The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Mr. POWER being sufficiently recovered to enable him to resume his professional duties, will appear this evening in his favourite character of O'Callaghan in the new Drama of HIS LAST LEGS, being the last night but three of his engagement. The last night but three of Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN, and their Pupils, Master and Miss MAR SHALL, and Miss TAYLOR. First night of the New Ballet of the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. THIS present TUESDAY, June 30, 1840, the Entertain ments will commence with the Operetta of ROSINA. After which, for the third time here, a new Farce, written expressly for Mr. Power, and performed with distinguished success at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, (a man of genius on his last legs).. Mr-Power, As originally performed by him. To conclude with, for the first time here, a new Grand Bal let, with new and appropriate Scenery, Dresses, and Deco rations, called the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. Rudolph.... Mr. Gilbert. Fleur des Champs (the Daughter of the Danube).. Miss Ballin Bertha and Gertrude Miss Taylor and Miss Marshall. To conclude with the Burlesque Drama of BOMBASTES FURIOSO. On WEDNESDAY, for the Benefit of Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN, the New Drama of the IRISH AT TORNEY. O'Hara (his original character) Mr. Power ; with the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE, and other Entertainments. EXHIBITION. CAPTAIN SIBORN' S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF .WA TERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Oven from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. EXHIBITION. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET. E EXHIBITION (nothing similar to which has ever been seen in Liverpool) is NOW OPEN every day (Sundays excepted) from Nine A.m. to Ten P.M. It consists chiefly of a large and valuable Collection of PAINTINGS, by Ancient and Modern Artists ; STATUES, among which are many by Gibson, Canova, Wolff; Gott ; MODELS of Steamboats, Locomotives, ils, Buildings of all kinds; Spccimens , of - Manufactured Goods in: their various stages ; Lathes ; Printing, Lithographic, and Cop perplate Presses; Potters' Wheel; Fringe-making Machine ; Canal with Fountains ; Railway and Arch ; Antiquities • part of Dr. Raffles's Collection of Holographs ; Specimens Of Na tural History ; and General Curiousities ; in all, Fifteen Rooms being occupied by the different departments of the The processes cf Glass-blowing, Printing, Lithographing, Figure Casting, Weaving, Fringe-making, Copperplate Print bur, Paper Staining, arid Earthenware Manufacturing, are in full operation. The interesting Acoustic Apparatus, called the INVISIBLE GIRL, and the 'DAGUERREOTYPE may also be seen. At One and Eight p.m. every day, the Oxy-Hydrogen Microscope, Phantasmagoria, or interesting Chemical Expe riments are exhibited in the Lecture-room. Magnetic and Electric Apparatus in operation all day. The process of Type-founding - is explained every evening, -froin - Half-past Seven to HaV.:past Eight. - Contributors, who have. sent articles, as in some cases, without furnishing descriptions or names, are respectfully requested to communicate with the Secretary. Single Admission, ONE SHILLING, from NINE tO FOUR; SIXPENCE, from . Foun to TEN.. Season Tickets (not trans ferable), 2s. Gd.. As the Exhibition positively cannot remain open longer *au the Midsummer Vacation, and as a fortnight has al ready elapsed since the closing of the Schools, visits ought to lia made without delay. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. tier Zibtrpoot TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1840. We have received a copy of the Guiana Times of the 22nd of May. It 'states that Mr. Young, the Gover nor's Secretary, was likely to proceed to England in the Rapid, which was to sail for Liverpool in a few days. This paper conveys to us the cheerful intelli gence that the Immigration Society was certain to be soon put in possession of funds. The gentlemen of the csolony, both planters and others, were taxing them selves two per cenL on the last year's produce or income, and it was computed that from £20,000 to £30,000 would be speedily raised. As the government refused to consent to a legislative tax upon the colo nists for immigration purposes, the inhabitants had come to the resolution to tax themselves, for their own benefit. One hundred and forty estates or individuals had already pledged themselves, and many others would follow the general example. The Guiana Times adds—" Of course, -when the taxes come to be raised by law, this voluntary contribution will be scrupulously allowed for. The Home Government must, ere this, have disallowed all the obstructive acts_ of our neigh bours, and, with £26,000 in hand, we shall do much more towards relieving our distresses, than people can have, under present circumstances, any adequate con ceptigu,of. Let there, then, be one common ground, the good of the community, on which men of all shades of politics may unite, enmlous only to outvie each other in patriotic energy." A new paper, to be published twice a week, was an nounced to appear in the • colony, to be called the Guiana Reformer, and intended to be conducted upon purely independent principles. The Berbice Advertiser had ceased to exist. The adjourned debate on the Civil List hid been resumed in the Combined Court on the 28th of April. No decision is announced in the paper before us. It was strongly urged by several of the leading members that the resolutions of the Court should have formed the basis of any bill for establishing a new Civil List; and that no bill should ever have been introduced, until the sanction of her Majesty's Secretary of State had been given to the resolutions, or the Governor had felt himself warranted in acceding to the terms of those resolutions. The Court, it was stated, was prepared to offer an enlarged Civil List, if the government allowed to the colony the privilege of introducing free labourers. unfettered by any indenture, and brought thither without any expense to themselves. More rea sonable terms than these it is impossible to suggest. Since the above was written, we have been favoured with a file of the Guiana Times to the above date. The paper of the 20th ultimo contains the speech of his Excellency the Governor, on terminating the Session of the Combined Court. He commences by stating that the decision to which the majority of the Court had come, amounted to an express determination, on their part, not to proceed with the estimates, except on terms to which he could not accede. He therefore de clares that he felt it to be incumbent upon him to terminate the session, and announces that the clergy, the police, and the public hospital, would be unpro vided for; that no prisoners could be sent to gaol, either in town or elsewhere, since no means had been ',..4.4)rovided for their subsistence; and that the public works, then - in progress, would be delayed, and faith broken with the public creditor. The Governor then adds, " I desire to place on record, with feelings of sorrow rather than of reproach, my official protest agaist the course you have pursued, and to admonish you that it is unwise as regards your own reputation-- impolitic in reference to the proprietary interests, which alone you represent—and most injurious to the great Ludy-of the- labouring people, whose industry and good conduct have given them claims on this Court, which cannot be neglected without peril to 'society." He concludes by stating that as the Combined Court had decided by their votes that they would not proceed with the estimates of the current year; as they did not confine their objections to the form of the estimate, or content themselves with refusing the items that related to Berbice, but had come to a conclusion on the first item ;_ and as they would not proceed unless an addi tional guarantee or security was given, which it was out of his power to accord, he adjourned the Court sine die. On the difference between the Combined Court and the executive, the Guiana Times has the following remarks " Postponing all other topics, now of comparatively little moment, we hasten to publish intelligence as important as was ever divulged through our humble instrumentality. " The crisis which all rational men long foresaw, has at length come upon us. Weary of the arbitrary and superciliou s conduct of the executive, and seriously alarmed by his daring aggressions on popular privileges, the representatives of the colonists have been forced to teach him, that there is a point beyond which endurance is impossible. Our reasonable demands, and his unjust rejection of them, his acts and our sufferings, his petuleuce' ou r patience, all that he has usurp ed, and we have tolerated, since the fatal hour when our first puisue judge, forgetting the dignity of the bench, degenerated into a rabid politician, to curse, with rash promptings, the counsels which he wanted the judgment to lead to a happy issue, the insolence of his minions, the forbearance, if not tameness, of our g,uardians in the local legislature, will be brought forcibly before the parent government. And may God, of his unspeakable goodness, grant, that, from a con juncture of affairs which we know, will bear hard on many, but with the creation of which, the infatuation of the local government is alone chargeable, may result the restoration of public respect to the Queen 's representative, public confi deuce to herjudges, and decent consideration and becoming • . public regard to all the officers of her government. Then, even those who will have suffered the most by this temporary interruption of the supplies, will have cause to be deeply grateful to the gentlemen who had the intrepidity to occasion _ _ _ W e have been favoured, in addition, with the follow . sextracts of a private letter from Demerara, which will b e perused with interest " Demerara, 23rd May, 1840. " The political affairs of the colony have at length reached a crisis : the supplies have been stopped, and the Governor has abruptly terminated the session of the combined court. " The cause which immediately led to this unhappy event, is the attempt on the part of the executive to proceed with the estimate of the three counties jointly, without reserving the Berbice acre money for the redemption of the Berbice paper money, a reservation which had been specially granted