The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

APRIL 7, 1535. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. TIIE Public is respectfully informed that the Theatre will - 1 1- OPEN, for the Season, on MONDAY, the 27th instant, with new and popularEntertniuments. . . MADAME VESTS, who is engaged for Ten Nights, will make he st appearance here these three seasons on the above ev ng, in two of her favourite Characters. MR. CHARLES K IBLE is also erigaged for a limited period, and will make his first ap pearance here since his return from America, in the early part of the season. Arrangements have been concluded with several Other eminent Performers, who will appear in succession. Pull announcements will be made in future Advertisements and Bills. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. LAST NIGHT But one of Performing pr evio us to Easter Monde • • For the BENEFIT of Mr. J. 11 AMMON ON FRIDAY next, the 10th instant, will be seuted Dib- • diu's Dramatic Romance of THE HEART OF MID In the course of the evening a variety of SINGING and DANCING, by Miss E. Hamilton, Mrs. Raymond, Mr. Melvin, Mr- W. J. Hammond, Mr. and Miss F. Leclereq, Madelles. Juliette and Mose, and the Brothers Jackson. To which will be added the laughable Farce of • • • BEARS NOT BEASTS. To conclude with • OUT OF HIS ELEMENT; OR, TilK COOK IN. A sriivy! Tickets to be had of Mr. W. J. Hammond, 17, Suffolk-street, and of Mr. Carman, at the Box-office, from Eleven to Three o'clock every day. Boxes, 3s.—Pit, 2s.—Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Boxes, 2s.—Pit. ls.—No Second Price to the Gallery. Second Price at Half-past Eight. GRAND ORATORIO, AT THE ROY 4L AMPHITHEATRE. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS. 1 111111.1 Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully in -& formed that THREE SPIRITUAL CONCERTS will take place in PASSION WEEK, when the Grand Oratorio entitled THE SEVEN TRUMPETS. compsed by Signor H. PANortmo, will be performed, and a MISCELLANEOUS ALT, selected from the Works'of 'Haydn, Handel, and others. The whole will be conducted by Signor H. J. PA NOlt Mp. Principal Vocalists, Madame Patiormo, MiSs ach, Miss Bruce, Miss Gould, Messrs. Caird, Dodd, e yin, Davies, Pemberton, and Bedford, with a nun►e Chorus, and au efficient Band. Leader—Mr. G. ton. Books of the words, price Gd. each, may be had at the doors. Boxes. 4s.—Body, 3s —Pit, 2s.—Gallery, Is. Children Half price, except to the Gallery. Transferrable Tickets for the Three Concerts, Boxes. 105.6 d. ---Body, Bs.—Pit, ss. Places may be taken at the Box-office from Eleven till Fonr, on Monday next. Tickets and Bills of particulars may be had of the Music sellers, and at the Hubbard Gallery, 28, Lord street. , POSTPONEMENT OF THE FANCY FAIR. in consequence of Chester Races taking &ace on the days announced for the BAZAAR', the Proprietor has be solicited to POSTPONE the Public Days until AY, the 11th, and TITEsnAy, the - 12th of Mav ne e Fancy Fair will, therefore, take place a week la au originally announced. - 7 -- LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGIC 6 ALAARDENS. As It. ATKINS„ Proprietor of thiabove GARD E NS, begs 1. leave most respectfully to return thanks to the Nobility (j. Gentry, and to the Inhabitants of Liverpool and the vici hay generally, for the very flattering support which his Esta blishmenChas received since its commencement, and to inform them that the Season for 1515-6 will commence on MONDAY, the 11th May next, on which and the following day, the anni versary of the Opening of the Gardens will be celebrated, as usual, by a BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR; the profits of which, together with a donation proportionate to . . . . the receipts: 7 will he divided amongst the PUBLIC CHARITIES. On the evenings of those days the Gardens and principal Buildings will he SPLENDIDLY ILLUMINATED. There wilt also be a GRAND EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS, under the superintendence of an eminent artist. A FULL MILITARY BAND will be in attendance on the openihsr days, and will perform three days a week during the season. Contributions from Ladies and Gentlemen of articles for sale at the Bazaar will be thankfully received, and duly accounted for at the Gardens, where any further information may be ob tained. Subscription Books for the season are now lying for signature tit Mr. GrapePs, Church street, at the Lyceum News-room, and at the principal Hotels and Newspaper-offices, where Tickets inay be had. Subscribers are respectfully requested to observe that, as the Reasoil for 1834 expires with the present month, old tickets are i nadmissible on the opening days. Non-subscribers will be ad- Mined on those days with an order from a Subscriber, on pay silent of Two Shillings, till Two o'clock ; after that hour, and for the rest of the season, at the usual charge of One Shilling. The following are the TARNS OF SUBSCRIPTION:- Atinual Ticket for a single Subscriber £1 1 0 Ditto f or a F am il y . not exceeding four persons ,.3 3 0 ,Ritto for any additional member of a Family above four 0 7 0 - ditto - above six 0 5 0 The terms for the admission of School,, either for a single visit or for the season, may be known on application at the 'Garden. Subscribers to enjoy the privilege of writing.Visiters' Tickets, without which Non-subscribers will not be adulated. Tickets not transferable. The Gardena are Open from Seven or Eight o'clock in the Morninu' according to the season, till dusk, throughout the year. b Z , ological Gardens, Derby-road, April 2, 1835. TO CORRESPONDENTS. NVO have no objections to the abusive letters we are in the habit of receiving from the " City it New York," for the language, coarse though it be, is characteristic and amusing; hut it is hard to saddle us with the postage. if it be inconvenient to change a dollar, perhaps our correspondents would favour us With a small consignment of cotton or some other " notion" to cover the expense. If this be not done, we shall be under the necessity of returning their letters unopened. Ihe writer of the letter signed " RADICAL REFORMER" is an inaniense blockhead. We must decline, once for all, entering upon the doctrinal points mooted by G. B. S. SAM PSON evidently does not understand what he writes about, and we think it a kindness to consign his letter to the flames. Lines on a " Boy Birdnesting," by some amiable young person no doubt, who delights in the name of " 16a," may suit some tastes, although not ours. We would recommend her to send them to the Mercury. Th e " Schoolmaster in Liverpool" is too personal. Lord Brougham at the Yorkshire election called himself an Englishman; in Edinburgh he was a Scotehman • and the Probability therefore is, that his lordship, wh en a t Inverness, Passed himself off as a highlander. The water question will probably be decided at the next fire. Eibtrpoci e.5-„tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1835. The following from our Falmouth correspondent an tounces the death of the King Consort of Portugal:— Falmouth, Saturday. His majesty's brig Nautilus is arrived here to-day from -4sbon after a passage of six clays, bringing intelligence of the ' , Path of Prince Augustus, which took place on Saturday last. Ihe prince had been suffering from the effects of a cold, which Produced quinsy, and terminated fatally. „rile grief of (he Queen is said to be very great, and the inha i'llants of Lisbon geueralry expressed much regret. Six p. m. The Renard packet is coming in with the West India mails. We have New York papers to the 12th March. The Senate and House of Representatives adjourned on the 3 d, without passing any other resolution than what we have already noticed relative to the President's message and their claims upon France. The settlement of the question now rests with the French Chamber of Depu ties. If they are content to vote the dollars, this tem- Pest iu a teapot will be at an end, the " imperishable" Oak remain unskathed, and the red pines wag their tops in the breeze as before. But what if they should not vote the dollars? Why, , nothing. Congress has adjourned without voting the P resident any ways and means, although he pressed them hard for the very smallest sum they could spare. T he venerable gentleman is very scurvily treated! ARE WE TO HAVE A