The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

tantism, and universal Protestantism would set
all right : v:tid there is that in existence which
might solve the problem. It may be extin-
guished in a day; the opportunity may pass in a
moment. Now it exists. At this moment we want
for truth " a great war." Local skirmishing may
irritate, but can achieve nought. The battle cry
must be—" Ascendancy for truth! Downfall for
errlr I" To effect both, not bayonets, not gun-
powder ; but national organisation to diffuse light.
Light we want everywhere—organisation where and
how it is possible. This we have showed, and not
in r ain, if there be brains and a heart where we sus-
pect both. It will he, however, utterly in vain to
expect that English Protestants will stand out, while
Irish Protestants, who are in the jaws of the enemy,
are dormant.

The following, from the Leeds Mercury of Satur-
day last, is rather amusing, as coming from a journal
which, a week or two since, threatened us with the
most disastrous consequences if the Lords rejected
the Government commercial scheme, and then de-
picted in glowing terms the blessings which were to
flow inevitably from those measures :
" We have great confidence in free trade and low duties ;
but there may be so rapid a reduction of duties as not to
yield the requisite funds to the exchequer. The reduction
of duties may prove to have been adopted with somewhat
greater haste than was safe and prudent. If so, Sir
Robert will have left financial embarrassments to his suc-
cessors."

The same journal, in an article giving its judg-
ment on Sir Robert Peel, whom it enthusiastically
admires, reiterates our sentiments of last week almost
totidem verbis. In the course of the remarks, our
contemporary says, " sober men must allow that a
statesman ought not to be a quicksand to all who
trust him."

Does Sir Robert Peel know now the destiny
which he has prepared for his country ? There can
be no doubt that he does. His policy has been
most astutely directed to bring it about. From the
commencement of his career as a statesman his
object has been to erect an aristocracy of capital
upon the wreck of the old aristocracy of rank and
lan 'ed possessions. He has felt his position
amongst the men into contact with whom he has
been thrown ; it has galled his spirit to the quick,
and he has turned the influence of his talents and
his habits of profound dissimulation to the task of
winning a triumph for his order over those whose
conventional superiority lie has never ceased to feel.
The protestantism which he found so deeply em-
bedded in the constitution stood in his path ; and
he has quietly and assiduouslyi disrobed it of its
supremacy. The church was an aristocratic insti-
tution ; and he has winked at its partial prostration.
His measure of 1842 was a step to throw the coun-
try into more complete dependance upon the acci•
dents of commercial and manufacturing prosperity.
The Corn and Customs Act of the present session
is its natural sequence. The New Poor Law placed
a bar between the toiling masses and the agricul-
tural body—their natural protectors ; and he made
himself its apostle and detender. He has opposed
factory legislation, and done his utmost to perpe-
tuate a fertile source of heart-burning and discord
between masters and work people, which may at some
future period be used to control the ambition of his
new alies. But in the whole of his devious course his
master stroke has been his treatment of Ireland. He
told us in 1835 that Ireland was his chief difficulty.
It is his trump card—his escape from the dilemmas
which he rushes upon with his eyes open. No one
can know better than Sir Robert Peel the real seat
of the evil which afflicts that unhappy land; no one
more sedulously avoids grappling with the difficulty
which it presents; no one so industriously sets him-
self to foment that difficulty ; and up to the last
moment of his official life he has been erecting in
that land the materials of future difficulty—estrang-
ing all that is loyal, all that is contributory to Ire-
land's happiness and quiet, and to England's great-
ness.

Sir Robert Peel must know that his policy is let-
ting in upon this country, through the door which
Ireland offers to his machinations, a Hood of Popery
and disaffection, which will ultimately, when it gets
more outrageously insolent, excite a storm of popu-
lar indignation, and stir the empire to its centre.
Happily we have here a safety valve left us. The
mind of the English people is determinedly opposed
to the pretensions of this heretical sect. Enunciated
at once, the past measures of Sir Robert Peel would
not hare been tolerated an hour ; but, gradually in-
troduced,_they_hv e_d e been endur,_as we bear a
burthen which is imposed upon us ounce by ounce:-
until at length we bend beneath the weight, and
turn round upon the hand which has laid it on.
The nation did this in 1829. It rose in its might
and stript of power, for a time, this insidious prac-
tiser upon the constitution.
It has just done so once more. The House of
Commons has revenged itself upon the Minister for
a second breach of faith ; and we have to ask the
question, will the people of England once more for-
give—once more permit itself to be deceived by
professions of remorse for the past—once more
permit Sir Robert Peel to build a new party, and
seat himself at the head of their affairs ? Most
sincerely we believe the attempt to do this will be
made. The right hon. baronet knows that the ad-
ministrative talents of his political opponents are
not sufficient for unravelling the tangled web,
which he has woven for his country; and. alas !
the sounder portion of the Conservative statesmen,
in both Houses, are unpractised and unequal to the
task.

