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REMOVAL OF THE POWDER MAGAZINE. A T a PUBLIC MEETING of the LANDOWNERS and ...CA. INHABITANTS of the PARISH of WALLASEY; 'assembled by Public Notice, at the Egiemont Hotel, this tirst 'ay of October, 1833, to consider the propriety of applying for an Act of Parliament, or adopting such other method us may be considered most desirable to obtain the removal of the Powder Magazines from this Parish, Mr. WM. HEALING:in the Chair. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : Ist.—That the continuancd of the Powder Magazines in this Parish is, from the vast quantities of Powder deposited there, highly dangerous to the lives and property of the inhabitants of this part of the county, and of the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, and interposes a considerable check to the pro gress of improvement, and the landowners and inhabitants of this palish will use every endeavour to obtain the removal of so perilous a depot. 2d.—That the opinions of the Attorney-General and Sir William Follett be taken as to the power of removing the Magazines by indictment, and that, if favourable, the same be • forthwith indicted. 3d.—That in the meanwhile notice be given of intention to apply to Parliament for an Act to r ove the Magazines, and that in case the opinions given b nfavourable to removal by indictment, or should such indict nt fail, that the Committee hereinafter appointed be authorised to apply to Parliament should they deem it desirable. 4th.—That in such Act of Parliament a clause he introduced • that the expenses thereof, and all moneys necessary for the purposes of the said act, may be raised by a rate on the • Parishes of Liverpool and Wallasey. s.—That the Cot poration of Liverpool be requested to afford assistance in such application. 6.—That Messrs. Thomas Lowry, James Atherton, J. A. Marsden, Henry E. Robson, William Healing, Vincent Hig gins, and William Bartley, be appointed a Committee to col lect information, and for the purpose of forwarding the objects of this meeting. 7.—That all subscriptions to be received . for the purpose of forwarding the object of these resolutions be paid to Mr. Henry E. Robson, as Treasurer, for the purpose. B,—That notice of these resolutions he given in each of the Liverpool papers. W. HEALING, Chairman. The Chairman having left the Chair, the thanks of the meet ing were unanimously voted to him. VISITORS TO LIVERPOOL ARE INFORMED„ • THAT AT LACEY'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS, AND JUVENILE LIBRARY, Aro. 64, BOLD-STREET', THEY will find an Assortment of interesting Publications 1. calculated for Presents, splendidly Embellished, and richly Bound, at prices less by one-half than are frequently given for Works of inferior merit and appearance. 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The Wesleyan ministers stationed in London have unani mously agreed at It late meeting to attempt an improvement of the third centenary of the printing of the entire Scriptures in English, on the dtn of October next, by offering public thanks to God on that day for the protestant reformation, and by direct ing the attention of their respective congregations to the right and duty of alt christians to study the truly Scriptures, as the rule of their filth and practice; with a special.ieference to the church of Rome, one blanch of whose wicked policy it has ever been to keep the laity in ignorance of the sacred volume, as the most effectual means of securing their concurrence in her fool ish and anti-christian dogmas. The following ciirynl.* has been addressed by the Rev. R. Reece ' President of the Confe r ence, to th e super i nten d ent preaehere in their respective circuits, recommending to them and their brethren to adopt the same course, in common with ministers of other denominations " London, Sept. 22, 1835. '" My DEAR ThoTHER,-It appears to be generally determined by protestant christians, both in this country and in America, to observe the 4th of October next as the third centenary of the printing of the entire Smiptures in the English language, a work which was achieved by the piety, zeal, and learning of Myles Coverda.e. The subject of this anniversary seems to have been first suggested' b y the writer of the last report of the British and F ore i gn Bible Society. Several of the clergy in different parts of the kingdom cordially adopted the suggestion. and the independent ministers in Loudon agreed to recommfnd their brethren in the country to unite in commemorating the completion of Coverdale's pious labours on the day just men tioned. Our preachers stationed in the metropolis, at a meeting which they hail last week, resolved to follow the example of them brethren - of other denominations; and I take the liberty to sug gest to you and your colleagues the propriety of joining in this good work, as the printing of the entire Scriptures iu English, under God, conduced more than any other means to bring about the ever -memorable reformation from popery in these lands. The occasion is favourable for calling the attention of the public mind to the cardinal principle on which the reformation was based, namely, the 'sufficiency and supreme impoi lance of the Iloly Scriptures as the only rule of faith and practice.' "The inethreu have been induced to come to this determina tion from a sense of gratitude to Almighty God, whom they regard as the g reat author of the reformation; and they con ceive that a distinct and extended reference to the 'Oracles Divine,' and the duty of searching them, will be of considerable service, especially to the junior members of our congregation, Who are in no small danger of being contaminated by the false liberalism and anti-scriptural speculations which distinguish the present day. " Font; persuaded that no arguments are necessary to ensure your cordial co-operation in a matter so thoroughly protestant, and so entirely accordant with the principles, spirit, and writings of our venerable founder, I merely as a means of furnishing additional information, would direct your attention to an excel lent pamphlet on the subject, just published by the Rev. 'lhomas Hartwell Horne, and to a small collection of tracts published by the Religious Tract Society; both of which, I presume, may be obtained of the booksellers generally.-1 remain yours affec tionately, "RICHARD EJLECE." A PIEDMONTESE SERMON. TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIM CORK CONSTITUTION. Sin,—lf you would insert in a corner of your intelligent and impartial p 7 aper the following account of a sermon preached by a Piedmontese priest in the popish mass house in the small vil lage of St. Julian, about h a lf a l eague f rom G eneva, i n t h e ter , ritory of Savoy, as related by an eye witness, I think you will find that it is much of a character with sonic of the sort of ser mons preached by Many of our Irish priests in the present day - of excit ement an d begging. He was prea c hi ng on th e torments' of hell; a nd a f ter h e had reckoned up all the cauldrons, pitch forks, and fire-brands of that infernal place:— "My brethren," said he, "you will, perhaps, be curious to - know how S a t an musters t h e demand in order to know their numbers. First of all, Mahmnet, who is the drum-major, is ordered to beat a call; the Jews, with the Rabbins at their head, file off first, and as they pass along the devils run the great iron prongs into their —; next come the Turks, who are also pronged in the same manner as the jews; then the protestants dragging heavy chains; the devils pour melted lead into their mouths as a punishment of their blasphemies . against the - sairits, and particularly St. Julian, the patron of this church, whom you see seated there in his niche. and whom yoitilon't. respect as you ought, for I found only six litres ten sons. in his box! And I can tell you, that if you go on at this rateanelted lead in hell will become a dear and scarce commo dity. Do you imagine that your patron, St. Julian, can put -.Sip with such conduct as this ? If you do, I can tell you that you will find yourselves„neatly mistaken ; for nay part, I always take care to keep the lamp brimfull of oil, that he may not want light. But now that the festival approaches, who will clothe him ? Not I truly—l cannot afford it. If you don't see to it, very sure we'll soon see him naked. Look at the alines on his feet in tatters from looking after your cattle at : night, and making your corn and wine to grow. Oh! what ungrateful dogs you are thus to neglect your patron. Well may the heretic of Geneva call you such. You buy new pet ticoats every other day for your wives, and it is but ask and h eve' with them, but do you fancy that when the melted lead is poured down your throats they will bring you a cooling glass or lemonade without my permission? You will then see your fully, and I am afraid repent too late of having by tour negli gence deserved the fate of the heretics. 