The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

-~,. ''%- 3, r THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, Seventh Night of Mr. CHARLES KEAN, and the Last Night but Three of the Theatre being Open underthe pre sent Lessee, who finally retires from the Management at the close of the Season. THIS present TUESDAY, the lOth instant, will he per formed the favourite Drama, written by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., called THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte.. Mr. Charles Kean. Beauseant.. Mr. W. Howard. I Colonel Damas.. Mr. Baker. Madame Desehappelles.. Mrs. Clarke. Pauline, Deschapptilles . To conclude with the Melo-Drama of ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire.. Mr. W. Howard. Mr. Baker. Jacques Strop Marie.... Miss Cleaver. Clementine (Daughter of Germeuil) Mrs. Baker. On WEDNESDAY, Shakspearc's Tragedy of HAM LET. Hamlet, Mr. Charles Kean; The Ghost, Mr. Stuart; Laertes. Mr. W. Howard; Polonius, Mr. Baker; The Queen, Miss Cleaver ; Ophelia, Mrs. W. H. Bland. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of TEKELI. Tekeli, Mr. W. Howard ; Isidore, Mr. Baker ; Christine, Mrs. P. Crowe. _ _ Mr. KEAN having been received last night with the most enthusiastic applause in the character of MACBETH, the play will be repeated on THURSDAY next, with the revised farce of LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN. On FRIDAY the Theatre will FINALLY CLOSE for the Season. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. CLARKE, And the CLOSING- NIGHT of the Season, and the Last Night the Theatre will be open under the present Lessee. MISS ELLEN TREE has, on this occasion, kindly volunteered the aid of her valuable services, and will appear in two of her most cele- brated characters. MR. CHARLES KEAN has kindly consented to appear in two of his most popular Characters. _ _ N FRIDAY next, i;e --- 1111itistant, the Performances ‘.../ will commence with Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Jaques - Mr. Charles Kean. Rosalind After which, a FAVOURITE DRAMA, in which Mr. CHARLES KEAN and MISS ELLEN TREE Will sustain principal Characters. Full any will he made in future Bills. Tickets to be had of Mrs. CLARKE, No. 1, Houghton street, and of Mr. MINSTER, at the Boa-office of the Theatre, of whom Places may be taken from Ten until Three. CONCERT. ' MR. E R. H. P. ALDRIDG, JUN. respectfully announces that hip Cf)NCERT will take place on the EVENING of WFuNEsDAN, the 18th instant, at Mi. LASSELLS' SA LOON, Great Rich ,lond-street, under the patronage of the Committee of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, on which occasion he ..vlll be ts , isted by the following Vocal and In rt-umental Performers Principal Singers. Miss HAMMOND, Miss ALDriIDGE, Miss LEACH, ' • Mr. DODD, and Mr. J (')f rn Manchester Concerts,) Messrs. BALL, 110fYirt-IBY, CASE, COBB, HIGHTON, WAItINC, DUKE, anti PALMER. Solo Instrumewtal PCrforcsers. Mr. E. !MOWN - , Mr. H. F. ALDaIDGE, JUN. aid his Pupil, :M?l.Ver F. TIVENDELL. The Band will consist of Mews. EWot, : .Priti. Second, D. 3T , C - )11: , , H. Tiveudell, • OBOES. Messrs. Scruton, Cafferata. CLI.RIONETS. Messrs. Leonard, Jolliffe. BASSOONS. I Messrs. Jones. Hlukmotid. Ihe,rforce, Ta.rnpsen, fliltop , Ir zi Harrison. HORNS. Messes. Thompson, Edwards, T. Fisher, T. Jones. TRUMPETS Messrs. Hanson, Bradbury. TROMBONE KIOLAs.. Prin., .Armstrong, Sergeant. VIOLONCELLOS. Messrs. Davies, J. Tivenulell. ' DOUBLE BASSES Messrs. Tayleure, Edgar. FLUTES. Mr. Druce. KETTLE Drums Mr. Fileen. Messrs. Fisher, Hornby. GRAND CASA. Mr. Clarke. TRIANGLE AND CYMBALS. Mr. Brindley, Jun. , ALDRIDGE, JUN. De bad at the principal Music RIDGE, 35, Seymour-street. LEIDBR-Mr. H. F. Tickets, price 43. each, to Shops, and of Mr. H. F. ALD THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACA DEM Y of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Season, from Nine until Dusk. Admission, Is. Catalogues, Is. Season Ticket, ss. Also, every Evening, BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, Is. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary tp the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place. GREAT SUCCESS OF THE PANORAMA OF NEW YORK. ALL- GOING TO NEW YORK ! HAVE you any Friends or Relatives in New York ? Have you been in New York ? Are you going to New York ? Then go to NEWINGTON BRIDGE, and in the Large NEW BUILDING, most comfortably fitted up and agree ably warm, you sit and make the voyage up the Bay and go round the City, and in one hour and a half you are at home at your own fire-side ! Day Exhibition of the Panorama commences at One ; in the Evening, ILLUMINATED BY GAS, at Seven, and again at Half-past Eight. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. N.B.—A CHANGE of . VIEWS Rill shortly take place. WILL SHORTLY CLOSE. NEXHIBITING, at the LYCEUM, BOLD-STREET, 1.1 the magnificent PAINTING of ADAM and EVE; (by GILLARD,) which has commanded the admiration of thou sands, amongst whom may be named the first Judges of Pictures in England. Doors open from Ten in the Morning till Nine at Night. ADMISSION—SIXPENCE. ON SALE. • Size of the Picture, 11 feet by 8. FINE ARTS. MR. ALEXANDER HILL, of Edinburgh, Publisher to the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, begs respectfully to inform the Inhabitants of Liverpool and its vicinity, that he will have the honour to EXHIBIT for PRIVATE VIEW, on MONDAY next, the 9th instant, and fur a few days following, in Mr. Lacey's Exhibition Rooms, 100, Bold-street, Mr. DUNCAN'S cele brated Picture of PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD and the HIGHLANDER entering Edinburgh after the Battle of Preston. This exquisite Work of Art, which so beautifully illus trates one of the most Romantic and Picturesque Events of Scottish History, has just returned from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy of London, where it. formed, perhaps without any exception, the chief attraction. It is to be en graved on the most important scale, and in the very highest style of Line Engraving, by FREDERICK BACON, Esq., of London. whose high talents have been secured, to produce a Plate worthy of the advancing spirit of British Art, at an ex pense which has-probably never before been incurred in the production of a Line Engraving. Tickets of Admission to he had of Mr. LACEY. Hours of Attendance from Ten A.M. till Four P.M., and from Six till Eight in the Evening Lir-rpool, Nor. 5, 1840. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. NOTICE. A H E Puialic are informed teat, after SATURDAY, the 14th I ns'inr, and •intil further Notice, the 12 15 P.M. TRAIN fro -n LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER, and tne 2 15 P.M TRAIN front BIRMINGHAM, will he Discontinued. BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS. Live pool, 4ii November, 1840. rtIE FARMERS OF LANCASHIRE AND CHEStIII: - 1.; 13a0THER FARMERS.--I have for a long time considered • , land with ryegrass and clover to h:• • o '. 4 si r Thomas Stanley's estate, as • .• •: • land reulAin four years, to tell ine that when land is sown it is a pernicious cloak for ,•:: , .:-a. crop. 1 have been told that ,;.,•L int e ;tils piolactivel) in Cheshire as in the ' . this pl t would be sown only once in . • w ever keep the land poor, • :•,, ,„ idle and in starvation, and it Aft,, - a .severe frost the crop would rail ; ; : e , it' it. did n;., , t, it would he a poor one. The farmer gets at. , oet 10 awes of wheat. When he has taken his seed out. ancts'ipplied h family, the little he has to sell is but triliin,g. This is ruinous farming. As l havci cakell some pains to improve this part of the country - (C.i'n)ri:ie. , •ii,re), I first recommend that no rye grp..•is should The next tiling, and which is of the veate,t importance, is to sow south country wheat, the golden double-podded beans, and German marrow-fat tares. I am prepared to show that the grower will raise more with out nnnure than with, by following this plan. I have now given directions to one of my friends, who has experienced what the south country wheat will produce, to try this plan, and he has promised to sow no rye-grass, and also to sow all his land onee In two years with wheat. My plan for the variation of eleps is as follows:- 10 acres wheat.... 10 acres beans. 10 do. do. ....10 do. clover. 10 do. do. .... 10 do. peas. 10 do. do. .... 10 do. potatoes. 10 do. do. .... 10 do. beans. 10 do. do. .... 10 do. German marrow-fat tares. 10 do. do. .... 10 do. turnips. A small farmer will by this means be highly benefited : it will afford him an opportunity of improving his land. To back my opinion, I have challenged all England, for £l,OOO, to produce a field of wheat more in quantity and finer in quality than I can. I am, brother farmers, yours respectfully, THOS. FULLARD. Thorney, near Peterbro', Cambridgeshire. The following anedote is related of a battalion of young soldiers at 'Waterloo " When first they went into action their colonel watched his young soldiers with an anxious eye, but was soon relieved from all apprehensions. There was , a re port that some h ussar reg i ment was d r i ven back. They have driven back the - hussars,' said one young soldier to another. ' What of that ?' replied his comrade : ' they must blow off the froth before they come to the porter.' CURE OF SQUINTING.-Our readers have no doubt seen accounts of the surgical ope ra ti on f or cur i ng squ i nt i ng h av ing been performed in differ en t parts of the kingdom, an d w e have now to inform them that the same has been successfully performed in Preston during the week on several patients, by our townsmen, Mr. Brown and Mr. Howitt, surgeon; ; Mr. Harris also has been equally successful. His patient was the daughter of Mr. James Hunt, wine merchant, and the operation took place on Tuesday mo rn i ng, and was performed on the left eye, which was turned inwa r d s , t h e pupil being directed towards the opposite eye. The eye, o n th e di v i s i on of the inner straight muscle, was instantaneously drawn out wards. The operation we are told only . occupied ab ou t a minute, and the patient spoke of the pam she had experienced as but very trifling, and not at all equalling the apprehensi ons she had entertained. Up to Thursday evening no redness or other sign of inflammation appeared to have arisen, and she has expressed herself as being quite free from pain and other annoyance since the performance of the operation. W e have now only further to say, that the eye cont inues straight, and that there is every reason to believe that the cure will be found a perfect one. Persons, therefore, who labour under the defect of squinting'may thus be satisfied that the surgeons in Preston are quite prepared to afford the remedy they,re quire.—Preston Pilot. _~ .. i~! .