The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, FOR THE BENEFIT OF .11IR. G. STANSBURY, And the Last Night of Miss ROMER and Mr. G. STANS Mrs. HONEY, o f the Th ß eatre-Royal, Haymarket, is en gaged for Five Nights, and will make her first appearance this Season on Monday next, the 11th instant. The early arrangements of the Season include the engage ment of the following Performers of the Metro t Theatres,: Mr. BUCKSTONE, p the celebrated Dramatist and Peformer, of the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket. Mr. YATES, the Proprietor and Manager of the Theatre- Royal, Adelphi. Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent garden and Adelphi. Mr. PAUL BEDFORD, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent . garden and Adelphi. • Mr. POWER, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden, Drury-lane, and Haymarket. And Mr. G. - VANDENHOFF, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent garden. The celebrated Dancers, Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN, of Her Majesty's 'Theatre, and the Theatres-Royal, Co vent-garden and Drury-lane, are also engaged, being their first appearance here these four years, and who will, in the various Ballets and Dances which will be produced during their engagement, be assisted by their Pupils, Master and Miss MARSHALL, and Miss TAYLOR. An engagement has also been entered into with Madame VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS, during their London recess, for Ten Nights, and they will make their appearance soon after the close of Covent-garden, of which due announcement will be made. Arrangements are also in progress with other eminent Per formers, and a variety of Novelties will be produced in rapid succession. THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the Bth instant, will be performed the Opera of THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. Susannah Miss Romer. Basil Mr. G. Stansbury. Count Almaviva Mr. W. Howard. Figaro ........ Mr. Baker. Morello Mr. Barker. Cherubino Mrs. Tellet. Countess.... Miss Grant. Barbarino.. Mrs. P. Crowe. After which, the laughable Interlude of Mr. Peter Pringle.. Mr. B a k er . M rs . P r i ng le.. Mrs. Clarke. Tu conclude with the Burletta of MIDAS. Apollo. .. • Miss Romer. Midas Mr. Baker. •Daphne.. Mrs. P. Crowe. Nysa.. Mrs Tellet. On MONDAN next, May 11th, the Melo-Drama of the B LIND B\ _Ater which a Comedy, in two a ct s , called My GRANDFATHER'S WILL. Albina Wrs. Honey , her first appearance this season.—To which ill be add e d the favourite Drama of PERFECTION. Kate O'Brie n , M -- Airs. Honey.—To conclude with KATHE RINE AND PETRUCHIO. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We must decline giving insertion to the second letter of the Rev. W. Bevan. The manuscript is left at our office. The Liverpool Times of Tuesday last, asserts that " the late editor of the Liverpool Standard was dismissed by the proprietors in consequence of not being allowed to speak the truth with respect to the Corporation schools." The editor of the Times must know, or ought to know, that this charge is utterly false. In the first place, no editor has been " dismissed" since this paper has been under the control of the present proprietors. It is true that a gentleman acting in that capacity left this establishment, not, however, in consequence of " not being allowed to speak the truth with respect to the corporation schools," but because a paragraph relating to those schools, appended to a leading article, and stultifying all the writer's previous arguments, was omitted. He left, in short, because he was not allowed to make a fool of himself. ittinr)ool FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1840. Well has the Government of Lord Melbourne earned for itself the title of " The Shabby Administration !" There is no meanness of which its members have not been convicted, and no degradation to which they will not submit, in the hope of averting their approaching fall. Their very existence as a Government has been one continued crawl from foulness to foulness, and it will never cease to be such until the indignant spirit of England shall be roused, and the filthy things carted away, from Downing-street and Whitehall, to luxuriate amongst the congenial nastiness of St. Giles's or Seven Dials. We are not going to catalogue the long series of dis honourable and despicable tricks by which the Whig party have for the last ten years contrived to fasten theselves to place and pay—to place without power, and pay without its equivalent. Our object is only to call the attention of our readers to their last trick — their la'st shuffle of the thimbles. We have before characterised their opposition to the passing of Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill as a disgraceful aban donment of principle to serve the purposes of faction; but -we now find that an abandonment of principle more flagrant than ever was attempted by even a Whig* administration is not deemed a sufficient propitiation to the truculent demagogue who controls and goads their proceedings, without being accompanied by a trick as Mean and despicable as ever was resorted to by a baffled gamester to redeem a run of bad luck, or a pettifog ging lawyer to evade a just claim or bolster up a bad cause. It will be perceived, on reference to the debates in parliament on Monday evening, that the ministerial Inan of all work, Lord John Russell, brought in two bills, having for their professed object a reform, upon whig-radical principles, of the English system of re gistration of voters. We shall not here enter upon an examination of the merits of these bills : our business Is only with the motive which induced their being pre- rented to the house at the present moment. We cer tainly, in our simplicity, had no suspicion that the bills in question were any other than the ordinary attacks upon the substantial features of the reform bill, which have been made session after session, and been session after session defeated. We find, however, that we have sadly underrated the Machiavelian tact of this jesuiti cal Homunculus, and that their object is as insidious as their introduction is degrading—if any thing could further degrade so despicable a thing as the present government. In the Dublin Evening Post (a ministerial journal) of April 14th, we find a report of an incendiary speech delivered by O'Connell, in which, after boasting that, in his opposition to Lord Stanley's registration bill, he possessed the sympathising concurrence and co-opera tion of ministers, he proceeds to say that " Lord John Russell has brought in a bill to amend the law of re gistration in England, which will give the house the le gitimate EXCUSE of postponing the Irish bill until the English one be settled." The same language, almost Word for word, is reported in the Dublin Monitor, the Freeman's Journal, and the. Pilot, O'Connell's especial organ, and we can therefore entertain no doubt of its substantial correctness. Now, we ask our readers to examine coolly this base and impudent effort of the faction to wriggle out of the dilemnia into which the measure of Lord Stanley has precipitated them. They do not, they dare not, meet the discussion of this mea sure upon its merits. They dare not meet conserva tism in a fair stand-up fight, in the good old English fashion. Artifice, trickery, and evasion are familiar to them, and these despicable weapons are resorted to in stead of honest and manly argument. . But we must, in justice to the faction, examine a little further the motives of this shallow manoeuvre, and place before our readers the full measure of infamy which it displays. Our readers will scarcely be pre pared to expect that, after the evils of the Irish system of registration have been so frequently admitted, and especially the want of an annual revision of the regis ter; after these evils have been over and over again distinctly admitted by government, and a remedy for the evil —more especially as regards the principle of an annual revision—attempted to be provided for by a bill brought in by their own Attorney-General, the same government should now be found endeavouring to as similate the English system of registration to that cor rupt and debasing system which they have themselves so repeatedly denounced ! Yet such is the fact. This is the EXCUSE which these mercenary slaves are afford ing to the House of Commons for postponing the bill of Lord Stanley. This is the demonstration made to Mislead and mystify the country, and to give a loop hole of retreat, by which their degraded tools—the greedy expectants of pay and patronage —may escape the necessity of annihilating themselves, by cutting away the ladder of corruption and perjury by which their " bad eminence" has been attained ! Let Lord Melbourne, after this instance of shameless collusion with O'Connell, deny—if the feelings of an English gentleman will allow him to do so—the en slaving nature of that compact, by which his adminis tration is bound hand and foot to the chariot wheels of' that -6‘ base, bloody, and brutal" demagogue. Let Lord Melbourne repudiate, if he chooses, a sympathy With Irish treason. Let him disavow the repeal cry if he dare. The people of England will not hesitate to impute to his conduct and to his disavowal their pro- Per designations ; and when the day comes—as come it will—that Ireland, inflamed, misled, and maddened, shall, in the blindness.of her ignorance, rush headlong into a 'desolating struggle, which will roll back for half a century the progress which civilization and truth is M aking amongst her benighted population, the people of England will not be slow to visit their due punish. : ' c ent upon the heads of that mean and degraded fac. Lion Which, in the the pursuit of place and pay, has not hesitated even TO ALLY ITSELF WITH TREASON, AND TO FEED THE FLAME OF REBELLION. There are few places in this world of ours which _are not pestered with one, two, or perhaps half-a-dozen meddling and inflated individuals, whom, according to Mr. Samuel Weller, it would be a very losing specu lation to buy at their own estimation, and to sell again at that which the public would put upon them. These luminaries are each furnished with a tail, longer or shorter in proportion to the brilliancy of the body from which it radiates; and every individual atom or corruscation of which is of itself, and in its own opi nion, a star of no ordinary magnitude. Amongst this class of persons we have always been accustomed to find the spouters at our public meet ings—our anti-church and anti-corn-law agitators— and, amongst the " lesser lights," the correspondents which, in some provincial Chronicle or Mercury, weekly illumine the world under the various signatures of Junius, Brutus, Verax, or—that terror of editors—a Constant Reader. But, alas ! the policy of late years, and—monstrous ingratitude !