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. f ~...: ,ii., directed day by day against our National Church-the which so well become him, and which contribute so much RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
.::_1•1 e.aillting aspect of Popery on every side-the introduc- to the amusement of the public.
,-, tion of
Is is's• the foul prophet of Socialism and Infidelity at So much for badinage. The Albion of yesterday contains MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. PLA
i, the an article of a grossly vituperative character, by way of cora- STATE OF THE WORKS.
..,10:} . Court of our Sovereign,-all these are but too
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jail*, , Significant emblems of the growth of that national de- meat on our remarks respecting the Ribbonite procession of The works upon this important line are now in a state of jr"
„.11„,• usg moralization_ which is ever the result of a want of re- Tuesday last. It accuses us of " letting off brutal vituper- great forwardness. Between Littleborough (up to which Be,
ations against an oppressed and long-suffering people." We point, the road is now opened from Manchester) and the ment
, JAI 31;ect on the
~i ~sff Three months ago we had brighter prospects to look against a band of brutal tyrants, whose associates in Ireland rails are, with the exception of a few yards, laid down, and churn
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whose. we
had still a sound Protestant interest, upon have repeatedly imbrued their hands in the blood of the the road completed. Be
loyalty and unshaken firmness the people of " oppressed and long-suffering" Protestants of that country. From the west end of the Tunnel to Hebden Bridge the
additlPl
bniBa:4 England could depend for protection and safety. In doing so we should have expe .ted the sympathy of the works are the heaviest on the line, containing the great Tun-
We Albion, if we did not know that it has more than once ad- nel itself and some smaller ones, several viaducts, and some Pni;Sur
.0 bss4 hado_ the materiel for a noble stand against the enemies vocated the " extinction of the party" on whose necks the deep cuttings and embankments. The latter have been im- Estal
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and
inour religion and our homes. We,had leaders-aye, Irish Papists have so long trampled in fiendish exultation. peded by the continual wet weather of the past season, but
sects
.2.:,13 1° d trusted ones-at whose bidding we could have The Albion is guilty of uttering an untruth in saying that the viaducts, other masonry and tunnels, are in a very for- Socir
I,sasid braced on our armour and gone forth, secure that our we have insulted Ireland. We never offered an insult to ward state. Of the Summit Tunnel 1,842 yards are already W
~ dlii Path to the field of combat would be at least a straight Ireland. It is a splendid and lovely country, and contains executed, leaving 1018 yards to complete the entire work, Sonia
D bil‘ and an honourable one. Do these still exist ?we hundreds of thousands of the bravest, most loyal, and noble- adndbfrom the progress making, there is, we believe, little tivits
IA grieve-
n7-e
, s., . , minded men that ever breathed the breath of Heaven-men tof its being completed in November next. The other W
blush to say-they do not ! une tatat
faction wl a cunningly-devised plot of the Jesuitical who have proved their devoted attachment to their Sove- short tunnels are also well advanced, and are all expected to want
reign, and their unflinching determination to sustain the be finished as early as that period. Be
scrip
I°Be rowels are in our sides, has destroyed glorious institutions of the realm, under circumstances of With respect to the remaining portion of the line between worn
.what years
of unceasing regret may prove insufficient the most trying character. But Ireland also contains a Hebden Bridge and Normanton, where it joins the North W
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Ntoataiotonne for-the confidence placed by the British horde of brutal assassins, organised for the extermination of Midland Railway-a distance of 271 miles-the principal tenit
in the integrity, honesty, and sound English all that is good and noble in their country, and whose very works consist of ten bridges of from two to six arches each, on t
iiiil" eelsn, of shadows are so many hideous blots upon its verdant soil. over the crossings of the River Calder, the Sowerby and parti
~,,.9 conriso the Conservative leaders in the House of Against these-the truculent Ribbonmen-we have de- Elland tunnels, and some extensive cuttings and embank- of pe
aess.- s 1,11 ns• To them-to Sir Robert Peel, to Lord claimed, and shall continue to declaim. ments at My tholm Rod Co Copley, Elland, Cooper Bridge, is bo
.tiles? 'alley, to Sirnot f
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• " James Graham-the Nation looked The Albion very ingeniously contrives to mis-quote a pars- Horbury, and Kirkthorpe. Five of the bridges are nearly state
a 9,ii 1,
_as the founders of a better order of things. To these graph from our article on Lord Nonnanby's " blarney." finished, the arches being turned, and only the parapet walls plae(
j.,d
,c.,:r :in, backed as we knew they would have been by that The candid editor of that paper leaves out the qualifying required to complete them. Three more are built up above
and
10 i?,:4, Plrit of true loyalty and constitutional principle which terms, "if Lord Norraanby speaks of the great majority of the water level, and nearly ready for the centreing, and the is, i
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oe kae adl v 1
igrowing up and strengthening around us, we the Irish," and proceeds to charge us with saying that all the remaining two are above the water level, with the exception wore
r.,vioc. Irish are violent, seditious, and superstitious. Does the edi- of a pier in each, so that the principal difficulties of these but '
p with confidence and hope for our country.