both in the civil list ordinance of 1836, in an ordinance of June 1839, and in one of the 6th of February 1840. If you take the trouble to read our colonial papers, and compare their reports of the proceedings, you will be able to form a pretty accurate opinion of the conduct both of the executive and of the financial representatives. " I had intended to send you copies of a circular addressed by Sir M. M`Turk to all the clergy of all persuasions, and of the petition which accompanied it, but I find them both em bodied in a letter in the Times of last night, addresSed to Sir M. M'Turk, and in which the matter is very well handled. I beg, therefore, to refer you to it. " The £30,000 which was raised last year for immigration purposes are now to be applied as part of the ways and means of the country, which will of course diminish by so much the amount of taxes to be raised this year. It has, therefore, been proposed that, as many labourers, it is•even said•I0,000, are understood to be anxious to come from Barbadoes and other islands to this country, if there were means to bring them, we should raise a sum in lieu of the said £30,000, by a voluntary tax not exceeding two per cent. on the crops of last year, according to the official returns. The proposal has already received the assent of the- representatives of about 140 estates, nor is any opposition to it expeeted. This is the last hope of the Immigration Society, which, without some such aid promptly afforded, must cease to exist. A vessel with immigrants from America is daily expected to ar rive, having been appointed to leave Baltimore on the 14th April. " Some time ago we were told that we were only to have black troops here, in consequence of the terrible mortality in the 76th regiment last year. Accordingly the whole of the Ist West India regiment has been here some time, together with one wing of the 70th ' • but the high wages and superior comforts enjoyed by the labourers have induced the black troops to desert in such numbers that they are obliged to be sent away : a part are gone already, and their place is sup plied by white troops. " I omitted to observe in the proper place, that the clergy, one and all, with the exception of the Roman Catholic, scouted Sir M.lllfTurk's circular as an insult." The Colonial Passengers' Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on Thursday last, when Lord Brougham expressed his satisfaction with the resolution of the House of Commons, relative to the importation of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius and other colonies. The remarks of the noble and learned lord elicited some pertinent and cogent remarks from Lord Ashburton on the state of our colonies, and more particularly of the West Indies. He very properly observed that if no thing were done to procure for our planters a supply of labour, the sugar colonies were for ever gone to this country. After declaring himself to have always been a conscientious advocate for the emancipation of the slaves, and a decided enemy to the infamous traffic in human beings, the noble lord proceeded to charge those who had been most hostile to the continuance of West India slavery with inconsistency, in their endeavours to prevent the planters from acquiring labour for the cul tivation of their estates. This opposition, he main tained, would be found to operate, not in favour of hu manity, but against it. As a mere question of huma nity the professed friends of the West Indian popula tion were taking the worst course they could pursue. The people of this country might endure high prices for even articles of necessity, as long as they were sup ported on a principle of humanity; but there would be a termination to that forbearance when the pressure became too great. Two alternatives are therefore placed before the legislature—either the encouragement of free labour, or the resorting • to a supply from the colonies where slave labour is in use. Lord Ashburton also bore his testimony to the com forts enjoyed by the labourers in our West Indian co lonies and British Guiana. He maintained that their condition was far preferable to that of the labourers in any other country. From the desultory conversation which took place on the introduction of this bill into the House of Lords, we are led to hope that the clause struck out in the Commons will be re-inserted in an amended shape, so as to extend to the West Indies and Guiana, as well as to the Mauritius, the benefits arising from the im migration of the Hill Coolies. We have the pleasure of recording another defeat of ministers upon Lord Stanley's Registration Bill ; upon a vital question too ; for it was declared by his lord ship, that if in a minority upon the division, he should consider it his duty to withdraw the measure altoge ther, We may, therefore, consider the result, which was a majority of four against ministers, as a formal recognition by the house of the principle of the bill. The amendment, which was introduced by Lord Morpeth, was to the effect that, instead of the annual registration provided for by the measure before parlia ment, the present system of quarterly registration should b€ adhered to. By the adoption of this proposition the whole of the machinery, framed to prevent the ad mission upon the register of fictitious voters, would be rendered almost useless, and one of the most valuable portions of Lord Stanley's bill become a dead letter. The opposition, however, to so insidious an alteration was, for the credit of the house, triumphant, and the Melbourne O'Connell ministry will have to furbish up another weapon of obstruction against the next sitting of the committee, which takes place on Thursday next. What that weapon may be will depend upon " the noses." Well might Colonel Sibthorp tell the ministerial leader in the House of Commons, who had thus again and again been defeated upon this measure, that " with the little hopes he had of carrying on the government, it would be more decent for him to resign at once—to assume a political virtue:if he had it not—to tamper no longer with the country, and to prefer his character to his quarter's salary !" We find in the Liverpool Mercury of Friday a mass of the usual stupidity of its drivelling editor, bearing the taking title of " The Queen and the Tories." As a matter of course, one half of. our contemporary's silly effusion is composed of secondhand slanders, and the remainder of downright falsehoods of his own invention, the absurdity of which fortunately is as ap parent as the malignity of heart by which they have been prompted. The object of the Mercury throughout this maudlin rigmarole is to reiterate the charge brought against the conservative party, _upon the enormous lying principle peculiar to whig-radical tactics, of being the abettors of the " potboy plot" against the lives of her Majesty and her illustrious consort. We shall certainly not at tempt to offer a serious reply to so contemptible a dri veller. The efisions of a brain Muddy as the waters of his favourite floating bath, and which, like the sand and gravel of a filtering cistern, retains only the im purities of the element which passes through it, are unworthy of the notice which we should feel disposed to bestow upon those of an adversary whose motives and principles we could respect however much we might differ from and reprobate their application. 'Upon the Mercury. however, we have already shewn that serious argument is thrown away. " Destroy his web of sophistry ; —in vain : The creature 's at his dirty work again ;" and in any controversy with him we are forcibly re minded of the advice of Colton, in his " Laconics," when he says " If you have a quarrel with a sweep, fee your attorney. No man empties his own dunghill, or clears his own kennel. These are the occupation of a nightrnan or a scavenger." To one passage, however, of our contemporary's la boured tirade we feel that some reply is necessary, and we enter upon the task the more readily because it in volves no waste of argument, but on the contrary re quires only to be designated as a wilful and deliberate falsehood. We will transcribe it for the benefit of that portion of our readers who do not habitually prostitute themselves by perusing the filthy columns in which it Is contained. " When the Rev. H. M'lsteile made his famous Jezebel speech, at Whitchurch, it was taken by his orthodox hearers in the same sense in which it was denounced by the loyal Irishmen in our Sessions'-house, the other day ; the rev. speaker must have seen that it was so taken, but he made no disclaimer or explanation at the time, though he is now, according to his own showing, one of the most fervent re joicers at the escape of her Majesty, and one of the most attached and loyal of her subjects." When this piece of insane malignity was penned its writer was perfectly aware that it contained not one particle of truth. It infers two charges : one against the reverend gentleman himself, and the other against the whole of his audience at Whitchurch, both of which are utterly and notoriously false. The loyal Protes tants, before whom this " famous Jezebel speech " was delivered, never applied the denunciation directed against the unclean person of the "mother of abomi nations" to the sacred person of virgin royalty. The allusion to the " woman Jezebel" was not received by them in the same sense to which it has been deliberately and wickedly distorted by a profligate ministerial press, and in which it was applied by those whom the Mercury has chosen to designate "the loyal Irishmen in our Ses sions'-house," but whom it might, perhaps, be more correct to term the "hired ruffians of the Ribbon con spiracy ;" for a reference to another column will, we imagine, be sufficient to settle the doubt, if any could seriously be entertained, as to the existence of that murderous and treasonable body in Liverpool. It is equally untrue that the reverend gentleman was aware of the sense in which the expression was taken, and by his silence encouraged the application; for that is the other charge intended to be insinuated by this despicable libeller. " The rev. speaker," he says, "must have seen that it was so taken, yet he made no disclaimer or explanation at the time." The lie insi nuated in these few lines is as foul and atrocious as it is absurd ; for the application of Mr. M‘Neile's de nunciation of Popery to the person of the Sovereign never existed in the mind of one loyal Protestant in that meeting, and, consequently, needed no disclaimer at the time. It was