The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-22 00:00:00

COCKING.

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A main of cocks between George Walker, ESq. (Wiehtman, feeder)
and Captain White, (Hines, feeder) for .500 sovs. the main, and 10
sows. a battle. 39 mains, 10 byes,
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THE OTONNELL SUBSCRIPTION.—We see by an advertise-
ment which appeared in one of the Liverpool papers of Sa-
turday, that the sum of one thousand pounds has been trans-
mitted by a Mr. Thornhill, from this town, to Mr. Joseph
Hume in London, being, as the advertisement pompously
styles it, the " Liverpool subscription" towards defraying the
political expenses of Daniel O'Connell, .Esq. 111.1):• this iin-
pudent announcement is evidently made with a view of im-
posing upon persons at a distance the notion that O'Connell is
a popular character in Liverpool. But, lot the truth be told :
After two months spent in canvassing for money. aided, too by
the means and infitpnce of several members 6r out corpora-
tion, the O'Counellite's have gathered the sum of one thousand
pounds—yes, after going from door to door, and like their
master, pushing the hat into every poor man's face, from whom
they thought they could extort a farthing, and after extolling
the claims of the BEGGAR-in-chief to support, they have sent to
his treasury in London, a thousand pounds! and that sum they
have the audacity to call " the Liverpool subscription," Now
we utterly deny that any respectable man, any man who has the
remotest respect for his own character or that of " the good old
town," has given one penny to this subscription. The intelli-
gent and wealthy classes of Liverpool have nothing whatever to
do with it—they have giien no part of it, and they deem it a
barefaced insult to be libelled, by having the name of the place
published in connexion with that of one of the greatest vagabonds
that ever existed. The money is the aggregate pence and
shillings of the few wretched dupes who exhibited O'Connell to
the scorn of the assembled merchants, brokeri, and shipowners
of Liverpool in the Exchange-buildings some mouths ago.
And that's all.

MR. FOSTER'S COMPENSATION CLAIM—A contemporary
journal, published on Tuesday last, laments the necessity of
granting compensation to the late Town-clerk, Mr. Foster, and
the reason, a very ingenious one to be sure, assigned is, that
Mr. Foster, having held his office for more than three years,
and during that time having received some twenty, thousand
pounds for his services, ought to be deprived of that-office with-
out any valid cause and at a moment's notice, and without
receiving one penny as compensation. ". So we would have had
it," but, thank God, as old Cobbett said, ‘. We have a Hotie of
Lords;" and that house took care that no mail shouiti stiffer
pecuniary injury in consequence of being tieprive,l of his situa-
tion through the malignity of any Radical Corporation, however
appsrentiv respectable they might be. Regarding the expense
with which the town has been saddled, in consequence of Mr.
Foster's removal, divested ef humbug, the case is simply this,—
Why was he removed when hp was equal to the performance of
the duties required of him, and a person put into his place very
far inferior to him in every respect? But Mr. Foster was a
Tory, and Mr. Radcliffe a Whig; that's the difference; and for
the existence of that difference, and to achomodate the sweet
temper of Mr. William Rathbone, and to Meet the economical!
views of Messrs. Shiel and Coglan, Mr. Foster must be turned
out of office to make room for a needy partizan' very much his
inferior in all respects.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—The amount re-
ceived for the establishment of these schools, is already upwards
of EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS.
MR. .TOWN WILSON Cum:Ea.—We noticed last week, that
Mr. Croker was likely to be put in nomination for Leeds, in the
event of Mr. Baines's resignation, which we understood would
take place shortly. Our able contemporary, the Edinburgh
Evening Post, thus notices Mr. Croker, "The absence of Mr.
Croker from the House of Com Mons has always appeared to us
as strange as it is undesirable. A man of his extraordinary
powers as a speaker and debater, together with his staunch and
unflinching character, would be invaluable as an adversary of
the present tail led government. Mr. Croker is one who knows
the truth, and will not hesitate to give utterance to his opinions.
Alas for Lord John Russell when such an opponent shall appear
against him! We only wish that Mr. Croker would accept a
seat in the House of Commons before the preSent parliament is
dissolved. We are convinced that, in the course of U. few weeks,
he would diminish the pretensions of the ministerial leaders,
including O'Connell and his tail, in a manner which the whig-
radicals, who have hitherto been treated too leniently, are
hardly able to anticipate."
THE LIVERPOOL MUSICAL FaSTITAI..—We understand Sir
George Smart is at present in this town, giving his assistance
to the Festival Committee in making the arrangements for the
coming Festival, which commences on the 3d of October. Mr.
Braham, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Bennett, Mr. E. Taylor, Mr. W.
Knyvett, anti Mrs. Alfred Shaw, have been already engaged.
Madame Malibran has been written to with a view of securing
her valuable assistance, and the committee are in treaty with
Mrs. Wood. It has not yet been determined in which of the
curhches the sacred music will be performed.

" THE POLITICAL HORIZON IS GLOOMY"—Rt least sO say
the " reformers of Liverpool," and we are glad to hear it.
These persons are very fond of swaggering about their libera-
lity, and the purity of their principles, when they think any
one can be caught by such a manoeuvre ; but in their consci-
ences they know very well, that when the time of trial comes
they will be found wanting. The following is an extract from
a circular recently sent "to the Reformers of -St. Peter's
ward:"—The present is an important moment, pregnant, evi-
dently, with great results. The political horizon is ayain gloomy
and overcast,—the enemies of the
itpeople certainly meditate
another assault on our liberties ;will therefore require all
your energies, all your watchfulness to baffle and defeat their
machinations,—let us be armed and ready for the conflict.
" Armed and ready for the conflict !!"--Fudge.
STEAM-SHIP LAUNCH.—A fine steam-vessel, named the Skins,
belonging to the St. George Steam-packet Company,. of this
town, has just been launched at Leith. Her keel is upwards of
170 feet, her length of deck 200 feet, and she will register 700
tons.

