The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ACHILL HERALD

" That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, of the number of his name."
Rev. viii. 17.

DEAR SIR,—An illustration of the fulfilment of prophecy
from palpable facts is always interesting. The following
narrative of a circumstance that occurred here lately, will
show how exactly the Romish priests fulfil to the letter the
persecuting principles of their system, as predicted in the
above passage of Scripture.
A Roman Catholic farmer named James Greven, living
in the neighbourhood of Newport, sold some hay to the Pro-
testant clergyman.
A Roman Catholic gentleman, Mr. Hillas, had been pre-
viously looking at the hay, and offered for it a smaller sum
than the owner was willing to sell it for.
The day after the farmer sold his hay, and before it was
drawn by the purchaser, a priest, one of Mr. Hughes' coad-
jusurs, went to him. 'Phis priest is, as I have been informed,
from the town of 'Foam, where his education in polite litera-
ture and the mysteries of Dens has just received its finishing
polish under the eye of Dr. M`Hale himself.
Having introduced to your readers the dramatis persona',
I now proceed to the dialogue which took place between this
worthy disciple of Dens and the honest farmer, as it has
been related by an ear-witness, premising that the priest
could not have required the hay for himself, but was evi-
dently intent on obtaining the bargain for some one else of
" the faithful."

Priest—Will you sell this hay; what will you take for it?
Farmer—Please your Reverence it is sold already.
Priest—But you must sell it to me now, come tell me what
you want for it?
Farmer—l cannot sell it, I have in my pocket the earnest
of the purchaser, it is impossible for me now to sell what is
not my own.
Priest—Yon must sell me the hay, tell me Sirra, to whom
did you sell it ?
The farmer fearing the priest's anger if be admitted that
he sold it to the Protestant Minister, replied, I sold it to
that man yonder, pointing to the house of one M'Cann, who
bought the hay for the clergyman.
The Priest's man, who stood by, observed—The hay has
been sold to Stoney. The fanner was obliged to admit this,
asseverated by a horrid imprecation by the man who usually
accompanies the Irish priest when he goes out in the harvest
on a foraging expedition, amongst the corn fields of the poor
farmers, he had to acknowledge that the hay was bought
by the Protestant Clergyman.
Priest—So you sold the bay to Stoney, did you! the rob-
ber, the villain, (here the gentle pastor broke out into a volley
of abuse and imprecations upon the absent object of his ire,)
I tell you he shall never get it, you must now sell it to me,
will you prefer that villain to me ?
Fanner—l have received the gentleman's earnest for the
hay, and it is out of my power now to sell it to you.
Priest-1 will give you ten shillings more than that villain
Stoney gave you for the hay.
Farmer-1 will not sell it now, it is sold already.
Priest—l tell you Stoney's money is unlucky, it will never
do you any good, it will melt away with you, and the money
will, if you take it, melt away all your substance.
Farmer—Please your Reverence, sure enough the money
will soon melt from me, for the moment I get it, it will go to
my Landlord to pay my rent.
Priest—Well, wherever it goes it will be unlucky and melt
away. But come, sir, will you sell me the hay? Will you
give Stoney, that robber and villain, a preference to me?
Tdl me, sir, were you ever a Protestant? you must have
been a Protestant before now, or you would not refuse me
and give your bay to that villain.
Farmer—l was never a Protestant, (here the poor man
took a little courage.) Let me tell your reverence that I
pay you your dues whenever they are called for, and let me
tell you that Mr. Stoney is not a robber or villain, I always
found him honest, he often served me and my family, and I
would give him my hay in preference to any man, whoever
he may be. The priest perceiving that it was useless to at-
tempt any further display of his tyranny over the poor but
honest farmer, foiled in his object of putting into practical
operation the principle he had been so lately instructed in
out of Dens"lheology, that no faith is to be kept with here-
tics, took his departure in great anger, and consoled himself
by immediately going into the adjoining farm of a poor man
named Spelman, and in the absence of its owner helped him-
self to twenty good sheaves of oats out of the stack which
contained the fruits of the poor man's labour for the year.
Hoping that our unhappy countrymen may be speedily
delivered from the cruel bondage in a hich the Rornish priests
keep them, I am, dear Sir, yours, &c.,
W. B. STONEY.

TORCH-LIGHT• AGITATION.—In our paper of Friday
last we remarked that government had done nothing
with a view to arrest the dangerous career of the
torch-light agitators, " beyond issuing a few inopera.
Live instructions to the magistracy." Subsequent re.
'malty lioe fully confirmed our impressions on the

subject. It is true that Lord John Russell pronounces
the illegality of these radical assemblages, and that he
suggests the propriety of narrowly watching their
proceedings; but if he has any expectation that the
chartist agitators will be deterred from their incendiary
course by such pusillanimous expedients, we beg to
assure him that he is profoundly ignorant of the men
with whom he has to deal. They have already set
Lord John Russell and his instructions at defiance.
We find from the Manchester Guardian that the ma-
gistrates of Bury, acting in obedience to the directions
of the Home Secretary, issued a placard to the follow-
ing effect, warning the people against attending a
torch-light meeting which was announced to take place
there last week :