~ y ~ ~~``~ Owing to the length of &sr local reports, we bare found it necessary to.withdraw several original articles pre pared for our present publieation,—including some interesting details furnished by the correspondent of a gentleman in this neighbourhood, respecting the state of off irs in Spain. TO CORRESPONDENTS " A Reformer and a Conservative" wishes us to caution the public against a man who has been obtaining Bibles, from different individuals, under false pretences. He suites that he is returning home, to the neighbourhood of Cork, and that he has a great desire to take a Bible with him. Our correspondent says, that the man is a complete im postor, and that he is a resident of Ben Johnson-street. " Viator" complains, with much reason, of the abominably dirty condition in which several of the principal thorough fares in town have been suffered to remain for the last fortnight. We really cannot tell him what has become of the scavengers, as we have not seen any of them employed for several days past. The scandalous state of the parapets in many parts of the town is highly-discreditable to the inhabitants, whose duty it is to keep clean those parts im mediately in front of their premises. It would be well, perhaps, if a few examples were made by enforcing against such parties the penalty which attaches to their negligence. We dare say that " Scrutator" is right in his suspicious. The voting papers for each ward ought to be narrowly examined. The result of the recent investigation into the voting papers for Lime-street Ward more than justifies the doubts of our correspondent. We suppose, however, that he is aware that any burgess may insist upon an examina tion of the voting papers. The electors of St. Anne's Ward and of Scotland Ward ought to act upon this hint. In the Manchester and Salford Advertiser of Saturday last, we find the following sentence in a paragraph describing a speech of the Rev. Hugh Stowell's, at a meeting of the Manchester Protestant Association :—" After complaining of the inaccurate report of his trial, which appeared in the Liverpool Standard, he called on the Rev. Mr. Hooper to move the adoption of the report." We have read the whole of Mr. Stowell's speech as reported, apparently ver batim et literatim, in the Manchester Courier, and think it due to ourselves to say, that so far from complaining of our report of the trial " Hearne v. Stowell," the rev. gen tleman actually paid a very high compliment for our quick ness and accuracy. The writer of the paragraph must h•Are written it from hearsay. " Humanity" asks us why we have not taken notice of the late disgraceful proceeding at the Northern Hospital. Our rule has hitherto been, that if we cannot advance the inter csts of a useful charity, at least we will refrain from doing it harm ; and, however we may feel inclined to expose such an improper manifestation of " liberal" spirit on the part of some individuals connected with the Northern Hospital, we are content, for the sake of the charity, to allow the affair, as far as we are concerned, to remain in oblivion. " H. M. II." will perceive that we have not forgotten him. A correspondent who complains of the conduct of a police man in Great George's ward, during the municipal elec tion, should make his statement to Mr. Whitty, or the Watch Committee. Once more we beg to inform our readers that a stamped sup plement cannot be sent by post free, without being accom panied by the newspaper to which it is supplementary. " A Conservative Operative," in our next. "One of the Committee" will keep until Friday. Several other communications are also unavoidably post poned, owing to a press of local matter. ETA' Zitnrpool TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1840. We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and of the Jamaica Standard to the 26th of September, inclusive. We perceive, from an announce ment in the latter of these papers, that the two journals are to be henceforth incorporated. The papers before us fully confirm the report as to the resumption of specie payments on the part of the Jamaica and Planters' banks. They had already com menced redeeming their notes in coin, and it was ex pected that they would soon resume their discounts. Such being the case there was some hope that the pre vailing commercial depression would speedily be re eved, and that trade and commerce would soon re- Beyond the announcement of this fact there is no news of any importance from Jamaica. We have received our files of the Guiana Times and of the Guiana Chronicle to the 18th September, inclu sive. From the former of these papers we learn that foreign sugar was finding its way into the colonies in such large quantities, that it became imperativelyneces sary to mate some definitive stand on behalf of the agricultural interests of Guiana. The " British Guiana lusurance Company " had been fully organised. The deed of settlement had been agreed upon, and a ballot for directors had taken place. Nothing was wanting in order to perfect the arrange ments of the company but a charter, which it was con fidently expected the Court of Policy would immediately grant. Great advantages will, no doubt, result from the establishment of this company. Messrs. Hoftede and Revers, who had been pro claimed not qualified to fill the office of members of the College of Electors, have been reinstated in their places, in consequence of instructions received from the Colo nial office. The Chronicle states that an experimental trial of a steam-plough had recently taken place on the planta tion Endeavour. The result was considered highly satisfactory, and it was calculated that a large annual expense in manual labour will be saved to estates by the general application of this machine. The project of Mr. Reis, for the establishment of a settlement on the Essequebo, was making considerab!e progress. Numbers of persons had entered their names as subscribers of various sums, for the purpose of pro moting the object contemplated ; and as soon as the amount realised proved sufficient to erect the necessary buildings, the projector would take measures for lo cating the emigrants. We subjoin the following pungent letter from the Guiana Times : TO HIS EXCELLENCY HENRY LIGHT, ESQ., GOVERNOR OF BRITISH GUIANA, &C., &C., &C. SlR,—The rule which obtains between the employer and employed is, that the one selects upon some satisfactory grounds of character and the other accepts from a feeling of confidence in his abilities to fulfil the duties of the situation he is promoted to—. Thus the merchant selects his clerk —the planter his manager—the freeholder his representative —and the shepherd his dog. The rule which obtained at the Colonial-office appears to have been sympathetic in your case. When Lord Glenelg selected au officer so completely sui generis to fill your present situation, public opinion confirmed the justice of Sir William Molesworth's motion for his removal from office, which the ministry had, shortly after, to comply with. And you may here take warning, and think it not unreasonable that the voice of the colonists, conveyed to the throne through par liament may have a similar eifect—for truly we have no con fidence in you. Distinguished offices, such as you hold, have, in general, been reserved for persons remarkable for talent, or as re treats for heroes. Thus, Sir James Carmichael Smyth, for his services under Wellington at Waterloo ; Sir Benjamin D'Urban, for his bravery in the Peninsula, were appointed to govern this colony. Your claims and qualifications to succeed them are a conundrum which I cannot solve. I have perused volumes of state papers from the time you en— tered the army until you retired from the service as captain of artillery, and find no honourable mention of any Henry Light, either militarily, diplomatically, scientifically, or otherwise, which could, in my opinion, warrant your appoint ment. In literature, your single effort has proved a failure. In the art of governing, the injuries sustained, and the ruin impending this colony from your negligence, ignorance, and incapacity, are too generally felt and known to require com ment. Some men are born great, Some men acquire greatness—and Some men have greatness thrust upon them. If you should happen to belong to the last class, it is not beneath you to do something in return for the honour con ferred on you : for instance, if nature has endowed you with a mind not sufficiently capacious to comprehend and to dis charge the proper functions of your office, you may still gain some credit by confining yourself to the cypherical limits of your talent, and leaving those who are better able to judge of, and qualified, (from long experience,) to enact laws for the colony, and allow their remonstrances against the avari cious demands of your official sycophants, (which have been weighed in the scale of public opinion and found wanting,) to prevail, and let your civil list be withdrawn. Look over your despatches, and what can you see there ? What can be considered worthy of a governor whose reports to his mistress the Queen should present the status quo of the colony as correctly as the reflection of a mirror? What have you done to assist us in procuring immigrants? You have not represented, truly, the depreciation in the value of property which has taken place since 1838 ! No, you have confined your remarks to state that the colony is flourishing, because a great number of houses have been built in the me tropolis—country stores have sprung up like mushrooms, and attorneys, anxious to pocket their commissions, have sold estates to adventurers, by the way, at prices ridicu lously extravagant, and which are entered into in the same spirit of speculation, and contingent on the same rationality and security as the operations of the Stock Exchange in 1825 and 1826. Without immigration they will prove ruinous. _ _ Sir James patronised our Local Bank, and, more than three years ago, mooted the propriety of obtaining an influx of labourers. When he sent his secretary to enjoy a sea voy age to Cuba, it was with the hope of getting labourers, and making some recompense to the colony which paid his ex penses, and his salary. When you sent him to England, it was for the purpose of adding pay to the indolence of offi cials—of putting the thumb-screws of oppression on the co lony—of taxing us beyond our means, and sending us to per dition.--Thanks to our representatives, (barring the Turk,) the plan failed. As he is so fond of voyaging at the public -10 1 1Z4 - expense, let me of you, as tome amendcf, to send him to Sierra Leone to bring WS some labourers. Do something for your bread. Mr. Schomburgk may be shortly expected. I doubt not that he will bear credentials commanding your assistance. In giving effect to these, you may promulgate to the wandering Indians of our frontier the determination of the British go vernment to assert the rights and the protection its flags se cures. Hold out encouragement to them, and their labour may be made available to the colony, for they will be too glad to escape flora the ravages of the Cabannos, upon any assurance of bcnefittiug themselves. I am now writing to you on the banks of the river Esse quebo, upon an island larger than Barbados ; and when I consider the resources of the scarcely-known portion of the colony from which I address you, I am at a loss how to ex press the importance of the province under your charge. Your trust is an important one—neglect it not.