The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

Last even'ng, the half-yearly meeting of this association
was held at the Music Hall, and was most densely and
respectably attended. Amnngst the clergy and gentlemen
on the platform, we noticed the Rev. Mr. M'Neile, the
Rev. Mr. Nolan, the Rev. Mr. Bavlee, the Rev. Mr. B.
Ellis, the Rev. Mr. M`Cnnkey, Mr. Councillor Glaze-
brook, Mr. Councillor Harbord, and several others.
Shortly after seven o'clock. the chair was taken by the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile amid lend cheers. Prayers having
been offered up by the Rev. Mr. Nolan,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting as
follows. He said :—Friends and fellow-labourers, at
your last half-yearly meeting T gave you some instruction
upon the subject of social duties to be discharged upon
Christian principles. The address which I delivered to
you upon that occasion has been reprinted in London,
and very extensively circulated under the title of " Eng-
land's Caesar." It has fallen into the hands of some of
the leading politicians of the movement party, who seem
to think that all duties. both personal and social, may be
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 leave us
alone. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) First, the
hon. member for Edinburgh, and now, within the last few
days, the hon. member for Sheffield has introduced my
name, and a reference to my address to you, into the de-
bates of the House of Commons. Do I complain of this ?
Certainly not. I think it an honour to be attacked—
(cheersl—to he attacked by a wan 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 of our national institutions. (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 was 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.
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 haying 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 arauments, because I am quite cure 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 dexterous. 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 nnfairnes,, 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 me, and the well-judging electors of Sheffield
will agree with m .—(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-
ment; and have not they lost their christian character,
when members of Antichrist are ipso facto members of

1 o,h ? (Hear, hear, and great cheering.) " Hence our
troibles. Hence our divisions. Hence our dangers."
There he stopped ; and he left out a whole psge. 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 come 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-inust confess that I am compelled to the con-
clusion, that the British constitution must be destroyed,
unless srmo 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 monstrius. If I would not weary you—
(no, no)—to hear the passage he left out, which was ad-
dressed to you half-a-year ago, 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 tl a
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 he
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 1r the present question hefore the
house, the hon. member had adverted to his (Sir Robert
Peel's) speech Ceti, ered 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 •r;r,l,at opinion, had read no-
th•ng of the ; rguments by which it u as met—of the argu-
ments th-it ou,we,ghea tL tu tie minrii of the public :of
is 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
speech of 1817. and d dared on the part of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland, that in their opinion the removal of
their disabilities would be perfectly compithle with the

maintenance aid se( u ity of the established church. Mr.
Plunket declared sol mnly that if he entertained the
th the step of emancipation would endanger the
church es'ablishment, he would abandon these long-
asserted claims and range himself as their opponent."
In a subsequent part r f his speech, the right hon. baro-
net, in answer to Lord John Rusell, said—
" The noble lord had used a very vague term when he
spoke :,bout religious equality.' What did he mean by
it? Would the Roman Catholics consider it r religbus
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 th,nk

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 tie'
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, hear.) 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-
ment comes down to his place in parliament in 1844, and
says that now, in 1844, " stronger language was used in
regard to the Irish church than he had ever heard be-
fore," and that it was denounced as an " insult" and an
"injury." We told him so. I think it may be a lesson.
The right hon. baronet said in this very speech
" judging by the principles of human nature assalcl him-
self, in 1817, that it would be so :" but he I%.lnitd,ucds
to give up that judgment in 1829 and act ag
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you must go to the utmost extant, or satisf action will no

be given," as he says now—bad he then, ettlid what he
says now—had he then seen what he sees now, that, if
you once bezin, you must go on, and 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," Ido 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 he 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 agains' the encroachment of that
liberalism which saps the foundation of revelation. It is
to say to you, and such as you—the people of England—
that, with all the disadvantays 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 •
deuce 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
proofs, 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; ft-,r 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 f 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 hearers 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 thosehostle motiv, 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. BRABAZON Eters proposed the first resolu-
tion, to the effect that it was the opinion of the meeting
that Popery was idolatry, and to be aborted 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 Fong
and interesting exposition of the errors of popery, of
which he 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 water, 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 bla,-
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
abotreii by all Christians. He concluded by stating that
he had (One through all the counts of the indictment,
and having, as he believed, proved h,s case, he put it to
the meeting whether the I:omanists were guilty or not
guilty. (Loud cries of " Guilty, guilty !")
Mr, RADCEIFFE seconded the resolution. He dwelt
with much effect on the last clause of the resolution,
which hail 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 trouble, 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 tarts, " Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife," and the tenth was " Thou shalt riot
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 he sup-
ported in a loeg. eloquent, and argument rtive speech.
Mr. R. HARBORD, 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, arid 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 wino alone could cause the increase. The rev.
gentleman supported the motion in an address of consi-
derable length and much eloquence.
The revolution was seconded by Mr. T. F Glaze-
brook, who noticed the pernicious effects of our in-
tercourse 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
men and others present to be careful in their conduct, so
that their enemies might not accuse them of inconsistency,
the meeting diapersed.

