The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Mr. Thomas's excellent letter is in type, but we are com-
pelled to postpone its insertion till Tuesday, owing to
want of space.

jr Zibrrpool tttanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1840

The Great Western arrived at her moorings in King-
road on Wednesday morning last. She left New
York on the Ist instant, and accomplished the voyage
in 13 days and 8 hours. She brought 152 passengers,
a larger number than on any former occasion. In
another. column we have given copious extracts from
the New York papers of the latest dates. The Bank-
rupt Law had paised the Senate. The Sub-treasury
Bill was out of Committee, and likely to be passed
There is no news of importance from Canada. •

It is not a little surprising to observe the indiffe-
rence manifested, by our great commercial commu-
nities, to the gross derelictions of duty on the part of
ministers with regard to the security of our relations
with foreign states. Year after year, month after
month, some important channel of intercourse is
allowed to be obstructed, some immunity enjoyed by
our commerce to be invaded ; yet, with the evidence

before their eyes that from the. incapable being, to
whose care our foreign interests and our national
honour is committed, they have nothing, or worse than
nothing to expect, the mercantile and manufacturing
interests appear wholly indisposed to assume that re-
solute tone of remonstrance which, if once generally
adopted, might at least draw public attention to, if
it cannot at once arrest, the disgraceful betrayal of
British interests which is fast bringing embarrassment
and ruin upon the industrial interests of the nation.
Can any of our merchants be unaware of the causes
which, during the last few years, have been accumu-
lating to cripple the commercial relations of Great
Britain with foreign states ? Surely not in Liverpool,
at least, can such a character, so perversely blind, be
found. And yet, where is the evidence of a desire to
put a stop to the evil ? Nowhere. On the contrary,
we regret to witness, upon all commercial questions, a
narrow party jealousy substituted for that prompt and
combined action which community of interest and
injury ought to induce. In some cases we see an evi-
dent disinclination to look !.lie real evil in the face, and
a disposition rather to fly off to the consideration of
minor and subordinate questions, by the discussion of
which a strong political feeling is introduced into sub-
jects of a purely commercial or international character.
Our manufacturers and our merchants complain of the
cessation of demand and the increase of competition
in foreign markets; yet, overlooking the immediate
causes of that cessation—the abrogation of solemn
treaties—the betrayal of British interests, and the
encouragement offered to those of other nations by the
blundering incapacity, if not the treachery, .of the
foreign office, they rush to the consideration of the
corn laws, the currency, the principle of joint stock
banking, or some .other crotchet of a similar descrip-
tion; and in the blind fury of an attack upon the in-
terests of one class or other of their fellow-country-
men, withdraw their own attention and that of the
community from the working of the real canker which
is eating away the very vitals of their prosperity.
Let us 'entreat the merchafits of Liverpool and the
manufacturing interests which feed her mighty com-
merce to take up a position of a more commanding
character with respect especially to the relations of
Great Britain with foreign countries. From what more
fitting source—by what more fitting voice—can the
national interests and the national honour be asserted—
nay, pressed upon the consideration of the legislature—
than from the midst of this community, so vastly af-
fected in its prosperity by everything which concerns
the relative position of Great Britain with the other
nations of the world ? 'We assert, fearlessly, that the

opinion and remonstrances of Liverpool on any great
question of commercial policy must coerce even the
twaddling Corypheus of the Foreign-office ; and we

