The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

SOIV5. 1 ) 1 - JANUARY 2i ISP. - (his we rest our case--we appeal to public opinion. We are confident of a verdict in our favout. But the matter must not drop here. Mr. ASPINALL is pleased to say, in Letter No. 4, that the STANDARD has, "since its first -appearance to the present• day, (if not vslematically, at all events so often accidentaity'as: to approach to something like a system) been iwthe habit of dragging_ my name before the public." • This is another falsehood. During the two years we have had`the management and control of the STANDARD, we defy,Mr. ASPINALL to point out a single instance iu which his name has been dragged before the public. The reverend gentleman assumes too much importance_ At the earnest instigation of a friend we gave a work of his a rather favourable notice. But we deny that we have otherwise brought him befote the public. We never considered him of sufficient importance to attract our censure. We never met him—never saw him—never I cared any thing about him. We heard that he had voted • . for EIVART and Mona's, and we did feel some disgust• which hrs mellowed down to something like contempt f o r his principles and character. It is long since we had re . sAved to forget that such a person as Mr. SHEPHERD, who left Liverpool " leaving his character behind him," was . in existence : we cites is'- ql the same kind of oblivious respect fur the Reverend Mr. ASPINALL. He complains that the corporation of Liverpool, in • preferring our most excellent rector, the Reverend Mr. CAMPBELL, to Mr. ASPINALL, inflicted a serious wound upon the church, and were guilty of gross neglect to wards ‘the claims of native talent. He drugs in Mr. HULL in order-to cover his disappointed ambition, and making a • tool of the ininkter of the Church for . the Blind, he plays, bins ofd' in order to detract from the su 'perior talents of the successful candidate. Ile blames :Sir THOMAS BRANCKER for voting fur one relation (Mr. CANw.t.siat.) Cu the prejudice of another (Mr. Ass' LL). Can any this; be more selfish or contemptible ? We thank Sir TlmmAs BRANCKER fur his honest and impar tial. preference in this matter. Mr. HULL is a formal preacher —an industrious ecclesiastic . —and a man of se vere discipline but of extreniely moderate talents. He is useful enough in the charity where he is placed; but we have yet. to learn that his talents bear any compari son to those of the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL. Mr. HULL, in our opinion,—now that we are compelled to speak out—is a much-overrated man. He is, indeed, superior to Mr. ASPINALL, who in his letters would make a foil of Mr. HULL; but neither are fit to stand in the same place with Mr. CAMPBELL. The soreness of the one, and the vanity of the other may form the ingredients of a college salad, but. they require more oil , to make them safe, constitutionally, than they really possess. But the last letter of the reverend gentleman demands some attention as a curiosity. He states in his corres pondence that Mr. HOttsiALL promised him the insertion of iris communication. Having, according to his own ttccount,Teceived this promise, what. does Mr. ASPINALL 4 ne x t? He says he went immediately to Mr. WALES. at the office of the Liverpool Times, and he requested that gentleman, in case his (Mr. As MALL'S) letter should not appear in the Standard, to insert it in the Tunes! Now, we ask, will any man of common discernment be lieve that had Mr. ASPINALL received the promise he speaks of, he would have asked such a" conditional favour from Mr. WALES? We have no doubt that Mr. WALES was told the.story as,Mm'. ASPINALL has told it, but the circumstances connected with it, and now unfolded, prove that it was untrue. Mr. WALES gave the reverend gen tleman good advice when he counselled him to let the matter dropi but Mr. WALes had an advantage over us; lie knew his man. What a pity lair. ASPINALL did not act upon it! . . Due word more and we have done. .Certain parties, whom we have in our eye, are anxious to make certain friends of -the. STANDARD responsible for ,the articles which appear in it, which they do hot write, and over which theyhave no conttol. It is now time for us to make the real authors of certain attacks upon us respon iiple for the same. Mr.-Rust-11.0N, we believe, was once the Editor of the Liverpool Chronicle, and we arcs not aware that he has retired from that honourable situation. W e beg leave, therefore, to ask Mr. Rust'TON who wrote tie article on the AsmiAit. - corre , pondence in the Chro lade of Saturday last? Report ascribes it to him.. We are anxious for an answer, in order that we may know who is our opponent, and who our most tangible assailant. The Manchester Guardian has taken to heart in a vvry serious manner the gentle surmise which appeared in the LIVERPhOL STANDARD of Friday last, relative to Lady , HEW LEY'S charity. We should be som• to give our contempoia'ry any pain. .This is not a season in which he can afford to be goul humoured, and certainly it-is profane on our part to talk loud or even smile so near to the house of mourning: Far less are we disposed to return railing for railing. Anger, and coarse words, and fustian in flames, are the consequences. of disappointed hopes, of shattered alli ances, of rejected addresses. In the case of a London milliner disappointment •ton frequently ends in melan choly and the ,Regent's Canal ; but in our Manchester contemporary it only excites rage, which we sincerly trust may noV,terminate in insanity. We did • not accuse Mr. WOOD of applying any of the funds of Lady LiEwLEr's charity to defray the election expenses of the hope of the House of SEFTON, and the protegt, of the Earl Of DERBY. — We were only anxious to know whether any of the funds were so applied— -We all Well know tit t h ey have been - applied to worse purposes. Mr. WOOD may be a %ery honourable and upright %an fur y thing we to the contrary. We are told that he is incapable of misapprojiatieg trust money, and we most willingly believe it ; but Mr. WOOD is not the only unitarian in these realms. If it be admitted that he,'Mr. WooD, the late member for South Lancashire; (lid advance money to promote the ,return of Lord MOLvNEUX and secure his own, that would alter the case, but we are nut aware that this is admitted. We say again we cannot allow ourselv - es to take any offence at the abuse so liberally heaped upon tis by the .Atunche.vter 'Guardian. When he is fairly restored to his senses, and his wounded feelings are healed, perhaps we shill have some conversation with him about cotton. Meanwhile we recommend him to take medicine. The Party to which he belongs is for ever prostrated, and he knows and feels the de.gradution ; but we would advise hitu t " put the chapel in order !" ll.,fader, do you wish to know, or have you the slight est idea, what a republic We beg to assure thee it it 4 one of the greatest curiosities in art or nature.— People go to the zoological garderts to see strange ani mals—to the horticultural exhibitions to see rare flowers and extraordinary cabbages—:-sonie ro to.the opera to be enchanted, and sorne to the theatre to be amused ; but it monsters have charms, Stonehenge any attractions, or a OW long loud laugh be 'desirable in dull times, we would adtise the curious and inquisitive and wonder-loving Nrt of the population to pay a , visit to the Waterloo Dock, an 4 see an immense mass of timber called a ship, and ehristengd The Republic; -Of all the odd combinations of whim or folly this is he most extraordinary. It comes from the United Staters, and, as it bears the favoured and popular name, it may be taken as a fair model of that immaculate union. Who built The &public, we of course cannot Certainly it never came from the hands of a ship carpenter. The owners, we take it, must be quakers, ‘ "no h ave en d eavou r e d t o co nvert simplicity into absur di,y. It has all the appearance of having been con structed by steam, its timbers being stuck one upon the other at .random, and its form left to chanCe or the wea tbJi. Just imagine the Adelphi Hotel floating down the Mersey, having 111uspttAT's chimney, the steeple of St. Ceetge's church, and the light-house for masts—that it has.the floating-bath for a long boat—and the front of the lockup-house for a stern—and you have some distant idea of The Republic. We hope the Mercury will -fav‘.4ll - us with a drawing of it; it beats his sea serpent hol;oW. Go, reader, and see it by all means—only don't laugh yourself into fits. LON DON ' t.4 TES!' NE TY'S, City, Saturday Evening, half part Seven o'clock. At the close of the election for East Surrey the mob, in order fully to support their character as destructives, made a most des perate attack upon the colours of Captain Alsager, and suc ceeded iu destroying them. This triumph is put. forth in the ra, dical destructive organ "the Globe," iu the following genuine, and particularly reforming style, by that official channel of the desperate faction. "The riot and confusion during daylight was equal to any of the past elections, but the reform party.was rucces t ful. " The union-jack, for the first time, was lowered beneath the tri-color 1 ! !" Here is a Precious avowal of the infamy of the party stunning our senses with." reform." Here is a precious triumph, a truly radical-one, the lowering of the union-jack to the tricolor. This is what is termed "the refirm party was succe.l.4l! ! . 