The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the long letter signed "Consistency," but
we think it right to make some inquiries into the subject
before we can give it insertion.
The lines by " M. K. Johnson" shall appear in our next, as
shall also those by " C. N."

nit Eiberpont ,Staitharb.

TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 15, 1838.

t- The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn-
ing at 5 o'clock.

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF OUR PRESENT MINISTRY.—
We invite the attention of our readers to an important
address, signed by upwards of 300 of the first commercial
houses at Glasgow, representing the public alarm in
Scotland, at the prospect of internal convulsion with
which the country is threatened by the anti .national policy
of our present foreign minister, in the treacherous sur-
render of our commercial rights to hostile and aggressive

powers.
The spirit which breathes in this address, and in the
answer of Mr. Urquhart to the invitation which it con-
tains, affords a hope, that, through the combined exertions
of the mercantile community, a means may yet be devis-
ed of arresting the destructive course whereby our pre-
sent rulers are daily and hourly sacrificing our rna.terial
interests and our moral influence, in the maintenance of
which are alike involved our own internal tranquillity
and political independence, together with the peace,
prosperity, and civilization of mankind.

The extract we have given from our northern contem-
porary, sufficiently indicates the grave nature of the ques-
tions now at issue, to render any further comment of our
own unnecessary for the moment.

(From the Scottish Guardian, of May 10.)
"The general and increasing distress in the manufacturing
districts, at a period when the manufactures of France, Russia,
the German Customs League, and the United States, are sup-
planting us in foreign markets, and the determination of foreign
States even to increase their restrictions on our own produce,
are evils which too deeply concern the welfare of a great com-
mercial city, not to claim the serious attention of the community
at large.

"Unfortunately, in the present instance, the pressure of com-
mercial distress diverts the public mind from our political posi-
tion, which is without parallel in the history of the world.
" The foreign policy invariably pursued by this country, of
maintaining the balance of power as the only foundation of the
peace, welfare, and improvement of mankind, has yielded, with-
in the last eight years, to a system which, in the times of our
ancestors, would have branded our ministers with infamy, if it
did not consign them to the scaffold.
" Looking to the means of aggression which can instantane-
ously be directed against us by the powers whose commercial
rivalry is at once the pledge of their hostility and the bond of
their union against us, what do we find ?
" Russia has been allowed to form a fleet in the Baltic, com-
posed of fifty pennants. manned by thirty thousand men, trained
both as soldiers and sailors—comprising twenty-six line of battle
ships, seventeen heavy frigates, schooners, and armed steamers;
and this armada, supported by ten thousand regular troops, may
land a force of twenty thousand men along the shores of Britain
within ten days.

. -
" We have absolutely no physical force to prevent the destruc-
tion of every one of our navy yards—the plunder of our mari-
time towns, the burning of London itself, the disappearance
down the channel of the Rusiian fleet, and its junction with the
eleven sail of the line, now blockading the shores of the Cauca-
sus, before the public of this country can be aroused from the
slumber of ignorance, apathy, and degradation, in which we
have allowed ourselves to sink.

" If we look to our ancient rival France, we find her bound up
with the policy of the Czar, undermining the Ottoman empire
by the conquest of its African dependencies, aud by interposing
two French squadrons between the forces of the Sultan and his
rebellious vassals in Tunis and Egypt ; whilst the navy of France
at thii moment in commission exceeds that which Great Britain
employs to defend her distant colonies, and protect her trade
with all the world.
-
" Our own commerce, excluded by Russia and France'44kfrom
the easteru shores of the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean
coast from Tunis to Morocco, is threatened with destruction
along the whole line of Central Asia, by the advance of the
Persian army against Herat, under the guidance of Russian
officers ; whilst Russian emissaries, disseminated through Cen-
tral Asia, are sowing treason and disaffection amongst our sub-
sidiary and tributary dependencies, and rolling back our com-
merce on our Indian frontier.

In the midst of these complications, ccithout a single ally
in Europe, and having incurred the contempt acrd hatred of

eve' y people b) the treacherous sacrifice of our commercial and
Maritime rights, our colonial empire presents one scene of dis-
sension, disaffection, and miFmanagement.

v- 15, 11•38.

" The United States, which during the.last war with 12glauel
had not a single line-of-battle ship, has at this moment four 120
gun ships in commission; and her army, which last year
amounted only to 6,000 men, has since the outbreak in Canimilli
been increased to 15,000.

" Thus have the three great maritime rivals of Great Britain
been allowed, in time of peace, and when peace has been the
declared aided of British policy, to form the means of aggression
against us. Whilst our dock-yards are at this moment empty,
the admiralty has not top-masts to equip five sail of the line,
and when even for the purpose of manning the line-of-battle
ship, which transferred the Czar of Canada to Quebec, it was
necessary to draft fifty men from the Admiral's flag-ship at
Portsmouth.

" Whilst domestic treason and foreign intrigue are thus un-
dermining the foundations of our power, the House of Com-
mons, absorbed in petty details of party politics, appears to be
unconscious of the storm which must shortly overtake this de-
voted country, and convulse every portion of the world.
" If we look to the state of our finances, we find a deficiency
in our exports of last year to the amount of twelve millions
and a half sterling, a sixth part of our whole foreign trade, a ,
decreasing revenue, an increase of expenditure, augmented
taxation, and the unavoidable preparation for war, combined
with the entire absence of talent on the part of our ministers, of
a system of treasonable collusion with foreign powers—present-
ing difficulties sufficiently grave to deter any party from accept-
ing office in the present aspect of affairs; nor do we see any
prospect of a change in our present alarming position, unless
it be to be found in the combined exertions of the mercantile
and manufacturing community.
"Since penning the above remarks, we have learned that a
requisition, signed by upwards of three hundred of the most
respectable merchants, manufacturers, bankers, and others of
this city, has been addressed to Mr. David Urquhart, inviting
him to Glasgow, with the view of hearing an elucidation of the
commercial principles which he had for so many years pressed
on the attention of his late Majesty's ministers, and which had
become the basis of our foreign policy, on the appointment by
William the Fourth of Mr. Urquhart to the charge of his Ma-
jesty's embassy at Constantinople.

" We cannot but rejoice at this manifestation of public feel-
ing, which separating the affairs of commerce from party poli-
tics, may lead to the most important results, and direct the na-
tional mind at this critical moment to the prompt defence of
our dearest rights as Britons, if not of our very existence ae a
nation."

TO DAVID URQUHART, ESQ.

GLASGOW, 30th APhIL, 1838.
We, the undersigned Merchants, Manufacturers, Bankers
and others, connec►ed with the commercial interests of Glasgow,
viewing with anxiety the present distressed condition of the
commercial and manufacturing interests of Great Britain and
Ireland—the diminution of our Foreign and internal trade—
the increasing deficiency in the public revenue—the exclusion
of our commerce from countries open from time immemorial to
British industry—and the still unredressed injuries, inflicted by
Foreign States on our merchants and capitalists, (evils whieh
more or less affect the interests of all classes of her Majesty's
subjects,) and appreciating the profound commercial knowledge
and enlightened views, advocated and illustrated in your various
Works on the East, and especially those principle& of com-
merce deve!oped in " Turkey and its Resources;"—Understand-
ing that you are about to visit Scotland, respectfully solicit the
favour of your affording to the mercantile community of Glas-
gow, an opportunity of hearing from yourself a more detailed
elucidation of those commercial principles, a knowledge and
diffusion of which, we conceive, will be highly beneficial to the
interests of this community, and of the empire at large.
(Signed by the Lord Provost, Messrs. Henry Monteith & Co,
and 330 Mercantile Houses, including Bankers.)

TO THE MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, AND OTHERS, OF VHS

CITY OF GLASGOW.

LANARK. MAT 10, 1838.
Gentlemen.—l hasten to acknowledge the receipt of the gar-
tering invitation with which you have honoured me.
I have devoted my life to the study of our commercial and
manufacturing interests in their bearing on our internal pros-
perity, as well as on our external character, policy, and position-
I had at one period the satisfaction of thinking that my la-
bJur had not been misapplied, when the government of this.
country adopted my views in regard to perhaps the most impor-
tant interest of Great Britain beyond the shores of this island.
1 now feel that a higher reward was'to be attained, and a more
useful result to be secured, namely, the approbation and con-
currence of my fellow-countrymen, which I now receive at your
hands.

The prolonged neglect of our national interests—a neglect in
which all parties and every class have equally participated, has
produced the evils you lament, and the danger you foresee;
but Britain's power and strength, her energy and resources are
unimpaired; her supineness alone is the cause of injury and of
danger. The expression, however, of those views which• your
invitation contains, and the common convictions pervading so
intelligent and powerful a body of British merchants. offer the
assurance that henceforward no administration will be able to
neglect our commercial rights and to disregard our national
honour.

It in with mingled feelings of pride and humility that I per—
ceive that you have associated my name with so auspicious a
return of public opinion to its ancient and its national course.

With every sentiment of gratitude and respect,
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
DAVID URQUHART.

