The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-20 00:00:00

WAR WITH CHINA.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
copy of the STANDARD of Tuesday last, addressed " Rev.
C. Gayer, Dingle, Ventry," has been returned to the office
The
a better direction.
he extracts oil " Sabbath Observance" are unavoidably
deferred.
IVe shall endeavour to find room on Tuesday for the article.
respecting the Church of Scotland.
The letter of "J. C." on the Anti-Church Extension Meet-
, ing in our next.
A Lover of Truth" may rest satisfied that the reverend
„ gentleman alluded to needs no vindication.
AMbulator" is postponed till Tuesday.

Ebr Ziberpoot Otanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1840.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (N. B.)
liieekly Chronicle of the 24th of January. Its contents
have been already anticipated.

By
the packet-ship England, Capt. Waite, which arrived
here on Tuesday evening, we have received
•Nnew 'York papers to the 23d ultimo, inclusive. The
ei'ec London packet-ship, sailed three hours before
the England, but was passed by her the next day. The
commercial and financial affairs of the United States
remained
in the same state of depression as before, and
there was very little prospect of any immediate im-
Provernent. There was a complete stagnation of almost
verY kind of business: The Daily Express states that
e venty of the largest manufactories in New England
had
been compelled to suspend operations; and it was
etritnated that at least one-fourth of the whole popula-
th°,ll of the States was destitute of employment. Every
nflug Wore the most gloomy appearance. The prices
description of produce had become ruinously
the:,',.,The agricultural classes were beginning to feel
.:I)r4sure of those embarrassments from which the
suz:eantile and manufacturing classes had been so long
as etiug. The whole of the Union was still involved,
much as ever, in a state of monetary derangement.
The
n Papers before us are full of accounts of fresh failures
b." 41 the part of the banks. The affairs of the Manhattan
rank continued to occupy public attention. The di-
_eetors, however, confidently anticipate that the ulti-
mate loss which the bank will sustain will not exceed
4°'°°o dollars, as most of the loans are well secured.
P. roperty of every description continued to decline in
value at New 'York. Sheriff's sales were becoming
flllore and more frequent, and mortgages were being
foreclosed in every direction. Land and houses, as
weitas e vt'ry other kind of real estate, were rapidly di-
g
minishin
in value. It is estimated that rents for the
ensuing year would be at a discount of from 20 to 30
Per cent. on previous rates.
The stagnation of business had caused a fall in the
rate of interest, in most parts of the Union. In Bos-
ton, money was abundant at 6 per cent. on the best
business paper, but found little demand. In New York
4 Similar depression in the rate of interest had taken
Place. The discount on first-rate mercantile paper, in
that market, was 61 per cent, per annum, and from
this‘ to 11 per month, according to its character. Very
little was doing at these rates. In stocks there was a
little more activity. United States Bank, at the last
bales, closed at --75 dollars ; Manhattan Bank Stock was
4.,. almost unsaleable, Exchange on England was quoted
8 to 81, at which a moderate business was doing.
ttt_e last advices received at New York from London
were to the 3d, and from Liverpool to the 4th of
January.
•
.0 The President of the United States had sent down
:a the Rouse of Representatives a very important mes-
t ge, asking the Senate to consider the peculiar si-
tuation of the Treasury in the legislation of the coun-
t?tnber
cons
According to the intimations of some of the
the
issue of Treasury notes is likely to be
dete;
Once. The President urges upon the con-
t !r 4,71
ation of the Senate the necessity of an early pro-
ston bOa* for the protection of the Treasury against
pro-
the fluctreatiems and contingencies to which its receipts
the erP°44.; The application assumes that, although
meansof the Treasury foe, the .whole year may be
Y, no
"e; the year, the department
twithsta •
—be—rendered .unable to meet
Tld tilt e,14.
iul4lPOu it.at the times when they. may fall due.
the I_, aPPtehetision arises from the circumstance that
targeSt Proportion of the charges upon the Treasury,

I including the payment of pensions and the redemption
of Treasury notes, fall due in the early part of the
year, while the resources on which it might otherwise
rely to discharge them cannot be made available till the
latter half of the year. Another'. cause of apprehension
is, the fact that a portion of the means of the Treasury
consists of debts due from banks, for some of which
delay has already been asked, and which may not be
punctually paid.
Measures have been taken for the prosecution of the
Florida war which must be repugnant to the feelings
of every one possessed of the least spark of. humanity.
'We allude to the introduction of bloodhounds from
Cuba to hunt down and exterminate the Indians. It
is but right to add that remonstrances have been pre-
sented in Congress, from various parts of the country
against this cruel and barbarous expedient.
The intelligence from Canada reaches to the 10th

of February, on which day his Excellency the Governor-
General proceeded in state to the chamber of thelion-
ourable the Legislative Council for the purpose of pro-
roguing the session. After acknowledging the atten-
tion which the members of the Council and the House

of Assembly had paid to the important business which
had been brought before them, his Excellency pro-
ceeded to enumerate the various measures which had
been under their consideration. He congratulated
them on their acquiescence in the proposed reunion of
the two provinces, and looked forward to the comple-
tion of the measure as the means by which the peace,
happiness, and good government of the Canadas will
be permanently secured. He then alluded to the bill
for the disposal of the clergy reserves, by which they
had set at rest a question which had for years past
convulsed society in the province. In framing that
measure he said that they had consulted alike the best
interests of religion, and the future peace and welfare
of the people: and he expressed a hope that their
efforts would prove successful, notwithstanding any
attempt which may be made to renew the excitement
or to raise opposition to their deliberate judgment.
With reference to the bill for the payment of losses by