1 " If any thing were wanting to show that the revolutionary herd would gladly prostrate not only the national flag of England, and huzza at its dishonour, but her altar, throne, and constitution, and .trample upon the ruins, it is this splendid triumph-avowing paragraph of the scribe of the destructives. We have all along known that nine out of ten of those ragged and dingy belluwers calling- . themselves the supporters. of the "bill, the whole bill, and nothingliut the bill," would sell their own mothers for a qu artern of Fearon's or Stevens' compound ot trash properly called "blue ruin," and that, consequently, they were not likely to be very delicate upon tiro subject of nationa l honour, but we had yet to learn that Messrs. Carlile, Ilethriug_ ton, and the other retailers of printed poison, were opposed by so formidable a rival as the ex-Ministerial journal. It is well, , however, that these worthies unmask themselves, and that they, despit e of all their cunning, betray that, whether it be the na tional King, the national church, or the national' standard, they Would crush all under foot in order that a reckless and disgust ing faction might mount upon the fragments, and commence their race of plunder, anarchy. and degradation. Since the settlement of the consul account which we noticed iu our last, there has not been much business doing in the Eng lish securities, nor has the fluctuation been of much importance. Money is, howeVer. abundant,. and maybe had at 3 Per - cent. Corisols butli Arr:nuhner'and account are at 9IA, rather firni, and inclining to buyers.' Exchequer bills support their last premium of 42 to 43, and India Bonds are 20. The foreign market has been the scene of much speculation during the last day or two. In the transatlantic stocks the lot sine's doing has been to some extent:' Brazilian Bonds 'are 821 83 ; Chilian raw from. 37 to 38; Columbian are WIWI; Mex ican Bonds are 411 1, and are an exception Ito the buoyancy by which the other bonds of the new world are distinguished. - We have no particular reason for the improvement, if we. except a spirit of speculation evidently on the, increase here, and partak_ ing in a minor degree of the mania of 18251826. There has also been consideraW fluctuation in Spanish and Portuguese Bonds; the latter in particular have been in. request, and are 60h . ]. Spanish Bonds have been as low as 54, but are now 55, and the new scrip, after being as low as 58 pretniuth, left off this afternoon at II premium. All the Northern Bonds are looking upward ; RusSian Stock is 1084 109 f; Belgian Bonds, 991 IflO ; Dutch 5 per Cents, It7l 101 i, and the 24 per Cents. 511 - The advance in them both have been somewhat arrested by the in tel ligenee of the illness of the Prince of Orange. In the Share Market there has been a partial return of that speculation for which the market was formerly so famous, (qy. infamous.) The accounts froth the Real del Monte Mines are said to be good, and the shares haie been .as high as £33 per share , but are quoted £3l 10s. Anglo-Mexi ca n s h ares are al so better, being 48 10s.. to -.£9.los„aud United Mexican are £4 lOs to £5. We need scarcely say, that we have no faith in any of these schemes, and merely report the state of the market as given here. We are perfectly aware that the mines of the dif . fercnt associations have aol been more bored than have the ear s ofthe shareholders for gold, and that most unfortunately the latter have beets worked with the greatest effect. By advices front Copenhagen we learn that it was genet ally understood that the King of Denmark was about to meall his minister front the Spanish court, not exactly admiring the apti. tude with which that functionary had imbibed the " opinions of the government to which he was accredited as a re presentative —not us a proteo. Accounts have been received from the frontiers of Poland to the Bth instant, which state that the reicrn of the Emperor Nicholas from Berlin through Poland was likely to be productive of favourable results to some of the afflicted refugees of that unfortunate nattott, several of their relatiies having ven tured to forward petitions in their favour, whiCh had beet) re" ceived, and an answer returued that their prayer would be con sidered.• Accounts have been received from Corfu to the 28th of Dec- They state that the Otto Man Consul-Cleneral had received de ipatChes stating the termination of the revolt in Albania, Ac cording to these, the -celebrated Albanian Chief, Tuphel Busi had put himselrat:the head of the Albanian rebels, and had en: tered Berat, the troops of Mahomed Padre, of Janina, being unequal to opposu,lpin. 110.0 m. _4lgiliforved by 150 tnen.. from'llibra andllaltia, whichl&w _„r force was • increased to 161. 1 / 4 ) men. The fort'of Berat, howe%er, resisted all his efforts, and lie had not the means of reducing it. lu this state of things se_ ve ralof the Turkish Beys arrived at Scutari to confer with lie fix niche, the governor of that place, upon . the hest means o f restoring tranquillity to Albania. Aiming these chiefs was Pe chin Bey, Teraui Cavaja, and El Bassin, whose united forces were equal to checking the progress of Tephel Busi. Negotia tions were, however, commenced, abide terminated in lephel Busi evacuating Berat, and in the restoration of peace ou cer tain conditions." : • Wu have advices from. Madras to-day.of the 10th of October . The commercial accounts - mention that European goods were without any material change from the former advices, e:theriin price or demand. The holders of iron and copper anticipated a rise"in price, and held back from selling. Hams and cheese and other fresh articles were 'alone in demand. Fr eights to Lon- non were £3 per ton fur dead weight, and £4 for light weight. Zaptz,in Diclinson, whose - absconding from l3angalore had caused so much conversation, had been arrested 'at the Mauri tius, and was to be sent to Madras under a military guard. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Stn,-,I have react the correspondence between the Rev. J. Avnt! and Mr. T. B. Horsfall, published by the former in the Journal of Saturday last; and I have read it with mingled tee!. ings of sorrow and indivnation. Mr. Aspinal is, by profession, a minister...if the gospel of peace; but, in the correspondence referred to, no one can mistake his desire to bring about, iu some way or other, between soave . pirties or other, a . " hostile meeting." Had be . the true - spirit of his office., we could say of Jinn, " klow beautiful are the feet of bins who publislieth peace!" Must we now class him among those " whose feet are swift to shed blood t"—lam, &c., JUSTUS. Jan. 26, 1831. TO TER EDITOR OP TILE LIPERPOOL Stu,--:-In your paper of - Friday last I observed ft, letter on discharge orro r ei gn " The want of landin g. wa it ers, " in w hi c h a ll the delays whi c h occur in the vessels are endeavoured to bu thrown upon th e customs, and the want of more landing-waiters. Now, sir, this is so far .froni the fact as• to be admitted by your correspondent's alloWing that, after the - difficudy of getting a ship into a-berth, and an officer appointed, several .hours are lost in procuring a hut, and, when obtained, in so wretched a, •condnion