THE SLAVE TRADE.—On Thursday evening Sir R.
H, Inglis moved an address to the Queen on t1.,1 subject
of the foreign slave trade. The horrors of this inhuman
traffic have been, of late years, aggravated to such a
degree that some interference of an active character on
the part of our government is loudly called for. Portu-
gal, after entering into a solemn engagement to act in
concert with Great Britain to procure the suppression of
this abominable trade, has been guilty of participating
in it to a very great extent. There can be very little
doubt that the abolition of the slave trade by this coun-
try, and the subsequent emancipation of the West In-
dian negroes, have contributed very materially to increase
the numbers and to augment the sufferings of the kid-
napped natives of Africa. The trade is now in the hands
of the most brutalised of the European nations, and, bad
as it was when engaged in by Englishmen, it is now infi-
nitely worse in its character. Previously to the aboli-
tion of the slave trade by Great Britain it is calculated
that the greatest number of slaves transported from
Africa in one year was from 80,000 to 85,000. For the
last few years the number has, averaged 34,000, and in
three years and a half as many as 150,000 have been
carried away.

Sir R. H. Inglis pointed out one very striking differ-
ence between the present mode of carrying on the slave
trade and that which formerly prevailed. It was formerly
a legalised traffic, and as such was placed under certain
restrictions which mitigated many of its horrors. For
instance, by Sir William Dolben's act a certain and le-
gal proportion of tonnage was allotted to each slave.
Now it is, to all intents and purposes, a contraband
traffic, and those who are engaged in it are only anxious
to stow as many of the poor sufferers into their vesselsas
they can possibly hold. The trade is under no sort of
control. The inevitable consequence of this is, that the-
cruelty practised in carrying on the. trade is infinitely'
greater than formerly. Within the last few years a ship
of 150 tons had a cargo of 723 slaves on board, making,
with the crew, 760 persons—a number sufficient to stock
a first rate man-of•war. The mortality on board these
vessels is now much greater than under the old system.
In 1791 the average mortality on the passage was 62i
per cent. Subsequently to that date it had been reduced'
to about 20 per cent. But at present the mortality is
even greater than at the very worst period before the
abolition. In one instance 56 negroes had died out of
500 in ten days. The mate of one of the vessels which
had been seized had been asked what proportion he ex-
pected to convey alive across the Atlantic ? His answer
was, " One halt." In another instance 335 slaves had
been conveyed from Calabar in a vessel of 177 Spanish
tons, (equal to about 120 English tons,) 27 of whom died
in the night before she left the river, 77 before she was
taken to Sierra Leone, arid 18 before she was condemned:.

Humanity shudders at the continuance of such atroci-
ties. It is high time that England should take some de-
cisive course for the purpose of suppressing a traffic so
revolting in its nature; and it would be much better If
the anti-apprenticeship agitators would direct their at-
tention to this crying evil, instead of fomenting distur-
bances and producing confusion in the West India
colonies.

With respect to the most effective mode for suppress-
ing this trade in human flesh, we would suggest the em-
ployment of armed steam vessels, manned by crews of
free coloured persons, w hose constitutions could with-
stand the climate, instead of entrusting this task toEng-
fish sailors on board sailing vessels. It is well known
that the vessels at present engaged in the trade are re-
markably fast sailers. This is evident,from the very re!'
captures made in proportion to tl►e number employed its

1
its-enntra ant tratlic. Steam vessels afford, therefore,
0,1110 ANnYfor putting an effeettrat 'Stop i 6 the trade.
MilefeelfrileWres of some sort or other must he resorted
tour,
•
t?,,,Ltraipscitkr.,to abolish a system so disgraceful to human
nature. Let this subject be urged upon the notice of
government by petitions from all parts of the country.
It is surely a subject of far greater moment•than the irri
mediate,enfrahchisement of the negro apprentices. If
the*.e.rirancipationists are sincere, let them take up this
question' with-energy.

LIBERALISM 'AT A .DISCOUNT.—TiIe Albion of yester-
day has a very lugubrious article on, the present prospects
of what is. called the reform party.. Our melancholy
contemporary exclaims that "at last the dead lock%
in liberal. legislation "has arrived." We are glad of
it, The country has ample cause to rejoice that such a
"`tiling is confessed on all hands." Great Britain will
resound with shouts of gratulation on receiving- the glo-
ribus news. The'liberal ministry and their radical allies
have no longer the power of doing any mischief. They
can nolonger, oppress the poor or insult the rich—plun-
der the merchant or ruin the farmer—spoil the church or
trample on the rights of free-bordEnglishmeri, No lon-
ger can they aid the cause of Popery and republicanism
by their'rnischievous enactments. The days of fat corn;
missionershipc are at an end. Whig..kobbery is .out- of
fashioni and acts of parliament for the encouragement of
nepotism are as obsolete as a thrice mended pair of shoes.
"The thing is confessed on all hands." So saith the
A/bion•—and the Alban speaks like an oracle.

Butt hOW2has this glorious consummation.been brought
to pass? How has this cause of national joy sprung up?
says—" The oligarchy have contributed, for
a-season, to place themselves in the dangerous position
of a drag upon the wheels of reform, and to arrest the
progresi of all 'improvements in the institutions of the
country." By, the oligarchy we presurne the Albion
means to describe the-members of- the House of Lords;
if so, .we deoy that theirs is at all a dangerous position.
Their enlightened patriotism—their acknowledged -wis-
dom—their prudence—their moderation—their zeal for
the Protestant Church orgngland—and their energetic
defence of the, invadedliberties of British. subjects, hare
procured for them the: love and admiration-.—the confi-
dence and support of alt who acknowledge loyalty as' a
duty and Value freedom as a blessing. The position of
the Lordi roudand enviable one, and one wad),
in spite of the oracular dictum of the Albion, will not be
"for a season" only. The defensive post which they oc-
cupy they will assuredly. neveriquit, while there remain
revolutionary _projects to be frustrated—attacks upon the
Church to be resisted—or'. rebellious Popish plots to he
counteracted.-- -We also deny that the Lords are. acting
as "a drag upon the, wheels of reform." Far from it
they act as a.drag only upon the wheels of revolution—
of treason--L-of infidel legislatiou--7of Popish ascendancy,
Hence arises all the bitter rage against them. Hence
Come all the abusive and filthy tirades against them with
which the- republican press of this country is filled,
Hence, also, springs their popularity'with the great mass
of theloyal, intitiStrious,
_intelligent, and virtuous popu-
lation of Great B.r.iiain.
It- is.right that our-readers should know that the Albion
is not singular in confe-ssing the utter prostration of the
liberal faction Our contemporary remarks—
•.
" The London ,Courier, of last Monday, honestly .confesses
that such is 'the case: that the Lords, hardened in their anti-
national feelings by the very small majority which the liberal
party possess in the. House of Commons, will now boldly put
their veto upon every measure sent up to them for the good of
the country ; and that ,nothing, therefore, remains for the
people to do but to stand quietly looking on at 'the passive state
of the gavernment, and to bide their time until some fresh sub_
Jett starts up to brace their energies, fire their zeal, and rouse
them exertions.!'

We deny, that the Lords are " hardened in their anti-
national feelings." Their feelings are confessedly in
unison with those of the British people. IF they were
not so, hoiv. could it. happen that the constituencies
_Of
Great Britain have actually returned a majority of con-
servatives into the. House of Commons—a majority only
neutralised by, the influx of the. Irish tail—the nominees
of •the Popish priests, and returned into parliament by
the practice of the vilest intimidation. It is true that the
self-.styled 'Ostensibly. a "small majority" in
the .WitiSe of CcUnfnons. fl'ut it should be borne in mind
that it, is essentially a Popi.sb -aud anti Znglish majority
—a:factious and a perjured-nnijority. It is a cool. piece
of effrontery in the Albion. to. assert that theLoids " no*
boldly put their veto upon every Measure sent up to them
for the good of the cotuitiT." What measures which are
really calculated to benefit the country have the Lords
refused to assent to ? We can point out numberless
Measures of an opposite tendency which they have very
properly. rejected. It is veryeasy to rate againsf. the
Lord-. for resisting measures which are said to be "for
the good of the country:" It is a far more difficult thing
to prove---to demonstrate 'that such measures are really-
beneficial. There is no form 'of sophistry with Which the
liberals are more familiar than the pelitio principliL--the
b
egging of the question.-

We can very confidently assure mir lachrymose con-
temporary that "the people will stand quietly looking
°n" at the progress of legislaticin, as long as the Lords
ec?ntinue to act the fearless, independent, and patriotic
Part which they are acting at present. The people will
be•well contented to bide their time" until aconserva-
tive administration can assume the reins of government
without running (he risk of being again overcome by
any factious combination—by any Litchfield House com-
pact.