The tor of the Albion suppose that we included the loyal and en- works may be said to be overcome. Considerable delay has 11'14
• J Y have deceived us. They have stooped from their lightened Protestants of Ireland in the same category with been created in the construction of the bridges at Cooper that
knit
eyrie
.. ~ to feed on the garbage of modern liberalism. the degraded serfs of the Popish priesthood? Bridge and Kirkthorpe by the companies navigating the IT
exte
ha
atldey have deserted the high emprize to which they The appeal of the Albion to the Irish aliens in Liverpool river, otherwise they would have been in a much more for-
B
;,.' beenis quite characteristic of a liberal journal. It has hitherto ward state. The Sowerby Tunnel is in length 638 yards, of
devoted by the people of England, fora sucl•
been the uniform policy of the self-styled liberals to depress which only 88 yards remain to be completed. Of the Elland Live
~..) Paltry contest, waged with a writer of filthy memoirs,
at the and depreciate every thing that is English ; while they have Tunnel, 410 yards in length, only 100 yards remain unfinished. 58,0
ss, ";
,I_expense of justice and liberty. They have be)
done all in their power to place O'Connell and the " Irish The progress of the embankments is very satisfactory, ex-
leas
-.1•/; ex-
descended to mingle with the brood of shallow expe- tail" in power. We repeat our exhortations to the Pro- cept at Cooper Bridge and Kirkthorpe, where impediments ma
•- ' mentalistsths
metropolis, , raked together from the stews and hells of testants of Liverpool, to crush the Irish faction who now have arisen in the construction of the bridges, over which
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, . or exhaled from the putrescent mass of ride rough-shod over the liberties of Englishmen. If they earth for embanking has to be carried, and which will prevent an.lG
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. act anuirn and infidelity, which constitutes so great do not bestir themselves, in common with their Protestant the completion at Cooper Bridge until the end of August, -/3
Portion of the society of our large manufacturing fellow-subjects in other parts of the empire, England will and at Kirkthorpe until November next. As the latter work and
town, is below Wakefield, it will not, however, delay the completion
-- They have fought side by side with Wakley
and Some; and- soon be converted into a paltry appanage to Ireland. Let us
show that we will not suffer England to be any longer go- of the whole length between Hebden Bridge and Wakefield,
verned by the Irish Papists. We have submitted too long to which is expected to be accomplished early in September RE
o Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen !" this degradation. next.
t..-5tP• ' they
7 have received and writhed beneath the fulsome The stations for the reception of goods at Manchester and
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adulation of Daniel O'Connell. Littleborough are completed, and that at Rochdale is in pros
,Jsisr-s It is amusing to observe the cool impudence and ignorance
gress.
laW Will they -not-will not Sir Robert Peel at length combined with which the Anti-Corn-law orators endeavour -
a-sab•Vj understand the temper and feeling of the Conservative occasionally to gull the public and themselves into a belief of BIRKENHEAD AND CHESTER RAILWAY. s
body of England ? If he will regain the respect and the purity of their motives and the sagacity of their conclu- We are glad to witness the rapid progress of the works tern
a s r,,' revive
the hopes of that body, we warn him that this sions. At the meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Cora- on this line of railway, the opening of which during the ran(
Is i
la ? °llieet can coerce, held on Thursday week, for the purpose of petition- ensuing summer will afford so great an addition to the fund or i
the never be accomplished except by following ing Parliament for the total and immediate repeal of the of amusement and pleasurable recreation, which Liverpool, stit
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04 51' straightforward and manly path, at all risks, in Corn-laws, the following very brilliant observations were during that season, affords to her numerous visitors. It is des
,-,sisl,l Preference to the devious and crooked windings of uttered by the mover of the petition, Mr. Benjamin Pearson, worth the consideration of those who wish to form an esti- Pserrei
„II
from
policy. Concession must be banished and elicited the unqualified assent of that very self-sufficient mate of the profit likely to be derived by the proprietors of raj,
iroro .1,, ~ ,
- :null a ."8 lips. His watchword-the only watchword assembly. " Some persons," observed Mr. Benjamin this railway, that it is the only line out of Liverpool which tho
°l3f• -"I nder which the constitutional party will now follow Pearson, " imagined that a large portion of the land in this presents scenery worth visiting, and which is likely to be eve
country would immediately go out of cultivation on the re- resorted to by its " tired denizens" for a passing day's en- tie
-es,' him-must be " WAR TO THE KNIFE, AND No
~,,„
•snENDER !" peal of the Corn-laws ; but it had been well observed, that, joyment. Before many months are over we expect to hear tint
if we took the cost of importation into this country at 10s. a " a trip to Chester" spoken of with as little concern as a the
quarter, and estimated the production of an acre of wheat at sail to Egremont or New Brighton, and have no hesitation all!
rt.) On Frid
ay last we commented, in language not one three quarters, which was the lowest estimate, the landed in- in believing that the proportion of increase upon the present ]
whit
stronger that the occasion justified, on the pro- terest had a protection equal to the whole rent of the land; passenger traffic will very far surpass the calculations of its dia
arceltiBCilenhoafs and that the farmer stood, as far as the foreigner was con- projectors, or the anticipations of the public. P'
the Irish Papists on St. Patrick's Day. The wil
cerned, in the same position as if he were rent-free." Now Let us, however, suggest to the directors the advantage be,
had its intended effect. It has stung and
mortifiedwe should imagine that Mr. Benjamin Pearson knew just they will derive from adopting a moderate scale of fares, slit
the Ribbonmen and their defenders. We
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violent
pretty strong evidence of this fact in a rabidly as much about the subject upon which he was talking as our and adopting the plan of the directors of the Leeds and act
h
inkstand knows about Greek or Hebrew ; and we should Manchester line, with respect to the establishment of an of
iolent letter which appeared in the Journal of Saturday strongly advise " The League" to forward him immediately, additional or third-class train, for the accommodation of the
wane
. , last, under the euphonious signature of "D. E. Fitz- carriage paid, into some of our benighted agricultural dis- poorer description of travellers. In many instances a dif- lik
Patti 1r ) ference of sixpence will decide the question of journey or no tie
c-. ' The writer has lashed himself into such a tricts, where the benevolent intentions of the Manchester
Parjourney;. and upon a short line like this, with its favourable
olysrn of rage and indignation that we would se- Chamber of Commerce are so little known. and appre.ciated,wtei
nonsi . . and where " the farmer stands, so far as the foreigner is con- gradients and light cost of construction, a few additional sh
siy advise his friends to keep " a sharp look out" cerned, in the same condition as if he was rent-free !" passengers will add little or nothing, beyond the duty paid go
him,
afterßut softly, Mr. Benjamin Pearson-let us see whether His malady is evidently of a mischievous this rnto govement, to the expenses of a train. rit
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character : and we should not be surprised if, failing brilliant idea of yours might not explode with the jolting,
• GOVERNMENT DUTY ON RAILWAY PASSEN- th
in
his attack upon the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, he and yourself at the end of your journey be presented to the
GERS. wi
• - should turn round and assail his own friends. If we astonished rustics as a mere empty bottle. The farmer, ac-
We
have on a previous occasion called the attention of th
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are not much mistaken, an individual bearing the ho- cording to your calculation, would have a protection against
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rai way companies to the inequality with which this tax be
floured name of Fitzpatrick, some time ago vented his the foreigner of ten shillings per quarter, which upaiontoasporao-
presses on themselves and the public. On some lines which m
at
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spleen against the Albion, and one or two of the other duction of three quarters to an acre would beequ ~
lands But an English charge the minimum rate of toll this tax is felt more, of course,
liberal prints in town, through the medium of a Tor
y ftharemaevrerage rental of corn per acre.
