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JUNI§ 19, 1845. THEATRE•ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. `For the BENEFIT - Of Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, and the Last Night of his engagement. Last appeal ance of Miss JOSEPHINE CLIFTON, of the New York Theatre, and the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane and Covent-garden. 111 HIS present FRIDAY, the 19th instant, will be per formed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Charles Surface Mr. C. Kemble. Joseph Surface Mr. Stuart. • Sir Peter Teazle (first time) Mr. Baker. Lady Teazle Miss Josephine Clifton. After which, the Petit COmedv, c d A DAY AFTER THE W 'NO. Colonel Freelove lr. C. Kemble. Lady Elizabeth Freelove....Miss Clifton. To conclude with a new Caledonian Ballet, called SANDY AND JANET; OR, THE SAILOR'S RETURN. principal characters by Mr. J. Ridgway, Mr.l'. Ridgway, Mr. F. Jonas, Miss Stanley, and Mademoiselle Marie. On SATURDAY the Tragedy of BRUTUS. Lucius Junius, Mr. Stuart. - Tullis., Mrs. Stanley. Tarquinia, Mrs. Shaw. —After which, a Favourite BALLET.—To sconclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. Lnwer Boxes 45.; Upper Boxes 3s. 6d; Pit 2s. 6d.; Gallery Is. Places may be taken of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office, from Ten till Three o'clock. iljt Eiberpool zl-tanbarti. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1835. We have been favoured with the following extracts from private letters which have been received in Liver pool relative to the disturbances at Callao, which we no ticed on Tuesday. The first is from Lima : " Lima, Feb. 2,1835.—0 n the Ist instant, the garrison of Callao rose upon its officers, made them prisoners, and nomi ; nated a sergeant as commander, declaring Gem Lafuente pre lident of the republic, he being then in the bay, in the U.S. ship Fairfield. lie refused to accept their offer, and they be came intoxicated with liquor and sallied out, of the cellars, and in a wanton manner fired down the Mole among a group of about fifty persons. Lieutenant Drummond, the son of Gen. Drummond, received a ball through his leg iu this way, render ing amputation necessary; he died from the result of this wound yesterday, and was buried to-day in the Bella Vista; this gentleman was attached to H.M.S. Satellite, and was con veying two English ladies to the boat of that ship when this cruel outrage was committed. The mutineers held out for thirty-six hours, when peace was promptly restored." The second letter is dated, Valparaiso, February 23, received here yesterday, per the " Trade is but dull here, and we are overstocked with every class of goods, excepting a few staple articles: fancy articles, silks, &c., are dull of sale, with a loss of fifty per cent. " In politics we are quiet: but we are not without earth quakes. A very strong shock was felt here a few days since; Talea suffered severely; nearly all the houses are down, and from fifteen to twenty lives were lost." We like to see an uncompromising liberal in his true character—denuded of his hypocritical covering—and either half drunk or half rabid, speaking the : thoughts which lie deepest. Mr. ROEBUCK, the member for Bath, has afforded us an opportunity. In the House of Commons on Monday night last, Mr. Low - rnER, the member for York, presented a petition from that city against the removal of the duty upon news papers, the petitioners being of opinion that such removal "would tend to demoralize and degrade the present newspaper press." At hearing these words, the agent of the French-Canadians spoke as follows : " Mr Roebuck was at a loss to imagine how the newspaper press could by possibility be rendered more immoral or more de graded than it was at the present moment. A despotism was a trifle in comparison with the tyranny of newspapers, which, from the highest to the lowest, were in the lianas of a set of base hirelings, who,. as cowardly as they were base, concealed their names, and assassinated the characters of men in the dark.• The newspaper press of the day was a mere mass of cowardice, black guardism. corruption, and treachery. (Oh, oh, and a laugh.) The dignity of the press, indeed! The effect of a repeal of these duties would undoubtedly be to destroy the vile crew who now monopolized the press and obstructed knowledge, and satost delighted should he be to see the day arrive. (Oh, oh.) Had a tory said this, or the tenth part of this, what a storm would have been raised from the one end of the country to the other I It is a liberal and a radical, how ever, who ittgaiattser the conductors of .the press, from the highest to the lowest, as base hirelings, moral assas sins, as corrupt cowards, and treacherous blackguards ; and it remains to be seen how the press, the whig and radical press in particular, will deal with this ROEBUCK. Of course he cannot allude to those of whom personally be can know nothing. Mr. ROEBUCK can know nothing of the conductors of the tory press, for he does not move in: such a sphere of life as would furnish him with an opportunity to conic into contact with those who have most distinguished themselves as tory miters. At the same time the world will very naturally infer that the member for Bath speaks from experience, and describes parties with whom he has associated. These, of course, must belong to his own dirty faction- 7 they must be the wretched creatures who pay homage to JOSEPH Hulk:a:— who call that respectable which is dishonest—that inde pendent. which is vile and venal—that pure which is as Tank and foul as the unwashed shambles in the dog-days. If Mr. ROEBUCK had confined himself to the people of whom he has any knowledge, we should, perhaps, have left our whig and liberal contemporaries to put in their own defence; hut the liberal member for Bath makes no exceptions. The conductors of the newspaper press, he AayS, are ALL base hirelings, cowards, and blackguards: Well, then, let us see who these cowards and hirelings are. First stands Mr. JonN WALTER, the member fur Berkshire; Mr. GROTE, the member for London; Mr. CHARLES EASTHOPE, the member for St. Albans; Mr. BARNES, of the Times; Mr. TAYLOR, of the Herald; Dr. GIFFARD and Dr. MACGINN, of the Standard; Alt. STUART, of the Courier; Mr. YOUNG, of the Sun; Colonel TORRENS, of the Globe; a Committee of Licensed Victual lers, who conduct the Morning Advertiser; Mr. BAINES,. the member for Leeds and conductor of the Leeds Mer cury; Mr. BRODIE, the member for Salisbury and the conductor of a Salisbury paper; Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY, who established the Sunday Times, Mr. WAKLEY, who conducts a weekly paper; the present Attorney-General, who was a reporter; Mr. O'DWYER, who is a reporter; Mr. SHELL, who. reports upon his own account; Lord PALMERSTON, Lori BROUGHAM, Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, and Mr. LYTTON BULWER. All these - gentlemen are more cr less iptimately connected .with the newspaper press, either as editors, proprietors, hired writers, or 'alarieri - reporters; . and. these are the men whom Mr. ROEBUCK calls a vile crew of cowards and blackguards. Now let us inquire Who EDWARD JONATHAN ROEBUCK, the member for Bath, is. We shall not go beyond him self to bring his parentage under review—JOSEPH HUME knows all about that. With himself only will we deal. First and foremost, he is an occasional writer of utilitarian absurdities in that most sickly and contemptible of all periodicals the Westminster Review—a work which is fast going to the .dtigs—and which BOWRING and ROE tUCK are doing their best to write into oblivion. For the trash which 11,6Eunex furnishes to the Westminster he is of course paid, otherwise how could the creature manage to live, poor though that pay be? Secondly, ROEBUCK is the proprietor of a three half-penny maga zine, in which he advocates the tenets of the unitarians, and out of which it is possible he may extract some twenty or thirty shillings a week. As far, therefore, as th e press is concerned, JONATHAN ROEBUCK is a hireling, and as base and as neeey a hireling as any blackguard