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

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL,

Second Ni lit lit of Madame.VESTßlS'and Mr. CHARLES
MATHEWS, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, who
are engaged for a LIMITED NUMBER. OF NIGHTS, and of
Mr. JAMES VINING, of the same Theatre, who is
ltk' • • .
ewise engaged, for a limited period.
The Engagement of Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN,
Principal Dancers of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane,
and their Pupils, Muster and Miss MARSHALL, and
Miss TAYLOR, of the same Theatre, having been re-
newed, the Grand Ballet of the DAUGHTER OF THE
DANUBE, which. has been received on each Evening
with the most enthusiastic plaudits, will, in consequence,
be repeated every Night of Perform nee this week.
THIS present TUESDAY, July 7 840, the Entertain-
iti
. meats will commence with the p it Comedy of
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
Charles Mulgrave Mr. James Vining.
Mrs. Charles Mulgrave.. Madame Vestris.
In the course of the Drama, Madame Vestris will sing the
highly popular Song of " I'll be no Submissive Wife," and,
in. the character of an Irishwoman, " Rory OP More."
After which, the favourite Drama, written by Mr. Charles
Mathews, called
PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.
• Captain Patter Mr. Charles Mathews.
Incidental to the Piece, Mr. Mathews will sing " When a
Man Travels ; or, a Guide to Paris," " I once fell in Love,"
and " Reminiscences, or Things that were not."
To be followed by the favourite Drama, called
A HANDSOME HUSBAND.
Mr. Wyndham Mr. Charles Mathews.
Henry Fitzherbert.. Mr James Vining.
Laura
To conclude with, for the sixth time here, a new Grand Bal-
let, called the
DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
The Fire Fiend.. Master Marshall. Rudolph.. Mr. Gilbert.
Fleur des Champs Miss Ballin.
Bertha and Gertrude Miss Taylor and Miss Marshall.

TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the Comedy of KNOW
YOUR OWN MIND. Dashwood, Mr. Charles Mathews;
Millamoui-, 'Mr. James Vining ; Lady Bell, Madame Ves-
tris.7After which, the favourite Drama of ONE HOUR;
THE CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly, Mr. C.
Mathews ; Julia, Madame Vestris.—To conclude with the
DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.

EXHIBITION,

CAPTAIN SIBORN'S

MODEL OF THE BATTLE

OF WATERLOO.
THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WA-
TERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at
the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater-
street, Bold-street.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad-
mission, One shillingeach.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION,
MOUNT-STREET.
MUSICAL TREAT.

lIN SATURDAY next, the 11th July instant, at Half-
V/ past Seven, p. m., Mr. VINCENT NOVELLO will
commence a Course of Four Lectures on CHURCH
MUSIC, to be continued, at the same hour, on the suc-
ceeding WEDNESDAY, the 13th, SATURDAY, the 18th, and
WEDNESDAY, the 22d instant.
The Lectures will be illustrated with very numerous and
varied selections from the works of the greatest Musical
Composers ; and, for this purpose, the services of the
Misses' FLOWER, of the London Concerts, Mr. ALYRED
NOVELLO, Mr. WALTON, of Manchester, and an extensive
Chorus have been obtained, at very great expanse.
Mr. VINCENT NOVELLO will preside at the Piano-forte.
At Half-past Six o'clock, on each Evening of Lecture,
the doors of the Institution will be elosed ; and, at a Quarter
before Seven, they will be re-opened for the admission of
the public. At the conclusion of the Lecture, the whole
suite of rooms, constituting the Exhibition, will be thrown
open, _

Admission to each Lecture, ONE SHILLING.
W. H. HODGSON, Secretary

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
EARLY DELIVERY OF THE TIMES (LONDON)
IN LIVERPOOL, &c.
SEVERAL complaints having been made, that the copies
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Wigan, Chester, &c., &c., subscribers/re informed that
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and they will then be SUPPLIED WITH THE TIMES
BY FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, AND
WITH THE LATEST EDITIONS.
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PUBLISHED.