The magistrates of this district having received instruc-
tions from the secretary of state, that all the late meetings
by torch light were illegal, and observing by a placard that
it is intended to hold one in Bury on the evening of Saturday
the Bth instant, do, in conformity with their instructions, give
this public notice of the illegality of such meetings, and
do advise all persons not to attend them By order of the
magistrates,

W. P. WOODCOCK.

Bury, 6th December, 1838.
The chartists, of course, care little about this brutum
[Omen. Their meetings are certainly pronounced to
be illegal ; but what does that signify, so long as no
actual measures are taken to suppress these torch-light
assemblages ? The meeting announced to take place
at Bury took place, in spite of the "caution" of the
magistrates. The chartist agitators, Mr. Feargus
O'Connor, the Rev. Mr. Stephens, Mr. Fletcher, of
Bury, Mr. Taylor, of Spotland, and several others,
were present on the occasion, and addressed the as-
semblage, which consisted of several thousands of
people, in langaage the most violent and inflamma-
tory. They treated the " advice" of the magistrates
with sovereign contempt, ridiculing the idea that they
were to be put down by such harmless missiles. They
had their usual accompaniments, bands of music, play-
ing martial airs; flags and banners, bearing the most
atrocious inscriptions; and an immense number of
torch lights. We have the authority of the Manchester
Guardian for the statement " that many of them are
believed to have been armed—as a large number of
pistols were discharged about the outskirts- of the

meeting !"
Has it really come to this ? Are armed assemblages
of seditious vagabonds to be allowed to throw defiance
in the face of the constituted authorities with perfect
impunity ? Are they to be permitted to display their
significant emblems of sedition, incendiarism, rebel-
lion, and murder, without any molestation ? We may
well demand "what are ministers doing?"—when we
find even the liberal Guardian using such strong lan-
guage as the following :—" The magistrates and the
government have, therefore, been fairly defied; and,
unless they are willing to sit down under that defi-
ance,—unless they choose to have it go forth to the
world, that in this neighbourhood there is to be no
protection for persons or property,—that the inciters
to incendiarism and murder are to pass unquestioned,
and that the law of the land is to become a byeword
and a mockery,—both the government and the magis-
trates are bound to take some step to prove that their
warnings were not mere idle words, but were issued
after a due consideration of the circumstances which
might ensue, and of the measures which such circum-
stances would require at their hands. What those
measures may be, we must, of course, leave to the
proper parties to determine." We will venture a little
further titan our liberal contemporary. We would at
once suggest the propriety, nay, the absolute neces-
sity, of putting an effectual stop to the chartist agita-
tion by calling in the aid of the military and police,
Wherever circumstances may arise to justify their pre-
sence or interference. It is of no use whatever to re-
sort to half measures with such desperate characters
as the chartist agitators and their followers. They
must be coerced into obedience to the law. They
must be taught, by acts of no equivocal construction,
that treason is not to be connived at—that instigations

o violence and murder are not to be passed by unno-
.iced or unpunished.
Our advice is, let the chartist conspiracy be crushed

in its infancy, before any further mischief is done.
The interference of the Military is indispensably ne-
cessary in order to accomplish this : let the military,
therefore, be employed in every instance in which an
attempt may be made to set the laws of the country at
defiance. Further, in order to show that the govern-
ment is in earnest on the subject, and to prove to the
agitators the futility of seeking to brave the law, let
the military be supplied with ball cartridge. We do
not advise this for the purpose of wanton massacre,
but for the sake of effectual intimidation.

Is this advice called for ? Let the inflammatory

language employed by the chartist agitators furnish
the answer. On a recent occasion Mr. Feargus
O'Connor said, "He had spent seven years in the
cause of the people ; three in parliament, three out of
parliament, and one at the press ;—but he did not in-
tend to spend another six years, or even one year, be-

fore he obtained for the people their just rights—uni-
versal suffrage, annual parliaments, &c. &c. The
black slaves had obtained their emancipation on the
Ist of August, 1838; and he appointed September
29th, 1839, for the manumission of the white slaves.
If the Whigs did not concede their liberty on the 29th,
the people should take it by force on the 30th. They
would have their Michaelmas goose on the 29th, and
on the 30th their opponents should have the gander.
He had preached peace all his life, but at the same
time he was always prepared for war. One of those.
torches (pointing at one near at hand) was worth a
thousand speeches : it spoke a language so intelligi-
ble that no one could misunderstand. Those who
were not within the hearing of his voice would com-
prehend the meaning of that silent monitor."

What is " the meaning of that silent monitor,"
which speaks so intelligibly ? Does it not speak of
midnight violence? Does it not show that the chartist
agitation has ulterior views which will only bear to be
indistinctly symbolised by the lighted torch and the

warlike banner ?
That there is no doubt whatever that such was the
real purport of the allusion of O'Connor to the torches
we have additional evidence in the language employed
by Mr. Stephens at the very same meeting. He re-
marked " that they would be justified in taking those
torches, and burning down the inhuman bastiles."