—Once more let me remind you that it is never too late to do good. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, JONATHAN OLDBUCK. Essequebo, 10th September, 1840. We have been favoured with the following extract of a private letter, containing the latest intelligence from Monte Video and Buenos Ayres : Extract of a letter ex Adriana, Monte Video, 21st Aug. 1840. We forward you the jVacional, wherein you will see the particulars learned from Lavalle yesterday to the 14th inst. The writer has conversed with Don Jose Varela, who is come from the army, and he states " That Lavalle has about 4,500 men and 12,000 horses, that on the 14th inst. he was in Arcisses, 30 to 40 miles from Buenos Ayres, and would march on the following day towards the city ; that two of Rosas's officers and some men had passed over to the invaders, and that they were all sanguine of ultimate success." This informa tion coming from an interested party must be received with caution ;—we ourselves are not very confident, but are of opinion that Lavalle will have more to do than his party would lead us to expect, and that affairs with him and those assembled under his command are yet in a very uncertain state. Admiral Baudin has not yet arrived, but cannot now be tnany days ; and our hopes mainly depend on the result of the negociations which, we understand, be is authorised to enter into with the government of Buenos Ayres. For the information of your readers it may here be re marked, that Admiral Baudin resigned the command, and in his place Admiral Macan was appointed, who sailed from France towards the end of July. News has just been re ceived that the vessels under his command put into Goree about the 18th August, short of provisions, and, therefore, that he cannot well reach Buenos Ayres before October, — so that the probability is that things will remain as they are until the end of the year,—and if by that time Lavalle should be defeated, it becomes extremely doubtful when the block ade will be laid, as the French king in his address to the chambers seems not to anticipate a favourable result to the negociations which the French minister who accompanied Admiral Macan was, it is supposed, authorized to enter into. Liverpool. 7th November. 1840. Mr. Bolton has been elected mayor of Liverpool ! This is the very climax of radical impudence. The elevation of this bigoted, ultra-liberal, intolerant enemy of the Church of England to the civic chair, will con tribute, more than any other step ever taken by our reformed Town Council, to the final overthrow and downfal of the faction who have so long rode rough shod over the independent electors of Liverpool. The election of Mr. Bolton was carried by a majority of eleven only. If Mr. Sandbach had been present, the majority would only have been ten. Sixty-three mem bers were present in the council-room, including the sixteen aldermen. Among the representatives of the people in the council-room, there was an absolute majority of five in favour of J. S. Leigh, Esq. If the councillors alone had voted, and Mr. Sandbach had been present, the numbers would have stood thus— For Mr. J. S. Leigh 27 For Mr. Bolton Majority From this statement it will appear that a gain of three at the next municipal election will give the conserva tives a clear majority in the election of aldermen. But our conservative friends must not rest satisfied with so small a gain. They must endeavour to carry at least twelve or fourteen wards next year. We are glad that the choice of the radicals has fallen upon Mr. Unitarian Bolton. The selection of such a man for the office of mayor will serve to disgust the respectable portion of the liberals, to whom Mr. Bolton's politics and personal deportment are alike objectionable. For once we thank the " tyrant majority" for the step which they have taken. We are seldom tempted into a controversy with the Liverpool Mercury; but we cannot resist the opportu nity afforded us this week of laying before our readers a few specimens of the glaringly false and distorted statement of facts which that journal is in the habit of circulating in its leading articles and its reports. To many, we are aware that even this will appear a work of supererogation. The falsehoods of our ancient con temporary are so flippant and flimsy that they bear upon their face their own refutation. It must be borne in mind, however, that, to a great portion of the public, the Mercury, from the circulation which conservative supineness gives to it, is the leading record of passing events in this great town; and that, to a great majority of the lower classes, it is the only Liverpool paper within reach. In its columns the weekly slander and the oft refuted lie travel with winged speed, whilst the contradiction creeps slowly after, and, in many cases, never overtakes them at all. ~. In noticing the proceedings of the late Municipal Elections, the editor of the Mercury has chosen to take from ourselves the text for his dish of weekly twaddle. In our paper of Tuesday last, we endeavoured briefly to show to our readers the comparative position of the contending parties,—the one having arrayed on its side the extensive patronage and influence of the Corpora tion, and the other relying only upon the conservative and constitutional spirit of their fellow townsmen. True, exclaims our contemporary, we do possess ex tensive patronage. We have the appointment of in spectors of police, of constables, of watchmen ; we have in our hands the control of the public markets; we have the letting of various contracts, and the giving of various " snug berths;" but the disinterested purity of our principles has always prompted us to bestow our patronage upon our political opponents! It has never been exercised "for the furtherance of the political or personal views of those who hold it."—Nay, farther, " We have heard many reformers complain that the town council was occasionally blind"—only occasionally, reader,—" to the interests of its own friends, and too favorable to those of its enemies." Indeed ! what a paragon of liberality must be the reformed Corporation of Liverpool. In their hands "patronage is anything but conducive to strength ;" their " committees never exert their influence to pro mote the return of liberal candidates ;" and their apo logist, the Mercury, "challenges the STANDARD to name a single instance,"—a challenge which, unfor tunately, is thrown away upon us. The committees of the council do not collectively go out to canvass votes; and, of their in-door proceedings, we are in some de gree of ignorance, no conservative member of the coun cil having yet been permitted to set foot within their secret conclave. Under these circumstances, the Mer cury might safely challenge us to prove an instance in which a committee of the council has exerted itself to procure the return of a liberal member ; but that num bers of those committees, their agents, and their de pendents have done so, it would not be very difficult to prove. The Whig candidate for Scotland Ward will scarcely, we presume, deny that his most active can vassers were the servants of a committee ; the candi date for North Toxteth will not deny that his canvassers were of the same stamp; and that his active supporters have ever been the favoured recipients of whatever pre ference or patronage the market committee had at its disposal. It would be idle, however, to bestow further notice upon such consummate twaddle as this. We could give plenty of instances in which promises of patronage and favour have been the means of deterring voters from exercising their privileges; but had this even not been the case, our original position would remain the same. When the patronage of the old council was upon the side of conservatism the Whig-radical party were wont to attribute to that circumstance every de feat which they sustained; and, now that the council is upon their own side, we can beat them nevertheless. With respect to the wholesale "bribery, intimidation, and free drink," we suspect that there are few people so ignorant as to credit this customary charge of beaten whiggery. We ourselves have rarely seen an election upon which public opinion appeared less to require any such inducements on the part of the conservative can didates. '" ~ ~.~ A IN,p. a Let us now turn, however, from the editor to the re. porter, and admire at once the intuitive perception with which he appears to haVe become acquainted at once with the causes of whip-radical defeat in every ward—how many "poor deluded wretches" have been shipped off' to Dublin ; how many have taken a coun try excursion, with £5 each in their pockets ; how many have been made drunk or intimidated ;—to gether with every variety of circumstance which in genuity could string together. The reporter, however, is not at all confined in his genius. We can fancy him placed in a central position, with book and pencil in hand, whilst, like a certain quadruped, immortalized by Wordsworth— " Upon the pivot of his scull Turned round his long left ear;" and, although that sensitive and useful organ received every whisper, from north and south, from east and west, the hand was only ready to record so much as was congenial and acceptable to those for whom it ex ercised its vocation. One instance of this suppressio yen is all which we shall at present lay before our readers. That one instance, however, is quite suffi cient to show how entirely unworthy of credence is this widely-circulated, liberal, and veracious journal. In the election for Scotland ward, it is well known that it was found necessary to institute an inquiry into the case of a.voter of the name of Hugh Roberts, who voted in the morning for Mr. Thornhill, the radical chairman of the Watch Committee, and in the after noon tendered his vote again for Mr. Gladstone. At the inquiry before the Town-clerk, on Tuesday last, it was deposed that Roberts was taken out of his bed at five o'clock in the morning of Monday, by a Mr. Allen—a canvasser for the radicals —under the pre tence that he was taking him to vote for the conserva tive candidate. He was taken to the radical commit tee-room, made drunk, and then recorded his vote--or rather handed in a voting paper—for Mr. Thornhill. The man could not write, and was so unconscious of what he was doing, that he afterwards went up and tendered himself as a voter for Mr. Gladstone. When brought up before the 'town-clerk,• the voter was still intoxicated, having been " bottled" all night by the same Mr. Allen, and carried up to the court in a