The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

VIE LIVERPOOL sTANDAkti.

ol)jeets in view has succeeded to the threatened violence
of unionism out of doors, of which the three confederated
parties are compelled to avail themselves, and thus
there is a fair and open field before the conservative in
heart and the moderate christian -in feeling to compete
with the demagogue leveller and the free-thinker with-
out risk of annoyance, or any manitained neglect of the
duties of private life.
Unquestionably the success which the arts of intimi-

dation, aided by clamour, have met, in the sister kingdom
especially, has encouraged and given hopes to the popish
adventurer beyond his first expectations, and hence the
new struggle of his " General Justice Association" to
get the entire registry, if possible, within his grasp for
Ireland. In this struggle both him and his association
are the working agents of the whig ministers ; their
manifesto is the feeler.- Here the great beggarman is
their very humble servant—a small set off for being else-
where their MASTER ; and thus they alternately play the
cups and balls like other jugglers. But with us the case
is somewhat different. Many, from a natural diffidence
and timidity of purpose purely, have given that equivocal
support to the principles they in their heart approve and
strictly deem to be correct, that they have appeared
rather as favourers to that cause they conscientiously
condemn than otherwise. The consequences of this line
of conduct is now obvious; it has given our political op-
ponents a momentary triumph, and nowhere more con-
spicuously displayed than in our town of Liverpool,
where the socinian liberal, the political dissenter, and the
advocate of popery have taken the place of our protestant
guardians, and expelled the Bible from our schools.
Thankful, indeed, may we be to Lord Lyndhurst for his
splendid opposition to the " charitable trustees bill." It
is quite enough, as the Times expresses it, " to be sub-
jected to Mr. Rice's superficial inch scale with regard to
God's own word ;" and that " the Bible itself has been
garbled, and that,-too, by professed or professing protes-
tant dissenters," in a manner we think the general body
will not attempt to vindicate. The Morning Chronicle
may labour to jeer down the question in its support of
those who give credit to Lord Melbourne for his designed
" heavy blow and great discouragement to protestant
ism ;" but every truly upright man in the empire and
every real friend of religion will put his seal upon the
disgraceful compact.
Now that experience has shown, that the intimidation
and false alarm resorted to by the agents of the faction,
was merely wielded by them as a bug-bear in the hands of
a hireling press, to frighten the timid and draw aside the
unwary, with the spectral illusion of national convulsion,
let every man who stood on the neutral ground—who
assumed for the moment the visor of tacit acquiescence,
declare himself openly against the principle of evil, which
is poluting our social atmosphere, in the hands of de-
signing adventurers; so that the genuine light of his
feelings and his principles, may shine forth for the bene-
fit of the community, of which he is an individual mem-
ber—in the words of the immortal Burke, "it is the
bounden duty of every man in the sphere in which God
has placed him, to stand forward and perform his part to
his country at such a crisis,"—and we would add, should
he do so, he will not merely perform the part of a true
patriot. but in the end will enjoy the benefit of an ap-

proving ccnscience.
But, even intimidation itself, has not proved so formi-
dable a weapon in the hands of the miscreant pro-popery
faction, as the arch delusion which has been so thorough-
lr practised upon every grade and every class of society,
in this yet Christian kingdom—that delusion has been
but too complete and extensive in its effects. We may
seek in vain through the history of any other country or
people, that'ever had existence for its parallel—any re-
cord of credulity so entrapped—any instance of an intel-
ligent chivalrous nation, which was so completely
triumphed over by designing men, to the destruction of
its better polity—aye, even the desecration of its esta-
blished religion ! The retrospect leads one to infer, that
men who ought to have been strong in fidelity, had sud-
denly fallen down prostrate before the versatile' spirit of
change—that they had become blind worshippers of the
god of error in every form—on the one hand lauding
forth the phantasmagoria of Whiggery, stripped of its
former integrity, and. on the other crouching to popery,
cap in hand, ready to swallow the barbed hook held out
to them, by the hireling champion of a foreign priest-
hood—the avowed enemy of everything British in prin-
ciple=everything Protestant in established regulation.
The nobleman—the gentleman—the artisan, and the
peasant, each vieing with the other, as gt were, to propel
the machinery of revolution. Yes, it will stand to
future ages, for the judgment of a reflecting posterity, a
sad memento of the strange perversity of the human
character, in this boasted age of learning—its inability
to judob: correctly of its own interests—a warning
beacon to forthcoming generations, of the dangerous
consequences which may result from the misguided zeal
of one leading Statesman in a nation, attempting as did
Lord Grey, to wield and direct the energies of an im-
passioned people, under a system of policy, opposed to
all the ancient principles of their constitution, and vainly
thinking in his own person to " ride on the whirlwind
and controul the storm" of those reform elements he had
rashly called into power, solely to end in his own dis-
comfiture—his bitter disappointment, and his country's
injury; leaving bins only the momentary chance of saving
his honour and his credit, by a hasty retirement, to the
mortifying reflections of private life,—and we would
hope, that it will indeed prove a useful example to the
present generation of Englishmen, of the dark artifices
which associated political faction-mongers resort to, for
the purpose of forwarding their own desperate fortunes,
in the contemplated ruin of their country.

