The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-31 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS.

LIVERPOOL. BOROUGH SESSIONS.—An intermediate ses-
sions of the peace will be held on Monday next before the
Recorder The calendar will contain about 120 prisoners
for trial.

EUTERPEON.—This fine instrument at Mr. Child's, con-
tinues to attract crowds of visitors, who all express their de-
light at listening to its powerful music. There are at present
six barrels which play a great number of tunes, besides
overtures to Massaniello, Semiramide, and Der Freischutz.
BANK OF •MANCHESTER.—The adjourned special meeting
of the proprietors of the Bank of Manchester is announced
to be held on Monday next, when in all probability some de-
cisive step will be taken with regard to the business of that
mismanaged establishment.

MARTYRDOM OF KING CHARLES I.—Yesterday being
the anniversary of this memorable event, the service ap-
pointed for the day was read at the parish church of St.
Nicholas, in this town, and the Rev. Thomas M`Gill
preached an admirable and suitable sermon on the occasion.
WILLMER AND SMITH'S EITROPEAN TIMES.—This is the
title of a newspaper expressly adapted for readers on the other
side of the Atlantic, and published on the morning of the
sailing of the steamer. The second number will appear on
Saturday next, prepared for the Acadia, which sails that day ;
and we imagine that those who have friends in the western
world, could not send them a more acceptable remembrance
than one of these papers.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—APPOINTMENT FOR THE SPRING
ASSIZES, 1843.—Judges :—Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice
Coltman, and Mr. Baron Rolfe

Lancaster.....yiir.. . .
Wednesday... Wednesday lst March
Ist March.
Appleby .... .. Wednesday Bth March
Carlisle . . . . .. Saturday llth March
Newcastle . . . . Saturday lBth March,
Liverpool . . . . Wednesday 22d March,
Durban 1.... . . . Saturday 25th March

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.-At the Stock Ex.
change to-day business has not taken an extensive range,
though quotations were steadily supported. Consols for
money and the account closed at 94 to ; Bank Stock, 1721
to 1731 ' • Exchequer Bills, 635. to 655. prem. ; India Stock,
263 to 264 ' • India Bonds, 60s. to 61s. premium ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 95f, ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re-
duced, 102 , New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1011 to 4 ;
and Long Annuities, 13. In foreign securities, Spanish
Actives were quoted 18:1 to 19 ; ditto New, 231 to 24 ; Por-
tuguese Converted, 36 to 1; Mexican, 311 to n ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 to 3 ; Dutch Five per
Cents., 1031 ; Colombian, 23;a- to ; Brazilian 74 to 75 ; and
Belgian, 1031 to lon.

TOWN Couscm.—The usual monthly meeting of the
council will take place to-morrow, but the proceedings for
consideration do not appear to comprise matters of more
than ordinary interest. The principal subjects appear to be,
the proceedings of the Paid Officers' Committee on the legal
question relating to the office of Serjeant-at-Mace, and " the
laying a watch-rate upon the parish of Liverpool, the town-
ships of Kirkdale and Everton, and those parts of the town-
ships of West Derby and Toxteth-park which are within the
borough," from the infliction of which we confidently hope
the council will spare us. We perceive that Mr. Thomas
Boothby is recommended as inspector of hackney coaches,
Mr. Thomas Ashbrooke as assistant clerk in the Treasurer's
office, and Mr. Robert Topping as Mr. Shuttleworth's prin-
cipal clerk. We believe the new arrangement recommended
by the Paid Officers' Committee, for adoption in the Town.
clerk's office, will come into operation the week after next.
THE DEAD ALIVE.—UNEXPECTED RESURRECTION.—A
man sailed from this port about fourteen months ago as
steward of a vessel, bound to Calcutta, having a short time
previous to his departure taken to himself a wife, He left
with a mercantile firm in the town a sum of £4O, and about
two months ago his affectionate spouse called upon them in
great affliction for the money, stating thet she had received
intelligence of his having died abroad. They declined to
comply with her request until they had some evidence of the
fact alleged ; but the disconsolate widow took out letters of
administration and compelled them to surrender what pro-
perty they held of her deceased husband. The accounts
were accordingly settled ; but on Monday, letters were re-
ceived announcing his arrival in London, and that he should
be in Liverpool in a day or two. Whether the meeting be-
tween the happy pair would be a joyful one to the wife on
account of his resuscitation, or the husband on account of
the loss of his money, is a point which must be left to time
to decide.
FIRE.—On Sunday morning, at about half-past one
o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the spirit
vaults (a shop) occupied by Mr. Thomas Ilignett, Cockspur.
street, corner of Westmoreland-street. No one was on the
premises at the time, and the flames, from the combustible
nature of the interior, speedily assumed a very menacing ap-
pearance. The alarm was given, and in a very short time
two engines and four water-carts with a strong body of fire-
police under Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, reached the spot,
though not until the flames had burst through the windows
and doors and spread half across the street. By great exer-
tions the fire was completely got under in about an hour, the
loss being confined chiefly to the ground floor or shop, which
was entirely gutted of its woodwork, the stock in the casks,
&c. The premises are three stories high from the ground,
and the upper two were saved. The effect of the fire on the
pannelled woodwork and frames of the doors and windows,
&c., in the shop part was remarkable, much of it being left
in a charred state, resembling curious and regularly waved
carved work, running in a direction with the grain of the
wood. A. considerable quantity of spirits in casks and kegs
—and which greatly added to the fierceness of the blaze---
was consumed, as also the fixtures, only fragments of which
in a charred state now remain. The origin of the fire is not
yet known, but an opinion is entertained that it arose from
an escapement of gas. The premises were we understand
insured.

SITDD7.N DLATI33.-011 Saturcia,
Esq., Coroner, inquests were told on the miies of two in-
fants, Catherine Smith, Eleven woe!:uhi, ‘v,s found dead
bed on Ft

fore P. F. Cap'

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it appeared that the dee(
Whitehouse, seven weeks old, died suddenly on Thursday
The post mortem examination showed that death had 1.(,.
suited horn disease of the lungs. V;trdiets were returned la
both cases accordant with the evidence.

—We have reason to believe that the in-
, out the militia this year is to supersede, by
the due equipment and discipline of that constitutional force,
the county constabulary. The staff of each regiment will be
stationed at Lancaster, Liverpool, :ind Preston, and the three,
regiments will combine and as enable for a short period 01
permanent duty some time in May. The officers of each re'
giment Are determined to do the thing with spirit, and have
made most liberal arrangements fur music, &c., and other
requisites to military parade and grandeur.
• Sc IcinE.—On Friday morning last, at half-past nine
o'clock Louis Lapbenburg, who lodged at the house of Mr.
Wilkinson, Union-street, was found lying dead on his bed-
room floor, in the midst of a pool of blood. Near him wa,s
a razor, with which he had cut his throat, or, more properly
speaking, nearly severed his head from his body. Alm .inquest
was held on the case on Saturday. It appeared that the de;
ceased went to bed, on Thursday night, in his usual g 001;
health. He had lodged at Mr. Wilkinson's a fortnight, and
had been frequently observed to be in a state of apparent,
despondency. The jury found that the deceased destroyed
himself during a fit of temporary insanity.

