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OCTOBER 6, 1335. tened to in modern times. We regret we did not hear it, but we can well imagine the force and the saltitary effect But rejoicing as we do at this reinvigorating of the protestant spirit—at this solemn appeal to every truly reli Vous mind—at this united and noble display made by the champions of truth against the heathenish iniquities of the papal church, and against the worthless and heartless faction which, as if for the punishment of national sin, are permitted to be the counsellors of the son of GEORGE THE THlRD—rejoicing; we say, in the operations of this - good work, we are disposed to push it a few points higher. Why ? and for what end ? Listen, kind reader. We speak from a pulpit over which there is no ecclesiastical supervisor. We acknowledge no diocesan in our pecu liar province. The arm of franfic power, in the extre mity of calamitous . liberality, might have directed its thunderbolts against our free speech, and, for it, our un fortunate but sincere conviction. That day, however, is gone by. We see in the results, as if they were vic tims on the altar of a sanguinary deity, a sad confirma tion of the truths we foretold in 1829, the ignominious - consequences of a false and spurious liberality, the de basinvendency of the system cherished, and the unhal lowed advances of the papists praised, patronised, and themselves received into the pale of - the constitution as good Men; whose fealty to the - king it were -a crime to question, and whose oathS it • were a greater crime to challenge. . We spoke freely, but considerately, perhaps a little too frankly, on that occasion, and we suffered accord ingly. Never mind. We knew the day would come. The day came on Sunday last, when every honest, pious, and sincere protestant in these realms, with his pastor taking the lead, denounced or exposed, and, .exposing, denounced the 'unprincipled, heartless, diabolical, and despotical schemes of the Romish priests -of Ireltind. God forbid that We - should` call it a day of triumph to us. It is so to others—it is so . to the protestant church. We see in it only a confirmation of past views, and a rewak ening of past afflictions. That, however, is to us less than the drop ha the buaket or the mote in the sunbeam. In all the sorrow of unostentatious charity, and in all the sincerity of christian humility, we assure the Duke of WEL LINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL that their liberality is forgiven ; !but we should do outrage to unbending feel ings, and ,bring long-matured convictions into discredit, were we - not to assert that all the evils which have be- Allen :the church of England have had their origin in the cOnduct, alas, in the apathy, in the indolence, and the negldct of_ duty on the part of those who, in white rai talents, symbolical of her purity, minister at her altars. The laity are not chargeable with any dereliction of duty. In no part of England have the Romish and infidel party, supported as they have been by the socinianandnnita rian usurpars, been able to obtaida majority against the church rates. This is a proof. that the laity have been alive to their hereditary and religious attachments. Would we could say as much for those who eat the bread of the church, who administer her holy sacraments, and who have sworn to protect her ark of the covenant. No, no ; they have not done their duty. Men have been admitted to the order of priesthood who should have been confined to the camp to which they were ori ginally. destined. The wolf has been allowed to be a shepherd in out Zion. The infidel, even from the pul pit, as the professed advocate of her most philanthropic institutions, has been allowed, under the guise of fash ionable attraction, to sneer at her discipline and patron age. The mongrel in intellect has been. dressed up in her vestments, through some peculiar or corporation patronage ; and without being conscious that he is a blockhead, blames the authorities for not advancing him to a higher station than his talents entitle him. Even in higher places, higher functionaries of the church play double cards for patronage, when, under better auspices, and a more religious king, they would have filled some of its most subordinate situations. But 4A , ith all theSe specks on the fair fame of the church of England she has redeeming qualities of the highest order, and the grand oblation of Stinday last must cover a vast multitude of her sins. She has tolerated faction and infidelity .to the last verge of endurance: She has caressed iberality till .she -feels its claws and-stings Ina. vital part ; and she now recovering, as if from an opiate dream, the madness of which is dissipated by the dews of the morning, kicks to pieces all the shackles which have bound her, and .comes forth like a giant refreshed to punish the vampires who, .having sucked her blood, imagined they could dance and revel upon her ruins. Lord MELBOURN" and Lord.JOnt , t RUSSELL must now be convinced that their narrow view has been founded in a gross mistake. The word has been spokenthe trum pet has sounded--the old hill-fires of the church have been relit.; and the braggart and unprincipled missiOntiry whom they sent to make an impression upon the weak by fulsome invectives based upon falsehood ; by decla mation alike vulgar and villanous ; by professions libe ral, but aiming at despotism ; by words captivating, but smelling rank of the inquisition—has had his hourhf idle raving, and it has produced its effect upon the people of England, coming home to their national predilections, and sounding in their isles, making the old towers vi brate and old hearts feel, to an extent the result of which no sinister politics, no popish schemes, no appeals to liberality, will be able to overcome. The reminiscences of some of the Whig members of the House of Commons must' be anything but. pleasant. About two years ago they were in violent opposition to their present associates, from whom they received all the abuse which they now consider so gentlemanly and de corous when levelled against. those who, during their foimer contest, afforded them a steady and disinterested support. We remember well with what disgust we read the re port of a debate in the House of Commons in the first year of the reformed parliament, during which Mr. WARD, the member for St. Albans, attacked Mr. O'CoN nu., and received in return the compliment, " that however humble an opinion he might have of his abili ties, he (Mr. O'CONNELL) could assure him the estimate of the house was still lower." Mr. WARD doubtless must remember this very complimentary rejoinder with considerable pleasure, and must feel extremely comforz `N!)le now iu the sitkiety of _the person who thus kindly addressed him. There are many other instances of like "passages of arms" between individuals who now sit to gether on the treasuq bench. In the account of the • quarrel which follows our readers will recognise the name of Mr. CAREW O'I)wYER, who now does not sit upon the treasury bench, and has nothing to do with any other benekof which we are aware, unless it be the Ki ng ' s B e n c h. We quote the, following because Dr, LusntxoToNt is great authority attlieng the whigs. Mr.,o'DwYert, in the course of the debate, had spoken with great indecency.of the Irish church. Dr. LUSHING TON replied in the following terms:—" He lamented the tone which had pervaded much of what had fallen from the members for Ireland. The language of the honour able member he particularly regretted. He did not mean his vituperation of the goyernmenter his attack on the right honourable secretary for Ireland '(lord STAN LEY,) but he meant the words which had sunk deep in his memory, the destruction of the protestant church.'— Did the honourable member adhere to those words?" Mr. O'DWYER said that in speaking of the protestant church he only referred to its temporalities. Dr. LUSH INGTON said the explanation, was not more satisfactory than the original words. He had understood and be lieved that every Roman catholic member who entered that house. was under the solemn obligation of an oath to uphold, maintain, and sustain the protestant church in Ireland. (Cheers from the ministerial benches.) The honourable and learned member then read the oath, and in so doing was much cheered by the ministerial benches and by Mr. O'CONNELL and those around him in return. "He (Dr. LusniNuToN) took those words in their plain end evident meaning, and in so doing he had the utmost difficulty to reconcile to his conscience the , oath and con duct of the honourable member and others." (Cheers from the ministerial benches.) This debate occurred on the Bth February, 1833. Two years after that same Dr. LIithIINGTON and Mr. O'Dwv- Xit voted together in favour of a resolution to confiscate a large portion of those revenues which Mr. O'DWYER had sworn to uphold, maintain, and sustain. Let it be remembered that this is Dr. LUSTIINOTON's interpreta• (ion of the oath. In giving thAt interpretation the whigs around him cheered,-for then they did not feel resolved to sacrifice the interests of the church to the temporary ne cessities of their party—they had not then determined