MuLunAvE; Lord MEL BOURNE denies that any instructions were sent ! Whom are we to believe ? The assertion of the one is as posi tive as the denial of the other. "It is," and "it is not," are not more contradictory than what Lord LANSDOWNE affirms and.. Lord MELBOURNE disavows. Who speaks the truth, who -? We leave the reader to decidii for himself according to the evidence and the credibility of the respective witnesses. As Lord PORTSMODTIi would • say, it is a " black job" altogether. The Liverpool_ police bilLwas read a second time in the, House of Commons on Friday, notwithstanding the ;Pio, lent and factious opposition of Mr. EwART, aided . by se veral members of the administration, by the radical dissenters, and by o!CptisEm. and his WI. In the course of his speech Mr. EWART was pleased to inform the house, on the authority of the municipal commissioners, that Liverpool has already "cvmost excellent police." It is singular that Mr. EWART had no opinion of his own to on!, but was obliged to beg or borrow that of the municipal commissioners, who were not qualified to give any opinion on the subject. Surely the honourable gen tleman, who is supposed to represent his native town in parliament, mst know something of its local institutions, and ought to know whether it has or ever had any efficient. police' force, or any day police at all. If Mr. EWART be ignorant on these points, as he is on public and private matters generally, he is a very unfit person to represent am section of the inhabitants of Liverpool in parliament. What is he sent to the House of Commons for ? Is it not presumed that he is conversant with the local esta blishments, the pervading opinions, •and the general wants of his constituents; and, moreover, that he is com petent to legislate for the benefit of this important com munity ? By his own confession, however, Mr. EwART is utterly incompetent to discharge the duties of an able and intelligent representative. By his own confession he knows nothing of the town or . people whom he pro fesses to represent. We should be as well if not better represented by a reporter in the gallery, by Mr. JOSEPH 1)&0E' s bat, or the speaker's wig. Those at a distance will hardly credit the fact which we are about to state in illustration °Utile candour and ve racity of Mr. EWATer. The house was told that Liver ,pool has a "most excellentpolice." The simple truth is, WE HAVE NO: POLICF AT ALL ! The police sought. for by the new bill is a day police, and of such 'a force we have none whatever, except a few men as constables who are found only in the precincts of the court house. The town of Liverpool, which extends over a surface of at least two squaie miles, is left, from an early hour in the morning to a late hour in the, evening, totally unpro tected—exposed to thieves, vagrants, swindlers, ' and beggars of all descriptions—so that, in point of fact, it is the worst guarded toin in, England. The numbers of Irish-vagrants which infest it, and of travelling cheats ,who, under the pretence of buying and selling, contrive to pilfer houses, and assist servants in robbing their mas ters and mistresses, are so great that the nuisance is al most unbearable. 'lt is in vain to watch, or reprove, or threaten these persons; for they know there is no con stable within a mile, no policeman to be procured, and they are consequently more insolent and audacious if assailed with either remonstrances or menaces. " SEC. 1. Be it thercfcrre ordained by the mayor and alder seen of the city of Savannah and hamlets thereof; in council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That every vessel hereafter arriving in the port or har t bour of Savannah, by sea, from any port or place in any other state or any foreign country, having such free negro or free person of colour on board, shall be brought to anchor in such part of the river as council may from time to time prescribe, and shall there remain for forty days, subject to all the resttictions, pains and penalties prescribed by the quarantine laws of this state ; pro vided, nevertheless that upon the confinement in gaol of such - negro or negroes, by the captain or consignee of such vessel, and upon their giving bond to the mayor and aldermen for each negro, with two or more approved securities, iu the penal sum of two hundred dollars, to carry him, her, or them away on the sailing of such vessel, and to pay all the expenses of his, her, or their detention, then and i❑ that case, such vessel may by a pern►it from the mayor, be released from quarantine and be allowed to load and unload." Lord WELLESLEY made his first appearance, since he resigned office, in the House of Peers on Friday last; but although questioned on the subject, he declined stat ing the nature of the reasons which induced him to re tire. He intimated that they had no relation to the entrance of Lord AItYLORA VE into Dublin, that rabble and seditious exhibition having occurred since the noble marquis had ceased to be Lord Chamberlain. Lord LoN-. DONDERRY, in the hearing of Lord WELLESLEY, repeated the rumour which accounts for his lordship's resignation on the ground of his want of Confidence in the threat ened measures of his Majesty's present ministers, and said that an "illustrious personage," meaning the Duke of CUMBERLAND, had communicated the. story to him, in nearly the precise words .which his Royal Highness had heard from Lord WELLESLEY'S OWN LIPS ! Notwith standing this plain appeal to time, place, and person, the noble marquis still remained silent, only assuring the house that, if properly called upon, by a motion or reso lution of. the house, he would not hesitate to give a can did statement of the motives which induced him to resign. • - . Now, it is just such a motion, and just such an expla nation which we wish to see. Some noble lord has only to*move that the correspondence which has taken place between the late Lord Chamberlain and the First Lord of the TressUry or any of his Majesty's ministers, rela tive to the late Lord Chamberlain's resignation, be laid en the table of the house. This would facilitate the re nuired disclosures, andplace Lord MELBOURNE'S honour and veracity in that clear and scrupulous position in Which his friends must long to behold it. There is no loan's word we would rely upon inure confidently, and rely with more safety, than that of the Duke of CUMBER LAND. It is quite possible that his royal highness may have misunderstood '‘lliat Lord'WELLESLEY said; but as Lord WELLESLEY, having had an opportunity, does not deny what his royal highness had reported of the noble marquis, and reported, no doubt, with his permission, we reel confident that. there is no mistake, no misapprehen sion whatever, so far as the Duke of CUMBERLAND is eoncerned. IL was to correct this evil, and suppress this nuisance, that the new police bill was introduced into the House of Commons, with the full approbation of the magistrates, the vestry, the commissioners, and all the respectable in habitants of the town; and it was opposed—by whom ? By two or three disappointed quacks, who, having been detected in a vile system of jobbing, were dismissed from office as incompetent and untrustworthy. Being opposed by these " most excellent " persons, it was also opposed by Mr. EWART in a factious spirit, in stolid ignorance, and with a recklessness of assertion which would disgrace a professor of legerdemain at Greenwich fair. The bill had likewise the honour to be opposed by the Attorney