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tent Creator, that they may conciliate the regard and
secure the support of a base, apostate, grovelling
antichristian faction !

To support such men, or countenance them in their
heretical career, is, at once, to he involved as " parti-
cipes criminis," for " qui facit per alios, facit per se,"
as very appositely states Mr. James.

The necessity, therefore, is obvious of straining
every nerve to place men of tried Christian princi-
ples and character in charge of the momentous sub-
ject—" the religious education of the lising genera-
tion"—in place of the vain visionaries, schismatic
sectarians, and cankered churchmen, who can embrace
Popery and Den's Theology as paragons of purity and
holiness,—and Infidelity and Tom Paine as the most
brilliant luminaries of a Christian church ! Till this

is effected, we never can expect to see harmony and
honourable feeling in the councii chamber,—anything,
in fact, but the frothy furor of rabid radicalism, ram-
pant for the prostration of everything that is holy and
of good report among us;—but this once achieved,—
(and how little effort would it call for from the com-
bined Protestant population )—we might expect to
see " truth and justice, religion and piety, established
among us;"—blessings which would be handed down
to generations yet unborn, through a full, and free,
and faithful bible education. Then the council cham-
ber would exhibit that peaceable, orderly, and deco-
rous aspect so requisite in a deliberating assembly,—
"idem velle, et idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia
est."

In conclusion, we would advise that Mr. James's
letters be printed and widely circulated, in a cheap
fo►•m, among the operative Protestants of the town.
The Protestant operative associations will, we trust,
take this hint and act upon it.

On Saturday week, as one of the cooks at the Waterloo
Hotel was cutting up a turbot, he found in it a half-crown,
a fluke, and a small fish.
NEW CHAPEL, AT WAVERTIREE.—On Tuesday morning
last the first stone of a new chapel, about to be erected at
Waveriree, was laid by the Rev. This. Sleigh, of that place.
The building, which will be a neat stone erection, of the
Gothic order, is expected to be completed about the middle
of the ensuing year.

THEATRE ROYAL.—We perceive that Mrs. Clarke, who is
deservedly a high favourite I n the Liverpool stage, takes her
benefit on Friday evening next. She has got a most attractive
bill of fare; and the new farce of "Nicholas Nickleby," or
" Doings at Do-the-boys-Hall," from Boz's work, is to be
brought out. We have no other anticipation but that she
will have a crowded and fashionable house.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION
HOTEL.—Sir B. B. M'Mahon, Bart., Quintiu Dick, M.P.,
Lady Campbell, Major Cairnes, Colonel Burdett, Colonel
Watson, Pierce Moore, Esq., John Watt, Esq., Lieutenant
Harvey, Captain Willmot, Captain Staunton, W. O'Mere,
Esq., ft. Caldwell, Esq., C. Hutin, Esq., Henry Bent, Esq.,
C. Wynn, Esq., Gen. Duncan, H. Bevan, Esq., W. Henchy,
Esq., W. Gunstall, Esq., John Ogle, Esq., Miss Emily Watt,
Theophilus Cook, Esq., W. Hendry, H. Frosdycke, Esq.,
Captain Graham, Lord Talbot, W. M. Stanley, Captain
Finch, and Colonel Berkeley.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Great efforts have been made of
late to improve the character and usefulness of this institu-
tion, and with every prospect of success. The :erms of ad-
mission both to proprietors and subscribers are extremely
moderate, considering the advantages which are held out,
and there is one feature which especially entitles the institu-
tion to public favour and support. The galleries of casts,
and the extensive and valuable museums of natural history
are open to the public on the first Monday in each month,
from nine to four, free of any charge whatever.

LAWS OF HEALTH.—The Fifth Lecture on Popular Phv•
siology and Laws of Health was delivered, in the Medical
Institution, by Dr. Thornburg, on Friday evening. Diet
and the best rules for eating and drinking in the healthystate,
together with practical suggestions to those who suffer from
stomach complaints, bile, and indigestion, formed the staple
of the doctor's remarks. The subject of diet was followed
by a series of valuable comments on physical education. A
large amount of information was rendered highly attractive,
and entertaining, by a continual flow and admixture of anec-
dote, and amusing incident. The theatre was crowded to
excess.

MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY CANAL AND RAILWAY.
—We refer our readers to an advertisement, in another page,
relative to the times at which the different trains on this rail-
way start from the two ends. Since the opening to the pre-
sent time, upwards of 230,000 passengers have travelled over
it. As the trains, the reader will observe, go, from seven
o'clock in the morning tiil seven at night, nearly every hour,
excepting just in the middle of the day, the traveller from
Liverpool has a commodious and expeditious conveyance to
Bolton, taking the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and
and then the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and so back from
the Bolton and Bury district to Liverpool. A friend of ours
the other day, left Bolton, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, went
to Manchester by the railway, had half-an-hour for business
there, and came to Liverpool by the Liverpool and Manches-
ter Railway eleven o'clock train, and was on 'Change at a
little after twelve. We are glad to hear, that the traffic on
this railway continues steady, with the prospect of a consider-
able increase, when the roads now foaming towards Yorkshire
shall be completed.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton arrived at their seat,
Worsley Hall, on Tuesday. On Thursday, his lordship,
Mr. Greville, and Mr. Bradshaw, had a day's sport over the
preserves at Worsley, when they killed amongst them se-
venty-six rabbits, fifty-two hares, twenty pheasants, and five
woodcocks, making in all 153 head of game. The party
afterwards adjourned to Mr. Sutcliffe's, the Bridgewater
Hotel, where sixty-four sat down to a most sumptuous
dinner.

Tile CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.—We are glad to ob-
serve that out of the one hundred and sixteen chemists and
dru:wists carrying on business in Liverpool, one hundred
and four have signed the pledge to observe the resolutions
pas,,ed at the recent general meeting of the trade, in favour
of closing their shops at an earlier hour than formerly. Ten
persons have agreed to the regulation, but declined to sign,
and only two have refused. This is a most gratifying an-
nouncement to make, and we trust it will have a beneficial
effect upon the minds of the young men who will be liberated
from the close attendance on their professional duties which
has hitherto been required from them. They must, in the
first instance, be persons of some education, and they will
❑ow have the opportunity of improving those literary attain-
ments for which a taste has of necessity been implanted.
The opportunity of attending the lectures which are so fre-
quently delivered at our public institutions should be afforded
them as often as possible, and their employers, we feel quite
confident, would reap therefrom considerable advantage.

DEATH FROM IIYDROPHOBIA.—On Tuesday an inquest
was held on the body of Arthur Burns, a chimney sweeper,
who died of hydrophobia under the following circumstances:
—The deceased lived i❑ Banastre•street, and kept a small
terrier bitch. About five weeks ago he tied it up with a rope,
and in the act of doing so the bitch bit him on the right thumb.
On the same day it bit him a second time on the same hand,
and also attempted to bite another person who lived in the
same house with Burns. He then hanged it. The wound in
the thumb bled a good deal, but without exciting much at-
tention, and in a short time it healed. On Saturday last he
took seriously ill, and was carried to the Northern Hospital.
After being admitted, lie had several convulsions, and com-
plained of his throat. On Sunday, the most decided symptoms
of hydrophobia showed t hems-lces. He died on Sunday night.
On the hand where he was bitten there was a scar; no wound.
Before be died he had a great abhorrence of water or any
fluid. A verdict of "Died from hydrophobia" was accordingly
given.