hatched in the impure imagina tions of the Popish press for a party purpose, and is only persisted in at the present moment by the lowest and most servile hacks of the ministerial faction. By the respectable members of the party to which our leaden or brazen Mercury belongs, the charge of dis loyalty which it infers has long been withdrawn and repudiated. It may, however, serve the purposes of a journalist such as our contemporary, to prolong the circulation of a slander in defiance of decency and honesty. We are well aware of the depraved and debauched tastes which his ribald publication is intended to gratify, and should sincerely pity any man of ordinary talent and correct mind upon whom it might devolve to prosti tute himself weekly by catering from such loathesome materials. For our contemporary, however, we can feel no such compunctious visitings. Slander and mis representation are the elements in which he delights; and his mind, and, tastes are not of that character to re quire any lowering in order to enable him to discharge, con more, the dirtiest work of the dirtiest faction. Will the Irish Catholic press of this country affect any lOnger to doubt the fact, established beyond dispute by the committee of enquiry last session, that throughout Ireland, aye, and throughout England too—an illegal and treasonable conspiracy is in full operation, undermining the bulwarks of Protestantism throughout the empire, and striving by a sys tem of terrorism, and by the practice of midnight assassina tion and open noon-day outrage, to shake. the security of property, and to point the dagger at the throats of the sup porters of British connexion in the sister country ? A paltry and un-English ministry have hitherto endeavoured by fraud, by intrigue, by connivance with murder and with murderers, to destroy the evidence of so black a spot upon the character of the human race ; a hireling press has dealt out its ferocious slanders against all those who, preferring truth to the base ends of faction, have proclaimed and reiterated the fact of its existence. But that fact—the fact that a secret association, comprised of materials which Irish Catholics alone could furnish, and of which treason is the object, and murder and outrage the weapons, exists, and is increasing throughout Ire land and England, is now established beyond the possibility of cavil. The portal of the secret chamber of iniquity has at length been forced, the monster-miscreant which has de luged and desolated Ireland with blood and crime is at length seen seated at his midnight orgies ; and let traitors, and slaves of traitors, strive to their uttermost to seal up the damning evidence, and replace the veil of obscurity which has hitherto shrouded the features and surrounded the foot steps of the murderer ; yet justice and truth will now, we trust, be enabled to sweep from the land which be has pol luted, the demon whom the wiles and the falsehoods of Rome have so long protected in his monstrous iniquitks. Yes—Protestants of England—the diabolical features of Ribbonism are at length unmasked—unmasked too before a British jury, and in a British court of justice. It is no longer Irish Ribbonism, but Permit RIMIONISM ! It is no longer an agrarian or a local conspiracy to effect merely the objects of private revenge, but a widely spread and perfectly organ ized conspiracy, with political objects in view, worked by hidden machinery and guided by a master hand, at whose mysterious bidding blood stains the sod, and the incendiary fire glares up to the face of heaven. It is spread over the entire provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Connaught, and has its branches in England—aye, and in Liverpool. We have now these things on record. We have its grand secretary at this present moment in prison, and declared guilty during the past week by a jury of his countrymen. We have its proceedings developed in the books of that secretary from the month of March, 1838, to September, 1839. We have evi dence of its murderous operation, given by a government witness, and we have evidence of its, dangerous and frightful tendency from the lips of an unwilling witness—the Mel bourne-O'Connell Attorney-General for Ireland ! .Yet, when we have endeavoured to awaken our countrymen to a sense of their danger ; when we have ventured to point out the evidences of this secret association, to trace its agency in the various ebullitions of Irish treason, and its connexion with the various movements of Irish politics, we have been assailed by the organs of the ministerial press with a virulence evidently the emanation of conscious guilt, tremulous with the fear of detection. The hired and venal tools of a govern ment, which winked at and fostered the enormity, might well dread the storm of execration which a full developement of the atrocious system, by whose working alone they were enabled to retain within their corrupt grasp the emoluments and patronage of office, would excite in the minds of a Pro testant people. They cannot now, we think, persist with any decency in impugning the evidence which has been placed before them. They shall not be allowed to mangle or to suppress that evidence. Our business is not now, however, with the system gene rally. We shall have other opportunities, and shall not scruple to avail ourselves of them, to lay before our readers the enormities of the Ribbon Conspiracy. Our present ob ject is to prove, from documents now in the possession of Government, and produced by them at the trial of the Rib bon Secretary, Jones, that a branch of that conspiracy exists in Liverpool ; and that from amongst the " Loyal Irishmen" in this town—from amongst the men who compose the ruffian audiences of our corporatio'n spouters—there can be found parties sworn and initiated into all the mysteries of this bloodthirsty association of traitors. When we asserted this fact on a recent occasion, our readers may remember the rabid ire with which we were attacked by the representative of the Irish Catholic party in Liverpool. 'We had then only the authority—a sufficient one we think--of the evidence given before the Committee of Enquiry respecting secret so cieties in Ireland; but we have now the evidence of docu ments traced to the possession of a leading agent of the so ciety, and laid before a jury by the Attorney-General for Ireland as prosecutor for the Crown. But first let us give the evidence of that gentleman himself. The Attorney-General describes the Ribbon Association as "a Secret Society, the members of which communicate by secret signs, and they are to be found in many of the counties of Ireland and in parts of England and Scotland." Again— " The President of the National Board was Andrew Dardis, and the Grand Secretary was Richard Jones." Amongst the letters found with that prisoner, Richard Jones, we find the following, dated " Liverpool, 11th March, 1838. " MR. ANDREW DARDIS. " Sir,—l received yours of the 19th February. I thank you for your present rulebook; my reason for not answering it sooner was,: that I knew it to contain palpable falsehoods. " You also stated that in your next you would send me an account how the shamrock was worn on St. Patrick's Day, and the words to be used. " I put any person to defiance in regard to my character ; it is 14 years since I came first to this town. I was then only 16 years old. I resided in Dublin, out of the fourteen, three years. I lodged for eighteen months at the house of file-cutter, Denmark-place, Denmark -street, who can certify that I was a Catholic, not in name, but in reality. I then attended my duty, and was within the bounds of my church, which, GOD forgive me, I cannot be at present, through hav ing a communication with Ireland by signs and pass-words." Here, then, is evidence sufficient of correspondence car ried on by the popish party in Liverpool with the heads of this treasonable and murderous body. The question " how the shamrock was worn on St. Patrick's Day" may furnish some illustration of the extent to which the public processions of the Irish Catholics of this town assimilate to the charac ter of Ribbon demonstrations. But we find, in addition to this evident sympathy existing in Liverpool towards the ob jects of the society, that we have also a lodge with its officers regularly organised, as the following document sufficiently evidences : " Dublin, 15th March, 1838. "TO THE PRESIDENT, STEWARDS, AND MEN OF LIVERPOOL. " Gentlemen,—We, the central committee, who manage all matters relating to our society, have examined the con tents of two letters, addressed by Mr. Wilson to our long and well-tried president and secretary, Andrew Dardis and Richard Jones, and consider their contents absurd and fool ish. We think it requisite for them to proceed to Liverpool to have the matter at issue fully and fairly investigated be fore a full attendance of all persons holding offices in Liver pool, and to clear themselves of the charges of private cor respondence laid against them by Mr. Wilson, which we are aware is not the case." Can the police of Liverpool, we ask, discover no trace 01 such a body, or have they got their cue, and wink at its ea• istence and its orgies ? We find too that money is also fiernished from Liverpool— not an O'Connell rent such as that to which our worshipful Mayor and several of our enlightened aldermen and council lors contribute ; but Ribbon rent—a fund out of which to pay the wages of blood, and the price of midnight murder. Bear witness the following extract from a letter dated " Dublin, May 28, 1838. " Dear Friend,—We have received yours of the - 25th, in answer to your inquiry of the sum levied yearly off the men of Liverpool for printing." And, lest it should not be known how these Ribbon funds are applied, we quote the following passage of the same letter, premising that, in the Ribbon slang, the term " Friend" means " member," or murderer it may be, and " Friendship" " Ribbonism," or outrage of any description perpetrated under the sanction of the society. The fUnds, then, we find are appropriated to the purposes of " sending persons on missions to different parts of the country—fzein,; counsel for pleading, and attorneys for drawing up briefs for friends that were persecuted on account of friendship —to give relief to tramps—to assist persons that had to fly on ac count of it—to assist FRIENDS in distress there—and many other things which we cannot particularise at present." Reader—Protestant reader—can such a system exist in the bosom of Protestant England ? It can, alas ! and it does. Yes—the emissaries of a bloodthirsty rebellion are in the midst of you—are the favoured of your liberal corporation, the pet creatures of your reform association, and the brawlers at your public meetings. That you may know what kind of being a Ribbonman is, we will give you a specimen of the evidence of one of that body—of the government witness—at the late trial of the Ribbon Secretary. Hear Mr. Edmond Kennedy—Ribbon man and murderer—cross-examined by Mr. M'Donough. " You seem to be a very comfortable person ; tell me, do you sleep comfortably at night ?