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

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. MRS. RAYMOND'S , ON MONDAY NEXT , the 9th, and BENEFIT TUESDAY, the 10th March instant. GREATEST NOVELTY 01? THE SEASON. TWO NEW DRAMAS. First Nights - of the Representation of a New Adaptation, expressly arranged for this Theatre, entitled THE FATAL SECRET ! which will incl u d e th e entire strength o f t h e C ompany . First Nights of a New Drama, in One Act, Translated from the French of Mons. Scribe, by Mrp. Raymond, entitled MY UNCLE'S \' ILL ! LAST TWO NIGHTS OF Mr. J. L. HATTON. First Appearance at this Theatre of Mr. BLANCHARD, the Popular Pantomimist. First Appearance these Sig Years of Mr. CONEY AND HIS CELEBRATED DOGS. Mr. RAYMOND'S SIXTH APPEARANCE THIS . - SEASON. The Favourite Melo-Drama, called THE' FOREST OF BONDY. The extraordinary Feats of the celebrated Dog Dragon, the same splendid Animal who saved the Life of a Child, of Tea Years of Age, in the month of July last, in the Ser inpentine River. Raymond, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. C. F. Marshall, Mrs. Raymond, Mr s . B arton , Mi ss B a ldi e , i n th e O pen i ng n_ e Drama for th e fi rs t ti me . Evening's Entertainments will commence with a New Adaptation of a Popular Drama, in Three Acts, arranged expressly for this Theatre, entitled - THE FATAL SECRET; Or, False Nobility. Mr. Patrick Fitzpatrick Mr. Raymond. Sir Willi am W rang l e Mr. Tilbury. Ass 'W rangle MN. Raymond. After which Mr. J. L. HATTON will Sing the favourite • Italian Buffo Song, „„ Accompanied by hi mse lf on th e Pi ano -f or t e , Largo Al Factotum, from the Opera of 11Barbiere di Seviglia. Mr. F. Gardner will Sing, " What will a' the Lads do ?" Composed by Mr. Alexander Lee, „,r. Accompanied by hi mse lf on th e Piano-forte. J. L. HATTON will sing the Comic Anatomy Song. Misses THOMASSIN and LIDI.k will Dance the admired Futile Dance, arranged for them from the Opera of Gustavus 111. Madlle. CHEVALLIER will Dance a favourite Pas Sent. To which will be added, for the first time at this Theatre, a new Dramatic Sketch, in One Act, translated from the French, by Mrs. Raymond, for this occasion, entitled MY. UNCLE'S WILL; Or, a Wager for Love. Mon's, D'Egville, (a rich old B achelor, and Guardian to Eintneline,) Mr. Tilbury ; Emmeline de Beaulieu, (a young Widow,) Mrs. Raymond. fter whic, Madem o i s ell e ChevallierA will Danc h e an Admired Pas Seul. Mr. MUNGALL will appear in his JocKv HORNPIPE, and Mr. Siirrn will Dance a New GROTESQUE. DANCE. To conclude with the celebrated Melo-drama, not acted here these Six Years, entitled THE FOREST OF BONDY; Or, the Dog of Montargis. Captain Aubri, Mr. Blanchard ; Laundry, (as acted by Lim at several of the London Theatres,) Mr. Coney ; Dra gon, by the Dog , Hector; Ursula, Miss Baldie. • In the course of the Drama, A GRAND MILITARY DIVERTISEMENT, In which Misses Thomassin and Lidia will appear. Tickets and places for the Boxes may be had of Mr. BkEzE, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Three, and at the usual places. Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, Gd. Second Price at Half-past Eight. Boxes. 2s ; Pit, Is. No Second Price to the Gallery. Doors to be Open at Half-past Six o' ClOck, - performanee to commence at Seven precisely. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. LAST SIX NIGHTS OF JACK SHEPPARD. MRS. RAYMOND. Mr. J. L. HATTON'S LAST WEEK. Mr. RAYMOND. his fifth appearance this Season. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 3rd, TO MORROW, the 4th, and THURSDAY, the s th of March inst an t, th e Evening's Entertainments will commence with (first time) a Drama of intense interest, by the Author St. Mary's Eve," " The. Farmer's Story,' " Lucille," C., Performed with the greatest success at therheatre "oYal, Adelphi, entitled A .MAIDEN'S FAME; OR, A LEGEND OF LISBON. Count D'Alfarache, Mr. Tilbury ; Paquita, Mrs. Raymond. In the course of the Drama, Misses Thomassin and Lidia will dance the SPANISH BOLERO. Mr. Smith will appear in a Grotesque Dance. Madlle. Chevallier will dance an admired PAS SEUL. To which will be added, a new laughable Interlude, translated • from the French, called BAILIFFS AND BLUNDERS ; Or, the Fancy Ball. Captain O'Didymus, Mr. Raymond. Misses Thomassin and Lidia will dance their admired SCOTCH MEDLEY. Madlle. Chevalier will appear in one of her most popular Dances. The whole to conclude with the celebrated Historical Drama of JACK SHEPPARD, THE HOUSEBREAKER OF 1703. Owen Wood, Mr. Tilbury ; Jack Sheppard, Mrs. Barton. Joe Blueskin, Mr. J. L. Hatton, In whi c h c h aracter he will sing " The Jolly Nose," " Now Farewell, my Rowry Towries," and the Chorus " Nix my Dolly, Pals, fake away." Mr. CONEY and his celebrated DOGS, from several of the London Theatres, are engaged, and will appear in the course of a few nights. Tickets and places for the Boxes may be had of Mr. Burze, at the Box-office, from Eleven till Three o'Clock. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 23. ; Gallery 6d. Second Pri ce a t H a lf -pas t Eight : Boxes, 2 s , ; Pi t ls. no Second Price to the Gallery. Doors to be open at Half-past Six o'Clock, performance to commence at Seven precisely. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS, GRAND NIGUT! riIHIS EVENING, (Tuesday,) will be represented, for the second time in Liverpool, and repeated during the week, with new Scenery, Dresses, and all the acquirements, as pro duced by Mr. Ducrow, at the Royal Amphitheatre, London, the Historical Esuestrian Spectacle of •C•HA SRI OR i THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE. The Spectacle will be followed by DUCROW'S Classic Scenes of the Circle and Extraordinary Feats ; to give pomp and additional effect to which, and in compliance with the demands at the Box-office, Madame DUCROW, with the Male and Female Equestrians, will appear in the pageant of Pomp and beauty called CATHERINE OF RUSSIA ; the whole terminating with the Asiatic Melo-Drama of the TARTAR PRINCE. On THURSDAY next, other novelties will be brought for ward for the Benefit of Signor HILLIER and Mr. BROAD FOOT, Treasurer; and on MONDAY, the 9th of March, and the last of performing, will be given a new series of Classical Novelties, for the Benefit of Mr. DUCROW. Mr. Ducrow respectfully informs the Nobility and Public, that the Amphitheatre will close on the 14th of March ; therefore, any persons having claims on him or his establish ment, are requested to send the same in immediately. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Never did our radical contemporaries give a more ?unhappy proof of their propensity to enormous lying 1 4 3 441 ). ; 5;1 1 . ..1than in. their boasted cry, (too frequently reiterated,) onbu L. 4,44 , that the School Question was set at rest for ever. Let "k` 4l4 fri :•• an contemptible scribbler give publicity to his senti tii.. 0 • I.4nents on this subject, and his nonsense is immediately as something quite unanswerable; and th e ti 4 4 4,14 - • - . '°'lman who refuses to yield an immediate assent to the ` ll 43l 4 6 : . lM — ,:fOolish dogmas of the pamphleteer, is instantly de nounced as an infuriated bigot and enemy of educa tion. The subject is one of peculiar interest to the BRAND Y AND SALT—In consequence of the numerous and repeated inquiries which have been made at the office of the Liverpool Standard for copies of the paper in which the article on " Brandy and Salt" appeared, and in compliance with the earnest solicitations of a great number of indivi duals, we have been induced to republish Mr. Lees's observations. They will be found on the fourth page. A " Scotchman" 'should have furnished us with his name — confidentially, of course. The note of " M. M. K." shall appear on Friday. ERRATUM.—In our account of the President steam-ship. in our publication of Friday, an error was allowed to pass • in the hurry of reading. It was stated that Bristol had formerly taken the lead of Liverpool, for some years, in " ocean steam navigation." The word " steam" should have been omitted. EN' Etinpoot Altanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1840. We have received a file of the Newfoundland Times to the 29th of January, inclusive. From these papers we learn that the " bill to provide for the relief of the Poor" had passed both the House of Assembly and t he Legislative Council, after having undergone several i mportant amendments. The Times of Jan. 22 furnishes us with a long cor respondence between Captain Prescott and the Secre tary of State for the Colonies, .relative to the disposal of the Crown Lands in the Island of Newfoundland. From the replies of the Colonial Secretary to Captain Prescott we learn that " those persons who are in pos session of lands by permission, but without any other title, will have the option of taking grants on the terms on which they have heretofore been given ;" but the application was to be made within three months of the 22d of July last. It is also stated that `4 in all future sales of land belonging to the Crown, purchasers will be required to pay down at the time of sale 10 per cent. on the whole value of the purchase, and the re— mainder within fourteen days from the day of sale; — that until the whole price is paid the purchasers will not be put in possession of the land ;—and that in the event of payment not being made within the prescribed period, the sale will be considered void, and the deposit forfeited." Owing to these stringent regulations, we find that proceedings relative to allotments of land had been suspended for some months. In consequence of this state of things the Governor says that he had as sembled the Executive Council on the 31st of Decem ber, to request their opinion as to the applicability of the Australian regulations respecting the sale of Crown Lands to Newfoundland. The Council decided that they could not be adapted in any way to that colony. The Governor apprised the Colonial Secretary of this decision. In answer, Lord John Russell says that he does not think it necessary to continue the suspension of all proceedings for the allotment of lands, and gives directions for resuming the " former system of sale by -auction at an upset price." There is no general news of any importance in the papers before us. They are chiefly occupied with ex •tracts from the English and Canadian papers. ~is~~. town of Liverpool ; and though we have frequently and boldly stated our honest convictions on the much agitated question, we insert in another column, with inexpressible pleasure, the admirable letter of the Rev. Thomas Drew, penned with special 'reference to the secession of the Synod of Ulster from the uncompro mising friends of scriptural education. Happy is it for our country that there are yet some master minds who persist in deprecating a junctipn with the iniquit ous board of education, under any circumstances, and who are not to be led astray by