It is not straightforward principles of policy
which are applicable to a nation situated as Great
Britain is at this moment. A master of finance is,
with such a state of society as ours, a greater man
than the most profound judge of the means of pro-
moting a people's happiness. We are in the posi-
tion now, as a nation, of an embarrassed trader,
whose all is embarked upon the casualties of a stea-
dy flow of the waves of commerce; whose en-
gagements exceed his capital and whom a single
false step may precipitate into insolvency. We have
thrown from us the noblest destiny which was ever
conferred upon a people. We have thrown from us
the proud privilege involved in our position as the
great instrument of spreading the truth—of being
the recognised pioneers of civilization and revela-
tion ; and become, at length, that reproach of one,
who showed too great a perception of our charac-
ter, " a nation of shopkeepers' —a nation of huck-
sters.

In the meantime Sir Robert will retire for a while
from the arena of his past triumphs, and fold him-
self in stately reserve until he supposes that his time
has come again. As in 1829, he has thrown upon
other heads the responsibility of passing measures
which he has himself pushed on to the verge of ac-
complishment. He leaves to others to complete
the sacrifice of the Irish establishment, or to stum-
ble in the attempt. He leaves to others to deal with
the overwhelming source of national and individual
embarrassments, which must result from the mass
of injudicious Railway legislation which he has en-
couraged; and worse than this, he leaves them to
conduct the nation safely through those vast changes
of its policy—that new modelling of the social fabric
—which he has just consummated by his withdraw-
al of protection from our Home industry. The
emergency is a grateful one for his successors to
contemplate.

We have briefly glanced in a preceding article at
the position of the country in the present crisis of
its affairs; but there are other circumstances affecting
us which appear worthy of a separate consideration.
To the superficial observer it may appear that all is
halcyon calm around us. Our relations with foreign
states wear an aspect of security and amity. 'We
have the materiel of defence against aggression from
without in great abundance and efficiency. But it
cannot escape us that the accident of an hour may
change all this shew of quiet, and precipitate Europe
and the world once more into a struggle of fearful
and calamitous intenseness. For years past, by a
sort of general consent, we have been preparing for
the emergency. We have been arming our coasts,
adding fleet to fleet and) regiment to regiment.
For years past we may be said to have lain down in
our mail, ready to start up at the announcement of
an event which cannot be far distant, and upon
which hangs perhaps the destinies of the next half
century. Never, certainly, in the history of the
world, did such important interest attach to the life
of one frail old man.
'We refer, of course, to that of Louis Philippe.
In the nature of things it cannot be long before he
is called to his rest. Do we see, however, around
the throne of his infant successor the materials of
security for Fiance or for Europe ? Is the heart or
the head of that people less giddy than in the
wildest days of their republican frenzy ? We fear
not. The volcano may smoulder, but the fire is
still there, ar d hands are not wanting to stir it into

a flame. The barren and blood-stained triumphs
of Algeria • a blow struck now at Tunis and now at
Tahiti; will not wean for ever from its thirst for
conquest a fickle and an ambitious nation. Again,
we have just escaped a rupture in Italy. Germany
is convulsed with a religious movement, arid through-
out Europe the subtle emissaries of the order of Jesus
are busy in their disturbing efforts. Nor is the
aspect of affairs more pacific in the New World.
The d-mocracy of the United States are set upon
the plunder of the Mexican Church. Our own
Oregon quarrel with that people may be skimmed
over for the hour, but is not healed. The Canadas
are estranged by our policy, and are rapidly ap-
proaching a fraternization with the States of the
Union. In the East our arms have just been
crowned with triumph ; but we may still be troubled
from that quarter. On every side there are abun-
dant materials to plunge the world into strife and
disorder.

