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LONDON GAZETTE.— TvraDAY. MARcff 17.

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SONGS OF THE HEART.

No. I.—THE REPROOF.

BY T. J. OUSELEY.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)

Can you look on my face, and not blush with deep shame,
To know broken vows have thus withered my heart ;
And list to the sound of the once-loved name,.
Which you swore, by your God, from your faith should
not part ?
You may smile in the sunshine of pleasure, and reel
In the circle of Folly, where laughter is joy ;
Still hours must come o'er you. and then will you feel
Adder-pangs of remorse, which all hope will destroy.

The temptings of passion will soon pass away,
And the new, soothing language of love fall unfelt ;
The night-silence break the heart-pulse of the day,
And in sorrow, deep sorrow, thy spirit shall melt
Thou wilt curse, in thy ravings of wild-mad despair,
The crime that is dragginohy soul to the grave ;
While each pang of grief my lone bosom doth bear,
Will but yield thee fresh anguish, no pleasure can save.

The scorpion of conscience will poison the flow
Of thy life's healthful current, till, wasted and worn,
Thy heart shall beat cold, while thy warm cheek shall glow
With the hectic of death—to thyself a mere scorn !
And, when the last hour of life draweth nigh,
My semblance shall pass, like a shade to thy mind ;
Whilst the film of forgetfulness dials on thine eye,
When to life, as to lore, thy lost feelings are blind.

Thou knowest thou art puilty ! I feel thou art wrong :
'Tis for thee that I feel—not the torture I bear;
My love ne'er can change—for to thee cloth belong,
As a portion of life, my fond blessing and prayer.
Oh ! repent thee—come back to the ark of thy lest ;
'Tis more hallowed, believe, than the world's luring fame •
The home of thy first love—this pure, throbbing breast !
Can you look on my face, and not blush with deep shame ?

THE TRANQUILLITY OF IRELAND.
(From the Morning Herald)
Our able contemporary, the Standard, makes the
following observations on the subject of the much-
vaunted tranquillity of Ireland :
" We have just received the return of the Irish commit-
tals during the year 1839. After all that the public has
lately heard of the tranquillity of Ireland, it niay naturally
expect a considerable diminution of the committals, particu-
larly in the committals for the class of offences accompanied
by violence. We are sorry to say, however, that such ex-
pectation will be grievously disappointed. The committals
for murder and mawdaughter, in 1839, amounted, according
to the return, to the frightful number of six HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY-SEVEN ; the largest annual amount, we believe,
even in the black catalogue of Irish crime. The committals
for murder and manslaughter, in the first year of whig go-
vernment, 1831, reached no further than2lo, and on the aver-
age of the twenty years preceding, years of tory misgovern-
ment and orange ascendancy, they did not pass 100. They
have multiplied, however, threefold, under the benign influ-
ence of whig administration, and we are told by men who do
. not laugh in our faces, though they must laugh inwardly when
they utter the audacious falsehood, that the tranquillity of
Ireland has prodigiously improved. They tell us that there
are no faction fights now ; perhaps not, the populace are bet-
ter drilled and now know whom to murder. They say there
are no tithe quarrels—true, the legislature has at length, by
adopting Sir Robert Peel's bill—though tardily—taken away
the opportunity."
It were foolish in the Protestant public of England
to seek to disguise from itself the melancholy fact, that
the Papists are rapidly re-conquering Ireland. The
stream of Protestant emigration, as Mr. Macaulay
sometime ago boasted in the Edinburgh Review, flows
as steadily at the present moment, from Ireland to
England, as it ever did, in the time of Cromwell, from
England to Ireland. Ireland is, in fact, the scene of a
wide-spread conspiracy against Protestant life and pro-
perty. Assassination is now the most approved me-
thod of asserting Popish supremacy. True it is, in-
deed, that, since the frightful murder of Lord Nor-
bury, attempts have been made to suspend the perpe-
tration of crimes of the more atrocious kind on the
part of the priest-led peasantry ; yet, despite all the
precautions taken, the murders and homicides com-
mitted last year—during the year celebrated, above all
others, on the score of its " tranquillity"—amount, as
we have seen, to six hundred and eighty-seven !
It is melancholy to reflect that the Queen's minis-
ters are the real abettors of all these fearful crimes.
They are the allies of the man, by whose followers and
instruments these crimes are perpetrated : nay, amongst
our cabinet ministers may be found certain individuals
who have risen to office by the success of plans of
treason against England. But if it be melancholy to
see men in office lending countenance to a system of
murder and masked rebellion, it is yet more melancholy
to find conservatives still adhering with desperate te-
nacity to their most ruinous system of " conciliation !"
Further " concessions" are to be made to the authors
and prompters of the six hundred and eighty. seven
murders enumerated in the ministerial " returns."
The municipal corporations are to be handed over to
these savage enemies of the English name ! Within
twelve months after that fatal step shall have been ta-
ken, the murders in Ireland will, we venture to pre-
dict, be found to have doubled !

ROYAL ANECDOTE.—At the Ancient Concert, which was
a rich treat, under the direction of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, a very interesting incident occurred,
which we are sure it will gratify the people of England to
hear. In the tea room her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge approached the Queen, and said, " I hope your
majesty will allow me the pleasure of placing the hand of an
old friend of mine in your majesty's," to which the Queen
assenting, the Duchess lead up the illustrious Duke of Wel-
lington, whom her majesty most cordially received, and shook
his hand with great warmth and kindness. The happy effect
on the surrounding company may be imagined.—Literary
Gazette.

