The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-10 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LEVERPOOL,

For the BENEFIT of Mr. and Mrs. BAKER.
(IN MONDAY next, 'the 16th instant, will be performed
k./ Morton's excellent Comedy, called
SECRETS WORTH KNOWING.
Rostrum., ...Mr. W. Howard,
From the Theatre-Royal, Norivich, his first appearante here.
Egerton Mr. Stuart. -
Nicholas. Rue. Mr. Ba - r.
Mrs. Greville Mrs. S w
ROW Sydney
Sally Downright - Mrs. arke.
Mr. Baker will Sing a New Comic Song, c, led "The Comet,"
written by a Gentleman of Liverpool.
"Mild as the Moonbeams," by Miss George, Mrs. E. Ben-
well, Mr. Frazer, and Mr. G. Horncastle.
'To conclude with
QUADRUPEDS.
Abrahamides Mr. Baker.
Dorothea Miss Chaplin.
Tittilinda • Miss Stanley.
-Tickets may be had of Mr. Baker,' caner 1:)f Lambert-street,
Islington; or of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office of the Theatre,
where Places may be taken. .

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot notice the subject to which W. C. refers, at least
for the present. /
In reply to D., we think the proceedings of the water company
to which he refers both vexatious and uncalled for. We have
had similar complaints before, and will give the subject our
earliest consideration.
A RATE PAYER is anxious to know whether it be within the
duty of a parish collector to pay frequent visits to a cer-
tain office in Orrell-place, Lord-street.
We thank an. OPERATIVE for his hints. We had our suspicions
that -even certain very humble persons, who could disclose
nothing for which we either cared or would he ashamed of,
were tampered with by the person alluded to; but we had no
reason to suppose, having conceived more favourably of him,
that he would descend to the vulgar importunities now de-
scribed. He can have poor consolation in reflecting that he
has beggared 'those whom he seduced into his confidence.
But more of this anon.
The letter in reference to one Coglan is a libel—perhaps the
Mercury would insert it.
Ntre cannot understand what is meant by M. Ashcroft, of Bank-
hall, Esq., being put in nomination for Kirkdale and Everton
ward. It seems like a quiz.
The letters of Clio and A Subsc7iber have been received; but
they came too late for insertion.

Abe iLiberpool "*tantiarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, -NOVEMBER 10, 1335

By the Elizabeth, Capt. 117• DONALD, arrived in this
port, and sailed from Demerara on the 27th September,
we have papers and letters to the above date. The go-
vernor continues indefatigable in disc Overing old and
in enacting new laws and regulations, none of which, we
regret to say, give satisfaction to •the planters. The
papers do not contain anything worth extracting.

We have received Jamaica files to the end of Septem-
ber. The preparations for the clection of members of
the House of Assembly were proceeding with great
spirit, and it is confidently • stated that nearly the whole
of the old representatives would be returned.. We ex-
tract the_following from the Jamaica Despatch of the
29th September :
"The- elections commence this day in Portland. The new
members will be Mr. Barrett, late speaker, and Mr. King, thus
giving the former two strings to his bow, in defiance of all the
machinations of his opponents, and give him another opportunity
of meeting Lord Sligo at the head of the representatives of the
people of Jamaica. Every ingenuity which could be devised to
prevent-his return has been resorted to, and, we understand, an
honourable member of his Majesty's council, (who has, as it is
most positively asserted, been interfering with the freedom of
election) shall hear of it. We hope the report that Lord Sligo
-eau also be implicated, is unfounded.
" The weather. for the last few days has been most sultry and
oppressive, but we lave been blessed with delightful showers,
and, we understand, theybave been general all over the island.
Our vegetation will increase so rapidly after this, that we are
very much afraid it will occupy a very large portion of the time.
of our peasantry to keep dewn.the weeds without attending to
the regular cultivation ! To.complain of the people would be
unjust; they are encouraged to do as little work as possible—
and their minds are so unhinged by public appeals, proclatna-
tinns, and instructions,- that-they scarcely know what to be after!
Notwithstanding all this, some of the governor's friends have
persuaded gin that the new system is working well! People
of England, do not be deluded ; you witness daily among your-
selves instances of the most ruthless whiggery ; but, you have
riot yet lost your means of existence, and the only redeeming
quality the present administration appear to possess, is to con-
ceal from you the ruin, the havoc, and destruction they have
brought about in the colonies. Their system commenced at the
weaker brinclies of the-national tree, and they will never re-
main satisfied, if they canaCcomplish it, till the tree itself is de-

