The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-13 00:00:00

NoviontEit 13, 1535 a n'CoNN,m to buy. Within a few hours after the coni !aittee had decided against the return, we find DANIEL in the market hunting for a purchaser of the county of Carlow—aye, three days before the electors of Carlow could have known that they were vendible, or that the election had been annulled! Gon knows how many knaves or simpletons he stumbled upon, or intended to fleece, before he fell in with RAPUAF.L. It is clear from the bgginnink that he did not care a "sow's ear" for RAprikEL-Lhe.,only wanted his money. It was a chance not to be thrifwn away. It was a two thousand pound case. The money, too, was to be, as he says in his let ter, for MY USE. He had a chance of pocketing nearly the whole sum. He had more Than an even chance of bagging at least one thousand pounds, and RAPHAEL leads with his cash, and a " brother catholic" to boot, Was the man to his mind. The bargain was closed, and then, "My Son John," you go for the money—dun the old fool— at him tooth and nail for the cash—never leave him till you get•the bank notes---call early, before he is UP, and wait, no matter how long, wait until yen screw the gold out of him, and then, my darling, bring - it TO ME! It is the most disgraceful and flagitious transaction of 'the kind upon record.' There never was a man robbed in so barefaced a manner since the days of the old high- A'4ymen. VIGoRS, 1004 another patriot is curiously mixed up with the affair—hozb remains to be explained, and must be explained. • And to wind up all, " my son John" sits upon the committee to try the petition; but here we must stop. We cannot trust ourselves to speak of this part of the business. It has, as the old recorder of Lo tition used to say of a bad case—it has a gallows look ! Lord JOHN RUSSELL had the honour to dine with some tour hundred pentons - tn.Bristoi •on Tuesday last,. : Thy, only stars which came out on the occasion to support the '7loble guest were Lurd SEGRAVE, Lord EBRINGTON, Lord ICER Rl', a Mr. SMITH, and THOMAS MoORE, the poet, and - Pensionary of the Whigs. The object of the dinner was twofold—first to present Lord JOHN with a set of silver candlesticks purchased, it is said, by a sixpenny sub 32ription among the radicals, not a few of whom saved tuany sixp.nnies in the late fire—we speak more parti cularly of those who did not perish in the flames—se c9ndly, to give the noble lord an opportunity to deliver a speech. The radicals had the speech, and that was all for their sixpences. The dinner consisted of the usual stuff—the delicacies of the season—turtle, venison, game, flowers, and a baron of beef, with wines of every colour and aro faa. We are particular in stating these important facts, for it does not appear•tliat the poor radicals who raised the contribution were suffered to partake of the delicacies. They were treated on this occasion as they usually are by the Whigs. They were allowed to remain beyond the taste, we do not say beyond the smell, of the viands. They saw the lords eat ! They had a distant glimpse of the poet! They heard the clang of knives and forks, the ringing of glasses, and sometimes the voice of the chair_ Man ; but they were not allowed to enter the sacred apartment until the deputation was summoned to ap proach and present the candlesticks to Lord JottN. Then they were not even accommodated with chairs, but they were permitted to stand with parched lips; and hunger gnawing their maltreated vitals, while their selected ora tordelivered a long, written, and tediously dull piece of - BALAAm in the shape of an address, and then we hear no snore of them. We presume they were respectfully bowed ont of the room, and carefully conducted down - stairs. Such are radicals, sixpenny radicals, in the pre sence of noble whigs, who travel in state, and can afford to keep a poet, as their proud ancestors kept a fool! After the silver candlesticks had been transferred to the minister in due form, Lord JoHN's health was drank, and is return he delivered a speech, the only speech of the night. It is far too long for us, even if it possessed an hundred times more interest. It is a %Try laboured, very pragmatical, and very silly effusion. It is conceit—Lord JOHN RUSSELL from beginning to end. He, by his own avowal, is the ministry. DANIEL O'CONNELL, according YO him,. mar s ..• id Lord Hi. , p i..: ono tiro-411a opinions of the cabinet; and the accidental circumstance that they are in unison with O'CONNELL dates as far back as 1832. " I," said Lord Joan, "expressed my opinion in favour of weeding out protestant churches in Ireland in 1832, therefore it is mere accident that O'CoN- Nut. and I entertain now similar views." What pyebald nonsense is all this! We all know that O'CONNELL and his priestly faction meditate the exter mination Gf the protestant religion in Ireland—the sepa. ration of the two islands—the restoration a; t pery in all its sanguinary terrors and mental slav d yet we hear this silly lord talking about his a« con ,eurrenee with the views of the Irish dernain - gue ! A Bristol washerwoman would wring a better excuse out of an old blanket in soap suds—the •member for Lambeth trill undertqaud what we mean. We regret to see this lamentable lack of candour on th e part of the noble lord. His is not an argument which should be addressed to sensible Englishmen. • They would iinderStand him, if, putting aside the small Jesuit for a single moment, he would at once honestly declare that lt , l thinks popery ought to be the established reli gion of Ireland. That is what he aims at, but has not the courage or manliness to avow. He professes an anxious desire to educate the peasantry of Ireland, but the sa tanic extremity comes out when he tells us that he wishes to do this at the expense of the established protestant church in Ireland. If sincere in his desire to educate the Irish why not do so out of the national funds ? Are the people of England penurious in these matters ? Can he say that the state refuses to educate the people of Ire land ? No, but then he says, " the BIBLE is objected to by the Roman catholics, for the priests (DANIEL again !) will not suff?r it to be read in their schools"! ! ! This confession decides the point. It shows that po pery and not education is what the Roman catholies care for. Why object to the Bible ? - Why object to place in „ the hands of men the scriptures which coming from GOD, 'lire addressed, not to priests, not to father confessors, not to monks, not to sects or parties, but to all men. The gospel was to be preached to , , the poor ; but what aan , the poor know of the gospel, Or the soundness of the ..preacher Nvithout the word of.Gon in their hands, to be pondered over, on the Sabbath, to be diligently perused At all seasonable hours, and made the rule of faith and -practice between man ami man? -The Rufnan eatholies object to it because it writes. LIE—IMPOSTURE--FRAITD, on every broad sheet, every bull, every .canon of the Burnish faith. That is the secret, and Lord JOHN, contracted though mind be, 'l42soies it ; but it suits his political pre-emi- Uence to conceal the fact, and borrow the aid of a popish faction in the House of Commons for merely selfish ob jects—a faction that must be rooted out—its power crip pled, its machinations exposed and curbed, or there ne- 'ver will be peace or prosperity in Ireland. Lord :Tons, in a very feeble manner, contended that 'the conciliatory policy of the present government to 'wards Ireland is the perfection of reasoning, whereas that adcpted by the Duke of WELLINGTON, in 1829, was the result of fear. Lord JohN ascribing fear to the ,Duke! it is the caterpillar taunting the lion. But the argument, such as it is, is in our favour. The Duke of WELLINGTON wrongly advised by some name less and spiritles sumph yielded to the cry of the liberals in 1829, and what did be gain by yielding ? The bitter and unrelenting hatred and opposition of the very men he enfranchised. This of itself proves what popery is. What the duke did, must be corrected in some way. Mark this DAWIEL, Lord JOHN, and others! The English people are resolved it shall be corrected. There is no mistaking them now. The reaction in Scotland has be gun. 'ln all the municipal elections just ended church men form the majority returned to the town councils. Let us, therefore, bear no more of Irish conciliations, .ar any further tampering with the ruffians to whotn temporary power has been given by the popish priests. Lord JOHN may fret and whine, but his little day is aver. He will !Int be allowed to go another step fur ther. Ile will not be permitted to keep faith with or perform his pledges to DANIEL O'CONNELL. O'CON XXI L hirmelf has lit the flame in this island. He hoc r!..,ei.V , 1Fi6if ,, rM: 4., 51VV , " . r . r7A ,,, .. 