The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-18 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MA/iCIMITKR.—There was an exceedingly gloomy market
yesterday, and goods and yarns of almost all descriptions
mum, quoted lower than on the preceding Tuesday. In con-
seeptesice of the unfavourable prospects of the coming winter,
autnalmie'ig individual spinners and manufacturers in various
1 parte of the neighbourhood have already ceased to light up
their factories. We hare not heard of any general agreement
t. that effect ; hut understand that several meetings, for the
purpoue of considering the subject, are in contemplation.—
' ilaueheorter Gtiardiata.
ROCIIRALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCT I4.—We

Lave had but a very indifferent market to-day, the demand
has been slack, and the number of pieces sold limited. The
prices are about the same as those of last week. In the wool
market there is no change to report : the manufacturers buy
both sparingly and cantiously.—lbid.
HUDDRRgYIELD MARKET, OCT. 15.—There is no new
feature in this day's market for the better. Like the weather,
all is gloomy and discouraging, with almost a complete stag-
nation in every description of goods except low fancy wool-

•SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A correspondent, who dates
ids communication from on board the Mountstuart Elphin-
stens, which sailed from Port Glasgow for Bombay on the sth
inat. and which he states has since been compelled, by stress
of weather, to take refuge in Lamlash Bay, writes us that Mr.
cowdie, surgeon to the ship, whilst fishing on the 9th,
ganght a large haddock, in the mouth of which he found
a stony piece of the reign of his late Majesty King George
the Third. The document which has been forwarded to us
beaga the signature of Mr. Gowdie, and others, in attestation
of the truth of this document.—Glasgow Mail.
A PArruvui. Doc.—A few nights ago, as the Hon. Mr.
Weitenra, M. P., was returning home, on foot, to his resi-
dence, at lishopsgate, he was attacked by a ferocious dog,
of the mastiff breed, against which he defended himself with
hit stick until it was broken in pieces. A fine Newfound-
land dog which he had with him had stood perfectly quiet du-
sing the rencontre, but, on perceiving his master entirely
open to the enraged animal, rushed forward, and, after a des-
Pirate struggle, succeeded in conquering the enemy. He,
then, singular to relate, dragged it to a ditch some yards dis-
tant, where he kept it beneath the water until it was drowned.
:.Reeding Mercury.
Tax SZVENTEVSTII MAN.—On Wednesday the 25th ult.
the seventeenth man was killed at the Summit tunnel, on the
Manchester and Leeds Railway. His name was John
Gornall ; he was at work at No. 8 shaft, when a large floose
of earth fell, and crushed him severely about the head. He
was conveyed to his lodgings, and the mistress of the house
sent for the surgeon, who attended and administered as the
ease seemed to require. The man got worse, and, on the
Sunday following, the surgeon was sent for, but did not ap-
pear until Monday evening; and on Wednesday following
(the 2d inst.) the man died. On Friday the 4th, an inquest
was held at the Summit Inn, by Mr. Dearden when a ver-
dict of " Accidental death" was returned. Some blame
was attached to the surgeon for not attending the patient
when sent for on the Sunday previous.—Manchester
Onardian.

ADJOURNED MEETING OF CLAIMANTS ON

THE IMPERIAL BANK.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.

The adjourned meeting of claimants on the Imperial Bank,
from Wednesday last (a report of the proceedings on which
day appeared in our Saturday's number) on Monday . last,
was held on that day in the coffee-room of the Clarence-hotel,-
Spring-gardens, when, as before, there was a tolerably
numerous attendance f claimants by themselves, as well as
by professional gentlemen ; amongst whom we observed
Messrs. Alexander Kay, Joseph Heron, T. Higson, jun.,
Saunders, Hitchcock, Morris, N. Earle, (of Ashton,) Edwd.
Bennett, Cresswell, &c. The proceedings occupied from
eleven o'clock to half-past three ; and, as the greater part of
these proceedings consisted of discussions having no satis-
factory result, we shall not weary our readers with a detailed
report of them. It will suffice to give a sketch of the gene-
ral course of the proceedings taken, and their ultimate re-
sult.

After a good deal of time lost, in an effort to get Mr.
Winterbottom, or some other great claimants, to take the
chair, it was resolved that Mr. Walker be again called to the
chair.
Mr. A Kay then called upon him to state what had passed
at the meeting of legal gentlemen on the preceding Thurs-
day.
The Chairman thought Mr. Kay better qualified to do that
himself; but three questions had been put to him by one of
the professional gentlemen (and there were fourteen present)
at the meeting referred to, one of which he had forgotten,
but the others he would state. He (Mr. Waller) was asked
whether he was willing to become a bankrupt ; and he said
he was not willing, nor would he become one till they forced
him to it. The second question was, " Are you willing to
assign over the whole of your property,—your personal pro-
perty as well as your Imperial Bank copartnership property ?"
This, he told them, he was not disposed to do ; because then
they would take every stock and stone he possessed ; and
that would be unfair, seeing that the whole of the original
shareholders, the " silver gentlemen," were equally liable
with the present shareholders, and had had not only broken
faith with the shareholders, but with the public. He told
the professional gentlemen that, if they would fix upon a de-
putation from the claimants themselves, to have intercourse
with the shareholders at large, with a controlling power, so
far as they deemed it prudent to exercise it over the accounts,
that was the only way : and if the original shareholders would
come forward as they ought to do, he and his colleagues were
willing to come forward pro raid, according to the number
of their shares, and even beyond that. He thought it best
if some four or six gentlemen could be fixed upon to work up
the concern, with the assistance of the present directors. If
suffered to go on, he was sure the whole of the present share-
holders would be in the Gazette. Mr. Holt, .the original
chairman of the board of direction, would, he understood, be
in the Gazette of that day. He (the chairman) had heard of
another or two who had gone into the country ; and, unless
something were done to suspend the legal proceeding, he be-
lieved that in a short time there would be nothing left for
them to divide.
Mr. Varey said, he was prepared to state, that the directors
and present shareholders were willing to come forward fairly
and freely pro rata", if the shilling shareholders would also
come forward with the amount of £5 per share, (instead of
£20,) in which case the creditors of the bank would be paid,
and that soon. He was told that some desire had been felt
the other day, that the lists of shareholders, returned to the
stamp-office, should be produced, and, if necessary, read at
this meeting. At the request of the directors, he was pre-
pared with these lists from the commencement of the bank to
the present time. As to reading the lists, he was in the
hands of the creditors of the bank. It was for the shilling
shareholders (and, he believed, some were present) to con-
sider, whether it was not even more consistent with honour
for them to come forward now, when they could do it at a
small sacrifice, than to let time elapse, and see the directors
and present shareholders falling like ninepins, till the original
shareholders would be the only parties liable, with nothing
to fall back upon. If they did not come forward now, in his
opinion, the time would be gone past.
Mr. A. Kay moved, seconded by Mr. Edward Bennett,
_ _

attorney, " That Mr. Morris be requested to give a statement
of the principal events of the meeting of professional gentle-
men on Thursday, and the result arrived at."
The motion having passed—
Mr. Morris, attorney, said that the first mode suggested
of winding up the affairs of the bank was, that the public
officers of the company should execute a judgment. After
some discussion, that course was abandoned. It was then
proposed, that a deed of inspection should be prepared, in
which certain parties should be joined with the present di-
rectors, and such measures adopted as they, conjointly, con-
sidered most desirable for the general interests of the credi-
tors. After considerable discussion, such legal difficulties
arose to the measure being adopted, that it was at once aban-
doned. A general bankruptcy was then proposed,, and the
objections of the various professional gentlemenpresent
were considered. All the modes were discussed, and even-
tually abandoned, as being encompassed with so much diffi-
culty as to prevent the possibility of obtaining those results
which the directors and the creditors alike sought. It was,
therefore, concluded that the result of this inquiry should
be made known to this meeting ; together with the result of
those applications that were then pending in the courts above,
to fix some parties, by an extension of the judgments which
had been obtained. The result of those applications was the
dismissal of the rules to extend the judgments against such
shareholders as had been sued by the judgment creditors;
not upon the merits of the case, but upon the ground that
one judge at chambers had not a jurisdiction. It was upon
that hearing, admitted by the parties who advocated the ap-
plication to extend the judgments, that the production of an
office copy of the registered list of shareholders, from the
commissioners of stamps, was prima" facie evidence against
those parties, as being shareholders.
Mr. Kay thought Mr. Morris should confine his report to
what passed at the meeting of Thursday.
Mr. Morris said he had already stated that ; and it was
for the directors now to say, whether they were prepared to
submit to the meeting any other tangible course for winding
up the affairs of the bank.

Mr. A. Kay said he would now ask the chairman, whether
he and his co-directors, and the parties acting with them,
were prepared with any proposition to the creditors for
liquidating the debts. At the meeting of professional men,
no papers or documents, though inquired after by several in-
dividuals, were produced by the directors and their officers,
beyond those which were in readiness for production at the
general meeting of claimants on Wednesday last ' • and he
understood from Mr. Law that the same feeling of duty as
before operated on his mind, and would not permit him to
produce those papers and documents which he (Mr. Kay)
for one considered indispensably necessary to enable the
parties then meeting to arrive at a just conclusion.
Mr. Hitchcock said, that the conclusion of the meeting of
Thursday was, that there was nothing left but for the direc-
tors to consider, in the character of debtors, what plan they
would submit to this meeting ; and he now asked the chairman
whether they were prepared with any.
Mr. Law denied that he had been asked on the Thursday
for the further portion of the opinion of Mr. Wightman, and
said that, as to the only document asked for in his presence,
he went to the bank, and laid three copies of it before the
meeting.
A discussion arose as to whether Mr. Kay or Mr. Law was
correct in this matter, which we need not further notice.
The Chairman,—having been pressed by Mr. Kay, Mr.
Hitchcock, and Mr. C. Pilling, to say whether the directors
had any specific proposition to submit to the meeting—said,
it was impossible for him or his colleagues to make a direct
proposition, for they could not say how many of the share-
holders were willing to come forward. If they would liberate
him, he would give them £l,OOO more than he had sacrificed
already ; and he thought it a hardship that the claimants should
keep working at the directors and present shareholders only,
when the claimants admitted that the original shareholders
were also liable. He could only say, that the present direc-
tors, and perhaps one or two others with them, would raise
ten or twelve thousand pounds ; but people were going into
the Gazette or leaving the country, and therefore, unless law
proceedings were suspended, and the creditors would take the
affair into their own hands, it would be ruin to the present
shareholders, and would recoil upon the shilling men.
The question being reiterated, the Chairman said perhaps
Mr. Varey could say something.
Mr. Varey said he certainly could not give to a meeting not
exclusively composed of creditors, but at which ls. share-
holders were present, and which was open to the public, the
whole of the information he possessed : he would not do so,
either to please the directors or the creditors. He had no
proposition to make to the meeting, because none had been
made to him. But he had prepared, on the part of the pre-
sent shareholders, a communication in writing, by which he
thought an arrangement might be entered into. That com-
munication he would not make, except in a professional way ;
and he would make it the following morning to any gentle-
man, professional or otherwise, to Mr. Kay, if he pleased,
who might be appointed by the meeting to receive it. Its
basis would be what had already been stated. If they looked
only to the present shareholders, it was impossible they could
get paid as creditors ought to be paid ; but his clients, the
present directors, were willing, as the chairman and Mr.
Nuttall had stated, to come forward to the extent of their
liability : but they must be sustained ; the creditors must
support the directors in seconding the idea that the shilling
shareholders were liable. As a lawyer he was advised to say,
that they were every one liable. But, suppose it were a
doubtful question of law, the affairs of the bank were in that
state that he should advise the shilling shareholders to come
forward, and by a small degree of sacrifice they could extri-
cate themselves, the present shareholders, and the public
creditors of the bank from their difficulties. He should pro-
pose the present shareholders coming forward to the full ex-
tent of their ability ; but in that step they must be seconded
by the. shilling shareholders.
Mr. George Taylor, of Nantwich, complained of this " to-
morrow and to-morrow," and contended that the proposition
ought to be made to the meeting.
Mr. Varey said he was not prepared to make it then.
Mr. A. Kay declined the responsibility which Mr. Varey
would impose on him. He thought every creditor had a right
to the information or proposition. If the directors were not
prepared to make any proposition, but were determined to
throw the whole matter upon the creditors, in the view of
inducing them to embark in what he (Mr. Kay) must term
Quixotic proceedings against the shilling shareholders, that
was a course that no sane man could be expected to enter
into. Gentlemen having large claims on the bank were asked,
forsooth, to forego these clainiS upon persons before them,
and whose liability was acknowledged, and join them in an
attempt to fix other parties who disputed their liability, and
who, whether liable or not, were meaning to try the question
at law. Could any sane man be expected to engage in a war-
fare of this sort, instead of getting their money paid by some
arrangement amongst the admitted shareholders, who, if not
able to do it, ought to " submit to their fate," as Mr. Waller
had said ? What lie meant by it, he (Mr. Kay) could not
tell ; for he refused to adopt either of the two courses which
the law pointed out. He repeated the question ; and when
debtors were before their creditors, they must lay aside the
advice of their professional man, and say ay or no to the
question. If Mr. Waller said he could not or would not pay,
then the claimants would know what to do.
The Chairman repeated that the directors were not prepared
to make any proposition, because they did not know the situ-
ation of the present shareholders, except that of some few,
and very few, who were prepared to come forward, out of
their own purses.
Mr. Hitchcock pressed his motion for a list of those per- r
sons who were considered liable by the directors.
Tlie motion passed with one dissentient.
Mr. Varey explained that what would be read were certified
copies of the lists as returned to the stamp-office from time
to time, from the commencement of the bank up to the pre-
sent day, beginning with Dec. 1836 ; stating those who had
subsequently become shareholders, and those who had ceased
to be shareholders.

