The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

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FOR COUGHS AND ASTHMAS!

ILIGGLESTON'S OXYMEL of HOREHOUND has the
-ILA extraordinary property of giving immediate relief in all
Asthmatic and Consumptive Cases, Hoarseness, Difficulty
of Breathing, &c., promoting gentle expectoration, giving
ease and freedom to the Lungs, and is justly considered un-
rivalled as a Universal Family Medicine. Those who are
deprived of rest at night by incessant Coughing, will, by
taking one dose, find immediate ease ; and a small bottle
will, in most cases, effect a Cure.
Numerous authentic Testimonials, and References of the
highest respectability, may he had of the Proprietor,
J. V. EGGLESTON,
chemist, Copperas
_hill, corner of Rupert-street.
.

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Sold in Bottles ata Is. 11d. and 2s. 9d. each, the 2s. 9d. size
containing four of the smaller ones.
t_W- The Genuine Oxymel is sold only by J. V. EGGLE-
sToN, Chemist, Copperas-hill, corner of Rupert-street, Li-
verpool.

WONDERFUL AND GRATIFYING DISCOVERY !!

EGGLESTON'S VEGETABLE PASTE, a safe, per-
manent, and instant Cure for the most agonizing Tooth-
ache, Ear-ache, and Tic Doloureux. Invented and sold only
by J. V. EGGLESTON, Chemist, 52, Copperas-hill, corner of
Rupert-street, in pots, ls. each, or three pots for 2s. 6d.
" We can, from experience, highly recommend Mr. Eggle-
ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the Tooth-ache."—
Liverpool Standard.
" One application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' cured
a most inveterate Tooth-ache, which had deprived me of rest
for three nights. " JOAN POYNTZ.
" 10, Dance-street, Rupert-street, Liverpool."
" My daughter, Elizabeth Pritchard, was troubled with a
most excruciating Tooth-ache for three weeks : the first
application of ' Eggleston's Vegetable Paste' gave immediate
ease, and in the course of two hours she was completely
cured, and has been free from pain ever since.
" ELLEN PRITCHARD.
" 25, Marlborough-street, Liverpool,
" May 15th, 1840."
Mr. CROPPER, Publican, St. Andrew-street, Liverpool,
was cured in less than a minute. _ _ _

NOTICE.—For the accommodation of the Public, the Pro-
prietor of the Vegetable Paste has appointed the following
Chemists and Druggists as Agents for Liverpool and its
vicinity :—Mr. Priestly, Lord-street; Watson and Dickin-
son, St. James'-treet ; Mr. Cox, Fox-street ; Mr. Barnett,
Edge-hill; and Mr. Smith, Woodside.
*** Observe the Stamp round each Pot has the signature
of " J. V. EGGLESTON."

ri CAUSE AND EFFE CT.—Digby fell down the other slippery
morning. As he sat on the ground, he muttered, " 1 have
no desire to see the city burnt down, but devoutly wish the
streets were laid in ashes."—Boston (American) Post.

RAILROADS versus STAGE-COACHES.—In the coffee-room
at the Black Swan Tavern, in York, hangs an advertisement,
of which the following is a copy, in a glazed frame, over the
mantel-piece :—" York four days stage-coach. Begins on
Friday, the 12th of April, 1706. All that are desirous to
pass from London to York, or from York to London, or any
other place on that road, let them repair to the Black
Swan, in Holbourn, in London, and to the Blatk Swan, in
Coney-street, York. At both which places they may be re-
ceived in a stage-coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-
day, which performs the whole journey in four days,;(if God
permits.) And sets forth at five in the morning. And re-
turns from York to Stamford in two days, and from Stam-
ford, by Huntington, to London, in two days more—and
the like stages on their return. Allowing each passenger
l4lbs. weight, and all above, 3d. a pound. Performed by
Benjamin Kingman, Henry Harrison, Walter Baynes. Also,
this gives notice, that the Newcastle stage-coach sets out
from York every Monday and Friday, and from Newcastle
every Monday and Friday." This journey is now performed,
on the railroad between York and London, in ten hours.
A MAD Ox.—On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a
small ox of the Scotch breed, was being driven into the
slaughter-house of a butcher, in Salisbury, when the animal
became infuriated, and broke away from the butchers. He
took his course through Market-place, where the first object
of his attack was a little child, whom he tossed into the air ;
the child fell into the channel, and by that means escaped
without very serious injury. Pursuing his course up Win-
chester-street, he attacked a poor woman named Sanders,
the wife of a shoemaker, who was endeavouring to remove
one of herchildren from danger ; she was tossed three times,
and the horn of the animal entered the side of the throat,
inflicting, it is feared, mortal wounds. When the animal
had nearly reached the London-road, at the top of the town,
a malster belonging to Maton's brewery, attempted to arrest
his progress with a rake, but the unfortunate man was speedily
knocked down, and the calf of his leg was nearly torn off by
the horn of the ox. Several other persons received minor in-
juries ; and the animal remained at large in the fields until
Tuesday morning, when a party went in pursuit, and suc-
ceeded in shooting him at Ford Farm, about two miles from
the city.

A REGULAR OUT-AND-OUT VAGABOND.—Last Thursday
afternoon, as Mr. Mulby, of the Sawyer's Arms, was resting
awhile on one of the stone seats behind the church, a middle
aged man, apparently in great distress, came up to him, and
after asking charity, commenced a most pitiable recital of his
misery and want ; he had been a sailor " shipwrecked and
drowned, and then sold for a slave." Mr. Mulby was on
the point of relieving him, when Mr. William Mecoid, block-
maker, came up to them quite out of breath with having run
up the Vicarage-hill from the Quay as fast as he could. After
ascertaining that Mr. Mulby had been some time in the
church-yard, he asked him if he had seen a strange man pass
him. Mr. Mulby replied that the only person he had seen
was the poor beggar before them, who seemed to be sadly in
want. Gaberlunzie upon this was preparing to bolt, and
looked anxiously about, which way he had best shape his
course ; but just as he was going to shoot a-head, Mr.
Mecoid, who is an old sailor, threw his grappling irons over
him, telling him that he must overhaul his cargo before he
allowed him to take his departure. Mr. Mulby, as may well
be supposed, was surprised at such a rencontre, and much
more so, when, upon the fellow being searched, a good linen
shirt was taken from him, which the impudent,impostor had
been seen to take from a garden-hedge. As he cried loudly
for quarters, Mr. Mecoid let the fellow go upon conditions
that he took his rascally presence from the town instanter.
The man stood not upon the order of his going, but set off
down the yard into Church-street at railroad speed. But
here the " tragedy" did not end ; for whilst Mr. Mecoid and
Mr. Mulby were talking the affair over, up to them hastened
two other men from the Quay, and also a female, all asking,
as Mr. Mecoid had done, " if a strange man had just gone
through the yard." Upon the adventure detailed above
being related to them, it appeared that they were after him
upon the same errand, as he had been robbing hedges, at the
bottom of the Vicarage, with the greatest coolness, never
supposing that he could be seen from the small window at
the back of the houses on the Quay. Chace was immediately
given, but as yet the fellow has not been apprehended, and
probably he will not be in this quarter, as he would doubt-
less leave the town without delay. He is a stoutish-built
man, apparently about fifty years of age, and had on a suit
of shabby dark clothes. [Since the above was in type, we
find that the man, whose name is Roberts, has been taken up,
and committed for trial.)—Preston Chronicle.
DARING BRIGANDS.—We understand, that, for three or
four months past, two men, armed with guns, have been
prowling about amongst the hills, on the borders of Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, committing a number of robberies and
outrages of the most audacious kind. They are believed to
be two notorious poachers, named Briggs and Dickenson,
from the neighbourhood of Bolton-by-Bowland, near Clithe-
roe. These men are snspected to have committed the rob-
beries and outrages near Bacup ; and more recently, they
appear to have been carrying on their atrocious proceedings
in the northern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It
appears, from the Kendal Mercury of Saturday last, that on
the preceding Thursday, as a man named Mr. Joseph Wig-
nall, butter buyer, was on his road to Hawes Market, about
six or seven o'clock in the morning, he came in company,
when crossing the Stake, a very solitary and mountainous
district, with a man on foot, who went with him some dis-
tance, although Mr. Wignall was on horseback ; and when
they came to a certain part of the road, a gun was fired at
him from behind the wall, but fortunately the contents did
not effect the murderous intention. The piece had been
loaded with hail shot, about half-a-dozen of which had pene-
trated Mr. Wignall's head and face, but without doing him
much injury. He immediately put his animal to full speed,
and left the villains to ruminate on what they no doubt con-
sider their bad fortune. There were carts not more than a
quarter of a mile behind at the time, and some people were
not very far before, whom Mr. Wignall soon overtook, and
related to them what had happened. The circumstance soon
became generally known in the neighbourhood, and several
young men volunteered their services to go in search of the
villains. It fell to the lot of one party, consisting of a con-
stable and another man, to track them towards Horton, near
Settle, where, stepping into a farmhouse to make inquiry
concerning them, they beheld the very persons of whom they
were in quest, quietly drying their stockings by the fire ; they
instantly seized hold of them, when a scuffle took place ; and
they all four rolled on the floor together, in which position
one of the men (the constable) had his hand and cheek dread-
fully
is manlacerated by the teeth of his antagonist. One of the
'villains succeeded in drawing a pistol, when the constable
and h
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sons
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to Settle. Hitherto, we are sorry to say, these desperadoes
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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1841