ARRIVAL OF CONVICT REISELS FROM CANADA.—Yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock, thirty-four state prisoners engaged
in the first rebellion iu Canada, were landed by steamer, ex
barque Captain Ross, Morton, from Quebec. The whole
have been tried and sentenced to be transported for life, and
are now on their way to New South Wales They were
accompanied by eleven felons, also convicts. The whole are
now confined in the Borough Gaol, awaiting the orders of the
Secretary of State about their trans-shipment. We annex
the names of the political prisoners : some of them we under-
stand to he highly respectable men. Mr. John S. Parker,

we learn, was an extensive merchant in Canada, and is well
known in this port. It was reported that the prisoners had
attempted to rise and mutiny on the voyage; but we have
heard from the captain that this report is wholly unfounded.
The receipt of the intelligence of their arrival produced con-
siderable and unusual excitement in the Exchange News-
room, where the intelligence was posted. The following are
the names of the political convicts :—Alex. M'Laud, Tinley
Malcolm, John Grant, .t. J. M'Nulty, Jno. G. Parker, Benj.
West, John Vernon, Norman Mellory, Paul Bedford, James
Wagoner, Samuel Chandler, Leonard Watson, Win. Rey-
nolds, Simes W. Miller, Win. Aloes, Robert Walker, James
Gemmel!, George Cooley, Jacob Berner, Garrett Van Camp,
James Brown, Ira Anderson, Randal Bison, Francis Farnell,
James Lynn, Bernard O'Hara, Joseph Langloys, Joseph
Hamel, James Thompson, Agnes Provost, Isidore Pars,
Charles M`Loud, Thomas Oliver, Baptiste Cadine.

SHAMPOOING.—Our readers will find, on reference to an
advertisement in another column,that the art of shampooing,
so strongly recommended by medical men, on account of its
salutary effects, in various diseases, has been introduced into
Liverpool, under the superintendence of a qualified person.
THE TRANSATLANTIC COMPANYSS STEAM-SHIP " LIVER-
POOL."—A splendid lithographic engraving of this magnifi-
cent vessel has just been published tit Mr. Isaac, the execu-
tion of which reflects the highest credit upon his talents as an
artist. We feel assured that our fellow-townsmen will ap-
preciate this engraving, as a lasting memento of the spirit and
enterprise which prompted the Transatlantic Steam Naviga-
tion Company to establish a permanent line of communica-
tion with New York. The splendid vessel called "The Li-
verpool" is here most accurately represented ploughing the
main with stateliness at her utmost speed, the wind on her
larboard quarter, and her foresail, mainsail and rnizen, her
foretop-sail, foretop-gallant, and jib set, and sheeted home
with the nicest attention to seamanship. There are also ex-
hibited two views of the interior of her elegant cabins, with
the passengers in the enjoyment of the nice things which the
caterers so liberally provide for their comfort; and two
smaller views of the ports of Liverpool and New York
These are surrounded with a number of appropriate devices
of great beauty and of exquisite execution.

DISCUSSION ON THE NEW POOR LAW.—Last evenings
Messrs. Sleigh and Acland. held a discussion on the merits
of the New Poor Law, at the Shooting Gallery, Tarleton-
street. It suited the purpose of Mr. Acland to contend, that
the new pour law was the best of all possible laws ; and Mr.
Sleigh denounced it as unconstitutional, cruel, and unchris-
tian, as no doubt it is: When the 43rd of Elizabeth was
passed, it was hailed by the rich as a happy settlement—
founded on Christianity and humanity—of the question, of
the support of the poor of the land; and by the poor it
was hailed as a boon and a blessing. The new poor law is
looked on by the majority of the rich, and of thinking men,
as a yielding to the necessity of keeping in some way people
who cannot keep themselves, rather than as a charitable and
Christian institution : and as founded on the assumption that
paupers are all scoundrels, and deserve only the treatment
of felons, rather than that they are objects of compassion
and charity; by the poor it is abhorred and opposed, as
placing on their helpless poverty the brand of disgrace,
and as giving them the alternative of starvation with a good
name, or an ignominious pittance with the treatment and de-
gradation of felons—as a law, which in many districts they
will shed their best blood rather than submit to; and it is
looked upon as a good law only by the feelosophers, the eco-
nomists of the Flume and Malthus School—the "dot and go
one" gentlemen, to whom anything like feeling, or humanity,
or Christian charity is precious humbug compared with the
"enlightened principle" of screwing a penny a day out of the
miserable existence of a pauper. It is, of course, out of the
question to give anything like a report of the discussion at
this late hour. A chairman was appointed, and each speaker
had half an hour allowed. The meeting was adjourned
shortly after 10 o'clock, and the discussion is to be renewed
to-night, on the National Education system.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

. 70 THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STAXD-4RD.
Sia,—l shall esteem it a favor if you will insert this in your
next publication :—believing you to be an enemy to the hypo-
critical cant which is so common in the present day, and
knowing that your columns are perused by the most respec-
table portion of the inhabitants of this town, I think I can-
not avail myself of a inure proper medium of expressing my
sentiments. "lieu tempera ! 0 mores! " How are the
mighty fallen ! These exclamations naturally escape me,
when I reflect on the conduct at present pursued by some of
my professional brethren, physicians in Liverpool. Since I
have had the honor to belong to that, generally, so highly
respect,b:e body, it has always been considered derogatory in
any of its members to enter into any kind of trade or corn-
meet ial speculation ; and properly so, for it is one of the most
liberal of the professions, and requires long study and expe-
rience, and great learning to enable a physician to practice
with success and advantage to society. We have always been
looked up to as persons high in station, and far above the
mercenary ideas of traffic; but alas! the time has now come,
when men eminent for their talent, and prosperous in their
profession, think it no disgrace to become tradesmen as well.
You will find by referring to the prospectus issued by the
Apothecaries' Company, that several shares are held by me-
dical gentlemen, many of whom are physicians of the first
standing. How can we reconcile this? Is it not enough
that a physician should receve his fee, but he must also re-
ceive a profit front the medicine which he prescribes? It is a
common practice for these gentlemen to recommend their
prescription to the Apothecaries' Hall; this would be well
enough if they were disinterested, but what shall we say of
an M.D. who holds perhaps a hundred shares in that com-
pany, and uses his influence to enhance the profits of the
concern ? He has a direct interest in prescribing more me-
dicine than he otherwise would, and, in fact, is the dispenser
of his own prescriptions: in this case be should give up his
fee as a physician, and content himself with his profits as an
apothecary. I hope that the public will see through all such
recommendations, and act with becoming spirit; let it not
be said that physicians now-a-days are turned druggists; let
every trade have its fair share of public patronage, and let
not the physician, while he receives his guinea for his ad-
vice, again receive his pence upon the medicine.
The chemists and druggists are a highly respectable body
of men, and hitherto have compounded prescriptions to the
satisfaction of the profession generally, and the public at
large. It is, therefore, too bad that they should be opposed
by those very men that they have been accustomed to recom-
mend to their friends and customers, and whom they have
considered a superior class to themselves. This evil must
produce its own remedy; for it requires persons only to know,
that gentlemen who proffer such recommendations as I have
spoken of, are interested parties, and they will, of course, in
future consult physicians, who are satisfied with practising
their profession alone, without meddling with the business
of the druggist.

'A
PHYSICIAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL.

