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Ile 1, Mr. ' 'pus- r ter►u . 11 He A per t waste e task 7, what East, 11 of the i of his hem to Lad re- there :ind of 4ard to s olved Id that ression le very ry yea r return ;recce , Around ,- ..., vaS a. , hetbq to lead lation , to the uld re turn la ressiop that it ;wailing by 3"'circtlfl It • 01l sslop Nell the , !fathers; of them have been transported and they would still find some of th em at Rome, for most of them were removed in the time of A ugust i n ; b ut it was peculiarly interest i ng to stand on ground consecrated by so many scriptural recollec tions ; where Memphis once stood there was some corn growing on the luxuriant mountains there, and that was all he could see of that ancient spot that once filled the world with the celebrity of its name, with the exception that there Were some remains of the temple of Vulcan ; the statue of Sesostris was broken on the ground. and this was the only memorial Of departed grandeur. On his return from Upper E gypt he thought of another plan ; he thought that a con versation passing with the Pacha was extremely easy to- be enisinte!lireted, and that what had been said should be em bodied in the form Of a proclamation ; that then it would be come a kind of law, and that it would be something the Jews Might appeal to, and be an encouragement for them to mi grate to their country. But before he took the second step, to request that the purport of their conversation should be embodieden a proclamation, he thought it would be right to consult the secretary of the new Consul General, Colonel !lodges, who recommended him not to engage in any such interference ; his reason was, that by doi ng so h e h a d to solicit the Pacha to embody the substance of what he pro mised in the form of a document, exercising an act of su preme authority at the ve r y momen t t h e powers of E urope we re considering whether he was empowered to exercise an act of supreme authority ; as far as his :(Mr, G.'s) influence w ent, he would be exercising th em as a man w h o h a d a r i g ht to sway o sa'ay over the desti n i es o f th at l an d . I n t h e en d of A pr il thata matter would be brou g ht t oe conc l us i on, an d h e cou ld an d regulate hi s co n d uc t accor di ng l y. T he matter rema i ne d t ill The eastern que s ti on was not settled in April, d t • no man was bravado enough to say when it would be i ;i ch tied ; but it was a matter of deep importance that t h e a a was favourable to the return of the Jews. He (Mr. G.) would n ow proceed without further delay to another of interesting neighbourhood, which recalled recollections our earliest y ears, and which could never become extinct. t ;ne passed along th e s h ores o f the Mediterranean, f rom Beyrout t o Si don, Tyre, and Cesarea ; and when they were at at Bar n o a u s t e , n t s h . ey heard much of the persecution of the Jews Were The prevailing impression was, that they guilty, and the storm of public opinion ran very high against them. But, on the other hand, when men had time to reflect, and the Jews gave information on the subject, and showed the impossibility of such a charge being just—when tto hey nse ' showedt that, by the law of Moses, they were forbidden be guilty hblo o o f d th o e f theyany animal and, therefore, how could greater crime of shedding • man for admixture in their sacred part of the Passover—it ' the blood of a was said, " Here a thou g ht that ' are the very b ones ! " b ut h e (M r . S.) point was cleared up by the medical roan called on the exa mination of these bones, for his was a most excel lent argument : he said, " These the bones of a man, but the bones an animal." are not as they proceeded towards It was remarkable that, Jerusalem, there was an immense influx of pilgrims from all parts •, and it was astonishing how the poor Jews were insulted, plucked by-the bearrlrthrown down by violent hands, and exposed to the severest persecutions, on the supposition that that grievous charge was founded on fact. (Hear, hear.) It was a fact re markable with respect to their Jewish mission, that, though N icolaison, of the Rabbis had issued anathemas against Mr. ' - ‘icolaison, and told the. Jews to be aware of the prophets of C hristianity, yet in the hour of need, when they were anxious tosee whether some one would not go Damascus for them con cerning the charge brought against them, who did they go to but to the Jewish mission beseeching them with prayers that they would stand forward in their behalf, and that they would vindicate them from such a calumny. They entrusted this mission, their character to them. The poor Jews said, Who can we go to but the English? the English, as more P a rticularly the mission to the Jews, come forward and uphold our cause. and may the God of Abraham, of Isa ac, and of Jacob, go with you. (Applause.) The ent rusted; con sequence was that to Mr. Peritz the full question was and Mr. Peritz was the instrument for first giving a new force and impulse to public opinion, and standing for- Ward as the champion of the innocence of the Jews. He (Mr. G.) afterwards visited Jerusalem ; but, oh! how could l e express the feelings of his heart when Jerusalem first bu rst upon his view? blt was an overwhelming sensation; It was a concentration' of all that could appeal to the convic tions of his conscience, to the recollection of his earlier days, to the feelings and principles of mature life, and to the strong est emotions of his heart. He descended from his horse, or rather his mule, and felt unable to sustain. himself. If he were asked what his feelings were, he had found them ex- Pressed in Isaiah. His heart was moved like the trees of a wood that. are shaken by the wind." That just seemed to .Nwess the ver y f ee li ngs by w hi c h h e was ag i tate d . Jerusa lem presented a different aspect from what he expected. It was surrounded by walls on every side; they were about two Ta ills round. Th e reco ll ec ti on o f a ll t h e m i g h ty scenes t h a t been p er f orme d w i t hi n t h ese wa ll s an d w i thout them— the recollection of his being in the land of patriarchs, of pro phets, and of apostles—where David sang the songs of Zion, Where prophets opened the visions of - futurity, and told them of things that were to come to pass even to the grand con summation of a ll thi ngs — an d .w h en h e saw t h e M ount o f ( .!lives, where the disciples of their Lord were accustomed to sing their hy mns — w h en h e b eheld the garden of Gethsemane, where the Saviour endured his cruel agony—he could not hisid offeri ng up a f ervent prayer that that Saviour might be . Saviou r , th a t h e m i g h t b e i nterested in that precious plood, that he might be sanctified by that Holy Spirit, that he might look to him as a Saviour, and have grace to follow him as an example.. When he saw the brook Kedron, over which the Savi our h a d so o f ten passe d ; the valley of 'Jeho saphat ; the field of blood, associated with the thirty pieces of silver ; the pool of Siloam ;---and when he ascended Mount Ca lve/I'e and saw the place where the Saviour died, offered himself as a sacrifice, and a full and sufficient satisfaction and propitiation for all their sins ;—and when he stood by the side of the place of crucifixion, which he believ ed to be the identical spot, and saw the reek rent, ac cording to the account recorded in the gospel—he be held the rock rent, not evidently by any strategem or de vice of men, but evidently by- divine agency, as by the hand of God, and answering the idea conveyed by the term rent, he saw from above 'the rent descending, and when he went 20 feet below he saw the rent rising upwards—he felt that all he wished for was that he had all the infidels of Europe with him that he might have said, survey that spot, and then fear, and tremble, and acknowledge—(applause)— and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He afterwards descended into the tomb, which he believed like wise to be identified, and saw the place where the body of Jesus lay, and where he burst the bonds of death.— It was impossible adequately to describe the feelings by which he was agitated that moment, and how they vibrated. -through-. every- , epare of .his body .. He. was aware from what he- saw in Jerusalem there was much superstition attached to those places, and that they minister to very hard anl supine feelings and produce delusions on the minds of many. His (Mr. G.'s) object was to separate the evil from the good. What man ever returned to his own country—what man ever saw the house where be was born—without feeling a deep impression on his mind ? And Pope said that he would not have a post taken up or removed, if it reminded him of the days of his innocency. With respect to what the chairman had said about Marathon, he (Mr. G.) went to that field, -and saw the mound where the two hundred noble Athenians were all entombed ; and he recollected, on going to Greece, the classic feelings which occupied his mind. But he had another feeling at Jerusalem ; for, whilst contemplating all those wonders, he felt as if he could have raised his hands, and said, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen him salvation." With respec t -t o th e J ew i s h mission, let 'ins say that it was in a most important situation. The Rev. Mr. Nicolaison was a man suited to his work, and he knew nothing better in order to characterize him ; he prosecuted his Work with zeal and perseverance. Mr. Peritz was the one to whom he had already alluded, and he was perfectly Calculated t o en t er on a ll th e controversial points connected With the Jewish expectations. He would only say further, that there was a considerable degree of progress among the Jews : be saw a husband, a wife, and daughter, all of whom had been admitted to the church by the rite of Christian baptism. The foundation was laid for a great work, and they were at least bearing their testimony—they had planted the banner of the Redeemer. Mr. Grimshaw, having stated that they afterwards visited Bethlemen and the grave of La zarus, concluded by expressing a hope that God would bless the cause in which they were engaged. The R ev . M r . PYm, in seconding the resolution proposed by the last speaker, said—l cheerfully undertake this charge. Abe resolution is a right christian one, for it teaches us to c ommence in a way we ought to commence all our under takings. It says that our " humble thanks are due to Almighty God lor the increase which his attended the society's funds, and that we sincerely hope the interest hitherto manifested is inadequate to the necessities of the cause." I have already remarked that it is a right christian resolution, and my reason for saying so is simply this, that it expresses our :tense of gratitute to God, and thet we pray his Dressings that our labours may be mulilied and continued. But the resolution also calls attention t o o the society's funds; and when we look at the state of those funds during the pre ceding year, and find that there was an increase in them, to the extent o f £5OOO, we certainly have reason to thank God 'and take courage. I feel, however, that there has not been a proportionate increase in the funds—l use the word " proportionate" in reference to the extent of the Christian church ; for I am persuaded that if every great city were to send forth as goodly an assembly as the present, instead of having to thank God for our funds amounting to £22,000, we should have to thank bins for an increase twenty fold. (Hear, and cheering.) And, therefore, I - think it would be well if all our vast cities would take this large assembly as an example—indeed I would invite London itself to look to Liverpool, and to take a lesson out of her book. (Loud cheers.) I believe that the assembly at Exeter Hall, goodly as that is, can scarcely vie with the assembly by which I am surrounded— surrounded I may well say, for when I turn behind me, I be hold the component parts of that which, under ordinary cir cumstances, would form a goodly meeting of itself. And when 1 look to the state of the Jewish nation twenty years ago—a period not recollected by me—and when I see how the machine has been worked up the present stage, it is im possible not to perceive that there is a greater call now than ever upon us to enter into the spirit of the resolution. For what was the exertion made in behalf of the Jews at that pe riod ? It was like the cloud of which we read in scripture— small as a man's hand. Arid now what are the exertions made ? Why, they have multiplied on every side, until they begin to cover the