A passenger on board the British Queen, in her
voyage out, gives what evidently appears to be a
"landsman's" description of the great storm she en-
countered, and the perilous position in which, to his
eyes, she seemed to be placed during its continuance.
"The steam-power of the ship," he says, "crippled as
she was, (having lost more than half her paddles) was
totally inadequatt to the size of her and the storm.
We rolled helplessly in the mighty billows. Every
sail was split into rags, and we were completely at the
mercy of the waves. At length the violence of •
the storm and size of the waves rendered it unsafe to
scud before the wind, and our only chance was to face
it with half-paddle power. The consequence was, we
were twice, each time for four or five hours, in the
trough of the sea without steerage way, and as help-
less as a raft. Nothing saved us but the prodigious
strength and buoyancy of our noble ship, which only
wants 150 more horses' power to make her uncon-
querable."
From this description we can form a tolerable idea
of a storm in the vast Atlantic, and the condition of
one of our mammoth steamers when of ertaken by its
mighty force. We read the description with a painful
suggestion on our mind, we own, as to the fate of the
President. But whatever her lot may be, we think this
lesson has been taught by recent experience—namely,
that steamers of her vast bulk are not the best adapted
to Atlantic navigation.
It was early ascertained that the power of the en-
gines in these enormous , vessels was not equal to the
obstacles to be overcome in circumstances of trial of
an extreme kind; and it is further a question whether,
in the present state of our mechanical knowledge, the
defect is remediable without incurring danger in other
respects. More powerful engines could, no doubt, be
made; but not. we believe, without a proportionate
increase in the weight of metal ; and then there is th
risk arising from such a massive structure being stowed
in the hold—a cargo in itself—and a cargo to which
this disadvantage is annexed, that no part of it can be
thrown overboard upon an .emergency, without an
abandonment of the great element itself from which the
safety of the ship is to be looked for. An amplitude
of power would seem to be the most important ingre-
dient in the machinery of the steamer under trying
circumstances ; and, in order to give this, we must
either have machinery of greater efficiency, or vessels
of less burden for distant and dangerous navigation.
The performances of the Cunard packets confirm the
theory, which may be considered an important one in
connection with this invaluable science.

In our last number there were inserted two papeis
to which we were only able at the moment to direct the
attention of our readers in a few general terms : we
allude to the memorial of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society concerning the sugar trade with
Cuba and Brazil, and Mr. Gladstone's able letter on
the Corn Duties. We would now detain our readers
for a brief space, chiefly with a view to show the very
great importance of the considerations suggested in
these documents.

If Mr. Gladstone's positions be well-founded, it
must be observed that the bait held out to the work-
ing classes, of cheaper bread being the ultimate and
abiding result of the solicited freedom in the corn
trade, is altogether a deception. Some temporary fall
of prices there certainly would be, just enough to do
great injury to the farmer, and drive him out of his
native market—just enough to give foreigners the ad-
vantage over him, and spoil him as the best customer
of the shopkeeper and manufacturer. So much be-
nefit there might be attained ; but it would have but a
very, very short duration. Gold must go abroad to
pay for the foreigner's corn; our circulating medium
in the precious metals is drained away; money be-
comes scarce ; and then—the poor man finds it as
difficult as ever to pay for his loaf, and the bubble of
the present hour immediately resolves itself into thin

Mr. Gladstone puts this case in a manner so plain
and practical that we desire to add nothing to his state-
ment. When our gold is exhausted, he asks, how is
foreign corn to be paid for ? and what then becomes of
our multitudes of manufacturers and artisans ? " With
home production discouraged, limited, if not put
down, by this temporary foreign supply, it could no
longer be depended on as heretofore, whilst, exposed
to this risk of competition, which, from the position of
our home-growers, they could not, while it lasted,
maintain. Their consumption of goods, too, would be
lost to the manufacturer; and, with such adverse and
conflicting results, might not the public revenue be
expected to suffer, and alarm to rise ? Who then
would be found to stem the torrent when the flood was
once broke loose ?"

The answer of the free traders on this head consists
in a denial of the position that gold would be thus
drawn out of the country. No, say they, that would
not be the result; but foreigners being permitted a free
access to our market with their grain and flour, would
then take our manufactures in exchange ; and thus,
whilst we should have a greater abundance of bread
from abroad, our trade and commerce would be ex-
tended. This answer is indisputably plausible, and
would be of immense value indeed, if we could depend
upon its being well-founded. But at present it is a
or
mere theory, and, instead of being supported by facts
and experience, is strikingly contradicted by them.
Mr. Gladstone refers
s
to
our the
importations unfaN'u unfavourable l
duringe seasons
those of
1837, 1838,
years. Our supplies were drawn from Germany, Rus-
sia, Prussia, and other countries bordering on the
Baltic; and he asks this material question—" did they
take payment in our manufactures during those years ?
Or, on the contrary, is it not well known that they did

not do so, and that, they have been engaged for yeas
past in originating and adopting measures for the ex-
clusion of our manufactures and the promotion of
their own, which they have felt was every day becom-
ing more pressingly necessary for the employment of
their increasing population, the result of a long conti-
nuance of peace and a want of colonial vents to take
off a part of their surpluses, s'lch as we fortunately
possess; though, at the same time, we seem to speak
and act as if ours was the only country where excess
of population or want of employment was to be
found 1"