Mr. Kay said as the inquiry about to be entered into was
so very extensive, and might embarrass his client very ma-
terially, he must, under that view of the case, deelin to
take any part in it.
Mr. Varey thought Mr. Kay perfectly justified, and wished
his example were followed by every creditor.
After some further discussion, Mr. Law proceeded to read
from the certified copies of the returns to the stamp-office,
such portions of those documents as we subjoin :
Dated 16th December,lB36.)
RETURN OF ACCOUNT to be entered at the Stamp Office in
London, in pursuance of an act, passed in the seventh
year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled
An act for the better regulating copartnerships of cer-
tain bankers in England, and for amending so much of an
act of the 39th and 40th years of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King George the Third, intituled, An act for estab-
lishing an agreement with the Governor and Company of
the Bank of England, for advancing the sum of three
million pounds towards the supply for the service of the
year one thousand eight hundred, as relates to the same."
Firm or name of the banking copartnership, namely, " The
Imperial Bank of England."

Names and places of abode of all the partners concerned or
engaged in the said copartnership, namely :
Abraham John, Manchester Laing Charles, Manchester
Akers Irwin, Liverpool Liebert Bernhard, do.
Alger John, Ashton Lees John, do.
Albrecht Mendel, Manchester Leadbeater John, Rusholme
Aldred John, do. Road
Abrenfeldt Jacobi, Liverpool Leigh James Newton Heath
AndrewThos.Bentley,Ashton Leebridge William, Ashton
Andrew John, Manchester Lightbourn Thos. Manchester
Andrew Jonah, Saddleworth Laurie John, do.
Aspinall George, Liverpool Leigh Dennis, do.
Atkins Richard, Salford Lord Jas. Edward, Chorlton
Attkins Wm. Alfred, do. Lawton John, Manchester
Austin John, Manchester Louis Levy, Salford
Axon Joseph, Stockport Leake Robert, Prestwich
Axon Charles, do. Lewis Lewis, Manchester
Ayre Henry, Manchester Labrey Thomas, do.
Ledward John, Ashton
Byrom Robert, Dukenfield, Lees Sarah, do.
near Ashton Lynch Richard, Manchester
Ball William, Manchester Long Peter, do.
Ball Thomas, do. Long John, do.
Bond Thos. Paul, do. Long William, Hulme
Byron William, Oldham Little James, do.
Butterworth James, Mumps, Lindop William, Manchester
near Oldham Lofthouse John, Salford
Buckley Samuel, Manchester Lawless Joseph, Manchester
Butterley Matthew, do. Lees Henry, Newton Moor
Badley Joseph, do. Lees John, Manchester
Bracewell John, Salford Lees Joseph, Newton Moor
Bleakley P. A., Manchester Lees Joseph, jun., do.
Broome William, do. Lees Martha, do.
Booth Thomas, do. Levi Abraham, Liverpool
Bibby Thomas, do. Laing George, do.
Bridgeman Henry, do. Lewis William, do.
Brookes James, do. Lenox Wm. Crawford, do.
Buxton Henry, Chorlton Lenox Samuel, do.
Boardmanßichd. Manchester Lenox George, do.
Birks Alfred, do. Leach John, Warrington
Baner Abraham, do. Lovett 'Henry, Everton, near
Bibby John, do. Liverpool
Baddeley James, do. Lucy John, Liverpool
Birch John, do. Leotham John, Dublin
Baikhouse James, do. Lucas Henry, Liverpool
Barge Thomas, jun., do. Lindon Wm. Frederick, do.
Broughton Samuel, do. Lenox Thomas, do.
Butterworth Joseph, do. Leigh Ann, Warrington
Brocklehurst Chas., Ardwick Lambley Abm., Birmingham
Braham Isaac, Manchester
Braham Joseph, do. Moors Robert, Manchester
Brazley John Hilton, do. Myles Jas. Collyhurst Hall
Barker Robert, do. Mason Edward, Manchester
Bentley James, do. Morris Thomas, do.
Burgess Thomas, Stockport Moodey George, do.
Broadie Joseph, Manchester Meyer Samuel, do.
Bromiley Joshua, Chorlton Meyer Ferdinand, do.
Barton Alex. Jas. Manchester Miller Alexander, do.
Brookes James, Hyde, near Moodey Thomson, do.
Ashton Mountcastle William, do.
Bentham George, Manchester Mallalieu James, do.
Bardsley William, do. Massey John, do.
Brook Iram, do. Muller David, Chorlton Row
Bennett Edward, do. Mann Charles, Manchester
Burgess Sarah Ann, Stretford Moore Richard, do.
Road, near Manchester Moore William, do.
Butterley Patrick, Manchester Marsden Horatio, do.
Butterley Thomas, do. Manson Thomas, Ashton
Barker William, do. Morris Sarah, Manchester
Bakewell James, do. Matley Samuel Geo. Stretford
Briddon Samuel, Liverpool Myers Thomas, Manchester
Builand William, do. Moss James, do.
Balman Edward, do. Mellor James Ashton
Bradley Thomas, do. Macfarlane John, Manchester
Briddon William, do. Mason Henry, Ashton
Barlow Richard, do. Markroft Wm. Rainsough,
Burton John, do. near Prestwich
Bateson Richd. Wilding, do. Moyle George, Manchester
Bryden Robert, do. Massey Thomas, do.
Booth John Heathcote, do. Marston William do.
Bridden jun. John, do. Moore Nathan, do.
Batey George, do. Moore William, do.
Brown William Alex. do. Middleton Joseph, Hyde
Bateman James, London Mellor Evan, Manchester
Barnett Elijah, Birmingham Marsden William, do.
Barton Thomas, do. Marsland George, Pontefract
Bagnall Edward, do. . Marler John, Newton Moor
Bradbury James, do. Menagh Joon, Liverpool
Bower Joseph, do. Moore Robert, do.
Batt William, Birmingham Mellor Samuel, do.
Mellor John, do.
Collinson Edward, Liverpool Marshall Robert, do.
Coddington Maria, Salford M'Gee William, do.
Coddington Wm. Dudley, do. Mackay Hugh, Liverpool
Cropper John, Cheetham Hill, Mackay James, do.
near Manchester AP lver David, Isle of Man
Cooper John, Manchester M'Creight John, Liverpool
Carruthers Joseph, do. Main Thomas, do.
Clay William, do. 'Mason Capt. Jas. Mullingar
Cheetham John, Hyde, near Maddock Thomas, Liverpool
Ashton Metcalfe James, Bolton
Collinge Robert, Chorlton Mucklow Thos. Birmingham
Cooke John, Manchester
Cooke Paul, do. Nash Ishmael, Manchester
Cooke George, Salford Naylor James, do.
Cowell Gerard, do. Newton James, Dukinfield
Cooper John, Royton, near Nield John, Midge Hall, near
Oldham Saddleworth
Caldwell James, Chodton Nutter James, Manchester
Cooper Thomas, Manchester Nuttall John, do.
Clegg George, Newton Heath, Nuttall William, do.
near Manchester Newberry Daniel, do.
Collinson John, do. do. Nicholson William, Leeds
Candelet Allen, Manchester Noblet William, Manchester
Cutts Frances, do. Nuttall George, Liverpool
Coulburn James, do. Neal Thomas, do.
Cordingley Joshua, Anden- Newson William, do.
shave, near Manchester Newsham Lydia Mary, Bir-
Coates John, Manchester mingham
Clay Charles, Ashton Noblet James, Preston
Castell William, Manchester
Cole Thomas, do. Owen John, Manchester
Corson William, Sheffield Oldham James, Ashton
Corson John, do. Ogden James, Stockport
Corns William, Manchester Ormrod John, Manchester
Coates John, do. Ogle John, Retford, Notting-
Carson William, Liverpool hamshire
Canning Henry, do. Okiil William, Liverpool
Cooper James Rothwell, do.
Carlile Francis, do. Preston jun. Thomas, Man-
Chambers Isaac, do. chester
Cripps John, do. Potter James, Oldham
Calloway William, do, Pountney Chas., Manchester
Carson James, do. Pipe Maria, do.
Cooper John, do. Pipe Lydia, do.
Catterall Peter, do. Pipe William, do.
Critchley John, do. Pershouse Henry, Rusholme
Cohen John, do. Percival Francis, Manchester
Crowther John, do. Peacock Ann, Denton
Cock James, do. Peacock Eliza, do.
Clarke John, do. Pattison George Frederick,
Chapman Wm., Birmingham Manchester
Cutts Joseph, do. Parry Thomas, do.
Creek Joseph, do. Parry John Dixon, do.
Chettle John Rev. Pontefract Pickton Isaac, Broughton
Poyser Samuel, Manchester
Manville Peter Williamson, Perkins Charles, do.
Manchester Potter Francis, do.
Dutton John do. Parlour William, Liverpool i
Dennett William, do. Palmer James, do.
Davis Davis, do. Pearson James, do.
Danby Philip William, do. Price Charles, do.
Douglass John, do. Pierson Thomas, do.
Davies Peter, Warburton Peake Thomas, do.
Dyson Henry, Lis erpool Price Richard, do.
Dodd Henry, do. Price Richard, do.
Devlin Edward, do. Pritchard Mary, do.
Dorming John, do. Porter Thomas, do.
Dean Charles Joseph, do. Park John, do.
Dixon Chas. Manners, Wake- Perton George, Birmingham
field Pemberton Edwin, Edgbaston
Derham Robert, Leeds Perry Robert, Hunter Lane.
Donnell Joseph, Liverpool near Birmingham
Dumbell John, do. Puget William, Birmingham
Dakin William, Manchester

Rickersley T. Manchester
Earnshaw Wm. Manchester Rister Jeremiah, do.
Esdale James, do. Railton John, do.
Evans Edward, do. Railton Timothy,i do.
Edmundson John, do,. Royle Edward, do.
Everingham John, Duke's Rymer Richd. Chorlton Row
Platting, near Ashton Rainforth Samuel, Ardwick
Etchells John, Ashton Ramsden Geo. Manchester
Elton John, Manchester Raby Robert, do.
Edwards John, Liverpool Royston George do.
Elliott John, do. Ramsden Frederick, do
Elliott Robert, Dublin Reynor John, do.
Evans John, Birmingham Reyners Joseph, Buckley,
Eames Josiah, do. _ Ashton and Manchester

