The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

H. M. S. HYACINTH.

(Prom the Hobart Town Courier.)
We are indebted for the following inteteeting account to one
of the officers of his Majesty's ship Hyacinth :
Mooday 23d September 1835, in latitude 3, 39, 47, and long.
69, 24, 30, the Maldive Islands, bearing North 53, East 3,
8 miles—Dpriug the early part of this morning, we experienced
squalls with very heavy rain, and at 4h. 30m. A, Si., encountered
a most terrific thunder storm, which lasted about half an hour,
in the course of which period, the Hyacinth, was-,reduced•to -a
complete wreck aloft.
Two fire-balls struck the ship in succession, which shattered
the fore and main top masts so severely, that on day-light ap-
pearing, we could distinctly see through the cehtre of the spars
from the deck; and the top gallant masts from the truck down-
wards, were completely splintered. The head of the foremast
was likewise so much damaged, that on arriving at Calcutta,
we found it necessary to get the mast out to repair. The fore-
mast was the first struck by a ball of fire, attracted in all proba-
bility by the sheaves of the truck and copper pins, shivering
the royal mast, thence to the iron jacks, glancing on to the
copper of the sheave-hole, it descended through the top gallant
mast, thence, on to the copper in the top mast sheave-hole,
which it melted in some places, and bounded on the top-mast
futtock hoot), from which, with a tremendous crash, it shattered
the top mast in a most remarkable manner, until it reached the
two hoops on the heel; it then glanced into the foremast,
severely wounding the head of it, thence down the starboard
chain topsail sheet, to the bitt-head, knocking down and
scorching slightly the look out man sitting between the sheets,
whose howling added considerably to the horrors of the scene,
and thence to the iron anchor stock, and over board; several
other seamen were also laid prostrate by the shock.
A second ball fell close to the ship, and about six minutes
'after the first, a third struck the main royal mast, passing down-
wards similarly as the fore, but only slightly chipping the main
mast, thence down the starboard chain topsail sheet, descend-
ing by the main hatchway to the lower deck, and burst over the
armourers bench with the report of a cannon, starting one of
the carliugs and knocking a marine out of his hammock, as well
as slightly affecting the other men who were sleeping near him.
The lower deck at this tune was so densely filled with smoke,
that for some minutes it was doubtful whether the ship was not
on fire.

The electric fluid then descended under the lower deck, until
encountering the leaden pipe of Shear le's pump in its progress,
burst it and escaped through the ships side at the extremity of
the pipe, the cock of which was fortunately turned at the time,
or in all probability, a must serious accident would have hap-
pened to the ship; indeed 1 may add, that the escape of the.
final destruction of the ship from the effects of the electric fiord,
is miraculous.

Daylight shortly broke, the weather cleared up and by 11
o'clock that forenoon, top mast and top gallant masts were shift-
ed, the bead of the fore mast fished, and the little Hyacinth all
ataunt, and gaily proceeding on her voyage as though nothing
had happened.

FIRE AT LIMERICK.--A destructive fire broke out in the great
provision stures of Mr. Russell, William-street, Limerick, on
Thursday last, by which property to the amount-of £30,000 was
consumed.

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL

ITALIAN OPERRS.

Under the Management of Signor DE BEGNIS.

Last Night of the Grand Opera, (with new and splendid
Dresses,) composed by the celebrated . Bellini, called LA
SON N A MBUL A, on which occasion the Orchestra and

Choruses will be considerably augmented.
TN consequence of the great applause with which Bellini's
celebrated Opera of
LA SONNAMBULA, •
Was received, by a crowded audience, on Wednesday evening,
and at the request of several patrons of the Opera, it will be
repeated THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 15th instant, for
the Last Time.