The reply of the free-traders to these facts—for a
reply they must have—

Convince a man against his will,
And, though convinced, he'll argue still—

is, that the argument is drawn from an irregularity.
This, say they, was the consequence of trade not being
free at all times. Had free trade been the rule,
would have had no such results. Abolish your pro-
tecling duties altogether, throw open your market per-
manently to the foreigner, and he will make his ar-
rangements to afford you an adequate supply, and to
deal with you for your commodities in return. It is
your refusal to do this which drives him to the neces-
sity of manufacturing for himself, and of refusing to
sell you his corn, when a scarcity compels you to re-
sort to him, except on cash terms. Such is the reply
of the invincible free traders; but it rests entirely on
hypothesis—an hypothesis which, it may be shown, is
anything but a sound one.
Under existing circumstances, they admit that the
inconvenience spoken of by Mr. Gladstone might re-
sult ; but if the protecting duties were abolished, there
would he no reason, they say, to apprehend any such
consequence. But if foreigners derive an advantage
from protecting their own manufactures whilst a pro-
hibition is laid upon their corn trade, it is only fair to
ask, how that interest would be diminished if their
trade in corn were set free ? So far from that interest,
whatever it may be, being lessened by this circum-
stance, it would, we conceive, he considerably increased;
for the condition of the corn-grower being improved,
he necessarily becomes a better customer to the manu-
facturer, and therefore the manufacturer, so far from
having less interest in the protection of his trade from
the prosperity of the corn-grower, has necessarily and
obviously more. We ask, therefore, upon what foun-
dation of probability does this hypothesis of the free
traders rest ? Did they propose to make the matter
the subject of commercial treaty—did they require
that in consideration of the removal of restrictions on
our part, an equivalent should be conceded by the fo-
reigner—there would be some show of prudence in
their requisitions ; but when they propose to cut the
painter and launch out to sea, depending solely on the
common-sense principle for their guide, we are com-
pelled to say, that at least our common-sense principle
tells us that they must very soon be swamped, upset,
or wrecked. The common-sense principle, we take to
be this, that the foreigner will take all the advantage
we are kind enough to give him, and he much obliged
to us, but give us as little in exchange as he possibly
can; and we do not perceive how or why he should be
coaxed into giving up his infant domestic manufac-
tures merely because we afford them—indirectly, in-
deed, but certainly—additional encouragement, by en-
abling the corn-growers of his country to buy them.
But there is one country at least, says the free
trader, which would deal with us on equal terms,
namely, the United States—a country, too, which, if
we only give the necessary encouragement, will be
quite equal to supply all our wants. But we must
deal with things as they are; and Mr. Gladstone re-
minds us that the United States have of late years
required foreign corn for their own consumption ;
" and," he adds, " even if they had corn to spare, they
would also be to pay for it in cash, as the large sup-
plies of cotton that we annually receive from them
alone require the cost of all our exports to pay for them,
nor is it long since a deficiency of funds to do so ,was
supplied to make it good by an export from hence.
South America, Asia, and the south of Europe, where
our goods are exported, have no corn to give us in
return, but pay us for them in other productions."
And thus the argument returns in full force, that the
free trade sought would only drein away our gold, and
in a little time leave matters even worse than it found
them.

As to the memorial on the slave-grown sugar of
Cuba and Brazil, it suggests another strong argument
to shew, that however good and desirable "free trade"

may be in the abstract—and none admit the principle
more fully than we do—it is nevertheless quite impos-
sible to bring it into operation in all cases, without
either some gross injustice to particular interests, or
violation of some great and paramount principle of
religion or morals. The memorial has clearly shewn
that, in opening a trade with Brazil and Cuba on the
terms and in the articles pronosed, flagrant injustice
and wrong would be done, in both these respects, to
our own colonies, and to that great principle of bene-
volence which we have, as a nation, made such vast
and honourable sacrifices to establish. We could not
speak too warmly in praise of this paper, and we are
confident that whatever apparent advantage we may
forego by refusing to take the sugar of countries in
which all the detestable wickedness and cruelty of
slavery continue in full commission, we shall find a
much greater in the end by persevering in our present
system.

A sum amounting to nearly £28,000 was subscribed
at a meeting held on Tuesday last, for the purpose of
sending out bishops to the various colonies in which
this country has settlements, and where such officers
do not exist at present. The meeting was most nume-
rously attended, and dignified by the presence of the
archbishops, and a number of the bishops and other
dignitaries of the church, several of the nobility, of the
judges, and other laymen of rank and influence.

It has long been a matter of regret to many that a
subject of such moment has heretofore engaged so
little attention in high quarters. They were aware,
both from reflection and report, of the evils that re-.
sulted from our colonies being left without episcopal
superintendance; and they saw but little to hope, in
the way of relief, from official persons, in the conduct
and feelings manifested by them towards the church at
home. British colonisation, they observed, was ex-
tending to the remotest parts of the globe, and the lan-
guage and civil institutions of England went abroad
also, but, strange to say, the Church of England, in her
discipline, polity, and government, and appointed
heads, went not along with them.
On this important subject no care was bestowed,
and no provision was made. It was a great neglect—
big with fatal consequences—and every day seemed only
to make the cure more difficult, and more hopeless.
It was clearly the duty of the government to consoli-
date the empire, and bind its colonies and dependencies
firmly to it—if they would act from no higher motive—
by making the church establishment coextensive with
its possessions. But how long should we wait for our
rulers to become enlightened on this point? Too much
time has been already suffered to elapse without any-
thing being done, and the government seems still as
little disposed to move in the right course as ever.
Now the meeting of Tuesday was held for the pur-
pose of effecting that by voluntary effort which seemed
unlikely to be accomplished by any other means ; and
the beginning was indeed one of the most gratifying
and encouraging kind that it is possible to imagine.
On the importance and duty of giving our colonies and
dependencies the full benefit of the national church,
by giving them bishops to superintend, and ordain, as
well as ministers to baptise and teach, there could be
no difference of, opinion in such a meeting; the won-
der would be, how any government could attempt to
palliate the omission. We can conceive it to have pro-
ceeded from only one or other of two causes—either an
absolute infidelity, which would, of course, make light
of all religious instruction ; or contempt for the Church
of England, as though religion could be as well cared
for without her instrumentality. The omission, we
conceive, amounted to a proclamation to all distant
lands, that religion was a matter of little consequence,
and 'that our national church was quite unnecessary;
and can it be supposed that such an act of foul impiety
would not be repaid to us ? It was by such neglect
we lost America, and a continuance in the same course
now would endanger the adhesion of other possessions
similarly circumstanced, and in time re-act with terri-
ble disaster on the mother country. But the question
is no longer speculative, but practical. The meeting
of Tuesday has brought it to this point, and we hail it

as an omen of great good not only to our colonies but

to the domestic empire.
The speeches of the Archbishop of Canterbury and
the Bishop of London were worthy of Christian bi-
shops, and particularly gratifying as coming from pre-
lates occupying so high a station. We could find none
of that morose and narrow-minded bigotry in their ad-
dresses which tractarian churchmen seem to consider
a necessary part of good churchmanship ; no—they
put their plea for the church .on the broad ground of
the church's usefulness, and argued the necessity of
giving bishops to our colonies and dependencies as a
natural consequence of a sincere attachment to, and
belief in the advantages of, our church in its entirety—
. in its complete apostolical order and discipline; and in
their addresses there was the enlarged spirit of men
who kept the diffusion of CHRISTIANITY in view as
their first object. The right reverend prelates were
ably supported in the discussion by Mr. Justice Cole-
ridge, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. ; and at the con-
clusion of the meeting the following, amongst other
munificent contributions to the object in view, were
announced :

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, £2,000 (loud cheers);
the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, £lO,OOO
(great cheers) ; the Society for the Propagation of the Gos-
pel, £5,000 (cheers) ; the Church Missionary Society, £6OO
a-year, to continue until they'should be enabled to make a
grant of land, which it was their intention to make as soon
as possible (cheers); the Colonial Church Society, £-112 ;
the Archbishop of Canterbury, £l,OOO (cheers); the Arch-
bishop of Armagh, £500; the Bishop of London, £l,OOO
(cheers) ; the Bishop of Winchester, £300; the Bishop of
Durham, £315 ; the Bishop of Calcutta, £25 ; the Bishop
of Bangor, £200; the Bishop of St. Asaph, £200; the
Bishop of Llandaff, £2OO ; the Bishop of Salisbury, £lOO ;
the Bishop of Chichester, £5O ; the Dean of Chichester,
£2OO ; the Dean of Westminster, £2OO ; the Dean of Leigh-
lin, £100; Sir Thos. Dyke and Mr. Acland, £5OO (cheers);
Lord Bexley, £lOO ; Colonel Austen, £lOO ; the Marquis of
Cholmondeley, - £5OO ; John Gladstone and Sons, £l,OOO
(loud cheers)."
_!MIMM•••

