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WANTED, an experienced BOOK-KEEPER.—Appli ations, in writing, to be made to WILLIAM SMITH, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool Marine Assurance Co., on or before Monday next, the 15th instant. WANTED, a HORSE and GIG, or light PE/ETON, ON HIRE, for two or three months. Parties desirous of Letting, can apply (post paid) stating terms, to W. 11., care of Mr. Lawton, Rainbow Inn, Williamson -square. TO SHIP-MASTERS AND OTHERS. LIVERPOOL SHIP-MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. rr HE READING ROOMS of the above Society 'will be 1. OPENED, to Subscribers, on THURSDAY, the 18th June instant. Terms of Membership, and other particulars, may be known at the Rooms, 2, Oldhall-street, near the Exchange. The advantages which this Association holds out to Mas ters of Vessels, and to mercantile men generally, are such as can be found iu no other Institution in Liverpool, andcannot fail to secure the hearty co-operation of all who wish well to the maritime interests of this port. G. J. DUNCAN, Secretary. Bth June, 1840. ANATOMICAL VENUS. IT has already been announced, that TUESDAY and Fits- DAYS are exclusively for LADIES. A wish having been expressed by several Ladies, for a longer explanation of this truly wonderful production of Art, the Proprietor announces, that a competent person will deliver a LECTURE, provided he obtains a sufficient number of names for the purpose, on FRIDAY next, June 12th. The Lecture commences (for Ladies only) precisely at Half-past Seven. Admittance, as usual, Is. ; for the Lecture, 2s. 6d. 53, Bold-street. - - LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. THE SIXTEENTH EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS WILL OPEN in AUGUST NEXT. All Works of Art intended for Exhibition will be received from the 27th of July to the Bth of August inclusive, and must be addressed to the Secretary, Exhibition Rooms, Church-street, accompanied with a Note describing them as intended to be inserted in the Catalogue. (No unnecessary quotation or narrative can be admitted.) At the back of each frame must be written the Name of the Artist, and the Subject. No Picture or Drawing can be admitted without a Gilt Frame. No Copies, except Enamels, or Water Colours after known celebrated Pictures, nor Works which have been publicly Exhibited in Liverpool, can be received. Amateur Exhibitors are limited to one work of art. SAML. EGIANGTON, Secretary to the Liverpool Academy of Art. June sth, 1840. NOW OPEN, for PUBLIC INSPECTION, at the Exhi hibition Rooms, Postotfice-place, Liverpool, a Splendid, Extensive, and highly-interesting COLLECTION of PIC TURES, the production of the most celebrated Masters of the Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and English Schools, in subjects from Sacred and Profane History, Landscapes, Domestic Scenes, Game, and Flower Pieces, a great variety of Interesting Portraitiand Fancy Fiends ; a series of Cabinet Copies, from the celebrated Lux EMBOURG GALLERY, con sisting of twenty-one highly-finished Pictures, by a French Artist ; a Splendid Picture of the Marriage of George the IV. with Princess Caroline of Brunswick, displaying numerous Portraits of the Royal Family, Ladies of the Court, and Officers of State, all taken from the Life ; with other fine Productions of Art ; the whole having been selected in various parts of the Old and New Continents, by the Agent of a Gentleman of Fortune, who has kindly consented to their being exhibited in Liverpool for a Short Time only, under the Direction of Messrs. T. WINSTANLEY and SONS, who have arranged them as above for that purpose. Open from Ten in the Morning till Dusk. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING EACH. Descriptive Catalogues (one Shilling each) may be had at the Rooms. MECIIANICS' INSTITUTION. AS the E.XIIIBFfibiVof OBJECTS illustrative of the FINE ARTS. NATURAL HISTORY, EXPERI MENTAL PHILOSOPHY, MACHINERY, MANU FACTURE, ANTIQUITY, &c., will OPEN in about a week from this time, it is earnestly requested that all Per sons intending to send Articles, either as Donations or Loans, will, as early as possible, give notice to the Secretary. As similar Exhibitions, which have been recently held at Manchester, Leeds, Derby, and other places, have, been at tended with many excellent results, the Directors confidently expect that their endeavours to render this Exhibition as various and useful as possible will be warmly seconded by the public generally, and especially by those who possess articles of interest in any of the departments above enume rated. _ All expenses of carriage and removal will be paid, and the greatest care will he taken of all the objects lent, which will be returned immediately after the closing of the Exhibition. For the ieformation of those who may wish to contribute either Gifts or Loans, a list is subjoined of articles desirable to form the Exhibition. NATURAL HISTORY. Botanical Specimens, Woods, Foreign Fruits, Flowers, Minerals, Fossils, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Shells, Eggs, &c. MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES. Specimens of Glass, Spar, Earthenware, Porcelain, Silk, Cotton, Woollen ; Jewellery, Clocks, Stoves, Grates Cooking Apparatus, Musical Instruments ; Models of Steam Engines, Marine, Stationary, and Locomotive ; Fire Engines, Boilers, Smelting and other Furnaces; Windu ills, Mill Work ' • Mines, Roofs, Buildings, Bridges, Canal Locks, Railroads, Ships, Boats, Life Boats, Fire Escapes, Water Wheels, Pumps ; Steam, Lithographic, and other Printing Presses, Hydrostatic Press and Balance, Apparatus illustra tive of the Mechanical Powers, &c. EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Hygrometers, Anemometers. Hydrometers, Pyrometers, Barometers, Thermometers, Saccharometers, Rain Gauges ; Chemical, Optical, Electrical, Galvanic, Magnetic, and Electro-Magnetic Apparatus, Telescopes, Microscopes, Da guerreotypes, Camera: Obscurte, Camera: Lucidte, Prisms, Concaves, Convex, and other Mirrors, Models of the Eye, Ear, &c., Orreries, Quadrants, Sextants, Planetaria, Theo dolites, Pentagraphs, Dividing Machines, Drawing and Ma thematical Instruments and Solids, &c. FINE ARTS: Works of Sculpture in Marble, Plaster, Wood, Ivory, or Terra-Cotta; Paintings, Water-coloured and Pencil Draw ings, Architectural and Mechanical Drawings, Engravings, Specimens of Pentnanship ; Castings in Bronze, Iron, Plas ter; Vases, Medallions, Coins; Antique L am p s, Candela bra, rapier itracne, anti raintings rresco, &C. Antiquities and Curiosities of every kind, such aS,Ancient or Foreign Armour, Dress, Agricultural or other Imple ments, Autographs, Illuminated Missals, rare Books or Manuscripts, &c., will be gladly received. It is intended that experiments shall be performed at fixed. times, and workmen will practise their different branches of art in Glass-blowing, Weavitw, Printing, &c. The . MIDSUMMER HOLIDAYS will commence on SATURDAY - next, the 13th instant. . On the preceding THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 11th and 12th, there will be a PUBLIC EXAMINATION of the various SCHOOLS; and on SATURDAY, at Twelve o'clock, the Pupils will be assembled in the Lecture:-room, when the results of the Examination will be announced. The Parents and Friends of the Pupils, and the Public generally, are requested to attend. TO-MORROW, the 10th instant, Mr. MIGAULT. will de 7 liver the last Lecture of the Season, on the POETS of the HAINBUND of GERMANY. Annual Subscription, One Guinea; Ladies' Ditto, Half a Guinea; Apprentices or Sons of Members, ss. ; Appren tices of Non-Members, 10s. 6d. ; Single Lectures, Is. - *** Season Tickets ; price 2s: 6d:, may now be had at the Institution, and of Messrs. LACE'and ADDISON office. Single Admission will be .One Shilling, from 'Nine A.M. to Four P.M. ; and Sixpence, from Four to Ten r.ai. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. NORTHEI3.N HOSPITAL, JUNE 6, ADMITTNI , DISCHARGED. Accidents Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Cured 24 Attending as Out Patients Irregular , 0 Died Total Remaining . in th :c Hospital . . . 80 Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. House Visitors, 'Henry Holmes, Esq. and Jacques Myers, Esq, Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. Arnott• GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The followinz are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : T 1 MES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m 6 a.m. Alixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.IU. Mix 7 p.m. First Class 9, 19 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. li 30 a.m. First Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parksidoi. 3 30 p.m. ?.4 ixed 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 815 a.m. Mixed „ . 130 p.m. 10 30 a.m. ~ 7 p.m. „ tt 12 r+ 2 15 a.m. First Class JO ..... 11 30 a.m. „ 2 45 p.m. The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MA FROM L'POOL TO AIAVCNEqTER. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 o Morning 8 45 ••I 0 0 ~ 11 o ••Il 45 . . . . gCIIESTER RAILWAY. • 2 0 Aftern. .. 30 Aftern. 445 „ 530 7 15 Evening 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I Except on Saturdays, when th oN se! First Class Second Class 9 0 Morning.. 7 o Morning I 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixod top only at Newton 11/ Prkside TO PRESTON PROM If ANCITZSTXR TO L'POOL. First Class Second Class -- Morning.. 7 .0 Morning .10 0 „ . 11 45 „ ..2 45 Aftern. . 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I sis Train does not start till Three. NHAVS. IFirst Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Wallin 5 0 Afters. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside. AND WIGAN. FROM SIANCHESTICR. 1 g 0 Morning.. First Class FROM Livicnroot.. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 230 Aftern. .. Second Class 4 46 .. Mixed 7 16 .. First Class 1 15 2 0 Afters 5 1) 7 0 Morning.... Ai ixed 530 Afternoon .. „ ti;s; SU 70 BC FROM LIVERPOOL. 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 „ „ 011 Sll 7 0 Morning Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. TO ST. I FROM LIVRRPOOI.. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 ~ •• • • rr 11 45 ~ • • • • 2 30 Afternoon.. „ 5 30 ~ • • • • ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. 11 15 „ 2 ' 45 Aftern. ..Secoral Class 5 0 „ Mixed 715 „ .. First Class !quays. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon.. „ LTOII. iFROM MANCHESTER. 9 1 0 Morning.... First Class 1 2 43 Afternoon .. Second Class „ 5 30 .... ~ NGAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ •lELENS. YROM 31A NCII ESTR It. 7 30 Second :, Class H o 11 45 „ • • • • Of 3 45 Afternoon .. VP 5 33 „ pt VDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon :ORN GAP. FROM MANCRESTXR. 30 Morning.... Second Cla s 11 45 5 30 Afternoon IP 'NDAYS. 7 0 Morning S econd Class 5 9 0.. Afternoon „ TO RUNCI PROM LIVERPOOL, 7 15 Morning.... Second Clas, 11 45 „ •••• PP 5 30 Afternoon ----- ON sU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon • . 9, Z. Ar I t • • 4 N 71.•/ A: I a. 1 .-* ; ... , , ;#7. , , •- 4 .4 Yul 4 ) The Marquis of Westminster and his friends are said to have lost heavily by the Derby, as they had taken the odds (9 to 4), which were freely offered against Lanneelot.— Morning Paper. Imptriat parliament HOUSE OF LORDS.—Thunstor. The royal assent was given, by commission, to the Tithes Commutation Act Amendment Bill, the Thames Tunnel Bill. and various other bills. The Bishop of LONDON presented numerous petitions in favour of legislative interference with the system of Sunday baking. The Bishop of EXETER asked what the Special Council of Canada had done respecting the inauguration of the Roman Catholic College of St. Sulpice, of which notice had been given in the Gazette? Lord MELBOURNE answered that he had received no or dinance on the subject, nor any report from the Governor- General. The Bishop of EXETER then asked for the papers contain ng instructions to the Governor-General of Canada, to whit h reference had been made in a despatch of March 18. Lord MELBOURNE replied that no instructions had been sent out, but that he had forwarded the opinions of the law officers of the crown, as to the legality of the proceedings. Some interesting conversation then took place on the sub ject of the corn laws. The Earl of ABERDEEN postponed, until Tuesday, the 16th, the second reading of his "Church Benefices (Scotland) Bill." The Bishop of EXETER deferred, until Friday, the 12th, his motion on the subject of emigration to New South Wales. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, signed by the chair man of a large meeting at Bradford, in Yorkshire, complain ing of the treatment ex p er i ence d by M r . F eargus O'Connor, in York Castle. The consideration of the Commons' amendments to the Prisons' Bill was then resumed; but, after some desultory discussion, the further consideration of the amendments was deferred for a week. The Payment of Wages Bill (Lord Monson's) was read the second time. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. On the motion of Sir P. EGERTON, the committee on the Weaver churches bill had leave to make their report on or before Monday the 15th inst. Mr. GREG presented petitions against the corn-laws. DISTRESS OF SILK WEAVERS. _ _ _ Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition, signed by 1000 to 1200 silk weavers at Macclesfield. To his thinking he had never presented one more justly deserving the serious consi deration of the house, for it was virtually the petition of 800,000 hand-loom weavers against any further reduction of the duty on East India manufactured goods. It stated, that when foreign manufactured silks were admitted to homecon sumption in the year 1826, their wages fell 40.t0 50 per cent., entailing upon them unprecedented distress—demoralization and disaffection followed in the train ; that corn and tropical articles of consumption remained, owing to taxation, as dear as when the change overtook them ; that they had no hope but to throw themselves upon the house for protection against any further reduction of their present miserable amount of security by duty; and prayed to be heard before the com mittee sitting to consider of the equalization of duties be twixt England and India. DUTY ON RAILWAY PASSENGERS Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice, that in committee on the railway regulations bill, when they came to the considera tion of that clause which imposed a duty of one halfpenny upon every four passengers per mile, he should move that the duty of twopence be substituted for that of one halfpenny. lIAND-LOOM WEAVERS' COMMISSIONERS ' REPORT. Mr. G. BERKELY, seeing his hon. friend the Under-Se cretary for the Home Department in his place, wished to ask him if it was the intention of her majesty's government to take into their consideration the report of the Hand-loom Weavers' Commissioners, to found any measures thereupon, and if the report would speedily be laid before the house ? Mr. Fox MAULE said the subject more properly belonged to the department of the board of trade, to the president of which board the question would have been more fitly ad dressed. The report, however, would not yet be laid before the house (as was understood). POLICE RATES ASSESSMENT BILL. Mr. Fox MAULE moved the second reading of this bill. Lord G. SoltHaw!' did not rise to oppose the second read ing of the bill ; but from the great number of communications he had had on the subject, he thought the bill ought to be well considered before it had the sanction of that house. With reference to the details of the bill, he thought a six- penny rate would be sufficient. Mr. Fox. MAULE made some observations in reply, but, in consequence of the noise in the house, lie was almost inau dible. He was understood to say he could not agree to the lower rate, believing the higher to be necessary to maintain an efficient police. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD proposed the omission of the seventh clause, regulating the mode in which the increase of duty shall be borne under contracts of sale not completed. Dr. LUSHINGTON and others supported the proposal. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER resisted it. After a short conversation, a division took-place, in which it was negatNed by a large majority. COLONIAL PASSENGERS' BILL. The order of the day having been read for going into com mittee on the colonial passengers' bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Sir Eardley 'Wilmot as to the intentions of government respecting the introductiml of Hill Coolies from India into the Mauri- tins, expressed his opinion that the prohibition on that im migration might be usefully withdrawn under proper protective regulations. Care must be taken, by the appointment of proper agents, to guard the Indians against the delusions and oppressions heretofore practised upon them ; they must be free on their arrival to hire themselves to any master they may choose ; their term of service should not exceed a year ; and provision should be made against the disproportion of the sexes. With such precautions as these, he thought the ge neral principle of opening the markets to labour might be fairly applied to the Mauritius, whither, from local position, many Indians already found their way. But be did not con sider it applicable to the West Indies, where the introduction of • a third race, with peculiar habits, might be productive of very serious evil. The protection of the Hill Coolies immi grating into the Mauritius would be the object of some clauses which he .intended to propose in the committee on this bill. _ _ _ --- Mr. BERNAL regretted that, under the present disastrous circumstances of the West Indies, the government should have declared against the relief of those colonies by the introduetiOn df new labour. ' Mr. - Hounoir4i: hoped that if the experiment, when tried on a small scale : in the Mauritius, should be successful, it would be extended to the West Indies also. Fie attached mile weigh, to the apprehension of mixing races. There was no race more mixed than the members of the British House of Commons, the " true-born Englishmen," descended from Saxon, Dane, Norman, and Fleming. Mr. EWART thought the danger lay only iu the ii7norance of the people as to the district and the service to which they were blindly consigned. d‘lr. WAunuuToisi said that it might be all well if the emi gration were that of men with their wives and families pro ceedingtrom an overstocked country to people a new land. But here the expectation of the importers was not to raise by, colonization from India, a per.manent population of labourers, but to get a fresh supply from India as fast us the successive cargoes should be cutoff by the mortality of severe toil. As between the Mauritius and the West Indies, he should rather prefer the latter, because the inspection 'was much stricter. Mr. C. BULLER observed, that there was no country where population was more redundant and labour worse paid than - Hindostan ; and its people, therefore, fell within the very principle affirmed by Mr. Warburton. The friends of the ine . gro, instead of opposing every plan for the intro . . Auction of free labour, ought to hail such measures as being the probable means of extinguishing slavery in the only way in which that extinction could ever be effected. Efut he feared there was a disposition to import into these debates revenge against the planters. instead of plain justice. Dr. LUSHINGTON complained of this last expression, which he said was wholly unsupported by fact. He appealed to the evils of past migrations from India, and demanded to know what were to be the securities against the repetition of those evils, especially with reference to parts of India not belonging to England. The people of the Mauritius had evaded all your laws—the law against slave importation, the law of registration, the law forbidding public officers to be proprietors of slaves. On the slave question, the admi nistration of justice itself was poisoned from head to foot. The Coolies now at the Mauritius were treated most severely ; worked under police inspection ; and not suffered, even after the hours of labour, to quit their districts, It was a new slavery, and the annual mortality was nine per cent. Where, then, was the necessity for now preferring Mauritius, which had been highly prosperous, to our other colonies, which had suffered so heavily ? The whole subject should be consi dered together. Mr. MACAULEY had always been of opinion that the re strictions on the removal of labour were properly applicable. . . only to a state of slavery. That state ceasing, the general principle of the free removal came fitly into operation. It was material to remember that there wee always at the Mauritius, for health or pleasure, civil servants of the East India Company, who were invariably found to take a lively interest in the welfare of the Indian emigrants there. Some thing had been said about vindictive feeling; but, in his own mind, the heat occasioned by a long altercation had wholly ceased with the cessation of that slavery which had been its cause; and there was no part of the British dominions of which he was more anxious to behold the prosperity than the colonies in which that great experiment, the free slave labour, was now going forward. Mr. IRVING dwelt on the necessity of fresh labour in the Mauritius, and made a favourable representation of the con dition of the colonists there. Mr. O'CONNaLL said, the planters of the Mauritius ap peared to be persons whO desired not to hire free labour, but to get labourers and work them out. He saw no security against abuses of the proposed emigration. The house ought not to go on with these clauses till the plan was more dis tinctly developed. lie ridiculed the notion of protection to the Coolies from the casual invalids of the company's civil service, and urged that there should be a permanent and salaried body of protectors. He concluded by moving that the bill should be_committed that day six months. Mr. VERNON SMITH desired to repeat, n,. the house havin, , e Nev i ti,sea)nyi the Lord a Joli become tolerably full, the explanations Russell in the earlier part of thees - ent attend ance had been very thin. Immigration, become the question of the colonies. As to the Mauritius, Dr. Dr. Lushington ought long since to have brought it rit tn ius ' deeds before parliament, if they amounted to one-half what he had represented them to be. A permanent salaried protectorship had been demanded' by Mr. O'Connell, and that was one of the very institutions which the government had it in contemplation to establish. It was best to choose one colony for the experiment, and that one should obviously be the colony nearest to the Indian peninsula. After a short conversation about the forms of proceeding. Mr. O'CONNELL temporarily withdrew his amendment, to give Lord John Russell an opportunity of moving that the committee on this bill should have power to regulate the in tercourse between India and the Mauritius. Mr. GLansToNE desired he might not be understood as assenting to any particular plan of emigration, though he was favourable to the general principle. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that if the house affirmed the general principle, he should advise the crown to execute a specific plan, which would be most carefully considered, and on which it would be open to parliament to express its opi nion. Without their general sanction to the principle, no step at all would be taken by ministers to break through the existing prohibition. Mr. MACKINNON agreed to the principle, and l e Mr. 1 1r r .c\rN.7 iGa e wEyYa, swfollowed made i a speech about the English poor and Corn-laws, at which the House expressed some dissatis faction.ow lby was favourable to the measure. Mr. O'CONNELL'S amendment being renewed, was nega tivedronaANc division. sn ,o Mr. HAWKS the or der for the second re a ding of the Metropolitan Police Court s Bill, loosed to refer it to a select e c x o p m e n d i i i t t i t n e n e w s , jn i r t i h a view s dintinn to i the n certain e r netisntanbilviislhni cases.ent of This i c s h cheap jurisdic tion po s h e a d d t b o e v e n e s r t n i i n s etdh,ell)nodl gistrates, who, when c e e ng m ag a ed to do this further Fox MAU LE th a t G overnmen t d t salariesl u le o t i y r n he a r as o s without u r i n c r c e e a f s r e o o m f stipen d. m r. was read a wo m ul r d . attend E tso wavedthe su b h j i e s c inanother motion,t ai id tsheses bill se cond time. Lord MORPETH then volunteered to abandon his i Irsl Mendicancy Bill, after whic h the House proceeded with the orders of the day, but on the motion that Mr. F. Maule's Prison (Scotland) Bill be read a first time, the House, at a quarter to 1 o'clock, was counted out. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. Lord lIATHERTON stated that on Friday next he should present a petition numerously signed by proprietors of the Stafford and Worcester canal, and by many other persons, for the adoption of a measure to prohibit the conveyance of goods on canals and railways on Sundays. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, having presented peti tions against Sunday trading, observed that he feared the ob jects on one side were too extravagant, and the indifference on the other too extensive, to afford any prospect of the adoption ofany effectual remedy for this evil. Lord DENMAN having presented petitions complaining of the treatment ofFeargus O'Connor, The Marquis of NORMANDY read letters received from York Castle, denying some of the allegations of Mr. O'Con-- nor as to the treatment to which he was exposed. His lord ship added that he had been led to believe the alterations which had taken place would afford to Mr. O'Connor as much indulgence as was consistent with the sentence pronounced by the Court of Queen's Bench. Lord BROUGHAM observed, that Mr. O'Connor's state ments had been met only by counter-assertion. For his own part his !co dship professed himself so well aware of the value of these contradictions that he should wait for more specific information. Earl FITZWILLIAM (in answer to Lord Ashburton's in quiry) stated that it was his intention to bring forward, on Thursday next, his resolution on the subject of the corn laws. Lord BROUGH AM having presented petitions from St. Ives, &c, on the subject, said that he viewed, with indescribable alarm, those measures sanctioning the emigration of the hill coolies, which must inevitably lead to the revival of slavery by this country. His lordship wished the government to lay before the house all orders by the governor-general of India regarding the shipment of hill coolies. Their lordships soon afterwards adjourned till Saturday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Mr. HousmAN took the oaths and his seat on his re-elec ion for Cockermouth. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition complaining of there Lying been bribery .and treating at the last election at Mr. EWART stated, that on the 23d instant, he should move that the house resolve itself into committee on the several acts imposing duties on sugar, coffee, &c. _ Mr. B. Woo]) moved for a return of the names of all the unions governed by boards of guardians under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act in England and Wales, the month and year when each was first incorporated, the names of counties wherein such unions are situated, the names of all the assistant poor law commissioners for Eng land and Wales, and date and appointment of each ; the date of every visit paid by each assistant commissioner to boards of unions in England and Wales, from the first day of Jan uary, 1839, to the 31st day of December, 1839; the name of such visiting commissioner, and of such board visited. The Customs Duties Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, and the House having resolved into a committee of supply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in moving a reso lution as the basis of the intended duties upon timber, en tered into some explanatory details, his general principle being to collect the same amount which the originally in tended 5 per cent. might have been expected to produce, but to collect it in equal proportions on both kinds of timber. He added, that he did not propose to make the duty take effect instantly, but to fix a future day for its commencement. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON desired a few days' delay in order to give time for the consideration of this plan at the outports. He wished the relative position of the colonial and the Baltic timber trades to remain the same. Mr. LABOUCH ERE expressed his conviction that any other course than that which Government had selected, of impos ing the new duty in equal proportions, would have occa sioned an actual loss of revenue by a total exclusion of the Baltic timber. Mr. 'WARBURTON concurred in that view. The object here was revenue, not protection. The relative position of the two trades was left as before, for the inferential duty remained the same. Mr. HuTT concurred in the views of the Chancellor of the Exchequr ; so did Mr. VILLIERS, who expressed an intention of bringing the whole question before the house on a future day, with a view to equalize the entire duty. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcxEctutu. said that he was willing to give time for the passing of the hill, but that he could not postpone the day on which the duties should come into operation. Mr. HAwEs approved the proposed equalization• of the new duties. _ . _ After some repetitions by several of the speakers before mentioned, the resolution was passed. A series of estimates were then moved in committee of supply by Mr. ROBERT GORDON, now one of the secretaries of the treasury. Among these estimates were the whole of those which arc called the Irish miscellaneous. Just as these were finished, Mr. Serjeant JACKSON entered, and Said,. that having been absent but a few minutes, he was not a little surprised to find that the business had been all hurried' through in that short interval. He gave notice that he should tAe the opportunity of the report to discuss several of these estimates. While he was speaking, Lord MORPETH entered, amidst a general laugh that the 'lrish estimates should have been voted in the absence of the Irish secretary. Colonel SIBTHORP animadverted on this anomaly, and said he had intended to propose a reduction in the Irish secretary's salary; to which Lord MORPETH , answered, that he had at first regretted his non-arrival in time for these estimates, but that his absence now turned out to have been only what delicacy would have dictated to him when a discussion was to arise on his own stipend. And Lord JOHN RUSSELL added, that when ministers had been so fortunate as to pass their estimates without opposition, they could hardly be expected to propose them over again for the purpose of letting in objections. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned till half-past one on Saturday. HOUSE OF LORDS.—SATURDAY. } •. l • Lord Chief Justice DENMAN presided for the Lord Chan cellor. The Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill, the Customs; &c., Duties Bill, and several other bills, were brought from the Commons; they were read the-first time, and the:Grand Jury Cess (L•eland) Bill was ordered to be read the second time on Friday. Some other bills having been forwartle&a stage, their lord ships adjourned till Thursday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY. After i;;;ifii. — ORITJTIIEad moved the adjournment of the house till. Wednesday next, Sir Ci.'SliveLA In oompl.;nod of tho " dovenly manner" in• which the.public business had been performed, and said that; after the recess, he should call attention to the subject., Mr. KELLY deferred his motion, for leave to bring in 4,bilt to abolish capital punishments in all cases but murder. and high treason, until Tuesday, the 23d instant. Mr.,EwART postponed till the same day his motion for a resolution declaratory of the expediency of reducing the" duties on sugar and coffee. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland brought in the Qua lification of Voters (Ireland). Bill. 'lt was read the first time, and ordered to be printed. .1 , The report of the committee of ways and means was pre sented, containing the resolution regarding the timber duties. It was xead, agreed to, and a bill ordered• accordingly. The house then adjourned till Wednesday. THE MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL. (From the Horning Herald of yesterday.) On Saturday the following printed handbill was left at the shops of most of the silversmiths and pawnbrokers in and round the metropolis : FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. " TO PAWNBROKERS, SILVERSMITHS, AND OTHERS. " Missing, from the house of the late Lord William Rus sell, No. 14, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, supposed to have been disposed of between the 24th of April and the sth of May last, the following articles :—Four silver tablespoons, old fashioned, with slight narrow stems, two of them are a little thicker than the others ; four silver dessert-spoons, plain stems, with double thread down the handles, front and back ; four silver dinner-forks, plain stems ; two silver tea spoons, plain stems, with double thread down the handles, front and back. The whole marked with a crest, a goat walking. Whoever will give such information as will lead the discovery and production of the above articles, or any portion of them, shall receive the above reware on applica tion to Messrs. Wing and Twining, Solicitors, No.l, Gray's Inn-square, Holborn." The valet Francois Benjamin Courvoisier, we understand, maintains, since his incarceration in Newgate, the most per fect composure and self-possession. He enjoys good health, and whenever spoken to on the subject of the murder of the late Lord William Russell, is most earnest in his declaration of innocence. He has one of the turnkeys in the apartment in which he is confined, with him day and night, and al though a most strict watch has been kept over him no ap pearance of disturbed dreams have been discovered, his sleep being perfectly calm and sound. He has been visited since his committal to Newgate by the Swiss clergyman, on whose ministry since his residence in this country he has been in the habit of attending ; and Mr. Flower, his solicitor, has been permitted to see him. The next sessions of the Central Criminal Court commence on Monday, the 15th inst. Sarah Mancel and Mary Houston, the housemaid and cook, are still staying at the house in Norfolk-street, as are also Inspector Tedman of the D division, and Serjeant Pul lin of the C division, who will remain in charge of the pre mises until after the termination of the trial. The former accompanies the two females whenever they go out on busi ness or for health. FASHIONS FOR JUNE. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") The newest materials at this moment for dresses are the mousseline prairie, organdys in small patterns, gaze barige, and batiste barege ecossaise. Lilac is a colour much in fa vour, and predominates both in dresses, bonnets and scarfs. Tight sleeves may be considered among the changes this season, though they encounter some opposition, and are only suitable to thick materials; they are sometimes a l'Ama•• dis, with two seams, or cut biais with a single seam, taking the form of the arm, having some plaits at the arm-hole ; others are quite plain with jockeys. Corsages will continue fitted to the shape, with three coutures, a row of buttons placed en V on two of the seams, the skirts open en redingote buttoning down the front, or ornamented with gimp trim mings in Grecian or Arabic patterns, noeuds, tassels, &c., these are for dresses of stout materials. For poils de chevre, s fancy che c k s , & c ., th e t r i mm i ngs w ill b e genera ll y o f b a i as , occasionally with fl ounces , b u t a l ways i n t h rees , fives, or snk Peignoirs ee dr f e o g r se n s eg a I r i e g enai making trimmed Paris with embroidered two i o d r e r three ti frills.ev es . N a la Polonaisewith • silk or braid. Spencers and c• .annezous are very fashionable. Lace and embroidery will be very gene rally used. Scarfs, shawls, lined with lilac,. hornous . of clear muslin are pink, or paille silk, and trimmed with lace. The most elegant bou riio t lis are of white c a ch em i r e, em broidered i n colours, with Small mantes Louis x Vnge to match. are made of black lace lined in every shade of colour, but a flat bouillon. Scarfs of white v i o l e t, t r i mme d w ith white filet are also worn, lined and trimmed with fringe ; they are also fashionable of foulari damagre, deep blue, myrtle narron of taffetas in all colours, with a plaid or chine border. There is great variety observable in bonnets ; we have pailles de riz, leghorns and capotes of i (rape,intermixed with bands of straw, capotes of crape lisse, l , illionne c apotes of shaded crape, with black veils.o Crapeu es, much used, apple - green ornamented with lilacs, is very co lour with violets, pearl gray with bleu L ou i s ; laceapricot is ad missible in every form and style. Painlilac e and green are the favourite colours. Paille de riz bonnets are of a more open form than others, and have wreaths of flowers without feuillage ; some bonnets are composed entirely of lace, lined with lilac or pink gauze, and ornamented with wild flowers; capotes a coulises o f crape are very numerous, and some bonnets have appeared in Paris of clear organdy embroidered in coloured silks or worsted, in small wreaths, taking the form of the front, the ribbons to match, or nceuds of organdy similarly embroidered. Dark ribbons are fashionable for straw bonnets ; many have plaid velvet ribbon, in broches ribbons ; lilac and green are those preferred. Coral continues very fashionable in Paris, in cameos, beads, or seed. It is said that in a single pawnbroker's shop in the town of Bradford, there arc no less than one hundred thousand pledges. The labouring portion of the population have al most all been obliged to have recourse to the pawnbrokers' assistance. INTELLIGENCE FROM CHINA. Canton papers to the 22d of February have been received by the Queen Mali which arrived here on Saturday after noon. The principal feature of their contents is the fact of air afficer of higher rank than the Kw•ang-thou-foo, called the l'aoutae, having been appointed .by the Emperor, Pre sident of the Western district of the pro Vince of Macao, to reside in that 'port, and manage public affairs, remaining there "a year or two, until the foreigners shall be brought to order." The functionary began his career with a threat ening proclamation. Captain Elliott bad solicited the in terposition of the Portuguese Governor of Macao, to pro tect the lives and the properties of himself and his country men from the attacks of the Chinese. His excellency, who was well inclined to assist, was" afraid to do so openly, lest his protection of the English should call down on the Por tuguese the vengeance of the Chinese Government. In this very critical state of affairs, Captain Smith, the naval officer in command on the station, had moved the Hyacinth into the inner roads of Macao, with the intention of aflbrding every succour in his power to his countrymen, should the Chinese carry into effect their threatened attack on the En glish residents. This bold step alarmed the Portuguese Governor, who, having consulted the Senate on the point, remonstrated with Captain Smith on• the subject. The result was a correspondence between that officer and his excellency, followed by the Partial withdrawal of the Hya cinth. After the arrival of the Mor on the 15th of Feb ruary, the Hyacinth, it is stated, returned to her moorings in the inner roads. Up to the 21st, the day on which the Queen Mab sailed, the Chinese had not made the menaced attack on Captain Elliott and the English residents at Macao, where, the private accounts state, things remained much as they bad done for several weeks previous. The Moe, which sailed from Plymouth on the 24th of October, with despatches from the Government for Captain Elliot, arrived at Latao on the 15th of February, after a pas sage of 113 days. On the 20th, Mr. Robertson, who left London with despatches dated the 4th of November, and proceeded overland to Aden, arrived in the Ariel. ATTEMPT TO FORM A CHINESE NAVY. " The Admiral Kwan's ' victory at Chueupee, on the 3d of November last, over her Majesty's ships Votage and Hy acinth, in which these came away without the slightest hurt, whilst a number of junks were blown up, sunk, and destroy ed, seems to have led the Imperial Commissioner to the conviction, that if he should be obliged to report any more such victories to his Government, he will be left without a naval force ; and he has, therefore, it seems, determined on possessing himself of large foreign merchant-ships wherewith to oppose the English naval power. One ship, lately the Cambridge, now we believe the Chesapeake, under American colours, has already been purchased by the Chinese for 30,000 dollars, we hear ; in fact, her being allowed to enter the river at all, and dispose of her cargo, was, we are told, made con ditional on her sale. The Chinese are treating for the pur chase of other vessels likewise, and wished also to buy two Danish ships, the Danske Konge and Norden (late Vansittart and Mithras), but not being able to arrange matters to their satisfaction with the owner, the Imperial Commissioner has hit upon an easier mode of possessing himself of these ves sels, as will he seen from the edict, in which he decrees the confiscation of the Danse Konge for no oth. , r reaso❑ but that she has come to Whampoa without erasing from her stern her former name, although he confesses, in the same edict, that on application having been made for that vessel proceeding to W'hampoa, the circumstance of her change of ownership and flag had been stated. " The other vessel, the Norden, is confiscated, not because she had a wrong name at her stern, but because she had none at all, and this the Chinese discover now that they want the ship, though that same vessel, without a name on her stern, has often discharged and taken in cargo at Whampoa. These despotic and unprincipled acts of the Chinese, in making laws for the occasion, proves to us daily more the necessity there was for the foreign merchants, after their imprisonment, leaving Canton until their safety shall be mere guarantees which it may not be fir the power of a Chinese mandarin to break as caprice or avarice may prompt. " Besides the three ships, the Cambridge, Danske Konge, and Norden, several other large country ships, now under the American flag, are spoken of as likely to be bought by the Chinese, who have also been desirous to contract for the building of a number of gun-boats after European models. We hope they may succeed to make a respectable show of: fine vessels, and should it come to open war between China and England, congratulate the naval officers of the latter upon the event. " We hear it confidently stated that the imperial commis sioner Lin has been appointed to the government of the Kwangtung and Kwangsc provinces, and that Tang has been removed to that of Ytinnan 'and Kwichow. This appoint ment seems to indicate the confidence of the Pekin govern- Ment in the abilities of Lin for the suppression of the opium trade and the oppreision of foreigners." —Canton. Press. " . (From the Canton Register, of February 18.) " Canton, 15th February, 1840. "An edict from the Emperor was rebeived here on the 12th, inquiring of the local Government as to the policy of excluding the trade of all foreign nations without exception, and authorizing the. Governor to give effect to the interdict without referring to Peking, should he deem it politic to do so. But the most intelligent Chinese are of opinion, that there are too many opposing interests to admit of such course being adopted. - • " After the hong 'Merchants had settled for the purchase of the Danish ship Norden, for £45,000, the Government have receded from the bargain, on the ground of her not being worth so considerable a sum. It is thought in Canton they do not mean to persevere in their project ol'einploying foreign shipping." Lin has fallen from his high estate of High Commissioner, holding irresponsible power and the imperial seal, into the office of Governor of the two Kwang provinces. He re turned the seal to the Emperor by the hands of the late Go vernor, Tang. It is also said, that Tang will return to the "GoVernment Of Canton. •We cannot help suspecting a plan at Peking to entrap Lin into some further faux pas, by in - vesting him with the power of stopping the trade of all na tions'with China ; fur an account of Which wild measure see extract from . a letter from Canton further on. The Mor, Captain Adam Young, of about 405 tons, built by Messrs. Wigram and Green, expressly for sailing quali ties, Without reference to stowage, left Plymouth 24th Octo ber, and arrived off Latium on the 15th February, in 113 days, of Which 72 were to Java Head : sent out with Government "despatches,' which, with a few letters fur her consignees, were landed on Sunday. A boat has been sent. for the general packet = which is hourly expected. (Monday evening.) believed, on . the .best authority, that the • pUblie.de 'spatches bt the Mor confirm the propriety of Capt. Elliot's c'tOnductin•WithdraWing the British residents from''Canton, and doing all in his power to prevent their.return thither: . The instructions . are not pOsitive or definite ; but, if we can `'plate any reliance on what we hear, Captain Elliot's mea slues are generally supported by the Home Government. Nothing has . yet passed on the subjectuf the opium, the Go vernment awaiting the arrival of Captain Elliot's receipts for the drug surrendered to the Government of China. It is believed, that the management of the negotiations with China, under the authority of the Home Governnient, Will be confided to the'Governor.General of India. (From the Canton Press, of February 8) We fondly hoped, that though of late the imperial edicts and those from the provincial and local Chinese authorities have been many, that yet the Chinese New Year holydays would be allowed to pass over quietly without again actually annoying the British residents in Macao. This, however, was not to be. On Saturday last a new edict, which our readers will find in another column, was stuck on the walls, in which the Taou-tae, the newly arrived provincial officer, threatens Captain Elliot and six other British subjects with an attack upon their houses, and with forcible seizure of their persons, should they not obey the so often reiterated orders for their departure. The Taou-tae had, it was understood, previous to issuing this edict, gone to Heang-shan to spend the holydays, or to Canton to be present at the departure of the former and instalment of the present Governor of Kwang tung and Kwangse, and was not expected finally to take up his residence at Macao before the 20th day of the China Moon. Meanwhile, Captain Smith, of H. M. S. Volage, (as will be seen from the official correspondence which we have partly translated from 0 Portuyues na China, and of part of which copies have been kindly furnished us by Capt. Smith,) for the protection of the British residents thought it necessary, it being known that some Chinese troops had en tered the town on the night before, ou Tuesday last to move H. M. S. Hyacinth into the inner harbour, a proceeding which created great sensation among the Portuguese and the Chinese population, particularly amongst the Mandarins and Chinese soldiers, which latter, however, as will be seen from the correspondence already alluded to, were prevailed on, by the Portuguese authorities, to leave the town on the evening of the same day, and the quiet of the town was not interrupted then, nor has it suffered since the departure of the Hyacinth on the following morning. Being well aware of the peculiar circumstances in which the Macao Government is placed with that of China, we refrain from offering any comments on Captain Smith's proceedings, and the correspondence result ing from it, further than expressing our conviction, that the Macao authorities will faithfully and cheerfully give what protection they can to the British residents here, without drawing upon themselves the vengeance of the Chinese, who, by depriving the settlement of supplies, may at any time very seriously annoy the population. We have been favoured with the translation of another edict from Lin, High Imperial Commissioner and Governor. of Kwang-tung and Kwangse, ordering the foreign export trade to be so regulated that none of the foreign nations trading. with China be permitted