The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-20 00:00:00

n it 11 very ) hY tore :- ,ow- the, . the. ° ghlY ring then ~~D, ~~~,i~ It iii' 9 °l*. It / fij 6/ 1 / ) M al O P rer THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THE .Publie is respectfully informed, that this ESTA. BLISHMENT WILL OPEN FOR THE SEASON, On MONDAY NEXT, MARCH 23d, 1840, and that Miss ELLEN TREE, Of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, who is engaged FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF NIGHTS, Will make her appearance on that Evening, when will be per formed, for the first ti me h ere, the h i ghly-success f ul P lay, written by James Sheridan Knowles, Esq., called The Play will be produced with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. The Scenery by Mr. Johnson and Assistants. The Dresses by Mr. Coombe, Mrs. Hall, and Assistants. The Mechanical department under the direction of i r. Wil more. The Properties by Mr. M'Crum. The Duke of Corinthia, Mr. Gray ; Prince Fr erick, Mr. Lynne ; Ulric, Mr. Chaplin ; Sir Rupert, Mr:W. Howard ; Conrad. Mr. W. H. Bland; Huon, Mr. Stuart; The Coun tess of Eppenstein, (as originally performed by her, this sea son, at the Theatre-Royal. Covent-Garden, Miss Ellen Tree ; Catherine, Mrs. Tellet; Christina, Mies Barratt. To conclude with the Farce, written by J. B. Buckstone, Esq., called SECOND THOUGHTS. Mr. W Mr. Sudden, M r . B a k er: J a bb er, Mr. W. Howard; Cecil, .H. Bland ; Mrs. Trapper, Mrs. lrke ; Celestina, Miss Cleaver ; Isidora, Mrs. W. H. Bla n d ; Matilda, Mrs. Tellet. Gallery Boxes, 4s . ; Upper Boxes, 3s. Gd. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; iery Is. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance to commence at Seven. The Box- o ffi ce will be open on MONDAY morning, the 23d instant, when Places in the Lower Boxes may be taken, from Ten until Three o'Clock. A limited number of Subscription Tickets for the Season, not transferable nor admissibl e a t B ene fi ts, to b e S o ld. Ap lajeation to be made at the OT.O ffi Ce. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. TUESDAY, 24th MARCH, 1840. Unde r LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON BUT TWO, the Management of Mr. RAYMOND, who has the Pleasure to announce, that it will afford him the utmost satisfaction to hand over to the Public Charities the pro ceeds of the Theatre this Evening, the Entertainments being expressly under the Patronage of the Worshipful the MAYOR of LIVERPOOL and thP . COMMITTEE for collecting Donations to the Fund in aid of the PUBLIC CHAAITIES, On which occasion Public Patron e is most respectfully requested. Patronage Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Half-price to the Boxes ~and pit only, at Half-post Eight o'clock. OMr. W. J. HAMMOND for a LIMITED PERIOD. N TUESDAY next, March 24th, 1840, the Evening's Entertainments will commence with a new adaptation of a popular Drama, in Three Acts, arranged expressly for this Theatre, entitled THE FATAL SECRET! on, FALSE NOBILITY. Mr. Patrick Fitzpatrick Mr. Raymond. Trusty ........ Mr. W. J. Hammond. Sir William Wrangle Mr. Tilbury. Miss Wrangle Mrs. Raymond. Mr. F. Gardner will sing " Then the Toast be dear Wo man!"—Mrs. Barton will sing the popular Irish Ballad, Rory O'More," in character.—Misses Thomassin and Lida will dance the admired Follie Dance, arranged for them from the Opera of Gustavus Ill.—Mademoiselle Chevallier will dance a favourite Pas Seul. To conclude with a new laughable Farce, called TnE BOLD• DRAGOON. Lieutenant Fitzpatrick O'Leary Mr. Raymond. Sir Anthony Firebrand Mr. Tilbury. Luc y" ............................ Mrs. Raymond. Ticket s and places to be had from Eleven till Three each full of Mr. B REZE, at the Box-office, for which it is respect- Doors)!ut an early application ma be made. to to be ope n at Half-past Six y o'clock, performance otutnence at Seven precisely. * Pri vate Boxes t o con t a i n Fi ve P ersons , f or O ne G u i nea. ,_** it i s requested that all demands aga i nst this Theatre "laY be set tin - n itmediately, as the season will s h or tl y close. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. consequence of the unparalleled success attending the th IN Historic and Magnificent SPECTACLES, the Amphi eatre will RE-OPEN for Eighteen Representations, when the Establishment will close for the season. That all parties may have an opportunity f witnessing the never-equadled NEW SCENES in th e C CLE, t h e P r i ces Of Admission will be as follow : Centre and Dress Boxes, 2s Gd; C dren under twelve Years of age, is 6d ; Second and Side Boxes, is Gd : Children under twelve, ls. Pit, is ' • Children, Gd. Gallery, 6d.— Second P r i ce at a Quarter before Nine to the Boxes only. Poxes the convenience of the Nobility and Gentry, Private , with apartments, and tire attached to the same, may be had on application at the Box-office, where the Box Book keeper i 4 in attendance from Eleven till Three o'clock. The Perfo rmances w i ll commence on MONDAY next, the 23d instant, and he repeated every Evening until further notice. ___ WAR WITH CHINA. With the LIVERPOOL STANDARD -Of this day is pre sented, gratis, a beautifully executed MAP of the Canton or Tigris River, with the adjacent territory-- the probable scene (If operations in case of a WAR WITH CHINA on the part of Great Britain. Distant subscribers may obtain, free of postage, TWO COPIES OF THE MAP, on remitting a fourpenny piece. Non-subscribers . at a distance may obtain a COPY OF THE MAP AND A PAPER, on remitting sixpence.. We must request an early transmission of orders, or we cannot ensure their execution. TO CORRESPONDENTS. copy of the STANDARD of Tuesday last, addressed " Rev. C. Gayer, Dingle, Ventry," has been returned to the office T he a b e tt er di rection. he extracts oil " Sabbath Observance" are unavoidably deferred. I Ve shall endeavour to find room on Tuesday for the article . respecting the Church of Scotland. The letter of "J. C." on the Anti-Church Extension Meet , ing in our next. A Lover of Truth" may rest satisfied that the reverend „ gentleman alluded to needs no vindication. AMbulator" is postponed till Tuesday. Ebr Ziberpoot Otanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1840. We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. B.) liiee kly Chro n i c l e o f t h e 24t h o f J anuar y. It s content s have been already anticipated. By the p ac k et - s hi p England, Capt. Waite, which arrived here on Tuesday evening, we have received •N n e w 'York p a p ers to t h e 23 d u lti mo , i nc l us i ve . The ei 'ec London packet-ship, sailed three hours before the England, b ut was passe d b y h er t h e next d ay . The commercial and financial affairs of the United States r emain e d in the same s t a t e o f depression as before, and ther e was very little prospect of any immediate im- Provernent. There was a complete stagnation of almost ver Y kind o f b usiness: The Da i ly E xpress states t h at e venty of the largest manufactories in New England h ad bee n compelled to suspend operations; and it was etri t nated th at at least one-fourth of the whole popula th°,ll of the S tates was destitute of employment. Every nf lu g Wore t h e most gloomy appearance. The prices description of produce had become ruinously the:,',.,The agricultural classes were beginning to feel . : I)r 4sur e of those embarrassments from which the suz:eantile and manufacturing classes had been so long as eti ug. The wh o l e o f t h e U n i on was s till i nvo l ve d, much as ever, in a state of monetary derangement. The n Papers before us are full of accounts of fresh failures b . " 41 t he part of th e b an k s. T he affa i rs of the Manhattan r an k continued t o occupy pu bli c attent i on. Th e di _eetors, however, confidently anticipate th a t th e ulti mate loss which the bank will sustain will not exceed 4° ' °°o dollars, as most of the loans are well secured. P . roperty of ev er y d escr i pt i on continued to decline in value at New 'York. Sheriff's sales were becoming flllore and more freque n t, an d mortgages were being foreclosed in every direction. Land and houses, as weitas e vt'ry oth er ki n d o f real estate, were rap i dly di g minishin in value. It is estimated that rents for the ensuing year would be at a discount of from 20 to 30 Per cent. on previous rates. The stagnation of business had caused a fall in the rate of interest, in most parts of the Union. In Bos ton, money was abundant at 6 per cent. on the best business paper, but found little demand. In New York 4 Similar depression in the rate of interest had taken Place. The discount on first-rate mercantile paper, in that market, was 61 per cent, per annum, and from this ‘ to 11 per month, according to its character. Very little was doing at these rates. In stocks there was a little more activity. United States Bank, at the last ba les, cl ose d at --75 dollars ; M an h attan Bank Stock was 4.,. almost unsaleable, Exchange on E ngland was quoted 8 to 81, at which a moderate business was doing. ttt_e last ad v i ces received at New York from London were to the 3d, and from Liverpool to the 4th of January. • . 0 The Pre s id ent of the United States had sent down : a the Rouse of R e p resentatives a very important mes t ge, asking th e Senate to consider the peculiar si tuation of the Treasury i n t h e l eg i s l at i on o f t h e coun t?tnber cons According to the i n timati ons o f some o f the the issue of T reasur y no t es i s lik e l y to be d et e ; Once. Th e P res id ent urges upon the con t !r 4,71 ation of the Senate the necessity of an early pro ston bOa* for the protection of the Treasury against pro the fluctreatiems and contingencies to which its receipts the erP°44.; The application assumes that, although meansof the Treasury foe, the .whole year may be Y, no "e ; the year, the department twithsta • —be—rendered .unable to meet Tld t ilt e,1 4 . iul4l POu it.at the times when they. may fall due. th e I _ , a PP t ehetision a r i ses f rom th e c i rcumstance t h at targeSt Proportion of the charges upon the Treasury, I including the payment of pensions and the redemption of Treasury notes, fall due in the early part of the year, while the resources on which it might otherwise rely to discharge them cannot be made available till the latter half of the year. Another'. cause of apprehension is, the fact that a portion of the means of the Treasury consists of debts due from banks, for some of which delay has already been asked, and which may not be punctually paid. Measures have been taken for the prosecution of the Florida war which must be repugnant to the feelings of every one possessed of the least spark of. humanity. 