We are in some hope that the career of Melbourne-
O'Connellism is about to terminate. The present has
been to them a week of serious disaster. They were
beaten on the principle of their Irish Registration Bill,
in the Commons on Monday night, by a majority of
twenty-one, in a house of five hundred and sixty mem-
bers ; and Nottingham, radical no longer, has returned
the Conservative candidate by the large majority of two
hundred and seventy-nine. Thus, in the course of
the last five months, Ministers have lost five votes, and
the Conservatives have gained five, making a difference
of ten on a division. The lost seats are Carlow, Can-
terbury, Walsall, Monmouthshire, and now, Notting-
ham. The tide has fairly turned against them ; but
the overthrow of Monday night is, we' apprehend, irre-
deemable. It has been alleged by a Ministerial organ
that this victory was not a purely Conservative one ;
that the motion was Lord Howick's, and gained by
the aid of his partisans. Lord Howick's tail, however,
happens to be a small one, and cannot, with the most
liberal disposition to allow, be ascertained by any
means to exceed eight votes, including his own ; so
that without his lordship's aid at all, the Conservatives
would have been in a clear majority of thirteen. But
again, as to the question on which the house divided
being one of his lordship's proposing, that is a point of
little consequence. It raised the only question which
the Conservatives cared about, viz., the question of
property, or beneficial interest, as distinguished from
qualification by mere rating; and this is the principle
for which they contended, and have contended all
through. His lordship is quite welcome to the honour
of having so far aided his friends in place; the Con-
servatives will freely grant it to him, well pleased at
having gained an important victory by the opportunity
he afforded them.

But being thus shamefully beaten, it might be ex-
pected, if we had any other other than a bed-chamber
ministry to deal with, that Ministers would have im-
mediately sent in their resignations. But not so; they
took just a day to consider about it, and then came to
the resolution to go on with their bill as if nothing had

happened.
This brings us to Wednesday evening ; but here
again another amusing episode occurs, for now Lord
Howick, having done his friends all the mischief in
his power, begs leave to announce that he will go no
further with his amendment, or, in other words, aban-
dons it altogether !

Of the debate on this evening we shall say nothing,
as we are hastening to the denouement. The grand
division on the £8 rating, we shall merely say did not
take place on Wednesday, but was postponed to last
evening, the house agreeing to meet at five o'clock for
this special purpose. The result of this division, "big
with the fate of Melbourne and of Rome," we may per-
haps know by the mail of this morning ; if so, we shall
communicate it to our readers in a second edition. The
division will, indeed, be one of momentous import—
for if ministers be beaten on it, we cannot, notwith-
standing all our experience of their tenacity, believe
that they will presume to hold on any longer. We
are very sanguine in our expectation that last night's
division will prove to have been against them. Many
circumstances lead us to this conclusion. If we are
right, we shall only have to congatulate our readers
very heartily, that the reign of 'Whig O'Connellism is,
at length, very near its end, if not altogether terminated.

A very serious blow is aimed at, and will be inflicted
on the trade of Liverpool, if, by any accident, the in-
land bonding bill, now progressing through parliament,
should pass. What gain Manchester would make by
it we cannot undertake to say ; hut avarice, if it be un-
like justice in other respects, has, as we have frequently
observed, a small resemblance to it in this particular—
that it is sometimes very near-sighted, if not quite
blind. Manchester is not satisfied with its immense
traffic and profits as the chief seat of the cotton manu-
facture—it now aims at becoming, in spite of fate and
nature, a great emporium of foreign commerce, and
seeks, consequently, to deprive Liverpool of those ad-
vantages which she enjoys as the legitimate fruit of her
position. Avarice, in its blindness, may suppose the
attainment to be easy, and close at hand, for, in the
cloudy state of its vision, it is apt to mistake the dis-
tance of objects ; but persons not inflamed by the same
diseased cupidity, see things in quite a different light.
If Manchester is granted the privilege of becoming a
fiscal port, other inland towns will, of course, set up a
claim to the enjoyment of a similar privilege—and we
may look forward to having an indefinite number of
such inland ports. By such an arrangement Liverpool,
doubtless, must suffer. Her cotton importers and bro-
kers must be injured Manchester and other " impor-
ters," and their employ?s, must supplant them. But
what will the Manchester manufacturer gain by having
the staple article- of his trade, instead of being all
brought to the one market—where prices are at once
ascertained, and selections made—scattered about in
different quarters, and taken up for divers lesser mar-
kets. In our humble opinion he will gain a loss, and
discover, in the end, that he has been attempting to
.grasp too much. But this is his affair, not ours. Our
position simply is, that the bill will necessarily do great
injury to our ain town, and that the legislature, hold-
ing the balance fairly between conflicting localities, as
it should do, ought to reject it. We are aware that
we have some potent influences to contend against—
that there is rottenness. and jobbing in the transaction
—that a shifty, place-making, patronage-seeking mi-
nistry gives it encouragement—and that the silence
even of our Town Council has been secured by some
extraordinary interposition; but we do nevertheless
opine that the mischievous scheme may be defe .ted if
the people of Liverpool will only move, as they should
do, to oppose it. Whatever may be conferred upon
Manchester, or any other inland town, will be just so
much taken from Liverpool. And for what purpose, or
for what cause, we beg to ask, is Liverpool to be sub-
jected to such a privation ? Liverpool has a vested
interest in this matter, which the legislature is bound
to respect. Liverpool is properly the handmaid of
Manchester—her merchant, her port, and her broker
—and both have thriven together as fellow-workers
and mutual auxiliaries; and why is the connection to
he dissolved ? why is the eye to say to the hand I have
no need of thee ? why this " sedition of the members"
to be encouraged ? We see no reason for it but the
'mere lust of the eye—the mere wantonness of an un-
reasonable covetousness, and an unwise ambition. To
the country at large it will be disadvantageous, for it
will increase the expenses of revenue collection. In
short, it is an unwise and a mischievous scheme alto-
gether, and ought to be most strenuously resisted.
We hope the necessary movement may be made is time.

ZOCAL NEW,

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—It is confidently stated that
this body will hold their meeting in 1842 in the town of
Manchester.

SHOP-LIFTING.—On Monday, an old offender, named
Kelly, was committed to take his trial on a charge of having
attempted to steal a piece of black silk handkerchiefs from
the shop of Mr. Byford. Park-lane, on Saturday afternoon,
where he and another man went in under the pretence of
buying some. He took the advantage of the young man of
the shop being engaged with his companion to take the hand-
kerchiefs out of the window and place them under his
clothes.