OVERSEERS' Lisr.—A list of persons claiming to be placed
on the list of electors has just been printed. It is highly com-
plimentary to the present rate-book clerk, Mr. Hart, for the
claimants number only 57, and the objections are only against
196. Several of the objections have already been withdrawn,
and we are assured that the real claimants will not exceed 20.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—The courts for the autumn
circuit arc appointed to be held before H. R. Reynolds, Esq.
Chief Commissioner, at Lancaster, Nov. 5, at Preston, Nov.
14; Liverpool, Nov. 15; Chester and City, Nov. IS.
Considerable dissatisfaction appears to prevail at Manches-
ter, that Liverpool should precede it in receiving the British
Association next year.
THEATRICALS.—Miss Clara Chaplin, a favourite actress on
the Liverpool boards, has received an advantageous offer from
the managers of the Adelphi Theatre, London, through Mr.
Yates; but which Mr. Chaplin has declined for the present.
DANGER OF DOING A GOOD ACTION.—On Tuesday last a man,
passing along the banks of the canal, near Bootle, saw a woman
struggling in the water. He immediately ran to her assistance,
dragged her out, and carried her to the nearest house. At this
time she was insensible; and, the man's business being urgent,
he left her in the care of the people of the house. He had
scarcely gone when one of the byestanders started a suspicion,
that he had been attempting to drown the woman, and was mak-
ing his escape for fear he should be taken up. The suspicion,
once started, seized all present. The constable was sent for,
and he hurried after the supposed culprit, whom he overtook on
the bank of the canal, and brought back to the house where the
woman was. Meanwhile she recovered, and, to the questions
put to her, replied, that, having a quarrel with her husband, she
had left her home to drown herself in the canal; and drowned
she certainly would have been, had not the man the constable
had apprehended, on suspicion that he had intended to make
away with her, come to her rescue.

We understand that the extraordinary success which has so
invariably attended the celebrated aurist, Mrs. Gardner, in
cases of deafness and other disorders of the ear is chiefly owing
to the innocence of the means she makes use of—a practice
which has obtained her both the confidence of the public and
the patronage of the faculty. • Another material point is, that
her opinion is candidly given without any fee in cases that are
beyond the reach of art—a system worthy of imitation by some
serf-styled aurists, whose chief object in travelling from town
to town is merely to delude the unwary by promising what they
are unable to per form.
We beg to recommend to the notice of our readers a set, con-
sisting of twelve plates, of beautifully executed lithographic il-
lustrations of the " Progress of cotton," from the plantation
until it becomes a manufactured fabric. We give the titles of
the plates, which are splendid specimens of the art. 1, Cotton
Plant
tatiand Don. 2, Willowing,. 3, Lap-frame. 4, Carding. 5,
obbin frames. 6, Spinning. 7, Bleaching. 8,
Warping and Winding. 9. lteedin,g or DraWing in. 10,
Weaving. 11, Dying. 12, Printing.
Film—Last evening, about nine o'clock, a fire broke out in
a stable belonging to Mr. Copeland, in Marybone. The en-
gines were quickly on the spot, under the superintendence of
Mr. Whitty, and the fire was soon got under with no consider-
able damage.

Letters from Alexandria state, that nearly all the St. Simo-
nians who accompanied Father Enfautin into Egypt have dis-
appeared. They were twenty in number, of whom one has died
of some ordinary disease, five have been carried off by the
plague, four have turned Mabometans, another has disappeared,
nobody knows how, and three have left Egypt for other parts of
the East. One of these last, although he cannot speak a word
of Arabic, and has not assumed the turban, has had the courage
to put himself at the head of a caravan of pilgrims from the
West, and gone to Mecca; but, as the caravan had not return-
ed, his fate was not known. The rest have found employment
in superintending the roads, time hospitals, and in giving public
instruction. Father Eulantin alone remains unoccupied; he
is sustained by his brethren, and particularly by Solyintut
(Colonel Selve3.)

LIVERPOOL POLICE.

