The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

.A PEI 11, 10, 1837), LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET, LAST NIGHT Bat one of Performing previous to Easter Monday. For the BENEFIT of:Mr. W. J. HAMMOND. THIS EVENING, the 10th instant, will be presented Dib. din's Dramatic Romance of THE HEART OF MID LOTHIAN. In the course of the evening a variety of SINGING and DANCING, by Miss E. Hamilton, Mrs. Raymond, 11 . Melvin, Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. and Miss F. Lecle q, Madiles. Juliette and Eloise, and the Brothers Jackson. to which will be added the laughable B tletta of BEARS .NOT BEASTS To concltide with . OUT OF HIS ELEM T; OR, THE COOK IN A STEW! 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 if, AMPHITHEATRE. • • THE SEVEN TRUMPETS. in -1E Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully - formed that THREE SPIRITUAL CONCERT will take place on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, d THURSDAY next, the 13;h, 15th, and lath instant, when 14 ;rand Oratorio entitled THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, comp ed by Signor H. J. PANORDIO, .will •be perforated, and a MI CELLANEOUS A:CT selected from the Works of Haydn, landel, and others. Thewhole will be conducted _by, ,Signor J. PANORIO. Principal. Vocalists, - Madame - Pano o, Miss Leach, Miss Bruce, Miss Gould; Messrs. Caird, odd, Melvin, Davies, Pemberton, and Bedford, With a numerous Chorus, and an efficient Band. • Leader—Mt. G. Eyton. Books of the words, price 64. each, may be bad at the doors. . Boxes, 4s.—Body; . 3s .- 7 Pit,'2s.—Gallery, Is. Children Half • price, e,:cept to the Gallery. Traniferrable Tickets fur the Three Concerts, Boxes. 105.6 d. --Body, Bs,—Pit, ss. Places may be taken at the Box-office from Eleven till Four, ou Monday °ext. Tickets , and Bills of particulars may be had of the Music seller, and at the Hubbard Gallery, 28, Lord-street. . ,k TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot tell how it is, that when any political event of any importance occurs in London, the Times and Morning Post • are always the last papers which reach Liverpool through the newsmen, and it is rather singular that the Chronicle should ,be q.. first. It was nit formerly the case, particularly as re gards the Timm Btitit is for the conductors of the journals to question to look to'it. rkbt Eibtrpoot tan Grit. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1835. We have Jamaica papers to the 27th February, but they do not possess tntich interest. A few extracts from them will be found in another column. to our last number we asked—" Are we to have a re- volution r We no* ask—ARE WE NOT ON THE VERY BRINK OF REVOLUTION ? • The Duke of WELLINGTON in the House of Lords, and Sir ROBERT PEEL in -the House of Commons, on , Wednesday evening, announced that ministers had ten . Alered their resignation to the King. His Majesty, therefore, is at this moment virtually without a govern ent. ~Combined factions have succeeded in frustrating all the salutary measures of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and have compelled him, from a sense of honour, to place the seals he held for the benefit of his country in the hands of his Sovereign from whom he had received them. The men Whose incompetency was adulated by the whole nation have, by a most disgraceful and infamous coalition, been enabled to outvote the conservatives in the House of Commons, defeat the paternal objects of the Sovereign, and throw the country into convulsion and disorder. The struggle is therefore begun. It will be, fearful in .t l . B opeiations—momentous in its results. Before this day two months it will have to be decided whether the 'People of England have the sense, the nerve, the firm ness to preserve what remains of the British constitu- tin, the rights of the protestant church, and the prero- gatives of the crown; . , or whether, following the flood tide of anarchy, they.are determined to sweep away, at *nee and for ever, all the venerable institutions of the kingdom, civil and religious. May Divine Providence direct them to - what is good ;if so directed we have no thine- to fear. . The-time is come when every man must " set his house in order," and prepare fesuthe vvorst.. The popish bigot 11 preparing his faggot,S 2 —the vampire sits upon the tirurch tower—the vulture is come to a feast.. When ir nation violates covenants, invades the rights of property,. and commences the work of spoliation, there is . no end t "' its rapacity and its devastatio..ns. A single robber can 11 ",, Put down, or hung up, according to his deserts, I 'Y the arm of the law;—but when the majority of rt people have lost all sense of justice and begin to plunder, they set -all laws human and divine at Ikfianee--they trample upon-every sacred maxim—they J aagli at theprecepts - of the geSpel—they regard neither a ge nor sea, infirmity nor innocence, riches nor poverty. i laere i s no asy l um - secure aga i nst their ravages; no ._; i ding place for the virtuous ; nu sanctuary which 'they 'nn not profane ; no firesi& which they do not invade ; a nd no chamber which they do not pollute. The rush of ` e volution is like that of a stone set in motion from the to p of a mountain ; its impetus increases as ;t advances; a nd it rolls on, carrying tree and shrub before it, until it is eithe r dashed into fragments at the base, or lust in the ePtlis profound of the adjacent lake. Anarchy runs riot the same way, destroying all, until it destroys itself. Lie infidel revolutionists of France were men quite as ' e sPectable, and n o t one whit more v i s i onary or f ur i ous, than the present democratic factions in the kioUSe of t'lntnirions. The former Washed :out. their enormities in ie blood of each other. They :despoiled innocence, Plandered churches, fired palaces, murdered kings and 40 ble s , flung the " staff c'f lifq'.into the Seine, ravaged an d pillaged without limit er remorse, produced famine, tlliBe rY, and desolation, and then!' Oh merciful PRoVi- , h " BNCE ! they turned their butchering) hands upon each t hee, an.i the sworn friend glutted in the sworn friend's Is it to come to this in England ? Must we be corn. to confess that the majority of tour. countrymen, bl inded for p ur p oses b e yo n d . _ our p ene t ra ti on , have l o st 4i sense of justice, and are prepared to' run the hazards a sanguinary revolution ?:• We do not, we will not i el ieve it. In the House of 'Commons there are Men— t'eal'lless and unprincipled men—who would drive' if not t ‘:( 1 th e p eop l e to any extrem i ty, b ut we d o not ` i nk they haVe the power. The nation we still L 'il dlY believe is sound at the core, and we should like to 4 - ' n e th e people tried up o n This baneful question-of popery nil spoliati o n. in London, we concede, there is fraud, , ii la q, and corruption enough out of which to forth a ‘ ," l ostituent assembly," and materials enough for a re-. But London is not vet to Great Britain what 4 4 4 was and is to France. Her debauched citizens do t 44 rePresent the people of England. The latter have iiieorannunity of feeling with the former. As to plinci- N e '''or attachtPents there is no reciprocity between them. nruch the better, for if it were otherwise neither the h ivr ~ 4 '4 nor the throne would lie safe for four, and twenty 41„, In ibis dilemma, then, we see no course open but an 4' 4 to the people. The last election purified the 4. 11 of Commons of a considerable portion of the scum was thrown upon the,surface by the first reformed thi II Went ; and there is every reason to believe that the tih t ` l would be an improvement upon the second. We ""t, for th e lif e of us, discover any party out of which l'i lbi , y n istrY could be formed but the conservative one. 4 .ing, cannot again receive into his councils the men 4 - 1 : 411 he di sm i sse d as inc o mpetent, and who have ever f i t ce heap e d th e mos t studied insults upon his Majesty. 4 11 ' 130 1 be painful, it would be humiliating, it would be Lgrading t o see in the King's presence such men a - s t t , t ., -I ( . lJ ° l iN RUSSELL, Mr. SPRING. RICE, Mr. EDWARD ,t, t) Ch, Mr. POULETT THOMSON, Dr. LUSHINGTON, kr'll3Etotrorram, Lord PLUNKETT, Sir Jotis CAMPBELL, it SHELL, or Mr. O'CONNELL. We hope never tto see Ki ng of England surrounded by a set of persons ti lt n he despises, and whose sentiments he abhors. y p how could such an odd mixture of pyebald oe 1 1, 14 C ites, and excrementitious demagogues, the filth of tv 4y nd • and th e rubbish. of London and Ratcliff-high -I,.irdloPe..to carry on the government for a single week 2 . . „ t" PLuNKETT is a battered hack, not very fastidious ins associates, but still even he would feel some 1111 5 at • Joi . ning the ranks of the agitator and the queue scsmomptatztrat........s. of ignominy behind him. How would Lard Joug Rus- SELL look as a wheeler in the same omnibus with DICK SHELL—poets though they both be ? And drollest of all — how would Lord BROUGHA M, the King's Highland cor_ respondent, look beside O'CONNELL as Chancellor for Ireland ? All this is only ludicrous. The factions who have dis comfited Sir ROBEItT PEET, would tear each other to pieces if they were intrusted with the formation} of a cabinet. The scramble for place and pelf would be like that caused by throwing, a piece of carrion into a mena gerie of hungry wolves and hyenas. There would not be more than a scent for the half of them; in which case dire would be the strife amongst themselves, furious their attacks, mortal their conflict. No, the country must be spared the calamity of an administration equally powerless and characterless. But, the - cominons, we are told, by some of the softheads, would impeach" Sir ROBERT PEEL were he to advise the dissolution of the present parliament. Impeach him ! before whom ? The peers of Great Britain ? They would kick the impeachment out of the house in five minutes. The King has a right to dissolve parliament when, and as often as, he pleases. It is a, constitutional act in the.