coach, accompanied by that gentleman and some others of his party. He distinctly swore, notwith standing the promptings of the Whig-radicals, by whom he was surrounded in court, that it was not un til he was made drunk that he could be induced to vote for Mr. Thornhill. So important a fact as this inquiry, one would naturally suppose would, in substance at least, be re corded by the omniscient genius of our Mercurial re porter. Not a bit of it. The only record we have in that veracious print is, that a scrutiny did take place ; and, that " the result proved that Mr. Hugh Roberts had voted in the morning for the reformers, when sober (!) and in the afternoon the tories had plied him so well with drink that they persuaded him to vote again for Mr. Gladstone. The man appeared to have been so stupidly drunk that he did not know what he was doing ! Any comment upon such an instance of gross and deliberate perversion of fact would be superfluous. No respectable member of the press, one would imagine, could have the hardened face so wilfully to misrepre sent a fact which is not only notorious, but which, we firmly believe, is anything but one of boasting to the party who are temporarily gainers by it. Ex uno disce omnes, however. By this the public may see the staple which composes the weekly web of Mercurial slander and falsehood. Need we wonder if the whig radical party dread, and strive to prevent the circula tion of conservative journals, amongst the middle and lower classes of our population, when their cause—the cause of ignorance, slander, and "infamous lying"—is so well supported by this their leading organ ? Tnu GREAT LTVERPOOL.—This splendid steam-ship, be longing to our port, is expected this day, from the Mediter ranean, via Fahnouth, and will, it is hoped, bring with her the overland mail from India. Should that anticipation be realised, we shall furnish, in our second edition, any news we can obtain from her (in quarantine) that we may consider interesting to our readers. MUSICAL BoxEs.—One of the largest musical boxes ever constructed, may be seen at Mr. Verly's, in this town ; the volume of tone it produces is astonishing. THEATRE ROYAL.—Mrs. Clarke's benefit on Friday next is expected to be a bumper. The box list is nearly filled already. Those who wish to secure places should lose no time in doing so. PantsiAN BITUMEN COMPANY.—We beg to refer those of our readers who are about to lay down Asphalte pave ments, to the advertisement of the Parisian Bitumen Com pany to be found elsewhere in our paper to-day. The Bitumen manufactured by this company is peculiar; it will stand the extremes of heat and cold,—fused metal even has been poured upon it without making any impression. We believe no other description of Asphalte will stand so severe a test. — For the floors of warehouses or agricultural buildings this Bitumen is admirably adapted. It can be laid down, we believe, considerably cheaper by this company than by any other. An agency is about to be established here, and also in Manchester. MR. ALDRIDGE J UNIOR'S CONCERT.—This concert, which will take place on Wednesday week, will be a great musical treat. The principal talent in Liverpool has been engaged, and every i effort will be made by Mr. Aldridge, that the affaire shall "go off" with eclat. The orchestra will consist of 36 per formers, so that the pieces played may be expected to be done in excellent style. Several songs will be sung for the first time in public, while in the instrumental portion of the en tertainment the newest music has been selected. We trust that the young leader will receive that encourapment his talents deserve—and a crowded room be his reward. LITHOGRAPHY.—The astonishing strides made in this branch of art, are exemplified in the beautiful specimens we constantly meet with, of drawings and designs. The art of copperplate printing will surely go out of repute, when we find such skill manifested by the lithographer. Some of the best executed specimens we have seen of late have emanated from Messrs. Maclure and M`Donald, who have just esta blished themselves in this town. An inspection of their work will satisfy anybody that lit ho g ra phy is stepping closely upon the heels of copperplate printing. MALTESE ASSES.—In another part of our paper this day will be found an advertisement relating to two Maltese asses, now on sale at Lucas's Repository. We noticed these beau tiful animals a few publications ago, and again revert to them. They are a peculiar breed, kept in Malta entirely for the purpose of breeding mules. The Americans have lately taken away great numbers, and very I?igh prices have been obtained in New Orleans for them j two or three thousand dollars is the common price for them in that city, c onsequ ently the price of these animals has risen considerably in Malta. The natives take as much care of these asses as the Arabs do of their horses- -it is well known how loth they are to part with their steeds—so the Maltese hold in equalaffection these asses. The largest of these animals to which we draw attention, was reared entirely by hand. They are hardly two years old, and already stand fourteen hands. THE LATE DESPERATE ATTACK IN LAUREL-STREET. — It was rumoured in town yesterday, that one of the police men who were so seriously injured in capturing the thieves on Friday evening, as detailed in another column, had died in consequence; but we are happy to say that, on inquiry at the Infirmary ast night, we ascertained they were both better. ANNUAL DINNER OF TELE LIVERPOOL TYPOGRAPIiICAL SOCIETY.—The thirty-ninth anniversary of the above society was held on Saturday evening last, in the large room of the York Hotel, Williamson -square, when there was a very numerous and respectable attendance of the profession. The liberal and splendid manner in which the dinner was got up reflected the highest credit upon Mr. Hamer, the worthy host. Harmcny and good feeling prevailed throughout the evening. Several amateur vocalists, members and friends of the society, kindly favoured the meeting with their at tendance, and added greatly to the enjoyment of the even ing. Mr. J. R. Williams, of the Liverpool Mail, occupied the chair ; and Mr. J. H. Hall, of the Liverpool Standard, acted as vice-president. We are sorry that we cannot make room for the eloquent speeches which were delivered on the occasicn. SOCIETY OF STUDENTS IN MEDICINE.—The second ses sion of the Society of the Students in Medicine, in this town, commenced on Thursday last, at the Royal Institution, Col quitt-street ; James Long, Esq., perpetual president, in the chair. The proceedings were highly interesting. Several highly important papers were read, illustrative of peculiar medical cases, for which we regret we cannot find room. A number of new members were admitted, after which the meeting separated. This new society is likely to be produc tive of much benefit to the medical students of Liverpool. We heartily wish it every success. LAMENTABLE EFFECT OF INTEMPERANCE,^OII Satur day last a poor woman, above seventy years of age, entered one of the public houses at Waterloo in a state of intoxica tion. She proceeded as far as the kitchen, and was observed suddenly to fall on the floor, and on being taken up was found lifeless. A medical gentleman happened to be on the spot. but his assistance was of no use. The old woman ac companied her husband, who was a soldier, during the Pe ninsular war and the battle of Waterloo. ROYAL STANDARD BUILDING SOCIETY.—The grand fea ture in the Royal Standard Building Society is, that each member who continues in the a b ove soc iety to ie termina tion will be entitled to a full £l2O on each share he may hold, it being established upon the just principle of redemp tion or interest, consequently the member will not be con tinually exposed to the injustice of being ballotted, and thereby obliged either to w ithd raw or prov id e secur ity for his share or shares, as is the case with societies established upon the principle of non -redemption. The poor man may by frugality lay by his half-crown per week, and subscribe for one share, thereby mal ting a provision for old age. The funds of the society, as they are received each month, are lent upon approved securitY. a f ree h o ld or leasehold pro perty, under the direction of a comm ittee of ten members, chosen annually out of the general body. The society holding its meeting at Mr. Crisp's office in Church-street, Instead of a public-house, entirely does away with any inducement for the member to spend his money unprofitably ; and being es tablished under the act of Parliament for the regulation of benefit building societies, affords perfect security to each in dividual member, the rules being submitted for the approval and signature of Tidd Pratt, Esq., the revising barrister ap pointed by government for that purpose. THE MURRAIN.—We are sorry to he.ar that the disease so long raging elsewhere amongst the cattle has broken out in these parts. Our townsman, Mr. Heald, has four cows af flicted with the epidemic, and it is to be apprehended there are others of which we have not heard.—Lancaster Gazette. Mountjoy, the pedestrian, yesterday com menced the ar duous undertaking of walki ng twice to Sudbury and back (64 miles) every day during the week in 14 hours. He ac complished the first day's minutes !