We are told, however, that the new policy upon
which Great Britain has embarked, is to cement to-
gether these conflicting elements—to bind nations
in a bond of commercial amity and mutual interest,
The promise is illusory. It Presupposes the fact,
that other countries will not regard our policy as
dictated: by views of self-aggrandisement ; that they
do not look with jealousy at the extension of our
commercial arm to every market of the globe. It
takes for granted, also, that they see in our policy
the strengthening of the social fabric ; no alienation
of class from class—no disruption of the mighty
framework of our power. It omits, also, the con-
sideration that a mighty change has been working
in the relative position of nations towards each other;
that steam has annihilated distance, has changed
the mode of carrying on offensive operations, and
introduced a new element to control the balance of
power throughout the world.
We are far from thinking that Great Britain has
not reaped her fair share of advantage in this
changed position of affairs, or that she has need to
fear any diminution of her ability to take part in any
struggle which may come. At the same time, with
the prospect of such a struggle at no far distance, a
strong and able government was never more desir-
able and more in.dispensible. This is not a period
at which we could have desired to see the breaking
up of a great constitutional party into powerless and
hostile sections. This is not a crisis in which the
country can safely be governed by a minority. In
the case of any embroilment, the advent of the
Whigs to power would be a calamity to be deplored,
sunk as that party is in the estimation of the friends
of order and of peace throughout the world, and
haughty and irritating to other countries as their
bearing has ever been. A Palmerston in the Fo-
reign-office, a Buller at the head of the Colonial
Department, a Normanby to alienate further the
Protestants of Ireland, or a Baring or Labouchere
to entangle our finances, would be an almost irre-
parable mischief in such a crisis. Yet that any
better fate is left us, in the present distracted state
of parties, is scarcely to be anticipated.

The morning papers of yesterday do not afford
us any very decisive information with respect to the
position of the ministry. It seems, however, gene-
rally agreed that Sir Robert Peel's government is at
an end, and that Lord John Russell must now take
upon himself the duties of office. The London
Times of yesterday gives us the following as its ver-
sion of the state of affairs :

" Lord John Russell has not, indeed, yet received the
royal summons. Sir Robert, who did not go to Osborne-
house till Saturday, only returned last night; and there
are quarters in which so little is known, but so much sus-
pected, that his absence for twenty-four hours excited no
little alarm. We can assure our readers that yesterday
morning constitutional order was gravely believed to be
in danger, because a Minister in a minority had not im-
mediately returned from the presence of his Sovereign.
Happily, however, for constitutional propriety, Sir Robert
is now at Whitehall, and will this evening consummate as
uttera resignation, and probably also make as clean a breast
as friend or foe can possibly desire. The Whig leader will
be immediately called to his new and difficult task. In-
stead of speculative speeches and letters, instead of
tendering advice to a rival who will not, and a posterity
which cannot be advised, he will have to choose what he
shall do, and that without needless delay. He will have
to do, moreover, without either protection or coercion.
More than this, he will have to fill up a void in the
national mind. He stands before thirty millions of men
who have witnessed a great series of obliterations. Two
mighty piles long resisted the arts of the destroyer,
though tottering to their fall. As long as they stood they
filled and rested the eye. They are fallen, and all is
blank. Henceforth, how are parties and political interests
to be sustained? How is Parliament to kill the long
trimt thrcrugh-th e-rnrunei--
and enunciate from the Treasury benches ? What material
will be find for patriotic zeal or party exasperations?
What is there to talk about for twelve nights in succes-
sion ? From one inventive head, or from one courageous
bosom, all this work is to come. Oh for the days when
a negative was all that was expected ; when the statesman
became strong by picking holes, and famous by denunci-
ation ! Now, all the world stands still, and you, my Lord
John, are the performer. We can't wait. Time's up.
Begin.

However, the nation will take into account the sudden-
ness of the call, and not be too urgent in its demands.
At least, this is to be hoped. Lord John Russell, at pre-
sent is too much occupied in receiving gratuitous advice and
spontaneous offers of official assistance. He is besieged
with both measures and men. Everybody is to be pro-
vided for, and everything is to be done. His kinder and
more considerate friends demand a truce from novelties.
They ask till February to settle. The nation wants a
respite from change. One revolution in a year is enough.
Don't try to go faster than the earth round the sun.
Nations must have intervals of repose. Accordingly, it
is discovered, with equal sagacity and benevolence, that
judicious and timely as Lord John Russell's intended mo-
tion on the Sugar Duties would be in opposition, for the
purpose of asserting a principle and overthrowing a mi-
nistry, it involves no immediate practical consequences on
the new ministerial mover. There are difficulties of a
practical nature in the way of immediate legislation on
this subject. For a twelve-month, therefore, the sugar
duties may remain what they are. The same wise and
merciful counsels will be offered, and we should think
will prevail, on all other questions likely to provoke dis-
agreement. Sufficient for the session is the evil thereof.
There has been dissension enough for one session already,
and the introduction of new controversies in July would
certainly be adding fuel to the fire, which it is time to al-
lay. A wind up is all that is possible. When a cabinet
ha, been made. and a twentieth of the private bills still
before parliament has been suffered to pass, everybody
will be glad of a respite. Lord John Russell will pro-
bably look again at the Irish measures before he makes
up his mind to adopt those interesting bantlings. It fol-
lows as a corollary from this necessity of rest, that there
is no immediate need of a dissolution. It is as well to

keep that card for a more pressing occasion."