SAVINGS' BANK.—It gives us pleasure to observe the
great and increasing esteem in which these admirable insti-
tutions are held throughout the country, and especially in
our own neighbourhood. From the printed returns it ap-
pears that in November, 1837, the amount of deposits in the
United Kingdom exceeded nineteen millions sterling, and
that the depositors amounted to more than six hundred
thousand persons, two hundred thousand of which had been
added in the previous six years. In 1831 one person in every
thirty-four throughout all England was a depositor, and in
1837, one in every twenty-seven ; while in Kent, at the
former period, one in twenty-nine, and at the latter, one in
twenty-three had a sum laid up in a Savings' Bank. For
some years before 1832, the increase in our own Savings'
Bank was small ; but in that and the two following years the
number of depositors was augmented by four hundred and
seventy, and in the next three years by, four hundred and
eleven ; while in the last year alone, there were two hundred
and sixty-eight, which is more than double the average an-
nual increase of the six former years. Such has been the
success of this iustitution, which is a great engine of morality
and comfort to the industrious classes, that one person out
of every nineteen in this neighbourhood is a depositor.
DEATH OF THE PRESTON OBSERVER.—On Saturday last
the Preston Observer breathed its last. It was started in
January, 1837, and after a brief existence of little more than
three years of hard struggling, during which it met with
many reverses, it is consigned to " the tomb of all the
Capulets." Its first career was under the direction and
support of a joint-stock company, but having soon exhausted
their funds, it was disposed of to the late proprietor, who
also finding it a losing concern offered it for sale, but could
not meet with a purchaser. Its principles were those of
extreme radicalism ; and its unprosperous career and un-
timely end show with what little sympathy such doctrines
are supported by the inhabitants of Preston. Its columns
were frequently disgraced with low personal abuse ; and even
on Saturday last, in its dying throes, the ruling passion was
strong, as an attack upon a clergyman of the Established
Church, formed the substance of its leading article, and its
farewell address was stained with the ravings of envy at the
success of a contemporary.—Blackburn Standard.
A " CORRECTED EDITION."—On Thursday evening Mr.
Wodehouse asked why Dr. Bowring's much-talked-of report
had not been forthcoming, and gave notice that if it was not
produced in a few days he should move for it " forthwith."
It is a great pity that the hon. member did not move for it
" forthwith" on the spot ; or, at least, that he did not insist
upon knowing what was become of it. Has the doctor had
it back from the Board of Trade for the purpose of making
a few necessary corrigenda and expungenda ? If he has
not, as things have turned out, he ought to have had; for,
to judge from the epitome of it which, in the pride of his
heart, he communicated to the Chamber of Commerce at
Manchester, the prophecies with which he came piping hot
from the continent would not have cotton' d very well with
the event. The doctor foretold that our exportation of
manufactured articles would decline from year to year, and
that we should become mere exporters of yarn instead—an
unavoidable conclusion to which he was driven from what
he had seen was going on. SoFne rogue must have played
tricks with the doctor's spectacles. By a return just pub-
lished, it appears that in the year 1839, as compared with the
Year 1838, our export of cotton yarn decreased about 74 per
cent., while that of our cotton manufactures increased nearly
6 per cent. ; the export of linen yarn decreased 24 per cent.,
while that of linen manufacturers increased 25 per cent; and
that while our export of woollen yarn only increased 4 per
cent., that of woollen manufactures increased 8- per cent.
Very provoking all this for the doctor, and sufficiently ex-
planatory of his report, which was to have been ready four
months ago, not being ready now. It certainly must require
a finishing touch or two, and, it is to be feared, will not be
worth much when he has made the best of it. Nevertheless,
the public have a right to a thing they have paid for, although
it may be good for nothing, and it is to be hoped that some
member. when the editio emendata of the report is furnished,
will move for the editio princeps.—Morning Herald.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT DENHAM PARK.—
SUICIDE OF THE HON. EDWARD PERCIVAL.—OD the
night of Wednesday last, a melancholy occurrence, which Las
plunged several noble families into a state of poignant dis-
tress and grief, took place at Denham Park, Bucks, about
two miles from Uxbridge, the newly opened private asylum
for lunatics, belonging to Mr. Benjamin Rotch, the late
chairman at the Middlesex sessions. Every endeavour has
been made to keep the matter as secret as possible ; but our
informant, from the inquiries he has made in the neighbour..
hood, has obtained the following particulars, which we be-
lieve may be relied on. For the last five or six months the
Hon. Edward Percival, one of the sons of Lord Arden, a
gentleman, 45 years of age, has been an inmate of the above
establishment, which is most extensive, and partakes of every
convenience of a private residence. On the night in ques-
tion the unfortunate gentleman managed, during the tempo-
rary absence of his keeper from the room, which was at the
top of the house, to reach the window, raise it up, and cast
himself therefrom, a height of about forty feet. His fall was
heard by the domestics of the establishment, who instantly
ran out, and raised him in almost a lifeless state from the
frightful injuries he had received, and conveyed him into the
house where he expired shortly afterwards. Information
of the melancholy oceurrence was on Thursday forwarded
to Mr. William Charsley, of Beasonsfield, the coroner for
the eastern division of Bucks, who immediately issued his
warrant for the holding of an inquest on the body. 'The inquest
was held in the establishment, and some idea of the secresy
observed may be formed from the villagers being unaware of
the melancholy occurrence until they were summoned on
the jury, and then only the jurymen were aware of it. What
the exact verdict returned was we have been unable to learn,
but we suppose it to have been that of " insanity." Yester-
day morning, at an early hour, the remains of the unfortu-
nate gentleman were removed from Denham Park, and con-
veyed in a hearse drawn by six horses, richly caparisoned,
with velvets and feathers, and followed by a mourning coach
drawn by four horses similarly caparisoned, to Londonfor
interment. The above, it is stated, is the second case of the
kind which has occurred at Denham Park.--Herald.

LECTVRES ON THE CHURCH OF ENCILAND.