EXCISE INFORMATION.—On Friday, at the Police-office, Ed-
ward Owens was placed before the magistrates on a charge of
having smuggled ashore, from a sloop at the Prince's Dock, a
large quantity of tobacco. Mr. Brooke, solicitor, apPeared on
behalf of the prosecution. A porter named Edward Turner de-
posed that on the Friday before he was standing at the Prince's
Dock, about half-past eight o'clock, when the prisoner told hint
to fetch a car. He backed the car, by his instructions, to the
quay side, and then went down aboard a Welsh sloop to assist
him to bring a hamper ashore. He put the hamper in the car,
and drove off up Chapel-street, when he was stopped by a police-
officer, who asked him what was in the hamper, and afterwards
proceeded to open it, and found in it two rounds of tobacco.
The officer then took charge of the hamper, and took him with
it to the Customs; the prisoner ran away. Ile afterwards went
down to the sloop and pointed out the prisoner, who was stand-
itw on the sloop, to the officer, and he was taken into, custody.
The police-officer corroborated this statement. James Hindley,
tide-surveyor, deposed that in consequence of information he
received he seized the tobacco which weighed 621b5., and which
appeared to be of foreign manufacture. The prisoner was mate
of a Bangor sloop, the Lady Penrhyn. The prisoner denied
that he had any knowledge of what the hamper contained. Mr.
Ilall said he had incurred the penalty of £lOO, which he should
adjudge him to pay, or be committed to the Borough Gaol, until
it was paid. He had no alternative.
AssaULT.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a female named
Mary Coglan, bearing all the characteristic Irish traits, and in
a genuine Irish fever, appeared before the magistrates to com-
plain against Mrs. Mary Malowney and Mrs. Ann James for a
grievous assault. Mrs. Mary Coglan, dropping a curtsey, and
with eyes sparkling with indignation, then addressed the ma-
gistrates. " I niver offended Mary Mallowney in me life, phase
yer worships ; but she sthruck ine tree times, and offended me
very bad intirely as I wur goen for me husband's taties, and I
cried out for witnesh severhall thimes, an' I never sthruk her
at all at all till she'd sthruck me all over in every place; and
Mrs. Ann James was as bad as she, for by dint of dhragging they
pulled me on 'le top of Misthress Mallowney, who twishted her
!lan's in me hair, an', sis she, arrah you ould diowol I pitch you
man alive,' sis she, (laughter,) till Misthress James comes up,
an', don't kill the little woman, sis she ;' bud-an.age,' sis I
kape yer ban's out ov her hair,' sis she, 'sure one pull you've
had's enough,' sis she. An' its the truths I'm tellin', an' no lie,
yer hanners."—Mr. Hall : " Well, have you any witnesses?"—
Complainant; " Witneshes, och sure an' I have; Mrs. Taylor,
stan' up Mrs. Taylor." Mrs. Taylor then stood up, and on the
book being presented to her to swear her, she shrunk from it as
though it were a wasp, saying, " Shure, yer banners shirs,
not wish to take an oath at all at all; bud anythin' yer hanners
wish that I have to say, I'll say id." (Dropping a curtsey.)
`Mr. Hall : "Then you may stand down. Well, Mrs. Malowney,
what have you to saytathis?"—Mrs. Mallowney: " Why, plase
yer riverences, I live in Gloster-street since I was four years
odd; an' whinl come to me (Moor, she called me, an' abhused
me poor mother as has bhin dead these sixteen years, and me
aunt an' all to the best dishadvantage. Put that in your
pocket, Misthress Mallowney,' sis she. A'n' she's tould a lie
dhere wid de book in her hen'. She sis she was goen for pitay-
ties, in the stead o' the which she sthood at her dhoor, an' sis
she, 'there's not a woman from the top to the bhottom -of the
sthreet bud I can lick.' So I wint accross the sthreet, when she
sazed me, and dhragged me by the hair, an', phase yer river-
ences, wottldn't I suffer all kinds of visitation before I 'ud giv'
her a whack at all ?"—Mr. Hall: " Well, Mrs. James, what
have you to say."—" Why, phase ye gintlemen, whin she seen
me she begun backsliding agin my husband, as has gone to his
long home these shixteen years, till it wasn't in human natur to
bide id. Be the beauty o' man,' sis 1, 'humid yer whisht, an'
don't be makin' me mad intirely ;' when she ups fist and begun
fighting and knocks me down fiat as a griddle; an' shure its 29
years I've bin in dhe parish, and liver was here before, an' I
can get me written charactur' if you plaze, gintlemen."—Mr.
Hall inquired if they had any witnesses, when a host of women
behind replied, " Yes." It appeared, however, that hardly any
of them were present, and others declined swearing. One of the
witnesses, however, burst out, that "She (complainant) lives in
my house, an' as I heard that she'd pick'd up wid the /with o'
bad company, I wint and axed her for dhe rent, whin she turned
round and spit in ine face."—Mr. Hall ordered each of the de-
fendants to pay ss. and costs, or, in default, to be committed for
seven days. •
THE CoINERS.—On Saturday Edward Arnett, his wife, and
sister were placed before Robert Elison Harvey, Esq., to receive
their commitment for the coining case. Mr. Harvey, in the
usual form, ordered each to be committed for felony for coining
to take their trial at the assizes. Mr. Crewe, jun. inquired if
bail could he taken for Mrs. Arnett, who is near her confinement.
Mr. Harvey replied that the magistrates had no authority to
grant it. Mrs. Arnett wished to know if they might be allowed
to see their friends before they were sent to gaol. Mr. Harvey
said they must apply to the visiting magistrates. Mrs. Arnett
then applied to know if they might Ise allowed to have pillows,
for the beds were so bad it quite distressed them. Mr. Harvey
replied that the magistrates had no authority in thegaol to which
they would be committed. Mr. Powell, of the Mint, and all the
constables who had given evidence, were then hound over in
their own recognizances in £lOO, to appear and give evidence
against the prisoners at the ensuing assizes. The prisoners
were then cm's-milted to Kirkdale Gaol. Mrs. Arnett appeared
very much distressed, and Arnett much care worn. The con-
finement of the last few days hail given each of them a pallid
appearance. ;
ROBBERY BY A SBRVANT.—Yesterday, at the police-office, a
girl named Sarah Kendall,sservant to Mrs. Moreton, pawn-
broker, of Dale-street, was placed before the magistrates charged
with having pilfered a variety of articles, the property of her
mistress. Miss Eliza Moreton deposed that they kept a pawn-
broker's shop in Dale-street, and that the prisoner had lived
with them as servant for three months. They had lately sus-
pected her honesty, and determined to turn her away. On
searching her box they found a quantity of jewellery, which
they could identify as their property. Miss Moreton then pro-
duced a brooch, souse ear-rings, a coral necklace, a ring, &c.,
which had been found in her box. She had also missed several
things of late. Police-officer 215, who took the prisoner into
custody, deposed that the prisoner Owned that she had the things
in her-box, but that she kept them there for fear they should be
lost. The magistrates remanded her till to-day to afford time
to Miss Moreton to ascertain whether she had missed any other
articles-which she could speak to. -
IMPIUMENCE.—Yesterday, at the police-office, one of those
unfortunate females who infest our streets, of rather prepos-
sessing appearance, named Ellen Wallace, was brought before
the magistrates charged by a middle-aged respectable-looking
man named Lawson, a stranger, from Kent, with having robbed
him the night before of £B. The complainant stated that the
night before he was standing in Dale-street, at a little before
eleven o'clock, when he was accosted by the prisoner. He re-
mained talking to her for souse time in the street, when she
picked his pocket of his purse, containing a £5 Bank of Eng-
land note and three sovereigns. He saw her withdraw her hand
from his trousers pocket, and in an instant she either trans-
ferred it to her companion, or threw it away, for he charged her
immediately with the robbery, and gave her into custody, but
the purse was not found. He was perfectly sober at the time.
The magistrates ordered the depositions to be taken.
CASE OF SWIN DIA NG.—Yesterday, at the police• office, a stout,
good-looking' middle-aged inatiiid respectably dressed, was
placed in the dock before the magistrates charged by a young
man, an Irishman, with having robbed him of ten sovereigns.
On swearing the complainant, however, he expressed sonie
difficulty about taking the oath, and said that he did not know the
prisoner, and could not swear to him, he only suspected it was
he. The prisoner was in consequence discharged. In a few
minutes, however, he was again placed in the box, and the com-
plainant brought forward by Ainsworth, a vigilant and active
officer, and told to state the circumstances under which he was
robbed, The complainant, whose name is James Coneys, and
who appeared very green, and freshly imported from Erin, was
again sworn. He deposed—" I am a sthranger in this town, an'
I cannot exactly shwear where I was robbed, but it was about
half a mile from the Exchange." The magistrate inquired when
it was, and the circumstances under which it occurred. Coin-
plainant—" I was robbed on Friday nightilasht, an' id was dark-
ish.
I first saw this man down at the docks in a house about
half-past three o'clock on Friday. He had a (rind wid 'im, an'
they called for some ale, an' I took some wid 'em, an' they then
pressed me to take a glass of punch, which 1 did. They then
said they were sthrangers in dhe town, an' they would have
me to shew 'em dhe town as I had been in id a wake. An' 1
have a strong suspicion dhat dhat is the man dhat Ethnic my
ten sovereigns. He said he niver kept company wid any
one he did not suppose was a gentleman, an' pruv to me
now," sis he, "dhat you are a g.intleman." " How will I do dhat,"
sis 1, "'bud by me conducts" its "Just show me your money,
sis he, "an' I'll show mine to pray dhat I'm a gin'teman," sis he,
an he pulls out a lot of sovereigns, an' then put 'em in his fob,
an' deshired me to do the shame for shafety it I had any. So I
pulled out my ten shovereigns, an' he wrapped 'em up for me in
brown paper an' put 'ens in my watch pocket, an' instead of
puttin' the shovereigus in my pocket he shoved in a lump o'
brown paper, an' dhat is de way I was rhobbed. An' I have
never seen de man since till now?' A witness deposed to being
told of the robbery. by the complainant, and to complainant's
pointing out the prisoner as he was walking along, and telling
him that he thought that was the man who had robbed him; in
consequence he (witness) went up to the prisoner and charged
him with the robbery, when he said that he was a stranger in
the town, and
.knew nothing of courts of justice, and that he
would rather givef£B than have anything to do with it, which he of-
fered to de. Mr. Whitty appliedto have the prisoner remanded
till next day, in order to afford time for further inquiries. The
prisoner is a well-known thief, and goes by the cognomen of
`Staffordshire Joe." His name is Joseph Buckley. The ma-.
gistrates accordingly remanded the prisouer till to-day. The
prisoner behaved with great nonchalance.
CHARGE OF STABBING.— Yesterday the South American
Indian, named Emanuel Rice, who has been some time in cus-
tody on a charge of stabbing the mate of the Vere, African
trader, whilst in the river at Bunny, was again placed helot()
the magistrates, he having been remanded in order that the
Spanish consul might be in attendance during his trial. The
Indian presented a most ferocious aspect. He is low of stature,
with square copper-coloured features, having a diabolical ex-
pression. The Spanish consul was in attendance, as was also
Captain Huskisson, of the Vere, who brought him home, and
who witnessed the circumstance. It was announced that the
mate did not intend to press the charge or have any further
trouble about it; he had perfectly recovered, and he thought
the punishment the man had received from his long imprison-
ment enough. Capt. Huskisson said he had no charge against
him ; he should not have brought him home if he had not been
compelled. Mr. Hall said the case. was one which concerned
the mate more than the public, and if the mate did not choose
to press the charge he should discharge him. He was then told
in Spanish, by the consul, that he was discharged, the mate de-
clining to prosecute.

