The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

ed. DUs eceS" L tion. ; bes t peti' 1r the )„, 0 solv e ' oceed" 7 . . Lo It t b° tt e 111de'. directed day by day against our National Church—the exulting aspect of Popery on every side—the introduc tion of the foul prophet of Socialism and Infidelity at the Court of our Sovereign, —all these are but too significant emblems of the growth of that national de moralization which is ever the result of a want of re spect on the part of a people towards those who govern. Three months ago we bad brighter prospects to look upon. We had still a sound Protestant interest, upon whose loyalty and unshaken firmness the people of England could depend for protection and safety._ We _had the materiel for a noble stand against the enemies ,of our religion and our homes. We had leaders—aye, and trusted ones—at whose bidding we could have braced on our armour and gone forth, secure that out path to the field of combat would be at least a straight and an honourable one. Do these still exist? We grieve —we blush to say—they do not ! One fatal question, a cunningly-devised plot of the Jesuitical „faction whose rowels are, in our sides, has destroyed ;.what years of unceasing regret may prove insufficient 4 40 atone for—the confidence placed by the British 11Cation in the integrity, honesty, and sound English ,feeling of the Conservative leaders in the House of --Commons. To them—to Sir Robert Peel, to Lord „Stanley, to Sir James Graham—the Nation looked t i_a!a the founders of a better order of things. To these lemen, backed as we knew they would have been by that 4 1 Pirit of true loyalty and constitutional principle which we saw growing up and s t rengt h en i ng aroun d us , we - look e d up with confidence and hope for our country. .They have deceived us. They have stooped from their eyrie to feed on the garbage of modern liberalism. They have deserted the high emprize to which they ~.had been devoted by the people of England, for a Paltry contest, waged with a writer of filthy memoirs, at the expense of justice and liberty. They have descended to mingle with the brood of shallow expe rimentalists, raked together from the stews and hells of the metropolis, or exhaled from the putrescent mass of Socinianistn and infidelity, which constitutes so great a portion of the society of our large manufacturing towns. They have fought side by side with Wakley and litone ; and-- • - " Oh, what . a fall was there, my countrymen !" • they have received and writhed beneath the fulsome adulation of Daniel O'Connell. Will they not—will not Sir Robert Peel at length t . :understind the temper and feeling of the Conservative " body of 'England ? If he will regain the respect and tzt,revive the hopes of that body, we warn him that this 'object can never be accomplished except by following t he straightforward and manly path, at all risks, in 'l l reference to the devious and crooked windings of lachiavelian policy. Concession must be banished fr( un his lips. His watchword—the only watchword under which the constitutional party will now follow hiu I—must be " WAR TO THE KNIFE, AND No SUI (RENDER !" Os t Friday last we commented, in language not one whit . Itronger that the occasion justified, on the pro cessioi lof the Irish Papists on St. Patrick's Day. The article has had its intended effect. It has stung and mortifit id the Ribbonmen and their defenders. We have pretty strong evidence of this fact in a rabidly 'biolent I. ;tier which appeared in the Journal of Saturday last, und,lr the euphonious signatu:re of ".D. E. Fitz patrick." The writer has lashed !iimself into such a paroxysm if rage and indignation that we would se riously advise his friends to keep " a sharp look out" after him. His malady is evidenthr of a mischievous character : ars.d we should not be :surprised if, failing in his attack upon the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, lie should turn ro find and assail his o' vn friends. If we are not much inistaken, an individural bearing the ho noured name o f Fitzpatrick, some time ago vented his spleen against the Albion, and one (pr two of the other liberal prints in town, through the medium of a Tory paper. We no 'not say that it is thei same person who has foisted hiii vulgarities upon the editor of the Them is something, however, in the style of the letter in .the: Journal which -verr strongly reminds us of the artichis to which we hatre. alluded. If the Ribbonmen sho ald fail in patronisin g the writer who has vilified us in the columns of the Journal, he mav, perhaps, find itt convenient to ab use them in terms as strong and virulent as those whia he has employed Ire. z_in.al;msin g the STANDARD. Idr.-Fitzpatrick, after some ream] Acs, ."characterised _au incoherent scurrility .of language," such as a - Tcs Billings ga te fi s h woman . m i g h t b e expected to indulge . 1 " 1 if.transferred to Bedlam, proceeiis to bring against ° a''us a string of charges as-false and unfounded, a s th e y 41C434 '4re destitute of decency and count ion sen se . H e h as {42l `'`he audacity to designate the article in the STANDARD, which. he professes to animad rert, " a string of - "C falsehoods and fabrications." I n support of this '.sweeping charge he does not adduce one tittle of deuce... Perhaps he conceives it to be beneath the • 'dignity of an Irish Papist to have anything to do with : 4 ' 1°40 shabby an article as an arguinent. We asserted 4 . 11° that." the procession of Tuesday 1 ist was chiefly corn 3A)osed of a number of clubs ands ecret societies, exclu „" Popish, and having political objects in view identical with those of the traito!:ous Ribbonite asso ' ) ciationa in Ireland." We re-assert every word of this. We have evidence to prove it, which we shall, in due tune, produce. Does our vulg: ,r assailant forget the • re port of the evidence before the Earl of Roden's C ommittee on Ribbonism, whi , :h was published no longer since than last year ? Does he forget the dis ' closures made before that com nittee respecting Rib bon associations in Liverpool, as well as in other parts o f the United Kingdom ? If hit: memory is so treach er°llB, ours is not, as we shall shortly prove to his utter confusion. 11 ; Vi'But. does M r . Fit z patrick, amidst the accumulated flue,4 s' v erbiage of his abuse, offer one . syllable in opposition tls h lo our assert i ons, except i ng hi s ;nere i pse di x it ? N o , toti l 41 0 tan atom. .He calls it " farci ml and inconsistent, ..I, A : 16 -assert th a t t h ere are Ribb on l oi l yes i n Li verpoo l. The -1 4 , —.A rch-Impostor u s ed similar language when it was as `_` that there were Ribbon lodges in Ireland. In b g ,.f i F~ t d matter, the evidence before the Roden committee Proved O'Connell to be A LIAR. We believe O'Con .L c ouncil's disclaimer on the hubjec; of Ribbonism in Ire just.as readily as we believe that of Mr. Fitzpat tick respecting its existence in Liverpool. We re -assert that there are Ribbon lodges in Liver -. Pool —and that the symbols of th ese secret bands of assassins were openly displayed oil Tuesday last before the gaze of thousands. As Mr. Fizpatrick has so boldly controverted this assertion, we challenge him to make good his position. It is very easy for him to bring a charg e of falsehood against us, and equally easy to Couch that charge in language as vulgar and vitupera tive as ever flowed from the lips of a costermonger in • -the purlieus of St. Giles : but it is a far more diffi .' salt matter for him to substantiate Isis charge by an ap- Peal to facts. Is Mr. Fitzpatrick so consummately Vain • and conceited as to imagine that we shall believe him :pu g -in preferekee to the respectable individuals who gave t h.-7 -their -evidence on oath before the Roden Committee? rifl:'.How can he have the hardihood to deny that we cor . (fl rectly described the objects and designs of the Ribbon ra men ? Has he been asleep for the last two or three 6 i . years - ? - Does h e not know that the secret designs of ' 3 . 'ith the Ribbon men h ave b een discovered and exposed time ? If he does not, we cornmisserate his igno ;l':33 - ranee, as much as we laugh at his blackguardism and ti flz , despi se hi s th reats. The latter, though very artfully 157 ‘almonveyed, display the true spirit of the " death's head c,:and cross-bones" intimidation. ` 4 / fr, e nc h . 'nen° of the Li verpoo l J I/bi on , w h ose com i ca l i-ti..writhings and twistings, under the lash of the dreaded 41 '" juni or e di tor " of the Times, have, during the last few 1. 4 weeks, afforded so much merriment to the good folks of Li verpool, .appears to make an appeal ad ,snisericordiam to his merciless pursuer, by venturing to rage battle with the sr, LIVV.RVOOL STANDARD. We' know not whether his ludi .ti,; trails antics, in endeavouring to assail usi are " most pro vocative of con t empt or laughter." `We never witness any .; :attempt i on. the part of: Punchinello t a break a lance with o,i4ny of his contemporaries, without hei ag_styougly reminded c • • 112 the ,awkwarcl, Attitudes of a goose upon stilts; while the '((f l o itrp;agant con t o r t i ons of his countt trance, when 14e has 43134.1*ei:;'NfOrtn-rieiO ' receivehotne,thiust from his antagonist, strongly of an on t - taking an e met i c . Vi?4-4iitfierlca)lof-Tiknkihitiollo7iti a =right mer ry fellow, excepting yld qoVilietazfantripaihnitelt avhilosnpher or a statesman. H e '- " i.0 4,1111f f 31545 theserluh#ractArk without, setting our gravity hi , q'aftfi e fi,n e .StiFV4PlßtißC49l;o l " guffa w. " lie er b st 4 monkeys should ' 141 15 b4 YCe eked,. er e diverting creatures 4 dt nsto weapc which ought only 'l4* entiodatic4 the hands ratio aal Men. We hope hinello—will . take : this hint in goe d part, and confine eanuelf, in futu re , t o those light and fantastic evolutions which so well become him, and which contribute so much to the amusement of the public. . - So much for badinage. The Albion of yesterday contains an article of a grossly vituperative character, by way of com ment on our remarks respecting the Ribbonite procession of Tuesday last. It accuses us of " letting off brutal vituper ations against an oppressed and long-suffering people." We " let off " nothing of the kind. We certainly did declaim against a band of brutal tyrants, whose associates in Ireland have repeatedly imbrued their hands in the blood of the " oppressed and long-suffering" Protestants of that country. In doing so we should have expe :ted the sympathy of the Albion, if we did not know that it has more than once ad vocated the " extinction of the 'party" on whose necks the Irish Papists have so long trampled in fiendish exultation. The Albion is guilty of uttering an untruth in saying that we have insulted Ireland. We never offered an insult to Ireland. It is a splendid and lovely country, and contains hundreds of thousands of the bravest, most loyal, and noble minded men that ever breathed the breath of Heaven—men who have proved their devoted attachment to their Sove reign, and their unflinching determination to