The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The address on the "Observance of the Sabbath" could not
be postponed till Friday, without interfering with our ar-
rangements for the despatch of the Standard by the early
mails. It was in type when tte request was made.
The remainder of our Literary Notices shall appear in cur
next, in which we shall endeavour to find room for an ex-
tract from the iute:esting volume of tales and sketches by
Mrs. Clarke.
An accident, (the falling out of four columns of type,) pre-
vented us from going to press on Friday at twelve, agree-
ably to our promise on Tuesday last.

Ebe tibtrpool

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 20, 1838

SPAIN.—THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF
THE CORTES.—On the Bth instant the Queen of Spain
went through the ceremony of opening the Cortes.
The speech was, in consequence of late occurrences in
the capital, invested with an unusual degree of inte-
rest. The crowd was very considerable in the streets
leading from the Palace to the Chamber of Deputies,
and the interior of the legislative hall was thronged
with men of all classes, and ladies elegantly dressed.
The Queen Regent having ascended the throne, de-
livered in a faint voice the following speech, which
was listened to in religious silence by the assembly:
" I am rejoiced to find myself among you, at the
moment when you are about resuming your legislative
labours, and trust that you will gi% e me the same
proofs of that enlightened zeal for the public welfare
which you afforded ore during the last session.
" The treaty of the 22d of April, 1834, concluded
between the Queen (King) of Great Britain, the King
of the French, the Queen of Portugal, and myself,
remains still in force, and the relations of amity which
unite the throne of !he Queen of Spain with the other
powers, by whom it has been acknowledged, continue
on the most satisfactory footing.
"I feel the greatest pleasure in announcing to the
Cortes that the Sublime Porte has recognised the
rights of my august daughter, and my heart is peculi-
arly gratified by the part which my powerful ally, the
Queen of Great Britain, took in the success of that
negociation.

;`Knowing that our enemies receive succours, fur-
nished by powers who have not recognised my august
daughter as Queen of Spain, 1 have instructed my re•
presentatives at the allied Courts to claim their formal
mediation to prevent hereafter those violations of the
law of nations.
" Since the unfortunate issue of the siege of Morella,
fortune has shown itself less propitious to our arms;
but 1 confidently trust that the valour, constancy, and
good discipline of our army will lead us again to vie
fort'. I indulge the hope that you will approve the
levy of 40,000 men and the requisition of ly,rss, lately
decreefl with,,nt your participation, on account of the
urgency of circumstances.
"It will be necessary to complete various important
laws, which could not be voted last session, and which
are intended to adapt the interior administration of the
state to the existing constitution. Among those on
which you will be called again to decide, I recommend
to you the bill for regulating the powers and attributes
of the municipal councils and of the provincial deputa-
tions, as also those relative to public instruction and
charitable institutions.

"The difficulty of calculating the effects likely to be
produced by the writings which are daily published is
a reason why such constant efforts are made to revise
the laws for regulating the press. If such laws be ne-
cessary at all times, this ►want of them must necessa-
rily be more keenly felt in times of civil contentions.
For this powerful iuoti►e I recommend to your mature
examination a bill that will be submitted to you on
that important subject.
"The brave National Guard discharges throughout
the kingdom, with perseverance i.nd discipline, the or-
dinary service for which it has beet! instituted, and en-
gages with eagerness and courage in the pursuit of the
rebels. Nevertheless, its organisation requires to be
improved, and a bill to that effect will be presented to
you this session.
" The events of the war have shown the necessity
for attending, even at the price of the greatest sacri-
fices, to the preservation and the increase of the navy,
which vies ►with the land forces in endeavours to up-
hold the constitutional throne.
" I have directed that the vessels of ►war now in the
arsenals be immediately fitted out for service. A bill
for the organisa►ion of the navy shall be presented to
you, in order that you may provide for present, as well
as future contingencies.
"Trade experiences evils, which are the conse-
quences of the situation of the country. It is ex-
tremely urgent to introduce into the code now in force
the changes for which experience has shown the ne
cessity. My government will lay before you a bill to
that effect, and, at a later period, submit to your deli-
beration a new commercial code.

" Our transatlantic provinces continue to enjoy the
most perfect tranquillity, and I receive every fresh
pledge of loyalty from their inhabitants. The com-
mittees appointed in those provinces for the purpose
of drawing up the special laws by which they are
hereafter to be governed, agreeably to the constitu-
tion, are prosecuting their labours with a praiseworthy
assiduity.
" My government, having been authorised to effect
sevet•al important ameliorations in the administration
of justice, directs and accelerates with that view the

execution of the works already commenced, and al-
thongh those works could not, from their nature, be
as y et completed, the measures most urgently required
by the state ofaffairs in the transition from one system
of legislation to another have been adopted after
mature consideration. My government will take care
to communicate in due time to the Cortes the result

of its deliberations on the reforms to be introduced
into this branch of the administration, which has been
of late the object of its constant attention.
" The public revenues become daily more inade-
quate to the expenditure; and the extraordinary re-
sources which the last legislature so generously grant-
ed my government to cover the existing deficit it has
been found impossible yet to realise. My govern-
ment has been incessantly occupied in devising means
to surmount those difficulties.