Now, we are far from entering into the feelings of
those who think that the poor-law bastiles constitute
the very quintessence of humane legi elation ; but we

must nevertheless enter our solemn protest against
the employment of such means as those suggested by
Mr. Stephens for abolishing this delectable specimen
of Whig cruelty. The poor•law, whatever Mr. Ste-
phens may allege to the contrary, is part and parcel
of our statute law, and as such must be conformed to,
until it is repealed. Nor should the repeal of this ty-
rannical law, however obnoxious may be its enact-
ments, be sought for by any other than legal and con•
stitutional means. Such are not the means employed
by the chartist agitators. They openly proclaim that
the law ought not to be obeyed, nay, that it ought to
be resisted by force of arms. If we allow the princi-
ple for which Mr. Stephens contends, what is to pre•
vent other parties from resorting to the same means
for procuring the abolition of such laws as they may
deem obnoxious and contrary to the spirit of the con-
stitution ? What, for instance, would be thought of
an appeal to arms for the purpose of procuring the
repeal of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act ?
Much more cogent reasons might be adduced in justi-
fication of such a course than any which have been
paraded by Mr. Stephens in his incendiary addresses
to the revolutionists.

We are not libelling Mr. Stephens by attributing to
him a wish to set aside the laws of the land by resort-
ing to physical force. The following language, em-
ployed by this reverend by courtesy agitator, at the
Bury meeting, affords the most unequivocal evi-
dence of the real designs of the chartists. He said
—"I have been denounced as a devil, by the Bir-
mingham political council, because I have recom-
mended the people to arm—by law—under law
—and for law—according to the principle of the con-
stitution. I have given that advice—l give that ad-
vice again—l repeat it to-night. You know that I
never flinch—you know that I never shrink; and I
am not come here to shrink or to flinch before you to-

night. It is my opinion—my deliberate and decided
opinion—that there is no chance for you—no hope for
you—no freedom for you, until, in all things, you
keep the law, and as the law is kept by others, unless
you have weapons of offence or defence, safe and se-
cure in your individual and in your collective posses-
sion. * * * * I say that the new poor-
law is no low at all—no law of God.—no law of man—
no law of Chriotian England—no law of Christian

Englishmen. I say, that whoever he be—be he what

he may—great or small, high or low—in red or in
blue—no man has any right to attempt to carry the
law into execution. If he attempt it morally, he
must be morally resisted. If he attempt it physi-
cally, he may be, and ought to be, physically resisted.
* * * * * I am sure that you have acted
on what I have told you from time to time, and what
I have told you is right, just, and good; and know
you, that we may be ever ready to fight it out, and
fight it out we will; for you shall have peace and
plenty yourselves, or they shall have nothing but war,
war, war, till they be exterminated from the face of
the earth."

It is a singular and rather ominous coincidence

that, at the very moment that Mr. Stephens was ad-
dressing the Bury Chartists, the factory of Mr.
Jowett, who had been denounced by Stephens, was
blazing at Ashton-under-Lyne! Here is an evidence
of the "intelligible language" of the torches.

Having thus briefly pointed out the language and
objects of the chartist agitators, we may well exclaim
once more, "what are ministers doing ?" Is it not,
indeed, high time that O'Connor, Stephens, and Co.
should be brought to account? Are they to continue
their incendiary agitation until the whole kingdom is
in a flame ? What will Lord John Russell, the imbe-
cile Secretary of State, ..say, when he is told that the
following language was employed by Stephens, while
addressing his audien,7e at Charles Town :—" He had

heard a few days before of an incendiary having de-
stroyed six stacks of corn ; after having read the ac-
count, he thanked God, for that, as it might be ex-
tended to Lancashire into the halls, aye, and into the
cotton factories also, and not to six, but six hundred
stacks !"

Well may it be said that this country now, more than
ever, requires a strong government. We want a
ministry that will dare to avenge the insulted majesty
of the laws—that will not suffer such incendiaries as
Stephens to pursue their destructive career unchecked.
We cannot expect to have such a ministry without turn-
ing out the whig radicals.

CONCERT AT TEMPLARS' HALL.—Last evening, Mons. A.
de St. Maurice gave a concert at Templars' Hall. We were
unable ourselves to attend it, but heard that the singing of
Miss Leach and Mr. Walton gave great satisfaction, and
that the performances generally were loudly applauded. We
understand the concert was well attended.

BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, four noto-
rious had characters named John Leyland, John Young,
Woodyer, and James Scholefield, were examined be-
fore the magistrates on a charge of having, on Wednesday
night week, entered the house of a Mrs. Cooper, living in
Hart-street, by breaking through the back parlour window,
and carrying away therefrom £l3 in gold, and a gold watch
and chain, which they found in a drawer in the room. They
were apprehended the night before, by constable Ainsworth,
on suspicion. Witnesses were examined, who deposed to
seeing them lurking about•on the night of the robbery, but
there being no further evidence against them, Mr. Hall
ordered them to be discharged, after severely animadverting
on their known bad conduct.

