The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-18 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

How TO GET RID OF CORNS.—Rub them over with toasted
cheese, and let some sharp-set mice nibble them
It was confidently stated yesterday, that Air. Maule is to
be the new judge.—Times.

Thomas Wyse, Esq. M.P. has been appointed a deputy
lieutenant of the Queen's County.

A recent order of the French government has forbidden
that foreign vessels, carrying guns, shall engage any French
sailors as part of their crew.

The Kidderminster Messenger states, that at no period o:Y
time, since the establishment of the iron-works in Stour
bridge, which have hitherto been so celebrated, has the de.
mand for iron been so great as at the present time.

FRIENDLY NOTIFICATION.—At a house in the Hampstead-
road a large painted board is exhibited, which states that
"all persons who attempt to enter these premises after dark
will be shot !"

OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE SOClETY.—Another of these
useful societies has been established at the village of Dod-
worth, near Barnsley ; upwards of thirty sound operative
conservatives enrolled themselves at the first meeting.
The ages of the present knights of the garter (twenty-five
in number, exclusive of the Royal family and foreign princes)
afford an average of 72 for each. The eldest is the Earl of
Lonsdale, 81—the youngest the Duke of Buccleuch, 32.

At the Wesleyan centenary meeting, at Bristol, on Mon.
day week, £6,473 18s. were subscribed, of which one family,
that of John Irving, Esq., gave 1500 guineas. The Watch
man states that the total amount of subscriptions on Wed.
nesday was £67,000.

Mr. Henry House, on Thursday last, took up in his father's
garden, at Thurloxton, from under a stalk, 188 potatoes,
weighing thirty pounds, the produce of one planted whole;
the stalk measured seven feet in length.— Taunton Courier.
THE PEERS—LORD BROUGHAM.—The few Peers who are
not Conservatives are chiefly Whigs; indeed, all of any
mark, except the great eccentric thunderer, who has cracked
his own altars with his own bolts, and left himself no chance
of worship.— Times.
WHIGS AND TORIES.—This is just the difference between
the Whigs and the Tories—that the Whigs, who can brook
disgrace, retreat from difficulty—the Tories, unappalled by
difficulty, shrink only from disgrace.—lbid.

It is our painful duty to record the death of Francis V.
Wayland, Esq. which took place on Wednesday last, in con-
sequence of the wound he received on the 7th of April last,
when he and the late ever-to-be-lamented, A. Cooper. Esq.
fell by the hands of assassins. Since that sanguinary period
Mr. Wayland languished in great pain, which he bore with
christian fortitude.—Clonmel Herald.

The Solicitor-General, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Wight-
man, Mr. Erle, and several other gentlemen, are spoken of
as likely to obtain the seat upon the bench, vacant by the
decease of Sir J. A. Parke. Should the solicitor general
obtain the appointment, Mr. Sergeant Wilde is thought
likely to be his successor.—Courier.
"WIG." UNDE DERIVATUR P—The author of "Loose
Lectures" in Alexander's East India Magazine, insists that it
is derived (or, more properly speaking, corrupted) from the
Latin Puha, Hair, through the Spanish Pels (whence l'e-
luca, Wig,) the French Perruque, the Dutch Pernik, to the
English Perwick, Periwig, and by abbreviation, Wig—Q.E.D.

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SIR JOHN CoutoaNE.-1-Mrs. Jameson, in her " Rambles
in Canada" (just published,) says, "Sir John Colborne,
whose mind appeared to me to be cast in the antique mould
of chivalrous honour, and whom I never heard mentioned in
either province but with respect and veneration, was then
oocupied in preparing against the exigency which he after-
wards met so effectually."

Miss Clara Novello has been making a second visit to Berlin
on her return from Italy, where she has been studying during
the summer months under the immediate superintendence of
Rossini and Pasta. On the occasion of her farewell concert
at the Prussian court, the crown prince and princess sent her
a rich set of pearls and garnets, and autograph letters for the
empress of Russia, to whose court at St. Petersburgh Miss
Clara Novello is now on ber was.
BLASPHEMER.--An inquest was held on Saturday last,
at Retondon, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner, on the body
of W. Howlett, upwards of 70 years of age, and formerly
lime-burner at Springfield. On the 59th ult., deceased,
whilst uttering the most dreadful imprecations, suddenly fell
to the ground, and instantly expired. He was a professed
Deist.—The verdict of the Jury was, " Died by the visitation
of God."—Chelmsford Chronicle.

SIR WILLIAM JONES AND THOMAS DAY.—One day upon
removing some books at the chambers of the former, a large
spider dropped upon the floor, upon which Sir William, with
some warmth, said, " Kill that spider, Day ; kill that spider."
"No, (said Mr. Day, with coolness,) I will not kill that
spider. Jones: I do not know that I have a right to kill
that spider. Suppose when you are going in your coach to
Westminster Hall, a superior being, who perhaps may have
as much power over you as you have over this insect, should
say to his companion, Kill that lawyer! kill that lawyer!'
how should you like that, Jones? and I am sure that to most
people, a lawyer is a more noxious animal than a spider."
Captain Marryatt, finding that his correspondents are be-
coming too numerous, and that the postage on letters makes
too great a havoc among his loose change, has resolved to
adopt the plan of newspaper editors, to take no letters from
the office excepting those which are paid. Hear what the
captain save—" This has become a matter of serious import-
ance, and indeed I have sometimes been inclined to surmise
that I have been deceived in supposing that I have so many
secret well-wishers, and that the whole was a scheme of Mr.
Van Buren and Mr. Amos Kendall to increase the somewhat
defalcating resources of the country."--New York Whig.
REMEDY FOR THE CROUP.—'Phis terrific disease, fatal in
so many cases to children, might have been arrested in many
instances where it has proved fatal, if parents would have
ready at all times a phial, containing two ounces of squills,
forty grains of ipecacuana, one grain of tartar emetic ; and,
when the disease is announced by a hollow ringing cough,
resembling rather a bark than a cough, give a teaspoonful
of the above mixture every ten minutes until free vomiting
ensues. The above prescription was obtained from an emi-
nent physician, and is published for the benefit, especially of
parents and others in the country, not within the reach of
immediate medical aid. It is but the common impulse of
humanity to save life when we can, even though the patient
be fated to endure in after life, " the thousand ills that flesh
is heir to."—Baltimore Chronicle.

•
" PHILOSOPH ICA L" HINTS TO FARMERS AND LAND-
OWNERS.—ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.—This associa-
tion, having resumed its weekly meeting, is steadily and
satisfactorily pursuing its inquiries, by which it has already
been enabled to accumulate a mass of information, which,
as containing many new facts tending to place the iniquitous
character of the corn laws in the fullest possible light, it is
the intention of the chairman, Colonel Thompson, to publish
in a series of tracts. Lectures are also intended to be given,
a few weeks before the opening of parliament, by the lead-
ing liberal politicians of the day; so that the whole strength
of the association and its friends being concentrated on the
one grand object, little fear need be entertained as to the re.
sult. The farmers who have been consulted have, with
scarcely any exception, expressed themselves favourably in-
clined. Sir W►n. Moleswortb, G. Grote, Esq., M.P. ; J.
Hume, Esq., M.P. • John T. Leader, Esq., M.P.; D. W.
Harvey, Esq., M.l].; W. Theobald, Esq., and \V. 'fait,
Esq., are among those who have promised their co-opera-
tion; and it is expected that Lord Brougham and other
friends of the people in the House of Peers, with whom a
correspondence has taken place on the subject, will render
their aid in the good cause.—Sun.

METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY.-At the monthly meeting on
Tuesday evening, Dr. Lee, F.R.S., in the chair, fourteen
professors of the scientific institutions of the United States,
with four other scientific professors of the Continent, were
elected associate members. The principal subject of the va-
rious communications and journals, was an account of the
gales between the 26th of November and the 3d of December,
from which it appeared that the gale could be satisfactorily
traced to the south of the island of Jamaica, in the West
Indies, about the 17th of November. From hence it passed
over the Bahama Islands, where it did considetable damage,
and laid waste a great many of the plantations. From the
Bahamas it took a north-easterly direction across the Atlan-
tic, and reached Truro on the 26th of November, at noon. It
here continued to blow a hard gale all night, which, on the
27th, increased to a perfect hurricane. In Ireland its effects
were of a frightful character, and in the Bay of Dublin, on
the 28th, the barometer indicated 27.60 inches, the lowest on
record for many years at that place. The storm reached Lon-
don on the 28th, and was attended in the whole of its track
with much thunder and vivid lightning, and in some places
with great falls of rain. After it had left England, the storm
seems soon to have expended itself upon the Continent. A
paper was read from Mr. J. G. Tatem, on the subject of the
easterly wind abating with the declining sun, and on the in-
crease of the wind in rivers just before high water, denomi-
nated by sailors high water squalls; and a second commu-
nication from the same author, on a luminous arch and au-
rora borealis, seen at High Wycombe, on the 16th of Sep-
tember last. There weme exhibited from a member at Nor-
wich, plans of three new anemometers for measuring the
force and velocity of the wind, with its direction at any given
period. The meeting adjourned to January 8.

