The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-11 00:00:00

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

Friday at eleven o'clock, an adjourned meeting of the
Council took place at the Town-hall, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of petitioning parliament in favour of
a system of national education, based on the principle of ad-
mitting all sects to a perfect equality and an equal participa-
tion in its advantages.
The MAYOR having taken the chair,
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE inquired whether the Council
would think it desirable, in consequence of the withdrawal of
Lord John Russell's national education project, and the thin
attendance of members, to proceed further.
The MAYOR stated that as a third of the members were
present, the Council was perfectly competent to proceed to
business.
Mr. EARLE said it was very desirable to discuss the ques-
tion, which was of great importace to the country ; the sys-
tem of national education for the benefit of all sects was a
good one, and ought to be persevered in. (Hear, hear.)
The MAYOR hoped the discussion would be carried on in
a proper spirit, and that nothing would be uttered calculated
to offend the feelings of any one. To secure this, gentlemen,
he hoped would keep their temper. It was his wish, as it
was his duty, to preserve order, regularity, and decorum in
the Council. If, in the exercise of his official funetions, he
had given offence to any one, he was unconscious of it, and
deeply regretted it. But he hoped always to have the assist-
ance of the Council in• upholding their own dignity and self-
respect. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ISAAC HOLMES complimented his worship on the
handsome and satisfactory manner in which he had discharged
the duties of the chair since his accession to it. (Cheers.)
Mr. BLACKBURN then rose for the purpose of introducing
the motion of which he had given notice, and in doing so
disclaimed any intention of offending others. He hoped that
the excellent advice of the Mayor would be followed. In ap-
proaching the question of national education, it was import-
ant to bear in mind the advances which it had made during
the last twenty or thirty years. The time had happily gone
by when it was necessary to dilate on the advantages of na-
tional education. All parties, lie believed, now concurred in
opinion as to its utility, though a difference of opinion existed
as to the best mode of attaining it. It appeared to him that
there were three classes of persons whose opinions on the
subject were entitled to consideration. There were not a few
who were of opinion that the education of the community
ought to be confided exclusively to the clergymen of the es-
tablished church ; -although none could be found at the pre-
sent day bold enough to maintain that Roman Catholics and
Dissenters ought to be obliged to conform to the doctrines of
the Church of England; but they say that all grants paid out
of the national purse for the purposes of education ought to
be placed under the guidance of the church. (Cries of yes,
and no, no.) A second class of persons maintain that all
national grants of money ought to be given by the government
to all classes for carrying on the business of education with-
out reference to sects ; and that different schools under the
management of different classes of dissenters ought to be
erected. A third class advocate a system which shall em-
brace all classes in the community, and thus bring all classes
of religionists together under the same roof, and thereby
produce that unanimity in their early days, which must be
productive of the most kindly feelings in after life. The plan
which the government had determined upon adopting ; but
which unhappily it has since been obliged to abandon, pro-
ceeded on the latter principle—by the erection of normal
schools, where all classes and sects would have met, and
where all would have been placed upon an equality. He
wondered that the members of the church of England should
have deemed it necessary to oppose this system, which gave
them greater advantages that it conferred on any other sect;
for the clergymen of that church were to be paid for their at-
tendance, whereas the payment of other clergymen was made
to depend upon the number of pupils in the schools profess-
ing their opinions. It was the intention of the education
committee to have supported that system. Lord John Rus-
sell had announced his intention of withdrawing it ; but in
the hope that a similar system would be introduced hereafter
when the country would be riper for it. They (the council)
had had four years experience as to the working of the system
in their schools. It was their duty to come boldly forward
and tell the minister the results of the working of that_great
and glorious experiment. (Hear.) Mr. Blackburn stated
that he had embraced his views in the following petition,
which he submitted to the approval of the council
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
" The humble Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur.
gesses of the Borough of Liverpool,
" Showeth,—That your petitioners are deeply sensible of
the importance of education, as the only effectual means of
improving the physical and social, as well as the moral and
religious condition of the people, and regard it to be one of
the most important duties of government to devise, and carry
into speedy operation, some plan for placing its advantages
within the reach of all classes of her Majesty's subjects.
" That your petitioners consider it their duty to appropri-
ate a portion of the revenue placed at their disposal, to the
promotion of this important object, and were anxiously con-
cerned as trustees of public property, to introduce such ar-
rangements into their schools as should render them acces-
sible to every part of the community.
" That with this view, your petitioners adopted, and have
now for three years successfully acted upon, a plan of com-
bined secular and separate religious instruction, similar in
its main features to the national system of education for Ire-
land, as well as that recently proposed in the minutes of
council issued by the commissioners of the Board of Educa-
tion for England.
" Under the present circumstances of excitement on this
subject, and while efforts the most determined are made by
one party to secure the support of government to themselves,
and exclude all others from a participation in it, your peti-
tioners are impelled, by a sense of public duty, to lay before
your honourable house the results of their own observation
and experience on the working of a system which knows no
distinction of sect or party, but throws open the schools for
the free entrance of all.
" There are now in one of the schools supported by this
corporation an equal number of Protestants and Roman Ca-
tholics ; and in the other two-thirds are Roman Catholics
and one-third Protestants. The Protestants are chiefly the
children of members of the Established Church, though
there are dissenters of almost every denomination ; and your
petitioners can testify with unhesitating confidence that reli-
1-he ChilVe ' riTihat in their classes for ..
11;1361-T secular learning.,
and in their hours of play, distinctions of sect are never
thought of, and that the spirit of harmony, peace, and good
will towards each other pervades these schools as perfectly as
if the children were all of one denomination.
" Your petitioners humbly submit, that in a state of so-
ciety such as now exists in this empire, where religious dif-
ferences are the main source of internal dissension, no school
system is worthy of legislative support, or deserves the name
of national, which has not a tendency to abate this great evil,
so inconsistent with the due influence of true religion, and so
fatal to the happiness and welfare of society, for where envy-
ing and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
" Your petitioners yield to no body of men in the strength
of their conviction, that the true and permanent improve-
ment of a nation can never be effected but by the diffusion of
religious knowledge, and that the Bible is the source of that
knowledge which is the stability of the times. They have a
conviction equally strong that force and compulsion in mat-
ters of conscience are utterly at variance with the spirit of
Christianity ; that the conscience of every man is entitled to
be treated with respect, and that all attempts to confer reli-
gious benefit must necessarily fail when they commence by
trampling upon its rights. Influenced by these vital prin-
ciples, which lie at the root of all sound legislation in refer-
ence to religion, your petitioners recognise the inalienable
right of the parent to direct the instruction of his children ;
and, while they place the Bible within the reach of all, they
do not force it upon any, nor make the reading of it a condi-
tion of admission to their schools.
" That the results of the system of freedom thus pursued
has been, that all the children unite in reading those admira-
ble selections of the Bible—the Irish Scripture lessons ; that
all the protestant children unite in reading the authorised
version; and that, during the hour of each day set apart for
religious instruction, when the ministers of religion are in-
vited to attend the children belonging to the establishment,
in addition to scripture learning, learn the church catechism
and other formularies ; and the children of Roman catholics
read the Douay version of the scriptures, and learn their own
catechism. Several public examinations of the schools have
taken place, in order to afford an opportunity of ascertaining
the progress of the children, particularly in religious know-
ledge ; and your petitioners are not afraid of contradiction
when they affirm that these examinations have afforded proof
that the children of protestants obtain in these schools a
sound scriptural education, equal at least to that which is
given in any other educational institutions in the country.
" In earnestly entreating the attention of your honourable
house to this statement of facts, your petitioners venture with
great deference, but at the same time with confidence, to
maintain, that the experiment which they have had the honour
to conduct, justifies the following conclusions :
" I.—That the assembling of children of different religious
sects in the same school, so far from tending to excite discord
and alienation, is calculated to produce a contrary effect, and
to promote peace, harmony, and good feeling.
' 2.—That in an institution thus constituted and conducted,
though the reading of the same scriptures is optional, con-
siderable portions will be read by all sects and parties ; and
that the use of the authorised version by the protestant chil-
dren will be as certainly secured and as fully attended to, as
it can be in those schools where it is peremptorily enforced.
" 3.—That the appropriation of a separate hour for the sole
purpose of religious instruction affords a better method of
communicating a knowledge of the truths of Christianity to
the children of the poor than any that has yet been devised.
a method which, if its advantages be not lost by a neglect
which would be criminal on the part of the teachers of reli-
gion, cannot fail to insure incalculable benefits to the great
mass of the people.
" Your petitioners therefore pray that your honourable
house will refuse its support to every system which has the
effect of excluding from its benefits any section of the inhabi-
tants of the empire, and will speedily confer on the nation at
large, what your petitioners have already awarded to the in-,
habitants of Liverpool, a liberal and comprehensive scheme
of education, in which the children of every sect in religion
and every party in politics may fully and equally participate.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."
Mr. WALMSLE I' seconded the adoption of the petition
which they had heard read. It was his intention to have
gone at length into the subject; but he now deemed it un-
necessary, in consequence of the withdrawal, by the govern-
ment, of the excellent plan of national education which they
bad announced. But this he might say, that having been a
constant visitor of the schools during the last three years and
a half, no better system could be devised—a system so admi-
rably calculated to produce amongst all classes of christians,
feelings of the purest harmony and love. (Hear.)
Mr. D. Hon asoN thought that the course taken in the
present instance was irregular, and that the first question
for the consideration of the council should have been, whe-
ther a petition should be presented. If that had been deter-
mined in the affirmative, then it would have been competent
for any member to have moved that a certain petition should
be presented.
The MAYOR thought the course of proceeding was quite
orderly. The notice of motion was not only for the presen-
tation of a petition, but stated the nature of it.
Mr. D. HODGSON must bow to the decision of his worship,
but lie protested against the course pursued as irregular.
Mr. T. CASE said that the mayor had decided correctly.
What were they met for but to' discuss the notice ?
Alderman EARLE said the only irregularity that he could
see was, that after the mayor had decided, any oue should
continue to dissent against the decision.
Mr. D. HODGSON then proceeded to say, that after the
strong feeling which had been manifested throughout the
country, against the ministerial education scheme, he had
scarcely thought it likely that they should be called upon to
intermeddle in the question. He was glad, however, that a
contrary conclusion had been come to, and that a petition
would be sent up from the council—for he felt assured that
there would be a majority in its favour—because he felt satis-
fied that it would be met in London by a number of opposing
petitions from various quarters. The question as regarded
the establishment of a national system of education was at
an end, as respected the government of the country, though
not as respected the council, and he hoped that they would
take example from higher quarters, that good sense and good
feeling would be exhibited by them, and that they would
withdraw themselves from a system that had been reprobated
from end of the kingdom to the other. (Cries of " No, no.")
Why, government had acknowledged its inability to proceed,
and he took that acknowledgment as the basis of his opinion.
He was not at all disposed to quarrel with the way in which
the member for Lime-street Ward had stated his views. Far
be it from him to do so. He knew that the hon. member
was able to make an exceedingly good statement, and he had
listened to him when he could join heart and soul in what
had been said by him ; but he regretted that the course he
(Mr. Blackburn) had latterly pursued—conscientiously, no