he rebellion or invasion, he remarks that he has with

held his assent, as the House of Assembly had ad-
dressed her Majesty praying that the losses might be
defrayed by the imperial treasury : he thinks that it
would be more for the interest of the parties con-
cerned that the bill should be reserved, in order that

the address may be considered by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, before the provincial funds are finally char-
ged with this payment.
The Governor-General next intimates, in his address
to the House of Assembly, that the decision which
they had come to respecting the future settlement of
the civil list, under the proposed union, rendered it
impossible for him to submit to them any renewed
proposal for the surrender of the revenues of the
crown in exchange for a provision for the expenses of
the civil Government of the province.
The Governor-General then expresses an earnest
hope that the members of both houses, on their return
to their different districts, would endeavour to promote
the spirit of harmony and conciliation, .which had so
much distinguished their proceedings since the com-
mencement of the session. He concludes in the fol-
lowing terms :—" I rejoice to find that already tran-
quillity and hopeful confidence in the future prevail
throughout the province. Let it be your task to
cherish and promote these feelings ; it will be mine
cordially to co-operate with you ; and by administer-
ing the Government in obedience to the commands of
the Queen, with justice and impartiality to all, to
promote her anxious wish, that her Canadian subjects,
loyal to their Sovereign, and attached to British in-
stitutions, may, through the blessings of DIVINE
PROVIDENCE; become a happy, a united, and a pros-
perous people." _ _ _

The American papers deny the correctness of Mr.
Fox's letter respecting the military preparations on the
Maine boundary. They assert that there are new bar-
racks, lately erected, at the lower end of the Tamis-
conata Lake, and that there are about 200 troops
stationed there. A Maine paper states.that Sir John
Harvey is effectually opposing the trespassers by de-
stroying the timber they cut, and recommends the
American authorities to do the same.
Advices from Monte Video, to the 20th of Decem-
ber, had been received at New York. The political
state of things remained the same. No battle had
taken place between_ General Rivera and General
Echague near Monte Video. It was expected that
the President would attack the enemy, and that a

battle would take place before many days elapsed.

Of all the trumpery and contemptible motions that
have ever been brought before a " reformed" Mouse of
Commons, the motion of Mr. Wallace, on Tuesday
evening, was the most conspicuous that has fallen un-
der our notice. It was frivolous and nonsensical be-
yond all precedent. Its absurdity is scarcely capable
of being rivalled, either by Joseph Hume or "William
Ewart ; and we are sure that it never can be eclipsed.
The object of this motion was, to propose an inquisi-
tion into the convivial and other proceedings of the
Glasgow University " Peel Club," with a view to the
dissolution of that very obnoxious society—we mean
obnoxious to the discomfited liberals. This was deemed
a subject fit to occupy the attention of the House of
Commons during the greater part of a day's sitting,
and to the exclusion,of business of the most vital im-
portance. It appears to be a settled point that the
" tyrant majority" should have some hobby to ride—
some childish toy to amuse themselves with—to occupy
their time, and to prove their incompetency to attend
to those affairs which concern the welfare of the na-
tion. Up to last week the "privilege question" was
the favourite plaything of the liberal majority. That
toy having been thrown aside, Mr. Wallace, anxious to
provide suitable and congenial employment for his
friends on the ministerial side of the House, introduced
his silly motion for an inquisition into the proceedings
of a conservative association, chiefly composed of
youths from fifteen to twenty years of age, whose only
offence is, that they have achieved the emancipation of
Glasgow University from whig•radical thraldom. It is
true that the affairs of our Eastern Empire are in a
most critical state, and demand the serious attention of
the legislature. It is true that the dispute with China,
and the contingency of war with that country, are ques'.
tions of vast importance. It is true that our West In-
dian Colonies are fast sinking into ruin, and loudly call
for the interposition of Parliament on their behalf. It
is true that there are a thousand questions of domestic
policy which are waiting for inquiry and adjudication.
But it is equally true that there exists a political club
in the University of Glasgow, the organization of which
has secured the election of conservative Lord Rectors
during the last five or six years. In the eyes of the
" liberals" the last appears to be the most important
question. The affairs of the East—the question of war
or peace with China—the prosperity of our Colonial
possessions—our foreign relations—our financial ar-
rangements—and £he whole of our domestic policy—
must give way to Messrs. Wallace and Dennistoun's at-
tack upon the formidable phalanx of juvenile conserva-
tives at the University of Glasgow. This is, certainly a
most edifying specimen of the manner in which the
business of Parliament and the affairs of the nation
are conducted by the liberal representatives of the
people!