CHILD DESERTED.—On Wednesday night, about 1.0 o'clock,
a fine male child, about 3 months old, was placed b) some un-
feeling wretch under a balk of timber on the eastsule of the
Brunswick dock. Duck constable Maxwell was attracted to the
place by the cries of the child, and took it to Mr. Dowlin,,,:r's of-
fice, where it was fed and attended to by the servants, and was
afterwards sent to the poor-house. It is a very tine boy, meanly
clad in a coloured cotton frock, with a band of different pattern,
(dark blue), a nankeen bonnet, and part of an old patchwork
quilt wrapped round it. No one has yet owned it.
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THE BEER TRA DE.—INFORMATIONS,—During the weekend-
ing on Saturday last, fourteen publicans and twenty-one beer-
housekeepers have been brought before the magistrates, at the
police-office, on informations for offending against the terms of
their license. In the majority of the eases convictions took
place. One hundred and eighteen penal informations have been.
heard during the same period.

DEFECTIVE WEIGHTS AND BALANCES.-011 Friday last.
nine persons from Everton and West Derby, were summoned
before the sitting magistrates, at Kirkdale, for having in their
possession defective weights and balances, and respectively
fined in the sums of five shillings and costs.

STREET OBSTRUCTIONS.—On Monday, in deciding a case
against the owner of some property for obstructing the high-
way by throwing rubbish into the street, Mr. Hull held that the
defendant was liable for any obstruction arising from rubbish
thrown from his premises, notwithstanding he had employed a
bricklayer, who had contracted for the completion of the work
to be done on the premises.

NEW BOTANIC GARDEN.—The new Botanic Garden in Edge-
lane, will be opened on the 27th instant, when an exhibition of
plants, fruits, vegetables, and flowers, will take place.
CA lIVYING ON THE FOOTwALK.—Charles Turner, and Chas.
Phillips, were fined each in the penalty of 2s. 6d. and costs, on
information by police-officer Temple, (227,) 'for carrying the
carcasses of two sheep on the footwalk in Roe-street. Mr.
Hall directed that the ofikers should in all cases of this descrip-
tion of offence lay immediate information until the nuisance is
put a step to.
INCWEST.—On Monday, an inquest was held, by adjourn-
ment, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on the body of a mid-
dle-aged man, a clerk, named James Mason. A young wo-
man, his niece, named Margaret Rimmer, deposed that the
deceased lived in Bevington-street, and was a clerk ; on Fri-
day night he went to bed at his usual time and quite well ; and
before he went be told her he intended to get up at five o'clock
next morning to go to his work. She saw him pass her bed-
room door early next morning in his shirt sleeves and trowsers
At seven o'clock in the morning she found her uncle, in the
privy, dead. There was a part of his braces tied tight round
his neck and another part was found fastened to a piece of wood
projecting from the wall. Her uncle had evinced no symp-
toms of insanity; whilst he was a young man he had lost the
use of one side by a paralytic stroke, and was not able to raise,
' his left arm to his bead. Mr. D. F. Black, surgeon, said ft-inh
the appearances of the body it was his opinion that the
n,
de-
ceased could 'not have been perfectly sane. There were a
• marks to indicate that he had hung himself; but from
red 111Pat-
pearante of the head and neck it might be fairly t
he died from suffocation. The coroner expressed landtlbiet howlla
he could, disabled as he was, have tied himself u
done. The jury returned a verdict that the deeeavpdB7tad stran-
gled himself with a piece ty brace.
THE MAGISTRATES' UFFICE.—We have received ayonjmu-
business Pool-
lane, from a tradesman, who carries
to
at the Police-office,
lane, complaining of the decision coidnee
on Tuesday, upon an information in.
Hint by one of
the Inspectors of Police, for havingaah.o,lea(oirtalitit'isel cellar-lid of lris
20s and :3s. 6cl costs.
We The sum levied and "1;
was.' not •• • thes.
We understand that the requiretiti
,"littlict to his son,gai:iednthtaot
occupier of the premises
lwrsrei.'arrived, that he was .liabiLt: was not aware, until the
the grsi,unn•aii-ii:.:e t
he should
of. Our •
to any penalty for
should nave been fined for spondeut further
what may be considered
,e 1).
great extent in the immediate nuisance,uing in comparison
•
with one which is carried on to a
He alludes to the repairs, &c.
neighbourhood of his premises.
now being made to buildings in Pool-lane. By the 21st section
of the New Building Act, it. appears, `'That no timber, bricks,
tubs,
hogsheads, or any oilier material matter which shall occa-
sion any annoyance, nuisance, or obstruction whatever in any
of the streets, &c., except scaffolding, &e., for the building and
repairing houses, &c., which are to be removed in reasonable
time, shalt remain there under the penalty of ten shillings for each
offence." is quite clear, that our correspondent has been
unfairly dealt with, because he is taken hold of as a defaulter
with very little reason, while the parties who are really causing
an annoyance to the public are suffered to escape, and allowed
to violate the provisions of the act with impunity.
Mr. Rice, an American comedian, who is of great celebrity
on the other side of the Atlantic for his correct personation of li
Negro character, has been performing (hiring the last week at
the Surrey Theatre with great eclat. The drama in which he
makes his appearance, beats the extraordinary name of Bone
Squash Diablo; and owes its success, in a good measure, to his
whimsical acting, and to the wild Negro melodies introduced
into the piece. His delineation of Negro character is in every
respect perfect; and can only be fully appreciated by those who
have witnessed the reality.—Obserrer.
THE TEXAS.—The prospect of the independence of Texas has
given rise to some extraordinary projects a
among the citizens of the United States. Among' them
truly magnificent one started in New Orleans, w{tick, if carried
into effect, will create a new era in the commercial
of that part of the Union. It is well knowtrßtiseraians Ihu;gaths
as
500 or 600 tons burden can ascend the Red
the Southern
Nachitoches, and it is now proposed thatrat,:ieliinroad should be
constructed 'from that point throug,h
Rocky Mountains, and thence to th • G.auccifeoossf California.tothete
of
fltihelei
a work would give to New Orleans an
East Indies, China, Japan. and the coastsa of the Pacific, which
would set competitiob at defiance. The route to India and the
western coast of South America would,• iii fact, be shortened
More than one-halt.— Times.