YOUNG NAPOLEON.—I have collected from some intell'-
gent individuals who had an opportunity of knowing and
witnessing the character of the son of Bonaparte, the Duke
of lteichstadt, lately dead, that he was a youth of great in-
tellectual promise. His education had been very much nar-
rowed in the first years of his growing up. The name of his
father was never mentioned: no resemblance of him hung in
his rooms; all books containing his campaigns and history
were studiously kept from the youth. This plan was con-
tinued for some time, when a change took place, the reverse
of that which iu his earlier years was adopted. The result
was, that his father became the object of his idolatry. His
actions, his looks, his thoughts, were all fashioned in imita-
tion of his father. He thought it beneath him to attend
balls, except upOn very great occasions, lest it should bring
him into too close a contact with the general mass of society.
Upon the same principle, he had no intimacies with women,
although those of rank and fashion endeavoured to attract
his notice. He had collected knowledge, which, from the
course of his education, no one knew how he had acquired
he was intimately acquainted with French literature, and,
upon occasions, proved how thoroughly he was versed in its
beauties, by the most apt and ready quotations. He disliked
all those whom he considered as accessory to the downfall of
Napoleon and his confinement at St. Helena. The upper
part of his face, it seems, was like Bonaparte; the lower part
resembled the Austrian family. The emperor was very fond
of him, and there was a general grief throughout the palace
when his death took place. He suffered much, but he was
never heard to utter a complaint; he was only known to say
to an obscure servant, " They little know how much I suffer;
but I think it beneath me to make these sufferings known by
lamentations." He died of consumption, which commenced
about a year before it destroyed him. It is supposed that,
being in the habit of rising at a very early hour to drill his
batallion, and imprudently bathing after the execution of
this duty, when 'under the influence of a full perspiration,
his chest became affected, which terminated in death. It
appears to have been one of his notions that no care should
be taken to the body, and that it was unmanly not to run all
risks, or to beware of this or that. In short, had he lived,
ambition was his ruling passion; and it is not very difficult
to foresee what that tnieht have led to at no very distant
period.—Memoir of Sir Win. Knighton.
SPLENDED PANELS.—We have been favoured, within the
last few days, with an inspection, at the manufactory of Messrs.
Jennens and Bettridge, of a set of panels in papier mache,
intended for the decoration of the Acteon, Liverpool and
Glasgow steamer; which, as works of art, have not, we be-
lieve, been surpassed by anything of the kind ever produced
at this celebrated establishment. The panels are twenty-
eight in number, four of which are very large, and consist of
historical subjects.—some original, and others copies from
celebrated masters. The first represents the triumphal entry
of Alexander into Babylon; the second exhibits a view of a
Grecian sea-port, and the arrival of a victorious:fleet ; the
third describes the Olympic games, the combats of gladiators,
&c. ; the fourth gives a representation of the Hippodrome,
the temple of Victory, and the chariot races. Each of these
subjects is depicted by the artists with the vividness and fresh-
ness of life. The various groupes of Grecian, Egyptian, and
Persian Figures, the richness and brilliancy of the costumes,
the colossal statues, temples, and columns, in their architec-
tural grandeur and beauty, furnish a vivid representation of
the barbaric pomp and magnificence of bygone ages. The
smaller panels are divided into three classes, devoted to the
illustration of.particular subjects. Viewed separately, each
of these paintings, is
_an exquisite specimen
,of the advanced
state of this department of our manufactures and the fine
arts; and, as a whole, they form unquestionably one of the
most unique and splendid collections of the kind ev.:r pro.
duced. the panels will not, we believe, be removed fw• a few
days front the show rooms of the manufactory, where artists
and other visiters may have an opportunity of inspecting
them—Birmingham paper.

A physician, who has recently published a " Statistic 10'
quiry into Fever." announces the following as one of the re.
sults of his investigation :—" Medical treatment has a power'
ful effect in lessening the danger or number of deaths ffeel
fever." Prodigious!
THE QUEEN'S GIFT TO GRACE DARLING.—Grace
ling received at Bamburgh, on Tuesday last, a letter written
by command of her Majesty, who had been graciously please'
to order 50 sovereigns to be presented to her for her berm,
conduct in assisting her father to save the lives of eight
the passengers and crew of the Forfarshire.---Neweasi°
.Chronicle Saturday.
CANADIAN WINTER LANDSCAPE.—I think that but for
this journey I never could have imagined the sublime der
lation of a northern winter, and it has impressed me strongl9'
In the first place, the whole atmosphere appeared as if 0;
vetted into snow, which fell in thick, tiny, starry flakes, t"'
the buffalo robes and furs about us appeared like syransdowo,!
and the harness on the horses of the same delicate material'
The whole earth was a white waste : the road, on which the
sleigh-track was only just perceptible, ran for miles ie 3
straight line; on each side rose the dark, melancholy Pi/
forest, slumbering drearily in the hazy air. Between us el;,.
the edge of the forest were frequent spaces of cleared or baud
cleared land, spotted over with the black charred stumps and
blasted trunks of once magnificent trees, projecting from Ice
snow-drift. These, which are perpetually recurring objects
in a Canadian landscape, have a most melancholy aPPea"
ante. Sometimes wide openings occurred to the left, briar
ing us in sight of Lake Ontario, and even in some places
down upon the edge of it: in this part of the lake the Wl'
mous body of the water and its incessant movement prevents
it from freezing, and the dark waves rolled in, heavily Pluil;
ing on the icy shore with a sullen booming sound. A r
roods from the land, the cold gray.waters,•and the cold, gray'
snow-encumbered atmosphere, were mingled with each other,
and each seemed either. The only living thing I saw in:
space of about twenty miles, was a magnificent bald-heale
eagle, which, after sailing a few turns in advance of 11,5'
alighted on the topmost bough of a blasted pine, and 8104
folding his great wide wings, looked down upon us as ice
glided beneath him.—Mrs. Jameron's Letters from Canada.
ANONYMOUS LETTER WRITERS.—This description °finis.
chief-makers is perhaps one of the most contemptible closes
of villains in the community. An open slanderer possesses
more courage, at least, and as far as that trait redeems hi
character, is superior to the fellow who shrinks behind aeon:
cealment, and thus confesses his cowardice and his guilt
There is one fact, however, which goes far to defeat the as
nymous slanderer. With the wise his communications as
accusations go to naught, and are regarded as carrying a emu'
tradiction by the very mode in which they are asserted
Anonymous writers to newspapers are not always guiltg
slander, even when their statements affect character. .111:1
they are liable to Such suspicion—now, even though they tel
the truth, and though the public good may be advanced by
the publication of their articles, they have no right to supP°!6
a newspaper will assume the responsibility from which the/
shrink.—Boston Gazette.