The Morning Chronicle differs from the Times,
with respect to the fact of Sir Robert Peel's return
from his visit to her Majesty. Our contemporary
says:--
" From a communication which we print in another
part of our paper, it will be seen that Sir Robert Peel,
who went down to Osborne House on Saturday, will not
return to town until this afternoon. It was not until a
late hour on Saturday that the right honorable gentleman
arrived at Osborne House, and was honored with an in-
terview by her Majesty, at which the resignation_ of the
Alini4ers was cornmunielted to the Queen.

" Yesterday of course no step could be taken towards
the formation of a new Government, but there can be no
doubt that Lord John Russell will receive the royal com-
mand to wait upo❑ her Majesty this day."

The Herald, who is very sore and bitter in his
remarks, notices—in order to condemn such a course
as most unconstitutional—a rumour that her Ma-
jesty has signified her pleasure that the Alinistry
should not retire, and has refused to accept their
resignations. The conclusion of our contemporary
is, that Lord John Russell must he Premier ; and
he allocates some of the appointments as follows :

" Let us then resolve to give the Whigs a fair trial, but
it is not inconsistent with a fair trial of the Whigs to tell
all that we have heard about their proceedings and their
projects. They have, in fact, been occupied busily for
three or four weeks in making all their arrangements for
the Government. Lord Palmerston goes to the Foreign
Office, of course, It is said Sir George Grey goes to the
Colonies, and Lord Morpeth to the home Department,
though it is also supposed possible that Sir George Grey
may go to Canada, but this seems doubtful. One matter.
however, is not doubtful at all—Mr. O'Connell has put
his positive veto on Lord Campbell's going to Ireland;
so Mr. Brady is to be Chancellor, in order that Mr.
Pigot may be provided for ! What other demands Mr.
O'Connell has made we have not learned, but his price
will not be small for risking the rent by supporting the
Government. _ _ _ _

" Political considerations, we hear, have caused the ele-
vation of Sir James Graham to be postponed. The Whigs
have been equally active in filling up foreign appointments.
Lord Mint() goes to Vienna, and Lord Normanby to Paris,
of which he was so confident some weeks ago, when he
passed through that capital, that he actually inspected the
house of the Ambassador in order to judge of the ac-
commodations."

Of course the greatest part of the above is mere
guess-work. Before going to press we may have
something mote definite to place before our readers.
The followirg are the latest " Ministerial Move-
ments" :
The Right Hon. Sir J. Graham arrived at the Home-
office shortly before four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and
immediately communicated with several of his colleagues,
who shortly afterwards joined the right hon. baronet. The
Earl of Lincoln, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
Right Hon. W. B. Gladstone were among the members of
the Cabinet who arrived at the Home-office.
The Earl of Ellenborough has adopted the necessary

arrangements for removing from his official residence at a
day's notice. _ _

A very general impress'on prevailed at the west-end of
town on Sunday evening, to the effect that her Majesty
had refused to accept Sir Robert Peel's resignation, but
the rumour could not be traced to aoy authentic source.
An absurd statement has appeared in some papers to
the effect that Lady Peel had passed through Paris en
route for Italy last week, and this has been quoted as a
proof of Sir Robert Peel's determination to resign. Lady
Jane Peel passed through the French capital a few days
since on her way to Switzerland. Lady Peel is staying at
Sir Robert's mansion in Whitehall-gardens.
The traders of the liberal party ara up to the present
time perfectly quiescent.
Lord John Russell is in town, but had scarcely any in-
terviews during the last few days with his political friends.
Earl Grey left town on Saturday on a visit to the Right
Hon. W. B. Baring, at Addiscombe-farm, near Croydon.
The noble Earl returns to town to-day.

- lt is confidently expected that Sir Robert Peel
would make his statement last night, which our ar-
rangements will enable us to give in an early second
edition.

RELEASE OF BONDED CORN UNDER THE
NEW ACT.

Yesterday, being the first of the operation of the new
measures, was a busy day at our Custom-hour:. We
understand that the duty received up to the close of the
day was about £35,000 above the daily average receipts
from this source. A very large quantity of grain of all
sorts, say upwards of 200,00 U quarters, must therefore
have come at once into the market in this town alone.