'oh! great St. Julian!' methinks I hear you say, 'why did I not give the money that I paid for lace for my wife? Why was I such a dunce as not to make you a present of that piece of stuff which I brought from the (air?' Vain repentance! fruitless regrets! St. Julian will.laugh at you r m i sery, and be deaf to your cries—and now the only time to make him your friend. I understand that sonie.of you complain of bad crops. We have had no wine this year,' say you, 'and two years ago we had no corn.' I believe it very well, hut you may expect much worse for the future. Do you think in good earnest that St. Julian will be such a simpleton as to ask of God to grant a favourable season to people who let him wear a coat for three long years? You - need not trouble yourselves about the materials fur his clothing; give me the money, and I will purchase them myself: if you do net, you will be treated like heretics, for whom there is no sal vation, and who in their birth are given over to the devil, so that when a Calvinist or a Lutheran comes into the world, he is registered in old nick's books as his goods and chattels." Such, Mr. Editor, is popery in Italy; and such is its case nearly in Ireland when niouey is to beeinacted front the people, or a political object to be gained.—l A. M. The Russiani arc anything but favourites with . the Turks, who, on the contrary, whenever they can, execrate them most , heartily. "They never," said the landlord the hotel at Bu jukde.re. a place hear Constantinople, "spend a penny • stingy , close-fellow; Aho would eat a lallow candle down to the very end, and leave not a dr op for the waiter," He wished to Goa they were at the bottom of the Black Sea, with the English fleet anchored above them. "Then," said he, "we should see the porter corks fly, the tables swim with grog, cigar boxos burst their cedar sides, the cook roast al! day, and I be happy in the general scramble." , ggs--FF LONDON LAW_ REPORT. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURt-MONDAY. John Grove, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Master man and Co. was found guilty of en:Lon ging the sum of £9OO, the money of his employers. Mr. Phillips, on the part of the prisoner, raised an objection to the indictment, which Mr. Jus tice Williams reserved for the consideratiou of the judges. The minor offenders having received their several sentences, the recorder ordered Robert Swan, the soldier, whose trial we gave in our last number, and John Smith and James Pratt, con. victed of an unnatural offence, to be brought to the bar. On being asked what they had to say why sentence of death should not be passed, Swan said, " My lord and gentlemen, I am certainly satisfied with my trial, and I am also fully con vinced that the jury did their duty; but the statement of my prosecutor, Mr. Reynolds, is false, and I am as innocent as a child. Although death is to be passed on me, I can assure you that he pressed the property on me, and through his entreaties I accepte. it. With respect to my statement to the police that I wanted him to take a person into custody is false, for I told Mr. Reynolds that I would not say anything about what had transpired, and when I saw him before the magistrate - I then said nothing, although I could do so. I have a wife, my lord, who has been ill for the last two years, seven months of which time she has been an inmate in St. George's Hospital. She knows not 1 am here, and God forbid she should be made ac quainted with my fate. On my trial an attempt was made to charge me with having accused a gentleman before of a similar offence, which is false. I have been in the army ten years, and never was punished for a dishonest action. Until within twenty minutes of my trial I did not know I was to have the assistance of counsel. Mr. Chadwick Junes offered to defend me gra tuitously, for which I am very thankful, and I do trust that God will reward him for his humanity, it being out of my power to do so. I freely forgive Mr. Reynolds for what he has sworn, and I hope God may also forgive him ; but his conscience will not. I, therefore, hope that that mercy which is shown to Mr. Reynolds will be shown to me." The recorder.—The learned judges who tried you have as sured me that they are equally satisfied with the verdict of the jury, as well as with the innocence of Mr. Reynolds. If there is a crime which in the eye of heaven can be more aggravated than another it is one of those false and horrid charges which you have made against an innocent individual. Under these circumstances I cannot hold out any hope to you. This I will do—every minute circumstance shall be brought under the par ticular attention of his Majesty and privy council, and on the facts so adduced you must stand or fall. Sympathy towards per sons for such offences cannot be expected to be shown; forthey are offences which, in a British country, mercy can never be extended to. The learned recorder, in a most solemn manner, then proceeded to call on the unhappy prisoners to apply the short time they had to live to God for that mercy-which they could not expect to receive from the hands of man. Swan then bowed to the court, and the three prisoners were removed from the dock. The court then adjdurned until Monday, the 26th of October. VISIT OF THE KING OF BELGIUM. Our letter from Ramsgate announces, and we believe cor rectly, that the King of Belgium is expected at that place, on a visit to his sister, the Duchess of Kent. A steam-vessel has been sent from this country to bring over his Majesty, and his resolution to come has been formed so suddenly and so secretly that till the application fur that vessel was made we have been informed the Belgian Ambassador' here had not heard of his sovereign's intention. He learned it only on Saturday. and communicated it by an express, late in the evening, to Lord Palmerston, who has arrived in town to-day. Of course this un expected visit of the King of Belgium, particularly when the circumstances recently brought to light in relation to the wishes and intentions of the Orangemen to alter the succession to the throne are recollected, will give rise to a variety of conjectures, and nobody will at first believe that his Majesty's visit not connected with political objects. We are induced, however, to suppose that it is one of mere friendship to his sister. The Queen of Belgiiiin,lias not, we believe, vet been made person ally acquainted with the Duchess of Kent, and that may have had some influence in determining a visit at this season, when so many of the nobility and sovereigns of Europe have put them selves in motion. Leopold may, perhaps, wish to have a per sonal consultation with our ministers on the present situation of his own country. It has been publicly, and even ostenta tiously, avowed, that one of the objects of the meetings of the sovereigns at Toplitz is to settle the affairs of Belgium and Holland ; and he may naturally feel a little alarmed at the suc cess which is said to have attended the mission of M. Van Ver stolk to Vienna last year, and at the recent approach towards the principles and favour of the Holy Alliance which has been made by Louis Philippe. Though he can have no apprehen sion that his father-in-law would both forsake him and be un faithful to the alliance with England, he may not be without some misgivings as to the ulterior effects of the flatteries which the Holy Alliance have lately bestowed on Louis Philippe, and of the attachment he has evinced to their principles of govern ment. He can have no just ground to suspect that Louis Philippe would sacrifice the independence of Belgium to propi tiate the Emperor of Russia, the near relative of the King of Holland ; but he may be desirous, by personal communication, of drawing closer the ties which unite Belgium to England. We have heard, indeed, a great variety of rumours on the sub ject of the visit; but we believe that it is altogether one of a private nature, and prompted more by family affection, and a regard to his sister's interest, than any apprehension he enter tains for the security of his own crown. The hostility of the Northern Posers to Belgium is known, and the conferences at Toplitz were not required to convince the world that they would gladly replace Belgium -under the dominion of the King of the Netherlands, if they could accomplish their object. But what ever may be their wishes, we cannot believe, particularly after their jate declarations in favour of peace, that they would run the risk, for the sake of pleasing the King of the Netherlands of involving Europe in war.