The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

LIVER THEA.TRE, CHURCII-STREET First Appearance of Mrs. WAYLETT, the celebrated Vo calist and Actress, from the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane, Covent-garden, Haymarket, &c. Mr. and Mrs. RAYAIOND, Mr. TILBURY, and Mr. and Mrs. HIGGIE. Mr. ALEXANDER LEE, the celebrated Musical Compo ser, is engaged for a limited period, and will preside at the Pianoforte during Mrs. Waylett's engagement. THIS present TUESDAY, the 29th, and TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the 30th instant, the Entertainments will commence with the admired Drama of BLUE JACKETS; OR, FEMALE SAILORS. Admiral Trunnion. Mr. Tilbury. Fanny Trunnion... .. Mrs. Waylett! Lieutenant Fireflly To which will be added a new laughable Interlude, called FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Raymond. . Maitland Mrs. Waylett. Mrs. Dorothy Mode Mrs. Raymond. In the course of the evening Mrs. Waylett will sing seve ral new and highly popular Songs. To conclude with a new and successful Drama, entitled JANE LOMAX; OR, A MOTHER'S CRIME Mr. Lomax Mr. Simon Mollypop Spratt Mr. C. F. Marshall. Jane Lomax Mrs. Gordon. Mrs. Mollypop Spratt Mrs. Raymond. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d.—Second Price, Half past Eight : Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; no Second Price to the Gallery. THE THREE CARACCI, FOUNDERS OF THE BOLOGNESE SCHOOL. THE celebrated PAINTINGS o f SU BJECTS f rom RE LIGIOUS HISTORY, by Annibal, Agostino, and Lu dovico Caracci, are NOW ON VIEW, at the UNION GALLERY, Slater-street, out of Bold-street, from Nine o'clock till Four, by Day-light. Admittance, One Shilling; Children, Sixpence. In the Evening, from Five o'clock till Ten, brilliantly Illuminated with Gas. Admittance, Six pence. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. N.B.—Good Fires are kept in the Room, which will be found of a pleasant temperature. THE CARACCI NOTICE. MR. BENTLEY being desir ous th a t th e ce l e b ra t e d Pic tures of Scriptural Subjects, by these great Masters, should be seen by all classes, with a view of diffusing a taste for the Fine Arts has fixed the T erms f or th e E ven i ng Exhi bition of these Pictures at SIXPENCE, that rate to com mence at Five o'clock. The Union Room is brilliantly lighted by Gas whenever the daylight beo'ins N.8.--,Good` Fires aT6 — kilirin the 11:00m, which will El found of a pleasant temperature. Slater-street Union Gallery. TO CORRESPONDENTS DEATHS OF CHILDREN FROM THE INJUDICIOUS ADMI NISTRATION OF OPIATES.—In our report of an important case of the death of a child, in our last publication, it was inadvertently stated in effect, that thecoroner, Mr. Curry, in his remarks to the jury, had condemned the practice of mere druggists " dispensing medicines." The mistake would doubtless be apparent to most of our readers, inas much as all druggists arc dispense's of medicines. It should have been reported in the strong language of the coroner, that " prescribing druggists were a pest to society." In the letter of " Pacianus," inserted in our last there were two typographical errors. Instead of " such as reading the seven penitentiEe psalms," read " such as reading the seven penitential psalms ;" and instead o f " th e p en it en t paying by his link s ," rea " the penitent paying by his works." We have received the sum of ss. from the Rev. Mr. Bates towards the " Ccse of Distress" recently advertised in this paper. ne Zibrrpool `xtranbatt. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1840 'Whatever difference of opinion may exist upon Lord Palmerston's foreign policy, it is not disputed by any party that the Whigs have enjoyed a large share of luck. They have had it in India, in Syria, in China, in Canada—abroad more than at home, but everywhere a little—and the year " eighteen hundred and forty"— an annus mirabilis of good fortung in their annals—is now about to terminate, leaving them in possession of all the honours and all the emoluments of their posi tion. There is something, however, in this universal and unanimous ascription of luck which must propor tionably substract from the "absolute wisdom" of their administration. People may rejoice to find them selves happily delivered from dangers and perils which put them in some alarm, and bless their stars that they had a "lucky" ministry at the helm, who, if entitled to little credit for nautical science, have evidently shewn that there is a providence which, under peculiar cir cumstances, supplies what is wanting in the feeble and incapable, or corrects the blunders of the rash and ob stinate. Success is certainly an admirable cloak for error, and, like charity, doth cover " the multitude of sins," At the same time we do not travel with those who dwell with excessive complacency on the aspect of our foreign relations. The amount of success attribu ted to the administration of that department seems to us to be exaggeratetryana whatever gootriurri attended it, we attribute, not to the sagacity of Lord Palmerston, or the foresight and preparedness of mi nisters, but to the reliquia of those institutions, and of that admirable system which has long since raised this country to that proud elevation which she holds in the world—the first and foremost amongst the nations of the earth. It is not to the men whose unpardonable neglect of the Navy would have placed us in jeopardy, had a war suddenly commenced, that we shall ascribe the glory of a great naval achievement. Let Napier wear the laurels which he has fairly won. Assuredly we shall not bind them upon the brow of Lord Pal merston. But is the Syrian question definitively set tled ? Is the decheanee of Mehemet Ali indeed recalled by the Sultan ? or would the most satisfactory ar rangement of the whole matter in dispute remove from us the hazard of that "incident" to the affair which was the only one of real consequence throughout— namely, a collision with the French ? The collision, indeed, has been avoided hitherto on our part happily in such a manner as not to tarnish, in the slightest de gree, but to add fresh lustre to the glory of old Eng land; but surely it would be monstrous to tie up in one bundle all the grand characteristics of the nation, to which, under Providence, we may rightfully attri bute the avoidance in question, and ley them at the feet of Lord Palmerston as an appropriation due only to himself ! We know not what may be the precise amount of influence which his lordship possesses over the Press, or whether there be any more than the one evening paper in the metropolis under the slightest ob ligation to laud his wisdom or extol his measures ; but there can be no mistake on this point—namely, that the tone taken almost universally by the English jour nals with respect to the bullying menaces and fanfar ronade of the French, came very powerfully in aid of other demonstrations of British power, and that this tone could not have been communicated to the Press by any one member of the Cabinet, or the whole of them together. How came the Press then to hit it so nicely, and to adopt it so uniformly ? Very obviously from this cause—that the Press consulted the feelings of the nation, and faithfully and correctly expressed them. Its conductors and writers might possibly have consulted only their own feelings, and have spoken but their own spontaneous sentiments; but they are Eng lishmen accustomed to think and feel as Englishmen upon all great national questions which concern the exterior relations of - the kingdom; and when they treated the pompous preparations, and all the noise and bluster of the French with quiet disregard—when they pursued the even tenour of their way undisturbed by the furies of M. Thiers, and all that costly spectacle which he was exhibiting before the eyes of astonishtd Europe, they could not but be identified with, and speak as the organs of the universal English people. In fact, let us only weigh the foreign minister fairly amid exactly in the balance, and instead of bringing down the scales clanking to the ground with the pon derous load of his virtues, we shall find him actually kicking the beam from a marvellous lack in the most essential qualities of a British statesman. We grant him fortunate ; but there is no prestige accompanying the individual : his good fortune is the mere accident of his position. It is the eminent domestic virtues of the people of England that constitute the strength of their foreign policy. Brilliant victories and territorial conquests, or even the most successful course of di plomacy, are not the true criterion of national great ness properly understood ; and no rulers with whom the cultivation and maintenance of the domestic cha- racter is not a paramount and primary concern — whatever " luck" may attend them in the administra tion of exterior concerns—are worthy of their posts. Now in this respect, we submit that the Whigs have not only a character to make, but a character to Lose. The world lays all before them " where to choose their place of rest ;" the ground has to be cleared for their exhibition; everything remains yet to be done; their very "schoolmaster" is "abroad." The tastes which heretofore they have exhibited are anything but na tional ; the education which they would impart to the people is, as We have hinted, of foreign extraction, and their very supplement to its deficiencies is the espio nage of a universal police system, copied also, we need not say, from abroad. Are we to ascribe, then, to the liberalism of Whiggery, what has been fairly earned When the mendicant impostor, who sways the coun cils of her Majesty's ministers, makes sale of his influ ence to any party or cause, in the transfer is included not only a parliamentary tail of some forty-odd joints, but an additional appendage of the same nature, and of still more formidable length, which is not, however, entitled to dangle from his most sweet person within the walls of the House of Commons. The Roman Catholic priesthood of Ireland—the reverend disciples of Peter Dens and "John Tuam"—form the joints of this auxiliary appendage ; and kvhilst Daniel and the tail portable" are pursuing their virtuous occupa tions on the ministerial benches, tile supplementary engine is left to work out the various engagements of its proprietor in his own country—to wind its serpent form over the face of unhappy Ireland, and to defile with its impurities, or to goad with its venom, the hearts of her wretched and debased population. Amongst his other claims upon the consideration of the weakheaded portion of the community, it will be remembered that of late this shameless impostor has paraded rather ostentatiously his connexion with the Anti-Slavery Society, and expatiated loudly upon the services which he has himself rendered to the cause of Ahia.netzro,. ~Kpon _one , occasion, it is true, those ser- vices were 'repudiated. The arch-agitator was not allowed, on the occasion of introducing the African colonisation scheme, to raise his voice in the