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tholic Emancipation" will do the slightest good.
Lord John Russell closed the debate by replying,
after which a division took place, when the numbers
appeared as following :
For Sir Robert Peel's amendment 296
For the original motion 3lB

Majority 22

.. .
Thus, as far as any practical purpose is concerned,
Lord John Russell's motion has ended, just as we an-
ticipated, in " a bottle of smoke."

The Morning Herald of yesterday states that it was
currently reported, both in the public offices and clubs,
on Saturday, that several changes were contemplated
in the ministry. Lord John Russell, it was said, had
determined to retire, owing to the delicate state of his
health. We should " rather guess" that any such re-
solution must be in consequence of the miserable mi-
nority obtained by ministers on Friday. It is not in
the least improbable that some changes may speedily
take place, and that Lord Melbourne will endeavour to
botch up his cabinet for a short time longer. The re-
sult, however, will be the same as that which happened
in 1834, when Lord Melbourne was forced to quit the
helm to make room for better men. It is, therefore,
incumbent upon the conservative electors throughout
the country to prepare for another appeal for their suf-
frages. " Forewarned is forearmed." Let the electors
of Liverpool be vigilant and active. The next struggle
will prove the death-blow of liberalism and Popish as-
cendancy.

In another column we have given the correspond-
ence between the Hastings family and Lord Melbourne.
It is impossible to peruse these letters without a feeling
of involuntary astonishment -and disgust—astonish-
ment, that so flagrant a grievance as that of which the
Marchioness of Hastings and her daughter have been
so long complaining should remain unredressed up
to this day—and disgust, that the Queen of Eng-
land should be surrounded by such a heartless and
profligate coterie as Lord Melbourne and his creatures.
The only reparation which could have been offered to
the insulted modesty of Lady Flora Hastings has been
most contumeliously refused. The Premier of England
has endeavoured to screen from public obloquy the
filthy and malignant slanderers, who dared to pour into
the ears of our virtuous Queen their foul insinuations
against the character of that much-injured lady. The
matter cannot, must not rest as it is. The court of the
British Queen must be purged of the vermin which
pollute it.

CORRESPONDENCE.

POPISH OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—On the walls of the Popish Chapel, in Seel-street,
may be seen a large placard, which states, that a meeting will
be held in St. Patrick's School, on Sunday, the 14th, (last
Sunday week,) for the purpoie of enrolling members in the
Precursor Society ! This, your readers will recollect, was
the day after the O'Connell dinner, when it was naturally to
be expected, that a great accession would be the consequence
of the excitement. Now, sir, many well meaning Protestants
support what are termed the " Catholic Charities" of the
town, and many affect to ridicule the advances of Popery.
Here we have a school-room, on the evening of the Sabbath
day, at an hour when our churches and chapels are about to be
filled, occupied by a political association, for the avowed pur-
pose of extirpating Protestantism, and procuring the separa-
tion of the two countries. Does the Roman Catholic Church
sanction these objects ? Does she thus permit the violation
of the Sabbath ? Undoubtedly she does—or the priests of the
chapel would have torn down the placard as soon as they per-
ceived it. But there it is, or at least was, when I was going
into town on Saturday, and I advise the Protestant contribu-
tors to the school to go and read it.—l am, &c.
22d April, 1839.

AIGBURTH.

FREEMEN'S RIGHTS.

TO THE ORIGINAL FREEMEN OF LIVERPOOL.

FRIENDS, AND BROTHER FREEMEN,—On the 25th ult.
I most respectfully furnished your several clubs, viz. seven-
teen in number, with a circular note addressed to the " pre-
sidents," stating that I had been favoured with an opinion
of the law on the case, by one of the leading men at the bar,
as to your unqualified rights, privileges, and immunities,
granted by twelve charters to the " good old town of Liver-
pool," by twelve kings and one queen, commencing with
King John in the year 1207, and ending with King George
the Second in 1752.

I therein stated my reasons for calling you together pub-
licly in a body, and that the result would be a permanent
good arising from such meeting, both to yourselves and fami-
lies, if conducted in a proper and becoming manner.
Being an interested party to this proceeding, so far as an
individual freeman goes, my first object was respectfully to
obtain that unanimous co-operation which is absolutely ne-
cessary in furthering our views and' actions herein, by which
means alone we may become successful in our momentous
undertaking.
When, as a body, you have made up your minds to prose-
cute the object in question, with a vigorous, firm, and un-
daunted determination to proceed, I shall feel very great
pleasure in meeting you and the young freemen (whether by
birth or servitude), in the great room at the Queen's Arms,
or any other public room, for the avowed purpose of fully
explaining my ideas on the subject in question, in order to
be fully prepared to co-operate, in conformity with the opi-
nion of the learned gentleman as aforesaid, the next August
assizes.

I am, as always, brother freemen,
Your faithful servant,
HENRY WOODS, Accountant.
17, Manchester-street, Liverpool,
10th April, 1839.