as to be a nuisance. Here, then, lies the real cause of delay and gretua4 of complaint; tor not only are vessels generally kept front, commencing their discharge for .several hours —very frequently for a Whole day, and sometimes many days—and, even Wier several days' waiting in vain, the 'captains have been obliged to- rig out canvas coverings fur the landing waiters. These, sir, are facts, which, disgraceful as they may appear, cannot be disputed. Where do they originate ? - Not with the.survevors of the , customs; for the huts are not crown properf7. The fault arises - then in . another quarter, which will not be very difficult to find out. , Let the Merchant's Clerk make his complaint of the actual cause of delay in the right quarter, anu I venture to say there will be found no more cause of a sufficient. fitimber of -bats are iirovided in every dock) tbr complaints against the landiuoiarveyurs,for want of -, ° • waiters. - • • Truting to *our impartiality for • the insertion of this reply to your previous correspondeut,—l aai, &c. FAIRPLA TO TIIE - PDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL ,S*T.4IVDSRI). . S Meiritry has'beconie a Positive nuisance Gy allow ing its pages to be.disgsaced by the effusions of such scribes as " Au GUS," e t a g efifl o fimfie. lieany,-sit, - When. the seeds of disaffection are hebdomidally thrown alining theirruititude with so unsparing a hand, it be comes the bounden; duty of e7rry friend of order at once to op pose his honest vote to such flagitious proceedings. This many.eyed:epistolarian of the Mercury, himself doubt less an• Irishman,,tells us that the "lads of the isle" wiil be. useful allies at futtire elections. - Does he, I wonder, mean such a pack of scoundrels' as were usually found at the heels . of Mr. Ewart and _Marsha I3rancker during the late election, and who, by the bye. made a most dastardly assault on your humble servant in Vauxhalke.ol, simply , ;or having given his vote to Sir Howard Douglas and - Lord Sandpit, ? If he does, I can tell him, that whenever occasion requires it, there will be found a mural feeling, aye, and a 'physical force too," in the good old town, sufficiently energetic to snake the "dirty-fingered Briareus" quail beneath the indignant sciesi of.loyalty, truth, and order. But what a calumny does this contributor of the "Old - Lady" endeavour to attach to " the lads of the isle r' Why, sir, lam an Irishman, nursed, thank God, in the cradle of lovalty,—but at the Witte tinie so tenaciously national that had I heard or even •understood that Lord Sandon had•uttered anything dero gatory to the character of the nation, I should promptly have found means to express my warm dissent. - His lordship, how ever, is incapable of offering abuse to any party merely because it differs with him in opinion. On the other hand the politic a l demeanour of the noble scion of the' ilhistrious house of liar- . rowby is above all praise. It-is•to men like him—men who Cate not fur party—who care not for unpopularity—who cannot be swayed by national delusion, and 'who courageously assert the dictates of truth, reason, and patriotism, regardless of the conse quences,—whom England ought to follow: To such noble-wen England owes what she possesses, and through them only can she retain what she possesses.--I am truly, sir, yours, H. W. 11. Tabley-street, 41funday, Jan. 26, 1825. The Bishop of St. Da*Ws has, according to his annual cus tom, distributed through the hands or the Rev. J. Jones, Vicar of AhergWilly, a large and seasonable supply of clothing, hlan ketting, &e., among the poor of that parish. They are also regularly supplied twice a week will) soup, over winter, from the palace, which cdotributes not a little to their 'comfort at this inclement season. His lordship gave likewise, to the debtors in the county gaol, a barrel of c o a l and ' Ma. of mutton each. -'---- -- Co RESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOS. BERRY HORSFALL, ESQ. AND THE REV. JAMES ASPINA TO THE EDI7'OR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST/INMIRD. Sta,---From feelings of delicacy towards the Rev. My. Aspinall, I had cause 1 the accompanYing correspondence to be printed for circulation among; his friends and my own; but he having thought proper to insert it iu the Lir oirpool Joternttl, I have now to request that you will give publicity to it through the medium of your paper, and, in so far as you are yourself con cerned, I will thank you to confirm or refute any statemen . ho or I have made.—l am, &c., THomAs B. HORSFALL. Liverpool, 21st Jan., 18:35. TO JOHN WRIGHT, ESQ. . _ DEAR consequCnce of•your communication to me of what the Rev. James Aspinall bad asserted, that he had be6n introduced to me as the editor of the Standard, I beg to submit to you the following correspondence, which has taken place be tween that gentleman and myself. lam induced to do this, net . because I imagine you could have then, or 'can have iow, any doubt as to the inaccuracy of the statement; but because the assertion being persisted in, in the face of all the evidence such a case admits of, I think myself justified, and indeed compelled,. to set myself right with any of my friends . whom the same re port may have reached. • I am, dear sir, Yours very truly,. TnomAs B. HORS-P.lp.. (No. 1.) January 14th, 18.35. SlR, — Having been informed by Mr. Alderman Wright that you stated to him, that; upon' inquiring at the office of the Liverpool Standard for the editor of that paper,.you were int*. &iced to me as such, t have to request that you will inform rile when and by whom Oat introduction took place. I am, ley. sir, Your most obedient servant, Thomas B. FIoasPALL. The Rev. James Aspinall. (No. 2.)' /armory 15th, 1635 Sre,--In• reply -to your note nfyesterday;• I beg to reassert the truth of what I stated to 'Mr. Alderman Wright, on . the subject of an interview which I had with you at the office of the Lire- pool Standard. It is now some months since the circumstance occurred. The exact day, of course, I.cannot remember, but can mark it pretty closely by mentioning the 9bject for which I called. Sir Thomas Brancker had stated in council (at the period when . the corporation inquiry was either going on or im pending) than he, fur his part, had never been swayed by affoc• tion or feeling towards his own connexions, but on a certain nc+ casion, when one of them offered himself as a candidate for , Liverpool preferment, had voted against him. When this little claim to superior purity appeared in the Standard, I wrote to the editor a few lines, observing that this said purity wore rather a questionable shape, since, on the occasion referred to, although Sir'Thomas had, in truth, stifled the voice of nature and voted against one connexion, he had, after all, voted for another, passing over a third candidate, Mr. Hull, a gentleman of splendid talents and high attainments. Upon the non appearance of this note in the columns of the Standard, I called at the office of that paper, and then it was that, having asked to see the editor, I was desired by the young man in the shop to walk forward into the inner room where I should find him: Upon entering that room, I . found you sitting at the desk, I cannot say to my surprise, because it bad been before, as it has been since, asserted by the' voice of common fame that -you were in the habit of writing for the .Standard, and, if not the actual, were, at least, a kind of amateur editor of that paper. Upon my admission to you, I stated the object of my call, namely, to obtain the insertion of the note in question, and from you, after-some conversation, I received a promise that it should appear. That this promise was not kept, I am willing to at tribute to matters of greater importance claiming attention. Upon the grounds here assigned I have mentioned your name to Mr. Wright and others as a party connected with the Standard. No one can . more regret than I do, that the con scientious exercise of a privilege, given as a sacred trust for the 'good of our common country, should break up private friend. ship and sow discord where• harmony Orel(' _reign. For ray part, I claim no infallibility; I allow none; but I do claim for myself, I do allow to others, the right of deciding according to the host of their judgment, and acting upon that decision, with out the scowl rising on