stroyed..
" Fellow Subjects !—We love our King, venerate the consti.
Infirm of our country, and for this reason we give you this dis-
tant warning,-where the effects of misrule are but ton visible!—
Look, therefore, to yourselves, ere you find it to be too late.
" We'are, it is true, promised compensation for our loss of pro-
perty; but when, hoW, and where are we to obtain it? This is
a secret most carefully kept from us; and should it ever reach •
us, it will be so frittered away by commissioners, clerks, agents,
Sm., that it will he of little benefit to the oppressed.
" THE GOOD WORKING OF THE NEW SYSTElll.—We.have
just learnt, with very great satisfaction, that the new system is
working as well as our kindest friends at hOrne could wish!
We know an estate not many.thousand miles froM Portland,
with thres hundred labourers, by whose good working no lees
thon rutin hogsheads Hof saigar:of the last crop were shipped to
England by the 31st of July last !! ! Could Lord Sligo have
known this fact wheti he lust met the Assembly ? We hope
not. Another estate under a similar system of industry, manu-
factured by two hundred labourers, TWENTY-FIVE TIERCES of
Sugar! •We are convinced, and this fact was also unknown to
our worthy governor,. when he prepared his opening address to
the late house; but wE are prepared to give his Excellency
chapter and vere for it, if he should require it. Lord Sligo
boasts of his sources of information ou matters connected with
he country. So Can we."

The Observer of Sunday last, a ministerial paper inti-
Mately connected with the Morning Chronicle, states :
"It is understood that all his Majesty's ministers will
be assembled in London on Tuesday the 17th instant."
What is in the wind that this unusual collection of the
stray birds of the cabinet should be resolved upon in the
ominous month of November ? There are reasons for
roasting cockles, as CID HAMET observes in his seventy-
fifth book on essences. There are also reasons why Lord
MELBOURNE should summon his staff around him in
Downing-street, inclement though the season be, al-
though we havenot the honour to be in the secret. It is
not said whether DANIEL the friend of RAPHAEL is to be
present; but we have little doubt that the measures there
to be seriously discussed have reference to him. Indeed,
it has been pretty clear since the publication of the Leeds
manifesto, the articles in an Oxford whig paper, and in
the Edinburgh Review, that ministers have now, no
choice but to destroy DANIEL or sink with him. They,
we all know, are too tenacious of life, and too fond of
place-arid, the comforts of quarter. day, to adopt the more
afflicting alternative. They must, therefore, choose the
other, and send DANIEL to the realms profound, where
masses avail not, and where an exemption from quaran-
tine therein can be purchased only by the faithful and the

4-44.. • .
- But how are they to accomplish this? If Lord JOHN
EussEir., of Lord MORPETIiy the Irish secietarh carittot

nniiwer the clues-66U; it would he preSumptiOn in us to
attempt it. Who has the'upper hold of one another will
be proved by the result. • The best assassin wins. If
DANIEL can be shaken off and degraded, the ministry
may survive for a few weeks; if he cannot be shaken off,
their resignation must immediately follow. Under any
circumstances, it is impossible for ministers to meet par-
liament, situated as they are, and considering the change
which has recently been wrought in public' opinion..
The country is universally disgusted with their conduct
and their popish alliance, and 'melt they know it. They
perhaps calculated that the municipal elections would
raise them in popular estimation and sustain their fading
influence. But they now find that this is a mistake. The
municipal constituencies are resolved to return the best
men, without reference to party. The conservatives

have everywhere resolved upon this. They will support
no candidates who are not the foremost burgesses in
point of wealth, integrity, and intelligence to be found.
No regard whatever will be paid to political attachments
in the borough question. It is resolved to treat it on
other grounds, and whoever has the best claim, by his
station, his character, or his talents, to advance local
prosperity, will be supported.
The chance of the .feeble ministers is therefore a dead
vote. They. will take nothing from their circulars.
They are thoroughly despised, and must retire
whence they came !

We thank Mr. BOLTON- for giving publicity to the
letter he addressed to the Mayor and Common Council
on the 29th ult., and we congratulate the Albion, in
which it appears, as being now recognised, in place of
the Mercury, as the new organ of the Unitarians.

• Mr. BOLTON, in his prefatory letter to our contempo-
rary, gives the following reason for publishing his letter
to the corporation. He'says
" It would seem that great offence has been taken at the
word " sect" being applied to members of the established
church; but as Johnson defines it to mean " Men united in
certain tenets," I know of no better word that I could have sub-
stituted; and in the scriptures, where it is frequently used, it is
not used as a term of disrespect."
• Mr. rfiroirAs BOLTON, quoting. JOHNSON on defini7
tions, reminds us of My Lord. Duke, in High Life below
Stairs, delivering dogmas on the authorship of SHAKs-
PEARE. '.fit
is: probable that Mr. BOLTON has an edition
of Johnson's Dictionary4carefully"compiled for his own
use, as he and the small sect to which he belongs have a
bible interpolated for their convenience, and which the
Vice-Chancellor, on a late occasion, called a "fraudu-
lent translation," for most certainly he does not quote
any edition of the great lexicographer with which we are
acquainted. Dr. JOHNSON borrows his definition, frop
BACON, who says " Sect" is " a body of men following
some particular master, or united in souse settled` tenets."
But the sense of the word can only be explained by the
correlative meaning of the terms "sect," "sectary,"_ and
" sectarism." The second and third are clearly deriva-
tives of the first. Dr. JOHNSON defines the second, in re-
lation to the first, to be " one who divides from public
establishment and joins with those distinguished by some
particular whims," while he defines the third, viz.,
" sectarism," in relation to " sect" and "sectary." to
be a " disposition to PETTY SECTS,in opposition to things
established."