must, at the same time, impress upon our merchants,
that those high-spirited Englishmen who do occasion-
ally, in both houses of Parliament, stand forth the able
and unprompted champions of the nation's honour
and of its interests—for the one is bound up with the
other—have a right to all the countenance and support
which such an opinion, firmly and decidedly expressed,
would confer upon them.
Let our readers look at the contemptuous and almost
insolent tone in which inquiries with respect to any
question of foreign policy are replied to on all occa-
sions by Lord Pahnerston. Would this be the case,
we ask, if the parties making those inquiries were
backed by the great commercial constituencies of the
empire ? Durst any personage, not quite so contempti-
ble as that antiquated red tapist, venture to draw him-
self up, in his official self-importance, and sneer at the
opinions of such bodies of men—to oppose shallow
casuistry and vapid impertinence to the experience and
foresight of sound practical merchants ? He might.
A pert debater, without either talent or principle, might,
it is true, do even this ; but the impression produced
upon the public mind would still remain, and at length
prevail. The people of England, although often mis-
led by showy oratory—by " sound and fury signifying
nothing"—are a reflective and discriminating people,
and will not for ever remain blind to the evidence of
truth, especially when that truth is enforced by the
" severe teaching" of bitter and excruciating suffering.
Our attention has been particularly called to this to-
pic by a debate which took place on Monday evening
in the House of Commons upon a question introduced
by Sir Stratford Canning respecting the occupation of
Cracow by Austria, Russia, and Prussia, in direct vio-
lation of the treaty of Vienna. The subject, we dare
say, is familiar to most of our• mercantile -readers. By
that violation—a :continued violation—of the gua-
ranteed independence of Cracow, an important depot
for our commerce to the south of Europe and Asia is
destroyed, the national faith of Great Britain impugned,
and her hard-won honour tarnished. It was com-
plained by Sir Stratford Canning, and by speakers on
his side of the question, that, four • years ago, Lord
Palmerston expressed strong opinions on what was
then deemed the temporary occupation of that terri-
tory ; and that a promise was distinctly given, that not
only should that occupation cease, but that a consul
should immediately be appointed to represent and for-
ward the interests of British commerce in that last
remnant of Polish liberty. Yet what is the result—a
result as dishonourable to the national honour as it is
injurious to the national interests? Why this. The
grasp of the enemies of Poland has fastened itself so
firmly upon that wretched country, that England—
fallen
England !—dare not attempt to drive the vultures
from their prey. Yes : a British minister is found pre-
pared to stand up in the senate of his country and tell
us that his promise to vindicate a solemn treaty and to
send a consul to represent British interests at Cracow
was "

an unfortunate assertion," his "experience of
e issue of which would prevent her Majesty's Go-
ernment (! 0 from giving any explicit answer to in-

Ales as to their intentions for the future"—that the
xpression of an intention on the part of Great Britain
) send a mere commercial agent to a free state had
created great jealousy amongst the other three
'—and that, in case of our persisting in doing
so, we should run the risk of " having him returned"
upon our hands—like a bale of damaged merchandize !
We ask, is it possible that the legitimate demands
of a great nation can be thus trifled with ? Are we to
see ourselves denied access to nation after nation, our
commerce crippled, and our honour insulted, because
a foreign minister is so justly despised, that " no man
fears his threats, none relies upon his promises" ? We
have already been bullied and wheedled out of half the
markets of the world, and shall we wait until we are
kicked out of the remainder ? Surely we shall not.
Truckling and venal as are too many of the flaming
patriots of the present day, and blinded as are most of
their shallow and servile followers, we trust that before
long the voice of the great commercial communities,
whose interests they have so long been allowed to trifle
with and betray, will be raised in indignant remon-
strance, and the stain which now tarnishes the national
escutcheon be wiped off for ever.

iowers".

We have no wish for war. We need not provoke it
in asking for what is our own—for justice ! A reso-
lute man is respected in his demands, whilst a shrink-
ing coward only provokes refusal, coupled with insult.
Let the people of England speak out—if her govern-
ment will not—boldly and decidedly ; let them speak
out, without that crawling diplomatic tone in which
their demands have lately been couched ; and depend
upon it they must be met by straightforward and in-
telligible answers—by concessions such as it is worthy
of a great nation to require, and an honourable oppo-

nent to grant

We venture to present, for the instruction of our
readers, a few chronological facts which tend to illus-
trate the close connexion of our present virtuous and
patriotic government with the treasonable proceedings
of their Irish dictator. On the 2d of July, it will be
remembered, the archdemagogue O'Connell succeeded,
by the unprincipled connivance of a section of the
ministerial party, in obstructing the further proceed-
ings in committee upon Lord Stanley's bill. On the
Gth of July, owing to such obstruction, and the evi-
dent sanction given to it by ministers, Lord Stanley
withdrew his bill for the present session, and, amidst
the cheers of the Whig-radical party in the house,
O'Connell announced that early next session lie should
introduce a measure to reform the system of registra-
tion of voters in Ireland.