REVOLUTION ? Most Il miuestionably we shall, if the present House of Com mons be not speedily dissolved. The bundle of sticks is B tteng when well bound together, and such at this hour i s the condition of the numerous factions, and fragments t 'f,factions, in the lower house of parliament. They, h ate each most cordially, as all empirics, hypocrites, and pretenders uniformly do, for they know each other ; but they are sworn friends in the cause of mischief and launder, and they are united in their opposition to the I CING's government because they know that it is an ho nest one, which will not play the game 'of corruption, 1411 1elt, will not pamper. worthless demagogues, which will 11 ' 4 rule by patronage or by bribing idle and electioneer ing commissioners, and which will not lend itself to s chemes of fraud and robbery. We solemnly believe that this is one of the principal re asons why all the "shreds and patches" of faction are t z 'andecl together against Sir ROBERT PEEL and his ma lestY's ministers. • Look at the material s w hi c h com pose r il e majority of Friday last. It is difficult to find, " bar (11.4." the ignominious " tail," any s ix m e n w h o ate cor in concurrence upon any two public que s ti o n s . W e r 1 the papi s t an d th e q uak er —th e wo lf an d t h e lamb— eking each other. We see the cold-hearted unitarian, the stern presbyterian„the towering evangelical dissen ter, the pragmatical independent, and the new-dipped and newly-enlightened anabaptist—hot from a love feast—all most curiously blended into a union, and making fierce war against the Church of England. This is an ominous and frightful. state of things. We observe the boxer and the 'leading. luminary of the tabernacle in sweet embrace—the gambler shaking hands with the saint—neighbour broad-bri supezing his knees into the back of a blackleg—the 'er and the thief's at torney squaring accounts—t apostle of philanthropy walking arm-in-arm with the playhouse rake—the,puri. tan and the profligate all hugging each other, and joining in a harmonious cheer over the triumph of a principle which,.if acted upon, would seal the fate of the Church of England and the monarchy itself. It is charitable to suppose that some of these men do not understand what they are doing, and cannot see the effects of their own measures. The Church of England, which is the object of their united malignity, is the only mound which stands between them and destruction. If they had,not the church to blunt their teeth upon, they would tear each other to pieces. How long would the quakers of Clonmel be tolerated if popery were in the ascendant in Ireland ? If the presbyterians of Ulster were left to themselves, how long would it be before their extirpation would be complete ? If the church did not raise its shield over the anabaptists, independents, and unitarians, how many weeks would their chapels re main unrazed by the demon of popery ? These persons are utterly powerless, and they would be swept away in a night, but for the protective hand of the protestant church. They are vain, they are arrogant, they are se cure; but, oh false security !. if they were left to them selves but for a single ;nonth: The' wolf 'they caress would come down upon them when they slept; and eat them up. Theirs would . be, a short-lived 'vanity and an ephemeral arrogance, if the moody bigots of Mavnooth and their savage' legions were let loose upon them. :They do not see this; and, of course, they do not fear it ; but although it would be a just punishment and a whole some example, still we pray HEAVEN that they may ne ver experience the consequences which Would most un questionably ensue, if the light, and power, and protec tion of the church were destroyed, and the reign of po pish terror and persecution revived. 'The most painful part of the case is that we have at present only ONE MAN who is, by his position in the state, competent to keep the confederated factions at bay, and stand between us and a fearful revolution ; We do not by this put forth the melancholy confession that Sir ROBERT PEEL is the last remaining champion of the mo narchy and the religious institutions of England. GOD forbid that we should be so helpless ! There are in our country many hundreds of men, of equal talents, of un sullied honour, of rare accomplishments, of unbending virtue, of glowing zeal, of untarnished loyalty, of stern fidelity, and animated by that wisdom which comes from above, who in the hour of extremity might and would take his place, shake the senate, electrify the people, give new life and energy to drooping hearts, and SAVE THEIR COUNTRY. We are not of those who de spond, black though the clouds be, and wild the roar of the leveller, the infidel, and the incendiary. In the worst of times PROVIDENCE has given us a saviour and an avenger. Our institutions may be rended, may totter, and some of them may fall. We may be beaten at our outposts as we have been before. The enemy may carry trench after trench, and reach the ramparts; but in the citadel we shall be secure, there to recruit our strength. and thence to issue out in terrible and indomitable force against the divided and famished legions quarrelling and destroying each other under our walls. The time for this, however, is not come, as regaids England; and we hope it is not near at hand as concerns Ireland. If so, so much the better. That island has . not yet received FULL JUSTICE at the hands of insulted England. She may before long. We have endured her caprices and her insults—her menaces and her perfidies—her !loons of rapacity and her nights of blood—for a series of years without applying 'the proper remedy. The day will come when offended justice will demand itS vic• tims, and when crimes that—reach high heaven' and stain the earth, and mock christianity, and turn li berty and law and concession into ridicule, must be met with the red and the heavy hand. She has been the spoiled child of Great Britain. We have endeavoured to civilize her, but like the Indian who has tasted the " Fire Spirit," we have made her drunk. Her savage inhabitants, dulled into unconscious recklessness by the power of priestcraft, and incapable of understanding the responsibilities which attach to crime, and seeing in mur der, abduction, robbery, and manslaughter, no sin cen sured by the priest, or condemned by the word of GOD, which they are not suffered to look into,-these people— the popish peasantry of Ireland—have had no limits to their atrocious invasions of the righta of property, or the means by which they might accomplish the most cruel and infamous ends. This, we admit, has been the fault of the imperial parliament and the people of gpeand. We have given the organs of the popish priestszredit for their professions and protestations which were insincere. We have dealt honestly with them when they were im posing upon us. We were silly enough to recognise their averments as facts. We encouraged and assisted them when they were slandering and betraying us. We called them friends, in the largeness of our beneficence, when they were imagining all contrivances for our injury and destruction. We were feeding them when they were robbing us; and raising them to stations of honour and distinction when they - had actually planned their designs for dissolving the union, and severing Ireland from the British empire. In one word—and we it reluctantly —the Duke of WELLINGTON yielded at the very moment, and for avowed reasons, which should have made him more resolute and unbending than ever in refusing their demands ! But that was in the wane of the unhappy reign of GEORGE IV. We come back to where we started. Sir ROBERT PEEL is the ONLY MAN, at the present juncture, who is capable of saving the church and the monarchy. We do not pay the right honourable baronet an undeserved compliment by this admission. It is not, however, a compliment coming from us in the character of a parasite or expect ant flatterer; and we should not offer it at all if we could for a moment suppose that our motives could• be ques tioned, or our sincerity impugned. The right honour-', able baronet is in the Midst of the conflict. He leads the van in the House of Commons. He is invested with power, and the chief command, by his Sovereign i and, therefore, on hini depends the result of the present con test. The King's name—alas for England, that it should be so !