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ting the case of the cardinal to be fairly stated, and also but, in Slay...,
allowing the wisdom and justice of the act of 1829, it will were not as precise as the °cu..-- _
be much more easy to laugh at my observations than to scions that they were fairly open to the ir
prove their folly. Being convinced that this Popish me"- that J extended the extreme condemns"
sure is the most important event of this age, I think it is the confessional generally. To he-
necessary to speak out on the question. It is of no use to serious fault. Feeling it, and -.
be " indignant" or insulting. We may bluster as loudly which I,m sorry to see was wuzuwn away upon many,
\s we please about the "arrogance" of the Pope, the and, as it appears, upon your eminence
also, I was tbe
mummeries" of his religion, aye, and burn, if we will first publicly to condemn myself.
"'‘,. his cardinals and his bishops in effigy—all this Of this part of the transaction, equally pnb.
may smile at, for so long as we admit necessity equally under your cognisance with t
to be wise and just, he knows he has a your eminence's ~....1.---- •• • -

have had nothing to

intending no rnore,)my words

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sensibility

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, . cauour could attord no ntu.
standing in these realms which, when the numbers of his Auditory; but, in yon o
your sense of justice and truth, a man
adherents warrant, will give him unlimited power in these whose prompt acknowledgment made it evident that he
realms.—Richard Oastler. could not live happy under the consciousness of even an
THE DISSENTERS AND THE PAPACY.-At the recent unguarded form of speech on so solemn a subject, is held
meeting of Dissenters in Leeds, to protest against the up by your eminence to public reprobation as a man who
Papal aggression, several of the speakers ridiculed the " believes that it is doing God service to put Catholics t
idea of England again becoming indoctrinated with Ro- death"—" a minister of religion, who mak aown t'
manism. One of them referred to the union of Church religious fanaticism can even yet gloat eve. he cleat'
and State as fraught with greater danger to the cause of struggle of its victim !"
religious liberty than even the proceedings of the Pope. The British public will feel that you must have been
"He had no fear of the Pope's bull, and if he was alarmed greatly at a loss for arguments when you had recourse to
at anything it was at the spirit of intolerance which had such entertainment as this for your
confiding auditors.
been manifested, for it was painful to earnest thinking And the country may well rejoice with thankfulness in
men to observe that men professing Christian principles the gratifying fact, that under an excitement of two
had committed themselves to such rage and excitement as months' duration, which has stirred the feelings of mil-
had existed within the last few months. (Hear, hear.)" lions of our population, and occupied the tongues of
We repeat, that this self-confident spirit disregards alike hundreds of our public speakers, your eminence has found
the lessons of experience, of sound reason, and of Holy
Scripture. nothing to lay hold of, except apart—and only a part—of
The page of history shows us, at a glance,
an occurrence, which you have so unscrupulously misre-
whole nations, where Protestantism has formerly flou- presented.
rished, but where it is now extinct. It may be enough
to refer to Poland, to Bohemia, and to Navarre. But no
one who really knows anything of the annals of Christi-
anity will maintain such a doctrine as that Protestantism,
once planted in a country, may defy the efforts of Rome.
We are happy to observe that Lord Fitzwilliam, in his last
speech at Huntingdon, showed a better knowledge of the
philosophy of the case than these Leeds Dissenters. His
lordship said—" There was a great deal in the Roman
Catholic religion which made it a favourite with the heart
of man. It was that to which he looked with alarm.
(Hear, hear.) It was that against which be wished to
guard them, and to call upon them to be on the alert.
To a man who had indulged in vice, and in whose mind
was the idea and wish to indulge in it again, it was a
comfortable thing to think that he had nothing to do hr