sustain the glorious institutions of the realm, under circumstances of the most trying character. But Ireland also contains a horde of brutal assassins, organised for the exterminatio❑ of all that is good and noble in their country, and whose very shadows are so many hideous blots upon its verdant soil. Against these—the truculent Ribbonmen—we have de claimed, and shall continue to declaim. The Albion very ingeniously contrives to mis-quote a para. graph from our article on Lord Normanby's " blarney." The candid editor of that paper leaves out the qualifying terms, " if Lord Normanby speaks of the great majority of the Irish," and proceeds to charge us with saying that all the Irish are violent, seditious, and superstitious. Does the edi tor of the Albion suppose that we included the loyal and en lightened Protestants of Ireland in the same category with the degraded serfs of the Popish priesthood? The appeal of the Albion to the Irish aliens in Liverpool is quite characteristic of a liberal journal. It has hitherto been the uniform policy of the self-styled liberals to depress and depreciate every thing that is English; while they have done all in their power to place O'Connell and the " Irish tail" in power. We repeat our exhortations to the Pro testants of Liverpool, to crush the Irish faction who now ride rough-shod over the liberties of Englishmen. If they do not bestir themselves, in common with their Protestant fellow-subjects in other parts of the empire, England will soon be converted into a paltry appanage to Ireland. Let us show that we will not suffer England to be any longer go verned by the Irish Papists. We have submitted too long to this degradation. It is amusing to observe the cool impudence and ignorance combined with which the Anti-Corn-law orators endeavour occasionally to gull the public and themselves into a belief of the purity of their motives and the sagacity of their conclu sions. At the meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Com merce, held on Thursday week, for the purpose of petition ing Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws, the following very brilliant observations were uttered by the mover of the petition, Mr. Benjamin Pearson, and elicited the unqualified assent of that very self-sufficient assembly. " Some persons," observed Mr. Benjamin Pearson, " imagined that a large portion of the land in this country would immediately go out of cultivation on the re peal of the Corn-laws ; but it had been well observed, that, if we took the cost of importation into this country at 10s. a quarter, and estimated the production of an acre of wheat at three quarters, which was the lowest estimate, the landed in terest had a protection equal to the whole rent of the land ; and that the farmer stood, as far as the foreigner was con cerned, in the same position as if he were rent-free." Now we should imagine that Mr. Benjamin Pearson knew just as much about the subject upon which he was talking as our inkstand knows about Greek or Hebrew ; and we should strongly advise " The League" to forward him immediately, carriage paid, into some of our benighted agricultural dis tricts, where the benevolent intentions of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce are so little known and appreciated, and where " the farmer stands, so far as the foreigner is con cerned, in the same condition as if he was rent-free !" But softly, Mr. Benjamin Pearson—let us see whether this brilliant idea of yours might not explode with the jolting, and yourself at the end of your journey be presented to the astonished rustics as a mere empty bottle. The farmer, ac cording to your calculation, would have a protection against the foreigner of ten shillings per quarter, which upon a pro duction of three quarters to an acre would be equal to 305., the average rental of corn lands per acre. But an English farmer might perhaps inform you that it requires a cultiva tion of more than one year to raise a crop of wheat, and that his rent must be paid whilst the land is fallow, or growing only such produce as barely pays a profit on cultivation. Place the English farmer. as compared with the foreigner, rent free, by a protection, in addition to this charge of freight, and he is ready to compete with the foreigner. Do this, Mr. Pearson, but do not insult an English public by taking it for granted that there are many men out of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce so besotted in their ignorance as to credit such outrageous absurdity. By the bye, we wish that your party generally possessed a little more honesty, and their statements a little more consistency with eath other. Men bent upon deceiving ahou4l rehearse together s before they attempt to perform in ptiblie . :*'"q (2" ;t ; 'I." --IT :ivs•fia 10 11107 f . T : 1 1;11 MAGASIN FRANCAIS.—WC beg leave to direct the atten tion of our fair readers to the announcement of Mons. C. Meyer's return from Paris and Edinburgh, with a splendid assortment of novelties to suit every taste. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We understand that the Directors of the Mechanics' Institution will present the Bishop of Norwich with a gold medal, instead of a silver one which is usually given to honorary and life members of the institution. The bishop's will be the only gold ticket be longing to the institution. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, about twenty minutes past eight o'clock, as a man named Thos. Williams, a timber carter, was standing in the Brunswick Dock Quay, he was knocked down by a timber carriage, one of the large wheels of which passed over his head, and crushed it so dreadfully that his death was instantaneous. Some persons near the carriage called out to him to stand out of the way, but he did not appear to hear them. The deceased, who lived in Warwick-street, has left a wife and two children to deplore his untimely end. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN. - -The congre gation of St. Bride's have recently manifested their regard and esteem for their highly-valued minister, the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, by presenting him with portraits of him self and his lady, which have been so satisfactorily executed by George Patten, Esq., A.R.A., portrait painter to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, that they have further de termined to have a handsome engraving taken of Mr. Stewart's portrait, by Mr. Lupton, whose talents as an artist are so well known. MEETING OF SHIPMASTERS.—We perceive that a meeting of Shipmasters, and others interested in the Port of Liver pool, is to be held at the Clarendon Rooms, on Saturday next, at twelve o'clock, for the consideration of several highly important subjects, which are enumerated in the advertise ment. Among the most prominent of these we may notice the establishment of a Captains' Reading and Coffee Rooms. This is an establishment which has been long needed in the town, and which will, we doubt not, be found of incalculable utility. Several of the papers on Saturday contained an alarming account of the illness of Lord Lyndhurst. We are happy to say that the statement was a very considerable exaggeration of the real fact. His Lordship, in the middle of the week, had a severe attack of indigestion, but the complaint, which was never for a moment dangerous, yielded soon to medical treatment. His Lordship has now no ailment beyond the slight weakness occasioned by the usual remedies in cases of indigestion.— Times of yesterday. PENN'S BATIIS. — We are glad to find that Mr. Penn has announced that his baths are now in readiness for the sea son. We have no doubt that the splendid establishment on George's Pier will be visited by many strangers during the assizes. The comforts and conveniences afforded at these excellent baths are unrivalled. We shall frequently do our selves the p'easure of paying Mr. Penn a visit. Gentlemen in Government or other Offices, whose time will not admit of a " nooning," or laid table, will find an admirable substitute, combined with economy, in E. and T. Taylor's Concentrated Meat Lozenges, or Multum in Parvo, which will afford nutriment for hours by merely dissolving one or two in the mouth, as they are composed of the choicest viands and of the most delicate flavour. From their extreme portability, they may be carried in the pocket, whilst their cost, is. and 2s. per box, will supersede the necessity of many a meat at an inconvenient hour. None are Genuine without the name of E. & T. Taylor, 17, Lower Holborn, being on the label.—See Advt. LIVER THEATRE.—Mr. Tilbury has resorted to " Groves of Blarney " on the occasion of his benefit to-morrows night. Mr. Tilbury has, on this his first visit to Liverpool, done good service during the season, and created a favourable im pression which will not fade in a day. He has ably supported his chara c t ers , and we hope th e pu bli c w ill now liberally support him ; for he is worthy their good thought.—See Ad. LOVE our CHILDREN.—The Duke of Wellington is re markable for his fondness of children ; and when the veteran Blucher beheld the school children assembled in St. Paul's, the unconscious tear trickled down the cheek of the hardy warrior. The great Burke d e li g h te d to unbend h i s m i g ht y mind amid children's play, and would lie his listness length on the floor, whilst they jumped over him in laughing sport; and, as for the fairer portion of creation, Euripides bath long ago declared that they are " all fond of children." Daily mer ience, however, serves to show that nothing is more precarious than the life of a child I In many instances, this, confessedly, arises from the shrinking delicacy of the tender exotic itself ; but, in far more, from neglect on the part prompt enough i n b es t ow i ng upon their idolatry dlolatry the tender es t caresses , an d a of anxious nurtu re , f orget that these cannot r tohl e fl i e n tth o hlei v et e tpalaes t rlsloeiednbulesai as siduities of t h t o , though of incipi en t di sease ! It is in vain to tell them that " medicine is given to heal sickness," when they will not procure and administer it ! The efficacy of Atkinson's INFANTS PRESERVATIVE, as a cure for the usual complaints of infants, is now universally acknowledged ; yet, notwithstanding its immense sale, there are still some in all ranks so obstinately perverse as to neglect its use, and thus leave the poor infants to die. With such persons it is worse than idle to attempt to reason, or to place pearls before thern.—See advt. THE ROYAL AMPAITHEATRE.- This place of amuse ment, which has been closed for a short time, was re-opened last night for eighteen representations, by Mr. Batty, with a strong company and a good stud of horses. The perform ances throughout gave much satisfaction. The first piece was a splendid equestrian spectacle, called " The Triumph of the Alhambra." The scenes in the circle that followed exhibited considerable novelty. Mons. Massotta, a French rider was all that could be wished. He is certainly one of the most daring and skilful equestrians of the day. Mr. Hughes was also much applauded as "the horse man of all work• Amongst the performances were those of the celebrated Mons. Plege, on the tight rope, which were truly wonderful. Mons. Caslesse on the corde crescent, was, almost equally expert. The prices of admission have been considerably reduced, and some attractive novelties will, we learn, be produeed, when the "'Alhambra" is withdrawn. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—The gloom which has for snme time past hung over the staple trade of this town, has this week been brightened up by a fair prospect of more em ployment for the operatives. Two of the principal houses, viz., Messrs. Tee and Cordeux, and Messrs. Jackson and Hodgetts, have received an extensive government order for ducks and checks, which will set in motion several hundred looms. This, we believe, is not an order of profit on the part of the manufacturers, but fairly taken by a generous feeling on their part to give employment to the weaver.— Leeds Intelligencer. GEORGE ROBINS IN SOUTH AMERICA.—The inimitable George, in a prospectus of an estate which he is called upon to dispose of, situate in the state of Venezuela, in South America, says, " He would more particularly endeavour to awaken the attention of those whose prospects in their mother country are such as to make it desirable to seek the New World to improve their fortunes ; or to those speculators whose knowledge of the country, its locality, resources, and advantages, would induce them to invest their capital in the purchase of land, in a region that every day's experience and every day's intelligence proves is gradually yet triumphantly emerging from its difficulties; and that it is permanently creating for itself a proud position in the estimation of sur rounding cuuntries,—that will, ere long, hold forth stronger claims to the emigrant's attention, than many which Eu ropeans at the present day depart for ; becoming, indeed, a land of promise ' to those who incline to imp rove th e i r ways and means ' in a distant land, and ' esteemed far beyond those which fallacy and unfulfilled hopes are daily teaching to-emigrants who have unfortunately been sacrificed —a lesson that the puplic will act advisedly to ponder well upon." A suggestion has been made to Mr. Robins, that this district was, in by-gone times, a favourite locality with the socialists and Owenites; and as their numbers are sup posed to be on the increase, they might probably wish to re establish themselves at Venezuela; and a better opportunity than the one now offered may not present itself, as their tenets, with regard to labour, would have ample time and field to develope themselves, and their peculiar system prove more successful there than in many other parts of the world, We perfectly agree with this suggestion, and would especially 'recommend it to the serious consideration of my Lords Mel bourne and. Brougham. That .it would well suit such po or unfortunate wretches there cannot be the least doubt ; a n d we certainly hope at a future day to find London quite rid of such pests to Christian soeiety.--Morning Herald. CORRESPONDENCE. PLAIN QUESTIONS PRACTICALLY ANSWERED ON CHURCH EXTENSION. Why should we petition parliament for church extension? Because we believe it to be the duty of a Christian govern ment to provide for the Christian instruction of the people, and there are yet four millions of persons unprovided with church room. Why should we raise thischurch-extension cry every year? Because every year there is an increase of 208,000 to the population of England and Wales, creating a want of 70,000 additional sittings yearly, supposing only one-third of the population required such. Why should every true friend of religion rally round the Established Church ? _ . Because she is acknowledged,' by the truly pious of all sects, to be the great bulwark against the inroads of Popery, Socinianism, Socialism, and every other species of infidelity. Why do the Dissenters join heart and hand with Papists, Socialists, and Socinians, in attacking the Churh ? Because they arc each envious of her zeal, worth, and ac tivity, and cemented together by the most unholy motives. Why should we now call upon parliament to meet the wants of the people? Because we have already raised more by voluntary sub scriptions during the last ten years, for building places of worship, than was ever raised by any other body. Why should we expect that our petitions for church ex tension will be attended to? Because our rulers admit such want, Lord John Russell, on the 2nd of August, having spoken thus :—" We have, particularly in the manufacturing districts, very large masses of people who have grown up in a state of society, which it is both lamentable and appalling to contemplate. They have not grown up amidst the usual concomitants of an ordinary state of society, under the hand of early instruction ; with places of worship to attend ; with their opinions of property moulded by seeing it devoted to social and charitable objects; and with a fair and gradual subordination of ranks. But it is, in many cases, a society necessarily composed of the working classes, with a few persons who employ their labour, but with whom they have little other connection ;—and, un happily, neither receiving in schools nor in places of worship, that religious and moral instruction which is necessary to knit together the inhabitants and classes of a great country." Why should the people of Liverpool petition for church extension ? Because there is an increase in the wants of the people for such accommodation. In 1821 there were 16 churches in Liverpool, with accommodation for 20,000 persons, leaving 58,000 unprovided for. In 1840 there are (or shortly will be) 30 churches, with accommodation for 36,000 persons, leaving 92,000 unprovided for, the population having in creased from 118,000 to 200,000. Why do the enemies of the Church state that her revenues amount to 8 millions, when they know them to be but 31 Because they are instigated to do so, by the father of lies and truth would not answer their purpose. CHURCHMAN. RELIGIOUS, MORAL, AND POLITICAL ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. With spirit calm, a pressive audience give, Approve me if you can, if not, forgive. Sir,—At a time when evil is spreading and infidelity ex tending far and wide, it becomes a question of vital impor tance, whence is the secret source of such moral disorder. Is it owing to the defect in our sacred or civil institutions, or is the mind of man now especially more prone to super stition—more easily led by the chimera of cunning and designing men, who are willing to prostrate, if they can, the present organization of society —to overthrow civil order, scriptural restraint, and thwart the best feelings, in order to raise themselves to a puny eminence, and acquire a name— though transitory—at the expense of honour, truth, and every nobler sentiment ? That such moral turpitude is apparent, I affirm—that an cient and honourable institutions tremble to their founda tion, I also affirm—l assert, moreover, that evil men, of whom there are no few, would, if they were able, banish the word and scriptural ordinances from the land. Why are these things? First,—methinks there is some lack of duty on the guar dians of the public morals. The authorised teachers and preachers of the word, have, for many years, been some what remiss in their exertions, and while they have slept, or been passing the time in good-natured tranquillity, or un suspecting reliance on public stability—the enemy hath been actively engaged, insinuating into the too susceptible souls of men, that it was indeed time for old things to pass away, and all things to become new. Man, be it known, however well refined—however apparently excellent and good, is Fut like a fair rose garden, where, though roses blossom, fruit trees put forth buds of promise, yet ever requires the eye of watchfulness, and the hand of experience and discretion to tend its progress, and remove as may seem good, those wild shoots which will spring from the fairest stem. In times gone by, the minds of Englishmen, alive to danger, and pu rified by the fires of anarchy, watchful of evil, seemed so fair as to require little tending, then did the watchman give those hours to repose, which should have been bestowed in watchfulness, and a continued lethargy only gave way for evil spirits to ingratiate themselves with the flock, and sow the seeds of discontent and heresy which now are found to be ripening and coming to vile maturity, rank, and blasphe mous, and poisoning as far as they can, the once heavenly atmosphere of English virtue. Secondly.—Much of the disorder which is apparent is caused by the change in scholastic establishments, not in those of ancient foundation, whose pious founders well knew the value of religious instruction. Brought up myself at an ancient public school, I can vouchsafe for the oithodox man ner in which the young are trained at such seminaries. But it is in those modern schools where the fine arts and sciences are taught to the detriment of true religion, .and without regard to the souls of men. Let any one—a bishop if you say . that the mind must be first made susceptible on earth; I will say to such prelate no ;—first let the child be endowed with heavenly susceptibility, and then, refined in its nature, and made excellent by religion, it will receive the things, the arts and sciences of earth as dependent on providence, and so learn "to use as not abusing them." Jacob's ladder in • deed, rested on the earth ; but let the Lord Bishop of Nor wich remember it was first let down from heaven. Let him too remember they were not men who ascended and descend ed, but angels. So, if man is to rise, the ladder must be let down from above, and lie mast be purified before lie is able to ascend. Let these public institutions remember these things. Let not the public be led away by any man, even though a divine,—for divines are fallible, and benevolence may err through excess of good nature—of one thing lam certain, that much of the existing evil is mainly caused by the train of godless teaching so prevalent in many of our public schools. " Train well the child that grace in age may grow, Be pure the fount and clear the stream will flow, With wise discretion train the moral tree, For to be fruitful is not to be free. Freedom is not to be rudely wild— To make man wise in age, then, train the child. In Godly truth let infant hearts be taught, And to their Saviour in their childhood brought ; So mutual good will as the light expand, And one good feeling fructify the land." Thirdly.