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(Mr. Hodgson) acted, that he had not
quence with pleasure on any late occasion.
him the power of ably stating his views'
ously holding them, but he was col net
rested on false premises from the ~,_
with the details of the management ... the
not with the results, that he quarrelled, sc
the principle on which the schools were '
source being impure, the stream could
would ask Mr. 131ackburn if he did not di
and whether, if he did, he meant to tell
time, that he would lend his aid to the:
Did he (Mr. Blackburn) mean to say ti
a good government to lend itself to the
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well as of truth ? The government that did s 0
itself; it would show that it was incapable '''
tween truth and error, and would lead the
delity. He believed Mr. Blackburn woulci
he (Mr. B.) was anxious to overcome the
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but how could he, consistently with the c°1".4.1,
suing, make that declaration ? Would he 71
right hand I will give money to teach error •
the position in which they were to stand, it
terial to consider what was truth. The Wll,
resolve itself into one of detail—to the
method of teaching something or any.thing'
as well call upon him (Mr. H.) when in 11)1
the skilful manner in which the gaming-1°
managed as to admire the system of the'
If results were all that were to be looks
admire those houses ; for, from all that he
there was not a better managed club in
ford's, nor a nobleman's house in which ,
good or the table better furnished. But was
the gaming-houses on that account ? No;very account that he discommended them ; '
burn thought that a benefit had resulted
which the corporation schools were mar-
the greater the pity and the greater the loss:
that, the nearer forgery approximated to I
the fraud ; and the more that all attempts
instruction in which truth and error w'
mingled, the greater reason was there tc
(Hear.) He thought that the education .
was likely to yield the greatest possible
principle which the council was following
all religion, and would be a fruitful-sourcem
would join with. ,
all his heart and mind c)
instruction on a right basis ; but he would ,
his heart and mind any instruction except on
should here have made a few remarks on I-
he thought, under present circumstances, tt, .
to take up time. He was quite satisfied tas
national education was established, it must be
basis ; and he hoped the time was not dist3'
be able to join Mr. Blackburn, and call 00
corporation to promote instruction-how, ,
cared not—hiving the Bible for its foundation),
should have to stand up there and opOose rto siy
as that they were advocating. He begge tea to t 4
amendment,—" That if a petition be Presel: in 511!
of Commons, it be a petition praying that the ~
national education which may be introduce the 'cii''
in the authorised version only, be used in ofre'''',„
that nothing shall be taught under the naniseistest
with the authority of government, inchF
principles of the protestant reformation. toes ,i,
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE seconded the lore el',
of opinion, with Lord John Russell, that
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any combined system of education introducr,g.o!l,,,,l
try. He felt quite satisfied that such a thing
fut,';:,,
able, and government would do better 0 ghurCh! i'
of education, not only to the established c'the cil',
British and Foreign School Society, or to bols"
an equal manner, and being given to all s:ch tlieP
tural education was given in conformity scit ,Y,
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Mr. W. W. CURRIE said the present w excePt
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had given a public opinion on this subject; 0,0 titererP
planation of his vote, which had been Irbe P i
would continue until the last, in favour 01 fle,,
tern pursued in the schools. (Hear, heti gofer, feto;
gretted that the scheme propounded by tr viiins',Ot
been abandoned : but he did not blame the svitli tft'
dering the torrents of misrepresentatioase cgtisio
enemies of that measure had deluged thei t°„tog
strong and powerful in the country had
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the dial of time. For the last thirty Ye'''. reitetie
liberal opinions had given the aristocracy
err es r
and for the last two or three years all t' ladles'
been unceasingly directed in arresting its to rill
'ble, ''
Lord John Russell was desirous, if possi la be for t
a liberal system of national education eomniteri Ito
out ; but a combination of interests bad litiolls'de
pose of strangling his praiseworthy intend goo,
deniable that a great deal of darkness an to relief t,
in many parts of the country ; the efforlis be,lis'
been most unworthily thwarted. It was rpoly be
Co (I t° ..
system of education introduced into the gls ~ilO,
had worked well ; and he would have beel)d: ac‘i'llt.
a similar system introduced elsewhere ; al3 heiolOr
the failure of Lord John Russell's exertion& leth6
hoped that the council, without turning te,hicll ,
the right, would persevere in the course " fee'
far successfully adopted. (Hear.) a Strlii°
Mr. RATHBONE said that nothing but ducw-but',
the education of the people would have 'llatio;,,,eo' '
present occasion to have offered any real of e'tte
was at the door, and it became the dilqapsif'tliee
come boldly forward on this question, net Lion 'lci,
but as one, having for its object the elec'better ,r)',
character of the people, and making them 116 i",
christians. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Rathbone cletY'',ll,
he would be obliged to go -somewhat int°delier:.33!
ceeded to read an extract from a speech which ,v),,
Abinger, at a recent meeting in London, wwretitili"4,i
by thirteen bishops. Lord Abinger NMs b,irosititc`;
the public funds should be applied to the 01 4.•
system of education not connected with k"gibie to
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land. After showing that it was in:WI-011°,01
tional standard of faith, or to reconcile to,eettsf Or
professing christians, Mr. Rathbone reaultee°N
evidence of Dr. Chalmers, before a cornelbetov sl '4,
of Commons, showing that the variation? le or://
rised and the Douay translation of the ply, 00'0,
as to be hardly worth contending for. „,,tinteq
h.,. ~,,,,i r. crr,sn 1- da•-..”.., ~r r...4.1-11,..2., , tracts ,eollti
Church and state. Mr. R. next read es d' v' A
dence of Dr. Doyle, before a committee :OA
Commons, to the effect, that all the notes preA
Douay Bible, regarded as objectionable hl,t i ,t,i,
been expunged from it. Mr. Rathbone,°„edanyi