—London paper. SHERIFF'S OFFICERS. The now. Sheriffs of Louden), Dlr. Alderman Lainson and Mr. David Saloinonv, who were installed into their office on Tues day, have sent the following circular to all the sheriff's' officers within their jurisdiction. The practice to which their letter refers will, we hope, attract the notice of county sheriffs gene rally. "It has been represented to the sheriffs elect that some of the Middlesex officers have been in the habit of discounting bills at au usurious rate of interest for needy and distressed individuals, in the expectation of being able to obtain payment in prefer ence to other creditors by the oppressive exercise of the func tions of their office, and that the better to disguise this improper participation in these illegal transactions, they often collusively place the bills in the hands of members of their own family, or other particular friends, in whose names a great number of actions are commenced, and the process addressed to the sheriff is executed in a most oppressive manner by the officers who are themselves interested in the result. "Tbe sheriffs elect. disclaim all intention of interfering with the pecuniary affairs or private business of gentlemen who are willing to act in the very useful capacity of their officers; but as the oppressions resulting from the illegal and discreditable proceedings above described are committed in the name of the sheriffs, they are resolved not to permit the authority of their office to be perverted by such unworthy objects. They there fore announce their determination to remove from office an . ), person complained against who shall be proved to have acted in the manner above adverted to. "The sheriffs elect give this notice without distinction to every person who may apply to act at their offices for the county, that it may not be supposed to have any invidious application, and that gentlemen may not incur the expenses attendant upon the execution of their bonds, without a full knowledge of the consequences which will inevitably result from the continuance of the practices complained of. (Signed) "JOHN LAINSON, "Sept. 25, 1835. `• DAVID SALOMONS." ANECDOTES OF GEORGE 111. - -- It is well known that his majesty was a regular attendant at church, and that he repeated the responses in a very distinct manner. About the fiftieth year of his reign he was, on some public occasion, much hooted at by a mob. When at chapel the next day, he not only repeated the following verse in a voice sufficiently loud to be heard by every one in the chapel, but laid a peculiar strong emphasis on the last part of it, putting his head at the same time out of tht closet window—" Forty years long have. I been grieved with this generation, and said, it is a people that do err in their hearts, fior they hare nut lgtown my ways." When I was last at Kew Palace, I was shown over it by Betty Sn os li ng , one o f 'th e l ast of the breed of old fashioned housemaids. Betty was a neat, trim, short old woman, some what antiquated in her attire, but the very picture of tidiness. She was, moreover, somewhat loquacious • but then her anec dotes were int er e s ti ng , for th e y c hi e fly related to those whom she had faithfully and, honestly served in that palace some sixty years ago. She was a great favourite with their late majesties, and talked of their goodness and kindness to her with the utmost delight and affection. She spoke also of the princesses in the same grateful manner: one, she said, had sent her last Christmas a handsome thick shawl to keep her warm; another, a fine turkey and chine, and a third, I forget what. These little tokens of regard to an old servant show a kindness of heart which it is pleasant to record; and I question much whe ther Betty did not receive more pleasure from them than she would from any sum of money which could have been given her. " Here." said Betty, "is his majesty's walking-stick, and thare is his backgammon board; this is the chair he sat upon, and in that small room he every morning and evening said his prayers. I used to hear him when I was in the next room, and he prayed very earnestly. Do you know, sir," said she, "that in his own private prayer-book he had scratched out 'our most religious and gracious king,' and had written instead, 'a miser able sinner.' " The old housemaid showed me a harpsichord which had belonged to Handel, on which the king sometimes Played. His fondness for Handel's music never left him, and it was an instance of his fine taste. Among other anecdotes of the good old monarch, which were related to me, the following affords a proof of his kind consideration for his old servants. Sitting by himself one day in the library, the king rang the bell for some coals; it was answered by a page, who, on being told what was wanted, rang the bell hivaself. On being asked his reason for doing so, he said it was for some one (naming an old footman), whose duty it was to bring the coals. The king immediately got up, and desired the page to show him where the coals were kept. On coming to it, he took up a coal skuttle, carried it himself to the library, and threw some coals on the fire. " There, sir," said the king, giving the page the coal-scuttle, "never ask an old man to do what you are so much better able to do yourself."—Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History. PIRACY. The following, is an extract of a letter from Falmouth, dated the 25th of September : " Gentlemen,—This will advise you of the safe arrival of the Alexander, from Ili° Grande, after a long passage, no bad wea ther, but calm. 1 have not had so pleasant a voyage as lust year, quite the reverse. We were boarded on the '2d instant by a schooner, under Spanish coloUrs, of two guns and twenty-five men, off the Azores, in lat. 35 27, long. 35 39, reported to be thirty-four days from the Havannah, and plundered of every thing they could get hold of; took the people's clothes off their bodies and out of the tub. She plundered an American vessel, the Waylesford, and had taken her stern-boat; we saw 'New York' branded on it. I could easily have destroyed the half of her crew, but we never suspected. They pretended to be in distress for want of bread until ten of them had got on board, three of whom had daggers two feet long under their clothes in sheaths, the rest short ones; and, also, we bad no guns to defend ourselves with, and her shot might have sunk us. She was quite low; a very heavy rolling sea. One of the offi cers was English or American, and several understood every word we said, but spoke nothing. I suspect they had 'plundered a ship with passengers, as he told me they had been on board of one. They took my son with them, a boy of about fourteen years of age, and kept him until I sent them what they wanted. There were seven watches hanging in her cabin, one of which he showed hint was gold. There was but one water-cask on deck, and seemingly no cargo, as he saw stones in the hold, and casks, by looking down the hatchway.