presence of the consort of royalty. But that temporary morti fication was afterwards abundantly rewarded, the suf ferer being received with open arms by the followers of the Rev. Mr. Knibb, the persevering opponents of our West Indian colonists. Sir Thos. Fowell Buxton wanted the aid of moral influence and high personal character to his colonisation scheme; and that aid Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P. for Dublin, had not to confer. The Anti-Slavery Society, on the contrary,—whose professions, reduced to practice, do seem to us to con sist more in a bitter and deeply-rooted hostility to the interests of the West Indian planters, than in any re gard to humanity in the abstract,—were satisfied even with the advocacy of the betrayer of the factory chil dren (on an occasion and for a consideration which Sir Thomas Potter, Knight, late sham Mayor of Man chester, could explain); and according the Member for Dublin (for another valuable consideration doubt , less) is now the active and honoured (?) organ of that society. In this character, at a late repeal meeting held at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, the " impostor" was taken with a fit of virtuous horror at the recognition by Lord Palmerston of the independence of Texas—a slave-holding and slave-trafficking country. With this portion of his performance, however, we have at present nothing to do, although it may perhaps be come a question hereafter whether the Texan republic is not as worthy of our alliance as another slave-hold ing republic, not far from it, which is held up as a model for even Great Britain to imitate. Our object is only to shew the readiness with which he makes the Irish priesthood—the supplementary tail of which we have spoken—the agents and instruments of any scheme upon the working out of which he has set his mind, or for which he has " got his price." It appears, then,—seipso testante,—that vessels are at present being chartered from some of the ports of Ireland, for the purpose of receiving emigrants to Texas and to the island of Jamaica; and the " impos tor" is horrified at the prospect of his starving fellow countrymen venturing themselves to either of these shocking places,—the former being cursed with the actual presence of slavery, and the latter, although a free British colony, being under the ban of Messrs. Knibb and Co., and possessing in addition an un healthy climate—a climate, - by the way, in which the same reverend gentleman and a number of his tribe both live and grow fat, and which the present Gover nor Metcalfe, in his last address, describes as being " in the highlands delightful and healthy for Europeans and inhabitants of all countries." At any risk, how ever, emigration to proscribed Jamaica—we omit Texas, for we do not think O'Connell cares a rush for it-- must be put a stop to; the Jamaica planters must not be allowed to avail themselves of the supply of free labour which might offer itself, and the securing of which is admitted to be the only means to ward off imminent ruin from the colony, and to prevent the favourite measure of the colonists being an utter failure. A committee is accordingly to be formed in Ireland—a committee of repealers—" for watching all sea-ports, so that when vessels should arrive in them looking for emigrants to Jamaica, the Catholic clergy should be instructed to warn the inhabitants of the dan ger and horrible consequences (I) of embarking in these vessels" ! Here, then, the supplementary tail is at once set in motion, to terrify the poor benighted bogtrotter with the awful story of danger and "horrible consequences." How coolly and dictatorially the various joints are to "be instructed" ! In what a state of absolute bon dage must be these spiritual instructors of the people, who can be thus peremptorily called upon to become the blind agents of this man's unprincipled ambition ! Yet it is plain that their aid is part and parcel of the contract, whether it be made with the enemies of the West Indian body, or with the Lichfield -house con spirators—whether its object be to cast further obloquy and further difficulty in the path of an already impo verished class of our fellow -countrymen, or to precipi tate another " Rathcormac," whose tale of blood may furnish to Whig-Radicalism a theme for electioneering controversy, and filthy and unprincipled personal slander. Faugh ! the contemplation is sickening. We are sorry to perceive, from the last number of the Limerick Standard, that a public meeting was held in that city, on Wednesday last, for the purpose of dissuading emigrants from proceeding to Jamaica. From the imperfect report which our contemporary furnishes of the proceedings which took place on the occasion, we infer that the good folks of Limerick have been egregiously imposed upon by a Mr. Moore, who is described as on e o f t h e d elegates of the Anti- Slavery Society. Who this individual may be it does not concern us to inquire; with his statements, how ever, we shall deal as we find them. This individual undertook to denounce the " iniquitous system of emigration to Jamaica," forgetting that all the iniquity of that system consists in the opposition of free labour in our own colonies to the system of slave labour in foreign countries. This is the simple object which the Emigration Society seek to accomplish ; and in the accomplishment of this object they employ neither falsehood, force, stratagem, nor any oth er unfair means. The plans of the society are before the pub lic; and we defy any man of candour to point out anything objectionable in those plans. They do not involve anything which is in the slightest degree dis reputable. They do not contain any statements which cannot be verified ; neither do they hold out any pro mises which may not be literally fulfilled. The anti-slavery delegate proceeds to state that the " whole weight of the guilt " of encouraging emigra tion from Ireland to Jamaica "lay upon the legislative council of that island, with Sir Charles Metcalfe at their head." That body is accused of holdin g out inducements to the Irish peasantry to proceed to •Jamaica, telling them that they will have to work but nine hours in the day. This is true; but we cannot discover any thing "iniquitous" in such a repre sentation. But the delegate roundly asserts that "it would be impossible for an European to work in the o p e n air four hours m the climate of Jamaica, and live." This assertion can only apply to some of the lowlands in the island, and in those it was never in tended to locate the Irish emigrants. These are wanted for the more elevated districts, where nine hours' labour in the open air is scarcely half so severe as that which the Irish peasantry undergo in England during harvest time. The manner in which this veracious delegate seeks to prove his assertion is so unique and original, that we cannot resist the temptation to quote by the essentially conservative character of Toryism The "luck" of Whigs does not alter their character and can never re conc il e us t o their principles. What ever they have had, we trace up to the sterling virtues and righteous sentiments still prevalent in the country, 1.• 'which have stood firm against all the attempts of the Whigs and their foreign-educated advisers—Popish priests and Jesuits from Ireland included. We wish to settle accounts at the close of the year, and, upon a careful examination of the books, we are happy to find that we owe them nothing. We set their domestic against their foreign policy, and we take comfort in discovering that the balance in their favour is just— nil. his words. He says,—" He held in his hand the testi mony of a British sailor, a man in the same rank of life as the peasantry them Selves. A teetotaller, and, therefore, a man worthy of credit; and his testimony was, that when a vessel visited Port-Royal, and re mained four or five weeks, the captain thought himself well off if he returned with one-third of her crew. Such is the climate to which they were about to be entrapped by the Emigration Society." A stay of " four or five weeks," at an inclement period of the year, on the most unhealthy part of the coast, is considered sufficient to justify the assertion that Irish labourers could not work four hours in the day in the interior of the island ! Preposterous ! The assertion that the emigration system is " a sla very akin to that of the Hill Coolies " contains two distinct falsehoods. It is false to allege that the Hill Coolies are reduced to anything like a condition of sla very in any part of the West Indies. It is equally false to assert that the Irish emigrants will be required to do the same work, or will be p!aced in the same con dition, as the Hill Coolies. It is also a falsehood that " the Hill Coolies cannot work beneath the sun of the Mauritius or British Guiana." There are official docu ments extant, which abundantly disprove these lying statement s. The Hill Coolies are so satisfied with their treatment in British Guiana, that they are anxious to lave their friends and relatives out to share their lot. It is truly sickening to read the palpable and flagrant falsehoods which are daily put forth to delude the popu lace on the subject of the West Indies, and especially with reference to the climate of those colonies. These falsehoods can only originate in consummate and inex cuseable ignorance, or in deliberate villany. One thing, however, is satisfactory—they carry with them their own refutation. We rejoice to find that the Soup Committee have put forth their annual appeal on behalf of the poor, - and that subscriptions. to a considerable amount, haVe been already obtained. Owing to the severe weather which we have lately experienced, and the non-arrival of foreign vessels in our port, employment has become scarce; and the consequent privations under which the labouring classes are suffering, loudly demand the benevolent Lid of those who are placed in affluent circumstance: , . We trust that the appeal, which ap pears in another column, will not be made in vain, but that a sufficient amount will be speedily realised to preserve the poor of the town from the aggravated horrors of hunger and starvation. As there is every prospect of a protracted frost it is probable that a larger outlay than usual will be called for. LOCAL NEWS, SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The second concert for the - season will take place this evening at the Theatre-Royal. It s expected that there will be a very full house. The excel- Lence of the pry 'gramme will ensure a delightful evening. LIVER THEATRE.—Mrs. Waylett appeared here last even ng. There was a very excellent house. Her voice is as ascinating as ever. We shall notice the proceedings there in )ur next. tiMPITITHEATR.E.—The Life of Napoleon was produced at Is theatre on Saturday. The incidents of the piece are of 3 most stirring character. The dresses are new, and the scenery has been painted expressly for, the occasion. Mr. Gomersal's Napoleon is an admirable performance. His making up amounts W identity. The horsemanship is very extraordinary. Mr. Cooke's scenes in the circle are equal to Ducrow's in his best days. THREATENING FIRE ON BOARD OF A SHlP.