We are glad to find that an organ so much in the con-
fidence of the government as the, Courier, hints at the
Prospect of anOther election," should another dissolution
or parliament be deemed necessary as an experintent to
give a real Preponderance to'one or the other of the con-
flicting parties in the country." The hint is significant,
coming as it does from such a quarter. We sincerely
hope it will'be acted upon.--no matter how soon. The
conservatives lost nothing by the last election, opposed
as they were by the whole power and patronage of go-
vernment. They 'lost riOthina by contending against
the unscrupulous use which the whig-radicals made of
the Queen's name. But let us whisper, in our, turn, a
cautionary admonition_ to our contemporary, another
election will not take. pta-e'Le Under a Whig administra-
tion. They will not acriiin'be permitted to abuse their
lufluenee in pent-noting tlie election of such men as Leader.
deny. wart They will not have it in
.their power to
ail protection to the Irish Protestants in the exer-
e cf their franchise. Trey will not be permitted to
11:1t1 the warrants of the'_ comptroller of her Majesty's
foripholti in SuspensiOn'`for- the purpose of sending a
Of ;tltOr of rebellion against-that Queen' into the House
Urich„"''ilons. No!' tlie'neie election will ti-.l;e place
tia aitadMinistratiori consolidated on the firmest and
pi:7enduring basis—the affections of the British peo-
next election will afford an opportunity of
theth
-"justice to Ireland, " by emancipating her from
It domination" of (lie Popish faCtion.
_pitch
really.•6tilusihk CO Witness the strange method
_p oitch the Atbionadopis , to account for the unpopularity
iusrl 47 present' Ministry.- Ve6,qiiliiritly, but very fool-
tie
Y. does our contemporary exclaiM ‘i.are
_the people
thred good government, and have they transferrFd.
reit' affections to its eneniieS?" The answer is ohvious„
.I",e People are tired, heartily tired, of tire baq iovern-
: r
the bungling legislation, of the stupid and in-
It aye roiicy of the present imbecile ministry; and they
transferred their affections" to the friends of good
,s_tvierntnent—to those %t ho have averted the evils and
;":1)i
.t
..eralised the mischief of the
worst' government with
the country was ever cursed.
. . the Strength
scheme suggested by the Albion for recruiting
'fluov.sitrength of the liberal party, is far frOm being a
creact one: The • editor strongly advises the Whigs to
e a large number of peers, with a to verawe
, Ose of Lords —or in his own `classicalphrase-
(2._ force them drav in their aristocratic
dour hare'' forgets.!hat:sound_instinction, " first catch
&c. Where are these peers. to be found
Nilbourne *afford to drau.p.-,ht ninety or a lion; "
~drneMber's of the House
to rt;- of'dommons for elevation
p e rag-e? What wouldbe the 'result of so many
C°ll:Lested elections to re la • tl
p Le 1 T. 1 • Will the present

majority in the House of Commons stand by Lord John
Russell if the peers are to be selected from without the
walls of that house ? This resource is manifestly an
absurdity:

The advice of the Atbithi to fill up all the vacancies in,
the magistracy, the church, and in every branch of the
public service with liberals, is perfectly 'supererogatory.
The Whigs'have uniformly acted upon this policy. " A
reciprocity :on one side" has ever been. their ruling
maxim. But has it at all aided their cause ? 'Let- the pre-
sent constitution of the House of Commons afford an
answer: Thank God, there is patriotism -enough : n the
country to overrule all the corrupt influence which .the
Whip can bring to bear upon the elections, anckhere
is firmness enough in the House of Lords to stand by
the country—to sustain its true interests—to maintain a
wholesome course of legislation—and to resist the secret
machinations of those who would plunge the nation into
all the horrors of civil anarchy.

THE CoRONATtoN.-L'This interesting event,mless the
blundering ministry find reason's for furtherlbstpone-
mert, is to take place-next month. In many, if not most,
of the large towns throughout the kingdom, measures
have been adopted for giving ecliit to the event. We
have not as yet heard of any steps being taken in Liver-
pool to celebrate.the day when Victoria shall be crowned,
but we earnestly
.hope that no farther. delay will take
place. Liverpool has always been conspicuous for the
unflinching loyalty of its inhabitants, and we trust that
its character in that respect will not suffer any deteriora-
tion on the 2.3t11- of Jane. We expect to hear that the
conservatives of the town, at all events, will make an
early, stir in the matter, and concert some. arrangements
for a:splendid minifestation_ of their attachment our
virgin Queen.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—During the past week there
have been 'two eleCtion committees ballotted for. The
former or these, the Gloucester committee, consisted of
eight conservatives and three liberals. The petitioners
were libeekigast the return of Mr. HOpe. The other
committee
.was that for Norvvich, which was composed of
seven liberals and four conservatives. The petitioners
were liberal electors.against.the return of Mr. Scarlett and
the Marquis of Douro. In the forme, case, Mr. Berkeley
gave up his objection to the return of Mr. Hope. In the
latter case, a compromise was entered into, which places
the Marquis of Douro and Mr. Smith as the sitting
members. No decision has vet been come to in reference
to the Bedford.petition. Several votes have been struck
off from the conservative list.

FlRE.—Early on Thursday morning, the coals in the bun-
kers of the Queen Victoria steamer, lying in the Clarence-dock,
were found to be on fire by one of the coal-trimmers. Inspec-
tor Massey went on board immediately, got the vessel's hose
rigged to the pump, and by pouring into the bunkers a copious
supply of water, and causing men to turn over the coals as it
was discharged, he soon succeeded in extinguishing the flames.

DEATH BY DROWNING.—At one o'clock on Thursday
morning, a police inspector heard a rattle, and a cry that a per-
son had fallen info the Prince's dock. He proceeded thither
immediately and getting out a boat in the slip, forthwith com-
menced a search. A sloop was hauling out from the slip at the
time, and from a person who was standing on the deck the in-
spector inquired whether any person had been observed to fall
in by him. 'The answer was in, the negative. The inspector
and a police-officer grappled round the slip until half past four,
when .they succeeded in dragging up the body of a man, who,
it was (hen discovered, belonged to the very sloop which was
hauling Out when the alarm was given. The sloop was from
Portsmouth.

NEW CATHOLIC BlSHOP.—According to the "on dits" in
the Catholic world, the Rev. D. Youens, of Copperas-hill
chapel, Liverpool; is to be coadjutor Bishop to the Right Rev.
Dr. Briggs, Catholic Bishop in the North of England.—
Journal.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON'Tilt GR AND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—An
accident, attended with loss of life, oociirred on the Grand Junc-
tion Railway, he neighbourhood of .Preston Brook, on Wed-
nesday evening last. As the half-past four Birmingham and
Liverpool train was passing on its way to Liverpool, and close to
the tunnel, the guard.stood on the box with a parcel in his hand,
which he had to deliver at Preston Brook. From some cause or
other, lie slipped and fell; and two of thecarriages, passing over
him, cut both his lege, completely off. The unfortunate man was
remilved, and medical assistance promptly procured. He was at-
tended by Dr. Lynn-and Dr. Lax, but was so dreadfully injured
that_he died about two hours alter the accident. Some of the
carriages were thrown. off the rails, but no material injury was
done.

Si'. HELEN'S.—NEW TOWN-HALL—The inhabitants of St.
Helen's have with their usual spirit, had a public meeting, for
the purpose of entering into arrangements for the erection of a
Town-hall, Constable-hall, Bridewell, &c., on rather an exten-
sive scale, after which a subscription list a asopene4and in less
than seven days, £3,000 subscribed. Pans are to be forthwith
advertised for, and it is-expected that, earl yin .lanuary nett,
the building will be ready for use. The situation is on, the south
side of the new mailfotVlace, which liiielitely-,been laid out and
flagged in the centre, and where it is intended to hold the mar-
lot:!--.This square is-al-ready nearly built round with handsome
shops and .bitty houses; all of which are, uniform,"beautifully
stuccoed,"&i'., and, whe-oßnished, will be one of the handsomest
squares in Lancashire.— Myatt Gazelle. . .
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On' Thursday, befiig the 'rent-day of Peter Greenall, tsq.,
St. Helen's, upwards of 200 tenants of that gentleman partook
of an excellent dinner, provided by Mr. Higginson, of the
Fleece Inn. -After the cloth was removed, "the Queen," and
several other loyal and humorous toasts were proposed, and
responded to in the Most enthusiastic manner.— Wigan Gazette.

.
AccIouNT.—CAFTVIN.-.--On Monday evening last, as some
men were employed in hoisting a pipe of wine into one of the
upper rooms of Mr. Rigmaiden's warehouse, in' Dale-street,
the rope broke, And the cask fell to the ground breaking
through the cellar lid, which it dashed to pieces. The accident
is attributed to the insufficiency of the tackle. Providentially,
and indeed almost -miraculously, considering the very crowded
thoroughfare, and ihe hotly at which it occurred, no person was
hurt, but that it might have been otherwise is sufficiently obgi-
ous from the fact that some few years ago, Mrs. Kearslev and
her augbter lost their lives whilst passing this very warehouse,
and Troin precisely a similar cause, Mr. Rigmaiden being then,
as now, in the occupation of the warehouse.
DEATH Fawn EiTtiXICATIO-N.—an Thursday, an inquest was
bell on the body .of Duncan Bain. The deceased was a car-
penter on board the barque Watt, bound for Africa. The ves-
sel, on the Monday iireceding, went into the river, where he
joined her. Shortly after getting on board, he commenced
drinking rum with some coopers, and five of them, including
the deceased, emptied four bottles. He soon after became se-
riously ill, and was removed on board the stearn•packet, which
had been employed to tow out the vessel. Here his illness in-
creased, and in less thin half an hotii after being put on board,
he expired from the effects of the liquor in which he had so un-
sparingly indulged. An inquest was subsequently held upon
the body, and a verdict in conformity with the evidence re-
turned.