DRAPERS' INSTITUTION,

7'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.LNIMRD.
Ste,—As the Drapers' Assistants have already established
an Institution (which, I trust, will be as useful as it is their
wish to make it), would it not be advisable for the Assistants
in other Trades to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded
by such an establishment, and thereby to prove to their em-
ployers that they, as well as the Drapers' Assistants, were
actuated only by a desire to improve themselves, when they
sought a curtailment of their hours of business ?—lt is not
likely that every distinct trade will have a separate Institu-
tion, and as the Assistants in the Linen and Woollen Dra-
pery Business, with those in the Lace, Hosiery, and Silk
Mercer Departments, have made common cause, and shown
the fruit of their united efforts in an undertaking so praise-
worthy, they would, I am sure, have no objection to admit,
the Shopmen belonging to any other Branch of Trade. More-
over, the Drapers' Assistants state, in their advertisement,
that "the public in general may become subscribers ;" and,
therefore, there is no excuse for those Assistants, in whatever
Trade, who neglect or decline to embrace such an opportu-
nity.

As it is expected that the Master Drapers will contribute
very liberally towards the funds of this Institution, the Shop-
keepers in other Trades will surely, if their Assistants become
subscribers, be not less munificent than the Master Drapers.
Hoping that these observations may be attended with a
beneficial effect, I am, your's, &c.,

A GROCER

ST. MARTIN'S MARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In answering an anonymous letter in the STAND•
ARD of Friday last, I beg to state that I am the Superin-
tendent of the several Markets there named, nor do i deny
taking a small part at the late municipal election.
To the remaining numerous paragraphs of that letter, I
give the most unqualified, unlimited contradiction.
For the information of the concoctors (for there is more
than the attorney's clerk) of this letter, I beg to state that
the Market Committee will meet on Monday, the 24th inst.;
at one o'clock, at the Town Hall, whe❑ and where, if they
are not as destitute of courage, as they are of writing the
truth, they will cove forward and meet me.
I have been more than once charged with coercing the
tenants in St. Martin's Market ; what will the public say,
when they are informed there is only one person in the
market who was eligible to vote for Scotland Ward, Mr.
William Leatherbarrow, who is independent of either the
superintendent or any other person.—Yours, &c.
St. Martin's Market, Dec. 17, 1838.

It. GROSE.

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.

THE REV. D. JAMES AND MR. W. RATHBONE..

Sta,—Your letter of the 6th instant, addressed to me,
.hrough the medium of the Liverpool Mail, I should have
allowed to pass unnoticed but for one statement, on which
you seem, with an air of triumph, to court explanation. That
explanation I am both ready and willing to give, and the
more so, as it will afford use another opportunity of exposing
the new system of education introduced into the corporation
schools. This is the only feature of interest to the public in
this correspondence. It is therefore clearly my duty to pass
over in silence some minor points in Your letter, noticing
others only very briefly, that I may address myself more at
length to the main subject in dispute. I shall follow the ori-
ginal order, and commence, if you please, with No. 1. I
gave you credit for truth when you stated that you had
received information, "that on visiting the North Corporation
School I had refused to enter my name in the visitors' book."
It was obvious at once that the authorities of the school alone
could have originally given that information, the visitors'
book being in their keeping. But the head master, Mr.
Robert J. Nelson, in his published letter of the 4th instant,
openly disavows, on his own part, and on the part of his col-
leagues, ever having given such information, saying " The
fact is, Mr. James was never asked to enter his name in the
book," This point must now be left to be settled between
you and the schoolmaster; fur up to this time you have had
neither the candour nor the courage to give up your authority,
and the public are curious to learn oho the author of the
fabrication is. There can be little doubt, whoever he may
be, that he is a warm friend arid supporter of the new system
of education. Be it so, or not, I mean to re-assert that that
system is calculated to produce a reckless disregard of truth in
all connected with it. I will state a true case to illustrate this.
And you cannot object to be introduced as one of the actors
in the scene.
You have gone, sir, into one of the corporation schools
Yourself, and taught le Church of England catechism on
one side of the room, whilstyour own paid masteror monitor,
acting in obedience to the regulations of the school, and car-
rying out the system authorised by you and the liberal part
of the town council, was occupied, on the opposite side of the
same room, in teaching the Roman Catholic catechism. You
had to propose to the children under your instruction the fol-
lowing question :
" Q.—How many sacraments bath Christ ordained in his
church ?" The children replied :
"A.—Two only, as generally necessary to salvation, that
is to say, baptism, and the supper of the -Lord."
Your monitor also had to propose a similar question to the
children under his instruction :
"Q•—How many sacraments are there ?" The children
advisedly replied:—
" A.—These seven : baptism, confirmation, holy encharist,
penance, extreme unction, holy order, and matrimony."
Now, either you or lee taught the children to believe what
was false. You taught the children in your charge to believe
that there are two Christian sacraments, and only two; he
taught the children on his side of the room to believe there
are seven sacraments. And you both were only acting your
respective parts under one and the same system. And when,
after the hour of religious instruction was over, you and the
monitor met at the same desk, or became fairly confronted
at the door in going out, pray, what did you think of each
other? And, more especially, what did you think of the sys-
tem which led one of you to act so disgraceful a part towards
the children; for you cannot avoid the conclusion that one
portion of the childreit, no matter which, were on that day
deliberately taught to believe a lie;" and that, not in as-
tronomy, geography, arithmetic, or commerce, but in religion,
which is a transaction between the immortal soul and the just
and holy God. And let me impress upon your mind that I
consider you were placed in a far worse position than the mo•
nitor. He was acting according to orders, and probably in-
culcating that which strictly accorded with his creed; but
you were sanctioning his teaching as well as your own, for
he could opt have been there hut for the authority of the
town-council, much less have taught in your presence doc-
trines the very opposite to those which you were teaching.
You were therefore guilty, not simply of having previously
assisted in introducing into the school a system by which
truth and falsehood should necessarily be taught in the same
room, on the saute day, and in the same hour; but of being
actually present to render all the help in your power to the
working of that system. 'You were there acting your part and
eousitenancing the whole proceeding ! ! And where was your
regard for truth, when you resorted to the school, day after
day, to aid, countenance, and sanction the teaching of false-
hood? Are you sure the system has had no injurious effect
on your own moral principles ? Whence those unwarrantable
attacks on the clergy for which your speeches have of late
beets so distinguished? Whence that prurient and most in-
satiable desire of ascribing to them acts and deeds of which
they have never been guilty? In your place, in the council,
the other clay, you thought fit to prefer against myself four
grave charges, three of which were utterly without foundation :
and in the course of the same speech--not very remarkable
for its length—you made an attempt to degrade the whole
body of the national clergy, by saving they were " paid by
the slate," an assertion which you must have known at the
time it was made could not be supported by the evidence of
history or of fact; but you were well aware it was one likely
to prejudice the clergy in the estimation of the ignorant and
disaffected out of doors. Whence this wholesale dealing in
slanderous imputations and false statements? I think, sir,
the answer is found in the treacherous system of education
with which you have been so completely identified since its
introduction into Liverpool. I trust the public will hear this
in mind, that they may know in future what importance to
attach to your sayings and doings, especially with respect to
religion, education, and the national church.
No. 2.—" You stated in the council that I had used the
pulpit to malign parties by name," meaning as appears by a
report of your speech in the Liverpool Standard, " yourself
and Mr. Blackburn." To this I replied, " I did not, on any
occasion, malign you from my pulnit,—l bear no malice to-
wards you or any man living." Was not this meeting the
charge fairly and-
fully ? And yet yoti tell me Ido not deny
the charge, except in reference to yourself. lam astonished
at your disingenousness and perverseness. The system of
education, in which you have been so heartily engaged, ap-
pears to have blinded your understanding and corrupted your
heart, and to have left you but few noble and honourable
qualities remaininiz. I would advise you, sir, for your own
sake, and that of the public, to rid yourself without delay of
the monster that preys upon your moral constitution, and
introduces derangement into your public acts; and to restore
to the schools a system of education, based on the written
word of God which abideth for ever, that nothing but truth
be inculcated where falsehood is now daily and systematically
taught. But now one word respecting Mr. Blackburn. That
honourable, councillor has published a pamphlet in support
and defence of the new system of educatiou. 1 had occasion
to make some remarks on that specious production, and in
doing so, I ventured to mention the author's name, a privilege
which I believe to be exercised by ministers of all denomina-
tions, of which, authors themselves, have no right to com-
plain. The people invariably expect to be informed who the
author is, whose work is quoted or commented upon. And
I am in the habit of satisfying them on that score; but I pro-
test against your insidious attempt to persuade the public
that mentioning an author's name from the pulpit is malign-
ing him. You profess to be an advocate of liberty, and yet
you employ every means in your power to rob the clergy of