and Solicitor-General, by Mr. THOMAS THORNELY, by Mr. JOHN WiLkS, and last of all by Mr. LiANIEL O'CON NELL, in a furious and slanderous speech. Let us examine some of the statements put forth by these gentry. First and foremost stands Mr. Wass of the tabernacle, who says : On the other hand Lord MELBOURNE is reported to have declared, in his place in parliament, and in the most "leMn terms too, that he bad the authority of Lord W ELLEsLEY for stating that the noble marquis had -not I '"signed in consequence of any line of policy adopted or Y political connexion formed by his Majesty's minis ters, but that Lord WELLESLEY's motives were quite the r evers e of those alluded to. "He hoped the house would not allow. the bill to proceed further, as he could state from his own personal knowledge that it had met with the disapprobation of the majority of the most wealthy and respectable inhabitants qf the town of Liverpool. The majo r ity of that population were dissenter: from the esta• blished church, and he was not astonished that the bon, and learned member for Tipperary should oppose the bill, when he recollected that I , l6the of the inhabitants professed that faith to How is it possible to reconcile these conflicting state 41ents ? L rd WELLESLEY must see that his honour is placed in a very delicate and embarrassing predicament. which the hon. and learned member was attached. Notwith- There must be some extraordinary misapprehension, if not standing the repeal of the corporation and test acts, the cor porationof Liverpool had not yet admitted a single dissenter falsehood, somewhere. Lord WELLESLEY is made re- into their c oun cils not upon the bench as a magistrate, though sponsible for a glaring contradiction—he is made to pipe the snaj.ority of tho bankers in the town woe dissenters f rum hot and cold in one breath—to tell the Duke of Cum- the established church." We do not know that Mr. WiLxs did speak what is here reported of him, although what we have given is from the very best authority in such matters—the Times, and the substance of the above is in all the morning pa pers of Saturday ; but if Mr. WILKS did utter these words, then we have no hesitation in saying that be is guilty of downright and deliberate falsehood ! He is made to say that what he states is of his "own personal knowledge ?" What is of his " own per sonal knowledge ?" First that the majority of the inhabitants of Liverpool are dissenters. Second, that the majority of the bankers in Liverpool are dissenters. Third, that the bill had met with the disapprobation of the majority of these persons, who are the "most wealthy and respectable inhabitants of the town of LiVerpoot" All this Mr. Wass, worthy and pious Man ! exemplary patron of Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE! is reported to have stated of his "own personal knowledge," and yet there is not one of these statements which is not notoriously untrue. It is false that dissentets constitute the majority of the inhabitants of Liverpool. It is false that the ma jority of bankers are dissenters. It is shamefully and disgustingly false that the majority of wealthy and respectable inhabitants disapprove of the bill. So Mr. WILKS you may go down—you are a credit to your order! • We - pass over the intermediate speakers, Mr. THORNELY, of Wolverhampton, and Mr. SHELL, in order 'to reach DANIEL O'CONNELL ; but we may premise by saying that all the London radicals, and the, Irish popish members present, evinced the most rancorous hatred of the inhabitants of Liverpool. • The demagogue told the house that "his constituents, the inhabitants of the city of Dublin, contributed very largely to the funds of Me corporation of Livirpoot". We confess that this'.is the first time we ever heard that the people'of Dublin' contributed as much as a single penny to the funds of the Liverpool corporation. It is true that pigs, sheep, beeves, and black cattle generally, are subjected to port dues; but by these cattle O'CoN NIELL cannot surely mean his "constituents the inlia-_ bitants of the city of Dublin." It is true that the pigs and beeVes thus taxed may sometimes belong to per sons residing in Dublin; but it is the consumers of the , pigs and beeves who pay the tax, and not the original owners of the pigs and beeves. But supposing O'CoN NELL'S constituents did pay the tax? Why not? Are the people of Liverpool to form docks, raise cranes, con struct landing-places, erect sheds, improve the river and the channel solely for the accommodation of the "constituents" of DANIEL O'CONNELL ? Are they to be exempted from an impost (supposing they paid it) which is levied upon all traders from a distance, who enter the port of Liverpool ? We can tell the agitator that we have just as much respect for his beeves as for his constituents, and we should feel infinitely obliged to him if he would keep both to himself. The poor -rates of Liverpool amount to upwards of fifty thousand pounds per annum, more than two-thirds of which sum, namely, thirty-three thousand pounds, is annually expended upon O'CONNELL'S pauper constituency. In short, there is in Liverpool, and by the inhabitants of Liverpool and its vicinitv,•more money expended in . feeding, clothing, and transporting Irish paupers in one year, than what the Liverpool corpora tien levy upon the cattle and trade of Ireland in ten. But we have not done with the absurdities and misre- presentations which are so congenial to certain parties. The worthy Mr. Mimics claims, as belonging to his sec tarian faction, a majority of the inhabitants of Liverpool. The demagogue O'CONNELL also puts in his claim. He says that sixty-two thousand of the inhabitants of Liver pool are Roman catholics. Let us see how we stand with ourselves. In the House of Commons we are most dreadfully mangled, without, perhaps, feeling it ; but it is right that our readers should be apprised of their real si tuation. We shall take the population at a rough guess to be 200,000. Of these, honest Mr. WILKs claims a majority. We must therefore give WILKS, at least . 110,000. These, then, are canted over to WILKs. The remnant, of ourselves, then, is exactly 90,0'00, and of these the sturdy beggarman • marks off 62,000 as belong ing to him and the priests, so that' the members of the church of England in Liverpool are reduced to 28,000,. men, women, and children. But we cannot he so nu•. merous a body, for a few thousands of these ought to be given to ROBERT OWEN and RICHARD CARLILE—tho genuine sons of nature and infidelity, who belong to no church, and who dislike WlLKs's drivel as much as they do O'CoNNELL's mass. Upon the whole, then, we must. be a verydespicable party, not exceeding 20,000 in nutn bers, or 4,000 males capable of bearing arms! ! To such lengths will falsehood go ! These are the facts which right honourable and hOnourable dunder heads gape at and cheer in the House of Commons. Ong; coxcomb assures the house that Liverpool has a " most excellent pOtice ;!' an old firo.shoVel of the tabernacle, tells the house that a majority of the people of Liverpool are dissenters ; and last of all comes FERDINAND MEN-. DEZ PINTO of Ireland, declaiming in favour of 62,000 Roman catholics in Liverpool. Talk about the House of Commons.taking fire,- , —the wonder is that it does not sink in the earth ! LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock Reports are current here this afternoon that the troops of Don Carlos, under Zumalacarreguy, had entered Vittoris, and