THE MILITIA.
tention in callinz

MARK or ESTEEM.—About fifty young gentlemen, for-
merly students in Kingston College, have united in a volun-
tary subscription to present to the Rev. J. H. Brown, M.A.:
of Liverpool, and late vice-principal and mathematical and
classical tutor in the above college, an elegant silver salver,
(manufactured by Mr. B. Jacobs,) and bearing the following
inscription :—" Presented to the Rev. John Henry Brown:
M.A. by the pupils, late of Kingston College, in grateful
acknowledgment of his kindness and services to them while"
vice-principal of that institution. Hull, 18th January, 1843.
—(Eastern Counties Herald.) Mr. Brown is the Head
Master of the Middle School, in the Liverpool Collegiate
Institution.

ROBBING A CHILD.—STREET ROBBERY.-A man re-
spectably attired named John Edwards, alias John Pritchard,
was placed at the bar of the police-court yesterday on a charge
of having stolen a basket containing provisions, from Mary
Ann Wilson, a child about ten years old. It appeared that
the girl had been sent by her parents, who reside in Spading-
street, between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday night, t°
buy some provisions, and she was on her return with a bas-
ket containing a loaf, half an ounce of tea, and some sugar
and butter, when she was met by the prisoner at the corner
of Kent-street. Ile asked her what she had in the basket,
and she replied that she had been buying the provisions for
the week. On hearing this he immediately charged her with
having stolen the articles from M'Caskey's shop, and taking
the basket forcibly from her he ran off with it. A sailor be-
longing to the steam ship Acadia, and another man, tortu-
nately witnessed the occurrence, and pursuing the prisoner,
apprehended him in Frederick-street. The prisoner, in an'
swer to the charge, said he was not the man. Mr. Rushton
said this was a most cruel robbery ; the whole of the week's
provisions for a poor family had been stolen, and there could
be no doubt he was the thief. The prisoner was then com-
mitted to take his trial at the ensuing sessions.

THE WORKHOUSE.—ProbabIy some :of our readers rnaY
have been surprised that we have taken no part in the dis-
cussion in which some of our contemporaries have recently
indulged, with reference to alleged insubordination and hal'
morality in the workhouse in this town. We have purposely
abstained from doing so as we have ascertained that an
quiry into the whole of the circumstances is now pending
i
before the select vestry and we shall, until their report s
published (which we understand will be in the course of a
few days), maintain the silence we have hitherto observed.
We may, however, remark (as the result of our own obser-
vation) with reference to the general conduct of the chaplain
who is spoken of by our contemporary the Journal in lan-
guage most uncalled for and disreputable, that Mr. Cragg
manifests the greatest solicitude for the spiritual welfare of
the inhrbitants of the workhouse, and we assent, and can be
borne out in the assertion by every one who has taken the
trouble to enquire into the circumstances that the exertions
of :that gentleman have been productive of incalculable
benefit to numbers of the inmates but it can never be expec-
ted that he can exercise the same control over them as maY,_
be used in a gaol, becasue the discipline in the latter is much
more stringent. It is perhaps necessary to remark that the
story about the refusai to give one of the paupers a
is a gratuitous falsehood. The man referred to had a bible
belonging to the institution, in his bedroom, at the momen',
he preferred his request for another (for reasons which he
can best explain). The authorities of the workhouse never
we understand, refused to comply. We will, ho.\ ever, Wait
patiently, and perhaps when the case is thoroughly sifted our
radical friends will ffnd much less cause to chuckle than they
exhibit at present.

STABBING IN THE STREETS.—Yesterday Frederick Ken'
dal and Mary Robinson were examined at the Police-court,
on a charge of having stabbed a youth named Edgar Sandal's,
fifteen years of age. The complainant and his brother were
passing along Warwick-street, on their way home in Teal,
perance-court, Heath-street, Toxteth-park, about half-pa"
eight o'clock on Sunday night, when he saw the two prisoners
sitting on a step together. The boys looked at them for
moment as they were passing; and the male prisoner asked
them what they were looking at. They replied, " Nothing
at all ;" and without any provocation the male prisoner at-
tempted to strike them. The female prisoner, on seeing the
attempt, cried out, " Out with your knife." and at the same
moment offered her companion a brick to throw at the boYs'
but instead of taking it, he drew his knife and stabbed the
complainant in the left hip. A policeman was called, Nl°
apprehended the girl, but the male prisoner made his escape
,;
arid was not taken for two hours afterwards. The wound
was examined by Mr. Caw, surgeon, and he stated that it
was about an inch and a half in length, superficial, and n°l
dangerous. The female prisoner made no defence ;
Kendal, in; answer to the charge, said he had not been oat
of his mother's house from four o'clock in the afternoon ; be
called his mother to prove this statement, and, in answer t°,,
the first question put to her, she said he did not arrive "
home till nearly nine o'clock. Robinson, after being severely
reprimanded by Mr. Rushton, was convicted in the penal!):
of £3 and costs for the assault, in default of payment to be
inmopurisseoonfedcot wrroecmtioonntahts
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assizes.

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STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—The annual meeunt,.,,°l
~ this society was held on Friday, at the Charitable InstitutT,
House, Slater-street. The report stated, that in the ear'jc
part of the year, the season being rather inclement, and wor t
scarce, the exertions of the visiters were called into gee!,
activity, from the very numerous cases of distress and sickness
recommended to their notice by the subscribers generabYj
A very large number were, consequently, visited and relieve
to the utmost ability of the society. 61,080 quarts of
the greater part of which was generously granted by the So
°p
were distributed in the most careful and judicio
manner; and a great number of special cases were particl
larly recommended to the Select Vestry, which were generatle
attended to with promptitude and kindness on their part : tPt
able-bodied were recommended and directed to the likelie,g
quarters in which employment might, at least for a time, e
obtained, and the sick and the dying encouraged to look aa„li.
Him who cloth not despise the desires of the sorrowful, ovivo
the sighings of the contrite. At least seven hundred vvid°,,e
and fifteen hundred fatherless children have
partaken of re
bounty of the supporters of this charity during the last twelve
months, many of whom have been found in deplorable e!t,
1„
cumstances of poverty and affliction, but who have haploo'f
learnt that there are hearts who can feel for the woes ds
others, and who are willing to do something, at least, toward
their alleviation. ” Upon reference to the Treasurer's reP° „
it will be seen that the total income of the society does nit
much fall short of that of previous years, which, however, „/
would have done—owing to the decease and removal
several subscribers and donors—but for the timely soPI9
le
afforded by the payment of two handsome legacies, the ?0
er
of £l5O from the late Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson and the otn
of £lOO from the late William Lawson, Esq.,, e both of !Pa
warm friends and firm supporters of the Strangers' Fr.e%
Society for many years. After the distribution by the visitors,
ending 21st December, the Treasurer has a balance in 100
of £64. 18s. 3d., a sum, however, only equal, in this sea,s°
of the year, to meet the usual calls for a very short time.
TESTIMONIAL TO Mit. CROWE.—On Tuesday evening,
the inhabitants of Edge-hill were favoured with an oPI),1
tunity of witnessing the effects of the Wilhem sYsten'ar•
vocal music, lately introduced into this town and neighbo
hood, by Mr. Crowe. The pupils of the adult class, w.he
have just completed their course of instruction under, l'og
able and efficient direction of that gentleman, concelv:he
that they were under great obligations to the trustees for Illy
free use of the National School, which had been so kitit
lent for their accommodation for upwards of six monthsTrt.
desirous of manifesting their gratitude by giving a C"eer
fur the benefit of the schools. The Rev. Frederick Barkthe
presided. The attendance consisted of the elite of
ea
neighbourhood, including Charles Lawrence, Esq., tid
party, Mrs. Earle of Spekelands and party, Mrs. Barkers
party, Mrs. D. Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Dirom, Mr. and INI;
Houghton, &c., together with several clergymen belorig`.,oo
(1
to the town and neighbourhood. The room was well 1;1:0
most respectably filled. On this occasion the Edge- 03,
class was very efficiently supported by a considerable o°4
ber of the members of the Cornwallis-street class who 11:06
kindly offered their assistance for the occasion. There Was
also a number of children from the different schools Wl'
Mr. Crowe has established his classes, who went throult,o
their exercises with credit to themselves and satisfactiorlier
the audience. The performance consisted of a setets,
tion of sacred and secular music, • including 13,—as•
madrigals, &c., which were executed in a vigorous and In
terly style. Before singing the national anthem, which on
to conclude the evening's performances, the rev. chairel'no
in an appropriate and feling speech, presented to Mr. Cifroat
two splendidly bound volumes, as a token of respect, 'fault
the pupils of the Edge-hill and Cornwallis-street ,e„,el
classses ; one was the Manuel, or" Wilhem's System of
Music," bound in vellum, and most chastely and tnagi'the
cently illuminated : the other contained a selection 0' at,
songs, duets, trios, &c., of that great master of the "itit
Handel, bound together in one massive volume, coveredpvire:
red morocca, and most elegantly decorated. Mr. Cr°w-A4
ceived the present with mingled feelings of emotion -age
pleasure, and in very affectionate and appropriate languey
returned thanks to his pupils for this mark of their esteheeett
We are very much gratified to learn that Mr. Crowe has 1a•
appointed instructor in vocal music at the Collegiate stitution.