to you

s known tha

apologise to your congreg,
having, without evidence—nay, against evidence.oewxteresuansday sensitive of wrong done as lam
ewiooluuflsd luilyy imputed to a minister of religion sentiments which
(all heretic as be is) he never for a moment entertained.
Permit me to suggest a re-reading of your eloquent
burst of indignation on Sunday last, thus ;—At a time
when it is difficult to find even one man honestly to acquit
deliberate concealment of a known conspiracy to murder—
when by a process of enlightenment in accordance with
Scriptural truth we have been purging society of the fic-
titious distinctions in sin, and the Jesuitical apologies for
crime, which so long characterised a debased and demo-
ralised Church—that we should have seen a minister of
religi--

tion for

make known to us ti

OM lama

and obtain absolution. (Hear, hear.) He therefore told
them—what perhaps might not have occurred to some of
them—that the dangers of the Roman Catholic religion
were to be found in the hearts and vices of mankind.
That was the true danger." Those who argue, as some
are fond of doing, that truth and error being fairly placed
before mankind, truth must prevail, must assume, as their
first principle, that the heart of man is in a state of neu-
trality at least, if not prepared to " choose the good, and

to murder, he could not interpose by word or deed to
prevent its terrific accomplishment—that there still live
men who believe that it is doing God service to give wide
circulation to deliberate calumny, and to lie against here-
tics with their eyes open !
If you will read this in your next lecture, I think I may
venture to predict that all those among your hearers who
have read the newspapers with intelligence for the last
month, will perceive to whom the application belongs
with more readiness, justice, and truth than they did
when you gave them your own version.

Man's

refuse the evil." But this is contrary to the fact
heart is not even neutral. Satan has dominion over it,
from the first, except in the case of the regenerate, who,
it will be granted, are the few—not the many. But surely
the lessons of Scripture must be strangely forgotten by
those who speak thus confidently. Not forgetting the
Epistles to the Seven Churches, what says St. Peter's
own history ? " Though all men should deny thee, yet
will not I ! " Such was the confident tone of an apostle,
and yet that same apostle, before twelve hours bad elapsed,
feared before a servant-maid, and denied with an oath,
saying, " I do not know the man." Strange, that a
Christian minister, with this lesson in his hand, can ex-
claim, " England become Popish ! Impossible ! "

I have the honour to be, most rev. sir, your eminence's
foully-calumniated and very determined opponent, for
Christ's sake, HUGH AI•NEILE.
Liverpool, Jan. 1, :831,

SPEECH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CUM.
BERLAND ON THE ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION, DELI-
VERED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, ON THURSDAY, FEB.
19TH, 1829.—" I can assure your lordships that I never
felt more unwilling to trespass on your attention than on
the present occasion, and nothing but the duty I feel I
owe to your lordships—to the country—and to myself,
could have made me stand up on the presen

occasion

MORE ROMISH PROSELYTISM.—On Friday an apple.
cation was made to the magistrates at the Town. hail,
Leicester, under circumstances which have excited great

But, my lords, I have always been willing to speak out on
this subject, and ever shall be, for I think it a duty I owe
to the country to let it know what my feelings are. It
shall no longer be said that I am this thing, or that, but
shall be known distinctly what I am. It is painful, be-
lieve me, my lords, to differ from my noble friend (the
Duke of Wellington), with whom I have been so long
united in the bonds of private friendship. But 1 cannot
change an opinion which I conscientiously think to be
right, and more especially, my lords, when the question
is, as it undoubtedly is in the present case, neither more
nor less than this—is England to be a Protestant or a
Popish country ? (Loud cheers.) For, my lords, the
very moment we admit one Roman. Catholic into this
house or into the other house of parlTment, I maintain
that this becomes not a Protestant parliament. (Cheers.)
I have carefully and attentively viewed this. question every
way in the world in which it has been considered ; and the
result is, that I never will give my. consent either to a Ro-
man Catholic peer sitting in this house, or a Roman
Catholic member sitting in the other house, or to any
Roman Catholic being a minister of the crown, or to a
Roman Catholic lord lieutenant of Ireland,
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Roman Roman Catholic holding any office that may give him
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going to do, it will cost him a great deal of painful feel-
ing ; hut, as an honest man, I feel it my duty to state
openly my opinions, and I trust that your lordships will
excuse me for detaining you while I repelled the insinua-
hich it was necessary I should no longer suffer to