The London Gazelle of Friday night gave the quantity
of wheat in bond on the sth of June at 1.477,922 quarters,
and of wheat flour at 1,298,683 cwts. This quantity has
been increased by the importations during the month.
The average of the six weeks ending the 20th of June,
which determines the duty to be paid up to Wednesday,
(to-morrow,) is 535. Bil. on wheat, which will let in the
whole stock at the lowest rate of du!y, which is 4s.

CHURCH ExTnNstoN.—lt will he seen from an adver-
tisement that a meeting will be held on Monday next, for
the purpose of promoting the building of free churches in
the new districts of the parish of Liverpool, assigned by
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

THE WEATHER.—Since our last, the weather, which
we announced in our last to be breaking, has undergone
a considerable change. On Tuesday and part of Wednes-
day we had some heavy rain, accompanied with thunder;
and occasional showers have fallen during the week, which
have greatly refreshed the face of the country. The
temperature is now more seasonable, and promises well
for the growing crops.

SarcaGLINCI—At the Police-court, yesterday, a man
of colour named Robert Brown was brought before Mr.
Rushton, on a charge of smuggling 201 h weight of caven-
dish tokacco, on board of the American ship Wyoming.
The article was found concealed under a shelf in one of
the cabins. The case was proved, and the prisoner was
required to pay a fine of £lOO, and in default was sent to
prison. _ _ _