STEALING FROM A CHILD.—On Monday a woman named
Mary O'Hara, was committed to take her trial at the ses-
sions, for having stolen a bundle of clothes from a child in
Lime-street, about a fortnight ago. It appeared that the
child, Hannah Dixon, was bringing the clothes from Brown-
low-hill to the house of her parents in Houghton-street,
when the prisoner accosted her, and. having engaged her at-

tention, snatched the bundle from her andran:iivay with it.
The prisoner was seen by several persons running with the
bundle in her apron. The little girl having met the pri-
soner in St. John's-market, on Saturday, identified her and
gave her in charge.
We are gratified to find that a remedy has at length been
discovered for the relief of the peculiar noise or nervous
irritation that accompanies deafness. Musk passed in va-
pour into the internal ear, by quieting the irritative action,
gives tone and energy to the pents within the ear, and in a
short time completely removes the cause of irritation. Mr.
Cronin may well feel proud of this successful experiment,
which promises decided benefit to the sufferer. We perceive
by Mr. C.'s advertisement he intends paying our Manchester
friends a visit.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE.—To-night an amateur per-
formance will take place at the Amphitheatre, when some of
our young Liverpool blades will " strut and fret their hour
upon the stage." We hope they will be well supported, as
their " intent ' is " charitable," the proceeds of the house
being for the benefit of the Bluecoat Hospital. Report
speaks highly of the getting-up of the pieces, which are
under the direction of Mr. Marshall, of the Liver Theatre.
That most delightful actress, Mrs. Gordon, plays Emily
Worthington, in the " Poor Gentleman." There is much
talent and true acting in Mrs. Gordon. The Liverpool
playgoers have not as yet had an opportunity of seeing this
lady in parts wherein she can display her abilities.
MEETING OF BINGES AND CO., CREDITORS, OF MAN-
CHESTER.—On Tuesday the first meeting of creditors under
this fiat was held, being for the proof of debts and to choose
assignees. It was dated 15th March. The bankrupts, Mr.
John 4. Hayward and William Cosier Fletcher, were in at-
tendance. Several extraordinary disclosures were made at
the meeting relative to certain transactions which the bank-
rupts had had with other parties. It appeared they endea-
voured to establish themselves in London and elsewhere, and
carried on business in the names of other parties. The
amount of debts proved during the day was between £50,000
and £60,000. Besides the amount of £9,363 proved by the
Union Bank, the amount proved by the Bank of Manchester
was £20,316; the South Lancashire Bank, £654 ; Messrs.
Orr and Co. (oh bills), £696 4s. 6d. ; Messrs. Seeley and
Burnside, £302 ss. 4d. ; Messrs. Charles Knight and Co.
£5,900. The meeting terminated a little before four o'clock.
STREET ROBBERY.—A man, named John Wilson, was, on
Monday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged by a farmer
named Nathan Lovelady, with having attempted to rob him
on the previous morning. It appeared that on Saturday
evening the complainant had been at a friend's house in the
New Haymarket, which he left early the following morning.
He was proceeding home on foot up London-road, and, on
turning into Anson-street, the prisoner and another man
laid hold of him to get their hands into his pockets, in which
was £7 9s. Od.—but the old man being resolute prevented
them, when Wilson (the prisoner) struck him on the face
and knocked him down. They again attempted to rifle his
pockets, but he struggled with them and called out, when
police-constable No. 216, hearing the cry, saw the prisoner
and his companion making off, but he succeeded in capturing
Wilson. The prisoner was committed for trial.
MODEL OF DUBLIN.—This very beautiful model has not
been visited by the numbers of visitors we certainly antici-
pated. We are quite convinced that, if its merits were suf-
ficiently known, instead of a few dozen persons seeing it per
day, as many hundreds would inspect it. It is without ex-
ception the most exquisite work we ever saw. The houses
are all made of wood : the little gardens, which abound
throughout the Irish metropolis, are distinctly laid out, even
to their very flower-beds. On looking at the model, one
might fancy oneself in a balloon, gazing down upon " the
swate 'city" : the Liffey, like a silver snake creeping through
it, has its banks covered with warehouses, &c. Take our
advice, good reader, and see the model of Dublin. You will
be highly gratified, we promise you. Should you be an
" Emeralder," a view of what Judy of Roundwood was
wont to call " the Cit. of Dub. with Trin. C 01.," will do you
good.

LIVERPOOL FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—The annual meet-
ing of the subscribers and friends to this institution was held
in the Charitable Institution House, on Tuesday evening.
Sir Joshua Walmsley was called to the chair, and opened the
meeting with some very pertinent remarks upon the import-
ance and value of an institution which had now been esta
blished thirty years, and had been productive of so much
good amongst a class of individuals so greatly to be pitied for
their great degradation. John Cropper, jun., Esq., in the
absence of the treasurer, Mr. Joseph King, read the audited
cash account, and explained the financial circumstances of
the charity. It appeared that the institution was upwards of
£5OO. in debt. The report of the committee was then read.
It appeared that out of 103 applications for admission during
the last year, 63 were received, being all that came within
the rules. Twenty-one had been restored to their friends or
placed out to respectable service, after having been their full
time in the house ; fifty-seven still remained, and the sum of
£423. 16s. Ild. had been received for work done by the peni-
tents during the last year. The adoption of the report was
moved by the Rev. Charles Haydon, Wesleyan minister, who
commented upon the facts stated therein in a very judicious

and eloquent speech. The Rev. F. F. Barker moved the re-
solution of the appointment of fhe officers and committee for
the year ensuing. He urged the claims of the institution
upon the regard of the benevolent part of the community.
Several gentlemen briefly addressed the auditory, when the
thanks of the meeting were. voted to the chairman, who ac-
knowledged the token of respect, and headed a subscription
for the reduction of the debt by a donation of ten pounds,
which example was followed by some others. Several new
subscriptions were also announced.

THEATRE-ROYAL.—After an absence of a few brief years
Mrs. Warner has again come amongst us. What she was
when she quitted the Liverpool company any playgoer can
remember. She has returned with her talents matured,—
her style if anything more fascinating, and her person lovlier
than ever. Her welcome was the most enthusiastic we have
witnessed for many a day. Her Lady Macbeth, on Monday
night, was a fine conception. She fully developed the poet's
creation, and gave us a true impersonation of the bold, daring,
and ambitious woman, who will allow no obstacle to stand
between her and her husband's preferment. Mr. Charles
Kean, who made his first appearance this season as the
" Thane," played it extremely well. It was replete with
those bursts of genius which electrify and delight as well as
astonish. Mr. Charles Kean is in full possession of the sub-
tleties of his art, and we are glad to uphold him as the first
actor of his day. Mr. Charles Kean is not without his
faults, but we are always too much delighted with him to
notice them. Mr. Stuart's Macduff was very cleverly and
judiciously played. Few men know and understand Shakspere
better than Mr. Stuart. " Macbeth" has been got up in a
splendid style. The audience appeared quite surprised at
the new scenery presented to their view, while "the appliances
to hoot" appeared to afford equal astonishment. If all
Shakspere's plays were represented with the same care and
expense, we are confident crowded houses would well repay
any manager for his outlay and risk. We have never seen
" Macbeth" produced in the provinces so expensively as at
the Theatre-royal at present.—On Tuesday "The Stranger"
was played—Mrs. Warner as Mrs. Haller, and Mr. Charles
Kean as The Stranger, his first appearance here in the cha-
racter. He played it with great ability, though it afforded
little scope for display. His description of his wrongs was
finely given—his earnestness thrilled through the audience,
and drew forth a burst of applause. Mrs. Baker played the
Countess Wintersen very nicely. Mr. Bland made the
most of the Count. Baker and Slaiter were extremely droll
as Solomon and Peter, while Mrs. Clarke's Charlotte, with
her airs and impertinences, was very amusing. But what
shall we say of Mrs. Warner's Mrs. Haller? We may de-
clare, with truth, that so graceful, natural, and so beautiful
an impersonation, has not been seen for many and many a
day. The sympathy of the audience was enlisted towards
the erring but penitent woman from the first ; and pity for
her "stooping to folly" prevailed in the sternest hearts;
but the closing scene was a triumph of histrionic art. Her
pathos, tears, grief, and distress wrung tears from many an
eye, "albeit unused to the melting mood." The poet says,
that _ .

