The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

WELSH BISHOPS.

(From the Morning Herald.)
A vacancy having occurred in the diocese of St. David's,
by the demise of Dr. Jenkinson, the late bishop, the natives
of Wales are stirring both in the principality and elsewhere,
with the view of urging on her Majesty's government the
necessity of elevating to, the vacant see a clergyman fully.conversant with the Welsh language, and not unacquainted
with the predilections and habits of the natives. With the
exception of a small part of Pembrokeshire, the diocese of
St. David's extends over a great extent of country in which
the Welsh language is vernacular, and most of the livings in
it are in the gift of the bishop. It is therefore a matter of
the highest importance, both to the church and to the inha-
bitants, that an efficient bishop be appointed. A public
meeting of the Welsh residents in London was held on Tues.
day last, at which it was agreed to petition the Queen on the
subject; and we have been inforrned that' a deputation from
Liverpool has arrived in town for the purpose of conveying
to Lord Melbourne the strong feeling which exists among
the numerous and influential body of Welshmen residing in
that town, whose friends and connexions in Wales must be
deeply interested in the issue of the appointment. It has
been the custom for the last 130 years to sacrifice the spiritual
interests of the principality to political partisanship, and to
force upon the Welsh people an English supporter of the
existing ministry, utterly regardless of the injustice thereby
inflicted on the national religion. We trust, however, that
some deference will at length be paid to the feelings of the
loyal and long-injured inhabitants of Wales; and that her
Majesty will be advised to wipe off this stigma from the his-
tory of the Welsh church. In justification of the line of
conduct hitherto pursued, it has been latterly insinuated that
Wales has no native clergy qualified to fill the episcopal
office. In refutation of this unfounded charge we beg to
subjoin a list of reverend gentlemen, who, among others, in
point of piety, learning, and moral worth, are eminently
qualified for the office of a bishop:

The Rev. Henry Parry, vicarof Llanasa, canon of St. Asaph,
and rural dean of Tegengl (whir).
Rev. J. Williams, archdeacon of Cardigan,, and rector of the
high school (new) at Edinburgh, (supposed to be a mode-
rate t
conservaive).
_ _ _

The Rev. ArchdeaCon Newcome, warden of Ruthin, (whig.)
The Rev. Bruce Knight, chancellor of Llandaff, (conserva-
tive).
The Rev. W. W. Thomas, rector of Dinas, Pembrokeshire,
(whig).
The Rev. Dr. Llewellyn, principal of St. David's college,
(conservatiye).
The Rev. J. Hughes, vicar of Llanbadarn and Aberystwith,
(liberal).
The Rev. W. Davis, rector of Llanrhaiadr, Montgomery-
shire, (conservative).
The Rev. W. J. Rees, rector of Casgob, Radnorshire, and
a prebend of-
, (politics unknown.)
The Rev. Wm. Jones, vicar of Llanfihangel Geneu'r Glyn,
(politics unknown).
The Rev. David Parry, vicar of Llywell, (politics unknown).
The R. M. Williams, rector of Halkin, (whig)•
The Rev. Thomas Price, Crickhowel.

INSTITUTION FOR THE RELIEF OFTHE WIDOWS
AND ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN WHO HAVE
OFFICIATED WITHIN THE ARCHDEACONRY
OF CHESTER..