The circumstances which led to Mr. Wallace's mo-

tion may be thus briefly recapitulated. For many
years preceding 1820 the Rectors of the University of
Glasgow had been promiscuously selected from both
the great political parties; and although the election
was, strictly speaking, annual, yet by courtesy the
Rector was usually permitted to hold office for a
second year. This was the custom up to 1820, when
at the termination of Mr. Finlay's first year, a suc-
cessful attempt was made to carry the election of Mr.
Jeffrey. With this election commenced the political
rivalry which has predominated within the last twenty
years. In 1822 Sir Walter Scott and Sir James
Mackintosh were the competitors, when the latter was
elected. His return, however, was only secured by
the casting vote of Mr. Jeffrey, the retiring Rector.
In 1824, Sir Walter Scott was opposed by Mr.
Brougham, whose return, by a singular coincidence,
was secured by the casting vote of the outgoing Rec-
tor, Sir James Mackintosh. In 1826, Mr. Camp-
bell, the distinguished poet, was elected Lord Rector,
and a successful attempt was made to prolong his
tenure of the office for a third year, which was the
first instance of such a continuation of the office in
the person of the same individual. Sir James Graham
very properly remarked that the first political club in
the University was foamed on the occasion of Mr.

Campbell's third election. It was called the " Camp-
bell Club," and existed up to the present time. In
1829, Lord Lansdowne was returned, and in 1831,
Mr. Cockburn, then the Whig Solicitor-General for
Scotland. Mr. Cockburn was also elected a third
year, after the precedent furnished in the case of Mr.
Campbell. His election was secured the third time

by his own casting vote. In 1834, a reaction took

place, and the series of Whig triumphs was terminated
by the return of Lord Stanley. In 1836 Sir Robert
Peel was elected, which gave rise to the " Peel Club."

Mr. Wallace maintained that the " Peel Club" was
essentially a political club, and that the literary pre-
miums which it annually distributed, were merely a
cloak to the political objects of the association. From
the rules of the " Peel Club" he said that it was evi-
dently formed for the purpose of securing the election
of conservative Rectors, and of spreading conservative
principles. He maintained that it was very wrong—
very wrong, indeed, that such a society should exist.
It is very wrong that the professors and students of
the University should meet to deliberate about the
election of a Lord Rector !

Among the supporters of Mr. Wallace's motion we
find the member for Kilkenny, who, while he con-
demned the institution of the; " Peel Club," avowed
that he was a member of the Glasgow University
Liberal Association. Such is the consistency of the
liberal Joseph Hume ! The truth is that fear caused
Messrs. Wallace and Dennistoun to propose an inqui-
sition into the proceedings of the "Peel Club" " The
recent election for Perthshire has created a feeling of
alarm in the minds of sundry Scottish representatives.
The member for Greenock is beginning to feel uneasy ;
while the member for Glasgow must also experience
some anxiety with respect to his own seat, in conse-
quence of the recent demonstration of Conservative
principles. As long as the tide of popular opinion was
in favour of the liberals—as long as liberal Lord
Rectors were returned for the University of Glasgow,
there was no complaint made against the existence of
a political club among the students and professors.
The success of Conservative agitation has spread dis-
may among the Radical ranks. Hence the attempt to
crush this agitation. Hence this pitiable and trum-
pery motion respecting the Conservative youth of
Glasgow.
The ground upon which Mr. Wallace and Mr.
Hume proposed to bring the proceedings of the " Peel
Club" under the notice of the House of Commons
was, because the House made an annual grant in aid
of the University. Sir James Graham, the present
Lord Rector, intimated that last year the Government
had discontinued the grant How could any one ex-
pect such a grant to be continued as long as the
University wi!l obstinately persist in rejecting Whig
Rectors ?

Sir Robert Peel very happily met the proposal to
dissolve both the political societies in the University
of Glasgow. He said that he was certain that the
" Peel Club" would not concur in it. They would
say " No : we are a thriving society, and you are an
unsuccessful one: we know the principles of advan-
tageous exchange too well to accept your proposal,
which is an equivalent to an offer of copper for gold."
It is, certainly, a very unlikely thing thatthe Conser-
vatives would voluntarily resign the advantages accru-
ing from their present organisation, merely to gratify
the ambition, and to secure the success of their oppo-
nents.

We do not feel surprised, after the exposures which
Sir James Graham and Sir Robert Peel made of the
motives which prompted Mr. Wallace's spiteful and
vindictive attack on the " Peel Club," that the latter
gentleman most gladly availed himself of the forms of
the House for withdrawing his motion. It was a mo-

,ion of which any man of common sense ought to hare
.relt heartily ashamed : and it is a great shame that the

time of the House of Commons should be frittered
away upon any thing .so mean, petty, and contemptible.
The debate of Tuesday evening will, however, have
one good effect : it will serve to enlighten the consti-
tuencies as to the real nature of professing liberals,
whom it exhibits in the unenviable character of low,
meddling, pettifogging tyrants, who would, if they could
establish an inquisition into every man's thoughts, and
crush every semblance of free deliberation.

The Marquess of Normanby has evidently kissed the
"blarney stone." Few Men are equal to him in the
facility with which he lavishes his compliments. He
must be acknowledged to possess a thousand horse
power of flattery. In proof of this, witness his hyper-
bolically extravagant eulogium of the Irish at the dinner
of " The Benevolent Society of St. Patrick," on
Tuesday last, in London. In the course of his speech
as chairman, after remarking on the opportunities
which he had enjoyed of forming an estimate of the
Irish character, during his vice-regal, or, rather, his
gaol-delivery " progresses," he said that " lie found
that charity was the very essence of the Irish character,"
and that "he was convinced, from his personal obser-
vation, that the Irish people were the greatest people,
morally, politically, and religiously speaking on the
face of this earth !" Faugh ! if he speaks of the great
majority of the Irish people, he is guilty of uttering a
downright falsehood : for it is a matter of notoriety
that their morality consists in murder and violence,
their politics in sedition, and their religion in the
grossest superstition. All that is good, noble, or
amiable in Ireland, or among the Irish, is owing to
the connexion of that country with England, and the
admixture of British blood with the native tribes.