Paper. W might perhaps inform you that it requires a cultiva-
eno not say that it is the same person who tion of more than one year to raise a crop of wheat, and that than upon our lea.ding. r.ailways
.;
.but on all we thinkd the.pre-
ctha
th
sent mode of levying itisofinatbpeolciotinci,mbuonthitya.s regar s the inte-
rests of the revenue and an
J.:, has foisted his vulgarities upon the editor of the his rent must be paid whilst the land is fallow, or growing
Our attention has been recalled to this subject by an ably as
Journal. There is something, however, in the style of only such produce as barely pays a profit on cultivation. Place
drawn up statement appended to the report of the Leeds and it
the letter in the Journal which very strongly reminds the English farmer. as compared with the foreigner, rent-
free, by a protection, in addition to this charge of freight, appears
portionrs tiiat
theof whichdu tduty paid
w eebx
y- ars
re
us of the articles to which we have alluded. If the
Ribbonmen should fail in patronising the writer who and he is ready to compete with the foreigner. Do this, Mr. tNrlaacntcahte sfot cost) Rfariolmw a y
whichCo mls i at nayp,
that company during four months, was, for first class pas- 1
has vilified us in the columns of the Journal, he may,
eedPearson, but do not insult an English public by taking it for
perhaps, find in convenient to abuse them in granted that there are many men out. of. the. Manchester sengers 21 per cent. upon the fares, for second class passen- 'Rai
at
fi, terms Chamber of Commerce so besotted in their ignorance as to gers 5 per cent., and for third class passengers 101 per cent.
as strong and virulent as those which he has employed credit such outrageous absurdity. By the bye, we wish that
s ii• Hence it must be evident that although railway companies 34
in abusing the STANDARD. your party generally possessed a little more honesty, and may sufficiently appreciate the advantage of affording the d
Mr. Fitzpatrick, after some remarks, "Characterised their statements a little more consistency with each other. accommodation of low fares to the humbler portion of their :
by an incoherent scurrility of language," such as a rehearse together before
Men bent upon deceiving should passengers, which the experience of the Leeds Railway suf- e''''
ficiently illustrates, this tax places a limit beyond which the I
Billingsgate fishwoman might be expected to indulge they attempt to perform in public.
advantage equally of the public and the company shall not a
ill if transferred to Bedlam, proceeds to bring against extend. t
t
Us ass •
wing of Charges as false and unfounded, as they . MA.GASINf FRANCAIS.-Yih'e beg lear to direct
, gronaatten- s
.C. APPENDIX OF•TRAPPIC UPON THE LEEDS AND r
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are destitute of decency and common sense. He has I‘3feny Met'er's as
urretuarnr freoameillatrts tan?l a.Eicilrbucergia, with a, splendid ' MANCHESTER RAILWAY.
Received for Parcels, &c., for six months .. £756 ss. 3d. t
the•assortment of novelties to suit every taste.
audacity to designate the article in the STANDARD, - Received for Passengers for six months, £17,823 14s. 2d. r
NICS' INSTITUTION.-We understand that the Paosr•selneginsix months, of which only 244,500 arrived
Oil whieh he professes to animadvert, " a string of
DirectorslEcuA of the Mechanics' Institution will present the at, Manchester, the remaining 101,912 being local
falsehoods and fabrications." In support of this Bishope .osfoNsooarri ich. wveiitih
toa ghoolndomraerdyala, insteadod iemoefinabseilraveorf onet traffic
346,412
2,721,981
sweeping charge he does not adduce one tittle of eV institution.wni h 1
Tlytegibishop's will be the only gold ticket be- I\ioilteys travetloled in six months
paid Government in six months, £1,417 13s. 11 id.
dence. Perhaps he conceives it to be beneath the longing to the institution. Days for running Trains in six months
!;/, dignity of an Irish Papist to have anything to do with
•FATAL AceIDENT.-Yesterday morning, about twenty Average number of Passengers per day during the six
months
• 8° -shabby an article as an argument. We asserted . minutes past eight o'clock, as a man named Thos. Williams,
atimber carter, was standing in the Brunswick Dock Quay, Average number of miles travelled per day during the six
that' the procession of Tuesday last was chiefly corn- he was knocked down by a timber carriage, one of the large months
Averse duty per day during six months .. £8 Os. 2'25d.
Posed of a number of clubs and secret societies, exclu- wheels of which passed over
.his head, and crushed it so
Average receipt per day for Parcels, Trucks, &c., during
lively dreadfully that his death was instantaneous. Some persons
the six months £4 ss. 5•44 d.