W. Napier Reeve, who appeared on behalf
of a widow lady named Douglas, now residing in Leicester,
said,—On the death of her husband, the lady went over
to Inland, and by obtaining a situation as governess, con-
trived to support herself and to bring up two children,
daughters, in a respectable manner. On their growing
up these daughters were put to the millinery and dress-
making business, and they, with their mother, subse-
quently came to Leicester, the lady having letters of re-
commendation from several clergymen of the Irish
church to the Rev. E. T. Vaughan, vicar of St. Martin's,
land to some other ciergymen. The daughters obtained
situations at the millinery establishment kept by the
Misses Reeve, and, in the fulfilment of her duties the
younger of the two, named Jane Douglas, who is in her
21st year, had occasion to visit various draper's shops in
the town. Amongst others, she went to the shop of Mr.
Brady, who, being au Irishman, and Miss Douglas having
resided the greater part of her life in Ireland, became
more intimate with her than was usual with other cus-
tomers. Mr. Brady was a catholic, and Miss Douglas,
with her mother and sister, were protestants. On
Christmas-day Mr. Brady invited Miss Douglas to dine
at his house, to which the mother was opposed, not wish-
ing to have her small family circle broken up on that day.
At the pressing solicitations of Mr. Brady, however, she
left home, and it had since been found that the invitation
to dinner was a pretence to obtain an opportunity to take
her to the Holy Cross Chapel, where she was that day

