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THE LIVERPOOL sTANIIARD.

be closed up, what is to become of our coasting
craft ? Where are they to go for security and shel-
ter? We say emphatically there is no other place
in the river capable of affording the required accom-
modation; and a very cursory examination of a map
will satisfy any one on this score. We do say and
insist that this great interest,—the coasting traders,
which are the purveyors to all ships trading to for-
eign parts,—demands our most earnest attention and
protection; we are bound to see those traders are not
deprived of a right which they have enjoyed from all
time, and which, to all intents and purposes, ought
to be preserved to them inviolate, and not wrenched
from their possession for any other than some great
national benefit, which we deny the Birkenhead
scheme to be. The coasting craft entering the river
last year amounted to 602,728 tons., This is exclu-
sive of 786,255 tons of steamers, which are princi-
pally employed coastwise. This is an important
interest to deal with, and so interwoven with the
prosperity of the town and port of Liverpool as to
demand the protecting aid of its inhabitants.
There are at this moment about seventy coasting
vessels beached and at anchor in Wallasey Pool and
on its banks ; and with a westerly wind it is no un-
common thing to see upwards of 200 lying there.
Now, where would these be if Wallasey Pool were
now walled in ? The ten-acre basin, which it is pro-
posed to give them, would not accommodate a tithe
of them, and there is no other place to which they
can be removed with safety to themselves, or with-
ous obstructing the navigation of the river. It is a
common right which they have enjoyed from time
immemorial, and it must he maintained for them in
all its integrity. Ruin your coasters, and ruin will
speedily follow on all the commerce of the port.
Drive them away and Liverpool will soon cease to
be what she now is, the second port in the kingdom.
We will not tire our readers by going further into
the subject, but call upon them to examine minutely
into the matter and satisfy themselves whether there
is danger to be apprehended or not to the corn merce
of Liverpool by the scheme now before Parliament,
awl if they do. see grounds for apprehension (which
we are sure they will,) we entreat them to put their
shoulders to the wheel to avert that which may soon
become law, and beyond their controul. We say
sign the petitions to the Lords if yet in time. It is
to them we must look for protection from the threat-
ened injury to our docks, river, and trade.

Another check has
,been experienced by Sir Ro-
bert Peel, in his efforts to drag his Conservative
supporters into the adoption of measures opposed,
in their tendencies, to those principles which they
have been accustomed to advocate and support. The
amendment of Mr. Miles upon the proposed minis-
terial settlement of the sugar duties was carried on
Friday night, by a majority of 20 votes ; and the
Government have now added a fourth to the de-
feats sustained by them in the House of Commons
within the last three months.

We know not at this moment what may be the
result, so far as the ministry are concerned, of this
occurrence. It has been imagined that Sir Robert
Peel would resign office in dudgeon; nay, it has
been rumoured that he and his colleagues had al-
ready tendered their resignation to her Majesty.
That this has occurred, however, is contradicted,
quasi ex auctoritate,by the Morning Herald ; and we
believe our contemporary to be on this occasion very
much in the right. Sir Robert will not resign, when
it is perfectly within his reach to disappoint the
hopes of a great number of those—the Whig-
radical portion of the majority—who on this occa-
sion voted against him, in direct contradiction to
their recorded opinions with respect to the policy of
discriminating duties, by postponing the present
bill for another year, and falling back upon the ex-
isting scale of duties in its stead. This, we imagine,
is the course which he will adopt; for we are confident
that he is not disposed to venture upon the experiment
of attempting to dragroon his conservative sup-
porters into another exhibition of that facile rever-
sion of their recorded opinions, which has already
so fatally damaged the character of the reformed
House of Commons. It is idle, however, with our
present amount of information upon the subject, to
speculate upon probabilities, when perhaps the same
edition which contains these remarks will convey
to the great bulk of our readers the declaration of
Sir Robert Peel's intentions, which would be de-
livered in the House of Commons last evening.

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NlGHT.—Stocks have re-
mained quiet to-day, the early close of the market pre-
venting the usual run of business. The rejection of the
Ministerial project for altering the sugar duties has bad
little effect upon prices. Consols, however, closed the
shade lower, being marked 98. Bank Stock left off 1971
to 1981; Exchequer bills, 745. to 765. pm. ' • Three per
Cents. Reduced 981 to -/; Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced 101/ to In the foreign securities business
was not very active, but prices, nevertheless, were tole-
rably well supported. Spanish Three per Cents. closed
34i to / ; the Five per Cents, 231 to ; Portuguese, 46 to
47 ; Peruvian, 27 to 28 ; Mexican, 341 to ft ; the Defer red,
141 to/ ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents., 614 to / : the
Five per Cents., 100/ to the Danish, 88 to 89 ; Colum-
bian, 12 to ; Chilian 103 to 105; Buenos Ayres 35 to
37 ; Brazilian 81 to ; and Belgian 1034 to 1044.