POLICE-COURT YESTERDAY.—A. man named Peter
Leavy, an old offender, was committed for trial, on a
charge of stealing a pair of boots.—A young man named
Dennis Fearon, was committed for trial, for, (in conjunc-
tion with others,) robbing a sailor on Saturday night, in
the street, of a watch seal and key, after assaulting and
holding him, until the offence was committed.—A female
named Ireland, was committed for being concerned in
robbing a man named Thomas Fdwards, in Shaw-Hill-
street, of 9 sovereigns and 6shillings. The other prisoners
were last week committed for the same crime.
ST. BARNABAS' INFANT AND DAILY SCHOOLS.—
The half-yearly examination of the Infant School took
place on Tuesday evening last, in the presence of the pa-
rents and several members of the congregation. It was
conducted by Mr. Clarke, the efficient master of the
South Church of England Infant School, and afforded
much satisfaction and delight to those present. On Wed-
neclay, 52 prizes were distributed to the best answerers
in the boys' and girls' schools, by the minister and war-
dens of the church who are also the ex officio trustees of
the schools. The examination had been made of each
class in each room during the previous week, by the
Revds. Mr. Nolan and Mr. Roberts, and the proficiency
in both rooms, more particularly amongst the boys, was
even beyond what might have been expected, as the schools
are now barely one year in operation. The subjects of
examination were, Scripture and the Church Catechism,
reading, geography, and arithmetic.
Does.—At the Pclice Court yesterday, a great number
of persons were fined ss. each for permitting their dogs to
be at large in the streets, in contravention of the official
notice issued by the Mayor with a view to avert the pro-
bable effects, at this season, of the occurrence of hydro-
phobia. Several of the parties summoned endeavoured a
defence by stating that their dogs, though abroad, were
muzzled. Mr. Rushton (properly, we think,) said that
was no excuse. Dogs, in fact, perspire only by the
tongue, and as a muzzle may arrest the secretion, mad-
ness may probably he produced by it, and though the
animals cannot bite, the virus may be communicated by
their saliva to children and others who may have any
cutaneous scratch or cut. Parties owning dogs would do
well in warm weather to put rock brimstone into their
water.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—Last evening, the
twenty-third anniversary meeting of this society was
held at Great George street chapel. The building was
densely crowded. The chair was occupied by Thomas
end amongst a. number of mi-
nisters en the platform, we noticed the Rev. Dr..
Byrth, the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, the Rev. J. Cordeaua,
and the Rev. T. D. Drummond, of Edinburgh, four
clergymen of the Church of England. The meeting
was addressed by the Rev. A. Tidman, secretary of
the parent society, the Rev. J. Stongleton, the Rev.
Dr. Byrth, the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, the Rev. W.
Fairbrother, and the Rev. J. T. Jessod, after which a
collection was made, and the proceedings terminated about
half-past 10. The Rev. W. W. Ewbank, and others, spoke
in very enthusiastic terms of the benefits likely to arise
from the Evanelical Alliance to the influence of which
they attributed the union of the Church of England min-
isters then present with the society for the interests of
which the meeting was held.
VISIT OF THE AMBASSADOR FROM THE BEY OF TUNIS
—This distinguished personage arrived here on Friday 'last
from Birmingham. He was accompanied by the son of
the Bey, principal Secretary of State, M. Raffo, Captain
Ahmed, and his interpreter, Mr. Reid. They put up at
the Adelphi Hotel. On Saturday morning his Excellency
was waited upon by the Mayor and several of the authori-
ties, who escorted him in an open landau to St. John's
Market. He afterwards visited the Town-hall, the Cus-
tom-house, &e. and then proceeded to the Coburg Dock,
where he went on board the Great Britain, and minutely
examined her cabins, engines, screw propeller, and gene-
ral accommodations, with which he expressed himself
highly gratified. His Excellency was afterwards received
on board the Redwing at Seacombe Pier, when be pro-
ceeded southwards up the river, to view the piers and
docks ; on their return they passed along the Cheshire
shore, and came abreast of the north docks ; his Excel-
lency spoke in glowing terms of the magnificence of the
sight, and conversed freely with several parties about him
in French and Italian. They ultimately landed at the
Clarence Dock, when his Excellency was driven to the
Prince's Park. He afterwards returned to the hotel, and
remained in private until Sunday afternoon, when he left
by the one o'clock train for London.
THE BISHOP OF CHESTER AND ST. SIMON'S.—The
kindness of the revered Bishop of Chester, in the matter
of St. Simon's New Church, is highly encouraging to all
parties interested in its progress. On the proposition for
building the church being laid before his lordship, it met
with his warmest approbation. He subscribed liberally,
and now finding that unforeseen difficulties have arisen,
ha kindly offers to preach for the benefit of the building
fund. It appetirs from our advertising columns that the
pulpit of St. Michael's Church has been presented by its
valued minister, Mr. Carpenter, for his lordship's use, and
that on Sunday morning, July sth, the cause of St. Simon's
Parish Church will be pleaded therein by the Right Rev.
the Lord Bishop of Chester. We hope that there will be
a full attendance of the " merchant princes" of Liverpool,
and that oar loyal Corporation will not be backward in
sheaving its respect to the Bishop of the diocese. The
friends of Church Extension should consider the difficul-
ties which St. Simon's committee have with great exertion
removed, and those under which they are about to com-
mence :-1. The Chester Diocesan Church Building So-
ciety declines to grant aid to any church not situated in
the manufacturing districts; 2. Her Majesty's Commis-
sioners for Buildine Churches have no funds at present at
their disposal; 3. The Incorporated Society has required
their grant of £5OO to be laid out in such a manner as to
incur an extra expense of £3OO ; 4. Tee Corporation of
Liverpool has been obliged to charge £213 for the rever-
sion of the site ; and last, though not least; the advanced
price of labour, which forms a most serious item in their
list of embarrassments.
RECEIVING A STOLEN £2O NOTE.—Yesterday, Fre-
derick Robinson was brought up, charged with receiving
a £2O note, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Keight-
lev, solicitor, appeared on the part of the Post Office, and
called as a witness Mr. Robert Lewin, Bolton, who stated
that on the 9th of January last he put a letter in the Ge-
neral Post Office at Liverpool, addressed to Southwell
and Co. of Bridgenorth. It contained Bank of England
notes for £lOO, £3O, £2O, and £5, with a sovereign and
postage stamps for Ss. 2d. The witness was shown a
£2O note which he said was the one enclosed. It was a
note which had been offered by the prisoner. The letter
was never received by Messrs. Southwell, but nothing was
heard of it until a few days ago when circumstances took
place which led to the prisoner's -apprehension. Mr.
Richard Hanson stated that he kept a beer shop at Gos-
port, Hampshire, and knows the prisoner who applied to
him to change a bank note for £2O. He was unable to
cash it himself, but got it changed at Mr. Biden's Bank
about the 11th of May last. George Wecks, Cashier at
Biden's, proved the cashing of the note. The cash was
handed over to the prisoner by Mr. Hanson. Mr. Jo-
seph Banning, chief clerk at the Post Office, stated that
he knew John Kennedy, who was employed at the office
in January last in taking letters from the general re-
ceiver, and his situation was such that he would have
an opportunity. of stealing letters if disposed. David
Fleming, pace officer, of Stirling, in Scotland, appre-
hended the prisoner there, and was present at his examin-
ation before the magistrates. After being cautioned the
prisoner admitted that he had paid the £2O note, and had
obtained it from John Kennedy, late of the Post-office at
Liverpool. On searching the prisoner's house two letters
were found, in his handwriting ; the substance of cne was
a demand upon Kennedy for £5O, and threatening if he
did not send the money, the prisoner would communicate
something to the Post-office by which Kennedy would be
sent to Botany Bay. Mr. Keightley stated there was some
further evidence to be tiroduced, and the prisoner was ac-
cordingly remanded, is clue bas yet been obtained to
' Kennedy.