whole earth from the east to the west. But this resolution - refers to other matters. It speaks of the pro portionate value of the exertions of the Christian church. It asserts that those exertions, • great as they may be, and increasingly great as they may have been—and truly there can be very little doubt but that this society is advancing at a railroad pace—l say, that when I consider these circumstances, and enter into the spirit of the resolu tion, it appears to me that great as our exertions have been, they are not as yet commensurate with the object we have in view. lam well aware that when an individual makes such an assertion as this he should be prepared to give some causes or reasons for making such a declaration. Why is it then that I do not consider that our exertions have not been com mensurate with the object we have in view ? My answer will be composed of several answers—my reply will consist of se veral replies. And, in. the first place, I would say that when we look to the Jews I think we need not travel far in order to find an answer to the inquiry why our exertions have not been commensurate with the great object in view. With regard to the former, I would say that I would certainly be the last man in the world to forget my civil rights, but I would ask this question, whence do we derive our civil rights ? and whence is it that we enjoy that civil liberty which is unknown to other lands? It is because God has signal ised this land by making it the depository of his truth. Our civil Privileges all emanate from our religious ones, inasmuch as if we were not a protestant nation I am thoroughly convinced We should never have been blessed in the manner that we have been. (Loud and continued cheers.) It is because God ha s h onoure d an d distinguished us—unworthy as we have been—and it is because he has distinguished us as the chief among the protestant churches that he has given us civil distincti ons . To the Jews we are indebted for all this. I take the book of God in my hand—l go through the Old and New Testament—l refer to David in the Psalms and Moses in the law, and what do I find ? Why, I find that you are i ndebted to the Jew for all you enjoy. You do not discover a dry code of mo ra lity i n the law, but a transcript of the di 'vine Mind, bringing you, as a schoolmaster, to Christ; and for all this you are indebted to the Jew. It is in the law I find the operations of those glorious times which are to sue seed in the church, and for all these glorious signs we are Indebted likewise to the Jew and to the seed of promise, God's friend; and what is true as touching the old scripture, a s equally true as touching the new, for with one or two ex rPtimis, we are indebted to the Jew for all. Here then, 8 the foundation of our faith. Here is that test by which we are enabled to judge of the truth or falsehood of our church. We have, then, a constellation of privileges, for.all ° I which we are indebted to the Jew. When I look to the exertions of the church in the past year—when I know the ptures 4ence, 1, in a benefits of which she has been made the recipient by God, and when I think of the pounds, shillings, and pence part of the matter, I am ashamed th a t on ly £22,000 w ere collected and I hang down my head. (Hear, hear.) Why, the church of Christ ought to come and give back the gifts she has re ceived at the hands of the Jew. This is the true way in which to look at the matter : and I verily believe that if the cause be laid before the church of Christ, there will be a response made to the application, which will surprise ourselves and prove to others that there is a feeling in the chord of christians which will vibrate if it be only touched by the min istry throughout the length and breadth of the land. (Loud cheers.) But there are other reasons why I think we should come to the rescue of this people, and one of those is, a con sideration of the past privileges of the Jew. Look to the con dition of that people during the 1500 years they constituted the church of Christ. It is not my intention here to go back to the call of Abraham, hut I refer you to the 1500 years during which they were established in the land of promise. It appears manifest that God selected the nation out of all the nations under heaven. He took them out of the midst of another nation. He made bare his arm in the time of Pharaoh. He brought plague upon plague for the purpose of proving this fact, that he was God over all the earth, and that he world do according to his pleasure. And then if we follow the Israelites in their passage through the wilderness, what do we find ? VF hy, we find that the ordinary course of nature was reversed, that God hedged them in a corner, that when the sea rolled between them and the opposite side, and death threatened them in the rear, God set at nought the evil devices of the enemy, and, by commanding the sea to roll back, enabled his ransomed people to pass over. This 'Pas a wonderful distinction ; but all you who go with them into the land of promise, what do you find? Their history was marked with light, and distinguished from all histories by this feature : that God condescended not only to betheir historian, but that he condescended also to be 'their guide, and that he consented to go before them in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. This was a distinction of which they might well be proud. (Hear, hear.) But what has been their condition for the last 1800 /ears ? They are scattered among all nations—they are a bye-word among the people, arid the Gentiles have treated them with all kinds of ignominy. When I contrast their condition now with what they were in times past, they appear to me to be like Gideon's fleece. Under those circumstances, I say that the exertions of the Christian church do not keep pace with the occasion, nor are they commensurate with the obligations we owe to the God of Israel. It is to me a plain and self-evi dent fact, that there are glorious prospects placed before the Jews in the Old Testament scriptures ; for wh'en we look to the Jew what do we see ? We see a man with a mark on him like that of Cain. All this may be true, and true it is, but we also see something more. For instance, we see the vary incarnation of prophecies which have yet to be accomplished. We see in him the germ of that blessing which will unfold itself over the whole earth, for the receiv ing back of Israel shall be as life from the dead. When I look to their laud at present, t'behold. the -Rose of. Sharon hanging its head, the cedars of Lebanon drooping, and Car mel casting off its fruits ; in short; the land appears desolate ; but shall these things always last ? Oh, no ! I believe the sure word of God, and so believing, it is impossible for me to entertain such a notion for a moment. I believe that the rose of Sharon will again blossom, and that the cedars of Le banon will again bud forth,, and that Carn,el shall once more abound in fruits, for God has promised all these things, and it is impossible that anything which he has said shall fail. (Cheers.) But I see more, for I see that the commencement of these times is approaching. After 'some further remarks in elucidation of this point, the rev. gentleman concluded by saying, I shall not occupy much more of your time, for there are giants in our days as well as in the days that are past and gone. (Cheers.) There are giants here to-night, I say, to whom it is a privilege on my part to hold a candle, and the latchet of whose shoes I am unworthy to unloose. (Conti nued cheers.) I shall, therefore, only make one additional remark. I have to congratulate this meetiug on the disco very of a secret they have made—namely, to treat the Jew on a genuine Christian principle—the law of love. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I hope this secret will be continued, and that we will never cease our strenuous and persevering exertions, until we make the whole Jewish nation participa tors of Christ's great salvation. The rev. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud applause. The Rev. HUGH SiOWELL then rose to address the meet ing, and was received with tremendous applause. He spoke as follows :—The resolution, Mr. Chancellor, which it is my privilege to submit to this ample assembly, is one beautifully in accordance with the sentiment which you favoured us with in opening the meeting •, it is a resolution ascribing all glory to God, and giving all honour of worms to the dust; it is a resolution which cheered and encouraged me in the thought of addressing so vast an assemblage, and which reminded me of a similar sentiment expressed by the sainted Cecil. I de sire to submit a few simple remarks to this assembly, and may the blessing and presence of God be amidst us. The resolution which I have to propose is, " That this meeting humbly ascribes to God alone all the glory, praise, and suc cess that has hitherto attended this society ; and that it, at the same time, avails itself of this present occasion to ex press their sympathy with the sufferings and persecutions of the Jews at Rhodes and Damascus, and their full con viction that the charges brought against them are alto gether unfounded ; and pledge themselves to use all the means in their power to vindicate them from these un just accusations." I could fully go along with my es teemed and venerable friend Mr. Grimshaw, in the glow ing sentiments with which he led us to behold—with which he led our imagination to trace the hallowed scenes of Judah. I have no sympathy with the man that can look with calmness on the Jewish nation, or who feels not his heart warm within him when contemplating their present state, their past condition, and their approaching splendour. The very name of a Jew seems to carry conviction to my mind and strength to my faith. When I remember them scattered amongst all nations of the world, I can point to them as a miracle and a lasting one. I can tell our poor blind Socialists that they can sooner extinguish the noontide splendour of the sun, than they can extinguish the undying ashes a no inf J h e i r s us al workshop,ei xi . The when simplest, s the beset plainest a nd spirit of religion, as it glimmers on the altars and in the arti the• • se poor, blind, and infatuated en •of • enemies their own happi ness, of their own hope ' of th • ceaven—om of m eir , own souls, of their own ould weep over the th bottom em, I could y almost bleed for them —I would bleed for them if I could rescue them from their ruin —from plunging themselves and seeking to plunge others in ruin)—the poor simple workman, when asked, • `the truth of your irla cunningly-devised fabl e ' ) " Where rep here ly, is " Look at the J ews —l oo k at Mount S . : there is a living , miraele • you.niaa hear.,it ; with your own eyes you ma it ; you may t es t it w ith your senses ; God has written Irisee every dislocated fr agmen t. Th e wor d o f G od is the truth,on the whole truth, and nothing bnt the truth. True in the triumphs that take place ; true in Israel's scattering ; true in Israel's restoring ' • it is indeed true on this day. when infi delity is making her last and dying struggle, that whilst we have princes making assaults on our faith on the one hand, we have fresh demonstrations of increase of faith multiplying on the other hand." Mr. Grimshaw has given us his own eye-witness account of the refted rock of Jesus, and Mr. Wild has recorded, in his interesting and instructive book of tra vels, that there was discovered in the potter's field a secret cemetery, and an.accumulation of skulls was found piled in the deepest recess, which had escaped the notice of philoso phers and of the many led by curiosity to visit Jerusalem — for it is now becoming a centre of deep interest to the phi losopher—tothe scientific man, and to the traveller—and they all flocked to see what had been found ; some hoping to find confirmation of scriptures, others wishing to have fresh inves tigations of their faith. They flocked to examine these skulls ; and on examination there was not a solitary skull found that was a Jewish skull ; but they were all the skulls of strangers found in the Potter's field, which was bought to bury strangers in. (Applause.) What is there to set against these' fresh proofs of the truths of the gospel, gathered up day by day, and week by week, from the ruins of Jerusalem ? Nay, evidence is accumulating day by day ; wars, and rumours of wars, ail are going to authenticate and demonstrate more and more those blessed scrip tures of truth, of which it has been said—" Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away." (Hear.) I