The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-24 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

" IF YOU WANT JUSTICE, GO TO HEAD-QUARTERS." (The
Old Soldier.)—A gentleman of high standing in the nau-
tical world has called upon us, and communicated the
following facts :—He states that a young man, a seaman,
in the employ to which he himself belongs (and than which,
we may say, there is not a more respectable in the port),
had the misfortune to lose his leg, and become disabled ;
and that he (our informant) called at the Town-clerk's
office to take out the usual declaration, so that the poor
fellow might Atain the allowance, or pension, that would
accrue from the Maritime Fund, upon which he had become
a claimant. The person who came to the counter treated
him in a haughty and repulsive manner, telling him,
Oh, no ; we can't indeed ! We have refused fees to
the amount of £250 in similar cases, and we can't !"
Our informant left the office in disgust, and mentioned
the circumstance to a gentleman whom he soon afterwards
met. That individual advised him to go to " head-quar-
ters," which he did without further ado, and, on his ap-
plication to the MAYOR in person, his request was politely
and instantly complied with. There is nothing more of-
fensive to sensitive minds than the insolence of " under-
strappers."
Owing to a press of advertisements, and the length of our
local reports, several articles already in type are unavoid-
ably postponed. Amongst these is an interesting article:
on " the West India Colonies," together with some edi-
torial remarks on the same subject, in reply to Mr. Scoble.
We shall insert Mr. Bevan's letter on Tuesday, accompanied .
with some remarks in reply.

Ebr tibtrpool ettanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1840.

We have received a file of the St. John's (N. B.)
Weekly Chronicle to the 20th of March, inclusive. The
members of the House of Assembly bad voted for the
payment of the members of the Legislative Council,
at the rate of £lOO per annum for each member, with
an excepting clause regarding the members of Coun-
cil who hold any situation under Government with a
yearly salary of £2OO or upwards.
Captains Battersby and Hawkshaw, of the engineer
department, were at 'Woodstock, selecting sites for the
erection of the new barracks, and such other works as
might be deemed necessary for the defence and pro-
tection of the place. _ _

The House of Assembly had recommended that his
Excellency, the Governor, should order the Attorney-
_General to prosecute the Weekly Chronicle for a libel
published in that paper.

We have received a file of the St. John's (N.F.)
Times to the 11th of March inclusive. The papers con-
tain some very severe animadversions on the appoint-
ment of a Mr. Patrick Morris to the situation of Trea-
surer for the colony. This person's recommendations
for the office appear to have been of very doubtful
character ;. but they were such as wonld entitle any one
to the patronage of the Whigs. He is a Papist, and a
thorough-going Radical, and has the further recom-
mendation of having been a bankrupt. A man who has
proved himself incapable of managing his own pecuni-
ary affairs, can scarcely he deemed qualified for hold-
ing a public office of so important a character.
The Legislature of Newfoundland have granted

£l,OOO annually, or £3,000 in one sum, if preferred, to
l',.?liths • encourage steam navigation between the island and
43. Halifax.