li.EGlsTa&Trorr.—Conservatives who have changed
their residence since July last year, ought by all means to
send a notice of the same and of their present residence,
to the Parish-office, in order that they may be properly
placed upon the ensuing parliamentary register • and thus
save themselves the nuisance of being objected by the
liberal party. who liberally take advantage of the least
flaw to deprive a conservative of his qualification.
THE WEATHER.—We had some slight but welcome
showers yesterday afternoon, with a milder atmosphere,
and an appearance of further humidity. The hay grass
already cut in this county is scanty, but generally of good
quality, and a good after-crop is expected. The wheats
still look well, and trough the straw will be short, the
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appearanceigmrapinrowviinllgpirnobabl
favoured with rains, the injury sustained by the late
probably
fill
well.
;
droughts will be nearly redeemed. We are glad to learn
that in some other parts of the country copious and re-
freshing showers have fallen within the last ten days.
CHARGE OF MURDER.—About half-past two o'clock
yesterday morning, police officer No. 66, who was on duty
in Limekiln-lane, he found two men holding up the ap-
parently dead body of a man ; it was bleeding profusely.
He immediately caused the body to be removed to Rose-
hill station, where surgical assistance was obtained, but
without effect, the vital spark having fled. It was after-
wards discovered that the deceased was Thomas Spinks,
a stonemason, residing with his mother in Benn's Gar-
dens, and that he was last seen in company wi'h Chas.
Doyle, John Dunford, and Jane Rainford, in a cellar in
Limekiln-lane, opposite which the policeman found him.
Inspectors Gandy and Abraham having learned the par-
ticulars went in search of the parties above named, whom
they apprehended. Doyle's coat was matted with blood,
and so was Dunford's shirt. The three persons are in
custody awaiting the result of the coroner's inqdest, which
will be held this day.
COLLISION AT SEA.—We take the following particu-
lars of a collision between a New York packet-ship 1
and a timber ship, off the banks of Newfoundland,
on the 27th ult., during a thick fog, from some me-
morandums furnished by a passenger on board the former
vessel, which left this port on the 26th April, and arrived
at New York on the 31st ult.:-
26th MAX.—Foggy, unpleasant morning, and we get on mise-
rably, the weather being so calm, and the little wind we Occa-
sionally have is always a head. We have only gone this last
week 350 miles.
27th.—Rose at 3 o'clock, a.m., in alarm. I was awoke by a
tremendous crash ; laid still, and immediately heard another,
and then thought it time to rise, as my impression was that
we were upon rocks. I ran upon deck, and all was confusion.
We had come in contact with another ship, wIIIth completely
cleared away our bowsprit, and our ship went immediately
into the other amidships ; completely knocked her • side in,
and carried away her mainmast. You may imagine I cannot
describe the confusion on board. The rigging of the ships
were entangled in each other, so that we could not get disen-
gaged for a considerable time. Every swell of the sea made
the other come thumping up against our ship, and did her
considerable damage. In fact, I thought she would stave
her side in every minute; and as the other vessel was full of
water, we expected her sinking every moment; and to crown
all, just at this time down went our foremast, with tremendous
crash, upon deck. With great difficulty we got parted. The
name of the brig is the Levant, of Bath, State of Maine, with
timber.—and it was owing to this last circumstance that she
kept afloat. She was of 300 or 400 tons burthen, and had
seven hands on hoard. Three of their crew came into our
ship as soon as we separated. The others remained to pro-
cure as much of their clothing as they could, and then left
her. Our second mate offered to stick to her if the captain
would abandon her; but he would not, but returned to her in
a boat with two of our seaman ; got a few more things, and
then set fire to her and returned. She is now blazing away.
The Ilsade, of Boston, came up about half an hour after the
accident, so that if there had been any occasion we could have
gone on board of her. All hands are busy getting up another
mast.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

Last evening, the balf-yeaey meeting of this association

was held at the Music Hall, and was most densely and
respectably attended. Amonzst the clerzv and eentlemen
on the platform, we noticed the Rev. Mr. M•Neils. the
Rev. Mr. Nolan, the Rev. Mr. Bavtee. the Rev. Mr. B.
Ellis, the Rev. Mr. M'Conkoy, Mr. Councillor Glaze_
brook, Mr. Councillor Harbor& and several others.
Shortly after seven o'clock. the chair was taken by the
Rev.. Hugh M'Neile amid loud cheers. Prayers having
been offered up by the Rev. Mr. Nola,.
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting as
follows. He said :—Friends and fellow-labourers, at

your last half-yearly meeting I gave you some instruction
upon the subject of social du►ies to be discharged upon
Christian principles. The address which I delivered to
you upon that occasion has been reprinted in London,
and very extensively et-ciliated under the title of " Eng-
hrd'a Caesar." It has fallen into the hands of mom- of