. .
The amount of the la* bill alone of the• town-clerk of , the
new corporation, in the short time since his appointment, is'
nearly I.:3oo.—Stochport Advertiser.
We regret to have to announce the death of Mrs. Lister, of
Armitage-park, which took place at Tunbridge-Wells. Mrs.
Lister was mother of Lady John Russell; she had been ailing
for some time past. It was, however, a source of melancholy
consolation that she was surrounded at the time of her deeectce
by her nearest relatives, including her daughter and son-in-law.
—Evening Paper.
Tfin KtNG.—The fact of the Duke of Bedford having sub-
scribed to the O'Connell fund was not made known to his Ma-
jesty until a few days ago. when, we are informed, and our
information may be fully relied on, the King appeared much
surprised, and "expressed his indignation at the conduct of his
grace by ordering the bust of the Duke of Bedford, which stood
in the gallery at Windsor, to be immediately removed, at the
right to stand by his party, if he chose it, he would not allow
the bust of any nobleman to retrain at the castle who should
ssuanb)secrtiibmee "v
to tsheering, that, although every man was perfectly
O'Connell tribute.—Northampton Herald.
THs VOLUNTARY SY sTmENI.—It appears that the annual
subscription to the Bucks Infirmary of the churchmen in Ayles-
bury, is in the proportion of nearly £lO to the dissenters' £l.
Donations and collections in nearly the same ratio. The gene-
ral subscription proving that the churchman has subscribed
£26 Ids- for every subscribed by the dissenters; and in do-
nations and collections has bestowed 176 times as much as the
dissenter, i. e. for every £1 donation by the dissenter, the church-
man has presented £176 in actualamonnt ; whilst the voluntary
preaching dissenter has given £36 o.s. 5d., the voluntary practi-
sing churchman lies given the sum of -!.:(43-18 7s. 4d. ! —Bucks
Herald.