—Yes, certainly. " You have a quiet conscience, of course ?—lndeed 1 have. • " Just so ; that is the reason you look so very comfortable and well ; tell me, do you remember Ganley's murder ?—Yes. " That might be one of the reasons you look so well ; I knew you had a quiet conscience ; you knew, I believe, he was to have got a ` slating ?'—l " Upon your oath, were you not the very man that dogged him to the scene of his murder ?—I was !! (Great sensa sion.) " Was he not murdered by ribandmenl:—By ribandmen yes, lie was murdered by ribandmen. " Of course, as you know so much about this society, you must know what its objects are. Was there any of the money paid for slating?'—No. " No ! that was done for pure love, I suppose. You smile at that, do you ?--I do not smile at it. Now, I ask you again, what were the objects of the society ?—..That is more than I can tell. Yes, more than you can tell, my innocent babe ! Do yon tell me you never had the curiosity to inquire what their objects were ?—No, nor did I care. " There was some little awkward thing done in the country about that time, too, I believe ; another poor man got a slating' on the canal; what was his name ?—Rooney, I be lieve. " When was he sent out of this breathing world ?—I don't know. " Where did he live ?—Some place about the town of Kil dare. He was killed in the day time. I was, 1 suppose, a couple of miles on befo re hi m on. the c a n a l ie day he was injured. n,• " What brought you there ?—I was after speaking to the person who was going to do it to him! " And yet we find this miscreant, who was " after speaking to the man who was going to do it for" the poor victim, coolly and deliberately taking up the mangled.and half-dead carcase, and, perhaps in order to feast his eyes upon the wretched object, keeping him for two nights and a day. " Did you ever see him afterwards ?—Yes, I did ; he stoppedwith me all that night and the night after. Did you not bring hii - n in your bo - at after he got the death blow ?—I did, indeed, and only for me he would get more. ever informed of the man who beat him, for I could not. " Now, I have a curiosity to know were you ever in any :hing else ? Aye, indeed, I was in many a thing. "How many men were you in at the slating of?—That is more than I can tell. "Is not slating' a branch of the riband society ?—Yes ; slating' is the principal branch of it. I was in at the beat ing of another man on Ormond-quay. I had not a bludgeon in my hand. I was present when he was beaten." These enormities, reader, are performed, and their perpe trators protected—aye, protected—in the 19th century, and under a reform ministry, Faugh—how the term stinks in our nostrils. But they must have an end ; and we trust that end is approaching. The fraudulent suppression of evidence by the Irish Government may indeed, if tolerated, prolong, as it has for years prolonged, their existence ; and we call upon our conservative brethren throughout the country, and especially upon the conservative press, to aid us in prevent ing the success of an object so fatally subversive of the inte rests of humanity. Is there no one to speak out on this sub ject in the House of Commons ? The Palmerston Journal of Saturday evening, stung to madness by the defeats which his patrons had sustained on the previous night, endeavours to revenge himself by attacking the Liverpool Standard and the 'Rev: Hugh 111`Neile, both of which appear to have sorely offended this antique red tapist. We should certainly have allowed our contemporary a little license under the circumstances ; but we cannot al low even an angry opponent to utter falsehoods uncontra dieted ; and the Globe has had so many beatings of late, that he might really have learned to keep his temper upon such an every day occurrence. Our contemporary, in his frenzy, asserts that the reception which greeted Mr. M`Neile at the meeting lately held at the Sessions-house " forced him to withdraw ;" and marvels that we, his " aiders and abettors," have " ventured to de fend him." It was no great stretch of daring on our part, we can assure the Globe, to defend that rev. gentlemen from any imputation coming from the lips either of our contem porary himself, or from those of the Ribbon traitors, who as sailed him in the Sessions-house. Mr. M`Neile, we tell the Globe, was never " forced to withdraw" from that meeting ; and how our contemporary, with all his well known of lipid assurance, could " venture" upon such an assertion, whilst the very paper was before Lim in which the rev. gentleman's chaste and beautiful speech, delivered at that meeting, is re ported verbatim, we are certainly at a loss to conceive. In reply to the namby-pamby trash with which the Globe has spun out his attack upon Mr. /11‘Ncile and ourselves, we refer him to the remarks addressed in another column to another elderly old lady nearer home. Had our contempo rary read, in a spirit of fairness, the article upon which lie professes to found his remarks, he would not reiterate charges so utterly untenable as those which, by garbling and misre presentation, he has endeavoured to fix, directly upon the rev. gentleman, but indirectly upon the church, and the religion of which he is so distinguished an ornament. We cannot; even to satisfy the Globe, enter further into a subject so disgraceful to Liverpool, as the interruption offered by the Irish Roman Catholics to the proceedings of the meeting at the Sessions-house. We admit the " yells and hootings," which, to the discredit of the Mayor, who pre sided over that meeting, were allowed to mar its harmony ; and are well aware of the source from which they sprung— viz., the galling consciousness, on the part of the slaves of the Romish Priesthood, that the clear parallel drawn between the infamous wife of King Ahab and that " Mother of Abominations"—the Church of Rome—had been traced by the reverend gentleman in characters which are never likely to be effaced from the minds of the present generation. We readily forgive this ebullition of vulgar bigotry andignorance from the Irish Catholics of the Sessions-house; and we can pity and forgive the organ of a ministry, bound down in a like slavish submission to the same power, for the exhihition of any soreness which a contemplation of its degraded posi tion may occasion. Our contemporary winds up his tirade by expressing aston ishment that we should propose to " insult" her Majesty by introducing to her Mr. M'Neile as the bearer of an address to the throne. We certainly never entertained the idea that the loyal Protestant Clergy of the country were in much fa vour with the ministers of her Majesty ; and, considering the description of parties lately presented at court, we can only regret the fact for her Majesty's sake. A propounder of Socialism, and even worse than that, would be a more likely subject for court smiles than an orthodox and conscientious minister of Christ. The Rev. Robert Newton, the eminent Wesleyan minister, who has been on a mission to the brethren in the United States, is coming home in the packet-ship George Washing ton, which is expected to arrive every tide. SCOTCH CHURCH, WOODSIDE.—The new Scotch Church, at Woodside, was opened for divine service, on Sabbath last, by the Rev. Dr. Ralph, who preached in the forenoon, and was succeeded by the Rev. John Park in the afternoon, and the Rev. Alexander Munro, of Manchester, in the evening. The discourses were eloquent and suitable; and, while the great end for which the church was erected was impressively urged, there was also much to call forth a long cherished love for the venerable Kirk of Scotland. We are gratified to find that the Scottish residents at Woodside have, in building a commodious church, added an architectural ornament to the neighbourhood. The collection during the day amounted to nearly £6O. THE EXHIBITION AT TIIE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. —This extensive and varied exhibition has daily attracted a large concourse of visitors, who have expressed themselves in terms of the highest admiration. We - are glad to find that the industrious classes have largely availed themselves of the reduced price of admission, and that the rooms have been usually crowded in the latter part of the day. The attendance on Saturday night was extremely numerous. It is gratifying to see the working classes thus generally indulging in so ra tional a recreation. THE MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.—The room in which Captain Siborn's model of the field of Waterloo is exhibited is becoming a fashionable resort. We need not wonder 'at this when we consider the elaborate exactness and fidelity of the model, and the magnitude of the event which it so beautifully illustrates. It has been aptly remarked that the spectator actually " Stands upon the place of skulls, The grave of France, the deadly Waterloo." He feels around him a sense of reality that the most ac curately drawn plan could not possibly convey. If he be a military man, he has the great game laid down before him on a scale that admits of his not only seeing the moves, but the intentions that dictated them, and the consequences by which they must be followed. If a civilian, he has the hitherto impossible opportunity of being personally a spectator of the moving incidents of the battle. The exhibition may be seen with equal advantage both by daylight and the aid of gas. DUDLEY CHURCH RATE. ---The friends of the church at Dudley have achieved a noble triumph over their opponents. At the final close of the poll on Saturday last there appeared For the Rate. Against the Rate . Majority for the Rate DUTIES OF CUSTOMS, EXCISE, AND ASSESSED TAXES. — The following is the breviate of the recent act for granting to her Majesty duties of customs, excise, and assessed taxes. —l. An additional duty of .per cent. on the amount of all cus toms and excise duties, e xcept sp i r i ts , corn , and post horses. 2. An additional duty of 4d. per gallon laid upon all spirits imported. 