On Tuesday last the Irish Papists of this town as-
sembled in thousands to celebrate St. Patrick's day,
and paraded the principal streets of the town, with
banners and bands of music. The procession was
chiefly composed of a number of clubs and secret so-
cieties, exclusively Popish, and having political objects
in view, identical with those of the traitorous Ribbonite
associations in Ireland. -We write thus deliberately
and designedly. We have something more than mere
suspicion upon which to ground our present charge.
The spectators who quietly looked on the procession
of Tuesday last had an opportunity of seeing, though
not for the first time in their lives, several Ribbon
Lodges. These murderous traitors, with whom
originates nearly all the crime for which the sister
island has obtained such an unenviable notoriety, are
permitted to march through our streets in triumphant
processions; whilst the loyal Orangemen, who are
banded together for the protection of our established
religion and the constitution of the land, are not allowed
even to wear a favour or to exhibit a flag in celebration
of the most glorious events in the history of our coun-
try. Ribbonmen, whose grand designs are, to extirpate
Protestantism from Ireland—to alienate the property
of every Protestant in that country—and to place the
island once more under the dominion of Popish go-
vernors—are allowed to insult the loyal inhabitants of
Liverpool with impunity, and to mock us by the ex-
hibition of their treasonable emblems : whilst the
Orangemen, because they are Protestants—because
they have displayed the most constant and unflinching
loyalty—because they are determined that the Ribbonite
conspiracy shall be frustrated—are treated, by the
Protestant authorities of this town, with the utmost
contempt, and if they have the temerity to avow their
principles by any external display, they;'.are left to be
assaulted or even murdered by their Popish enemies,
But we need not wonder at the favour shown by
our local authorities towards the Papists, nor at the
audacious demeanour of the latter. It is the fashion
of the day, at Court, in Parliament, and in our Mu-
nicipal Councils, to depress Protestantism as much as
possible, and to give every encouragement to Popery.
It is every where the order of the day to inflict " heavy
blows" and to give " great discouragement" to the
established religion of the land ; while it is every where
the policy of our liberal rulers to patronise Popery and
to protect rebels. 'We need, not, therefore, feel any
surprise at the insolent, domineering, and tyrannical
conduct of the low Irish Papists of Liverpool, who
already look upon themselves as our future masters,
and treat us as prospective vassals. If the Papists are
again permitted to parade the town of Liverpool, all
we can say is, that the public authorities of the town
are willing to be considered as conniving at treason,
and that the Protestant inhabitants of the town have
consented to place their necks under the yoke of Popish
tyranny. Protestants of Liverpool ! shame upon your
cowardly dereliction of principle ! How long will you
permit a horde of beggarly aliens to trample upon you
and insult you ? Shake off your lethargy, and be men.

the petition from the Protestants of Liverpool

against the annual grant to the Popish College at
Maynooth, has just been forwarded to Lord Sandon,
for presentation to the House of Commons. It has
12,350 signatures appended to it. Last year there
were only 4,500 signatures. Tile great increase in
the number of signatures may be construed into a
favourable indication of the state of public opinion in
this town. Four or five years ago it would have been
a matter of some difficulty to procure a thousand
names to back such a petition. Now, thanks to the
persevering exertions of those clergymen among us
who have taken a decided stand against Popery, and .
to the speeches made at the great meetings of the
Protestant Association, there are found twelve thousand
and upwards of our adult population, who are desirous
of removing from our national character the stigma of
supporting such a hot-bed of vice and sedition as the
College of Maynooth. Let the example of Liverpool
be universally followed. Let our Protestant friends in
other districts continue to agitate until the public
mind is more deeply imbued with an utter abhorrence
of Popery.

The "great meeting" at the Sessions-house, in fa-
vour of the Irish Municipal Corporations' Bill, has
met with a most inglorious issue. The petition which
emanated from the " grand majority" of hereditary
hodmen at that meeting. was, on Monday evening, pre-
sented to the House of Lords, by the Marquess of Nor-
manby. The petition was signed, as our readers may
recollect, by the Mayor of Liverpool, as the chairman
of the meeting. It happened to attract the attention of
Lord Charleville, after it had been presented, and the
noble lord remarked that " the Mayor could not sign
for the corporation, nor for the public meeting; con-
sequently the petition was to be regarded as 'that of
Joshua Walmsley only. Oh ! most lame and impotent
conclusion. After all the mighty preparations—after
all the mustering of forces, and the drilling of Pro-
tector recruits—after all the anxious deliberations in
high conclave at the Angel, and the cutting and clip-
ping of Parliamentary debates, for the purpose of ma-
nufacturing speeches—after all the waste of words
during the stormy discussion in the Sessions-house
and the waste of ink by our Radical brethren of the
press in boasting of the " triumph of the Liberals"—
the petition could only be received as that of Joshua
Walmsley. Well may the Irish corporations tremble
for their fate. Their doom is sealed—Joshua Walmsley,
Esq, Mayor of Liverpool has petitioned against them.

