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' ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THE Public are respectfully informed that, in co nence
of the unfavourable state of the weather last ' ening, the
Exhibition of FIREWORKS and other Ent inments are
Postponed till MONDAY and WEDN.ESDA EVENINGS
next, the sth and 7th instant. NAPOLEON'S FLIGHT at
Eight precisely.

Zbe iLiberpool eStantiarb.

it all events, this is a death blow to the protecting irEgis
cf the Globe. We deny its admissibility at all ; but leave
b the radical lovers of this complicated charter of liberty,
t) reconcile the contradictory statements, and the con-
ficting opinions furnished on its merits by the minis-
terial organs, having in our Tuesday's number shown
fie trite character and bearings of the revolutionary
novement in Spain, both as regards its monarchy, and its
consequences.

We still maintain that we had noright to interfere in this
national quarrel ; and if we did interfere at all, it ought to
iave been in a form calculated to sustain our honour and
:o attain the object. The policy can neither he defended
?n the grounds of equity—the principles of justice, nor
he accustomed usages of international law, which, if
lecessary, we undertake to prove, as regards the due
protection of those British subjects we cannot call our
toldiers. Let Lord Palmerston and his defenders look to
it, we have done our duty.

LATEST INLELLIGENCE FROM FRANCE.—Nothing defi-
nitive had been settled on Monday afternoon on the sub-
ject of the formation of the new Ministry. M. Mole and
M. Guizot had closet audiences of the King on Sunday,
but the result had not transpired. M. Guizot had
arrived in Paris that mornin,,, and M. Duchatel had been
sent for to the Provinces, but his arrival could not take
place till Wednesday evening, even if he consented to
take office. There did not appear to be the least proba-
bility of the return of the Doctrinaire party to power.
The public mind remained tranquil, undisturbed by the
events in Spain.
Since the 21st no fresh intelligence had been received
from Madrid, and it appears that up to that date no
further disturbance hsd taken place, not since the conflict
between the provincial Regiment coming from Saint
Ildefonso, and a battalion of the Royal Guard, which is
said to have arisen through a mistake of the feelings of
the combatants ; and which appears, after some slaughter
and great alarm, to have been settled by fraternising
with each other ! General Mara had not resigned the
charge of the embassy, but refused his adhesion to
the Constitution, and had written Calatreva to that
effect. Our Westminster hero had returned to Sainte
Sebastian from Santander. according to the Sentinelle
des Pyreniles.

From the Bayonne papers we learn the confirmation
of the defeat of Iturralde, the Carlist General, with the
loss of 500 men. This is the first truly serious loss sus-
tained by Don Carlos during three years' campaign,
and appears to have arisen from want of caution—lie
was, in fact, taken by surprise under piled arms.

We were amongst those who predicted, at the passing
of the Reform Bill, that the result of that great change
would be a disappointment to the nation. We saw that,
in effect, it dosed the door to the admission of legisla-
tive talent; that it placed a trust, requiring the nicest
discrimination and the calmest judgment, in the hands of
a constituency with whom discrimination and calm judg-
ment were not likely to be found; arki we anticipated as
the result a House of Commons composed in a great de-
gree of men who, with talent sufficient to flatter a mob,
and knavery enough to embrace for the time the griev-
e ance most popular with that mob, would, as statesmen
giving their verdict in any matter unconnected with the
particular hobby on the back of which they had ambled
into public life, be utterly inefficient to record a sensible—
we might almost add an honest—opinion.
And how has our prediction been fulfilled ? We have
now seen the close of the fourth year, during which the
House of Commons has been elected under the provi-
sions of the Reform Bill ;- and we will boldly hazard the
assertion, that never within our remembrance has that
house stood so low in the public estimation as at the pre-
Sent hour. Within these four years, corruption—gross
and glaring corruption—has become the rule; purity of
conduct, the exception. Jobs have multiplied, and the
immaculate name of a reformed parliament has been
deemed a sufficient apology. The creation of places for
the importunate and hungry followers of the ministry has
been openly sanctioned, and commissionerships of all
imaginable kinds have been showered upon the attach&
of whiggism from John o'Groat's to the Land's End ;
whilst the House of Commons, the guardian of the na-
tion's purse, has itself been the willing instrument of
this flagitious waste of the public resources. Within the
last session we have witnessed the disgusting scene of a
member of the House—the representative of a large
constituency—coming forward to ask for a grant of the
public money ; and, more than that, meeting with sup-
porters in his barefaced proposition. We have had the
still mote disgusting scene of a ministry, and a majority