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STRuE'r Part•AniNo:-.-1017i Mon'tii' at ihe
sanctimonious looking young man, dressed in a black, coat, cut
. quaker fashion; was brought before the magistrates charged by
one of the police force with ovipg,g4tii.ered a great crowd the
night before by preacoing in Seotland-road. l'he puljceniaji
said he wept into Scotland-road between. five and :six: o'Cldck'
and this Maii Was:standing on: ti chair preaching to a. mob of
about 2joo persons. At the outskirts of the crowd several par-
ties were.fighting, and he was apprehensi,ve of a riot. Mr. Hall
Said it was a great pity that they shpuid go to such public places,
There was plenty of vacant ground Which• they might go to
where they would out, disturb the public. The defendant said;
that while he was preaching, as they had been in the habit of
doing for many years. and the congregation attending to him',
as they frequently did, they sung a lump; when the officer
came up in a great passion and told him trsget,Oown anti go
with him. He asked the officer what etime he had committed,
and he replied, that "he (defendant) was a fool.';', r-Whitty
said that it was a neighbourhood where.a great dumber of the
low Irish resided, and something serious was apprehended, ow,
ing to the crowd. Mr.. Hall said it was a very great inconves
nience having people collected iu these public streets ; if any
;lot had occurred the defendant would have been answerable.
Parties should not assemble in such a manner. If brought be 7
fore him again he must inflict some punishment. lie was
discharged, .
REeitEsalsrrizioN oft? NEWCASTLR-UPON-TYNL—A vacancy
has just been made in the representation of this town by the
death of Sir Matthew White Ridley., Sir Matthew was a ban.lfer,
in NeWeastle, and owner of eitensive collieries in the neigh-
bourhood. He was a whig of the old schoni. •
ATitocious consegneriCe of the, high rate or
wages now earning at most manufactories, the colliers connected
with the Devon Ironworks establishment have been of late cons
ducting themselves with a great degree of inebriety and insub-
ordination ; and within the last two or three Weeks had struck
work, in consequence of some dispute as to Wages. As usual in
such cases, the animosity of the work-people had been chiefly
directed against Mi. Meldruni, the Manager, and late on Satur-
day night last, that much-esteemed gentletnali was found on
the road-side, at some distance from his own dwelling, lying ins
sensible, his skull fractured, and everything Valuable on hiS
person carried off. The unfortunate gentleman had been riding
home after dusk, and, it is conjectured, ,had been waylaid by
some of the workpeople with whom he 'was at variance. Mr.
Meldrum was alive when found, and lingered till Monday;
when he'expired.— Perth Courier.
SINGULAR Bali-Ms-E.—There is now in the gaiden of M.
Henwood, Esq., Pinsla Park, in the parish of Cardinham,
rum puncheon full of bees and hon 6. The industrious insects
took possession of the puncheon three years a‘ro, and it is now
so heavy that two strong men cannot lilt it. —West BrittiU..
The whole of the Lake district is much crowded with fashion,
able company. Keswick is unusually gay; and, in addition to
an immense influx of tourists, theme are not less than 50 gentle.;
inen from Cambridge, who annually Spend their vacation at this
delightful retreat. Numerous parties of takers .have also so-
journed at Calderbridge, uu their Way frhin Wast Water to
Emerdale, Loweswater, Ihitterinere, Within the past wee

PO3T-oFFICE A.RIZANGENIENTs.--The, rwrcluints at Liveipoot
and those of 'Manchester are anxious for new post-office arrange-
ments, by which they may receive their earlier than they get
them now. They con Sider the Loricion tisders have a great ad-
vantage over them in getting earlier intorniation of prices; kind,
all commercial matters, which they ought not-to possess. It is
in consequence, their intention to apply for the dispatch.,-of the
mail twice a day from Loudon ; and this request they confidently
anticipate will ire lawn ptly acceded to.
The statue of King William 111. in College Green, Dublin;
has been replaced:.
Henry Hill, Esq: late of the First Dragoon Guards, has lieen
appointed Captain and Adjutant of the Cheshire YeomLinry,
Cavalry, in the room of Captain Barra, whose advanced age
and impaired health has caused his retirement from that station
one which he has held for a number or yeais with cirKlit and ad-
vantage to himself and the corps.
CHEAP TnAvEl LlNG.—Such is the competition beivi;een the
proprietors of coaches running between Huddersfield and Man-,
chester, that they have issued the following announcement :
" Outside, what you please! inside, ditto!"
NOBLE BEQUEST.—Mr. James Baker, who recently ;no at
Islington, was a native of Ross, Herefordshire, which he left
nearly sixty years ago. He had accumulated a handsome fortune;
and has beqeathed £20,000 to the churchWardeits and overseers
of Ross, the interest of which is to be applied by them, after the
death of a few aged annuitants, to the purchase ofclothes, fuel;_
and food fur the poor. He has Made a Widens provision for the
just application of his charitable and noble bequest—thus placing,
his name on the same bright record which contains the name of
John Ky rle, the celebrated man of Ross.

O'CoNNELL.—This man, it is rummired by the dregs of the
city, will be invited to attend a public meeting at Canterbury—
we belies ean eighteen-penny feed. If the invitation is really,
contemplated, and preparations made for welcoming the base
traducer of Englishwomen into the city, we shall call upon our
fellow citizens to do their duty, and give the cowaidly wretch
such a reception that will not fail to be remembered by the
spectators of the fray till the latest hour of their lives.—Kentidi
Gazette.

M N utt E..—The charges for transit through the Exeter Canal;.
of sea weed and sand, have been reduced from 9d. to 3d. per
thn, This is of importance to the agricultural interest, it being
a valuable manure in clay soil.— Western Luminary.

It is a singular fact that on the spot upon which, 21 years ago
the battle of Waterloo was fought, have recently been erected
several manufactories of sugar from beet-root, or, as it may on
this occasion be more appropriately-called, mangelwurzel.
"The Pocket Guide to the Highlands" constitutes the new
est one of Mr. M`Phon's popular series of little works. It will,
he very acceptable at this season to the numerous tourists and
travellers who are paying a visit to our romantic scenery at thii
time. These pocket guides belle become great favourites witf
public.—Glasgow paper.