Ryall John, Sheffield
Faulkner Robert, Salford Russell Joshua, Manchester
Fawcett Thomas, Manchester Rawson William, do.
Frank Meyer, do. Richardson James do.
Fry William, Dukinfield, Ryder Thomas, Ashton
near Ashton Richardson T. Chorlton Row
Fernley Robert, Portswood, Roughsedge T. Liverpool
near Stockport Robb Alexander, do.
Forbes Thomas, Manchester Richardson Joseph, do.
Faulkner John, Barton Rodgers John Douglas, do.
Fletcher Jasper, Manchester
Fox Samuel, do. Shortland Geo. Manchester
Foulkes William Liverpool Smith John, Chorlton-upon-
France G. Henry, Wakefield Medlock
Franklin Selim, Liverpool Simpson John, Manchester
Franklin Abraham Lewis, do. Sheldon Richard, do.
Franklin Benj. Wolfe, do. Smith David, do.
Stretch Elizabeth, do.
Greenhough H. Manchester Shirt Thomas, Ashton
Grittens Thomas, Plymouth Slack Robinson, Manchester
Grove, near Manchester Stockwell Thomas, Chorltcn-
Griswood Wm. Hooley Hill upon Medlock
Gould Robert, Ashton Singleton John Manchester
Gartside John, Stamford Sparrow John, Chestwood
House, near Aston Schwerin A. Manchester
Gadsby William, Cheetham Sutcliffe John, Rochdale
Crescent Stanley James, Ashton
Gough Robt. Atherton Lodge Saxon John, Dukinfield
Greenwood James, Taunton, Sandiford Thomas, do.
near Ashton Siddons John, Manchester
Gough Simon, Chorlton Shaw J. Sclafields, Ashton
Gillham Joseph Manchester Sunderland William dc.
Gould Frank, do. Sale William, Manchster
Gouldbourn William, do. Stirk Henry, Ashton
Grime John, do. Short Peter, Manchester
Gill James, do. Slater Isaac, do.
Giles William Buxton, Patri- Shepherd Henry, Hulme
croft Hall Swallow John, Manchester
Griffiths Robert, Manchester Selby Thomas, Salford
Gibbon William, Ashton Siddall James, Ashton
Goodhall Tbomas, do. Scholes R. W., Manchester
Gough Charles, Manchester Stracey George, do.
Graham John, do. Smith William, do.
Goldsmith Robert, do. Smith Henry, do.
Gledhill Edwin, Oldham Simpson Richard, do.
Giles Samuel, Manchester Shorrocks Christopher, do.
Ganson John, do. Steinthall Ludwig, do.
Gaebel Ed. Wm., Liverpool Stohy William, do.
Greenholgh John, Manchester Smith Thomas, do.
Gibson Mary, Birmingham Stones John, do.
Green Thomas, do. Swain Charles, do.
Gammon William, do. Slater James, Ashton
Greatwood William, do. Swift William, do.
Gammon Wm. Action, do. Street Samuel, do.
Simpson G., Newton Heath
Hall Ralph, Stalybridge Spilling Barbara Ann, Retford,
Hawarth William, Droylsden Nottinghamshire
Hartley John, Manchester Sale S. Hodson, Stockport
Heap Edward Barlow,Ashton Sharpe J. Brown, Liverpool
Hoby Thos. Beard, Sheffield Stock William, do.
Howard John, Manchester Sagar William, Rochdale
Hill John Henry, Ashton Samuel Lewis Henry, Liver-
Hill Thomas, Portwood Hall, pool
near Stockport Scotson Samuel, do.
Hammond Peter, Bank Sylvester Nathaniel, do.
Bridge Shaw Thomas, Farnworth,
Harrocks Jas. Wood, Ashton near Warrington
Hollingdrake Henry, Stock- Sadler Letitia, Warrington
port Short Sarah, Handsworth,
Harrop John, jun., Ashton near Birmingham
Higginbotham John, Dukin- Short Elizabeth, Handsworth
field Simons Henry, Birmingham
Howarth Thomas, Pendleton Smith James, do.
Holgate John, Manchester Southall John, do.
Holford George, do.
Hamilton Joseph, do. Thompson Andrew, Ashton
Hyde Thomas, Stalybridge Tookey Richard, Hyde
Hague Benjamin, Ashton Tookey William Weightman,
Hague John, do. Ashton
Harrison David, Salford Thompson James, Manchester
Hughes Edw. Josh., Newton Thompson, John, Ashton
Howe John Hodson, Denton Taylor John, Hollinwood

Harrison James, Manchester Todd Joshua, Manchester
Higginbotham Alfred,Ashton Taylor William, Ashton
Hibbert William, New Mills, Turner Thomas, Manchester
Derbyshire _ Terry Frederick, do.
Hudson John, Manchester Turner George Thomas, do.
Howarth Thomas, Ashton Thornton 'William, Liverpool
Hough Henry, Stockport Taylor Francis, York
Haigh Daniel, Manchester Tribe Henry, Liverpool
Holt, George do. Thomas William Millett, do.
Harrop Robert, Ashton Threlfall, William, Lancaster
Haukes Robert, Manchester Thomas William Millett Mrs
Hiller Harry, do. London
Holt Charles Joshua, do. Thomas Edward, Oldham
Hughes Edward, Ashton Townsend Richard Lateward
Hodson John, Manchester Liverpool
Holt Joseph, Chorlton Thomas Stuart, do.
Holroyde Elkanah, Manches-
ter
Hepworth Joshua, do.
Holt Richard, do.
Holt John, do. , Walker James, jun. Ashton
Hopwood John, Blackburn, Wrigley George, Salford
Hayley William, Manchester Whittaker Robert, Ashton
Halle Emanuel, do. Whitehead. Henry, do.
Harwood Jane, Liverpool Wood Eliza, do.
Holdsworth William, do. Walker John, Manchester
Hornby Thomas, do. Wilkinson David, do.
Harrison William, do. Welsby George, do.
Hanney Alexander, M.D. do. Whightman William, do.
Hess Joseph, do. Wood Joshua, Audenshaw
Hart Arthur Wellington, do, Williams Henry, Manchester
Hadwen Joshua, jun. do. Wise William, do.
Humphreys Joseph, do. Wetherall Nicholas, do.
Hindle John, do. Webster Chris. sen. Hulme
Heyn Gustavus, Belfast Wood Robert, Ashton
Haigh Daniel, jun. Wakefield Wrlker Charles, Denton
Hind, Jno. Hartley, Liverpool Webster John, Manchester
Harrison John, do. Ward, Thomas, do.
Hodgson Mary, do. Wrigley James, Saddleworth
Hall John, do. Walker Jas. Hogden, Ashton
Hiley Samuel, do. Warner John, Chorlton-upon-
Hector Robert, do. Medlock
Harcourt Saml. Birmingham Williamson Geo., Broughton
Hollingsworth John, do. Woolley George, Duckinfield
Hudson Richd. Wednesbury Woolley James, Manchester
Hargrove Jchn, Birmingham Wright Nicholas, do.
Holmes Rupert, do. Whitlow John, do.
Jones John, London Wych John, shton
Johnson Jabez, Chorlton White John Richardson, Man-
Jackson George, Manchester chester
Johnson James, do. Worsley Thomas, Stockport
Jones Mary, do. Wallworth, Jas., Manchester
Johnson Thomas, do. Wilkinson David, do.
Johnson George, do. Walker John, Gordon
Isherwood John, do. Whitaker John, Manchester
Jenkinson William, Salford Woolley Robert, Ashton
Jones Owen, Manchester Wardleworth William, Cheet-
Jackson John, do. wood
Jackson Jonathan, Ardwick Wilkinson Thos. James, Man-
Johnson John, Manchester chester
Johnston John, do. Welch Thomas, do.
Johnson Samuel, Broughton Waller Samuel, do.
Johnson John, Salford Wood Joseph, Ardwick Green
Joseph Barnet, Liverpool Woodhead John, Liverpool
Joseph Moss, do. Woodhead Firth, do.
Joseph Samuel, do. Wright Alex. Sliene, do.
Jones Thomas, do. Waller John, do.
Johnston John, do. Westmore Mary Ann, Speke-
Jones Thomas Price, do. lands, near Liverpool
Jones William, do. Watson William, Liverpool
Johnson Thomas, do. Welch Stephen, do.
Johnson Edward, do. Woods James, do.
Jones Jane, do. Williams John, do.
Irvine James, do. Wren Joseph, do.
JohnsonJohn,Eccleston near Woods Thomas, do.
Prescot Wilcox Robert, Allethwaite,
Jones Robert, Denbigh near Cartmel
Williams Henry, Liverpool
Kay Samuel, Ashton Wallace John, do.
Keighley William Jackson Worthington William Jenkin-
Manchester son, do.
Kenworthy George, Ashton West John, Dublin
Kenworthy John, do. Williams John, Liverpool
King William, Manchester Williams William, do.
Kennerley William, do. Ward Peter, do.
Kelly John, Salford Wiggerham Thomas, Binning-
Keasley Wm., Manchester ham
Knowles Thomas, Salford Warden Samuel, llickley, near
Kallowski John Charles, Li- Birmingham
verpool Weston Thos., Birmingham
Keale Henry, do.
King George, do. Yates George, Stockport
Kaye Richard, Manchester Yates William, Manchester
Young Francis, do.
Yearsley William, Timperley,
Cheshire

Vetman Charles, Manchester
Van Oven Joshua, Liverpool

Lord James, Salford
Lee George, Woodlands,
Broughton
Levy Moses, Manchester Zanetti Joseph, Manchester
Leese Joseph, Harpurhey
Names or places of the Bank or Banks established by such
Co-partnership.—Manchester.
Names and descriptions of the Public Officers of the said
Banking Co-partnership, namely :
Joseph Lees, of Newton Moor, near Ashton-under-Lyne,
in the county of Lancaster, cotton spinner.
John Nuttall, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster,
wholesale grocer.
Richard Law, of Manchester aforesaid, gentleman.
Names of the several towns and places where the bills or
notes of the said banking co-partnership are to be issued by
the said co-partnership, or their agent or agents, namely ;
Manchester.

RETURN, &c. [dated 27th December, 1836.]
Names of any and every person who may have ceased to be
a member of such corporation or co-partnership, viz.—
Samuel Giles, Manchester,
William B. Giles, Patricroft Hall.

RETURN, &c. [dated 15th February, 1837.3
Names of Any and every new or additional public officer of
the said corporation or co-partnership, videlicet—None.
Names of any and every person who have ceased to be a
member of such corporation or co-partnership, videlicet—
None.

Names of any and every person who may have become a
new member of such corporation or co-partnership—
Henry Arrowsmith, Winton, Westmoreland.
Robert Field, Cartmel; Lancashire.
Robert Wilcock, Allethwaithe, near Cartmel, aforesaid.
Thomas Robinson, Lower Castle-street, Kirkdale, near
Liverpool. •
James Harrison, Newall's Buildings, Manchester.
Edmund Taylor, Feather-street, Liverpool.

RETURN, &c. [dated 16th March, 1837.]
Names of any and every new or additional public officer of
the said corporation or co-partnership.—None.
Names of any and every person who may have ceased to
he a member of such corporation.—None.
Names of any and every person who may have become a
new member of such corporation or copartnership, viz. :
John Warner, Devonshire-street, Manchester.
James Esdale, Oxford Road, do.
James Fletcher, Leyland, Lancashire.
Andrew M'Clure, Nantwich, Cheshire.
John Robinson, Nantwich, do.
Edwin Mirfin, High-street, Manchester.
Thomas Warcup Kirkbride, Nantwich, Cheshire.
John Eyton, Nantwich, Cheshire.
Rev. George Bradshaw, Manchester.
John Turner, Bridgewater Buildings, Manchester.
James Bazley, John-street.
John Robinson, Blakelow, near Nantwich, Cheshire.
Richard Law, agent, Manchester.

RETURN, &c. [dated 23d March, 1838.]
Names of any and every new or additional public officer of
the said corporation, or copartnership.—None—no change.
Names of any and every person who may have ceased to
be a member of such corporation or copartnership, viz. :
James Esdale, Oxford Road, Manchester.
Edward Mirfin, High-street, do.
John Eyton, Nantwich, Cheshire.
John Turner, Bridgewater Buildings, Manchester.
James Bazley, John-street. do.
John Goodier, Altrincham, Cheshire.
James Harrison, Newall's Buildings, Manchester.
William Dakin. Cannon-street, do.
John Aldred, Deansgate, do.
William Russell, Salford, near do.
Joseph Butterworth, 71, Market-street, do.
John Edmundson, New Market Lane, do.
Robert Barker, 1, Market Place, do.
Thomas Parry, Half Moon-street, do.
James Bakewell, Essex-street, do.
Names of any and every person who may have become a
new member of such corporation or copartnership, viz. ;
Robert Ashley, Deansgate, Manchester.
Richard Shepherd, Warrington, Lancashire.
Robert Cawood, Leeds.
Peter Higgins, Manchester.
Thomas Waller, senior, Mellor, Derbyshire.
William Grocott Waller, Stanley-street, Manchester.
Ralph Knowles Waller, Stanley-street do.
Charles Wainwright, Garrett, do.
Samuel Spafford, Garrett, do.
Richard George Beesley, Lloyd-street, do.
Matthew Weetman, Back Cooper-street do.
Joseph Bennett, Glossop, Derbyshire.
John Bennett, Glossop, do.
John M'lntyre, Brown-street, Manchester.
Andrew Leigh, do.