There rested, for the time, this much-debated ques-
tion. Lord John Russell had withdrawn his " ob-
structing" bills, and next session O'Connell was to
take up and play the cards of government against
Lord Stanley and the conservative party. But what
is to be done in the interim ? Hear the learned and

honourable (9 member for Dublin, in a letter dated
the Bth instant, two days afterwards (just sufficient to
allow the necessary compact to be arranged), and ad-
dressed to " my dear Ray" :

" London, July 8, 1840.
"My dear Ray,—l intend, please God, to be in Dublin
with one of the mails on Saturday. Advertise a meeting of
the Repeal Association for Monday. It is my fixed intention
to remain in Dublin until I have fully organised the repeal
agitation. There is nothing left us but that, and the man is
as blind as a beetle who does not see that besides the repeal
there is no remedy for Ireland."

" I repeat my intention of being in Dublin on Saturday.
Let John Redmond—my worthy friend John Redmond—
know that I expect to attend the Rathmine repeal meeting on
Sunday afternoon. I believe I will attend parochial meetings
in Dublin for the same purpose."
A REPEAL MEETING on SUNDAY AFTERNOON !!

Again :

" My plan is to call, first, provincial meetings—one, I
should say, at Newry, for Ulster—one at Tuam, for Con-
naught—one at Thurles or Cashel, for Munster--and one at
Kilkenny, for Leinster. Secondly, to organise a simulta-
neous meeting of all the parishes in Ireland, to agree, at one
and the same moment, upon petitions to parliament for an
enlarged and well-defined franchise, and for an easy, unex-
pensive, and effectual registration.

"In the meantime the repeal question will proceed. I
will, please God, set it once more on foot on SUNDAY and
Monday next. I am glad to find that the Irish people are
now convinced that nothing can again divert me from repeal.
Stanley and his 300 enthusiasts have convinced me that he
and they can be checked by not less than 3,000,000 of re-
pealers. Hurrah for the repeal !
"Faithfully yours,
"DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" M. Ray, Esq.'

Now we appeal to any man, not on the verge of
lunacy, whether a ministry which allows its own
questions to be carried by treason and sedition is not
as guilty morally, if not directly, as the traitor who
thus boldly, from the very threshold of the cabinet—
fresh from a snug party in Downing-street--announces
his unalterable determination to agitaje, and carry, by
an organised conspiracy, a dismemberment of the em-
pire—to avert which, one of that very administration
has placed -it on tv,vl et-marne-writird' be willing "to
wade through all the horrors and bloodshed of a civil
war."

But how are the three millions of repealers, who are
to carry into execution this treasonable scheme, to be
got together ? How are these simultaneous meetings
to he summoned throughout Ireland ? To solve this
question let us proceed to Longford, where, on the
10th instant, Baron Pennefather sat upon the trial of
eight men indicted for the crime of ribbonism, and
upon whom were found documents containing the
following mysterious pass-words :

" Will we have a repeal? On what cause? The con.
laws. It is the cry of the people; it must prevail; no mat
can object. May justice still prevail ? No man can objec.
it. Sir, lam much surprised ? You aro offensive ?"

The significant query in this ribbon document,
" Are we to have a repeal ?" is, at all events, some
evidence that the conspiracy of which it was selected
as a pass-word is not altogether of that " harmless"
nature which its apologists in Liverpool and elsewhere
would have us to believe. We have here, at any rate,
one link in the mysterious chain which binds together
the midnight assassin, the ruthless " slater," and the
political demagogue. We have here one finger-post
to guide us to the seat of that inexplicable power by
which the turbulent waves of discord and outrage in
Ireland are lashed up to the fury of the tempest, or
soothed into a deceitful calm, as it best suits the hid-
den purposes of a jesuitical faction to bluster at or
fawn upon its victims. And when we look at the
giant organisation of that conspiracy,—when we find
it described in the emphatic words of a learned judge
—by Baron Pennefather—no later than one week ago,
whilst passing sentence upon one of the felons of
whom it is composed, as " a society that compelled the
people to pay obedience to unknown dictators, and to
submit to all commands imposed—A SOCIETY THAT
MAY HAVE AUTHORISED BURNINGS, MURDERS,

AND ALL THE EVILS INFLICTED ON THE COUNTRY

—A SOCIETY THAT POSSESSED ITSELF OF ARMS,
AMMUNITION, &C.";—we may well exclaim with that
learned judge, " `Vim CAN TELL FOR WHAT PUR-

POSE THOSE ARMS WERE OBTAINED ? THIS IS

WELL WORTH THE INQUIRY OF ALL."

