The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

Nlb 5, 1 't the next election. Oh dear ! What a melancholy and dreary prospect ! Enlightenment is to go to the shades with that paragon of a representative, Mr. WILLIAM EwAirri. Wisdom is to perish with our native SoLom( it 4 Genius will be compelled to trade below, and sing old i songs with LUCIAN'S cobbler for a livelihood at the next tlection I Dr. JOHNSON will have no agent of grandilo quence upon earth ! Alas, the "four times in three short years," will end in nothing, and get sour, like _spoon meat three days old, in the person of Mr. EWART, who has no chance of the peerage ! But let us retreat back to sober facts. The Liverpool It Times knows as well as we do that Mr. EWART has no !, chance whatever at the election which must come soon. It may rave or lament about it as much as it pleases. Th ie is cast. A thousand times abler, and better, and 'mo ntelligent man—a man of better prin c ipl es , o f 1 bett education, of higher understanding, must be the repre ntative of Liverpool in the next parliament. The Liver of Tinies knows that even his own personal friends are sick of Mr. EWART. Some of them do not Hesitate to confess that they brought down Mr. MORRIS to oppose him ; and some of the most honest radicals, natives of Liverpool, voted for MORRIS in prefei•en . ce to I Ewattr. But are we to build upon this certainty the flattering hope, personal to ourselves, that the electors of Liverpool stand ,alone at the burning of the old bones, and in seeking a change at the expense and the inter ment of a man who is hardly entitled to christian burial ? No ; Liverpool has not the honour of taking the lead in this moral revolution. It pervades the vvhole country. It is the rising and ruling sentiment in the breast of every honest and intelligent Englishman. The nation is sick of the ignorant empirics—the superficial and contetnptibly -small disciples of the " march of intellect" school—who have been: suffered to talk, and spout, and legislate for this mighty empire. Have we not heard of an hospital of in curables ? Yes, but what is that to a convention of fools ? And if folly had been the worst of it, we might have been content to-speak sparingly of their conduct. But when we see such tricks such glaring impositions, such down tight swindling as has characterised the formation of the "Reform-Association," we must resort to a less mild term ' of reprehension, and call the fraud by its proper name. ~ • We have had lying enough, and a strong spice of perjury from the popish members of Ireland. We looked at the crime as we do at an Irish murder—at !toughing of cattle —at the villanies committed in fields by night —at the unhallowed revenge which vents itself upon the sinless '• beasts who have no avenger—these crimes, however, will ,bring their own punishment, and ragged and supperless ought the slave to be, who, instigated by his priest, in dulges in such debasing and disgusting acts of revenge. These crimes like other sins will have their cure in the re coil of an awful retribution. But when we see Englishmen participating-in and conniving at the frauds of the Irish members—resorting to theirjesuitical fictions—adopting "their nranners—practising their impositions—and at tempting to cheat the public under the sanction of popu lar names—we must, however reluctantly, and however degradingly, admit that if we have not a rearguard in . the people of England we must be beaten. The question depends upon an " if." We are not afraid of that word; ' simply because we believe that the people of England are now alive to the frauds which have been practised • upon them. We had written thus far when we received The Stan dard of Wednesday evening, containing the following letter from Sir FRANCIS BURDETT : To THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,—Endeavouring to be concise, I find I have become ob scure. Since I addressed my former note to you, I have read the paper to which you alluded, and I am happy to find that there is in it no disrespectful allusion to his Majesty, nor any such expressions as appear to me to bear out your representa tion of it. At the same time I beg to be considered as not in any way implicated in it, or responsible for any of its sentiments, or as having anything further to do with the business it relates to, than as a subscriber to a fund for facilitating• the registra tion of voteA, and which I think ought to be done by the public, And impartially for all. I remain, Sir, Your very obedient humble servant. St. James's-place, Juue 3. FRANCIS BURDETT. The following is the first letter which Sir FRANCIS addressed to The Standard TO THE ,EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. Sir,—l beg leave to inform you, that if my name is affixed to any such paper as that you mention in the Standard ofSaturday last, it is not with my knowledge, nor is kat all consistent with •Lay sentiments and opinions. I never heard of it until I read Your account of it in the Standard the day before yesterday— tor have I yet seen it. I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, St. James's 7 place, June L FRANCIS BURDETT It is somewhat difficult to reconcile these two letters. One thing, however, is plain enough, viz., that the name the honourable baronet bad been used without his knowledge or consent—in other words, his name had been forged! Our argument, therefore, is not affected by the second explanatory letter. • That Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has been tampered .with in order to screen certain parties is evident enough; and he has subscribed his money to do that which the worthy baronet deprecates in the most unequivocal terms. We leaVe him, however, in the hands of our contem porary We have no disposition to enter into a controversy with Sir Francis, and we shall, therefore, only quote from the address *hat appeared to us, not merely disrespectful, but insulting to the King ; " The abrupt dismissal of a liberal administration in which the country confided, replaced the executive functions of the state, at the end of last year, in the hands of the tories." Dr. Johnson gives four interpretations of the word " Ab to pt, " 1. Broken, craggy. 2. Divided, Without any thing intervening. 3. Sudden, without the customary, or proper preparatives. 4. Unconnected. Now, the third is the only sense in which the word can have I lre any meaning, and we confess, that we cannot consider it t'therwise than disrespectful, and even seditious, to charge that the King had dismissed an administration trusted by the people, w ithout the customary and proper preparations. But let Sir P raucis read what follows, after a few words describing the Ireet of the King's "abrupt" dismissal of the people's favourite kitiisters `` Notwithstanding these unconstitutional and corrupt acts, kiceessive majorities in the present House of Commons have driven the tories from office." We are better pleased, however, with sir Francis's denial of 41 1 participation iu the address, than with his defence of that d ocument; that denial establishes one case of forgery against t he " Reform Association" advertisers; and, just as we should ° 'Arge a tnati who produced out of a parcel of new Bank notes, all alike,' • iiae that proved to 'he a forgery, so we hold all the 49 4 names printed with the address to be forgeries ; ex uno ` F ree mimesis the rule in all such cases. • The Glasgozo Courier, of Tuesday last, in a very able It nalysis of the reports presented by the municipal corn ttlissioners, addresses itself to Liverpool in terms which print with great pleasure. The analysis, however, w ould have been m ore p er f ect if our contemporary h a d h ~.!ea in possession of a lit t l e more l oca l i n f ormat i on. le has not drstinguished between the conservative and whig corporations, those of the latter which he has w l ., rl atnerated not being a tenth p art o f t h e w h o l e num b er . ''ar instance, Nottingham, Gloucester, and Derby, are borMighs. The first is notoriously the most cor 4 Pt and jobbing corporation in England ; the second is i ti t l such hand s th a t t h ey can h ar dl y prevail upon a gen- L eNan to become a, member, and it is not long since the 41 ayor was a pauper; the last, Derby, is worthy of the ° thers. W e can n ot speak o f t h e present year, but we la ve ti been assu re d th a t some ti me ago th e corporat i on did ot subject themselves to the drudgery and formality of , e fzin g books, and they actually boasted that the way which they spent their income could not be recrimina fctti against them, for no trace or record of it could be We take the opinion