'We allude to the introduction of bloodhounds from Cuba to hunt down and exterminate the Indians. It is but right to add that remonstrances have been pre sented in Congress, from various parts of the country against this cruel and barbarous expedient. The intelligence from Canada reaches to the 10th of February, on which day his Excellency the Governor- General proceeded in state to the chamber of thelion ourable the Legislative Council for the purpose of pro roguing the session. After acknowledging the atten tion which the members of the Council and the House of Assembly had paid to the important business which had been brought before them, his Excellency pro ceeded to enumerate the various measures which had been under their consideration. He congratulated them on their acquiescence in the proposed reunion of the two provinces, and looked forward to the comple tion of the measure as the means by which the peace, happiness, and good government of the Canadas will be permanently secured. He then alluded to the bill for the disposal of the clergy reserves, by which they had set at rest a question which had for years past convulsed society in the province. In framing that measure he said that they had consulted alike the best interests of religion, and the future peace and welfare of the people: and he expressed a hope that their efforts would prove successful, notwithstanding any attempt which may be made to renew the excitement or to raise opposition to their deliberate judgment. With reference to the bill for the payment of losses by he rebellion or invasion, he remarks that he has with held his assent, as the House of Assembly had ad dressed her Majesty praying that the losses might be defrayed by the imperial treasury : he thinks that it would be more for the interest of the parties con cerned that the bill should be reserved, in order that the address may be considered by her Majesty's Go vernment, before the provincial funds are finally char ged with this payment. The Governor-General next intimates, in his address to the House of Assembly, that the decision which they had come to respecting the future settlement of the civil list, under the proposed union, rendered it impossible for him to submit to them any renewed proposal for the surrender of the revenues of the crown in exchange for a provision for the expenses of the civil Government of the province. The Governor-General then expresses an earnest hope that the members of both houses, on their return to their different districts, would endeavour to promote the spirit of harmony and conciliation, .which had so much distinguished their proceedings since the com mencement of the session. He concludes in the fol lowing terms :—" I rejoice to find that already tran quillity and hopeful confidence in the future prevail throughout the province. Let it be your task to cherish and promote these feelings ; it will be mine cordially to co-operate with you ; and by administer ing the Government in obedience to the commands of the Queen, with justice and impartiality to all, to promote her anxious wish, that her Canadian subjects, loyal to their Sovereign, and attached to British in stitutions, may, through the blessings of DIVINE PROVIDENCE; become a happy, a united, and a pros perous people." _ _ _ The American papers deny the correctness of Mr. Fox's letter respecting the military preparations on the Maine boundary. They assert that there are new bar racks, lately erected, at the lower end of the Tamis conata Lake, and that there are about 200 troops stationed there. A Maine paper states.that Sir John Harvey is effectually opposing the trespassers by de stroying the timber they cut, and recommends the American authorities to do the same. Advices from Monte Video, to the 20th of Decem ber, had been received at New York. The political state of things remained the same. No battle had taken place between_ General Rivera and General Echague near Monte Video. It was expected that the President would attack the enemy, and that a battle would take place before many days elapsed. Of all the trumpery and contemptible motions that have ever been brought before a " reformed" Mouse of Commons, the motion of Mr. Wallace, on Tuesday evening, was the most conspicuous that has fallen un der our notice. It was frivolous and nonsensical be yond all precedent. Its absurdity is scarcely capable of being rivalled, either by Joseph Hume or "William Ewart ; and we are sure that it never can be eclipsed. The object of this motion was, to propose an inquisi tion into the convivial and other proceedings of the Glasgow University " Peel Club," with a view to the dissolution of that very obnoxious society—we mean obnoxious to the discomfited liberals. This was deemed a subject fit to occupy the attention of the House of Commons during the greater part of a day's sitting, and to the exclusion,of business of the most vital im portance. It appears to be a settled point that the " tyrant majority " s hould have some hobby to ride — some childish toy to amuse themselves with—to occupy their time, and to prove their incompetency to attend to those affairs which concern the welfare of the na tion. Up to last week the "privilege question" was the favourite plaything of the liberal majority. That toy having been thrown aside, Mr. Wallace, anxious to provide suitable and congenial employment for his friends on the ministerial side of the House, introduced his silly motion for an inquisition into the proceedings of a conservative association, chiefly composed of youths from fifteen to twenty years of age, whose only offence is, that they have achieved the emancipation of Glasgow University from whig•radical thraldom. It is true that the affairs of our Eastern Empire are in a most critical state, and demand the serious attention of the legislature. It is true that the dispute with China, and the contingency of war with that country, are ques'. tions of vast importance. It is true that our West In dian Colonies are fast sinking into ruin, and loudly call for the interposition of Parliament on their behalf. It is true that there are a thousand questions of domestic policy which are waiting for inquiry and adjudication. But it is equally true that there exists a political club in the University of Glasgow, the organization of which has secured the election of conservative Lord Rectors during the last five or six years. In the eyes of the " liberals" the last appears to be the most important question. The affairs of the East—the question of war or peace with China—the prosperity of our Colonial possessions —our foreign relations—our financial ar rangements—and £he whole of our domestic policy— must give way to Messrs. Wallace and Dennistoun's at tack upon the formidable phalanx of juvenile conserva tives at the University of Glasgow. This is, certainly a most edifying specimen of the manner in which the business of Parliament and the affairs of the nation are conducted by the liberal representatives of the people! The circumstances which led to Mr. Wallace's mo- tion may be thus briefly recapitulated. For many years preceding 1820 the Rectors of the University of Glasgow had been promiscuously selected from both the great political parties; and although the election was, strictly speaking, annual, yet by courtesy the Rector was usually permitted to hold office for a second year. This was the custom up to 1820, when at the termination of Mr. Finlay's first year, a suc cessful attempt was made to carry the election of Mr. Jeffrey. With this election commenced the political rivalry which has predominated within the last twenty years. In 1822 Sir Walter Scott and Sir James Mackintosh were the competitors, when the latter was elected. His return, however, was only secured by the casting vote of Mr. Jeffrey, the retiring Rector. In 1824, Sir Walter Scott was opposed by M r . Brougham, whose return, by a singular coincidence, was secured by the casting vote of the outgoing Rec tor, Sir James Mackintosh. In 1826, Mr. Camp bell, the distinguished poet, was elected Lord Rector, and a successful attempt was made to prolong his tenure of the office for a third year, which was the first instance of such a continuation of the office in the person of the same individual. Sir James Graham very properly remarked that the first political club in the University was foamed on the occasion of Mr. Campbell's third election. It was called the " Camp bell Club," and existed up to the present time. In 1829, Lord Lansdowne was returned, and in 1831, Mr. Cockburn, then the Whig Solicitor-General for Scotland. Mr. Cockburn was also elected a third year, after the precedent furnished in the case of Mr. Campbell. His election was secured the third time by his own casting vote. In 1834, a reaction took place, and the series of Whig triumphs was terminated by the return of Lord Stanley. In 1836 Sir Robert Peel was elected, which gave rise to the " Peel Club." Mr. Wallace maintained that the " Peel Club" was essentially a political club, and that the literary pre miums which it annually distributed, were merely a cloak to the political objects of the association. From the rules of the " Peel Club" he said that it was evi dently formed for the purpose of securing the election of conservative Rectors, and of spreading conservative principles. He maintained that it was very wrong— very wrong, indeed, that such a society should exist. It is very wrong that the professors and students of the University should meet to deliberate about the election of a Lord Rector ! Among the supporters of Mr. Wallace's motion we find the member for Kilkenny, who, while he con demned the institution of the; " Peel Club," avowed that he was a member of the Glasgow University Liberal Association. Such is the consistency of the liberal Joseph Hume ! The truth is that fear caused Messrs. Wallace and