NEW MAGISTRATES, FOR. LANCASIIIRR.—We understand
that John Slack, Esq., of Heaton Nerris,'Jorrathan Thornbill,
Esq., of Stockport, and William Smith,
.Esq:; of Reddish, have
been placed in the Lancashire commission of the peace.
TIIEATIM Rovai.„--Last evening was brought out here again
Sheridan KnOwles'S -new comedy of "The Love-Chase."' On
the first bting,ing-out of this comedy we expressed our Opinion.
regarding it, wltich.it. is Unnecessary to repeat. Its principal
feature on this occasion was its introducing Mrs. Nisbett to the.
Liverpool public --hi the part of Constance. Mrs. Nisbett is
possessed- of -most: ofthe attributes to constitute a successful
and an admired- actress—good looks, a commanding and ele-
gant figure, most ladylike manners, and in . her acting is
highly polished and finished; but above all her acting is an im-
press of the very type of nature, and therein consists its charm.
Nothing could:be tit tht.easy, unaffected, and (though studied
with greatest care) more unstudied to appearance than her act-
ing in the scene with, Wildrake, the sportsman, her lover, when
he comes to-propose to her, 'in the dress of a town fop, under
the .iMpression thahit Would please her. Her raillery of him
and his dancilig,,.thow he cut," was rich in the extreme; and
he'r after conductor hell he eagles with a utock proposal to make
her jealous, that sfieshoula act as bridesmaid to his bride, was
exceedingly cleVer. Mrs. Nisbett by her personation of Con-
stance, has••already7eStablished-herself a faVourite in Liverpool.
We must notice, also, the very clever.acting of _Mr. Baker
and of Mrs. Clarke,•as•Sir William Fondlove and the Widow,
'Green,: We rtevertsavB7a piece of better acting than Sir Win.
Fondlove's..descii.paion!to.Widow Green,•to make her jealous
of w4n gave " which could tell a tale."
Mrs. Clarke'S- perionatioti.of Widow Green, too, as an. expectant
bride—overwhelmed with a melting tenderness, and overcome.
wittvirepidatiOn aftheihnught of giving•her "pretty hand" for
the ,second time, wiliist she gives instructions to her maid to
carry the smelling salts to be ready for every interesting, scene
.that May arise,' kiss a. Most admirable piece of acting. In
fkletthe played generally, and as a Consequence
went •.(4 -well. • Mrs, ,Nisbett afterwards
,appeared -as • Mrs.
Trictroc its the " Married Rake." The house teas a good one,
and'So we hav-e rio.dolibt it Will-continue during Mrs. Nisbett's
stay.

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WAFTING Pott'''A GIVERATE.—REFORNT OF THE POLICE-
COURT:—Much Mir, has lately lbeen made in the town - by the
noisy. advocates. 0f,." reform about the recent election of ma-
gistrates. Judging from, the
.scarcity at the Police-court,. we
should iniagine that 'the tOwn-council will shortly have an op-
nortuntly
afforded them of amending their 'manners; and show-
ing their 'obedieht,.behaviour in •a, new election of additional
magistrates.; for it, is quite clear that .?-1 are not sufficient to
assist the stipendiarV. -Yesterday, the police-court, with its
usual number of occupants, complainants, defendants, witnesses,
prisoners, aceulers; policemen, attorneys, Sic. were kept waiting
upwards of an hour fOr "the second magistrate." First, Mr.
'Aiken, whose "turn" we believe it was, to take his seat on the
bench. was sent for; but he was non est inventus as the lawyers
say; he had gone out 'of town. The uselesS -search after Mr".
Aiken wasted one.;,quarter of an liour. Next, Mr. Houghton
was sent for,And.in about lt) minutes, to the comfort of those
who were kept waiting in the court and had other business to
attend to, the ntessage'returned was, "gone to New Brighton
with his family." Mr. Ewart, or anybody," was then sent for,
but the constablebrought word batk, " Mr. Ewart, or anybody,"
was but of town. The constable was again sent out on a voyage
of discovery, with the message. "go over; Mr. Brown. now,
or anybody you can find." 'Out went the constable, and in ten
minutes returned with the answer " Mr: Brown is gone to Chel-
tenham." He had, called on the way on Mr. Heywood and
Mr. Benri, with similar surcesS. All means having failed so
tar to find a magistrate, the half broken-winded constable was
sent.out again as a des‘mier resort; "then go fur Mr. Earle." On
his way; however, he
.happened luckily to meet with Mr. Jones,
and thus saved the court from further indefinite delay. Now,
here is a substantial grievance, which wants reforming ; and as
the brawlers for refit m are sadly at a loss just now for something
to find fault with and grumble at, having pretty much their own
way, we recommend them to turn their hand to this, and do the
town Spifte, Soi'viet> by putting on end to this inexcusable neglect
of duty, which is not of unfrequent occurrence.

• rtr- ert
C HtJRCI3 EXTENSION IN SCOTLAND.

On Priilly a in .etiog• was held in idleignsic-h3ll,l3ll(l.street,

in.,aid or the extension of church accommodation in Scotland.
The meeting W4S,ninueronslv and re;=pectably attended, and on
the platform were some of the most distinguished clergym,ri of
this town, heside4 the deputation from Scotland. Amongst
others present, we observed:—Rev. Dr. R.ilph, Rev. J. Park,
Rev. W. Storey, Ro'seneath ; Rev. F. Ould, Rev. H. M‘Neile,
Rev. Mr. James, of the Welsh Church, Rev. Mr. Glass, Duiri-

mich, George Grant, Esq., C. S.• Parker. Esq., Duncan Cribb,
Esq., Hugh Matthie, Esq., Alex. Boggie, Esq., Harry Gordon,
Esq., John
.Pollock, Esq, &c, At the time appointed,
The Rev. Dr. RALPH moved that Crawford Logan, Esq. do
take the chair, which was seconded by Hugh Matthie, Esq. and
carried.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, said
he must claim their indulgence for a few minutes, while he
stated what he conceived was the object that had called them
.together. From a prospectus which he held in his hand, and
of which probably sotne.of his reverend. friends around him
would speak, he understood that it was to show the great want
of church accommodation for the people of Scotland, both in
the large towns and in the rural districts. (Hear.) If he had
stated the object of the meeting correctly, it was obvious it was
a work of charity, which would not admit of political discussion
nor hostility to the dissenters, and with that impression he had
consented to take the chair that day. (Applause.)
The Rev. Jour' PARK then offered up a prayer for the Divine
blessing, and
The Rev. PIELDRN OULD rose to move the first resolution.
He said lie should perhaps have better consulted his own feel-
ings that day by remaining a silent auditor, as, he confessed, he
was anxious to hear those who
.were well able to give him infor-
mation on the subject .which must be interesting to every church-
man. But when he was appealed to by some gentlemen on that 1
platform to show by his presence his sympathy with them in
that great and glorious cause, hermitic] hecould not, consistently
with the dictates of his conscience, refuse to be there. (Hear.)
And he thought there was not an individualthen present that
would not only agree with him that by being there and taking
part with his Christian brethren who had come south of the
Tweed, he was in his right place, but that it was his duty to take
every legitimate means tofurthertheirgreatobject. (Applause.)
They would all recollect the sensation created by the statement
of the Bishop of London that there were five millions of English.
men who were in the habit of absenting themselves from • the
house of God, and of not attending public worship of any kind,
and when he called for the building of fifty churches in London
alone, hey would also remember how nobly his call was re-.
sporided to, and with what liberality subscriptions were made.
And what was the fact concerning Scotland ? Why, that out
of a population of two and analf millions there was only accom-
modation for little more than one million in the fabrics of the
church. 50,000 might, he said,- be under the care of dissenters,
but then there was left behind one million of mortal souls who,
as- far as the statements which he had seen showed, were left to
'all the -awful Conseqeences of irreligion, ignorance, and infi-
alelity- that inevitably followed, an habitual absence from the
worship of God. Under these circumstances, their Scottish
brethren had raised £200.000. as he understood, and had erected'
180 churches; but three times that number were required, and
endowments were necessary l'or those that were erected : for
the latter the church of Scotland had appealed to the govern-
ment of the country. and, he lamented to say, had appealed in
-vain. It was not fur them o impugn the motives of those in
power—it was not for them to question the why or the wherefore
that reasonable request had.been refused, but it was impossible
they should not be exceedinglyjealous awl indignant when they
reflected that popery was endured both at home and abroad,
while the reasonable claim of the church of Scotland had been
refused. Why, they had a popish bishop at Quebec, with his
thousands a-year : another popish bishop had-been sent to Aus-
tralia.

