The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are obliged to a friend for directing our attention to the
remarks in the Liverpool Times, in answer to what we
stated on Friday. A column in an obscure part of an ob-
scure journal may easily escape detection. We may pro-
bably find some amusement in dissecting the sophisms of
our contemporary on Friday.
Several communications intended for insertion: have un-
avoidably been postponed. We have received a file of
Newfoundland papers to the 27th of May, but they reached
us at too late an hour to be available for our present publi-
cation.

Elit titierpoot (i-)-taiiiiarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1840.

The arrival of the British Queen at Portsmouth, on
Tuesday last, has put us in possession of New York
papers to the Ist instant, inclusive. The British
Queen brought home about 130,000 dollars in specie,
and 180 passengers. Three packet ships left New
York on the same day. The election of President was
exciting an unusual degree of interest throughout the
states. The customary charges of bribery and inti-
midation were lavishly indulged in by the contending
parties. Of the general state of business in New York
it is remarked that the market was completely op-
pressed with produce, for which there was compara-
tively little demand. There was an extraordinary want
of confidence among commercial men. Capital was
said to be unp. recedentedly abundant, but it would not
be parted with on such security as would be considered,
in other times, amply sufficient.

The Pennsylvania legislature seemed disposed to
adopt the necessary measures for re-establishing the
credit of the state. A bill, which was likely to be
passed into a law', had been introduced, providing
means for an additional revenue for the payment of in-
terest on the state debt, and extinguishing the prin-.
cipal.
The crop of cotton is now stated at the enormous
amount of 2,130,000_ bales, of :which 1,900,000 bales
had been received at the ports from the interior.
Two other steam-boat explosions had recently taken
place in the states, thus affording fresh evidence of the
unsound principles upon which the boilers of the
American steamers are constructed. One of them was
the Greenfield, which blew up between Montague and
Hartford, on the Connecticut canal, and which caused
the loss of several lives. The other was the Granzpus
of New Orleans, which caused the death of two of the

in issuing a treasury order, permitting it to be taken
out of bond, for the purpose of being exported to the
colonies. The effect of this order is justly described
as tending to injure, if not eventually to destroy, the
refining establishments of Jamaica, as well as to pre-
vent the planters from obtaining remunerating prices
for their sugar; thus granting a direct encouragement
to slave-grown sugar at the expense of the British
colonists, and at the expense of freedom itself. The
quantity of refined sugar imported into the island, from
the 10th of December to the Ist of May, was estimated
at about forty-three thousand pounds.

The Governor had issued a circular to the local and
stipendiary magistrates, requesting their consideration
of a project for establishing in the island Courts of
Reconciliation, for the adjustment of differences among
the peasantry, to consist of a jury of peasants, presided
over by a magistrate, on a similar principle to the court
existing in Norway, under the same denomination, and
which had been successfully imitated in Barbadoes.
He had also issued to the same authorities an impor-
tant circular containing the opinions of the Attorney
General in reference to the renting of tenements by
labourers, which were calculated to produce a feeling
of unanimity on the subject.
We are glad to find that agricultural and immigra-
tion societies were in process of formation in several
parishes in Jamaica. It is highly gratifying to find the
planters thus determined to put their shoulders to the
wheel, and to promote the re-colonization of the island.
On this subject the papers before us contain several
articles of a very interesting nature, which we may
hereafter transfer to our columns. We are glad to find •
that our humble, but zealous and sincere advocacy of
the West India interest, is appreciated by the island
press. Nothing can give us greater satisfaction than
to find our efforts so energetically seconded by our
brethren of the press across the Atlantic. We trust
that our joint endeavours will be.produetive of lasting
benefit to those invaluable colonies. The Jamaica
Standard has taken up the question of immigration
in good earnest. It says that the planters should not
permit a single packet to leave the shores of the island
without carrying home the most pressing solicitations
for support, and calls upon the non-resident proprietary
to•aid them in the measure, or they will soon own no-
thing but uncultivated wastes.
We have received by the packet our files of the Gui-
ana Chronicle to the 29th of April, and of the Berbice
Advertiser, to the 27th of April. These dates have
been already anticipated by an arrival at Liverpool,
bringing papers to the 28th of May.