names or characters, however high-sounding or respectable. Happy is it that a few clearheaded and straightforward men can still dissipate the mists with which the subject is so frequently darkened, and who recognise the principal objections to the system existing to the present day— viz., that it gives instruction in what its promoters know to be falsehood, and that it invades the liberties of man, and robs him and his children of their best and noblest privilege,—the full, pure, and perfect word of God. As a practical illustration of the latter fea ture, we reprint the following extract from Mr. Drew's letter : " I confess the more I reflect upon it the more I shrink back with horror at the idea of being a party to the expulsion of seventeen thousand copies of the bible from the schools of Ulster. If this may be done at one blow, how must such a system work for corning years ? And now at a word, we de molish the enquiry made by you and many worthy men, namely, what is the difference between receiving a grant from the Board and a grant from the State ?' I say there is a difference ; take money from the State, and, as in former days with other societies, you teach God's Word freely to all. Take money from the Board and you become a party to a bond more fatal to the souls of the -Romanists than St. Bartholomew's day was to the bodies of sixty thousand Pro testants." The Manchester Guardian of Saturday last, while replying to our article of Friday last, on the subject of the corn laws, makes the " startling" confession that most of the duties on articles of Foreign manufacture are " wholly inoperative, and tend no more to keep up the prices of English fabric, than a tax on coals im ported into Newcastle, or upon oranges imported into the island of St. Michael's, would tend to enhance the prices of the staple productions of those two places ;" adding, that "if the duties on imported manufactures were all repealed to-morrow, the effect of that repeal upon the great aggregate of English manufactures would scarcely be appreciable." If these assertions be strictly correct, what reason is there for agitating the repeal of the corn laws ? The Guardian distinctly insinuates that, even under existing circumstances, the manufacturers of Great Britain can afford to under Sell foreigners, and triumphantly demands why, if that be not the case, "how it happens that foreigners do not drive us out of all markets to which both have equal access?" This is a concession which makes further argument almost unnecessary. We have always un derstood, until the Guardian condescended to enlighten us upon the subject, that the principal argument of the manufacturers, against the continuance of the duties on the importation of foreign corn, was, that these " taxes on corn" rendered it impossible for the British manufacturer to compete with the foreigner. We are sure that this argument has been most promi nently introduced into - all the speeches made at the Chamber of Commerce and the meetings of the Anti- Corn-Law-League, as well as into those which have been delivered in the House of Commons in opposition to the corn laws. It now appears, on the authority of the Manchester Guardian,—an authority to which we are bound to defer, as the editor of that erudite jour nal unhesitatingly proclaims his own superior acquaint ance with the merits of the question under discussion, —that it is a complete fallacy to assert that the British manufacturer cannot compete with the foreigner, even under the operation of the corn laws. Why, then, we ask again, should the corn laws be repealed ? If we can now undersell foreigners in all markets to which both the British and foreign manufacturers have equal access, why not rest contented with our present advantages ? " Let well alone" is surely an excellent maxim to act upon until we can discover something better : and we feel quite assured that we should be doing any thing but " bettering" our condition by plunging the agri cultural interests of this country into irretrievable ruin. The manufacturers would be the first to coin plain of the consequences of a repeal of the corn laws, especially if accompanied by a repeal of the duties on foreign manufactures. However strongly the Guardian may deny the effectiveness of these duties, we still main tain that they are operative in protecting the British manufacturer. If they did not thus operate, how comes it to pass that many articles of foreign produce are constantly introduced into this country, for home con sumption, after paying a duty of 20, 30, and even 40 per cent ? If it pays the importer to introduce such goods under these heavy rates of duty, what would be the case if these duties were repealed ? The truth is that the British manufacturer is pro tected—effectually protected in most instances— in the best market to which he has access—the home market. The duties on foreign manufactures have a greater practical effect in prohibiting the import of those manufactures, than the corn laws have in excluding foreign corn. The manufacturer, in other words, is more effectually protected than the farmer. Are the manufacturers of this country prepared to resign, without a murmur, those duties which the Guardian says are wholly "inoperative ?" Unless they are, they have no right to deprive the farmer of protection. Of course, we do not say that the restrictive duties on the importation of foreign manufactures should be repealed, any more than we advocate the repeal of the corn laws. Protection, in both cases, has been found to work well, and we believe its continuance to be indispensably necessary in a country so highly taxed as Great Bri- taro is. There is no fear of foreign competition so long as we can keep our capital at home, instead of sending it to the continent, which would be the inevitable result of the repeal of the corn laws. 'We beg to remind our readers that a memorial is now lying for signature, at all the public news-rooms, newspaper offices, &c., praying the Lords of the Treasury that Liverpool may be appointed as the port from and to which the steam-vessels to be employed in the conveyance of the West India and other Colonial mails shall depart and arrive. We are sorry to find that the sheets to be appended to this me morial have, as yet, obtained but a comparatively small number of signatures. This is by no means creditable to the public spirit of the town. The object sought for in the memorial is one of the greatest possible im portance to every individual in the town. It has no thing whatever to do with any political considerations. There are no selfish motives to he gratified in this mat ter which are not equally shared by every one who feels the slightest degree of interest in the prosperity of Li verpool. The West India interest will only be effected by the decision of the Lords of the Treasury in com mon with the rest of the inhabitants. It can make very little difference to the West India merchant whe ther the mails are despatched from London, Liverpool, Southampton, Bristol, or Falmouth; but it will make a great difference to the people of Liverpool, whether the increased expenditure of money which the West India mail steamers would cause should be secured or lost to this town. The ship-builders, carpenters, sail makers, engineers, upholsterers, provision dealers, wine and spirit merchants, innkeepers, and shopkeep ers of the town, are peculiarly interested in this mat ter. We trust, therefore, that they will see the pro priety of coming forward promptly to s ign the memo rial, of which a copy lies for signature at the office of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. We have long been apprized that the system of Popish organization existing in Ireland contemplates the " restoration" of all the glebe-lands, and other ecclesiastical possessions, now belonging to the clergy of the Established Church, to the Popish priesthood. That this is the ultimate object of the present agita tion of the priests is openly avowed in Ireland. In that country there exist fewer reasons for concealment than there do in this country. Thanks to the tempo rizing conduct of too many professing Conservatives, and to the anti-Protestant policy of the present Admi nistration, the Established Church in Ireland has ex perienced s o many " heavy blows," and such " great discouragement," that the Papists are already boasting that the day is not distant when " the religion of the majority" will again obtain the ascendancy, and when those revenues which are now devoted to the support of a Protestant Church will be seized upon as a wel come booty by the Romish hierarchy and their subor dinates. But we must confess our astonishment on finding that the Popish priests in England have ven tured to predict a similar appropriation of our Church revenues. We do not mean to say that we ever enter tained the slightest doubt as to the ultimate designs of the crafty priests of the Romish Church. We are well aware that they have been all along engaged in seeking the subversion of the Protestant Church of England and the re-establishment of Popery. These designs, however, have hitherto been k e pt as secret as possible, lest the Protestant people of England should be alarmed by a premature disclosure. The time has at length arrived when the Popish priests think that they may safely cast aside the mask, and boldly proclaim the ends which they have so long contemplated. We find in the Halifax Guardian of Saturday last the fol lowing startling disclosure :—" We have beforetime called attention to the Popish Gilds which have been established at Bradford, Huddersfield, and other neigh bouring towns. The apparent object of these asso ciations was for a time charitable; but by a copy of their laws now lying before us, we perceive that there is a deep and jesuitical design in this organization of the 6 hereditary hodinen' and migratory jewellers who make up the Popish population of Yorkshire and Lancashire. A clue to this labyrinthine effort of jesuitry is given in the title-page of this pamphlet, which is a morceau of Popish presumption. We give it entire :- 6 Jesus. Marie. Joseph. The Laws and Constitutions of the Holy Gild of St. Joseph and our blessed Lady. To which is prefixed a short historical account of the Gilds that flourished before the Reforma tion. By the Rev. P. M. Kaye, CATHOLIC VICAR OF BRADFORD. PERMISSU SUPERIORIfM." Catholic Vicar of Bradford ! There is a bold an nouncement. Dr. Scoresby is not the Vicar of Brad ford any longer. The office is equally shared by a Popish priest, " with the permission of his superiors." We surpnße w soon. boar ‘->f *L. Rectors of Liverpool," and the " Catholic Bishop of Chester ;" for the same pamphlet informs us that " each Gild will erect in its parish church the Gild Altar, &c." Protestants of England ! when will ye arouse from your lethargy, and boldly come forward to the rescue of your glorious Constitution in Church and State ? Is any further warning necessary ? It is evident from the numerous electioneering movements now in progress in various parts of the United Kingdoin, that a dissolution of Parliament is looked forward to as an event by no means distant. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that the Con servatives should every where hold themselves in readi ness for the approaching contest. The next general election, come when it may, will be one of the most critical in its character and results that has ever been witnessed in this country. The issues which it will involve will affect the interests, not only of the present generation, but of generations yet unborn. It will emphatically decide the fate of our Constitution in Church and State." It will result in the triumph or downfal of the Established Church—the chief safe guard of our rights and liberties. The enemies of the Church are diligently employed in preparing for the impending struggle. Its friends must be equally vigilant. We sincerely trust that every county, city, and borough in Great Britain and Ireland will be con tested. A timorous policy has hitherto prevented the Conservatives from fully testing the feelings of the constituencies. It is time that the Radicals should be attacked even in their strongest holds. Let no seat be resigned as hopeless. The country is still too strongly attached to constitutional principles to permit the final triumph of Radicalism, if an opportunity is every where given for the expression of popular feeling. The Blackburn Standard of Wednesday last, we learn from several of our contemporaries, (for the pa per did not, as usual, reach our office) announces that the borough of Clitheroe, which has hitherto been en tirely in the hands of the Whigs, will be contested by a Conservative candidate at the next election. We understand that a clear majority of the electors have presented a requisition to Edward Cardwell, Esq., who has promptly accepted the invitation. Mr. Cardwell, as many of our readers are doubtless aware, is a barris ter of great talent, whose connections are well known and highly respected in this town, and who has consi derable influence in the neighbourhood of Clitheroe. It is almost needless to add that his principles are strictly Conservative. He possesses, also, in an emi nent degree, the recommendation of being an eloquent public speaker. We have, therefore, no doubt that he will succeed in rescuing the borough of Clitheroe from the degradation of being a Whig nomination borough. The following are extracts from the address which he has issued : Intimately connected with your neighbourhood by many ties of early association and personal knowledge, I trust I shall always be found as able to appreciate your interests, as, I shall be zealous to promote them. I will do all in my power to advance the welfare of your trade and manufactures. I am persuaded that agriculture and commerce are inseparably united with each other; and that no measure can be really beneficial to either which does not conduce to the prosperity of both. Firmly attached to the British constitution, I see grounds for serious alarm in the hostile spirit constantly evinced by the present administration towards the upper house of parlia ment. Considering that firm support in the House of Commons in the:constitutional test of public confidence,ll have no faith in the popular professions of men, who, driven from their places by defeats in parliament, have condescended to resume them for the convenience of courtiers and the arrangement of the royal household. A loyal subject of the crown, I have no confidence in those who have abused, for party purposes, the sacred name of loy alty, and have employed it to shelter their own unpopularity, rather than to encourage, in the hearts of their countrymen, a genuine reverence and affection towards their sovereign. I am a sincere friend of civil and religious freedom ; and as - - have no wish to infringe the liberty of others, so I will con sent to no aggression upon those principles which have placed the house of Brunswick upon the throne of Britain. Nor shall I ever regard it as any part of a real liberality to stand idle while those seeds of sedition and blasphemy are sown, which grow up into the bitter fruits of infidelity and treason. Believing, therefore, that a vigorous administration affords the best security for public peace and private happiness, I shall do my utmost to support those distinguished statesmen (connected, the most eminent of them, with our own neigh hood), by whom alone such an administration can be formed. Above all, I am a devoted adherent to that mild and tolerant church which, by God's blessing, is established in these domi nions. I will steadfastly maintain her rights and privileges, and earnestly endeavour to increase her usefulness. I have no wish to recommend myself as a " reformer" to those who identify that word with restless notions of change. But uo mail can be more desirous than myself to carry into every department of church and state that practical spirit of improvement, which is essential to good government and the preservation of the public welfare. These sentiments are alike honourable to Mr. Card well's head and heart. They are such as must be re sponded to by every true Conservative. It is to be hoped that the electors of other boroughs, now in the hands of the Whigs, will emulate the noble and inde pendent conduct of the men of Clitheroe. RE-BUILDING OF GREAT GEORGE-STREET CHAPEL. — We hear, with very great pleasure, that the subscription towards the erection of a new chapel on the site of the old, now amounts to nearly the sum of £5,500. which, with a moiety of the insurance money, makes a total not far short of £7,500. A Building Committee has been formed, and no time will be lost in obtaining plans and estimates for the new edifice. The building will scarcely be ready for occupation before this time next year.—Albion. THE WATERLOO COURSING MEETING, - WEDNESDAY NEXT.—WC (Chronicle, of Saturday,) have little to commu nicate on this matter, to-day, the betting being principally confined to those who have a feeling in the matter, most of them being sly dogs, who will not allow a dogberry to know as much as themselves. The odds may be considered of a stationary character, and our last quotation will suffice. 500 to 25 has been laid against Lord Stradbroke's preten sions, but the other quotations are of a mixed description, which we quote below :- 100 to 7 against Lord Eglinton's Waterloo. 100 ~ 7 „ Emprese. 100 ~ 7 ~ Maiden Queen. 100 ~ 6 „ Lord Talbot's " nomination." 100 ~ 6 ~ Mr. Blundell's "nomination." 100 „ 6 PP Kenwigs. 100 6 PP Mountaineer. 100 ~ 5 ~ Bugle. 100 ~ 5 ~ Dulcimer. 100 „ 4 ~ Flora Nl`lver. 100 2 Pt Umber. DEATH FROM STARVATION.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of an old woman named Martha Gordon. On the evening of Saturday the deceased was seen in Mary bone, in a dying state, hardly able to speak. Two police officers on duty came to her assistance, and finding her unable to walk, they carried her to the Dispensary, in Vauxhall -road. She told them she was dying for want of the necessaries of life. On arriving at the Dispensary she had ceased to live. The surgeon of that establishment, Mr. John Edward Nor ton, made a post mortem examination of the body. He found the cavities of the body filled with a watery fluid ; the right lung was slightly diseased. Death, in his opinion, was pro duced by starvation I The jury, aft er an investi gation of the facts, found the following verdict Died through the in clemency of the weather, and the w ant o f the co mmon neces saries of life." DIOCESAN CHURCF BUILDING SOCIETY. On Friday last, the fifth anual meeting of the Chester Diocesan Society for promotag the building of churches in the manufacturing districts d Lancashire and Cheshire was held in the Blue Coat School Many of the local clergy, and a great number of ladies, wee present. In the unavoidable absence of the Rev. Jonatharßrooks, senior rector of Liver pool, the Rev. Robert Raike, Chancellor of the Diocese, was called to the chair. The Rev. C. W. LA.WREME, one of the secretaries to the society, having offered up pryer, The Rev. CHAIRMAN addassed the meeting. After having dwelt upon the general efficarof prayer, he said that on the present occasion there were eculiar circumstances, personal as well as public, to make th audience feel the advantage of having recourse to God in gayer. lie then referred to the disturbed and unsettled stated the minds of the people in various parts of the country, sod feelingly alluded to the ab sence from that meeting of b)th the rectors of Liverpool, one of whom (the Rev. Rector Gmpbell) had been compelled to seek, in retirement at a ditance, that health which had doubtless been in a great degee sacrificed by his unremitting spiritual labours, and the oter, (Rev. Rector Brooks,) who should that day have presled, was necessarily absent in attendance in the chamber o death. If, again, they looked at the affairs of that society,they had abundant cause to re joice at the resource offere, them in prayer. They were engaged in a work, the greatess, the overpowering greatness and difficulties of which became more apparent the further they progressed. Every stp that they took only served to develope more and more tie wants of their fellow creatures, and to exhibit more strikingly the overwhelming picture of the spiritual destitution thatiurrounded them. if they had merely to rely on their own esources for the encountering of those difficulties, how lamenable would be their situation ; for there was unquestionabl3presented to them, at the first glance, such an a moun t o f diffi cu lties as might sink the stoutest heart in dismay, and paralyse the efforts that they might be disposed to make. There had been printed a state ment on the subject of the spiitual destitution of this diocese, which he would take the libety of reading. It was as fol lows :—" Unless some charge, such as it is impossible to foresee and painful to anticilate, shall turn the tide of ma nufacturing industry toward other countries, it is not easy to assign the amount to whichthe population of these districts may be carried by tho.naturaland regular process of increase. In 1801, the population of the county of Lancaster was G 72,731. In 1831, it had reamed 1,335,800. In otherwords, the population had, as nearly as possible, doubled itself in the course of the thirty yeas, and 663,069 souls had been added to the amount of th e inhabitants. If we suppose that 1000 is the average number ce inhabitants in one of our pa rochial districts, and that the population requires a church and a resident minister, the herease in numbers would have required an addition of (;53 new churches, and of the same IC we filippocl. tisco• et— number that may be comprehended in a flock, without merg ing the character of spiritual superintendence, the number of churches needed, would