WASHINGTON, JUNE23.—FA TA 1. DUEL—A Duel was fought
a few miles from the city last evening, between two young mid-
shipmen, Mr. Key (son of Francis S. Key, lisq.. United States
Attorney for this district), and Mr. Shearman, formerly of Bos-.
ton, which terminated in the death of Mr. Key. The quarrel
originated in a very trifling difference, to accomodate Which
several efforts were wade iu vain. The first exchange of shoti
was ineffectual, but on the second fire the Lail of Shearman,
shuck his adversary in the side and lodged in the stomach. He
died,in about half an twur,,in the greateSt tigony, which caused'
him to roll about on the field where the contest took place in
manner that shocked all whn were preSent.—New York Ad-
vertiser.

HONOUR AND SATiSFACTION.—An affair of hot:Our came oft
the other day, near Montreal between Mr. d Bleury. one of the,
representatives in the A ssemby, and Duvernay, editor of the
Mineral newspaper. The parties fired, and missed. They fired
a second time, and missed. They fired a third time, and missed.
They fired a fourth time, and the legislator, improved by the.
previous -practice, shot the editor's coat skirt—the hail passed
right through it; whereupon.some sanguinary byitander obser-
ved in the words of the poet:—

" Hodge let fir, shot 'Billy through the laced coat --
Oh what a pity it was he didn't hit his waistcoat!"

At the next fire, however, though he did not hit waistcoat he hit'
him on the largest part of his smalls—the ball in this case also'
going right through—not the coat tails again,—but the part
over which coat tails do commonly depend—light through from.
side to side" it went;'as the editor stood edgeways to Ins ad versary;
and thus ended the affair, the editor considering this last shot:
quite satisfactory. The official account adds that the parties then:
left the-ground without any explanation, and is ithout any seri-
ous damage"--though such a thorough perforation must have
been very uncomfort able, especially to a gentleman of sedentarl
occupations.—American paper.

We refer our readers to an advertisement in another column;
announcing the publication of a pictorial and historical Chart:
The testimonials added to the advertisement speak vetv fa4our:
ably of it.
THE ROMANCE OF ADVERT! SEMENTS.—We by no means
intend to hint that advertisers in general ate at all addicted log
romanse, but certainly we do sometimes find in the advertising
columns an exquisite bit of the pathetic—a scrap of mysterv—n
private note made public—the skeleton of a lave.story. Here
is one which we saw a day or two ago in a morning paper, but•
whether the person whose initials introduces the touching ad:
dress be a lady or a gentlfmati we must leave the discriminating
reader to guess:—" Your conti!,ued silence causes me inucli
misery. In no way can I account tin- it. Arc you not still all
you were to me? Your last date was the 7th of Nay. 1 did
exactly as you desirod. What vou promised never cattle. AI
word or less would relieve me. We shad be a month away."
We remember another, still more interesting, and really affect
ing, which appeared smite time ago H. sends to F. all that
H. can give or F. receive. All is as it has been, and ever will,
be. but the situation is most trying and pitiable." We sueges
this as a subject for the fancy and sentiment of L.E.L. What
a volume is contained in it, if read with the eyes of her imagina:
ion ! —Court Journal.

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That there is many a slip between the col, and the lip was
lately experienced by two young fuiks of this town. The banns
of marriage had been regularly proclaimed' between them tor
three Sundays, and they offered themselves at the altar of St:
Chad's to complete the ceremony, when the service was inter-.
ruffled by a constable claiming the young bride as hiS.priSOnei
stealing a quantity of wine; the pro-
on a charge of feloniously
petty of her late master, Mr. Sayer. The charge was investi-
before the magistrates, and the girl tiansferred from the
church to the. goal to take her trial fur the alleged offence.—
Shrewsbury Chronicle.
RA 11.1t0A n-SrantmaTioNs.—Thereis oneclass of ipe'culalors
in railroad- shares, who believed themselves to be proceeding at,
first upon sure grounds, but who have proved. in the sequel to,
be more wrong than any of the others.- Ilaviog set out on the
notion that the only contingency_to be dreaded was a failure in.
obtaining the Act of Parliament. tequisite to-allow the particu-
lar undertaking to be curried into effect, instead of purchasing
for money in the usual manner, they agreed to give a large ad-
ditional premium for shares, provided the Act of Parliament
should be obtained, and the bargain otherwise went for nothing.
They held it to be perfectly ceriain. if that event took place,
that a large additional rise must follow it. As Parliament has'
dealt most liberally with ail railroad undertakings, a great num-
ber of Bills have passed, in which the chance of a profitable re-
turn is very improbable, and, if it were otherwise. the reaction
of the market on the abatement of the first fever, and the in-
convenience to ninny of paying up the instalments, have scarcely
allowed the prices in inly instance to be sustained. Engage-
ments of this kind have not been common in London, where
the speculators are better informed, but they have speed very,
widely in the cuuntiy, and have produced considerable distress
and difficulty.

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FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DEFEAT OF GENERAL EVANS.
( From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)
BEHOBIA, JULY 13.—1 n my letter of yesterday, I stated
That Evans had retreated from before Fontarabia and
Irun, but little did I then think I should have to record
the disgraceful, I may say dishonourable retreat of up-
wards of six thousand men—the greater part English
mercenaries, before a handful of Carlists. It is distres-
sing to have to make public acts which throw discredit
on any nation, and that task is doubly painful to an
Englishman, when that nation is England—proud Eng-
land, justly -merited proud England. Evans has cast
a blot on his country, which all the sophistry of his co-
adjutor, Lord Palmerston, though denying the co-part-
nership, cannot efface. Well may Lord Minto be con-
gratulated on the brilliant successes of Evans! Surely
this time Evans will not descend to the paltry subterfuge
of calling his ill-combined attack " a simple reconnois-
ance," if he does I warn him, that there are damning
proofs against him, aye, proofs in his own hand-writing;
independent of which, it is a fact well known, that seve-
ral traders in St. Sebastian, actually sent a quantity of
merchandize and provisions, to Passagas, with money,

A file of Montreal papers, to the 22d ult. has been re-
ceived. They contain the replies of Sir F. B. Head 'to
various addresses presented to him, and these are marked
with a great degree of firmess.
In his answer to the address from the district of To-
ronto, his excellency states, that he has received up to
that moment addresses signei by 25,663 persons, most
of whom were yeomen and farmers. He concludes his
reply as follows : _ _

" Gentlemen,—My plans and prospects are all contained and
pliblished in the instructions which I received from the King.
They desire me to correct without partiality, the grievances
of this country; and it is because the agitators see I am deter-
mined to do so that they are endeavowing to obstruct me by
every artifice in their power. They declare me to be their ene-
my, and the truth is, I really am."

THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY.

(From the Times of Wednesday.)

• Another alteration in the bill is the granting a separate
stamp-die for each paper. We have already declared
ourselves favourable to this, or to any other mode of ob-
taining exactly how many stamps are taken out for each
paper from the Stamp-office, and whether the whole num-
ber so taken out in the name of each paper is consumed
by the paper in the name of which the number is taken
out, and not lent or sold to' other papers. We have not
made any fuss about the matter, because we have not
thought it one of moment. A blackguard morning print
in the ministerial interest got Mr. Grote to move the
thing formally, and, to use its own words, Mr. Rice has
been " ultim4tely obliged to concede the die !" How
exeeedinglYiWiPortant ? The plain fact of the case is,
that the stir Ole print in question has made about this
crotchet of a die, had no other object than to advertise
itself ; but we understand that its proprietors are now en-
deavouring to persuade Mr. Grote to move further, that
their die shall bear the impress of their own phizzes.—
, We are clearly of opinion that Mr. Rice ought to con-
cede thein that indulgence if they desire it ; hut we hope
he will not agree to any motion by C. Buller that the
same sort of die should he compulsory on all ; and th
besides registering all the proprietors of a paper, its die
shall have upon it portraits of thein all. We understand
that if Mr. O'Connell had persisted lu his recommenda-
tion that the writers in newspapers, as well as the pro-
prietors, should be registered, he intended to have im-
proved upon the Grote-and-Buller kind of die, by mov-
ing that likenesses of the writers be also put upon the
:Vamp. Perhaps he was deterred by the remonstrances
of Lord Palmerston, who is not unlikely to have sug-
gested how very sorry a figure he should cut as a Cupid,
in purls naturalibus, on any conspicuous part of the
Globe. _ _ .

on the 10th, with instructions to be sent the next (I.;y
to Irun, by which time no one doubted Evans would
have had possession of that place; but let me lay before
you a fair and impartial statement of all that took place
on the lamentable 11th and 12th of July.
Evans having matured his plan for attacking Fontara-
bia and Irun on the morning of the 11th, before day-
break, marched from his positions at the head of 6,500
men, taking the mountain road near to the coast. The
Carlists, desirous of attacking the lines of Passages, of-
fered no resistance to the movement of Evans, who, at
-half past six, halted on Mount Esquibel, situated directly
behind Fontarabia. At the same time that Evans ad-
vanced, seven English and Spanish steam-boats and 12
trincadores anchored at the month of Bidassoa, directly
opposite to Fontarabia. The trincadores lauded about
150 guerillas on the sands close to the town, and the
steam-boats opened a lteavc, cannonading against it. It
was now nine o'clock, and Evans, finding that no oppo-
sition was offered to the 150 guerillas, descended from
Mont Guadaloupe, and took possession of the convent of
Capncinos, situated at the foot of the mountain, and on
the border of an arm of the Badassoa, about. two pistol-
shots from Fontarabia. At eleven o'clock the English,
thinking themselves firmly in possession of the convent,
sent out a guerilla party of chapelgorris; the Carlists
retreated, and the chapelgorris passed the bridge in front
of the convent, and in a direct line front Irun, distant a
strong cannon shot. The Carlists at eleven o'clock
opened their battery at Irun against the convent, but the
shots not telling, they advanced the guns, and several
well-directed shots did much havoc. They then sent out
300 guerillas, whilst about 2,000 men, forming the re-
serve, protected the road and plain leading from Fonta-
rabia and the convent to Irun. (That which I am now
about to relate will appear so incredible that I might,
with some plausibility, be accused of exaggeration, were
I not fully borne out, not only by the report of eve-wit-
nesses, such as the French military chiefs, but the Chris-
tino authorities and the friends of Genetal Evans.) The
300 Carlist guerillas attacked the chapelgorris, and drove
them across the bridge; they then advanced on the Eng-
lish, and, whether the legion was struck with a panic, or
a sudden inward movement, they actually fled before the
Carlists, and Evans was compelled to sound a retreat.
This was effected in something like order, the legion not
looking behind till they reached the heights, the Carlists
quietly laking up the positions at the foot of the mountain.

The question of copyright—that in which the public
is most deeply interested, and which is therefore the most
important—stands over as a matter of -course. That is
the wing mode of doing business. Endeavour to injnre
people's property, confine the diffusion to a scale of su-
perficial inches, bully and try to frighten and annoy ca-
pitalists, so as to prevent them embarking in the news-
paper trade, in order that the whole press may be whig-
radical alike—cheap and nasty—all these suggestions
Mr. Rice adopts without a moment's hesitation ; but an
act of
,mere justice to individuals, and of papable benefit
to the community at large, is a thing which, he says, he
finds it exceedingly difficult to achieve. We believe
him,

During the whole of this time the English and Spanish
-steam-boats continued firing on Fontarabia, without doing
it the least damage. This probably may be accounted
for, from the certainty which Evans felt of getting pos-
session of that place and Irun, and therefore desirous of
not destroying the town. But the most singular part of
this inexplicable affair is, that the Carlists never for a
moment quitted Fontarabia, and fired on the steam-boats
and trincadores from a single piece of cannon, which was
all they possessed in Fontarabia. At half-past five the Eng-
lish had made good their retreat, but not without a con-
siderable loss of life, principally in a defile at the foot of
the Esquibel. lam most credibly informed that the Eng-
lish and Spanish force was composed of seven battalions of
•English, and one battalion of Royal Marines. When were
British Marines, ere this period, ever obliged to retreat
before an enemy not half their number ! ! one batallion
of chapel-gorris, two batallions of Spanish light infantry,
two troops of British Lancers—what did Evans want
with Lancers in the mountains, unless he fully antici-
pated getting possession of Irun ?—four howitzers, di-
rected by the English artillerymen, and thirty horses
laden with powder. The reserve, under the command of
Jaureguy, did not at any one period of the action descend
from the mountain. In the course of the morning 11
Englishmen vs ere made prisoners, and shot at Irun. Thus
ended the 11th. At six o'clock on the morning of the