3. An additional duty of 4d. per gallon on British spirits. 4 . Additional drawbacks allowed. 5. Du ties, &c., of customs to be under the management of com missioners of customs. 6. Duties, drawbacks, and Allow ances of excise to be under the management of the commis sioners of excise, and to be collected and applied under the laws of excise. 7. Providing for contracts made before the imposition of additional duties. 8. An additional duty of £lO per cent. on the duties of assessed taxes granted. 9. Commissioners, &c., appointed to put in execution former acts relative to the duties of assessed taxes, and to put in execution the present act with relation to the additional duty thereon. 10. The assessors to ascertain the amount of the additional duty of assessed taxes, and to certify the same to the commissioners. 11. Additional duties of assessed taxes to be ascertained, collected, &c., in like manner as former duties. 12. Exemption from duty of windows opened since sth of April, 1835, under 4 and 5 William IV., c 73. 13. Duties of assessed taxes reduced on certain.carriages -kept to be let for hire with horses. 14. Act to be in force from 14th May, 1840. And 15. May be amended in this session. CORRESPONDENCE. TO CORREtI'ONDENTS THE BRITANNIA STEAM-SHIP.—We had prepared a long descriptive article of this magnificent ves.el. but, alter placing it in the hands of the compositors, were compelled to postpone it until Friday. Several communications have been unavoidably withdrawn owing to want of space. Our correspondents must have patience. SITES FOP. PUBLIC PARKS.—We shall attend to the letter of " Gamma" on Friday. The communication of " Honestatis Amiens" shall appear in our next. "W. J. R." is not forgotten. We shall endeavour to make room for his letter on Friday. We have submitted the query of " A Constant Reader" to the consideration of a legal friend, but have not yet received his answer. The verses on " My Native Land," though they abound in beautiful ideas, are too carelessly written to meet the pub lic eye. The rhyme, in two or three instances, is defective. " Maria Louisa Mordaunt," who dates her note from No. 5, Charles-street, had better communicate with the editor of _ _ the Mercury on the subject of the lost umbrella. LIBERAL OPPRESSION.—" Fair Play" says that he has made the fullest inquiry into the circumstances enume rated in the letter which appeared under the head of " A Gross Case of Liberal Oppression," in our paper of the 16th instant; and assures us that they are substantially correct. He adds that the Mayor's " Man Friday" was actively engaged in procuring the dismissal of the poor man. Such dirty work is quite congenial with the charac ter of the conceited upstart. A London correspondent has handed us the following des cription of a scene which occurred within the last few weeks, at the residence of the premier. On the day in question it was noticed that smoke was issuing from the chimney of his lordship's mansion,-from which it was con jectured that a cabinet dinner, or some equally important matter, was on the tapis. From inquiries, however, in the neighbourhood, our correspondent ascertained that such was not the fact, and that his lordship's sole female do mestic, a cook much the worse for wear, had only gone to the expense of a fire in the kitchen, for the purpose of warming a few scraps, which had found their way from the palace in the great coat pocket of the coachman. There was, however, a fire also in the breakfast-room, in which his lordship was, in the course of the day, visited by a dap per little gentleman, with whom he was closeted for a con siderable pLriod. Into this room at length Sophia—for by that euphonious name his lordship's cook is distinguished from more vulgar menials—was summoned, when the fol lowing colloquy took place, his lordship having, in the first instance, performed the necessary ceremony of intLoduc tion thus—" The Mayor of Liverpool, Sophia : Mr. W., allow me to introduce to you Sophia—a very superior wo man, sir; very." His worship was dumb-foundered ; Sophia wiped the grease from her mouth with her apron, and curtsied. Sophia," continued his lordship, " I wish you to play his worship that very pretty ballad, My Lute and Harp.' 1 will accompany it with a new version of the song." Sophia " blushed celestial rosy red," and sate down to the piano, when his lordship rose and accompanied her with the following classic and beautiful lines : " I give thee all, I can no more, Though small the offering be ; A Knighthood poor is all the store Which I have got for thee. " Fain would'st thou be a Baronet, But that, Sir Mayor, 's ' no go ;' I durst not for my coronet Whilst Daniel says—Oh, no. " If e'er thou shotild'st be made M.P., And would'st thy title mend, Vote black is white, for Dan and we Perchance may be thy friend. " A seat, Sir Joshua, you see, We cannot do without it; But gull some soft constituency, And then we'll talk about it." The Knight-Mayor was off to Liverpool that evening per railway, like a flash of lightning. TO THE PROTESTANTS OF LIVERPOOL. MY FRIENDS,—There is much truth in the quaint remark, that " what is everybody's business is nobody's." It the saying has heretofore required 'illustration, an apt one now presents itself. It was "nobody's" business to inquire how it was that the conservatives of Liverpool have been so long content to patronise the twaddle, the abuse, the lies, the Owenite and jesuitical doctrines, with which the town is de luged ad nauseam by the radical press ;--it was " nobody's" business to attempt a change in these matters ; and it was " nobody's" business (to use the phrase of your mercantile correspondent of last Friday) to " throw the first stone." Now, as your humble servant has at length become con vinced of the necessity of his interference, he is determined not only to throw that stone, but, moreover, not to leave one unturned, until he has done not only his own business, but that of the radical party for them. Methinks I hear you say, "My friend, how will you do it ?" " Nobody" knows ; let him alone. Nobody need inform you that there are two great essentials for the success of a newspaper, viz., extent of circulation, and number of advertisements. As well might we expect a barrister eloquently and vigorously to plead the just cause of his client, when suffering from asthma or loss of blood, as that a newspaper should effec tively defend its principles when deprived of its due propor tion of circulation and advertisements. The advertisements of a journal are its lungs. When supplied with them it can speak out both loud and long. Its circulation is its blood, and this should be good in quantity and quality. Let the conservatives of Liverpool but increase the one, and the other will follow as a matter of course. - How is it that the papists of Liverpool have become such a formidable body ? Why, through their press ; aye, their press—the radical press—for the terms arc synonymous. I may be accused of a want of charity in calling Roman Ca tholics papists; but they have earned the title. " Nobody" has a right to use-it. So long as a religious sect contents it self with upholding certain and peculiar doctrines, none have a right to interfere; but when these doctrines are used as a bond of political union—as a cloak to conceal pOlitical de signs—it behoves every lover of his country and its institu tions to be on his guard. _ _ I doubt if it be possible to point out a " good Catholic" who is not a bigotted political partizan, opposed to the Established Church in all her institutions. Is it not suffi cient that our parish is burdened with Irish Roman Catholic paupers, that our charities annually relieve thousands of them, that our own labourers are driven out of the market or obliged to compete with the hordes of wild Irish papists who come from their own country and swarm in the lower parts of the town, like the vermin on their own carcases, but that these miserables should also be put upon the register of voters for our borough, aod so nullify the voices of right hearted, freeborn Englishmen? Is this to be endured, con servatives of Liverpool? You who triumphantly, at the last election, returned Sandon and Cresswell, will you not by your co-operation assist the Protestant press in defending your liberties and your rights? Your conduct reminds me of the mode of warfare between the various tribes of New Zealanders, who fight all day long, but each night an amnesty is proclaimed, and the man who was wounded in the morning may be seen purchasing from his quondam foe perhaps the very weapon that smote him ; and so the war continues, until one party have nightly bar tered so many of their arms for food or tobacco that they fall an easy prey to the other. You in like manner, during an election or political excitement, exact and receive from your press all the support in their power; but no sooner has this passed away than you furnish the enemy with ammunition, (in the shape of patronage,) to be used against you on the morrow. Conservatives of Liverpool! the eyes of England are upon you; for, from its vicinity to Ireland, and the facilities of transit, it is well known that Liverpool is the stronghold of Catholicism in England. Let your press, then, be enabled to proclaim to the world that it is no less the stronghold of Protestantism. Let us make a long pull, a strong pull, and all pull together. Let the conservative merchant, the con servative tradesman, and the conservative professional man, simultaneously send their advertisements to the conservative journals. They may not perhaps at first ensure so great a numerical circulation fur their advertisements, but the sacri fice (if any).will be individually small, and the Ultimate be nefit great. Should this plan be followed up with spirit, a month will not elapse ere there will be a striking change, a great good, and, to the other party, a galling change. You will no longer be annoyed by seeing, in the same paper in which your advertisement appears, scurrilous attacks upon the character of your friends and their cause. You will be saved the risk of leaving in the way of your children a news paper containing such doctrines, political and religious, as might poison their young minds. I must now for the present take my leave of you ; and as " Nobody" may be blamed by some for the step he has taken, and applauded by others for the same, it may be ne cessary to state that he will be willing to bear ten times the blame from the one party to be rewarded with a tithe of the approbation of the other ; and it will perhaps not lessen the pleasure of some to know, that should this agitation succeed, as it ought, there will be " Nobody" to thank. Iu conclu sion, I beg to state, that should this epistle be the means of inflicting a " heavy blow" upon, and a " great discourage ment" to, the radical party, they may have the satisfaction of attributing their misfortune to one who is so obscure, that he has no hesitation in saying that he is NOBODY — (BUT A CONSERVATIVE.) INSOLVENT COURT.