Connected with it. He has no claims whatever to any talent or independence. But a few years ago he was a hardfed usher in a socinian school, and we are confident that it would puzzle him exceedingly to produce a bona Ade qualification to sit in pat liament. And it is a coxcomb like this who dares to throw his . glanders upon men a thousand times more respectable, more intelligent, and more independent than himself! Is it this shoeblack in the service of Mr. HUME, whom Jest:,..pit has contrived to push into parliament, for reasons best known to himself, who has the impertinence and the temerity to hold up every conductor of a public news- Paper as a coward and a blackguard ? There may be, and there are blackguards connected with the journals, as there are in every profession, in the law, in the medical Profession, in the conventicle, in public offices, and in a certain HOUSE which shall be nameless. Such accident are inseparable from the various shades of human society; but we will take Upon ourselves to assert, after some ex perience, and a tolerable knowledge of the persons con nected with newspap&s, that we :do not know a single man, a single 'hireling, or even a base hireling of the press, who is a greater blackguard than ROEBUCK him self. Contenting ourselves with this declaration, Mr. 'ROEBUCK may put it into, the next cup of cote he is Invited to in Bryanstone-square, and drink it off at a draught. If it do not make him a " wiser and a better man," we beg ,to assure him chat it cannot possibly do him any harm. What a delightful pass shall we have come to if slan ders like these, considering where they are uttered, are to pass unpunished. What are the .circumstanees •A meddling and conceited upstart, who has reached an ele vation in political, but no other society, beyond his merits, chooses to assail the press in all the foul mouthed terms of a low pothouse,—where ?; in the House of Commons, where he can scold and libel with perfect impunity, where no one can pull him by the nose or kick him down stairs. Talk indeed of the license of the press l What is it to the license of debate in the liouse of Commons ? If a word is said in any paper reflecting with just or unjust severity upon the personal conduct of any man, no mercy is shown the unfortunate proprietor. The law lays its fangs upon him with incredible celerity. Some needy and desperate blackguard of the law is soon found to victimise and ruin him and his property for ever. Not so is it when any venomous or scurrilous blockhead chooses to attack pri vate persons, or professions, or bodies of men, in the Commons' house of parliament. He is protected—he is allowed to rail and revile, and slander and injure 'with perfect impunity. Is this the sort of liberty we are to enjoy under a reformed parliament? The press, we con cede; has tts faults, aye:and its vices, which GOD knows are neither few nor small; but compared with the House of Commons, its abuses and its power to commit wrong are like a drop in the bucket to the waters of the ocean. And yet the jackanapes whii assails the press, (under the speaker's protection,) is a professed liberal, a philo sophical interpreter of the bible, a friend of education, a penny-magazine man, a huge reformer of old abuses, an immense patriot, who would make Canada his resting place, even amid the flames of rebellion, provided he could touch the corrupt bribe of I:600 a year. How long will it be before the great body of the people are con vinced that such men are the worst foes of liberty, and the greatest enemies of their country? This ROEBUCK is the representative of the radicals of Bath. If they return him again they will prove themselves to be the most degraded ,slaves on the face of the earth. Foreign. politics have fora long period been so uninte resting that we have studiously avoided thrusting them upon the attention of our readers. In fact we have so many changes to encounter of a domestic nature, all of deep concernment as regards the church, the monarchy, and the institutions of our country, that we have deemed it a duty to merge foreign quarrels in the consideration of the sweeping revolution which is desecrating all that is holy and venerable at home. An event, however, has occurred, which is of the ut most importance in a national point of view, inasmuch as it endangers the peace of Europe, involves the happi ness of thousands of families in these realms, and may, and probably will, be drawn into a precedent, when in a moment of weakness hordes of foreigners may be enlisted to join the Roman catholics of Ireland in the perilous work of dismembering the British empire. We allude to the invidious and therefore unjust sus pension of the foreign enlistment act in favour of the de facto sovereign, ISABELLA, the Queen of Spain. Our readers need not be told that this princess has a ques tionable right to the crown. The brother of the late King lays claim to it, and is at this moment contending successfully for it by force of arms. The people of Spain generally are in his favour. He has beat back, if not destroyed, all the armies sent against him by the govern ment of the regency acting in the name of the young queen. It is clear that Don CARLOS has the people in his favour---Ahe credit of the regency iS almost annihila ted—and. that, unless foreign powers interfere, non CARLOS will be King of Spain before the end of autumn. The question then resutves i6Eilf into this -Are the parties to the quadrupartite treaty, namely, England, France, Portugal, and one, of the fourth-rate northern powers, bound to interfere in favour of FERDINAND'S child, the Donna ISABELLA ? The present' ministry of England assume that they ,are bound. But how do they act ? Precisely as the whigs invariably do. They pre fer doing that by fraud and connivance which, if done at all, should be done by the nation, and by a positive and unequivocal declaration of war. The RUSSELL-O'CON NELL cabinet do not choose to go to war in support of Donna ISABELLA. They have the desire but not the courage. They favour a side, but they have not the man liness to fit out an armament to enforce their own professions and most solemn engagements. Is it of England—of proud England —of the conqueror of NA POLEON-of the mistress of the seas, we write this ? Alas, it is true ! Under whig misrule we are so poor, so hard up, to use a Greek phrase, that we are obliged to do that as a thief or a Orate which we ought to do as powerful intercessors bound by solemn covenants. And what do the whigs at the last moment of the last desperate hour do in favour of the young. queen of Spain and her very worthy and chaste mother ? They par tially suspend the enlistment act, and they allow volun teer scamps, of needy circumstances and forlorn fortunes, to crimp among thieves, and enlist Irish murderers, in order to raise a force, in these islands, of from 10,000 to 20,000 men, who are to invade Spain, aid the queen, and arrest the progress of Don CARLOS in his hitherto tri umphant career towards Madrid and the crown. Colonel EVANS, the member for Westminster, it is said, is to command the.voluntary expedition. He is as sisted by several stock jobbers and a few money-hatching and unprincipled lawyers of the city of London. " West minster's pride," therefore, is to support " Westminster's glory," by the aid of pickpockets and scamps—by gaol heroes from Kilmainham—hy patriots who have cheated the gallows—by the scum of plunderers who will console themselves, even in extremity, that. they have had the honour of being shot, instead of the disgrace of being hanged. That shot the greater portion of these honourable he roes will be, should they at all enter upon the war, we have no doubt whatever. Colonel EVANS may be a brave man enough; but that he is a general remains to be proved. Supposing EVANS to be a MARLBOROUGH or a IVELLINGToN. which •eve take leave to question, still comes the difficulty, what command will he have over the beggarly and plundering horde who go for no other pur pose but that of plunder ? Again, what are 10,000 or 20,000 men in the fields of Spain ? The Duke d'Arg uovumE