theirs. In a country like this, where the press is free, publi-
cations fraught with infidel principles, and of a tendency to
subvert true religion and virtue, are daily pouring forth upon
the public; and it is essential to the faithful discharge of their
duties, as watchmen over the house of God, and as the author-
ised guardians of divine truth and revealed religion, that the
clergy should have the pulpits free ; and that they should
avail themselves of that freedom in every corner of the land.
In no other way can the evils arising from the perverted use
of the press be adequately met. And it would be indeed hard,
if a minister,in noticing an obnoxious work,and guarding his
flock against its unsound principles or irreligious tendency,
should not be at liberty to announce the author's name. So
long, sir, as you will contend for the liberty of the press, I
stall contend for the liberty of the pulpit.
No. 3. Your original charge under this head was, that " I
had said from my pulpit, I would not give the communion to
him who would vote for a liberal town-councillor.' Finding
this statement refuted in a manner not to be gainsaid, you
change your ground of asroisation and attempt to justify
what you before said /glee' zy. oy now saying what is true.
Your words are these, " My statement certainly was, that
you were said to have declared you would refuse the com-
munion to voters for a liberal town-councillor. As I was not
present I cannot pretend to verbal accuracy, nor is the dif-
feience material, if it should prove that it is not to the voter
for the town-councillor you would refuse the communion,
but to the town-councillor himself who was a supporter of the
Irish system of national education." To you, sir, so ac-
customed to countenance and sanction the teaching of truth
and error in the same school—so accustomed to carry the 1
Bible in one hand and a code of heresies in the other—so ac-
custorned to deny the divinity of Christ in your chapel, and
teach the divinity of Christ in the school—so accustomed to
consider two and seven as amounting to nearly the same
thing—to you there may not appear a material difference be-
tween your former statement and the present; but, sir, ifyou
go to your schoolmaster and ask him what aifference exists
between correcting a comparatively innocent lad and laying
the strap across the shoulders of a determinedly obstinate of-
fender, he will tell you that, whilst to punish the former would
be wrong and unjustifiable, to coNect the latter is a duty of
the greatest importance, both to the offender himself and to
the community in which he moves. Such, sir, I consider to
be the difference between refusing the communion to voters
for liberal town-councillors themselves directly implicated in
the guilt of teaching heretical doctrines.
Now, sir, I do not see why any misrepresentation should
have been made on this point. I had previously announced
to my congregation my intention of submitting to them the
results of my visits to the North Corporation School, and of
explaining the real character of the system of education
therein pursued. There were present 806 people, at the least,
capable of repeating the opinion I so deliberately expressed,
that those town-councillors who had introduced, and were
still upholding that heretical and anti-Christian system, had
forfeited their claim to Christian communion, and that if any
one of them had happened to be a professed member of my
congregation, 1 should have considered it my duty in faith-
fulness to him, and solemnly before God, to act on that opi-
nion. I stated this as my conviction, after a most mature
consideration of the subject, and up to this moment I have
seen no reason to change. I am still of the same opinion.
But before I proceed to state the premises, or give the rea-
sons by which I arrived at this conclusion, permit me to ex-
tract a few sentences from an impartial source on the sub-
ject of excommunication.
"Excommunication is a penalty or censure, whereby per-
sons who ate guilty of any notorious crone or offence are se-
parated from the fellowship of the church, &c."
"Excommunication is founded upon a natural right which
all societies have of excluding out of their body such as vio-
late the laws thereof; and it was originally instituted for
preserving the purity of the church."
" The power of excommunication was lodged in the hands
of the clergy, who distinguished it into the greater and the
less. The less consisted in excluding persons from the par-
ticipation of the eucharist, and the prayers of the faithful,
but they were not expelled the church. The greater con-
sisted in absolute and entire seclusion from the church, and
the participation of all its rights."
"The causes of excommunication in the church of Eng-
land are, contempt of the bishop's court, heresy, &c.
" The exclusion of a person from any Christian church
does not deprive him of the liberty of attending public wor-
ship. It removes him, however, from the communion of the
church and the privileges dependent on it. This is done
that he may be ashamed of his sin, and be brought to re-
pentance, that the honour of Christ may he vindicated, and
stumbling blocks removed out of the way."—(Buck's Theo
Diet., edited by Dr. Henderson, Highbury College.)
There are four points which I wish you to notice in these
extracts.
First,—That the church, which is a congregation of faith-
ful men, has, in common with all societies, a natural right
of excluding from its pale offending members.
Secondly,—that the power of excommunication was from
the first lodged in the hands of the clergy.
Thirdly,—That simple exclusion from the eucharist is the
mildest form of excommunication ever practised in the church.
And lastly, that one of the causes of excommunication in
the Church of England, is HERESY.
As you may have forgotten the definition of the words—
heresy and heretic—which appeared in a former letter, I beg
to remind you that "A man becomes an heretic by a stiy, dis-
ingenuous, wilful, turbulent adherence to an opinion opposite
to some articles syc. the Christian faith, whether it regard specu-
lation or practice."—(l'antalogia.) According to another
dissenting author, •` Heresy is generally used to signify some
fundamental error adhered to with obstinacy. Heretics are the
false prophets and teachers, which Christ and his apostles
foretold should come, who should forsake the faith themselves
and seduce others into error. A heretic is to be rejected and
cast out of the church, if he remain obstinate after a first and
second admonition."—(Brown's Dictionary.)
Now, sir, one point only remains to be established, and I
shall have made out a complete justification of the opinion
which I expressed, and the determination to which I am
come : and that is, to prove that you and your liberal fellow-
councillors who advocate, support, and enforce the new sys-
tem of education in the corporation schools, are guilty of
teaching and propagating heretical doctrines. The Roman
catholic catechism contains doctrines which are admitted by
all denominations of protestants to be false, anti-scriptural,
and heretical. The catechism is daily taught in the corpora-
tion schools by your authority. The system makes it impe-
rative upon the masters of monitors, in the absence of the
priest, to instruct the Romish children in their own catechism
the last hour in each day. When 1 visited the North Cor-
poration School in the month of October, 1837, I found one
of the masters instructing the children to pray to the Virgin
Mary. In my visit to the same school in the month of No-
vember last, there was no Roman catholic priest present,
hut the master was doing his work for him, as usual. And
the public may as well be informed that the only catechism
taught in the North School at present is the Roman catholic
catechism. That of the church of England was the first to
be turned out, and that of Dr. Watts the next. With the
reasons assigned for this by the head master I have nothing
to do; I mention the fact simply to show the leaning of the
corporation to popery, and to fasten upon the liberal mem-
bers of that body the crime and offence of teaching with un-
remitting assiduity the abominable superstitions and blas-
phemous fables contained in the popish catechism.
It will not serve your purpose to say that, because you do
it not in propria persona', you do it not; every poor unlettered
man in the town will see through the hollowness of so hare-
faced an assertion. It is a maxim of law admitted in all the
judicial courts of the country. "Quifacit per aliurn, facit per
se"---he that does it by another, it is the same as if he did it
himself. And so correct and just is this rule, that we find an
instance of it in scripture—" The Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though
Jesus himself baptised not, but his disciples."—John iv. 1, 2.
You teach not, it may be, the heretical doctrines of the church
of Rome in person, but you authorise the masters and moni-
tors to do it; you have established a system by which it must
be done; yon insist on that system being carried into effect;
you enforce and sanction the teaching, and you pay the
masters for doing it; you are the principals, and the masters
are the accessaries in this nefarious work. There is no
ground for believiug that Jereboam, the son of Nebat, set up
the golden calves in Dan and Bethel with his own hands.
They were set up to be worshipped by his authority, as chief
magistrate or king, and he, consequently, is the one continu-
ally charged with the crime of leading Israel to idolatry. On
the same principle, you, sir, and your liberal associates in the
corporation, stand charged with teaching the poor Roman
catholic children, amongst others, the following doctrines :-
1.---You teach them to believe, that "the church is, in mat-
ters of faith, infallible." contrary to the direct prophetic tes-
timony of St. Paul, that in the Christian church "there
should come a falling away, and the man of sin should sit in
the temple of Gud."-2 Thess. ii. 3, 4. And besides, infalli-
bility is an incommunicable attribute of the Divine Being.
To declare the church, therefore, infallible, is to advance the
company of the faithful to an equality with God, which is
blasphemy.
2.—You teach them to believe that "the souls of the right-
eous must, after death, discharge the debt of souse mortal
sins in the fire of purgatory ;" as if the atonement made by
Christ were incomplete for human redemption, without the
appendage of human merit and human suffering: whereas
the word of God declares, that "Christ his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree, and that by his stripes we
are healed."-1 Peter, ii. 24.
3.—You teach them to believe," that sins committed after
baptism are forgiven by the sacrament of penance, and that
doing the penance imposed by the priest is satisfaction,"
whereas God has written on the page of inspiration, as it
were with a sunbeam, that forgiveness of sin is through the
blood of Christ—" Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without ble-
mish and without spot."-1 Peter ii. IS 19. " How much
more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consci-
ence from dead works to serve the living God ?"—fleb. ix. 14.
4.—You teach them to believe that " some sins are venial,
and do not kill the soul," in direct contradiction to the testi-
mony of God, " The soul that sinneth, it shall die."—Ezek.
xviii. 4.