—of a Whig administra tion, has sadly diminished the number and the impor tance of these phosphuretted bipeds ; and in no place more than in our own town of Liverpool has this la mentable result, this " darkening of the world," been Manifested. The reform—Heaven help us !—of our Corporation was the downfal of Whiggery in Liverpool. It has been said by some one that " A very small man as a Tory Is a very great man as a Whig ;" but the change effected by municipal reform has ex hibited a result diametrically opposite, and has shown how much easier it is to declaim against the policy of others than to amend it by our own—that a very bril liant light in a corner is only the glimmer of a farthing rushlight when exhibited in the face of day. The Rathbones, Currie's, and Sheils, the small fry of Whiggery, who have contrived to scramble into seats once occupied by better men, have lost character by the change. They have been placed on high, and examined. The public—to use the expression of Lu cian—have had an opportunity of " inspecting the pegs and screws which - move the image of the Jupiter men worship," and the natural result has followed in the loss of popular respect and the diminution of their power over the minds of their former admirers. From henceforth the established mode of annihilating a little great man will be to make him an alderman or a councillor, upon the same principle that we ascertain a forged bank-note by holding it up before the light. To the consciousness of this lamentable decline we may attribute a portion of that evident soreness which our whig-radical Solons display whenever they are permit ted to obtrude themselves upon the public, or, which is the same thing in their eyes, upon a mob of their own gathering. To this consciousness we may attri bute the mouthing exhibition of Mr. W. Rathbone, the scolding of Shiel, and the bluster of that smallest of all small men, James Aitken, at the meeting on Monday last. But to what we must attribute the dis- play of vulgar insolence which characterised the dia• tribe of Mr. James Mulleneux, we must confess we cannot explain. Mr. Mulleneux never, that we remem ber, held any very high place in public estimation, and cannot therefore have any fall to lament. His best quality as a public man is that he can roar like " the wild bulls of Bashan," and we are not aware that he has lost his voice or weakened his power of lungs. What, then, could be the motive of his vulgar abuse of Lord Stanley, conveyed in the following language— language, we can assure Mr. Mulleueux, as unbefitting for a gentleman to utter, as it was evidently suited to the class of persons to whom it was addressed ? " Lord Stanley," said Mr. Mulleneux, " was a man steeped to the eyes in insolence, pride, and arrogance ; and why ? Was it because of his fan cied superiority ? He was but the accident of an ac cident." We shall not pretend to misunderstand Mr. Mulleneux's meaning, although some of his hear ers might and did. It was but an ebullition of that venom which vulgar men ever feel towards those who happen to be their superiors. Lord Stanley is a noble man of great worth and of illustrious descent ; Mr. Mulleneux has not, perhaps, sprung. from so noble a stock, and hence the hatred and contempt with which this self-satisfied gentleman affects to regard his lordship. In a man who by some exertion of lofty genius or commanding talent, had raised himself to eminence, we could pardon a little jealousy entertained against the pretensions of mere rank and title; but when such . a feeling is exhibited by a man, who, what ever may have been his industry or his success in the world, has certainly not risen by the most ennobling path, we are only disgusted with the insolence and innate vulgarity which prompt its display, and ashamed of the audience which could tolerate and applaud its expression. Most kind reader, bast thou ever seen a peacock whom some mischievous boy has deprived of his tail, a disconsolate gander, whose flock of young gabblers have been swept away to feed the craving orifices of Michaelmas Cockneys, or a hen whose brood of duck lings have taken to the pond ? In any one of these interesting objects, thou bast the image of a Whig Magnifico, as reduced to his proper and legitimate proportions. That peacock might typify the lachrymose aspect of William Wallace Currie, as exhibited on a recent occasion; that disconsolate bird, of a species venerated in ancient Rome, might, except in its useful ness and patriotism, be mistaken for one who has not unfortunately either " the voice, the language," or the " temper of an angel ;" and that hen may, with the greatest truth, be said to represent the entire Whig tribe, great and small, .of the present generation. Alas—how are the mighty fallen ! The old proverb says, that " when rogues fall out, honest men have a chance of getting their due." This adage is exceedingly applicable to the recent attacks of the Dublin Pilot—O'Connell's own paper, and edited by " my dear Barrett"—upon the Irish Government. We certainly must look upon this change in the tone of the Arch-agitator's organ as " a sign of the times," which is pregnant with meaning. Of all men living there is no one that has been so lavish in his praise of the Melbourne administration as O'Connell. He has been most indefatigable in his efforts to prop up the Ministry, and mostly so, whenever its speedy annihi lation appeared to be inevitable. We do not mean to insinuate that O'Connell's exertions on behalf of Lord Melbourne and his associates were prompted by any feeling of affection or respect. Oh ! no. His support of the Ministry may be traced to a very different origin. It arose from sheer selfishness. O'Connell found Lord Melbourne, and the rest of the imbeciles, convenient tools for working out his own purposes. As the price of his support, and that of his tail, he had the entire and undisputed controul of the patronage of the Irish Government; and, in addition to this, he has been assisted and abetted, by his despicable minions in the Cabinet, in his assaults upon the Protestant Established Church. These were the true grounds of O'Connell's support of the Ministry; and the motives which regu lated the tone of the Dublin Pilot were perfectly iden• tical with those of the Arch-mendicant. A change, however, and that of an unaccountable cha racter, has just taken place in the language of the Pilot. It seems to have bid adieu to the " strainadulatory," and to have betaken itself to strong invective and abuse. Instead of loading the Irish executive with its praises, as heretofore, it is now beginning to fulminate its anathemas upon the devoted heads of its former proteges. In a recent number of the O'Connell organ it is broadly asserted that "timidity in the doing of good, hesitation, doubt, apprehension of giving offence to those who are working heaven and earth to insure its downfall, appear to be the fired principles f this weak and infirm administration." We shall not stop here to remark upon the absurdity of attributing any fixed principles to such an administration as that which the Pilot so graphically describes. Such blunders are indigenous to the brain of an Irishman. If there be any "fixed principle" by which Lord Melbourne and his menagerie of non-descripts are actuated, it is of the same character as that which induces a certain species of insect to adhere with such tenacity to " the finest pisantry on the face of the earth"—an unconquerable lore of place. The Pilot accuses the Ministry of " timi dity in the doing of good." Never were these mischief loving and mischief-making mercenaries more happily characterised. They are, indeed, timid in the doing of good. There is nothing from which they shrink with more instinctive horror than from a good action or an ennobling pursuit. They have no taste for anything of the kind. In the doing of evil, however, they are bold enough. If they are called upon to deal "heavy blows," or to give " great discouragement" to the Protestant religion—if they are prompted to plunder the Established Church of its revenues, to suppress half a dozen bishoprics, or to degrade and trample upon the clergy—if they are tempted to sacrifice the interests of Great Britain, national or commercial, at the shrine of foreign cupidity and ambition—if they are advised to consign our colonial empire to destruction—if, in short, any scheme is submitted to them which is calculated to injure and degrade us as a nation— Lord Melbourne's administratiOn cast timidity to the winds, and enter upon their congenial task with courageous avidity. In a bad cause the pre sent Ministers show neither "hesitation, doubt, nor apprehension," unless it be the apprehension of losing their places as a punishment for their dereliction of principle. We - defy any one to point out a single instance in which the present Ministers have done any good, until they have been reluctantly driven to it by the unequivocal and overwhelming force of public opinion, or by a fear of losing the sweets of office. Their very element is mischief. The "doing of evil" is the pabulum of their existence. The Pilot proceeds—" The question with it (the adMiniStration) is, when it hesitates how to act, not what good it may effect for its friends, but what censure or praise it is likely to earn from its enemies. To fear is the essence of its conduct ; to sink under difficulties its energy; to do injustice to its best and most disinterested adherents its gratitude." This is strange language to proceed from O'Connell's selected organ. Ingratitude appears to be the very climax of Ministerial iniquity. Ingratitude to whom ? To O'Connell and his multi tudinous relatives, who have been most liberally pro vided with snug sinecures, fat commissionerships, or highly salaried situations under Government—to O'Connell, who has been allowed to controul the ex ercise of patronage, in England as well as in Ireland, to suit his own nefarious and rebellious designs—to O'Connell, in obedience to whose will the Ministers have shaped all their measures and regulated all their votes—to O'Connell, whom the present degraded crew in office have assisted in his efforts to make a pocket borough of all Ireland. Surely, Lord Melbourne's administration ought not, after doing all this, to be accused of ingratitude. Such, however, is the charge brought forward by the Pilot. Is it because there is nothing left to give away, no fresh patronage to be disposed of, no new favour that can be conferred ? We confess ourselves utterly at a loss to imagine in what way O'Connell can be more fully requited for his " adherence" to the present administration, unless, indeed, recourse should be had to the alternative of plucking the 'crown from the head of the Queen, and placing it on that of the " Prince of Beggars." The next passage which we shall quote from the Pilot contains an edifying comment upon the concen trated selfishness of the present administration. We especially recommend it to the notice of such of our "liberal" readers as may still have a lingering feeling of attachment towards Lord Melbourne and his associates. It runs thus—" Oh ! we fear it is a most weak thing, this our Irish executive ; and now that death has taken away its master-mind, we tremble for the consequences. Be it so. The country has, of late, beyond all doubt, more than commenced to weigh the relative advantages of running the hazard of a Tory interregnum, such as that of 1835, with the evilS likely to he entailed upon it by continuing to uphold a Government which has done but little practical good, and which does not ap pear over anxious to extend its benefits beyond itself. It is not difficult to guess at the object of this attack of the Pilot upon the administration. The " squeezeable" materials of which the present Cabinet is composed are too well known to leave us at a loss to account for the motive which prompted this assault. It is intended as a hint to the GovernMent that it should " extend its benefits beyond itself," and we have no doubt that it will be duly and promptly attended t 0... Englishmen ! we beseech you attentively to consider the opinion formed of the present administration even by its warmest adherents. Are you willing any longer to be governed by these contemptible minions of a lying mendicant, who, while he compels them to toil through every dirty task which he' assigns them, re wards their obsequious servility with the venom of his abuse ? For the honour of your country join in a simultaneous effort to drive these base and subservient tools of a Popish faction to their native obscurity, from which it is a scandal to you that you should have ever permitted them' to emerge, ME SHIP-MASTERS' ASSOCIATION.