RETURN, &c. [dated 9th Nov. 1838.]
Name of any and every new or additional public officer of
the said corporation or copartnership, namely :
William Marston, of Manchester, in the said county of
Lancaster, merchant, in the room of Joseph Lees, re-
moved.

Names of any and every person who .may have ceased to be
a member of such corporation or copartnership, namely :
Joseph Lees, of Newton Moor, in the said county of
Lancaster.
Joseph Leese, of Harpurhey, in the said county of Lan-
caster.
William Sale, of Manchester aforesaid.
Charles Mann, do.
William Kearsley, do.
John Hilton Brazier' do.- _
Richard Shepherd, of Warrington, in'the said county of
Lancaster.
John M'lntyre, of Manchester aforesaid.
Names of any and every person who may have become a
new member of such corporation or copartnership, namely .
Elizabeth Waller, of Manchester.
Nicholas Price Wood, of Burslem, in the county of
Stafford.
John Irvin Holden, of Burslem aforesaid.Thos. Templeton, of Congleton, in the county of Chester.
Thomas Steele, of Congleton aforesaid.
James Brooke, of Macclesfield, in the said county of
Chester.
James Allen, of Macclesfiedl aforesaid.
Henry Allen do.
Joseph Allen, do.
William Taylor, do.
John Taylor, do.
John Gordon, of Manchester aforesaid.
Thomas Lyster, do.
Joseph Scott, do.
John Lomax Allanson, do.
Richard Greenhalgh do.
Thomas So wler, do.
William Hart, do.
Jonathan Barker, do.

RETURN, &c. [dated 2d October, 1839.]
Names of any and every new or additional public officer of
the said corporation or copartnership, viz.:—
John Harrop, at the office of the bank, 75, King-street,
Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, accountant to the
said bank, in the room of Richard Law, removed.
Names of any and every person who. may have ceased to be
a member of such corporation or copartnership :
Joseph Raleigh, of Manchester aforesaid
David Newton, of Macclesfield, in the county of Cheshire.
Names of any and every person who may have become a
new member of such corporation or copartnership.—None.

GENERAL RETURN, &c.
[Dated Ist April, 1839.]
Names and places of abode of all the partners concerned or
engaged in such corporation or copartnership:—
Henry Arrowsmith, Winton House, Westmoreland.
Robert Ashley, Manchester, Lancashire.
James Allen, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Joseph Allen, do. do.
Henry Allen, do. do.
John Lomax Allanson, Manchester, Lancashire.
Esther Allanson, do. do.

James Astley, Stockport, Cheshire.
William Ainsworth, Warrington, Lancashire.
P. A. Bleackley, Manchester. do.
Samuel Briddon, • do. do.
Robt. Geo. Beesley, do. do.
James Brooks, do. - ' ' do.
• - Samuel Buckley, do. ' do.
William Briddon, Liverpool, do.
Rev. George Bradshaw, Manchester, do.
Rev. Jonathan Barker, •• do. ' do.
John Box, do. . do.-
Johu Bennett, Glossop, Derbyshire.
Joseph Bennett, do. do.
James Brooke, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Daniel Birtles, Manchester, Lancashire.
Thomas_Barker,_ Warrington, do. • .
James Butterworth, Herod, , do.
John Coates, Manchester, do.
Rev. John Chettle, Thirsk, Yorkshire.
Robert Cawood, Leeds, do.
Samuel Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire.
Peter Davis, Warburton, Cheshire.
Charles Joseph Dean, Seacombe, do.
William Douglas, Manchester, Lancashire.
Samuel Fox, do. r do.
Robert Field, Cartmel.
Robert Gough, Hatherton Lodge, Cheshire.
Robert Goldsmith, Manchester, Lancashire.
Simon Gough, do. do.
John Gordon, do. do.
Richard Greenhalgh, do. • do.
Edward Hughes, Ashton, do.
Peter Hammond, Clayton, . do.
John Holt, Rusholme Lodge, do.
James Hudson, Manchester, do.
Joseph Humphreys, Liverpool, do.
Gustavus Heyn, Belfast, Ireland. •
William Hague, Manchester, Lancashire.
Samuel Hague, do. do.
William Hounsfield, do. do.
James Hounsfield, do. do.
Peter Higgins, do. do.
Mary Holden, Burslem, Staffordshire.
William Hart, Manchester, Lancashire.
Sarah Herbert, Cloudesley-street, Islington, London.
James Howie, Manchester, Lancashire.
Joseph William Hall, Saddleworth, Yorkshire.
Joseph Heaword, Manchester, Lancashire.
John Johnston, Garrott, Manchester, Lancashire.
John Johnson, Oakes-street, do. do.
Samuel Johnson, Broughton, do. do.
John Johnson, do. do.
Charles James, do. do.
James Johnston, do. do.
Thomas Knowles, Salford, do.
William Kay, Manchester, do.
J. W. Kirkbridge, Nantwich, Cheshire.
William Marsden, Manchester, Lancashire.
Rev. George Marsland, West Bromwich.
Major James Mason, 77th Regiment.
William Marston, Manchester, Lancashire.
Joseph-Marler, Newton Moor; Cheshire.
Harriett Anne M'Clure, Nantwich, do.
Thomas Labrey, Manchester, Lancashire.
Joseph 'Lawless, do. do.
James Little,-Ashton, do.
Robert Leake, Prestwich, do.
John Lees, Manchester, do. • : ' -
Thomas Lyster, do. do.
Richard Law, do. do.
John Lancaster, do: do.
Frederick Longsdon, do. do.
Andrew Leigh, do. do.
William Nuttall, do, do.
John Nuttall, do. do.
William Nicholson, Leeds, Yorkshire.
David Newton, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
John Ogle, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
William Okell, Liverpool, Lancashire.
Samuel Oliver, Hollins-worth, Cheshire.
Frederick du Puget, Birmingham, Warwickshire.
Samuel Pearson, Manchester, Lancashire.
Thomas Rickerby, do. do.
Thomas Robinson, Liverpool, do.
John Robinson, Nantwich, Cheshire.
Joseph Raleigh, Manchester, Lancashire.
John Shorrocks, do. do.
Samuel Shorrocks, do. do.
Henry Shorrocks, do. do.
John Sparrow, Cheetwood, do.
Thomas Stockwell, Manchester, do.
John Siddons, do. do.
Barbara Ann Spilling, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Christopher Shorrocks, Manchester, Lancashire.
Samuel Hodson Sale, Stockport, Cheshire.
Samuel Scotson, Liverpool, Lancashire.
Thomas Steele, Congleton, Cheshire.
Joseph Scott, Manchester, Lancashire.
Thomas Sowler, do. do.
Joseph Stamper, Islington, London.
Samuel Spofford Manchester, Lancashire.
. John Scott, do. do.
Henry Tribe, Liverpool, do.
Thomas Templeton, Congleton, Cheshire.
William Taylor, Macclesfield,' do.
John Taylor, do. do.
James Wallworth, Manchester, Lancashire.
James Wallworth, jun. do. do.
Mary Anne Westmore, Speaklands.
Samuel Waller, Manchester, Lancashire.
Christopher Webster, do. do.
George Welsby do. do.
John Welbourn, Liverpool, do.
Stephen Welsh, do. do.
Robert Wilcock, Allethwaite, near Cartmel. •
Matthew Weetman, Manchester, Lancashire.
Elizabeth Waller, ' do. do.
Charles Wainwright,. do., do.
Nicholas Price Wood, Brirslera, Staffordshire:
John Henry Wilson, Manchester, Lancashire.
Ralph Knowles Waller, do. do.
William Waller, do.. do.
Thomas Waller, Mellor, Derbyshire. ,
Thomas Waller, jun. do. do.
Thomas Whittaker, Manchester, Lancashire.
[Besides the lists above given, was the annual return, dated
4th April, 1838, which was a mere copy of the first list,
above given, with the exception of the omissions, additions,
'
and alterations, also given above in the shorter lists, from
time to time. This return, the meeting, did not call Mr.
Law to read.]

THE OUTRAGE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.

ADDITIONAL PARTIC ULARS-APPREIIENSION OP THE

OFFENDER.

(From the Morning Herald of Tueaday.)

WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—Such, we are informed,
was the general feeling at the castle respecting the negligence
(to use the mildest term) of the sentinel on duty, in suffering
such an outrage to be perpetrated without his having the
least knowledge of the fact of its Committal; that a company
of the 2nd regiment of life guards,' from the horse barracks
at'Spittal, were ordered to mount guard at the castle until
the arrival of the second rifle brigade on the following day.
There was a report that the Queen had given cause of dis-
satisfaction to the regiment, in consequence of her Majesty
not having (as had been long expected), before the 45th
quitted their quarters at Windsor, presented them with the
new Colours, which had been in the town during the last four
months ; and it has been attempted to be shown that, as the
soldiers on duty heard no noise (although some considerable
noise must have been occasioned, and- easily heard if made
during the stillness of the night), the sentinels themselves
must have been, in some measure, privy to the outrage. We
are happy, however, to state that this report his since been
supposed to have been hazarded without foundation.
Immediately after the inquiries' (before the Earl of Surrey,
the treasurer of her Majesty's household), had terminated at
the castle on Thursday morning, Mr. Russell, one of the
inspectors of police doing duty at the castle, started for
town, having, as he imagined, and which suspicion turned
out to be correct, some clue to the perpetrator of the out-
rage.
It appears that Mr. Russell, previously to his being sent
to Windsor Castle, which was since the new police act came
into operation, was the inspector appointed to do duty at
Buckingham Palace ; and that in June last a man was appre-
hended by him, under the following circumstances, for
attempting to gain an entrance into the palace :
It appeared that in the early part of that month the sentinel
on duty in that part of the garden of Buckingham Palace im-
mediately beneath the terrace of the north wing, heard a
rustling among the shrubs, and, upon looking round, he saw
a man emerge from them, and prepare to ascend the steps of
the terrace. The sentinel called out, when the man answered,
" It's all right ;" and the soldier, seeing that he was dressed
as a labouring man, considered that he was employed either
in the garden or kitchen. The man then passed up the steps,
and, having reached the terrace, walked towards a glass door
which leads into the interior, when he was noticed by one of
the female domestics, who screamed out to the soldier to
seize him, as he was a stranger, and who, from his wild ap-
pearance, she was afraid intended to do some harm. The
sentinel immediately secured him, and shortly afterwards
handed him over to the custody of Mr. Russell, the inspector.
The fellow then used the most horrible language, called the
Queen by various opprobrious terms, and stated that it was
his intention to have killed her Majesty, " for he had come
there for no other purpose." The man made great resist-
ance, and the inspector, with some difficulty, succeeded in
getting him out of the palace. However, on getting him into
the Birdcage-walk he became so violent that it was found
necessary to handcuff him. A private examination took
place the next morning, at the Home-office, before Sir Fre-
derick Roe, and the result was, after (we believe) two or
three adjourned hearings of the case, his committal to Tot-
hill-fields Bridewell.

The inspector (Russell) 'having ascertained, on Thursday
last, that this man had been but a few days before liberated
from prison, and knowing that he was probably residing in
the neighbourhood of London, he proceeded that day to
town, and after some little search discovered his place of
abode, and shortly afterwards succeeded in discovering -the
man himself, when he ascertained that the maniac (for mad
he 'evidently is) had, but a few days before, been guilty of
breaking the windowS of a chapel, as it is reported to us.
The inspector had no sooner accused him of being the per-
petrator of the outrage at the castle, in the course of Wed-
nesday night, than he immediately admitted the fact. He
further stated that he got into the Home Park before the
gates were locked in the evening, and that he remained there
during the whole of that night, sheltering himself under the
trees—being furnished with flint stones for the purpose,
which he so effectually accomplished, of throwing them over
the terrace wall. It appears that when he threw the stones
he stationed himself just underneath the wall where the
sentry was on duty. The man was immediately taken into
custody, and, as we are informed, underwent a private exa-
mination at the Home-office, and was remanded ; but, as we
have before stated, the secrecy which has prevailed on the
subject of this occurrence, among all parties who are in any
way officially engaged in the elucidation of the facts, is such
that it is with th greatest difficulty we are enabled' to give
the account, thus far, of what has transpired. Should there,
therefore, be any trifling inaccuracy in this statement, it
must be attributed to the cause to which we have referred.