Dennistoun to propose an inqui sition into the proceedings of the "Peel Club" " The recent election for Perthshire has created a feeling of alarm in the minds of sundry Scottish representatives. The member for Greenock is beginning to feel uneasy ; while the member for Glasgow must also experience some anxiety with respect to his own seat, in conse- quence of the recent demonstration of Conservative principles. As long as the tide of popular opinion was in favour of the liberals—as long as liberal Lord Rectors were returned for the University of Glasgow, there was no complaint made against the existence of a political club among the students and professors. The success of Conservative agitation has spread dis may among the Radical ranks. Hence the attempt to crush this agitation. Hence this pitiable and trum pery motion respecting the Conservative youth of Glasgow. The ground upon which Mr. Wallace and Mr. Hume proposed to bring the proceedings of the " Peel Club" under the notice of the House of Commons was, because the House made an annual grant in aid of the University. Sir James Graham, the present Lord Rector, intimated that last year the Government had discontinued the grant How could any one ex pect such a grant to be continued as long as the University wi!l obstinately persist in rejecting Whig Rectors ? Sir Robert Peel very happily met the proposal to dissolve both the political societies in the University of Glasgow. He said that he was certain that the " Peel Club" would not concur in it. They would say " No : we are a thriving society, and you are an unsuccessful one: we know the principles of advan tageous exchange too well to accept your proposal, which is an equivalent to an offer of copper for gold." It is, certainly, a very unlikely thing thatthe Conser vatives would voluntarily resign the advantages accru ing from their present organisation, merely to gratify the ambition, and to secure the success of their oppo nents. We do not feel surprised, after the exposures which Sir James Graham and Sir Robert Peel made of the motives which prompted Mr. Wallace's spiteful and vindictive attack on the " Peel Club," that the latter gentleman most gladly availed himself of the forms of the House for withdrawing his motion. It was a mo- ,ion of which any man of common sense ought to hare .relt heartily ashamed : and it is a great shame that the time of the House of Commons should be frittered away upon any thing .so mean, petty, and contemptible. The debate of Tuesday evening will, however, have one good effect : it will serve to enlighten the consti tuencies as to the real nature of professing liberals, whom it exhibits in the unenviable character of low, meddling, pettifogging tyrants, who would, if they could establish an inquisition into every man's thoughts, and crush every semblance of free deliberation. The Marquess of Normanby has evidently kissed the "blarney stone." Few Men are equal to him in the facility with which he lavishes his compliments. He must be acknowledged to possess a thousand horse power of flattery. In proof of this, witness his hyper bolically extravagant eulogium of the Irish at the dinner of " The Benevolent Society of St. Patrick," on Tuesday last, in London. In the course of his speech as chairman, after remarking on the opportunities which he had enjoyed of forming an estimate of the Irish character, during his vice-regal, or, rather, his gaol-delivery " progresses," he said that " lie found that charity was the very essence of the Irish character," and that "he was convinced, from his personal obser vation, that the Irish people were the greatest people, morally, politically, and religiously speaking on the face of this earth !" Faugh ! if he speaks of the great majority of the Irish people, he is guilty of uttering a downright falsehood : for it is a matter of notoriety that their morality consists in murder and violence, their politics in sedition, and their religion in the grossest superstition. All that is good, noble, or amiable in Ireland, or among the Irish, is owing to the connexion of that country with England, and the admixture of British blood with the native tribes. On Tuesday last the Irish Papists of this town as sembled in thousands to celebrate St. Patrick's day, and paraded the principal streets of the town, with banners and bands of music. The procession was chiefly composed of a number of clubs and secret so cieties, exclusively Popish, and having political objects in view, identical with those of the traitorous Ribbonite associations in Ireland. - We write thus deliberately and designedly. We have something more than mere suspicion upon which to ground our present charge. The spectators who quietly looked on the procession of Tuesday last had an opportunity of seeing, though not for the first time in their lives, several Ribbon Lodges. These murderous traitors, with whom originates nearly all the crime for which the sister island has obtained such an unenviable notoriety, are permitted to march through our streets in triumphant processions; whilst the loyal Orangemen, who are banded together for the protection of our established religion and the constitution of the land, are not allowed even to wear a favour or to exhibit a flag in celebration of the most glorious events in the history of our coun try. Ribbonmen, whose grand designs are, to extirpate Protestantism from Ireland—to alienate the property of every Protestant in that country—and to place the island once more under the dominion of Popish go vernors—are allowed to insult the loyal inhabitants of Liverpool with impunity, and to mock us by the ex hibition of their treasonable emblems : whilst the Orangemen, because they are Protestants—because they have displayed the most constant and unflinching loyalty—because they are determined that the Ribbonite conspiracy shall be frustrated—are treated, by the Protestant authorities of this town, with the utmost contempt, and if they have the temerity to avow their principles by any external display, they;'.are left to be assaulted or even murdered by their Popish enemies, But we need not wonder at the favour shown by our local authorities towards the Papists, nor at the audacious demeanour of the latter. It is the fashion of the day, at Court, in Parliament, and in our Mu nicipal Councils, to depress Protestantism as much as possible, and to give every encouragement to Popery. It is every where the order of the day to inflict " heavy blows" and to give " great discouragement" to the established religion of the land ; while it is every where the policy of our liberal rulers to patronise Popery and to protect rebels. 'We need, not, therefore, feel any surprise at the insolent, domineering, and tyrannical conduct of the low Irish Papists of Liverpool, who already look upon themselves as our future masters, and treat us as prospective vassals. If the Papists are again permitted to parade the town of Liverp oo l, a ll we can say is, that the public authorities of the town are willing to be considered as conniving at treason, and that the Protestant inhabitants of the town have consented to place their necks under the yoke of Popish tyranny. Protestants of Liverpool ! shame upon your cowardly dereliction of principle ! How long will you permit a horde of beggarly aliens to trample upon you and insult you ? Shake off your lethargy, and be men. the petition from the Protestants of Liverpool against the annual grant to the Popish College at Maynooth, has just been forwarded to Lord Sandon, for presentation to the House of Commons. It has 12,350 signatures appended to it. Last year there were only 4,500 signatures. Tile great increase in the number of signatures may be construed into a favourable indication of the state of public opinion in this town. Four or five years ago it would have been a matter of some difficulty to procure a thousand names to back such a petition. Now, thanks to the persevering exertions of those clergymen among us who have taken a decided stand against Popery, and . to the speeches made at the great meetings of the Protestant Association, there are found twelve thousand and upwards of our adult population, who are desirous of removing from our national character the stigma of supporting such a hot-bed of vice and sedition as the College of Maynooth. Let the example of Liverpool be universally followed. Let our Protestant friends in other districts continue to agitate until the public mind is more deeply imbued with an utter abhorrence of Popery. The "great meeting" at the Sessions-house, in fa vour of the Irish Municipal Corporations' Bill, has met with a most inglorious issue. The petition which emanated from the " grand majority" of hereditary hodmen at that meeting. was, on Monday evening, pre sented to the House of Lords, by the Marquess of Nor manby. The petition was signed, as our readers may recollect, by the Mayor of Liverpool, as the chairman of the meeting. It happened to attract the attention of Lord Charleville, after it had been presented, and the noble lord remarked that " the Mayor could not sign for the corporation, nor for the public meeting; con sequently the petition was to be regarded as 'that of Joshua Walmsley only. Oh ! most lame and impotent conclusion. After all the mighty preparations—after all the mustering of forces, and the drilling of Pro tector recruits—after all the anxious deliberations in high conclave at the Angel, and the cutting and clip ping of Parliamentary debates, for the purpose of ma nufacturing speeches—after all the waste of words during the stormy discussion in the Sessions-house and the waste of ink by our Radical brethren of the press in boasting of the " triumph of the Liberals"— the petition could only be received as that of Joshua Walmsley. Well may the Irish corporations tremble for their fate. Their doom is sealed—Joshua Walmsley, Esq, Mayor of Liverpool has petitioned against them. We have been informed that Joshua Walmsley, Esq. Mayor of Liverpool, has already had his address to the electors of Liverpool printed, at the Globe office, Lon don, and that we may expect, one of these fine morn ings, to find the walls of the town placarded with this precious document. We do not vouch for the accu racy of the report which has reached us ; but it has strong probabilities in its favour. We understand that his Worship intends to claim the suffrages of the elec tors Of Liverpool as a moderate politician. Whether this rumour be founded on fact or not, it is well, for our Conservative friends to be prepared. If it is cor rect, his Worship must imagine that no election will take place before November. Our own belief is, that a dissolution of Parliament will take place before his mayoralty has expired. CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday evening a mixed band of ringers, consisting of part of St. Peter's, and part of the old company of St. Nicholas', rung on St. Peter's bells a true and complete peal of grandsire caters, consistin of 5,010 changes, in 3 hours and 22 m i nutes. g --- PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.