to allow Mr: O'CONNELL a veto on all Irish appointments. The docti4te that the House of Lords was useless was not then openly avowed by the ministerial organs, nor was the announcement made that tithe ought not to be longer paid in Ireland to the clergyman to whom it was due. But a new light has suddenly burst upon Dr. LUSHING TON and the whigs; and every principle save repeal which was then contested with the Irish gang of mendicants is now conceded. It is not now perjury to destroy the church which an oath has been taken to uphold, main tain, and sustainit is not now sedition to recommend the- non-payment of tithe—it is. not now treason in- a British minister to , patronize a person whose avowed object is the destruction of every institution in the country, and the total extinction of the monarchical principle. But this is march of intellect—this is the progress of civilization and enlightenment. It is the march of only two years : it is a progress greater than had been made in the • twenty years preceding. With accelerated motion down a declivity any revolving object will move as it nears the end. So has it been with us; for every fresh encroachment has appeared to prepare the way for increased spoliations, and to blunt all the best sensibilities and sympathies of the people. ' The Liverpool freemen will perceive by an advertise ment elsewhere, . that the revising barrister who is appointed to decide %lon their challenged claims— challenged by liberals who call themselves the friends of the people, and profess much regard for the working classes—will open his court on Friday morning, the 9th instant. We trust, "therefore, that. every freeman so ob, jected to will be at his post at an early hour on that dai. lie who from apathy, ignorance, or recklessness, absents himielf, will most unquestionably be disfranchised, and erased from the roll as if he were a cheat or a pauper. The whig, EWART, awl O'CONNELL factions have resorted to this despicable trick in sheer desperation. They know that the feelings of the town generally are against them— their own newspapers admit it-and that if the burgesses are true to themselves and the cause, they have not a shadow of a chance at the next election. The county is safe,the majority of the conservatives being considerably increased ; and there is no reason why the borough should not be equally safe. Up, then, good men and true, and make sure work of it LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. There has been an improvement in the money market both yesterday and to-day. A good deal of business has been done in Consols, which, for Money, have advanced from 901 and 901, and for the Account they have ranged between 901 and 9011 nearly all the day, and closed at that price. Some bargains have also been done for the November Account at 904, which makes the Contango rule at from 4 to per cent. The 34 per Cent. Reduced Annuities have advanced to 994 for the opening; the New 31 per Cents., after some fluctuation, closed at 9811. Omnium is at 3 premium. India Stock has declined I per cent., the last price being 2541. Bank Stock, for the opening, has he'n done at 212. The rate of the premium on Exchequer Bills hattruled at 13 to 15 ; on India Bonds it is 3s. Is. prem. Bank t. s ock, shut Omnium, 34 pm. Red. Araruities, shut India Stock, 2545 Consols, 901 s India Bonds, 1 pm. 31 per Cents.l:tqd„ shut Excheq. Bills, 15 pm. New 34 per Cents., 98 1 1 Consols for Account, 901 Long Annuities,•tiut FOREIGN FUNDS. The Spanish funds have been subject to great fluctuations during the week. On Thursday the Bonds were at 39i, and the Scrip 20 3 / 4 per cent. discount. They, however, rallied again on the following day, when they rose to 42 42/, and the Scrip IS/ 18 3 / 4 discount. There has been no material alteration in the other foreign securities. THE NORTH LANCASHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.— We were precluded by the press of local matter in our Friday's paper from giving an account of the proceedings at the first anniversary dinner of this association, which was given at Pres ton on Monday week. Lord Skelmersdale, the president of the society, took the chair. The dinner was attended by about 250 noblemen and gentlemen, comprising the most distinguished persons of rank, property, inteltivience, and influence in North Lancashire. Among the toasts given, were Sir Robert Peel — the President of the North Lancashire Conservative Associa tion—the Earl of Eldon—Lord Lyndhurst—the Members for the Northern Division of the County : Mr. Wilson Patten re turned thanks in the absence of his noble colleague Lord Stanley —the Members of the Southern Division of the County—the Operatives' Conservative Association in Manchester—and the Conservative Press. Passengers per Rocket, Henry D. Sage, eotntnander, for Kingston, Jamaica:—Mrs. Betty, Miss Betty, Miss G. Betty, Miss C. Betty, Mr. Smith, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Lowrie, and one female servant. CAUTIoN TO CARTERS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a carter was fined 10s. and costs by Mr. Alderman John Bourne for being found asleep in his cart on the Wavertree road, at three o'clock on Friday afternoon. SMALL'S VETERINARY TABLET.—This exceedingly useful work has already reached a second edition—the best proof we can adduce of its value and the estimation in which it is held. THEATRE ROYAL—MR. BROWNE'S BENEFIT.—Mr. Browne takes his benefit to-morrow night, the last of his engagement, when the comedy of " John Bull" and the farce of "The Review" will be performed. Between the play and the farce there will be singing, dancing, and other entertainments. In the play Mr. Browne will be supported by Mr. Power, in the Character of Dennis Bulgruddery, and by 'Mr. Strickland, an excellent comic actor, who has joined the company on a per manent engagement, in the part of Job Thornberry. The well known talents of "Mr. Browne as a comedian, will, we should hope, command a good house. ' How 10 MAKE AN ESCAPE.—A dissipated-looking young fel low, who, it is said, spends a good portion of each year within th e walls of the Kirkdale House of Correction, was, on Thurs day, placed before the Mayor, when watchman No. 7 3 stated, that lie had taken him to the Lock-up, on the preceding night, for having been drunk and disorderly. He (the watchman) had since then ascertained, that he was the person against whom a warrant bad been procured, on the 19th of August last, but who had kept timself so close that the officers had been unable to take him: A gentleman, named Grayson, here stepped forward and said, that he was the complainant on the warrant. On the morning of the 19th of August last the prisoner, it appears, went to the premises of Mr. Grayson, and, pretending to be in an extreme state of intoxication, tumbled himself headlong in at his (Mr. Grayson's) door. The latter, sorry to see him in such a state, lifted him up very carefully and placed him upon some steps where he would be out of the way. Mr. Grayson was then about to leave him, when he started up, with an activity greatly at variance with his affected intoxication, and struck him a tre mendous and unexpected blow in the eye, from the effects of which he had suffered severely. Ha then began a most furious row, alarmed the whole neighbourhood, broke windows, &c. and when, at length, a serious sally was made upon him, with the intention of placing him in custody, he climbed like a cat up the side of a house, and, having reached the roof, he informed them, by a very unequivocal sign, that he set them at defiance. The Mayor asked the prisoner what he had to say to this charge. Prisoner, (bluntly.)—" Nothing to say, sir." The Mayor ordered, that he should pay a fine of £2, and costs, or go to the House of Correction for two months. EXTRAORDINARY IMPRCDENCE.—FORT women and one man, bearing the names of Mary Smith, Mary Cray, Catherine Rust, Ann I.ll‘..krdle, and Nicholas Darcy, were, on Wednesday, placed before Alderman Sir Thomas 13raucker and the Worshipful the Mayor,.charged by a man, named Taylor, with having robbed him. The complainant, a hoary-headed old sinner, stated, that he was passing along the street, when he was accosted by Rust' and M'Ardle, (prostitutes of the very lowest description,) with' whom he was induced to go to a house of ill-fame, in Lace st reet. This house was described as being one of those sinks of degradation which abound in this delectable neighbourhood. 'the modesty . of the old gentleman here caused a little hesita tion; but, being encouraged by the magistrate and urged by the constables, be at length subdued the blushes which suffused his ancient check, checked the rising tremulousness of his voice, thrust his fists into his empty pockets, and proceeded to state, that he was toying with the fair ones, whose syren tongues had lured his innocence from the paths of virtue, having previously treated them with three two pennyworths of ruin, when suddenly the male prisoner appeared before him. This was the signal. The ill-fated old gentleman was thrown tisthe ground ; the cruel and inexorable fair ones on whom • he haec!4:l44,cijavishing his affections and his rum, swore that, if he dared to - siiiiviso Fry for help they'd tear his life from out his bosom. In this posltfen his pockets were rifled of sixty-one sovereigns and a half in gola:. E. P. Lloyd, police-officer, stated that the complainant came to' him and said that he had been rubbed; he did not know in what street, but its name began with an L. Soon after this, one of the prisoners called at the Police-office, and cautiously asked him if he had seen the Yorkshireman who had been robbed. The bustling but sagacious Welshman immediately fancied he smelled a rat, and set himself actively to work to ferret it out. The result was the capture of the gang above named. Sir T. Braneker, to the complainant.