The Rev. Huow M`NestE delivered his third lecture
on Friday, at the Hanover-square Rooms. Among those
present we observed the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Kenyon,
the Bishop of Chester, Sir C. B. Vere,. Sir H. Verney, Sir
P. Laurie, Mr. Pringle, M.P. &c.
The rev. lecturer, after slightly glancing at the subjects
he had already handled, said he would proceed to some fur-
ther particulars of the ecclesiastical instrumentality of our
church, with a view to point out their accordance with the
Word of God, and thereby commending them for the adop-
tion of sincerely Christian men, and urging their extension
over the increased population of our country. The Chris-
tian society, constituted as we had seen, supplied an instru-
mentality for the conversion to the faith of the Gospel, not
of thp subject only, but of the sovereign also. God is no re-
specter of persons or rank. From reasons connected with
the pride of human intellect not many of the rich and
mighty received their testimony of the Gospel to the saving of
their souls. But though not many did so, some did, at the
very outset, in Cmsar's household, and, subsequently, it
reached their imperial master himself. No Sovereign so
reached and brought personally under Christian influence
could be blind to the efficiency of such an instrumentality,
or the responsibility devolving on himself as to the use he
should make of it on behalf of his people. Accordingly, when
the Christian society extended itself so as to reach the
throne, kings and princes availed themselves of the offices
and ordinances of the church, not only as regarded salvation,
but as instrumental for national civilisation, subordination,
and peace. The rulers of this world required such an in-
strumentality because their subjects are men—rational, im-
mortal creatures, who cannot be prevented from abusing their
liberty unless under instruction for eternity, and the minis-
ters of the Christian church required to be so employed,
because they were then enabled to enlarge the sphere of their
labours, carrying the name and truth of their Heavenly
Master into every nook of their earthly master's dominions.
It was as a means ,towards an end, and not for themselves,
that we valued our own national establishment in this respect.
But as to the practical details of our ecclesiastical instrumen-
tality, it should not be overlooked, as an excellence of our
national establishment, that she enjoins on all a diligent study
of the Holy Scriptures, and glancing at the checks and con-
ditions imposed by the papacy upon the reading of the Bible,
and which are practically a prohibition, he proceeded to re-
mark upon the growing importance attached to preach-
ing, as a part of Divine service. Preaching was, he said, an
admirable ordinance; it was appointed by Christ himself;
but admirable as it was, it could never supply the place of
prayer. In hearing a preacher we were not at liberty to di-
vest ourselves of intellectual watchfulness. The same must
apply to extemporaneous prayer. In listening to them, from
fallible men, we were bound to try and judge them before we
approved. How was the inward effect of prayer to be made
in a public congregation ? Our worship of God was a reason-
sonable service, if conducted in the silence of our spirit.
There should be no interrupting words by any one. If con-
ducted by words, we could not throw our spirit inwardly into
it, unless those words were previously approved by our rea-
son. (Cheers.) In this case we were no longer listeners,
but worshippers also ' • everything about to be spoken being
known before hand. This we could not do if we were in ig-
norance or doubt of what was to be spoken. We must, then,
in our own defence, be reserved and cautious listeners. We
could not dare to be unsuspecting, impassioned worshippers.
(Cheers.) It had been argued that, without written Corms,
the church might have sufficient security against the intro-
duction of error in the known piety and orthodoxy of our li-
turgy. For, granting the utmost that could be pleaded for the
piety of any man, and granting that he would not introduce a
single incorrect or even a single unworthy expression—which
was granting a great deal more than any pious minister would
take to himself—still those ministers the most spiritual would
acknowledge that they had their seasons of comparative
coldness for the sacred office; that they could not at all
times command such a flow of feeling and readiness of lan-
guage as to be able to lead the devotion of the congregation
with the desired solemnity. A complaint urged against our
liturgy is urged on the account of its tameness. It was alle-
ged that the church became formal. The character of God
being always the same, and the condition of his church
militant here on earth being substantially the same until the
second coming of Christ, the right worship of the church
demanded no deviation from sameness. If an assembled
congregation were to speak out in prayer, and each to say
something of his own impromptu, it would lead to distracting
cornmotions ; but if there were a written form which all
might use together, or alternately, according to known ar-
rangement, each would utter the feeling of all, and all of
each. By this simple process, we had a happy mixture of
liberty and order. This was peculiar to our church. (Cheers.)
The reverend gentleman then referred to " our anniversary
of facts" of the Sacred Scriptures. Scripture facts were,
he said, the foundation of sound doctrine, and which, in the
language of Bacon, were " the first pressure of the grape,"
and were found to be most nutritious to the Lord's family.
It was valuable to have these facts laid before the church in
the language of the Holy Scriptures. Scripture facts were
the rectifiers of theological theories ; and it was the happi-
ness of our church not to be left to the mercy of an indivi-
dual, but to have a Scripture hedge around our vineyard,
whatever might be the judgment and ability of her own local
vine-dresser. (Cheers.) The reverend gentleman then
quoted the language of some of the most eminent of the dis-
senters of (Owen and Matthew Henry) in which they declar
ed their adherence to the purely doctrinal portion of the
Church of England, the first regretting (as we understood
the quotation, being somewhat inconveniently placed behind
the lecturer), that some had departed from the church who
had not given testimony of such adherence. But their com-
paratively unwise children seemed to imagine that the legiti-
mate exercise of private judgment demanded the suppression
of every human formula ; and now in some of their con-
grations most celebrated we looked for biblical exposition,
but we beheld Socinian infidelity. (Immense cheering.)
We waited for the sweet sound of the saints' ever-
lasting rest, and harkened to the gingling of a liberalised
philosophy. (Loud Cheers.) He must now advert to mat-
ter of a very different complexion in our ecclesiastical instru-
mentality, the submission of the church to the civil ruler. It
was difficult to imagine anything inore clear than this. The
language of the Apostle was, " Let each soul be subject to
the higher powers. The powers that be are ordained of God."
He might add to this the language of St. Peter, " Be subject
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake." The right
interpretation of this involved the question of what was
commonly called the union between church and state. There
must be some union, or relation, or alliance, or compact—
call it what you would—between the clergy of the church and
the government of the country. If there were no such union
designed, there would be one wrought out of necessity. The
question was not, should there be a union, but of what de-
scription should the union be. The clergy of the christian
church had certain duties prescribed by God himself, which
they must perform ; they had no choice. If the duties were
not performed, they ceased to be a church altogether. What
were those duties ? It was the scriptural duty of the clergy
to preach the faith once delivered to the saints ; to administer
the sacraments which were ordained by Christ himself; and
to determine who are and who are not to be admitted to
those sacraments ; to fill up their own bodies, to appoint
their own successors, and to urge on all the members of the
church from the word of God himself, the christian duty of
supporting its ministers. The clergy were but men, and
must not be estimated by the exception, but by the rule of
our common nature. It was no libel on them to say that
unchecked power was dangerous in their hands. Appealing
to the strongest affections of the human heart, and repre-
senting the sacraments of the church, perhaps, as absolutely
necessary to salvation and themselves as the only persons
by whom these sacraments should be admitted, it was beyond
all question that, unless subjected to some regulating re-
striction from without, they must in process of time obtain
extravagant power and enormous wealth. The temptation
would become such as no class of men could be expected to
withstand. The priesthood, so aggrandised, would consoli-
date its own power by the appointment of a chief, or centre
of union. Was not this the easy, the natural, the inevitable
consequence of things ? In point of fact, was not this history ?
(Cheers.) He would appeal to history. The rev. gentle.
man then referred to Hallam to show the vast power and
wealth obtained by the Church of Rome in the middle ages,
and to " Blackstone on the Statute of Mortmain," quoting
the latter at some length, in order to show the avarice of the
church. " Not content with ample provision, she had,"
said Blackstone, " endeavoured to grasp the whole wealth of
the country, and if the Legislature had not withstood them,
they would probably have been masters of every foot of
ground in the kingdom." Beyond this we had the acknow-
ledgment of our opponents themselves on this point. The
rev. lecturer then ,quoted Dr. Wardlaw, relative to the state
of the church at the time of Constantine, which was such
as not to require any state endowment, but at the same
time, a state enactment for the restraint of the clergy was
rendered imperative, if civil liberty was to remain on the
earth. (Cheers.) Some such enactment was indispensibly
necessary from the civil ruler. He could not expatriate the
church; and his only refuge from the thraldom of ecclesias-
tical tyranny lay in some such regulating alliance with the
clergy as would secure to them a certain safe and manage-
able prerogative, in lieu of that indefinite power of aggran-
disement which they consented to sacrifice. We claimed such
an alliance in behalf of the civil government for the security
of its liberties ; and, on behalf of the clergy of the church visi-
ble, not for their temporal aggrandisement, as was ignorantly
supposed but for their salutary restraint; in order that the
temporal supremacy which would be at their option might
not be allowed to tempt them into tyranny. (Cheers.) It
evinced but a sorry knowledge of human nature to object
that a recurrence of ecclesiastical usurpation could take
place in the present advanced intelligence of the people. On
this question human nature was unaltered, and by any
human process was unalterable. Conscience had been
likened to a legitimate but dethroned monarch, the rightful-
ness of whose claim was not disputed, though the power to
enforce it was gone. The love of sin was the successful
usurper, the fear of punishment was the lingering witness
for the lawful sovereign. But the multitude could never
be divested of paroxysms of conscience, and therefore in-
fidelity could never be popular. For a similar reason, on
the other side, vital Christianity could never be popular.
It would enter into no truce with the usurper—it would
allow no indulgence to sin. The system, to be popular,
must yield where sin reigned and conscience slumbered,
and it must oscillate in parallels with human nature, from
the Carnival to the Lent, from the rebel to the penance.
(Cheers.) This would be popular with the multitude. It
could descend to grossness with the gross, and, without al-
tering its principles, it could rise into refinement with the
refined. Yes, his present argument was based, not on the
externals of society, which varied with the varying circum-
stances of climes, of character and knowledge, but with the
unchanged and unchanging principles of our common nature.
(Cheers.) Let the regulating connection between the clergy
and government be dissolved—let all the statutes (the statute
of Mortmain included) be repealed, and then guard ourselves
if we could—(cheers)—against the preponderating power of
a pliant, popular theology, in the hands of a priesthood who
would be tempted, by their multiplied opportunities, to make
merchandise of our souls and slaves of our—(The cheering
by which the sense of the passage was anticipated, prevented
our hearing the conclusion of it.) After pointing out the
impossibility of any such aggression on the part of the dis-
senters—an advantage derived to them
from the shelter of our
establishment, he proceeded to observe, that if it were asked
why do not Popish priests influence the mass, and work dan-
must, unless restrained by law. (Loud
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the only hindrance to its career, no longer sufficient in Ire-
land. Whether it were still in England sufficient, judge ye,
to keep them back from such an acquisition of power as
would endanger the independence of government. (Cheers.)
Legislative restraints were indispensable, not for the pur-
pose of propagating Christianity, as had been ignorantly as-
pseurtrpeods,e of guarding
superciliously and vauntingly said, but for the
guarding civil liberty against the systematic en-
croachments of clerical power (cheers) ; of a power that
admitted of no rival, and the language of whose assump-
tion was identical with those of Jehovah—" I AM
there is none beside and
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restraint was fur self-defence, not for the propagation of
truth. In vain was thein
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ment to the Popish system, were
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Nothing could attach a Romanist in any degree to the free
constitution of Great Britain, which did not in a correspond-
ing degree detach him from the tyranny of the court of
Rome. (Cheers.) This was what no law of man could do by
any direct process—it could be done only by the means of
the Gospel and the grace of God. Ireland wa.sthe main em-
barrassment of English statesmen. It was not by penal
statutes—neither was it by Papal encouragement—(immense
cheers)—neither was it by infidel compromise that Ireland
could be dealt with—No ; but by reform preachers, by mis-
sionary bishops, and deacons, carrying to the ears of the peo-
ple, in their own tongue, the glad tidings, full and free. The
reverend gentleman then spoke at great length upon the ad.