boftiTrttlihheeEn N, Ae SIIBUR upo TON PACKET SHlP.—This splendid
e
. efie
,
ship, which arrived here on Sunday,
is thus described iaoo
awn dYcoarnk c apiaTpye rfos 'rry"fiSrshte
construction of this ship, her owneres and othersass
every modern improvement in spip building, and have stiree
the
is
and
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seleven
passengers
ha have.
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i o n t;
Littl
out a new path in the arrangements and decorations °I in,
cabins. About her hull are to be seen the beauty and erYiel‘,
rnetry of the Roscius, Siddons, Stephen Whitney, Ger sod
Sheridan, and New York, with their flattish bottoms ears
poop decks, as introduced by Mr. E. K. Cellins a few Ytiove
ago. On deck we noticed the same excellent accommoda tot
for cows, pigs, poultry, and sheep, so necessary at seaboilt•
were introduced onboard the Cambridge when she was . fore
In between decks there is plenty of cargo room, aannin,,,' ore'
and aft, equal to three thousand bales of cotton, or for
1, 4
In between decks also there are large berths and clear.a,..aot-
the steerage passengers, so much needed by the poor enliz?„,00(1,
Down in the hold is a water tank that will take four thaScola,
gallons of water feom the Croton, and keep it pure 6rle
all the time. In the bows of the ship the sailor svl"creeP
every thing dry and comfortable, and warm berths ts' wipa'
into after a fatiguing day's work on deck in a bale of a OP
Added to these, there are plenty of boats, inCludief, nefef
boat, to use in case of emergency, which we trust will he
occurr. But her captain wisely thinks that it is besatiet:s to
prepared for every contingency. " It is, perhaps, neeo..atieft,
give a full description of the cabins. So far as the dec ,utifo!
go, it is perhaps enough to say, that they are very beau dell;
and in the style of Louis XIV. of France. There ?coo are
cacy about the finish that is really fine. In the winuton
panes of richly stained glass, with psrtraits of Ashbur_esof
Western in the ladies' cabin, and the cotte ara
England and America in the gentlemen's cabin•
of:, used
mahogany, bird's-eye maples, and satin wood, usa f,a tat:,
sides painted, as in the cabins of the Great Western, wilds in the cabins of our packets, have been discarded,
wertb 000
tional sketches, not including, however, the little I,_touraieoifa
the doors. All, excepting these Cupids, is in the,e,!:taio a:‘,l
ration of the recent treaty of peace between Great tiow!..,e
the United States. In the state room, the berths aleco!,
up as in the Stephen Whitney, and the entrances to:tut-00_00i
a la Anglais. They connect by doors, so that,. and 1:0
in crossing the Atlantic, can have a suite of rooln°l9,,,reeav
be separated night or day, which is not the most "
thing in the world.

TIAL

'opgregation of St

3. Cottle

Silas' bare in addition t
the Re

robes presented their minister,
£lOO, which they purpose adding annual►
The following is a copy of the letter address_
gentleman by the churchwardens, expressive of the sentiments
of the congregation, which must have been as gratifying to
him as to the trustees who made the appointment :

stipend

d to the reverend

" Dear Sir

" Liverpool, Jan. 25th, 1843.
, As the churchwardens of St. Silas', the
pleasing duty as devolved on us to request, `in the name
of the congregation,' your acceptance of the -sum of one
hundred pounds, as a small token expressive of their high
estimation of your pains-taking exertions in fulfilling the
sacred duties of your office, net only in imparting spiritual
instruction frem the pulpit, but in vour unwearied minister-
ing to the necessities of the sick and destitute, in the district
assigned to your pastoral care.
"We feel assured we only record the prayer of the con-
gregation when we add, ' May you through Go4's great
mercy be blessed with health and strength to continue in well
doing; and may we all through his bounty to us be enabled
to make up annually this addition to the
respected and valued minister.'—We remain, &c,

" H. C. CH IPMAN
" J. R. COOPER,

stipend of our

Churchwardens

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE.—At the Police-
court, yesterday, a young man, well known to the police,
was charged with having violently assaulted and robbed
James Forrester, a flour-broker, residing in Key-street.
Forrester stated, that, about half-past eight o'clock on Sun-
day evening, he was returning home with a young woman,
named Catherine Burns, from the Park, where he had been
taking tea. In order to go the shortest way, they agreed to
go across the fields, the entrance to which was over a long
wall near North-street. He mounted the wall with the in-
tention of assisting his companion over, ;Ind the same mo-
ment the prisoner and another man jumped over the wall
after them. The prisoner immediately seized him by the
neckerchief, and demanded sixpence from him, which being
refused, he was knocked down, and greatly abused by both
the men. They threw him down several times, and kicked
him about the face till it was frightfully disfigured. He
contrived, however, to give his purse (con,'
Burns, who, by calling out " Robbery ! • .
alarmed policeman No. 301, who came to their assistance.
The prisoner and his companion then ran off, and, after a
smart chase, he was secured, but the latter escaped. The
prosecutor lost a silk handkerchief from his hat during the
outrage. This statement was corroborated by Burns and
the police-off►oer, who added that, on searching the prisoner,
he observed that blood was upon one of his arms. The pri-
soner, in defence, said he was coming from his brother's in
the Park, when he met the prosecutor and Burns ; the for-
mer jostled against him, on complaining of which he struck
him, and all he had done was to strike him in return. He
was committed for trial at the assizes.