the countenance and the frown resting on the brow of those who think differently. I will endeavour to avoid this myself ; I seek no more from others. . T. B. liorsfall, Eq. • • THE LIVERPOOL ! STANDARD. I am, reverend eir, " I am, sir, (Signed) " T. B. Horsfall, Esq." (Signed) snlf upon the anission I have made, that I sarviyou in the uliire of the Standard. I never denied it. BUt Ido deny that I was there introdriced to you, or pointed out to you, or.spoke to yon, as the editor of that paper; and nn man with common honesty, I am sure, eau assert that there was any attempt in my last, either to "quibble or harp" upon the word "introduction." I stated to you what I now repeat " that all the young men in the Standard office, most positively deny ever having introduced you to me, either in the way you describe, or in any other way, as connected with that paper." Was it possible to - speak plainer? I do not charge you, as you are pleased to state it, with giving currency to "facts"—•l charge you with giving currency to what was not true. You seem to take credit to youTself, that you would not have spokeh as you did had you had the slightest Idea that there was auy "secret" in the matter. There was no secret. The ques tion was nut one of divulging a secret, but of proclaiming an untruth. The accompanying docutnonts* will bear out what I have stated. I have no wish to bring before the public any correspondence :which you may have considered private.. My desire is simply iciset myself right .with the public, in contradiction of the re port to whiCh you have given circulation. It will be with great pain to myself should I be Compelled to take such a step. Your most obedient servant, THOMAS B. HoitsFALL. Tho Rev. Jas. Aspinall. ( 11- aNcLost; RR S.) " Liverpool, January 19th, 1835, " Sia,—ln confirmation of what I stated to you, I beg to land you the enclosed paper. I should imagine Mr. Aspinall must be labouring under some mistake, as the room to which he alludes was not the editor's room at all, nor was he in the hab of sitting there. " Yours respectfully, " SAMUEL FRANCRYS. ' We the undersigned Publisher, and persons engaged in the office of the Liverpool Stcindard at the period when the ; Corporation inquiry wax either yob'y on or impending,' do "s4eMnly.declare, that we never did introdnce, qr n any way point out, or mention Mr. T. 13. Fiona:l4 ,to the Rev. James Aspinall, or any other individual, as the editor of that paper, nor could we have done so, knowing perfectly that such was nut the fact.. SAM. - FRANCEYS, " RICH. PATTISSON, " EDW. GEIFPITHS, " GEO. TYRE! LL. " As far as regards myself, I may say, in addition to the above. that the only occasion upon which i have any recollection of ever speaking to the Rev. Jas. Aspinall was when he called at the Standard office, for the purpose of requesting that some sermons which he had publiihed might be reviewed, and I recommended hint to send a copy to the editor, which he did. (Signed) EDWARD GI LPVITHS." (No: 6.) Jan. 20, 1835. S a, —I pity you—from my heart I pity you ; but, although I pity, yet, in justice to myself, I cannot spare; but feel compelled to tell you plainly, that, in the line you have now adopted, you have become altogether tricky, shuffling, and evasive. Having `admitted the fact of the interview, you then attempt to conceal it behind a mist of angry and unmeaning words, and an array of affirmations which you bring forward as to the mode and Manner, or, as, with persevering tenacity, you are pleased to term it, ':,the introduction," by which that interview was brought about. These affirmations, if I understand anything of 'the language, simply state, that the individuals making them know not hoW, and after what fashion, I was admitted into your presence iu the inner room of the Standard (Nice. I have no doubt that millions might have been found in the world who, with truth, could have made the same statement, and pleaded the same ignorance, but all this time, I would again impress it upon your mind, that you have yourself allowed the fact that the interview did take place. Now that you are reduced to this, I beg leave, to decline any further correspondence with you. I am quite aware that your personal fears, awakened by cir camstances which have recently occurred, are the groundwork of the intense anxiety .: which you have evinced to escape all rtfiparance of connexion with the Standard, and that you are 4tiven by the wEithings of terror, like the slave under the lash, to the desperate hardihood of assertion with which you continue to maintain what you must know to be untrue. However sorry ~I may be for your pitiable situation, and I really am sorry to see any one so fallen, yet I cannot bring myself to unsay facts even to screen you &writhe kern! responsibilities to which your ' imprudence has rendered you liable. But I do trust, that the position in which you are placed, although unpleasant at the moment, may be of lasting service to you; and that the morti fication of humbling yourself before the individ'uals whom, in the fancied security of concealment, you have ventured to malign end defame in the columns of your paper, will be a wilutary, lesson ,for year 411 MS 434 d:111 ILAN fivellt4- t4a public will have this surety for your good behaviour, that, now that you are unmasked; the dread of consequences mid hold the place which better motives ought to fill, and the fountain of bitterness within you, .if not dried up, still no longer, by its overliowings, cause discord, and spread uneasiness around you . I have done; our correspondence, I beg again to say, is at an end. I have put my case in my former letters, as I would have it put. I have nothing to alter, add, or withdraw. I am, &c. &c., T. B. florsfall, Esq, (No• 7.) J. .SPINAL L. January 20, 1835. Rev. Stac—l haccva great regard for the profession to which y.ou belong; and this, together with an unwillingness to imi tate the style of your letters, restrains me from answering your last in the only way which it deserves. I must leave the public to judge between us, who it is that has become " tricky, shuffling, and evasive"—who it is that has met positive evidence by un blushing assertion. I cannot conceive to what circumstances you allude, as having awakened my . " personal fears." I can only s ay, that you are as widely tnistaken on this head as on the others, respecting which I have proved that you have spoken untruly. As to your idea of screening me front "fearful respon sibilities," I must again plead ignorance of what you moan. the %%hole thing appears to me as fairly . ridiculous. I have " maligned or defamed" no man, either in the co lumns of the Standard or of any other paper, and your charge on this head is also utterly unfounded. I thank you for the hope you express, that I may profit by •my present position. In as far as it has brought me into com munication with you I think it well-fitted to be profitable, for your correspondence certainly opens to ma a chapter on cha racter which I had not met with before. Once more I refer to the prime matter in dispute. You as serted to Mr. Wright that you had been introduced, or, if you Will, shown into a room, to me, as the Editor of the Standard. I have proved that this could not be true. You know that I am not the Editor, and yet you continue to assert ani untruth. As I said before, let the public judge between us. I eta quite willing that our correspondence should now cease. I am, Reverend Sir, Your most obedient Servant, (Signed) THOMAS B. Huast•et.t.. Rev. Jas. Aspinall. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIrERPOOL JOURNaL. ~Stit,-1 have the permission of .111 r. Wales to state that he :pkrfectly recollects my coming across to him from the Standard office, at the time referred to in the above correspondence, and stating to him my having been admitted to Mr. T. 134liorsfall, and his promise of redress on the subject of my complaint. My business with Mr: W. was to ask bite, if still 'my date 15110111 not , appear, whether he would insert it s in the Times. This he promised to do, at the saute time, however, (observing,upon the absurdity of individuals laying their supposed grievances before the public. The note never did appear in the Standard, and 1 fiqlowed his advice. I think it would have been as well for Mr. IJorsfall if, on this occasion, he had had as prudent an adviser near him. I may also mention that Mr. Winstanley was sitting ,with Mr. Wales in his office at the time, and 1 have no doubt will verify the above statement.