—gives him no increase of power in the House of Commons. The King was a consenting party to the change which has left him almost helpless; and but for the chivalry, honour, and innate loyalty of his subjects he would be helpless indeed. At any rate his Majesty has selected Sir ROBERT PEEL as the person most competent to rescue the throne from its present perilous situation. The right honourable baronet has sustained three signal defeats in the House of Commons. First; on the speak ership ; secondly, on the address; and thirdly, on the spoliating and appropriating resolution of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The majority was first ten—it next fell to seven—it now has risen to thirty-three! What, then, is the premier to do ? He has offered a tithe-bill to Ireland which is hardly within the confines of justice. But under the peculiar circumstances of the case we accept it cordially as an amicable and expedient corn premise. To this bill the confederated factions of the House of Commons offer no opposition, but they insist that the bill shall be. clogged with the appropriation clause, the meaning of which is this. The church of Ire land shall be pinched—famished—robbed—and the mo ney or income screwed from it by pinching or robbery, shall be applied to the purposes of " generl education." ! • Let us pause here. For if the revolution should come, the revolution must, like the gallows, or the decimated .company at a military execution, do its duty. For the first time since the STS? - ARTS were driven from the throne, have we heard of the doctrine that church property was applicable to secular purposes. This we say is quite new. The revenues of the catholic church became the revenues of the protestant church after the reformation. There were abbey lands, monastic lands, convent lands, wrested from the monks, friars, and nuns, and given to the fa vourites of HENRY VIII. If, then, it be expedient to de vote certain church revehuesto the purposes of education, why should the church more than the secular impropria tor contribute the means ? Answer this, JOHN, Duke of BEDFORD. If spoil is to be sanctioned let *us, at least, have fair play. None of your crimping and paltry subter fuges of fraud. If PETER is to be plundered so must PAui. If the Bishop of CORK is to be pillaged so must the Duke of BEDFORD. The people of England will not tolerate favourites—or pariders—or exclusives, in a mo dern division or adjustment of ancient spoil. The kettle must boil for all—the measure must be general—the sa crifice agrarian, and fol. agrarian purposes. But is this measure of justice recognised by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the united disunited factions of the House of Commons ? No. The robbery is to be limited. It is a sort of pillage immortalized in Gil Blas, only with this characterisiie difference, that the monk or beggarly friar might rob with impunity the layman, whereas in our case the layman is prohibited from robbing any but the ecclesiastic. This fine modern distinction will not be endured. Still the question recurs—what is Sir ROBERT PEEL to do ? We answer firmly, but with all due deference,—RE- SlST. Resist, sir, manfully, boldly, unflinchingly, and• the people of England, in the proportion that your cou rage rises, and your integrity becomes more manifest,- will, according to the national character, come en mane to your aid, cheer you on, and give you a grand and a signal victory. In their hands Lord JOIfN RUSSELL and his confederated factions are no more than an oyster be tween the ribs of the grate, held in the tongs by a dutiful but unphilanthropi9cuok. Resist, and yours, under the awakened sanction of wconservative King, will be a tri umph for life. Resist, and you will have with you the talent, the intelligence, and ultimately the whole moral force of the people of England. Resist, and your courage Will create new and countless auxiliaries in every part of the kingdom. Tell your countrymen that you are ham pered and harassed in the House of Commons by IriSh demagogues, some of whom are in a condition little above pauperism, and who are sent hither by their priests for the sole purpose of undermining the Church of England, and, if possible, extirpating those principles, in maintain ing which our fathers shed their best blood, and devised them to us as an invaluable and everlasting inheritance. Why, the majority of thirty-three is composed entirely of Irish papists—of men who have sworn a solemn oath, as binding as the strongest protestations can bind them, that they will do nothing to disturb or weaken the reli gion and institutions of the church. Tell the people of England, sir, that men who thus regard an oath are those who impede all your measures for national improvement —that they are agents, not representatives—that they are the worst enemies of Ireland—the unrelenting ene mies of England—and that the reform they seek is spolia tion, ruin, and general bankruptcy. Let no means be spared in showing the electors that, having the welfare of the country at heart, you are thwarted in your de signs, and embarrassed at every step by the delegates of the Irish priests; that the real business of the country is interrupted or suspended by vexatious, unprofitable, and absurd discussions relative to Ireland; and that night after night is wasted upon imaginary grievances to the exclusion of useful inquify or beneficial reform. Make an appeal to their pride, their honour, and their sense of justice—convince them that you have the confidence of the King—prove to them, as you can do, that a majority of the English members are in your favour—and leave the result in their hands. That it world be a glorious and triumphant result we have no doubt whatever. In the tedious discussions which have taken place on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion, 'a discovery of a very singular kind has been made, namely, that the appropri ation of the church revenues to secular purposes would contribute largely to the peace and happiness of Ireland. The doctrine is so preposterous that we can scarcely treat it with any seriousness. It is a conceit perhaps conge nial to the insignificant mind of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, but it. is an absurdity. No man of even ordinary intelli gence can believe that the distribution of the whole re venues of the church amongst schoolmasters world ame liorate the condition of that unfortunate country. The evil lies too deep to be reached by the scraper or touched by the scraps of the schoolmaster. The education. that the liberals profess a willingness to give is one more calcUlated to produce than allay insubordination. They divest education of its spirituality, and therefore it is useless for good. It stimulates vanity, but does not im plant wisdom. It excites the fancy, but it gives no con solation. Lord SANDoN, in adverting to•the discovery made by the opposition, dealt it a home blow. Lord Jonx, he said, contender.) that the education sought for by the peo ple of Ireland would now be obtained through the me dium of the surplus revenues, but Lord SANDON called upon him to show when and where the people of Ireland had sought for education, and defied him to point out a single petition presented on the subject. But it is in vain to reason with such men as Lord JOHN RUSSELL. He and his factions must be dealt with in a different but more effectual manner. It is distressing to notice the base and heartless ex tremes to `Which factious violence is carrying some of our contemporaries. The Globe used to be a quiet, unosten tatious, and well-conducted journal, respected for its moderate politics, and its innocent credulity. In an evil hour, however, it became the organ- of the late ad ministration, and in defending their corrupt jobs, or perhaps participating in them, it soon lost all sense of decency and manners. When the whigs were dismissed a melancholy change came over the spirit of the Globe. It has been in teats ever since, and at intervals is ex- Aremely violent if not downright frantic--furious, poor thing, furious, desperate, and mad! On Saturday last it contained the following:— "Even the great Sir Robert was more languid than usual. The fact is, he is physically unequal to his work. To be a whole ministry, with an opposition in a majority constantly attacking him, is too much for any man. The Times may say what it likes, and Mr. may run about remarking how fat and jolly Sir Robert looks,—and the Standard may assure us that he sleeps like a top; but it is GRATIFYING TO OBSERVE THAT WE ARE EVIDENTLY KILLING HIM. We don't suppose he will let it come to that; but he must resign officO to preserve life." The Globe, if we mistake not, is in the bands of cer tain sectarians who affect much piety, and yet these pious persons are gratified at the effects of their vindictive malice, and rejoice to think they are killing a man! Such is the world come to. The dastardly scribe who can make sport with life and death in bilis manner would, if he had any courage, perpetrate a murder. Sir ROBERT PEEL, we calculate, will outlive most of his enemies, and that is what makes them so savage. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Half-part Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening. The last three days we have been without any foreign or continental arrivals of moment, nor have there been any rumours current, the attention of the public having been entirely occupied by the situation of the govern ment. .An address will be presented to Sir Robert Peel this evening from the merchants, bankers, &c. of Lon don, which, in three days, has received many thousands of signatures. This example will, doubtless, he gene.; rally followed. We believe a similar measure is about to be arranged in the county of Surrey, in Westminster, and in the borough, and also in other places. The Lon don address has already greatly alarmed the faction, and the change of opinion out of doors must influence these hatchers of anarchy into a cessation of their mean, yet desperate attempts to overturn the government, and prostrate order. In consequence of this, the money market, which it was expected would have been seriously affected by the result of the question of Lord JOHN'S, has remained very firm, the closing quotation of consols this afternoon being 921. Our foreign market has exhibited a most remarkable agitation, both yesterday and to-day, a complete mania having seized upon the speculators in the transatlantic bonds. Chilian Bonds, which, on the 31st ult., were at 451-, suddenly advanced yesterday to. 514, and this morning underwent a further advance to 57, falling afterwards to 53, and closing at 55 to 56. Co lumbian, which were, at the above date, at 401, have arisen to 44; Peruvian from 291 30 to 37, and left off at 36 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds to 36,. and Mexican to 45 and THE LiVERPOOL STANDARD. • afr., '- ---sew ►_ ,-. _,. 46. No reason adequate to account for the advance can be given. The only matters current . are, that the Chi lian government is buying up its bands, and that beyond doubt the independence of the.republics will ere long be acknowledged by Spain, and a treaty of commerce between her and her ex-colonies concluded. Portuguese Bonds have also advanced, 971 being the current price. Orders have been received from the continent for investment, in addition to which the 6 per cent. Stock, amounting to one million, is to be paid off; to effect which a 3 per cent. Stock, it is said, has been taken by Mr. Rothschild at 68. Spanish Bonds and Scrip are both better, the former being at 6.51 I, and the latter has been as high as 9 pm., and left off at 8,1 All the other securities are firm, and the following were the closing prices this afternoon : 3 per Cents 92i 2i Chilian....ss 57 54 56 551 56 New 31 per Ceuts ....99X 100 Dutch 21 per Cents: . 56.1 6 i India Bond. l9 21 Dutch 5 per Cents 101 Exchequer Bills 41 39 40 Mexican .... ..... , 15,1 75 1 ( Consols for Account-92k h 2/ 1 Portuguese Belgian lO3l . 3 , Spanish Brazilian Columbian 431 4 31 4 41 I ADDRESS TO SIR ROBERT k:EL. The close of the long debate in the House of Com mons on Lord John Russell's motion on the Irish Church question, reached Liverpool early on Saturday morning. As' soon as the result of the debate became known, a meeting was held at which an address to Sir Robert Peel was agreed to, in order to give a public expression of the entire confidence . reposed in his Majesty's present, ad visers, by the gentry, clergy, merchants, bankers, and the inhabitants of this place generally. Although co pies of the address were not sent round to . the places where signatures to public documents of this kind are usually taken until after three o'clock, it was signed by more than four thousand persons in the course . ' of the evening. The names added to it yesterday amounted to about five thousand, MAKING IN ALL ABOUT NINE THOUSAND SIGNATURES! About eighteen hun dred signatures were taken at THE STANDARD OFFICE, in the course of Saturday evening and yesterday, and from personal observation we are enabled to state that the sheets signed at our office contain the names of every grade Of society in the town. We earnestly rem-men:l a perusal of the address, a copy of which will be found among our advertisements. In doing so, we have to in form our local readers that it will be despatched to Lon 'don by this night's mail. Those, therefore!, who are fit vourable to the address will take care not to miss the op portunity. The people have only to express their senti ments in this gratifying and constitutional manner, and . faction will be most effectually put down. LIVERPOOL POLICE REPORT.. FRlDAY. —Before the M A YOR and Alderman P. BOURNE. ROBBERY AT THE ItoYAL HoTEL, MANCHESTER.—LouiS San Martin, the Spaniard, who was taken into custody by Saw ley, an officer belonging to the Manchester police, On Sunday evening last, was brought before Sir Thomas Brancker at the Mayor's Court on Monday, for power to have the prisoner handed over to the Manchester authorities, where he stood charged with having robbed a gentleman, who was staying at the Royal Hotel in that town, of a sum of money amounting to £6-3. examination before the magistrates at Manchester, terminated in his acquittal on that charge, the evidence not being sufficiently strong to warrant his detention, as no portion of the money was found in his possession. The prisoner was again placed at the bar on Monday, along with another foreigner, who, although no specific charge was brought against him, was suspected of being an accomplice, he belie", found iu the pii souer's company at the Angel Inn, Dale-street, where they were both apprehended. The prisoner (San Martin) stood charged with having entered the house of Mr. Barke, landlord of the Wellingtoa Inn, Dale-street, and stealing front a drawer in Mr. B.'s bed-room, a valuable gold hunting watch. From the eVidence of Mr. Backe, it appeared that on Wednesday last he missed the watch in question, while searching for a penknife, deposited in the same drawer. He had not opened the drawer containing the watch for about a fortnight previous to the rob bery, but at that time it was safe. On discovering his loss he gave information thereof to the police, and circulated hand bills giving a description of the watch. It having come to the know ledge of Mr. Mendelson, a jeweller and silversmith, residing in Manchester, that the prisoner had been taken into custody ou suspicion of the robbery at the Royal Hotel, it occurred to him, from the description given of the prisoner, that it must be the same individual who had offered for sale a gold watch at his shop the day before, under rather pecu liar circumstances. Oa entering the shop of Mr. Mendel son, the prisoner drew from his waistcoat pocket a gold watch, and . presented it to Mr. Mendelson, at the same time muttering something which he did not understand. Mr. Meudelsou opened the watch, and on inspection noticed the dial as having letters in the place of figures to denote the hour, and likewise observed the maker's name to be Hornby. The prisoner then took a piece of paper that lay on the counter, and wrote upon it some figures, and then handed it to Mr. Mendelson. On the paper, near the top, was marked £3O, and underneath it. £24, which he concluded was the price given and the price asked for it;. on Mr. M. shaking his head. by way of dissent, the prisoner took up his watch awl departed. I'he boots of the Royal Hotel, on being called, deposed to the pri. sonar's having slept at the hotel on the night the robbery took place; his having seen the