s.—You teach them to " pray to the Virgin Mary, and to
saints and angels," as if these were joint mediators with
Christ, and omnipresent, to bear prayer in every corner of
the world. Thus is Christ lowered from the supreme dignity
and power to which he was advanced in his mediatorial cha-
racter, and angels and saints are made to share with him in
the merit of heavenly intercession. But what saith the scrip_
turn ? " There is one God, and one inedia:or between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus."-1 Tins. ii. 5.
6.—You teach them to believe " that it is lawful to honour
relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures, with a relative honour as
they relate to Christ and his saints, and as memorials of
them;" notwithstanding that such honour was declared to be
idolatry in the case of the Israelites, and is positively forbid-
den in the second commandment.

7.—You teach them to believe that " by fasting they may
satisfy God for their sins;" which must lead them to substi-
tute the merit of human observances for the atoning death of
Christ in the matter of justification. But holy scripture sets
forth Christ as the " Lamb of God that taketh away the sits
of the World."—John i. 29. " And what the law could not
do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: so that Christ is the end of the law for righ-
teousness to every one that believeth."—Rom. viii. 3, x. 4.
B.—You teach them to believe " that the holy eucharist is
the true body and blood of Christ, under the appearances of
bread and wine"—" that the bread and wine are changed into
the body and blood of Christ"—" that the mass is the tin-
bloody sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ." Which of
these is the most ridiculous, it is difficult to say; but they are
all awfully false, and contradicted by the evidence of the
senses.ZThe seeing, the feeling, the tasting, declare the bread
and wine to remain the satne after consecration as before.
And against the fiction that Christ is offered by the priest in
the mass—a fiction which tends to the most idolatrous prac-
tices—we have the repeated testimony of St. Paul, that
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many."—Heb.
ix. 28.

The tendency of all these cunningly•devised fables and
perversions of truth, is but too obvious to require any expla-
nation—it is to draw away the rising generation entirely
from " God, their strength," and to make them rely upon
themselves and on their own performances i❑ the matter of
salvation, that the man may be exalted, and the Redeemer
despised and forgotten. Self-righteousness has always been
the most prominent feature in the character of the papacy,
and self-adulation is the rampant sin of modern liberalism :
hence the contact and desperate embrace between the papists
and the liberals—the former adhere to a foreign monarch,
who is magnified into a god ; the latter have erected a tem-
ple to philosophy, in which they worship each other. But
need I tell you, sir, that God will blow away all this dust
with one breath ?—for it is written, " Except the Lord build
the house, their labour is but lost that build it."—Psalm
cxxvii. 1.

I need not adduce any more specimens of the kind of
doctrine you teach the poor deluded and ill-used children of
Roman catholic parents. Every one of these counts may,
without hesitation, be declared heretical. Each contains
" an opinion opposite to some articles of the Christian
faith;" and you, who authorise and sanction the teaching of