ining 20s:
" Murder

Is STIT

—The middle

LIVERPOOL COLLEGI
school of this institutio
pupils, on which occ.- ecture hall was for the first
time used for divine service. A voluntary was performed
whilst the pupils were entering ; after which the professors
and masters, attired in collegiate costume, having taken their
places on the platform, the selection of prayers used at
King's College, London, was impressively read by the
mverend principa. Aout 500 of te parets and frieds of
the pupils were prlesentb in the lowerh gallery,n (which has been
set apart for the accommodation of those who may wish to
be present at the morning service,) and, one and all seemed
highly delighted with the proceedings. The appearance of the
pupils'as they passed to and from the lecture hall in their
collegiate gowns, was an interesting exhibition, and afforded
much gratification. Lord Francis Egerton will nominate,
free of expense, to the upper school, the pupil who shall pre-
eminently distinguish himself during the present year, and
has also generously placed £lO at the disposal of the direc-
tors, to be awarded in such prizes as they may deem fit.
William Potter, Esq., has announced his intention of giving
two free nominations to the middle school, to the most dis-
tinguished boys of the present year. The privilege of com-
peting for the preceding prizes will be confined to three pu
pils, who may attend during the present quarter. The in-
ducements to enter the Collegiate School are thus becoming
powerful, and when John Gladstone, Esq., carries out his
intention of founding for them an university scholarship, they
will be materially increased. The upper school is announced
to open on the ]3th February. Ali,ny of the most opulent
and influential of our townsmen have already entered their
children as pupils, and several of the gentry of the neighbour-
ing counlies purpose sending their sons to it. In a few years,
therefore, under the able guidance of the reverend principal,
and the eminent and experienced professors whom he has
been so fortunate as to engage, we may expect to find the
pupils of this institution taking a high stand in the universi-
ties of the country, and, thereby placing the Liverpool Col-
legiate Institution in an honourable position with respect to
the preparatory colleges of the country.

)pened yesterday with nearly 200
sion the 1

CORRESPONDENCE

TO RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M.P.

SlR,—Before we meet to-morrow night, I am desirous to
call your attention to some facts which seem to con-
nect themselves with the present position of our manufactur-
ing population, and the miserable low state of our outward
mercantile trade, and, as truth will in all things ultimately
prevail, we shall assuredly arrive at a sounder view of the
corn-law question by sifting the following facts carefully—
for two obvious reasons, viz.,—To ascertain how far the
manufacturers and merchants have executed their orders
with the nations of the world, nationally, knot barely indi-
vidually,) by the manufacture and sale of such goods as were
honestly made, or likely to he sought for a second time ; and,
secondly, how far such goods will be taken, in future, in pay-
ment for corn •, however simple these questions may appear
at first sight, they are, to my mind, all important in the con-
sideration of the corn-law question ; not looking at that
question in a spirit of tenderness towards; the landlord or
tenant, for in that spirit there is no safety—the food of the
people is a subject so momentous, as, next to their moral
condition, to be paramount to all others.
Now, the popular question of " free trade in corn " sounds
sweetly, I grant, and I admit it may, for a time,(or for ever,
if you value the admission), render that commodity cheaper.
Next comes the question, in what do you propose to pay for
it? You will reply, in manufactures. In manufactures?
" Manchester goods? " But have not the goods hitherto
classed as export goods already disgusted many of our foreign
customers, and will they not rather sell us their corn for cash,
and buy manufactures at an honester market ?—lower prized
they cannot find.
The conjurors, who talk about laying down land depend-
ing upon a cheaper market for corn, fancy that if we wanted
corn on an emergency, it would be supplied from our own
soil as quickly as mushrooms, and that laying our land down
in permanent grass, we should produce more beef and mut-
ton. To this it may be observed, what pretty little fat sheep
of 6 lbs. a quarter would our excellent neighbour, Michael
Ashcroft, of Bank -hall, produce upon his presenthighly cul- 1
tivated farm if it were driven into permanent turf ; but, say
you, there would be no deficiency in this supply if the trade
were free; perhaps not, if we were always sure that we could
payfor it; but if our manufactures, and most particularl
th it portion with which you are connected, have already, by
their artificial character, disgusted the wearers of them, how
do you mean to cure that evil? Do you advise the practice
of honesty in future ? If so, our manufactures will again
survive the present depression, without your interference
with the home customer; and, if not, they had better be for-
gotten, because, for the last thirty years, they have been so
conducted in principle, as to enrich the few by the slavery of
the many, whilst they have encouraged the over-production
of a rascally bad article, which has afforded a beggarly remu-
neration for the labour of the working classes, and reduced
the demand of sound goods, by the encouragement thus af-
forded to the export of materials and machinery.
Look back on the character of Manchester prints so called,
which have been exported !—piles of thousands of-pieces—
possessing neither cloth nor colour—merely dipped cobwebs
—your shirtings filled up with rubbish, and sealed with a no-
torious
lie in the English tongue.
Could any one be surprised that such a trade must lan-
guish in the long run ? Even supposig such goods hav been furnished to the rudest barbarian,n the first timeto he be-
e came possessed of an honest-packed article, he would treat
the Britisher and his goods with derision. Examine the
enclosed patterns, value seven farthings per yard, fine glossy
satin-faced printed Manchester cambries : dip them in warm
water—alas ! your fine piece is gone, cloth and colour, and
you are left with a mere cobweb. These, although improve-
ments on the rubbish of twenty years since in appearance,
form still the same fraudulently-packed stuff, which starves
him who labours at them at home, and destroys the character
of the nation abroad. They may earn a very large profit
(once) for the merchant or manufacturer, but benefit no other
party. Do you expect to buy corn with such trash ? Fudge
Nor is this kind of fraud confined to Manchester. Look at
the trash got up by your Yorkshire neighbours in cutlery for
our foreign customers, wherever they can be forced ; and
blush to see a cast-iron knife or razor, a box of tools, and
various other trumpery, polished up and marked in our own
tongue as of finel quality ! Do you, my noble cotton lord,
suppose foreigners are such dolts as to prefer English trash
to goods of honester make ?
I remember full well a glove-manufacturer, who, acting
upon this principle, reduced the sewer's price to 12d. per
dozen, (for which the poor people burnt him in effigy,) and
cut all the rejected leather he could procure, and produced
a lower-priced article than was previously known. A dozen
of them were about the size of two bricks, stiff and scabby.
No hand could be introduced !No matter!—they were
glovesfor export. They could not be worn. What was the
consequence? In a few years the trade was annihilated.
But we may illustrate this shabby practice nearer home,
viz., Yorkshire broads. Time was when the Britishers at
home were not so skilful in their knowledge of such cloths.
What was then the practice? Why the pieces were about a
foot narrower than theßest of Englands, and this fault was
hidden by folding the cloths in a fraudulent manner, so as to
appear to an inexperienced eye as of full breadth. To such
an extent was this practised, that old Joe Grimaldi made one
of his whimsical hits in a Christmas pantomime, by pro-
ducing a supposed piece on the stage, so folded with fine
black list, and the words thereon in yellow silk, " Yorkshire
Broad." The Yorkshire folks ultimately gave up the prac-
tice, and by turning their attention more to quality than de-
ceit, now rival the West ; but they too have lately been
practising a new fraud, of tearing old rugs to make new
coats. Do they expect to buy corn with them ?
That there has been much suffering in the manufacturing
districts all humane persons lament, while all patriotic per-
sons must have made strange comparisons of the loyalty and
patience exhibited by the poor men, and by their rich mas-
ters ; and in justice to these poor men, I trust the facts
herein stated will be properly inquired into ere the consu-
mers of bread plunge themselves into irretrievable ruin by
destroying the home producer and consumer, who require
goods that will pay the maker for the labour of his hands,
rather than by pursuing a system which has already paralyzed
the spirits of the manufacturing population, even if with the
knowledge of their past sufferings, you could reasonably be-
lieve that foreigners would be such fools as to continue to
take such rubbish as that forming the great proportion of
export goods, in exchange for the next thing to gold, viz.,
corn, the article you propose to discourage the production of.
Will China take them for her crapes, nankeens, teas, or
silks. Pshaw ! Turn your attention to excellence of quality,
and fairness in packing, and China may be a splendid cus-
tomer, and if so, the goods they will buy will enable the poor
half starved weavers to earn the wages of comfort to which
they are as much entitled as the farm labourer. How is it
that they have been deprived of it, whilst their employers
have become rich as Nabobs.
There is the rub ! The cure for our disease is to discon-
tinue the use of substitute as the staple of our manufacture ;
no longer to practise deception in packing, and then you will
no longer require to stamp a continuous lie on the produc-
tions of your looms, and foreign nations will soon exhibit
better feelings, and more confidently rely on the honour and
honesty of our dealings than they seem inclined to at present.
I perceive Mr. O'Connell is to figure away at this grand
Muster of philosophers ; he will
probably describe to the
meeting how his countrymen have lost
inosittehnes, to which
their oncebealut,ivfiulll
manufacture of their honestly packed
listen with attention, and:how he proposes to recover it by
the:introduction of cheap corn.
As 1 have extended my observations far beyond my first
intention I will briefly add that I admire your apparent zeal
for the public good ; but your one idea is fallacious,
the rest appear to me to rest upon fallacy
.
Yours, respectfully,
JOHN JONES.
Liverpool. January3oth, 1843.