Principal Characters by Marine. DE ANGIOLI, Signora
MARIANI, Signora OLDERICCI ; Signor BERRET-
TONI, Signor DE ANGIOLI, Signor GALLI, and Mr.
BENNETT.
OZ7' Signor DE BEGNIS re • ectfolly informs the Patrons
of the Opera, that he has in ink ediate preparation, with New
and Appropriate Scenery, and rth New and Splendid Dresses,
(which he has had made for thi Opera by the Principal Master-
Tailor to the Albion Cloth ompany, Edinburgh,) the cele-
brated Opera, composed by ssini, of
LA DONNA DEL LAGO.
The story founded on the celebrated-Poem of the "Lady of
the Lake," by the late lamented Sir Walter Scott. The
Piece will be produced by Signor De Begnis in the same splen-
did manner as erformed, with the greatest success, at the
Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh; and, on this occasion, by the kind
permission of Colonel Bradshaw, of the 77th, the MILITAnY
BANE of that Regiment will attend in the Orchestra, in order
to give the greatest effect to the Martial Music in this Opera,
on which Rossini bestowed the most marked attention.

During the next week there will be Four Performances, viz.,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. Gd.—Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at Seven, and the Performances to com-
mence at Eight o'clock.
LIV ER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET.

POSITIVELY THE LAST TWO NIGHTS OF

MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.
Which mud be withdrawn for forthcoming Novelties.
Mr. T. I'. COOKE, the Misses SMITH, Mr. SMITH, and
Mr. BINGE.

ripHIS present FRIDAY, the 15th, and TO-MORROW,
(Saturday,) the 16th instant, will be presented, for the
Last Time, the successful Nautical Drama of

MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.
llarry Halyard Mr. T. P. Cooke.
With the popular Inter ude of
PECCADILLO
Principal characters by the Misses S iith, Mrs. Raymond, Mr.
W. J. Hammond, a Mi. Binge.
To conclud with
SQUALLS A ORE.
Harry Mr. T. P. Cooke.

TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL AND
ITS VICINITY.
To be published, dedicated by permission to ord FRANCIS
EGERTON. M.P., -once, in boards, r Gd.,
T4YRICAL EFFORTS, by ROBERT TOREY, Author
of " The Isles are Awake," &c. &c.
N.B. Ladies or Gentlemen desirous of ssessing Copies will
oblige the Author by sending their na sto the Standard-
office, Liverpool, on or before the Ist February next.
A Subscription Paper is opened for Signatures at the Office
of the Liverpool Standard. _

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION, COL
STREET.
Airß. EDWARD TAYLOR, of LoNnoN, irk
1111_ Course of FOUR LECTURES on EN,
CAL HARMONY, to commence on MoNDA,
at One o'clock, and to be continued on
THURSDAY and MONDAY, at the same houl
at Half-past Seven each succeeding Tu
VOCAL PERFORMEI

'deliver a
ISH VO-

'',' Jan. 4. 1836,

Ach succeeding
4 Repeating them
Y and FI;IDAY.

Miss Leach, mrßoothby,
Miss H ornby, Mr. Walton,
Mr. Ball, Mr. E. Taylor.
Mr. G. Holden will preside at the Piano-forte.
Subscriptions to the Course, Half-a-Guinea. Admission to
a Single- Lecture, Three Shillings; and for Children and
Schools, Half-price,—a Teacher being admitted Free when Six
Scholars attend.

rbe titurpool

FRIDAY MORNING, JANCLIRY 15, 1836,

Lisbon papers to the 2(1 instant were received in Lon-
don, 7),:a Falmouth, on Wednesday. Her Majesty the
Queen was married on New-year's, day, by proxy, at the
Metropolitan Church, at Lisbon, to Prince FERDINAND
AuGusrus, another fortunate youth of the Royal House
of Saxe Coburgh Gotha. Her Majesty, immediately
after the performance of this ceremony, received the con-
gratulations of the diplomatic body, and on the following
day opened the session for 1836 with a speech which will
be found elsewhere. The Portuguese treasury is re-
ported to be in an exhausted state, the Cortes to be di-
vided into three parties, and the return of SyLVA CAR-
VALHO to power quite out of the question. Lord How-
ATM DE WALDEN'S influence at court is on the wane, and
the arrival of Prince FERDINAND, who is understood to
be devoted to French interests, will most probably de-
stroy it altogether.