-truest sense of that word. The annual parlia ment menthe HUMES and WAKLEYS—cannot surely object to half-yearly or quarterly parliaments if need be. The members .of the house are presumed to he the representatives of the people. Have not then the people the right " to do what they like with their own Y" If they are satisfied with their present re presentatives they would of course return them, and we would be, in a few.weeks hence, - exactly where we are at present, certainly not in a worse position. lithe electors ,he dissatisfied with them, as in many instances they have great reason tobe,they would select more proper and cOmpeteni men, and--what then ? THE COUNTRY WOULD BE SAVED ! Twenty additional conserva tives, or old in the House of Commons would turn the scale in favour of . . Sir ROBERT PEEL; and surely it would not be difficult to secure that number in England. We promise the right honourable baronet four, if not five, from the county of Lancaster alone, and one of these we calculate would come from Liverpool—vice EWART, superannuated ! At any rate, there is no other alternative. The KING may accept the premier's resignation, but he must be brought hack again before the month of June. If the King should decline for the present to accept his resignation, a dissolution must immediately follow, as a matter of course. We conclude in the words of our gifted namesake' of London, the Standard:— "LET ALL THOSE WHO FEEL THE VALUE TO TIIE IN TERESTS OF THE NATION OF FIRM, TEMPERATE, AND STEADY GOVERNMENT, POUR IN THEIR ADDRESSES. •• LET ALL WHO'WOULD MAINTAIN TILE KING'S PRE ROGATIVE POUR IN THEIR ADDRESSES. " LET ALL wpo WOULD DEFEND A GOSPEL CHURCH FROM BEING OVERPOWERED BY POPERY POUR IN THEIR ADDRESSES." The truth is now beginning to ooze out. Unnecessary haste invariably indicates a strong desire on the part of the originator of a measure either to advance it for state or pressing purposes, or to commit a fraud. If a case of strong exigency, certain allegations are made and be lieved; which carry to all minds a presumptive conviction of its necessity. if no evidence he offered, and no press ing, events stated, then there is reason to suppose that the act of legislation aims at undivulged jects, and that fraud is committed in order to carry a point which .would not, which could not, be carried if the real facts of the case were properly ascertained. The occurrences of the last few days have placed the stamp of fraud upon the arguments and the statements of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We were not unprepared for this. There was a haste about Lord JOHN RussELL's proposi tion in reference to the Irish church which betokened an uneasiness of mind—an a nxiety caused by a fear of dis covery—an apprehension that bespoke a misgiving—a feverish positiveness which would nut lizard any delay lest inquiry might expose or defeat it. We knew there was something wrong. It has been the uniform rule of parliament, when any Measure is suppoied to require amendment, for the pro pounder of the aniendinent to propose it when_the bill is , according to- parliamentary language, in committee. The motion of Lord JOHN Russm. was avowedly pro posed as an amendment to Sir HENu HAROINGE'S tithe bill. The noble lord, however, did not wait for the in troduction of the bill. He propoOri and carried a clause to be added to the bill actually before thebill had been read a first time. And Why ? Because Lord JOHN RUSSELL knew that fie had made certain statements re lative to population and revenue in Ireland which were untrue, and that the falsehood would be discovered be fore the lapse of many days. Lord Jvms pretended to found his statements, upon returns obtained from the church commissioners. It turns cut that this was not the case. The noble lord's statements, whatever impression they might have made on the house, were a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end. The following will explain how LORD - JOHN RUSSELL'S FACTS ! On Monday evening Lord John Russell brought forward, in the House of Commons, his 'Potion respecting the Irish church. This motion gave rise to a very protracted debate, of which it is impossible for us to gibe adetatird report in our present number. We shall return to the subject in next Tuesday's Guardian. — Meanwhile, we beg leave to observe, that the statistical state ments made by his lordship respecting the protestant population and the revenues of the established church of Ireland are so grossly erroneous as - to atfoi it str,,ng evidence that he is either completely ignorant of the subject which he has chosen to dis cuss, or has falsified the facts connected with it in a most extraordinary manner. 'For instance, he states that the whole of the protestant population in Ireland does not exceed 750,000 individuals, and of these 400,044 are within the ecclesiastical province of Armagh ! ! This is a most monstrous misrepre sentation. From what data does this nobleman draw such strange conclusions t He talks; foriooth, of a comparative statement of the "increase and. decrease" of protestants and Roman catholics in several counties in Ireland. ".In the county of Kilkenny, in 1731, there were," he says, " 1055 protestants ; and in 1831, but 945." He adds, that "in Stuart's History of Armagh, at the same period, the protestants were computed as being three to one when compared with the catholics ; and at the present time they were but one to three." Now Dr. Stuart, the senior proprietor and editor of this journal, takes this op portunity of publicly stating - to4tis - lordship, and to all whom it may concern, that in the - " IliitOry of Armagh," of which he is . the author, no such assertion is made. In fact, it must ap pear 'evident, even on the slightest glance at Lord Russell's speech, that he has derived his information at second hand from factious men, who had never perused the work to which he alludes. If this statesman, who acts so conspicuous a part as a leader in the House of Commons, had taken the trouble even to look at the title-page of the historical work to which be refers, as affording proof of the remarkable decrease of the relative numbers of the protestants Of Ireland, as compared in the year 1834 with those of the same body that bad existed in •the year 1731, he would have at once seen that the individuais who fur nished him with the statement which he has obtruded on the attention of the House of Commons were gross deceivers.— " Stuart's Armagh" was published in the sear . 181 S, and. it is therefore impossible-that Lord John •It 0.4011, ovany other per son, could derive iuturtuatiuu from it. respecting the number of protestants in Irelitlid in the year 1831.. Dismissing this subject, let us. attend to another of his lord ship's assertions,. : The diocese of Down, which is now united to that of Connor, contains, as he alleges, but 30,583 members of the established church. . Now, ;we beg leave to inform his lordship that the parish church of Belfast alone contains, at the present moment, '20,000 inetnbers of that communion. Bally notcarret, which is a suburb of .this town, comprises in its boundaries a population of betwixt five and six thousand, of whom nearly 2000 belong; as has' been found by a late Census, to the established chorcn. Will it he pretended that Lisburn and its adjacent districts, together with all the other towns, villages, hamlets, and rural habitations which abound in this populous and protestant diocese, contain but 8(X0t) individifals in connexion. with the church of Ireland ? But protestant as this diocese is, his .lordship, or his prompters, have discovered that 61,465 Roman cathiilies reside within its boundaries. From what statistical work, or other source at information, he derives his knowledge of this alleged fact, he has not, we believe, conde scended to inform us.,-.l3clfast Guardian. * The subject of Dr. Stuart's work is limited to the history of the city of Armagh ; and the volume does not contain, from beginning to end, a single passage such as that quoted by Lord J. Russell, or anything to the same effect. We should like to know by whose authority or per-- mission a set of fellows were allowed, during a portion of yesterday, to annoy all the respectable inhabitants of Liverpool by clattering the bells of St. Nicholas' Church, and ringing what they are phased to call a- "merry peal" in honour of the defeat of his Majesty's ministers. If these fellows have no other honest occupation we think they might be much better employed un the tread-mill. Certainly they would not give so much offence there. Is it seemly, is it decent, that the bells of a protestant church should be allowed to' peal in honour of a triumph ob tained by the enemies of the church ? If one and all of these ringers be not immediately dismissed by the proper authorities they. will not receive .their deserts. They should not be permitted to make sport by that sort of rope any longer. If they most have a peal let them mount an old tea kettle on the top of some catholic chapel and beat away till they are tired ; but they should not be suffered to insult the members of the church in this disgraceful manner. THE LIVER '-'T"tiR: 'J^ -'^?. ~'T ~iTIGY`l'artK'.lU~7YlF _ts.a~ LEEDS COMMERCIAL NEWSROOM We beg leave, in this public manner, (for a private com munication, we fear, would be of no use) to call the atten tion of the subscribers to the "Leeds Commercial News room" to a case of great hardship practised towards thiq journal by those gentlemen who have the management-of that establishment. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD was, in February, 1834, ordered to be sent to the Newsroom, and it was sent accordingly. By some mistake, how ever, owing to a similar order coming through another quarter, two copies instead of one have been supplied to the room since the period above mentioned. None of them was ever returned, and no suspicion existed as to the Mistake. On application being made, a few weeks Ago, for payment, upwards of a hundred copies of the . LIVERPOOL STANDARD were returned,. and payment ten dered forangin'ateitd o'f two copies: Now, we have to submirlo . the subscribers, the ma jority of whom we believe to be gentlemen and men o honour, whether this is treatment they would warrant, in any of the ordinary transactions of life. Thesecond paper was regularly received in the Newsroom, stamped with the stamp of the room, read by the subscribers, and filed, we have no d.)ubt, for more than twelve months. In doing so, and using them in this manner, the subscribers became liable for the debt incurred, and in law they are liable. If the committee of management did not wish more than one copy they should have re turned the other as soon as they received it, and ad vised us by letter or otherwise on the subject. Having explained the nature of the hardship, we leave • the case in the hands of the subscribeis. SOUTH LANCASHIRE_ CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. Yesteray, at' half-past eleven o'clock, a highly-respectable meeting of the members of the South Lancashire Conservative Association was held in the long room of the Legh Arms Hotel, Newton, for the purpose of taking into cons,deratiun the alarm ing state of public affairs, consequent upon the factious opposi tion his Majesty's ministers have met with from the House if Commons since they have held the reins of government. The meeting was hastily convened, but not ng this the room was completely filled by the most :nil tential of the cousarvative body from Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Bolton, Onus kirk, Southport, and others of the intermediate towns. William Hutton, Esq., of Hutton Park, teas called to.the chair, and after stating the oject of the meeting, it was proposed that a com mittee of six gentlemen, each limn a different town, should retire and prepare addresses to his Majesty and Sir Robert Peel, the former expressive of the confidence the association placed in the administration of Sir Robert Peel, and the latter exhorting Sir Robert not to yield to the factious opposition that bad manifested itself in the 'House of Commons by resigning the trust confided to him by his King for the good of his country. After an absence of about an hour the committee returned, hav log prepared the addresses, which will be found among our advertisements. The secretaries of the district associations were then asked by the chairman if the inhabitants of the towns in which they re.. sided had displayed the energetic feeling in support of the ad ministration which it had been reported they had done, in an • swer to which it appeared that Manchester had forwarded an ad dress got up in three days,_ signed by 6747 individuals, and Liverpool one signed by 6639, got up iu two days. The inter mediate towns, embracing Rochdale, Warrington, Bolton, Wigan, Orniskirk, Ashton, Bury, Leigh, and Present, had also forwarded numerously signed addresses, and parisheS of a' less population were named as having pursued the same course., The immediate object of the meeting having thus been dis posed of, the general business of the association was entered into, and a large accession of strength was added to the associa tion by the admission of new members from various parts of the county. The small town of liochdale alone placed upon the books 50, and the association which, in its infancy, en rolled but few, now boasts of 1600 subscribers. The new Con servative Ilall in the course of erection, at the back of the ho tel, for the convenience of the members at their meetings, is expected to be finished fur the anneal meeting iu • Au,gust. A letter from the Marquis of Salisbury, produced by the chair man, announced that patriotic nobleman (auit:ngst other dis tinguished individuals) as a subscriber. Thanks having been voted to William Hullon; Esq., the Chairman, for his excellent services on the present, as well as on all other occasions, the meeting was about separating when an express arrived from the Alanchestel Courier-otlice announc ing the- resignation of ministers. It now became a matter of discussion whether the addresses voted should not be recalled, and others adopted; but, as there was no .ofricial intimation of the resignation, it was resolved that the addresses voted should be despatched to London the same evening, nod that the meet ing should adjourn until• half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday next, to take into consideration the props iety of calling a county meeting. SEFTON CHURCH RATES, We extract the followiug paragraph from the Mercury of Friday last:— "Stilwn Church Rates.—On the 30th ult. the parishioners of Sefton presented Mr:Roger. Parker, of Little Crosby, with a handsome piece of plate fur 'his persevering and successful upp u sipon to the chili clr-rates in the_ said. parish. Mr. Parker tVai the first to resist the payment of this galling tax. At first he s;pod almOst alone, and thus had a double evil to.overcome —the'apathy of many catholics, and dissenters, and an abuse of long standing. He has now, howe‘er, the satisfaction to see almost the entire parish united in a determined opposition to this odious impost. Perhaps no other parish -in England has better grounds for resisting the payuput of church-rates than Sefton. The majority 'of the rate-payers ate catholics,—as regards' Great Crosby they are about in the proportion of three to one,—as regards Ince and Little Crosby tile population is almost exclusively catholic, and yet thei rector of Sefton draws above i:2.00 a year hum' Little Crosby alone, though he never puts foot into the township to baptize a chill, visit the sick, or perform :rtiv clerical duty whatsoever. How long will Eng lishmen suffer such flagrant injustice." Having given our contemporary's remarks, we have to request our readers, before they p iss judgment upon " such flagrant injustice," to hear the accused:— To THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST.LIVDARD. SIR,—On perusing the Liverpool Mercury of last S:lturday I perceived a paragraph headed ",Sefton Church Rates," which, on reading, I found to be quite destitute of truth as regards our township, and shall feel greatly obliged to you to contradict such a false and flagrant statement. The passage (in the iler cury) alluded to I quote as follows :—" The majority of rate payers are catholics; in Great Crosby they ate in proportion of nearly three to one." Now, fur the sake of truth, the love of justice, and the refutation of s u c h a giaring falsehood, I request You will insert the following statement taken from the rate book ending the 23th ult. In Great Crosby the amount of rates paid for the poor, Sefton church, and the constable's ac count, by the Protestants was E 1 9 ,3 135., and by the catholics for the same purposes, £lO7 l6s ; the number of protestant rate-payers Was Rai, and the number of catholic rate-payers &), consequently, you will see the larger amount paid, and the number of rate-payers to be with the protestants. Let me con clude by quoting ano th er p assag e f ro m the said false and equally unjust paragraph:—" Row long will Englishmen „m' pt" themselves to be duped by "such flagrant," oujust. and Case statements.