The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

ANECDOTES OF PARROTS.

,
kFROM THE MISCELLANY. OF NATURAL HISTORY.)
In passing by the garden, (of a house the narrator visited at
the Cape,) we heard a talking, which our Portuguese, after at-
tentively listening, pronounced to be "plain Dutch;," nor was
it long before we had a specimen of as "plain Englishs". After
our ears were saluted with the squalling and screaming of a
fowl in distress, and indeed, in the act of being strangled, which
excited our astonishment, as we could see all around us; the
voice of a boy under flagellation was heard, crying_esst most-
lustily, " 0 Lord, sir ! 0 Lord, sir, I'll be d—d if it was I, sir;
I never saw the old cock before, Sir." To unravel this mys.
tery, we went back to the house once more ; and, on making
known the strange circumstance,' we were conducted to the gar-
den, and a tree was-pointed out to us, where we saw, almost
enveloped in the thick foliage, the arch-deceiver in the shape of
a large cockatoo. I was at a loss which to admire most, the
half-stifled and broken sobbing (if I may so call it) of the fowl,
or the outcry of the boy, as detected in killing and _stealing
what belonged to his neighbour. The girl told us that their fa-
ther had lately given the amazing price of fifteen dollars for
this bird in Cape Town ; that it spoke in different languages,
but that in all of them it made use of such gross expressions,
and swore so profanely, they supposed they should soon be
obliged to part with it. Nor would theystai long in the gar-
den, possibly fearing a repetition of " plain Dutch, by the same
author. It was a remarkably fine bird, in full feather, and
nearly white; and, in shutting its eyes, a large sort of fan, as if
turning on a spindle, rose up on either side from the neck, and
covered them completely.
The folowing curious circumstance occurred with a couple of
parrots in London. A tradesman, who had a shop in the.,,Old
Bailey, opposite the prison, kept two parrots, much- to the
.an-
noyance of his neighbours, one of which was green, and the
other gray. The green parrot was taught to speak when there
was a knock at the street door,—the gray put in his word when-
ever the bell was rung ; but they only knew two short phrases
of English a-piece, though;.they pronounced these very dis-.
tinctly. The house in which these Thebans lived had a pro-
jecting old-fashioned front, so that the first floor could not be
seen from the pavement on the same side of the way; and one
day,.when they were left at home by themselves, hanging: out
of a window, some one knocked at the street-door. "Who's
there ?" said the green parrot, in. the exercise of his office.—
" The' man with the leather !" was the reply,—to which the
bird answered with his further store of language, which was
"Oh, ho!" Presently, the door. not being,opened as he ex-
pected, the stranger knocked a second time. " Who's there ?"
said the green parrot again. " D—n you, who's there !" said
the man with the leather, "why don't you come down ?" to
which the parrot again made the same answers" Oh, ho !"-----
This response so enraged the visitor, that he dropped the
knocker, and rung furiously at the house bell; but this proceed-
ing brought the gray parrot, who called out in a new voice, "Go
to the gate." "To the gate !" muttered the appellant, - who
saw no such convenience, and, moreover, imagined that the ser-
-ants were bantering him.—" What gate !" cried he, getting
out into the kennel, that he might have the advantage of seeing
his interlocutor. " Newgate!" responded the gray parrot, just
at the moment when his species was•discovered.
What proved a peculiar sagacity in the imitations of Dr.
Thornton's parrot, was, that they were effected sometimes with-
out his voice; for example, there was a scissors-grinder, who
came every day into the street where the bird was kept. All
parrots have a file in the inside of the upper mandible, with
which they grind down the under bill, and in thin they are em-
ployed for an hour every evening. This sound people usually mis-
take for snoring. This scraping was attempted, but the nice
ear marked the -difference; and he had recourse to his claws,
which he struck against the perch, armed with tin, and, ob-
serving the time of the turning of the wheel, he effected a most
exact imitation, which he repeated every Friday. Sometimes
the child's pap would be taken to the window, and beate*With
a spoon : this he would immediately imitate by striking- his
broad bill against the sides of his perch.
Parrots are sometimes extremely quick in picking up certain
words that happen to strike their ears; and this they often do
very untowardly, so as afterwards to repeat them with an ap-
parently mischievous intent. We remember a parrot which
-belonged to a lady, which was the innocent means of getting
its mistress into a very unfortunate scrape. A friend of hers
having called one afternoon, the conversation of the two ladies
took that turn towards petty scandal, to which, we grieve to
say, it is but too frequently bent. The friend mentioned the
name of a lady of their acquaintance. "Mrs. —!" exclaimed
the owner of the parrot, "Mrs. drinks like a fish." These
words were hardly uttered, when the footman. in a loud voice,
announced "Mrs. —!" and as the new visitor, a portly,
,proud dame, came sailing into the room, "Mrs. —I" ex.
claimed the parttl, "Mrs. drinks like aTS'IS."—.—MrS:
wheeled round, with the celerity of a troop of heavy' dragoons,
furiously, to confront the base and unknown maligner. "Mrs.
—!" cried the parrot again, "Mrs. --- drinks like a fish."
" Madam," exclaimed Mrs. to the lady of the house,
"this is a piece of wickedness towards me which must have
taken you no short time to prepare. It shows the blackness of
your heart towards one for whom you have long pretended a
friendship; but I shall be revenged." It was in vain that the
mistress of the parrot rose and protested her innocence; Mrs.
flounced out of the room in a storm of rage, much too
loud to admit of the voice of reason being heard. The parrot,
delighted with his new caught-up words, did nothing for some
days but shout out, at the top of his most unmusical voice,
"Mrs. —! Mrs. drinks like a fish." Meanwhile Mrs.
—'s lawyers, having once taken up the scent, succeeded in.
ferretting out some information, that ultimately produced writ-
ten proofs, furnished by some secret. enemy, that the lady's
imprudence in the propagation of this scandal had not been
confined to the ingtance we have mentioned. An action at
law was raised for defamation. The parrot was arrested, and
carried into court, to give oral testimony of the malignity of
the plot which was supposed to have been laid against Mrs.
good fame; and he was by no means niggardly of his
testimony, for, to the great amusement of the bench, the bar,
and all present, he was no sooner produced, than he began, and
continued to vociferate, "Mrs. --t Mrs. drinks like a
.fish!" till judges and jury were alike satisfied of the merits of
the case; and the result was, that the poor owner of the parrot
was cast with immense damages.