"In addition to the general budget of the state, those
of our American provinces will be submitted to you
for the first time, and my government, in its sohaitude,
will propose to you the extraordinary.theans it will
consider practicable to provide for the public expendi-
ture, which the former revenues were insufficient to
cover.

"Immediately after the different works in progress
for improving as much as possible the condition of the
national and foreign holders of our securities shall have
been terminated they will be submitted to your exa.
mination. It is only by restoring public credit that
we can find the means that are absolutely necessary
for the expenditure of the state, and specially to ad
minister to the wants of that valiant army which con-
tends with so much glory for that noble cause defended
by the nation, and I trust this will be the principal ob-
ject
jof your solicitude in the present session. It is
under the standard of my august daughter Isabella IL
that is to be found the safety of the constitutional
throne. Let us save it, and with the assistance of
Divine Providence let us hasten to place under her
banner the olive-branch of peace, the only symbol of
our future prosperity."

This speech being read, the session of the Cortes
for 1838 was declared open, and her Majesty, giving
her hand to her august daughter, quitted the hall, and
returned to the palace with the same ceremonies.
The purport of the preceding document is lament.
ab

in the highest degree. The only cheerful an-
nouncement which it contains, from beginning to end,
is, the intimation that the Grand Turk has acknow•
ledged the title of Isabella to the throne of Spain.
Respecting the issue and prospects of the sanguinary
warfare with the Carlists not one word of encourage-
ment is uttered. The financial affairs of Spain seem
also to be in an equally deplorable condition. Its
commerce is also suffering. Altogether the picture
of Spain, exhibited in this speech, is of the most
gloomy and hopeless character. Such is the result of
a liberalised system of policy.

THE CORPORATION POPERY SCHOOLS.—The more
we reflect on this subject, the greater is our astonish-
ment and indignation at the foul affront the " iiberal"
corporation of this town has put upon its Protestant
population by the introduction of an experimental sys-
tem of edueation, possessing the damning. recommen-
,dation orbeingianctibned by a priesthood.
But why, let us ask, do Protestants tolerate the

And we call upon our Protestant fellow-townsmen
'o use their power, for "is there not a cause?" What!
shall it be said that, in this Christian land, Popery
established her first firm footing in the good old town
of Liverpool, by the expulsion of the Bible from her
schools, and by substituting in its stead the Roman
Breviary, with all its mummery and idolatry ? Shall
the buds that were swelling and germinating un-
der the genial warmth and light of the Gospel, be
suffered to dwindle and decay under the blasting
and pestilential influence of the expounders of
Den's Theology, the upholders of the mass, and
the suppressors of the Bible ? Let every Protestant
who has children make the case his own, and
then let him say, would he feel satisfied to have
his offspring educated in a seminary in which the
standard of Christianity is lowered and degraded to
the same level with books that teach idolatry, which
repudiate and reject the plainest and most essential
points of Christian faith, and which thus make null
and void that testament which has the seal of the Sa-
viour's blood as its warrant ? No, assuredly he would
not ; and, therefore, an awful responsibility imposes
itself on him, to exert himself to dispel inrection and
contagion from the atmosphere in which his poorer
brethren's children are taught.
While the brilliant and steady light emitted by the
Bible, shone from the beacon of protestant ism, and
cast its beams in all directions over the dark, .delusive,
and turbid systems that dashed against, and foamed at
its base—many were the errant, and shattered and al-
most sinking vessels, that, bearing up for its friendly
guidance, found a harbour of refuge in which to
repair their injuries, to correct their reckonings, and
to receive on board that compass wnich, with faithful-
ness and accuracy, has pointed them to their destined
and desired port. But that sacred light has been re-
moved, in the instance of Liverpool, by the sacra-
legions hand of its corporation. The clergy, with one
solitary exception, have honestly protested against the
infamous and diabolical theft ; an i with a fortitude
which nothing but a holy cause could inspire, have re-
jected every overture and threat that has been held
out to induce them to yield to a base, and grovelling,
and mongrel species of liberality, that would compro-
mise the word of life by allowing it to be hashed and
minced, so as to suit the depraved palates of those,
who dread its potency to dissipate the errors which,
as a thick cloud, envelope their systems of human
device.