We have been informed that Joshua Walmsley, Esq.
Mayor of Liverpool, has already had his address to the
electors of Liverpool printed, at the Globe office, Lon-
don, and that we may expect, one of these fine morn-
ings, to find the walls of the town placarded with this
precious document. We do not vouch for the accu-
racy of the report which has reached us ; but it has
strong probabilities in its favour. We understand that
his Worship intends to claim the suffrages of the elec-
tors Of Liverpool as a moderate politician. Whether
this rumour be founded on fact or not, it is well, for
our Conservative friends to be prepared. If it is cor-
rect, his Worship must imagine that no election will
take place before November. Our own belief is, that a
dissolution of Parliament will take place before his
mayoralty has expired.

CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday evening a mixed band
of ringers, consisting of part of St. Peter's, and part of the
old company of St. Nicholas', rung on St. Peter's bells a
true and complete peal of grandsire caters, consistin of
5,010 changes, in 3 hours and 22 minutes. g

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PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.--The usual
monthly meeting of the members of this association was held
in the school-room belonging to St. Mark's Church, on the
evening of Tuesday. The place was crowded with a very at-
tentive and orderly audience, who appeared extremely delight-
ed, with the addressees that were delivered in support of
church extension. The Rev. Mr. Marshall presided. Speeches
were delivered by the rev. chairman, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr.
Newton, Mr. Reay, Mr. Crisp, and the Rev. Mr. Fenton.
Resolutions and a petition in favour of church extension, were
adopted, and the proceedings terminated shortly after ten
o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—We have only space to remind our
readers that the season of the Theatre-Royal commences
next Monday. when Mlss Ellen Tree will appear as the
Countear in Sheridan Knowles' Love.
RITCHIE'S PATENT LETTER COPYING MACHINES.—
We perceive that Messrs. G. J. Poore and Co. have been
appointed agents for the sale of the above well-known Co-
pying Machines, the character of:vvhich stands deservedly
high among all classes who have used them.—See cdv.

GIUMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—In another column will be
found an advertisement of this justly celebrated remedy, so
universally recommended by the faculty, for its efficacy in
removing and preventing disorders incident to the eves and
the head. The testimonials appended to the advertisement
are of the very highest character.

THE WEATHER AND ITS EFFECTS.—The skill of the
medical practitioner is not only directed to the cure of disease,
but be it said, to the honour of the profession, that they also
point out to the afflicted the means whereby many diseases of
serious magnitude may be averted, or the effects of which
considerably alleviated. But in a variable climate like ours,
although the advice laudably given may be tolerably well at-
tended to, it is altogether impossible to prevent such diseases
abounding in great multiplicity and virulence. Hence those
painful afflictions, Gout and Rheumatism, have recently pre-
vailed in a most unprecedented degree ; but, happily, through
the use of that most excellent medicine, Blair's Gout and
Rheumatic Pills, the patients have, for only a short period of
time, been prevented from following their sundry avocations.
MR. FEARGUS O'CoNNoß.—This notorious individual
was tried at the York Assizes las Tuesday, before Mr. Justice
Coleridge, for a seditious libel in the Northern Star. The
Attorney-General, Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, and Mr. Wight-
man, conducted the prosecution ; and Mr. O'Connor defend-
ed himself. After ten minutes' consideration, the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty against the defendant. The kttor-
ney-General prayed immediate judgment, but his Lordship
declined to pass sentence, there being another prosecution
against the defendant at Liverpool.

LIVER THEATRE.—The season will close very shortly,
and we would therefore recommend an early visit. We per-
ceive that Mr. W. J. Hammond is announced to perform for
a limited period, and have no doubt his well-known talents,
combined with those of the regular corps, will prove conti-
nuously attractive. Mr. Raymond, with characteristic ge-
nerosity, has intimated his intention to give the proceeds of
the theatre, on Tuesday evening next, towards the fund in aid
of the public charities, and it is gratifying to see that the
performances on that occasion will be under distinguished
patronage. The pieces selected are The Fatal Secret and
The Bold Dragoon ; in addition to which there will be sing-
ing by Mrs. Barton and Mr. F. Gardner, and dancing by
Misses Thomassin and Lidia and Mlle. Chevallier. Surely
there is attraction enough here, particularly when the bene-
volent object of the performances is taken into consideration.
TOKEN OF RESPECT.—The passengers by the packet-ship
South America, having resolved to present her commander,
Capt. Bailey, with a testimonial of their esteem for his gen-
tlemanly conduct and uniform attention towards them, a de-
putation waited on him on Wednesday, and presented, on
behalf of the passengers, an elegant silver bread basket, with
the following inscription :—" Presented to Captain David
Goodwin Bailey, of the packet-ship South America, by the
passengers, on her voyage from New York to Liverpool, in
February, 1840, as a testimonial of their esteem for his gen-
tlemanly conduct and uniform attention towards them, and
also for his exertions in bringing the ship into Cove Harbour,
against a strong easterly gale."—Captain Bailey assured the
deputation of the satisfaction he felt, at having contributed
to the comfort of his passengers, and was much gratified at
receiving this token of their good-will.
OaSERVANCE OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—Tuesday being
the anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland, the members
of the various Hibernian, and other Irish societies in this
town, assembled at an early hour at the places of rendezvous
previously appointed. They afterwards combined, and, at-
tended by bands of music, flags, &c., paraded through the
principal streets of the town to St. Patrick's Chapel, Tox-
teth-park, where a sermon was preached to them by the
Rev. Mr. Maddocks. At the conclusion of the discourse,
the procession was again formed, and, after the societies had
marched through several other leading avenues, the members
retired to their several club-houses and places of entertain-
ment to dinner.