—We direct attention to a report, in another column, of an interesting meeting of this newly-formed society, which has already received the patronage and support of many gentlemen of distinction. The objects are to disseminate amongst shipmasters useful, nautical, and general information, by the • establishment of a news-room and coffee-room, a library, museum, and chart room, in one building; the surplus fund to be appropriated for the benefit of ship-masters, and distressed seamen,—at the discretion of the committee. The association is open to the admission of persons not nautical men, to whom it will be valuable from the priority of shipping and foreign intelligence which it will afford. Lectures on nautical science, astrono my, and geography, are also to be attached ; and &mil a commencement so auspicious, we cannot but augur the most gratifying results. The committee have received a letter from Capt. Beaufort, who is at the head of the hydrographic department of the admiralty, in which he expresses his plea sure in becoming, at their request,' a vice-president of the association ; and adds, that he will, from time to time, trans mit to it any charts that may be interesting. The members for the borough are the patrons. CAUTION AGAINST AN IMPOSTOR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I shall esteem it a favour if you will have the kind ness to insert this letter in your paper to-morrow, in order that the public may be on their guard against a man of the name of Moses Solomon, who represents himself as a Jew inquiring into the truths of Christianity, and is making our holy religion a garb to impose on the charitable disposition of the friends of God's ancient people of the house of Israel. He has been in our Jewish Institution, but is not baptized. I remain, Sir, your's very respectfully, H. S. JOSEPH. 26, Great Newton-street, Liverpool, 7th May, 1840. THE NEW ASSIZE COURTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—I was much surprised on reading the council report of yesterday, to find that the decision of the committee ap pointed to select the best designs for the proposed Courts, has not given satisfaction. I had before heard from indivi duals who were capable of judging well as to the merits of the internal arrangements, that the designs of our townsmen, Messrs. Cunningham and Ilolme, were superior to any other ; but I was not prepared to learn that the committee them selves, also approved of them, and that they were set aside merely because they occupied more space than was laid down by the council. This is indeed a startling fact, and one which deserves inquiry. Are we to be deprived of superior accommodation in our Courts, becagge the council ignorantly. limited the architects to a certain Tine, beyond which they were not allowed to pass ? Or is the sum of £50,000. to be expended on a building, which may not after all, be well adapted to the large an increasing business of the county ? As a matter of justice then to our townsmen, and as the trustees of public money, the committee can not do less than report, whether the calculations and statements made are correct or false, and if the former, it is clearly the duty of the council to make the only reparation in their power, by awarding a premium to those gentlemen, whose talents have been acknowledged not only by the committee, but also by many barristers and attorneys, who, I imagine, are better able to judge of the conveniences necessary, than any mem ber of the council. I remain, your obedient servant, A TOWNSMAN. Liverpool, May 7th, 1640. CHESTER RACES—TUESDAY. Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas was won cleverly by Lord Eglington's The Potentate, beating Isaac, Godhurst, and Catherina. _ A SWEEPSTAKES of 25 sous. each, for two year olds. Half a mile. Mr. C. F. Buckley's Tory Boy 1 Mr. F. R. Price's Miss Tatt. 2 Lord Westminster's Dr. Jenner, Sir R. Buckley's b fby Bi r d ca tcher, and Mr. T. Walter's t. Botolph also started. —Tory jumped off with the lead, and was never headed, and won in a canter. SIXTY GUINEAS (clear) the gift of the members for the city, was won at four heats by Lord Eglington's Malvolio, beating Tubal Cain and four others. WEDNESDAY. A FREE HANDICAP STAKES of 20 sovs. each, was walked over for by Mr. Peel's gr h Saul. DEE STAKES of 50 SOW.. each, was won by Lord West minster's br c The Shah, beating Mr. Mostyn's br c Trustee. STAND CUP, value 100 sovs., was won by Sir T. Stanley's ch c Rabbitcatcher, beating Lord Eglinton's br g Shark. THURSDAY. MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER'S PLATE, 100 sovs. in specie, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each. Thrice round. Lord Eglinton's br g Shark walked over. BEESTON CASTLE STAKES Of 10 sovs each, with 50 sovs. added by the Gentlemen of Cheshire and the Principality. Ld. Stanley's ch f Rodantha 1 Ld. Eglinton's br c Malvolio Mr. Price's hr g Captain Pops 3 SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. added by the citizens. The winner to be sold for 100 sovs, if demanded. Lord Eglinton's Amulet Sir T. Stanley's Barboni ONE HUNDRED POUND in specie, the gift of the Proprie tors of the Secondary Stand, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. Ld. Eglinton's b g The Potentate Mr. Collett's br c The Dean 1 walked over. 1 d THE NEW ASSIZE COURTS. THE DESIGNS NOW ON VIEW AT THE EXHIBITION ROOMS, CHURCH-STREET. It will be generally known that the erection of a large building to be appropriated as Assize Courts, Vice-Chan cellor's and Sheriff's Jury Courts, was some time ago deter mined upon by the corporate body of this town,—the pre sent Court-house, near the Exchange, which was intended for the Quarter Sessions and Borough Court only, having been found to be too small and confined for the assize busi ness of the southern division of the county, transferred hither from Lancaster. The ground on which stood the Old Infirmary and its enclosures, at the north side of the large area of the New Haymarket, presented a central and eligible site. The Railway station being on the east side of the area, and it having been agreed to build St. George's Hall on north, (nea r London-road,) the placing of the assize courts on the west side, near St. John's Church, would serve to complete, as it were, three detached sides of a spacious quadrangle, and at the same time, advantageously concen trate the business of the courts'in the immediate contiguity of the railway terminus. There can, we think, exist no question that the ground re ferred to offered eligible sites for both the intended build ings ; but it appears to us that a palpable mistake has been made in the site respectively fixed upon for each. According to present, and we presume, definite arrangements, the " high" ground is allotted to the " higher" building, al though harmony in the tout ensemble, and the absence of deterioration to either by contrast was desirable. The " Hall," facing southward, is to occupy the high ground opposite Islington market, with the Railway station on the left : and to the Court -house, the elevation of which, to render it commodious, cannot he so great, is assigned the Much lower slopi ng groun d on t h e r i g h t . Th e Hall will be 90 feet in height; and as the Court-house will be but 78, by the design adopted, and the land is moreover considerably lower, particularly at the south end (about 27 feet), we are not singular in our apprehensions, that the effect, however plausibly it may be otherwise produced in the perspective view of the successful architect, will be detrimental to the else noble aspect of the latter,—as, indeed, of the quadrangle as a whole. But to proceed : The Mayor and Corporation, desirous of producing, in the building for the Courts. a specimen of architecture that should be worthy of the age ; and wishful, the better to at tain that end, to bring into competition the most distin guished architects of the day, issued a prospectus, with in structions, detailing their views, and liberally offering to the author of the design most approved a premium of three hun dred guineas, and to the producer of the next best the sum of two hundred. It was specified in the conditions that the designs should be exclusively of " Grecian" or of " Roman" style, and that the estimate for the whole work should not exceed £50,000. Each design was to bear an anonymous motto or signature, so that the authors being unknown, their respective merits might be impartially appreciated. The pecuniary inducement thus held forth, and probably still more the honourable ambition to achieve celebrity, drew forth the energies of an unusual number of aspirants in va rious parts of the kingdom, including many individuals who already enjoyed high professional reputation. No fewer than eighty-five separate designs were sent, each shown in perspective views, elevations, plans, and sections, and accompanied by descriptions, chiefly in manuscript, a few only being printed. We can readily believe that the Committee appointed to examine them, and who were, we learn, assisted by the able Surveyor of the Corporation, had a task to perform of no ordinary difficulty —one requiring, indeed, refinement of taste and clearness of judgment. It was found necessary, as the only practical mode of proceeding, to reduce the whole number to thirty, by putting aside all those that were evidently of inferior architectural merit, or