had some difficulty in marching upon Madrid with upwards of 100,000 men. Our volunteer ruffians and gaol birds will consequently have hardly a chance, if they act at all. ZUMALACARRYGUY will make short work of them ; and if they are destroyed, who is to relieve the burthen thus thrown upon the English poor -rates•? The influence of popery upon the lowest and most numerous class of its devotees is essentially the same in all countries where the laws are not enforced in a despo tic manner. It has a demoralizing tendency—it produces mental slavery—it engenders crime. In Ireland no man dares to speakagainst the abominations of that idolatrous system without placing his life in the most imminent peril. We do solemnly believe that there is not a single protestant in Ireland whom a popish priest could not cause to be murdered by holding up his hand and point ing to his victim. Two murders a day, according to Mr. Secretary LITTLETON, is the average n um b er i n t h at frightful country. Only imagine that SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY human beings are assassinated annually in cold blood, many of thein in open day, in that island, and you will have at once a picture of what popery produces in Ireland. These crimes are not perpetrated by despe rate men, who are driven to deeds of blood in order, as they conceive, to conceal the robbery they have accom plished. No; the murderers are generally small farmers, many, if not - most of them, in comfortable circumstances, who obey to the very letter the priest's directions, who are devout at mass, regulur at confession; and yet for an assumed, if not imaginary, grievance, caused by the enforcement of a just right by a protestant, they conspire to murder him, cherish the deepest and darkest feelings of revenge, wait an opportunity with indomitable perse verance, and seldom or never fail in accomplishing their diabolical purpose. Such is popery in Ireland. We lament to state that crime is increasing with the . increase of popery in other parts of the King's dominions. The form it assumes in these places is exclusively of Irish origin. It is malignant revenge for imaginary wrong, ending in outrage and blood. We have before us an extract from a Newfoundland paper of the 21st May, which is as follows : " ST. JOHN'S (THURRSDAY) MAY 21, 1835.—We received yesterday the following particulars of one of the most horrible outrages, committed in the open day, on the road between Car bonear and Harbor Grace, that could possibly disgrace a civilized community :—Between three and four o'clock, on the evening of Tuesday, Mr. Henry Winton, editor of the Public Ledger, of this town, accompanied by Captain Churchward, of the brig Hazard, lying at Carbonear, was proceeding on horse back from the latter place to Harbor Grace, when they were waylaid on Saddle Hill by five men, with painted faces, who, in the first instance, struck Mr. Winton off his horse with a large stone, and while he lay on the ground, insensible, cut off both his ears, part of one of his cheeks, and inflicted other severe wounds on his person, in a most brutal manner. While this piece of butchery was going on, Captain Churchward was hurried into the adjoining woods by two of the band, who or dered him, on his own peril, not to offer resistance or to make the slightest noise. Having completed their diabolical pur pose, the gang retreated to the woods, and Mr. Winton was conveyed to Harbor Grace, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. Stirling, who, we understand, expresses rather a favourable opinion of the state of his unfortunate patient. There are hopes that one of the ears, which was not altogether separated from the head, may yet be restored. Immediately on the re ceipt of the above melancholy intelligence, which created a most powerful sensation throughout the town, his excellency the governor issued a proclamation, offering a reward of £2OO for the discovery of the perpetrators of so abominable an out rage ; and it is reported, that a detachment from the garrison will be immediately despatched to Harbor Grace, to aid and assist the magistrates there in the search and 'inqutry in wirinh they are now actively engaged." The above victim of popery is, we are assured, an highly esteemed gentleman, and the alleged offence was, that he had occasionally expressed his opinions candidly and freely upon the pernicious effects of the present monkish and convent system which for some time has been extending itself in that island. The popish mis sionaries are almost all Irish— where the nuns come from we are unable to tell. It is• stated in ,private letters which we have seen, that the reward offered by the government is £5OO, and that an additional £5OO had been offered by the merchants. The Public Ledger is a conservative paper. That of itself would have rendered Mr. WINTON obnoxious to the monks. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock There has been a decided tendency upward in our money :narket, and this morning consols touched upon 92k, but closed at 91g. Exchequer bills are 27 to 29 prem., and India bonds are 9 to 11 prem. In the foreign market there is a marked improvement, and at the early part of this morning every description of foreign stock advanced :—Columbian touching upon 39, Mexican upon 39, Portuguese upon 90, the 3 per cents 64, Spanish bonds 442, and the scrip 11 discount. Prior to the close of business, however, there was a general digression—Columbian left off at 372, Mexican at 38, Portuguese bonds at 882, Spanish at 412, 44c1 the scrip 14; discount. This depreciation has been caused-by the reported receipt of intelligence from Spain of the defeat of the Queen's forces, with a loss of 4000 men, artillery, &c., &c., before Forlosa, and the subsequent capture of this latter place. Unless, therefore, Lieutenant-Colonel Evans hasten with his levies there will be nothing left him to loose. A version of the new victory attributed to Don Carlos, now current, is, that Zumalacaraguy, by a sudden march, came upon Valdez, near Torlosa, and that on his approach three thousand of the Christinos, with their officers, laid down their arms, that one thousand joined the Carlist ranks, and that at the first charge the remaining troops tied, leaving all their ar tillery, ammunition, and bagging. Much credit is attached here to this intelligence. REVOLT .AT THE CAPE DE VERDS ISLANDS (From our own correspondent.) London, June 17th - We- vo further. aCCO.Ulats of_the recent revolt at the Cape de Vends, by which it would appear that the govirtia Was ptireed 'in a situation of no little - jeopardy upon the recapture of the town by the inhabitants. During the occupation of the place by the revolters, himself and family had been completely pri soners, the house being surrounded by 'soldiers, and loaded can non placed before it, so as to command the building and the public square. Under peril of his life he had been compelled to proclaim Don Miguel. On the recapture of the place by the people on the 30th of May, they were so enraged at the loss of prorrty, and the outrage the place had sustained, that. they had seized -Jpon the unfortunate governor. Senhor Martines had thrown him into confinement, and even threatened his life upon the plea that he ought to have escaped from the town, and not have encouraged the revolters by his presence, although there seems to have been no doubt of his utter inability to send him to Lisbon for trial. The new custom-house laws had ar rived at the Cape de Verds from Lisbon, and were of so rigour ous a nature as to give little encouragement to trade with these islands. Some little additional intelligence had been heard,pc-the re volters. It appears that after leaving the scene of their atrocity they arrived off St. Philip, but, being received by the governor with a discharge of cannon, they returned to the Isle of Brava, where, after having pillaged the inhabitants, they atandoned their Sardinian vessel and seized on another Portuguese vessel, in which they sailed with a sum amounting to 500,000 francs As they were armed, acid the schooner mounted three guns, it was feared they would commit many acts of piracy. Prior to the departure of the regiment from Lisbon, for the Cape de Verde, it had displayed many symptoms of insubordination. LORD STANLEY AND THE CONSER VATIYES.