RICMINISCENCL—EI an extra edition of the Dublin Morn-
ing Register, a popish paper, " published to enlist every
friend of Ireland in support of the O'Connell Compensation
Fund, May 26, 1837," we find the following names of contri-
butors from Liverpool :—C Blundell, Esq., Ince, £lOO. J
Brancker, W Rathbone, R V Yates, J C Ewart, Lawrence
Heyworth, S T Hobson, R Roskell, James Muspratt, God-
frey Barnsley, and J Mulleneux, Esqrs., £25 each. Liver-
pool Franchise Society, £35. T Bolton, A M'Gregor,
Harvey, C Rawdon, James Rawdon, E Chaloner, E Har-
vey, and W Harvey, Esqrs., £2O. each. W R Preston and
A F O'Neill and Sons, Esqrs., £l5. each. It Alison, W F
M`Gregor, It Hall, W Fawcett, T Slattery, It Shell, R Rath-
bone, C Birch, T Holt, and J Meller, Esqrs., £lO. each.
C W Crooke, M O'Connell, R W Wood, N Kaye, G Lynch,
P Leonard, J Andrade, a reformer, T Coglan, V Higgins, J
Mather, .1 Hamilton, J Clow, D Brennan, W Earle, Esqrs.,
and Dr. Reynolds, £5. J Finch and Sons, Esqrs., £lO. T
Rodick, J Budd, J Walmsley, G Holt, D Powell, J Aiken,
A Kaye, E Hore, J Hore, and W Mather, Esqrs., £5 each.
J ilarnet, Esq., £3 3s. Hibernicus, £3. Four Friends,
£2 10s. Dr Carson, J Wybergh, R M Beckwith, T Bean, J
Ripley, T Harvey, and W Logan, Esqrs., £2 2s each. J
Rimmer, W Fairhurst, C T Everest, a friend, C J Corballis,
two reformers, Mark Aungier, and J King, Esqrs., £2 each.
T Urquhart, W Appleton, and M Tiernan, Esqrs., 21s each.
C Grimshavv, W Bartley, Esqrs., and Dr Callan, R.N., 21s
each. P F Curry, E Wilmer, J Woolright, R Richmond,
H Crompton, J F and C 5, and G Robinson, Esqrs., 21s
each. J Sheehan, E Moss, and R Jenkins, Esqrs., £1
each. Mrs Corbally and Miss Corbally, £1 each. An ene-
my to humbug, J Leyland, B Norton, J H Green, and R
Johnson, Esqrs., £1 each. Colonel Williams, S B, a re-
former, L Rayner, J Charnley, J O'Donnell, B Slater, J
Brown, R Moore, Kershaw, T Drewry, G Law, J Tate,
sen., W K Headland, N Crooke, a friend, C J Townley, and
A M'Clellan, Esqrs., £1 each. Rev P Wilcock and D Daly,
Esq., £1 each. S Thornely and Keogh, Esqrs., £1 each.
W Thornhill, Esq., £2 2s. L Evans and C Simpson, Esqs.
£lO each. J Langan, Esq., £5 ss. A reformer, £5. B
Brteherton, Esq., £lO. A radical, H Homes, J Homes,
and Jevons and Sons, Esqrs., each. A reformer, £3.
Wm Logan, Esq., £2 2s. F Patten, Esq.' and the Rev. J
It Robinson, £2 each. H C Langton, Esq., £2 2s. W
Redyard, Esq., and a friend, £2 each. T Morecroft, Esq.
£2 2s. T Haigh, Esq., £2. Sundry small subscriptions,
£l7 4s.

THE DEATH OF MR. GRANT, M.P. FOR INVERNESS-
SIIIRE.—The Master of Grant was found dead in his bed on
Wednesday morning week. The nature of the illness of
Which he died was not known. He was only in his 23d year,
and was chosen member for the county of Inverness imme-
diately diately on his coming of. age, on the retirement, from ill.
health, of the Chisholm, in 1838. He was a young man of
very amiable manners, and was exceedingly popular in the
north of Scotland.