to export m ore tea and rhubarb than they require for their own consumption, in order to prevent the possibility of their supplying - the English with these articles, and thus enable them to prolong their existence. If this new imperial order were acted upon, it cannot fail considerably to increase the difficulties of the trade at Canton, which, in fact, it seems to be the object of the Peking government to reduce to the smallest possible volume. In the meanwhile, the Canton authorities, much to the annoyance and loss of the Hong merchants, who hate to pay for them, we believe, continue teir endeavours to ob tain, by purchase or otherwise, foreign ships. They have al ready bought the Cambridge and the 'Norden, and another American ship also, we believe, nor have they as.yet, though we pqblished an edict to that effect last week, confiscated the Vansittart, and will probably also pay for her. What they will do for the manning of these ships remains to be seen. No American or European sailors will, we presume, be fool ish enough to enlist under Admiral Kwan's flag, and there are but very few Chinese at all acquainted with the handling and working foreign ships, nor will their own sailors, as we are assured on the experience of several commanders of ships, ever ascend higher than the maintop. The rumour of the expulsion from Canton of several Ame rican merchants, which was current here during the past week, has not been confirmed, and we may, therefore, now consider it As without foundation. The American vice-consul had sent a very humble petition to the High Commissioner, praying that his countrymen might be allowed to go to any market, and load cargo for Canton, giving them thus the opportunity of earning a little profit, for which they would he abundantly grateful." and actually offered to act as searcher, at Whaeapoa, for English goods, and to give a chop, under his. seal and office, as a proof of the case. We should think that the American go vernment would feel the humiliation of such an offer, and disapprove of this step on the part of their vice-consul, thus voluntarily placing the movements of their vessels under the control of the provincial government of Canton. It is well remarked by the Canton Register, that it is no part of a con sul's duty to become a searcher of the customs , or a police officer in the service of a foreign state. A-petition had been presented by the Dutch vice-consul in favour of the owner of a ship from Linstedt, who had signed the opium bond, and another had been forwarded from Captain Townes, who had also signed the bond, praying the Hoppa to giyeinstructions for allowing them to discharge.cargo, which petitions appear to have been remitted to the Hong m erchants, with instruc tions for them to apply for the opening of these vessels holds, in conformity with new regulations which had been issued by the Commissioner. The specie on board the American ships Ann, M`Kinn, Lintin, and Valparaiso, had been seized by the Hoppa, and i ns t ruc ti ons g i ven to issue goods of equal value to them in exchange. The whole winds up with a pro clamation from the Taoatae, intimating that he had received express orders from the high officers of government to col lect and array soldiers, and p rocee d t o Macao, and, taking Elliot and the others specified, surround and seize them one by on e ," It was reported that 2,000 soldiers were in march for M acao t o en f orce this proclamation, which had caused great excitement, and th e E ng li s h were beginning to take re fuge again on board their vessels. Four vessels were fitting out by the Chinese to act on the defensive against the British fleet. These vessels are British built, two of which, under American colours, had been pur chased by the Chinese, but the other two, under Danish co lours, they haa seized as above noticed. LIVERPOOL YOUNG MEN'S ESTABLISHED CHURCH SOCIETY. The half-yearly general meeting of the members of this useful and praiseworthy society was held in the Music-hall, Bold-street, on Friday evening. There was a numerous and highly-respectable auditory. On the-motion of Mr. Rowan, seconded by Mr. MAT THEWS, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., was called to the chair. The Rev. Mr. JAMES having supplicated the divine bless ing on the procedings, The CHAIRMAN then rose and said, that however long he might be disposed to occupy the attention of the meeting, he felt that he could not state the objects of the meeting more clearly than they had been defined in the excellent address which was issued by the committee in October last, wherein it was stated that the grand object was to disseminate amongst our young men information upon the principles of national establishments for religion, and thus make them intelligent defenders of, as well as devoted believers in, the faith they profess to hold. He was convinced that the more this information was disseminated, and the more the princi ples of our church were known, the greater would be the number of its defenders; and he felt assured that many who were now amongst its most inveterate enemies would thus become, as some had already done, its warmest and most devoted supporters. When he said this, he alluded not to those lay members of dissenting congregations who could pass unobserved from the chapel to the church ; but he spoke of those dissenting ministers, some of whom had already joined, and others were in course of joining, our national church. (Cheers.) And he believed that he was at liberty to state the fact, that during the past year no less than four teen or sixteen—he was not certain which—dissenting minis ters had applied to our own excellent bishop for episcopal ordination. (Much applause.) He felt that, in a meeting like the present, consisting chiefly of the members and friends of the Young Men's Established Church Society, it were needless for him to dwell either on the propriety or the principles of the national establishment; but, as a general principle, it was desirable at all times, when endeavouring to get others to co-operate with them in any undertaking, to show them the advantages to be attained ; and he thought that it would not be a difficult matter, at any time, for the members of that society to point out to others the advan tages of a national establishment, the first of which, that he would allude to, was the union that existed between church and state. (Hear, hear.) And in looking at this question, they ought to look at it in a double point of view. They must look at it as churchmen ; they must look at it as patriots; and while they might not acqui esce in the extravagant statements of the benefits said to be derived from the state by the church, yet, as patriots, they must acknowledge the great benefits which were derived by the state from the church. It carried out the great object of the union, as had been admirably and clearly stated by an eminent statesman, which was not to make the church poli tical, but to make the state religious. (Cheers.) Another advantage which he thought existed in our national establish.: ment, was that the church compelled her ministers to hold fast the form of sound words ; and although the most unfaith ful minister, or the most designing man, might by possibility find his way into the church, yet they had their beautiful liturgy by. which to test his conduct and his preaching. An other advantage of our national church was, that her rpem bers united in prayer, Sabbath after Sabbath, for our Queen, our country, and our church, thus keeping alive the princi ples of loyalty, of patriotism, and of chtirchmanism. (Cheers.) And although it might be an easy matter to enlarge on this subject, he should only mention one circumstance, to show the desirableneas of keeping these feelings alive. It was a fact, already publicly stated, that in the recent insurrection in Canada, there was not found among the prisoners, or among those known to the rebels, a single member of the national church. (Cheers.) It was not, however, sufficient to be satisfied with knowing and making known the advan tages of the established Church of England; but he trusted that it would ever be the object of that society to make known, as opportunity offered, the destitution of many of the poorer members of the church, in different parts of the coun try. On a former occasion, in that room, he took the op portunity of pointing out the want of church accommodation and pastoral superintendence in that partof South Wales where the recent Chartist disturbances took place, and although such statements might be out of the province of the chairman of that meeting, he begged for its indulgence while he.referred for a moment to that part of North Wales where the Chartisi dis turbances took place, in order to substantiate the opinion he then' expressed, and in which he had been more and more confirmed, that the insurrection and insubordination arose in a great degree from the want of church accommodation and pastoral superintendence. In the two parishes of North WaleS where the Chartist disturbances took place, Llanidloes and Newtown, there was a great want of church accommo dation and pastoral superintendence. In the former, a pa rish 12 or 13 miles in length, by four or five in breadth, and containing a population of about 5000 souls, there was but one clergyman, and one church capable of holding but 500 persons, with but 30 free sittings. (Hear, hear.) In the parish of Newtown, with a population of 9000 souls, there was also but one church capable of containing 500 persons ; and although it was in contemplation to erect another in that parish, yet in neither one nor the other s parish was there a national school. (Hear, hear.) If they wished to come nearer home, and ascertain the state-of things, it was only necessary to refer to the statistical documents which had. been issued, showing the state of the population in this county. It was said that in the 130 years antecedent tothe last.census, which was taken in 1831, the increase of population ntLngland, including the agricultural districts, • had been at...the rate of 135 per cent. ; in the mining and manufacturing districts, the increase had been 300 per cent. ; and in Lancashire, our county, 800 per cent. Now, with such an increase of popu lation as this, he should like to know what they?lad all done, voluntaries and churchmen, in providing for the spiritual wants of the people ; and it ought to be bonne in mind that since then (1831) the population had increased one million and a half. How could they be surprised at insurrectionary. movements, or anything else, taking place in any.paitof the country, while - such a state of things as this existed? It was not his intention, however, to dwell .aray.fartheS op this sub ject. (The speaker sat down amidst loud applzmse.), The Rev. WILLIAM FALLOON ,move-tile first resolution. In the absence of those who were betterqiudified tti s adsocate the cause in hand, he had consented willinglyi as ,regarded his holy office in the establishment, but unwillingly- as re garded himself individually, to take part in the proceedings of the evening. So long as he found it written his Bible, " Quit you like men. and be strong ;" scelong as lie found it written upon the pages of inspiration as a commission for those who stood upon thewalls of Zion; to. pry aloud_ and spare - not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew . my people their yansgressiOn solongaslielbund it written in the New Testament; " Whosoever shall be ashamed ofJiae and - nay word in this sinful and adulterous generation s :of him_ 'also will Ibe ashamed when-I come with my father in great So long' as `he fotincL these words in the pages s of. his Bible, so long must he consider -indifference to be desertion. 'from the banners of Christ... (Hear.) It was upon these . grounds and these alone that he had consented to speak. to the first resolution; which Was "that this meeting, loviniAte Church of England because-of her _scriptural character and the national pledge which.:she offers of our adherence to christianity, and considering she has been, tinder" God, the means of securing to England the unemampled. prosperity en joyed by her for the last three hundrad years, cannot but feel surprise (the rev. gentleman read; regret). and sorrow at the incessant efforts of her enemies to injure her." He gladly responded to the sentiments of this resolution. It contained several factsfirst, that it ivaScescripturalschurch, founded upon the word of God alone, being. so 'founded it must be a national blessing, and being sis estaislishadlapon the basis of the scriptures, it could put forward no other pledge' but a pledge of security to the nation. 