of our Glasgow contemporary :cist cordially because we know that he can teach us ex -711 Mentally upon the subject of municipal reform. The of Glasgow is now in the hands of radicals and dis itqters, and their common council proceedings, which Bhlr ade public, would disgrace the lumber troop, or an • wake. • Such motions, such debates, such chaffer 4k, scrambling, and scratching, was never seen or tl ttl in the wortd before, Such are the effects of cor- Such proceedings were formerly unknown in Great Britain But it is of a piece with other proceedings which have taken place within these few years. A hue and cry is got up—false hood, calumny, and misrepresentation are directed against any one particular system and class of men, possessed of just privileges and property, in order to irritate the public and lead it to rob the owners of such property. So the colo nies were abused and robbed—so the superiorities in Scot land were wrested from their lawful owners—so the Irish church is persecuted and traduced, that it may be plundered— so the municipal corporations have been assailed, that they may have a similar fate—and so the church of England and the church of Scotland are beginning to be attacked, that they may he plundered and subverted—and so the Canadian timber merchant—so the fundholder—and so the landed proprietor, and every man of any property in the country will speedily be assailed, and a like fate may await them at the bands of igno rance, injustice, oppression, and folly. If the ebnservathes, howeVer; remain at their posts, and do their duty, they will make municipal reform (carried into effect in the spirit of truth and justice) as fatal to Lord John Russell and his party, as his late proceedings and conduct proved to him when he last sought the suffrages of the electors of South Devon. Liverpool and such towns had better be on the alert, and look around them, for if Lord John Russell succeed in throwing the management of their affairs into the bands of the unprincipled factions which he has in his eye, adieu to their further improvements and prosperity; their increasing and large revenues will become a shadow, and their debts the shadow of a shade. The security for both must vanish, for under a prostituted and profligate ten-pounder legislation, no revenue would have been forthcoming, and no money advanced nor im provements made. The House of Commons was engaged to a very late hour on Wednesday morning in discussing the ballot. That there should be twenty sane men in England who would waste precious time in gravely debating any such subject is to us matter of astonishment, and says but lit tle for the march of intellect. At two o'clock the house divided, when there were— For the ballot Against the ballot. 319 Majority The list of the minority on this occasion has very pro perly been published, and such a collection of worthy, honest, and upright men has, we venture to say, never been seen. There are five O'CONNELLS to begin with, an O'BRIEN, an O'CONNOR, and an O'DWYER. PEASE the quaker, and WILES, the pious Mr. WILES, vote for the ballot, that is, vote for a system which HENRY LORD BROUGHAM has said is calculated to make the whole life of an elector a LIE! That the ballot would do so, it is impossible that any reflecting man can doubt ; and yet honest JOSEPH PEASE and pious JOHN WILES vote for the ballot ! We should like to string together a few of the names which shine in this minority just to give our readers some taste of their quality. We make it as select as possible by keeping out the Irish. John Gully, Whittle Harvey, Ben Hawes, Dr. Lushington, - J. A. Roebuck, . Mark Philips, Sergeant Wilde, Sir S. Whalley, Thomas Wakley, T. R. Kemp. What do you think of these for a sample of the "wisest, virtuousist, and best" of the "collective wisdom" of the nation ? Dr. Bowring, Torn Bish, Silk Buckingham, Sir E. Codrington, - tom Dunemiilie, William Ewart, E. L. Bulwer, Joseph Hume, Alderman Wood i W. D. Gillon, We beg to call attention to a petition which is in course of signature, and in favour of the Liverpool police bill now before the House of Commons. It will be recollected that Mr. EWART, a fewdays ago, presented a petition to the House against the bill, which he said was signed by some ten thousand persons. Who these persons are we defy any man to tell. We believe the names were, for the most part, written by boys in the catholic chapels on Sundays. Few rate payers signed the petition. We are obliged, however, to Mr. EWART for bringing such a miserable document into so much notice, for it has roused the inhabitants, who do pay rates, to express their sentiments on the subject. The petition will, we are confident, be numerously and most respectably signed. Each person is required to state his place of re sidence, and to his residence is added the amount at which he is assessed in the parish books. A copy of the petition will be found amongst our advertisements. LONDON LATEST NEWS. .City, Wednesday Evening, Half-peat Seven o'clock. That leviathan of gaming, our Stock Exchange, may be con_ sidered as having received a coup de grace, and, so far as "time bargains" are concerned, has been put hors de combat. Since , our last all attempts to extricate the market from the meshes of the late foreign account have been in vain, and up to the present moment no statement has been arranged. There is from this prostration of the gambling principles of the Stock Exchange, therefore, reason to hope that this monstrous ulcer which has so long been preying on the strength of legitimate trading, will, at length, he eradicated, and that those who have heretofore looked to chance for prosperity and wealth, will, in future, rely upon the more certain and more honourable, though , more tedious efforts of their activity and industry. The libe rality with which the Bank has made its advances has tended to give a considerable degree of : stability to the English mar ket, and Exchequer hills have 'risen to 29 31 prem., and India bonds to 12 preen. It appears from the best accounts we can obtain, that there is every prospect of an armed intervention on the part of Eng land and France in the affairs of Spain, or in other words that these two powers, seeing the liberal cause in Spain alike un supported by the soldiers and the people, intend interposing the weight of their arms to deprive Don Carlos of his rightful in heritance. This is not altogether palatable to our capitalists, and has tended to cause a considerable check to the reaction in the English money market. Consols had advanced to 911; but they have in consequence gone back to 90. Our foreign securities present a fearful picture of the sys tem for so many years pursued there, and which has been fraught with so much ruin to the many. Almost all the foreign securities must be considered as without any real price, for any attempt to sell extensively would have the effect of causing a considerable decline even upon the present depreciated prices. Instances of this have occurred to-day, where Portuguese for the account was quoted at 99; but when a small parcel of money stock was thrown upon the market, not more than 97 could be obtained. Spanish scrip, also, though nominally at 6 to 5 discount, was sold (also in a small parcel) at 7 discount; and such is the condition of the market, that attempts to dis pose of any large amount would have caused a much more im portant depression, even if it could have been sold at all. The delusion so long practised with regard to Spain has at length been dispelled, and the prudence of Don Carlos, in personally encouraging his gallant adherents, can no longer be doubted. It is thought by many persons not indifferently informed upon the subject, that the intervention of the French troops will be more dangerous to the throne of Louis Philip than to the cause of Don Carlos, and that joined to the monstre trial, it will speedily restore to the ex-schoolmaster his exile. The mixture of radical boastings with despotic actions, by which this regal Charlatan has marked his reign, will cause his fate to be pitied only try those who consider hypocrisy a virtue, and double dealing the traits of an honest man. By accounts from Buenos Ayres it appears that the govern ment of the province of Mendoza had received a despatch from the prcsid(ut of Chili, relative to the operations of the Chili poration reform in Scotland, and such will be the effects in England if Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S bill be passed into a law. But hear the Glasgow Courier : Could we spare time and space : to analyze the whole 271 cor porations of England and Wales, we should lay before the public a curious speCimen of whig chicanery and ambition, in the results of the reform bill, and of which the projected munici pal reform is to be a second edition. Some idle day or other we may undertake the labour. At the present we merely further observe, that the municipal reform talked of is a pure whig job for an impure political object! It is merely to break up all the corporations so as to enable the whig satellites to seize the con trol of the property belonging to these corporations, in order to strengthen their own party and to weaken the hands of the con servatives. The municipal commission is, altogether, one of ' the rankest and most shameless jobs we ever witnessed. So great is its political profligacy, that Sir Francis Palgrave, one of the commissioners, has not only refused to sign the report, but has protested, in the strongest manner, against it, which protest and evidence and references, occuqing eighty closely printed folio pages, has lately been published by the House of Commons, in which that honest whig shows how the commis sioners have not only reported contrary to the evidence taken by them, but that they have suppressed, distorted, and misrepre sented it to an alarming extent in order to make a case for those who have employed them. - -7' A'. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TIIE REGISTRATION SHILLING, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—Will you or one of your intelligent correspondents be kind enoagh to inform a poor burgess whether or not the so-called reform act compels the overseers to enter on the register of voters the names of the free burgesses as well as all the other ten pound householders of this borough, and consequently authorises them to enforce payment of a shilling for doing so, when we would prefer being left out, so long as Rigby's vengeance is warded frOm us? If the said act 'does so provide, then we must take the remedy into our own hands, and, rather than pay a shilling for what we do not want, (for " a shilling saved is a shilling got,") we can relieve the overseers from their onerous duty, and ourselves front the onerous alternative of pay ing the arbitrary fine in future by leaving our TAXES UNPAID until after the 20th of July in each year.—Yours, A BURGESS HOUSEHOLDER THE LATE FIRE AND FIRE POLICE. The superintendent, Mr. Whitty, has addressed the follow ng letter to the Courier:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER. Dear Sir,—The Standard of this day, in giving an account of the late fire, has chosen to make what my friends consider a personal attack upon me; but as all the inferences have been drawn from erroneous statements, I am disposed to believe that the editor has been misled by his informant rather than influ enced by individual feeling. His first charge, though second in place, is, that the arrival of the fire-police engines was anticipated by the West of Eng land, and he asks—" What is the use of an establishment whose officers and men arrivejtist in time to be too late? They saved an outhouse, it is said; why not, bad water and engines been brought up in time, have saved a greater part of the prop er ty ?" In the first place, not havin g - Zadkie/ the Seer on the esta blishment, the engines cannot turn out befine the alarm arises; and, in the second place, if they were last, they got first into play. They saved something more than an outhouse, and had there been fifty. engines present, with abundance of water, no=" thing more could have been saved. The alarm was brought by a little boy, who had no connexion with Mr. Buchanan's or any of the adjoining premises. Surely the fire-police is nut to blame for the neglect of private persons? The next charge is as follows : "The fire has proved, what has repeatedly been asserted, and as often denied, viz., the to tal inefficiency of the tire-police. Ist. It appears that the usual scarcity of water was felt. The fire commenced at half past six o'clock, and it was near nine o'clock before anything like a full and adequate supply was obtained." In reply permit me to state, that the fire was extingaished be fore nine o'clock. In proof of this I appeal to a gentleman connected with the Standard-office, Mr. Leyland, the active re presentative of the principal insurance-offices. At about half past eight he apprised ine that my services were no longer re quired, as one engine would be quite sufficient to cool the ruing. I was myself on the spot before seven o'clock, and in less than three minutes put the engine No. 5 in full play. From that moment there was no want of water, and it would have been strange if there were, for the reservoir, in Prussia-street, was within forty perches of the pl ace; some li tt l e d elay certa i nly took place in getting the s econ d eng i ne i nto play, b ut I am bound to admit that it was not fin want of water. Misled by his information, or actuated by a different motive, the editor of the Standard says " We wish to call the-attention of the Commissioners of the Watch to the impropriety of al lowing any one individual to hold the respective offices of Su perintendent of the Nightly Watch and of the Fire-police." The crowd, he thinks, cannot be kept back by the watch if I venture near the fire; but, though the recent fire failed to afford an instance, an instance he thinks may be afforued. He might have waited for one, but I will not delay to assure him, that when it does occur I will relieve the commissioners from all delicacy, by resigning one or both of my situations. Until that necessity becomes apparent, he will allow me to attempt that which I have always done,—performed to the best of my abilities, the duties I have undertaken. I remain, yours truly, M. J. WHITTY, Superintendent of the Watch and Fire-police. June IL We have no wish to wound the feelings, far less do any thing to depreciate the reputation or services of Mr. Whitty. - All we asserted at first was, that there was mismanagement somewhere, and that a considerable portion of the property could have been saved had the engines arrived in time, and had there been a plentiful supply of water. The fire commenced at half-past six : at 20 minutes to seven it had made considerable progress, at seven o'clock it was at its height. But at seven o'clock, we are assured by two most respectable witnesses, that neither the superintendent, nor any men or engines belonging to the fire police had ariiv, i. Mr. Whitt- says, " I was myself on the spot before seven o'clock." We cannot and therefore will not attempt to recon cile these conflicting statements. But admitting Mr. Whitty to he right, still, we ask, why not on the spot much earlier ? A boy brought the intelligence of the fire to the police-oflice. lie stated that his " master's place was on fire." Mr. Whitty complains that the information was not sent by a more compe tent and responsible messenger. .This is pure nonsense. It was of no earthly consequence who brought the information, and it was the duty of the persons in the office either to act upon it or ascertain its truth. If they had acted on the first information, they would have been at the fire at least fifteen if not twenty minutes sooner than they were—a space of time invaluable un der the circumstances. Mr. Whittv denies that there was any scarcity of water qfter his arriv a l. 'W e suspect h e a d m i ts h ere too much. The West of England engine was the first on the snot, although it had to he brought from a greater distance than the police station. Mr. Whitty admits this ir. a curious manner. Speaking of his own engines, he says, " if they were the last they gotfirst into play." Why so ?— t h ere was no water ! There was no want of water," after seven o'clock, says Mr. Whitty. If so, why send a large engine to pump water from Princes Dock, which by the way it failed to do for some considerable time, owing to the insufficiency of the hose ? And why was it that engine No. 4 was not brought into play ? This is not explained. With respect to the order and clear way which Mr. Whitty says was kept by the constables, we understand that he has overrated it. The greatest confusion prevailed every where, and the engineer of No. 5 was obliged to throw water on the crowd before he could work, and before the constables had done any thing to assist him. THE APPROPRIATION CLAUSE.