Need we direct. the attention of our readers to the
dispute that has been now for some time going on be-
tween the two popish bishops, Mac Hale and Murray,
to show them that the corporation schools in this
town are amply sufficient for every popish pur
pose ? Mac Hale, with a consistency worthy of a
better cause, and from Which we would do well to take
a lesson, insists, that in the national schools Popery
shall be propagated with all its trumpery:—Murray,
with a magnanimity second only to that of our Rev.
James Aspinall, but with better reason, maintains he
has footing enough to enable hi►n to neutralise Pro
testantism, and work out signal advantages for the
furtherance and spread of his darling Den's Theology.
Let Protestants take a lesson from Mac Hale. You
believe that the Bible is the gift of the Giver of all
Good; suffer, therefore, no mutilation or adulteration
of it in your schools; insist on its being an unsealed
hook, to captivate the hearts and understandings of
the young,—for the Giver has said, " Suffer little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not."
The clergy have done much, and they have still
much to do. This question is a vital one, and should
claim their unceasing attention in addressing their
sevem al congregations. Let this be thta case, and we
opine the day is not far distant when the machinations
of Popery will meet with a signal overthrow, by time
triumph of a Bible-loving- people.

We earnestly liGpe that the Council will to-morrow
negative the unnecessary and uncalled for measure of
building warehouses, and hope that it is needless for
us to exhort every conservative to be at his post. Al-
ready do certain parties connected with warehouses

threaten, should this measure ever pass, to lay the
parish rate on all stock in trade and merchant ship-
ping, without which, as all our readers are aware, nn
rate is legal. This scheme being unjust, will set the
different interests in prime strife with one another ;
instead of working well together, as heretofore, for

the prosperity of our noble port and their own mutual
advantage. No man can see his way through the dif•
ficulties which at this stage on every side surround
this measure, but by its immediate and unconditional
rejection.

SIR GEORGE. ARTIIUR.—In another column will be
found a letter from an intelligent and respectable cor-
respondent, resident in Canada, containing a refu-
tation of the malignant calumnies of the Whig-
Radical press against the excellent Lieutenant-
Governor of Upper Canada. The same corre-
spondent, in a private note accompanying his com-
munication, dwells with much force upon the de-
structive interference of Hume and his party in the
affairs of Canada, attributing all the atrocities which
have been perpetrated in the colony to their influence.
The day is, perhaps, not far distant, when this arch-
traitor and his confederates will be caught in their own
snares, and be made to expiate the offences which they
have committed against the monarchy and the consti-
tution of Great Britain. They, together with O'Con-
nell, we are convinced, will yet find the law too strong
for them.

CIRCULATION OF THE LIVERPOOL NEWSPAPERS.—
Several of our contemporaries have already published
extracts from the last returns of the number of stamps
issued to the metropolitan and provincial newspapers.
We subjoin a comparative statement of the circulation

'►f the Liverpool journals for the two periods embraced
n the return.

The following is a statement of the number of
stamps issued to each of the Liverpool papers from
the Ist of April to the 30th of June inclusive, together
with the weekly average of each :

Average of
Name of Paper. April. May. June. Public-41,,,t).
Mercury 26,000....24,000....32,000....6,303
Albion ll,OOO ....12,000....14,000....2,846
Mail 12,000....20,000....20,000....4,000
Standard 8,000.... 8,000.... 5,000....1,770
Courier . 9,000....12,000.... 3,000....1,846
Chronicle 8,000.... 8,000.... 8,000.-1,846
Journal 6,000....
Gore's
Times
Myers' Advtr 5,000.... 4,000.... 4,000.. _l,OOO
This statement, supposing that each journal was
supplied with the number of stamps required for its
bona
_fide consumption, will show the amount of circu-
lation possessed by each during the above quarter.
We now proceed to state the number of stamps issued
to each during the three months ending on the 30th
of September, together with the average weekly
circulation of each newspaper :

Average of
Name of Paper. July. Aug. Sept. Circulation.
Mercury 28,000....24,000....32,000....6,461
Albion 13,000.... .....10,000....1,770*
Mail ...... 4,000. —12,000.. —12,000. —.2,154
Standard .11,000.... 8,000....2,000
Courier 6,000.... 9,000.... 9,000....1,846
Chronicle 8,000.... 8,000.... 8,000....1,846
Journal

.... 9,000.... 9,000....1,384
Gore's
Times
Myers' Advtr 4,000.... 4,000.... 4,000.... 923

According to these comparative statements, and pro-
ceeding on our former supposition, that each newspa-
per has, during each of these periods of three months,
only ordered as many stamps as wet e requisite for its
consumption, we find that

pudent indignity, when they have in their own hands
the power of resenting and redressing it, and that too
in a manner the most summary ?
If the corporation, under false pretences, have pos-
sessed itself of a trust which it has traitorously be-
trayed, an obvious and facile course presents itself for
remedying the abuse, viz., by hurling the corporate
conspirators from the position that has given them the
power to be msschievous. This we say is an obvious
and easy remedy ;—obvious, inasmuch as madmen,
fools, and knaves ought not to be permitted the use of
weapons with which they might injure themselves or
others ;—and easy, because Protestants are stronger
than "the strong man armed," and need but to exer-
cise their power to bring disgrace and discomfiture on
the nest of traitors that are unscrupulously plotting
their ruin.