However, this worthy Councillor proved very obstinate in his
error, and, under feelings of great irritation, sat down to
write his famous "defence," which neither does credit to his
head nor to his heart. His "defence" is addressed to the ignorant
and credulous, and is marked by a disposition to evade " the
light lest his deeds should be reproved." He too has met with
a formidable antagonist in the person of the Rev. John Lyons,
who has stripped bins of his laurels, and accused him of an en-
deavour to mislead the public by garbled extracts from those
selections which are to form the school-book in the corporation
schools. To this charge he has not, that lam aware of, even
deigned a reply. Failures, like these, would have daunted
most men from entering the Gists against such " champions of
our faith," but with a recklessness of consequence, and with a
spirit of haughty daring, which betrays his weakness, that indi-
vidual whom Mr. M'lsleile so felicitously characterised as "Tom
in the middle," has buckled on his armour and prepared himself for
battle.. The socinian on the one hand, and the advocate of the vo-
luntaryprinciple on the other, have attempted to reconcile the ab-
.surdities of this system, but have failed in their enterprise. It was
recommended by the rev. speaker that this task should be confided
to "Toes in the middle," and the result proves that his advice
has been received and acted upon. How he has succeeded you
and your readers must judge. His defence is found in a letter
whicli appeared in the Albion of yesterday, addressed to the late
mayor, criticising pretty freely the speech which he delivered
upon the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the protestant
school. In justice to this "Middleman" I must allow that he
has displayed considerable talent,. and exposed two or three
glaring absurdities, such as " primitive protestantism" and "re-
ligion without doctrine," which, I confess candidly, I cannot
understand. But my object, sir, is to point out the fallacious
reasoning and false premises, upon which he essays to defend the
system of education adopted in the corporation schools, and
also in Ireland. Mr. Aspinall asserted, in the course of his
speech, " that education without religion was a curse instead of
a blessing." In proof of the correctness of this assertion,
we might refer to the opinion of many learned and pious
men who possess an intimate acquaintance with the human
mind, and know what effects are produced on the moral
habits by force of education. Swift remarks that " All nations
have agreed in the necessity of a strict education, which consists
in the observance of moral duties." In support of this principle,
I would refer your readers to the charge delivered by Lord
Abinger at the last assizes of the county of Leicester, especially
to that part which relates to the education of the lower classes
of society. He says " that he certainly never would discourage
educating the lower classes ofsociety, but he would boldly affirm
that if the education was not founded on a moral and religious
principle, instead of becoming a blessing to the poor, it would,
in the end, turn out a curse. To give a sound education to the
poor, moral and religious instruction must accompany it—the
receiver must be well made to know not only the moral duties
he has to perform, but also the religious ones; and, however
number of conscientious men may talk, and advocate the one
t
without the other, still be would maintain the design and
effect
intended by education would be lost if not adhered to.st
Educa-
tion, without religious instruction could not control t, e strong
passions of the human race, and he had only againrepeatg
that the various calendars throughout the circuit
the poorer
had toi
plainly
/
convinced him that it would be far better to lease
classes of the community in ignorance than
aton_edueate thenwith-
out having for the groundwork our blessedrevealed religion.
Teach men their religious and moral duties in this world, and
he had no hesitation in say ing that crime
in this circuit."
would not, iu the end,
appear so monstrous as he had witnessed
Supported by this testimony, the public are in no danger of
being led away by the absurd:sod fallacious reasonings of "'lost
in the middle." His argument rests on two positions, either of
which, successfully controverted, would destroy the whole super-
structure. The first is, an appeal to Mr. Aspinall whether he
would consider himself accursed had he not superadded to the
cultivation of his mental faculties a knowledge of religion as
taught by the church of England. The second is, an attempt;
to prove that education in the doctrines of the false prophet
of Mecca, is as great a blessing as being educated in the pure.
and holy doctrines of sacred scripture. With regard to the first,'
I boldly avow that Mr. Aspinall would consider himself accursed
had the cultivation of his mental and intellectual faculties not
been .connected with a knowledge of religion and the observance
of moral duties, excepting indeed that the absence of all religious
truth had led him to prefer the dogmas of a false philosophy to
the precepts and obligations of revealed truth. The tendency
of sin is to harden the heart, and philosophy teaches men to
claspise an
affectd rejectthe what they cannot understand. But, sir, this
does not argument. •We are not to inquire what Mr.
Aspinall might have been—devoid of a religious education—but
what he is. No man can look around him and witness the misery
and sin which is produced by the want of religious education—
the diffusion of infidel sentiment—the contempt which is poured
upon the word and ordinances of God—the desecration of his
Sabbath, and the licentiousness which prevails even amongst
men educated in that knowledge which may adorn and improve
the intellect, but leaves him a prey to the worst passions of his
nature,—without valuing his privilege in being made acquainted
with that knowledge, which, whilst it elevates the mind and
ennobles the intellect, also improves the life.
With regard to. his second tijection, 1 might refer him to tite
pages of antiquity for a positive contradiction of his assumed
su
ch
length, But having drawn out this communication to
length, I must confine myself to an argument
another source. If happiness can exist where licentiousness
and immorality prevail—where vice triumphs in thedera'tousneis
vin
ruin and from
degradation of mankind—where every
abounds—where cruelty and oppression are found, specieswohfatiniit-
neces-
sity exists for the circulation of the sacred scriptures ? Why
are Christians of every denomination engaged in the holy
en-
terprise of evangelizing the world by sending out men to teach
the way of salvation, if error and superstition of the most abomi-
nable character tend to their happiness in exact proportion
with the blessings of Christianity ? The correspondent of the