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returned home without intortning her mother of what-1
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anyMonnmconfined
ANDto words ; and as there is IittIeCARDINALbADINAL WISEMAN:An Irish
had transpired, and on Sunday morning last accompanied controversy is generally an amusing affair, when the co-
hor mother to the protestant church as usual. n the batanta
evening of that day she declined to go to church, and chance of a lady and a Prince of the Church—genuine
remained at home alone. On the return of the mother Hibernians as they both are—resorting to other wcopono
from church she found her elder daughter standing at the the public will be grateful to us for having been the P
un-
door unable to get in ; and, after knocking for some time conscious means of resuscitating a feud of long standing
without gaining admission, the elder daughter went in between Lady Morgan and the new Archbishop of West-
search of her sister, and met her near to the catholic minster. We have just received a pamphlet by her lady-
chapel, with a young man from Mr. Brady's shop. The ship, entitled—" Letter to Nicholas, by the Divine Mercy
younger then gave the key of the house door to her sister, of the Holy Roman Church, by the title of St. Pudentiana,'
and said she was not going home, and she did not return Cardinal Priest, Archbishop of Westminster, and Admi-
that night. On the following morning Mrs. Douglas nistrator Apostolic of the Diocese of Southwark." It
consulted the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, and he communicated begins as follows :—" My Lord Cardinal,—A letter ad.
with Mr. Reeve. Mr. Reeve then went to Mr. Brady's, dressed recently to the Morning Chronicle. headed ' Lady
taking with him another attorney as a witness to what Morgan and Cardinal Wiseman,' has drawn my attention
might transpire. Mr. Brady denied any knowledge of to an early publication of your eminence, which, more
where Miss Douglas was, but afterwards admitted that important in its object than its subject, is now doubtless
she slept at his house on Sunday night. lie refused to destined, like all your eminence ever has written, or may
say where she was, and at last referred Mr. Reeve to the write, to see the light ; coming forth, as you now do, the
Rev. Mr. Nickolds, the catholic priest. He went there, foreground figure of a great epoch. The title of your
and Mr. Nickolds refused to give any information which eminence's work is, ` Remarks on Lady Morgan's State-
might enable Mr. Reeve to restore Miss Douglas to her ments regarding St. Peter's Chair, preserved in tho Vati-
family, alleging that she was afraid that her mother would can Basilic.' It is in bulk a brochure, in spirit a bull.
do her some bodily injury. Mr. Reeve offered, if that The tendency of your eminence's remarks was to place
was the cause of her absence, to appear with the mother my book called ' Italy on the Index Expuroatorins of
before the magistrates, that they might bind her over to the Holy Office of Rome—in this you succeeded; and to
keep the peace, if there was any ground for such a pro- banish.. the author of that work from the happy social
seeding. He asked Mr. Nickolds if he would attend be- position she has always occupied—in this you failed. For
fore the magistrates on Wednesday, and he excused him-.. the awful rade in pace of the church has now no longer
self by saying that would be the feast of the circumcision. the power to hurl its victims into the darkness of social
Mr. Reeve then offered to meet him on Friday, but he oblivion, nor can even a Papal excommunication close the
wished the young woman to be restored to her mother. doors of European salons against those whose moral con.
She was not restored, however, and up to Friday morn- sideration or intellectual attainments have brought them
her. (big.
Reeve)mr