s• • We have received a file of Halifax (N.S.) papers to
:Is4, the 30th of March, inclusive. We learn from the
Halifax Journal that the legislature of the province
,
.41"4* ~,L had beenprorogued on the 27th of March, after pass-
, ing an address to the Queen, in which there are seve-
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Tat passages strongly impugning the conduct of the
Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, and praying his re-
-1„L ,Yt.i •
moval from the government. This address was
;!:,;51!J couched in terms not very courteous to her Majesty,
11i',—and highly disrespectful, and insulting to his Excel-
lency. In consequence of this extraordinary proceed-
n'' ing, a public meeting was held the following day, to
give expression to the disapprobation of the inhabitants
of Halifax of the censure contained in the address of
the Assembly. The meeting was numerously and re-
spectably attended, and, after some discussion, the
following resolutions were agreed to :
Resolved;That apatt from the consideration of the several
questions of colonial reform agitated by a party in this pro-
- vince, this meeting sincerely deplores the Address of the
House of Assembly, proposing to censure the administration
• • of the Government by his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, a
censure as unfounded in reason as it is inconsistent with the
feelings of the majority of the respectable and influential in-
.habitants of the province.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the
Administration of his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, sur-
rounded as it has been with difficulties, and requiring the
exercise of a sound and vigorous mind in the selection of the
respective councils to meet the changes introduced through
• the influence of the House of Assembly, has been conducted,
and the measures of Government carried out by his Excel-
lency with an anxious desire to meet the true interests of the
people, consistent with the duty of his Excellency, to our
most gracious Queen, and her Government.
Resolved. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that it is
the bounden duty of every well-wisher to the paternal Go-
vernment to rally round his Excellency at this time, and by
an expression of their dissent from the opinions of the As-
sembly, to -evidence to our most gracious Queen, that
although there may be discontented spirits in the House of
Assembly, ever ready to find grievances, when few, if any,
exist, yet that the majority of the people riot only duly ap-
preciate the conduct of his Excellency in the administration
of the Government, but are satisfied with the maternal care
of our most gracious Queen,
and will be ever ready to support
* her throne, and maintain tle connexion between this pro-
-4%4- vince and the parent state.
Resolved, That these resolutions be embodied in an ad-
•
144.-,•, • dress and presented to his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell by
‘,
s a committee to be appointed for that purpose.
l':•1
The following is a copy of the address which was
.7presented to Sir Colin Campbell :
,1,44'114:1 * •To His Excellency Lieut. General Sir Colin Campbell, . •
K.C.8., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief,
14 este, -,
in and over her Majesty's Provinces of Nova Scotia,
44 4 .
&c. &c.
May it please your Excellency,
We, e udersd inha ote town of Halifax,
44113"/
begleaveth to assurers ynexc our Excellency off our devoted attach-
,\` ment to her Majesty's royal person and government, and to
11 the. principles of the British constitution.
We_ have learned with unfeigned sorrow that the represen-
tatives of the
Sovereign,
people of Nova Scotia have passed an Address
- to our imputing to your Excellency misgovern-
ment of this colony, and praying her Majesty to remove your
Excellency from the high office which you now fill.
. . The distinguished reputation which your Excellency had
14‘,11: . acquired in fighting the battles of your country, had pre-
, pared the minds and hearts of the people of this province, to
•,. hail with satisfaction your appointment to the government of
this colony, and whilst we recognise with gratitude many
beneficial acts of your Excellency's administration, we re-
tain a high sense of the noble manner, in which shortly after
your arrival, at a period when it pleased the Almighty to
scourge our country with x malignant pestilence, your Ex-
cellency, in person, visited the infirmaries, ministering to
the sufferers, and by your example and influence, inspiring
.tip E, confidence and encouraging the inhabitants of this town to
stZt exertions in the cause of humanity.
101 The dissolution of the old council and the subsequent con-
'4'4l' stitution of the executive and legislative councils, have sub-
rss jected your Excellency's executive administration of the
. affairs of this colony to difficulties and embarrassments
stvlre•'• r that were unknown to, and unfelt by, your Excellency's
srf! predecessors, and when adverting to the manlier in which
441, your Excellency met those difficulties of your position, and
• klt: endeavoured to carry out, with such means as were at your
re sits command, the instructions that you received respecting the
441.:4 . composition of the two councils referred to, we are unable to
• here discern any design upon the part of your Excellency to
• violate those instructions, we feel it a duty that we owe to
51,,-.1-11.;7i4,•/ your Excellency, to the country, and to ourselves, to come
• forward at this peculiar crisis, unparalleled in the history of
Nova Scotia, and to assure your Excellency that our judg-
i•
4`ll, ments and our hearts entirely absolve your Excellency from
7%; •tetit?ks, such an imputation, which we are convinced is perfectly
eOr •e„ Ss without foundation.
"4 qi 5 Liqi • Whilst we admit that it is not merely the privilege but the
11
'411471 • duty of every British subject, whose home is fixed in a colony
'll 41 '''Jltf• subject to the British crown, to use every constitutional
!15'514,41,0.en5s . means to render its institutions accordant, in rincile and
;ON" Litio% practical operation, with corresponding instituptionsp in the
ettttlif parent state, we deprecate needless agitation, which has an
obvious tendency, amongst other evils, to affect the high
rie,ll3l"l ' mercantile character of this community, to cheek the tide of
t‘4ss..,4'im . immigration, and to prevent the introduction of British capi-
`,„ • tat into this province ; and when, at the present hour, we
hear on the one hand, the phrases " official faction" and
soscs
ss •
family compact" applied opprobriously to men whose pri-
vate characters are respected, and confessedly respectable :
arsttet"lisse • and, on the other hand, reflect that of all those who are in-
vested with important public offices, it is not even pretended
isitiaLLl'issirre, A that any one has abused the trust reposed in him, or failed in
Net ele4ee.,di
~ performance of the duties attached to the office that he fills,
iQ•.ll44oiissrive cannot but consider, that the assumed circumstance of
4o !lore „).1: competition for office not being perfectly open to all, does not
Ille"Ns.sliAisCe;'sufficient constitute a reason for jeopardizing, by extreme
%14 neifief.measures, the peace and tranquillity of this eminently loyal
Z„, shre.aiid hitherto remarkably happy province ; nor do we believe
ISer,,7,easq ~,_/110.t the intelligent and reflecting portion of its inhabitants
t+siiirei,`will be prepared to give their deliberate sanction to the sen-
timentS' expressed by:their representatives in the address to
her Majesty, of which the prayer is the recal of your excel-
lency from the government of this province.