in a reformed parliament, defending the conduct of a
member who is proved to have sold his influence over a
county for two thousand pounds; and the paltry plea by
which such a ministry shuffles itself and its supporter out
of the guilt of so glaring an offence against the consti-
tution, is, that be was not rogue enough to pocket the
money for his private use ! We have seen, in open,
vaunted defiance of all decency, such scenes enacted;
and need we wonder that the affections and respect of
the people are hourly withdrawn from a house which al-
lows itself tc be so indelibly disgraced.

But a graver and more important charge bears heavily
against the present House of Commons—viz., its ineffi-
ciency in the conducting of the public business. Day
after day, week after week, are frittered away in useless
debates, which lead to nothing; in speeches addressed,
not to the house, but to the constituents of the speechi-
fiers; in motions made, not with any view to usefulness—
not with any expectations of success—but merely to ful-
fil some election pledge, or to exalt into temporary no-

ice some favourite hobby of the wiseacres who have
placed their trust in the blundering speaker. The real
business of the House seems everlasting prate ; and the
public affairs—as if they were of infinitely less import-
ance—are shuffled through at a late Itour, when half the
honourable members, having pumped themselves dry,
have gone home to bed, and the other half are dozing oh
the benches. The most important measures of the ses-
sion are all delayed until the last few weeks, and are
debated only when members, worn out and jaded by a
long broiling amongst the hot bricks and the dusty
pavements of London in the dog-days, are ready to pass
anything and everything presented to them, in the hope
of an early dismissal to the more congenial company of
,L,tateir gamekeepers. .•• - - -

At length a few slovenly, patched-up bills—dangerous
not more from their principles than from their blunders—
are laid upon the table of their Lordships' House, with
the " noli me tangere" of Whig impertinence stamped
in terrific legibility upon their smeared pages. Another
half dozen pet measures—standing grievances of a minor
character, without which, nevertheless, their authors
could not exist an hour, are bashfully and secretly
brought up, and their titles read by the Premier " sotto
voce," in the fond hope that they may escape the obser-
vation of their Lordships, and remain alive and hearty as
a small stock in trade for the usual holiday agitation.
Bold and prompt, as it well becomes the Peers of
England to be; gifted as most of them are with talent ;
indefatigable in zeal for the good of that country in
which they hold so proud and prominent a station, and
in whose peace and well-being they possess so weighty
an interest, the work of their session is commenced,
even at this late period of the year, with cheerfulness
and industry. By the power of their superior talent and
more enlarged experience, the crudities of hasty legis-
lation are expunged, and wholesome and efficient mea-
sures are substituted for the vicious offspring of design-
ing wickedness or blundering folly. The session, how-
ever, is by this time at an end. Honourable members
are tired, and of course feel their dignity lessened by
being called upon to look upon the evidences of their
own incapacity, anal submit to the corrections of more
matured judgment. The Minister, in a pet, leaves half
his measures to cool upon the table of the House; the
Commons throw out unread their own amended bills;
and after the usual speech from the throne, the members
go down to exhibit to their constituents " the beggarly
account of empty" talk in which they have wasted the
time and patience of the nation.
And of what nature are the measures which are thus
introduced to place in.hostile collision the two branches