—Modern government is not sufficiently discreet. False patriotism patronises heresy for the sake of popularity, and sacrifices principle for the sake of political interest. False legislation exercises undue control over the mind of the lower classes by promises, which proving abortive, destroy popular confidence, and create, in course, discontent, with its train of mischiefs. False benevolence makes part, with out discretion, and swells the number of its partisans with miserable time-servers, who are ever subservient to those who flatter the expectation with unfounded projects. False magnanimity displays itself by undue distribution of place and pension—by the slighting of old friends and tried worth, merely for the purpose of exhibiting its seeming charity in being a patron to all. By these fallacies of judgment among liberal legislators is the public mind warped—a bad example shown, inasmuch as no discrimination is observed between truth and error, good and evil, vice and virtue. Thus men become heedless, and heedlessness is ever pregnant with error, and error is the mischief which afflicts mankind. Where is that patriotism', noble legislation, and scorn of vile and vulgar abuse, which once actuated British statesmen? Surely in these days of intellectual wisdom we are not war ranted in echoing Lord Eldon, who said on a memorable oc casion, " the sun of England's glory is for ever set ;" rather let me say with confidence, " Arise, awake, or be for ever fallen." Let English senators shake off vile dependence, and, actuated by their better judgment, so act as to encourage good principles, though they at the same time sacrifice the support of some who call themselves their friends. Fourthly.--No inconsiderable portion of the present evils arises from the laxity of the press —a press teeming with blasphemy and corruption, which perverts divinity, degrades morality, debases mankind. God forbid but we should have a free press ; but still methinks there ought to ba such wholesome restraint as may preserve the minds of the people from corruption. We know the mania of the lower classes for the news of the day ; how vastly important, then, is it, that those minds who have not the advantage of deeper read ing should be guarded from the corruption of those rile and sensual publications which are now disseminated without re serve. Owenism, yclept Socialism, publicly spread through the medium of the press ! Good God! a foreigner coming hither may well ask if he really be in England, so famed and lauded for its judicial government and public morals. These, methinks, are some of the roots from which spring the present state of political feeling, and laxity in morals and religion, which are so palpable in this country—a political rancour which saps the judgment, overbears discretion, and makes established laws and time-honoured custom tremble— a state of religion which paralyses the best feelings, which warps the public mini, makes heresy rampant, popery dar ing, latitudinarianism impudent and overbearing. If such be the root of this cancerous evil, this vile decay of English honour, glory and power, this diminution in national honesty and respect for the better feelings and better principles : how does it behove those placed in charge to be awake, and re membering the old proverb—" better late than never," at once commence a real reformation, not that shallow reform which is now so popular, but a radical reform—one which will strike at once the origin of mischief, and by removing the cause that retards the progress, so that England may at length, under tender but judicious and discreet government, be once more brought to her former healthy constitution. Let public men, in the warmth of their desire to ple as e, re member the maxim— d eciPenaur specie recti," and be care- NI, for this country is not now in a position to be trifled with ; a short course of years must either see her in her pris tine beauty, or disgraced and debased to a level with those less favoured nations which are retrogade in the scale. " 0 fair Britannia, shall thy glories fall, Or, as a byeword, thy blest name be made, By those who long have trembled at thy sway— Who, when thon badest, only dare obey? Fair Ocean Queen, shalt thou, whose sway so long Has been the subject of poetic song, Once raised so high, in all that's great decline, And lose a glory by fair conquest thine ? Forbid it Heaven ! England still restore To all the honours which she held of yore, Uphold those glories, in their sway sublime, ' To the last moment of recording time."' Your most obedient servant, J..S. Liverpool. THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,,—lf vou wish to give your readers a concise yet corn. prehensive view of the question at present agitating Scotland, you cannot do better than lay before them the following re solutions, passed by the Presbytery of Newcastle a few days ago. It gives a pointed and well sustained view of her doc trine and principles with respect to her connection with the State, and the late attempt of the Court of Session to coerce her in the discharge of her ecclesiastical functions. It suiely ought to excite no little interest towards the mat ter, in England, that, should no remedial enactment be pro vided, and she persist in maintaining her present adherence to the religious principles of her constitution, of which there can be no doubt from the character of the men who have now the majority in her General Assembly, of whom Dr. Chal mers is the leader, there is no question but a scene will be soon enacted in Scotland which has had no parallel since the black days of open persecution. The fact that talented, and most influen tial of her ,most popular , tial ministers have been interdicted from preaching the gospel in seven of ber parishes, and that having in such a matter chosen to 46 obey God rathe r th an men, they are, of course, liable at any moment to be torn from their fami lies and incarcerated in the common prison, is a startling state of things. May God speed an ample and efficient remedy to a state of things so disgraceful to the liberality and legislative wisdom of a free country. Liverpool, March, 1840. " At an ordinary meeting of the Presbytery of Newcastle upon-Tyne, held at the Presbyterian Church, North Shields, on Tuesday, the 10th March, 1840, it was unanimously re solved— " 1. That the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Head of the Church of God, has conferred upon his people a right to try the spirits of pastors and teachers whether they be of God, and consequently to refuse to receive them if, on trial, they be judged not of God, which rights no power on earth may lawfully withhold or annul. " 2. That the Lord Jesus Christ, as king and Head of his Church, has therein appointed a government in the hands of church-officers, distinct from the civil magistrate, and has commanded, that while the things which are CEesar's shall be rendered unto Caesar, the things which are God's shall be rendered unto God. " 3. That the Church of Scotland did not in any sense re ceive her doctrines, discipline, or government, from the civil magistrate, but existed under her reformed constitution in doctrine and government, deduced by herself from the Scrip tures, and exercised all the powers of a Church of God, for years before she was recognised by the State. " 4. That when the Church of Scotland was, at the Revo lution, placed on her present civil basis by the Legislature, her Confession of Faith, constitution, and exclusive jurisdic tion, in all matters ecclesiastical, were distinctly admitted and recognised by statute ; and, farther, were subsequently guaranteed by the Act of Security, by the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland • and by that oath to main tain inviolat e ly th e privileges of Scottish Church, which, in accordance with that treaty, the Sovereigns of Great Bri tain must swear and subscribe, as their first act on their ac cession to the throne. " 5. That the Court of Session in Scotland, which owes its very existence to the civil authority, and is, by the terms of its institution, expressly limited to civil actions,' by claiming the right, and presuming to exercise the power of reviewing, suspending, and annulling the decisions of the Church of Scotland in matters ecclesiastical, scripturally and legally belonging unto her jurisdiction exclusively, has in vaded, and is endeavouring to subject the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ unto the kingdoms of this world ; and by prohibiting his faithful ministers from preaching the gospel in certain parishes of Scotland, has openly trampled under foot his authority, which has expressly commissioned them to go forth into all the world, and preach the gospel unto every creature ; and that, therefore, the mandates and inter ,clicts of the Court of Session ought not only not to be sub mitted to, but to be disobeyed and resisted by every scriptu ral means, even, if necessary, unto blood. " 6. That, therefore, the Church of Scotland. in refusing, in the face of ruinous law-suits, judicial reprimands, and impending fines and imprisonments, to submit to the dic tates of the Court of Session in matters ecclesiastical, and to take a single step towards the intrusion of ministers upon reclaiming congregations, is obeying the commandments of God, asserting the supremacy of the only Head of the Church, defending the rights of her Christian people, and vindicating her own statutory, blood-bought, and scriptural privileges. " 7. That as the Church of Scotland derives her exist. ence, with her essential and constitutional principles, from the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who is the bead of all prin cipality and power, which cannot therefore be repealed or al tered except by him ; and as the existence and constitution of the Court of Session are derived from the State, and there fore may be righteously modified, repealed, or removed away altogether by the will of the Legislature, the Church of Scotland is acting a loyal, consistent, and Christian part in applying to the State for such a declaratory statute, as shall explicitly restrain the civil courts within their own proper jurisdiction, shall vindicate the spiritual rights of the people. and give a civil sanction to the great Christian and constitu tional principle of the Church of Scotland, that no person be intruded into any of the offices of the Church contrary to the will of the congregation to which he is appointed. " 8. That it is the duty of other Churches to give such as sistance as is in their power to this persecuted Church, and especially to offer up their prayers, that her adorable Head, who has triumphantly borne her through many a struggle for his crown and kingdom, may direct and strengthen her by his Holy Spirit, and enable her to maintain her present po sition; from which she cannot recede without irremidiably wounding her own character, destroying her usefulness, en dangering the spiritual liberties of all religious communions. inflicting a grievous injury on our common Christianity, and sinning against God. " That, therefore, this Presbytery resolve to petition Parliament, in terms of the preceding resolution ; and re commend to their sessions and congregations to do the same without delay." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. STATE OF THE WORKS. The works upon this important line are now in a state of great forwardness. Between Littleborough (up to which point, the road is now opened from Manchester) and the Summit Tunnel a distance of 1- miles, all the permanent rails are, with the exception of a few yards, laid down, and the road completed. From the west end of the Tunnel to Hebden Bridge the works are the heaviest on the line, containing the great Tun nel itself and some smaller ones, several viaducts, and some deep cuttings and embankments. The latter have been im peded by the continual wet vreatheqf the pist season, but the viaducts, other masonry and tunnels, are in a very for ward state.• Of the Summit Tunnel 1,842 yards are already executed, leaving 1018 yards to complete the entire work, and from the progress making, there is, we believe, little doubt of its being completed in November next. The other short tunnels are also well advanced, and are all expected to be finished as early as that period. With respect to the remaining portion of the line between Hebden Bridge and Normanton, where it joins the North Midland Railway—a distance of 27} miles—the principal works consist of ten bridges of from two to six arches each, over the crossings of the River Calder, the Sowerby and Elland tunnels, and some extensive cuttings and embank ments at Mythohn Royd, Copley, Elland, Cooper Bridge, Horbury, and Kirkthorpe. Five of the bridges are nearly finished, the arches being turned, and only the parapet walls ' required to complete them. Three more are built up above the water level, and nearly ready for the centreing, and the remaining two are above the water level, with the exception of a pier in each, so that the principal difficulties of these works may be said to be overcome. Considerable delay has been created in the construction of the bridges at Cooper Bridge and Kirkthorpe by the companies navigating the river, otherwise they would have been in a much more for ward state. The Sowerby Tunnel is in length 638 yards, of which only 88 yards remain to be completed. Of the Elland Tunnel, 410 yards in length, only 100 yards remain unfinished. The progress of the embankments is very satisfactory, ex cept at Cooper Bridge and Kirkthorpe, where impediments have arisen in the construction of the bridges, over which earth for embanking has to be carried, and which will prevent the completion at Cooper Bridge until the end of August, dnd at Kirkthorpe until November next. As the latter work is below Wakefield, it will not, however, delay the completion of the whole length between Hebden Bridge and Wakefield, which is expected to be accomplished early in September next. The stations for the reception of goods at Manchester and Littleborough are completed, and that at Rochdale is in pro gress. BIRKENHEAD AND CHESTER RAILWAY. We are glad to witness the rapid progress of the works on this line of railway, the opening of which during the ensuing summer will afford so great an addition to the fund of amusement and pleasurable recreation, which Liverpool, during that season, affords to her numerous visitors. It is worth the consideration of those who wish to form an esti mate of the profit likely to be derived by the proprietors of this railway, that it is the only line out of Liverpool which presents scenery worth visiting, and which is likely to be resorted to by its " tired denizens" for a passing day's en joyment. Before many months are over we expect to hear " a trip to Chester" spoken of with as little concern as a sail to Egremont or New Brighton, and have no hesitation in believing that the proportion of increase upon the present passenger traffic will very far surpass the calculations of its projectors, or the anticipations of the public. Let us, however, suggest to the directors the advantage they will derive from adopting a moderate scale of fares, and adopting the plan of the directors of the Leeds and Manchester line, with respect to the establishment of an additional or third-class train, for the accommodation of the poorer description of travellers. In many instances a dif ference of sixpence will decide the question of journey or no journey; and upon a short line like this, with its favourable gradients and light cost of construction, a few additional passengers will add little or nothing, beyond the duty paid to government, to the expenses of a train. GOVERNMENT DUTY ON RAILWAY PASSEN- GERS. We have on a previous occasion called the attention of railway companies to the inequality with which this tax presses on themselves and the public. On some lines which charge the minimum rate of toll this tax is felt more, of course, than upon our leading railways ; but on all we think the pre sent mode of levying it is impolitic, both as regards the inte rests of the revenue and of the community. Our attention has been recalled to this subject by an ably drawn up statement appended to the report of the Leeds and Manchester Railway Company, (a portion of which we ex tract at foot) from which it appears that the duty paid by that company during four months, was, for first class pas sengers 2i per cent. upon the fares, for second class passen gers 5 per cent., and for third class passengers lot per cent. Hence it must be evident that although railway companies may sufficiently appreciate the advantage of affording the accommodation of low fares to thelumbler portion of their rp4tsPqggrq, Whielk the experience , the Leeds Railway suf-, ,Aciently illustrates, this tax places a limit beyond which the advantages3 , qually.of the public and the company shall not extend:' , f l A Hi/ APPENDIX OF TRAFFIC UPON THE LEEDS AND - MANCHESTER RAILWAY. Received for Parcels, &c., for six months .. £756 ss. 3d. Received for Passengers or six months, £17,823 14s. 2d. Passengers in six months, of which only 244,500 arrived at, or left Manchester, the remaining 101,912 being local traffic Miles travelled in six months Duty paid to Government in six months, £1,417 13s. 111 d. Days for running Trains in six months Average number of Passengers per day during the six months Average number of miles travelled per day during the six months * Average duty per day during six months .. Os. 2•25 d. Average receipt per day for Parcels, Trucks, &c., during the six months Average receipt per day for Passengers during the six months £loo 13s. 11•69 d. Average distance travelled by each Passenger during the six months 7'Blm. Average receipt from each Passenger during the six months, which is at the rate of 1 . 56 d. per mile Cash received for First Class Passengers during four months, which averages per day £lO Bs. 5•69 d., £1,302 19s. 6d. Number of First Class Passengers during four months, which averages per day 63 Average of First Class Passengers per day during four months Average for each First Class Passenger during the four months 3s 3 . 69 d. Cash received for Second Class Passengers during four months, which averages £26 12s 7 . 06 d. per day, £3,278 14s Number of Second Class Passengers during four months Average of Second Class Passengers per day during four months Average for each Second Class Passenger during four months is 7 . 63 d. Cash received for Third Class during four months, which averages per day £57 13s. 3d... Number of Third Class Passengers during four months Average number of Passengers per day during the four months Average of each Third Class Passenger 9 .44d. No. of Trains in six months Average Passengers to each Train during the six moths It has been intimated to the Directors of the Midland Counties' Railway by the Postmaster-General, that the mails will be transmitted by this line wi and after the 6th of next month.—Railway Times. WEEKLY RETURN OF TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS. (From the Railway Magazine.) Passen- Cash. P.mile P.mile Passeng. NAME. gers. pr.wk. p. day. per day. X. X. X. Birmingham — 12489 111 16 South Western --- 2300 391 5/- Great Western .. 2261 761 11 Grand Junction 7510 771- 11 Birmg. & Derby — 70 8 181 2 Greenwich 23021 798 2091 30 3289 Manchester &Leeds 11223 799 59 81 1603 Croydon 7338 459 431 6* 1048 York &N. Midland 2648 386 261 4 378 Midland Counties 2BOO 271 174 21 401 Glasgow & Ayr 1430 561 5t 1 238 Eastern Counties 4102 386 THE ANTI-CHURCH EXTENSION MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Having taken the trouble to analyze the incongruous mass forming the signatures to the requisition for the late Anti-Church Extension Meeting at the Music Hall, I find the component parts to be described thus :- 6 Roman Catholic Priests 16 Roman Catholics 2 Socinian Preachers 17 Socinians 1 Independent Preacher (i. e., dependant on the liking of his congregation) 12 Independents 2 Quakers 1 Baptist Preacher 6 Baptists 4 Scotch Secession 4 Religion not yet discovered. 71 Here we have Papists turned Voluntaries—lndependents, those who profess to be actuated by more holiness than others, endeavouring to stop the means of grace for the people—dog in the manger work with a vengeance —men professing to be religious, acknowledging the spiritual destitution of the peo ple, and acknowledging that they cannot supply these wants, and yet working heart and hand with Papists, Socinians, Quakers, aye and Socialists, to prevent the Church of Eng land doing it. It should be more widely known what a frac tion these noisy declaimers form of our population. The population of England and Wales is now 15,500,000, and of this the orthodox dissenters of the three denomina tions, by their own mos t f avoura bl e s h ow i ng, form but 1,000;000. I beg to remain, &c. J. C. " PURLOINING AMERICAN PAPERS." TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE. I observe, by the Liverpool Chronicle, of thts day, a paragraph, relating to an investigation which took place be fore Mr. Rushton, headed " Purloining American Papers." In this paragraph you state several untruths ; and you make use of my name in such a manner as would lead the public to believe, that I had surreptitiously obtained your papers, from the Mona, steamer, without authority. This, in fact, you, Mr. Nightingale, swore, when you knew, at the time you took the oath, that we had acted in concert for fully two years ; and that you, Mr. Nightingale, as the representative of the proprietary of the Liverpool Chronicle, had, in hun dreds of instances, authorised me, as I have you, to forward the papers to London. To prove this, there are a great many individuals willing and anxious to testify. I shall not, in The Standard, enter into particulars as to Mr. Dignan's charge ; but will simply observe, that I challenged him, at the police-office and do so now, to prove that any files of American papers were directed for him in the parcel which I forwarded to London for you. The animus of the pr o p r i e t ors may be seen from the cir cumstance, that, about three weeks ago, a London morning newspaper proffered to me the Liverpool agency which you held, the editor stating, that Ross and Nightingale had so infamously neglected the business that a change must neces sarily be made. Hence, the malicious feeling of all parties connected with the Chronicle. It is false that I was brought up before Mr. Rushton. I attended at the office, in consequence of a message, or re quest, from Mr. Dowling, and which would have passed un heeded, but that I was desirous to gain some information of my own American papers, which I ought to have obtained by the last seven packet-ships, and which I believe to have been stolen. 