objectionable in interior arrangement and detail. The Oh ty were afterwards reduced, by a similar process, to ten ; and these, after long and mature consideration, to two,—to the author of the finally preferred one of which (the design to be adopted) the first premium was awarded, and to the other the second. The former will, doubtless, also receive the emolument arising from his superintendence of. the erection of the building, as well as of St. George's Hall, for the de sign of which he was also the successful competitor. Considerable interest having been excited amongst the ad mirers of the architectural improvements of the town, to see the designs, before they were returned to the respective artists, an arrangement to gratify the public was made by the Mayor and the Committee, and the whole were shown gratuitously during the last week. It was intended to withdraw them on Saturday last; but the great attendance of respectable par ties, including many ladies, and the ascertained fact that many who had not had an opportunity of being present were anxious to inspect them, induced the Committee to agree to keep open for another (the present) week, during which the rooms have hitherto been again numerously and fashionably attended. The local interest of the subject may render acceptable the following short account of THE EXHIBITION. The walls of both rooms were covered with perspective and other views of the several designs, on a large scale, and many of them forming beautiful pictures. The Grecian style of architecture predominated, there being comparatively few of the less pure specimens of the 'Romish school. In this the mass of the architects displayed their superior taste. We may here, indeed, state that Grecian architecture, re markable in its history, is not less so in the extraordinary superiority which it maintains over all modern contrivances, forms, or adaptations in buildings. We speak exclusively of the mere modern Gothic style, which is altogether of a distinct character, suitable for peculiar structures only, and not amenable to the same rules. The three Grecian orders, in their purity, simplicity, and grandeur, as established in the palmier days of Athens, appear, though capable of modification in decorations, to be beautiful in themselves, and immutable in general form and proportion, without offence to the eye of taste, and deterioration in elegance and effect. We shall not pause to enquire into the causes of this fact. It is enough for us to find it universally acknowledged by all classical observers, that the deviation from pure Grecian architecture introduced by the Romans, their ad mixture of the three orders, with other incongruities under the denomination of " the composite," was a retrogade move ment to barbarism, and that the meretricious ornaments they superadded to the chaste adornments of the Grecian style of temple architecture, were but puerile innovations destructive of that combination of elegance, simplicity, and sublimity, which characterised their prototypes. For this reason, we almost regret that the architects in the present instance had not beet{ tied down to the Grecian style alone.. TitiS would have saved us the pain of witnessing several Roman abortions in room No. 2, of the present exhibition. For ourselves, in deed, considering that . the Doric and lonic orders are the boldest, the Stronge,A, and the Corinthian the more delicate and ornamental, we should have been inclined to exclude even the latter,. in designs for this structure of a stern and stately Hall of Justice. The choice of the committee itself has confirmed our opinion on this subject ; but to return to the artists. They have for the most part, we repeat, pre ferred the Grecian to the Roman. They seem to have been impressed with the same sentiments as those that dictated the following passage in " An Inquiry into the Principles and Beauty of Grecian Architecture, by,the Earl of Aber deen,"—who, after noticing the deterioration under the Roman Emperors of the Grecian style, says " The precious remains of Grecithi art were long ne glected, and the most beautiful were, in truth, nearly in accessible to the Christian world. It is almost in our own time that obstacles, formerly insurmountable, have been first vanquished; and ,that the treasures of art, still unfor tunately in the custody of ignorance and barbarism, have not only been visited, but have been accurately measured and delineated. Henceforth, therefore, these exquisite re mains should form the chief study of the architect who aspires to permanent reputation ; other modes are transitory and uncertain, but the essential qualities of Grecian excel lence, as they are founded on reason, and are consistent with fitness and propriety, will ever continue to deserve his first care. These models should be imitated however—not with the timid and servile hand of a copyist; but their beauties should be transferred to our soil, preserving, at the same time, a due regard to the changes of customs and manners, to the difference of our climate, and to the condition of modern society. In this case, it would not be so much the details of the edifice itself, however perfect, which ought to engross the attention of the artist, but he should strive rather to possess himself of the spirit and genius by which it was originally planned and directed ; and to acquire those just principles of taste, which are capable of general appli cation." The visitor to the exhibition will find himself surrounded by the most splendid palaces and temples, that had ad orne d the age of Pericles and of Al exan d er ; and by many others, combining the beauties of the palacial edifices of those days, with the superadded but harmonising creations of modern taste. The rich colonnade, the portico, the pediment, the lofty dome, all varied in detail or arrangement, attract his attention on every side ; and such is the interest of the scene, from the diversity of the taste displayed by combination, that many persons remainlin the rooms for hours, inspecting each design with critical or admiring eye. Amidst such a multiplicity of interesting perspective views, elevations, sections, and elaborate interior plans, we cannot particularise the beauties or defects of more than a compara tively casual few, that appeared to us to he the most striking. We may here premise that the area or site of the building, as laid down in the prospectus, and which was not to be ex ceeded, was in round numbers, 220 feet in length, by 100 in breadth, forming an oblong square of about 22,000 super ficial feet. The design marked " Astrma," is worthy of being first noticed, as well from its exterior elegance combined with a stateliness of effect as a building, as from it s b e i ng t h at chosen as the best, and f o r which the highest prize was awarded. The artist, in depicting it in perspective, has in cluded in his picture (which is beautifully executed anti highly finished in sepia). a full view also of St. George's Hall (the design of which was.by the same artist), and also of the Railway Station. It must have been well known from this who the artist was, as he alone, or some one connected with the Surveyor's office, would have furnished a correct view of the Hall. The author commences his description of the design in these appropriate words :—" It has been observed in an eminent work of the present day, that adaptation of style, forms, and proportions to the specific purpose for which a building is appropriated, ought to be the first consideration of the architect in designing a public building. Assuming this observation to be correct, the author of this design has considered it advisable to adopt an order of architecture ge nerally acknowledged to possess that sedate, nobl e , an d majestic character so desirable in an edifice appropriated to the purposes for which the present is i n t en d e d . At the same time he has felt that, differing in character, it should partake of the same style as the design s e l ec t e d f or St. George's Hall, from their proximity, and the circumstance of the second prospectus showing the g roun d h ere rece d e d, so as to prevent the view of that building from being inter rupted. Its height is as great as po ss ibl e, cons i stent l y with internal convenience and utility." The elevation is a chaste design of the Doric order. In the centre of the eastern or principal front is a portico of six columns, on each side of which th ere i s a co l onnade, on a base or plinth nearly similar to that of St. George's Hall. There are two rows of windows within th e co l onna d e . A t each corner the building projects, giving each a slight re semblance to a square tower or wing. Blank windows are placed in these porticos, one on each side, and the blocking being high, the elevation is there increased a little o v e r th e general top line of the building. The ends of the building, in each of which there is a door, are plainer than the princi pal front, but neat. The principal entrance for the Judges, &c., is under the centre of the eastern portico. A peculiar feature of the pile is a ballastred attic erected a few feet back, from the blocking of the interior walls, and rising over th e whole centre of the building. 'Phis attic has a slightly raised roof, and has longitudinal windows at each end only. There are two small square rooms in the colonnade at each side of the main entrance ,or portico, which unluckily break the view of the columns, th a t would otherwise be pleasingly p r ol onge d throughout the whole extent. The general appearance is good, bating, to our taste, the attic ; but buildings are some times flattered on paper, as men are on canvas. The plan of the courts and the interior generally, appears to us to be much confined, an unnecessary space being taken up with hall room, &c., and there being too muc h cutt i ng and clipping in the outward rooms. The courts are semi circular at one end, where the bench in each is fi xe d. and are marked as being — the Civil Court only 64 ft. by 50, and the Crown Court 54 . f t: by 50. The space f or th e ac commodation of the public is very small. The jury rooms are also much circumscribed , as are some of the others. In the whole area of 22,000 feet, there is but 8,500 in the courts and rooms. There will he throughout, we fear, a deficiency of light, and this the architect himself (as regards the courts) appears to apprehend, and suggests a remedy. But the in terior plan will probably be revised and amended. The build ing itself is fine. The successf architect is Mr. Elmes, of London. The estimated cost is ul £46,000. No. 70, which won the second prize, is 'with some persons a greater favourite than even the last. It is a design front portions of the Temple of Fortuna Verilis, and is of stately and vigorous effect. It is characterized by the depth of the facias and fillets and the general roundness of the decora tions. A slight attic is introduced to counterbalance the projection of a massy entablature; and against the