was especially interested and struck with the remarks of my friend (Mr. Cartwright) who has preceded me, with regard to the signs of the times, as in dicating the speedy return of the Israelites to their own land. I cannot but think that many of my reverend bre thren, many of whom I love and esteem, are fond of keep ing the blinds on their eyes. I could just as soon doubt as to the dispersion of the Jews, as that they are now dis posed to return. I could just as soon believe that Christ came to reign in his humiliation, as doubt that he will come to reign in his glory over his ransomed people, when Jeru salem shall be the spiritual metropolis of an evangelical world. And it appears to me to arise from the want of searching the, scriptures with an eye to the Jew and with a willingness to see Israel's glory. I, for one, have no jea lousy of Israel's supremacy. I, for one, should be glad to see her take the lead in her future triumphs, willing but to catch at the skirts of her garments, (Hear, bear, and loud applause,) There is one peculiar feature in the state of the Israelites which my friend did not advert to; it was glanced at briefly in the report, and it is, that the Jews are, to a very wide extent, forsaking the Talmud and returning to the Bible—that they are taking the lamp of heaven out of the perdition into which it has been cast, and taking it to guide their footsteps. (Applause.) I believe in every age of the church, that one of the greatest curses of the church has been the tendency to turn from the book of truth to the mire and quicksands of tradition. I believe that just as the Is raelites lost the truth when they put the lamp of truth into the dark lanthorn of tradition, so the church of Rome lost the truth when she hid it by putting it into the dark lanthorn of tradition. And I belive that our glorious reformation broke on the world just when the lamp of light was taken out of the dark lanthorn of tradition ' • and I believe that the glorious light of the reformation would be quenched, or eclipsed again, if we again thrust the lamp of light into the dark lanthorn of human ttadition. (Loud applause.) Yes, my dear friends, I rejoice that you respond to so scriptural a sentiment. Whether without the church, in the dark apostacy, or within the church of well-meaning brethren who seem to be laying too much stress on tradition, we all respond to the ex pression of Chillingworth—" The Bible and the Bible only is the religion of protestantism." ,(Great applause.) Thank God for inspiring the fathers with whatever of good there may be in them ! Thank God for whatever by tradition has come down to us which confirms these inspiring writings ! Thank God for our own beautiful Prayer-book—the morning star that accompanies revelation ! Thank God for all that is beautiful and orderly in our own church—the eldest born daughter of the reformation ! (Immense applause.) Never theless, in comparison, perish the Prayer-book ! perish the church of England ! perish the fathers ! perish the human scaffolding —every human building, but leave the rock of eternal truth—the rock of the living God, untouched, un tarnished, and unharmed ! (Tremendous applause.) I can not, Mr. Chancellor, but hail the fact of the Jews turning back from tradition and turning to the language of the prophets, with the utmost delight. I doubt not but that, like the star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men of the East, the scriptures will in due time guide them to where the Saviour is to be found. I cannot, too, but regard it as one of the moat striking signs of the times that Egypt is so largely concerned in the present aspect of affairs with regard to the Jews. It is a remarkable fact that for merly our attempt, and that of European nations generally, was mainly settled on the north, or turned to the westward; but now, the attempt of the whole civilised world is turned to the east ; and we believe that christianity also is turning to those bright places from whence it came, and where it will shine in its brightest noon-tide glory. (Hear.) And it is a remarkable fact that the Pacha of Egypt, as connected with these transactions, is foretold in the most striking manner in connection with the Jews, in the 19th chapter of the pro phecy of Isaiah. _ " In that day shall there be a way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assy rians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : Whom the to'rd of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance." It is distinctly indicated here that the period should come when Egypt, Assyria, and I srae l s h ou ld b e un i ted, an d t h a t there should be intercourse between them—that they should be together converted to the Lord, for what other construc tion can be put on this language--" Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my in heritance. How far does not the present state of Egypt, Assyria, and Palestine, unit e d under the same head, and the actual feeling that 11r. Grunshaw has witnessed to us that the Pacha of Egypt is extending tow ar d s th e I srae li tes, an d the intercourse which is more and more taking place between Egypt and Assyria, how far is this advancing towards the accomplishment of this recorded prophecy ? . (Hear, hear.) And who has influenced the minds of the Assyrians.tolook upon Israel ? Who but the God who has been drying up the great river? Now, bow remarkable it is, that under these circumstances the Pasha of Egypt should be protecting the Israelites on their return to that country—that he should be allowing them to purchase land in that country—a fact never before known : they had not so much as the sole of their foot in tliat land. And we have another prophecy in the book of the prophecies of Jeremiah, in the 32d chapter. The chapter and passage are too long to read, but I recommend an atten tive perusal of it hereafter. But after God had ordered the prophet to purchase a piece of land, the chapter goes on : " Yea, 1 will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and my whole soul. For thus salt.: the Lord • Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this peop le, so will I bring upon them all' the good that I have promised them. And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof "ye say, It is de solate without man or beast ; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the south : for 1 will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord." And if it be said that that took place after their return from the Babylonish captivity, I deny it ; for then the Israelites did not purchase and libld property. And if you examine the chapter you will find that God declares, " I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me." That is not yet accomplished ; it is about to be accomplished. Writings are being drawn up; deeds are being sealed, and lands are again about to be possessed by the Israelites. The first fruit of the harvest is again gathering in, and fhe glories of the I harvest are again at the door. cannot but regard this cir cunistanceas of the greatest interest, and I rejoice that that sordid idea which was some time ago mooted by well-mean ing men, that we should go and purchase back the land, has been defeated ; and I think that Baron Rothschild answered well when he said, " No, we will not purchase, it is ours, we will wait ;" and thank God the Jewish people are wait ing ; they never had but one country—one home : they could say, whether tossed to and fro, or chased in the wilderness, or hunted as a partridge on the mountains, they could still say with the poet— " Where'er I roam, whatever clime I see, My heart untravelled still returns to thee." Yes, true as the sun flower turns to the sun, or the load stone to the pole, they still return to their native land; tho' cast out, not cast out for ever ; and no violence of time can make them forget it. They still look forward to that period when the hills of their native land shall be clothed with beauty and with bloom for them—when her own people shall hold the inheritance of that land by such a title as no other people whatever can show, for it is given to them expressly by God—" a land flowing with milk and honey," and which is still kept and reserved, not by human might and power— not by sealed documents of man ' but by the living oracles of God. " Hath he said, and shall he not do it ? Hath he spoken, and shalrhe mit make ltgood? The zeal &tithe Lord of Hosts shall do this." (Hear.) I gather from the present persecution of the Jews signs of good to Israel. I believe that this very persecution bath been converted into the means of exciting for them the sympathy, and conciliating for them the regard, of the noble through the whole earth. The best way to endear a man to honest hearts is to injure a man, because there is something in the breast of Britons—in the breast of fallen man (fallen though he be)—that always.makes him sympathise with the injured, and indignant at the inju rer ; and; therefore, my dear friends, I believe that the Jews have had a noble demonstration of that kind—of the sympathy of Protestant Christians. (Great cheering.) I trust they will begin to make the distinction between Christians which the New Zealanders begin to make. When they see swear ing merchants and drunken sailors, they say they are hea then Christians, not real Christians ; and that when they see the pompous pageant and idolatrous practices—the poor Christian idolators prostrating themselves on the ground, when the Jew knows that it is written " thou shalt not bow down to them," as well as " worship them"—(cheering)—l trust that they will make the happy distinction of the heathen convert, and say, " These are not true Christians, but hea then Christians," for Popery has paganised Christianity. Yea, and it is delightful, in this conviction, that they will have a specimen of catholic christianity—of protestant catholic christianity—in our own beautiful prayer-book, translated into the vernacular tongue of Israel—the tongue that flowed from the pure lips in Paradise—the tongue which it pleased God best to use—the tongue that we believe, when the con fusion of tongues shall be done away with, He will make the tongue of a ransomed world. But, be that as it may, it is delightful to think that the Jew can no longer call Christ by a name which is a caricature; but that our Jewish ministers can open the prayer-book and say, " Here is our book of worship ; is there anything of heathen worship— of bowing down to images here ?" And this prayer-book will be a witness to them which will tell with a force and power which it will be difficult to compute, and which it will be perhaps scarcely possible to exaggerate. But I cannot but feel deep sorrow at those who origi nated this persecution. False witness I would not bear against the devil. I never bare it against any man. (Tremendous cheering.) But, Mr. Chairman, I am not bearing false witness —I am stating a simple fact, a deeply humiliating and distress ing fact, that the persecution of the Jews at Damascus, though carried on with Mahomedan hands, was originated by papists. The person murdered was a papist ; the:French consul was a papist, and the whole affair, I believe, from what our public journals and various other statements say, originated with them. And alas, it, is but too true, there is no power that has persecuted the Jews like popery. I took the liberty, on a recent occasion, to check a friend of mine, who said that the church had persecuted the 'Jews, and corrected him by saying that it was not the protestant church that had persecuted the Jews, but the Roman catholic church, while she was ridden rough-shod by the man of sin. (Great cheering.) Look at the expatriation of the whole Jewish people from England at one period, and at the time when those five hundred Jews at York resorted to the dreadful al ternative of destroying each other, to escape a more dreadful death; look at the seven_hundred butchered by one of our monarchs—all dated before the time of the Reformation. There has not been one persecution since the time of the Reformation. lam sorry that I know much to be ashamed of ; there has been persecution of tongues, for which I take shame to myself as one of that reformed church, but thank God there is not a drop of blood on the skirts of that church, that I know of ; but the skirts of the church of Rome are red with it. (Very great applause.) And I believe, Sir, when God cometh to make inquisition for blood, among the foremost that shall suffer for it will be that dark apostasy. Do I glory in this? God