On Thursday last the ancient town of Warrington was en-
livened by that gathering of the clergy and gentry of the
surrounding districts, in the archdeaconry of Chester, which
in former times used to be of annual recurrence in that town,
but which now, by mutual arrangement and for general con-
venience, is held alternately in Manchester, Liverpool, and
Warrington. The business of the day commenced by the
solemnization of divine service in the parish church. The
appeal from the pulpit was made by the Rev. I. Gunning,
and, although the unfavourable state of the weather, and the
inconvenience of the day of meeting in other respects, caused
the attendance to be less numerous than on former occasions,
the sum of £46 was collected. After service, the business of
the day was transacted in the Infant School-room, and several
new calls were added as pensioners both to the widows' and
the orphans' lists. It was mentioned that the third Thursday
in July was an inconvenient day of meeting, on account of
various sessions being holden at this time, and also from the
lateness to which the parliamentary sittings are now pro;
longed, and in consequence of this it was arranged that in
future the annual meeting shall take place on the first Thurs-
day in August. At three o'clock there was an excellent
muster of the clergy and laity in the National School-room,
where most ample provision had been made for dinner, covers
being laid for about one hundred persons ; nor can we take a
better opportunity than this, of recording our praise of the
manner in which the entertainment was provided. We do
not think we ever sat down to a better dinner on such an
occasion, and we think Mr. Taylor, of the Ring-o'-Bells, the
caterer of the day, has reason to feel gratified with the gene-
ral satisfaction he afforded. The dessert was also in very
good taste.,
The chair was occupied by the Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, the indefatigable treasurer and secretary of the in-
stitution, and the official lot-urn tenens of the president for
the day, in the case of his absence. Mr. Egerton was on
this occasion unavoidably kept away. Mr. Powys was sup-
ported on his right by the Rev. Mr. Gunning, the preacher
of the day ; the Rev. John Horton, of Ormskirk ; Rev.
Robt. Masters, Burnley ; Rev. James Slade, Bolton, &c. &c.;
and on his left by the Rev. Dr. !Unger, principal of St. Bees,
and prebendary of Chester ; Rev. R. Parkinson, Fellow of
Christ College, Manchester; Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq.
&c. &c. In addition to the above, we observed the Revs.
John Moss, James North, Cecil Wray, and J. Stanniforth,
Esq. from Liverpool ; the Revs. Joshua Lingard, George
Dugard, Isaac Robley, Richard Wood, Alex. Watson, and J.
W. Harter, arid H. H. Birley, Esq., Elias Chadwick, Esq.,
of Swinton Hall, &c., from Manchester ; as also Rev. Thos.
Blackburne, rector of Prestwich ; Rev. T. Present, rector of
Stockport; Rev. G. B. Sandford, Rev. T. Corser, Stand;
Rev. N. Milne, Radcliffe • Rev. T. Hutchinson, Lymm ;
Rev. J. Driffiell Prescot ; Rev. G. GreenalliStretton ; Rev.
C. Lenard, Great Bedworth ; Rev. Streynshain Masters ;
Rev. Ainsworth, Hartworth ; Rev. -- Gibl2on, Rev. J.
Stewart, of Hale ; Gilbert Greenall, Esq. ; A. Nicholson,
Esq. ; Thomas Lyon, Esq., Appleton ; John Clare, Esq. &c.
&c. &c.

The cloth drawn and grace said, the CHAIRMAN gave the
good old toast of " Church and Queen," accompanied with
a wish that it might long continue the leading toast of every
English Christian assembly. As the company consisted
mainly of clergy, it is unnecessary to add that so loyal a sen-
timent found a ready echo. The next toast was the " Health
of the Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family."
Then followed the- " Bishop of the Diocese," as president of
this institution; to this succeeded the " Health of the Pre-
sident of the day, W. Egerton, Esq." These toasts were
severally proposed by the chairman, but with great brevity,
it being evident that he was suffering under a very severe
cold, which made his duties very irksome, physically. These
toasts having been received with marked goodwill. Dr. AIN-
GER rose with permission to propose a toast. It was the
health of a gentleman who filled several important offices in
this institution, discharging them all with fidelity and effici-
ency. He was sorry that it was necessary to wish the better
health of their treasurer and sccretary, and president for the
day. The toast was very warmly received, and at the sugges-
tion of the Vicar of Bolton, was drank by the company
standing.
Mr. POWYS returned thanks in a speech full of feeling, and
very much to the point, expressive of the warm interest he
took in the welfare of this society, and concluded with pro-
posing the health of the preacher.
Mr. GUNNING acknowledged the toast.
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the even-
ing, " Success to the Widows and Orphans of the Clergy
Charity," and previously to committing the toast to the meet-
ing, he laid before the company a statement of the financial
condition of the institution. In doing this he made most
honourable mention of the lead Manchester had taken in
bringing this charity beforethe public, by means of sermons,
the collections after which had, last year, produced £l6O, and
this year nearly the seine sum. The financial report on the

whole was satisfactory, though there is much force in the
chairman's observation, that with a little exertion far more
might be raised for the purposes of the institution. This
toast was followed by a very important appeal from Mr.
Powys, in behalf of a Branch Institution, which it is pro-
posed to form in connexion with this charity, for the purpose
of clothing, maintaining, and educating the orphans of cler-
gymen within the archdeaconry, as also of affording the like
benefits to the sons and daughters of living clergy, who from
the narrowness of their incomes, are not enabled to give to
their children that training which their own habits would
dictate.—lt will be impossible to define the contemplated ar-
rangements more satisfactorily than in the following extracts
from the secretary's circular :