—Yesterday evening, about seven o'clock, whilst a number of workmen were employed on the bottom of the ship England, belong ing to Mr. Duncan Gibb, and lying in the north end of the Brunswick Graving-dock, the flames from the pitch-pots below ignited the lower part of the starb.ard fore-rigging, and the vessel became consequently in imminent danger. The fire first ran up the foretopmast backstays, and after wards reached the fore-shrouds. The police-officer in watch of the lights immediately gave the alarm, and the word being passed, police-officer 172, Edward Smith, of the fire depart ment, who was at the time in' Castle-street, was speedily on the spot with a powerful engine, and, with the assistance of some of the smaller dock-engines of the Brunswick Dock, the conflagration was subdued in little more than half an hour, under the able superintendence of Mr. Whitty, chief constable, and Mr. Quick and Mr. Hewitt, superintendents, all of whom were present—to use the words of a bystander, "in quick sticks." The dock engines were first on the ground, but their power of raising water to a height is not so great as that of the fire station engines, and they were con sequently not so effective. The ship England is a very large and handsome North American-built vessel, and was, we learn, at the time, being coppered and otherwise fitted up. She had no cargo on board ; but had the fire police not been efficient, she would have fallen a prey to the flames, and the whole of the neighbouring shipping would have been placed in the utmost peril. The damage is not great in amount— probably little more than the fore backstays, and shrouds, on the starboard side. ALLEGED CASE OF RAPE. —Yesterday, at the office of John Shaw Leigh, Esq. Leigh-street, a young man named John Tobin, a carpenter, aged about 20, was charged before Thomas Rodick, Esq., county magistrate, with the commis sion of a rape, in a field near Walton, on the person of a female of 15 or 16 years of age. The evidence having been fully investigated, the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next assizes. We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the tooth-ache. — See adv. DANCING.—The votaries of Terpsichore will perceive that Mr. Harwood continues his instructions. Mr. Harwood is one of the best masters in Liverpool; his style is graceful without being showy, and such as is easily acquired, and ap propriate to private life. • - • LAWTON'S CHRISTMAS GAME PIE. — We enjoyed last night a rich repast while partaking of a portion of the con tents of one of the far-famed Christmas Pies of Mr. Law ton, of the Rainbow Hotel. It is no exaggeration to state that we have rarely tasted any thing so delicious. The dimen sions of this mammoth pie were as following :—Circumfer mice 75 inches, depth 9 inches, length 25 inches, and width 22:inches. It contained 1 large goose, 2 turkeys, 2 pheasants, 2 capons, 2 grouse, 2 fowls, 2 hares, 1 large tongue, 1 leg of mutton, 1 fillet of veal, a ham, 6 lbs. of rump steaks, 4 lbs. of force meat, 4 lbs. of butter, 6 lbs. of beef suet, and 30 lbs. of flour. It weighed 103 lbs. before baking. We will back Lawton against all England for Christmas pies and —milk-punch. Those of our friends who wish t o have a truly magnificent " set out" for a Christmas party, cannot do better than order one of Mr. Lawton's pies. By the bye, as we have heard that his worship the Mayor is going to give a grand winter entertainment at the Town-hall shortly, we would suggest that a couple of these pies would look remark ably well on the civic table. We are glad to learn that Mr. Lawton has already received a great number of orders for Lis exquisite pies. DESPERATE ASSAULT AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—OD Wednesday night last, about seven o'clock, Mr. Joseph Led son, farmer, of Sephton, was returning home from Mr. Henry Ambrose's, of Stand-park, accompanied by his wife and a man in the service of Ambrose, named Phelim Reynolds. Reynolds carried a lantern, and, in crossing a field, pretended to hear the sound of some persons approaching. Ledson, who was somewhat in liquor, exclaimed, " Come on, lads, let's have your company." Upon this Reynolds whistled, and three men suddenly made their appearance. Reynolds exchanged some words with the men, and ran off. They then attacked Ledson, between whom and his assailants a strug gle ensued. He was thrown down, and, when down, one of the fellows placed his foot on his neck. Mrs. Ledson, who was endeavouring to assist her husband, here exclaimed, " Don't kill him : He has no money! I'll give you all I have !" She then gave the money she had in her pocket, amounting to nearly ten pounds. The fellows had, however, known that Ledson had a watch : this they tried to force out of his fob ; but he stoutly resisted, and, the chain break ing, they made off without the watch. Ledson was severely bruised in the struggle, and, when he reached home, was co vered with blood. Reynold's, Ambrose's man, was after wards taken into custody, on suspicion of having acted in concert with the three robbers. He was examined, on Thurs day, before Charles Birch, Esq., and remanded until a sub sequent day.—Yesterday, Reynolds (whose name it would appear is Patrick Conway), and three other men, James Moon, Thomas Kearns, and Daniel Connolly, were brought before the Rev. Mr. Formby, and Thomas Birch, Esq. county magistrates, on suspicion of being implicated in the robbery. Mrs. Ledson was the principal witness, and recapitu lated the facts as above stated. She believed, from the dress and accent of the parties who attacked them, that they were Irish. Reynolds, who carried a lantern while with them, ran off with it after the attack was made, and was not seen for some days after wards. Squire Wovendon, supelintendent of the county , police, stated that he had received information which ena bl e d him to bring forward evidence to implicate the prisoner Reynolds, if he were remanded until Wednesday. He added, that in consequence of a description he had received from Mrs. Led son of the persons who had robbed her and her husband, he hadapprehended the prisoner Patrick Conway, alias Reynolds. He had made inquiry and found that Conway and the other three prisoners were in the service of Mr. Garner, near the place where the robbery was committed, and had left his service on the evening of the 23d. The prisoners were taken into custody late on Sunday evening. The case having been fully investigated so far, the prisoners were remanded until Wednesday at half-past ten o'clock. CAUTION TO THE SERVANTS OF THE DOCK TRUST. — Yesterday, at the Police-court, James Bamfield, a pier master, appeared before Mr. Rushton, to vindicate himself from a charge of having received a sum of money from the captain of a vessel, which vessel was placed on the grid iron —the inference being that the defendant had re ceived the same as a bribe. Mr. Askew, the Harbour master, was present. The defendant was permitted to state his own case. He said, that a vessel called the Newport was placed on the gridiron belonging to his depart ment ; that he had by mistake reported her as having been on for two tides, and that she was in fact on for three tides. Some explanation was gone into showing the prices made by the Dock Trust for vessels lying a certain number of tides on the gridiron. It appeared from this that for a vessel of the tonnage named, the charge for the two first tides was 30s ; that the third tide was not charged if she remained on; and that the charge tor the fourth tide, inclusive, was £2 ss. The pier -master said that lie had been accused of receiving ss. from the captain of the Newport. He had, he acknow ledged, received that sum after a second and urgent proffer from the captain, when he had assisted in the mooring of his vessel—a very sharp-built one—and also in securing her on the gridiron. He had had no conversation or communication with the captain as to the tide-charges; and, be repeated, he had reported the vessel a tide shorter by mistake alone. The captain of the Newport was present in court, and was about to make a statement in exculpation of his gift to the pierhead master ; but as there was no direct testimony against_ him, hi s i ntended explanation was staved. Mr. Rushton, addressing the pier -master, said it was contrary to the laws ;aid regulations of the Dock Trust for any of their servants to receive a gratuity; that what had transpired gave rise to an inference that something wrong had taken place ; and that he (the pier-master) might possibly be yet proceeded against by information for receiving the money. He then strongly admonished the captain of the vessel on his conduct, adding, that a repetition of it would involve him in serious difficulties. It is but justice to state, that, in reply to Mr. Rushton's questions, th e pier -master stated that he had been five years in the same capacity, and that he had been thirteen years in the service of the Dock Trustees. CHESTE R AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—Since the late reduction in the fares upon this line, the number of passen gers has co ns id era bl y i ncreased. On Christmas Day there were upwards of 1800, and on Saturday last more than 1000. There is every prospect of the line becoming one of the most prosperous in the kingdom. REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF L ONGEVITY.—The late Ann Jones, who resided in the cellar of No. 3 house, Lower Mann-street, Toxteth-park, attained the age of one hundred years and upwards, and her death was duly registered on the lith of No vem b er , 1840 , b y the registrar of the district. BOROUG H GAOL.—Friday, being Christmas day, the mayor, T. Bolton, Esq., presented to each debtor two lbs. beef, two lbs. bread, two lbs. potatoes, and one quart of ale. The priso ners on th e cr i m i nal side of the gaol, also partook of a portion of the mayor's bounty, in a plentiful supply of beef, bread and potatoes. BRANDY AND SALT.—There appears to be great dissension as to the efficacy of this medicine ; some contending that it is mere quackery—others that it is a universal panacea. Two cases of its efficacy have, however, come to our knowledge this week. The one is of a man who had had a large wen upon his head for several years, which he rubbed with the mixture until this awkward appendage had entirely disap peared. In the other case it was applied for ear-ache by a man who had been almost deaf for many years—the result of a stroke of lightning. The mixture cured the ear -ache ; but its efficacy went further. In a short time after its applica tion the patient felt a loud crack -within the ear, which he describes as being like the report of a pistol, immediately after which he could hear almost as plainly as ever he could. Previous to the brandy and salt being applied, he was so deaf as to be unable to hear the low octave of a fife, even when he was himself playing it; he can now hear the ticking of the clock, the rustling of the leaves, &c. These are facts.