AI as. GEARY'S STAYS.—It is with infinite pleasure that
we learn, there is an invention by Mrs. Geary, of St. James's-
street, London, which promises great advantage to the
ladies, especially the rising generation, and when we refer to
the royal and distinguished patronage this stay and corset has
received, and the high testimonials of their merits from the
most eminent medical gentlemen in the metropolis, we feel
ourselves justified in congratulating the inventress, Mrs.
Geary, upon the success of her invention, which we feel
satisfied, from its construction, cannot fail to benefit the
female community at large, and we are happy to know that
our fair townswomen have the advantage of this lady's in-
vention; as per advertisement in our columns, she has ap.
pointed Mrs. Cutter, of Clarence-street, Rodney-street, the
sole agent for Liverpool. •

THE ROYAL WILLIAM.—This fine steam-ship will sail to-
morrow for New York, with passengers only.
Lord Holland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has
appointed Charles Birch, Esq., of Litherland-house, a Jus-
tice of the Peace for this county. A resident magistrate has
long been wanted in the neighbourhood of Bootle, Litherland,
&c-; and the present appointment, whilst it supplies a press-
ing want, is extremely judicious on the part of his lordship.
The packet-ship Siddons, which sailed hence the 21st of
October, arrived at New York ou the 22d ult. Among the
passengers by the Siddons were William Brown, Esq. and
his lady, who were in the best health after their voyage.
The new and splendid packet-ship Roscius was to leave New
York on the 26th ult., and may therefore be expected here
daily. Notwithstanding the crowd of passengers in the Great
Western, every berth in ,the Roscius was, it is stated, en-
gaged.

ANCHOR-FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Saturday last,
the weather being extremely foggy, the Cleveland, Wood-
side, steam-boat, in crossing the river, ran close alongside
the Garrick, tAmerican packet-ship, which was riding at
anchor, but fortunately without doing any mischief. Grazing
along, however, she passed under the Garrick's bows, where
hung the spare anchor, and this she made free to hit upon
her own bulwarks, and bore it bodily away, the chain cable,
strange to relate, to which it was attached having snapped
asunder,—seemingly as willing to let go the anchor as the
Cleveland appeared to get hold of it. The whole was but
the work of a moment; but had any amount of human power
been employed to execute the service, it could not have been
effected with greater nicety. The Cleveland immediately
shot clear or the Garlick, and, with the unexpected addition
of a "best bowel" to her equipments for the perilous voyage
across the Mersey, proceeded to her destination. Thus, what
might have been attended with incalculable misfortune under
other circumstances—the breaking of the chain cable—was
here the means of averting consequences which might have
been attended with a frightful amount of damage, if not loss
of life. Such an occurrence is unprecedented, andin all pro-
bability, will remain unparalleled. On the steamer's return,
a glass of grog was the only salvage required from the owners
of the anchor, for the restoration of so valuable a prize.
PROPOSED NEw CHURCH.—On Monday evening an ad.
journed meeting, on the subject of the new church proposed
to be built by the congregation of St. Jude's, was held in that
church, the Rev. 1-1. M'Neile in the chair. About 500 per-
sons were present. The subscriptions were stated to amount
to £2,500 Two sites were named, one in Gill-street, the
other a small field adjoining a house at the corner of Anson-
street, Pembroke-place. The latter, it was stated, could be
procured at 20s. per yard, 2s. below the price asked for the
former. It was decided that the choice should be left to the