forbid. My heart's desire and P rayer is for them as for the Jews, that they may be saved that they may forsake the god-head of man to worship God alone. For as I was told to-day by a clergyman who was informed by a poor man—(this is a fact of which I have good authority)—the poor man speaking of the authority of the priest over him, said, - " if he was to tell me to murder that daughter of mine I would do it. much as I love her, for the priest stands in God's shoes." Is not that anti-christ? This is a literal fact. I give you it to show how fearfully superstition had hood-winked that man. (Considerable sensation.) Therefore I beg to say, that for the Jews, the great thing is to get rid of the Talmud—the traditions ; and for the Roman Catholics, the great thing is to get rid of their Talmud and traditions. And so we march against the man of sin and the blindness of Judea ; and we believe that in due time the light of the gospel shall shine unclouded and unsullied in the pure firmament of the church, co-extensive with the whole ransomed world. May God hasten it in His due time ; and till then, may our prayers be more and more for Israel's conversion and salvation. To take the beautiful prayer from your own funeral service—has it not come with balmy influence over you again and again, " that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom : that we, with all those who have departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory." Amen and amen. The Rev. Hunt{ WNEILE, on rising to second the reso lution, was received with enthusiastic applause. It is no easy matter, the rev. gentleman said, for me now to deter mine what to do. The meeting is fairly finished. You have had what you always have from our dear friend Mr. Stewart, a devotional speech : then you had a speech of information concerning the society ; then you had a speech of information concerning Palestine ; then you had a prophetical speech ; I still might have found somewhere to tread, but then came a Protestant speech ; and now, sir, the whole ground has been fairly travelled over. It is very late, and if I were any one else but who I am, and this were any other place but what it is, I should stop, and leave you to go to your beds, but I protest I will not stop now. (Hear, hear.) It is difficult after all this to be serious ; yet, unless we are serious on this question, we shall really lose our object. It is with devout thankfulness for the past, and animating anticipations for the future, that we may contemplate our present position. Our labours during the last twenty years have been merci fully crowned with a degree of success beyond our most san guine expectations. There was a time when a lively interest in the Jewish cause—and a time in the remembrance of many -present—was thought little:less than a combination of heresy and fanaticism. The politicians of that day despised, or affected to despise our labours ; but through the blessing of the Lord God of Israel, our labours have been crowned with a degree of success ; they have so pervaded the community, and are, at this very time, making such steady progress, that the most secular of our politicians are compelled to notice them, not only with respect, but with deference. One of the most influential of the organs of the secular politicians of this country has, within the last few days, printed the following statement :—" The tokens of this movetnent"—that is the religious movement ; for, sir, in the midst of a politi cal movement which has agitated the country to its centre, that has been in steady progress, a religious movement— " The tokens of this movement are visible on every side. Those great voluntary and popular associations for religious purposes which are almost peculiar to this country, or which have sprung up on the Continent chiefly from sympathy or imitation, are now raising an annual sum of £1,000,000. sterling. Eighty years back thelr collective receipts were below £lOO,OOO per annum." Another feature :—" Up to 1816, there were not, on an average, ten new churches built in England in a year. At the present moment, after having raised in the last 25 years considerably more than one thous and churches, the people are still augmenting their number by a yearly addition of at least a hundred new ones. It is impossible to overlook these things ; nor need politicians be surprised, that one effect of such a change in the national temper is, to force the legislature to give more of its attention than formerly to questions connected with religion and reli gious ordinances." Sir, this is not the place, at least Ido not feel it to be exactly the time, to make observations upon the sort of attention that some of our legislators have been giving to religious questions, upon the sort of retrogade movement they have been endeavouring to overlay upon our forward movement, by their legislative enactments ; but it is the time to remark that the truth of this statement is in no instance more striking than as regards this Jewish case. Whilst one of our friends was addressing the meeting just now, the secretary of the parent society whispered most sig nificantly to me—" Do you not remember the time when you would have been turned out for saying so much ?" Sir, Ido not remember when I should have been turned out : that was never easily done; but I do remember when it would have caused a great uproar of opposition, as if I was introducing matters of dispute. Mr. Cartwright remembers perfectly well the time when a very small reference to prophetic scrip ture was deemed a very great offence at Freemason's Hall. It is not so now. I remember when the question was very frequently and very insulting,ly asked—What have we to do with the Jews—that wretched and degraded people, whose forefathers denied and crucified our blessed Saviour, and who are themselves under judicial blindness? What connexion can there be between them and our christian character and duty ? And why then should they ever form the subject of christian interest, or the theme of christian discourse ? Sir, there were various scriptural replies given to this line of ob jection. One of them is so far from being obsolete, that un less I greatly mistake, it will prove interesting even now, to every real christian in this vast assembly. We invited the objectors to consider what Christian character is,—to ask themselves what it is to be a Christian indeed. We reminded them that St. John describes it as fellowship with the Father -and with his Son Jesus Christ,—that St. Paul describes it as having the mind that was in Christ,—that our Lord himself describes it as friendship with him, upon the ground of his free communication of his mind to his friends. "I call you," he says, " no longer servants, for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth, but I have called you friends, for all things delivered to me of my Father I have made known unto you." Thus it appears that true Christian character consists in conformity to the divine character, as it is reveal ed in Jesus Christ,—that is, in effect, to have the same views and feelings, the same likings and dislikings, the same de signs, and plans, and prospects that Christ himself has. If, therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ be deeply interested about the Jews, it follows that no man can have true Christian character, no man can have conformity to his mind, no man can have sympathy in his feelings, no man can have fellow- ~•++~~ ship with him, who is not interested about the Jews. This appeal to all who wish to imbibe their Lord's mind has not been without its effect. Again, sir, we asked, What is true Christian prayer? Is it not, t o tesire the Lord's glory, that his name may be hallowed, that his will may be done on earth as it is 1, heaven? Are not these the highest branches of prayer? Do they not take precedence of any petition for the supply of our personal wants ? Well, then, if the glory of God be inseparably connected with the Jewish nation,—if the manifestation of his glory upon earth, and the doing of his will upon earth, be inseparably connected with his deal ings with the Jewish nation, we come to the conclusion that Christian prayer cannot be complete without refer ence to the Jewish nation. This line of argumentation transferred the question to its true ground, viz., the ground of Scriptural inquiry. The Bible was appealed to by many who said, " Does the Lord indeed take an interest in the Jews ? If so, then I desire to do so too." The reply was, " Search and read the Scripture for what the Lord has said ' • open your eyes and see what the Lord has done :" this brought us to scriptural inquiry. As you remarked yourself, sir, in proportion as scriptural inquiry prospers the Jewish cause gains ground. But after all some of the old objections still remain, some of the old differences have still possession of men's minds ; and although we have an increased anxiety to favour this cause, we must not be blind to the fact, that we have still lingering objections with regard to the purposes of God concerning the Jewish people, as interpreted in the unfulfilled prophesies of the Scripture. How does it appear, as some men say—and we ought to desire to take thinking men with us—that those parts concerning the restoration of the Jews to their own land were not fulfilled when they were not brought back from Babylon ; or how does it appear they were not spiritual in their import as some respectable expositors have made them, and that these promised spiritual blessings to spiritual Israel; what hold have we upon the present prophesies relating to Israel and the Jews? I fear in attempting a scriptural ar gument at this time of the evening I shall be able to do jus tice to it. It is a question it is utterly impossible to enter upon and investigate with any value to ourselves in a short time. I could now change my strain, and make you clap your hands, but I fear I should not do you much good. But I will try to prove, by a reference to a single pro phecy, the ground we have for our anticipations; and I would rather do it, because it will introduce what I rather regret has not been so plainly and prominently introduced, viz., the King of the Jews. I read of the remarkable vision given to the prophet Zechariah, in which he beheld four horns, and after the horns he beheld four carpenters, and he in quired of the angel who was revealing the truth to him, " What be these ?" and he was told, " These are the horns which have scattered Judith, so that no man did lift up his head ;" and that these carpenters " are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles which lifted up their horns over the.land of Judah to scatter it." Here are four powers represented by horns. You will find the passage in the last few verses of the' first chapter of Zachariah—the horns of the Gentiles scattering the people of Israel, scatter ing Judah. It is somewhat remarkable that this number occurred with the division of the great image seen by Nebu chadnezzar, and with-the beasts seen in the vision by the prophet Daniel. In either ease the number is four. The itiz.ge was divided into four parts, and the exposition given identifies it with Babylon. The king of Babylon was told that he was the head of gold; after him was to come a king inferior to him ; then a third, and then a fourth. In the vision of Daniel there was the number four. The first was the kingdom of Babylon ; the second was the kingdom of Persia; the third of Greece; the fourth of Rome; then was the division of Rome into a number of Princes. But thegreat horns are four. There appeared in this vision four carpenters to fray them. The horns had scattered Judah; four great empires had scattered Judah, viz., Babylon, Persia, Grecia, Rome. This brings us down to the subdivision of the Roman empire—to the raising of another horn—to the springing up out of the ten horns a little horn. The carpenters followed the horns, to fray the horns, and cast them out. Now, we ask, what was it, in point of fact, that frayed the Babylonish horn — what was the instrument to cast out the Babylonish king dom, that they should no longer scatter Judah? It was the rising Persian kingdoiv., which it appears is the first carpen ter. Having frayed Babylon, she became a horn, and was herself frayed by Gregia, rising in the character of a car penter, and then it became itself a horn, to scatter Judah. It stood till another carpenter arose ; and what was the divine instrument for fraying the Grecian kingdom ? The rising Roman ; and so the Roman appears as the third carpenter, fraying the Grecian to scatter Judah ; and then the Roman became a horn. The scattering of the Roman horn has been long and diversified. It became broken into ten, and all have persecuted Judah. In the midst of them arose a little horn, different from the others, having eyes like a man, and speaking blasphemous things against Gad. It appears among the ten horns, after the breaking up of the Roman empire, rising up, just at the place in the vision, where history repre sents to us the rising power of the Romish bishop, assum ing the aspect of temporal power —a horn different from the others, for his temporal authority Was small, yet his real authori ty by his eyes, and speaking great things, became great. He usurped three of the ten horns, and spoke great things against the most high. He scattered the saints, he abrogated God's laws, and made his own laws. The coming kingdom of the Messiah is, I believe, the fourth carpenter. The rev. gentleman then proceeded at great length to show that this little horn represented the Church of Rome, and to express his conviction that that church had been the cause of the persecution of the Jews; but, at this late hour, we have not space to follow him in the argument. The l.rophesy represented, he contended, the history of the nations until the kingdom of the Messiah should be established, to reign for ever. This would be the grand finale of the world. Proceeding further, the rev. gentle man said he could not, because lie had no evidence of the fact him self, assent with the resolution as it stood at present, that he had a full conviction that the charges brought against the Jews were altogether unfounded. They had recently been shown that what was perfectly true of a system might not be true of an individual ; in like manner, what was false of a system might be true of an individual; and therefore he would,suggest that the resolution be altered to this effect :—" That this meeting has a full conviction that the Jewish religion affords no ground for such charges, and pledges themselves to use ail the means i n their power to ascertain the truth in the cases of the alleged accusation." The proposed alteration having ly!en acceded to, the reverend gentleman seconded the resolution, and it was unanimously carried. The Rev. Mr. DRIFFIELD, vicar of Prescot, moved the next reso lution, thanking the officers of the society for their past services, and re-appointing them for the ensuing year. The If.cv. F. BARKER seconded the motion, and it was unani mously carried. The Doxology, " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," was then sang, and at about a quarter to eleven the vast assembly dispersed, highly gratified with the proceedings. STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT, (From the New York Morning Herald.) This leviathan was thrown otopn to the public last Monday, and has been throngeir - vVitb, lad and gentlemen ever since. At noon on the first day she was visited by several of the corps diplornatique, who were then in the city, and among the number M. de Barcourt, the French minister. We have ascertained the number of persons who have visited her during M on d ay , Tuesday, and Wednesday, of this week. Yesterday more than ever went on board, but we could not learn precisely how many. visiters on Monday T uesday 3,320 4i Wednesday 4,011 Total in three days 11,307 The first party that visited her yesterday, numbered one hundred and thirty-two ladies and gentlemen. All marched aboard Indiana file and made a pretty long string. In round numbers, no less than eighteen thousand persons have been o n board this immense floating palace, and we do not believe a single one has left her decks without passing the highest encomiums on her cabins, machinery, splendid promonade deck, a deer sweep of two hundred and fifty feet, and her noble commander, R. J. Fayrer, Esq. Among her visiters, in the early part of the week, was James Ben nett, Esq. of Long Island. He Was highly pleased with her, and after he reached home he sat down, and in a few minutes produced the following . THE STEAMER PRESIDENT. BY JAMES BENNETT, ESQ., OF ARLINGTON HOUSE, LONG ISLAND. A masterpiece of art was sought, That might in war command ; Achilles' shield was therefore wrought (With whi c h th e no bl e h ero fought) By Vulcan's mighty band. Then Thetis seized the curious dies, And with her wat'ry train, Departed through the azure skies, That none might ever get the prize, Audlodged them in the main. But Neptune roused the mighty deep, And with a vig'rous hand, While all the Nereids were asleep, Seized on the tools—to build a ship Iu Britain's fertile land. And now'she floats upon the wave, By Vulcan's fire propelled • And with her Fayrer, nobly brave, Give me too a wat'ry grave, If ever she's excelled. To speak of the President we must use the words grand, massive, splendid, immense—no other words will answer, and no one can conceive, in their own minds, her size, pro portions, and beauty. They must first see her. She has already been described, and is all that has been said of her. She has berths of the best and most comfortable description, for one hundred and eighty-two passengers. We hope every one will be taken—a good many have been already, and we advise travellers to Europe to move quick. Her state rooms are constructed on a new plan, and have no connexion with the dining room, which has been heretofore the great deside ratum. Each room, too, is by itself, as it were. The occu pants go in, and are inclosed in a small room, precisely as if in the Astor House, with every convenience. In this respect she surpassei the " British Queen." ANOTHER HORRIBLE MURDER AT TARPOR LEY, NEAR KNUTSFORD. (From the Macclesfield Courier.) It is with deep, regret we have - to announce the perpetra tion of another foul murder in this county. The details, as far as theYhavi yet tianspired, will be found in the following communication _ KNUTSFORD; FRlDAY.NlGHT. — lnformation has this moment reached Knutsford, stating the fact of a dreadful murder haring been committed near Tarporley last night. The communication received was from Major Tomkinson, a county magistrate, addressed to Mr. Burgess, the governor of the House of Correction, requesting him to send as spee dily as possible the person who had been engaged in the investigation of the late murder at Peover ; but Mr. Harper, the chief constable, being on the eve of setting out again to Ireland, on business of importance connected with that murder, he was unable to proceed to Tarporley. Mr. Bur gess therefore undertook, in his absence, to institute all possible inquiries. The particulars of this dreadful affair were not stated, further than that of the murdered man had been employed many years in the service of George Wilbra ham, Esq., M. P.; that, last night he had been waiting at the Swan Inn, Tarporley , and on hi s way home was barba rously murdered. His wife, who was waiting his return, heard the report of a gun a short distance off. His not returning home caused her to proceed this morning in the direction where the gun appeared to have been fired, where, to her horror, she found the dead body of her husband. The unfortunate man has left a wife and six children." T0_••••••.m...m........... MR. HASSARD'S TABLES.—We are sorry to find that Mr. Hassard, after having made every attempt to dispose of his splendid productions, is compelled to remove them to Lon don for the purpose of sale ; hut, prior to doing so, he intends to leave them on view for four days more, during which time we have no doubt many will avail themselves of this only opportunity of seeing them. LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.—We remind our readers that Mr. M. Holden will deliver his first of a course of three lectures on astronomy on Monday next, at the Liver Theatre, to be continued on the following Tuesday and Wednesday, and repeated on the three subsequent days ; the whole to be illustrated by a large and beautiful transparent orrery, toge ther with a quantity of beautiful scenery, telescopic views of the sun,: moon, planets, &C. Those who have a desire to acquire a knowledge of the beautiful and sublime study to which Mr. H. has so long and successfully devoted himself, or who would revive their recollection of its delights, would do well to attend. The lecturer, who has, by his individual and unwearied exertions, attained an enviable fame in his native town, as well as elsewhere, conveys to his audience the science he has acquired in a pleasing and popular manner, and his scenic illustrations are exceedingly beautiful and in genious. He gratifies alike young and old, and we would particularly rec ommend the heads o f f am ili es to g i ve t h e i r children a treat on this occasion. W e are glad to state, that many individuals. of high respectability have signified their intention of patronising Mr. Holdens attempts to please and to instruct. STEAM-SHIP ACADIA CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE PASSENGERS OV TITli ABOVE STEAM-SHIP AND CAPT. EDWARD C. MILLER The undersigned, being a committee appointed by their fellow passengers on board the Acadia, British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet, desire to express to Captain Miller their acknowledgements for the attention and urbanity they have received from him, and those under his command. And having been favoured by crossing the Atlantic, from England to America, in the shortest time ever recorded, they would express their gratification, and, in so doing, congratu late him on the•fact ; and in parting, at the termination of so pleasant and prosperous a trip, would express the interest they feel in his welfare, and that in his future voyages the same pleasure, accompanied by similar results, may attend him. As a further proof of attachment and regard, they so licit his acceptance of the small tribute Of plate which accom panies this communication. JAMES C. FULLER, - I PETER RICHINGS, I JOHN HENRY, Committee . GEO. DOUGLASS, Captain 14th Regt., 1 AUGUSTUS CLEVELANDJ To Captain Miller, Steam-packet Acadia. Boston, 17th August, 1840. Acadia, Boston, Aug. 17, 1840. Gentlemen,—lf, in acknowledging with deep gratitude the handsome token of regard which my late esteemed messmates have been pleased to bestow on me, I may fail to use lan guage adequate to the occasion, I trust you will do me the justice to believe it proceeds, not from any want of feeling, but an excess of it, paralyzing my faculties at a moment I most want their aid. I commenced this voyage too diffident of success to permit me for a moment to arrogate to myself, on the score of merit, any claim to this liberal mark of your approbation. I accept it, therefore, as a proof of your gene rous inclination to encourage an anxious wish to do right, and rather to stimulate me to the future than reward me for the past. Permit me, then, gentlemen, to offer to my kind friends, through you, my poor but deep-felt thanks, and to assure them that I shall ever prize this gift as a proud me mento of the few happy days I have spent amongst them ; for although at all times fully confiding in the gentlemanly feeling of those around me, I confess I was not_prepared for the developement of so much social and considerate kindness. May many more such days be in store for me, and I will venture to hope that my friends will condescend to bear me In remembrance, when seas may divide and interests separate us. We are destined, I trust, to meet again. Until that period arrives, may every blessing attend you and yours. I cannot conclude without offering my best thanks to those gentlemen who conveyed to me the decision of their fellow-, passengers for the very delicate manner in which they exe cuted their commission ; and with every sentiment of esteem and regard, I beg to_subseribe myself, Gentlemen, ' •- - Your obliged and faithful servant, EDWARD C. MILLER. To Committee of Passengers on board Acadia. LCOPY..I Royal Mail Steam-Packet Acadia, off Holyhead, 13th September, 1840. Sin,—The undersigned Passengers on board the steam ship Acadia, on this the twelfth day since their departure from Boston, and tenth from Halifax, cannot separate with out acknowledging their obligation to you for your uniform attention to their comfort during the passage. • _ They believe that the voyage they are now on the eve of completing has been performed in less time than on any for mer occasion ; and they congratulate you upon being instru mental in. affording this additional proof of the success of this important line of packets. The undersigned also bear willing testimony to the atten tion and good conduct of all those whose duties brought them more immediately in contact with the passengers. To Lieut. Edward Charles Miller, R.N ... ., Commanding the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Acadia. Chr. A. Hagerman, Judge Queen's Bench, Upper Canada; G. R. Robinson, Chairman of Lloyd's; John W. Tapp, Ordnance Store-keeper ; J. H. Seymour, Capt. •, G. B. Whalley, Capt. 37th Regt. ; R. 1. R. Lambert, U. S. Navy ; C. D. Archibald, F.R.S. London ; James Carson, Kingston ; J. Jasigi •, G. C. Perkins; J no. Sprague ; J. E. G. Tisdale, Saint John, 'N.B.; Wm. W. Andrews, U. S. Consul, Malta; Benj. H. Andrews ; Geo. Smith, M.L.C., Pictou, Nova Scotia ' • Hugh Mackay, of St. John's, N.B. •, Chas. H. Breay ; L. M. Kennett;' John Ferkman ; William Constable; Chas. Mixter ; Chas. W. Fairbanks ; Henry A. Tapp ; Horatio T. Tapp ; J. E. Tapp ; H. P. Saville, D. Royal Act. •, James Gore; P. H.'Glinn, Ordnance Dept.; Chas. Hill; Thomas Hutton; Edward Butler, Lieut.