of the legislature ? Are they measures to relieve the
suffering agriculturis.ts of the country ? Not at all. Are
they framed to promote the comforts, to elevate the
minds, or to improve the conditions and prospects of any
class of the community ? No, no. Such subjects are
not the favourite ones of a reformed Parliament. Then
what are they ? In plain and simple languago they a-re
measures brought forward at the bidding, and to secure
the support of a small section of the House, without
whose active assistance the ministry could not withstand
the weight of sound English feeling which spurns their
want of principle, and laughs to scorn their incapacity.
They are measures which, profe;sing a laudable purpose,
are, in reality, but a covert attack upon the religion of
the realm. They are measures upon which, for once, the
scorner and the Atheist, the Socinian and the Quaker,
the Papist and the Nothingarian can join together in
harmony, because they attack the property and attempt
to break the integrity of that church, whose pure doc-
trines are to each a reproach and a stumbling block.
With such proceedings before them, need we wonder
that the British people are disgusted with the present
House of Commons ? Need we wonder that its factious
and insolent attempts to bully the House of Peers—so
far, so very far above its infinite littleness—only served
to cover their authors with contempt ? Wellington,
Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst—Hume, Spring Rice, anti Lad
John Russell. Oh ! bathos ! Well might the leader of
the House of trammons declare that the people of Eng-
land were not prepared for a reform of the Lords, if he
compared such men with their pigmy antagonists! and
with equal truth might he assert that the same people
would not endure a revolution every three years. No,
my lord, the people of England, misrepresented as they
feel themselves to be in your house of faction anti folly,
are still sound and loyal. They look back to the past
history of your house—to the proceedings of those par-
liaments whose dignified conduct, ardent patriotism, and
profound talent, gave to the British constitution an im-
mortal name; and they blush as they recognise the
change, so humbling to the national character, so galling
to the nation's pride. No, my lord, the yeomen of Eng-
land—the same men who kicked your little lordship out
of Devonshire—are still trusty and true; and before you
can succeed, factious, reckless, desperate, as you are, in
raising even amongst the two-penny clubs, your war-cry
against the peers of England, those same yeomen are
prepared to raise that banner, so fearful to political im-
postors, upon whose broad folds is inscribed the ominous
word DISSOLUTION !

Some forty years ago, when the demon of unbridled de-
mocracy raised its arrogant head, and the poison of the
revolutionary doctrines of the jacobinical clubs of France
tainted our moral atmosphere with its pestiferous breath,
a few loyal and independent Englishmen formed the
nucleus of a society, which. they appropriately named
" The Constitutional Association." The founders of
this society were men of the middling classes, who
had acquired some property by their industry under
the blessings of that tolerant form of religious govern-
ment which had been secured to them by the revolu-
tion of 1688 ; and they numbered also a few members,
who were nct opulent, but filled the honourable post of
respectable tradesmen in the city of Westminster.
This society did not aspire to the creation of a momen-
tum of power within its own hands, which should usurp
the whole authority and influence in the state, or
destroy the balance of the British constitution, but
the members simply combined and associated for its
defence, raising by small subscriptions funds to support
by the diffusion of literary articles—materials illustra-
tiv'd of truth and rational liberty—the cause of the Throne
and the Church
At the first formation of this loyal society, which was
principally instituted as a counterpoise to the workings
of the Copenhagen Fields' mobs, radicals and free-think.
ers, and even the liberal whips of the day, took grave
alarm ; and an innovation on the constitution itself
was declared to be its covert object. The association
astounded the liberals —paralyzed the infidels, and
disturbed the midnight operations of jacobin revolu-
tionists, and brought around it an union of talent and an
array of intellect, supported by sound principles, 'which,
more than any other adjunct out of doors, contributed

to the salvation of that venerable superstructure, old

England's constitution. This manly effort, sustained by
the legitimate co-operation of a free press, raised an in.
surmountable barrier against the then deeply-laid design
of levelling the British monarchy with the dust.
Men of England and men of Liverpool, this forms the
ground-work of our appeal to you—a similar and a com-
mon danger now awaits both you and your constitution
in church and state ! Men of England—HEREDITARY
FREEMEN-" now is the time to strike the blow ! " We

