The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-24 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.--

ELECTIoN oti• Tow:4 CeuiibiLioits.—The Town-clerk's lists
of the burgesses objected to and of the new claimants to the
right of being enrolled as burgesses under the municipal reform
act will be published to-morrow. • The number of objections
tendered amounts to ISIS; of which upwards of one thousand
have been made by the liberals: The list of claimants contains
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the names of 1818 persons. The Conservative Registration
COln rn ittee have published an advertisement, which will be found
in the STANDARD of this day, requesting the conservative bur-
gesses to attend at their office with the notices of objections served
neon them by the Reform Association
,agentS;and to give the soli-
tors for the conservatives such information as may enable them
to support their claims before the revising barriiters. We need
not, We trust, impress upon the minds of the burgesses thus
objected to the necessity of being prompt in their compliance
with this request, or the importance of establiihing their right
to place the affairs of the town in the hands of .gentlemen. pos-
sessing their entire confidence. The revising barristers, Peter
Heywood and B. H. Abrahall, Esquires, will hold a court at
the Sessions-house on Tuesday next, the Ist December, fur the
purpose of revising the list of burgesses. No tithe therefore
should be lost.

FATAL. ACCIDENT.—Last Saturday morning a man named
James Reece, who was employed in the corporation ground at
the north eud of the Clarence Dock, was accidentally. killed
whilst assisting one of his fellow-workmen to remove the wind
of a winch, which fell upon him in consequence of the plank
upon which he was standing having given way.
SUPPOSED DEATH FROM FAMINE.— The body of the man
which was found by John M•Callan, a gunner in the royal ar7
tillery, mentioned in the Standard of last Friday, after having
been conveyed to the Dead House, was opened by Mr. Richard
Sharock, surgeon, who gave it as his decided opinion that, the
unfortunate man's death had been occasioned by absolute want
of food. No marks of violence were discovered upon the de-
ceased's body.

UNFaRTUNATIi ACCIDENT.—This day week one of the bands,
named William Ashley, employed on board the steam-packet
which plies between George's Pier and itock Ferry,-was acci-
dentally killed at the latter place by, a piece of wood giving way,
to which the rope which fastens tile steamer to the pier, and
striking hint -upon the forehead. We understand. the unfor-
tunate man has left a widow and five small children entirely
unprovided for.

PACKET TRANSFER.—We understand au arrangement has
just been completed, by which Robert Kermit, Esq., Stephen
‘Vhitney, Esq., and Messrs. Sands, 'router and Co. have pur,
chased of Messrs. Wood and Trimble and their associates, the
ships Sheffield, Virginia, and United States, of the packet line
sailing hence for Liveipoul un the 24th of each tnontb. It cori.
sequence of this Purchase, Mr. Kermit's line of the 14th will be
discontinued. The ship England of the 21th line, has been
transferred to the old line,- saiting, on the Ist and IGth. The
consignees at Liverpool of the line of the 24th. under .the new
owners, will be Messrs. Sands, Hodgson and Co. The new
arrangement will at least sustain, and it possilda increase the
accommodations which the public have hitherto enjoyed.--
New York' Paper.
THE LONDON ALDERHANIC ELECTION.—This contest wag
brought to a close on Thursday evening; and oil the following,
day the Lord Mayor declared the numbers to be as follows:
. Mr. Sheriff Salomons.
Mr. Law Junes
Mr. llumphrey. 67
And that Mr. Salomons was duly elected.'

LAUNCH OF A STEAM-VESSEL.-011 Saturday last one of the
finest and most powerful steam-vessels hitherto built in Liver-
pool was launched from the yard of the Messrs:Wilson: This
vessel, called The Athlone, Is the property of the City of .Dub-
lin steam Company, and is the second of a series of new, first-
class cleansers now constructing, and intended to supersede the
smaller vessels of that company. This vessel, as well as the
other lately launched, The City of Limerick, is fastened in a
peculiarly efficient manner, and is provided with iron bulk-
heads, from winch the greatest security is derivable in case of
accident, either by tire or water, as neither can pass their pro-
tective partitions. The Dublin Company have also four addi-.
tional steam-vessels in progress; two fur trading purposes, and
two chiefly tor passengers. The latter are expected to be the
must powerful and best appointed steam-ve.sseis hitherto built:

BYWATER'S LIVERPoOL TIDE-TABLE AND ALMANAC FOR
183t3.—Mr. Bywater, jun. has just published a new• Almanac
and Tide-table containing much additional matter and some
very judicious improvements in the character of his calendar.
The time and mean height of the tide are calculated from the
important tables of Mr. Lubbock, V.P,11.5. but its chief novel-
ties are the predictions of the heights of those Cries which hap-
pen between six o'clock in the evening. and six o'clock in the
morning, and which have been omitted in all former Liverpool
Tide tables. It also points out the diurnal difference between
the day and night tides, Which has never been accomplished be-
fore. The amount of this difference was found from Iwo thousand
observations of the height of the tide made at the dock-gates.
The advantaAes of these improvements to vessels entering the
port and in (locking are too obvious to require any further ob-
sarvatiun. It'also contains new rules fur finding the depth of
water in the Rock and New Channels at low water, and tables
to find the tune of high water at upwards of fifty places in the
neighbouirAng, channels, also calculations for the great annular.
eclipse olisthe sun as it will be seen at Liverpool.