" Smiles may be false, but tears must'be true ;"

and many a true tear ran down stern cheeks on Tuesday night.
As for the ladies, God bless them, no wonder they should
weep—they would have been no women to have refrained.
We never saw such a scene ; a pin might have been heard to
fall until the curtain dropped, when a tremendous burst of
applause rang through the house, continuing until Mr. Kean
appeared, leading on Mrs. Warner, to receive the courtesies of
the audience. The closing farce of " The Sleeping Draught"
proved anything but a " sleeping draught" to the audience.
Mrs. Clarke, as Nonna, and Baker, as Popolino , kept the
audience laughing for the rest of the evening. Norma' s
packing her lover up in the grave clothes was most ludicrous.
Verily, Mrs. Clarke has no compeer in similar characters.
To-night, " Macbeth will be repeated, for Mrs. Warner's
benefit.

PUBLIC CHALLENGE TO ALL SECRET ORDERS.—A Mr.
Doherty, from Manchester, having placarded the town in
every direction, threatening a " heavy blow and great dis-
couragement" to all secret societies, inasmuch. as he would
deliver a lecture at the Music-hall, on the utter absurdity
and fallacy of Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Recabites, &c.,
and that he would there develop a plan much safer, and more
in accordance with the attributes of justice, he, according to
this public announcement, lectured on Wednesday night at
the above-named place, when upwards of 1000 persons at-
tended. A great deal of noise and confusion ensued with
regard to the election of a chairman—Mr. D. wishing Mr.
Dix to occupy the chair, he belonging to no society what-
ever, and the majority of the meeting being in favour of a
Mr. Kelly. A show of hands being called for, Mr. Kelly
had a great majority. Mr. Doherty then commenced his
lecture; and although be had stated in the bills that he
would show the risk persons were subject to who were in
anywise connected with secret societies, he never touched
that point, unless when he alluded to the last quarterly report
of the Reckabites, where two cases were enumerated of
persons being guilty of fraud, and over which cases the ma-
gistracy said they had no controul, the society notbeing enroll-
ed according to the act of parliament. The whole tenor of his
lecture bore upon the superior system, as he stated it to be,
of insurance. He, along with a number more, had adopted this
plan ; but, previous to doing so they had waited upon the
directors of the Norwich Life Insurance Society for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether they would insure to the amount
of £25. They had for answer that this was rather a new
feature, and would require consideration. In about three
weeks after they received an answer, stating their willingness
to adopt this system, and consequently they had all enrolled
themselves under Abe banners of the Norwich Society for a
life assurance for £25. The manner he proposed to raise
the 10s. per week for the sick was by a levy from each mem-
ber; so that the money to be received after death, and the
sick allowance, were altogether distinct—the members de-
pending on the Insurance Society for their burial allowance,
while the other was controlled by themselves. In favour of
his system he urged the benefit to be derived from the mem-
bers being protected by law, which secret orders could not
boast of. After he had concluded, he was warmly attacked
by a few gentlemen belonging to the different secret orders
in town, one of whom, Mr. Hardwick Taylor, challenged
Mr. D. to a public discussion on the merits of the insurance
system and the system adopted by secret orders, the largest
place in town, which could be had, to be taken for the occa-
sion, and twopence to be charged for admission—the receipts
of the evening, after paying expenses, to be given to some
charitable institution. Mr. Doherty accepted the proposal,
and the parties were to meet after the close of the meeting
for the purpose of drawing up the preliminaries, such as fix-
ing the place and night of discussion, &c. The meeting
throughout was rather turbulent. Mr. Dix stated, previous
to our leaving, that he had never as yet belonged to any so-
ciety, but, from the discussion he had heard, he would cer-
tainly take the earliest opportunity of becoming a member
of one of the secret societies, and that would be the Odd-
fellows. Mr. Kelly, as chairman, acted in an extremely
impartial manner.

THE DUKE OP WELLINOTOVoseTOMOITOW the Duke of
Wellington attains his seventy-third year ' . and we are urged
by a correspondent to call upon the authorities to show, in
the usual manner, the respect in which the noble duke is
held by all classes of his countrymen. We hope some de-
monstrations will take place on the occasion. •

GEORGE'S PIER BATHS.—We are happy to announce that
these baths are now open for the season, under the superin-
tendence of Mrs. Penn, and we are certain from the accom-
modation afforded, and the attention to the comfort of visit-
ors always shown at the establishment, that a continuance
of the patronage of the town will be given to the widow of
the late lessee.—See ddvt.

INQUESTS.—An inquest was held on Friday last at Wal-
lasey, on the body of John Metcalf, who was found lying
dead in a sandhole, at Wallasey, with a deep wound in his
throat. The deceased was " boots" at the Victoria Hotel,
New Brighton, in Liscard, and had been for a few days in a
bad state of health. His master, Mr. Garratt, was very
kind to him, and told him on the Wednesday morning, that
he would send for a surgeon, bidding him at the same time
not to go out of the way. The doctor arrived, but the de-
ceased was not to be found, and on the following day he was
discovered lying on his face quite dead, in a sandhole at
Wallasey, with a razor beside him.—On Saturday, an in-
quest was held at Ellesmere, on the body of James Leech.
The deceased was a flatman. and had been drinking in a
public-house at Whitby Locks until he became intoxicated.
He was then taken to his flat, which lay in the basin, and
being missed on the following day, the basin was searched,
and his body was discovered. Verdicts were returned in
each case according to the evidence.

THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.—We beg to refer to a notice of a meeting which
will take place this day, of the American merchants and
others, on the subject of shewing some mark of respect on
the occasion of the death of General Harrison. Some en-
quiries having been made, by several of our correspondents,
whether a new election will take place, we beg to state that
the present vice-president, John Tyler, Esq., who is presi •
dent also of the senate, steps into the president's chair, and
serves the time out ; and a new election of vice-president will
take place, that office to be chosen by congress, and not by
the pedple. Mr. Tyler is a retired planter, from Virginia, a
person of considerable wealth. Now that we are on this sub-
ject, we cannot help expressing our surprise that the Mayor,
connected so closely as he is with the United States, has not
given orders to have the colours at the Town-hall hoisted
half-mast ; and we think there is a want of respect shown by
many of the masters of vessels in the port, in not paying a
similar mournful compliment. We have observed that the
Americans at all times exhibit the greatest attention in this
respect, on occasions relative to public events in this
country.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—If there is one institution more
than another which requires investigation, and demands im-
mediate reform, it is that of the College of Maynooth. Al-
ready have the blasphemous doctrines and the treasonable
principles inculcated therein been brought before the atten-
tion of the public, through the painstaking and persevering
labours of a committee of the House of Lords ; but our le-
gislators are too much imbued with the fashionable indiffer-
entism of the present day to attend to any of these things,
and, unless the) are compelled to feel the pressure from with-
out, they will continue to foster and support any and every
teacher and false opinion, if they only minister to the vile
passions of an enslaved population, who are willing at all
times to obey the mandate of the priest, and he, as is well
known, is the mere tool of a foreign potentate who abhors
our liberty, and seeks to destroy our social privileges. Let
our Protestant readers, then—all of them—attend the meet-
ing to be held in the Music-hall on Wednesday next, for the
purpose of petitioning our rulers to withdraw the annual
grant from Maynooth College. It is expected that the Rev .
Hugh M`Neile will preside, and the Rev. Hugh Stowell has
been requested to lend his powerful assistance.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.-011 Wednesday