them in the corporation schools, stand convicted of an of-
fence against Christianity. And why should you uphold
and enforce a system so replete with error and so oppressed
with heresy? Is it because heresy may be taught without
danger to the children? St. Peter declares heresies to be
"damnable," that is, causing damnation to the teachers and
to the taught. "There shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them: and many shall follow in their
pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall le
evil spoken of; and through covetousness shall they with feigned
lips make merchandise of you."-2 Peter ii. 1, &c. How truly
verified is this prophetic passage in the events that are now
taking place in our own town! And yet the guilty will not
take it to themselves.
You have above a thousand Roman catholic children in the
two schools, of whom you make merchandise for the sake of
place and power, consigning them over, without a sigh or a
tear of pity, to the deathful embrace of christianized idolatry
and priestly superstition. You teach them to worship the
Virgin—to worship saints—to worship angels. For in what
more direct way do we worship the true God than by bowing
the knee and praying to him? You teach them to honour
relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures as memorials of Christ and
his saints—which is precisely the kind of worship the Greeks
and Romans paid to tl e images of Jupiter, Apollo, Venus,
and Diana; for they i ever looked uponthose images as any-
thing more than mere epre ,entations and memorials of their
gods. And have you col aide ed well the consequences of train-
ing up ti.ese children iu sue art and practice of idolatry? St.
Paul slates them in the foLowing passage :—" Now the works
of the flesh are manifest, which are these—adultery, fornica-
tion—idolatry—lieresies—envyings, &c.; of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."—
Gal. v. 19-21. And in the book of the Revelation it is writ-
ten, "The fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and
murderers—and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is
the second death."—Rev. xxi. 8.
If these thousand children, whom you instruct systematically
in the errors I have enumerated, should continue through life
to pray to the Virgin Mary, and to saints and angels, oftener
than to Christ or God, and contrary to his command, they will
owe it to you! If they should,through life, transfer to relics, cru-
cifixes, and holy pictures, the honour which is due to God, and
to him alone, they will owe it to you! If they should through
life, bnild their hope of salvation on fasting and pen-
ances, instead of the death of Christ, they will owe it to vou!
If they should, through life, pay divine worship to the bread
and wine in the eucharist, under the impression that they
see the real body and blood of Christ, they will owe it to
you! If they should, through life, consider some sins as
venial, and consequently neglect to solicit the pardon of
God for such, they will owe it to you! If they should,
through life, in consequence of believing the church to be
infallible, resign blindly their eternal destinies to the hands
of an apostate priest, they will owe it to you! And should
any, or many, or most of the children, in consequence of
all these abominable practices—so offensive to God, so dero-
gatory to Christ, and so degrading to themselves, in the
end, miss their way to glory, they will owe it to you!! Oh,
sir, is it a light thing with you to support and enforce a sys-
tem of education which must necessarily terminate in conse-
quences so awful and unredeeinable? Consider the circum-
stances under which the mischief is done ! The children
surrender themselves into your hands with unhesitating con-
fidence, expecting that you will teach them nothing but the
truth, and that you will put them in the right way of attain.
ing heaven and glory ; they give you credit for sincere and
disinterested benevolence. The suspicion that you may do
them wrong, especially in religion, never enters their mind.
How cruel, therefore, it is in you to lead them astray;
and what will be their astonishment, if, by the mercy
of God, any of them shad ever escape the trammels
of popery, to find that you bad played towards them a
part that might have entailed upon them eternal ruin ?
Their bosoms will heave with indignation, and their eyes
kindle into a flame of righteous scorn, at the fraud, and
treachery, and hypocrisy of the system. They will shrink
with horror from the consequences that would, but for the
miraculous interposition of divine grace, have most certainly
ensued. And did you expect, sir, that 1 should have ad-
mitted any of you, after so solemn a mockery of God and
trot Christianity, to the privilege of communicating with the
saints, without a word of remonstrance? No, air, I should
not have allowed any man so far to deceive himself as to
sulpose that under the circumstances he was a fit and proper
person to set his hands to the seals of the new covenant.
eh mid have called upon him first to declare his regret and
so:row for his past conduct, and openly to disavow having
any participation in the propagation of heresy. And in so
doing I should only be following the example of St. Paul:
" Holding faith and a good conscience; which some having
put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is
Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan
that they may learn not to blaspheme."-1 Tim. i. 19, 20.
I will. not push the subject any further at present, but
simply observe, that I have my opinion as to the scene that
will take place at the great day of final retribution, when the
children now ruined by the antichristian system of education
in your schools. will rise up in judgment with you, and will
condemn you, because they went to your schools to learn
truth, and you taught them error.
No. 4.—" Under this head I have only
.one observation to
make : it is this, that, in my opinion, it is no crime, or want
of Christain charity in a minister of the national church to
refuse co-operation in the present day with dissenting minis-
ters of a certain description. I shall heartily rejoice to see
the time come when we may think better of them. They
have wounded our feelings too deeply to forget the wrong in
one day. Will you, sir, set the example, and acknowledge
the injustice you have done both to the church and to the
clergy, by your spiteful opposition to the former, and slander-
ous attacks on the latter ! Praying that God, of His infinite
goodness, may deliver you and your liberal colleagues in the
corporation, from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism-
from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and corn
mandments."

I remain, sir,
Your most obedient servant,
D, JAMES.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

COMMITMENT TO THE Sassiolvs.--On Friday, a'seaman,
named William Stanley, was placed at the bar of the policf-
court, charged with having robbed Benjamin Bly, a com-
panion, of his chest of clothes, his bed, quadrant, and other
articles. The complainant said that the prisoner had been
with him at the same lodging-house, in Union-street, and
had assisted him on Wednesdvy to take his clothes, &c., on
board the schooner Gertrude, with which he (complainant)
had intended to sail. On the following day the whole were
missing, and it appeared from the testimony of other wit-
nesses that the prisoner had taken them, that he had broken
open the chest, had pledged some of the articles, and sold
others. Amongst the articles pledged was the quadrant; and
the chest, broken to pieces, was found in another lodging-
house, in Brook-street, where he bad carried the quadrant
to pledge, and a small box belonging to the complainant was
found in the prironer's bed-room. When found by the police-
constable he was searched, and threw two pawn-tickets into
the fire. The complainant stated that he was stripped of all
be possessed in wearing apparel, &c. Mr. Hall advised him
to remain until the sessions, to prosecute the delinquent,
whom he fully committed for trial.
THE SMALL TENEMENT EJECTMENT ACT.—On Thurs-
day last, several cases of parties refusing to quit the premises
occupied by them, after the expiration of their respective
notices, were brought before Mr. Hall, at the police-office;
but owing to inaccuracies in the notices served, or other
non-compliance with the requirements of the act, they were
held to be objectionable, and the parties must proceed again
to give fresh notices to the tenants whom they wish to eject.
Mr. Hall, adverting to the notices, said that no specified
period was stated for the party to quit; and that all the cir-
cumstances, (as whether the serving parties were owners or
agents, &c.,) ought to be set forth on the face of the com-
plaint, and not merely submitted in proof afterwards, other-
wise the notice would be invalid. In another of the cases,
the witness who had attested the notice did not appear, and
the complaint was dismissed, with an intimation, however,
that if that witness (a female) should be required in a subse-
quent case, he would grant a summons to compel ber attend-
ance. After due notice of service, (as appeared from a re-
mark
of Mr. Hall,) the party on whom it is served may re-
main on the premises for twenty-one days; but if he then
refuses to quit, he may be forcibly ejected, and his goods
thrown into the street.

SEAMAN'S WAGES.—At the Police-office on Friday, Cap-
tain Keen, of the ship Harvest Home, was summoned by
John Davies, a seaman, for arrear of wages. It appeared
from the statement of the complainant, that he shipped from
St. Domingo on the 18th of August last, at £2.53 per month.
He arrived at Liverpool on the 2d of December. He re-
mained with the vessel until she docked. On applying for
his wages the Captain refused to pay him the amount
claimed. Captain Keen stated in his defence, that the com-
plainant had been insolent to the mate of the ship while at
St. Domingo, and refused to work. The consequence was,
that he (Keen) bad the complainant apprehended and lodged
in gaol for 21 days. For the time be was in gaol he refused
to pay him. It appeared from the statement of the com-
plainant's attorney, Mr. Davenport, that the misunderstand-
ing between Davies and the mate arose out of some words
which the latter addressed to him in the French language.
In consequence, Captain Keen proceeded to the Vice-Con-
sul's house, and procured an order for the prisoner's com-
mittal. Mr. Hall asked Keen whether, before committal,
the complainant had been brought before the consul and
examined Keen replied in the negative. Mr. Hall:
"What! the British consul order a man to gaol without
giving him a hearing, without knowing what he had to say ?"
Keen replied that the complainant was insolent, and refused
to work. Mr. Hall: " Yes; but the refusal might not have
lasted more than 24 hours, but here you send him to prison
for twenty-one days." Captain Keen here put in a docu-
ment signed by the consul. Mr. Hall: " This certificate
only shows that he was in gaol. I think it a tnost improper
act on the part of any [ilea to send another to prison on
mere ea, parte statements. What would be the consequence
if such a practice became general in our merchant ships ?"
The captain, in explanation, stated that the consul was sick
in bed; he had had an interview with him in his bed-cham-
ber. Mr. Flail : " Did he ask to see the prisoner?" Captain
Keen: " No.•' Mr. Hall : " Was there no one to represent
him during his illness?" Captain Keen: " I believe not."
Mr. Hall, after saying that such a system was contrary to
every principle of justice, ordered the complainant to be
paid the full amount of his wages, lOs. 6d., with costs.
The captain differed with the magistrates definition of jus-
tice, and, after sulkily paying the money, left the Court.
A NEW Tnicx.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a young
man, named James Terrimont, was placed .before the magis-
trates charged with being a suspicious character, and re-
ceiver of stolen property. Police-officer 306 stated that for
the last mouth he had been residing in a brothel in Carleton-
street, and his mode of getting his living was by slinking in
the entries in the street near the bad houses there; and when
the girls in these houses contrived to rob any man they had
seduced there, they ran out and gave the property to the pri-
soner, who then made off with it. When the policeman was
called in no property could be found, and the thieves es-
caped; and, confident that nothing could be found against
them, occupied their time in abusing the police. The pri-
soner's master, a respectable wheelwright, gave him a very
good character, and said he was not aware he had got into
bad company. The prisoner had not been at work for some
time, but he understood he was ill. Mr. Hall said the fact
was, he was the bully to these brothels, and found it more
profitable than working. The master said he he had no ob-
jection to take him back if he would leave off these practices.
Mr. Hall, after admonishing him, said he would give him
another trial; but if ever lie were brought before him again
he should send him to Kirkdale.