It was rumoured on Tuesday, in the political circles, that the
Premier's visit to the Royal Pavilion was fur the purpose of
submitting the great measure of church reform to his Majesty,
among other important matters connected with the meeting Of
Parliament. It is said that the Administration do not mean to
affect the right of existing incumbents' except in cases of gross
and glaring plurality. i here are to be, it is understood; two
bills on the subject. The outline of the plan has been tfrawn
up by the Lord Chancellor, and, according to rumour, it has
been generally approved of by his colleagues.—London paper.
VETERINARY
, NEAR EASINGWOLD.—The follow-
ing very-singularhas been communicated to us by a corre-
spondent.n, farrier, of Easingwold, brother
m r.
L.
casest Stephenson,
eso
and successor to the late Mr. J. Stephenson, of Acomb, was
lately called in to look at a young horse belong:ng to Mr. B.
Lund, a respectable farmer at Yearsley. On examining the
animal, he found a large tumour under the ear, which he at
once opened,- and. on inserting his finer in the orifice, to his
surprise he felt a hard substance, which 'be supposed might be a
piece of the cheek bone that had been chipped oft by a blow.
Mr. S. then proceeded still further to enlarge the incision to
admit the introduction of an instrument, when by great force he
succeeded in extracting the substance, which proved to be a
large tooth. It is conjectured, that when the horse had been
casting his teeth, the one in question had got fastened in the
upper jaw, and, by continually chewing his food, it had been
gradually forced into the place whence it was extracted. The
tooth is now in the possession of Mr. Stephenson, the Old Rose
and Crown Inn, Long.street, Easingwold. The operation was
performed in the presence of Mr. B. Lund, the owner of the
horse, and Mr. florriby, a neighbouring farmer.--York Herald.

EPITOME OF POLAR EXPEDITIONS.