The CHAIRMAN interposed, and said, when he opened the
proceedings of the day he had expressed the conditions On
which he took the chair, and he hoped that the meeting would
be conducted without political allusions or opposition to other
religious persuasion.

Mr. OULD continued.—lt was always his pleasure as well as
his duty to bow to the chair, but when he was invited to speak
at that meeting he supposed he should be allowed to speak as he
felt or he should have declined attending. (Great and long-
continued applause.) ' On that subject it was absolutely impos-
sible to speak without making reference to the efiorts of dis-
senters to prevent the attainment of the object of the church of
Scotland. That object appeared to him to be inconsistent with
what was called the voluntary principle, for the object was en-
dowments; and the advocates of voluntaryisai conceived that
state endowments were injurious to religion; but while they
professed themselves-anxious to overthrow the state church they
would not let them hacie ,those endowments which they con-
ceived were so injurious. (Hear, hear.) Now it did appear to
him very evident. thatris church accommodation was required
in the large towns, that without going at length into thereasons
why the Vffluntaries objected to these endowments, he might
briefly say: they conceived that the craft of dissent was in"dan-
ger. ( Hear, hear, and great applause.) Where the church
was in a state of efficiency the people delighted to attend, to the
profit and benefit of their souls; and it was only where the
church was in a cramped and deficient s'ate that niSsent throYe.
He did not mean to say that dissent had not done good; but
that was a question whether there should be an establishment or
mit; and, while it was sanctioned by the law of the laud, it was.
right to expect its endowment, that its borders might be ex.;
tended to the utmost limits of the want of the population. That
was the view he took. The church of Scotland was their sister
church ; she held the same doctrinal truths, and, therefore, she
had a right to call for brotherly sympathy on this occasion. And
what brother was there whose heart would not feel for the wrongs
of a sister—who would not stand ready to alleviate the sorrows
of a sister's heart? When, therefore, they saw the crippled
state of the sister church in Scotland—Scirtland which, in all
past time was Celebrated for precise
gsra,B37 aoi tooluonsciinaylh
oaobbbsisteearriteasanwceiel
ts—he
andrhee_hot noefV eh re
rs clear:
large
et
osmanbsb ahttihsi
no
out the opportunity of attending publie worship, and another
with 50.000 in similar circumstances, who were poured out into
the suburbs on the Lord's day, and exposed to the dangers to
which subbath breakers were ever exposed—no wonder they
should speak out yiickly and loudly. The Scotch' church had
sent out her missionaries into this southern Country, and he for
one would not be back Ward to lift up, his voice in tliat case, and
give to their mission all the support in his pAver. (Applause.)
The JAMES seconded the motion. He was_ glad of
the opportunity to. show his sympathy with the church of. Scot-
land ;_and though there were some difforenees existing between
the two churches, he rejoiced to overlook them that day, because
he recognised in the church of Scotland the principle of a
church establishment. By dissent he was reminded of the tents
of the Arabs in the wilderness, which might seem to-day to be
sufficient and enduring, but to-morrow were gone; for he had
seen chapels opened for the service of God, and not many years
afterwards, opened as warehouses; while the churches of the
establishment remained to bless -and nourish the surrounding
country. And while friendly clubs, sick clubs, and other socie-
ties were defended and protected by law, he hoped the religion
of the country would not alone be without the protection of the
arm of government. but that the principle which they there
maintained might triumph. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN put the motion to the meeting, and it was
carried unanimously.

- The Rev. JOHN MURRAY rose to move the next resolution,
He said, after the excellent statements already given by the
gentlemen who had addressed them, and considering that there
were many able gentlemen to follow him, he should not trespass
long on their time, but confine himself to as narrow limits as he
could, while he laid before them the destitution of the length
and the breadth of the Lowlands of Scotland. He said Low
lands, because he observed that he should be followed by Mr.
Glass,, who would second the motion he had risen to propose,
and who, as he came front the Highlands, Would be better able
to speak of their destitution than he could, or indeed anybody
that was not a native. In his observations it might be proper
to begin with the city of Glasgow, the largi,est and most popu-
lous town of Scotland, containing, as it did,. according to the
last census, a population of 235,000; of whom it had been
proved, after the most searching and minute investigation, that
there were upwards of 18,000 families, amounting to a gross
population of 85,000, who never entered a place. of worship of
any kind whatever ; and there were 65,000 or 66,000 fur whom
there was no church accommodation of any kind whatever pro-
vided. The amount of that destitution, when thus stated, was
startling enough; but when exhibited in another point of view,
it was appalling beyond description. - What, if they were told
that in six whole counties in Scotland there was not a single
person of any age, sect, or condition, that ever entered a place
of worship, or for whom there was any provided; yet in the
city of Glasgow alone there were as many thus situated as in
the•six united counties of Bute, Clackmannan, Kinross, Liu-
litligorw, Selkirk, and Peebles. (Hear, hear.) These were
facts which they had on the authority of two of the most famous
statists of the.day.

enthusiasticed
wh en t
he plaudits.
Here the Rev. Hueh 111‘lieile entered the meeting, and was
withlar cbulOnsttu
of
in
reci‘eiied
rv.mu
tilAplaudits had subsided.
Those facts were proved to them by two of the most famous
statists, Dr. Cleland and Mr. Collins. after a most minute inYei-.
tigation, and they were laid before the commissioners in an open
court, which was attended as well by dissenters as churchinen;
and there of course they were likely to have been corrected
if erroneous, but it had not been attempted. That evidence
had gone to the world in the report of the royal commissioners
and was uncontroverted. Indeed the only person that replied
admitted that he could not deny the facts; and it turned out
then, that 73;000 or 74,000 -were destitute of the 'means of reli-
gious instruction, by the admission of dissenters. (Hear, hear.)
There was no doubt that in Glasgow—for the end of 1835
there were 235,000—there was 250,000. inhabitants:and net-
withstailaSn'g' the number of churches erected since that time,
both cOnliected with the. established church and dissenters, the
amount of destitution 'at this. moment could not be less.than
frolia,,ninetV thousand" to ninety-one thousand—for not With-
r;,
standing what had been done since the church building society
• 1.
commenced operations, so rapid was-the increase of population,,
at the close of every year thestestitution were greater than be:i
fore.- In Edinburgh, where the population was less—a moo
ing, according to the list censustua little more than 1.10,000;
there were proved, after a most mintite,inqairy, to be upwards
of 52,000 persons who never entered a place of worship of any
kind, and of these there were.4o,ooo for whom no provision-was
Made tt ofthe established church. But that desti-
tutionwi m. pa e.
was not confined to Glasgow and Edinburgh ; the, same
existed to a greater or less extent in every large town:and parish
throughout Scotland.. He would give them a few examples; but
he would be aiS brief as yosSible. Ile, then proceede'd to state
that in the abbey parish of Paisley there were 12.908. persons,
for whom there was no church ac;•ommodation provided. • ln
the town of•Kilmarnock 6486 were destitute of religious accom-
modation.; in Old Markland .3110; in Dunfermland 5689; in
Hamilton 4200; -in Greenock 8050 ; in Newston 3093; in Old
Maker 7388; in Howick 1597; and in Dumfries, till very
lately, 6616; and in five of the parishes in the town of Dundee,
according to recent statistical returns, the aypalling result of
36,624, persons deficient of church accommodation bad been
proved; and of these 36,000 there were 0908 capable of attend-
ing divine ordinances; the case was the same 'in -every large
town and in every large parish throughout the Lowlands of
Scotland; and could it be supposed that matters could be other-
wise when they took into consideration that from the period of
the reformat ion Scotland -had increased fro:n one to two millions
and a half, while the churches had scarcely received any-sensi-
ble-addition-during that period. A certain'number- had certainly
been built, but it was a fact that would astonish many there,
that churches and parishes had liven suppressed, and that where
formerly there were two or. thi ee churches there was now only
one, and the parishes had been .united. Even in the present
century Scotland had increased -in population .150,000, and
during that time only about 100 churches had been built; now
if they allowed 1000 sitters to each church and 2000 persons to
each parish, it would require 425 to meet the demand—or if
they took the data of•knox and the early reformers-1000
souls to each,--then during that period 850 churches ought to
have been built. .Since the commencement of the present cen-'
turv, the dissenters in. Scotland-had done much to remedy the
evil complained of, and had done much to supply the deficiency
of the establishment in consequence of the greatly increased
population; but the circumstances of such a •thass'ef -destitu•
tion being exhibited to view proved beyond' all doubt that the'
diSsenters were incapable of 'doing. mere than they had donee;
and unleis they would allow the people to liimana die in their