1 told you, Mr. Nightingale, when I left the Police-office, that I wished you had pressed the case ; that I despised and defied you, and, yet, you wish to show the public, that you made it a matter of courtesy, or kindness, to refrain from prosecution. I beg to acquaint you that my solicitor is instructed to commence an action against you immediately, and that all the circumstances, together with matters relative to the Cus tom-house have yet to appear elsewhere. I have the honour to be your obedient Servant, JAMES HENRY REVIS, Daily Correspondent to the Globe, London Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Src. Saturday, March 21, 1840. There would not be a packet from New York for Liver pool on the first instant, owing to the Europe not having arrived to take her place in the line. MOST IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL OF LIEUT. MASTERS H. P. LATE OF THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND VETERAN COMPANIES. (CERTIFICATE.) St. John's, Newfoundland, 12h March, 1838. Conformably to a G arr i son Order, t dated 9th March, 1838, for the assembly of a Medical Board, to take into consider ation the state of health of Lieut. Masters, R. V. C., and to report accordingly. We, the undersigned, Staff Officer and Civil Practitioner, forming the Board authorized by that or der, after a strict examination of the case of Lieut. Masters, consider him as entirely unfit for military duty.—Lieutenant Masters has for several years been afflicted with Rheumatic Gout, which has produced serious functionary derangements of his stomach, liver, and other viscera, and finally given rise to infirmity, weakness, and enlargement of the articu lations, especially of the ancle joints ; his general health and constitution is much impaired, and therefore, in our opinion, he is incapable of further service. (Signed) ANDW. FERGUSON, M.D. Staff Assist.-Surgeon. EDWARD KIELLY, Surgeon. LETTER OF LIEUT. MASTERS TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND, LONDON. . . . Hawley, near Bagshot, 13th Jan. 1840. SlR,—Considering that the public would be greatly bene fited by the publication of the extraordinary benefit which I have derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, I herewith send the particulars of my case, and the Medical Certificate, by which I was invalided. I was first attacked with Rheumatic Gout in 1826, from which period to 1833 I was under the treatment of the late Drs. Rod, Horner, and Jacobs, as well as by the present Dr. Davis, all of Hamp stead. From 1833 to 1838 I was at St. John's, Newfound land, doing duty as a Subaltern in the Royal Veteran Com panies, where I suffered most severely, and was under the care of Surgeon Hewson, R. V. C., Staff Assistant-Surgeon Ferguson, and Mr. Shea, private practitioner there, without being able to prevent the most violent fits of the gout three or four times annually, which becoming so bad caused the Garrison Order for the Medical Board, as before named.— About the middle of last February and the whole of March my sufferings were dreadful ; in fact, I was unable to move without being carried ; when Major Birch, of Crondale, near Farnham, a Magistrate of this county, kindly commisserating my situation, called on me for the purpose of taking my affi davit, that I might receive my half-pay ; and seeing me in so miserable a state, advised me to try Blair's Gout and Rheu matic Pills, saying, although not gouty himself, he knew several who had derived benefit from them. I had previously been advised by a then neighbour, Mr. Fedgent, of Alder. shot, to try them, but I declined until the Major recom mended them.—l commenced by taking them d acco oe rd ss m at g io t i o l the directions •, and, after taking six pills, fo_ e u c n of all pain, and the remainder of the box eff hut tu a a s that fit. I have since had several attac take the feel the least sensation of the disease — I I may also 'mention pills,lisyoown settlediaiisc which have at once removed all sympotonmms.y that the chalk which had formed g s a . p p l e a h r n e y d e , rs irations to which I and where it formed in my case, and appoint an Agent in St. fingers is ea d r e s er h e a a s si d n i ceased to have those very weakening pe p were known, John's, Newfound was w s e u r b e j y ec o t u b t e o fo p r ri e ntiratynciminygwthhepreills. my sufferings and where there s are so a manyar icted with Rheum a ti c G out, you will vastlyincrease the of this valuable Medi c i ne. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, JOHN MASTERS Lietit. H. P. Royal Newfoundland Veter an Compani es. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-MONDAY. BIGAMY. Thomas Nall, an elderlTin;l7, ;as placed at the bar on a charge of having married Mary Brandon, spinster, his first • wife being alive at the same time. George Jared said he was a boot and shoe-maker, residing in Mary Adelaide-place, Old Swan, West Derby. In the year 1828 he was clerk at St. Phillip's Church. On the 21st January in that year the prisoner was married in that church, to Elizabeth Dawson. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Bowstead. This morning witness had seen the prisoner's first wife, at her house in Clayton-street. Ann Jared, daughter of the last witness, proved that she was present at the first marriage, and saw the prisoner sign the register. Mary Brandon, the,second wife, said she was now lodging in Islington -place, Lambeth-street. She had known the prisoner for twelve months, and on the 16th of December she was married to him, in St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Townsend. He told her he was a widower. She left him the day after the marriage, as he said he was going to do some work at Lower Bebbington, in Cheshire, and went to her friends in Manchester, whither he was to follow her, but he did not. In a few days afterwards she received a letter, informing her that the prisoner was either married or living with another woman ; she made inquiries in consequence, but could not ascertsin the fact till Thursday last, when she learned that he had been married, and that bis wife was living. She informed the police, and the prisoner was appre hended. He was perfectly sober when he was married to her. Thomas Percival, brother-in-law to the last witness, proved the second marriage. The prisoner was then called upon for his defence. " All I have to say," he replied, " is that another person has been with her day and night for three months, which there is a person to prove." He was committed for trial at the assizes. FORGING SEAMEN'S NOTES. James Storey was charged with having forged two seaman's notes, by means of which he obtained the sum of 6s, from a carpenter named Jefferson Blowe. Jefferson Blowe said he was a joiner, and that he lodged with his brother, Burdett Blowe, in Catherine -court, Ed ward-street. About three weeks ago witness entered a ship ping office at Harrison's public-house in Wapping, and asked the prisoner, who was there putting a paper into the window if he wanted a ca r p en t er ' s mate . Th e prisoner replied,, " There is one wanted here," on which witness asked him the name of the vessel. "It is not customary," the prisoner replied, "to tell that ; I might shut up shop if I did." Wit ness then asked him if he thought he could secure him a berth, to which he answered, " You must give me 2s. first— we have been taken in by so many sailors getting their notes, and not going in the vessel." Witness, therefore, went out, borrowed 25., and gave the money to the prisoner, who, at that time told him neither the name of the captain nor of the vessel. When he had given him the 2s. the prisoner said, " I will go out and get the monthly notes signed, and you must call again the next day," but witness left him in the office. On calling again the next day the prisoner told him the captain had gone to London, and that he had not been able to see him. In two or three days afterwards he again saw the prisoner, who told him he had got the notes signed. Witness then said, " I s h ou ld lik e to see t h e captain,' but the prisoner said, " th ere i s no occasion for you to see him." The next day witness called again, and asked the prisoner how much money he should want besides what be had had, and he said, " four shillings." The following day witness was going through the Custom-house Arcade, when the pri soner came up, tapped him on the shoulder, and said, " Have you got your money ?" Witness replied, " No, but I'll go and see if I can borrow it," and the prisoner added, " Do so, and I will go with you." Witness went to his brother's wife borrowed four shillings from her, and gave them to the prisoner, who thereupon produced two shipping notes, which he filled up, with the exception of the names of the captain and the merchant's. Those names had been written pre viously. The prisoner gave him these notes, and said he must call at the office on Friday (last) to sign articles. He called at the office but the prisoner was not in. On going to the ship Formosa, in the Prince's Dock, he saw Captain Adams, who said the signatures " A. Adams" were not in his writing. This morning witness saw the prisoner on George's Dock Quay, and followed him into Benn's Gardens, where he gave him into custody. When charged with the forgery the prisoner replied, " Please, drop it ; come to the office and you shall have your money again." Alexander Adams said he was captain of the Formosa, now lying in the Prince's Dock, bound for Sydney. The prisoner had no authority to ship any men for his vessel. The signatures to the two notes produced were not written by witness. - Dennis Brennand, superintendent of scavengers, stated that be apprehended the prisoner in Benn's Gardens, as de scribed by the prosecutor. The defence set up by the prisoner was, that he was at the time in want of money, and that he was very sorry for what he had done. Mr. Rus HTON committed him for trial at the next sessions. SUMMONS FOR WAGES. John Glass, a seaman, summoned Captain Cable, of the John Mitchell, to show cause why he refused to pay the sum of £l2 Bs. 6d., the balance of wages due from the 24th of August last. The answer was, that the complainant was an incompetent seaman, but there was no proof of the fact. The money, it appeared, had been tendered to the plaintiff on Saturday, but for' some reason he refused to take it. Mr. Rushton ordered it to be paid, and regretted that he had no power to make the complainant pay the costs. Mr. Leathom, chairman; Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Holt, a deputation in support of the Liverpool Dock and Warehouse Bill, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Friday, at the Colonial-office. On Sunday afternoon, about five o'clock, a fire was dis covered in the engine -room of Mr. Hill's chemical-works, Eaton street, Vauxhall-road. Intelligence was quickly con veyed to the Fire-police station, and the engines, under the direction of Mr. Hewitt, were soon on the spot and in opera. tion. The fire was speedily put out, the damage sustained having been inconsiderable. CHESS.