(CONTINUED FROM OUR PAYER OF THE 15Th ULT.)
111 Itil2 Sir 'Thomas Button proceeded on the same voyage
of discovery, with two ships, whose names were the same as
those under the celebrated Cook in his last voyage—the Resolu-
tion and the Discovery. He passed through Hudson's Strait,
saw the south point of the large island, (named on souse of our
charts Southampton Island,) and gave it the-name of Carey's
Swan's Nest, and steering from thence S.W. made the main
laud of America in GO 40, to which he gave the name of Hope's
Check. Button wintered in Port Nelson, so called from his
pilot, in latitude 57 10 N., which, in 1816, was the principal
station of the Iludson's Bay Company. Ile lost many men by
cold and hunger ; "yet," says Foxe, "he was supplied with
great store of white partridges and other fowle, of which I have
heard it credibly reported that •this company killed eighteen
hundred dozen in the winter season." Button reached no higher
than the latitude of 65 on the east coast of Southampton Island.
In 1614 Captain Gibbons was sent out in the Discovery; but
his ship was beset by ice on the N.E. coast of Labrador, in
about 57 N., where he remained nearly five months, in a sort
of bay, to which his ship's company, in derision, gave the name
of Gibbons his Hole. Escaping at last from his place of confine-
ment, he made the best of his way home.
Robert Bylot, who had been with Hudson, Button, and Gib-
bons, now appointed masher of the same ship, the Discovery, of
55 tons burthen, set sail from England in April, 1615, passed
through Hudson's Strait, as far as Cape Comfort, on the cast
coast of Southampton Island, in latitude 65 N.; but having
proceeded northerly about half a degree, and finding, as he
says, the water sh7allow, and the land trending to the N.E.,
(which, however, is doubtful,) he returned to England, without
making any discovery.
The following year Bylot, with Baffin, (who had acted as his
pilot in the former voyage) proceeded again in the same ship,
the Discovery, being her fifth voyage on the same object. They
now stood along the west coast of Greenland, and saw some
islands in 72 15, to which, finding women only on them, they
gave the name of Women's Islands : they are situated close to
the Sanderson's Hope of Davis, the extreme point which that
navigator reached. Coasting from hence, in an open sea, they
passed a " fayre cape," in latitude 76 35, which they named
Cape Dudley Digges; then standing N. westerly, they passed
Whale Sound, in 77 30; then Sir Thomas Smith's Scund, which
was choked up, not with ice, but with whales, and extended
beyond 78 N., this being the farthest point they reached to the
northward. They then stood five days to the southward of west,
through an open sea, and saw Alderman Jones's Sound, its lati-
tude 76 30; and in two days, standing snore southerly, they
opened Sir James Lancaster's Sound; from whence they con-
tinued their course two days, south-easterly, the sea still open,
till they came to latitude 71 16, when, meeting with much ice,
they struck off from the coast due east, and passing through
Baffin's Strait into the Strait of Davis, made the best of their
way home ; first touching, however, at Cockin Sound, on the
coast of Greenland, to collect scurvy grass, sorrel, and orpine,
for their sick, who, Baffin says, were cured in eight days by the
scurvy grass, (cochlearia,) boiled in beer. This might be con-
sidered as the most important of all the voyages, if the brief
account of it could be depended on; but there is nothing left
on record, except a meagre sort of journal by Baffin, unac-
companied by any chart; Bylot, as would appear from Habakuk
Pricket's narrative of Hudson's voyage, being unable either to
read or write. The floating masses of ice drifting from the
northward, and the heavy swell from the same quarter, when
,off Whale Sound, would seem to indicate that Greenland ig 11(1
part of America, but a large island, or, rather, an archipelago
of islands.

fwe except an obscure attempt of Hawkridge, who had ac-
companied Sir Thomas Button, in 1612, the ardour of the dis-
covery of this passage seems now to have abated. It was, how-
ever, revived in 1630, by one Lucas Foxe, a shrewd, sensible
man, who, having availed himself of the information gained by
preceding adventurers, was so certain of making the passage,
that he obtained a letter from Charles I. addressed to his brother
the Emperor of Japan. This enterprise was, in fact, under the
immediate patronage of the king, who contributed one of his
own ships, fitted out in a most complete manner, and victualled
for eighteen months. Sir Thomas Roe and Sir John Wol-
stenholrae were named by the king to superintend the equip-
ment of the voyage. Some merchants of Bristol having fitted
out a ship for the same purpose, under the command of Capt.
James, requested that she might accompany Foxe. Early in
May, 1631, his majesty's ship Charles, of eighty tons, left Eng-
land; but, owing to foggy weather and ice, it was the 15th July
before she reached the islands of Salisbury and Nottingham.
From hence Foxe stood over to the continent of America, and
made the land in 6110, which he named Sir Thomas Roe's
Welcome, and, directing his course to the southward, discovered
Brook Cobham, since called Marble Island; after this he an-
chored in Nelson's River; and, concluding that no passage
existed between that point and 61 10 N., he next stood to the
northward, between Southampton and Cumberland Islands,
and on the west coast of the latter gave names to King Charles'
Promontory, Cape Maria, Trinity Islands, Lord Weston's
Portland, and Foxe's Farthest, being, as the name imports, the
extreme point to which he proceeded, in latitude 66 47 N.
Adverse winds, long nights, a waning moon, and the sickness
of his crew, obliged him "either to seek for harbour, or to
freeze to death in the sea," and he therefore returned to Eng-
land.

