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ensure.' "

We had determined on looking through all the
worthies depicted by the Chronicle, but we fiiid the

•
worthy Methodist friends have availed themselves of
so much of the space we had intended for ourselves,
that to do so in our present publication is irupossiblef:.
"Ex uno," we would sae, "disce omnes." We .niu.st, • -
however, express the lope that Messrs. Hornby and 7 •
Earle, Bolton and Wahnsley, will derive as much in-
struction from the faithful remarks of the above allude
to Methodists, as it is presumed will the Esculapian
operator on the lugubrious bagpipe.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—We avail ourselves of
the last opportunity of aduressing the electors of LiYer"
pool previously to the first of November. Thursday,:
next will probably decide whether the " good .014
town" is to continue, for some years to come, to have ,
its local affairs administered by the hypocritical and
tyrannical " liberal" faction. It is, therefore, of the :
utmost moment that the conservatives should "buckle:. '
on their armour," and enter uponthe approaching..
contest with that zeal which the emergency- of the.case
demands, and which the desire of good*gorernment:
ought to prompt. Our radical opponents, feeling.':
that their future ascendancy in the borough isat
are indefatigable in their exertions.. They are resort
ing to every expedient which their ingenuity- can-d,i_s,
cover, in order to secure another, triumpAt..-..t10-!....,
leaders, that is to say, the very few geutletneo
they can muster as partisans, are busily en.Vggct,S°C'
canvassing the several wards, and using-, all tkir:7r,
fluence to intimidate the voters. Let the
tires, therefore, be equally on the alc4ti.andystrairti
every nerve to wrest the town from the hatidsnf
present rulers. Let the conservative gentry, ye,"and.l.::
conservative ladies too, as far as they. canilq_.sia_io7-;-
sistently with that sense of propriety which befits tbelr:
station, immediately engage in an active persOnarcaa.-...
vacs on behalf of the constitutional candidates. We..
do not advise the use of any illegitiniate influence
over the constituency, such as iA te.,n'ted t!y, scyalt -‘,
scrupulously by the self styled .All Wn,wn,9i•-
is energy and activity in a gaod cause.
see loyalty triumph over disaffection---7cpust"u"nl
principles over the destructive doctrines of repubh-
canism—the Protestant Church of England •nveir
apostate Church of Rome—true and undefile4-1-eltelori.,:
over the infidel latitudinarianism of the ages..dlll;O.rat.'.:
education over the unchristianising.
Papists, - Sociniani; find Infitlills
Iwo Vo.*hoire at:".conaplisktnettiOrgwatil4