natrablo mutts of the connisotion between phurch and state
in this country ; and asked if it was not wise in the clew to
take security against their own infirmity ? But, in obtaining a
provision from the state, let it be the church's anxious care
to ordain, independent of interference, all the ministers who
should be required. This was an ecclesiastical and inalienable
function. Let the church ordain none but what were in
every sense fitted to fill the sacred office, and when she had done
this, she might then not only allow, but be obliged to any
layman, who gave pecuniary support to any of her ministers.
It would be well if all patronage were in the crown, as ordi-
nation was in the bishop. If interference with ordination
were claimed by the crown, the church must resist the
claim, and stand aloof from any alliance with the state ra-
ther than submit. In that case the independence of the state
was always in jeopardy. If the patronage, as well as the
ordination of the kingdom, were in the hands of the bishops
supremacy would be a temptation to the church, and the in-
dependence of the state would be endangered. But a portion of
patronage might be in the bishops without risk, but no portion,
however small, of interference with ordination could be given
to the crown without the immediate violation of a funda-
mental principle. The measure of patronage which it might
be safe to intrust to the bishops it would be impossible to
define, but suppose the clergy to appoint their own bishops,
and the bishops to be faithful in their functions, there would
be no risk if the entire patronage of the kingdom were vested
in the civil power. The right to choose bishops, might be
given up by the church without their losing any f their ec-
clesiastical functions, but as a compensation for this sur-
render, the church might fairly claim a measure of patronage.
The reverend lecturir here referred to the present state of
the church of Scotland, which (as we understood him) in-
duced collision upon the slightest obstacle between the
regulating parties. It was very necessary, he said, that there
should be a well-regulated and well-defined code on either
side, in the connection of church and state ; if this were not
the case, the one might become intolerant, and the other
tyrannical, from caprice, ambition, or avarice. But it was
charged against us by dissenters that the state fixed our
creed. Our creed was not fixed by the state, but by the
Bible. (Cheers.) Again, they said we could not change
any article of our creed. It was our glory that our creed
was unchangeable (cheers); it was the ancient, the true, the
Divine creed, which no man could change, which no Chris-
tian man ever desired to change., (Cheers.) Thus, the only
terms of union, at once effectual in themselves and scriptu-
ral in their application, excluded any and every society call-
ing itself a Christian church, but refusing to pledge itself to
a written standard. The dissenters, therefore, who rejected
the primitive formula, and the Romanists who added to it
tradition, written and un-written, stood equally excluded
from safe union with any government that wished to main-
tain liberty on earth. And when we considered the necessity
which the nature of the case imposed (as he thought he had
fairly shown) for some union as a guard against the workings
of priestly avarice and ambition, we had cause to give God
humble and hearty thanks for our liberty-protecting esta-
blished church. (Cheers.)

REV. HUGH WNEILE'S FOURTH LECTURE.
(From the Morning Herald of yesterday.)
A very numerous and most respectable auditory attended
on yesterday at the Hanover-square Rooms, to hear the
fourth lecture of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile upon the irresisti-
ble claims of the Established Church to the zealous en-
couragement of the rulers of this country : and all present
testified, by their deportment throughout the day, their sense
of the importance of the subject, and their admiration of the
able and lucid manner in which the rev. lecturer put forward
his views, and the convincing, but temperate, arguments by
which he enforced them.
Mr. WNEILE reminded his hearers that in a former lec-
ture he had investigated the connection which should subsist
between the Scriptural exercise of ecclesiastical functions by
the church and the Scriptural possession of supreme autho-
rity by the civil power—a connection which a Christian mi-
nistry would always desire to preserve as a valuable assist-
ance to them in doing what God had commanded them—
namely, in spreading the knowledge of his holy name, and
remaining, where God had commanded them to remain, sub-
ject to the civil power. The safety of the ruler was, by the
mercy of God, identified with his duty ' • and that connection
with the Christian church which he had shown to be the only
safety of the ruler, and the only source of national happiness,
he should now, from the Word of God, prove to be the
ruler's duty. The civil ruler was an impotent creature at
the disposal of his Creator—a responsible creature, whose
real happiness now and hereafter is inseparable from the
discharge of the duty attached to the station to which he is
advanced, and the opportunities by which he is surrounded
—a delegated creature, himself under authority, while others
are placed under him—one whose right to rule and whose
duty to obey are derived from the same source. If he re-
fuse to obey God, he arraigned his own charter, the only
plea, except that of brute force or accidental majority, by
which he could claim to rule over men. A Christian state
wielded the sword and the treasury, and the body of the
community were contented to be subject to it, not only for
wrath but also for conscience sake. A Christian church
taught by its bishops and preachers, and the body. of the
church, consented to be subordinate eo them. The combi-
nation of regal and sacerdotal supremacy remained for
Christ Jesus, when he exhibited himself as a priest upon
his throne; and for any bishop to add civil supremacy to his
priestly office was to proclaim himself an usurper and an
antichrist. (Applause.) Thus the executive of the state and
of the church were mutually helpful, and a mutual check, by
their mutual reference to one common standard which was
supreme over the whole—the Christian ruler appealing to the
Bible for the subordinate duties of the priesthood—a Chris-
tian priesthood appealing to the same Bible for the support-
ing and protecting duty of the Government ; and the neglect
of this standard involved its own retribution. lithe executive
of the state ruled without reference to God's commands, the
community would be divided, some holding by the Divine
standard, which condemned this departure, and some holding
with the compromisers, and endeavouring to lower the national
standard, in order that their own apostacy might not be so
apparent. (Applause.) If the executive of the church ne-
glected the Divine commands, a corresponding division would
take place, some holding with the false teachers, and en-
deavouring to prevail upon the executive of the state to
be on their side, while others would revert to the unchanging
and infallible standard by which the proceedings of the exe-
cutive were condemned. The important question was, What
was the Scriptural duty of the civil ruler ? Dr. Wardlaw
had put and answered that question thus : " What is the ma-
gistrate's province with respect to religion? His true and
legitimate province is to have no province at all ;" and yet
Dr. Wardlaw added, " As a man he is bound by the precepts
and the words of God—as a magistrate he is bound to perform
his official functions on christian principles, from christian
motives, and according to christian precepts ; but authority
in religion he has none." On this, he (Mr. M`Neile) asked,
how were the official functions of a magistrate to be separated
from his authority, and how was his oficial authority to be
separated from christianity ? There were duties appertaining
to all men, such as honesty, truth, temperance; but there
was a second class of duties, to be distributed amongst us
according to our relations in life and our position in society.
In addition to the duties incumbent upon all men the civil
ruler had peculiar and official duties, for the discharge of
which he was responsible to God, and which were thus
defined by the Apostle Peter—" The punishment of evil-
doers and the praise of them that do well." But if rulers
were uninforred and mistaken as to the true standard, they
might call evil good and good evil, and might make laws for
the punishment of the good and the praise of evil-doers.
No man could form a rational opinion or give a judicious
vote on any subject, without having a regulating standard to
judge it by ; and the will of the Almighty Creator and Pre-
server of all men was the only infallible standard. If a
civil governor ruled as if he considered this world as all-im-
portant, and neglected the paramount necessity of training
for eternity, he would pervert the minds of the,people and
confound their ideas of right and wrong. Whatever a go-
vernment made its chief aim, it taught the people to regard
as the chief good. Thus, if a government made secular in-
struction the chief object of its attention and encourage-
ment, to the disparagement of religious instruction, it taught
the people to regard secular instruction as of paramount im-
portance, and all special religion as a matter of secondary
consideration. (Applause.) The mere will of man could
never make that right which God forbad, or that wrong which
God commanded. No legislature, by any uniformity of deci-
sion, could make it right to bow down to images, or wrong to
search the scriptures. Without the true standard, the legisla-
ture itself could not long retain hold of the respect of man.
The judicial bench would lose all reverence and authority,
and its decisions be arraigned with as much freedom as the
speculations of any private theorist. Let the opponents of
these doctrines fairly meet him on this high principle of the
combination of the universal duty to Gou, which all men
owed, with those relative duties which devolved upon each
in connection with his position in society, and tell him what
was the whole scriptural duty of a Christian king. But with
regard to the maintenance of an established church, he could
afford to descend from the high ground which it would be com-
petent to him to assume, and could allege that, even on the
ground of practical utility, the claims of the established
church were unanswerable. He alleged that the national
church produced more benefit than any other—nay, than
every other religious institution in the country. It con-
ferred more benefit upon the community than the army,
the navy, the courts of law, the magistracy, or the
police ; while their efforts were limited to the punish-
ment, or at most, to the prevention of crime, the church
prevented the great bulk of the community from giving the
magistrates any trouble at all ; and one zealous minister
preaching the Gospel of truth, which touches the stoutest
heart, visiting the sick, and performing the offices of Christian
love and charity, prevented more crime than any hundred—
he might almost say thousand policemen. There would be
but little necessity for maintaining a large armed force, and
an organised and wide-spread police, if more pains were
taken to extend national Scriptural education. The dissenters
said that the Scriptures did not inculcate the establishment
of national institutions for religious purposes, but that it
ought to be left to the voluntary impulses of the people. No
conscientious churchman denied the efficacy of the voluntary
principle in the hearts of the truly converted. If they alone
were to be provided for, the voluntary-principle might be
sufficient. But the church recognised the command to "bap-
tise all nations"—" to spread a net to catch not only the
good fish but the bad," and demanded the outward means
not upon a congregational but a national scale; and that ex-
ceeded the reach of the voluntary principle. The ministers
of the church did not contend fur the compulsion of man's
mind by his fellow man, but they asked for the extension of
those outward means which God himself had promised in
order that the whole population of the realm might, as far as
could be effected, by human instrumentality, be brought
within the range of the blessed. Political duty was inculcated
in the Scriptures. Our Saviour himself said, " Render to
Cresar the things that are Caesar's." One of the Apostles said,
" Let every soul be subject to the higher powers ;" another,
" Submit thyself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake;" and again, " Honour the king." All these injunctions
were addressed to the subject, and none to the king, although
it was found that in other relations between man and man
the relative duties of each were equally enforced. If the ser-
vant was addressed, so was the master—if the child was ad-
dressed. so was the father—if the wife was addressed, so was
the husband ; but here no command was addressed to the
sovereign. How was this ? Was God so far a respecter of
persons that no corresponding duty was any where pointed
out as devolving upon the sovereign ? This was a difficulty
referencesi
from which the modern dissenter, who refused all reference
to the Old Testament, would find it difficult to extricate him-
self ; but who could
wereread
made the
Newn it to Testtahen:` n t
blessing carefully
nf Abra-
ham," b ra
with-
out seeing that it was only part of a book,
and not the whole?
Constant
ham," the " mercies of David," the "la of Moses,"
with-
out any explanation. It would have been w •
ave een incumbent upon
the writers of the New Testament to have explained these
expressions if it had been a
the absence of any such elucidation proved these writings to
be merely supplemental to the book which
his-
tory of Abraham, of David, and of Moses. contained the
the royal stu- •
dent, instead of confining himself to the latter chapters
book, would go to the earlier ones, he would find
c of the
as to his duties so express, so full, and so reiterated,
account for the comparative silence of the latter chap_
t()
ters. Doctor Wardlaw, on referring to the Jewish theo-
cracy, contended that it was only under the imme-
diate superintendence of Jehovah—the church having re-
lation to him as God, and the state as King—that a union
of the temporal and the sacred characters was admissible.
But might not an example be imitable in some degree, al-
though not perfectly, and even although the inimitable were
the most important part?
It might as well be argued that
because the obedience of Christ was spotless, meritorious,
atoning—unless there were an union of the Divine and the
human nature, no man could obey ; and thus Dr. Wardlaw,
in cutting off a Christian king from Jehovah of Israel,
would cut off a Christian man from Jesus of Nazareth.
The rev. lecturer then proceeded to refute the doctrine of the
dissenters, that the offerings under the Jewish ritual were
voluntary ; and he proved, from the 7th and 17th chap.
tern of Leviticus, that the offerings were compulsory

