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FRIDAY. Dre. 16.—Noon, Wind W.N.W.—Moderate.
(An Irish mail—High Water fib 3m p.m.)

ARRIVED—The Ca.thcrine M'Donald, Jackson, from Quebec—Ellen
Jenkiason, from Lisbon—Fair Arcadian, Rogers, from Honduras.
railed 20th Oct. —Toni Tough, (not quite sure) from Charente—The
Itebeeca, Sayer, from Marseilles—Water Witch, from Messina, (otf.)

The Mary Catherine, Colburne, for Alexandria, leaky; and Hebe,
Thompson, for Gibraltar, have both put back.
The-Margaret, Williams, for Newport, has put hack with loss of
foremast, having been in contact with the William Penn.
The Chatham, Gill, hence for Jamaica, was spoken in lat. 41, long.
9 21, by the Monk, from Leghorn oft Gibraltar. for St Domingo.
The henry Allen, hence, at Leghorn.
The Ann. M`kay. from Bay Chalenr. at Campbeltown.
The Cornelia, Davidson, from Ayr to Lough Sw illy, drove upon one
of the piers, at Caunpbeltown, and sunk, 12th instant.
The Lord Abercromby. Jeans, from Islay. alter being on shore at
Kirkham Sand, 3 ,th ult, near the l'rawle Head.

TELEGRAPII—Off Point Lynas, inward-bound—No. 1589. Champion
Bk, :rom Richihucto. No. 1625, Bvergreen, B Bk, from St John,
NB. No. 1.254, Charles ilomerton, 88, from Trieste. No. 232, Ti-
namara, B Bk, from New Orleans.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK
SEVENTY-SIX PERSONS DROWNED.

(From the New Fork Daily Express, November 23.)
We mentioned, in the express of yesterday, the shipwreck of
the ship Bristol, Captai❑ M'Koun, from Liverpool, on Far
Rockaway. We have now to state, that this has been the most
appalling disaster that has occurred on our coast since the
shipwreck of the British sloop of war at Southlitupton, Long
Island, during the war, we believe in 1813, when 108 peisons
perished. The loss of the Bristol is must heart-rending. The
sh►p was off Sandy Hook, at 9 p.m. on Sunday night, with her
lanterns out as a signal for a pilot, at which time the gale had
just ecamenced. No pilots, however, were out, and the ship
had to stand off; at a quarter before four, a.m. tin Mouday
morning, the ship struck on Far Rockaway, and, distressing to
relate, at day-light, although within half a mile of the shire, no
relief could be afforded to the distressed passengers and cus,/
who Were clinging to the shrouds. All day they remained in
her. af Xout eieveu o cluck, p.m. the sea abated and boats
went to her relief, and sueceeded in taking off the captain and
a portion off the crew, and wine of the cabin and steel age
sengers. We are, however, distressed to state, that two sort-
men, the cook and steward, with a Mr. Donnelly. two Messrs.
Carltons, cabin passengers, and about sixty steerage passen-
gers perished. All were rescued that remained on the wreck
when the boats reachKl.her ; but during the day the ship went
to pieces, and yesterday morning the stern-post only was left.
In connexion with this loss of life, the .-lawrican calls public
attention to the fact, that it was occasioned by the negligence of
the pilots, who, on account of the monopoly they enjoy, are not
attentive to the performance of their duties. " Here was, (says
the American,) a ship within jive miles of her port, and making
every exertio❑ to procure a pilot, and yet no pilot was to be
had, and the gale coining on, caught her so much in shore that
it Was impossible to claw off, stud the result was, her destruction,
and that of many human lives, we fear.".