—l remain, sir, your most humble and obedient servant, A GKEAT CROSBY OVERSEER. Great Crosby, April 7,1835. The stateinedts of our correspondent are correct to the letter, and therefore on this subject we have oot another word to offer. Our contemporary is either gulled hiatself or attempting to gull his readers. Another correspondent , upon whose respectability and vera city we can rely, stat e s that a Mr. Roger Parker, heaven fore fend! that it .should he the Mr. Roger Parker who "has been presented with a handsome piece of plate for his persevering . and successful opposition to church-rates," was. on or about the 4th of this present month of April, removed and conveyed to a place of security for outrageous, but no doubt very patriotic conduct at the Mitre Inn, Dale-street. Our informant inti mates that handcuffs were titcessiiry to restrain the exeberance of the gentleinan's patriotism. Occurring at the Mitre allow ances ought to belnade. An opposer of church-rates could not be expected to remain silent at tile Mitre. MALLOW REGISTRY. The Mallow Sessions for the registration of voters in the East Riding of the county of Cork, commenced on the third of April. Claimants for votes, for the city of Cork, the bnrout.h of Youc , hal, the luirough of I:l o cale ; end the county of Cork, flocked such ',umbels to Mallow, as spoke in the plainest and most unmistakeable language both the existence and character of a new principle of political energy. The open attempts upon the religion of nineteen.tweutieths of the proprietary; the unprincipled barter of the church of Eugland,—of the gene ral principles of private property- 7 -of national faith—fur the as sistance of Mr. O'Connell and the opposition to regain place, and perhaps . to compound with him the monster of a Whig- O'Connell administration, have at length aroused the dormant feelings of men who thought danger distant or exaggerated. The results of the Mallow Registry are decisive. The county —the city of Cork—Youghal—iiinssle,—have exhibited tn. umphant,conservative'majorities. This uniformity of majorities proves a genera/ and powerful principle— intheatt , s that the alarm has reached the most intelligent and influential of the na tional constituency—the great landed proprietors —while the miserable minorities of the revolutionists in all these places, prove that they have ruu their pauper reservoir to the vary dregs. The proportions are so decided that we shall make fair allow ances, and still establish the most striking disparities. There were registered for the county about one hundred and twenty conservatives and fire revolutionists. Of the former about two. thirds were £5O freeholders. For the city of Cork, the conservatives mustered one hun dred and thirty-one, and their opponents from three to fire ; twenty-six of the former were £ 5O freeholders. For Youghal there tire thirty-three conservatives to eleven revolutionists. For Kin ale the conservatives had the day to themselves; they registered ses'en.• Let but a similar spirit he developed elsewhere, and Ireland may yet recover character.—Cork Constitution.. The Poor Law Commissioners have issued a circular letter to the principal manure( rulers in the north, stating that there is a surplus population in the southern counties, and requesting to be informed whether employment could be found in their facto ries. There is a stretch of their authority, which, we suspect, the_act of parliament does not authorise. It is more than doubtful whether the equalization of supply and demand is a fit subject for the interference of au executive board of controul. Watch ni a a. The Court of Common Council rejected last we e k th e f o ll ow _ ing motion:—" That the aldermen at present elected be conti nued for life, and that the only disqualification for this office be cases of bankruptcy, insolvency, deeds of composition, taking the benefit of the act, convictions for fraud, or other inisdemeannurs, by the verdict of a jury, absence for a certain length of time without leave of the common council, or generdl imbecility ;" and agreed, by 63 to 38, to an amendment to the effect—" That all aldermen hereafter to he elected shall be periodically elected by the constituency." The period was then fixed at seven years. The court of aldermen have resolved to oppose the periodical electron to office. (COL STANDARD. iIE MARQUIS DE MUTI PAPAZURR I'S CONCERTS The first of these concerts was given at the Wellington Rooms, on Tuesday evening, Mr. George Holden officiating as conductor. The company, snore select than numerous, did not exceed two hundred. The concert was opened by an instru mental quartetto, (Beethoven,) performed in good style by the Messrs. Hermann's and Wilton, (violins,) and Mr. Jackson on the . violoncello. Bishop's glee—" Breathe my harp," was sung •by Messrs. Gillow, (laird, and Pemberton, and George Hol den, the latter accompanying on the piano, in a very pleasing Manner. The marquis, to show the versatility of his musical talents, led an instrumental quattetto, sang a duetto with Sig. Deval, and gave some brilliant performances on the piano. One of these was selected by a lady or gentleman present, we did not observe which, from one of fifty operas previously named. This, although it enabled him to show the extent of his musical rp.collections, approached somewhat nearer to quackery than we should have expected from a gentleman of the marquis's great and acknowledged talents as a musician He is a pleasing singer; but his voice and style are better adapted to the parlour than the concert-room. Of Madame .Kyntherland, and Signors Deval and Ivlarani,we have nothing: ''to say that we have not already, on former 04;casiuns, said of -their respective. merits. Mr. NIA ..sang Nefitunu's "I've been toss'd among the wars" with great &assess of manner, and with good effect. Mr. Pensberton's singing in "The chamois hunters" was tame. There is a considerable degree, 'of richness and melody in his voice, but his great fault is im perfect articulation. John liemble, when giving lessons in elocution to a late member of the royal family, is reported to have said to his pupil, "Sir ; be pleased to open your royal jaws a little wider, or you will never be able to pronounce your words so as to be understood." We would give Mr. Pemberton the same piece of advice. The only encore during the night was given to Miss Hamil ton, in the song of " The Rose of Allendale." The effect pro duced by this song equalled any thing we have heard for a long time, and she appeased to convince her audience that the simple melody which ,appeals to the feelings produces a much greater degree of delight than the more complicated and elaborate compositions, which excite only wonder or admiration. Every tone or note of Miss Hamilton's voice is clear, distinct, and i melodiousOndeed, we cannot imagine one more perfect, or 'possessing more entirely all the requisite qualities, to enable her to take the station of a first-rate English singer. Her style of singing, however, requires correction. Under a good master this would soou Le effected; by a good master we mean one who has a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of music ; one whu knows something more than the mere technicalities or pedantry of the science. The concert was an exceedingly good Oise, and went off with great spirit. All the pernrsuera were very well received. - '1 h e concert of which we have been speaking, induces us once more to ask the gentry of Liverpool why we have not among our public establishments one for the encouragement of music upon-the scale of the Wellington Rooms ? There is scarce a town in Enpl rod possessing one-third of the population, wealth, intelligence, or rethreinent to be found here that is not better pruvitied in this respect. SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS.—In another part of our paper will be found a copy of. the congratailatory address voted to Sir Howard Douglas by his supporters in his late contest for the borough of Liverpool, on his appointment to the office of lord high commissioner of the lonian islands, and the gallant gene ral's reply thereto. The latter explains the reason why Sir Howard was unable to accept the invitation of his frienits to attend at a public dinner intended to be given him here before his departure from England. LIVER THEATRE.—Mr. W. J. Hammond, one of the lessees of this theatre. who is about to tie translated to the London boards, takes his benefit this evening. As au actor he possesses a great fund of comic humour, which will, if we are not very much mistaken, be properly appreciated in the metropolis, where he will possess better opportunities of showing them to advan tage than he can possibly hope for in a country minor theatre. Our best wishes accompany him, although we shall miss hint touch where, and where alone, we have been accustomed to see his performances. The amusements selected for this nii.cht's .entertainment of his friends are very good and of great variety. RESIGNATION OF His MAiiisTr's MINISTERS.