—A meeting of the North Lancashire Conservatives was held at P reston,•on Monday. Very great surprise was expressed at the contents of Lord Stanley's letter to Sir Thomas Hesketh, which has created a very strong sensation among the constituency of this division of the county, and more particularly in the neighbour hood of Preston, the strong hold of his lordship's supporters, where he is most popular. The necessity for looking out.for more uncompromising candidate, in case Lord Stanley should continue his opposition to co nserva ti ve ass ociations, has al- ready been the subject of touch conversation.--( Fran a Corres pondent. ) Mr. W. J. Hammond has accepted an engagement at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, where he will play for a fort night. STREET PREACHING.— "The Rev. G. C. Smith," better known in the metropolis as the " Rev. Boatswain", who has gained some celebrity by preaching in the open air to sailors and boatmen, was brought before Mr. Alderman Stanitorth, at the Dock-office, charged by Mr. Dowling, the superintendent, with obstructing the public road, by holding forth near the I'tiuce's Dock. He was discharged with the understanding that if found repeating the offence he would be held to bail. SCHOOL EX A MINATION.—After the examination of the pupils of Messrs. Sorley, 77, Great George-street, yesterday meek, prizes were awarded to the following young gentlemen for Their proficiency i❑ the various departments of science and literature taught at the academy, viz., Master William 'l'. Denman, Cal cutta, for five classes; Robert Schutz, Demerara, and James B. Black, Belfast, for two classes; John Anderson, Robert W. liarvie, James Rippard, Fraser Sinclair, William S. Kent, William Franklin, William Lenox, George Guore, J. Calvin Kent, Joseph Deane, Richard E. Griffiths, and R. Headland, Li% erpool, and William B. Sorley, Glasgow, for one class. LON !lON PICK POC KETS.—Two of this fraternity were brought to the Hatton-garden police office on Saturday. for an attempt to pick the pockets of two of the judges, Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Littledale. These learned personages were walk ing the streets arm-in-arm together, and an officer saw the offence committed. The prisoners were sent to the House of Correction for three months. Sir John Kingston James, Bart., and a large party from Dublin, arrived here yesterday by his majesty's packet 'Thetis, .Captain Townley, in the unprecedented short passage of ten hours. Amongst the latest departures—if not fashionable at least sudden•;—for the continent, we hear the name of our old friend Mr. Zachary Macaulay. Ile is gone to France for reasons which we suppose will soon be known. We regret to hear, that, in addition to the scant remittances from that Montpelier of Africa, Sierra Leone, there exists a slight suspicion that the East India Company, in the warmth of their indignation at the treatment they have received from ministers, may be induced to remove 'Mr. Macaulay, jun., from Calcutta, simultaneously with Sir R. Grant, G.C.I - 1., from Bombay. This accumulation of ill proves the truth of the Irishman's proverb, that "single misfortunes never come alone."—John Bull. CHARCOAL, DIAMOND, AND LOAF SUGAR.—The charcoal of commerce contains salts and other impurities; the purest is that sold_under the denomination of lamp-black.—Chem►cally consi dered the diamond is pure carbon. The identity of these sub stances, so apparently dissimilar, is proved by a variety of ex periments. By combustion in oxygen gas, it forms the same gas (carbonic acid) as carbon. The oxygen may be separated from this by igniting potassium in it, and the carbon is liberated. Whether the diamond or common charcoal have been eniplo)ed in the formation of carbonic acid, the residual carbon, after the decomposition of the gas by potassium, is black and opaque. Mr. Hemming (in a late lecture) said that the incredulity of those who consider it impossible that the diamond was only a purer kind of charcoal, might, perhaps, be shaken, if he could prove by-experiment that a substance almost asdissimilar in ap pearance to charcoal, namely, loaf sugar, was really little besides charcoal. A piece of fine white loaf sugar was then dissolved in water, and on adding sulphuric acid to it, the whole mass became instantaneously an opaque black solid substance, which was charcoal. Tilt: LIVERPOoIi siPANDAVD TRUTIi versus POPERY. TO TIM EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4NEMRD, Sin,—The correspondent 44 the Liverpool Journal, who as sumes the signature of a Protestant Larn:in, seems to possess an unaccountable antipathy to pulpit eloquence: The persuasive powers . of the orator may be exercised, in all their uncontrol lable energy, at the bar; the genius of pathos may triumph 'OVerour feelings on the stage; the senator may pour forth, in an uninterrupted flood, his keen satire, his brilliant metaphors, his strength of argument, or his startling invective, accom panied by suitable and dignified gesture; the well-delivered extract, the polished verse, or the graceful cadence, may shed a _charm over our social existence; nay, even the unprincipled agitator, bent on his nefarious designs, may affect to wield the thunder of Demosthenes before the gaping and ignorant mul- titude; but when the christian preacher—the plenipotentiary of heaven— stands up to unfold the treasures of divine wisdom —to address his perishing felloW-creatures on affairs of eternal moment—to proclaim the sanctions of the violated_ law—or to whisper to the conscience-struck sinner the soothing words of joy and reconciliation, the ban of proscription is placed upon the use of human eloquence. The itinerant propounder of trea son—the reckless political incendiary—the brawling pot-house legislator —may severally employ a means of influence, from which the duly qualified religious instructor, whose duty'it is to inculcate peace and order, is debarred. This is strange, truly; but quite in keeping with the other foolel•ies of this writer. For my own part, in common with every individual in St. Jude's congregation possessed of a grain of taste, I should be very sorry to see Mr. M'Neill decline his present style of preaching or manner of delivery. Would that we had iu the church a few men such sons of Boanerges! A Protestant Layman augurs truly in supposing that Mr. M'Neill will not condescend to reply to his ridiculous trash. I should be sorry to suspect him to be capable of anything so derogatory to Isis personal character. But it is rather too un• reasonable to complain that the rev. gentleman reserves all his sentiments for extemporaneous delivery, while authorised editions of many series of his discourses have been published. Messrs. Rockliffe and Duckworth will, I dare say, supply them to order. Let this Layman attack these, if he can. This writer charges the protestants of by-gone days with persecuting the catholics, enacting penal statutes against them , confiscating their property, and curtailing them of their pri vileges. Without seeking to invalidate his statements, for bleb, however, no historical proofs are adduced, fshall simply marry- - ef the catholics, in-those troublOd times, were most dangerous characters, conspirators against .the public weal, capable of the most diabolical outrages—witness the hor rible gunpowder plot—thirsting for revenge, desirous of re gaining lost ascendancy, even by employing the poisoned chalice, or the dagger of the assassin. Against such, severity was justifiable. A misplaced tolerance would have cherished into vigorous life a viper, which would have infused its deadly influence into the very vitals of Britain's prosperity. Nor must we forget that much of the harshness displayed naturally arose from that reaction produced in the public mind by the sudden release from popish tyranny, and all its attendant hot rors. If a ruffian gave a Protestant