—Bury Post. j"11103' in 13 hours and fifty LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the members and friends of the Liverpool Operative Protestant Association was held on the evening of Friday, in the Royal Amphitheatre. The whole of the vast building was crowded to excess, and the utmost enthusiasm pervaded the whole proceedings. The Rev. HUGH NPNEILE took the chair shortly after half-past six, and the business of the meeting commenced by the Rev. Was. HAMILTON supplicating the divine blessing. The Rev. CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting as fol lows —Fellow townsmen, fellow Christians, fellow protest- . . ants—it is with the utmost satisfaction that I meet you upon another anniversary, and that I find myself in a condition to give you encouragement by the assurance that your work has not been in vain. (Hear, hear.) Your visits to the dwel lings of our poor brethren, your expostulations with them upon their neglect of divine worship, your invitations to them to attend the services of the church, your lending, distribut ing and exchanging of tracts, these and other similar exer cises of Christian philanthropy have been productive of a gradual and substantial improvement, and I rejoice to see you here in vastly increased numbers, and I trust in vastly increased zeal to persevere in your work and labour and pro ceedings of love. We have two valued testimonies of efficient usefulness :—first the commendation of all the lovers of order, stability, and permanence in the institutions of our country, both religious and political ; secondly, the reproach and the abuse of all the infidels, revolutionists, and levellers by whom we are surrounded. (Hear, hear.) They call us bigots be cause we believe in God, and because we cannot treat his sacred word as a thing to be made subservient to our own po litical or personal convenience. They call us corruptionists because we value the protective wisdom of an hereditary peerage, and thank God for the protection of the country, maintained by his providence, in giving and in preserving to us a House of Lords. (Loud cheers.) They call us despotic, they call us enemies to the movement—of what they are pleased to call the improvement of the country, because we have such a respect for the true dignity of .the prerogative of the crown, we cannot stand tamely by and see that preroga tive degraded by an administration whose tenure of office is not in the confidence of the country, but the good pleasure of a popish demagogue. (Loud cheers.) My friends—some four or five years ago, the movement mania, miscalled re form, was at its fever height ; but old England, the patient, had a good constitution, (Applause and laughter.) The crisis came : the crisis happily passed ; and symptoms of re turning health are manifesting themselves more and more in every feature, and in every limb of the body politic. (Hear.) To begin at home ' —I have to congratulate you on the result of our municipal election. (Tremendous applause.) Though some of the consequences may perhaps he attended with a louder storm than any you can make,—(laughter)--if we may judge by philosophical appearances, for the Mercury is very low. (Tremendous cheers.) I was surprised to find scarcely an allusion to the sth of November in that respectable print. There was one allusion in a few lines, and I had the honour to figure in one of those lines. (Cheers.) They say that the usual sermons for the sth of November were preached yes- terday in Manchester : " The usual Gunpowder Plot' sermons were preached in Manchester, yesterday. The Rev. H. M`Neile, of this town, occupied Mr. Stowell's pulpit, and delivered a dis course two hours long, in which he of course very clearly demonstrated to the audience that the Catholics were only watching their opportunity to hatch another gunpowder plot." I protest that judging by the principles to which these teach ers are pledged, we are bound to say that that little paragraph contains sound doctrine. I know well, my friends, that the ready charge against us for all our proceedings—a charge ready to be repeated for the proceedings of this evening—is bigotry, misrepresentation, and calumny. We are perpe tually accused of ascribing to Roman Catholics sentiments which they do not entertain. I want to put you in posses sion of who is in the fault, if that be the case. I will endea vour to do so by asking you, first of all, what you would think of any person (a dissenter for instance) who should bring a charge against a clergyman of the Established Chnrch, that he held the principles of the 39 articles ? Could you call him a misrepresenter ? No. If he took some ob noxious book, written by one of the members, and charged all the clergy with holding some of the principles in that book, that would be a calumny ; but if he took the articles to which we are sworn and pledged, and charged us with holding the sentiments in those articles, he would not be misrepresenting us ; he could not be called a calumniator of us or our church. Suppose he took one of those articles concerning justification, wherein we are told by our church, Fathering it from the word of God, that justification by faith is a welcome doctrine, and full of comfort, as is more largely set forth in the homily on justification ; and suppose that the dissenter was to say that the clergymen were bound, to these articles and the homily, would it be bigotry and calumny, or bearing false witness against the clergy of the Established Church, to say that they were bound to the doctrines con tained in that homily? Now, what do we do ? We take not an old-fashioned book, not an old chronicle of the middle ages, which has been laid by on musty shelves. We take the creed of Pope Pius the Fourth, consisting of 12 articles, which has been added to the Nicene creed. Every one of them is as firmly pledged to that creed as we are to our articles. It is difficult to know in the present time what will not be denied. I should not wonder if we have it denied that the priests of the Romish Church are sworn to the creed of Pius the Fourth, though it is notorious that they are pledged in the same manner that we are pledged to our articles. I wish to put this in as simple a way as I can, for your conviction, because I do not want to carry you away by talk. I want to convince your understandings. You may observe that the Roman Catholics deny that they are answerable for the doc trines we impute to them : but did you ever hear any of them deny that their priests held the creed of Pope Pius Fourth ? I never saw a denial of that, and if in these days of denial it has not been denied, I think it may be safely concluded that they cannot deny it. That point is carried ; they do sub scribe to the creed. Now, one of the articles of that creed ties upon them certain other things that fasten on them cer tain councils in the way that our articles fasten on us our homilies. One of the articles of that creed fastens on them all that has been declared, decreed, and defined by all the sacred and general councils, and the holy canons of the church. It is a tremendous oath to take, for it would re quire a whole life-time to read through the books that they are sworn to. It is no figure of speech,—it would require a moderate life-time to read with attention so as to understand all it contains. But these articles particularly bind them to the council of Trent, for they say, " especially the holy council of Trent:" Now, I ask is it bigotry, is it misrepre sentation, is it false witness, to ascribe to the Romish priests sentiments contained in these canons, in their councils, so long as they swear to that creed ? (No, no.) They say, yes ; they say this is misrepresentation, and yet they go on swearing to the creed. lam very anxious to put you clearly and fairly in possession of how the matter stands, because they are constantly saying that we misrepresent them, and 1 want you to be able to say, when they tell you that in the streets and houses—l want you to be able to say, when they deny that charge, why do your priests swear to that creed still? They say these are old-fashioned things of the middle ages. (A. voice called out "We do not say so," which was followed by cries of " Turn him out.") If any person objects to what I say, let them alone and leave them to me. If the person who said that they did not dis claim this opinion, —if he be a Roman Catholic, let us re ceive him in Christian love, and endeavour to bring him to the truth, and don't raise a shout when he had the honesty to give utterance to his opinions. (Here the indi v idual again intrrupted the meeting, giving signs at the same time that he was intoxicated.) It is perfectly obvious, from what we have now heard, that it is not a conscientious objector we have to deal with, but one who has so far forgotten his duty to God, to man, and to himself, as to drink too much ardent liquor. Be quiet while some who are near him will, as quietly and calmly as possible, and as becomes those who are sorry for him, remove him, I proceed with this argument. It is not misrepresentation to charge on the Roman Catholics of the present day,—and here I especially mean the priests, be cause I do not make the charge indiscriminately on the peo ple, for the people are kept in such ign,otance that they do not know what the priests are about,—but it is no misrepre sentation to charge on the priesthood that they still hold these obnoxious sentiments, that they are still bound by the doctrines laid down in this council. If they be, it is not il liberal to say of them that they want but an opportunity to devise some treason, and execute a scheme of as fearful and, if possible, more fearful import than the Gunpowder plot. (Cheers.) Because the principal mandates of this council are these, that the Bishop of Rome is vicar on earth, that he is king of kings and lord of lords ; that all sovereigns are sub ject to him, and any one who will not submit to him, and at his bidding eject from his dominions all heretics, is to be put under the Kann of excommunication for a year, and if at the end of the year he will not submit to the pontiff, his subjects are declared absolved from their allegiance, and he is to be deposed from the throne. These were the sentiments level led at James the First with the Gunpowder plot, and these are the principles still sworn to by the Romish priesthood. Therefore, I say that acting by such principles, they do want but an opportunity to devise and enact any fearful crime that would give ascendancy to their vile system all over the world. And in saying this I do but ascribe to them honest consciences with their own principles. Ido not ascribe to them hypocri sy, I ascribe sincerity. Supposing them sincerely to hold the principles to which their priests are sworn, they would really think they were doing God service when they were cut ting off heretics by hundreds and thousands, provided they could thereby place in ascendancy their own church over the world. Ido not say this is what all Roman catholics would do ; I do not mean to say that any one would commit such a crime against a protestant neighbour, but I say that the principles to which their priests are still sworn, involve these crimes ; that they are held ready for use when opportunity serves. I say that the Roman system is political ; it is not merely a false religion, is a political tyranny ; and when it can have its own way, it is political despotism. When it cannot have its own way it is a political conspiracy—conspi racy using weapons varying with the fitness of the case. In Spain popery is a political domination ; in Ireland popery is a political conspiracy using occasional outbreaks and rebel lion ; in England popery is a political conspiracy using also lies and hypocrisy, speaking soft things, and denying to you that that they impose penances on their dupes. (Cheers.) These are the modes in which the system works, I do not mean to say that it uses every day all the weapons in its ar moury ; but I recollect what Archbishop Tillotson says— " that these principles of intolerance are like Goliahs, kept behind, but are ready for use when time serves." Look at our own history. If the Romish system was only a false theology all that would be required to meet it would be sending teach ers of the g ospel to meet and repel popery. This won't do, however ; this is only a part of the system. It is not merely a false theology, but it is a political conspiracy. What is to repel the political part of it ? Argument is not sufficient. I can imagine a case very well of sound theological