" Why are soldiers on foot more liable to err than ladies
on horseback?" Dy'e give it up ? Because soldiers muster
and ladies canter.

TOXTETI3•PARK. PROTESTANT OPEHATIVE

ASSOCIATION

Last night a crowded meeting of the members and friends
of the Toxteth-park Protestant Operative Association was
held in the Toxteth-hall, Mill-street, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of adopting a petition to parliament,
praying for the discontinuance of the annual grant to the
popish College of Maynooth. The Rev. Hum' 'APNEILL,
patron of the association, presided.
The Divine blessing having been implored upon the pro-
ceedings, in an appropriate prayer, by the Rev. NV. BUTLER,
incumbent of St. Thomasis, Warwick-street,
The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting nearly as follows :
—A petition for inquiry Into the principles and practices
taught in the College of Maynooth is in course of signature
in this town at this time ; and the immediate objects of the
present meeting are, first to give you an opportunity of
attaching your names to that petition; secondly, to supply
you with such information, in addition to that you already
possess, as will satisfy you it is a Christian duty so to do ;
and thirdly, to excite such interest in your minds upon the
subject as will induce you to endeavour to cause your fellow-
townsmen to attach their names also to this petition. (Hear.)
It has been told me by some who have come to me from this
side of tha town that there exists among you a feeling of dis-
appointment and even of despondency. Ido not participate
in any such feeling. Ido not think there is the slightest
reason why you should abate, in the smallest degree, the
energy, the earnestness, the activity, the perseverance of
your efforts in the cause of Christian truth and Scrip-
tural education. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) You have been
taught, and I hope that you are well and fully persuaded,
that duty is not to he measured by success; but that it rests
upon a principle which remains unchanged, whether the All-
wise disposer of all events be pleased to crown the cause with I
present and practical advance, or to try its advocates by pre.
sent exercises of patience. (Hear.) If, therefore, it could
be shown that our cause had made no advance ; if no friends
had been gained to it in parliament or in the country ; if it
stood precisely where it did ten years ago, still our duty
would remain the same, equally obvious and equally urgent.
But our cause is not in this position. (Hear, hear.) It has
advanced. (Cheers.) Documentary evidence, supporting
our strongest assertions in reprobation of the principles in-
culcated in Maynooth College, have been laid before the
Public and largely read : the standard books which contain
the leading features of that evidence have been lodged by the
official consent of the proper authorities in the public libra-
ries of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,—(A
VoicE—And in Dublin),—yes, and in Dublin too. (Hear.)
Petitions from various parts of the country, with vastly
increased numbers of signatures, attest the progress the
cause has made out of doors ; and in the House of Commons,
the minority of those who boldly voted with us upon this
point is increased from seven or eight to forty-eight. (Great
cheering.) Our cause, therefore, does not stand where it
did ; it has advanced; and advanced perhaps as rapidly as it
was reasonable to expect such a cause could advance against
the tide of " conciliation," as it has been falsely called, and
liberality," equally falsely called, but indifferentism and
infidelity, properly called, which had spread through the
country. (Cheers.)