REPRIANTATION OF Nowtu LA NCASHlRE.—Peregrine
Townley, Esq.; of Burnley, has announced his intention of
offering himself to the electors of the northern division of the,
county, in the event of an election, in opposition to Mr. Wilson
Patten, the present tory member. Mr. Townley served the
office of high-sheriff of the county a year or two since, and was
the first Roman Catholic who enjoyed the dignity after the
passing of Catholic emancipation. The family of which he is.a
member is, perhaps, one of the most influential in the county,
and he will, of course, receive the warm support of the Roman
Catholic interest, which is very powerful in North Lancashire.
Mr. Townley is a consistent Whig, enjoying the personal re-
spect of men of all opinions, and has been repeatedly requested
to conic forward and contest the representation of the county. •
He may safely reckon on the unanimous support of teformers
of all shades, and the most lively hopes are entertained of his
triumphant success.—Carrespuitjent of the Morning Chronicle.
EXPORTATION EXTRAOR DINA nit.—On Friday last, John
Macdonald, a notorious cripple, who has long been in the habit
of progressing on all iours about the streets of this town, soli-
citing alms, was brought before the magistrates, charged with
having on the'preceding day, exercised his vocation in-- White-
Chapel. Police-Officer Elliot conveyed him to Bridewell, where,
on searching him, five shillings trete found in his pocket. The
Sifiy or passed sentence upon him of transport:alien whirs native
country (Ireland.)
C.SUTION To IIOIIMEKREPERS.—A young thief, named Wm.
Johnson, was on Friday last placed at the bar of the Police-
court, charged with an attempt at robbery, under the following
circumstances.- Mrs. Harrison Stated that she resided iu
Bachelor-street; on the preceding day, at half-past five, she
went out, locked the door after her, and opening the window
placed the, key within upon the sash: having done this she
closed the window shutter. At about six o'clock she returned,
and much to her surprise found the window open. The key
was where she had left it. She entered the house and was still
more astonished to see that several articles of furniture hail
been displaced during her absence. She went out quietly and
procures the assistance of a man named Joseph Shaw, with
whom she proceeded to search the house. In an upper room
they found two boxes open, From which a silk dress, a Canton
crape shawl, a hat, and several other articles had been taken
and placed on the bed ready for removal- The prisoner him-
self they found hidden under the bed. Police-officer Fiockhart
was sent for, into whose custody they delivered him, He was
committed for trial.

WARINGTON.—A ball for the benefit of the Warrington
Di►pensary and Infirmary ►vill be given at the Lion lintel,
Warrington, on Friday, the 4th of December. The patronesses
are the Hon. Mrs. 800t1,3 Wilbraham, Mrs. Blackburne, Mrs.
Bold Houghton, and Mrs. James Heath Leigh.

ROBBERY OF A BUTCHER'S SItUP BY A LADY OF PROPERTY.
—On Thursday last, a woman of highly respectable appearance,
who gave her name as Jane Daniels, was brought before the
magistrates, and on the clearest evidence committed for trial
on the charge of having robbed a butcher's shop of part of a
shoulder of mutton. About an hour after her committal, Mr.
Suckling, a solicitor, entered the office and on inquiring if any-
thing worthy of notice had occurred, was told the case of Jane
Daniels. The name instantly attracted his notice, and on looking
at Mrs. Daniels he recognised in her a very excellent client, for
whom he had recently drawn up a marriage settlement of ±:5000,
and in the previous week only had-sold property to the amount
of £7OOO. Ile considered her to be worth, at least, £lO,OOO, and
had always regarded her as a religious woman. As the offence
was a bailable one, Mr. Suckling immediately applied to the
magistrates to admit her to bail, and bail was accordingly taken.