.ine her friends had no knowledge of where she.n I
was. He within the circles of distinguished society. My work on
was written and published under the wise and liberal
pontificate of Pope Pius VII., to whom I had the honour
and Mr. Brady, who had notice that Mr. Reeve would of presentation, and to whose eminently gifted and accom.
Bell asked
sai said hell attended t tme nadg
make an application to the bench that morning. II
eisdtra on tebsethoalafsosifsAt ir.
N•esictkorotindgs Italy
1--e was plished Secretary of State, Cardinal Gonsalvi, I was in-
instructed that Miss Douglas was favourably disposed debted for many kind attentions and serious obligations ;
towards the Roman catholic faith while in Ireland, and amongst others, that of rescuing my husband's books
that latterly she bad become more convinced of that being from a seizure made by the Holy Office, though the To-
the true religion, and had been anxious to make a profes- lumes had been purchased at considerable expense from
sion of it, but was opposed by her mother, who threatened 1 Roman booksellers and celebrated antiquarians." Her
her if she became a catholic. Mr. Bell then said, to show ladyship having thus established her own undeniable
that he had more confidence in the feelings of a mother claim to a fair hearing, proceeds to shadow out the position
than Mr. Reeve had in his own iclient, he would under- of his eminence when his evil stars led him to assail the
take that Miss Douglas should return without such an " Wild Irish Girl," who, he may now find to his cost, is
engagement, The parties then left the court. ;as wild as ever.—.lllornin,g Chronicle.
1

Jan. 7, 1851.

GRATIFYING TESTIMONIALS.-011 the 26th ult. the
congregation of St. Thomas' Church, Warwick-oreet,
presented their schoolmaster, Mr. Caleb Beckett, on his
Mr. Charles Groves has presented £5O for the erection removal to another charge, with sundry unique articles of
-anew schools in All Saints parish. silver,v as a token of respect for him, and in appreciation
The Royal Mersey Yacht Club purpose giving a grand of his services as teacher, organist of the church, and choir
ball next month. master. The Rev. J. T. Bryan, curate of the church,
General Ceara has been appointed Brazilian Consul at deputed to present the same, bore testimony to his ster-
this port vice Admiral Grenfell recalled. ling worth. The concert given by the children during
The congregation of the Baptist Chapel in Pembroke- the evening, evinced the care bestowed on them, and was
place have contributed £l2O to the relief of the sufferers a conclusive proof of his tact and talent in affording in
'from cholera in Jamaica. struction.
The West Derby Union lunatics confined in Haydock PRESENTATION.—On Friday evening last, the congre-
lunatic asylum have been removed to the new asylum at cation of St. Thomas', Toxteth-park, presented to the
Rainhill. Rev. T. C. Cowan, their late minister, a purse with nearly
Mr. Robert Batty, son of our distinguished townsman, forty sovereigns, as a mark of their respect and their gra-
Edward Batty, Esq., has been unanimously elected house titude for his faithful public ministrations, while in con-
Surgeon of the North Dispensary. nection with the above church. We believe this is the
The ladies of the congregation of St. Catherine's Church, second time that the St. Thomas' congregation have
Tranmere, have presented the Rev. B. Arthure, the in- gladly come forward to testify to Mr. Cowan their value
cumbent, with a handsome suit of canonicals. of his ministerial services amongst them. On Sunday
The surplus income or the Corporation this year will last, the rev. gentleman entered on his duties as incumbent
be £15,370, whilst last year it was only about half that of St. Andrew's Church, and preached two excellent ser-
sum. mons. We understand that an additional service will take
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Ezra Arlo.