As we anticipated in our last, the progress of Lord
Stanley's bill on Monday evening was opposed by all
the strength which government could bring down to
the house. It is, however, gratifying to observe how
greatly the tone of the shabbiest of all shabby admin-
istrations was lowered on the occasion. The itnper-,
tinence, the swagger and the self-sufficiency which
usually mark the proceedings of their leader, Lord
John Russell, were. exchanged for the pitiful whines of
a beaten cur, as he yielded to the terms which, by the
staunch and glorious array of members upon the con-
servative benches, he felt that it was in the power of
Lord Stanley to dictate to him, and which we trust his
lordship and the supporters of the measure will not
allow to be in the slightest degree infringed upon.
This evening, in accordance with the terms agreed
to, the bill is to go into committee, Lord John Russell
and the government pledging themselves "not to offer
any obstruction to its fair discussion." This evening,
then, we are to have the last pitched battle, the result
of which will in all probability decide the fate of Lord
Melbourne's administration ; for it is evident that a
division in favour of the very first clause, which cuts
off at one sweeping blow the entire rottenness of the
present registers of Ireland, is in itself sufficient to
prostrate utterly the monster power which insults Eng-
land, and alone sustains in office the basest party that
ever misgoverned a nation. Let the first clause of the
bill .be passed, which disfranchises the whole of the
present Tom Cassidys, and leaves a new register to be
made consisting of living men possessing bona fide
claims to the franchise,—and no cunning, no shuffle,
no trickery of Whig legislation can ever again erect so
mountainous a mass of corruption.

From the hints thrown out by the government press,
We may pretty confidently assume that upon the ap-
proaching decision of the house depends one or two
alternatives—the resignation of ministers, or a disso-
lution of the present House of Commons. If defeated
upon the first clause, no subsequent tinkering—no
amendments which a majority of the Commons are at
all likely to sanction—can render this bill palatable to
the whig-O'Connell faction. They cannot even re-
tard it without interrupting, at the same time, the
entire public business of the country ; for, however
much we deprecate any recourse to so extreme a mea-
sure, we are compelled to acknowledge that, in such a
case, retaliation must and ought to be resorted to.
The English Protestant majority of the House of
Commons must not for ever be trampled upon by a
Popish minority. Resignation, then, or dissolution,
are the inevitable results of defeat. The fleshpots of
office must be resigned, or the amiable, independent,
and enlightened gentlemen, who either dip therein or
live in hopes of luck, must be sent home to meet the
scrutinising looks of their constituents, and some of
them—alas, how many !—to return no more. Sad
contemplation !
To which of these two courses, then, will the minis-
try resort ? Will they resign ? There is not such a
word in the whit; vocabulary. They must dissolve,
then ;—and what on earth can the Whig-O'Connell
party gain by a dissolution ? England is sick of them,
nauseates them, hates them : Scotland' loves them not :
and Ireland, with all her manifold corruptions, with
all the agitation of her turbulent priesthood, cannot
effect more for them than she has already done. They
can gain no strength in the House of Commons or in
the country from a dissolution. They will, however,
have by that course the benefit of one more election
before the present corrupt system in Ireland is swept
:away, which may enable them—not certainly to retain
-office, for that is beyond hope, but—to retain by their
:side a formidable opposition, which will give them
Tower to obstruct and harass for a time any conserva-
tive administration which may be formed. By a dis-
solution they will also for a few more months be ena-
bled to pocket their salaries ; and Heaven knows that
to some of the beggarly crew a quarter's wages is an
object of no trifling importance.
Our firm conviction, then, is, that a dissolution of
parliament must occur during the present summer—
perhaps even during the present month. Already the
scouts of the treasury have been observed snuffing the
air in sundry snug corners, on the look-out for con-
stituencies upon whom the secret-service funds may
be successfully applied. Not one of the present mi-
nisters dare look in the face a large and independent
constituency; and there are not a few of them who
will be found, on the meeting of a new parliament, in
want of that indispensable adjunct to office—a seat in
the house. Let the constituencies of Great Britain,
then, he watchful. Let good men and true he ready ;
and, when any oily-faced fellow, who has a suspicious
look and a fawning, glazing tongue, is observed feeling
his way into the confidence of the electors of any
borough, let the banner of conservatism be at once
raised, and under its folds a host of honest and true-
hearted men assembled, whose very smile of confi-
dence shall be sufficient to drive to his kennel the piti-
ful slave, whose hungry longings for a meal shall have
incited him to intrude his unclean person amongst
men who loathe alike him and his masters. To the
electors, of Liverpool we need say nothing. They are
ready. Let other constituencies follow their noble
example, and ENGLAND is HERSELF AGAIN !

Since the above remarks were in type, we have re-

ceived the London Times of Thursday morning, and

find that in despite of his pledge, plainly and distinctly
uttered, and as plainly worded, that " most incom-
prehensible of all pigmies"—that quintessence of
oneanness, the Colonial Secretary is compelled by the
;tyrant authority which rough-rides Lord Melbourne's
administration, to eat his own words, and embark in a
Fresh course of obstruction. The pledge given, that
Lord Stanley's bill should to-night be allowed to go
into committee for discussion upon its merits, is to be
broken, deliberately and openly, in order we suppose
that Great Britain should he able to form an idea of
the depth of infamy to which a whig government will
allow itself to be dragged by its insatiable love of
corruption and public plunder. We quote the words
of our contemporary, and he knows sufficiently of
'what a whig is capable.

Alluding to the pledges of Lord John Russell and
O'Connell, our contemporary remarks—.