still be 331 ; on either supposition, a comparison of the number of churches needed with the number that has been supp Led, will leave a very melancholy conclusion as to the inadecptaey of the religious provision that has been made for the chninunity. But how melancholy soever may be the view in 'coking backwards, it is still more painful to look forwards. if the population continue to in crease in the same ratio, and it must increase, and will increase in the same ratio if the manufacturing system is maintained, the county of Lancaster, in the year 1861, will contain 2,667,600. The church accommodation must he enlarged, so as to meet an increase of 1,330,000 in the num ber of inhabitants ; and thepresent number of churches must be doubled in the course of thirty years, if even the present inadequate measure of accommodation is to be offered." Such was the extent of the work that was before them—the difficulties in accomplishim it must necessarily be many, and thereon it was that he grounled the consolation, and the privi lege of having, in such case, recourse to prayer, and casting all their wants and burdensupon God, who alone could send that help which would maksthem triumph over every obstacle and every difficulty. The Rev. C. W. LAWSENCE read the fifth annual report of the committee. This dicument, which was of consider able length, stated that sem churches had been consecrated in the past and fourteen in he present year ; that grants to the amount of £3OOO had been made to several parishes and districts. The report also Mated that the income of the so ciety had experienced a remotion in consequence of Liver pool and Manchester havisg to support similar societies of theirown. CHARLES GROVES, Esq. Liverpool treasurer, read a state ment of the accounts from which it appeared that the out standing grants amounted b £l6BO, and the balance remain ing in hand £2220. The Rev. JUHN RUSHI3N, incumbent of New Church, in Pendle, moved that the report should be adopted, and printed and c'rculated undr the direction of the committee. Ho said it was natural o inquire what had been already done by the society which he public were called upon to sup port, and he would brieflyillucle to the beneficial result of its operations on the distict from which he himself came. In that district nine chuches had been erected, and five others were in the course f erection, and he, therefore, had an opportunity of making blown somewhat of the society's results. First, then, as repected the clergy. In that dis trict, where the populationaf the parishes varied from 700 to 17,000, the labour had beet subdivided, and, consequently, places which had been peviously unaccustomed either to the presence or . the name c a clergyman, were n o w a ttended to. Again, the oeneficial usults were a pp aren t i n ano th er point of view. The erectici of new churches had not tended to lessen the attendance in the older ones, nor to decrease the number of the commuficants or of the scholars in the Sunday schools; but, on the contrary, in nearly every in stance there had been a vey peat increase in the congrega tions, the communicants, aid the Sunday school scholars, and in the schools themse)es. To illustrate the advantages attendant on the location f a clergyman in the district, he would mention one out of number of facts which he could bring forward. During the balding of one of the new churches, school, and parsonage, the lergyman who was to officiate was located at a considerable ditance from the church. After the lapse of about twelve maths, the church and parsonage being ready, the clergymanirepared to depart, when the pop ulation of the place where ie had resided, assembled round him, and, with tears in thei eyes, expressed their regret at his departure. " My gooepeople," said he, " I am indeed going, but it is to no very Feat distance ; it is to a place that is within your sight." 'be people replied that so much had they felt the blessing of hispresence, that they were sorry he was going, even though the listance was so short ; they had felt the advantage of hisprcsence in the peacefulness of the district. That was one nut if many instances in which it had been made apparent that a clergyman was more efficient in preserving order, comfot, aid peace, in a district than ten po lice-officers could possilly 13). The Rev. GEORGE Larenieen, vicar of Prescot, seconded the resolution, and said thatit rejoiced him to do anything to promote the interest al so valuable a society, the beneficial effects of whose operatbns lad been felt in his own parish. When he first went inh that immense parish, twenty-five years ago, there were fait only five churches and five clergy men. Now, he was harpy :o say, there were nine churches and fourteen clergymei. and he hoped that it would not be long before there were me or two more. The resolution was pssed unanimously. Tee Rev. R. P. Bunitcom moved the second resolution. He said that professingthemselves simply to be Christians— to believe that they hatimmortal souls, which had been re deemed by the preciou:blood of Jesus Christ—that all their hopes of mercy were i Him, in His glorious person and finished work, it was irpossible to imagine that there should be, not an uplifted hand of dissent to such a motion as he had then read, but evu a passing thought of opposition. There could be no quesion as to the extent of spiritual des titution in various partaif the kingdom, and most especially in this diocese, after wht had been laid before them in the lamentable account of ne geometrical advance of the popu lation—for so it might h termed—whilst there had been no thing like an arithmetal provision of churches. In the course of a comparativey short period, this diocese h a d b een changed from a pastorali:lto a manufacturing district, and its surface,instead of bein thinly populated, had been covered by many and densely ih a bited streets, running a l ong i t f or miles. This had not arien altogether from the increase of the home population; fr the i.nmigration into Lancashire had been, in eighteen maths, to the amount of nearly nine ty-seven thousand persos. The science of statistics was of comparatively recent gowth in this country. France and Germany had done mon for it than England had done : so also had Scotland ; but we were becoming awake to the ne cessity of operating in a sinilar way. We had statistics of the manufacturing and griciltural population, and medical statistics, and statisticsof time ; and latterly the necessity for the statistics of spirtuallestitution—the great parent of crime—had become strkinily evident. They had recently been called together to similate the government of the coun try to extend church aecomnodation generally ; for it was felt, he believed, through a Beat part of the land, that indi vidual efforts could by no mans meet the necessities of the case. The efforts of thevolotary system had failed entirely, as fail they must, to supply to spiritual wants of the people. Those efforts had, in conjuration with other circumstances not necessary to be mentioud, caused the church t o ma k e efforts in the same way ; buthey (churchmen) had the great advantage of being able to fl back on the principl e o f a na tional establishment, so thathey had a resting place for in dividual and social exertion as well as for that which he hoped ere long . to see fora, by the cries of the coun t ry , either from a willing or an uwilling government. Unques tionably the want of spirituainstruction was, as that motion full well declared, to leave to people to moral, social, and everlasting evils. And to wht moral evils did that want leave the population exposed ? Thee was, in the length and breadth of the land, a voice of immorlity, of crime, of disregard to the fundamental principles ofall law and justice—a voice of defiance against all authority and it would be well if that voice did not sound still Ore loudly and violently than it had hitherto done. He tlieved that the only mode of silencing that voice would bc to remove the difficulties that impeded the progress of reliious instruction. And what of the social evil of which they were all well informed That miserable and cold-hearted assault on all that is good, and great, and amiable, andtonest, and decent, and honour able in the land—how wouldt have sprung up if the land had been provided with a sufficncy of churches—if there had been faithful ministers of Go who had recommended Chris tian morality on Christian kinciples, and called on men to adorn the doctrines of God i all things ? If children had been brought up in the knovedge and fear of God—if from their earliest infancy they Id been imbued with the first principles of the oracles of Crist,. it was impossible that such a state of things could have aged ; it was impossible that e ither socialism, which aumeat the throne of God in he aven , . or chartism, which aimed I overturn all the institutions under which England had scong been a happy and a peace ful country, could have attaed its present giant proportions, and stalked boldly through tn land. As respected their ex ternal welfare, the people, lithe commercial and manufac turing, to say nothing of thugricultural districts, had been grossly neglected ; they hadust been regarded in the same light as the machinery at with they were employed. Nay, not so much ; for it was qui striking to go into a manufac tory, and observe , n ot mere] the exquisite adaptation of the machinery to its ends , but i high state of polish, the orna ment and the beauty with wch it had been expensively pro vided. What, however, hakieen done for the immortal and accountable beings who atteled those m ac hi nes ? They had been classed by the side of ie steam power that moved the machinery, and when the le was out in the one case, and the life in the other, both we equally disregarded. Their efforts to counterac t this ate of things were not of long standing ; they_had, howevt broken ground, and that was a great thing. He w say, too, that they were not far 6 from the depositaries of soalism and chartism ; they had come very nigh to . the fortre, and should now use steadfast e n deavours to bring dow. It had been said that there were many d if f i cu lties and d3onragements to be encountered in the carrying out of theiibjects. This was quite true ; but those difficultie s were reessar y ; for if their course was down a clear and un trouble stream, without a cloud a bov e or a wave below, it would 1 an extremely easy task to be em ployed in works of lo v e a l mercy, of charity and benevo lence. But the difficultiesi?t gathered round the persons employed in such works, thtindrances and discouragements that thronged thickly on alright hand and on the left, and which, in their result, madeach one engaged like holy Job —all these were in order thithey might, on a dark day, p u t their hands into the hand abr. Heavenly Father, and b e led along the path of faith, Lured that he would, in