Popish, and having political objects in view near the carriage called out to him to stand out of the way,
tAverage receipt per day for Passengers during the six
identical with' those of the traitorous Ribbonite assn- but he did not appear to hear them. The deceased, who
months £loo 13s. 11•69 d.
I lived in Warwick-street, has left a wife and two children to
ei4thisis in Ireland." We re-assert every word of this. Average distance travelled by each Passenger during the
deplore his untimely end. six months
We have evidence to prove it, which we shall, in due TRIBUTE OP RESPECT TO A CLERGYMAN.--The congre- Average receipt from each Passenger during the six months,
tillle., produce. Does our vulgar assailant forget the gation of St. Bride's have recently manifested their regard which is at the rate of I'5W. per mile
report of and esteem for their highly-valued minister, the Rev. James Cash received for First Class Passengers during four
the evidence before the Earl of Roden's
Haldane Stewart, by presenting him with portraits of him- months, which averages per day £lO Bs. 5•69 d., £1,302 19s. 6d.
,••• Coromittee on Ribbonism, which was published no self and his lady, which have been so satisfactorily executed Number of First Class Passengers during four months,
by George Patten,. Esq., A.R.A., portrait painter_ to his which averages per day 63
longer since than last year ? Does he forget the dis-
,e Royal Highness Prince Albert, that they have furtherde- Average of First Class Passengers per day during four
Closures made before that committee respecting Rib- termined to have a handsome engraving taken of Mr. months
Cr bon associations
in Ltverpool, as well as in other parts Stewart's. portrait, by Mr. Lupton, whose talents as an Average for each First Class Passenger during the four
h artist are so well known. months .
of the United Kingdom ? If his memory is so treacle- Cash received for Second Class Passengers during four
0, MEETING OF SHIPMASTERS.-We perceive that a meeting
emus, ours is not, as we shall shortly prove to his of and others interested in the Port of Liver- months, which averages £26 12s 7'o6d. per day, £3,2/8 14s
seNumber of Second Class Passengers during four
utter confusion. , pool, is to be Shipmasters,held at the Clarendon Rooms, on Saturday
f- next, at twelve o'clock, for the consideration of several highly months
But does Mr. Fitzpatrick, amidst the accumulated impOrtant subjects, hich are enumerated in the advertise- Average of Second Class Passengers per day during four
I mouths
tO l:erbiage of his abuse, offer one syllable in opposition melt. Among the most prominent of these we may notice
the establishment of a Captains' Reading and Coffee Rooms. Average for each Second Class Passenger during four
la t'n..cour assertions, excepting his mere ipse diait ? No, This is an establishment which has been long needed in the months
will, Cash received for
,Third Class during four months, which
• not an atom. He calls it " farcical and inconsistent," town, and which we doubt not, be found of incalculable £7,207 16s. 4d.
averages per day .£5/ 13s. 3d.
lid utility.
to'ase' ert that there are Ribbon lodges in Liverpool. The Number of Third Class Passengers during four
he , Several of the papers on Saturday contained an alarming months
il- ' :412e-11-Impostor used similar language when it was as- account of the illness of Lord Lyndhurst. We are happy to Average number of Passengers per day during the four
tf. Ribbon l
,a'arted that there were e es inlreland. n
thi • . • d ' I say that the statement was a very considerable exaggeration
of the real fact. His Lordship, in the middle of the week, months
Average of each Third Class Passenger 1,461
9'44d.
~ ! matter; the evidence before the Roden committee had a severe attack of indigestion, but the complaint, which 3,260
tie No. of Trains in six months
ed roved O'Connell to be A LIAR. We believe O'Con- was never foramoment dangerous, yielded soon to medical
treatment. His Lordship has now no ailment beyond the Average Passengers to each Train during the six
moths
of k, Clilhell'i disclaimer on the subject of Ribbonism in Ire- alight weakness occasioned by the usual remedies in cases of
r).l " _
Elm *,..-4, Ad, inat-as' readily as we believe that of Mr. Fitzpat- indigestion.-Times of yesterday. It has been intimated to the Directors of the Midland
iy• , rich respecting its existence in Liverpool. We confi- PENN'S BATHS.-We are glad to find that Mr. Penn has Counties' Railway by the. Postmaster-General, that the mails
announced that his baths are now in readiness for the sea- will be transmitted by this line on and after the 6th of next
Of ),,,, dently re-assert that there are Ribbon lodges in Liver- son. We have no doubt that the splendid establishment on month.-Railway Times.
01 LeP°ol--and that the symbols of these secret bands of George's Pier will be visited by many strangers during the
WEEKLY RETURN OF TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.
assizes. The comforts and conveniences afforded at these
its s. asSassipts were openly displayed on Tuesday last before excellent baths are unrivalled. We shall frequently do our- (From the Railway Magazine)
of the gaze of Thousands. As Mr. Fizpatrick has so boldly selves the p'easure of paying Mr. Penn a visit.
Passe"- P.mile P.mile Passeng.
controverted this assertion, we challenge him to make Gentlemen in Government or other Offices, whose time NAME. Cash.
gers. pr.wk. p. day. per day.