" In compliance with directions received at the last anni-
versary of the: Institution for the relief of the Widows and
Orphans of Clergymen who have officiated within the Arch-
deaconry of Chester,' I beg to inform you that, in the year
1838, the following resolution, proposed by H. ,El. Birley,
Esq., and seconded by John Clare, Esq., was unanimously
passed :
" This meeting is of opinion, that a branch Institution for
the maintenance and education of the Female Orphans of
Clergymen would be a very desirable addition to the benefits
accruing to the Archdeaconry from this charity, and propose
,that the balance now in the treasurer's hands, and such a
portion of the income of this Institution as may hereafter be
thought proper should be applied in furtherance of the above
object.'
" A committee was then appointed to make inquiry into
the best mode of carrying the above resolution into effect, and
to report to the next general meeting. ,
" In nursußne. ”r.«
Wllll a view of extending its proposed benefits to
the Children of needy Clergymen now officiating within the
Archileaconry of Chester, after provision should be secured
for Orphans. They find that there ate at present in the
Archdeaconry, 187 small benefices varying from £157 to £34
per annum, and 163 stipendary curates whose stipends vary
from £lOO to £5O per annum. Making altogether 350
Clergymen, whose means, as derived from their profession;
are wholly inadequate in securing to their children an educa-
tion which their station in life should entitle them to.
* * * * * * * *

" To remedy this crying evil, and to guard against its re-
currence (a danger which the rapid multiplication of ill
endowed churches necessarily produces,) the committee have
laboured to ascertain the best mode of carrying into effect
the resolution passed at the last anniversary.
" From inquiries at Brighton, Bristol, London, and Cas-
terton, where Insitutions similar to the one proposed have
been for some years past in efficient operation, it is ascertained
that the expense would not be so great as to render the
establishment of such a school for the Archdeaconry of
Chester impracticable; and upon a calculation founded on
the experience of the above named Institutions, it is esti-
mated that an income of £590 per annum, added to the
payments'of the pupils, would be sufficient to maintain an
establishment containing fifty children, to which number the
committee would recommend admissions to be limited in the
first instance.

" Of this 1:500 it is estimated that ' the Institution for the
Relief of Widows and Orphans' will be able to contribute
annually £l5O, and is hoped that the remainder will be forth-
coming the moment that the want is made known to a
Christian public, which has shown itself heretofore always
ready to sympathize in the distresses of the clergy.
" A further sum will be needed at the outset, for the pur-
chase or erection and fitting up of a suitable building.—
Towards this fund the balance in the treasurer's hands last
year (.1.709 4s. 3d.) will be applicable so soon as sufficient
addition thereto can be obtained to cover the first expense of
the establishment. This must necessarily be a considerable
cost, but the committee do not apprehend that there will be
any difficulty in raising the amount which maybe wanted for
such a purpose.

From this it will appear, that when once the matter is
fairly started, £3OO a-year will keep it in operation. Surely
this .sum will soon be forthcoming. Efforts are at once to
be made to ensure success, and we feel sure our readers will
not require to be asked twice to further designs so thoroughly
in consonance with the temper, and so imperatively called
for by the needs of our church.

M[l. PARKINSON, in acknowledgment, of the praise which
had been meted to Manchester, expressed his conviction that
£l5O of the £3OO would be annually forthcoming from that
town. Their chairman had spoken of the necessity of zeal
and faith ; for his part he was prepared to say, " Begin so
necessary a work at once ; there is no fear of its being car-
ried through." He altogether differed from the idea that
pressing these charities impoverished the treasury for local
purposes.
Mr. CLARE concurred in this view.