trustees. The church will contain about 1300 persons, the
greater portion to be let off in sittings at from Is. to ss. each,
and marked into sittings, so that each person may call the
place he occupies his own. The trustees, being likewise those
of St. Jude's, are Mr. W. Jones, Mr. Robert Bickersteth,
Mr. C. S. Parker, Mr. Adam Hodgson, and Mr. T. B. Hors-
fall. The estimated cost of the building is £5OOO, less by
£lOOO than that of St. Jude's. Operations will be com-
menced with the first settled weather in spring, probably
about the middle of March. The church is to be dedicated
to St. Barnabas. A proposition was made at the meeting,
anti warmly adopted, that the ladies of the congregatton, as
well as gentlemen, should have books for receiving donations.
" Hannay and Dietrichsen's Almanack, ' Astronomical
Ephemeris, and Book of General Information for 1839. —We
are positively at a loss for words to express our astonishment
at the unparelleled comprehensiveness of the Almanack just
(
Published by Messrs. Hannay and Dietrichsen, f the ensu-
ing year. There is scarcely a subject in the us al routine of
events to which we do not find reference in t s book of 100
pages, at the insignificant cost of 6d.; a sum / ich positively
t
can little more than cover the price of the p per. The bio-
graphical and chronological tables are exceedingly interest-
ing, particularly those for the present yar. The titles,
eclipses, &c. are duly noticed, and the pr gress of Encke's
comet during the remainder of the pre t year, and Gam-
bart's in 1839, are traced by diagrams the heavens. We
have the list of the royal households; t e House of Lords,
giving the titles oithe Peers, the fami ,S, name, the motto of
the Peers, and date of creation; the ;House of Commons is
given twice, firs'. alphabetically, secondly arranged by the
places the members represent; the whole of the army list,
giving the officers' names aphabetically arranged, (a desidera-
tum long wanted) with the dates of commission, and the ap-
pointment theofficer holds; the navy list is given in like man-
ner; the bankers, the provincial and metropolitan; the cor-
poration dignities; ambassadors and consuls; universities;
the list of fairs throughout the kingdom is by far the best
ever printed ; and in shoat, as we have before observed, in-
formation upon every possible topic of interest is afforded to
the public in this most useful pamphlet. Messrs. Hannay
and Dietrichsen have certainly put all competition out of the
field, for, we should say, it would be impossible for any other
firm to produce a similar compilation at five times the cost."
—Morning Chronicle, Oct. 28.
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and-place.
MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—The second meeting for
the present session was held on the 28th of November, Sir
Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S.' in the chair. The first communi-
cation announced was by Mr. Everett, accompanying a large
parcel of barks and seeds sent over by Dr. Hebble from Bom-
bay. A communication was next read from Captain Pidding,
stating that, contrary to the opinion expressed on the last
meeting, the Loong-tsing Hyson Pekoe, although not an
article of commerce, had been introduced into this country;
in proof of which, he presented a dock warrant for and a chest
of Loong-tsing, to the Society. This far-famed tea, the
beverage of the Emperor, realises a very high price, and is
principally sent in China as present from one Mandarin to
another. At the recent sales of Teas, as much as one guinea
per pound was offered for it by the Tea Brokers. He also
expressed his opinion, supported by the authority of Sir George
Staunton, Mr. Davis, F.R.S., Dr. Clarke Abel, and other
equally eminent authorities, that the green and black teas
were the produce of plants of the same species; and stated
some curious facts respecting the exemption of the Chinese
from the epidemic diseases incident to Europeans, and par-
ticularly influenza and cholera. Dr. Sigmond then entered
at length into the dietetic and medicinal properties of tea,
first giving an account of its introduction into England about
1660; with the opposition which it met with from enthusiastic
persons who predicted that even our national ruin would be
the result from its influence upon the nerves. Dr. Cheyne,
the celebrated physician, was amongst the foremost in this
outcry, but he gives such particulars of the nervous complaints
of t hose days, which make those of the present quite insignifi-
cant. It was not unusual for nervous complaints then to last
for twenty years; and it was a fact that, since that period,
nervous complaints had decreased, and probably from the
change of beverage at the introduction of tea, that this was to
be ascribed. He mentioned some complaints to which per-
sons who handle tea are subject; amongst other cases to which
he alluded was one stated to him by Dr. Clendenning, the
Professor of Texicology, of a cutaneous disease on the hands
of a tea-dealer's assistant, brought on by the frequent finger-
ing of tea. He then announced that his next lecture would
be directed to the adulterations of this article.—St. James's

Chronicle, John Bull, Courier, Sic. 4-e.
The London line-of-packet ship, President, Captain Chad-
wick, which sailed with the Great Western steamer on the

23d ult. from New York, arrived off Plymouth, after a fine
passage, on Saturday the Bth instant. She, of course, brings
nothing later from that quarter.
KENMELL PARK, ST. ASA PH'S.—Grpat gaiety prevails at
the hospitable seat of Lord Dinorben. Among the visitants
already arrived are—Lord Sandes, Lord and Lady Gardner,
Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley, Lieut. Wellesley Williams,
10th hussars, Col. Hughes. brother to Lord Dinorben, Pyrse
Pyrse, Esq., M,P., Miss Williams, Hon. Mts. Rowley, Co-
lonel, Mrs., and Miss Grey, Richard Croft, Esq. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lady Celilia Underwood, and
Lord John Churchill, are expected at Kenmell on Monday
next, for the Christmas recess, from Col Wildman's, New-
stead Abbey, the sports of the field occupying the lilmirigs,
cattle and music tbe amino,

CORRESPONDENCE.

PRESENT MISERABLLE CONDITION OF THE
UNITED STATES NAVY.

7'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Ste,—lt was with much astonishment I read an article in
a radical newspaper concerning the United States navy—
praising its prowess, discipline, and ships. Now, having
resided in the United States several years; having visited
and resided in some of its chief naval stations, and been
through a great part of its principal vessels of war, I think
I have had a good opportunity of knowing the condition of
the American navy. It is my intention to bring forward no-
thing but well-known facts—the observations, not of Eng-
lish, but American writers.
Ist. As to Power.—The American navy is smaller than the
least of the European navies. An American paper says,
"With all our bragging, we are inferior in naval strength to
the smallest power in Europe that pretends to be maratime.
In number and force of ships, we are inferior to the Turks,
the Pacha of Egypt, and even the little semi-barbarian,
Sultan of Muscat on the Red Sea. Whilst boasting of our
navy, our shipless, seamanless navy, pirates or privateers come
into our very harbours and run away with our richest vessels.
And when this naval force comes to be tried, we cannot mus-
ter small arms enough in a dock-yard to man a cutter to
catch a pirate. We are kicked and buffetted by a handful
of Indians and negroes."—Philadelphia Public Ledger, Oct.
24th, 1837. "Our navy is a rotten, contemptible, imbecile
concern."—Same Paper, Nov. Bth, 1837. A member of Con-
gress said, while speaking of the Canadian rebellion, and
cutting out of the pirate steamer Caroline, by the gallant
Captain Drew, R.N., and in reference to the American army
and navy, "The army is lost, scattered, bogged, scalped, i❑
the fens of Florida. The navy is a sheer hulk."—Reported
in the United States Gazette. Jan. 17th, 1838. "We are a
case, certainly a case, in the contingency of a sudden war."—
Globe, Jarman'. 1838.