Yes, it is " worth the inquiry of all"; and it will
in good time become the inquiry of all to what extent
the ribbon conspiracy and the repeal conspiracy are
synonymous; and it may-become the inquiry of some
to what extent these dark and dangerous engines are
at present employed to sustain in office, at any and at
all risks, the most reckless and unprincipled administra-
tion that ever cursed the worst days of this mighty
empire !

We have placed these few remarks and dates before
our countrymen. Further comment of ours they need
not. Let them be weighed and examined. Let the
Protestant people of England pronounce judgment ;
and, come what may come, our hands at least are
clear.

We are told that the conversion of plain Joshua
Walmsley into " Sir Joshua" has wonderfully altered
that worthy gentleman's prospects as a candidate of
the borough. The aristocratic whigs of Liverpool
(save the mark !) are prepared to worship the full-blown
honours of the knight, although previously averse to
rub elbows with the corn-merchant; and Sir Joshua,
on the event of a dissolution, is to start for the race
and to win, if the united efforts of Whig, radical and
precursor, can effect that desirable object.

We are not afraid of the loyal electors of Liverpool
doing their duty on the day of battle. We should be
ungrateful were we not to acknowledge that they have
ever fought the good cause earnestly and manfully.
But let us not rush into the opposite extreme and cry
" victory" before the fight is won, for, depend upon it
the enemy is putting forth all his strength and all his
stratagem for the coming struggle. Let our conserva-
tive.friends be up and ready; let their committees be
organized ; let all sound and loyal Protestants be
brought up to register, and the claims of their oppo-
nents rigourously and strictly watched. Not a sinew
in the ministerial camp will be left unstrained to secure
a ministerial triumph in Liverpool, and not one con-
servative, however high or however low his station,
should hesitate on this occasion to put forth his strength,
to give his time, his talents, and his influence, to the
cause of the constitution.

We repeat that we are not cravens in politics.
We are seldom found crying "wolf" when danger is
not at hand. But we must now entreat the conserva-
tive electors of Liverpool not to throw any chance away
by over-confidence. The ministerial faction have "set
their all upon the cast ;" and they must be met with
corresponding energy. A ministerial victory in Liver-
pool would be hailed with rapture by the enemies of
constitutional liberty, not only throughout England
but throughout the globe ; and it must not be said of
us that by slothfulness and inactivity we have allowed
so " heavy a blow" to be levelled at the time-honoured
institutions of our country.

Remember, too, that even victory is valuable accord-
ing to its extent. Let it ring then throughout England
and throughout the world, that the loyal men of
Liverpool have not only won the fight and remained
masters of the field, but that the enemy is routed and
scattered beyond the possibility of a rally !

Surely the conservative party in Liverpool cannot
be aware of the treacherous efforts now being made by
the popish and radical party in this town to swamp the
constituency, by the introduction of hundreds of Irish-
men of the lowest grade, whose taxes are most myste-
riously paid under the auspices of the Reform Asso-
ciation, the machinery being prepared and directed by
the Protector Society—the fuel being provided from
other sources. The scene at the parish office has, we
under Stand, for some days past been of such a charac-
ter, thai it is high time for every respectable inhabitant
to look into it. Taxes have been paid by, or for, indi-
viduals who are unable to pay for a decent coat or
even a pair of shoes, and this, no doubt, for the pur-
pose of keeping in power as unprincipled and degraded
a ministry as ever this country was afflicted with; and
for the purpose, too, of keeping our local power in the
hands of the motley crew who have now a majority in
the Town Council.