Mr. SLADE was prepared to urge the claims of the new
society, and wherever he got a guinea for the widows' fund
he should ask for one for the orphans' school. .
Mr. 11. H. BURLEY was sure the matter had only to be
urged to succeed ; he for his part should be ready, and he
hoped that a decided effort would be at once made.
Success to the new project was then drank with much en-
thusiasm.

Mr. PARK IN SON then proposed the health of the " Recto:
of the Parish in which they were met," in terms of well
merited eulogy.

Mr. Powys returned his acknowledgments in a very able
and cordial manner, and concluded by proposing the health
of the 44 Laity."
Then followed " Prosperity to the town and trade of
Warrington," which having been acknowledged by Mr. J.
CLARE, thus ended an exceedingly agreeable meeting.
We shall hope hereafter to enforce the paramount claims
of the new institution for the education of the orphans and
children of the clergy. Meanwhile, we conclude with an ex-
pression of our ardent hope that the laity will henceforward
take a still more active part in this most excellent of our
many excellent institutions ; for surely if the apostle could
ask—" Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own cost ?
or who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof ?
who feedeth a flock, and drinketh not the milk of the flock"
—we may fairly say, where is the love for the brethren
which will allow the captains of our spiritual hosts, the hus-
bandmen of our spiritual garden, and the shepherds of our
flocks, to have their dying hours embittered by the racking
consciousness that even probable provision in the world
there is none for the tender and confiding wife whom be is
about to leave a widow—that maintenance and education
there is none for the sons and daughters which the Lord has
given him, and which he is about to leave without an earthly
father. Such, we doubt not, will put their trust in God,
who will not desert the home of righteousness; but can cha-
rity wing a higher or a nobler flight than when she obeys
the Christian command, " Let him that is taught us the
word minister to him that teacheth in all good things," and
thus enables the dying soldier of the cross to occupy his
faith with things unseen, rather than with the painful contin-
gencies of an offspring's daily wants. We need not say
more, than that the Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Fund
affords scope for the exercise of this exalted charity.—Man-
chester Courier.

It is stated that the nuptials of Lady Elizabeth Howard,
daughter of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, and the Hon.
and Rev. F. Grey,-son of Earl Grey, are fixed to take place
in the course of this mouth, at Castle Howard, the seat of
the former noble earl, in Yorkshire.
We hear it said among those who ought to know something
of the matter, that Mr. Thirlwall is to have the deanery of
Durham, and not the bishopric of St. David's. The deanery
of. Durham is an important and valuable preferment, and if
it be bestowed on the Rev. Connop Thirlwall, a very learned
man will have it.—lt is also reported that the bishopric of
St. David's has been offered to Mr. Williams, the Archdea-
con of Cardigan, well known as one of the profoundest scho-
lars and divines of the present time. But as the archdeacon
is of conservative politics, we are inclined to receive this last
rumour with extreme suspicion. It is, however, certain that
a strong feeling in favour of Welsh Bishops prevails through-
out the principality,' and there can be no doubt that Wales
has several native clergymen not unworthy of the bench.--
Morning Post.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1840.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. 8.)
Weekly Chronicle of the 12th of June. It does not
contain any news of importance.

We have received our files of the Sydney Gazette
and of the Sydney Commercial 'Journal to the 18th of
January, inclusive. They have been already antici-
pated by former arrivals to a later date.

We have received our files of %he Berbice Advertiser
to the ISth of May, and of the Guiana Chronicle to
the 25th of May, both inclusiv e. As we have pre-
viously received a file of the Guiana Times to the
latter date, we have no extracts :to make.

Our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette and Standard
reach to the 9th of June. Tb ey furnish us with a
more correct account of the recent disturbance in the
island than those furnished by • the American papers.
We give the particulars elsewhere. The island was,
at the latest dates, in the enjoyment of comparative
tranquillity; but great complaints are still made of the
deficient shipments of produce from the different
ports.