his own time, make darkness light, id the difficult easy. It might have been thought that the tempt to compass, by their fee ble efforts, such a mighty WQ as that in which they were en gaged, was something like ticonduct of the man in the nal a ble, who began to build a ouse and could not fi n i s h it, not having counted the cos But it appeared to him that they were not in this predicaent ; their excellent bishop had counted the cost of the worlre he committed himself to it. After having read an extractrom the lord bishop's account of the churches consecrated,lr. Buddico m p rocee d e d to say that that and other societiesid struck the spark which had fired the train, and the flame which had been kindled would go on extending its brightness through the land, and purify ing the moral atmosphere. He concluded by a reference to the immense and praiseworthy exertions of the diocesan, to his entire devotedness to the great cause in hand—exertions and devotedness such as ought to engage the sympathy and support of even ordinary beholders ; but when it was recol lected that they were fellow Christians with him, embarked in the same cause, having the same duties, feeling the same love of God, and alike beholders of the same sad spectacle of thousands perishing for lack of the bread of life, how much more intensely ought they to he delighted at the successful result of his lordship's efforts, how much more earnestly and heartily support him in continuing the good work, and enable him to go on till the moral desert bloomed and blossomed like a garden ! The Rev. J. H. GUNNING, rector of Wigan, seconded the resolution. He said that the population of Wigan amounted to 35,000 souls, and there was church accommodation for only 3300. He was enabled, from that fact, to bear testimony to the statement embodied in the resolution, and he could also speak to the lamentable consequences that had arisen, and were likely to arise, from the want of church room in that town. The Rev. JAMES FURNIVAL, vicar of St. Helen's, moved the next resolution. He alluded to the erection of a small church at Parr, in the district of St. Helen's. at a total cost of nearly £lOOO (:.£350 of which was a grant from the so ciety,) and said that unless for the stimulus given to the re sident gentry by that grant, the church would never have been built. He could bear testimony to the correctness of what had been said by his rev. brother who had first spoken, as to the beneficial effects which had resulted from local ministers, and was certain that each clergyman was as ef fectual in restraining vice as, not ten merely, but twenty or more police-officers. _ _ The Rev. W. M`lvEn., incumbent of West Derby, se conded the motion, in doing which he said he might be per mitted to make one or two observations upon the indirect benefits that had arisen from the operations of this society. Our revered and beloved Diocesan had had the high honour of being the founder of such institutions as this. AVhen the idea was first mooted many persons supposed the society would soon break down for want of funds ; but its proceed ings had been carried on in faith, and we had the happiness of seeing the example set in this diocese followed in every other diocese in the kingdom. Every original contributor to the funds of the society had therefore the satisfaction of thinking that he done something towards a movement which had done more to restore the Church of Engiand to her pre sent position than had been done by any other means since the reformation. Previously to the institution of this society, and only a few years ago, when application was made to the government for a grant of public money in aid of church building, the answer was—" The Church of England is rich enough to build churches herself." " She," said they, "has fix...ay, th e nobility, th lando.cl mrietoorwor, and a majority of mercantile wealth in her pale, and therefore she is rich enough to build churches herself." That assertion had an air of plausibility and truth ; but the experiment had since been fairly tried, and with what result? In this diocese we had the support of the highest ecclesiastical authority, of many of the leading nobillty, and the mercantile towns, and of some portions of the middle classes; but w h a t h a d been done had been totally inadequate to supply the want. We had therefore an answer to the government, that the volun tary principle had been tried under the fairest circumstances and had failed ; and to say to them—" give us that relief which nothing but the public funds can supply." He be lieved he was right in saying that if the population of Lon don went on at the present rate of increase, it would be in a worse condition when the proposed 40 churches were built than now. This fact showed the necessity that lay upon the government, willing or unwilling, to foster the Church of England as the guardian of the moral and social happiness of the people, and to supply her with funds to erect churches in proportion to the spiritual destitution of the population. (Applause.) He seconded the motion. , The resolution was carried. Thanks were then moved to the reverend chairman, and the meeting separated. CORRESPONDENCE. THE BRITISH COLONIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR, I have long been a reader of your valuable paper ; for the quality of its promiscuous reading, the well-digested contents of its leading articles, and the interest it evinces for the welfare of England and her colonies, conspire to endow it with a character, as a provincial paper, which few others can boast of. I need not tell 'you, therefore, that lam an admirer of your journal. I have had frequent opportunities of ascertaining what your feeling is towards the British colonies : I believe you feel an interest in putting those colonies into such a position, that they shall be happy and prosperous in themselves, and be at the same time highly contributory to the commercial interests of their common mother country. I write now to offer a suggestion which may not be unworthy of the notice of your readers, nor unfit for the practical adoption of go vernment. That an immense number of operatives of every description, in every part of the country, are at present un employed, and have no means of subsistence, save what they may be able to obtain on credit, or from others' generosity, is a fact which I suppose is known both 'to you and to the state secretaries for the home department and for the colo nies ;—that in New South Wales, Australia, New Zealand, Guiana, and other British colonies, there are vast tracts of land inviting cultivation, and inexhaustible sources of pro fitable labour, is also a fact not open to question. The ad vantages of emigration must be apparent to all ; for if labour were transferred from this country, where there is a super abundance of it, to those places in the colonies where it is most wanted, and where the soil, if cultivated, would pro duce the richest fruits, the results would be—first, that the emigrant labourers themselves would, by leaving a place where their labour is neither wanted nor remunerated, and settling in a place where their labour is both wanted and well remunerated, be benefitted;—secondly, that the colonies into !which labour was inttoduced would be infinitely im proved in value ;—and, thirdly, that the mother country would be relieved from burdens which now weigh her down to the ground—her present evil of over-production of manu factured goods would be removed, and her superabundance of labour would be a thing not known; but her labouring population would be prosperous, and her commerce healthy. My suggestion therefore is, that the government should take immediate steps to make emigration facile and inexpensive to the emigrants, and to remove the present existing restric tions as to qualifications. The proceeds of the sale of colo nial lands render the expense of mere freight a trifle ; then why should people starve here ?—why should the operatives carry on existence in a state of inactivity, unusefulness, and disgrace ?—why should adult labourers, having families de pending on their resour ces , b e compelled to sacrifice their best feelings of independence, or rather principles of self dependence, and either turn out on the highway as desperate robbers, or skulk from door to door with piteous face, igno bly begging the boon of charity ? I ask, in indignation, and with my heart almost bleeding with sympathy for these poor beings, why should this be the case, when government have it in their power to change starvation for plenty, anxiety for content, in the homes and minds of a labouring people, who, I scruple not to aver, are treated with as much callousness of feeling by men in power and of wealth, as are the beasts of the earth ? There is, therefore, every motive to encourage emigration on the part of government : now for the practicableness of the process. I would say, let all go out free of expense who wish, of whatever description of qualification they may be, if they be of sober character; and this point might be easily ascertained by any person disposed to emigrate presenting a note of recommendation from his present or late employer. There is scarcely anybody who would not be able to assist in felling trees, ploughing, fencing, tending cattle, &c. ; and, therefore, let no one say that the labouring population gene rally are not qualified to make useful colonists. But, sup .posing some idle, immoral, and worthless characters avail themselves of the proffered free passage, the evil consequences would fall on their own heads, as, if they would not work, they would of course suffer—an evil which would necessarily be most felt by themselves. Now is the time for emigration: the colonies are waiting with extended arms, to receive an ingress of settlers : then let the utmost encouragement be held out to emigrants • convey them free of expense to which colony they desire, and let free passage be promised to all who may desire to avail themselves of it. The present re strictions are too restrictive. I believe hundreds and thou sands would emigrate now, but for the ceremony, bother, and uncertainty of obtaining a passage. The bare removal of a portion of the home population would be a great relief to this country, and therefore I cannot conceive auy objec tion to a perfectly free mode of emigration. I for one have experienced the difficulty I have mentioned, and the conse quence is I am still a resident here. I am, sir, your humble servant, A READER. Horton, near Bradford, Feb. 27th, 1840. THE CORN LAWS. TO COLONEL WILLIAM'S. SlR,—The following report of your speech, in reply to an observation made by Mr. Lloyd, at the Liverpool Corn-law Meeting, is copied verbatim from the Albion of Jan. 13. Mr. Lloyd stated that the inevitable result of the free intro duction of foreign corn would be to throw hundreds of thou sands of acres out of cultivation, and to deprive the manu facturers themselves of their best customers. " Colonel Williams then rose, and was received with much applause. He said he was what the last speaker called a practical man : he was a practical farmer, and he stood before them in the character of a landowner also. This gentleman, in the plenitude of his sympathy for the farmers, said they would all be ruined if the corn-laws were abolished. Now he (Colonel Williams) did not fear being ruined ; but he wanted to say a word or two more to the mover of the amend ment. That gentleman said, that, by the abolition of the corn-laws, a vast number of acres would be thrown out of cultivation. He would leave gentlemen connected with com merce to answer other fallacies, but, with respect to the acres thrown out of cultivation by the abolition of the corn-laws, he looked upon that to be the grossest fallacy that ever dwelt in the brain of any pseudo political economist. He should like to know, looking to his own fields, 'whether, when he ceased to grow corn in one of his fields, it would not grow something else? (Hear, hear.) It was the greatest fallacy to say, that the country ought to be enforced to grow wheat, excepting so far as it was wanted, and could be supplied on advantageous terms to all parties, for if they did not grow wheat, they could grow cattle, and he did not see if th e gen tleman was so fond of a loaf why he should not like to have a round of beef with it. (Much cheering.) Such stuff as this was unworthy of notice, and he would not say a word more upon the subject." 