— Halifax Guardian. EMBEZZLEMENT. —Sarah Mowbray was charged, before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, with having embezzled the sum of £2 10s., the property of her master, Mr. Arthur Law rence, a firework manufacturer. In the moi,,u tq' October last Mr. Lawrence sent the prisoner, who awn in his service, to the house of a Mrs. Birchall, with a parcel of fire works, for which she was authorized to receive the sum of £2 10. She obtained the money and absconded. Mr. Law rence discovered her, on Saturday morning, at the Low-bill Workhouse. He caused her to be apprehended. On her way to Briclewell, she said to the constable, that she had been residing with a woman in the Park, who, when all the money was expended, turned her out, after which she sought refuge in the Workhouse. She was committed for trial. A DOUBLE DECEPTION.—George Burns, a mean-looking man, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having robbed Mr. John Riddlesworth, of Wigan, of his watch, It appeared, that, on Friday night last, Mr. Riddlesworth and some friends engaged a car, the driver of which was Robert Hughes, to convey them to King-street. Mr. Riddlesworth was sli g htly intoxicated. The prisoner got on the box, the parties who had engaged the car believing him to be a friend to the driver, while he satified the latter that he was a friend of Mr. Riddlesworth, whom he had very officially assisted into the car, and whom he, with equal assi duity, helped out again. When the party had entered the house in King-street, Mr. Riddlesworth missed his watch. On inquiry, the false representation of the prisoner was dis covered, and he was given into the custody of police-officer Harrison, who put him inside the car and took him to Bride well. Having secured him, the officer sought under the seat, where he found the watch concealed amongst some hay. The prisoner denied the charge, and was committed for trial. STRANGE ANIMAL. —At a recent meeting of the Zoolo gical Society, the secretary read a communication made to Lord Francis Egerton, by one of the agents on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, respecting an animal said to have been repeatedly seen in Loch Assynt. In the autumn of 1837, it was observed by two youn g men, Kenneth M`Leod and Donald M`Kay, who were fishing in the loch. It appeared close to the end of their fishing-rods, and is described by them as having large eyes, and it opened its mouth so wide that " they could see down to its very heart." The colour was grey, the hair like bristles, the tusks large, the ears hanging down like those of a s heep-dog, the shape of the head altogether was like a bull -dog, but broader. It was seen again soon afterward s o n a s mall island, in the loch, and is described as about the size of a stirk, but broader in the back, about three feet high, w ith four legs, like those of a pig, but stouter. Th e descri p ti o n given by other persons of it correspond generally with the above. It was seen five times in three years—the last time in 1839. ROBBERY BY A DISSOLUT E F EN lALE.—Catharine Mitchell was, on Saturday last, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having robbed Richard Pritchard of bis watch. It ap peared, that, about nine o'clock on Thursday night, the com plainant was turning into Vauxhall-road when the prisoner accosted him. He entered into conversation with her, and proceeded with her as far as Banastre-street, when, accord ing to his account, he refused to go any further; however, he subsequently suffered her to lead him by the arm into a long, dark entry, injNorthampton-street. There she snatched his watch from his fob and ran o ff with it. He immediately went and gave information to police-officer Garvey. Garvey went in search of the prison er , w hom he met in Marybone. She accosted him, sayin g , " I h ave been at Bigham's to pledge a watch and they have stopped it : if you will go with me there and say that all is r i g h t, you s hall have one half." He took her into custody and conducted her to Pritchard, who said she was the wom an th at h a d robbed him. 'They next proceeded to Bigham's, where the watch was found. The Prisoner, in her defence, said, the complainant, having no money, had given her the watch to pledge. She was com mitted for trial RINGING THE CHANGES WITH A VENGEANCE Tuesday last, an occurrence of an exaaordinary nature came to the knowledge of the inhabitants of Whiddon, near Rain bill. In the course of the day a plain-looking woman, with a child in her arms, walked into the " Hanging Birch," a small beer-shop at Whiddon, and called for a glass of ale. This request was addressed to the female who kept the house, who, at the time, was busily employed in preparing a batch of bread for the oven. She immediately abandoned her then occupation to wait upon her customer, and went down stairs to draw the beer, leaving her own infant in the cradle fast asleep. On her return from the cellar, the. land lady's surprise may be conceived at finding her customer had vanished, without waiting for the liquor she had been put to the trouble of drawing. The abrupt departure of her guest caused no suspicion at the moment of anything being wrong, as everything, on her return from below stairs, ap peared just as she had left them. In a little while, however, a discovery took place which nearly deprived the poor woman of her reason, and might have led to consequences not easily foreseen. The child in the' cradle having become restless, and notifying by loud screams that the attention of a parent would be desirable, the mother stooped to take it in her arms, when—who can describe the state of her feelings ? he found the infant quite black in the face! Thinking it was labouring under strong convulsions,. she posted off for medical assistance in a state of mind bordering on distrac tion. The medical man, on being consulted, declared that nothing on earth was the matter with the child, it being as healthy a babe as had lately come under his inspection ; and as for the darkness of its face, it was produced by natural causes, the fact being that the child was born black, for no other reason than because its progenitor must hare been of the same colour. The truth of the matter instantly flashed across the mind of the unhappy woman, and the conclusion was that her own " sweet babe" had been carried off by the stranger woman, who had substituted this precious picca ninny of ebony hue—a black child, on the principle that " exchange is no robbery." The hue and cry was instantly raised, but without leading to the discovery of the perpetra tor of this wanton and cruel outrage. It is thought that a sense of shame, induced by an illicit communion of the fe male with a man of colour, must have been th e cause o f h er ingenious this " ingeous device." The young " darky" who was of the genuine " double smut," and wou ld r i va l in lustre Morison's famous Japan, was immediately Vacked off to the workhouse, where we believe the " nigger ' still re mains, with but slender hopes of paternity, Be not incre dulous, gentle reader ! the foregoing is neither more or less than a plain statement of facts. — Chronicle. The opening of the entire line of railway from Camp-hill station, Birmingham, to Gloucester, to o k p l ace on Th urs d ay morning last; the trains have traver se d t h e l i nes w i t h out the slightest accident, and with as few delays as could have been expected, those stopping at the first-class stations having performed the total distance in two hours and a half. The whole routes from the rising port of Gloucester, Y the- key of South Wales, and from Cheltenha m , are nowopen by un interrupted lines of railway to Derbyshire, Staffordshire Lancashire, and Yorkshire.—Aries Bermikaham Gazette.' • OPENING or THE Soup KITCHENS.—In consequence of i THE REV. R. F. BUDDICOM, PRINCIPAL OF THE the severity of the season, a meeting of the Soup Committee COLLEGE OF ST. BEE§. was held on Thursday, at which it was resolved to open three public soup kitchens with as little delay at possible. We understand that the East Soup Kitchen will be opened to morrow, the South on Thursday, and the North Kitchen on Monday next FATAL ACClDENT. — Abourfive o'clock on Saturday after noon, a bov, about fourteen years of age, attempted to jump from the Rock Ferry steam-boat to one of the Birkenhead boats*, both of which were stationed opposite to St. George's Pierhead. The unfortunate youth missed his footing and fell between the two steamers. He was swept off by the tide and sank immediately. The most active search has been made for the body, but hitherto without success. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION. —We learn from a pamphlet just published by Mr. Ander son, that Count Walewski, in returning from Egypt to France, preferred taking his passage by the Oriental rather than in one of the French Government steamers to Marseilles. By proceeding in the Oriental, first to England and then to France, the Count actually shortened the time of his passage to Paris f uy a fortni g ht, an d avo id e d three weeks imprison ment in-the Lazaretto at Marseilles. CHRISTMAS IN THE WORKHOUSE.—An extremely grati fying spectacle was exhibited on Friday, at the Workhouse, where the paupers (to the number of sixteen hundred and up wards, besides three hundred children) were regaled with good old English cheer, namely, roast beef and plum-pud ding, and a pint of ale each. The overseers attended, and a great number of ladies and gentlemen were also present, and expressed themselves highly delighted both with the happy faces of the poor and the excellent manner and management of the Governor. The whole passed off with order, decorum, and great good will. ROBBERY OF WATCHES, IN PARADISE-STREET. Friday night week the shop of Mr. Aronson, jeweller, Para dise-street, was entered between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock, and twenty silver verge watches stolen therefrom. The premises must have been entered by means of skeleton keys, as none of the locks had been broken. A man always sleeps on the premises, but, not apprehending such a visit at that early hour, he went out to take his supper. It is sup posed, that the thief, or thieves, must have been disturbed, otherwise they might have carried off a much larger booty. .ftSTON POINT WATERMEN'S CHURCH.—It will be gra tifyiikg to all friends of morality among watermen, to hear that on this day of our publication, the foundations of this interesting sanctuary are to be commenced, and the cere monious laying of the first stone will shortly follow ; and thus we hope a work is undertaken which will, from generation to generation, hand down to the watermen of the Weaver navi gation, the doctrines and precepts of the pure gospel, as in culcated in the devotional services of our national apostolical church, and preached by her consecrated ministers. A greater boon could not be conferred upon this useful class of men, and we hope to hear of all the navigations in the king dom having their Watermen's Church and Minister attached to them.