—On Monday night, the Attorney-General presented to the House of Commons a peti tion from Edinburgh in favour of " Irish church appropriation." The learned gentleman stated that the petition was signed by 13,000 persons, of whom 546 were females; he also stated that the postage of this document cost him the inappropriate sum of £43 15s. 4d. This is the first time we ever heard of a lawyer payin g for a brief; how the honourable and l earne d k n i g h t could bring himself to countenance snch an unprofessional practice we cannot imagine. This, perhaps, was the reason why Sir John was so very brief in his observations—why he did not expatiate upon the great respectability and intelligence of the persons who had signed the document entrusted to his care, &c. The payment of the postage appears to have operated as a gag upon the lawyer, or the reporters. To what other c a u se can we attribute th e . absence of a long speech from him on this occasion? His Majesty's ship Despatch had arrived at Para, in April, from Barbadoes, to protect British interests. The place le mained in the utmost confusion. At Maranham four frigates and several hundred men were to form an expedition to restore tranquillity. The irritation of the populace against the Portu guese continued unabated, and several cruel acts of massacre had taken place. Commerce and confidence were utterly de stroyed. Died, on Sunday, the 31st of May, at his house in Blandford square, William Smith, Esq., formerly one of the representa tives for the city of Norwich. The integrity of his conduct du ring forty-six years' service in pa r li amen t, an d hi s cons i stency in maintaining the principles of civil and religious liberty during a period so trying and eventful, will entitle his name to an hon ourable place in the list of those who lived for the benefit of their country and mankind. • troops stationed near the Cordillera against the Indians of the south. It seems that these troops, in conjunction with some friendly Indians, attacked the remains of the tribe who had escaped from the army of General Rosa in the last campaign, and after a variety of manoeuvres had succeeded in killing upwards of 100 of them, and capturing various families, and a number of cattle. The loss on the part of the assailants was two soldiers and five friendly Indians killed, and Captain Tunega and the Cacique liursuane wounded. The beautiful republic of Mexico is again a prey to revolu tion. General Alvarez, the Governor of Zueateeas, has raised the standard of revolt against Santa Ana, and has issued a proclamation denouncing that individual, but offering to all others an amnesty, always excepting the ministers of the pre sident. Our accounts to-day state that Santa Ana, with a force of 5000 men, had left the capital for Zaeateeas to attempt the suppression of this revolt, which had extensive ramifica tions, and it was supposed would not be terminated without a severe conflict, as Alvarez had been joined by Gomez Fareos, and it was understood General Bravo, Bustament, and other leading and popular men of the republic were compromised in the revolt. The Vera Cruz letters say that great excitement prevailed there at the receipt of this intelligence, although the commer cial operations had not been much affected by it. It was not doubted, however, that the mercantile interests would be seri ously compromised should the contest be prolonged. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Ste,—Admiring the fearlessness and spirit of your journal I claim a few lines to notice a nuisance of the most intolerable sort. It is scarcely possible to do more than allude to the sub ject, and I am really surprised that it has not sooner been openly denounced. Did you, sir, ever read some of the quack advertisements with which the pages of nearly all the radical newspapers are weekly defiled, and which contain insinuations too gross and Abomina ble to be tolerated any longer, and which are an outrage on public decency ? Some of them are of so vile a character that I am really afraid of introducing any of the papers to which I allude into my liouse, lest they shock the feelings of the females of my family; and, although their insertion may be a source of profit, it is diq reputabie. and. I can. hardly bring myself to believe that the editors are aware of their disgusting character. I am not singular in my abhorrence, the complaint is general, and, although it is bad enough to read the language with which one of the editors occasionally besprinkles his wretched dog grels, the vile inuendoes contained in these advertisements are much worse. The remedy lies with the public; and if parents would exclude the publications containing them from their houses the nuisance would soon cease. I congratulate you, sir, that your pages are never defiled with them ; and I hope that the hint I have thrown out will be taken by those editors who cannot derive pleasure in outraging the feelings and wounding the modesty of every virtuous female.— Yours, &c., UN PERE. Edge-hill, June 4, 183-1. e:._ i ~ ~':: LIVERPOOL REFORM ASSOCIATION From James Brancker, Esq £39 From James Mulleneux, Es q lO _ "Your committee also feels grateful to Joseph Ewart, Esq. for having undertaken a journey to Devonshire at his own ex pense, to present your address to Lord John Russell, and also to Thomas Bolton and R. B. Harvey, Esqrs., for having lately proceeded to London at their own expense as witnesses against that job—the day police and cle rg y k i ll." The report having been read, Mr. GonFttEr BARNSLEY moved that it be adopted, and in doing so took occasion to introduce matters quite irrelevant to the object of the meeting, lugging in select vestries, and talking of the manner in which they have been packed since the time the parish overlooked him. Mr. PRESTON seconded the motion that the report be adopted, and it need no be added that it was carried unanimously by the "select few" present. Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE and a Mr. Somebody BLACK BORNE next followed in a patriotic strain quite astonishing, urging' the reformers to exercise every possible influence to counteract "that formidable bod y—the conservative association," and by all means not to neglect registration. Mr. Rathbone concluded by a vituperative attack on the Liverpool corporation. Mr. SHIEL, in a speech full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, (well worthy of his namesake,) denounced in terrific terms the manner in which the protestants of Ireland plundered their catholic brethren, and thought that the revenues of the church were enormous and intolerable. Mr. Wm. EAR LE, having an opportunity to speak, alluded to what had dropped from Mr. Rathbone respecting the corpora tion. He allowed that the common council of forty-one was a self-elected body, but there were exceptions. (A living specimen before them.) He, however, admired the spicy manner in which Mr. Rathbone had touched up the corporation. After some further conversation amongst the " little hive," a representative of the Manchester reform association, in the per son of Mr. Harbottle, a " muslin dealer," was introduced to them and the association, and. he arranged the districts that Manchester should take and the districts that Liverpool should choose. The scene was highly ludicrous, and to render it more so Mr. Harbottle thought that, in the event of a general elector, the association could not do better than bring forward Lord John Russell or Lord Palmerston, as candidates for South Lan- cad:tire Mr. HARBOTTLE having concluded " a Manchester speech," Mr. FRANCIS JORDAN (probably from the novelty of hearing the Lancashire dialect in perfection) moved a vote of thanks to that gentleman, and to those who had accompanied him as a deputation. Mr. HARBOTTLE *again made a speech in return for the honour. Mr. LAWRENCE IlEywoaTn proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. William Ewart, one of the members for Liverpool, for his " essential services in the cause." Mr. HARBOTTLE seconded the motion Mr. JOSEPH EWA lir returned thanks on behalf of his brother. Mr. W. W. CURRIE then addressed the meeting, and, in al luding to the Corporation, said that he had been twenty years a member of the Common Council, and during that time he had done all in his power to open the Corporation and their proceed ings, but he had always found himself in a false position. The proceedings terminated by Mr. JAMES MULLENEUX mov ing that the subscription to the association be reduced from 10s. 6d. each to 2s. 6d., which was seconded by Mr. SHIM., and carried as before. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, who returned thanks, and the meeting separated. LIVERPOOL POLICE. (Before Sir THOMAS BRANCKER and Mr. Alderman LAWRENCE.) WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BASE COIN.