There is in Liverpool, and throughout the kingdom,
a large and influential class, composed of persons who,
whilst sincerely attached to, the established religion and
institutions of their country, have hitherto allowed
themselves to be dragge d along, by the influence of
early predilection, or by sincere—although, we think,

mistaken—conviction, in that march of democracy
whose aim and end are the subversion of that religion
and the destruction of those institutions.
Under the guidance of such an administration as
that of Earl Grey—an administration to whose very
errors we cannot refuse the palliation of integrity of
purpose and purity of motive—this section of re-
formers might consistently feel at ease. They saw at
the helm of the vessel in which they were embarked
men who had a determinate object in view—who were
bound to a fixed port, on their arrival at which they
hoped to be allowed to drop their anchor, and to ride
calmly in a quiet sea, after the turbulence of their
tempestuous voyage. But since an unruly and mu-
tinous spirit drove the commander in whom they had
confided from his post, and, one by one, the ablest
and most trusty of his crew were displaced 'by inexpe-
rienced and reckless men, with wild objects in view,
and without either principle or prudence to check
them in the means adopted to attain them, that confi-
dence has in a great measure ceased ; and the want of
it, in many instances betrayed, is only prevented from
being more loudly and plainly manifested by the mor-
bid fear of drawing upon themselves and upon their
motives the ribald sneer of the unreflecting or wicked
associates of their past political career.
To this section of the reform party—to this rem-
nant of the constitutional reformers of the present
generation—we wish to address ourselves ; to point
out their position and its tendency, and to chew the
course which it behoves them to pursue, as real and
true friends of their country and its institutions, if
they wish, as we fervently believe they do, to preserve
that country from anarchy and its institutions from
overthrow. In performing this duty, we shall abstain
from any attempt to excite needless alarm, or to raise
a false sympathy. We appeal to their judgment, and
not to their passions ; and however conscious of our
inability to lay, before them, in fitting terms, the strong
and urgent necessity which calls upon them to retrace,
so far as they can, their past steps,—to pause upon
the threshold of revolution—not perhaps a bloody, yet
still de facto a revolution,—and to take their stand
upon the rock of Protestantism, as the only position
from which the constitutional liberties of their country
can be effectually asserted; yet we trust that we shall
be able, at the least, to induce some—the reflecting
portion—of our countrymen to look ahead before they
embark in the new voyage, upon which they are in-
vited to set out by the crimps of the revolutionary fac-
tion.

There must be, we submit, some limit to the objects
of the constitutional reformer. There must be some
point beyond which the constitutional reformer cannot
advance, without hazard to those principles which he
has been accustomed to regard as essential to the ex-
istence of a well-organised state of society. We are
not prepared to argue that the progress of improvement
should be altogether arrested, for such a doctrine would
go to impugn the designs of a beneficent Creator, who
has made mankind capable of the greateSt amount of
moral happiness and civilization ; but we do argue
that reform, in the modern and conventional sense of
the term, is not always synonymous with improve-
ment, and may be pushed so far beyond its proper
bounds as to become a positive injury instead of a
substantial good. As depletion or the 'use-of stimu-
lants are occasionally required to correct the irregula-
rities of the human frame, so amelioration or increased
stringency of legislation are required to correct those
of the political frame : and that man is equally an un-
skilful practitioner or a desperate quack, who bleeds
his patient to death or stimulates him to delirium, as
he is an incapable or dishonest statesman who, by
relaxing the bonds of the law, introduces anarchy and
revolution into the state, or, by too stringent and harsh
policy, drives its members into rebellion.
The class of reformers to which we address ourselves
had in view the moral and political happiness of the
community, so far as it could be carried without dan-
ger to its existing institutions—to that Protestant church
and to that form of government of which they were
component members. To enable them to effect this
object they called for a large measure of parliamentary
reform ; and this they have had conceded to them, to
an extent admitted to he beyond their wildest expecta-
They called for a change in the municipal in-
stitutions of the country ; and that also they have
gained. By these two great measures they secured

cipal governments, and proceeded to carry out their
own views and their own principles into the financial
and social regulations of the empire. Every great
measure contended for at the outset of their onward
march has been passed—every leading principle as-
serted; and the objects which now remain to be ac-
complished—which form the theme of reform agitation
and the subject of the diatribes of their presoidailr
and weekly, metropolitan and provincial—are no longer
great objects, founded upon universal principles, but
mere desultory matters, upon not one of which they
can depend upon the support of a decided majority
even in a reformed House of Commons—reformed
upon their own plan, and elected during their own admi-
nistration.