A `''DlCE.—May God increase it further. (Hear, bear.)
The CHAIiestAN.—A very extraordinary principle, if it can
be called a principle, has been gaining ground in this country
with regard to public men—namely, that, although it is their
duty as private individuals to avow their real sentiments, yet
as public men it is not their duty to avow their real senti-
ments--(hear, hear) ;—and that they may have certain sen-
timents upon which they act as individuals, while unfortu-
dately they may act upon a different set of sentiments in their
public capacity as rulers of a mixed community. You will
not understand me to suppose I approve of such a sentiment.
(Hear.) I am telling you it has spread in this country, and
I want to make you understand the evii nature of it ; I want
to expose it; and, in order to expose such a subtle sentiment
to an audience such as I now have the honour to address, it
is necessary to speak very plain. One of the greatest diffi-
culties that gentlemen have to contend with upon such occa-
sions as this is, in point of fact, that we are speaking to two
auditories at once—an auditory like yourselves which, without
meaning any disrespect to you, I may say, requires plainness
of speech, and an auditory such as the reporter for the news-
paper is busy getting ready for, who require critical nicety—
(hear, hear) ;—so that, in point of fact, 1 must remember
that I have not only to address the parties assembled in the
Toxteth-hall, but also the parties_ who will read the LIVER-
POOL STANDARD to-morrow morning. Now upon the subject
of this " liberalism ;" I heard a strange anecdote of three gen-
tlemen, one of whom said " Two and two are four." Another
said " No ; two and two are aresix." (Laughter.) The third
was appealed to as an umpire ; he was a liberal gentleman,
and he said, " My good friends it is necessary to conciliate in
these times, and not to drive matters to extremes ; it is
necessary to be kind in the construction put upon other
people's words,—the friend upon my right, perhaps, did not
mean all that he said when he said `two and two arc four,'
and it is possible that my honourable friend upon the other
side may have exaggerated a little when he said that two and
two are six—(Laughter)—and I propose, as a real verity of
the case, for peace sake, that it be laid down henceforth that
two and two are five !" (Loud laughter.) " If," he con-
tinued, " I was speaking in my individual capacity, knowing
as well as the life within me that two and two are four, I
would agree with that gentleman ; but I have a public charac-
ter to sustain, in the which it is necessary to conciliate
various parties—to remember the conscientious objections of
dissenters, and to maintain the first dignities of the church ;
therefore in my public capacity I dare not say what I know
to be true, two and two are four, that would be dangerous
and indiscreet : to say that two and two make six would be
false • and, therefore, I come to the legitimate, the discreet,
and the parlitnentary conclusion that two and two are five."
But not only has our cause as respects Moynooth prospered
in the face of this enemy, but the kindred question of Scrip-
tural education has also prospered. (Hear,) It is true that
no change is contemplated in the system adopted in Ireland,
but in the only town in England, where that system was in-
troduced, a change has not only been contemplated but com-
pletely effected. (Loud Cheers.) It is true that some of our
representatives appear to have changed their mind since they
were elected, but what then? Our majorities are not so
scanty as to be affected by such changes •, we have gained our
point as touching the schools, and you have been gaining as
electors. (Cheers.) You should take care to whom you give
your votes, because, remember, a representative iu a British
deliberative assembly is not a fettered delegate, but he is a
free debater. (Cheers.) You cannot at once confer and
withhold your confidence—(cheers) • you send a member to
the House of Commons, or to the Town-council, but being
there, he no longer consults for you only, but according to
the best of his judgment for the whole kingdom or for the
whole town. (Cheers.) This is a general principle of our
constitution as laid down by its greatest lights. (Cheers.)
There may, indeed, be peculiar cases of voluntary and plain
declarations on one side, and sudden and unexplained votes
upon the other side, which may render it unspeakably dis-
graceful for a man to screw himself behind this generous
principle while he is practising deliberate deception; and in
such causes it may be very proper for constituencies publicly
to mark their reprobation of such conduct. But, then, they
must remember that even in an extreme case like this, with
the exception of public opinion, they have no strictly con-
stitutional remedy till the next election. (Cheers.)
With these few remarks I must content myself, and call
upon my friends who bath joined me, and kindly undertakers
to address you this evening ; but there is another point upon
which I wish to offer a few remarks, because I have heard
that some of you have been unsettled by it. I have heard.
but perhaps I have been misinformed, that some of the
emissaries of the Anti-Corn-Law-Leage have been among
you—(hear)--a republican faction, making up by perpetual
motion for the want of weight in their numbers, their cha-
racters, and their respectability in the country. (Loud
cheers.) Rest assured that the question between these men
and the aristocracy of England is a question between repub-
licanism or monarchy, and nothing short of it. (Hear.)
But they talk of regard for the poor, and they talk of cheap
bread: what is the reason they do not talk of cheap labour?
(Hear, hear.) They deny that cheap bread will lead to cheap
labour ; but " facts are stubborn things," and since the
influx of foreign corn of late, and the great, and blessed, and
plentiful harvest we had last year—since provisions have
been cheaper, wages have been lowered. (Loud cries of
" hear, hear.") That is a matter of fact : it is a fact.
(Hear.) I saw a gentleman to-day from Bolton, who told
me that there are men working there for 4s. 6d. a week—
(hear, hear)—and yet these gentlemen will say in the Am-
phitheatre to-morrow evening that the price of food has no
connection with the price of wages! (Hear.) I want you
to ask them this, if you have an opportunity. (I do not want
vou to go to their banquet for the purpose, though) will they
be content to agitate for a clause in the act of parliament,
which shall repeal the Corn-law for the regulation of
wages, a clause prescribing a point, below which the mecha-
nic shall not be required to labour ?—(Hear, hear.) If Mr.
Cobden will agitate a minimum clause of wages, he may then
call himself th labouring man's friend ; but while he agitates
for free trade in corn, he agitates for free trade in wages too
—(hear) ; and when he has got down the loaf so that you can
buy it for sixpence instead of a shilling he will get down your
wages, for he will tell you "you can live for so much less now
than before."—(Hear, hear.) He will tell you then " Were
you not a fool not to see this sooner?—(Hear, hear.) Did
we not tell you we wanted to compete with foreign manufac-
tures, but we could not do it while bread was so dear ?"
What does that mean but this—" How can we compete with
the foreign manufacturer but by manufacturing at home
cheaper, and how cheaper but by paying you less ?—(Hear.)
I understand there is a celebrated countryman of mine
coming to join them to-morrow. (Laughter.) You must
not be sure of him, because there was a very convenient
blast of wind this evening, just about the time the Dublin
packet sails. (Loud laughter.) I want to read you a passage
from a very significant letter he wrote lately, with regard to
this subject of free trade that is so much talked of. " Within
little more than twelve months no less than six tariffs
have been proclaimed against English manufactures. In
November, 1841, a Russian tariff against her worsted, her
woollens, and her cotton goods. In December, 1841, a Por-
tuguese tariff against her woollen goods. In June, 1842, a
French tariff against her linen-yarns and linens. In July.
1842, a Belgian tariff against the same articles. In August,
1841, a, United States tariff against her woollens, worsted,
and cotton goods. In September, 1842, a German League
tariff against one of her largest articles of British export,
namely, her worsted goods, printed or figured. There is one
thing exceedingly curious, which looks like a hallucination
over the minds of our great statesmen. It is this. In the
face of these tariffs our ministers have gratuitously, and of
their own mere motion, opened our markets, either at no
duty or at a low duty, for many foreign articles which we
ourselves can and do produce. Thus, whilst foreigners close
their markets against us, we retaliate by opening our markets
freely for them. I am certainly an advocate for free trade ;
but it must be a just and generous freedom, not that bastard
free trade that throws all the burdens upon our produce,
and leaves all the advantage .to foreign articles." (Hear.)
Now, here is the man who wrote this for a purpose in Ire-
land coming over here to speak at a " free trade banquet ! "
(Cheers.) Why if he uttered this in the Amphitheatre to-
morrow night, they would probably turn him out, great a
man as he is ! (Great cheering, and laughter.) " Free
trade "—yes, but it must be really free ; but these mighty
manufacturers do not desire that; they do not desire that
there should be any protection for their manufactured goods,
but they desire that there shall be no protections for the
farmers. " Anti-monopoly " is their cry ; and " Citizens of
the world " they call themselves. Now, I ask them why
should England monopolize manufactures ? (Hear.) If you
are an anti-monopoiy man, why crush the manufactures of
other nations? Keep it at home. That is monopoly ; keep
it at home, but apply the same principle to everything. We
are the opposers of monopoly, for we wish to have both
manufactures and agriculture, and not manufactures only '
(hear)—we are the opposers of monopoly, for we wish
other
nations to have both manufactures and agriculture, and not
agriculture only ;—(hear)—so, then, we are the opposers of
1 monopoly, and they are the monopolists! (Loud cheering.)
_ Now if we are to have free trade, as Mr. O'Conr.ell says
here, let it be a real reciprocal freedom, and let us not have
what he calls " that bastard free trade" which would allow
American corn to come into our ports without duty, while
the Americans will not allow British cotton goods to go into
their ports without duty. (Cheers.) You cannot force
every people ; therefore you cannot have "free trade all the
world over." (Hear.) Fair play is a jewel. (Hear.) But
suppose you could force every people, and have real free
trade all the world over, I wish you just to look at the con-
sequences. (Hear.) There is no limit to what may be pro-
duced by machinery : a machine will do as much with two or
three men to work it, as two or three and twenty men, or
two or three hundred men perhaps, could do without it.
There is a limit to what man can produce, but there is no
limit to what machinery can produce. If all the ports of the
world were open to England free, machinery would produce
in a little while what would supply and glut all the markets
of the world. While doing so the manufacturers of England
would be multiplied a thousand fold ; and when that was