--TWO Irishmen, named Burke and Jordan, were placed at the bar by Serjeant Appleton, of the dock police, charged with having been ex tensively engaged in the manufacture of base coin. It ap peared from the evidence of Appleton and two other dock policemen, that the same m.irning, from information received, they proceeded to Gascoyne-street, where in a house there they found the prisoners taking breakfast. Suspecting the business the prisoners followed to be that of manufacturing counterfeit coin, they searched the premises, and in the room occupied by them was found moulds for casting base shillings, together with half a dozen new metal spoons (the material from which the coin is cast). The prisoners were immediately taken into cus tody, and in the hat of Burke they discovered concealed 247 bad shillings, and 80 bad half crown pieces. The person with whom the prisoners lodged stated that they had occupied a room in her house in Gascovne-street for about a week. ‘Vhen they first came, ene represented himself to be. a jeweller and the other a tailor.—Mr. Parlour stated that from examining the moulds, it appeared that the shillings and half crowns had been recently cast.—Three good shillings which were found upon them corresponded in uesign with the bad ones, and there was no doubt but the counterfeit shillings were cast from thein. The prisoners, who had nothing to urge in their defence, were committed. ROBBERY IN A PU BLIC-HOUSE.—TWO fellows named Welsby and Powell, were charged by John. Bell, a seafaring man, with robbing him of his pocket-book containing a sovereign and six half crowns. The circumstances were that the complainant went. to the public-house of a Mr. Crichley, in Sir Thomas. buildings, to take a glass of something, wh . ere he met with the two prisoners, who were also drinking. They entered into con versation, and the complainant asked Welsby the way to Wil liamson-square. Welsby went out and showed him the way, and he left the house. This was about eight o'clock on Satur day night, and:complainant had not proceeded far before he missed his pocket-hook, which was safe when he entered the house.. On discovering his loss, he returned and found Welsby there, whom he charged with the robbery. Welsby denied it, but said that he had seen Powell take it from the table and go away. Complainant then called in Parkes, a watchman, who took Welsby into custody, and subsequently apprehended Powell.—A servant girl belonging to the public-house said that she saw a pocket-book on the table after the complainant had left, and both prisoners were looking at it.—ln their defence the prisoners denied all knowledge of the book or money.— Committed. RUBBERY BY CHILDREN.-Six urchins, the eldest of whom was not more than twelve years old, and the youngest nine, were placed at the bar on suspicion of committing a robbery in St. George's-square. It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday morning last the servant of Mrs. Nettleship, of No. 30, Great George's-square, was cleaning a dozen of knives and forks in the area, when she was aroused by the ringing of the front door bell. On her answering it, there were three or four little boys craving charity. She was sometime in sending them away, and on returning to the area she found the knives and forks gone. The boys had then made their escape, and she could not swear th a t th e pr i soners were th e same . Martin, a watchman, stated that on Saturday night he saw the pri soners in an entry in St. Vincent -street, and amongst some straw on which they were lying he found some of the knives and forks identified by Mrs. Nettleship's servant, and a pair of old boots and a brass tap stolen from Mr. Green, of St. Vincent street.—Mr. Alderman Lawrence said that it was lamentable to see children of so tender an age as the prisoners so inured to misery and crime, and expressed an opinion that the fault must lie with their parents. The fathers of two of them at tended, and assured the magistrates that they did all in their power to keep 'them respectable and out of the streets; but such was their bad disposition, that notwithstanding having good homes, they ran away and stayed out for a week together, subsisting solely by thieving. Two of the lads, named Rigby and Aughton, were then remanded on the charge of felony. Two others (Jones and Evans) were committed to the House of'Correetion for three months as rogues and vagabonds; and John and -James Ruddy (brothers), aged nine and ten, were given up to their parents. LEoPot.o ROBERT.—Among the revolting number of suicides committed by the French, we have with much regret to notice that of their celebrated artist, Leopold Hobert, who at Florence put an end to his existence: he was.thirty.eight years of tge, and no cause has as yet been assigned for the deed : he was pious and moral, and his merits seem to have been appreciated by his country. His most celebrated works are "The Harvest Men," and "The Fishermen;" the latter is now exhibiting in Paris. , The picture of "The Vinta g er s ," i n the g a llery of th e Luxembeurg, is also by this artist. Yesterday afternoon, as a gentleman was passing through Tarleton-street his attention was attracted to a large placard posted on the outside of a building called the Shooting Gallery, headed " Extra treat for the fancy," wherein it was stated that " Jem Ward, the champion of England," " Deaf Burke," " Cootes," and other STRIKING characters would show off to very great advantage. Thinking that a shilling thrown away upon such blackguards might lead him to regain a lost pocket handkerchief, he entered, and there found, at one end of the room; instead of the scientific lecturers on the art of self-defence, a few persons congregated admiring the eloquence of a little fat man in black, who, perched upon an eminence, indulged his audience with plentiful exclamations about "Liberty," " Vote by ballot," &c. &c., amidst loud applause. What is this, said the gentleman, I expected to have seen what is termed a set-to between " Deaf Burke," "Jein Ward," and " Cootes ?" " Oh," said a respectable looking matt at the door, "what a hignorant man you must be, their performance was yesterday, this is a meeting of THE REFORM ASSOCIATION." " Didn't you read your circular," continuedthe respectable looking man. " No," returned the gentleman, " I had no circular, I only read the placard at the door, and I wanted to see the fun." " Then you have no business here," said the respectable looking man, and he was, without ceremony, turned out. Our reporter shared a better fate, for he had an opportunity of reporting the whole proceedings, although no thanks to those who conducted them. The business of the day commenced by Mr. James Brancker being appointed chairman. He made an eloquent speech in return for the honour; and it is with great regret that we can only allude to it, as our reporter states that its meaning cannot possibly be understood by any but those who are in the habit of hearing him converse. Mr. RADCLIFFE, the attorney, then read the report of the association's committee, showing the great progress the society had made in converting the unfortunate conservatives since its formation into radicalism, and trusting to providence for a complete victory over them. The following passages in the report are worth extracting:— "Your committee has carefully examined the bill brought in by Lord John Russell, for the purpose of explaining and amending the reform act, and, with the assistance of the soli citor to the association, several objectionable clauses have been discovered, to which your committee has called the attention of Mr,Ewart and the committee of the House of Commons, which has the bill under consideration, and there is reason to hope that the clauses objected to will be either amended or abandoned. "Your committee cannot conclude its report without calling your attention to the following liberal donations to the funds o the association, viz., MURDER OF A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN From the Dublin Evening Mail. With a horror that baffles description, we have this day to announce the appalling murder of a protestant clergyman, by some of that sanguinary peasantry, who are driven to deeds of blood and desperation by the wicked incitements of their de magogues; and whose unchecked propensities revel in the ex pected impunity artfully held forth to them of a government too hostile to tithes, and too favourable to popular rights, to be any thing but lenient to the perpetrators of what is softened into predial agitation. The present atrocity seems to have arisen from the connexion between landlord and tenant ; but the victim selected for pub lic example shows what we have ever forewarned the laity of, that rents and lands would soon be mixed up with