argument going on, and the Romish dogmas being refuted over an d over again, acid the Romish aspirants after power gaining power in one place after another. and smiling very complacently at the political combatants. What cares shethough I disprove her doctrine of transubstantiation? Whit cares she although I could prove that purgatory had no foundation in Scripture ? What cares she although I proved . the wickedness of her tam pering with the consciences and the pockets of the dupes ? What, although she is shown this again and again, if she gains political power? At this very moment in England, what do they care although we show that they have a false religion, if they still get into the treasury, the cabinet, and all the places of power, for if they get political power they know well how to get converts? (Applaose.) Yesterday we were celebrating two great national events, one that took place in 1605, and the other in 1688. I want to apply what lam saying to the latter argument. If all that had been in Romanism had been their false theology, the bishops that went to the tower rather than submit to the domination of James 11., would have well answered the false theology of Rome. This was a useful period, and it was well done in those days—the false theology of Rome was well refuted. But what about her political conspiracy ? The whole bishops did their part, the clergy did their part, and the publishers of tracts did their part; but there was another part to be done, and there was a man called over to do it—William of Orange, (Reiterated cheering.) This leads to our answer to the liberal scribe,s :of th s se days. I have a London news paper open in my bands, and Alere is a long article in it in reprobation of the proceedings in L'Ondon on the sth Nov. There is also an attack upon two ierdletnen . c ? were at a meeting in Exeter Hall on the 4th N oyembe F —,.the rteV. Dr. O'Sullivan and the Rev. Hugh Stowell. And not because there was any one else there, but, because I suppose that the imagination of the writer could not be restrained froin taking a flight across the kingdom and associating with some one more honest, lam brought forward—as if I had been agi tating in Exeter Hall, instead of being quietly at Liverpool — in a n ame , too, that I thought had long since gone off in gas in favo ur of Lord Lovelace—that woman Jezebel. It is a very unkind cut for a rainisterialist to force the notice of such a thing on the public. (Applause.) The writer in the Morning Chronicle, the exuberance of his liberality, says [Here the reverend gentleman read an extract from the newspaper in his hand which advocated freedom of thought and freedom of speech, and said that differences in theological opinions were the only safeguard of such.] Who are the men, what is the system that would aim to put an end to, freedom of thought and speech. (Cries of " Popery.") Send that answer to the Morning Chronicle. (Laughter and cheers.) You will be glad to hear that I have been favoured with a letter containing a report by a legal gentleman, of pro- . . ceedings in the court yesterday in London, when Mr. Cress well moved for a new trial in the matter Hearne v. Stowell. Mr. Cresswell's first objection was on the ground of mis direction; that the judge had given a direction to the jury which his lordship should not have given. Mr. Cresswell alleged that the instructions given by the judge were wrong. The question whether the inference of malice was proved ought to have been left to the jury and not decided by the judge. Lord Denman said that on this point they would see the judges before they could come to any decision. Mr. Cresswell then moved an arrest of judgment, on the ground that the declaration did not alledge the application of any matter which was necessarily libellous on the plaintiff; it was merely a general attack on the Church of Rome. The judge concurred in this view, and immediately granted a rule on this point. My friend who writes, says to me :—" The judge granted a rule in arrest of judgment, and as to the ap plication on the ground of misdirection by Baron Rolfe, he must confer with him upon it before he would decide. To the result of the application on both grounds I think we may ' look forward with confidence." I may just add to this that no one can he more anxious than Mr. Stowell to have the in- vestigation reopened, that evidence may be adduced to prove that penance on a large scale is submitted to and is made a common practice with the Roman Catholics. With regard to what has been already stated, the denial of these priests of the imposition of degrading penances has already in the good providence of God been overruled fur a great blessing. I was favoured with the sight of a letter from a poor man, who is a Roman Catholic. The letter was addressed to Mr. Stowell, and the man said that the circumstances of the trial had made him unhappy, and he had not been happy in his mind ever since, because penances of the kind described had been imposed on him. (Hear, hear, hear.) And then it was declared that there was no authority for the priests of the Romish church to impose such penal ties. This had disturbed the man's mind, and he was not easy on the subject. He lives in Manchester ; and I have good reason to hope it may issue in the enlightening of the man's mind altogether. (Applause.) But, my friends, in my anxiety to set this matter of misrepresentation simply and fairly before you, and to show you that it is not the in dividuals but the principles we charge, and that we must charge them with those principles so long as they swear to that creed, I have forgotten, that, instead of occupying your time I should introduce to your notice the friends who have consented to move the resolutions. I have only to thank you, and to request that you will make a goo 4, a Christian, an nglish use of the information you receive ' n these occa sio •—a Christian and -an English use, that • u may use yo 4I C r information not for the elevation 'ofepri over your neighbours, or for taunting them with the want of what you enjoy, but with all meekness and loving kindness, for the purpose of elevating those who have not your advantages. Do not be angry with any of your Roman Catholic brethren because they do not immediately enter into your views. If you had been educated as they have you would be as stubborn as they are. They require to be told in kindness, over and over again, of the principles laid down in the Scriptures, be fore they can receive them. You must reap here a little and there a little, and may God over all grant them repent ance to the acknowledgment of his truth. (After calling on the Secretary to read the report, the rev. gentleman sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. LEATHERBARROW, the secretary, here read the re port. It commenced by returning thanks to Almighty God for the blessings which had attended the labours of the com mittee during the past twelve months, and it showed that the efforts made to arouse the enthusiasm of the operatives of Liverpool in favour of the Protestant institutions of the land, had been signally successful ; in proof of which it pointed to the interest excited whenever a public meeting was called in aid of the society, and to the fact, that although the Music-hall was considered quite large enough for such purposes formerly, the spacious Amphitheatre was now found too limited in its dimensions. It next went on to state that the influence of this association was not confined to Liverpool, but that similar combinations, in consequence of its formation, had sprung up in several districts of the metropolis, as well as in Manchester, Sheffield, Norwich, Bristol, Wigan, and other places. It then stated that monthly meetings of the association continued to be held, and that they invariably attracted crowded audiences ; that the branch association in connexion with St. Mark's Church, formed last year, was working efficiently ; that two addi tional branches had been established during the last four months—one in connexion with St. Simon's Church, and the other in Toxteth-park—the latter of which bids fair to rival the parent society in numbers and usefulness ; and that a fourth branch was in contemplation for the Everton and Kirkdale district, which would speedily be formed. After referring to the valuable lecture delivered in August last, by the Rev. T. D. Gregg, on the nature and results of Popery, it stated that the library alluded to in last year's report lied I been established, and promised to be a most valuable auxili ary ; but it infoi med the meeting that it only contained 230 volumes to supply its readers, many in number, when 1000 at least would be necessary to make this practically useful branch as efficient as it was intended, and it hoped by a little exertion this number would be easily procured. It then stated that the tract committee, numbering between thirty five and forty members, was still in active operation, and that they visited weekly between 1800 and 2000 families in the most destitute parts of the town, through whose instru mentality many lukewarm churchmen had been induced to attend public worship with more punctuality, and a stricter observance of the Sabbath-day was manifested ; but it added that their efficiency, as well as that of the library, was cramped by a want of funds, its last five pounds being now exhausted. The report concluded with an energetic call on the operatives to persevere in their praiseworthy exertions, until all classes of Englishmen expressed their determination that to a foreign potentate they would never be slaves. The Rev. BRABAZON ELLIS moved the adoption of the report. He said—There never was a time, in the annals of this country, in which popery was more, strenuously en deavouring to gain an ascendancy, and yet she would not meet the ministers of the church in fair and upright discus sion. Popery was now taken to the arms and caressed in England—she stalked abroad again, threatening both the altar and the throne, while the protestant voice was almost hushed ; and while popish intrigue surrounded the councils of the nation, popish nunneries, and popish colleges were rising in every earner gf this once happy, Lecause protestant, land. (Great cheering.) fie then stated some facts illustra tive of popery, which came to his knowledge during a ministry of ten years in Ireland; and, in commencing, he said that Ireland was sunk in ignorance, superstition, poverty, and oppression. He attributed all this to popery, and was pre pared to prove it. Before the National Board of Education was established, popish schools were very rare. In the year 1836, he was a curate in the diocese of Tuam. Near it was a station for penance, where he witnessed hundreds walking on sharp granite stones, until the place was covered with their blood ; and then he saw the priest pocketting their. money and departing, chuckling at his base merchandize of souls, which was followed by drinking and dancing. He then stated that there was falsehood in the conversation of their priests—falsehood in their press--falsehood in their pulpits, and falsehood in the jury -box, Ile then referred to the extraordinary evidence given by a priest in the late trial of Hearne v. Stowell, and hoped that on the new. trial they would be able to prove to all England the true character of popery. (Hear, hear.) He next contrasted the north with the south and west of Ireland—the north being protestant, and the other parts popish, and showed that the priests raised money from the people by swindling devices—namely, by selling the scapular, the " gospel," (a piece of paper folded triangularly), which cost from thirteen pence to half-a crown, and blessing fishermen's boats, in order that their net might have a good take of fish. In proof that the priests oppress the people, he said that in the west of Ireland they carried a large horsewhip, which had a heavy thong, and on the end of the handle a large piece of lead, or iron, and brass, which they alternately applied to the backs and skulls of the men and women. He related an amusing anecdote of an athleti c priest, named •'Father Pat," who upon one occasion applied his leg and area to one of his parishioners, and sent him spin ning across the Fried, and when the man remonstrated, the anointed fellow said that !