PEACOCK SHOOTING.—This diversion in India is attended
with circumstances lnot common to the shooting of fowl in
general. The size and splendour of the object shot at, and
the danger with which the ;diversion is attended, from the
religious veneration in which these birds are held by the na-
tives, mark the spot with singular features. About the pas-
ses in the Junglerry districts, Captain Williamson assures
us he has seen whole woods covered with their beautiful plu-
mage, and that, speaking within bounds, there could not be
less than 1,200 or 1,500 within sight; and also, that, when
thus congregated, it is not thus difficult to get within shot of
them. The editor of.this worik was intimate with an officer
in the India Compaty's servce, who never could speak of
the peacock ;shooting of India without rapture. In small
packs, these birds are very shy, and though heavy on the
wing, they run so fast as not to be easily flushed. Captain
W. says, " The best mode of approaching them is, by steal-
ing under the trees at night ; if there be a clear moon, so
much the better. In this way by looking up among the foil-
age, the peacock may be easily distinguished. Where they
are numerous, and when only one bird is wanted, as certain
a mode as any is to lie in wait behind a bush near their feeding
haunts ; but, without the most perfect silence is observed,
this will not succeed. They are strong birds, and require a
smart gun to take proper effect, unless within twenty-five or
thirty yards. The best is No. 4, patent shot; and
with that
size it is right to aim under the wing, if the position of the
bird favour such an intention, otherwise, and more especially
if the shot be smaller than the size above mentioned, it is best
to aim at the head."—Encyclopedia of Rural Sports.

GREAT MEETING OF PROTESTANT OPERATIVES

On Wednesday evening a meeting of Protestant Operatives
was held in the Music-Hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of
again petitioning the Town Council on the subject of the
proposed extension of the system of education adopted in the
corporation schools. The room was filled before the com-
mencement of the proceedings. The Rev. H. M`Neile was
invited to take the chair on the occasion. The address in
which the rev. gentleman was requested to preside, and which
was signed by 31 operatives, stated that the object of the
meeting was, " to petition the Town Council against building
any more schools with the corporate funds on the present
system," which the requisitionists conscientiously believed
to be unscriptural. Mr. M`Neile was greeted on his en-
trance with tremendous cheering. Having taken the chair,
the rev. gentleman said—My Christian friends and brethren,
the object of the present meeting is to forward and facilitate
among you the exercise of a political privilege on a religious
subject ; I might, perhaps, improve the description if I said,
a British privilege on a Christian subject. (Cheers.) The
privilege is that of petition—the subject is that of scriptural
education. It well becomes us, therefore, in the very outset,
to bear in practical remembrance that great motto, supplied
for daily use in our Book of Books, which is God's own
book—" In all thy ways acknowledge -Him, and he will direct
thy steps." I therefore propose to ask God's blessing,
through Jesus Christ, on the object and operations that we
have in view.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN having offered up a prayer appro-
priate to the occasion, proceeded to say—Now, my friends,
having taken our first step, I feel that the next step which it
becomes me to take is to account for the position at this
meeting which I have the honour to occupy. And when I
say the honour to occupy, I do not use merely a phrase of
course, but a phrase of meaning ; for I do esteem it an ho-
nour, and a high honour, received at the hand of God, whose
are the hearts of all men, that the Christian poor of this great
town respect and esteem me in love for my work sake.
(Great cheering.) On the 7th inst. I received a letter from
the secretary of the Protestant Operative Association, en-
closing a request that 1 would preside upon the present oc-
casion. [The rev. gentleman then read the requisition,
together with his own reply, accepting the invitation.] In
pursuance of the request so made and accepted, I now occupy
your chair; and I feel assured that your proceedings this
evening, not only in the end they have in view, but also in
the tone and manner in which they shall be conducted, will
fully justify me in the opinion I have formed of you, and in
the strength of which I do not hesitate to co-operate with
you. (Much applause.) If there be any persons present who
do not agree with us, in our views of what is called ' the school
question," they will bear in mind, with reference to our pub-
lic notice, that not having been invited to our meeting, and
being:now present on sufferance, not of right, it would be a
flagrant breach of common good manners in them to attempt
the slightest interruption of our 'proceedings. (Cheers.) 1
have given it as my opinion that the system adopted in the
existing corporation schools, is such as effectually to exclude
you, and all who think and feel as you do, from any partici-
pation in its benefits. You will excuse me while I detain you
with a few observations in support of that opinion ; not, of
course, that you require them yourselves in the way of argu-
ment, but we have many opponents with whom it is our
duty quietly and
.calmly to argue, and against whose objec-
tions I deem it a part of my duty, both to defend you and to
teach you how to defend yourselves. (Applause.) There
are two things in a system of education, either of which
would render it impossible for you conscientiously to join
in it. First if a part of the system were to teach popery,
you could not join in it ; you would be effectually exclu-
ded. Or, secondly, if no part of the system were to teach
the Bible, you would equally be completely excluded. It
would not require both of these things to exclude you :
either the one or the other must exclude you. (Cries of
" Hear, hear.") Is this teaching the Bible a part of the
system now practiced in the corporation schools ? (No, no.)
The friends of that system 'say undoubtedly it is, and their
proof is this :—For an hour every day Christian ministers are
permitted, nay invited, to attend the schools and teach their
children the Bible. But this is not all. This would only be
a permission on the part of the corporation to have the
Bible taught, provided some Christian minister chose to
avail himself of it, but it could not in fairness be called a
part of their system. They have therefore gone much
farther. They have secured the teaching of the Bible, by
making provision that, should no Christian minister attend,
some teacher or teachers of the establishment shall take care
that certain children are taught to read the Bible. Thus the
reading of the Bible in the schools is not merely a matter of
permission to others, but a matter of arrangement by the
corporation themselves, and is, consequently, bona fide a part
'of the system. (Cheers.) Such is the arrangement of the
friends of the system. The practice referred to, the corpo-
ration were driven to, in violation of their original rules, and
such being the practice, the argument, so far as the pro-
testant children are concerned, is sound. Now, 1 ask, is
teaching popery a part of the existing system ? Ve answer,
undoubtedly it is, and our proof of this :—For an hour every
day, popish priests are permitted, nay, invited to attend the
schools and teach their children popery. But this is not all.
This would be only a permission on the part of the corpora-
tion to have popery taught, provided some popish priests
chose to avail themselves of it ; but it could not in fairness
be called a part of their system. They have, therefore,
gone much farther, They have secured the teaching of
popery by making provision that, should no popish priest
attend, some teacher or teachers on the establishment shall
take care that certain children are taught popery. Thus the
teaching of popery in school is not merely a matter of per-
mission to others, but a matter of arrangement by the cor-
poration themselves and is, consequently, bond fide a part
of the system. (Applause.) Thus the argument advanced
to prove that teaching the Bible is a part of the syste,m, if
sound and conclusive, proves also that teaching popery is a
part of the system. And if the argument be conclusive to
prove that teaching popery is a part of the system, it is
equally inconclusive to prove that teaching the Bible is a part
of the system. In short, in the corporation system, as it is
with popery, so it is with the Bible, and as it is with the
Bible, so it is with popery. (Vehement applause.) God
says in the Bible—" Thou shalt not bow down to images."
Popery says in her catechism—" Ye shall bow down to
images." The corporation of Liverpool says, our rooms
are large enough to practice bowing down, and not bowing
down—(laughter and applause)—and our consciences are
large enough to teach bowing down and not bowing down—
(renewed laughter and cheers)—to make arrangements, and
pay suitable teachers, to secure that Peter shall be taught
to bow down and John shall be taught not to bow down;
and if any one should ask who taught Peter to bow down,
the answer is—" the 6orporation," and who taught John not
to bow down—" the corporation." (Enthusiactic applause.)
Who taught the English doctrine; that the church of Rome
practices idolatry to be abhorred of all true Christians ?
The corporation. And who taught the Romish doctrine,
that the church of Rome is the one only catholic apostolic
church, out of which there is no salvation ? The corporation.
(Cheers.) When Peter and John grow to be young men,
and compare, in mixed seriousness and anger, their con-
flicting educations, Peter says, " You are a heretic." John
say, " You arc an idolater." " Who taught you that 1 was
an idolater ?" " The corporation ; and who taught you that
I was an heretic ?" " The corporation." (Deafening ap-
plause.) Who, then, is the greater breeder and trainer of
theological game cocks ? The corporation. (Loud laughter
and cheers.) Who are guilty of either insincerity towards
one class, or indifference towards both as to their highest,
their eternal interests ? (Hear, hear.) Yes, this is the
dilemma on which the corporation were fairly horned by
our Rev. friend Dr. Tattershall, at the meeting in the
Amphitheatre. (Loud cheers.) But, then, what do we
suppose that the liberal Town-council ought to do in the
matter of education ? If they are determined to edu-
cate all sorts of people, why, in the name of common
sense, force all sorts of people into one school ? Why
not have separate schools for the different denominations ;
Cannot they as easily divide the schools as the classes ? I
think that they might; and if they are going to build addi-
tional schools, you only prefer, a reasonable request when you
ask that those additional schools may not be the same as
those already in existence. They say that they are the trus-
tees of a common fund, having all kinds of people to deal
with, so that on their own principle, they ought to concede
your demand. If we grant, for the sake of argument, that
the population of the town is equally divided into two classes.
we may say to them' " You have two schools in which pope-
ry is taught, and we may now make an application to you for
as many in which no popery shall be taught." That, in my
opinion is a very moderate ;demand. It is not the demand
I should be inclined to make as a protestant, but one which,
on their own principle as counters of heads, as reckoners of
majorities, they ought to concede. They cannot, at least
they ought•not, recede from their doctrine in this matter;
but, when you ask that as many no-popery schools shall
be erected as there are in existence popish schools, before
they build additional popish schools, the council are bound,
on their own showing, to listen to the prayer. (Applause.)
And this I may here mention to you, is the very prayer of the
petition which will be proposed for your adoption this evening.
Again, I ask, what should the Town-council do in the matter
of education It is impossible that they should agree as to
what is the best course to be adopted ; their very composition
renders this an imposibility. Look at what they are com-
posed of. Ido not mean anything disrespectful, when, to
save trouble I mention names. There is my old acquaintance
on this subject, Mr. William Rathbone :—he is an honest,
straightforward, resolute, and conscientious unitarian. 'So he
sass. (Hear, and laughter.) There is also another old
acquaintanc .of mine in this—a man of considerable erudi-
tion, of great; research, and who practises usefully, no duubt,
for his patients, in a certain learned profession. He does
not agree with Mr. Rathbone, but believes in the holy trini-
ty,' and is an advocate of the voluntary principle in church
government ;he disapproves of bishops. Then there is a
third gentleman in the council ; he is a member of the popish
church, and upholds bishops. Thus do the doctors disagree
among themselves ; and, coming to the subject of education,
I ask how is it possible that they can sincerely agree to one
course ? And there are but two courses which honest men
can adopt. One of these would be a sort of drawn battle.—
Mr. Shell might say, " You may have some protestant
schools, if you will let me have some that are entirely po-
pish ; Mr. Rathbone might demand some where unitarianism
was taught ; Mr. Blackburn might ask for others where the
voluntary principle was inculcated ; and so on. Thus the
schools would be a sort of fac simile of the council, or the
council a sort of fac simile of the schools. (Cheers and
laughter.) That would be one course. The other would be
for the council to say, " You see that education is not a fit
subject for us to manage or contront ; it is one that specially
calls for union; but reform has thrown us together like the
iron and the clay in the image of old, and we cannot agree.
Education, therefore, we ought not to touch. We may ma-
nage the dock trust or the police force—things which require
adjustment of funds or outward regulations ; but where prin-
ciple is involved, a heterogeneous body like us cannot pro-
perly manage. We will therefore give up the schools we
have to the highest bidder and transfer the proceeds to the
corporation funds." (Hear, hear.) But they will not do
that, and you do not intend to-night to ask them to do that ;
but, having heard that it is their intention to build other
schools, the prayer of your petition is the very modest one,
that, as you and your children are excluded from those in
existence, such as may hereafter be built shall not be of a
kind to exclude you. I protest that it is a very modest re-
quest ; but, although so reasonable, so much under, rather
than over, the justice of the case, I have very little doubt we
shall get no credit for modesty this evening (hear, hear,) and
that the few amusing turns my argument has taken in passing,
will be put down to a bitter spirit, to a bad heart, to a vile
and bigotted political feeling, over and above toryism. (Much
cheering.) But I have learned long ago not to mind much
about what is said falsely against me. I have a clear conscience.
that I intend no ill-will to any one, in anything I may have
said, but I have endeavoured to set before you, in a point of
view such as you can at once understand—not in such a way
as the clever rabbits of the press, criticising at their leisure,
may find faultless—my opinion on this subject; and of the
writers of the press find any fault with the paleness of your
chairman's language, the reply will be, that he has spoken
plainly to plain men. (Tremendous applause.)
Mr. Wiven then rose to propose the adoption of the pe-
tition. He commenced by au allusion to the tactics of Na-
poleon, who, when about to engage an enemy in battle, first
reconnoitered the hostile army, and, selecting what he con-
sidered the most assailable point, directed his chief efforts to
that, merely keeping up in other quarters such a show of op-
position as to engage the attention of the enemy, and deceive
them as to his real purpose. Such, the speaker contended,
was the conduct of the court of Rome with regard to Eng-
land in the present day. While the pope and his emissaries
amused the people of England with the cries of " Liberty,"
" Reform," &c., their secret aim was to attack and over-
throw the key and corner-stone of our protestant position
and our national prosperity, the Bible. He did not think
that any one would deny the position, that Rational pros-
perity depends on God's blessing—that God's blessing de-
pends on whether God is truly worshipped—that whether He
is truly worshipped depends on whether He is known or not,
depends on whether His revealed word is taught or not—