)110 not admit of a " nooning," or laid table, will find an
good his position. It is very easy for him to bring a wi
admirable substitute, combined with economy, in E. and T. -
.£. £, X.
charge of falsehood against us, and equally easy to Taylor's Concentrated Meat Lozenges, or Multum in Parvo, - 12489 111 16 --
Birmingham
affordwhich will nutriment for hours by merely dissolving South Western - 2300 391 5t -
Oa couch that charge in language as vulgar and vitupera-
one or two in the mouth, as they are composed of the choicest Great Western - 2261 761 11
, tive as ever flowed from the lips of a costermonger in
bat viands and of the most delicate flavour. From their extreme Grand Junction - 7510 774 11
i/ii. the purlieus of St. Giles : but it is afar more diffi- portability, they may be carried in the pocket, whilst their
cost, is. and 2s. per box, will supersede the necessity of Birmg. & Derby - 708 181 24
cult matter for him to substantiate his charge by an ap- Greenwich 23021 798 2091 30 3289
ore many a meat at an inconvenient hour. None are Genuine Manchester &Leeds 11223 799 59 84 1603
On Peal to facts. Is Mr. Fitzpatrick so consummately vain without the name of E. &T. Taylor, 17, Lower Holborn,
. being on the label.-See Advt. Croydon. - 1048
York &N. Midland 2648 386 261 4 378
tbe ilia conceited as to imagine that we shall believe him
LIVER Tit
the.-Mr. Tilbury has resorted to " Groves Midland Counties 2BOO 271 174 24 401
rtt in preference to the respectable individuals who gave of Blarney "on the occasion of his benefit to-morrow night. Glasgow & Ayr 1430 564 5}
1 238
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60 their evidence on oath before tbe Roden Committee ? Mr. Tilbury has, on this his first visit to Liverpool, done Eastern Counties 4102
good service. during the season, and created a favourable int-
lie How can behave the hardihood to deny that we nor- pression which will not fade in a day. He has ably supported BARNSLEY
ths rectly described the objects and designs of the Ribbon- his characters, and we hope the public will now liberally
snme timeLINEN TRADE.-The gloom which has ,fo
past hung over the staple trade of this town, na
him ; for he is worthy their good thought.-See Ad.
Ole men ? Has 'he been asleep for the last two or three
support this week been brightened up by a fair prospect of more em
LOVE OF CHILDREN -The Duke of Wellington is re- ployment for the operatives. Two of the principal house:
in ~ years ? Does he not know that the secret designs of markable for his fondness of children; and when the veteran viz., Messrs. Tee and Cordeux, and Messrs. Jackson an
Or -155,, the Ribbonmen have been discovered and exposed time Blucher beheld the school children assembled in St. Paul's, Hodgetts, have received an extensive government order fc
the unconscious tear trickled down the cheek of the hardy ducks and checks, which will set in motion several hundre
0' sz,.„ after time ? If he does not, we commisserate his igno- warrior. The great Burke delighted to unbend his mighty looms. This, we believe, is not an order of profit on ti
Orr srrn„, ranee, as much as we laugh at his blackguardism and mind amid children's play, and would lie his listness length part of the manufacturers, but fairly taken by a generot
on the floor, whllst they jumped over him in laughing sport ; feeling on their part to give employment to the weaver.-
0; ;402 , esplse his threats. The latter, though very artfully and, as for the fairer portion of creation, Euripides bath long Leeds Intelligencer.
100:1 LI,
,:conveyed, display the true spirit of the " death's head ago declared that they are " all fond f children." Daily GEORGE ROBINS IN SOUTH AMERICA.-The inimitab
Or lss, and cross-bones" intimidation.
r,.. s)1 .' . experience, however, serves to show that nothing is more George, in a prospectus of an estate which he is called upc
precarious than the life of a child! In many instances, to dispose of, situate in the state of Venezuela, in Soul
this. confessedly, arises from the shrinking delicacy of the America, says, "He would more particularly_ endeavour
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MEETING OF SHIPMASTERS.—We perceive that a meeting
of Shipmasters, and others interested in the Port of Liver-
pool, is to be held at the Clarendon Rooms, on Saturday
next, at twelve o'clock, for the consideration of several highly
important subjects, which are enumerated in the advertise-
ment. Among the most prominent of these we may notice
the establishment of a Captains' Reading and Coffee Rooms.
This is an establishment which has been long needed in the
town, and which will, we doubt not, be found of incalculable
utility.
Several of the papers on Saturday contained an alarming
account of the illness of Lord Lyndhurst. We are happy to
say that the statement was a very considerable exaggeration
of the real fact. His Lordship, in the middle of the week,
had a severe attack of indigestion, but the complaint, which
was never for a moment dangerous, yielded soon to medical
treatment. His Lordship has now no ailment beyond the
slight weakness occasioned by the usual remedies in cases of
indigestion.—Times of yesterday.
PENN'S BATHS.—We are glad to find that Mr. Penn has
announced that his baths are now in readiness for the sea-
son. We have no doubt that the splendid establishment on
George's Pier will be 'visited by many strangers during the
assizes. The comforts and conveniences afforded at these
excellent baths are unrivalled. We shall frequently do our-
selves the p'easure of paying Mr. Penn a visit.
Gentlemen in Government or other Offices, whose time
will not admit of a " nooning," or laid table, will find an
admirable substitute, combined with economy, in E. and T.
Taylor's Concentrated Meat Lozenges, or Multum in Parvo,
which will afford nutriment for hours by merely dissolving
one or two in the mouth, as they are composed of the choicest
viands and of the most delicate flavour. From their extreme
portability, they may be carried in the pocket, whilst their
cost, Is. and 2s. per box, will supersede the necessity of
many a meat at an inconvenient hour. None are Genuine
without the name of E. & T. Taylor, 17, Lower Holborn,
being on the label.—See Advt.
LIVER THEATRE.—Mr. Tilbury has resorted to " Groves
of Blarney " on the occasion of his benefit to-morrow night.
Mr. Tilbury has, on this his first visit to Liverpool, done
good service during the season, and created a favourable im-
pression which will not fade in a day. He has ably supported
his characters, and we hope the public will now liberally
support him ; for he is worthy their good thought.—See Ad.