stagnation and glut came, there would be ao agri.
culture to fall back upon. (Hear.) The whole nation would
be a starving nation. (Hear.) Instead of bringing some
only to the starving point, they would, when stagnation came,
bring all to the starving point, and leave none to feed them.
What can be done, fhen ? Ido not intend to weary you
by going largely into this question ; but I wish very much
that those gentlemen who talk so very feelingly about the
distre,s of the poor would slew that they really have the in-

terests of the poor at heart by cordially joining in a clause for
the regulation of the minimum of wages. I believe, however,
that that would be impracticable. I believe that the la-
bouring man is influenced by so many things as well as the
price of provisions, that it would be impossible for a mind-
willing legislature to regulate by any act the wages of the
poor. These men know this. They know how to manage
in order to gain their own points, and they have managed to
gain them. Ido not charge them with having caused the
disturbances which took place a few months in the manufac-
turing districts ; but I state a fact that during those distnr-
bances they got rid of their old stock of goods; they sold
them off; the men struck ; they would not work ; they got
no wages ; they withdrew their balances from the savings'
banks, and lived upon their savings. No good was pro-
duced ; the home market must be supplied ; the old stocks
were brought out, and they kept the people at bay ; and in-
stead of giving them wages, they were obliged to live upon
their own balances out of the savings' banks. lam stating
a fact; I ds not accuse any person of wilfully bringing about
his state of things, but the fact resulted so that many stores
were cleared of the old goods, and the master manufacturers
pocketed as much as would realise the £50,000 they now
want, while the poor people were getting no wages, but liv-
ing upon their own savings. (Hear.) This was one cause
of the smaller consumption of articles of food in England
during those few months, a cause of the fall in prices, not
from any larger quantity of the article, but absolutely be-
cause there was less of it eaten. (Hear.)
There is a passage here before me from a speech of this
same Mr. Cobden, who has been mooting this question
with so much animation in various parts of the country, a
passage from a speech he delivered in Edinburgh, which comes
to this subject of wages ; and I am willing you should hear
what he has to say :—" When the late corn law was passed,
I asked if they were also going to pass a law to keep up the
rate of wages. I brought before them, from the votes of their
proceedings, that they had declared, in answer to the peti-
tions of the hand-loom weavers, that there was no power in
parliament to regulate wages of labour."—lt was, perhaps,
an evil hour that that was made known to him. He has led
us into a scrape here—it is in evidence that it is not in the
power of parliament to regulate the wages of labour. He is
not afraid of a wages clause; but if it were in the power of
parliament to regulate wages, he would not be so ready to '
force it upon parliament to repeal the laws for protection of
agriculture. (Cheers.) " I asked if they were now going
to pass a bill to raise the rate of wages ; and proposed a mo-
tion in which I declared that it was unjust to raise the
price of corn while the house had declared it had no
power to raise the rate of wages." It is unjust to lower
the price of corn, therefore, if the house have no power
to Prevent the lowering of wages. (Loud cheers.) They
laugh at us for saying that the labouring man is better off
when bread is dear than when it is cheap ; but, neverthe-
less, it is true. (Hear.) Dear bread is better than cheap
bread ; you must get wages enough to buy bread, and you
may rest assured, my frends, that whatever collateral in-
fluence may be brought to bear upon this subject, and how-
ever difficult it may be to take clear views of it divested
of those influences, upon the right side and upon the left,
and however temporary effects may be produced by extra-
neous causes, yet in the long run, and upon the broad scale,
the price of food will and must regulate the price of wages.
Therefore when food is cheap the poor man is worse off than
when food is dear, because, if even he can get his food for
half the money, if lie only gets half the wages, he is worse
off, because he has but the other half of the smaller sum to
devote to everything else he wants besides food. (Loud
cheers.) I endeavoured to make this as plain as possible in
a little dialogue I remember giving to a meeting in this town,
and which was printed; that dialogue, which had a large cir-
culation, contains an argument which these gentlemen have
never condescended to answer, yet they now crow as if they
had answered it. They crow like a cock that has all his own
way throughout the whole yard—(laughter)—and they are
persuading people to believe them because the respectable
portion of the community do not take the trouble of con-
tradicting them. They are going through the whole country
from town to town; they have come here now, and they had
a gathering to-day to settle what is to be done, and they will
have a much greater to-morrow. They state things with as
much boldness and effrontery as if they had never been re-
futed ; they argue as long as they can get the smallest bodies
to believe them, and whilst they are endeavouring to make
persons believe them they are gaining converts. The re-
spectable part of the community, on the other hand, have
not thought it worth while to get up a counter agitation, to
argue against these men, and to enlighten the mass of the
people. The gentlemen of the country have paid you a high
compliment; they are satisfied with your good sense, and
they do not think it necessary to send lecturers among, you
to keep you from the fallacies and the misrepresentaions of
the lecturers of the Anti-corn-Law League. They have given
you credit for common sense in this matter; and I should be
very glad if you would justify in this town the opinion formed
of you, for while there are many gentlemen in the town who
disapprove of this agitation, none of them have come forward
to say so,—(hear)—they have called no counter meetings,
which they might have done ; for it would be as easy the day
after to-morrow, or the first day the Amphitheatre may be
disengaged, to fill it with the friends of good order, the
monarchy, the church, and the corn-law—(hear),—as it is
for them to have it full to-morrow of the friends of repeal.
(Cheers.) Why do we not do it? You do not require it;
'you are satisfied already. (Cheers.) Before I conclude, and
in order to bring you back to the special subject of the meet-
ing, I wish to mention another topic introduced by Mr.
O'Connell in his letter. " The people of Ireland have a
direct and immediate interest in the misers and misfortunes
of England. When England is strong and prosperous, she
is uniformly harsh, cruel, and unjust towards Ireland. When
England is in distress, she courts or conciliates the Irish
people, or submits to the necessity which then arises of doing
sonic injustice to Ireland." The public mind in Ireland is
favourably influenced by the thorough knOwledge the Catholic
clergy and laity have, that the Catholic church in that
country cannot possibly be free, without the restoration of
an Irish parliament ! (Hear.) He describes what he means
by freedom to the Catholic church, by the restoration of
an Irish parliament; and one thing he aims at by this resto-
ration is what he calls " the fixity of tenure." I think it
highly probable that many of those I have now the pleasure
to address, may not be in possession of the meaning of this
phrase " the fixity of tenure." Mr. O'Connell wants the
people of Ireland to feel they have hold upon their farms
whether the landlord choose or not—that they are all pro-
prietors ; and he gives this description of it himself :
" I am greatly obliged to my friend, Mr. Moylan, for af-
fording the information that the tenant who plants trees, and
registers those trees, possesses a property in them, even after
he has left, or has been driven from, the farm on which they
are planted "—So he has a property in the trees upon the
farm, after he gives up the farm to his landlord ! He says
then—" This opens a new view to my mind, and I think that
there is no improvement which the tenant may make that be
may not equally secure to him a property in it if he should
adopt the same means of registering it. (Hear, and cheers.)
Let him, therefore, register every improvement, whether in
planting, draining, or whatever else he does, and he may
possess a like praperty in it, whatever be the improvements
he may have effected."