projections or pilasters, in this attic are placed emblematical Roman statues, in the manner of those at the back of the Town Hall. These are in keeping with the ernpannelled carved work in the intermissions of the architrave on each side of the prin cipal portico, and which represent Brutus pronouncing sen tence of death on his sons and ordering them for execution. The judges' entrance is by the lonic portico on the east, of six columns of 50 feet i n h e i g ht, carry i ng a pediment, on the tympanum of which is the Royal Arms, and on the apex a figure of Britannia. The building is of two stories. The ground floor is rusticated with round-topped windows. The first floor windows have alternate round and angular pe ments. At either end there is a portico of four fine columns. The general effect is excellent. The interior plan is greatly superior to that of the last. No. 60. Of this there is a fine model, as well as drawings. It is Dode. In the principal front it has a large portico of eight columns, behind which are eight others, forming a double line of twelve. There is also a colonnade at each end ; which would have been uninterrupted all round the three principal fronts, but for two little square rooms, one over the other, placed at each of the corners. The cornice is ornamented with triglyphs. A good design. No. 75 is a goo d spec i men o f t h e Roman 'Corinthian, with porticos and pediments, but rather too elaborate and flowery. No. 39. A good Corinthian pile, but would be improved by the removal of the lantern. No. 72 and another. These are, to our thinking, tfie most splendid designs in the room, if not the most appropriate. Both in the taste displayed, and in the execution of them, they do infinite credit to the architects, our townsmen, Messrs. Cunningham and Holme. It is to be regretted that the scale was made for a larger area than that specified in the prospectus, and that in one of them, at least, the cost would exceed the estimate prescribed, being .f.. 58,972 ; otherwise, one or both would, we think, have obtained a prize. As both are nearly alike, with the exception of three towers on one of them, and a projecting pedimented wing or corner-piece in the other, we shall only notice No. 72. There is a centre colonade and portico of eight columns, of Grecian lonic, on the east side. The base is exceedingly rich, and the whale is a modification of the Erechthion and Temple on the Illisus, a fine Grecian building of antiquity. There is also a portico at either end. The view shows the east and south facades. The plinth, or sylobate, is rich. The south facade shows the entrance to the Crown Court, by a hexastyle portico. There is a similar portico at the north end. These, as well as the eastern portico, are each surmounted by a square tower, hav ing peripterte of Caryatides, with enriched entablature. The centre tower is topped by a figure of Minerva ; the other two, (smaller ones,) one at each end, by Tritons, from "The Tower of the Winds." These towers appear to us to be highly ornamental, and would form beautiful objects over the general buildings of a town. The whole has an appear ance of great magnitude and length in the perspective ; but the further small tower seems to us to be thrown so far back, by the faintness of the colouring, that it appears to be rather behind than attached to the building. This, if a fault, is merely in the drawing. The interior is exceedingly well planned and spacious. No. 10, inscribed " The Temple of Justice," is a very neat classical design. No. 75 would form a beautiful building. The architrave is rich and unique. No. 53. The dome is of imposing form. No. 68. As a drawing this is amongst the best in the rooms, and it has considerable merit as a design. No. 75 is very beautiful, but rather florid in decoration. It is Roman Corinthian. No. 46. A good bold Doric specimen. No. 58. A beautiful simple Grecian design, with a fine co lonnade, carried roun d t h ree sides. -It is, wever, somewhat marred by an attic. No. 37. One of the most beautiful and appropriate in the nom, both in design and execution. Of this there is not only a large perspective drawing, but a beautiful perspective line representation in pencil, including St. George's Hall and the Railway Station. The author has evidently had access to the design of the " Hall," as it appears to be similar to that in the drawing by Mr. Elmes, the architect. This ar tist has also produced a very fine and minutely executed mo del of the building he proposes, which is very deservedly ad mired. The style is Corinthian, with a central portico and colonnade of ten columns on the main front, bearing a pedi ment. The portico extends along more than half the extent of the building. The masonry is jointed, and the cornice enriched with blocks and dentils. 62. A Doric structure, also very creditable to the artist. 78 is peculiar from a tall centre dome, and from smaller domes or towers at each of the corners, which are in projec tion from the body of the building. The drawing is exceed ingly well executed. Emblematic figures surmount the domes. 59 is rather a good specimen of the lonic, the ballustrade in particular. Ro. 6. A fine Grecian edifice, enriched by a portico, and projecting corners surmounted by smaller pediments. This is beautifully drawn in Indian ink, and appears like a fine engraving. Nos. 51, and 31 are good specimens in the Doric style. No. 33. One of the best of the Corinthian order. No. 50. (we believe) " The Parthenon Restored," sent by Mr. Corbett, of Manchester, is a highly classical idea, which we hope may yet be realized in some of our future public buildings. Surrounded by a colonnade all round (of 17 Do ric cultunns on each side, and 8 at each end), and with a pediment at each end, crossing the full extent, and richly but chastely ornamented in the tympanum, it is at once simple, harmonious, and we may almost add sublime. The picture is not, however, very carefully finished, particularly in the basement. Mr. Corbett sent also two other designs of an original character. In the smaller room there are several passable designs, but many more of a motley and mixed character, which we do not feel ill-natured enough to characterise. In both rooms, we may add, there are several that are very neat, and some even of a commanding description ; but from their " ecclesiastic" character, or other cause, they could not be considered eligible. Some of the perspective views of the interior of the court rooms, and other apartments; are very good ; and the plans and sections are many of them executed with great minute ness and care, and are well worthy of inspection. The plans of No. 70, which obtained the second prize, have been well thought of ; but on this point it would be almost invidious to dwell, inasmuch as many of the others appear to be equally judicious. _ ..We would fain speak favourably of all the designs which we consider meritorious, but to extend our notice would, we fear, fatigue our readers. C r iti c i sm , a ft er a ll, on t h e su bj ect involves a matter of taste, and can be regulated by no pre cise rules. We cannot, therefore, do better than conclude by advising all who arc admirers of fine classical architecture to lose no time in visiting the exhibition, with which, we will venture to say, however they may differ in opinion from us, they will be highly gratified. We learn that preparations will ere long be made for com mencing the erection both of St. G eorge ' s Hall and the Assize Courts. [The above article was written, and given into the hands of the printers, on Monday last, but was postponed for want of room. We have since received the letter of " A Towns man" (inserted in another column) on the same subject, and also observe the memorial of Messrs. Cunningham and Holme, presented to the Town Council on Wednesday last. We notice the fact from finding a coincidence of opinion, in some points, between these two documents and the account we have submitted.—En. STAND.] DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE AT PRESTON. (From the Blackburn Standard, of Wednesday.) About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, whilst a number of men were busily emyloyed in constructing the immense viaduct (of 12 arches) near the terminus of the Preston and Wyre railway, at the bottom of Water-lane, in Preston, the frame work or wooden centre of one of the arches, (the ninth from the Preston end) suddenly gave way with a frightful crash, and the whole of the superincumbent materials, bricks, mor tar, &c. was precipitated to the ground—falling upwards of 30 feet. About a dozen men were upon or about the arch at the moment, and fell headlong with the rubbish, several of them being literally buried beneath it. Assistance was spee dily procured, and 10 bodies were dug or otherwise extricated from the ruins, some of them shockingly mutilated, and all more or less bruised. In one, life was utterly extinct; second expired within an hour after the accident ; and four or five others are almost beyond hope of recovary. At the time our account left (seven o'clock in the evening), it had not been positively ascertained whether any more bodies remained buried, the state of the surrounding brick work being so crazy as to render it absolutely necessary to suspend further operations amongst the rubbish until it could be effectually supported. It was stated that two or three men, known to have been engaged about the viaduct, were missing, but whether that was the result of this accident, or was merely caused by their own neglect of work, was not properly known. . - Several of the men who have suffered by this calamity we lament to say have families of children. One of the two killed was the foreman of the bricklayers; and the contrac tor for that department, Mr. Reece, had a vezy narrow escape. He was standing near the spring of the arch next to the one which had fallen, and in the a c t o f giving some directions to the men when he crash to o k pl ace , and so in stantaneous was the fall that not a word of warning could be uttered, and Mr. Reece had barely time to save himself by a precipitate flight in the contrary direction. It seems probable that two or more of the arches will have to be taken down, as several breaches in the brick work are apparent, and two at least of the pillars are drawn greatly from the perpendicular. NEW CHURCH AT W.INDSOR.—The first sfone of a new church, in the hamlet of 'Windsor, was laid yesterday morn ing, by Hardman Earle, Esq., assisted by the Revs. R. P. Buddicom, C. W. Lawrence, J. E. Bates, J. North, and F. Barker, C. Groves, E sq ., R. M oon, E sq., and other gentle men, amidst a very numerous assemblage of the inhabitants of the hamlet. The church is to be called St. Clement's, and will be a plain but handsome structure of Saxon archi tecture, built of red stone, and calculated to hold more than one thousand persons. The Liverpool Church Building Society undertake the erection and endowment of it, receiv ing the sum of £l5OO towards the cost. This sum is, we understand, nearly subscribed, by the families residing in the neighbourhood, and other friends of church building in this town. From its proximity to the railway, and other causes, Windsor is one of the most rapidly increasing districts in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. In addition to the church, three schools are to be built upon the piece of land imme diately adjoining it. PRESENTATION Or PLATE TO W. WALTREW, Esct.