the leading politicians of the movement party, who—seem
to think that all duties. both personal and social, may he
discharged Sufficiently well without any Christian princi-
ple; and their temper has so far got the better of their
policy, that they have not been able to le we us
alone. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) First, the
hon. member for Edinburgh, and now, within the last few
diva, the hon. member for Sh-ffield has introduced my

name, and a reference to my address to you, int.() the de-
bates of the House of Commons. Do I complain of this ?
Certainly not. I think it an honour to be attacked—
(cheers)--to he attacked by a man who attacks the Pro-
testant Established Church of my country. (Great cheers.)
I esteem it a high distinction that my advocacy of our na-
tional christianity has been so valued that it has compelled
the notice, while it has, of course. excited the animosity,
of the enemies dour national instltution.. (Hear, hear,)
Of what, then, do I complain ? I don't complain of any
thing at all ' • lam not fond of complaining ; I agree with
some one who said that " complaining waq a pitiful crea-
ture that never reclaimed a single yesterday" ; I prefer
active duty :if it succeed, well—if not, we have done what
we could, and results are in higher hands than ours.
(Hear, hear.) But I want to tell you that this same hon.
member for Sheffield has presented a garbled quota-
tion from my speech to the House of Commons. I
do not accuse him of ascribing to me anything which I
did not say, but by taking a couple of sentences out of
their context in one page, and joining them to an un-
finished paragraph in another page of the speech, he has
contrived to represent me as having made an assertion
without argument. MY argument lay between the pas-
sages he has quoted ; and I can quite understand why it
would be very inconvenient for the hon. member to have
quoted the arguments, because I am quite sure it would
have been more than inconvenient for him to have an-
swered them. (Laughter and cheers,) The assertion
itself appears to his ultra-liberal mind to be so monstrous
as to carry with it its own antidote, so that it needed only
to be announced to be repudiated. Now, this was con-
venient also, and very dexteroui. If the honourable
member had so treated a gentleman on the other side
of the house, who could have got up in his place and ex-
posed the unfairnes-, it would-be perhaps no more than
.

.
the usual and authorised tact of debate. But so to treat
the speech of an absent clergyman, who never can have
an opportunity of fair reply,—it was bad taste to intro-
duce it at all ; but so to treat it as to be guilty of a prac-
tical misrepresentation is a proceeding concerning which
I venture to say—but he doesn't care what I say, but the
well-judging people of England, who love fair-play, will
agree with tee, and the well-judging electors of Sheffield
will agree with me—(cheers)—that it was a proceeding as
disgraceful in its moral character as it was unfair in its
debating dexterity. (Hear, hear, and great cheering) I
will read you the passage that he left out. He (twitting
her Majesty's ministers with my sentiments, as if I had
been suggesting something to the right hon. Secretary of
the Home Department) said the Rev. Hugh M`Neile,
addressing the Protestant operatives of Liverpool, (as if
we were all very contemptuous,) declared that " every
estate in the realm, except the crown, bad lost its
christian character." I said so, and I am prepared to
say so again—(cheers), although the hon. member so in-
troduced it with a sneer. It is a fact ; for, what are the
other estates of the realm ? The two houses of Parlia-
malt ; and have not they lost their christian character,
when members of Antichrist are ipso facto members of

loth ? (Hear, hear, and great cheering.) " Hence our
troubles. Hence our divisions. Hence our dangers."
There be stopped ; and be left out a whole page. And
then he added, that this rev, gentleman, of whom he said
that he was not quite of so much importance as he had
been before the present ministers came into office—(a
laugh)—but still that he had a great deal of local influ-
ence.—(hear, and cheers)—he condescended to say so
much—(great laughter),— and then he added that I had
said, that " though I entertained as unfeigned a repug-
nance to penal statutes as any liberal politician in the
kingdom, I must confess that I am compelled to the con-
clusion, that the British constitution must be destroyed,
unless some political disabilities be a-ain imposed upon
Roman Catholics." That was what he thought so mon-
strous, and that was what he quoted, without the argu-
ment to support it, in order that the House of Commons
might think it monstrous. If I would not weary you—
(no, no)—to hear the passage he left out, which was ad-
dressed to von half-a..year azo, I will supply it, in the hope
that it may reach his eyes once again. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) The reverend gentleman here read the pas-
sage, which, however, was of such considerable length,
that we are very reluctantly compelled to omit it for ti .e
present. It was to the effect that the subjects of the
Papal court aimed at the establishment cf universal supre-
macy ; and that whether it were the elective franchise in
1793, the admission to parliament in 1829, the admission