deplorable ignorance which prevails in r-lf u• 01•
sent moment, which swells the partisans a',
Stephens, caused Courtenay to have follow
duced the people at Bristol and elsewhere t(fllletf,
Southcoat as the Messiah, filled the maw; tin" 1,
with 5,000 soldiers at the present women" ii, ,0,p,"
less arrested, would produce a revolatio „hot;
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proceeded to analyse the Rev. Rector eat We
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tical letter, in the tory papers of the prese-nr CrA
did with power and ability. eet„° Oct
Mr. EARLE read several extracts froule-hroSt
work on pluralities, in which the writer ort
contrary to the word of God ;he being ti- lOy
verpool, and Vicar of Childwall. ..00.)
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Mr. ISAAC HoLmEs, after having -ith '',At'
Blackburn on the more moderate speeeVtotyp
this time introduced the question, sainied /6
been made to the ministers of the estabbs- the pv
ing themselves from the schools. N°wli<ibilhey
the matter was, that they could not Pc: IP ;
schools in which popish tenets were tau,ql"b'efoel,
thirty-nine articles to be subscribed to, re ‘o,;!k'
and there were oaths to be taken •, and t-eel cr,lit;
or three of the clergy who thought that they ,teit' ,
countenance the system now in use in ¢, coy' corporation consistently with their oati3..l",ca‘b
tion to the thirty-nine articles. The cle`Wools.l4
be stigmatised for not attending those se„,ast tei;
pish religion were true, the reformation ' the °r
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great error. But who did not know t
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took place, and that they had assumed tP-010 c‘'''
tants, because they opposed the tenets n., tly.,
taro catechism which was openly tanglit,:a cli;,'
schools ? And although it was stated t": 5 a1`,„,,,r,,
day was devoted to that catechism, it, ',:' to '`,:r:'
and must take the children a long "I-Wee-if
coincided in opinion with the member for t pol;oitr,,
that they should not permit this protestanthet.eiii
contaminated with the virus of a catholic log' it
tleman had asserted that the system of eVIIP
duced unanimity, concord, and pence' V
duced anythinc, but that.
Alderman EARLE.—Among the chilarev'n,
Mr. ISAAC HOLMES.—That might Per,t1411.91
he (Alderman Earle) tell whether the e,:io odt'i
imbibe those doctrines of which he (Alcle“lattelll7,
afraid and terrified ? They might be led tt°ed ''l
place of worship, and become so fascinao V 7
and the service—for they were undoubteio ~
at length to become adherents of the 111,1%P
hoped that the alderman for St. Paul's "",,tr°-
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offence at the term popish, for he coul"„cb•h6
give the title of catholic to the popish cll.lurn "A,
Mr. BOLTON was glad that Mr. Bliwn)e°94
drawn his motion. The experiment 10" ligitiu3ci:;.
verpool, of giving children of different re litiii".
a moral education under the same roof;_tulterre, 10/
admirably. Its excellence ought to De „"erP,er
attention of government. The more g..„c'oli'"
became known, the more readily would lii" .14
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it disappear. .„t; ot
Alderman SHEIL supported the motion,ls-enepp
characterised the speech of Mr. Hoclgsoill.he le; 7,,
of a mind in a state of disorganization- ,0111, Kt
was nothing more than the melancholY I"ba°,,
without its inspiration. Mr. Blackinir9„.errYV
whether he did not believe that poperY `sans OA'
he did ; but he believed that education %tea
removing error, and therefore he sill;P,°,:allel,/
ceived the best mode of instruction. '-''''',' (40'4,
land Ward had expressed a hope that ,oe, 'I. „Id'
would not be offended at anything he (.1";:.t nrii'd
The only remark he should make upon tii:',oli..Y
words used by one of his (Mr. I. IfolMes ill
said, " Gentlemen, I have the honour °ono/
you one who is so well known that it is
to say anything more." ,on,it's I
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Mr. CASE did not approve of-3,1r.-11°"' li
because it excluded all sects but - tectglits.'oll' del
pro - ori I,
approve altogether of Mr. Blackburn's Pi ~,teq,le
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it would be better to see the children edilt Div Pr
roofs. He was, however, satisfied that ti t 0 4
in the schools, in proof of which he referee t
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said
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side did not deny the results attributed " DP ili
t to
struction in the corporation schools, and,,,t ie ter to,
they knew nothing about it. They were scin'sfofr
room, not to inquire, and to ascertain theic doe 0
ing of the schools, but they came there Ple ad v
oppose the system. That was their °Wee" 4(
they discharged their duty. , e Of'
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The vote was then taken on the anienotn lov
For it, there were 9 ; against it, 31. R. 1.7.
For the amendment—D. Hodgson', J-' k
Holmes, George Wright, Thomas Sau"s' dili',,
Gladstone, J. Smith, and G. H. Lawreoce.ist, ) li4
Against the amendment—J. flolraesp's /li 9
Preston. T. Case, J. Mellor, H. 11°1,111-tle'lf;iot.
Pilcher, J. Walmsley, R. Bright, J. IW-1% ",d Py,
W. Rathbone, T. Harvey, T. Blackbll°,l,oll, r
Jordan, J. Platt, and W. W. Currie j A.,,J,-, 0
Booth, R. Roskell, C. H. Jones, IL ift,-,•11;e' '
Evans, T. B. Barclay, T. llolt, W. F. '`"
and the Mayor. 5 rtf Ptif•
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Absent—J. Heyworth, W. Shand, - • 13ce,ti,
land, C. Lawrenee, J. C J Lawre- la--4011;
ooper, • j, 3
Brocklebank, J. Carson, V. Higgins; ' 0.„1,00
T. Coglan, J. S. Leigh, J. Cropper, Ju,,,ll'Des`" ,)
W. M. Duncan; Aldermen J. Bibby, '''' - e,f
J. Moon, J. Hornby, and T. Bulley. i 301 )it'i,
For the original motion there appcaren by 5111!,e
The difference in the numbers was causeu t thev,l'
voting against the motion, as well as again,,solJ
It was then decided that the petition sP i
to Lord John Russell for presentation.
he4d
REV. MR. ASPINAIi', big /1
Alderman EARLE, after having passedniotie"tilqi
the Rev. Mr. Aspinall, read the following -,11 0,, 1)(`,,,,,
" That this council have learnt with Inti-ed t;,, 4,1,
her most gracious majesty has been Plesqle Re,/
rectory of Althorpe, in Lincolnshire, to 'old 0,10 t)'
pinall, of this town, a reward to which r 0 j
Justly entitled, for the' exemplary maai,"%g, tiros!,
discharged the duties of his sacred C
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Christian-like spirit he has evinced tow7nhjeci .
sthentiously differ from him on religiow