Layman a twist in his cra vat, and, while in a prostrate condition, gave him a sound pummelling, would he not, on regaining his legs and his liberty, feel a powerful impulse to knock the lelloW down? I take this to be a striking illustration of what the people of England felt in the glorious transition from Ro►uish slavery to protestant liberty. Whatever a Protestant Laylran may think, protestantism is not cotnpromised by the apparently harsh proceedings of those who have politically assumed its profession. Persecution 'is not a constituent principle of protestantism—it is of popery. The duty of burning heretics is an article of faith with the catholics. It is avowed—but not acted upon—only because, being outnumbered, they find it expedient to abstain from the practice. I confess that it was an act which tarnished the episcopal church of England to exclude the 2000 non-conforming minis ters from, her bosom; but this Layman will derive no benefit from the concession, if he is told that these identical men were antitypes of Mr. M 'Neill in their zealous opposition to popery. A Protestant Layman asserts that the property of the church was fraudfully" transferred from the catholics to the pro testants. Whether illegal or not, no such transfer ever took place. The property has uniformly been vested in the esta blished church, which certainly ceased to be a popish church. Its possessors changed their religion—the property remaining in the same hands. But the appropriation of the presumed surplus, arising from :he funds of the Irish church, to purposes essentially sectarian, would be a robbery, under whatever mask it might be perpe trated. If a Protestant Layman asserts that the arch-impostor and his tail have a right to dictate the application of a penny arising from this source, for the maintenance of a narrow minded, bigoted system of education, which every true episco palian. repudiates, he hazards his claim to sanity. The pro perty is evidently held in trust by the national church, for pur poses of which that church alone ought to be cognizant. This writer, in another paragraph, charges the ignorance of the Irish peasantry upon the psotestants " Risum teneatis, amici?" Can we really suppose him to be so stultified as to make this assertion in sober earnestness? What! the protestants impli cated in the barbarous ignorance and consequent infatuation of the Irish poor? Who, then, have systematically impeded, and endeavoured to frustrate, the benevolent designs of the pro tectonic, while seeking to civilise the teeming population of Ireland ? Who have denounced from the altar all the efforts which the protestants have made for the instruction of her chil dren in the humanising truths of christianity ? Who have closed up the fountain of pure knowledge, and sealed it with a curse? Who have snatched the book of life. from the trem bling hand of the inquiring peasant, and infamously consigned it to the flames? Who capable of such abominable proceed ings' but an infuriated popish priesthood ? They have barred the avenues to the temple of truth, and held the sword of ex communication over the heads of those who would enter within its hallowed precincts. They have there, as in other countries, secured the perpetuity of their dominion by the prostration of the intellect. This most sapient correspondent of the Journal says that a man does not become a better christian when he apostatise,. In plain English, he maintains that a heathen, Mohamedan, or, what is worse, a Roman catholic, when he changes his religion for protestantism, does not become a better christian! I can not stand this. I must have a regular guffaw. We next stumble upon a string of childish questions. Some of these 1 shall quote, with appropriate replieS. " Why is the communion table placed in the east end of the church?" This is rot always the case, as the map of Liverpool will prove The only plea which can be offered for this custom is architec• tural precedent. ' " - Why should the eucharist be received kneeling in our church?" Let every thing be done decently and in order, is an apostolic direction. in conformity with which this mode has been preferred. Where the posture of the body is a matter of complete indifference, the most devout attitude may be reason ably prescribed. „. c.‘ Why do the deacons, priests, &c., wear certain peculiar vestments ?" I should like to have the cranium of a Protestant Layman submitted to the inspection of a shrewd phrenologist; I think he would find the bump of order very sparingly de veloped. It would be quite as pertinent for me to inquire why he does not go to St. Jude's decorated with a cap and bells? If my conjectures are correct, by so doing he would not make himself a whit more conspicuous than by making ugly faces at Mr. M'Neill, to the great discomposure of his fair neigh bours, significantly reminding them of the physiogronaical con tortions clan owl in the gripes. Why are certain ceremonies resorted to in the coronation of the king and queen?" Why does a Protestant Layman "rub licitate" such inanities? " Why does the church forbid the parents of a child to be come its sponsors?" There is uo such interdict. 1 have myself stood in that capacity for two of my children. "The church of England derives her authority from a church which she stigmatises as idolatrous." She does no such thing. She traces her pure and proved origin to the primitive church established in this kingdom long before the days of monkish innovation. "The church of. England has borrowed her ritual from the Roman catholic formularies." So far as the church of Rome has copied from the bible, or manifestly constructed her ser vices in accordance with the word of truth, the church of Eng ,land has imitated her, rejecting only the straw and stubble of her unscriptural superadditions. A Protestant Layman. threatens Mr. Wtieill with a third let ter. I anticipate it will contain his farina! recantation of protes tantism, and an account of his cordial admission to the privi leges of the holy mother church. His extravagant eulogies of popery justify me in thus expressing myself. But before I have done with him, I will propose the following morsel of logic for his digestion:— The psalmist says, "Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption." The church of Rome says that the bread and wine in the eucharist, are converted into the body and blood of our saviour. But the elements so asserted to be changed are liable to, and do undergo the process of putrefaction. Therefore the church of Rome contradicts the psalmist. Let this be explained away, if possible, without having re course to metaphysical niceties about accidents, virtual sub stance, &c., which is done designedly to envelope the subject in mystery.—l am, &c. CY Al 110. THE SPANI.SH ExPEDiTioN.—A contemporary states that on Saturday morning, Colonel Evans, in answer to a gentleman who waited upon him to know his intentions with respect to his seat in parliament, said, "t shall not resign; it is not neces sary I should do so, for I shall not quit the country just yet, and before the next session I shall be back again. My constituents will sustain no injury by any absence." Volunteers for Spain are to apply to Colonel E vans, under whom the force is to act ye. _. -- --.