TiII:ATRE ova t..—On Friday evening last, Miss Chaplin
took her benefit at our Theatre, and was honoured with a
numerous and fashionable audience. The admirable comedy
selected for the evening's entertainment afforded ample scope
for the exercise of those talents wilich this interesting young
lady so eminently possesses, and which have established her as
a decided favourite in this town On her appearance Miss
Chaplin was greeted with the warmest expressions of public
favour, which must have been peculiarly gratifying, consider-
ing this is the first seitson.of.her appearance amouget us. By
.permrssio❑ of the officers of the 77th Regiment, the Military
Band attended on this occasion and performed several popular
pieces of music. The receipts were upwards of £IW.. -

We have much pleasure in calling the attention. of, our
musical readers to an advertisement in another column, of
Messrs. Zeitter and Co.'s New Patent Grand and Semi-grand
Pianofortes. We have no hesitation in pronouncing tbese in-
struments to be superior in every respect to any we have yet
heard. They possess a fulness, and at -the same time a rich.
ness and delicacy of tone beyond nur.power to describe. and
the toach is so fine that the crescendo and dinienoendo can with
very little effort bo produced to trie'utmost nicety. Our limits
will not permit us to eater into a detail of the vast improvement
in the mechanism of these instruments : we, however consci-
entiously recommend them as being well worth the inspection
of both professors and amateurs. .
NORTHERN 1-losvirm..—On Sunday last, a charity 'sermon
on behalf of this very valuable institution, was preached in St.
Jude's Church, by the Rev. 'high after whit** a col-
lection was mate amounting to 1:45 Bs. 2d:

PATENT PERRYIAN 1' Ns.—We have again to allude in
terms of praise, to the recent improvement made by the inde-
fatigable James Perry and Co., in Metallic Pens and Pen-
holders. The latter instrument renders a metallic pen exceed-
ingly flexible.
THE IRISH CLinGy.---On Tuesday last A meeting of the
clergy of the diocese and of the university took place at the
Eagle Inn, for the purpose of considering the best means of
assisting the Irish clergy in their present extreme distress.
some very affecting statements from the Lord Primate of Ire-
land, and other clergymen. were read to the meeting, which ap-
peared to rouse the sympathy of all present, Clergpnen, com-
pelled to distribute their families amongst their relations; to dis-
pose of the insurances which they held upon their lives; and,
nr some instances, actually living upon potatoes and buttermilk
were the subjects of these statements, mud° upon such good
authority. Truly, if any protestant, knowing and believing
these things, refuse to hold out his hand tu his suffei iugbrethren'
in this their extremity, he deserves not the name of a christian,
We are rejoiced to find that a general meeting will take place
in the Town-hall on Monday next, having the same ol.jeet in
view, and we hope to see on that occasion a crowded room--
Cambridge Chronicle.

CONSERVATISM IN TILE ISLE OF `NIGHT.—We have the
gratification of learning, by a letter from Cowes, that every fires-
pect exists of a gentleniau of sound conservative principles, in
the person of Mr. Ward, of Northwood-park, being returned
for the county of the Isle of 'Wight. The present member, Sir
Richard Simeon, it appears, has determined to resign ; and the
radical party propose to nominate in his stead one of the pre-
sent members for Portsmouth, John Bonham Carter, Esq. The
registration has given the conservati:es a decided majority;
and the events of the last session, says our correspondent,
"have changed several radicals, and converted them into con-
servatives; these are men who, haling a little to lose, are be-
come awake in titne." At Newport the. radicals are very pow-
erful; but as disunion has appeared among them ou the subject
of the corporations bill, their cause is weakened, and their an-
ger is unbounded. Sir Willoughby Gordon, the conservative
candidate for Newport, who was rejected by a majority of one
only at the last canvass, is now sore of ousting-the whrg candi•
date; Mr: Hawklus.—Brighion Gazette;

Tng House or WENtwolurn.—The CUrretit 'reports of tilt;
deeply afflicted event which has fallen, ppon
,this noble houso
have, in many instaifi•es, been, very inaccurate. We believe,
however; that the following informatiqn may be.depended upon.
Earl FiffAvilltain has been ill. Lilt not of reVcr, and has reco-
vered. Fonr of the Ladies Fitzwilliant baie 11:4d attacks of
fever. Tbe youngest the Lady Ethelbreda, ii Very favourably
convalelieetit. The otherS are not now under .mediCal care,
having recovered. Lady Milton has not suffered in h'er.liealtb;
and as she is dow enceinte, the titl4 of Viscount Miltort remains
in abeyance until it be seen whether the infant be a bov or girl.
If a boy, he will, of course, inherit the title and rights of his lota
father. In other circumstances, the nolde. earl's second son;
the Hon. William Thomas Spencer Wentworth Oulu 12th
October, 1815,) will become Lord Milton, as heir presumptive,
to the title and estates of the Independent.
Rev. NEIL /IP VICA R.—Ttie late Rev. Neil M•Vicar, one of
the niinisters of the West Cliiirch, taking a walk On an after-
noon, discovercd a woman (one of. his parishioner*) Who had
,got a lass extradrdivarv, sitting by the road side, with her bur-
den lying in the. mud before her. 0; will ye help me up
toy bundle, sir," says she. "Ft c; fye, Janet; to sea_ the like of
you in such a plight!—ldo yoti•know where all drunkards Fri
to?" " Help use up wi' my bundle, sir, and l'll tell you"
" Well, well," says the parson, " I shall. NO r,—answer Inv
question." " Well,--to tell you the truth, sir,—just :char the
dray o' quid drink is to be gotten." . .
STEAM BOILER Acctnfitvis..—The Parliarnentury trustees oti
the river Clyde have offered a premium nf one hundred guineas
Air the best practical mode of preventing aceidents from the
imperfect construction of steam engine maithinery. Another
hundred pounds is to be divided amongst the unsuceeishil can-
didates who invent something worthy of attention.—Mining
Jo ar n al.
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DU. •JotiNsots.—When Mrs. Siddoni called on Dr. Johnson
in Bolt-court, he treated her, contrary to his usual custom, with
the most marked politeness. Frank, his servant, could not
bring her a chair. "You ice, madam," said the doctor,
"wherever you go hosi difficult it is to find seats."