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princiPl hear,/,!
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impelled
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beginninfhoolr
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could not 09
not dissen' att,Y
to tell 60n eir;
.7
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se
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it must bie;beoo
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rid eall

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to the prineiP AO
had not evenroji
le occasion. .5, :00
his views, and 0
Ls compelled to isicol
1 the beginning. coyi
ement of the KA co
quarrelled, so ID
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mm could not be,
e (lid not dissent 05
cant to tell theis,ci
d to the inculcstiollty
to sav that it.tcf
elf to 'the teadoubji_
lent that did so ".".
as incapable to i.c,
told lead the pol,„,00
burn would tell of !I
vercome the rroro,joi
with the coarse 1;4
Would he 5" ift)i;
I teach error • mitt,
e to stand, it visslior,
th. The whole tln ty
—to the discover( IS
or any.thing, --2,na„;),
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to be looked at' td
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s,
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be introduced, the p,
, be used in tbert:eo
nder the natne,,etfot
iment, incOnsP
brmation."
nded the arnenaw4
coli
,ussell, that there totlp
tion introduced jelots
hat such a thiegt 0000
o better to gr83,„1,"'
established chary"!
leiety, or to theloreti
iven to all scho,t.
,nformity with vier
047 I
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e present m
this subject el'-ty
had been fro° F f te6
in favour of the
Hear, hear.)
onded by the g°i4
of blame the I,WY
n•esentations ‘",ootit
deluged the 'cto
ntry had unite,teccoi,'
thirty years great
tit!
aristocracy gresetP;
years all tbellfaeft
arresting its P,- '
is, if possible, v"
'cation could 1):a for
Tests had alit 10
orthy intentions:Age
u•kness and igolel'olov
the efforts ft,
1. It was his
fop
1.
1 into the Core, a to 10,
d have been 0,00;
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t turning to tP,ech
the course whl
r
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thing but a I„trceiShiii;
mild have . b„,0"
red any rentar'rei'o,
'le the duty extfqe
.estion, not boaad.O
;t the elevatere t
'king them heit,prestiii
r. Rathbone
newhat into qlefelii
a speech (1,,e1,10'9,1
London, winly
linger was gee,a ftiov
lied to the "6,01,4
cted with the to I
was impossiblrieoo
the
•econcile the l'octlg
hbone read of i`ruf'
ore a cornraitteeol
betor
variations ,ere A
a of the Bible cbrir
ling for. , 411`01
:t read estraetittilt;i!
committee o
all the notes
actionable rijitYl
Rathbone nex,,t
wails in Eng„''O'N
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) have folloWers,ol
I elsewhere to ,iiio4lo4
11 the manahict
ao
!lit women.,
a revolutioa•bee,
. Rector Cat nee
)f the present 01,
iteserteoar`ors,
racts from ,
le writer dee' y
he being
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r having etfh'iq,
ate speech that rete,b
stion, said ciloq
;he establishee eto!
,ols• i'to )1
)tild not poo oeri
were tau&rt. fore
scribed to be feli
ken ; and here, col'i
night that they 501
hi use in theocjit;i
:heir oaths
The elerg)
og those scho°:,
formation jibe`
t know that oeio
assumed the Ilotcy
:he tenets iaelttliel
!lily taught ill, 0116,
s stated tha'telf
hism, it has le*
a long time t.01°,,F.i
leinber for JA „,010
s protestr.ntPlofy
a catholic the°6o y
ystem of etirbgy,
Ld per.ce.

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the childrelu • be' 4
might PerbiXdrell:
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That th
kr. A 3 e Mayor be respectfully requested to convey to
i
fatriPlaall the cordial thanks of this couhcil, for the nde-
of blew ...attention he has devoted to the religious instruction
6.... eeildren in the corporation schools, especially of that
t-baZaPortion of them who were members of the church of
eon, nd, as also for the judicious manner in which he. has
for hieYe,a that in and to offer him their best wishes
try to3l.4ture welfare andhappiness in that part of the coun-
mr.thich he is about to remove."
th 4kranoNTP. seconded the motion, which was met on
te:dtrtg of Mr. R. GLADSTONE by a direct negative, he con-
the ed that the vote of thanks should have emanated from
bars
:cation committee, and that the council should. notn
araociac en called upon, seeing the great difference in opinion
cotwef, them as to merit of Mr. Aspinall's conduct. A long
, esation took place and
i,,..- resolutton was put to the vote, and carried by a ma-
"nty of 31 to '
17 the •'''
W. 7 e motion.—Councillors J. Holmes, W. Thornhill,
:iaerertshtyboli, le:.TC.ase, J. Mellor, H. Holmes, T. Bolton, E.
W.,, ''• Walrnsley R. Bright, J. Priestley, J. Woollright,
11000ta,,, J.
,_.T. Blackburn, T. Morecroft, F.
th" ,4 Platt, WH:awrve.
Yk.,urrie. Aldermen R. Sheil, T.
Eran:' ~,n• Roskell C. H. Jones, R. Benn, W. Earle, E.
and tie' 4,‘,..13. Barclay, T. Holt, W. P. Freme, E. Harvey,
Agai -uayor.
Rojtoellastkt•—Councillors D. Hodgson, R. Houghton, Isaac
' a • N. 'Wood, R. Gladstone.
Air p CHAPLAIN OP THE BOROUGH GA. ...,ii.1.,. ILenEtt made the following motion on this subject,
portiiat it be referred to the town-clerk to consider and re-_
itsolaula opinion on the act of parliament for the regulation off
the Boron far as it relates to the stipend of the chaplain o
,ih
5 Gaol.
':'he Motion was adopted, and the council broke up at half-
two.

THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
HAMBURG
laut Four of the Engagement of MR. VAN
,i and his TRAINED ANIMALS, LIONS,
tltS,
foneLEOPARDS, &c., whose extraordinary Per-
r, as represented One Hundred and Fifteen
aof :st Season, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane,
reeeiPed n
here
patronized there by her Majesty, have been
TI jire with the most unbounded applause.
formed senthe Popular Tragedy of
BRUTUS.
Se junks Brutus.. Mr. Stuart I Titus.. MTr. W. Howard
Itus Tarquin.. Mr. Gray I Aruns.. Mr. M . H. Bland
rd
Mr. Chaplin
4- • • . Miss Cleaver I Tarquinia.. Miss Faucit
At th Lucretia.... Mrs. Baker.
the end of the Tragedy, MR. VAN AMBURGH will
t his fearless and extraordinary. performances with the
LIVING LIONS,
I'ocoLIGERS, LEOPARDS, &c.
11,,_eurde with the Ironical Local Burletta of Men and.
8) in two acts, founded on the celebrated, widely-
Ila,"'vd, extensively-circulated, and universally-admired
bY called
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
OINGS AT DO-THE-BOYS HALL.
INockleby, Mr. W. H. Bland ; Newman Noggs,
3TenetlotislY ; Squeers, Mr. Baker ; John Browdie, Mr. Slaiter ;
:lantilini Mr. Chaplin ; Smike (an Orphan,) Mrs.
41.8. Aladanie Mantilini,. Miss Cleaver ; Mrs. Squeers,
tri° 'MOW
The Tragedy of VIRGINIUS. Vir-
* Stuart;A lcilius, Mr. W. Howard ; Dentatus,
ibtsB CIR PPiuS, Mr. Gray ; Virginia, Miss Faucit ; Servia,
4'„,ll.PoD'aLer•—After which, Mr. VAN AMBURGH'S
""-A-NCES WITH HIS TRAINED ANIMALS.
ilerte7,ll„c_lude with the Musical Farce of the BEE HIVE.
ii,learlr• Barker •, Rattan, Mr. G. Horncastle • Mingle,
Miss Grant ; Cicely, Mrs. Tellet.
L,,` Emily,
-
THE PATRONAGE OF HIS WORSHIP
CoN,-, THE MAYOR.
1/I,„‘-',.ERT of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL
,iverpo-'01.31C will be given at the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
the po'R°ll FRIDAY EVENING next, the 14th instant,
rroje THE BENEFIT OF MR. GREEN,
at fLe!or and Mana er of the Popular Concerts given by
`,tirtg,s`uis Theatre ; when, in addition to the Band, con-
tlloB4llPwards of Thirty Performers and Vocalists engaged
kiNit Concerts, (who have kindly offered him their services
C'4411/ for this Evening)M• D &VIES has also kindly
Perfolited to give his 'i
'the- occasion, and several
'niers, both Instrumental and Vocal, will be engaged.
Conductor—Mr. W. HOLDEN,
..Parti Who will preside at the Piano-forte.
the plars will be given in the Bills of the day. Tickets
nt'f4r ,-,°xes 2s• 6d Pit ls 6d and Gallery ls., may be had
.•• , •
"41ce...I''EN, at the Manchester Tavern, White Mill-street,
•wr-street ;a lso at the principal Inns and Music-!hops.