--- On Tuesday last the members of the Borough and Union Building Societies celebrated the anniversary of their forma tion, by dining together at the Brunswick Hotel. The pre parations of Mr. Whiteman were of the first order, and gave universal satisfaction. After the cloth had been removed, the usual toasts drunk, and several speeches delivered by various gentlemen, Mr. Meyrick, the chairman, in a neat ad dress, delivered in his usual style, wherein he warmly eulo gized the many services rendered to those societies by W. Walthew, Esq., and also his indefatigable exertions as one of the honorary overseers of the parish, for the space of six or seven years, presented to him, on behalf of a few friends, a richly embossed silver teapot, b as i n , an d cream jug, bear ing the inscription, " Presented to W. Walthew, Esq., by , a. few of the Li verpoo l Building Societies, April 28th 1840. ' Mr. Walthew, who appeared to feel deeply this spontaneous mark of respect, replied in a short but energetic and feeling speech, assuring the gentlemen present of his lasting remem brance of their kindness, and an anxious wish to render his fu ture sevices equally acceptable to them. In the course of the evening, several mem b ers addressed the Chairman, and much usef u l i n f ormation on the subject of Building Societies was elicited, w hi ch, we regret, we cannot record for the be nefit of our readers. The present flourishing state and o t f be thes socities, now sanctioned by act of Parliament, ad vantages resulting from them were more particularly society, atth com mented upon : thus, in the Union Building . . end of its second year, the were £l9 17s. 11d. per each member was £l2. The profit £3l is. lAd. The, share, thus making each share worthother societies exhibit an amount of subscriptions paid by reports of the Borough and Dim and mechanics are self-evident, c sessed of equally satisfactory result._ property which other wisecertain steps, to become .d,llTt,heleyni.aidblianngtatgheesmtobytinundsyesmanend. e s They also hold out a strong they never could obtain. inducement to working habits of temper ance and carefulness, as,. higher from m th en e p t e o c s u t li td ar y nature of these so c i e ti es,. rate of interest for savings g i ving a other means of investing sm a ll sums t . broke up at eleve n o' c l ock, of the evenin g .-41bi on. thanth ey is sre offered certa certain of ot any 0 hningwdyn delighted existenee. wi T th he th m e eetng festivities ESTABLISHMENT OF A FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. At two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, a general meeting of the contributors and friends of a new charitable institu tion, to be called the Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum, was held in the lecture-room of the Royal Institution, Colquett street, for the purpose of taking the preliminary steps for the commencement of the institution. Joshua Walmesley, Esq., the mayor occupied the chair. The lecture-room was well filled with ladies. And among the gentlemen present we observed James Aspinall, Esq., H. R. Sandbach, Esq., Harmood Ba nner , E sq ., the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Rev. Hugh M'Neile, Rev. Mr. Moss, Rev. Dr. Byrth, Rev. Mr. ' Barker Rev. Mr. Hesketh, and the Rev. Fielding Ould. The MAYOR said, that believing the time of the chief magistrate could not be more usefully or worthily occupied than in promoting the benevolent objects which the meeting had in view, he had great pleasure in taking the chair. Those present were aware that the objects of the meeting were to organize and give energy to a society for the protection of female orphans ; and they should be pleased to learn that such rapid progress had been made towards the accumulation of the means for earring out their wishes. He believed that the sums already subscribed amounted to upwards of £903, and the annual subscriptions to £3BO. If the same zeal, energy, and perseverance which had hitherto characterized the proceeding of the originators of this charity, he could not doubt of the most complete success. He believed that it required little more, but that its existence should be fully made known to ensure the most brilliant success ; and in those fair hands, which were even foremost in all the works of mercy and benevolence, and which had taken an especial interest in this institution, and he left the matter, not doubting that through their assistance, it would become one of the most useful charities in the town. (Applause.) The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS said he had been requested to move that an institution for the support and education of female orphans, for 'the town of Live r p oo l an d neigh bourhood, would be of great value and utility, and that the benevolent contributions of the public be solicited for the establishment and maintenance of such an institution, to be called " The Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum." He had great pleasure in complying with the wishes of the provisional committee, who had requested him to bring that resolution before the public at that meeting. It required but very few words from him to recommend such a resolution to the bene volent people of Liverpool, who were ever ready to show their attachment to the religion which they professed, and to relieve those who weed in situations of want and distress in the town to which they belong. Amongst the numerous charities in the town, there was nothing similar to that which was now introduced to their notice. They had indeed the Blue-coat Hospital, in which there was accommodation for one hundred children, and those who were taken there consisted principally of persons in a destitute condition, the greater proportion being orphans. But, by the charter of that institution, they were restricted to those whose narents had a legal settlement within the parish of Liverpool. At the time when the Blue coat Hospital was founded, Liverpool was of hut small ex tent, and the whole of the inhabitants, or nearly so, lived within the parish; the greater proportion of what at present constituted Liverpool being then a rural district. The insti tution was intended for the benefit of the town of Liverpool alone, therefore the stipulation that its benefits should be con ferred only on those residing within the parish was at that time exceedingly proper. But we were in a far different situ ation now. The town of Liverpool had extended its limits greatly beyond the parish, and many persons who lived with out the former suburbs but who were within the town, had lost their settlement, and could not now claim the benefits of this asylum. It was wise, therefore, now to make another institution for the purpose of meeting the wants of those who might require the assistance of the benevolent. One of a similar character had already been formed by a very different :lass of people from those who were to support the present. He alluded to the Roman catholics, who had such an insti tution, which was, he had reason to believe, well conducted and amply furnished. The number of applicants who pre sented themselves was, he believed, great, and the care which was taken in the conduct of the establishment was very cre ditable. But it was evident that this institution did not reach our wants. The Protestant community wanted such an institution for their own children ; one that while it would be an obode for destitute children, would have provision that they should be brought up in the principles of the established church. Of the classes of persons requiring care and relief, there were none more,destitute than female orphans. They had lost the natural protectors who should guide them through a troublesome world ; they were helpless, and, in addition, they were ignorant, and too frequently they were, from these very causes,led into the paths of sin. Young and untutored, they had everything to learn. It was the duty, therefore, of Christians to take them up and teach them in such a way as should be most likely to add to their comforts in this world and lead to their eternal happiness hereafter. There was no country in the world in which greater attention was paid to the wants of the poor than England. Whether they looked to the temporal or spiritual wants of the poor, they were all provided for. They could not move far without seeing in firmaries and dispensaries, and other charitable institutions for the service of the needy ; nor could they turn to the right hand or to the left without finding places of worship and schools for their instruction, and, in short, without finding a continual desire to provide for their temporal and eternal welfare. In the Blue-coat Hospital the children were prin cipally orphans. The whole number, 350 children, were, lie believed, either orphans or fatherless. Those who had sat on the committees of that institution must be gratified at the manner in which the poor did their duty to each other. When they talked of the rich man who subscribed his guinea here and there, they should be reminded of the manner in which the poor take up those who have none to provide for them. Sometimes those who could hardly provide bread for them selves and their families took compassion on the destitute, and divided with them their scanty morsel. (Hear, hear.) Sometimes a distant relation, and frequently a mere neigh bour, took in a pour child and provided it with food, raiment, lodging, and education, out of their own meagre subsistence. These were noble instances of the power of religious princi ple, for such feelings must spring, If they spring at all, from that source. We were all the servants of one master, who himself, passed a life, the whole of which was benevolence and charity. All his miracles were miracles of mercy, and thsa whole of his history might be said to be comprised in the sentence, "He went about doing good." It ought to be our endeavour to tread in his footsteps while we remain on 'this earth, and to go about doing good. (Hear, hear.) That this was a means of doing good, which must be accept able to our Father himself, no one could doubt. He (the reverend speaker) bad been one of those who had sometimes been inclined to think, that it was possible for charitable in stitutions to he multiplied beyond what occasion required, but this was not one against which such an objection could for a moment stand. When they considered the number of orphans which they had in Liverpool, it must strike every man that it was their duty to do something to rescue them from