prisoner as early as half-past live the 'next morning, who asked him what time the first train started fur Liverpool, and on being informed hastily pulled out a gold watch, which he (the boots) observed had letters on the dial in lieu of figures. Ile saw the prisoner leave the house at half past six - on Sunday morning, for Liverpool, and heard the pri soner express himself .in tolerable English. Ou the gentleman at the Royal Hotel making his loss known he (the boots) was sent off to Liverpool, accompanied by Sawley, in quest of the, prisoner, Whom they apprehended the same evening, alorig with his companion. Wine the prisoner was being searched, he was asked by the boots what he had done with the watch he had seen hint with in the meriting;-- the prisoner, in answer denied his being possessed of one. The chambermaid Of the Welling ton also spoke to having seen the prisoner, while following her avocation, in the act of walking up stairs in the direction orthe room front whence the watch was stolen; she asked his business there, and was told that he wanted some gentleman whose name she did not recollect. Considerable time was taken up in the examination, the pri soners having expressed a wish, although able to speak French fluently, to have a Spanish interpreter. This task was at last undertaken by Mr. Lucas, who made them acquainted with all that was passing. From what transpired on the examination it was shrewdly suspected that the pi isoners could speak Eng lish. San Martin was fully committed to the sessions, and his fellow-prisoner discharged. At the conclusion of the examina tion the prisoner produced front his pocket a slice of bread, which he held up to the Mayor, at the same time asking, through his interpreter, for a better sort. of food. San Martin looked unutterable things when told that his request could not be coin lied with. SATURDAY.—(Before the MAYOR and Mr. Ald. Hoespa Lt..) Louis San Martin and Joachim San Martin, the two Spa niards, were brought up again to-day, when the former was committed on the charge preferred against bins by Mr. Burke, of the Wellington Inn, Dale-street. There not bjing sufficient evidence to identify Joachim with the robbery, he was dis charged. CONVIeTION FOR SELLING WINES AND SPIRITS IN THE Ttr,:avin-ltovar..—Rebecca Bowman, the keeper of the sa loon in the Theatre-Royal, was Summoned before th e magi strates at the instance of the Excise, charged with retailing wines and spirits in the theatre, not being duty licensed to do so. The sale of the spirits and wines was proved by the Excise officers, and it was stated that the same system had been car ried on for three years to the•detriment of those who were li censed according° act of parliament. Mr. Wilkinson, a bar rister, appeared for thedelendantottid in mitigation urged that the defendant was not aware she was acting illegally. In the saloons of the theatres in London it was the practice to sell Mines and spirits with other • refreshments, and informations were not laid against the parties, although they were not li censed. Ile considered that the prasent case was one in which the magistrates might exercise justice with mercy, and miti 7 gate - the fine. The defendant had a large family, and a bed- . ridden husband, a - 1 he, thought that the menials of office who had preferred the charge could ha ,u better employed themselves than in selecting a - violin. of Inisloquile to pounce upon. ' - At the conclusion of the learned gentleman's address, Mr. Holiday Flewber, the collector of Excise, said, that the obser vations which the learned gentleman had indulged in reflecting mpon the Excise officers were uncalled for. Tim information was laid at the instigation of those who paid heavy licenses, and it was the duty-of the Excise to protect them. The course which had been taken was not the way to obtain a-mitigation of the fine. Mr. Alderman Horsfall said that the officers were acting in conformity with their duty, and he agreed with the collector that the ienection was undeserved. • Mr. Wilkinson asked the magistrates to recommend the case of the defendant to the Excise board in London, with a vi • v to mitigate the line. The magistrates said they would rather the recommendation emanated Iron"' the collector. _ The collector observed that he would prefer the magistrates' recormnendation, as he did not see how, with propriety, he could recommend a mitigation of the fine after the reflection on the Excise. Mr. Wilkinson hoped that any observation he had mada would not injure the cause of his client, and after some con versation between the magistrates and the collector, the latter consented to withdraw the information for selling. wines, and the conviction of £l2—£ LO was taken on the spirits. YUSTEBDAY.—(Before the_MAyoa and Mr. Alderman JOHN BOURNE.) ENLISTING.—A man named M'Cloud, alias Holt, was charged by a sergeant of marines with enlisting with him and taking the shilling, he being discharged from. the 83d regiment as unfit for service. It was shown to the satisfaction of the magistrates that, by enlisting with the complainant, the prisoner had obtained money under false pretences • but, as it appeared that he came within the rogue and vagabond act, ho was committed as such. A NURSERY FOR THIEVES.—Anne Stewart, an Irishwoman, with a child in her arms, was placed at the bar along with five female thieves, not one of whom appeared to be more titan thirteen years old, charged with receiving a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to a•washerwouian named Ledbetter. It ap peared from the evidence that the complainant had left the clothes, which she was returning to the parties, for whom she washed, in the yard of Mr. Come►, Peinbrok-place, for safety ; whilst absent for about half an hour they were stolen, and infor mation was given to the police. Butler, a constable, having obtained a clue to the offenders, repaired to the female prisoner's house, in Bradbury-court, Preston-street, and there fo - and the clothes. The female prisoner was alone in the lower part of the house, and denied that any other persons were there. It was discovered, however, that a nest of young thieves were in the upper rooms, and the constable succeeded in eppiehending five of them, three having escaped. It further appeared that the female prisoner kept a house for the purpose, not only of receiv ing stolen goods, but of training., young boys to the committal of cr►me.. The offence was clearly proved aoinst the prisoners, and the magistrates committed them to the sessions fur trial. Chantrey has just finished a whole-length statue of Mrs. Jordan, with two of her children—one of them, Lord Munster, iu her arse s . PPM , ..r ip...... TO THR EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST4NDARD, SlR,—There is at present a mos: intolerable annoyance to persons having occti,ion to pass along North John-street, oc casioned bribe want of proper accommodation tit- the public. Near the bottom of Cook-street a building is in progress, and the parties have inclosed the foot-walk by wooden barriers without providing any means of passing for the pubic, except ,through the mud and filth (and I may add danger) of that great thoroughfare. The act of parliament requires that persons having occasion to inclose part of a public thoroughfare fur such purposes, shall construct a proper platform, sufficiently fenced atutrailed in all round the part inclosed, to the satisfaction of the district surveyor. Now, sir, as the office of informer is not very pleasant, and as the authorities appear to have neglected this nuisance you will confer an obligation on myself and in-my other persons by calling attention to this neglect.---1 am, sir, yours respectfully, April 6, 18.35. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL _ST.IND.4RD. Sta,—Can you oblige me by stating in your next paper whether the new act respecting weights and m easures o bli ges a resident in Toxteth-park to send all his weights to Everton to be stamped, or whether the weights, bein g adjusted at the Li verpool office, and being all correct, are not sufficient for all purposes of the enactment. This information will greatly oblige, Sir, yours, &e. A SUBSCRIBER. Liverpool:6lls April, 1835. [Lord Ebrington's bill is an absurdity which no wan can either understand or explain.—E. L. S.] LOCAL NE WS. TOE COUNTESS OF WILTON.