2nd. As to Ships.—The Philadelphia Transcript, June 25th,
18.38, whose editor is a major in the United States army,
says, "We have about 50 vessels of war, one-third of which
are worthless, and another third of which are not fit for sea."
"To protect our commerce what have we got? A dozen
crazy ships of the line, most of which were rotten before
they could be rigged, and scarcely one of which can be kept
upright in the water, or outsail.a timber raft : some half-
dozen frigates, too large for what they are named, and too
small for ships of the line, and thus unfit for anything. A
dozen sloops so clumsily constructed after the whims of igno-
rant and self-sufficient pretenders, as to be exceeded in speed
by almost any mud scow. The Columbus° and Ohio cannot
go to sea for fear of sinking, or from danger of oversetting—so
clumsily constructed. Independence, ship of the line, can-
not use her armament for fear of sinking; the Delaware and
North Carolina cannot get out of. Gosport without running
ashore, &c. Three or four navy yards, not one of which
contains a rope-walk, scarcely one a timber-shed, not one
with sufficient materials for fitting out two ships of the line,
and one, our own, not materials for the armament of a reve-
nue cutter, or cutlasses and pistols enough to arm a steam-
boat ! Yes, listen, ye boasters about our mighty navy, and
hide your heads in shame at the disgraceful fact ! England
has only seven dock-yards, the least of which is greater than
all ours united: fifty times more military means in a single
dock-yard than the whole union can muster, and these not a
fifth part of what that nation possesses !!" Here is a picture
of the "wonder/lel" American navy !
3rd. As to Discipline.—The discipline is the most miserable
and tyrannical. As to officers, they are a host of "ignorant
pretenders;" their American paper says so. Ledger, Oct.
18.37.—" Our naval officers : a compound of ignorance, im-
pudence, and vanity." "We have no other navy department
than three post-captains, a majority of whom have never
been fit for their stations, and in the plenitude of their igno-
rance and arrogance, have carried ruin everywhere they have
interfered." So much for their officers—so much for their
navy !

The American navy consists of 50 vessels of war—"a third
of which are worthless—another third not fit for sea!" divided
into-12 ships of the ling, most of which "are rotten ;"
" scarcely one of which can keep upright in the water!"-
6 frigates, "not worth anything!"-12 sloops, "so clumsily
constructed" as to be "exceeded in speed by any mud scow!"
—2O gun-boats, carrying 4 to 6 guns, " not lit for action,
being half rotten."'—making a total of 50 vessels. Here is
the naval power that is to " make England shake." Four of
our 74-men-of-war could sweep all this "wonderful navy ;"
truly we ought to be afraid to enter such a mighty sea
struggle!
Our present position, as regards the United States, is war-
like—England must demand reparation for the murders and
butcheries of her Canadian subjects. The British lion has
been dormant too long, but our flag must be protected. The
brightest jewel in the British kingdom must not be snatched
from us. These things render it necessary that the English
nation should know what force the Americans could bring
forth in case of war.

For the benefit of our radical American friends, I will show
a little of our force at sea and land. Woolwich, at this mo-
ment, after a'period of twenty-two years' peace, contains
24,000 pieces of ordnance, of which 3000 are of gun metal,
commonly called brass, the remainder of iron; and the whole
divided into 20'2 classes, according to their calibre and length.
Assuming 120 pieces for a first-rate ship of the line, 60 for a
frigate of the first class, 50 for one of the second class, and
20 for a sloop,—here are enough to arm 200 first-rate ships
of the line, 400 frigates of the first class, 480 of the second
class, and 1200 sloops. But this is a small portion of our
naval resources; for in our six other great dock yards are
large numbers of cannon, and in the whole seven are pro-
portionate quantities of timber, cordage, anchors, ammuni-
tion, and stores. In Woolwich alone are 3,000,000 of can-
non balls and shells, enough for 25,000 broadsides of a first-
rate ship, 80,000 of a first-rate frigate, 60,000 of a second-rate
frigate, and 150,000 of a sloop. Allow ten minutes to a broad-
side, 348 days, of 12 hours to each, would be consumed in dis-
charging this amount of shot from a first-rate ship of the line.
And yet this is not a tenth part of what is possessed by us.
Deptford dock yard covers 31 acres, has two wet docks cover-
ing four.acres, three building slips, a basin, two mast ponds,
twenty forges for anchors, mast houses, tinabersheds ; and em-
ploys 1000 artificers. That of Woolwich is a mile long; em-
ploys in time of peace 1800 workmen. Chatham dock yard
is a mile long; store houies 640 feet long. Sheerness covers 60
acres; cost 14,400,000 dollars. Besides there are Pembroke,
Plymouth, and Portsmouth. These docks produce, in time
of peace, a navy of at least 100 ships of the line, 200 frigates,
300 sloops arid schooners, &c. " This navy is sustained by
an amount of wealth, productive energy,. administrative skill,
and public spirit, which may challenge the world for a parallel."
—Philadelphia Ledger.
When the allied covereigus visited England, just after the
peace of 1815, they were struck with astonishment in behold-
ing the immense amount of military means at Woolwich,
and at first imagined that modern imitation of cannon had
been made to deceive them ! This, I think, is better than
the American dock yard, that could not get pistols and swords
enough to man a cutter ! The well-informed AmeriCans
know our power and dread it. Last winter, when a war was
threatened with us, they acknowledged they could not pre-
tend to meet us at sea. 'The Philadalphian, March, 1838,
says—" If war be intended (by England), we are in iso con-
dition to meet it on the ocean. The French navy would be a
powerful auxiliary. The duty of our government is to cultivate
the most friendly relations with France. It is mortifying to
be obliged to rely upon another nation for protect ion." " I
guess" the French have had enough of glory at our hands to
wish for more in a hurry. Apologizing for taking up so
inl:ch of your valuable time and paper, I shall conclude by
saying—that England once embarked in a war with America,
can never retire from the contest "till her military rabble be
taught to respect the difference between physical force and
military science; till ocean shall war again with the echoes
of that struggle, which sweeping her fleets, like so many
Lilliputian prows within its depths, shall leave the standard
of England broad unfurled athwart the watery expanse in
undisputed attestation of her naval strength and maritime
supremacy."