The position, then, of the whig or reform party is,
in effect, this. Their legitimate objects, as reformers
of the constitution, are effected, so far as public opi-
nion will allow them to be carried; and the very term
reform, in its true acceptation, has lapsed. A reformer
is now merely a whig—a supporter of whig measures
and a whig government ; or has become a radical, and
clamours for ultra measures and a democratic govern-
And so it ought to be. and so we wish it to
remain. We have, as a community, established the
form of that constitution under which we wish to be
governed; and we are now, as members of that con-
stitution, to decide upon the measures and principles
best fitting to be introduced amongst us, and upon the
men—call it the party, if you please--best able and
most ready to carry those principles and those mea-
sures into effect. We must no longer be deluded by
a name—by a name, too, of which it may now be said,
" Stat nominis umbra" ; we must no longer follow a
jumble of inconsistencies, because it is chosen to be
designated " reform." We must now look to distinct
and tangible objects—to objects that may be weighed
and Valued ; and not run blindly after a meteor, which
shuns us as we pursue it, and may be worthless when

attained.
We have come, then, to that point at which those
men who set out as constitutional reformers may with
perfect consistency pause, and examine the ulterior
objects and the character of the party which urges
them still onward. 'With the present House of Com-
mons and the present constituency, it is evident that
the existing ministry are at a " dead lock." They eau
no longer propel the political machine in those reek.;
less and dangerous courses to which their inclination
leads, and.in the effort to effect
.which the public busi-
ness of the country is impeded or altogether neglected.
Beset on one side by needy sycophants, whose support
is only afforded them as a matter of barter, and bullied
on another by a wild and desperate set of men, whose
avowed objects are revolution and anarchy, and whose
support is only given when their measures insidiously
tend to the realisation of those objects; they are alone
restrained from plunging more deeply and irremediably
into difficulty by the imposing array of conservative
strength, which the country is pouring in at every
vacancy, to stand by and defend from innovation the

"ancient ways" of the constitution.
In this dilemma the administration party are anx-
iously casting about for the means of recruiting their
thinned ranks ; and to effect this object fresh baits will
be held out to entrap the thoughtless and unwary ;
new principles will be broached, and new alliances
entered into. Of what nature those temptations and
those principles may be, we must confess it is difficult
to determine; but the new alliance—if indeed it he a
new alliance—is sufficiently manifest. That alliance is
with Popery and with Repeal—with a mendicant agi-
tator wielding the power of Popish Ireland, and bought
at the price of a dismemberment of the empire !
It becomes now, therefore, the duty of the sincere
reformer to determine whether he will ally himself with
this new Popish crusade—for it is a Popish crusade—
against the institutions of his country—against its
Protestant church and Protestant form of government;
or whether he will fall back into the ranks of those
statesmen of his party, who, having gone their
contemplated length in reform, are now seeking to
strengthen and to fortify their position from its ex-
treme principle—democracy. It becomes his duty,
too, to lose sight for awhile of mere theoretical
changes, and examine the practical working, the actual
administration, of the powers of the political machine

under its present guidance. We are, as 'a nation,
steeped to the lips in difficulties—commercial, social,
and financial. But can no remedy, we ask, be found
except in political change ? Can no practical measures
assuage the evils complained of ? Are we still, when-
ever afflicted—whenever suffering from tangible and
determinate causes, to look only to one resource, viz.,
the infusion of a fresh portion of the democratic prin-
ciple into the state ? Will it be said that the present
Pattern constitution can afford no remedy, or is it the
sheer incapacity of those who direct it which prevents
the remedy being applied ? We suspect the latter ;
and we urge upon every sound constitutional reformer,
who ought at the same time to be a sincere lover of
his country, to examine for himself and to judge for
himself ; pnd if he can come to the conclusion—and
we think he can come to no other—that to the blun-
dering and shallow policy of the ministerial party we
may attribute the distressed and dishonoured condition
of Great Britain, we urge upon him no longer to with-
hold, from the motives of a false shame or a sickly fear,
that support which his conscience tells him that he is
bound to render to the tried friends of his country,
her interests, and her still glorious constitution !