"We now present our readers with Mr. E. J, Stanley's
view of the value of those respective pledges that the Irish
Registration Bill should not be pervented from going into
committee. We copy the Ministerial circular for to-mor-
row, literatim, verbatim, et interlineatim :
" EARLY AND CERTAIN DIVISIONS.

" Your attendance is most earnestly and most particu-
larly requested in the House of Commons on Friday next,
on the motion for going into committee on Lord Stanley's
Irish Registration Bill.
" Tuesday, June 16.'

" We find that there is to be an EARLY and CERTAIN
division. Lord J. Russell says no ; but yes,' cries the
whipper in—on such occasions by far the most trustworthy
of the two. We find that there is to be a certain division on
the question of doing into committee. 'There is,' says the
whipper in, although the leader has said ' no.' Such, ye
Conservatives, is the good faith which your enemies offer
you—such the party truth and honour in which you and the
country have to trust !"

The anniversary of the glorious field of Waterloo,
which took place yesterday, used a few years ago to be
a day of proud interest to all classes of our country-
men. And still it is so. Still Englishmen can look

back with a glow of satisfaction to that immortal fight

in which the successful exertions of British valour gave
freedom and peace to the world, and struck down at
one blow a system of tyranny and aggression unparal-
leled, in the world's history, for its external splendour,
and unapproached for its devastating and demoralizing
effect. Yes : still that day will be a landmark in the
ocean of the past—a point to which generations of
Englishmen yet unborn will direct their eager gaze,
whilst ranging the field of history ; for if ever the God
of Peace could be supposed to mingle in mortal quar-
rel, like the fabled gods of old, surely on that day he
sustained by his presence the squares of the British
infantry, and protected in that last struggle the people
which alone had stood forth to resist the universal do-
, minion of a military tyranny based upon an irreligious
democracy.
The return of each successive anniversary brings
with it, however, feelings mournful as well as proud.
Year by year the remnant of that gallant body of war-
riors who withstood unshaken the masses of the chi-
valry of France, becomes thinned by the hand of a
more formidable enemy. Time has already blanched
locks which on that day were swart as the raven's
wing; and death is daily stilling with his cold touch
hearts which on that day beat high in hope and youth
The little bands of brethren which on every returning
anniversary were wont to meet by the village alehouse
bench, or in the more ostentatious and more modern
inn, to " tell how fields were won ;"
" To fight their battles o'er again,
And thrice to slay the slain ;"
are becoming less numerous and less joyous than they
once were, and in some places have become extinct
altogether. .
Nor is this all—would that it were ! We should not
grieve for them. They have had their day of glory and
"they sleep well." But have those who remain no
bitter thoughts which spring from a darker and more
distressing source ? Alas, they have. They see daily
and almost hourly the fruits of that glorious triumph,—
the advantages for which they shed their blood in Por-
tugal, in Spain, in the fields of France, and amongst
the swamps of America, yielded up tamely, basely and
treacherously by an un-English faction. They see
what the sword won, and what blood and treasure paid
for, alienated by a protocol. They see the name and
the fame of England become—how shall we confess it?
—the laughter and the mockery of Europe, of that
Europe whom her own arm freed from a grinding
tyranny, and whose sons she alone enabled to call their
own the very air which they breathed ! They see this
degradation, and can they unmoved behold the return
of a day which brings, with the memory of so much
glory, the present and goading consciousness of sound
disgrace ? They cannot. We are convinced that they
do not. They are bowed down to the earth with shame
for their degenerate country ; and account every drop
of blood shed on that day, as shed in vain, whilst Eng-
land is content tamely to allow the fruits of victory to
be snatched from her grasp. Let us hope, however,
that a day of reckoning is at hand; that a time is com-
ing when the traitors who are, at this moment, selling
their country, shall be treated as the coward who on
that memorable thy would have deserted a British
standard to preserve his own contemptible life. Eng-
land has endured much from Whig dishonesty and
Whig treachery; but she will not endure that the blood
of her brave sons, who on that day breathed out their
lives for the cause of constitutional order and liberty,
should be weighed against the paltry objects of Whig
ambition, or distilled by the talisman of any foreign
power into gold for the clutch of Whig speculation.