7. torn away the mask too soon. He has spoken out; but whatever we may suffer in money matters, we Will not submit to be swindled out of our religion and the ehttrch. Good night L'Ord, JOHN. The great beggar's mass is advertised to be perform in Ireland on Sunday next ; after which, as weilAs before which, the hat is to eo round for what miOt aptly be termed the rebel's-offering—the tax upon ignorance and superstition for the benefit of a moral assassin'and a po litical swindler. • Poor Ireland! its very misfortunes are made to minis ter to crime, and that which hedge priests call religion is made the means not only of robbing the pdor, the in firm, the helpless, and the miserable, but also of pamper ing the insolence and feeding the debauched appetite of one of the most worthless and most mendacious dema gogues that any unhappy country ever produced ! On Sunday, we say, the rent is to be collected—the beggar's box is to go round—the poor man is to be called upon to pay—the needy rogue is to contribute his penny—the sickly sinner is to give his alms—the ignorant slave of the rriest must undraw his stocking and give a mite to the incendiary—but RAPHAEL'S charges will be concealed until the poor are fleeced, and the enslaved hind, under the dread of eternal wrath, has given eightpence to his father confessor and four pence to the agitator and patron of Carlow—not a rotten borough, but a county, in Ireland ! The solemn mockery of this religious festival, which is to plunder and deceive, is so glaring, that no man of even ordinary intellect can be imposed upon by it. RA- I PHAEL has stopped the rent in England—he has inter• dieted it in Scotland; but in a country where ignorance is considered devotion, and imposture, under the cloak of ignorance, can be carried on with impunity, the mendi „cant is tolerably safe , for the Maynooth priests will take good care that nothing of the fraud or the swindling is known until the pence are collected. When the hat has received the pauper's tribute—when the ignorant devotee has contributed his last farthing—then will come out O'CoNNELL's answer to RAPHAEL. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. It has been matter of much conversation in tbe clubs at the West End of the town, during the last two days, that some ne gociations for a coalition between the conservative and the whip parties is at present existing, and that Sir Robert Peel will, ere long, be again in office. Of course we are unable to vouch for the authenticity of this, but we have heard it spoken of in most respectable circles. It is said that very many of the leading whigs View with much alarm the progress of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and that the new light thrown by the Raphael let ters on his (want of) character has not tended to lessen their aversion Ito the loathsome coalition now existing between his Majesty's ministers and his Majesty's enemy. They are also aware that the present government cannot by possibility stand its ground, destitute as it is of talent, and merely suffered to progress by the tender mercies of the mobocracy, calling them selves the representatives of the people. We have no colonial arrivals to-day, and our continental ad vices are of little importance. The Genoa letters reach to the 30th ult. The board of health had issued clean bills of health on the 28th ult., cholera having disappeared. Some stress has been laid upon the recall of Mr. Barton, the American Charge d'Affairs, from Paris, and it has caused some heaviness in our money market. It does not, however, appear to have caused much sensation in the Parisian circles, notwith standing some unwonted movements connected with the French marine, which is being increased considerably, withont any ap parent object. According to report an increased naval force is about to be sent to the Levant, but it is not improbable that brother Jonathan's obstinacy in persisting in his demand for his money may have much to do with this maritime demon stration. . Mr. Rothschild's Danube and Main Shares made their ap pearance this morning, and were done at from 2 to 4 prem: It is understood that the Accountant-General will make a fur ther purchase of consols to-morrow on account of the disputed West India claims, and this has caused our consol market, which was very heavy at the commencement of business, to close better, 9li being the last quotation, for our jobbers gene rally contrive to accommodate that gentleman at the highest possiblo price. Money, upon the whole, may be considered as rather easier, and Exchequer Bills bear a somewhat higher quotation, the premium being 12 to 14. India Bonds are at 3 to 4 preinium, with very little doing, but a much firmer ap pearance than of late. ini.::•te at timour . .iir 1 Ito res.C.ll t co:4C Spain has caused these securities to be fiat, the price of the bonds having been at 421. The market, however, closed firm this afternoon 421 43, being the quotation at toe termination of business. We may as well here jog the memory of any of our Liverpool readers who are holders of the Spanish Cortes Bonds, which, if they do not, on the 16th inst., exchange for the Active Stock they will louse the years dividend on the latter, sueh be ing the penalty of suffering that period to elapse In the Portuguese Bonds there is nothing worth noticing, the 5 per cents are at SSI, and the 3 per cents at 571. The Republican Securities are exceedingly flat, and the busi ness doing is on a very limited scale. Columbian ate 3111, and Mexican &6. In the Northern Bonds the variation is bf little importance. Dutch 5 per cents are 10('x, the 2 , 1- per cents 551, Belgian 1(X)1 and Russian 1081. In Shares the speculation has been entirely confined to the Railway Schemes, and the market generally has given way. The great western, which have been at 22 per share, closed to day at 14 the London and Greenwich at si prem., London and Gravesend at 11 per share, the North Midland at 71 per share, the London and Croyden at 21 per share, and the Lon don and Black 'Wall at per share. The Miue Shares are entirely neglected. NEW COMMON COUNCILMEN-WEST DERBY W A it D , We are in the daily habit of receiving some pleasant little anecdotes connected with the formation of the forthcoming "spic and span new " corporation. Accounts of the good things said and done at divers meetings in divers places come upon us thick and three-fold. Naturalists tell us that each ill dividual insect of the minutest class of insects has its personal identity as clearly defined—although imperceptible to human vision—as that of the largest object of the Creator's skill. This may be true; and for aught we knew, those who compose the small fry's of radical, quaker, and unitarian politicians may each also possess a personal identity; but to our vision they are all alike ; hence, we select the proceedings at West Derby as a fair average sample of what is going on iu the borough respect ing the new corporation. On Monday evening a meeting of the quaker gentlemen and other inhabitants of West Derby of radical—we beg pardon, we mean of liberal politics, was held, where we really forget, but somewhere in the ward of West Derby. The object of the meeting was to secure the return of three fit and proper per sons as the representa.tives of that ward in the new borough par liament. The persons nominated and approved of were W. P. Freme, Esq., George molt, Esq., and Win. Brown, Esq. Thd name of • William Blain, Esq. was rejected by a majority of one ! With this decision Mr. Blain was not satisfied, and at another meeting*•cif the sum!c party on Wednesday evening, on a second trial of strength, the name of 'William Blain, -Esq. was substi tuted for that of William Brown, Esq., tho latter being, objected to, not because he is not a liberal in politics, but be.: cause he is' a member of the church of England! This fact, we hope, will not be lost sight of by the church of England and protestant dissenting electors, by whose suffrages the seats in the new council will have to be decided. _ Another meeting, but of a much more respectable character, was also held at the Workhouse, Low-hill, on the same day, at which the following unexceptionable resolution wait pro- posed : " Resolved,—That, as the new municipal bill gives a power to the town council to levy rates for certain purposes therein specified upon the inhabitants residing within this township, it is highly requisite and desirable that the town councillors to be chosen for this ward should be persons who will understand and who will faithfully represent its local interests." As this resolution did not pledge the meeting to the return of men of liberal, or, in other words, levelling principles; as it only sought to secure the return of " persons who well under stand, and who will faithfully represent the local interests of the ward ;" as it did not.declare that the new Common Council ought to b ecotile a political debating club; as, in fine , it had no oth er object than that of stating the necessity of sending to the town council three respectable gentlemen in whom the inhabitants of the ward, generally, could place confidence, the politicians . of the Exchange and the sectarians of West Derby drove off post haste to Low-hill, and, on the motion of Robert Willan, Esq., of Edge-hill, seconded by William Blain, Esq.,nf Erskine-street, passed a resolution " that this meeting be adjourned to this day six months." The saccess of this manoeuvre will have no kind of influence whatewernpan the election. Three gentleman of the class and character contemplated by those who proposed the negatived resolution will offer themselves to the notice of the electors, and will, we , e7peo, in spite ef the vapouring of the Edge-hill and Erskine-street patrintsi tie returned. Tns'Psd Ttath:=Ahe demand for teas for home consump tion and expiartatibn has Much increased since the quarterly sales. Prices. remain at the late decline. The East India Company 'Will btfer 4,000.1X)Olbs. at the December 'die. and (if private trade teas Hui less than 40 3 1 XX) chests have also been au nuuettd fbt Ealq, THE LIVOWOOL OA4.lCibAr',.D... ra~aw'lwc' r.