—An express edition -of 'The Sun, London evening paper, containing the intelligence that his majesty's ministers had resigned, reached Liverpool, via Manchester, at half-past one o'clock yesterday. At Manchester a Rail-road engine with one carriage was en gaged to convey the express to this town. Within half-an-hour after its arrival here, the news was telegraphed to Holyhead, and answered. Mr. Perry, of the Ci; yof Dublin Steam Com pany, would have despatched one of the company's vessels to Dublin with the information if there had been one in the river. Unfortunately they were all in the dock, and, consequently, eculd not to be got out until the state of the tide roanitted the gates to be opened. In common with the public iu general, we are much indebted to the conductors of The Sun for the extraordinary exertions they are in• the habit of making in order to give the earliest intimation of what is going on above, although, recent events warrant us in saying that this direct dispatch from that luminary is not calculated to give much pleasute to the great majority of the people, and more especially to the friends of order and good government. How ever this may be, the gentlemen of The Sun are entitled to our _ thanks for the liberal and enterprising ;they are which h displayed on this and other occasions, when events of import ance have occurred. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, LIVERPOOL: , -ID the matter of an insolvent, who was heard on his petition on WedneSday, the Bth instant, Mr. Commissioner Law observed that the insolvent had made a return in his estate paper of only twenty. pounds as available tor the benefit - of his creditors, but owing to the activity of the provisional assignee of the court, and the efficiency of his agent and auctioneer, Mr. Fianinel Wiggins, a clear sum of seventy-eight pounds has actually been recovered, after payment of rent and expenses, the whole property producing one hundred and eleven pounds. Two OF THE: COESHIRE COUNTS INIEMBERS.—With pain we direct the attention of our readers to the votes of George Wil braham and Edward John Stanley, two of the members of this county, upon Lord Juhn Russeir s motion for alienating the revenues of the church. We need o nly sa y th ey afford us a pretty exemplification of their " attachment" to our venerable establishment, of which Mr. Wilbraham talked so much prior to the late election. His conduct in thia in stance is really insufferable; but it is gratifying to know that he will nut be permitted to escape without receiving the reward Which he so peculiarly merits. Black-balled he must be at the next election, and we shall feel surprised if Mr. Stanley fare any better. It is time fur the protestant electors of this county to- take rare that they no longer patronise men who would de stroy their church by applying her funds to the eueuuragement of au hostile and unsocial religion. Such would be the imme diate tendency of Lord Russell's resolution if carried into effect; and we cannot believe that any one who has voted for it will again find favour in the eyes of the electors of Cheshire. We have much pleasure in repeating that at the next -election Mr. Wilinaham will have to resign his trust to a gentleman of un doubied talents, who will not only sedulously watch over the interests of the farmer, but endeavour, by all means. to protect the rights of property, and preserve the constitution from de struction in church and state.—Chester Courant. . . A Giosarmoos STRANGER.—CALEDONIAN FREE SCHOOL..-.- On Tuesday last the treasurer of the Caledoulan Free School, Oldh a m-street, received a handsome donation from a stranger. On iuquiry, we find that he had accidentally met with the last annual report of the committee, the urgent appeal in which, fur additional support to the friends of the religions education of the poor, induced him, unknown and unsolicited, generously to present ten pounds to the Luis of the charity. Tilis gentleman is a native of the United State', and lately visited for the first time the land of his forefathers, he Highlands of Scotland. His father was a Highlarther and emigiant, and in the wilds of the new world, no doubt, had impressed on the minds Of his fa mily, who bear an ancient Highland name, a reverence for the parochial schools of " the far distant country still called home." In the Caledonian Free School :302 poor children, all Scottish, or of Scottish descent, are now receiving an excellent educa tion. practically. useful and suited to their sphere s in life, with religioualustruction, founded on the principles of the Church of Scotland. The school for the boys is greatly crowded, and the only painful duty the committee have had to perform has been to reject numerous applications for further admissions, many of them front the wives of Scottish sailors employed in Liverpool vessels, who plead that in the aesence of their hus h inds on distant voyages their sons would he safe front the corruptions that prevail in our large tromp by attending this Scottish school. The committee, therefore, are very desirous of enlarging the school-rooms, but they have no funds tor such purpose, as their resources are barely sufficient to meet the cur rent expenditure. We Warn, with regret, that there are many persona. Scottish, or of Scottish descent, residing here in com fortable circumstances, who have not vet contributed by Jona- thin, or by annual subscription towartis the support of the Ca ledonian Free School, the 'only Scottish charity in Liverpool. We earnestly hope that one and ail of them will now,follow the fine example that has been shown them by this generous, right minded American gentleman. Naw APOTHECARIES' Ac r.—According to Mr. Warburton's bill for the regulation of apothecaries, the latter are riot to be allowed to compound medicines, but will be entitled to receive Ws fees, or as low as 53., if they think fit, for each visit. The medicines the . ) , prescrthe me to be provided and compounded by chemists, aIM, previous to so doings must undergo a rigid exa mination. to show that they are duly qualified.— Times.—{An act containing such provisions as these would, like all radical legislation. in which the interests of the lower orders are con cerned, prove a great curse to the poor. It will be found, on inquiry, that the charge usually made by the profession gene. rally to the whole class unuerstood by the terms "mechanics" and " little tradesmen' for advice, attendance, and medicines, does not amount to one-half even of the minimum fee proposed to be charged for each visit. If the apothecary is not to be al , lowed to dispense medicines to his patients, assuming every chemist duly qualified to compound them, what security will the former have that his prescriptions will be properly made up ? Or, if properly made up, that time drugs and chemicals will be of the best quality. Again, whit certainty will the doctor have that the more valuable chemicals, drugs, and compounds are always to be had at a chemist's shop? Should this bid be passed the great bulk of the apothecaries business will pass into the hands of the chemists.—E. L. Ss] • LalsoasTatt INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT.—The business of this court terminated on Saturday last. The following cases have been disposed of in addition to those mentioned in our lasto-s-George Swanwick, Gravel-lane, Manchester, retailer of beer, atljourned to next circuit. William Norobtu, Ryland street, Salford, retailer of beer, petition dismissed. George Hall, Tailst'orth, near Manchester, remanded seven months. Elizabeth Smith, Derby Arms, Kirkdale, near Liverpool. re manded four months. 'Kinder Liversadge, 84, Lime-street, Liverpool, shopman, eight months. Henry Leyland, Bolton le-Moors, attorney's-clerk, six months. Dugdale Wright, Kendal, Westmoreland, petition dismissed. Kimbell Gyoson, Thorpe Basset, Yorkshire, farther. fourteen months. James Warburton, '27, Union-street, Salford, confectioner, petition dismissed. Thomas Dow, South John-street, 'Liverpool, ac countant, remanded to next circuit. Hobert ancock, Bridge atreet, Choriton-upon-Medleck, cutler, petition dismissed. John Fitzpatrick, 3 . 2, Oldham-road, Manchester, baker. three months. lsicw Citteeen, KtaKDALE.—The foundation-stone of a new church. to be erected by private subscription, is, we understand, to be laid by his Worship the Mayor of Liverpool, on Tuesday next, at eleven o'clock, on a piece of ground a little beyond the v ill ag e, on the Walton road. The building when elected, will accomodate I.(XX) persons, 200 sittings tieing reserved for the liae of time poor, and the remainder to be !et on moderate terms. The total cost of the eicc►i will be £2,8: - 0. A church has 'twig I).:cu wanting is this p , pulous uud increasing sul,urb. ADDRESSES TO THE KING AND SIR R. PEEL. (From the Standard of Wednesday Evening.) Addresses to the King and Sir Robert Peel continue to poor in from all quarters. From the present crowded state of our columns, it is impossible to find room for all we receive • we hive, however, endeavoured to select the most important, Which will he found below. In addition to which we are glad to state that others have been agreed to at St. Alban's, Newmarket, Brome and Oakley, Suffolk, Bury. Dovar, Deal and Wahaler, Boston, Grantham, Hull, City of Gloucester, Bath, Colchester, Isleworth, Stamford, town and county of Nottingham, Clifton, Itarosgate, Winchester, Ripon, Clergy of Ripon, and Cam bridge county. Ilea i DSliln E.