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THE ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF
lER MAJESTY.--TRIAL OF EDWARD OXFORD.
N consequence of the interest manifested in Liverpool,
with respect to the Trial of the man for shooting at her
majesty, L. T. Gaskill has been induced to order an extra
number.of copies of The Tunas. Early orders should be
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45, Lord-street, July 5, 1840.

Ebt Kiimpoot &tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1840.

We have received a copy of the Guiana Times of the
18th of May. Its contents have been anticipated by a
previous arrival.

We have received a file of the St. John's, (N. 8.)
Weekly Chronicle to the 29th of May, inclusive. They
contain very little news of importance. The Queen's
nuptials had been celebrated with great eclat through-
out the province.

We have received a file of the Halifax (U. 5.) Jour-
nal to the Bth of June, inclusive. We regret to learn
from these papers that the dryness of the season and
the heat of the weather had materially injured the grass
and potato crops. The weather in New Brunswick
and Prince Edward Island appears to have been of the
same description, and it is said that much damage had
been done by the fires in the woods, which were still
spreading.

The Lieutenant Governor of the province had re-
ceived a despatch from Lord John Russell, intimating
his regret that it had not been in his power to submit
to her Majesty the recent address of the House of As-
sembly, forwarded for that purpose by the Speaker—
the same having been transmitted without the inter-
vention of his Excellency, and the proceeding being
unusual. irregular, and inconvenient. His Lordship
considered it to be his duty to assent, on behalf of her
Majesty's representative in the province, the strict ad-
herence to those observances to which his station gave
him an indisputable claim, and which could not be dis-
regarded without derogating from the respect due to
his power and authority. The Journal adds that her
Majesty's government approved of his Excellency's
determination not to assent to the address of the House
of Assembly, for the change of the members of the
Executive Council collectively, without the previous
sanction of her Majesty.

We learn from an extract ir. the Halifax Journal,
that the city of St. Domingo had been visited, on the
28th of May, by a great flood, owing to the immense
quantity of rain which had fallen—more than had been
known for 30 years. The current in the river ran at
the rate of 8 or 9 knots an hour, and swept several
vessels from their anchorage. A very large quantity
of mahogany and other woods had been lost by this
sudden rise of the waters, having been swept by the

current out to sea,

The Quarterly abstract of the Revenue has just been
published. It appears that on the quarter ending
July 5, 1840, as compared with the corresponding
quarter last year, there has been an increase, in the
Customs, of £266,601, in the Excise, of £141,640, in
the Stamps, of £82,228, in the Taxes, of £8,436, and
in the Crown Land Revenue, of £2,500. The decrease
on the quarter, in the Postoffice department, has been
£269,000, and in the iNliscellaneous Estimates, £10,495.
The general increase on the quarter is £211,699, and
on the year £117,433. The Postoffice department
exhibits a startling falling off, which can only be in
part accounted for by the increase in the stamp returns.
The income from the Postoffice for the last quarter is
only £lOO,OOO. For the quarter ending July 5, 1839,
it was £369,000. The country must look forward to
the imposition of new taxes, unless the other sources
of revenue are found sufficient to make up for this
deficiency.

Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill was on Thurs-
day night " obstructed" by O'Connell and his mi-
nistry, oa the motion for going into committee, and,
although the principle of the measure was confirmed
by a majority of 149, the object of the radical party—
postponement—was attained. The committee was
fixed again for Thursday next, when we have no doubt
the
same course of harassinc,'' and disgraceful oppo-
sition will be pursued, and the progress of the bill
again delayed.

With respect to the future prospects of the measure
we cannot do better than quote the conclusion of the
admirable and cutting address of Sir Robert Peel

- •
" The obstruction Which had been offered to this bill
might, perhaps, effect its object, and prevent the bill passing

nto a law during the present session. He confessed he
hardly regretted it, because he was sure that the cause of

ight and justice must ultimately prevail. (Hear, hear.) It
was not in the cause of right and justice that when a pro-
posal was made to consider the details of any measure, the
opposite party raised every possible obstruction to their con-
sideration ; but he firmly believed that the course adopted
would conciliate, not in England, not in Scotland, but among
the sound-thinking portion of the people of Ireland, (hear,)
so much of favour and confidence towards this bill, that the
temporary success of the obstruction now offered would only
lay the foundation for an ultimate and lasting triumph."—
(Loud cheers from the opposition benches.)