Ceipsi election subservient. Are we wrong in seek-
tg to stimulate the zeal of the Christian electors of
Liverpool in a contest involving such important issues ?
Electors of Liverpool ! are you satisfied with the
Proceedings of the liberal majority in the toon conn•
Do you approve of their acts'? Have they done
nothing to forfeit your confidence ? Take a brief re-
view of their career; and then say whether they have
acquitted themselves honestly and impartially.
What have the liberals dune since they have be.
come " lords paramount" at the council board ? Look
at their first act—the insult which they deliberately
offered to the electors of Liverpool by investing the
rejected candidates at the first election with the alder-
!wank dignity. Look at the next step which they took
to redemption of their oft-repeated professions of im-
Portsality—the dismissal of the old, tried, and faithful
"runts and officers under the corporation, for the
sake of providing for their political scouts and re-
titterers. Look, again, at their monopolising and
trasping policy in reference to the Dock trust, to
W Inch they refused to nominate a single conservative.
Look, again, to the exclusive spirit which they mani
tested in preparing lists for the appointment of magis-
trates. Call to mind their meetings "in secret con
clove" at the Angel kin, to deliberate upon and pre-
determine measures which ought only to have been
discussed in open council. Look, again, at their in-
famous conduct on the school question. Have they not
practically excluded the children of Protestant parents
front the corporation schools. whilst nearly all the
!Iloney appropriated to the maintenance of those schools
Is derived from the pockets of Protestants ? Have
they not converted the only public schools of the town
lino Popish seminaries ? Look, once more, on the
conduct of the faction in reference to the warehouse
question. Has not this notable scheme been prompted
by the same love of patronage by which they have
ever been distinguished ?
Electors of Liverpool ! ponder over these things
Ware you give your votes on Thursday. Remember,
that the triumph of the radicals on that day may, and
Probably will, lead to mote aggravated instances of
inonopulising illiberality than those which we have
tnuarerated. Are you willing to risk so dangerous a
contingency ? Do you wish for a little more tyranny •
1.11 the town council ? If you do—if you really are so
Infatuated as to " love the yoke and hug the chain"—
then vote incontinently for the radical candidates. We
do not, however, believe you are so blindly oblivious
of your own interests, and the prosperity of the town.
Merchants of Liverpool ! what obligations do you
are to the liberal majority in the town council ?
When your interests have been perilled by the iota
tuated and doltish policy of the present imbecile
Ninistry, have these gentlemen ever ventured to offer
single remonstrance on your behalf ? Oh ! no—they
,Woold sooner see the commerce of Liverpool anni-
ntlated, and its shipping destroyed or confiscated, titan
take any step which might alarm or disturb their very
Bend friends on the treasury benches.
Tradesmen of Liverpool! what have the liberals done
for you ? Have any of you experienced the benefit
of their patronage, unless you have evinced a g-
nus to " go the whole hog" with them on political
kitten ? Has it conduced to your interests that the
corporation cunt racts have, in several cases, been given
to distant strangers?
Operatives of Liverpool! can you point out any
benefits which you have derived from the ascendancy
Of the Reformers? Have they carried on any public
works—introduced any public improvements of import-
ance, to give you employment? Where is there any
Irvidence of their encouragement to trade out of the
°c:prate funds? Echo answers, where ?
Freemen of Liverpool ! are you not under obligations
Which can never be cancelled to the liberals ? Have
they not tried, by every trick and chicanery in their
Power. to rob you of your birthrights—to deprive you
Oa privilege to which you are as justly entitled as any
°ne of these tyrannical Radical plunderers is to the
*oat to his back, and perhaps more so ? You certainly
ere under very deep and lasting obligations to the
Reformers in the Town Council, and we feel assured
that you will take due care to repay them. We hope
r▪
id net a single freeman will record his vote for a
RhPral candidate on Thursday next.
L• icensed Victuallers of Liverpool ! to whom are you
'Sdebted for the depreciation in value of your licences,
and the permanent injury inflicted upon your trade,
11 the recent grants of new licences ? Is it not to the
reform magistrates of the borough—men who have
been promoted to the office at the instance of the libe-
rals in the Town Council ? Did the old tory magis•
trate: treat vou so cavalierly ? Will you vote again
for those wlio have so "liberally" despoiled you of
lour property ?
Electors of Liverpool ! on Thursday next let your
/ate: be recorded on behalf of the Conservative condi
44(ts—the true reformers—the genuine liberals.
As a parting advice we would suggest to our o-
s*tvative friends to record their votes at an early C
hounr
0 the day—those who have only single votes, at least
rfore ten o'clock—those who have duplicate votes, as
Mass the relative strength of parties in the respective
itirds is ascertained. Let promptitude and vigilance,
kiti and perseverance, be the motto of every Comer-
*wive, end victory shall be his reward.

COURT OF PASSAGE-SAT URDA T.