—Hertford town, Watton, Ricksmans worth, ilemel Hempstead. 13aldock, and Walkern. Phaistalis • LINCOINSIIIIIE.—SIeaforti, Winterton and Burton, Doning,ton, Thurlby, Dowsby, Astockby, Oshournby, Folkingliam, Bourn, Aswarby, Walcot, Threckitigham, Rip pingate, Market- Deepiug, Deeping St. James, lisle Magna, tlorbling. • . COUNTY OF LEICESTER. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. We, your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the un dersigned freeholders, gentlenien, clergy, and other inhabitants of the county of Leicester, venture to approach your majesty at the present crisis with the expression of our sincere attachment and devotion to your majesty's person, throne, and government. We thank yout majesty fur the wisdom and firmness you have already displayed in the choice of ministers upon whom, while they have shown every disposition to promote ad just and whole some Measures of reform, the country relies with the most im plicit • confidence that they will preserve the integrity of those lust itutions upiin which we firmly believe depend the safety of voiii majesty's throne, and th.e existence of your people as an independent and prosperous state. NVe, therefore, most humbly and respectfully entreat your majesty not to let the reins of government pass into the hands of those who would frustrate your majesty's paternal endeavours for the welfare of the country ; and we declare our unatterable determination to support your majesty in the just exercise of your royal prerogative, amid the ministers whom your majesty has so happ►ly- chosen in their noble and manly resistance to the threatened encroachments upon the protestant church, sub versive, as we believe them to be, of our national religion, and fraught with imminent danger to the best interests of the country. Aprid 6, 1835. TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBLET PEEL, DART., FIRST LOUD OF THE TREASUIIy, CHANCLLI.OR OF Ills MAJESTY'S EX- CIIEtI It, &C. &C, NVe, the undersigned freeholders, gentlemen, clergy, and other inhabitants of the county of Lei c estero6l it 'our duty most respectfully to convey to you at the present crisis our un feigned thanks for the noble and manly resistance which you have lately made in the Commons House of Pariiament, against • those meditated encroachments upon the ecclesiastical constilu• tiint of our country which must inevitably lead to the subversion of the rights of property in general. • It is to you, sir, and to the government of which you are the head, that those who value the preservation of the institutions under which we have the happiness to live, look fir assistance to transmit them unimpaired to our posterity as the most valua ble possession they can enjoy, and the richest legacy we can leave. Determined. therefore, as we are to support our King, and the ministers whom he has so happily chosen, to aid him in his endeavours for the country's welfare, we implore you not to mistake the clamour of a sel f ish faction for the unbiassed voice of the nation, but. to persevere is the arduous task you have undertaken of holding the reins of government in this eventful period; and sure we are that you will be supported in every trial and every conflict that awaits you by the heart and voice of the British people. With every sentiment of gratitude and esteem, .NITe subscribe ourselves, Your most faithful -servants. TOWN OF LEICESTER. TO THE RIGHT lioN. Slit ROBERT PEEL, BART., M. P., FIRST LOico OF THE TREASURY, AND CHANCELLOR oF HIS M&- JRSTY'S EXCHEQUER. &C. Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Lei cester and its vicinity, deeply impressed with the alarming state of public affairs and with the immense imptirtance of your endeavours to avert the impending danger, desire respectfully to express to you our ardent hopes that - those endeavours mav be crowned with success. We have observed with sorrow and regret your best efforts assailed with the utmost bitterness of faction.' But we humbly and earnestly entreat that, however virr ulent• may be the opposition to which you may still be exposed, you will not be induced to withdraw from your sovereign and your country the benefit of those commanding talents—that high principle and sound discretion which have never failed to dis tinguish your conduct since you have been placed in the honour ble and arduous situation which you now occupy;—such firm and manly perseveran ce we regar d as your fi rst duty to your king and country; and we feel confident that it will secure to you lasting gratitude for your strenuous exertions in defend ing the protestant institutions of npy land, and in main taining upon a solid basis the rights, Nivileges, and property of this great protestant community. We are, sir, your faithful and obedient servants. We take the following from the Times of Wednesday : AbDIIIiSS OF TILE MERCHANTS, BANKERS, AND TRADERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, TO Slit R. PEEL. Yesterday (Tuesday) there was a large meeting of the above body at the City of Lond.in Tavern,to receive from their de putation the reply of Sir Robert Peel to their address; when, after that and the ordinary business of the meeting were dis posed of, it was adjaurned to await the result of last night's debate and division. At the meeting were Sir Robert Fitz wygram, Sir Charles Forbes, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Buckie, Mr. Wilson, and many others equally influential of the above wealthy body. MmivicaoNE.-,The address from thi4 o a rikb t o hi s Majesty, w hieh has. b.oA ouly- tv.e dayx, hair last night receive a larger uttmber of signatures than ever was known to proceed from the same parish on any former occasion. It will be pre sented at the levee this day. Addresses to the King, declaratory of confidence in Sir R. Peel's administration, and of attachment to the church, are also in preparation front the southern division of the county of Wilts, and from Salisbury and the adjoining parishes. The address of the inhabitants of Oxford to Sir Robert Peel was signed in the c•mrse of one day only by about 800 of the principal inhabitants, headed by the mayor, most of the alder men and magistrates, hankers, tradesmen, and resident gentle men, and was forwarded by the mail to the city members for presentation. The Bristol petition presented to the House of Commons on Friday night, upon the subject of the Irish church, contained the signatures of 8,000 persons, and nut 5,000, as erroneously stated in smile of the papers. A meeting was held at Leeds on „Monday, at which addresses to the King and Sir Robert Peel were carried by acclamation. The•foilowing is the address of the University and county of Oxford to Sir Robert Peel:— "We the undersigned, resident in the University and county of Oxford, are desirous of uniting to express our unshaken con fidence in your ability, integrity, and patriotism; and our cor dial approval of those wise principles and salutary measures which have marked the progress of your ministry. • "These sentiments we feel ourselves especially called upon to declare, when the permanency of your administration is endan gered by an opposition, the tendenty of which at this important crisis appears to us fraught with injury to the public service. Deprecating your retirement from office as one of the Most se rious. evils which could befall the nation, we most earnestly hope, that, strong in the•resnurces of your own mind, the recti tude of your intentions, and the approbation of your country. you will still continue to discharge the high duties of your office in the manner best. catentated to proinote•the service of his Majesty and to secure the permanent interests and welfare of his people."• Addresses to his Alajegy and Sir bed Peel have been agreed to at Norwich, Brighton, Baistol, Dartford, Birminghain, and Ipswich. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND HIS ANCESTOR. (Extract from the Record of April 6.) - Let us look at Lord John Russell standing up in the House of Commons as the champion of the popish party in Ireland; see him. along with Lord alorpetle doing honour to O'Connell at the dinner on Saturday week; and then let us turn to the dying declaration of that great man whose name he bears, and in the inheritance of whose honours he shares. 