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THEATRE-ROYA L, LIVERPOOL.

On account of the Races, the Pet-format
until Eight o'clock this Evening.
Under the patronage of Lord STAN EY and WM. BLUN-
DELL, Esq., Stewards of the Its s.
Fifth Night of Mkss ELLEN TR E, of the Theatres Royal
Drury-lane and Covent-garden.
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rinH IS present FRIDAY, the 13th instant, will be repeated
IL Mr. Knowles' Play of the

ices will not commence

HUNCHBACK.
The last night Wean be acted.
Master Walter (the Hunchback) Mr. Stuart.
Fathom Mr. Baker.
. .Julia.... Miss Ellen Tree I Helen.— Miss Chaplin.
After which, for the last time, the Performances of* the
RUSSIAN ROPE DANCERS.
To conclude with the Farce of SIMPSON and CO.
M. Simpson.. Mr. Baker J Mr. Broinlev W. Howard.
Mrs. Simpson ' Miss blen Tree..
Mrs. Bromley..Miss'Pancit I Mrs. Fitzallao..Mrs. Stanley.
Madame La Trappe .Mi;S COtplin.
TO-MORROW, the Tragedv of DA MON and I'Y'i'IIIAS.
Damon, Mr. Stuart; Pythias, Mr. W. IloWard; Calanthe, Miss
Faucit; Herpion, Mrs. Stanley. To coucluile with the Musi-
cal Drama of ROB ROY. Bob Roy, Mr. Stuart;' Francis'
Os;)aldistone, Mr. G. Horncastle'; Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr.
Baker; Diana Vernon, Mrs. W. H. Bland, (late Miss Somer-
ville;) Helen M‘Gregor, Mrs. Stanley. •

Zbe itibcrpool ,wZ-taithatb.

subject.

being at an end, he cannot conspire with slaves. Ile will be subject to
moderate restraint, and be considered in tutelage for three years; and
as,.iluririg.that period, he will be taught the value of labour and be
encouraged in industrious habits by being paid in proportion to his
work, and, as moreover, he will receive religious and moral instruc-
tion, I am sanguine in my expectations that the liberated African will,
eventually, become a respectable and useful member of society.
These, gentlemen, are the motives by which I have been influenced.
The importation of liberated Africans, is a measure, fraught, as I
most sincerely believe, with incalculable benefit to this rising Colony.
as well as with important advantages to the individuals themselves;
Under this impression I have proposed it,—and under this impression
I shall most carefully watch over it progress.
(Signed) J. CARMICHAEL SMYTH.
February 2(l, 1831.
A True Copy,

11. E. F. YOUNG, Gor. Sec.

The retirement of Lord MELBOURNE from the head of

the administration is stated in such positive terms by the
best 'informed persons in London that we can hardly re-
sist believing it. The cause of this retirement is not So
distinctly intimated. Some say that an occurrence of a
delicate nature has rendered his lordship's seclusion from
public affairs for some timeka matter of urgent necessity,
while. others assert the divisions in the cabinet, which he
has found it impossible to allay, are the sole cause of the
noble premier's secession. It is whispered that Lord
MULGRAVE is to be the new chief !—why.not DANIEL at
once ?

It will be seen, from a paragraph in another place, that
O'CONNELL has offered himself a candidate for Kilkenny,
the election for which city is appointee; for Tuesday next.
The inquiry into the Dublin election way therefore be
considered as at an end.

We have no. means of knowing what his Majesty's
ministers intend doing with Lord LYNDHURST'S abOlition
of Irish corporations bill, but we trust they will deter-
mine on accepting it as amended.. It is most desirable
that Ireland should be governed by laws strictly adapted
to the peculiar state of society in that country. It is
computed that the protestants possess five-sixths of all
the property, but that an immense majority of the popu-
lation are Roman Catholics—Roman Catholics in a state
of abject and pitiless Poverty—in a state of deplorable
ignorance and grovelling superstition—=amid, consequent-
ly, the willing and devoted slaves of their priests. Hi-
therto the corporations have been managed by the pro-
testant party—that is to say, by the only intelligent class
of men in Irelamt The property they possessed was
exclusively protestant property, held in trust for protest-
ant purposes. The greater number of charters were
granted by the kings of England for either English or
protestant purposes, in order to construct forts and de-
fences against the native Irish, or to protect and propa-
gate the protestant religion.
Under these circumstances it is difficult to comprehend
by what principle of right or justice the Roman Catho-
lics can claim any share in, or any control over, such pro-.
pertv. h is true that these trusts•have in many instances
been abused, that the estates have been mismanaged, and

that corruption has tainted corporations. But surely the
Roman Catholics have no right or pretext for complain-
ing of this. They cannot show that they have been spo-
hated, that their property has been mismanaged, or that
they have suffered wrong from municipal malversations.
!'hey complain of grievances, we admit. They have
been an excluded race. They have only recently been
emancipated from a long continued proscription. But
this is no proof that their exclusion was not a matter of
stern and unavoidable necessity. They themelves were
the authors .of the penal laws. It was their ferocious
character, their open disregard of treaties, their irrepres-
sible and sanguinary insubordination, which compelled
the government of England, in the reign of the first
JAMES -and subsequent monarchs, to resort to severe mea-
sures and keep them in subjection by the strong red
hand. They never possessed the property the manage-
ment of which they now demand, and which the whips of
the present day are disposed to give them, merely to pro-
mote the objects of a faction who never will rest satis-
fied with any share of power which leaves P. protestant or
the forms of protestant worship in that island.