—The Armagh Club are, at present, engaged in playing a match with Liverpool players, by correspondence. The game is only commenced:. two moves having only passed on each side : when it has further advanced we will give our readers the. particulars. CHURCH OF ENGLAND BENEVOLENT TRUST AND As- SURANCE INSTITUTION.—We are glad to .find that a novel and noble institution is in the course of formation, under dia. tinguished support, having for one of its objects a provision for the families of deceased Clergymen ; or to enable congre gations to ensure the lives of their Clergy ; or of Clergymen to ensure their own lives £3O per cent. lower than the ordi nary rates—such per centage being the average profit of Life Assurances. An Institution like this has been long wanted. A system of making a provision for families exists in the afmy and the East Indian Service, but nothing of the sort for the Clergy, who most require it. — Conservative Journal. LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.—The Assizes for the Southern Di vision of this county will commence on Wednesday next, on the afternoon of which the commission will be opened. The business of the Assizes will commence on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the Crown Court, and the Honour able Mr. Justice Erskine, in the Civil Court. The calendar, we are sorry to say, is heavy, there being not less than 107 prisoners for trial. The following shows the offences of which the prisoners are accused, and the number of each class of offenders in custody Murder Killing and slaying Cutting and wounding.. 7 I Do. out on bail Utteringbills, knowing them to be forged .. I Total lO7 SHORT WEIGHTS.—On Friday last, at Eirkdale Petty Sessions, a number of shopkeepers were brought up before John Formby, Esq., and Charles Birch, Esq., charged with having in their possession short weights, and were fined in the usual penalty, namely, twenty shillings and costs. It was calculated, that if the weights for which one of the cul prit's was fined were pretty actively employed, the fraud on his customers would reach to several pounds sterling per week. EMIGRATION.—From present appearance's, the number of persons emigrating this year, will be unusually large. The main stream of emigration still continues to run towards the United States. Already several hundreds have sailed, and berths for several hundreds more are engaged. The New York packet-ships now carry out their full complement of steerage passengers. On Monday the Sheridan sailed with 337 steerage and between twenty and thirty cabin pas sengers ; and, on Friday, the South America's deck literally swarmed with men, women, and children : she also carried out a large number of cabin passengers. Most of the suc ceeding packet-ships will be crowded with emigrants, while the transient ships also take out large numbers. DEATH AT SEA. — Among the passengers by the packet ship England, Captain Waite, which sailed from New York on the 23d ult. for this port, was Samuel Jenks Smith, Esq., editor of the Sunday Morning News, published at New York. Mr. Smith had been complaining for about six months be fore he embarked, and the primary object of his intended visit to this country was to try the effect of a change of cli mate. He gradually became worse, however, until the 3d instant, when he expired. His body was committed to the deep with the usual ceremonies observed at sea. Mr. Smith, who was about thirty-five years of age, was one of the lead ing men of the Whig party at New York, and was universally respected. He has left a wife and two children to lament his loss. LAUNCHES.—On Thursday last was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Challinor and Co., Baffin-street, a fine new brig, called the St. Vincent, built for John Cropper, Esq., and intended for the St. Vincent trade. She went off in beautiful style, amidst the cheers of a large concourse of spectators. After the la unc h a company of from seventy to eighty ladies and gentlemen sat down in the mould-room to an elegant repast, provided by the owner of the vessel. John Askew, Esq., ably presided ; and, after the toasts of the Queen and Prince Albert, the healths were respectively drunk of "" The Mayor of Li verpoo l , " " T he owner," " The build er,&c. The afternoon was spent in the most agreeable manner.—The same day a fine ship, of about 600 tons bur then, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, Trentham-street. This vessel is 130 feet in length, and 30 feet in breadth. She has been built, under the able superintendence of Captain Finlay Cooke, for Messrs. John Ridgway and Co., and is intended for the East India trade. She is a very handsome vessel, with a full-length figure-head of Miss Martha Ridgway, who gave her her own name in person. After the launch, which was highly gratifying, Mr. Ridgway entertained a select party of friends on the occasion, who spent the evening in a delightful manner. BEWARE OF THE IDES OF M ARCH .—Th e alone' of Marchis memorable on account of the warn i ng g iven to Caesar, his neglect of it, and its fatal consequ enc e s . The Ides of March are still pregnant with dange r , no t t o crowned heads alone, but to all ranks, from the peer to the peasant. The_ piercing easterly winds that prevail at this season are to be feared by throwing all classes of society, more especially as nature, off her wintry torpor, is preparing to respond to the genial in fluence of hope-awakening spring, when we are more suscep. tible of the baneful effects of the keen blasts for which this month is remarkable. Many diseases that are brought to a fatal termination by these cutting winds, may be , averted by having timely recourse to Frampton's Pill of Health, a me dicine that has justly obtained an unrivalled popularity as an efficacious and mild aperient. ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. —On Friday, at the Police Court, a man, rather shabbily at tired, named John Walters, was placed at the bar under the following circumstances :—Mr. Steel, of the Gas Works, stated that the prisoner had c a ll e d on him on the previous day, with a petition or representation (produced), and had asked him for a contribution. Th e d ocument was well and ingeniously written, and purported t o b e s i gned and sealed by the Comptroller of Customs in Belfast, and attested by two magistrates. It set forth that the bearer was captain of .the ship Albion, of Halifax, British America; that the ship was bound thence t o G reat Yarmouth ; that she foundered at sea in February l ast, and that out of sixteen persons, all perished but the captain and four others, whom it recom mended to the humane.. The loss which it was represented the captain had sustained was put down at £2400. Amongst the pretended signatures were the names of many of the first firms in the town, and many private individuals, including " 'The Countess oeSefton." The sums varied from £1 , to £5 5 5 ., at w hi ch last liberal sum were put d own The Compositors of the Mercury." Mr. Steel knew some of the signatures to be forged, and very properly gave the ma n i n charge. All the others were probably equally false. Th e prisoner said he had had the paper in his possession only half an hour, and that he got it from another man. Mr. Rushton said there was undoubtedly a manufacturer of such petitions in this town. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for three months. et4,tros \ 41 7 . /7 1 . 7 • , .4. 1* 4 'w At s •'-.7 , '1 1 • 7 *'`4";?:71 CO \ 4 fr v/Y ;i 7 . I~'NY kg' THEATRE4ROYAL. Since the termination of the last season, the decorative part of the h ouse h as b een retouched, new lights have been added, and arrangements made for the greater comfort of the visitors. To make the house complete, nothing seems to us to be wanting but backs to the seats in the pit. The opening night of the season, which was last evening, displayed a most brilliant and crowded auditory. The play was Sheridan Knowles's new production " Love," which our literary and theatrical readers will recollect was reeently produced at Covent Garden Theatre. Miss Ellen Tree per formed the Countess, and Mr. Stuart Huon, Mr. Gray the Duke of Calinthia, Miss Cleave the Empress, and Mrs.Tellet Catherine. In the performance of Miss Tree we found it impossible to mark a defect, and the auditory evi dently had a similar impression. Mr. Stuart elicited considerable applause, but occasionally there was an in - distinctness in his articulation, which prevented the lan guage of the author producing its proper effect. Mr. Gray did not make the Duke exhibit that want of physical power of which he repeatedly complains, and in his exit there was little or no appearance of the decreasing strength which he described as the harbinger of his dissolu tion. Yet, on the whole, the proud, ambitious spirit of the Duke was ably pourtrayed. We may pass over the remain ing characters by stating, that they could not have been confided to better hands ' • but the acting of Mrs. Tellet de serves especial notice. Nothing could be richer than the challenge to Sir .Rupert, except perhaps the address with which the denouement was sustained. Taken altogether, the play was highly successful, and at the fall of the curtain it was loudly cheered. The custom, absurd though it is, of calling for the " star" of the evening was revived, and ac cordingly Miss Tree was led before the curtain by Mr. Stuart, and having gracefully acknowledged the call, she retired. It was our intention to have reviewed, or rather to have detailed, the merits of the play, as a dramatic production, in this day's STANDARD, but we have been unable to do so. It shall appear on Friday. Thd performances closed with a farce called " Second Thoughts," in which the admirable acting of Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Tellet, Mr. Baker, and indeed of all the characters, called forth shouts of laughter. We perceive that " Love" is to be repeated every evening this week. We would recommend our friends not to fail seeing it. It is a beautiful production, and the style in which it is "got up" at the Theatre Royal, is not only worthy of it, but is highly creditable to the taste and enterprise of the management. DANIEL O'CONNELL, Md'., J. R. M`GIIEE. AND THE REV. At a recent meeting in Ireland, resolutions condemnatory of the proceedings of the great agitator were unanimously passed, and a copy sent to Mr. O'Connell, with a request that he would contradict any part of them that might be erroneous. The reply was, that Mr. O'Connell " could not meet them, either before the constituency of the university or the Irish bar." On the receipt of this reply, it was re solved that the resolutions should be submitted to the House of Commons in