have given you, in epitome, the history of the old Con-
stitutional Association—from its. ashes, phoenix-like and
beautifully imposing, has arisen the genial bud of con.
servalism, and she spreads forth her palmy pinions—her
widely-extended wings, and calls upon you to aid in her
combat, in accents loud and deep! Will you, English-
men, tacitly allow the beautiful land of your fathers, con-
secrated by their deeds of martial prowess—of senatorial
constancv—of christian martyrdom--to become the prey
of wolves—the nursing mother of infidelity, anarchy,
and papal superstition? Upon you, then, devolves the
awful responsibility of respecting and preserving the
best gifts of God, or of ejecting them from your bosoms!'
Your civil liberties—your temporal prosperity—your
eternal happiness, are involved in the struggle.—
We will appeal to you in accents which will re
verberate through the length and breadth of the land,
and bear witness against your sense of pride and pa-
triotism—your respect for virtue, and your veneration
for religion, should you prove deaf to that appeal !
But can such be possible ? Will you throw aside
the feelings of men and the stern dnty of christian
men, and refuse our call to come forth and com-
pete hand to hand, foot to foot, with a power, at once
tyrannical in design as it is unconstitutional in prin-
ciple, waging war against the established religion of
the land, and against the legislative union of the two
kingdoms—seeking the destruction of your House of
Peers, and of every principle essential to the preserva.
tion of your constitutional monarchy ? You have before
you the loyal—the constitutional means of meeting Your
political adversaries on their own ground, and of effe.c
Wally, resisting their wily designs, provided you are true
to yourselves and true to your country. The course is
simple, and the object one of common interest, speaking
to you at your thresholds—nay, your very hearths, and
involves the important question, whether you shall be
triumphed over by a faction in your own freely elected
assembly, or retain that proudly independent position
therein, which is due to your wealth, to your industry,
to your intellect, and to your numbers.
The resuscitated Constitutional and Conservative
associations (for they are synonimous in principle,) offer
the certain means of insuring an effective registration,
where every man may feel secure of his own personal
interest, and his importance in the state; whilst he will
acquire by union, both moral strength and political in-
telligence, as well as the endearing, the heart-cheering
satisfaction of being actively engaged in a community
of interest, an identity of object, embracing the preser•
%ration of rational freedom, the security of law, and the
blessings of a pure Gospel religion. These are the
leading objects of our Conservative Associations, as con-
trasted with the mock reform views of our opponents.

Let us not be charged with needless enthusiasm, we
will put a plain case, and ask plain questions. What is
it these political justice loving Papists demand ? Full
equality in civil power and religious privileges !
Equality, with whcm ? Is it with heretics whom they
despise and whom their own priests—the supreme
head of their church himself pronounces accursed ? Is
it to be believed that they will stop short even at a per-
fect equality with our Established Church could such
be arranged ? What is now their conduct under their
extended civil privileges ? Have they not already, by
their own boast, a majority in the British House of
Commons? Does not that very majority, ipso facto,
paralize the regular progress both of English and Irish
legislation, by the destructive innovating and unequal
principles propounds? Does it not rule the govern-

SEPT. 2, 1836.

meat, and, agaiUst all precedent insolently beard an
id-
dependent estate of the realm, solely because that estate
stands as a barrier to its revolutionary dogmas-415
deeply designed inequality ? Is not the equality of civil
rights, already conceded to them, rendered the stepping-
stone—taken as the " instalment" to their positive
civil ascendancy, and the absolute supremacy of their
universal church ? Are their priests not bourid by their
oaths to labour to this end, and are they not, as her lay
members, (if they perform their duty) equally bound to
assist this consummation ? In fine, and dispensing with
Jesuitry—is it not their aim upon their own showing--
their agitation—their acts—their written and oral decla-
rations to level all but that universal church, which every
priest swears solemnly ke believes to he the mother and
head of all churches and that he is temporally, as well
as spiritually responsible to the Pope of Rome for the
prosuration and maintenance of that authority as far as
in him lies ?