How, then, can- Mr. THOMAS BOLTON, with any rea-
son or sense of propriety, or by any rules of analogy,
call the established church of England a sect? The
term, however, like the whole of his letter, was employ-
ed to convey a studied insult—an uncalled for insult,
which we venture to. predict will not redound to his
credit. Mr. BOLTON is not concept with claiming for
the scattered coterie of fashionable infidels to which he
belongs an importance in the scale of society equal to the
most numerous: body of orthodox christians in these
realms, but he actually goes farther, and would drag. the
church of England down to his own miserable level in
the dark obscure'of silly philosophy and perverted theu-

logy., Mr. TnonAs 130LTON, this is labour in vain ! It
evinces much vanity and no little boldness ; but it will
be a long time before you can, blow up your gnat into
the dimensions of the elephant. Puff away, therefore,
poor gentleman, but have a care you do not burst
Now to the substance of his letter. He commences
his letter to the corporation as follows :

"GENTLEMEN,—Having, from the progress of events and

the jester opinions which prevail on the subject of civil rights,
become a burgess of this borough, and Understanding that the
common council.' before they retire from office, are making
another attempt to, alienate a considerable" amount of the corpo-
rate funds, for the support of the clergy OT the established
church, 1 beg leave to protest against the illegality, as well as the
injustice, of their proceedings on this subject."
You have "become a burgess of this borough!" Not
so fast if you please. You may bee like the man who in
forming a line of new streets was asked what he meant
to do for a common sewer ? He replied, "let me alone,
I have the common sewer in my eye." You may have
the rights of a burgess " in your eye," but most assur-
edly yon are not yet a burgess. .
Would it not therefore have been more decorous, if not
more dignified: if you had refrained from addressing the
common council as a burgess until you had actually been
admitted to be one in due course of law? It is quite pos-
sible, notwithstanding the reform bill, that you may
never be 'a burgess.
.There are Many forms yet to pass
through before even you-can be recognised in that ho-
nourable character, and who, knows but that Mr. TnoieAs
BOLTON may be one of those who, like SANcHO'S wife,
have had only a dream of an island.
But Mr. Bovrox; regardless of the questionable
clia-
racter in which he appears, begs leave to " PROTEST..
against the illegality as well as the injustice," of the
proceedings of the corporation. In whose name does he
protest ? In his own name as a burgess ? We have
shown he is not a burgess. His own name, then? Ay,
so be it. THOMAS BOLToN in his own name, not being
a burgess, protests against the illegality and injustice of
endowing the established churches of Liverpool !I t
Is not this enough to make a milestone laugh ? • What
can he, much as he has paid for law, know of the illega-
lity of the measure ? The injustice of it is .a mere school-
boy's phrase incontinently applied to a sound and well
deserved whipping. Is he aware that the highest law
authorities in the kingdom have pronounced it strictly
legal, and that Lord MELBOURNE himself is favourable to
the endowment ? Mr. BOLTON should consult his friends
before he ventures, to pronounce an opinion on a subject
which is obviously beyond the reach of his very mediocre
understarldipg,
But he proceeds :

" Circumstanced as the borough is, I am not opposed to a•
publit prevision for the maintenance of religion ; but lam op-
posea to the partial and sectarian application of such support. The
expenditure of the Corporation, exclusively for the support of
the Established Church, has, on the average of the last, five
years, exceeded £IO,OOO per annum; • which sum, if continued
for religions purposes, should, I think, be divided, in accord-
ance with that best precept of Christianity, enjoining all man-
kind to " do as they would be done by ;" and if so, the appro-
priation would be as folloW :
£4,375 for.the support of the Established Church.
3,125 to Protestant .Dissenters.
2,5(X) to Roman Catholics.

£10,000"

The liberality of Mr. BOLTON'S utilitarianism here be-
comes transparent enough. It is this—Will no genefous
soul, redolent of wealth, or corporate body of adequate
means, endow the poor and deserted chapels of the
unitarians, and provide bread for those who teach and
preach in vain ? This is the secret—the darling object.
Our poor ministers are unendowed except from funds,
the application • of Which has been contested and even
decided against us in a court of law—on them the rain
of heaven falls not—their pure doctrines take no root—
socinianism does not prosper in this unphilosophical
nation—the clammy dew of death is upon it—our heads
are light and our coffers empty—and therefore, foolish
Christian, be pleased to consider all endowments and
appropriations illegal and unjust, in which we do not
participate. I I This is worthy of Mr. Titoling BOLTON
the burgess.
But there is §oine semblance of charity in his protest
after all. He asks .£3,125 per annum for protestant dis-
senters; the mode§t sum of £2,500 for Roman catholics,
and is content to leave £4,375 "for the support of the
Otablithdd clitirch." Generota man! But is there not