—Manchester Courier. MARINERS' CHURCH READING -ROOM AND SCHOOLS.— On Sunday, December 20, two sermons were preached in the Mariners' Church, in aid of the above, by the Rev. F. Ould and the Rev. J. H. Stewart. The collection in the morning amounted to £lO, and in the afternoon to £lll6s 6d. On the Wednesday following an examination of the children of the daily school took place, which afforded very great satisfaction to those who were present. EXTRAORDINARY RABBIT.—The largest-sized rabbit ever seen in this part of the country was exhibited for sale last week, at the shop of Mr. Fordham, poulterer, of Berry street, and attracted crowds of spectators. Its weight was 181bs. looz., and its age eight months. We understand, that it was fed by E. F. Whitenstall, Esq., of Langley Bery, Hertfordshire, on ale, grains, and barley-meal, and that it was exhibited at the last cattle show, in Lond on , w h ere i t carried off a pr i ze o f fi ve guineas. ' lts hair was of a jet black colour, and its length about two feet. INVITATION TO PRAYER. —WC beg to remind our readers that Friday next, the first day in the new year, has been ap pointed for holding simultaneous prayer meetings in con nection with several churches in the town in accord ance w i t h the recently published ` °l nvitation" of the Rev. J. H. Stewart. We understand that there will be divine service on that day, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at St. Bride's Church. when the sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered. We announced some time ful minister of St. Georee's go that th stimable and faith- ineumoent of the parish. The rev. gentleman has laboured in Evertou for a period of upwards of twenty-six years, and. departs from his flock, not only with many affectionate marks of their appreciation of his ministerial services, but with the offering of their prayers to the Most High, for his usefulness in the highly responsible situation to which he has been appointed. To describe the estimation in which Mr. Bud dicom is held, or the feelings which have been inspired by his removal, would require us to enter into the bosom of every member of his flock : the sensibilities of all are touched, and we cannot for a moment doubt that the reverend gentle man is himself one of the greatest sufferers. Mr. Buddicom took leave of his late charge on Sunday last. He delivered two sermons to them, one in the morn ing and the other in the evening. They were such discourses as might be expected on such an occasion : both were highly characterised by that refined illustrative eloquence for which Mr. Buddicom is celebrated, whilst in every passage he held up, not himself, but the adorable merits of God the Saviour. The sermon iu the evening was one of the most affecting ever delivered, even from that pulpit. Sterne says he saw the iron enter into the soul of the captive ; in like manner the " Finally, brethren, farewell," of Mr. Buddicom pierced the inmost heart of his sorrowing flock. In the morning, Mr. Buddicom selected as his text, part of the Ist verse of the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, " Who hath believed our report." From this text the rev. gentleman showed that the nature of the report he had made to his flock was one of mercy, that the revelation of it was exactly suited to their necessities, and that it was one about which they could not be indifferent. He next inquired what had been the result of the report to them, and concluded by an earnest and affectionate invitation to them to partake with him for the last time, of the Lord's Supper. In the evening, the text was from the 13th chapter of the 2nd epistle to the Corinthians, and the 11th verse—" Finally, brethren, farell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, and the God of love and peace shall be with you." We insert a few passages from this sermon— * * * " It is a solemn, and it is to me, and I believe to many of you, a very moirnful, time to say,—` finally, brethren, fare- • well.' What 'does it imply ? It implies converse and com munion in times past. That converse and communion we have had together, and for a longer period of time than usually falls to the lot of ministers in their spiritual and pastoral intercourse. I have not only been the minister of many of you who were in mature years when I entered upon this sphere of labour, but I have seen your children brought up ; I have lived to see the second generation : I have lived to see those children themselves fathers and mothers amongst us, so that time itself, as it were, sheds a hallowed and a mellowed feeling of a common interest between us. And I am quite prepared for the fact, which has been mentioned to me before, that it may be difficult for a time to find another minister who should supply the place of my poor self, be cause it is not possible that another minister should, without a long course, as it were, of residence among you, be able to enter so nearly, and, let me add, so dearly, as you have per mitted me to enter into your families, and into your concerns. The word of God, however, has told us that here we have no abiding city ; and though the providence of God has said to me `you have staid long enough on this mountain, turn you, and take your journey to another place,' believe me, my dear friends, that the sense of that intercourse which I have had with you, the sense of those sweet hours, and of that mutual pilgrimage that has been passed among you, will be fresh upon my memory so long as memory can retain im pressions. That time, however, and that relation are now past, and therefore `finally, brethren, farewell l' After having been here rooted and grounded, as it were, among you, it can be with no common feelings that those roots are separated, and the tree planted in its latter age in another soil. lam ar rived at that time of life when nature, as I have elsewhere said, seeks repose, and when the heart cleaves to those ob jects with which it has been long conversant. You, my hearers, are those objects. I did not seek this separation. It came, as I believe, in the providence of Almighty God. It was placed before me, and offered to me, as a situation in which I might yet do something to serve that cause which I hope I have at heart. Ido not go to a situation in which I shall have little to do and much to enjoy. Such a situation would indeed have been, even to me, little to my taste. Igoto a sphere of duty where there will be much mental labour, where there will be much cause for prayer, where there will be, perhaps, many discouragements, where the obligations laid ,upon me will be very solemn, and where the object of my charge will be the instruction of those who are them selves to be the instructors of others. I shall have to endeavour to explain and to announce the oracles of God, and the great scheme of Christian salvation, to those who are in their turns to be either the blessing or the curse of their congregations. To say ' farewell' at the close of a long connexion is, surely, to have a sense of the kindness that has been received. And here, if I wanted words at the outset, they will not come to my help at this moment. No, dear friends, your kindness has not only outrun all my wishes, but it has outrun all my thoughts. I never dreamed that I could have experienced so much at your hands during a period so long. I would, therefore, thank my God, provided always that my residence among you shall not have been a stumbling block to any, that he has permitted me to leave you, not in the vigour and the prime of life, when you might have had a right to lay your hands upon my shoulder and say, ' why will you leave us whilst you are yet in the strength and vigour of your days ?' But I have been permitted by God, my gracious helper, to labour, however poorly and feebly and unworthily among you, until at least the dregs of life are beginning to appear in the wine. To that kindness, then, I must ever recur with sentiments of the deepest and the dearest gratitude. Imagine what a minister ought to say to those whom he loves as personal friends, and as dear brethren in Christ Jesus, who have 'done for him brotherly offices with unwearied kindness and assiduity, to whom he never applied, that he could recolleCt, in vain on behalf of any thing he wanted ; before whom he never placed those objects that he thought would be most desirable for the promotion of the Redeemer's glory and met with a refusal. I know the message which 1 have had to deliver has been again and ispleasing to many, that they could not entei'into my views, that they could not feel the importance of the subject as I wished to place it before them, and that I must again and again have appeared to be enthusiastic and harsh towards them ; but whatever they may have felt. I call hardly re- again d member a single expres'sion of unkindness from any, for more than six and twenty years. Opposition to the Gospel there has been, and opposition to the Gospel there will re main ; for I can no more expect there will be ought else, till that period when the knowledge of the Gospel of God shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea, and all shall be under the influence of converting grace, and therefore all speak of the same thing, than I can expect all the clocks in world to keep exactly the same time. But Ido once for all assure you that your kindness, if I may use a trite expression, is registered where every day I have, where every day I do, and where every day I shall, pray for you. Other friends, other friendships, other attachments, other endearments of life I cannot look for. Ido not mean to look for them. I go from hence to a sphere of duty—it may be to sever that friendship, that attachment. You have been to me all, as I said before, that I hoped, all that I desired, and more than that. You have cheered me in sickness; you have assisted me in trials you have done fo r me a ll t h at l ove an d friend ship could do for me; and I hope it is not improper that I acknowledge my duty and gratitude for all your kindness, from a place where having said to you what 1 believe to be the truth of God, and pressed the doctrines of Christian love upon your hearts. I find these doctrines have not been pressed in vain. "' Finally, brethren, farewell.' There is here a sense, when friends are parted, of the offences which they may have committed against each other. Of those which you may in secret have committed against me I know nothing, and if I did I should not say it, but for those I have committed against you I am pained. I know how little in comparison with what I ought I have sought your spiritual welfare—l mean in the mode and by the exhibition of ministerial zeal. I know that whatever may have been my desire I have not been so faithful as I ought. I know that whatever may have been my duty I have followed it with a lingering and a