But the taxes being paid, no matter from what
source, the registry will be swelled with swarms of
protectors, repealers, and ribbon-men, and also by
numbers of labourers who never paid and never will
pay a shilling of taxes in their lives from their own re-
sources; and unless very prompt steps are taken to-

day and to-morrow, to counteract the mischief, the
conservatives will find on the day of election that their
candidates will be in a minority.
We entreat them not to look at the Mayor as a can-
didate easily beaten, nor to be deceived by the common
remark, that the more respectable Whigs will not sup-
port him. It is true that many of them are jealous of
his power and elevation, and would rejoice at his de-
feat ; but when the day of election comes, they will
one and all support him. He possesses energy of cha-
racter, does not disdain attending to details, has at his
command fictive lieutenants who will not stick at
trifles, and, above all, he will bleed freely. 'What with
the aid of a popish party, and the engines of the Re-
form Association, the-pretensions of his worship to re•.
present the borough in Parliament are not to be trifled
with. This is no time to conceal matters. UNLESS

THE CONSERVATIVES REGISTER 600 VOTES MORE

THAN THEY HAVE AT PRESENT ON THE BOOKS, SIR
JOSHUA WALMSLEy AND MR. LABOUCHERE WILL
BE MEMBERS FOR LIVERPOOL.

And as the payment of rates entitles a man to parish
relief, numbers of those who are so shamefully put on
the registry will soon be found applicants for parochial
relief, and the parishioners at large will in the long run
have to pay for these scandalous proceedings. And
this impudent fraud of swamping the registry is being
acted by those who denounced the old freemen as unfit
to exercise the elective franchise—men whose loyalty
was their crime, and men a thousand times more re-
spectable than the shoeless and trouserless swarms of
wretches sent forth from the sty of the Protector As-
sociation.

THE UNION BANK

TO rHE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

have this day had my attention called to a para-
graph in the Standard of yesterday, headed " New North
and South Wales Bank," in which is a statement that I
" furnished the designs for the Union Bank, in Brunswick-
street;" this is not correct, as I believe Messrs. Cunning-
ham and Holmes were the architects of that neat and elegant
building. and, rpectfulty.,
EDWARD CORBETT,
Architect, Manchester.
Liverpool, 7 m0.13th,,•1840.

CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—On Wednesday last se-
veral parties were brought before Mr. Rushton, and fined,
for allowing their chimneys to be on fire. It would be much
cheaper, and certainly more creditable, if housekeepers
would employ the chimney-sweeper a little oftener, rather
than endanger and annoy their neighbours, and be under the
disagreeable necessity of atoning for their negligence by a
fine.—Courier

We understand that Thomas Clifton, Esq., of Lytham-
hall, had the honour of conducting Prince George of Cam-
bridge, in his carriage, to the race course, and entertaining
his royal highness; and the other officers of the 12th Lancers,
at dinner yesterday at the Adelphi Hotel. Mr. Clifton has
a son in the same regiment. Talbot Clifton, Esq., of the
Household Troops, was of the party.
EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE.—The extraordinary changes
which a few years sometimes bring about was never more
forcibly exemplified than in a transaction which fell under our
notice last week. Only seven years ago every ounce of tea
consumed in Liverpool was brought from London, and that
too by the slow conveyance of the waggon or the canal. On
Friday last no less than 1955 chests of tea were forwarded to
London from Liverpool, by means of the railway in about 11
hours ! This fact is highly important in two points of view,
as illustrative of the present improved mode of transit, and
also of the advantage which Liverpool is likely to derive
from the trade with China.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.
—A beautiful silver medal was presented on Tuesday to Mr.
E. Lewis' late president of the Liverpool Total Abstinence
Society, by a few of his numerous friends, with the following
inscription tbereon
" Abstain from all appearance of evii."
Presented to Edward Lewis,
President of the Liverpool Church of England Total Absti-
nence Society, July 15, 1840.
The same on the other side in the Welsh language. This is
a well merited reward ; Mr. Lewis has not only been a zea-
lous advocate, but a liberal supporter of the society from its
commencement.

