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the subterfuge of dishonest reasoning—and, instead of
strengthening and spreading the salutary power of
warning and example, to fritter away the lesson of the
one and the effect of the other by a poor and pitiful
sophistry, which, " while he wrote it down," must
have brought a blush into his cheek, if it were as
callous as the knave whose cause he pleads—it is a
crime against the standard morality of society ; and
the reprobation of its insulted members—we care not
what their creed, or class, or party may be—should
follow the perpetrator.

But, along with the fraudulent motive of deceiving

the minds of his readers, the writer of the Albion has
another object in his advocacy of the cause of the mur-
derer Garrick. He wants to show that we commented
with an unwarrantable severity on the atrocious crime.
We spare our readers the infliction of refuting seria-
tim his flimsy attempts at argument. 'We meet him
openly upon this point. A verdict of the citizens of
Dublin has pronounced the villain an unjustifiable ho-
micide—the warrant of the coroner has been issued
for his apprehension—and thus, until he vindicates his
innocence before his country, he stands registered
in • the minds of every man, but his fellow-think-
ers, a MURDERER. We go no farther. 'We should

think special pleading after this a mockery upon the
common sense of the public.
But the point upon which he erects the whole su-
perstructure of tirade against us is at once a lamenta-
ble proof of the weakness of his cause and the shal-
lowness of his judgment. Garrick, he says, was no
monk,—he was an impostor,—the supposition was
upon his own assertion. Be itso. We are glad of it;
for it puts beyond question or cavil every syllable of
what we gave expression to on the subject. We care
not whether he wore cowl or bat, cassock or broad-
cloth—whether he were in or out of orders—so we

have the fact, that he had power to palm himself upon
the credulity of an ignorant and superstitious people
as a religious character—as an individual who bound
himself by vow and profession to the service and mi-
nistry of the Most High—and who, by the sanctity
and veneration attached by a hood• winked people to
such attributes, was enabled to drive a long and suc-
cessful trade of villany and fraud upon their gullibi-

lity and blindness—so we have this fact, and we have
all we contended for in our former article; and so far
from having crippled us in the least by his industry in
proving his " hail fellow, well met" Garrick an im-
postor, swindler, or what he wills, the more he
strengthens and corroborates the very meaning and
purpose of our observations.
The deduction which we sought to draw from the
act (and we sincerely thank the Albion for enabling us
thus to recur to it) was as to the state of ignorance,
superstition, and moral, as well as physical debase-
ment, of the majority of the people of Ireland, which
thus/nakes them the prey and dupes of every unprin-
cipled knave who gets up a religious or political ar-
itifice with which to swindle them. From O'Connell
down to the lowest village demagogue—from the in-
solent and imperious APHale down to the murderer
Garrick—the staple commodity of their successful
jugglery and craft lies in the mental prostration and
imbecility of the people- It is thus that it matters
not that we know O'Connell and his base swarm of
agitators to be knaves and hypocrites, or that time has
tested 1114-lale and his crew to be impostors and va-
gabonds, neither the one nor the other of them would
find their calling so profitable or so enduring as it is,
unless the great body of the people, upon whom they
feed and fatten, were so kept and tied down in the de-
basement of unqualified ignorance and vicious super-
stition as to leave them incapable of making one ex-
ertion to shake off the vermin. And another deduc•
tion we sought to make was this—" the peril to the
people of England of such neighbours and fellow-sub-
jects"—the danger of the spread of such pestilential
notions of governments, and liberty, and right, which
would grow up from such mushroom beds as those.
We may be honest and virtuous; but if we live in
communication with profligacy and vice, we hazard the
name of the one and corrupt the- integrity of the
other. We say again—no matter what may be the cha-
racters of the men who lead and mislead the misguid-
ed population of Ireland—the misery and the mischief
of the thing is found in the intellectual darkness of the
majority ; and no matter whether the imposition•dis-
play itself in sedition, treason, disaffection, and con-
spiracv, on the one band, or delusion, profligacy, and
blood on the other, it arises from the same cause, and

is perpetrated by the same means, while the eventual
peril is not to that country but to this Ireland can
scarce be worse, but England may. Let us attentively
gaze upon the horizon of coming events, and we shall
see enough there to startle and to warn us.