NAvit.Es tr 4 tuE LEN/mgt.—The folldWing is a state.:
meat of the naval force's that the different -powers have at this
moment at the various statiofis of the Levant :—France has 1
ship of the hue, 1 frigate, 7 other vessels—total 9. England 5
ships of the line, 5 frigates, 7 others—total 17. Russia will
soon have 6 ships of the line, 4 frigates, 2 others
. —total 12. Aus-
tria 1 frigate, 3 otherstotal 4. Egypt ships of the line, 4
frigates, 12 others—total 22. Turkey 1 ship of the line, 5 frigates,
6 others at Tripoli, and 10 vessels of different rates off Albania
—tctel 28. Tins makes nearly Ivo. ships of war., To these May
be added some vessels fitting out by Sardinia at Genoa.

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THE FtrhINCII CHRISTINOS.--" I have, from curiosity;
visited
most of the prisons, penitentiaries, hulks, and bagries blEurope,
and may consequently beast of hit Yin g seed more scoundrels than
most men; but in the course of toy observation I haver saw so
much villanv condensed as in the late French auxiliary corps
sent (under Colonel Swartz) to the aid of her most catholic ma-
jesty. The last division of them, tiarowu back into France, has
just passed this town. Of a Yerity,'4 no Man has seen such rat:-
cals.' "—Letter from Pan.
CAPTAIN COOK.--'There is not the slightest doubt as to the
authenticity of the following incident ; it,shows undeniably the
--effreti of 4iitte causes-producing great eonseqnencea. The dis-,
coveries of the great circumnavigator were'owing tort particular
marked shilling. Young Cook was a native of Yorkshire, and
served as apprentice to a merchant and sheqikeeper in a large
fishing town in that county. Seine money had been missed
from the till, and to detect the delinquent,- a very curiously
marked shilling was mixed with the silver, Mali was accurately
counted. On examining the till shortly after, this peculiar
ling was missing, and Cook was taxed with having taken it out;
this he instantly acknowledged, stating that its particular look
had caught his eve, but affirmed, at thee same time, that he had
put another of his own in its place. The money was tecord-
ingly counted over again, and found to agree exactly with hit
statement. Although the family was highly respectable, and
therefore capable of advancing hint in his future prospects, and.
also much attached to hitit, and very kind, yet the high spirit of
the boy could not brook remaining in a situation where be had
been suspected ; he therefore ran awe.+, and having no other
resource, entered as a cabin-boy in a collier.
ANIMAL Fun o.—The pagan priests were the first eaters 06
annual food; it corrupted the taste, and so eiccited them t •
gluttony, that when they had eaten the same thing repeatedly'
their luxurious appetites called fur variety. He who had de
voured the sheep longed to masticate the shepherd.
IMPROVIDENCE OP THE,POOR.—Defoe, the author of " Robin-
son Crusoe," considered the improvidence of the poor a princi.:
pal cause of wretchedness. "We are," says this shrewd ob-
server, "the most lazy diligent nation in the world; there is
nothing more frequent than for an Englishman to work till he
has got his pocket full of money, and then go and be idle of
perhaps drunk, till it is all gone. I once paid six or seven men
together on a Saturday night, the least 10s., and some 305., for
' work, and have seen theta go with it directly to the ale-house,
sit there till Mouday, spend it every penny, and run in debt td
hoot, and not give a farthing of it tel their families, though all of
them had wives and children. From hence comes poverty,
parish charges, and beggary."—Eistory .qf the Middling arid
ll'orking Classes, 2d edition,
THE UNSTAMPED PREVS.—A contemporary, in commenting
on the language used by Mr. Roebuck in his Twopenny lin-
! stamped Paper, has the following just observations:—" We.
hope that Government have not been inattentive spectators of
these proceedings, and of the conduct generally of the un-
'stamped press. Do they suppose that the peace of society, the
security of property, or the maintenance of our mixed constitu-
tion, are at all likely to be promoted by swamping the stamped
press, to !Vise that which is unstamp, d on its reins? We do
not suppose they can be so blind to the Most obvious principles,
or so neglectful of their duty to their sovereign and the public.
But they must make up their minds definithrely on the subject:
It will do longer do to palter between two extremes, iiacliuiug
first to the one and then to the other. Either the unstamped
press must be put down, or the stamp duty abolished. Our
bane and antidote are both before us; and we may choose as we
list. If we wish to sap the fouudations of all that is most esti-
, inable amongst us, and to impregnate our press with the lowest
radicalism and the lowest Billingsgate, then, but not otherwise,
shall we legitimate the- lucubrations of Messrs. Roebuck and
Co."