perceived that James Yates, Esq., generously devoted
MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—Our readers will have
the sum of £2OO to the best pup 1 in the sixth class of
the High School of this institution, to enable him to take
his degrees in the Faculty of Arts at the London Univer-
sity. After a strict examination for two days, this prize
has been gained by Master Robert Williams, son of Mr.
Williams, tailor and draper, Basnett-street. £4O will be
paid on matriculation, £6O on the degree of B.A. being
taken, and £lOO on that of M.A. being taken.
upon
INQUEST.—On Saturday an inquest was b
oftoarner persons,
the deceased, together with a nunaboeruse,
in Spitalfields,
body of Thomas Powell, a shoemaker. I
went into Charles M•Kee'a publiccote,
enced between the
on Tuesday last, when a dispute comet
aek-yard to fight. One of
which waPespteoarbeeddtehcai-t
backed Black, and another,
the party, Thomas Smith,d
the deceased ; neither of them
William Ralph, backed
four rounds, and at the end of
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were sober.
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each the decease
hurtingthrown h
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. extent that the
man complainedoften and bitterly that his
unfortunate At
Illy career was at an end.the termination of the
cart he was removed to his four rounds own home, where he
languished in great agony until Friday morning, when
death put an end to hi, sufferings. Mr. Cripps, surgeon,
made a post-mortem examination of the body, and found
an extensive rupture of the abdomen, which was the cause
of death and the result of external violence. The only
him every
perty in custody, Thomas Swiih, was ordered to be com-
mitted to prison until the verdict of the jury should have
time anddwas
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 bcen 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. ancic fladllui
npgonu

June 18, 1544•

TESTIMOiiIAL TO THE REV. W. FALLOON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
endati"gSton
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lectureweSeiknly,Att
with, I believe, the rest of the congregation and the all'
huerveeh evening
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comuin suo.sio
nister, most unexpectedly and agree ibly surprised.
You are aware that the bishop a few days back heal
confirmation in this town, and a preparation for which I
very considerable number received instruction from 0
minister. Subsequently, to evince their gratitude for his
care they had, it appears, in secret I suppose, met, 8
subscribed for a suitable memento of their affectionate
preciation of his attention to their eternal interests, in til6
shape of an ele2ant quarto Bible bearing an appropriatil
inscription engraven upon a silver plate. This, borne
upon a handsome velvet cushion, and accompanied
beautifully bland 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 i°
question presented by the youthful donors to their ell",
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 bl
the purchase of their offering, they, with thoughtfulness
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'
eluding a few words of brief but grateful acknowledgement,
and kind though solemn admonition to his young friends,
their pastor uttered the pra} erful 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 unary of them
had so recently professed their adherence, a proof allloog
many others, that education and religion may well go
band in hand.

The gratification that I derived from the scene I wit•
nessed, his induced me to request you will be kind enough
to afford this short description a corner in your valued
journal; and, by so doing, obliv.e
A CONSTANT READER.
Liverpool, June 15, 1841.

theTohnneoTßuhai
Bill was read a
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third time, and passed by the House of Commons.
uerkrosefdnatyec:artddhseDoomnekaFn,Bcidlialelyswtnearisgthrtocnaddinagsecond time in
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.

AfAIL 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.

Toe Commis:ioner 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 s
dangerous state from the attack of the bear which escaped
from its pit in the Zoological Gardens 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 s 5
stores.

COTTON ARRIVALS.—During the week ending Thur!•
day there arrived in Liverpool, partially or wholly laden
with cotton, three vessels from the East Indies, one fro
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 foal
and fifty pounds in silver, from the public-hottale bar of
Mr. Ramsay, 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. When extremely young, he carried off the
first prize in the High School at the Mechanic's Instittt-
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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 Gth of July nest,
shall he 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 accouch-
ment of her Majesty will take place at Windsor Castle.
That interesting event is expected to occur early in the
ensuing month. There is a rumour that the Prince of
Wales and the Princess Royal will visit the Isle of Wight
(the Princess Alice remaining at the Ca-tle) 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 FALICNER-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, 8.A., 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 filled.

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 she was dead.---Mr. Rushton said
he saw nothing in the case to invalidate the marriage at
St. Patrick's Chapel, and that he should, therefore, com-
mit the prisoner for trial. He was comn fitted accordingly'
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—Yesterday, Thomas
Carter, his wife, and two sons, Thomas and Joseph, were
before Mr. Ruslit.rn, chargedwith assaulting Cath-riLeCal,
ter, the wife of Thomas Carter. the younger, and causing
the death of an infant child. The complainant said, that oa
Saturday, the 25th of May, about ten o'clock at night,
she went into Selby's public-house, Stanley-strut, fer,
the purpose of getting some money which her husband
promised to leave for her. There she saw her Inc.-her-in'
law, and they quarrelled. She left the house, and seeing
her husband and his father corning up the street, she
followed them to Temple-buildings. There Jr:wept, came
up, and said, " Have you got any one to fight me." She
replied that she had not. He then got his hands roundl
her neck, and dragged her into the house, and kicked
her in the abdomen. Mrs. Carter twisted her hods
in her liair, and kicked her also. Her husband carve
and pretended to take his mother's hand out of her hair'
but struck her (his wife) on the shoulder several time.',
The father called out, " Give it to her John, you vv!",
never have an opportunity again." The police and a girl
then came and rook her away. At this time she vial
between five and six mouths gone in the family way, and
had that evening telt 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. surgeors, 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 bad
acted violently towards her mother-in-law, whom she
struck, and a scuffle having ensued, she fell to the ground'
Mr. Rushton look time to consider of the case, and re'
manded the prisoners till this day.