—l am, gentlemen, yours truly, Liam PENNY." ••••• . THE LIVERPO THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MR. BROWNE most respectfully announces that his BENEFIT, and the Last Night of his Engagement, Neill take• place Oil WEDNESDAY. next, the 7th instant, on which occasion • . . Mr POWER. will perfolm the charadeTs of DENs is BnutnnunnanY and LOONEY aI"rWOLThR, his third appeirance .since his return from America. Mr. STRICKLAND, of the Theatre-Royal, H a ym ar k e t, who is engaged for a limited period, will make his First Appearance in this Theatre in the part of Joe THORNRERRY, when will be performed Colman's celebrated Comedy of JOHN BULL ; OR, AN . ENGLISHMAN'S Films/in . Dennis Brulguddery r. Power. Job Thornberry Mr. Str land. The Hon. Tom Shu'ffleton Mr. Browne. Lady Caroline Braymore....Mrs Stanley. Mary Thornberry Mrs. Shaw. After the Play, a variety of SINGING, DANCING, &c. - To conclude with the Farce of THE REVIEW; OR, THE WAGS OF WINDSOR. Looney M.'rwolter Mr. Power, In which character he will sing—" The Groves of Blarney," and "Oh, whack, Judy O'Flanagan !" Caleb Quotem Mr. Browne, With the descriptive Song of "I'm Parish Clerk and Sexton here !" Grace Gav Stanley. J Lucy.. Miss Chaplin. Tickets to be had of Mr. BROWNE ' I, King-street-lane; and . of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Places may be taken from Ten till Three. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received numerous letters, which must abide acknow ledgement on some future day. Those that relate to the freemen will be in time next Tuesday. Zbe iLibtrpoot *tantiarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, OM The movements of the ministerial missionaries, and the character of the missionaries themselves, are singu larly in keeping with the power and respectability of the government they serve. Enough has been said of DA NIEL to make his merits sufficiently known, and•show the degraded and abandoned plight to which the men who employ him, or rattler the men over whom he tyrannises, are reduced. It is a wretched sight to see this impostor and mountebank enacting the part of JUPITER TONANS to the whigs, and first champion of his Majesty's minis ters, calling upon the drunken swineherd of Glasgow to give three cheers for Lord MELBOURNE and his col leagues, whom, but a few months ago, he loaded with every term of baseness and infamy—the same Lord MEL BOURNE whom he declared to be incompetent—the s ame Lord LANSDOWNE whom he said he could not trust—the same SPRING RICE and Lord JOIIN RUSSELL whom he said he utterly despised ! This is indeed a " sorry sight ;" but it is still more humiliating to see Lord MULGRAVE, the King's nominal representative in Ireland, playing second fiddle and act ing a subordinate part to the Irish mendicant. The noble lord has been making the tour of Ireland in imitation of DANIEL'S tour in England and Scotland—the object and purpose of the lord and the mendicant being pre cisely the same. DANIEL has been trying the effect of his vulgar scurrility upcm the working people of ; this island, and Lord MULGRAVE has been hob-nobbing with the small gentry of needy protestants and a select rabble of papists in Ireland. O'CONNELL is the bolder, and, as far as noise goes, the more successful agitator of the two; for the viceroy, with the best intentions possible, cannot so well personify the blackguard. His hand has not been into it long enough—he has not had DANIEL'S ex perience—he has not studied in those courts where felons most do congregate, and therefore he does not shine ; but perhaps he will improve. If he be not an apt scholar he cannot complain that he has not an expert and accom plished teacher. Poor Lord JOHNNY too, in the same cause, has been traversing Devonshire in search of popularity, like a sick rabbit seeking for provender after a fall of snow. He has been, as LISTON says in the face, " werry unfortu nate." No crowd came out to meet him anywhere—no body condescended to know him—no pot, or pan, or grid iron was in request on his account; and, to tell the truth, he might have starved 2 ---we mean politically—had lie not by some tangentical movement come into contact with that leather-headed and rotten -shoe-leather Personage, once known to fame and folly, by name SirTUOm.As LETG BRIDGE, in Somersetshire. Lard Jou:sr received from Sir THOMAS the compli ments of the season, a brace of black game, and an— address. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE congratulated Lord JOHN on the passing of the municipal corporation bill— on the atduous duties he had performed in parliament— on the extraordinary renown he had obtained as a states man—and on the liberality, wisdom, and beneficence of all his contemplated measures. Sir THOMAS LELHBRIDGE! Oh, how that name calls up from the lower cells of the stomach all the nausea which has lodged there for the last twenty years ! To a consistent tory the very sound of it must be a powerful emetic. There is not a man in all England for whom we entertain a more sovereign contempt. It is not the shal lowness of his judgment that we dislike—it is not alto gether the meanness of his nature that we hate—it, is not his duplicity that we despise, or his glaring want of principle which extorts from us every feeling of scorn— these traits of character we leave in undisturbed colour ing in his own worthless bosom—but we most thoroughly' execrate a man who has waded in all the mire and through all the windings of faction, insolent, dogmatical, and ig norant, for no other than the most selfish of purposes— who has played tory for patronage—whit for patronage —reformer for patronage--anti- reformer for patronage —and who now kisses the feet of Lord JOHN RUSSELL for patronage, or in furtherance of some dirty job upper most in his mind. Of course Lord JOHN knows Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE quite as well as we do, and, apart from the game of fac tion, we doubt not he entertains for him an equal respect. Lord JOHN, as an old reformer, cannot have forgotten that it was this Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE who in the House of Commons moved the committal of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to the Tower, and who was once one of the most furious and senseless of the anti-reformers—who never was sincere but when he advocated the corn law bill, and never had any thing at heart but the advance ment of the price of corn, by those very absurd fictions in favour of knavery, and restrictions which are injuri ous, which have reduced the British farmer to the ut most distress.. In this leather-headed statesman we have. a perfect epitome • of the corn laws—an uncontrollable selfishneis, which.. grasping at too mu c h, succee d e d i n damaging the interests of which he was the indefatiga ble but ignorant advocate. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, finding that his own corn laws did not work fur his ad vantage—as we well knew they never would—finding his rent-roll diminishing, his mortgages in shun quo, and his farmers gradually becoming bankrupt—finding, in short, that his feeble statesmanship did not advance his persorial interest, Sir THOMAS became a radical reform er ! The county of Somerset has much to answer for ; its late representative is not worth powder and shot. He is an exploded machine—a compound of bad gunpowder and asafoetida of a very disagreeable smell. Leather breeches, as HUNT used to call him, are now out of fashion, and we hope to hear no more of him. Faugh ! But let us see where we ate. We have booked DA NIEL as first missionary, Lord MULGR AVE as second mis sionary, Lord JOHN as third missionary, and we now come to Sergeant WILDE as fourth missionary. When Mr. GRIFFITH JENKINS WILDE, who cat a very years Jenkins curious figure in the Court of Chancery s ome re ago, takes upon himself to censure Sir ROBERT PEEL at Newark—Und considering who this G r Wilde is—we may well wonder why Sir Joitx KEY, o f stationery notoriety, and JOSEPH HUME, o f G ree k re nown, and Mr. WARLEY, of fire engine fame, and CUT LAR FERGUSON, of corresponding celebrity, —we may well wonder how these worthies are not also sent forth on a similar crusade. An exception may be taken in favour of JOSEPH of the Greek loan. He spend s n „ e of his own money, and there are many reasons why it would be dangerous to touch Whig gold. We forgive him. Sir JOHN KEY labours under the obloquy of serving the twigs at a