(Before CHARLES CROMPTON, Esq., Assignee.)
ROBERTS AND ANOTHER V. WYLIE.
Mansell appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Murphy
for the defendant.
The plaintiffs, in this case, are the widow of Mr. Roberts,
Wit,, formerly kept a small public-house, and rented a wind-
kill near the bottom of Islington, since carried on by the
Widow and another person, as executors of the late Mr.
*".otterts, against Mr. Pringle Southern Wylie, the master of
1;1 vessel in the African trade, for a debt of £2OO incurred
by him during A long period, tot a score at the public-house.
It appeared that the defendant first went to the house of
kir. Roberts iu July. 1832, and boarded there about four
Stomas, when he went to sea; was absent about eight months,
Sad again returned, and lived about the same period at the
house of Mr. Roberts again. He then was absent about
!inht rowans at Jersey, and again returned, keeping up these
"sritieiliary and intermittieg visits. till March 1838. The
*hole et the rharges fur this long board had been unpaid,
11114 were scored up nehind the kitchen (loot ; and the chalk-
:rt. is process of time, covered both the bar and kitchen
r. It appeared that this long credit had been probably
alien on account of the deleukinr, after his first visit,
ahng paid his addresses to Miss Woberts; and had kept up
e cut/Re:ion till May of the present year, when lie gut mar-
ti' to another person. It was attempted to prove, that these
-?ine visits were properly visits, and ought not to be, and were
"et undercuod to be, charged.
Mille Ellen Hobeits was examined, and deposed to the
vllsrious stays of the defendant at her father's house, and that
v.* Paid his addresses to her. Her father never knew that
"s defendant came there as her accepted lover; nor was her
44"ther aware of it either. Her father rented a neighbouring
Zittdutil!, as well as kept the public house, on which he had
2tisout £7OO. The score chalked up on the door amounted,
B"e•'uta!d think, to from £l6O to £2OO. There were eight
titaunt children all dependent upon her father's exertions.
ne defendant, on one occasion, paid her mother £25, and
1a took a towel and wiped out the long score behind the
and said it would be all right.
A `troissexamitted.—She made another engagement, and the
..th
tistant hearing of it, posted front Jersey, and obtained an
141oorview with het; and promised her, if she would give up
I'olller suitor, he would settle the interest of £5OOO upon
_ which he expected to obtain at his mother's death. The
L'lidittat had since got married in the early part of the
""sent year. She had gone to the defendant's hotel when be
*ems "Id in Liverpool with his wife, and upbraided him in a
where his wife and other ladies were present. She
said she would take vengeance on him for her disap-
tipsiest. She did not show him in the hotel any rings he
..liven her; she showed him a broach.
Me Roberts, the brother of the last witness, deposed to
LI defendant stopping at his father's house and getting his
,7118 there for various long periods, and to his mother Ire-
eleatly lending him money, and also frequently asking him
41. Peyntent.
Cross-examined.--Has not Mr. Wylie brought in joints
4t
kt!leet to be dressed fur dinner?—He has brought in a few
a
"timps now and then. (Laughter.)
1,6,6,11 t no meat ?—No meat; he has brought people in to dine
" Very often.
f atephen Dempsey, joiner, deposed that he knew the de-
:l4ld to be living at Mr Roberts's. He had known him
ett four meals a day there during long periods. He had
ssekeitsteti with him, and had himself gone to fetch him six
'II! fat his breakfast. (Loud laughter.)
bilmeirr—li ( Loud laughter.) lie lived
*Wifely. He s
hads heard Mrs. Roberts ask hint for
te7. He used to burrow money from Mrs. Roberts.
f'rnitheth Glover, servant at the public-house, deposed
et4llll had frequently beard her mistress ask the defendant
it :dismay for his board and washing. The defendant one
4041 tonk a cloth and wiped the score off from the two doors,
iL4 sn;d if he saw it there any longer it would drive him mad,
i'4"l OW he was going home and would settle it all. He
Paid her mistress £25.
Lhie was the plaiutiff's case.
Pritattritv, for the defence, said he should be able to
posh' that his client haying come into the possession of pro-
s,4 , and having the ability and the willingness to pay what
te! "ring by him, in May fast asked Mrs. Roberts what was
asid4 to her, and was told by her that £2O. would cover all,
t‘nat he gave her £25. Two thousand years ago the chief
li:141e Vice had been said tot l
revenge, and that, it was his
14: Pt, had instituted this action; that Miss Roberts having
inted of a matrimonial alliance had got up by
far"s of her friends, this demand, out of revenge. Anti so
is -,Cat this feeling carried that the defendant on his revisit-
' i 74 Liverpool, immediately after his marriage, was called
seht' hY Miss Roberts and violently upbraided in the pi.,
tishete of his wife, and next .day he was arrested for this alleged.
qe,u) without having been served with any particulars of
Nfrid. He called
totC Benjamin Southern, who deposed, that he was cousin
/ts: defendant, and went with hint in May last to Mrs.
dsa house and saw his cousin send off his luggage, and
426" biro ask what was to pay, and Mrs. Roberts said that
426. WOOl,l cover all. Upon which Mr. Wylie gave her
tia, 411,"d they parted very friendly. Mr. Ws, he had at the
Plat end
£3OOO. on his person. This was before he was
444 zthen witnesses were called to prove that the defendant
slif:tel been the period at the plaintiff's house, which it was
Wste had, and that therefore the bill of particulars was
1:111i)L,
Ansel/Mu, in reply, contended that the payment of
4-4-.2• was payment fur spirits and only a payment in part.
_ he ASSESSOR suinmed up at considerable length, going
rer the whole of the evidence. The Jury expressed a wish
to retire, and after an absence of ab .ut seven hours ret united
with a verdict for the defendant. The trial occupied from
one o'clock till five, and the Jury did not return with their
verdict till ten o'cio'ck.
There Was another case by Mrs. Roberts against the same
deh'ndant, for debt for board and washing and money lent
!lnee: the death of Mr. Roberts. The debt was £lOO. Simi-
te
found
evidence was gone into to prove the debt, arid the Jury
i for the ilaiutiff, damages £25. This was tried by
another Jury.
The Court broke tip at ten o'clock.