'The only inference that can be drawn from the above is, that Mr. Lloyd's fears are groundless, and that the country would sustain no injury, as the additional number of cattle that would be reared would amply compensate for any dimi nution in the produce of corn. As your opinion was given with the authority of a practical farmer, it was received by the meeting as a fact that could not be disputed, and has gone through the manufacturing districts as a triumphant answer to one of the strongest arguments in favour of the corn-laws. But, positive as your assertions are, they will deceive no one that has the least acquaintance with farming. My at tention has for the last forty years been directed to mercan tile pursuits ; I cannot, therefore, have much knowledge of agriculture ; yet, limited as it is, I knew that what you so confidently stated could not be borne out by facts ; but, as it would have been presumptuous in me to have put my opinion in opposition to a practical farmer, I determined to apply to another practical farmer, who has for many years cultivated land such as Mr. Lloyd alluded to. I re quested he would state what 200 acres of this land now pro duced, and what it did produce in its original state. This answer, which I give below, will convince even you that the change from arable to pasture of one-third of the cultivated land in the country would be a heavy blow to the prosperity of the country, and deprive, as Mr. Lloyd justly observes, the manufacture rs o f th e i r b es t cus t omers . The practical farmer to whom I applied for practical information, S2 t I shall reply to your first question by stating, that i) the s the only profitable mode of cultivating poor light lands rotation system, and that 50 acres will produce 150 quarters ' marketable wheat, say at 605., and 7 guar at 40s. ; 50 acres will produce 225 quarters at nrasr os. ; 50 acres ) quarters n ta d b e i r e e h n a d r s : ley, at 305., and 11 quarters hinder: es, will support 100 hinder-ends , seeds, 46 acres turnips, and 4 acre sheep, bred and in succession fattened z an d 3o so b ld ea o st ff s, ea: i h nt y e e r a e r d , at 445, each ; the produce of wool, w . on straw and half-a-ton i eed_cake each, their improved value, £l5O ;—al — ak total ilis of £1,262 10s. From this sum we must deduct — cash a paid for 15 tons linseed-cake, at £lO sl g per ton ; bushelain 'h i ones, at 2s. 6d. ; sundries, £l2 10 s . ; together, 8 1 0 2621 . 0s This sum, taken from the abo ve , w ill leave £l,OO O, which this farm under tillage adds an nua ll y to the wealth of the nation. The pigs and poultry fed upon an arable farm will be equal to the keep of the extra horses re quired. In the above estimate a due allowance has been made for seed. I will now show you what the same land would produce as a grazing farm. It would support 50 beasts throughout the year, the improved value of say 60s. each ; 39 lambs, bred and sold off at Michaelmas, at 20s. Gach ; 30 bull ewes, sold at Michaelmas at 255. each ; 20 tod of wool, one-third hog and inferior, at 265. per tod ;—toge ther, £243 10s., say £250. This sum, deducted from the above, shews a loss to the country of £750 per annum on 200 acres thrown out of cultivation. The arable land in the United Kingdom is reported by different authorities to be from 20 to 22 millions of acres. I will take it at 21 millions. If, by a free importation of foreign corn, wheat should be reduced to 40s. per quarter, and other grain in proportion, one-third of this land would cease to be cultivated, and one halt of this would soon be again covered with heath or broom, and almost worthless. The other half I will suppose of the description above mentioned ; the annual value of its produce would be 245. 4d. per acre. This, with the heath at 2s. 6d. per acre, would amount to £4,681,250, or, in round numbers, say 5 millions sterling. The present value of its annual produce is £5 per acre, or, in the whole, 35 millions. Toe loss in national wealth would, therefore, be 30 millions per year." When wheat is at 60s. per quarter, I estimate the surplus income of the farmer (after he has paid for seed, rent, taxes of all kinds, and food) at 100 millions. This immense sum is annually circulated amongst the manufacturers in exchange for the necessaries or luxuries the farmer may require. Now it is evident, from the statement published in this paper on the 21st instant, that the whole of this surplus income will be lost if the corn-laws are repealed, and a diminution to this amount in the demand for our manufactures. From what quarter are we to expect orders to compensate us for this loss, as the most sanguine repealer will not promise that, if all his expectations are realised, our exports will be increased 20 millicins ? If, then, we have suffered so much from the partial loss of the American trade for the last year, which could not exceed 8 or 10 millions, what will be the effect if we are deprived of customers to the amount of 80 or 100 millions per annum ! But it appears that your friends the wise men of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce question the great importance of the home trade, and doubt if it is improved by the price of agricultural produce being kept up; for if that had been the case, they say, " the past vear would have been distinguished for its prosperous home trade ; but what is the fact ? In 1838 the home trade took 84 millions of pounds weight of cotton goods, ant last year only 60 millions." Has it never entered the heads of these &dims that the manufacturing population consume cotton goods as well as the agriculturist, and that more than one third of the population are dependent upon commerce ? If they had been seeking for truth, they would have found that the distress in the manufacturing districts would at once have accounted for the reduced consumption of last year; and if they had made inquiry of the houses in the country trade, they would have found that the chartist riots had been an additional cause why the demand was less in 1839 than in 1838. The alarm was at one time so great, that the shop keepers limited their orders to what were absolutely neces sary to enable them to keep open their shops. With all due deference, therefore, to you and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, I think it would be a suicidal act to ruin our home customer, who expends 100 millions with us, for the chance of gaining foreign orders to the amount of 20 mil lions, even supposing we do get flour Gd. or even Is. per stone cheaper.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, A MERCHANT AND MANUFACTURER, EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FOREIGN TRADE. Shield, Feb. 28th, 1840. BROUGHAM INSTITUTE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—When you inserted the malevolent attack upon the Brougham Institute in your columns on Friday last, you surely were not aware that you were giving vent to the men dacious effusions of a boy, who was lately expelled from the Institution for disorderly conduct. However contemptible a writer may be in himself, what he advances assumes a cer tain degree of importance when communicated to the public through the medium of a newspaper. The truth of this is fully exemplified by the letter in question. It must have surprised any one of the numerous audience who attended this debate, not acquainted with the writer, that such a tissue of falsehoods could have been joined toge ther. So far from the audience favouring their system, not withstanding tie muster of Owenites that was there, it was easily seen that's great majority was decidedly against it. As to this Instituticin being a " low place," I can assure you, sir, it is not nearly so low since this boy and some of his so cialist friends were expelled. From the nature of the question to be discussed, it was likely the socialist would come forward with his pretended remedy for all the ills of life. But consideiing, as 1 do, that the community scheme, even though it were based upon Christian principles, is so visionary and impracticable, that it never can come into extensive operation, 1 have no bjec- tion to hear it discussed, that its fallacies may be laid op - en. And connected as it is, by many of its advocates, with atheism, or perhaps what they would call pantheism, it be comes the duty of every well-wisher to religion and morality to endeavour to put it down, not by bonds and imprisonment, nor any other kind of persecution, but by argument. Chris tianity has already withstood the attacks of many powerful opponents, and certainly has nothing to feat from the nib bling of the Owenites ; and atheism is so utterly and palpably absurd, that the common sense of mankind revolts at the mention of the name. But socialism has of late been brought into so much no tice, and been laid before the public in such a variety of ways, and in so many places throughout the kingdom, from the pulpit, the lecture-room, the press, and the senate, that it is forced upon the observation of every one who either hears or reads ; and surely nothing can have a greater ten dency to stop its progress than to have it exposed in all its deformity, as it has been lately by its able and eloquent op ponents at the Brougham Institute : so that, instead of this Institution having even a tendency to encourage socialism, I consider it as one of the barriers that must be erected if we wish to stop its progress. The committee is composed of men differing, no doubt, in their political and religious opi nions, as they must do in all societies where no political or religious test is required upon the admission of a member; and as this society is neither a religious society, nor yet con nected with any party in politics, such a test is utterly use less. Nothing is required of its members but good behaviour in the rooms; and " Aufra Crisis" knows, by experience, that without this he cannot enjoy its privileges. I am not aware of any thing being done improperly at the ball on the evening of her Majesty's marriage, as I was not there; but from the eulogium passed upon it in your own paper, from your own personal observation, and the testi mony of all whom I have seen who did attend, I am led to believe it was well conducted; and if a socialist did bear a conspicuous part in the affair, it only shows to me that he would make a better dancing-master than a teacher of morals. I believe 1 have said enough to show the motives which influenced the writer of this wanton attack upon one of the most useful and prosperous institutions in the town, and that no favour is shown to the principles advocated by Robert Owen and his followers ; for if there were, I should be no longer A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE. Liverpool, 29th February, 1840. THE Irasu MUNICIPAL BILL.