LOVE OF CHILDREN.—The Duke of Wellington is re-
markable for his fondness of children ; and when the veteran
Blucher beheld the school children assembled in St. Paul's,
the unconscious tear trickled down the cheek of the hardy
warrior. The great Burke delighted to unbend his mighty
mind amid children's play, and would lie his listness length
on the floor, whilst they jumped over him in laughing sport;
and, as for the fairer portion of creation, Euripides bath long
ago declared that they are " all fond of children." Daily
experience, however, serves to show that nothing is more
precarious than the life of a child / In many instances,
this, confessedly, arises from the shrinking delicacy of the
tender exotic itself ; but, in far more, from neglect on the part
of the parents, who, though prompt enough in bestowing upon
the little object of their idolatry the tenderest caresses, and
all the assiduities of anxious nurture, forget that these cannot
remove the latent causes of incipient disease ! It is in vain
to tell them that " medicine is given to heal sickness," when
they will not procure and administer it ! The efficacy of
Atkinson's. INFANTS' PRESERVATIVE, as a cure for the
usual complaints of infants, is now universally acknowledged ;
yet, notwithstanding its immense sale, there are still some in
all ranks so obstinately perverse as to neglect its use, and
thus leave the poor infants to die. With such persons it is
worse than idle to attempt to reason, or to place pearls before
them.—See advt.
THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.— This place of amuse-
ment, which has been closed for a short time, was re-opened
last night for eighteen representations, by Mr. Batty, with a
strong company and a good stud of horses. The perform-
ances throughout gave much satisfaction. The first piece
was a splendid equestrian spectacle, called " The Triumph of
the Alhambra. The scenes in the circle that followed
exhibited considerable novelty. Mons. Massotta, a French
rider was all that could be wished. He is certainly
one of the most daring and skilful equestrians of the
day. Mr. Hughes was also much applauded as " the horse-
man of all work." Amongst the performances were those
of the celebrated Mous. Plege, on the tight rope, which were
truly wonderful. Mons. Caslesse on the cords crescent,
was almost equally expert. The prices of admission have
been considerably reduced, and some attractive novelties
will, we learn, be produced, when the " Alhambra" is
withdrawn.

The Punchinello of the Liverpool Albion, whose comical
.'NVrithings and twistings, under the lash of the dreaded
.31.14 junior editor " of the Times, have, during the last few
Weeks, afforded so much merriment to the good folks of Li-
•Nerpool, appears to make an appeal ad miserieordiam to his
merciless pursuer, by venturing to wage battle with the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD. We know not whether his Judi-
. crous antics, in endeavouring to assail us, are " most pro-
vocative of contempt or laughter." We never witness any
attempt ou the part of Punchinello to break a lance with
any of his contemporaries, without being strongly reminded
,of,the awkward attitudes of a goose upon stilts; while the
..travagant contortions of big countenance, when he has
t;! ..;
431 rth misfortune to receive a home-thrust from his antagonist,
Jtt 'rztd:,„l"9l,),i3Od us equally strongly of an owl taking an • emetic.
414/( . At-oi -Punchinello is a right merry fellow, excepting
;hies ie &holes:himself a philosopher or a statesman. He
'4.14;`!`4 ilitkriallS*llll tAese:c.haracters without setting our gravity
14HEN.t; VaitFropting. us to a hearty " guffaw." He
'tltriakhplslmw?itr, the old proVerh; that " monkeys should
44 iotIA nirisr,play with edoethOlic.'?-2TheY are diverting creatures
44 133ououfVuntiriliieFbegiii'tc:i'Eatidle weapons which ought only
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BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—The gloom which has for
snme time past hung over the staple trade of this town, has
this week been brightened up by a fair prospect of more em-
ployment for the operatives. Two of the principal houses,
viz., Messrs. Tee and Cordeux, and Messrs. Jackson and
Hodgetts, have received an extensive government order for
ducks and checks, which will set in motion several hundred
looms. This, we believe, is not an order of profit on the
part of the manufacturers, but fairly taken by a generous
feeling on their part to give employment to the weaver.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

GEORGE ROBINS IN SOUTH AMERICA.—The inimitable
George, in a prospectus of an estate which he is called upon
to dispose of, situate in the state of Venezuela, in South
America, says, " He would more particularly endeavour to
awaken the attention of those whose prospects in their mother
country are such as to make it desirable to seek the New
World to improve their fortunes ; or to those speculators
whose knowledge of the country, its locality, resources, and
advantages, would induce them to invest their capital in the
purchase of land, in a region that every day's experience r
every day's intelligence proves is gradually yet triumphantly
emerging from its difficulties; and that it is permanently
creating for itself a proud position in the estimation of sur-
rounding countries,—that will, ere long, hold forth stronger
claims to the emigrant's attention, than many which Eu-
ropeans at the present day depart for; becoming, indeed, a
land of promise ' to those who incline to improve their
ways and means' in a distant land, and ' esteemed far
beyond those which fallacy and unfulfilled hopes are daily
teaching to emigrants who hav unfortunately been sacrificed
—a lesson that the puplic will e act advisedly to ponder well
upon." A suggestion has been made to Mr. Robins, that
this district was, in by-gone times, a favourite locality with
the socialists and Owenites ; and as their numbers are sup-
posed to be on the increase, they might probably wish to re-
establish themselves at Venezuela; and a better opportunity
than the one now offered mar not present itself, as their
tenets, with regard to labour, would have ample time and
field to develope themselves, and their peculiar system prove
more successful there than in many other parts of the world.
We perfectly agree with this suggestion, and would especially
recommend it to the serious consideration of my Lords Mel-
bourne and Brougham. That it would well suit such poor
unfortunate wretches there cannot be the least doubt ; and
we certainly hope at a future day to find London quite rid of
such pests to Christian society.—Morning Herald.