For one part of the arrangements made by the com-
mittee who conducted the proceedings of the meeting
of Wednesday last, at the Sessions-house, we are bound
to thank those gentlemen whoever they were. Nothing
could have been conceived in better taste than giving
the moving of " The Address" to that distinguished,
Christian patriot, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. It was in-
deed a legitimate expression of the estimation in which
the rev. gentleman is held by all that is really respect-
able in the town, of every party. Had only gentlemen
been present, Mr. M'Neile would have been received
like a gentleman, and his brief hut beautiful speech,
which extracted unwilling plaudits even from his adver-
saries, would not have been interrupted. But the back
part of the room was packed with a ferocious party of
Radicals and Roman Catholics, and when the Mayor
Called upon Mr. M'Neile to move the third resolution,
the rev. gentleman was met by a most indecent and
disgraceful storm of yells and hootings, mingled with
savage gesticulations and cries of "No Jezebel !" Our
contemporary, the Mercury, will doubtless blame Mr.
M'Neile for the disturbance, but he will not probably
notice the fact that before Mr. M'Neile had uttered a
word, or done any thing more than stand up in com-
pliance with the arrangement of the committee and the
call of the chairman, and consequently before even
calumny herself had any opportunity of charging the
disturbance upon him, we repeat and we desire to
fasten attention upon the fact, that before he uttered a
word, the liberality, the good manners, the respect for
the Mayor, and the love of fair play, which so emin-
ently distinguish the Radical party, were exhibited as
above described, with more of the characteristics of a
menagerie of wild beasts, than an assembled company
of Englishmen.
The Mayor, however, succeeded in obtaining silence.
Mr. M'Neile spoke ; and the savages who, we suppose,
never heard a gentleman speak before, were astonished.
The calm dignity and chastened fervour of the rev.
gentleman's manner, combined with the beauty and
simplicity of his language, operated as a spell upon
them. For a few minutes the meeting was what it
ought to be. Mr. M'Neile read and moved the adop-
tion of the address to her Majesty.
For what followed we hold the Mayor to be highly
reprehensible. He allowed party personalities, made
more personal by the marked and taunting cheers of
the radicals, to be uttered and persevered in, on the
one side; while on the other he took advantage of a
single expression from a gentleman when speaking to
order, and very unfairly put that gentleman down.
A most unwarrantable and malignant attempt was
made, by cowardly insinuation, to connect Mr. M'-
Neile's name with the atrocious crime of the assassin.

An interpretation forged, forced, and unnatural, has
been wilfully put upon certain expressions of the rev.
gentleman by Popish adversaries, who felt that the true
interpretation was scathing to their system. And
then their own interpretation, as hateful to every feeling
of the rev. gentleman's heart as it is congenial to theirs,
has been made the ground of an accusation, which they
who first advanced it, and all who have since repeated
it, knew and know to be utterly, deliberately, and dia-
bolically false. The rev. gentleman commented on the
history and character of " that woman Jezebel," the
infamous wife 04' King Ahab of Israel. Lk called at-
tention to her idolatry in defiance of the divine com-
mandment, her reckless ambition aiming at its pur-
pose through perjury, her perfidy, and her systematic
and persevering persecution of the faithful servants of
God.

And in harmony with many of the most distin-
guished divines of the reformed church, he applied
those characteristics as illustrative of the Papal system,
as that system stands developed in Papal books of au-
thority, and exhibited in the conduct of Papal leaders,
both ecclesiastical and civil.

This he did, and none of hie accusers have dared to

grapple with his arguments, But when they say that
he made or insinuated a comparison between that in-
famous woman, grown old in wickedness, and our

young, innocent, gracious, and beloved QUEEN, they

are guilty, we repeat, of wilful and gratuitous false-
hood. And now, in reviving the calumny, and placing
it before the public in juxta-position with the fearful
atrocity of the late attempt upon our Sovereign's life,
they are doing their best—their wicked and charac-
teristic best—we may add, their puny, ineffectual best
—to murder the reputation of a clergyman, whom
they hate for his Christian principles, whom they fear
for his commanding talents, and whom they envy for
his unprecedented influence.
At the meeting on Wednesday, Mr. John Taylor
saiil—

" Let those who were wise, and who thought themselves
qualified to instruct the multitude, beware how they used
any ambiguous language without proper explanations at the
time it was uttered. (Cheers.) He was not for curbing a
man's rhetoric in the course of his orations, or for holding
him down to a nice expression; but let him explain, that lie
might not cause another to do that against which he had a
previous horror. (Cheers.) "

This was received by the radical auditory as a clever
hit at Mr. M‘Neile, and cheered accordingly : but
where, we ask, and when, did that rev. gentleman use
ambiguous language requiring explanation ? We defy
Mr. Taylor, or any other of his slanderers, to quote
the language. If his speech which was perverted into
the Jezebel calumny be referred to, we will furnish the
language for -the edification of Mr. Taylor, who, we
will venture to affirm, never read the speech in his life.
Mr. M'Neile, on the occasion referred to, said—(we
quote from the Liverpool Courier, which contained a
report of the meeting at Whitchurch)—