—l am, &c., f. ASPINALL. 23d January, 1835, , . fiRPOIIMANCE AT Inc ANPIRiTHEATIM —This ev en i ng th e performances at the Amphitheatre will be under the immediate iatrouage ,of Loud Francis Egerton and the Hon.,{.. 13ootle „... ilbraham, the newly elected members for South Cuncashire. pth these gentlemen, together with a large retinue of their friends will, we believe, be present. Two new Pieces will b e proqueed, and the manager will muster the whole of his strength on the ocvasiou. DINNLitA 7 I7 THIS Town-lIALL. 7 -The Mayor of Liverpool • gave a grand dinner yesterday to the following gentlemen, who are stopping at the king's Arms Hotel, Castle-street.—Lord ,Francis Egerton, M.P.; the Honourable Bootle Wilbraham, gf.P.; Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Burt.. M.P.; Sir 'Thos.. Ilesketb, Bart. ; T a tt oo Egerton, Esq., M.P.; William Hut ton, Esq.; and William Holton, jun. Esq. Ms ASHTON Milt ogauas.—The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench informed the Attorney General, on Thursday, that the court had fixed on 'I nesilay the 13th Feb ruary, and such of the following days as might be required fur the trial at bar ot'the King v. Antrobus. The action is b; might against Mr. Antrobus for refusing,as sheriff of the county of Chester, to execute G ar t s ide a n d osely, the assassins of the late Mr. Thomas Ashton. GoVERNoIt-GENERAL 01 , INDIA.—toe are able now to con firm the appointment of Lord Heytesbuty to the governor generalship of India, which we gave yesterday us a city rumour. —Standard. Since the passing of the Septennial Act the average duration of Parliaments has been four Sears and a half. Slit R. PuEL.—t-The Right lion. Sir Robert Peel appeared at the polling booth, at Culeshiil, on Saturday last, and voted for Sir Eardley Wilmot and Aft. Dngdale, as members for the nor thern division of this counts. An impudent attempt was made hy'an attorney's cirri: of this town to dispute Sir Robert's right of voting; but the under-Sheriff. without hesitation, overt uled the objection. The right bun. baronet was lounly checred on his retiring from the polling booth. lie was accompanied by his brother, Mr. Edmund Peel, the newly-elected men:l,er fur N ewcastle-undet-Lyue.—Bh minds= Aikerliser, THE SLAVE TRADE. (FROM A COItHESPONDENT.) ' By letters front Jamaica of 3ith November we are informed, that the slave trade from the coast of Guinea to the island of Cuba has received a fresh imPetus by the emancipation of the negroes in our own colonies; that in tne months of June and July alone upwa ds of fifty vessels left the port of Havana for the coast of Africa; and that two of our schooners of war, (the Minx and the Speedwell,) which, from their powers of sailing, had been most serviceable in making captures, had been pur chased with the avowed object of being converted into slaverS. They sailed from Port Royal .on the '2oth November for St. Jago de Cuba to receive their equipment. Without going further, there is in the foregoing quite suf ficient to prove that the work of abolishing 4 not slavery, but the horrid, the cruel, the odious slave trade, is but in its infancy, and that, while the people of this country have made and exacted such immense sacrifices in the case of our own colonies, it re mains to be seen whether the dictates of an enhirged philan_ thropy, and the almost equally important considerations of national prosperity, are to be allowed their deserved weight in the extermination of so oefariOus a traffic. Let us proceed, however, to give our facts; and, when our readers are fully in possession ur•the evil,, we do not despair of their co-operation in applying the remedy, By our treaty with Spaiu fur the suppression of the slave trade, our cruizers are permitted to capture all vessels sailing under the Spanish flag in which negroes may be actually found and the prizes thus taken are carrie d to Hav a n a f or condetunh. tion before the mixed commissi o n there established. This corn. mission consists, ou the part of the British government, of two residentcommissioners, the chief of whom receivcs a salary .of £2.000 per annum, and the other something less, gay £l,OOO to £3,500. To this must be added the expenses of their courts; and we are sure we speak quite within compass in setting the _total e. - ipeuditure at £3,000 per'annum. In addition to this, the British government allows a bounty to the officers and crews of the vessels of war of Eli) sterling for avert/ negro so captured and condemned. These data are given, nut in a carping spirit as to the expenditure, for the objects are farlpeyond a compari son with considerations of cost, butlierety ib - put-the-pubile ib possession of the fact. The negroes thus liberated from threatened slavery aie in dentured as apprentices by the commissioners to the Cuba planters, and by them cm-lied into the interior of that immense island. There being no tegistry of slaves—the estates being supplied by constant importations of such as have eluded the vigilance of our cru izers—t he negroes being liable to many fatal disorders in the process of seasoning, and the consequent mor t•ality very great—these importations, whether as slaves or ap prentices, being ignorant of the laws and' the .language of the country to which they have been removed—all these causes com bined—what are the consequences ? Plainly these :—that in the planters' periodical report to the commissioners respecting the apprentices, the latter are returned as having died in sea soning, - while they are, in seven cases out of tea, merely trans ferred to supply the_plaues of purchased negroes. Dues any one doubt this? We refer bins to the experience' of any man who has liked six months in Cuba. Do the commissioners suspect it? Of course they do; but they know that their powers are not only inadequate to remedy the evil, but, moreover, that in a stave country there would be neither work nor legal provision for a free African, and that, in poiut of fact, his transmutation to a slave is a substantial kindness. Are not, then, the mixed commission and the £lO bounty at best but an expensive mode of warfare against individual traders, while the slavery of the negroes and the supply of the planters are brought about by a merely more official process? But why, it will be asked, has it been permitted by the treaty that so great a contingent ad vantage should be reaped by the Cuba planter, while our own colonies would gladly have received the captured negroes as apprentices? The answer is at hand. Our government, sincere iu their desire to exterminate slavery,.and honest, to their disad vantage, foresaw the possibility ofabuses in the working of the sys tem (guarded though it would have been by our public registries), and, therefore, resolved on withholding even the temptation. The same spirit is manifested (but we shall show how errone ously) in the case of the convention now in course of ratification at Copenhagen, •by Denmark acceding to the existing treaty between England and France; for We find that, by the 4th arti cle, it is provided, "That all Danish vessels detained by French or English cruisers on the American station are to be taken in and delivered to the Danish authorities at St. Croix; those taken on the African station to the Danish authorities at the Fort of Christiauburg, on the gold coast of Guinea; and those taken ou the Madagascar station to tho Danish authorities at Tranquehar, in the East Indies." Iu every treaty with other nations the opposite lines of policy have been manifested; .on their part to secure the supply of labourers—on ours to shut them put, and with them the possibility of prolonging slavery. We now come to the remedy. The most effectual mode would be the agreement of all par ties to declare the slave trade piracy, but this, though devoutly tuba wished, is impossible.; Spain - dares not be - a. party:tu - such a treaty, for she derives too large a revenue from Cuba to- risk the loss of it, and she knows full well that the inhabitants of that island would sooner and more easily give up their allegiance than a traffic so necessary to the production of their staples. The bes t (because the most practicable) remedy would be to