Here is a " fixity of tenure !" He wants the poor man to
have real possession of the land ! But here what follows :
I may be in error, but the principle is a vital one—one of
vast importance to Ireland—one which cannot be too wisely
carried out, and I, therefore, say that it demands attentive
consideration (hear and loud cheers.) Let it be known
that almost all the proprietors of the soil in Ireland have
their possessions by force and fraud. (Cheers.) I told
you at first that the movement was a revolutionary one
against the aristocracy and the monarchy o the kingdom.
(Hear.) It is so ; and now I come back and show you
that this part of it is in the very language I have last read
is based upon essential principles which we have always
told you belong to the Roman Catholic Chcrch in Ireland.
She holds the principle which maintains, as we have often
shewn you, that the proprietors of the land being Protestants,
have no just title to that land—that it was not in the power
of the King of England to give that title—that they possess
their land by fraud or force, and not of just right. This it
the principle which lies at the root of all good govern-
ment, peace, and quietness in the land. There is just cause,
then that the lovers of order in this land. (Hear and cheers.)
should, calmly and constitutionally, peaceably and plainly,
address the legislature—that they should in well-arranged
petitions setting forth the grounds of their alarm, and stating
the principles on which they wish to be governed, to inter-
pose between this republican party that is raised up against
England and Ireland, and agoinst the constituted authorities
of our limited monarchy—(cheers)—for you may rest as-
sured that the question is not merely the repeal of the union
between England and Ireland, though that is put forward,
nor a repeal of the corn-laws, though that be put forward.
(Hear.) These would be taken as " instalments;" but the
question behind and beyond both of them' is, whether we
shall remain a limited monarchy and a Protestant church—
whether there shall remain a circulated and a honoured Bible
—or whether there shall be a prostration of all regulated
authority in the lands before a rising republican revolution,
that would sweep away the altar and the throne, and take
our Bible and our church from us, under the pretence of
giving cheap loaves to the poor. (Tremendous cheering,
when the reverer.d gentleman resumed his seat.)
The Rev. W. BUTLER commenced by reading the resolu-
tion, to the effect—" That this meeting, convinced of the
high and paramount duty of using, in the defence and for
the furtherance of the pure Gospel of Christ, all those means
which are providentially and constitutionally placed within
their reach as Christians and British subjects,—and fully
sensible that such duty remains unchanged in its principle
and obligation, whatever changes may take place in the go-
vernment of the country,—do now determine to renew their
application to the Imperial Parliament on the subject of the
College of Maynooth, wherein they firmly believe that prin-
ciples and practices are taught repugnant to the Word of
God, hostile to the Protestant monarchy of Great Britain,
and such as, if prevalent, must prove subversive of the civil
liberties, as well as of the Scriptural privileges, of English-
men." This resolution, he said, set forth the cause why the
meeting should petition parliament—namely, that the prin-
ciples taught at Maynooth, if carried out, would subvert their
civil and religious liberties, especially that religious liberty
founded on the Scriptures, which they enjoyed as English-
men. There were differences of condition amongst men in
their worldly pursuits, those of the greatest ability and
energy necessarily holding the highest stations; but reli-
gious liberty taught them that they were sinful and all alike
in the sight of God. If we possessed this liberty, all other
liberties would follow in its train ; and other liberty was
valueless without that which they derived from their Bibles.
Ancient Greece was refined in literature and art, but not
having this humanising and redeeming liberty, she had her
slaves. Sparta, too, had her Helot. Even at the present day,
!f they crossed the Atlantic, America toohad her slaves ;
and he rejoiced that England, protestant England, was the
first, through the influence of religious liberty in the true
sense of the word was the ffrst to show an example by
emancipating the slaves from bondage. if schools were so
conducted that scriptural education formed a great part of
the instruction to youth, they would be) subversive of all
liberty both civil and religious. Let them remember tlAt
" example swayeth more than precept ;" and it was not
enough that they should talk of the Bible ; they must show
that they read, marked and resyected the truths contained
in the sacred volume, without which all the noble qualities
of the mind became corrupted. They should not only deeply
study the scriptures themselves, but having imbued their
minds with what they contained, lead others to entertain
similar sentiments of the saving grace. He cordially moved
the resolution.

The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN, in seconding the resolution,
said that as on the last occasion when he had spoke from
that place, he had to congratulate them on having met in
such numbers again to welcome amongst them their worthy
chairman. He concurred with that distinguished individual
that they ought not to give up principle, or to relax in their
exertions to attain the object in view, although there was
certainly some points to discourage them. They were taught
by that book on which their faith rested, that it was theirs
steadfastly to perform their duties, and that the results were
in the hands of the Almighty. On this principle they were
now banded together. The argument they had heard was
not so obviously a Scriptural one as at first sight it really
was, and it might be said that it touched too strongly on po-
litics. But they must speak out, for the question was, was
the church to be or not to be; whether, in fact, our noblest
institutions were to be overthrown and supplanted by a re-
publican--a revolutionary form of government, and tho ward
of truth wrested from their hands, which would be.the result
of popish encroachment, and the abrogation of the corn-

Connell might *rite one thing in Ireland, and
suppress it here for his own purposes ;—(hear, hears
hear)—and Lord Morpeth might show a sympathy for the
slave-holders of America, and give, when called on, a
muftiad tone to the "liberty bill ;" but to this it would
come if they did not bestir themselves. Protestants must
maintain their vantage ground, and repel them. It was
even mercy to themselves to check them in their career.
The institute Maynooth, and every thing connected with
it, they v.ere especially called upon to deprecate. It was
a snutuary for carrying out all those principles, the re-
sults of which were found in the harrowing details from
time to time in the columns of the Irish newspapers. With
respect to the cor❑ laws, their repeal would be fraught
with destruction to the Irish population. We had manu-
factures which they had not the advantage of—as they de-
pended almost solely on the soil. Here the Irish agricul-
turist got a ready market and a good price for his pro-
duce, and the removal of the corn-laws would involve that
country in utter ruin. The petition had already been
passed by a very large meeting, who were unanimous in
its adoption, and as they all knew its contents, it was
unnecessary again to read it. The recent change of go-
vernment did not effect the principles upon which it was
founded; and they were still in open hostility to Maynooth,
whose priests had forsworn the Word of God. After a va-
riety of other remarks, he concluded by seconding the mo-
tion.

The motion was put and carried unanimously and enthu-
siastically.

The Rev. F. PARRY moved the second resolution in an in-
teresting address; but we have not space or time, on the
eve of our publication, to report his arguments or furnish any
details of the subsequent proceedings.
The resolution was to the effect that the petition was such
as ought to be signed by every Christian man.
The Rev. Mr. FALLOON seconded the motion, in a very
animated address.

The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting in sup-
port of protestantism, in a very animated address, which was
received with great enthusiasm.

Mr. JOHN SHEPPARD, in handsome terms, then proposed
a vote of thanks to the chairman, for his zealous and eloquent
support of the cause. This was seconded by Mr. H ARBORD,
and carried by acclamation.

The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, referred to the
Protestants of Ireland, who were ever ready to support their
brethren in England, and were in truth " noble fellows."
The petition, which had previously obtained many signa-
tures, was then numerously signed by those present, and the
meeting dispersed.

SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY AND THL LEAGUERS