12th the English commenced their retreat, pursued by
the Carlists to the village of Passages. 1 cannot do bet
ter, in order to continue this narrative, than send you the
following copy of a letter received from St. Sebastian:—
" St. Sebastian, July 13, 1836.
44 Yesterday, at mid-day, the division of General Evans re-
turned to Passages. The news was received at St. Sebastian
almost instantly, and created a great sensation. It is said, as
an excuse for this unfortunate expedition, that General Evans
could not disembark his artillery, and that, independent of
this, alth3ugh the movement was combined with General
Bernelle, who was to have advanced by the Bastan on 'run in
the heat of the action, instead of Bernelle making his appear-
ance, the Carlists received a strong reinforcement from the divi-
sion of General Garcia. All these are mere on dits—the only
fact certain is, that General Evans has been dreadfully beaten,
and forced to retreat disgracefully.
" 'l'he greater part of the English officers cry Treason'
against Cordova; and I am assured that more than 20 intend
returning to England. Even General Evans cannot conceal
his hatred to Cordova-
" Already 93 wounded have been brought to this place,
amongst whom are Colonel Ross, of the Scotch regiment, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Beatson, of the 10th regiment.
" The English, on their return from Vontarabia, were not
able to yet possession of their outward lines the Carlists, in their
absence, having set lire to all the houses and destroyed their
works. They were therefore compelled to retreat on their second
line, which runs from the convent of St. Francisco to La
Herrera, virtually deserting Passages, the Carlists having now
possession of the church of Alsa and the fortified positions of
Amezagain, commanding the Jesuits' convent.
" The English and Spanish troops are greatly discouraged;
and what will be the result God only knows. This is a fair
statement of the defeat of Evans, and has been the means of
lowering the English military character in the eyes of the
French army, witnesses of the strange and imcom,irehensible
conduct of the member for Westminister.
" In a day or two 1 shall, probably, receive the Carlist official
reports, oivin., a detailed account of this—to them--‘ glorious
victory.' ''
All the steam boats and trincadores have returned to
St. Sebastian and Passages.
I find by the-Paper of yesterday that the Ministerial
Journals attempt to mistifv the authenticity of General
Evans's order of the day. I send you here enclosed one
of the original "orders of the day," in Spanish, received
by Mr. Harvey, his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Bay-
onne, from the Legion, with instructions to be circulated;
for which purpose upwards of 40 copies were sent to him.
Colonel Wylde ought to have sent one to Lord Palmerston!
I much doubt whether he did not. But as conclusive evi-
dence against Evans, the order of the day was published
in the Bayonne Journals, the Phare and Sentinelle, by
order of the Spanish Consul at Bayonne, M. Dourie, and
the Journals actually sent to General Evans. Its authen-
ticity has never been called into question !
General Gomez has succeeded in making good his
entry into Galicia, and on the 9th effected his junction
with General Lopez, on the borders of that province and
Asturias.
The following is a copy of an interesting letter receiv-
ed from Aragon:—

" Saragosa, July 9, 1836.
"Quilez, with 60(X) infantry and 400 cavalry, is now at Me-
diana, ono/ four ,leagues from this city. Cabrera, with 10.000
infantry, 800 cavalry, and two pieces of artillery, is gone in the
direction of Gaudesa.
" The Christino General Montes is at Aliaga, and Roten, at.
Caste, and Castelseras• It is said, that, owing tothe numerOns
desertions in their divisions, they intend passing into nigh
Aragon.
"The Carlists are daily gaining strength in Catainni,. and
should Marotto be able to penetrate to that province, they will,
in a very short time, retuin to the formidable position of Decem-
ber last."
" Cuartel General de San Sebastian, 18 de Junio de 1836.

"`ORDER GENERAL.
" Teniendo entendido que ha habido conversationes las avan-
zadas y en aleunos casos con desertores de la fuerza au.xthar.
Britanica del ejercito Portugues auxiliar de D. Pedro, o con
individuos separados del servicio de dichas fuerzas por,circum-
stencias vergouzozas v afrentozas, el Comandante en (Jere tree
oportuno recordar a las tropes que corno obramos en la
iactuali-
dad en completa union con las fuerza de la Real marina ngles4,
todos los stibditos Brititnicos que se encuentren con las arenas
en la mann asistiendo u apoyando a los insurjentes son por 1(,)
tante rebeldes a s. M. el Rey de lnglaterra y estaran sujetos
la pena de muerte que probablemente sufriran en el caso de ser
aprebendipos, con arreglu a las leyes inglesas.
" En consecuencia so ordena que si algun individuo que
hable Towles y que por tanto se crea que pertenece a la clase
degradade de individuos arriba indicada, se presentare en cual-
quiera de nuestras avanzadas se le hart fuego inmediatamente :
se cortara toda comunicacion con las avanzadas opuestas del
euemigo y principiaran de nuevo las hostilidades eon las mis
mas, haSta tauto que cesa aquella costumbre por parte de its
anernigoc-
"' El Teniente General Comandante en Gefe del Cuerpo do
ejereno de la Costa de Cantabria.

EVANS.'"