(From the Daily ktpres.l of Noe. 24.)
We are at length enabled to state, with s•une degree of cer-
tainly, the number of lives lost and saved on board the Bristol.
So far as we can learn,. forty persons only are saved and more
than sixty lost. Several bodies came nu shore, an.! were
buried yesterday and during the night previous. The spars and
upper (leeks are entirely gene, and the bea•ch is strewed with
ftit.,_ianeuts.
The heavy part of the cargo keeps the bottom of the ship
stationary on the outer bar: efforts will be made to recoviir part
of the iron, copper, &'. A few packages of dry
roods and
crates, and 29 puncheons of whiskey had washed ashore, and
would be 'sent round to the city.
The American, of last evening. gives IN the f‘itlowing particu-
lars of the disaster. The Ditates abed.' to upon the shores of
llocLaWaY' &serve a wor:c boo than that which has befallen
the unfortunate beings who h.,vc lost their lives and their all :
"Amon, the passengers lust was Mr. Donnelly, the son-in-
law of Ow I dg e Michael lloan,of this city, and he died a victim
to' his ow wo n philanthropy.. Mrs. Hogan and t daughters, her
nurse and children, were saved, and, with other women and
children, landed by the first boat. 'Twine the boats returned to,
the wreck, and twice Mr. Donnelly yielded his place to others.
In the third attempt to gff
o o,
! l
otwgo back. M eant
the storm increased, and Al r. Donnelly, with the two Mr. ere swamped, and the
crew became diseouraged. and wouldt
Carl-
tons took to the foremast, where the creW and many of the
steerage passengers had songht temporiry safety.- Unhappily
this mast soon went by the board, and, -of about 20 persots on
it, one Only, Mr. Briscoe a t.,oiin ra,senger, was sated, and by
catching at the bowsprit riggin(. front whence he was taken by the
boats. The captain and other cabin and
steerage
passengers
wore on the mizenmast, and when that fell, he and others lashed
themselves to the tuffsail, where fur four hours the, sea broke
over them.
Some twenty of the steerage passengers, principally women
and children, perished almost immediately atter the ship strock•
Even before they could leave their berths the ship 'dived, tilled,
and all below were drowned. Not a giiiiu was heard to denote
the catastrophe, so awfully sudden was it.
" And to those whom the waves and the mercy of God bed
,:pareil, what was the conduct or their brother man ? Their
persons, their trunks, were searched and robbed by the fiends
that gathered around the wreck. One hapless being, thrown
senseless but yet alive, on the shore, and having about him his
all (ten sovereigns) was plutoleted of them!
" Among other things, Mrs Distinctly was robbed of a value-
able ease of jewellery, some of which were publicl) paraded, as
we are told, by an individual who can be traced."
ONn oF THk SilFFEavas.—Yesterday' afternoon. one
unfortunate passengers of the ship thistol was picked
Long Island, almost in a state of nudity. lie was taken
Alms-house, where it was found he was both deaf acid
He had four sovereigns and some English silver coin
possession

of Ih9
up
to the
in his,

M A lICH OF TE 1.1.P.CT. —A fsa proof of the great sagacity of
the new corporations, and their ft erdoin from a 1 vulgar
(twos, the Bath corporation have taken into their employ a
man it, ow ~,rvice of a Mr. Haocock, 10.111 councill .1., woo
pretends to find water by the divining roil, for the purpose
of availing themselves of his supernatural poweis.— Bath Chro-
nicle.