—" You are an overseer of the poor, I believe ?" Complainant.—" No, sir ! lam a surveyor of highways." Sir Thomas.—" And you came to Liverpool to receive this money on account of the commisssoners ?" Com plainant.—" Y es, sir; I received it all at the Railway-office yesterday." " A very trustworthy person, indeed ! " said Sir rhomas. The prisoners were all remanded. On Saturday the prisoners were brought up for final examination, when Darcy and one of the females were discharged, the evidence against them not being sufficiently explicit. The others were com mitted. EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCES IN THE LIVES OF A MAR RIED PAIR.—A newspaper of the year 1777 gives the following as an extract of a letter from Lanark :—" Old William Doug las andllis wife are lately 'dead. You know that he and his wife were4orn on the same day, within the same hour, by the sain4midthfe• christened at the same time, and at the same chtirch; thatiey were constant companions, till nature inspired them with lovAnd friendship; and at the age of nineteen were mart*, by the eb,nsent of their parents, at the church where they were christened., These are not the whole of the circum stances attending thilextraorilinary pair. They never knew a day's sickness until the dailrefor . e„t heir deaths; and the day on which they died they were exactlY'nne hundred years of age. They died in one bed, and were buriAtin one grave, close to the font where they were christened. Proaltaev did not bless them with any children." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, MISSIONARY FOR SEDITIOUS PURPOSES, I shall close my correspondence with you by a candid exarni nation of the several irrational allegations, malicious false hoods, preposterous exaggerations, and senseless threats, con - -' tained in your celebrated oration, as repeated at - Stanthester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. I shall only premise, that so numerous are your lies, and so abundant is your silly vituperation, that the utmost I can accomplish, within reason able limits, will be, to give a selection from the odious mass. 1. "We are come to a crisis in the affairs of this rountry." If there be any thing critical in the present juncture of af fairs ip this mighty empire, our condition is not likely to be ameliorated by such seditious agitators as Daniel O'Connell, whose fault it will not be if we escape aX the horrors of a civil war. Let but the executive assume sufficient firmness to incar cerate such missionaries of treason, together with those who have instigated you to your dirty work, and we shall witness any thing but a crisis. Allow me to suggest the possible con tingency of a crisis in your own history. There could not be fotind, in any part of England, an honest jury that would acquit you of high treason. There are, indeed, parts of the kingdom where s'OmetSing like the summary execution of Lynch's law might be put in force against you. Into such quarters you have too much discretion to venture. 2.—" You shall see my gratitude in redoubled efforts for the common good." How can you have the effrontery to claim any homage for having contributed by your exertions to the attainment of any good or desirable end ? Is your conduct with reference to the introduction of a system of poor laws into. Ireland an illustra tion of your zeal fur the common good? You have effected nothing but unmitigated evil ever since your agitating career commenced. Of this your own countrymen have been long convinced, and of this the inhabitants of Great Britain are be coming every day more conscious, perceiving, as they do, in your vociferous train, a motley assemblage of degraded atheists, the known enemies of public tranquillity, and the very dregs of society. 3.—" The House of Peers must yield to the moral influence by which they are surrounded—they must concede to England all that England can desire." If the House of Lords are "surrounded by amoral issflw•. ence," which must impel them to make all reasonable conces sions to the demands of England, why are you now employed in urging a reform of the peers? If they are already breathing an atmosphere which is liberal, what becomes of the ostensible object of yuur mission ? The truth is that the peers will yield to every rational desire on the part of the real people of Eng land; but to your desires they will turn a deaf ear. Hence your venomous declamations against them. You desire their subjugation—you wish them to truckle to you and the spiritual despots who rule Ireland with an iron rod—and because they have too much spirit to crouch under such base hounds, you proclaim a - war of extermination against them. That your de signs will be frustrated there is no doubt whatever, as is evident from your applauding auditories. 4.—" Sir Robert Peel stands on the one side as the advocate of the aristocracy. I a►n counsel on the othor side. lam for the people." Tide; is quite in the insinuating vein of every mountebank who assumes the character of a patriot—for the furtherance of his own selfish ends. What man ever paid more deference to popular opinion than Sir Robert Peel? What man,wore be. loved by the intelligent pa f this realm, as atPliapright statesman and an accomplished ? This veneratv of your political antagonist, which has (~14# so universalliraif fused among all ranks, from the palace to Cottage, is doll and bitterness to you. Counsel for the. people" , ,indeed! Tay what class of the people are you retained ? Who lids furnished you with , your brief? Who has tendered you the fee? Before what judges do you plead ? Go, vile compound of mendicity and mendacity—go to your own native seclusion in the conge nial gloom of Derrynane, and seek not to impose upon the peo ple of England by your ridiculous twaddle. 5. "The government ought to be miserly, because it *de money of the poor after all that they spend." This sentence contains an unqualified lie. You seem to hint that the rich do not pay any taxes at all: Yori must intend this, or nothing. If it is the money of the pcor exclusively which, "after all," defrays the expenses of the government, then it is plain that the rich contribute no portion whatever of the taxes! The truth is, that all payments come out of ajoiut stock, to which the rich furnish their proper ratio. If there are rich men receiving salaries, may we not say that these sums aro taken out of the pockets of the rich, whilst the mousy paid by the poOr supports the hundreds of thousands of the poor them selves who are dependents upon government? This preaching about economy is rather inconsistent with the practice of a fel low that .extorts a tribute of £16,000 per year from the pockets of the poor of Ireland, for the sacrifice of professional emolu ments which might have averaged JA(YH) a year! 6.—" Reel makes a set speech at Tamworth, and rails against the House of Commons." Another lie.. Sir.itobert Peel..never. indulged,in any such railing; but I know a man who called the House of Commons five hundred scoundrels. 7.—" There is a safety in a second house of legislation, on the simple principle of acting as a check upon the other." That a House of Peers, elected for three or six years, and under precisely the same influence as the House of Commons, should act as a check upon the latter, is perfectly inconceivable. Whatever faction obtains the majority in the lower will un doubtedly obtain a similar asceud'incy in the upper house. You only want a House of Lords to record the proceedings of the commons. 'Why not dispense wtth such a needless ap'- pendage ? This compound system of representation would only impede the course of parliamentary business. The ab surdity of your plan serves to prove the wisdom of our ances tors, who established a substantial check to a reckless House of Commons in an independent hereditary peerage. You only discover your folly in endeavouring to mend the system. B.—" Is there a single man amongst you that would employ an hereditary tailor? That principle of common sense will go abroad about the lords. Whether hereditary legislators or tailors we'll have none of the botches at all." This whimsically expressed objection would serve just as well if employed against hereditary monarchs; and, were you not too cowardly to risk your personal safety, you would have used it against the present king. But, even here, you are a fool with all your pretensions to wit. Would not every man— not a tenant of Bedlam—naturally prefer having his coat made by a tailor brought up with a tailor? If educated in the mys teries of his craft by his father, so much the better: this would be some guarrantee for his proficiency. But what a goose that man would prove himself, who would go to a clod-hopper, or a lazy ignorant beggar, to have his coat made ? Why should we seek our legislators among a dirty set, of brawling pothouse de claimers, possessed of no more qualifications for the office than a tinker for the profession . of a physician. 