Captain James wintered in the eul-de-sac of Hudson's Sea,
named after him James's Bay, came home the following year,
and published a dismal account of his sufferings from cold,
hunger, disease, &c., though the latitude in which he passed
the winter was only 52 3. Without adding the slightest infor-
mation to the geography of Hudson's Sea, he decides boldly
there is no such thing as a north-west passage.
About the same time one M. de Groseiller, of Canada, was
despatched from Quebec, for the purpose of discovery. Land-
ing near Nelson's River, he fell in with a wretched hut, in
which were six people, nearly famished. They were part of a
crew of a ship which had been sent from Boston, and which,
while they were on shore, had been driven to sea by the ice, and
was never heard of more. Groseiller went to Paris; but, meet-
ing with no encouragement from the French government, came
to England, with a letter from our ambassador to Prince
Rupert, who received him favourably; and, being joined by
other noblemen and merchants, fitted out a ship in 1668, which
Captain Gil'ain was appointed to command. He proceeded up.
Davis's Strait to 75 N, returned to Rupert's River in the bot-
tom of Hudson's Bay, and there wintered. In the mean time,
Charles 11., by his royal charter, constituted Prince Rupert
and certain lords, knights, and merchants, a body corporate,
known by the name of "The governor end company of the ad-
venturers of England trading into Hudson's Buy."
From the moment this body of "adventurers" was instituted,
the spirit of adventure died away.; and every succeeding effort
was palsied by the baneful influence of monopoly, of which the
discovery of a north-west passage was deemed the forerunner
of destruction. Even the publication of De Foutes' voyage
failed to rouse the attention of speculators. At length, how-
ever, in 1720, one Knight, who had long been in the company's
service as master of a ship, and subsequently governor of one
of their forts, reminded his old masters that they were obliged,
by their charters to make discoveries and extend their trade,
and that if they refused to indulge him with an expedition for
these purposes, he would apply to the crown. Being nearly
eighty years of age, the company thought it more advisable to •
satisfy his "troublesome zeal," as Robson calls it, than to let
the business be taken up by some abler hand. His instructions
were to find the Strait of Anian, in order to discover gold,
whales, and other valuable commodities, to the northward, &c.
Knight was so confident of success, that he caused strong chests
to be made, hooped with iron, to hold the gold and copper which
he was determined to find, and which seem to have engrossed
his mind more than the discovery of the north-west passage.
The two ships sent under him and Barlow were never heard of
more; but some of their remains were discovered six or seven
years afterwards, in a bay on Marble Island, where their crews
appear to have perished in a most miserable manner. In 1722,
one Scroggs was sent to the northward, ostensibly to look for
these unfoitunate sufferers, about-.vhich, however, ilobson says,
there was not one word in his instructions. This Scroggs ap-
pears to have been totally unfit for any expedition, on account
of his ignorance and timidity, but exceedingly well qualified to
answer the purpose of the Hudson's Bay Company, who seemed
to .enjoy their monopoly in perfect tranquillity, without giving
themselves the smallest concern about making discoveries either
by land or by water.
At length. a gentleman of the name of Dobbs, having well
considered what preceding navigators had stated with regard to '
the high tides from the northward in the Welcome, prevailed
on the Company, after much importunity, to send a vessel to
the northward, in 1737, but she returned without doing env-
thing, never having reached so high as the latitude 63. Dobbs,
perceiving the reluctant and negligent conduct of the company, '
applied next to the government, and, by his perseverance and
sanguine representations, obtained the Furnace, bomb, and the •
pink DiNcorery, to be appropriated for this service, under the '
orders of Captain Middleton, a commander in the British navy,
who had served as master in the Hudson Bay Company (or
many voyages. Middleton left England in 1741, wintered in
Churchill River, and, in the summer of 1742, proceeded up the
Welcome, to Wager River, and looked into (he says sailed
round) what he was pleased to call Repulse Bay. From thence
he returned to the southward. On his arrival in England,
Dobbs accused him of wilfully misrepresenting his discoveries,
to curry favour with his old employers, and of having. taken a
bribe of £5OOO from them not to make any discoveries. Ile
denies the bribe; but admits that he might have said to some
of the governors that he would discover the passage, and none
-nrthase with him should be the wiser for-it. His officers, too,
-swore to his having misrepresented facts. The Lords of the
Admiralty called upon him to answer the charges preferred
against him by Mr. Dobbs, which he did at full length; but
without satisfying them. To evince, on the contrary, how
strongly impressed they still were with the probability of a
north-west passage, their lordships procured an act the follow-
ing year, (18 Geo. II.) for granting a reward of £20,000 to the
person or persons who should discover a north-west passage
'through Hudson's Strait to the western and southern ocean of
America; a discovery which the preamble states to be of "great
benefit and advantage to the trade of this kingdom."
The offer of this reward immediately brought forward new
adventurers, who raised by subscription a sum sufficient to
_equip two ships. the Dobbs, commanded by Captain Moor, -and
the CalTornia, by Captain Smith, which left the Thames in
May, 11 46. On the 11th August they reached the coast of
America, about Marble Island, and, having made some obser-
vations on the height, direction, and velocity of the tides, they
stood to the southward, and wintered in Port Nelson, where
they were treated with great jealousy, and closely watched by
the servants of the Hudson Bay Company. They remained here,
we know not why, till the Ist July, when they again proceeded
to the northward, and examined Wager's Strait; here the two
commanders differed respecting the examination of Repulse
Bay, and the ships returned to England without having accom-
plished any other discovery beyond that of ascertaining Wager
Water to be a deep bay, or inlet. Two accounts of this voyage
were published ; one, containing ninny curious and sensible ob-
servations, by. Mr. Ellis; the other, a laboured and conceited
performance, in two vols., by "the clerk of the California."
After this, the spirit of discovery in the north seems totally
to have sunk, and the Hudson's Bay Company were left in that
state of apathy which seems most conkenial to their habits and
interests. They sent, it is true, Mr. Hearne thirteen hundred
miles in search of copper; and, after the lapse of a hundred
years, they discovered that Chesterfield's Inlet. at the distance
of a hundred leagues from one of their establishments, was not
the north-west passage; but they never once thought of sending
any one a little farther to the north, where, probably in half the
distance travelled by Hearne, the sea coast would have inter-
rupted the traveller's progress.
(To be continued.)