Father Mathew has announced his intention to embark
at New York, in August next, for Liverpool. On his ar-
rival he will become the guest of Mr. W. Rathbone.
The workmen in the employ of Messrs. Segar and Tun-
nicliffe, corn merchants, presented, on Wednesday, at a
Sumptuous dinner, a handsome gold watch as a mark of
esteem to the ferernan.
A girl has recently succeeded in robbing school children
by sending them to parties they know to borrow money.
as if for their parents, and when they got it she took it
from them.
On Sunday the senior classes in All Saints' Sunday
Schools were examined as to their general scriptural
knowledge, and extra prizes, the gift of Mr. Woodruff,
one of the councillors for the ward, presented to them.
An official inquiry has been instituted into the working
of the Liverpool County Court, and it is likely that the
inconveniences S 3 generally complained of will be reme-
died.
A wooden house is now being erected on a piece of
vancant land in the road leading to the Prince's-park.
it is of large dimensions, and somewhat in the villa style,
being surrounded by a raised gallery. It is painted red,
and has a novel apperance. Ii is to be shiped for California.
THE INFANT MARIE.—In consequence of the success
which has attended the concerts hitherto given by this
musical prodigy, she will give two other entertainments at
the Assembly_rooms, Great George-street. They are
fixed for Wednesday morning and evening.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN
FOREIGN PARTS.—On Sunday last a sermon was preached
in aid of the above society in St. Anne's Church, Aigburth,
by the Rev. G. W. Warre, incumbent of St. Saviour's.
The collection amounted to £24.
The first division of six companies of the 52d Regiment
of Light Infantry, now in garrison here,wilileavi4ijo
this
morning, en route to Dublin, and thence to Birr.
Forrester and the remaining companies will leave
on
Thursday.
On Tuesday night, a little before nine o'clock, as Mr.
Southern, of Low-hill, was passing through St. Vincent-
street, he was attacked by two men,of respectable appear-
ance, who, seizing him by the throat, nearly strangled
him, and stole from him a silver lever watch, gold guard,
and chain.
On Wednesday night, between six and eight o'clock,
the house of Mr. Aitken, stationer, Great Charlotte-
street, was entered during the time the family were below,
from the skylight, by some persons having gained access
through au adjoining empty house, and a vast quantity of
wearing apparel and other property stolen.
Mr. Bower, of Birkenhead, has recovered £2O in the
Chester County Court, from the proprietors of the Chester
and Holyhead Railway, for inconvenience and detention,
in consequence of the station master at Holyhead having
sent a portion of Mr. Bower's luggage on board a steamer
going to Ireland.
The operatives employed at the North Shore Mills have
presented to Mr. R. F. North, on his retirement from
the firm, a beautifully-bound Bible, as a token of their
regard and gratitude. They also presented a memorial
expressive of the lasting and numerous benefits they have
received from him on numerous occasions.
MRS. M'DOUGALL'S CONCERT.—This excellent voca-
list has prepared a rich treat for all lovers of music at her
approaching annual concert. The programme has been
selected with unusual taste, and Mrs.M'Dongall has been
fortunate in securing the services of Miss Wbitnall, Mrs.
G. Holden, Mr. Miranda, Mr. Percival, &c. The repu-
tation of such vocalists as these, and the favourite pieces
assigned for their execution respectively, will no doubt'
cause the Concert Hall to be crowded on he occasion.
The friends of the Rev. Mr. Gardner, late minister of
St. Andrew's Kirk, cf Birkenhead, will be glad to learn,
by letters lately received from Adelaide, that he has met
with the most cordial reception from his congregation
there, they having presented him with the title-deeds of a
house and garden, and subscribed already £l2OO towards
the erection of a church, which is to have a steeple, a bell,
and a clock, and will be the handsomest building in the
colony, in connexion with the Presbyterian Church.
Tax BIRKENHEAD RIOT.—At the Chester sessions, on
Monday last, Mr. Case moved that the sum of £5OO be
paid from the county rate, to defray the cost of furnishing
the military with quarters and refreshment, the expense
of the police, and other incidentals, in connexion with the
late riot at Birkenhead. A question as to the legality of
the payment having been raised, the subject was post-
poned to the next adjourned sessions ; counsel's opinion
to be taken, if necessary, in the meantime.
BIRKENHEAD Docxs.—The committee recently ap-
pointed to consider the present state of the trust, and the
best means of raising funds necessary to complete the
works, and to confer with a committee of the Birkenhead
Dock Company thereon, have convened a meeting of the
bondholders. to be held in London on Thursday next, to
receive the report of the committee, and to determine on
the propriety of assenting to the bill in Parliament pro-
posed by the Dock Company, and of adopting further
resolutions for the support of the measure.
ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, TORTETH-PARK.--On
Tuesday evening last the friends and supporters of the
schools connected with the above place of worship took
tea together in the school rooms. About 400 sat down.
The Rey. Mr. Brewster, the incumbent, said the church
bad been opened about twelve months, and it was
intended to hold a bazaar next fortnight for the benefit of
the schools. Several other speeches were delivered, fol-
lowed by a series of dissolving views, which, in many in-
stances by their amusing character, afforded a consider-
able degree of merriment.
FINAL CLOSE OF THE LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.—On
Saturday last the Exhibition finally closed after a very
succesEful season. Up to Saturday night 81 pictures had
been disposed of,
weeksf,th theenettapount realized being £2,342,
During the four
admission,
has been open at
the reduced charge for admi
industrious classes
availed themselves of the highly'intellectual treat to the
number of 13,626 persons ;
and not the slightest injury
has been done to any of the works of art. From six o'clock
until ten, on Friday night, no less than 1,389 persons visited
the Exhibition-rooms.