,es ei e
(cheers)--so that anyone who-wished to aima l'a". 'ledge °f
our national prosperity, had to aim at our know „„ etc.
God's revealed truth. That revealed word formed t'a
ment in our constitution—in our national church. and
education. Our constitution depends on publiC ollee ess
was formed and modified by it : and public oPei eserS•
formed and modified by education. In fact, thereforteed st
thing depended on the education which children recria oor
school; and if any one wished to work a great chanee'e attack
political and religious institutions, his plan would beetaa gel/
them through the education of the young. Rorne eradeeed
in this manner. A system of education had been itiihat of
pporoptiesshtaendtuceadtuiocnattioonprototes
into Ireland, which, under the plea of giving sonless' ssre $
Rtrtanchil effort7fer
made to introduce a modification of that system ee
land. The town of Liverpool was pitched upon fornewt, to
per ment, and the result had been what was well knoll hod
all. He, however, was perfectly persuaded that, if .ijitiosl
not raised up men to oppose this popish andsrerpool,
scheme, there would have been, instead of two ja shod
cdartehno.licAcnhildren,
Irish schools over the greater part of England in a IFteYe read
time, if not at the present moment. The speaker then
the petition, of which the following is a copyi— °until °I
" To the Worshipful the Mayor and TOWil-C
Liverpool, Inhabit.
.21°,60
" The Petition of the undersigned Operative
ants of Liverpool,
" Humbly showeth, for dieisrr
" That your petitioners, being anxious to Pr Meiosise"
own children, and those of their neighbours, the _dog
a scriptural education, such as will not only fit themeeed to,
their duty in that state of life to which it may
call them, but also furnish them with a safe greund not but
in the hour of death and in the day of judgment, leiieedt°
deeply regret that your worshipful body have beea•P mediate
adopt such regulations in the schools under your le,ief !ea
controul, as to render them, in the honest judgeon, soul
petitioners, nnscriptural; in consequence of whif„,l frog'
petitioners feel themselves conscientiously exclueosseree to
participating in the educational advantages therein 5'
the inhabitants of this town. . .01
" That your petitioners, hearing that it was the .1, to bet
hoist
of your worshipful body to erect additional sc
conducted on the same plan, made bold, in the asses
March last, to address to your worshipful body a nilicliose
signed petition, representing that there are twoecieell
pleao7 hope
persons in this town—one class satisfied to send tileucripte
to the schools which your petitioners consider
r )-thoti
—another class who are not satisfied ; and pray into be .01
asinuch as the schools already in operation seems ,to
cient for the first-named class, your worshipful 13°14 otber
arrange those new projected, so as to accommodatetit
class to which your petitioners belong. A teat r
" That your worshipful body not having judgee, • fleet
tion worthy of a favourable response, your eetlt!°;sello'
large body of the operatives of this town, would desl_„ro-yet2,
and with renewed urgency, to press the subject of thenolotell
hoping that your worshipful body, viewing the ilulibtes
in your petitioners as a sign of the deep and
terest which prompts them so to act, will relesir'eb•
matter, and condescend to grant your petitioners bey
rels t tbe
The speaker then absorsi;,t,hs
went on to show on what groan
teat Lees
jetted to the corporation schools. The first wasseority,"'i
teaching of different systems under the same au":,,, secelle,
certainty and discredit were thrown upon all. Jen '..e'esebim"
place, they objected to the introduction of a boee a' ire
.14
tute for the Bible, inasmuch as such a proceedinF
children open to popery. They ought and must °let Vito
position that the Bible was its own interpreter... a eaoit,
in the case of that book the Irish Extracts), v;.2,l:eleiblede
compare scripture with scripture, so as to make "'es cei'sel
own interpreter? He could not compare St. ra° r
with his life; he could not compare the admonitilosotb,e.o;
with his life ;he could not compare one book iv,' ee,4
so as to trace the fulfilment of the prophecies'
consequently left to the mercy of the Roman Catignt.l.°_leic,s;!ti
obliged to receive their doctrine of apostolicaltradleirtreth,l',
book of extracts was divested of the evidence of t•nee of nide
scripture, the fulfilment of prophecy. In illustratteleee,it
he would mention an anecdote. A protestant cleTee, 00:ite
Rev. Mr. Nangle, was travelling on a stage nett''' the
• happened that he had his seat between two r—firl Neele
whom he was soon engaged in a deep controversy, t his Peer
purpose of enforcing- his arguments he pulled °iv bat
from his pocket. "Aye," said one of the priesloloneeo
do you know that the Bible is true ?" "Be. the a irill, 3,
prophecy," was the answer of the clergyman, tin ie•
diately turned to the first epistle of Timotheettes usiv
" Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the..:',es, elto A
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed tone% red
bleu
ing lies in hypocrisy, having their teaconscienee....i oet
hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanailo tee,leto
from meats." After several other observations alsetee of
subject, the speaker concluded by calling on tl:).ieti eettet"
do everything in their power to expel the por'
education from the town. (Great applause.) a the a' eoll
Mr. Trroerai FRENCH, an operative, seconde
torpor pas
He stated that his children had gone to the old !Ng., be 'cit,
school, and when they returned home in the eretian receivol
gratified to observe the instruction which they teeen $O,O
But an awful change came about ; the Bible weaseesed
from the school—the English operative was °Fele lei lore
birthright, the Word of God—and from that noses Peel
away his children from the school, and would „
permit them to return, although a schoohnistres. 'ore see
e te
gone to Green-bank to have her conscience an sot
principle within her violated, waited upon hint t° need
they might be sent back. (Much cheering-) , ;01 vr%
The Rev. CHAIRMAN read the resolution, sca.seoll
he
that the petition should be forwarded for preseetireeedl:o.o
council by the chairman of the meeting, Ile I ebale tbss
remarkable scene which took place in the coun%iler teje
March last, on the presentation of a petitionssiei were le,
then proposed to the meeting, when objection signed 'leele
its reception in consequence of its not being ~ eett
chairman of the meeting at which it was adopte'sree 113.00
that this time the council should not have the rat it:Jeeel
for rejecting the petition, for heswasdeterminel teri prooslog
with his signature. The reverend gentlemen t; au ribc i°
to say,—The meeting might now be dissolve` 'le of ever'
tneinordeedsabildisionnesstlhleassubebjeenctg,osneeeigrotulgl;thbeutetT)°atfteeli:tisono!dobllfi
point which I would wish to press upon your Ise
that is, that the leering)- shortly have to 'tat altlierts
the wards—(loud c—and as I thinf „oiot tise)te.
men are practical men, it may be important t'etbeillicier
you act principles, being once received, will slioe's's for iticool,
in pce. If you think it right on principle t eres l° Ycid
ture schools, and if you approve of the argil end iiieerett
of scriptural and against unsciiptural schen_es' his
approve of the conduct of the man who tre'ef le•sere
away when the English operative was dePrive.'; Kates:
right, you will never again send to the council eistee eft
of that ",`, elfsber
the men who were the instruments
who made the council? Who turned out 501 1
You may perha say—" The council alone ditdhiet•resreelleoor
long-established, worthy men who once coluP°, Ae`eee'
Horsfalls and your Aspinalls ? (Great applaus.eo.,siobie e
was it that put in men who had never any ren- for thediLlift'
tation of being there, except with an order, oieetors.edbot
plying of goods? Who did that ? Why, the neolder' r$
(Renewed cheers.) All of you who are liouse-ee eteee0t
to make it yet& duty to set yourselves against. levief µfill sir
such men to the town-council. An opportunie
ovu
them will shortly be presented, and I hope Ileesegilesti
them that you are resolved not to suffer this beleb this Lers,
in every street and at every polling
more. You must work day by day to accopniatec;;;;Vsrolevel,
schools or no schools ; put the Bible into
children, or we will not put you in the Townt-I;;:!.l;:rieli(t.seftb;t
ment applause.) Show them that you are ilia° „eielliesre,!,
est. There is no' use in being moderately ari: ioe',
in these days ; you should be determinedly ege I..;rolit
agitator can now only obtain anything. Lb;
moderation for weakness. They will say---"“ ii".ereet)';'ilPse
have acted very quietly, and properly, and (to' earileivPilt
they will avail themselves of your discretion oot plts4,
pranks ; and unless you show that you Wil d I tell
shall I say ? they do not like hard words,the bele
ioi haveee d alreadyto
say, comea
are
to
comingur
words—but unless you show that you wo-ilfltnhocch:czliacelpe:
your opponents will have the better of yenbeeelere, ti;:ej
and if you bestir ourselves at aatytk'totlfir'e.tahisn:nlilicgiPa-Lollienvlciss:ett:l.cij
will come of it, and you will check the ac
the great scheme to which Mr. Wlver has c.altoler`cieariceeetli;
tion. (Much applause.) It is rather esti' jot.. ~teeh
have not said one word against popery ta-e- lot ic et
and much laughter.) I told you, indeed, tint it ebopseea
the corporation schools ; but I said nothinfri,h
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) In reading an that has
to-day, I met with a remarkable discove?fticore et. peso,
place with reg_ard to Ribbonism. In the esl„so tie C°e,
fore Lord Roden's committee, in tile last see: iteleefeolele
ment, it was made clear that there existed ildharellas
spiracy entirely consisting of members of # 00' °Otos
and not only so, but of such members of til_3:4loC%borillge
no Protestant connexions. It appeared in en Roe/ bet
will not allow a Roman Catholic to be swl•Teee. ieestai se
if he has any Protestant connexion by frof, a 00,. Jo
lot
afraid that if such an individual were adflaa"
onelent tl/ri‘ecte
of their conspiracy, he might, in some eief shclee
softness and tenderness, give information tutest 0'1419
foul proceedings. It was also made eviden e this e,,0 oriel
ment had attempted to discover the natureoolloatwo
and failed. Last session a law came in end t.bieee'refseie.
all societies using secret signs or passworl,s Cert3,ooAli'd
enabled some of the Irish inagistrates to
thin
eriies
and discover some of the features of thi._ leseieeeqiblelat),eo,
[The Rev. gentleman then read from tile Jvv_ry t,ero
psrticulars of a remarkable case of the disco/As`hae
in Belfast, and proceeded to state that arces ads eeo
core.
place in the counties of Cavan and Leitrile'rieferee to
observations on these discoveries he said]
veer wre ise eeesael
ing, there are three watchwords that I irtils'ey
upon your memory. They are not new b tee been. ~,roTtlls
worse for that ; for they are good, and he'd tee job me'
tested in various places ; they have reel hove na earsos'
of many of your fellow-countrymen, and,
they will receive your approbation, and ' ehure'ch oe",rio,
mories. The first is, scriptural education:the tioeiiitees.ooe,,
—(cheers)--and the third is the repeal at atin- $
trio
pation act. (Enthusiastic applause, theoleerea foir,l_Pte
simultaneously, waved their hats, and r) ,u.OO 'roeo
of deafening cheers, which were renewed Ititude esl3'
After having sat down for a moment, the nia ieoe
,r
and repeated their tremendous cheering. aaeast .s toe
jotel
The petition was then formally adopteu, e let °;ses'
probation. - tt Cons bus'
The meeting then sang the hymn, The
cheerful songs," &c. and then dis
minated at half-past nine. persed.