Drrirm, WIDOW.—Tha clerk of a large parish not five
miles from Bridgenorth, Salop, perceiving a female crossing
the churchyard in a widow's garb, with a watering can and
bundle, had the curiosity to follow her, and he discovered her
to be Mrs. —, whose husband had not long been interred.—
The following conversation took place : " Ah ! Mrs. —, what
are you going to do with your watering can ?" " Why, Mr.
p.---, I have begged a few hayseeds, which I have in my
bundle, and am going to sow them upon my poor husband's
grave,
and have brought a little water with me, to make them
spring." The clerk replied : " You have no occasion to do that,
as the grass will soon grow upon it." "Ah ! Mr. P—, that
maybe; but do you know my poor husband, who now lies
here, made me promise him, on his death bed, I would never
marry again till the grass had grown over his grave; and, hav-
ing a good offer made me, I dunna wish to break my word, or
be kept as I ant. "—Liverpool Courier.
•

FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1833.

We do not put much faith in the last news from Portu-
gal, for the attempt to negotiate has already been tried
and has failed, and Don PEDRo is not the man to sacrifice
any personal acquisitions for the sake of- peace ; but,
such as it is, we give it in the words of our private
correspondent :

Falmouth, Doc. 9, 1533,

The Confiance, steamer, arrived to-day from Lisbon and
Oporto, with mails and despatches. She sailed from Lisbon
the al instant, and on the sth received a mail from about out-
side the bar of Oporto, which had been waiting there four days
for the packet. The persons in the boat informed the com-
mander of the packet that a smart attack had been made on the
lines on the Ist instant, which ended in the troops resuming
their former positions. There was some loss on both sides.
The boat was sent off immediately after the action, and had no
subsequent communication with the shore.
Letters from Lisbon state that our government and that of
Spain are interfering to put an end to the contest, and that
Colonel Hare is now at Santarem on the part of this country
for that purpose. At Lisbon all is anxiety to know what this
will lead to.

No change had taken-once in the ministry. Don Pedro still
resists the efforts of Palmella's party to return to power.
The official account of the proclamation of Donna Maria in
the Cape de Verd Islands appears in the Lisbon Chronica of
the Ist instant.

Men-of-war at Lisbon,—the Asia, Donegal, Revenge, Cas-
tor, Carron, steamer, and Sparrow. Off Oporto,—the Stag,
Orestes, and Savage.