that a strong corps had been despatched in the' direction of Burgos. We have been unable to trace this report to any au thentic source, but the last official intelligence we lave from the seat of war stated that Zumalacarreguy was advancing with almost all his force against Vittoria, and, from the complete disorganization of the force under Valdez, there appeared little prospect of any successful resistance, the population generally being in favour of Don Carlos. The opinion so long entertained here that there is serious dissension in the cabinet has within the last day or two much increased, this dissension has arisen, it is understood, from fresh demands on the part of Mr. O'Connell, tending to place the government still more under his foot. There are some one or two of the present cabinet, it appears, who have yet so much of the old whig honour left as to shrink from coining in any closer contact with the agitating mendicant, and from them has pro ceeded a remonstrance so strong, that although futile, it will probably end in a split among the parties. The question of the " no repeal standard," and the other " re volutionary banners," under which the King's representative was ushered into his Majesty's capital and castle of Dublin, has excited the most marked animadversion here,, and may be re garded as satisTactory to the church and to the monarchy, inas much as it must convince the most sceptical of the English people what the influence of Mr. O'Connell is, and in what a state of servile dependence he holds his Majesty's ministers. We are without any colonial or foreign arrivals to-day of any importance. Since the first establishment of the money market here such a degree of panic as has been displayed since our last communi cation was never witnessed there. The English money market has only been sl ig htly affected compared with the agitation of the foreign securities, which have been depreciated iu a most extraordinary and fearful degree. The seal...ay of money has been for s ome ti me pas t f e lt i n th e consul market, and on t Thursday and yesterday the depression much increased, consols falling yesterday to the low price of 911 I, Exchequer bills declining from 26 to 23 prem., India bowls from 9 to 5 prem., and all the heavy stocks, as well as bank and India, having lower quotations. But this decline in value was nothing to that which occurred in the foreign market, where there was a complete panic, ac- Companied by most violent and fearful fluctuations. Spanish stock, which on Wednesday evening closed at 65, fell, on Thurs day, to 54, and on Friday experienced a further decline to 49, being 16 per cent. fall in a few hours. They subsequently ex perienced most excessive fluctuation, rising to 55, falling to 51 and to-day, when the market has been rather caimer, closing at 51 to 52. The scrip was equally affected, fallin g f rom 5 p rem . to 6 discount, and closing at to . 5 discount. Portuguese bonds, which on Thursday were very partially affected by the panic, gave way yesterday at once in a most ruinous manner. On Wednesday they were 1011, and yesterday morning they were done at 92, advancing from that price at one stride to 93, and -the quotation since has been from 96 to 97. All the transatlan tic bonds have been simile' ly affected; Columbian has been at 37, but has since rallied to 41; thilian have been 47, but have since risen to 52; ,Mexican have been 38, but have since gone up to 41i. All the northern bonds have been flat, but the al teration is not of much importance. It is difficult to assign any reason for this extraordinary de preciation. The accounts respecting Don Carlos are decidedly most favourable, but still not such as to warrant so immense a depression. Money has been scarce, but not sufficiently so to account fi r this panic. The general opinion is, that there is something behind the scenes. Our consul market to-day has been rather better, the price of consols having been at 911, but it closed at 9t Exchequer bills left off at 23 to 25, and India bonds are 5 t) 7 prem. LIVERPOOL POLICE. FRlDAY.—(Before Sir THOMAS BRANCKER and Mr. Alderman • CAsu..) A young woman was placed at the bar charged with hiving robbed a Mr. Wells, with wham she w.)s employed as a servant, of several articles of wearing apparel. Mr. Wells stated that the fethale had only been engaged by him last Monday, since when she had abscouded from his service, taking with her . . sundry articles belonging to him, amongst which was a silk shawl belonging to his wife. A blanket and a silk handker chief had been traced'th a pawnbroker's, which she acknow ledged to having pledged. and, said that the shawl had been taken from her by some person who had just knocked her down an:l then ran off with it.—Sentence deferred. goods from him and made their escape. He had not seen them since. Samuel Lloyd, the constable, said ~that there were charges of swindling against the two prisoners, but the cases were not ready. There was every reason to suppose that the prisoners were connected with the men who robbed Mr. Moss's assistant. They had visited Mr. Medley's and Mr. Young's, of Cable-street, who had also been swindled. The prisoners were remanded for fu rther examination. A pe rson named Sutcliffe Scholfield, residing in Denison-street, was summoned to answer a complaint made against him for hav ing taken the sum of £5 from a person about to p roceed to New South Wales, as part of the passage money, he having failed to Procure the stipulated passage to the complainant. It appeared that the £5 had been paid to a Mr. Todd, of Birmingham, Who was the acknowledged agent of Scholfield, with an understand ing that the remaining part of the passage money should be paid on his arrival at Liverpool, the sum agreed upon being 20 guineas. Ile succeeded in tracing out Scholfield, after a labo rious search, and found that he had no intention of acting up to the terms of the contract. The complainant having remon strated with him, Scholfield acknowledged hisinability to adhere to the contract This had not been complied with, and he took It appeared from the evidence of the complainant and others that on Thursday night last or early on Friday morning, a brown mare was stolen from the complainant's stables, at Halsall. In formation was given to the Liverpool police, and Wiustanley, a dock officer, ascertained that a person named Al‘Kenna, re siding near the Clarence Dock, had purchased a horse answer ing the description from Bond, for five guineas. This was com municated to the complainant, who then discovered the thief to be his own son-in-law, whom he had not seen for twelve months previous. The prisoner waslsubsequeutly apprehended a t public-house, in Limekiln-lane, by one of the dock police ' when he acknowledged the theft and his having sold it as before stated. On being asked by the magistrate if he had anything to say in his defence? the prisoner stated that he was nearly clammed (starved) and he thought if he fetched anything away from his feyther-iniAw's it would be all reet. He was committed to the sessions for trial. The defendant the present step fur the recovery of the Money. did not appear. Lieutenant Low said that the defendant had no vessel what ever going to New South Wales. The complainant had been informed that he was to go by the first vessel. There were only two going, and the agents of those vessels would not have any dealings whatever with Scholfield. A gentleman, a friend of the complainant, stated that Schol field had said that if he paid the remaining £l6 be could pro cure him a passage, but Mr. Bell and Mr. Fox, the agents of the vessels, would have no connexion with him. Sir Thomas Brancker and Alderman Case concurred in opi nion that Scholfield deserved punishment, but they had no power to inflict it. They recommended the complainant to institute an action at law against him. INFOI:MATIONS AGAINST RsTAIL BEER-SELLEItS.