June 30, 1f446.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE WALLASEY
PENDENT FRIENDLY SOCIETY

INDE4,

This flourishing society celebrated their anniversary
yesterday by a procession, a going to church. awl, as a
finale, a participation in an excellent dinner, with the ac-
customed etceteras. The members, in neat and becord-
ing attire, met at Seacombe, numbering about 300. They
passed down Brighton-street to the green of Mr. Parry's
Hotel, where refreshments were served to them gratui-
tously by the Messrs. Parry. They thence proceeded to
the Manor House, in Poulton, the residence of their wor-
thy president, Mr. Meadowes, to whom they paid a
merited compliment by loud and enthusia.tic cheers.
They then walked through Liscard, calling at the Boots
Inn, the host of which they also warmly saluted in grati-
tude for his kindness to them throughout.

Their next movement was to the Parish Church of
Wallasey, where soryice was performed, and an excellent
and edifying sermon preached by the Rev. the Rector,
from the 10th chapter of St. Matthew, 39'th verse. The
discourse seemed deeply to affect the members of the so—
ciety and their friends, who tilled the whole body of the
church. The preacher (Dr. Byrth) dwelt on the pro-
priety of the foresight and providence of such a society,
intimating that the more benefit they derived from it, the
more it became their bounden duty, as men atict as
Christians, to provide for their future and everlasting
welfare; as the happiness thereby to be attained would
exceed all that could be accomplished in this sublunary
►ife.

At the conclusion of the service, the club, which way
attended by hundreds of spectators, and headed by Mr;
Joliffe's effective band, with flags, banners, &c., made a'
short route in the village, and finally set themselves down
in their club-room, a spacious temporary building, con-
structed of timber.

Mr. MEADOWES, the President, occupied the chair, and
amongst the Honorary Members present- were the Rev.
Dr. Byrth, the esteemed and talented Rector; T. K.
Hassell, NVillian Mann, Richard Parry, (of Seacome,)
Robert Edwards, John Halliday, (surgeon), Esqrs., and
others.

The dinner was provided by the Society, and. comprised
all the substantials generally included in the term "good
old English fare." There were six tables, and the'repast
was partaken of by about 300 guests, most of whom, in:
their rustic, ruddy, and glowing countenances exhibited
gratifying specimens of the robust and intelligent pea..
sentry of Old England.
The usual loyal toasts being disposed of with all chtelwa
nonr, the health of the Rev. Dr. Byrth was proposedianct
received with enthusiastic applause. The rev. gentlemint,
in a feeling reply, alluded to some misunderstanding that•
had unhappily arisen between him and the society, but
which, he rejoiced to say, had been satisfactorily explained
away, leaving him only the regret that such a result had-
not sooner been arrived at. After complimenting the:
members of the club on the good order and conduct they
had exhibited, he stated that he considered them to be'
worthy of the name of Englishmen and Christians, and.
hoped to have the pleasure of often meeting with them.
On the president's health being drunk, that gentleman
expressed his acknowledgements and and his attachment
to the club in feeling and appropriate terms. The Vice—
President also ably responded on his health being dank..
The health of the lionourary Members being drunk,
Mr. Mann replied in an address of much point, which
was afterwards noticed in a complimentary manner by the
Rev. Dr. Byrth

Mr. HALLWAY, the surgeon of the society, whose
health was drunk in a manner evincing the respect in
which he is held individually and professionally, replied
in heartfelt language,—which is at all times eloquence.
Mr. SCOTT, the Secretary, was enually happy when
his health was given. Be said that of the financial
state of the club was most gratifying. The funds were
rapidly increasing, and they had this anniversary received
£225 in subscriptions, and had twenty-two new member.
enrolled.

A number of other toasts were given and received with.
enthusiasm,—that of "The Wallasey Wenches" not
being omitted.

Vie village was much enlivened throughout the day,
and presented, what with' nut-carts, &c., the appearance
of a fair ; the whole lane (in which the dinner took place)
being thronged throughout the day.

The President and Mr. Parry (of Seacombe,) prolonged;
the festivities after Dr. Byrth had left, until a late hoer,.
and the rural and other diversions were continued out of
doors, to the peep of morn,—all present departing, at'
thair own time, highly pleased with the proceedings of
the day.

The failure of the apple and pear crop in Hereford and.'
other cider districts, is almost general.
Sir Robert Peel has procured'for a son of the late la..
mented Mr. Hayden, an appointment as landing waiter
in the customs.