Albion, in his zeal to oppose the spread of scriphital education;
haS avowed sentiments utterly at variance with those enter-
tained and expressed by the adt'ocates of the new system. It
is
.infidelity alone which dares to compare the Word of God
with the Koran, either in its influence on the preieni or future
condition of inan The advocates and defenders of the system
of education in our corporation schools, will not thank " Toni
in the middle" for his injudicious Teal in pumungstich a line or defente.—Yotirs, &c., • THEOPHILUS.

. .
• -
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Siti,—The following advice (by the writer no'doubt thought
terse) has been received by some of the clergy of Liverpool:—
" Elide your head, Father Thomas is in town."
Now, does the writer mean to insinuate, that wheie Father
Thomas and his fraternity preside; heads are in danger? Or
does he kindly mean to remind the clergy, that no good man
should show his head where Father Thomas shows his skull ?
Or is it a hint, that heads will be totally out of place in such
company, blocks being all-sufficient ?
We leave the solution of the question to the 'writer hiniself;
merely reminding him that the Protestant clergy of Liverpool
are not of those who are accustomed to conceal, under the cowl
and- cloak, their faces or their persons, their deeds and their de-
signs,—not of those who, "for a garment wide and broad, have
cloaked them in religion." Should the writer, however, wish
to regain possession of his, to him, interesting docUment, the
value of which appears to be so dubious, let him apply at the
General Post-office, where it awaits him. Its further destiny
is at his own disposal; but might we he permitted to advise iii
our turn, it would be, that he should hide "the head and trout
of his offending" in the first fire he meets with.
Your's, truly,
_

NO CLERGYMAN.

LICENSED
,VICTUALLERS AND WHIG-RADICAL
TRICKERY.