tithes and churches, and that the ruin of one would be but the prelude to the destruction of the other. In the person of the Rev. Mr. Dawson both these characters were united—a clergyman and a landlord, he presented a double mark to the assassin's bullet; and in slaying him his murderers rejoiced in the economy of killing two birds with one stone. To what will this unhappy country come if the rule of Jaw be not speedily restored ? Wh ere w ill th e peacea bl e f i nd refuge, if an imbecile government—not wittingly,,but by its very im becility—give a stimulus to the angry and vindictive passions of a lawless and inturialed peasantry ? Where can right establish her fortress, if life in the pursuit of it be insecure? Oh ye whigs—ve whigs ! read this bloody narrative—and learn in it with horror (if ye be capable of feelings) the effects of your long encouragement of O'Connellism—of your sanctioned "passive resistance" to the rights of property, in the instance of tithes. Read this dreadful story; and if ye would not have the righteous blood upon your heads and the heads of your children, either reverse your misguided policy, or give pl*ce to men whose principles and whose powers will restore the order of government and the tranquillity of law to this unhappy portion of the empire. It will be seen from ex tracts of private letters under the head of "State of the Coun try," that the same diabolical spirit against the professors of the protestant religion and its ministers is manifesting itself in every direction. We subjoin the particulars of the atrocious murder of the Rev. Mr. Dawson, as they appear in the Limerick Star (a liberal journal), which reached this clay :-- ' 1 MURDER OF THE Rev. MR. DAWSON.—A dreadful occur rence took place about five o'clock on yesterday evening, at Ballincarrig, within about nine miles to the west of this city. The Rev. Mr. Dawson, brother-in-law of Mountiford Westropp, 1 Esq., of Melon, had been for some time previous endeavouring to g t possession of their holdings from several of his tenants in that neighbourhood, and found them, as it appears, unwilling to surrender their farms without a promise of renewal, which the reverend gentleman was not disposed to give, his object being, it is said, to get the land into his own hands, and to re side upon it. The tenantry were doubly obstinate in insisting On such promise from Mr. bawson, as the hind is the property of Lord Charleville, who generally gives a renewal tothe tenant in possession. provided all arrears are paid up, as was, we un derstand, in a great measure the case in this instance. For some weeks past affairs had been in this condition, Mr. Dawson threatening to eject, and the tenantry resolving to keep posses sion. On yesterday, as the reverend gentleman, accompanied by one of the tenants of the name of Lynch, was walking across a field near Mr. James Enright's house, he was suddenly at tacked by three men partly disguised in women's clothes. - Mr. Dawson and Lynch both ran. Lynch threw himself into a dyke, from whence he heard two shots fired, and, getting up, ran off to Mr. Westropp's,house at Melon to tell what he had seen. In the meantime the body of Mr. Dawson was found quite dead within about rerty yards of the place where he had been first attacked. It was conveyed to Mr. Enright's house, and examined by Dr. Griffin, of Pallas-henry, when the fol lowing appearances were observable :—One of the shots appeared to have been fired from -a gun loaded with slugs, which had only the effect of grazing the back, and tearing the clothes between the shoulders. The other shot was more effective It must have been fired with the !nuzzle of the piece close to the shoulder of the deceased, as the shirt, waistcoat, &c. were actually burnt by the discharge, while the two bullets with which the' piece was loaded entered together between the neck and left shoulder be hind, broke the spine in passing, and came out in separate places on the right side of the neck. In addition to this, the skull was beaten in behind with stones, or some other weapon, so as to present a most shocking spectacle. It would appear that the murderers, having effected their purpose by the second shot, were resolved to make assurance doubly sure, by beating in the skull wh en th e un f ortunate gent l eman had fallen. After the examination, the body was conveyed to the house of Mr. Westropp, at Melon, where a coroner's inquest is to be held this day. Lynch is at present in custody, but ao trace has yet been found that is likely to lead to the detection of the perpetrators of this dreadful crime. It would be strange, however, if such au act, committed in the open day and within hearing of seve ral houses in the vicinity, should not, sooner or later, be traced home to its blood-stained authors. The reverend gentleman, we underetand, has left a wife and child." THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE ! To be in debt. and have nothing to_pay. Co wish to talk, but have nothing to sir, To get tired of people who won't go away, Is next to a curse ; To live a bachelor all your life, Or be tied to a breeder of—quarrels and strife, And call a she demon like her "your wife," Is ten times worie. To wear old clothes that no tailor'would mend, To be out of cash, and write to a friend Who tells you he never has money to lend, Is a sad complaint; A young lady to dream she has changed her name, And, waking, to find it was only a dream, And that to the dear youth she has yet no claim, Would vex a saint. To know one who torments you, by 'drawing you out,' And by talking of things you know nothing about, Or to state things as facts, of whose truth there's some doubt La! what an esposis! To be taxed with some fact which you'd fain deny— To tell a " good story" and somebody by Slyly whispers his neighbour—"Now that's a lie !" Makes you look somewhat rosyi To get witty replies, and yet feel that they sting— To know how, and yet nut to be asked to sing— To hear some one whisper—" Who's that pert thing?" Would an angel provoke ; To be gulping your dinner when others have done— To get no one to laugh when you make a good pun— To lose a large pool when the game's nearly won, Is really no joke. A spruce matron to find that she's no way increased— A fair lassie to be what some folk call barefaced, And a figure where plenty is seen, but no waist. Is a horrible bore; To be deeply in lore, and bereft of all hope, With a beautiful heiress, who will not elope— And then, Lord ha' mercy ! resort to the rope ! Why, your sorrows are o'er. Mitt..—We are informed that the Post Master General has acceded t'. the proposition of extending the London Mail to Birkenhead ; to commence running on the sth of July next. It is understood that the mail will leave Liverpool at a quarter after eight A.M., arriving in London at the same hour the fol lowing morning.—Chester Courant. ANECDOTE OF DRYDEN.—Dryden being with the Earl of Mu!grave (afterwards Duke of Buckingham,) at bis seat, near Whitby, in Yorkshire, they agreed to play at bowls for a wager, and promised that neither of them should try the ground be forehand; but in the ni g ht,D r yd en ' s servan t 'h appene d to dis cover his lordship by moonlight taking his distances, and mea suring his casts, and informed his master. He took no notice of it, but the next day after he had bowled, when Lord Mel grave, as he delivered - his bowl, cried out, "My life, Dryden, to a horse-dung that I beat von." Lay me an even wager, my lord," said the poet, "and I will take it up." PrroviDENTrat, ESCAPE.—An occurrence happened in this town on Saturday last which threw into a paroxysm of distress a large concourse of spectators. A quantity of cotton was being delivered from the upper floor of on e o f th e hi g h ware h ouses in Chapel-street as a lady passed along the footpath inside of the cart which was receiving it, attended by a little girl of eight or nine years of age, carrying a parasol. 'I he latter accidentally put her foot into the loop of the rope which lay on the flags, and in an instant was whisked up into the air by the descent of a bag at the other end of the rope. Before the men at the jigger could be stopped by the shrieks of the spectators, the little sufferer, suspended by the ankle, had ascended to the third floor, the door of which was open, and into which she was drawn, still holding her parasol. In a few minutes she was well enough to walk away, apparently less discomposed than the lady. PATIENCE OF MARRIED PEOPLE.