TtitiGeerge
Nw y Washington made oyill I l ead in 17 days from
'e-- -urk, was•teleoraphed on Friday afternoon, and news
of Iser arrival sent to" Bristol the same day. The Great West-
to would take out the intelligence of the picket's art teal off
kbr11"1, And it maybe expeetetrto reach New York in
tkutlicil maytrlid. 40 lifter tie George li gWa bin ton't tailing flora

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE REV. DR. TATTERSHALL.

MY DEAR SlR,—Allow me to address a few words publicly
to you, as the chairman of our late anniversary meeting of
the Liverpool Protestant Association.
You are aware that, ever since I came to Liverpool, I have
been assailed by the unfounded assertions and unscrupulous
abuse of what is very erioneously called the liberal press;
and that I have uniformly allowed such attacks, though easy
of refutation, to pass without comment. Meantime, my
exercise of that liberty of conscience and liberty of speech,
which are the birthright of Englishmen, has continued to
excite the wrath of these writers, who are loud in their praises
of liberty so long as it is all on one side—that is, so long as
they have liberty to do and say as they like, arid no one else
takes the liberty of doini, and saying as he likes. But whet)
the exercise of liberty heroines mutual, and a bad cause is
made to feel the inconvenience of free discussion, then these
eulogists of a one-edged freedom are converted into railers—
angry, personal, abusive, and (in my case at least) false
railers—against the sharpness of the other edge. They can-
not let rue alone.

I find that during my absence at Hereford and Wolver-
hampton, at each of which places I have been for a few days,
much has been said both in the public prints referred to, and
in private, on the subject of the occurrence which I men-
tioned at the conclusion of my speech on the 4th instant.
The accuracy of my statement has been arraigned in no
measured terms: evidence purporting to overthrow it has
been adduced on the authority of certain residents in Fisher-
street, who, it seems, cannot sign their own names; and
because I have not taken any notice of these attacks, a joy-
ful readiness to fasten a charge of falsehood upon me bas
been manifested.

In private I am always ready to give courteous explana-
tion to every enquirer, whether rich or pour. With respect
to the public prints, I may well continue to hold myself ex•
cu,ed from noticing the appeals of anonymous writers who,
having, to their own credulous and complacent satisfaction,
proved me to be a liar, and laying, to the utmost of their
moderate ability, held me up as such to public odium, then
eall upon toe as a clergy Inso, a Christian, and a gentleman,
to plead at their bar. Ido refuse to lend toy name and tone
to forward the views of such paragraph writers, whose trade
it is to write paragraphs, and whose chief object—to wit, au
increase of the sale of their papers—is greatly promoted by
any respectable person taking notice of what they say.
But that no man whose good opinion is worth having may
misunderstand this, and to meet the wishes of some of my
friends expressed in private, 1 trouble you with ttis letter.
Satisfied from my own observation, that a system of petty
but grevious• intimidation ; petty i❑ appeatance when it
comes to be made the subject of a public statement, but very
grevious in itself to the poor people who have no ready re-
dress when suffering under it; a system long practised, and
with disastrous success by the subjects of the court of Rome
resident in Ireland, is now in operation in this town. Con-
vinced, after repeated inquiries, that there is neither persOnal
liberty, nor, indeed, safety, to any poor Homan Catholic, who
dares to exercise his right of private judgment by renounc-
ing his false creed; but that, on the contrary, he inevitably
incurs exclusion from employment, followed by personal
insults, inflicted in the presence of those only who are ready
to swear that no such insult was ever given : and feeting,
strongly for the hardships so incurred, and silently endured
by some, as well as the tyrany exercised user others, through
the apprehensions of such hardships, should they dare even
to make inquiries upon the subject of spiritual religion, I
determined to bring the matter before the public, in the hope
that the noise occasioned by it, and the consciousness that
pub:ie attention was called to the subject, might, at least,
diminish the evil, and procure for my pour neighbours, not the
name only, but the reality of liberty,
The case of Stephenson's wife was selected, not because it
was peculiar, but because it was recent, and had been point-
edly brought before me. 1 was not satisfied with her oral
statement, but had it committed to writing; after a few days
she was put to the test of repeating it. This she did, varying
in language sufficiently to show, that her statement had not
been committed to memory, but not varying at all in sub-
stance. T h is, sir, is a happiness which neither madness nor
falsehood can hit upon. But I was not content with even
this, I went to her husband, and put the subject before him
in the way of cross-examination, to detect, if it existed, any
disagreement between his account of it, and his wife's. There
was no disagreement.