place every Sunday afternoon. The service on Wednes-
day evening will be resumed to-morrow evening, and
continued weekly.
ACHILL MISSION.—The following is a brief history of
Achill Mission, on behalf of which an advertisement call-
ing a meeting for this evening appears in another
column :—" The Mission has now been is existence for 17
years. When it first began its operations there was no
church, no resident ministry, no Protestant school, and
no Protestants, with the exception of a few English coast
guards. The people were immersed in the barbarism and
ignorance which Popery invariably gathers around it where
full scope is given to its tendencies. Among the six thou.
sand Roman Catholics inhabiting that extensive district
not so much as a single copy of any version of the Holy
Scriptures was to be found. There are now three churches
and three stations, where divine worship is celebrated, and
the gospel preached in English and Irish. There are four
ministers and 30 schools. Theservices are attended by about
900 of the entire population, and it would be difficult to
find in the whole district a single house without a Bible,
or a portion of it, in English or Irish, and members of
the family capable of reading it. The island of Achill is
about being sold by the encumbered estates com-
missioners, and fearing that it might fall into the hands
of those who would use the influence of a landlord to op-
press the converts, an appeal was made by the Mission for
funds to enable the trustees of the Mission to purchase
the island. This appeal was so successful that the trus-
tees are now in treaty with the proprietor for the
whole of the Achill estate, and it is hoped that the
contract will soon be concluded. The great effort made
by the friends of the Mission to raise the required sum
has absorbed the funds usually given for its ordinary pur-
poses, and in consequence of this three months' salary are
now due to the persons employed in the work ; a debt of
£3OO has been contracted for food for five hundred and
fifty destitute children, principally orphans whose pa.
rents died of famine, fever, or cholera ; and unless
prompt and liberal assistance is given the teachers must
throw up their situations, and the poor children must be
abandoned to the degradation of the workhouse. But the
committee are persuaded that this will not be the ease,
and that the friends of this mission need only to be in-
formed of its wants to supply what is needed. Contribu-
tions will be thankfully received by the Rev. John Conor,
Salisbury-street, Liverpool.
TIMBER AND SHIPBUILDING TRADES.—The special
sub-committee appointed, many months ago, to consider
the best sites for giving increased accommodation to the
timber and shipbuilding trades submitted their report on
Thursday. They state that they have taken the opinion
of the Dock Solicitor on the legal powers of the com-
mittee, as to the appropriation of the land the site of the
Harrington Estate. It appears that the land appropriated
under the Doct Act to dock purposes can only legally be
so used ; that such portions of land as may not be re-
quired for dock purposes can alone be let for the use either
of the timber or any other trades, with the exception of
the site at the north, where the committee have some
special power as to the shipbuilding trade. The report
then proceeds :—`• In considering the various plans, the
special sub-committee have had to bear in mind the
limits which the Dock Acts have thus imposed. Coming
then to the plans which have been called for as to the
most desirable mode of meeting the wants of the timber
trade at the south end of the docks, where it has been
carried on through a long period of years, and where the
want of water space for the ships, and quay space for
landing, as well as for storing ground for the timber, have
been most severely felt, and where no water storing place
has ever existed, the special sub-committee, with a view
of giving facility to the importer in the discharge of his
ships, and at the same time not to encroach too much
upon such ground as has temporarily only, and under a
pressure of circumstances, been used as storing ground,
and considering it simply as a modification of the plan
originally approved, have selected, and recommend for the
adoption of the general committee, a plan of enlarging
Toxteth Dock, on the south side, 315 feet; the area will
then be 4 acres, 2639 yards, together with 300 feet of quay
space. The cost of which, the surveyor states, will be
£53,560, and which can be completed within eighteen
months from the commencement. The sub-committee
regard this additional dock and landing space at the Tox-
teth Dock as net all that might have been desired, but all
that, under the circumstances, can be allowed in that
locality." The special sub-committee have also directed
their attention to the land at the present north end of the
Dock Estate, and have called for plans of dock, quay, and
storage accommodation, which that site will afford for the
timber trade, together with estimates of the cost. They,
however, forbear at present, from recommending this plan
for adoption ; but they recommend that the plan be not
proceeded with beyond the Battery. With regard to the
shipbuilding accommodation, the special subcommittee
have not yet been able to arrive at any definite plans, either
as to site or terms. The report having been adopted, it
was agreed that it should be printed, and the plans litho-
graphed ; and that the further consideration of the ques-
tion should be postponed for a month. A discussion took
place, in the course of which, Mr. Rankin expressed his
regret at the decision come to by the special committee.
He disagreed with it in every respect. He thought, if
adopted, it would be a gross injustice to the shipowners,
the importers of timber, and the shipbuilders of the port,
so that it required most serious consideration.