—One of the great officers of state belonging to the seraglio of his highness has just wed ded a lady whose face he h a d n ever seen b e f ore marriage, (such being the law of the country), and who had as little pretensions to beauty as the husband himself. The day after her marriage. the bride asked her liege lord t o w hi ch of his friends he would permit her to discover her face—" To all the world -madam," tartly said he, "except to me." "Patience," replied she, "you must now make the best of it." " Patience ' madam," retorted the husband, " I have n one ." "Y ou d on ' t do yourself justice," says she, "you have much more than your share; for fitty years you have had under your eyes the most horrible nose one could possibly see, and you have not yet resolved to get rid of it.— Le Cameleon. The following is an extract from a letter written by the cele brated Indian chief, Kahekewaquonaby alias Peter Jones:— " I am happy to inform y ou th a t m y h ea lth during the past year has been pretty good, with the exception of a few days' illness last summer. My dear Wife also enjoys good health, much better than when she was in her own native country. Our missions in this country continue about the same as last year; there is, however, good news from the St. Clair mission, where our efforts for a long time had been baffled, and also from the missions along the south shore of Lake Superior, where many of the poor Indians have turned to the Lord with their whole hearts, and as a proof of the reality of the change wrought on their minds they have thrown away their medicine bags, which contained their pow-wow stuff, and which they valued above gold and silver. One of our Indian exhorters from this mis sion, (Credit.) by the name of Thomas Magee, a faithful, zea lous man, went last spring to the St. Clair mission for the pus pose of labouring in conjunction with the missionary there, fur the conversion of the poor drunken and deluded Indians, and I are glad to say that the last accounts from that mission were most encouraging, that a few had already come over on the Lord's side. I believe I gave you an account of my tour to the Sant St. Marie and Maikenau, in the summer of 1833, and of the encouraging prospects of usefulness we there witnessed. In August last I visited the Muncey town mission, in company with my beloved Newish: we spent several days there, and had a number of religious meetings with them. This being my first visit to this tribe since my re?urn from England, I had much to tell them about what I saw and heard in - good old England, especially about my interview with the king, which seemed to please them much. Four or five of the pagan Indians were converted during our visit at Muncey town. The rest of the mission stations. continue about the same with regard to reli gion, some very happy and strong—others weak and lame— and a few instances of apostates. In general the Indians are advancing in their temporal affairs; many of them keep cows, oxen, pigs, horses, geese, and chickens, and grow wheat, Indian corn, potatoes, &c. We indeed find that 'godliness is profit able unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' I am sorry to say that our mission schools do not. prosper as I cou ld wish, owing to the society not being aide, for want of more funds, to employ suitable teachers. I wish we had a dozen or two of your good warm-hearted• En glish missionaries for this work. ° We should like much (if we had means) to have a sort of Indian seminary at this station, for the purpose of teaching the higher branches of edtmatilm to the most promising.of the' boys and 7 .girls of the'differentmis sinus. Such an institution wo uld d o muc h goo d i n m y o pi n i on, to the rising generation, and I have no doutit in a few years many native missionaries and teachers, long headed chief s , & c . would be raised up, and our people would become useful niCal hers in society." - COURT OF KING'S . BENCH, DISI3LIN.—MoNDAt i , JUNE 1. JUDGMEN'I. In the case of the King at the prosecution of Margaret Hainan, r. the Rev. Mr. John Keenan and others. Shortly before eleven o'clock Judges BURTON and Caton.- TON took their seats on the bench. The several traversers—the Rev. John Keenan, parish priest of the parish of Clanduff, county Down ; the Rev, I'. Brady, Roman catholic curate of said parish ; Edward Hainan, Fran cis Loughlan, and William Cox having attended to receive judgment in this case yesterday, Judge .But:Tos, at the sittin g of the court proceeded to address them as follows: In this case bills of indictment having been found against you for an assault committed upon the person of Margaret Hainan. and removed by certiorari into this court, a trial took place, and you have been all found guilty. No application has been made to set aside the verdict—in truth, no application, grounded upon such circumstances as are connected with the case. could have been sustained--and we are to consider that the charges have been satisfactorily proved. Even if we were at liberty to go into evidence for the purpose of seeing whether the verdict could be sustained, we could have no doubt upon our minds of ' the propriety of that verdict. Certain facts appear upon the evidence of the trial, and upon the affidavits which seem to be perfectly undisputed—l say "certain," because there have been others raised of which we may doubt. In or about the year 1823 a marriage ceremony was performed by a presbyte r i an . . clergyman betwee n th e prosecutrix and a man named M veran, a Roman catholic, who separated from her about a year after. About the year 1825 she hired as a servant with Edward Hainan, one of the traversers, and continued in that capacity until about the year 1829, when the marriage ceremony was celebrated be tween them by another presbyterian minister; from that period to the time of the assault they cohabited as man and wife, and had two children. The circumstance of the first marriage .of the prosecutrix with M`lveran, by some means became know n to Mr. John Keenan, the priest of the parish in which she lived' and to Mr. Brady, his curate; and they considering, as it ap peared, that this was an illicit connection, thought it right, or took upon themselves as a matter of duty, to put an end to it; and Mr. Brady, with that view, called several times at the house of the prosecutrix. He went on the 29th of November, and requested her to leave the house, which she refused to do; and on the 3d of December following Mr. Keenan and his curate went there together, when she was forcibly expelled from the house with her young child. In that forcible expulsion all the traversers concurred, so as to make all parties to the assault, it being tinder the authority of Keenan and Brady that the other three traverser• acted with them. They did not all act at the same moment, but they all severally acted in the course of the transaction. These matters, as I have just stated, are incon trovertibly true. That the expulsion was altogether against her will—that she struggled against and resisted that expulsion-- and that her struggles were unavailing, are facts manifestly and indisputably ti ue. The learned judge in the course of his address to the travers ers said that this was an unlawful act and assumption of law ful authority on the part of the priests which it was quite clear they had no right to in point of law ; they had no right to ex• ercise a summary judgment in the way they had done with re spect to a Roman catholic than any other person in the parish. The court sentenced the priests, Keenan and Brady, to pay a fine of £2O each to the King, and the oth er traversers to a fine of twenty shillings each. Keenan and Brady to enter into recognizances, themselves in £lOO each and two sureties 1;50 each. The other three traversers £lO each, and two sureties of £5 each. THE NO POPERY CRY. (From the Dublin Record.) By holding in view that we are contending, in the pending struggle, for our church and true religion, against popery and infidelity, men may be brought more closely to inquire what true religion is, and what those systems which they are called upon tooppose. The directing of their minds into such au inquiry will be in itself a gain. We desire it—we should en deavour to promote it. Let the christian, then, buckle on his armour, as well as the politician, and be assured that the pre sent is a time when souls may be won to his Master's cause, as well as warriors enlisted iu a worldly interest. It is said, forsooth, oh, you are raising the cry of "No popery!" F 0 be sure we are; and may we ask, why not? What im putation does that charge cast upon us? On those who have abjured that system, and deeply considered what it really is, it can throw none, unless they raise the cry for some unvrol thy purpose. No doubt, if it were used as a