perilous period, for which he has not been thanked, and has been turned adrift because he could not shelter his jobs under a less transparent veil of patriot- ism. 13ut pass we over all this. We have Mr. GRIFFITH 1)-1, • S'T'ANE JENKINS Wu,D . E. playing DANIEL, in Newark—and the purpose of his agitation is creditable to his character. But we beg to ask hiM, in a whisper, why it was that Lord GREY objected to his filling the office of' solici-. tor-general When earnestly recommended by Lord Bur:won:lm ? Will Mr. Serjeant Wri.mt favour us with a copy of the correspondence which passed on that in teresting occasion ? Will be candidly state the reasons why be was scornfully rejected by Lord GREY, and will he furnish us with the letter of apology which Lord BROUGHAM wrote him after Lord GREY had positively refused to appoint him ? No, GRIFFITH JENKINS WILDE knows better. That is a painful subject, over which, under the pretence of illness, he Ins shed crocodile tears in liberal profusion. His mission at Newark will there fore not redound to his credit ; and what is far more im portant, instead of gaining converts to the ministry, he will only lose those who in ignorance, and in frenzy, polled for himself. This is a delectable state of things. Out of it much good must come. We see who the whig missionaries are. There is not any man of the slightest claims to re spectability who.has joined the order. The hacks are truly .contemptible, and they are worthy of such minis ters. The system of registration established by the reform bill appears to afford but little prospect of the ultimate establishment of a uniform code for the regulation of elections and the guidance of persons entitled or claiming to vote for county or borough. Hitherto many barristers have been influenced in their decisions by their various political feelings—by their desire to restrict or to extend the franchise, by the consideration of the effect of their decisions upon particular cases, and with reference to particular places. Unless then souse security can be given that banisters will be appointed in future merely from ability to execute the task, and not from their known political prejudices and feelings—unless some reasonable hope can be entertained that barristers, when appointed, will endeavour . to "decide without any desire to obtain notoriety by singailarity and caprice, but on the contrary, with a view to establish uniformity and clearness, unless some substantial alteration can be made alike in judges' feelings, and lawyers' prejudices and characteristics, it will be folly to expect that the effect of the present system will be any other than the increase of difficulty, and the gradual Conversion of the registration courts into specimens of those much lauded local courts, in which, at regular intervals, the means and the scene of litigation were to be supplied to persons happily hitherto ignorant of the • blessings to which such discord would inevitably lead. The revising circuit in South Lancashire is a proof of the inefficiency, or rather, perhaps, it is not too strong to say of the gross absurdity of the present reform bill sys tem. Four barristers appointed—without having ar rived at uniform conclusions on any but Ole most super ficial and elementary points—(perhaps entertaining doubts and willing to create difficulties as to these)—they arrange to talte . the parish of Liverpool in four equal portions. The result is, that persons who claim for the same qualification but whose sitnames happen to differ in the first letter, find themselves in very different situa tions. A gentleman' named JONES is allowed to vote, but such a favour cannot be allowed to his co-trustee JOHN WATKINS ; and THOMAS BROWN finds his claim sanctioned for a property which could not be made to afford a franchise to him who either happens to write his sirname in a different manner or who was unfortunate enough to a:live in court at a moment when the irrita bility of his distinguished judge had lately been slightly excited. One learned gentleman refuses to see trust deeds, another will not decide without them ; one thinks evidence of admission of service by an objectee to a third party sufficient, another treats such evidence with well-merited ridicule; and while one is deciding that leasehold can be altered into freehold, another refuses such indulgence. With one the reform act is to be con- , strued strictly, with a second only enfranchising clauses should be translate a d liberniiy, with a third the meaning of the legislafure is plain, and with a fourth it is ex trcitnely obscure ! Few, indeed, are the points upon which even these gentlemen agree, and they expressly refuse to pay even the slightest attention to previous decisions either by preceding revising barristers or by committees of the House of Commons. The feeling which pervades almost universally the persons'who have appeared before the courts lately held appears to be that of disgust at a system so clumsily contrived. The intent appears to have been to keep the various boroughs and counties to which the reform bill gave members in a periodical state of turmoil and agitation, and at the same time to give increased patronage to the liberal government from whom this specimen of legislation originated. It is not improbable that such twofold objects will appear ridicu lous to those who have not considered it attentively, and praiseworthy to those who so worthily have followed . it out and exhibited in such striking colours the advantages which the enfranchised places must derive from a full participation in the elective franchise. We embrace the last opportunity which will be afforded us to renew our earnest appeal to the protestants of the empire, reminding them of their solemn obligation re ligiously to observe the approaching FOURTH OF OCTO BER. We have already laid before our readers the reasons which render it imperative on all who value their free dom from the enslaving thraldom of popish superstition to regard this the third centenary of the reformation as an epoch of no common occurrence. Indeed, so fully alive do all true protestants appear to the national im portance of this day, that we know not whether we should have again recurred to the subject, did there not appeal to be conflicting views abroad as to the nature and cha racter of the coming celebration of that day on which Englishmen were presented with the first complete edi tion of the holy scriptures in their mother tongue. We see that there are those who speak of this day as one which should be solemnized as a fast. In our hum ble opinion nothing can be more injudicious than such a method of showing our gratitude for the blessings con ferred on us by the united exertions of a TINDAL and a COVERDALE. In the first place, this the three hundredth anniversary of dawning light upon this once benighted land occurs on a Sunday. Now the day which God.has consecrated to his own use is a day especially calculated for the outpouring of holy joy. The occasion, too, is a joy ous one. Surely we ought not to appear with mournful countenances on a day so eminently signalized by the gracious interposition of JEHOVAH on our behalf. No, let this be a day of jubilee and of rejoicing. Let the smiling contentment which pervades every countenance on this day bespeak a reliance upon the favour and su perintending care of a just GOD. If we had our way, we would have every set of bells in the town to usher in this glorious day with a merry peal ; and let no church be without its flag hoisted mast high. Thus it is—and very properly so—that our days of national rejoicing on such occasions as the birth-day of our Monarch, or the anni versary of some great battle, are ushered in and charac terized, and shah it be said that we pay less attention to a matter of such high import as the approaching JUBILEE Of THE REFORMATION,? Let Sunday next, then, be a day of NATIONAL REJOICING, a day of NATIONAL THANKS • The resolutions of the, clergy at a meeting in Bir mingham will be found in another part of our paper. They are every way worthy an attentive consideration. We have reason to know from private sources, as well as from our acquaintance with the general character of the clergy, that those who wait upon the sanctuary are