SINGULAR PERFORMANCE..LAD officer who served under
the Emperor Napoleon has accomplished a singular perforto,'
ance of patient industry, to which he devoted three whcs'e
years. After the fall of Napoleon, having procured some °f
the hair of the Emperor, of Maria Louisa, and of the Xi
of Rome, he formed a medallion containing the address or
General Buonaparte to the army of Italy, on the summit °
the Alps—" Soldiers ! we descend from these rocks like an
impetuous torrent, and we will conquer the immense plains
which meet our wondering eyes. Thenshall victory dispense,
happiness to all." This little speech, which in the origioej
French contains about 150 letters, is easily read with a g°°,
glass, although the space occupied almost inconceivalni,
small. To add to the interest that the little work alone wlt",
excite, several General officers, and among others Genera
l
Bertrand, have certified that the materiel is the hair of the
three illustrious personages mentioned.—French Paper.
NEWSPAPERS.—A newspaper taken in a family seems t°
shed a gleam of intelligence around. It gives the children
taste for reading—it communicates all the important evens
.
in the busy world; it is a never-failing source of amusemen,t'
and furnishes a fund of instruction which will never be e'fd
haunted. Every family, however poor, if they wish to ho
a place in the rank of intelligent beings, should take at lea!,
one newspaper; and the man, who, possessed of proper,",
sufficient to make himself easy for life, ar.d surrounded by
children eager for knowledge, is instigated by the vile sPiqt
of cupidity, in neglecting to subscribe to a newspaper,.
deficient of the duties of a parent or a good citizen, and is
deserving of the censure of his intelligent neighbours.'"
American Paper.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.—The correspondent of
crs
daily paper is, in nine cases out of ten the most perverse an
impracticable of all literary prodigiesout of bedlam. When
a gentleman is unanimously voted by his friends a simpleton
e
" past all surgery," and a bore beyond all reclamation, t.
infallibly takes it into his head to become a correspondeod
When he is proved, even to demonstration, to be utterly.o°
hopelessly incompetent, he joins the sect of the Epistlearialif.
No sooner does he convince his family that his stock of °Pit
nions consist of one only, and that a wrong one, than be Uri
to pen and ink to commemorate the fact. When he can
nothing at all, he writes a long letter to the editor of an (u 1
variably) highly influential and widely circulated jouroe.;
It would seem from a close and regular perusal of eccent.rtib
cities, headed " To the editor of," &c., commencing
ending
Dr, Johnson has very justly observe;" &c„ and
with " 1 am, Mr. Editor, your's, &c„ Humanitas," or 'Olt
dex, or Inquirer, or Veritas, or One olthe Old School
would seem from such contributions to be the-sum of poen"' f
wisdom or virtuous indignation, that people never dream °,
writing to newspapers but when they have exactly nothing t;
say. When they do not know exactly what in (he world to
think upon a subject that agitates them, they sit down and
write letters to public journalists.—From Notes of .the Mcntit
in the Monthly Chronicle.
house
was MILITIA or ATIELDDAY.—The wholeuse
--
was in unusual bustle, for it was the 4th of June, parade day'
when the district militia were to be turned out. On a risine
ground above the river, which ran gurgling and sparklint
through the green ravine beneath, the motley troops, atoll;
three or four hundred men, were marshalled—no, not ins!,
shelled, but scattered in afar more picturesque fashion hither
and thither; a few loghouses and a saw-mill on the river.bane
and a little wooden church crowning the opposite heights
formed the chief feature of the new scene. The boundled
forest spread all around us. A few men, well mounted,
dressed as lancers, in uniforms which were, however, anYthl!
but uniform, flourished backwards on the green sward, to to"
manifest peril of the spectators; themselves and their horses,
equally wild, disorderly, spirited, undisciplined : but this w„
a 5
perfection compared with the infantry. Here there Ya5,,7,,.°t
uniformity attempted of dress, but they appeared in their
sleeves, white or checked, or clean or dirty, in edifying varieft;
Some wore hats, others caps, others their own shaggy he" ci
of hair. Some had firelocks ; some had old swords, suspende
in belts,' or stuck in their waistbands; but the greater nn at
bee shouldered sticks or umbrellas. Mrs. M-- told us t",d
on a former parade day she had heard the word of command
thus—" Gentlemen with the umbrellas take errou_d
d
to the right! Gentlemen with the walking sticks take grea!'
to the left!" Now they ran after each other,,elbovved
kicked each other, straddled, stooped, chattered ; and if
_to
commanding officer turned his back for a moment, very CO,
sat down on the bank to rest. Not to laugh was impossiede
and defied all the powers of face. Charles 111 ll'
himself hoarse with shouting out orders which no one nheY.,,,h
except, perhaps, two or three men in front; and Janice, %"a,
his horsemen, flourished their lances, and galloped, andfaa
pered, and curved to admiration. * * The paraded
ended iu a drunken bout and a riot, in which, as I was afte,',o
wards informed, the Colonel had been knocked down, and °,'"it
or two serious and even fatal accidents had occurred; hu'd
was all taken so very lightly, so very much as a thing.,4
course in this half-civilised community, that I soon eeva7,,..
to think about the matter.—Mrs. Jameson's Studies and Pa-
bles.
Oa
THE COPYING CLERK.—Nine never struck but my h.a et
uplifted the knocker. After stirring the fire that didn't "aao
stirring, and doing the hundred and one things that a 9„,,,
does t avoid commencing a hateful task, I stripped off '7's
street, and mounted my office coat, (a copying clerk wilab,
out six sleeves to one coat, a garmental fact that should the
more extensively known,) I flounced env parchment, fi
skin is, even in its prepared state, unctuous with the relics
mutton-ity (this isn't English, but I can't help it), and c°o.
menced lease, release, roll, or record.
" Next day 'twas the same, and the next, and the next I" f.,a
The blood stagnated within me; and I was rapidly becorn7
a mere thing of pen and fingers—a producing potveT—a (Lc'rge..
ing machine. In a happy hour, I met a few youths s— or
struck, or moon-struck : nightly did I ponder over Pierre' 1
do havoc upon Hamlet; at last, by a desperate econorn.Y.,..e,
saved enough to purchase a character at a private theetc.s
and appeared as the Fifth Robber in the Iron Chest : the onert. u_r
duties of which consist in saying nothing, whilst the
gentlemen say the rest. My success was perfectly unerl%
cal, for I was neither hissed nor pelted. I then assiclio;ovo
sly
applied myself to comic singing, and as I am allowed to
roty
the faculty of making faces, horribly hideous, I am geneloslr.
admitted to possess great comic powers. When the daily sod
is over, I repair, to "The Pickled Eggs," "The ri
rg nec-
Thunderbolt,' or " The Cow and Compasses," their lass of
tine landlords. allowing me eighteen-pence, and a giasee,
rum and water, for the pleasure of my company and their
ercise of my capabilities. ,My mother, who took ill fror?ast,
appointment at my not becoming attorney'-general at Jelled
has left this world for a better. Jane (with whom I parr in
because she fell in love with a journeyman Cartienter)qisel
Canada, where her husband's industry (for she married Li et•
after all) has made his fortune. I find myself every day.`ges
ting older and poorer; I have every now and then odd twt.n ea:
of rheumatism in my hands, and-my eye-sight is imPa'r bis
these are sad things where a man's eyes and hands are du'
fortune. I have been in the law a quarter of a centurY/
ring which have been employed seventy-seven thousand
o"se.
five hundred hours, pent in a dark office, copying the se _od
less absurdities called law-p roceedings. 'Transportation
imprisonment must be comparative luxuries. I have nand
1 never had—a hope. Unless incapaciated by illness,„.as
driven to the workhouse, I must, after all my labour,
1 have lived—a Lawyer's Clerk.—Heads of the People. t,
A SHREWD GOVERNOII.—The following anecdotes of Catrbe.
King,'an early governor of New South Wales, quoted 1?1,Jod
Quarterly Review from Roses Hobart Town Almanack, r.naszi,
us of the sagacious judgment of our old friend Sancho
during, his brief government of the island of Baratarioaners
day, rn
One at Paraatta, he was waited on by two Pr's.,by all
sueing for pardon. One presented . a petition signet,
.i,neu
the first men in Sydney, while that of the other was Valet
only by one. " How comes it," said the governor,
bits so
you have only one name to your petition, while thi:+b col?:
many?" " I have lived," answered the man, "
one master all my time, sir, and I did not know an,; 1.
' h
The governor immediately gave the latter a pardon; `ls be
former he said, as he already knew so many rich frie".afteo
did not need one. At another time a country settler
on him, requesting the loan of a man to assist him tai s
ling his house. " Come to me," said the governor,
alder,
wart
weeks' time, when the harvest is over, and I will find „tier,
for you " Accordingly, at the end of that time, the s(2.000!
who does not appear to have been a man of much e
industry, again presented himself. "Go into that r to
said the governor, " and you will see him." After on,
minutes the man retured, saving he could not find able
though he looked all about the room—even under tne t,,,ng,
and behind the sofa. " Not find him !" said Captain for
" how is that ? Come with me; I will soon find him be
you." Then leading him a second time into the ron.ir..,'de-
made him look into a large mirror that was over the tralc be;
piece. " That is the man to shingle your house,,s
" take him with yore, quick, and see that he does it.'
.ssq.,
THE LALE Met. JUSTICE PARK.—James Allan Palllciqatto
was a King's Counsel, and many years a leader on the if. ond
ern Circuit,tbeirig opPosed to the late Serjeant Ceefra*.eio.'after
afterwards to Mr. Topping. He had a strong lingeri'vted th°
a judgeship, and for several years before he reef to retire,
hononr if.ever a judge was indisposed or expected vart,
certain London papers invariably puffed off Mr-. 815,
likely to succeed. At length in Michaelmas vacatfivas Sav-
ille' late Sir Alan Charobre resigned his office, an boo°°,l
ceeded by Mr. Park, who shortly after received the Da held
of knighted and took his seat in the Comnion Pleas, life
ab-
it up to the time of, his death. Mr. Park in early
been a
lislied a treatise on." Marine Insurance," which ~00(
d ton, e
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promieee of his future celebrity as a lawyer. w
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promises have been satisfactorily fulfilled or I' Lordship on P'll
world to say. Some notice is taken of his _0,...50n oil
116 of a poem called "The Bar," published he u
tohirer
Hurst, of London, in 1823, and pa letter addressedotles.,_
signed "Russell" (printed in 1818, by W. and
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the junior ministers of the legal profession. i
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his Lordship's long standing as a leading couo. ,restui°-
Northern Circuit, he does not seem ta have hadbin' j°
int _
attachment for it as a judge, for we do not recollect.,_ r.Jus
than twice, viz., Summer Assizes, 1820, along%!'nf.'''. union
tice Baylev, and Lent Assizes, 1830, alcing with be
Parke. Some interesting matter about his Lords-ip,,w,‘.,0b..
found in vol. 1., page 259, of the "Bench and the Bar
Billed in Isar. rti

It is said that Peter Purcell, the Precursor General of
Ireland, is certainly to have the honour of knighthood con-
ferred upon him.

It is a curious fact, that while the average yearly sickness
in the members of the benefit societies of Scotland is II days,
in :he persons employed in the cotton, silk, wool, flax, and
earthenware manufactures of England, it is only 7M.
Mount Vesuvius, we find by a recent letter from Naples, is
again in a state of eruption. The weather has been so mild
in the south of Italy and at Naples, that many people have
not yet put on their winter clothing.

" Zounds, fellow !" exclaimed a choleric old gentleman to
a very phlegmatic matter-of-fact person, " I shall go out of
my wits." " Well, you won't have far to go," said the
blegmatic man.
A conservative dinner, on a grand scale, is to take place
at Birmingham this day, under the presidency of Earl Howe.
Among the guests who have accepted invitations, are Sir
Francis Burdett and the Lords Dartmouth and Bradford.

Sir Charles Wetherell has, it is said, obtained a fortune of
£60,000 with his bride, daughter of the late Colonel Warns-
ford. It is, we believe, the hon. and learned gentleman's
third matrimonial alliance. His second lady was the daugh-
ter of Sir Alexander Croke, a retired colonial judge.—Morn-
iv Herald.
SINGULAR THIEF.--A mastiff dog, belonging to Mr-
Graves, of Partington, has been detected in the act of steal-
ing turkeys. On a search being made at his depository, in a
garden adjoining the farm from whence the turkeys were
stolen, no less than eleven fowls and two turkeys were found
buried in the earth.

JOHN KEMBLE.—" Pray, sir," said a greenroom lounger
to Mr. John Kemble during the run of the elephant at Covent-
garden Theatre, "is the man very nervous who rides upon
the real elephant ?" "Nervous, sir !" replied Kemble, in
that deep hollow tone which was the particular characteristic
of his voice, "What must I have been when, riding on the
sham elephant, 1 heard the hind legs say to the fore legs,
' Get on, or d— your eyes I shall be down ?' "—Musical
World.

FASHlON.—Fashion constantly begins and endS in the two
things it abhors, singularity and vulgarity. It is the pei pe-
tually setting up and then disowning a certain standard of
taste, elegance, and refinement, which has no other founda-
tion or authority, rather than that it is the prevailingdistrac-
lion of the moment, which was yesterday ridiculous from its
being new, and to-morrow will be odious from its being com-
mon. It is one of the most slight and insignificant of all
things. It cannot be lasting, for it depends on the constant
change and shifting of its own harlequin disguises; it cannot
be sterling, for, if it were, it could not depend on the breath
of caprice; it must be superficial, to produce its immediate
effect on the gaping crowd ' • and frivolous, to admit of its
being assumed at pleasure by the numbers of those who
affect, by being in the fashion, to be distinguished from the
rest of the world.— Hazlitt's Essays.
Messrs. J: and T. B. Crompton, paper manufacturers, of
Farriworth Mills, near Bolton, received an order on Thurs-
day for a qnantity of paper, which was to be delivered on
Friday. The machine at their works commenced operations
on Friday morning The quantity made was 1500/bs.; and
the whole was delivered for shipment the same night in a
vessel which was to sail the next morning.—Bolton Chronicle_
EARLY WINTER.—The ice on the Neva, at St. Peters
burgh, was sufficiently strong on the 23d ult., to allow o
passengers crossing over on toot. During the-ensuing night
the river was completely frozen over, and the workmen on
the following morning began the customary labour of con-
structing the Isaac Bridge. Accounts from other Baltic
ports agree in representing that the early winter had set in
with considerable severity.

DESTRUCTION of MADAME BLANCHARD.—I was one of
the thousands who saw (and I heard it too) the destruction
of Madame Blanchard. On the evening of the 6th July,
1819, she ascended in a balloon from the Tivoli Gardens
at Paris. At a certain elevation she was to discharge some
fireworks which were attached to her car. From my own
windows I saw the ascent. For a few minutes the balloon
was concealed by clouds. Presently it re-appeared, and there
was seen a momentary sheet of flame. There was a dreadful
pause. In a few seconds, the poor creature, enveloped and
entangled in the netting f her machine, fell with a frightful
crash upon the slanting roof of a house in the line de Pro-
vence (not a hundred yards from where I was standing), and
thence into the street,—and Madame Blanchard was taken
up a shattered corpse! It was supposed that the rockets
which ought to have been made to point downwards were im-
properly managed; and thus the catastrophe was accounted
for. So much for fire-work ascents ! —Pool's Crotchet's in
the Air.