sin, they must have recourse to another systeM than that of the
dissenters, which they knew was the voluntary one, and which
had been found to act pretty well in certain situations and under
certain circumstances —that is, it does well where the people
have the means; and so far appreciate the gospel as to be willing
to pay for it; but it was totally useless where there was nothing
but love rty and want ; and hence it was that they might travel
far and wide in the Highlands of Scotland, *here the parishes
were thirty or forty miles long, and from twenty to thirty miles
broad, without ever meetinifWith such a thing as a dissenting
place of worship, and fur that reason, that in the highways and
hedges labourers are required where no voluntary minister can
afford to labour, and where only endowed ministers can afford
to go—visiting people in their houses, and, from house to house,
teaching and exhorting them, aril in the language of the Sa-
viour, "compelling them to come in." The superiority of the
endoWed over the voluntary churches did not escape the notice
of the early reformers, and they; manestibers of the established
church acknowledged the principle of endowments—they ac,
knowiedged them not only as lawful and expedient, but as
strictly scriptural; and that it was one of the important duties
of a government to make provision for the religious and moral
ethication of the people. With a deep sense of that truth they
had gone to government and laid the wants of the people before
them, and requested them to come to their assistance in this
holtr of spiritual need. That government would see it was its
duty to do so, he had fain hoped; but whether the government
did so or not, they, as churchmen, must do- their duty, that
thereby they might bring the government to a sense of what he
conceived was due from them. They had asked the govern-
ment to endow, not to build, the churches; they were willing to
do that themselves, if the government would do the other, and
it was to assist in the building department that the clergy and
elders of the church of Scotland solicited their aid and co-opera-
tion. That the church of Scotland had been so long before it
had moved in this matter, could be no reason for their now
withholding their support. If she had been remiss, it was
surely something that she was now determined to be so no
longer. They could not begin to do good too soon; but the fact
was, that it was not till lately, when the most searching investi-
gation had taken place, that those best informed on the subject
had any idea that such want and destitution existed in the land,
and it had not been in their power to remedy it as it now was.
Besides, by a particular act, if churches were built in any pa-
rish, the patronage of the new church was seized, and therefore
people would not come forward ; but that act had been repealed
by the exertions of the member for llumbartonshire—(applause)
—and as one effect that had resulted in the last three years, ISO
new churches had beer built, or were in the course of building.
(Applause.) But what had been done in that respect was
nothing compared with what was necessary to be done before
one-half the waste ground was occupied. Before he concluded,
he would briefly refer to a pamphlet published by Mr. Collins,
of Glasgow, who said that, from positive and personal inquiry,
he could state, on the authority of the captain of police arid
magistrates on the one hand, and of the governor and chaplain
of Bridewell on the other, that nearly all the criminals who were
tried before the one, or immured in the other, came from those
very places where the people were so destitute of church accom-
modation ; while from those quarters of the city where the- peo-
ple possessed church accommodation, in the proportion of 50, 60,
79„0 r: 80 in the 100, the police-office had no criminals, and
rbr irlAiell had no inmates. These facts proved, beyond all
doubt, the necessity of providing spiritual instruction, and he
could strongly- recommend the case to the philanthropist and -
the wordly politician; on that ground it claimed their sympathy
and support—and if it was entitled to their support in these re-
spects as he maintained it was, how much more was it entitled
to their support when' he appealed to them as Christians? At
preSeht; year after year, multitudes of their fellow-countrymen,
who hart lived in ignorance and guilt—yea, day after day, they
were Making their dark plunge into eternity—year after year
numbers were carried away in spiritual destitution ; and might
it never be said that they had refused to listen to that cry, or to
give of that substance with which Providence had blessed them,
to assist the destitute in the hour of their need. Their interpo-
sition might be the • means of saving many souls: and though
the destitute could not recompense them, they had it on the
highest authority, that "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy:" (Great applause.)

The Heti. jonN GLASS (of the isle of Skye) next addressed
the meeting, and said, as the last speaker had called their atten-
tion to the destitution of the Lowlands, it was his province to
call their attention to the Highlands and Islands, and in doing-
s° he should Contine.himselt to the report which had a few days
ago been printed-by the commissioners appointed by her majes-
ty's government to inquire into the subject. He might state.
that the destitution of the Highlands and Islands bad been long
known to the government; for upwards of ten years ago forty-
two parliamentary churches had been planted, and in them they
had upwards of 13,000 individuals reclaimed to church-going
habits. He found, by referring to the commissioners' report,-
that they had travelled over 74 parishes, the population of which
amounted to 180,538; and he also found, that the church-sittings
were only sufficient to accommodate 38,226, leaving nearly
150,000 of the population altogether unprovided with the means
of grace. And in connexion with that, there was another state-
ment which the commission had made—it was this, that nut of
the population of 180,000 there were 6,189 families, or 30,945
individuals whose distance from their respective parish churches
was from six miles to thirty-seven. (Hear, hear.) He would
then go to the presbytery with which he was connected, and he
would take the report of the commission with regard to it. Ac-
cording to the report of the commission it contained a popula-
tion of 24,559, while there were church accommodation only for
4150; the number of dissenters in that population amounting
to the amazing number of forty-one baptists and seventeen
episcopalians! So that the whole provision of church accom-
modation for a population of 21,000 was for 4150. There, then,
they found an ample field for the exercise of •voluntaryism—
there was a field where the evangelical dissenter. might go, and
where he would be most welcome;—(hear, hear,)—for he (Mr.
Glass) as one, would hail with joy and gratitude a Christian
labourer who would preach the glad tidings of salvation to the
multitudes who surrounded them, who had not the means to •
come and hear. But the fact was, voluntaryistu could not exist
in that country. (Great applause.) Dissenters had frequently
come amongst them, and as frequently gone away again. Dis-
senters had frequently attempted the plan amongst their people,
but they had again given it up--L-though the field was great the
labourers were few. In one parish in the presbytery, with a
-.population of 4000,individuals, there was a district with a popu-
lation of 1300 WhZ)'redsided, on an avkrage, ten miles from the
chnrch.- !There'Wris another district of the same parish with a
population of 1100 residing on an average at a distance from the
church of nine miles. These districts were without schools or
clergymen until within the last two or three years, when, a school
was planted in each of them, with schoolmasters fromlaigene-
ral:assemblv. The.effects. were; that in one school liflß'were
179 -and iil7the other 200 scholars. Now the object was to plant
beside each of these two schools a church, and the reason was
.because they found the absolute necessity of ministerial super-
, intendence, and the-necessity of ministerial visitings, to induce
the people to attend religious ordinances. When the plan was
first proposed, some time ago, a meeting of the peOple was call-
ed, because they could not well ask others to assist them unless
the people showed that they wanted the schools and churches
themselves.. They, were, li.iwever, a little afraid, becatise they
knew the poverty of the people, and that they could do little for
themselves, but the meeting was-called, and the result was, that.
that 1:60 sterling was collected as' a commencement, out of
which £27 was collected in barrels of potatoes and pecks of
meal. Now, it must be clear, that unless they get endowments
for the churches .they -wished to build, they could not live.
Ministers could not live on air—they must have something sub-
stantial whereon to exist; and they had thought that the best
thing they could do was to appeal to the government. They
did so—they gave a gentle rap at the door of government, and
were courteously received and bowed in, and they were as cour-
teously bowed -out again. (Laughter.) It was not merely
civilities they wanted; but deeds. (Applause.) It was not an
acknowledgment of the justice of
.their claims they wanted, but •
acts by which they could be carried out, and by which they could
send the heralds of salvatien to preach the unseal chable riches
or Christ to their poor countrymen. There was an application
last year of a different description, and it was nobly responded
to : hundreds were then destitute of food, and they nobly came
to their assistance; and •if they had not done so, hundreds of
their fellow-creatures would have perished frDm. want ; but they
applied now for a different and higher object—not to put an end
to a famine of bread, but of the word or the living God, which
was not the less alarming because it was less felt. They sought
aid from .that meeting to enable them to erect—through the
length and breadth Of Scotland, as well the Lowlands as the
1-14;ihlands—temples to which the people might come and wor-
ship the God of their fathers. (Applause.)
The resolution was then put and carried.