the climax of misery and "*milt that lay befo re th em . Th e rev. gentle man proceeded to remark upon 'the few individuals in this town, in proportion to the bulk of its inhabitants, by whom the charities were supported, amounting only to a few hun dreds. The names of the several persons were to be found over and over again, while there were hundreds .and thou sands whose names were never seen. He did not mean to throw out any sarcasm against such persons, for it was for " him that was without sin to throw the first stone ;" there fore he stopped, condemned and silent. He would give credit to such per sons f or much private charity : he was aware that those were there who went about doing good in private, anxious to comply with that precept of their Master, " Not to let their right hand know what their left hand doeth;" but he would exhort such not to take an isolated text for their guidance in such matters. They should recol lect that, situated in a community like this, they had public duties, and that one of these was to " Let their light so shine that men should see their good works, that they might glorify their Father who is in heaven." It was necessary where benevolence was, that they should make others do right by their example, using their influence in doing good. He hoped, therefore, that many who had not hitherto given such influence would come forward and support an institu tion which was in no one point objectionable. They might be satisfied that it was their duty not to be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, and to do that which would be pleasing to him. (Cheers.) Mr. JAMES ASPINALL seconded the resolution, and it was unanimously carried. The Rev. H. M'NEILE proposed the second resolution. He spoke as follows :—Mr. Mayor, I have very readily, and I will add cordially, responded to the request of my reverend brother, that I should take part in the proceedings of this meeting: and now it becomes my pleasing duty to present for your adoption a resolution which requires but little skill or power on the part of its advocate. It speaks for itself, at least to every consistent member of the established church. [The rev. gentleman read the resolution.] Here everything is in its proper place. The first point urged upon us is that which goes to provide, so far as man can provide, for the great personal concern of the orphan children, considered as heirs of immortality. This deservedly occupies the first place. It has been well said, that " charity to the soul is the soul of charity." Yes ; zeal for the salvation of souls is the distinguished characteristic of Christian benevolence. This is the principle which descended from heaven to accomplish the work of our redemption, and passed from the heart of the Redeemer into those of his disciples with such constrain. ing power as filled the heathen world with astonishment. Without this principle, this godlike love of souls, though a man had faith to remove mountains, and benevolence to give all his goods to feed the poor, and zeal to give his body to be burned, and eloquence to speak with the tongue of angels, he is no better than sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. And by parity of reasoning, or rather of Christian truth, an institution such as you have now determined shall be founded, although commended by valuable secondary considerations ; by tracing, for example, the melancholy history of friendless females from the first advances of vice and misery through every gradation, to a sad, and too often, a horrible catas trophe; and by exhibiting the enormous guilt of those base and contemptible compounds of selfishness and vanity in the shape of men, who lie in wait for the destruction of such helpless innoence ; and by reflections on the extraordinary, the irresistible influence which woman possesses, and must possess, in every rank of society, for the diffusion of either good or evil : although commended, I repeat, by such consi derations as these, and carried triumphantly by an appeal to your natural feelings, in language !which fills the imagination with the most affecting pictures, and subdues the heart under the most touching tenderness—still, if the religious instruc tion, with 11 direct aim at the eternal salvation of the fatherless and motherless creatures of your compassion, be not the prime object in view, the institution could be nothing better than a guilded arena for the self-decep tion of its supporters, and the everlasting disappointment of its inmates. (Loud Cheers.) But the resolution have to propose, invites you to occupy at once the higli ground of undisguised and uncompromising Christian intoe!i ciple, by d e t erm i n i ng th at a ll t h e c hild ren rec eiv ed doe your institution, shall be instructed in the s oul -saving the prominent trines of the Established Church. Sir, of our n ent and distinguishing principles inculcated in the formularies church, are precisely those which characterise only plan of education of which Almighty God himself has expressed by the patriarch his approval. I refer to the plan adopted Abraham, of which the divine approbation is distinctly re corded, and of which the f un d a rnentpr i i s n , ciiile a s dm ar i e t, p a l n ain o l ld y delineated in the holy scriptures. It story ; not, however, taken from an old alumnack, but from the word of God, which liveth . and abideth for ever. The everlasting gospel was Preached to Abraham. All who are blessed by the gospel , are `blessed with faithful Ab ra h am ;" and the great truths involved in the history of Abraham, are great truths still. " I k now him," said the L or d God ,iti high commendation of the patriarch, " that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do judgment and justice." Here we have the practical results of Abraham's system of educa tion ; and if we can ascertain on the same scriptural autho rity what those fundamental principles were, by the infusion of which into the minds and hearts of his children and de pendents, these excellent and happy results were attained ; we shall then know what those distinguishing doctrines are, o f which God himself approves. It has pleased God to sup ply to the attentive and unprejudiced strident of scripture, most satisfactory evidence upon this point. In a recorded conversation of tender interest between Abraham and his son Isaac, the important information is conveyed—the veil is withdrawn, and the reader, who will take the trouble of thinking as he reads, is introduced to the interior of the patriarchal school-room. Abraham said to those of his household who had accompanied himself and his son into the land of Mori* " Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said. my father •, and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, be hold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" Now I wish you to reflect while you read, to involves. He heard think what this inq u i r y of the boy his father say that he was going to worship ; but be saw no lamb; no arrangement made for the shedding of blood. He had not been educated in the opinion that wor ship could take place without the shedding of blood ; he had not been educated in that loose way which recognises natural worship, or in the religion which teaches us that it is suffi cient to approach with a confession of guilt, without the in fliction of any p un i s h ment. " The wages of sin is death." The child had been taught that before he could appreach God, there must be death inflicted; the penalty of sin twist be endured. He had been taught to look for the sacrifice of the emblematic vietim—the infliction of death on a substitute —that without the shedding of blood there could be no ap proach to God for the sin of man —no real religion. This was one of the grand, fundamental principles of patriarchal education ; one of the deep truths of God, that since the fall of Adam none of his descendants can approach God but by the shedding of blood : arid this is also one of the principles of our established church. It teaches us, and we are going to teach all the children committed to our care in the pro posed institution, that they are to be deemed accursed who presume to say that man can be saved by the light of nature, and the law of conscience added to it. This may sound un charitable; but it is written in the articles of our faith ; it is based on the word of God ; it was deeply involved in patri archial education ; and one result of it was that the house hold of Abraham " walked in the way of the Lord, to do judgment and justice." And, sir, we can h e a t no loss to assign a reason for this : I mean for the results following such an education. The reason why men do not " walk in the way of the Lord, to do judgment and justice," is that they are secretly afraid of God. Talk as they will about the divine mercy, " 'tis but," as the phrase is "a copy of their countenance ;" they don't believe it ; they are afraid of its untruth. " Conscience makes cowards of us all," as our great poet truly says. The conscience of the unpardoned is a perpetual cloud upon their souls ; it is a cloud between them and God; and they can have no communion with the Almighty. What is it that can dissipate, what is it that can clear the cloud away, and present the Father's countenance, radiant with encouraging smiles, and open his bosom to toe vilest transgressor of the human family ? Man's works, man's ded uc ti ons f rom nature, man ' s to il s, or penances, or virtues ? Oh, no ! miserable comforters are they all!! 'Where is the lamb ? "My father, behold the fire and the knife; but where is the lamb fora burnt offering?" We can no more than Isaac, worship without blood : we can only go and ask for the lamb. And we wish to teach this to the children who may be entrusted to our care; so that, in after life, if they should happen to be thrown among those who make an outward ap pearance of worship only, without the recognition of the lamb, they may be ready to take the alarm, and say, " this is no place for us." Th ere i s a l so another principle found in volved in this portion of patriarchal history. When Abra ham told his son Isaac that " God would provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering," he was satisfied ; "so they went both of them together." Now, sir, surely this as truly im plies that he was educated in the all-sufficiency of the sacri fice, as his first inquiry indicates that he was educated in the necessity for it. And surely the two principles go together. If there is an efficacious sacrifice, it must certainly be an all sufficient one. Repetition i s th e consequence of inefficacy ; but the " one sacrifice once offered," which is efficacious, need not be repeated —cannot be repeated. Here, also, is another principle of the Established Church. " The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of th e w h o l e wor ld , b oth ori ginal and actual; and there is no other satisfaction for sin, but that alone." I quote from one of the articles of our church, which goes on to say that therefore all the imagined, fanciful expiations, all the pretended sacrifices of the mass, " in the which it was commonly said that the priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain and guilt, were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits." This is a brief exposition of some few of the principles—the fundamental principles, of our glorious Established Church, in which we pledge ourselves to bring up all the children re ceived into the institution ; and I hope that we shall have no difficulty in winning universal approbation to this part of the scheme. It is further proposed that the secular instruction given to the children in this institution shall be in such plain and suitable matters as shall fit them for domestic service, to which they shall be apprenticed in respectable families.