POPISII LOYALTY.—At n Roman Catholic dinner given to the
titular Bishop of Cork the first natal given was, "The tattier
of the Chi istian world, the representative iir the majesty of God,
the centre of peace nod tinily on earth. the great tiffcctual•pro-
imier of religion and civilizai ion on COI th —the Pope." Ano-
ther CiAliolie Bishop proposed. "The King, the first servant of
the people.",—Cumbei land t'acict.
SAGACITY OP A 1)01i, ANO Pll,l{ll.ol_lS SITUATION Or A DRER•
The following singular circumstance ',veined at I'•K ham Park
on the evening of Tuesday last : Whilst Colonel ::;alwey was
envogail in directintz some labottrnrs tail ‘,ere eta plo)ed in
clearing the ground of Intilosr,
blown down by the violence of
the late hurricane, his curiosity
was excited by the earnest at-
tempts of a favourite terrier to lead him in the direction of a
high iron-spiked gale at the extremity of the Park. On direct-
ing his attention to the spot. he perceived stone object suspeloied
f.om the spikes, which, upon a nearer ai,proaell, proved to he
htehehadhart:,
one o!.* His Majesty's Swinley deer. strtiggiing i t ,t•v.o.cit,,y, but
the gate the wretehed animal hail heroine perfectly fixed and
ineffectually, to obtain its rfielz;.twßisyt.e,liii:ittiii:i,lei
resting upon it, had caused
qmathidloett:rniheoc:::,a; motionless,
dreadful
is,
ti:},
~pt;ainieli.eih,dl
ieria):::,,,,ii,benleiaegi
cli:egtfrotahiteti
(Isneit sharp iron
iyiireotnhsrpoeaat.rs, which in eni tic
oe;
i-
t:,;148: dressed,h 'l
and everrsuigtgreecsau-
wever, speedily eon-
f;l11-Ifiatt ed deer had afforded much
precau-
tion
ineowynuta.
itdi initktot
ei.,ain,lsttiv)ate
ist
),:laeve
n.,1
Itt
lull:
insel
ny
el\rit
trl
ohoei
us
eu.ot
ter,
tedd
ITs
fieldiste
direction
hieit ceirogtei
:0;1 0 f
Staines,
mil e
te i t
steam
pertsmen on the previous day,
having been turned out at the Magpies on Hounslow-heath, from
whence it had run
field
the river and escaped.
quietly grazing in the
tobecrlelr dugs
following day it was discovered
esanidleedayboyurainn s near Runnymede: hut being as-
_Ts, escaped into Egbano:park, and in
e lofty iron gate met with tits inuel
disaster.—Wiquir Rspreff,

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LIVERPOOL
TOWN COUNCIL.

GENTl.olEN,—under the heads of translation and notes, I
have already given you one pf..onr strap_g objections to the
books, erroneously called &cripture lessons, which are used iu
your schools. On.the subject of translation I have now to add,
that in the lesson-book professing to contain the Gospel of St
Luke, the variations from the authorised version amount to one
thoulapd xile hundred and eighty ; and in the lesSori-lieole of the
Acts of the Apostles, the variations are one thOusand nine hun-
dred. and „six. Many of these ate necessarily immaterial as to
the,x)eaming of the sentence.; but,, in the:aggregate, they give,
to the books (Woks professing to he Scripture) the aspect and
sound of complete novelty. I have_ already shown how utifaif.
this ic itself, and how disastrous it is calculated to be in its

consequences. .
We object to these books, in the third place, because they
elevate the Douay version of the Old Testament, and the
Rheimish version of the New Testament, (these two compose
wait is .commonly called the Douay Bible,) tutu a position of
pjtel authority with our authorised version,.
•
Iti the preface to No. 1 we are informed that " the transla-
tion has been made by a comparison
.of the authorised and
Dailey versions, with the original." In the subsequent nuni-
hers, the .words of the Rheimish translation are frequently
adopted; in St. Luke above six hundred times, in the Acta of
the'Apostles aboVe five hundred, and the notes Contain numer-
ous references to the Rheimish version. Thus it appears, that
the combined sources from whence the lesson-books profess to
be. derived are the authorised version without cote or comment,
and the Douay version with both notes and comments, a leaoing
of preference being manifestly given to the latter. Moat of the
notes appended to the lessons are original, containing many
unaiithorised statements of doctrine, of private and es parte
interpretation. To the existence of nines at all, in books forced ,
into use as these are, we objed, as an unfair rejection of the
great Protestant principle, and adoption of the invariable
Romish practice.
It is quite possible that, beyond this, no objection may occur to
yqur minds against, the equality of„autherity claimed., for the
Dpuiy and authori4ed versions. On the contrary yen Juav
be dispnsed to inquire, why should they not be treated as of
authority? . In reply to this, it will be useful to revive a
few historial reminiscences concerning the translations made at
Douay and Rheims. These will materially assist us in forming
a cnrrect estimate of the value of the translations themselves..
have already called your attention to the histUey of our
authorised version, and to the high testimonies. in approbation
of it. compiled by Mr. Horne. To these I will add no more
than the tribute of Mr. Southey, who calls it " a,truly admira-
ble translation, whereiii, after the great advances which have
been.made in oriental and Biblical learnine, no error of main
intipeitance has been discovered."—/Lok (f the Church, vol. 2,
page 337.
Hear now the history of the Douay Bible. The founder of
th'e colleges at Douay and Rheims,. arid the chief translator
of the Rheimish Testament, was ,Dr. Willi tm Allen. He was
an Englishman; but for multiplied acts of treason, was com-
pelled to fly from his country. He went to Flanders, where he
exercised all the powers of his mind,- and they were great, to
check, and if possible to overthrow, the pro2tess of the Protes-
tant Reformation in England He became a pensioner of the
King of Spain, and -was created- cardinal by the Pope. lie
laboured to corrupt the soldiery of Englan I, and succeeded,in
tempting Sir William Stanley to betray Deventer, in Holland,
to the Spaniards. In Concert with the Jesuit Parsons, he de,
viied the scheine of the Spanish invasion of England, in the
celebrated " Invincible Armada." He was patroniied by the
infamous. Duke de Guise; who, with Catherine de Me-diei.c
plagued the massacre of tens of thousands of Protestants,. on
St. ,Bartholomew's day : and he was the wilting instrument of
4iregory XIII, who appointed a Public thanksgiving at Rome,
for the success of the above mentioned slaughter. Cardinal
Allen sent Jesuits into England,; to t tint the principles of the
peoge. The pupils in the colleges he founded were taught all
Manher of ways to divide Protestants in principles of religion ;
and were themselves bound by an oath, of which the following