It is in Joe Miller or some other excellent work that
we are told of a glazier who, being hard pushed for em-
ployment in some finished town, induced a simple Quaker,
by means of a pretended vision and revelation, to rise
from his bed in a dark night and demolish the windows
of a neighbouring cathedral. The Friend was caught, or,
perhaps, confessed the offence, and lie had to pay the da-
mage ; but the man of glass and putty was, nevertheless,
kept in full and profitable employment for many a day
after.

The story of the Quaker and glazier has been revived,
as a practical joke, by Mr. TuomAs BABINOTON MACAU-
LAY, the patriotic member for Leeds, with this difference,
that his version of it is a decided improvement upon Joe
Miller. He was too good a judge to entrust any friend
or brother Whig with the construction of that clause in
the India bill, which has given him near ten thousand a
year; for lie framed it himself. He did the damage,
and got the job. He made the clause, and filled it up for
himself at one and the same time. He drew the bill, and
wrote " £9,600 per ann., T. B. M.," in the corner of his
note-book. He assembled the members of the council,
in his mind's eye, and sat himself down amongst them;
and while he was planning the regeneration of India, and
laughing at slave emancipation, he was carving out a
splendid sinecure, and a princely outfit for the honest,
eloquent, " talented," and all that, Mr. THOMAS BABING-
TON 'MACAULAY

We give this turnspit of the Whigs credit for his in-
genuity. But what was Lord GREY about that he allow-
ed so rich a piece of patronage to slip through his fingers ?
Are there no poor barristers of the name of GREY ? Or
had ministers, become tired of MACAULAY'S confessions
upon the corn laws, end deemed it a matter of cabinet
policy to ship him forth the kingdom at the first convenient
opportunity, calculating upon the many chances afforded
by an eastern sun and the cholera morbus ? It might have
been one of these, or all these reasons put together,
which made the fortune of this patriot of Leeds. But the
real reason itself is of no importance whatever. MACAU-
LAY is entered outwards—calendered, hotpressed, and
finished—and we have no wish to hear any more of him.
It is, nevertheless, one of the most glaring and. dis-
graceful jobs which has happened since the passing of the
reform bill, and that is saying a great deal. Lord
BROUGHAM planned jobs for his friends, and Lord GREY
for his relations, bear witness the Russia mission and
Lord DURHAM ; but Mr. MACAULAY has jobbed .for him-
self. Four hundred a year was about his price when he
first offered himself to the liberals of Leeds, and now he
has managed to cozen a place worth £9,600 a year, and
£l2OO for an outfit !! !

What the Leeds people will say to it we know not,
now that the man of " teeming eloquenC,e" has taken
himself of and them in. At„any rate, they must be
heartily sick of the very name of 111.1cAuLAY. We are,—
reader, are not you ?

Who would have believed, only a*few months ago,
that the first formal attack by corporate bodies and local
magistrates upon the religious institutions of the country
would be made in Scotland ? • But such is the fact,
worthy reader. In that land of song and sentiment, of
poetry and patriotism, of education and metaphysics, of
morality and religion, where the ark of the covenant still
rests in the temple of public opinion, where every hill
and glen is hallowed by the recollections of religious
struggles and the church's sufferings, and where, if there
be a class of men on earth truly revered and loved, that
class are the humble, unpresuming, pious, and exemplary
pastors of the kirk—in that land, however, reform has
-touched the sacred edifices with defacing fingers'; a
revolutionary faction has obtained power, the simple
citizen has become a rabid demagogue, the insolent pre-
tender in religion sits in high places, and desecration and
destruction are the order of the day.
The Whigs have been permitted to do that in Scot-
land which they have proposed to do in England, in the
next session of Parliament. They have reformed the
boroughs. They have changed the old mode of election,
destroyed the self-protecting power of the corporations,
deprived the free burgesses of their birthright-inheritance,
and established a democracy in all the towns. The race
of staid and honest bailies is now extinct. The wise and
good have been jostled out of their places.; the loyal and
true have been cast into the shade; the props of the
kirk have been removed ; the elders have been su-
perseded by pragmatical, self-opinionated, and inspired
sucklings; the Nicol Jarvies have given way to the
Anacharsis Clootzes ; and a legion of " teachers and
preachers," professors of political economy, and patrons
of penny magazines and useless knowledge, are pulling
to pieces what the martyrs reared and left as a blessed
legacy to their posterity.
In Glasgow, the change has been of the most sweep-
ing and levelling kind. Hardly a vestige of the old
civic system of government remains. The men and the
system are alike changed. The merchants have been
beaten down by the shopkeepers; lay divines and specu-
lative attorneys are the idols of the mob; and the bailies
are chosen from the ranks of those who are the deadliest
enemies of the institutions of the country. Two of the
leading members of the council, we understand, are
preachers, or rather ranters, in some obscure conventi-
profess no other creed, religious
cle; some of them
or otherwise, than is
Edinburgh Review ; and
in the articles of the
d the character of the whole may
be inferred from the following notice of motion entered
I on the council books