AGItict:LTURALSTRIKE,---Twelve farm servants in the em-
" ploy of Mr. E. Lake, of 1100, Kent, have been committed to
Maidstone gaol for fourteen ays, for having quitted their work
without giving any intimittien of their intention of so ai,loiug'.
An aggravation of their conduct was, their having taken out
their teams in the morning as utual, and remained with therit
until mina or ten in the foremoan,-..wfacti thaw atrock_tark and
left them in care of boys, who were unable to manage them.
The cause of the dissatisfaction was a reduction of their wages
of Is., and in some cases 2s. a week. The magistrate Who cam-
mated them told them that they had an undoubted right to sell
their labour at the highe t price they could obtain for it ; but
having made their contract, the act of comnieriting their
master's work and then leaving it unfiuished. called for the ex-
ercise of the punishment which the law protides to deter front
similaroffencre. But for their previous good character, the
punishment would have been much more Severe.
Last week Thomas Blake, Esq., Undertook fOr a considerable
wager to walk twelVe miles on the Barton-road, near Bury St:
Edmunds, in two hours, which he accomplished in one hour
and SGI minutes.
DINNER To JOHN HAitDV, ESQ., U.?., BRADFOAD.
The preparations for this entertaintnetit are progressing with
great spirit, and upwards of 150 tickets, We hear, have been at-
ready taken. The dinner will take place in the Exchange-
baildings, un Friday, the 27th instant, tickets 10s. Gd. bottle of
wine included. Matthew Thompson, Esq., will take the chair:
Mr. Herds is at present in the midst of his constituents, and
finds that 'though his really independent bearing fn parliament
may have roused the carping hintility of a few persons more
distinguished for their hostility to the church of England than
for qualities of head and heart, the snowy are with him, aye, and
will return bum again when the. time comes, with Mr. M. Thomp-
son for it.colleague.— Leeds littelliyencer.
AN INDUCEMENT.—A fersori who advertiies in a morning
paper fur a clerk holds ant tni; inducement:—" A small gaiety
will be given, but he wi:l have enough of overwork to make
for the deficiency.
THE Racoaoan's REnour.—On Friday the recorder made
his report to his Majesty in council at Brighton, of the prison;
ers who were capitally cenvieted at the September and October
sessions of the Central Criminal Court,—viz., Jamei Pratt and
John Smith, for a nameless offence, committed in the borough
of Southwark; Robert Swan for extorting money fromThnmas
Reynolds, a Quaker, under a threat of accusing him of a name.
less offence; Robert Lavender, David Ward, Benjamin Vines
Michael Collins. Joseph Colemah, and !Bose'; Harris, for bur=
glary; George Catline, William Miller, James Cooper; James
Devine, and David Fleming, for a robbery. October. SesssionA
—James Carter, for burglary ; John Wade, for shooting at
Thomas Reynolds with intent to kill him; and William Web!
bourn, for burglary; all of whom his Majesty was-graciously
pleased to respite, except James Pratt, and John Smith, Upon.
whom the law. is left to take its ,tourre, and who are ordered for ex-
ecution on Friday next. The council were in deliberation a con-:
siderable time ou the case of Robert Swan, and did tut break
up until half-past eight o'clock on Friday night: The recorder
came immediately to town by post, and made knoWn the result
of the council to the Governor of Newgate. who lost no time
in communicating it to the convicts SvhOse cases had been
eported.
A SACRAMENT Ot:TR AGED.—Whenever the radicals find nri
opportunity to insult religion through its saeraments nod ordi
. trances, they use it. We have on instance in the ,case of a
brawling deuiagoone at York, named Simpson, who brought
two children to To. baptised, and iii,,isted that they should be
named " Earl of Kent' and " Marquis of Yorkshire" !
neatly observing " that they had as much right to be called
lords us any who were born so." The cleigyinan very properly
refused to allow a hole sacrament to be so outraged; but what
,must be the principles of that party who can coolly enter
church; and at the fent endeavour to 'make one of the institu-
tions of Jesus Christ a nieditini for mockery.—Age.
Mr. Augustus H. Beaumont, of Brompton-square, Landon,-
having applied to Viscount Palmerston for the liberation of his'
brother, Mr. Arthur James Beau Mont, from the prison of St„
Pelagic, at Paris, to which he Was committed sixteen months
ago, the English ambassador at Paris directed an inquiry to be
made into the circuMstanees under Which the imprisonment
took place. FOND the answer of the French government to the
inquiry thus instittited, it appears that Mr. Beautroint was com-
mitted to prison in consequent eof his being charged with
being concerned in plots having for their object the subversion
of the existiug Rove' ument." It further appears that his arrest
was riot inconsistent with French laws, and consequently the
British ambassador cannot do anything in the matter. The
reason as:Signed b* the Frlmch govftrnment for the protracted
imprisonineot of Mr. Beaumont, is that he, with the other pri-
soners, in custody for the same alleged offence, refuses to be
tried by the chamber of peers.-[Abridged froM the TiMes.]
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In China, if divorce is sought, except upon legal grounds, the
offeoder is punished with eighty blows. There. ate sotto occa:
skins on which it is granted—having no son, 'Ahem not
serving her husband's parents, /opacity, theft or robbery, envy
or malice, disease. It is also granted, should one Party in a.
quarrel beat or wound. another- in three cases.some of
these legal grounds cannot be alleged, vii., during the three
years mourning for the death of a parent; if the parties were
first poor and afterwards rich ; and if the wife had nu house Oa
which she could return) at the time of her marriage. In thd
north ut China a practice has lati.lp become prett) general of
taking home the husband to the abode of his father-in-law, in-
stead of sending the daughter to the house of her husband.
silly ambition "to make light of lite" has become prevalent at
Calvert, and causes frequent ,aiciiies. It is calculated that'
eight or nine-tenths of the untimely deaths which come under
the notice of the authorities are ciiiAed br suitide, and of these
six or scvemtetiths are perpeti ated by went( n. Young women
form themielies into sisterhoods, and, repining at their destiny.
which give theth existence ar us mien, repair hi nunibers a 11-
Ter, and, locking their erths tOgerher, plunge froln the steep'
hank into the arms of death.. Espiertage id' net only a system.
of the government but of private adoption, and set:vauts are et-.
nerally made the ;silting insironirnis; tbey become the spies tic
the merchants or of the police, as occasio.o may requite.. Not •
long since the names or several noted gamesters were published;
more with a view to caution thesit4le-than to disgrace the of:
fenders. Anstment them We find are cognothen of Fei-thing-po;
who is descributras a fat ohd lady; seventy years of age, in ro—
bust health, and a scientific boxer, She retained. in her service
several ougilistss,ai bullies;— Hulrnuii s rOyasle Itbiritat •
Its;