JUVENILE HIGH YMEN.—Yesterday at the police-office,
four lads, named Phidian, Kale, Bell, and Quin, the eldest
about 14 years of age, and the youngest about 10, were placed
before the magistrate, charged with attempting to rob a stout
powerful young man in i
Hurst-street. A policeman stated
that he heard a great noise n Hurst-street, and on going to
see what was the matter, saw Phidtan, Kale, and Bell hold-
ing fast by the waist of the complainant and attempting to
rob him. With the assistance of his Inspector he took the
three into custody. Quin was afterwards pointed out to him,
and he took him into custody. The complainant said he was
walking home on Saturday night about eight o'clock from his
sister's quite sober, with his_pipe in his mouth, when he
received a violent blow from Phidian which broke his pipe.
and cut his mouth. Three other lads then seized hold of
him, knocked him down, and tried to rob him.—Mr. Hall:
What! those three lads knock you down ?—The inspector
said there were about twenty other lads, and by getting hold
of the man and clinging round him, and all beating him as
bard as they could, they had pulled him down.—The watch-
man said that the three first prisoners had fast hold of him,
and were hutting him as hard as they could; he had knocked
the other lad Quin down, and several others. All the pri-
soners had various excuses, and denied that they knew any
thing at all about it. The inspector said there had been
three similar attempts at robbing that night, in Hirst-street,

LIVERp
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by lads, who overpowered people bynutnb 71-taikin •
son said all the prisoners were very well k ilAtifixy*
each sent for three months to the B 0,-110t13se-•
Correction. N • -
• ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday, at e flffrd
Mr. Simpson, one of the partners in th
Pottery, appeared before Mr. Hall, to prefer4!'h fte
his servant, Ann Jones, a smart dressed girl, of robbing him
of various articles of clothing belonging to his children. Mr.
Simpson said, his wife having missed a quantity of articles
of clothing, he bad reascn to suspect his servant girl with be-
ing guilty of stealing them. Sunday beiii; h": day of going
out, he stopped her at his lodge gn.te, and requested her
to show the old woman, who keeps his icc4,-e, ht r pocket.
The prisoner took her pocket offand gave it te the olawoman,-
and it contained a number of stockings belonging to itis criaiJ
dren, marked with their initials —Mr. Hall: Is that (tbc old
woman) your wife (I) ?--Mr. Simpson: No; she is my
lodge•gate keeper.—Mr. Hail: Can you swear to all the
articles ?—Mr. Simpson : I cannot swear to all, but I can
swear to the stockings belonging to my daughters, which are
marked.—Mr. Hall: The prisoner was your servant, was
she ?—Mr. Simpson: She has been my servant for the last
ten weeks.—Mr. Hall: Well, keep the articles, and let your
wife come here in the morning, and see if sh, can identify
them ! !
PASSAGE OF• 11-1 E -STEAMER LIVERPOOL.

Mr. Shaw, the Marine Manager to the Transatlantic Steam-
ship Company, who, it will be recollected, joined the Liver-
pool, steam-ship, at Cork, has published, in the New York
papers, the followir,! . 'of the passage from Co% e

- - - -
New York, November 23, /SW.
So much kind aux., is, ;, .v;ng been shewn ty the American
community for the a = of the Liverpool, steam-ship, so
long after her first dat;a:ture from Europe, it is due troth me
to state explicitly the cause of her non-arrival betbre this
morning • and, in going into the circumstances. I shall be
excused if I compress them into the smallest compass consis-
tent with a knowledge of facts. That vessel left Liverpool
at one o'clock, p.m., of the 20th ult., and with a sufficiency
of fuel to navigate her across the Atlantic under unfavour-
able circumstances. This data was derived from an experi-
mental trip to Ireland and back, made a week previous.
During that trip her consumption of fuel was accurately as-
certained to be 27 1 0 cwt. per hour, and that, too, under pe-
culiarly disadvantageous circumstances. As a proof, she had
not her expansion valves attached to the machinery, as they
were not completed in time for this, her first trip. She was,
in nautical phraseology, " flying light," and the whole of her
furnace surface was in action to generate sufficient steam to
propel the engines to their utmost peed. When, therefore,.
that hourly consumption was taken es a data for the entire
voyage to New York, I think the ccientific world will not
condemn the management, in Liverpccl, for confining them-
selves to it. When she left Liverpool. expansion valves
were attached, although, as afterwar,n :1-certained, not so
perfect as intended by the manufact:rcr. The vessel was
depressed in the water two feet " flying light"
trim to Ireland, and four of her furnz sere bricked up to
save fuel by ignition, as the remainder. 17cre not sufficient to
keep the pressure to the resistance.of safety valves. It
was not, therefore, too much to expect t.-.:t her consumption
would be much less than during the experimental trip.
She left Liverpool, as before remarked, at one o'clock,
p.m., on the 20th October, and, at the end of the following 1
24 hours, bad progressed 186 miles, although opposed by
strong winds and a head sea. From that period until she
proceeded 600 miles west of Cape Clear, the gales increased
in strength to almost a perfect hurricane, and it was neces-
sary to keep up the power of the engines to their utmost
capabilities to give steerage way to the hull. Thus was pro-
duced an immense consumption of fuel to gain a slight mo-
mentum against opposing forces. The head engineer, know-
ing the value of expansion valves, thought to gain sufficient
steerage way by " shutting off," as it is termeA. '..ut found the
valves so arranged that he had not the power of doing so, and
they were set to one grade, and one grade only. Under this
misfortune, and the gale still increasing, it was decided on
to return to Cove, there to alter the valves and renew the
fuel already consumed. She left that harbour on the Gth in-
stant, and arrived at the New York pilot ground in 16 days
172 hours, encountering, during the passage, severe and
almost constant gales from most points of the compass—the
westerly, however, preponderating to a great extent; as a
proof, she never hoisted canvass during the last 1400 miles,
having to contend against heavy storms between the points
of W. by S. and N.W. This passage has proved the cor-
rectness of the calculations made in Liverpool prior to her
first departure, as the consumption of fuel has been much
less than 27. 1.0. per hour. Igo into detail to satisfy the
public mind on the subject, and here follows an extract from
my journal, which was made up from hourly returns from
the head engineer, every pound of fuel having been weighed
as we progressed. _

Hours Consump- Miles
steamed. tioo. per day.
Nov. 6....2i tons 3.2.2.0. 20 S.E.
7....24 29.18.0.0 180 South—S.S.W.
8....24 28.8.0.0 184 N.W. to North.
9—.24 27.8.0.0 216 N.N.W. to North

Nautical.