--The Autumn Northern Circuit for the relief of Insolvent Debtors has been fixed as follows : Preston, Nov. 4 ; Liverpool, Nov. 20th ; Lancaster, Nov. 24th; Kendal, Nov. 3rd; Appl e by, Nov. 2nd; Carlisle, Oct. 30th ; Chester, Nov. 6th. SHIP LAUNCH.—On Thursday last, Poole (Dorsetshire) presented a scene of general festivity and rejoicing, for, though it has long been celebrated as a ship-building port, yet the circumstance of an " East Indiaman" launch ex cited great interest, and attracted thousands to the spot. All the rank and beauty of the town and its vicinity were present, and there was a grand display of flags and bunting ; a good brass band was stationed on board to enliven the scene. A small stage was erected at the bow of the vessel, over which was suspended a bottle of wine. The ceremony of naming the ship was admirably performed by Miss Major, who, at a given signal, dashed the juicy nectar against her bow, and the " Canopus" glided with majesty into the wa tery element, amidst the hurrahs and cheers of the delighted spectators. An elegant dejeuner was tastefully prepared in a large shed erected for the purpose, and about 230 ladies and gentlemen sat down to partake of all the good things, (amply supplied by Mr. Dugdale, of the King's Arms,) when " Success to the Canopus and health to her cr.ptain" was the general toast, and the company separated highly gratified with the beautiful launch, and the liberality dis played on the occasion. The workmen were also regaled with an excellent dinner and plenty of good cheer, and the festivities of the day were wound up by the builder giving a dinner to a select party of gentlemen.—The Canopus was built by Mr. Pinney, expressly for Capt. Titherington, and, under the able management of Messrs. Cot eswor tl; and Wynne, is intended to proceed direct to Madras and Ceylon. She is expected to be a fast sailer • and, as this is the fir s t vessel built by Mr. Pinney for this port, we trust she may induce others to give a preference to Poole, which, from its contiguity to the forests of English oak, possesses peculiar advantages for ship-building. A PENNYWORTH OF PEACE I—And what that is, any body in Lancashire can tell you ; and if you be not in Lan cashire, 1 can : it is laudanum or opium disguised in treacle, and termed, in other places, " Godfrey's Cordial." It is in vain to remonstrate with the poor on this practice—they always ask you what they are to do, and think it unanswerable to add, " A pen'oth of peace is worth a penny." Thus are the constitutions of the poor sapped and stupefied even in the cradle, and all the wisdom of England cannot point out any remedy, but that of taking off the violent pressure on the means of existence.—Hoe'itt i n Tates Edinburgh Magazine. Is it possible that a man of Mr. Howitt's information can never yet have heard of the far-famed M anc h ester me di c i ne ? " What that is,'any man in Lancashire can tell him,"—and, indeed, we believe, in any part of the United Ki ng d om . For it is an indisputable fact, that, since the com men cement of the present ear, Its sale (extensive as it h as b een f or t h e l as t 3 half century has increased beyond all former precedent. It were almost superfluous to add, that we allude to that nice and i nes timable preparation , ATKIN SON ' S I NFANTS ' PRE SERVATIVE, whi ch so far from " sapping the constitution," and " stupefying" the senses—like those d ang erous com pounds, whose basisis laudanum or other opiates—allays irritation, and assuages pain in the mildest and most in noxious manner; thus affording real comfort, both to the anxious mother and her suffering babe. STOPPAGE OF= COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK BANK, ALI NCH ESTER. re.oxt cc;RitEsPoNne,N.r.) Nt - 711EsTrit., ()NE o'cLoci;..--ror two or three weeks ea,,r•iionour, have been circulated, tiett ,some thin(' was Out of joint with one of our .1o:ot St:;;ci: Banks ; which rumours, however, at lost settled down as having re ference to the above concern. The Manchester public, so far as the writer's knowledge extends, had ceased, or nearly so, in the being alarmed by the reports in question ; the more so, as all demands were promptly met, the customary in quiry on the presentation of a cheque being gold or notes. On Friday the directors met, (after the bank had closed for that day, which all the banks do at one o'clock on Fridays) and continued in deliberation for a long time, and who then came to the resolution to cease paying, should the London accounts expected on the following morning be unfavourable. By some means or other, the London letters were not deli uered so early as usual ; and, as the hour of commencing business is nine o'clock, in the interim, i.e. betwixt the hour of opening and the delivery of the letters, about a quar ter past nine, some cheques were paid, and before half past the bank ceased to pay. The paid up capital of the bank is £260,000, raised in shares of .1.:5 each. There are twenty-three branches to this establishment, which gives a very small capital indeed to each, say £Booo—allow ing the very moderate sum of £76,000 for the head office in Manchester. As there are many very wealthy proprietors in this bank, not only in Manchester and in other towns where branches exist, any ultimate loss therefore is quite out of the question. That there is, however, a numerous body who kept their accounts at the bank, and in the habit of receiving. accommodation, who will be put to great inconvenience is certain ; nor is it less certain that many others will, in con sequence be compelled to stop altogether. One of our wealthiest merchants purchased, on Wednesday last, 4 or 500 shares of this bank at £2 8s 6d, and as the party in question was not only previously a shareholder, but supposed to be intimately acquainted with the affairs of the bank, the cir cumstance is a favourable omen that all will end well. The Commercial Bank is, indeed, a vastly different one from that of the imperial; the latter of which had neither capital nor character to lose. That the shareholders will, without delay, make arrangements for the payment of their notes (it was a bank of issue) is confidently stated ; and why the Bank of England should not afford the necessary aid, on undoubted security, which could readily be found, as in the case of the Northern and Central,. it would be difficult to conjecture; the engagements of the bank are said to be considerable — probably they will exceed £1,000,000. This occurrence will, there is no doubt, have a very serious effect on our market for at least five weeks to come ; indeed it has already been felt. Many spinners and manufacturers —some directly and others indirectly interested, will be, it is certain, compelled to raise ,the .wayS and ,the means at any sacrifice. The bank has been brought into this dilemma by excessive advances to parties keeping their accounts with the establish ment at its various branches. MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING, 7 O'CLOCK. No additional facts have transpired respecting the Com— mercial Bank, since noon ; except that a deputation of nine gentlemen left Manchester last night,• for London, with the object to lay before the Bank of England the state of its affairs, and of course to solicit its aid on this emergency. That it will succeed is thought highly probable ; and that it may soon do so, is most devoutly to be wished. The names composing the deputation have not yet transpired, but those of Mr. Sewell, the chief officer of the bank, Mr. A. Bowers, chairman of the board, and Mr. Ralph Turner, are known to form part of the deputation. There are also other gentlemen from the'several towns at which branches of the bank exist, who will meet the deputation in London. SOCIALISM UNMASKED.-DISBELIEF IN A FUTURE STATE OPENLY AVOWED. - (From our own Correspondent.) MANCHESTER, JUNE 27.—A most singular proceeding with respect to the socialist lecturers in this town took place before the magistrates at the Borough Court this day. To render the merits of the case properly understood, it is ne cessary to state, that about a fortnight since informations were preferred against Robert Owen and some other of the socialist leaders, for delivering lectures or discourses in a building, called " the Hall of Science," at the doors of which money was taken for admittance, the said building not being duly licensed under the 57 Geo. 111. cap. 74. - To meet this charge, the defendants gave evidence of " the Hall of Science" having been duly registered by the Bishop of the diocese, under the act 52 Geo. 111., cap. 155, as " a place of . worship for a body of protestant dissenters, calling themselves Ra tional Religionists.' " Notwithstanding this, conviction was obtained, in one case, the remainder being withdrawn. The socialists having thus taken upon themselves the guise of protestant dissenters, while their proceedings were such as were calculated to bring the name itself into reproach. The Rev. Mr. Kidd, the incumbent of the district in which the " Hall" is situate, (which stands within 100 yards of St. • Mathew's church) felt it his duty to institute a further pro ceedin; against these individuals, in order that they might not ingratiate themselves with the unwary, under the cloak of " protestant dissenters." Accordingly, a complaint was lodged with the magistrates, setting forth the facts above stated, also, that the doctrines taught at " the Hall of Science" wery contrary to those of the christian religion, one of their principles being that man was not responsible for his actions : and praying that Robert Owen and two others might be summoned and required to take and sub scribe the oaths and declarations contained in the act, 19 Geo. 111., entitled " an act for the further relief of protes tant dissenting ministers and schoolmasters." The magis trates having ascertained that Mr. Kidd had just cause of complaint, owing to the frequent distribution of socialist tracts at the door of his church, granted summonses upon this complaint, requiring Owen and his coadjutors to appear. and take the prescribed oaths, .and make the declarations as " protestant dissenter," the character they had taken upon themselves. The summonses were made returnable to-day, but only one of the defendants appeared to support their newly-as sumed character. his name is Robert Buchanan; he has delivered several lectures in the new " Hall" since its open ing on Whit-Sunday. The magistrates on the bench were Mr. Maude and Mr. C.. 1. S. Walker. Mr. Bunting, soli citor, appeared in support, of the information; the defendant was represented by Mr. Cobhett, solicitor. After the latter gentleman had shewn cause why, the oaths should not be ten dered to the defendant, Mr. Maude overruled his objections, and a long conversation then took place in consequence of the defendant wishing to have some explanation of the mean ing attached to the words of the declaration, which the ma gistrates did not conceive it their duty to give. The defend ant at last said—l beg to say that lam willing to take any oath to the civil power of the country, but as this is a ques tion of opinion which is sacred to every man, 1 must post pone making the declaration until further proceedings are entered into. Mr. MAUDE.