We pe TO CORRESPONDENTS.
_
lli, on that our cotemporary the Wigan Gazette com-
cen 2e non-receipt of the Standard of Tuesday.—
s totsrurc our respected cotemporary that the fault
%gilt t ' e, st with us. as the paper was duly despatched, and
"--.-------.....nave been received at an early hour on Tuesday.

Riberpoi 82'71tanbarb,
TuzsDAY 211ORNING, JUNE 11, 1539.
esr r "-ve cautiously abstained from imposing upon
our •
bet keaders the vague speculations of mere rum
1144-I,ll°lldng that the prospect of an early dissolution
tete ueell gaining ground in the best informed q\uiarl--
aleld seeing nothing in the position of Lord s
.e
4'ithr4..,',B government which should prevent his acting
cotit.4ll the recklessness of sheer despair, we have not
the hidered it by any means unlikely that lie should face
feat-atiou with the certainty of sustaining a severe c.le-
4otii and we adverted on Friday to several ulterior
to b-'" Which might very naturally induce him
ral'e the present dangers than trust himself and his
llottLY t° the still more hopeless ruin of a dissolution
\\re-r
a conservative premier and a new registration.of
etifo hoe now a higher duty to perform : the duty
ate ex not the danger to which the destinies of Britain%
Merin .4P°sed from the timidity of the irresolute, the N ra-
Iktof the weak, and the sordid spirit of the selfish;
Which Plain, Plain, honest, and uncompromising course
t
tithe- the emergency of the present crisis points ou
111 an who has not surrendered himself soul and
It (1.
tc; the mere name and shadow of a political party.
Air essential importance that the electors of the
should rightly understand between whom the
votee
cont Iles, and the precise effects which the individual
count each each tends to produce upon the fortunes of his
Of There was a time when between the abettors
kri-'erogative and the champions of privilege, a middle
roainY exieted, which, wholly separate from neither,l
the -tallied a due medium between both. This
fvas
4idagrbei°t Whig Party—respectable in character and r
the - je in talent. This party no longer exists ; and.
go4„l.eas°ll is, that the necessity for its existence.
a ". The brilliant constellation which once occupied
alveetittal Position in the firmament of politics has passe
tliffY„ The aspect of the heavens now presents widely
tefu:t Phenomena. A man must be either imbecile
e'lect, or dishonest at heart, who says that he can
01)ie-e a conservative his vote, and yet not further the
beilyets °f the radicals. There is now no juste milieu
)t-beell that great party in the state which has ab-
ski fed into its ranks the property, education, and mo-
or
Yelp,?ree of the country, and the discordant band o
the 'll,g Malcontents—the cankers of a calm world—
stand
c4"Peratoritm hominum flagitiosi greges," who
tatißhferraYed as the antagonists of all we have been
ton;,.* t° cherish as good and venerable in the British
4 .irtution. These are hard terms, but they are
tarite tly
ud literally just. There is no length in the
theylf srof
Change
to which our opponents will mot go.
Doit. attempt argument in the matter, the first pro-
-411,41°411 all their reasonings in politics is, that
see `eVer is, is Wrong." They have eyes, but they
the ‘°„tl; ears, but they hear not. Blind and deaf to
they -'ee of History, and the warnings of Experience,d
of triw,°llld overthrow excellent institutions to get ri
niosltal. defects. Empirics in everything, they have
tioti 'uld antipathy to whatever has received the sane-
' Nti. off 1,:1111e. In those ranks which now stand in the
4trii(l°-, battle opposite to our own, are to be found,
li6nantthe deluded and the weak, the sworn and ma-
f°eB of Protestantism—the bitter haters of our
otir e e estahlislunemt—the fomenters of rebellion in
tisseh scarce-disguised enemies of the mo-
ktibij itself. Men of broken fortunes and reckless
11a isiii°lll. rally beneath the ragged and motley standard,
ss'ite,,ett are inscribed the words Discontent—Change
11—
b Infidelity. Do we accuse all who join
at wee'euient of the same iniquity ? Assuredly not;
servati,tell them that they cannot vote against the con-
eree "e Party and not aid and abet the views of their
atikioualld unprincipled allies. This is what we are
conscies t° hi:press. This is what should make the
before he friend of his country's happiness pause
ti.°ll.vard e adds momentum to a party already hurrying
h with mad velocity. We defy any man to show
and call avoid doing this if he opposes Sir Robert
tl9ee :led votes
for the present ministry. And what
*Perk °lean by the words " the present ministry ?"
4eLtzly
lie itie d
r°ll Ministry in this country represented certain
-Qfinite principles of government upon which
arid in a ers
who composed the executive were agreed,
theY exel)PlYing which to the exigencies of the times
s°Per exerted
themselves in vigorous and harmonious
she ation.
I. But now, how lamentable the change
Ivholieag wl'lch flies at the mast-head of the crazy ship
11ation, Warne is the Melbourne Administration, is of no
lilt: tea partee,,tiLltry ~ or language. It represents no recog-
is the emblem of no political creed : it
4e4t. 'ex tot
no
went settled views of policy, to no union of
14115nisut a sustained principle of action. As well
4tlthle
acid style herself a man-of-war as Lord Mel-
, the his colleagues call themselves a ministry.
n 1; 0-esen,
411ste • . moment a man cannot simply say he is
kets) rlahet • 1,
.'"1. of th • must explain to what section or
tictelle the wor--cie
.ministry he attaches himself..
clfoshee
e 8 in its legitimate and collective
Nracli PeakB a paradox • he avows in himself
ction - •
• With the same breath he asserts that