— Now, we ought to recollect, not only with regard to these children, but all the children of the poor, that the object of the instruction communicated to them is not to. change their condition of life, but to qualify them for useful ness and contentment, and, consequently, happiness in the condition to• which they belong. It is true that that edu cation will enable some of them to emerge from their original condition, and to rise in society, and we rejoice when we see instances of it ; they are the result of personal endeavour and unwearied attention, and of that distribution of gifts which the Almighty is pleased to make, without rendering an ac count to man. It is this distribution of gifts which makes equality impracticable. If it were possible to throw all on an equality to-morrow; if it were possible for the mad levellers, who preach th e i r revo l u ti onary d octr i nes, to parcel out the and amongst the people of England, giving to each man his portion, and only that, why, equality could not last for two seasons. The industrious man, in the first season, would have a crop double that of the idle man ; the idle man, in the next season, would have to sell his portion of the land ; the industrious man would buy it, and would thus become possessed of two portions, whilst the other man would have none. Neither can there be equality in mind. God has not ordered it so. There is no equality in any depart ment of nature. Look at the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the trees of the f ores t ; an d , t h oug h I am no phrenologist, I say, look at the beads of meu, and where will you find equality ? Some men emerge from the lowness of their condition, in spite of the manifold difficulties with which they have to contend ;—there are others that never will emerge ; they are stupid at the first, and will be stupid to the last. (Laughter.) Still I must contend, that education, as given gratuitously to the poor, should not have for its object to change their position, hut to fit them to fill and adorn the condition in which they are. Then the females, after having been thus educated in this institution, are to he apprenticed out as domestic servants in respectable families. Perhaps I may be allowed to suggest, that in case of circumstances arising that should induce, or make it necessary for, the young woman to leave her situation, the committee should still kindly consider her to be under their care, and not consider their work done when they have once placed her in a family, but keep up a communication with her mistress, and have a superinten dence over her until she becomes established in womanhood, and attains the power of self. provision. The Rev. Mr. Brooks said something about his confidence that you would respond to the call which has been inade - UPOri you, and you, Mr. Mayor, if I heard you correctly, expressed your own happy assurance that such would be the cape. And now sir, what shall I say more ? It is said by thenuraust steward in the parable—" I cannot dig, to b eg I am ashamed." I will reserve the assertion for myself and brother clergymen in ibis town. To beg we certainly are not ashamed. When churches, or schools, or hospitals are required, begging is a profession we glory in ; and I thank God, that as we are not ashamed of the principle, so neither have we any cause to be ashamed of the result. We have never, Mr. Rector, begged in vain, and I think we never shall. (Cheers.) It is true, indeed, that our established church has received heavy blows and great dis couragement; but here, in Liverpool, the blows have recoil ed, and the discouragement has served but to increase the zeal of the clergy and the attachment of the people. Our condition improves daily. The town is more and more largely with us. They have learned by experience, to know and appreciate the best friends of the poor and needy ; and now, when occupying one position more in the cycle of Christian benevolence, we propose an asylum for the female orphans of the poor, I, sir, tin. my own part, so far from apprehending any possibility of failure, do confidently anticipate the most complete and gratifying success. (Cheers.) Female orphans of the poor ! What a volume do these few words contain, for victory over all the cold and wretched subterfuges of selfishness, and the effectual awakening of the most fervent sympathy and practical compassion ! Their case is peculiar. Of all destitute objects, they are eminently the most so. Fatherless, motherless, without one being on the the wide earth to shed a tear over their ruin, to mitigate the pangs of their remorse, or minister to the diseases of their premature decrepitude. Is it possible to conceive an object of more intense interest to the heart, than an unprotected female infant ? To shield it from exposure t) the blast of the vile temptations of such a world as this, is our first thought, our animating impulse. It appeals to us like a lamb going to the sacrifice ! By an instent and involuntary emotion, we reflect on our own dear children, end while our hearts melt in thankfulness for their comparative security, we burn to prevent the evil we so much abhor, and commu nicate the blessing we so revere. (Much cheering.) But • are our own children safe? How closely connected is the subject now before us with a diminution, at least, of their temptations ! - It should ever be remembered thet the ne glected female becomes, by a sort of desp e r a t e necess i ty, the abandoned female : andi how many parents, even in the highest classes of society, can bear won)l testimony to the total perversion of youth by the seductions of such women. Such youths become, in their turn, seducers ; and when once allured into the mysteries of libertinism, there is no excess or enormity which they will not swallow like water. It is the property of this detestable vice to debase the whole man ; to extinguish, not only the finer and holier sentiments, but all the lofty aspirings after honourable distinction, and all the patient endurance of private toil, without which honour able distinction is wholly unattainable ; and to substitute the low vulgarities of indecency, and the grovelling instincts of the beasts that perish. These are the pestilential nui sances that we meet in our street—your young men of fa shion, and supercilious airs of affected superiority, conceal ing the meanness, and the mischief and the licentionsnese of the monkey. Oh, vile, disgraceful, and destestab!e they are ! Such ignominious nuisances should be aveidea as you would avoid the winged and pestilential insects of the warmer climates, which infect where they fly, and poison where they repose. You should not admit them into your houses. La dies, do not converse with them; stand aloof la on) them ; show them the majesty of offended virtue, and shame the m o ß u u t of the t l v must ice , forbear.if they w Prevention, re abandon ,isbee it t teen: h,iileu r r e ,r ; principle_ d as a step towards prevention, an important step towards cutting off a supply of evil, establish and support and follow up with maternal watchfulness and care, a Christian asylum for fe male orphans. (Cheers.) Mr. JOSHUA EDWARDS seconded the resonation, and it was carried. The Rev. Mr. HESKETH proposed the next resolution, and advocated the cause undertaken by the promoters of this asylum with much ability. The rev. gentleman read a letter from a gentleman connected with the Foundling Hospital at London, pointing out, in reply to certain inquiries prpounded Mr, Hesketh, the practical advantages resulting from several points of the system adopted at that institution. H. R. SANDBACR, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was carried. The Rev. Mr. BARKER suggested that the clergy who sub scribed should be admitted, ex-officio, members of the com mittee. The Rev. Dr. BY RTH seconded the suggestion. Mr. SANDBACH , as seconder of the motion, said he was glad to sec the clergy voluntarily coming forward, and they should be exceedingly glad of their services. A vote of thanl:s was then given to the Mayor, and the meeting separated. IMPORTANT TO EXPORTERS OF SPIRITS.—The Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury have granted permission to mix plantation rum with whiskey in bond, for the purposes of stores or for exportation. A large q uantity is now in course of preparation in several extensive vatting departments in this town. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We are informed that the Earl of Sefton and Sir Robert Peel have most kimity seated to lend some valuable paintings for the ex hibi t i on , which is to be held in this institution during the next Mid summer holydays. By the advertisement in another column. it appears that tradesmen may send articles on sale to the exhibition. THE GLASGOW STEAMERS.—The correspon d ent o f t h e Albion of Monday, writer of the paragraph " Glasgow Steamers," is ready to prove that his st a t ement, conta i ne d i n that paragraph, is correct in every particular, although the truth of it be questioned. The iron steam-shin did make the passage from Greenock to the rock in seventeen hours, only a few minutes less time than occup i e d b y t h e Ad m iral in Funning the same distance. It would not have been surpris ing if the Admiral had ma d e the passage in an hoar er t wo less time than the iron ship, considering the great advantage the former has in respect of po wer ; b u t comparisons are invidious. This fete is n ot t o b e p er f orme d by the Admiral, or any steamer, merchant vessel, or other, afloat at I . le . pre sent day. It h as never b een denied t h a t the AclinrA!is a sea-going boat ; but it is also true that the iron ship is :An equally"good sea-going vessel. The experience of last winter has proved this—that no vessels on the Glasgow and Liver_ pool station, or on any other station whatever , have performed their passages with more regularity , or given more satisfac tion to all parties concerned, than the iron ships have clone: ; and it is satisfactory to know that these vessels nosseFs th e almost unanimous approbation of the public. Lilt him prove 014 who can.—B•om a Correspondent. 1 1 E~ 4 ) %