" But, my lord, it is said that ministers of the Gospel should
not intermeddle with things of this kind; that they should
be ministers of peace, promoters of peace. We hear this on
every side. All who arc anxious to get rid of our advocacy,
because they feel they cannot answer our arguments—(cheers)
—endeavour to put us down by professing vast concern about
our spirituality. (A laugh.) Ministers of peace ! Where
is this found, I would ask ? Where are we called ministers
of peace? Not in the Scriptures. What a strange delusion
is abroad! (Hear.) There is no such thing in the Bible.
We are ambassadors for Christ. And what did Christ say ?
` Think you that I came to send peace on the earth ? I tell
you nay, but rather a swore A sword ! Doubtless it is a
sword. We possess, indeed, a peace the world knows nothing
of. He said to his followers, ` Peace I leave with you. My
peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.'
We have a peace within : but as to our ministry, it is a sword,
and not peace. It cannot be peace, while the world is under
the power of the Devil, who is the enemy of all righteousness.
What peace, so long as that woman Jezebel lives? (Loud
cheers.) It cannot be possible till peace comes in its proper
Scriptural place : The wisdom that cometh from above is
FIRST PURE, then peaceable.' (Cheers.) 'When the world
shall be pure, then the ministers of the church will be men
of peace. But while the world is corrupt, I sayony, lord, we
are men of war. (Applause.) Our master has given us a
sword. His ministry was a sword, pii!rcing through many
hearts ; and the ministry of every faithful follower of his is a
sword—a sword that comes in contact with the great abscess
of man's corruption ; and there cannot be peace while there
is this leaven of iniquity in the world. (Cheers.) While
Popery stands revealed as you have heard it to-day, it is a
dereliction of the highest duty of the minister of Christ, en-
trusted with the propagation of truth, to quiet himself, and
fold his arms, and call his quiescence and indolence by the
name of Christian charity and peace. (Cheers.) While the
enemy is in the field it is a desertion of the standard. We
are bound to be faithful soldiers as well as servants of our
Lord Jesus Christ—(hear)—and what sort of a faithful soldier
is he who runs away, and keeps himself in. the dark, behind
the hedge, or in his well-secured parlour, while the enemy is
in the field ? (Much cheering.) No : let us join as one man
through the realm, and say, No peace with Rome.'

Is there anything ambiguous here ? Anything that
requires further explanation ? The high strain of the
rev. gentleman may, indeed, be beyond the compre-
hension of men who never read their Bibles, and care
nothing for divine truth ; but its meaning, its only
possible meaning,' is quite clear to all who are capable
of entering into the spirit of the apostles' language.
" The .wisdom that is from above is FIRST PURE,
then peaceable." Yet this is the passage which has
been. tortured by Popish malice, and misrepresented
in the Popish and radical press, as an excitement to
murder the Queen., No, no ; " that woman Jezebel"
lives, not in the person of our beloved Sovereign,
(whom God preserve !) but in the idolatry, perjury,
perfidy, and persecution of Popery. This is the sting :
the likeness is too complete to be tolerated, and hence
the ingenuity and earnestness to cover it with lies.
But ,the rev. gentleman has triumphed. Even Mr.
O'Connell has been compelled to admit, in the House
of Commons, that Mr. WNeile had made no reference,
on the occasion in question, to the Queen, but to "the
religion .(the apostacy we call it) of the first duke of
England."

At the meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Atkinson said—

" In conclusion, he would say that such excitement and
such language ought not to be tolerated, or else the language
of commiseration afterwards came to something very like
hypocrisy."

This, too, was hailed by the papists and radicals as a
hit at Mr. M‘Neile, but we are willing to give the
speaker of it credit for a better aim, and to suppose
that he alluded to what would really give point to the
words—namely, Lord John Russell's speech in this
town, and his subsequent treatment of the wretched
chartists.

We think that Mr. M‘Neile and his best friends have
abundant reason to be satisfied with the result of the
meeting on Wednesday, the atrocities of which must
recoil on those who used them ; and we hope that, as
the mover of the address, the rev. gentleman will be
deputed from the town of which he is so distinguished
an ornament, to present it at the foot of the Throne.

EXHIBITIONSN ATITU THTI E MECHANICS
ITON.