In conclusion, we beg•leave respectfully to assure your Ex-
cellency that we are impressed with a conviction that
throughout the whole course of your administration of the
Government of this province, your Excellency has been in-
fluenced by a sincere and single desire to sustain the honour
of the Crown, and to promote the true interests of her Ma-
jesty's subjects in this colony ; and that your Excellency's
conduct and firmness on a late occasion, in refusing to make
important changes in the constitution of the province, upon
the Address of the House of Assembly, without first receiv-
ing her Majesty's commands on the subject, justly entitle
you to the warmest expression of our thanks; and we hum-
bly trust that the mariner in which your Excellency has dis-
charged your public duties as the executive head of this Go-
vernment, will continue to receive, as we believe it merits,
the approbation of our most gracious Sovereign.

To which his Excellency returned the following answer :
GENTLEMEN,—It is most gratifying to me, to find that my
conduct in the administration of this Government has ob-
tained for me the approbation, respect, and confidence of so
numerous a body of the inhabitants of the capital of this pro-
vince.

I have not language to thank you for the honour you have
done me, and for the kind terms in which you have been
pleased to express yourselves towards me.
It has been my most anxious desire to promote the wel-
fare of the people of Nova Scotia; and to concede to them
every just and liberal measure that would promote that end,
has been the anxious object of my solicitude and duty ; but
at the same time firmly to support the honour and dignity of
the Crown, and to resist any attempt to encroach upon its
prerogative, is a paramount duty I owe to my Sovereign, and
in which it is most gratifying to me that you coincide.
I again repeat my warmest and best acknowledgments for
the flattering testimony of your approbation as conveyed in
your Address.

On retiring from the Government House the depu-
tation that waited on Sir Colin Campbell gave his
Excellency three times three cheers.

We should think that the present holydays will not
furnish much in the shape of pleasure or ease of mind
to her Majesty's incapables. They are released, it is
true, for a brief space, from the badgering which they
have endured since the commencement of the session.
They are still in office, and look forward to the coming
of another quarter-day. But a presage of evil lies
heavy upon their souls : the cup which they drain at
the social board maddens without exhilarating, and the
laugh with which they strive to efface the recollection
of defeat and shame is hollow as the forced defiance of
a bully when the gripe of the avenger is upon his
throat.

The ministry has escaped extermination for a season.
Like a mangy cur, it has yelped and wriggled its way
from amongst the feet of its tormentors, and can now
lick the mud from its well-kicked sides and enjoy its
temporary reprieve from the tanyard. It has run the
gauntlet through the ranks, been spit upon and de-
spised, but has not yet been finally drummed out of
the service to the exhilarating music of the " Rogue's
March." We willingly concede to the ministry the
enjoyment of any consolation which it can devise from
a retrospect of the past. The diseased quadruped to
whom We have likened it may as well hope to cleanse
itself from the leprosy which rankles in its blood, or
the dishonoured soldier to wipe off the shame which
has tarnished his laurels, as the members of that mi-
nistry to efface from the minds of the people of Eng-
land the contempt and loathing with which their deeds
and their very names are associated.
And yet what is the crisis which these degraded men
have to encounter—these miserable imbeciles to whose
keeping the interests of a great nation are committed ?
Abroad, war presents his iron front on every side. 'We
are entering upon a contest with China—with a people
whose resources we know are immense, and of whose
character we know absolutely nothing. 'We are at war
with Naples—a petty state, it is true; but who can tell
with what other powers a war even with Naples may
embroil us ? 'We have Russia hovering like a bird of
prey over our Indian possessions, and ready to pounce
upon them the first moment she finds our attention
distracted from her movements ; and in the western
hemisphere we have America panting for, and even
prepared to create, an opportunity of seizing upon our
transatlantic possessions. On every side hostility ma-
nifests itself towards the name of England, and on
every side that hostility is emboldened by the remem-
brance of past insults, endured by her with tameness,
and past wrongs, suffered by her to sleep unavenged.
The vantage ground which England once possessed—
which she bought, and dearly bought, with the blood
of her brave—has been yielded basely and treache-
rously, inch by inch; and though