remove the rnized commission polo Ha cane to Jamaica. The revisits are self evident. All fear of fatale slavery to the captured Africans is at an end. The negroes will amalgamate with a community already far advanced in civilization as compared with the mixed and semi-barbarous negro population of Cuba. They will fall under the protection of British law:, and partake of the sympa thies of the British people. To the colonies the accession of labourers is alone wanting to elicit their resources, and this ac cession being at the expense of a rival colony, would be the most effectual means of equalizing the comparative cost of pro ductions. We confess that we do apprehend some obstacle to the immediate success of the plan from the unwillingness of our own colonists to receive the Africans. This, however, forms an entirely distinct question, which we shall not at present moot , but devote au early day to its ample.consideration. In the mean time we put the matter to the conscience and calculation of every man, whatever be his party politics, whether the case as we have put it, is not one of primary importance. [Oor corresprindent, in estimating► the expense of the mixed commission, has overlooked the fact that every negro captured by our cruisers entails a charge upon the country, in no instance less than one hundred pounds, and generally a much larger sum. This charge is silently, nay, cheerfully borne by the public, under the erroneous impression that every negro so cap tured beComes a FRLE MAN. The recklesS and horrible de struction of human life which occurs when a slaver is either chased or attacked, exceeds in atrocity anything that can be imagined. We will state an instance which we had from a gentleman who, was an eye-witness of the fact. A slave trader which sailed froth - Africa with - four hundred slaves on board was chased fur three days, and eventually captured. When taken possession or; only One hundred and seventy-nine were found on board, and of these a great number had been severely wounded. As the capture took place near the coast, tbecrew escaped in4he boats beleuging to the vessel; previously, however, to their abandonment of the vessel, they forced all the slaves overboard who had the slightest chance of reaching the shore, and, to se cure the destruction of the remainder, a lighted Match was found fixed iu a barrel of gunpowder, which, in live minutes after the vessel was boarded, would have exploded!) I have the honour to be Your obedient servant, J. ASPINALL. (Nu. 3.) Evertor, January 161 h, 1835. Itr.v. Sta,—l this morning received your note of yesterday, atid -Italre:ttuestiauduLtwory:young man wit -is or Atas beiu for tannwt.tintizt past connected with the office of the Liverpool Standard, all of whom deny most positively ever having intro duced you to me, either in the way you describe or in auy other way, Its tounected with that paper. I recoll, , et, perfectly, the interview to which you allude. Ywr came into the publisher's oined when I happened to be there, and stated to the as au acquaintance (certainly not as au editor) the grievance under which you laboured, by the non insertion of some letter, which to this day I have never seen. That I did or could promise its insertion, I most solemnly deny; and I do so, not only from my perfect recollection of the cir cumstances, but upon the ground that I have not, nor had I then, any inoiv right than yourself to promise or to control the Insertion of anyArVcle or letter iu that paper. I feel botiud to add; that had I liossessed the power, I 'Cannot think I should have promised the insertion of a letter written by you, without having first read IL The letter you speak of shows that you• have written for the Standard; but notwithstanding this, I can assure you I have no intention of awarding to yotr what I dis claim for myself, either the merit of the able and powerful articles which the enemies of that paper have been compelled to admire, or any of those occasional remarks which even its friends may not admire. I,do not' think it necessary to notice the remarks you bitve made on the purport of your letter to the editor of the Standard the motives_ of Sir Thomas Brancker, or the talent and attaiu: ments of Mr. Hull, having nothing to do with the present question ; but I confess that I cannot conceive what motive you could have in giving currency to a report concerning me which I'arn at a loss to know how you could, yourself have believed, The point at issue between us is this. Yuu stated to Mr . Alderman Wright that you had been introduced to mo is the editor of the Standard. This - statement you have repeated in Your note to myielf. The statement I declare to be untrue, as appears even upon your own showing, and I Claim from you a contradiction of it. This I expect you will not refuse, otherwise I shall feel ikonly an act of justice to myself to publish this Cor respondence. _ , . I am, reverend sir, Your must obedient servant, THOMAS B. kluasrALL. The Rev. J. A!pinall. (No. 4.) January 17th, 1835. Stn,--I have received your note of yesterday ;in reply I will make a few remarks upon it as briefly as I possibly can. The fact of the interview between us at the office of the Liverpool Standard you now admit. '1 an glad . you admit so much. With regard to your denial of my statement, as to what took place at that in terview, much as - I hate the use of hard words, and unwilling as I may be to take you for my example, yet, on this occasion, I feel obliged lo meet:you in your own languagq and to declate the utter alt4' total untruth of every word and, every letter in which the denial i$ couched, and again to vouch forthe correct ness of what I asserted in my former note. Your quibble and harping upon -the word introduction is absurd. I never charged any young man attached to die Standard office with fin-wally introducing me to you as the editor of that paper. , I said, and I repeat, that having asked to see the editor, I was 'desired by the young than in the shop to walk forward into the inner room, where I should find hint ; and that, upon entering that room, I found you, end to you stated my business, and from you re.. 'ceived an answer. Your attempt at a sneer upon the subject of writing fur the Standard, as it was , lieneatb a gentleman to make it, so do I hold it. beneath one to give an answer to it. You say that you are at a loss to know why I should have given currencY•to tire fircts I have mentioned. Had I hadthe slightest idea that there was any secret in the matter, I never should; althongh I have had some cause of complaint against the Standard, since, from its'first appearance to the'present day it has (if not hysternatically, at all et, ents, so often accidentally as to' approach to something like a system) been in the constant habit of dragging my name before the public. I have only further to observe, that your threat of publishing this correspondence has no terrors for me. On the contrary, I will cheorfully abide the verdict which will be thereupon pro nounced. 1-lad I:indeed; from the first been avva.o that it was to appear before the eye of the world, I certainly should not, in, • the course of it, have mentioned names and circumstances which I brought forward, as I before stated, simply to mark the time when our interview took place, as closely as I could, in what Itonsidered a private communication to yourself. But, of course, your own feelings of delicacy must be your guide. However,unpleasant this altercation ►nay have beco►ne, I beg you will not forget that, in the first instance, I sought fora personal and ►uutual explanation through Mr. Robertson Glad stone, which you declined. I have the honour to be, . Your obedient servant, T. 13. llursfull, Esq. J: ASPINALL. '• (No. 5.) ilfonday, Jan. 19th, 1834. Ruv. Sin,—l feel very sorry to be obiiged to address you again, Ido not see any reason you have to congratulate your_ 01M_MININNM ••••,' - .•• OPTHALMIC INFIRMARY. The Practice in the Licerrool Opthabnie byfirmary :for the year MU By Hugh Neill, Surgeon to the Charity.' • Loudon : Lougmau and Co.—Liverpool: \V. Grape!. 