'When Lord Russell stood upon the scaffold, ready to lay his head upon the block, be delivered a paper, " the substance of which," says Bishop Burnett, who attended his lordship on the occasion, " was first a profession of his religion and of his sincerity in it; teat he was of the church of England, but wished all (meaning both protestant dissenters and churchmen) would unite together against the common enemy; that churchmen would be less severe, and dissenters less scrupuleus. He owned he had a great zeal against popery, which he looked on as an idolatrous and bloody religion, &c.' He owned he had been earnest in the matter of the exclusion (i.e. of the popish Duke of York, titter wards James II.) aa the best way, in his opinion, to secure both the king's life and the protestant religion, &e." "After he had delivered this paper," says Burnett, " he prayed by .himself; then Tillotson prayed with him. After that he prayed again by himself, and then undressed himself, and laid his h . cal on the block without the least change of ceuntenatice." Such were the sentiments of a true whig of the old school, and it would be an insult to the undertatelhig of the feeblest capacity, even to inquire whether there is •auv' similarity be tween the sentiments of Lord Russell and those of his de generate descendant. In Lord Russell we find the welfare :of the protestant religion occupying his last dying thoughts, because in that was comprised the glory of God and the best in terests of his country. We now see Lord John Russell head- Mg an attempt to strip the protestant church of i:s property, and not only to rob it of its external support, but to apply the booty in aid of that "common enemy" against which his ances tor declared with his dying breath that be had "a great zeal," because " he looked on it as an idolatrous and bloody religion." - That popery continues to this hour to be an idolatrous and bloody religion may be proved by the superstition and the atrocities which are now practised in Spain, under the eyes of the priests, who are themselves leaders in the civil war, as well as by th e assassinations and murders which are perpetrated in Irel an d, and the denunciations of the agitators. It was by the sound of the chapel bells that the murderers of the police at Carrick shaugh were assembled together and with almost every titne affray it has been proved that priests have been directly or in directly connecte I. These are considerations which are worthy of the attention of all who have not forsworn the name of protestant—mho have not renounced all regard for the religion of their ancestors—who have not sold themselves to a party—and who are not prepned to provoke the righteous judgment of Heaven by making com mon, cause with that Babylon. from which we are commanded to come out, lest we be " partakers of her sins," and receivers " of het plagues." ETON, Monday, April 6 —On Saturday last the examination for the Newcastle Scho'kuship terminated, when Mr. C. J. Hav ley was declared the Scholar and Mr. 11. Williams, King's Scholar, the Medallist.. The following gentlemen also passed a very good examination :—Messrs. Simo.omis, Thring, and Mills. The examiners were the Hey. J. Lonsdale, Prebendary of St. Paui's, and Lewis, Esq., from Oxford. CttowN PitoeEttry N WALES. —We understand that it is the intention of Col.. Parry, M. I'. t o move i n the H ouse o f Commons at an early day, and with the concurrence of the hods commissioners of woods and 'tests, for several returns connec ted with the state of the crown property in Wales. with the view of taking ultei lot. steps, for th e p ur p ose o f ob t a i n i n g the Ap r royriat ion of such harts of their revenues as may be ova ilable fur their purpose.to the improvement of the harbours and navigation, or the northern part of the principality. 'I he gailant member has the co-opt.?rat ion of the liberal portion or the Welsh m embers, and of Mr. Ewart and Lord B a nd on , th e mem b ers 01 Liverpool He has received also the assurances of the members of govern ment, who preside at the admiralitv and at the hoard of trade, and every facility will be afforded hint.—Caritarron Herald. PARISH APPRENTICES.—On Thursday last applisstion was made to the magistrates at the New Bailey to give their sanc tion to the indentures of a number of girls, (eight, we believe,) whom the overseers of Manclwster were desirous of binding ap prentices from the workhouse, to Messrs. Walkers and M'Clure, silk throwsters. of Patricroft, in the township of Barton-upons Irwell. Mr. Cheadle, the overseer of Barton, with a very proper regard for tile welfare of the girls, opposed the application, on the ground that Messrs. Walkers and Co: had no place of resi dence fur them in which they could be properly taken care of, but had contracted with poor pet sous in the township, some of them - not of the best character, to maintain the children for three shillings per week each. He admitted to the fullest extent that Messrs. Walkers end Co. were highly respectable, but he was of opinion that girls like these ought to be snore carefully attended to than could be done under the system of farming them out, which was proposed to be adopted. Mr. Foster inquired whether any children had been bound by the township of Manchester under similar circunisianees, to which Mr. Lipp, the assistant-overseer, replied that he had nu recols lection of any; Mr. Andrews, of •H arpurhey, had had children from she workhouse some years ago, but he thought that they were lodged in a regular apprentice house provided for them, and he believed it was the same at Mr. Gregg, at Quarry Bank, where a number of apprentices were kept. One of the partners iu the firm of Messrs. Walkers and Co., in answer to questions put to him by Mr. Foster, said that they should not be prepared to take the children into their own house for sonre weeks to come, but as it appeared to be the wish of the magistrates that the system of farming theta should be discontinued, he would un dertake to place them in a Cottage belonging to the firm, with a respectable woman to take care of them. They were now work ing at the mill, and in compliance with an express stipulation of the Manchester overseers, they received regular instructions in a Sunday school. Mr. Cheadle said that the houses at which the children now lived were not proper places for them, and at one place four of them had to sleep in one bed. Mr. Foster said that the magistrates had every rerrann to believe that the treatment of the children would be perfectly correct, and no im putation whatever was attempted to be cast upon Messrs. Walkers and Co., who were admitted to be highly respectable, and anxious to do their best for the children; but the magis trates could not sanction the binding of girls in this way, unless they had an assurance that their moral cauduct would be looked after, and they woula be welt cared for. However, as it was iuteuded to get them a separate residence, with a respectable person to take care of them, and to give them the means of in, struetion, the matter - might be postponed, and when it was shown that this had been done,the magistrates would be satisfied to bind them.—Manchester Herald. BerucTs OF THR POOR Law AMENDMENT BILL.—An in- Lqiiest was _held on Thursday, the 2d instant, at the Union Arnie, Little Bolton, before Mr. flutter, coroner, on the. body of Gra c e Itok;inson, tin illegitithate 'child' about six months old, found dead in.bed on the previous morning. The unfortunate mother of the child was delivered after the passing of the new bill, awl after having been obliged to sell her clothes to snpport herself, she afterwards obtained employment and wes•enabled to earn ss. per week, three-fourths of which had to he paid for lodging and the nursing of the child, leaving Is. Bd. for the necessaries of life f.r mother and child( being a considerable distance front her own parish). She was frequently so wore down by suffet ing and want, that she was scarcely able to stand ou her feet, whilst the heartless father of the child. would not give her a farthing. ExtsentrloN THROUGH AFRICA. FROM THE SOUTII•—It is in contemplation to fit our by subscription an expedition to explore the unknown parts of Southern and Central Africa, extending between Lattakoo (Litakun) and the (so called) Mountains of the Moon; including in its intended route souse of the conflu ences. if not the actual source and course of the Congo or Zaire. It is proposed that this expedition shall proceed from the Cape of Good Hope in the south, and attempt to egress by way of the great Lake fchad, at some part on the shores of the Mediter ranean in the north. From the intended sphere of operation this undertaking is obviously one of preeminent importance; for there is no part of the globe which presents a grander field for enterprise and i n v es t i gation than Southern and Central Africa. Mr. Wrightson, 51. P. for Northallertou, was, on Monday week, white on his way to the house of Commons, robbed of the petition from the innkeepers and licensed victuallers of Northallerton and its neighbourhood. EFFECTS OF SABBATH DAY LABOUR. —Our experience may be taken for somethiug—for a newspaper editor's life is no lite of idleness; and we hold it to he an incontrovertible fact, that no man ever suffered in his health by the hardest conecieutious labour during six days of the week. - But, we w ill add, for the instruction of the young and studious, to whom we particularly address this reitiatie that during many years' observation of in tellectual labourers, we never knew a man to work seven days in the week, whitehd not kill himself, or killhis mind.—Statulard. [\Ve remember a similar remark from the late Mr. Wilberforce,] lieacrittoury.