By the Britannia, Captain Short, which sailed from
Demerara on the 28th November, we have received a file
of the Guiana Chronicle to that date. Nothing of lin •
portance appears to have occurred in that colony since
the last advices were despatched.

Under the head of " BARB.ADOES" it is stated that the
savage practice of maiming cattle had not been effectn-
ally put down ; that a meeting of the House of Assem-
bly had been called for the 3d November ; and the non-
attendance of the members is thus explained in the West
Indian ;—" There was no meeting of the House of As-
sembly on Tuesday last, most of the members being en-
gaged in planting beans and buonavis."
A Committee of the House of Assembly, Tobago,
have agreed to the following resolutions respecting the
education of the children of apprenticed labourers :
" That crime is rapidly on the advance whilst the attendance
of the rising generation to religious instrtictiou is evidently on
the decline, caused by the withdrawing of the authority and
controul their masters formerly possessed over them."
"That for the better regulating the manners and improving
the morals of emancipated children, and in order to create a
fund for the accomplishment of an object of such essential im-
portance,
tance it is the opinion of this committe that a certain sum
per acre be exacted by their employer on all provision grounds
cultivated by apprenticed labourers over and above the quanti-
ty they are by law allowed.
"That the special magistrates appointed by the executive be
authorized to enter into any agreement on the part of the ap-
prentices with their employers to furnish labour in lieu of quo-
nev, at a fair and just rate of wages so as to remunerate the
master for erecting schools and furnishing benches and instruc-
tors.

"That it is the opinion of this committee that the parents
should enforce the attendance of their children at some place
of divine instruction, at least once every Sunday, either in
chapels provided for them on the plantation or at some church
or chapel in the vicinity thereof.
" That a committee of both branches of the legislature, be ap-
pointed to frame an act for the b,4tter observance of the sabbath,
and for devising the best and most efficient means of providing
for, and insuring the moral instruction and education of the
offspring of the apprenticed labourers in this Colony."

There are in public life as well as in private society
certain persona he may be called the go-betweens of
parties-..who preess to be peacemakers—to whose
tongue tht term "moderation" is as familiar as the fa-
vonrite if not the only word of a pet parrot—rind who,
under the pretext of reconciling differences and subdu-
ing animosities, are the mere professors of fashionable
cant—who are tolerated because their imbecility passes
for meekness, and their,duplicity for chrigtian forbear-
ance, and their intrusive importunities for kindly inter-
cession—but who, to speak truth, are shallow creatures,
sensitively imbued with vanity and selfishness—who are
devoid of alt principle, and are, consequently, rotten at
heat t.

Towards these selfish and self-important busy bodies
we cannot conceal that we entertain a most intense ha-
trod founded upon a perfect knowledge of their cha-
racter.

The distracted situation of our country, which certain
jacobins and infidels, recently glutted With power, seem
resolved to precipitate into all the horrors of anarchy,
demands at our hands the expression of those unreserved,
unequivocal, and well-considered opinions, upon the as-
cendancy of which, in relation to the throne and the pro-
testant religion, depend, the solution of this important
pioblem—Ts the British monarchy to -merge in republi-
canism ?—are the protestant establishments of England
and Scotland to fall a.prey to the dissenters, to the unita-
rians, the quakers, the independents, the anabaptists, the
papists.of Ireland, and the infidels of both countries ?
Looking at the factssas they have: been forced upon
our attention within the last three weeks, every indica-
tion of a popular kind is favourable to our hopes. It is un-
deniable that the members of the Church of England,
including that most estimable body the Wesleyan metho-
dists; constitute two-thirds of the whole population. If
wealth be taken into consideration, they possess it in a
much greater proportion. if loyalty be„considered, they
have it, with few exceptions, exclusively on their side.
If learning, talent, and intelligence be reckoned, we
claim—as the press shows, as the periodical publications
show, as every work of genius, of the highest order of
intellect in the walks of art, science, philosophy, criti-
cism, jurisprudence, divinity, and the higher n:athema-