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—WC are glad to find
that our conservative friends seem determined upon
giving battle to their radical opponents in every ward
in the town. This is as it should be. No advantage
whatever shOuld be given at the approaching election
to the faction that has so long domineered over the
borough. We have had quite enough of radicalism--
enough to sicken the whole of the electors; and we
are very much mistaken if this will not be proved to
demonstration, when the first of November arrives.
The conduct of the party now in power in this town
has been such as to carry conviction to every sane
mind of the folly of entrusting the management of
our municipal affairs to a set of such desperate politi•
cians. The spirit of exclusive partizanship which
they have on every occasion manifested is calculated
to produce a feeling of lasting disgust in the minds of
all who are anxious to secure the benefit of good go-
vernment. Our radical contemporaries, of course,
will stoutly maintain that " good government" is the
object which their aspiring friends in the Town Coun-
cil have always kept in view. But is it so? • Have
they been really anxious to study economy—that
boasted virtue of all liberal politicians—in all their
proceedings ? Let the sacrifices which they have
made for the purpose of serving their adherents afford
an answer. Have they evinced a spirit of impartia-
lity in their dealings ? Let their conduct on the
school question—on the Church EndoWment question
—on the Dock Trust question—and, indeed, on every
other question, be taken as a reply. Three years have
now elapsed since the self-styled liberals have "ruled
the roast" in the Town Council; and we venture to
ask what imaginable benefit has accrued to the town
or port of Liverpool from their ascendancy ? Have
they contributed, in any shape whatever, to increase
the prosperity of the town ? Have they done any
thing to augment its commerce ? What public build-
ings—what local improvements can they point to as
having been commenced under their auspices ? What
class of society has profited from their course of po-
licy ? Has it been of any benefit to the tradesmen of
the town to give the contracts for clothing the police
force, &c., to strangers in Ireland and elsewhere ?
Have the Licensed Victuallers of Liverpool any rea-
son to feel thankful that we have had a majority of ra-
dicals in the Town Council, and a large batch of ma-
gistrates of the same " liberal" school of politics ?
Do the Innkeepers of the town consider their property
improved in value by the recent multiplication of fresh
licenses ? Would this have taken place under a Tory
corporation? Who are the parties that have been be-
nefitted by the accession of the radicals to office ?
Who ?—tut the tools of the faction—those who per-
severingly worked in the service of the Reform Asso-
ciation ? They certainly have cause to be thankful
that the radicals ate in power. Had it been otherwise
they would have been suffered, through the length of
their inglorious lives,

"To waste their fragrance do the desert air."

Their talents would never have been discovered, and
could, therefore, never have been requited, had their
liberal patrons not obtained a monopoly of the loaves
and fishes.

Three years nearly, as we have said, the radicals
have been in office. They have had a sufficiently long
period of probation allowed them. We appeal to the
electors at large whether- they have not given more
cause for dissatisfaction with their conduct than for sa-
tisfactien ? Is not the balance of popular favour
against them ? We shall see. We are heartily glad
that the conservative committees have already taken-
the field, and shown symptoms of life and activity in
their proceedings. Let them go on energetically.
Their opponents are busily at work. There is no
time to be lost. November is at hand. Every mo-
ment must be profitably employed. If becoming dili-
gence is displayed—if " unanimity" should prove the
watchword of the conservatives—as it undoubtedly is
that of the Whig-radicals—we shall have no fear as to
the result of the nest election, We have scarcely

any thing to lose—and a fine opportunity for gaining
a large accession of conservative strength in the Town
Council.

MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION CANAL.
—ln another column will be found an advertisement,
announcing the formation of
.a company for the pur-
pose of constructing a navigable canal from the Duke
of Bridgewater's Canal, near Altrincham, to the Mid-
dlewich branch of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal,
near its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal,
at Middlewich. This canal is to be called "The Man-
chester and Birmingham Junction Canal." From a
map of the proposed canal, which now lies before us,
we perceive that the distance from Manchester to
Shropshire, North Wales, the Potteries, Wolverhamp-
ton, Birmingham, and London, will be shortened 18
miles. The canal will only be 16 miles in length,
forming the shortest side of a triangle—the other sides
being the Bridgewater and Grand Trunk canals,
which are together 34 miles in length. A reference
to the prospectus will satisfy the most sceptical of the
utility and prudence of investing capital in this under-
taking.

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.—We find that the
length of our reports precludes us from offering any
observations this day on the proceedings of the Town
Council on Wednesday last. The topics discussed are
too important to be lost sight of:, we shall, therefore,
devote a portion of our space on Tuesday to the ex_
amination of some of the speeches which will be found
in our report.

MR. MORI'S ITALIAN OPERATIC CONCERT AT
THE AMPHITHEATRE.

On Wednesday evening, Mr. Mori, the celebrated violin-
ist, exhibited his judgment as an old concert giver, in af-
fording an opportunity to the lovers of music in its excel-
lence, in Liverpool, to hear the first vocal performers now in
the country. The corps of vocal talent announced to per-
form contained no less celebrated names than those of
Grisi, Albertazzi, the veteran of song Lablache, F. La b-
ladle, and Signor Ivanhoff. This was indeed presenting
before the public a combination of first-rate talent, and as is
always the case, under such circumstances, the public was
not behind hand in liberality. Spacious as is our Amphi-
theatre, on the opening of the box doors, orders were given
to the money-taker to sell no tickets, as every place was
taken. To accommodate those who could not get seats, a
part of the pit was boarded off for reserved seats, which were
also soon filled. Before the concert commenced, when the
house was full, the boxes presented a splendid galaxy of
beauty and fashion. The performances consisted of selec-
tions from Belliui, Balfe, Rossini, Mercadanti, Schubert,
Mozart, &c. The concert commenced with a quartetto, from
Baines opera " I Puritani"—" A te, o cars, Amor talora,"
which introduced Madame Grisi, Signor Ivanhoff, F- Lab-
lache, and Lablache. This selection, which is a sweet and
melodious passage in the opera, was sung with exquisite
harmony, the cresendos and diminuendos being delight-
fully executed. The general style was piano; occasionally,
however, Lablache giving evidence of the tremendous power
of his voice, and electrifying the audience with its fortissimo
immensity of tone. Madame Grisi next sung a polacca
from Bellini, " Son Vergin vezzosa," with bewitching
sweetness, and with a graceful ease, which contrasted with
the brilliant effects she produced delighted the audience. She
was encored. Lablache, and his son F. Lablache, next pre-
sented themselves, and sang a duetto from Bellini, " II rival
salvar to devi ;" and it was in the mock rivalship of the
singers in this piece that the capabilities of the elder Lab-
lache's voice were brought out to the fullest extent. F.
Lablache has, in the abstract, a voice which would be called
a very fine bass voice of great power, capable of much mo-
dulation, of considerable compass, and of musical tone ; it
suffered, however, much in comparison with Lablache's,
whose voice in power was capable of overwhelming it, and
in brilliancy and quality of tone, made the other appear thick
and tame. Well, the duet proceeded; Lablache exerted
himself in his Maestoso style, and the audience was
astonished. On every side we heard nothing but ejacula-
tions, " Oh, what a voice!" At one time descending the
scale, note by note, to somewhere about low D, he appeared
to have arrived at a depth below which it was impossible for a

human voice to produce a tone, when out came in thorough
bass, a note lower, distinct, clear, splendid in tone, electri-
fying; at the same time accompanying his action to his ex-
traordinary voice, he pointed with his indicator finger to the
floor, as if to state
"Still in the lowest depths a lower deep."
The action spoke more than words, and with the tone had a
perfectly magical effect; the audience, impressed with one
feeling, gave a rapturous burst of applause. The next piece
introduced Signor Ivanhoff, the Russian singer, accompany-
ing Madam Grisi, in a &tett°, "Arturo si e desso." Ivan-
hoff has a delightfully sweet and musical contr' alto voice,
and is fond of producing adagio and dolce effects; and
slowly diminishing the tone of his voice till it dies away