--q ; ~--- ,_., CHARITY SCHOOLS' aI.NN I V ERSARY. The anniversary or assemblage of the children educated in the schools connected with the established church in this town took place yesterday. Between nine and ten o'clock in the morning the several schools walked in procession from St Pe ter's Church through Lord-street and Castle-street, and from thence across the Exchange, round the Town Hall, returning to the same place by the same route, in the following order: — (viz. ) The Workhouse Schools, 474; All Saints' Church School, 439; St. Catherine's, 208; St. Matthias, 320; St. Augustine's, 161; Wavertree National, 160; St. Jude's, 290; St. John the Baptist, Toxteth, 295; St. Bride's, Windsor, 70; St. Michael's, 160; South Corporation (Free School), 830; North Corporation (Free School), 1,000; Welsh Charity, 260; St. James, '218; Hunter-street (Free School), 250; St. Mi chael's, Toxteth, 49; St. Matthew's, 425 ; St. Mark's, 408; Everton and Kirkdale, 488; Moorfields, 300; St. Andrew's, 283; Edgehill, 235; Female Industry, 10'2; Blue Coat Hospi tal, 350; making a total number of 7,775, of whom 3,618 were Shortly after:eleven o'clock the blue coat boys and girls, who walked in the rear of the procession, having passed round the Town-hall, were followed by the mayor and bailiffs, the very rev. Thomas Calvert, D.D. warden of Manchester, the rectors and nearly all the clergy of Liverpool, and some private gentle men; to St. Peter's church, where divine service was performed on the occasion. During the whole of the time the children were passing to and from the Exchange, Church-street, Lord street, and Castle-street were crowded with spectators, and it would be difficult to imagine a more interesting sight than the healthy, cleanly, and neat appearance they presented, especi ally when contrasted with the ►ags and filth of some hundreds of other boys and girls who crowded those streets to look on as idle spectators. Before the arrival of the mayor,' St. Peter's. church was filled. The service was read by the Rev. Rector Brooks; Mr. Maybrick presided at the organ, and before and during the service the children admitted into the church sang the 100th psalm, " Venite exultemus Domino," "Te Deum," "Jubilate Deo," "Lord of heaven, and earth, and ocecn," and "Thy throne, 0 God ! in righteousness." The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Calvert, from the 3d epistle of St. John, 4th verse, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." The rev. divine, in his admirable discourse, enforced the necessity of supecadding a knowledge of "gospel truth" to the instruction given to the youthful mind. The church, he said, had endeavoured to secure this object by the appoint►isent of sponsors, who, at the baptismal font, undertook to pi ovide the necessary instruction; were the spirit .of this solemn engagement fulfilled; if sponsors did their duty, suich institutions as the one in whose behalf he was addressing them would be less necessary to counteract the effects of their neg ligence. The church, in enjoining upon the ministry the ° duty of catechising the children of their flock, necessarily pre-sup. posed that they had .been previously instructed elsewhere. This defect could only be supplied by the liberality of the public. If it were allowable to allude in that place to what had been done by the legislature, he might say that while the tem poral care of the poor had been provided for, their spiritual wants had been altogether neglected; this had been left to the munificence and the piety of individuals. The rev. gentleman, in speaking of the rapid spread of national schools, said that that work of love had only begun—the mere ability to acquire knowledge was not ennugh—these schools were not fora.ed to make scholars and philosophers of, the poor; they were pro jected as a medium for the diffusiOn of christiau knowledge; and, having taught children to read the bible, if they were de sirous that they should "walk in truth," they must teach them how to apply the knowledge which they had given. The preacher briefly adverted to the serious loss which the schools had sustained by the death of Mr. Dobson, and urged his hearers to follow the example which he had set them. The collection at the doors of the church amounted to £8.5. The number of children now attached to these schools shows an increase over last year of about 1500. Although some new schools have been established, still the pupils of each separate school have considerably increased. THE NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE. As this magnificent structure, at once the offspring and the most splendid ornament of the extending commerce of the town, will shortly be opened, the following particulars respecting it, for which we are chiefly indebted to Mr. Weythman, the prin cipal draughtsman to the architect, and Mr. Argent, the clerk of the works. may not be uninteresting : The builditt is erected on the site of the Old Dock, or, as it was originally called, about a century ago, " The Dock," and for magnitude and acdommodation is unequalled by any other in the town: The trade of the port having increased to such a degree that the old custom-house was found quite inadequate to the purposes required, and the excise -office, the office for the distribution of stamps, post-office, and dock-offices being all separated. by considerable distances from each other, the cor poration determined upon erecting the present magnificent structure, on a scale commensurate with the growing importance of the town. Mr. Foster, the corporation architect, was accord ingly requested to prepare designs for the intended erection, it having been decided that the central situation in which it now stands - was the most fitting that could be found. A negotiation was opened on the subject with government, and through the powerful mediation of Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson, ar rangements were satisfactorily made for its commencement. It wAs resolved that the corporation should give the land, valued at £9O,(XX), should undertake the erection of the building, and at the expiration of twenty years should cede the building to the government, on the express stipulatiob that the latter should pay to the corporation the sum of £150,000, by annual instal ments of LAW). Mr. Foster's chaste design having received the approval of the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Works, the founda tion-stone was laid in the northeast corner of the dock, on the 12th of August, 1828, by the worshipful the mayor, Thomas Colley Porter, Esq., with every demonstration of joy. A splen did procession, composed of many members of the common council, and other gentlemen, and the various trades of the town, as a marked triblite of the- respect in which the worthy magistrate was held, attended his worship on this occasion, and to the evening a sumptuous banquet was given at the Town hall, by the mayor, to upwards of two hundred gentlemen. The whole of the basement is vaulted for the reception of bonded or other goods. The entire west wing is set apart for the customs' offices, and in the centre are the approu,oes and the " Long-room." The southern part of the east wing is appropri ated to the general postoflice ; above this are the excise offices, and the remaining portion comprises the stamp-office, the dock treasurer's and secretary's offices, and the board-room and offices of the dock committee. This stupendous pile, at once a great public convenience and ornament, is in the lonic style of architecttire. The east and west fronts, together with the centre, have splendid porticoes adorned with the royal arms. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude by the dimensions subjoined. The basement is rusticated, and each angle of the building is ornamented by a bold pilaster supp o rting an entablature, which j is carried round three sides of the edifice. Through the centre of the building are three footwalks for the convenience of the public, to connect the bottom of Pool-lane with Park-lane. On the right and left of these footwalks are small flights of steps leading to the passages and grand staircases. This part of the building has groin and semi arches, with sunk panels of hewn stone, springing off clusters of pilasters and opposite antra. Four magnificent double staircases lead to the long room, which has a segment-ceiling supported by sixteen columns, thirty-two pilasters, and twenty-eight semi-pilasters. the columns being 27 feet in height and 3 feet in diameter. The length of-this splen did chamber is 146 feet; the width 70 feet; and the total height i s 45 feet. The whole is surmounted by a beautiful dome of about 50 feet high. Two smaller domes admit light to the cen tre of the east and west wings and their passages. The walls of this immense structure have been, brought up from the bottom of the Old Dock, an average depth of. 32 feet below the street level; the stone for the