--The usual monthly meeting of the members of this association was held in the school-room belonging to St. Mark's Church, on the evening of Tuesday. The place was crowded with a very at tentive and orderly audience, who appeared extremely delight ed, with the addressees that were delivered in support of church extension. The Rev. Mr. Marshall presided. Speeches were delivered by the rev. chairman, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Newton, Mr. Reay, Mr. Crisp, and the Rev. Mr. Fenton. Resolutions and a petition in favour of church extension, were adopted, and the proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock. THEATRE-ROYAL. — We have only space to remind our readers that the season of the Theatre-Royal commences next Monday. when Mlss Ellen Tree will appear as the Countear in Sheridan Knowles' Love. RITCHIE'S PATENT LETTER COPYING MACHINES.— We perceive that Messrs. G. J. Poore and Co. have been appointed agents for the sale of the above well-known Co pying Machines, the character of:vvhich stands deservedly high among all classes who have used them.—See cdv. GIUMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—In another column will be found an advertisement of this justly celebrated remedy, so universally recommended by the faculty, for its efficacy in removing and preventing disorders incident to the eves and the head. The testimonials appended to the advertisement are of the very highest character. THE WEATHER AND ITS EFFECTS.—The skill of the medical practitioner is not only directed to the cure of disease, but be it said, to the honour of the profession, that they also point out to the afflicted the means whereby many diseases of serious magnitude may be averted, or the effects of which considerably alleviated. But in a variable climate like ours, although the advice laudably given may be tolerably well at tended to, it is altogether impossible to prevent such diseases abounding in great multiplicity and virulence. Hence those painful afflictions, Gout and Rheumatism, have recently pre vailed in a most unprecedented degree ; but, happily, through the use of that most excellent medicine, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, the patients have, for only a short period of time, been prevented from following their sundry avocations. MR. FEARGUS O'CoNNoß.—This notorious individual was tried at the York Assizes las Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, for a seditious libel in the Northern Star. The Attorney-General, Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, and Mr. Wight man, conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. O'Connor defend ed himself. After ten minutes' consideration, the jury re turned a verdict of guilty against the defendant. The kttor ney-General prayed immediate judgment, but his Lordship declined to pass sentence, there being another prosecution against the defendant at Liverpool. LIVER THEATRE. —The season will close very shortly, and we would therefore recommend an early visit. We per ceive that Mr. W. J. Hammond is announced to perform for a limited period, and have no doubt his well-known talents, combined with those of the regular corps, will prove conti nuously attractive. Mr. Raymond, with characteristic ge nerosity, has intimated his intention to give the proceeds of the theatre, on Tuesday evening next, towards the fund in aid of the public charities, and it is gratifying to see that the performances on that occasion will be under distinguished patronage. The pieces selected are The Fatal Secret and The Bold Dragoon ; in addition to which there will be sing ing by Mrs. Barton and Mr. F. Gardner, and dancing by Misses Thomassin and Lidia and Mlle. Chevallier. Surely there is attraction enough here, particularly when the bene volent object of the performances is taken into consideration. TOKEN OF RESPECT.—The passengers by the packet-ship South America, having resolved to present her commander, Capt. Bailey, with a testimonial of their esteem for his gen tlemanly conduct and uniform attention towards them, a de putation waited on him on Wednesday, and presented, on behalf of the passengers, an elegant silver bread basket, with the following inscription :—" Presented to Captain David Goodwin Bailey, of the packet-ship South America, by the passengers, on her voyage from New York to Liverpool, in February, 1840, as a testimonial of their esteem for his gen tlemanly conduct and uniform attention towards them, and also for his exertions in bringing the ship into Cove Harbour, against a strong easterly gale."—Captain Bailey assured the deputation of the satisfaction he felt, at having contributed to the comfort of his passengers, and was much gratified at receiving this token of their good-will. OaSERVANCE OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY. — Tuesday being the anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland, the members of the various Hibernian, and other Irish societies in this town, assembled at an early hour at the places of rendezvous previously appointed. They afterwards combined, and, at tended by bands of music, flags, &c., paraded through the principal streets of the town to St. Patrick's Chapel, Tox teth-park, where a sermon was preached to them by the Rev. Mr. Maddocks. At the conclusion of the discourse, the procession was again formed, and, after the societies had marched through several other leading avenues, the members retired to their several club-houses and places of entertain ment to dinner. RICMINISCENCL—EI an extra edition of the Dublin Morn ing Register, a popish paper, " published to enlist every friend of Ireland in support of the O'Connell Compensation Fund, May 26, 1837," we find the following names of contri butors from Liverpool :—C Blundell, Esq., Ince, £lOO. J Brancker, W Rathbone, R V Yates, J C Ewart, Lawrence Heyworth, S T Hobson, R Roskell, James Muspratt, God frey Barnsley, and J Mulleneux, Esqrs., £25 each. Liver pool Franchise Society, £35. T Bolton, A M'Gregor, Harvey, C Rawdon, James Rawdon, E Chaloner, E Har vey, and W Harvey, Esqrs., £2O. each. W R Preston and A F O'Neill and Sons, Esqrs., £l5. each. It Alison, W F M`Gregor, It Hall, W Fawcett, T Slattery, It Shell, R Rath bone, C Birch, T Holt, and J Meller, Esqrs., £lO. each. C W Crooke, M O'Connell, R W Wood, N Kaye, G Lynch, P Leonard, J Andrade, a reformer, T Coglan, V Higgins, J Mather, .1 Hamilton, J Clow, D Bre nnan , W Earle, Esqrs., and Dr. Reynolds, £5. J Finch and Sons, Esqrs., £lO. T Rodick, J Budd, J Walmsley, G Holt, D Powell, J Aiken, A Kaye, E Hore, J Hore, and W Mather, E sqrs ., £5 eac h. J ilarnet, Esq., £3 3s. Hibernicus, £3. Four Friends, £2 10s. Dr Carson, J Wybergh, R M Beckwith, T Bean, J Ripley, T Harvey, and W Logan, Esqrs., £2 2s each. J Rimmer, W Fairhurst, C T Everest, a f r i en d, C J C or b a lli s, two reformers, Mark Aungier, and J King, Esqrs., £2 each. T Urquhart, W Appleton, and M Tiernan, Esqrs., 21s each. C Grimshavv, W Bartley, Esqrs., and Dr Callan, R.N., 21s each. P F Curry, E Wilmer, J Woolright, R Richmond, H Crompton, J F and C 5, and G Robinson, Esqrs., 21s each. J Sheehan, E Moss, and R Jenkins, Esqrs., £1 each. Mrs Corbally and Miss Corbally, £1 each. An ene my to humbug, J Leyland, B Norton, J H Green, and R Johnson, Esqrs., £1 each. Colonel Williams, S B, a re former, L Rayner, J Charnley, J O'Donnell, B Slater, J Brown, R Moore, Kershaw, T Drewry, G Law, J T a t e , sen., W K Headland, N Crooke, a friend, C J Townley, and A M'Clellan, Esqrs., £1 each. Rev P Wilcock and D D a l y , Esq., £1 each. S Thornely and Keogh, Esqrs., £1 each. W Thornhill, Esq., £2 2s. L Evans and C Simpson, Esqs. £lO each. J Langan, Esq., £5 ss. A reformer, £5. B Brteherton, Esq., £lO. A radic a l, H Homes, J Homes, and Jevons and Sons, Esqrs., each. A reformer, £3. Wm Logan, Esq., £2 2s. F Patten, Esq.' and the Rev. J It Robinson, £2 each. H C Langton, Esq., £2 2s. W Redyard, Esq., and a friend, £2 each. T Mor ecro f t, E sq. £2 2s. T Haigh, Esq., £2. Sundry small sub scr i pt i ons , £l7 4s. THE DEATH OF MR. GRANT, M.P. FOR INVERNESS SIIIRE.