I have the honour to remain yours, &e.
S. W. B.

December 12, 1838.

EASTERN COUNTIES' ItAILWAY.-IMPUDENT

FALSEHOOD,

TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

London, December 14th, 1838.
SIR,—A contradiction having been given in the Eastern
Counties' engineer and secretary's paper to a statement in
the last number of the Railway Magazine, relative to the state
of the works on this line, I have, in company with a gentle-
man, since walked over more than one mile and a half of this
end of it; and I beg to observe, that a more barefaced and
impudent fraud on the public was never promulgated than
that contradiction. As the object is evidently a clap trap
for the Lancashire shareholders, 1 trust you will permit me to
state the facts and expose the fraud. .

The writer—who from his amusing ignorance in not know-
ing the difference between square and lineal measure, 1 sup-
pose, can be no other than the secretary—says, "there is not
a single noon (rod ?) of the mile and a half at this end sin-
touched ; the whole has been fenced in and contracted for,
AND MUCH OF IT IS ALREADY EXECUTED."

Now, sir, the following are the facts, three days after the
publication of this paragraph, when so much more, not less,
work ought to have been "executed." Until we got into
Phcenix-street, about one-eighth of a mile from the terminus,
not a thing is touched. Here are about four small old houses
pulled down, and a little higher up in the street about the
same number more, the materials of which are removed, and
no doubt sold and paid for to the company. This, we under-
stand, has been done about eight or ten weeks. From this
point until we reach Dog-row, now called by the secretary
Cambridge-row, one mile from the terminus by their own
plan, not a thing is touched or a brick to this day, December
4th, begun to be removed, or a single inch fenced in, even in
the open ground. Nay, the earliest notices to quit that we
could hear of, do not terminate before the 4th or Bth of Ja-
nuary, and in one instance not until the BTH OF JULY NEXT
YEAR. Further, it appears from our inquiries doubtful
whether even the exact line is yet settled in some places; and
of the money paid, all that we heard of was one solitary £lOO,
though there might be a little more that we did not hear of.
At the east side of Dog-row some carpenters are beginning
to pull down a wooden fence. Within one hundred yards
farther, a small house, or perhaps two, are taken down, and
another, one hundred yards farther; in St. Ann-street they
arc beginning to take some down. Some 300 yards from
Dog-row they are digging out a foundation or two, that is on
the east and west sides of James's-street. On both sides of
Globe-lane, near one mile and a quarter from Shoreditch,
they have commenced laying in the foundations of some
arches; but even the underground part of the works is not
near finished. From the best estimate we could make, this
beginning of work might extend from 100 to 150 yards.
We could scarcely form a very exact calculation, but it
appeared to us that'the whole work done towards the railway
itself, exclusive of pulling down, &c., might have occupied
a week, and cost about £lOO.
Here, (Globe-lane,) and where the line comes into De-
vonshire-street, about 170 •yards, there is a wooden fence at
the ends, the sides being old fences or houses. Beyond De-
vonshire-street, to the east side of the Jews' Burial Ground,
about 200 yards, and nearly a mile and a half from the ter-
minus, all open ground, not one thing is done or a bit of
fence erected.

Compare this statement, sir, which is attested beneath,
and which we call on Mr. Braithwaite, the engineer, to deny
if he can, with the daring falsehood contained in the para-
graph quoted, and let your readers and the Lancashire
shareholders say, what measurse of execration is due to the
man that could write, or the paper that could publish for the
purposeof imposing on them, such an outrage on truth, such
a fraud on the publ►c. I believe, sir, there is but one man iu
England who could have the daring audacity to write it; for
instance, such a man as he who could assert and publish,
that "a LIE CURRENT and uncontradicted for a WEEK is as
GooD for any matter of PRESENT EFFECT as the BEST TRUTH
that EVER was promulgated."
As there are many respectable persons in Lancashire who
have invested money in this line, and who have no personal
means of detecting the falsehoods weekly published to gull
them on to further payments, I beg to observe, that I will
lend to any gentleman in this neighbourhood, two or more
of them may appoint, a plan of the line, that he may exa-
mine for himself; and if he find one iota of my account of
the state of the works, December 4, wrong, I will publicly
acknowledge it in your paper and the Railway Magazine.
With respect to the certificates case queried in the Railway
Magazine, and contradicted by the Secretary, I have myself
made enquires into the sources of the report, and I now put
it to each and evellj one of the directors publicly to deny with
his name, if he can, that there is one, if not more, ceitificates
out, having the official signature of the secretary and with a
name not to be found in the Company's books. I have my rea-
son, sir, for requiring the point blank denial of every direetor.
More I may say, perhaps, in the next number of the Railway
Magazine. •