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tics show—we are entitled to claim four-fifths of all thd
mind and intelligence of the nation.
How comes it then that we find in all the municipal
elections the majority of successful candidates to be so-
cinians, baptists, quakers, independents, and Infidels
How comes it that where property is at stake, the
rupt and the swindler are elected its guardians ?
We shall not attempt to answer, these questions, be-

cause if we did this article would be extended far beyond
the sufferance and endurance of a newspaper reader.
What we aim at, under these restrictions, is to show the
deep injury which has been inflicted upon the country by
the legion family of the go-betweens—of those. incubi
which sit in apparently maternal fondness, and press,
while they pretend to hatch, every germ of nobleness
and true patriotism, not into life, but to death.
We perceive, by the Times wad the Standard, that.
some anonymous shufflers, as destitute of principle as a
practitioner at thimble-rip-, find fault with the disclo-
sures, or, rather, the exposures of popery, which have
recently been made by the most able, learned, and -elo-
quent men that Ireland or any other country ever pro-
duced. In mincing terms and mawkish millinery phrases,
which indicate an excess of superficiality and a most
plentiful lack of sincerity and true patriotism, they com-
plain that those men who have torn the veil from popery,
and have drawn up the curtain and shown the papist, the
socinian, the quaker, and the infidel dancing a quadrille
under the directions of a jesuit as master of the cere-
monies—they complain that protestants have dealt too
hardly with their Roman catholic brethren ! Too hardly
What do these slippered pantaloons of the Church
of
England.mean? Is truth in their judgment of no va-
lue ? Is religion, according to their political creed, a
mere farce, in which the.most expert juggler—the most
ingenious quack---the most adroit hypocrite—ought to
receive the loudest plaudits and the highest rewards ?
Such must'be their meaning, if they have any mean-
ing which can fairly be made reconcileable to their pre-
posterous and corrupt jargon. They attach much blame
to us tories—we glory-in the name !—for daring to dis-
tinguish between truth and falsehood—between christi-
anity and idolatry—between the errors of the Church of
Rome in Ireland, which vitiate, degrade, and demoralise
the human mind, and those sublimer truths of revelation
which make the terms of salvation and the beneficent
attributes of divine intercession more intelligible to hu-
man capacity. Their avowed pretext for this irreverent
if not blasphemous doctrine of conciliation is founded upon
principles which are utterly disgraceful, and which, like
the light of a candle on the disturbed and rippling stream,
fling back glimpses of distortion and deformity. These
aspirants to honours which are based, like their base
selves, in the double baseness of reckless conciliation,
think—do they think ?—that the Church of England can
gain anything by playing handmaiden to the Church of
Rothe—that lay impropriators are more secure, even on
politic grounds, by tolerating claims that strike at their
existence—or that it is consistent with their sworn duty
to make an idol of the snake which they have warmed
by nursing it in their bosoms ? Those who are of this
opinion are speculators, and nothing more, with whom
religion is a game, while their life-interest in its institu-
tions is the only preventive check against any open hos-
tility on their part during the continuance of that inte-
rest. These are the conciliatory go-betweens. These
are the pastors that cry peace ! peace ! and yet would
embrace the sworn enemies of their church. These are
the men who deprecate all controversy with the church
of Rome, all doctrinal discussions, and all measures cal-
culated to give offence to our "Catholic brethren ;" but
who, with disgusting inconsistency, look on unmoved at
the horrid persecution of their "protestant brethren" in
Ireland=who have no sigh to spare for ruined families,
no censure to level against plundering priests, no denun-
ciations against murder, no anathemas to pour upon
banded ruffians, midnight robbers, or those who at the
word of command given by their blasphemous leaders
are ready to destroy in the ashes of their own cottage the
humble peasant and his unsuspecting and innocent fa-
mily. These men, of a one-sided charity, we say again,
are the canker-worms of the church of England. They
eat her bread--they eat in security—but they seem re-
solved to eat all up and leave nothing for their successors.
The worst part of the case is, that these churchmen in-
terpose their officious advice to mar the objects of those
who are doing nothing more than their duty in exposing
the errors of popery, and who have happily fallen upon
times when the worst features of the system are in a
state of transition, if not in the agonies of dissolution.
Why all this excitement, violence, menace, and impious-
appeals from the altar, on the part of the Rotnish priests
of Ireland ? Is there any man so imbecile as to imagine
that popery has the slightest chance regaining an as-
cendancy in these islands ? The results of every parlia-
mentary election within the last twelve months prove
the contrary. It was proved in Devonshire, in North-
amptonshire, in Inverness-shire, in Gloucestershire, and
in various other places. It is proved by the success of
every protestant newspaper in England. It is demon-
strated by the defeat of all the enemies of the church, on
the question of church-rates, in every town in England,
with the scandalous and unpardonable exception of
Brighton. The excitement, then, is caused not by any
well-grounded fears of the advancement of popery to-
wards supreme power, but by a consciousness on the part
of the Irish priests that their tyrannical dominion in that
country is shaken to its base, that their superstitious
temples rock in the wind of public opinion, that the foun-
tain of their revenues is fast drying up, that the appli-
ances of extortion are losing their potency, that the bible
is driVing the dog-latin mass book into oblivion, that
purgatory is beginning to be stripped of
.its hopes and
terrors, and that the pure and hallowed light of protestant
christianity is penetrating the darkness of the darkest
realms of popery in Ireland. -