MAITLAND M`Gut., Esq , at some length, and with do-
quence,:moved the next resolution. lie said they wished to
revert to-the old parochial system, by which a spiritual teacher
was appointed to every 1,000 inhabitants, and that the grant
sought from the go:vernthent was for the purpose of enabling
them to cheapen the pew rents, so that the poor, with whom this
destitution existed, could be. accommodated. Their righteous
claim had not been successful, • hut it must sooner or later, or
without it, their design could not be carried into effect. What-
ever might be the party in power—he wished not to introduce
party politics —but whatever party might be in power they in-
tended again to press their righteous claim, and adopt a course
of peaceful agitation,.until, by moral compulsion, they got their
patriotic and righteous demand. They were told they might
:leave the spit itual instruction of the Scottish destitute poor to
the voluntary principle; but why had that principle not done
it already ? The fact was, the voluntary principle did well so
far as it went—to a certain length—with those who were able
and willing to pay, hut not further. But their object was to
send the Means of religious iustruction—not where the people
could pay;liut where they could not pay. (Hear.) Again, they
were told that their scheme would be an iuterfet epee with the
vested rights of dissenters who had built chapels which were in
debt, and that the church extension would draw from the cha-
pels of the dissenters. But they disavowed any such intention.
Their intention was to minister to the million outcasts of their
population. •HB also proceeded to shew that city missions
could-not be so.effective as endowed ministers; and then 'for,
ci appealed to the, audience for support. He wished he bad
a Persuasive Voice, he would use it in-so excellent a cause—but
he could t)Oly, speak from the heart to the heart. In reference
to the oblectilie was desirous to promote, he could almost adopt
the languago,of the poet and say—
" Yea: from the table of my memory
,ey7, , -wipe away all trivial fond records,
1,,C•A1l saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
ttiota,; That youth and,oliservation copied there;
- •
And Ibis alone shall live
7 Within.the'hook and volume of my brain,
• , Unmixed with baser matter.'

,
- ANOnnsots (another of the deputation) likewise spoke
in support Of the resolution. He said they had nut come there
64 a mission or crusade against the dissenters, nor would they
touch 'a single stone of any of their chapels. .The dissenters
.were certainly •not the standing army, as were themselves, but
they were volunteers in the same cause, and were dissenters to
be parallysed by the church of Scotland, they should he the less
able to make head against the mass of sin that overflowed the
land. (Cries or " Hear, hear," and applause.) He once
again said that it was not their intention to aggrandise their
church at the expense of others, 'but they came there on the
ground
.of their common Christianity, and their sole and entire
object was, to obtain additional means to all then existing, to
enable them to instruct the poor in the knowledge of those truths
which both dissenters and members of the established church
were not able now to do. Objections had been raised to their
church on account of what was called its oppressive systeM of
patronage; but that was much modified, and its patronage could
not be what it had been. They came not there to obtain means
to promote idol worship, but to throw open the temples of the
living God, and to unite this; they may be able to invite the des-
titute to repose under the tree of life, which was for the healing
of the nations. The rev. gentleman went on Ao reply to the
arguments of dissenters against the connection of the church
with the state, which he thought had brought religion to hear
on the interests of society. He concluded with seconding the
resolution, which was put by the chair and carried.
The Rev HUGH AfIisTEILL next rose, amidst great cheering.
Ile said—Mr. Chairman, as a minister of the Established
Church of England, I rejoice in the opportunity afforded me of
attending this meeting I was not aware that this meeting was
fixed for to-day, till a friend, who, I believe is now in this room,
had the kindoess.to come on board the steamer, in whichl ar-
rived from Ireland about three boors ago, to inform me that the
meeting was to be held to-day, in this room. If l mistake not,
the true Ouestion.before us is one of the true Church of Scot-
land; seeking provision fur her destitute children, on the one

part, and on the other part, two bodies, one the government of
the country refusing that support, and the other, the voluntary
sliSsenters urging the government to continue to refuse, and
promising them for i;fusing, their, political support. (Cheers.)
Am I right ? (Right.) The resolution that I have been re-
quested to move is this, " that this meeting highly approves of
the exertions already Made by the people of Scotland io fur-
therance of the assembly sCheine; and the liberal contributions
they have given in its behalf, and reso,l(re strenously to support
this great enterprise." On the part of the Church of Scotlaqd,
which occupies one side in this great plading—whieli [believe
is a form of expression made use of in Scotland--s 1 would say,
that her enterprize, when compared with her doctrines, exhibits
to the eye of the world a splendid instance of Christian, scrip-
tural consistency. (Hear.) I will explain myielf, In that
statement it is clearly put upon record, by stubborn facts, that
the exertions of voluntary churches, or even of an involuntary
endowed church, succeed with but a part of the population ; that
there remains a large part untouched, that ever must remain
untouched, if there be not a territorially divided, and an ade-
quately endowed ministry. Now, it may be argued, that there
must remain a large portion of the population untouched under
this dispensation, because the project of it is only to take the
people out of the Gentiles; and the doctrine of election is a
revealed truth of God. Sir, it is so; and the Church of Scot-
land holds it in the noble consistency of its scriptural revelation.
But the Church of Scotland equally holds; that it is not for man
to take election in his own bands; and while the living God
himself reserves the prerogative of calling them, it belongi to
his professing children to go the whole length of calling the
ear, that all may be called though few be chosen; and, there-
fore, I say, that the exertions of the Church of Scotland aiming
at the whole population, compared with the doctrines of the
Church of Scotland, maintaining the doctrine of aiggion, ex-
hibits to the ere of the world a splendid example IWhristian
consistency. What then shall we say to those on the'other side
of this pleading? Now, it is a very delicate thing for any
Christian man—and if possible, the delicacy is increased when
that man is a minister—to speak about the government in any
way but of approbation; because the scripture tells us, that
obedience to the powers that be, is a Christian duty, and un-
doubtedly, it is a duty with reference to the general ordinances
of government ; but it is equally undoubted, that with re-
ference to special measures which come, in direct collision
with Christian duty, it becomes the duty of a Christian
to resist those measures, as Clearly as it is his duty to
render obedience to the general ordinances of government
self. The general ordinance of the government of Babylon was
respected by Daniel; but when the King of Babylon' ordered
him not to pray, he simply violated the King's commandment,
that he might keep the commandment of God. The general
ordinance of government under Nero, was countenanced by
Paul; but had Nero commanded Paul not to preach, he would
have disobeyed him to obey God. Now, if we can show in -re-
ference to this measure, that the present government is opposing
a Christian duty, that it is clearly, and obviously from.the word
of God, their duty to use their influence as a government for the
Christian instruction of a people, as a father to use his influence
for the Christian instruction of his family, then, without arraign-
ing in the slightest degree the general ordinance of govern-
ment, but bowing to it with Christian obedience, we shall find
ourselves arranged in hostility against our present ministers on
this particular question. Sir, I would ask what sort of governs
ment is that which compels the Christianity of the land to rise
into agitation against the measures oft he governmeot ? (Hear.)
I have, therefore, no hesitation at all myself, while I highly
respect the ordinance of government, and would earnestly in-
culcate both publicly and privately obedience to the powers that
'be, as a general duty—l say, I have no hesitation at all in rally-
ing myself among the agitators, whether in England, Scotland,
or Ireland, in opposition to such measures of the ministry as
oppose the plain written word of God. (Cheers.) Sir, this
being the case, and having by these few observations cleared
the way to what I believe to be a true, and important feature of
this case, I would ask again, what sort of position are we in as
Christians ? And how does it become us to be opposed to, while
placed under a government, which, while it refuses on the
one side to extend Christianity—established Christianity, ac-
knowledged to be according to the word of God, to the destitute
families teaming on the walls and altars of the Church of Scot-
land, does not scruple on the other hand to grant large sums
to what is proved not to be Christianity, to what is acknow-
ledged not to be Christianity by all the enlightened world, but
the great apostacy of Christianity. (Great cheering.) And,
Sir, what shall we say in this connexion concerning the volun-
taries? Oh, how extraordinary is, the conscience of some men !
We read in the olden time of persons who strained at a knats
while they swallowed a camel. (Hear.) And here the con-
nexion between the Church of Scotland and the state is a knat,
that raises such voluntary strainings; while the connexion of
another church with falsehood is a camel that is swallowed most
sweetly. (Much cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN (interrupting.)—l beg to apologize—(hisses
and cheers)—l Merely beg to say, sir, I think you ,were not in
the room when I opened the meeting; and upon tiiit occasion
I hoped that no topics of politics or discussion other than that
for which the meeting was called would occur. 1 think you
were not in the room when I stated it.
Mr. 111'NEILE.continued.- I have now to decide the question
whether submission to the chair is to be carried to the extent
of refraining from the subject for which the meeting is convened.
(Hear, hear.) I believe, in the intioduction of any question
irrelevant, there ought to be submission to the chairman. But
I confess, I think now I have been interrupted in going into
the very heart of the matter. (Loud cheering.) And therefore
I have just this decision to come to, either to go nu and speak,
as I intend so long as I live, against Popery, or not at all.
(Cheers.) Sir, I never will, in public or private, get up under
conditions not to speak against Popery. (Some pet-son cried
out "Question.") The question is this then—(a laugh)—are
we to have endowments for the Church of Scotland or nut; and
in discussing this question, I do say that the appearance is fright--
ful of a state of things like the present, in the enlightened age
as it is called, of boasted liberalism' - to see that awful apostacy
Or.the Church of Rome endowed with thousands out of the Bri-
tish purse, while a moderate endowment is refused to our sister
Church of. Scotland. (Cheers.) And I say further, that we
have many who call themselves the elite of the enlightened who
tell us that to bo united to the state is a worse thing than to be
united to falsehood; because they tell us so not in words but in
deeds. Here is a church avowed by themselves to be true, be-
cause they follow her doctrines. They fall foul of her because
she is united to the state. Here is another church allowed to
be false because they have left her; she asks for endowments,
and they stand by as meek as mice, and let her have thousands.
(Great cheering.) Now I say this, falsehood is the devil, who
is the father of lies, and I say they stand convicted of stating,
by their conduct. that to be united to the state is worse than. to
be united to the Devil. (Cheers.) They won't allow the Church.
of Scotlaud to have a farthing. whilst they endow Popery with
thousands. (Cheers.) The rev. gentlemen then proceeded at
some length to ask why did their voluntary friends want to stop
them from working when they would not work themselves.
They reminded him of the fable of the dog in the manger. No-
body hindered them from working themselves at a good thing
that was to be done, but they would neither so work, nor permit
the church to work by means of endowments. He contended
that voluntaryism flourished invariably the most under the sha-
dow of endowments. Look where they would they would find
no where such noble instances of voluntaryism as they would
find iu the church of which he was an unworthy member. How
could they make their exertions bear on the subject; they could
give money to help them, which would give them a better claim
on the ministers. So far good. Let them get up a subscription
worthy of the town of Liverpool, and that was saying a great
deal. That would make a noise, and to use a phrase of his na-
tive land, ministers would begin to find "they were iii the wrong
box," and on that point they were vulnerable. And wost mar- -
vellous it was that ministers only calculated on the quiet and
orderly and forbearing disposition of the majority of the people
of the land—that, dependent on the voice of the public they
should be courting a section against the majority. It only,
proved that they calculated on the quiet majority, and hoped
to gain the movement, the discontented and really intolerant,
minority, who were not only wishing to get help for themselves
but to step their work. The reason had been assigned; they
were afraid of their craft being in danger. They had chapels
which were rather precarious property ; theme were debts on
these chapels, and the congregations were bad to keep together.
It' more pews were token mayhap the debt would get less; if the
pew-holders lessened the debts would increase. The voluntaries
of Glasgow did not like this of course ; no men would. But
why was this to follow? There were hundreds of thousands to
fill all the churches. Were they afraid that the endowed churches
would be more popular, that their ministers would visit the poor
more during the week, and preach better on Sundays? Why
should they think that the endowed church in the next street
shmuld empty the voluntary church ; and it spoke wonders, that
they must think that the enlightened well-educated quiet people
would prefer them. Wby should they not prefer the chapels
equally with the other? They knew they would not; they knew
the people would prefer the churches, and therefore their oppo-
sition to the present scheme. He thought the clergy of the es-
tablished church hail themselves to blame in some degree for
this refusal of the government. They had felt it a sort of dese-
cration of the sabbath to preach any thing about politics, so
much so that it had passed into a proverb that " religion had
nothing to do with politics." He alleged that every clergyman,
whether in the church of Scotland or England, who had been
silent on this subject, had gone his part to promulgate that de-
structive dogma. They ought to bring religion connected with
every thing. It had to do with their bodies as well as their
souls. There was one duty between God and the individual,
and another between the individual and all his neighbours.
Who ever heard that there was no connexion Iseween religion
and honesty? and yet it was the very same doctrine which had
gone abroad about religion and notities. God was the God of
our ledgers as well as of our bibles; therefore religion was con-
nected with every thing. They had therefore been themselves
parties to the feeling that had grown up in the country, that re.,
ligion had nothing to do with polities; and the result was re-
coiling
upon their own heads. The rev. gentleman coneluded
an eloquent address by calling upon the audience to come for
ward and support the fund for the extension of-the church-its'
Scotland.