to the Corporations in 1834, the repeal of the union 'in
1844, or the payment of the Irish priests in 1845, all had
been and would be but instalments, at no one stage sup-
plying a level on which contentment and peace might be
expected, but in every instance acting as the steps of a lad-
der for gradual ascent, increasing the possibility, and
therefore animating the prospect, and stimulating the
ambition to reach the top. When he had concluded
the reading of the extract, the rev. gentleman
continued :—Now, it was certainly very judicious to pass
that over, and to dovetail what I first read into what fol-
lowed, omitting a'l that argument, and all those proofs.
(Hear.) In corroboration, however, of the sentiments
contained in that extract, I appeal now to the speech of
Sir Robert Peel, in the debate of last Wednesday night.
The right hon. baronet said :
" On almost every occasion, when the hon. member
for Sheffield tr oight the present question before the
house, the hon. member had adverted to his (Sir Robert
Peel's) speech delivered in 1817. In that speech he
certainly expressed an opinion that, censidering the Ro-
man Catholic claims would not produce peace and content
in Ireland, and that, judging by the ordinary rule of
human nature, they would endeavour to depress the
Protestant Church. It was rather unfortunate that the

hon. member, when qu ,`one that opinion, had read no-
thing of the t rgumenta by which it a as met—of the argu-
ments that outweighed it in the minds of the public ,of
this country. Lord (then Mr.) Plunket, the chosen and
most powerful champion of the Roman Catholics, in pre-
senting the Roman Catholic petition in 1821, delivered a
speech which stood nearly the highest in point of ability
of any that had ever been delivered within the walls of
parliament. In that speech Mr. Plunket replied to the i
speech of 1817, and d Glared on the part of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland, that in their opinion the removal of
their disabilities would be perfectly compatible with the
maintenance and security of the established church. Mr.
Plunket declared solemnly that if he entertained the
opinion that the step of emancipation would endanger the
church establishment, he would abandon these long-
asserted claims and range himself as their opponent."
In a subsequent part of his speech, the right hon. baro-
net, in answer to Lord John Russell, said—
" The noble lord had used a very vague term when he
spoke about `religious equality.' What did he mean by
it? Would the Roman Catholics consider it religious
equality' if the pecuniary emoluments were divided be-
tween the professors of the two faiths, the Church of Ire-
land retaining her other privileges, of which the seat in
the House of Lords was one ? Did the noble lord think

that the Protestant bishops should be removed from that
house altogether, or the Irish bishops only? But sup-
posing that done, would that be ' religious equality with-
out putting some Roman Catholic bishops into that house?
Were the churches which the Protestants had built to be
handed over as well as the emoluments? Where was it
to stop? He believed that if they once entered upon that
course, they would soon produce a total alteration of the
ecclesiastical policy of this country : no satisfaction would
be given unless they went to the fullest extent; and if they
went to that extent, they would establish in Ireland a
principle which would react in this country, and form a
precedent for similar changes in other parts of the king-
dom. (Hear, hear.) 'Why should they expect that tri-
vial alterations should produce satisfaction ? When Lord
Spencer's bill for the suppression of ten bishoprics in Ire-
land was introduced, it was hailed with delight by Mr.
O'Connell and the Roman Catholic members generally;
that had been followed by a curtailment of the revenue
and other reforms; yet now in 1844 stronger language
had been used in regard to the Irish church than he had
ever heard before ; it had been denounced in this debate
as an insult and an injury to the Roman Catholics."
Now, my friends, upon this very remarkable statement I
will offer but a brief comment. It is part of the cant of
the liberal politicians of these times, in speaking of the
clergy of the national church, that we are at least a quar-
ter of a century behind the public feeling upon all great
questions. Yet, here we have the Prime Minister of Eng-
land compelled by the force of facts to fall back himself in
1844 on what Protestant clergymen have been reiterating
since 1829. (Vehement applause.) We told the right
hon. baronet it would be so. (Hear, hear.) But, Lord
Lord Plunket said otherwise ; Mr. O'Connell and Mr,
Sheil said otherwise ; Dr. Murray and Dr. Doyle said
and swore otherwise. (Hear, bear.) They were believed.
Concessions were made. The Irish church was deprived
of ten of her bishopricks. The Irish clergy were deprived
of 25 per cent. of their incomes. The Irish corporations
were deprived of their Protestantism, and made Normal
schools", for the agitation of repeal. And yet now, after
all those concessions, the head of her Majesty's govern-
smaeynstthcoatmneoswd,owinn
strongerlacein
regard to the Irish church than he had ever beard
parliament
language
"injury." We told him so. I think it may be a lesson.
speech that
be-
fore," and that it was denounced as an " insult and an
The right hon. baronet said in this very
hre Ras induced
WinaslBu4s4e,dalilnd
self, in 1817, that it would be so but .
act against it, and
to give up that judgment in 1829 and .
of human
now on " the princip es
now the judgment he
"judging by the principles of human natu e aid him
nature" turns out to be the right one. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) It was in harmony with the genius of that sys-
tem that he bad to resist ; and had he adhered to that
judgment, and had he declared, in despite of all that
Lord Plunket and others had said, that " granting them
a step in advance was but encouraging them to take
another"—had be then said, " if you begin to concede,
you must go to the utmost Went, or satisf action will no