-Colonel; W. E. Codrington ; William Dunn ; Robert Gore ; E. Wigram ; John Coffin, Capt. R.N. ; J. H. Tapp. [copy.] Acadia, Liverpool Bay, 13th Sept. 1840 GENTLEMEN, - With mingled feelings - of pride and grati tude, I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, conveying to me your approbation of my conduct dur ing the passage, as well as that of the officers and crew under my command. In the performance of a public duty it is ex ceedingly cheering to be supported by the unanimous and ap proving voice of my passengers ; and rest assured, Gentlemen, I shall ever retain a lively sense of your kindness, and trust never to forfeit your good opinion. Wishing you every happiness, I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obliged and devoted servant, (Signed) EDWARD C. MILLER. ABSTRACT OF THE STEAM-SHIP ACADIA'S LOG. September I.—Left Boston at noon, and performed the distance to Halifax (395 miles) in thirty hours. N.W. by N. ; course, N. 79 E. ; distance, 140 miles; lat. /1448 N. ; long. 6037 W. Remarks—A.M., fresh breezes; p.m., strong breezes and cloudy, having left Hali-. fax at 11 p.m. of the 3d. s.—Wind, northerly ; course, N. 81 E. ; distance, 237 miles ; lat. 45 24 N. ; long. 55 12 W. Remarks—A..M., fresh breezes ; NOON, more moderate, ascertained by observation that a westerly current was running 40 miles in 24 hours. 6.—Wind, S.S.W. and S.W. ; course, N. 76 4 E. ; dis tance, 230 tiles ; lat. 46 14 N. ; long. 49 46 W. Remarks— A.M., fine throughout; current setting westerly 20 miles in 24 hours. _ _ _ 7.—Wind, W.S.W. course, N. 761 E. ; distance, 264 miles ; lat. 47 16 N. ;43 38 W. Remarks—Fine breezes ancl.ciear nreathet,"currenenot perceptible. B.—Wind, W.S.W. ; course, N. 78i E. ; distance, 270 miles; lat. 48 9N. ; long 3715 W. Remarks—A.M., strong breezes and clear ; squally in the after part. 9.—Wind, W.S.W., N.W., and N. E. ; course, N. 78 E. ; distance, 252 miles ; lat. 49 IN. ; long. 31 4W. Remarks— A.M., stormy breezes; NOON, fresh breezes, with northerly swell; wind shifted, after heavy rain, to N.W. and N.E. 10.—Wind, easterly and N.E. ; course, N. 82 E. ; distance, 242 miles ; lat. 49 35 N. ; long. 24 58 W. Remarks—mode rate winds, with a heavy northerly swell. 11.—Wind, E.N.E. course, N. 83 E. ; distance, 247 m. ; lat. 50 4N. ; long. 18 37 W. Remarks—moderate, with swell as yesterday. 12.—Wind, easterly, variable ; course, N. 85 E. ; distance, 264 miles ; lat. 50 26 N. ; long. 11 50 W. Remarks —light and variable winds, with northerly swell ; 6, Kerry Mountains N.E. ; 8, Cape Clear Light N.E. 5 or 6 leagues. N.E. and"northerly ; NOON, Tuskar, W. S. 22 miles ; distance run, 270 miles ; moderate and fine, run ning up channel; 8 30, received pilot off Point Lynas ; mid night, passed Rock Lighthouse. QUICK TRAVELLING.—The following is an account of the time occupied by Mr. Clarke, a passenger in the Royal Mail Steam-ship Acadia, Capt. Miller, in the journey from Paris to New York. He left Paris the 31st July, at 5 p.m., reached Havre the Ist of August, at 10 a.m., left Havre at 10 p.m.-12 hours at Havre : reached Southampton the 2d August, at 9 a.m., left at 1 a.m.-4 hours at Southampton : reached London at 5 p.m., left at 8 p.m.-3 hours at Lon don : reached Liverpool the 3d of August, at 7 a.m., left on the 4th, at 5 p.m.-34 hours at Liverpool : reached Halifax on the 15th of August, at 7• p.m., 10 hours off Halifax, left at 11 p.m.-4 hours at Halifax : reached Boston on the 17th of August, at 8 a.m., left on the 17th, at 5 p.m.-9 hours at Boston : reached New York on the 18th of August, at 7 a.m., making 398 hours from Paris to New York, the distance exceeding 3,900 miles, which gives a rate of ten miles an hour including stoppages, and over 12 miles an hour, deducting 76 hours stoppages. FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD DEAR STANDARD,—You may easily judge of the result o the late disturbances in our metropolis. Hundreds of these foolish fellows have been condemned to three years' and one year's imprisonment. What did they want to be reformed? They thought proper todictate to their employers, and insisted upon working only ten hours instead of twelve per day, for the same wages. To carry their object into execution, they called upon all workmen in the various ateliers to join them in their unreasonable demands. Those journeymen who work by the piece refused to comb , with their rennet • tm. thpn • "Aso • •..aos,a. \AY ,VILIF/y VW It. UMW request : tnis men brought on these disgraceful elneutes, which must evidently shake the foundation of social order. The Moniteur Parisien has a most ridiculous account of fifty men, who rushed upon a sergeant called M. Areez, whose factionnaire has been carried off by them, and he for tunately rescued his gun ; and his corporal defended the en trance of the guard-house with his bayonet against fifty armed men. This pretended story has taken place in the street of Petit Carreau. The same journal asserts that the sergeant has been named a member of the Legion of Honour, in con sequence of his bravery displayed on the occasion. In the evening a man on horseback presented himself in the streets, encouraging the people to take up arms against M. Thiers' administration, but he was pursued by four horsemen all day, and escaped their pursuit in the evening. Thus the poor fellow had a steeple chace through the various streets, en cumbered with soldiers, and happily escaped in the evening. Such absurdities must evidently throw silent contempt on th e French government. A propos, 'the Eastern question is assuming a most awful aspect in the circles of the haut ton. Every one condemns the proceedings of Commodore Napier towards Mehemet Ali Pasha. His line of conduct has been a direct violation of the laws of nations. Seizing eleven Egyptian vessels and a corvette before the ratification of the treaty of July, anticipating it by two days, is certainly a stigma on Lord Palmerston's blundering administration. Certainly proceedings as such are not consonant with the precepts of civilization : they are more barbarous than,the pretended barbarian whom they think to intimidate into sub mission. He is resolved to fight to the last drop of his blood. His motto is no surrender. What he has conquered by the force of his arms he will defend to the last. The King of Greece has sent M. Christides to Constanti nople, for the purpose of insisting upon the old Turk treating his Majesty's Grecian subjects with less severity, and allowed him but forty-eight hours to give M. Christides an answer. This summary demand is another thundering blow against the Turkish government. Lord Ponsonby has ordered from Malta 50,000 stands of arms, to be given to the Egyptians to rise against their legi timate sovereign Mehemet Ali Pacha. lam apprehensive that Commodore Napier and Lord Ponsonby, the one with his inflammatory proclamation, and the other with his arms, will find it a very difficult task to persuade the Egyptians to evacuate Syria. They all declare for Mehemet, for no other reason than because he defends the coran. • Spain has declared in favour of England. Madrid and almost all the northern provinces are in open rebellion. Por tugal is following its revolutionary example ; so the prophesy of a French writer is about being realised, that the year 1840 would be a reign of queens and a year of war. If we direct our attention to any part of the habitable globe, we shall find the people at war. I regret to say that the funds are .stain on the decline, as well as the shares of the railway from Paris to Rouen. P.S.—lt is rumoured in the hest-informed political circles that Commodore Napier has seized a French trading vessel, and that he was obliged to give to the captain a written apo logy, for his hasty conduct. It is impossible to describe the excitements that prevail through the metropolis in conse quence of Commodore Napier's proceedings. It is alsohinted that Louis Philippe had prevailed on the Queen of Spain to return to her dominions. She intended to take refuge in France. Poor queen ! The French army is to be placed on a war footing, and Paris is to be fortified without delay. Paris, 12th Sept. 1840. Rue de Bone. New MAGISTRATE.—On Saturday last, at the Salford Sessions, John Grimshaw, of Audenshaw Lodge, Esq., qua lified as a magistrate for this county. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET. • THURSDAY EVENING.—The excitement in the Stock SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNF Market has rather abated but prices may be noted a shade MANCHESTER RAILWAY. lower. Consols left off at 871 buyers for money and 87-1 to It is always painful to us, as supporters of tak the r 8 for account. B an k St oc k was 168 t o 70. E x ch equer Bill s tern, to obser ve th e di rectors of any undering , compelled 10s. to 12s. premium. to resort to legal proceedings to procure the payment of calls In the Foreign House the closing quotations for Spanish and it must be equally painful to those gentlemen themselv Active with the overdue Coupons were 21/ to ; NO Portuguese to have to adopt th a t course. There are few companies Five per Cents 31 t o 1, th e Th ree per C en t s 21 to 1-. Bra- share list at the out se t d oes not contain some portion of zilian 79 to 80. Mexican Old Bonds 25 to 6, the New 28 to proprietors; and, in dealing with such we much Kerr' ; Colombian 211 to 2;1. Dutch 24 per Cent449l to 50, the general principle, the plan of forfeiting all shares in Five per Cents 981 to 91. Belgian 98 to 100. as promptly as the act of parliament allows. Cases, London and Birmingham Railway. Shares were C 6 to_B, will arise where such a course cannot, in justice tr Great Wester n 13 t o 14 prem i um. S out h W estern 514 to 21 body of proprietors, b e su b m i tted to, and where i per share. North Midl an d Old Sh ares 19 to 1 7 di scount, t h e wou ld b e a l mos t equ i va l ent to a surrender of the t New 1 discount to 1 premium: Brighton 12 to 11, Black • and the case of the Sheffield and Manchester Rail, wall 2 to 11 discount. closed during the late trial's at our assizes,- appeal FRIDAY 'EVENING.—The f un d s cont i nue on t h e d ec li ne be one of this peculiar class. and consols are falling off to 86i recovered only to 874 for We shall contending parties, whi c h appe: ”— llnot here enter - jut° the m er it s o f t h e que tween•- ' money and 87+ to a for a ccou n t. Exchequer bill. to I, `' puled the r•-• away s adoptic rs to us to s - r e ---.,.., k.•-• ../lAU .J 1 1/1, ~ proprietorship on the part o f thos shareholders againsi - - as. premium. The d e p ress i on was in some degree attri ... We anted to the necessity of se lli ng out certa i n bull accounts, of whom actions have been brought. res are only anxi ous , a: which, as usu a l i n suc h cases , a d vantages were taken by some publ'c journalists, to defend the interests of the u n d erta ki ng itself, which may perhaps be dam age d i n t h e estimation 01 of those p ossesse d o f th e secret which do not seem at all reconcileable with f a i r an d h onoura bl e dealing, although so some parties by the proceedings in que s ti on . I t cannot be far as the stock exchange and stock gam bli ng w h ere a denied that a necessity for compulsory resources to effect ' . that whirl , onsibt to be spontaneous on th e part o f t h e -1- code of morality t a k es , th ey may b e considered as all in regular order. . _ ___ ............,.....„ holders of any railway in course offormation—viz. : the prom[ SATURDAY EVENlNG..