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS. THIS DAY.
CORN EXCHANGE.

From the close of Tuesday's market until to-day, the ar-
rivals of Grain into this port contain a moderate supply
only, those of Irish Oatmeal amounting to 4,844 sacks, and
of American Flour to 4,400 barrels ; of all articles, however,
the surplus left over from the imports noted in the early part
of the week was large, and in general during the same
period the trade was heavy, with a tendency to decline.
The duty on foreign Wheat is reduced to 20s. Bd., on
Beans to 12s. sd. per barrel ; that on all other produce re-
maining unvaried.

Having no extensive country buyers at our Corn Exchange
to-day, and very few of our local millers disposed to purchase,
the 'Wheat trade was so extremely inanimate, as to render
any actual quotations very indefinite : the few limited sales
effected, however, were at an abatement of about 2d. per
701bs. from the rates of Tuesday, and had business upon a
larger scale been practicable, a further decline must have
been conceded.

English, Irish, and Foreign free Flour also, being equally
difficult to sell, each was nominally rather cheaper. For
bonded Flour no buyers appeared, although for United States
importers would now readily accept 30s. per barrel.

Barley. Malt, Beans, and Pease, with less inquiry than
usual, barely maintained their previous value.

Oats were held at former prices, but participating in the
dulness applicable to other articles, a few casual sales only
were made.

Oatmeal, in the absence of country demand, was very un-
saleable, and 6d. and Is. per 2401b5. lower.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 10th to the 16th March, 1840, ineltesive,

DESCRIPTION. IRE- COAST- I PO- UNITED TOTAL.
LAN"). WISE. REIGN. STATES.
Wheat Qrs. 1344 2107 970 1 4421
Barley Qrs. 1 163 514 1677
Malt
Oats
Rye Qrs.
Beans
1 241
Pease . Qrs. 76 1 76
Shelled Barley . Qrs. i
Indian Corn . . . Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 3399 4 3403
Flour . Sacks 1 893 128 1021
Ditto
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Oats, 850 qrs.: Oatmeal, 1441

EXPORTS—lreland, Wheat, 90 qrs.—Coastwise. Wheat,

21g qrs.'

Barley, 353 qrs.; Oats, 414 qrs. ; Beans, 6 qrs.; Pease, 58 qrs. /
Indian Corn, 2 qrs.; Oatmeal, 199 loads ; Flour, 198 sacks, 14
brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending March 13, 1540.
Wheat.. 68s. 2d. I Barley.. 38s. 1 id. I Oats.. 255. Bd. I Rye.. 365. 6d.
Beans.. 41s. od. Pease, 40s. sd.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 665. 3d. I Barley.. 38s. 6d. I Oats.. 245. 7. Rye.. 375. Id
Beans .. dos. od. Pease.. 395. Ild.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat2os. Rd. I Barley4s. led. I Oats ...... 10s. 9d. I Rye .. 14s. Od
Beans, 9s. dd. Pease.lls. Od. Indian Corn4s. 10d. I Flour, 12s. ad

Liverpool Averages, Nv,
Wheat. Buie:
Qr 5..... 1476
Prices.. 735.e4d.

.ek ending 17th March, 1840.
Oats. Beans. Pease.
137 2 36
28s. 9d. 475. 9d. I Os. Od.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FRIDAY, MAscu 20.—Wind N.N.W.
A RRlVXD.—Reliance, from Ceara; sailed 14th Jan.—Ann,
Brown, from Berbice—Giace, Reid, from Charleston—David, Adair,
from Maracaibo—Mary, —, from Trieste—Lord Cochrane,
from Pernambuco—Norman, , from Jamaica—Cor-
dova. Owen, from New Orleans—Chicora, Halsey, from Charles-
ton ; sailed Feb.—Supply, —, from Marseilles—Concord, Cobb,
from Cork—Cheviot, —; Lightfoot, —; Java, and
Leonard Dibdin, from Dublin.