'Now, the.pledgeOur thumb , offered was a pledge of national adherence Ito christianitys - The next fact was that a church so founded, offering such a pledge must, by maintaining the doctrines upon Which she. was based, by maintaining the glorious gospel of - the grace of God,—that church, so maintained and established in any country, must secure prosperity to that country: Therefore, in the words of the resolution, we. acknowledged - our belief that, under God, the Church of England had been the means of securing the prosperity enjoyed by this country for the last three hundred years. Feeling, then, our hearts embued with love to our. glorious establishment, loving her not for the sake of the loaves and fishes, but because she had the sninci plea of eternal truth enlivened and preached within her walls, we could not but feel regret' and sorrow at the incessant ef forts made by her enemies to injure her. To give a brief sketch of the history of the church. We found that, imme diately after man had apostatized, a witness for truth sprung up in the person of Abel, and the character of Abel was the ' character of the church from that moment to the present. It was by faith that he was enabled to offer up a more accepta ble sacrifice than Cain. Abel, in his experience, exhibited a feature which had characterized the church to this moment. He was persecuted and condemned ; lie was murdered by Cain the apostate, thereby embodying in his own person the Christian character of the church, and in his experience and final end, the circumstances of an apostate church, which was always unscriptu sal. A church that stood fast upon its principles and to the gospel must always be - . persecuted. (Hear.) 'From that moment the principles of truth were carried forward by indi viduals, each individual being a link in the chain ; they spread it into families. There were witnesses for God even in those times, and so the worship of God spread on from family to family, till the family which had it most eminently within them were made bond slaves in Egypt ; in the metropolis of idolatry. There a great number apostasized, but there were a few witnesses for Jehovah among them ; and after enduring slavery for five hundred years they cried to God; lie heard their cry, and sent help to rescue them. He sent them help by 'Moses ; and after hearing with them through the wilder ness, and with their ingratitude, he at last brought the seed of Jacob into the possession of the promised land. There they flourished ; the heathen were driven out ; the worship of God became the established religion ; and so long as the worship of the true God was maintained, so long prosperity rested with that nation. Herein we saw the Old Testament instructing us, and upon this ground we stood now in de fence of an Established Church. Whilst David was their king the • might have vied with any nation in the world, though at first they were but a handful, because they main tained their allegiance to God, and because they worshipped only the true God. But woe unto apostacy! David was gathered to his fathers, Solomon, his son, reigned in his stead. Fora time he stood fast, but strange women were brought in ; they were idolatrous women, and brought idolatry into the palace : the king became infected with idolatry, the nation 'caught the infection from the king ; idolotry was maintained, temples were built to idols, the worship of the true God declined, and from that moment away went the nation's blessing. God gave them up to their enemies ; the nations around came and carried them into captivity. Thus the nation became captive and enslaved when idolatry came in. (Hear, hear.) This history was in structive to us. Paul said. " hat is written aforetime is for our instruction," and these things were written that we might read and understand. (Hear, hear.) When that people were in affliction they began to seek their God again; they sighed for the days of their fathers, for the glorious tittles of liberty, for the glorious temple wherein they had worshipped the God of their fathers ; they felt the thraldom of a degrading superstition ; their sighs ascended to God ; the Lord heard them, and he put it into the heart of an earthly monarch that Jerusalem should be rebuilt, and free doom given to the Israelites to return to their own land. They returned ; the temple service was renewed ; but after a short time hypocrisy in worship succeeded. There was nothing but the outward form of worship ; nothing but the coldheartedness of discipline. The spirit of love was not there. Here and there were some few witnesses for God, but in general there was nothing but coldness and heartlessness, till at last the time for the change of dispensation came, and then the truth was to go forward iu brightness and glory. It was amidst this universal darkness that the star of Bethlehem arose. The meeting knew how he and the apos tles were insulted and despised ; they had the whole Jewish priesthood against them; they. had the rulers of the nation their enemies ; in the latter days the whole Roman power leagued itself against them, and the neighbouring nations, forgetting their differences, joined with the Roman power against them, so that the whole world was opposed to this little baud, who were anxious to maintain the truth. On they went. They protested against the errors of the day ; they broke through the craft of hypocrisy ; they maintained that the light had gone out, and that they had come to re kindle it. They were, in consequence, brought before kings and rulers; they bore imprisonments and inflictions without number, vet on they went maintaining their opinions, con sistently protesting against the errors of the day. They preached the Gospel, and the word of God prevailed. Now, although it began with such a small beginning, yet the power of truth overspread the country ; there were many faithful witnesses for the truth ; and after the lapse of four hundred centuries paganism was banished, and christianity once again appeared dominant in our land. But, as usual, after all these revivals, there succeeded a calm, christianity became languid and seemed to die away. There were a few witnesses for truth here and there; gross darkness seemed to enshroud' the land. Pagan Rome became papal Rome; the Pope took the chair ; he ruled the victory, and once again the light seemed to be put out. But a monk in his cell met with a dusty folio. It was the Bible, and it was Luther who was reading it. (Cheers.) He found by it how far the nations had departed from God. He raised his voice in words of power; he spoke against the idolatry of the land, and against the coarse superstition that had put out the truth. He revived the doctrines of the cross ; he declared that all ' images should be cast down, and the Lord alone be exalted ; he maintained in his latter days, that he who sat upon the chair at Rome, was a usurper and Auto-Christ. (Cheers.) That voice increased ; the mighty echo swelled, for salvation was upon it, and men felt the comfort of the liberty of the gospel : they felt the thraldom of papal Rome ; the little band swelled into a multitude ; the voice of the gospel reached England, and Risme tottered to its base at its pro clamation. (Loud cheering.) Then came a noble band of men forward in defence of the truth, they watered the plains with their blood ; they gave their bodies to be burned in Smithfield. (Cheers.) The blood of the martyrs proved the seed of the church ; the seed flourished ' • it rose and brought forth fruit ; and the word of God, and the gospel of Jesus Christ became once again established in this kingdom. (Hear.) But, again, after all this trouble and exertion, there came a coldness. The violent protesters fell asleep, and again coldness began to gather, Romanism remained quiet for a long time—for so long as the truth prevailed, popery was dormant—but its evil workings were going forward ; as the gospel declined in the pulpits, so cold morality succeeded; and as many seized upon livings for the sake of the loaves and fishes, more than from the love of souls, Romanism began to usurp its place. The church became fractured in • her powers, and popery seemed to flourish for a season. Now he dated the progress of all dissent from the moment that coldness succeeded the doctrines of Jesus Christ. From that moment Arianism, Socinianism, and all the various forms of dissent began to take the place the church should have held. We could not wonder, so long as the church did not take her place, that dissent should spread ; but the church having slept her sleep, she seemed to have awoke as a giant re freshed with wine. Our Zion seemed to have put on her beautiful garmebts; she was now appearing in her strength, and could we be surprised that these upstart sects—and this whilst she slept—should start forth in opposition to her? We could discover the spirit of some of this opposition ; it seemed not tO be an honest desire for the glory of Jesus Christ, or for the spread of the gospel, or else why did they not protest against the established church whilst she was asleep? (Cheers.) Then they were all quiet; they were gathering their own strength. The church was at peace, doing little good or little evil, she was not exerting herself as she ought, he grieved to say ; but was it the part of a true friend to hide her faults? But now when she did take her place and boldly stood forward as the national bulwark, when she entered her most solemn protest against the usurpatibn of a foreign tyranny—for the Church of England was the protesting church of this land. (Hear.) When she seemed to raise her voice preeminently (he would not say exclusively) against the beast ; all their energies were roused against her, and they cried " Down with her, down with her even to the ground." (Cheers.) In all this we saw it was not the love of the truth that actuated them, or why not join the Church of England in the noble tight? Here we saw the lurking jealousy that existed against the establishment. In all this he saw nothing good. (Hear.) He saw nothing but that restless spirit of democracy which would exalt itself above God himself, and which would establish itself; he saw not in it the spirit of truth, or an honest desire to spread the knowledge of Jesus Christ. They put us upon our defence : we were therefore obliged to band ourselves together and to form these societies, to maintain the principles of the church 'by which we would stand, or by which we were determined to fall. (Cheers.) It was not because the church was esta blished that we defended her, but because she contained within her the pearl of great price. Upon these grounds alone—upon the scriptural character of the Church of Eng land, we loved her, and belived that she had been the means of giving to England the unexampled prosperity she had en joyed. The rev. gent. concluded by moving the resolution. The Rev. Dr. TATFERSHALL rose to second • the resolu• Lion. It was with much pleasure that he came forward to take some part in the proceedings of this evening. He felt it a privilege to have this repeated opportunity, after havii g expressed his sentiments with reference to the design and constitution of the society at a former meeting, of giving ut terance to •the same approbation, and of declaring to them again how grateful he felt to Almighty God that lie had put it into their hearts to associate together for the purpose fcr which the society had teen established. He could indeed have rejoiced greatly had there been no occasion for any as sociation of this nature, and had the cause not arisen which made it necessary that they should associate as a society in &fence of the Established Church. Such occasion, however, had arisen. We were not the aggressors. Other associa tions had been formed with a view 'of assailing the Esta blished Church with, as we believed, so little