'Until we were cognizant of the fact. from actlial observation, and from reading the work now before us, we had no idea that ,• the cases of diseased eves in this tOwn could h a ve am oun t e d to one half, or ever Lone fourth of the number which. have been cured or relieved at the Opthaltnie Infirmary. During the past year 1,768 cases, comprismg almost every variety of disease that the eve is subject to, have been treated at this institution : some of the patients who sought relief in a state of total blind ness have been restored to a useful if not perfect sight,. while others, who were fast verging to that melancholy. and pitiable state of helplessness, have been enabled to retain what we are accustomed .to regard as the most valuable of nursenses. Mr. Neill has divided his excellent publication under the following heads :—Prefatory address—Hist or y of the charity. with a sketch of• its arrangements--Table of the eases admitted into the Infirmary, or treated as out-door patients—Diseases treated, and cases of blindness cured by operation.- In his ref:story address Mr. Neill has explained with great force and perspicuity the advanta ges o f i nst i tut i ons of this kind, which, while they secure to the professed objects of their bounty, the poor. the gratuitous services of the best professional ta lents—secure also to the rich the assistance of n greater degree of practical skill in the surgeons, who are in the constant habit of seeing every species of diseased eyes congregated, as it were, around them. Of all the learned professions that of the healing art is the most laborious, the most useful, and the roost ill rewarded. The very institutions which they attend gratui tously deprive them of a . very large portion of the emoluments of their private practice; for some are to be form(' who arc base enou g h to apply to these charities for relief, as paupers, who ought to support them as contributors. A Case of this kind is noticed in Mr. Neills' pier-ice. He says-"A few months back I was under the painful necessity of 'dismissing a well attired lady, who brought her child to the charity. Aware , hoWever. that in a commercial community like that of Liver pool reverses of fortune are otien sudden and unavoidable, I 'felt unhappy till I prosecuted inquiries respecting the private eircutnstances of the individual in question. Will it be cre dited that this female's husband was not only in a business in which ready money is uniformly tabled' down. but that she and her family occupied a private residence, whose rent could not lie lesS than .E.N to £5ll per annum ! To sh,w how much the feeling of pride and a sense of honourable independence is unhappily lost in sonic cases, I regret having to state that this same person made inquiries as to the days on which my col league officiated, and she unblushingly presented herself aqd son to him as fit objects for gratuitous advice and medicine.' This was an attempt to commit a double fraud—a fraud ujion the charity, and a fraud upon the profession. We caonet take leave of Mr. Neill's book without congratu lating him upon his success as an operating surgeou t upon that delicate organ the eye, without recommending his-report to the attention of our readers, convinced that by doing so we shall best serve the valuable institution to which he belongs. - -.7 TO TIIE REV. JAMES ASPINALL. RevanEND Si have rend attentively th e correspondence, publisher) in the Journal of Saturday, between Mr.?. B. Hors .. fall and yourself: I commenced it fi ve from any predisposition either on the one sile or the other, slowly in an anxious s...trch after truth, and a sincere desire of ascertaining to *Whom that essential might belong: In an investigation where so much depends upon the veracity attached to the relative statements of Opposing parties, and where the one or the other must Noressartly have averred that which he knew to E! untrue, the inquiry cannot but be painful; hut where truth is the object, wr must not suffer• ourselves to he deterred (ruin the pursuit by the unpleasant nature of the path whii:h may leinf to tt.•• • Knowing nothing personally . either of your s elf or o f Mr. T. B. Horsfall, I have no feeling to bias, no erejudice to mislead me. .My only anxiety was, M the first instance, to attach an equal degree of credit to the assertions of each, and to abstain from coining to any conclusion until I had attentively considered-the circumstances, the prohabiiities, and the internal evidence of the respeetiVe statements. That I may not he accused of too hastily ur prematurely arriving at the result, I will state the intermediate steps which lead Inc to it. 1 trust you will think with me that, in the course I adopt. I am acting with fairness and impartiality ; whether you may coutinue to think so, I must leave to yourself after you have finished this letter. Divested. of all extraneous matter, the point at issue lies in very small compass. You have asserted that you had been "introduced to Mr. 'l'. B. Hursfall as the editor of the STAN CARD." lam not disposed to "harp or quibble," asyou term it, 3n the word " int reduction," Take'every advantage you please of it, you can take n one greater than Mr. Hon-fall him'self has given you, who, so far from "quibbling or haiPing," or evipc •ing any desire of keeping ynu to its letter, has ektended its sig nification to the meaning, "even- the shOwing into a room. " You must, however, know that it is necessary we should have Some defined point to start from. some course to which we may confine onrsetves, otherwise the seine rambling and digression, the same flying from point to point, which characterises your previous 'cite's, might again be repeated. You ere directly and specifically charged (not, however, in the first instance imputing. any improper motives to ,you) with having asserted to Mr. Wright, that "you had been introduced to Mr. T. B. Horsfall as the editor of the STA sDAis o ;" and this specific charge in your first letter (January 15th) you evipce no disposition either to alter or evade. Your words are "1 beg to re -assert the troth of what I stated to Mr. Alderman Wright." Here we are fairly at issue. In your first letter, at least, therels no quibbling. You follow up your "re-assertion" by stating your reasons for believinist hat Mr. 'l'. B. Horsfall was the editor of the graNnann, and so far I find no fault with Your conduct. We are all of us liable to draw a false inference, asul.p.artieularly when that infereucc.is supported, by• the exist ence uf preconceived ideas and long-standing prejudices. Let me now , however, examine th e se rea s o n s . Y our o w n wor d s , as I read them in letter No. 4, will serve me better than any ether. You ray that having walked into the Standard-Office, "you asked to see the editor; you were desired by the. young man in the shop to walk into the inner room; you found ?slr. Horgan ; you stated your business to hips ,• you received an answer from him." Well, what then ? Admitting every tittle you have said, and for the sake of argument let me admit it most freely, most fully—what does all this prove? Nothing—absolutely nothing. • I cannot, perhaps , more clearly show the utter'worth lessness of such proof than by an application direct to yourself. What would you think, sir, were any stranger to walk into Saint Luke's Church, and ask to see the minister: that he he desired by the clerk, sex t on , or p e w - opener, to walk into the vestry, that he there finds a gentleman writing, reading, or perhaps sit ting by the fire,—that he states-his business—his causeof grivv ance—whatever it might be—to that gentleman, who, probably being in son - win:inner connected with the church, and under standing the subject on which the stranger applies to him, gives him an answer ;—the stranger then !eaves the church, cells upon a friend, Mr. Wales fur instance, tells him he has been intro duced, or "shown into the vestry," or ahythini else you please to term it—to the minister; while, - alt this time, he had been addressing himself to a totally different person, may be one of the churchwardens, who happened to be in the vestry at the time,—the clerk, sexton, or pew-opener, who introduced him not having observ.el that the Rev. Mr. Aspinalt had left the church just two minutes before. I appeal to von, Sir, is not the• analogy complete? What must we then think of the cogency of your reasons, when we find that in a case precisely analogous, and coming more im mediately home to ourselves, they are utterly contemptible and ridiculous. By the very same reasoning it would be just as easy to prove that your friend Mr. Wales, or