I did poi seek for evidence pro or con, from their neigh-
bours, who were themselves the guilty parties, but on the
evidence now described I made the s:atement at the Pro-
testant meeting.
For this, a new, and I cannot say a wholly unexpected
attack, has been made upon me. It is assumed by my
assailants, without a shadow of proof, that Mrs. Stephenson's
account to me was false, and that Mrs. M'Onvell's account to
some one else (it does not appear to whom) was true. In
order that a just estimate may be formed of the accuracy of
Mrs. M'Onvell's statements, I must transcribe her testimony
as given to some unknown inquirer, and published in the
Mercury.
"Catherine M'Onvel.—" I live next door to where Ste-
phenson lived. I recollect a lady and gentleman coming to
Stephenson's cellar on Wednesday last, (the 3rd inst.) They
remained there about half an hour. On Thursday morning
Mrs. Stephenson came to my house and said, 'Did you know
we had quality visiting us yesterday ?' I said, Who had
von?' and she said His Reverence.' I asked who his
Reverence was. She said, • Mr. Wlsleile, belonging to
Jude's Church.' I said, ' What fetched 111'N elle to see your
husband ?"Indeed,' said she. I had to tell him he was
sick.' I said 'Oh,' and was about to leave her, when she
said, I base not told you all. A lady was with him; and
what do you think she did on leaving the cellar? She
reached her hand behind her, and gave me a five shilling piece;
and who in the street but would take it ?' She said the
female was a Mrs. Johnson. lam confident that Stephenson
had not been sick, neither was he suffering from any injury
whzch he hart received at the quarrel."
(Signed) CATHERINE APONVEL,
her P.< mark.
Such is her statement. But what is the tact? The fact is
that on the Wednesday when I went to Stephenson's house,
his wife was not at home. I did not see her at al!, neither
did the lady who accompanied me. The witness brought
forward by the Mercury says that Mrs. Stephenson had to
tell us that her husband was ill. The fact is she was ❑ot at
home. The witness says the lady gave Mrs. Stephenson five
shillings on the occasion. The fact is the lady did not see
het at all. We found the man himself, with only a little
boy, in his cellar, and he told me the same which had been
some days before taken down in writing from his wife's lips,
and which on the day following I read in the Amphitheatre.
I am confident that the statement so taken down and read
was perfectly true. It did not pretend to say how the dis-
agreement first began. On the contrary, it conveyed dis-
tinctly that a state of hostility against Stephenson's wife had
existed at least lot weeks

Our accusers are compelled to admit that an anii•ay took place
on the day in question, but in order to change its character,
they aLege that it miginated in the mischief of a little boy.
This may or may not be true. It is alleged on the authority
of some of the accused. Judging by one of the witnesses
whose testimony I know to be false, I would of course incline
to doubt it. But whether it be true or false, it does not affect
the accuracy of my statement, for however the aflair may
have commenced, the !acts which I stated as having occurred
did occur. They have not been disproved, and cannot be
disproved. Every one knows how, when a state (dm nation
exists, small matters which would otherwise he overlooked
are wade excuses for quarrelling, and how expert those who
quarrel are to conceal the real cause of their animosity, li
pleading some proximate and ostensible provocation. The
real cause of this. and of multitudes of similar quarrels is the
systematic tyranny of the Papal system, which uses, as it
ever has done, blows instead of arguments, wherever bows
can be inflicted without a counterbalancing danger to the
interests of their church. In England this requires manage-
ment and adroitness. Such management mainly consists in
what is expressively called picking a quart-el upon some ap-
parently accidental or indifferent circumstances, and then
(havin,,.; supplied themselves with that excuse for English
law) proceeding con amore to do the work of the " Inquisitors
of heretical pravity."
And now sir, a word to my newspaper assailants, whose
standing topic of gross vituperation is a charge of desecrating
goes. I challenge one and all
my pulpit with political harangues.
of them to produce one single instance since I come to Liverpool,
of one sentence of party politics tittered in my pulpit. THEY
CANNOT DO IT, acid yet they will continue to reiterate the
charge, entitling themselves full well to such treatment as
neither you nor I, sir, can condescend to inflict upon them,
but which I do not despair to see inflicted in the way that
they will feel it most, by every respectable Protestant of every
party who slow takes their papers.
Politics supply the excuse, theilrecti cause of animosity
against me is the pungency of my exposures of Popery, and
the power (which they can't answer) of my arguments
against infidelity. It has pleased God so to bless my minis-
try in the town, that the enemies of the Gospel ale "mad
against me." Be it so. The friends of the Gospel are my
friends, and thanks to our Gracious Gud, their number is en-
creasing around us every day.
1 um, my dear sir,
Very faithfully yours,
HUGH APNEILE.
St. Jude's, 29th October, 1838.
P.S.—Do you suppose that the editors in question, the par-
excellence defenders of liberty and fair play, will honestly
and without garbling, print this letter?