be given," as he sacs now—had he then said what he
says now—had he then seen what he sees now, that, if
you once besin, you must go on. arid that if you go on
there will be a recoil, which would shake the ecclesi-
astical polity of England and the whole kingdom—
had he done this, the forward step would not
have been taken, and now, instead of coming at a
disadvantage to defend the church against an enemy
commanding every battery, we should have had the van-
tage ground and we would have the victory. But it is
never too late to defend the truth. (Immense cheering!)
And when I say " to defend the truth," I do not mean to
defend every single item.or any one single abuse that may
have found its way into an Established Church in this or
any other country. Ido not identify God's truth with
abuses in any Established Church; and yet, one of the
strongest arguments, if it could be called an argument,
advanced against the Established Church of Ireland in
the late debate was the exhibition of a catalogue of a sale
at the auction of a deceased clergyman. There was a
clergyman in the county of Meath, who was very eccen-
tric, and who was possessed of property in his ownright. &
he was very fond of horses, of improving the breed, and
he had a number of race horses, and of pet cows also—(a
laugh) ;—and lie gave the milk of the pet cows to the Ro-
man Catholic neighbours all around. That was lost sight
of in the late debate; Mr. Ward did not mention the
cows; but he read a list of the blood-horses that this de-
ceased clergyman had, and he turned him into ridicule,
and endeavoured to make the House imagine that the
whole church in Ireland was to be identified with this
eccentric deceased clergyman. (Hear.) No, it is not
to defend such things that we are here, but to defend the
great principles of truth against- the encroachment of that
liberalism which saps the fouedation of revelation. It is
to say to you, and such as you—the people of England—
that, with all the disadvantagss you now have to contend
against, still hold fast to the truth you read in your Bible.
(Cheers.) It :s to say to you that although confidence in
that Bible is shaken by what you hear in public places—
although confidence in the Bible is shaken by the tone in
the houses of parliament—although there is no confidence
in that truth expressed in those houses—although there is
a fear and trembling lest any such expression of confi-
dence should be viewed as bigotry in the party using it,
lest the man who declares his church to be based on truth
should be denounced as charging all others with false-
hood—although you scarcely read a sentence from one
week's end to another in those debates which conveys an
impression of confidence in the Word of God,—yet,
hold fast! (Great cheers.) It is true, let them act as
they will; it has stood the test of inquiry; it has been
proved ; the evidence in its favour has been
probed to the quick ; the arguments have been laid
open to the most inquisitive minds; they have borne
the test of the closest and most searching scrutiny ;
the inspiration and authenticity of the Bible are un-
doubted. (Renewed cheering.) Some of you have
woofs, in addition to these, which some call enthusiasm ;
but you are persuaded whence they come. Hold fast ;
the Bible is your stay ; there, and there alone, God speaks
to fallen man, and when man speaks it is but as the ora-
cles of God. "If any man speak, let him speak as the
oracles of God." We are not the inventors of things to
say to you, but expositors of what God has said. (Cheers.)
I say you are exposed to great disadvantages; far there
are influences produced on the multitude by the language
made use of by their representatives in parliament. I
hope the time will never arrive when we shall not see an
influence produced by the great and noble of the land.
(Cheers.) It is a legitimate influence when rightly used ;
but when it is used for evil and not for good, it
undermines confidence in the Word of God. (Hear.)
It behoves, then, the champions of revealed religion—the
ministers of the Church, who see the dangers and mis-
chiefs, and the deluding tendency of such infidel argu-
ments and statements as are uttered in the Houses of Par-
liament—it behoves the ministers of religion, seeing those
many dangers by which the people are assailed, to be
forward to warn. It is no time for the ministers of
religion to retire to their own private enjoyments and
leave the people to themselves. It is no time for the
ministers of religion, as in a " piping time of peace," to
retire to their fire-sides to enjoy their books and social
converse. (Hear, hear.) The times call for outward
activity among the people, and for demonstration of the
truth. (Cheers.) For on whom, in the Providence of
God, does the defence of the true religion of England now
depend ? In whom is it delegated ? Where are its
strongholds ? Its legislative strongholds have been bro-
ken open. Its executive strongholds are not to be depend-
ed upon. Parliamentary strongholds it has none. Where,
then, are they to be found, and upon what instrumentality
have you to depend ? I boldly answer, there is none left but
the clergy of the National Church (Vehement applause.)
And I as boldly answer, that if the clergy of the national
church would do their duty—if they would stand in their
places, and speak to the people in a way the people can
understand—if they would make the truths of their reli-
gion plain to the common sense of the masses—if they
would recollect that the bulk of their bearers have not
time for reading, and th it their fine-spun theories are
thrown away on the masses—if they would speak practi-
cally like men who know and feel what they are saying,
and wish it to be understood and conveyed to the minds
of their hearers—and if they would preach the gospel to
the people in plainness and simplicity, and act consistently
with that preaching themselves, I am bold to say there is
sufficient power in the E.iglish and Irish church to heat
back all thosehostile motive s that threaten their dissolution
—there is power to beat back the infidelity that prevails,