pre pared to do their duty. On Sunday next we anticipate that every church will resound with praises to Almighty God for his mercies to this highly-favoured land, and with warnings to the people to - beware of soul-debasing popery. One word more and we have done. It has been ob jected that it is sought to make the approaching festival a day of political triumph. The insinuation falls heavily on the heads of those who throw it out. By this very insinuation they identify the existing government with popery.. This is no business of ours. Our business is with the heresies of papal introduction. If the progress 'z`au :s+K.a - ss+ts2eS^-'^-~~~x'_ ria~t+~_.ass ~r.Z:s~arr.,'3atrsn w»s ~x..rrs:; ~ ••• •~ LONDON LA 7' A' S7' • N EgiV S of the principles of the reformation mean .the downfall of the MELBOURNE administration, the sooner it falls the better. We say—PEOPLE OF ENGLAND LOOK TO THIS ! :We percthe that O'CONNELL arrived in Dublin on Tuesday last. He came by way of Holyhead, and was received at Kingstown by some family friends. In the evening he addressed a few persons assembled under his window in Merrion-square. Now comes the point—how did he travel ? From Glasgow his nearest way to Holyhead was through Li verpool. He took very good care, however, not to show himself in this town. The probability is, that he came in a Glasgow steamer, and posted onwards, iricog. to Holyhead. At any rate it is tolerably clear that the Irish beggar shunned Liverpool, kept aloof from respect able Englishmen, and dared not face the protestants whom he had insulted and calumniated. City, Wednesday Evening, Hay'pakt Seven o'clock. Money is exceedingly scarce here, and a consequent depres sion has occurred in. our Consol Market. Consols touched to day upon 9JI but closed at 904 91. The floating securities are also lower, 15 to 17 prem. is the quotation for the Exchequer Bills, and 3to 5 prem.' that of India .Bonds.. A corresponding depreciation has occurred in Foreign Stock; Belgian, 101 i Brazilian, 874 88; Columbian, 33; Mexican, 38; liaria" , per cents. are at 874 88, and the 3 per cents , 584 ; SpaniSh Bonds are at 431 ; the Scrip at 164 17. dis. Chilian Bonds are ; an exception to the others in general de preciation, the price being 4.14 45. The advicee received from this republic are considered of a favourable character. The most contradictory advises continue to be received from Spain, but Lord John Hay, by all accounts, seems to have forgotten his character as a British naval commander. and to have descended to a mere subaltern of General Do Lacy Evans. This, however, is but an humble imitation of the con duct of Lord Melbourne, my Lord John, and the rest of the papist cabinet, who are content to figure in a similar subordi nate situation under Daniel the big beggertnan, and his sans culottes "tail." Were his late Majesty George the Fourth to rise from his septi l lehre, he would die again with vexation to see the councils of thatfreat nation, which has been wont fo give laws to the world. usurped and prostituted by such a miserable herd of blockheads as those now at the head of affairs. We have recently seen a gentleman who has returned from the seat of brigandage, who states, that he was surprised at the condition of the forces of Don Carlos, their high state of disci pline, the effectiveness of their equipment, and their ardent and sanguine expectations of a favourable issue to their chival rous and loyal efforts; and he (altbout4h imbibing opinions ad verse to the cause of Don Carlos) is of opinion, that it will be a task of no little difficulty for the Clifistinos, albeit aided by the redoubted heroes under the M.P. for Westminster, to put au end to the contest. . _ -- A — sper cent. instalment on Spanish Scrip is payable on Friday next. REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT FOR THE BOROUGH OF LIVEEPOOL. The Barristers Court for the revision of the freemens' list is appointed to be held this day week, Friday, the 9th instant. We scarcely think it necessary to repeat the caution we have already given the freemen against neglecting to attend when their names will he called over, however personally inconveni ent it may be to them. Their neglect of this duty is indeed the only hope or chance the reform association, their most inveterate enemies, have of sustaining any of the objections they have so vexatiously raised. There bas been a little suuglhole=and-corner work, something like the celebrated " private meeting for a public purpose," on the subject of the forthcoming election of town-councillors, anent which we shall have something to say when we are more at leisure. _ THE GUNPOWDER MAGAZINE AT lASCARD Yesterday a meeting of some gentlemen who reside on the Cheshire side of ►he Mersey, and of others who are interested in the lands and buildings in the immediate vicinity of the pow der magazine, was held at the Egremont lintel for the purpose of taking into consideration the proper mea , ures to be adopted to effect the removal of so dangerous a neighbour as this depot is couside.yed to be by the inhabitants generally. At half-past two o'clock, on the motion of Mr. Bartley, Wil liam Healing, Esq., was requested to take the chair. Mr. Healing, having acceded to this request, proceeded to open the business of the meeting by briefly referring to the subjoined notice, in pursuance of which they were then assembled:— " POWDER MAGAZINES: " We, the undersigned landholders and inhabitants of the parish of Wallasey, do hereby give notice, that a public meet ing of the parishioners will be held at the Egremout Hotel on Thursday, the Ist day of October next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, to consider the propriety of applying for an act of parliament, or adNiting such other method as may at ouch meet ing be considered most desirable, to obtain , the femoral of the powder magazines from this parish William Bartley. Thomas Lowry.. William Healing. E. Robson. J. A. Henry_ Marsden. Richard tiate.,on. Vincent H iggins. John Wilson. James Atherton. John Murray. Thomas I' wilier. J. Glynn. 1 Jame:; James Guamll. Samuel Brabner." After some general conversation on the subject, the resolu tions, which will be found in our. advertising eoitnns, were severally /mposed, seconded, and agreed to, and the meeting separated. . THE KING'S FERRY. It will be remembered that our Welsh neighbours came to a determination, some time ago, to improve the navigation of the River Dee, at the King's Ferry, (the link which connects this county with Flintshire and the principality,) by means of a large and commodious boat, to be worked by an endless . chaiu, moved by horse or steam power, and traversing the bed of the stream from shore to shore. The boat had been in course of building during the last three months, on the Flintsh.ire side, under the superintendence of Mr. James Boydell, of Dee Cot tage, the gentleman to whom the public will be indebted for this new mode of crossing the river at all periods of the tide. She is 60 feet in length, with 29 feet of beam—an amazing width, calculated to increase her buoyancy and to bear up an immense weight—probably from 60 to 70 tens, a burthen much larger than will- ever need transition across the Dee at that place at any one titne. Her model, which we believe was drafted by Mr. Ackcrley, known to many individuals in this neighbourhood as a clever naval architect, resembles some of the American river boats, propelled by horse-power; and mak ing a little allowance for the Immense width, which has been preserved in the beam for the sake of safety, she appears very unique, and quite calculated to answer the purposes for which she is designed. Friday last was the day selected, on account of the high tide to launch this novel creature, on the Wizard Dee, and the wea ther, fortunately very fine, caused a great concourse of spectators to assemble—we should think 1400 or MOO. There were a va riety of flags, colours, and union jacks floating in the air, and among the rest, the Hawarden arms were heard and seen to rustle in the breeze. Among the company present were Lord Willoughby de Brooke; Sir Stephen and the two alias GIN-tines; William John Banks, Esq., Sutton Hall; C. B. T. * Roper, Esq., Plas Teg; Major Jones; the Rev. Mr. Burnsfloyer, Al