reason iu their nature, that it became a sacred duty which we owed to our, selves, to the Church, and to the Great Head of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ, not to be backward to defend that sacred institution of which Ile was the Head, and which was constituted upon the model which He had handed down, through the instrumentality of-His inspired servants, to us. (Applause.) It would not be 'necessary to go in detail through all the particulars of the resolution which had been so ably commended to their attention, but he would venture tO make one or two remarks with regard to some of those, particulars. He might, however, observe, that he felt strongly, and was gratified to hear, the remark of his reve rend brother with reference to a clause at the close of the re solution. He had intended to have made a similar remark himself; but he was happy to unite in the views just ex, pressed, and to approve of the alteration of the word " sur prise" to " regret." He did not feel surprise, though he might feel sorrow, at the endeavours of the enemies ot , the Church to injure her. His surprise was that any who called themselves Christians, and who professed to be actuated by the love of God, and by zeal for the salvation of souls, should ,146 - the enemies of the Church of Ehgland. (Cheers.) But, being enemies, be Was not surprised that they should endea vour to injure her; he Was only sbrry they should continue to walk in that enmity against the church, and, as he believed, .against the interests of religion, which was so much in ac cordancewith the interests of the adversary who " goes about as a roaring lion, seeking . whom he may devour." . The re solution said, in effect, that they (the Society) loved the Church of England.. -They had good reason to love the Church of England. But love was sometimes established upon very different principles. There was love founded upon prejudice, and love from impulse ; but neither of these were of great value, as they had in them little or nothirig Of the principle of permanency. We were . COMManded to love God ' with all our heart, with all our soul,' and with all our strength"—with an intelligent ns - Well as a fervent affection. We ought_ to know the reason why we loved the Church ; and in proportion as out love was founded upon settled and well-understood grounds, we had a pledge that that Wye would be permanent and utficacimis.• Now there were assigned in the resolution good, ailid•suffieient , reasons why they should iese the .Church of I:iigland. In adopting the resolution they 4clared they loved her for her scriptural character— tlaat,was:dhe supposed, for her scriptural doctrines, and her scriptural constitution. These were very weighty words. (Bear, hear.), To say they loved her for her scriptural cha racter and •doctrines was to convey a great deal of meaning; .ar.d he hoped,. therefore, that the adoption of these words would befelt to have a great and a strong meaning. (Cheers.) They were not mere words of course. If they loved the Church upon account of her scriptural doctrines, let them re member that those doctrines were not flattering doctrines. We were'- reminded in the doctrines of the Church of Eng-- land of our own fallen condition by nature, and of the utter impossibilits4y,an s y,process of our own of turning ourselves to God.- (Hoar.) The doctrines of the Church of England were not deceptive doctrines : they did not teach us to look -to any works or righteousness' of our own as the ground of our acceptance with God. The doctrines of the Church of Englatid.were designed distinctly to point out exclusively the Lord Jesus Christ as the only source of righteousness and strength.: The doctrines of the Church of England directed us to look for the spirit of holiness as the only source from which we might derive that grace by means of which we might walk before God holy and acceptable all the days of our 'lives. To say that they loved her upon account of her 'scriptural character, was to say that they loved her because they loved her teachings, because they loved to be faithfully and plainly dealt with, because they believed her to speak ac cording to the oracles of truth, and able to direct them safely into the way of holiness and into the way of heaven. (Hear.) If such were really the ground and basis of their love for the Church of England, lie need not say there was in it an assu rance that their love would be permanent, and that as day by day they appreciated the benefits of her spiritual influence and services, so day by day would their love of the Church of England increase, and with it their desire for her per manency increase also. (Cheers.) The resolution also said they loved the Church of England on account of the national pledge she offered of our adherence to christianity. He would venture another slight correction upon the phrase ology of this part of the resolution. He felt strongly that a distinction should be drawn bet Ween christianity and every mere pretence to christianity, and therefore he would beg to insert the word " pure" before the word "christianity." (Cheers.) They loved the Church of England then because she offered a pledge of our adherence to pure christianity, to primitive christianity, to christianity unalloyed, and to chris tianity unmutilated. (Cheers.) Reference had been ably made to the corrupt forms of christianity. It waa not neces sary he should go over that ground again; but he must say that it was the glory of the Church of England that she stood forward as the bulwark of pure christianity. (Hear, hear.) When we considered ourselves as an established church, it was the glory of our country that we held our position as an established church upon the very ground of protesting against all the corruptions of christianity. (Hear.) The very rea son why we were an established church was because we protested against the errors of the Church of Rome ; and if it had not been for that we should not have been an esta blished church. (Cheers.) Before he sat down he would beg leave to mention one thing in which this Young Men's Society might shew in a practical and useful manner their regard for the Church of England. There was a society, a branch of which was established in this town, which if any other deserved that character, might be well described as purely a church society—a society for distributing the prayer book and homilies of the Church of England, and especially for distributing those formularies - Of the Church of England, among a class of individuals difficult to reach, and to whom, it was to be feared, but very little attention was paid—he meant the seafaring population of the port, to whom, it was needless to say, this town was very much indebted. The Prayer-book and Homily Society had had an auxiliary in this town for some years, although it had not attracted the notice or received that support which its necessities required and its objedts deServed. (Hear.) There was an agency in this town to. visit the shipping., and dispose of copies of the prayer bock and homilies to as many seamen as were willing to pur chase them at a cheap rate, but its efforts were greatly crippled by the want of sufficient means. Now he could scarcely imagine any object more completely in unison with the spirit of the Young Men's Established Church Society, than to take that society in hand, to help it forward, and so practically to shew their attachment to the formularies of the Church of England, in fact, in this respect as well as in a more solemn one, to shew their faith by their works. (Hear.) Most happy should he be if the Young Men's Established Church Society would consider this hint. If that were the case, if they resolved to take that society by the hand, and if each individual member would make it convenient either to contribute or raise by contributions among their friends only five shillings a year, they would benefit the funds, and promote the efficiency of the institution to a very great extent. (Hear.) With these remarks he begged to second the resolution.— The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The Rev. THOMAS IVPGILL moved the second resolution, " That this meeting, feeling grateful to Almighty God for the success he has been pleased to vouchsafe to the attempts made by this and similar societies to rouse the energies of church men, pledge themselves to increased exertion in the sacred cause they have united to support." lie was very glad to discover so, wise a sentiment in the hearts of this society, as an expression that the blessing which God had conferred upon this and other similar institutions, was not to be the cause of lukewarmness on their part, but of increased and renewed exertion. There was in this a good scriptural feel ing, namely, that we should show forth our gratitude, not in in our words, but in our works. Some kind of apology had been made by the gentleman who had preceded him for com ing forward to support this society. He called it apology, because although, as ministers of the church, they, of course, must belong to every institution which had for its object the support of that church, yet for himself, and for his reverend brethren, he might say that nothing would induce them to appear on that platform if they did not see in the object the means of promoting the knowledge of that glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which was committed to the care, the custody, and to the protection of our venerable church. (Cheers.) All political triumphs, all polemical achievements, all party victories, must ever sink in compari son with that great victory which it was the chief end and the chief glory of every Christian minister to attain. (Hear, hear.) He felt, however highly they might vindicate the ho nour of the church, however highly they might recommend her to the affections of the people, all would fall short it they failed to win, by those victories, many souls to the allegiance and love of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Hum) Let not the meeting think they were altogether without danger of fall ing into some error like this. We lived in days of agi tation, of excitement, of strong party feeling, when we were apt to mistake sentiment for principle, and enthu siasm for right-minded working ; we were apt to be car ried away by these kind .of impressions, and consequently they made him more anxious to win souls to Christ, more anxious to extend the boundaries of his kingdom. His young friends, therefore, must not find fault with their mi nisters if they occasionally ventured to remind them that there was great responsibility .attaching to them and to their body, by associating themselves together for so high a cause as the protection and .:support of the Church of Eng land. In that object was enshrined all that ought to be most dear to them as immortal beings; the salvation of souls, their present and eternal welfare were indissolubly connected with the Church of England. (Hear.) He beseeched them then, by the tenderest recollections, to remember that they professed and called themselves Christians ; he beseeched them by the remembrance of their fathers and mothers who had departed, and who were now bending an anxious eye upon the children they had left; he beseeched them by the waters of baptism, to be trot first to the Lord Jesus Christ, and then they would be true to the Church of England. (Cheers.) They were placed in a peculiar position. Whilst they had associated themselves together for the maintenance of the highest principles of man, they were necessarily placed in some sort of opposition to many of their fellow subjects. It was- wise for them to consider that some of their fellow subjects to whom they were now opposed, were for a long time distinguished fer their faithful adherence to the true principles of the Gospel—he meant the Protestant Dissenters of England, who for a long time fanned the flame of truth in this country, and who kept alive the spirit of true religion when it was neglected by churchmen. (Hear.) Although now this society was politically opposed to them, let us look back at what they had done in England, and learn therefrom what we had to do. (Hear.) The meeting would remember that for a long time the church was lukewarm and cold, but