This is the main cause of the religious struggle, at-
tended by so many revolting circumstances, which is•
shaking the sister island to her very foundations, steeling
the hearts of a guilty priesthood to the commission of
deadly crimes, and such excesses as are the last resort of
desperate men: And yet this is the crisis when the con-
ciliators of our protestant church would, if they could,
stay the progress of a glorious triumph, and silence truth
in its advances towards conviction. There may be in
our church men, of snchtrimming.politics, of such con-
venient principles, that they never deem themselves safe
unless they have a different set of colours on board—one
for victory on either side—one to. pull down if need be.
and another to hoist up if it be expedient. These trim-
mers, we suspect, are ,the counsellors of moderation at

the present moment. They take no interest in the con-
test apart from a merely personal interest. They care
nothing for the church, but a great deal for the living—•
very little for true religion, but a vast deal for midis-,
turbed pluralities and quiet possession. They care not-.
how he fares who shall come after them. It is the in-.
cumbent who preaches for himself!
We have had enough of this. Those who cavil at-the-
reviVal of better principles, and sneer at the splendid ta-
lents and unparalleled exertions of 0' Sum VAN, NPGIIEE,
BOYTON, POPE, and others, are not the friends of the-
church of England. They are wolves in sheep's, cloth-.
ing. They may not be •socinians, or papists, but they
are most unquestionably of the order of Jesuits, with this
difference, that they profess an attachment to the church
which they are insidiously labouring to undermine. The
good work, however, has begun, and it will advance in
spite of them. Popery is tottering, anal it must tall, no
matter how many or how few of our conciliators take an
unnatural interest in procrastinating the completion of
the desired reformation.

We beg leave to direct attention to two curious and
instructive reports which will be found in our columns of
this day ; the first relative to the election of twenty-four
"gentlemen of the commission," but who are better
known by the more unfashionable title of "Justices of
the Peace ;" and the second concerning a private-public
meeting convened to invite DANIEL, of Derrynane, to a
dinner in Liverpool, which, if he should come, we sup,
pose will take place in the large room of the Town-hall.
With respect to the first affair we shall decline offering
any observations until we are certified by authority that
the King has given his sanction to their nomination.
We need, however, be less reserved with respect to those

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