+rrt+.='awn. LißniiTy IN IRELA.ND. We have been favodi•ed with the pertisal of a letter addressed to a gentleman, of well known and high respectability, of this town, showing the degree of liberty and security of life arid roperty enjoyed in Ireland by those who presume to think for themselves or act without having the fear of popish proscrip. Lion before their eves. The letter, which we copy, suppressing Only the names of the parties, will speak for itself:— "Ballintearrig,,Bth Nov, 1835. "My Jeer * * *,—l want to enlist your sympathies and interest on behalf of one of our poor fellows, who is obliged to quit the country from dread of his life being taken. His father is a tenant of * * * * *'s, and always supported his landlord; for this his property was threatehed, and some villains being caught by this young man in the act Of cutting off his cow's tails he convicted one of them at. the last assizes, anti soon after on his way to Carlow he was met by a man whb asked him was not he * * * ? On his answering in the affirinative, the mein presented a pistol at him, which fortunately misseilliee r x.fa he then fled. He has been repeatedly threatened since, and we consider his life in such jeopardy, that he has been induced to leave home for a time. He is a fine young able lad, willing to put his hand to anything, and I think would make an excellent porter. Should you be able to get him employment your doing so would confer a great favour on us. I can give you every as surance of his 'being a most proper, honest, well-conducted young man. You know I make it a point never to claim your Favour for any save those deserving it. I may say that he has never been beyond the smoke of his father's house.—Believe me as ever yours, "* * * * * WARRINCiiON OPERATIVE C6NBERVATIIVE ASSOCIATION. Who among the ranks of the destructivei will now have the hardihood to assert or pretend to believe that the great mass of the artisans and mechanics of Great Britain are tainted with disloyalty, or that they are generally disposed to be even passive spectators while the church--rwe should say rt ClitTßCH—is beirig plundered and the other institutions of THEIR country undermined or rendered lesi efficient for the general good? When Stich an assertion is haiarded, the answer—the practical answer should be, " Operative conservative associa tions have been formed, or are now forming, in every consider able manufacturing district or-commercial town in the country —spontaneously formed by the good sense and the good feelings of the operatives themselves." Scarcely a day passes in which we do not receive, either throe gh the public papers or through private communications, accounts of the progress of the spirit of operative conservatism. Our Warrington correspondent informs us that on Tuesday evening last the first meeting was held for the purpose alarm ing one of those associations in that town, and that it was exclu sively attended by operatives whri formed themselves into a so ciety. Their primary object is, to open a reading-room for the perusal of •conservative newspapers andother publications cal culated to instruct them in their civil, religious, and moral duties, as men and as citizens. TO aid them in this good work, we trust the gentlemen of their neighbourhood will supply them liberally with the necessary materials, namely, good books and good newspapers, which would long since have been read by them if they had been within their reach. We subjoin a copy of the conservative creed, which, we are happy to find, has been very generally circulated among the operatives of War rington : TO THE EDITOR Op THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, S I 11,—Being in Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, yesterday morn ing, (Sunday,) I noticed a person of the vagrant caste hawking and distributing Hethrington's Weekly Dispatch ; also, annoying the dwellings of those inhabitants who are, I hope, much better en►;.tloyed on Sundays than in purchasing and reading Paine and his followersi infamous doCtrines; however, will you, sir, be kind enough to inform me why, in a land famous for religion and christian principles, such unholy desecrations of the Sab bath are allowed, and if the powers that be have no legal autho rity to prevent, if not punish, the authors and venders of on stamped and infidel publications ? Waiting your pleasure, 1 am. &c., CLIO. Kirkdale, Monday, Nor: 9, 1835. TO MR. THOMAS BOLTON. has been said of the Quarterly Review, that an author would prefer having his work condemned and ridiculed in that journal, rather than it should be overlooked entirely. So is it: with. Mr. Thomas Bolton and the Liverpool Standard.' He bil s . tried hard to attract its attention, and it would be a pity indeed to disappoint him. Lest, however, he should deem the notice already taken in that paper insufficient, a very humble indivi dual ventures to enter the lists with the self-elected champion. alike of the protestant dissenter and of the popish intolerant — with the leading organ of the baptist and of the socinian—with the ci devant defendant in the town dues question—with the bur gess he thinks he is, and the councillor he expects to be—in short, with Mr. Thomas Bolton. To enlarge the list of your various and contradictory qualifi— cations and pursuits is unnecessary, since those I have already enumerated must convince the most sceptical of the greatness and versatility of your talent, and, what to a patriot is of infi nitely more consequence, the boundless confidence apparently placed in you by sects the most opposite and parties the moat dissimilar. In you we behold amalgamated the designs and wishes of the calvinist and of the socinian—of the believer and of the infidel—of the followers of John Knox and of the student: of Dens' Theology—of Mr. Thos. Blackburn and of Mr. Richard Shiel—a more curious amalgamation, a more unholy alliance 1 1 was never exhibited, and to you, sir, he the credit of this new discovery iu chemistry, by which oil and vinegar,"fire and water have been blended in the closest union. And now let us turn to the letter on which you appear con tent your fame shall rest; and, in the first place, we will look at the preface with which, in the pages of the Albion, you usher into the world your otherwise still-born production. You there state your motive of publication to have been "some garbled extracts which appeared in the Liverpool Standard of the 6th instant." A more unfounded assertion was never made; for though in the paper to which you 'allude there aro spine re marks on your having officiously written such a letter, there is not one extract either garbled or otherwise from any part of it. As this then, notwithstanding your assertion, neither was nor could be your motive, we must endeavour to look for it else_ where, and I have no hesitation in stating it to have been this. You were afraid that the credit of having written so derer a letter—as I have since heard one of your friends term it--would he lost to you, that the time and labour expended in its compos sition would be thrown away, and the common council very properly having taken no notice of it, you detei-oined upon some other plan of proclaiming it to the world; and this, sir, and not the "garbled extracts," is the real version of its publi cation. , _ _ As it regards the signification of the word sect, the editor of the Stamford has so well exposed your sophism, that I should consider another syllable unnecessa►y. Were it .not for the deplorable: .ign orange. put herein display of what I.ba.se been, taught to call the inspired writings. Yeif that '" in the scriptures, where the word is frequently used,. it is not used as a term of disrespect." It is of little consequence