9.—" What care I for the humbugging of 'the principles of the constitution ?' I tear aside the veil, reduce this fine to plain terms, and find that it means that 170 men shall have sole dominion of the rest." What an admirable exposition of the "principles of our con stitution!" - But, in sober sadness, how can you have the audacity to repeat such a glaring falsehood as to say that the 170 peers who opposed Lord Melbourne are the only people in the kingdom who abominate his policy? This assertion has been refuted a thousand times. I beg leave to tell you, once more, and that in the most emphatical language which I can employ, that the House of Lords, in opposing your creatures in the present ministry, only acted in perfect accordance with the sentiments of the vast majority of the English people. Were then any evidence wanting to establish , this well known fact, we-have it supplied in the notorious circumstance of there being a majority of the reprentatives of the English people de cidedly opposed to you and your admirers. Attempts have been made to enslave the people of England. There is a party prepared to ride roughshod over their rights and privileges — there is a despotic faction anxious to invest itself with supreme control over the lives and property of sixteen millions of free born Englishmen ; but that clique is composed of Daniel O'Connell, Joseph Hume, and a needy host of republicans and ana rch ists. I cannot wade any further through the filthy stream of abuse which you have poured forth against your betters. You flatter yourself with having created a great sensation in the kingdom. So you have; but it manifests itself in ineffable scorn towards you and your employers. The electors of the kingdom you cannot influence. Of the thousands that have stunned your ears with their rapturous plaudits, there were not a hundredth last who were entitled to vote for members of parliament.. 1 1,"yir, the constituency is sound and safe. The lords mac, theiikre, laugh at your itinerant exhibitions. have the honour to remain, °-. With the ithpost contempt for your character, Liverpalk, Sept. 28, 1835., A WELSHMAN. • Loss OF THE AptOL STEAMER.—Extract tt letter from the agent to Lloyd'a,' .itt Aberdeen :—" The Athol steamer, John Burton, master, on her Ye:F.44l,e . from Dundee to NeYeeastle, en countered a dreadful gale on Monday everi7ng; when about five to six miles to the sbilthward of Coquet Island, and struck a tremendous sea, which lAl:, ; ber almost upon her beam-ends, and caused her to strain so'.'iriuch that the crew could not keep her free, after labouring at the.tump all night. On Tuesday morning (29th ult.), at day light, they hoisted a signal of distress, and about eight, A.M. they perceived a smack bearing down to their assistance. About ten A.M. the vessel came under her lee, and proved to be the fishing smack Flora, of London, J. Scott, master, who immediately sent his boat and four hands to them, with orders to bring two female passengers and the crew, two by two at a time, on hoard his vessel. In this way he succeeded in saving the whole (six in number); and after dodging about for a couple of hours near the steamer, and seeing that they could not save her, he bore away for the nearest port, and landed Captain Burton and his crew. and the two female passengers, all well, here this morning. After the Athol became unmanageable she drifted a considerable distance. and when he left. her she was off St. Abh's Head. about 45 miles' distance—depth of water 43 fathoms. Captain Scott behaved in the most humane and attentive manner to the crew and pas sengers, who feel most grateful fur his kindness." OBSERVANCE OF THE TM-CENTENARY OF THE PRINTING OF THE BIBLE. At all the protestant places of worship in. this' town on Sunday last, the great event of which that day was the three hundredth anniversary, was celebrated with praises and thanksgivings, and Was alluded to from the pulpit, or rather formed the subject on which the preachers addressed their several congregations. They all agreed iu enforcing one great truth, namely, that to the publication of THE WORD OF GOD in the vernacular, tongue, unmutilated and free from the fraudulent interpretations and the still more fraudulent interpolations of the church of Rome, we, as a nation, owe, first, our redemption from the debasing thraldom of popish exactions and popish superstitions; and se condly, the establishment of the civil and religious liberty we now enjoy, to which the spirit of popery is so arrogantly opposed. There was, however, one, and but one, solitary, we had almost said melancholy, exception to the course which we commenced with saying was adopted by ALL the protestant clergy of Liver pool. That exception was the ,pastor of St..lllary's Chapel; he, it seems, did nut consider it necessary to enlighten the bodily or the mentally blind of the flock committed to his charge by a single allusion to the subject which must have been uppermost in their minds. The tenets of catholicism have been frequently attacked by that gentleman. Why was he silent on this occa sion ? Are we to draw conclusions from what he does not ad vance ? But if the congregation of St. Mary's Chapel are content that their minister, on the recurrence of an important event like that of Sunday last, should act differently from the great body of the clergy, and not in unison with the feelings of the great body of protestants, we have nu right to complain-- that is their concern, not ours. (ADVERTISEMENT.) TIIE POWDER MAGAZINES. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST,I)VDARD. Sig,-Iu your paper of the 29th ult., I find some remarks ap pended to a notice " from a correspondent," of an intended meeting, respecting the removal of the Gunpowder Magazines, which I am convinced you would not have made bad you been better informed on that subject, or had you given due consider ation to the important interests which the question involves. Your correspondent states the quantity of powder kept in the Magazines as varying from twenty to forty thousand barrels. In answer 6i ills assertion only to 'ohs-erre that four thousand barrels is the largest quantity that can be stowed away in them. So much for that part of the atrair. I purposely abstained from any comment on the intended meeting, until that meeting had been held, and until -its pro ceedings had been made public. The meeting 1 • ing taken place, and-the resolutions agreed to having bce uly recorded in your paper, I shall now proceed to make me observations upon them. • The first resolution declares:— " That the continuance of the Powder agazines in this parish (Wallasey) is, from the vast quantity of powder deposited there, highly dangerous to the lives and property of the tuhabitauts of this part of the county, and of the town and neighbourhood of Liverpool, and interposes a considerable cheek to the pro• gross of improvement, and the landowners and the inhabitants of this parish' will endeavour to obtain the removal of so peril ous a depot." In direct contradiction to the statement put forth in this re solution, I have to state the well-known fact that land on the Cheshire side of the Mersey has within the last ten years been quintupled in value; that, notwithstanding the situation of the Magazines, buildings are rapidly increasing in their immediate neighbourhood, and that the speculators by whom they have been and are now being erected receive an ample remunera tion for their investments. _ . The second resolution directs that the opinion of the attorney general and Sir William Follett be taken as to the probable success of an attempt to remove the magazines by an indict ment ;—The third,—should the opinion be unfavourable to this kind of experiment—That steps be taken to procure an act of parliament to effect that object. What the opinions of these distinguished lawyers will be will of course depend upon the case submitted to their consideration. Assuming that all the facts connected with it will be fully and fairly stated, and taking into consideration that the builders and occ - upiers of houses near the Magazines have voluntarily braved whatever of danger they may have incurred—unless these ,];earned persons are to make a law for the occasion, I think 'their answer will be, " the law can do nothing for you; if nui sance it be, you have gone' to the nuisance; if in buying saud hills fer a song, and building houses and planting vineyards upon them, you have expended your money foolishly, you must take the consequences upon yourselves; you may improve your pro perty by all legal means and the removal of the Magazines may have that effect ; but, as lawyers, we cannot advise you to com mence a mere experimental action to assist a private specula tion; the thing will be too palpable, too barefaced to succeed." The