—James Boys preferred a complaint againt the keeper of a retail beer shop, for selling beer without a license. Boys had gone into the house kept by the defendant in April last, and purchased a ,pint of ale, she not having a license at the'time. Mae defendant stated that she was confined at the time the license should have been renewed, but she would have taken the necessary precau tions had she not been informed that if her taxes were paid it would do in the course of a few days.—lt seemed that the poor woman was still without a license, through having removed to another house, it being contended that she was ineligible through not being rated in her new dwelling, although she had paid her taxes for the old one.—Mr. Forwood said the defendant could ot obtain a license until Jute, when the new rate would be Taid. , --Str T. Brancker said it did not require a person to he rated lot the identical house, and that if the woman had paid her taxes, she was quite competent to be rated for any house, • as' the removal did not at all invalidate her claim to a new license.—She was fined_ in the mitigated penalty of £2 and costs. James Young gave information against the keeper of a beer , shOp, named M`Dermott, for retailing beer and whiskey with— out a license. M'Dermott said that her license did not expire till July; but her husbann having died in November, it appeared that the license then ceased, a fact which she had no knowledge of. She called witnes , es to prove that Young had been informed, when he asked for whisky, that she did not sell it, and that he had himself given the money for it,.and it was sent out for to a public-house at his request. One of the informations was with drawn, Mr. Flewker, of the Excise, being satisfied with one con viction : she was fined £3 and costs. An information was also laid by an excise officer named Scown, against John M`Glade, a beer retailer,. for selling spirits and tobacco. = He was fined £3 fur selling the tobacco, and a further penalty for the spirits. Several other convictions took place for the same offence, th e fines varying in amount. SKIZLIIE OF AN ILLICIT STILL. Barnard Collins, alias Gillon, was summoned to answer,an. inforniatiou charging him with haring in his possession a quan tity of whisky, an illicit still, and all the necessary apparatus for carrying on the process of illicit distillation, the penalty for which offence is £2UO. Mr. Woodruffe. of the Excise, appeared in support of the , charge. He stated that, some facts having come to his know ledge Which raised his suspicions, he proceeded to the dwelling of the defendant, who occupies a cottage in the township of Al lerton. On reaching the house, he asked for Collins, and was told by his wife that he was up stairs in bed, he being then very unwell. lie then commenced a strict search, but found nothing below stairs; but, on renewing his search in the room where Collins lay, he found a bottle containing about a pint of whisky, which, from its taste and smell, he felt convinced was of private distillation. He then left the house and proceeded to a stable adjoining, to which he knew the defendant had access, and ob tained an entrance by forcing the staple which held the door. On looking about, he discovered a private still, with the worm, whole of which eie t he ) a quantity of wash, and a considerable quantity of molasses, the o preparation rits,th e b s p e r i o z d e u d ce about fourteen gallons John M'Alpine deposed to having let Collins the house he oc cupied ; but he at that time gave his name Gillon, which he had hitherto understood it to be. There were four houses adjoining the stable, two of which were occupied by the defendant, and the stable was open to the other tenants as well as to Collins, all being considered to have an equal right thereto. He could not say positively whether the other tenants used it or not: they had a right to do so, and he had been told that such had been the case. William Collier said he was present at the time of making the search, and saw the wife of the defendant give something to a lad named Potter, but he could not perceive what it was. He mentioned this circumstance to Mr. Woodruffe, who thereupon questioned the lad, who acknowledged that Mrs. Collins had given him the key of the stable, which she told him to secrete somewhere. Potter was then told by Mr. Woodruffe to bring back the key, which he accordingly did. . Potter, the lad above alluded to, was next called. Ile said he lived in Allerton, in a house adjoining that of the defendant; and that on the appearance of the excise-officers, the wife of Gillon gave him a key to hide, which he took and secreted in a saw-pit, and there placed it between two stones.—Potter under went 4 severe cross-examination by Mr. Crewe, who appeared in defence of Collins. - Mr. Crewe's" main object was to make it appear that the stable was made use of by other parties, and that the still might be there withcut Collins being privy to the STEALING LEAD.—A young thief, whose head scarcely reach ed the top of the dock partition, was charged with stealing a piece of lead almost as heavy as himself, with which he was caught toddling away down Sir Thomas's-buildings, at one o'clock the same morning. The prisoner said he picked it up in a middin, but as Clete was every reason to suppose it had been stolen from a house in Grafton-street, he was remanded. MARKET ROBBERY.—Anne Sullivan, a child about the same height and age as the last prisoner, was committed for stealing a pair of women's shoes and a quantity of eggs from a stall iu Cleveland market. The prisoner it was stated was an old, although a young offender in same way. transaction. Robert Roberts, a carter, was next called, who deposed to having called at Mr. Martin's, the sugar-dealer, for a pun cheon of molasses, which he conveyed to the house of Henry Kirkman. Mr. Caawe submitted that the identity of the defendant was not. sufficiently strong to warrant a conviction, and the occu pancy of t h e s t a ble was far from being proved, other persons being allowed access thereto: According to M'Alpine's evidence he let the house to a person named Gillon, he having no know lelge of Barnard Collins. '['he fact of the small bottle of spirits being found in the possession of Collins was in itself trifling, 'especially as the man was unwell at the time. lie had sufficient proof, if it would be received in evidence, to show that the spi rits were necessary to him in a medicinal point. of view. The magistrates convicted the defendant in the mitigated penalty of £loo.—Mr. Woodrilff° said as the investigation had terminated, it might not then be unfair to state, that the de fendant had been convicted of a similar offence no less than three times before, and suffered imprisonment for it, and that the party have been carrying on the system for a considerable length of time. SATURDAY.