lagging step. I know that in many things I have come short of the duty which I owe to you and to that God who placed the tremendous responsibility of your souls in my hands, and who has said to me in his word—' Son of man I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me.' I know that in a moment like this your pardon would be granted me —even if it were as a matter of feeling it would be granted ; but I ask it in the name of him who is the common Saviour of us all—of that God who, by the atonement of his Son, has given a full pardon to all them that have offended. But whilst I ask it thus, and whilst I am sure you w il l thus grant it, I should remember it is my duty to be ashamed and not to hold up my face any more for all that I have done towards 1,011. " ' Finally, brethren, farewell.' This salutation implies, let me say, an earnest desire and prayer for you as I hope you feel it implies an earnest desire a n d prayer for me. * ** * * . • " Be of good comfort.' lam quite aware, not only from the feelings of my own heart but from the expressed feelings of many of you, that this is not a word out of season either for you or for me. But I remember that there is an almighty comforter whom the Lord Jesus Christ when he left this earth of ours, after having triumphantly effected the work of re demption, promised to send to his people, and be promised them not in vain. He is in that spirit the father of mercy and the God of all consolation. May he visit and comfort you and visit and comfort me ! Oh, remember, dear friends, that the word of man fadeth away, but the word of God abideth for ever. That is the word by which the gospel is preached to you ; that is the word which, by the gospel, is in your hands. The eunuch whom Philip taught out of the Scriptures, and whom he made wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, beheld Philip no more ; he was carried into the spirit of the Lord. The Euiauch soon lost distinction— what then? He went on his way rejoicing. You will not soon have distinction, but go on your way rejoicing. You have the God who sought you ; you have the God that remains the unchangable God for your promise —Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Be ye then of good com fort.' Be ye of good comfort to pray that you may have consolation from him who shall succeed me; and that as I have been permitted to carry on the work of God to a certain point, so it may be with me as with a statuary who has chisseled and created a statue that is to be the resemblance of a noble man, and carried it to a certain point of perfection, but there he stops. His work in thp,hai. A - v ao aavuc. n.uuLue master of the art suc cee d s hi m , b r i ngs i t out to that perfec t tion which was intended to be elicited, and then it stands forth the admiration of the world. So let it be with you. So _ _ do believe that the mi nisters of Jesus Christ are very frequently permitted to go over a certain length with their congregations, and there they stop : they can go no further. I have often told my brethren in the ministry my persuasion it was thus, and I have seen that persuasion remarkably verified. Oh may it be thus with you! I would, indeed, my dear friends, be as the morning star to bring in the sun ; and I would desire that, as that morning star throws an ineffectual ray when the sun rises, so my ministry here may not indeed be for gotten, but may be for ever surpassed in the energy, the fidelity, and the success of him who will succeed me. " ' One word more. It is observed by a great master of the art of painting, that he had some self-congratulation at be ing able to feel himself sensible of those emotions which the greatest painter perhaps of modern times intended to pro duce upon the mind. He observed it was not without some vanity, as he was pleased to say, he had taken occasion to mention the name, and to hold his works up the praise and admiration of all before whom he spoke ; and he added, I wish that the last name which I should pronounce in this in stitution, and from this place may be the name of Well, my dear friends, let me take a word fro m thi s pain ter's observ a ti on . Let me say that the last word which I wish to pronounce in this place—is one which I would gladly hope you can enter into the merits and meaning. It is that word which I hope I have in some degree, however poor and feebly, again and again; through multiplied years and oppor tunities, had occasion to press upon you —the name of Jesus Christ. Oh, dear friends, I began my m i n i stry i n this place, with th ese wor d s —' tis a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.' I have desired still to know nothing since but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And now I would press him upon you as God and man —as your Redeemer from sin by his precious blood, as your advocate at the throne of the Father God Almighty, as your forerunner in the realms of light and glory, as preparing a place for you, that where he is•there you may be also, and as coming again to receive you in his dominions to himself. I would press him upon you as your portion, as you rest, your food, your example. Oh, let me beseech you to walk in the blessed steps of his most holy life. Christ is all and in all. And w brethren I commend you to him and to the word of his ice, which is able to build you uo and to rive von an in ., ' Finally, 1 men that fadeth not.away '7 7-7 CORRESPONDENCE. THE ALBION'S SIR,--_ ATTACK ON THE CLERGY CONSISTI Saturday, December 26, 184 A. HINT TO THOSE WHO LIVE GLASS HOUSES TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—You have always contended, and I am now con vinced of the justice of your opinion, that an elastic con science —one, I mean, that will stretch like Indian rubber— is the one great desideratum of political agitators. With this they can always manage to keep their heads above water without it " , ten to one they s i n k " d eeper t h an ever plummet sounded. The Liverpool Chronicle is an instance in point. Now this newspaper, more than any other, indulges in party spleen. For instance, I would refer you to its observations on a reported speech of a lately-elected member of the Town Council, in reference to the granting of spirit licenses by the magistrates to the publicans of this town. Of the propriety with which such a charge emanates from the Liverpool Chronicle, perhaps your readers will be better able to judge when they have read the following account of its conductors, written, be it remembered, by a brother radical journalist -I now quote , from the Liverpool Times of Jan. 28th, 1840: " As all these gentlemen b e l ong t o t h e class who, as Dr. Eady says of himself, ' do good by s t ea lth an d bl ush to find it fame,' it will be desirable that we s h ou ld p l ace t h em in the box, and elicit by a slight examination, a rew facts respecting their lives and conversation, which their well-known modesty might otherwise incline them to keep back. We shall begin with the editor. " John Dignan come into Court. Is your name John Dignan ? It is.—What are your means of living ? I am editor to the Liverpool Chronicle.—Y ou an editor ! why how in the name of wonder did you become one ? Witness is silent.—Were you not formerly a runner in the service of a news-agent in this town? I was.—Well, sir, 1 ask you again, and how were you metamorphosed into an editor? Witness is silent.—Do you know Mr. 'Wallace Currie? I know him by sight.—Well that was what I meant; no one supposes that you know him in any other way. Did you ever abuse him for hire? Yes.—Often? No, sir.—Remem ber what you are swearing ! I do so ; the libels on Mr. Currie were written by another person.—Another ! then you were not the only editor? No, sir.—Who was the other? I decline to answer.—Was he a layman or a clergyman ? I decline to answer.—Did you ever• write libels on Mr. Black burn? Yes, sir.—On Alderman Evans? Yes, sir.—On Mr. Vincent Higgins? Yes, sir.—On Mr. Charles Law rence? Yes, sir.—On Mr. Henry Booth? Yes, sir.—Did any one help you? I decline to answer.—Was it you who described the Finance Committee of the Town Council last week, as composed of men of ' double-distilled boobvism It was.—Did you write the whole of the followini graph . 'lne proper course to be taken at the next council, would be to pass a vote of censure upon the Finance Committee for their jobbing propensities, and to remodel that precious essence of double distilled boobyism altogether. Delenda est Cathargo. The Finance Committee, as at present con stituted, is a disgrace to the counsel and the town. It is the Corporate Refuge for the Destitute to which they send all the members who are fit for nothing else, upon the plea, we presume, that any one is clever enough to squander money. But it ought to be remembered that the council loses charac ter by the mischievous conduct of this unhappy section of its body.' " You wrote the whole of it? Yes—(after a pause)—except d not know.—Who f urn i s h e d i t th en ? v I prOmisecinot to tell Well, sir, one more question, and you may go down. Am I right in understanding that you are employed and paid by Messrs. Ross and Nightingale, to discharge any quantity of abuse which they think fit, upon any person against whom they have a spite, though you may have never received the slightest injury from him ? Yes, Sir.—Well, Sir, you may go down. " Mr. David Ross come into Court. Pray, Sir, are you the same David Ross who was convicted at the Liverpool Assizes in March, 1837, of publishing a false and slanderous libel, and who was sentenced to be confined three months in her Majesty's gaol of Newgate? I am.—Who was the per son whom you thus libelled on that occasion ? Air. Charles Lawrence.—l believe that Mr. Lawrence is one of the first merchants in Liverpool, that he is a county magistrate, and that he formerly held the office of Mayor? Yes, Sir.—Pray, Sir, what were the charges which you thought proper to pub lish with regard to that gentleman ? I made no charges.-- What do you mean? I only suggested.—Oh ! you threw out insinuations. Well, Sir, do you think that a falsehood is at all less a falsehood for being put forth in the form an insinu atinn ? W . .int.—Did itness is su, Jid the jury who tried you, think so ? No, Sin—Well, Sir, what were the charges which you only .suggested? Witness is silent.—Come, Sir! Did nor you charge or suggest that Mr. Charles Lawrence had pur chased land from the Corporate Estate at fraudulent - • whilst ' le was a member of the Corporation, and sold it'again Iso, at fraudulent prices, to the Liverpool , and Mancheste ent ry , WA. n'Llltal LIG V lb Lou coalman w 'mess lb —'Was not this the infamous slander with which you were charged on your trial ? It was.—And for which you were convicted by a jury of your countrymen? It was.—And for which you were sentenced to three months imprisonment in Newgate ? It was." " Let Mr. William Nightingale stand up. Who are you; The partner of the last witness. Were you also tried for the base libel on Mr. Lawrence ? Yes, Sir.