fourth resolution, contemplating that this or a similar answer will be returned, directs that the act of Parliamant to be applied for shall contain a clause charging "the expences thereof, and all monies necessary for the purposes of the said act" on the rates of the parishes of Wallasey and Liverpool! In other words, we, the inhabitants of Liverpool who chance to be rate-payers. a very large portion of whom are located beyond the possibility of danger, are to be taxed for the purpose of in creasing the value of the land purchased by speculators in the neighbourhood of Liscard and the Red Noses ! Surely it would have been more consistent with common sense to have sought the removal of the magazines before the lands in question were bought or built upon. The fifth resolution requests the corporation of Liverpool to assist the gentlemen of Wallasey in their application to parlia ment. They; the resolutionists, appear not to be aware that the land on which the magazines are built belongs to the ancient corporation of Liverpool, who leased it to the several gunpowder manufacturers by whom it is now occupied. I apprehend the existing; corporation *ill not seek to revoke their own "act and- deed," and I can hardly imagine that the new corporation, un less it be a liberal one, would like to comineuce their operations by levying a tax on the town of Liverpool for purposes with Which the town is not materially and generally interested. The magazines at Liscard have been established for upwards of one century and a half, and, during that time, and more es pecially when the African trade was carried on here to a very great extent, vessels sailed almost daily with from 150 to 700 barrels of gunpowder on board, no accidental explosion has been recorded, nor has the slightest damage been done within the range of the magazines. The only explosion That has taken place was that of the Sarah. This vessel with 600 barrels of gunpowder iu her hold was blown up, when lying off the Maga zines. All on board, with the exception of one man, perished; but the houses in the immediate neighbourhood of the maga zines received no injury, and the shock was scarcely felt in the town of Liverpool. I would ask these disinterested agitators of the " Powder Ma gazine Removal Question," whether they are aware, that the trade in gunpowder is carried on to a great extent in London ; that there are a great number of magazines on both sides of the River Thames, and in the immediate neighbourhood of maeu factories and ship-building yards, docks and houses ? Are they aware that at Chester the government store never contains less than two thousand barrels of 'Power proof powder ? Do they know that there are government or private stores at Flint, Carnarvon, Bangor, Truro, Bristol, Swansea, Exeter, and fifty other places, which excite no apprehension of danger ? and lastly, I would ask you, Sir, whether all these stores are to be removed—for it we begin with one we must go on with the whole--to allay the fears of a few faint-hearted friends and land jobbers, who have chosen to pitch their tents in a place of supposed danger? The gunpowder trade is one of great importance to the coun try at large. The importation of brimstone and saltpetre gives employment to many thousand tons of British shipping. The capital invested in gunpowder works is itnmense ; the work men employed in its several branches very numerous; a con stant supply of it at convenient places is absolutely necessary for the prosecution of all our works in lead, copper, and iron mines—to say nothing of the mines ft om whence we extract our black diamonds, which, in this manufacturing country, are inure valuable than all the minesof Mexico and Peru. The idea of seeking to remove the magazines by an indict ment as a nuisance, has fraud and injustice engrossed so. legibly upon any and every part of the proceeding, that I am surprised to find any honourable mind entertaining the proposal for a single minute. An application to parliament, provided the parties aggrieved are prepared to pay all the expenses, I have less objection to, although I do not think it necessary; because no act for the removal of them could be obtained, unless it con tained a provision for the complete indemnification of every in terested party, at the expense of those who feel aggrieved by its continuance where it now stands. The amount of that corn pensation will, I guess, be pretty considerably large. Before I conclude, in order to relieve the minds of the timid froth apprehensions of danger, I have to state that copper hammers and copper anvils are always used in the magazines; that the workmen are furnished with list slippers to put on when they enter them; that in the construction of the buildings tree nails only are used; that there is no iron in or near the build ings to act as conductors of lightning, from which alone there could be any danger; and that every precaution is taken to prevent the possibility of an accidental explosion. I am, Sir, yours, &c. tec. CONSERVATOR. TOWER MENAGERIE.—None of this once excellent and valu able collection of animals now remains, the empty dens, cages, &c., being only to be seen. The Zoological Gardens have com pletely superseded the Tower collection, which has been consi derably diminishing of late years, and which was private pro perty, and under private management, at its unprofitable and final close. Tin DRIVERS AND THE DRIVEN.—TO many travellers in stage-coaches it is little known that an English baronet, and also a brother of another baronet, are, at the present moment, the drivers of two distinguished staire-emiches, and contrive, by the dexterity of their "bloody-hand" to keep the whip-hand of many professional competitors. A Goon I is Ist' Colonel Kemyss, of the 40th regiment, was remarkable for the studied pomposity of his diction. One day observing that a careless man in the ranks had a particu larly dirty face, which appeared not to have been washed for a twelvemonth, he was eXceetlingly indignant at so gross a viola tion of military propriety. "Take him," said he to the corporal, who was an Irishman, " take the man. and lave bins in the wa ters of the Guadiana." After smile time the corporal returned. " What have vou done with the man I sent with you?" in quired the colimel. Up flew the corporal's right hand across Use peak of th e ca p—" Sure an't plaice y'r honour, and did'nt v'r honour tell me to tare bins in the river? and sure enough I left him in the river, and there be is now, according to y'r hon nor's orders." The byestanders, and even the colonel himself, could hardly repress a smile at the facetious mistake of the honest corporal, who looked innocence itself, and wondered what there could be to laugh at. „ TREATMENT -OF BRITISH SEAMEN IN B HSSIA•---We can sclreely , meet a shipmaster that visits a Russian port who does not complain of ill-treatment by the Russian Customhouse zfficers, or of the exorbitant port charges exacted, which aie mole than triple the amount levied on Russian vessels of equal tonnage entering a British port. The following is one of many instances we have heard:— rhe schooner Isabella, of Kirkaldy, was at Cronstadt in August last; and it is matter of notoriety that all seamen at Petershurgh are obliged tocook their victuals on shore. On or about the 10th August, Wm. Robertson, cook of the Isabella, was going on shore, carrying oatmeal in a wooden dish, in order to cook the breakfast of .04 crew, when, in passing the booms, one of the Custom-house officers eta 'tinned there stirred the meal and salt svith an instrument he had in his hand and upset it. on whirls the cook challenged him for so doing, whereupon the officer seized him, took him out of his boat, and carried him before the police magistrates, who, without any investigation, hut simply the word of the officer, sentenced bins to three days' slavery, and to carry stones to the roads at the docks. Surely our ambassador. or consul ought to remonstrate with the Russian government for such infunous treatment of British seamen.—Fijcshire Jeered. " Are yea the man," said the American coachman to Duke Bernard, of Saxe. Weimar, "that is to go in that carriage?" " Yes." "Then lam the gentleman that is to drive you." A stone-tnason died a short time since at Woolwich, who had been employed three years prior to his death in making his own brick grave, and erecting his own tomb-stone. He carried the work on to the finishing of the inscription, leaving only a blank fur the date. - Matta tuo.—On the 7th, at Haverford West, Thomas George Goune, Esq., of Stile Park. Pembrokeshire, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late R. B. Prest, Esq. Curious doings at H.sverford West! Where is the bride who lately was Prest? " Presto, pass!" said the Reverend Don, And, Neigh cockolorum, she's here and Gonne !—Age.. Tftk Di NGARVON PRIESTS.