Our contemporary the Liverpool Journal, as the
organ of the Roman Catholic party in this town, has
volunteered a reply to our article of Tuesday last, in
which we proved the existence of Ribbonism in Liver-
pool, from documents produced in court upon the
trial of Jones, the Ribbon secretary. That fact is now
established beyond dispute, and no casuistry of the
Journal can shake it. The hideous features of the
monster, whose hands are dripping with the blood of
Irish Protestantism, have been welcomed in Liverpool;
the secret poison, whose operation convulses and mad-
dens Ireland, has invaded our own Protestant town ;
and unless extirpated by the hand of justice or operated
upon by the poWerful action of public opinion, may
produce effects the bare imagination of which is re-
volting to the feelings of humanity.

Has our contemporary succeeded in weakening our
position ? Has he shown that in any of our assertions,
or in the evidence by which we have established their
truth, we have been guilty of misstatement or perver-
sion ? He has not, most assuredly. His feeble attempt
to wipe away the blot which stains the character of his
Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen is from beginning to
end a paltry shuffle. He dare not deny that a secret
association, composed exclusively of Papists, and cor-
responding by secret signs, extends throughout Ireland
and a great portion of England and Scotland. But,
forsooth, this association is not a Ribbon association—
is a very "harmless" affair—has "no distinct object
or intention, least of all that of systematic murder ;"
and as it affects the character of " the very few Irish
residents in Liverpool who may have been members of
the society," its existence is a matter of .very trilling
moment, and ought not to be made a charge against
them.

To prove the innocuous nature of this "harmless"
association, for being a member of which an Irish

judge has been compelled—we use the word advisedly—
to inflict the punishment of transportation, the Journal
quotes the charge of Mr. Justice Ball, in which some-
thing very nearly akin to sympathy with the objects of
the society is .manifested. But does even this docu-
ment negative the position which we have taken ? Not
at all ; for in despite of the roundabout attempt of the
leained judge to soften down the features and hide
the dangerous tendency of the association, the truth
forces its way from amongst the intricate and elabo-
rately wrought apologetic tracery in which he has stri-
ven to conceal it, and he is compelled to acknowledge
that this " apparently harmless" society (the Journal
will see our reason for inserting the word "apparently"
in italics) "is formidable in its adaptation to any pur-
pose, however criminal, which, through design or acci-
dent, its leaders might be prompted to undertake."
And what are those purposes ? Who are those
leaders ? Aye, these are the questions to which we
should like to receive a reply. The objects of an as-
sociation so gigantic in its extent—so perfect in its or-
ganization—are not revealed to agents so obscure as
this Jones—are not revealed to the ignorant serfs of
the Irish priesthood, who compose its main body in the
sister country, or to the hodmen and lumpers who
compose the branches in Liverpool. But that the
Ribbon conspiracy has objects of vast and fearful im-
port there are few men mad or blind enough to deny.
Our contemporary indeed would have us to believe
that they are of a similar nature to those of trade com-
binations in England and Scotland; that they are not
of a political or treasonable nature. But when we find
amongst their documents allusion to armed movements
for the purpose of accomplishing political objects;
when we find projects for seducing our soldiers to
"turn their arms against their paymasters ;" when we
find from their passwords that those objects will only
be attained when Ireland's sons "shall be prepared for
fights," it is tasking our credulity a little too much to
ask us to believe that an association, so extensive, is
organised for the " harmless" purposes which its pro-
Popish apologist would have us to conclude.

No ; there is evidence conclusive enough upon the
face of even the few documents produced upon the late
trial which have been allowed to obtain publicity, that
Ribbonism is but the machinery of treason and out-
rage in Ireland. Let any impartial observer examine
carefully the state of that distracted land for the series
of years during which this conspiracy has been organ-
izing itself; let him view the wild turmoil of faction, of
revenge, of incendiarism, stilled at once, as by a mas-
ter-hand, and succeeded by a calm, boding and unna-
tural, like the temporary quiet of a sleeping volcano.
Let hint contemplate the circumstances attending those
mysterious acts of blood which from time to time have
horrified the whole empire, and whose perpetrators,
" known to hundreds, have never been divulged ;" let
him weigh these things and discover, if he can, any
other source to which the state of society of which they
betray the evidence can be attributed.