—Before Alderman CASE and Sir T. BR ANCKER. A young thief, named John Archer; was brought before Al derman Case and Sir Thomas Braucker, charged by a gentle man -of the name of Allen, with havinr climbed into his garden and attempted to steal a jar of potted salmon from a safe which stpod there, and which, it seems, was misnamed. He was dis covered before he could make off with his prize, and taken into custody. The magistrates sentenced him to the House' Cor rection for one month, and to be kept at hard labour. A woman, named Eliza Keneko, charged a young man, .named Dixon, on Saturday, with having been found offering when for sale which had been stolen from her. The hen was produced in court as a witness, and like many other persons si milarly situated; being unaccustomed to the roles of the place, it made a great noise. An officer of the court very innocently told it to hush, but it paid no respect to the dignity of the bench, but continued to clack away at a great rate. 'I he prisoner in defence, said he was a pipe -maker, and that he had re ceived the hen from a man named Swinney, 'Awn he knew by noire but not by sight! As Mrs. Keneko had no other witness Ethan her hen, the magistrates ordered the latter to'be delivered to her,' and the prisoner to be discharged. YESTERDAY.—(Before Mr. Ald., LEYLAND and Sir THOMAS BRANCKER.) SHODKING OCCURRENCE.—CRUICCIDO Conniff, an Irishwoman, with a ;bild in her arms, was placed at the bar charged with the serious offence of stabbing her husband. Mr. Ellis, the magis trates' clerk, having stated the nature of the charge against the prisoner, and that tier husband, it was supposed, would not live the day out,. the magistrates remanded her for further exami nation. The particulars of the charge are these :—About one o'clock Yesterday morning (Monday) the neighbourhood of Stockdale-street was thrown into a state - of consternation and alarm from the cries of murder which issued from a house in Hope-court, occupied by the prisoner and her husband. The neighbours immediately entered the house to ascertain the cause, when it 'appeared that the prisoner had stabbed her husband in the heart with a:shoemaker's knife.. The blood was fast flowing from the wound, and the prisoner, heing.in terrogated, acknowledged having committed the deed, saying *that her husband was a d—d thief, and, as she had served him out, she didn't mind being hanged for him. Samuel Lloyd, an active officer of police, was on the spot ahortly after the- occurrence, and took the prisoner into custody. Mr. Leach, a surgeon of the Dispensary, attended the unfor tunate man during the greater part of the night, and entertains ~but faint hopes of his recovery. -CHARGE op SWINDLING AND FORGRET.—John Gray, alias Daniel M'Gragh, a person about thirty years of age, bearing the appearance of a - gentleman, and most fashionably attired, was placed at the bar, charged with forgery and swindling under the following circumstances: — Mr. Hignett, tobacconist, of Dale-street, stated that a few days ago the prisoner called upon him, recommended by letter froma person in Leamington to purchase £2O worth of cigars. The order was to be executed, and in the meantime the prisoner stated that he should be short of cash, and would be obliged for a few pounds. He then gave c omplainant a bill or blank ac ceptance purporting to be from the Urns of Fox and Wright, of Barnsley, and complainant let him have £3, with an under tanding that the value of the cigars together with the money lent should be inserted in the blank left in the acceptance. The prisoner then went away, and 'complainant wrote to Barnsley to inquire about Messrs. Vox and Wright; when he ascertained That there was no such a firm in existence. Complainant hail since heard that there were other charges of a similar nature against the prisoner to he preferred by tradesmen. It was stated by the police, that one charge against the pri soner was for purchasing goods from Mr. Reynoldson, a tailor, in Lord-street, and in payment he had given a bill, which most likely was a forgery. 'l'he bill was then in Manchester, but the parties had writt'n for if, and it would be produced. -Mr. Alderman Leylaud having asked the prisoner if he had -any thing to say, The prisoner stated that he wished to refer to an attorney, as he was quite a stranger in town. Mr. Leyland told the prisoner that enough had been stated to warrant his detention, and he was accordingly remanded. ANOTHER CitAiloE OF SWINDLING.—Two ill-looking fellows, front whose appearance an American jury might safely pro nounce a verdict of guilty prior to hearing the evidence, were charged with several cases of swindling. An assistant of Mr. Moss, draper, Church-street, stated that on Friday last two men called at his waster's shop, and ordered a quantity of cloth and trimmings sufficient to make a suit of clothes ; but the prisoners at the"bar were not die patties. 'l'he men desired that a person should go wit h them with the goods t o their master, who would pay for them. Wltness accompanied the men, who took him through seveial streets, and then knocked at a respectable door, and asked for some person, and they were answered that he did not live there. On the door being shut, the men seized the THEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The new Comic PANTOMIME having been received on each representation with the loudest testimonies of approbation, • will be repeated ever~• evening until further notice. Second week of Mr. KEAN, of the Theatres-Royal. Covent garden and Drury-lane, who is engaged for a limited period. r !IRIS present TUESDAY, the 26th instant, will be per- J. formed Shakspeare's Tragedy of OT HEL LO, Which was greeted on Wednesday last with the lotides !audits. Othello Mr. Kean. lago Mr. Stuart. Desdemona Mrs. S aw. Emilia Mrs. Stanley To conclude with, for the eighth time, anew gr d Comic Pan tomime, called THE MAN' IN THE MO ; OR, HARLEQUIN LUNATIC AND THE EVENING STAR. ' Harlequin Mr. J. Ridgway. Pantaloon Mr. Jonas. Clown Mr. T. Ridgway. Columbine Mademoiselle Marie. , To-stoßaow, (Wednesday,) the Tragedy •trfl TIAM.LET. Mamlet; Mr.Xean, in which character he was' received with cheers of approbation on—Friday last.—To conclude with .. the COMIC PANTOMIME. On THURSDAV A NEW WAY TO PAY .OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Overreach, Mr. Kean. On FRIDAY, MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. K.!an i , Lower Boxes 45.; Upper - 13 , ,xes 3s. 6d.; Pit 2s. 6d.; Gallery Is. Places may be taken of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office, from Ten till Three.o'clock. TG CORRESPONDENTS. The letter signed N will be sent to the proper authorities. As "Speaker of the House of Lords," the Lord Chancellor has no more power in the house than any other noble lord. He has peculiar duties to discharge, but no official power. We thank D for reminding us of the Rev. Mr. M'Neile's ser mons. We have read them carefully,•and with delight and admiration, and we have no doubt that they will excite much attention in the religious world. We shall notice them at greater length first opportunity. . CRITO, as he signs hiniself, should send his trash to the Mer cury. tTbe Itibtrpool eStailbart‘, WATCH MEETING-THE NEW POLICE BILL. At the meeting of this board, held on Friday last, Mr. Cooper in the chair, _ _ _ Mr. Richard Benson banded letters front Mr. J. W. Patten, -M.P., and Mr. Ewart, M.P., being the only replies he had re ceived to the communications be had madeto-various members of parliament concerning the new police bill, which the com missioners had agreed toast week:— Mr. Patten's letter was as follows: " London, May 18, 1835. "Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant, conveying a copy of the resolutions passed at a meeting of the commissioners of watch, scavengers, and lamps at Liverpool,.and requesting me to support the Liverpool day police bill in its passage through the Rouse of Commons. In reply to it, I beg to assure you that I shall have much pleasure in complying with your request.