Caspian, Patten, from Philadelphia, oft the port
Sheridan, De Peyster, hence for New York, was off Tuskar on
the 18th instant, at 5 p.m.
Elizabeth, Brower; Concordia, Zeevan ; Anna Agatha, Berghius ;
Harmony, Schabeling ; Eendraght, Lumen, and Zeemelew, Noord-
hoop, hence at Helvoet
Augusta, Snow. from New Orleans for Liverpool, at the Cove.
On the 11th instant, in long. 13,30, spoke the Leander, from St.
John, N.B. to Liverpool, short of provisions
Duchess of Kent, -, hence for New,South Wales, was spoken
in lat. 11,,10ng. 40
Adventure, -, hence for Santa Martha, was spoken 26th.ult.
in lat. 47, long. 20
Pickwick, Splatt, from Rio Janeiro, at Bahia
Brooke, Bleasdale, faom Monte Video, ditto
St. George, Sbire, and Agnes, Cobb, from Pernambuco, ditto
Gazelle, Chrichton, hence at ditto
Mathew Plummer, Thursb • from Rio Janeiro, at Pernambuco

Gipsey, Shotten, hence at Gironde
Henrease Marie, Moffat, hence at Bourdeaux
Amelie, Brunett, henre at Rochelle
Egide, Stehle ; Meteore, Derniere; Eleonore, Halwyk ; Auguste,
Le Jaghere, and Pauline, Schuyenberg, hence at Ostend
Leopold Ist, Garlhig, hence at Antwerp
TMLEGRAPIT ONFICE, 12 o'clock.—The signals cannot pass in
consequence of
Lynas. hazyweather between Puffin Island and Point

f my orts.

EAST INDIES, TAPE OF GOOD HOPE, ke.

Hero, (388) K Smallwood, from• Bombay, 1;54 bales 12g hi bales
cotton, order-346 bales 16 hf bales do, 44 bales 4 hf bales wool,
Barton, Irlam and co-92 bales wool, 1 box contents unknown,
order-192 bags coffee, J Fleming and co-2 boxes china ware,
1 keg pickles, Sands, Turner & Co—P D
AFRICA. •

Chatham, (354) J Dick, from Africa, 744 casks palm oil, 300 pees
ivory, 3 tons camwood, 105 packages returned goods, Jamieson
Brothers and co—W

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.

Jenny, (195) J T Newton, from Jamaica, 194 tons logwood, 12i
tons fustic, 5 tons green ebony, 1 bale carpets returned, Jones,
Mann and co—P D

Standard, (244) J Thompson, from Demerara, 66 hhds 2 brls
sugar, 33 puns 35 hhds rum, 84 puns 6 hhds 11 brls molasses, G
Booker and co-30 hhds sugar, 34 casks molasses, N Waterhouse
and Sons-31 Blida sugar, 19 puns 6 hhds rum, order-26 hhds
augur, Wilson and M'Kend-12 hhds sugar, 15 puns 18 hhds rum,
S Mackay—l2 hhds sugar, 5 puns 16 lihdssrum, Ewart, Myers and
co-20 puns rum, Buchanan and Browne-20 hhds rum, J Glad.
stone and co—l 7 hides, Valiance and Henry-51 bundles shooks re-
turned, 2150 coker nuts, 10,000 staves, G Booker & co—G D
Mountaineer, (296) W Williams, from Black River, Jamaica, 8
brls coffee, H H Cohen-250 tons logwood, J I,aidinan and co-50
tons fustic, J Hosack and co-1 box arrowroot, 1 keg tamarinds,
order—W D

Ring Mahon Castle, (120) J Colburn, from St. Domingo, 552 pees
lignumvitm, 800 Aces mahogany, Imrie and Tomlinson-3 pees ma-
hogany, the master-11 D
Zeno, (215) W Mossop, from Jamaica, 167 hhds 10 tees sugar, 6s
puns 7 hhds rum, 66 tees 3 casks coffee, 120 bags pimento, 2 brls
ginger, 100 lancewood spars, 221 tons fustic, 1 ton logwood, A Cliff'
and Sons-374 hides, 8 hhds sugar, 29 puns ruin, order—Q D
Denison, (323) H Jones, from Demerara, 215 hhds 3 tees sugar,
36 puns 40 hhds 2 brls rum, 20 casks molasses, C W and F Shand-
-32 'Aids sugar, 9 hhds 1 brl rim, Sandbach, Tinne and co-176 hhds
30 tees sugar, 51 puns 25 hhds 9 brie rum, T and H Murray-2 brls
sugar, 2 boxes preserves, 2 brls cassava, 1 box arrowroot, ordcr—
W D

Heron, (86) D Wingood, from Bermuda, 95 hhds sugar, 7 bales
cotton, 6 bags ginger, T Lee and co—W D
James Lyon, (137) It Sheddon, from Belize, Honduras, about 31
tons logwood, J Poole and co-40 do, J APLellan and co-80 do,
Hyde, Hodge and co-15 boxes returned soods, A Johnstone and
co-36 bales do, Buttenvortli and Brooks-30 serons cochineal,
Gardiner, Atkinson and co—li. D

,
Inca, (164) J Harrison, from Belieze, Honduras, 200 tons log-
wood, Hyde, Hodge and co—is bags cotton, W M Jamieson-1
cask wine returned, F Gouthwaite—W D

Charles Hamerton, (180) E Davies, from St. Domingo, 200 bags
coffee, 328,5001 b logwood, 140 bales tobacco, 1 log mahogany, 2 jars
no consignee _

Apollo: (123) E W Jackson, from Cayenne, 145 hhds 50 brls
sugar, about 16 tons undescribed wood, 108 casks annatto, 5 puns
3 hhds rum, W Maxwell and co-1 case specimens natural history,
Brodie and Hamilton—Q 1)
SOUTH AMERICA. - - - -

-
General Wolfe, (10) J Harrison, from Rio Grande, 12,930 ox
and cow horns, G Law —From Cephalonia, 141 butts 73 carotcels
421 cases currants, J Heap and Sons-1 tce do, the master-4 tons
fustic, (exportation) G Law—P
Abbots Reading, (420) R Renner, from Arica, Islay and Lima, 420
bars tin, 120 bars Guiana tin, 252 dry and 200 dry salted hides, 502
bags barilla copper, 3270 bags saltpetre, 3026 bales wool, A A Gibbs
and Sons-349 bags saltpetre, order-1 box contents unknown, T
Naylor and co-1 case a picture, Began, Hall and co—W D
Adriana, (206) R Bale, from Monte Video, 5550 salted hides, 124
pipes 1 hf pipe grease, 100 serous tallow, about 10 tons bones, order
—P D
Priscilla, (218) J Taylor, from Aricati, 660 bags cotton, 790 ox and
cow hides, order-121 bags cotton, 200 dry ox and cow hides, Carne
and Telo-59 Lags cotton, 1327 dry ox and cow hides, M'Calmont
• Brothers and co-16 bags cotton, Heyworth & co-24 do, R Single-
hurst and co-684 dry ox and cow bides, Cotesworth, Powell and
co-700 do, 86 brls copper, Cotesworth and co-4 boxes specimens
natural history, C S Parker—Q D
Hector, (392) J Johnson, from Tutocorine, (Malabar Coast,) 2323
bales cotton, order.—From Colombo, 150 bags coffee, 60 bags pep-
per, 1800 coker nuts, 2 boxes specimens natural history, order—K D
UNITED STATES.
Mersey, (344) W Edwards, from Mobile, 713 bales cotta q„ Wildes,
PickersgilL and co-107 do, Field= Brothers-350 do, ofter-100
do, W Hartley—P D
Levant, (413) F Bartlett, from Charleston-400 bales cotton, R
Zwilchenbart and co-751 do, order-50 do, Collmann and Stolter.
foht—V
Virginia, (380) A S Hussey, from Charleston, 352 bales cotton,
order-209 do, W H Gilliat-125 do, Fletcher, Alexander and co-
-51 do, Molyneux, Witherby and co-11 do, D Lamb-397 do, W
Stuart-77 do, Collmann and Stolterfoht—K D
Jacob Pennell, (569) C Martin, from Charleston, 1622 bales cot-
ton, order—W D

LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.

Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaries
during the last week:—

North. South. Total

Received advice and medicine at the Insti-
tution . 403 259 652
Visited at their own houses and supplied
with medicine 244 141 155

Total at each Dispensary 647
VISITORS.

400 1047

North—Rev. Dr. Buck, Rev. Dr. Tattershall. and Mr. C. Booth.
South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. Joseph Cooper, and Rev. C. mon all.
R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary.
Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwick-street, March 16, 1840.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Grcame and J. E. Greama, Liverpool, wool factori—E.
Wild,
F. Gibson, and H. J. Gibson, Liverpool, merchants—H. J. Cliam-
hers and G. Bennett, Liverpool, commis*ion-merchant—G. Parke:
and J. Tilley, Liverpool, eating.house-keepers—W. Hadfield, R. W'•
Wbod and C. G. Hadfield, Liverpool, merchants—H. Mackay and J.
Mackay, Liverpool. tailors—J. Buckley and J. Buckley. Warrington.
ironmongers- R. Briddon, G. Wilson, and G. Halme, Stockport,
machine-makers.

INSOLVENTS.
March 14. Silas Barnard Hutchins, \Vest-street, Walworth-
road. London, victualler.
16.—John Green, Knightsbridge-terrace, Hyde-park,
London, oilman.
BANKRUPTS.

John Lloyd, Liverpool, linen-draper, to surrender April I. 28, at
twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mes,rs.
Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; and Mr. Blair,
Manche ter.

Thomas Pagan, Liverpool, linen-draper, April 1, 28, at cue, at the
Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Makinson and
Sanders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ;.and Messrs. Atkinson,
Birch, and Saunders, Manchester.

—Charles Henry }apps, Genrge•street, Adelphi, London, coal mer-
chant.

William Myers, Strand, London, ormolu miniature frame-maker.
William Henry Stockwell, Hampstead road, London, furnishing
undertaker.

Henry Coleman, Union-road, Old Broad-street, London, mer-
chant.

William Henry Croxson, Rayleigh, Essex, wheelwright.
Phineas Isaacs, Norton Folgate, furrier.
James Camfield Harman, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital,
coachtnaker. •

William Deeming and John Deeming, Manchester, hotel-keeper''
Benjamin Jefferis, Newport, Monmouthshire. ironmonger.
Nathaniel Vyre, Nuthurst. Warwicktthire, farmer.
Jonathan Andrew, Manchester, merchant.
Samuel Sampson Harrah, Leeds, tailor;
Joseph Vincent Gibson, Manchester, veterinary-surgeon.
Robert Cheetham and Joseph Cheetham, Stockport, cotton.spin-
tiers.
Richard Ford, Stafford, scrivener.
_ .

Edward Bryan Prince, William Sutcliffe Overton, and William
Whitfield, Leeds, joiners.
Nicholas Price Wood, Manchester, hanker. .
John Vaughan, Trawstynydd, Merionethshire, pig-drover.
DI VI DENDS.
. _

April 9, A. M'Coy, Liverpool, marine-store-dealer—April 8, I.
Trotter, Liverpool, auctioneer—April P. J. Robertshaw and J.
Rutherford, Oxford-street, London, hosiers—April 9, G. Lee, Lom-
bard-street, London, banker—April 9, G. More, Basingliall-street,
London, wholesale woollen-draper—April 9, D. Montague. West-
street, West Smithfield, London, soap-manufacturer—April 7, J•
Ripley, Wapping High-street, indon, mathematical instrument-
maker—April 9, G. C. Yeld, Market-street, Edgeware.road, London,
iron-merchant—April 8, E. Hodson, Birmingham, draper—April 8,
E. Hodson, Birmingham, draper—April 8, 'l'. Wattis. Birmingham,
draper—April 11, C. Batten, Moreton Mills, Berkshire, paper -menu-
facturer—April 8, D. Robinson, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, coal'
dealer—June 27, W. New, Ledbury, Herefordshire, victualler.
CERTIFICATES

To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before
April 7.
W. Taylor and J. Taylor, Macclesfield, silk-mannfacturers—C•
Hart. Newgate-street, London, woollen-warehouseman—a. blot'
rison, Percy-street, Rathbone-place, London, piano-forte-maker"'
A. H. Tulk and E. Bankg, Gateshead, Durham, soap-manufacturers
—T• W. Powell, Neath, Glamcrrganshire, nioney-Ecrivener—D.
Robinson, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, coul.dealer.

SCOTCH -SEWASTRATIO-NS.

Edward Aitken, Glasgow, grocer,
James Haddow, Perth, iron•foun4er.
John Henderson, Tillicoultry, matitifacturee.
James Hendersen. Kirkcaldy, merchant. •
Patrick Anderson, Dundee, merchant.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
MARCH lioUit
20.. Richardson and Thompson. (2nd) Clarendon Ruoms, 1
t.. 0. Edward Burrow, ( I st)
23. B. W. Franklin, (div.)
23. Charles Abercrombie, (div.)
23. James Wilson, (Ist)
22. John Wreford Hunt, (Ist)
24. Raynes Waite Appleton, (2nd)
25. George Richard Roach, (special)). • • -

Court of Bankruptcy, London. It

TIDE TABLE.
Days. I Mria. t Een. Height. Sawlays, llolythrys, 4c.
Mardi H. U. H. . T. i.
Friday .. 20 024 040 jl6 6 Spring commences.
Saturday 21 054 1 11 15 9 Benedict.
Sunday 22 126 142 114 5 3rd Sunday in Lent.
Monday 23 158 212 13 4 Jupiter rises 1013. 211 n• es'
Tuesday 24 216 236 11 10
Wednes. 25 3 7 330 10 7
Thursday 26 353 424 10 8

AGRICULTURAL MARKET, MARCH 18

Old Hay ....
New Hay....
Clover Hay..
Straw, Wheat
Straw, Oat ..

s. d. s. d. . s. d. s. d.
~.001b
o Dial 2 41. 201 b. Potatoes, 2 36,3 0 , -
010 1 I' - Cattle Ditto 2 0 2 110
i/i 1 1 - Turnips 36 038 0 ----
..--,
0 6
0 7 - Carrots 5O 058 0
0 5 0 6- Manglewurzle34 0 0 0 ----
s - Manure 9 612 0 ----
0 -- s

Straw, Barley 0 4 0
Green Clover 0 0 0

BIRTHS.

On the 12th instant, at Laleharn, the Countess of LUCAN, of 6
daughter.
On the 15th instant, at Arrow-hall, Cheshire, Mrs. lIEGAN, of •
daughter.

MARRIED.

On the 21st ultimo, at Stockholm, by the Bishop of Linkoppl:
JOHN BALD, Esq. of this town, to MATIIILDA ELIZABETH, th
daughter of the late Very Rev. J. E. FORKHOM, Dean of Muucv
torp and Kolback.
Of
On the loth instant, at Edinburgh, HENRY LUMSDEN,
Tilwhilly, to MARY ANNE, second daughter of Sir THODIA
KIRKPATRICK, Bart. of Closeburn.

Or; the 10th instant, at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Re'''
AlexanderA. Nicholson, of Moylery, JOHN BARTON, Esq. see°l"..
son of the Venerable the Archdeacon of Ferns, to MARIANP-
MARGARET, third daughter of the late MOLYNEUX NICHOL'
SON, M.D. and grand.niece of the late Vice-Admiral Lord Shuldalo•
Also, at the same time and place, RICHARD, youngest eon of the
late EDWARD SYMES, Esq. of Bridgewater, Somerset, to MAK;
GARET ELIZABETH, fourth daughter of the late Molyde"
Nicholson, Esq. M.D.
On the 11th instant, at Erbistock, by the Rev. George Conlitre,'
M.A. vicar of Wrexham, the Rev. WILLIAM HENRY EGEWN'oi
M.A. rector of the Lower Mediety of Malpas, in the count)*
Chester, to LOUISA, eldest daughter of BROOKE CUN LIFO"
Esq. of Erbistock-hall, in the county of Flint.
On the 12th instant, at St. John's Chapel, St. Leonard's, OWtsia„,
J. W. MONTAGU, R.N. son of the late Admiral Sir George •St""-
tagu, G.C.B. to ISABELLA ELIZABETH, daughter of CIFIARLP
BEAUCLERK, Esq. of St. Leonard's, Forest, Sussex.
On the 14th instant, at St. Ann's Church, Mr. COULSELL, of the
ship Scotland, to Miss MORLAND, daughter of Mr. John.Morlai "
of 13ridport.street.