—A public meeting, ac cording to the Whig papers, is about to be held in Liverpool, to petition the House of Lords in favour of the Irish Munici pal Bill. The Whigs are terribly frightened at the menaced opposition of the Duke of Newcastle. THE BRITISH QUEEN. —The British Queen, steamer, left Portsmouth yesterday afternoon, for New York. She did not, we hear, carry out many passengers. She may be expected to reach New York on or before the 20th instant. The argyle, one of the small class of sea-going steamers, sailed yesterday for New Orleans. She is intended, we hear, to ply as a small boat between New Orleans and Vera Cruz. SIGoIt GIULIO REGONDI'S CONCERT. — This concert took place last evening and was attended by a highly respectable and select auditory. The performances gave the greatest satisfaction, but we have not space for a further notice of them. RAPE.—Yesterday, a tide-waiter, named George M`Kin non, was examined before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Harvey, on a charge of having violated the person of a girl 13 years of age, named Mary Boon. The girl on Friday last entered the service of the prisoner, at is 6d week wages, to take care of his three children, which lodged with him in a house in Price's court, Great Howard-street, kept by James Emmett and his wife. On Saturday night, the girl being asleep in bed, and Emmett and his wife out of the house, the prisoner took the opportunity to perpetrate the offence charged against him. The girl instantly left the house and acquainted her mother, who resides in Vauxhall-road. Mr. Gray, house-surgeon of the North Dispensary, was called in to her, and from his evidence it appeared no doubt could be entertained of the legal completion of the crime. When asked what he had to say, the prisoner replied—" 1 do not know what to say ; but I hope you will be kind enough to take care of my three children, as there is no one to take care of them. He was committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes. ASSAULT ON A SEAMAN AT THE COAST OF AFRICA. — Captain Lyons, of the ship Charlotte, of this port, appeared before Messrs. Rushton arid Maxwell, on Saturday, having been summoned by Thomas James Hall, to answer a charge of assault. It appeared, that the Charlotte left Liverpool for Bonny in January, 1839. Captain Lyons went with her as trading captain, and a Captain Parke as sailing captain. The complainant, Hall, went out in her as a seaman. In the month of April, Captain Parke had a dispute with the de fendant, and was compelled in consequence to quit the vessel and take refuge on board the Martha, a ship belonging to the same owners as the Charlotte. The statement of the com plainant was to the following effect :—On the 10th of May, the defendant was absent from the ship, visiting with some other captains, on board the Majestic. The first mate of the Charlotte, .Peter Crompton, directed Hall to clean some muskets, which were part of the trading stock of the vessel. He cleaned three of them, and then said he could not manage to clean any other, as he was no soldier. The mate considered this as a refusal of his duty, and he immediately took a boat and went to Captain Lyons to inform him thereof. The de fendant returned with four other masters, with whom he went into the cabin. Ile sent orders forward that Hall was to be brought to him. At the door of the cabin We com plainant met th 3 captain and mate. He was ordered to ad vance into the cabin, but he hesitated. The mate pulled him forward and told hint not to be afraid, and Captain Lyons the next instant seized him by the collar with one hand and with the other struck him on the left eye a blow which cut it open. The complainant was then dragged on deck, and a set of handcuffs were brought up. These were found to he too small, but they were, nevertheless, screwed on, and the com plainant was put in a boat in charge of four Kroomen. He was rowed ashore, and taken to a house, or hut, on the beach, belonging to a trader. Here he was left seven nights and days without being relieved from his handcuffs, t h e pressure of which caused him to suffer great torment. li perfectly helpless, and was compelled to call for th e was assist s a o n o e n e pressing of the natives to enable him to supply his mos t At length, a surgeon, who, it appeared, w was ilenb Y the employed w ashore, happened to see him. His re were greatlyo pr ing wants. n swol len pressure of the manacles, so that the surge ,alarmed by the symptoms, went on board the Charlotte and remonstrated hi m that unless the handcuffs with the defendant, informing were taken off the man would be in a state of considerable danger. The defendant, on this, sent to Hall and h a d the manacles removed from his wrist s , but in their stead irons were placed on his legs,and in this state he was l e f t d ur i ng three days more. At length , through the int ercess i on of the surgeon' above alluded to, lie was unchained and taken on board the Charlotte. The defendant asked him if he would return to his duty, threatening him if he did not he would send him over to Mr. Peter's side, where he would, perhaps, never again be heard of, and where he would be stopped from telling any tales. The complainant further stated, that after he was retaken on board, he was confined to bed three days, and that he subsequently had the brain-fever. Mr. Daven port, who appeared for the complainant, called Captain Parke, the sailing captain, who gave Hall an excellent character. Mr. Lowe, who attended on behalf of the defendant, called Peter Crompton, the mate, who admitted that the captain struck Hall at the entrance of the cabin. Mr. Davenport did not cross-examine this witness as to the subsequent treat ment which Hall said lie had experienced, but produced a written document, which Crompton admitted was in his handwriting. It was a recommendation of Hall, given since their arrival in port, and stating the character of the com plainant to be excellent. Mr. Rushton animadverted in strong terms on the cruel conduct of the defendant. The case, he said, was one of the worst he had ever heard of, and was calculated to fill every bosom with indignation. The magistrates had not power to inflict any punishment com mensurate with the offence, but they would not be doing heir duty if they did not go to the extent of their power. The defendant was ordered to pay £5, or in default of pay ment to be imprisoned two months. .0.- - , 1 ....,... 0 4 .r. ~,>1"-, -• i...". ,"A C ;.; ".," ri -.! t:. ,- 1 14: ,-.--- `...,..!. e• ..--- -'77 ..1.• .-A r - 4 --.:l' . -- '-r--•-': .--' ... ) THE NEW TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIP " UNITED STATES." This vessel, the largest steamer yet built at this port, and intended for the New York line, will be launched, we learn, on Saturday next, which, if the weather be tine, will doubtless be a gala day at the yard of Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co., the builders, near the Battery, North Shore. Now that the vessel is closed in, and awaits only the next high tide to be placed upon her destined element, she is daily visited by numbers of individuals, including many of the fair sex ; and the interest excited to view her, induces us to assume that the following particulars of her dimensions and construction (which are for the most part additional to what has already been published) will be acceptable to those of cur readers who take an interest in the maritime improvement of the town : Feet In. Length from stem to stern over all Length of keel Breadth, including the paddle-boxes.... Breadth of the deck between the paddle-boxes. 38 0 Depth of hold from the upper deck.. Height between the decks respectively 7 6 Length of the principal Saloon, about 7O 0 Breadth of Saloon, including the adjoining bed rooms Second, or fore Saloon, nearly of equal size, Capacity for stowage beyond her coals, about. Total adtneasurement 42 0 800 tons. 1400 tons. The " United States" is admitted by all who have in spected her to be a beautifully modelled vessel, and in materials and fastenings she is equalled by few, if any, of her Majesty's ships, and certainly surpassed by none, whether of the government or mercantile marine, of this first of maritime countries. Her frame throughout is of the choicest British "heart of oak." Her timbers from her keison to her bilges are laid close together and interiously caulked so that her bottom, to that extent, would be water-tight, even if het planks were removed. Her pirboard stroke (of S-inch plank) is bolted together through and throughout her kelson. Her flooring timbers are all cogged, or done t gether, and further secured by strong rods of iron driven through them, fore and aft. Her bottom planks are of American elm ; and such is the joint thickness of these and the tim bers that they form a solid mass of the best timber, of eighteen inches in thickness. Her sides are proportionately strong; and so bound together, that it would seem impos sible that she could be at all shaken by any casualty at sea. Her bends are of African oak ; her upper planks of English oak and fine red pine, which last is, between wind and water, equal in durability to any other timber. Interiorly the United States is fastened diagonally, in a very superior manner. From the centre, at the sides, to each extremity of the vessel, bands or straps of iron, of five inches in breadth, and three-quarters of an inch thick, are countersunk, diagonally, into the timbers, and bolted through them, those forward inclining towards the stern, and those aft