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• -ts to Sir l' Ilsijoottike
then commanding at Dover Castle. 14,7rhoeloettett•
sented his passport, Sir Henry told Itthyi,ireil t°ooo,llo 10
but must remain his prisoner." Harvey "iee- bad,f. ‘'e lijiPlif•
reason, and to be informed what offence '
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The Governor replied it was his pleasur,ej ica or' ,e
further satisfaction. In the evernni, 1.1010151.,he 'e oe.1;
clear,
thetashe packet sailed with Harvey °gi ill': ,v 1•1' '
In ght there arose a terrible storm 1 velt Ll,ii.or.dit'
was lost, and all on board perished. T1',11,0 Glif I# iie,
lancholy news was brought to Dover. knew oe,: he
explained himself to Harvey, whom be
_„rrivaik tov. !.
He told him that, on the night before lost; DO;pl)oii'
perfect vision of him in a dream, coming to to% 'jiti,'
over to Calais ; and that he hall warlhgich 11061 fil
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of a life so miraculously protected !"----"' 00 tiae°,ot. ro,
yo vtoehfrebs.
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followsvlari pe:bare, wfuget was ',ool'Vc`,
this wondrous world. Not the least e.,l_t of a, belt tiot4
5 Judges
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srloutasttes:rpotisosori
rthoor
capir,,itit,
have lately come under our notice istyted in Lgotce,if!,,
asslzee ,po,4etre'coi.r. OP,
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" Standard" a few evenings ago : (plot' hire t0:4614i
has for several years walked with the from !) oil ~; Pio
footed, following the route of the judess i$ pOW A Wi.,04,
as their lordships go to hold the
cuit as usual.' What at buifeir gray' Ye;10 te ore je
countenances remarkable only for I't
.hai, we
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'a the wil tarn c od _,
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

I'll
EITRE -RO Y AL, LIVERPOOL.
p land
it,
,131,-ENE.F7T OF MISS ELLEN TREE,
OS hr `" a Last Night of her Engagement.
N'Thedetsheentf.PßlPAY, October 18, 1839, will be per-
T, avottrite Comedy of
HE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Sp Sir Peter Teazle.... Mr. Baker.
Oliver" Surface.... ' Mr. Gray.
ft -I°B4h Surface Mr. Stuart.
Stii,;"`TLes Surface ........ Mr. W. Howard.
y iljamin Backbite. Mr..W. H. Bland.
‘Caildoti Careless
...... Mr. Bailer.
•r. • Mrs. Clarke. Lady Sneerwell.. Mrs. Baker. v
Li Maria .... Miss Cleaver. ' f
,ct,iiil,Y Teazle... ............... Miss Ellen Tree.
''ropla...'“orthe second time here, a New Drama, per-
,yzjeason with the greatest success at the Thea-
(laYroarket, called
IL AN. , THE RANSOM :
Ras ANECDOTE OF MONTESQUIEU,
T received at this Theatre on Wednesday Evening
T.tkrvanwith the most enthusiastic applause.
i,e. •
.Ir.
Gray. Edward.. Mr. W. H.
Bland.
. president Montesquieu.... Mr. Chaplin.
4telie..., Phillippe.... Mr. Slaiter.
-Nlrs. Tenet. Gertrude.... Miss Cleaver.
, .Pauline .. ... Miss Ellen Tree,
liguiBr;',,,riginally 'performed by her in London.
kilelit e'A-,BTONE, the popular Author and Actor, of
ki,.4 44..`a1, Haymarket, is engaged for Ten Nights,
kigh r; • e his appearance On MONDAY NEr, Oct. 21s ,
~,ttlaal. character of Henry Dove, in his Comedy of
.itay L'IPE, and Wormwood, in the Farce of THE
TICKET.
\ICH i CAN SUCH THINGS BE !
Lteizi.lviiii: INCREASING CROWDS rush
GREAT
ttfb OT, HTER IA 1,..Tbil crwilltcheodutthaant the
equal in the
k. ki,4,l;cient and modern Necromancy.
.His astounding
02'0' Paralyse the senses of tlteiadmirin
_nii. l
Net-14,m breathless astonishment, at thegMaurviellons
elew.`4el, behold. 1
.4 hard, co .
char„, nscions that his Magic has
.w.orked the
t WC liPOn his Friends and the Inhabitants of Li-
!owe Jr_ve the potent power of his skill, by fill
kNes u‘r Magic to overflowing—in fact, surrendering
Otlitt,_`° their ineVitable destiny—to be
operationstrresisbly
-411 the
11' 't. '-le of his cabalistic
kothi,, x y., lc clic . .
;t Ijt ' Pressing the sincere gratification which these
Itretulete Prc'ofs of his skill and success afford him, and
ipt74lt hi%:ug his hopes that his Spells will not desert him,
tuttok- trnYstic Summons will continue to be answered
1"IS tir' WE oomE! WE COME
ti will ENING, (Friday,) and during the week, the
.normyita,;(„P his Woners of Visible and Invisible
0 k tGnj ' two parts •in the interval between which,
vrie°4B Enteitainment when Mr. ALFRED OR.
itt, I'l deliver his French' Lecture on Macbeth, and
'Alt,ileolleSeitletehes from his IVlono-Dratnatic Enterllaairnem:anptl
'VX4,l.‘c,if things. which may or may not
'MIS I.iNG by Miss L. BRU. CCE.The INFANT
Qlli 'n, will appear. The Wizard will conclude the
4;11,„ts with his Wonders, introducing the EGYI3.-
Nof pOLOGER ! ! who will disclose the Mystic
kzoitlot uture Fate to any Lady who may be sincerely
1 f°re-knowledge of the events hereafter to
:11t,(Itiklillissi°P,SIlevoexneso,,2nso._ rt Is. • Gallery, 6d.
tti:Pe4 at I k t he. Wizard commences at
w6le concluding at half-past Ten or Eleven.

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.pre-
-te in _„,none of the Morning Papers reached Liver-
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„,
tli'l tis eftraunication shall appearontoTduaeysd,
arsk.e room for it aoywingWtoe
`:•e°ll2l(l:l°tat•illi:,r,l:ci:lamtlYatrflte
will find n the columns of the Slttioanndoafr
iNdiorf.
l'Nti -- hod t.;tli of Sept mber, a full de.x I
,teollett'„xperi
tp
410111111.111,:xtli.eationmreelllastive to Dr. Herschell shall appear
Uje ziti r rpool &tanbarb.
1.1.11,, A
w 11 3/ORNiNG, OCTOBER IS, 133 P.
vtIlltrit:„114111)2 greatly surprised if the accession to go-
t 4,te't of the two great deliverers of thrice-compact-
-3' ~.h es' do not prove' a source of serious annhoys-
'44,-ve-N, ot that we anticipate, as the Roman poet a
1111'4.14 4 of the two great orators of antiquity, that the
khi of their own eloquence will overwhelm them in
41 tme:rit.destruction : no, we dare say* that these ”. twin
ki
te' u°lts of war" will be as far from the untimely
Nt they are infinitely removed from the genius and
ef i„
to e . ro and Demosthenes. But that they will
i'ltd. Plcces in the House* of Commons, all the re-
'i
..4)0,1' theY may respectively happen ti°P
' to possess, and
1411 ‘i. the Cabinet which they have undertaken. . . TI,, . (1, is
414 ti a‘matter upon which no one but the indivi-
It i,leniselves can entertain any doubt whatever.
Itik44l,,isiaf curious
io,tts coincidence that they should simul-
joined in defending the beleagured
14111} tto
..l it Were a season of Jubilee, and the Premier
il' Lc.' (118 Play of fireworks to amus.edther,Bed-cham-
Sheil and
14.4-'1478 and the Lacquies of Win so
4titik 3' would outvie each other in coruscations of
„.(1111(1.°L.' and fiery flights of antithesis. Declamation
"kraßt.:ll Riad; word upon word, paragraph upon
''ll'sk -I'l,' a heap of obscurity and dazzlement, fire andf
lie beoi -nut for war,— or
the stern artillery of real . l
tkl lio 4 of keen debate, boldly aimed and heavily hur -
itillielliife)---° ne might look as well. to Lord Normanby
),'alrtiltil: the Epiperor of America. Pow,
.Pow was,
•kiete . Pair. He, indeed, could say his little say
14e1.10,41. (and that was but seldom) the Cabinet or
4te(l% toe 'night wish to hear him. But your orator
-
4.1 e
l' t 4 Prepared. Your great gun must be sio
Swhilty,tpille.odijuPeee li3seftohreerehsenlitsofbir.nonugght into the field.
es, it Placemen should accepgtesthtaetiiron.roffered
tlllet itb,t needs no conjuror certainly toP divine,.
edi Present is all they dare to
.look to in
NI., aistrous
l'ix,ll take4ill b Posture of affairs ; and if all they
s
e but little, that little they nevertheles
Lord
-11.)0 * but it is not so easy to see why
to
ike Ztie ilollid have thought it worth
lie
or
There is nothing in the character whilef
the
t"' eiti: ille Scottish recruit so peculiarly calculatedo
erkl jate tile position of a sinking. The Lain-
itnoisotrffiyc'e helng
e("44ter,ll,rnals talk of their accessionM
'llt upon What they are pleased to call a better policy.
kik% e°ll the idle subterfuge ! If by a better. they
b;11Y daPlte reckless, headlong, downward, policy,
;1 \\l': I,°t the despairing Cabinet invite Mr. Grote,
`qat th -rourton, or Mr. Ward ? Every body knows
thty he
MN are excluded from the Ministry because
‘`Attett: uncompromising Radicals. It needs no greathii
411(1 :44 °r discernment to perceive that Messrs. S e
11/41e.aeakulaY have been admitted because they are
(,-'4ll fin„4l.l earnest" indeed ! Why, does any sanehe
14hiaet"rse that if Mr. Macaulay's accession to t
ion at tritrnduced so much of Radicalism into iti asl
lOe'r-:e.irt and disappoint the wishes of Lords N e t
tlllid baba John Russell, the policy of the Cabinde.
ey
are altered ? The proposition is nakedly absurh.
4404: 4 elln,c't a People's Cabinet, but a Windsor Ca i-
rs Lora chamber Coterie ; and if Mr. Anybody
th''N 711 Melbourne the least annoyance in the
4,, oe h.,,
li: " "`Y expect to receive a note informing him
.
ate, kitrlthietcQuee.ll has been pleased. to revise the list of
lho istration and that in the new one Lord
' not!llie 114 s not the honour to perceive his name."
viehtUtl:t iiet things be called by their own names. If
i:_kjttrloe;:: a democratic M.inistry,with all the evils
• ~o4llolll3eii Y, that is one thing ; what we now have
turl4rvEttic3l(l Ministry, which, under the shelter of a
. it e °PPosition in both Houses of Parliament,
,rlri totivenie
Lrktie tent every now and then to sham a de-
l'- 4ritte:::ll:pellacrtY•y With an overwhelming majority
t-:):4erva-ti41,,,' and all but a majority in the other, the
need be under no apprehensions
oak a. e giant Macaulay
1:41,11111-tItao 13_4:11°r shoves- *an old jacket. or a
Premier
of
i 'ilecilsi a .sudden leak, the necessitous
•tk,4 r. 11,
the tetilm.„.:caulay into the gap which Lord How_
1114.1/11top 4_4/1
.r 1 /lad created. It will need all hands to
loolv/ILlt'ilttbi,o4letiuttuntliet.riii.tiseeleaetitoiiireynatttheaenesnt hold. They may rest assured
Rottenness
will, the wretched craft
N.
is
741 Y Ibllng against them as surely and as
*otit'4lwhile th •
oil _ ere can be no doubt that things s.v.iall.
41400thi
Y enough until the Meeting of Part!

ment. What turn things will take it is impossible to
say ; but we think few persons can doubt that the pre-
sent Registration must be called into play very early in
the year, and still fewer, either of Conservative, or Ra-
dical, or Bedchamber sentiments in politics, entertain
the smallest doubt of the result. It remains there-
fore only to consider how the battle of the Constitution
may best be fought, when a Conservative Cabinet is
entrusted to defend the Citadel. That the Radicals
gill then unfurl their own black flag as the only banner
For the opposing faction is too plain. The battle then
will be a battle in earnest. Every Waverer will be
pushed aside. Every compromise will be rejected.
Open and undisguised will be their enmity to every
British principle and every Christian institution ; stern
and untiring will be their efforts ; active and energetic
the prosecution of their daring purpose. Upon the
electors of Great Britain it will rest whether the noblest
fabric of Government that the world ever beheld is to
sink into destruction for ever. The Electors of Great
Britain may be trusted, and the ark of the constitution
will be saved.