evening an eloquent sermon was preached in Christ Church,
Hunter-street, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, in aid of the
funds of the Liverpool Protestant Association. The weather
was peculiarly unfavourable, and a smart shower, which oc-
curred at the commencement of the service, must have kept
many away ; nevertheless, the church was almost filled, and
the upper gallery was crowded with protestant operatives.
Mr. M`Neile selected for his text the 2d chapter of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Colossians, and the 18th and 19th verses :
" Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary hu-
mility and worshipping of angels, entering into those things
which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
and not holding the head from which all the body by joints
and bands, having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
increaseth with the increase of God." From these words
the rev. gentleman traced the sources of the corruption of
Christianity, which had been taught from the beginning by
unenlightened men. They were two-fold, Judaism and
pagan philosophy ; and it was against both Judaizing and
heathenizing teachers—who had intruded themselves into the
Christian church—that St. Paul was to be found strenuously
contending in the chapter from which the text had been
taken, at every step contrasting the truth which he com-
mended with the falsehood which he deprecated. He laid it
down as a scriptural axiom that a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels, as both existed among the Roman
Catholics of the present day, was a humility existing in
man's own device, and not in any commandments of God,
and that it was a wilful humility tending to beguile Christians
from the course which they ought to pursue. For a long
time Christendom had slumbered over those things; and
though there had been many winning their way to God with-
out either saint or angel who grieved in silence, yet their
number had been but few, and to all appearance the truth
had departed; darkness covered the land, and gross darkness
the people, but, after a time, light sprung up again. The
egregious corruptions of the day affronted even the common
sense of some men, and the reformation was effected. The
church in England was then purged from the surround-
ing error—the holy scriptures were brought out—the
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels were con-
demned—and the church contained a noble protest against
those inventions. If the protest of the church of England
had been kept plainly before the people, there would be no
occasion at present for protestant associations, because the
whole church would be a protestant association, and the whole
country members of that association. But there had been a
declination ; and in proportion as men declined, and the pro-
test was not made, reiterated, and repeated, the human heart
returned ; there had been a relapse into what had been-con-
genial to men's minds—there had been a falling away and a
slumber, both on the part of laity as well as the clergy ; this
pervaded all ranks of the country—it extended to our rulers,
and, indeed, had chiefly been confined to the highest ranks,
all in consequence of the needful protest not having been
properly attended to. This it was which had given rise to
the establishment of such a society as the present—a society
whose duty it was to sound the alarm, to remind the country
of its protest, to remind the clergy of their pledges, and to
ask the latter to redeem them ; for what were those pledges ?
Why, the fact was, that every clergyman in the kingdom had
given thirty-nine pledges. Was it sufficient for a man who
had given such a number to redeem the pledge in fourteen,
fifteen, or sixteen cases, and to leave the remainder of them
unredeemed? Surely they should redeem them all, and go
their rounds, inasmuch as they were not intended to be use-
less. The object, therefore, of the society was, to sound
the alarm among the clergy, to invite them to consider their
pledges, and to ask why they permitted some of them to be
so long slumbering in their prayer-books, after having
pledged themselves to speak out boldly upon the invocation
of saints and the worshipping of angels, and further to
why they had continued to slumber in this respect, and
why, from the day they were ordained, to the present
hour they never opened their mouths on the subject?
The reverend preacher next addressed the laity as citizens of
the state, and told them plainly that not only was their salva-
tion hereafter at stake, but that their civil privileges here,
and those of their children after them, were at stake also. He
asked why it was that the Bishop of Rome should have any
jurisdiction in this realm, and where it was stated in the
protest that he should possess such jurisdiction over the
heads of the clergy and laity of the land ; Two courses were
left open for the protestants to pursue—either to blot out the
protest altogether, or to revive such a protestant tone as
would give it utterance. There were some who would blot it
out, and there were others who would revive the tone ; which
of those courses would the protestants pursue ? The protes-
tants of Liverpool had associated for the purpose of making
the prayer-book speak. and to continue sound doctrine and
civil liberty in the land ; to hear the " one sacrifice for sin"
universally promulgated, and to have one sovereign in Eng-
land, and no jurisdiction upon the part of the Bishop of
Rome. Those were the glorious tones of the protest, and for
those purposes they were associated. But means should be
used—they did not expect miracles—and it was by means of
meetings, sermons, publications, petitions, associations—
means such as they had been using for the last few years in
Liverpool, and he thanked God they had not been used in
vain. Mr. M'Neile then appealed to the congregation to be
liberal in supplying the means for carrying on this work. The
sermon occupied about an hour and a quarter, and was highly
interesting and instructive.

A PEEP IN THE PRINT-SHOPS.—We must confess that
we like dearly to stare at the print-shops. It is a habit we
acquired in our boyhood, while perambulating through the
mazes of the great metropolis, before we knew what was ex-
cellent in art, true in nature, or capital in execution. How
many a ten minutes have we not spent gazing at the caricatures
in the-corner-shop in Pilgrim-street? How we used to revel
at Tilt's, feast at Akerrnan's, and banquet at Colnaghi's,
Moon's, and a hundred other pleasant places, all endeared
to us by the happy memories of boyhood! We confess that
we still enjoy a good stare in the printshops. Lacey's often at-
tracts us, Linnecar's has always fine specimens of fine works,
Hunt's is sure to pull us up, and in Holden's we can always
find something to admire. Good or bad, a print is a print,
and has given employment to many, from the artist who
sketched it, to the publisher who sells it ; and, therefore, let
it be honoured. It has been said that in Liverpool the arts
are not encouraged. Now how can this be main-
tained, when we see so much money yearly laid out on
the paintings at the exhibitions, the numbers of pictures
sold at auctions, the quantities of fine engravings dis-
posed of by the various printsellers ? Why we could
adduce a hundred other reasons to spew and prove that
art is encouraged in Liverpool, and liberally paid for.
Not only do we readily purchase the works of London pub-
lishers, but the printsellers here issue themselves at their
own risk, and upon speculation. There have been many
very beautiful engravings published in Liverpool, that are
highly esteemed in the world of art. Now that we are upon
this matter, we may notice a very admirable engraving of
the Rev. Mr., Haldane Stewart, by Lupton, just published,
from the picture by Patten, which was exhibited a year or
two ago. This picture, it may be remembered, was painted
at the desire of the rev. gentleman's congregation. It has
been esteemed so excellent a likeness, that a demand has
been excited for an engraving from it.—Another local work,
we may here notice, is now in contemplation : we allude to
the portrait of the late Mr. W. W. Currie, by Phillips, now
in the Town-hall. This portrait will be readily purchased.
The late Mr. Currie's virtues are still fresh in the recollec-
tion of his friends.—Besides these, a very large plate is now
in progress (we believe by Mr. Hague) of a view of the river,
and the port in the distance.—Quitting local works, we now
turn to those of general interest. The first is one which all
sporting men will look upon with great pleasure : we allude
to the portrait of John IVlytton, of Halston. The celebrated
sportsman is seen mounted on his famous horse Sir Oliver,
and is surrounded by some of his crack dogs, and accom-
panied by his whipper-in, Edward Evans, on the celebrated
Little Grey. This engraving is full of character : the like-
nesses are most faithful; the grouping is excellent. The
landscape is chosen from a portion of the Halston estate.—
Amongst other works now complete and in progress, there
are the Waterloo Banquet, from a painting by Slater ; a mili-
tary, portrait of the Duke in his uniform of a field marshal,
painted by Lucas ; the Queen receiving the Holy Sacrament
by Horace Vernet.—Roberts's Views, now in pro-
at her Coronation, by Leslie ; and Napoleon and his Gene-
ngreersaiss' of publication, are occupying much attention. They
are extremely beautiful, and replete with interest.