—Then there are the oaths of supremacy and abjuration ; but I don't know that there is any occasion to tender them as you refuse the other. Defendant.—l have no objection at all to take those oaths ; I do not wish to:appear opposed to the constituted authori ties of the country. The Clerk was about to administer. these oaths, when _ Mr.. BUNTING appealed to the magistrate, whether they would, in the exercise of their discretion, tender these oaths to a party who was the minister of a sect which did not be lieve in the sanctity of an oath. Mr. MAUDE.—I can only just ask Mr. Buchanan this question—whether he believes in a future state of rewards and punishments. Of course I cannot ask any more. Defendant. -1 do apt believe in it in the compon interpre tation that is given to it. I have my own interpretation, which it would take some time to give; and, as this is not a place for theological discussion— Mr. MAUDE:—NO, it is not. I can only ask you, do you believe in it or not? Defendant.—l have no objection to take the oaths ; but there are so many different opinions about a future state— Mr. MAuuE.—We cannot go any further into theological discussion. lam bound to give you the book, to tender a certain declaration to you, and to . ask whether you believe in an Almighty power, and whether you believe in a future state of rewards and punishments ? Defendant.—With respect to the first, I do believe in an Almighty power ; but with respect to the second, I do not believe in the doctrine of hell, as it is commonly taught by the public. Mr. MAIIDE.—You need not go into that. Do you be lieve that persons are punishable hereafter for what they have committed contrary to the divine law? Defendant.—l have reason to believe that virtue and bene volence will be rewarded ; but I do not believe in future punishments, as-- Mr. MAUDE.—Then I cannot tender you the oath.—A memorandum must be made of all this. Defendant.—l do not refuse to take the oath ; and I con ceive that the oath is as binding upon me as upon any man or woman in court. Mr. MA.unt.-1 can only state to you what is the decision on the subject of taking oaths. It has been declared again and again, by the highest seat of judicature in this country, that no oath shall be administered to a person who does not believe in a future state of rewards and punishments. There fore, I cannot administer it to you. The defendant was about to make another speech, but he was stopped by Mr. Maude, who, after observing that he should not have issued a requisition of this kind to the de fendant at the instance of a private individual, had not a case of grievance against that individual been alleged, asked the defendant if his refusal as to the declaration was positive. The defendant said it was ; and that if brought there again, he. hoped to have an opportunity of vindicating his character. The parties then left the court, which had been crowded to excess during the hearing, when the defendant avowed his disbelief in a future state of punishment, a general murmur of. disapprobation was excited, but no other interruption took place. MIDLETON SCHOOLS. Mr. Jellet, the successful candidate at the late Fellowship Examinations, and Messrs. Michael and William Roberts, who held so high a place in the distribution of premiums on the same occasion, received their education at this establish ment. These gentlemen were most distinguished Under graduates, Scholars, and first-rank Medalists. Mr. Woodrolie, who, as a Senior Freshman, and con sequently a year before the ordinary time, obtained a scholar ship on the 15th ; and Mr. Frizelle, who was equally successful at the examination of Sizarships on the lith, were also pupils at Midleton School:— As were the following gentlemen, to whom at the last Term Examinations the honors respectively annexed to their names had been adjudged : Mr. Levis, a first-rank Honour in Science. Mr. Sullivan, Do. Do. Mr. J. Reeves, an Honour in Classics. Mr. Sullivan, Do. Do. Mr. T. Talbot, Do. Do. Mr. P. Talbot, Do. Do. The two latter gentlemen are sons of Mr. Talbot, ship builder of this town. DEAFNESS CURED.-Our readers have no doubt observed several notices of cures performed by Mr. Swift, aurist and surgeon ; one has been communicated to us, which having occurred in York, gives it a greater degree of interest. Mr. Ward, of the Turk's Head, in the Shambles, havinz, long laboured under that unpleasant malady, a confirmed deafness, for which he had tried the best advice but in vain, at length put himself under the care of Mr. Swift, who, in the course of five weeks, restored him to the full enjoyment of the sense of hearing, and he is now capable of answering the slightest whisper.—See adv. AN EXTRAORDINARY EGG.—A black Polish hen, the property of John Jackson, Esq., of Oldham, has lately pro duced an egg of the remarkable weight of four ounces. EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—MIS. Whittle, of the Red Lion public-house, Longton, has a duck which on the Ist of May hatched, bringing forth eleven ducklings, which she tended for a short time, and then, like a harsh mother turned adrift her young brood to provide for themselves. After laying sixteen eggs more, she again began her tedious task of incubation, and on the 20th of the present month she produced sixteen young ones. In eleven weeks she has per formed a feat unequalled in the annals of the poultry yard having in that time brought forth 27 young ducks.—Preston Chronicle. The conservatives of Ludlow intend giving a public dinner in the course of the ensuing month to Viscount Clive and their new member, Mr. Botfield. The Pope is said—the fact is hardly credible—to haie sold the Laocoon and Apollo Belvidere to the Emperor of Russia for nine millions of francs. COURVOISIER-THE PRESS-THE BAR AND THE PUBLIC. The excitement and curiosity of which the contemptible wretch, found guilty—irrespective of his " Confessions !" of the murder of Lord W. Russell, is at this moment the centre and prime minister, present f.•atures for comment as anomalous as provoking. The rhEss, it: a great measure, have reserved their-iire The CLUTii.i, hoWever. have lien engaged—Juniors and Se,:iors, yonce :o:n the Con,,r vative, the Oddfellows and the and Sciences—theßENCll and the BAR — 0:le and ail been engaged in discussing Courvoisier as a piquant tie:z,'t-rt, after an ordinary dinner. Between the acts at the Haymar ket and Her Majesty's Theatre over the way, " Courvoi sier" and the insinuations against the " police" are the popular interludes which are having a run, by snatches, be tween the pieces. Because of the untoward, if not unenvia ble, connexion of the name of a clever but flowery-spoken barrister—who, in the estimate of those whose impressions are likely to adhere, did greatly and inconsiderately exceed his commission—the duties of the nArt are tapped and brought up for judgment in alehouses; and mis-leading arti cles, in an apologetic spirit, are tendered in Irish PRINTS, the reverse of friendly to his real interests as a professional man, and adverse to his chances of the bench, however they may be in favour of the sack. The PUBLIC have been placed, as usual, between two fires ; and Courvoisier has not met " their kind interest" in that spirit of frankness which was confidently looked for. The convict, like a ferry architect, has built two stories, which the courtesy of polite usage has designated " Confessions ;" and which confessions, in the essentials of their construction, are so diametrically opposed to each other, that plain people must be guilty of fabrication who pretend that they believe eithernne or both, as far at least as Courvoisier himself has had anything to say or unsay in the matter. The situation of part of the press and the Conjecturalists would be amusing, but that facetiousness itself cannot forget or forgive that human blood has been shed by a gratuitously vile wretch, with the irremoveable brand of Cain upon his forehead. The murderer's contradictory confessions have so far divided public opinion, that, as a Yankee Judge, in a cause powerfully argued pro and con, admitted, so the press and the quidnuncs, like his Worship aforesaid, are prepared to fall in two. Beset as the case is with mystery, horrible shuffling and prevarication, there can be but one opinion meanwhile enter tained by the reflecting. But for a jury unanimously finding this pilfering thief guilty of " wilful murder," charitable doubts might have been entertained of his guilt—because confessed by Courvoisier. A wretch with such perVerted feelings is not to be believed under present—perhaps not un der any circumstances whatever—as affects his deportment on this side of eternity. To use the strong language of Scrip , - tare, the truth . is not in him. By his own " confessions ' he is equivocating and lying still, and may, as Other wretches have done, equivocate and lie with his head in a halter, and while the hangman's chilling fingers are running the knot of death under his ear. We are justified iu recording this, irre spective of what the ministerial papers, and the great Globe itself, may affect in the shape of their being privy to the mur derer's variously unburthened conscience. What reflecting person can believe such a fellow's unsupported statements ? Even if a hopeful sense of his all but God-forsaken