POPERY AND ATHEISM.

(FROM THE REV. DR. CROLY'S SERMON.)

France, from the commencement of the papal supre-
macy, had been the chief champion of the Popedom; so
early as the ninth century had given it temporal domi-
nion ; and continued through all ages fully to merit the
title of 'Eldest Son of the Church.' But France had re•
ceived in turn the fatal legacy of persecution. From the
time of the Albigenses through the wars of the League,
and the struggles of the protestant church during the
seventeenth century, closing with its ruin by the revo-
. cation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685; the history of
France was written in every page with the blood of the
reformed. Frequently contesting the claims of the popes
to authority, but submissively bowing down to the doc-
trines, ceremonial, and principles of Rome, France was
the most eager, restless, and ruthless, of all the minis-
ters of papal vengeance.
In a moment all this snbmission was changed into the
direst hostility. At the exact close of the prophetic period,
in 1793, the 1260th year from the birth of the papal su-
premacy, a power, new to all eyes, suddenly started up
among nations : An infidel democracy ; France, rending
away her ancientirobes!of loyalty and laws, stood before
mankind a spectacle of naked crime. And, as if to strike
the lesson of ruin deeper into the mind of all; On the
very eve of this overthrow, the French monarchy had
been the most flourishing of continental Europe ; the ac-
knowledged leader in manners, arts, and arms; unrival-
led in the brilliant frivolities which fill so large a space in
the hearts of mankind ; its language universal, its influ-
ence boundless, its polity the centre round which the Eu-
ropean sovereignties perpetually revolved, its literature
the fount from which all nations 'in their golden urns
drew light.' Instantly, as by a single blow of the Di-
vine wrath, the land was covered with civil slaughter.
Every star of her glittering firmament was shaken from
its sphere ; her throne was crushed into dust ; her church
of forty thousand clergy was scattered, exiled, ruined;
all the bonds and appliances which once compacted her
with the general European commonwealth were burst
asunder, and cast aside or a conspiracy against mankind.
Still, there was to be a deeper celebration of the mys-
tery of evil. The Spirit that had filled and tortured
every limb of France with rebellion to man, now put
forth a fiercer malice and blasphemed. Hostility was de-
clared against all that bore the name of religion. By an
act, of which history, in all its depths and recesses of na-
tional guilt, had never found an example, a crime too
blind for the blindest ages of barbarism' and too atro-
cious for the hottest corruptions of the pagan world,
France, the leader of civilised Europe, publicly pro-
nounced that there was no God! The decree was rapid-
, ly followed by every measure which could make the blas-
phemy practical and national. The municipality of Paris,
the virtual government, proclaimed, that as they had de-
fied earthly monarchy, ' they would now dethrone the
monarchy of heaven.' On the 7th of November, 1793,
Gobet, the biShop of Paris, attended by his vicars-gene-
ral, entered the hail of legislature, tore off his ecclesias-
tical robes, and abjured christianity ; declaring that the
only religion thenceforth should be the religion of li-
berty, equality, and morality.' His language was
echoed with acclamation. A still more consummate bias-
. phemy was to follow. Within a few days after, the mu-
nicipality presented a veiled female to the assembly as
the goddess of reason, with the fearful words, 'There is
no Gial; the worship of reason shall exist in His stead!'
The assembly bowed before her and worshipped. She
was then borne in triumph to the cathedral of Paris,
placed on the high altar, and worshipped by the public
autl;orities and the people. The name of the cathedral
was thenceforth the T e lops of Reason. Atheism was en-
throned. Treason to the majesty of God had reached its
height. No more gigantic insult could be hurled against
heaven.

But persecution had still its work. All the churches of
the republic were closed. All the rites of religion were
forbidden. Baptism and the communion were to be ad-
ministered no more. The seventh day was to be no