principal part of the work was brought from the Manley Quarries, in Cheshire, and is a beautiful freestone of great durability. The plinth is of granite, from the Bramley-fall Quarries, in Yorkshire; and the beautiful columns of the interior are for the most part of Talacre stone. The building was delayed for about six months by a strike of the workmen connected with the trades' union. We believe it was one of the first in which steam-engines have been used for hoisting the materials. Including the 'sunken areas, it covers 6,700 superficial yards of land, and we may safely pro nounce it to be a building of which Liverpool has reason to he proud. The vaults are lighted by 33 windows of 5 feet in height ; the ground or principal floor by 84 windows of 10 feet 4 lilacs in height; and the second floor by 102 windows of 12 feet 6 inches iu height, except those in the long-room. which have semi circular heads, and are 16 feet 10 inches high. The whole of the windows on the east, west, and north fronts have moulded architraves. Besides these, the attics are lighted by 97 windows, 73 of which are not visible from the street. _ The extreme length of the building, measuring from east to west through the. porticoes, is 466 feet 8 inches; the extreme length of the wings is 224 feet 7 inches; the width of the wings is 94 feet 4 inches; the length of the centre is 6252 feet 6 inches; the width of the centre through the portico is 95 feet. The depth of the base and plinth is 7 feet 5 inches; the full height of the columns, including the'cap and base, is 50 feet 9 inches; and the diameter 5 feet. The depth of the architrave and facia is 4 feet 2 inches; depth of the frize,l feet 7 inches; thickness of the cornice, 3 feet 10 inches; height of the blocking or para pet, 4 feet 6 inches; making a total height from the plinth of 66 feet 10 inches. The height of the first floor above the flagging of the footwalks is 6 feet ; height of the principal story, 2(1 feet; height of the second story, 21 feet 6 inches; height of the attics, 14 feet 8 inches. Unlike many of the public buildings of the metropolis, the Liverpool Customhouse is admirable from its simplicity and modest grandeur. No puerile attempt at osten tatious decoration disfigures the pile, but all harmonises with tile intention of the building, viz., a commercial edifice for the accommodation of a commercial people, "whose merchants are . princes," and whose enteiprise is bounded only by the horizon. The following gentlemen were the contractors for the work.; masonry,. Messrs. Tomkinsou and :on; brickwork, Messrs. S. and J. koline ; carpenters and joiners' work, Messrs. Foster and Stewart; slating and plastering, Mr. R. M•Kee; plumbing and glazing, Mr. J. Knight; painting, Mr. J. Thompson ; iron work, Messrs. Mather, Dixon, and Co. A PAMPERED IRISH PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN.—At a meet ing of the clergy and others, connected with the deanery of Southwark, held on Thursday, at St. Saviour's Church, for the purpose is of addressing the king on the dangers to which protest autism exposed, the Knight of Kerry related that he had re ceived a letter from a clergyman in Ireland in which he stated the following facts :—viz. "that his family were thirteen in num• her, that his glebe consisted of twelve acres which were culti vated by his own sons, and which barely supplied them with roots to keep them from starving ; that he had bot £5 in the house since last October, and it was borro•ved money; and that finally he was so far reduced as to be unable to release his letters front the Post-office !" This illustration of one of "the pampered clergy of Ireland" we recommend to the attention of Mr. Arch deacon Glover, , whose disgracefully false account of the Church of Ireland received its merited exposure at the hands of the Knight of Kerrv, who we take to he a better authority than the political chaplain of Mr. Coke of llo;kham, and who made him self conspicuous some few years ago by publicly, praying for Queen Car line I—The Age, TON ACES. 'the Right g un: Lord W$ TANLERY.P., and HaNgT /30E9 HOUGHTON, EST, , M Stewards. WEDNESDAY, June lith.—The 'Trial Stakes Of 10 sows each ; with 25 sovs added. One mile and a quarter. 5 subs. • Sir T. Stanley's ii c Intriguer, 4 yrs 1 Mr Nanncv's be Friar Tuck, 3 yrs '2 Mr E. Peel's ch g Noodle. 4 yrs • • a Sir J. Boswell's b m Lady Moore Carew, 5 yrs - U 6 to 4 on in triguer.--Wo n easy. The Produce Stakes of 50 sows each, It ft. One utile and ti Mr Houhlsworth' s c h c Tur d ban, istance. by Sultan , Mr W I Turner's eh c E quator, b y Battledore - • • Eight paid.-3 to lon 'Turban; a good race, The Golborne Stakes of 20 sovs each, for two year olds. The Golborne Course. Mr Peirse's b f by Waverley - 1 Sir Thomas Sta n l ey ' s c h fb y Battledore • - - 4 2 Mr Armitage's ch c Brother to Her Majesty • 0 Mr W. Turner's hr c Blackburn, by Peter Lely Mr R. Turner's b f by Olympus Mr Allanson's eh f Vulture - Mr E. Peel's hr c M orr i scn Lord Derby's ch f Glee, by Langar. 4 0 Mr Powlett's b f Miss Julia ; Sister to Francesca - 0 Mr Birch's ch c Reuben, by Bay Mahon Mr Philip's br cby Bay Mallon 4 Mr Thompson's ch f L a d y F ranc e s, by P redictor Mr Mostyn's b c Tom Shipman, by Teniers - • 0 Three paid.-5 to 2 agst Sir T. Stanley's ch fby Battledore ; 6 to 4 agst b f by Waverley.—A good race . A Gold Cup, value £lOO, the gift of the Lord of the Manor,- added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, and sif declared on the Ist of April. Two miles and a distance: 20 subscribers. Sir J. Boswell's ch c General Chasse. 4 yrs, Bst 71b 1 Mr E Peel's eh c Tainworth, 4 yrs, 7 s t 131 b ' Mr Bower's b ur Lady Stafford, 6 yrs, Bst slb Mr G. Cook's br c Red Rover, 4 y rs , '7st 81b 4 4 Mr 'Wilbraham names b g Mezereon, 5 yrs, Bst 411• • 0 Mr Cri!ehley names b c Lord Francis, 3 yrs, sst 13. b ' 0 Mr R. Turner's br f Miss Golborne, 4 yrs. 7st lib U Sir J. Boswell's br c Masetto, 4 yrs, Bst 31b - 4.. U Sir J. Hilton names eh c Fitzdictor, 5 yrs, Bst 31b 5t04 on Chasse, 3to 1 agst lied Rover.—A good race, hut _ won easily. A Plate of £7O, for horses, &c., that never won £5O. General Yates's hr Grarninont, 8 yrs 1 Mr Ha __mer's , c Luck's All, 4 yrs 2 2 Mr Thompson's ch c Soho, 4 vrs - 3 0 Mr Mostyn's ch . f L'Hirondelle, 3 yrs • - 0 Mr Bower's hr c Tom Basford, 3 yrs 0 Mr Hindle's br f CharkAte, 4 vrs - '‘) Mr H. J. Mostyu's ch c The Miner, 3 yrs - p THURSDAY. A Sweepstakes of 20 sues each, with 20 sovs added, for three year old flies.—one mile and a half. Lord Derby's ch f Verbena ,., 1 Mr Mostvn' s c h f U sury 2 Mr W. Turner's ch fby L o t tery —El eanor • • a Mr Birch's gr fby Autocrat ' r The Borough C u p, va l ue 1 00 sovs, aided to a subscription of 10 sovs eac n h. Two miles. 8 subs. Sir .T. Bos we ll 'S ch c Geeral Chasse, 4 y rs • - 1 Sir 'l'. Stanley's b-c lntriguer,4 vrs _ , • - 2 The St. Leger Stakes of 25 sovs each, with 25 sacs added. One mile and three-quarters. Mr W. Tu rner ' s ch c Equator, by Battledore Mr Nanney's b c Friar Tuck, by Emilius Lord Derby's ch c Aniurath, by - Langar • 3 Two paid. A Plate of £7O. Heats two miles. 9 subs. Mr E. Peel's ch g Noodle, 4 yrs • • 1 1 Sir T. Stanley's b e Young tarragon, 4 yrs • . 2 ../ The fob following races come off this day :—The Shriglev Cup ; value 10J sous., given by Win. Turner, Esq., M.P., added td a Ilandicap'Stakes of 15 sties. each, 10 sues. ft.; 28subscribers ; 12 of whom pay 5 sues, each. The Warringt,in Purse of 5U snvs., added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 Stirs. each: Mitch for 100 sues., h.ft., the St. Helen's Purse, and a Platd of £70., 15 subscribers. PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, JUNE 18, 18:35, Liverpool Coal Gas Per Nhalr.. .. Liverpool New G ... ... 1:300 0 0 as and Coke Co m p any, £lOO ........ 