is a copy.
" 1, A: 8., di acknowledge the ecclesiastical and political
power of his Holiness and the mother church of Rouse as the
chief head and matron above all pretended churches, through
the whole earth. And that my zeal shall be for St. Peter and
his successors, as the founder of the true and ancient Catholic
faith, against all heretical kingS, princes, states, or powers,
repugnant unto the same. Aud although I, A. 8., /nay pretend,
in case of persecution, or Otherwise, to be heretically disposed,.yet,
in soul and conscience, I shall help, aid, and succour the mother
church."—Strype's Atteeb, ii, part 2, p. 237.
"In the year 1582, the Romunists holing it impossible to
withhold the Scriptures any longer from the common people,
printed an English New 'testament at Rheims; it was trans-
lated, not from the original Greek, but ft curl the Latin Vulgate.
The editors-(whose names are not known) retained the words
azymtss, tunike, holocaust, parche, and a multitude of the Greek
welds untranslated, under the pretext of yranting proper and
adequate English terths, by which to render them, and thus con-
trived to render it unintelligible to conaruon readers. Hence the
historian Fuller took occasion to remark that it was a "trans-
lation which needed to be translated," and that its editors, "by
All means laboured to suppress the light of truth under one pre-
tence or other." Our learned countryman, Thomas Cartwright,
was solicited by„.Sir Francis Walsinghain to refute this transla-
tiOn,,but after ha had made considerable progress in the -work,
he was prohibite'd from proceeding further by Archbishop Whit-
gift,:who judging it4approper that the defeuce of the doctrine of
fire Church of.gfattil shauld be.committed to a puritan, -ap-
pointed Dr. William Fillke in his place. By hits the divines
of Rheims were refittesi with great spirit and ability. Fulke's
work appeared in 1617, and in the following. year, Cartwright's
confntatton was published under, the auspices of Archbishop
Abbot; both of them were accompanied with the Itheiniish
translation of the New TeStament. The Old Testament was
translated from the Vulgate at Douay, (whence it is called the
Douay Bible,) in two volumes, 4to; the first of which appeared
in 1606, and the 'second in 1610. AnnotatiOns are subjoined,
which are ascribed to one Thomas Worthington; the trans-
lators were William (afterwards Cardinal) Allen, Gregory
Martin, and Richard Bristow. This translation, with the
Rheimisn version of the New Testament above noticed, forms
the English Bible, which alone is used by the ltomanists of this
country."— Horne' s Introduction, vol. ii, p. 249, edit. v.
Archbishop Newcome has given the following rule (and wise
men will agree in esteeming it a wise rule) forconductinga trans-
lotion of the Scriptures : " The translators should be philologists,
not controversialists." The reverse of -this is notoriously true
concerning the Douav anti ttnetmtsu .
as -their actions and their notes proved, most furious and
unscrupulous controversialists. They gave such violent ex-
pression to their opinions, that even the Church of Rome her-
self has never since so far thrown off the mask as to give the
imprimatur of her avowed and authoritative sanction to their
preductions.
The Rheimish Testament, with its intolerant notes, was re-
published in Dublin, in 1816, "'corrected evised, and approved"
by the most Rev. Dr. Troy, R. C. Archbishop. It was reviewed
with well-merited severity by the British Critic, (N .S.) vol. viii,
' . 296-308. After this review had attracted public attention,
and excited public indignation in England; Dt. Troy published
St.dislairner of the notes "as harsh and irritating in expression,
Lime of them false and absurd in reasoning, and many of them
as uncharitable in sentiment."
Such is the book which is elevated into an equality of estima-
tion with our authorised version,—which is referred to conti-
nually with approbation in the lessons now in your sehools.—and
against which, whether in the matter of translation, or in the
contents of the notes, not one syllable of disapprobation is ever
whiikiered by the Irish board! Is not our charge of unfairness
rgainst those lessons fully established? And
tl ought not Pro-
teifants to be loudly wated of the precipice on the brink of
Whieh their dear children must stand, if yes nutted to enter those
ijhOols, and to have their opening minds familiarised with those
disastrous books?
Did Dr. Murray, as a member of the Irish boaid, claim for
the Rheimish Testament, Without any pointed and prominent
protest against the cotes, an authority parallel to the authority
Vie claim for our version? This is an interesting inquiry. If he
did, what becomes of his disclaimer, his indignint, his Sworn
:dfieraiiner of those notes ? If he did not, what shall be said of
the voluntary exuberance of liberality itt the Protestant
iiemtiers of the board, advancing an ultratriiPish version into
a position which even the Church of Roue does not claim for
it ? And what shall be said of the impartial meekness of Dr.
Murray in allowing that version to be so unduly 'lmmured by
the overflowing gou'd-riature of his Protestant eoadjutators?
4. We object to these books fourthly, because they distinctly
inculcate many of the unscriptural doctrines of the Church of
Xtome, 1 shall adduce three instances : first, on the fanciful
JOCality which Roman Catholics are taught to call purgatory ;
secondly, on their undue exaltation of the Virgin Mary; and,
tiairdly, on the
supposed sacrifice of the mass. Clearly to per-
vAive "the nature and extent of the mischief aceomplished in
these books, by expressions of apparently:little consequence, it
is absolutely necessary to be iu some degree acquainted with
!be state of the controversy, as it has long existed, on the vital
Aiffereuces between Popery and Christianity. This
,must
prove my excuse for what may appear to some of you to be tedi-
ous. .