dershaw; Rev. H. Jones, Northop; Rev. Henry Fitzmaurice,. Hawarden; Rev. Mr. Crompton, Buckley; Mr. Sergeant At cherley ; Jas. Boyden, Esq. ; W. Williams, Esq.. Garegiwyd ; William Rigby, Esq., Holywell; John Rigby, Esq., Ha war den ; Leigh Rigby, William Hancock, John Smalley, and S. Hancock, Esqrs., Hawarden; Jonathan Hancock, Esq., Mold; Captain Thomas, of the Hon. East India Company; Mr. E. Bate, &c. About half-past one the note of preparation was sounded by the malls of the workmen, who commenced remov ing the fastenings that kept the bark on the stocks; the deck at that time held about thirty individuals, among whom were Sir Stephen Glvutie and Mr. Boydell, the former provided with a bottle of good old wine and stationed at the bow to perform baptismal duties in the usual manner at the proper' time. Some apprehension was felt respecting the lurch she might snake on slipping, broadside first, front the planks, which were a foot and a half above high-water mark; but all fear was unnecessary, for she glided (if her station without the least accident, amidst the deafening cheers of the company and the roar of guns. The briny element welcomed her to its bosom as the Hawarden Castle, amid loud acclamations, which resounded through the air. In a few minutes 277 individuals got on board of the new boat, which was towed some hundred yards up the river by the Dairy Maid steamer, that happened to pass by at the time. She then returned with the tide to her mooring-place, and the com pany were landed. - • It is worthy of observation that this boat does not draw one foot of water, and that the' 77 individuals on board, whose col lective weight would probably amount to twenty tons, did not depress her more than three inches ; awl when they were all on one side they did not cause h e r to sw ay more than two inches and a half. No fear, therefore, need be entertained as to her upsetting or swamping, in the worst of weather. The company retired from the launch. highly gratified with what they had 'seen, and about seventy ladies and gentlemen were refreshed with an excellent cold collation and wine at Dee Cottage, the beautiful residence of Mr. Boyden. In the afternoon about thirty individuals celebrated the event by dining together at Hawardeu Castle, the worthy host of which inn provided everything necessary, good, and sub stantial for the occasion. Since the above was in type we have heard that the new boat, with the whole of the apparatus, will be in complete readiness for active operation in about three weeks from this time. The modus operandi we have described in a former paper, and, there fore, need not repeat it here; but we would observe that it is now intended to have an endless chain on each side of the pier, one of which will he used on the rising anti the other on the ebbing of the tide. By this contrivance the widening of the landing places will become necessary, as the boat will always travel on the same line, whatever may be the force or direction of the stream.--Chester Courant. LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL. A statistical account of the surgery of this hospital has been published by Mr. Banner, in the last number of the London Medical Gazette, in which is mentioned, that there have been 287 surgical cases admitted into the hospital, from the 25th August, 183-1, to the 25th August, 1835. Of these, Discharged, cured 240 Ditto, relieved Ditto, incurable Died Remained in the hospital Of this number were males .239 Ditto, females Accidents Diseases There had been 25 operations. Mr. Banner accounts for the number of accident cases, ad mitted, being much greater than those with disease, from the institution being situated near the ducks, canal, and several large works, and front want of room. The accident cases, in general, nearly fill the whole of the surgical wards; other ap plicants being (from necessity) refused admission. We are glad to see from the account, that arrangements are making for thirty other beds. The appalling fact is mentioned, that a very large number of the accident cases, when admitted, were in a state of intoxication. THE LOSS OF THE GEORGE THE THIEtp, CONVICT-SHIP (From a London Correspondent.) The following int e lli gence connecte d w i t h t h e d rea ..ol ; 10/ .of the convict-Thip George the. Third was rec e i ve d - at MO.' this morning, (W e d nes d ay ,) d ate d H o b art T own. 12th MeY_.„l " The govern o r h efe was na t ura ll y anx i ous to ma ke . In communication to the home government as t o th e pesilil; the reef whi c h p rove d so f ata l to t h e G eorge t h e Th i rd, an d caused Captain Moriarty to write to him officially. " Captain Moriarty completely identified the reef or roe„ described i 4 a note to pag e 212 o f th e A us t ra li an Di rec terYi; the same on which the George the Third was wrecked, and . :,4 vises that all ships' captains hither hound should be turai)li, with a copy of s a id di rec t ory, an d to be guided in the esi" instructions thereon iii taking D'Entrecasteaux ChanneVet.', " I hope and t rus t, w i t h C apta i n Moriarty, that the ecisok„" summer will, throu g h th e h e l p o f th e home local governra e l see an absolutely correc t survey o f t h ese coasts accomP li°' and so prevent the recurrence of such awful calamities. (Signed) " JAAIES GRANT, Agent to Lloyd'sc, No. I.—Copied f r o m t h e l og bo o k o f C apta i n Bateman, 'lite mantling the hrig,Tamar, sent to survey the reeF on which George the Third was wr ec k e d on the evening of the O n ut April, 1835. " Acteon Island, 17th April, 1 •35 ' 00 Bearing of the reef as follows (by compass) :—Ac' e Si Islands S. 38 E.; Lookout Point S. 19 W.; Eliza Point S• f, 'W.; Not th Point Island N. 24 ; I'artridge Island N.! 29 , The white rock of South P o i nt in a li ne w i th t h e wes t eau `! Partridge Island is the shoal part of the sunken reef, which 0 about half a league from shore." • "At the wreck 18th April, 1835. Sounded down the hotc. b t : way at 44 fathoms; sounded the reef that formed the shoal ps . r be a ` b f which is rock, with 6 feet water o n it. Th e av e rag e o, reef is 10 feet, deepeni ng t o 4 fathoms. The vessel (George t d, Third) struck on the inner p a rt o f th e ree f i n a b out 12 feet, et, stewing ro un d, l e ft th e w h o l e o f t h e b ottom a b o u t 3 0 yar ds the present situation in 3 fathoms water. "The chains are still in the lower parts of the hull, and, be il4; down the main hatchway, hang her down the middle. " The reef extend s a b ou t 150 f a th oms i n a sout h ea st lin e, which I think is the logest wy of it." Memorandum of the n agent : a —" I consider that his Maje s 7 l ;: home government w ou ld ren d er G reat B r i ta i n, a nd per haps ' for world, an essential servic e by sen di ng hith er a ve s se l o f war re the ; t orpose of snrveying th e coas t s o f t hi s i s l an d, w hich , really very imperfectly known, as well as for protection." THE."ALBION" AND LOCAL TAXATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.9R O • Stn,—The unceasing ou t cr y o f th e ra di ca l s aga in s t '`t h e taxes" has not been surpassed by anything except their silr w : on the subject of "local rates." Often have I wondered tl e `' these disinterested tax-haters never discovered the oppressive" ness of the "highway .and lamp, & r ., rates," amounting, 4' they do, within a penny or so, to the assessment for the fear rate. The reason for this patriotic silence, on the part of the rods, I always conceived to be the fact that the "Wan's', which had the management of these matters, were compose d ' whigs, whigly- ra di ea l, an d ra di ca l s; unt il m i ne eyes n' ers . opened yesterday by m eans o f t h e scrap s h eet, w hi c h tells ., " that these favoured boards are made up of tories! I write, M r ' Editor, to know the truth on' this head ; for to me it aPP en , l5 , incredible that a h oar d o f tor i es, putt i ng t h e i r thick 10'1; together to lay a tax as heavy as the poor rate on the prop h ; of the good old tow n , an d th at f or t h e purpose o f changing ta pavements in Dale -street, Chapel-street, Castle-street, sr Paradise-street, to the tune of three times in the year, for the only purpose of t r yi ng their experiments ; I say, that it