—The electric fluid seems to have been of late wonderfutly superabundant and active in Germany ; as one of the journals states, that withiu a month forty steepies have been struck, and almost all accompanied by the same phenomena— first, lightning attracted by and playing about the steeple, then violent thunder, with snow, and soon after the appearance of guition. COBBETT'S ACCOUNT OF SIR R. PEEL'S SPEECH ON THE IRISH CHURCH QLESTION.—At last came he, with those ta lents of which a nation might be proud ; and, in the course of two hours, did everything which it appeared possible for man to do to resist the reg.:Neon. He felt that be was defeated; and that feeling was manifest throughout the whole of his long, most ingenious, and most eloquent speech. There was iu himself everything which could merit success; but the circumstances were too hostilely .powerful for him to control. Like the Rho dian sailors iu the storm, so beautifully described by Dryden, " Front the first he laboured in despair." Under such circum stances it is beyond the power of mortal man to retain the fair use of all his talents; but he did retain theta to a - very ex traordinary degree, even to the end. When he concluded his speech, by telling us explicitly, " If you carry y our resolution, I will oppose you in going into a committee: if you go into a committee I will oppose you there: if you persevere in propos ing your address to the King. I will oppose you there: I will e il eese you at every stage in this proceeding; and if my oepo moon be unavailing, I will quit the situation in which his Ma jesty has done me the honour to place roe; for I will not be the iustrument for the carrying the principle of.your resolution into effect ;"—for my own part, while it was impossible foe me not to hear this with great approbation e —not to admire this part of the conduct of the minister,-1 cannot say that I did not hear these words with pleasure, as the announcement of the ap proaching end of his power.—Coua sere's It ceISTER. ELECTION FOR DROGHEDA.—Mr. Carew O'Dwyer is no longer member for Drogheda, and two candidates are already spoken of—.the lion. Iteutial Pluukett, and Mr. Wallace, the late member for Carlow. We sincerely hope that as far as re gards the first named geutletuan, the report may be found to he correct. Mr. Plunkett ptrssesses talents, station, and character, that would render hint a tit representative for an y const i tuency in the empire; and instances of his zeal, integrity, and princi ples, have been given, sufficient to entitle him to the support of every honest and honourable man, nut only upon political grounds, but upon sentiments of pure pattiotism and love of Ireland. We have no authority l'r absolutely stating that Mr. Pluukett will be a candidate; but we think such an event ex ceedingly probable, and we would, therefore, caution the electors to hold themselves disengaged—at It ast, until the formal pecisien of the cenonittee in respect to Mr. O'Dwyer ehall have been officiailv announced.—Dublin livening Mail. erINVALID AEDSTEAD.—An invalid bedstead of most ingeni ous construction las been exhibited during the last week at St. George's Hospital, to the medical geritleinen. It affords ex traordinary ease and comfort to the sick—changes the position of the patient, however helpless he may be, to whatever is le- Ruired, whether for comfort or surgical purposes—effects an en tire change of bed and bedding in two minutes, and is con verted into an easy chair. All its operations are condticted by a single attendant, with very little exertion, and without the least inconvenience to the sufferer, or once touching or exposiug him. • The machinery, which is concealed, is of very simple con struction, and admirably constructed for the purpose, being di seated of all noise or jarring.—True Sun. - 'The French adopt an ineentous and simple method to increase the quantity of blood abstracted by a leech ; they nip of a small piece of his tail, alter the leech has fixed itself, by which means the flood flows off the wound as fast as it is sucked in by the mouth; and the same effect is obtained by puncturing the tail with the point of a lancet.—Weatlierhead on Headaches. An ancient, and, in these peaceful times, a very singular custom still prevails at Newcasitle-on-Tvne, in connection with ! the assizes for the Northern Ciicuit. "Before the Judges set . out on their journey from Newcastle to Carlisle the Mayor has to present their Lordships with a certain piece of money for the purchase of daggers to defend themselves with on the road.— Carlisle Patriot. In some parts of Bokhara the people shoe their horses with the antlers of the mountaindeer. They form the horn into a suitable shape. and fix it on the hoof with iron pins, never re newing it till fairly worn out. Advices from Rouse state that the members of some of 'the most illustrious Itaiien families have recently had themselves admitted knights of Malta. An eruption of Mount Vesuvius took place on the 13th': tilt. accompanied by remarkable phenomena. A new crater sud denly opened and vomited smoke and a quantity of stones. On :lie elth the bottom of that opening appeared illuminated, with flames of different -colours, and a fright ful .noise was heard underneath. Smoke and flames also issued from two fissures of the oft c rater. The pheuontena are considered as the forerun ners of a'graud eruption. Tue. DURHAM CONSERVATIVES.—We are glad to perceive that te.e conservative interest of this important county are at length fairly aroused. A short time ago we announced the formation of a " Loyal and Constitutional Society" at Suudet laud, and we have this week the pleasure of reeerding that the example hits been followed by the searrety less irepoitant town of South Shields. In the mean time we shall .only once more exhort all conservatives to energy, and we trust thltr ere long we shall be abie to record the complete organization of the conservative body of this county. It is erne that the present imbecile—we use a gentle phrase—nnentiers for the northern division were " ielieved" from the trouble of attending the House of C ommons .—P ut h am Adverti'er. Mt eic t e ee Coeimatrioes.—Sir Francis Paigrave, one of the commissioners for inquiring into municipal corporations in Englatel and Wales, has entered a protest respectieg the mat ter contained in the report of the coretnissiotiers presented to parliament a few days ago. On the motion of Mr. Secretary - Goulburn on Saturday morning, the said protest has been ordered to be laid before pailiatrient. THE IIiISH COURT. --Y ear s have rolled away since th e festi vities of th e Viceregal ciiiirt have been conducted with th a t ele gance and deenrum which dignify hospitality and grace wen t:ow. The parties now are - frequent—almost daily ; and the company invited surh only as from their station or rank ate cal culated to give eclat to the seriee•nf splendid en t erta i nments at present in progress. Time was that the introduction to the Castle circle was the passport to good society heyuud it s pee.. chiefs ; but of late years, the fact of being a guest at the Vicere gal table was in itself an exclusion from the higher orders. We hope and trust to see matters once more set upon a proper foot ing; and eritainly the Earl and Countess of Hadoington are taking the beg pessible means of eirreting that m os t d es i ra bl e e tae e t. This is not as question op parte or of plates. It is one ill "filch the character o f the nation is concerned—which deeply t Iy in Ireland, and i n w hi c h t h e i nterests ni estintry—of the artitatt an d nterhanee a . fi tT,e ts r stale o f o s f otihiee t the trader and the artist, the manufacturer and the shopkeeper ace deeply and vitally involved. Were we dispeetd to pay per sima I c oniplimeuts—eve understand that the kinulv urbanity of the Lord Lieutenant, and the condescending blentlness of his amiable Countess, aided by the cousioerate attentions of every member of their household, would attire ample tc .pe for praise and panegyric. But we really take this up upon public go quids and, so long, as we are to have a court in helmt, all must con e cur with us in wishing to see it conducted as becomes an esteb lishme tit presided over by the representatiyeeof majesty. 'e he exainple set by their excellencies ire being.fsibovred by all the fashietiable ; and a great num b er o f nodality a nd cannily rest dents haying come to D u bli n; t h e season moralises to be oue of the gayest that has occurred for malty veers. 'Fee Liv i Rporpl Anneees.—An error creet inte the estimate given of the nemeer of signatures attached to the addres s t o Sir Robert Peel, in •I'LleS(l4l;'S STANDARD. The signeure sheets contained, in a separate column, the iesidence of each 'terve). who signed the addrese. These the vonne man sent to snake the inquire. at a late hour on Monday eventne, mistook fi'r names. hence the mistake. the total number of signatures affixed to th e adores was 6.659. These were taken between four o'clock ou Saturday and eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, I '1