On the 15th instant, at St. Ann's Church, ROBERT, eldest sou 0,
Mr. JOHN NEWALL, St. Michael-street. to MARTHA, secoria
daughter of the late Mr. JOHN SCOTT, Brewery-street, all °
Dumfries.
Same day, at St. Michael's, Torteth:park, by the Rev. Willfon
Hesketh, A.M. Mr. LEWIS FISHER, mate of the Hereford, of tP''.
.
port, to Miss ELIZABETH FLETCHER, of Southampton4treet•

DIED.
At Bologna, Lady SOPHIA BUTLER, daughter of 13rinsleY.
of Lanesborough and Lady Jane Rochfort.
On the 28th July last, on board the Anna Robertson, proceethl
on her voyage from London to South Australia, Mrs. ELIZABEI
MORTON, the beloved wife of Edmund ,Niorton, Esq. and sillt
daughter of General Walker, Lime-park, Devonshire.
On the 11th December last, at Almorall, East Indies, Brevet Cal4i
J. 11. PHILLIPS, of the 42nd Regiment Native Infantry, and 1111
assistant to the agent of the Governor-General at Delhi.
vie;
On the 10th Mt. JOHN SEYLE, infant son of Mr. Thomas
and on the loth instant, aged 7 years, Joseph Seyle, brother to to
above.

On the 25th ult. at Naples, after a shortilluess, arising from
caught while shooting in the Pontine marshes, JONATHAN Hi,
FIELD, Esq. Mr. Hatfield, who was one of the last survivog,
member of one of the old families in Manchester, but has form.
years resided in Italy, was an enthusiastic 'Winker of the lue air;
and no inconsiderable patron of them ; and it was with the des'
of fostering a taste for them in his native town, that, on the el;
blishment of the Royal Institution, he presented.to it the valtol'-
casts, front the works of Canova, which adorn its entrance.hall-,
On the 27th ult. at London, Mr. GEORGE CRAM, late of New.
castle.upon.Tyne.
On the 28th ult. at Tynemonth, Mr. GEORGE RUTHERFOO°'
mariner. He had been assisting iu carrying a cor, se to Tynenson
Church, and died instantaneously in one of the pews. He Wasl,4
years of age, and had been fifty-five years at sea. He was offe_„,
the crew ;of the Colossus, of 74 guns, at the battle of Trafale:t
where lie was stationed at the second gun on the forecastle's;
which every man but himself and Mark Wilson, a native of I.l°o
in Norfolk, was killed. He was also in the Victory, of 100 gu135._,,„
the battle, off Cape St. Vincent, where he was stationed at the f'
most gun but one on the middle deck.
Qn the 4th instant, WILLIAM NORRIS BOND MEM;OCK s°ll
of Mr. J. Meacock, Birkenhead.
On the sth inst. at Little Lever, aged 76, Mr. JACOB FLETCIL-,,
much respected by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintarn
He was churchwarden for Little Lever upwards of 40 years•o;;;
was always foremost in the:cause of charity when applied to.
has left 12 sons and daughters, who followed him to the grsit.At
grandchildren, and as great-grandchildren, making in the
exactly 100.

On the 6th instant, at Richmond, the Lady ANN BINGHAM.
On the 7th instant, in this town, HUGH WKAY, Esq. an-OlzfC
sive merchant, of Limerick and Clare
10
On the 7th instant, at the Prairie, Cultra, in the 80th yalifigit
age, ALEXANDER BLACKWELL, Esq. secretary to the. .
Bible Society for more than 30 years.
On the Bth instant, at Bolton, Mr. JAMES GREENHALGHie
56 years, formerly trumpeter in the Royal Horse Artillery, in.w-of
corps he served during the peninsular war, and at the bat
"y.. 1
Waterloo ; since which he has been an efficient member of Can
Langshaw's troop of the Duke of Lancaster's Own YeoMo
Cavalry.
On the Bth instant, at an advanced age, at Warrington, Mr. V 1
THOMAS WILLIAMS, formerly of Preston, and late of stockPS4
Many improvements in cottton-spinning machinery are &Milian(
to the deceased. His tables of change wheels, made use of in eirh's
spinning-mill, occupied him, with the assistance.of Mr. BaakS.".
mathematician, thirty years to complete them. o'
Same day, at his lodgings, in Hawke-street, Mr. BEVERLS%.II
the Liver Theatre. He was, some days prior to his decease, oi
unwell, but no symptoms appearing to create alarm or suspick*da
his real condition, he continued to follow his professional dant),
to the night of Friday week. On Saturday he was compelled W be
sent himself from the theatre, and about mid-day on Sunday.
expired. He was an estimable young man. On Thursday $ll,O
noon, his remains were consigned to the earth at the Necrap:-.6
Cemetery, whither they were most respectably conducted in a hewi
followed by two mourning coaches, containing the principal 1.
hers of the Liver Theatre company.
. vt'
On the 9th instant, at Bath-house, near Lancaster, aged
68,
-
BIRKETT, one of the Society of Friends, a native of this tovai4,
On the 10th instant, at Birmingham, Mr. CHARLES PMl's'
aO6-
TON, the well-known and popular lecturer on elocution and dr.
tic poetry,
Same day, at Ormskirk, aged sg, much regretted by his fast
and friends, Mr. JOHN SMITH, blacksmith.
Same day, after a few days' illness, at Walk Mill-house, of
Northallerton, the Rev. WILLIAM CLERE BURGES, B.A. /;.o,lf
of Osmotherley. Yorkshire; and, on the day preceding, alcollbee
years, WILLIAM CLERE, son of the above. The deaths of LI of
daughters of the above appeared (says a Leeds paper) in oar M.
deaths last week.
On the 10th instant, ANN UPTON, infant daughteraf Mr. IMO
EDWARDS, Orthes-street, aged 10 months. ►
On the isth instant, suddenly, at his brother's house, inChmle-
Mr. JAMES WOODS, aged 20. An individual deservedlY
specter!.
&
Same day, at her residence, George's-place, Mrs. elf
TRICK, aged 72, relict of Robert Kirkpatrick, Esq. barriater-IV
Same day, in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Lando_
32. LOUISA HENRIETTA, wife of JOHN KINGSTON,
daughter of the late Sir Charles Edmondstone, Bart. SE '
Same day, at Berners-street, London, ELLEN DOROTHaan..,.,re,
wife of the Rev. WILLIAM HORNER. of St. Michael's.on-wi7
Lancashire, aged 24. " itel4 On the 16th instant, Mr. JOHN JOHNSTONE, of Harford-5
Liverpool, formerly of Bridekirk-village, Annan, aged7o.
On the 16th instant, at Douglas, Isle of Man, alters lisAro
illness, aged 45, Mr. ROBERT JONES, locksmith, npWara!,.,o-
years in the employ of Messrs. Gelling, of that town, dee•Pi,
gretted by his widow and young family.
•
On the 17th instant, at Bersham, near Wrexham, in his 5 fiti
Lord _df ,eaaf
that eminently laborious and successful servant of the LO--.:r 010
Christ, the Rev. W. WILLIAMS, of Werne, and late minister 104
Tabernacle, Great Crosshall-street, in this town, having sti".
his eldest daughter only three weeks arid four days.
On the 18th instant, MARTIN, infant son of Mr. JAMES
DLEBURY, Russell-street.

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