" but yesterday
She might have stood against the world, now none
So poor as do her reverence."

And with what has England, under the present ad-
ministration, to meet this frowning array of enemies?
Where is the lofty spirit of patriotism which, at the
call of a Pitt and under the guidance of a Wellington,
shook from his blood-cemented throne the conqueror of
a world ? We look around in vain for the evidence of
such a spirit. Where are the buoyant energies which
enabled England to meet the vast expenditure of such
a contest ? Look for them in our declining commerce,
our suffering agriculture, our almost bankrupt exche-

quer.
Let us turn also to the difficulties which encounter
us in our home policy—to an alienated people amongst
whom the seeds of disaffection have been allowed to
spring up unchecked,—nay, fostered for the purposes
of faction, and with whom the laws, the ancient usages,
and the time-hallowed associations of Englishmen are
but flimsy cobwebs entangling the feet of a spurious
philosophy. At such a crisis as the present, so filled
with bitter presages of evil, is the state of society in
England one of which the lover of his country's weal
can he proud ? We fear it is not. There is a poison
festering at the root of England's prosperity for which
only the healing power of true religion can provide an
antidote. There is a serpent coiling by the hearthstones
of our countrymen whose defiling breath stifles,
as they ascend, the aspirations of patriotism and
the prayers of faith.
We are told by their press—by the literary scaven-
gers who rake the filth from before their feet—that the
members of Lord Melbourne's administration can look
without dread upon the prospect which is before them.
We must ourselves confess that we are not formed of
such happy materials. We can see nothing in their
position which is not disgraceful ; we can see nothing
in the position of our country which is not pregnant
with danger and difficulty. We believe that we enter-
tain these feelings in common with a great majority of
the people of England ; and although we trust that we
may be in error, yet we cannot but fear that the day is
approaching when England will weep tears of blood,
and England's Sovereign would give the brightest
jewel from her diadem to avert even half the evil which
these base and reckless men have brought upon tjieir
country.

We may form a correct idea of the tender conside-
ration with which the ministerial faction regard the
welfare of our Established Church, from the feelings
of bitter hostility and malignant hatred which have
been levelled against it during the present Easter Ves-
tries. Scarcely a parish throughout England is without
its anti-church or anti-church-rate agitator. The dark-
browed Puritan and the fierce Papist, the wily Socinian
and the meek and saintly Aminadab, walk hand in
hand in the attempt to spoil the altars and undermine
the walls of our venerable fabric ; and, if a stone is
displaced, if a buttress is weakened, or a font broken—
nay, if only so much as a bell-rope can be suffered to
to decay, or a pulpit-cushion to be worn out by the
obstruction offered by their rancorous hatred, a yell of
delight resounds throughout the land, and the eyes of
thousands of the canting hypocrites, who make the
profession of religion a cloak for moral 'deformity, are
ready to gloat upon the prospect of the overthrow of
that pure and holy church whose unobtruding piety is
hateful from the contrasts which it presents to their
own pharisaical professions.
That these attacks upon the established religion of
the land are viewed with satisfaction by the present
ministry can scarcely be doubted when we observe the
active and earnest endeavours which have been made
by the accredited organs of the government during the
last ten days, to excite the fierce passions of their sup-
porters, and to point out the weapons by which their
object could be attained. Day after day these organs
have launched forth their slanderous tirades, directed
against the church, its ministers, and its doctrines.
The thunder of the Chronicle has been reverberated by
the small whisper of the Globe and the sputtering blus-
ter of the Sun. The little luminaries which spread
their weekly twilight over the otherwise benighted ob-
scurity of our provincial towns have stirred up their
wicks and shone out in rival flames whose intense bril-
liancy will be matter of wonder for months to come.
And mark the result of all this thunder and lightning.
The hallowed walls of those venerable piles which were
erected only to echo to the voice of prayer have been
converted, not into a den of thieves, perhaps, but into
an arena of faction, disgusting scurrility, and bitter