-1 remain, sir, your obedient Servant, _ "J. WILSON PATTIiNT:" " It. Benson, Esq., LiVerpool." The following is a copy of the letter from Mr. . , " House of Commons, Mn J 18, 1835. "Sir,—l had the honour this morning to receive your letter, !apprising- me of the resolution of the new commissioners of the . watch, 'that it was their opinion that the petition against the day-police bill, transmitted to me by the fOrnier commissioners, 'be withdrawn.' It . ‘vould not, I apprehend, be consistent with my duty to those gentlemen who signed the petition, or to the constituency of Liverpool in general, to withdraw the petition which they honoured me by confiding to my rare'. The petition cannot, of course, be presented es emanating from the commis sioners of watch as at present constituted; but it way be pre sented as the petition 'of individuals composing the board of watch at the time the petition was transmitted. 1 consider it the sacred right of the constituency which has honoured me by its choice, that I should not assume the privilege of withdrawing, their petitions, unless required to do so by the rules of the House of Commons, or desired to do so by the petitioners themselves. I am, sir, your obedient servant, • "Richard Benson, Esq." "W. Ewa RT." The rest of the business transacted was of no importance. LORD JOHN'S CONSTITUENCIES. Few members of parliament have been bandied about from one constituency to another so frequently as Lord John Russell. We subjoin a fist of the places he has represented since he be came a public man : In 1818.—Tavistock, his noble papa's borough. 1820.—Huntingdonshire. 1827.—Bandou Bridge—a pocket borough of the Duke of Devonshire's—his lordship having been defeated at Huntingdon hire at the general election of 1826 by Lord Mandeville. On this occasion Lord Duncan non resigned his seat to make room fur his friend Lord John. 18.30.—Tavistoek again, after being beaten at Bedford.' Here Lord John was again indebted to a patriotic friend, Lord Ebrington, who resigned his seat fur that borough. 18.31.—Devonshire, (viz.,) the whole county. 18.2.—South Devonshire—the first reform election. 1835.—Re-elected for South Devon. Ditto.—Rejected for diito Ditto.—Elected for Stroud, having found a third friend in the person of Colonel Fox, who would lend him a seat. Thus it appears that •vith the exception of Tavistock, one o the Bedford boroughs, the unhappy duedecitno edition of a statesman has had the misfortune to be rejected by every con stituency that he has ever represented. As long odds are always given against a race horse who has been beaten more than once, we would give long odds that Lord John will be distanced at the next Stroud meeting. LOCAL NEWS. SIR How Ann DOUGLAS.—Notwithstanding the newspaper reports about the recall of this distinguished officer from the government of the lonian Isles, we are enabled to state from undoubted authority that the rumour is entirely without founda tion. Sir Howard has not been' recalled, 4rior is there any in tention of recalling hint from the post he is so well qualified to fill. SACTIILEGE.—On ThUrsday morning last, at an early hour, some thief or thieves broke into We church of Wave.rtree,, and stole therefrom a quantity of books ; the surplice, plate, and other articles, with which they got clear off. A reward is of fered for their apprehension. IMPORTATION OF BEGGAItS, &c.—The sort of rivalry, com monly termed, in the coaching slang, "Thinning oppo'Ation," has, during the past week, been carried to such an extreme, amongst the steam companies of this port and Dublin, that the packets have been carrying loads of individuals over for six pence per head, and bringing theta from Dublin to Liverpool for absolutely nothing. 'the consequence of this system has been, that a great number . of the professional beggars and the .disorderly characters who abound, in the streets of Dublin have come over to Liverpool on speculation. This will at once account fir the increased number of mendicants of the most de graded class who have been brought before the magistrates during the last week. Mr. Dowling, the active superintendent of the Dock Police, had his attention drawn to the circum stance by the swarms of beggars which he hits lately observed infesting. the, docks, quays, piers, &c., and, en learning the cause, he immediately proceeded to make it known to Sir Thomas Brancker, the Deputy Mayor, who promised to use his best endeavours to induce the steam-packet companies to dis continue a practice so pregnant with mischief. CktatoN TO CARTERS.—On Friday last a carter, named Plumpton, was brought before the Magistrates, charged with riding in his cart on the 21st instant. Ile was fined ss. and costs. OBSTRUCTING TUB FOOTWALKS.-011 Friday last the pro prietor of a shed, in Tyrer-street North, was, at the instigation of two of the day police, charged before the Magistrates with • having suffered sixteen bales of cotton to lie in the street while the wrappers were being repaired, whereby the thoroughfare was obstructed. Fined ss. and costs. FIRST TEA SALE IN BRISTOL.—TbiS sale took place on Thursday last, at the Assembly Rooms. The quantity con sisted of 6,U79 chests, half • chests, &e. 'of Bohea, -Congou, Smichon r ,, , * Pekoe, Tweekay, and Hyson, iiniorted in the William Rodger, by Messrs. Acramans, Bush, Castles anti Co. Several London houses attended the sale, which went off with great spirit; about three fourths of the whole were sold. Pools ELxcrlnN.—This election dosed on Thursday, by the return of the honourable George Byng. The numbers. were: for Mr. Byng; 199; Sir Colquhon Grant, 174. Majority for Mr. Byng 25. LITHE]: LAND LOYAL AND FRIENDLY SOClETY.—Yesterday 200 members of this respectable benefit Society sat down to an excellent and substantial dinner, at the Red Lion, Litherland bridge, to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The entertainment provided was in Mr. Crichlow's best style, and the day was spent in harmony and good humour. The American packet-ship, Caledonia, which arrived at this port on the 22d instant, had on board, among other passengers, his excellency major-general Sir Stepeu Remnant Chapman, C. 8., and K.C.H., governor of the Bermuda islands, and suite. His excellency, we regret to hear, is in a very bad state of health, having had two serious apoplectic fits during his resi deuce at the above islands. The following. gentlemen are in the suite of Sir Stephen Chapman:—.Major Bogue, Dr. M'tit e gni., medical staff, and F. G. O'Reilly, Esq. - - . - - FLORAL AND HORTICELTULIAL,SOCIRTY.—The second (we - suppose we may call it the Tulip) exhibition of this society a ill ! take place at the Coru Exchange, Brunswick-street, to-mor row, and, should the weather prove favourable, will, we have nodoubt, be well attended. We regret to hear that the funds of the institution are in so unhealthy and unpromising a cell dition as to threaten its immediate extinction, and if not sup ported with a greater degree of spirit and liberality by the pun lie, that, that public will be deprived of the pleasure of seeing another show of the same description. Considering its objects, we must confess ourselves totally at &loss how to accounti for the indifference complained of by the managers of the Floral Society on the part of those who are usually foremost to support whatever is calculated to promote science or has any other use ful tendency. We hope the ladies of Liverpool will, at any rate, resusitate the floral department; in that case the Guar mends will take charge of the marrow-fats, the melons, and the pine apples for their own sakes. CH Veen HATES' MARTY R.