—Were you con victed? Yes, Sir." Dec. 26, 1840 I am, &c OBSERVER THE REV. FIELDING OULD AND HIS TRADUCERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Pure attachment to dissenting principles requires to be kept up in minds of a certain class by keen hatred, and now and then a little round abuse of the iChurch."—Dissenters' Eclectic Review, 1832, p. 144. SIR,-Of the many unprincipled attacks upon the Esta blished Church and her clergy with which the radical press and the dissenting publications of the present day teem, one cannot but be amused at the puerility of th a t on the above rev. gentleman,. which appeared in the pure columns of the Albion of last week. That the faction must be hard up for matter of accusation is manifest, when such a trumpery charge as that, even if it were true, can find a place in the well collated pages of the Albion, whose editor cannot be supposed to be entirely ignorant of the principles and for mularies of the church. But supposing the charge made against the rev. minister of Christ Church were true to the very letter, does it carry any imputation upon his integrity, or on his moral or religi ous character I—not the least in the world ; on the con trary, it argues a modesty not always to be found in men of first-rate talents; a modesty that could appreciate excel lence in another, and avail itself of, and fortify itself with, accumulated powers to bring into a contest of vital import ance, an overwhelming force of argument that should carry conviction to the hearts and consciences of those supposed to be in error, and for whose eternal safety and advantage the course was undertaken. But what shall we say of the organised slanderer, and of the publication in which it first appeared. However mildly we may be disposed to censure the Albion for lending itself to the dissemination of such slanders, it is impossible not to burn with indignation at that vile publication, the Eclectic Review, which first gave it cur rency. That this is not too strong an epithet to apply to that pseudo-religious periodical, a reference to the prefix above is sufficient proof, and yet, Mr. Editor, there is a more infamous publication than that—one, too, whose assumed title, the Evangelical Magazine, ought to have been a gua rantee for the asumptlon that nothing slanderous, and cer tainly nothing untrue, would find insertion therein---instead of which, it is one entire mass of lying, slanderous abuse of the Church of England, and full of the most bitter malignity against her clergy. I have no right to presume upon your indulgence, or I could give you a body of quotations from it that would fill your readers with indignation too violent for quiet endurement; but that they may be their own inter preters and their own judges of the correctness of my con demnation of it, I refer them to the Church Magazine for the preceding month, in which they will find extracts suf ficient to satisfy a glutton in detraction and falsehood. This said veracious Evangelical Magazine might be supposed to be edited by Alderman Harmer's right hand man from its virulence; instead of which, however, there are sixty-four Dissenting Ministers, who give their names as the Trustees and stated Contributors to it : the list is now before me, among which I find Dr. Burder, Dr. Bennett, Dr. Morrison, J. Parsons, of York, J. A. James, of Birrningham—and also one, to come nearer home, who stands in high estimation with our townsmen, and who tags as riders to his name, L.L.D and all but a whole alphabet of letters, indicative, I presume, of merits or attainments of some kind or other, al though conferred by neither university--even our own Dr. Raffles. To vindicate myself from the sugnininn no . .....er in fiction or unfairly towards those now introduced, 1 again refe r to the same No. of th e Ch urch Magazine, p. 327, in which the true character of dissent and its diabolical principle'. fully set forth_ and La, aau a very proper scourging applied to the horny backs of these sixty-four unprincipled Dissenting Mi nisters, who are not only confessedly but professedly Trustees and stated Contributors of monthly venom to this periodical, which numbers a sale of some thirteen or fourteen thousand copies. nC t-nurcn is out too apt to lose sight of the bitter hostility of these Dissenters, and to consider them as embued with merely a supersanctity of profession, with but a slight departure in form to itself; but if a correct picture were drawn, Mr. Editor, it would display feelings of rancorous hatred, inferior to nothing which papacy itself could manifest, were it even in the plenitude of a restored and renovated power, with all the agency of state ascendancy, and the fulminations of his holi ness to back it. Little do we churchmen think of the depth of that hatred which lurks in the heart of the genuine dis senter, while a simulated suavity covers his outward de meanour, and a religious solicitude falls from his tongue. We are disposed to look on Roman Catholicistn as the only religious form we have to guard against; but, believe me, as a man's enemies are frequently those of his own household, so are the bigotted antipathies of dissent quite as exterminat ing, if not so cruel, as those of the church of Rome. Politi cal dissent and disloyalty are twin sisters--you find them hand and glove on all occasions where a stab is to be given— the most heterogeneous compounds are not too gross for amalgamation, if any measure hostile to the church is to be accomplished—witness the embrace of dissent and papacy and the unity of purpose with which those two antagonist principles will fraternise and move together : of the two, popery is a fairer, because a more open enemy; the stab of dissent is that of the assassin—that of popery, undisguised. But to return to Mr. Ould : if the paragraph was intended to injure that rev, di v i ne , the party inserting it will be de ceived ; the intention is there nevertheless ; but on Mr. Ould's own flock and personal friends it will fall innoccuous, and with the public, I think something more_ and frnm """-- mom, aim crow a more important - q;;;ter, will be requisite to damage so well. established and well-earned a reputation. To those who know him, it is unnecessary to enter on his vindication ; and to those who knoW him not I venture to say, not, that he is superior to, but that he is not surpassed by, any one of the present day, either in the pulpit, at the bar, or in either house of Parliament, in powers of extemporaneous eloquence and the finished beauties of oratory. This may be called THE EDITpR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. -On taking up the .Albion, on Monday last, I thought I had discovered a circumstance so singular, and yet so pleasing, that I determined at once to make it publicly known through your journal, namely, that on the last page I found no abuse of any clergyman of the, Church of England; this perfectly astonished me, but at the same time gratified me. and I concluded to announce the fact through your means; but before doing so I thought it better to search more thoroughly, when at length I found (in an article where one would hardly look for it) that the editor calls a clergyman by the elegant and expressive epithet of a " shaved poodle." You will often find this editor talking of charity and liberality; but I think it would be more seemly in Liu►, a Dissenter, if he exercised a little more charity himself when speaking of any clergyman. I should recommend him taking an example of his brother Editor of Tuesday's Times, who agrees with him both in reli gion and politics, (and perhaps they both belong to Dr. Raffies's congregation,) but who never descends to any low, vulgar abuse of any minister of the Church of England ; in deeed, of any other person.—Yours, hyperbolical ; it is susceptible of proof, however, by those who will take the trouble. That his written productions ex hibit but a meagre outline, and convey but an imperfect idea, of that brilliancy of imagination and those astonishing powers of both argument and eloquence with which he electrifies and instructs his congregation, I am prepared both to admit and regret; and that an imperfect judgment of him would be formed, if based on anything that he has written or published (that has come under my notice at least), I am equally pre pared to concede ; b ut if t h e slanderer of the Albion means to insinuate that the reverend gentleman's own powers were inadequate to the task he undertook in forming the Unitarian Controversy, I take leave to tell that individual that he never was more mistaken, and that if his heart or his judgment betray him on other occasions as on this, his whole life will be one of base malignity on the one hand, or of criminal error on the other.—Yours, &c. LEX TALIONIS • FRAUD UPON THE BANK OF MANCHESTER APPREHENSION OF A SUSPECTED INDIVIDUAL. (From the Manahester Guardian. i On Wednesday we stated, that the young man who had presented the cheque at the bank of Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., was described as being apparently about 18 years of age, 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high. stout made, with full face, dark and sallow complexion, with inflamed eyes. and dressed in dark clothes, rather shabby, and a black hat. We added, that the police had been in search of this individual, but up to that time without success. On Wednesday evening, how ever, Mr. Superintendent Sawley, with a view to discover if any of the Manchester thieves were implicated, directed M`Mullin, and also another less known officer, to dress them selves in coloured clothes, and, stationing themselves in the streets where thieves might be expected to be found, appre hend any one of whom, from any circumstance. they might entertain a suspicion. These officers accordingly patrolled the most frequented streets of the town, out of uniform ; and, a little before nine o'clock in the evening, they saw a group of suspicious characters standing at the corner pf Fountain-street, Market-street, amongst whom was a young man who appeared to them to answer the description above given in several particulars. M`Mullin observed, too, that this young man appeared to recognise him, and to turn away as if he wished to escape notice; and, this circumstance in creasing his suspicion, lie seized the individual, and, with the aid of another officer, conveyed him and a female with whom he "was talking, to the police-office, Town Hall, where the young man struggled violently, resisting all the efforts of the officers to search him. However, he was soon over powered and searched ; but we believe neither he nor his companion had any thing in their possession at all tending to throw any light upon the intercepted letters. Whlullen asked him where he lived ; but he refused to tell, and said he had only come to Mancheste r the preceding day from Shef. field, and that he had never been in this town before in big life. He stated that his name was William Smith, and that he is a farmer living in the neighbourhood of Shef. field. We