—We are glad to find that Mr. GalWey, who, by priestly tyranny and influence, lost his elec tion recently for Dungarvon, is determined upon exposing the infamous conduct of those " amiable and exemplary men," as Lord Plunkett designated them. Mr. Galwey, whois himself a Roman catholic of the old Irish school, stated the following. instance in open court of the vindictive and intolerant exercise of priestly authority. This gentleman said, on the first day of the late election, that his will. and children were forced to leave the chapel on the preceding Sunday, in consequence of the foul and filthy abuse levelled at him by the priest from the altar during the time he was performing the service of worship to God! On another occasion, Mr. Galway also stated that when Mrs. Galway was lying on a sick bed one of these sacerdotal scoundrels took the opportunity of writing an insulting letter, denouncing in brutal terms. her husband. On being asked why be did so ? this cowled ruffian replied, " Because I'll be a greater thorn in her side than Father Fogarty." " Yet these— " be thy.gods, 0 Israel!"—these are the men whom we are said to calumniate. Hear the evidence of Mr. Galwey, a Roman eatholit, who would fain emancipate himself and his unhappy country from the tyranny of such a set, and say who are the calumniated l- ...49e. ANOTHER WIGGETT AT WORK.—A fortnight ago we showed how that immaculate senator, Mr. Edward Deliver Wigeett, had attempted to sneak his name upon the register for Aliddle sex for a house in which he had lived but six months, he well knowing that twelve months' residence was required. Now we have to notice a - similar iece of low trickery- on the part of his brother, Mr. Henry Butwer Wiggett, the illustrious member for Marylebone. This worthy young gentleman on Tuesday last claimed to vote fur the county of Middlesex, in respect of a house thus fashionably situated—" Nu. 1, George-street, St. George's parish, 1411iechoyel." It came out that Mr. Henry Bulwer's attorney had already established . a claim for the very same property, upon which the bun. member for the rump of Marrowbone was struck elf. What sneaking, petty, despicable work this is! Here are, two members ofparliament, who ought to know the act, who are erpetual brawlers for the proprieties Of pure election—yet, in defiance of them, and iu defiance of the reform act, they endeavour surreptitiously to obtain votes upon false qualifications. We should like to know where their qbalitications as members of parliarneat are.situated Several bodieS of men have been recently sent from the Bri tish troops in Spain to this country. Strange rumours are afloat respecting the discipline and state of the new levies. The Want of provisions and of those comforts which the English re• cruits expected in the service of the Queen, led, it is slid, to a mutinous spirit, and some have aetnally . been sent borne, to prevent their deserting to the Cellists. The punishment of flogging is resorted to with severity.—London paper. [The punishment of flogging inflicted upon the pattints who form the army of the Generalissimo Evans! What will the people of We;tniinster say to this ?—E.L.S MASQUERADE TRICK.-- At t late masquerade in Malta given by the Jady of the English governor, two British officers ap peared in the character of a couple of large bottles of blacking, Labelled, the one, " Day and Martin," the other, " Warren, Strand." After moving about in great style for some time, they ran against each other and broke all ;o pieces, when out jumped two harlequins, who amused the company with many ingenious tricks and witty artifices. THE KNowLE PARK BEECH.—This most magnificent tree in Knowle Park, Kent, is the largest undecayed and entire beech in the kingdom. It was measured a few weeks ago, and these are its dimensions:—circumference of the stein, six inches from the ground, 39 feet 5 inches; four feet above, 28 feet 1 inch ; seven feet above, 25 feet; one spiral limb, fourteen feet from the ground, 15 feet; mean height, 89 feet ; circumference of ground covered by branches, 347 feet. IRON. — lt is not uncommon to case-harden rail-road plates, by casting them upon a piece of cold iron; this method, termed chilling. is more especially resorted to in the casting of cylin ders fur rolling metal, forge hammer faces, and counowstithies. At a public meeting in England the weather was warm, and there stood near me a little fat gentleman, who seemed much incommoded by the crowd. There came pressing behind him a tall, raw-boned man, holding it memorandum in his hand. " What do mean, sir, (said the fat gentleman,) by crowding and jostling in this manner? Who are you, sir ?" "Sir, I'm one of the gentlemen connected with the press." " 1 thought so, (was the ready reply,) for you have nearly squeezed my ribs in."—Twenty Years in Retirement. BEAUTY OF ENGLISHWOMEN.—CertainIy our fair country women do bear away the palm of beauty. Much of this depends on our climate; something on our simple diet ; but more. I think, on . our language, which requires less movement of the muscles of the face than that of any other Eumpean tuition. The French, in particular, from the pronunciation of their lan guage, have, after a certain age, the lines about the mouth very strongly defined, which certainly dues not add to their beauty. The gesticulation of the English is also much less Until that of foreigners; but whether this arises from the copiousness of our language, which needs no accessories to convey the meaning of the speaker, or from the phlegmatic character of the people, is more than I can pretend to say. This, however, I have ob served, that after having been long accustomed to the faces of Englishwomen, the features of the French appear hard; and, vice versa, when in the habit of seeing French countenances, those of my countrymen appear hisipid.—From Captain Blaki, ton's New Work—" Twenty Yeats of Retiretnent." Tuesday last, being Michaelmas Day, the customary grand cmumen-day of this corporation was held, at which it has been usual to swear in the new mayor and other officers of the borough. After some routine business a discussion took place as to whether the mayor and officers of the past year ought not to he continued according to a clause,of rise-new municipal cor porations .act. • ,Sevet al of time burgtoses wercittLe4ggsw. that ibe, mayor elect should be installed, in which (pinion they Were strengthened by that of Sir C. Wetherell, who had been con sulted. The opinion of Professor Starkie had also been taken, and he spoke decidedly to the propriety of the old officers being continued until the end of .the year. It was at length' decided by a large majority that the present officers should be conti nued. The vice-chancellor, attended by the proctors, &c., went to the Town-hall as usual, and, on his arrival, addressed the mayor, observing that he attended • there according to ancient custom to swear in any gentleman to the office of mayor of the town whom the corporation should present to him. The rev. gentleman having been informed that there was no gentle man to whom the oaths were to be administered retired, and the hall was shot tly after adjourned.—Cambridge Chronicle. Manta:mom - a e LOTTERY.—On the 21st day of December lasts I was through the State of Smith Carolina, and in the State was quickly informed that the family was invited to a wedding at a neighbouring house, and, on being requested, I changed .my clothes and went with them. As soon as the young people were married, the company was seated and most profound silence en sued, (the man of the house being religious.) A young lawyer then rose and addressed the company very handsomely, and fin ishing his discourse, begged leave to ofter a new scheme of matrimony, which he believed and hoped would be found bene ficial. On obtaining leave, he proposed : That one man in the company should be selected as president; that this president should be duly sworn to keep entirely secret all communications that should be forwarded to his official department that night; and that each unmarried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it place the person's name with whom they wished to marry--Then hand it to the president for inspection; and if &ay lady or gentleman had re ciprocally chosen each other, the president was to inform each of the result; and those who had not been reciprocal in their choices were to be kept entirely secret. After the appointment of the president the communications were accordingty handed up to the chair, and it was found that twelve young men and ladies had reciprocated their choices, but whom they had chosen remained a secret to all but themselves and the president. The conversation changed, and the company retired. Now hear the conclusion : I passed through the same place on the 14th of March followiug, and was told that eleven of the twelve matches had been solemnized, and the youg gentlemen o f e i g ht c ouple s of the eleven had declared that their diffidence was sr) great that they certainly should not have addressed their respective wives if the above scheme had not been introduced. Gentlemen under twenty, and ladies under fourteen, were excluded as unmarriages ab l e.