and to shame it out of high places—there is power to save
the nation as well as the church ; for if the church be not
preserved, the kingdom cannot survive the shock : let the
jewel be rifled, and the casket becomes not worth the
preservation. The reverend gentliman resumed his seat
amidst loud and long-continued applause.
The Rev. BRA LI AZON Ews proposed the first resolu-
tion. to the effect that it was the opinion of the meeting
that Popery was idolatry, and to be aborred of all faithful
Christians, and that as the word of God declared that
idolatry should not inherit the kingdom of G od, it was
the duty of all Protestants to labour and pray for the
conversion of Roman Catholics. He entered into a long
and interesting exposition of the errors of popery, of
which be produced many proofs—noticing the idolatrous
worship of images; the suppression of the second com-
mandment ; the praying to and invocation of departed
saints and angels; the worship of the Virgin Mary; and
lastly, the worship of the host, or wafer, or in other
words the doctrine of transubstantiation. On each
of these subjects he read a variety of extracts, showing
that such practices amounted to monstrous blas-
phemy. The sacrifice of the mass, bore, he truly
remarked, no resemblance to the crucifixion; the first
was a mere Heathenish mummery—an idolatry to be
aborred by all Christians. He concluded by stating that
he had gone through all the counts of the indictment,
and having, as he believed, proved his case, he put it to
the meeting whether the ltomani,ts were guilty or not
guilty. (Loud cries of " Guilty, guilty !")
Mr, RADCEtFFE seconded the resolution. He dwelt
with much effect on the last clause of the resolution,
which had not been noticed by the previous speaker; and
urged that while we sent out missionaries to the Heathen
and the Jew, they should also send missionaries to the
poor deluded emissaries of popery in Italy, Ireland, and
elsewhere.
A collection was then made, during which the Rev.
CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting in a humorous man-
ner, on the Catholic omission of the second command-
ment. They had some tronble, in consequence, to com-
plete the number of ten commandments, but ingeniously
contrived it by splitting the ten into two. Their ninth,
in one of their books was, " Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife," and the tenth was " Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour's goods !"
The Rev. Mr. BAYLEE moved the next resolution, to
the effect that it was the conviction of the meeting that
they should take the Scriptures without human comment
as the sole rule of their faith. This resolution lie sup-
ported in a long, eloquent, and argumentative speech.
Mr. R. HARBOILD, who was received with great cheer-
ing, seconded the resolution, stating in a brief but ener-
getic address that he did so with great sincerity, and that
he was only restrained from indulging further in the
expression of his opinions from the lateness of the hour.
The Rev. T. NOLAN proposed a resolution to the effect
that the meeting were thankful for the privileges they
enjoyed, and that they pledged themselves to use their
utmost efforts for the spread of Protestant truth, relying
on Him who alone could cause the increase. The rev.
gentleman supported the motion in an address of consi-
derable length and much eloquence.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. T. F Glaze-
brook, who noticed the pernicious effects of our in-
terccurse with Popish countries, through commercial
intercourse, and urged the necessity of the continued ex
ertions of Protestant societies to counteract the evil
tendency of such contamination.
The resolution was unanimously passed, and after a
friendly piece of advice from the chairman to the young
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perceived that James Yates, Esq., generouslyx
sixth class of
the sum of £2OO to the best pupil in the
enable him to take
MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—Our readers
the High School of this institution, to
the London
his degrees in the Faculty of Arts at
two
days,
this prize
Univer-
sity. After a strict examination for
B snett-street. £4O will be
Williams, tailor and draper,
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Saturday an inquest was held upon the
INQUEST.—On
a shoemaker. It appeared that
body of Thomas Powell,
thattter Robert_ Williams., son of Mr.
other persons,
went into Charles m'Kee s public-house, in Spitalfields,
had
sdm t
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thrown
rounds,odown,h ofteni.so a
Tuesday last, when a dispute commenced between the
odneceased and a man named Black, which was to be deci-
their going into the baek-yard to fight. One of
ded by
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the party, Thomas Smith, backed Black, and another,
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William Ralph, backed the deceased ; neither of them
the deceased, together wit,h a number of
him every time and hurting him to such an extent that the
earthly career was at an end. At the termination of the
languished in great agony until Friday morning, when
death put an end to his sufferings. Mr. Cripps, surgeon,
made a post-mortem examination of the body, and found
wereefu
oanucf each
ro rrttsohunuenbnaeddtr deceased c ehmaTe sa henwde
ay sw complainedhra
an extensive rupture of the abdomen, which was the cause
of death and the result of external violence. The only
perty in custody, Thomas Smiih, was ordered to be com-
mitted to prison until the verdict of the jury should have
been returned ; and the inquest was adjourned.—Yester-
day the enquiry was resumed, when the evidence of the
surgeon was given, to the effect, that the cause of death
was rupture of the bladder, which injury had been caused
by external violence. It was also shown that the man
Smith had used his best endeavours to prevent the fight
proceeding. The jury, after deliberation, returned a
verdict of manslaughter against David Black and Wm.
Ralph, but acquitted Thos. Smith.