towards the, bow. Over these are diagonal wooden fastenings or riders, of English oak, each nine inches by six in thickness, in a trans verse diagonal position, and also bolted through, so that both form counteracting stays or binders, giving the vessel extra ordinary strength all over, and peculiarly fortifying her where her engines will work. Her ceiling is also placed diagonally. Her knees, chiefly of massy iron, arc fixed in the most ap proved manner. Her clamps, of African oak, are all screw bolted through the sides ; and between decks are hanging knees, of iron, with strong stays, forming supporting brackets. The fore and aft beams of the boiler hatch are of iron,—wood being liable to become charred by the heat. In her upper works, interiorly, she is fairly studded with the ends of the screw-bolts from her sides. She has three decks, including the upper or spar-deck, which last, while it will afford a fine level range for walking— upwards of 230 feet in length—will, in tempestuous weather, shelter the main deck, on which the passenger will find in the space between the two cabins, " ample range and room enough" to enjoy air and exercise. The hold, now that she is clear fore and aft, presents a very gratifying, we may add, magnificent specimen of the magni tude and perfection to which naval architecture has attained. The frame-work, or bedding, laid down for the engines, is an exceedingly massy piece of carpentry. It is composed of immense balks of African oak, fixed on the vessel's bottom longitudinally, and secured in their position by transverse logs of pitch pine. The thickness of these balks or beams, from the flooring of the ship, is no less than three feet ; yet this great bulk and strength of material are, it appears, required, to support and steady the engines. The cabins are not fitted up. They will, we learn, be finished in the first style, both as regards comfort and deco ration. The sleeping apartments under the main saloon will he lighted by ten plate-glass windows on each side. Those on each side the saloon will also be lighted and ventillated from the sides, which have yet to be pierced for that purpose. The front saloon will furnish almost equal accommodations. The " United States" will be rigged, like " The Pretident," as a three-masted schooner, with fore-topmast and top-gal lant mast. She has a figure head of old Father Neptune bearing his trident, and attended by sea nymphs,—all hand somely and classically carved. The stern and quarter gal leries are also enriched by various devices. Under the taff rail there are carved the Arms of England on one side, and those of America on the other. The engines will be of 420 horse power,—built by Me:ars. Fawcett, Preston, and Co. From our having supplied a somewhat " (lengthy" account of the " President' in our last publication, we have in justice to our townsmen, Messrs. Wilson, been induced to extend this notice. We feel assured, however, that those who in spect " The United States," will readily admit, that in ex cellence of materials and fidelity of workmanship, she is worthy of all the praise we have bestowed ; and that, when fully equipped, she will be an honour to the town, and to the enterprising company to whom she belongs. ..4 444 LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. We were not surprised to find in the Albion of yesterday a question relative to this institution, which is succeeded by one or two others of r ath er a ques ti ona bl e c h aracter. " Wh at, ' asks our contemporary, " are the directors about ?" To this we shall presently reply. " Have they dropped the mat ter in despair of raising the necessary supplies ?" We doubt not the wish was father to the thought, for the next sentence insinuates that the undertaking is not one which entirely meets our contemporary's approval ; and why ? Of this he neglects to inform us, for had he done so the motive for making the first enquiry would have been too apparent ; but as probably there are many of our readers who have other and better reasons for desiring the same information, we are enabled to state that the Directors have by no means been unmindful of the trust they have undertaken, as the " Rules and Regulations of the Institution," just published by them, and which have been the result of the most mature delibera tion, will amply testify. With these rules, in which the modus operandi, by which their future proceedings will be regulated, is more fully and clearly shown than could be expected in a I prospectus, they will again take the field, in the firm expecta tion of being at once enabled, by the bounty of their fellow townsmen, to raise an institution which may be as ornamen tal as it must be useful to the town and neighbourhood. Those gentlemen, therefore, who have not yet contributed, may daily expect a visit from one or other of the directors ; and it is to be hoped that Liverpool will not be behind the other great towns of the empire in furnishing the means of education, upon a liberal and extended scale, in a manner worthy of the position which she occupies among them. There are yet a number of vacancies to be filled up in the number of Life Governors, and as every donor of £lOO or upwards will, according to the prospectus, be qualified for that honourable office, let it not be said in after times that there were not, in 1840, one hundred men in Liverpool pos sessing the requisite amount of public spirit to induce them to contribute £lOO to an institution which, of all others, possesses the strongest claims upon their generosity, fron its importance to the interests of the Protestant religion ft professed by all Trinitarians. LIVERPOOL Dom( BILL.—On Friday night, in the Hour of Commons, Lord Sandon brought in the Liverpool Doe,. Bill, which was read a first time. CONCERT FOR THE PUBLIC CHARITIES.—We regret t, say that the loss to the projector of this Concert, the objec of which was so eminently praiseworthy, has been upward, of one hundred pounds. FIRE.—A. fire broke out about half-past twelve o'clock o• , Saturday morning, in Mr. Fairelough's cooperage, School lane, but was got out before the arrival of the engines, throug: the exertions of Superintendent Bradshaw, of the count constabulary, and Messrs. Campbell and Poole, inspector belonging to the Liverpool police. POST-OFFICE RECEIVING -HOUSE, AL Low-HILL,—Th post-office authorities, for the convenience of the inhabitant of Low-hill, Kensington, Fairfield, and neighbourhood, ha‘, established a receiving -box for letters and newspapers at th shop of Mr. G. C. Barnett, chemist, Low-hill, from whenc letters, &c. are sent to the general office twice a-day, (Sm. days excepted,) without any extra charge. ST. DAVID'S DAY.—The anniversary of St. David, tl, patron saint of the loyal inhabitans of Wales, fell, this yea, on Sunday, and the celebration of it therefore was postpone. to yesterday (Monday.) The members of the Cambrian the Ancient Britons, and the St. David's Societies assemble, at half-past eight in the morning st their respective club rooms, and proceeded to Queen-square to meet the childre , of the Welsh Charity School. A procession of the who] was then formed, headed by a band of music, and intersperse with appropriate flags and banners, and about ten O'cloc moved from Queen-square into the Haymarket, thence alon: Dale-street to the Exchange area, and round Nelson's Monc ment, thence through Castle-street, Lord-street, Church street, and Raneagh-street, to St. David's Church. Divii service was celebrated in this church, in the ancient Brith language, by the Rev. Robert Davies, and a most appropria sermon, in the same tongue, delivered by the Rev. 1). Jame Minister of St. Mary's, Kirkdale. The procession, after t: close of the service, moved along Brownlow-hill, Russel street, Clarence -street, Rodney-street, Upper Duke-strec Great George-street. Great George's-place, St. James'. staeet, Park-lane, and round the Custom-house, whe, it separated. The Cambrian retired to the Grapes Iv where a feast was provided, at which Mr. Thomas Edwar; presided ; the Ancient Britons to the Vine Tavern, wilt another feast was provided, and discussed under the p; sidency of Mr. John Owens ; and the St. David's to 11 Wilkinson's, corner of Sir Thomas's -buildings, Whitechap, where they dined, and were presided over by Mr. D. Davie The unnost harmony and conviviality prevailed at each these places. In the meantime the annual examination the children in the Welsh Charity School took place in t; school-room, Russell -street. Thos. Barton, Esq., preside and the progress of the scholars gave great satisfaction. number of gentlemen, natives of and connected with ti Principality, dined in the evening at the Adelphi Hot( and Mr. George Evans, of the British Hotel, Moorfiele had his opening dinner also in the evening. The celebrat. harper, Richard Roberts, who has gained so many prizes the Esteddfods, was present. Taken altogether, this s% one of the most spirited displays that we have seen for son years. LIVER THEATRE.—Last night A Maiden's Legend, Br life and Blunderers, and Jack Shephard were perform( and gave unquestionable satisfaction. They will be repeat. till Thursday, and other novelties introduced the followL night. The dancing continues to excite great applause, we may report the same of the singing. Mr. Raymond, ; Captain o'l3edimus, and Mrs. Raymond, as Paquita, great: distinguished themselves; and it is to be wished that IA could have a little more of the former. We perceive tin Mrs. Raymond takes her benefit on Monday next, wh( Mr. Blanchard, the popular pantomimer, and Mr. Cone: with his celebrated dogs, will appear. MASTER BAssLE.—This young gentleman will give tv more converzationes in Liverpool, previously to his dept. ture. They are announced to take place next Friday, in t Medical-hall, and we would invite the attendance of all w] take an interest in observing what may be done in the way improving the memory by means of art. The programme distributed at the door, contain twenty thousand facts every branch of knowledge—that is, in all the branches general knowledge which it is requisite for most people know—and Master Bessie undertakes to answer instar any question relative to any of these facts. We can sp , experimentally of the labour that even a slight amount research requires, and we apprehend there are many oth , in the same condition. Now, by the mnemonical syst( the results of which are developed in these interesting ck verzationes, any fact, or series of facts, once ascertain , may be permanently fixed in the mind, thus reducing lab, and saving time. When we have said that, what more ( be added in praise of the system ? We understand that Mi ter Bassle, on leaving Liverpool, intends to visit Lee( where we trust he will meet with that success which his It( rits peculiarly deserve. The Ayr Advertiser contradicts the reported illness of tl Earl of Glasgow, and says that the rumour is entirely wit out foundation.