situation dawn upon him at the eleventh hour, and a repentance not to be repented of, there and then befriend him, the self-in vited evil is, that he has put it out of thinking people's power to believe him : nay, in tardy truth, he may lie like truth, and seem a greater fabulist than ever. We. are of a large majority who discredit the whole ten dency of everything that Courvoisier has " confessed"—ex cept that be, and he only, is the murderer ; and that he did the deed, of which evidence imperfect as it was, perfectly convicted-him, needed not such a one's suppressed admis sion to give it weight with the discerning. No ; that was not what was wanted. Bad as he is, it was in his power to show contrition for his crimes, and to evince a poor, uncostly respect for the outraged feelings of society, by telling not a part, but the whole of the truth, and nothing but truth. That he has yet to do this is on the face of what he has twice " confessed !" _ _ _ With some corrupt and depraved hearts, the fear of man is greater than awe towards God. Yes : the dread of the temporary execration of such poor creatures as the best of us at best are; is more dreaded, and tends to engender and keep up a catalogue of lying and acted misrepresentation, to the utter exclusion of penitential reverence and awe for the atoning sacrifice of the Redeemer OF ALL, on which, and through a prayerful sense of which, alone, can the chief of sinners, with the brand - of Cain on his brow and the lie of Judas on his tongue, either hope for or mercifully have mercy. It may be miserable vanity, or it may be through beini actuated by some other characteristic of " fallen nature,' that Courvoisier has appended a tale of lies to the admission of the head and front of his offending. He admits the fact that he murdered •, but has he told the truth, the whole truth, truth, and nothing but the as to how the murder was thought of and done ? That he has not, is our considerate and only belief. He sets out with a truth on the threshold, and, under the specious medium and cover of a supposed " confession," forthwith shuffles and lies the reader into the inner temple of a combination of falsehoods. We disbelieve what he has caught at, namely, the over zealous insinuation of his ingenious but misled counsel, and to which he appears to adhere as if to " get up" some shred of " sympathy," perhaps of " pity" for his compromised life, and so qualify the utter execration of his species. We disbe lieve what he would now assert—that the police, or the hands of any perjurers, to swear away his life, placed the gloves and handkerchief one of his shirts. _ It appears strange how these articles came to be there ; but it may be easily and sufficiently explained. We believe that the murderer alone placed the gloves, where they were found after he was committed. Why he subsequently put them where discovered is another question. He did so, let us assume, for one or other of two purposes. He knew his trunk had been searched. Well, it probably occurred to him that it was less likely (and so it was) that such articles could be found if secreted subsequently where search had been , made, than if allowed to remain elsewhere, to be ferreted out by eyes and hands eagerly and systematically devoted to a prosecution of the search. Or again A fellow who has evinced considerable powers of con trivance, and a skill in plausible combination, which, if laud ably directed, might have gained him fame and fortune in making Geneva watches, toys, and machines, for old and young—such a machinist , aware of what police and others have been charged with, and aware of his all but certain com mittal; before being removed from the house, he may have put the articles where they were found for the deliberate pur pose which he and his counsel tried to make of their sus picious discovery, namely, to create doubts in the breasts of an English jury, of which he would have the benefit when on trial. Be it remembered, the articles were not discovered until, in obedience to his own request, a change of linen was sent for, when he had been committed and was engaged in concocting his defence. It is most improbable that he has told the truth as to his not washing his hands—but merely wiping them on the towel, that in the same breath he says, he stuck into the gash on his yictim's throat. As every surgeon and old leech woman knows, of all blood human blood from its sizy or " sticky" nature is peculiarly difficult of. removal, and that a disagreeable and peculiar smell remains for some time after all traces to the eye have been effaced by industrous ablution. He may have worn gloves while doing the deed, and have subsequently cleaned or washed them. As to his story of having given all his gloves away previously to entering on his victim's service, is ridiculous in its tendency even if so far true. Does he mean to say, he wore no gloves as Lord William's servant? or if of a different sort, he could have re tained or otherwise obtained one or more pairs—or the very pair found under circumstances, and used in a way respect ing which he has yet to tell the truth. As drowning men clutch at straws, rogues condemned to be hung catch at incidents. To aid his cause as an injured piece of excellence, it is said, but needs corroboration, that he pretended to one of the sheriffs, that reading the novel of Jack Sheppard put the idea of robbing and murdering his master into his head ! What next!!! But Courvoisier, for those credulous enough to believe it, may say anything; nothing can be too mendacious or incredible. But is it not sickening rubbish and loathsome CANT for journaliststo feign credence to and for the public to believe such a "representation" of the educational power of the drama; which, if we are to credit what that impudent blustering stroller Yates said, dialectically, when his piece was nearly damned the first night, by the Hen-pens of Liverpool, although cheered by the Cockneys of London—that it had been patronised by " thee Dook an' Dechess of Cambridge and thee Princiss Augustar, without a blesh !!" Part of the press has min gled its crocodile tears of hypocrisy and immoral cant, how ever, with Courvoisier's pretence ; though, by his own show ing, he is a thief, a murderer, and a perseveringly inventive liar. No one can deny the evil tendency of Yates's version of Jack Sheppard ; or of the piece as a novel for the draw ing-room or the hack kitchen, or as a drama of gallery gut ter-bred predilections, whether seated as paying supporters of their own exposure in pit or boxes ! In trumping up this fetch, Courvoisier is appealing to SOCIALISTS and fellow-in fidels whose easy apologies for indulging incrime and vice, and swearing to the law of their members in justification of their atrocities, Shakspere and other moralists have exposed un answerably and religiously in several passages of his plays. Socialists, Courvoisierists, and Jack Sheppardists, may ga ther and surmise. Against such self-hypocrites and pre tenders, Shakspere says—" 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles and weed up thymp,'&c. &c., the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposte rous conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging mo ' tions our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts ; whereof 1 take this (pretence) to be a graft or scion. It is merely a lust of the blood, and a permission of the will." Courvoisier may or may not have read, or dipped—as reviewers do—into the pages of the novel; but he stole before the book was writ ten, or the incidents dramatised. Nemo fuit repente turpis simus : no man is all of a sudden wicked. As Mr. Adolphus well said, when foreigners rob they generally murder. W C charitably, in true charity, refuse to give Courvoisier the be nefit of his pretence and pretext. The truth is not in him. Shakspere had Socialists in his time, the days of Essex and Queen Elizabeth, as we have in ours, of Melbourne and Queen Victoria. In contrasting the hypocrisy of Regan and Goneril, with the candid villainy of the basely born Ed mund, Shakspere points a moral and adorns a tale. Edmund is no self-hypocrite. His irreligion is without CANT. ThiHe was a villain and knew it—confessed it to himself A is the. beauty and truth of dramatic soliloquy. - er ft deluding his father against Edgar, and persuading hint of the depravities of the times, and trying (like a soci alist) to s account for them (falsely) by references to extraneous influ ence ; (his Jack-Sheppardism !) when alone and his dupe gone, he " confesses' the truth (to.himself) thus. " This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeits of our own behaviour —we make guilty of our disasters the sun and stars, as if we were villains on necessity—fools by heavenly compulsion—knaves, THIEVES, and treacherous by spherical predominance —drun kards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience ; and all we are evil in, by a DIVINE thrusting-on !An admirable evasion of whoremaster man to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star !—Tut ! I'd have been what I am had the maidlenist star in the firmament twinkled on my birth!" We live in appalling times. Lisbon and whole cities were swallowed up by earthquakes ; Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by wrathful visitations of tire. This is a despe rately wicked age; and, in some awful lesson against the devil's flattery implied in our National Boasting instead. of national watchfulness and God-fearing humility, we too may be oa the eve of some shrieking catastrophe speak ing trumpet - tongued, or as intelligibly as the hand writing on the wall. But, as the subject which elicited this article is Courvoisier in connexion with the Plus's, the tp,n, and THE. PUBLIC, WC may conclude thus : Courvoisier and Gould, (Arcades ambo !) when taking their respective drop, in front of Newgate and at Norfolk Island, , may exclaim, with Jaffier and Pierre, in " Vice Pres erved, " We have deceived the Sheriffs ! " ly Gould.—Hh! ha, (dying " game" as it is blasphemously called.) iece of the " Clandestine Marriage" will be supposed to be meant f or L or d Wherever the old P is played, Lord OgiebY William Russell—Scrub for Ellis in the scene were lie pro tests against " foreigners bein g admitted t o his privaey"-- Mrs. H e id e lberg for Madame Piolane—and Canton for Courvoiser the Swiss Valet. We have heard that Mr. Charles Kean is in .treaty for Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Butler, it is said, is:also a eandi date. ; ! IL I