—Although the • in payment of calls—tends to create an unfavourabl e i mpress i o funds is far from h av i ng su b s id e d , and the fluctuations i agitation the upon the public mind, as evidencing a disorganized or di sc n tisfied proprietary ; and our present object is, whilst offerin prices were not inconsiderable to-day, consols finally settled a few words of advice to the belligerent parties, at the stun down pretty nearly the same as yesterday. The closing time to chew that such disorganization does not exist to tli quotations were 87 to 1 for money and 87.1- to g- for account. extent which is alleged by the opponents of the undertaking Exchequer bills 10s. to 12s. premium. and that by a cordial and united effort on the part of the di AMMO -----• • rectors, and the bond fide shareholders it may, and we doub PRESTON AND LANCASTER RAILWAY. —The shareholders not will, in a very short period assume a sound and health] in this comny h additional resolved, by an overwh majo- position in.public estimation. rity, to establish an additional train on Sundayselming . From the information conveyed by our repot trials it is evident that the Sheffield and Manch ME COUNTY ASYLUM.—The improvements in this noble has from its commencement had a "drag" upo building are fast progressing. The roof of one of the two In the outset it had a number of proprietors wl additional wings is on. and the whole 'pal --... I._ _____,...._ soon oe complete. This alteration will be a source of great comfort, as at pre sent the establishment is much pressed for want of room.— Lancaster Gazette. Lord Morpeth arrived on Friday at the Adelphi Hotel, and left the same evening by the Post-office packet for Dub lin. The steam-ship Liverpool has been renamed the Great Liverpool, to distinguish her from steamer belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, named the Liverpool. The Great Liverpool will sail from this port on the 28th instant, to take her place in the line to Egypt. MR. WINTERBOTTOM, OF STOCKPORT.—WC omitted on Wednesday to state, that the suspicion entertained that an individual residing at Newmarket, in Monmouthshire, was Mr. Winterbottorn, turned out to be entirely unfounded. As may- be readily conjectured, the party in cApa ‘ tion felt by_ no means flattered,lsn discovering,that heinid been tallei for a man who had .absconded on a. charge of forgery.—Man chester Guardian. LYTHAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of thi; important agricultural society was held at Lytham on Wednesday last, and we are most happy in saying that the exhibition of stock, farm implements, and green crop speci mens were in the highest de gree sa ti s f a ctory to its numerous friends and supporters. A dinner afterwards took place at the Commercial .Inn, at which the following, among many others, were presentl—Lord Stanley, M.P., R. G. Hop wood, Esq., Starkey, Esq., R. Earle, Esq., Capt. Jones, J. Paley, Esq., T. B. Crosse, Esq., the Hon. R. B. Wil braham,.M.P., E. G. Hornby, Esq., J. Cunliffe, W. Raw storne, Esq., Ellison, Esq., J. Benn, Esq. LETTERS BY THE BRITISH QUEEN:—The agent of the British Queen steam-ship, at Portsmouth, has informed the agent in Liverpool, that a small bag was received at-Ports mouth on the morning of the Ist instant, which was put on board, and that no ?nail for the British Queen was received afterwards. He further states, that a large hag, containing the London morning mail of the lst, was,put on board the Small steamer at Southampton, and went on board the Bri tish Queen along with the passengers • no mail was received at Southampton in the coin se of the Say afterwards, to go by her. It may, therefore, be fully concluded, that all the Li verpool letters which were posted for the British Queen, up to post time on Monday evening, 31st ult., went by that vessel. THE LIVERPOOL FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM . .—We hear with great satisfaction that the liberal support given to the Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum,-lately projected, has en abled the committee to take a spacious and convenient house in Upper • Stanhope-street, and to commence receiving children into the institution. The children are required to he between the ages of eight and 'eleven years, to be de prived of both parents, to be destitute of means of support, and born in Liverpool or within seven miles. The prayers as well as the bounty of the public are due for the success of the benevolent and holy purpose, and we trust to see it as extensively useful as its active promoters can desire. POPULATWN or LIVERPOOL.—The annual report of the Registrar-General of births marriages, and deaths in Eng- Jand, has been published. It appears from the return, that the total number of births in the year ending. the 30th of June, 1839. in the district of which Liverpool is the centre, and which, in 1831, contained a population of 218,233 souls, -was 9683, the total number of marriages 3452, and the total number of deaths 8467. Of the persons who died 2045 were infants under 12 months, and 4239 of the whole number were under five years. Of those who died at the greatest age 202 reached the age of from 70 to 75; 151 that of from 75 to 80 ; 88 that of from SO to 85 ; 49 that of from 85 to 90 ; 12 that of from 90 to 95 ; 2 that of from 95 to 100 ; and 1 that of 100. The district from which this return is made includes several parishes and townships adjoining Liverpool, so that it is im possible to tell from it whether the mortality within Liver pool proper bears so high a proportion to that . of other towns, as in the previous return ; but taking the whole district, and comparing it with a similar district in the neighbourhood of Manchester, the rate of mortality appears to be pretty much the same. In the Liverpool di - stria, the deaths we're 8467 in a population of 218,233 ; whilst in the Manchester district the deaths were 9276 in a population of 236,935. The Li verpool district includes an area of 38,060 acres, and com prises, besides Liverpool and West Derby, the township's of Aintree. AlLefton, and Bootle-cum-Linacre, Childwall, Faza kerley, Ince Blundell, Kirkdale,.Litherland, Little Crosby, Lunt, Netherton, Orrell and Ford, Sefton, Thornton, and Walton-on-the-Hill, the chapelries of Everton, Garston, Great Crosby, Kirkby, and Wavertree, and the extra-paro chial places of Cioxteth and ToNteth-park. - -Of the families resident in this district, 1446. are employed chiefly in agri culture, 20,456 chiefly in trade, manufactures, and handi craft, and 21,124 in other pursuits, making a total of 43,026. THE Rev. HUGH I‘l‘/SIEILE AT BELFAST.—The Rev. Hugh M'Neile preached a very 'interesting sermon in St. Ann's Church, Belfast, on Sunday last, to a crowded con gregation. It was a fine specimen of biblical exposition and chaste pulpit eloquence, which riveted the attention, dining the delivery, of all, even the Most thoughtless person pre sent. The sermon was not in aid of any of our public cha rities, but a kindness conferred on the vicar and congrega tion. His text was taken from the Epistle to the Hebrews, 2d chapter, and part of the Bth and 9th verses—" But now we see not yet all things put under him ; but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour." The rev. preacher commenced his discourse by reading from the sth verse, which is a quotation from the Bth Psalm, thus giving St. Paul's interpretation of it, as referring to Christ. He then read the Bth Psalm, showing the prophecy concerning him, and went on to demonstrate, by a chain of reasoning peculi arly his own—namely, the fulfilment of the first two portions of it, that Jesus was the man who was made for a little while lower than the angels, and that it was he who had suffered death and had been crowned with glory and honour. The third part of the prophecy yet remained to be fulfilled, the putting of all things under him, which St. Paul declares we have not yet seen. This the preacher contended had refer ence to the second advent, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, as predicted by the angels at the time of his ascen sion—" Ye men of Galilee, why stard ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into ',leaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven ;" thus introducing the millenium, or that pe riod, by whatever other name it might be called, illustrative of Christ's personal reign upon earth.—Dublin Evening Packet. of the I Its progress. Lo were, from . the circumstances of th e ti mes , unwilling to proceed with it execution ; and since these were gat rid of their place 1 never beea filled up with bona-fide and cheerful hold Hence, during the progress of the works, arrear have accumulated, and the undertaking has worn an appear ance of financial weakness greater than we think it is i reality afflicted with.. ..... The, object of the directors in instituting those proceedings for the recovery of calls, which we reported in our publication of last Tuesday, appears to have been that of ascertaining their true position with respect to a number of shares, pur chased under peculiar circumstances by a gentleman con nected with the undertaking, and which, we are informed, comprise about a seventh part of the entire capital of the company. Upon these shares considerable arrears are due, and the fact of their non-enforcement has been pleaded by some other shareholders as a reason for withholding payment. Were this , question- 7 -4he question as to the ownership of the disputed shares—onee• settled: hi it doubtless will be. one THE CALEDONIA, STEAM - SHIP.-ThiS fine vessel, the third of the line of royal mail steamers to run between this port and Boston and Halifax, arrived on Sunday morning, in lfii hours from Greenock. She was built by Mr. Charles Wood, at Dumbarton, and appears to be in every point equal to her predecessors of the same line, the Britannia and Aca dia, which have already proved themselves admirable sea boats, and have accomplished voyages across the Atlantic hitherto unequalled in speed. As these vessels, though turned out by different builders, are of equal length and breadth, and consequently, of the same tonnage ; and as they have engines precisely alike, the iatter built by the celebrated Napier, of Glasgow, the description we come time ago gave of the• Britannia, supersedes all necessity for a notice of this new specimen of the naval architecture of our northern neigh bours. They are in reality sister ships in all their hulls and equipments, the only difference being me . way or other, by the 'result of the proceedings now pending, a great portion of the difficulties - under which the' directors have hitherto laboured would terminate ; and they have ac cordingly been compelled, in the best exercise of their judg ment, to appeal to a legal tribunal to effect such a settlement. With the particular merits of the question, as between the holders of these shares and the direction, we repeat that we have nothing to do. It is imperative upon Me company to endeavour, by every means placed in their power by the act of parliament, to carry the undertaking into operation rod they cannot do this without a bona fide proprietary, able and ready to contribute from time to time the necessary funds. , We should, however, greatly r6joice if this object could be effected by a friendly negociation between the parties; and, should the company even have to make a sa cr ifi ce of some portion of their claim, and take back the whole of the dis puted shares, we are firmly of opinion that the mere fact of these disaffected shareholders being got rid of, would infuse such a spirit of unanimity and energy into th portion, that the directors would soon - experience little cliff culty in re-appropriating the whole on favourable terms. The great 'lila' of the - shares, we are confidently assured are now vested in the hands of strong and bona fide holders whose confidence in the merits of the undertaking experi ence and - examination are daily increasing. A considerable amount of the calls in arrear at the date of the late half yearly statement has been since paid up ; and we have no doubt that the present satisfactory progress of the works, even under existing difficulties, will, before long, enable those proprietors who have adhered to their shares, under circum stances of great discouragement, to congratulate themselves upon the result of their constancy and judgment. This im provement, we are assured, is even now taking place in the position of the company, notwithstanding any unfavourable impression which their being in a state of litigation is calcu lated to produce ; and we are confident that a prompt arrange ment of difficulties would not only ensure at once the pros perity of the shareholders at large, but might even be the means of materially advancing