to the main argument whether it is or not; but I cannot refrain from oh. serving in passing, that you will find, if yen "search the scrip tures," the word sect is certainly never used as a term. of re. spect. You will find that it is there applied chiefly to the Pha risee and Sadducee, sects repeatedly condemned by our blesied Lord, and whose doctrines were not mole incompatible with the religion he inculcated than are those of the modern socinian with the established church of this country. The next statement you .make is of a very different com plexion, and in it, I am happy to say, I most cordially agree with you. You are quite right in expressing your belief that your opinions "are not extensively entertained." There is no mistake here; the truth, however . , you own with reluctance, forced from you, as it were, in bitterness of spirit by reminis cences of the misapplication of Lady liewles's charity. You may arrogate what merit to yourself you please in the boast, that "of late years you 'have been an edvocate fur the extension of equal privileges and equal duties to all in equal stations." Your conduct in the town dues question is an ad mirable commentary upon this statement. To the detriment of every interest in Liverpool, whethe'r sectarian or otherwise, you endeavoured to extend these equal privileges and rights to the slave holding. planter of Alabama and Tenesse, robbing your friends to the exact extent you endeavoured to benefit them. This you, may term " acting the part of a good conservative," but for my part, excuse me if I differ from you; and I am very much mistaken indeed if the inhabitants generally of this great town do not view with indignation the man who could endea your to give to a citizen of the American states equal privileges with a burgess of Liverpool. And this brings me to the letter itself, which you have laboured so strenuously to introduce. You say you are now a burgess; be it. so. It is a matter of indifference to me, as I dare say it is to almost every one else, what you are, so you will only refrain intruding your crudities upon the world as the amateur champion of parties, many of whom disclaim your ad vocacy. I will therefore pass on to what you call your first remark, "that as the scriptures are alike addressed to all man kind, and as all sects contribute to the support of the corpora. tion funds, it appears unjust that one sect in particular should have the whole of the pecuniary benefit." But is this the case? Certainly not, as I shall proceed presently to show. It is true that the scriptures are equally addressed to all mankind, arid as such it is the more & to be deplored, that so many in this boasted age of human reason, should so utterly disregard those sacred precepts, nay more, endeavour to wrest them in the frit therance of their own unhallowed schemes, degrading the cha racter and offices of our great,Redeerner, turning the truth of God into a lie, and dishonouring the gospel of his dear Son.. This, F urely, is no reason why corporate or any other funds should be made subservient to the desecration of the- bible,.or applicable to the stippoit of a religion which our laws stigma tise as blasphemous and idolatrous. As well may the jew, for he equally with the socinian and the Roman catholic contri butes to these funds, lay claim to a participation in them far the use of the Synagogue, as yourself for the purposes you enu merate. ----- But it is not true that our sect in particular, as you term the established church, derive the sole benefit front a fund "to which all sects contribute." These contributions are more than repaid to them iu the improvements to the town, by which. "all sects" benefit, and in the security and accommodation which "all sects" receive, either in the additional safety to their per sons and estate, or the increased and increasing facilities afforded to thc.m in business. Other property, however, the corporation possesses to which no sectarian ever contributed. Property given or bequeathed by members of the established church, and received by them in trust as guardians of that church; and certainly neither the giver nor the receiver ever contemplated , an app ro p riation, 'which, as I have before observed, even you admit "not to be extensively entertained." To make the matter more plain, it would be equally as just were you, sir, to bequeath an estate for the endowment of one of your own meeting houses, or for the education of men, (I borrow the exact words of your friend Mr. Martineau,) "within whose closets God may compute the destinies of remote gene rations, men at once erudite and free, men who'may have the materials of knowledge with which to determine the great prob lems of morals and religion." What would you think, sir, were ynu to leave an estate for this purpose, and convey it in trust to some body of men, the committee of the Mechanics' Institution, for instance, and were told that some hundred years hence an individual, like yourself, desirous of immortaliz ing himself in the columns of another Albion, would come for ward and express his opinion, "that it appeared unjust that as all sects contributed to the support of the Mechanics' institu tion funds, that one sect in particular should have the whole of the pecuniary benefit, and that it would be equally reason able to pay from the same funds the baker's bills , &e." I will not quote more of your elegant illustration, and shall only fur ther observe, that such reasoning would be as contemptible then as it is ridiculous now. Your letter would furnish me with matter for many further remarks, but at present I have neither time nor inclination to pursue the subject further, and if Via will only refrain from again thrusting yourself forward as the champion of the most unholy alliance ever formed, you will not again hear from me. I now take leave of you. You have obtained your you are again noticed in the pages of the Standard, and with this notice any reasonable man would be s.niisfied.—l sin, &c. Liaerpoul, Noronber 10, .1835. A 1.2,111.7,RC1-1.1.19.1ti " THE CONSERVATIVE CREED. •• When bad men combine, good men must unite, or else they will fall, one by one, unpitied sacrifices in a contemptible struggle.*—Bu Mg. • " WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? " A true conservative is fixed in his determination to pre serve and add to the happiness of all—to perserve those Civil and religious institutions which have exalted us as a nation—to preserve the constitution with its limited monarchy—honour thd - king, respect the peers, and.•protect the people. " If the monarch ueeds support, the true conservative is to be found at the footsteps of the throne ; if the peers are threaten ed, they find him their supporter; if the church is in danger, he flies to its rescue; but, above all, if the liberties'of the peo ple are to be attacked, he is on foot in their ranks, ready to fight hand-in-hand iu their defence." This creed of a conservative should be written upon the hearts and memories of all who profess to support that cause. DARING BURGLARY.—OU Sunday night, the dwelling-house of the ttev. W. Brownlow. of WitslOw, in the county of Chester, was broken open and robbed of the following articles of pl.tte : Two silver tea pots, one coffee pot, one toast rack, one waiter, ten large and fifteen smaller forks; two tea, eight table, and ten dessert spoons; and one sauce ladle. A reward of twenty pounds has been offered for the apprehension of the rubbers or the discovery of the articles stolen. ••••-- KIRKDALE.SESSIONk.—These sessions commenced on Men day at the Court-house, Kirkdale, before Lord tikelmersdale and a numerons bench of magistrates. The foibtaing gentle men took th p oaths and qualified as magistrates for this county : . Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., Tho Mas Thornely, Esq., M.P., Win. Rathbone, Esq., Hugh Hornby, Esq.. Samuel Hope, Esq., John Holmes, Esq., and Christopher Rawdon, Esq. SERMONS or; Poexay.—On Wednesday evening the first ofi a series of sermons on the errors of popery was preached by 1 the Rev. .1. Jones, .in St. Andrew's Church, Renshaw-street. The discourse of the eloquent preacher was listened to with deep attention by an overflowing audience. The service did not terminate till half-past nine o'clock. We understand this sermon, as well as those to be delivered on the same subject by -the reverend gentlemen mentioned in the STANDARD of last Tuesday, will be published iu a cheap form. MR. SIIERLDAN KNOWLES'S BENEFIT.