NO-7.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

PLAIN QUESTIONS PRACTICALLY ANSWERED

ON CHURCH EXTENSION.

Why should we petition parliament for church extension ?
Because we believe it to be the duty of a Christian govern-
ment to provide for the Christian instruction of the people,
and there are yet four millions of persons unprovided with
church room.
Why should we raise this church-extension cry every year?
Because every year there is an increase of 208,000 to the
population of England and Wales, creating a want of 70,000
additional sittings yearly, supposing only one-third of the
population required such.
Why should every true friend of religion rally round the
Established Church ?
Bectise she is acknowledged, by the truly pious of all
sects, to be the great bulwark against the inroads of Popery,
Socinianism, Socialism, and every other species of infidelity.
Why do the Dissenters join heart and hand with Papists,
Socialists, and Socinians, in attacking the Churh ?
Because they are each envious of her zeal, worth, and ac-
tivity, and cemented together by the most unholy motives.
Why should we now call upon parliament to meet the
wants of the people?
Because we have already raised more by voluntary sub-
scriptions during the last ten years, for building places of
worship, than was ever raised by any other body.
Why should we expect that our petitions for church ex-
tension will be attended to?
Because our rulers admit such want, Lord John Russell,
on the 2nd of August, having spoken thus :—" We have,
particularly in the manufacturing districts, very large masses
of people who have grown up in a state of society, which it
is both lamentable and appalling to contemplate. They have
not grown up amidst the usual concomitants of an ordinary
state of society, under the hand of early instruction ; with
places of worship to attend ; with their opinions of property
moulded by seeing it devoted to social and charitable objects;
and with a fair and gradual subordination of ranks. But it
is, in many cases, a society necessarily composed of the
working classes, with a few persons who employ their labour,
but with whom they have little other connection ;—and, un-
happily, neither receiving in schools nor in places of worship,
that religious and moral instruction which is necessary to
knit together the inhabitants and classes of a great country."
Why should the people of Liverpool petition for church
extension ?
Because there is an increase in the wants of the people for
such accommodation. In 1821 there were 16 churches in
Liverpool, with accommodation for 20,000 persons, leaving
58,000 unprovided for. In 1840 there are (or shortly will
be) 30 churches, with accommodation for 36,000 persons,
leaving 92,000 unprovided for, the population having in-
creased from 118,000 to 200,000.
Why do the enemies of the Church state that her revenues
amount to 8 millions, when they know them to be but 33
millions.
Because they are instigated to do so, by the father of lies ;
and truth would not answer their purpose.
CHURCHMAN.

RELIGIOUS, MORAL, AND POLITICAL ASPECT
OF THE COUNTRY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

With spirit calm, a pressive audience give,
Approve me if you can, if not, forgive.

Sir,—At a time when evil is spreading and infidelity ex-
tending far and wide, it becomes a question of vital impor-
tance, whence is the secret source of such moral disorder.
Is it owing to the defect in our sacred or civil institutions,
or is the mind of man now especially more prone to super-
stition—more easily led by the chimera of cunning and
designing men, who are willing to prostrate, if they can, the
present organization of society—to overthrow civil order,
scriptural restraint, and thwart the best feelings, in order to
raise themselves to a puny eminence, and acquire a name—
though transitory—at the expense of honour, truth, and
every nobler sentiment ?
That such moral turpitude is apparent, I affirm—that an-
cient and honourable institutions tremble to their founda-
tion, I also affirm—l assert, moreover, that evil men, of whom
there are no few, would, if they were able, banish the word
and scriptural ordinances from the land.
Why are these things?
First,—methinks there is some lack of duty on the guar.
dians of the public morals. The authorised teachers and
preachers of the word, have, for many years, been some-
what remiss in their exertions, and while they ive slept, or
been passing the time in good-natured, tranquillity, or un-
suspecting reliance on public stability—the enemy bath been
actively engaged, insinuating into the too susceptible souls
of men, that it was indeed time for old things to pass away,
and all things to become new. Man, be it known, however
well refined—however apparently excellent and good, is but
like a fair rose garden, where, though roses blossom, fruit-
trees put forth buds of promise, yet ever requires the eye of
watchfulness, and the hand of experience and discretion to
tend its progress, and remove as may seem good, those wild
shoots which will spring from the fairest stem. In times
gone by, the minds of Englishmen, alive to danger, and pu-
rified by the fires of anarchy, watchful of evil, seemed so
fair as to require little tending, then did the watchman give
those hours to repose, which should have been bestowed in
watchfulness, and a continued lethargy only gave way for
evil spirits to ingratiate themselves with the flock, and sow
the seeds of discontent and heresy which now are found to
be ripening and coining to vile maturity, rank, and blasphe-
mous, and poisoning as far as they can, the once heavenly
atmosphere of English virtue.
Secondly.—Much of the disorder which is apparent is
caused by the change in scholastic establishments, not in
those of ancient foundation, whose pious founders well knew
the value of religious instruction. Brought up myself at an
ancient public school, I can vouchsafe for the orthodox man-
ner in which the young are trained at such seminaries. But
it is in those modern schools where the fine arts and sciences
are taught to the detriment of true religion, and without
regard to the souls of men. Let any one—a bishop if you
say that the mind must be first made susceptible on earth ;
I will say to such prelate no ;—first let the child be endowed
with heavenly susceptibility, and then, refined in its nature,
and made excellent by religion, it will receive the things, the
arts and sciences of earth as dependent on providence, and
so learn" to use as not abusing them." Jacob's ladder in-
deed, rested on the earth ; but let the Lord Bishop of Nor-
wich.remernber it was first let down from heaven. Let him
too remember they were not men who ascended and descend-.
ed, butSingels. So, if man is to rise, the ladder must be
let dovvn from above, and he xnnst be purified before he is
able to ascend: Let these public. institutions remember these
things. • Let not the public be led away by any man, even
though a divine,—for divines are fallible, and benevolence
may err through excess of good nature—of one thing I am
certain, that much-of the existing evil is mainly caused by
the train of godless teaching so prevalent in many of our
public schools.