the interests of those who are now in hostileq!ollision with the undertaking in which they are themselves embarked. Whilst throwing out this suggestion to the dissatisfied por tion of the proprietary, we List urge at the same time upon those parties in arrear, who have no legal, or imagined legal, objection to pay up, the gross and glaring impolicy of their conduct in delaying to do so. The Sheffield and Manchester railway is not, we are aware, regarded as a popular line. And why? Passing by the fancied difficulties of its construc tion, the main reason of its not being in favour with the pub lic, is its apparent disfavour in the estimation of its own pro prietors, as manifested in their rel ance to pay up thei calls with promptitude. Let the shareholders, as a body, make a move. Let the present arrears be wiped off, and the directors enabled to push forward the works already commen ced with the requisite vigour, arid then it will probably be found that popular opinion will show itself a little changed. Let this be done, and then we venture to say that the shares of the .Sheffield and Manchester railway will assume some- thing like their real value in the market, and the question which has recently been so hotly litigated, and which pro mises to furnish further pickings for the gentlemen of the long robe, will, in all likelihood, settle itself without their costly assistance. Another and an important advantage would result from such an effort on the part of the well-affected shareholders, which would not be without its effect upon the prospects of the undertaking. A. considerable portion of the works bein now let, the directors, it must be :vident, have a certain aety in the .carving ad - decorations of the head and stern. The Caledonia has . fine female figure-head, and the carving both on her bow and stern exhibits good taste and execution. As the Caledo donia is a fac-simile of the Acadia, which was expected from Halifax and Boston, her appearance in Formby Channel caused a bustle amongst the pierheaders, includingthe news catemrs, who were looking for the Acadia. Mistaking her for the latter vessel, several boats put off to meet her. Two got alongside, au4 the sharp fellows in them did not disco ver their mistake, although " Caledonia " was conspicuous on the flag at the main, until they were'asked from the steam er, whether the Acadia had been telegraphed ! The Acadia,. however, did not far exceed the period of her anticipated ar rival, for (as it will be found) she reached the river on the same night. The Caledonia is now receiving her coa's on board, and will sail hence on Saturday next for Halifax and, Boston. The fourth . and last of the four ships which will complete the line—the Columbia, was launched on Saturday last, abbot an hour before the starting of the Caledonia from Greenock. ascertained sum to provide for the carrying on of those works, and must requlate the amount of proprietors upon whom they can depend for prompt payment. It will, therefore, materially , lessen the-presure for money to individual share- holders, if the preseia arrears are satisfied and the entire proprietary come forward to support the directors with funds to enable them to progress i❑ their arduous duties. The nature of the line is such as to enable the directors to extend the payment of calls equally, or to the whole period allowed for completing the works ; and even should the question between the litigant proprietors and the directors remain for a short period unsettled, an energetic and united effort on the part of the remainder would enable them to complete and bring into working—and; we believe, profitable working—a considerable portion of the line out of Manchester without any inconvenient pressure for money. We are quite aware, and we shall shortly endeavour to prove the fact, that i❑ sterling merit, as an investment, this line is inferior to very few of its rivals, and that its shares ought to rank as high as those of any undertaking, which has not had the guaranteed test of experience in working, We say that we shall endeavour shortly to prove this fact ; but in the meantime the shareholders should assist our efforts with the public by paying up their calls at once, and thus proving that they too have confidence. Let them do this, and then we venture to predict that not only the danger which ever attends " a house divided against itself" will pass over, but that they will find themselves in possession of a sound mar ketable property, instead of what is now little better than a mere liability. We propose, in an early publication, bringing more fully before our townsmen the claims of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway to a portion of their support. Independent of its merits as an investment, the opening of this line, as a communication with a large and important district hitherto almost shut out from the port of Liverpool, will confer great benefits upon the commerce of our town ; and we shall en deavour to dissipate, by a fair and candid statement, those prejudices which we cannot but perceive exist against this useful and important undertaking in our own market. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Mr. Jackson of, Pimlico, who had the Belper contract, and who has been very exten sively employed at the Derby station, is engaged to erect a warehouse for the company in Chesterfield, by the side of the station. It will he forty-two feet square, and constructed of stone. Mr. Jackson has also engaged to erect warehouses upon a similar plan at the respective stations of Masbro', Barnsley, and Wakefield.—Leeds Intelliyencer. NORTH MIDLAND RA ILWAY. — Traffic returns for the week ending sth September : Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails£3olo .17 3 Merchandise. 410 1 7 Minerals £353 0 HULL AND SEL BY RAILWAY. —Traffic return l 10 s front august 31 to September 6, inclusive : Passengers, (4286,) parcels, ikc Goods, sheep, &c., about £553 6 E Total £770 12 8 RAILWAY YO MACCLESFIELD.—The Birmingham and Manchester Company have determined to complete this branch without loss of time, and there is reason to expect that it will be open simultaneously with the main line to Crewe. When the Bramhall contract (6i miles) and the Macclesfield contract (3+ miles) are taken, the whole of the company's - Contracts will •be completed. The distance from Macclesfield to Manchester by the railway will be reduced to about 16i iniles.—Stockport Advertiser. NEW BRANCH RAILWAYS.--The fast increasing town of Heywood, near Bury, is about to derive considerable advan tages in the way of traffic with the neighbouring towns by constructing a branch railway front the Manchester and Leeds railway, at Blue Pits to Marland-road, Heywood, a distance of about two miles, the cutting has already been let, and in a few months the population of Heywood, amounting to upwards of fifteen thousand, will be fully possessed of the advantages of locomotive transit. The branch railway to Oldham, which the Manchester and Leeds railway company are empowered tolorm by an act of parliament passed July Ist, 1839, will shortly be in course of execution from junction with the main railway at Hillock, Chadderton, to i present intended termination near Lower Manchester -street, Oldham, a distance of a mile and a half, the estates are now undergoing a valuation preparatory to being purchased by the directors. From the last half-yearly report of the directors of the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway, it seems evident that they have it in contemplation to execute forthwith the branch railway between Kilmarnock and the main line. A pretty general opinion prevails that the engineers, if their hands were once free of the Glasgow and Ayrshire line, may turn their attention to its extension as far as Girvan. —Ayr Advertiser. The banks in this town have unanimously resolved upon closing their establishments every Friday afternoon at one o'clock, to commence on Friday next, the 18th instant. We understand the practice of closing the banks earlier on blank post day has been pursued in Manchester and other large towns for some time, without inconvenience to the public.— Newcastle Journal. MR. GEACH.—This infatuated man, who was lately con victed offdrgery, and sentenced to twenty years' transporta tion, passed through Bristol last week, on his way to Devon.. port. Having been subjected to the usual discipline of our gaol, he said, on leaving it, that he would rather end ure 40 years' transpostation than six months' imprisonment therein. On arriving at Devonport he was put on board the Lord Lyndock, convict-ship, lying in the sound. This vessel will convey him to Van Dieman's Land. The miserable hacks of the expiring vvhig n - radical govern -)n t have put forth a statement that ,the Duke of B eau f ort th Liverpool and Sandwich, and othe r mem b ers of govern ment Earls of the upper house, are about to deSert their colours, and join the service of Mr. Daniel O'Connell's masters. The whole statement is without the' hadow of foundation.' The wretched whip faction, instead of gaining political strength, is every its supporters, as L or d H owick knows, and has where losing , had the manliness to declare. ILFRACOa MBE.—A very shocki ng acc i dent happened here on Thursday se'nnight. A young gentleman about sixteen years of age, of the name of Cayley, was climbing,one of the highest cliffs under the Torr, when he lost his footing and fell down a height of at least 100 feet ; he was picked up by a man who was fishing near the spot, perfectly insensible ; his head was much bruised; one of his legs and arms broken, and his ancle dislocated ; his friends have little hopes of his recovery. It is quite a miracle that he was not dashed to pieces by the fall.—Bristol Journal. DArrt.—A portrait of Dante, by Giotto, has been recently discovered in the pantry of the prison at Florence, which was. recently a chapel attached to the residence of the po desta. It had been completely covered with plaster. The poet is painted in the flower of his age, with a calm majestic countenance. OPENING OF THE COVE-HILL RAIL:WAT—MELANCH ACCIDENT.—A considerable number of persons assemble, Tuesday to witness the opening of this railway, when regret Co say, an accident occurred, in consequence of t►. end of one of the waggons having given way, and conse they, with eight men upon them, set off at a feh, down the inclined plane and along the line for a consider distance, when they ran off the rails, and precipitated tht men with fearful force on the road. On inquiry at the In firmary, it appears that one man received a concussion of the brain, and another has had his leg broken; still, how ever, under the circumstances, it is almost miraculous a much greater amount of injury was not sustained.—Belfast Chronicle. 4uently • RAILWAYS INTO SCOTLAND.-Sir Frederick Smith, the chief commissioner appointed by government to report on the projected lines of railway into Scotland, arrived in this town on Saturday, and on Monday proceeded along the Newcastle and C ar li s l e Railway to Hexham, and thence along the projected Midland Line by Hawick and Galashiels to Edinburgh, which city he reached on Wednesday. It is understood. that the commissioners would return by the East Coast Line, and are expected in Newcastle on Wednesday in next week. They have received the evidence of the various parties in support of the projected lines, and by a personal survey made themselves perfectly acquainted with the dis trict; hut, o f course, no op i n i on can h ave yet been given. The town councils or Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen have memorialised the treasury, praying that the commissioners may be authorised to survey the country on the north side of the Forth, and to report on the best line for connecting the principal and commercial and manufacturing towns iu the north of Scotland with Edinburgh and Glasgow. The re sult of this applitition has not transpired. ACCIDENT ON. THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—As the nine o'clock train was coming-up from Birmingham on Tuesday morning near to Defford; and about 14 miles from Cheltenham, the engine and two carriages were thrown off the - line, in consequence of the rails which had been turned for another engine to go upon the li ne h av i ng been left in that pqpition. , ortunately, before any material njury was done, the engine Was stopped. None of the pas enzers were injured. Lave the ially this irth pro that keep xr" tam the tther ,and nister Men iosing ,y, iitich thefe , e led nister said !, and lit in of the ,undo, New