apPees -4 incredible that these tyrant tories could have escaped the ne . partial vigilance of your influential wbig-rad contempors ro ' But it may be after all, that this same sheet of scraps is ell! "at its dirty work again" of throwing dust into the eyes of h' s readers, as he is wont; for you have not forgotten his chargos. the tories with "bribery an d corrupt i on, " w h en hi s own Per t ' were hoth the bribed and the bribes, the corrupt and the car. rupter. And again, his c h arg i ng t h e tor i es w i t h exelor' l l ; dealing, when his own party a n d th ey ALONE, were, an d are' this day carrying on this system without shame or remorse. could like to enlarge on this subject of exclusive dealing , e n to remind you of the efforts of the Li ver p oo l S tan d a rd, W u , two years ago, to discountenance and condemn this vile 5) : : tern. That the Standard was successful i n con fi r ming l . readers in their abhorrence of thi s wi c k e d ness i s t rue euong b but that he had any effect on the minds of the whigs is apparent; and what is the consequence of this state of matters` when the unitarian, the baptist, the independent, and tbe of them, shun a conservative's s hop or ware h ouse as they w c ' n a lion's den ? and not only that, but the conservatives them selves. Aye, to their shame he it said, they (in their ile tre o to appear liberal, and to pl ease th e i r opponents, ) shun Ib .. same shops, and support their deadly enemies, se that ther e : scarcely a conservative shopkeeper in all Liverpool; for, le t " man be as true as he possibly can be to true principles, w he n he finds that those wh o s oli c it e d hi s su pp or t a t t h e elect" , deny hint their support in return, and give it to their oppon ent :, be is bound, for his own interest sake and hi s familY's9, change his side, and support the destrortive side; for thee t will come in for a share of radical supp or t, an d stan d a het i ! r chance of seeing his old friends the tories paying him thelr. respects. The conservatives hav e ac t e d f oo li s hl y i n this 9)3 t . ter; were they to act as their opponents act, and support the :, supporters, they would very soon- convert the shover< their support, and not to fawn - and hatter Teo they 0 1 „ -‘ pear at their shops, and laugh at them when their backs e re turned, at the same time exclaiming—" he is a t o ry," or " he is a tory's wife." You must call this a digression, I suPP ° ' for I started as yours, &c., A. TAX PAYER' September 30, 1&35. LITTLE TOM MOM; E'S PENSION The giving of a pension to Moore proves, if proof were Of t ji inc, that the whigs are gentlemen of very easy virtue. jo t their lives, when out of power, they ha ve b een b aw li n g aga ( yr unmerited pensions, and when they entered on power, 0 . Grey, they declared th e y wou ld never grant a pens i on for a re, but deserving services. Yet, now they deem themselves sect e v they disregard what they have said, and do the very thing . t", condemned most vehemently in the tories. Talk of toor s ! no , talk of the Devil, their fath er; if we must b e ruled by: .a 136 '; (I give me the tories; th e y a l wa y s t e ll you t h e i r principle', het stick to them. When you h ave an enemy who proclaims o f he will do, you know how to manage him. Under the g , " s ." e t liberality the whigs have done more to deprive us of our an c h i ,,,J rights and institutions,—have done more to keep us over ;' and ears in taxes,—have done ,more to render it impossibL e a v get quit of the taxes without viulence,—have done more to Le tie us despised as a nation, than ever the tories did, briro''' t be deli's as they are. The new poor law,—the twenty millions t°,„ to , vagabond planters,... 7 fi r e millions to the dubber-suckioti Poe sian, to enable bun to crush the Poh s and seize Turk* •. tr y million to the Irish parsons; these are what no tory min'', dared have done. But enough of these whigs.—From a"' respondent of the Liverpool Mercury! ! ! ADDRESS TO THE BIBLE. BY THE AUTHOR OP "THE ISLES ARE AWAKE." Come, old book of my fathers ! worn—not soiled — nightly use, what time around the health The cottage-circle closed, and the old man, The gray-haired patriarch of the place, turned o'er Thy holy leaves, and thence devoutly read The wondrous tale of God's sojourn with man— Come front thy nook, too often now, alas! Neglected there. For we are wiser far Than our plain sires. The march of intellect Carries us onward at a step too swift To mind thy old-world precepts. We hare books Of flashier texture, woven from the brain Of subtle theorist, or visioned bard. We've pierced the rind, at least, of this great globe, And knowing thus its central strata, find Its age more certainly than Moses could. The stars of heaven, supposed—in simpler times — To shine for man's enlightenment, are now Proved to be glowing suns, and peopled worlds, Which dwarf our world and us, and cast in doubt Our privilege as Jehovah's favoured race. We can foretell eclipses; calculate E'en the wild comet's advent; and pre-note Th e ebb s and flows of ocean, as be leads His mighty waves beneath the moving moon. Such lore thy pages teach not, though they teach A lore surptising that as far as heaven Surpasses earth in grandeur; teach it, , too, In strains sublimer, oft, than Grecian muse, Roman, or English, ever sung! Alas! I, too, have wandered from the fold—forgat The voice of the kind CHEPItERD, which did call, Until 1 Shut mine ears. and would not hear. I, too, have left the "fount of living waters ;" And, like the multitude, have hewn me out Cisterns—aye, broken ones, " that hold no water" For the parched palate! But the spell is o'er. The charm is taken from the face of things. The bloom bath fallen from the tree of science, Which stands in winter nakedness. And I, Sobered at length, hold every science cheap That springs not front. or leads not to, the book; The old book of my fathers ! 0 4 The editor of the New York Herald w r it es u p on th e marg . '. 0 his paper, "Burnt out last night—will resume in a few da%!; c o See-MARINE CommuNicsTioN.—Mr. Deane, who has "d:5 successfully engaged in raising various arti c l es from the "' r oof of the Royal George, Boyne, Hindostan, and several ° h ol vessels, appears almost to have accomplished a desiderat un 'v great value to the nautical world. From the former Yefis e i r oti has, since October last, raised seventeen brass and • fic 6 d 3 cannon. The total value of the form e r is e stimat e d at upt va l,is of three thousand pounds ; anti for the encouragement °, undertaking, he is allowed by the governm e nt th e whole si",„,. r o t they only reserving to themselves the right of the first ch° l : — tir eil purchase. The brass and copp er utens il s are no t a t all by exposure to the sea water, but the iron are, as might be b i c li petted, very much oxydated. O n diff eren t pi eces o f c oin ". of' have been brought from the B o y ne t h e i nscr i pt i ons are ,De fectly legible. The tope in several instances appears very i ) jr , injured by the action of the water. Some months sinee dio st Deane was employed in raising the Endeavour, a sloop tr, 9 ,. ) 1e between London and Leith, w hi c h f oun d ere d w ith a va lu cargo of copper, the insu rance o n w hi c h was p a id by the ra ii• derwriters. After havin g li g ht ene d h er , h e succee d e d le h olt ing her to a short distance, by pl ac in g em pty ca s ks in th e we re and then towing her for a distance of six miles, she once ro t emerged from beneath the ocean, having been upwards oi airs , months below the surface, and after a few necessary r e r o ott was able to resume her s t a ti on as a sa ili ng vesse l, and . actually re-engaged in the trade. The inventor is now alsigoo gaged in raising a vessel recen tly sun k o ff Ty ne moulh, 1 :0 6 with stone. The value o f hi s i nv e n ti on h as b een latterly in many instances, such as examining the bottoms of yea' and and finding anchors. :surveying the state of the piers at r ub' don-bridge, cleaning the gates of the London docks frol%try bish; fitting a sluice-piece on the gates of the East C°,,se Dock, &c. It is projected to form a c ompany for the P ar rtifb' of employing his apparatus in the coral, pearl, anal s ponge ies.—Alin leg Journal.