—We have for a long time abstained front taking notice of the performances at the Theatre Royal; our reasons for this apparent neglect of this most important, because it ought to be the most intellectual, of all public amusements, we shall acquaint our readers with at the close of the season, who will then have an opportunity of judg ing for themselves. Whatever ground of complaint we may have against the managers of this theatre, we certainly have 1 none against the actors; and, therefore, we think it due to the high reputation which Mr. Knowles has acquired as a poet whose compositions form a valuable addition to our stock of dramatic literature, and, as an actor of great powers of expres sion, not to permit him to appear on, and disappear from, the Liverpool boards without noticing the fact that he has been here. Mr. Knowles takes his benefit this evening, when we hope to have the pleasure of hearing that the house was full. The per formances adVertised are " The Wife" and, "William Te 11,".. the latter compressed into three acts. `AND MRS. BAKER'S BENEFIT. — That excellent come dian r. Baker takes his benefit at the Theatre-Royal on Monday evening next. when Morton's comedy, " Secrets worth Knowing," and 'Quadrupeds," an admirable burlesve, found ed upon, or rather embodying Fort's " Devil among the Tai lors ;—a tragedy for warm weather," will be performed. Mr. Baker will sustain the part of Abrahoraides, the leader of the flints, a character which first brought the late William Oxberry into notice on the Loudon boards. We know of no member of the Liverpool stage whose professional talents and indefatigable industry are better entitled to the patronage of the public than Mr. Baker. , fiVirit44,;;rtfarfia:.."4 - .Ay.or szit • rriagi strain - lay - a - signi f ied their intention of publishing the by e4uvrs for carrying into effect the act obtained in tho last session of parliament for the regula tion of hackney-coaches; for the prevention of smoking tobacco in warehouses, cm quays, and in other places, aud fur the removal of other nl:isances. ---• PREsExT OF PLATE To THE REV. C. L. SwAINSON.—The articles of plate about to be presented to the Rev. C. L. Swain son may he seen this day and to-morrow at Messrs. R. Jones and Son's; silversmiths, Castle-street. CAET)ofi TO THE COMmANDERF OF STEAM-vESsELS-On Tuesday Captain Allan, the master of the Royal Adelaide, Edinburgh steam-packet, and Richard Clark, the pilot who had charge of the vessel, underwent du examination before the sitting magistrates at the Thames Police-ofilce, London, on a charge of manslaughter, for running down an oyster smack, and thereby occasioning the death of the master of that craft and a passenger, Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, together with the solicitor and agent. of the company to which the Royal Adelaide be longed, attended on behalf of the accused ; but negligence on the part of the captain and his pilot having been proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate's, they refused to accept bail, al though hail to any amount was offered by the company, and fully committed them to Newgate for trial at the next Old Bailey sessions. DEATH of LORD MILTON.—We are sorry to announce the death of Lord Viscount Milton, eldest son, of the Earl Fitz william. This melancholy event took place on Sunday evening last after a short illness. His lordship was ie his `.l4th year, having been boin on the 18th of January, 1812. He married in August, 1833, Lady Selina Jenkinson, second daughter of the Eat 1 a Liverpool. His lordship's death occasions a vacancy in the representation of the northern division of Northampton shire.—Manchester Herald. [His lordship's relict is only about '2 years.of a g e. He has, we believe, left one child, but Whe ther a son or daughter we are not quite certain. If a son the minority will be a very long one. The disease of which Lord Milton died was typhus fever. E.L.S.] Tii E. NEW LORD MAYOR OF LON DON.—Mr. Alderman Cope land was on Monday last (Lord Mayor's Day) sworn into office before the Cursitor Baron of the Court of Exchequer with the usual ancient solemnities, after which his lordship accompanied "by troops' of hungry friends " proceeded to the Guildhall where the equally ancient ceremony of eating a good dinner was as solemnly performed. Lord Melbourne and some other members of the government were present. The speeches de livered, or rather the compliments bandied between the civic and the ministerial dignitaries present, possess no one feature of in terest except to those who reside "within the sound of Dow bells." STEAM NAVIGATION.—"There are now built and building, in the ports of the Mersey and Clyde, fifteen new large steam-Yes eels for the use of the Liverpool steam companies, each of which will have engines of from 190 to 250 horse-power;--- six fur the St,. George's Company, in addition to eighteen vessels which they already possess, viz., the Hercules, the Jupiter, the Ocean. the Sea Horse, and two not yet named; six for the Dublin Cons panv, in addition to their present fleet of eighteen vessels, viz., the Limerick, the Athlone, the Roscommon, the itoscrea, the King William, and the Queen Adelaide; the two latter express- . ly for passengers, with engines of 250 horse-power each. One for Sir John Tobin, (in addition to his five already plying) viz., the Margaret, 6.30 tons, and 250 horse-power, a very superior vessel. Two others are also building, on the Mersey, destination not known, besides two iron steamers by Messrs. Laird. There is now a great desire to bring iron steani,vessels into use. They haVe some peculiarly good properties and several contracts for large ones are about to be entered into for companies touneeted with America, London, Lisbon, and other places. FALMOUTH LIGHT-HOOSE.—The utility of this light was manifested in a remarkable manner during the gale on Satur day, the 24th ult., when the Shannon steam-vessel from Dub lin, bound to London, at the distance of lb miles, descried the light. and was enabled by it to run directly ink, this harbour, In the absence of the light it is scarcely possible that this vessel could safely have run for the port &efore Record. ` THE IRISH BOARD OF WORKS.—"The Board of Works has . lent £600.t0 the Rev. Mr. Buckley, to enable him to finish the Romisti chapel in Buttevant."—Freeman's Journal,.—'l his is a novel application of the funds of this board, and a very diffe rent one, we apprehend, from what was ever intended. Would the board accommodate the trustees of the intended episcopal chapel at Harold's Cross, or of any other house of worship designed for protestant use in a similar way? We hope their honest impartiality may be tried to this effect.—Dublin Record. Naws.—During the hezy and boisterous weather of Tuesday, a Danish brig, the Prince Ferdinand of Aahruus, struck on Blackwater bank, and shortly after went to pieces. She was laden with machinery for one of the steamers that are intended to ply between Leghorn and Alexandria ' by the new line for mails and passengers to India, through the Red Sea, Sc. Shortly after leaving Liverpool the weather became very rough, and the brig laboured so much in consequence of the heavy description of cargo, that she began taking in water fast, and the captain determined on running for Wexford harbour, which course he was steering, when, owing to the very thick weather, he struck ou the bank. Feeling the impossibility of the brig holding together with the sea increasing, the crew got into the boat and landed in safety. The vessel shortly after wards was broken to atoms, nothing of any value having been saved. In about an hour after, a flue new ship, the Anna Maria, St. John's. New Brunswick, Captain Samuel Stickney, burden 600 tons, with a general cargo from Liverpool to St. John's, N. 8., struck on the same bank, and like the brig went to pieces in a few hours. In a very short space of time from her first striking, the wind increased to a violent hurricane, and the sea ran frightfully high, so that it was with much difficulty - thn crew and passengers, in all 24 persons, could get ashore in the boats, which they expected momentarily would tie swamped. Theylwere not ten minutes left the ship when she broke up, after which scarcely any part of her was to be seen holding to gether. We rejoice to hear that no lives were lost. On the sanie Alas-, two vessels, a Sloop and a brie., one of them supposed to be a Wexford vessel, tiarrowly escaped ,going ashore at Cern- , sore point, in which ease, front the still, not one life would be saved. They worked most miraculously over St. Patrick's( Bridge, and ran for Ball . yllack„—We.rferti Ftazinan. LI VERPOUL POLICE. TUkSijA.T.—(Befoie Mr. Alderman Waintre.) llsteeraceo,RoneettY.