—The pubic will hear with great satisfaction that this amiable lady is now taking under her im mediate•protection six boys front so many indigent families in Prestwich deprived of one parent, to be e m pl o y e d in the grounds at Heaton Park, clothed, maintained, educated, and then ap prenticed to some trade or calling, at her ladyship's sole cost.— This benevolent act is another valuable feature in the weli-known character of the countess, and is likely to be a blessing to the objects of it. PRESENT TO RICH kiln DA wson, ESQ.—Yesterday two gen tlemen,• members of the Liverpool district of the South Lanca shire Conservative Association, presented their district honorary secretary, Mr. Di son, with a beautiful mold snuff box, as a token of the society's gratitude for his unwearied labours.in the formation of that constitutional and loyal body. The edges of the box are •ornamented with a rich massive chased border. Mr. Dawson's family arms are engraved on the lid of the box, and are encircled with the folloWing inscription Presented to Richard. Dawson, Esq., by the Liverpool members of the South Lancashire Conservative Association, for the great ser vices rendered by him at its format:on. Sept. 4, MIL" The date is commemorative of the great dinner at Newton, when the Earl of 'Wilton presided as chairman. Speaking of the •inten tion of the society to snake this present, the Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday last says, "ill owe vet we may differ (rota Mr. Daw: son on political subjects, we must hear testimony not only to his private worth hut to the zeal and energy which he has displayed in behalf of the party to which he belongs." NORTII CIIESHIRE.-1t is with heart felt satisfaction that we announce that a surporter of judicious improvements in church and state, but decidedly conservative, with whom self-aggran diiemeut or the emoluments of office are no objects, and who can thilrefore devote his time and abilities to the interest of the county and the gond of his country, will certainly offer himself to the constituency of the northern division of this county 'for their suffrages whenever an opportunity may occur.—Siockport Adrertisdr. LIVERPOOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These gardens will be reopened for thd ensuing season on .Monday, the 11th May. We refer our readers to the advertisement in this day's Standard for the particulars of the entertainments to be given on that occasion. The following presents have lately been received: — An Ursine sloth and a monkey frmn Captain Harding, ship Bounty Hall • an American black bear from Captain Nichol sou. ship Ho; a Caffrarian eat from Captain Adam M'Minu, ship Hibernia; an Indian buffalo from Captain Ellis, ship Tyrer; a black carrasow and a ground dove from James Aikin, Esq., Alfred-street; an American fox from Branson Sands, Esq., Bred; lield-house ; a ring-tailed monkey from Cap tain Goma. ship Isabel; an American. deer and plants from Captain M as t ers , b r i g Tamiso; a Peruvian fox from Captain Sprott. brig Philomela; a curious tortoise from Captain Simp son, Beat-street; a monkey from the Rev. M. Joseph, Sey mour-street; an Indian monkey from Captain Highat, ship Gipsy; a large tortoise from Mr. Grebow, mate of the brig Pa.rsee ; an African monkey from Mr. S. H. Clarke, jun.. Up per Pitt-street; a large Sitnia monkey from Captain Eskelly, brig Sophia. TOXTETH-PA RK.—At a meeting of the subscribers for watch ing and lighting Mill-street and its vicinity, held on the 3d instant, at the Public-office, Toxteth-park, it•was unanimously resolved, that the moneys arising from the sale of lamp-posts, lamps, after paying to the late treasurer the balance 'lnc to him, should be appropriated to the use of the following charita- We institutions :—St. Jame s ' s S c h oo l , £5 ; S t. John -Baptises Ditto, £5; the Barrington Scho o l, £5 ; th e B r iti s h S c h o ols, Warwick-street, £5; • District Provident Society, £5; the Stranger's Friend Society, £3. 2s. 6d. DRAWBACK ON SOAP.—Memorials from the chamber of com merce, and from the various trades in this town, have been ( or are about to be) forwarded to the board of trade, representing the injury which will accrue to commerce if the provision of an act passed some time ago, disallowing after a certain date (now nearly expired) the drawback heretofore allowed on soap, be put in execution.—Manchester Chronicle. PENDLETON.—LIBERALITY IN FAVOR OF THE CHURCH.— The very old Sunday-school at Pendleton is about to be taken down, and a new one on a handsome scale, in connexion with and nearly adjoining to the beautiful church, is to be built im mediately. On Monday a voluntary subscription was commen ced to obtain the necessary mtaus fur this object, and a sum amounting to betwixt four and five hundred pounds was most liberally subscribed in a short time, by a few of the principal in habitants; so excellent a spirit in support of the established church animates that rising district. BA nnAtiors - MttnEß NEAR BURY.—A most savage murder was committed on Tuesday last, in the neighbourhood of Bury, under the following circumstances :— . P; man nameirJaines Bar low, a calico printer, had for several years been in the habit of treating his wife and family with great brutality, and latterly his conduct became so outrageous, that the poor woman was compelled to leave him, and she went to lodge with her children, in a house at Woodhill. About tour o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Barlow went to the house, and endeavoured to pre vail upon her to live with him again • but she declined to d o so. He then took a written paper from his pocket, and laid it on his wife's knee, but she threw it behind the fire, lions whence he snatched it and put it again into his pocket. Then, after re maining silent for a few minutes, he suddenly seized her by the legs, and drew her off the cnair upon the floor; on which the woman with whom she lodged, appreheirding some further vio lence, ran out of the house to procure assistance. Oa her re turn with one or two of the neight4ours. they fount the poor • woman with one knee on the floor, her hands and arms shockingly mangled, and her husband with a butcher's knife in one hand, which he had plunged up to the handle iu her throat, and hold ing her by the hair with the other baud. One of the women who had come iu immediately seized him by the coat collar to pull him away, on which he relinquished his hold of the knife, and struck the woman a violent blow with his fist. Ile then drew the knife flour his wil'e's throat, and endeaVoured to stab her to the heart, but the knife glanced from her stays, without wounding her; on which he completed his desperate purpose by cutting her throat, and she expired on the spot. When one of the women exclaimed she was dead, he said that he had come for the purpose of killing tier; and that they might hang hiin'or do as they pleased with him. Seeing a number of people col lecting about the house, he rushed out and attempted to escape, but beim; closely pursued, he gave himself up, and was commit ted to prison. On Thursday an inquest was held on the body, before .Mr. Deal den, and a verdict of wilful murder was return ed by the jury against the husband, who was committed to Lan caster Castle for trial. The poor woman is stated to have been a person of very correct conduct, and of very mild temper, and her industry and management in bringing up a large family with very small assistance from her husband, were the admira tion of all her neighbours. DEBATE ON THE IRISH CHURCH Qt'ESTION.—CObbeII,, in his Register of last Saturday, spe a king of th e d e b a t e on L or d John Russell's motion, says :—" During this debate I have heard more fine speaking und the promulgation of more error than I have ever before listened to in my life; and I cannot refrain from expressing, with some degree of gratitude, the very great pleasure which I enjoyed during the delivery of the speeches of Lord liowick on the one side, and of Mr. Gladstone and the Selicitur-General on the other side. Lord John Russell's speech was good, but with those of the other three gentlemen I was delighted beyond measure. They made me forget the suf focation which 1 was enduring from the crowded state of the house." IRISH TENANTS.