"—So soft
There's nought 'tween it and silence."
He frequently thus soothed the audience into delight. Mr.
Mori next presented himself, and played a violin concerto.
We think, hut we may be mistaken, that he is on the wane
as a violinist; bis style of playing, and execution, always
simple and neat, has grown tame. He played a selection
from Mayseder with great neatness and simplicitly of style,
good execution, and fine tone. But there was no approach
to brilliancy, or even vivacity in it. Madame Albertazzi
next appeared, and sang an aria, by Balfe, "Non v' e donna."
We were sorry to see her looking so unwell and altered for
the worse. The quality of her tone of voice is not unlike
that of Grisi's, richer, but less brilliant. Her style of sing-
ing has one prevailing characteristic—langour and want of
animation. She satig the arta very sweetly. F. Lablache
and Signor Vercellini next sang a duetto, from Rossini's "
Barbiere di Siviglia." F. Lablache sang well; Vercellini,
however, has not an atom of voice, whatever he may have
had in his best days. He was distinguished by a very rapid,
and, if we may be allowed the expression, staccato utter-
ance; but as for music of voice, not a single enunciation
could boast a tone. It was like elaborate execution on a
cracked violin. Albertazzi and Grisi next exquisitely sung
a duetto, from Mercadante, which was most imperatively
encored. Signor tlvanhoff then sang very sweetly a new
serenade, by Schubert—" Thro' the night's dark shadows
stealing." The feeling of the audience on hearing this song
seemed divided between pleasqre and amusement;—pleasure
at hearing the really sweet and delightful way in which he
sung it—and amusement at his Russianized English, which
broke out in a good humoured laugh as he sang the last line
of the couplet—" Waken, lady dear," as " Wakken, laddy
dare." He was encored. A number of other selections

were sung, amongst which we were most pleased by an aria
from Rossini's opera, " La Cenerentola," "Non piu mesta,"
by Madame Albertazzi, which was most delightfully sung;
and by an aria by Madame Grisi, from Anna Bolena, " Al
dolce guidami," which was sung with exquisite melody.
Mr. Mori played another solo on the violin, a new fantasia,
into which he introduced several popular airs, and played
with a good deal more brilliancy than before; he also intro-
duced a very beautiful staccato movement. One or two of
his selections, however, were mere practise lessons, running
up and down the gamut, which we cannot say we admired.
On the whole, everybody seemed delighted with the concert,
and we do not doubt but those who have not had the oppor-
tunity of attending it, will take advantage of the second
concert this evening.

PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN.-Mr. Sully, the American ar•
tist's fine portrait of the Queen, now exhibiting in Bold-street
at Mr. Goadsby's, has attracted considerable attention, a grea!
many of our fasbionables have been to inspect it. We re.
commend a visit previous to its removal.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES—We yesterday met in Lord-street
an Italian image-seller, with a full-sized bust of the Queen in
one arm, and one of equal dimensions of Dan O'Connell in
the other. Walking up a little higher, we met another image-
man carrying a similar pair of busts. "To what base uses
may we come Horatio," may her majesty indeed exclaim
with the poet, at finding herself ranked in such company.
SHIPS' LEAKS.—A very ingenious machine has been ex-
hibited here during the last few days, the invention of a
watchmaker, at Portsmouth. It is so constructed that the
extent of water in a ship's hold can be ascertained at any
time, and should the increase arise to any fixed point, it will
cause an alarm to sound by means of a very simple con-
trivance.

DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF THE EARL. OF DERBY.—OR
Thursday last, as the Earl of Derby was superintending some
extensive improvements which have been latterly going on
at his grounds at Knowsley, his stick was observed by some
of the workmen to drop from his hand, and almost imme-
diately afterwards his lordship himself staggered and fell.
Assistance was promptly rendered, and the noble earl was
conveyed into the mansion, where he received every proper
attention from his medical advisers. The nature of his
lordship's injury was found to be paralysis, affecting more or
less the whole of one side. Stupor and lethargy ensued, and
he remained partially in that state for a considerable time,
the prospects of returning sensibility being exceedingly
precarious, and life itself appearing to tremble in the balance.
On Saturday morning Lord Stanley arrived at Knowsley,
when the noble earl had happily so far recovered as to be
able to recognise his son. Since then, though still extremely
unwell, he has continued to manifest a tendency to conva-
lescence, and from the favourable report of the state of his
health which; we received yesterday, we trust we may indulge
the hope, that he will not only survive this attack, but that
he will yet be preserved for many years, a beuefactor to the
poor of the neighbourhood, numbers of whom are•provided
by him with the means of earning an honourable subsistence.
—Courier.

LIVERPOOL TOWN MISSION.—On Tuesday evening week
the quarterly meeting of the Ladies' Association in aid of
the Liverpool Town Mission was held at the Charitable
Institution House, in Slater-street. The chair was occupied
by W. Kay, Esq. A few of the agents gave brief accounts
of the state of their respective districts, with regard to the
spiritual condition of the people, and related some highly-
interesting cases of good that had resulted from their labours
during the last three months. One of the agents informed
the meeting, that in one single court in a street in his district
there were 141 persons, of whom only two individuals profess
ever to attend at the house of God, and that, in the whole
court, there were only two Bibles. The following is his
statistical account of the.ent ire street :—Thei e are 369 fami-
lies, and in 142 of these, either the whole or a part of the
sacred Scriptures was found. The Street contains 1718 souls,
of which number only 17 profess to attend regularly the
public worship of God. There are 200 who say they attend
occasionally, and the remaining 1500, according to their own.
testimony, never enter a place of worship.• There are 751
children, of whom 202 go to school. Of the whole population
in this street, there are 1254 who say they belong to the
Established Church, 418 are Roman Catholics, 30 Presby-
terians, 12 Wesleyans, and 4 Baptists. A meeting has been
opened it the street, which is well attended. Another agent
likewise gives the moral statistics of a street in his district
as follows :-327 families, living in 109 houses. Adults, 623,
of whom 559 are Irish, 44 English, 1 Scotch, 8 Welsh, and
1 foreigner. Of the 623 adults, 213 can read, but only 19
profess regularly to attend a place of worship, and there are
but 22 Bibles in the street. The professors of religion
generally know but little of the spiritual condition of their
immediate neighbours ; but when such facts as these are
brought to light, and placed fully before the public mind, if
the spirit of religion exists amongst us at all, it will surely
excite us to pity the surrounding thousands who are destroyed
for lack of knowledge, and to make every effort within the
reach of our talents and opportunities to seek and to save
them. Several instances were related of reformation and
conversion, and of the consequent happiness to individuals
and families; and a few most gratify iug cases were stated of
persons, the fruits of this mission, who have died within a
few weeks, in full possession of the consolations of the
Gospel. The meeting was subsequently addressed by several
gentlemen who are members of the committee, and by several
ministers of the Gospel, who confessed themselves so affected
by the facts they had heard, that they requested to be put in
possession of the information, promising to bring it publicly
before their respective congregations, and to urge on them the
claims of the institution. The meeting, though not nume-
rously attended, *as a very interesting one, resembling more
a domestic party, met to converse on a highly-interesting
subjects than 4 formal Miserably, listening to let speeches.