We were yesterday favoured with a private view of the
collection of paintings, sculpture, antiquities, natural curiosi-
ties, &c, now on view at the Mechanics' Institution. We
must confess that we are totally unable, from the cursory
examination which we were enabled to bestow upon the great
mass of curiosities brought together under the roof of the
building, to give our readers anything like an adequate idea of
the extent and rich variety of the exhibition. In subsequent
numbers we trust we shall have opportunities for giving a
more minute and dqtailed description of the various articles
of vertu in the several apartments. For the present, we
must content ourselves with a rapid glance at the more pro-
minent features of the exhibition.
In the vestibule we were struck with some beautiful speci-
mens of mail armour, and several paintings of a very high
order of merit.
On ascending the grand staircase, at the eastern side of
the building we recognised several portraits of individuals
distinguished in the annals of the " good old town," many
of which suggested very interesting associations.
The first room that we entered, on the same side of the
building, presented a large and curious collection of vases,
implements of war, offensive and defensive, in use among
savage nations, medallions, medals, musical instruments, &c.
in bewildering variety.
The second room is appropriated to architectural models,
plans, and elevations, with several water-colour paintings,
exquisitely finished.
The third room is devoted to engravings after the leading
artists of modern and ancient times. Some of the antique
line engravings are exceedingly rare and beautiful. In this
room also there are several water-colour paintings.
The fourth we entered contained a splendid collection of
natural curiosities, including stuffed birds, insects, fossils,
corals, minerals, &c., with some ingenious wax preparations,
showing the fructification of plants.
The fifth room is occupied with statuary and paintings,
most of them displaying considerable merit.
The sixth room contains a collection of paintings of first-
rate character, too numerous to notice in detail ; in addition
to which there are some unique and elaborate specimens of
furniture, especially a sofa of German manufacture, which
serves also for a sideboard, the workmanship of which is ex-
ceedingly beautiful.
The seventh room contains a large collection of anatomical
preparations, casts of heads, &c.
The eighth room is appropriated to a portion of Dr. Raf-
fles's large collection of autographs, of the most eminent au-
thors, statesmen, warriors, &c., of all nations. This room,
we venture to say, will be the most attractive in the exhibi-
tion.
The ninth room contains another collection of natural
curiosities, including some rare fossils, stuffed birds, insects,
animals, &c., &c.
The tenth room contains a number of well-executed draw-
ings, by the pupils in the various schools attached to the
institution. Many of those which have emanated from the
mechanics in the evening schools are highly creditable to their
diligent study of the fine arts, and indieate considerable pro-
ficiency on the part of the students.
The eleventh room contains specimens of the printing press,
with other apparatus in use in the art of printing, book-
binding, &c.
The twelfth room contains some exquisite specimens of
upholstery, by Mr. Woods, of Bold-street, together with the
machinery for fringe manufacture, in operation, &c.
The thirteenth room has a display of various articles of
furniture, especially carpeting and upholstery, by Messrs.
Woolright and Chidson, of Bold-street.
The theatre will be fitted up with microscopic apparatus,
to be exhibited by the aid of the oxy-hydrogen gas.
One of the rooms on the ground floor is filled with philo-
sophical apparatus of every description, together with models
of steam-engines, locomotives, ships, &c. &C.
In short, the whole exhibition is both splendid and
unique. It would take many columns of our paper to give
even a bare enumeration of the various objects on view. We
recommend our readers to provide themselves with season
tickets in order to be enabled to enjoy anything like a com-
plete view of the exhibition.

Lieut. the Earl of Mulgrave, of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
has been appointed Aid-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir R.
D. Jackson, K.C.B. commanding the forces in Canada.

THE LATE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HER
MAJESTY.
As soon as the rules of proceeding allowed, the mayor of
this borough, JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Esq., convened a spe-
cial meeting of the members of the Town Council, for the
purpose of presenting an address to her Majesty on the pre-
servation of her life from the treasonable attempts of the
youth Oxford. The meeting was held in the Town-hall at
eleven o'clock on Wednesday, and it was numerously at-
tended, nearly all the members now in Liverpool being pre-
sent.

The MAYOR, having taken the chair, said he had called
this special council for the purpose of giving the members
an opportunity of expressing their abhorrence of the late
atrocious attempt upon the life of our beloved Queen (hear,
hear); and he was sure that in this, as well as in every other
discussion of which her Majesty was the subject, there would
not be the slightest appearance of party or political feeling.
(Hear, hear.) All would agree in the sentiments of loyalty
and respect towards our beloved Queen. (Hear, hear.) An
address had been prepared, and Mr. Currie would favour
the council by reading it.
Mr. W. W. CURRIE then rose. In answer to the call of
the mayor, he begged leave to say, that, in coming forward
upon this occasion, he had only done that which every gen-
tleman in the council would have been happy to do, and that
it was an occasion on which no gentleman could feel the
slightest reluctance in corninz forward. He entirely ap-
proved of what had fallen from the mayor as to this being
an occasion when there could be but one feeling—and that
of the strongest nature—among them ; that it was most de-
sirable to avoid anything that should give rise to a difference
of opinion, or anything that might disturb that unanimity of
sentiment which he was sure would prevail. The address
he was able to read had been drawn up by the Town-
clerk, and he thought the council would agree with him that
that gentleman had very skilfully expressed the feelings of
the council, and at the same time avoided anything that might
be offensive. It was only rather more than four months
since the council met to congratulate her Majesty upon the
auspicious event, which they hoped was the dawn of happy
days to this country ; and they did not expect they should so
soon again he called upon to express their feelings, especially
upon such au occasion as the present. What the motives of
the individual who had attempted the Queen's life were it
was impossible to divine. No rational grounds could be as-
cribed for the attempt : it was for the Searcher of hearts to
make them clear. Youthful as he (Oxford) was, he might
have been acted upon by others, but he (Mr. Currie) did not
for a moment wish to suggest any idea of this kind. To give
an idea of the feelings that ought to prevail with reference to
this wicked attempt, it was only necessary for us to picture
to ourselves what would have been the condition of the coun-
try had the event taken place. (Hear.) The following was
the address :

" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Liverpool,
in Special Council assembled, hasten to offer to your Majesty
and his Royal Highness, your illustrious Consort, at the pre-
sent moment, the renewed expression of our devoted loyalty
and personal attachment.
" In common with all our fellow-subjects we heard with
astonishment, abhorrence; and indignation, of the late most
atrocious attempt upon your Majesty's sacred life,—an at-
tempt designed to terminate a life so justly dear to your sub-
jects, and with the prolongation of which the best and most
important interests of the realm are so closely interwoven.
While we present to your Majesty our fervent congratu-
lations upon the gracious preservation of your Majesty from
the dreadful consequences of this unhallowed attempt, we
offer, at the same time, our humble thanks to Almighty God
for having vouchsafed to your Majesty his merciful protection
on this occasion.
" 'We cannot but believe that the recent peril to which
your Majesty has been exposed, will serve but the more to
endear your Majesty to your faithful subjects ; and we trust
that the universal manifestation of devoted attachment and
loyalty; now called forth from every quarter of the British
dominions, may be to your Majesty the source of grateful re-
flection and of lasting satisfaction.
" We conclude this our most dutiful address with the ex-
pression of our sincere and earnest hope that the lives of
your Majesty and your Royal Consort may long be spared,
and attended with every domestic and social blessing, and
that your Majesty's reign may be distinguished by general
happiness and national prosperity."
He begged to move that this address be sent for presentation
to the Secretary of State for the Flume Department. No
person would suppose that this council was anxious to avoid
any thing that could appear respectful and right and proper ;
but he thought it would at once occur that, having already
shewn their loyalty and respect to her Majesty by the per-
sonal attendance of those who represented them—and con-
sidering that if the address were presented by the Secretary
of State, it would spare her Majesty much fatigue—(hear,
hear,)—upon an occasion when addresses were likely to be
numerous, this course should be adopted. He was sure, if
feelings of consideration and propriety were held in view, that
course would be followed. He therefore begged to move,
that the address of the town council of Liverpool be sent to the
Marquis of Normanby, Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, for presentation to her Majesty. (Hear.)
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE felt great satisfaction in having
been permitted to second the proposition of Mr. Currie. He
was aware how difficult it was at all times for him to express
what he felt, yet there was something in a subject like this
which made it a difficult task even for the most accomplished
speakers. All must be impressed with feelings of gratitude
for the great and providential escape which her Majesty had
had; all must feel overcome with horror at the atrocity of
the crime attempted against her life. It was his lot to be
in town at the time when her Majesty was receiving the
cheers of the people upon her return to the palace; and he
must say that he almost heard the cheers with which her
grateful subjects welcomed her safety. (Cheers.) He was
glad to find that these feelings were not confined to London,
and that the council of this borough were so prompt in ac-
knowledging their gratitude for her safety. We ought to be
deeply grateful for it. With regard to the presentation of
the address by the Secretary of State he fully concurred with
Mr. Currie. Certainly it would be the best means of pre-
senting to her Majesty : and he was sure that there would be
no feelings of disappointment by a deputation not going up
for that-Turpose, and that the members for the borough
' would not think themselves neglected. With these observa-
tions he begged to second the motion.
The MAYOR then put the motion, and it was carried
unanimously.
Mr. Alderman SHELL hoped he might not la! considered
Presumptuous in rising to 'offer a suggestion for the consi-
deration of the council=-it was that an address be presented
to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. (Hear.)
Their object was to express their grief at the attempt made
upon the lite of her Majesty, and their heartfelt satisfaction
at her escape. Now no man who had thought upon such a
subject could have the slightest doubt that the greatest gra-
tification they could bestow would be to show the greatest
degree of respect to her Majesty's parent. That considera-
tion alone led him to propose that an address be also pre-
pared by the Town-clerk, and presented to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent.
Mr. WM. RATHBONE seconded the motion, and expressed
his conviction that it would be carried unanimously. It
could only be considered as a feeling of sympathy with the
parent upon the preservation of her child, especially in the
interesting circumstances in which that child was placed.
(Hear.) The council were too apt upon many occasions to
give a party colour to their proceedings; but this subject
could not possibly be tinged with party feelings, (hear) for
it was simply the offering of their sincere sympathy with a
parent upon the safety of a child so dear to her, and so dear
to the country. (Hear.)
Mr. H. LAWRENCE suggested that the name of Prince
Albert be included in the address to her Majesty.
The MAYOR said it was, and he read the first sentence of
the address to satisfy the council.
Mr. H. LAWRENCE expressed his satisfaction.
The council then separated.