-- - s-A. man named Willidm.Barneri wia Shared - by Mr. EL Moss, ion of Mr. Elias Mois,.pawnbroker, with having stolen 13 - pieces of India handkerChies, and other articles, the preperty.of the latter. Hugh Peril, .1. lienshull, IL Green, Mary Green ? Mary Green, jun., and aviary Hughes, were charged with having received the same, knowing them to have been - stolen. Mr. H. Moss stated that the prisoner Barnes got his living by renovating and cleansing worn or soiled ap parel, in which avocation he had been for the first time em ployed by his (Mr. Moss's) father about a fortnight age.. tie was placed to work in a room where were stowed a great num ber of miscellaneous articles, and amongst the rest a large quantity of India silk handkerchiefs. He finished his eark on Friday. last, and returned on the following Saturday fer his wages. Mrs. Moss, having at this time missed a table cloth from the kitchen,' mentioned the circumstance to her son, who had also missed some jackets and waistcoats from the room where the prisoner had been working. This set him uptin ex amining more closely into this matter, vr'nen he dis Covered that handkerchiefs; to a considerable value had been purloined. He immediately caused an inquiry to be set on foot, and it was not long before he received information that a great number of handkerchiefs had been purchased by the prisoners who bore the name of Green. Having procured the co-operation of the Public officers, he went to the house of the last-named parties, and there found Mr. and Mrs. Green and their daughter. Having explained their' business, witness heard Mrs. Green whisper to her husband "there is nothing," undo which the latter led the way through the apartments. 'When they ar rived at - the chamber; the officers searched the bed and found within it several silk handkerchiefs which' he (witness) knees to he the property of his father. On a chest he saw lying one of the waistcoats which had been missed from the room in which the prisoner was put. to work. On the chimney-piece in this chamber stood a vase, the orifice of which was not of greateedi ameter than a sixpence. This vase was examined, and ulti matelyleoken, when it was found that a handkerchiefharl been with incredible pains stuffed into it. At this time the prisoner Henshall entered the apartment and identified himself with the transaction by claiming the vest as the property of his father. Herishall and the family of the Greens were instantly secured, and the officers then returned and took Barnes into custody: Barnes acknowledged that he had taken twenty-one handlters chiefs to the house of Henshall. They then went to the house of the prisoner Mary Hughes, where they found' a number of handkerchiefs and tickets for others which had been pawned. Here also they found another of the waistcoats and a piers of cloth. All these articles were identified by Mr. Moss as his father's property. Mary Williams, Mary Roberta, Catharine Parry,•and Eliza Butterfield corroborated' the evidence a oainst the above-mentioned prisoners by preying that they hadiir cliased seyeraleif the stolen..handkesechiel's from the4s'forls. - 6d - :' each. The value at which Mr. Moss estimates them is about 3s. each, so that the value purloined iu handketChiefs ;done, during the abort period that Barnes was employed would be Aunt-Ma 138. The prisoners Hugh Parry and Mary Green, jun., Were\ discharged, no evidence appearing to crienuate them. The • others were committed to take their trial at the. sessions now holding at Kirkdale. A .LA DIES QUARREL.—Jane Cattrall, the Wife of a car4iwner, was placed at the bar charged with an assault and battery under the following circumstances:--Charlotte Carter, a modest and genteel-looking young woman, stated that she had ridden from. Wootton on the coach in company with the prisoner, who wit; a 1 total stranger to her. They and souse whets had descended from the coach, near the monument in London-road. The prisoner . 1 in descending fell beneath the wheel, when she, complainant, had called cut to her to take care. Upon this the prisoner arose and rushed at her with the utmost fury, nor did she quit her till she had rolled her in the dirt, torts her bonnet and cap, and poured upon her .a torrent of .the most abusive language. At length; at the climax of her vengeance, she kicked her upon the head, and having seized her umbrella made off with it.--Magis trate: "Had-no words passed between you previous to this."— Complainant: "None, sir. A young man who was sitting on the coach took off his hat to take out his pocket handkerchief, and happened to touch her with the bat, upon which she ac cused nttn or attempttng to take liberties with her, and con tinued to abuse him all the way." The prisoner said that she and her husband were sitting on the front of the coach with the driver when a young man who sat behind, next to the Com plainant, put his arms round her neck and-wanted to kiss her. She thought this behaviour very scandalous. She told her hus band and he would not take any notice. The behaviour of the young man had been abominable; he was making love to her and she was. a Married woman. Here the prisoner began to weep over the detail of her wrongs, and became so coarse iu her accusations that they are - unreportable. The young man alluded to, a decent simple-looking country lad, now stood for ward. He stated that he had merely taken off his hat to take out his pocket handkerchief, when, happening to touch the prisoner's shoulder with it, she had turned fiercely (spoil him and accused Isles of an impropriety which had never entered his head. " For," said the witness. with the greatest simplicity, " how does your worship think I should want to kiss an ugly woman like that, whets here was such a pretty young lass as this sitting beside me ?" (Laughter.) The prisoner gazed with the eye of a gorgon upon the witness. The latter pro ceeded to state that. the prisoner was intoxicated during the whole ride, and that she had gone on increasing her accusations from less to snore, and wos king herself into a fury, till, when they•had alighted at London-road, she had fallen upon the un offending complainant, whom she had used most shamefully. Another witness appeared in .court to corroborate this statement. The coachman was called on behalf of the prisoner, but his tes timony was against her. The complainant produced a silk gown, a black velvet bonnet, and Some other erticles, all of which were completely spoiled by the mutt and filth into which the complainant had been throWn. The damage sustained amounted to two pounds, which sum the prisoner was ordered to pay, or to go to the House of Correction for a month. TAKIaG 111ATTERS EASILY.—A woman named Jane Parr was charged with having stolen a jacket under the following circumstances. A drawling Dutchman, named John Peters, who seemed almost too lazy to support the weight of his own body, stated as follows :—" I vent into a pohlic-hoze, an dat voman shtole mine shacket, and run'd avay vid him, and pone him. I vash tell dat it. rash von vet root hoze, an 1 sit ver com fortable, doze to de fire, an I smokes mine pipe, an I not care far not. nohady 1 -- t3y irrg, large - masir, tricdirrri itry -or ale Nat call for—au I like de ale, it wish ver coot. An she come to me, an she say for the to take off mine 'shacket. An I say no I vont. Den she say take it off, Lou will be too Term. Zn I take off mine shacket, and I bay—mine cootness, I hopes flit dish is • coot hoze, an she say yes. An she ask the to go to under room ; bete I say, no tang you I vent to shmoko mine pipe and be com fortable here beside dish fire vat blaze so nicely. An den she take mine shacket and say she will go out vid it; an den she did go out vid it, an she pone it, an Beu I finish mine pipe, -an I go out to look for to find her, an die toder man find her f,-r me." Another Dutchman. of livelier spirit, now stepped for ward and said, in better English, that the prisoner had played upon the simplicity of his friend, and had duped him out of his jacket. The prisoner said that the complainant had himself sent her with his jacket to pawn for him. Alderman Wright ordered her to be remanded till she should return the jacket to the complainant. EDNESDAT.—(Before Mr. Alderman WnIGHT.) CHAnGE or ASSAULT.