—We take the following from the Clunmel Advertiser:—" On Weonesday last a man named Andrew Hunt was ejected from some land which be held near Windgap, and on the forlowing day returned and was in the act of taking away the windows from the house, which he claimed as his, when the wife of the silan who had been put in care of it (he being from home) endeavoured to prevent hint. Hunt, determined not to be impeded in his design, struck the poor woman wit h the coulter-of a plough 'on the head and fractured her skull : she remains in a senseless state. Hunt has been committed to Kil kenny gaol by 'Hill W. Rowan, Esq., to abide his trial at the next assizes of that town." hunt was ejected for non-payment of rent by his landlord, George Sheppard, Esq., of the city of Waterford, previously to the summer assizes of ISM. He did not allow the record-16 go to trial, but consented to a judgment by which his landlord vt possession in the month of November following, and appointed a man to hold and take care of the estate for him. Hunt subsequently took forcible possession from this man, but he was,.lr,wever, dislodged. On the night of the 23d March a party of moon appeared on the estate and (lug up and carried away eighteen apple trees. Its extent is about one hundred statute acres and beiT . 4 . tine arable land is of con siderable value. blunt was a man moving . in a superior grade to the generality of Irish farmers. The windows of the house formed a part Or the property let to Hunt, and his attempt was them efore an offence against . aspecial act 6 f . parliament passed expressly to prevent the . and malicious destruction of dwelling-houses in Ireland. Mr. George Sheppard is the brother of Mr. Sheppard of this .town, who married a daughter of the late Admiral Murray. A fire broke out, in the middle of last month, in the pope's apartments et Rome, which it was at one time feared would have eioian g ered the vatican itself, but b) gre a t effswrts it was got under. It was ascertained to have been occasioned by the negligence of the servants. NEW ROTARY ,TRAM ENGINR.—An engine on this principle has lately been invented and patented by John Reynolds, Esq., of Pontrhydyven, in this county, which is calculated for great power in a comparatively small compass, and in all probability will supersede the reciprocating engine, either for locomotive or marine purposes. One of twenty-horse power has lately been constructed, by way of experunent. It is similar in form to the Earl of Du ndonald's engine; and although the experimental one was imperfeety packed and bored, vet it worked with six per cent. friction, and snaking sixty revolutions in a minute, with a pressure of 50lbs. upon the inch. There is one now in course of manufacture, and the first tri a l o f its capabilities will be on the Manchester and Liverpool railway; it is expected to be ready in about two months , the friction of w hi c h will n o t exceed three or four per cent.— The Cambrian. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.—WIGLEY T. 04601:MAN MAHON. —This case. which our readers will remember was one of au assault by the latter on the former, near the end of last term, within the precincts of the Court of King's Bench, was to have come on on Thursday before a bench of magistrates at these sessions. It was removed, at the instance of the plaintiff Wig ley, by certiorari to the King's Bench, where it will be tried the first week of next term. The defendant had his witnesses in court, and was prepared to enter upon his own defence. From the number of gentlemen in court the case seemed to have ex cited no inconsiderable interest, which could only be equalled by the subsequent disappointment expressed at its postpone ment. The defendant, we understood, expressed himself most anxious for the trial to be proceeded with, as he had business of importance in Ireland which demanded his immediate presence. Ile has now to await the issue another fortnight. ._ , `~ WOMAN'S TEARS. "Oh, what are woman's tears! When they arise frotn (*andel woe, The ocean's waves—that waste and wide ! tear worthless weeds,--in restless tide, They have their ebb and flow. 10h, what are woman's tears ! If from the fount of gentle love The- dew-drops of the blessed morn, Kiss'd by heaven's breath as soon as born ; As meet for realms above. "Oh, what are ;roman's tears! If pour'd in scorn and wounded pritte— A torrent from a mountain source That, pent a moment, rends its course, And spieads a ruin widk t "Oh, what are woman's tears If thankful joy the flood corirkels--- That fall but like the gentle rain, That blesseth and is blest again, And tills the saved wells. " Oh, what are woman's tears! The one soft tear in ' rity sped— Pearl beyond price, the chrystal gem • • That shines in Mercy's diadem, And such as Angels shed." —Thackwoode Magazine Ar April. EXIT ANDREW CAit►:w O'DWYER, ESQ., M. P. Mr. O'Dwyer, the member for Drogheda, has been unseated. The committee decided against the validity of his election on Satur4 day afternoon, in consequecce of his not possessing the requi site qualification.—Observer. Namick Paella, on a special mission from the sublime Porte, had a❑ interview on Friday with the Earl of Aberdeen, at the Colonial Office. llis excellency also transacted business at the Foreign Office. The latest account from Vienna states that the emperor had been waited upon by a deputation of the Hungarian nobles and the Patriarch Archbishop of Eslau, who presented an address; to his imperial majesty expresive of their deep regret for the loss the empire so:tallied bv the death of the Emperor Francis. and professing the most devoted attachment to the reigning sovereign. The address, which was written in - Latin,' was most graciously received. A loyal address to the king is now lying for signatures at the castle inn, Taunton. It has already received the names of a host of the gentry and yeomanry of the neighbourhood; and we trust that it will be subscribed to by all those iu that part of the country who feel desirous of loyally and affectionately rallying around their sovereign in this his hour of difficulty. The public are, perhaps, not aware that the parliamentary, petition for leave to'bring in a bill for a railroad from Creen wich to Gravesend contemplates the violation of their rights and enjoyments by the invasion of Greenwich Park. As it cannot be denied that another line of road may be taken we do not believe that tire government or the legislatuie, unless the probability of some important public advantage should be clear• ly established, will consent to this encroachment upon the property ofathe crown and the pleasure and recreation of the people. DREADFUL DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN CADET, ATWOOLWICH. —Friday afternoon a gentleman cadet named Orslow, .aged fifteen vears, met with his death under the following melan choly circumstances:—On the return of the cadets from 'dinner they were amusing themselves by levelling that part of the pa rude fronting the Royal Military Academy, devoted for a cric ket-ground, with a very large iron roller, when the deceased stumbled, and it passed completely over his body, which was crushed in a most frightful manner, livery possible assistance was rendered, but the vital spark had fled. The body was con veyed to the Artillery Hospital, where it awaits a coroner's ' quest. The Landgrave of Hesse has just obtained a verdict in a law suit which has been pending for twenty Years, relative to the dowry of his second wile, who was also Ills brother's daughter. The fortune he was to have received with his niece in mariiage was 13,000 dollars, the accumulated interest Of which amount s to 9,000 dollars. We shall offer no other eomnient on this and similar marriages among the German princes than to observe that it sufficiently acconnts for the hereditary insanityand'stu pidity which distinguish some of the most prominet members cif the Aulic Council. Nature cries out against such violations laws engraven on the human !malt. A medical Journal contains a communication from Mr. Bird of Southampton-terrace, Kentish-town, staling that the Secre, tare of a new society, consisting of nearly 900 members atilt subscribers, was attaeLed by soreness of the gums and severe • salivation in consequence of having wafered nearly 900 letters • with red wafers, all of which he had moistened in his mouth. He was cured by proper treatment, and advised to moisten, in future, the wafers in water. CITY OF LONDON ADDRESS TO Sits' ROBERT PEEL—The address to Sir Robert Peel, which was not known to be lying for signature until the middle of the day on Thursday, and which has been advertised only one day, has already been signed (Friday evening) by more than 5,500 persons. The eager desire thus demonstrated to rally round tt minister who has thrown himself in the breach at a moment of, perilous difli culty is unprecedented in the city of London.