June 18, 1844.

TESTIMOi'IAL TO THE REV. W, FALLOON•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—Attending on Tuesday evening last the usual
weekly lecture at St. John's Church, I was, in common
with, I believe, the rest of the congregation and the mi-
nister, most unexpectedly and agreeibly surprised.
You are aware that the bishop a few days back held e
confirmation in this town, and a preparation for which I,
very considerable number received instruction from our
minister. Subsequently, to evince their gratitude for hill
care they had, it appears, in secret I suppose, met, agli
subscribed for a suitable memento of their affectionate ap-
preciation of his attention to their eternal interests, in the
shape of an elegant quarto Bible bearing an appropriate-
inscription engraven upon a silver plate. This, borne
upon a handsome velvet cushion, and accompanied by
beautifully bound copy of " Fox's Book of the Church,"
the sole offering of a class of youths, who had met together
in the vestry for instructton, were upon the evening in
question presented by the youthful donors to their as-.
tonished pastor as he left the pulpit, at the conclusion of
the evening service, together with a purse containing the
residue of the general fund, which not being exhausted by
the purchase of their offering, they, with thoughtfulnets
worthy of riper years, requested might be devoted to the
necessities of the poor of the congregation.
The whole scene, aided by the youthfulness of the sub-.
scribers, who pressed around their delighted friend and
minister, was one of unmixed pleasure ; and when on con-
cluding a few words of brief but grateful acknowledgement,
and kind though solemn admonition to his young friends,
their pastor uttered the prayerful wish that all their names
might be found in the Lambs book of life, their glistening
eyes, as the words fell upon their ears, told how well their
youthful minds had been prepared by, and could appreci-
ate appropriate instruction, based upon the word of God.
and the doctrines of that church to which so many of them
had so recently professed their adherence, a proof among
many others, that education and religion may well go
hand in hand.

The gratification that I derived from the scene I wit-
nessed, has induced me to request you will be kind enough
to afford this short description a corner in your valued
journal; and, by so doing, oblige
A CONSTANT READER.
Liverpool, June 15, 1844.

The Birkenhead Dock Bill was read a second time In
the House of Lords on Friday night.
On Thursday, the Manchester Bonding Bill was read a
third time, and passed by the House of Commons.
THE SUGAR QUESTIONS.—Lord Sandon, Sir Howard
Douglas, W, Entwistle, Esq., voted on Friday night in
favour of Mr. Miles' motion, and consequently against
the proposition of ministers.
MAIL FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.--..The
British and North American royal mail steam-ship Bri-
tannia, Captain Hewitt, sails to-morrow, (Wednesday)
for Halifax and Boston.

The Commissioner for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors,
William Law, Esq. will sit at Lancaster, on Monday-,
November 18; at Liverpool, on Thursday, November 28 ;
and at Chester, on Monday, December 2nd.
DEATH FROM AN ATTACK OF A BEAR.—The poor
woman (the second) alluded to in our last as being in a
dangerous state from the attack of the bear which escaped
from its pit in the Zoological Gardena died on Sunday
morning last.—Wakefield Journal.
A general order from the commissioners notifies that
bonded premises at Maryport are now "approved" for
tobacco and cigars, removed from the ports of importa•
tion, to be there bonded for home use, or shipment u
stores.

COTTON ARRIVALS.—During the week ending Thurs-
day there arrived in Liverpool, partially or wholly laden
with cotton; three vessels from the East Indies, one from
the West Indies, one hundred and twelve from the United
States, and two from South America.

ROBBERY FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—On Friday Wil-
liam Hughes, a well-dressed young man, with a swell-
mobish appearance, was fully committed for trial on a
charge of having stolen a box, containing between forty
and fifty pounds in silver, from the public-house bar of
Mr. Racnsay, in Parker-street. on Wednesday.
UNIVERSITY HONOUR.—We observe, in the list of
candidates for academic honours at the Trinity College.
Dublin, the name of our young townsman, Mr. Thomas
Dunnett, jun., to whom has been awarded the Science
Sizership. hen extremely young, he carried off the
first prize in the High School at the Mechanic's Institu-
tion in this town.