—gr. Behrend, of the firm of Bahr, Bebreud and Co., ship brokers, was brought bet Ore the inn gistrate on a charge of assault committed on the person of Mr. Mayer. The assault complained of by. Mr. Mayer was that Mr. Bebreud had struck him a heavy Wow. This the defendant ad mitted was the case, but that he had been provoked to do so by the intemperate conduct of the complainant. Ile - said he was ready to give bail to keep the peace, provided Mr. Mayer was also bound over to keep the peace towards him. The magis trate, after tha case had been heard at some length, held Mr. Bebreud to bail, which was immediately given. ASSAULT LPON A WORKAIAN,TUhII Cleruentson and John Craven were charged with a violent assault upon William Campbell, a meulder in'the employ of Messrs. Geo. Forrester and Co., Vauxhall-road. Mr. Lace, who'informed the bench that he •nppeared by the directions of Alessi'. Forrester and Co., stated that this firm had lately found it necessary to send to Glasgow for an addi tional number of workmen in consequence of the disorderly and improper conduct of the men in their employ. The complain ant to the present case would state the manner in which he had been assaulted by the prisoners, who together with several other men had recently been discharged by his clients. William Campbell said that on returning to his work on Tuesday, he was informed by the gate-keeper that a man from Scotland wanted to speak to him at the Cross Keys. lie ac cordingly went to the Cross Keys, where he was met in the pas sage by John Craven, who, on the pretence of shaking hands with him, held him (Campbell) by the hand, while the other prisoner, and about fourteen or fifteen other men fell upon him. During the scuffle he received a wonnd in the back of the head, which he had since been told by a surgeon must have been in flicted by a triangular piece of iron; or some other metal. Campbell was cross-examined by a solicitor on the part of Cra ven for the purpose of showing that he (Craven) was not a party to the assault. Witness said that Craven held him by the hand firmly—that he is related to Craven; and that he exclaimed when he found himself surrounded and his hand firmly grasped by Craven—" John, this is a pretty ivay to meet a relation." I . On being asked by , the solicitor whether all the fourteen or fif teenTersons struck him, the witness replied—" How can I tell? —that is a foolish question to ask me ; they were all upon use at once." The gate-keeper swore that Craven had applied at the lodge to request that Campbell might be sent for to see a relation from Scotland who was waiting for him at the Cross Keys. This he toil Campbell when he. Was returning work ; Campbell also swore that after the assault. had been committed upon him, Craven led the man out of the house by a hack way. They were butte held to bail to answer the charge at the next sessions. A ease of forgery was investigated before the worthy alder man'in• the private room. One of the parties implicated was .discharged, the other 'emended for a futurteexamination: TO THE REV. HUGH NI'NEILE. Thine is a high and holy charge, to keep A portion of the flock thy Lord loth feed— To guide the footsteps of the gathered sheep, And to the founts of living waters lead, As thou tut taught by Him, the Holy One, Who calls thee in his path to follow on. Thine is a noble task, to tear away With fearless hand the veils that human error Ilath drawn before God's truth—to bring to day The doctrines of his mercy, and his terror; And, on the winos of faith and freedom borne. To soar above the fear of hate and scorn. Thou hast the holiest gift, 'tis not the flood Of burning eloquence, whose tower can thrill The inmost heart and soul, or bid the blood, The very pulse, in rapt suspense, stand still; ' 'Tis not the intellect, that, like a star, Sits on thy brow—this gift is worthier far. It is the Spiritthat bath touched thy soul, And filled it with its giory—'tis tile tire Front God's own altar, like the burning coal. Laid on the prophet's lips;—thou dust aspire T. a more biassed crown, a higher name Than ever bard or warrior won front fame. We have much need of thee, and such as thou, For we have fallen upon evil dP.ys ; Science hath lifted up her lofty brow Towards heaven—vet sung to God no hymn of praise; Idolatry and unbelief have met, And veiled their eyes,because truth's day-star will not set. But thou—ob, if those blinded ones should hear thee, Would they nut start as at a trumpet's voice; Tha proudest foes of truth have learned to fear thee, The church of God in thy high name rejoice ; Soldier of Christ t the spirit's sword and shield Of faith are girded en, and unbelief must yield. Go on—unheeding how the foeman rage— Go on—and conquer in thy, master'' strengthi War with all siu, and scorn, and folly, wage ; Until that waster call thee home at length, To share the glory of that noble line &XI r the truth, whose •s,pi ts were like Thine; DREADFeL EXPLOSION AT WF.STEiII(MiiVIdt; FOURTEEg LIVES LOST. Although itniclet. the numerous collieries in Ff.taftordsliite, tics cidentsmorkor less severe happen daily, we do not recollect parallel to the disastrous occurrence which it is our duty thif week to record. , On Monday se'nhight,,an exPlosido of foul air took place at at colliery nathed "The Pump House Colliery," pear Durl!ev Port, in the parish of Westbroinwich, the property of Sir Ho.; race St. Paul, in the pits worked by two " Unifies," paitzed Thomas and James Bailey, father and.ton. The pits have been worked for sonic years; and this is stnt to he the first accident of any eitent which has occurred at the colliery. The shaft of the pit is abott 230,. yards in depth, and the works extend from the bottom from .1%) to 200 cards in length. About five o'clock on 'Monday night the banksinen of thii and the neighbouring pits, and indeed the inhabitants dike ad joining country for a dist:ince of two Miles, were astonished ItY a severe shock, accompanied by a tremendous report, equal or the discharge. of numerous cannon. The issuing of a denee smoke from the mouth of the Pump House Pitt, toOther wirti large quantities of heavy coal thrown aloft into the ailwith! great force and to an immense elevation, immediately showed where and what was the nature of .the accident which had Ott: curved. It was known to the managers that there was at thiii time about 3J men and boys engaged in the works at the et• treine end of the pit, and the 'first consideration was bow and by what means ,attempts should be made to extricate the unfortu nate miners, Who might possibly survive the terrific explosion. To the credit of the men in die neighbourhood, they-were not slOw to intrepidly engage in the dangerous undertaking, and several from other works promptly undertook to descend the shaft. One brave fellow named Walsall.Will, who, we, believe, was the first to descend, fell a victim to his humane efforts: he was so injnred that soon after he Was brought out of the pit he died in an adjoining hotel; And two others fell victims th their exertions in the cause of humanity., Moseg litickstone, one of the men who was at the for end of the pit when the explosion took place, gives a frightful account of its oneurrence. diately he imagined symptoms of the awful event which fol lowed, he caught hold of his sob, a lad who was working vvitti him. awl they fell with their laces to the floor. When disco= vered, they were found surrounded by a number of their dead fel:ow-workmen, cointriratively uninjured lay the shock or :the fire. Backstone had only a small stretch on his forehend,.occa sieved by his coming in coutact with the coat, while hii sun ii Without a mark. The 'rock of assisting the living and removing the dead w.a..t pursued withotit intermission until it .wait ascertained that all were hrought ent of the works. It was then discovered that thirteen h:id been killed, eight more or lea hurnt, and twelee most providentially soaped without any ether injury than that Oecasioned httliefiightro whirh theyl,44 heenguhjected,- One df the eight injareil has sine died, and three tither:4l,4)w remain in a precarious state. Three horses were killed, and the same number dreadfully burnt. It is said the accident originated in the following Manaer:— Some planks were being conveyed down one of lac shahs, which striking the side, caused the skip to he unbonhed. descending very rapidly drove he it the air, - which; . coining in,Contaci with soine of the noxious vapour, forced it inro•that part of the pit wherC - the men had just ceased working, and in, which was a boy with a lighted candle. An exploion was, of course, the immediate consequence. Great praise is due to the workmen of the neighbOnring lieries for the readiness with which they cane forward to rescue their fellow-creature s f rom t h e i r per il ous s it ua ti o h ; mote . cially to Mr. Ezekiel Pershouse, the "butts," and also to the "foreman" of a pit belonging to Messrs. Harrisand Eilrton, of Westbrontwich, who were in the pit upwards of is hoots and one of whom was so overcome by the burnt sulphur, that he was upwards of an hour before he recoveredbis senses. An inquest Was held on Thursday, at the Royal Oak, - Tipton, on twelve of the deceased,- and ou - the other two at Westbrom: wirh : verdict in each case—" Accidental Death." In the even; ing. two of them were burled at Dudley and the remain:mg twelve in th 6 Tipton Burial Ground. ADV. 4 NTAGF (IF BF.P.ltriTt, PierlinonteSe nabietriati into whose company I fell at Turin (says Mr. Rogers in hit Italy,) told me his story Without reserve, as follows:—" I wati weary of life, and, after a day such as few have known, and none would wish to remember, was lounging along the street to thii river, when I felt a sudden check. I turned, and beheld a little boy, who had caught the skirt of my cloak in his anxiety td solicit my notice. His look and manner were irregular: Not less so was the lesson he had lean. t. There are six of us ; and we are thing for want of ' Why should I nut,' Said I to myself, relieve this wretched family? I have the Means; and it will not delay me many minutes. But what if it does?' rhe scene of misery he conducted sue to I cannot describe, I threw them my purse ; and their burst of gratitude overcame me. It filled my eyes. It went as cordial to my heart. I will call again to-morrow,' I said- Fool that I was, to think of leaving a world where such pleasure was to be had, and so cheaply." CoNSIMVATIS34 IN DUIII-lAM.