STEAM TO INDIA.—Lord William Bentick has addressed
a long communication to the Directors of the East India
Company, on the subject of voyaging by steam to India, tp-
gether with various correspondence on the subject, in one
letter of which Sir John Hobhouse declares himself most
anxious to accomplish so desirable an object, and would lose
no opportunity of promoting it by all the means in his power.
His Lordship observes—" For the whole of the service on the
eastern side, I should propose five wooden boats of the follow-
ing size and power. 1,320 tons and 400 horse power; all
these vessels should be similar in every respect as far as pos-
sible. The models ought to be formed upon that principle
which experience has confirmed, and every novel theory
should be carefully avoided, except, indeed, Hall's conden-
sers, the efficiency of which, in respect to the boilers, has
been established by many experiments, and recently in a long
trial in her Majesty's ship, Macmra, under the careful direc-
tion of Lieutenant Goldsmith, with complete success.
Soctaussi UNMASKED.—On Monday evening, Mr. John
Easby, of Manchetter, delivered a lecture in the Theatre,
Oldham, to point out the erroneous, immoral, and wicked
tendency of the Socialists. There was a tolerably numerous
audience, and Mr. Easby spoke for nearly two hours, in a
strain of pointed sarcasm and animated condemnation of the
opinions of Owen's followers. He denounced their theory of
moral marriages as extremely pernicious and monstrous;
and their views as to responsibility as horrid and blasphe-
mous. He was repeatedly cheered.—Manchester Courier.
LITERARY CHARACTERS.—Modern men of letters may be
divided into three classes; the mere scholar or book-worm, all
whose knowledge is taken from books, and who may be
passed by as an obsolete character, little inquired after—the
literary hack or coffee-house polician, who gets his informa-
tion mostly from hearsay, and who makes some noise indeed,
but the echo of it does not reach beyond his own club or cir-
cle—and the man of real or pretended genius, who aims to
draw upon his own resources of thought or feeling, and to
throw a new light upon nature and books.
CALMS, DEC. B.—Poor Strauss, who has really made so
much noise in the world and delighted so many thousands of
its inhabitants, has probably performed his last conceit. He
gave one at our beautiful Philarmonic-rooms on Wednesday
last, which was attended by our elegantes, French and Eng-
lish. He led the first pact with his accustomed talent, but
was too ill to attend the second. He has been suffering some
time, they say, from the climate of England. At all events,
on Thursday he dismissed his band, who separated, some
returning to Germany, and others to London.—Morning Post
THE PRESS IN PRUSSIA.—A society has been formed in
Berlin by a number of literary men connected with the pe•
riodical press, with the view of checking if possible the grow-
ing evils of literary piracy. In the absence of any law on
which to ground their operations, they reckon, we presume,
on their being able to call into existence a moral influence
in their behalf. All editors ofjournals, or of other periodical
publications, are invited to join the society, and, on becom-
ing members of it, subscribe to a code of laws, which pre-
scribe the mode of seeking redress, and the amount of com-
pensation to be made for every plagiarism. The journalists
who keep aloof from the society will, no doubt, be soon re-
garded by the public as persons who voluntarily take their
station beyond the pale of respectability.—Athenccum.
O'Connell proposes to march an Irish legion to the defence
of the Queen, against the combined attacks of the English
Radicals. The Queen of England needs, however, no " Irish
legion," commanded by Mr. O'Connell, to protect her from
any enemy, foreign or -domestic. There are hearts and arms
in her own country, 'and among her own English subjects, to
defend her Majesty against all the Radicals in her empire,
Mr. O'Connell and his legionaries included. Indeed a le-
gion of O'Connellites, led by Mr. O'Connell himself, would
present no very fortninable obstacle in the way of any enter.
prise, good or bad. We must not, however, in the absurdity
of this impertinence, overlook its malignity. The Radicals,
having once allied themselves to Mr. O'Connell, perhaps de-
serve all the insult that he can heap upon them as Radicals;
but it is as Englishmen, not as Radicals, that the braggart
mendicant presumes to insult them, and the affront is there-
fore common to us all. For the ruffian alien to talk of march-
ing a legion of such as would follow him, against any class of
Englishmen, is an offence that ought not to pass without re-
buke. The purpose of the bravado is, no doubt, to sharpen
the of his wretched followers against all the natives of
this country, against those most closely connected with them
in political feeling as well as others; but if anything more is
intended, we have the type of the project in 1641 when " Irish
legions" organised under the pretence of defending the King
against his British subjects, forgot at once the pretext of
their armament as soon as they got weapons in their hands,
employing those weapons in the massacre of 150,000 of their
Protestant fellow-subjects.
We have no desire to conceal our apprenhensions that, by
the decision of Sir Herbert Jenner, yesterday, in the case of
Breaks v. Woolfrev, the most serious blow has been inflicted
on the Church of -England that it has sustained since the
days of Laud. One of the rankest and foulest corruptions
of -Popery has been declared to belong to it ! The matter,
however, cannot rest here. A direct contradiction exists be-
tween the doctrines held by our different courts of law and
equity. In the case of West and Shuttleworth, no longer
back than August 16, 1835, the Master of the Rolls (the pre-
sent Lord Chancellor,) annulled a bequest for masses for the
textatrix, on the express ground that as the testatrix could
not be benefitted by such,prayers, they were vain and super-
stitious, and consequently void inequity. 'This was the plain
common-sense view of the case, over which, however, the
judgment of Sir H. Jenner, rides triumphantly. The hurh
of England must at once bestir itself. If so leading a cor-
ruption of Popery as this be permitted quietly to take up its
abode amongst us, the final result cannot be doubtful. As to
the attempt to draw a line between prayers for the dead and
purgatory, so as to admit the one, and yet exclude the other,
it is mere childishness. And this is the real predicament in
which we now stand—that after having composed and put
forth an homily against these errors, and having made all her
clergy assent to it in the Thirty-fifth Article, as containing
" good and wholesome doctrine," the Church is still to be
told, by one of her own judges, that she has never given any
decision against Rome on this point.—Standard.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER IN ARMAGH.—
On Wednesday evening last, the inhabitants of Scotch-
street, in the city of Armagh, were greatly alarmed by a loud
report as if of artillery, together with the jingling of broken
glass and the crash of falling timber, &c. On hastening to
the place, the noise was found to have proceeded from the
premises of Mrs. Graham, a very respectable bonnet-maker,
the front of whose house exhibited a very shattered appear.
ance, the shop windows being left a complete wreck, and
even the ceiling of the shop being torn off by something in
the shape of a missile, in the explosion; the smell, too, of
burning wood and clothes, with that of human flesh and hair,
the screetching of children, and the alarm and noise of the
inmates and their neighbours, who had hastened to their
relief, may be easily conceived, but cannot possibly be de-
scribed. On inquiry, it appeared that a-friend of Mrs. Gra-
ham's, formerly in the police, had that evening returned to
Armagh, and stopped at his sisters his Mrs.G.'s, where he left
trunk, and where his daughter lived as an apprentice. Hav-
ing occasion for something out of the trunk, he sent his
daughter with the key to bring it; she was accommpanied
by two of Mrs. G.'s children, and had a candle in her hand;
the three children having got the article, began, through
curiosity, to overhaul the trunk, looking for some presents
they expected from the owner, when tl spark from the candle
unfortunately fell on some packages of gunpowder which
were in the trunk, and the explosion was, of course, the al-
most instantaneous consequence; the trunk was shivered to
atoms, its contents scattered in fragments round the room ;
yet strange to tell, not one of the three children was killed,
nor a severe wound or br2lten bone inflicted on any of them
—their faces, arms, and hands were frightfully scorched, and
their lives nearly extinguished by the fright ; the eyebrows,
and even the eyelashes, were burned qff them, yet the eyes
escaped unhurt, except in a trifling degree. They were
promptly attended by Dr. Colvan, the medical attendant of
Mrs. G.'s family, and are doingswell and not (likely to be
much scared or contracted. Some idea may be formed of
the strength of the explosion, when it is known, that the
two doors of the room, which was behind the shop, where the
explosion occurred, were driven off, and two windows in it
shattered to pieces; also a skylight over a back door, in a
hall twelve or fourteen yards high from the room, from which
a passage led to the hall at right angles, was driven out and
shattered. The shop windows, already spoken of, were at
least eight or ten yards from the explosion, and a partition
was between the shop and the room. A woman passing the
.shop at the time, had her face cot, by the. biokep glass, and
. was much ffiglatened,—Newry Teteyraph.

TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 18, 1838.

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the new
packet-ship Roscius, which arrived here on Saturday
we have received New York papers to the 27th ult
The news brought by the Rosciustis comparatively
unimportant. It appears that M'Kenzie and Theller
have been endeavouring to get up another " sympa-
thising" meeting at Baltimore, but the attempt,
according to the representations of the New Yor k
papers, appears to have been abortive.

The following particulars are furnished in the King-
ston Chronicle respecting the issue of the engagement
at Prescott:—

" Ten barrels of powder and several stand of arms,
and 10,000 rounds of ball cartridge, were found in the
mill. Three pieces of artillery, which had been placed
in front of the door of the mill on a battery constructed
•,f loose stones, were also captured All the houses
in the possession of the brigands were set on fire,
except the mill, which was occupied during the night
by a company of militia.
"The only loss sustained by us on this occasion was
one of the light company of the gallant 83d regiment,
who was shot through the head.
" The loss of the pirates, as far as we can 'learn ,is
as follows:—
Killed on the 13th
Left dead on the field on Friday night 35

Total killed
Prisoners taken on Tuesday and sent to
Fort Henry
Surrendered unconditionally on Friday 132

Total prisoners. 152
"It is with extreme regret we learn that Captain
Drummond, of the-Glengary Militia, was shot—hav-
•
ing gone into ope: of the houses on fire, and appearing
at one of the windows, it was supposed that he was a
rebel. , The volunteers fired, and he fell dead.

" The hod:), of Lieutenant Johnson, of the 83d
regiment, has been brought up; He will be interred
on Monday, at two o'clock, p.m. • We would suggest
to our townsmen, as a mark of respect for the gallant
dead, that their shops be closed during the ceremony
of the funeral."

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS AND THE REV. MR.
JAMES.—We are, by no means, advocates of the
popish principle that " the end sanctifies the deed ;"
—that it is lawful "to do evil that good may come;"—
we do however, maintain that what may be, and are,
very properly, termed fearful calamities, delusions, &c.,
not unfrequently prove conducive to the most beneficial
results.

In elucidation of this our conviction, we need only
instance the lethiferous plague the Corporation has
inflicted on the children receiving education under
their auspices, evoking such a bold and honest and
truly Christian exposition of its baneful tendency as
that exhibited in the letters addressed by the Rev. Mr.
James to Mr. Wm. Rathbone. We earnestly recom-
mend them to the attentive perusal of every sincere
enquirer after truth,—to every individual not yet im-
pressed IN ith a holy horror of the " abominable super-
stitions and blasphemous fables contained in the Popish
Catechism," and taught in the Corporation Schools. •

We cannot, it is true, flatter ourselves with the
pleasing hope, that these ably penned letters will
have their appropriate effect on the gentlemen to
whom they are addressed, or on his liberal co-frater-
nity in council ;—far otherwise. It is rather to be
apprehended that the clique, finding their heads en-
lightened—(their hearts, however, remaining seared
and callous and untouched)—by them, will conceive
their pride injured, and be thus goaded to such a de-
gree of madness as to stimulate them to adopt (were
it possible) more latitudinarian principles, and a more
unscrupulous and rancorously persecuting hate toward
the faithful protestants against their heresy, and to-
wards the Established Church.

But there is an honest class in society, which, not
having its understanding—on religious subjects est:e-
eially—warped and perverted to compass base, selfish,
party purposes, will lay the incontrovertible arguments
adduced by Mr. Jones, to heart, 'and which will be,
consequently, roused into energy and action for the
suppression of a system so nefarious, and so fraught
with detriment and ruin to the present and eternal
happiness of so many thousands of their fellow crea-
tures. There is, we affirm, a class in society thirsting,
as a parched soil, forinformation such as that conveyed
in the Rev. Mr. J.'s letter, which will eagerly imbibe
it, and, with alacrity and decision, manifest its convic-
tions by strenuous opposition to the elevation of men
to power so wofully besotted, or determinedly blinded,
by their own shallow and empty conceits and crudities,
as to withold from the children in the corporation
schools that inspired volume which the fountains of
wisdom herself declared should be "as a light to their
feet and a lantern to their path"—and this, gentle
reader,7-can you believe it ?—" to avoid giving offence
to the bigotry and idolatry of Romanism !" Thus do
these truly " liberal" corporators offer open, undis-
guised insult to the. great and beneficent and orunip

tent Creator, that they may conciliate the regard and
secure the support of a base, apostate, grovelling
antichristian faction !

To support such men, or countenance them in their
heretical career, is, at once, to be involved as " parti-
cipes criminis," for " qui facit per alios, facit per se,"
as very appositely states Mr. James.

The necessity, therefore, is obvious of straining
every nerve to place men of tried Christian princi-
ples and character in charge of the momentous sub-
ject—" the religious education of the rising genera-
tion"—in place of the vain visionaries, schismatic
sectarians, and cankered churchmen, who can embrace
Popery and Den's Theology as paragons of purity and
holiness,—and Infidelity and Tom Paine as the most
brilliant luminaries of a Christian church ! Till this
is effected, we never can expect to see harmony and
honourable feeling in the council chamber,—anything,
in fact, but the frothy furor of rabid radicalism, ram-
pant for the prostration of everything that is holy and
of good report among us;—but this once achieved,—
(and how little effort would it call for from the com-
bined Protestant population y)—we might expect to
see " truth and justice, religion and piety, established
among us;"—blessings which would be handed down
to generations yet unborn, through a full, and free,
and faithful bible education. Then the council cham-
ber would exhibit that peaceable, orderly, and deco-
rous aspect so requisite in a deliberating assembly,—
idem velle, et idem nolle, eademum firma amicitia
est."

In conclusion, we would advise that Mr. James's
letters be printed and widely circulated, in a cheap
form, among the operative Protestants of the town.
The Protestant operative associations will, we trust,
take this hint and act upon it.

On Saturday week, as one of the cooks at the Waterloo
Hotel was cutting up a turbot, he found in it a half-crown,
a fluke, and a small fish.

NEW CHAPEL, AT WAVERTREE.—On Tuesday morning
last the first stone of a new chapel, about to be erected at
Wavertree, was laid by the Rev. Thos. Sleigh, of that place.
The building, which will be a neat stone erection, of the
Gothic order, is expected to be completed about the middle
of the ensuing year.

THEATRE Ro Y A L.—We perceive that Mrs. Clarke, who is
deservedly a high favourite on the Liverpool stage, takes her
benefit on Friday evening next. She has got a most attractive
bill of fare; and the new farce of "Nicholas Nickleby," or
•` Doings at Do-the-boys-Hall," from Boz's work, is to be
brought out. We have no other anticipation but that she
will have a crowded and fashionable house.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AT THE GRAND JUNCTION
HOTEL.—Sir B. B. M‘Mabon, Bart., Quintin Dick, M.P.,
Lady Campbell, Major Cannes, Colonel Burdett, Colonel
Watson, Pierce Moore, Esq., John Watt, Esq., Lieutenant
Harvey, Captain Willmot, Captain Staunton, W. O'Mere,
Esq., H. Caldwell, Esq., C. Hut in, Esq., Henry Bent, Esq.,
C. Wynn, Esq., Gen. Duncan, H. Bevan, Esq., W. Henchy,
Esq., W. Gunstall, Esq., John Ogle, Esq., Miss Emily Watt,
Theophilus Cook, Esq., W. Hendry, H. Frosdycke, Esq.,
Captain Graham, Lord Talbot, W. M. Stanley, Captain
Finch, and Colonel Berkeley.
ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Great efforts !lave been made of
late to improve the character and usefulness of this institu-
tion, and with every prospect of success. The :erms of ad-
mission both to proprietors and subscribers are extremely
moderate, considering the advantages which are held out,
and there is one feature which especially entitles the institu-
tion to public favour and support. The galleries of casts,
and the extensive and valuable museums of natural history
are open to the public on the first Monday in each month,
from nine to four, free of any charge whatever.
LAWS OF HEALTH.—The Fifth Lecture on Popular Phy-
siology and Laws of Health was delivered, in the Medical
Institution, by Dr. Thornburn, on Friday evening. Diet
and the best rules for eating and drinking in the healthystate,
together with practical suggestions to those who suffer from
stomach complaints, bile, and indigestion, formed the staple
of the doctor's remarks. The subject of diet was followed
by a series of valuable comments on physical education. A
large amount of information was rendered highly attractive,
and entertaining, by a continual flow and admixture of anec-
dote, and amusing incident. The theatre was crowded to
excess.

MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY CANAL AND RAILWAY.
—We refer our readers to an advertisement, in another page,
relative to the times at which the different trains on this rail-
way start from the two ends. Since the opening to the pre-
sent time, upwards of 230,0 W passengers have travelled over
it. As the trains, the reader will observe, go, from seven
o'clock in the morning tiil seven at night, nearly every hour,
excepting just in the middle of the day, the traveller from
Liverpool has a commodious and expeditious conveyance to
Bolton, taking the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and
and then the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, and so back from
the Bolton and Bury district to Liverpool. A friend of ours
the other day, left Bolton, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, went
to Manchester by the railway, had half-an-hour for business
there, and carne to Liverpool by the Liverpool and Manches-
ter ailway eleven o'clock train, and was on 'Change at a
little after twelve. We are glad to hear, that the traffic on
this railway continues steady, with the prospect of a consider-
able increase, when the roads now foaming towards Yorkshire
shall be completed.

Lord and Lady Francis Egerton arrived at their seat,
Worsley Hall, on Tuesday. On Thursday, his lordship,
Mr. Greville, and Mr. Bradshaw, had a day's sport over the
preserves at Worsley, when they killed amongst them se-
venty-six rabbits, fifty-two bares, twenty pheasants, and five
woodcocks, making in all 153 head of game. The party
afterwards adjourned to Mr. Sutcliffe's, the Bridgewater
Hotel, where sixty-four sat down to a most sumptuous
dinner.

THU?. CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.—We are glad to ob-
serve that out of the one hundred and sixteen chemists and
druggists carrying on business in Liverpool, one hundred
and four have signed the pledge to observe the resolutions
passed at the recent general meeting of the trade, in favour
of closidg their shops at an earlier hour than formerly. Ten
pe; sou.; have agreed to the regulation, but declined to sign,
and only two have refused. This is a most gratifying an-
nouncement to make, and we trust it will have a beneficial
effect upon the minds of the young men who will be liberated
from the close attendance on their professional duties which
has hitherto been required from them. They must, in the
first instance, be persons of some education, and they will
now have the opportunity of improving those literary attain-
ments for which a taste has of necessity been implanted.
The opportunity of attending the lectures which are so fre-
quently delivered at our public institutions Should be afforded
them as often as possible, and their employers, we feel quite
confident, would reap therefrom considerable advantage.

DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—On Tuesday an inquest
was held on the body of Arthur Burns, a chimney sweeper,
who died of hydrophobia under the following circumstances:
—The deceased lived in Banastre-street, and kept a small
terrier bitch. About five weeks ago he tied it up with a rope,
and in the act of doing so the bitch bit him on the rightthumb.
On the same day it bit him a second time on the same hand,
and also attempted to bite another person who lived in the
same house with Burns. He then hanged it. The wound in
the thumb bled a good deal, but without exciting much at-
tention, and in a short time it healed. On Saturday last he
took seriously ill, and was carried to the Northern Hospital.
After being admitted, he had several convulsions, and com-
plained of his throat. On Sunday, the most decided symptoms
•of hydrophobia showed themselves. He died on Sunday night.
On the hand where he was bitten there was a scar; no wound.
Before he died he had a great abhorrence of water or any
fluid. A. verdict of "Died from hydrophobia" was accordingly
given.

ARRIVAL OF CONVICT REBELS FROM CANADA.—Yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock, thirty-four state prisoners engaged
in the first rebellion in Canada, were landed by steamer, ex
barque Captain Ross, Morton, from Quebec. The whole
have been tried and sentenced to be transported for life, and
are now on their way to New South Wales They were
accompanied by eleven felons, also convicts. The whole are
now confined in the Borough- aol, awaiting the orders of the
Secretary of State about their trans-shipment. We annex
the names of the political privoiers : some of them we under-
stand to be .highly respectable men. Mr. John S. Parker,
we learn, was an extensive merchant in Canada, and is well
known in this port. It was reported that the prisoners had
attempted to rise and mutiny on the voyage; but we have
heard from the captain that this report is wholly unfounded.
The receipt of the intelligence of their arrival produced con-
siderable and unusual excitement in the Exchange News-
room, where the intelligence was posted. The following are
the names of the political convicts :—Alex. M'Laud, Tinley
Malcolm, John Grant, J. J. M‘Ntilty, Jno.G. Parker, Benj.
West, John Vernon, Norman Mellory, Paul Bedford, James
Wagoner, Samuel Chandler, Leonard Watson, Wm. Rey-
nolds, Simes W. Miller, Win. Aloes, Robert Walker, James
Gemmell, George Cooley, Jacob Berner, Garrett Van Camp,
James Brown, Ira Anderson,, Randal Bison, Francis Farnell,
James Lynn, Bernard O'Hara, Joseph Langloys, Joseph
Hamel, James Thompson. Agnes Provost, Isidore Pare,
Charles M'Loud, Thomas Oliver, Baptiste Cadine.
SHAMPOOING.—Our readers will find, on reference to an
advertisement in another column, that the art of shampooing,
so strongly recommended by medical men, on account of its
salutary effects, in various diseases, has been introduced into
Liverpool, under the superintodence of a qualified person.

THE TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIP " LIVER-
Poot.."—A splendid lithographic engraving► of this magnifi-
cent vessel has just been published b) Mr. Isaac, the execu-
tion of which reflects the highest credit upon his talents as an
artist. We feel assured that our fellow-townsmen will ap-
preciate this engraving, as a lasting memento of the spirit and
enterprise which prompted the Transatlantic Steam Naviga-
tion Company to establish a permanent line of communica-
tion with New York. The splendid vessel called "The Li-
verpool" is here most accurately represented ploughing the
main with stateliness at her utmost speed, the wind ou her
larboard quarter, and her foresail, mainsail and wizen, her
foretop-sail, foretop-gallant, and jib set, and sheeted home
with the nicest attention to seamanship. There are also ex-
hibited two views of the interior of her elegant cabins, with
the passengers in the enjoyment of the nice things which the
caterers so liberally provide for their comfort; and two
smaller views of the ports of Liverpool and New York
These are surrounded with a number of appropriate devices
of great beauty and of exquisite execution.
DISCUSSION ON THE Naw Pooa LAW.—Last evening►
Messrs. Sleigh and Acland, held a discussion on the merits
of the New Poor Law, at the Shooting Gallery, Tarleton-
street. It suited the purpose of Mr. Acland to contend: that
the new poor law was the best of all possible laws; and Mr.
Sleigh denounced it as unconstitutional, cruel, and unchris-
tian, as no doubt it is. When the 43rd of Elizabeth was
passed, it was hailed by the rich as a happy settlement—
founded on Christianity and humanity—of the question, of
the support of the poor of the land; and by the poor it
W LIS hailed as a boon and a blessing. The new peor law is
looked on by the majority of the rich, and of thinking men,
as a yielding to the necessity of keeping in some way people
who cannot keep themselves, rather than as a charitable and
Christian institution : and as founded on the assumption that
paupers are all scoundrels, and deserve only the treatment
of felons, rather than that they are objects of compassion
and charity ; by the poor it is abhorred and opposed, as
placing on their helpless poverty the brand of disgrace,
and as giving them the alternative of starvation with a good
name, or an ignominious pittance with the treatment and de-
gradation of felons—as a law, which in many districts they
will shed their best blood rather than submit to; and it is
looked upon as a good law only by the pelosophers, the eco-
nomists of the Hume and Malthus School—the "dot and go
one" gentlemen, to whom anything like feeling, or humanity,
or Christian charity is precious humbug compared with the
"enlightened principle" of screwing a penny a day out of the
miserable existence of a pauper. It is, of course, out of the
question to give anything like a report of the discussion at
tbis late hour. A chairman was appointed, and each speaker
had half an hour allowed. The meeting was adjourned
shortly after 10 o'clock, and the discussion is to be renewed
to•uigbt, on the National Education system.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Stir,—l shall esteem it a favor if you will insert this in your
next publication :—believing you to be an enemy to the hypo-
critical cant which is so common in the present day, and
knowing that your columns are perused by the most respec-
table portion of the inhabitants of this town, I think 1 can-
not avail myself of a inure proper medium of expressing my
sentiments. "lieu tempera ! 0 mores! " How are the
mighty fallen ! These exclamations naturally escape me,
when I reflect on the conduct at present pursued by some of
my professional brethren, physicians iu Liverpool. Since I
have had the honor to belong to that, generally, so highly
respectable body, it has always been considered derogatory in
any of it.; members to enter into any kind of trade or corn-
mert ial speculation ; and properly so, for it is one of the most
liberal of the professions, and requires long study and expe-
rience, and great learning to enable a physician to practice
with success and advantage to society. We have always been
looked up to as persons high in station, and far above the
mercenary ideas of traffic; but alas! the time has now come,
when men eminent for their talent, and prosperous in their
profession, think it no disgrace to become tradesmen as well.
You will find by referring to the prospectus issued by the
Apothecaries' Company, that several shares are held by me-
dical gentlemen, many of whom are physicians of the first
standing. How can we reconcile this? Is it not enough
that a physician should receive his fee, but he must also re-
ceive a profit from the medicine which he prescribes ? It is a
common practice for these gentlemen to recommend their
prescription to the Apothecaries' Hall; this would be well
enough if they were disinterested, but what shall we say of
an M.D. who-holds perhaps a hundred shares in that com-
pany, and uses his influence to enhance the profits of the
concern ? He has a direct interest in prescribing more me-
dicine than he otherwise would, and, in fact, is the dispenser
of his own prescriptions: in this case he should give up his
fee as a physician, and content himself with his profits as an
apothecary. I hope that the public will see through all such
recommendations, and act with becoming spirit; let it not
be said that physicians now-a-days are turned druggists; let
every trade have its fair share of public patronage, and let
not the physician, while he receives his guinea for his ad-
vice, again receive his pence upon the medicine.
The chemists and druggists are a highly respectable body
of men, and hitherto have compounded prescriptions to the
satisfaction of the profession generally, and the public at
large. It is, therefore, too bad that they should be opposed
by those very men that they have been accustomed to recom-
mend to their friends and customers, and whom they have
considered a superior class to themselves. This evil must
produce its own remedy; for it requires persons only to know,
that gentlemen who proffer such recommendations as I have
spoken of, are interested parties, and they will, of course, in
future consult physicians, who are satisfied with practising
their profession alone, without meddling witk the business
of the druggist.
A PHYSICIAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL.

DRAPERS' INSTITUTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sta,—As the Drapers' Assistants have already established
an Institution (which, I trust, will be as useful as it is their
wish to make it), would it not be advisable for the Assistants
in other Trades to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded
by such an establishment, and thereby to prove to their em-
ployers that they, as well as the Drapers' Assistants, were
actuated only by a desire to improve themselves, when they
sought a curtailment of their hours of business ?—lt is not
likely that every distinct trade will have a separate Institu-
tion, and as the Assistants in the Linen and Woollen Dra-
pery Business, with those in the Lace, Hosiery, and Silk
Mercer Departments, have made common cause, and shown
the fruit of their united efforts in an undertaking so praise-
worthy, they would, I am sure, have no objection to admit
the Shopmen belonging to any other Branch of Trade. More-
over, the Drapers' Assistants state, in their advertisement,
that " the public in general may become subscribers;" and,
therefore, there is no excuse for those Assistants, in whatever
Trade, who neglect or decline to embrace such an opportu-
nity.

As it is expected that the Master Drapers will contribute
very liberally towards the funds of this Institution, the Shop-
keepers in other Trades will surely, if their Assistants become
subscribers, be not less munificent than the Master Drapers.
Hoping that these observations may be attended with a
beneficial effect, I am, your's. &c.,

A GROCER.

ST. MARTIN'S MARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—In answering an anonymous letter in the STAND-
ARD of Friday last, I beg to state that I am the Superin-
tendent of the several Markets there named, nor do I deny
taking a small part at the late municipal election.
To the remaining numerous paragraphs of that letter, I
give the most unqualified, unlimited contradiction.
For the information of the concoctors (for there is more
than the attorney's clerk) of this letter, I beg to state that
the Market Committee will meet on Monday, the 24th inst.;
at one o'clock, at the Town Hall, when and where, if they
are not as destitute of courage, as they are of writing the
truth, they will come forward and meet me.

I have been more than once charged with coercing the
tenants in St. Martin's Market; what will the public say,
when they are informed there is only one person in the
market who was eligible to vote for Scotland Ward, Mr.
William Leatherbarrow, who is independent_ of either the
superintendent or any other person.—Yours, &c,
St. Martin's Market, Dec. 17, 1838.

R. GROSE.

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.

THE REV. D. JAMES AND MR. W. RATHBONE.

Stn,—Your letter of the 6th instant, addressed to me,
through the medium of the Liverpool Mail, I should have
allowed to pass unnoticed but for one statement, on which
you seem, with an air of triumph, to court explanation. That
explanation I am both ready and willing to give, and the
more so, as it will afford me another opportunity of exposing
the new systenrof education introduced into the corporation
schools. This is the only feature of interest to the public in
this correspondence. It is therefore clearly my duty to pass
over in silence some minor points in your letter, noticing
others only very briefly, that I may address myself more at
length to the main subject in dispdte. I shall follow the ori-
ginal order, and commence, if you please, with No. 1. I
gave you credit for truth when you stated that you had
received information, "that on visiting the North Corporation
School I had refused to enter my name in the visitors' book."
It was obvious at once that the authorities of the school alone
could have originally given that information, the visitors'
book being in their keeping. But the head master, Mr.
Robert J. Nelson, in his published letter of the 4th instant,
openly disavows, on his own part, and on the part of his col-
leagues, ever having given such information, saying " The
fact is, Mr. James was never asked to enter his name in the
book." This point must now be left to be settled between
you And the schoolmaster; for up to this time you have had
neither the candour nor the courage to give up your authority,
and the public are curious to learn who the author of the
fabrication is. There can be little doubt, whoever he may
be, that he is a warm friend and supporter of the new system
of education. Be it so, or not, I mean to re-assert that that
system is calculated to produce a reckless disregard of truth in
all connected with it. I will state a true case to illustrate this.
And you cannot object to be introduced as one of the actors
in the scene.

You have gone, sir, into one of the corporation schools
yourself, and taught the Church of England catechism on
one side of the room, whilstyour own paid master or monitor,
acting in obedience to the regulations of the school, and car-
rying out the system authorised by you and the liberal part
of the town council, was occupied, on the opposite side of the
same room, in teaching the Roman Catholic catechism. You
had to propose to the children under your instruction the fol-
lowing question

"4:—.How runny sacraments hath Christ ordained in his
church ?" The children replied:—
"A.—Two only, as generally necessary to salvation, that
is to say, baptism, and the supper of the Lord."
Your monitor also had to propose a similar question to the
children under his instruction :

" Q.—Hovin;;;;;;;;;;is are' there ?" The children
advisedly replied:—
"A.—These seven: baptism, confirmation, holy encharist,
penance, extreme unction, holy order, and matrimony."
Now, either you or he taught the children to believe what
was false. You taught the children in your charge to believe
that there are two Christian sacraments, and only two; he
taught the children on his side of the room to believe there
are seven sacraments. And you both were only acting your
respective parts under one and the same system. And when,
after the hour of religious instruction was over, you and the
monitor met at the same desk, or became fairly confronted
at the door in going out, pray, what did you think of each
other? And, more especially, what did you think of the sys-
tem which led one of you to act so disgraceful a part towards
the children; fin you cannot avoid the conclusion that one
portion of the children, no matter which, were on that day
deliberately taught to believe a lie;" and that, not in as-
tronomy, geography, arithmetic, or commerce, but in religion,
which is a transaction between the immortal soul and the just
and holy God. And let me impress upon your mind that I
consider you were placed in a far worse position than the mo•
nitor. He was acting according to orders, and probably in-
culcating that which strictly accorded with his creed; but
you were sanctioning his teaching as well as your own, for
he could not have been there but for the authority of the
town-council, much less have taught in your presence doc-
trines the very opposite to those which you were teaching.
You were therefore guilty, not simply of having previously
assisted in introducing into the school a system by which
truth and falsehood should necessarily be taught in the same
room, on the same day, and in the same hour; but of being
actually present to render all the help in your power to the
working of that system. You were there acting your part and
eountenancing the whole proceeding ! ! And where was your
regard for truth, when you resorted to the school, day after
day, to aid, countenance, and sanction the teaching of false-
hood? Are you sure the system has had no injurious effect
on your own moral principles ? Whence those unwarrantable
attacks on the clergy for which your speeches have of late
been so distinguished ? Whence that prurient and most in-
satiable desire of ascribing to them acts and deeds of which
they have never been guilty? In your place, in the council,
the other day, you thought fit to prefer against myself four
grave charges, three of which were utterly without foundation :
and in the course of the same speech—not very remarkable
for its length—you made an attempt to degrade the whole
body of the national clergy, by saying they were "paid by
the state," an assertion which you must have known at the
time it was made could not be supported by the evidence of
history or of fact; but you were well aware it was one likely
to prejudice the clergy in the estimation of the ignorant and
disaffected out of doors. Whence this wholesale dealing in
slanderous imputations and false statements? I think, sir,
the answer is found in the treacherous system of education
with which you have been so completely identified since its
introduction into Liverpool. I trust the public will bear this
in mind, that they may know in future what importance to
attach to your sayings and doings, especially with respect to
religion, education, and the national church. _

—" You stated in the council tlrat I had used the
pulpit to malign parties by name," meaning as appears by a
report of your speech in the Liverpool Standard, " yourself
and Mr. Blackburn." To this I replied, " I did not., on any
occasion, malign you from my pulnit,—l bear no malice to-
wards you or any man living." Was not this meeting the
charge fairly and fully ? And yet you tell me I do not deny
the charge, except in reference to yourself. I am astonished
at your disingenousness and perverseness. The system of
education, in which you have been so heartily engaged, ap-
pears to have blinded your understanding and corrupted your
heart, and to have left you but few noble and honourable
qualities remaining. I would advise you, sir, for your own
sake, and that of the public, to rid yourself without delay of
the monster that preys upon your moral constitution, and
introduces derangement into your public acts; and to restore
to the schools a system of education, based on the written
word of God which abideth for ever, that nothing but truth
be inculcated where falsehood is now daily and systematically
taught. But now one word respecting Mr. Blackburn. That
honourable councillor has published a pamphlet in support
and defence of the new system of education. I hhd occasion
to make some remarks on that specious production, and in
doing so, I ventured to mention the author's name, a privilege
which I believe to be exercised by ministers of all denomina-
tions, of which, authors themselves, have no right to com-
plain. The people invariably expect to be informed who the
author is, whose work is quoted or commented upon. And
I am in the habit of satisfying them on that score; but I pro-
test against your insidious attempt to persuade the public
that mentioning an author's'name from the pulpit is malign-
tog him. You profess to be an advocate of liberty, and yet
you employ every means in your power to rob the clergy of

(heirs. In a country like this, where the press is free, publi-
cations fraught with infidel principles, and of a tendency to
subvert true religion and virtue, are daily pouring forth upon
the public ; and it is essential to the faithful discharge of their
duties, as watchmen over the house of God, and as the author-
ised guardians of divine truth and revealed religion, that the
clergy should have the pulpits free ; and that they should
avail themselves of that freedom in every corner of the land.
In no other way can the evils arising from the perverted use
of the press be adequately met. And it would be indeed hard,
if a minister,in noticing an obnoxious work,and guarding his
flock against its unsound principles or irreligious tendency,
should not be at liberty to announce the author's name. So
long, sir, as you wiil contend for the liberty of the press, I
stall contend for the liberty of the pulpit.
No. 3. Your original charge under this head was, that " I
bad said from my pulpit, I would not give the communion to
him who would vote for a liberal town-councillor." Finding
this statement refuted in a manner not to be gainsaid, you
change your ground of accusation and attempt to justify
what you before said falsely, by now saying what is true.
Your words are these, " My statement certainly was, that
you were said to have declared you would refuse the com-
munion to voters for a liberal town-councillor. As I was not
present I cannot pretend to verbal accuracy, nor is the dif-
fercnce material, if it should prove that it is not to the voter
for the town-councillor you would refuse the communion,
but to the town-councillor himself who was a supporter of the
Irish system of national education." To you, sir, so ac-
customed to countenance and sanction the teaching of truth
and error in the same school—so accustomed to carry the
Bible in one hand and a code of heresies in the other—so ac-
customed to deny the divinity of Christ in your chapel, and
teach the divinity of Christ in the school—so accustomed to
consider two and seven as amounting to nearly the same
thing—to you there may not appear a material difference be-
tween your former statement and the present; but, sir, ifyou
go to your schoolmaster and ask him what oifference exists
between correcting a comparatively innocent lad and laying
the strap across the shoulders of a determinedly obstinate of-
fender, he wil! tell you that, whilst to punish the former would
he wrong and unjustifiable, to correct the latter is a duty of
the greatest importance, both to the offender himself and to
the community in which he moves. Such, sir, I consider to
be the difference between refusing the communion to voters
for liberal town-councillors themselves directly implicated in
the guilt of teaching heretical doctrines.
Now, sir, I do not see why any misrepresentation should
have been made on this point. I had previously announced
to my congregation my intention of submitting to them the
results of my visits to the North Corporation School, and of
explaining the real character of the system of education
therein pursued. There were present 806 people, at the least,
capable of repeating the opinion I so deliberately expressed,
that those town-councillors who had introduced, and were
still upholding that heretical and anti-Christian system, had
forfeited their claim to Christian communion, and that if any
one of them bad happened to be a professed member of my
congregation, I should have considered it my duty in faith-
fulness to him, and solemnly before God, to act on that opi-
nion. I stated this as my conviction, after a most mature
consideration of the subject, and up to this moment I have
seen no reason to change. 1 am still of the same opinion.
But before I proceed to state the premises, or give the rea-
sons by which I arrived at this conclusion, permit me to ex-
tract a few sentences from an impartial source on the sub-
ject of excommunication.
"Excommunication is a penalty or censure, whereby per-
sons who ale guilty of any notorious crime or offence are se-
parated from the fellowship of the church, &c."
"Excommunication is founded upon a natural right which
all societies have of excluding out of their body such as vio-
late the laws thereof; and it was originally instituted for
preserving the purity of the church."
"The power of excommunication was lodged in the hands
of the clergy, who distinguished it into the greater and the
less. The less consisted in excluding persons from the par-
-1 ticipation of the eucharist, and the prayers of the faithful,
1 but they were not expelled the church. The greater con-
sisted in absolute and entire seclusion from the church, and
the Participation of all its rights."
• The causes of excommunication in the church of Eng-
land are, contempt of the bishop's court, heresy, &c.
"The exclusion of a person from any Christian church
does not deprive him of the liberty of attending public wor-
ship. It removes him, however, fiom the communion of the
church and the privileges dependent on it. This is done
that he may be ashamed of his sin, and be brought to re-
pentance, that the honour of Christ may he vindicated, and
stumbling blocks removed out of the way."—(Buck's
Dict., edited by Dr. Henderson, Highbury College.)
'There are four points which I wish you to notice in these
extracts.
First,—That the church, which is a congregation of faith-
ful men, has, in common with all societies, a natural right
of excluding from its pale offending members.
Secondly,—that the power of excommunication was from
the first lodged in the bands of the clergy.
Thirdly,—That simple exclusion from the eucharist is the
mildest form of excommunication ever practised in the church.
And lastly, that one of the causes of excommunication in
the Church of England, is HERESY.
As you may have forgotten the definition of the words—
heresy and heretic—which appeared in a former letter, I beg
to remind you that "A man becomes an heretic by a stfff, dis-
ingenuous, wilful, turbulent adherence to an opinion opposite
to some articles of the Christian faith, whether it regard specu-
lation or practice."—(Pantalogia.) According to another
dissenting author, " Heresy is generally used to signify some
fundamental error adhered to with obstinacy. Heretics are the
false prophets and teachers, which Christ and his apostles
foretold should come, who should forsake the faith themselves
and seduce others into error. A heretic is to be rejected and
cast out of the church, if he remain obstinate after a first and
second admonition."—(Brown's Dictionary.)
Now, sir, one point only remains to be established, and I
shall have made out a complete justification of the opinion
which I expressed, and the determination to which I am.
come : and that is, to prove that you and your liberal fellow-
councillors who advocate, support, and enforce the new sys-
tem of education in the corporation schools, are guilty of
teaching and propagating heretical doctrines. The Roman
catholic catechism contains doctrines which are admitted by
all denominations of protestants to be false, anti-scriptural,
and heretical. The catechism is daily taught in the corpora-
tion schools by your authority. The system makes it impe-
rative upon the masters of monitors, in the absence of the
priest, to instruct the Romish children in their own catechism
the last hour.in each day. When 1 visited the North Cor-
poration School in the month of October, 1837, I found one
of the masters instructing the children to pray to the Virgin
Mary. In my visit to the same school in the month of No-
vember last, there was no Roman catholic priest present,
but the master was doing his work for him, as usual. And
the public may as well be informed that the only catechism
taught in the North School at present is the Roman catholic
catechism. That of the church of England was the first to
be turned out, and that of Dr. Watts the next. With the
reasons assigned for this by the head master I have nothing
to do; I mention the fact simply to show the leaning of the
corporation to popery, and to fasten upon the liberal mem-
bers of that body. the crime and offence of teaching with un-
remitting assiduity the abominable superstitions and blas-
phemous fables contained in the popish catechisin.
It will not serve your purpose to say that, because you do
it not in propria persona', you do it not; every poor unlettered
man in the town will see through the hollowness of so bare-
faced an assertiou. It is a maxim of law admitted in all the
judicial courts of the country. "Quifacit per alium, facit per
se"—he that does it by another, it is the same as if be did it
himself. And so correct and just is this rule, that we find an
instance of it in scripture—" The Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though
Jesus himself baptised not, but his disciples."—John iv. 1, 2.
You teach not, it may be, the heretical doctrines of the church
of Rome in person, but you authorise the masters and moni-
tors to do it; you have established a system by. which it must
be done; yon insist on that system being carried into effect;
you enforce and sanction the teaching, and you pay the
masters for doing it; you are the principals, and the masters
are the accessaries in this nefarious work. There is no
ground for believiug that Jereboam, the son of Nebat, set up
the golden calves in Dan and Bethel with his own hands.
They were set up to be worshipped by his authority, as chief
magistrate or king, and he, consequently, is the one continu-
ally charged with the crime of leading Israel to idolatry. On
the same principle, you, sir, and your liberal associates in the
corporation, stand charged with teaching the poor Roman
catholic children, amongst others, the following doctrines:-
I.—You teach them to believe, that "the church is, in mat-
ters of faith, infallible." contrary to the direct prophetic tes-
timony of St. Paul, that in the Christian church " there
should come a falling away, and the man of sin should sit in
the temple of God."-2 Thess. ii. 3, 4. And besides, infalli-
bility is an incommunicable attribute of the Divine Being.
To declare the church, therefore, infallible, is to advance the
company of the faithful to an equality with God, which is
blasphemy.
2.—You teach them to believe that "the souls of the right-
eous must, after death, discharge the debt of some mortal
sins in the fire of purgatory ;" us if the atonement made by
Christ were incomplete for human redemption, without the
appendage of human merit and human suffering: whereas
the word of God declares, that " Christ his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree, and that by his stripes we
are healed."-1 Peter, ii. 24.
3.—You teach them to believe," that sins committed after
baptism are forgiven by the sacrament of penance, and that
doing the penance imposed by the priest is satisfaction,"
whereas God bas written on the page of inspiration, as it
were with a sunbeam, that forgiveness of sin is through the
blood of Christ—" Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without ble-
mish and without spot."-1 Peter ii. 18 19. " How much
more shall the blood of Christ, who through the Eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consci-
ence from dead works to serve the living God ?"--Heb, ie.l4.
4.—You teach them to believe that " some sins are venial,
and do not kill the soul," in direct contradiction to the testi-
mony of God, " The soul that sinneth, it shall die."—Ezek.
xviii. 4.
s.—You teach them to " pray to the Virgin Mary, and to
saints and angels," as if these were joint mediators with
Christ, and omnipresent, to hear prayer in every corner of
the world. Thus is Christ lowered from the supreme dignity
and power to which he was advanced in bis mediatorial cha-
racter, and angels and saints are made to share with him in
the merit of heavenly intercession. But what saitli the scrip-
ture? " There is one God, and one mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus."-1 'Tim. ii. 5.
6.—You teach them to believe " that it is lawful to honour
relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures, with a relative honour as
they relate to Christ and his saints, and as memorials of
them:" notwithstanding that such honour was declared to be
idolatry in the case of the Israelites, and is positively forbid-
den in the second commandment.
7.—You teach them to believe that " by fasting they may
satisfy God for their sins;" which must lead them to substi-
tute the merit of human observances for the atoning death of
Christ in the matter of justification. But holy scripture sets
forth Christ as the " Lamb of God that taketh away the sin
of the world."—John i. 29. " And what the law could not
do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: so that Christ is the end of the law for righ-
teousness to every one that believeth."—Rom. viii. 3, x. 4.
B.—You teach them to believe " that the holy eucharist is
the true body and blood of Christ, under the appearances of
bread and wine"—" that the bread and wine are changed into
the body and blood of Christ"—" that the mass is the un-
bloody. sacrifice of the body and blond of Christ." Which of
these is the most ridiculous, it is difficult to say; but they are
all awfully false, and contradicted by the evidence of the
senses.Whe seeing, the feeling, the tasting, declare the bread
and wine to remain the same after consecration as before.
And against the fiction that Christ is offered by the priest in
the mass—a fiction which tends to the most idolatrous prac-
tices—we have the repeated testimony of St. Paul, that
" Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many."—Heb.
ix. 28.
The tendency of all these cunningly-devised fables and
perversions of truth, is but too obvious to require any expla-
nation—it is to draw away the rising generation entirely
from " God, their strength," and to make them rely upon
themselves and on their own performances in the matter of
salvation, that the man may be exalted, and the Redeemer
despised and forgotten. Self-righteousness has always been
the most prominent feature in the character of the papacy,
and self-adulation is the rampant sin of modern liberalism :
hence the contact and desperate embrace between the papists
and the liberals—the former adhere to a foreign monarch,
who is magnified into a god ; the latter have erected a tem-
ple to philosophy, in which they worship each other. But
need I tell you, sir, that God will blow away all this dust
with one breath ?—for it is written, " Except the Lord build
the house, their labour is but lost that build it."—Psalm
cxxvii. 1.
I need not adduce any more specimens of the kind of
doctrine you teach the poor deluded and ill-used children of
Roman catholic parents. Every one of these counts may,
without hesitation, be declared heretical. Each contains
" an opinion opposite to some articles of the Christian
faith;" amid you, who authorise and sanction the teachiPg of

them in the corporation schools, stand convicted of an of-
fence against Christianity. And why should you uphold
and enforce a system so replete with error and so oppressed
with heresy? Is it because heresy may be taught without
danger to the children? St. Peter declares heresies to be
"damnable," that is, causing damnation to the teachers and
to the taught. "There shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring its damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them : and many shall follow in their
pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be
evil spoken of ; and through covetousness shall they with
_feigned
lips make merchandise of you."-2 Peter ii. 1, &c. Huw truly
verified is this prophetic passage in the events that are now
taking place in our own town! And yet the guilty will not
take it to themselves.

You have above a thousand Roman catholic children in the
two schools, of whom you make merchandise for the sake of
place and power, consigning them over, without a sigh or a
tear of pity, to the deathful embrace of christianized idolatry
and priestly superstition. You teach them to worship the
Virgin—to worship saints—to worship angels. For in what
more direct way do we worship the true God than by bowing
the knee and praying to him? You teach them to honour
relics, crucifixes, and holy pictures as memorials of Christand
his saints—which is precisely. the kind of worship the Greeks
and Romans paid to the images of Jupiter, Apollo, Venus,
and Diana; for they never looked upon those images as any-
thing more than mere representations and memorials of their
gods. And have you considered well the consequences of train-
ing up these children in the act and practice of idolatry? St.
Paul states them in the following passage :—" Now the works
of the flesh are manifest, which are these—adultery, fornica-
tion—idolatry—heresies—envyings, &c. ; of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."—
Gal. v. 19-21. And in the book of the Revelation it is writ-
ten, "The fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and
murderers—and idolators, and all liars, shall haie their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is
the second death."—Rev. xxi. 8.

If these thousand children, whom you instruct systematically
in the errors I have enumerated, should continue through life
to pray to the Virgin Mary, and to saints and angels, oftener
than to Christ or God, and contrary to his command, they will
owe it to you! If they should,through life, transfer to relics, cru-
cifixes, and holy pictures, the honour which is due to Gud, and
to him alone, they will owe it to you! If they should through
life, build their hope of salvation on fasting and pen-
ances, instead of the death of Christ, they will owe it to vou!
If they should, through life, pay divine worship to the bread
and wine in the eucharist, under the impression that they
see the real body and blood of Christ, they will owe it to
you! If they should, through life, consider some sins as
venial, and consequently neglect to solicit the pardon of
God for such, they will owe it to you! If they should,
through life, in consequence of believing the church to be
infallible, resign blindly their eternal destinies to the hands
of an apostate priest, they will owe it -to you! And should
any, or many, or most of the children, ih consequence of
all these abominable practices—so offensive to God, so dero-
gatory to Christ, and so degrading to themselves, in the
end, miss their way to glory, they will owe it to you!! Oh,
sir, is it a light thing with you to support and enforce a sys-
tem of education which must necessarily terminate in conse-
quences so awful and unredeetnable? Consider the circum-
stances under which the mischief is done ! The children
surrender themselves into your hands with unhesitating con-
fidence, expecting that you will teach them nothing but the
truth, and that you will put them in the right way of attain-
ing heaven and glory; they give you credit for sincere and
disinterested benevolence. The suspicion that you may do
them wrong, especially in religion, never enters their mind.
How cruel, therefore, it is in you to lead them astray;
and what will be their astonishment, if, by the mercy
of God, any of them shall ever escape the trammels
of popery, to find that you had played towards them a
part that might have entailed upon them eternal ruin ?
Their bosoms will heave with indignation, and their eyes
kindle into a flame of righteous scorn, at the fraud, and
treachery, and hypocrisy of the system. They will shrink
with horror from the consequences that would, but for the
miraculous interposition of divine grace, have most certainly
ensued. And did you expect, sir, that 1 should have ad-
mitted any of you, after so solemn a mockery of God and
trus Christianity, to the privilege of communicating with the
saints, without a word of remonstrance? No, sir, I should
not have allowed any man so far to deceive himself as to
suppose that under the circumstances he was a fit and proper
person to set his hands to time seals of the new covenant. I
sh mld have called upon him first to declare his regret and
so:row for his past conduct, and openly to disavow having
any participation in the propagation of heresy. And in so
doing I should only be following the example of St. Paul:
" Holding faith and a good conscience; which some having
put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: of whom is
Hymeneus and Alexander; whom 1 have delivered unto Satan
that they may learn not to blaspheme."-1 Tim. i. 19, 20.
I will not push the subject any further at present, but
simply observe, that I have my opinion as to the scene that
will take place at the great day of final retribution, when the
children now ruined by the antichristian system of education
in your schools, will rise up in judgment with you, and will
condemn you, because they went to your schools to learn
truth, and vou taught them error.
No. 4.----Under this head I have only one observation to
make : it is this, that, in my opinion, it is no crime, or want
of Christaiu charity in a minister of the national church to
refuse co-vperation in the present day with dissenting minis-
ters of a certain description. I shall heartily rejoice to see
the time come when we may think better of them. They
have wounded our feelings too deeply to forget the wrong in
one day. Will you, sir, set the example, and acknowledge
the injustice you have done both to the church and to the
clergy, by your spiteful opposition to the former, and slander-
ous attacks on the latter . Praying that God, of His infinite
goodness, may deliver you and your liberal colleagues in the
corporation, " from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism:
from hardness of heart, and contempt of his word and com-
mandments."

I remain, sir,
Your most obedient servant,
D. JAMES