—Meraing Poet. ATTORNEYS AT LAW IN THE .SIXTEF.NTII CENTCTY--At torneys at common law, men eerie honest and learned, yea, rind also verse necessarie for the practice of the common laws of this realm°, and finishing of other civil businesses; insomuch that by nu means their labour and services may want. And yet such is the unthankfulness of this age, that even their own clvents (of whom they have been deserved) when they - have served their turns, so that they see no present occasion to use them any longer, for the fault of some few will not afford the best of them one good word for many good deeds. Nay, which is worse, they will generally slander and condemn them as covetious -persons and disturbers of the common peace and quietness of all men by unnecessary suits—when in yerie truth the most part of - the said attorneys, being very peaceable, do oftentymes dissuade their clients from the same so much as they can, by means whereof they greatly offend their minds, insomuch they will for that only cause suspect them of affection towards the adverse parties, and threaten earnestly that if they will not intermeddle therewith others shall.— West's Symdolrgraphy, 1593. Cum:cows IN AMERICA.—The following is an extract of a letter from a Scotchman in Maryland, United States:—" Our churches are built by a fete members, on speculation, w ho choose such a minister as they suppose will draw a crowd of hearers, by which they will be the gainers. Th e met h o di sts, and some other sects, have their scats free. We have no old men or women in the passes or in the pulpit stairs. No, no; there is scarcely such a sight here as a poor person in our churches. The poor arc wretched beings, having for the most part forgotten (it' they ever knew) that there is a God, to whom they must render au account. No parish churches—no union of church and state ; and, as an instance of the jealousy with which one sect views another, there is scarcely a member of congress, who is a member of any religions sect; for, if he was, ten to one but all the others would be against him, and su de feat his election." ANCIENT SPANISH NOBILITY.---A passage in Danlop's " Memoirs of Spain" gives a high idea of the luxurious magni ficence of the Spanish nobility, utter the conquest of the New World—" Almost every 'family could boast of an ancestor who had been viceroy in Mexico or Peru, or in some other region of mines. Several grandees, it is said, had 1,200 dozen of silver dis-bes, and as many plates ; and a nobleman was thought eery ill provided who had not at least SOU dozen of dishes and 200 dozen of plates. These were generally ranged on enormous and lofty sideboards, to which the menials ascended by silver steps. The sideboard of the Duke of Albuquerque had forty silver ladders; and when he died, in the middle of the 17th century, six weeks were fully occupied in weighing and taking invento ries of the gold and silver vessels." TEsr oe lea BREEDIFG.—The swaggerer is invariably an imposter; the man who calls loudest for the waiter, who treats hint the worst, and .who finds mote fault than any body else in the room, when the company is mixed, will always turn out • to be the man of. all others the least entitled, either by rank or intelligence, to give himself airs. People who are conscious of what is due to them never display irratibility or impetuosisy. Their manners insure civility, their civility insures respect, but the blockhead or coxcomb, fully aware that something more than ordinary is necessary to produce an effect, is sure whether in clubs or Coffeerooms, to be the most fastidious and captious of the community, the most restlesS and irritable amongst his equals, and the most cringing and subservient before his superiors.—Hook's "Gilbert Gurney." BRISTOL. ASSIZES.—The recorder, Sir C, Wetherell, is ex pected to arrive in this city in the forenoon of Thursdat next, when, alter opening the 'commission at the Guildhall, he will attend Divine Service with the corporate body at the Mayor's, chapel. Ile will, it is expected, then return to the Guildhall, and deliver his charge to the grand jury ; but whether he will afterwards proceed with • either of the trials is yet unceimin. The trial of Mrs. Burdock, charged with theanuider of„Plara Ann Smith, is likely to occupy the whole of Friday. and ,per haps part of Satuiday, as a great mass of evidence wilt be adduced. We hear that Mr. Adolphus is retained as leading counsel for the accused. The only other case is one of Mau slaughter.—Bristol Jourutd. REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT WITHOUT PATRONAGE.--'TO the open-mouthed eulogists of republic a: especially that of the United States, we recommend the pci usal Ora most satisfactory and important document, Viz., a report made to the American part of the Committee appointed senate by Mr. Calhoun, on the to inquire into the amount of patronage, &c. &e. enjoyed by the president and-government. In the state Of New York alone it Comptroll consists of appointments to be Governors, Deputy-G overnors, Secretaries of State, ers of State, A ttsru e y-G enera l s, Surveyor-Generals; Senate and House of Assembly, with Speakers, Sergeants-at-Arms, Clerks and Chaplains; Chan cellos, Vice-Chancellor, Judge s o f t h e Supreme Courts, 311:11 Judges of Common Pleas, (had Lord Brou g h am th ese i n hi s eve when he meditated erecting local courts?) fifty-two County Sheriffs, as many County Atturney-Generals, Surrogates, PAX lic Admieistrators, Mayo rs, Alderm en , Notaries, &c. &c. oil paid by the stale, and nominuted by the government, amount mg alto gether to 26,000 in idual s out o f a populat i on o f 2,000,00 U! Add to this, the amount of places in the other stales of the union, &c. Andrew Jackson has a tolerably paiait u lady considerable share of grub for self and friends!' We re commend these facts to the attention of Lord John Russell, Home and Co. EXTENSIVE 1101111EnY op PLATE.—Mr. Samuel Rogers; au and residing at 22, St. James's thor of The Pleasures of Memory, Place, has been robbed by a domestic to a large amount. It ap pears that on Tuesday last several friends of Mr. Rogers were invited to partake of a breakfast, and a quantity of plate, which had not recently been used, was desired to be got ready on the occasion. Just before the arrival of the company, the footman, Thomas Si l os, left the house; not being in attendauce, and the plate not being laid ready, his absence excited suspicion, and whichwas still further corroborated by the keys of the plate-chests being removed from the it place. Alter the lapse of a few hours Mr. Rogers sent for Plank, the officer; when it was advised that the plate-chests should be broken open, which was dune with diffi culty. The result fully confirmed the suspicions of Mr. Bogota of the dishonesty of his servant, who, it appears, has robbed into of a large quantity of plate. Amongst the articles stown are splendid d he id d four double dish es , c h ase d, w h ic h cost, it is said, upwards of inner a l n i d t" tea-service upards : f m it a X) ss i N ) . i silver eeesof t tra l - a k t ( e ' t tte ;1 belongin g tvoe gilt vases and spoons. The offender, who is about twenty-five years of age, and a native of Minstead, a village in the - New e i n t t n ete7l Forest; Hampshire, had been in the set vice f l%i r. getars i lot the the last seven ven ts ; and so high was the opinion of him by his master, that he was intrusted with the whole of the valuable property c,;mainect in the house, and to prevent the possibility of temptation, high wages were paid to him. There can be no doubt that a considei able portion of the pro perty has been gone for some time. Prom the inquiries which have been made, it appears that Sims is a married man, having one child, and that he was in the habit of being out nightly, and spending cnnsiderable sums.