TO THE EDITOR, OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4ID.
Stn,—Of all the desperate shifts to which the Whig-radical
corporation have been driven, there is none by which they have
displayed a more galling or meaner submission to the voice of
justice than by their late conduct towards the licensed viettial-
lers. . It.would be vain and idle to•insinuate that the publicans
of Liverpool haVe not been severelytreated; more so, 1 believe,
than those of any other place. Even at the meeting at the
Queen's Theatre, it was stated by One of the speakers, (Mr.
Danson, 1 think,) that Mr.Whitty admitted to him that several
respectable publicans had been fined "fbr very trivial (Paces,"
but that a new system was about to be adopted. They may well
change a system that has created general disgmit, th;egh some
of its supporters would gladly go still further if it Were in their
power. If the late system was a good one, why, should they
alter it? If it was a bad one, why did they ever adopt it ? Let
them answer either or both of these questions. •Why' should
respectable publican,be fined for very trivial efencei whilst li-
censes are granted to lifty-six or fifty-eight houses that "depend
solely on thieves and postitutes?" Let them answer this quest
tion if they can. Whether is it better to allow respectable pub.‘
Beaus to escape for trivial offences, or to encourage crime in a
wholesale manner by licensing so eiany houses which they
know, through their police, are supported by the
,very dregs of
society? ,We know that it is right for the police to lay informa
lions against disorderly houses. Then, out of -58 houses sup:
Ported by such characters, how does it come that only 26 have
been fitted, though many respectable ones have not escaped
In discovering that these houses are as bad as they are repre
sented, sufficient evidence was afforded to convict, otherwise
these houses have been unjustly maligned. Thus the corpora:
tion, the magistrates, and the police are placed in positions
from which it will be impossible to extricate theraSelyes by any
reasonable arguments.' It is evident that some have been treated
with great severity, and others with shameful lenity. There is
not a semblance of even-handed justice in the whole matter. Is
it possible for them to reconcile such glaring inconsistencies?
But now they are going to adopt a new system. Wherefore?
The day of election, is approaching! ." Ayer there's the rilb"—
"conscience snakes cowards of us all." Yes, it is better td
mend late than never. They are beginning now to open their
eyes and their ears—to see and to hear that to which they were
lately both blind and deaf. They now strive to persuade the
publicans that such treatment is not so bad as " ill-conditioned
people would represent it." One of the organs of the press that
supports the corporation through good and ill report compares
the love of the tories for the publicans to the love of the lion for
the lamb, or the hawk for the dove. But if this editor had been
inclined to write the truth, he might have written thus We
are compelled, in downright truth and honour, to acknowledge
that the love of the tories for the publicans is at least as great,
if not greater, than the paternal affection which has been evinced
towards them by our reformed corporation." If lie had come
out in this way, he would have acted a fair and manly part; but
it would not do for him to give tories their due; because he must
run them down in every quarter if he expects to please his
readers.

I could not avoid laughing at the very humiliating' conde-
scension of the watch committee in consenting to send their
report to the licensed victuallers' meeting before that document
had been presented to the council. Even Mr. Waimsicy is
willing to conciliate. They have yet a few friends among the
publicans, some of whom are not ashamed to stand up and yin.
dicate the abuses of the old system, though they cannot convince
their brothers in the trade but that some of the most respectable
have been severely dealt with, whilst some of the most guilty
have escaped with impunity. It is very clear that these oppres-
sors of the publicans have made two important discOveries :
Ist. That they have carried matters too far; 2d. That the day
of election is too near.VINDEX,

LIVERPOOL NORTHERN HOSPITAL, LEED-
STREET,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIPkRPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In drawing up_a statistical report of the surgical prac-
tice of the Northern Hospital, during the last twelve month,
the following facts presented themselves, and, from their nature,
prove the great usefulness of that charity. If you think them
worthy a place in your journal, I shall feel obliged by your giv-
ing them insertion. It will he, I hope, a means of making
the
charity more generally known, and, from the knowledge of its
great utility, produce an increase of subscriptions; and, when
it is understood that the committee have been compelled to take
the adjoining house to the hospital, fur the purpose of accomino-
' dating thirty-four other patients, I feel confident that the pub-
lic of Liverpool will come forward with its usual benevolence,
and contribute to the support of the increased accommodation
given to the poor.
The accidents admitted into the hospital are, genet ally, the
very worst of their kind, such as to make the removal of them
to a distance (if not impossible) of so much danger and suffer-
ing as, at once, to justify the locality of the institution. Never-
theless, from a want of room, no less than ten severe accidents
were sent away from the hospital-door since January last. Out
of this number were three broken legs; the others, from their
severity, were equally well deserving admission into an hospi-
tal. The following account, contains the list of surgical cases;
the medical cases do not form any part of this report.—You!s,
very, respectfully, JOHN M. BANNER.
24, Rodney-street.
A report of the surgical cases admitted into the Northern Hos,-
pital from the 25th of August, 1835, to 25th August, 1836.
Accidents admitted
247
Surgical diseases 96

343
Of the above number 281 were cured, 4 incurable, 27 rethaih-
ing in the house, and 28 died; 11 of the patients who were
brought in with accidents died within two hours after admission:
Out of the 247 accidents, 131 were fractures-106 simple, 28
compound.

Ot the surgical cases, 136 were labourers, 95 sailors, 53 ma-
sons, plasterers, &c., and 59 women ; total 343. 25 of the
patients, when admitted with accidents, were in a state of intoxi-
cation..

There were 11 cases of suspended animation from immersion
in water: these were recovered with the exception of one case_
There have been 29 operations during the twelve months, out
of these 27 recovered.