—A sae i iean Paper. THE BANK OP ENGLAND AND ITS BRANCIIEL—A change has recently taken place in the mode of transacting business between the Bank of England and the branch hanks in the coun try, which claims some notice, as all such changes are produc tive more or less of inconvenience to the public. Heretofore the practice was, when payments were to be made in London through the branch banks, for the parties to a bill payable in 2ldays, or some fixed term, after date, which, when arrived at maturity, 'became in all respects the same .as a banknote, and exacted no trouble whatever from the holder. Latterly, instead of this practice, at which no exception ha. been taken, nor any complaint made, the plan adopted is tar give a bill payable seven or more days after sight. which document is of no value to the possessor until presented at the Bank for accentance in the same manner as an ordinary bill of exchange. To many persons, es- Teeially where the vans are small, .and the. parties not much conversant with business, this is found to be highly inconvenient, and the whole thing is, in fact, greatly complainedsof. It is said that this is done in consequence of a question introduced into the cross bill in equity filed by the directors of the London and Westminister Bank against the Bank of England, which asks how the latter can possibly sustain any injury by the acceptance and taking up bills by the former corn t,arty, when they (the hank of England) never do any business cif that kind? The bank directors, it is imputed, are preparing themselves to put in an answer to that question, by this new.practice of accepting bills from the country branches' it is so difficult to believe, how ever, that a step of this kind can have been taken by a great corporation w ith no other view than that of-keeping up a hostile .contest with a rival with a small capital, and ti very remote chance indeed of ever becoming formidable, imposing at the -same time very unnecessary trouble on the public, that this view of the case ought nut to be adopted except upon the stroog a est and clearest evinciice. Some explanation seems, however, to be necessary.—Morsting Paper, EXTRACT PIWAI TIIE PHILADEI,pIIIA FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. Every discovery, no matter of what !while, in a lesser or greater degree, adds lustre to the human lintel, and rearcis credit on the individual who, by his zeal, industry. :end re searches, has brought to perfection such discovery. But in the illimitable field of chemistry, how much more is due to him, who shall effect in t hat-exhrinst less science, an useful prepara tion, so as to make age appear young, and to adorn beauty. 1 have been led to this remark, by having seen the wondrous effects produced by the application of - Oldridge's Balm of Columbia upon those who had been bald, or whi , se hair bad been thin and weak. From the respectability of the recommendesaa of this precious capillary restoring and preserving halm. ;Md . from conversations with others who have made trial of it, 1 mitts induced to use it, in order t 9 satisfy myself. I was hereditarily bald, and was the sport of pdy juvenile associates, whom nature had endowed with this .of amental clothing. ' 'heir scoffs and jeers I bore with a philosophical froidcur. il t ivi • yips , . tried a great vs riety of unlions, none of which KIT the e f - venting the fatting (a, much less of restoring to me my ,1' consequently declined them, after patient and reiterated attempts as spurious in two. Still anxious, in an advanced period of age , to appear no Old9rtilail 1 reallVayas, I tesested to Oldridge's Balm, and,to Ay utter astonishment; and to the wonder of those who greW l with my growth, strengthened with my strength, anddeclined into the vale of years with me, I can boast as fine a covering of hair as any of ray acquaintance, front sixteen to thirty years of age." ..--- OLDRID E'S BALM causes whiskers a 'eye-brows to grow, prevents the hair from turning grey,. the first applica tion makes it curls beautifully, frtles . l fr scurf, and stops the hair from falling off. Abundanee eitificates front gentle men of the first respectability in gland, are shown by the proprietors, C. and A. Oldridge s Wellington-street, Strand, ondon, where the Balm is sold, end by all respectable Per fumers and Medicine 'Venders—Price 3s. 6d., 6s. and Ils, per bottle. CARRIER Pin.Eotsa.--sWe have tiot,a dould alit_ it is the eye alon e . that the carrier pi ge o n p er foima those extraordmar3 aerial journevs which hive front the eatliest ages excited asto nishment. We 'have frequently witnessed the expdritnent made With other pigeons of taking timent to a distance frdm a dove cot, expressly to obseoe their manner of finding. their Away back, and we feel satisfied thut their proceediugs are arniforinly the smite. On being let go front the bag in which that' have been carried, in order to: conceal from their notice the objects on the road, they dart off nu an irregular excursion, as if it were erture to ascertain the reality of their freedom than tai make an effort to return. ....When they find thetus , lves at full liberty, they direct their flight in circles round the spat whence they had been liberated, increasing the diameter of the circle at every round, and rising at the saute time gradually higher. This is continued as long as the eye can discern the birds, and hence we conclude that it is also continued after we lose:sight of them, a constautls' increasing circle being made till they att certain some known object enabling them to shape a direct course. It is not a little interesting to contrast the proceedings just described with those of a pigeon let off from a balloon eres vated above the clouds. Instead'of rising in circles like the 'former, the balloon pigeon drops perpendicularly down, like a plummett, till it is able to recognise some indi - cations of the earth helew, when it begins to wheel round and descend spirally, increasing in diameter, for the evident purpose of surveying its locality and discovering some object previously known, by which to direct its flight. AsEcnore OF Da. Jo oNsoN.—After Waiting some short time in the adjoining room, I was admitted to Dr. Johuson in his bed-chamber, where, after placing me next him on the chair ; (he sitting in his usual place on the east side of the room, and I on his right hand) he put into my hands two volumes, an edi tion of the New Testament, as he afterwards told me, saving, "Extremum hoc intuins morientis habeto." He then pro ceeded to observe that I was entering upon a life which would lead me deeply. into all the business of the world : that he did not condemn civil employments, but that it was a state of great. danger, and that he had therefore one piece of advice earnestly to impress upon me, that I would set apart every seventh day for the care of my soul. That one day, the seventh, should be employed in repenting what was amiss in the six precedirvs, and fortifying my virtue for the six to come. That surely sue% a portion of time was little enough for the meditation of eter nity.— /Vier/ham': Journal, Dcc. 7. ORIGIN OF EATING GooSE ox MIcHAELM ts DAY.—Queen Elizabeth, on her way to Tilbury Fort, on the 29th of September 1589, dined at the ancient seat of Sir Neville Umfreville, near that place, and as British Bess had much rather dine off a high seasoned and substantial dish than a simple fs; , .asee or ragout, the knight thought proper to provide a bra;•e of tine geese to suit the palate of his royal guest. After the Queen had dined heartily she asked for a halespint bumper of burgundy, and drank " De struction to the Spanish armada." She -had but that moment returned the glass to the knight who bad done the honours of the table, when the news came (as if the Queen had been pos sessed with the spirited' prophecy) that the Spanish fleet had been destroyed' by a storm. She immediately tenk another bum per. in order to digest the geese and good news, and was so much pleased with the. event that every year after on that day she had the shove excellent dish servea up, The courrmade it a custom, and the people the fashion ever since. RoMISH easuisray.—Dens tells us, that "he who denies hifitself\to he a priest, when he really is one, only tells a mere official lie."—Vol. it. p. 65. See ilf‘Gliee's Letter, p. S. Now it is remarkable that the-same species of falsehood is denounced by the great Lightfoot. "1 cannothut admire the impudency, as well as abhor the wickedness of the Jesuits' doctrine of equi vocation; a doctrine that bath put on a whore's forehead, a bra zen face, and the devil's impudency itself, liefoie semen, as well as it path clothed itself with abominableness before God. It is a doctrine that teacbeth omen to lie, and yet will maintain that they lie not. A trick beyond the devil's; he turns truth into a lie : these can turn a lie into truth. A popish priest or Jesuit is brought before a protestant magistrate; he puts him to his oath; 'Are you a popish priestor Jesuit?' they will swear No! roundly, having this reserve in their mind, I am not a priest to you; or, I am not a priest of the English church ; or, I tern not a Jesuit to tell you, or be your confessor; or some such lurking thought reserved in his mind."