` it was the admonition of the church." He then detailed • a speech delivered by Dr. M` Hale, who told the people to throw scalding water on the bible readers, and that all the protestants in the world were the children of the devil. He related two or three other anecdotes, illustrative of the sanguinary arid despotic princi ples of the Romish church, and then showed that the govern men afforded no protection to the protestant population of the country from the assaults and aggressions of their infu riated opponents. The rev. gentleman on resuming his seat was much applauded. Mr. M`Lax, an operative, seconded the first resolution, which was passed unanimously. The Rev. FIELDING OULD was received with tremendous applause. He said, meetings like these may be regarded as a sort of parade or a field-day of a military detachment pre vious to and preparatory for a grand engagement. You whom I address are the soldiers who fight in the ranks of this army ; we who occupy this platform are non-commis sioned officers, whp receive our instructions from the foun tain head of authority, white you, sir, (addressing the chair man) are the able and experrencia Commander, (applause,) to whom we may look for guidance, and by whoin . we are in spired to persevere in this glorious war, while in dutiful subor dination to the great head of the church, who is the great captain of our salvation, and in whose great army we have been enlisted to fight the good tight. We have been reminded by the respected operative who has so well, and forcibly, and piously, which is far better still, addressed you, that this is a war in which we are engaged. I ask you for what do we contend ? It is simply for the faith once delivered to the saints. I ask again, against whom do we contend ? We con tend against all who deny or disfigure that faith. We are at war with anti- christ, in whatever form he appears. Our enemy is popery, and our antagonist " the man of sin." I was rejoiced tq hear from that same respected individual to whom I have before alluded.; I was rejoiced to hear him remind us all that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. Our sword is one Which litis been tempered in the armoury of heaven—the sword of the 'spirit whiehis the word of God. Our shield is one which has also been : giVen from' on high ; it is his especial gift ; and our helmet is the'hope of 'salvation for ourselves and for all, be they who they may, who will hear the truth from our lips. Does any one here ask us why it is we feel ourselves religiously and conscientiously bound to wage war against popery. For him we have a ready an swer. Let us turn our eyes wherever we may, we see that the principles of popery have overspread the earth with misery, wretchedness, and crime. If we go to America we find the Protestant provinces distinguished from the Popish ones by intelligence and zeal. If we go into Switzerland, the least observant readily can discover the Protestant from the Romish cantons, the former by the superior cleanliness, and the latter by the filth and wretchedness of the poor. And if we go to Italy, Sp a i n , or Portugal, where Popery is to be seen at head quarters, what is the aspect ? Why, there is the eredeminanee of misery and vice. We there see the Poor people robbed of their time by a multitude of holidays, whilst the Sabbath is Almost systematically neg lected. The poor peoph., roblied'of their eiirnings for masses and absolutions, and their homes invaded by a licentious priesthood. When we go into that country which is dear to you and to me, sir,—the country of our birth—what is the aspect presented there ? You have had a fearful but a faithful repoyt of it brought forward for you this evening. In the southern and western districts, where the people are almost elrel.nsively 'Oman catholies, there i s turbu lence and insubordinatlrin i' Ir ere s oppression and de gradation ; there is misery and wretchedness, which they seek to uphold ; whilst ie the northern provinces, where the people are in a great proportion Protestant, the very opposite results are to be seen. In Popish Ti erar the gaols are crowded, whil s t i n P ro t es t ant D erry I L i ; y , for I attended the assizes there this ve r y summer, and foundsay the office of judge and jailor sinecures, there being literally hardly one prisoner for trial. (Applause.) But it is time that I should read the resolution; it is very long and com prehensive. It is : That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the tempo ral, political, and spiritual prosperity of this nation depends, under God, upo n th e rev i val and maintenance of sound Pro testant principles ; th a t it i s a Christian dut y , as well as sound'sound'l;9 P ° -'; f -9 oppose the spread of popery by every lawful means, to nrstriret all classes in their duty to their God, their sovereign, and their` country ; and that, as much power is placed in the hands of the people;' it 'is essential to our welfare, both as a ehurch and a nation; that WeshOuld have a sound Protestant democracy, and that Protestant associa tions are admirably calculated, with the'llvine blessing, to accomplish these desirable objects." This resolution tells us, in the first place, that the temporal, spiritual, and political interests of this nation principally de. pend, under God, on the revival and maintenance of sound Protestant principles. I ask; what are these principles ? It would take some time to enumerate them in detail; but in a negative way, at least, they may be summed up into two. The first is our .protest against Popish heresy in doctrine, as dishonouring to our God; the second, our protest against Popish persecution and practice, which are pernicious and injurious to man. There, sir, are sound Protestant principles. I say, sir, that Popery is a persecuting system. In the nature of things it cannot be otherwise. (Hear, hear, hear.) In order that Popery may retain its slaves in subjection it must shut out the light from them, and it must persecute all who seek to introduce the light. You may just conceive, for example, a man exhibiting a phantasmagoria. The whole success of the show depends on the light being removed. Whenever light is introduced, the illusion vanishes and becomes obvious to all. The priest is the spiritual showman. (Cheers.) He is amusing his wretched dupes with poor delusions, and is afraid of letting in the light—light issuing from the Sun of Righteousness through the window of revelation; and when we who would be faithful to our God and to his word seek to plant this illuminating window in every popish house, we call forth the persecuting spirit of the man of sin. You have had evi dence sufficient this night to show you the persecuting cha racter of popery as it manifests itself just now in Ireland ; and yon will also recollect that that persecuting spirit seems to have been evoked in Ireland, chiefly through the exertions that have been made to let in the light of heaven on the dark and benighted people. Let me now give you one evidence of this, which deeply concerns yourselves, and will come home to every heart. Ido not think that this short extract which I am about to read has attracted that notice in this country which it is deserving of. It is a very fearful evidence of the persecuting spirit. Within the last month a speech was addressed by Mr. O'Connell, at a meeting in Dublin, to his brother repealers congregating in the Cor:Exchange. [Mr. Ould here read the extract referred to. It was to the effect that if England were engaged in a war with France, the Irish would not assist, and that if they attempted to coerce them, there were 80,000 Irishmen in Manchester, 90,000 in Liver pool, and 200,000 in London, would stand up to defend Ireland.] This is a tolerably broad and intelligent hint that if England should show any disaffection to the popular move ment, Ireland will appeal to her self-expatriated sons to stir up a little flame in those English towns in which they have located themselves, and then let Manchester, Liverpool, and Bristol look to themselves, their docks, their warehouses, and their lives. But I call on you to join with me in la menting the fearful predominance of popery in this country, forty years ago there were not more than thirty Roman Ca tholic chapels, now there were 570, attended by and minis tered in by 700 Romish ecclesiastics. Bear this fact in mind ; bear also in mind the fact that systematic encouragement has been given to popery of late by endowments of her priests and bishops in some of our colonies—by the endowment of Maynooth, which is spreading disaffection among all classes of Roman Catholics in Ireland. There is another fact, that a large sum of money, £400,000 it is said, has been sent from the continent to Englivid to assist the Papists in their struggle. I ask to whom are we to look—to whom are we to look for support and encouragement ? Is it to men or any set of men under the sun ? No ; It is to our principles, our Bible, and our God. (Tremendous applause.) David once said in his haste all men are liars. We have been too long trusting in man. We have too long been depending on the arm of flesh, while we should have rested on the living God. We know from history that our country never has flourished while the principles of Popery have been admitted to her councils. We have only to look to the reigns of our Marys, our Charles's, or our James's to prove this, and we know, on the other hand, by the history of our Elizabeths and our Cromwells, that wherever the principles of Scriptural pro testantism have predominated, Ireland has triumphed over