Railway travelling must be apprecicted by gentlemen of
most vocations, but none perhaps so much as auctioneers,
because their busy time is confined to a few months, and
they incline to the good old practice, to " make hay while
the sun shines." Referring to our journal of Saturday last,
it will be seen that Mr. G. Robins sold, at Ludlow, on Mon-
day last ; he goes then to Newmarket to sell, on Friday next;
on the 4th and sth of May, the following week, Lord South-
ampton's estates; and the 6th and 7th, estates at the Mart;
on the 9th, to be at Windermere, in Cumberland ; on the
13th, to sell estates at the Mart ; on the 15th,, to be in
North Devonshire; on the lath, in Cornwall ; and the 20th,
in South Devonshire ; on the Ist of June, he sells at the
Mart. After a little breathing time and selling large estates
in London, the 17th and 24th of June, he goes to Liverpool,
the 29th ; and to Dublin three days after; and in Shropshire,
the 7th of July. This is indeed active employment, and
could only be accomplished by the aid of railways.

SKETCHES IN PARLIAMENT.—No. 4.

(FOR THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.)

DEBATE UPON THE FIRST CLAUSE OF LORD
MORPETH'S IRISH REGISTRATION BILL.-

DEFEAT OF MINISTERS

APRIL 26TH

The interest excited by the committal of Lord Morpeth's
Irish Registration Bill last night was increased by the cir-
cumstance, that not only had ministerial circulars of the
most pressing nature been issued to their usual supporters,
but that a very numerous meeting of the opposition held
in the course of the day at the residence of Sir Robert Peel,
the proceedings of which, having transpired, afforded every
reason for the hope that at length that great leader of his
party had determined to throw off the apathy, which for some
time past has characterised his parliamentary conduct, and
to assume that firm and peremptory position towards the
degraded ministerial faction which his country, every day
more loudly, demands at his hands. Long before four
o'clock the neighbourhood of Palace-yard was thronged with
equipages of every description ; the lobbies of the House
were filled with anxious and excited faces. Upon the order
of the day being read Lord Howick rose, and proceeded to
move his amendment upon the first clause of the bill, in ac-
cordance with the terms of his notice. His lordship's
speech, which was an exceedingly creditable one, was listened
to throughout with deserved attention; and his recognition
of the principle that an interest in the profits of the land,
and not a mere occupation, had ever been the basis of the
county franchise, was received with loud cheering from the
conservative portion of the house.

The reply of Lord Morpetn was more feeble than any-
thing which I have ever listened to from that noble lord.
Almost entirely void of argument, and wholly wanting in
dignity, it was in fact little more than an appeal ad misere-
cordiam addressed to his refractory supporter. His lord-
ship's manner and features, at the best of times not a little
ridiculous, were, on this occasion, positively ludicrous ; and
when in an appealing tone he enlarged upon the sacrifices
which he and his brother ministers had been willing to make
for the purpose of securing for a little while longer the sweets
of office—when he reminded the house that " certainly they
had done their best to demonstrate that they were not dis-
posed to stand upon extreme opinions," and that even since
the recess they had " not hesitated to raise the franchise in
a slight degree," in the hope of conciliating their wavering
supporters, and averting the dreaded doom with which they
were menaced, the house was almost convulsed with
mingled laughter and disgust.
Lord Morpeth was followed by Mr. C. Wood, the member
for Halifax—(Lord Ilowick's " double," as he has been very
appropriately termed)—who in the course of a somewhat able
speech, demonstrated a fact which perhaps may not a little
astonish some of your Clayton-square " giants "—if such
distinguished individuals ever listen to two sides of any
question. The alteration of the proposed amount of rating
from .£5 to £B, will, in operation, be an effectual and an ex-
tensive measure of disfranchisement of the existing body of
electors. Yes, a whig measure,—Lord Morpeth's own pet
bantling—contains that very " disfranchising principle," the
alleged existence of which, in Lord Stanley's bill, was made
the ground of a yell of execration directed against that noble-
man, as " the enemy of the liberties and the franchises of
the Irish people "—as " Scorpion Stanley " ! In the returns
brought before the house by government, and prepared by
their poor-law officials, Mr. Wood " found that in fourteen
unions the number of £lO voters was stated, and the number
under £8 ; and it appeared that out of the £lO voters in
these fourteen unions nearly one-sixth would be disfran-
chised by the proposition of Lord Morpeth." Perhaps the
discovery of this circumstance, only within the last day or
two—owing to the protracted production of the returns from
which it has transpired—may account for the evident want of
fervour with which it was supported during the debate by the
arch-agitator and his party. Lord Morpeth has evidently—
to use a vulgar phrase—" put his foot in it."
After a few words from Sir C. Grey, Lord Stanley pre-
sented himself at the table, and in that dignified and straight-
forward manner which distinguishes him, laid before the
house the course which the conservative party had determined
to pursue upon the question before it.
After a few words, uttered in a very low tone, by the evi-
dently chopfallen member for Dublin, Lord John Russell
indulged himself in one of those petulant and delamatory
harangues which, (as was well remarked by Sir Robert Peel)
he is in the habit of addressing to the democratic portion of
the house, " when he has some very defective cause to ad-
vocate."

The speech of Sir Robert Peel, however, was, " par excel-
lence," the speech of the evening, whether as regards man-
ner or matter. Sir Robert proved incontestibly that, upon
the authority even of the member fur Dublin himself, the
argument put forward by ministers with respect to the con-
traction assumed to have taken place in the registries of Ire-
land was utterly untenable ; that at the present moment the
number of electors entitled to exercise the franchise in that
county exceeds considerably the number calculated upon, as
to be created by the Irish Reform Bill ; and that the noble
lord, by the bill before the house, had not remedied one, even,
of the alleged evils complained of. Sir Robert then asked
with that lofty contempt which befitted him—" Why, what
confidence could we place in you as legislators fit to deal with
this subject ?" What, indeed !
The right honourable baronet then addressed himself more
particularly to the details of the subject, and as distinctly se-
parated himself as Lord Stanley had previously done, from
both the amendment and the clause, intimating the same de-
termination to stand upon principle alone, and upon the un-
aided strength of his own party. " The question before the
house," urged Sir Robert in conclusion, " is this—whether
her Majesty's government have made a provision which en-
titles them to the public confidence of the house ; and I must
say that the course they have pursued on the Irisji franchise

appears to me TO DISENTITLE THEM TO THE CONFIDENCE
OF THE HOUSE OR THE COUNTRY." An opinion which the
perfect BURST OF CHEERING from the Conservative party
proved to be that which is generally entertained.
As a whole, the speech of the right hon. baronet was wor-
thy alike of the orator and the statesman. It is evident that
Sir Robert is at length roused to the noble effort of rousing
his fellow-countrymen from the thraldom of a despicable fac-
tion, and a thousand thousand hearts, throughout the land,
will beat with gratitude, and a thousand tongues will be raised
to honour him.

" But the great mendicant".

will be asked—" where

was he ?" Alas, alas for Derrynane ! its occupant was pre-
sent ; but in body alone. The bulky form still encumbered
the ministerial benches; but the braggart spirit of the
" bully" had evaporated—had disappeared with the fifth rat-
ing clause. He had his little growl, however, still; but he
" roared gently as any sucking dove." Ile told us how
" peaceably and well organized" his country was. Ile la-
mented how little the house knew of that country, " which
contained five millions (!!) of persons who never tasted the
liquor of intoxication, and ended, as all his harangues end,
with a slander and a threat commingled against the English
nation. Alas for the agitator ! his day, it is greatly to be
feared, is gone by, unless his performances be from hence-
forth upon a different platform. In sheer compassion, there-
fore. I will refrain from noticing more than, en passant, the
quotations of his past elegancies of diction, with which Sir
Robert Peel completed his discomfiture, and that of his
wretched slaves—the baffled and beaten ministry.

After a short cock-crowing and a little shaking of feathers
from " the smallest man in the House of Commons," the
house divided, and Lord John, much, no doubt, to his dis-
comfiture, found himself in a minority of TWENTY-ONE !
In that comfortable position for the present I must leave him.