10....24 27.18.0.0 207 E. iS. to S.E. by S
11 ....24 28.12.0.0 228 E. to S. E.
12....24 28.16.0.0 242 S.E. tc S.S.E.
13....24 27.13.0.0 140 S.S.W. to S.W. by S
14....24 27.11.0.0 144 S.W. to W.
15.-24 24.17.0.0 151 N. to W.N.W.
16....24 24.12.0.0 202 N.N.W. to W. by W.
17....24 24.8.0.0 175 N. by W. to N.N.W.
18....24 26.8.0.0 214 N. to W.N.W.
19....24 26.8.0.3 176 N.W.
20....24 26.12.0.0 200 N.W. by W.
21....21 28.16.0.0 144 W.N.W. to N.W.
22.-24 30.4.0.0 165 W.N.W. to N.W.
23....14 21.15.0.0 170 W. by S.to W. by N.

------- -
Totals, 4014 462.6.2.0 3156
Her hourly average of speed has been 8 miles, but, if I
add to the above distance of 3156 mile., the velocity of the
opposing current between longitud, •_.. 60 west, the
hourly average has been 8 1-3 d mile. • daily consump-
tion of fuel has been 28 tons. The .ption per mile
has been under 3 cwt., and, for eac7. .. rower per hour,
sth. 12oz. It must be borne in ,ire Liverpool's
power is beyond that of any steamer t this moment,
having 75 inch cylinders and a strop:. ,eet. The con-
sumption, therefore, per diem, is srr, e. ed. On arrival
at her anchorage, this morning, sh 11.!,1 .% sufficiency on
board for six days' steaming, which have been more
had a necessity for economy existed roi-2;• (lir destined port
was within our grasp. To make the r,4.,ark intelligi-
ble to the public, I will make an e.,;1:-.0, r; .- my journal,
the original having been written prier ...iverpool leav-
ing the Cove of Cork.
"My intentions are to endeavorir, i:i.•••11;,g the passage to
New Yolk, to bring the consumptioti of fuel to 3 cwt. for
every mile, that is, taking the average for the entire distance.
How far my theory of regulating the consumption to meet
the speed of the vessel will be carried into effect, the result
at the end of the voyage will shr In navigating so wide
an ocean as the Atlaai;c, the grQa be taken
of the fuel throughout the entire •: •• :•
advisable to go slew with a eertoiri: • m -
, - •
with an uncertainty of reaching the
words, the maximum speed of b-,tl,
ought not to be attempted unto I pot-%
is bound, is within the grasp of the feel
stances of weather."
I have given above a "plain, unvarnished and whe-
ther it may add to, or detract from, the practicability of
Transatlantic Steaming during the winter months, your en-
terprising countrymen can decide as well as Mine.
Seeing in one of your journals an article on the recent high
state of the barometer in America, although accompanied
by weather not unusual when the mercury is so elevated, I
beg to lay before the scientific world the state of one kept on
board the Liverpool. It was noted by me each day at noon.
Lat. Long. Ht.of M. Weather.
50.14 N 12.22 W 28.9.10 blowing hard from N. W. at noon
48.17 15.54 29.4-10 „ „ W. hf. S.
49.04 20.35 29.3-10 moderate from S.E. by S.
45.12 24.47 29.9-10 blowing hard from E. bf 5,
43.25 29.37 30 hard gale at S.E.
42.37 35.05 29.6-10 moderate at S.S.E.
42.28 38.00 29.4-10 at S.W. by S.
42.05 41.36 29.6-10 hard gale at N.E.
41.21 44.34 29.9-10 moderate gale at N.E.
41.34 47.31 30.1-20 ~ at N. by W.
42.7 51.40 29.9-10 light breeze at W.S.W.
41.52 55.37 30.1-20 strong breeze at N.W.
41.36 60.00 29.7.10
f, at S.W. by S.
41.19 63.40 30 moderate at N.W.
40.48 67.48 30.1-10 strong gales at W.N.W.
40.14 71.17 29.9-10 fresh gale at W. by S.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
JAS. C. SHAW,
Mar. Man. to the Trans. S .S.O o

..._
..-_.am_

WARRINGTON.
ST. JAMES'S CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL—Upwards of £7O
was collected on Sunday, at St. James's Church, Latchford
after two sermons preached by the Rev. M. O'Sullivan, D.D.
for the benefit of St. James's Church Sunday School. ,
WESLEYAN CENTENARY.—A public meeting was held in.
the Methodist Chapel, Warrington, on Monday, for the pur-
pose of furthering the objects of the centenary of Wesleyan
Methodism, to be celebrated in the year 1839. Thomas Had-
field, Esq., took the chair, and the meeting .was addressed by
the Rev. ohn Nelson, Rev. J. Holgate, Rev. B. Clayton,
Rev. i. Laycock, the Rev. J. Bedford, and other speakers.
The chairman and Thomas Hazlehurst, Esq., of Runcorn,
each gave £lOO, and the total amount of subscriptions an-
nounced was £4OO.

A PROMISING YOUTH.—On Monday, William Purcell, a
lad of fourteen, was committed from Warrington for trial, on
the charge of stea'ing a piece of bacon. In 1836 be was sen-
tenced to fourteen days imprisonment and whipped : in the
same year he was also imprisoned three months. In January,
1837, be was tried and acquitted; and, on the following Oc-
tober, sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months. This
case is a strong illustration of the want of some better mode
than that at present adopted for the punishment and' refor-
mation of juvenile offenders.

IsIet:DENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday night last, Ralph
Littler, a labourer, was attacked by a gang of pickpockets
on coming out of the Three Crowns public-house, in the
Cora-market, Warrington. Three of the party were appre-
hended, and on Monday committed to Kirkdale. for trial.
Their names are Thomas Flanagan, Joseph Cooper, and
John Lea.

ST. HELEN'S.
ROBBERY AT SUTTON PARSONAGE.—Last week, some mid-
night depredators stole a large quantity of poultry, the pro-
perty of the Rev. J. Furnival. M.A., minister of St. Helen's,
from Sutton Par§onage. No cluehas yet been discovered
likely to lead to the apprehension of the offenders.
A HORSE DROWNED.—On Monday night, Mr. Barlow, of
St. Helen's, left his horse and gig standing at the door of the
Engine public-house, on Thatow Heath, while he and his
frieuds went inside to partake of some refreshment. The
horse took fright, and was next morning found drowned in a
pit on the heath.

ASHTON-UNDER•LYNE.
THE CHARTISTS.—TORCH LIGHT DEMONSTRATIONS.—
On Sunday evening, with closed doors, in the meeting-room,
Charlestown, the Rev. Incendiary Stephens was advising the
dupes of bis sophistry to decline their torch light meeting un-
til the assembling of parliament, as seven old women magis-
trates had signed and issued notices of their illegal and dan-
gerous tendency, and their determination to enforce the law
in future against all persons so offending, 'and also to break
up their associated bodies of subscribing for arms, and in fu-
ture to buy each one his own. He said also that Lucifer
Jowett was the first who had offended, as he bad held the first
torch light meeting, and a most glorious one it was. fled he
but known the event, had it cost him five sovereigns he would
have been present. On Monday evening this arch destruc-
tive divine introduced the subject again, by telling his lads
that he had looked over the ruins, arid a most glorious sight
it was, and did it but rest with him, there should not be left
one factory standing the next morning.—Manchester Courier.

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