he reform bill ought to be a final measure, and that it
was but a first instalment paid to the growing wants
and intelligence of the community. He advocates
restless change and prudent caution—finality and non-
finality. He denounces the ballot as "an unendurable
anomaly," and at the same moment trumpets it as the
panacwa for political evils. With Poulett Thomson
he calls the corn-laws the incubus pressing down the
energies of the nation, and with Lord Melbourne cha-
racterises the agitation as "wild insanity." He ap-
plauds the growing conservatism of Lord John Russell
and the ambitious radicalism of Lord Normanby.
Now, what man of common sense and common ho-
nesty can tolerate this ? Let those who have made up
their minds to try the fearful experiments which a
howling democracy daily calls for, vote for the move-
ment, and support the radical candidate at the ensuing
election. Upon them will rest the curse of their coun-
try's ruin—whether they act as knaves or fools—as
the barefaced apostles of social disorganization, or the
deluded believers in the sophistries of the wretched
demagogues of the day. Let them pursue their con-
sistent course. Let them take their proper place :
" Secedant improbi : Secernant .se a bonis : unum in
locum congregentur." Let them vilify the peerage,
degrade the church, and unchristianise the state. Let
them attempt to poison the life-blood of our popula-
tion by systems of education where religion has no
place, and where man is treated as an intellectual ma-
chine, and not as a being with an immortal soul.
They are wise in their generation. Their ends and
means are admirably suited to each other. But surely
the voter who is not deaf to the voice of reason and
duty will start back from an alliance with such a body
as this. If he does, then he must vote with and for
the conservatives. There is no alternative. Between
them and the destructives there is now no party that
deserves the name, and the reason simply is, that there
is no ground which such a party can occupy. The
frontiers of conservatism extend far enough to include
all who value the blessings of liberal, enlightened, and
constitutional government. Beyond are banditti and
outlaws prowling round the constitution in needy and
desperate bands, seeking only an opportunity to assault
and overthrow. No man can affix to the conservative
party the charge of bigotry or intolerance, or opposi-
tion to reform in its legitimate sense, or inattention to
the wants and wishes of the community, without
making himself a party to the system of " enormous
lying," which is the indelible disgrace, and has become
the byeword of reproach, to the whig-radical cause.
Never in the annals of party have the engines of false-
hood been so unblushingly worked as during the last
three or four years. " Calumniare audacter : aliquid
adhcerebit"—(lay it on thick enough : some of it will
stick)—is the diabolical maxim attributed to Machia-
velli, and right faithfully and steadily have our oppo-
nents acted upon it. The audacity to which falsehood
has reached in misstating the facts of the recent bed.
chamber quarrel startles belief. At first, no doubt, this
produced some effect : but how miserably the plot has
failed ! how the lie has recoiled, and is still recoiling,
upon its authors ! From first to last, since the Mel-
bourne administration grasped the seals of office by
promising the radicals what they never meant to per-
form, and proclaiming against Sir Robert Peel and his
colleagues calumnies which they knew to be utterly
untrue, down to the day on which the Hon. William
Cowper pasted his Downing-street falsehood on the
walls of Hertford, it has been one continued tissue of
misrepresentation and fraud. But look at the result.
The conservative party has everywhere gained strength.
The great tide-wave does not more surely advance
along the broad surface of the ocean, than does the
spirit of conservatism increase and spread amongst the
constituencies of the empire. Let every man read the
answer of Sir Robert Peel to the admirable address
from Shrewsbury. He will there see the lofty con-
tempt with which that statesman looks down upon the
virulence of his opponents, and the calm conviction he
expresses of the returning good sense and honour of
the country. The lie, after all, has done little imme-
diate service to its propagators, and will assuredly be
one of the main instruments of their downfal at the
next election. Like the elephants in the ranks of the
Carthagenian armies, it will turn back upon those who
sent it into battle. We earnestly entreat our fellow-
townsmen, to IIP. prepared for the event of an .I,a,.tion,
which may happen at any moment, and cannot be far
distant. Then will be sealed the fate of the most im-
becile, the most unprincipled, and the most contempti-
ble administration that ever dared to trifle with the
destinies of Britain. Then, with God's blessing, will
the friends of religion and the throne crush beneath
their heel the swarming reptiles who have crawled into
such prolific life under the patronage of a government
which, while it loathes their deformity, yet cringes and
truckles to them for support.

In one or two of our later numbers we have entered
at length into the Fabian policy, and endeavoured to
show why a prudent and cautious conduct in parlia-
ment is the very strongest reason for adopting a most
active system of warfare out of doors. But it is by no
means necessary for a zealous and warm-hearted con-
servative to confine himself to such grounds of encou-
ragement as these : for if ever it were " sport to see
the engineer hoist with his own petard"—if ever selfish
cunning driven to its wit's end—if craft detected and
disgraced—if disingenuous and selfish fraud over-
reaching and destroying itself in its own snares, have
exhibited a display for the instruction and amusement
of the world the lover of his church and country has
abundant cause for such satisfaction now. Oh !it
must indeed have been

" Sport that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter holding both his sides,"

when that very absurd individual, Sir Peter Fleetwood,
exposed the government to such annoyance and confu-
sion in the debate of this day week. Formed upon no
principle, fixed by no coherency, guided by no respect
for decency, and grounded on no popular support, the
wretched cabinet totters under the weakest blow. One
should have thought that a chimerical scheme, emana-
ting from a preposterous person, who caricatures in
parliament (as Mr. Henry Hunt, his predecessor, cari-
catured them before him) the pot-walloping principles
which keep Preston in perpetual hot water, —one
should certainly have thought that a scheme like this
might have been disposed of by ministers without the
slightest embarrassment or the smallest difficulty. But
even in this paltry matter there was perplexity enough
to shake the sails of Lord Melbourne's government,
and threaten it with instant peril. If there were faith
in man, it was clear enough from the often-repeated
declarations of Lord John Russell, rendered ten-fold
more clear by the carefully-timed publication of the
remarkable letter to the electors of Stroud, that his
lordship would stand upon the principles of the once-
vaunted, the now-despised reform bill. Why, then, if
the radical philosophers intended to insist upon their
ulterior chimaras—why did they assist in replacing the
Melbourne administration in its ill-gotten seat of power?
Was it because they cared for the Queen, and desired
to change sides with the high-flying champions of un-
controlled prerogative ? or was it because their intimate
acquaintance with whiggery has taught them the infi-
nite pliability of whig professions, and because they
hoped to extort from Lord John Russell's fears a for-
mal renunciation of every remaining claim to public or
private honour ? We rejoice that these exhibitions are
nightly displayed before the nation. It is right that
our rulers should he thoroughly known ; and if, after
all, the debasing concession have been made, and the
ballot has become an open question, it shall never be
forgotten that this fatal step was made while he was
leader of the House of Commons who last year affected
to resign because Sir Hussey Vivian was permitted to
vote for ballot, and who has described it within the
last few weeks as an "UNENDURABLE ANOMALY."

If the radicals are chuckling over the perpetual re-
currence of wiliggish ignominy, let them pause to
consider what verdict the accessory may expect when
the principal is convicted. They have not committed
the outward acts of these flagitious crimes—these re-
peated perfidies, these profligate breaches of faith.
But they have suborned the whigs to commit them.
Daily and nightly they have urged the wretched minis-
ters forward in their frantic course ; and have driven
them at length to a position where they can neither
proceed without destruction, nor retreat without dis-
grace. They have touched the pitch ; and the nation
which condemns the whigs will pass upon them the
righteous verdict, that they also have been defiled.

The whigs seem determined, in one respect at least,
to maintain a character for consistency—consistency

in mean, shabby, and ungentlemanly trickery. Ever
since their accession to office, their whole career has
been' marked by a succession of the most shameless
and dishonourable subterfuges—by an utter reckless-
ness of principle—by a systematic departure from those
conventional rules of candour, truth, and plain dealing,
the observance of which is indispensable to that mu-
tual confidence which is the infallible mark and crite-
rion of good society. By one act of political turpitude
after another have the whig ministers placed them-
selves beyond the pale of even genteel society, if they
were only dealt with according to their merits. We
can conceive it possible to hold opinions as diametric-
ally opposite to each other as the antipodes, without in
the least degree interfering with the most sincere in-
tercourse in private life. We can also believe it to he
possible for men to treat each other with considerable
asperity on the arena of political strife, without dis-
solving those bonds by which private or personal
friendship is cemented. But we cannot conceive it to
be possible that men, who are in the constant habit of
practising the meanest deception—who hold their offi-
cial stations by no better tenure than the lowest and
most depicable arts of cunning, trickery, and tergiver-
sation—should be considered fit associates for men of
honourable principle ; in other words, we cannot be-
lieve that the whigs can be viewed in any other light
than as a band of unprincipled political swindlers,
whose conduct has disentitled them to those privileges
in private life, to which their rank and station ought
to prove a passport.

Without going any further back into the history of
Whig trickery than the recent " bedchamber intrigue,"
we have a striking instance of their partiality for a
crooked, devious, and dishonest policy, in preference
to that straightforward and plain-dealing line of con-
duct, which is ever the characteristic of an honourable
mind. The miserable intrigue by which the Duke of
Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were so shamefully
imposed upon, and by which their plans were so scan-
dalously frustrated, has stamped the Whig cabinet with
the indelible impress of the most infamous knavery.
They now stand forth in all the obloquy of self-con-
victed delinquents, whom no man can safely trust,
and with whom no man can consent to associate with-
out contamination.