It is now
that the Su h v of dispute,
~,ised the - .eis Effendi on account
of his barbarous tre
wci i p4.)nsonbi,re
a
tment of Mr. Churchill. Great
credit is due to Lor
y for his successful diplo-
macy in a quarter the Russian E-igle is ever ho-
vering around the haunts of the British Lion, stealthily
to deprive him of his la*. fn prey, .We also learn from
the letters that furnish the intrili
ele,,fw
jith
nutne.
gd,isnpeaet,cht
elisl..ramn,
express had reached Constantinople
Tabreez, in Persia, dated the 3d cif
adThe Shah had
diplomacy had been triumphant. There, also
British
yielded to representations of our as;
same, Mr. Ellis,
and conceded to British
subjects the commercial

privileges as are enjoyed by Russian merchants. We spiracy and perjury by two men, whom he has named.
bail these tokens of an improved activity iu the depart- Have these been taken up ? But pt-chaps the Govern-
ment of Foreign Affairs. ment does nut like to approach too near to the sanctity
of the confessional.
Our excellent ally, the Carlow Sentinel, states, that
" Priest Buggy, of Borris, took his station in a prominent
position under the dock, with the prisoner's (Corrigan)
agent, and appeared deeply interested in the proceed-
ings." From the same authority we learn that Priest
Maher evinced equal anxiety. We direct the particular
attention of our readers to the luminous and highly legal
charge of that ornament of the Irish Bench, Baron Sir
William Smith, Bart. We hope that a more ample report
will be given than has yet appeared. We have yet a
question to ask, one arising out of the anomalous and
extraordinary character of the times, will Lord Mulgrave
remit the execution of the sentence passed upon the vir-
tual murderers ? We should never have thought of
putting the question, but that, since the domination of
Whig rule, the abused prerogative of the Crown, the
prerogative of mercy, so amiable when worthily exercised,
has, in too many cases, defrauded public justice of her
rights.

THE MEETING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE.

The interest, great as it unquestionably was, which
the Proceedings of the meeting held at the Amphitheatre
on Wednesday week excited in this town, was,
we are
-happy to say, not confined to Liverpool alone. In Lon-
don, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bristol, &c., the decision of the
meeting was hailed by the conservative press with ex-
pressions of satisfaction so warm and decided that we can-
not resist the temptation, although the subject is some-
what old, of making the following extracts. The first is
from the Morning Herald of Monday :

" The protestant meeting which took place a few days ago at
Liverpool ought to make an important impression upon the
impartial and reflecting portion of the public. We are sorry to
say that the facts disclosed at that meeting convey a very seri-
ous and alarming confirmation of that which we have had fre-
quent occasion' to state, that the change made in the municipal
corporationa of England has been abused to the furtherance of
violent party animosities, and has thus promoted strife and dis-
turbance much more than it has served the cause of liberty and
justice.
" Many of our readers must he aware that the corporation of
the town of Liverpool is, and long has been, one of great wealth
and importance. Under the old system it was renowned fur the
grandeur of its undertakings and the splendour of its hospitality
—characteristics which, when not carried to extravagant ex-
cess, we think not unworthy of a wealthy British town. But
the corporation of Liverpool was also characterized by what
some called loyalty, and some called toryism; and though we
do not mean to say that this political character was in all mat-
ters upheld with perfect moderation and unsuspected justice,
yet in some of the best fruits of such a political character the
corporation was not wanting. It sought to provide for
the education of the children of the poor, and ni doing so
it contemplated instruction in sound religion as an es-
sential part of the education which was to be given. For the
accomplishment of this excellent end it took the rational and
the only becoming course fur a public community exercising its
trusts under a protestant state. It called in the assistance of
the clergy of the established church, which we need scarcely
add was readily and zealously afforded. The schools were esta-
blished, and the religious teaching in them was confided to the
church clergy. The institutions prospered, the parents of the
children were satisfied, and the children themselves were fur-
nished, not only with such knowledge as invigorates and ex-
tends the powers of the understanding, but also with such reli-
gious precepts and sentiments as are alone sufficient to keep
these powers in their place; and cause them to administer to
true happiness.
" But when, under what was intended to be an improved and
reformed system, the new municipal council came into action
in the mourn of the old corporation, these schools were not left to
pursue the quiet and useful tenor of tl►eir way. An education
committee was appointed, and this committee, instead of attend-
ing to such details as it might very well be capable of attending
to with advantage, thought proper to erect itself into an eccle-
siastical ceusor of the existing system, to take the religious con-
cerns of the school into its espec►al keeping, to set up its judg-
ment in opposition to that of the established clergy of the town
iu a matter which modest and moderate men would have allowed
to be the peculiar province of the clergy, and to ordain that
another system of religious education should be acted upon than
that which the clergy had set on foot and had assisted in up-
holding.
" It is just possible that there might be some reason for this,
of which laymen might he capable of judging, but there is no
room left for such a conjecture. It was clearly a party matter,
for the system fixed upon in lieu of that which the clergy ap-
proved, was one, the praises of which have not been recorded
►n any'doeuinent of relinious or ecclesiastical authority, but are
to be found in the.political debates of the House of Lords and
Commons. Unfortunately there did exist a system, purporting
to be a system of religious education, which had become mixed
up with the spirit of political strife—which had been the subject
of party divisions in parliament, and that system was the one
hit upon by this wise and considerate municipal council to
supplant the system of the established clergy ! Now we venture
to say—suppressing what might be advanced of the indecency
of obtruding political and party spirit into religious affairs—we
venture to say that, of all things less important than religion,
the very last into which such a spirit should force its disturbing
way, is the education of the young. Is it not enough that the
buSiness, the studies, and the amusements of mature life; are to
be turned from their natural channels, perplexed and distracted
by party violence, but must the pure and placid fountain of
instruction for the young—must that from which the streams of
civilization, of intellectual elevation, and of improved taste,
ought to flow throughout society, he made turbid and bitter at
its very source by the same accursed agency ? God forbid that
it should be so generally,, yet this is what the reformed town
council of Liverpool have been doing, and there is reason to
fear that the example, though bad, may not be without many
imitators.
The system which that town council has adopted is the same
that is called the " Irish system of scriptural education"—a
system which forbids the use of the whole Bible, and substitutes
for it certain selections which do not controvert the doctrines of
the church of Rome. The adoption of that system in Ireland
was the result of a compromise, the justice of which, in a reli-
gious view of the matter, we shall not here discuss; but it is
right to mention that the great majority of the established clergy
in England and Ireland, and we may add in Scotland too—pre-
late and prebendary, rector and curate, are conscientiously op-
posed to it. The reason of the compromise was this—the Roman
catholic clergy, whose power is such that it seems it cannot be
resisted in such matters, would nut allow the mass of the children
in Ireland to receive any education in schools where the whole
Bible was allowed to be read, and it was therefore better to have
national schools, with-the Bible excluded, and selections substi-
tuted for it, than to have schools to which the Roman catholic
children could not be suffered to go.
" But why should a system adopted from such a necessity be
transplanted to this country? Why should religious education
in the schools of the corporation of Liverpool be accommodated
to the errors or prejudices of the Church of Rome ? There is
no cause but this, that it had become a party matter; that the
party of the ministers and of Mr. O'Connell had insisted upon
the advantage of this system in Ireland, and, therefore, the new
town council of Liverpool should show its political spirit and
ascendancy by enforcing in its schools the wh►g-radical system
of religious education.
" The meeting appears to have been very successful, upwards
of £2,400 having been subscribed upon the spot.
" This is an expensive mode of remedying the evil caused by
the funds of the, corporation, and the administration of them
having fallen into such bad hands, but we trust it will he suc-
cessful, and we heartily commend the proper spirit and prompt
exertions of the protestants of Liverpool."
The next extract we take is from the Edinburgh Even-
ing Post, a journal which is the principal organ of the
Church of Scotland, and possesses the confidence of the
great,bulk of its members throughout the entire coun-
ry