That an address to his Majesty, and petitions to
Parliament, he presented during the ensuing
bothsession,Re s Resolved,—
o‘
the following effect:—That the legislative endow-
ment connexion at present existing between the State and the
of Parliament,
Catholic Church of Canada the Episcopalian Church of Eng-

land, and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, be folt-tei-
abrogated ; and that the funds thus liberated from the exclugi",
support of these churches be applied to such secular nation4l
..
purpose as the legislature may determine, with the exception of
as mueli as shall he necessary to satisfy the jost claims of Pre.
sent incumbents."

CA IRA ! Saint Mango for ever! This is a towering
speculation for the Glasgow Bailies ! They are not eon-
tent with battering to pieces the pulpits of Jolts gs°.%'
and canvertiug into paupers the ministers of the kirk,
they soar higher, and, with an imperti-Aence which should
be punished in a horse-pond, they presume to counsel the
spoliation of the Chur.th of England ! They jump from
the Trongate to Canada, as their great-grandmothers 01'
witches used to do from the Gallowsgreen to Lapland, in 3
night, riding on a broomstick or a flash of li,ghtning.
They threaten us with their resolutions as if they were
legislating for a rabbit-warren, or passing an " order
in
council" against wearing cocked hats or cooking sheell6;
head broth on a Sunday. They prate as pompously an •
dogmatically as if they were diScussing the expediency
of deducting fourpence per week from the salary of the
keeper of the tollbooth. They recommend a grand Or
lage, knowing that they have nothing to lose, and that
the secular purposes to which they would devote the re-
venues of the English Church might be made available
for purposes more consistent with the modest and humble
views of grasping conventiclists. The Archbishop of
CANTERBURY must doff his hat-to the Bailies of Gittso4
and the clergy of Canada send their Easter offerings to the
Trongate ! What a pity that tarring and feathering hag
gone out of fashion, and that the water process of testing
old women is in desuetude !

From the reformed town council of Glasgow to the ad",
herents of OWEN and CARLILE, the transition is naturalanu
easy, for they are both fighting under the same banner'
and making war upon the Established Church. In this
work of moral debauchery, the co-operative or St. Sintn-
nian reformers, as they are called, work openly. They
do not talk about appropriating certain portions of the
church revenues to " secular purposes" as the canting
liberals of Glasgow do ; they do not conceal their inten-
tions under a mask of religion ; they do not assume /I
devout look when they are about to commit a robbery
they tell us in plain and unequivocal terms that they
meditate the extermination of Christianity, not merelY
the overthrow of the church, but the extinction ofreliginne
itself—of religious observances—of religious duties'i
moral restraints—of sacred obligations, and the rending
asunder of those ties which bind society together, and
upon which the social system rests. The means whieb,
they employ to this end, are thus described by the Unite('
Serrice Gazette :

"Their first operations were confined to the more susceptible
materials afforded in the towns. But that is no longer the
case. In order that the rural population may be fitted to be
their auxiliaries, missionaries have taken the field. Owen eta:
braces the whole of the manufacturing districts; Carlile
the editress of the Isis lecture through Lancashire ; Hethering"
ton carries his impieties and revolutionary sentiments across
the Tweed. But the chief organ for communicating their scow
meats to the poor and the public is the unstamped papers. 'r
have eight weekly unstamped papers, all varying in price fro°
one penny to fourpence. Those papers are numerously circle,
lated, and edited on principles adapted to the different tastes °I
their readers; the Christian Investigator and the Penny Chili°
for the Radical who has not thrown off the profession of CV's-
tianity; the rest, Atheistical, Agrarian, and Owenite. These
papers are to be found in all the low coffee--shops, beer-shops, and
eating-houses. In many they are left gratuitously, till habit an
custom Compel the proprietor to become a subscriber, that he
may gratify the depraved tastes of his visitors. The supported
of these papers are not merely the lower orders; amongst Wel
are to be found shopkeepers, 'squires, and members of Parlia'nent.
The first grand movement of these agitators is against the Church;
but should they succeed in producing a convulsion, through the
assessed taxes and a turn-out of the trades, a great point will be
gained. They look for a demolition of the altar, in the belief that
the throne is sure to follow."