every enemy—has crushed the domestic traitor, as well as the foreign invader. This resolution speaks of the sound policy of opposit , Popery by every legal means. I would ask you what is the distinguishing characteristic of Popery as exhi bited in modern times, as well as in all past periods of our history for the last fifteen hundred years ? Ido firmly be lieve, that there could be no more correct mode of speaking of it than by saying " Speaking lies and hypocrisy." I will give you a clear illustration of this if you will lend me your attention. As it is a fact which came under my own know ledge, lam a good authority on the point. About twelve months ago it was my good fortnne to attend an educa tional meeting in the town of Shrewsbury. The chair was occupied by a worthy baronet. In the course of my address I quoted from a tract published by the Bristol Protestant Association, entitled " Is there not a cause ? " In this tract a great variety of statistical evidence was brought forward to show the increase of popery, and the encouragement given to it. Amongst other circumstances it was stated that the East India Company had recently solicited from the Pope a vicar apostolic and certain Jesuit priests for the religious teaching of the Roman catholic subjects of the crown under the East India Company. The article also stated that letters had been received from the priests after their ar rival out. I read this extract from the tract ; when I had done the hon. member for Shrewsbury, who was in the chair, and who happened too at that time to be the chairman of the East India Company immediately rose and said that he felt it his duty to the meeting, to me, and to that respectable body cf which he was chairman, to say that_there was not one word of truth in the whole statement. He had been twenty years a director of the company, and such a thing could not have taken place without his consent, no application of the sort had even been made. I thought this very extraordinary, and I resolved to write to the Bristol operative society to as certain how it was, and on what authority they had put forth a statement which had received such a contradiction. 1 bold in my hand the answer. The secretary of the Bristol A.ssopia? tion tells ins in this letter he has conferred with the compiler of that tract, and that he took, as his authority for the state ment in question, a work published in France, called the " An nals of the Propagation of the Faith," printed under the su perintendence of the authorities at Rome. [Mr. Ould here read the extract from the work, which was the same effect as which he had before stated about the priests being sent to the East,] What are the lawful means of opposing this popery? The pulpit, the platform, and the press ; by these all of you have already heard faithful witnesses for the truth. lam persuaded, that when the people of England are well educated in scriptural truths, we shall bear such a testimony, and shall be able to hold forth such a witness to the Roman Catholic population as, under the divine blessing, will do more good than has been accomplished for a century past. Our sermons from the pulpit, testifying to the people the truth as it is in Christ Jesus, contrasted, as that truth should be, with the abominable errors by which it has been deformed ; our sioeches from the platforms, and tracts and other useful bOoks which have is..„ sued from the press, have drawn tears from the eyes of no less a person than the Pope himself. I hold in my hand a proof of this. It is an encyclical letter of a very late period. It is not often we have a letter from his holiness, and we ought to listen to it with attention when we get one. It is as follows :—[The rev. gentlemen here read the encyclical letter of Pope Gregory the Sixteenth, addressed to all the patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops of the Romish church. This document is of too great length to admit of our in serting it in the present crowded state of our columns,] The reading of this letter, and the running comments of the rev. speaker, excited much amusement, and the remarks were loudly cheered. Mr. Ould continued :—This resolution says that we ought to instruct all classes in their duty to God, their sovereign, and their country. I ask how is this to be done? I say it can only he done by mmns of scriptural schools. It is the bounden duty of the state—a Protestant and Christian state—to establish and support such schools ; and if the state will not do so, it is the bounden duty of the Christian people of the state to do it by their own voluntary exertions. (Hear, hear.) I have lately been somewhat alarmed to hear it stated frorn high authority, that " there may be circumstances in which it may be the rilftiof state, qs state, to promote by its assistance even the diffusion of gious error, received by a large portion of the community," It is not said that it is the duty of churchmen to do so in their individual capacity ; but the statement is this, that it may be the duty of a state, as a state, to promote by its as sistance even the diffusion of religious error, shared by a large portion of the commnnity. I ask ycu operative friends, associated this evening, whether you agree with that ? (No, no.) Is a state to have no conscience? Is a man to have a conscience in his individual capacity, and when he becomes a member of government, is he to lose that con science? Is he to do in his official character what he ought. not to do in his private character? In the 13th chapter of Romans we are told that the civil magistrate is to be re gat ded by the subjects as " a minister of God ;" and if so, I ask what are the circumstances under which it ever can be the duty of him who is to be regarded as a minister of God, to execute his will—to promote the diffusion of religious error, no matter by tvhom professed? NV hen a large portion of the community 'entertain religious errors, the duty of a statesman is said to be to instruct those men in religious errori. suppose the same doctrine is held with regard to political error. Suppose revolutionary opinions maintained by a large portion of the people of our country. When the chartists exhibited symptoms of insubordination altogether inconsistent with this maintenance of civil government, what was the conduct of the government? Did they think it ne cessary, because they were asserted by a large portion of the people, not to discourage them ? And is error in politics less injurious and displeasing in the sight of God than religious error? When men hold the principles of rebellion against God, surely, as Christian legislators, they should tell them of their error. I plead not for coercion or persecu tion, but that man should be told the error be holds is ruinous to his soul, and that he be exhorted to flee from the wrath to come. Look at Daniel—how did he act ? Did he think it necessary to have no conscience as a statesman, when, at the hazard of his life, he was told not to pray to the Lord Jeho vah. Although the den of lions gaped to devour him, Daniel threw open the vtindovi'sof hiA Chamber, lo4ed . wards Jerusalem, and poured forth his prayer, let Mlll'4ooo persecute who will. We need have no higher an example for our legislators in modern times. Why must religious error then be taught? Because, forsooth, that those individ ua l s holding this error should be conciliated. Now I ask you, pro testants of Liverpool, if you think popery can' be con ciliated. (No, no.) Do you think it ought to be conci liated ? (No, no.) Just let me show you an illustration of the utter impossibility of conciliating popery. A few months ago a Dublin popish journal thus speaks :—" England de serves but little forbearance at our hands. Many battles we fought for her; many brave Irish hearts have bled in her de fence, and what return has she made for all? Oppression, insult, and persecution !" Thus you see in vain has May nooth been endowed ; in vain has the fatal door of 1829 been opened ; in vain has emancipation been conferred. Ireland asserts that she has only received oppression and insult. 24 I pass on to the last clanse'of the resolutidn, which 'says tha t the safety of the'church and nation' requires the raising up 'of a sound Protestant democracy. This is the great object of the Protestant Association—to raise a sound Protestant de mocracy. The Protestant Association of Liverpool has not been backward in accomplishing this object. The glory of our country is not in the battles she has won • it is not in what her navies have accomplished at the Nile, Trafalgar, and Camperdown, but her glory is in her Protestantism, not merely what is called conservative Protestantism, but scrip tural Protestantism. (Cheers.) I hope that the touching appeal for help which has been made this evening will not be made in vain. I shall feel most happy in contributing to the funds of this association, and 1 do hope that when the collec tion is made there is not an individual present who has sanc tioned the sentiments uttered, who will fail to give of the means which God has blessed them with, to enable thise, men to persevere in their labours and to increase their library. The CHAIRMAN said before putting the resolution, be must give Mr. Ould a lesson. He (Mr. Ould) had been telling them about " ingenious device" of the priests about the East India Company, and he would advise Mr. Ould not to say so much about the increase of Catholic chapels. He (the chairman) did not believe half that was said, and, perhaps Some of theSe clays the Catholics would be quotin4 Mr. 0. as an authority about the increase o(their doctrines. Mr. IhtISInLE* seconded the motion proposed by M?. Ould. was iti `takink part' in the prbeeedingS Of the evening, 'and in all Meetings having 'for their object th 4 removal of' error." He considered that the Papists Were en= deavouring at that period to' throw dust iu the eyes of the people, and it was the ditty of 411 to endeavour to Kevetic them. He related some anecdotes illustrative of the do 411: nation of the Irish priesthood, and was loudly applauded. The CHAIRMAN then remarked on a statement made at some meeting by a man, who said, that because his wife was a Catholic and he a Protestant, Mr. M'lsleile had advised him to turn her off. He need not inform the meeting that there was not a word of truth in it. A collection was then made. The Rev. MICHAEL CROTTY, incumbent of Hazelgrove, Cheshire, on rising to move the next resolution, said,—We cannot conceal from ourselves the melancholy truth, that we live in times big with great and portentous events : signs and prognostiet ait . multiplying around us, which it would not be wise or prudent to overlook"ordespiSe. We bannati sir, congeal from ourselves the sad reality, that we Ore OW .placed in one of those perilous situations by which the Divine 11e ° 1 1owi, it i teres t ate 'oaii S in t t eG~Be' Prodtic q to do bog nA It,- t,thi n en if • j • tis ni () ill be et; 2,3 gi .18;