1 80 0 0 New Shares,pre m i um £3o , BO 0 0 Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Exchange B - . £lOO paid 2ko 0 0 0 Ditto Old Quarters 25 49 0 4 Ditto Now Quarters - 25 —4815 0 Bolton and Leigh ditto Ditto 25 20 0 0 Warrington and Newton ditto Kenyon and Leigh ditto Preston And Wigan North Union Line 11:t1.1 2O 13 5 0 St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditt0...... .. • 300 45 0 Leicester and Swannington ditto - Stockton and Darlington ditto Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railway 1 38 20 2 6 ---- and Canal Leeds and Selby Railway Grand Junction ditto London and Birmingham ditto 35 45 10 0 Bank of Liverpool lO .14 5 5 0 Sank of Manch es t er 25 —32 (1 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 20 5 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool lO ---13 7 6 Liverpool Marine Assurance Company 25 21 0 0 Oldham Gas Light and Wat erwor k s - 17 0 0 Manchester Fire and Life Assurance C 0...., 10 10 0 0 Ocean Assurance Company Northern and Central Bank of England lO 11 0 0 WANTED. Exehan ,, e Shares—Liverpool New Gas and Coke Shares—Mersey and Irwell. RICHARD DAWSON, Share Broker. ODD Fisti—We have been furnished with the follOtving, et: tract from the log book of the whale ship Brighton, R., Tucker man, Master Thursday, April 11, IBM —This twentv.four hours pleasant trades. Saw a curious fish, very much like, or a mermaid itself; was about nine feet long, laid on its hack about one foot under water, the bead about as large as human, and the same shape, the neck about as large and long as a man's, the arms or flippers about two feet long, about ten inches wide at the shoulders, and tapered to a point, the tail much like k porpoise ; the colour brown, a light coloured streak on each side, abort four inches wide, from the shoulders to-the tail, with dark spots therein. Lat. 5, 17, 8, and long , by chronometer, 109, 47. W., and by lunar, 109, 14, W."—Salem (American) Mercury. INDUCEMEN T OF ALFIZEDTHE'GREAT TO LEARN To REA It was Alfred's misfortune in infancy to lose his mother, a per son of excellent ablility and conspicuous piety : his extraordinary talents, therefore, owed but little to her culture. Nor does any uegree of scholarship appear to have entered into the plans of those who directed his earlier education. He was trained in the habits of a sportsman and a warrior; but his twelfth year over- took him while yet unable to read. Ile had shown, however, a considerable taste for literature, in his keen attention to the poems commonly recited in the royal presence. By one of these, beautifully written, his mother-in-law, Judith, endeavoured tct shame the gross illiteracy of her new connexions. " I will give this," she said, " to that one of you. young people, who shall first learn it by heart." Aifred gazed eagerly upon the manuscript, fascinated particularly by an illuminated capital. " Now, will you really give this ?" he asked. Judith declared herself in earns est. Nothing more was needed by the resolute and intelligent boy. He applied himself i n st an tl y to l earn hi s l etters, nor did he rest until able to repeat accurately the poem th a t h a d so h app il y captivated his eye. Ile now found his eager thirst of knowledge met by a mortifying repulse. Reading to any extent, or to much advantage, required a knowledge of Latin. Upon overcoming this new difficulty he soon accordingly determined. But iustrue , Lion was not easily obtained. even by a prince. The taste fot s learning, and the facilities for its cultivation, which England once owed to Theodore, had become extinct. Alfred, however, feeling ignorauce insupportable, was impelled by a generous energy to set ordinary obstacles at defiance, and he diligently sought instructors. Wow effectually he profited by their aid, his literary labours most nobly testify, These evidences of learned industry are, indeed, sufficient for immortalizing any name in a dark and tempestuous age. As the works of an author, unable even to read, until fulls - twelve years old, and who grew into man. - hood before h e h a d m a s tered Latin, they chins a distinguished place among victories of the human intellect. —Soatne's History of the Anglo-Saxon Church. Cheap KNOWLEDGE!—One of the most "public-spirited" and " patriotic"- booksellers in London—the ultra-liberal member of the coaimon council of London, and most conspiennus joint in the tail of Mr. Grote, when that gentleman waited upon the chancellor of the exchequer the other day to urge u'on hint the propriety of abolishing the newspaper stamp-duty, in eider that people might get knowledge cheaper—h as cop i e d f rom the newspapers and published in the shape of a pamphlet Lord John- Russell's speech on the corporation reform—and for the small charge (!I three pence? Can-any thing be more tibtru/ than the conduct of this cherip-inowledge monger? Instead of en- , gaging reporters to take the speech for him, he waits quietly 11D-. til the newspapers have taken all that t rou bl e an d expense off his hands ; an.: then, purchasing twenty-four columns of " taxed knowledge" for serenpenre, he generously reprints three co lumns of the four and - twenty, • stitches them into untaxed parn , ' phlets, and_demands only three pence a-piece for them !--t hat is to say, only about two-thirds more money than the taxed news , paper-maker with all his expensive array of 'expresses, report= ers, &c. &c., gets ter his whole twenty-four columns ! Can any thing be more patriotic? Why, if the whole twenty-four co- , burins were to be thus scissored, and pasted, and reprinted at the same rate, a sevenpenuy newspaper, paying a feurpenny tax, might he concerted into just tieo shit.lings worth of "or ! taxed knowledge !!" Can any thing he more.cleap. and public-spi rited? This is a curious fact, and well artnah the consideration of Mr.'Spring Rice and the more gullible portion of the public. —Morning Herald; BROUGHAM AND BnUCE C ASTIE.—The father of the notosia ous MattheW Davenport Hill, late member for Hull for the: good of the public, and member of divers Whig cOmini,sions fur the gond of himself, is the sou of a Sucinian schoolmaster At Tottenham, who carries on the pedagogue's trade in a lino .e which he styles " Bruce's Castles""This said ca,tle, tor board- ing school, has the honour of furnishing no less than fire voteis to Mr. HuMe's poll—to wit ; Hill, Thomas One-sixth share of Bruce Castle, in coo- . Wright freehold huUse junction with his sons, Edwin, 1- -land, ill, Edwin ill, Rowland ill, Frederic ill, Arthur From Fraser's ...., tiowlanu, At , thur,.and Frederic. Do. Bruce Castle. Do. Bruce Caste. Do. Bruce Castle. Do. Bruce Castle. Magazine fur the present month. Ipswich ELEcTioN.—Messrs. Dundas and Fitzroy Kelly have been unseated for Ipswich, and the former election has been declared void. As the matter is before the house of Coin= mons, we refrain at the present moment froth making many rem marks—we merely now observe, that front having ourselves heard the evidence of the witness Pilgrim, and haviug also hearcrthe solemn and don declaration made by Fitzroy Kelly before the committee. viz.:—'' I most solemnly declare, upon my honour as a gentleman, and upon my conscience as a nian i that I was not cognisant of the bribery which is alleged to have taken place"—having, we repeat, ourselves heard all this , we have only to reeordiour t'onvicti u n th a t Mr. Fitziey Kedy spoke tie truth.' We could say a grea t d ea l a b o ut Mr. Wason— but it is not worth while. Vv , e might also sae a little about hi r. Morrison—but he is too well known to need our noticing bite. We are glad, however, to hear that neither of these gen- , Gernert will walk over the course at Ipswich, as Nlt•\V. Holmes and Mr. E. Broke Vere, (brother of Sir Charles Broke Vete, the conservative member for East Suf f olk), have already taken the field to oppose them: We shall, we trust, be eycnsed front asking, now that we are upon the subject, Mess's. Morrison and Wason, how it happens that they did not proceed with at serutin;y, which would have seated them, tire rilesars.. Dondat and Kelly, instead of leaving them to try a lice election ? Were they afraid ? Perhaps some Pi/soim might bate turned traitor on their side. However, we trust that the Ipswich. people know the Vampire Wason and Netting Mot rison as well as tfi EC do—if they do, there can he no doubt of Messrs. Broke Vere's success,—The /19e, r; F,..