there was throughout England kept alive a true evangelical spirit among the dissenters. (Hear.) In their attachment to the church let the society never forget this—that what rallied round the dissenters multitudes of our fellow-subjects was, not the antiquity, not the sanctity, not the outward cir cumstances in which they were placed, not any authority delegated to them, or the recognition of them by the state, but solely the pure preaching of the word of God. Let them remember, too, that the church defined in her articles what she meant by the term church—" a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure word of God is preached and the sacrament duly administered :" they would observe also, in looking overthehistory of the country, that we never progressed as a church but when we had the pure word of God conjoined with the due administration of the sacaraments. Now the dissenters preached the pure word of God, but they could not duly administer the sacraments. (Hear, hear.) The church of this day represented, in the most perfect manner, the actual form of a Christian church as laid down in her articles ; in her the pure word of God was •preached and the sacraments duly administered, and so long as these two things were kept together she must prevail. (Cheers.) She had what Popery pretended to have, the right to administer the sacraments ; and she had, what popery never yet had, a pure preaching of of the words of eternal life. (Cheers.) But we never were in the midst of any prosperity or great blessing, hut God tried our activity and watchfulness by bringing evils along with those blessings ; we were never allowed to sleep whilst things were going on well, lest we should become careless in our remem brance of Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift. At the present time, .when we rejoiced in seeing our church maintain the character of a Christian church, many of its ministers were giving an undue weight to the administration of the sacraments, and, he feared, neglecting the preaching of the word. He made this remark with caution, but he felt it imperatively necessary to make it for the guidance of the society, as it was among the young that there was an active attempt being made to disseminate these principles. He had sometimes of late had an opportunity, or rather he had been called upon, to enter into some churches which he had after wards left with deep sorrow, and for which he had most fer vently prayed God that he would he pleased to look upon them with compassion, and that he would kindle as with a coal from the altar, the true spirit of love to our Lord Jesus Christ, where at present all was coldness, dullness, and death. 0, he felt his heart sink within him, when he entered into one of those gorgeous temples, originally dedicated to the worship of God and the service of Christ, where there was a drowsy preacher, an insensible reader (not prayer) of the prayers, where there was none of that heart touching melody which rose upon the wings of grateful praise and thanksgiving to God, where all was insensible .and lifeless, and where the hungry sheep were looking up in vain for the-preaching of the words of eternal life ! He prayed with them, but when he left that place of worship he felt inclined to write upon the door—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians—by this craft we live." There was a great deal of that in it. He could not think he was in the Church of England when he went into these places ; and when. he looked into her li turgy and articles, he found reason to believe that there the Word of God was not preached, though the sacraments were duly, administered. There was the authorised minister of Christ ; there *as the due celebration of the sacraments ; there was the due performance of public worship—he begged pardon for calling it " the performance," but the term ap plied in this case ;—and there was not that heartfelt, heart searching appeal to the hearts of sinners, upon the subject most near and most dear to their immortal souls. This had been the case for a long time ; there was nothing new in it, he was sorry to say; but .the persons he Mentioned a short time ago, as endeavouring to put the administration of the sacraments. above the preaching of the Word; found support in these Places. Those lukewarm people who took upon themselves the name of high churchmen jumped at these Oxford doctrines ; they said, " To be sure we hold apostolic doctrine—we have always held that ;" and thus the offl party,, who. were by degrees becoming evangelical, had gone back,. They had found supporters in high places. Do not let them find any supporters among .this society. (Hear. hear.) If the society lent them their support, they would flourish : if they discountenanced them, they must fall to the ground. (Hear.) They looked to the peop . le for support, and, if they got support froth the people, the evil which had been introduced among us now would be perpetuated for generations to come. But it the young men, the forlorn hope of this generation, should withstand all attempts to foist upon them these old, musty, mouldy principles, we Should get rid of them for ever. (Cheers.) Much as we might la ment, that many of the old ministers were renewing their youth in this respect, it %Vas still more deplorable to know that many of our young divines, now coming forth as autho rised ministers of Christ, were very fondof these doctrines. He was sorry to find this the case, because lie had studied and knew what the articles Of the church were, and how Much these men must differ from them upon the all-weighty Concern of preaching the anis ea rchable r ich e s of Christ. He did not, however, wish the meeting to run away with the idea that there was nothing good or nothing worth in the opinions of these men. No; we must 'read and consider ; and he had no doubt they would be led themselves after wards to confess that many of the points they had advanced they had carried too far. Thus we should get rid of the chaff, and secure the wheat. The resolution mentioned that they had pledged themselves to increase their energies; and Dr. Tattershall had taken some of his ground away from him, for he intended to have suggested their union with that excellent society whose object was the dissemination of the Homilies and the Book of Common Prayer. He would only add a hope that every member of this society possessed a copy of the Homilies. He knew that some of them did not, but they ought to do. The Homilies were the text-book of the church. There we got our strength when we wished to know the church's doctrines; we were sure to find them in the Homilies, and if we read those Homilies with a desire to understand the mind of the church, he was sure we should find 'it. They were without excuse in not having copies of them, for they were sold at a very low price indeed. The rev. gentleman-then concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. JAMES MATTHEWS seconded the resolution in an appropriate speech, in the course of which he pointed out the evils of popery and socialism, and called upon the meet ing to be earnest in supporting the church. One of the ob jects of the society as expressed in the-original address, was the formation of a library. He was happy to say that a library had now been formed; and he had been requested to state that it would be opened in the course of next week. It would be lodged in Mr. Crisp's office in Church-street. The resolution was carried. • Mr. MOORE moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman. In that gentleman the meeting saw the successful opponent to an attempt made in this town to promote the public dese cration of the Sabbath. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Row Err seconded the resolution, and it was carried by acclamation. Mr. HORSFALL assured the meeting that he felt deeply grateful for the mark of their kindness which had been just exhibited. He would rather avoid any reference to himself further than to say, with regard to what had fallen from the gentleman who moved the resolution, that in doing what he had with regard to the desecration of the Sabbath, or in en tering his protest against what he conceived to be an act of desecration, be only did what be conceived to be his duty. (Hear.) Hei only did what he was sure, from the expression of feeling he had just witnessed, every other individual in that room would have done had he been similarly situated. The hour was now late •, there were yet some details of busi ness to be gone through, and lie would only detain the meet ing one moment further, just to remind them of the substance of the two resolutions they had adopted. The first was an expression of love and attachment to their church. He hoped that upon all occasions when we felt called upon to express our love and attachment, we should be careful of exhibiting any want of love towards those who were not members of our church. (Hear.) The second resolution was a practical one, and they had pledged themselves by it to increased exer tions in the sacred cause they had united to s upport. Dr. Tattershall had stated one way in which they might exhibit their increased exertions, and that was by giving aid to a most valuable, and useful, and scriptural establishment in this town—the Prayer Book and Homily Society. (Hear.) He would only add to that the expression of his earnest hope that the society would most cordially respond to that call, and that they would, as churchmen and as members of society, not only give their support to that society. but to every so ciety in connection with the established church of this land. (Cheers.) The meeting then separated. Several persons in Ennis have suffered from using flour (thirds) with which it is supposed rye was mixed. They at first complained of dizziness and partial loss of vision, in some instances vomiting, &c., followed. Flour adulterated in this manner might lead to serious consequences, which could not be too cautiously guarded against. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, GREENOCK, AND AYR RAILWAY. —The tunnel at Arkelston, is now sufficiently excavated to allow a passage for a locomotive engine. On Saturday last, the one built by Messrs. Barr and M`Nab, and placed a few months since on the railway to the eastward, was pushed through, and on Tuesday arrived at the depot here. As this was the first time a locomotive engine had crossed the Cart, and reached the centre of the town, her appearance excited rather a sensation among the spectators. She has since been employed daily, and facilitates the work to a great extent. The building for the various offices is nearly at its full height, and will be ready for the roof in a few days. It is altogether a very handsome building. It is of the same turreted style of architecture as the County Buildings, with which it agreeably harmonises. The Directors, we under stand, are sanguine as to the opening of the communication between Glasgow and Paisley very early next month. Paisley Advertiser. ELorEmENT.—Wednesday night an elopement took place from the quiet and ancient town of Caerleon. Thus rglo the tale :—A certain master-builder, of soft and persuasiv e manners, had long paid his devoirs to one of those young and beautiful damsels who bloom so plenteously in the plea sant town of Caerleon. The fair beauty, captivated by the blandness and affection of her swain, reciprocated the sweet passion, and vowed to be his only. But " fathers have flint/ hearts." The wooings of the enamoured lovers were disco vered, and a careful restraint placed over the actions of the young lady. Being driven to determine, since parental au thority was so rigidly interposed, the gallant Lothario cured a stolen interview with his inamorata, her to elopehaving got possession of a hon . .rshe al a"a Per' stave ladder, it was fixed against the window, down most flew from her chamber, and fell breathlesswhl' ' into her •rriage hard lover's arms, who bore her triumphantly to by, and bade the post-boy drive like wind been disco toavreta3rds the Old Passage, beyond which no trace of them has ye . . disco" 0 , loving lovers vered ; but there is no doubt that " the youn_. - have, ere this, pledged their vows of deathless contancy at the altar of H ymen. —Merlin.