FLINT GLASS.—A treasury order has been received at
the Liverpool Custom-house, directing that all flint-glass.
packed and sealed for export, under the supervision of
the excise and deposited in a bonded warehouse at the
intended place of export, previous to the 6th of July next,
shall be entitled to the present drawback on shipment,
although such shipment do not take place until after the
sth of July next.
It has been unexpectedly determined that the aceonch-
ment of her Majesty will take place at Windsor Castle.
That interesting event is expected to occur early in the
ensuing month. Them is a rumour that the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal will visit the Isle of Wight
(the Princess Alice remaining at the Castle)
,during the
temporary seclusion of our beloved Sovereign. Dr. Lo-
cock, the first physician accoucheur to the Queen, will be
in attendance on her Majesty, when the Court takes its
departure from Buckingham Palace.
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, NEAR FALKNER-SQUARE.....
This church having been closed during the past three
weeks for the purpose of cleaning and making some ne-
cessary alterations, was re-opened on Sunday last, under
the ministry of the Rev. Wray R. Hunt, late of
Moira, county Down. The congregation was numerous
and respectable, and the preacher was listened to with
great attention and interest, and evidently made a favour-
able impression on his hearers. We were pleased to ob-
serve the free seats well Bled.
BIGAMY.—On Saturday a man named Peter Tool was
charged at the Police .court with having married a second
wife, his first being then, alive. The prisoner said his first
marriage was illegal, as his first wife at the time of mar-
riage was a Protestant, and he was a Roman Catholic, and
she was so dissipated that they had separated, and he bad
never seen her for two years until the day before. He
had previously heard site was dead.—Mr. Rushton saki,
he saw nothing in the case to invalidate the marriage at
St. Patrick's Chapel, and that he should, therefore, coat-
mit the prisoner for trial. He was committed according'''.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Yesterday, Thorns's
Carter, his wife, and two sons, Thomas and Joseph, were
before Mr. Rushton, chargedwith assaulting Catherine Can.
ter, the wife of Thomas Carter, the younger, and causing
the death of an infant child. The complainant said, that on
Saturday, the 25th of May, about ten o'clock at night,
she went into Selby's public-house, Stanley-strut, for
the purpose of getting some money which her husband
promised to leave for her. There she saw her mother-in-
law, and they quarrelled. She left the house, and seeing
her husband and his father coming up the street, she
followed them to Temple-buildings. There Joseph came
up, and said, " Have you got any one to fight me." She
replied that she had not. He then got his hands round
her neck, and dragged her into the house, and kicked
her in the abdomen. Mrs. Carter twisted ber hands
in her hair, and kicked her also. Her husband came
and pretended to take his mother's hand out of her hair,
but struck her (his wife) on the shoulder several times.
The father called out, " Give it to her John, you will
never have an opportunity again." The police and a girl
then came and took her away. At this time she was
between five and six months gone in the family way, and
had that evening felt that the child was alive. She was
laid up for that time, premature labour ensued, and she
was delivered of a, dead born child. Mr. Criffs and Mr.
Potter, surgeons, were afterwards called in, and both ex-
pressed their belief that the labour had been occasioned
in consequence of violence. Evidence was given on the
part of the prisoners, to show that the complainant had
acted violently towards her mother-in-law, whom she
struck, and a scuffle having ensued, she fell to the ground.
Mr. Rushton took time to consider of the case, and re-
manded the prisoners till this day.

TIDE TABLE.
DAYS. MRN. EyN. HEIGHT HOLYDATS, ETC.
Tuesday 13 020 037 15 7 Venus sets 10h 42m ev.
Wednes. 15 0 55 i 12 15 5
Thurs... 20 131 143 15 5 Accession of Queen V.
Friday.. 21 2 g 223 14 10 Proclamation.
Saturday 22 250 312 14 6 Saturn rises 10h 22m. e.
Sunday 23 337 4 3 13 8 3d Sunday after Trinity
Monday 24 431 5 5 13 4 Midsummer Day.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 17.
We have had a monerate supply at market this morning, and
prices ruled about the same as our last. Number of Beasts,
930; sheep and Lambs, 8444.

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713 s : othcr sorts 63s to 74s per cwt. For picklesecopodast the
inquiry
was, in a good many Ins'ances, obtained. To-day we observe
2s would
not be refused. Established brands of Irish Beef sustain late
quotatims ; snch as "Sherlock" and "Wood" being worth
Elos to 84s per tee. There are, however, some kinds in the
market offered at 70s to 755. Pork is rather scarce, and brings
513 s to 62sCd per barrel. Bacon is steady at Ors to 429,
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Potatoes, p golb 8. d.
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LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET.
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Hay,Pink-eyes
Cups
6 Clover .... U 8— • 11,
Short-tops 0 0— 0 11 Straw,Wheat. 0 34 0 41
Cattle
Red Rogers .... 3 6 3 10 Grass
Manglewurzle .... 0 0— 0 0 Vetches

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