The Observer says that Mr. Dean has resigned the,
chairmanship of the customs, and is succeeded by Sir
Thomas Freemantle, the present deputy-chairman ; and.
the Right Hon. G. R. Dawson will be appointed to
the latter office.

The Grand Lodge of the Grand Protestant Associatiort
of Loyal Orangemen, will hold its annual session at Glas-
gow, to-morrow, (Wednesday) and Thursday. The re—
presentatives of this and other districts, left for Glasgow
yesterday. We heartily hope a blessing will attend their
deliberations.
On Friday, amongst nearly a hundred other bills, the
following received the royal assent :—The Liverpool
Docks, Improvement and Sanitary Bills; the Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Bill; the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Bill ; the
London and York Railway Bill, and the North Stafford-
shire Railway Bill.

A PA.,. or SONCISTMTI.S.—It is whispered that on re-
turning borne after the division against ministers on Fri-
day evening, Lords John Russell and Palmerston were so
elated, that a policeman at the corner of Downing-street,'
heard the former sing the following congratulatory ode
" 1 he Curfew Be:i has tol:ed the knell of Peel ;
The lowing herd* shouts loudly seventy-three;
The sad officials beaten homeward steal,
And leave, dear Pal, the pelf to you and me."
It is suspected that the expression marked with an as-,
terisk was a sly hit at the protectionists.

THE ANTI-CORN-LEAGUE.—In noticing a meeting of
this body, to be held on Thursday next, to celebrate the
triumph of Free Trade, the Manchester Guardian says,
that " it is in contemplation to disband the staff, (pro—,
bably on that day,) and to suspend the operations of the
council for three years," unless some emergency arises.
Why three years ? Is it that this is to be the duration o:
the period of manufacturing prosperity expected from the
repeal of the Corn Laws, at the close of which the
cottonocracv will have to agitate for a new stimulus? It
looks very like some ruse of the sort.

ANOTHER ESCAPE FROM JUSTICE.—In the police
court, yesterday, considerable sensation was occasioned
by Mr. Ellis, the clerk, calling out the name of a very old
offender, Daniel O'Connell, who was accused in the
police charge book. After three times repeating the
name, however, Daniel was amissing, and so was the pro.‘
secutor, who, it appears taking warning from a late break
down of her Majesty's law officers, refused to press the,
charge against an offender so skilled in eluding justice—
The amazed countenances of the paddies in court, at
hearing the name of their idol called in court were most
amusing to contemplate

1,,'

DIED.
On the 27th instant, at Woolton.hili, Mr. JOHN ICNHE—
SHAW, R.N., of Windsor-street, aged 66.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 29*
The inteligence received by the steamer is considered to be
the most satisfactory as a whole, than any for
and is reported at length in another part of our paper. It hais"
had a steadying effect on Cotton, and 50no bales have been sold
at the full prices of last] week, and the market closes with a
firm and buoyant feeling. some time past,

MONDAY, JUNTII4 29.—Wind
A ItßlVED.—Challenge, O'Shea, from
Brass River—Golderk,
übbuck, (stilled 27th May.) and B eacr,n, from Paraiba
Fleece,
Hrnara, from Ceara ; sailed lgth May—Sabina, from Ma'"
deira—Chapman, Murray, from Savannah—Jessie Torrence,
Skeene, from Montreal—Henry Lorriquer, Jeffdres. and 1..-mark.
SHIPPING INTELLIGs.EwN.
freEsh,
Frith, from Quebec—Wiliam, from Odessa—Thunder, Atkin—
C.
son, and Jane & Esther, from Alexandria—and Winka, from'
Trieste.

Stndacona, and Victory, off Anticosti
The ports of Tampico, Ad vardo, and Matamoras were placed
under blockage by the United States squadron ,4th May
Ironside, hence at Tobasco
Lynx, Luscombe, from Tampico, ditto
Diadem hence at Vera Cruz 12th May
Lancaster, ditto Bth May
Europe, Forsyth, and Reliance, Doran, hence at Tampico
Lesmeheagon, Perry, and Margaret, Birnie, hence at Sr",
John, N.B.

En;lan I, and Cynthia, hence at Pugwash
Wm, Parker, Stratton, hence for Bomba
May, in lat. 16 20 S, long. 2,; 30 W
QuaREC, June 11.—The Salisbury, Crew, which sailed a let
days since for Hull, has put back water-logged, having been,
or, Barrett's ledge. The Providence, Reed, that was on Por'•
Neuf Shoals, is expected to be got off withViery little daTILC,...,

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