Of the 343 cases mentioned above, 15G were English, 90 Trish,
18 Scotch, 38 Welsh, 17 Americans, 2 Swedes, 1 Dane, 1 Mal-
:ese, 3 Germans, 1. African, 2 Prussians, 13 unknown.

BEATON PARK MEETING.—This fashionable
ict ssee lsln le.
now ne eel eitt :ouefg.iosnupWroibslreel
commence on the 28th instant, and, from the preparationt
every s inak;•
ing,ie doubtless
previous m
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A new g
in splendour
a ndatnhd x
stand
e
races,
by 28 feet,
The basement
o
iasontifig,ir.
yrforerection,ioeizn e: he t and will be
completed before r
aa
nnde acta
lacnudl
atecommodious
m structureo d ate
lo 0
0, m esaps.
euertiantgo
r7s? . f
will present a neat Grecian front, with pilasters, cornice,
cemented in imitation of stone; and the interior will
c
Wilton's private staircase, Lord Wilton's dress-
gentlemen riders' dressing-room, jockeys' dress-
ign.traoionn, Lady
and(ly weighing-room. The second story will be the
dress-
ing-room,
ladies' stand, open in front, and the roof supported by fluted
iron pillars, with ornamental capitals and bases; an ornamental
iron ballustrade will run along the front, in the centre compart-
ment of which is a neat casting of Lord Wilton's arms. About
one-fourth of this part of the stand is divided from tin! rest by a
low partition, and appropriated to Lady Wilton and her party;
the rest is public. The gentlemen's stand is on the root', which
rises iri steps.covered with .lead, and is protected by an orna-
mental balustrade in front. The entrance to the public part of
the ladies' stand and to the gentlemen's stand is by a flight of
stone steps at the back. The situation of the stand is such as
to command an admirable view of the sport, and it will form an
additional ornament to the beautiful scenery of the park.—
Mane/rester Guardian.
The Hantburylt Correspondent gives the following of the 23d
ult. from Copenhagen :—"A fact that lately occurred at Fort. St. Thomas shows that the disbanding of 120 men, a few mouths
since, has not overcome the had disposition of the garrisons in our West India Islands. Three soldiers, guilty of robbery, had
been subjected to corporal punishment by order of the coni-
rnauder of the fort. A soldier who witnessed the punishment
thought that the sub-officer who inflicted the blows struck them
rather too hard; he entered the guard-house, borrowed a knife
from one of his comrades, and on the sub-officer coming in, he
plunged the knife into his heart, crying out at the same time,
'lt holds firm.' Ihe assassin was brought before a court-martial,
and shot a few days afterwards. The Marquis and Marchioness
of Londonderry "arrived the day before yesterday in this city,
coming from Kiel, on hoard the steamer.'
A letter from Marseillessays,that the project of the French
government to establish a regular communication, bytisninp_p4
iessels,'between Marseilles, Naples, Athens, and Constanis
hopedl
is in a state of great forwardness.. In September itw...,„%.
that several steam-boats, destined for that set
only seven s,rivielnt yes.f
Brest, and begin their regular voyages. At first
qsets s wereantin seu,lailiTdsed othertnecessary,obe stoppages,
~
which
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a, c). orid.
etei
amyl,
tit tei
iortirotfu trhile,
the number has been increased to nice,
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IsBeorblritolsrsaeucpi(deirt:.
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aced,pre-
prhe
steam-enginesno de Bela ins
bmoaayrdllceahuistii.eed,
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are
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and fiVe hasfak.
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rSeiaxdoyf betheen
making, or are already
made,
'everything
ecnogniinpelestewie,riendorsdere,tlo
F,il:nici
deen tin France:iTii(l7l Vce.a.siisiehlilii:iig?...6:o;ehleli
other 'passengers: -Thiiinp,r.tiiee
voyage
eu p, and
agreeable.pi. o v lt Theed
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na splendid.si..ssa I_e calculatedf from
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Constantinople
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...11';"bta lor boardl,...He e r Li i., e;
r 03.). fratits. excludi ii the 1 d
cabin
fittedbin s_lnd
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From Alexandria to Atihooensfrtahtecpsr.iceF•iosrtoevbeer,y
sealetigu.e.
p francs, withso hammocks
.Marseillestce r
a gf
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yinotthheerltdefeagneot mentioned, the charge to be for the
cblinae7bstivinereatnn ea6n'
franc,
are much lower, it is said, than those chiirged in' the greater
number of the English Post-office steam-boats=, and in those
which for behoof of individuals make the voyage between Mar-
seilles and Naples. It is expectecithat this scheme will he very
profitable to the French government. Should Marseilles be
soon connected with Lyons and Pails by a railway, the work
will he then completed. Marseilles will then be the chief mart
for all the trade between the Mediterranean coast and the north
of Europe, as well as the second city of France. When
the railroad shall be completed, a traveller will reach Lyons
from Marseilles in 10 hours, and Paris in 30 hours. A Versa,
travelling from England might then reach Marseilles in three
days, from Falmouth, going round by the Straits of Gibraltardr,
Gutiyna a i's Ales,,tnyer. • '' ' ' •