Pormit me to ask you what your Liverpool and Manches-
ter gentlemen are about, that they do not more deeply look
into the management of this concern? Are they asleep 'V

Will they go on paying away their money and receive in ex-
change, with contented credulity, the mountebank puffs
weekly manufactured to cajole and bamboozle them? 'I hey
are not wont to be so lax. Let them awake. Let them look
into the affairs of this concern with one-half the vigilance
they have into those of the Great Western, before it be too
late, or they will have—and pray do me the justice to remem-
ber that 1 have said so—dearly to lament it.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
J. HERAPATH.

I accompanied Mr. Herapath, having a plan of the line
with us, over that part of it from the terminus at Norton
Folgate to the Jews' Burial Ground, December 4th, and
have compared the above statement with my notes taken on
the spot, and do here certify, that every item herein men-
tioned regarding the state of the works and other inquiries is
strictly true. JAMES H-T.
London, 10th December, 1838.

A FEW FACTS RELATING TO SCOTLAND-ROAD
MARKET.
GROSE AND TYRER.

Mr. Grose is inspector. Mr. Tyrer collector, or deputy
collector. For two months before the late election, they
were to be met with only at the Travellers Rest. They say
the farm-yard is a partnership matter with Grose and Tyrer.
They oblige the market constables to go into the neighbour-
hood for swillings, for'the farm-yard swine, and every morn-
ing to sweep a part of the yard, that is, to gather the manure
together. With the market fire they boil the meat for the pigs.
M present, the manure is about a yard deep in the yard.
On Sundays, the market constables are obliged to feed the
swine. All the manure, with the exception of a few loads,
has been weighed at Joseph Pickavance's, Scotland-road,
and not exaggerating, comes to about £3O a-year. The oc-
cupants of the yard are very heterogeneous, viz., goats, pigs,
rabbits, and poultry of all kinds. The privy seats are nailed
down to prevent the loss of poultry, besides, they are so
filthy, that they could not be used, being the nightly abode of
the farm-yard inmates, but if not so, the yard gates are
locked, and no person but Mr. Grose, and Mr. Tyrer can have
access. Since the Cumberland Fish Company have taken
a stall in the fish part of the market, Mr. Grose has been
obliged to resign a cell, which he has been heard bitterly to
complain of. Mr. Kirby, tobacconist, occupies one vault,
and is obliged to wade through the mire above shoe tops,
every time he takes a barrel of tobacco in or out. Farmers
are not permitted to take any straw they bring into the mar-
ket out with them, and when potatoes are unloading, the
constables have directions to collect all that fall, and take
them into the farm-yard.

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This yard, if freed from the nuisance with which it is at
present encumbered, would he a fine convenience for country
people, on market days, to unload their produce. It would
improve, too, the neighbourhood, and Maddox-street especi-
ally.
Air. Thomas Sephton, of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Scotland-
road, took ten little pigs in his shandry to Great Howard-
street, and stopped at the door of a public-house, and went
across into the market to inquire the price of pigs, and find-
ing the market low, said, I've ten pigs in my shandry yonder,
and if the market had been higher I would have brought
them in." Alr. Grose, however, demanded toll, 2d. per
head on them, and on Sephton refusing to pay it, lie took a
pig, and kept it; he, however, afterwards permitted Sephton
to redeem it, on paying Is. Bd. toll, and would keep 2s. 6d.
The shandry was not in the market, nor on the market-
ground, nor near the market, nor could it be seen from the
market.

Mr. Grose is inspector of Scotland-road Market, Pownall-
square Market, and the Pig Market, Great Howard-street.
Mr. Grose and Mr. Tyrer wrote squibs and circulars for
Mr. bacon at the Travellers Rest, and afterwards delivered
them with Mr. Lacon's address, to the electors, and can-
vassed the electors from door to door, instead of minding
their market duties.

Mr. Grose got his present situation for being secretary for
Scotland Ward Reform Association. Mr. Smethurst has
succeeded him, but Mr. G. cannot•help but assist. Mr.
Sephton voted for Mr. Holmes, and so drew upon himself
the vengeance of the disappointed Radical, Mr. G.
A butcher, residing at the bottom of Collingwood-street,
cannot get a stall in St. Martin's Market, although many
are vacant, because he is a conservative, and voted for Mr.
Holmes.

MORE TO COME,

THE WRITINGS, CORRESPONDENCE, &c., OF
TITUS O'FLAHERTY, &c.
No. 111.