Mr. Baldwin...
Mr. Gisborne..

contention. The simple matter of electing a church-
warden has been turned into a subject of party war-
fare. The laying of a halfpenny church-rate has been
seized upon to supply materials for a struggle, profes-
sedly of principle, which can only -be properly and
finally decided within the walls of Parliament.
We trust we are not too sanguine in expressing our
belief that in every instance the enemies of the Esta-
blishment will be foiled in their efforts to impair and
diminish its usefulness ; for that, in reality, is the ob-
ject which they have in view. We have no patience
with the disgusting cant by which the purity of their
motives is paraded before the world. We cannot
readily believe that the saving of a few pence yearly
would induce men of otherwise respectable characters
to engage in an aggravating and useless contest. We
are told, it is true, that it is the principle of a church-
rate to which they object, and not its amount. Fudge !
The real and only objection which these men have to a
church-rate is the purpose to which it is applied : the
repairing and sustaining of those venerable walls which
they would willingly pay ten times the amount to see
levelled with the dust.

As the friends of Mr. Joshua Walmsley appear to
be attaching some importance to the connection of that
gentleman with the Established Church, and suppose
that he will thereby be placed in a better position than
Mr. Thornely, it may not be useless to inquire, what
services has Mr. Walmsley rendered to the Church of
England which entitle him to the support of its mem-
bers ?

In the first place, Mr. Walmsley is a church patron,
and has lately had an opportunity of exercising his
right of presentation. And how has he acted? In-
stead of following the laudable example of a noble-
minded gentleman, collaterally, we believe, related to
him, and zealously seeking a clergyman of acknow-
ledged piety and talent, by whose untiring exertions an
almost deserted church might be crowded with repent-
ant sinners, lie has made such an arrangement as will
give him the opportunity of presenting his son, a minor
and an untried man, to the living, when he may be le-
gally qualified to hold it. In doing this he certainly
has not transgressed the law; but, surely, from one
who inveighed so bitterly against the late corporation
for exercising their right of presentation in such a
manner a different course might naturally have been
expected.

Mr. Walmsley is a strenuous advocate for the sepa-
ration of church and state and for the voluntary sys-
tem. But how has he acted ? There is in Liverpool a
society which has been instituted for the purpose of
building and endowing churches by voluntary dona-
tions. How much has Mr. Walmsley contributed to
this society ? Positively not one farthing; whilst num-
bers of his fellow-townsmen, with less means, and op-
posed to the voluntary system, have subscribed upwards
of one hundred pounds each to it. Nor has he been
more generous to the Diocesan Church Building So-
ciety. Now, were Mr. Wahnsley a poor man or a con-
scientious advocate of the right of the state to provide
scriptural accommodation and instruction for the peo-
ple, there might be some excuse for him; but such
conduct from a man who avows voluntary principles,
and can afford to subscribe annually to the O'Connell
tribute fund, or to lavish ostentatiously thousands of
pounds upon balls and dinners, admits of no defence.
Again, with respect to education according to the
doctrines and principles of the Church of England,
how has Mr. Walmsley acted ? It is well known that
Mr. Walmsley is a staunch supporter of the system of
education pursued in the Corporation Schools, which,
however agreeable to the members of the Protector
Society, cannot he too strongly condemned by every
churchman. Mr. Walmsley is likewise well known as
a director and late president of the Mechanics' Insti-
tution, of which not one-fifth of the directors belong
to the Church of England. It would be hence ima-
gined that Mr. Walmsley, as a churchman and a pro-
fessed friend to the education of the people, would
have gladly hailed the establishment of the Collegiate
Institution, and at once have connected himself with
it. But no : although waited upon as the Mayor of
Liverpool by a deputation, he declined to award his
support or lend his sanction to an institution in which
religious instruction according to the doctrines of the
Established Church will be for ever given ; whilst he
is proud to preside over an educational establishment
into whose studies, as detailed in the printed pro-
gramme, no religious instruction of any description
enters.