e Rev. Mr M'KENzin of Wigan, proposed a- vote of thditki.
to the Chairman, which the Rev. Dr. ANDERSON seconded.
Dr. RALPH therrpronounced the parting benediction, and the
meeting was dissolved.
The amount of the collection at the doors will be found in our
advertising columns.

The King's College has a balance over and above its expen-
diture for the year of upwards of £2OOO, whilst the Loudon
University is deficient in the year EMU.

CHURCH EXTENSION IN SCOTLAND.—We have been very
Much gratified to learn that a donation of £lOO has been sent to
the treasurerof the 'church extension fund for Scotland, through
C. S. Parker, Esq., from a gentleman who, not wishing. to give
his name, adopts the signature of G R., as a response particu-
larly to the speech of his brother layman, David Maitland
M`Gill, Esq., of ltankeillor. I❑ noticing this circumstance,
cannot avoid also mentioning the splendid liberality of our
townsman, John Gladstone, Esq., who, as his donation in Lou.
don, builds and endows a church in his native place, Leith, the
cost of which, we hear, is £7OOO.

DESTRUCTIVE FIKE.--On Saturday evening, about six o'clock,
a file broke out in the premises of Mr. Winder, cooper, Wood-
street North. , The flames spread with extraordinary rapidity,
the buildings being entirely of wood, tilled up with faggots, staves,
barrels of.tar, bundles of hoops, and other highly ignitable ma-
terials, while the roof was of paper, prepared with a mixture of
tar and sugar, which took tire with the same facility as tinder.
A man, who entered the building for the purpose of ascertaining
the seat of the fire, reports, that such was the fearful rapidity of
the flames, fanned by a brisk breeze, that they absolutely pur-
sued him, and it was with great difficulty that be escaped injury.
Intelligence having been carried-to the Fire Police-station, the
engines were taken to the spot immediately, and, under the
direction of Mr. NVhitty and Hewitt, the supei intendent, every
exertion was made to subdue the conflagration. It was impossi-
ble, however' to make much impression upon a pile of dry wood,
which blazed like a glowing furnace. Serious apprehensions
were entertained, that the fire would communitate to the adjoin•
ing buildings, and this actually was, for a short period, the case
with one or two of those opposite. The various officers of the
fire-police were indetatigable in their exertions, and, happily,
the tire was prevented from spreading further. About nine
o'clock the flames began visibly to decrease, and, by ten, they
were totally overpowered, though the embers continued to burn
during the whole night and for a great part a Sunday. The
premises and stock were fiilly insured. It will be remembered,
that another cooperage belonging to Mr. Winder was burnt
downs some time ego, in Pownall=streeti

.COR R ESPONDEIV CI?.

THE CORONATION.

I
TO THE EDlitiß OF THE LIrERPOOL STANDARD.`
Site,—lt is a matter of great surprise to me, while nearly
every other town ,in the kingdom is preparing some demon.
stration of joy to celebrate the coronation of our beloved sove-
reign. that in this, the seCtind commercial town in England;
not the slightest mention should he made of a thing of the sort.
Surely, sir, the inhabitants of this great town will never let-SO
interesting a, spectacle pasi unnoticed. They will' never, I
shoulr9lope, so ,tar forget themselves in their. duty to a lady and
their -Queen. , Let them consider that it may be many years
tefore they ;nay again have such an ripportu.nity of displaying
their loyalty; and that most likely rand God. grant we may,)
we ;Shall have to celebrate a jubileb before anothei botonation
takes place. Therefore I hope,'sir, than this town will not only
prove itself the second in influence, but the seconds if not the
first in its loyitlty.— I am, sir, yours, &c., S. WELLER. .
Liverpool, May 14th, IS3B.

`l'o THE SHAREHOLDERSOF THE GREAT WHEAL
, PROSPER TIN AND CHINA CLAY MINE.

GENTLEMEN,—This is the third lettgi,Lhave addressed to
you, and I hope I have produced the effect' which I wished;
viz i—that you have not parted with ',Our scrip. Noiv it is evi-
dent that my advice has been good, and I am sure you will re-
joice with the when I tell you, that we have got into what the
miners term " a Bunch of Tin." SO that we may fairly calcu
late upon very good returns. The lode or bunch is eight feet
in thickness. There is one obstacle at present to this being
made the best use of, and that is, the want of a siifficient quan-
tity of ,tampers; but I understand the directors :are setting
about in good earnest to remedy this defect; and I. hope they
will not be so long in doing that as they have been in finding
out the bunch. I cannot help thinking that thit valitable metal
might have been discovered twelve months since, had the same
system been adopted that is now and has been pursued during
the last few months.

The shareholders ought to he called together more fre-
quently, and the reports rotninunicated to them by the directors.,
although the regulations of the company require certain form,
to be gone through before more numerous meetings can beheld
than those which have been.— Your obedient servant,
AN ORIGINAL SHAREHOLDER,

WOODSTOCK ELECTION.

• '
WOhDSTdCR, MAY 10.—At two o'clock Lord John Uhurchtit
headed his brother by two votes but front that time to. the
closing of the poll he did not, we believe, obtain another vote,
while seven more votes were polled for the Marquis, of Bland,
ford. These last votes came ►n very slowly, as neatly all the
strength of the constituency was exhadited.
The official declaration of the poll is p:istpOned till to-mtorrotv ,;
but the following statement of the numbers at the close of th e
poll was made at the Marquis of Blandford's coinmittee room t
The Marquis of Blandford l6O
Lord J. Churchill 155
Majority for the Marquis of Blandford 5