And now, men of England, let us put the questing'
before you in a more intelligible shape, if possible.
Has the general conduct of the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land (shown by their priests in secret, and urged forward
by their paid champion,) given you a satisfactory earnest
of peaceful security for one single month since the pas-
sing either of the emancipation or the reform bill ? Has
not agitation increased, and social disunion extended
four fold, since the admission of the papists to a direct
participation in the legislature ? Do you believe--
are you so credulous as to take for grante4l the
sincerity the Catholics proffer as the price of their
admission to rule as it were the internal affairs of your
Protestant establishment ? Have they ever sholitn them-
selves capable of acting with impartiality where their in-
terests were concerned ? Again—if the establishment
of our venerated church can (according to the false
theory of Lord Melbourne, and Lord John Russell)
defend itself by its own purity, what need of the barriers
erected around her by the wisdom of our ancestors ?
Purity unarmed, can effect but little indeed against
impurity in hostile array ; and if it be the policy of our
whig ministers, und4r this fallacious argument, to
neglect, or rather break down the embankments which
protect it, and let it run to waste at once, and let ruin
openly glut its vengeance over truth and order, then suffeAr
the adoption of measures which can have no other etra
than that of swamping ignominiously all we should
hold dear, and add not toil to the eventual loss, by
offering, at the present, the worthless opposition of a
puny, and, in the eyes of our enemy, contemptible
resistance. The prime minister of the state is not
the physician of the conscience, nor are we compelled
to swallow the nostrums offered to us by Lord John Rus-
sel, in consideration of his liberal " constitutional'
fame—his political and ministerial uniformity, or tke
:influential power of his whig and radical jugglery. e
have a higher duty to perform to our country, and, above
all, to our religion. Men of England—herediatry free-
men, we of Liverpool have shown you, that we are not
prepared to desert the 'sacred standard,—it is for you t 0
join our reunion to wield with us the-weapon of the regis-
tration—,with us to war with the shield of constitutional
conservatism, and the armour of truth.

Our readers will perceive, from an advertisement in another
column, that the foundation-stone of the new Church of Eng"
land School, in Bond-street, will be laid on Monday next, Of
our excellent Senior Rector, whose manly defence of scriptural
education in conjunction with other clergymen, will long be
remembered. The children of the various schools connected
with the establishment are to join the procession on the occasion'
rand to witness the founding of that edifice which, we trust, real
-be useful to unborn thousands.

We hope that a great number of the merchants and trades"
men, as well as the operatives, will join the clergy on this in;
teresting occasion, involving as it does, the great principle
Protestantism against the spread of Papery at the present time'
The Corporation Schools are now little more than nurseries for
Popery, mere miniutere Maynooths, where popish catechisms
and popish doctrines are lisrilled by popish priests into the
rising generation; and where five-sixths of the children are
regularly taken to hent and see the mummeries practised at Ole
Mass-house in Scotland-road.
We earnestly invite those who are sceptical to visit the
school in Limekiln-lane, and they will see with their own eye,
and bear with their own ears, that Popery is now publicly twig"
in England at the public expense.
Dissenters make a great outcry against supporting an Estab"
lished Church, which is founded upon scripture, whose articles,
homilies, and doctrines are consonant with the word of eternal
truth ; but we scarcely hear one whisper against the false liber-
ality of the present day, which ought to snake the blood boa
with indignation, that Protestantism should be sunk to such e
low ebb, as to tolerate the spread of Popery with public money'
Upon the doors of many of our bookseller's shops, may be
seen swinging in the wind, notices of a work entitled "Defenc,e,
of the system of Education adopted in the Corporation Schools.
We are thankful that the author of that injudicious work is not
a member of the Church of England. Well did Mr Dixon say
at the Amphitheatre, that the Church of England was the groat
breakwater against the swelling tide of Popery. Hundreds 0(
conscientious Dissenters will repudiate the notion that they are
friendly to Popery, but, as a body, Dissenters are aiding its
propagation. Dissenters can never be said to act consistently
with their avowed !principles, until they unanimously prote4
against the government grant to Maynooth College, and the
appropriation of any part of our local revenues to the service of
s
education on Popish principles, under the exclusive superie"
tendence of Popish pi iests, because they now make no distine-
tion between truth and falsehood, but with characteristic Is
berality advocate and support the one as well as the other-
Much has been attempted to be said against our Clergy for
their determined and successful stand against4this false prin-
ciple, but we are mistaken if those Dissenters, who have intro-
duced this system, are not the first to bewail its effects.
The duty of every member of the Church, and of those whe
conscientiously differ from•her on non-essential points of doe"
trine, is to stand aloof from the plague spot, to uphold the gra°(.
principles of Protestantism, which alone breathe the spirit °',
true liberty, and to promote the spread of education, based °ll
Scripture alone. We trust that all those who ha e the real
welfare of the rising generation at heart, will look well to the
secret workings of Popery at the present day : that they sc'tll
join heart and hand with our excellent Clergy in the establish'
ment and support of the intended schools, and show to the hike"
warm and the mistaken, that there is a latent spirit of Pre-
testantism, which only requires to be aroused to vindicate the
.
cause truth, combined, as it ever must he, against the united
forces of scepticism and false doctrines.