—A Mr. Child, of Bit n gay, Suffolk, a printer, we believe, a member of the Society of Ft lends, has, for contumaciously refusing to pay about thirty shillings for church-rates, been imprisoned, and is therefore now under, going the process of canonization as a political martyred saint. '1 he London clique of radicals lately held a meeting at one of their petition shops, at which resolutions were agreed to, ex pressive of " the indignation of the meetin ,, at any attempt to interfere with another man's creed," and declaring that "eccle siastical courts are both anti-christian and anti-con4titirtional— anti-christian, because employing force where To suro,ion should be used; unconstitutional, because the judges in these courts are specially iuterested." According to these learned theolo gians, it appears that a churchwarden, instead of demanding that which the law compels him to 'exact, must endeavour tv persuade a Quaker to do that which nothing but force wilt ever induce him to do. Upon the same principle, the landlord, who chat - ices to have a refractory tenant, ought to argue . the reason ableness of fulfilling an engagement, instead of having recourse to those powers with which the law has armed him; and we have no doubt that the ladies and gentlemen, whose cases occupy so much of the judge's time at the Old Bailey, would prefer having their disputes about Terminal property arranged in a similar way. Why the Quakers should seek to throw upon others the burdens which they in common with all occupants or owners of property are subject to, why they should countenance this act of positive injustice we cannot imagine. Will the members of the Society of Friends, generally, forego any right appurtenant to property held by them, on account of any cotv , semen tious scruples which their tenants may chance to enter tain ? Would a Quaker lay-impropriator forego the right of ex acting tithes ? In that case, it would, no doubt, be called rent. The name given to a thing makes all the difference. STAFFORDSHIRE Er wrioN.--The candidates for the seat in parliament, vecant by the elevation of Mr. Littleton to the peel age, were nominated on Saturday. The polling- commences to-day and will terminate to-morrow. The contest will be a very severe one. TRUTH rerws POPERY. TO 7718 EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD. Stu,--I trust you will find it practicable, without any coin promise of your own opinions, to give insertion, in your spirited journal, to a few remarks, elicited by a series of calumnious at tacks upon a reverend gentleman of this town, whose splendid oratory sheds a lustre on the church to which he belongs, and whose reasoning powers, exerted in vindication of the truth, have confounded and maddened his adversaries. I allude to the ig norant and scurrilous critiques on the character of the Rev: 11. M'Neill's ministry, to which the Liverpool Journal gave pub licity in two successive articles, and, in the latter instance, with an accession of malignity which too plainly evinces the real ground of the Writer's soreness and consequent enmity—Mr. bl'Neill's unmitigated hostility to popery. The spirit and temper of the Journal's remarks are such as to render them unworthy of criticism, were it not that they em body insidious charges which may operate injuriously on , the ill-informed. It is true, that the writer has pilfered so largely from the O'Connel slang album that few person of any under standing would treat his pitiful rant otherwise than with ineff able scorn. But if it be likewise true that sundry individuals frequenting St. Jude's Church have actually signified their ap• probation of these attacks upon their faithful pastor, and thus identified themselves with his popish antagonist, it becomes "an imperative duty to prove to them, as will be done in the sequel, with what little justice they can claim fraternity with any class of protestants. The Journal craftily insinuates that Mr. M`lfeill drersteps'the prescriptive limits of his clerical duty in denouncing the here sies of catholicism from the pulpit. Now, lam prepared to assert and to prove the contrary. He would be guilty of a gross ' and unjustifiable dereliction of duty were he to cease declaiming, in the strongest scriptural terms, against that disgusting corn , pound of folly, fraud, cant, idolatry, and fanaticism—popery: It will not do to mince the matter. Our forefathers ; who wit nessed its exterminating persecution of bible Christianity—its hellish avidity in endeavouring to smother the promulgation of truth—its tortures, its fires and faggots—they acted otherwise. They spoke out in terms which the fastidious ears of modern audiences would scarcely tolerate. And yet these were the fathers and founders of our church. Let it be remembered that the characteristic features of popery are unalterable. Were it otherwise, the vannted.infallihility of the Romish church would be annihilated. We must, therefore, still use the same weapons 'in contending against her, without any relaxation of hostility. It will not do to tickle or even to scratch the living abomination : we must brirudish the tomahawk about her head. I'am no varson, but I maintain that every consistent protestant minister ought lo assume an aggressive attitude with reference to the anti-christian tendency of popery. That is the very spirit which pervades the articles, homilies, and rituals of the established aura. The writer in the Journal asserts that he has diligently perused the O 9 articles of the church of England, and that he has failed to recognise in them any sanction of Mr. M‘Neill's condemnatory style of preaching. Let us see how this candid statement will stand by the side of the following analysis, which will, likewise, serve to show what silly ,beings they are who fancy that our church countenances the nauseating liberalism of the present day, an alarming example of Which is presented in the community of feeling which etists between this popish scribe and his pseudo-protestant correspondents. The first article of the church of England distinctly asserts the eoctrine of the trinity in unity. Is it inconsistent and super erogatory in Mr. McNeill to insist upon this fundamental truth ? Can he do otherwise than preach down unitarianism Not if he faithfully perform the sacred obligations of his sub scription oath. The 2d article asserts the divinity of our Saviour, and main- tains the doctrine of the atonement. Can a belief in this be enforced without denouncing the God denying heresey of Su- cinians? The sth article acknowledges the divinity and personality of the Holy Ghost. 