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weekly meet-
ing of tie members of the Dock Committee was held yester-
day in the office, Custom-house. Mr. Barclay was appointed
chairman. The following members were present :—Messrs.
Dixon, Holmes, Thos. Holt, Barclay, Segar, Yates, Tobin,
Horsfall, Smith, Martin, and Gladstone. The secretary
read the proceedings of the last meeting, and they were con-
firmed. A number of accounts were ordered to be paid. The
subcommittee on life boats reported that they had examined
the model of a new life boat submitted by Mr. Richardson,
and were of opinion, that it was not desirable to build one
according to it. On the motion of Mr. Yates, seconded by
Mr. Horsfall, the thanks of the committee were, ordered to
be given to Mr. Richardson, for the zeal and talent he had
exhibited in the preparation of the model. The marine sur-
veyor reported that a Prussian brig, from Liverpool to Riga,
with no pilot on board, was discovered in the channel in dis-
tress, at five a.m. on Monday, and that after the life boats
from several of the stations had proceeded to and rendered
her assistance, she was towed into port by the Victoria
steamer. Enquiry were ordered to be made who were the
owners of the vessel and cargo, in order to call upon them
for the repayment of the expenses incurred. On the recom-
mendation of the marine surveyor, an additional telescope
was ordered for the telegragh station on Hilbre Island, to
look on the North West Light-ship. A letter from the he ad
constable was read, explanatory of the circumstances under
which police constable Roberts attempted to save the unfor-
tunate man Smith, who was drowned in the Waterloo Dock,
and, after a short conversation, the sum of £5 was ordered
to be presented to him as a reward for his intrepidity. The
chairman then read a letter from Mr. Leathom, chairman of
the committee, dated Morley's Hotel, London, June 17, re-
lative to the new dock bill now pending before parliament.
The letter stated, in substance, that the decision of the coal-.
mittee was that the council should have an equality of mem-
bers in the committee; that on the appointment of chairman
and the members of the committee, no determination had
been arrived at, but that it was understood the veto was to
remain undisturbed. The letter then stated that a confer-
ence had been held that morning with the opponents of the
bill as to an arrangement to save expense, and that the op-
position might cease another meeting was to be held in the
afternoon, but it being doubtful whether an arrangement
would be made, the chairman stated that he could not enlarge
upon it.—The secretary then read a return by the treasurer
of the amount expended in the prosecution of the bill, from
December to the 15th of June : the amount was stated to be
£2,592 2s. Bd.—Mr. Gladstone : That is the cash expended?
Mr. Horsfall: That is the treasurer's returns which was or-
dered last week. The committee then separated.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT KNOWSLEY.-011 Monday
morning, at an early hour, one of the servants of the Earl of
Derby was found in his bed, in one of the offices attached to
Knowsley-hall, with his throat cut in a most shocking manner.
The alarm of the inmates of the noble mansion was, as
might be expected, very considerable, and the unfortunate
man, or victim,
as was apprehended, on being questioned,
was able to to say, that during the night two men, one of
them short and the other tall, entered his bed-room by the
window and demanded his money, Watch,
&c., and on his
refusal to comply with their request, they drew what he
thought was a razor across his throat, and inflicted all but a
fatal wound. At first his statement excited no doubt what-
ever of its truth, and inesangers were dispatched to Prescot
and Liverpool for the police. Mr. Earl, however, on having
search made, and the butler having further questioned him,
were led to think that the act was that of the individual him.'
self, and not that of robbers or assassins. They were con-
firmed in this opinion by finding that no robbery had been
committed, and that there were no traces of any one having
entered the apartment. His watch and money were all safe,
but one of his razors was missing. This was subsequently
found covered with blood behind a chest in the room, and
upon its production the unfortunate man confessed that there
was no truth in his first statement, but that the attempt on
his life was made by
himself. Ile has been a well-conducted
man, but eccentric in his habits, and it is a great relief to
the inmates of the hall that he has confessed the fact, for
had he not done so, room would have been left for most
distressing suggestions and reports. The unhappy man is
attended by a surgeon from Prescot, but he is by no means
out of danger.—Our Prescot correspondent has furnished
us with the following particulars in reference to this distressing
case :—" The Courier of to-day. contains an account of the
occurrence at Knowsley, and as far as I can learn the acount
seems correct, except that I believe it is now very probable
that the man will recover. If, however, it should turn out
otherwise, I will transmit you an account of the inquest. It
is something remarkable that Mr. Hulme, (brother of the
person in question) who is also a servant at Knowsley, cut
his own throat some years ago ; but he recovered, and is still
alive."]

THE BAR.—The members of the Munster barhave adopted
a resolution, expressive of their intention to wear their wigs
and gowns on their circuit for the future.
The height of the mountain Skiddaw in Cumberinnd, near
Keswick, is 3,022 feet ; the number of miles to walk to the
top is five and a half.