believe that the whole of this story is ascer tained to be untrue, as he is known to the police as a reputed thief, and has been several times in cus tody. Some time ago, he was apprehended by Inspector Taylor, on suspicion of being concerned in a felony. He was also in custody on a former occasion, on suspicion of having picked the pocket of an officer in a regiment then stationed at Bolton, of a bill or note for £2OO. On former occasions he has given his name not William Smith, but Thomas Brown, which, singularly enough, as will be recol lected, was the name written across the cheque presented at Messrs. Jones, Lloyd and Co.'s, by some one connected with the fraud. The prisoner is 21 or 22 years of age, about five feet six inches in height, stands erect, and has a (I._rk com. plexion and eyes apparently in a slight degree inflamed. The only money found in his possession was about ls. 6d. The female, who called herself Mary Solman, said that she had never seen the prisoner before, and stated that she lived in New-street, Bradshaw-street, Shudehill. On Thursday morning, Inspector Irwin went there, but found that this was not true ; and prosecuting his inquiries further, he at length discovered that the two prisoners bad beon living for about two months, in a furnished room, in a lodging-house of not very good repute, in Thornily Brow, Shudehill. This room was searched; but nothing was found that could at all afford a clue to the abstracted letters or their contents. On Thursday the prisoners were brought up at the Bo rough Court, before the sitting magistrates, John Hall, Esq. and James Kershaw, Esq. (Sir Charles Shaw being also on the bench); and, Inspector M'Mullin having stated the cir cumstances of their application, Mr. Sawley applied to have the prisoners remanded to Monday next, in order to give opportunity for further investigation, and for procuring more evidence. The prisoners were accordingly remanded to Monday, with the understanding, that, if any thing should occur to make it desirable, they might be brought up for re-examination this day (Saturday). From what we have heard of the circumstances, we should certainly suppose that the prisoner is the principal in this fraud, so far as regards the planning of the scheme for obtaining the letters. It seems more likely that he has been put forward by older hands to obtain the letters, and probably to get the cheque cashed. The peculiarities of his personal appearance present strong points of resemblance to the individual who got the letters, and presented the cheque ; but we cann o t say t h at he has yet been satisfactorily identified. A new Roman Catholic chapel, capable of holding 1100 persons, was opened the other day, at Newport, by the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, V. A. of Wales. The Monmouthshirt Merlin states that the number of Catholics in Newport, which in 1812 amounted to five persons, is now about three thousand. We understand that Lieutenant Curtis, of the 36th, sta tioned at Clare Castle, for some time under arrest, has been served with notice that the court martial for his inquiry will assemble in Limerick this or next week.—Clare Journal. A meeting of the Temperance Society was held at Exeter Hall this week to congratulate Mr. Buckingham, the late member for Sheffield, on his return to England. THE LADY THIEF.—This celebrated character is still in Glasgow Gaol, and is included in the list of those to be tried at the ensuing Glasgow assizes.—Glasgow Gazette. • There is some intention of clothing the army by contract, by doing away with agents, and altogether reforming the military system. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Grey, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia. The Admiralty Board has given an order to Messrs. Sea ward for a pair of engines, of 200 horse power, for a vessel to be built to be adapted for working the Archirnedian screw. Why is a celebrated French marshal's name made use of more in Wales than in any other part of the kingdom ? Because they are fond of a Soult—swllt.—G. TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—The works on the unfinished parts of Vie line are proceeding with great spirit, a number of men being busily employed along the line, and at the Merthyr extremity, where, for a long distance, the perms_ meat rails have been laid down. The fineness of the wea ther lately has been very favourable to the progress of the works, —Merthyr Guardian. PHYSIC FOR POSTERITY.—A citizen of Konigsberg, lately deceased, has left 23,000 thalers, (125,0001.) to be placed out at interest, which is to accumulate for 250 years, and then to be employed in the founding of an homoeopathic establish ment. lie has named a physician for the proposed founda tion, whose salary of 2,000 thalers is to begin at once. It is stated by the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette that, with the loss of her majesty's brig Fairy, the ten years' scientific labours of the late Captain Hewitt are sacrificed, draught copies of his charts, drawings, and marine observa tions never having been secured by the lords of the admiralty: although it is said this service has cost the country £40,000, and to the completion of which the trading marine were look ing forward with every hope of advantage. CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—A s the railway train with the directors was proceeding at a rapid rate from Dewsbury to Cooper Bridge, last Monday evening, a person from Colne Bridge, who was travelling in one of the waggons, incautiously opened the door, and while examining the fas tening he lost his balance and fell out. Very forlunately he had presence of mind to spring forwards as he fell and thus got clear of the carriages, otherwise the consequences 'must have been fatal. He was severely stunned and his face hurt by the fall, but he soon afterwards got up and was able to walk home.—Halifax Guardian. FALL OF AEROLITES AT MILAN. —On the 17th of July, at seven o'clock in the morning, a loud detonation was heard resembling a peal of thunder ; and near Golosecea threC luminous projectiles were observed, proceeding towards Somma, from east to west. The sound of the explosion ex tended for twenty or thirty miles round Milan. The largest aerolite was found near Ceresato, a village in the neighbour hood, having penetrated twenty inches into the earth. It weighed 101bs 2oz. The others were of smaller size, and fell near the larger one, but they have not been found. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 2.—The Marchioness of Lon donderry was presented to the Sultan last Monday. She was accompanied on the occasion by the lady of Captain Walker, or Walker Pacha, as he is now generally styled, and both of them were very graciously received. To Mrs. Walker the Sultan spoke in the most flattering terms of the services of her husband, whom he looked upon, he said, as the right arm of his navy. Captain Walker has, since his return, barn presented with a magnificent snuff-box in brilliants. The jewellers of the Sultan are now employed in making a gor geous diamond necklice for her majesty. FATAL OCCURRENCE AT DOVER.—AN OFFICER OF THE 54TH KILLED.-011 Thursday morning, about one o'clo c k, as Captain Smith and M r . Eve re tt, o f the 54th, now stationed at the Heights of Dover, were pr ocee di ng from the theatre, we be, to the garrison, they met some sailors, with whom they had some words. One of the sailors, after collaring Mr. Everatt, threw him down with .such violence as to fracture his skull. The affair took place near the Grand Shaft, Soar gate-street. The sailors escaped at the time, but have since been apprehended. Mr. Everett, on being taken to his quarters, only survived about four hours. A coroner's jury is to sit on the body at seven o'clock at night ; till then it would be premature to enter minutely into particulars, as, out of the many vague statements now abroad, it would be hazardous to select. Mr. Everatt was an excellent young man, and much esteemed by his comrades. EASTERN COUNTIES NIGHT SIGNALS. —Favoured by the manager of the railway, Richard Hall, Esq., we tried one of the red signals, mentioned in our last, in the presence of some ladies and gentlemen in a dark night of the present week. The light was so exceedingly vivid that the ladies, at the dis tance of 30 yards, declared they could have read perfectly well with it. It would be impossible, if men have eyes in their head, and were awake, however long the train is, to fail in perceiving the signal, whether their f aces were towards it or not, or wheth er they had or had not a reflector. Indeed, we see no use in the reflector with so powerful a light, ex cept, perhaps, to concentrate it downwards. The principal objection to it appeared to us to be the small time occupied in withdrawing the guard, and driving up the screw to ex plode the fulminating powder, but this might easily be reme died. We have heard that Sir Frederick Smith, who has seen this method of signalizing in the night, much approves of it. Perhaps in the night the eye is the best organ to communicate with. Wind, or noise, or rain, or men's tying up their ears, have no effect on the eye. The only • obstacle would be a very intense fog. In that case, and if the train was very long, it would be barely necessary for one guard to telegraph by his light with the guard nearest the engine, and the signal coming from this one could not fail of being seen. We in tend to try some more decisive experiments in a day or two. —Railway Magazine. The Austrian Observer contains intelligence from Con stantinople of the 2nd instant. The last accounts from Syria received in the Turkish capital by the Prince Metter nich-steamer, state, that the Egyption garrisons of Caiffa and Jaffa evacuated those places immediately on learning that St. Jean d'Acre had been taken by the allies, and endea voured to open a passage for themselves through Palestine to return to Egypt. They were, however, it appears, attacked and routed by the Mutualis and Naples insurgents, and the few who escaped repaired - to Acre and surrendered prisoners of war. Ibrahim Pacha had removed from Mala tia to within four miles of Balbec, and intrenched himself in the plain, to use with the most advantage his artillery and cavalry, which last-mentioned force consisted of about 2,500 men. The entire army of Ibrahim, which amounted in th e beginning of September to 75,000 men, had been re d uce d 20,000, concentrated, for the most part, in th e pl a i n of Balb ec , b ut which to about were so completely disorganised as to he unable to resist the attack of the allies. The mountaineers had killed upwards of 10,000 Egyptians in different en counters. The Syrian tribes who had hith er t o rema i ne d faithful to Mehemet Ali declared in favour of the Sultan immediately after the fall of St. Jeep d'Acre, and op the 19th ult. the Seraskier, Izzet Mehemet, was offi i cially nform . ed. that the population and garrison of Jerusal em h a d recognised the authority of the Porte.