We never did and we do not now charge any great
portion of our Irish Catholic fellow-townsmen with a
participation in or a cognizance of these atrocities.
No : we trust that it is not in human nature that any
body of men, not utterly brutalized, would willingly
and knowingly become parties to such a hideous sys-
tem. We know that the leaders, the fiends in human
shape who pull the wires of this engine of blood and
death, carefully shroud their designs from the great
body of their wretched dupes ; but is their character
less dangerous on that account ? Is the system more
to be tolerated ? Not at all. In this very secrecy is
its greatest terror. The assassin may not know to-day
whose blood he is to shed to-morrow ; but so long as
he is bound by a solemn oath to strike wherever he is
bidden, and to strike even to the death, he is a mur-
derer, although his hand may have never touched blood
or his thought meditated the taking away the We of a
fellow-creature !

We shall not be deterred by the Jesuitry of our
contemporary or the frantic blackguardism of his
" Swiss" correspondent from bringing the subject again
and again before the public. We do this with no feel-
ing of enmity to the Irish residents of Liverpool. We
would on the contrary snatch them from the fangs of
this soul-destroying confederacy of murderers and
traitors. We have in evidence, upon the authority of
her Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland, that Rib-
bonism is increasing ; that " there is scarcely a single
post which comes from the country (Ireland) without
bringing him information of the existence and con-
tinued operations of the association ;" and we hold it
to be our duty, in common with the whole Protestant
press of the kingdom, to do our utmost in unmasking
the features and betraying the secret workings of this
system of Thuggism, which, to the eternal disgrace of
our common humanity, is allowed to desolate and
brutalize an unhappy country.
In conclusion, let us remind our contemporary that
this fellow Jones is not the only party upon whom jus-
tice has to be done. There are still other parties to be
tried, and further disclosures to be made ; and, depend
upon it, that sooner or later the MURDER WILL OUT.

A " contemporary print," in his Saturday's fit of
frenzy, has fallen foul of us for having, amongst other
offences, reprobated the apparent lukewarmness of cer-
tain leaders amongst the Conservative party, upon the
question of church extension. In alluding in our last
to the defeat of Sir Robert Inglis's motion, by a narrow
majority of 17, we expressed an opinion to which we
still hold, that, with ordinary exertions that motion
might have been carried; and we asked, " Where were
Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, and
others of their party, when this motion was under dis-
cussion ?"

To this question the Mail replies, that these gentle-
men were " where they ought to be—voting in the
ranks of the conservatives—in strict attendance upon
their duty," and forthwith he proceeds to treat us with
a volley of his peculiarly elegant vituperation, and to
charge us with insinuating that Sir Robert Peel and
his brother Conservatives had fallen back into " the
ranks of the assailants of the British church and con-
stitution."

If our contemporary had been able to read—as he
was evidently unable to quote correctly—the remarks

which we made, he would have found that our com-

plaint was the absence of these gentlemen "during the
discussion." We grieved to see, that, upon a disais-
sion of such magnitude, they failed, not only to speak,
but to give their countenance to the honourable baronet
by whom it had been so nobly and perseveringly advo-
cated. A mere silent vote is not the kind of support
which the cause of Protestantism requires at the hands
of its "champions;" and if the Mail had troubled him-
self to read the debate upon the motion be would have
found that this want of countenance, of which we were
compelled reluctantly to complain, was used as a very
effective weapon of offence against Sir Robert Inglis
by his opponents on the ministerial side of the house.
We wish our contemporary joy of his mare's nest,
and without attempting to dispute his peculiar claim to
the appellation of " the organ of the Tories of Liver-
pool," we may venture to hint that the instrument in
his hands plays sadly out of tune, and may in time re-
ceive a more proper designation as " THE MILL" of
the Tories of Liverpool. Grind away, good Mill, and
keep your temper.