This all-grasping share of power the people of Eng-
land say they shall not now or at any other time possess.
If the corporations which exist be not adapted to the al-
tered circumstances of the country that may be an argu-
ment for their suppression, but it is no argument in fa-
vour of exclusively popish corporations, the whole power
and property of which would fail into the hands of the
priests. If the present corporations have a tendency to
keep alive party fends, the wiser policy is to suppress
them altogether. We do not say that they foment any
such feuds. We believe them to be strictly defensive inL.
stitutions, and that the property attached to them belongs
as rightfully to the Protestants, in these several commu-
nities, as do the lands of Woburn Abbey to the Duke of
Bedford, or the nose on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S face (if
he have a nose) to the said Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The
Roman Catholics have no right or title to them whatever,
any more than we have to the Hill of Howth or the Isle
of Man.

But we willingly concede that there may be state rea-
sons why the power and local functions, judicial, political,
and otherwise, of municipal corporations, should be abo-
lished. We are of opinion that corporations which can-
not be managed in a quiet, unostentatious, and harmoni-
ous manner, for the good of the burgesses, or, in other
words, when they are governed by popular elections,
leading to local excitements and party trials of strength
annually, bringing all the bad passions of a divided com-
munity into constant collision—we are of opinion that
such corporations not only cease to he useful, but are a
positive and pernicious nuisance. Municipal reform in
England and Scotland has proved this by facts so glaring
that he who runs may read. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has
sought for political power in the muddy waters of civ ie
dissension. He has stirred the cesspool and brought the
filthiest portions of the deposit to the surface. He has,
like a mountebank who tumbles for pay, reversed the or-
der of nature. He has contrived to put the head down-
wards
and the feet to flourish in the air. He has made
men magistrateS who are hardly fit to be under clerks or
watchmen at eighteen shillings a week. We remember
a Christmas pantomime at Covent Garden Theatre, in
which a field of turnips was converted into judges and
barristers, with all the appliances of wigs and gowns.
In our own town we have sundry of these metamorphosed
turnips—talking, turnips too—in our WALMSLEYS, BOL-

TONS, COGLANS, and SMITHS. An apti-
tude for small talk is now deemed an excelling claim to

popularity, and an infallible test of magisterial efficiency.

A large stock of the cant phrases of the day—a sturdy
abjuration of common sense—an ineffable contempt of
reasOn and logical induction—a redundant supply of
open-monthed impudence—and a well furnished canteen
of vulgar jokes, which, though stale and stolen, pass for
wit—these constitute the trading capital of a local

expected, from:the number of applications made for
them by the Demaral'a planters, that one-•fourth would
be transferred to that colony. Mr. YOUNG, the govern
ment secretary, was about to proceed on a mission to the
Havanna!) in order to make the necessary arrangements
with the commissioners under whose controul they at
present remain.

We take the following from the official notices on this

Copy of a Minute addressed to the Members of the Court of Policy by
His Excellency the Lieutenant Govenor, upon the 26th February, 1836.

GENTLEMEN,—I am desirous of recording my sentiments with
respect to the proposed importation of liberated Africans from the
island of Cuba into British Guiana ; and the period when an Ordi-
nance is before this court for regulating certain details connected with
the measure, appears to afford me the most eligible opportunity.
You are aware froni the Lord Glenelg's despatch, that the intro-
duction of the liberated Africans into this province is an arrangement
which I had the honour to propose to his lordship. In drawing his
lordship's attention to the subject I was well aware of the additional
trouble, labour, nnd responsibility I necessarily would have to incur,
if the proposition was acceded to. A person of a less anxious dispo-
sition (without laying himself open to the charge of indolence) might
easily have avoided exposing himself to be called upon to undertake
additional occupation of an unpleasant and harassing nature. A sense
of duty,—a desire to promote, by every means in my power, the
wel-
fare of an important province entrusted to my government,—and'
above all, a wish to contribute towards the sum total of human happi-
ness and, in so much, to diminish the amount of human misery.
have governed my conduct upon the present occasion. This magni-
ficent country will, fOr ages to come, amply repay the capitalist and
enable him to employ any number of labourers. The liberated Afri-
cans are undervalued, ill-treated and neglected in the island of Cuba.
So many have been sent there, by our Men-of-War, that the Spanish
government are alarmed and uneasy as to the possible effects, that the
introduction of such a number of free negroes may have upon their
slave population. Here, on the contrary, the services of the liberated
African will be valued, and he will be treated acrordingly. Slavery 1