'—Thes. v. 21

THEATRE ROYAL.—Madame Vestris'takes her benefit this
evening. No doubt she will be rewarded by an overflowing
house. We perceive that the able and respected acting
manager, Mr. Clarke, has announced his benefit for Mon-
day next, and that lie has secured the aid of a host of talent
to please his friends. The list is long—Miss Ellen Tree,
Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Keeley, Mr.
James Vining, and Mr. Anderson ! We need say no more
to induce the public to respond to Mr. Clarke's appeal.

- -
We perceive by an advertisement in another column, that
Mr. Espy will commence another course of his interesting
lectures this day, at twelve o'clock, in the room of the Ship
Masters' Association, Oldhall-street, and at half-past seven
o'clock in the evening, in the Theatre of the Royal Institu-
tion. Most earnestly do we recommend all who feel an in-
terest in hearing the phenomena of nature explained, not to
neglect this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a
theory so novel in itself, and which promises at some future
period to produce such wonderful results.
s FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.—Amongst
the numerous distinguished individuals who have visited our
town during the past week, the following have been staying
at the Queen's Arms Hotel, in Castle-street ;—His Royal
Highness Prince George of Cambridge ' • Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence ; Lord Loftus ; Lord Adam Loftus ; Lord and
Lady Lorton ; Lord Clements and family ; the late Lord
Chief Baron Wolf's Lady and Daughter; Sir W. W. Dixie,
Bart. and family; Sir Richard Puleaton, Bart.; Col. Stewart,
12th Lancers; Col. -Barton, 12th Lancers; Col. Custangt.
10th regt.; Col. Wer4Y.ss ITCoI. Kelso and Lady •, the Hon.
Capt. A. Spencer and Lady; Col. Coombs's Lady and Fa-
mily ; Captains Prior, Clifton, Phillips, Gray, and Cubit and
Family ; Captains Browne and Bell, 83d refit.; Capt. Jekyll,
7th regt.; the lion. Lieut. Needham, 12th Lancers ; Messrs.
Kirkaldy, Woodward, Steel, and Balderston, Glasgow; Mr.
Davidsob ; Mons. Dupre, of France; Mr. Long; Mr. Law-
rence ; Mr. Grace and two sons, Dublin ; Mr. Haydon ; Mr.
Watson and Daughter; Mr. Thompson ; Mr. Gumbton and
Miss Thomlinson ; Mr. Edmonston and Miss Buness , Mr.
Kelly; Mr. J. J. Hamel; Mr. C. W. Finche ; Mr. Duncan
Shaw; Mr. C. Cramer ; Mr. Sewell and family ; Mr. Evans ;
Mr. Bateman ; Mr. Graham and daughter; Mr. Wise, of
Dublin ; Mr. Potts, of Chester ; Mr. Read and family ; Mr.
Burger, of Hamburg; Mr. Claude Scott Stewart; Mr. C.
Hosken ; Mr. M' Vicar ; .Mr. 0. Reilly, of London ; Mr.
Phillips; Mrs. Hatchell and family, of Dublin.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM SHIPWRECK.—INTREPID
CONDUCT OF CAPTAIN STOKES, OF THE ARAB STEAMER.
—As the Arab steamer Captain W. Stokes, was coming
down the channel on Friday night, on her voyage from Glas-
gow to Dublin, she fell in with the schooner Gertrude, of
Liverpool, at eleven o'clock, off Corsil Point. The schooner
burned three blue lights, and showed other signals of distress,
and on the steamer approaching her she found that the masts
and bowsprit were carried away, the boats stove in, and the
vessel driving on a lee shore, then blowing a gale of wind from
N.W. On seeng the dangerous position in which the vessel
was placed, Captain Stokes ordered his vessel to be put about,
and after three efforts to approach her, she was taken in tow
by the steamer, and brought safely to anchor in Loch Ryan.
Nothing could exceed the gratitude of Captain Newman and
his crew for their providential rescue from certain destruc-
tion. On the Arab arriving off Carlingford, Captain Stokes
was presented with a letter, complimenting him on his hu-
manity and intrepidity, signed by all the cabin passengers.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SOCIETY.—The annual dinner
of this excellent and benevolent association, it will be seen
by the advertisement in another column, will be held on
Wednesday, the 29th inst., at the Waterloo Hotel, Crosby,
weather permitting the usual out-door enjoyments. There
is a numerous list of stewards, well qualified for the office to
which they are appointed. A very rich treat may be antici-
pated.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE FESTIVAL.-011 Monday evening the
proceedings of the anniversary of the total abstainers in Li-
verpool commenced, and they have been continued through-
out the week. Several public meetings were held in different