ANTI-CHURCH-EXTENSION MEETING,

The success of the meeting held last Friday in support of
church extension, of which we gave a full report in the last
number of the STANDARD, pierced to the qu:ck the political
dissenting voluntaries, and it was considered indispensable to
"get up' a counter demonstration, not the least object of
which might be to strengthen the present administration.
The committee of the "Voluntary Church Society" were
immediately assembled, and it was resolved that a public
meeting should be held on Wednesday, in the Music Hall.
The gathering accordingly took place. The room was filled,
but no one who was present will deny that, had not the
friends of the established church been there to swell the num-
bers, the orators would have had to act their parts before
" a beggarly account of empty benches."
Mr. VINCENT HIGGINS was called to the chair, and he
told the meeting they were assembled to enter their solemn
protest, by a petition to parliament, against the aggressions
of the established church, in another attempt to put its hands
into the public purse. This attempt he did not hesitate to
describe as iniquitous, unjust, and unchristian. It was in-
iquitous, inasmuch as the church possessed such ample
wealth of its own that it had no need to go to the public
purse (!!) It was unjust, that whilst that church had its rich
bishoprics, its large and immense pluralities, for the sake,
ostensibly only, of advocating religion—but, for the sake, he
believed himself, of increasing and extending its power only
as a political party—a party ever opposed to civil and
religious liberty—that this church should come to the
public purse for money subscribed by all the people, by the
people of every denomination, for its own exclusive use and
benefit. And it was unchristian, inasmuch as it was con-
trary to the great and glorious precept of our blessed
master, who said, " As ye would have all men do unto
you, even so do ye unto them likewise." Did not the church
object to the benevolent intentions of her majesty's ministers
last year, when they wished to make a grant of public money
that all denominations might benefit by it ? This the church
resisted and defeated, and therefore he was justified in saying
the present 'demand of the church was unchristian.
The Rev. Mr. BIRRELL then moved " That in the opinion
of this meeting the connection of the church with the secular
power is opposed to the fundamental principles of Christianity,
at variance with the rights of conscience, injurious to the
cause of religion, and opposed to the well being of society."
It was not without considerable reluctance that for the first
time in his life he took part in a public discussion of this
question, and that reluctance arose partly trom a natural
distaste to all public controversy of this kind. At the same
time whatever force these considerations had upon his mind,
he felt that the specific aggressions now threatened to be
made upon the principles of civil and religious liberty (!) de-
manded an equally explicit protest upon the part of all those
to whom those principles were dear. It would be carrying
silence and neutrality to a criminal extent were they to see
this impending injustice both to man and to God, without
coming forward at whatever risk and cost of disquietude and
pain, to bear their part in attempting to avert the evil (I I).
It was not, however, their object to oppose the extension of
true religion, although thousands maintained that it was, but
to separate truth from error and to spread it over the world.
Neither was it their design to oppose the episcopal church.
They took the liberty of thinking that there was much in the
church badly adapted to human nature, and ill-accordant
with the divine will, but, as far as their present efforts
were regarded, it might flourish till it darkened the whole
earth. Nor was it their object to prevent the erection of
churches ! The friends of the church might erect as many
churches as they pleased; but they (the dissenters) certainly
thought that edifices wherein there were no congregations,
and wherein there was heard no gospel, of which he deeply
regretted to know there were thousands in the country, were
of very small value, and that to erect more of such edifices
was a very useless expenditure and application of money.
Their real object, simply and shortly, was to express a wish
to be excused from bearing any pecuniary burden in so bril-
liant a speculation ; or, more correctly, lest they should be
enchanted by the romance of such au enterprise, they wished
to retain to themselves the pleasure of freely contributing to
it, and to avoid the ungracious alternative of having their
money wrung from their hands by the government, and em-
barked in the scheme whether they would or not. He held
it to have the intrinsic evidence of a maxim, that to take
away the property of another, and apply it to your own pur-
poses, was an act of dishonesty : therefore he maintained
that for any single religious denomination, containing but a
fraction of the population of the country, to apply for the
money belonging to all the rest of the country, for the pur-
pose of extending their own religious rights, was an act of
injustice which bore upon it its own condemnation. But he
still more strenuously objected to it on account of its bearing
upon the parties themselves. Could any one question that
for a church, the actual revenues of which, according to the
report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, amounted to
£8,000,000 sterling per annum—a church the bishops of
which lived in a style that rivalled royalty itself, ought, in-
stead of making use of that enormous wealth, come in the
crouching attitude of a pauper, and pray the parliament for
Pecuniary assistance, to help them to raise other churches ?
When he saw this, he was concerned for the manhood and
for the Christian integrity of the persons composing the
Church of England. When he saw the respectable minister
of Christ Church holding up to ridicule the conduct of a man
now in prison at the instance of an ecclesiastical court, deny-
ing that his conduct could result from conscientious motives,
because be followed a trade alleged to be mean, and because
the demand upon him amounted to only a few shillings and
a few pence; when he saw this gentleman keeping his audi-
ence in a roar of laughter by playing upon these circumstan-
ces, with grief he acknowledged he could see nothing in his
conduct but either the most unworthy sophistry,' or an in-
competency to comprehend the nature of a conscientious ob-
jection. (Great hissing field sonic cheers.) That ignorance
was produced by the system to which the gentleman was con-
scientiously attached, and therefore he (the speaker) spoke,
whatever he might feel, more in sorrow than in auger. He
perceived also the same ignorance in a gentleman now lec-
turing upon the right of the Church of England to her own
existence, in Hanover-square Rooms, London. (Cheers.)
In refuting the objections which dissenters brought to the
claims made upon them, he (Mr. M`Neile) despatched the
whole subject in an apothegm to this effect :—" These argu-
ments would be perfectly conclusive in the absence of the
church's divine authority." No question of it : but who
was to be the judge of the divine authority ? Their opinions