The approaching municipal contest has thrown our
Liberal Contemporaries into an ecstacy of fear. They
fancy all the terrors realized which a guilty and trou-
bled conscience so naturally presents. The time of
reckoning has arrived, and they not unreasonably ap-
prehend that the scores of their misdoings will be paid
off. They have ridden roughshod now for four long
years over the people of Liverpool, and they are ago-
nized with the thought that their power is broken.
Idle dreamers ! Do they think that men have nei-
ther eyes, nor ears, nor understandings? or did they
suppose that the Municipal Reform Bill would abro-
gate the- common functions of the human mind, and
deprive men of the simplest powers of apprehension
and memory ? • Everybody , remembers the outcry: that
used to be raised against the ancient Corporate mono-
poly; and everybody knows that the new municipal
tyranny has exceeded the supposed iniquities of the
former system,—as the loins are heavier than the little
finger—as scorpions are more terrible than whips.
As things used to be, it is quite tree that a number
of the most considerable persons in the town exercised
certain functions within it, though by no means so
considerable as those which the upstarts of the Town
Council have obtained for themselves by. the complai-
sance of a Radical Parliament and the connivance of a
Radical Ministry. It is quite true that very little used
to be said about freedom of election, or liberal policy,
or the thousand-and-one other humbugs that the poli-

tical impostors of the day can turn to their own profit.
But in those much-abused days there were several
anomalies unheard of that have prevailed since. Gross
abuses had never been attempted that have now not
only been brought into general use, but are scarcely
disguised—nay, are almost boasted of. For instance,
the Mayor used in former times to be elected by a large
class of his fellow-citizens in open poll, not to be
cliqued for and caballed for at Tavern Meetings and
private assemblies of some few active and intriguing
local dictators. One never heard then of its being ar-
ranged beforehand, and the office definitely promised

to this or the other factious and ambitious individual.
The old scheme had its abuses, and, if bribery were
sometimes one of them, the advocates of Mr. Thomas
Macaulay will perhaps do us the favour of perusing his
very curious oration at Edinburgh upon Bribery and

the Ballot, before they say a single word in censure
of so very amiable and peace-working a contrivance as
that great organ of Reform confesses Bribery to be :
at all events, it was an evil resulting from the very po-
pular nature of the mode of election,—an occasional
abuse of a very ancient • and constitutional system of
local government.

Again : there was no such thing in those days as an
Election of Aldermen independent of the Election of
Town-Councillors. The Alderman then was he who,
having been chosen by his fellow-citizens to the high
office of chief Magistrate and having discharged its
duties, had passed in • consequence of their choice to
this subsequent dignity. But who, we should like to
know, in the name of Reform, of popular choice, of
Freedom, Humbug, Liberality, or what you will—who,
in the name of whatever is Radical and absurd,
is your Alderman now ? Why, no one is so dull as
not to be aware how these things are managed now.
Mr. William Button—(that we may run no risk Of
giving offence we are desirous or aiSuining a very un-
exceptionable instance for our case in point)—Mr. Wil-

Liam Button, we will suppose, is a very great man
amongst the Liberals; he chances to live in a very un-
safe quarter of the town—a quarter, we mean, in which
Liberal sentiments do not precisely suit the taste of the
inhabitants ; Mr. William Button feels accordingly that
he runs no small risk of being rejected at the next
Election; but Mr. William Button is likewise a gentle-
man of very sensitive disposition, and would by no
means bear a beating with that equanimity which be-
comes a Liberal and a philosopher. Here is a dilem-
ma! What is to be done ? Why, says a certain very
powerful junto of persons, try the ward, Mr. Button,
and beat the Tory if you can ; if you can't beat him,
never mind ; if the people won't have you for a Coun-
cillor, why WE-WE will have you for an Alderman ! !
Neither used the public to be scandalized in those old

(and doubtless very abominable) .days of which we
speak, by learning that the office of the Town-Coun-
cillors and Aldermen in Council assembled, with Re-
porters for the public press and all the paraphernalia of
a deliberative assembly about them, was in fact and
reality nothing more than a mere Register-office to the
Tap-room of a Tavern. No one ever heard of the
rulers of Liverpool assembling at a Public-house, dis-
cussing, concerting, and resolving on their measures,
and then marching to the big room in the Town-hall
to give them legal effect and force. It used not to be
known in Liverpool that a well-known Angel

saw a certain Radical, a Radical to his mind,
Go up into a certain room with a majority behind ;
But the Devil now quotes Genesis, like a very learned clerk,
How Noah and his creeping things go up into the ark.
However imperfectly, in the opinion of any of our
fellow-townsmen, affairs used to be administered, at all
events popular choice and public opinion were not
openly and studiously outraged : gross insult was not
added to deliberate injury.

Neither again used the peace of the town to be sur-
rendered at discretion to the tender mercies of an ex-
asperated rabble. We never heard of a Tory and po-
pularly-chosen Mayor who received the intelligence of
a riot with the calm and dignified expression, " DAMN
THEM, LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT." Magistratesused
to do their duty, and gave no cause of offence that we
ever heard of, except this unpardonable one—they were
unpaid.

Now do the liberal writers, who are trying so perse-
veringly to throw dust into the Rate-payers' eyes, se-
riously conceive that any articles of theirs can make
the people of England forget these things, one tithe of
which would be enough to seal the fate of the Radicals
for ever ? Have so many liberal souls been made fat
for nothing ? While promises disappointed and pledges
forfeited shall be passports to public infamy, the me-
mory of the last four years shall be recorded in endu-
ring characters against the little-doing and much-pre-
tending patriots of Liverpool.

The opposition on the part of the Conservatives to
the Ministerial scheme of National Education has been
productive of one good effect, which is, that it has
caused the writers on the Liberal side to drop the
mask of affected zeal for Religion which they at first
assumed, and reveal to view the lurking features of
Infidelity.
For some time the ground taken by our opponents
was that of conciliation and charity. They were
grieved, good men ! at the sight'of the jarring differ-
ences which have armed Sceptics with arguments
against Christianity itself; and, asserting that if the
Trinitarian Faith, as held by the Church of England,
was the true one, it must ultimately prevail, they were
anxious to bring Sectarians in contact with her mem-
bers in seminaries of instruction, and thus, by the bond
of a common education, lessen the hostility entertained
towards her communion.

members of the Established Church, as though,
through the portals of our National Schools, in which
was to mingle an heterogeneous crowd of all sects,
creeds, and persuasions, a large increase of proselytes
would enter within her pale.
But it is a troublesome task to play the hypocrite
long, and we now find the defenders of the Treasury
Committee scheme boldly insisting on the advantages
of secular, and worthlessness of religious education.
To the three classes amongst the Romans described
by Gibbon—the people who thought all religions
equally true, the priests all equally false, and the ma-
gistrates all equally useful—they would add a fourth,
consisting of those philosophers who hold all equally
useless ; and therefore they are loud in their vitupera-,
tion of the Conservatives, who allow " visionary doc-
trines" to stand in the way of " sound practical know-
ledge." They make a new use of the mysteries of
Revelation, and represent them as speculative points
on which men may harmlessly differ, and about which
one opinion is as true, and therefore as valueless, as
another ; and avow that, in the cultivation of the
youthful mind, all consideration of them may be laid
aside as superfluous and unnecessary. With these
reasoners the difference of creed between a Trinitarian
and Socinian is slight and unimportant, and absolutely
vanishes in comparison of the advantage which each
might attain by purely secular instruction. Now if
this is not Infidelity, we know not wherein it consists.
The Infidel denies the fact, as well as the necessity, of
Revelation ; and although, in this " decent" age, our
opponents care not to incur the odium happily still
attached to such a character, it is impossible they can
believe firmly in the truth of doctrines as emanating
from the Deity which they think it in no degree in-
cumbent upon teachers to place before the young.
Formerly they insisted that the peculiar doctrines of
Christianity could still be imbibed under their system,
and on that ground they recommended it to the public;
but now, irritated by opposition, and the mode in which
the utter futility of such a plan has been demonstrated,
they screw their courage to a denial of the necessity if
such doctrines being made known and inculcated at
all, and denounce as contemptible and frivolous. the
differences which have broken up the Christian world

into so many denominations.
Now this is the language of Deists, and if we were
a nation of such, we should admit that there was much
force in their arguments ; for, in that case, the single
point on which Religion would turn would be belief
in the being of a God, and agreement in this would
be sufficient to include all in one common system of
instruction. There could be no possible objection to

it on the ground of any separation of morality from
religion, for any scheme of Natural Theology is utterly
inadequate of itself to establish a code of morals ; and
the one great and single fact of a Supreme Governor
_• _ _

- .
being admitted, the law of conscience would' be the
only guide in enabling us to distinguish between what
is right and what is wrong. And it is this law of
conscience—the system of Natural Religion—which
our modern Educationists would substitute for the
Bible. Not daring to impugn openly its. authority,
and unable to disprove its truth, they would by this
evil cunning do all that lies in their power to weaken

,s influence, and lead men to erect a system of mora.

lity, such as was taught by Socrates or Epictetus, in
preference to that conveyed to us in the pages of the
Gospel. The following extract from Miss Martineau,
quoted by Captain Marryat in his " Diary in America,"
shews the exultation which Liberalism feels at the
prospect of such a consummation. After mentioning
that the birthday of Tom Paine has been recently cele-
brated in several cities in the United States, he goes

on to say :
" The nature of the celebration in Boston will be
understood from the following toast given on the occa-

sion :

"By George Chapman : Christianity and the banks
tottering on their last legs. May their downfall be
speedy,' &c.
" Miss Martineau informs us that The churches of
Boston, and even the other public buildings, being
guarded by the dragon of bigotry, so that even Faith,
Hope, and Charity are turned back from the doors, a
large building is about to be erected for the use of all,
Deists not excepted, who may desire to meet for free
discussion.' She adds, 7 his at least is an advance' ;
and, in a few pages further, 'The eagerness in pursuit
of speculative truth is shewn by the rapid sale of every
heretical work. The clergy complain of the enormous
spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the
latest handling of the miracle-question, as sorrowfully
as the most liberal members of society lament the un-
limited circulation of the false morals issued by certain
Religious Tract Societies. Both testify to the interest
taken by the public in religion. The love of truth is
also shewn by the outbreak of heresy in all direc-
tions' t "

Truly this is an advance ! but of such a kind as,
with God's help, we will resist in this country; how-
ever unphilosophical it may appear to Miss Martineau
and the Liberals to prefer the blessings of Christianity
to the crudities of " speculative truth."

We trust that the Greenwich job has been marked
and properly understood by a watchful public. It is
the most barefaced insult to the British Navy which
could have been perpetuated by our shameless Go-
vernment. Not long since a Downing-street journal
boasted that all the Ministerial appointments and
changes lately were directly in the teeth of Toryism—
a bravado not very seemly, seeing that the great majo-
rity in England are Conservatives, or, as our Contem-
porary would render it, " hold the creed of Toryism";
and, therefore, to make appointments in its teeth is in
fact to hurl the gauntlet of defiance against the nation.
But Ministers now seem determined, before they are
kicked out of office, to chew their contempt for every