This beats the reformed bailies I These last only Pe"
tition the legislature to plunder the Church; but Messrs'
OWEN, CARLILE, HETHERINGTON and Co. set about the
work of plunder themselves in right earnest. The °Pe-
ratives of the large towns and the rural population of that
agricultural districts are to be lectured and discipline{
into atheism, as the people of France were previous to the
first revolution. The lower orders in France were first
.
taught to reject the Providence of God and the authority
of his inspired works, in order that they might hold
ru
less regard, or contemn with more intense rancour, the
authority of man and the restraints of law. The labour'
ing population of England and Scotland are to be brutal-
ized- -and led step by step to the lowest pitch of depravit.Y."
and then they are to be led on to the work of devastation
and blood. The infernal missionaries are in the field;
the press is in full work—the penny magazines, firs;
started by Lord BROUGHAM, are in every pot-house 81171
coffee shop—the gloating reader is dosed day by day
night by night with every species of pollution—with
and blasphemy of the most revolting kind—with prints
obscene—with atrocities at which ordinary human nature
would recoil—with studied slanders against the affluent'
and malicious calumnies against the Church and its
nisters—all this is done with great art and care, and
an immense expense, in order to bring about that terrible
convulsion which is calculated to lay our land under a de°7
luge of blood.
In addition to these monster-missionaries, the aeeredtit,,
ed ministers of hell, we are further told by a Lona('
newspaper, which assumes to be the organ of the
ters, that these different sects are about to form a nevir
unholy alliance amongst themselves, for the purpose °f
forcing upon his MAJESTY'S Ministers such a measure°
Church reform as shall bring the Establishment down It'
their own level, and facilitate the final separatie°
between the Church and State, as prayed for by the arr°-
gant authorities of. Glasgow. We do not go the -;
treme length of believing that the Dissenters general',
are animated by such sentiments, or meditate such evils'
on the contrary, we have reason to know that by far 00
0
most respectable portion of the Dissenters, the Wesleyan
Methodists, hold in utter abhorrence all 'such mischievt,
and impious projects, and are ready to join the Chure,.
to-morrow if necessary, in resisting them even unto dean'.
It is with feelings of joy and gratitude that wn are ere
abled to make this acknowledgment in favour of the Wes-
leyan communion, and we still cherish the hope, lowering
as the times undoubtedly are, that if the church is he
true to herself, with their aid we shall not fight the g°od
fight in vain.
It must be admitted, however, that a large PortielLf
and the worst and most reckless portion, of the Dissentel;
are against us. The Socinian and the Roman Cuth°e(ll
are leagued together. Men who by nature and cre
have ever been distant as the poles are asunder are n°_,.‘
united against the Church of England. .The Unitarian'
whom the Roman Catholic now calls brother, must kn°,.
that if Popery could once more obtain an ascendancy, het
the Unitarian, would be the first whom it would-cousi%
to the flames. All this, nevertheless, is overlooked
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the hatred which both entertain towards our religi°ue
establishments. These two opposite parties take ,toil
lead against the Church, and they are followed, by u
other sects and coteries, some Christian, some demo'
Christian, down to the conceited infidel and the av°wed
atheist. if
The conflict about to ensue would be less doubtful
these champions of anarchy and revolution had net Ii
their allies the Whig party and the Whig Ministry'
or
is generally believed that Lord GREY has a m
church reform already concocted, revised by. Lord j° oct
RUSSELL, approved of by a majority of the cabinet, a
r,
which was to have been submitted to the KING yestied
day. It is described to be a measure of unexamPee or
tyranny and injustice, carrying reform into theivde,
sanctuary of private property, and despoiling and
grading the Church with unsparing severity. This bl:5,
is to be followed by one , for remodelling the borougiv
and giving to all householders, who contribute t° r,
poor rates or police rates, a vote in the election of eved
porate officers. Such is the report as we have reel
it from a quarter generally well informed. easure:i
ti to
Be this, however, as it may, we have stated enoug`
ye,
show that th! Church is amongst the breakers. i9iurivitli
nerable establishment is beset by enemies armed The
the axe, the sledge-hammer, and the crow-bar• door
incendiary has his torch lighted ; the felon is at 1.. e tt
with his bag; the- bailies of GlasgA. have then.
off, claiming a share of the spoil.