'Does not Mr. M'Neill strenuously vindicate this truth, and will any churchman presume to any that he should not point out the fatal and damning error of those who deny it ? The 6th article is expressly levelled against the Roman ca tholic notion relating to the rule offaith, and declares that the apocryphal books are not canonical. Now, the papists ground one of their leading doctrines on a passage in the apocryplia, See 2d Mace. 42, et seq. Does this article not justify Mr, M'Neill's opposition to popery ? The 7th article is levelled against antinom:ans, to whom the rev. gentleman is right in giving no quarter. The Stb article approves of the Ath , anasian creed, which con demns Socinianism, &c., in terms fully as severe as any that Mr. 11 , 1'Neill uses. The 9th article is aimed against Pelagianism. The 10th article maintains the doctrine of man's moral ina bility to the performance of any good - work. This is a truth very repulsive to certain pharisaical hearers, but it must be preached, the church inculcates it. The 11th article explicitly maintains the doctrine of jtutfli cation: by fisith—the articutus stantis aut cadenlis ecclesire. Mr, very properly gives due prominency to this truth, and in the true spirit of Luther and the early reformers. lam not surprised that the Journal hates the weapou which proved so successful in prostrating popery. But I must reserve my further remarks for a second dose, which will, I ant afraid, be far more unpalatable. In conclusion, I would suggest that to be &protestant without protesting against popery is a solecism in terms.-Yaurs, &r. C Yr,llto. THE COURT, &e. Their Majesties, Who, we are happy to state, remain in ex cellent health, came t' town on Wednesday. The King shortly after held his customaiy levee. llis 11ajesty paid a visit to thc new Palace. In the evening the King and Queen returned to Windsor Castle. On Friday the loyal couple visited the Queen's Lodge, Bushy Park, and passed the day there, with several of their illustrious relatives, in celebration of the birth day of the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. Their Majesties are expected in town on Tuesday, and will tentain at the Pahire till the end of the week. Ott their return a large assemblage of haul Wit are invited to the Castle, where their Majesties will re side till after the Eton Willem and Ascut Races. • There is at present. a greater number of the - royal family in thin country then there have been previously for several years and the number will be speedily increased by the arrival of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland cud Princo George. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg return to the Continent in the autumn. A CEREMONY OF IMPOSITION !—Things progress mighty prettily I The Limerick Star informs us that "on Sunday Miss Hanly, of Limerick, and Miss Very , of Ennis , t , ok the veil at the lirs' uline Convent, at Lifford •" and that '`the ceremony was of a most impo , day nature." df this latter fact we have not the slightest doubt, the whole being a most shocking imposition from beginning to end ; commencing in spiritual delusion and. mental fraud, and ending in spiritual wretchedness and mental agony !—Aye. THE LATE MRS. HEMANS.—Felicia Dorothea Browne was born in Liverpool, in a small, quaint looking house in St. Anne , street, now standing, old fashioned and desolate, in the midst of the newer buildings by which . it is surrounded. Her father was a native of Ireland, her mother a German lady, a Misi Wanner, but descended from, or connected with, some Vene tian family, a circumstance which she would playfully mention ; as accounting for the stronge tinge of romance and poetry which pervaded her character from her earliest childho o d. Our abstaining from any attempt minutely to trace her history re-: quires no apology, it is enough to• say, that when she was very young her family removed from Liverpo o l t o th e peighbourbloa of St. Asaph, in North Wales; that she married at a very early age, that her married life, after the birth of five suns, was clouded by the estrangement of her husband, that, on the death of her mother, with whom she had resided, she broke up :her establishment iu Wales, and removed to Wevertree, Io the neighbourhood of Liverpool, from wheava, after a resitienee three years, she again removed to Dublin, her last resting-plate —Athenceum. ..... , • . RECANTATION OF THIRTY ROMAN CATHOLICS •AT CLON , ASLEH.—SALUTARY 'EFFECTS OF CHASTISEMI-NT AT TER CuAFEr.s.--Thirty sensible Homan Catholics of Climeslee are, ~ we understand on very good authority, about. leaving the ma , ' eernal church, and opeuly reading their recantation, through disgust and indignation at the violent , nn&eavage manner in which they have - Leen treated by the "people" at that chapel, and the successful eudcaveuts of the priests everywhere, instead of appeasing, to exasperate their turmentnrs against thetn. This is a sturdy defection of members from the old dame; and. since these are of a comfortable class,' we think bis teverenee (who forgot to teach his lambs more mildness_ and .better be- • 1 haviour) will experience a very serious and enpieesatit defalca tion in the dues. Had the priests taken a` friendly admonition lung since, they would, as we advised, have postpotied politics to what is more immediately their duty—neither in their homilies from the altar infused gall into the hearts of their con , • gregations, nor exhorted them to what they were already too • propense. They must fancy that their flocks hew no iuclim , lion to exercise those faculties which nature has 5U I/OLIO/WV ' bestowed on thou as their pastors, if they - •suep o s e that the vast difference between their calling and conduct be not palpable to the dullest within the pale of their church. Most:men have minds i and it really is a daring outrage on th e j u d gment mei patience of the peb!ic, to expect that they will admit the pro priety of, and endure the geievances resulting from, such a mode of proceeding. his reverence will, we are sure, be not a little chagrined ut the desertion of thirty comfortable sheep 1 from his fold; but we were near forgetting that their voluntary . departure will obviate the truubie and coremouial attendant• on i the tearful form of excorantuoictition, with which some in that quarter had been menaced.—Leinster ittpre,.4. , . DEATH OP MR. NASH.--ahis celebrated architect died on Wednesday Wennight at East Cowes Castle, Isle of Wight.— An acute disorder under which he has long suffered has at length terminated ' in this deservedly lamented gentleman's death. Every observant person if atkare that this gentieman has been as remarkable for the eedulante of persecution as for the possession of talents; but ft em every attempt to cast a shade over his genius, he has ever sift cesfiudy &feuded himself, though other hands were destined, as we think most unfairly, to finish his last work (Buckingham Palace); every complaiut made against its soundness and security, end they. were ahnust as numerous as the stones in the building, was proved to be 4:1- founded and vexatious. His worst enemies must admit that since London watts* first called. no map has tver done it tith e of that which he has isecomplithed to improve it, and we ques tion if any ether man ever will. Envy - is the slue attendant . of genius, and the certain innrk of infirmity in those w h o en .. teretio it ; anti of the truth of this axiom Mr.- Nash unit his detractors are the Next evidences. In private life, Mr. Nash was what every man ought to Le—as an encourager of art and seieu& he stood preeminently forward—and for his princely liberality towards artists, Sze., his memory will be long and deservedly cherished. To those who knew the value of his I acquaintance and friendship, his loss must be irreparable. M A 26, 1833. THE LIVERPOOL STAND RD.