laauEaT.—On Tuesday afternoon last an inquest was held at
the office of P. F. Currie, Esq., coroner, touching the death ?,
Mary Ann Parsonage, a female servant of Dr. (Thorlton, IL;
Rodney .street, who has been missing some time, and who Wa
found drowned the afternoon before. Martha Wheeler, arl,
other servant in the employment of Dr. Chorlton, deposed that
on Friday morning week the deceased went out, and said !°s,
was going for some clothes; she appeared in very low spirt!
She never afterwards returned. Ann Parsonage identified tn
t;
body as that of her sister. James Clare, a flatman, deposed a
finding the body floating opposite the POtteries; he tied a roll,
to it, and brought it down to Seacombe-slip, where he deliver
it to a police-officer, and it was by him carried to the aeZ
house. The jury retorted a verdict of " Found drowneae
We have heard the deceased was pregnant, and that there were
marks of violence upon the body; no surgeon, however, gay
evidence of this.
Mr. Lacey, of Bold-street, has just completed and publishs
his VIEW OF LIVERPOOL IN A STORM, from a picture by IVlr'
Walters, which attracted so much notice in last year. s Liverroa
Exhibition. It is a faithful and spirited representation,._°.,t,
will, we have no doubt, be largely purchased, both by residers to
and visitors. We particularly recommend the engraving
captains and others visiting America and other foreign par".
THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The evenings which have becd
fixed upon for the entertainments at these gardens, have Pt°if e
it
most unfortunate. Last evening, after two postponement,s,:ht
was announced that Napoleon would certainly wing his $
to the clouds, " weather permitting," and in consequenceer,
great number of spectators attended. The weather, h°wected-
did not "permit," and the public were again disappoin,is,.
Mr. Atkins, with the liberality which has always hithernir.
tinguished him, announced to those assembled, through., re.
Yates, that they were at liberty either to have !'heir morlejeek,
turned, or a ticket for the entertainment in the followinf wad-
when it was hoped the evenings appointed (Monday and
nesday) would prove inure auspicious.
°5
LYNCIIING A JUDGE.—During the July Term of -h 1,
Circuit Court, at Carlisle, William Boyd was tried tornr
an..
murder of Mr. Smith. The Jary found him ittnitY °far th°
slaughter, and awarded as his punishment confinement t
Penitentiary for three years and two months. Motion sag
made for a new trial, upon the grounds that the werqi°t
y.
against law and evidence, and the discovery of new tesi toa he
This, Judge Brown granted on Saitirday last, and admit' togs
prisoner to bail. The populace were so enraged at tfr that
for his outrage of all law and justice, as they esteetneuel door,
they tilled the fire-engine, placed it at the
after Court-hon-! the
and gave him. a handsOme ducking as he passed out
_not
Court adjourned. They likewise hung and burnt him "rowed
morning in effigy. When the Judge left Carlisle, they. lattadc
the black flag and tolled the bell. We do not justify
this
'which upon the person of Judge Brown but if the statements have
we have heard, in relation to the trial, &c., be true, andrtrsonie
no right to doubt it, they most unquestionably furnish tbe.
We give then pe,
udg.e
palliation for the treatment which the judge received af
hands of the people of Nicholas.
Nicholas great credit, however, for this moilificatio
more sever )nark
of
as likely to produce the end designed as the
It to rein'
Lynch's code. It evinces much humanity, and its tent:o7;4lw
thates
lions
tohte "Lynch
commonwealth'slaw' .arte-ir
arm with tile.judge, was also sprinkled with nausis
but he consoled himself by facetiously remarking tbfoiciso
law,"
attorneys who nearly
wfoaragot
walkingtea
water ;
fortane resulted alone from keeping-had company.
Paper, July 15.