We appeal, then, to the constitutional reformers
throughout the empire to stand forward at the present
crisis, and avert the calamity which is impending over
their country: Let them say to those who ask them
for their vote and countenance to the new ministerial
alliance, " We have aided you when we thought that
your cause was ours—when we thought that your
cause was that of the constitution ; but we will not
aid any 'party, by whatever sounding
,title they may
choose to designate themselves, who are allied with
the enemies of our faith and the abettors of treason
and rebellion. In advocating reform, we sought for
good government as its result. We looked for ir creased
prosperity to be infused into every department of trade
and commerce : we find only distress and , embarrass.-
meat. We looked for the fulfilment of your magnifi-
cent promises; and we find only bitter disappointment.
Wherefore should we still lean on a broken reed, or
cling to a falling building ?" Let this be the answer
of every true reformer to those who ask him to assist
in. giving a fresh impetus to the car of the political
Juggernaut, in whose destroying course are found
Only blood and ashes—the blood of our Protestant
fellow-countrymen, the ruin of our commerce, and
the sacrifice of our national church and our national
honour !

To the sound portion of the reformers of Liverpool
we appeal in particular. They have before their eyes
the criminal apathy of the present government, upon
every question which affects their prosperity as mer-
chants and. tradesmen, and the postponement on all
occasions of British to anti-national and party interests.
Will these men, we ask, with their accumulation of
injuries received at the hands of a contemptible and
dishonest government, be content, in order to prop up
for a brief period that imbecile thing, to ally themselves
with the Popish hordes of Irish whom its servile tools
have within the last week been foisting upon the regis-
ter, for the purpose of swamping the bona fide consti-
tuency of their town ? We trust not. We trust that,
in Liverpool at least, this impudent attempt to intrude
an Irish Catholic faction, as the dictators over and
tyrants of freeborn Englishmen, will be frustrated, by
the formation of a FIRM AND COMPACT ALLIANCE

AMONGST ALL THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES

THE FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF OUR PROTES-

PANT CONSTITUTION AND LIBERTIES

The Protector Society, formed for the purpose of
swamping the Protestant constituency of Liverpool, by
enrolling as voters hordes of Irish Papists, terminated
their registering labours last night, having paid the
rates and taxes of upwards of 800 of the lowest charac-
ters in the town, men who never paid a rate or a tax in
their lives before. Is not this enough to rouse the in-
dignation of Englishmen ? May we not anticipate from
this the fierce and deadly attack, which at the next elec-
tion will be made by the Irish priests upon the repre-
sentation of this borough ? •
The question—" Who are, and who are not to be
members for • Liverpool," will now be decided at the
sensual orgies of Derrynane, or in the gloomy cloisters
of Maynooth ; and this loyal English borough, like
Carlow or Kilkenny, will be sold by the Irish agitator
tutneu Who Iv ill vriroar allegiance to him, and prostrate
themselves to the Church of Rome. A freethinking
Hume, or a Socinian Yates, if either of them will pay
the price, may now become a representative of Liver-
pool ; or, if these prefer the honourable posts of
" natural joints of the tail," our borough will find pur-
chasers in others equally willing to follow in the foot-
steps, equally willing to be the slaves, of the Irish

agitator

Is there then no hope, no prospect of preservation
from such deep disgrace ? We almost fear not :—the
Protestants of this town have been asleep—many who
might have registered have omitted to do so—our
warnings, the warnings of our contemporaries, have
been attended to by soine, but not by all. A firm and
united phalanx of 800 Papists added to the register
(need we conceal the fact ?) are a formidable body.

Let this fact be told, let it be told to Protestants, we
.care not whether conservative or whig ; and if any,
love of freedom inspires their breasts, they will act
as one man, determined to sacrifice all minor differ-
ences for the preservation of the borough from the
dominion of Popery.
Let every freeman (and freemen can register till the
31st July) look to the roll—let every son and apprentice
who. is qualified, register. Masters, ascertain whether
apprentices whose servitude has expired, have registered
—if not, urge them to register. The freemen of Liver-
pool may still do much, much to thwart the designs of
their enemies, the indefatigable, wicked enemies, of the
liberties and the religion of England.