—The Master of Grant was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning week. The nature of the illness of Which he died was not known. He was only in his 23d year, and was chosen member for the county of Inverness imme diately diately on his coming of . age, on the ret i rement, from ill. health, of the Chisholm, in 1838. He was a young man of very amiable manners, and was exceedingly popular in the north of Scotland. ANTI-CHURCH-EXTENSION MEETING, The success of the meeting held last Friday in support of church extension, of which we gave a full report in the last number of the STANDARD, pierced to the qu:ck the political dissenting voluntaries, and it was considered indispensable to "get up' a counter demonstration, not the least object of which might be to strengthen the present administration. The committee of the "Voluntary Church Society" were immediately assembled, and it was resolved that a public meeting should be held on Wednesday, in the Music Hall. The gathering accordingly took place. The room was filled, but no one who was present will deny that, had not the friends of the established church been there to swell the num bers, the orators would have had to act their parts before " a beggarly account of empty benches." Mr. VINCENT HIGGINS was called to the chair, and he told the meeting they were assembled to enter their solemn protest, by a petition to parliament, against the aggressions of the established church, in another attempt to put its hands into the public purse. This attempt he did not hesitate to describe as iniquitous, unjust, and unchristian. It was in iquitous, inasmuch as the church possessed such ample wealth of its own that it had no need to go to the public purse (!!) It was unjust, that whilst that church had its rich bishoprics, its large and immense pluralities, for the sake, ostensibly only, of advocating religion—but, for the sake, he believed himself, of increasing and extending its power only as a political party —a party ever opposed to civil and religious liberty—that this church should come to the public purse for money subscribed by all the people, by the people of every denomination, for its own exclusive use and benefit. And it was unchristian, inasmuch as it was con trary to the great and glorious precept of our blessed master, who said, " As ye would have all men do unto you, even so do ye unto them likewise." Did not the church object to the benevolent intentions of her majesty's ministers last year, when they wished to make a grant of public money that all denominations might benefit by it ? This the church resisted and defeated, and therefore he was justified in saying the present 'demand of the church was unchristian. The Rev. Mr. BIRRELL then moved " That in the opinion of this meeting the connection of the church with the secular power is opposed to the fundamental principles of Christianity, at variance with the rights of conscience, injurious to the cause of religion, and opposed to the well being of society." It was not without considerable reluctance that for the first time in his life he took part in a public discussion of this question, and that reluctance arose partly trom a natural distaste to all public controversy of this kind. At the same time whatever force these considerations had upon his mind, he felt that the specific aggressions now threatened to be made upon the principles of civil and religious liberty (!) de manded an equally explicit protest upon the part of all those to whom those principles were dear. It would be carrying silence and neutrality to a criminal extent were they to see this impending injustice both to man and to God, without coming forward at whatever risk and cost of disquietude and pain, to bear their part in attempting to avert the evil (I I). It was not, however, their object to oppose the extension of true religion, although thousands maintained that it was, but to separate truth from error and to spread it over the world. Neither was it their design to oppose the episcopal church. They took the liberty of thinking that there was much in the church badly adapted to human nature, and ill-accordant with the divine will, but, as far as their present efforts were regarded, it might flourish till it darkened the whole earth. Nor was it their object to prevent the erection of churches ! The friends of the church might erect as many churches as they pleased; but they (the dissenters) certainly thought that edifices wherein there were no congregations, and wherein there was heard no gospel, of which he deeply regretted to know there were thousands in the country, were of very small value, and that to erect more of such edifices was a very useless expenditure and application of money. Their real object, simply and shortly, was to express a wish to be excused from bearing any pecuniary burden in so bril liant a speculation ; or, more correctly, lest they should be enchanted by the romance of such au enterprise, they wished to retain to themselves the pleasure of freely contributing to it, and to avoid the ungracious alternative of having their money wrung from their hands by the government, and em barked in the scheme whether they would or not. He held it to have the intrinsic evidence of a maxim, that to take away the property of another, and apply it to your own pur poses, was an act of di s h ones t y : t h ere f ore h e maintained that for any single religious denomination, containing but a fraction of the p o p u l at i on o f the country, to apply for the money belonging to all the rest of the country, for the pur pose of extending their own religious rights, was an act of injustice which bore upon it its own condemnation. But he still more strenuously objected to it on account of its bearing upon the parties themselves. Could any one question that for a church, the actual revenues of which, according to the report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, amounted to £8,000,000 sterling per annum—a church the bishops of which lived in a style that rivalled royalty itself, ought, in stead of making use of that enormous wealth, come in the crouching attitude of a pauper, and pray the parliament for Pecuniary assistance, to help them to raise other churches ? When he saw this, he was concerned for the manhood and for the Christian integrity of the persons composing the Church of England. When he saw the respectable minister of Christ Church holding up to ridicule the conduct of a man now in prison at the instance of an ecclesiastical court, deny ing that his conduct could result from conscientious motives, because be followed a trade alleged to be mean, and because the demand upon him amounted to only a few shillings and a few pence; when he saw this gentleman keeping his audi ence in a roar of laughter by playing upon these circumstan ces, with grief he acknowledged he could see nothing in his conduct but either the most unworthy sophistry,' or an in competency to comprehend the nature of a conscientious ob jection. (Great hissing field sonic cheers.) That ignorance was produced by the system to which the gentleman was con scientiously attached, and therefore he (the speaker) spoke, whatever he might feel, more in sorrow than in auger. He perceived also the same ignorance in a gentleman now lec turing upon the right of the Church of England to her own existence, in Hanover-square Rooms, London. (Cheers.) In refuting the objections which dissenters brought to the claims made upon them, he (Mr. M`Neile) despatched the whole subject in an apothegm to this effect :—" These argu ments would be perfectly conclusive in the absence of the church's divine authority." No question of it : but who was to be the judge of the divine authority ? Their opinions (the dissenters') were not to be consulted for a moment. Did their brethren of the established church know what con science was ? The most charitable answer he could give was that they did not. But let them know that ignorance was itself a crime ; let them know that to ass ume th e r i g ht to determine wh a t other men should think, and what religious conduct they should pursue, was to leave the province of the preacher, and to leap into the throne of God (!) Even if they (the dissenters) were certain that the money extracted from them was for no other pur pose but to extend saving truth, they should still object to its being arrested from their hands, but it would be an immense alleviation of the wrong, if after that property had been yielded, they should be sure that such a mighty object would be promoted. Who was to appoint the ministers to these new churches when they had been erected? Who was to be answerable for their faith? Who was to assure them that these edifices should not be used, immediately after their erection, for the purpose of declaring the saving efficacy of the sacraments, the validity of priestly absolution, the in utility of an atonement, the worthlessness of the cross of Christ, and of salvation to guilty men? We might be told that the articles of the church guarded against all such evils ,• but were those articles to do that in future which they had never done before ? It was acknowledged by a large body of the clergy themselves, that out of 21,000 clergy, nearly 14,000 preached in defiance of those articles either in letter or in spirit. (!) (Hisses.) Was it not knovin to all the world that the bishops, who ordained to the ministry, were, in many in stances, the most bitter opponents of all vital Christianity' Having continued in this style of misrepresentation for some time, and alluded to the statement of the Rev. F. Barker, of dissenting chapels having been removed from a poor to a comparatively wealthy portion of the town, but without at tempting to controvert it, he moved the resolution. Mr. THOS. BLACKBURN seconded the motion in a speech, the fluency of which helped materially to conceal its numer ous gross fallacies. He contended that injustice was a natu ral and essential adjunct of religious establishments; that an act of parliament could riot render that just which was in it self unjust, and that it was an imposition upon Roman Ca tholics to be taxed to support a form of religion which they deemed heretical ; and to Unitarians, Independents, Baptists, and all denominations of Diisenters in like manner. He con cluded by designating the crusade against the established church as an effort to obtain a second reformation, for the accomplishment of objects which the first reformation had . left unattained. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution. Many hands were held up for it, but there appeared to us, and to the re porter for one of the liberal papers, a decided majority against it. Loud cheers were given, and afterwards three others for the Rev. IL M`Neile. When silence was restored, the CHAIRMAN rose a n d sa id, "Thi s resolution is carried by a large majority !" The Rev. Mr. BEvoN moved the next resolution, declaring the essential injustice of compelling dissenters to pay for church extension. There was nothing remarkable in this gentleman's address. It was a mere wiredrawn reiteration of the allegations of the resolution, unrelieved by a single sen tence of any value. Alderman JONES seconded the resolution, observing that he could add nothing to the eloquent and convincing speeches already delivered. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, and it was carried certainly, but by a majority that was but just visible. Some uproar followed, in which threats of using the police force were liberally distributed. The Rev. JOHN KELLY moved the following resolution, declaring additional churches uncalled for and unnecessary. Mr. Kelly's address was taken up with observations intended to be very caustic, in reply to several speeches at the Church Extension Meeting. He con gra t u l ate d hi mself upon having been not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others. Some of his violent anti-church sentiments excited marks of occasional displeasure, but eventually lie closed big speech by asserting the following four propositions, as the grounds on which he opposed any additional grant to the church :- Ist, because he believed the pure spirit of Christianity was degraded and destroyed by the connection of the church with the secular power, and that it was one of the greatest inju ries which could possibly be inflicted upon the Gospel ; 2d, because when he inquired what we were to do with these churches, the very best he could expect was, that we should put in men who, having obtained their money, would turn round and abuse them : now he did not like abuse at any time, and least of all did he like to pay for it ; 3d, because he did not think additional churches necessary ; arid 4th, because he thought churchmen would far more wisely and far more efficiently employ their own money in building churches, than in employing the money of the public for that purpose. When a person had a large sum of money not his own, he did not feel interested in its disposal. He knew a district where there were five dissenting meeting-houses, where a church had been put, which was without a congregation after six years' experiment. (Cries of " Name !") He knew another in Yorkshire - --(Continued cries of " Name, name !" this fair? Was thi s r i g h t ? (Renewed cries of " Na ) m Was e !") He was not the craven to --- (Reiterated ca ll s f or the name drowned the remainder of the sentence.) The CHAIRMAN.---It is unnecessary (! ) (Great uproar.) Mr. KELLY.—Upon these grounds I think it is better the church should erect these additional churches out of her own money which she may do without the slightest interruption or the slightest hindrance. (Continued uproar, and cries of " Name, name !") The CHAIRMAN reminded the meeting that they h a d pledged the mse l ves b y the admission cardto obey the autho rity of the ch a i r; now, if any one in future attempted to disturb the proceedings, he would give p os iti ve or d ers for t h e police to tak e th e offenders into custody. Mr. KELLY then concluded his address, but he neither gave the name of the alleged empty church, nor related his Yorkshire story. Mr. SAMUEL STITT seconded the resolution, and the CHAIRMAN pronounced it carried. The Rev. H. CRIGHTON, Mr. SAMUEL BLACKBURNE, the Rev. Mr. CARRUTIIERS, and Mr. RICHARD JOHNSON,O t . next addres se d t h e meeting, principally urging the r i g h ts conscience. A vote of thanks was then carried to Mr. Higgins, for his conduct in the chair ; and about ten o'clock this liberal meet ing separated. ONCIDIUM PAPILO, OR, BUTTERFLY PLANT.—A very splendid specimen of this rare and beautiful plant may now be seen in bloom at the conservatory of Mr. Skirving, in Walton-road. The specimen in Mr. Skirving's possession is a very superior variety from Mexico. Those who are cu rious in floricultural productions, may be gratified with a sight of this elegant production of nature, by application at the nursery, where they will at the same time have an oppor tunity of inspecting many other curious and superb specimens of Mr. Skirking's botanical taste and skill. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-WIiDNESDAY. SERIOUS CASE OF SHOPBREAKING. Alfred Richardson was placed before the stipendiary ma gistrate on- a charge of having broken into and robbed the shop of his brother, Mr. Thomas Richardson, cutler, at the corner of Postoffice4lace. The prisoner was in a very dirty, and apparently distressed condition. Joseph Archer, constable No. 147, stated that at three o'clock yesterday morning, he was on duty in Church-street. When passing the shop of Mr. Richardson, he beard a " crack," which he thought was occasioned by the lighting of a Inciter match. He listened, and again heard the same • sound, and immediately after he saw a faint light through the fan window over the shop door. At that moment, another officer, who was on duty in Clayton -square, knocked for as sistance, and witneßs went to him. Having assisted to take a prisoner to bridewell, he returned to Mr, Richardson's in the inside of which he heard a noise. He got another offi cer, and examined the place, both at the front and back, but • they found all secure. Witness then sent for his inspector, and for Mr. Richardson, who, he knew, did not sleep on the premises. Mr. Richardson came and opened the shop door, and he and witness entered. Inspector Campbell then came up, and, in conjunction with Mr. Richardson, examined the premises. Inspector Campbell stated that he went into the coal-cellar, and on the.coals, and under the grid, he found the knife pro duced. The grid is secured by a chain, which fastens to the wall by a staple. The chain was loose, and the staple had been drawn out of the wall ; but the grid was upon the hole. The coal-hole is an enclosed yard. After removing the grid, a person could get into the coal-hole, and thence into the shop, without breaking open any door. After having exa mined the cellar, witness and Mr. Richardson went into the yard, which is surrounded by a wall about nine feet high. There are in the yard three or four privies, in one of which the prisoner was found. Witness brought him out into the yard, and searched him, and in his pockets and hat were found about seventy knives of different descriptions, a shav ing -box, a pocket-book, four dressing combs, eight silver pencil cases, a caustic case, two gold pencil cases, a gold tooth-pick, a gold buckle, a pair of razors in a case, a loose razor, a shaving brush, a gold clasp, and fourteen pairs of soissors, together with 21s. in silver. Mr. Thomas Richardson stated that when he left the shop on Tuesday night, all was secure. He identified the articles produced, which bad been found upon the prisoner, as his property. The value of them was about £3O. The prisoner was the brother of witness, and had formerly been etnployed on the premises, with which he was well acquainted. When the inspector was taking the articles from the pockets of the prisoner, witness said to him, " Alf re d, w h y did you ro b me, who tookl you in when none of the family would do so ?" His reply was, that he 'had been ill-used by his family—that be was starving and that that was the reason he had done it, and that no one was concerned with him in the robbery, or knew of it. James Lepsett, a porter in the employ of Mr. Richardson, proved that the grid of the coal-hole was fastened to the wall on Tuesday evening. The prisoner, on his voluntary examination, said, " It was through my people neglecting me and ill-using me, which caused me to do such a thing." Mr.. Rushton observed, that that did not appear to be true; the prisoner seemed to stand in his present position through having neglected the goo,d advice of his family. As the case was a somewhat serious one, Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner to the assizes. OBTAINING MONEY ENDER FALSE PRETENCES: Art apparently shrewd and clever lad, about 17 or 18 years of age, named John Morrison, was placed at the bar, on a charge of having obtained money, in the name of a relative, from two persons. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, until about three weeks ago, had been in the service of Mr. Robert Mor rison, a provision -dealer in Whitechapel. On Saturday last he went to Mrs. Ann Whittinghana, whose husband keeps a provision -shop in Jamaica-street, and who had dealings with Mr. Morrison, and said, "Will you please to lend mel7s. 6 d. for Mr. Morrison ? lam that sum short in paying a bill to Mr. Tate." Mr. and Mrs. Whittingham, who knew that the youth bad been in the employ of Mr. Morrison, but were not aware that he had been discharged, lent him the money without hesitation. Mrs. Mary Morrison, who keeps a pro vision-shop in Barter-street, also . lent ss. 6d. to the prisoner, who applied for it in the name of Mr. Morrison. That in dividual, having learnt of these applications, gave informa tion to the police, and on Monday afternoon the prisoner was apprehended in a brothel, in a street near the railway, by Inspector Rolston. * The prisoner declared that he had borrowed the money in his own name.. He was committed to take his trial at the ensuing sessions, POCKET-PICKING AT THE- POST-OFFICE.. Margaret Duffy, and old woman, was brought up under the following circumstances:— It appeared that on Sunday afternoon Mr. William Martin went to the post-office, around the window of which a crowd was congregated, and whilst there he had his coat pocket picked of a silver snuff-box, which he had felt in his pocket about a minute before. He gave information of the robbery at the police-office, and on going there yesterday morning, the missing box was shown to him. It had been pawned on Monday with Mr. Morley, by the prisoner at the bar, who received on it the sum of ten shillings. The article had been taken in because the prisoner was known ; but when a bill describing the robbery was given in, Mr. Morley delivered up the box to Mr. Dowling. On the following day, the old woman again presented herself et the shop of Mr. Morley, and offered in pledge a book. She was detained, and given into custody. The prisoner, having nothing to say, was committed to the sessions. THEFT BY A PROSTITUTE. Ellen King was committed to take her trial on a charge of having, early on Wednesday morning, stolen nine shillings from the trousers' pocket of William Johnson, a printer. STEALING A WATCH. Evan Jenkins, a seaman, belonging to the brig. William the Fourth, lying in the King's Dock, was committed to take his trial on a charge of having taken from the vessel and sold to a pawnbroker, for the sum of twenty shillings, a watch belonging to the mate. The prisoner, when asked by the mate, John Douglas, whether he knew anything of the mis sing watch, acknowledged that he had sold it, and took the mate to the pawnbroker's. LIVERPOOL INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. The court for the relief of insolvent debtors, within the borough of Liverpool, was held in the sessions house, on Wednesday and Thursday (yesterday), before T. B. Bowen, Esq., commissioner. Messrs. Venables and James were the only counsel present. There was but little interest in the eases. The following are the decisions:— John Critchley remanded from Wednesday to produce Mr. W. Critchley, was discharged yesterday. Philip Watson, unopposed; discharged: John Farrell, unopposed ; discharged. John Bootle, unopposed ; discharged. henry Rimmer, unopposed. The case of this insolvent was undertaken by the Society for the Relief of Small Debtors: His debts amounted to Xl5O. The COMMISSIONER said it would be in the recollection of the learned counsel, that Mr. Isaacs, the secretary to the society, had told him that the society never undertook cases in which the debts exceeded £loo.