any one else who hap pened to have been in the vestry of your chUrch at the moment, is the minister of St. Luke's, us that Mr. T . B. H ors f a ll i s, or was, the editor of 'the STANDARD. And yet, Sir, this is the description of proof on which you venture to charge with false hood, and. to accuse of being " tricky, sliefifiiny, and evasive," a gentleman of unsullied character and reputation. To borrow your own language. and the words are now applied in their proper place, " I pity you, from tny heart I pity you.P' So far I have considered only the circumstances and proba bilities of the statenients.. I now gu a step further, and consi der the nature of the evidence brought forward by Mr. T. B. Horsfall, I cannot say and yourself, for you have not one tittle to offer. Mr. T. B. Horsfall, in his letter No. 5. after repeating his denial in the most unqualified terms, then he had ever been in troduced to you, or pointed out to yom, or spoke to you as editor of the STANDARU S brings forward the •strongest testimony in proof of the correctness of his assertions. Every person en gaged or employed in the Standard-office, at the time to which von allude, unequivocally declare, that toMr.llursfall, as editor f that paper, you had never by them, or any of them, been in troduced, named, or pointed nut. Now, sir, how is this evidence met' by.you ? By other evidence. or by further contradiction ? Neither the one nor the other. Entirely altering vour tactics, 'you write the letter dated the Nth January, quibble, and harp ripen the word introduction—descend to the lowest scurrility and most vulgar abuse—and, finally, feeling conscious that you cannot further urge one syllable, either in extenuation of your own conduCt. or against the confirmed statements of Mr. Hors fall, "beg leave to decline on y further correspondence." At an earlier stage this might have been a wise determination, but now, alas! so far as your own reputation is interested, it comes too late to assist you. Before I csonehrit—l - cannot refrain from obServinn upon the affectation of regret with which you finish your first letter to Mr. Horsfall, on the consequences "of the conscientious ex ercise of a privilege, given as a sacred trust for the good of our common country." All this reads very fine. You must, how ever, surely have forgotten th a t volt had an equally "sacred trust," confided to you " for the . good of our common" faith. You must also have forgotten the many and reiterated declara tions of attachment to our "commou" church—made of your own free will—first, when you matriculated at college—again, when you took your degree--a third time, when admitted into holy orders—and lastly, when ordained a priest —or you would not have provoked a smile by asserting that " conscience" had any part in the matter. You, however, arrogate too much to your self i n s upposing that any manner of exercising.'individtially, the elective franchise could have the effect of either " breaking up private friendship or sowing discord whete harmony should reign." Mr. James Aspinall might have acted as best ',l ease d him, however ridiculous or culpable, wit limit these effects follow ing :—lt is as a minister of the church of England that your vote becomes of any importance and surely no on e can b e blamed for attaching a sti g m a t o the character of that man who betrays what so repeatedly he had sworn to protect and defend. Other motives, however, than thos e o f "cmiscience" might be assigned t o eAkidate your conduct : their enumeration, how ever, I am willing to spare you, and shall refrain from express ing, unless you should be so ill-advised as to dare me to the proof. The really sacred duty to which you have been called, I would hope and trust is more conscientiously performed than has been that of the elective franchise, though I cannot help fearing that the way in which you exercised that privilege is not more in compatible with your previous solemn declarations than are the letters you have lately written inconsistent with the character and profession of a sinister of the g ospel of Jesus Ch r i s t. I am, reveren d Your obedientservant, a Liverpool, ath Jan., 15:35. THE COTTON TRADE. We take the follnwingextraet from the last New York circular. dated Dec. 31, 1834 :7 lu our circular of the 2:3d instant we noticed the increasing firmness in the cotton market; and the receipt on the following day of the adviers fiouc Livei pool by the George Washington to the 24th ult. caused an immediate advance in price of le. to to je. per lb., notwithstanding which a fair amount of business was done till the end of the week. This week the transactions have been more limited in extent, but prices are 1 cent per lb. higher; and at this further advance, making altogether about 1 tent per lb. above the prices current oti the 23d instant, holders are very firm. We quote Uplands 16 to 171 for very ordinary to middling, 171 to I 8 for fair to quad Tennessees and A la baullik 16-1 to 1.7! cents; fine Mobiles, Louisianas, Rte. 18 to 19 and 20 cents per lb. The sales in eight days are estimated at 3,600 bales. The accounts received from the cotton states in the last ten days speak very decidedly—more so. we apprehend, than the event will be found to ju,tify•—as to the detietehey of the crops compared with those of the previous twasou. Believing these accounts, we should be warranted in estimating the whole cot tqn crop of the United States fOr 1f , 31-35 at little more than 1,000,0(X) bales; hut we feel satisfied that it will not fall very touch short of 1,150,000. viz., 670,000 from the (hitt of Mexico, and 480,000 from the Atlantic states; and, 'Movie - there he no material variation from the estahlislnNl rates-here and in Europe at the latest dates, its distribution will probably,be nearly as For the continent of Europe 350,000 For home consumption in the United States... 220 , Leaving for Great Britain and Ireland 1,150,000 Of last year's crop the continent received about 310,000, and there were consumed in the United States 190,000 bales. The rates of freight to Liverpool for cotton are per lb. in square, and id. per lb. in round bale s ; turpentine 2s . per hrl; , flaxseed is. to 6d. per tierce.—.' Loudon for cotton - td, per lb.; naval stores `2s. 6d. to 35.3 d. per brl.— To Havre, to I cent per lb. for cotton; 6 to 8 dollars per ton for ashes ; -.lnd. 10 dollars per ton for rice. The transactions in exchange on‘ , l3ngland for this packet have been very extensive at all priOit'from 1064 per Cent, at which the market opened, up t o 107 i, the closing rote, of this day. The C. S. Bank doelines .selling at the present rates, Bills on France, st. 32ie, to .51'. 30c. STATE OF TRADE: • BRADOORD •MARKKT.—There was a considerable improve ment in the demand fot goods and wool at this market on Thor-day, but tin corresponding. amendment •of prices. Many large sales'of wool have taken place during the week, and theta has also been greater activity in the yarn market as well as m the Piece Hall. The stock's of mantifactured goods are swnll, and wit! proloibly remain so null': prices look up. BA RN `“•fil, - LINEN Taxny.—Otir looms ate as noisy as ever, and there is every prospect of their-continuing so, as several ex tensive purchasers have heen in this town during the week. Rochniku i : FLANNEL MANKET, JAN 19.—The flannel mar ket, to-day, hots been better attended than last week. yet but little busines s was transacted. some litWers offered lower prices, but few sellers werl disposed to sceept them. - God gre,ss for 4eing sold well: low whites were very (hill sale; unddle sorts were but little inquired after; and. not much business was done in the finest qualities: In the wool market very little business was transacted, vet prices remained steady. LayEapoot, Col-11)N MAnkwr, JAN. ?2.—The sales, since Friday, amount to 1:3,000 bags. at prices fully as high as those of lasi week; about 2,000-bagb have been taken on speculation. The import is 12,000 bags American, and 2,000 Brazil.—Leeds Intelligencer. !Sias. FiustANs.—We regret to learn that thii excellent lady and adunrable poet is alartningly ill in .T)uhiiu. the has re sided in that city several years, chiefly to obtain for her sons the advantages of a college education at a rate noire within her limited means than could be procured either at Oxford or Caul brik;e.— The Watchman.