We have thus briefly reviewed the public actions of.
the new parliamentary candidate, so far ar they are con-
nected with his duties as a member of the Established
Church, and candidly confess, that although we find
much in them to entitle him to the gratitude and sup-
port of the Catholics and other enemies of the church,
we can glean nothing to recommend him to the notice
of true churchmen. On the contrary, he appears to us
as a wolf in lamb's clothing, from whom the church
has more to fear in the approaching struggle for Pro-
testant ascendancy than the Unitarians or other avowed
enemies. Let not any of his friends lay the flatter-
ing unction to their souls that their cause will be
benefited by the connection of their candidate with the
Church of England. He has been weighed in the
balance, and found wanting.

We beg to direct attention to a report in another column
of the proceedings of the annual vestry, held on Tuesday
last, at the neighbouring village of Walton-on-the-Hill. Our
readers will perhaps be aware that the fabric of the church
at Walton has, for the last few years, been undergoing dila-
pidation, and that the churchwardens, following the require-
ments of the law, have expended a portion of the church-
rate, levied for the purpose, in endeavouring to repair the
ravages of time, and to restore its walls to a state of security.
To complete this object, it appears that it will be necessary
to levy a church-rate for the present year of 2d in the pound;
and the mere supposition that such a demand would be made
brought, as a matter of course, the whole force of the Whig-
Radical camp, like a swarm of hornets round the ears of
the worthy vicar and the parochial authorities. An amend-
ment was duly moved, and the array of the anti-church
faction, after endeavouring in vain to throw the burthen of
the expenses already incurred, upon the shoulders of the
churchwardens, succeeded, on the show of hands, in nega-
tiving the rate. A poll, however, was demanded, the result
of which will no doubt show that our national establish-
ment is not yet reduced so low in public estimation as to be
trampled beneath the feet of its enemies.
We dare say it would be abundantly delightful to some of
the gentlemen who attended the vestry to witness the arrival
of those halcyon days, when churches will be allowed to
crumble unheeded like disused dog kennels. Such a con-
summation, however, the march of liberalism has not yet
brought round ; and so long as the laws of England require
from the inhabitants of every parish a contribution for the
express purpose of preserving the sacred walls of those
churches from decay, we trust that men will be found amongst
their members bold enough to perform that duty even at
risk of provoking a hubbub such as was presented on Tues-
day, or of drawing down upon themselves the virtuous in-
dignation of gentlemen who carry " Doctor Lushington" in
their pockets.
It will be seen from our report that at the close of the poll
on Thursday the anti-church faction were in a large minority.
We trust that still the friends of the church will not omit to
record their votes. The next good thing to giving a man a
good thrashing is to thrash the conceit out of him.

TOTNES ELECTION.

TRIUMPH OF THE CONSERVATIVES.

Mi. Baldwin, the conservative candidate, was, on Tuesday,
returned by a majority of seven, as the following statement
will shew :

CLOSE OF THE POLL.

158
151

Majority for Mr. Baldwin...

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.—
The monthly meeting of this association took place on Wed-
nesday evening last, at Mr. Tyzack's Academy, No. 1, Hill-
street, Toxteth-park, the Rev. S. Fenton, M.A., vicar of
Fishguard, in the chair. The meeting having been opened
by the Chairman with prayer, and remarks, as usual, Mr.
Ratcliffe moved the following resolution :—" That this meet-
ing being convinced that it is only by the revival of true, ge-
nuine Protestantism that true religion and civil liberty can
be maintained in our land, and that Protestant associations
are admirably calculated, under God, to accomplish this im-
portant object, call loudly upon our fellow-townsmen to join
our association, and unite with us in this glorious cause."—
The speech on this occasion was delivered in a strong and
powerful argumentative style, and appeared to have the de-
sired effect upon a crowded audience. Mr. Williams, in se-
conding the resolution, brought forward a whole host of quo-
tations from Dens and other Popish writers, contrasting
Protestantism with Popery, with much effect. Mr. Watham
then addressed the meeting in a humourous, yet effective
style, respecting DAN and his tail,and made an appeal to
the shipwrights to form a branch association in the Park,
which was loudly responded to. A vote of thanks to the
chairman having been moved and duly seconded, and a few
remarks made by the chairman, the doxology was sung, and
the meeting concluded by the three watch-words of this asso-
ciation (Ist, Scriptural Education ; 2d, Church Extension ;
3d, Repeal of the Popish Emancipation Act) being given out,
as usual, at the close of the meeting, with tremendous cheer-
ing, clapping of hands, and cheers.
The next Birkenhead cattle and cheese fair will be held on
the 28th instant, two days before the great fair at Cheater.