Quicx SAILING.—The screw steamer Nile, which left
this port for the Mediterranean, on the 25th of_
_November,
has so far fully come up to the anticipations of her owners,
having made the run hence to Alexandria, inclusive of
stoppages, in seventeen days. She had previously called
at Gibraltar, Palermo, and Messina, making the run from
the latter port to Alexandria, a distance of 950 miles, in
eighty-five hours, arriving there on the 11th ult. The
Nile, Captain Bulkelev, which is about 700 tons burthen
and 150 horse power, belongs to Messrs. Moss and Co., of
this town, and will shortly be followed by the Arno, Cap-
tain George Haram, which leaves Liverpool on the 10th
instant, fcr Italy and Sicily.
MORE FUGITIVE SLAVES.—We understand that Wil-
liam and Ellen Crafts, about whom there was so much
excitement in Boston a short time since, reached this
port, by the Cambria, more than a fortnight ago ; but
their arrival was made known only to a few friends, in
consequence of Mrs. Crafts having been attacked by a
severe and serious illness, brought on, beyond doubt, by
the fearful season of agitation and suspense she passed
through just before escaping from " the land of liberty."
She is now convalescent, and is staying at the house of
the Rev. Francis Bishop. Mr. Crafts has left Liverpool
to meet and consult with an American friend at Edin-
burgh; but his wife was not well enough to accompany him.
They were widely known and much respected in Boston,
as the difficulties thrown in the way of their apprehension
by almost all parties strikingly testified. Mr. Crafts is a
fine intelligent man, and Mrs. Crafts is so nearly white
that only an American's keen-sightedness would detect
her affinity to the proscribed race.
STEAM SHIPS.—The departure of the first vessel to
the Cape, a fortnight back, will be followed on the 9th of
January by the commencement of the new line to Brazil.
More powerful vessels are building for the West Indies.
Thets o competition to New York will reach the utmost
limif speed and cheapness ; and an Irish packet sta-
tion and a railway from Cape Canso will reduce the At-
lantic transit to six days. Lines also are already planned
from Charleston to Liberia, and from San Francisco to
China,
wol!gand the selection of a route to Australia can no
an(ler be avoided. With these movements emigration
assume its true character. Instead of our coloniese
fißedinew settlements being places of banishment, to b
Whose co"1Y by the poor, they will attract the classes
o-aPeration is essential in the success of all new
communities, and who, while extending the best influ-
{barnl:73ence of the mother country, will by their skill and capital
.en up Pursuits for all who may desire to follow. In
manner likewise our tie with the United States,
with Central and South America, and other countries will
be extended.
.. DEATH OP CAPTAIN BRACKEN.—WO have to record
Ihoe death, by typhus fever, at the age of 45, of Captain
4 hn Bracken, of the 29th Native Infantry, and officiating
;Deputy Adjutant General of the Bengal army. The
lamentable event occurred at Simla, on the 10th Novem-
ber last, after an illness of short duration. The profes-
sional knowledge and high character of Captain Bracken
had obtained for him an appointment on the staff of
the distinguished Commander-in-Chief in India, and he
had been deputed to meet and escort the new commander-
in-chief, Sir William Gomm. The Delhi Gazette "He was well versed and took a deep interest in thegreat
political questions
Years aof his native country ; and nearly 20
go, when liberal opinions were neither so safe nor
so fashionable as now,
d in the
hebeing on furlough at Liverpool,
t,_ active part principles tation which resulte .
vlicomph of reform pin that town. For his ser-
clueal on this occasion, the Reformers of Liverpool, in-
scribed /lg the most influential gentlemen of the place, sub-
nc, o and presented to him a handsome present of plate
to a I ' Captain Bracken was twice married : first,
anther of the late Sir Herbert Compton, and a se-
Wonnidtlitinife to the eldest daughter of the late Egerton
Liverpool, who survives to mourn his loss. He
altrsaoelke'r op
four children : the eldest in the army. Captain
skirmish casteao_aeti service in the field was confined to the
omptvie_if wnter in the Kohat pass, whither
Assistantheac Adjutalta4beeraCi:),Twatider-in-Chief as First