As the whigs have hitherto continued to hold office
by a series of tricks of political legerdemain—by pro-
fessing one thing and practising another—by promis-
ing one thing and performing another—by fraudulent
and dishonourable pretences,—so are they determined
that the remainder of their brief career shall be in
exact keeping with their past policy. In this undevi-
ating adherence to dishonesty, they contrive to main-
tain the most scrupulous consistency.
The preceding remarks have been elicited by the
wretched plot which the whigs have resorted to in
reference to their scheme of national education. In
our last, it will he remembered, we congratulated the
country on the ostensible abandonment of that nefa-
rious scheme. We confess that we were thrown, in
some measure, off our guard. We believed that Lord
John Russell and his associates were really frightened
out of their designs by the multitudinous show of pe-
titions against the national education scheme. We
forgot, at the time, what a slippery and deceitful set of
politicians we had to deal with. The infamous pro-
Popish scheme has not been abandoned. It has been
revived in a more objectionable shape than ever ; and it
is more than ever incumbent upon us to warn our
readers against suffering themselves to be deceived by
the plausible professions of the whig ministers.
That we are not premature in asserting that the
education scheme has not been abandoned in reality,
will abundantly appear from the official document
which will be found in another part of our paper. This
document purports to be the " report of the committee
of coune, appointed to superintend the application of
any funds voted by parliament for the purpose of pro-
moting public education," and is said to have been
read at Buckingham Palace en the 3d of June. From
this date it would appear that Lord John Russell's pro-
fessed abandonment of the scheme was the consequence
of an alteration in the tactics of the cabinet, and not
the result of a belief in the inutility or the impractica-
bility of the scheme. This report divulges the secret
of Lord John Russell's whole proceeding. It recom-
i.,talb all alas Lora John 11.,,..011 nought to obtain by
a formal grant of £30,000 in aid of his educational
scheme. After suggesting that the sum of £lO,OOO
should be divided, in equal portions, between the Na-
tional Society and British and Foreign School Society,
for the purpose of aiding in the erection of normal or model
schools, it proceeds to state that " the remainder of the
subsequent grants of the years 1837 and 1838, yet un-
appropriated, and any grant that may be voted in the pre-
sent year," may be "chiefly applied in aid of any subscrip-
tions for building schools, and, in particular cases, for
the support of schools connected with those societies."
From these recommendations it would appear that the
" normal schools" of the scheme said to have been
abandoned by Lord John Russell are still to be formed.
There can he no doubt that overtures have been made
by government to the British and Foreign School
Society, with a view of rendering that society subser-
vient to the ulterior designs of the educational philoso-
phers : and there can be little doubt that a " normal
school," in which religion shall be a matter of secondary,
or no consideration at all, will be established under the
joint auspices of the whig government, the Central
Educational Committee, and the British and Foreign
School Society—that is, if the vote of £30,000 should
be granted, and the whigs should remain a little longer
in office.

It is necessary that we should warn our readers that
the remainder of the parliamentary grant is not to be
applied in aid of the National and British and Foreign
School Societies, excepting "in particular cases." We
can guess what this means. It means that the com-
mittee of council, consisting of the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell, and
Mr. Spring Rice, shall have the option of refusing
all grants to the National Society, and of rendering as,
much assistance as they may choose in such cases
only as the British and Foreign School Society may
adapt their proceedings to the plans approved by this
arbitrary committee. This is likewise obviously im-
plied in the recommendation " that the rule hitherto
adopted of making a grant to those places where the
largest proportion is subscribed, be not invariably ad-
hered to, should application be made from very poor
and populous districts, where subscriptions to a suffi-
cient amount cannot be obtained." Now, it so happens
that the instances in which the largest sums are sub-
scribed towards the establishment of schools are,
almost without exception, in connexion with the
Church of England : and it also happens that these
subscriptions are made, in nine cases out of ten, for
the erection of schools in " very poor and populous
districts." Thus, if the despotic quartumvirate of the
privy council intend to depart from the salutary rule
of aiding those who make the largest voluntary contri-
bution towards the establishment of schools, they must
have come to the extraordinary resolution of granting,
in the great majority of cases, no assistance whatever
to " poor and populous districts," unless churchmen
should determine upon making no exertions in such
districts, and upon leaving the matter entirely in the
hands of papists and socinians. Then, and then only,
can assistance be obtained from government in such
districts. This jesuitical plan looks very like a bounty
upon indiference to the cause of education. Church-
men are plainly informed that they must not exert
themselves to procure subscriptions for the establish-
ment of schools in "poor and populous districts ;"
for if they venture upon so imprudent a step, govern-
ment will refuse to grant them any assistance. If
they wish that such places should be favoured with
the means of education, they must either take the
whole burden on their own shoulders, or they must
leave the work to the " small subscribers"—the papists
and socinians—who may rely upon the cordial co-
operation of the enlightened quartumvirate.
But we have not yet touched upon the most ob-
noxious paragraph in the report. We have not yet
alluded to the " grand trick" of the four illustrious
conjurors of the Privy Council—the trick which they
expect will escape detection in the House of Commons,
and which they complacently persuade themselves will
deceive the people of England. This prime specimen
of humbug is the following :—" The committee do
not feel themselves precluded from making grants in
particular cases, which shall appear to them to call for
the aid of government, although the applications may
not come from either of the two mentioned societies."
What does this insidious paragraph mean ? We an-
swer unhesitatingly, it means that the government

may grant supplies in aid of Popish, Socinian, or even
infidel schools, if the application be made for assistance
from these parties. This is the bold, the impudent
scheme at length resolved upon. The Committee of
Council are still determined that Popery and Socinian-
ism shall be patronised and endowed by the state:—
that the Protestants of England shall be taxed to sup-
port unchristianing and damnable heresies. The
whole scheme smells rankly of jesuitism. It is evi-
dently an emanation from the mischief-working brains
of O'Connell, and as such should be loudly protested
against by all who wish to see this country prosper
under the favour of Heaven.
It is, therefore, with reason that we once more urge
our townsmen to petition against the education scheme
so insidiously reproduced. We are glad to find that
the Rev. H. M‘Neile has brought the matter under the
notice of his congregation, who have once more re-
sponded to his call by preparing a petition against
the new plot. His letter to Lord Sandon will be found
in another column : we recommend it to the notice
and perusal of our readers. We sincerely hope that
Lord Ashley will persist in his motion for a call of the
House of Commons, and that the despicable manoeuvre
which we have been exposing will be most signally
frustrated. The Protestants of Great Britain should
urge their representatives to crush the insidious de-
signs of the Papists and Socinians in their infancy.

The radical Solons of the Town Council, headed by
the redoubtable Sutor Blackburn, amused themselves
on Friday last with a " dull, stale, and unprofitable"
discussion on the hackneyed question of national
education—a discussion than which Mr. Alderman
Earle asseverated " nothing could be more pleasant and
agreeable." There is no accounting for some people's
tastes. To us nothing could possibly be more unplea-
sant and disagreeable than to be doomed to listen for
the hundredth time to the threadbare and hundred-
time-refuted arguments of the knight of the pestle and
mortar, who is put forward, on every emergency, as the
champion of the radical clique in the Town Council.
His speech was composed of the most trite and com-
mon-place remarks, undeserving of any serious notice,
and incapable, from their very absurdity, of being
refuted. It is a matter of congratulation to the
clergy of Liverpool, who have so nobly signalized
themselves by their powerful exertions in the cause of
scriptural education, that the most important adversary
they have to contend with is the puny and pragmatical
representative of Lime-street Ward. To be afraid of
such an opponent would be rank cowardice—to reply
to him would be little better than " answering a fool
according to his folly."

A FEW LAST WORDS ON THE DUTY AND AD-
VANTAGE OF PETITIONING PARLIAMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sru,—l must but congratulate my fellow-townsmen, and
my fellow-countrymen generally, be they churchmen, me-
thodists, or dissenters, who have nobly achieved a great
work, in bending the neck of England's Prime Minister to
the voice of truth ; and yet, my fellow-Protestants, it is but
a bending to expediency, and therefore do not trust it. Carry
on the warfare. You have shown that the petitions of the
people must be heeded ; you have shown that the people of
England are sound at heart ; you have shown, not that " the
voice of the people is the voice of God," but that the voice
of the people demand that the Word of God (the Bible)
shall be the standard of truth in every school supported by
the nation.