(the dissenters') were not to be consulted for a moment.
Did their brethren of the established church know what con-
science was ? The most charitable answer he could give was
that they did not. But let them know that ignorance was
itself a crime ; let them know that to assume the right
to determine what other men should think, and what
religious conduct they should pursue, was to leave the
province of the preacher, and to leap into the throne of
God (!) Even if they (the dissenters) were certain that
the money extracted from them was for no other pur-
pose but to extend saving truth, they should still object
to its being arrested from their hands, but it would be an
immense alleviation of the wrong, if after that property had
been yielded, they should be sure that such a mighty object
would be promoted. Who was to appoint the ministers to
these new churches when they had been erected? Who was
to be answerable for their faith? Who was to assure them
that these edifices should not be used, immediately after their
erection, for the purpose of declaring the saving efficacy of
the sacraments, the validity of priestly absolution, the in-
utility of an atonement, the worthlessness of the cross of
Christ, and of salvation to guilty men? We might be told
that the articles of the church guarded against all such evils ,•
but were those articles to do that in future which they had
never done before ? It was acknowledged by a large body of
the clergy themselves, that out of 21,000 clergy, nearly 14,000
preached in defiance of those articles either in letter or in
spirit. (!) (Hisses.) Was it not knovin to all the world that
the bishops, who ordained to the ministry, were, in many in-
stances, the most bitter opponents of all vital Christianity'
Having continued in this style of misrepresentation for some
time, and alluded to the statement of the Rev. F. Barker, of
dissenting chapels having been removed from a poor to a
comparatively wealthy portion of the town, but without at-
tempting to controvert it, he moved the resolution.
Mr. THOS. BLACKBURN seconded the motion in a speech,
the fluency of which helped materially to conceal its numer-
ous gross fallacies. He contended that injustice was a natu-
ral and essential adjunct of religious establishments; that an
act of parliament could riot render that just which was in it-
self unjust, and that it was an imposition upon Roman Ca-
tholics to be taxed to support a form of religion which they
deemed heretical ; and to Unitarians, Independents, Baptists,
and all denominations of Diisenters in like manner. He con-
cluded by designating the crusade against the established
church as an effort to obtain a second reformation, for the
accomplishment of objects which the first reformation had .
left unattained.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution. Many hands
were held up for it, but there appeared to us, and to the re-
porter for one of the liberal papers, a decided majority against
it. Loud cheers were given, and afterwards three others
for the Rev. IL M`Neile. When silence was restored, the
CHAIRMAN rose and said, "This resolution is carried
by a
large majority !"
The Rev. Mr. BEvoN moved the next resolution, declaring
the essential injustice of compelling dissenters to pay for
church extension. There was nothing remarkable in this
gentleman's address. It was a mere wiredrawn reiteration of
the allegations of the resolution, unrelieved by a single sen-
tence of any value.
Alderman JONES seconded the resolution, observing that
he could add nothing to the eloquent and convincing speeches
already delivered.
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, and it was carried
certainly, but by a majority that was but just visible. Some
uproar followed, in which threats of using the police force
were liberally distributed.
The Rev. JOHN KELLY moved the following resolution,
declaring additional churches uncalled for and unnecessary.
Mr. Kelly's address was taken up with observations intended
to be very caustic, in reply to several speeches at the Church
Extension Meeting. He congratulated himself upon having
been not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others.
Some of his violent anti-church sentiments excited marks of
occasional displeasure, but eventually lie closed big speech
by asserting the following four propositions, as the grounds
on which he opposed any additional grant to the church :-
Ist, because he believed the pure spirit of Christianity was
degraded and destroyed by the connection of the church with
the secular power, and that it was one of the greatest inju-
ries which could possibly be inflicted upon the Gospel ; 2d,
because when he inquired what we were to do with these
churches, the very best he could expect was, that we should
put in men who, having obtained their money, would turn
round and abuse them : now he did not like abuse at any time,
and least of all did he like to pay for it ; 3d, because he did
not think additional churches necessary ; arid 4th, because
he thought churchmen would far more wisely and far more
efficiently employ their own money in building churches,
than in employing the money of the public for that purpose.
When a person had a large sum of money not his own, he did
not feel interested in its disposal. He knew a district where
there were five dissenting meeting-houses, where a church had
been put, which was without a congregation after six years'
experiment. (Cries of " Name !") He knew another in
Yorkshire---(Continued cries of " Name, name !"
this fair? Was this right? (Renewed cries of " Na)
mWase !")
He was not the craven to---(Reiterated calls for the name
drowned the remainder of the sentence.)
The CHAIRMAN.---It is unnecessary (! ) (Great uproar.)
Mr. KELLY.—Upon these grounds I think it is better the
church should erect these additional churches out of her own
money which she may do without the slightest interruption
or the slightest hindrance. (Continued uproar, and cries of
" Name, name !")
The CHAIRMAN reminded the meeting that they had
pledged themselves by the admission cardto obey the autho-
rity of the chair; now,
if any one in future attempted to
disturb the proceedings, he would give positive orders for the
police to take the offenders into custody.
Mr. KELLY then concluded his address, but he neither
gave the name of the alleged empty church, nor related his
Yorkshire story.
Mr. SAMUEL STITT seconded the resolution, and the
CHAIRMAN pronounced it carried.
The Rev. H. CRIGHTON, Mr. SAMUEL BLACKBURNE,
the Rev. Mr. CARRUTIIERS, and Mr. RICHARD JOHNSON,Ot.
next addressed the meeting, principally urging the rights
conscience.

A vote of thanks was then carried to Mr. Higgins, for his
conduct in the chair ; and about ten o'clock this liberal meet-
ing separated.

ONCIDIUM PAPILO, OR, BUTTERFLY PLANT.—A very
splendid specimen of this rare and beautiful plant may now
be seen in bloom at the conservatory of Mr. Skirving, in
Walton-road. The specimen in Mr. Skirving's possession
is a very superior variety from Mexico. Those who are cu-
rious in floricultural productions, may be gratified with a
sight of this elegant production of nature, by application at
the nursery, where they will at the same time have an oppor-
tunity of inspecting many other curious and superb specimens
of Mr. Skirking's botanical taste and skill.