parts of the town—amongst other places at the Music-hall.
There a considerable body of working men, females, and
youths were gathered together ; and a hymn having first been
sung, and a chapter of the Bible read, several persons pro-
ceeded to deliver admonitory and exhortive addresses, which
were listened to with great attention and apparent delight.
Ott Wednesday the great public procession of the whole body
took place, and this, though a costly and cumbrous method
of drawing popular attention to the order, must nevertheless
be admitted to be a very effectual one. The day has passed
by when the multitude merely assembled together in order
that they might at once gratify their eyesight with a view of
the teetotallers' procession, and shower upon them the satire
and ridicule of unthinking minds. The splendour of the spec-
tacle, the exhilarating music, the long crowd of decently-
dressed men, women, and children, tend to ensure the respect
of even the most superficial on-looker ; and when it is reflected
that many hundreds of those healthy-iooking and well-arrayed
men may have been, but a short time since, unhealthy,
squalid, and uncomfortable, the producers of misery which
clung not to themselves alone, but fell with increased inten-
sity on their wives and families, there will not be one who
will not utter a good wish for the prosperity and extension
of teetotalism. The procession presented few features which
were not possessed in common with the previous ones.
There were a very large body of men, women, youths, and
children, all very nicely and very decently dressed, and the
greater part decorated with either white scarfs, ribbons, ro-
settes, or beautiful artificial flowers ; eight or nine bands of
music ; and a great number of flags and banners, bearing
appropriate designs and mottoes. Nor was there any lack of
inverted glasses. On one inverted wine-glass, fixed at the
top of a pole, there rested a miniature crown encircled in a
neat white wreath, intended, perhaps, to he symbolical of a
motto on one of the flags, " The prosperity of a nation is
based on sobriety." Of the number in the procession we
can only, of course, form a very loose notion ; there were
probably five thousand persons. The time occupied in
passing any given point was about 22 minutes ; if we recollect
rightly, 25 minutes were taken last year. The procession
altogether looked remarkably well, par.icularly the Rechabite
portion of it. As a whole, we think it was superior to that
of any previous year. The Church of England Society pre-
sented by far the most imposing and splendid appearance.
notwithstanding their number did not much exceed 1000
persons. They not only preserved, but even increased, the
great superiority which they lastyear manifested over every
other body of the teetotallers. We never, in the whole course
of our lives, witnessed a more splendid out-door spectacle.
Magnificent banner crowded on magnificent banner, and count-
less beautiful flags, ofdifferent sizes and colours, flaunted in the
sunlight, the poles of every one of thembeing surmounted with
a small gilded crown. Neither was there any lack of music.
Three excellent bands poured forth ever and anon their lively
strains, increasing the effect of the splendid scene. The
members, whose personal appearance was extremely respec-
table, were decorated with red and blue favours, the richness
and profusion of which were as remarkable as the costliness
and excess of all the other paraphernalia. In the morning
this body attended divine service in St. Luke's Church,
where a sermon was preached to them by the Rev. Mr. Jo-
seph, from Revelations, 'sr. 11. Afterwards they paraded the
town until four o'clock, at which hour they arrived in Clay-
ton-square, where the different parties separated. Before
doing so, however, they gave three cheers for " Church and
Queen," three for " total abstinence," and three for " The
Church of England Total Abstinence Society." In the
evening they had a tea-party, at which the Rev: Mr. Joseph
presided. • Nearly 200 were present, and the proceedings
" went off" remarkably well. Last evening great meetings
were held in the Amphitheatre, St. Luke's School-room, and
other places. It is but reasonable to expect that these vari-
ous efforts will be productive of great benefit.

James Morris, a priest, was found guilty at the Maynooth
essions last week of obtaining money under false pretence:,
or the convent at Athlone. The court sentenced him to six
nonths' imprisonment.