" Train well the child that grace in age may grow,
Be pure the fount and clear the stream will flow,
With wise discretion train the moral tree,
For to be fruitful is not to be free.
Freedom is not to be rudely wild—
To make man wise in age, then, train the child.
In Godly truth let infant hearts be taught,
And to their Saviour in their childhood brought ;
So mutual good will as the light expand,
And one good feeling fructify the land."
Thirdly.—Modern government is not sufficiently discreet.
False patriotism patronises heresy for the sake of popularity,
and sacrifices principle for the sake 'of political interest.
False legislation exercises undue control over the mind of the
lower classes by promises, which proving abortive, destroy
popular confidence, and create, in course, discontent, with
its train of mischiefs. False benevolence makes part, with-
out discretion, and swells the number of its partisans with
miserable time-servers, who are ever subservient to those
who flatter the expectation with unfounded projects. False
magnanimity displays itself by undue distribution of place
an pension—by the slighting of old friends and tried worth,
merely for the purpose of txhibiting its seeming charity in
being a patron to all. By these.fallacies of judgment among
liberal legislators is the public naiad warped—a bad example
shown, inasmuch as no discrimination is observed between
truth and error, good and evil, vice and virtue. Thus men
become heedless, and heedlessness is ever pregnant with
error, and error is the mischief which afflicts mankind.
Where is that patriotism, noble legislation, and scorn of vile
and vulgar abuse, which once actuated British statesmen?
Surely in these days of intellectual wisdom we are not war-
ranted in echoing Lord Eldon, who said on a memorable oc-
casion, " the sun of England's glory is for ever set ;" rather
let me say with confidence, " Arise, awake, or be for ever
fallen." Let English senators shake off vile dependence,
and, actuated by their better judgment, so act as to encourage
good principles, though they at the same time sacrifice the
support of some who call themselves their friends.
Fourthly.—No inconsiderable portion of the present evils
arises from the laxity of the press—a press teeming with
blasphemy and corruption, which perverts divinity, degrades
morality, debases mankind. God forbid but we should have
a free press ; but still methinks there ought to be such
wholesome restraint as may preserve the minds of the people
froth corruption. We know the mania of the lower classes
for the news of the day ; how vastly important, then, is it,
that those minds who have not the advantage of deeper read-
ing should be guarded from the corruption of those vile and
sensual publications which are now disseminated without re-
serve. Owenism, yclept Socialism, publicly spread through
the medium of the press ! Good God ! a foreigner coming
hither may well ask if he really be in England, so famed and
lauded for its judicial government and public morals.
These, methinks, are some of the roots from which spring
the present state of political feeling, and laxity in morals and
religion, which are so palpable in this country—a political
rancour which saps the judgment, overbears discretion, and
makes established laws and time-honoured custom tremble—
a state of religion which paralyses the best feelings, which
warps the public mini, makes heresy rampant, popery dar-
ing, latitudinarianism impudent and overbearing. If such
be the root of this cancerous evil, this vile decay of English
honour, glory and power, this diminution in national honesty
and respect for the better feelings and better principles : how
does it behove those placed in charge to be awake, and re-
membering the old proverb—" better late than never," at
once commence a real reformation, not that shallow reform
which is now so popular, but a radical reform—one which
will strike at once the origin of mischief, and by removing
the cause that retards the progress, so that England may at
length, under tender but judicious and discreet government,
be once more brought to her former healthy constitution.
Let public men, in the warmth of their desire to please, re-
member the maxim—" decipemur specie recti," and be care-
ful, for this country is not now in a position to be trifled
with; a short course of years must either see her in her pris-
tine beauty, or disgraced and debased to a level with those
less favoured nations which are retrocede in the scale.
" 0 fair Britannia, shall thy glories fall,
Or, as a Ileword, thy blest name be made,
By those who long have trembled at thy sway—
Who, when thou badest, only dare obey ?
Fair Ocean Queen, shalt thou, whose sway so long
Has been the subject of poetic song,
raised 80 high, in all that's great decline,
Once
And lose a glory by fair conquest thine ?
Forbid it Heaven ! England still restore
To all the honours which she held of yore,
Uphold those glories, in their sway sublime,
' To the last moment of recording time.' "
Your most obedient servant,
Liverpool.
J. S.
Lnd

THE PRESENT PSC
CHURCHOSH OF OTLAND
OSITION OF THE ESTABLISHED
C.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
Sra,—lf you
wish to give your readers a concise yet corn.
prehensive view of the question at present agitating Scotland,
you cannot do better than lay before them the following re-
solutions, passed by the Presbytery of Newcastle a few days
ago. It gives a pointed and well sustained view of her doc-
trine and principles with respect to her connection with the
State, and the late attempt of the Court of Session to coerce
her in the discharge of her ecclesiastical functions.
It surely ought to excite no little interest towards the mat-
ter, in England, that, should no remedial enactment be pro-
vided, and she persist in maintaining her present adherence
to the religious principles of her constitution, of which there
can be no doubt from the character of the men who have now
the majority in her General Assembly, of whom Dr. Chal-
mers is the leader, there is no question but a scene will
be soon enacted in Scotland which has had no parallel
since the black days of open persecution. The fact that
seven of her most popular, talented, and most influen-
tial ministers have been interdicted from preaching the
gospel in seven of her parishes, and that having in such
a matter chosen to " obey God rather than men," they are,