" FIRST ATTEMPT IN ENGLAND TO EXCLUDE THE BIELE.—
We observe, from our able contemporary, the Liverpool Stan-
dard, that the reformed corporation of that flourishing city are
about to adopt in the schools under their charge the system in-
troduced into the government schools in Ireland, by which the
bible is excluded, and a series of garbled and almost unmeaning
extracts, in so far as the spirit and true intent of the holy scrip-
tures are concerned, substituted in its room. Truly popery is
making rapid and determined progress towards that supremacy
which undoubtedly it is the tendency of such a measure as that
adopted by the reformed town council of Liverpool to establish.
" The Liverpool town council are unquestionably assisting
the Roman catholics in their fondly cherished project of banish-
ing
the scriptures from the public schools of this country, and
thus paving the way, by almost imperceptible degrees, .to the
• public repudiation of the hihle as the only true authority in
matters of religion. Their plan is to hold up that book as a
dangerous book; and, by describing it as a book which ought
not to be placed in the hands of children, they hope thus to ac-
custom the people to disregard it as the essential means of sal-
vation. Every protestant who has enjoyed what is emphatically
called a bible education (and what Scotsman has not ?) will ad-
mit that his strongest impressions of the importance of the
doctrines and truths which it contains were received in early
Youth, and thin, without the advantage of having the bible con-
tinually in school, the mind would have remained comparatively
a blank on the subject of religion. The exclusion of the Word
of God front our public schools will in our conscientious opi-
nion produce a nation of free-thinkers, destitute alike of moral
and religious feelings, and utterly unable to distinguish or ap-
preciate the inestimable advantages of christianity.
"These remarks may seem exaggerated under the circum-
stances to which they may be ascribed. It may be said that
the Liverpool council are only the Liverpool council, and that
what they do can only affect themselves and the town with
which they are, we believe, most unworthily connected. lie
view the matter differently. Liverpool has obviously been se•
lected as the first open field whereon the Roman catholics may
most advantageously begin their operations. They hope that
the example set by the functionaries of so large and opulent
a community will have a most powerful effect upon the
the people of Great Britain, and the precedent furnished by the
conduct of Liverpool will, they imagine, be cite,: as an argu-
ment against the free use of the scriptures in every district of
the empire. Now we enter our protest against this initial and
insidious measure of the reformed corporation of Liverpool: it
is a most dangerous and anti-scriptural attempt ; it is an exam-
ple to be avoided, not followed; and it stamps its abettors as the
most audacious and degenerate enemies of protestantism that
have appeared in England armed with authority since the days
of the second James." -

Lastly, we take the following notice from an able con
temporary, the Dublin Record, which speaks the senti
ments of a large portion of the protestant clergy am
laity of Ireland :

" The tendency of the corporation reform bill soon displayed
itself in Liverpool, where the corporators under the new regime
proceeded in their first movements to oppose scriptural educa-
tion in England and amongst pr?testants,b adopting and intro-
ducing the Board of Education iniquity. rhe protestant meet-
ing held to consider the propriety and necessity of scriptural
education has, we trust, completely baffled the ungodly effort of
the corporation. The speeches delivered at the meeting will
tell through Britain as they told within the walls of the Amphi-
theatre. We refer to the immense stun of £3,000, collected at
the close of the meeting for the furtherance of scriptural educa-
tion, as an evidence of the effect at once produced by the elo-
quence and truth of the several speakers."
It must be particularly zratifyinv, to the protestants of
Liverpool to find their exertions noticed in terms so ex-
ceedingly favourable in towns of such importance as
London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, and in the columns of
newspapers too who may fairly be said to represent the

opinions of the anti popish, anti-christian, and ant i-so
cinian inhabitants of those places.

Since the above extracts were made we have received
a cupy of the Watchman, London newspaper, which is
the leading popular organ of the Wesleyan methodists.
The meeting at the Amphitheatre is thus noticed :

•' The clergy of Liverpool, and as many others of the reli-
gious public as rallied around their standard, deserve well of
the Protestants of England for the noble stand they have made
against the introduction into this country of the Irish system
of education. This is another case, which shows bow ripe are
the principles of that latitudinarianism, which, reckless of con-
sequences, takes all creeds alike under its protection. Nor are
any so well aware as the Roman catholics themselves, that that
is the exact lever, by which the world is to be moved in the
advancement of their ambitious claims. Englishmen, however,
will never, we trust, submit that the principles of the Reforma-
tio❑ shall be departed from in any system of education intended
for the majority of the children of any town in England. The
spirited conduct of Liverpool Protestants iu leaving the corpo-
ration to their own evil counsels, and instantly establishing a
counter system to be supported by voluntary contributions,
will not be lost on the country. In actin, on the maxim of
obsra principiis' in this instance, they will found, we trust,
to have stayed the plague."

" Ds LACY
confirme, beyond the possibility
tan has dismissed the Reis Eifena