pretence for doing an Injury to our neighbour; if it were set up to do the Roman catholic some wrong, either in person or property, it would be a breach of the divine as well as human laws, and, as such, would merit condemnation. But if, on the other hand, it be really promoted, in order to resist the inroads of that great apostacy, both in its moral and temporal aggressions, to pro tect men from its defilements, truth from its corruptions, and the state from its tyrannous usurpation, who can justly blame us for raising, and acting with zeal and vigour upon, the stirring my of "No popery?" The reform bill is not the law of the land; and it is the counsel of a statesman whom we admire and respect that we should act in the spirit of it. Be it so—and "No popery" shall be our watchword; for popery is, at this moment, the greatest boroughmonger that ever existed in the state. It gives O'Connell his tail of forty—it enables him to put into parliament his sons, sons-in law, and cousins without end, and has, in fine, made him and his destructive associates paramount in the realm. Shall we not act, then, in the spirit of the reform bill, by waging war with this b , roughinongering, corrupt, and abominable s•stem ? Truly, we shall; and, not forgetting the members for Tiverton and Stroud, slit h borough mongers shall be our foes. Let us look to our own ways, and extend at every side the- influence of purity and truth: —,- Every convert thus gained will be our companion at the hus tings; and conservative and reformer will, in the truest sense, be terms of like import, whatever name our adversaries may assume, or by whatever pretext they may attempt to disguise their objects. LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.—Mr. Walker's lectures have been very well attended since their commencement on Monday night. the first of a duy course of lectures was given yesterday, and the boxes of the Liver Theatre were filled with family par ties from the town and its vicinity. The great ineiit of Mr. Walker's descriptions of the motions of the heavenly bodies con sists chiefly in the simplicity of his explanations, which on that account carry conviction more easily to the mind of his auditors. On this account we hope he will repeat them for another %%eel:. Ha WOULD BE A SoLotait.— On Monday, as a cal ridge with ladies in it was passing down Bedford-street, in Plymouth, at the same time as a recruiting set jeant with `• colours flying," was "beating up," the footman instantly dismounted from be hind and accosted the serjeaut; received his Majesty's bounty, and joined . the party. The coachman, who witnessed the tran saction, appeared to enjoy it, for he, smiling, drove on. EnrrottrAL DUEL.—BA YONNE, MAY 26.—A hostile meeting took place yesterday in the environs of Bayonne, between the editor of the reputed government journal, Le I'harede Bayonne, and M • Morel, the editor of the liberal journal, La Sentinells . des Pyrenees, in consequence of an explanation demanded by M. Morel, in a letter which he addressed to the Mare, published in the Sentinelle of yesterday, relative to cetta'n expressions which had appeared in the flare, and which 'night be construed either as personal, or as merely referring to political opinions, and which led to the meeting - in question. Being placed at twenty-five paces they advanced on each other, the editor of the . Phare discharging his pistol at the second pace, wounding his adversary in the right,arii,i who instantly tired with his left hand, but without effect; the parties then quitted the ground. M. Morel, whose wound was nut dangerous, was singularly enough conveyed to the country-house of one of the gentlemen connected with the Phare newspaper, (Major Mezard,) near which the duel took place. EYES RIGHT.—The following anecdote is related of a regi ment as distinguished for its gallantry in the " battle-field" as for the excellence and precision of its system in the field- of manoeuvre. On the return of the 52d regiment sonic time ago from foreign service, the ophthalmia prevailed to such an extent in the corps that, in order to insure the instructions of the sur geon relative to the application of a particular lotion being ear ned into effect, it became necssary to parade the men for that purpose several times during the day. On these occasions the men turned out, each with his tin can containing the lotion and a piece of rag, and, after tieing wheeled into line, received front the serjeant-major, who was an expert drill, the words "By fugel! wash your—remember, men, wash is only a caution— wash your eyes!" on which every man, at one and the same in stant, applied (with his right hand, the left holding the tin) the rag dipped in the cull} rium to the eyes. - NEW You; LA DIRS.—The females at New York do not look up to a man for his respect. They claim it as an homage due to them. They look like beings accustomed to command ; and let you be as kind as ever you will to a female, she thinks it no more than her due. If you are riding in a coach, and afe male of the lowest class enter it, you must resign your seat to her. it is demanded as her right. The Yankees laugh at the English for allowing a Queen to reign over them, but they (poor hen pecked creatures) are subject, every one of them, to the despot ism of a petticoat government.— Prom a Journal of a Citizen of Edinburgh. THE FAMILY OF SIR R. PEEL—The inhabitants of Eccle fechan (Dumfrieshire) assert that the ancestors of Sir Robett . Peel originally belonged to that village; and, in support of their opinion, they point out a gravestone in the old church yard, inscribed to the memory of " Robert Peet," end refer to the testimony of an old wonran,.now dead; who used to say that some ofhcr relations went southward about ninety years a k o and . established themselves as manufacturers in the neighbtiorlfood of Manchester, and who always claimed to he a relation' of the late Sir Robert Peel. —Rambles in. Northumberland, by Stephen. - Oliter, the Younger. CAT -SKINNING.—A fellow named Peart, living in the heart of St Giles's, was taken to Union-hall, on Monday, by Cattle, a policeman, who found the skins of twenty-nine eats m his possession. The fellow is a regular cat-skinner, and at his filthy abode were discovered the implements with which he followed . his disgusting traffic. It appeared that he was in the habit of turning the bodies of his poor victitns to account as well as their • skins, for be roasted them over the fire to obtain their fat, and also sold their bones. Some of the cat-skins, which were o f a - superior kind, were worth ss. or fis. a piece to him. He was remanded. WILSON, THE PAINTER, AND HIS WAISTCOAT.—The emi nent landscape painter, Wilson, - was sadly uoprovided with the precious metals while a student at Rowe. There is an odd s - ory told of his doffing his coat ore flue day for a game of tennis in the baths of earacalla, (where the English had got up a sort of ball-alley,) when lc)! ou his back, by v‘ay of lining to his waistcoat, a splendid waterfall s u th grotto, &c. became visible; a contrivance, no doubt, of his laundress, to turn his productions to some profitable purpose.—From Fraser's Maya- . line fur April. COntous REGISTERS.—In the register of Nunney Somer set:--- Roger Starr, baptized December 17, 1601. lie climbed • up a ladder to the top of the house, Lid of October, 1606, being seven weeks and odd days less than two years old." At Beck enham, Kent :—" Anne Isted, a child, killed by the careless di se brge of a pistol, at the distance of 337 yards." From: sundry registers of burials 1562. There was bur i ed, Starly, a symple wenche." " 1568. There was buryed Alyce, the wife of (a naughtic fellow, whose name is) Matthew Manne." "1586. Mande the childe of a roagne." "1635. A stranger, choaked while he wished the same " 17C9 Ann, daughter ofJames Coning, who was 18 Tears of age, and never chewed bread ; of stature not above a three veers' old child ; the thickest part of her arms and legs not exceeding • the thick ness of a man's thumb." —Miner. POPPING THE ALTEIINATI‘E.—If we but knew who the author of the follow:lig stanza is or ever was, we would canonize bim. It was add resse d to a young l a d y ( w h u by the way was.a coquette,)- by one of her weary admirers. He was a gallant fellow—one in a thousand : and the old bachelors should love him for his independence, though it was quite probable the lady in question would not You will and you won't, half No and half YES, I'm quite at a loss for your meaning, dear miss; And enough, in all conscience, you've baffled and shanim'd, Say as and be Liss'd„ or saY NO and be —American paper. WINO 1,;* 14 '