longer sacred; but a tenth was substituted ! and on that
day a public orator was appointed, to read a discourse on
the wisdom of atheism. The reign of the demon was now
resistless. While Voltaire and Marat (infidelity and
massacre personified) were raised to the honours of idol-
atry ; the tombs of the kings, warriors, and statesmen of
Prance, were torn open, and the reliques of men whose
names were a national glory, tossed about in the been-
tioua sport of the populace, Immortality was publicly
pronounced a dream ' and on the gates of the cemeteries
were written Death is an eternal sleep.' In this outburst
of frenzy, all the forms and feelings of religion, true and
• false, were alike trodden under the feet of the multitude.
The scriptures, the lamps of the holy place, had fallen in
the general fall of the temple. But they were not with-
out their peculiar indignity : the copies of the Bible were
-publicly insulted; they were contemptuously burned in
the havoc of the religiouslibraries; in Lyons, the capital of
.the south, 'where protestantisea had once erected her es-
-pecial church; and where still a remnant worshipped in its
ruins, an ass was actually made to drink the wine out of the
communion cup, and was afterwards led in public pro-
cession through the streets dragging the Bible at its heels!
The example of those horrors stimulated the daring of in-
fidelity in every part of the continent. Frailee, always
modelling the mind of Europe, now still more power-
fully impressed her image, while every nation was be-
'ginning to glow with fires like her own. • Recklessness,
licenti.ousness, arid hh,--phemy, were the characters and
credentials by which the leaders of overthroW, in every
land, ostentatiously proceeded to make good their claims
to French regeneration. The scriptures, long lnst to the
people in Rotnish christendom, were now still more de-
cisively, undone. No. effort was made to reinstate them,
by the Rofnish church. Thus spake the prophecy. 'They
shall lie'in the street of the great city,' They shall be
dead, and abandoned to all the barbarous contumelies of
the persecutor, refusing the last rites of humanity to his
victim ; And they shall not_ suffer their dead bodies to
be put: in the graves.'
Why do I thus dwell on topics whose very touch makes
the blood rutt cold ? Why thus, with shuddering hand,
lift•up the gory folds of the shroud that wraps the dead
rebellion ? Why thus call on you to follow me from depth
to depth of 'history, until we seem to have reached the
borders of the kingdom of darkness, and exchanged the
language of man for the sounds and maledictions of the
undone.? Certainly not in any desire to reimprint the
stamp of, reprobation on that ill-omened people. Cer-
tainly not to harrass your minds, by gratuitous remem-
brances of. human crime. But, if we may unpresump-
tuonsly penetrate the will of Providence, it was then its
will to show all mankind the necessity of religion, even
for the common purposes of society ; the infinite value of
that Divine Spirit, which, like His rain shed upon the
just and the unjust, the God of all power and mercy
sheds even upon the partial and worldly economy of na-
tions. Now, for the first time, man was to make the
dreadful experiment of trusting zttogether to his own
nature: Despotisms had been subtle, ambitious, and re-
vengeful; republics stern and cruel; democracies wild,
capricious, and sanguinary. But there was still a sav-
ing principle: religion was not altogether abjured; and,
deeply as the true God was lost to human view, in the
incense offered to the passions and imaginations of man,
that Holy. Spirit which strove with the generations be-
fore the flood, still hovered about the darkness of the
earth, and infused peace into its reluctant bosom. But,
now all religion was abjured; and, as the act was utterly
without example, so were the horrors that instantly fol-
lowed. Vice itself assumed a blacker hue. A hun-
dred thousand heads must fall was the unequivocal prin-
ciple of the leaders of the state. The fact outran the
calculation, and the massacre amounted to millions! The
scaffold groaned from morn to night. The leaders them-
selves were successively swept away in the cateract of
blood which they had let loose. Atheism, the last fury
of the mind, had brought in anarchy, the last torturer of
nations.