—The next anniversary meet: ing of the county of Durham Conservative Asiociation is ap-. pointed to he holden at Sunderland, on Tuesdey, the 12th of January. It affords us pleasure to be enabled to state that this asssmiation is progressively increasing in ninnitees and strength, and that many resectable individuals who have not yet j o ined the association halm intimated their desire to he enrolled al members.—DurhamlAdreeliscr. MARTINMAss, Nov. 11.—It is sometimes called Martlemars: Falstaff is jocularly called so, as being in the decline, as the year is at that season): "And how iluth the nude-mita:, your master ?" Flenry IV, Martinmas was the customary time for hanging lip provisions to dry which had been salted for wititerconsitnipt ion, as our ances tors lived upon salted meat chiefly in the spring, the winter-fed vaale not being fit for use. " And mimic hint not to cast his wanton 'eyrie On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine; Or dried flitches of some smoked beeve Hang'd on a writhen wytbe since Martin's eve." Bishop Halts Satire/. At this feast it was common to sell rings of copper gilt, as fair, logs or love tokens. The old black letter tract, iutitted " flaino fla des t heirtrr 4 .4 douht - wfietenw been,itre - Mr glysteneth, sith Martin's rings bee but copper within, though they be giited without, saies the goldestnith."—Act. 3. SUN AND MOON RAILW A Y.—This company has been formed for the purpose of throwing light upon the nuninons cnder takings of the same nature 110 W in progress, and to insure upon each and all of them a safe and brilliant transit by night as welt as by day. Surveys have already been completed by the most celebrated aeronauts, and a choice of lines is, at Present under the consideration of the committee; but as it hes been found impossible to complete the. pans and sections for the whole line from the earth to the snit in time for the next session of parting ment, it has been determined to apply in the first instance for bill to accomplish so much only as extends from the earth to the moon. The committee think it desirable not to ,fir the amount of capital necessary to complete this branch of the. Undertaking, but they feel warranted in asserting that the large and inertias• ing demand for moonshine, aided by the f.et of their being tie other railway or canal to compete with id its supply, prothise lei the subscribers abundeet r.tut us for an tio.ile of unlimited extent.—Applications for shares to be made t if - by letter, post paid) to the man in the moon, at his temporary office, Sims. court, Cornhill. SEPTIMf;ti RAINhow, Set: WILLIAM IV. AT GIBRALTAR IN 1781.—1 t was in Admiral Rodney's fleet that our present gracious soverei;zn (area Priney William Henry) visited Gibraltar, and in contiibuting towardt its relief, made his first appearance as a defender of that thronei which it has pleased providence to permit his majesty to adorn; His Royal Highness served us a midshipmen under Adniiral Digby, in the Print e George, end on one occasion in particular a circumstance occut red which Englishmen may well be proud of. The Spanish Admiral Don Juan Langara, (then a prisoner aboard the British fleet) visiting Admiral Distiy cue Morning. was of course introduced to His Royal Highness ; during the conference between the Admirals, Prince William drew, and when it was intimated that Doti Juan wished in r e ; tile, His Royal Highness appeared as the midshipn an on duty; and respectfully informed the Admiral that the boat was man. ned. The Spaniard couldnut comtemplate the son of Englaud'e monarch' acting as a petty officer unmoved. and turning to Ad• miral Dighy and his suite, he exelaimeii, Well does Great !hi% fain merit the Empire of the sea when (lie humblest stations in het' navy are supported by the Princes of the Blood.'—Frum Molar.; mery Martin's Fifth and concluding Volume of the' istory of Ali British Colonies. THE PRESENT.—In order to enjoy the present, it is necessari to be intent on the present. To be doing one thing, and think• ing of another, is a very unsatisfactory mode of spending life; Some people are always wishing themselves somewhere but where they are, or thinking of something else than what they are doing, or of somebody else than the pet sun to whom they are speaking. This is the way to enjoy nothing to do nothing well, and to please nobody. It is better to be interested. with inferior persona;, and inferiOr things, than to. be indiff2l'ent with the best. A principal cause of this indifference is the adoption of 'other people's tastes, instead of the cultivation hf otir own , — the pursuit after that for which we are not fitted, and to, Which: consequently, we are not in reality inclined. This fully per- , varier, more or less, all classes; and arises froth the ,erts.ir -es building our enjoyment on the false foundation_ of the world's opinion, instead of being, with due regard to others,. each wit • own world.--The Original. - • THE MOON 'Nil A BITE OfeSSOT GrtinallACEl, of Munich; has publicly declared that lie leis discovered irrefragable:proole that the moan is inhabited like the earth. All Europe has att; swered by railleries the declaration •of the .13stval inn astron finer, but his firmness has been no min e.sh:ikeu ths:n that of Christopher Coldnihns, when he announced the existence .the new World. The German journals have published the observa.• tints of Ptefessor Gruithatisen. combined 'vitt thus of his learned brother the aStronoiner S'sbroeler.—Theircommen elusions are.---151, that vegeialion ti let, the sulfate ut theittoser extends to the• 55th degree of latitude south, and the blijilt de, glee of latitiide north ; from the Otitli titfide north to the 47th degree of latitude south, be ceived evident traces of the abode of animated bei=igs; 3••!tyr•---. that some signs of the existence of lunar inithitant.s are Sirlfi• ciently appareht to enable it person to distiegt.,isli eteat seeitla traced in several directions, and partiettlary e \ colossal build ing situated nearly under the equator of the ii,tteet. 'Elie. seeable presents the aspect of a large toes, near tea Which may ,be distinguished buihling, peffsetly that -tchich we Sall a ie.L doubt or hornwtak,—Qiitnidietine. MUNIFICENT DONATION.---'We understand that the Rev. MI% Candlish, of:St. George's Church, Edinburgh, received anonymously the sum of two thott,attri miuntis so endow the Ch.i. pel lately purehased by St. George's congregation trent the ocin ia as. Since it was opened in connexion withilie ESiablisherl Church, the Hew. Mr. Moody., who belen o i, ire beliert4,tuGlas gow, has officiated in it; and by the chartivicrof his 'needling, as well as by his missionary spirit,, quickly dri to around hint a. numerous congregation of all classes. A sense of ti.e vane of his services, a desire to retain I heth, and Id e:evate the mit-stork. ary chapel into the rank of a garish church, and to of iain Mr. Moody that pbrniailent place among s t the congtegation he has formed', to which he is so eininently entitled, is huppmzed tai have occasioned so magnificent a donation: a hid!, 0!e will lead to many similar sacrifices do tin.. part of the wealthy, in behalf of the eretdion, at least, if not the endowment Of ant( 0- es in districts still more deStatite, where all alp 11 ,11 1" 1"" , and perhaps equally indifferent to the blessitgs of lelittion. We' confess that iu the present very necesbijoils cileieinstauces of our cities and manufacturing villages, we etiould littler to see pri vate generosity direr:tett towards the erectian of churches and, schools, rather than towards their endowment; yet do we unfeigu%, ediv rejoice in the princel , . Munificence of the present bequest, auridesire to congratulate Mr. Moody on having been the ineans*,.; under Gud, of drawing forth so abundant a liLciality, the boat:- fits of which may reach to many gecerations. CHANCERY NoTUNFA VOOl2 AIME TO TIM. laiNitrasx rOct)... , LATION.—Mr. Cooper 142110.1 in a cause the other day believe Lord Aning,er, that the case had beets M 5111114. 4 ,6 tot.ttern yeara % ago 611 the marriage of a Mr. and Mrs. Etlwalds, and tbe of a mar:loge having an interest, the children were Ina de: lirtare.4 118 born. ',filet learned coons el had : dining slur time the ',tat k. 31 been rending. Triad., sixtesra airplieatious 'ti' th e iwart, 0,4 . having been that number ~f children horn. Lord .Abin!rer otL-1 served, it was clear equity to as not prejudicial to' ,pl9ailaJjazi oviuger.er ether SE•ulto .the y anislit Asse: