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retoirett to give rgaipts for what they as paid.
, That the spiritual benefits of this institution shall
conferred in the following manlier, viz. Each subscriber
shall be entitled to an office at the time of their death, ano-
ther at the expiration of a month, and one at the end of
twelve months after their decease ; also, the benefit of masses
which shall be procured to be offered, by the money arising
from subscriptions, and which shall be extended to their pa-
rents, relations, and friends, in the following order : that is
to say, their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
and if married, husbands, wives, and children, if they have
any departed who lived to maturity.
7. That every member of the office for the dead, who
serves the society in the capacity of Superior, shall, at the
time of his death, be entitled to three masses, to be offered
for the repose of his soul ; and, also, every member who
serves the office of Rector, shall be entitled to the benefit of
two masses, and every subscriber, without distinction, shall
be entitled to the benefit of one mass each, provided that
such member or subscriber shall die a natural death, be six
months a subscriber to the institution, and be clear of all
dues at the time of their departure ; that care shall be taken,
by the surviving Superior and Rectors, that such soul masses
are punctually obtained, agreeable to the interest and mean-
ing of this institution.
8. That the Superior, Rectors, and Council, be empowered
to make (as occasion may require) such bye-laws as they
shall think expedient, provided they do not interfere with the
spirit of these rules ; said bye-laws are to be laid before the
body at large, for their approbation, and that four shall form
a quorum on the council.
9. That the Superior shall, on every All-Souls'-Day, ad-
vance to the parish priest of James's-street chapel, whatever
sum is necessary for obtaining an insertion in the mortality
list of the altar, the names of the parents, relations, and
friends, of all the subscribers to this institution, to be re-
commended to the prayers of the congregation at every mass
throughout the year.
Subscriptions received, and subscribers registered at the
chapel, on every Wednesdsy evening, from seven o'clock
until nine, and in the school-room adjoining the chapel, on
the first Sunday of February, May, August, and November,
being quarterly days, from ten o'clock until one.
The books to be opened for the inspection of subscribers,
price Three-pence."
These are some of the rules of a society established some
years ago in Dublin, and still in operation there. There is a
place in this town called " St. Mary's Chapel." There is a
great advertisement going about now, inviting subscriptions
for the rebuilding of St. Mary's after a manner suitable for
the Catholic church. At St. Mary's, then, they are making
great efforts to get money. A friend of mine saw a label
hanging upon the inside of the rails, and he went in and co-
pied it. He assures me this is a verbatim copy of the label,
and with your permission I will read it
St. Mary's Society.
" Of the Altar.

" ' What shall I render to the Lord for all the things that

he hath rendered to me.'—Ps. 115.

" Nothing contributes more effectually to promote piety,
and command the respect due to the house of God than the
solemnity of divine worship, and the beauty and decency of
the temple in which the Majesty of Heaven dwelleth.
" To answer these ends, by procuring for the chapel of St.
Mary's, suitable vestments, abbs, chalices, and every other
reeuisite, is the laudable object of this society.
"Each member will subscribe sixpence per month."
Now there is no objection to this ' • there is no objection to
their procuring for the chapel of St. Mary's suitable vest-
ments, abbs, chalices, and to have other requisite decencies
for carrying on public worship : that is a thing done with
open eyes, and it is what we ask our people to do, but now
comes the false pretences.
"In return for their pious exertions and liberalities; a
mass will be offered on the first Thursday of every month,
for the members of the society, and a sacrifice will be offered
by each of the priests of St. Mary's, for the repose of the
soul of any deceased member.
" Two ladies of the committee will attend in the vestry to
receive new subscribers every Sunday, after the last mass
and evening service.
" Donations in money or materials serviceable for the
altar will be thankfully received.
" All subscribers and benefactors to the society will be
gratefully remembered in the sacrifice of the mass.
" President, Rev. Richard Croft—Treasurer, Rev. James
Wilkinson—Committee, Miss Bradshaw, Miss Dearden,
Miss H. Dearden, Miss Anne Dugdale, Miss Haskayne,

Miss Johnson, Miss Jump, Miss Moss, Miss Newton, Miss
Pulford, Miss Shepherd, Miss Water worth!'
And so it is going on here. Now unless these men can show
that there is some return for the money paid, unless they can
prove value received, I do not know whether our courts of
justice would not take cognizance of them. I am not sure
that an action would not hold against them if we could get
one of these poor men to give evidence. unless they could
prove he had received a return for it. What is the return
for their money ? (Hear.) Is there any value received ?
(Cries of no, no.) It is said that the value received is masses
said for the souls of deceased members. This involves the
question of their whole system of masses. Now where does
the word of God give any countenance to that system ? No-
where. The whole thing is got up for the purpose of making
money—" tantnm donant quantum sonant "—(cheers)—they
are withdrawing the hard earned pittances of our poor Ro-
man catholic brethren by fraudulent pretences. (Cheers.)
I lately heard a very curious story with regard to St. Mary's
Chapel and the proposal to rebuild it. What lam going to
tell you is unwritten tradition. " Tantum donant quantum
sonant." Having told you it is unwritten tranition and there-
fore about as much to be relied on as any other sort of tra-
dition, I will tell you the story. This same St. Mary's, it
seems, as the advertisement tells us, was built in times of
persecution, and it is altogether unfitted for the purpose for
which it is now designed ; but it turns out upon enquiry, ac-
cording to tradition, it was then rebuilt. (Hear.) And upon
enquiry how came it down, and why it had to be rebuilt, the
history of it comes out. (Hear, hear.) In the beginning of
the French war there was a frigate built in Liverpool. Un-
happily, on her first voyage, before she had got through the
channel, she fell in with a French man of war and she was
taken. The news came of the frigate having been taken, and
the people were in great distress about it ,• but it seems ac-
cording to tradition that not all were in distress, for some
parties connected with St. Mary's Chapel, got a model of the
French man of war, and set it up as a token of triumph over
the heretical frigate. (Hear, hear.) The tradition proceeds
that this circumstance got wind in the good old town—not so
big then as it is now by half—and the people of the good old
town, who were not so well instructed in " toleration " as
they are now, hearing of the model of the Frenchman being
stuck up in the chapel, surrounded it, and when they found
such an insult to their country within it, tradition says they

set to work and demolished the chapel down to the ground

(Loud cheers.) Now, Mr. Chairman, I am as far as any man
in Liverpool from vouching for the truth of tradition. I know
that I am happy enough to have you as a coadjutor in that
opinion, and that we place very little reliance indeed upon
unwritten tradition. However, it is worth what it is worth,
and if it revives a little of the good old British spirit of
loyalty in these perilous times, when we know not how soon
our country may be involved in the awful and unspeakable
terrors of war, it will have done good, (Loud cheers.) But
we do not make war with stone and lime • we do not make
war with carnal weapons ; we do not Pull down Romish
chapels ; we do not use brick bats, and bludgeons, and crow-
bars, but we do make war and fall down upon Romish
doctrine, upon Romish intolerance, upon Romish tyranny,
against Romish abuses of every kind, and with what ? With
the glorious brightness of the Gospel of the grace of God.
(Immense applause.) Sir, this is the rallying point at this
time. Our enemies have stolen a march upon our great men.
You have heard how they deceived that great man Mr. Pitt.
Mr. Pitt was a great statesman, but he did not understand
Van Espa, Cardinal Cajetan, Thomas Aquinas and the rest
of them, half so much as Mr. M'Ghee does, and he was de-
luded by the answers he received from the foreign universities.
(Loud cheers.) The statesmen of the present day are de-
luded, The Roman Catholics still carry on the delusion.
It is the fashion with our young statesmen of the prasent
day to take statements, and not to investigate the Popish
controversy. One came down here and astonished us by
his wondrous eloquence—l mean Mr. Canning—be, too,
carried on the delusion. He was a man of the greatest
liberality, but he did not know the Popish controversy. He
was a great statesman, but a very poor theologian. Our
present statesmen left their colleges unpledged in these
matters ; they have not been instructed in the deep things of
the word of God, nor the deep dark designes of Popery.
(Hear, hear.) They were certainly instructed in the history
of their country, but they read only part of it with effect.
(Hear, hear.) They were instructed in the great things of
antiquity, into the minute of the histories of ancient Greece
and Rome • but in this one point, the papacy was more than
a match, for she stole a march upon them. (Hear, hear.)
They gained admission in high places, and they carried their
point—at least •they thought they had carried their point.
They thought to have carried the people as well as the
ministry with them. They did get some of the clergy of the
church upon their side. That was a grand step. If they
could have got the clergy of the Church of England among
them, they would have damaged the whole structure of our
constitution. They hoped to lay the country bare before them,
but what stopped them ? What was it that stopped that pro-
gress which had being going on for years before and for a little
while after the year 1829 ? What has checked it? It is still
indeed going on among high places, it is still going on among
the great ones : they are getting inte the council chamber and
the treasury, but what has arested their progress among the
people ? What has made England stand for it, for she is
beginning to stand for it ? (Cheers.) It is the gospel of
the grace of God that has done it. (Cheers.) It is the lin-
gering power of the holy gospel in the hearts of some of her
true presbytery—it is the protest we have raised. (Cheers.)
A very few we were at first. There were some who pro-
claimed that England's protest against popery would be Eng-
land's shield—who declared that when she withdrew her pro-
test she would have the battle to fight half naked. We told
this to the people—we toiled for a long time without any per-
ceptible effect, but we have now the reward of our labours,
for wherever we erect our standard, and wherever our poor
unworthy names are mentioned, the largest house in the
town is not lage enough to hold the people that come. (Loud
cheers.) Our rulers are beginning to feel this. First of all
they called us—although Exeter Hall bad not precedence in
this matter—Exeter Hall madmen. Had the movement
stopped there they would have continued to laugh at it ; but
behold, some more of this feeling sprung up in Liverpool
(Cheers.) When we began, the Music Hall was big enough ; '
and only the other night, on Monday week, hundreds went
away unable to get in here—the Amphitheatre. (Loud cheers.)
And indeed, whenever we throw open this place, let it be
at a time when the poor men are free from work, when the
honest Protestant labourer—who would work six days a week
according to God's commandment—can come, and the place
is filled. I was delighted the other night to see some of the
operatives' wives here, with infants in their arms, enjoying
the Protestantism which delighted their ears. I rejoice to
tell you that this feeling which is spreading throughout this
town is not confined to this town. (Hear.) I suppose if it
were only in Exeter Hall and Liverpool, our rulers would
sneer and repose, and take very little practical notice ; but
I believe another fire has broken out in Manchester. (Loud
cheers.) I remember when I first spoke to my reverend and
beloved namesake about this matter he had some doubts—
not about the propriety but about the practicability of doing
it right; and I shall never forget the day he first tried. He
tried a mid-day meeting—he was afraid of an evening meeting
—a mid-day meeting of all other places in the Corn Ex-
change ; so delighted was he with the tone of the opera-
tives upon and since that occasion, that be became
bolder ; and now when Protestantism is the object, he dares
open the greatest room in the town—they then flock round
him in hundreds and in thousands, and now I should say my
dear friend is the most powerful man in Manchester. (Loud
cheers.) But this is not all. (Hear, hear.) I suppose if
the Protestant feeling had been confined to Exeter-hall, and
Liverpool and Manchester, our rulers would have gone on
dozing quietly as usual ; that they would have said " these
manufacturers are gone mad—do not mind them." But, lo !
another and another fire broke out—one in Bristol, another
in Bath, another in Hereford. (Loud cheers.) No wonder
Dr. Murray calls us factious firebrands. We have been agi-
tators for Protestantism throughout England. We have ani-
mated the country ; we have had meetings in Glasgow, Edin-
burgh, York, Newcastle, Hull, and next week, if all be well,
I shall be at Norwich. (Loud cheers.) Here it is, north
and south, east and west ; and I protest that I think the Pro-
testant tone, which is rising in these large towns, is so
irnportance;''
pun-
gent, that even the liberal papers cannot keep clear of it.
(Cheers.) I/have heard that some of their fri,e,nldfsyoaadvise
moved too.
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but somehow or other they cannot let them alone. (Cheers.)
People will
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(Cheers.) They will not be quiet—nor do we intend to let
them be quiet—(cheers)—and when this spreads through the
kingdom, here is a Protestant train laid for the fifth of. No-
vember. (Cheers.) There was a train of a very different
kind laid on the fifth of November some years ago ; we are ,

sofa to let the remizahrange of that twilit ,his sway, Om,
ors wee are preparing ourselves, 11ke well-discipline ll aolilicFgr
to have a great explosion on that day, (Cheers,) These are
things that make even drowsy premiers start upon their
couch. (Cheers and laughter.) These are things that are
strengthening the Protestant Operatives of England—these
are things that are carrying the pledge proposed by Mr.
_AV Ghee—a noble proposal to separate the hierarchy from the
people, to give every man an opportunity, who loves truth
and honesty and loyalty, and who hates persecution and in-
tolerance, an opportunity of saying, " I will take that pledge,
for these principles are not in me." (Cheers.) I can under-
stand a Roman Catholic gentleman saying, " Did I think
those principles are held by our priests, would forsake
them.' " They are," is the reply. " Prove it," he says.
" They are in the books, your priests are sworn to." " In-
deed, are these the articles my priest has sworn to ?" " Yes."
Here, then, enquiry was set on foot. I can readily under-
stand a man like this acting upon enquiry—he will say, " If
the priest is bound to these principles, he and I will be two."
The priests are aware of this, and when they are put upon
their trial, they do not hesitate to deny their principles.
When brought into court the other day. and asked whether
certain penances were imposed by their church, most simply
one of them answered, " I have no knowledge of it"—" not
to the best of my knowledge"—and " I know nothing about
it." (Hear, hear.) He absolutely denied that such things
belonged to his church. Oh ! I had better take care what I
say. (Laughter.) " Examined by Mr. Noggins.—Accord-
ing to the discipline and practice of Roman Catholic worship,
has any individual priest authority to impose that penalty
upon any sinner?—Answer.—He had no such power." Good
news for Roman Catholics ! (Cheers.) But instead of tak-
ing it so, when I read these answers of this man—" Is there
any power in your church, in any of the functionaries of your
church, to impose penance by crawling upon the ground?—
Answer-1 know of none"—l protest I feel disposed to con-
gratulate the Rev. James Crook upon his renunciation of
Popery. (Cheers.) Why, Mr. Stowell, this man is not a
Papist. (Continued cheers.) Which will you have ? If he
is a real son of the church, his answer, upon cross-examina-
tion, is what I choose not to describe. If his answer is what
I delight to think it is—the real truth—then he has flung the
church behind him. (Cheers.) He is no longer a Papist.
(Continued cheers.) We cannot call the Rev. James Crook
a Papist. He has renounced Popery ; and here is his recan-
tation. (Loud cheers.) Send it abroad, throughout the
world, that the Rev. James Crook is a convert. (Renewed
cheers.) Do you not see how the principles of this test
would split the Papacy in two ? It would separate the man
who detested such principles from the men who are imposing
them. But how are we to get it ? (Hear.) Petition parlia-
ment? What is a petition good for? Mr. M'Ghee says,
" get your members to support your petitions." Very well;
but how are we to get members that will support it ? lf you
say we have them already in this town, first of all I say,
" take care you keep them"—(loud cheers) ;—and, secondly,
if you ask, " how are they to he had in other towns ?"—I
protest, sir, I believe, without canvassing a vote, without
speaking to any single man of the community about how he
is to vote—l believe, for the sake of gaining this high Pro-
testant project, we are taking the right course, namely, by
making a Protestant democracy—(cheers) ;—by making Pro-
testant principles popular among the people ; by chewing
them the value of the Bible; and by manifesting to them the
all-sufficiency of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the utter
repudiation of masses, and penances, and purgatories,
and all the other trumpery, tantum donant, quantum
sonant. (Loud cheers.) We are taking the right course,
I say. We are preparing the right tone, which will tell
in good time, and I would, add that by setting this thing
plainly before our female friends we are also taking the right
way. (Cheers.) We shall be told by and by that seven-
eights, nine-tenths—[casting his eye round the place)—l am
not looking for the fact, I am thinking what the lie will be
(laughter)—that nine-tenths of the assembly were ladies ;
and that the remainder were insignificant persons, nobody
knows who they were, (cheers, laughter, and a VOICE—
" We'll let them know who we are.") Well, but the ladies
are very influential : they know how to speak a word in
season, and I do not envy the man who is incapable of being
moved by such a word so spoken. (Loud cheers.) At all
events, sir, our opponents must confess that we have the
ladies (hear hear) and no wonder, for it is protestantism that
has placed the ladies upon their proper level in society.
(Cheers.) It is popery that exposes ladies to the prurient
curiosity, to the aching anxious villanies, to the prying en-
quiries of a dastardly bachelor—(loud cheers)—asking his
filthy questions. (Renewed cheers and some laughter.) Oh,
my dear friends, long may you be able to laugh ! Let me
tell you that it is no laughing matter to be brought into the
confession box. (Cheers.) Well we are getting a noble
phalanx for the support of our protestant =vents. The
snowball is enlarging as it rolls, and I believe it will produce
such an increase of good protestant members in the House
of Commons, that if England falls she will not fall soft.
(Cheers and laughter.) I see some of my fair friends are
tired ; and it is dinner time, and I must have done. (Cries
of go on.) Well then, if I must go on, I will tell you why I
am engaged in all this. I find that there is in me, and
I doubt not that there is in every one of you a con-
sciousness of guilt against God. I find that there is no
mode of procuring peace but one—no mode that meets my
apprehensions of God's majesty, and my convictions of my
own misery, but a way high enough to reach the majesty of
God, and low enough to reach the sympathies and the wants
of man. (Cheers.) That way is "He who is God and man
in one Christ,"—(cheers)—performing a work which man
should have performed, enduring a penalty which man de-
serves to endure, and mingling every act and every pang
with a meritoriousness of full dimensions to meet the
majesty of Jehovah's character, to harmonize the perfections
of Jehovah's government, so that God shall be justified and
the justifier of the ungodly, so that all my apprehension of
his majesty not only remains untouched, untarnished, but
that it would be elevated by the contemplations of his good-
ness, which at some moments pervaded all my consciousness
of iniquity, and offence against his law. (Cheers.) It is be-
cause Jesus Christ, the way of truth and the light—the day-
star of the bible is also the day-star of protestantism—(hear);
—it is because the papal system has raised clouds and mists
and fogs to obscure that star from the longing view of my
poor fellow-countrymen, leaving them toiling in darkness
below, misled, deceived, by every will-o'-the-wisp, by fire
kindled by human tradition, and kept blazing by covetous,
ambitious and interested priests, so that they are kept toiling
in vain to establish a righteousness and to obtain a peace—
thus daubing the wall with untempered mortar, and laying
the flattering unction to their soul that penance to-day takes
away the sin of yesterday, and that penance to-morrow will
blot out the sin of to-day, and so going on mortifying the
flesh one day and transgressing the next. (Cheers.) It is
because of this torture, of this turmoil, of this toil here and
of ruin hereafter, imposed by the papal superstition upon the
people, and because we can not only tell what is wrong but
because we have glorious glad tidings to tell you, we so act—
because we have the Lord:Jesus Christ to preach, the end of
the law for righteousness, the repudiator of penances and
masses and purgatory and all the inventions of man to take
away the sin ; of man it is because we have to tell of this in
his character—if man alone were concerned he might toil
successfully, but the character and government of God are
concerned. (Cheers.) In the eyes of angels, and principa-
lities and powers, here we have the glad message to tell you
of one able and willing to protect the work, that he has pro-
tected the work, and that whoso believes in Christ has ever-
lasting life. (Checes.) My friends, my brethren, my fellow-
townsmen and women, my reverend brethren, and my dear
sir, this is our strength. this is our motive, this is our hope—
Jesus Christ, all in all. (Cheers.) If we engage in any
collateral object, if we speak about your parliament, about
your Protestant duties as Englishmen, about anything that
has a political bearing, it is with reference to this end, that
you may secure the circulated English Bible, which testifies
of Jesus Chriat ; the circulated English liturgy, which testi-
fies of Jesus Christ ; the true English clergyman, pledged,
against all errors, to preach Jesus Christ, the end f the law
—it is that you may have, by the laws of the country, se-
cured, as long as you live, and your children after you, the
glorious gospel of the grace of God by Jesus Christ our Lord.
(Cheers.) This is our cause, this is our motive, this is our
strong and glorious hope. If we are asked hat we are
about, we reply, we are defending the gospel. If you ask us
by what means, we say, by rousing the Protestants of Eng-
land. (Cheers.) How is it to be defended otherwise ?
(Hear.) How are our missionary societies to be supported
otherwise ? How can the missionary cause in England go on
if our Protestantism gives way ? (Hear.) The Protestantism
of. England is the spring of missions. What is, too, to be-
come of the Jews ? (Hear, hear.) Popery has done more
to keep the Jews from christianity than anything else. The
Jews know, by the history of their forefathers, what it is to
offend the Almighty by image worship ; they have felt the
power of God in consequence of image worship. (Hear,
hear.) Whatever else they may be, the Jews abhor image
worship. With popery there is image worship ; the putting
of a little bambino of alabaster in the bosom of the images
they bow to—these are things that Judah abhors. The Jews,
indeed, can never approach Christianity whilst any part of it
is identified with image worship. (Hear.) The papacy is a
part of Christianity, and whilst it is so the Jews can never
approach Christianity. (Hear.) Brethren, as you value
your church, as you value all the blessings of Old England—
'‘ No Popery !" (Tremendous cheers, in the midst of which
the reverend gentleman resumed his seat.)
Mr. CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL seconded the resolution in
an appropriate but brief address, in the course of which he
exposed the proceedings of the papists in the Protector So-
ciety, the object of which is to swamp the constituency with
Irish papist voters.
Mr. RIGBY moved a vote of thanks to the rev. chairman
for the able manner in which he had presided over this im-
portant meeting.
The motion was seconded by several gentlemen, and car-
ried by acclamation.

The Rev. Dr. TArrEasuALL returned thanks for the
compliment paid to him in a short address.
The doxology was then sung, and the meeting dispersed
shortly before five o'clock, highly gratified with the whole
proceedings.

SCOTCH CHURCH, OLDHAM-STREET.—We understand
the Rev. John Cumming, of London, is to assist at the ad-
ministration of the sacrament in the Scotch church, Oldham
street, on Sabbath next, and to preach this evening in the
same place.
IMPORTANT TO OWNERS OF PASSENGER-SHIPS, AND
OTHERS.—We had some weeks ago occasion to notice in
terms of commendation, the beautiful manner in which the
great cabin of the steam-ship, " Oriental," was ornamented
with tablets of papier mache, forty-eight in number, covering
the upper pannels of the wood-work round that magnificent
room. We have since seen in the saloon of her sister ship,
, " The Great Liverpool," ornamental panels of the same ma-
terial, but, if possible, more delicate and tasteful in design,
and more splendid in effect, though this last point, of course,
involves a matter of taste. Both are from the works of
Messrs. Jennins and Bettrudge of Birmingham. The tablets
under notice are ornamented in arabesque, on a ground colour
of the pale blossom of the primrose. They are brilliantly
polished. The ornamentsdaserbhehuuebeautiful
aiareoflurmnure.tltoiltiiifynn.rhueeyleltlei in foliated and scroll work are in
t(gmi nwho tendrilsarl
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hees,
they so far resemble each other at a short distance as to ap-
pear precisely alike to the casual observer, a nearer examin-
ation immediately shows that they are separate and elaborate
works of art, comprising varied and pleasing combinations.
The mouldings, forming, as it were, the frame of each tablet
are also beautiful and novel, and are of the same material.
The mode of gilding is the reeent invention in papier mache
of Messrs. Jennins & Co., and was, we learn, first employed
by them in decorating some splendid furniture for the Queen.
The ornaments resemble inlaid tortoise shell, but far surpass
advantages
w as in the
many
it in richness and effect. The whole saloon appears like an
entire palace. The papier machi, as prepared by Messrs.
Jenniesfor oraa
ornamental
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tldwork
Co., we aoyfreths
remark, possesses ma
,
as
making of many beautiful articles. It is even more durable
m
than oak, and is not subject to be worm-eaten or to decay
from dry-rot. Neither is it combustible or liable to be
broken. It is made of various thicknesses, according to the
various purposes to which it is to be applied. A small spe-
cimen of the material previous to being decorated is before
us. It is about half an inch thick, and resembles a piece of
hard wood. We doubt not but ere long it will come into
extensive use, not only in the cabins of fine ships, but in the
principal rooms or boudoirs in the mansions of our wealthy
countrymen.
Mr. John Barnett, the popular composer, in conjunction
with Mr. Morriss Barnett, the comedian, has taken the
Prince's Theatre (Braham's), for the express production of
Original English operas. Arrangements are being made to
oPen the theatre early in November next.