The petitions of the God-fearing people of England are
then of use, and persevere in them, for we are not yet out of
the mire. " The serpent was more subtle than all the beasts
of the field ;" and the eel is a slippery fish. The modern
whigs are a compound of both. They have a portion of the
jesuit's cunning—they are covered with the liberal's slime.
I fear their plan is still to have the grant of money, for
educational purposes, to be appropriated by the board of
laymen, not one of whom, I would fearlessly say, has the
cause of God at heart. Watch them then !—Yours, &c.,
PROTESTANT.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY,

(BEFORE MR. RUSHTON.)
DEPRADATION ON GARDENS.

Three men, named Leather, Mitchell, and Culverston, was
placed at the bar, charged with being found in Lodge-lane,
at a very early hour on Sunday morning, with two large
bouquets of flowers, lilac, &c., of which they could not give
a satisfactory account. One of them was also found in pos-
session of a formadable looking sword, without a scabbard.
The owner or owners of the flowers did not appear ; but one
of the officers stated, that a garden in Smithdown-lane had
been dispoiled of a quantity of flowers, &c., including some
pionies, (we believe,) similar to those taken from the pri-
soners. One of the men said he had taken the sword from
his lodgings in a frolic, on the previous night. Mr. Rushton
said he had learned that it was a frequent offence to plunder
saratMO (In Ra.ov,i-
soners that the owners of the property did not appear against
them. They were then discharged. Two other young men,
both named Robert Davies, were charged with a similar
offence, at Edge-hill, on the same morning. No one ap-
peared against them, and they were discharged with a strong
admonition, Mr. Rushton stating, that he should certainly
make an example, if the practice was continued.

EXTENSIVE THEFT BY A CHARWOMAN.
A married woman, named Margaret Morris, stood charged
with having taken away and pledged, or otherwise appro-
priated a considerable quantity of property, from a house in
which she had been employed as a charwoman. A number
of silver table and tea spoons, some bed linen, from which
the name had been cut out, shirts, and other articles, were
produced, and found by the officers, at several pawn-brokers
shops. The prisoner, it appeared, lived in an upper room in
Atherton-street, and one of the officers there found 10 pawn
tickets for the goods. Mrs. Joule, the wife of a publican,
in Strand-street, said she had frequently employed the pri-
soner to clean the house, and identified all the property as
belonging to her husband. Several pawnbrokers and their
assistants, remembered the prisoner pledging them. The
prisoner declined saying anything in her defence, but hoped
the prosecutrix would deal with her as mercifully as possible.
She was committed for trial at the sessions.

THE FIFTY-POUND NOTE CASE.
The case relative to the robbery of a gentleman named
Hyde, of a £5O note of the Bank of Macclesfield, noticed
in our publication of Friday, and which had been remanded
for further evidence, was then resumed. The evidence, in-
cluding that given on the former day, was carefully sifted by
Mr. Rushton; but as we have already given a considerable
portion of it, we shall furnish in detail that portion which
was new. Mr. Devonport appeared on behalf of James
O'Ryley, the male prisoner; the female, Mary Ann Roberts,
was undefended. Mr. Hyde, who had come from York,
said that he was in Liverpool on the 7th of March last, and
stopped at the Mitre Inn. While there, at half-past nine at
night, he had in his possession a purse containing a £5O
Macclesfield bank note, two £5 notes, about thirteen sove-
reigns, and some other money. He had the purse in his left
hand trouser's pocket. About half-past ten he went out,
and was at the time, he admitted, a little the worse for wine.
He walked along Dale-street to the Wellington Hotel. when
he met a friend at the bar, and had several glasses with him.
After sitting an hour and a half or two hours, he left his
friend and walked back to the Mitre, and on the way, as he
believed, he lost his purse with its whole contents, He did
not, however, miss them then. He went with no one in the
street, that he could recollect. After taking one glass, he
went to his chamber, and as was his custom locked himself
in. In the morning he missed his money. He had pre-
viously taken the number of the £5O note in his order-book :
it was No. 1125. The note produced was no doubt the
same. He gave notice to the police ; but heard nothing of
it until twelve days ago. None of the other money had
yet been recovered. Nothing particular was elicited
in cross-examination. Police constable John Guy, said
that, two or three nights after the robbery he was ac-
costed by the female prisoner, (Roberts) who said she had
something to communicate. She asked him if he had heard
of a £5O note that was stolen. He said he had. She said,
I am the person who took it to Riley's, a public-house in
Milton-street, and asked him if he would take care of it, and
he said he would, or he would change it. She said that if
he changed it, and gave her and Sarah Baxter (her companion,
discharged on Thursday) £l6 a-piece, he might have the re-
mainder. She added, that Ryley agreed ; that he gave her
£lO then, and told her to call next day for the rest ; she did
call again, and got £5, and next day called and got more,
making, (as we understood the witness,) £24. It appeared
that she had afterwards asked Ryley for some drink on credit,
that he refused to draw it, and that the prisoner had then
threatened to inform, if she should be transported for it.
Inspector Cottam said, that about the 12th or 13th of
March he went to Ryley, who (as before stated) denied all
knowledge of the note, saying he had never had such a note.
The inspector told him the number of it was known, and he
had better give it up if he had it, for if it were traced the case
would be serious against him. To this the prisoner made no
reply. Mr. Marsh, draper, repeated the evidence he had
before given—that he received the note from the prisoner for
some goods, and had given him the change out ; that he had
kept it about three weeks, and then paid it to Mr. M. Pick-
ford, of Manchester. Mr. Bower, Mr. Pickford's salesman,
remembered the last witness paying the note, in liquidating
a debt of £2B. Witness got it changed at Mr. Isaac Hud-
son's. Mr. Haworth, a clerk at Mr. Hudson's, identified
the note. His own initials, and Mr. Pickford's name, were
written by him upon it, as was his practice in such cases.
Mr. W. Cave Brown, of the Manchester District Bank, said
he received the note from the last witness for the credit of
Mr. Hudson, and he also marked it, as appeared. Mr. Joseph
Stoner, of Orinskirk, grocer, said he knew Mr. Hyde, of
York, and paid him on the sth of March a £5O Macclesfield
note. He perfectly remembered the number and the date,
and believed that was the same note. Inspector Edward
Tyrrell, who produced the note, said he had traced it back to
the Macclesfield Bank, where it had since been cancelled.
It had previously, it appeared, been paid in London. A boy
in the service of Mr. Marsh, said he had taken the note by
his master's directions to Mr. Blizand,.Scotland-place. (where
it was tendered by the prisoner Ryley) to ascertain if it were
good,and the reply was, that it was. This was all the evi-
dence adduced, and the informations being taken, both the
prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions.

ASSAULTING A SHIPWRIGHT. '
Michael Wood, a stout young man, was charged with vio-
lently, and without provocation, assaulting a shipwright,
whose name we did not learn. The complainant, whose face
was much disfigured, said that the prisoner, who was a
stranger to him, had struck him down and kicked him vio-
lently when down, his only alleged cause being that he was a
carpenter. The prisoner denied the fact, but another wit-
ness corroborated the statement of the complainant. Mr.
Rushton animadverted strongly on the conduct of the pri-
soner. He was determined, he said, to put an end to these
feuds wherever they arose. The injured party did perfectly
right in applying to the magistrates, and not taking the law
into their own hands. He then fined the prisoner 10s. and
costs, and in default of payment to be imprisoned for one
week.

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—The tide of emi-
gration still runs strongly towards the United States. Most
of the ships which sail for the States, but particularly those
to New York, carry out large numbers of steerage passengers.
Among the emigrants are many families from Germany, who,
landing at Hull, travel by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to
this port, where they embark. Several boats on the Canal
have been wholly occupied by these families.

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