•
Purgatory.—Gregory Martin uses these words as the heading
of one of his chapters,—" Heretical translation against
,purga-
tory, Limbus Patrum, Christ's descending
_into hell." Ile af-
terwards states " their (the reformers') principal malice being
Against purgatorie, that is, against a place where Christians'
soules should be purged by suffering of temporal pains after this
life, for since maintenance of their erroneous denial thereof,
they take away and denie all third places, saying, that there
never was, from the beginning of the world, auy other place for
smiles, after this life, but only two, to witte, heaven for the
"blessed, and hell fur the danined."—p. 196.
In proof of this charge, that the Reformers corrupted the text,
in order to avoid any translation which might countenance the
iaotion of purgatory, he alleges that, instead of translating
Genesis xxxvii, 35, as it is in the Douay—" I will goo down
.to my sou into het, (or the place of the dead) mourning." they
translated L will go down into the grace, unto my son,
' inourning."
~• The ground here taken in
_proof of the heretical translation
o 1 the Scriptures by Protestants, is, that they render, by the ap..
propriate phrase " the grave," that which in the Runtish ver-
sions is rendered ". hel," or, "the place of the dead." The
_translation of the word in one way is deemed heretical; in the
'Other it is considered as affording evidence of the ekistence ot'
-i(place besides heaven and hell, to whidi the souls oh the de-
fr:parf4d'are consigned. Under these circifinstances,' it will be
interesting to observe which of the two tiaides of translation the
`'Coinmissioners of Irish Education have. seleCied. For this
trpose I shall" now give the passage in which the disputed
word occurs, is the authorised version, the away-, and the Irish
li4ssons.