any manner that honourable house might be pleased to direct. On this subject a letter was written to Mr. O'Connell by the Rev. J. R. M` Thee, bidding him, in the name of the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ireland, to call him (Mr. M`Ghee) to the bar of the House of Com mons, and move that he be granted full liberty to prove the facts specified. And then the reverend gentleman proceeds' to say that he dares not do it; that he knows the villainy of the popish hierarchy too well; that he knows too well the system of criminal temporal tyranny and sedition, that they practise over the poor Roman Catholics of Ireland under the mask of religion—and that he knows too well his own profit, as their tool and agent —as the autowatan of their will—the puppet of their power, to dare to let the mystery of their iniquity and his own, be openly and boldly developed in such an authoritative form as it must be by an honest witness for truth at the bar of the House of Commons. The reverend gentleman then remarks on the dependence of her Majesty's Government on the O'Connell faction, and declares that it is the duty of every sincere Protestant to show the people of Ireland, that when their representatives are compromising and parleying with O'Connell, and making concessions of political power to the papacy, instead of bringing him and that system of perjury, cruelty, sedition, and slavery, to the bar of public justice ; they are compromising the blessings of the British constitution, the honour of their sovereign, the safety of the Protestants, the freedom of the Roman Catholics of Ireland—the liberties, the laws, and the religion of their country. Mr. M'Ghee then cautions O'Connell in the fol lowing manner :—" Don't pretend that you would be very happy if I were brought to the bar, but take sweet counsel with Lord John Russell privately, that he should come for ward to prevent it. Don't use any Jesuitical tricks to evade the exposure of the villainy of your hierarchy, but stand honestly forward and confess you are afraid to meet the case. The honourable member for Sheffield will cover your retreat with an apology for falsehood, and a panegyric upon charity ; and Lord Morpeth will deliver a lugubrious homily on the morality of Father Mathew, the piety of your priests, and the evangelical grace of Dr. Murray." The letter of Mr. M'Ghee has created a great sensation amongst the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, and perhaps it may have some effect in arousing Protestants from the apathy in which they have so long indulged. Mr. Illidge has just finished a grand full length portrait of Joshua Walmsley, Esq., Mayor of Liverpool. It is an ad mirable likeness, and does creditto Mr. Illidge's well-known talents. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, with their family and Lady Charlotte Greville, are still at Rome, and, from the last letters received from Italy, did not intend quitting that city until next month, when the noble lord and lady purpose returning to this country. His lordship's health is said to have improved considerably, and that he had quite recovered from the debilitating effects of the severe attack of gout which his lordship experienced previous to his departure for Italy. It is said the Emperor of Austria will not consent to the marriage of his niece, the Princess of Braganza, with the Prince de Joinville. ANECDOTE OF AMPERE.—Of Ampere's absence of mind t droll anecdote is related. Being out one day at dinner, he completely forgot where' he was, and imagined he was at home. Not happening to like some of the dishes of which he had partaken, hp exclaimed aloud, under the supposition that he. was addressing his wife or ins - Sister, " I never sat down to a more execrable dinner : why do you not get a bet ter cook ?"—Polytechnic Journal for March, p. 184. Mr. Beale, of the musical firm of Cramer, Addison, and Beale, son of Mr. Beale, late of Manchester, has taken Drury-lane Theatre ; his term to commence from October next. It is in contemplation then to produce " opera" upon a more perfect and extensive scale than has ever been at tempted in this country. At present the only engagement completed is that of Mr. Benedict, a musical director.— London Paper•. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—MISS Lucy Harrington, for merly a resident in America, and daughter of Mr. Moses Harrington, died recently in Conish, N.H. under the follow ing distressing circumstances. She was sick three years and a half, and confined to her bed two years and five months. Several months previous to her death, her right hip was dis located by a contraction of the muscles, while she was sleep ing quietly in her bed. Immediately after this event, her bones began to hmk, and before her death they had broken nineteen times or more, in different parts of her body. At first her ribs broke, then her collar bone, then her lower limbs, ter under jaw, and the bones of her hands and feet. Their breaking was sometimes attended with noise, and at others not ; and was always preceded and followed by the most acute pain. The ends of the broken bones would sometimes, for a day or two, grate together on being moved. Upon a post mortem examination, not a sound bone was found. All were so softened as to be easily cut with a knife. When her bones began to break, the muscles of her lower limbs so contracted that they lay directly across her stomach and bowels. In this position she lay until her death. Her body was so contracted that at one time she measured as she lay in bed only two feet four inches. She gradually lost all strength in her limbs, until she could only move slightly the ends of her fingers. She was 43 years of age.—American paper. FLEETWOOD.—SCREW PILE LIGHT-HOUSE.—We lately visited this picturesque structure, and minutely examined its various parts ; the plan appears to combine extreme lightness with the greatest possible strength, being iron-bound and angle-braced in every direction, and . from the originality of its design, and correctness of its execution, reflects the high est credit on its projectors—the Messrs. Mitchell. It stands about two miles from the shore, upon the tail of a bank of shifting sand, which great disadvantage has been surmounted by covering it to some distance round the building with a tenacious clay mixed with stone and gravel. The foundation is formed of seven strong iron piles, forced 13 feet in the ground by means of screws three feet in diameter, attached to their lower extremity, the bank gradually consolidating to that depth. In these piles seven massive spars are firmly secured, which rise above the surface of the bank about forty-six feet, and on which the base of the house is strongly framed. By the above arrangement, though the tide frequently rises here to the height of thirty feet, yet, during the heaviest swell the house is unaffected by it, the waves passing freely underneath. Of this a convincing proof was given during the storms of last January, the building being then far advanced, but without the braces which form an essential part of the plan. The house is now completed, with the exception of the lighting apparatus, and contains two good apartments, with the light-room, store-roomsi &c ; it has also a broad balcony round the building, and a second surrounding the lantern, from whence an extensive view is had of the ocean and adjacent shores. A great experiment has thus been successfully ma d e , and a point of the utmost importance to navigation set at rest for ever, viz., the prac ticability of placing light-houses on sand banks in the ocean, which to shipping are not less dangerous than sunken rocks. The ease with which such buildings may be placed on sub marine banks still more exposed, may be inferred from the circumstance that the Wyre light-house was commenced late in November last, and carried on without interruption during the severe weather of the last winter. That the coasts of this kingdom will in time become studded with such lights we confidently anticipate, which conclusion forces itself upon us from a consideration of the superior advantages they will possess over floating lights ; among these may he enumerated a more powerful light, free from all motion, the certainty of not being set adrift, which in many instances has proved so disastrous, and a diminished annual expense of at least one half. Our opinion thus expressed is strengthened by the circumstance that the elder brethren of the Trinity House entertained so favourable an opinion of the plan, that they engaged the Messrs. Mitchell some time since to place a similar screw foundation on the Maplin Sands (a- bank at the entrance of the Thames), and where we hope soon to hear of a light being exhibited. We cannot conclude this brief notice without expressing a cordial wish that the Messrs. Mitchell may reap a rich harvest froin their admi rable invention, in which we understand they are protected by a patent.—Preston Pilot. THE REV. Was. NITNN.—This gentleman, whose death was briefly noticed in the Guardian last week, has been so long known to the inhabitants of this town, and more parti cularly to the congregation assembling for divine service at St. Clement's Church, as to call for a notice somewhat be yond the mere insertion of his name in an obituary. Mr. Nunn was born at Colchester, in Essex, and came to officiate in St. Clement's Church, in the year 1817 ; since which, his amiable and conciliatory conduct, the independence and rectitude of his principles, and the indefatiguble discharge of his sacred duties, have secured for hiin the respect, esteem and at tachment of a numerous congregation, and of a large circle of friends. On Wednesday evening, the 4th inst., he preached his last sermon, and on the following day was attacked by the illness which terminated his earthly career in four days, as he departed this life on the 9th inst., about eleven o'clock, a.m., leaving a wife and eight children. T-Ie was interred at All Saints' Church, on Saturday last, the 14th inst., by the Rev. John Hollist, of St. James's Church; and the interest created by Mr. Nunn's death, in the midst of his usefulness, was strikingly evinced by the fact, that upwards ,of three thousand persons assembled to witness the funeral ceremony. Amongst the clergy who attended (amounti ng f rom twenty to thirty in number), there were the Rev. John Hollist, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, the Rev.. Dr. Barton ; the Rev. Mr. HuntingtOn, the Rev. .. e N 4 Mr. Piceope, the R ev . W . H ew l ett, the R ev . Mr. ...if.sigiTratzin Rev. Mr. G run d y, t h e R ev,. M r. C ave , th e Rev. W. Hewlett, (brother of the d ecease d), &c. &c. The Rev. which he has seldom on curate of Astley, preached the funeral serm on, atn t q a t , ICle ment's Church, on Sunday evening - . A hig grace wa7l; last, from the Ist epistle.'of Corinthians, 10th vti.se— .. this was occasion, bestowed uponwss crowdedm e ,vas to n not an excess e N ).; 'a c l e. n s . s r w been equalled in any place of worship in this town.—Man chester Guardian. 4