--Lightfuot's Remains, vol. i. p. 191. Pitman's edition. CasT-re cm—Sea water, by some unexplained process, so alters the nature of cast-iron, that its cohesion appears to be quite destroyed. Cannon which have been fished up, after lying long in the sea, have b een f oun d converted through their -sub stance into something resembling plurubago, and admitting of being cut with a knife. DISCOVERY OP AN ANCIENT CHURCH IN CORNWALL—At Perranportb, Mr. Michell has recently removed the sand from the oldest church . in the parish, which appears to have been overwhelmed by it, according to tradition, faintly supported by records, 500 or . ooo years ago. The church wants nothing to render it complete except its roof and doors. The length within the walls is 25 feet; breadth 14 feet; and the height of the walls the same. At the eastern end is a neat altar of stone co vered with lime. The congregation were accommodated with some seats attached to the walls of the nave. In the south wall is a Saxon arched door-way, highly ornamented, 7 feet 4 inches high by 2 feet 4 inches wide. The key-stone of the arch pro. jects 8 inches, on which is rudely sculptured a tiger's head. The floor was composed of sand and lime, under which bodies were unquestionably buried, the skeletons of two having been discovered. It is very remarkable that no vestige of a window has been found, unless a small aperture of inconsiderable di mensions, in the south wall of the chancel, and which is ten feet above the surface of the floor, should be considered one. Around this interesting building lie thousands of human hones exposed to desecration, the winds having removed the sand in which they were deposited. BROWNENTT'S REGISTRY OF LIVERPOOL—WO take leave to tail the attention of the public to the advertisement of Mr. Brownentt, respecting his register of houses and other property to be let or otherwise disposed of, in the town or neighbourhood of Liverpool. MAP OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.—Mr. the surveyor, has just published a map of Liverpool and the country surrounding it to the extent of six miles, including a part of Cheshire. The villas and houses of the gentry are most ac curately marked, together with the adjoining paddocks and fields, and the names of the proprietors of the land. The par liamentary and parochial boundaries are laid down, and the river soundings are also indicated. The map will he found very. iiSefet and on that to the notice of the public. NATIONAL CHARACTER.—`Some travellers," says the Phi ladelphia Gazette, " have defined the Americans to be a notion that put their knives in their mouths when they eat, instead of their forks. Others, again, have, described them as a people that lean hack in heir chairs. There is one definition, however, thatall of us will plead guilty to. We are a people who are ling to pay a high price for books that abuse us, and nothing fur those which speak well of us." General Evans, it seems, has been und e r the necessity of sending home ail his band, whose conduct has been any thing but harmonious. To drum ant all the drummers is, however, rather a novelty in military discipline. THE Gross IN SILK.— How much are we not indebted to chance for many of our great discoveries in the arts. and iu trade especially? Here follows a notable instance of the fact as it regards the latter: Octavio Mey, one of those enterprising foreigners, svho, in the 17th century, transforred from Italy to Lyons the industry of the silkworm, and had seen a fortune of many thousands dissipated in futile and vain speculations— this man, while musing on the banks of the Soane the means of repairing his losses, in despair, and absent of mind, was un consciously chewing a few shreds of silk, to o high the action of the teeth gave an unusual lustre. Octavio Mew, perceiving this, conceived at once the notion that lev a process simple and put e ly mechanical the silk might be made to acquire the glossiness of character which we now find to be a principle in the marinfac ture of the article in all climates and -places where the trade is encouraged. This discovery, trifling as it might scent, no' only saved the inventor from disgrace and bankruptcy, but in the end tripled his fortune. Throughout the whole of the south-west of Cornwall the wheat crops are,of a very superior quality, and not less than from 6111 s. to 651hs. per Winchester bushel. The barley, also, is remark ably fine for inali ing, the Winchester bushel weighing.geneialli from 501hs. to 5411i5. THE NEW Poor: L.sws.—On Tuesday one of the Poor Law Commissioners attended, and called a meeting at Chertsev, for the purpose of forming an union of parishes, n hen the labourers, about 150 strong, forced their way into the room, drove the coins missioner from the house, and threw his papers into the street. Several of the foremost hm'e been apprehended, and an investi gation is going on.—Reading Mercury. SrocK JOBBING.—The Dutch letters state that on Saturday last a pigeon, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, flew through an open window into the sick'quat tors of the garrison of Flushing. The bird on being taken up was found to benne of the feathered messengers of the Stock Exchange, which had lost its way and was unable to proceed further.. It bore under its wing a billet with the closing prices of Wednesday, end had probably been driven out of its couase and prevented from reaching its destina tion by a bird of prey. The senate of Frankfort haying been informed that burlesque represenintions of the manners of that city, where the Jews aro still the object of exceptional laws, are enacted at the minor theatres of Paris, in a piece entitled Treize Maria v ns, one of its members proposed that M. Rumpff shou!d be directed to make a protest. against this proceeding to the French ministry. Tho member in question observed that the French minister had often complained of libels directed against the Frencheovernment by the press of countries where a censorship exists, and that as the theatres of France were now subjected to a censorship this courae should be imitated by Frankfurt. What decision the Senate will come to on this question it is impossible to say.— Brussels Pape?. - Illonr. or EFFECTING MARINE INSURANCE.—If a mei client wishes to effect en insurance on a shipreent of goods to some distant port, he gives his broker written Older, to do so. speci fying the name of the vessel and captain, the number and value of the different packages forming the shipment, and every par ticular necessary for the information of the underwriters. Übe broker immediately fills np a printed policy of insurance, bears ing a stamp according to the amount insured lira the rate of pre mium; (the duty is 2s. 6d. per cert. when the pientium is at or under 20s. : and ss. per cent. if above,) with the requisite par ticulars, and presents it to the underwriters, as they are called, with whom he transacts business. Underwriters make it a rule never to hazard any large sum upon one ship or cargo ; the principle of the business being to distribute their risk over as large a number of vessels as possible, so as to multiply the indeed will go the length of ''lslXn/eueisto`:,raesscinagpleefprooTcylor a . bou r t e LX) is. the average amount of risk usually undertaken by each underwriter on one vessel, or shipment of goods. Supposing then your ebillarnt to be worth 4 '2‘400. your broker will probably get your policy signed by ten different underwriters, each of whom b ecomes respens ibl e to the extent. of £ 201) in the case of total loss accruing to von. It' the premium charged be 255. per cent., and the policy stamp an •additional 55., the total sum paid for the insurance of this shipment will be £3l), or l per cent.,. exclusive of brokage, which is usually five per cent. in, the 'premium. This sum you enter as a charge upon the goods in the invoice. Should the goods be entirely lost, :you recover the whole value; or if par tially lost, or damaged. a proportion according to the amount of the actual loss sustained by you. In insulin goods, you should add to the amount of the invoice, the expenses of insur ance and recovery in case of loss or damage.—Marine insurance companies are only found in very large tit ies or ports. Hence or ders for insurance are frequently transmitted from other places to London. The principal establishment for this purpose in the hipptropolis is Lloyd's. This establishment has au agent in al rifblikLevery port in the w or ld, an d i s accurately acquainted througJi. them with the character and condition of almost every vessel eitittileyed in the mercantile service. When any damage has arisen shipment of goods insured at Lloyd's, it is the business of ',f4rir correspondents at the port of dischar g e, to cause the residit* agent of that establishment to examine into and report upon qre alleged loss. This report is sworn to before, the consul at the Wart, and upon its being received at Lloyd's, the underwriters Ythli,'§ubseribed your policy pay the amount of damage reported, accOding to the proportion in which each underwrote. When gds are insured oy you ass .( hir isdsio for o o nac i s count of foreign partiek.an addition of (Lat . ! ,a your trouble, and a perecutage for auararo semis rio c. vency of the underwriters, are rt . :many charged. When you ensure goods consigned to you fornsale by a foreign house, you charge the expense of insurance in"your account of sales.— lite Mer• chart and Banter's CummerCicti Packet Guide. _ _-4Mr'7l ~'~ .~;, - Tit - AP 7'