—Mr. VENABLES said he recollected the circumstance, and added that one of the worst cases heard at Lancaster was a society case. —The COMMISSIONER told the insolvent that he was lucky in not being opposed.—Dis charged. Elizabeth Whitmore was heard on her petition. —Mr. VENABLES opposed her, but on inquiry it appeared that the notice of opposition had been served a day too late. The insolvent was discharged on payment of .£l6 into court. William Widdows or Widdowes, unopposed; discharged. Christopher Robert Duckett, unopposed; discharged. Thomas Henry Hoy, was remanded to yesterday, in order to produce a bill of sale, and on its production he was dis charged. Thomas Cottingham was opposed by Mr. Wm. Quarry, tailor, and on his examination it appeared the insolvent was entitled to certain leasehold property. The COMMISSIONER asked Mr. Quarry whether he had obtained his knowledge of this property from the schedule ? Mr. Quarry replied in the negative, and that he had not looked into the schedule. The COMMISSIONER rejoined, that by doing so the opposing creditor very often got information greatly to his interest. Margaret Rowlands, late a publican in Dickenson -street, was opposed by Mr. JAMES, on the part of Mr. Ward, .a brewer in St. Ann's-street, and supported by Mr. VENABLES. This case occupied a very long time, but had little or no pub lic interest in it. The insolvent was ordered to be discharged conditionally, on giving up a warrant of attorney in eject ment, and the license and house, to the assignees. The following were declared entitled to the benefit of the act, and ordered to be discharged :—John Farrell, George Sharp Law, John Hughes, John Bootle, Thomas Macpher son, James Tucker, Henry Bingham, William Mooney, Sa muel Westall, and Thomas Clapham. John Harris was ordered to be discharged on remaining in custody three months from the time of vesting order. • John Rimmer Lawson was remanded for three months from the time of vesting order. Robert Scanlin remanded for two months. Robert Crye remanded till next circuit. Richard Spencer —case adjourned till next circuit, in order to produce the detaining creditor. The business of the court terminated at two o'clock yester day afternoon, and the Commissioner proceeded to Chester. The Duke of Portland has, with the greatest consideration, caused £lOO to be forwarded for the relief of the distressed working-classes of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. SOIREE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.—AII extra or con. cluding soiree was held at the Royal Institution on Monday night. The spacious suite of rooms was brilliantly illumi mated as usual, and many novelties were added pro tem. to, increase the attraction, and give novelty and zest to the preliminary conversazione. In that apartment which is de voted to specimens in Zoology, Entomology, and Ichthy ology, several fine paintings were exhibited. Books of prints, and various other matters, of a nature to wile away the time profitably, yet agreeably, or to furnish subjects of discourse, were interspersed about the large table. On a smaller table, were a couple of excellent microscopes, and a plentiful sup ply of well selected microscopic objects. These were not mere preparations of small particles of organic matter, minute animals, &c., but real bona fide botanical, entomolo gical, and other specimens, with infusoria animalcula, fibres and leaves of plants, advancing in decomposition, &c. Two gentlemen, who attended at this table were indefatigable in their attention to th e w i s h es o f t h e company, and placed al ternately in the field of vision, numerous minute wonders, the inspection of which appeared to give high gratification. In another part of the room, arranged in glass cases, were shown, engr ave d p or t ra i ts o f many illustrious no b lemen and l statesmen "of the olde s t time.'' These were rend. of rendered highly interesting by the accompan i men t, t o ea ch portrait, _ an an original letter o r d ocument , b ear i ng the signature of the high personage wh ose li neamen ts were annex_ ed . All these documents and sig n atures are genuine, and we may congratulate the Institution, on the possession of so valuable an addition to their stock of useful curiosities. soon lhe com pany, as on former occasions, began to arrive after seven o'clock. The assembly was not quite so numerous as on the last occasion, though the rooms were sufficiently crowded, and with a very fashionable concourse. Amongst those pre sent were the worshipful the Mayor and his l a d y, and several other families who rank amongst the most influential and wealthy of the town. At eight o'clock, the company ad journed to the Lecture-room, the body of which was soon filled to overflow, those who could not find seats below be taking themselves to the gallery. Th e c h a i r was occupied by Joseph Brookes Yates, Esq. The lect urer on this occa sion was Mr. Montague Phillips, Professor of Natural Phi losophy at the Mechanics! Institution. The lecture being concluded, the chairman arose with, we presume, the lines of Pope in his mind : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Post sometimes council take, and sometimes tea. He said they had heard the invitation of Mr. Phillips, and might either stay and take a shock or depart and take tea. The chairman proposed the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Phillips for his very interesting lecture, which was carried by acclamation. The assembly observed the latter part of the chairman!s hint, and 'retired with alacrity to the tea-tables. The remainder of the evening was passed in the usual man ner, and a b out eleven o'clock the company departed, well , pleased with this, the last soiree of the season. Mr. Schomburg has had the honour of exhibiting to her Majesty on Thursday, at Buckingham Palace, the drawing of the magnificent flower appropriately named the Victo r i a Regia, which that gentleman discovered in one of his explor ing journies up the river Berbice. Her Majesty was gra ciously pleased to express her admiration of the printing, and to take mu c h i n t eres t i n fi v e views which accompanied it, representing scenery on the Essequibo and in the interior of British Guiana. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. The late fine weather has been extremaylavourable to the contractors on this line. They have greatly increased the ratio of their earth and mason work ; and, as they may calculate on little interruption from the weather for the next six months, this undertaking- will be greatly advanced before next winter. The whole lute 16 miles—is' now contracted for , _. the last 8-4- miles ha ve j us t b een let, , 1!; of them to Mr. M`Naughtan, an extens;ye contractor on the Ayrshire line, and 31 miles to Mr. Evans, already a contrietor for the 3 miles nearest to Edinburgh, forming miles continuously. Mr. Evans is also a contractor of experience,_ having been much employed on the English Railloads. The letting of these contracts confirms the statement male at the last meeting of the proprietors, respecting the moderate cost of liming the line; and, Conjoined with the saving on the contracts for rail:, which will .arisefrori th e fdfi 6:1 iron, strengthens.the expection which the Di;; etor3 stated at a former meeting, that the line will be executed and opened. with the means provided by the act. The public are begin ning to speculate on the social and commercial changes which will be effected by the immediate proximity of two such large cities as Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of the alterations which the railway will occasion in the communications between the east and west coasts of Scotland, which willhe connected by it. It is difficult to estimate the influence which it will ex ercise on so large a population as will feel its benefits ; but, judging from the extraordinary effects of railways elsewhere, and keeping in view that both the Ayrshire and Greenock Railway will be tributary to the Edinburgh and Glasgow, (it reciprocating the benefits,) the influence must be great and beneficial. The Counties of Lanark, Avr, Renfrew, Dum barton, Stirling, and two of the Lothians, will thus be per- meated, affording a new channel for the rapid transit of their people, and of the produce of their inchistry ; and, developing the energies, the wealth, and the enterprise of the principal . counties of Scotland. ..... At the present period there are upwards of 10,000 persons landing every week at the Trinity Chain pi6r from all parts of England, Ireland, and the-Eastern Counties of S.;otland, but what may not that intercourse be increased to, Avbep the tunnel of the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway under the new town of Edinburgh is completed, which will thus communicate with the Firth of Forth, and form 'the connecting link of all the above railways. The immense intercourse that has taken place between the towns of Ayr and Irvine, since the partial opening of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway between these places on the sth August last, evidently proves the dis- . position on the part of the inhabitants of Scotland to avail .themselves of this rapid mode of travelling, being a great sav-' ing of time and also of expense. The number of persons who have travelled this short distance of only 10.1- miles, up to the present time, exceeds 62,000, being equal to six tirces the number calculated, upon in the parliamentary - estimates: - On Monday the 25th March, a furtherportion of the railway will be opened to the manufacturing- town of Kilwinning, and in the month of August this year the Ayrshire line will, be completed to Glasgow. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway will be openVd in the autumn of 1841, at which time the tunnel under the new town of Edinburgh will also be accomplished, and the whole communication complete. P.S.—Any informatioi; will be given by applying at No .0, Exchange Alley, Liverpool. RICHARD DAWSON, Agent. CORRESPONDENCE. THE EXCHANGE NEWSROOM, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,-1 have observed for some time past a practice (and a growing one) in the Exchange Newsroom, adopted by some of the subscribers, hi possessing themselves of two r and in some cases three several papers, and of course they are always late editions of either the London or our Liver l iool papers. lam sure no comment is necessary, but hope Oil will notice a practice so ungentlemanly and villainously selfish. While on the subject, I beg to suggest that a few more copies of the outside part of the London papers be taken, as it is barely possible to see the advertisements. It is true that cue copy of the part alluded to is placed on a stand, but the readers are those who wish to read the inside Please suggest that one or more copies of the advertisements of the Times, Chronicle, Post, &c., be placed on a stand, for the use of those who wish to see both sides.—Yours &c., A SUBSCIiIIIER. BRANDY AND SALT MINISTRY TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—It seems that our ingenious Whig ministry, ever ready to catch at a new plan for raising the wind, have availed the►r_selves of your late valuable hints respecting Brandy and Sail, and taking it for granted that it Will care a deficiency in the revenue, as well as every other complaint of the constitution, have determined to follow up the sugges tions, by taking the duty off Brandy and putting it on Sall, in order that they may be taken in large doses combined, with a full expectation of witnessing the most happy results. Trusting that as well as a nation's thanks for your seasonable suggestions, you may receive the spirited support of our sagacious rulers.—Yours, &c. , BRANDY AND SALT. THEOLOGICAL PARADOX TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—It was but yesterday that my attention was. draWn to a letter in the Liverpool Mercury of the 21st February, bearing the signature of " R. R.,' and dated Manchester, Jan. 31, 18-10,• the writer of which professes to he " a lec turer on poetry, and a humble votary of • the muse." The article is headed, " Critical Remarks on a recent Poem _a'' and its object i s , " th e f o ll ow i ng passage, in a short poem by the Rev. J. Raffles, LL.D.," which it states " has been. going the round of the papers :—" " To die to the world and to sin, To earth with its turmoil and care; To look on the glories unseen, And live as eternity's heir." The critique upon the passage points to the words in ita lics, and the criticising lecturer asks, " How can be look on what be acknowledges to be - unseen 7" I confess, Sir, I any quite surprised at the gross ignorance and destitution of. poetical taste which this criticism betrays in its censuring author. Had he only turned to St. Paul's second Epistle to the Church at Corinth, chap. iv. ver. 18, he might have there read—" While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen." This is evidently the passage in the inspired volume which Dr. Raffles had in his eye while writing the stanza in question ; and it not only fully justifies the sentiment; and acquits it of all " solecism," but is one of the most accurate, .as well.as sublime expressions of any which adorn the inimitable writ ings of that holy and illustrious Apostle. In his apologetic explanation of the apparent " solecism," the Editor of the Mercury assumes that Dr. Raffles intended the vision of the unseen. objects to be the revelation of future glory in another and a better world, as embraced by hope rather than by sight. It is very possible that this idea might have been connected with the Doctor's views, as expressed in the lines under consideration, but the allusion is evidently to present experience, and to the actual enjoyment in this world of the blessing described and desired. This, the Apostle's language above alluded to, fully justifies and re quires ; it runs thus—speaking of the afflictions to which the profession of Christianity exposed its early converts, and the consolatory prospects of a future, and " far more exceeding, and eternal weight of glory," which awaited them in the kingdom of their God and Saviour, St. Paul directs their at tention to that glory as a special object of their spiritual vision, although invisible to their corporeal eye; he says; " While we look net at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen :" and the reason whi c h tilt! Apostle assigns for this distin c ti on and preference is—" 'For the things which are seen are temporal ' • bat the things w hi c h are not seen are eternal." (2 Cor. iv. IS.' Yet it is at those very things, " which are not seen," that St. Paul exhorts the Church at Corinth to " look" with a steadfast and unwavering eye! The language adopted by Dr. • Raffles is therefore precisely that of the Apostle Paul, whom I should hope .Mr. R. R. would hardly venture to accuse of a grammatical solecism while describing the glories of the in visible world, as the objects of present vision. To explain, however, this apparent paradox, it is necessary to recognise the co-existence of two natures in man—the one corporeal, and possessing senses corresponding with the material world which we now inhabit; the other spiritual, and also possess ing senses, which are adapted to the contenaplation of those things which belong, exclusively, to that spiritual world to which we are all hastening. It is by the light of eternity beaming upon what the same Apostle calls " the eyes of the understanding" (Ephes. i. 18), through the medium of divine revelation, that the realities of the invisible world are clearly perceptible by the human mind, which thus takes, if I may be allowed the figure, a telescopic view of the things which arc totally invisible to the eyes of the body. Perhaps one of the finest illustrations of this sublime sub ject to be found in human language will appear in the follow ing beautiful lines, by a truly evangelical poet:— " The things unknown to feeble sense, Unseen by reason's glimmering ray, With strong commanding evidence, Their heavenly origin display : Faith lends its realising light, The clouds disperse, 'the shadows fly; Tll' invisible appears in sight, And GOD is seen by mortal eye (Wesleyan Hymns, No. fn.) What, I ask, Sir, but the most pitiful ignorance and desti tution of true poetical taste, could induce the cold, pedantic, and, I had almost said, contemptible criticism, which would attempt the censure of this noble sentiment by telling us, what every school-boy knows, that an invisible object cannot be seen!" It is this very fact, which is literally true, that constitutes the peculiar glory, and exquisite sublimity of the admirable passage in question, the production of that' faith which, in its glorious omnipotence, soaring far beyond the boundaries of human p0wer,..... Laughs at impossibilities, and cries, It shall be done !" I am, Sir, most respecfully, yours, S. Sutton, near Prescot, 15th March, 1810. TUCKER. -! ~~EZis , fln ANCIENT CONCERTS.—MS Royal Highness Prince Albert has consented to become a director of the Queen's Concerts o f Ancient Music : the other directors are the Kind of Ha nover, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, the Archbishop of York, Earl Portescue, Earl Howe, and Lord .Burghersh. • THE LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—This work is making capital progress. The fine weather of the past few weeks has enabled the contractors to get on beyond their expectations, and we believe there is no doubt whatever that the line will be open at the appointed time in June next. — Lancaster Gazette. CHURCH ACCOMMODATION FOR THE SOLDIERY AT WINDSOR.—The soldiers at present quartered at Windsor amount to 2,000, and for this vast number of persons there is no church or chapel of any description. The only reli gious service they can attend, is one' which lasts about ten minutes, at eight o'clock in the morning, which is performed, winter and summer, in the open court-yard. As there are two barracks, the service is performed once a fortnight at each. In the parish church and chapels of ease there is no room for the soldiery, and they, consequently, never have the advantage of hearing the word of God preached. A very short time since £70,000 was voted by parliament for build ing stables at Windsor, and this while the soldiers attending on royalty have no place of religious worship. Are they to attend the projected Popish chapel ?—Morning Herad. DRURY-LANE THEATRE:—Nothing is vet finally decided upon as to the re-opening of this house. Two or three par ties are spoken of as anxious to wear the perilous honours of management; and an operatic company, it is said, is ready to take the field. The demands of the committee in the matter of rent are, as they should be, moderate. ELOPEMENT.—BRIGHTON, MARCH I7.—The universal theme of conversation here to-day, has been the reported elopement of the wife of Captain Heaviside, of Brunswick square, a magistrate for the county, with Dr.- Dionysius Lardner, the popnlar.lecturer on the steam-engine, &c., and railwatrexperinaentalist. Immediately on the unhappy.bus band discovering his dishonour, about 30 fugitives, accompanied by, Mr. T. N . trig i n n e i r si l i-t e c : f h t e h a e r the frail pair were traced to London, whence. they had sailed for Ostend, whither the pursuers h s a o v n e le col 4 lo e ;_ e •ed a . b Heaviside is a most elegant woman, years of age, and, we regret to add, is the mother of three [We always thought Dr. Lard ner s h o as i r a n t e l a isst theme t o w b i s t e h r - a v a p t i e o r n s o o n f children.—Evening paper. a ino v ery re i f o o o o l l i i s st o than person him b s u e l t f. he Boileau— "Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]