If I pause to cast even a parting glance over those in-
describable scenes, it is only to -oiler a new.lromage to
the awful foresight, which, at the distance of eighteen
hundred years, had not overlooked the most minute cha-
racteristics of the time. it had pronounced, that in the
midst of those agonies, there should be displayed an im-
probable and extravagant festivity, and that this start-
ling mirth' should be distinctly connected with the na-
tional abandonment of christianity. 'And they that
dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make
merry, and shall send gifts to one another, because those
two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth
Even this was fulfilled.

But, turning from those who solemnly, and wisely,
rely on the simplest affirmation of the Divine records, to
those who are to be convinced only by the most glaring
accumulation of evidence, are we not entitled to ask,
whether we are destitute of signs of the times ? The
conversion, if it ever took place, must, of course, take
place in the realms of popery, or the barbaric nations;
for protestantism is already pure. But, if the signs of
conversion are to be sought for only in other lands, are
we without the signs of the persecution that is prepared
to follow ? Are we to be blind to the fact, of the sudden rise,
nay, flight of popery, in our days, to power, and the very
highest power; the breadth of wing, and the sharpness
of talon, with which that vulture has grasped the pinna-
cle of the state, and already counts her carcasses below
I shall never introduce politics into the pulpit 1 scorn
the verbiage of that weakest exercise of the understand-
ing. I disdain the science of the streets, But, with all
leniency of construction, is it not to be regarded as a
phenomenon of the most startling kind, that, out of the
most abjet and alien existence within the borders of the
constitution, should, almost too rapidly for the eye to
trace its growth, spring up a hostile shape, that over-
shadows the whole ? What man, ten years. ago, would
not he laughed at as a dreamer, who told us that the
dwarf would thus shoot up into the armed giant. We all
know with what contemptuous deprecation such fears
were put down, even but five years ago) with what flu-
ent sarcasm thP remonstrances of christianity were stig-
matised, as anile terrors, the tardiness of crippled minds

unable to keen up with the age. But, let it be remem•
bered, that then, it was the christian who saw the truth.
That, with all the acute and practised understandings of
public life bent upon the subject, it was he alone whose
science was n.,t put to shame. That, when the jester
had his gibe, the solemn philosopher his solemn absurd-
ity, the subtle politician his tortuous safeguards, walls of
air, and chains of gossamer; the humble mind of the
reader of the scriptures alone pronounced the vanity of
them all. That when he saw them, like boys on the sea-
shore, toying with the dragon's eggs, he alone told them
of the force and venom into which they might be incuba-
ted; and why ? because he had read the history of the
delusion in the Divine Word ; because he had there seen
the imperishable denunciations written against the sins
of Rome : because he heard from the depth of the sanc-
tuary there the voice, for ever crying, Come out of her
my people, that ye be not partakers of her piagues ;' be-
cause, when the world saw nothing, and would see no-
thing in popery, but the grave exterior of the shrine, he
had been led, like the prophet, through the chambers of
imagery,' and seen the unloosed license, the dark cor-
ruption, the wild abomination, that outraged heaven
within. At this moment the persecution is begun7—the
Irish church is threatened with total extinction Popery
keeps no silence on the subject; it has long since pro-
nounced, that Ireland shall be in its hand once more.
And terror is the simple instrument that is effectually do-
ing its purpose. The cries of the Irish clergy, broken by
fear and famine, and already looking to the last extrem-
ities of personal and public ruin, are hourly in our ears.
Woe be to us, if they are not answered by our-most ac-
tive charity; by our making common cause with them;
by our honouring there as the suffering servants of God !
But; double woe to England, if she suffer this wounded
branch of the verdurous christian tree, which has so long
sheltered her from the storm, to be torn to the ground I'